Georgia Historic Newspapers

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By W. A. HEMPHILL & CO.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1875.
No. 16, Volume Till
COUNTRY AND CITY JOBBERS.
Dry goodi jobbing in New York is ret
rygreisive, as tbe New York Daily Bul
letin expreAMft It It ii positively shaky,
and depressed, and disposed to flit away
to wore economical localities. There
has grown up, says the Bulletin, within
the Iwt dtcade a large and thrifty class
of country Jobbing firms, and a good
half of the goods reaching the retailers
of the country now pastes through the
hands of this class of merchsnls, located
in the minor towns snd cities, which
not long sgo was a part of ihe
business of tbe cities of the scsboard,
principally New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia. That is the situation in a nut
r'jcll, and coming from one of the lead
log commercial journals of the metropo
lis 11* a very fair, frsnk and manly
statement. It is the truth, snd perhaps
the merchants of New York think the
sooner they face it the better.
To make tbe casa still plainer in the
minds of its city readers the Bulletin
presents the following examples of the
costs of conducting a jobbing business
in its city snd in one of the "minor
cities of the interior:"
cirr ;obhcr.
Amount of sales $3,1)00,000
tiros* profits, iO per cent........ 300,000
THE NOISELESS PANIC.
Ileal estate in New Yoik and ether
northern cities very slowly shared the
tumbling of value?, hut whin it did get
into the* declining current the movement
was strong although quiet. "There is
no market," said a leading real estate
dealer in New York recently. Nobody
wants to buy; all wan! to unload. And
the macon and Brunswick road.
RAILROADS.
< iai, on the proper disposition of the
Macon and Brunswick railroad. He
wants the road put 00 tlie market,
not a few in New York apprehend a rep- j Of course he does. What
etiticn of tbe scenes of 1637. The dc- man interested in Savannah's welfare
ciinc in rents has kept pace with the would think otherwise? Te see the state
fall in value?, and between the two the j conducting a line that leads not to Rome
A home, or at leas; a homeless, cor- j Fifty j ears ago last Monday an event
respondent of the Savannah News gises occurred in a corner of Great Britain
expression to the views entertained by • that was fuller of intcre. and value to the
t-c Central railroad people in particular. world then as any act 'rf statesman or
"d by the citizens of Savannah in gem — A 1 — A — —* -
Rent 130,000
(•uarantee arc’t 1 percent SU.OCl
31) h- n*ls at $'*,000 '.*),<*«
20 " 2,0u0 40,0(0
10 *• I.OU0 10,000
10 *• MW 6.CJ0
O.her c*pcn*ca. CO.OUO-— JGS.GOO
Net profit.
«5C30
cooiTfiT aonnea.
Amount of ta’ea Vl/WO/iOO
Gross profit , 10 per cent 300,000
Rent *10,000
Ouaofilen arc unt .'*>,(<00
M) hand* averaging *1,000 Oo.OuO
Other expenses 40,lKJi)— )70,GC)
Net profits *30,000
Tue object of tlra discour iging exhibit
11 the Bulletin Is to urge the merchants
of New York to remove the heavy dis
advantages under which they labor
But that is just what tb;*y can not do to
any great extent. (Sen. Austell’* atoiy
in yesterday morning’s Constitution
alone shows the impossibility cf
bringin? expenses down very
low io New York. Take the important
item of rent, for instance. The city debt
alone Is $137,000.0X), and if it is not two
hundred million ten years from now a
radical change in her municipal affairs
will have to supervene. But take it as
it Is, and then add the other expenses of
the city and the result is a tax of neatly
three per cent, upon the building in
which the New York jobber docs busi
ness. With such tsxcs to meet, and with
the prices of lots such as they are and al
ways will be in the best commcicial
quar.er* of the great city,
how can the New York jobber
expect any material reduction in the iicm
of rent ? And so with the other terns.
The expenses of living in New York air
higher than they are ia the "minor cities
of the interior,” and this requires large
salaries if a firm wishes to retain, as it
must to succeed, keen and active sales
men and other employees. The current
expense* of New Yolk’s jobbers are in
deed exco sive, but th«y arc duo to n
variety of ciicumstances over which its
jobbers hate little or no control.
The Bulletin’s estimate of the coats of
jobbing in such cities as Atlanta and
Richmond aie very greatly overrated. A
reduction of »wcnly per cent, should be
made in the items of rent, hands and
other expenses. In tbe country, hands
do not nverage $1,800 by several hundred
dollars. Our landlords do not demand
such rentals as the Bulk tin’s estimate
calls for. The real difference in profits
is one tilth greater than the Bulletin's
figures state it.
What is the moral of this confession of
the New York journal ? It seems to be
that the country merchant, the rctaihr,
ia shrewd and sensible in preferring the
country joblier, as he is confessedly do
ing. Not only can the country jobber
afford to oiler the best of terms, but the
retailer can through him renow bis
every month, keeping it fresh, and taking
advantage of every downward turn of
the market. If ho goea to New Yoik for
his goods he buys a supply that must last
six months, no matter what the changes
of fashion are or wliat depreciation may
occur In goods. The Bulletin is right
when it says that ihe natural laws which
have caused business to take this drift
will also serve to increase its magnitude.
The dry goods jobbing trade of Atlanta
has grand possibilities before it that
will assuredly be realised. Our
merchants are full of enterprise and they
now command plenty of capital. No
unnecessary outside middlemen should
make profits from the trade of Georgia
Our own merchants are amply equipped
for all the demands of the southern trade,
and wc expect to ace them managing it
before another decade it finished.
The commissioner of internal revenue
is making a vigorous raid through his
collectors throughout the country agaiust
those who do not brand cigar boxes in
the proper manner. The law provides
that all cigars which shall be remove
from any manufactory or place where ci
gars are made without, branding into each
box with a branding-iron the number
of cigars contained therein, tbe name of
the manufacturer, and the number of (be
district and state, shall be forfeited to tbe
l'nited States. The violation of the law
is a'so punishable with a fine ranging
from $100 to $1,000, with imprisonment
from six months to three years. Since
the passage of the law, very mtny manu
facturers have evaded its provisions by
other methods than that prescribed by
law, viz: lbrt of bianding. Some havi
just stamped boxes of tin, and some have
contented themselves with a label. This
will not do, tbe commissioner says, and
collectors are ordered to prosecute every
ase that comes under their notice.
It is gratifying to see that so much at
tention is being given to tbe culture of
rice. From al parts of the state we hear
e! movements in this direction, some
wbi :h arc of no inconsiderable znagni
tude. Kies milH arc being established
al important central points for the pur
pose of preparing the crop for the mark
. It is rumored that a mill of this
kind will soon be put into operation
Atlanta, as there is a great demand for
one in this section. To show how im
portant tbe rice trade has become iu our
state, it is only necessary to note the fact
that a firm of rice brokers has just been
(orated at Savannah, whose whole atten
tion is to be given to this (articular
branch ol commerce. This is an entire
ly new feature in the brokerage business,
and will no doabt become a most impor
tant one In tbe future o^>ur state.
Ton New Orleans Republican charac
teristically flings aside the truth of his
tory when it cal's Hon. L. Q C. Lunar
"a carpet bagger, who left tbe legislature
of Georgia to run for congress in Missis
sippi” It is
real estate owners of New York are i
the dumps.
New York is probably worse off io this
respect than any other city, for two rca-
: her values were inflated io aa ex
traordinary extent, and her taxes are
very high and constantly going higher.
The taxation on unimproved or unpro
ductive property in that city
fling matter. It is higher than it was
during the culminating year of tbe Tweed
regime. In 1873 the rate was $3.50 on
the $100; in 1874 $3 80, and this year it
$3 04, or nearly three
per cent. This kind of gov
ernmtni is rapid’y swelling the tax lists,
and the ‘‘lax sales scalpers” arc prepar
ing for a rich harvest. "Under this sys
tem,’’ says the New Yoik Ileruld, "wc
spending more money, raking
more money, and issuing more and more
bonds. Under the pretense of reform
wc have abuses as flagrant and numerous
during the worst days of the Tammany
reign.”
While this matter of excessive taxation
may account for the heavy decline in the
real estate of New York, yet we find
nearly similar condition in every
other northern city that has a press which
frank and plain. Tbe latest IutA-
Occsn that has cornc to hand ac knowl
edges in a guarded manner that "sales
are in most case* made at cjnsidcrablc
reductions on former prices, to corres
pond with the general decline of prices
almort everything else." It congratu
lates its readers on the fact that some
outright bona fide sales are taking place
that are neither trades nor foreclosures.”
These facts, which are publish-
in the public journals, show that
the noiseless panic" is still sweeping
slowly but irresistibly along. They also
show—for what is true of tbe large cilies
great extent true of the minor
ones and of the towns and villages—that
the people of the north are experiencing
reaction from war values and war in
fluences that wc koow nothing of. The
proof accumulates that in every respect
outh is stronger and sounder
bun the north. We di 1 not
soer so high, did not inflate
many h tlloon?, and our fall has been
and will be proportionately lea*. This
apparent in the hands that arc stretch*
towards us by cAstcrn merchants for
Ip to save them from sinking. They
begin to realize that the producing see.
lions of the country arc the strongest;
they begin to court—too late to command
it—our trade. They sec that all of our
material conditions are favorable, and
that the people of the cotton states will
remain solvent regardless of .their panics,
they nokele s or violent.
TIIE NEW ENGLAND PROBLEM.
The labor market in the land of the
Puritans is sadly glutted. Sixty
thousand "tramps” are upon the country
roads. The working classes are discon
tented, sullen, and pervaded with a
growing feeling that they exist and toil
only for the purpose of enriching the
few privileged ones. Employment is
scarce, with every prospect of becoming
scarcer. A long winter is just ahead,
and hundreds of thousands of honest
toilers, eager and anxious to labor, arc
living but one degree above starvation.
This is essentially the picture of tbe
situation in New England as drawn by
correspondent of the Boston Globe,
lie foresees a ruinous conflict between
the rich and the poor, unless something
done to avert it.
What shall be done ? That is the most
interesting and difficult question in the
ew England states to-day. How can
the glutted labor market be relieved. The
Globe’s correspondent proposes immigra
tion, to the south as the best mode of
relief and here is the way be describes
this section of the country:
Within much less than one week’s Jour
ney from Boston there exists a vast country
who:e natural wealth no tongue or pen has
ver yet described! It has a taubrious
linialc, a soil fruitful to the last degree,
•apatde of pioducing iu the greatest abund
grain, vegetables, fruiu of every kind
which are giown outside the tropics, aud
many tropic »' fruits also, a soil of which it
might be said, os Sydney Smith said of ihe
•oil of Australia, "Tickle It with a hoe and
It laughs with a harvest ?’• On txis soil cat
tle and sheep cau be raise J by millions. Ihe
country is well diverrttied with mountains,
plains and valleys; forests of Immense ex
tent are there; lakes and rivers wrtl stocked
with fish are there on a magnificent scale,
and smaller streams furnish abundant water
ewer. The coal, iron and other mineral
deposits beneath that soil exist in quantities
which arc almost incalculable, and in fact
jjthing exists there that could be asked
to sustain a vast and increasing papula
tioa In plenty and happiness for centuries to
but to Brunswick is provoking. They
want the road switched off in come way
to feed their own city, all of which is
very natural and customary, and iu a
certain s nsc proper, unless it is to be
done at the expense of the state.
The News’ correspondent quotes a deal
of law, but he utterly fails to show that
the legislature directed a sale
to be made. On the contraryi
the provisions of tbe statute show that it
was the express will of the legislature
that the whole question should bo de
cided as the roundest discretion of tbe
board of directors should dictate. They
have decided to run the road until the
legislature can indicate its choice of
policies, and in so doing they have acted
prudently and, as far as known facts arc
concerned, wisely.
Abandoning the law of the case, tbe
champion of a speedy sale of the road
falls back upon what he says was the
intention of the legislature and it the de
sire of the people of Georgia. The legis.
lature intended to do just what they le
gally did do—give the directors ample
discretionary powers. They put their
will into sentences that are incapable of
two constructions. And as for the desire
of the people, that is a matter upon which
men arc privileged to differ. Wc do not
believe they want the road sold at less
than its real value. The times are not
favorable for the auctioning off of hun
dreds of miles of iron track, and the peo
ple probably think they had better hold
their property in preference to selling it
immediately at a sacrifice.
The most pointed charge of Tax-Pay-
et’s letter, however, is found in bis itali
cized words that assert the refusal of
the directors to sell the ro^d
on any terms. He is ‘creditably in
formed" that the directors were ad
dressed, soon after they took possession
ol the load, "by a perfectly responsible
party” who expressed a desire to know
bother they would receive a proposi
tiou for tbe purchase of the road, and
the respond was that they "would
not.” So says "Tax Payer,” and wc do
not for a moment doubt bis statements.
Hut the simple refusal of the directors to
entertain propositions for the purchase
of the road before the meeting of the leg
islaturc does not make out a very strong
c »se u gainst them. "Tux Payer” should
have shown that "the perfectly re
sponsible parly” would have offered a
reasonable sum. lie should have stated
that sum, even if he refused to disclose
the local habitation of the mysterious
bidders. Until he does that wc
are l |n no position to attack the dircc
tors. Wc do not, in fact, believe
that "the perfectly responsible party”
would buy the road at its true value. We
believe further that the current name of
th? pasty in question is a corporate one,
a: wc do not believe that the people of
(» .;ia are so impatient for a sale of the
r■•..u that they will not willingly await
the action of their representatives in the
gii.>ral assembly^ ^ ^
THE THIRD TERM.
This intelligent writer knows yery well
that the factory band-*, the mechanics
and laborers of the suffering and endan
gered state?, who have been out of cm
ployment for weeks, and some of them
for months, cannot set out for Dixie’s
Land on their own resources. They are
penniless, and the correspondent, there
fore, advocates stato aid to those who
desire to go bick to men’s natural
ployment, agriculture. Tbe Globe, in
commenting on thislelter.thmksit would
be rather a novel proceeding for a state
to try to get rid of its population, and it
therefore thinks that tbe matter should
be left to individual or associated efforts
>f the people. Otherwise the Globe
concurs ia all its correspondent says.
Both fear further collisions between the
rich and poor, and both believe that the
couth presents the best agricultural field
Grant is a candidate for another term.
No one who reads his speech at Des
Moines can*doubt it. This man, who
has always been careless in his public
utterances, read a long speech—a speech
reduced to writing and read from the
manuscript. What does such a depart
ure from his previous methods mean ?
Why so much care and preparation in
a speech before the soldier* in distant
Iowa ?
The object is made very plain by the
matter that he went out of his way to
introduce when lie talked about politics,
lie went to Des Moines to talk politics.
His audience must have comprised hun
dreds, perhaps thousands, of Catholics;
and yet before that mixed audience and
a soldier’s union, lie intro
duced the subject of sectarian schools
and religious teachings. He raised
the Koow Nothing flag that Blaine did in
Maine and that Hayes’ supporters are
fly lug in Ohio. There is no such issue
in Iowa, or in any other state. It is not
a question legitimately before the people
of any state. In most of the states there
is positive harmony on the question
of schools. And yet this firebrand was
thrown by the president into the coming
canvass that he may stir up and utikze
the prejudices of Pioteslants.
Such a course has but one meaning—
the man is determined to exhaust all ex
pcdicnls to secure four more years of
power. It shows, too, that the republi
con campaign of 1876 will be conducted
tbe cry of no popery. To this extremity
baa Grantism come at lost, llow can a
man say in tbe face of this remarkable
appeal to religious prejudices that the
president does not desire another term
Sucti a man should be set down as very
verdant, or very dishonest, or positively
crowned head—an c eat of more im
portance to the omir cial world than
any of its whole h ; ry. That event
consisted in the unition of Dar
lington, a mining town in tbe
northeastern part of England, and
Stockton, a town full of factories at tbe
bead of Tees bay. One had coal in
abundance and wanted a market, and tbe
other wanted just what Darlington had
but could not sell to advantage. So tbe
towns were joined, and George Stephen
son was the parses. The golden wed
ding was celebrated at Darlington on
Monday last in a grand and successful
manner. The old engine “ Locomotion,”
which rattled away from Darlington fifty
years ago at the spanking rote of four
miles an hour, was taken down from its
pedestal m front of the station at Dar
lington, and removed to the chief shops
of the town, Ibera to be grouped and
compared with the illustrious line of later
days. A statue to Stephenson’s prin
cipal and wealthy patron and friend. Jo
sepb Pease, who was a wealthy manu
facturcr of Stockton, was unveiled, and
the cable says that the whole programme
was successfully and enthusiastically
carried out in the presence of numerous
railroad magnates and eminent men
from every section of the kingdom.
What a growth iu fifty years! There
arc men in Atlanta who can remember
the Darlington event The road was
only twelve miles long, and its cost was
only $000,000. But those few miles of
imperfect undulating serpentine track,
with the crude odd machine that sprang
from the brain of George Stepherson,
have revolutionized the world. No in
vention has been so powerful in pro
moting the world’s progress, and none
ever will be, unices it is one that will
make rapid communication still more
rapid and cheaper. Those cf us who
have always known the locomotive can
scarcely realize that the vast and in
calculable change in transportation has
been accomplished in fifty years.
The Darlington line was a success from
the outset The thrifty Quakers at the
mines and the stirring manufacturers of
Stockton struck a bonanza .hat at the
present time is yielding enough every
year to pay the world's governmental
indebtedness. But it was eleven years
after the opening of Stephenson’s first
road before London had a
railway, and when her first line was
built to Deptford, in 1830, its managers
considered it in the light of a show.
They kept a fancifully-dressed baud cf
musicians at each end cf the route to
draw passengers, and lamps were set up
ou both sides of the track to light the en
tire route duriog the night. But Lou
don soon cast off such nonsense, and to
day there arc 3,603 trains going in and
out of tbe city daily, carrying during the
the year tbe cuormous number of 104,-
000,000 passengers.
The accomplishments of the last forty
years in this direction, are astonishing.
In 1868 there were 100,000 milea in op
eration, of which Canada and the United
States had one half. That half has since
been increased at least twenty-five
per cent. The other half was
distributed as follows: England,
13,000 miles; Germany and Austria,
13,302; France, 0,624; India, 5.630;
Spain, 3,161; Russia, *2.800 r Swe
den, 1,100; Belgium, 1,073; Italy, 2,752;
Switzerland, 705; Egypt, 760, and Hol
land, 617. A great many miles have
also been built in India, Japan, South
America, and in every other civili'.ed or
semi-civilized nation on the globe. In the
United States the development of the rail
road system has been remarkably steady
and rapid. Figures are,as we well know,
very distasteful to some readers, but we
trust they will pardon the following table
which shows the number of miles in op
eration in this country during each year.
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out of his head.
The Greensboro’ Home Journal men
tions the workingi of the penitentiary
during the administration of Gov. Craw
ford, when they were reformatory and
telf-sustaining. The Journal confesses
that tbe vast increase of criminals brought
about by the late war has complicated
the problem, but it unqualifiedly asserts
that the present system of punishment
is a disgrace to our civilization. With
no religious appliances or reformatory
influences brought to bear up)u the con
victs, the various camps are "likely to
become high schools of wickedness,
from whose discipline criminals will be
rendered desperate in vice, and come
• orth confirmed villains to perpetrate
fresh crimes upon the community. We
hope this important question, will have
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2,302 1861..
. 2.81S 1862..
. 8.K5 1883..
. 4,026 1861..
. 4,185 1865..
. 4.57? 1886 .
. 4,633 1887..
. 4,930 1888..
. 7,365 *871
. 9.02111872
.10,182
.33,908
, .35,085
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OUR GEORGIA HUMORI3T.
the immediate attention of the press and
for the unemployed laborers of New tul pit, and the humane and Christian
England. The Globe is also very correct ‘ consideration of the governor and legis-
when it says that the southern state'
will welcome accessions from the
industrious elements of its rection. It
welcomes all honest and industrious
new-comer*, no matter where they came
from. Virginia is making a special effort
to secure immigrants, not from foreign
lands, but from the crowded states of
the northeast, and no doubt the move
ment headed by Gen. Fitzbugh Lee will
gather in thousands of the discouraged
but industrious workingmen of New
England and the Middle stolen
rture."
x.e first re-union of the old Third
regiment, held at Union Point
Iasi year, was the right step in the right
diiccllon, and resulted in numerous other
similar reunions of old confederate mili-
Xtr.- organizations in Georgia. The
m usiasm thus awakened passed over
the line into cur sister state of Alabama,
where several re-union* have already
t Aten place. Gen. E. M. Law, late com
mander of Law's brigade, army of Nortb-
The Georg* press can justly be cred
ited with the possession of a humorist
whose reputation is not less than that
won by either the famous Bailey of the
Danbury News, or Lewis of the Detroit
Free Press, in the person of Sam. W.
Small, of the Atlanta Constitution.
We have often admired his articles which
arc written in a free, sprightly and pecu
liar style, and which, though they excite
a smile, yet convey the truth in words
not to be mistaken. He is quite a young
man, and is well known in Griffin, where
he resided during the war, and during
which time he was adil : gent and faithful
pupil of the senior editor of the Star and
Cultivator. He stood at his "post" then
as he was taught to do, and we are glad
to find him at his "post” now in the line
of duty, his humorous writings are ap
preciated, and the leading journals of tbe
north and west copy them as rapidly as
they appear. Sam has a bright career
ahead of him, and we shall always look
upon bis successes with, we trust, very
pardonable pride.—Gridin Star and Cul
tivator. m m m
The Hampton Ledger appears in obe
dience to a demand of the agricultural
and business interests of Henry county
for a local organ. "Local edigraphs’ 1
are to be a speciality of the Ledger. We
hope it will monopolize them, for we do
not wont the mysterious complaint in
this county. Mr. John G. Cold well is
the editor and proprietor of the new sheet,
which is clean, neat and democratic in
spite of edigraphs.
TnE receipt! of cotton at this port
during the past month were 4,011 bales
against 2,045 boles in September, 1874.
This is an increase of nearly 100 per
cent, and is a good send-off for the sea
son. While the counties just about At
lanta have not raised as much cotton this
year as they did the year before, yet the
citj’s widening trade will supply the de
ficiencyand leave a margin for gain.
Gov. Osborn says that the fu-jlus grain
raised In Kansas this year, if loaded (n ca»,
would moke a train 1.CG0 mile3 long.'
Toe Kansas people, the Bendas and
others, are talking of refuslrg Kanst* City
patronage, b:cause that city entertained
Jefferson Davis.
Gqybeno* Ua&tranft is infestli^ the
parade-grounds of Penmjlvauia and assu
ring each regiment that It is the best drilled
and presents the finest appearance jot any
in the stato.
It is very hold for Senator Morton Jo'.eart.
anythin g. He is repeating the same Uoody-
shirt speech in Pennsylvania which feeated
such havoc in the republic in party in
Maine.
Tls Chinese government Is about la send
out the fourth company * l young taen to
receive an education ia the United £tate;.
They are expected to arrive in Safl Fran
cisco in December.
Tub census of Charleston, just compk te-J,
shows 56,510 souls, against 48,056 Ir: bTO,
on incre.se of 7,181 in five year^*'The
colored population is 32,012 and tug white
24,528, the Increase cf the former ^zvliig
been much the greatest.
It won’t do for the republicans to attri
bute their recent defeat in Maine tqjrepub-
lican "stay-at-homes.” The republican vote
Is 7,000 larger this year than in 187-J* when
it elected Ding’ey governor bv 11,000 ma
jority.
Cassius M. Clay Is named os omlgiblc
continuation to the next democrat presi
dential nomination. There ia nof much
probability that the convenUoa will go fur
ther touts than Kentucky, and ttfis not
therefore unlikely that Cassiis may be jus
tified ia enteitaining a hope. jt
With a little ability and a gocdMeal of
help, how a man can get up In the world!
Our American cardinal used to be plain
John McCloskey. His title no#ft Santa
Maria Sopra Minerva! His oi
wouldn’t recognize, under that
names, her old boy.
Tde Bangor, Maine, Commi
dently knows what is about Wbi
out in the fulness of great joy: 1
hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Blaine La*
Ohio! Count Allen’s majority by-
where it w*ould have been only h
Blaine had staid at home.”
Tub "Property Holder’s Union,’
Orleans, has bad the city budget lor 1875
under consideration, and proposer (Reduce
tt from $4,075,912 to $1,643,483. That loo)- s
os though the Union meant, burices* and
had sense. The tax-payer*’ league br citi-
committee, of Si. Louis, might profit
by its examp’e.
Congressman C. B. Fauwxll -of Chi
cago, is a candidate for tbe republican nom
ination for governor of Illinois. Gov. Bev
erage is also wo'kirgfor a nomination, and
the Hon. S. 31. Cullom has aspirations in
the same direction. If Mr* Farwett could
induce his rivals to play poker for the nomi
nation, his prosoects would be excellent.
It is a significant fact that the Nt-* York
Times, a journal of considerable political sa
gacity, predicts the final defeat of the hard
money men, and thinks th:re is no room for
doubt that, when it comes to the final con
test, the force of number?, as vrs!l ’ as the
boldness, the earnestness and the Iiopefull
ness so recessary to success, arc all with the
grcenbcc ; party.
We want Hartranft to have a faijshowin
this battle, for the odds are mightily-gainst
him at best, and he should beg Mc£fc& - not
to 6tand on the order of his going from
the Pennsylvania field, but to go at once
If there is anyone man who can be well
spared out of this contest by the Hartranft
men, it is Oliver P. Mo rton.—Philadc’phia
Times (Ind.)
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Time?, in alluding to the relative strong h
of the Mohammedans and Christians in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, contributes the
first reliable data which have yet been fur
nished on the point. Ec shows that the
church registers of the different Christian
communities and the conscription rolls of
the Mahommcdan population, there arc
135,600 Catholics in Bosn'a and 48,003 in
Herzegovina, or 183,000 in all; three rre
460 000 belong to the Eistera church in
Bosnia, and 75,000 in Herzegovina—that is,
535,(30 in all; while there are 330,000 Ma-
hommedans in Bosnia and G0,000 In Herze
govina, or 390,000 in alL The Mahomme-
dan popula'ion, therefore, is little less
than four to eleven to the Christian popu
lation.
Tins is the way the Cincinnati Ccinrcei-
clal puts it:
"TIIK GREENBACK DOLLAR
At the dose o. business yesterday was worth
85 4-5 cents,
Or 111-5 cen*s less than a Gold Dollar.”
Aud tbe Enquirer’s way:
"THE BONDHOLDER’S DOLLAR,
At close o' business yestirJav
was woktii *1 23J6,
or 2T% cents more than tbe People’s Dollar.
And all because of the legislation, which,
for tbe past ten years, has been ma’nly di
rected to the appreciation of the interest
bearing debt in tbe hands of the money
power, aud the depreciation of the non-
interest-bearing debt in the hands of the
people.”.
More legal tenders were retind last
week to moke room for more natiooal
en Virginia, propoae* a rc-union of tbe j bu,t currency. Untii further order* the
The
EXECUTIVE NOTE,
governor yesterday issued
to correct tbe mi*- j P rocl ‘ mll:oa . cfl «> n £ «*» reward for
(Utement. of a aheet that it» ignorant 'M’T'* 1 ° f “ gr ° mut -
■- . . * idered one of his colored broihers in
j Chatham county.
»(It it unjust.
4th, 13th, 44th. 47th and 48th Alabama ’ Tliue ot outstanding legal tenders will
regiments, which comprised that brigade 1 1)8 $3«3,84M34- B ^ ^
at Selma, October .sth, which will be j j UE Lumpkin Independent Bays coi-
during the stale grange fair. The object t0 , picUics; is going cn so stesdily in it':
-donthat theeppwUl he •‘well nigh
historical and official records of the regi- P ,c ^^ ou * V first of
meets composing the command.
The colored people cf Iowa arc moving
in the matter of being properly represented
at the centennial.
Spain is conscripting boys of fifteen; but
the boj s will be old enough before Spain has
strangled liberty Iu Cuba.
Ex-Treasurer 8oot, of New Jersey, '•
found to be short just $44,116, which en
tities him to a full certificate of membership
in the radical p-iity.
The recep Jon of Mr. Davis In Colorado
bos b» en everywhere hospitable and cour
teous, and he is said to have enjojed lis
territorial trip exceedingly.
Tde aims and tbe purposes of republicans
are a* pure and worthy now as thej ever
were.—[Boston Advertiser. Just about —
j Boston Post.
Edmond About, the French journalist
and novelist—and a good fellow, too—Is
intending to come over and write up our
cenUuniol next yes*-.
Atlanta h»s 65doctors and 135lawyers.
But for the frequent deaths from starvation
among them the two professions there
ould become a little crowded —1 Exchange
Mil Brtant, of the New York Evening
Post, assumes a poet’s license rhat is very
pardonable, under the circumstances, "and
declares for the democratic state ticket.
Ex-Minister Bancroft will spend the
winter in Washington f his health continues
to Improve, otherwise he will go to Fiori .
for the months of January and February.
Mr. Sharon has tendered to Mrs. Ralston
a suit of seven rooms In the Palace hotel,
with private servant?, a private coach and
coachman, so long as she may see fit to use
them.
Salvini made $25,000 in gold daring the
last London season, from April 1st to July
15 h. Bis fortune to day is set down at
$150,000, mode principally In playing
Othello.
Devon cattle that were cnce so popular
in New Hampshire have been gradually go
ing out of fashion of late years, and at the
last state fair only sixteen head of thia breed
were on exhibition.
Says the Richmond Dispatch: "It would
have been better for Schcrz had he remain
ed in Germany until after the election. To
gratify hi? resentment he comes home to
help the radicals, if possible, to beat his
best friends. Ohio wtil go for the demo
crat*, Scburz will be exiled to keep com
pany with his enemies, who will never res
pect or reward him; and it Is more than
probable that his pubic career in ths higher
political positions in the republic is at an
»nd. In that ease it will, we should think,
Seventy-five thousand pounds is to be
spent in mounting the fortress ot Gibraltar
with 38 too guns.
Ex-Gov. Walker, of VirgixJs, has a han
kering after newspaper life at d p eposes to
buy the Patriot concern, at Washington
with a view to the "politics of the future,”
and tho prospects thereof.
Mu. L. W. Volk, a Chicago sculp*or, has
anew statue of Stephen A. Douglas t early
finished, which is said to be different from
those previously executed by him, all of the
copies of which, with a slrgle exception,
were destojc J by fire.
Sossura h living ia comfort at Barra-
conne, a villiafre between Turin aud Rivoli
absorbed iu the cultivation of fruit, flowers
and vegetables, and keeping an eye on hi-
collection of in&ecrs and minerals.
It is a matter of turprl&e to some unthink
ing people that Oakes Anus should have:
monumen! before G.orge Washington’^ is
completed; but it must be remembered that
Ames dug his way to forture with a shovel,
whereas Washirgton depended entirely on
liia little hatchet.
The United States centennial board of
finance has granted the privilege rf printing
tbe official catalogue of the ceu'enrial exhi
bition to J. R. Nagle & Co., of Philadelphia.
The firm gave the board of finance *110,CC0
for the privilege, and agrees to print the
catalogue la Eng'i«h, French, German and
Spanish.
SiTue Shreveport Times has seen a man who
recently visited the Khedive, and this mau
dc.lares that "the Tuikish sel ler* enter
tain a profound cantempt for the foreign
officers, and that tbe latter have charge
principally of department cilices, which do
not bring them in direct contact with tho
common soldiers ”
James Lick, tbe California miiliona’re
philanthropist, is described is th!n-vis-
aged, aharp-argled Ij forehead and ctiu
and nose, with a shock of matted and tan
gled black hair, slightly sprinkled wbh
gray. Ills eyes are a cold, pale bluish gray,
and glassy, and a long, straggling under-
beard covers his chin.
The New York Commercial Adverihcr
says all the ocean steamship companies
have sunk money on nearly every passage
for two or three years past. 1 he Bremen
line bas lost §1,115,000 in two jears, the
Hamburg *400,000 during the past year, and
the White Star, Inman, National and Cu-
nard lines not less than $4,0C0.0CO
The fight between ex-Governor Steven
son and Leslie, of Kentucky, for an elec
tion to the seat in tbe United States senate,
now occupied by the former, Is being
wag'd very bitterly. Governor Leslie, la
his retiring address, among other points
made the fallowing: "If the exe r cise of
the pardoning power has been less frequent
tbau usual daring my administration, it is
attributable to the fact that ccrta’n fixed
maxims of ffiity often compelled me to say
This put Governor Stcvenscn’s
friends to work to see how the pardoning
power had been exercised in the fast, and
they assert the remissions and respites
during Gov. Leslie’s term numbered 738,
while those duriog the term of Governor
Stevenson amounted to but 439.”
Fifty years sgo, this mouth, the first
train of Vehicles was drawn by a locomo
tive over a road open to the public. This
was at Darlington, in England, and Gtorge
8tephenson was the engineer, both of the
road and of Ihe locomotive. It was the be
ginning of railroading, and a semi-centen
nial celebration is to be had at Darlington,
the 27ih. The little Hue then opened
bas since been absorbed into the Northeas
tern railway of England, an immense corpo
ration, whose capital is *5.*,000.000, or equal
to that of our whole Pacific railway, and
even that is surpassf d by three other Brit
ish railways. 7 he railways of the world
have all been create 1 within fifty years
The Un'tcd States have laid the mott length
in that time, and about os much as ail the
rest of the world put together. The cost
andmauucrof building has teen the most
magn'fictnt in England, where the per cent-
age of net returns and gross earnings to
cost is less than with us.
Tue Boston Port pronounces the "bloody
shirt” too thin for fall wear.
Congressman Beck, of Kentucky, take3
the stump for the democrats in Ohio at
early day.
Minister Cushing is said to have gained
for himself much popularity at Madrid.,
where he I've s quietly and modestly.
Tue Louisiana sugar crop for 1874-75 ii
estimated at 116,867 hogshcids, against SO,’
498 last year. The molasses crop is estima
ted at 11,616,82S gallons.
Ex-Senator E. G. Ross, of Kansas, who
for a year or more U?s been foreman of the
Lawrence Journal, bas assumed the assist
ant editorship of that paper.
Figaro reports the presence at Paris of
M. Scbiscbkin, recent Colonel General of
Russia at Belgrade, and now on his way to
the United S ates to represent the Emperor
of Russ a at Washington.
Tub Staunton Spectator, Fredericksburg
Herald, Alexandria Gazette, Richmond En
quirer, and Richmond WThigore the ollist
papers in Virginia, and rank in age in tie
order named.
Tue French Bonapartis* s have prevailed
upon the ex-empress to surrender her "j
gency” and abdicate in favor of the Prince
Imperial. The Bonapartists are becoming
bold and aggressive.
Sam Bard says be "has learned at last
what not to put in the columns of a news
paper,” but as he prints his own ed.torials,
it does not appear that he makes proper use
of his valuable lesson.—M nip jis Ava
lanche.
Bluff old Kaiser Wi helm, whose bodily
vigor is rexlly wonderful, was in the saddle
duriog tbe whole time on both days of the
recent Sedan anniversary, and galloped up
and down tbe field at the head of Lis staff
t briskly as ever.
The returns from Maine, as telegraphed
through the associated press, on the author
ity of Mr. Blaine’s home organ, contan
errors in favor cf Connor, republican, cf
9 2 votes, wnich will bring the republican
majority down to something like 3,£50.
Anotbzr Guibord case has been nipped
lathe bud near Montreal. An old man
committed suicide while drunk, and tae
priest refused to allow the body to enter the
graveyard, but finally permitted the coffin
10 be Lome Into the cemetery over the
fence.
Tub vote of Hurricane island, Maine,
—republican, 104, democrat, 4. On the
island are located the government granite
wotks, under the superintendence of Davis
1 illson, formerly a republican sta’e official
On the IClb instant, l>e called his men to
gether and significantly advised them to
vote the republican ticket—"those who did
not must xeep away from him.”
Wa are sorry to hear that President Grant
has of late been drinking harder than usual.
Probably it Is only one of his third-term
moveaients. The harder he drinks and the
more intense his drunken frolics, the more
confidently he reckons upon the support of
temperance men. A letter from Vice-Pres
ident Wilson, certifying thst Grant prac
Uses total abstinence, will so n be in order.
-N. Y. Ban.
They say that these are the reasons Prince
Gortschokoff gave to Princess Lieven why
he could cot see Gambetta:—“Th*s some
time dictator wishes, I suppose, to talk with
me about European politics, and particu
larly about Ueizegoriaa; a delicate subject
if there is one, and one that above a'l calls
for a pretise knowledge of the country and
iu geography. Now geography is M. Gam-
betta’s weak point Five years ago his geo
graphical ignorance was ludicrious.
did not know there were two Epernars in
the neighborhood of Paris; and it is scarcely
possible that in the meantime he hss satis'
factority studied the gergrephy of Herzego
vina Before we could discuss the sutject,
therefore, I would be compelled to give
him a course in geography, and for that
Mr. James Lick has settled upon Mount
Hamilton, In Santa Clara county, as a desi
rable place to build the California obser-
Tatary,which is to con’oln the largest teles
cope in the wcrld. The amount set apart
for this purpose in his bequest Is $800,000.
He has proposed to the eupei visor cf Santa
Clara county to place the observatory on
Mount Hamilton, provided they will build a
good road to the summit. If they desire it,
he offers to advance the county money for
the work anduke its bonds In pijment.
Old abolitionists will no doubt be shocked
to learn that there is now a gang of negro
serviuts working without pay on the plan
tation of a white min in South Caroika.
Not lo: g ago Dr. Hagood, of Blackville, in
that state, lost his mansion by fire, aud hl3
former slaves, some thirty in number, have
volunteered their services to cut timber for
the erection of a new dwelling. They are
cow working gaily ou tbtlr old master’s
plantation, without money aud without
price, and are happier than they h ve been
before for a dozen years.
The observations of a learned judge of
th3 supreme court of the United States in
the case cf Osborne agt. the bank of the
United S ates, 9 Wheat. 866, may fittingly
be cngiaved on the dess of every judge, as
embodying the principles to guide him Io
the discharge of his judicial functions:
The judicial department of the govern
ment has no will in any case Judicial pow
er, as contradistinguished from th5 power
of the ltw, has no existence, courts are the
mere instruments of the law, and can will
nothing. When they arc eaid to exercise
a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, to
be exercised in discerning the course pre
scribed by the law; aud when that is dis
cerned, it is the duty of the court to follow
it. Judicial ioarer is never exercised Tor
the purpose of giving effect to the will of
the judge, but always for > he purpose of g v-
ingeffect to the will of the legislature, or,
in other word?, to the will of the Iaw.”
In Germany they have printed 52,709,000
blanks upon which the returns are to b?
made for th? censu?, »he taking of which
begins December 1.
The rebclliou agaiust the gollen calf
which has broken out lu the state of New'
o;k may yet cost Mr. Samuel Tilden hi?
political head.—[Cincinnati Commercial.
Francis Dear, who was at one time so
seriously ill, has so far recovered as to be
able to resume his seat in the Hungarian
parliament, and to take p -rt lu the debates
TnE sword surrendered by Napoleon III
to Emperor Wi.l'am at Sedan was delivered,
Strasburg piper states, to Gen. Cistlcnau
by Prince Bismarck iu 1871.
Senator Boctwell’s stay in Ohio was
very brief. He is back at bis home in Mas
sachusetts again, and the third term has not
single man among all the republican ora
tors in Ohio to say a kind word for it.
It is supposed that the widow and daught-
• of 8tonewa!l Jackson will be the guests
of the sta’e or city on the occasion of the
unreiling of the statue of Jackson on the
26th of October.— (Richmond Dispatch.
Clevela.-»p Plain Dealer: That was an
apt saying of a prominent German of this
city, In reply to the iuterrogatory, "Will
Carl Schurz hurt the democratic party by
coming to Ohio?’’ "No,” said the German,
Governor Allen has a better stamper for
Ohio than ScLurz. and his name Is ’Hard
Times!’”
Jake sauntered up and joined the bands
at the depot, just- as they had seated theu>-
Mr. Delino could have acquired a goed selves on the platform to munch their din-
reputation by cimpcldng the ^ovciament
De TROBRIAND.
A Talk with “the Man of 4th t f
January” at New Orleans.
Prospects of Leuisiena and >cmr<
thing About the Mississippi
Css*.
Gee. DsTrobiiind, ot tbe United Site,
army, whose name was prominently before
the country durirg the troub'es, had tb • as
sembling of the Louisiana legisla ure, was
at the Kimball House on Tuesday cveuing.
He slopped over a night only, being en r jute
to Athens, where he has relatives wh« ra 1 e
ia visiting for the first time in his life. A
reporter of Tue Constitution met Urn
after supper, and during a desultory con
versation gathered the following interes lug
facts, which’ were stated br the General,
probably without any purpose of publi.n-
tton.
TBS LOUISIANA FROSFKCT.
From the General welearne l that Louis
iana affairs are at a stand-still politically,
with the exception of the trouble a* Uing
upon the school question. The affairs of the
stare are now proceeding under the faun us
com promise,aud no distur auce of the rt u-
a.iou la like y to occur. The receul changes
iu the complexion of the lower house of c >u-
grets has iu-p re>1 the peo. le wi h hope of a
better 6ta:c of affairs ahead and th*y are not
so discontented os formerly
Business affai.saretnati-rribL’Strait. The
city of New Orlea* s is greatly troubled with
its finances and the taxation amounts vir
tually to confiscation. When the people
who have true Interests lathe state get con
trol of 1*6 aiTair-, a wouderful revival of
spirits cud material progress may be !o. ked
Mi-s:ssirn affairs.
Our reporter asked the general oncer*
ing the latr troubles in Mississippi, and the
reply was that th-y were greatly magnified
and that ‘.here was not the shadow of a
came for the U6e of troops.”
aa was d -maudefi by Gov. Ames. The gen
eral said there was no more disagreeable
duty to the s* Idlers than to have to engage
In these affaire, wh* -h, of late, have bec ome
so c) mon. “But now,” said he, "that
sort of business D about done wita. The
Even President Grant said oo.
With reference to the result of
TUE COMING ELECTION
in Mississippi, the gene al, (who is now • a-
ttoned at Ho ly Springs,) could not speak
dcfiuPely, of course. He eschews all con
nection with politics bit knows that there
is a wide breach in the republican par:y,
one tide represented by the Ames
faction and the other ny the followers of
ex-Seuator Pease. The general evidently
thinks a (barge is needed there, and the
government shoul 1 go icto the bands cf the
teal people of the state.
SENATOR GORDON.
Gen. DeT-obriand inet Senator John B
Gordon, of this state, upon his recent trip
to Misslsrtppi. He says that Gen. Gordou’s
speech is high’y commended by the be*t
men of both'ways of political walking, be
cause of its lofty atd manly sentinents. He
thinks Gen Gordon is a wise statesman, and
that his views are decidedly the best ones
for tbe southern people to follow out at this
ime.
We gleaned many other interesting facts
from the general,; but he Is in such a posi
tion as to make it doubtful to us whether
we would do him right in directing atten
tion to his views and fair, honest statements,
■ we reluctantly omit to mention them.
LITTLE ALECK.
An Independent Colored Voter
Wants Him for President.
He Thinks Mr. Stephens a Nol.le Pa
triot Who Should he the
Peopl-.’s Candidate
for 1370.
Collecting Hia Debt.
torn out that he had Inter have remained have neither taient cor taste. It ii better,
js hi, native land."’ I therefore, not to eee him.”
agents to deal honestly. But be has cho:
cn to let the f ran Is go on. lie will go out
of office with a dunsged reputation. Bis
fault is letting the knaves and thieves con
tinue to steal. He neglects his business. He
Is an inefficient nobody.—[Troy Whig (Rep.)
A dispatch from L’t’le Rock last night
states that the 6tate board of dna ce of Ar
kansas bas aff cted a loan of macey suffic
ient to pay the expenses of ths state gov
ernment from the first of July of the present
year to the first ef July, 18T6. This loan is
subject fo ratification by the general as
sembly, which mccti on tli • first of Novem
ber.
An old toper 6tood in the door of a Mich
igan Gra'd aven re saloon yesterday and
saw four or five men emptying their glasses,
and hearing a great sigh h» askadof the
bar tender: "How long ’fore Lection?”
‘Six or sevei weeks,” was the answer.
‘So long! I s’pose I’ll hive to stand it, bu‘.
it’s hard.”—Free Press.
Tue American col’ege ts ihe home of
Cardinal McClcak«*y while he remains in
Rome. TMs college was established about
ftxtren years ago, the pope giving the
grounds and building. Bishop Corrigan, of
Newark, N. J., and the U:v. Charles O’Con
nor, lector of the seminary at Ph ladel, hUi
e among ita graduates.
It is aslgniffic^nt fact that the Yazoo dis
turbance arose because of the efforts of
white man to protect a negro in his right to
speak. The w’hite man was shot at for this
offen*e. It is also significant that there
were 200 negroes present and their present
carpetbag leaders, 6 or 7 In number—and
only 8 or 9 democrats, and only 4 of them
armed.—[Canton (Mississippi) Mall.
Sam Bard proposes that his paper, the
Alabama State Journal, (hall never indulge
iu personalities which he considers "ihe
blighting, withering curse of American
journalism.” Samuel’s decision on that
point shows him possessed of all the cau
tion and wisdom necessa-y t j the peaceful
existence of a man who dwells within a
house of glass.—[Chicago Inter-Ocean.
According to the Chicago Tribune,
President Grant intends to make that city
his permanent home "immediately upon
the expiration of his t .rm of office.” HU
proposed sale of hU 8t. Lauis property hath
this Intent. The Tribune saye: "He U
natu^atiy desirous ot adjusting his affairs
beforehand, and thus, as for as possible, be
spared the necessity of making trips across
the bridge.” it would seem from this that
Grant bos abandoned all hopes of a third-
term—but he hasn’t.
Tue census returns of LouieUno, which
show an entire colored population ot 450,
611 to 494,910 while?, are pronounced by
the Picayune a "gUantlc fraud” that the
members of the legislature must be prepar
ed to meet and expose at the next sext ses
sion. It is very clear that an apportionment
based upon thia census, from which, it is
stid, thousands of white people in New
Orleans, and doubtless elsewhere, were ex
cluded, would work a gross and intolerable
injustice to the defrauded conservatUm of
the sta’e.
Gov. Gaston, cf Massachusetts, Is a de
cided second-termite. In 1854 he was elect
ed a member of tbe s*ate legislature, and
was again returned in 1556. In 1861 he be-
mayor of Roxbury, and was re-elected
at the expiration of his first term. In 1870
he became mayor of Boston, and was the
successful candidate also at the next elec
tion. In 1874 he was elected governor of
the state, and is now the democratic nomi
nee again. Ihedefe-tof Charles Fronds
Adams in the Massachusetts state republi
can convention, yesterday, makes Gov.
Gaston’s re-election a matter of almos! ab
solute certainty.
Mr. Gladstone’s good physical health,
which has erabiel him to per’orm so
ls-ge sn amount of mental labor. Is gained,
it appears, by vigorous exercise. A Liver
pool paper says that two hours before tbe
meeting at Hawardeo, England, where he
made an addres?, "Mi. Gladstone was en
gaged in his favori’e exercise of felling
trees. For a portion of two days he bas
been wielding the ax upon a large tree in
the lane at the outskirta of Uawardez vil
lage, and he succeeded in bringing it to the
ground late yesterday afternoon. Those
who saw him say he went to work in tbe
woodman fashion, with his braces thrown
off behind him and bis shirt-collar ul-
fas*ene*. After completing h*s task be
walked home with his ax along over his
shoulder, aud two hours afterward was at
"Jake,” said one old darkey to tbe new
comer; “Jake, why alnt yer wu’kln* ’round
hyar somewhar ? Ef j er don’t git at It p lr-
‘ soott l wou’t see yer at de circus.”
‘ Don’t yer fret yerseP, honey; IM be
dar!”
Yer can’t g*rt In, child; crawl in’ In uuder
de canvias is played out!”
" 1*11 jist bet you two dollars and a haf
dat 1 gits in!” said Jake, with overwhelm
ing indignation.
“ Stack yer scads, boy!” said the old man,
as he drew out a leather purse.
Jake drew out a roll of shtaploster?. The
old man eyed them a moment, aud then
crawled down off the p'ttform, re nark
ing:
‘ Look hyar, nigger ! yer pay me dat dol
lar whar you owe me! Lay her right down
hyar in dis bau’, er I’ll light into yer and
make yer tiuk yer done bin to de circus aud
wus chawed up an* spit out by de elim
phlnt!”
Jake reluctantly paid the dollar and hur
ried off, whl e the old mau resumed his seat,
saying:
" Ize de pizencat sort of a nigger, I Is.’
Preparing a Funeral.
Jimmie stood up beb!nd his sire ard af
fectionately rubbed the bald apex of
man’s head. After a while he said:
"Pap, don’t vou use none of that b dr In-
▼inegarator, if mother fetches it ’round
here.”
"What’a that, sir? What do you say,
young man ?'* said the old sport excitedly.
"Why,” said Jimmie, “mother wuz road
ie’in Tue Constitution this mornin* that
bald-heady peoples nwer died with Iher
consumption, and she said she’d raise a
o* hair on your hr&d ’fore next spring
toak all the Invinegarator iu town to do it.
I reckon she wonts you to have the con
sumption, don’t she?”
"Of course she doesl Why not? But
I’ll fix her, I will! By the jumpia Jupiter,
nary hair ’ll grow on my he»a from now
till Gabriel blows, If 1 have to scrub it
with salt and a corn-cob five times a
day!
Here’s a quarter, Jimmie, and don’t you
everforgit that your mother can’t git the
deadwood on this rooster V 9 and he went
down town in a gallop that was anything
but consumptive.
Be!^w will be found an interesting eon-
versrtion had between one of the reporters
of Tue Constitution and ajoung cul ired
man ot this city, who has but recently at
tained his tun J >< it v. The young man is
bright coloreJ, intelligent, more thou ordi-
rarely educated aud U& constant reader oL
the cu; rent literature of the day.. He seems*
to have an especial liking for political resil
ing and devours eagerly the reports and
comments contained in the 11’y journals and
New York pa «rs. He is a Georgia-*, and
fs at present etiq lojed at the heal of ot© of
the serving departments cf the Kimball
House, ihe reporter, duriug a abort talk
with this parly, asked lilm «be following
questions and received the answers an
nexed.
AN INDEPENDENT VOTER.
Reporter—Wtut party do you expect to
vote wi‘h?
Ans —Aa I have just come lo be a vo-
ter, 1 cau*.be cousiUescito have belong©*
to any patty now. And, iu looking around
I am ra her (tbpoa.nl to believe that tb i bent
policy ia to be tudependeut and at-1 on the
line in irked t*y C iri Schutz in the speech
he made ia New York, before going u* Eu
rope.
ms choice tor president.
Reporter.—^Wh> is your ch >Kc f >r i ice-
iiientin 1876?
Ans.—1 should say that. 1 have no choice,
except, that he shou d be an hone t and pa
triotic man. But it 1 am at-ked who 1 would
1 kc to eee made president, I believe the
PeopVs choice aul mine as well, would be
the Hon. Alexander 11 Stephen?, o! this
state.
Reporter —“ bat souuds queer, to say
the least! Why do you favor him ?
Asa.—I shall answer you that question
very frankly and candidly. It Is because I
think th.it the political situation ef ihe coun
try and Us emergencies dernacd
A WISE AND TRIED STATESMAN
in the presidential office. Jt seeius ‘one
\ hat a statesman who is respected for his
pure patriotism by the northern people, aud
who fully uuders'auda the southern pi op!**,
w. aid be the best character oi man for the
e.fiice at this ti u«*, a:.d such a man. In my
opinion, is Alex rteph ns No truer pa riot
and lover of h s country and fraternity in
the union has lived siucc t c day6 of
Adam«, Moa oc, Jeffe.a >u and Clay, than
this noble son of Ge >rgiA. 1 tnay be in error,
but after conrtl ring iu my own way the
abilities of all the men 1 have seen turn d
for the office, I cau’t help but think that the
country could mak* many (worse
choices than taking Mr. Stephens as its
next president.
THE COLORED VOTE.
Reporter—Do you believe that many
colored men would vote for him?
Ass.—That is a question undecided In my
tnied, as certain * ircutns’ances might inter
fere to control tbeir actions, yet I ihhilc a
ve y Urge number of them would give this
patriotic mau a very heavy vote. I am in-
tPned to think that all who know him would
ally to his support n spite of any influence
against him. As alaboring man, if Alex
S epheus was nommated for pnsidiut, I
would go out au«l stump the s are for him
or go and speak his claims tithe c lorcd
pcoplr anywhere in the nulon. I would
advocate him because I believe he c >uld
trie the differences bciwee i the sections
and harmonize the peop e as th y were
long before the war.
TUE PEOPLE’S CANDIDATE.
Reporter.-Which p*rty do you think
should norr'natc him?—or do ou think he
should be an independ n». candidate?
Ans.—That quest ion I can’t presume to
answer very advisedly
1 rat.icr ttiiuk he should be ombined
upon as the People’s candidate, and that
of bo* h parties should give him their
. o.t for the chief in.igi.Ntra* y o? the
country. In the name of mere y, let us for
once give the honor to some one to whom
it is due! Beside?, we people in the south
bave not had a presided, except from l'en-
neiece, for tnirty years, and Geo.gin. has
not even had a viee-presidtnt 1 think that
thia is a poor “Empire State of the South”
when she can’t; reduce a president once in
the course of a bund cd years! 1 am for
the south’s having tbe next president and
believe tbey sho ild insist ou Aleck Ste
phens and nave no one else but him.
The young man was quite enthusiastic
for Stephens aud urged ether reasons for
h's selection os our Lext candidate, but the
above are the salient features of thr con
versation, which is commended t> the
reader, if for nothing else, certainly for its
novelty.
THE DOWN GRADE.
A Positive Disadvtiutage.
“Marec John, gimme four bits, plense sir;
you aint treated* dis nigger sencc de war,”
said SI to .the son of his old owner, yeeter-
“Wbat do you want with it, Si?” queried
young man.
Want ter go to de cl cut, Marse John.
You knows how a nigger isl”
"But, SI. fifty cents wont ta’reyou in now.
The civil rights bill m ‘de yon as gobd as a
white min at the shows-and you’ll havj to
pay a dollar as I do.”
“Is dat de truf, Marse John?”
"Just os true as preaching?'*
SI scratched his head for a full minute,
then looked up with mournful eyes an<
said:
Dar it Is agin! 1 tole dem niggers dey
was spilen dc horn when dey Ranted d*m
sibil right", and hyar’s de truf of it pi’nt
blank! 1 alius wuz a mighty up-spokin
nigger, ez you knows, Marse Joan, and
’twixt us I fay dam de sibil rights, spe&hilly
when de circus Is around !’*
Si got his four bits, but he’s mad yet.
The yoet is getting into the campa’gn
Here is his last:
John Jones he is a banker bold,
A banker bold is he;
He put his money Into bonds
And got his currency.
He pays no taxes, keeps no poor,
Nor helps our schools along;
He sits and clips his gold coupons,
And groweth ric? by storm.
Is John Jones any better man
Than Thomas Smith or me,
That he should get his pay in gold,
And us in currency ?
[The rates of postage no further back
than 1836, when compared with the present
rates, show how we are getting along in the
matter of progress. In 1835 the rate
postage on letters from Schenectady to A!
bany, Troy, Cohoes, and all near surround
ing places, was 7# cents per letter; from
cheoectady to New York, 18# cents; to all
places over 3.0 miles distant, 25 cents. At
that time there were no envelopes, and the
foolscap used was folded up in letter shape
and the address wr'ten on the outside,
the letter contained two sheets of paper the
poaV-ge was doubled, acd tripled if three
sheets were used, and so on. Charging ac
cording to weight cams into use when en
velopes were introduced, which was about
thir y years ?go.—Schenectady Union.
Toe meanest kind of a ring is one that
preys upon moneys dev j*ed to tbe free
education of tbe po*>r. Louisiana has
got one of ths meanest kind. $678,973
are annually filtered through a great
number of official pockets, until only
very small share of it reaches the poor
the meeting, looking not tired and weary, [ little school house ana the half starved
hut quite refreshed with bis bodily labor.” teacher.
Probabilities of the Course of Cotton
Given l»T Expert?.
Yesterday a reporter of The Constitu
tion was s'aitled by the emphatic way ia
which a planter from the country ex
claimed :
‘I’ll jist be dsd rotted cf I don’t b’lieve
cotton is going »o tumble down to a dime
pound ’foie ten dajs!”
This was a II tie closer flouring than the
repo*ter had lizard of before, and gave him
the idei of IcAruiug from some of our lead-
Ine dealers In the tuple what views of the
matter they had. The re ult Is herewith
given.
c u st oso.
of the exrensive firm of C. H. S’rong & Co.,
id:
"My not'ou la that cotton will
reach a lower point than
now. I do not think, with
some other ireuons, that it w ill drop as low
ten cent?, but I do believe that it will
come down to eleven cents for middlings.
It may reach tt^U figure within the next two
weeks, and from that will fluctuate slight
ly during the largar p rtof the s'ason.
The crop may rea.-h up to 4,250,001 bale?.
that Is the extreme limit, bit I «.hink it far
more likely to be just about 4,0.9,00) bales.
The crop in the country Imme 1 lately tribu
tary to Atlanta, has fal.cn off some 15 or 2C
per cent, from last year. This gives the
olauters ou idea that there ia a short crop
all over the country, which Is a grave mis
take. The disposition among the planters
Is adverse to selling, even at prerent pi Ice?,
I think, although many of them are stcing
that tbe course of cotton ia not likely to be
upward for some time to come, and a«e
willing to sell at tbe highest prices of tbe
present market.”
. g. BLOUNT,
ot the well known house of Hurt. Biouct
& Co., raid:
"As far as the prices ofcotton arc concern
ed, I don’t think tbey have touched bottom
yet. There is not much prospect ahead,
either, for high prices this season. Still J
don’t look for middling cotton to go below
II cents per pound at any time, but I think
itwll reaili that figure in the course o ?
thirty days. It will hardly vary from that
point greatly duriegths continuance of the
KCa ¥he prospects of the cror # *so far as wc
can learn, are g »od tor about 4,000,000 bales.
That is our miximum estimate of Its po»i-
billtlcs. The disposition among planter* is
growing in favor of selling, rathe tbau
holding on, as they are getting afraid of still
lover price*. OrJinarily they have held ou
for higher pr iccs.but this year they have read
so much about failures and the scarcity oi
money that they are a little alarmed over the
out’ook. and regard with favor the present
prices.”
ozo. w. tarrott,
senior of the large firm c-f G. W. Parrott &
Bro., said:
"'the crop, from the best information that
we have been able to guh ;r, Is about fif
teen percent, short in tbe country that is
—A family of seven members, five of
whom were hare-lipped, recently passed
thiongh Nashville, Term.
—Already some $6,000 have been sub
scribed to the memorial fund for Captain
Webb. The money will be invested for
for his benefit.
— M’darac N ilsson’s voice is all right
and the man who set afloat the story thrt
it sounded like a sheep bell won’t receive
any complimentary tickets when she re
turns to America.
—Nothing is so discouraging to a young
lawyer just as he waxes eloquent about
angel’s tears, wccp’ng willows, and tomb
stones as to be interrupted by the cold
blooded justice with, "You’re oft your
nest bub; this is a case of hog stealing.' 1
—A Richmond man will exhibit at the
centennial the whole process of manu
facturing tobacco from tho leaf to the
[>lug; and thousands will at the same
time and place practically illustrate what
is done with' the jlugs afterwards.
—They knfght a man for almost any
thing in England. They propose now to
make Capt. Webb a baronet for swim
ming acresi the channel, lie will be a
Knight of the Bath, of course.
—Tho expressing of dead Chinese
from California to China has become a
thrifty freight business. Each one, when
living, keeps constantly on hand his
coffin, duly labeled ami at reeled to desti
nation. This peculiar p’ai doe* away
with the skeleton in ihe closet snd the
necessity of wanting parsanr.
—I rauce does not love Bismarck, but
she claims his father as tier own on the
strength of the Get that he fought under
the French cobra ul the Moskwa, at
Bcresina, ami was decorated with the
Legion of lloaor at the battle of Baut
zen. II ii came under the French colors
uaturally enough, too. He was in the
service of the King of Wurtemburg at
the time when Napoleon absorbed all the
loose Ucrrcau forces.
—The new boot iu Paris which ladies
arc looking forward to with eagerness is
the Pompeiian. It is of black velvet and
very high; tho legging ia front all Vene
tian cut work, embroidered with a tiny
silver cord. The pink, red or scarlet
Pompeiian silk sleeking is thus sceu
through tho open clover or diamond-
shaped pattern. Plain stockings of deci
ded high colors are all clocked on tho
edges of the feet and around the ankles
ia white silk, or some strongly contrast
ing color.—[Paris Corrcsponcnco.
—That very mis tide vou* person, I)r.
Holland is uow trying to get people to
establish colleges for young men, so that
the fair ones may become college gradu
ates like young men, and know just as
much. Such colleges might amount to
something, but really the world is as yet
unprepared to exchange its Mamies and
Jennies and Lotties and Lilies for a raft
of J. Marys and W. Jane* and P. Char
lottes and W. Lilians who would scrawl
tlieir names in Latin while at school and
write them in the middle forever after.
It is possible to displace pin-hacks and
poodles with more enduring follies.
—Germany has twenty one universities,
the principal ones being Lcipsic, Berlin,
and Heidelberg, Leipsic has always be
tween 2,000 and 2,500 students, about
200 or 300 studying chemistry. Berlin
has between 1,5 0 and 2,000 students,
about 200 studying chemistry. Ileidel-
burg bas about 1,000 students, of whom
about 100 study chemistry. There arc
also nine large polytechnic schools, tho
two largest being at Muncben and Stutt
gart; many, private laboratories tbe larg
est in Germany being at Wcisbaden, with
about ninety students under Professor
Frisenius.
—The Princess Domenico Ciarelli was
left a widow with two sons, and the cider
died. Almost crazy with grief, the Prin
cess was ready to fight the men who
brought the coffin, and protested they
should not cany away the boy. In an
interval of cam the younger brother,
left alone with the body and the coffin,
resolved to cheat the men and help his
mother to keep Domenico. He hid the
corpse in a closet and got in the coffin
himself. He was carried to the church
without discovery, but at tbe church,
nearly suffocated, be groaned, and the
coffin was opened, but be died in a little
while. Now the mother is dead. All
this iu Paris only the other day.
A BOB-TAILED NUISANCE.
Dog that Inlc-r.s Peachtree Street.
Bob-tolled dogs ore great nuisances in
general, but there is a particular bob-tolled
dog u hole feats Peachtice street, and who
has done more to inculcate cussing, and
stir up wrath,than all the other trials of that
! ocalh y pat to-ether. Where that dog
came l.om nobody know?. He appeared
suddenly oue night on that street, and has
sttid th e ever sluce. He is a dog of very
low degree, and his miserable apology for a
tail la ici v-r hanging down, with on ex-
cssion o. utter fo~saki*fuIness and misery,
e cau b: A any dog of his size In the city
whining, ut’ i -n devour more In one night
thou would support six respectable dogs a
mouth. lie *« always turning up where he
not wanted. It an elderly gentleman is
returning home late at night, and thinking
about anyt•■log but a bob-tailed dog, he
will suddenly
RUN AOITNST SOMETHING SOFT,
lying perhapj ou the sidewa k, and the next
tiling that gcatlema i knows, there wiU be a
place fora pitch In the leg of his best
breeches, aid hois lucky if his skin don’t
need patching also. Bricks do not do any
good under ihc«s clrcumsreuces, for that
dog is familiar with them from
early iufancy, and no matter how
energetically they may bo thrown the ex
treme end of his toil will disappear over a
fence, just a few feet ahead of the front
eud of the b: ick. So the elderly gentleman
goes on h!s wny ao acing himself with the
reflection ot what he would do if he was a
b-usage facto y, and that dog was to come
withiu reach. If a young lady is coming
along tbe street with her beau, and listen
ing tp such nonsense as the occasion may
inspire, that wretched brute is bound to he
tributary to Atlanta, from the crop of last
year. The general crop, on the other hand
promises to be larger than last year, aud
wi 1 reach posoibly, 4,000.000 boles.
"The price of cott.n is low, but it wil’ be
lower. If the trsd< could have a fair de
mand for cotton goods, then I think wc
bave touched tbe bottom figure, but there
no promise of thia snd we are bound to a
lower prices, especially for lower g ales, <
staying cotton. I think we will te; what we
call clean staying cottons e* fling for a cent
a pound less than now. Middlings a ill come
down to 11 eeuta, bat 1 do not look for it tc
go lower. Some s y it will drop to 10 cents,
bat I do eot think so. Bat from the
cents point I
same there will be much
change until after the flrrt of January rext.
It may reach thia pries ot 11 cents within
the next 29 days.
"A s to the dlspos'tioo of the planters
sell, we are disappointed bee at Atlanta .
our receipts. We thought that before h
It. of October our receipts world av*
COO bales dally, hut row they hare
come up to soms 2'.0 or 39) bales per da/
TbU may be due somewhat to the b i
weather. Our receipts will not >■ uffer great
ly, however, for many who con afford it will
store their cotton here and await a favora
ble market. O it banks are better able thb-
3ear o carry cotton than for several yean-
post, and 1 expect a great deal of cotton
will be ueated la thia way.”
Ths above views are eminently worthy
consideration, and are of peculi r Interest
to cotton producers,
laying (n wait behind some unexpected cor
ner, and rush forward with a series of
blood curdling howls. The consequence is
that love is knocked into a cocked hat for
that night, and the couple latd in tbe mid
dle of tnc street iu a faiuiing condition, ard
while the young mania reaching for his pis
tol, the dog la departing around another
comer wagging the two inches of his tail
with evervIndication of Intense delight. If
any lady &as a pet cut, and that cat should
happen to stray out of u n gbt on a courting
or fighting expedition, and that dog should
happen to pass that way, there will be
X CAT FUNERAL
that house the next day, and it will
hard work for the distressed
family to find enough pieces to fill a small
sized sardine box. The appetite of the
brute is not at ail delicate, lie will devour
anything from a shirt pulled down from a
clothes line to an o!d shoe tossed at him
from a second story window, and then he
won’t beg.n to be filled. Poison don’t pro
duce any effect on his constitution: His
voice is anjthiD*' but musical, and nothing
n afford that (log more satisfaction than
_ get under a rich person’s window, and
bawl a*rav until dav break*
The other night after performing aw ay for
about three hours, an agonized citizen con
cluded be would try what virtue tbeie was
in a gallon or so of belling water emptied
from bis bed room window. lie did try it.
He couldn’t sec in tbe darkness exactly
which way to empty, and the consequence
was he boiled one of h's own niggers who
was tr\ing to creep around the bouse with
'cets full of bricks. How to get
,t bob-tailed dog is now the princi
pal question with the people of that street;
The ocst plan that bas been so far suggested
•s to luducc him to swal'ow a small bomb
shell, enclosed In a few pounds of beef and
then touch h m off with a alow match that
has bcctrt carefully lai-L We are afraid
that It won’t hurt him very much. If It isn’t
there won’t be any religion left oa Peach
tree strict in another^ onth.
Wc Don’t Care.
Some dealers say: Yes, we know that Dr
Price’s Flavoring Extracts and Cream
B.ktng Powders arc the best, but we don’t
core if others are made of sawdust or
arss ic f o long as they suit our customers
sod afford us a better profit, we thsll sell
them. The public should know these
things, and know too the reasons why
adulterated bakiir; powders and flavoring
axt act* are recommended by 6uch dealers
when Dr. Price’s are asked for. It ia be
cause Dr. Trice’s cort more, and as they
sell them at about tbe same price as others,
tt does not gkre so good a profit. We should
look to the quality ot articles that cuter
into daily food, and remember that tie
makers of good goods cannot put them into
the market at the same price of the adulter
ated ones. Steel & Price, manufacturers.
sep25—dsat-?un-tn»«>»b nr& wit
Mant persons, who have gone to tbe
very brink of tne g.avc b.youd the old line
that W's once the limit of hope, who have
set ths r houses In order ana taken a sad
eaveof tlieir families and friends, ave
eea brought back to rife and vigorous
Lealth by the pertistent use of the cele-
trat^d Home Stomtch Bitters. __
sep2L—dSUwJfcwlt