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CANING THE CHAIRMAN.
KEVATE JUDICIAL V COMMITTEE
COMPLIMENT MM.] DUBIGNON.
Pretty Little Fpeechea nnil Braatifally
Expressed Sentiments—The Capitol
Commissioners Conflicts Be
tween State and Federal
•Judicial Authorities
The Chronicle's Sta
tistics—City Mem
tiers and Pro
hibition
Acts.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Atlanta, Ga., September 22.—Quite t n
interesting little episode occurred last
evening at the session of the Senate Ju
diciary Committee, of which Mr. Daßig
non is the Chairman. I have spoken be- j
fore cf the large number of unusually
bright and promising young men in the
Senate, of whom Mr. Dußignon is one of
the foremost. Os these bright new legis
lators, besides Mr. Daßignon, I have writ
ten of Senators P. W. Meldrim, of Savan
nah; P. W. Davis, of Lexington; T. R
Jones, of Dalton; J. G. Park*, of Dawson;
T. K. Oliver, of Sylvania; Calvin George,
of Madison; T. F. Greer, of Ellijay;D. W.
Hughes, of Jeffersonville; G. J. Martin,
of Greenville; L. P. Mandeville, of Car
rollton; W. J. Pike, of Jefferson, and R.
D. Smith.
Mr. Dußignon, as Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, has filled an im
portant place and discharged one of the
most critical responsibilities of the Gen
eral Assembly. The committee, valuing
his courteous and capable administration,
presented him with a cane. Senator Jones
was the spokesman of the committee and
uttered these very graceful sentence-:
“I rise to a question of privilege, and
the matter appertains to every member of
the committee, sir, except yourself. We
have labored together almost through a
long session and pa-sed many pleasant
thrusts at each other and upon the many
varied measures submitted for our con
sideration, while you, sir, have presided
with grace, dignity and impartiality. We
have learned to esteem you with an ardor
akin to affection, and to admire you with I
an admiration measured only by the ten- |
derest love. Before we sever our official
connection we desire to present you with
some testimonial that you can ever have
present with yon.
“We know that should we fail to meet
yon again upon the official plane that we
now occupy, or meet you up higher where
an appreciative public is destined to call
you, that we will cherish our service to
other here as among the most pleasant of
our existence. You, sir, have mind, en
ergy and magnetism of the highest type
and we all join in the wish that your fu
ture may be as useful and brilliant as your
conduct here and upon the floor of the
Senate Chamber evidences your being cap
able of. On behalf of the committee I
present you this testimonial and ask its
acceptance in the same spirit of tender re
gard that it is presented.”
The cane was a gold headed one and had
inscribed upon it the words :
“From the Senate Judiciary Committee,
1882-3 to F. G. Daßignon.”
Mr. Dußignon made one of his charac
teristically elegant responses, as follows :
"Gentlemen of the Committee : I need
not say to you that I am deeply moved by
this evidence of your esteem and regard.
It isjpeculiarly gratifying at this time, when
about to withdraw finally from the public
service. Like all young men, I entered it
full of those aspirations for preferment, so
natural and pardonable in youth. I leave
it with the experience that the most valu
able of its opportunities is the acquaint
ance and association which it affords. lean
recall nothing at the bands of this commit
tee, collectively or individually, but the
utmost kindness and consideration and the
most uniform and unvarying courtesy. I
•-hall hold this testimonial above any in
-1 rinsio value, for it will prove a constant
witness of what I am pleased to believe a
fact, that in each of the members of this
committee, throughout our arduous la
bors here and upon the floor of the Senate,
that I possess in each and every one, a
personal friend. Permit me to sav, gen
tlemen, that in the parting hour I sincere
ly wish, for each of you, all possible suc
cess and prosperity through life, and when
its end draws near and its burdens and
cares are laid aside, that, standing then
upon the summit of its true mission and
looking out beyond the quiet haven where
its barqne is moored, into the great here
after, that then you may behold its frnits,
and with confidence exclaim, ‘too low they
build who build beneath the stars.’ ”
This is a deserved compliment to Mr.
Dußignon.
The Capitol Commissioners meet on
Monday, at the call of the Governor, who
is ex-officio Chairman of the Board. The
first thing to be done is to get the city of
Atlanta to cancel the mortgage on the
present State House building, due to the
Northwestern Life Insurance Company.
This was that secret mortgage made by H.
T. Kimball, not discovered until after the
sale of the house to the State. The city
sook up the mortgage, which principal and
interest runs to about SBO,OOO. Under
i he present bill the mortgage must be can
celled, and the Capitol Commissioners are
not allowed to take a step toward the build
ing of the capitol until this is done. The
next step, then, is to secure a plan for the
capitol. Atlanta is now preparing to pay
the $5G,000, the value of the old capitol
at Milledgeville. The Legislature has
passed a bill to let the city issue bonds for
the purpose, which will be immediately
sold and the money paid to the State.
There has been some sparring between
the State and Federal judicial authorities.
Judge Pottle and United States District At
torney Speer seem to have been at outs.
Two men, McDougal and Barker, were
charged with conspiring to kill a witness
named Harbin. They conspired in Geor
gia but shot at Harbin in Carolina, and
ware indicted in Hart county. The United
States Deputy Marshal bad warrants
against the men. The United States
Mar hal arrested Barker, but the State
sheriff arrested McDougal. Both authori
ties wanted the men. The sheriff refused
to give up McDougal to the United States
Marshal, and Judge Pottle sustained the
sheriff. The marshal telegraphed Mr.
Emory Speer, the United B‘ates District
Attorney, who replied to avoid conflict
but to tell the sheriff that any one inter
fering with the process of the United States
Court would be prosecuted. McDougal
was tried by Judge Pottle and convicted
of carrying concealed weapons, and fined.
The sheriff has notified Mr. Speer that the
fMS of McDou gal would be paid, and the
n .n held a reasonable time for the United
S ates authorities. Judge Pottle wrote to
Mr. Speer expressing his respect for the
Federal laws, but saying he should en
tire State authority. A deputy marshal
was indicated in Hartwell for carrying con
cealed weapons. He applied for a trans
fer of the case to the Federal Court,
which Judge Pottle at first refused, but
afterwards granted. The Federal author
ities get all of their cases, so the conflict
ends.
Peter McMichael, a polite colored man,
has been Porter of the Senate for over ten
consecutive years, and I want to oompli
meot him for his efficiency and attention
to duty. He is very popular with the
Senators.
The temperance cause has shown re
markable strength and progress during
this session of the Legislature. It demon
s'rates what a powerful hold the matter
has taken upon the people. A hundred
local bills have been passed. It is true
the general local option bill was defeated
in the Senate, but this was not because the
body was against temperance, bnt because
it was deemed wiser to deal with the ques
tion locally than generally. In every shape
that war upon liquor has been made, it
has received the sanction of the Legisla
ture. The cause has made prodigious
strides. The leaders of the movement
OHBOWIULE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST’, AUGUSTA, GA., W-EDNisSDAY, HWTIfIMBISIi gfl, 1888.
have been Senator W. A. McDonald in the
8 mate and Colonel Pringle in the House.
I have observed that the city members
are as a rule solidly against prohibition,
and this fact is probably due to a political
consideration of the greater strength of
the liquor dealers in the cities as an ele
ment of political power. It is right curi
ous, too, as has been stated in the Legisla
ture that so many of these members are
dead against every temperance bill, and
are avowedly the strongest advocates of
temperanca in the abstract, and in words
ardent champions of the temperance cause.
The readers of the Chronicle will re
member that last spring in a letter from
Savinnah, I mentioned having seen the
British Consul, Mr. Joel, who was pre
paring a report of the commercial and
agricultural statistics of Georgia for pub
lication by the English government, and
that some fissures gotten up for the Au
gusta Chronicle and Con tttutionaijst
by your Atlanta correspondent had been
used by the Consul. I havo received from
England a cony of the effi rial report, in
which the Chronicle's information is
used. Under a rule, however, as to these
reports, no mention is made of such
sources of information. The Chfonicle
can, however, congratulate itself on having
supplied to the great British government
certain valuable statistical information.
A bill was passed, to-dav, in the Sena’e
forbidding liquor dealers to sell spirits to
habitual drunkards. The family of a man
under thia bill can appeal to a liquor seller
not to sell to a relative who is an habitual
drunkard, and if he does so after that he
commits a crime. Mr. Dnßigncn, who
generally opposes this class of bills, warm
ly advocated this special measure. I am
disposed to think that there will be an ul
timate reaction as to one point. Many of
the local bills go to the < xtent of forbid
ding even physicians or drug stores to sell
spirits. This stringency has grown out of
the fact that the doctors in some
cases have abused the privilege
and allowed liquor to go out for other than
medicinal purposes. There is no doubt
that liquor is sometimes absolutely essen
tial in cases of sickness. No ether medi
cine can be a substitute for it. It will be
found that some system will have to be
devired that will hedge in the doctors
from abusing the privilege, and confine
them to the legitimate uso of spirits as a
m'-dicine in cases of actual sickness.
I* is very gratifying to see the advance
ment of the temperance cause. Let us
hope that the movement will finally reach
the cities where it is most needed.
Richmond.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SLATE ROCK
REVIEWED.
Dr. Haygood’s Views.
Editors ( hronicle :
In your issue of September 22d appears
an article, entitled “A Word to Dr. Hay
good,” etc., to which I bag to offer a few
words in reply. The chtracter of the ar
ticle, for carefulness and accuracy, may be
perceived by one statement in it, viz: that
God Himself set His mark upon the negro
more than six thousand years ago. The
book of Genesis gives us the earliest his
tory of the world, and according to the
best scholars that book puts Adam as liv
ing only 5,887 years ago. Here is a man
that puts the negro as existing before
Adam ! It is not strarige that such a writer
should not be able to understand and cor
rectly state Dr. Haygood’s position. The
brother is evidently an extremist, and not
having years enough in the history of the
world to criticize Dr. Haygood, adds on a
century or two. He has evidently “jumped
off on the wrong foot.”
This writer says: “One of the mistakes
he (Dr. Haygood) makes consists in the
attempt to educate the head of the negro
before educating the heart.” What he
means by this singular phraseology appears
to be, when taken in connection with the
remainder of the article, that Dr. Hay
good is attempting to educate the negro
mentally before he is educated morally.
He had come nearer stating Dr. Haygood’s
position correctly if he had said Dr. Hay
good wants the negro educated in “the
rudiments,” in erder thereby that bis
moral education maybe accomplished. In
Dr. Haygood’s Monteagle speech occurs
this paragraph, upon this very question:
“Book-learning, we are gravely informed,
ii not sufficient; the negro needs educa
tion in morals.” This is true, and true
as to the negro because true as to all other
men. But will sensible men seriously
urge the negro’s education in morals
as an obj ction to his education in books?
Is book knowledge, then, in itself unfavor
able to good morals? Is ignorance the
mother of devotion and the nurse of re
ligion ? Then recall the fierce Arabs who
pnt the torch to the library of Alexandria,
and bid them burn down your colleges
and school houses; bid them destroy your
books, and stop your busy press forever.
Then stop all education; stop all thinking,
vegetate and die. Upon the same line
Dr. Haygood continues in his address:
“It is unmitigated nonsense—this mis
erable pretense nf reasoning that since the
negro does need betterment in his morals
the school house is not good for him.
“A most significant fact may be mention
ed at this point: The only white people
in this country who are expending either
much service or much money in the effort
to improve the negro’s morals are also the
people who are expending most money
and service in the endeavor to teach him
the knowledge of books. It is also true
that those who have the most to say about
the negro’s need of education in morals, as
a reason for not educating him in books,
are precisely the people who are not doing
anything of consequence to educate him in
anything. To a plain man there seems to
be'a degree of sham and cant in their talk.”
Furthermore, ibis objection may be met
by a few questions. If we teach the ne
gro morals can we draw our moral prin
ciples and sanctions from any other source
as good as the Bible? If we, teach the ne
gro morals from the Bible will it help ns
or binder us for onr pulpit to be able to
read the Bible? Do not missionaries in
foreign lands always and everywhere be
gin the teaching of morals and religion
by teaching their pupils books ?
Bnt there is another matter to be thought
of : Your correspondent says: “The high
est civilization the negro ever reached was
as a slave of the South.” I admit it and it
is a libel upon the work of our people and
churches among the slaves during that
period to intimate that the negroes are now
so immoral that it is dangerous io give
the rudimentary training for which
Dr. Haygood argues: Is it true
that our slave system can show no better
results than that ? Shades of Jesse Mer
cer, Capers, Pierce, and a thousand others
who preached the gospel to the negroes,
forgive us for saying the work you did
among the negroes so worthless, by such
an allegation!
But your correspondent wants the ne
groes taught to work as well as read.
Surely, then, he cm agree with Dr. Hay
good, for this is what Dr. Haygood argues
for, and the Slater fund, of which he is
agent, he will not use to the amount of one
cent in aid of any school which has not an
industrial department in which the pupils
shell be taught to work. Why do men
persist in trying to put Dr. Haygood in a
false light about this point ?
Again, your correspondent denies Dr.
Haygood’s proposition that the negro is
here to stay. Well that is a question of
opinion, bnt who in the light of present
events is likely to be correct. Dr. Haygood
or your correspondent. Take some facts.
The census shows that the negroes are be
ing born faster than all the vessels of the
United States could haul them off even if
they were willing to go. If they were
willing to go who will pay the expense of
moving more than six millions of people ?
Many of ttjem own real estate and others
property that could not be moved. In the
event of their removal will you confiscate
this property or pay them for it ? If you
pay them for it,"who will furnish the
money ? They are voters. Do voters gen
erally vote themselves into banishment?
“Ahem I the Indian” Ao. Were there
as many Indians as there are ne
groes? Were the Indians voters? Did
the Indians own land as individuals or did
we purchase their Lnds by treaty ? If we
make a treaty with the negroes who among
them or for them can exercise treaty
making authority ? Dot s your correspond
ent who begins hie article with a protesta
tion of “good humoi” and “a Christian
spirit” wish the wicked policy which we
have puisued towards tbe poor Indians re
peated with the negroes ? Has this policy
with the Indians been a success ? How
many wars have we been compelled to
wage with the Indians to sustain it ? How
many men and women have been brought
to death bv it ? How much money has it
cost? Will the Christian statesman from
Blate Rock give us an answer to these ques
tions ? Ahem! Dr. Haygood’s opinion
seems to me to be better grounded than
that of the brother from Slate Rock.
A Georgia Boubbon.
THE CHARLESTON CO 1 TON MILL.
Labor Secured From Abroad—Charles
ton Girls Will Not Take Hold-
Lighting the Factory With Gas
—a Brilliant Sight From the
Harbor.
(News and Courier.)
A visit to the splendid cotton mill of the
Charleston Manufacturing Company will
well repay the time and trouble. Although
all the machinery in the factory is not yet
in operation, the great bulk of it in both
the yarn and weaving mills is at work,
and a walk through the several depart
ments cannot fail to impress the visitor
with the perfect system with which the
great enterprise is managed. The pay roll
now contains 373 employes, the full num
ber required to operate all the machinery
being 450. Every effort has been made to
secure operatives, but as was expected,
considerable difficulty has been experi
enced in getting good, steady labor. Os
the 373 operatives now employed about
forty are skilled operatives brought from
the North by the Superintendent, Mr.
Andrews, and Mr. W. N. Brown, tbe over
seer of the spinning room cf the sheeting
mill.
Considerable disappointment has been
felt by the management io the scarcity of
Charleston labor suitable for their pur
poses, only about tw- nty-five per cent, of
the operatives employed being from this
city, and many who had come and started
to learn the business having left when
they had just begun to be valuable and
capable of earning good wages. The man
agement say that it is very evident that the
poorer young women in Charleston do net
desire employment of this kind, as every
effort has been made to give them respect
able and lucrative werk, and they persist
ently refuse to take it. Yet a very large
number of young women work in the bag
ging factory.
The majority of the operatives now em
ployed in the cotton mill come from Au
gusta and around Graniteville in this
State. As a whole they are steady and
good, experienced hands. Fresh accessions
are being made to the roll every week,
and all fears of a failure to secure labor
have been dispelled. It takes time, how
ever, and patience to get good operatives
from the North, and it is to be regretted
that the hundreds of young girls in this
city who earn a livelihood by sewing and
more menial work will not take advantage
of the opportunity of learning a trade
which will support them comfortably.
The hours of work are from 6:30 a. m.
to 6:30 p. m., with an hour’s intermission
for dinner. As the evenings have begun
to shorten and dark comes so much earlier
than a month or two ago, the lower stories
of tbe factory are lighted up
about 5:30, p. m., and the up
per stories about 6, p. m. The building
is at present lighted entirely with gas, and
after dark presents a very beautiful appear
ance. From the lower portion of Sullivan’s
Island, and from the harbor, the factory
looks like a pyramid of fire, and is the
most striking object in the city as viewed
from a distance.
THE VETERANS.
Splendidly Entertained—Good Feeling
All Aronnd.
(By Telegraph to the Ohroniclo.)
‘ Harrisonburg, Va., September 32.—At
half past one o’clock to-day 218 Union
veterans, who served in the Shanandoah
Valley campaign of ’64, under Gen. Phil
Sheridan, from Maine, Now Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connec
ticut arrived in town. They were met
twenty-five miles north of hero by a dele
gation of soldiers and citizens, and at the
depot by three hundred citizens and vete
lans of the Tenth Virginia Regiment The
greatest good feeling and enthusiasm pre
vailed throughout. A speech of welcome
was made in the open air by Captain
J. L. Harrifbeger, a Confederate veteran,
which was loudly applauded by the visit
ors. Col. Carroll D. Wright, of Boston,
responded. The visitors sat down to a
dinner furnished by the citizens at the
Revere House. The repast was enjoyed by
all present, and the men from the East ex
pressed themselves as delighted with the
hospitalities, tbe venerable Gen. Thoma 1 ’,
of Montpelier, Vermont, being conspicu
ous for his enthusiasm on the subject.
The veterans were escorted to the depot
at 5 o’clock, by soldiers and a boat of citi
zens, and the train moved off amid shouts,
and they go direct to their homes from this
point, leaving here, by their gentlemanly
demeanor, the most favorable impression.
OGLETREE, THE KIDNAPPER.
Interview With One or His Victims—
Still a Successful Fugitive.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Atlanta, Ga , September 22.—A special
to the Constitution, from Newman gives an
interview with the boy White, who was
stolen by Ogletree, the notorious kidnap
per. The Constitution previously gave the
details of Ogletree’s abduction of Charlie
Tilden, of Atlanta, and of two other boys
in Haralson county, all of whom he sub
jected to beastly indignities before they
escaped. The abduction of Joe Allen
White aroused the country and numerous
parties went in pursuit of the rar
aal. A few days since he was so
closely pressed that he tied the
boy in a fence corner and moved
on himself. When found tbe boy
was nearly dead from fright and want of
food. He savs the man approached him
on August 25tb, telling hina that he owned
a saw mill in Tennessee and wanted him
to work in it. His story of ramblings
through swamps, repeated chastisements
and personal indignities baffles descrip
tion. The country is still being scoured
for Ogletree, who manages to keep ahead
of hi j pursuers.
The West Shore and Ontario Terminal
Company.
New York. September 22.—The West
Shore and Ontario terminal Company, a
corporation existing under the laws of the
State of New Jersey, after several negotia
tions succeeded in obtaining a loan of
$12,000,000 upon its franchise, rolling
stock, etc., in lieu of which the company
has issued to the Central Trust Company,
as trustee, certain first mortgage bonds,
payable August Ist, 1923. Include
ed in the estates of thia company
are the leases assigned to them
by the New York, Ontario and Western
Railroad Company and the New York,
West Shore and Buffalo Railroad Company
and the Bulkbeads on North river front
as security for the loans. The corporation
has executed a trust deed, transferring all
its interests and equipment to the Central
Trust Company.
Killed For His Money.
Cincinnati, September 22 A dispatch
to the Commercial Gazette, from New Al
bany, Ind., says Thomas Johnson, a
young farmer residing near Salem, had
been to a fair Thursday and carelessly dis
played his money. On his way home that
night he was attacked and beaten to
death. Two pistol shot wounds were
found on him and his money was gone.
There have been uo arrests.
FROM FAR OFF LANDS.
INTERESTING LETTER FROM HALT
FAX. NOVIAS OIIA.
Curious Things and Relics to a Geor
gian—Gift to the “Y. M. L. A.”—Hali
fax and Iler Pi ogress—Political—
The Dominion of Canada—The
Canadian Pacific Railway
—A he Great Wheat He
gion—The Hotel on the
Hill Thought Os.
[Special Correspondence of the Chronicle.!
Halifax Nova Foot.-a. September 14
£ have spent many pleasant hours here
in the homes of some prominent citizens.
In the home of one of the prominent
gentlemen of the province- himself a de
scendant of a Georg.a loyalist-I found
many curious things in books and relics to
interest me. Here was a lock of Major An
dre’s hair, here was Major Andre’s cane,
and here was a map of the old province of
South Carolina, without any date to it,
but which must have been made at least
forty or fifty years before the Revolution
ary war. The whole country from Orange
burg to the Savannah river, except on the
coast, seems to have been at the time un
settled, except in one or two rare spots.
The present site of our city is designated
on the map as Fort Augusta, and the old
district of Edgefield is marked “ New
Windsor Parish.” I have the pleasure of
adding that I will bring this map home
with me, as a present from this gentleman
to “The Young Men’s Library Associa
tion.”
Among other books I have been permit
ted to read, taken from this gentleman’s
library, is a history of the campaign in the
Southtrn Provinces of America, in 1780
and 1781, under Lord Cornwallis, ending
with the surrender of Yorktown; written
by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, of the
British Legion. Our North Carolina
friends would like to know that Tarleton
speaks of the counties of Mecklenburg
and Rowan in that State as being the most
ebal'ious in spirit of any counties in
North Carolina, and our Irish friends will
not object to know' that, after referring to
the Irish sctt’ement at Waxhaw, South
Carolina, he speaks of the Irish in Ameri
ca as being the most bitter and hostile of
a’l the King’s sul jects to be found in the
country. Little did Tarleton dream that
already there had been born in that Irish
settlement a lad, whom a British officer
had stricken with bis sword for refusing to
b'ack his boots, and who then vowed ven
gesnce “By the Eternal” against British
power. The insult was wiped out by the
lad in his mature manhood, when, as An
drew Jackson, on the Bth of January,
1815, he achieved the splendid victory of
New Orleans.
But yet while I rejoice in the achievement
of my own countrymen, I read these
books with pleasure, because I like to
know what the other side has to say. And
now, when the animosities of the "past are
nil buried, I cannot fail to see that many
of the loyalists in the States were among
the best of our people, and that our coun
try would be better off if their descendants
were our citizens. Meeting them here,
too, for the first time, I rejoice to know
that I can join them in doing homage to
the glorious deeds of many of the great
men who have shed lustre on British
history.
Halifax has a population of between 35,-
000 and 40,000; is the seat of a large and
flourishing foreign and domestic com
merce: is the chief seaport of the Domin
ion of Canada, and will be the eastern
terminus of the railroads connecting with
the Canadian Pacific Railway, now in
course of rapid construction. Many of the
private rehidenees are beautiful in con
struction, and are surrounded by pictur
esque and ornamental flower grounds.
The flowers in high Northern latitudes are
richer in color than in more sunny lands,
nature seeming to compensate for the very
short period in which they are to be en
joyed by imparting to them a deeper
and brighter hue. One of the private
flower gardens here surpasses in beauty
anything I have seen in the States, North
or South. Besides several weekly jour
nals, there are four daily newspapers pub
lished in Halifax—two morning, the
Herald and Chronicle, and two evening, the
Mail and the Recorder. The Herald is the
organ of the Conservative or Administra
tion party, and the Chronicle of the Liberal
or Opposition party. The principal prac
tical question dividing parties in the
Dominion of Canada is the tariff. The
party now in power vent into office in
1878, under the head of the present
Premier, Sir John A. McDonald, pledged
to the policy of the protection of Canadian
industries. This policy has been strictly
adhered to ever since, and, judging from
elections tn fill vacancies in the Canadian
Parliament, seems likely to be maintained.
By the by, speaking of these elections re
minds me of a placard I saw posted on the
corner of the streets in St. John. It was
the announcement of a candidate to fill a
vacancy in the Parliament in which the
applicant sought the suffrages of the elec
tors on the ground that be was an Inde
pendent, bound by no parfy ties, and op
posed to bossism and party machinery.
Since I arrived hero I have noticed
that this candidate has withdrawn
from the contest. The truth is
that in every form of free govern
ment political parties necessarily arise,
and individuals cannot exercise influence,
txcept through and modified and con
trolled by party. Party government is an
essential feature of free government, and
the voters who choose to vote independent
of'p-'.rty will usually find their votes re
ported in the morning paper’, announc
ing the result of elections, under the head
of scattering.
The Dominion of Canada was proclaimed
on the Ist of July, 1867. It was then a
confederacy, composed of the four prov
inces of Upper Canada, Lower Canada or
Ontario and Quebec, or otherwise desig
nated, New Brnrawick and Nova Scotia.
Subsequently F .a Edward’s Island was
admitted as ft jw member. Shortly after
the formation ot the confederacy the ques
tion began to be sgitafed of adding the
immense territory, known as the North
west territory, and which included the
possession of the Hudson Bay Company.
The title to this immense tract was in dis
pute, it being contended by some that it
was really a part of Canada, and passed
under the treaty of Paris in 1763 to the
British Crown, while it was claimed by the
Hudson Day Company, under an old char
ter granted by King Charles the 11. Finally
the ti’le of the Hudson Bay Company was
extinguished and it was annexed to the
Dominion of Canada.
From this territory has been formed the
flourishing province of Manitoba, and since
then there has been added to the Domin
ion, the whole of British Columbia. Thus
formed the Dominion of Canada constitutes
a vast empire, stretching from ocean to
ocean, extending from our Northern bound
ary to the Polar seas, and probably sur
passing the whole of the United States in
the number of the rquare miles of its terri
tory. Since its acquisition by the Domin
ion the construction ot the Canadian Pa
ific Railway has been commenced, and the
development of the country has been very
rapid. Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba
in J 871, contained a population of 350;
in 1882, 25,000. It was incorporated in
1874, when the assessment was $2,076,-
018; the assessment in 1882 amounted to
$30,422,270.
Manitoba and the lands lying along the
Canadian Pacific Railway are claimed to be
the best wheat region of the North Ameri
can continent, la the Halifax Herald, of
yesterday morning, is contained an inter
view with one of the leading merchants,
who had just returned from Manitoba. In
response to the question, “You visited the
Bell farm ?” he answered “Yes, that was a
magnificent sight; I counted twenty-one
reapers in operation, drawn by sixty
three horses. Thai day 1,200 acres of
grain were cut. That grain was sown on
the sod, and yielded an average of 23
bushels to the acre. A year ago that land
was virgin prairie. Last week I saw the
golden grain being harvested on it."
Some idea can be formed of what an
immense work has been accomplished in
the construction of the Canada Pacific
Railway, when yen are informed that it
now runs ten miles beyond Calgary, situ
ate at the base of the Rocky Mountains,
about the 114th degree of west longitude,
and which, with connecting lines of land
and water travel, must be fully two thou
sand miles west of Montreal. The west
ern terminus of this railway, when com
pleted, is to be Port Moodv, situate just
north of the boundary line between Wash
ington Territory and British Columbia, on
the Gulf of Georgia, which separates the
main land from Van Couver’s Island, and
pours its waters into the immense Pacific.
It is claimed that when the road is com
pleted the distance from New York to Port
Moodv will be 3 161 miles, while the di:-
tance from New York to San Francisco by
the shortest connecting lines is 3,331
miles; and that the distance from Liver
pool to Yokahama, Japan, will be 11,019
miles, while the present distance from
Liverpool te Yokahama, via New York and
Ban Francisco, is 12,038 miles. Os course
the imagination of our Canadian friends
is much excited over the great results
which they anticipate must follow this
great reduction of distances, and tbe de
velopment of a country so fertile and so
boundless in extent. These figures are
certainly full of suggestive thought, and
I cannot but feel must prove as new and
interesting to many of your readers as
they have been to me.
But passing from the consideration of
these great undertakings, now so soon to
be accomplished, I have been reminded
while here of a much neglected improve
ment at home. While sitting in the Hali
fax Club a few evenings since I was intro
duced to a gentleman who spent some
time last winter with his family at Aiken.
One of his first remarks addressed to me
was, “Well, I suppose by this winter a
fine hotel on the Sand Hills near your
city will be completed ? ’ On my replying
that the work had not even been com
menced, he expressed great disappoint
ment, which he said would be shared in
by many others who would be delighted to
spend their winters near our city if they
could only obtain hotel accommodations
When will our people wake up to the ad
vantages by which wo are surrounded?
We really do not appreciate them, and it
is only when we travel abroad, and hear
them commended in strange lands, that
we begin to appreciate how much we have
neglected them. If we bnt put forth the
effort there is no reason why we cannot
make the suburban country around Au
gusta the most delightful winter resort to
the Northern traveller, and while it will
bring health and pleasure to him, we will
sow the seeds of future wealth and pros
perity for ourselvf s.
To-day I bid adieu to Halifax. I shall
carry with me to my Southern home none
but delightful recollections of my sojourn
here recollections which it will always be
a pleasure to cherish. Delicacy prohibits
the naming of many families whose warm
hospitality I have enjoyed, but I cannot
close without expressing my thanks to the
American Consul-General, Wakefield G.
Frye, Esq., for many courtesies shown me
—whose official position permits me to ex
cept him from this proposition and
designate him by name. G. T. B.
P. S. —I had closed my letter when I bad
received an invitation from Mr. Doull
President of a new cotton factory just
erected here—to inspect his factory. This
factory has been constructed within the
last year; has been in operation only four
months, and after full examination —and
rejection of New England plans—has been
built on the model of the latest English
factories. Tho machinery is altogether
English, and the building itself is much
wider and not so long as our factories.
When fully completed, it will run 22,000
spindles, and the whole cost will not, it is
said, exceed sl6 per spindle. It is upon
cheapness of construction, less cost and
superior quality of machinery that the
company depends for handsome profits on
this investment. They have in use a new
carding machine, made by Platt Bros.,
Oldham, England, which, it is claimed, is
superior to any in use in America. In the
reformation of a tariff, let it be so reform
ed that we may at least secure new and
improved machinery. I merely call atten
tion to this factory as it may prove of in
terest to our own factory men. B.
REVOL IING OUTRAGE.
A Negro Fiend in Fnnifer County,
South Carolina, Meets His Just
Reward.
The Chronicles’ Sumter, South Caroline,
correspondent forwards to us the following
extract of the Sumter Advance:
Smithville, 8. C., September 18.—To
day, about noon,some four miles from this
place, a negro, unknown about here, met
on the public road two white girls, aged
respectively fourteen and twelve years,
and brutally assaulted the elder,and after
much resistance accompolished his pur
pose. The younger girl bravely endeavor
ed to assist her comrade by striking the
negro with a stick. The brute arose, and
with his knife, cut her a severe wonnd in
the back, and her life was doubtlessly
saved by the knife striking and glancing on
the shoulder blade. The negro fled. As
soon as it was made known, the whole
country—white as well as colored—entered
into pursuit, and fortunately captured him
near Pisgah Church. He was identified
by a gentlemen who came upon him
as he fled from the scene of hig outrage, as
also by a colored man who saw him as he
fled. He was condemned to die, and
white and blacks immediately riddled his
body with bullets. Hig body now, 8
o’clock, p. m., lies where he received his
just punishment—a merited reward of his
brutal act.
Loss, $50,000; Partially Insured.
St. Louis, September 22.—A fire broke
out in the Hannibal and St Joe Railroad
shops, at Hannibal, yesterday morning,
which totally destroyed tho machineiy and
blacksmith shops. Loss, $50,000; par
tially insured. Two hundred and fifty
men are temporarily thrown out of em
ployment.
Beyond the River.
Away Across the Mississippi is Held a
Convincing Convention.
“I tell you sir, that they are one of the neat
est combinations ever produced, and my ex
perience of that sort of thing has been wide
enough to entitle my judgment to some re
spect.”
* Oh, I don’t know,” re»ponded the first
speaker’s friend, with a little yarn, as though
he didn’t take much interest in the subject,
“I have never been able to see much differ
ence in those things. 7 hay are all pretty
nearly the same size, and made of about the
same stuff.”
The talk, of which the foregoing is a frag
ment, took place in Gallatin, Missouri, not
long ifeo, in the snug office of Dr. M. P. Flow
ers, one of the leading physicians of the State,
who followed up the vein in which he had in
t oduced it substantially in these words:
‘-Nonsense, that lathe rigmarole of a boy,
or rather of a man who either doesn’t know or
doesn’t care what he says. Those things, as
you call them, are just as different as the
moon is from ureen cheese. Now, liniments,
lotions and ointments are very good in most
cases for the relief of pain or infl immation.
But, in the first place they are unclean. They
soil the hands and the linen, besides being
always out of reach when they are most want
ed.”
‘‘Well, my dear Doctor.” sighed the travel
ler from the North, “what would you have ?
This is a wretched world anyhow, and noth
ing is ever at hand when it is wanted. You
can’t suggest anything ”
“Yes, I can,” broke in the Doctor, thump
ing the table with his fist, “I can sugeeat
BENSON’S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER.
I have tried it on my patients, and I have
tried it on myaelf for an attack of Noumonia,
and in all cieoa relief has followed in from
three to foty-eight hours. The old plasters
are stage coaches—the Capcine is a telegra
phic dispatch. For instance, in cases of
Neuralgia, Muscular Rheumatism, Lumbago,
retarded action of the Kidneys, and ”
“I give it up. Doctor, and in case of need
I’ll buy Benson’s,” said the traveller pleasant
ly-
In the centre of the genuine is cut the word
CAPCINE.
Seabury 4 Johnson, Chemists, New York.
eep2B anAwe f <
New Advertisements.
’* w ’v
GLAD TO SAY I AM
“ HOME AGAIN!’
THE
LEADER AND PRESIDENI
OF THE
J. B. WHITE
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING AND SHOE COMPANY
II AS ARRTVBD
AND THUNDERS PRICES TO-DAI
.J INIIIS
STY.LK !
LONG EXLERI <NCE AND EX
CELMHKE ENABLES HIMTO OFFER. THE
AND MOST COMPLETE
ever exhibited
south
FOB THE EXPLOSION
It is rumored that White is fixing to “go up higher than evei
Mark Twain’s nitro-glycerine eating mule went.” He is spread
ing himself entirely too much to suit the comfort
of weak-minded competition !
JUST CAUSE FOR ALARM,
HE IS SELLING GOODS LOWER THAN OTHER MER
CHANTS’ COS -• PRICE I
170 Oases, 5,100 pairs, mens’ Calf Ties $ 85
50 Oases, 1,200 pairs, mens’ Congress 90
75 Oases, 1,800 pairs, mens’ English Strap Ties 1 25
100 Cases, 2,400 pairs, mens’ English Bals I 20
105 Oases, 2,520 pairs, mens’ 8. S. Congress 1 15
100 Cases, 2,400 pairs, mens’ Hand.sewed Congress 4 50
50 Oases, 1,200 pairs, mens’ Calf Hand-sewed Button 4 25
50 Oases, 1,200 pairs, mens’ Calf Boots 1 OO
AN ELEGANT DISPLAY OF
LADIFS TTIIVIC ISIIOI2SSI.
Ladies Kid Button Boots, worked B. II $1 35
Ladies Pebble Button Boots, woikefl B. Il I 20
Ladies Pebble Button Boots 1 (Ml
Ladies Kid Lace Shoes 1 15
Ladies Pebble Lace Shoes Jk»
CLOTHING EMPORIUM I
. 736 and 738 Broad Street.
Teeming With Bargains!
$200,000 WORTH OF READY MADE CLOTHING I
2,000 Pairs Gent’s Panta at $ 7!
2.500 Pairs Gent’s Satinet Pants at 1 2."
2,700 Gent’s Suits at ' 4 51
2.500 Boys’ Suits at "’ ’ ’ ’ 2 2'
2,200 Youths’ Suits at ’. . ’ ’.......... 2 (K
A BEWILDERING DISPLAY OF
Gent’s Furnishing Goods,
LATEST NOVELTIES AND LOWEST PRICES.
W. N. MERCIER,
f COTTON FACTOR |
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
* WARHEN BLOCK, AUOTOSTA, GEOBOIA.
MTTerMMI attest!** givea te butaew. Liberal Cask Advance* auid* *a
CaaalfasMte. Cl**e attention to weights. Prompt Sale* and Remittance**
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