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6 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** Jyl imir«O4wffm