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By W. A. HEMPHILL & CO.
ATLANTA, GEOBGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY, NOYENfBER 23, 1875.
No. 23, Volume Till
K DU CATION AL.
A complete copj of Use report
of Uie commlmlooer of Use buret?
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which give* the per capita rate of expen
diture* during the past year.
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The figures pat ui it ila foot of the
folder, and the figure* do not mlsrepre-
**nt u», wc regret to Wale. On the
e< nlra-y, we are assured by Comml'icon
erOrr Uiat Instead of paying sixty eight
rent* n bead lait year for public educa
tion, the Kmpire State of the south only
rnid sixty five cent* a head. Facts arc
farts, and it is best that wc should know
how little wc arc comparatively doing
towards educating our people. Wc arc
absolutely the (lowest state in the mat
ter of creating intelligent citizens to rule
after our own labors are finished. Geor
gians. >• this right? Is this good policy?
Commissioner Katon puts the number
of teachers in the public schools at 241,-
of whom 120,000 arc women. The
highest reported salaries arc paid in the
Cherokee Nation, when men teachers
get $225, and women $200 a month.
The rate descends until wo reM;Il jfew
Mexico, which pay* only $26.28 a
month. The salariea of the teachers for
tlio year reach the enormous aggrrgste of
$47,028,668.
The report shows there are 336 col-
I grs and univenities, that are attended
by about 30,000 students. The number
of students in achoolaof su|ierior instruc
tion for women was 17,255. There arc
20!) Institutions of that grade for girls
managed by 2,120 teachers. Georgia
heads the list with eighteen of these in
stitutions, New York, Fcnzsylvaeia and
Kentucky coming In succession, with
sixteen each. In colleges Ohio
take the lead of all, as she has thirty-
four. In theological seminsrirs the
Catholiea lead with eighteen, then come
the Baptist* with sixteen, the Presbyte
rians with fifteen, the Lutherans wilb
thirteen, acel the Kpiieojialians with
twelve.
A glance at the whole educational sit
uation is suMcicnl to convince even the
skeptic that considerable ground was
gained in the- past year. A revival of
buslntsswilf again fill our colleges and
higher schools—In short, will lead to a
revival in education.
Tine secretary of the treasury has just
issued twu calls for tbe redemption of
bonds, aggregating $17,785,350. This
Winds up the five-1 wentlea of 1864, and
completes the subscription for fire nun-
drx-d millions of tbe new five per cents
Tlic last call also includes neatly two
milllonaof tbe five twenlbsof 1865. It
does not appear probable that anything
can at presentb.’ done with the four and
a half per cent, bonds, and It is for con
great to say whether they will allow a
fur.her sum to be placed at five per cent,
or writ until the money market in
r.uropv shall make it possible to get oil
tlio four and a hall per rent bonds at
par. Probably no effort will be made
w itb the four and a half per cent, bonds
until the details of tlic last transaction
aro compute.
A WxstrncoTos special rays the pres
ident has spoken again, and iu ratio r
more definite terms than he Lad hereto
fore ventured to employ in commenting
upon his chances for a second re-election.
Since his return from New York he has
been overwhelmed with callers at the
White House. As a general thing these
visitors bare coo lined their conversation
to compliments and to paying respects,
but some of the .more zealous have touch
ed upon the ipicatiou of the next prej-
deacy. One gentleman of an emliusiao-
tic turn of mind allowed his remarks to
go even os for as the subject of the third
term. "Mr. President," said he,
result of the elections points unmistaka
bly to your renomination and re-election
to the presidency.” The w ords brought
a smile of pleasure to the face of the
president, who responded: "We can't
tell what will happen." llts eves are
sot
Tint November report of the agricul
tural bureau at Washington compares
tbe present cotton crop with that of last
year, and here arc the figures
Estimated
Grot last Bureau Per- crop this
year. rentage.
N. Carolina. 101,715 »l
8. Carolina.. 438,8117 76
tieotgla 603,240 74
Florida 10,282 VO
Alabama 3.0,822 103
WsStMlppIl owl—X 1'1 •
Louisiana. 1 *«••••> 100
Texas :«8,2S8 114
Tennessee * 436.674 1161
VtrgtnU.. « 4.8,114 13i(
OP* COTTON GOODS AMOAD.
The rcnuafcnfal* movement of Ann
con calicoes to the English market coo-
lianas, sqd incress, s M each week rolls
on. The cxporta of domestic cotton lost
wank amounted to $171,M0. of which
$140,000 were for Great Britain. This
1* carrying coals to Newcastle in earnest,
for a Manchester firm has begun to im-
II calicoes, and is well sail
withthCrer n't of its ventures thu* far}
Germany also baa her agents in New
Y<*k and Boston, and a revival on a
broader scale of our ants helium exports
teems to ba to right
This movement is hosed in put on the
superior quality of American goeds,
which ore clew of chalk and other rub
blrh with which the English article is
uniformly weighted. The shrinkage of
our cottoo cloths Is much less t
that of British goods, and this makes
them favorites wherever they we known.
Tbit will aid Iht new movement, which
naily springs from the low prices
that pcwsil at present to our markets.
Brown sheetings i re cheaper now il,an
they were in 1861, prints cloths are as
cheap ax they were to that year,
and middling cotton is worth
two end a quarter ecu's leu than it was
then. The se figures enable us to sell our
surplus abroad at a prefit.
It iaa question, of course, how long
aucb prices will continue. If prices ma'
lerialJy advance to ourmwket the move
ment can not last But there wc msny
business me n who believe that labor will
coaolanlly grow cheaper here. This
view of the situation is certainly sustain
ed by the latett action at Fall River,
where another reduction of ten per cent
on wage* has been voted. There is no
doubt that our heaviest manufacturers
would prefer to sell their surplus at a
small loss to Lnglacd than to sell *t
here at struggling price?, and a consid
erable advance must take place before
all profit would lie destroyed on cottons
shipped to Mat cluster itself.
At present our manufacturers arc com
peting with English goods in England.
This is an unequal fight, for our people
have to pay ocean freights and other
expenses of shipment, and the Manches
ter mill owners do nob The real object
of tbe present movement is to regain our
lost trade with India, Africa, China
ami South America. It is
those markets that wc propose
to take fr„m the English manufacturers.
Our chances of success to those market
arc as good as .Manchester's, and the
lime perhaps has fully come when
American cotton goods will begin to
utscrl themselves in the markets o
tlio wot Id. Unquestionably superior
as our goods we we have oniy to
obtaio a foothold in the foreign markets
to secure a permanent demand.
The New York Times prefers tbe In
dian trade. We take from its elaborate
review of the cotton good* trade tbe fol
lowing facta and figures relative to that
market:
Id India 360,000,000 persons wear cot*
ton clothing, almost to the exclusion of
any other. Of English production is an
nually cousumced £70,000,010 worth.
Tbe English stutT is accepted with de
served distrust. The native buys
ouly because it is low
priced. These natives are ex-
airts to the value of cotton fabrics,
ivery yard of better quality than the
English stuff at a fractional decrease to
price would liw sold at once. Suppose a
venture should be made. MndrejwouKl
be tbe best objective point. No longsea
voyage should Ce undertaken. The route
iliould be by way of the Suez Canal,
and the voyage would not exceed
thirty-live (lays. In ten days me re Uie
goods would be sold, and the hard cash
received to silver rupees, and trans
ferred by cable to New Yoik. Suppose
3,000 package* be shipped. Each case
contains 2,500 yards The coat here, at
say eleven cents, which will liny goods
of the quality of the Fruit of tlic Loom
and the Lonsdale—both admirably
adapted Tor tbe Indian market—would
be $825,000. The new Indian import
duty of five per cent, would be $41,250.
Freight at £8 per ton on a 2,000-ton
steamer (which w ould include canal tolls,
coal, and all charges) would be $80,000.
Landing cbwges, expenses of supercar
go, rent of warehouse, printing, etc.,
would lie covered easily by $50,000. The
total cost, therefore, at outaide
figures would l>e $1196,250, or rather
less than fourteen cents per yard. This
would certainly not fetch leu than an
average price of twenty five cents per
yard, or $1,875,000 in alL Indeed, if
offered at that figure, the great difference
in favor of buyers as against the English
doth would clear out the stock in one
day, and that would mean a net profit of
$978,750. Taking the worst view of the
matter, were sales made of a sufficiently
large quantity at a simple remuneration,
the relief to this market would be equal
to the profits of a year’s business by the
relative effect here of successfully open
ing a field of such vast dimensions.
THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
year.
W.lflO
333 561
446.403
0.S83
326,4516
1,053,491
419,Si:
t.osi.wsa
3,703,508 ... S,763,1?:
oulb'n con-
sumption. 339 493 1
Total crop.3,832,991 3.SWS,UU
Exces* of tbe crop of thl* year over that
of ’sat year, C0,14l.
A GKvrtXMiM to Russell county, Ala-
homo, grows the Chineic tea plant, fine
specimens of which he recently sent
the office < f the Columbus Enquirer. It
is claimed that the tea plant con be
successfully grown around Columbus
os it con to Liberty county. Let Liberty
r REAL ESTATE.
Tbe report of the commissioner of the
general land office shows that 7,070,000
acres were taken cp during the past year
against 9,630,000 acres during tbe previ
ous year. Tbe decrease is attributed to
some degree to drougths, the grasshop
pers an] the general business depression.
Bat tbe commimioner tells tbe whole
truth when he adds that nearly all the
desirable public lands have passed to
private ownership—in other words, the
land-grant railroad grabbers hold
them. lie admits that the full limit of
profitable settlement has been reached.
Tbe government really owns little desira
ble land, its remaining domain, vast
though it be, being afflicted with a lack
of water, and with "a general prevalence
of barren conditions." It is not worth
the cost of surveys
Much of the land held by the land-
grant railroads is also valueless, and the
commissioner direct! attention to the
fact that eonre of them have succeeded in
selling to the aggregate, many thousands
of seres of worthless lauds to immigrants,
under the representation that the soil
wtsvery productive when they knew
that the land was unfit for farming pur
poses. By such false nprescutLtions
the money of poor emigrants bus been
secured, and they arc left without any
means of recovering it bock. The com
missioner desires that this matter may
have the attention of congress, so that
the practice of imposing on immigrants
may be broken up.
The* facts show very conclusively that
the tide of emigration to the northwest
from ihe older northern slates has passed
the limit, and must soon seek other out
lets. Evidence multiplies that it is com
ing to the more genial section of the
country, whe re grasshoppers and hair-
lifters arc unknown. The South news
paper of New York says the change is
becoming an irresistible tide. “Capital
ists,” it says, "of all sections and of
other lands are looking to tlic south us
to the promised land, which in every
wordly sense, if not every other, it is.
Labor looks to tbe same direction, with
the same hope, as it unconsciously re
buking the ignorant malcontents,sophists
and demagogues who affect to ignore
tbe fact that the interests of capital and
labor are one. Tbe best of our northern
people, indulging in the delusions of
hope and comfortably busy during tbe
summer, have aroused from tbe compar
ative indifference incident to present
case, to a new and earnest inquiry and
provision for the future. Wilkin the
last twenty-four hours the inquiries in
this office regarding southern emigration,
concerns the personal hopes and interests
of a score or two of worthy families, be
sides numerous worthy individuals ol
all classes, outside of them. There was
never before such a perpetual and per
sistent “desire to know” everything con
cerning tbe south. Southern colonists,
associations, land-owners and people of
every class should join the whole south
ern press in meeting this desire. Haps,
facts and correspondence must be multi
plied and increased indefinitely. The
interests of the south, the truest* patriot
ism and the broadest ^philanthropy, ate
in this matter. The southern jubilee
is commenced. Let it col be retarded
by tbe indifference of southern Micaw-
bera. More faith, more work*, more
individual endeavor for the general
good!"
HIE KABUN GAP ROAD.
The new constitution was ratified by
not less than 60,000 majority. It was a
glorious victory. Tbe instrument itself
Is an admirable one, protecting as it dees
the rights of all, and cutting off every
unnecessary expense of government.
At Montgomery yesteiday it was thought
that Dallas and Montgomery were the
only counties that htd voted
against ratification. Tbe Advcrti-
that city therefore
bronchi out all of Us chanticleers, four
teen to cumber, to celebrate the tlawn-
ing of abetter day upon a redeemed
state—a thoroughly redeemed state. Wc
congratulate our reader* across the line
on the grand and blessed result. Now
they have only to work and wait to regain
their ohl-timc prosperity.
The radical party was considerably dis
organized in most of tbe counties, but
in some of them at least they employed
very peculiar political tactics. The Co
lumbus Enquirer explains tbe procei
it was developed in the precinct across
river from that ci:y: “The
radicals apposed to the new constitution
mode no canvass of the state, and no
speeches against U. A great deal more
was said and written in iu support by the
radicals who favored it than was said or
written against it by these opposed. Bat
according to common report, the radical
leaders opposed to the constitution ap
pointed a day for a genera] preaching to
all the negro chore tea against iu ratifi
cation. The day selected was Sunday
last—the Sunday before the day of the
election. To tbe iasiroclioot then given
out from the pulpit is attributable
Knoxville is wide awake to the impor
tance of promoting the building of this
road. An adjourned meeting of its
board of trade was held on Tuesday Inst
to consider the report of a committee
appointed at a previous meeting. That
r port is .before us. It enthusiastically
endorses the project, and urges the peo
ple of Knoxville to take steps that will
lead to an early extension of the road to
a point south of ltsbun Gap.
The project looks to a short cut from
Cincinnati to the South Atlantic stales,
and was first mooted in 1935, and has
nevr r since been abandoned. The com
pletion of Cincinnati's southern road will
leave a gup of only 134 miles between
that city and Clayton, Ga., which is
south of the f»j and the point from
which lines are expected to radiate
throughout Georgia and South Carolina.
The road is completed to Maryville about
twenty miles toulh of Knoxville,
and from thence the projected line runs
up the valley of the Little T ennessec to
and through Rabun Gap until it reaches
Clayton to Rabun county. Of tbe un
completed portion thirty-seven miles arc
in Tennessee, eighty in North Carolina,
and seventeen to Georgia.
The proposition before the Knoxville
board of trade cornea from the proprie
tors of the road to Maryville. They of
fer to build a narrow guage rood to Wal-
halls if the city of Knoxville will
agree to pay them fifty thousand
dollars as soon as the road is
completed. Wolholla is twenty-two
miles from Clayton; and the gapbetween
the two points must be filled to order to
tap the railroad system of South Caro
lina.
To reach the Georgia roads a line must
be constructed from Clayton to Belton
on tbe Air-Line road, a distance of forty-
five miles. This, as tbe Knoxville com
mittee rays, would give East Tennessee
a competing line to Atlanta, and the
shortest line to central Georgia and the
Georgia coast in connection with the
Northeastern road. They claim that
it would place Knoxville on the shortest
possible line between tbe northwest and
the south Atlantic ports.
On motion of Mayor Staub a commit
tee was appointed to get a definite pro
position from the proprietors of the road
to Maryville on which they would un
dertake tbe completion of the Ice to
Walhalla. A railroad convention U to
be held in Knoxville on tbe 20th of Jan
uary to consider the subject,
and at this ctnvention i: would be
well to have northeast Georgia and At
lanta well represerted; for Knoxville
means business in connection with tbe
extension of her great trunk liac to meet
the railroad systems of Georgia and
South Carolina.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
This splendid body of men, and of
women too, from every state and territo
ry, met in Louisville on Wednesday, and
are now in session daily. Tbe address of
welcome was delivered fay the master of
the Kentucky state grange. The city
that had been selected as (he headquar
ters of the order should and did warmly
we] como the members of the national
grange. Worthy Master Adams to the
course of his brief reply sakt: “We
mean to have and hold our midway iu
terest on Kentucky soil, and shelter our-
atlvcs under tbeugis o! Kentucky's fame
down the long vista of yean before us
IVtenourord r is cryslalized and em
balmed in the hearts of all iti members,
when tbe grange to every agricultural
neighborhood means os much a muter of
course as the school-house, may it not be
thet this beautiful city by tbe river shall
become till Mecca of all great agricul
turists.”
In his annual address Wor-by Master
Adams says “the order has added an-
otberyear to iu eventful -existence. R
hai stood like a rock against the * buffet-
lag of enemies, and is now looked upon
more and mare as tbe bulwark of its
friends. It to day is stronger to num
bers, more compact to organization,
richer to experience and lies nearer our
hearts than ever before. Over two thou
sand subordinate granges have been or
ganized and two more states have put on
our armor and advanced to the front to
do valiant battle for the good cause."
After referring to the causes that have
led granges here and there to languish
and die, he called the attention of the
delegates to the important matter of lay
tag down some plans hv means of which
subordinate granges may lie able to
aciuse and instruct members so as to
make the meetings full, and tl »i keep
Ibcir present membership and largely
increasc it.
The body of tlic address is devoted to
various proposed change? iu the consti
tution of the national grange. Uis views
on the disputed points are frankly and
clearly staled. Wc have not space this
morning for a synopsis of them, nor is it
necessary to give them, as they arc only
recommendations.
Passing to the location of the hcad-
qtarters in Louisville he urges the use
of the present fund for the erection of
such a building aa shall be consiitcnt
with the convenience and dignify of the
greatest secret society to • *e world. “It
would thus form,” says Mr. Adams, “a
center to which all patrons can look as
the result of their contributions and be
an example ot solid strength that state
and subordinate granges will do well to
emulate. I have yet to learn of the first
failure of a grange which owned and oc
cupied a convenient comfortable and
well-appointed halL No subordinate
grange should be for a moment satisfied
with the situation until it owns a hall
fully [urnishcd,wilh all the conveniences
of a grange room, including musical in
struments and a well selected library.
Such granges never die, but, rooted in
the affections of their members, they will
bestow rich blessings oa agriculture long
after their founders have crossed the dark
river.”
The question* at co -operation, trans
portation and currency are then briefly
discussed; and in conclusion he urged
the members of tbe national grange to
let wisdom, calmness, 'justice and love
characterize their councils, that their
work “may make us stronger os an
order, more prosperous as producers,
dearer friends, and better citizens.”
THE COMING PRINCES.
The emperor of Brazil ia coming to
this conn try next summer, and so is the
Swedish crown prince, and also lha son
of the late Emperor Napoleon; but Fred
erick William, tbe crown prince of an
united Germany, will be apt to excite
more popular than all the
rest of our royal visitors combined.
‘I'naer Fritz," as be is familiarly called
at home, is the only son of the present
emperor of Germany. He la forty four
years old, and his father is seventy
eight. Like his English brother by
marriage, be will probably be many years
in reaching the throne, for the Emperor
William is still a hearty, hale and heal
thy man. The crown. prince will bring
with him to this country his son, who is
to his sixteenth year, and who Is tbe
grandson of Queen Victoria. The blood
of the boy is therefore very blue. In
his pedigree he retches out to the two
proudest families to all the world—the
Guelpbs and Hohenzoilerns. He 1s just
as welcome to democratic America for
all that
The coming of the prince will be the
signal of great ovations la the cities that
he visits, for he well meet millions of
his own countrymen, who have not for
gotten—not a man of them—the father
land. Their new citizenship docs net
prevent them from entertaining a just
pride to the accomplishments of
their race. In all of tae late
achievements of German arms, Fred
erick William played no unimportant
part. He is both a soldier of experience
and a statesman in tbe maturity or his
powers. He is above all else popular
with the people. That popularity will
lie attested in bis coming vuit.
Bis presence at tbe centennial exhibi
tion is nothing more nor less than a well
intended compliment to our people, and
he will do much to enhance
the interest in the great international
festival. Ilis ceming will bind the two
countries closer in the tics of courtesy
and friendship. It will also start anew
the tide of immigration. But all these
results and benefits will ho lost sight of
to the enthusiasm that will greet the
prince in New York and other cities
that contain thousands and tens of thou
sands of his own race. Think of tbe
lager that will be drank in honor of tbo
heir of Frederick the Great.
Tiif. Episcopalians of Illinois will soon
have a bishop sure enough. Dr. Mc
Laren has been approved by thirty-four
standing commuted, and there ia no
doubt of his consecration. Referring to
that event the Chicago Times expresses
its regret that the venerable presiding
bishop, now eighty-one jyears old, will
not, owing to his infirmities, be present,
but will act bv deputy. Bishop Smith
is the lost link between the present gen-
oration of churchmen and Bishop White,
who was consecrated to England in
1787, and was presiding bishop until
1836. lie wax the con-re rotor of Bishop
Smith iu 1832. Next to Bishop Smith
conus Bishop McCloskey, consecrated
iu 1836,and,ta lie ordained Dr. McLaren
both titan n and priest, it seems eminent
ly proper that, in default of Bishop
9mi!li,hc should now advance him to tbe
episcopate.
The secretary of war will, it is said,
recommend to congress the appropria
tion of $59,000 to continue tbo work of
compiling the official reports and mili
tary correspondence ot the war of the
rebellion, in the adju ant general's office.
The work is progressing vigorously un
der charge ot a gentleman of rare quali
ficatioss for the duty, and eighteen vol
umes, of about 500 pages eacb,are al
ready prepared for the press, covering
operations up to the fall of 1962. Tbe
entire work, including the Confederate
record?, will probably make about 75
volumes.
The Massachusetts board of kealtlifur-
nishes the following interesting table of
death-rates:
Estimated
Population.
New York 1X00,000
Philadelphia 775,(XXI
Brookhn 450,000
8:. Louis 400,0.0
Chicago 395,000
Baltimore 350,000
Boston 331,000
Paris 1,851,792
London 3,311,298
Berlin 828,000
Vienna 6(4,306
Bombay 646,616
Calcutta 477,600
27 61
19 54
2t 46
16 27
20 31
21 14
23 00
21 09
21 C4
32 08
31 08
29 e
sad Russell counties join hands to pro. >•»** Totc brou * hl out *«*«-
duce good sample, for the centennial ex- *P lcsl ,hc constitution-brought
kibiiion. U would go for to show wh*: I oal without any previous discussion
tlic two state* are capable of. or organisation—^brought oat
probably without one-fourth of tbe ne
groes ever knowing before Snnday last
thu such a question wot to be voted
epen on Tuesday, and bow they bad to
vole. Thi* mode ot party organization
and discipline shows to wkat as extent
the negro churches of tbe south are a
political machine, and how readily even
the meet sacred occasions are desecrated
to obedience to the bebesu of party.
The radial party of Ihe United State*,
boasting ol its superior morality and in
telligence, may pnde itself epuc such
allies, but it can hardly sustain the claim
to the face of such practices by the
southern wleg of its patty.”
Tur. Pullman palace car company, at
its lste meeting to Chicago, dropped iu
dividend* from twelve to eight per cent,
a year, ia order to pay ol some bonds
that will toon mature. Itt revenue last
year was $2,558,646— pretty good for
travailing lodging houses.- Iu capital
stock amounts to nearly six million dol
lars, chiefly a result of the watering pro
cess. It owes $2,747,000; and owe*
422 cars, beside* $306,340 to the stock of
the Pullman southern car company.
The democrats of the fourth Tennes
see congressional district hare decided
to hold a convention on the 2d of De
cember, when they will nominate a can
didatc to fill the vacancy caused by
Judge Fite's death. Among the candi
dates are Messrs. Golloday, Bailie Pey
ton, Riddle, Stark, Garrett and Seay,
with several precincts to hear from.
These men do not fear to rush to where
two good men and true have fallen with
in a year.
The Cincinnati Enquirer makes ont
this financial problem for congress, which
Tux number of deserters from the l^e NaMivUle Americjm th.nks exactly
army daring the past year war 0,521- the sentiment of itt section.
the number cf rc-cnlisi meets, 2,333. As
contrasted with tbe foTmcr ytxr these
figures show a decrease of one half in
desertions and aa increase of nearly three
tixes in rc-enlistmenta. It is claimed
that this is due in part to an improvement
in the whole tone and condition of the
tray.
Tn inland mail transportation of the
country includes 8*1 railroad routes, ag
gregating 70,083 miles in length, and $0
steamboat routes, aggregating 15.7SS
miles in length. The railroads got last
year from the government $9,216,518,
and the steamboats $634,130.
The repeal of the resumption bill.
2. That the right of issue be taken
from the cationsl banks, and that the
notes of the United Stales be substituted
for tbe notes of the national banks.
3. That, whatever is done, no further
contraction of the currency be permit
ted.
Till sale of pools on the speakership
has been postponed until next week.
The indications aro that the bidding will
be spirited. The sporting men are —
to be evenly divided—that is, their pock
ets are—upon Kerr, Randall and the
field. The lifter is a trifle ahead per
haps.
Hon. Judah P. Benjamin makes $50,000
per year by his law practice in London.
Orangemen are on the increase In Missis
sippi. They “rex the earth” aud not the
Catholics.
Tax Arkansas legislature has re-districted
the state for congressional elections. The
changes are not material.
Tue least amount of internal revenue
collected south was $1,683, which Is Missis
sippi’s contribution of last year.
Tue Hon. 31. C. Kerr says Thotba? Je Her
ron is his moJel of a statesman. Web ter
be thinks was not a statesman, but an
c rotor.
Mr. R. H. If are is said to be the man
whom the Louisiana legislature is likely to
send to the United States senate in place of
Pinchbeck. It would hi difficult to make a
better choice.
The physicians along the Texan frontier
are taking stejs to prevent army surgeons,
who do not have to pay for a license, from
practicing among their*patients.
At the annual meeting ot the stockhold
ers of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad the
surplus fund of the road was reported to
be over a half million dollars In excess of
the entire mortgage indebtedness.
While the republican vote In Iowa this
year did not come up to that cast for Grant
If 73 by some 6 ( 000, the democratic vote
10,720 heavier than any ever previously
polled against tbe republican ticket.
Tue World has invented a new name for
the secretary of the interior, which will be
received in Washington with appreciation
It styles him “Mlzzcr’* Chandler. It has
also a new title forhim—Ta'l Twister in oi-
dlnary to bis majesty the Biitish lion.
jErrcnsox Davis not having been a *.iti-
zen of Mississippi for the past seven years,
the republican journals need not distress
themselves about his being Uoi'ed States
senator from that state very soon.
In one division of the treasurer’s office
there were received durieg the past year
money packages marked by the senders to
contain $*.54,<53,0f2.32, but in which, on
actual count, -were found and icpoittd
’overs” amounting to $24,G!6.C5, and
“shoria” amounting to $20,223.50.
Tue late decision of the supreme court
will bring the subjrct prominently before
ths press aud legislatures of these states,
which still cling to the ideas of usury that
prevailed during the dark sgss, and it is to
be hoped tint the result will b; a triumph
of modern enlightenment over medixvsl
barbarism.—Chicago Times.
The death of Mr. McDili, rcprescnUtve-
elect from tbe eighth Wisconsin district,
further complicates matters already compli
cated. Cate (dem.) was first given the sest
by tbe canvassers, but the supreme court
ordered them to declare JfcDlU (rep.) duly
elected. Judge Cate was shout to contest
tbe seat, when suddenly Mr. McDL'l died
Since the November elections the news
papers have been turning their attention
somewhat to president making and un
making. go far as we can gather from the
combined wisdom of all of them, the elec
tions were fatal to almost everybody who
had any prominence as probabl* or possi
ble candidate. There hasn’t been such car
nage among distinguished persons in msny
a year.—Tribune.
Senator Bayard Is not borrowing any
trouble on the subject of the presidency,
but it is undeniable that be is one of tbe
two or three most prominent candidates in
his party, and the one against whom the
least hostility.!* at preient concentrated.
The Bayard family has rendered honorable
and conspicuous public service through
three generations, and its present represen
tative is more than upholding ths honor of
the old name. The democrat!; party hss
purer or abler man, and congress no
more faithful senator.—N. Y. Tribune.
Senator Dawes met with a painful bat
not serious accident on Friday. While out
ridirg horseback, he dismounted to let
down some bars, when his horse wheeied
about suddenly, kicked him with both heels
violently, and then ran home. The blows
fell on the left leg, and were so severe that
the senator was unable to mere from bis
prostrate position. After nearly an hour
had passed, be hailed a womaa who was
passing at some distance, and she procured
help, and he was taken to his home.
8ah Ward, known in Washington and
throughout the country tfi 4 *the king
the lobby,” gave a dinner this evening
honor of Lord Houghton, who is spending
a few dajs in this city. Among the guests
were Chief Justice Waite and Justices
Field, Bradley and Swayoe of the United
States supreme court, Sir Edward Thorn
ton, Attorney General Pierrepont, General
Ga» field, Secretary Robeson, Don Loisde
Potestad, secretary of the Spanish legation,
and Dr. linderman, director of the mint.
The Manchester (English) papers of
thirtieth uIL. come to us with a formidable
list of commercial fail ares and liquidations,
taking in almost every branch of business 1
from the great house of Kattecgell & Cimp-
bell down to the smallest manufacturer
knick-knacks. With the exception of the
firm named above, however, the aggregate
BabBlttes are not formidable; still they
serve to show embarrassments in business
—of which the season over there has
so prolific—are widely distributed, and take
in great and email traders alike.
A vouchee for $12,000, to cover the ex-
pemesia Fufopo for about six months of
Gen. Meigs, Ute quarter-geaeial U. 8. A.,
was audited at the war department a few
days ago. This is part of the price that the
country bar to pay in order that Grant
might put hie favorite, Ingalls, at the he&d
of the quartermaster-general's department.
will be remembered that Grant had hard
work to get fid of Gen. Me’gs, but a tour in
Europe, wi*h unlimited means to teftr-
nlshed by tbe war department, finally did
the business. But will!’ not be a legiti
mtte kqulrj on the patt of congress to de
mand on what gronnds Gen. Meigs is sup
plied from the public coffers wi*h $2,000 per
month, in addition to h’s pay ar.d allowan
ces, fora pleasure trip in Europe?
A recent estimate places the dtbt of
Spain at $3,000,00,000, which Is an increase
three ye^ra of nearly $1,010,(00,009. The
bulk of ih3 new loan U probib’y floating
debt, borrowed from hand to mouth, at
Madrid. flpanLh six per cent3 are quoted
G2 in London, aud the probability is that
Spain will follow the example of Turkey in
aprtlal repudiation. Peace and wise admin
istration, w hfeh might enable Spain to pay
her debts, seem still remote.
The Russian harvest ha3 failed. That cf
Great Britt in is short. That of ihe Uuited
States is V.rge.
Hamilton Fish, Jil, was elected to the
New Yotk. assembly from Vutnam comty
7€8 majority.
SanatoUt Conklino has been unhappy
ever since.he heard of Carl Schutz*deter
mination to make New York h!s l lace of
residence
The ghost of Canar olcc more walks the
earth. And an uncommon livelv spook it
’-too. •
Wnstfa Miss’ssipp'. girl is qccs loced
j her another about her preferencs for
United States senator, she quickly responds:
Oh, iAMar, you know as well as I do.”—
IMemphH Av«lanchc.
Gildsr'LSEve, capiais of the American
rifle team, made a centre at loug range, at
elc^ion of the 21 lust, lie got a New
York judget?hip at fl<>,0;0 per annum for
fjurtcci years.
The Ijritcd States is a dufeudaut in the
court of claims for an ameunt exceeding
,0.0x000. The jtincipal item, about
$10,000,096, is sued for by southern people
account of cotton conilsca’cd or de
stroyed by the army during the war.
The delegation of Warm Spring Indians
ia Washington did not meet with a
very warm reception. They were decidedly
snubbed, and the chief, Man-with the-Old*
Head, may now be call:d Man-wiih-the
Sore Head.
The cargo of the new and magn'ticeut
steamer Mary Bell on her last New Orleans
trip consisted of 6,000 bales of cotton and
13,000 sacks of cotton seed, equivalent to
9,331 bales in the aggregate. It was the
largest cargo ever landed at that port.
Wilkes’ Srinir holds ihat bets ou a a-
jorities for Uartracft or llayes “must be
decided by the majority over the wbo!e
vote polled, Including the prohibition vote.”
According to this all bets on any particular
majority for Hartranft are lost, since he is
minority candidate elected by a plurality.
Hon. John Big:low, the recently elected
tary of state In New York, expressed
exactly when he said a few years ago:
The republic in party is like an old oak
tree dead at the top, and its high places arc
only accessible to birds of prey and
reptiles who climb for their eggs.”
What Vic.-Tri sident Wilson bus ltd off
to Washington for at this time, according to
Boston Commonwealth, was to have an
earnest talk with the president about re
forming the republican party. No wonder
hiv*heaUh broke down when be thought of
job.—Springfield Republican.
The members of the Palmetto Guard of
Charleston, 8. C., hive determined to cele
brate tbe'centennial of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, fought on J unc 28,1S7C, by erect-
monument at an expense of $12,000
The desigu which will prohai ly l>e adopt, is
bronze soldier in the.unifarm of the sec
ond South Carolina regiment, which garri
soned the fort.
When the vice president woke up the
ctlcr morning, he immediately a.ked for
morning papers, to sec what sort of
obituary notices they hed given him. He
incidentally remarked that if Childs, of the
Philadelphia Ledger, had got out that poem
about the golden stair on him, he would bs
obliged to interview G. Washing on with a
shotgun.
The completion of the Costa Rica rui’road
an ear y day, it would now seem, is
plated beyond a doubt. Minister Lara, who
has been lu Europe for some time past, has
the part cf the Costa Rican government
concluded a contract for the finishing of
the work with Mr. Nicholas Lcscalce Per-
doux, one of the leading rai’road men of
France.
FBOM OKEFENOEEE.
FIojtT* Island Entered and Sur
veyed.
Severe Experience of One Party.
A Second Party Not Heard From in
Five Days.
Dr. Little* the State Geologist, Kills
an Alligator With His
Pistol.
The Partj in Good Spirits. Not Alco
holic Either.
[Spec’al to The Constitution.]
Bxllt's Island, Okefexokee Swamp. [
via Homerville, Nov. 15, 1875.)
My last letter was sent you on the night
cf November Ctb. On the following mom.
ing sixteen men
PILED into the swamp.
They wero fully armed with the necessa
ry implements of warfare against under
growth and beast, and on Floyd’s island di
vided, one-bvlf striking
Hickory Hammock. They have
been absent firs days arid we have yet
HEARD NOTHING PROM THEM.
Haines will turn up all right, however. Dr.'
Little, Pendleton, and others returned from
Floyd’s Island after a complete survey and
obtaining valuable information. Dr. Little
also discovered
PEAT.
It probably lies in the swamp in great
quantities.
Game In abundance encountered.
Numerous beautiful streams were crossed,
names given. A beautiful P.tle island was
reached upon which large and heavily f roll
ed persimmon trees were found, besides
macuiflccnt live oak and magnolia.
TIIE PARTI SUFFERED
sharply cn their return,vdoing some tall
wadirgand throwing away boots.
The greatrs ■ feat in sporting thus far wav
achieved by Dr. Little yesterday. While
boating on Suwanee lake
A LARGE ALLIGATOR
approaebid co boldly that the doctor dis
abled him by a pistol shot, so that he finally
succeeded in killing him with the same
weapon. The skin will be shipped at the
first opportun ty to Atlanta.
The party are all in good health and
IN GOOD SPIRITS,
(not alcoholic, for we are cttictly temper
ate.) We are having a very rough time,
but withal an enjoyable one.
LETTERS
by mid are on their way, and wi:l leach you
In a day or two. One of the letters will
give the result of the Clinch county hunt
after the supposed etttie and hog thieves,
Mush Head’and Dare Steedly, who were
pursued and caught by a band cf armed
men who meant business. C.
SHOT DEAD.
For a year or so after Gov. Bullock ab- J
scooded. a good deal of law making and ia- j
vettiga*iou was necessary in trder to re-ad
just the disjointed affairs of the state gov
eroaent. But all that has been done, and
for the future a session every two years is
quite as often as there will be any call for
legislation.
A little exaxinatlonof the class of work
with which :he last few sessions have been
engaged, will satisfy any one, I am right in
this.
I do hope ttceic move made at the n-xt
session to change tbe constitution in c:c-
formity to the suggestion here made.
I deemed it no common honor to be elected
by three counties in which there ar * about
eight thousand voters, without opposition,
and without a vote having been cast against
me, to far as I know; and I say b it truth
when Is’ate, it is not without regret that
I relinquish the position thus assigned me.
It’s a constituency of which any man might
be proud. None, but will feel honored to
represent you Go«l grant you prosperity.
John W. Woffjrd.
Yesterday the resignation of State Sena
tor Wofford, of the 421 senatorial district'
was presented to the governor and by him
accepted.
A NEW ELECTION.
After sigLifying his acceptance of Scr.ator
Wofford’s resignation, the governor earned
a writ of election to be issued ti the olli rials
of the counties of Floyd, Chattooga and
Bartow, comprising the 42 J secatorlal dis
trict, ordering the holding of an election on
thel&lhdxyof December next, at which
time a successor to the uncxplrcd term may
be chosen.
Good-dyb, Joyce—for three years aud a
half. McDonald, wbose horse talk so de'
lighted the president once, and McKee who
served him so well in his newspaper, and
Mann, the intimate friend of the grea
Logan, and the innumerable throng that
composed the once invincible whisky ring—
these but wait their turn to give you fitting
comp xny In your seclusion.
Tub sudden subscription of the foreign
syndicate for nearly $13,000,000 more oi the
new fives, enabliug Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Conant, to-day, to close tbe con
tract for the refunding of the balance of
$500,000,00 of tbe six per cent*.is attributed
to the demoralization of European Invest
ments by tbe recent repudiation and bad
faith of the Turkish government.
Gen. J. Z. G eokge, who, next to Mr
Lamar, is most conspicuously mentioned in
connection with Mississippi’s United States
senatorehip, is, like the latter, on opponent
of the ** white line” basis. He labored euc-
ces£fully to convince the blacks that it was
their interest and duty to unite in the effort
to overthrow the carpetbaggers. Had the
ultras dl.tated the policy of the campaign
Mississippi would t>-da7 be in a worse con
dition than at any other time during the
past four years.
Or the 295 members of tbe next houce,
but 103 were members of the forty-third
preceding congresses, thus leaving 184 who
have never served in the caticnal legisla
ture. Of the 103 who have been re-elected
the republicans have CS and the democrats
40, but among the latter arc several whose
term of service exceeds that of anmember
on the republican tide. There are forty-
three standieg committees of the two
house?, so that ia the control of tbe bouse
the democrats may have an experienced
member on every important committee, for
there arc but thirty of tbe committees that
are really connected with the general busi
ness of congress.
The railroad Gazette says It is some time
now since any maker of locomotives get
over $29,000 for an engine, and that several
manufacturers can be found who will
glad to build a first-class wide gauge en»
gine for leas than half that sum, perhaps
$10,000 or so less. And it adds that “as for
the superior cheapness of narrow gauge en
gines, we are sore that any builder will
make locomotives of a given power and
weight quite aa cheaply for four feet, eight
and one-half inches aa for three feet gauge,
and that be would a little rather build a
wider gauge.” The editor of the railroad
Gazette never falls to make it manifest that
he doesn’t want any nairow gauge
htt’n.”
The Fatal EiLetol Handling a Hun.
Special to The Constitution.
Rome, Ga., For. 17.-At Tal’adega, Ala ,
yesterday aft* moon, while Willie Carey,
aged 15, was looking at a double barrelled
shot gun in the msiket house, it accident
ally went off as he was laying it on a table.
The charge .nstantly killed a little boy nam
ed Jimmie Read who was passing through
the bouse. Tbe load entered his heart.
m ^ W.
SUICIDE AT J0NISB0R0.
Further Particulars or Snell** Felo-
de-se.
f Sp: clal to The Constitution. |
Jonesboro, Ga., November 17.
Last night Mr. John W. Snell, a young
man 20 years old, blew his brains out at a
ball. It seems that Snell had not been in
vited to the ball, which hi had taken aa an
insult.
HE DRESSED HIMSELF,
wen’ to the door of the ball room and called
forBR Morrow, who was calling for the
cotilion, bade bin good-by and telling him
he was going to kill himself, then \ lacing
his pistol to his right temple, in the free-
ence of all
FIRED AKD FELL DEAD.
He will bs buried to-morrow by the CDy-
ton volunteers, of which company he was a
member.
Mr. Snell was at the time of his diaih
clerking for J. H. Mot row. Ou s'arting
to the ball, he walked Into Rinse's stole,
and went back to the des v , wrote
A NOTE TO HIS MOTHER,
telling her that this was his list night on
earth, as he was going to kill himself.
ONLY A TRIfLK
Only atrifl'e ! The voice sourded swe t,
And the lips wore the sc lie once so dear,
W hile the word<*, as they gu*.hed from their
besuteons retreat.
Fell poltthed and light on the ear.
But the meaning they carried was pointe
and deep.
Anl a heart was estranged, and a life went
went to sleep.
Only a trifle! The look came from eyes
Once cnrtalced and tender with tears;
Bnt it covered a demon, in smiling dis-
Thu haunted the gathering years !
And other duk eyes, often bathed in their
light,
Were darkened like stars in a storm drifted
night!
Ouly a trifle! But trifles as soft
As down have oft broken a heait,
And shackled proud spir ts, while soaring
TELESCOPED !
A Frightful Railroad Accident near
Augusta-
ants of Life and I angling of I.hubs
A Large Number of Georgians on
ihe Train.
Wounded, Crushed and Bleeding.
Uev. Chamberlin,of South Carolina,
on the Train.
HON. J. W. WOFFORD.
Resignation of his Seat aa a Hcmber
of the Georgia Senate.
Statement of the Reasons Inducing
film to Take this Coarse.
Gov. Ames, of Mttsttslppi, has probably
issued ihe briefest proclamation for a day
cf thanksgiving. It roads in full thus:
accordance with a time-honored custom, in
reverential acknowledgement ot depen
dence upon divine providence, and in grati
tude lor the blessings bestowed upon ms
for the past year, I do hereby recommend
to the people of thl^srate. to observe Thurs
day, Nov. 25,1873* aa a day for thanksgiv
ing and prayer.” That was all that Ames
could get off after the election.
Uartersv ille, Georgia,
November 17tb, 1875.
To the People op the Forty-Second
Senatorial District :
1 have this day sent to the governor my
resignation as senator for the 42d senatorial
district.
It U due to you that 1 should say why
have done so.
The general assembly convenes the te
oad Wednesday In January. By an act of
the legislature passed at its last seision.
Bartow superior court conven a on Monday
of the same week, end will remain in session
four weeks. Immediately upon tbe ad
journment of Bartow court, other courts
convene where 1 have basinesa and where
am obliged to neglect my clients. The
whole of the constitutional term of forty
days allowed for the legislative session is
covered by the courts here referred to. This
conflict in the session of the general assem
bly and terms of the courts has never exist
ed before since 1 have been a member of
that body. Bat if tbe interest and the con
venience of no one but myself was to be
consulted, 1 would be willing to make
mine subordinate to that of the public; but
a leave of absence to me from the January
term of the court here, would, 1 know from
good authority, necessitate the call of an
adjourned term of the court during the
spring months, when it might be an Incon
venience and an injury to them to draw fa*
men from their crops to the court Louse.
If I attend the courts and get leave from
the senate, then you have no representa
tive there. These reasons have made It my
plain duty to resign. When you have con
sidered them I believe you will agree with
jme, and forgive the trouble I put you to
n electing my successor.
Aside from mil this, the approaching ses
sion cf the legislature la wholly unimport
ant so far as I know or believe. Several
years experience in that body has convinced
me that there is no public demand for annu
al sessions of the legialature^nd that yearly
sessions of the general assemby, is a yearly
waste of tbe public money. In a time of
peace and quiet, when there is nothing but
‘ hard times” to break the monotony cf
current events, an asnual expense of a
$100,000 for legislation is too much to pay
for U.
Augusta, Ga., November 18.—A frightful
accident occurred last night on tbe Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta raili oad, near
Pins home, about
25 MILES FROM AUGUSTA.
After the regular passenger train had left
Columbia yesterday afternoon for Augusta,
It was followed by a train of empty cars for
Augusta. The
two trains rolled along
at a late of about twenty miles an hour, one
following closely on the o*±er. The passen
ger train had juit reached‘a sideling and was
about to stop, when the ecccnd train came
rushing along, and tbe
ESG1XE TELESCOPED
tl c ladies passenger car, throwiug it atd
the smoking car from ike track. A Ur.i-
b!e scene followed. Tbe ladies cat was titl
ed with passes era, and men, women and
children were j unmed together,
WOUNDED, CRUSHED AND ULEED1XU.
After a few mku‘cs confusion, wind.ws
a- d doors were broken open and the p;s-
seugers emerged from tbe wreck. It was
then discovered, thrt while many were
brui:cd seriously, but oae
LIFE WAS LOST,
that of Charlie Nightingale, a b.igul and
loveable child about six years old, son of
William Nightingale, of Biuuswick, Ga.
The child had but a slight wound on ihe
head end seemed to have been
STEAMED TO DEATH.
A son of Mr. Ilcgesheimer, ol the Uulud
States coatt turve^, who was in the smok
ing car was s.riomly injured, and will pro
bably
LOSE AN EYE.
Mr. Di.lima**,of Balttmcie, a commercial
traveler, who was cut in the arm and bled a
great deal, seemed to be dangerously
wounded.
As soon a« possible tbe passengers w ere
re:cued from tLc wreck. At last every pas
senger was brought from tbe train except
the one poor boy wbose untimely death it
above recorded.
A few hours later the cutward bound
train reached the spot, and being unable to
pass brought the passengers of the wricked
train to Augusta, reaching tbe city at lalf
past ten o’clock.
THE PASSENGERS
The following Is a list of passengers:
Mrs FF Weston, N Y; Miss Rosa Wal
folk, Miss Annie Wilion, Rahway, N Y.
Mrs Coyle, Thomasvl)l*, Ga.
Mr. Patti, Baltimore.
J Margcntaff. Aiken, 8 C.
Z Jacobus, Mew Yoik.
E U Engel, Macon Ga.
H D Haffe, Washington, D C.
J 8 Atkins, W H Douglass, New York.
Walter Powell, Augusta.
Dishman, Baltimore.
Mrs W M McCanc, Ga.
Thomas Bell, Dari ngton, S C.
Mrs. and Misses Nightingale, Brunswick,
Georgia.
Miss Fowle*, Richmond Hill, L. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Iiegcehelmer, United States
coast auivey.
O. C. Jordan, Aiken, South Carolina,
T. N. Rmhton, and Hardy Crouch, Joht-
ston, South Carolina.
Gov. ChatLberialn, Columbia, South Car
olina.
A. K- Grover, New Yoik.
Dr. Debolt, Philadelphia.
W. T. Sprinkle, conductor.
THE BLAME.
The passenger train Is not to b!ame, bat
there is great feeling against the men
other train for criminal carelessness. The
passengers report that the engineer and
conductor could not be found after the scci-
dent. The p«sengera arrived at li o*ilock
last night, and every attention was g'ven to
the wounded.
The body of little Charlie Nightingale
was carried to Brunswick this morning.
Mr F Dishman, of Baltimore, is doing well,
and so is the eon of Mr Hegeshelmcr. All
the other passengers esccped,some without
a scratch, and others wi h alight bruises. It
Is almost a miracle under the circumstances
bow any of them escapei, as the engine
telescoped light into the passenger car?.
Torn tcaiti chained by Friendship apart—
Strewing the pathway of life to tbe giave
With fragments cf idols they perished to
rave!
Only a trifle! But crowding the gates,
Half closed on the so:rowful past,
Th-se * trifles” throw shadows tf Friend
ship aud Hate
Around us each day to the last;
Mingling in mockery sUT as they tread
Siftly upon the boshed fields of the dead!
‘Only a trifle,” has woven a shroud I
“Only a trifle” has burrow* d a grave *
Lightning may flash irom acrirson-fiiuged
cloud,
Fe'ling a brother, though noble and
“Oaly a trifle*’ has wou: ded and slain
More than havc^fallen in ^Tar’a purple train!
From the New York Graphic we learn
that the pull-back bat had some trouble
with St. Petbr, and this is the way it is
told:
A little Pullback sought one day
»he gates of Paradise;
St. Peter wiped his spectacles
And tubbed his ane'ent eyes.
And tlirorgs of female angels came
With curious gaze the while,
Intent, as ladies always are,
To sec tt c latest a'jle.
The Slim put on bis glasses then—
An observation took;
“What! What!” he sail, “this traverses
The laws of “mustn’t look.”
“Hod back in front! Filed up bchi'd!
‘Twill never do I fear !
Tlic thing is too ridiculous—
You cannot enter here.”
What d'd she do? My curious friend,
Shu got behind a tree;
And in a jtffy she was dressed,
As apge's ought to !»c.
SL Peter kissed her then and said,
“Pass In my little dear;
But mind, you mnstu’t Introduce
Such naughty fashions here.”
A Sensation.
The “bright” young genius wbose strong
suit is romancing, will appear before the
public this morning in a slashii g sensation,
lie will regale those who have time to kill
with a glowing, graj hie, graceful and grim
ing accouut c f an alligator’s lunch. He
will doubll’ss Inform an anxious world how
easy it is to ait down in an editorial arm
chair and tell a talc of the harrowing »xpe-
rienccs and tragic fate of one who has gone
abroad into the jungles of an unknown place
Bu\ we mnat gi <c the young man a chance
Let him promu' add
A Day ot Salvation.
Y* 8‘erday. as wo were passing a street
bcy< nl the Atlauta medical college, and on
which a number of negroes reside,we beard
an o’d negro man calling out to bis wife:
“ ’Mauda ! Is you got dem chickins < or-
al’ed in de smoke-house like I toldyer?”
“Na ! an* 1 like ter knew whar’s de nat
ter aid you, dat you’s ro ’dealer ’bout dem
chickins all at onct! ” she replied.
“ Nebber you mind ! 1 knows whar's de
matter and dat’s cuff till dem chickirs is
housed! When I hear* dat dem niggers
oberdar iu de next yard is gwlne ter tub a
party to-morrow night. I want ter be shore
dat my chickins doesn’t ’tend it, you hear
Ttc chickens’.were at once locked up.
[A Mean'Niggcr.
Two shiftless negroes wanted to buy a
lottery ticket yes’erday, aud fouod that be
tween them they had but forty cen*a. Ono
of them asked old Si, the d'ajman, to lend
Lima dime.
“Go ’long way from hyar, child, an’ chop
wood and kurry bosses for dimes, like a
’onest nigger 1”
Tbe disappAintcd negro walked back to
his paitner, who asked:
“Did ycr fchet de ole man’s eye to de
mount obde d'rae?”
‘ Shet nothin’! Dat old black Aferkln Is
is jus de meanes’ niggah in dis town ob At-
lanty, and I bleeves to de Lord dat if Le war
balvin* a stick ob wood ’twlxt him an' bis
grandmuther, he’d make de ole ’Oman flin2
him in de chips, kase it was his axe dat cut
’em out!”
They moved on, then, to ieels another
victim.
What Ue Wav.
They rat and swigged his beer until they
were well soaked, and calculated that there
was just enough locomotive power In their
legs to take them home. They started out
aud one held up his lingers and said:
‘Kaie'eriicher, slate them to me!”
Yat you ray? Don’d I told you ’ooud
dat kind ov pcrzoe*s venst ahead ov this
time?”
“Well, it’s all (hie) right—take It off In
the mornin’ soj-'o come down town, (hie)
old feller!”
“Yon shust come rigbd avay hack agin,
nowl Yenyou-tole me put dem down on
dal ehlate, mine icetlc poy he gone by dem
publlck skools unt he dakes dot ablate fo*
do his ’ridmetlck sums, unt 1 don’d do dot
vav some mote!”
“Oh, don’t make such (hie) a racket about
it—it’s all tight—a’l right!” grandly ex
claimed the bummer.
“Veil, I shust seen ’bond dot! I vants
you extlnctly to underahtood dot 1 hafe
redoosed dis peeznes s down to a gash bazls,
S oot gollaterals or a fighd, by shemlny, unt
ol’s de klnt ov a prize-pox what I ami”
And Kaiserlichcr planted himself at the
door and didn’t leave until he had a pocket-
knife, two shirt-studs, a nickel-plated cork
screw and a hair plug of tobaccy as collat
eral!
A Little Mixed.
An old darkey ot the ante Ulltun type was
fouud prowling around In among the offices
of cue of the railroads ending In Atlanta.
“Whar is de boss of de railroad cars,
yonng master V’ he anxiously queried.
Wc directed him to the office of the dis
tinguished president of tbe road and he
entered it, bovring and grinning In a very
imposing way.
“Well, old man 1” said the president
Yas, soh! Ef ycr could tm*rc time ter
talk ter au ole nigger a few mini s, aah ?”
Oh, yer; wh*t la It?"
Well, yer see, Doss, I Isn’t a much
larned nigger and lin* ta de country, an’
de gemman down ktains «ild he’d sell me a
first clu* ticket In de secon’ clut kyar, aa'
a secon’-class ticket waadc fame fur afua’-
clau for’ .it’ colled fur de eccon’-class
kyar, and ’fore de good Lord, Bow, I’m
mightily mixed, ass' a nigger's purty llerbel
ter get nim neck biuk ’bout di* luis’-clow
lectin’ kyar biznes! ef he don’t git ft ]la
right, so I come up to you wbot am de
glnerol bos* an’ kin gplane bow ft i', esb
ef yer please!”
1: was quickly and clea’lv explained, and
the old man left la a aerenc and happy
frame of mind.
JIi.cn has laeniald and written of the
repudiation by Jllsslsalppl of a'portion of
its state debt in 1824. By that act the honor
of the atate of Ids*Uxlppl was tarnished,
and Its credit almost irretrievably Injsred.
Tbe amount for which the legislature re
futed to provide payment was $5,000,000.
Tbe bonds hod been Issued In favor ol the
Union ban*, a state Institution, and were
held by Met era. Biddle dt Co., of London.
Since 1842 the holders of the
bonds have maintained n alight hope
that provision would ultimate
ly be made for their payment. Tbe
question has now been forever settled. At
the recent election In JUaalaaippi an amend
incut to the state constitution was adopted,
which prohibit* any further legislation look
ing to their payment. It hu been aoid
that Ben Butler is a large holder of tbe
bonds, and they were purchased bv him
with the In tea lion ot Inducing the Missis
sippi legislature, through the Influence of
hiaaon-ln tawAmee, to provide for their
payment. It la certainly not an Improbable
atory.
Executive Note*.
Tbe governor ycoterday appointed
George C. Thomos to be county judge
of Oconee county- Tbe court in organi
zed under the general county court act.
Other executive bustoean u more fully
set out elsewhere to these column*.
In the Walnut Se. aou.
BREVITIES.
—The Kentucky papers have organ
ized a strong opposition to the use ot snuff
by girls.
—Autumn poets are requested to write
on both sides of the paper; one printer
can then work while the other commiu
suicide.
—The engagement of the widow Illckt
and Schenck ia “off,” the lady declining
to “see” the diplomat’s “blind.”
—A young man generally gives n lock
of hair to his sweetheart before he mar
ries her. Afetr m«rriagc she generally
helps herself.
—The canary seed crop in California
Is a total failure. Consequently there
will be but very little planted next year,
and the yield of canaries will necessarily
bo small.
— “The prisoner at the bar seems to
have a very smooth face.” said a specta-
torto the jailor. “Yes," replied the
jailor; “he was Ironed just before he
was brought to.”
—A witty moralist says that “mauy
a man thinks that it is virtue that keeps
him from turning rascal, when it is only
a full stomach.” One should he careful
nottomistakc potatoes for principles.
—The man who is curious to see how
the world would get along without him
can And out by sticking a cambric needle
in a mill pond, and then withdrawing it
and looking at the hole. — Glasgow
—A careful housewife iu Altoona, Pa.,
pm mi if 18 order am! a $10 greenback in
■he drawer Ot tho coffee mill last
Wednesday for safe keeping. Thursday
morning the family enjoyed a |2S cup
Of coffee.
— 1 To-day the crocodilo of Florida
laughelh, and eagerly wniteth for the
ume ween he shall nip of the tender
flesh which compoacth the northern tour
ist, who tlcclh from icy regions to warm
baths in the sunny southern waters.
—Since brains began to rule the world
there has been nothing to surpass the
fine scorn with which the Boston girl
turns away from such syllabub as love
and romance, and feasts her soul on
Greek verbs and conic sections.
—Fashion has decreed that wedding
toursmay be dispensed with. Young
married people can en joy their honey
moon at home and stilt be fashionable.
Now let fashion decree that expensive
funerals shall not hereafter he required.
—With a cat tight in progress under
ilio window, a young rnau learning to
play the accordeon across the way, and
a baby with the wind colic in the next
room, a distracted poet may keep on
calling his Pegasus a jackass ail night,
but it won’t budge a cent’s worth.
—It is very gratifying to come to a
conclusion logically: as, for instance,
that of an old writer; “B says all Brit
ons are liars. Now, he was himself a
Briton, therefore he was a liar, therefore
the Britons aro not liars, therefore K
has not lied—therefore the Britons are
liars.”
—Three sharpers managed recently to
ride from Omaha to Chicago on one
ticket. They took seats at some dis-
tancc from each other and established
communication by means of a string
run along the outside of tho car, on
which, attcr giving up his ticket. No. 1
cent his check to No. 2, and No. 2. after
showing his check,forwarded it to No. 3. .
—A solemn agent for the patent auto
matic baby jumper called last week at
the house of a Homan coup!c who had
been married about a month. The hus
band was not at home, and the agent
immediately came out again to look for
him. He was accompanied by a flat
iron, a Bible, a rolling-pin and two
breakfast pistes.—Rome Sentinel.
—Colorado doesn’t encourage heroes
much. The Denver Herald says:
“About 2 o'clock the funeral of Major
Graham passed through the dense crowd
that lined Tyndall street. In a small
open wagon, drawn by a mule team, was
a $5 coffin containing the body of
Graham, and the driver sat on the coffin.
Behind the wagon walked one solitary
pedestrian—a constable ”
—Chicago Tribune: A wise examiner
in the pMcnt office at Washington re
fused a patent fora new mode of fasten-
ing cotton bales, on the ground that the
same principle was embodied in a patent
already issued for a lady's garter. It is
obviously a good thing, at any rate, that
women and cotton baits can be flrm'y
secured bo a common principle, and ft
is not so surprising that one attachment
answers for both. There always was an
affinity between 'em.
—A party of ladies and gentlemen to
Keokuk were talking about theatrical
matters, when Forrest’s name was intro-
duced. “The last timo I saw Forrest,”
said a pompous gentleman, who had been
putting on all the airs of a finished critic,
“was when he appeared as Leah, the
Forsaken.” And then the company got
up and screamed, and Tom Eichelbergcr
;ot bold of it, and now everybody knows
t.—Iowa Parer.
—A new burlesque entitled “Pif-Paf,”
which lias just been brought out to Paris
it founded on a rather novel idea. The
hero possesses a talisman, but does not
know that he posset sea in It la only
when he is kicked on a certain point that
ia presumed to specially invite kicking
that he succeeds in all his wishes. It
soon becomes bis aim and object to court
such opproblous assaults which arc of
course very funny.
—Mr. I*. T. Barnum told the following
to his lecture in Chicago: “In his muse
um, a gentleman and daughter stood gaz
ing at the Siamese Twins. The show-
man laid they were the moat remarkable
phenomenon in the world, were bom to
Siam, etc. ‘Bro'hers, I suppose?’ re
marked the gentleman, interrogatively,
still looking with wonder at tho tied ups.
Yea, sir, brothers; natural brothers
loo,” said the showman. ‘My
dear,' said the visitor, religiously, turn
ing to his daoghtcr, ‘think of the good
ness of Providence in linking two natural
brothers together, instead of two stran
gers."
—Apropos of the quartette of singing
dogs to Paris, history relates that dogs
have been orators as well Leibnitz
stated to 17X5 that he saw at Zcitz a dog
which pronounced thirty words. In
1820 a dog was exhibited in Berlin which
pronounced sixty words; its master how
ever held the animal between his legs,
and worked tbe dog’s jaws to assist the
emission of the sounds The dog pro
nounced best the words EHzsbetb,coffee,
chocolate and salad. “Bone” did not
inter into his vocabulary.
—A case is the fee for physicians in
Siam, payment being contingent on the
patient’s recovery, so that as soon as he
becomes dangerously ill the doctor stays
away. In this manner thousands of peo
ple ore cured annually. Tho following
is the popular euro for fever: “Take
fragments of tbe horn of therbinoceros,
the tooth of an elephant, tiger, bear and
crocodile; add to these portions of the
flesh of a vulture, a crow and a goose,
a morsel of the horn of a bis'n and a
stag, and a little sandal wood; pouad all
up on a moistened stone, administer half
to the invalid, and rub his body with the
other moiety.”
(Loudon Co.'* ol Boston tilobe.)
It is now the walnut season. We to
America who rat only the dried nuts,
cannot imagine how delicious ue the al
monds, Alberts and the Fnglith walnuts,
whi n they are fresh and green; and why
we do 5oi have them is a marvel to me,
(or I believe al! o’ them will grow in thh>
country. But the difference between
them fresh and dried is the difference of
two fruit*. From now until about
Christmas the walnuts are in their glory,
and the censumpli n ol them is immense
at the table of the aristocrat to his cas
tle, where many an hour is pasted over
them and wine at tbe end of a dinner, aa
we read in English novels, when a relent
ing uncle begins to unbosom himself to
his scapegrac s ntphew, Ia the coay res
taurants of clubsand hotels, in tbe mod
est lodging of bachelors, m the cottage of
the peasant, and in the crowded cily,
where they arc cracked and munched Ly
the laborer at the street corners. You
see them by the basket full every where
around, sold at the price of from
three to five for a cent, and at Covent
Garden market m tbe morning tt is a cu
rious sight to watch the men and women
occupied In taking them out of tin ir
green shells, as they stand before the
baskets ranged to a circle, with their tin
gers black as ink from the work.
—“Do yon have buckwheat cakes at
this house?” is the latest password of tbe
tramp*.
Gossip A trout Young Jim Bennett.
(New York correspondent of the Buffalo
Courier.]
Tbe announcement ot the forthcoming
marriage of James Gordon Bennett, the
proprietor of the New York Herald, is
again made. Mr. Bennett has so many
times been reported matrimonially cn -
gaged.foncc to a Buffalo lady) that society
is slow to credit the rumors of his nego
tiations with Cupid, hut this last and
fresh announcement is asserted to be
genuine by those who ought to know.
The lady named as his future wife is
MissY’znaga Del Valle, daughter of a
Spanish merebantfor manyyetrs a red-
dent of this city. She has been called
the most beaotllul la-ly of America, and
is highly accomplished. Ste hu been
greatly admired to society here and
in Europe, and hu ever been the center
of a charmed circle of friends. Mr.
Bennett Is certainly a most eligible gen
tleman for a husband. His yearly to-
come is about $706,000, he bar his yacht,
his foui-tn-hand, town house on Fifth
avenue, country houses at Newport and
Fort Washington, a cottage at Brighton,
England, twenty blood horses in the sta
ble and a newspaper. Ue belongs to
half a dozen dubs and is very generous
wilhhli money. Mr. Bennut and hit
sister. Miss Jeanette, are a 1 that it left
of the ticoteh BenneU of this city, and
rumor hu already named a husband for
Miss Bennett, who lives with her brother
at the old family mansiop, No. 425 Fifth
avenue.
