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DARIEN TIMBERGAZETTE,
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DARIEN, HA., AUGUST 2‘2st, 1579.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Roscoe Conkling would make a nice (?)
President.
Governor Hendricks is confident ef Gen.
Ewing’s election.
A white man who had married a negress
offered colorblindness as an excuse. —Bos-
ton Courier.
Ex-Congressman Sayler, of Ohio thinks
Mr. Tilden will be the Democratic nomi
nee for President.
Senator Conkling, of New York, is al
ways in "hot water.”
General Grant will arrive in San Fran
cisco on the sth proximo.
The New York Sun says: General Han
cock’s nomination would be perfectly satis
factory to us.
The Atlanta Constitution says: "Senator
Thurman has gone to Halifax. And so
have his hopes for the presidency.”
A Pennsylvania man with two wooden
legs is the accepted suitor of a New York
widow with a wooden arm and a glass eye.
Attorney General McCormick, of Texas,
’who is in Washington, says the Democrats
■of the Lone Star State prefer Gen Han
cock for the next presidency.
The young democracy of Springfield 111.,
Lave reorganized the Tilden and Hendricks
club which was first started there before
the St. Louis convention in 1876.
The official census returns, just comple
ted, show that the population of Kansas on
the Ist of March was 849,978, an increase
of nearly half a million since 1870.
The editor of the Schenactady Star ex
claims: “Oh, woman, woman ! you are al
ways getting somebody into a scrape;
though it is just possible, of course that he
isn’t guilty.
Even according to Republican admis
sion, Maine seem to be the uncertain
■state this year. The party managers ap
pear to be hoping for the best and pre
paring for the worst.
A little boy picked up what ho thought
was a rather pretty pebble while paying
on the bank of the Little Miami River at
Waynesville, Ohio. It turned out to be a
pearl, and he sold it for $350.
Twenty-five of the principal railroads
<of the United States earned $8,732,592 in
the month of July, 1879, which was an in
crease of $704,963 over the samo month last
year. Mark up another score for the boom
of prosperity.
The next Legislature of Texas will elect
United States Senator to succeed Mr. Max
ey whose term expires in March, 1881.
Among the aspirants for honor, in addition
to the present Senator, are ex-Gov. Hub
bard, Congressman Reagan, ex-Congress
tnan and Gov. Roberts.
The Nashville American says: "Vienna
has a newspaper edited by lunatics.”
Georgia has several of the same kind,
judging by the way some of them abuse
Governor Colquitt because he tries to in
culoote religious principles in the minds
and hearts of the youth of the land, says
the Marietta Journal.
Senator Maxey, of Texas, has a rare
homestead at Paris, in that State. The
Tesidenoe itself is large and handsome and
Is embowered with royal oaks and many
trees of smaller growth. Back of the man
sion stretch orchards of apples, peaches,
pears and pomegranates, and in his gar
dens thirty kinds of vegetables are now
growing.
Chief Justice Church, of New York, has
expressed his willingness to allow his
name to be used, under certain conditions
os a candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion for Governor. The conditions relate
to the possible refusal of the convention to
accept Dorsheimer, and to the unanimous
support of Church by the anti-Robinson
faction of the party.
According to the Daily News’ Paris cor
respondent M. Gambetta’s recent fete cost
him $30,000 —$10,000 more than his salary
as president of the chamber. The affair
was lavish in the last degree. Sensofbeer
flowed, lakes of claret, oceans of champagne
says the Standard. It is hinted that a
wealthy political partisan found a good deal
of the cash for this expense.
Responding to the Constitution’s plea
in nominating a candidate for
Governor, the Savannah Recorder says:
"When men are seeking the position and
trying to manipulate county meetings in
their favor, through friends, it is well to
discuss their characters, qualifications and
abilities, now, and from this time out., un
til they are nominated or laid on the poli
tical shelf.”
John Kelly's threat that the Tammany
Democrats will bolt the renomination of
Tilden’s tool (Robinson) for Governor of
New York was not, after all, mere windy
talk. At a meeting of the Tammany Organ
ization Committee on Monday night reso
lutions were adopted declaring that "un
der no circumstances will the Democracy
of the city of New York vote for Lucius
Robison as a candidate for Governor.”
The New York Commercial Advertiser
has this by c# e: The proudest man in
Zululand is the man who now sports the
watch of poor young Napoleon. He doesn’t
know how to wfind it up, but he looks at it
admiringly and exclaims: “Bully, bolly
mea hookey Frenchy big chief hoop la!”
And then his principal girl comes around
with a chunk of ring through her nose,
and says “Giva me,” and he gives it.
Abuses Under Republican Rule.
We sympathise deeply with oar Demo
cratic contemporaries who cry out against
the abuses to which the army, the navy,
and the diplomatic service have been sub
jected under Repnblican rule. No greater
shame can attach to Republican institu
tions than that the army should become
an asylum for the advancement of favor
ites, as per example, Colonel Frederick D.
Grant, with many of his class-mates supe
rior to him in ability and standing still
mere lieutenants, and many of his seniors,
distinguished officers, grown grey in ser
vice, who fought "for the preservation of
the Union,” for which he never struck a
lick, subordinated to him in hard-line du
ty, while he roams the world for pleasure,
under a staff appointment nominally at
tached to General Sherman, General of
the Army, simply because he is the son of
an ex-President. Or that the navy should
have consisted of rotten hulks mainly, and
Secor Robeson with specious mouth to
account for millions of expenditures of
the people’s money. Or, that we should
have been represented (God save the
mark) at the principal court of the world
by the Emmu-mine-speculating and poker
playing individual, "whose name it was
Schenk,” with conferees only worthy of
him, accredited to most of the other pow
ers. In sackcloth and ashes, for our mis
fortunes and failures, we of the South
should he willing to sit and mourn and
contemplate the dire results of our over
throw, and the machinations rendered
possible by univeasal suffrage, with the
above stated results. But the Democratic
party, and especially its Southern wing,
must not and cannot be made, by any de
vice of the enemy or by any indiscretion
of its in<jjvidual members, to antagonize
itself to the army, the navy, or the diplo
matic service, as institutions. They are
parts of the constitution, as much as the
States arc, und as the Union is. The mis
sion of the Democratic party is not to im
pair or destroy, but to preserve and purify
them. From the time that the hare feet
of Washington’s Centinentals stained the
snows of Valley Forge with blood —that
John Paul Jones grappled the sinking
Bon Homme Richard to the Serapis and
achieved victory out of defeat, and that
Franklin, Adams, Jay, and Laurens nego
tiated for the independence of the Amer
ican colonies, to this day, except when
mislead or obscured by the corruptions
and demoralizations of the Republican
party, the regular army, navy, and diplo
matic service have constituted the crown
ing glory and honor of the country. We
are not barbarians, we are not idiots, and
yet we have recently seen suggestions
from some of our most respected contem
poraries to abolish these institutions, be
cause of the indecencies and outrages of
the representatives of the Republican par
ty controlling them. Asa rule the officers
of the regular army and the navy are as
modest as they are brave—and their cour
age and chivalry as a class, has shone con
spiciously amongst the nations of the
earth, even long before the gallant Tatt
nall declared "that blood was thicker than
water.” They obey orders and do
not hanker after politics. The Democrat
ic party for decades in the history of the
Union, fostered, educated, and promoted
that spirit which gave to the country its
brightest lights in the military, marine,
and diplomatic services. It is the testi
mony of the Generals of the late Confed
erate armies, that the regular officers of
the army and navy, educated under these
influences, while they conducted the war
with vigor and intelligence on behalf of
the Federal side, made war as soldiers
against soldiers and respected the rights
of non-combatants. It was left for the po
litical generals on the Federal side (ex
cepting Sherman and Sheridan and a few
others) to oppress non-combatants, help
less woman and children and old men,
with inhumanities, which belonged to a
darker age. We shall discuss this subject
again, only reiterating that it is the duty
and purpose of the Democratic party to
cherish and purify these institutions in
tho future as it has done in the past.
Until the reverberations of the Sprague-
Conkling affair have died away in the dis
tant future, we hope to hear nothing more
from the northern Radical press, of “plan
tation manners,” or "Southern shot-gun
arguments.” Shame should keep them
silent, if nothing else. But are they ca
pable under any circumstances of that
sentiment? We have reason to doubt it,
upon the assurance of one of Mr. Conk
ling's intimate friends, a New York Judge,
that the shameful scandal will not effect
Mr. Conkling’s chances for the Presidency
injuriously, because if true, "it only 6hows
him to be a man of sound healthy pas
sions."
A western contemporary nominates Link,
the German tutor, to the vacant German
mission. We thitfk it due the country and
the predispositions of Mr. Conkling, that
our Minister to Turkey should be recalled,
and Mr. C., appointed forthwith to repre
sent the United States at that interesting
court. He could then enjoy the delights
of a Seraglio, without any apprehension
from Sprague and his shot-gun.
Senator Maxey, thinks Edmunds the
strongest man the Republicans have for
the Presidential nomination; that he is a
hard student, industrious, earnest, and
has had more reputation in the Senate
than any man in the party. Ben Hill calls
him “the attorney for the Republican par
ty,” that “is the advisory counsel.” The
Presidential salary would be about 20 per
cent, commission on his services.
Col. Peterson Thweatt is out in a circu
lar. in which he is quite severe on Colonel
J. D. Alexander, of the Griffin News.
Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, who has been
talking recently with Congressman Spring
er, says that the Democratic party cannot
afford to lose a single point in the cam
paigns of this year and next, and for that
reason he is enthusiastically in favor of
Ewing, who, he says, should receive the
earnest and undivided support of every
Democrat of Ohio. He says furthermore
whichever party carries the country at the
next election will get the credit wave of
prosperity that is now making itself felt
and will retain power indefinitely. He is
of the opinion that the campaign of 1880
will be the most hotly contested and ex
citing in the annals of our polities, As to
the divisions among the New York Demo
crats, ho left it to be inferred the Hon.
Clarkson N. Potter would be nominated
as a compromise candidate upon whom
both Tammany and anti-Tammany could
unite.
Senator Ben Hill is corresponding with
William G. Dix, of Peabody, Mass., on the
subject of centralization. Mr Dix who is
a Republican, blames that party because
its statesmen did not at the end of the war
throw aside the Constitution of the United
States—“bury it in the same grave with
slavery”—and adopt a National Constitu
tion. His idea is that under our Federal
Constitution the miserable old cry of States
rights will always be heard. He thinks
that there should be a National Govern
ment, the Governors of States, though still
elected by the people of the State, to have
commissions signed by the National Exec
utive, the Mayors of cities to be commis
sioned in the same way, in fact, that State
Courts, State militias and State Constitu
tions should be abolished.
A gentleman just from Maine says Sen
ator Blaine never worked so hard as now;
that he is throwing his whole energy into
the campaign; and that when he is not on
the stump, he is writing letters and edito
rials for newspapers. He has a telegraph
instrument and an operator in his house
and a short-hand writer at his elbow. Be
sides, he is printing a newspaper that he
calls the Honest Truth. Blaine is repre
sented as claiming a Republican majority
of 5,000 at the approaching election, which
is rather close figuring, when it is remem
bered that 130,000 votes will he cast.
A party of colored men passed through
St. Louis a few days since on their way to
Kansas. It is said that the excursion was
gotten up by planters and merchants in
Mississppi to enable negroes from that sec
tion to go west and view the country for
themselves, and if they wish to remain
there to do so, and if not to return. Many
planters fear that after the present cotton
crop is gathered the exodus movement will
be again inaugurated, and they hope the
unfavorable report anticipated from this
excursion will prevent any extensive mi
gratory movement.
Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania says
that by another year commerce will have
so regulated the money question that it
will not exist in politics. He thinks that
the commanding political issue of the near
future is home rule, or self-government.
A man, says the Senator, must he at lib
erty to vote the way he wishes, and must
be free to talk aloud to his friend on elec
tion day on what he considers his rights
and privileges without being afraid that a
marshal or other Federal officer will put
his hand upon his shoulde and move him
off. _______
The Washington Post says: The South
will raise this year about five million bales
of cotton, two hundred thousand hogsheads
of sugar, and nearly six hundred million
pounds of tobacco. This will be a half
million more bales of cotton, twice as much
sugar, and twelve million more pounds of
tobacco than she ever raised before, If
prices continue fair the South will be com
paratively richer when she markets the
present crop than any other section of the
country.
A Chinaman in a cell at Vlrginit city had
some opium but no pipe to amok it in. He
got a vial, into one side of which he drill
ed a small hole by working industriously
for a week with a nail which he whirled be
tween the palm of his hands. A stem was
made by splitting a stick, grooving it and
tying the halves together again. The pipe
thus constructed was held together by
sticking paper on it with paste made by
soaking bread in water.
Senator Bruce is still in Washington and
is buisily engaged with his corps of expert
accountants in investigating the affairs of
the defunct Freedmen's bank. He declines
*
to thake public what progress he has made,
but it is understood that he is close on the
heels of some of the people in Washing
ton whose crookedness was the cause of
the bank’s failure.
Tho Louisville Courier-Journal is quite
sever# on Senator Conkling. It says:
“Conkling is a cowardly brute; cowardly
in polotics; cowardly on the floor of the
Senate. Behold your god, stalwarts, with
blanched face, trembling lips, quivering
legs, sneaking like a whipped dog by night
out of Providence, with a shot gun pointed
at his sleek carcass.”
General Grant in a letter to a friend in
San Francisco, says the Chinese question is
not going to agitate the country long. His
idea is that the Chinese Government are
very anxious to keep all their people at
home, and that if not interfejjfd with they
will 6top emigration.
It is now said that Secretary Wm. M.
Evarts, of New York, has consented to be
the Radical candidate for Governor of that
State. If the old man should happen to
be elected, why then he would be sigh
ing for the Presidency.
Gen. Grant is reported, in his speech in
reply to the address of welcome made to
him by Li-Hung-Chang, to have expressly
disclaimed uny part in the third-term
"boom.” The Viceroy had referred to the
time when Grant would again he the Presi
dent of the United States, and the General
said in reply “there could be no wish more
distasteful to me than what you express.
I have held the office of President as long
as it has ever been held by any man. I
have no claims to the office. I have had
my share of it—have had all the honors
that can be or should be given to any citi
zen.” As the Now York Herald says, “this is
a downright declaration—as far as it goes."
Ex-Gov. Seymour, of New York, has
been doing a very kindly deed. He invi
ted to his farm at Utica the Sisters of Char
ity from the Asylum, with the orphans
under their charge, and with his family
spent the whole day in cordially enter
taining the good woman and the little
ones, who enjoyed themselves greatly. At
parting the children sang a good night
song, the kind-hearted ex-Governor stand
ing on his verandah and merrily waving
his hat until the last wagon passad out of
sight in the dusk.
The Macon Telegraph says: “Through
the courtesy of Hon. James H. Blount we
learn from a circular he has lately received
that the Secretary of the Interior has ap
proved the recommendation of the Super
intendent of the Censes with regard to the
number of supervisors ot the census Geor
gia should have, and that she will be en
titled to five—the same number that is al
lotted to Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir
ginia.” ___________
The two men who murdered Joseph F.
Frye in Boston last week, have been dis
covered and arrested. They are two bar
bers, one a Greek named Antonio Ardito,
and the other an Italian boy, sixteen years
of age, named Nicolo Infantino. They mur
dered himi and then robbed his house.
Nicolo has made full confession. Most of
the stolen goods have been recovered,
Senator Hill is occupied with legal bus
iness in Georgia. He refused to 'make a
public speech at Macon, on the ground
that he is busy, that the platforms of the
campaign had not been laid down, and
that he thought perhaps he should be si
lent at this time, when the press of the
North were so ready to take up and mis
construe what was said.
The Galveston News estimates the pop
ulation of Texas at about 2,000,000, and
thinks that the next census will give the
State fifteen Congressmen. The calcula
tion is based on the 240,821 votes cast at
the last election, eight inhabitants being
allowed for each voter, as many of the in
habitants have not lived long enough in
the state to vote.
We heartily endorse the following from
the Savannah News of Tuesday: The dis
patch which we publish this morning deny
ing the report of the death of Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris will be hailed with gladness
by the American people of all sections of
the Union, to whom the sad tidings of a
few hours before brought a sense of sincere
sorrow.
At Lurgan, Ireland, on Saturday, two
hundred policemen charged a mob with
fixed bayonets during a riot, but they were
repulsed. Rival mobs kept up a firing on
each other, and one member of the Catho
lic party had with him some dynamite
which exploded, and, it is thought, injur
ed him fatally.
Severe storms are reported from various
quarters in England causing much damage
and interruption to railway traffic. Wheat
is gradually rotting, and crops left stand
ing will not pay for cutting. The rain at
Sheffield was so violent as to wash away
the foundations of five houses in course of
construction.
Capt. Joseph Boyle of the Mississppi
steamboat Heroine, stepped ashore at
Mandeville, La., and was instantly killed
by a negro whom he once whipped. The
Heroine, on the return trip brought an ex
cursion party of lynchers, waited while
they hanged the negro,and then carried
them back.
A letter was received in Washington Sat
urday from Gen. Ewing. He says he is
very confident of hie election as Governor
of Ohio, that the people are enthusiastic,
and the vote will be large. He says also
that he believes he will get the whole green
back vote.
W"hen Gen. Tom Ewing was in Maine he
made a speech against Blaine and then
spent the night with the Maine Senator.
When Blaine goes to Ohio to speak against
Ewing he will be offered the hospitalities
of the great greenbacker’s house.
The Memphis Appeal says that the Yel
low fever has killed twenty-one thousand
people in this country within the past ten
years. Of this number, fourteen thousand
last year. Avery large mortality we should
say.
Time brings its revenges. So now think
the friends of Gordon and Lamar, for the
insults which the wretched Conkling,
sought to inflict upon those gentlemen,
in the Senate some months since.
Ex-Governor Tilden has been inter
viewed and he says that the issues of 1876,
whe nhe w r as cheated out of his office,
must be the issues for 1880. Tilden is
waking up at last.
The Louisville Democrat says that it is
the first time in the history of that State a
non-professional politician has been elect
ed Governor of Kentucky.
Affairs in Georgia.
Ham, of the Gainesville Eagle,takes “su
gar” in his’n.
The Goldsmith impeachment trial has
commenced.
The Legislature continues to investigate
everything and everybody.
Round trip tickets from Augusta to New
York are down to thirty dollars.
Who will be the next Governor of Geor
ia? seems to he the great question.
An amatuer press convention is called
to meet in Savannah or Fernandina.
The doctors are all idle in Savannah and
consequently the Forest City is unusually
healthy.
The Savannah News opposes the exten
sion of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
to Atlanta. Of course.
Colonel Thomas Hardeman, of Macon,
has been re-elected President of the Agri
cultural Society of Georgia.
Mr. W. Bell was killed on Wednesday
evening in Brunswick, by a train on the
Brunswick & Albany railroad.
George Williams, the negro who Brutal
ly murdered Mr. and Mrs. Defour, in At
lanta, recently, has been captured..
Richmond county tax returns show a
falling off of $286,300 this, as compared
with last year. The total taxable proper
ty is 513,855,550.
The Savannah Morning News will issue
a mammoth fall trade edition on the first
of September. Mr. Estill will no doubt
make it a huge affair.
And brother Nelms will have to tell all
about the machinery by which a man is
yanked into the penitentiary, and how he
is yanked out and what it costs too, be
dad.
Reidsville, Tattnall county, was recently
visited by quite a severe wind storm. The
Democrat state, however, that beyond
blowing down a few fences, fortunately no
damage was done, says the Gainesville Ea
gle.
The Dalton Headlight says: It is estima
ted that the Goldsmith impeachment will
cost the state $30,000. It looks as though
the people have the worst end of the horn
any way you take it.
Some of ortrr legislators are trying hard
to reduce the price of legal advertising.
Now if these men cannot find something
better to do we would advise them to re
sign, go home and go to plowing.
Lorenzo Littlejohn, one of the convicts
who escaped from Hutchinson’s island on
Wednesday evening the 6th inet., when
Prince Wrett was killed, was captured a
few days since on the South Carolina side,
and was turned over to the guard.
A competive examination for applicants
for appointment as cadet midshipman at
Annapolis from the Third Congressional
District came off in Americus on Friday
last. Young C. R. Mitchell, of Hawkins
ville, was the successful competitor.
The Cuthbert Appeal refuses to publish
an obituary exhibiting the virtues of an old
subscriber.because he died in several years
arrears to that paper. It says it has firmly
resolved to cease publishing the noble
qualities of any one who dies in its debt.
The Gainesville Eagle says: “We would
like to know the author of the bill to regu
late legal advertising, now before the leg
islature. We want to make a suggestion
to him.” Yes, we would like to suggest
that he go off into Alabama and shoot him
self.
Pulaski county has a citizen, Mr. Mc-
Kinney, who weighs 246 pounds, his wife
225, his oldest daughter 240, and his
youngest daughter beats them all, tipping
the beam at 360. The four composing the
family weigh 1071, making an average of
267 each.
Albany News: Bets are being made that
the cotton crop this year will be as large as
the last—based on the fact that the plant,
though small, is well fruited, and that
there has been vere little shedding. The
com crop will be miserably short—no bets
are made on that.
The editor of the Thomasville Times has
the right view of the case. He says: “We
must prove our officers innocent. It
would never do now to consider them in
nocent until the contrary is shown. That
rule may do to try a colored chicken thief
by, but is not recognized where officials of
the State are concerned.”
If Governor Colquitt approves that legal
advertising bill no newspaper in Georgia
can support him in the next race for the
Governorship. It is certainly high time
that the Georgia newspapers were talking
out in this matter. This bill, if we under
stand it rightly, will kill off one half of
the weekly newspapers in Georgia.
A special dispatch from Rome statep that
great excitement exists there over the de
falcation of W. N. Rose, cashier of the Cit
izens National Bank, of which ex-Post
master-General Cresswell is President.
Rose is a young married man, respectably
connected, and is a defaulter to the ex
tent of between $60,000 and SIOO,OOO.
The Oglethorpe Echo is told that lead
ing negroes in that county announce that
no inducement could make them leave
Oglethorpe for Kansas or any other coun
try this side of Heaven. They say they
are doing as well as they could ask—make
a good living, are kindly treated where
they conduct themselves properly, and*
many of them have paid for comfortable
homes.
The Oglethorpe Echo says: “We have not
been an enthusisstic admirer of ex-Gover
nor Joseph E. Brown, but think we need a
man of his ability, foresight and deter
mined wisdom in the executive chair. If
Governor Brown would accept the nomi
nation he could carry Oglethorpe, and we
believe the State. The people are again
beginning to recognize his worth and
great abilities as a ruler.
Publications.
1879.
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