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LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
W.L*nn«oroti, D. C., January 28, 1882. —
On Monday of last week we suffered from
cold so intense that it was generally sup
posed capable of "freezing the horns on a
brass goat.” The wind blew such a gale
that the ruffled waters refused to freeze.
Two days afterward the tempest lulled, and
rivers and ponds were ice-locked. The next
morning camo with snow on the ground.
Within twenty-four hours a warm rain dis-I
solved the snow and created slush. Then |
it grew a little colder, and sleet was in sash- |
ion. 'Then a mild, Spring-like day melted !
snow and fee magically. After one glimpse ’
of the sun and stars another season of snow
and hail has liegun. This is a specimen of
the climate here, and yet Northwestern ■
Senators tell me that it is preferable j
to what they have at home. Surely '
the South cannot be as inclement ;
as the Noith, though I hear that there has
been a superabundance of rain, ominous of
another drouth next Summer. Protected
from the warring elements and surrounded
by the grand appointments of the Capitol,
I often enjoy looking at the mow storms
that shroud the city far below. There is a
tropic atmosphere throughout the vast
building, no matter liow much below zero
the thermometer descends elsewhere. So
one can gaze securely through great squares
■of glimmering glass at the panorama that is
unfolded mile on mile. The leaden clouds
hang sullenly down, and from them the
ib«cy veil is sifted, until the semi-circle of
hills* can only be outlined in vapory dis
tinctness. Shadows of men and beasts and
vehicle.) crawl through tho obscuring mist,
in curious contrast to the fiery energy of
the locomotives, whose densely white steam
makes ghosts in the air. It is dreamy and
beautiful when beheld from such a perch;
but God alone knows the mii'cry that comes
to the poor, who are not only "always with
n'<.” but whose ranks are recruiting daily
an o' whose murmur may deepen to a roar
that reaches thrones and capitals. But see !
there is a rift in the darkness overhead; a
lambent glory hints of the survival of the
sun; a suspicion of blue sky can be dis
cerned in tho Northwest; the whole heaven
is beginning to break into a smile, and as
tho enrta in is lifted from nature, a weight
seems to »>e taken from tho human heart,
and even ti'ie no uneat and most destitute
can find something in this world that is
worth tho g. ft of existence-something to
love and to awaken love in return. And
Viese are some of the thotfghta that eame
to mo while pearing between the gigantic
piFurs of tho Capitol, nod seeking to pene
trate the secrets of the snow.
Opinions here are much divided about
•Guitean. Mon of equal ability separate on
•anch .xtremes of opinion that there is
no middle ground of compromise. I find
many lawyers feel ashamed that no famous
mm among them had the moral valor to
volunteer for the defense. If they were
intimidated by a passionate and vindictive
public opinion, how could any one expect a
promiscuous jury to defy the giowl of the
snob? The verdict has, of course, delight ed
•cAe European monarchical journals. They
wre ravished with delight that the free Re
public of America ean breed sane as*
Hiuwina of Presidents. We have been
proudly boasting that, in time of peace,
none but a lunatic could tire at a
President with deadly intent; that it re
mained for European institutions to breed
slayers of kings and potentates, who were
•clothed io their right mind. The English,
German, Russian and Italian prozses may
well exalt, for we have now no advantage
over their calamity in this respect. Even
Mrs. Gar Geld treasured, it is said without
denial, a hope that the wretch who smote
down her uunband might be found to be
crazy. The jurymen pronounce him sane;
but that does not make him bo really. Dr.
McFarland’s testimony, which was ruled out,
is just as stroog for the defense as Dr. No
ble Young's, which was admitted, for the
prosecution. 1 have small faith in experts,
■a infallible guides. There was a celebrated
case ot poisoning in Baltimore. some
years ago. which plainly demonstrated
tho niter and irreconcilable differences of
doctors and toxicologists. A prominent
lawyer here tells me that he kuoas cf but
a single patent expert who ean ba re
died upon to tell the truth; and he takes his
retainer on condition of delivering an im
partial report. How many mining experts
lie for money ? One of the greatest names
«iu this country for scientific learning sold
ibis geulas for shame and gold. 1 believe
that Dr. Noble Young is as conscientious .a
k nan as lives; bnt he is no better than Dr.
iFarland, and does not stand as high in
tment of tho insane. Dr. Young secur
ed tt’ e conviction of GuitJau, and is, there
fore e to whatever credit may come
from sn "h a source. He is also to be credit
ed for pa Hing a dampver upon fudge Porter,
whose eloquence was all wasted, since the
jurymen nov T declare that after Dr. Young’s
testimony the'’ had made up their minds to
convict the This is ‘’binding” «c
Porter, but the .’inner that is to be given
him in New York, where Mr. Beecher will
ask a blessing, may dispel the wound given
his self-conceit by tho loquacious foreman's
srvowal. I say. still—although 1 well un
derstand that it is n r> < "popular" for me to
do so-that Gniteau. !C my opinion, is one
of the craziest of men. and that it would
have been far better to detSa'i® him so and
bury him in an asylum. L'-wrenee, who
aim'd to kill Gen. Jackson, when President,
was so immured, and is now hardly remem
tv ired. Largely into the same oblivion
would Guiteau’go, if similarly treated. But
[ apprehend that, as I once before observed,
the gallows—if he reach it-will give him
soineti.'ing of a John Brown immortality.
That is .what I dread and that is 1
would avnjd. But popular clamor is nearly
, nil the othe’ way, and it is just as well to
step aside and let the blast go by. I ques
tioned one of the wisest of men on this sub
jett. and he said: "Reaction in public
opin ion will come, as it always does—per
hapa i*» Ute. The ma*e« are nearly always
wrong. The man who opposes them may
not, in h’s life. be justified, but the Ne
mesis of history seta all things »*>>n. My
experience i.' that a man can. if bound, be
sure of prdphetio fame if he possess Uta
courage of his intellect to rebuke the pas
sion of the crowd.” It was a painful or-
iaal for me to reverse my convictions
abowt Gnitean; but when oMervatioa and
stuffy wrought this unexpected change, no
dear of what the public might say or think
deterred me from expression. I reepact
the views of all who sincerely di Ser from
me I think the majority of those
♦ who take the trouble to read what
i write will at least be sati.il-d
that lam glided by what seems to me the
truth, and not by a spirit of opposition or
C versitv. If his l>e so, ait who disagree
m me' can de h "rt in peaea. Perhaps
they ean repeat whM CapL Louis Piquet
once told me: “I do not always coincide
with what von write. but I know that you
believed it to be true.” Vpon that ground
of compromise on Gnitean, 1 am willing to
meet all dissentient frit.nds. ‘he more so
as we ar, certain to have manj’ other points
al absolute concord. _
Mr. Sherman, in his speech. hu.' ! "~-
nesday. on the Refunding bill,
ilia willingness to relax the duties upon at.
articles of internal revenue, except whisky,
tobacco and beer. This would release about
$15,000,000 of tax upon matches, bank
checks, etc. This is probably the Republi
can ultimatum. That party will not reform
altogether the internal revenue, because
such sweeping action would smash a valua
ble political machine with 4,000 officials.
Baum’s concern carried Virginia. It is
beaded elsewhere, and is handy for 1884.
A South Carolina Representative, referring
to Mr. ShermanV proposition, said: "I
will vote against the whole concern if we
are to have only a fragment of rqffiitution."
Mr. Stephens, to whom these wSlds were
addressed, quietly observed: "My friend,
you must not determine so hastily. Thia
** whole matter reminds me of Toombs’
•• speech at the Kimball House, just after
** the adjournment of the Constitutional
•• Convention. The General announced
•• that he did not altogether agree with
■* what had been done, but he intended to
support it, as he advised all others to do.
>• In the matter of judicial salaries he was
“ overruled. It was true that SI,BOO an
“ Dually looked like a mere pittance for a
“Judge; but he knew of few lawyers in
*■ Georgia who made that much every year,
, " and there would be no lack of applicants.
" He added that the whole thing reminded
i him of an anecdote of his negro servant,
“ named Kinchin, during the Seminole war.
“ Kinchin somehow managed to get hold of
J “ a jug of whisky, which he agreed to dis
“ pense at 50 cents a glass. He would pour
“ out about two fingers of liquor to each
“ man. One purchaser objected, and want
“ed more. But the negro was equal to the
“ occasion, and retorted : 'Put it back
i“ in the jug, if you ain’t satisfied. You
I “ does the drinking, bnt I does the pour-
I “ ing.’ Now, that's the condition of
“ matters in this Congress and under this
I “ Administration. The Republicans hold
“ the jug and do the pouring. We hud
, “ better take what we can get from them in
I “ the way of reform, and await further de
“ velopments.” The South Carolinian laugh
ed heartily, admitted the force of the illus
tration. and thought that “Mr. Stephens
had a homely way of putting things that no
I other man could rival.'
Senator Mahone walked into the Chamber
: on Friday, at a fashionable hour, but creat
ed no special remark. He did not wear a
smiling countenance, and might be hum- ,
. ming an adaptation from the policemen’s ■
chorus in “The Pirates"—that "his lot was !
! not so very happy, after all."
The Senate is slowly coming to a con- ■
i elusion of the Refunding bill. Mr. Sher- I
man fears that it may be emasculated by I
amendments. The chances are that it will!
fail. Most of the Democrats and a handful •
of Repulicans are hostile to it. Already the '
original measure begins to resemble a target '
riddled by a Schuetzen club. Even learned
Senators appear confused on the subject.
Mr. Teller, of Colorado, who is a compara
tively young man and was onee a Democrat,
has been kicking in the party tracesand mak
inghis Republican friends unhappy. Ingalls, |
Windom, Plumb and one or two others of
the truly loyal brethren are not favorable j
to the bill. They will hardly be whipped I
back. Mr. Teller formulated this revolt
when he protested against the everlasting
tinker with the currency in the interest I
of bondholders and for the purpose of
keeping in existence the present tariff. Mr. j
Sherman, in response, did not see how any |
bondholder could relish a reduction of
interest. He declared that his bill was in
the interest of the people. He thought
Teller’s want of logic arose from his former
connection with the Democratic party. He
had learned to submit philosophically to
defeat in legislation, and was resigned to
ill fortune now. Mr. Teller returned to the ;
charge and more than intimated that John i
Sherman never did or said a thing when
Secretary of the Treasury, except in the in
terest of the money power. Such a man
was no friend to the masses. He was one
of those who prate of reform, but never act
up to that profession or allow anybody else
to do so. Mr. Sheiman smiled coldly, but
made no answer. He probably saw that it
would do no good, and so did what is the
hardest thing in public life—kept still.
When the Vest amendment came up for
decision, which re enacts the Carlisle
amendment that caused Hayes’ memorable
veto of the Democratic Refunding bill of last
session, Mr. Pugh announced that the Mis
souri Senator had agreed to accept an
amendment which he proposed. Mr. Pugh’s
idea was to correct some Haws in the Vest
proposition, but Senator Hill, with wonder
ful acumen, pointed out that the case had
not been at all bettered by the Alabama
Senator, and threw him into consternation
by asking a series of legal questions which
Mr. Pugh confessed his inability to answer.
Mr. Beck came to bis aid; and as he lugged
out his ponderous volumesofthe Hecord the
reporters groaned, fearful of what might be
in store for them when the Kentuckian got
warmed up to a documentary white heat.
But dinner time was approaching and Mr.
Beck had some mercy upon his audience.
Tho upshot of it was, in spite of a good
speech from Mr. Hawley, the whole matter
had to be postpoued until Monday. 1 never
saw Senator Hill exhibit more mental su
periority. He went to the core of the con
troversy and stood bead and shoulder above
ail disputants. And yet, a few hours after
ward, bo was speeding to Philadelphia for
the purpose of undergoing anotlieY slight
operation upon his throat.
Senator Hawley, in the course of his re
marks, stated that the banks of New York
could, at any moment they were so disposed,
bring on a financial crash ; but that no in
stitutions in the country had such potent
interest in the preservation of the public
credit and commercial prosperity. He
called the Carlisle amendment an absurdity
and appliuded Mr. Hayes for using it as a
pretext to veto the bill containing it. He
called attention to the fact that Samuel J.
Tilden controlled the Thin* National Bank
of New York. He praised the National
Lank system as tho most beneficent ever de-
vised, and believed in a 3 per cent, bond
only as a perpafiia) annuity, like the British
consols.
The struggle over ths Apportionment bill
as reported from the committee will be be
tween tho large and small States. The
Senate will be a breakwater against the
Hous*-. Rhode Island then is as great as
New York. We shall no doubt have some
of the strongoU Oalhoun talk from men
who have hitherto denounced "the heresy
of States Rights."
There was a fire yesterday iu what is
called the Marble Room of the Senate wing
of the Capitol. It ie a sumptuous apart
ment, where Senators receive privileged
guests or visitors. Not much harm was
done, but there is a wholesome’acare about
future gas explosions. in this Marble
Chamber there are noted busts of Tecumseh
and Black Hawk, the renowned Indiap
Cuiefs. Would their stony lips relax into a
smile, if the Reporters’ Gallery, which is
just above, should come down in ruins—
by an«xplosion of gas ! J. R. R.
MILL DAMS OS TRIAL-
Ac< u«e<l of (he Came of the Spi'e&d
of Malaria In New Knglaiiil,
PmsFiKLD, Mass., January 30. The
trial was begun to-day on the indictment
against the Smith Paper Company of Lee.
for alleged pubiie nuisance iu maintaining
a dim at their Pleasant Valley Mill which,
by setting back water over a iatjje track of
land above it, alternately drawing and
flowing it. caused malaria along the river
banka. The indictment is the first of the
kind evet d»»wn in the State, and the final
result is ofgra.U jtpportince to manufac
turers. Counsel for ti»_ defense submitted
a motion to quash the lufliptment for
several reasons, principally beeaiiou i* does
not set forth any offense against the law of
the Commonwealth. Judge Pitman, at the
request of the District Attorney, reserved
decision on the motion. The case wjis
then opened before the jury by eonnsel for
the prosecution, who cited a cumber of
cases of malaria disease alleged to have
been caused by the dam. Counsel for the
defense followed with an argument in favor
of quashing the indictment, on the ground
that the mill only exercised its legal right
in a legal manner, arid that the malaria was
not caused vy the defendants, bnt was the
result of natural causes. The Judge
decided that the cam sbon!d go on, to
which exceptions were takeu The decision
on theother motion to quash theindi.tment
on other grounds srjll be given at the open
ing of the Court to-motraw.
TIIK LKTma PF IHK LAW.
riu«e Cunslracllon of Criminal Eiatutea
in Hie State of Louisiana.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York,February 2.—A New Orleansspe- ;
cial says: “Some time after the arrest of the
Italian bandit, Esposito. Gayetaus Arditto
waylaid, shot and killed Tony Labruzzo, !
who was charged with having betrayed Es
posito to the police, and hence became a
victim of revenge. Arditto was tried and
convicted, receiving a sentence for life. On .
an appeal to the Supreme Court, the verdiet •
was set aside yesterday, and a new trial
ordered, on the ground that under the
law all cases should be allotted by hazard
betaz.’en the two Judges of the Criminal
Courts. This decisions makes illegal every
conviction trad in New Orleans Criminal
Courts since the adoption cf the Constitu
tion of 1879, although same of the convicts
have suffered death. Chief justice Ber
mudez rendered the decision several weeks
ago. The same jurist decided that Dr. J. C.
Beard was not coroner of the parish of Or
leans, because he had not hied his oath of
office within a given time after his election,
, and, therefore, had forfeited this office. ’
in Che trial, yesterday, of the son of Addi
son Camm&ck, who shot young Bornio, for
calling him a negro, the defease, under the
Supreme Court ruling, dx-clared that none
iof the criminal judges, Uerks of Court,
> jury commissioners or sheriff, were legally
I in office—they all having committed the
1 same lai-kts for which Beard was deprived
his office. Much consternation has been
caused by the application of the facte to the
j law. The Criminal Judge took the case
- Uiutar advisement, and consultation has
I bs?Q had with the Executive and Chief Jus
tice, with a new to extricating those con
eei ned froi2 th* grave dilemma.
COTTO’S IN TK.T < ® 9 *** £ '
A Movement For «h» Et/JSregcm** l
Cntton Prodnetlon in Tennessee.
Ckattanooga, January 31.—Your corre
spondent had an interview to-day with
CapL Turley, the most prominent* cotton
planter in East Tennessee. He states that
greater interest is now being main feecad in
the culture of cotton in this section than
ever before, and that the production will be
double that of the previous year. He says
that in several counties the farmer* have
met and agreed to plant five acres in cotton.
They who have experimented so far have
been quite sncceeful. With the use cf but
little fertilizers the production has been, in
some localities, a bale to the acre. Great
interest is being manifested, and this locali
ty promises to become an important cotton
producing section.
; DR. FELTOVS SPEECH.
1 WHAT HE SAID AT MARKET HALL
LAST NIGHT.
Hr Comes Out as a Jeffersonian Denio
rrat—Nationalism Treated in Politics—*
His Definition ot Independentiaiu—The
Free Ballot and Fair Count—Views on
Finance, Tariff and the Convict Lease.
At 8 o’clock last night a large crowd had
gathered at the Market Hall, Around two
large tables, which had been run against
the middle of the north side of the Market
Hall for a stage, chairs were ranged in tiers
on the front and sides, while in the south
-1 eastern corner a brass band threw metalic zest
into the evening. The table was occupied by
Dr. Felton and Judge Hook. Finally, the
latter gentleman coming forward, said that
it was his pleasure to introduce to the au
dience a man whose mental and moral en
dowments had made him known to all the
people of Georgia. As parties once existed
; he was a Whig, bnt now is a true, inde
pendent, Jeffersonian Democrat. [Applause.]
j He was as renowned for his independent
thought as for his oratory and statesman
ship.
Dr. Felton was received with applause,
i and said he was glad to meet so many pres
ent. He appeared in response to a cordial
i and complimentary invitation, as a plain,
■ private citizen, to address them on political
questions. His mind was full of pleasant
and aad memories;' 38 years ago he had
received his diploma from the Georgia Med
ical College, and as valedictorian delivered
his first and only speech here. The Board
: had been presided over by the Hon. C. J. i
Jenkins, whose incorruptible patrotism |
would stand as an enduring monument to '
the young men of Georgia. -A number of
i honored preceptors, Ford, Eve, Garvin and j
■ others, were present then; the majority have I
fallen asleep, but some are still here, full I
; of years and honor, to reap the fruits of their )
| labor. Here he first subscribed to the Chbon
icle and . Sentinel—the first political j
paper he read - which continued to reach his j
homo many years a welcome visitor. He I
‘ first voted and spoke for a political cause in |
: Watkinsville, voting for Clay and Freling- [
huyseu. While the Whig party remained I
he was true to its principles and usages, and
since then he had been acting with the
Democratic party, and had never voted in
any election—State or National—but as a
Democrat. He cameherfi to-night, asaGeor
i gian to speak to Georgians.
i It was natural, said he, that affections
should cluster around these early local hab
itations. These sentiments are beautiful
and valuable, and when strengthened by local
interests, by property, profit and gain, they
become mainsprings of value and power.
Our property is here; our labor, our wealth
and our future are identified in Georgia's
political, intellectual and moral power and
glory. There may yet be danger, said he,
less our literature, politics and industries
may become local and narrow, bounded by
State and Sectional Lines.
, He sketched the growth of local elans in
Scotland, which continued till England
and Scotland were merged into a newer na
tionalism, and Feudalism continued until
the towns and cities were united in
national growth, and better laws and better
systems grew up. We need abroad, liberal
nationalism. The South was made section
al by the institution of slavery, and all,of
our thoughts were directed to its mainten
ance. A special school of politics and legis
lation was devoted to its interests and its
preservation; and every idea was opposed,
which militated against its perpetuity and
profitableness. This sectional feeling was
aggravated by a body ot political adventur
ers. But slavery, is thank God, abolished
forever [applause], and carpet-haggerism
driven out forever. [Applause.] There
should now be no sectionalism in this coun
try—no flaming sword guarding our bound
aries, to drive back enterprising men and
capital, for fear of incendiarism. We are
one people, and have one purpose from
I Maine to California. [Applause.] No matter
I how many emigrants may come here from
■ overcrowded Europe, they are swallowed up
i and naturalized, an I we are the same liberty
j loving people of America. [Great applause. ]
Tlie Solids Stand Opposed*
j We are one people, bound together by an
identity of mutual interests. Yet the South
is solidly Democratic and the North solidly
Republican-the latter section by far the
richest and most powerful. These estrange
ments are continued, he feared, for the sake
bt office; of local spoils and State emolu
ments. We are, I fear, cherishing the seo-
I tionalism and the abstractions of older and
darker days. Solid Democracy, by the North
is recognized as solid sectionalism.
Now What I« the Remedy T
Georgia Independents must realize the
importance and necessity of recognizing a
broad Nationalism. We cannot prosper
until this sectional bitterness is forever
obliterated and this Uniora of States ce
mented in one common brotherhood. [Ap
plause.] The remedy is Independentism
in our politics. If theoretical politics and
abstraction have brought about this evil,
and contributed to these dangers, Georgia
must have better methods and more states
manlike principles.
* What Is Independentlsiu !
It means that the people, the multitude,
the men of every class, the laborers, mer
chants and mechanics, should be placed in
charge of their own public affairs. [Ap
plause, j That the people are masters and
not the slave of public officials; that every
candidate must be passed upon by honesty
and competency; that the people shall con
trol the machinery and not turn it over to
experts or professional politicians, who ap
portion it ont to their obsequious friends
(cheers), and give their places of power to
those who go up humbly to the polls and
ratify their prearranged purposes. [Cheers.]
It is wonderful that the people—the wealth
s.nd the muscle of the land—that they
will permit a few interested parti
sans to control the entire machinery of
the State and National Government. You
are the men interested. This Government
was to be a government of the people, for
the people, by the people. He was
glad, he said, to see the people money
makers and enterprising; bnt is there not
danger that designing men mav take ad
vantage of this absorption of the people,
and fasten upon you principles which may
overwhelm you in tha future? The price of
your liberty is eternal vigilance. [Ap
plause.] Did that virgin watch her vestal
fires with untiring vigilance; so every Amer
ican must watch with eternal vigilance the
saorej gres es civil freedom. [Applause.]
You are not to stand off, as in European mon
archies, to submit io unlimited taxation;
but you are all, white and biack. constitu
ents of this Government, and cannot deia
gat» |hia duty to any other.
the Democracy.
How have candidates been selected in
Georgia ?■ Who have selected your offices of
your State ? I am addressing the men of
toil and s»egt, who make the riches of
Richmond cquffiy. For many years a few i
special politicians have done this—men re-1
markable for political skill and cunning, j
[Laughter.] What are the packed sonsen-1
tjons? Assemblies of men—possibly in the i
back room of some commercial house - and |
they select a certain number of delegates to
goto Atlanta; and th.se are instructed to ;
stand by some given man. And th. y meet a ■
Ultnilcr'y selected delegation from all oyer the ,
lamt. P® they meet as an advisory counsel |
for the god.’ 1 Qf party, and the dignity !
ajjd prosperity o'* Georgia? 4Jas, these are
loot sight of in their zeal and blinduegs for '
some politic*! favorite. [Laughter.]
Dr. Felton item sljuded to the last Gu- i
bernatorial Convention, agjid cheers and !
laughter. He would not criticise ujen but j
metimds and officials. The Convention bad !
adopted th* two-thirds rule, and justice and •
honor required compliance with that rule. •
[Applause, and cries of "Right.”] Five i
men as candidates had been especially '
groomed for the occasion, and for whose in
tereat the Convention had been especially j
prearranged. Some men gjoved, after;
fruitless balloting, that new «ud dis- 1
tingnishzd names be brought in ; i
among those submitted were Messrs.
Barnes, Cumming and Black, of your own
county. [Applause.] 1 beiieye injl the
grandest of all men, Hon. A- H. tjtephens ,
[great cheering], was one of the com pro-i
mise men. And just when success seemed J
probcble. another gentleman from Rich- ’
mond, distinguished for all the virtues and :
courtesies that go to make up a good charac
ter, arose an d said, as one in uhtbority : "We
have come here to nominate A. H. Colquitt
and wc will stay here till Christmas to do ‘
it." [ Appiuaaz and laughter.] The spirit'
of rule or ruin actiuXsd the Convention,
»ud the majority put their favorite before
the people of Georgia as an Independent
. candidate for Governor—as we Independ
ents say they had * -‘?ht to do. And
i ths favorite of that Contention be
caxue’whst they call us—a disorganizer
; of party for personal purposes. These
managers have injured ps permanently,
I fear. They have made organized Democ
racy a scheme to trick the people for a taw
speciffi favorite politicians. [Applause
and arise Gt that's too hard.] Let
the laboring men rise up and redeem
old Georgia from the grasp qf these crafty
politicians. [Applause, j
] • ‘How long have I been speaking r ‘ asfeed
j tint Doctor at this point.
• make any difference; go on,”
said a roue, «ta»jd great laughter.
I always i-ffntinned he, when I
• know tb'e people 111 «ta helm of this
; govemmrnt. I fear no no d;s
--■ ruption' no permanent estrangement among
I tins people again ; tai I do fear that this cen
> tralizition of political poire, cpd property
will make absolute slaves of the xwling
masses of tb“se States. [Applause.]
Free Bateta sad Fair Canal,
We believe the pffijti,oal caucus is
only advisory in its character, and that
' every ballot should represent the choice cf
the voter casting it. We believe that a free
| ballot and a fair count ate essential to free
i government, and the machinery qf super-
I rimag CW ejections should be so ae to
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1882.
' tect them from all fraud. I believe there
■ should be no restriction upon the ballot.
i There should be no educational or propertv
qualification upon the votes. Any other
j theory leads to class legislation and aristo
j cratic form of government, favoring the
* rich and ignoring the poor.
A Poll Tax
: May be levied and collected; but, consider
j ing that the sacred end to which it is de
voted is the free schools, it may be left in
part. Logic and patriotism demand and
require that suffrage should be disconnect
ed with everything but manhood. Every
man is willing to pay a dollar to the schools,
hence we are willing that the poll tax be
j paid for the year next preceding the elec
| tion only, as in the old Constitution. But
I as at present required that it be paid for an
I indefinite number of years, absolutely dis
i francises many free men of this State—the
■ poor men. These men must perform road
i and jury duty, and, in time of war, are first
I to be draughted into military service for
' the defense of your property and your lib-
I erty. And the blood of one man, I con-
: tend, shed on the field for the defense of
: liberty, is worth all the money that a million
j aire ever paid into the Treasury. [Ap-
■ plause.] Now, it is these men who are dis
j franchised—they are first in war, and yet
have no voice upon questions affecting peace
and war. The ballot and the musket must go
together. The ballot and the blood of the
battle ground of freedom are eternally
inseparable. [Applause.]
The Doctor was anxious that he bo un
derstood that he was willing to pay and to
donate the one year’s tax to education. He
believed the total abrogation of the tax
would only be a question of time and dis
cussion. The tax gave rise to fraud and
unblushing bribery. The Doctor said it
was a common rumor—and newspaper ru
mor was very common—that $5,000 had
I been sent to Richmond county to pay up
' taxes of those who voted in the last cam
i paign for the generous donor. So that the
men who can manipulate banking estab-
I lishments, wealthy companies and railroad
syndicates (great applause 'at this lick
at Governor Brown] control elections,
rather than men of patriotism and
merit. Money is used to buy votes as cattle
are bought at the shambles. Men and
principles are bought and made open bar
gains. Where are we drifting, my country
men ! The Doctor compared Georgia to
old Rome threatened with ruin. Georgia,
the State of Crawford, Lumpkin, Mc-
Donald, Berrien and Cobb, honest and in
corruptable men—where is she drifting
under organized Democracy—when a free
school tax is used to demoralize and cor
rupt the very class to be educated. [Cheers.]
The ballot is not free when the employe
may be discharged by the employer le’ss
he vote not according to requirement; it is
not free when bogus tickets are handed to
ignorant men by sworn managers and those
sworn managers throw out these tickets as
illegal. It ie not free when the timid color
ed voter is forced away, having in view
the terrors of the chain gang and the
prison. [Wild eheers on the colored side.]
It is not free when select passage ways
are given to some and denied other
white and colored men. [Applause.] It is
not free when the ballot box at midnight is
seen under the arm of a relative of the
Bourbon candidate, as'it is carrjed through
the streets. In many counties election dav
is a carnival of fraud. [Cries of "Right!”
“Right!”] The ballot box is the American
throne which gives law and liberty to the
most powerful people on this globe. [Ap
plause], Cursed be tho hand that would
degrade this independent throne for trick
sters and ringsters ! [Cheers.] Coma, my
friends, and join this independent party
and rescue this old State from her political
taskmasters. [Applause].
His Financial Policy.
I favor payment of all honest debts, Na
tional and State. We are no repndiators. The
last farthing is our indepehteiff platform.
The National debt should be paid as quickly
as our surplus will authorize. We have been
paying nearly $200,000,000 per year, and
now it it is about $70,000,000 interest per
year. We must pay off that debt and stop
interest. It is the labor of the country, af
ter all, that must pay this debt, "And don’t
yon forget it.” [Great laughter.] It is a
mistake for real estate owners and million
aires to say they paid the debt; there was
not a word of truth in it. You will also
turn loose millions of dollars among the
people—their fields and factories. If re
funded, no bond should be beyond the call
of the Government. We have been paying
over $G4,(X)0,000 for the privilege of pay
ing our debt. The President vetoed the
Funding bill last year and Secretary Sher
man's bill has been defeated in the Senate.
The Windom bonds were put ont payable
any time the Government desired it. The
maturing debt of $700,(XX),000 is paya
ble at tho call of the Government; but. in
1907 we will have a debt of over $800,000,-
000, and if trade continues in our favor we
will pay every dollar in this century. I
would have no more premiums to pay; no
bond would be continued and perpetuated
to gratify the cupidity and avarice of Na
tional bank directors. I fear the debt is be
ing perpetuated, not for the people, but
that the National banks may be allowed to
exist; and I am glad that when the debt is
paid the last National bank will expire—
Othello’s occupation will be gone. [Ap
plause.]
Now, we do not mean to pay
bogus bonds tMt have been buried
in the Constitution. We mqst have a
sound financial system gold and sil
ver and paper based on this and reedem
able at any hour, at the will of the holder,
in coin. There should be a double stand-,
ard -gold and silver—and there cannot be
too many silver dollars; too many redeem
able paper dollars. Let Nevada and Cali
fornia pour their silver treasure into this
Government, and let it ba coined into dol
lars ot 412 graine. That fight was fought
five years ago, and the old silver dollar has
coiue here to stay forever. I like that old
dollar. My old friend, Mr. Chittenden, ob
tained some of the first dollars from the
mint, and coming to me said he: "Here’s
the third or fourth dollar ever coined; I
will present it to you, for you have done as
much as any man to bring that coin into
Use again.” Those words, "In God
We Trust,” said he, means this: The
coin lacks 15 cents of being a dollar and
we will trust God for tho rest. [Laugh
ter.] Men say the vaults will ba overrun
with them. I wish it may be. I hope they
will overflow the vaults into the fields and
farms and industries of the land. Let
Arizona and Nevada coin their silver dol
lars and send them on with their blessings
and benefits all over the world—to cary
your .civilization and freedom to the outer
most parts of the earth.
Men say that Georgia was never so pros
perous. Why, the agricultural interests
were never so depressed as at the present
time; absolute starvation and bankruptcy
threaten many families and hard work
ing mpn. I know that fortunes spring
like Jonah’s goard ( in a single night ; that
corporate capital was never so plentiful as
now ; but unless relief speedily come, the
laboring men of this country will be the
greatest slaves to incorporated wealth that
ever wilted beneath the master’s lash. [Ap
plause.] We want no wild oat bank issues,
that can be depressed or inflated against la
bor at every whim of Wall street. We want
a National money.
ds to Revenue*
The Internal Revenue system should be '
repealed as soon as the National debt is well :
nigh cancelled—not now. The Democratic
Congress fostered thq arrearages of pension
till. The taxes on watches, proprietary
articles and checks should be
repealed. These are war measures. One
branch of industry has no more right to be
taxed than another. Whisky and tobacco, '
you say, luxuries; but they may be ne- '
cessities to sonie. Tea and coffee have been !
put upon the free list. 4 tariff upon im- ■
ported articles is the best way tq leyy tax. |
God grant the day may never come when ;
direct taxation way send the Federal tax
gatherer to the people to collect his taxes.
Every advocate of free trade is an advocate
of direct taxation. We favor a tariff for rev
enue, but pot for revenue only; bnt one so
discriminailog as to protect all home indus
tries. Georgia is most interested in such
a tariff, and Richmond county is most of all.
Georgia is the Massachusetts of the South,
and Augusta ie the Lawell of Georgia;
your canal, with 14,000 horses power, ;
with millions invested in machinery and
manufacturing industries, calls for high |
tariff. Now, when you are getting so pros- !
perous, ar, re?.st, so hopeful, are von I
going to strike down tue tariff that bas'en
riched the North and East ? Your opera
tives call for protection against European
pauper labor and the cupidity of European
.Capitalists. [Applause.] You people who
are inauigtag ip dreams so hopeful, bnt
real dreams, of enhauoeiu of property,
call for encouragement and protection. A
man pays the tariff'tax just according to
what he buys.
He who toys nothing pays nothing; as
Madison said, "It is the easiest way of col
lecting taxes known to the constituency of
as American Congressman.”
Bhall we still sit idly dreaming of an an
tiquated regime, while the West and the
North are growing immensely rich and pow
, arful? Let ns determine to built up in all
1 that is great and progressive, Georgia, our
native State. Population will increase.
1 Wealth and population will bring free
1 schools. This
Free School
i fa the most important Independent plank in
: this Qur institutions are just as
safe resting on a t*ank of ilysjamite as on a
bank of illiteracy. Educate tl*e children;
let the State contribute liberally, and let the
I General Government contribute liberally. I
■ twice rcted to distribute sales of public land
among the States according to illiteracy.
Georgia would get $90,000.
Senator Logan’s bill to devote the whisky
; lac to school purposes might ba an expedient
' msaauta. T-“ ra > 9 not ® distiller here bat
I would giadiy ©Outricntg this amount to
I schools all over the land.
The Convict System.
ignorant® produces crime ; crime must be
punished according to the usage of onr
Christian civilization. lam opposed to the
system of leasing convicts to private indi-
viduals. [Loud cheering.] I object, for it
makes the avarice of the lessee— not the
moderation of the State government—control
the convicts; because through insufficient
evidence unreasonable punishment is given
for trivial offenses ; because the convict is
! turned over to incompetent keepers and
j overseers ; because the system instigates
prosecution and conviction to gratify the
greed and avarice of individuals ; because
j it gives the wealthy lessees advantages over
' free labor, and the competition is demoral
izing. In the name of our common Chris-
■ tianity, ftee government qnd our civiliza
tion, let us wipe it out as » foul blot upon
I our State. A wealthy lessee says in an in
terview that he can give no encouragement
ito the new movement. I reckon not.
[Laughter.] He cannot recognize a move
ment which proposes to wrest from him his
slaves by law ; Nelms says a convict’s labor
is worth S7O a year ; now I say an able
bodied laborer is worth SIOO a year.
[Cries of “right”] Mr. Lockett
said, convict netted $30,000 a year, or
S3OO per head; at Dade Coal Mines there
are 350 con victs and this at S3OO per head,
prevents the distinguished lessee from
countenancing a new movement which will
take from him such a sugar plum. [Laugh
ter and applause.]
Dr. Felton here read an extract from the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, of Feb
ruary Bth, 1880, against the system of con
victs. I am glad, said he, that these words
of one of your leading papers will stand
there to guide the intelligent voters of Rich
mond county in their efforts to wipe out a
system which menaces eur govertftnent and
civilization. Dr. Felton concluded as follows:
“Let us sustain the thretf great pillars of
Wisdom, Justice and Moderation; and let
us rally around the National Government
and the Constitution as the grandest, great
est charter of civil, political and religious
rights that ever blessed the world. Let
other States grow up in the Union and rally
around the Constitution like planets around
a central sun; and I wilt pray that Georgia,
under wise administrations and S conserva
tive government, may continue to be the
beet and brightest of them all.” [Loud
Cheering.]
LKTTRK FROM BALTIMORR,
Memoirs ot the Late James D. Wadilell
“Gifts to Baltlmoie, the Library ami
the College—Osiur Wilde a Finicky
Fool.
(Special Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Baltimore, January 29.—C01. James D.
Waddell, whose death you recently an
nounced, was a gentleman of no ccmmon
talents and ot very unusual attainments.—
My acquaintance with hita began thirty
years ago, when he was an undergraduate
ot the State University. In a large class
one of the largest the college had ever
known —he had no superior as a writer or
as a speaker. He exhibited then that re
tentiveness of memory which afterwards
made him w'hat is sometimes called "a
walking encyclopedia.” His genial heart
manners were as marked as
his intellectual gifts, and whilst the latter
gave him pre-eminence in a large class, the
former won for him hosts of friends. Your
columns have already paid a worthy trib
ute to his memory; but you must allow me,
an old friend of the deceased, to put on re
cord this additional testimony to his worth.
Tlie New Library.
To the rich literary attractions of which
our city can already boast, there has been
added, during the past week, the munifi
cent donation of more than tt million of
dollars to tho city for the founding of a free
library. The generous donor is Mr. Enoch
Bratt, a gentleman who came to Baltimore
in his youth, in quest of a fortune, and
who, haying been remarkably successful,
takes this method of expressing his grati
tude. Though an elderly man, Mr. Pratt
is not so advanced in life as to have lost all
relish for the possession and enjoyment of
money, and his gift, made before his exec
utors have taken charge of his effects, is to
be regarded as a real charity. Mr. Pratt is
now constructing, on a central lot, a build
ing which is to cost about a quarter of a
million of dollars, with a capacity for 200,-
000 volumes. This will be presented to
the city, ou completion, together with
property sufficient to produce an annual in
come of $50,000, all of which is to be ex
pended every year for the purposes of the
library. When it is remembered that we
already have, in the Peabody Institute,
largely over a million of dollars invested
for the intellectual improvement of the peo
ple, and when to this handsome sum you
add the two hundred thousand dollars an
nual income now enjoyed by Johns Hop
kins University, and a like amount for the
annual support of the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, I’think you will agree with me that
no city in our country offers superior ad
vantages in the way of mental culture for
the young, or of intellectual entertainment
for all classes, as well as provision for the
afflicted, to those which are found in this
Southern metropolis.
Whilst on this subject, allow me to add
that the Hon. W. W. Corcoran, of Washing
ton City, has recently donated a magnifi
cent lot, adjacent to the Arlington Hotel, to
Columbian University, on which to erect
college buildings. This is an institution
founded by Baptists in the early part of
this century, but offering its advantages to
all. The University is indebted to Mr.
Corcoran for munificent gifts in former
years, and his present donation will enable
the institution to remove its w.ork from
College Hill, where it has heretofore been
prosecuted, into the very heart of the capi
tal.
Mr. Oscar Wilde.
I was one of the geese who went last night
to hear Mr. Oscar Wilde. He is quite the sen
sation just now. I suppose the young gen
tleman said some sensible things; but his
voice was so feeble, and his delivery so ab
solutely monstrous and tame, that it was
very difficult to get much idea of his ad
dress. As published, it is not without some
merit; but as heard it was anything but edi
fying. Mr. Wilde is only five and twenty
years of age, but he shows some shrewdness
in the ffl-t of hambuggery. Like our peri
patetic advertisers, who array themselves in
the most antic attire, in order to attract
attention, and so give efficacy to their
advertising work, this young gentleman de
parts so decidedly from the prevailing get
up for the person that, as soon as he shows
himself, people look and laugh, and
then talk about Mr. Wilde’s dress.
He wore last night a swallow tail
coat of peculiar cut, velvet breeches,
fitting tightly to his legs, and terminating
at his knees, where they were met by wbat
seemed to be dark silk stockings, covering
a symmetrical limb, well rounded out with
a comely calf—his pedal extremities being
encased in patent leather shoes. A white
waistcoat, a white neck tie (and plenty of
it), long, luxuriant hair, parted precisely in
the middle, and flanking either side of a
face fresh and rudy, with an agreeable ex
pression on all the features of that part of
the person which the audience saw dur
ing the delivery of the lecture. There
was no animation in speaking, noth
ing approaching a gesture; but the
right hand was held on the manuscript
whilst the left arm is kept “akimbo” or
held behind the person. I suppose Mr.
Wilde is a pet in London society, and I pre
sume he is an amiable young gentleman;
but as a lecturer he is a failure. He must
have had nearly a thousand people when he
began last night, and, though they paid
from 50 cents to $1 admission, many left
long before the leoutre was finished. I have
not heard in what direction he proposes to
travel from this point, but if you should
not be favored with his presence in Augusta
you may congratulate yourselves that in the
matters of oratory your Joss will not be ir
reparable.
Old Boreas was down upop us severely
a day or two ago, but just now the atmos
phere is as balmy as a vernal day.
Baizhmobe.
Slavery and State Sovereignty.
(Mobile (Ala.) Register, January 26.)
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constiiuiion should not
and cannot thrust forward the skeleton
slavery as the cause for which the South
fought. It knows perfectly well that the
rank and file of our army were not slave
holders and cared nothing* for the institu
tion, even though Mr. Stephens imagined
it to be the "corner stone,"' and that Loe
and Jackson and the leading Virginians
were pronounced emancipationists. Slavery
was no more the cause of the war of 1861
than nobility was ihe cause of the French
Revolution ; no more than the tariff’ may
cause a future war, or the corporations
or Socialism may plunge us into war
hereafter. There were wars before Aga
memnon, and there will ba civil ware so
long as men strive for power. We have the
pleasure of agreeing with the Cansliiution
that the South is happy, prosperous and
contented. We would not restore slavery
if we could. We would not fight for seces
sion again as a remedy for grievances. We
have inserted in our State Constitutions a
declaration that there can be no secession
qf a State from the Union. We are growing
in wealth and power, and would deplore
any breaking of the States asunder. We
stand by the public faith, the National debt
and the National honor. If the Union
should engage in a foreign war, the young
blood of tne new South would spring to the
defense of the National banner. But at the
same time we revere and honor Jefferson
Davis. The ConstituUan may deny him in
his adversity, as Peter did our Savjour, but
the Regliier agtees with him that the cause
cf local self-goveanment, as understood by
Jeffeysop and Jackson, is not dead. We
doubt even whether it js asleep,
The New Poatal Order. •
The First Assistant Pastmaster-General
1 has recently made the following postal or
fier : “Postmasters will not allow non-sub
scribere to take from the boxes, nor will
I they hand to them newspapers addressed
, ic refolded and returned to
■ them into [he general gel*very, without
verbal or written permit from such snb
-1 scriber. A violation of this regulation will
be considered sufficient ground for the re
moval of the offending postmaster.”
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
BUSINESS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE
YESTERDAY.
No Lottery In the District—The Sherman
Three Per Cent. Bill—Contested Election
Cases In the House.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, January 31.—Mr. Vance,
trom the District Committee, reported an
original bill to punish the selling and ad
vertising of lottery tickets in the District of
Columbia.
Mr. Windom, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported a resolution re
questing the President of the United States
to transmit all the correspondence between
the United States and its diplomatic agents
accredited to the Republics of Mexico and
Gautemela, since January Ist, 1881, and
any other information in his possession
touching the relations of the United States
with each and both of said countries and
their relations with each other, was taken
up and adopted.
Bills were introduced—By Mr. Harris—
For a bridge across the Mississippi river, at
Memphis.
By Mr. Jonas—For a public building in
Opolousas, Louisiana.
By Mr. Morgan—Granting the right of
way over public lands in Alabama, and
lands in said State, in aid of the Chicago
Air Line Railroad Company, and for other
purposes.
At 1:20 the Senate resumed consideration
of the Sherman 3 Per Cent. bill. Mr. Vest
submitted a modification of his amendment,
but the Senate, at 2:15, after a discussion,
in which Messrs. Hawley and Ingalls were
the principal participants, rejected the en
tire Vest amend met-ayes, 28;noes, 32.
Discussion then proceeded upon Mr.
Plumb’s proposition for a reduction of the
finite limit to redemption. Mr. Plumb
withdrew all the clause of his amendment,
except to direct the use of the surplus
revenues in excess of one hundred million
dollars for redemption purposes, and the
discussion was confined to this proposition.
Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, suggested a
modification, which was accepted by Mr.
Plumb, so as to apply one hundred million
dollars of the reserve’ to the redemption of
four and a half per cents , when due, in ad
dition to the three and a half per cent,
bonds. Mr. Plumb’s amendment was then
agreed to—ayes, 33; noes, 29. It is as fol
lows : “That the Secretary of the Treasury
shall use all of the funds now held in the
Treasury for the redemption of United
States notes in excess of one hundred mil
lion dollars in redemption ot bonds of the
United States, such redemption to be
made in not less than three installments,
and said sum of one hundred million dol
lars so left in the Treasury shall not be in
creased or diminished except in redemption
of United States notes.”
• After executive session the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE.
Mr. Reagan to-day, from the Committee
on Commerce, repotted a resolution calling
on the Secretary of War for information as
to whether any persons or corporations are
using water power created by locks or dams
constructed by the United States on rivers
and canals. Adopted.
The House resumed consideration of the
resolution reported from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, requesting the President to
obtain a list of American citizens confined in
English prisons.
Mr. Orth, of Indiana, spoke upon the
resolution, and in tho course of his remarks
cast so much ridicule upon Mr. Robinson
for his speeches, that the latter lost hie tem
per and rose to several points of order,
which wero overruled. Mr. Orth finally
yielded to Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey,
when Mr. Robinson attempted so persist
ently to gain the floor, saying he could out
bawl the gentleman from New Jersey, that
the Speaker was obliged to threaten Robin
son with the attentions of the Sergeant-at-
Arms. The resolution was finally adopted.
Mr. Prescott, of New York, gave notice
that he would, on Thursday next, call up
the Apportionment bill for consideration.
Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, Chairman
of the Committee on Post Office and Post
Roads, reported the Post Route bill and it
was passed. Adjourned.
Washington, February I.—ln the Sen
ate the President pro tem. submitted from
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue the
response to a resolution of December 14th,
in relation to the sale of farms or planta
tions in South Carolina, under the act of
1862 for the collection of direct taxes in
insurrectionary districts.
Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Epi
demic Diseases, reported favorably, with
amendments, the bill for the distribution
of pure vaccine virus to the pobple. The
amendment appropriates fifteen thousand
dollars to enable the National Board of
Health to supply the pure article at cost
price, and requires that the proceeds of
sales shall be paid into the Treasury quar
terly.
On motion of Mr. Windom, of Minneso
ta, a resolution was adopted requesting the
President to communicate the correspond
ence between the Executive Department
and diplomatic agents of the United States,
elating to a proposed Congress of Ameri
an nations, or any of them, in 1882.
Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, asked the
consideration of his resolution calling for
inf ormation concerning misconduct or irreg
ularities of internal revenue officials in the
Sixth Collection District of North Carolina.
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts,objected, as he
regarded the resolution as a reflection upon
the Treasury Department. The motion
was not pressed.
The Senate then took up Mr. Morgan’s
pending resolution, calling for an authen
tic statement of all tests made by a mixed
commission in reference to heavy ord
nance being built by the United States, and
also for printing of testimony taken in the
last Oopgress on the subject of heavy ord
nance and projectiles, and tests to which
they have been sujected.
Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, suggested
that the amount of printing required by the
resolution, if it was to cover all unprinted
matter of Ordinance Bureau, as he supposed
it did, would be illimitable. Discussion
followed, in which Mr. Morgan explained
that his purpose was to have published
matter which the Ordinance Bureau had
suppressed. He had been informed that
that Bureau was in the hands of “a ring,”
interested in certain inventions, and its
chief officer held patents upon inventions
which ‘‘the ring" had caused to be patent
ed. He wanted to have the whole matter
sifted to the bottom and an opportunity
given to American inventors to compete
with favorites of the Bureau.
Mr. Hawley thought the charge of the
Senator from Alabama was based upon rep
resentations of dissatisfied inventors, who
had not received the rewards they expected.
He suggested as a more direct and less ex
pensive means of attaining the object of the
resolution, the selection of a committee of
the Senate to go ever what he called a mass
of rubbish and ascertain what portion ought
to be printed. He believed the Ordinance
Bureau, like every other Government de
partment, to be conducted by honorable
men. Discussion followed, occupying the
time beyond the morning hour, and was
participated in by Messrs. Allison, of lowa,
and Hoar, of Massachusetts —the latter ob
serving that the estimated cost of the print
ing would be $500,000.
Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, reiterated his
charges.
Mr. Allison explained that Congress pro
vided at the last session for an efficient test
of the ordinance ordered to be made by an
independant board. The resolution was
finally laid aside informally without action.
Mr. Morrill reported from the Finance Com- '
mittee a bill proposing amendments to the
Revised Statutes so as to authorize collec
tors, naval officers, surveyors and inspec
tors who may have cause to suspect con
cealment of merchandise in a particular ■
store or dwelling to search for and seize the
same. •
The Senate, at 1:2O, took up the Three
Per Cent. Bond bill and Mr. Morgan, of
Alabama, advocated as an additional section
an amendment as follows: That the agree
ment made by holders of bonds of the
United States since the adjournment of the
Forty sixth Congress, by which the rate of
interest on such bonds is reduced to three
and one-half per centum per annum, is
hereby fully ratified and confirmed, ac
cording to the terms and intent of said
agreement. Upon this amendment a long
discussion followed.
Upon the suggestion of Mr. Ingalls, of
Kansas, the amendment was modified by
the insertion of an express recognition of
the agreement as valid and binding upon
the Government. The amendment was
then adopted without a vote, as also the
provision offered by Mr. Davis, of West
Virginia, declaring that nothing in the act
shall be so construed as to authorize an in
crease of the public debt. The bill was
then reported to the Senate from the com
mittee of the whole, and the question be
ing upon agreeing to the amendments as a
whole, Mr. Sherman asked for a separate
v«te upon Mr. Plumb’s amendment, apply
ing surplus revenues of over $100,000,000
to the reduction of the public debt. He
said that if this proposition was not strikes
out, he and others who had acted with him
would be compelled to vote against the bill.
He urged upon the Senate to appreciate the
importance of maintaining a sufficient re
serve in the Treasury as heretofore, in or
der that sudden emergencies might be pro
vided against, and argued that if the pro
posed reduction was now made it would
open the door to further attempts in the
same direction. •
Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, took the floor,
but retired for a motion for executive ses
sion. TJ;e 'action op the motion pending
the House concurrent resolution, fixing
27th of February as the day for the Garfield
memorial services, was concurred in. Adv
HOUSE.
Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, offered a resolu
; tion setting apart Monday, 27th of Febru
ary, 1882, for memorial ‘services upon the
late President James A. Garfield. Adopted.
Mr. Hill, of New Jersey, introduced a
bill reducing postage on letters and sealed
packages to two cents per half ounce or
under; four cents for over half ounce and
I under two ounce, and for each additional
' two ounces or a fraction thereof, at two
i cents. Referred.
| Under a call of committees bills for the
i erection of of public buildings at Louis
ville, Kentucky, and other places were re
| ported from the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds, and referred to the com
' mittee of the whole.
At the conclusion of the morning hour
the House, at 12:50, went into committee
of the whole, Mr. Calkins, of Indiana, in
the Chair, on the Post Office Appropriation
bill.
Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin, explained the
provisions of the bill. The amount appro
priated was $43,529,300, only $787,577 of
which would come out of the general fund
in the Treasury,' since the estimated reve
nue of the Post Office Department amount
ed to $42,741,722. The Committee on Ap
propriations had cut down the estimates of
the Department in several particulars, the
principal reduction being in a refusal to ap
propriate more than $50,000 for the pur
pose of extending the free letter system,
the Department asking for slsojooo. At
the conclusion of Mr. Caswell’s remarks the
general debate, on the bill was limited to
three hours.
Several notices of intention to offer
amendments were given, among them one
by Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, limiting the
power of the Postmaster-General to discon
tinue mail service on steamboats. Since
frauds, which had existed as was alleged in
the Star Route service, had been discovered,
there had been a discontinuance of servfce
i by steamboats on the Mississippi river and
; its tributaries, which amounted to almost
an absolute inhibition of mail service. The
object of his amendment was to prevent the
discretion of a head of a department to in
terpose and become the law of the land
rather than the express legislation of Con
gress.
Mr. King,’ of Louisiana, advocated Mr.
Hooker’s amendment. Mr. Hiscock, of
New York, in response to some criticisms
made by Mr. Hooke? upon the action of
the Postmaster-General in discontinuing
the service on steamboats, quoted the rea
sons advanced by that officer for his action,
to show that such service had been discon
tinued in some cases because it had been
superseded by the Star service, and its eon
tinfflince amounted to nothing but a sub
sidy to steamboat companies. The commit
tee, without further action, rose.
The Speaker laid before the House a mess
age from the President, transmitting a let
ter from the Commissioner of Pensions,
giving an estimate of amounts that will be 1
required annually to pay pensions for the i
next twenty-five years, under certain con- 1
ditions. Referred. Adjourned. i
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The debt statement issued to-day shows
the decrease of the public debt during the
month 6i' January to be $12,978,836 36.
Cash in the Treasury, $246,025,468 59;
gold certificates outstanding, $5,188,120;
silver certificates outstanding, $68,999,670;
certificates of deposit outstanding, $11,400,-
000; refunding certificates outstanding,
$559,100; legal tenders outstanding, $346,-
681,016; fractional currency outstanding,
$7,069,493 67 ; cash balance available,
$143,901,663 29.
A dispatch of Secretary Blaine is publish
ed, inviting a conference of North and South
American Republics, to meet in Washing
ton next year, for the purpose of promot
ing peace on the American continents, by
averting possible future wars and euding
positive conflicts through pacific counsels
or important arbitration. This ie a part of
tlie correspondence called for by a resolu
tion in the Senate to-day, but it is pub
lished prematurely, with many errors and
an important omission, in to-day’s New
York Herald and several Western papers.
The President sent to the House to-day a
communication from the Commissioner of
Pensions, in reply to a House resolution
calling for information as to what amount
of appropriations would be required an
nually to pay pensions for the next
twenty-five years, based on the following
conditions: If all claims for pensions aris
ing from the war of the rebellion shall be
adjudicated within seven years, terminating
June 30, 1888, and if at the end of that pe
riod survivors of the war with Mexico and
their widows shall be pensioned at $8 per
month, the Commissioner estimates the
amounts which will be required for ttventy
five years, ending with 1906, at $1,347,-
651,593, of which $1,264,229,977 are re
bellion claims filed prior to June 30, 1880,
$31,5(10,000 rebellion claims filed after
June 30, 1880, and $51,921,616 Mexican
war claims. The amounts grow gradually
less annually, from $62,000,000 to $23,-
000,000.
SENATE,
Washington, February 2.—ln the Senate
a response was received from the Secretary
of the Treasury to a resolution introduced
by Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, in regard
to irregularities in the Sixth Internal Rev
enue Collection District of North Carolina.
Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, from the Commit
tee on Post Offices, reported adversely the
Senate joint resolution granting the frank
ing privilege to Senators and Representa
tives for official business. Indefinitely post
poned.
Mr. Morgan’s resolution for the printing
of testimony, etc., in regard to heavy guns
and projectiles being built by the Govern
ment, and calling for the report of a mixed
commissioners, etc., was taken up and
adopted with the modifications suggested
by its author.
At 1:05 the Three Per Cent. Bond bill was
taken up, the question being upon Mr.
Plumb’s amendment to apply surplus rev
enues over one hundred million dollars to a
reduction of tho public debt.
Mr. Bayard moved to amend so as to re
quire that the one hundred million dollars
to be retained in the Treasury shall be of
standard coin value. He wanted the dollars
to be real honest dollars—not paper.
Mr. Plumb signified his willingness to ac
cept the amendment, as he had supposed
the offly dollars in the Treasury were stand
ard coin dollars, but, upon a" point made
by Mr. Garland, it was ruled that the vote
must be taken. Mr. Bayard’s amendment
was then adopted—yeas, 37; nays, 14.
Mr. Plumb’s amendment was then reject
ed-yeas, 25; nays, 27.
An amendment, by Mr. Hoar, declaring
that the bonds bearing three and one-half
per cent, interest are hereby declared legal,
elicited a continuance of the discussion upon
the ratification of the funding of fives and
sixes by ex-Secretary Windom.
The debate was continued at considerable
length, principally between Messrs. Win
dom, of Minnesota; Hoar, of Massachu
setts; Vest, of Missouri and, Ingalls, of Illi
nois, sometimes taking the shape ot a per
sonal controversy between Messrs. Windom
and Vest, and Messrs. Windom and Ingalls.
Finally, the amendment, as originally pro
posed by Mr. Ingalls and modified by Mr.
Hoar, was adopted—ayes, 43; noes, 10. It
is as follows: That the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized to receive at
the Treasury and at the office of any Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States, and at
any postal money order office, lawful money
of the United States to the amount of fifty
dollars, or any multiple of that sum, or any
bonds of the United States bearing three
and a half per cent, interest, which are here
by declared valid, and issue in exchange
therefor an equal amount of registered or
coupon bonds.
Several messages from the President, en
closing communications from the heads of
Departments, were read and referred. The
motion for executive session was voted
down, as were also several subsequent mo
tions for adjournment, by opponents of the
bill. Mr. Sherman declared his intention
to have the bill disposed of, if possible,
without further delay, and a majority of the
Senate supported him.
Mr. Teller, of Colorado, renewed the
amendment of Mr. Plumb, with sundry ad
ditional features, requiring the application
of surplus revenues over $120,000,000,
etc., but, upon being appealed to by Mr.
Allison, of lowa, and others, not to retard
and endanger the bill, withdrew it.
Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, renewed his
amendment, offered in committee of the
whole. At 5 o’clock the friends of the bill
manifested a disposition to prolong the ses
sion, to reach a final vote.
Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, then took the
floor, and proceeded to arraign Mr. Win
dom’s funding operations, but had not
made*material progress when a motion to
adjourn prevailed, and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, from the Com
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures,
reported back the following bills, and they
were referred to the committee of the whole:
To authorize a new metric gold coin for in
ternational use, to be known as the “Stella, ”
It authorizes the coinage of a galoid metric
dollar, two dollars and fractions of the dol
lar, and also for the coinage of a galoid
double eagle, eagle and half eagle.
Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, from the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, reported a bill
repealing so much of section 3,385 of the
Revised Statutes as imposes an import tax
on tobacco. Referred to the committee of
the whole.
The House, at 1:15, went inth commit
tee of the whole, Mr. Calkins, of Indiana,
in the Chair, on the Post Office Appropria
tion bill. Several amendments, increasing
the appropriations for clerks* salaries, were
rejected or ruled out on points of order.
Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, offered
an amendment, increasing by SIOO,OOO thff
appropriation for expenses of the free de
livery system, and appropriating that
amount for the extension of the system.
®2 A YEAH—POSTAGE PATT)
He spoke in advocacy of his amendment,
which would give a fair increase of salary to
auxiliary letter carriers, many of whom re
ceived but S4OO a year, and were a hard
working class of men. Propositions were
made to fix the amount of appropriation for
<lf tbe free delivery system at
$.->3,000, and $150,000, but. pending a
vote thereon, the committee rose, and the
House adjourned.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President, to-day, approved the bill
granting additional pension to Mrs. Mary
Lincoln, President Lincoln’s widow.
For the purpose of facilitating the with
drawal of mutilated coin from circulation,
the superintendents of coinage mints have
tt 66 ? j authorized to purchase mutilated
United States silver coins of standard fine
ness, in sums of $3 and upward, without
melting and assay, paying at the rate of $1
per ounce of standard silver.
Secretary Hunt has designated Lieut.
Giles h. Harber and Master W. H. Schoutze,
ot the navy, as officers to assist Lieut. Don'-
euhower in the search for Lieut. Chippe
and his crew, and they will take passage in
the steamer which leaves New York Satur
day next, with the expectation of reaching
Irkutsk about the middle of March.
Secretary Hunt received the following
cablegram from Minister Hoffman, at St.
Petersburg, this afternoon:
“Donenhower reports as put on the sick
list, on account of his eyes —which are ru
ined. The others are nearly well! Melville
was put in command. Ordered me Hera, as
he knows the ground useful for Summer
search.”
A consideration of the Mormon question
by Congress is about to receivq fresh impe
tus through the presence, in the city, of the
committee appointed the General Confer
ence of the “Reorganized Church |of Christ
of Litter Day Saints,” to wait upon the
President and Congress and present their
version of the Utah problem and their pro
posed solution. . *
A rumor that Senator Edmunds would be
tendered the place upon the Supreme
Bench made vacant by Judge Hunt’s retire
ment has been in circulation here for a
day or two. Senator Morrill, of Vermont,
when spoken to about the matter this
morning, said if there was any foundation
for the report he was unaware of it. He
indeed seemed to discredit it and to think
that Mr. Edmunds would not go on the
Supreme Bench if he had an opportunity,
as he had once declined a place upon it.
It is believed, on the other hand, by many
that ho would accept the appointment if i
wks tendered to him.
The motion for a new trial for Gniteau
will be argued to-morrow morning, and will
undoubtedly be denied by Judge Cox.
the District Attorney will then move for
immediate sentence, and it is generally be
lieved that Judge Cox will call the prisoner
up Saturday to receive the sentence. That
the assassin will be sentenced to be hanged,
admits of no discussion, but the date of the
execution and disposition of the body after
death, depend upon the discretion of the
Court, and so far as can be ascertained.
Judge Cox has not yet intimated what his
action will be. The impression prevails,
however, that the execution will take place
not later than June 30th.
TEA CULTURE.
Reaulla In Georgetown, South Carolina,
(Georgetown Enquirer.)
The successful experience of the late Dr.
A. M. Forster, a prominent physician of
this county, in the propagation of the tea
plant, first attracted general attention to
the subject of the cultivation and manufac
ture of tea in the South. The results of
Dr. Forster’s experiments were so gratify
ing that the United States Commissioner of
Agriculture was induced to establish a tea
farm near Summerville, in this State, for
thejpurpose of practically testing, on a large
scale, the adaptability of our soil and
climate to the growth of the plant. Owing
to the lack of good management the experi
ment proved a failure. It may also be
doubted whether the soil selected as the
site of the operations was sufficiently strong
and fertile. The authorities, however,
attributed the failure to the rigorous cli
mate and have apparently determined that
this State does not furnish the necessary
conditions for the successful cultivation of
tea. It is very much regretted that this
should be the case, not only on account of
the inconclusive nature of the first blunder
ing attempj, but also because there exists to
day in our county a practical demonstra
tion of the feasibility of growing tea on a
largo scale in this latitude.
We recently had the pleasure of examin
ing the tea plants nt Friendfield plantation,
the residence of Dr. Forster’s family, and
the place on which is located a tea nursery,
the leaves gathered from which have been
submitted for inspection to a leading im
porting house in Baltimore. The tea pro
duced therefrom is pronounced by them to
be equal, if not superior, in pungency and
in strength and richness of flavor to the
finest imported article. There are now on
Friendfield 1,642 tea plants, all exhibiting
a splendid and vigorous development.—
Some of these plants, which haw.» been al
lowed to grow without pruning, are six
feet high, with a circumference of ten and
twelve feet. Even to an inexperienced eye,
the most cursory observation will reveal the
fact that these plants, in their healthy and
magnificent growth, afford incontestable
proof of the ease and facility with which
they may be cultivated on our soil.
Tho following interesting facts relating to
the treatment of the plant were given us
by Mr. T. M. Gilmore, who is now superin
tending this miniature farm: The plant is
an evergreen and very hardy. The coldest
weather of last Winter (severe as it was) did
not injure a single one. It grows in any
kind of soil, the richer, of course, the bet
ter, and more luxuriantly under shade than
otherwise, although the* hottest sun does
not hurt it. The foliage is dense, and after
the third year the leaves that fall manure
the plant. It should be pruned in an oval
shape, and should be kept about feet
high. Os course the pruning is to produce
shoots, the tender leaves of which are gath
ered. The plants should be set out 4by G
feet.
It is to be hoped that the Department of
Agriculture will not relinquish the efforts to
cultivate tho plant in this State simply be
cause the first crude and unskillful experi
ment did not prove successful, when there
exists in this vicinity incontestible evidence
of the absolute practicability of conducting
the culture here on a large scale. The Im
mense advantage to be derived by our peo
ple from the development of this industry
is a sufficient argument in favor of the most
complete and exhaustive tests of our soil
and climate.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Independent movement Breaks Out
Against Vance, Jarvis and Ransom.
Washington, January 30. General
Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina,
who served with Clay and Webster and
Douglas, beginning as far back as 1843,
who represented the Old North State in the
United States Senate for several years next
preceding the war, and who has been an
ardent Democrat for thirty years past, is in
Washington, and unreservedly and most
emphatically declares that he is sick, un
easy, and disgusted with the Democratic
party of his State as it exists under the
leadership of Senators Vance and Ransom
and Gov. Jarvis. General Clingman in the
plainest possible terms avows as his con
viction that that party in his State is as cor
rupt as any political organization that ever
existed during the history of the country,
and has Repeatedly said since his arrival
here that he is ready to co-operate in a
move to combine into one independent
party all those who with him sincerely de
sire the overthrow of the Vandes and Ran
soms and Jarvises of State and the
party these men lead and control. Cling
mau exhibits great earnestness with refer
ence to the wish to effect such a combina
tion to crush Bourbon Democracy in North
Carolina.
THE D3ATH OF PETER HAV.
A Colored Man Who Served Fonr Genera
tion* or the Eorillarda.
(New York Herald.)
Peter Bay, the oldest employe in Loril
lard’s tobacco factory in Jersey City, died
on Saturday evening at his home, 192
South Second street, Williamsburgh. He
was a mulatto, and had served the Loril
lards during four generations of that familv.
He was first employed in 1789 by the
grandfather of the present senior member
of the firm.
He was an athlete, and it is said that once
in a frendly wrestling match between the
old Huguenot founder of the house, who
was an admirer of feats of strength, and the
colored man, the latter got the best of the
encounter. He was promoted step by step
until he became the superintendent of the
snuff factory, which position he held until
a few weeks before his death. He said he
was 107 years old. He was able to attend
to his business almost to the end of his
life. His property real and personal is
estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO.
It was claimed for him that he was the best
judge of cut tobacco living, and that he
could tell in a moment the particular dis
trict that had grown any sample shown to
him. He had not been well for some time,
but his death was caused by old age.
Sympathy For Simian Jews.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Nzw Yobk, February 2.—A large meeting
was held at Chickering Hall, last night, to
express sympathy with the persecuted Israel
ites of Russia. Mayor Grace presided.
Among those present were Hamilton Fish,
ex-Mayor Ely, Robert Bonner, and Edwards
Pierrepont. Appropriate resolutions were
passed. Speeches were made by ex-Becre
tary Evarts, Chief Justice Noah Davis, How
ard Crosby, Rev. J. C. Newman and others.
DR. FELTON.
What Harry Edwards Saw and Heard
By Coining to Augusta*
(Macon Telegraph and Messenger.)
I telegraphed yon yesterday an outline of
Felton’s speech in Angnsta. It was a re
markable effort in many respects, and a
cunningly arranged production. It was
delivered in the strong, clear tones for
which the Doctor is celebrated, and in some
parts was highly dramatic. The speaker is
probably familiar to many Georgians, but
for the benefit of those who have never seen
the celebrated leader of Independents I will
describe him. Imagine a six foot angular
frame clad in broadcloth, the feet remark
ably small, the head large and covered with
a crop of short white hair, which sticks out
in every direction, arms long and awk
ward, and gaunt fingers that have a habit
of lashing the air when the speaker is ex
cited. Add to this an almost smooth face
of good proportions, with deep, intelligent
eyes that never open wide, shoulders that
stoop, and you have a picture of the “Par
son.” As he stands on the stage, at the
first glance, you fancy Henry Clay has
stepped down out of some picture to con
front you. Only at the first glance, how
ever. The next moment the want of an
aristocratic air—the confidence of inherent
power—is revealed, and your mind flashes
to Joe,Brown. That is Felton’s position.
He is in all things a compromise between
Henry Clay and Joe Brown. During
the evening I had an opportunity
of conversing with Mrs. Felton, a prim,
stiff, medium-sized lady, with gray hair,
even white teeth that are often re
vealed, and eyes of fire. She sits with fold
ed arms as she speaks, every faculty alert,
and ever and anon glances pleasantly at
that great jointed piece of machinery she
calls husband, and which, it is said, she
runs pretty much as an engineer runs his
locomotive. “How did you manage to face
this weather?” task, as I study her face.
The eyes open wide, the head nods sharply
and she says: “I have had the Doctor in
charge for twenty-eight years, and I do not
propose to let him run off' now. I never let
him write anything which I do not revise be
fore you newspaper men get it.” And 1 men
tally resolved when she had finished to
drop Jud Clements a postal and tell him, if
unmarried, to cpntract an alliance at once
with the first Lady Montagne he can find.
He has got hilly lands to traverse in the
coming campaign.
“Felton’s speech,” said Col. Ashton, a
prominent citizen of Waynesboro, to me on
the train, “is the d—dest piece of dema
gogism I ever heard. He has used every
power he possesses to appeal to the passions
of the people. Why, the fellow actually
pleads for agrarianism. But he is solid on
the tariff. The abolition of the poll tax, the
increasing of the currency, the abolition of
the convict system—every argument he uses
is to influence the lower classes.”
“Will Judge Hook join the band ?”
"Judge Hook is so kind hearted he leans
to everything that comes along. He is my
friend, and a kind-hearted gentleman,
blit—” and the Colonel looked out of the
window and laughed—“he actually became
a < larfield man, and why ? Simply because
when in Washington, before the’ election,
he attended church and Garfield rose up
and invited him in his pew.”
At Millen, Hon. Pratt Adams, one of the
brightest yonng men in the Savannah dis
trict, met me. I was glad to hear from him
that the people of his district favor a pro
tective tariff'. “The Democratic party,” said
he, “would bo insane to fail to adopt a pro
tective tariff.” H. S. E.
WAGES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
Some .Comparisons That Are Not Alto
gether Favorable to This Country.
(New York Sun.)
We are constantly told that the manu
factures of the United States can not hope
to vie in foreign markets with those of Great
Britain, so long as skilled labor can be pro
cured mord cheaply in the latter country.
Two years ago we pointed out that there
was by no means so great a difference in the
wages earned by English and American
operatives as was generally supposed. It
is now maintained by Manchester mill
owners that their workmen are actually re
ceiving higher pay, in proportion to the
time they work, than they could obtain in
Massachusetts; and it must be owned that
the data collected by Consul Shaw, and for
warded to the State Department, go far to
confirm this assertion.
It appears that in the great manufactur
ing districts of East Lancashire the pay of
weavers in the year 1880 ranged from
$3 84 to $8 64, subject, for a part of the
twelvemonth, to a reduction of 10 per cent.
The average earnings of weavers in the
mills of Massachusetts during the same
period varied, according to the skill of the
employe, from $4 82 to $8 73. In Lanca
shire the weekly earnings of ordinary
spinners were from $7 20 to $8 40, while
what are known as master spinners obtain
ed as much as sl2. At the same date in
Massachusetts spinners of all grades receiv
ed from $7 07 to $lO 30. The average
wages of the men employed in the Massa
chusetts factories is $8 30 a week, while
in Lancashire the average earnings of full
grown male operatives is SB. The pay of
women and girls is from $3 08 to $5 62 in
Massachusetts, and from $3 40 to $4 30 in
Lancashire.
At the first glance these figures seem to
indicate that the American operative is
slightly better off than his fellow-workmen
in Great Britain. But we have not yet con
sidered the difference in the hours of labor
and in the purchasing power of money. In
the Lancashire Mills an operative works
but 56 hours a week, whereas he must work
60 in the Massachusetts factories. |We must
bear in mind, too, that the hours of labor
exacted of factory hands in the other New
England States are usually from 66 to 69
per week, although at the same time wages
are generally less than they are in Massa
chusetts. A little calculation will demon
strate that, in proportion to the time
exacted, the wages of skilled labor in cot
ton mills, at all events, are not even nomi
nally greater in the United States than they
are in England. When we investigate the
purchasing power of money, we find that
while bread is cheaper in Massachusetts
than in Lancashire and meal not much
dearer, ye't that the cost of woolen clothing,
of tea, coffee and sugar, as well as the rent
of lodgings, are much higher in the manu
facturing districts of this country than in
Great Britain. We can not well escape the
conclusion, from these statistics, that at
the present time skilled labor does really
cost more in Great Britain than in our
Eastern States. When we weigh the prac
tical bearings of this fact, and remember,
too, that as regards cotton manufactures, at
all events, we should be able to procure the
raw material more cheaply than it can be
sold in England, it does certainly appear
that our manufacturers will be at no distant
day in a position where they can undersell
their British rivels. We observe, however,
that last year, according to reports of Con
suls from all parts of the world, a higher
price was everywhere demanded for Ameri
can than for British cotton goods of a low
grade. It is said that English fabrics can
be sold at a lower rate, simply because they
are adulterated, and that in some foreign
markets, as in China, for example, the
quality of cloth is a matter of much less
importance than the price.
CHARLESTON RACES, *
Secund Day of the Jockey Club’s Spring
Meeting.
Charleston, February 2.—The second
day of the Spring meeting of the South
Carolina Jockey Club found the weather
fine and the attendance good. The first
race, for tnree-year-olds, one mile, for a
purse of S2OO, two started. Lalylerie won
easily from Barney Lyon—time, 1:53.
In the second race, three-quarters of a
mile dash, for a purse of $l5O, four started
—Clara, Duke of Kent, Independent and
Sportsman. Kent took the lead at the start
and kept it to finish, winning by a length;
Sportman, second; Clara, third—time, 1:20.
The third race was a selling race, one and
one-quarter miles, purse $l5O, six started,
Lynchpin led to the home stretch, when
Keno pushed up to the front and won the
race by a nose, Lynchpin second, Bonnie
Castle third—time, 2:18.
The fourth race, mile dash, all ages, purse
$l5O, four started—Bismarck, Guilford,
Korena and Glenrock. Glenrock got a length
at the start, but was collared by Bismarck
before reaching the first quarter. The race
between these two was a close one to the
finish, when Glenrock went to the front and
won the race by two lengths; Bismarck, sec
ond; Korena, third; Guilford, distanced—
time,
—
The Southern Cultivator.
We have received the January number of
the Southern Cultivator aud Dixie Farmer, the
oldest agricultural journal in the Southern
States. It is now published by James P.
Harrison A Co., of Atlanta. Dr. W. L.
Jones, for many years editor of this
popular journal, retains his position; Dr. J.
S. Lawton is the associate. Under this man
agement the Southern Cultivator will not only
maintain its former high standard, but,
with the assistance of ample capital and in
creased facilities, and contributions from
the most eminent and popular writers on
agriculture in this country, it will attain a
higher standing than ever.
The number beforff us is a gem. No jour
nal of its kind can excel it in the value of
its reading matter, the beanty of its illus
trations, and its adaptation to the demands
of progressive Southern agriculture. The
illustrated title page is the finest of the
kind we have ever seeiu The Southern Cul
tivator and Dixie farmer should be read and
studied by every farmer and planter in the .
South. The terms—sl 50 a year, with spe
cial rates for clubs—are remarkably low.
Compromise Ejected.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Albany, February 2. —A compromise hav
ing been effected between Tammany and
the regular Democrats, Mr. E. E. Patterson
was elected Speaker of the Assembly.