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• WALSH A WRIGHT,
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KOK UOVKKWOK,
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eoh attorikt-oknrrg.,
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Tag Republican party is a gigantic blind
pool.
Tax campaign trill open in earnest pretty
rood.
The Cincinnati Enquirer calls him Tug
Arabi.
Thr pure atmosphere of Clarkesville ia
the best place for Gen. Toombs.
Hom. John M Daniel will vote for Mashev
ana’ advisee all other Democrats to do so.
Arabi expects to tight the English with a
Nile inundation and the pests that follow it.
The autobiography of Mr. Hill originally
appeared in the Constitution. Credit was ac
cidentally omitted.
Cornell's popularity is said to be increas
ing in rural New York because he beat the
atoo.k-jobbers at their own game.
Willingham should give R. D. Locxe a
Tib-roast er for expressing the belief that In
depemlen.'iam ia » pontoon for Republican
"victory.
Locke, LoNgstkkkt A Co. evidently regard
the Georgia Independents and soreheads as
tacit or open Hyrnpathlz?rs with the Repub
lican party.
ThrStalwarts and half breed Republicans
are weakening their party by bitter fends.—
This ia the time tor Democrats to unite and
not quarrel.
The New York Herald advises the New
York Republicans to nominate Gen. Wads
"w*bth for Governor. Conkling proposes
Geai. Grant.
Tai' Evening Herald insists that General
Toombh Buffers from bad spolla of memory.
Keep stray from Atlanta and the Kimball
Mouse, General.
The Republicans cannot control the next
Congress without gains in the South. They
cannot expect such gains except by aid and
comfort of Independents.
■Ona Democratic brethren who say spite
ful Mid ugly thing; of Mr. Stephens and
the Jeffersonians only delight and encour
age the common enemy.
The New York 'limes to anni
hiiate Conkling and Gould, bnt the blind
pool revelation has evidently staggered
Messrs. Foord and Jones, who control the
Times.
Puck ought to make a cartoon showing
the nausea occasioned by Gen. Chalmkbs
-and Jay Hubbell when trying to swallow
each other. When the feat is thought to be
performed there is an escape by the nose.
Th* Savannah News observes that if there
la no special enthusiasm over Mb. Stephens'
nomination it is because his election is re
garded as a foregone conclusion. There
may be more music later on.
Gen. Spinner captured a wounded saw fish
•fifteen feet long, on the Florida coast, by
simply writing his signature on a board
and using it us a lethal weapon. The
marine monster thought it was an order for
execution from Arabi Pasha.
Editor McClure, of the Philadelphia
'lb.nes. asserts and proves that when Gen.
Sikon Cameron accuses the Pennsylvania
Independents of plotting to produce free
trade, he either tells a deliberate falsehood
•or else has a bad spell of memory.
Friend Willingham complains that the
LM'sfiluti<>n misrepresents Dr. Frlton. This
ia very naughty in onr esteemed contempo
rary, especially as Clements is said to owe
bis eac oesa, on a former occasion, largely to
th* ton* tduhon being quiet about the Doctor.
Because Oscab Wilde would not bathe
iu public at Spring Lake, an indignant
crowd, assembled to witness the spectacle,
hung him iu effigy. Oscar may be some
- thing of an as*. but he has reason to be
lieve that the Northern multitude is an ill
mannered, brutal and vulgar crowd.
Mb Harrison Phoebus, proprietor of the
Hygeia Hotel, at Old Point, is menaced with
a great danger. The Mahoneites threaten
to nominate him for Congress. Mr. Phoebus
keeps a first-class hotel and should keep out
of political squalibiss It spoils many a
good man to get Congress on the brain.
Mb. Hill's original Notes on th* Situation
-were contributed to the Chboxtclk and Sis
wixnl. and not to the LaGrange Reporter.
We see no necessity for their reproduction,
at this time. The emergency has passed
away that evoked them. Besides there
were two kinds of Notes which do not exact
ly dovetail. Let them rest in peace.
Onb of Owens’ hits against Blackburn is
he "had entered Congress when the
rum, viatic majority was about forty, and.
by brJHiant leadership and management,
suoceedx'd in reducing it to a minority of
about twelve." There is more truth than
poetry in th® statement The Blackburn-
Bkck strategy yas too much for the party.
Stkthkss waa too feeble to attend the funeral
of Mr. Hill, even had he been disposed to do
no. Ho ia utterly worn out But why does the
Cubontcle make at Governor Oolooty the ter
rible, yet just fling that ia contained in the third
•antenee of the quoted paragraph ? Hiegraph
miltessenger.
Gov. Colquitt was not in our mind at the
•time, and we know of no cause to justify
dhe assumption of our Macon friend.
Without the aaaistance of the colored
•vote, Pennsylvania would be comfortably
(Democratic on a square party issue. Is
Altoona, a colored man, as the champion ol
his people, sought a Legislative nomina
tion. He received 19 votes out of 129 ir
the Convention. Another colored delegate
was refused admittance to the Convention
The colored voters threatened to go over fa
the Democracy, but their Republican whit
bosses laugh at their pretense.
THE COLORED VOTE AGAIN.
It is well said that "without the negro
vote not one branch of the National Govern
ment would be under Republican control.
The slim majorities in both Houses of Con
gress depend upon the colored voters so
entirely that an even division of these vo
ters between the two great parties would
have left a far larger balance on the Demo
cratic side than now exists in favor of the
Republicans. In the White House sits a
President elected by the faithful devotion
of the colored people to a phantom benefac
tor, whose real form was long ago laid in
the grave with Lincoln, Greeley and Sum
neb.” And yet the chief beneficiaries of
this colored vote and the lottery of assassi
nation do not, as a rule, recognize this im
portant factor, this indispensable ally.
These chief beneficiaries are the Republican
officials, iu all branches of the Government,
from white Arthur down to the subalterns
who black the boots of the men who appoint
them, and perform other menial service,
while paid from the Treasury. Even the
high and mighty Conkling, when Senator,
had a messenger, ostensibly for his Com
mitte-j Room, but really to drive his car
riage and act as his servant. The
Republican party, therefore, maintains
its hold upon affairs solely by' the
negro vote being largely cast for it.
And what do the negroes get for this
inestimable favor? Precious little. Bbuce
and Fred Douglass, octoroons, are well pro
vided for; but the masses of colored men,
who are anxious and willing to hold office,
have to put up with the cheese parings cast
to them superciliously by the white bosses,
who would be stripped of power but for the
black legions East, West and South. The
balance of power is with the negroes in not
a few States at the North, but it is treated,
as a general proposition, with contemptu
ous indifference. The Republican white
boasea feel satisfied that poor Sambo will
vote for them anyhow, and so, in dividing
the spoils of victory, the bulk of all
that is worth having is for the pale faces.
The Boston Traveller says: "Massaohu
“ setts never has sent a colored man to Oon
“ gress, and she does not seem likely to do
“so soon. The South has sent colored men
“to the National Senate. Has the North
“ ever done so? But we let this matter pass
“ for the present, though it must come up
•• one day for discussion and settlement, to
“ the anger and annoyance of the offensive
“ Republican, who wishes that the colored
“Republican was in—Africa, or that he
“ would return thither.” When Geobge T.
Downing mildly or vehemently, as the case
may be, suggests the inconsistency and in
gratitude of his party, threatening a revolt
for the future, he in spoken of as no
better than a leper and abused like
a pickpocket. He is told by these
truculent New England Republicans that
the privilege of voting is enough, and if he
or any of his tribe should desire further
emoluments, they can go Southward or to
the devil, as seems best. Confronted with
such monstrous paradoxes, Mr. Fobtune,
the colored editor of the Globe arraigns the
Republican party under specific heads as
follows: "It has spoken manfully against
“ the hard lot of the colored man in the
" South and the Carolinas, and failed to
“ ameliorate the condition of those at its
“ door. It has praised the white Repnbli
" can for being popular with the Southern
“ Democrats, while it has mistrusted color
“ed Republicans for a similar reason. It
“ has made ranch of the colored voter just
“before the Calends of November, and
“ taken it all back before the Ides of March.
“ It has sought to abolish the color-line
•' without betraying any anxiety, lest the
“ colored man be abolished with it."
To be perfectly fair, we will state that a
faction, of the Republicans in Kansas will
make a tost question of this matter, which
may have important bearings tor the future.
A very light complexioned colored man,
named MoOabe, has, as we once before ob
served, been nominated on the State ticket
as Auditor. True, he succeeded by a triok
of the opponents of Gov. Hr. John; bnt let
this pass. He received the nomination,
and, in so doing, defeated a German
white man who aspired to the place. Great
indignation and disgust are said to exist
among a portion of the Republican party at
this turn of affairs, and strange revelations
are promised at the ballot box. The colored
vote of Kansas is estimated at from 15,000
to 20,000. That vote is not to be despised,
even in Kansas, aad> it must have become
exceedingly turbulent and menacing to
compel the nomination of McCabe. How the
German Republicans will take the over
throw of one of their number remains to
be seen. Kansas is probably the most 3Rra
and rabid of Radical-Republican States, and
should do something for the colored politi
cians, if any Northern commonwealth had
determined to lead off in that direction.
It is a very small sop but better than noth
ing. New England should follow suit, but
will not. One McCabe, almost white, is a
ridiculous minnow in an ocean of benefac
tion. But, in all frankness and impar
tiality, we put this small favor on record
and attentively watch the sequel.
SENATOR PUGH.
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, has writtea
an excellent letter to the Montgomery Ad
vertiser anent his vote in favor of the River
and Harbor bill. It is a document of com
mon-sense logic, and mast oommend itself
to all right-thinking Southern men. Mr.
Pugh is a practical statesman, and has
ranch influence for good at Washington.
He does not wander about among the tombs
of the Past, but lives in the light of the
Present. He is not • hair-splitter or ab
stractionist, but a sound, eouserviftive, pro
gressive man of the times. He has no
apologias to make for his vote, but gives
solid reasons for the faith that directed it.
He has no patience with men “who have
viewed the Constitution with a microscope
and formed opinions and convictions so
ethereal that they can make the power
of Congress to regulate commerce between
the States by extending river navigation or
connecting waters already navigable by the
removal of obstructions, depend upon
whether the water or waters to be extended
•r connected are salt or fresh, or whether
the obstruction to be removed is dry
land or dry rock or land and roek
and shoal over which the water flows.”
He pleads guilty oC being “weak enough
and earthy enough to look st the butt end
of constitutional delegations o( power to
Ccogress." He deeiree the improvement of
our water-ways as a check to possible rail
war despstism, and adds: "Railroad com
missions, wherewM tried, have done great
good, but Gov. Sbxmqub, great and
wise Democratic statesman, says free eanals,
free water-ways, are more valuable regula
tors of the prices of transportation than all
your railroad commissions. Navigable wa
ter is free to all, and cannot be bought or
absorbed by any combinations.'’ He un
derstands “why th* New England States
and the States ot K*w York and Pennsv>
vania oppose the bill. These Bte* n*’ 6
■ ail the transportation they w»m, as 4 their
I capitaliota are largely interested in the car
rying trade by raikoeds. Ex-Senator Oone
limo boasted in bis campaign speeches in
IfMO that the North am Statea had eetab
hsfaed their supremacy over the South
trade and roemarce by crossing the water
ways running with railroads run-
ning east and went, aafl S*hen River and
Harbor bill* make liberal appropriates so
ppen ' Southern riven Mid connect aadfiSt-
tend them by canals bo s* to perfect •
eral system of free navigation for th* etm*p
transportation of th* agricultural and
mineral productions of th* South and We*t
to Southern porta for foreign shipments,
I can comprehend why Conkling and New
York and Pennsyivanja railroad capitalist*
sboald cry aloud to President Abthwb to
interpose hi* r*to. Heretofore Rivet and
Harbor bills hare given th* lion’s share to
the Middle and Eastern States. New Fork
alone has had over nine million dollars for
' rivers and harbora. The tart bill sends the
linn’s share to Western and Southern States
. and unites them in the effort to protect their
► people against the ruinous exactions of
. railroad corporations.”
» Senator Pugh ia in favor of the .South"!
j recovery of such material benefits aa her
Don Quixotes deprived her of in the past,
and would allow her to lose altogether. The
people of Alabama have cause to rejoice that
James L. Puoh is one of their Senators. He
has a level bead, and does not charge wind
mills and hunt phantasmagoria
A GREAT DANGER.
Independents and malcontents in Geor
gia, whn secretly desire the defeat of the
organized Democracy by the left wing of
Jat Hubbell’s army, are very cautious and
oily in professing to be anti-Republican.
Bnt they are doing the Republican cause
great good all the same, and nobody knows
it better or encourages it more than the
Washington authorities and their hench
men in this State. R. D. Locke told them
the truth and it is just as well that he did
so. He had ample precedent in, for ex
ample, John 8. Wise, of Virginia, who, two
years ago, as the Richmond Dispatch sums
up, announcing his candidacy for Congress,
said, "I was born a Democrat, am a Demo
crat, and expect to die one.” To-day he is
a Federal office-holder, nominated by a
Republican President, and confirmed by a
Republican Senate. Two years ago he
boasted of his loyalty to Hancock, your
candidate for the Presidency; now he holds
office by the favor of Hancock’s enemies.
Two years ago be publicly pledged himself
to do all in his power to secure the endorse
ment of the Democratic national ticket by
the Readjusters; now he is stumping the
State, trying to persuade these same Read
justers to give their confidence to Han
cock’s political antagonist.
We dare say that John 8. Wise would have
been, two yean ago, just as indignant and
disgusted as some of our Georgia friends
are said to have been when Locke pointed
out to them at Cartersville the inevitable
end of their journey. Wise landed in the
Republican camp and so will not a few In
dependents, who now avow their Democ
racy. Others will heed the warning and
retire in time. But the masses of the
Democratic party should not be deceived
by false pretences or what appear to be
such. Mahone and Wise are recent ex
amples of what such dangerous trifling
means.
WIFE BEATING.
A Maryland man, hauled before a Oourt
of Justice for beating his wife, and convict
ed of the offense, was sentenced, much to
his surprise and sorrow, to a whipping.
Thirty lashes were ordered to be well laid
on his bare back. The Chicago Tribune.
which used to howl at similar punishments
in slave times, and still denounces Dela
ware for retaining this so-called "relic of
barbarism, ” exulted over the new Maryland
law and its practical application. It sug
gested the same kind of legislation in Illi
nois, calling upon the women of the State
to require its enactment, by such agi
itation as they deemed best. Bnt on
the next day the Tribune was com
pelled to publish another case that oc
curred at Louisville, where a wife armed
with a cowhide had followed her husband
in the streets, and, overtaking him, had
beaten him cruelly and with great force,
and he was indebted to passers by for a
rescue from the relentless woman. And
there appeared the report of a case in one
of the Chicago Courts which reads :
Geobge H. Snooks complains that his <
wife, Margaret Snooks, since their marriage
has repeatedly beaten, struck, pinched, choked,
kicked, and otherwise craelly abused him, so
that it is highly inconvenient if not dangerous
to live with her any longer. A decree of di- (
vorce is therefore in order.
Having heard the other side, the Tribune
proposes a judicial compromise. It with
draws nothing that it had said in favor of a
law providing for prompt, vigorous and
adequate punishment of the brutal crime
of wife-beating; but it thinks that
a small section should be interpolated
which would furnish relief and satisfaction
to defenceless men from tigerish wives.
When onr Illinois contemporary shall have
discovered a perfect ordinance to protect
both parties against the violence of each
other, it may become a universal statute;
but there is a worse torture than physical
pain for which the law offers no remedy
that is entirely just.
THE SECOND RINGING OF THE FIRST
BELL.
Mr. Jay Abel Hubbell, of unsavory rep
utation, has sent out Circular No. 2, much
to the indignation and fright of the office
holders under the Government. Men who
declined to respond financially to the first
circular are personally rebuked. The new
oiroutar says the failure of the employes to
respond to the circular of May 15 is noted
With surprise, and that it is hoped that the
only reason for such failure is that the mat
ter escaped the attention of the employes
in the press of other cares. Then the com
mittee says ; “Great political battles cannot
be won in this way.- This committee can
not hope to succeed in the ponding strug
gle if those most directly benefited by
success are unwilling or neglect to aid in a
substantial manner. We are on the skir
mish line of 1884, with a conflict before us
this Fall of great moment to the Republic,
and you must know that a repulse now is
full of danger to the next Presidential cam
paign. Unless you think that onr grand
old party ought not to succeed, help it now
in its struggle to build up a new South, in,
which there shall be, as in the North, a free
ballot and a fair count, and to maintain
such hold in the North as shall assure good
Government to the country. It is hoped
that by return mail you will send a volun
tary contribution, equal to two per cent, of
your m*p,ual salary, as a substantial proof
of your earnest degjre for the success of the
Republican party."
Here is a bold, distinct confession that
the Republican cause is lost unless a tre
mendous corruption fund can be raised,
and that this fund is to be principally ap
plied at the South. Jhe men therefore who
expect to save what is left of the Republican
party are blackmailers like Jay Hubbell
& 00., and their sole hope of rescue from a
Wgtprloo defeat is in bribing, aiding, en
couraging Ujd fostering discontented ele
ments in this section who parade their
ambition as “Independeute," "Liberals,”
and whatever other nomenclature Uaely .
flisguiae* their real alliance with Ab-
TNUB and rottep Radicalism. It is
conceded that the petneerucy will
make important gains East and West; that
they will thereby go very far to the control
of the next OongreM; that such ascendancy
jn the House of Representatives will con
tribute to the summary overthrow of the
Republican blind pool; and that nothing
can prevent such a Democratic victory in
1882 and 1884, but discord, dissensio**
and revolt among the Democrats o*~ vhe
Routh. Wherefore, it is pWr - uat every
democrat wh° is now mm - *? o** 0 ** “ stabbing
party nomineec with unsavory epithets or
direct assaults. indirectly ,43 ally of Jay
Hrn>avyf. -aether he mean it so eg pot
warn ttae ipae ß ® B to be on their guard
against such disturbances. Nothing will
more surely land Georgia and the South and :
the country in the Radical camp than a fail
ure of Democrate to unite as one man for the
party jjpmineee. Never was there a time
whan it M Mbocved all Democrats to stand
together, and Baves djfl Radicalism put
forth such mighty and desperate to
raye itself by Southern lukewarmness eon- 1
oeetad or op® l renegadism. If
there be Demeerrti ju this State who
are not satisfied with whai. & priority
As the party has done in Convention,;
th«B «t do nothing to break down
>r oxga*M*aijpn. if they can
ned ©ve it oheerful support. 6ud> irye
ooncilablec spsbt at least await another
canvass and not vast ffeeir hostility and
spleen at this time. At beet ins gratifica
tion of their personal revenge would be only
another Radical victory—a victory that can
not possbly be obtained even by Ja? Hub-
second ringing of the first bell, un
bn the left wing of his army at the South
«hall hare partial success by the sneers,
morbidness and spite of men who act as
if tbs rule or rain policy were a part of their
political creed,
(ini DaAar.
(By Gable to the Chronicle. I
London. August 24.—8. Wrtaht A Son.
worsted spinners of Bradford, nave failed.
Liabilities, £170,000.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1882.
; THE EGYPTIAN WAR.
I NIR GARNET WOLSELEY'S PROBABLE
DESIGNS.
How * Great Geaiwo Impresses Maaklnd
-Arabi's Predleameat Tbs Prospect
or His Captors.
IN. Y. Times.!
Arabi will very soon learn what this
movement means. 8o long as the enemy
in his front contented himself with “reoon
noisances” and those amusing excursions
with the “iron clad train,” of which we
hear so much, he had no particular cause
for uneasiness. Nothing that the British
had done up to Saturday night had in the
least interfered with his steady work in
strengthening his position. He had appa
rently no reason to fear an attack except from
the direction of Ramleh and Alexandria,and
that he was well prepared to resist But
now that Sir Garnet Wolseley, a General
who has shown in past wars that he has a
marked liking for short, sharp, and decisive
campaigns, has got around to the rear
of bis position, commanding Cairo and his
line of retreat, his position at onoe becomes
alarming. It is reported already that he is
preparing to withdraw from Kafr-el-Dwar.
This is probable enough, for, though strong
ly intrenched in front, his position there
must be very much exposed in the direction
of Cairo. Should he remain there, it is evi
dent that, in case Gen. Wolselev makes his
way to Cairo and thence northerly along
the line of the railway, he wonld be caught
between two fires without any avenue of
escape being left open to him. Indeed, it is
not easy to see to what place he can even
now betake himself with any hope of mak
ing more than a mere temporary stand
against the forces which are preparing to
move against him. At Kafr-el-Dwar his
army is already hemmed in on three sides
—by Lake Aboukir on the right, by Lake
Maniotis on the left, imd by a substantial
British force in front at Ramleh and Alex
andria. If he allows Gen. Wolseley to come
up in his rear, the world will be quite pre
pared to believe, as was recently reported,
he has concluded to give up the rough
business of war and retire to a Syrian mon
astery.
ft looks very much as if the days of
Arabi’s promising little rebellion were num
bered. If he move to a new position in the
delta he will not have time to intrench him
self before the British will be upon him,
and perhaps from two directions. He can
not approach the sea coast, for that would
suit his enemy too well. The Indian troops
are arriving. In a day or two at most Cairo
will probably be in the possession of Sir
Garnet Wolseley. There is nothing but the
desert left for poor Arabi, and with all those
portions of Egypt which may properly be
called civilized in the hands of the British,
he could not long maintain an army of the
size of that he now commands at Kafr-el-
Dwar. He may keep up an annoying guer
rilla warfare, but from the moment he ceases
to be able to meet his foe upon something
like equal terms in a fair fight his prestige
with his own people will be so seriously
diminished that the national or military
party will be a party no longer.
The prospect is, therefore, that the British
will, within a reasonable time, accomplish
their object, and by characteristic methods.
The bombardment of Alexandria, the land
ing of troops there and elsewhere in Egypt,
the forcible seizure of the Suez Canal, the
issuing of proclamations to the people, and
the still more forcible measure yet to be <
taken, to which these inevitably prepare the
way, can be profitably discussed only from i
a single stand-point—that of military neces- i
sity. There is no warrant in law or morals i
for a single one of these steps in the con
quest of Egypt, since they are taken in con- i
temptuous defiance of the lawful Suzerain <
of that country, the Sultan, and against the 1
only man er power that has a shadow of a !
claim to represent Egypt bs a Nation. As ]
pure Generalship, however, this last move i
of Gen. Wolseley commands respect and <
admiration. It is taken boldly and with a 1
definite purpose. It tramples on the neu- 1
trality of the canal, but it saves the great 1
water way and probably the city of Cairo 1
from threatened destruction. It promises, i
also, to put a speedy end to the war, and t
that must be counted an object worth seek- i
ing, even at the risk of grievously offending I
M. de Lesseps. i
NEW COTTOV. I
1
Two Bales Received In Wilmington 1
Yesterday—Their Sale. i
J
(By Telegraph to the Ohroniolo.) ;
Wilmington, N. 0., August 23.—Two <
bales of new cotton, the first of the season, j
were received here to-day of G. W. Williams j
Co., from South Carolina, and were sold t
on exchange to A. K. Greene, for shipment '
to New York, at 16 cents per pound. The J
first bale was received last year, August (
16th. ' 1
New Obleans, August 23.—The receipts
of the new crop cotton to date from the
Mississippi Valley, this year, are only 15
bales, against 900 to the same date last
year.
A PRECEDENT.
What “La. France” Thinks the Suez Bob
bls May Cause.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.!
Pabis, August 23.— La France devotes a
leader to pointing out that England’s ac
tion with regard to the Suez Canal may one
day be used against her by the United
States in support of their claims to the
exclusive control of the Panama Canal.
BOOMING.
The Three and a Half Per Cent. Bonds
in Demand.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, August 24.—Three and a
half per oent. bonds to the amount of two
hundred and fifty millions have already
been surrendered for exchange into new
bonds, and it is estimated that the amount
will aggregate about three hundred mil
lions. a
THE DORSEY-GARFIELD LETTERS.
What General Swaim Has to Say In Con
nection W Ith the Recent Publication.
Washington, August 21.—General David
G. Swaim, who is the custodian of Presi
dent Garfield’s private papers, including
his letter-book covering the period of the
last Presidential campain, has authorized
the following statement to be made with
reference to the published letters of S. W.
Dorsey to the late’ President: “I have never
said or authorised anybody to say for me
that those letters are true or false, genuine
or spurious; I don’t feel called upon to say
anything on the subject, and I don’t intend
to be dragged into any controversy of the
kind unnecessarily.” General Swaim stated
farther that he had never threatened to pro
flnee the letter-book of General Garfield,
containing his correspondence during the
Presidential oampajgn, bgt it is intimated
that the letter-book will be introduced if it
should become necessary to defend the ac
tions of General Garfield in connection with
the correspondence in question.
"C.T 1 - NffiF-N——— . -
THE MKW SECTARY.
Beautiful Reception Given Him at fj**
fast Yesterday.
(JBy ffljT
? B ! ef , 8e ? retar {& Mayor presented him
d^r * BS ve^eGt »° Bad expressed
X"“JlfiTe of the residents to strengthen his
lands in his onerous duties. Mr. Trevel
yan, in reply, said it would be idle to deny
the existence of personal danger in the task
of governing Ireland. The remedy against
outrages was to have a tribunal which
could be trusted to do justice without fear.
When the Irish people are convinced that
they have a tribunal which will give a ver
dict acccrdfog to She evidence, it will
have an Important effect. Those who
expected the agragrian murders to sud
denly’ cease, he said, were expecting
impossibilities. The fixed policy of the
Govgrnwent is to distinguish between
criminal and political abts. They did not
care to concern themselves with political
meetings, but against oatrages they were de
termined to wage an undying and unrelent
ing war. The remarks of Mr. Trevelyan
were reosived with cheers. Flags were dis
pjaved on the houses and on the vessels in
the rP honor of the visit of the Chief
Secretary. ’ <
Obrieght'e Care.
(New York Herald.)
Samuel Obrieght, a young Israelite, has
been released from the mad house to which
he was consigned on testimony given by his
relatives. His faults seem to have been
that hs married a Christian maiden and was
rery happy about'ft, although at the same
time he was engaged to a young lady of his
owd tac«- U yfery naughty
to jilt a respectable young JewSes, and
perhaps he deserved a caning by the re
jected girl's brothers, but his incarceration
in a mad house was entirely out of keeping
with the requirements of his case.. If every
©an who makes a fool of himself on the
occasion of his marriage is to be sent to an
asylum no one will dare marry St all, and if
oijr Hebrew fellow citizens appreciate the
freedom of the country in which thpy are
better treated and more respected than any
where else in the world they will, with all
their might, discourage any more proceed
ings like those which in the Obrieght case
have done more harm to their race than to
the individual victim who happened to be a
member of it
THE STATL'ANVASS
Dnngen oi the DemotUe Party in Geer
~ Re P«blicanilnd«pondsnts and
Disaffected Deasoeta.
Meeting with Cai Wm. A. Wright.
Comptroller-General Georgia, in this
city, yesterday, the tawoLß asked him
about the coming Statlection.
"Well, as for the Se House officers,”
responded Capt. Wrt, “they are safe.
We are opposed by twonflioting Republi
can tickets, with eandte* for each office,
from different sectionif the State. This
will divide the Repuian vote, and leave
the way clear for a re-ction of the Demo
oratic State ticket.”
“As for Governor, cinued he, I am not
so sure. I fear there entirely too much
apathy in the party, m on the part of the
friends of Mr. Stephen'hilehis opponents
seem to be persistei at work against
h!m The colored vol irar, will be cast
as sohdly gainst him it was for Grant.
Ihe Republican paiteems to be thor
oughly organized. Ir discipline was
never better.”
~ ‘ ln . Southwest Georghe party needs en
livening No dissatisfor disaffected ele
ments should be alkff to remain so.
kvory *t®ort must baade there to draw
out the full white vomo counterbalance
the heavy opposition ah may certainly
be counted on in the hr belt. And this
is equally true in Midffieorgia.” .
"How about the mou'n country ?”
“Gen. Gartrell claimqich strength in '
the mountain district the State, where i
his practice in the defend criminals, and
in the protection of alle t violators of the
revenue laws, has beeiarge. I think i
however, he will be cbjointed there’
With proper effort, Mttiphens will be ;
secure good majorities ioth the Seventh
and Ninth Districts.”
.. “Then you think the £nt prospects of
the Democratic party inorgia accompa
nied with some danger ?'
“Danger, yes, if our pie do not go to
work. No lukewarm Deirat should give
even covert comfort to apposition which
is as uncompromising, aflid and as un
relenting now as in 1871 tell you the
party lines must be dra as tightly and
adhered to as firmly nas then Y The
opposing elements showuselves unwil
ing to take any man who liberal Democ
racy may offer, or whom;oad statesman
ship may present.
"Then there is needvork and of or
ganization?”
“Capt. Wright: Indeaere is. Dem
ocrats must resume tl organization;
Stephen’s Clubs should up in every
part of the State. Such uas the Com
moner should control full strength of
the party which has nested him He
should be triumphantljected over the
efforts of those who rd mortify him
within the party, andar the plans of
those who would defeam without the
party. If there was evieed for sturdy
open, honest work, thiis need for it
now.”
Capt. Wright stated I Mr. Stephens
would be in Atlanta ishort time and
survey the field. He will eard from and
felt in a snort time.
GKNERAL TOOM
Atlanta, Ga.. August "3882. -Editors
Constdutwn: This mor| the Augusta
Evening News was handed with an arti
ticle purporting to betakton the Atlanta
Evening Herald. There ie ruth in that
article, and but one, th an detect in
reading it, and that is th tad a conver
sation with Mr. HowardUlnms of the
Evening Herald, on the ir<hy morning
referred to. As to anythihat paßßed that
could be tortured intointwview it is
wholly untrue. As to atmafe as to Mr
Stephens’ dotage, or anng a te i ns t his
personal character, I t neve, uttered
such a word. We havet unfrn aen tly
differed on public quest and pub
lic men. I have met supposed Rta, on
thestnmp, the most marcase
he supported Douglas ]l Breckinjdge
for President of the Un States. The 16 xt
most important case waen I was a See a .
sionist, and I am one m He was a Un, n
man and is so now. I <lifi with him on
Darrell decision in tlpuisiana trouble
and I withheld from I_my support fol
the United States Se when hf ran
against Gen. Gordon, jiving no support
to either. I might I said to Mi. Wil
liams, or to anyone elitalked to, that I
expected Mr. Stephef support General
Lawton—of course np antagonize him
personally. I said no*K about Dr. Fel
ton’s speech. InwwßdJt. If there was
an issue or ract betwefr. Stqihens and
Dr. Felton I shouldeve M?. Stephens.
I know of none. As 1 thix stuff about
the people rebuking faiig at the polls
by voting for Gartrr jtlbart Cox, it is
untrue. I may have Mr. Cox, though
I don’t remember hii have heard him
spoken of as ams ability, and I
have nothing but ind opinion of
him. As to what thier says in this in
terview about the of the people of
Wilkes county, I letre on the 4th of
July, and had not back there from
that time until I met Williams. I did
not know the opitf a human being
there on the Guberal contest, except
that my letters toldie county delega- '
tion had been unanly instructed for
Mr. Stephens. As t expression of the >
opinion that Gen. G would beat him, i
I had no evidence f such thing and
made no such rema'did say that there
were very formi'iablente of opposition
including 90,000 B and the support
of the government age, and that if a
man had these ele who was able to
wield them he migl Mr. Stephens.
Though I difterMr. Stephens on
the subject of intimprovements by
the general Goverrthe currency, the
tariff and taxatiomlly, as the ques
tion now stands :e I shall cast my
ballot for Alexandtephens.
Your obedientt, R. Toombs.
FOR REMEFCS. SAKE.
Meeting At CraAlle Reeoluttone
On lite Deabe Senator.
CBAWFOBDVrLLEfUgUSt 16th, 1822.
—By virtue fronvecutive Committee
of the Democratic f Taliaferro county,
to hold a mass mfor the purpose of
selecting delegatthe Convention of
the Nineteenth Sd District, a mass
meeting was hb day in the Court
House.
The meeting wd to order by Col.
Wm. H. Brooke, ian Democratic Ex
ecutive Committdiafetro county, who
also stated the olthe m»eting.
Organized by <O. T. BG?g S| Chair
man and V. T. secretary.
On motion, tiring commir. ee was
appointed to prramss of deleg4 6B
the Senatorial antion : Wn, jj
Brooke, Wm. Joo ,H. 0. Edwards,
E. I. Andersou ab l - *- Wright.
The committoortei the following
names for delt to-’it: • Wm. a.
Brooke, J. T. W>3. J. mes, and J. W
Asbury. By mo|h® ie I"t of the com
mittee was adopad tbeames report
ed, declared di® 8 *° * Convention.
Delegates not ipted.
Resolved, Thai lb® ibis meet
ing that the Cotf on °* 1 Nineteenth
Senatorial Distponvene his town on
Tuesday, the 2.
Chairman of the>"° utl T9 mittees of
Warren and GreO’ounUefaotified ot
the same. . Kd w, -c
. On
ing reelings of the f or Taliaferro
Jofenty as to the death disfinguished
countryman, Hon. Be H. Hill:
Whkbeas, That thef the deqth of
Hon. Benjamin Harvi while pot un
expected, has prodffunprecedented
shock uppn the publhnd erased the
mopt profopnfl jn this
community. I
Resolved, 2, Ab the this meeting, I
that ju tfip death of ffiguished Geor
gian his native Statefaiqed a great '
loss, and the Senate jited States one 1
of its most shining 5 brilliant ora- !
tors and gifted state
Resolved, 3, Whig with uncov- 1
ered heads submit this dispense- !
tion of Divine troy® feel it our J
duty to give some fl*°n to our sor- c
row in the great q* B befallen our 8
State and country. I 8
Resolved, 4, We t heartfelt sym
pathv and condole! grief-stricken
family tn thio tnP‘“hour of trial
and affliction. ’ j ‘ 5 ' ’
Resolved, 5, Thai rs of the Craw
fordville DemocrafAJtgusta Chbon
jole, b® these pro
ceedings, and tifotatery of this
meeting be reque<? r d a eopy of
these resolutions!’ l ? of the illus
trious dead, I
mi. ¥oung stat! Stephens had
s§9trnoted him f he W 8« in fall
sympathy with te- heartily
endorsed the resf le g>rd to Mr.
Hill. - I' ’
The meeting tF e< i ’i’ l ® die.
Q. T. BogosI• T - Smith,
Chtarnaf Secretary.
Chicago’. f«P» e «F- j
;
Licenses for * 18 ln the city of
Chicago have al titen °Ut for the
currenf yeSr. ?r §OO
more licensee ( “ thia time last
year. When e 108 ar .® out it is
estimated the 1 ■ OOM i® the city
will be 4,000. 88 ®»®et be in a
very flourishii 14 ought to be
able to stand a the license fee
from SSO to sa ®e municipality
hasn’t the ■ “ this needed
change the 1 ’U haye to take
hold of it. 1 ,at three times
too many salo \ A three-hun
dred-dollar I weed out a
good many of •_ »n<i disreput
able resorts, i ""‘S *° the com
munity.
I
THE FOREIGNERS.
ARARI PASHA AWAITING BRITAIN’S
PLEASURE.
Landing or Troop, and Preparing to Dla-
K « b *J-Dta»»rbane.
in Kaml.n—No Important Colllaion Y.t
■tie ported.
(By Gable to the Chronicle.)
London, August 24. The carrying to the
front of troops and munitions of war pre
paratory to one final blow at Arabi Pasha
continues on a grand scale, though it is re
ported that the rebels persistently retreat
as the British advance. From Ismailia the
advance of the cavalry and marine
artillery has commenced and will soon be
finished. At Meks the British garrison has
been strongly reinforced, to gnard against
an expected attack from the native tribes in
the direction of Tripoli, Forty-three trans
ports are now in Lake Sims, and are all
actively engaged in landing troops, horses,
mules, and artillery. Ten thousand men
have already been landed. The men-of
war Orion, Henelope, Coquette, Carysfort,
Falcon, Ponrmaline, Dee and Beacon are
now at Ismailia. The exodus of the natives
from Port Said is continuing at a lively I
rate, probably resumed because to-dav. of
the shooting of two Arabs who refused or
disdained to answer the challenge of a
British sentry. A probably premature re
port comes from Alexandria that the British
have captured Tel-el-Kebir, with two thou
sand prisoners. Not much reliance is placed
in the report, however, as an attack on Tel
el-Kebir was not anticipated at so early a
day. J
Arabi Pasha has two thousand five hun
dred men at Kafr-El-Dwar. Large numbers
of men are constantly entrenching at TeL
El-Kebir and the big fight of the war will
wobably occur there. Several hundred
Bedouins entered Ramleh to-day. and plun
dered several houses. The outposts are
now exchanging shots with them. The
residents who had returned to Ramleh have
again fled.
The Boulak-El-Dakrar Railway has been
cut a short distance south of El-Kitar It
is supposed it was done by Bedouins with
the object of cutting off Arabi Pasha’s re
treat to upper Egypt. Sultan Pasha has
received information from upper Egypt that
a strong feeling against Arabi exists among
the people because of his exactions.
The English, being anxious to save Cairo,
will push on rapidly thither from Suez, by
thß 01 . < ? I dlr ®et railway line, on which new
rail will be laid. Negotiations are proceed
ing between the commander of the Austrian
gunboat Nautilus and the Arabs at Aboukir
with a view of effecting a release of the offi
cer and 12 men who, while the Nautilus was
2,u„ Ab ?? klr ’ on Mon day, were sent ashore,
where they were made prisoners.
Alexandbu, August 24, 5:30, p. m.—The
rebels are about to advance.
Pobt Said, August 24.-Several of Arabi’s
officers came in to-day and surrendered.
Suez, August 24.—The telegraph line be
tween Ismailia and Suez is being recon
struoted from both ends.
HOW AMERICANS EAT.
An Englishman Criticises the Way We
Eat in the Far Wjtst.
(San Francisco Letter in the N*w York World.)
It was in the Ogden refreshment room;
waiting for the train for San Francisco, that
I saw a performance that filled me with as
tonishment and dismay. It was a manlaat
ing his dinner. And let me here remark
with all possible courtesy, that the Ameri
can is the most reprehensible eater I have
ever seen. In the first place the knives are
purposely made blunt-the back and the
front of the blade being often of the same
“sharpness”—to enable him to eat craw
with it The result is that the fork (which
ought to be used simply to hold the meat
steady on the plate while being cut with the
knife) has to be used with great force to
wrench off fragments of food. The object
of the two instruments is thus materially
abused, for he holds the meat down with
the knife and tears it into bits with his fork!
(Now, reader, don’t say no. For I have
2® e . D . ostafally studying Americans at
their food (all over the West at any rate),
atd what I say is strictly correct. This
Lres e a n fotk then - necessi-
tates an extraordinary amount of elbow
bAAf’lh o’’ 0 ’’ £ foro i n 8 a P art 8 tough slice of
beef the elbows have to stick out as square
as possible, and the consequence is, as the
proprietor of a hotel told me, only four
Americans can eat in a space in which six
Englishmen will dine comfortably. The
th t fi?r O^ h6n *if ee « dlng keep their elbows to
JhA ita? v L he J° r^, er B^nare them on* on
the line of the shoulders and at right angles
to th Air ail AD a • s
VU weir siae ßt The American orders a
dozen “portions” of as many eatables, and
the whole of his meal, after the filthy fash
ion of the “eating houses” at which travel
ers are fed, is put before him at onoe. To
eat the dozen or so different things he
has ordered he has only one knife and
Iu * d °? e teas P°on. Bending over
the table, he sticks his fork into a
pickled gherkin, and while munching this
oasts one rapid, hawk like glance over the
MAh ad V i la ? d \ and then proceeds to eat.
Meheroule ! what a sight it is ! He dabs his
knife into the gravy of the steak and picks
i up with his fork a piece of bacon. While
; the one is going up to his mouth the other
: is reaching out for something else. He
i never apparently chews hie food, but dabs
and peebs at the dishes one after the other
with a rapidity which merely as a juggling
trick might be performed in London to
crowded houses every day, and an impar
tiality that, considered as “dining ” is as
of Red Indian or of
Basutos. Dab-dab, peck, peck, grunt,
Hn 2 rt .l The B P°° n striking in
every now and then, and a quick, sucking
up noise announces the disappearance of a
mouthful of huckleberries oTthe top of a
bit of bacon or a spoonful of custard pie on
the heels of a radish. It is perfectly pro
digious. It defies coherent description. But
how on earth does he swallow it ? Every
hi° a W^ d I 6 8h r nts hiß fl y eß and drains
? v w ’ 1 Bn PP° B ®. is when he
swallows for I have seen children getting
rid of cake with the same sort of spasm.
Yet the rapidijy with which he shovels in
his food is a wonder to me, seeing that he
has not got any "pouch” like the monkey
or the pelican. Does he keep his miscella- i
neons food in a “crop” like a pigeon, or a
preliminary stomach like the’cow, and 1
chew the cud” afterward at his leisure ? I 1
tt 1 am , b^ ten b y *t. The mixture of •
his food, if it pleases him, does not annoy
me, for if a man lilies to eat mouthfuls of !
huckleberries, bacon, apple pie, pickled ,
mackerel, peas, mutton, gherkins, oysters, .
radishes, tomatoes, custard and poached
eggs (this is a bona fide meal copied from
my note book), in indiscriminate confusion, $
it has nothing to do with me. 1
DORSEY’S WISDOM.
Garfield Advised to Take Democratic Aid.
(Extract frem a Famous Letter.)
•‘I believe it to be one of the wisest things
that any President ever did; and if I were
to be inaugurated on the day von are. I
should look about to find one of the best
representatives, one of the ablest and ope of
BrretaenTAl 1 8 brief me ’
!Sw„ 8 iW ot t ,eotsd one political
U glve 80I^e em *nent member of
part y a Beat in his Cabinet I
I P 80 ? 1 ® the country will demand
| that the minority, when it is large enough
rat hreri^ ta Bball hSVe 8 fclr and
“‘ nearing. When you are thinking about
catah ‘“r 701 U ?“ binet u P« n ‘he
bodv!, reform - who represents no-
noth . ln « except the pretentious
righteousness, is it not well enough to con
sider a great minority that I have suggested ?
Is it not well to recur to those
comprehensive ideas of I
“j?, Bure 8ure yonjxwsees, and put them in an
active and effective operation ?
(Our Continent.)
No law in married life is of more nositive
application, and none has beep
the proper agent of expenditure
man’s contact with home i« not
but casual. The woman, from her very po
sition, is in constant relation to ite reoni™
ments. She can best judge the
hJI 8 ” d 8 pS?sou”
4 Co.tiy Blaad.i-.
“1 eTIOr et * P ‘ i* llo *he
Mn r t dl^fn^i* he 01 0,8 ne< ttee* per
‘W’ which wre not Ss
’rhoto lot work
tothe ™™n ta!r' Th ™ err °r vfas in relation
rnJdA am* 6 Wh - Wn ‘"“Mera shall fee
wnrk ’on throwing away
«vo ‘ hßt bße “ dOnein tbß
thesubstitirtiiMi of
• ** course, the other en-
DR. SPEER’S RESIGNATION.
Aa Athene Correspondent Has More to Say
On An Interesting Snbject.
(Correspondence Macon Telegraph.)
Athens August 21.-The references in
my last letter to Dr. Speer's resignation
have occasioned no little comment here. I
may have done the Doctor injustice in one
respect, and if so I would be glad to correct
it. I learned from one or two of the stu
dents that he never delivered lectures to
his classes. This may be an error. Upon
the other pointe made against him there
can be no mistake. No one can regret more
than I the necessity for making these facts
public.
1 _ Dr. Speer in his letters and Emory Speer
I in his speeches openly charge the Board of
irnß ‘®® B with using their power and au
thority for the purpose of persecuting poor
Emory. So far as the Board of Trustees
are concerned, they are able to take care of
themselves. Among the members present
and who voted for Dr. Speer’s removal were
George Pierce, the bishop of Dr. Speer’s
own church; Gen. Toombs, A. R. Lawton.
H. V. M. Miller (who is by the way a
lea ding Independent), and the venerable
Mark A. Cooper.
If the Speers had charged these gentle
men with picking their pockets or robbing
their hen roosts, methinks they would be
just as apt to be believed.
My only concern is that the charge shall
not cripple our campaign in the Ninth
District against Emory, and to prevent
» 1 * h ? u ßht it necessary that some of
the facte be made public. If the publica
tion of them injure Dr. Speer, he has his
son to thank for it. If Emory had not
charged his removal to persecution, not
fifty men in Georgia would have ever
known that the real clause was incompe
tency. r
Dr. Speer has greatly injured himself by
his course in the matter. I enclose you a
circular which he has had printed and dis
tributed over the State. You will see from
it that he has written to his students that
he was “forced to resign by a small minor
ity of the whole board.” I have no fault
to find with the young men for replying as
favorably as possible ; in fact, I do not well
? bow ‘ be y °ould do otherwise. I hardly
think Mr. Gunn, who is only a Junior, and
8 targe one at that, should claim
that he “knows better than any of the trus
tees can know,” and Mr. Hunnicutt makes
a similar mistake. However, with the judg
ment of the Board of Trustees on one side,
and that of these boys on the other, it will
not be difficult for the public to arrive at a
conclusion. If Dr. Speer really wants to
lay the facts before the public, I would sug
gest that his next circular include that fa
mous Junior colloquy. I would advise him,
however, not to allow a copy to fall under
the eye of Mr. Anthony Oomstock.
Congressional race is progressing
For the first time Speer is on
the defensive. He will never be able to
stagger through with the load he has to
oarry. By a strange coincidence his oppo
nent, Candler, received the wound which
cost him his eye in the only battle in which
Speer was ever in hearing of Yankee guns.
Speer was riding along with two or three
other buttermilk rangers when a shot from
a Federal picket sent the party flying. This
was at Jonesboro, and they say that after
that shot you could have played a game of
marbles on the hero’s coat tails anywhere
between there and Macon. In his first race
Speer maoe great boasts about his military
services. It all consisted in the above bril
liant sortie.
CONKLING AND JONES.
The Motive For the Recent Attack of the
New York “Times” On the Ex-Sena
ton.
(Special to the Times-Democrat.)
Washinoton, August 12.—The bitter at
tack of the New York Times on ex-Senator
Conkling in an article entitled “Jay Gould’s
Man,” revives a story once current here in
Washington, which explains the hostility of
the limes to Conkling. Several years ago
| George Jones, the proprietor of the limes,
was on his way to the National Capitol with
his daughters, and Conkling was a passen
ger on the same train. Jones was a warm
personal friend and admirer of Conkling
and had utilized ‘every opportunity to say
a kind word about him in his paper.
Conkling, during the journey from New
York to Washington, passed through the
car in which Jones and his daughters were.
Conkling Stopped a moment to speak to
Jones, and Jones seized the opportunity to
introduce Conkling to his daughters. Conk
ling barely recognized the introduction,
and, without speaking a word to the young
ladioc, passed to another oar. Jones was
mad, so mad, indeed, that he could scarcely
give utterance to his anger. There was no
reason why his daughters should be treated
with such indifference. They were not par
ticularly noted for beauty, but they were
fine looking and stylish, and had the repu
tation of being very amiable and remark
ably bright.
Jones said to Tom Murphy, the noted
. * orl£ politician, who was a spectator
of the scene, that Conkling’s manner
T? u . n J ed - to nn P B ’’donable rudeness, and
that the time would come when Conkling
would regret it. _ Murphy| went into the
car where Conkling was and endeavored to
induce him to go and make amends for
his ungracious conduct; but Conkling was
too proud to admit that he had done any-
thing which required the appearance of an
8 P°lo«y. From that time to the present
tne 1 imes has lost no chance to assail Oonk-
J lD K- When Conkling had his Oanonchet
trouble and was driven off the Sprague
premises by Sprague with a shot-gun, all
the other New York papers suppressed the
story the next day except the Times. Conk
ling knew better than to ask a favor of
Jones. He knew that the story was to be
published in thq Times, and he was so
anxious about it that he waited until 3
o clock in thej morning to get proof slips
of it from the Times office, which were
brought to him by a friend. It is probable
that Conkling has wished many times that
he had been more gracious to the Jones
girls.
A Change of Mind.
(Detroit Free Press.)
“There is a certain man in this town
whom I m going to lick until he won’t be
ont of bed for six months after, and I want
to know what it will cost me ?”
8o said a man who entered a Griswold
street law office yesterday, and it was plain
to be seen that his dander was way up.
“Let’s see mused the lawyer. “I’ll de
fend you lor $lO. If you lick him in a first
class manner your fine will be about 525.
There will be a few dollars costs, say enough
to mafce the whole thing foot up S4O. I
think I can safely promise that it won’t cost
you over that."
“Forty dollars ! Forty dollars for licking
ft man ! Why, I can’t go that.”
t K*Y e, J’ pall bis noßß> then ' T b® laß ‘ ease
4,1 ? °-„ thtt ! BOr ‘ tbe flne was °“!y !15.
inat will redace the gross sum to $30.”
“I want to tear him all to pieces, but I
cant afford to pay like that for the fun.
S ow .,,? moll wonl d it cost me to spit on
him ?
“Well, that’s an insult, you know, but the
fine might not be over $lO. I guess $25
would see you through.”
"Lands! how I do want to crush that
man 1 Suppose I knock his hat off?” ’
"Well, about S2O would cover that.”
“loan hardly hold myself, but S2O is
pretty steep. Can’t I call him a liar ?”*
o2?’n ye T>'i, 1 ‘M nk would cover that.”
,i J’ ■ ■ 860 abon ‘ I’ lll either going
call h m a liar or else tell everybody that
he is no gentleman, or else give him an aw
ful pounding. I’ll see you agaip.”
“For my advice.’’
pnlv ®rtzer glared at him for half a
SS’ i aD< ? then ,Bid dOWD 8 "V.” and
started slowly out with the rema»k :
1.,-. If* J° lpg B ‘ ra te h ‘ fa ‘hat man and beg
ODI a ?. d teH bim fa”‘ I’m the biS
didLit ! a ; bank beaven tbß ‘
you did nt get but ope claw on me
Lead.r In North Carolina-
A Bigger Man Than the Govern?!,
th? T 1 the . State « not
Governor North I p, 's ctl ? al
ton d
itapiLSaSe
ch<u * e ' of thß dying eZ
fahliß*™ B ®*- The dyer that is run by
lhr?S
“‘U-’Plendid foil
mill for .1 ■ you 080 R®‘ at the
J 08 ’ COB “ en auch at the
Worth, wo saw one of those so
T^Y"V° U that ** COnW no ‘ h®fald
jiaaaassti s
* bß
?* hta; beßidoß they turn
alTlrinda ml** caßh ®ereß and flannels, and
all kinds of woolen goods, ft is the finest
water power in the Btpte. Major Morehead
is now contemplating a wood pulp factory.
A correspondent at Mount Desert tells at
lhßt « * drX. »
nightmare part of the business was
d^. enJOyed hy th« ®an who paid for
S 3 A YEAR—POSTAGE PATTI
THE POLITICAL WORLD.
* rents'* O|p THR DEMOCRATS and
GREENBACKKRS OF MICHIGAN.
S, U,'. h • St *t* Ticket to B* Put In th*
FI.M, With a Grecnbaekar It th.
BtaU T,cket »• Divided B*.
PoU JcS' n^. 0,W8,, "« P *«»" -OVtor
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Detboit, August 24.-It is announced
from Jackson that after a debate in the
Democratic State Convention lasting nearly
the entire afternoon, yesterday, the propo
sition for a fusion with the Greenbackers
was carried by a large majority. By this
proposition the State ticket will be divided
between the two parties as follows: The
Greenbackers to have the Governor, the
Commissioner of Land Office, the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction and the mem
bers of the Board of Education. The Dem
ocrats will have the Lieutenant-Governor,
the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer
and the Auditor-General. The opposition
fought vigorously to secure a Democrat at
° f ‘ he tioket ’ but *‘ was under
stood that such would not be acceptable to
the Greenbackers. News from Grand
Rapids is to the effect that this proposal was
accepted by the Convention in session
there and that Hon. J. W. Begoll, of Flint
for e GoreSo”° ,000gW8 ’ WM nolaina ‘ 6 ' i
TEXas REPUBLICANS.
The Negro Delegatee Controllng the State
Convention.
i- August 24.—1 n the Repub-
' I,oan sta ‘® Convention yesterday, the con
test tor the temporary chairmanship was
between Webb Flanagan, who made him
self famous at the last National Republican
Convention by asking “What the delegates
were there for if not the offices,” and N L
1 » oolored - of Galveston. Culley was
elected. After the temporary organization
!? e °?! 1 J en ‘ ion adjourned until to-day. Os
the 410 delegates in attendance 250 are
colored, including the most intelligent of
‘he»r race in Texas.- They arc particularly
devoted to the Independent movement and
promise a solid black vote for Jones. This
question, as well as the supremacy of Davis,
as the Republican leader in Texas, is clearly
established by the preliminary proceedings.
THE GOOD CAUSE.
Yesterday’! Work of the National Pro
hibltiun Convention.
Chicago, August 24.-When the National
Prohibition Convention reconvened to-day,
reports as to the condition of the Temper
ance cause in the various States and Terri
tories were read, and a telegram of greeting
was received from the Knights of Temner
ance in Atlenta. A platform was then
adopted demanding the prohibition of im
portation, manufacture, sale and taxation
of alcoholic beverages, favoring the en
franchisement of women, the abolition of
polygamy, the abolition of executive, of
legislative and judicial patronage, and of
unnecessary offices, universal and enforced
education, the preservation of public lands
as homes for the people and State control
of railroads and other corporations.
Il It Patriotism.
New Obleans, August 24.—Mr. Kellogg
went to Djnaldville yesterday and accepted
the Congressional nomination for the Third
District, provided harmony is not restored
withdrawal ° D BOm6 bMiB P er,ni ‘ting his
——
GERMAN LOVBRL
Their Antics at the Theatre-Drinking
Ont of the Same Mug.
A Berlin correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, in describing Teutonic pe
culiarities, writes: One sees now and then,
at a theatre, a pair of lovers, and, as Ger
man lovers, especially among the middle
classes, are privileged characters, and do
as their own sweet wills dictate, it is well
worth the price of admission to see them
enjoying themselves. The first time we
ran across such a couple Chicago and I were
shocked. Our Puritanical bringings-up
could not reconcile themselves to the open
love making. We had been used to see
love making indulged in in conservatories
and dark hall-ways, while all the public
demonstrations that we had ever been com
pelled to wink at were sly hand squeezes
and serreptitious glances. But here the
thing was different. This couple had come
to the theatre to amuse themselves and
while they watched the performance’ they
did not neglect the other business on hand
It was very warm in the theatre that even
ing, but the heated air was not nearly so
warm as their feelings toward each other
So they sat very close to each other. Not
only that, but he had his brawny right arm
around her by no means diminutive waist
and every minute he would give her a hug
that would nearly make her black in the
face. But she seemed to like it, for about
every second hug she would look up in his
face with a very touching expression of
mingled love, trust and “do-it-again
please on her face. And he, whenever this
opportunity offered itself, would
Imprint a Large Klu
Her upturned face, and gaze down into her
eyes with a love that was truly touch
ing. Between the fervidity of their love
and that of the theatre air, the perspiration
was rolling down their faces in miniature
cataracts. But that made no difference;
‘hey would lay their cheeks together just as
affectionately as if they had been on the
ivy-clad porch of an East Oakland cottage
with the balmy air of a Summer evening
playing about them. It seemed to me that
kisses under such circumstances must have
been rather salty. No don bt they were; but
he seemed to enjoy them for all their salti
ness while she fairly revelled in them.
On the table in front of them was a large
quart vessel of beer. Between hugs aod
kisses he would hand her the beer- she
would take a good long pull at it, and pass
it to him, and he, carefully selecting the
ph ce where her rosy lips had touched the
glass, would also drink. And though this
sort of thing was kept up during the whole
evening, and was seen by a large number of
people, no one but Chicago and I paid any
particular attention to it. Once in a while
some old, steady German would glance that
way, and his face would light up with a
meaning smile as he thought of his own
exploits in the same line “so many years
ago;” but that was all. The lovers J 3
Kept Up Ttoelr Carene.
Just as if there wasn’t another person with
in a thousand miles of them. .
This custom of several persons drinking
beer out of the same vessel is not confined
to lovers. One sees families solemnly sit
ting around a table, with the beer circulat
ing from hand to hand, and each taking
his or her share m strict conscientious
rotation. In such cases there is uq pre
miscuous grabbing at the vessel and a "first
come, first served” approbation of its con
tents. Like everything'else herein Ger
many, ther? taust be a strict routine about
the thing. The father of the family tjways
th? initiative. He sl C wl y JJ’
takes his dnnk Jbe? the vessel goes to
the mother. Bh® drinks, and ft to
the eldest seij. From the eldest son the
S ■ dOWn the 8088 in ‘he
order of their ages. Thea it circulates
among tfae daughters, beginning with fho
o h n
share. But there is°orr, 0t ‘heir full
drinking honor ®° rt ° f
equal justice to evM-X.,1 *“ le h assures
iCdore ^ neoroed - And
no good |o iqrjk wiFh p °rt 10n of the family
beer, for h b£i * eyeß u P° n the
the father feetaJhiAty ” ° Dly When
Th* Meanaeu Ot Mockery.
(Charleston qafl Ooviet.}
? tB «“i“ B‘ion B ‘ion to
‘n® -Republican nomination iu the
Black District from Smalls and Lee fnr
nisbee another evidence of the
and insatiable nt ihl tee mean spint
Th I Ri.Tn.-S - ‘h ß White scalawag,
hi % ■ aok , tbstrict unquestionably a
black man B district; it was expected to
X n s re^ e . Begloefl
8 ? an ‘he* r °wn race ; it is
yielded by the Democracy of the stoto l.
the African citizens therrof i a
an uncontested possession. Naturally the
to eß^hfoiten D ‘ BtriCt J^ ,d
who^mS”* 1 ma i° ri ‘y
‘\ the l noble
language of his people. They wonld like
to taSe ° 8 ’ the h ° me of
fakerwise. Re, the
wiuLCarolina Republicanism
ary mfad^^h 0 /T^ 8868 ? “tasionl
Trilli ’,;.?\ b declares himself to be.
SfpSXViS
insignificant. He wiR u<4 ip^L 18
“‘uS. • ill
this he can do with th* monX
fluence of Jay A. Hubhall »1 ?? d n e
fa? \ re x?*- y-ft
and S SCSI I I
THE PLUCK OF YOUNG FIELD.
Overcoming Discouraging Obstacle* and
Making a Fortune.
(From the Detroit Poet and Tribune.)
The boy, Cyrus W. Field, was not studi
ous or meditative—not languid or dreamy.
He didn’t want to go to college. He was
active, shrewd, cunning, commercial. He
was known to have whittled out a willow
whistle that wouldn’t go and traded it for
a good Jack-knife. “He won’t do for the
ministry,” said his father, “I’ll put him
m a store.” As an infant he was an invalid
—so weak and frail that his little body had
to be supported in a frame, in which he
managed to roll himself around the room;
but he recovered, and then he made up for
the time he had lost, in preternatural ac
tivity and vivacity. When he was fifteen
he went to New York and entered A. T.
Stewart s store as a clerk. Six years of this
was enough for him. When he was twenty
one he set up a« a paper manufacturer. He
had not learned the trade, he had no experi
ence in it, and he had no capital, but he
had pluck and restless industry, and he
succeeded.
Field ha t 8 b °ytah theory that
was enough for any man, and so
be registered various vows in various places
that when he had made that he would ab
solutely retire from business. When he
whs thirty-three he had reached the pre
scribed goal and he said to his friends,
wow, behold how virtuous a man can be!”
He retired—at any rate he began to taper
off by a six month’s tour to South America,
in company with the distinguished artist
Church. When he came back he settled
down as a retired merchant, for a week or
two, and then his empty hands began to
be uneasy He suddenly got hold of the
Atlantic cable idea, or rather A. 0.1, got
hold of him, and it shook him over the
gulf of disaster and despair for 12
years. He subscribed SIO,OOO to it
aDd tb6 “ J 2O - 000 - and Anally had to
P . By u°« t » 2 P°.000. and Peter Cooper, Mar
shall O. Roberts and Moses Taylor each as
much more, merely to get the cable to New
foundland. Then he raised $3,000,000 in
England for the Atlantic cable. The cable
broke in mid-ocean carrying all his fortune
with it, and he came home and went into
the paper business again. He made another
fortune, and put it at onoe into the imperil
ed scheme that so many other friends were
deserting, sick at heart. In 1865 the cable
nrv?^ 8111, be P 6rß * B ted, raised $3,-
000,000 more m England, making $6,000,-
000 in all, and at last succeeded. I think
he never went out of business after that
and he soon found that ten times the “suffll
cient fortune" of his youth was not enough.
°y ruß W’ Fi ®ld’s Summer home, one
of the finest in the country, is at Irvington,
on the Hudson. °
BEN HILL’S SUCCESSOR.
W, ’*‘ We.tern Comsnondent
Tell* About tn* Senatorial Problem.
(Special to the Chicago Herald.)
Atlanta, Ga., August 20.—The gossinera
are beginning to gossip about a successor to
Senator Hill, of Georgia. Several names
' a ! b r mentlonftd . bnt the most promi
nent of these are Aleck Stephens and Gov-
SAlt °° lquitt ' no do «bt. would
be glad to fill the vacancy, but if Stenhana
would accept it he would undoubtedly be ‘
h L an l Kis ™y doubtful, however
7tanles r h^7 On * d * BCoept nnder an y circum
stances. He said to your correspondent a
few days ago, m answer to a query uwn
this subject, that he would not be candL
date tor the Senate at any time. “I have
been nominated for the Governorship of
If 1 o J eoto d I shall understand
‘hat the people who elect me want me to
be their Governor. Besides, I have no
ambition to be a Senator." -
This remark is undoubtedly a true ex
ponent of Mr. Stephens’ feeling upon that
subject. He has often expressed himself as
th n « m fl°AM d th6 HoMe ' He considered ft
the field for an active man, and preferred
being a great Commoner to holding a seat
in the Senate of the United States Yet
those who know Mr. Stephens best believe
that he would not object, after a quarter of
a century in the House, to rounding out the
Senate° f hW pnblic life witb 8 Beat in *h®
Mr. Hill’s term as Senator would have ex
pired with the close of the present Con
gress, and it is probable that the man eleo-
Afantla h U »i? nt thonnel P ir ®d term will bo
ctacted by the same Legislature for the term
THE OGLETHORPE PRIMARY.
Ed^ s Cyanide and Constitutionalist :
The letter signed “Democrat,” in yester
day s Ohboniole needs only about ten linae
nf ! lpße .‘ ~ ‘B grained theories. The excess
Go?AtL° lalm 18 -‘ ba ‘ 600 negroes voted in the
Oglethorpe primary. This statement is in!
correct, of course, for only 457 colored na?
“ »•». 202
P’ aok - j? 0080 8 aggregate poll was 1,021
from which subtract 262, and it leavM
709 white votes; Black’s total was 54.1
from which take’l9s, and it Ireres MS
now, from 759 subtract 346 and Reese’s*
majority is just 413 of the pure S
Saxon votes cast. But for sweet argument
0 * o f " 8 . admit that 600 colored folta
TakeßlS Btok-« n “ nd Wh , at is ox 6 MB ’»‘‘?
B1 k 8 “cgrties, from 600 everv- '
body s negroes, and we have 405 and
Reese s undisputed majority was 480 of all
roto”’ Bo h aU IK of
vote, bo all the flne spun theories of
"Demecrat ”aw <. fu li o f sound and fore
which signify nothing.” Glam7’
HORRIBLE tale
Os Inhumanity In Country.
the world, with credentials to State .
publishes a letter in the'
the condition of the Utahlusane
in terms of strong reprobatiom^
he gives are those of han?i>i/v . v lB
The asylum is under the Vn y ’
mour Young, a nephew of
Some of the famitet ™ Youn 8-
undoubtedly sane S k6t P«®<”inoeß
gratify Xte “nd” Tncke^ *°
Kentucky, the fatherdn-taw of
ray. Tucker closes” y Zing&
Utah, and in no instance have I seen ktohta
so horrible as those of to-day.”
A Sea Monster’s Flahf or
Spten.r S. w „n
i
Ibetaml to,, rs iSSji'S?
watw””' WeW owlßtaot lr Wto aboratha
lante” a?’JlEft!" ® f - Uw oomba.
XS
nearly fifteen feet, Md <Zfed£ GB l’ U ’® d
three and a half feet
teeth on ite margins * It 8 flfty
one of the sharkshad bittaL* *? Bnd that
his side equal to a frai**! piooe 001
which his bowels ssl uar ®. through
it looked as if At one ti£o
ante t t V e °“ b8 *-
gle they came so nea/A/* tbelr Btrn «-
touched bottom al) the tim^bn^tiJh’V hey
ly managed te tain *2s* ‘ hey
sleep water, and after “.“Pinions in
belligerents
iof those who V b€> gMBt relief
‘han for teeing the bßt^ ing
monsters. ” terrific fights of sea
captured aU fi g b h e to W her th ® ot the
and trophy of the 8 “ em ® n to
additiot L to her
w.., gair
(From Bell’s Life in Lomloa.)
his war pMnt hffhSML* 0 800 him m
? h 8
around his neck, nt l B J BBa boads
the Prime Minister did know why
seat and nuraa*telja^ W,,>y
SKIS?-"SVi
ladie? W gaH e ““‘™* ‘k® ®®® n P a nts of the
’ ?«”.£« debated, for *?
, the Speaker’s wives ““tmgent of
?££*,*»' «*« Prime Minier
Speaker’s chair he mistook for tile n th ®
throne and the f n i? J?J een 5
horse-hair wig he f o , f l ..^ Otton,ed
locks. a ” gn ’ t
that the Bight Honor“^ r tt e l£^ n «<i
%SKafi?v ss
woman and place her n?° n *° pick on * one
she wrtl R£3 * P«ition where
privileges denied tottßSoffil
sequently, when he th^i 00 * 1 '
number of ladies, said to be U * ge
Ployed in the balletof e !“-
riage Bon 8 on hia’bei^* 6 thß “ “O' 0 ®" of mar.