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ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 20, 1877.
The Atlanta»onstitntlo
WEEKLY EDITION.
We ere not prepared to speak for the
public st Unr*. hat lor onr part we
never grow tired of pausing in the
midst of the dircnarion of the capita!
question to indulge in a pleasant little
rosinb with the editor of the Savannah
Neva He Mens so anxious for the
removal of the capital and so uncertain
as to thc’iin* or argument it is best to
take, that it is really an agreeable tack to
occasionally confer with him as to bis
statements and, in a friendly way to set
him right as to facts, and it is the more
tgreeahie breau *e of our knowledge that
no one has a keener desire to be just
and fair ibao our contemporary. We
have the pleasure to day, for the pur
poees of comment and criticism
p 1 selling the 'o'ioaijg wb'ch tie
editor of the News calls “A Problem
fur the Tax-Payer* of Georgia;’
Hr woy of illustration let u* mppow that
cPtasn mi a rood rrmfortabie dwelling In
Mlkdgrvllkr oh eh.with tt o groundsattached
t« north 9>00 000. and that h« also owni a very
rickety, uncom lor able and 111 construct ed
bouse In AUsdis, wbleh-he having been mo i
rgrei-toualy swindled In Its purchase-©on him
t*> t»0 He can't occupy bo’h Lou
mjal abandon one of the*. Bis Atlanta prop
erty will sail pi rbapa for half what It nm.while
bis Miltadgevtlle property, if abandoned. would
not aeli for the coat of the brick and m.rtor
A dlaiBtrrtoted Atlaata frleod auvtsce
to sot flan to bis MU lodge ville property and st i
hi* Atlanta house for what be cm get, he (the
aforesaid disinterested Atlaata frleod) premis
ing to give him a lot and contribute fifty t
son! dol aw to help hfs» build a new bouse at
eiwteC tn hundred thoomud dotlese We wUI
suppose, for the sake of the argument, that the
man la dunce enough to accept the adnee
his disinterested Atlanta friend, how much
w mid be sin by the operation? We submit
the problem to the taxpayers of Georgia.
By wsyof illustration, let us sag-
treat s csss that comes s littl.
nearer the facts. Let
MUpfrffr-e that s citizen owns two dwell*
ingx, one in Atlanta, which be is occu
pying, and one in Milledgerille which
he has not occupied for years. Ife ha*
s large family, and some of them are
disaAlirtied with the dwelling in Ate
lanta. Haste in construction and de
fi.riendefi, either real or imaginary,
other directions, have convinced them
t’»at the structure is unsafe Other
members of the household, however,
think the house is safe and amply suf
ficient for years to come. There is d
emotion in the home ciicle Shall the
citixen remove back to his Milie-lgevillo
dwelling, which his family have out
grown, and which will have to be re
paired and made comfortable at a cost
of several thousand dollars, or shall
n-nisin in Atlanta ? Hhall lie give
all the comfort* and conveniences of
modern home to live iu one that even
his ancestors did no: consider comfort*
able ? At this juncture a committee
on the part of lus neighbors, who have
heard of the flinciimfoiis, come to him
with a proposition. “ Hir,” they *av
** se learn that yon are diosatibiied'
with your dwelling. We hear, m<
over, that not Iteing financially able
at this juncinre to build
a new one, you are seriously
considering the propriety of returning
to yon* oid house at Milltwlgevilli
Why, sir, such a move would cost you
more money in the end than would
serve to build you a fine house. We
ure your ueighhorsiind friends; weap
preciate your society and that of your
family, and we have come to you with
it proposition. Give up your Milledge
vide house ; it is uusniiahleas a home.
Remain in Atlanta, and we, your neigh
Is.rs, will hniul yon a dwelling that
will satisfy not only your desire:
comfort find convenience, hut your Mens
of elegance. We will build it and fur
nish it, and it shall not cost you one
ceut,** We will aupjioee, for the sake
of argument, that the man is dunce
enough not to accept the proposition.
How much would he loae by returning
to the di.-comforts of lib klilledgeville
dwelling ? Hut suppose he accepts it
i'sa sensible man won 1,1, how much
d-ws lie gain by remaining in
Atlanta? It must be remembered
that according to the statement « ( the
Savannah News, made directly and
deliberately, lie cannot possibly lore
Anything on his Milledgevillo proper!v
its isHueof Tliurmlay,the News says!
•'Oneor the other of llu-su capital onto
tits must Ifc-ulMudoued.and thi actuai.
I.OS4 TO TIIK STATS WILL DK MEASURED
K, *T HV TU* OkUllNAL ivjir, but
HY THIS MARKET VALUE of ftllO build
lugs ah.uulouctl and to be disposed of.’
Iu ns issue of Friday, in the article
which we have quoted above, the New*
says: “His Milledgeville property (the
old capitol) if abandoned v u lu m*t
SKI 1. FOR TIIK CURT Or THE HKICK AMD
M HTAW.’* So, according to the eikimr
of ihe News, the state would l<*e next
to nothing by Abandoning her
Milledgeville pro|»erty. While weheve
all along contended that thU proposi
tion is true, we were not prepared to
see it so Aptly stated by a paper as
devotedly in favor of removal ns the
Sav.um: h News. We leave the editor
t«. puzzle himself over his problem
The intelligent tax-payer has already
solved it.
THE WEEK IE TUR MiET.
The past week wax barren of great
events. The brilliant series of Rus
sian victories baa been interrapted, but
the position of the Turks has in no re
spect been improved. Erxeronm has
not fallen, neither has Kara; bnt the
nuoications of the first will be ent
unless the severity of the weather in
that elevated region prevents, and then
he labmisbioo of the two towns is bat
qaestioo of rations and ammunition.
The Erxeronm plateau is, however,
,000 feet above the sea. Winter has
already bfgao there, and it
last until March. Severe
cold and deep snow are tberef *re ba
le to paralyse the Russian campaign
at aoy moment, unless the army of in
vasion is strong si-ou/h to carry the
town by assault Mukhtar is power-
ar, and the K **»«ans rule al- Armenia
outride of its fonr fortitind towns. The
nter may permit them to hold these
unil spring.
Bu'g^ria the Turks are greatly
outnumbered. The Rtsgrad army dare
not attack either General Z mmerman
or the coarowitch. It is locked up be
tween the two, and F/whi P&aha, an
unknown general, has been ass gned to
its command. Sulieuuaa has b*eu ap
pointed commander in-cb:e* of the
armies in Roumeaa, where
the Turks doubtless expect to
io the hardest fighting iu the immedi
ate future. And they are doubtless
right io thinking so. Plevna, like
Kars, is but a prison, from which the
norh can only escape by capitula
tion; and the Hucaiana, countless al
most aa tb« leaves of the forest, are
massing troops on the Sofia road and at
Tirnova for new movements across the
Britans. Meheraet AU is trying to
organise so army at Sofia, but the
power of recuperation has nearly de
parted from exhausted Turkey. The
Ku-siau armies, both in Armenia and
Bu'garia, are daily growing strorger.
The fall of Pievna would bring peace
peace, it is true, on the invader*'
terms, hut ou belter term* than can be
secured three months hence. Conalan-
unople wants peace, and Russia has
almost reached a point where peace
would he consistent with her dignity.
Bulgaria, Herzegovina, poet-ibly a part
f A bania, and all to the north of
theae provinces would su r ely he re
leased from the Turkish yoke by auy
treaty of psace that would now be
made. If Russia gains any territory
from a 6j»eedy peace it would be in
A menia. It is to ho hoped, at least,
that a cessation of human slaugbter.is
vent of the near future, and that
there will spring from the blood of the
•ilain religious freedom fur all the LUn-
uhian provinces.
ton. To sum up the matter aa it actually
is: New England has cheap money
and we have everything else that is de*
rirable in the badness of manufactur
ing cotton. We lack capital; New
England lacks good cotton, cheap la*
bor, a mild climate and unlimited
water power. The mills must come to
the cotton fields. If we cannot accu
mulate the necessary amount of capi
tal, it will sorely be attracted from
other sections by the advantages that
Mr. Cheney lias discovered ; and lira is
just what the Sew England mill* dread
sod are trying to prevent. They can
as easily etav the rising tide.
siumr, trim all
MOATED WIDE.
The Grand Bally at Csrtemllle la
Bear Georgia's Greatest Orater—
Aa CsUntlasile Reception to Cel.
71/a COMM OSPL ACE.
Ani> now Europe is excite*! over a
report that Bismarck is seeking to im*
po*.upon Belgium a protectorate- that
he iu tends to g .bbie the coveted king
dom. He is said to anticipate another
war with France and he tella the Bel-
itiaris that their country would be the
battle ground and her cities the apoits of
the victors. If this report is truth, Ger
many is preparing to violate treaties to
w.vch she it* a consignatory. If true,
it is one of the numerous results that
will tlow fr>m the military collapse of
Rui-ia Foglnn 1 and France wou'd
h >w. ver, resist to the utmost auy such
outrage ou the peaceful little king
dom.
Tiie creditors of the east want $108
f *r every $100due t* em from tie west
ar 1 the south; and the? have seut
*•1 »• g delegations to Washington to
advance their scheme. The south and
Wv »i employ no lobbyists in Waahiiu;-
ton or elsewhere, but thoae sections
ex(*ect their representatives in congr* a*
to take proper nreot their interests.
Th * senate’s treatment of thesrmy
hi:* was demAgog;cal in the extreme.
I. struck out the clause limittrg the
army to 20 000 men, which, of course,
permits recruiting to the extent of 25.
000 uieu; and yet the houae appropria
tioos were reduced $100,000. The house
items of expenditure were below :b*
es:imates of the department, and the
reduction isan attempt to gain a cheap
rvpuution for economy. This mock
economy means, of coarse, a deficiency
bill -provided always that the house or
aoonferei.ee committeedjes cot ex;<«e
ti e whole buoinesa.
Tiix Springfield Republican of tlie
15 t. mat. etlitorially says:
'• ben-m sea no iwaam io drnU ttoi Hr
B ‘ etataavrry cntacal coodidoo. He taw
«r. wu anew s** <v be went to bis Aagnsta
h.*.r a for'.n-jtjt »gn & M bsea ooafinrd to at*
b.J..i-nt,d Lioall rsasd fiaapy auacA.d wttr
d«-cTiirry. «b%b left hsai so weak a fee bight
a-o :hat U was twand be was gotag lo dk*. Tbr
: *i mo s ior» bare provwt a terrible srnun oc
l " hta mi and body sod tta r* aw abnu.
wk-4* r as. however ocmpkceiy he may
'* J ri ' l ' 0,rr trom brsfwnni annex, the
a» ««f LU old activity are over. or. tf they ere
r e«l ut iimbim to be cy«Ud vary saddeafy
aiwciAaaUy.
CO ETON- MA A CM A Cfl 7.7A G
Tlie cotton niuiufacturers of N w
E.igUnd d»» not like the coitclusitma of
a iuj**r read by Mr. Cheney, a well
known citizen of New lianipHhire, lie-
fore the New England Coltnu Mnnufac
turerH* os^iciation, at the recent meet
ing iu Boston. Mr. Cheney had jti»l
return* d from a tonr through the south
and liirt pa|ter was to the «tied that the
M»ulli f and parliciiUrly tieorgis, poe
sense* 1 many advautagec for the manu
fatriure of coUon th*t New England
del not. SiDCe its apiiearaucc
Uie New England men have
been do<ng a deal of whistling to kee|
their courage up. One of their latesi
efforts iu this iiuc is iu the shape of an
nterview. Gov. Straw, presi.lent of
the New Iv.glsiid cotton mHiiufacturere
association mid i*gent of tlie 4mo*kcn£
company, is the interviewed indiviuual,
mud we give bn views in anothe
Uinn, to which the rvadur w icier red,
for we have something to say on tin.
subject.
Gov. Straw’s n’atemont that the num
her of spindles in MosHachiiseits and
ihrotiv(hoiu N iw England Uax
been largely increased, needs no
reply from us. It proves that the
manufacture of cotton iu Now E igland
is profitable. But we are surprised
that a man *of Gov. siraw'i
standing an«l intelligence should con
tradict Mr. Cheney's statement, based
on personal investigation.that the mills
of Georgia are profitable. Noiwi'ii
staudinc the meat success of the cor
poration over which Gov. Straw pre
s*<les, we very much dunbt if that or
a »y oilier New E igland mill hai beeu
proportionately as profitable as have the
m l!sat Athene, Graniteville, Lingley,
Augusta, C ilumhus and Tnon. The
AugUAfa factory -c.»mi*ig out of tht
wit with its uitchinery much worn
an.l behind the times, with
i?s past earnings invested iu confederate
bonds—has replace*! its old and woru
*»ut machinery, n*lde«l new machinery
ar.d hail lings to the extent of $400,000,
divided among its stockholders on av
erage of 18 per cent, a year, and accu
mulated a surplus fund of over $200000
Tueraillsat Columbus and Athens bav
known about tlie same measure of
success.
The statements a* to the Atlanta mi 1
are a fair sample of the h dance of the
article. The impression is sought to he
c uveyud that it has been in operation,
and that it failed because it could not
c in pete with New England mills,
miil has yet to **piu its first pound oi
cv.ton; but, unlesi the te^tim >ny * I
the best experts of N*w Eaghmd
is at fault, it will, as soon as its spin
d es are starle*!, produce cotton fabrics
at from one and a half to two cents a
pound less tljau it is possible to pre^
d ice a similar quality of goods in any
New England milt It is the best piece
o' mill property of its size in the coon
try, as practical results will very soon
thow.
The idea that “no gxxls ate maru
L.ctnred in the south which are able u
compete in the New York m- rkets with
t'iose of New Kagland make,’’ is nimoli
absurd. A^ soon as we have suppbed
all local and near-at home markets, w*
w II show the New Englanders whe h: r
compete in the New York m.-ir
k«*t or noL And we wil'
t.-»t claim much credit iu case of
muxvss, focause all the advantage* are
o i our side. We will use cotton grow n
in on* locality, instead c! cotton grown
iu half a *1. xen stales. We will u-e
c Ron that bos rot been compress* d
i*' x stained, nor damaged oy long ship
meats. Ia a word, our mills stand m
t: e cotton fields, and not » thousand
milfej away from them. We have ma
chinery of the latest patterns—as gxo!
in every respect a* Manchester can
>aimand, with advant g^s in raw
laterial that neither Manchester nor
auy other New England city posaeee* a
Augusta has an improved watei power
of three times ihe*apacity of Ljwel.’s,
a»»d CtYiumbns on improved water-
i*ower stronger than that of
L»w recce aud Ma ich*s.«-.r combined
G .vernvr Straw’s facts are as wide *.1
the mark sa his theories. The ore is,
lowever, built upon the other, and
* hen one is refuted his argument at
erif col’.a; •«. He overlooks the fact
that cotton mills iu the a «nih are uo
longeron experiment. Tbe'r absolute
We have a very delicate duty to per
form—a duty that involves unusual
firmnes3 and responsibility. A young
lady whom, for the s<Jce of c mveni*
ence, we will cslRCharlotte, has writ
ten to as for advice with respc-ct to a
project which she has iu view—a pro
ject in the shape of a literary venture.
In order that the public may appre
ciate the difficulties under which our
fair correspondent labors, and which
have prompted the nendingof the little
no*e, perfumed and pink, now lying
before us, it is proper to stale—and we
violate no confidence in doing so—
that Miss Charlotte is up**n the point
of writing a novel. She has every
thing reudy to b‘ gin. The title *>f the
embryo book has been forg< d and the
plot duly arranged, and even the names
of the more prominent characters
(she timidly tella u») have been care
fully selected. But just as she is about
to put pen to paper, a fresh trouble
arises, and she appeals to us for advice.
'Of course,” Mias Charlotte writes—
aud we quote her letter aa literally as
our facilities for emphasis will allow—
'•of course you will think me a ridicu
lous goose, bat skally I am in trouble
I thouxht 1 hod everything ever
cicely arranged, when just
I am about to be
gin—ird*-ed, just as I am casting
about frr my first sentence something
asks me if I prop >se to draw my cl are
actera from rrol life or make the m pure
lv iD£AL.*nd then the truth dawna
upon me (hat I have token no account
even of the style in w liich my story is to
be written. Now isn’t it too provoking?
A*id 1 ku«>w you are going to laugh —
men, and especially editors, are so ri*
dicnlons - when you discover that I
have written this letter to ask your ad
vice. Please be good just this one
time and tell me what to do.”
Not once, dear Charlotte, did even
the shadow of a rmiie ffo-ker across the
S'/lcmnity of the editorial couuteuaoce.
We did not even tend your letter aloud
to the arrogant young men who write
np hullo, and picnics, aud weddings,
and other tragedies. We merely banded
it rilently to the n#*arc-«t, who passed it
silently to the next. There w as no hilar
ity. One of the yonngnien.wliuHe grand
mother liad predicted that he would
one *Uy be a j*oet, hut who shortly af
terwards developed an a>iu >st uncon
trollable desire to In come a clown in a
circus, higlied and looked thoughtful
when he hud mastered the contents of
y*»iir letter. Auo’lier, who has written
several stories iu the magazines, asked
if Biker county was solid for Miiledg
ville. But beyond this there was no
criticism, and positively uo hilarity.
The dilficukittH th t have met you at
the very threshold of you exjierience
in novel writing are natural ones, aud
we look upon 3 our auxietv to be ad
vised—au anxiety that lias led you, w
fetr, to appiy in ;he wrong quarter
as a very flatterit g ti Hlimonial to your
string common ►ease. We shall en
deavor to aid y. u. dear Charlotte,
to the best of onr poor
ability, hut it is to be
feared* that you will find your
self confronted by difficulties more
numerous and stupendous than if you
hvl trusted alone t » your own judg
ment. If you have determined to write
a novel- if you are bent upon attempt
ing to master the marvellous processes
of character-painting—our advice to
you may be given iu few words: Strive
after the Common place. Save
as to the methods of
the best, strive to blot
from your memory all that you have
learned iu books. Write about what
yon know, and see and leet. Describe
the people you set* arouud you-study
their peculiarities. If your imagtna<-
tion have wings, bid her betake herself
to some remote con.er of the earth, and
leave you free to deal with that which
is real around you. Why, your cook,
dear Charlotte, would he a fortune
to you, could you but »e:xe upon her
peculiarities and photograph them in a
hook. That which may seem to you
commonplace in her character is the
gold mine in which geniu? In all ages
has worked ami delved and made the
world to wonder. Open yoor green
and gold edition of Snakoepeare, dear
Charlotte, and teil us what you
find. Exqu : site d* ’.mentions of hum:-.n
nature you and the critic* will say,anti
there you will be wrong. You attempt
to tell us what you have found by de
scribing your senmtion*. Shakespeare’
delineations are k» delightfully common-
p ace that you involuntarily describe
your own appreciation. You find
there writ by the great master wiuit we
are advising you to strive after
—the Commonplace. It
oa every page. What
is all this delicious chatter of Rosalind
in th* forest the absurdity of the mel
ancholy Jaques—the nimble wit of
Mercutio—the glib g'xisip of Juliet’s
•-ure©—the marvellous portrait of Sir
John Faistatl ?
Evade us not, dear Charlotte ! It is
the C >mmonplace—life—human lift
s 'inetimes beau'.iinl, sometimes beas:
ly, bat always the Commonplace. How
enchanting these portraits of an age
litat has crumbled into decay at the
touch of Gme! How vvquant the man
uerisms, how enjoyable the peculiari
ties of tnat famous array of men and
women who, when the wtxxmi lifts his
wand muster before us, now in the8*1-
etnn pomp ar.d show of tragedy, now
in the mirth-provoking oddities of
omedy. Bit whether in one or the
ther always commonplace; for
umaa nature is the same ia allag-e
aad times, and in al. ages and ttmae it
com moo place.
Read again, dear Charlotte, the
* Vicar of Wakeue’d.” How utterly
commonplace and yet how charming!
Ke*d “Tae Narrative of lieary E»-
aiond,'’ by Thackeray. Here you will
'ndeed find the commonplace both
is to style and as to character,
but haw pure and sparkling the oae
and how vivid the ou.er! What gran
deur and strength there is ia the per-
Vct reposr of the rhetoric of luis mas*
ter of Ea^lis *! Hjw« tnply and how
sweetly the story is toll! Bel eve as
you will find models enough, bat wil
you be content to follow them ? We
have before us two volumes writ
ten by a wom-tn darirg the
past few years tha*. may well serve to
point the moral of the dull sermon we
have been praacuing you. The title of
ment of the book*, hot tte .hock de« j THE FIFTH OF DECEMBER.
Charlotte, will do yon good. “Theo l
was written by Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Barnett when she was only seventeen •* jr - coombs oecb M f *mm oe rum
years of age. A know’edge of this f»ct “
will serve to mollify your literary re
sentment, for, as the work of a girl of
eevonteen, the book is positively prom
ising, and when yon learn that the
etory ia envolumned now
against the judgment and wishes
of Mrs. Burnett, yon will begin to per
ceive some of the difficulties that beset
the successful author. You have
doubtless anticipated the moral of our
allusion to these books. “Theo” con
sidered alongside the average novel o!
the day is not a failure. It is the out
growth of the author's readings and not
of her experience, and ia therefore
weak and artificial from beginning to
end. It is not a work of art. “That
o’Lowrit’s,” on the contrary, is by
all odds the most strikingly original
contribution that has recently been
made to the current literature
of the day. Its strength lies in its in
dividuality -its success is due to the
fact that the author has drawn ou her
kuowledge ot human nature for the
materials, and its merit as a work of
art consists in t oe fact that the com -
monplaces incident to the lives and
characters of the people of a mining
district are accurately and picturesque
ly portrayed. Once more, dear Char
lotte, and in conclusion, permit us to
say—Strive after the Commonplace.
•OLD Si/
Opinions of I bo •rootle Peter.
They were discussing the capital
csapelxn sad how the MUltdccTilto colored
orator, Peter O'Neal, got walloped and was need
as a floor-wiper by the 8tvannah darkles.
“Well,** said Old Si, *'dat orter be or warnin'
tar deee niggers dat links cej kin play dere dr-
kn* tricks in dis matter."
‘ Iu wbar Hne ob way r*
"Lemms 'lustrata* hit! Par’s dat Pete O'Neal
dat wax ’mongaidemos’ red moal aline talkin'
ncbber-cib up an* fnrebber ’publican nJgjerx in
de Ballick legislate r 1**
Pat’s down in <W hixt’ry !**
Den be voted for do capital an* wboop’d
•round hyar like he’d jf*e got de verdick ob cr
jury rewardin’ him ciene Utica tor uo whole
state ob Gcorgr! **
4n* whamra’?"
De dimznocrats cum in an* Pete war
tirmandld ter de obekuerty ob dat rriva'.e life
lam which he bed rix. Dsr he h*« bio ebber
sc no?, growl a’ lean an* hongrier an* gittin*
m< ughty non pilitikal ex de kr-ps got short
an' de flnanahl) distress arrove! **
•Now hex fer MUlidgfll.?’’
"Yaa, ter Millidgflll, er dollar cr day en’ ack-
chul ‘spensee on de carspsue
But «f he goes meanderin’ ’round mo* darkica
like d« m In Suvannerde 'apenatsob deenmpane
ar’ gwlne ter be’pdc dock ter* an’ de drug Uxo<
powerfully V*
••Whar is ho now ? *
"Lade up f-r repa’n* 1 *spo«e, 1- aatwiac 1 hain’t
tKcrdobbim won den. Dun triggers when
dry an! down on him dey sot heavy an
him damage. But Pete alnt gw ire ter las* long
in dis bisl new. l*e lust ting dey kna’dowu dar
at Millidgflll ’Poatie Pr ter s gwlne to deny bu
murmur*, ptay Judus Hystaricka wtdde mouuey.
a'.caj de ruoater dat crow’d throe time btfo’ days
w*»k, au* dry'll bab him luaide ‘de walls ob hi
taunts' U fo* de rcturuiu’ bode ivpuus, yet
hi Ah m«!”
"Ikm gu*jd-bye. Pete !'* said Amur, mud the
cr»wd echoed, -•Psr'weil !'*
BY BOV B. JuHNMiN.
* I rent isan cuebauted gwrdoii in the lAvert
of A*leu in Arabia —Sale's Koran.
Tir said, that where the desert winds are sweep*
iug
O er thor© mods the Arab’s dwelling-place;
Tuat Item's flowera their fadeless b uow
keeping,
A Ptrudlae iu its vo!ni*tuout loceliueas;
!?* vain the tropic am: its fiery rays
Upon that rosy wUd*rn.s«L. taiowir.g;
Still in its tcuderuffc, ^nc!'anted groKk-g,
l«t* leaf bcueatu Uw uutneudly sky decays.
« o d-trtss* d Ac*cia»! Honeysuckles wreatbi^i
Tb-ir creamy |*iume» with Jasmin*’ uiitraiue*
grace.
U-isets. their wealthy odors far outbreathing
a wed by no rival Ungv ou Beauty’s face;
I. riieit, ilaiue-robetl, or bearing cups of snow.
While banting llyaciuihs, with hcavj fragrance
laden,
II. de widi their gorgeous carpeting the wastes of
Aden,
A ad *11, with Amaranths onwilhering grow.
ho fable this! On earth this Item lies.
Faith’s stately Palms, their branches sky ward
spreading
Panaks of holy thought, and Lilted purities
O’er li, Love’s Boses generous balms out-shci.
oing;
Tais Garden fair our God himself li-tth made.
Keeps blooming in these wasting c.imc« terres
trial,
Soul-flowers! they ale not, for their life’s celes
tial.
From Heaven’s <»wn fountains myMlctlly fed
success in the post unsers every mote- ia “Tow©,” of tha other, “That
KrUI fu: tiua h. prewau.
OjrlaaJ, are warke.1 by argmw
while a.tire while help ia abainlaat
and eanfetaedlp rxsuilent. Libor
onh n.acd atrikta are not to the manner
bon. The climate ia «apart ally .dapt-
al to the profitable manolnetnreotoo*-
o’Lowrie’a.*' We adriae you to
act there books and read thtm. Head
‘‘That L'aao’LiwreV’ with espetial re
gard to the character stndiea you will
fi~d therein, and then read “Tbeo."
Too will be shocked at
the great difference in the
TUB HX.VUO or U*OHB1A.
e dj'tnrnwrsl of Uiw llodjr Niue l>Ie
Itauh vfs Promt wen i tliizeu.
Sswctal Dispatch to The Constitution.
Columbus, November 17.
The reports of the committees were
road and dtacomed this moruing. Ihercqurst
TUX rOXSBYTKnY or FLOJUDA
to b. made a synod was uot granted, but defer
red to tfce next seaaion. The aynr*d arijourued
ft*r the session to-night to meet next October
Atlanta To-morrow the ablest divin*s of the
synod will preach.
JCIKJE TI1E0PH1LIS fl t I P,
one of the leading citixeas in Cnattahoochee
ciumy, died this morning. He was a
wide it fluenoo la this section.
turn SYSOD.
1«- Sfwisa taCslsmkns-A Floe Body
0 Ml Ailssfs’s B«pieNtufullon —
u**ppy Fixes of a«vtiug.
OcL r MBU§ November 17th.
The Presbyterian synod has been in
hire two days, and will cantinne its delibera
tions until Monday next Compared with the
general assemblies of the Methodist and Baptht
chmches in the state the synod is a small body.
To ere are not more than fifty members present
this being hardly ithe canal at ter das oe. The
foil roil contains over one hundnd
Tut re ore in the control of the aynod about ona
hundred and twenty church aa, with on aggre-
gsta membership of
oven max thootasd wnsaas.
Of the appearance of the synod I cannot
s^cak in terms loo complimentary. Presty.
rota m ulstars, as a rale, are men of flue per.
anuri appearance, elegant social qualities one
general accomplishments. The high atosdaid
ot acDolarihlp required by the discipline oi the
caurca haaesured iu ministarsalways to rank
high in the imelltciUAl progress of any o*xama-
ulty or country.
1 believe that the sermons delivered from the
Frosty tartan pu pita of this country will com
pare f» vorably with any ret of productions by
any other society or any other church. The
church Is justly proud of this fame. It was
surely something to boast of that oar American
Presbyterian preachers should cross the cceaa
and go to the seat of Presbjterisn power and in
‘UiftM «:»—■•/. ^ty^nmnmnj the euthnatastic
admiration of a people who are by no means
emo.ioasd in the aynod of Georgia there are
Special Dispatch to the Constitution.
Caktxrbvillb, November 17.
This was one of thoee commonly-
called ‘ field days” in CartemUle. The occa
sion was one that rrcsl.ed the ancient days of
Georgia and gave genuine pleasure to ev«r> on*
who had the good fortune to participate.
UES. XOBUtT TOOMBS.
the "Great Tribune of the People.** was on
tiourced to address the people and the word
puned over the county of Bartow like news oi
the arrival of a long absent friend. This is the
first time since the war that General
loombe has visited the county
Bartow npoc a public mitiloc and
naturally attracted a great crowd of his ad-
Thegtnetal arrived upon the morning
train front Aii«n to and was «*cortsd to the
Kicks House, where he had rooms and received
Us old friends and those who desired to grasp
him by th. band. Hi was visited by a amain-
erob.e number-
A MACMTICUIT EFFORT.
At the hour oi eleven a m. the court houre
wax filled with a large and attentive audience.
Vany ladies were present to grace the occasion.
Every seat in the hcu*e was filled and among
thu auditor* were a number oi colored people.
The en’rance oi Genera* Toombs was greeted
with applause.
General Pierce M. B Y ung introduced tha
noble old Nestor of Georgia atatasmen in word*
ol high eulogy and pleasing oompUment
Gen. Toombs arose and at once oocgratnlated
the people upon the near approach of the day
of their de iverauce from a constitution not ol
their own makUg. or nude b> their consent
lie addressed bimaelf to a full exposition of the
two constitutions, snowing the groat defects of
that of 1867, and holding ap toadmli
groat reforms, improvtmm’a and e*
tne new one oi 1877. Ue spoke of the chahsca
made in the representative, judicial a nd extra
live branches ul the government and exhibited
their admirable adjirtmeut, under the new c
st* iu lion, to the necessities ol me times and the
preservation of popular liberties. Upon these
ten. Toombs reached, st times, the grandest
imax of power and the tublimest flights of
eli queue*.
When the general -poke or the UmitaU.ms
placed upon legtatative power and of the re-
slrlctioia upon corporations the for. tight
pr'found wi'dom of bis statesmanship were
brought into bold relief and his grand demon*
atration of the inalienable rights cl me
limit acd control the ilargoroua powers ol
legislation and corporate bod'e* wtu interrupted
time afb-r time by rounds of applause.
General Towmb? ( with touchiug and con vine-
lg eloquence, apokc of the homestead and
plained his views upon it.
WOODS FOR ATLANTA.
General Toombs spoke of the capital question
and unqualifiedly stated his preference for At
laota as against any competitor. He thought
mat paramount considerations el comfort, ooa
Veuience aLd economy should determine the
location iu mat city. Ue paid a generous
p.imcut to the post history and pleasant mem
ories that clutter about MiiledgeviUe. bu*.
thought mat theto were not so powerful senti
ments as to control the action of me people
u|K>n this question. The convention left the
i me people, and they must d«cide it
iijiuu conxi k-rations ol souud economy aud
pr gn-Mive pub ic policy.
Gen. Toombs, upou arrival in Cariereville,
,ui-d arsursi:*x-N of ** uiw- uime-us a feeling in
favor of Atlanta tha; he deemed it unnecessary
array all tin details of me question before
his hearers. The frequent snd hearty applause
which greeted liix words for Atlanta showed
i>*t he had correctly determined
The sptech occupied about two hi ura and a
half iu iu delivery, aud was one of the gn steal
llbits that licueml Toombs has put forth since
ho war. It wss like me ivassertiou of Pericles
before the Atheuiawa who had uot forgotten the
honey *d his woudrous words. Such was the
.rdict of all who beard me speech.
Coloucl A baa Johnson entertained General
T..ombs during the atternoou st his residi
Mr Joseph oru-.-sel, of me Detroit Free Press,
Dr. W. U. White, and several gen lemen from
northern slatts.were pr seut to hear Mr Toombs,
snd all w»-rc delighted.
Charlie Wtilii-Kham wi.h In the'oes'. hamor
and eujoyed the success of the day aa well as
tue disliLgulKhed orator himself.
[Prcm nn Occasional 1
After General Tcombs had concluded, Mr.
h.uu W Small wot. loudly and voviferotuly colled
for A lur.e number of the young men of the
town had prcvkusly talked of inviting Mr
Small to come io Carter**! le to make a speech,
s no ihu occasion afllmltd too good an oppjriu-
irity to be neglected. Mr Small took the stand
amidst great applause, and said that be could
not presume to interest the audience alter the
distinguished speaker. General Toombs. The
able exposition ol thu new cons itution made by
General Toombs served to strengthen his faith
in it as a wise aud unrivalled document. Mr.
Small called upon me young meu of hia
age to rally to it on the 5;h of December. And
as a culmination oi me apsech ol Gen. Toombs
oa tbs economies of the new constitution, he
called the attention of the su iier.ee to the im
portance of voting for Atlanta os the capital
11 st .'■tep in cooftiunmatin* what already has
b-.-an inaugurated in the formation of the new
constitution.
While the apccch of Mr Small was short, it wa
to the point in every scnteuce he uttered, os
evinced by the repeated rounds oi applause he
x -ccived.
His speech made a good imprewion upon the
audicnc?. and ciirclie l the nail for Atlanta an
me capital of the state.
At the conclusion of hia brief remarks,
happily rendered, Geu. Toomb* warmly cox:
gratulated Mr. Small in the presence of the
dicuce, and amid *h*-ir rpptouae. V
**? intend to vindicate myself as sure as that
an shine*, and leave my children nothing to ba
ashamed of when they remember me hereafter
I would not do so, except upon a trial in the
courts of the country where tt was neccswsry to
tell the whole story in sail preservation. That
•y is about to occur, and no man can say
when it is done that Foster B’odgett willingly
gave np his secrets and ruined him.**
WOETH THESE WEIGHT IM GOLD
Am I to understand that those papers mat
will vindicate you will convict the other
parties?’*
• I say that if it Is neoieaary for me to show
up everything in m? own defense, me state wiil
not flud it hand to get hahl of me rcfponslbie
ponies’’
* How about Bollock?”
‘‘Well, I don’t core to nay much about him;
he has not treated me right lately. I will say,
though, that without my aid th* state can’t
touch him ”
'You surprise me *
‘And I will surprise the peoole of Georgia
when they put me before a Jury in Fulton
county. And I will tcli you
another thh.fi that may surprise
yon—:f I don’t my family will yet regain from
me Hate every dollar's worth of pn.p.-rty that
she confiscated to pay my so-called ‘khefu T*
XEaoy tun TOTAL
Mr. Blodgett has been ready and anxious fur
atrtaL Ha ad ways stoutly asserted than, but for
the adTice of his council, he never would have
eroded arrest and trial During his illnees and
la his delirium he seemed to have the "trial" on
hlsmind and ouoc asked a friend at his bedside:
"Have they got into me merit of the case yetr •
He is dead now and we give the above ae we
remember it and we believe accurately- Hi*
papers, of ooorse, ore extant iu me hsnri+
of his family.
ANDREWS’ MEN.
THE FEDERAL POODS. KJi *S» “.SS.SKilHEMARSHAL’SMUilSTERS
upon the soil as they can in the mill. I
POLITICAL WAirS WHOM WASH
ING lOE.
A. Falter Keratin ilse True
•I the Capture ana Trial
ess’ Stem.
nclal
NOT A MURDERER.
BOW A SIB INGA DARKEY CAME
IO THE CUT.
Apd Clet '-leked up bj the Police far
L SIarderer—Ntrauge Conduct on
» Cora—But it won lus First Hide
one of the freight trains on the
itral road wss standing at Grifflu a darkey ap
_ ach<d as thoegh he would ltae to get aboard.
Ba would move np to the train continnoniy
and then d»rt back as If afraid to venture upon
can. He shadowed one of me- car hands
who was tending me switches until me latter'
suspicions were aroused, and he ha I an idea me
stranger darkey war trying to get a chance to
kill him. Just os me train started, however,
the train-hand went aboard ana the darkey
jumped on after him.
AM OCTMDE SKAT.
Seme of the meu on me train told him to go
inside me cab, bat he refused, and seemed to
prefer a seat on the rear platform Finally he
kded to go inside. When there he
■taxed around and gave such nervous starts as
to attract general attention. The suspicion
entered the heads of the railroad men
that this fellow was trying to
from justice for some crime he had done. When
he rather nodded once and the conductor
slapped him on me shoulder for his fare, he
jumped nearly through me car-door and trem
bled frightfully. This confirmed ail suspicious,
and thence on to Atlanta he was watched aud
guarded ctese.y.
HE WSS A MUODKKEa
they decided, and no mistake— perhaps the
who had perpetrated the broody deed at Barnes-
ville so recently. He answered the description
of mat monster very folly, and me boys thought
they had a grand prise in store for the police.
When the train reached town they whistled
for a policeman. The signal wax repeated indcf
initely along the streets and struck npou the
dro wry ears o r this reporter plodding homeward
The shrill sound woke every nerve in
his system, and visions of a burglar nabbed iu a
coal-hole, a razor-fiend yanked out of a negro
tail-room, or the arrest of me murderer of a
family of thirteen help css children arose before
A policeman galloped down the middle of
the street and joined two more vigilant pro
servers of the peace at the corner. Away they
went—off Into the darkness of Whitehall stree*
HIS FIRST OFFENSE.
At the depot they found me frightened pas
senger ol color and escorted him to me police
station, more dead than alive. Here was a ten
strike! 1 his bloody villain had run into the
very jaws of justice! They investigated their
pr.zj and he showed ep clean. He explained
who he was and mat thin was hU first ride on a
railroad tr.in. He didn’t know how to
me critters, nor how to auy ou when he
had mounted He said he was “skter'd mo*
ter dtf All de time dat de ingiuc war humpin'
along!” He was releneed on promise not to re
peat the offense without a guide aud weut oa to
hU friends rejoicing.
BLODGETT’S BOX.
»r a untie
1 Handle Him Tcod.-rljr(**—Tako Him
Belsre a J. F. ana rind Him Guilty
Fi st— N# More Jugging Wltbom
Trial by Jury.
Atlanta, Nav. 17, 1877.
Editors Constitution-Oa trie 12th day
of April. ISrii whan the .armies of the confed
eracy were at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Corinth
and Vicksburg, under General Bring, with
General MUpbell, at Shelby ville. Teunaasee.
with a.largp force operating between Chattonoo
gn and Corinth. Mis-i(*’pv>i, a detachment of
twenty-thiee men of Mitchell's command de
scended as tar as Marietta, Georgia, a distance
of over one hundred and twenty-five miles
within our line. Th“*e men cun? among us. dis*
guised as refugees, from K -mucky, ls they htud
for me purpose of j tinirg tho southern army
(At that time 1 wss a commissioned utficer with
the rank of captain, but detailed by Governor
J E Brown as pas^-nger cmductor on the
Western and Atlantic railroad.
Theae twenty-three men came down on the
night passcucer train on toe 1 ’ th of a pr. 1 ,1S63
acd on me morulug of the 12th got on my tram
at Mari.-tta, home paying to oae point and seme
to another, but most of them paid their faro to
Big Stanly, (then called Camp McDonald, as
was a camp oi instruction there at the time)
and asserted that it «*» their intention to join
me southern army. When the train stopped at
Big Shanty moat of the po.'seugengotoff for
breakfast, it being the eati g station at that
time
This; twenty-three men under the lead of
I ajar Andre wr, by apncv>ucerted arrangement
when all the railroad men and most of the pas
sengers were at breakfast, seiz d the eugine and
three empty freight ears which 1 bad along,
leaving the passenger cars and all the pa;sen
gen and railroad hands behind in astonisament
and with a train minus locomotion.
The history of the race attended with all its
hardships, dangers and intense excitement is
very well told iu s book entitled "Daring acd
Suffering.” dictated by a Mr WmPittenger, q--
of the i uvrrty-tfi rd. Ilia statements sue taken
jrom the “bou bern C ml^der.-cy," a paper then
publ R'urd iu this city by Col Geo W Adair.
But for re sons kt own to myself, it is only
the refill's trial i desire to speak of n
tmUi-icut, tii-rii, to sty tbit the entire party
captured. And thousands of thq best
in this country know that they were captured
by my effort and maungemeut. This 1 am no
ashauAl aof roroid to confess, even now
though it be unpopular. They were carried t<
Knoxville and tried ss spies. I was carried
m^re as a witness against them. The testi
mony of Wm. Iittengcr, who to'd who and what
they were, and my testimony, which was as to
what they did and what they tr.ed to do,
conYcted them as spies. That is to say eight
of them only, as only eight were tried, as it was
developed by PcUin^er’s testimony that eight
of them, Andrews being me leader, volunteered
for a consideration of sixty thousand dollars
(me othets being detailed) at Andrews’ request
to penstrate wuhiu the southern liues as n
Atlanta as possible, aud burn all the bridges
me Western aud Atlantic railroad, by which
msousof transportation the southern army
sustaining Andrews told me wh n 1 visited
him In j-til in Kooxviile, thnt such
pric : he wss to have been paid, and that such
was his understanding, aud aod-.-«t, laughingly,
mat Inasmuch as I hod prevented him from do
ing an, mat Georgia or the confideracy. if U
livtU lomj etuiigh, ought to give me that sixty
thousand dollars
It is only necessary to add that, being iaund
guilt) uuder the thou existing taw of the land,
they were sentenced to die. They were
Atlanta and executed accordingly. There was
no unlavvlul act by any officer or citix-*u, neither
in Atlanta or in Knoxville. The court
computed of the regular number of ufficereof
rank, presided over by a former ju-ige
superior court of Georgia, thou a colonel in the
Confederate S ale* army. The prisoners were
dtf ended fo Judge John Baxter, of KuoxviUci
Teuucsseu,aud Judge Gault, oi the same statu.
These gentlemen wiU say mat the trial v
fair one and the result a reasonable
under the laws sa they theu existed. 1 hav
converted with Judge Baxter ou the tU'-ject
since the war aud my recoticcU.ua Is that suen is
his opinion.
1 have in my povsesciou a document signed by
several of the unfortunate men to the cff.c; that
my testimony wo* the truth throughout, ana
expressing the kindest feelings toward me,
though they had tried hard during ihc most
exciting race ol over one hundred miles, to trill
mu, ss well as while in the Woods after they
were forced lo abandon the engine wki.e the
lit tie party which I hal gathered upon the way
—six men—were iu their immediate pursuit.
I would wit have 'hex trespa«s. d upon you r
space«xcept that the truth of thin little piece«
war history has been ro w irted by iKir’izJus i
to be scarcely recognisable. Rrnnectfully,
Wm. A. Fuller.
P S—The fifteen detailed meu were exchanged
except one or two who crcaped from jail iu At
lanta and made their way through the line.
Ir. Strphess's Bill for
Rellel—Tfco Army Bill
ot the Dloappslated Poncas—
Cow or Small*—'1 c«ama<.Is khermsn
aud tke Army.
the high type of Christum ministers, upon
whoa so much of me hope of the wor.d de
pends Atlanta is ponicd-arly well represent* d.
Dr Leftwich was chosen moderator with great
unanimity and he is on excellent presiding cfh
ccr. proscrtingolw ys on easy d;gni y wbichtx
p-xli*es business and coa-ea the proceedings to
on wi:h a bointiful smoothuees. He is to
pre tea Sunday at the elegant Presbyteriai.
church. There is a coariderxble anxiety here to
him. It may ■a.'eJy be predicted
he will give one ol the
brititant sermons which the people oi Atlanta
have so often heard from me pulpit of tne Cca
usl rresbytertan ebazrb. Rev J H. Martin.
D D., of me First Preabytexian church, is one
of the moat active and useful members of the
body, and hu iLflaecoe is pe haps second to
that of no member of the synod.
The venerable Dr. John Jones, of Atlanta
races tbe body w tih his presecce and aids its
counsc-s no .ittie by his nch experience ard
d.-voted piety.
Rev J. L Rogers, of your city, u a 1 so one of
he most infioeaiUl men in the body.
The proceedings of the synod so far have pre
dated nothing of any great importance, except
■ outre already telegraphed you. The body is
•ot so important In the management of church
flairs an the presbyteriea It is scarce, y more
ban a central consultation meeting, having
hole direct jurisdiction in the control cf the
chuicheein Georgia. The people of
VVTSGOOO CITT
are estrrtahncg the del {gates with tf-ot rich
hasidtality for which they ore famocs. No
more pleasant place of meeting could have
been chosen. Among the cultivated, elegant
and whole touted people of this rommanity »ho
l will pass a defightfal wmlrei. which will
p.-obably; lotg kg fueemberet with pleasure.
r H. JL
He Claimed so Hold HI* Complete
Vindication In Hr nd-Wouldn't
••Peaeh’* Until Compelled fo Be
lieve Hits*self In Court—XIU Inter
est. In tlie Grcut Trials.
The death of Foster Blodgett ends
the criminal proreiuiious j-endiug against him
in me rupeticr court of this c ranty ai;d which
were to have come to trial iu December,
the earnest desire of Mr. Bio g_-tt, prior
death, to hav*; h te coses tried and dispoaed of
end bit friends claim it a great misfortune to
his reputation that death should have
cut him eff from
fits of a foil legal Investigation
of his acts in connection with the state's affairs.
WHAT BU DUETT SAID ABOUT IT.
Some mouths ago a reporter of The CoMsrmu*
tion had a long conversation with Mr. Blodgett
contenting the approaching trials In the
conns cf the conversation the following
pasted:
"When I wss am sled and brought bsck here,
said Vr. Blodgett, "yon mad* a great to do in
The Constitution a boat my little ‘tin-box’ and
what it wassappoted to contain. Yon remem
ber your Intel viewing me at the postoffice one
day and I te Id yon that I had nothing in that
box that
WOULD ca: MIN ATX AMY DEMOCXATS
n the transactions for which 1 was under in
dictment.'
"Yes, i rc member so publishing the statement
at the time
"Wei', I repeal that to jou now. I said that
the contents cf that box (which is all a myth to
for as me box is co-ceree!) were nothing more
than p pen relating to my private affairs. Bat
the; rotate to my private affairs and fortune*
this teme connection with the state's affairs in
which I w*s involved and to the acts lor whirh
I am to be tried.”
"THEY ABE MY SALVATION ’’
"Are the? Bach patxrs oa will assist Jen to
c!e?r yon reel f of Uiechargfar*
“They are my sslvatioi he exclaimed, with
emphasis.
“In what wa> ?"
•‘Weil, now. what I *ay to you !« not for the
newspapers, but you will bt in a position at the
trial, I tappose, to verify what I fell you. Witt-
out goi g into detail. 1 can s»y thir, that I have
rested under the respond Li It v for many acts in
which I had no hand whatever I was idasply
made the scape-goat of men who had the whip-
hand of me and I could not ‘peach,’ yon knew,
without being set down as ungrateful to them.
I knew I bad nothing to fear in the end, and 1
was willing to rest nn ler the charges long
•.-cough to give them all tha chances to get cut
mat thev c raid ask ”
"Yon mesa mat you on 11 any time have
cleared your skirts of these charges?”
"Yea, bat it would have played h—1 with
some ether people!”
“What was that to yon ? I wouldn't reel nn-
oer what you hare lor oil these years to save
any ten men in Caristesrote-m.”
couldn't FLAT low d vs.
"Ordumrily, I would sot either, bat they had
been my friends and had dore a srrret deal for
mi and if tin y tried ’o p ay it low down on me,
1 conkln’t retaliate Yon see my lawyers said
thst I must wait for popular feeling to subside.
For me to have opened op then would have been
o coil Gown upon aj te»d the cy of traitor to
my friendm. and wru!d not nave helped me any
in the eatimaticn of me community. So it
At the recent term of the stipe: ior
crartln Henry county a novel aud important
deexxn was made by Judge Johu 1. Hall, pre
siding.
THE CASE
wss mat of the town marshal of the village of
Hampton, who had arrested a drunken man
and pot him in me cals boose over night
The man prosecuted the marshal for th>
all- m d illegal act. and the c*se went to the
superior court aud was there tried. Judge Hal!
gave the matter a fall investigation, and in his
charge to the jury announced the
MEW IMTSOrKETATIOM OF THE LAW,
* that the marshal and police of a city have
authority to imprison a citizen until be has been
taken before a magistrate, and, after trial, ad
judged guilty.”
The jury found the marshal guilty, and the
judge fined him only Si, beoaosel of the want
of intention to violate tha law in Imprisoning
the prosecutor. The idee, too. Is a bran new
one, so far as we can learn, ard the question has
never before been before our courts. It
vexses all previous notions of the duties ol jo-
lice officers, and appears to effectually hand caff
them In the discharge of their dn ies.
JUDOS HALL’S VIEW
of the cose was that the act of the officer was
unconstitutional. He held that a tn.au has a
right to a hearing before being subjected to
punishment and mat imprisonment
punishment. He reasons from
constitution that the right Is inalienable
and me duty of respecting It imperative The
•une view would hold good under me new
constitution snd give the party arrested rfcbt
i rial by jury- Sj far as we can learn there is
reason to believe Jndge Hall correct In his de
cision aud that the supreme co .rt will sustain
iu
THE EFFECT OF IT.
The effect of such a decision upon the police
s; stems of cities would be meat harassing and
unfortunate. The police now have trouble
enough in m* king arrests aud holding offenders,
without being subjected to the ntoesdij of put
ting them at occe before the court-. Be eral
prominent difficulties in this matter are worthy
of attention
When me notice arrest a drunken man In b
In no condition to be tried or to make any de
feme to which be may be entitLd. Bow shall
he be k*pt iu the meantime?
Arrests mode at nlvht are numerous Courts
are then adjcatntd and n agtstrates asleep
What shall be done with the offenders ?
The police have the r untie* to attend to and
to compel them to ateice go with prisoners
before me courts and remain in attendance
open trials half a day would rain any police
system in the union.
In other instances me parties arrested would
not be ready tor trial nor able to give bond tor
their appearance. What should be done in
such cases with the accused?
We do not offer *ny answers to the above sug
gestions for we cannot see a way out of such a
dilemma, under the interpretation made by
Judge Ball.
The best we can do is to give
THE VIEWS OF ▲ POLICES! AN
to whom we stated me decision and of wbon
we asked au opinion upon it. He looked at
in astonishment and men remarked:
“Faith, acd that business of trottin* all round
with a dirty nigger in yoar grip fronting
justice of the peace is all boah. There’s about
much leaeon in it as there was in the demand
of the Irishman that got ffoed by a msgistiate
for fighting!”
"How was that?"
"Well, he got in e fight with Tim Rooney, acd
got arrested snd fined. He paid the fine sud
then asked the Judge for a receipt for the money.
You don’t need a receipt,* said the judge. ‘Aw,
bat I do, share 1* sa d Pol ‘But your release and
the entry on the docket are all that is necesrary,’
replied the Judge. ‘No, yer honor, 1 ax pardon,
bat yer honor knows that one day I will die sud
go up to hearts. and at the gate I’ll mate Saint
P*ur. and whin I want to go lu he’ll ah top me
x me if 1 ’ave paid all me debts down be
low? and I’ll say 1 ‘are, and he’ll ax if I paid
fur ipAtrin Tim Rooney on ther snoot ana I’ll
saj yis; and thin he’ll ax far me proof—and
tain I’ll have to coom bacx and ran all thro’
hell to find jer honor and git me recdm!’ And
it is jnst shoot as tough a time we’d have get
ting rid of a cose when we made on arrest, un
der that law.”
c n readily see bow It looks that way to
thepdiee. _
TIIK ARMY BILL.
Washington, Nov 17.—In the house
the senate amendments to the army
appropriation bill were acted on. The
more important were concurred in,
fourteen democratic members, includ
ing the live from Texas, voting with
the republicans. The bill now pro
vides that the cavalry regiments may
be recruited to one hundred men in
each coinpmy, and kept as near as
practicable to that number, and
that a sufficient force of cavalry
shall be employed in the defense of the
Mexican and Iudiaa frontier of Texas,
and that nothing in the bill shall au
thor* ‘ the recruiting of the army be-
youd 25,000 men.
FINANCIAL RELIEF.
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, introduced
a bill for the financial relief of the
country to facilitate a ret .rn to specie
payments without injuriously affecting
the commercial business and industry
cf the people. Referred. It provides
for the issue of three hundred aud fiftv
millions of exchequer bills, with which
legal tender notes are to be redeemed,
and for the issue of 3 per cent bonds,
with which the exchequer bills may be
exchanged at par, the bills to be re
ceivable for all debts, public and pri
vate.
THE PONCAS.
The final interview of the delegation
of Poncas with the government was
held yesterday afternoon at the Inte
rior department. Tuesday last, the
Poncas were Informed that thay must
return to the Indian territory, bnt
that they might select better land if
they do not like their present location.
This afternoon the Indiana expressed a
resolve to do what their Great Father
wants them to do, bnt the tenor of
their speeches indicated very clearly
that they will return to their homes
with hearts brimful of disappointment.
TKCUMSKU*8 VIEWS.
Gen. Sherman, in his annual report,
agrees with Sheridan's recommenda
tion, which would raise the army to
nearly 50 000 men, but despairs of suc
cess in such application to congress,
and therefore uiY.es such legislation as
will £ive ns 25,000 men for regiments
of line. This would m-ike tot the
present 430 companies, with au aver
age of fifty-eight meu to tlie company.
He believes it to be wrong and dam
aging to increase the cavalry at the
expense of the artillery and infantry.
THE DEFICIENCY APPBOPRIATION.
Of $694,390 reported in the honse de
fictencv bill to satisfy the judgments of
the court of claims, $633,078 i* for Mar
shall O. Roberts and E. M. Dickerson
ou account of Sloo mail contract, $4,115
to pay tho expenses of the commission
ers api»ointed by the president to go to
N w Orleans, aud $2 500 to pay tl e ex
pen sea attending the investigation of
tlie affaira of the mint and custom
house at San Francisco.
SMALLS, OF SOUTH CAltOLlNA.
The judiciary committee of the house
has sent for the court records in the
ca*e of Congressman Smalls, of S ratti
Carolina, held for felony.
EXISTING REVENUE LAWS.
The committee on ways aud means
will take no action during the present
extra session to disturb tlie existing
revenue laws.
ELLIOTT’S DILL.
The committee on coinage, weights
ami measures, of which Mr. Stephens
is chairman, heard Mr. E. B. Elliott,
tne treasury department, and a mem
b^r of the American meteorological
rociety, on the bul-jects before the com
mittee. Mr. Elliott g tve the committee
a learned and elaborate history of coin
age, and strongly favored the existing
system of having silver subsidiary
gold.
They prefer to work for themselves and
be independent of confinement. This
is true even .upon the sterile soil of New
Hampshire. The Anooskeag company
has lost more men, whose services it
would have been glad to retain, by their
leaving and going upon forms than it
ever lost by their leaving to go to other
mills. In the south the soil and cli
mate are of snch a character that work
upon the land will give better w’ages
than any manufacturer can all>rd to
pay, and this fact alone renders it im**
possible for that section to engage
largely in manufacturing.
“Again, the character of the s rath-
ern people unfits them for the service
which a factory require. The only
peer who ever do what we call a day's
rk, that is, who work 10 or 11 hours
__ succession, are the negroes, who
cannot be good mill hands. I .eluded
among the advantages wh eb northern
manufacturers have, are the surround
ings of these mills, the churches, school
houses, society, and other privileges
which accrue to their operatives, and
which they can only be drawn away
from at all by wages ruinous to em
ployers. Before southern manufac
turers can get pood operatives they
must supply these advantages, and
their cost must be addtd to those of
their water powers and mills. Indus
tries, hke plants, require localities
specially adapted to them. ,,r -
c an not raise cotton, for while
have soil enough aud a demand for
it, we lack the peculiar condi
tions necessary to its production. The
south can raise it, butc iunot manufac
ture it, for the same reason. England
imports her raw material and exp ats
her manufactured goods. She lab in
under the same disadvantages iu re
spect to transportation a* New England,
but it has taken ace: !’^ : * ns to rear
people and estr.Ui-ii rm* 1-* which ena
ble us to successfully coin pete with her
in our markets, and* ia Un.se t i Europe
she is still mistress.
“To sum the urn* ter up. The south
has water power and raw material. She
lucks capital and a market, which she
might possibly get. She lacks the
and climate, ar.d the men and woi
necessary to successful m.mufac'uring,
and theso it is not possible for her to
get and keep. She: cannot, therefore,
compete with N?w Eng! ind, which h is
the climate, water power, capital, men
and worn* ul. a re pita’ion aud a hold
CREATION OF A NEW CA ,
Tlie rrogrnmme of trie French Pr«e-
ltient—Ao Coop d'Elsi (OBirin-
phied-Altltnneor the OrlcnnlM*.
A CHAT WISH SITIISO BULL.
Ilia Ueaetlpilon nr lbs Battle With
Cnalar.
New Yore, Nov 17. - Sitting B ill has
been talkirg with a correspondent, and
telling the story of the Custer massa
cre. He nays S' “The fh’bt was lu til - a
thousand devils. The Fquaws were
like flying bird-*; the bullets like ham
ming beep. We thought we were
whipped at first, but. by and by after
wards—no. Your people were killed.
Fait tanks* MalM.
Th* re was shipped from the scale
factory 38 car toads of scales in SeLtem-
ber, and 41 car loads in October. And
there wm received of manafac-
factoring material in September,
a ptwi» til around to give then sway I 139 car loads, and in October 154 ear
* But jou wiB mi the trial V*
) loads.—SL JohnA ury, VL, Columbonion.
‘ November 9. 460
1 tel*.
NO LIES ABOUT DEAD MEN.
These ineu who came with- the long
hair we r e aa good men as ever fought.
When they rr.de up tneir horses were
tired, and they were tired. When they
got off their hor.-es they could uot
stand firmly on their feet. They
swayed to and f=o —so ray yonng men
Lave told me —like the limbs of cy
presses in a great wind. iSomeof them
staggered under the weight of their
gun&; but they began to fight at once.
Rut by this time our camps were
aroused, and there were pieutv of war
riors to meet them. They fired with
j eedle guns. We replied with tns^a-
zine guns and repeating rith s.”
bitting Bud illustrated, by putting
his palms together,
THE KAIMDII Y OF THE FUSILLADE.
“Our young mea rahied lead across
the river anti drove the white braves
back, and then they rushi.d across them
selves, and then they found thst they
had a good deal to do. The trouble was
with the soldiers. They were so ex
hausted and t heir horses bothered them
so much that they could not take good
aim. Some of th^ir horses broke away
from them and left them to stand anil
drop aud die. All the men fell back,
fighting and dropping. They could not
tire fast enough, though they kept in
pretty good order, 'lhey would fall
back across a caulie and make a fresh
stand bevond on higher ground. There
were a great many brave men in tli t
fight, and from time to time, while it
was goiug on, they were
SHOT DjWK LIKE PIGS.
They could not help themselves. One
oy one i he officers tell. Where the last
fight took place—where the last rtand
was made—the Long Hair stood Hke a
sheaf of corn with all the ears fallen
around him.”
“Not wouuded?”
“No.” *
“How many stood by him ?”
“A few.”
“When did he fall?”
“He killed a man. When be fell, he
laughed.”
HE LAUGHED.
“You mean he cried out?”
“No, he laughed. He had fired his
lasr shot.”
“From a carbine ?**
“No, a pistol.**
“Did he stand up after he (bat fell ?”
“He rose up on his hands and tried
another shot, hat his pistol would cot
go • ff.”
“Was any one else sending np when
he fell down ?’*
‘One min wes kneeling. That wap
all, but he died before the Long IMr ”
Sitting Ball says there were ordv
fquaws, old men and little children in
front ol Reno, keeping him in hit
trong pc si tion on the bluil aud pre
vent him g-, ing aid to Custer,
Plum Navinjr*.
Housekeepers who study economy in
HUAll things should use Dooley's Yaast I’otr
ibe best, bee: tue pcrricLJ j Un; trie cheap
est, as eve*y package i» -n 1 wefg rit.
lUtit WbttlMOisr, Seilclme .
Are biscuits, bread, roils, dumplings,
mode with Toolet’s Yea^t
A ways a-a it tor tbs <K It clou* Visana roil*,
should yoar groror not b«rK,~*al ref to cat
Dooley's Yeast lowcnitor yon, teod 30 c -nts
for * lb., SJ ceits .'or* !*>. or C3 cetta for lib..
dlr> c: to Dooley A Bkothck. Nsw York, and it
will be sent by moll, p^t-pa’d
Get trie Uronluf.
The genuine Dooley’s Yeast Powder
Is told only In can*. Always rtfos: it if eff^rrd
looce op in bulk. It is th practice c.f macy
grocers aid drolcro tokcc;i ebrap ^sk-ng'f Ye*»t
Powder loose, ard *e : l it for a y brutd that 1*
called for. We, therefore cwti'oa parent'ers to
see that they get tt onl - hi oa-e. coder the L •- K el
and Trad* Mark of the MoaafiCiunr#. Do. lsy M
Ebothjor, New York.
upon our markc
IN THE EAST.
rittMUttss nr tub ivut.o-Rvs-
HIAN WAR.
Erie Mete M »M .Tuning; III* Vol e to
Peace—An Aswnll oa Kara I’on
poiHHl—Knaalm to Mobilise trie He-
mslnder ol Her Army.
COTTON MILLS MOKIU AND SOUTH,
flow trie I'rmtufitan or Mew Vnglaml
Fncmrlew Ha* Increased Nloec Hu
War—Mo Imp ol Lon from South
era Compriitlon.
A Mr. Cheney, of New Hampshire,
having turned prophet and predicted
ruin to the cotton manufacturing inter*
ests, the editor of the Manchester Mir*,
ror called upon ex Gov. E A. Straw,
president ol the New England thtton
Manufacturers' association and ageut of
the Atnoakeag company, and asked him
pis opinion of that prediction. The
Mirror says:
“air. bt.raw is, and has been for
years, the agent of the largest cotton
mill ia the world; he knows as much
ubouc cotton ra.inufanturiug as any
man, acd he is thoroughly familiar with
tiie water power aud all other advan-
t ages of b ‘th the north aud south, and
he is therefore ixtiter qualified to give
it reliable opinion upon the matter than
auy other man. The following is sub
stantially his view of tlie case as he
was understood in a brief conversation:
First, it is not true, as stated by Mr.
Cheney, that mote mills have been
built in Georgia since the war than are
now in operation in New Hampshire.
Ou the contrary, there are not in Geor
gia to-day as many spindles as have
been added to the machinery » f Man
chester alone since the war. When the
war closed the Amohkeag company
was running 62 500 spindles; to-day
it runs 150,000. The Man
chester corporation, which at the
close of the war ran about 40.000, now
runs over 100000. The fiist goods
made on the L .rgdon were mode of
cotton >;r-wn after the war broke out,
aud tt.e hpindleson the Stark have also
been increased. This increase in the
Manchester factories exceeds, aa has
been said, the eulire number of spin
dles cow ruuuing in Georgia, and is
constantly going on. The iucrease in
New England manu acturing during
the last ten years is unnoticed and un
known by a large share of the public,
because it has taken place, not
by the increase in the numV»er of
mills, but by the enlargement of those
already built. Therearenomore Amos
keag c mpanics now than there were
in 1860, but the one of that name turns
out twice the cloth it did before the
war. There are two mills in Manches-
ier which use 1 per cent, of the entire
coifon crop of the couutry, and New
Eng aud now uses more than twice as
much as she did when the war closed.
“becotidiy, it is not true, as Btated by
Mr. Cueney, that the cotton mills in
Georgia are all paying. Iu fact, none
of them are paying except a few which
supply the small local demand for
g'jods specially adapted to their sec
tion. The cotton millaat Augusta, Ga.,
were built before the war^md since have
enjo>ed a comparative degree of pros
perity, because they have made goods
for which there was a demand in their
immediate vicinity, the market there
havirg been entirely etripped during
the war But cf the new mills built
since the war thoee at A’lanta wilt
serve as examples. They were
built to compete with thoee of the
north. The machinery was made by a
Lowell company, which has never been
able to get pay for it, and ahich is row
debating whether to advar ce the money
to run tne mills in the hope of getting
enough out of them to pay ior the
machinery. No goods are manufac
tured iu the south which are able to
compete in the New York market with
these of New England make, and
whenever there has been an a. temp ti
make these cation fabrics to sujpl/ a
foreign demand it has failed, as ai Au-
gists. An item has been goirg the
rounds to the effect that a Mnaachu-
sett: machine shop had recently ship
ped to the bou.h 500 gingham looms
i hfcse looms are not for the making of
S 'n^bam, but of coarse checked go. di
ruetj wear.
“Xhe increase in ‘.he cotton mannfac
inrii gol Manchester acd other towns
of New Hampshire has been the result
of a natural and healthy growth, and is
w«rranted not only by the growth of
the market for goods, bnt bv the ad-
v&ntotces whicn the mills erjiv, while
the establishment of lactones in the
south has been an experiment which
lias thus far resulted iu failure. The
sou. h has plenty of water power, but
it is wholly unimproved, an J to im
prove it would cost more than New
England power equally as good and
ready to be used can > e bought for, and
nnlil the improved water pow* r in New
England is a’l in use, that cf the south
is not worth taki g the gilt of.
“ft r_sy be stated as a general propo
sition that manufacturing cannot pros*
TIIK SIEGE OF EAR*.
London, November 17.—A dispatch
from Venn Kaleh. dated Thursday
says an assault on Kars was fixed fni
the 13lh inotant, and the troops were
ready for action by nightfall, hutowitip
to had weather tho assault has beeu i
d« finitely postponed.
MOltK TROOPS.
St. Petersburg, November 17.—The
minister ol war has ordered the. prepa
ration of stores necessary for the ino-
bilizttiou of the remainder of tlu-
artuy.
SKRVIA.
Several special dispatches from Vi
ennasavs Count. And•-.vsy, the Austro
Hungarian premier, has declared hit
belief that Bervia will not break j»eaco
The Standard’^ special corresponded
a’ Constantinople telegraphs,underd»t«
of yesterday: A council over which
sultan presided was he id yesterday,
am informed that general feeling wa:
expressed by nooue more strongly tha
the sultan in favor of making effort
put
AN KN1> TO THU WAR,
in which enough bed he* n d- ne
hath sides for glory, and which, it n
tinned, must inflict lasting misery
the two empires. It w«.* *f
however, that at present sufficien
reliance cannot be placed upon th-
iteclii. ion . ! Russia, and that eve
v bile seeking lo obtain honorabl
peace, preparations for prolonged re
si stance must bo vigorously earned or
l am told that, subject to this dote
miration lo prosecute the war, if a
honorable peace cannot be m-dmuinc
it was resolved that the time for en
deavoring to put an end Io the
has arrived. If my
formation ia correct, tlie gram
v'xier will to-day inform Mr. Layard
the British ambassador, of the dccisioi
of the council,in the hope that England
will aid in putting a stop to the wa
which so greatly damages her owj
trade and threatens to comp«omfae he
best i a teres t s.”
FROM BUCHAREST.
BuciiARiteT, November, 17 —Genera
Schobeloff was slightly wounded on
15th inst, but retains his cvinm-uui.
A decree has been published con
yoking the Kromaniau chambers
the 27ill inst.
massacre in Bulgaria.
Constantinople, X \ 17. -The Bu!
garian inhabitants ot V”** /. • have mat-
sacred the Masaulnu n inhabitants,
TH K M »NTENEGKi VS.
Vienna, November 17.—The polin'
C il curie p radenc* publishes a rutnot
that the Montenegrins have capture*
Antavari by storm and are march im
on Dulc gno.
EXPELLED.
Constantinople, November 17,-Th
Turks have err®, led the Russians froo
the village of Berkovtcha.
Paris, November 17 —It is believed
that the following will be members of
the new cabinet. None of them belong
to either house; at the outset they will
declare that they only hnld office pro
visionally: Minister of war, Majoi Gen
eral Grimandet do Richebouet, now
commandant of Bordeaux; minister of
the interior, M. de Welche, now prefect
* the Nord; minister of finance, M.
re, now director general of Forests;
minister of commerce, M. Ozenone,
now secretary general of the same min
istry ; minister of public work*, AI.
rail; minister of foreign affiirs,
’ le Febores Beheun. Nothing
known yet about the president
cf couucil or the minister of marine.
the committee of inquiry.
Among the members < f the commit
tee of inquiiv are M. Albert Grew,
Renault, Castmir-Perier, Louis Bmnc
aud Jules Ferry.
m'maiion's programme.
President Mac Mahon seems altogeth
er oppo ed to violence. This morning
he, in a conversation with an old friend,
scouted the idea of a coup d’ etnt as
purposeless. It is also asserted that
General Berthau* declared in the lobby
of the house that such an idea never
bad ard never would enter the mar
shal's bead.
THE ORLKANISTS.
Much importance fa attached to the
iews the Orleanist senators may tx«
press at the senatorial conference to
day of the delegates from tho various
groups of the right. The Orieanfata are
expected to define to what extent they
will support the government atul co
operate with the legitimmt and B >uw-
partfat groups in the senate.
BUBS1AU or A MILL.
Destrnrllve Fire In Fnll Stiver.
Fall River, Mass, Nov. 17.—The
Borden City milt No. 1 was burned *t
six o’clock this morning. The prop
erty was insured tor about $400000, in
mutual offices. The low* on thi miil
aud cloth is about $450,000.
THE MILL
was of brick structure, erected in 1872
contained 3,600 spiudles, employed
450 hands, aud was running full time.
No cause is known.
a dull, heavy explosion
occurred in tlie fourth story whirh
blew out the windows and which was
soon followed by another explosion iu
the third story with shuilor results.
THE GAM.
The man having charge of the gas
says he had turned it on Put a few sere
tiuda before the fire was discovered. He
thinks the gas c mid not have emitted
in a sufficient quantity to cau. 5 e an ex
plosion. It is slated ihat
400 rales of cotton
and a quantity of cloth were burned in
the ruins.
Blehra Tnklw R Wlnpg.
New York, Nov. 17.—A petition wm
filed lo-day in the United Sta'esdistrict
court iu Brooklyn by the attorney for
Commodore Poppenhausen to have him
adjudicated a bankrupt. His :>« ;(><«
and liabilities are seveu or eight mil-
iioua. Mr. PoppenliTusen has been
sick in Germany for eighteen mouths.
In two years he has lost the accumu
lations of his life-long labors.
Auk Yonrurlf ibor «l*e*tlon*.
Are you a des;K>ndent suff* rer Iron
Kick Headache. Habitual Costivenec*
Palpitation of the Heart? Have yoi
Dizziness of the Head? Is your Nerv
ous System depre.-eed? Does you
Blood circulate badly? Have you ;
Cough? Low Spirits? Coming up o
the food after eating? Ac., Ac All <
lhese and much mote are the direc
results of Dyspepsia, Liver Complain
aud Indigestion. Green’s Augusi
Flower is now acknowled by all Drup
gista to be a positive cure. 2.400 00c
bottles were given away iu the U. 8
through Druggists to the people as i
trial. Two doses will satisfy any per
son of Its wonderful quality in curing
all forms of Indigestion. Sample hot
ties 10 eta. Regular size 75 cis. Sol i
jKwitively by all fiist-clahs Druggfatsij
the United states.
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and instructive reading matter, fa a
want in every home. This want “An
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»ixteen-page monthly, which the pret-s
and criticrjoin in commending »n every
case, fa published by W. R Andrew*,
of Cincinnati.
From Nt Ucorce's Tropic*.
Halifax, N. 8, November 17.—The
American brig Bird, from Norfolk, Vr.,
for Ba*badoes t arrived at George's,
Bermuda, Sunday last, leaking badlv.
Her spars are sprung and her htill
strained. She wiil have to discharge
her cargo.
SHOT HIMSELF.
Lieut. Gehle, of the Royal artillery,
shot himself at his quarters at St.
George's, Bermuda, while temporarily
insane.
Science has accomplished no more
wonitrfB or ipt lif) iu.* re-uit than lie p*rfcct‘oc
aati 'utetolhechUtinattgrixo- spyro j.n nv
• e, something tooMJtcr.te the te!l*t le ‘jock* < t
Urn*, ard ?.,-**** tL* n'«oral Rdor rorvfe of
youth to ripe old age. Hull's linr He newer do *
Oil this, sod its i raise rc*o*i ds in o.tuze nod
e Thi-'wei'.M unoD^ th: aio«« ol Nor
way anti th® veasuvs of »arnv Fr^r ee ar.d
*ra r, find ue® for ft, and fled m- an? to ret 1\
seddoe* not diaippotnt them. Tne whitt-uin^
0*» again return-: their youthful color, the thin,
dry, and faded ba r beynnee bright anl g.osfj.
The whole appeerroec la change m U hj magic,
acd the nun or woman, who, Vroro aacaiJal
Dow appears oa one io thtftlmc of lif«*
been wooOcrous changea cacuoc pa » unoouied.
and they have r reduced ;hd m precod* ate ‘ de
tA that new exia'.a for the tmt a.d only
art’eto em oompoanuei that can produce thrat
in a pteaeiuz «nd ®atiaf. etory mauaf r.-.Vtw Era,
Woodstock, IU, DOYiS.^uAal;
Baker’s Cod Liver Oil. Lime, and
Wild Cms* it quick]* iehevie Throat and Lung
rkeetaee, and imparu rigw aud new life to
ebibtaitd conaututiooa. ll«oaant to aste
J. C. Bazzn d Co., Ftuiadelp&ia, j'j.
R» ta.tk7._df tat 4 a 4^
THE FARMER'S DREAM,
Wtelrta All Can Nee, Wl.hnui llreitm-
Iuk, Klghl S ome True.
' farmer sat in hie old arm-chair.
Peacefully by the flrcaide.
le thouKht ef the >carx of labor done.
And his dollara that multiplied;
Ue wonder’d if a’l this ‘•capital” teU
Was merely a campaign sell;
Mid thinking be a’t pL and »1<'eplng, drtamM
That ti e facta and the flgurf * on eneh aide of
h- questi< n cot into such •• jumble atid so hr r-
iblj tangled that which aide to choose 1 e
aaa’t really able to tell.
He further thought that hla vote was caat
In favor of MilicdKeTille,
• nd ’hat in the "Halls our fatiicn bat it”
The otitic c.m d live at h r wilt;
>/*nr.my would prevail and bo
The gui<lc of tiie government,
xnd ail thinga pood and tear we'd »eo
In the ancient Tillage where the houses didn’t
rowd each other, the p**op'c were rww. com-
•r-tiuon played out and th. pric.,-8 were doub efi
00 jk r cout.
le drvara’d that the di ngo would noon l ro
duos,
A failing of taxer a id *!ch,
Thatexpe Jws would lie Mood one half
And the pe pie would al! ge‘. rich;
*e thou .-hi he raw onr debt all paid » ff.
And our bonds redeem'd and burn'd,
.u lac', be marvi U’d at even a doubt
Should have tieeu in hia mind as to tiie wxa^
i»»m of movlug the government down from lb*
ticked and *’ alien ” place called Atlauto, where
orrup ton and fraud and extravagant ways hid
quandered the money the poor people to tax, a
.ad retained I
lie thought that the Ion* expe* d j«#rx
Of *• better tiinca” were truiy reach’d,
n ctiiut he could in rofciy now
Practice the sue the paper* preach’d;
tic pu rebated auita of new atorecothea
Put up iu the latoat Uahioua,
(e waived the homr stead ou h a uotca
Andteid. jabilatory tohiawife.to put bought
ooda oa the children regordlesi of expeuai-, to
lotroalxe town milliners,and ua*chaao a patent
troLk-ciiurn. greaaa the w. fli j irojs with uut-
x, buy a gilt edge Bible, s!de-butto.-ed ehoea,
.nd gen ra ly spread oni on tho tabic a doubti
Jlo.vaace of nahloua!
n»e years went by on nolaclcns wings.
01 taxes naught he ever dream.td;
The aherilT* axles eoacerned uot aim
Or promised notes to be redeemed;
But hoou hia fancy chang d the eceae.
The ptetare dorkeueJ to his gas:.
And aod dco.it iu all its ohape* reveal'd.
Informed him muse reliably that "the Lail.oor
father* built** were looking like a miMiaoe. the
rebivea of the otate wxe neutered, and ruine i,
h«i governor had the tevi-r, the supreme court
was down with the it.fluci z<, the 1- giaiature
»ad shook Itseif oat of town with thecMUx,afu r
bearing the reportaof .‘onneea archlbets tiiat
ihe baUs” were liable to bespread r.u: all over
htt beautiful twenty lot In a abort white,
md that before leaving to* y had voted a qaar-
ter of rci.l.on o b.iil i a new house "uagoo l
u. the old one.'* snd (hereupon the houe>t
/racgcr. in bis amaz ment Bat down ou the
flior,Kix inches to the left of hia chair aid
radly did he undrrataud that sootier, .y o. verol
yean, he atould have "rquesled!”
Ere c.
u *ga!n upon 1 U feet he rtooi
i*-n xuk4 kco.-xtig at hi* door,
b account—aa wide acd lung
Twon
One bore bis a
Am the carpet on big par'c
rhe other one some tax fi fan presented
Demanding twioe the rate of old;
Thua all the evils that be thought prevented
He found bad multiplied bejohd thebignes
i d tha*. Judge B*ew bad once contended
ou d result from tola removal to the banks cf
the Oconee; and then be figured up the in-
et*e1 taxatiou, raw th/.t the- pxblic debt w*a
g-eater th*n ever, that immigration lra-i c- a*«- •
to c « j to Georgia, tn&t tim. awero tiRhiar ai.d
r°i* *ho'ter, evcrjbolyc mplalnii.g and d«ung
heir icbfortuee* to the ill-fated Ilf Ji of lum
ber. 18T7. win n they voted to go b*cfc to Mil-
edgevi le. he n®.<i up his empty poc.w«. t-r* cjc
and lock'd at it moun.fu iy aa his wife *ug-
gvated that ihu II iur and sugar aid eotlt-e and
e^ar aud I ac->n and lard mi d ram and ca'i
I £Uauo weie ail out. wLereupou at the ou
cl '»ion of her remarks, the bonait g»a• g r
cjacu.atcd: "W U. I’ll be eternally fcw.dn»vi
melted lead U we aiu t b^eu aoiJ.”
Jan then the c’rck on the abclf struck one.
He woke from hta dre.-m -viih a fearfu. start.
It soundtd to him lice the hammer thump
Of the ►hi riff wiling him out ml ’he mart.
I was bet a dreoun J How happy he fed ’
He vowed lie wouldn’t be foot’d by fljsu,
But vote for Atlanta—work in her cause,
Aui thus for the poupip—save tfWjltle snd
fuaJj