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THE MM JObENAL
HAMILTON, G FOBGIA
Hi* That Y#r Brest!
Tn a conversation nlxut his Western
and {Southern trip Lord Lymiiigton, n
member of tho English nobility, told a
reporter of this Now York World that ho
stumbled at a railway station on u gontlo
iiiau who exhibited a most ingenuous
thirst for information concerning the
British peerage.
"Pray how did he manifest this?”
Ijord' Lynjiugton—Oh, very civilly.
He introduced himself to me very ki idly
ou learning that I was a traveler and an
itnglishniau, and offered me the hospi
talities of the town. It was very oblig
ing of him, but unfortunately I could
n>l hjjiv, so we hiul a chat while I was
waiting for the train. During this chat
Ids eye fell on a jKiitniKutc.au of mine
widen 1 ha<l caused to lx; marked for
convenience sake and easy identification
with the cabalistic figures 120. This he
scanned for some time with ill-couecaled
curiosity, and finally turning to me said
rather abruptly: “If iam not mistaken,
you are, a nobleman, are you not?” f
admitted that such was my unhappy lot.
“Then,” said he, “I presume that umu
ln*r there on vour valise is what they
call in the nobility armorial bearings, is
it not? In fact, your crest?” “Hardly
that,” I modestly replied. “A number
is only borne as a crest, T believe, by
much more illustrious persons; foroxnm
jde, the Least in the Ajioenlyjise.”
“Oil,” lie replied, and then after medi
tating a moment or two, asked: “Have
your family lxx?n long in England?”
“Yes,” I said, “they have been therefor
some time, but why do you ask?”
“Perhaps the number refers,” he replied,
“to the number of generations, just, as
they recite them in the Old Testament,
you' know?” “Yes,” \ unhesitatingly
and with prompt, mendacity replied,
“that in exactly it, and I don’t see how
you hit it so cleverly.” He smiled all
over with delight as the train rushed up,
and waved kind farewells to me as long
as we were iu sight.
The Chicago Dtailra.
“But, papa—”
"Not auotlier word. I’m a wild-cat
when my back’s up, aud don’t you forget
it ”
Tlx* HjH-aker wax a hard-visaged man,
dressed with an elegance that ill-accorded
with his evident want of culture. She
who addressed him as “papa” was a fair
-1 wired girl of eighteen summers. Beared
on tire knee of luxury, aim liad never
known what it was to liave her slightest
wish thwarted. Her father, a plumber,
was, from tho nature of his business, a
man of iron will, but ho was not devoid
of pity or generosity, its many a debtor
wltose house and lot he had taken in jmrt
payment of fixing the water pipes, lotting
the balance of the account run along for
two months, could testify. He bail sur
rounded Qectt, his only child, with all
that wealth could purchase, looking for
ward to the time when she would marry
the eldest son of a Niagara Falls hack
man, or some person of fortune commen
surate with her own. But she had al
lowed her heart to lx? ensnared by the
wiles of Oujrid, and that, morning had
asked hor sire’s consent to her marriage
with a poor but not. proud young man
whose agricultural operations on the
Board of Trade had not been attended
with success. It was this request that
produced the answer given nlxive.
Aguin Cecil pleaded with her parent
not to crush the love that blossomed ill
her heart. The oid man’s mind went
back to tin* happy days when he told her
mother of his love, and how they com- j
moneod life w ith nothing hut strong arms ;
and willing hearts. Placing his tuu-Jiko >
hand on Cecil s shoulder, the old mau j
looked at her tenderly aud said:
"Look ye, my lass. You say you love
this man, uud cannot live without, him.
Mubin) not. 1 have promised you u seal
skin saoquo this winter. Let us test
vour love. If you heeoino tliis man's
bride I shall not buy the saoquo. In my
hand is a check for #BOO. In the wheat
jit over on the Board of Trade is your
lover; which do you choose?”
Without raisin# her head she reaeluil
out convulsively for the cheek. ~Vh icat/o
Tribune.
Preserving the Balance.
Old Gupt, Stanley, who lives down in
the middle of Kentucky, was a go*l old
Hardshell Baptist, who would occasion
ally toll a story at dlie expense of some
of the bretiuvn. Many voars ago they
were not so conspicuously orthodox. on
the temiHUiinoe question as they are in
our time. “On one occasion,” said the
Captain, “ the brethren down in my
region were nl>out to have a ennui
church gathering, and all the faithful in
the noighlmrliood were expected to ex
ert themselves to entertain suitably and
hospitably the visiting brethren. Two
of uiy neighliors met each other just
before the graud gathering,on .• ( whom
said:
“ ‘ What, are you going to do * ’
“ 1 Well,* replied the man, * I’ve laid in
a gallon of first-rate whisky.’
•“A gill lon 1 ’ retorted bis neighbor,
with a look of contempt; ‘ why, I’ve got
a barrel; and you are just, as able to suj*-
jx>rt the ih *sp**l as l am.’ ”
In those days you could always 101 l u
Hardshell by looking at him from be
hind; one of tlio skirts of lii.s coat would
hang lowtx than the other-—the one in
which he carried his Ixittlo. But the
Captain said there was one old brother
down there whose denominational views
eeuldu’t Is* ascertained in that way; his
skirts hut g even—a bottle iu each pock
et.—llarper'ti Miutanae.
Nxykr exhibit too great a familiarity
with anew acquaintance; you may give
offense.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Twelve hundred tax executions were
issued in Kershaw county, B. during
the last year.
The colored population of Arkansas
has increased from 122,169 in 1870 to
210,022 in 1880.
The Lynchburg News says that during
the jiast eleven months the sale of the
goods of the Charlottesville woollen mills
has given about seventeen j*er cent, net
prolit from the capital stock.
The work of naming and numbering
the streets of San Antonio. Texas, was
begun February 10. Although the city
is over 140 year.* old, but few ol the
streets have been named, and none num
bered.
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says that
there are 120,000 acres of the best sugar
lands in tin world, south of St. Augus
tine, on the Atlantic coast. If properly
cultivated it would produce 40,000 hogs
heads of sugar annually.
The constitution of the State of Texas
provides that the Legislature shall have
no power to appropriate any of the pub
lic money for the establishment and
maintenance of a bureau of immigration,
or for any purpose of bringing immi
grants to this state.
The receipts of cotton at Columbus,
Ga., for the season lieginning August 111,
on February 28 attained the total regis
tration of 100,.‘188 bales, a figure wnieh
lias never before been exceeded, except
in three seasons; 1855-6, 100,629 : 1858-9,
115.885, and 1859-60, 122,110.
Thu silver dollar of the Confederate
States is valued at SI,OOO. There were
only a few of those coins struck. The
Confederate government had the (ties
made and a few coins were struck at the
New Orleans mint for the inspection of
tin government official. They found,
however, that they had no more silver
The free night school opened at Mem
phis in front of the court house, ou Main
street, for the lienefit. of mechanics,
lnlxire.s, newsboys and others, whose op
portunities have been defective, is suc
cessful. The attendance has outgrown
the room. 'The school is in charge of
Scott A. Murray, who is principal of the
lValxxly school in South Memphis.
Those attending the night school pay
nothing, and are furnished with every
thing necessary by charitable citizens.
The Arkansas House has amended the
House joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the State constitution
prohibiting the sale or giving away of
liquors, a.- follows: Hereafter it shall
not lx* lawful for any person, directly or
indirectly, to manufacture, import, sell,
give away, or iu any manner traffic in
any intoxicating liquors in the State of
Arkansas, except for aaorimental, me
dicinal, art and mechanical purposes,
under such penalties as shall lx? pro
scribed by law.
John Parnell, a brother of* the Irish
agitator, came to this country ten or
tweho years ago, and bought an old
worn-out farm in Chambers county, Ala.,
near the Georgia line. This lie has con
verted into an immense peach orchard,
and the Americas (Ga.) Republican says
it i- the largest peach orchard in the
world. It contains 250 acres, and has
yielded .$70,000 worth of peaches. Par
nell is always first to have early peaches
on the market, and receives almost fab
ulous prices for them, lie is-aid to lx
getting immensely wealthy at the hu-i-
ness.
The Waldeok plantation in Brazoria
county, Texas, comprises about 2,600
acres, about four miles front Columbia.
Formerly clarified sugar was manufac
tured; afterward cotton was substituted.
Alter tin* war cane was again planted,
but the sugar is not clarified. There are
650 acres now in cane and 110 more mat
ted down to lx? planted. List year the
pnxiuct was 650 hogsheads of sugar and
I, k h) liiirrels of molasses, together worth,
say, $60;000 or more. The Galveston
News thinks that the whole of Brazoria,
Fort Bond, Matagorda and Wharton
comities could lx* converted into one vast
sugar field, milking enough to supply the
whole* United States.
It seems that then; arc in Georgia cer
tain lots or imots of land of unusual
quantity. An inquiry addressed to W.
11. Sparks resjxx-ting the origin of the
very (xld 2094, 490 and forty acre lots
! has drawn out a long explanation in the
Constitution. It oenis that the act of
! June 16, 1802, for the survey and disposal
of tho lands then just acquired from the
Crock Indians, between the Ocoueo and
Ocniolgee rivers, required the lands to
lx* surveyed into tracts forty-five chains
square, which gives an area of 202] acres.
Tho survey of forty acr-s was ordered in
tlu* gold region, tv. give opportunity to
mau j J** I • : ’ possible. Tho 490
acre* belonged in Wayne oounty, poor
pine laud, supposed to be valuable only
for xtook raking.
Presidjut Gai field’s Inaugural Address.
Fki.i.ow-Citi/kxh : We stand to-day
upon an eminence which overlooks a
hundred years of national lile —a century
crowded with the perils hut crowned
with the triumjih* of liberty and law.
Before continuing our onward march, let
us pause on this height for a moment t
strengthen our faith and renew our hope
by a glance at the pathway along which
our ticople have traveled.
It is now three days more than a hun
dred years since the adoption of the first
written constitution of trie Lnitcd States
—-fhe articles of confederation and a per
petual union. The new republic was
then beset with danger on every hand
It had not conquered a place in the fam
ily of nations. The decisive battle of
the war for independence, whose centen
nial anniversary will soon lie gratefully
celebrated at Yorktown. had not yet
been fought. The colonists were strug
gling, not only’ against the armies of a
grea , nation but against the settled opin
ions of mankind, for the world did not
then believe that the supreme authority
of government could lx; safely entrusted
to the iruardianship of the people them
selves. We cannot overestimate the fer
vent love of liberty, the intelligent cour
age and the saving common sense with
which our fathers made the great experi
ment of self-government.
When they found, after a short trial,
that the confederation of the states was
too weak to iru’et the necessities of the
vigorous and expanding republic they
boldly set, it aside, aud in its stead estab
lished a national union, founded directly
upon the will of the people, endowed
with full powers of self-preservation and
with ample authority for the accomplish
ment of its great objects. Lnder this
constitution "the boundaries of freedom
have been enlarged, the foundations of
order and peace have been strengthened,
the growth of our people in all the better
elements of national life has indicated
the wisdom of the founders, and given
new* hope to their descendants. Under
this constitution our people long ago
made themselves safe against danger from
without, and secured for their mariners
and flag equality of rights on all the seas.
Under this constitution twenty - five
states have been added to the union, with
constitutions aud laws framed and en
forced by their own citizens, to secure
the manifold blessings of local self-gov
ernment. The jurisdiction of this con
stitution now covers an area of fifty
times greater than that of the original
thirteen states and a population of twenty
times greater than that of 1780.
The supreme trial of the constitution
came at last under the tremendous press
ure of civil war. We ourselves are wit
nesses that the union emerged from tho
blood and fire of that conflict purified
and made stronger for all the beneficient
purposes of good government, and now,
at the close of this first century of
growth, with the inspirations of its his
tory in their harts; our jieople have lately
reviewed the condition of the nation,
passed judgment upon the conduct and
opinions of the political part its, and have
registered their will concerning the fu-
ture admintstration of the government.
To interpret and to execute that will, in
accordance with the constitution, Is the
paramount duty of the executive.
Even from this brief review it is man
ifest that the nation is resolutely facing
the front, resolved to employ its best ener
gies ia developing th ■ geat possibilities
of the future, sacredly preserving what
ever has been gained to liberty and good
government during the century. Our
people are determined to leave behind
them all these bitter controversies con
cerning things which have been irrevo
cably settled, and the further discussion
of which can only stir up strife and delay
the onward march. The supremacy of
the nation and its laws should be no
longer a subject of debate. That dis
cussion which for a half century threat
ened the existence of tlie union was
closed in the high court of war by a de
cree from which there is no appeal, that
tho Constitution and the laws made iu
pursuance thereof are and shall continue
to be the supreme law of the land, band
ing alike upon states and people. This
dixiree does not disturb the auto morn*
of the stab's nor interfere with any of
their necessary rights of local government
but it does fix and establish the perma
nent supremacy of the onion.
Tlie will of the nation, speaking with
the vehemence of battle, an! through
the amended constitution, lias fulfilled
the great promise of 1775, by proclaim
ing “ liberty throughout the land to all
the inhabitants thereof.” The elevation
of the negro race from slavery to the full
rights of citizenship, is the most import
ant political change we have known since
tho adoption of the constitution of 1787.
No thoughtful man can fail to appreciate
its beneficial effects upon our institutions
and people. It has freed us from a per
petual danger of war and dissolution. It
inis added immensely to the moral and
industrial forces of our people. It has
libera fix! the master as well as the slave
from a relation which wronged and en
feebled both. It has surrendered to their
own guardinaship the manhood of more
than five million of people, and has open
ed to each one of them a career of free
dom aud usefulness. It lias given anew
inspiration to the power of self help in
Bull races by making lalxir more honor
able to the one and more necessary to
tho other. The influences of this force
will grow greater and Ix'ar richer fruit
with the coming years. No doubt the
great change has caused serious disturl*-
mice to our southern communities. This
is to be deplored, though it was j>erlmps
unavoidable, but these who resisted the
change should remember that under our
institutions there was no middle ground
i for the negro race between slavery and
equal citizenship. There can he no per
manent disfranchised peasantry in the
United Suites. Freedom can never yield
its fullness of blessings so long as the taw
or it* administration places die smallest
obstacle in the pathway af any virtuous
eiti*en. The emancipated race has already
made remarkable progress. With un
questionable devotion to the union, with
the natience and gentleness not born of
fear, they have followed the light as God
gave them to see the light, 1 hev are
rapidly laying the material foundation
of self-support widening the circle of in
tellige*cc, and beginning to enjoy the
blessings that are gathered around the
homes of industrious people. They re
ceive the generous encouragement ol all
good mem Bo far as my authority can
lawfully extend, they shall enjoy the full
and equal protection of the constitution
and laws.
The full and free enjoyment of equal
suffrage is still in a Mention, and a trank
statement of the issue may aid "ts solu
tion. It is alleged that in many places
an honest ballotis impossible, if the rnasS
of uneducated negroes are allowed to
vote. These are grave allegations. Bo
far as the latter is true, it is the only
palliation 'hat can be offered for oppos
ing the freedom of the ballots. Bad local
government is certainly a great evil
which ought to be prevented, but to
violate the freedom and sanctity of suf
frage is more than an evil—it is a crime
which, if persisted in, will destroy the
government itself, and if successful, is not
a remedy. If in other lands it be high
treason to com pa# the death of the king,
it should be counted no less a crime here
to strangle out the sovereign powers and
stifle its voice. It has been said that un
settled questions have no pity for the
repose of a nation. It should be said
with the utmost emphasis that this ques
tion of Huflrancc will never give repose
or safety to the states or to the nation
until each, within its own jurisdiction,
makes and keeps the ballot free and pure,
bv the strong sanctions of the law.
But the danger which arises from ig
norance in the voter cannot be denied.
It covers a field far wider than that of
negro suffrage and the present condition
of that race. It is a danger that lurks
and hides in the sources and fountains
of power in every state. We have no
standard by which to measure the disas
ter that muv be brought upon us hv ig
norance and vice in the citizens, when
joined to corruption and fraud in suf
frage. The voters of the Union, who
make and unmake constitutions, and up'
on whose shoulders will hang the desti
nies of oar government, can transmit
their supreme authority to no successors
save the coming generation of voters who
are the sole heirs of the sovereign power.
If that generation comes to its inheri
tance, blinded by ignorance and cor
rupted by vice, the fall of the republic
will be certain and remediless. The
census has already sounded the alarm iu
appalling figures, which mark how dan
gerously high the tide of illiteration has
risen among our voters and their chil
dren. To the South this question is of
mpreme importance, but the responsi
bility for tne existence of slavery did
not rest upon the Bouth alone. The na
tion itself is responsible for the exten
sion of the suffrage, and is under special
obligation to aid in removing the illiter
acy which it has added to the voting
population. For the North and the
Bouth alike there is hut one remedy.
All the constitutional powers of the na
tion and of the States, and all the vol
unteer forces of the people should be
summoned to meet this danger by the
saving influence of universal education.
It is the high privilege and sacred duty
of those now living to educate their suc
cessors and provide intelligence aud vir
tue for the inheritance which awaits
them.
In this boneficient work sections and
races should he forgotten, and partisan
ship should be unknown. Let our
find new meaning in the divine oracle
which declares that “a little child shall
lead them,’’ for our little children will
soon control the destinies of the repub
lic. My countrymen, we do not now
differ in our judgment concerning the
controversies of the past generation, and
fifty years hence our children will not
he divided in their, opinions concerning
our controversies They will surely
bless their fathers and their fathers’
God that the union was preserved; that
slavery was overthrown, and that both
races were made equal before the law.
We may hasten or we may retard, hut
we can not prevent the final reconsider
ation. It is not possible for us now to
make a truce with time by anticipating
and accepting its inevitable verdict. En
terprises of the highest importance to
onr moral and material well-being Invite
us and offer ample scope for the employ
ment of our best energies. Let all our
people, leaving behind them the battle
fields of dead issues, move forward, and
in the strength of liberty and restored
union w in the grander victories of peace.
The prosperity which now prevails is
without a parallel in our history. Fruit
ful masons have done much to secure it,
hot they have not done all. The preser
vation of public credit and the resump
tion of special payments so successfully
attained by the administration of my
predecessors, has enabled our people to
secure the blessings which the seasons
brought. By the experience of commer
cial nations in all ague, it has been found
that gold and stiver offered the only safe
foundation for a monetary system. Con
fusion has recently beou created by vari
ations in the relative value of the two
metals, but 1 confidently believe that
arrangements can be made between the
Lading commercial nations which will
secure the general use of both metals.
Congress should provide that the com
pulsory coinage of silver now required
by law may not disturb our monetary
■yxtom by driving either metals out of
circulation. If possible such adjustment
should be made that the the purchasing
jxiver of every coined dollar will lx*
exactly equal, as a debt paying power in
oil markets of the world. The chief
duty of the national government in con
nection with the currency of the coun
try is to win money and declare its
value. Grave doubts have been onter-|
mined whether Congress is authorized
hv the constitution to make any form ot/
nionev legal tender. The present issue
of United States notes has been sustained
bv the necessities of war, bat such paper
should depend for its value aud currency
upon its convenience in use and its
prompt redemption in coin at the w ill oil
the holder, and not upon its compulsoryl
circulation. These notes are not money ■
but promises to pay money if the holder!
demands it. The promise should be
refunding of the national debt at
a lower rate of interest should lx* accom
plished without compelling the with
drawal of national bank notes and thus
disturb the business of the country. I
venture to refer to the business I have
occupied oh financial questions during a
long service in Congress, and to say that
time and experience have strengthened
the opinions I have so often expressed
on these subjects. The finances of the.
government shall suffer no detnmeqjj
which it may be possible for my admit™
istration to prevent, .
The interest of agriculture deserves
more attention from the government ,
than thev have vet received. The farms 1
of the farmers of tho United States
offer homes and employment for more
than one-half of our people, and furnish
much the larger part of all our exports..
As the government lights our coasts for
the protection of our mariners, and the
benefi of commerce, suit should give
the tiller of the soil the best lights of
practical science and experience. Our ■
manufacturers are rapidly making us in- *
dustrially independent, and are opening
to capital ard labor new and profitable
schemes Of employment. Their steady
and healthy growth should still be main
tained.
Our facilities for transportation should
be promoted by the continued improve
ment of our harbors and the great in
terior water ways, and by the increase i
of our tonnage on the oceans.
The development of the world’s com
merce has led to an urgent demand for
shortening the great sea voyage around
Cape Horn by constructing ship canals
or railways across the isthmus w'hich
unites the two continents. Various
plans to this end have been suggested,
and will need consideration, but none of
them has been sufficiently matured to
warrant united aid. The subject, how
ever, is one which will immediately en
gage the attention of the government
with a view to a thorough protection to
American interests. Wo will urge no
narrow policy, nor seek peculiar or ex- <
elusive privilege in any commercial j
route, but in the language of my pre
decessor, “I believe it to be the right and
duty of the United States to assert and
maintain such supervision and authority
over any inter-oceanic canal across the
isthmus that connects North and Bouth
America as will protect our national
interests.”
The constitution guarantees absolute
freedom. Congress is prohibited from
making any law respecting an establish- ’
ment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof. The territories of the
United States are subject to the direct j
legislative authority of Congress, ami
hence the general government is respc fl||
sible for any violence of the constituti.il
in any of them. It is, therefore, a isl
proach to the government that in t m
most populous of the territories the cell
stitutional guarantee is not enjoyed l 9
the people, and the authority o. Coll,
gress is set at naught. The Morim ,9
church is not only an offense to t f
moral sense of mankind by sanctioniiw
polygamy, but prevents the administiji
tion of justice through the ordinary i .
strumentaliti.es of law. In my judig
merit it is the duty of Congress, whi||
respecting to the uttermost the
t.ious convictions and religious scruplß
of every citizen, to prohibit Within ibl
jurisdiction, all criminal practices, <H
peciallv of that class which destroy farfl
dy relations and endanger social onleij
Nor <‘an any ecclesiastical organizati.Jf
be safely permitted to usurp in t.W
smallest degree the functions and powim
of the national government.
The civil service can never be placta
on a satisfactory basis until it is regulJj
ted by law for the good of the servitl
itself, for the protection of those wljl
are entrusted with the appointing powci|
against the waste of time and obstructs ,'i
to public business caused by the inordf
nate pressure for place, and for the pnl
lection of incumbent against iutrigul
and wrong. I shall, at the proper time*
ask congress to fix the tenure of minoj
offices of the several executive depart*
ments, and prescribe the grounds upon!
which removals shall be made during
the terms for which incumbents hav.
been appointed.
Finally, acting always within the au
thority and limitations of the constitu
tion, invading neither the rights of tin
states nor the reserved rights of the peo
pie, it will be the purpose of my admin j
istration to maintain the authority <r|'
the nation, and iu all places within it
jurisdiction enforce obedience to all tbl
laws of the union ; on the interests ol
the people to demaud rigid economy it 1
all the expenditures of the government J
and to require the honest and faith full
service of all executive offices, remem 1
boring that the offices wen* created, not#
for tire benefit of the incumbents or theiA
supporters, but for the service of th/
government.
And now, fellow citizens, ! am aboug
to assume the great trust which yov
have committed to my hands. I appeal
to you for that earnest and thoughtful
support which makes this government,
in fact, as it is in law, a government ol
the people. I shall greatly rely u|x>r
the wisdom and patriotism of congress!
of those who may share with us the re
sponsibilities and duties of admini-tra-,
tioD, and above all ou our efforts to pro-*
mote the welfare of this great peopled
and their government, I reverently in-J
voke the support and blessings of All
mighty God. ° I