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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. VOL. XX. ENGLAND’S CHEAT SHAKE. The ruling tuple of the hour in every civilized laud is ihe frightful expos ure of Loudon's social rottenness by the Pall Mall Gazette. Never before in the world’s history lias such a black and infamous sys tem of wide-spread tin! powerful vil lainy been revealed to the public gaze. The Gazette's charges do not contain 4 he names of the guilty parties, but the other details are given with such precision that any detective of ordi nary intelligeneo could locate the ■criinnals within nventr-tour hour;. Reading between the lines trillions of Britons at a glance recognize the public enemies thus held up as the objects of u nation's burning scorn. It must be recollected that this re markable crusade is directed against lto ordinary criminals. It concerns itself with the highest in the land; with the heads and scions of En gland’* haughtiest houses; with the gilded youth, members of parliament baronets and dukes, and so on. not sparing even the prince who stands next to the throne. . IVell may Mr. Spurgeon, England’s greatest preacher, exclaim : "I feel bowed down with shame and indig nation!'’ But it will always he re membered to the honor of this wise and good that lie had. the judg ment and the moral courage to place himself on the side of the right.shonl der to shoulder with the masses and the middle ranks of society. Cardinal Manning, the earl of Shaftesbury and a few others of high position, nobly discarded the prejudices of rank and caste, and gave the Gazette their hearty support in its good work. Mr. Spurgeon expressed the feeling of these brave reformer* when lie said: "This is a loathesomo business, but even sewers must he cleaned. Sparc not the villains, even though wearing stars and garters!’’ Although this is a tight for moral reform, it is nevertheless a light in which the social lutes are sharply drawn. The middle clashes and hon es' poor are loused to the highest pitch of lory against the vicious no blcweit and wealthy roues who are systematically debauching their daughters, conspiring for their ruin at home and permitting them to be exported abroad to gratify foreign Just. It is dangerous to tamper with the common people in a matter of tins kind. The outrage committed by Tarfjuin's brutal son upon I.ttcre tia, caused the people to rise and ex pel the entire brood of tyrants. Just such vices on the part of the French noble* brought their heads to the guillotine in 1792. His tory is full of hucli examples, and the lecherous lords and plutocrats of Brit ain will he blind indeed if they do not take warning in time. It is true that the Fall Mall Ga zette and it* friends are vigorously opposed by a powerful influence. Even in this country the point is made by such pajiers as the New York Herald that great cities front the earliest time have always been the hot beds of vice. New York and Chicago arc said to be as wicked as Condon and Faria, aud ail of them arc probably as bad a* Koine and Athens ever were. The traffic in •chastity exposed by the London paper has always existed it is claimed, and must exist in cities where there are extremes of wealth and poverty. It such is urged In this country, it may be imagined how much more strong ly it is urged in England. Fortun ately, for the cause of morality,'the editor of the Gazette ; s a mail with- out fear, lie invites investigation, and <h tie-prosecution. If they drag him to the courts he threatens to summon the Prince of Wales,the clean of Canterbury. Mrs. Jeffries and naif of the parliament, and prove his facts by the very persons who have raised the loudest clamor over the alleged scandal. It is a sad business ail the way through, but, “even sewers must be cleaned. Spare not the villains even though wearing stars aud garters Atlanta Constitution. Congressman N. J. Hammond has recently been to the White house, and that means just this: That if Mr., Cleveland is a reformer and no re specter of persons Kcnfroc will not be appointed post-master of Atlanta. Njw we shall see what we shall sec.— A bany Nows. TIIK COTTON CHOI’. If is a fact accomplished that the area of the cot ton crop oflßßs-s(i is the most extensive over planted. Accord ing to the department of Agriculture the area is about eighteen million acres blit tlu> Financial Chronicle’s tables indicate an area of 15,719.000 acres, showing an increase of 4.10 percent, as compared with 1884, 7.20 per cent, as compared with 1883. The area of 1882-83 was 16.590,000 acres, and the yield was 6,002,000 bales, the largest crop ever produced. Jhe Chronicle publishers a report upon the acreage and condition ol the crop, witli its retrospective reveries elaborate tables and searching analy sis in forming intelligent opinions, forms a models of careful and intelli gent discussion. It is a work which tbe National Department of Agricul ture under any of its former heads,has never approached in its discussions of any crop, and which is uncqunled by anv private enterprise in the field of agricultural reporting. The net result ol the last week’s review is to indicate a great deal more than is implied in showing that an imeqnnied area lias been planted. It is proven by ample statistical rompar isons that a good stand in June is in dispensable to a favorable result in anv year; that tin's simple factor i al most conclusive of its result. It j s shown that the Juno stand of the present crop is exceptionally favora ble. A review of acreage in a se ries of year* show remarkable diver sity-. The area of 1884, (or instance, which turned out a crop of about 5 - 690,000 bales, being 3,241.000 acres greater than that of JBB2, which yielded 6,992,000 bales the yield „t each acre varying between 149 and 194 pounds. But the record proves that there is a persistent analogy be tween the early stand and condition, anl and final yield per acre. The crop of 1884, for instance, though covering a verv excessive area, was started under the disadvantage of a rainy season, Iho roots wore accord ly short, and when tiie drottth of the latter summer -iipervcned. the plants were not in an average condition to draw sustenance from the subsoil. The crop afISSS, therefore, with an exceptionally good stand and an un precedented acreage presents a re markably brilliant promise. This is particularly promising for the Miss issippi valley and the central group of cotton States. The greatest increase in acreage is that of Texas, 13 per cent., followed by Louisiana with 8 per cent., Ar kansas with 6 percent. audTennecsce with per4edit. Texas has planted 3,- 680,000, or nearly one-filth of the whole; Georgia, 3,067,000; Alabama, 2,984,000 and Mississippi, 2,564,000 acres. It H shown t hat notwithstanding the frequent fluctuation in yield, re sulting from bad stand and summer drouths, there is a rapid and steady progression in periods of several years In tbe six years ending 1872, the yield averaged 3,167,000 bales per an num; in the six years ending with 1878, the average was 4,771,000 bale*, and in the six years ending with 18J4, the average was 0,711,000. It may he added !o the Chronicle’s exhibit of the initial probabilities of production, that the markets of the world have remarkably reduced stocks of cotton, tho present supply beings less than any recent year, with the single exception ot 1881. The Health Monthly, l.i un article on tropical plants and fruits says: “The coca lcafof South America has the power toappease hunger and thirst and is therefore largely used by the natives of Peru in their mountain travels. A physician suggests that this property of coca is due to its awcslheitc effect upon the nerves of the month, throat and stomach, which nerics are drugged, lulled or put to sleep by the influence of coca. Thus the coca is not a substitute for food, does not supply nourishment and.those addicted to its use become emaciated narcotized and broken down generally in health. Men some times remark if they have got to go without a meal or 'obacco, they would prefer the chew of tobacco. This al so probably has something of the same power as coca to allay the sense of hunger, and its efTects in the long run are equally disastrous.’’ Dr. Ferrari inoculates 600 cholera patients daily in Spain. WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1885. THE BOGUS BONDS. An esteemed con-respondent .in Carolina calls upon tlm Chronicle ;to stale the grounds upon which the bonds of the State of Georgia were repudiated. The story is a long one, and the seiios of State securities dis allowed. with the atm,nuts and rea sons, have been pnltlis. ’din this pa per. Probably the nost slice.not presentation of *ho State’s position has been made by Congressman N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta, whose admi rable letter was published in the Chronicle on the 10th of June last. In it he shows how the bonded debt of the State was increased from five to somewhere between ton and thirteen million dollars; how the State’s en dorsement hud been put upon railroad bond* up to nearly six million of dollars;how roads were recklessly chartered and endorsed until, as Col. llammoml says : “No man can im agine where so many railroads in Georgia were needed. The multi tude of our roads to lie aided spawn ed upon our statute hoiks in that frtti'ful ten days, might have increas ed ad infinitum had not the project ors run out of the mime, of corpora tors and of places to connect by rail roads on paper, to he built bv paper Very tew of them wore ever built or ever begun.’, In each of these the endorsement ol the State for front 812,000 to 815,000 per mile was offer ed upon the terms specified in the Constitution, and tlo completion of sections of ten or twenty miles of each road. And yet money was ad vanced on these roads in plain viola tion of the Constitution, before the lines had been graded or issued, tttul it has been shown by the purchasers and holders that they knew all these facts before they accepted the bonds so endorsed. TheCartersville and Van Wert railroad com; any bonds wore endorsed under the law requiring five miles to be completed, where but one and halt miles were completed, and later on $175,000 was advanced when but three miles had been finished. On 7:li of July 1871, Mr. Kimball, its President, asked Gov. Bullock to en dorse $300,000 of bonds, in the new name,upon lie promise to withdraw and cancel those $275,000 endorsed in the old name. Governor Bullock en dorsed and delivered as requested, hut tlie first batch were not with drawn or canceled. Clews was the company’s treasurer, ami held these bonds with lull knowledge of these facts. These, then, are some of the reasons why the State has outlawed the bonds and declined to allow her self to he sued in the courts tor their consideration.—Augusta Chronicle. KIL.I.IS(> I> OCO.XKK. Ti* wife of the .flurdprrd Man Car* riM Him !>• <1 Body from the Field to the House. One ot tiio most cold blooded and heartless murders that has happened for years in this section, occurred on Friday evening in Dark Corner dis trict, Oconee countv. The particu lars of the difficulty as near as we could gather, are about as follows: George Hardeman the murdered man had rented the McXortou place in Hark Gorier district and rented a parlion of the place to Crawford Whitehead. Everything went on smoothly until Whitehead’s crop got considerably in the grant and Harde man went to him and told hitn that the crop must be worked. White head did not pay much attention to the warning and did not seem to care much whether the crop was worked or not. This brought forth, hard feel ings between the two, which resulted so fatally to Hardeman Friday eve ning. Crawford Whitehead, armed with a double barrel .shotgun went to where llardctnan was at work in a field near his house, and the trouble was reopened and he shot Hardeman killing him instantly. Mrs. Harde man, the wife of the murdered man hearing the firing of tnc gun, went to the field and found the lifeless body of her husband. She picked up the bleeding remains and carried them to the house. Whitehead, a'lcrhc com mitted the bloody deed left for parts unknown. Hardeman is represented a hard working in-offensive man.— Athens Banne. Two murdtfrers were lynched near Granada, Miss. Both had been con victed ; one had been sentenced for life, and the other had appealed to the supreme court. A UTAH CURIOSITY. Flames leaping; from a Water Well- Effect of the Scene by Night. Mr. Tim Winters had a curious ex perience on Saturday evening, lie has been experimenting for some time with a view to obtaining a flow ing well on his premises. He had at one lime a pipe to the depth of about 99 loot, but owing to meeting with some hard substance, which made it impossible to force the pipe any fur ther, it was taken up. Another, how ever, was inserted in its place, which on Satu rdaevening had reached a ■depth of-854'eet. The water, howev er, was of a light bluish color, resem bling the refuscof the wash-tub more than anything else, and came forth like a miniature geyser, the eruptions taking place at intervals of about 15 minutes, (lie fluid rising 10 or J 2 feet above the end of the pipe. On Saturday evening a gentleman held a lighted match over the pipe in order to ascertain how near the top the wa ter had reached, when he was startled by a bright, strong flame breaking forth and with such strength as to cause him to retreat in haste. Previous to that, Mr. Winter slates, he had noticed a rather strong sulphu ric odor, hid nothing that could pos sibly have led him to imagine the re sult that followed the application of the match. On Sunday the place was visited by scores of people, the news having reach that portion of the city and tiie minor of a discovery of natu ral gas reached a Herald reporter yes terday, who visited the residence of Mr. Winters and inspected the curi osity. Ji’or a time there are no indi cations of water, save a deep, distant rumbling as the ear is applied to the tube; soon a foamy substance com mences to bubble over, then tlio wa ter rises slowly to the edge of the pipe suddenly .shooting upwards. Tl.o supply of gas is, however continuous, the amount seeming to ho regulated by the action of the water, the great est qnanlty of gas beigg obtainable during tbe time the water is run ning; ami it is during tbe escapo Of tlio fluid that Hie light burns with the greatest intensity, thus present ing the almost unparalleled specta cle of tire and water coming forth at the same timo and mingling with one another tho water is very soft, lint does nat appear lobe of an oily na ture. At night Hie speetacle is de scribed as being grand in the effect produced. A couple of miners cat rled away samples of the sediment pro duced from the water yesterday with the object, it is understood, of having it thoroughly examined. A NEGRO. A negro is a black man and not a “colored” man, because black isn’t a color. People that are not black are not negroes, properly speaking, but “colored” people. MJihittoes are “col ored” people. People possessed of any of the various shades of color are col ored people; hut black people do not conic within any possible combina tion of colors and so it is nonsense to call them “colored.” Ilencu, in speak ing of the recently emancipated class we term them “negroes and colored,” inasmuch as neither of the form* in cludes them all. The word “nigger” is not in our vocabuiarv. There is no human virtue m any possible color, and there is no re proach in the want of it. A sensible negro will not be ashamed to ho a ne gro ; for ho will know that the esti mate in which lie is held will be bas ed upoii his character and not upon his want of color. It argues a want of sense on his part to rejeetthe word “negro,” applicable, to himself, and shows that be believes that the term embod ies a reproach.—Albany News. Of all the cool things in this ago of check, the passagi cited front tlioscn tcnce of death passed by a Judge in Wyoming, upon a condemned mur derer, is certainly the coolest. After reviewing the trial, his Honor said .o the prisoner: “I am by no means satisfied with the evidence in the case and am not sure whether you killed John Forbes or whether he died by a visitation of God, but my sentence is that you be hanged on the third Fri day of June; and should you know of your own innocence you will have the comforting thought that it is doubted by somo of the wisest think ers of the age whether life is, under any circumstances, worth living.” GOOD HEADING FOR YOUNG MEN. The late Edwards Pierrepont, who distinguished hintsclf as secretary of tho American legation at Rome, once received a letter front his father which contained the following sound advice: Dress like a gentleman ; never he peculiar or flashy, but dress as be comes von, not as becomes someone else. Never talk about your expen ses or your money, and never be ashamed to live with economy; on the contrary ho proud of it. Your business now is to acquire knowledge and you need not bo anxious to dis play yours, especially to older men, but always try to learn of them. Nevcr|say to another what, it would be unpleasant to have him say to you. Remember that good manners are of great importance. Manners should be frank and easy, with dignity. Avoid fawning, toadying ways as vou would the foul fiend. Never lawn to a prince or swagger to a peasant. Be courteous and manly everywhere and to every body. Let your manners bequict; nothing is more underbred than a flurried ad dress, with a face wrinkled all over with grinning delight. The countenance can express pleas ure and welcome without idiotic con tortions, and when these appear, whether in the son of a duke Jor a drayman, they are intensely vulgar. You cannot have good manners in the drawing room if your habitual manner is bad ; the habit will betray yon ; let the habit be always good. Far belter that you look frigid ev en, than that yon degrade your coun tenance with silly hilarity. Bea gentleman, feel like a gentle man, and you will look and act like one. Sometimes you will bo neglected, and your vanity may feel wounded. Nevet let this annoy you. Be abso lutely .sure that in due time all will come right, and that you will have all tho consineration that you merit. No ono can do you any permanent, injury but yourself. Tlio world i* so constituted that it is not in men’s power to withhold respect from lofty character, real ability and good con duct. You may be invited to a bull or dinner because you dance or tell a good story ; but no one since the time ol (jnpon Elizabeth has been made a flahinet minister or a lord chancellor for such reasons. THE uoTnscim, i>.h. The great banking house of Rothschild orginated in Frank fort, Germany, about 150 years ago. The founder the house dealt in old clothes, and had for a a sign a red shield, which in German, is rot h scliild. The son of the old clothes dealer continued the same business, became a pawn-broker and loaned money. Ho succeeded so well that lie died in 1812 leaving a fortune ot $.7,000,(XXX He bound his five sons by a solemn oath *0 follow the busi ness together, holding the property in partnership, and extending their op erations so that all the world should know the firm of Rothschild. The sons were true lo their oath. They occupied the great financial centres of the world and worked for the com mon interest. Nathan in London prospered wonderfully. 110 witness ed the battle of Waterloo, and by ex traordinary efforts reached .London in advance of the official couriers. He reported a great victory for Napoleon, aud slock went down to almost noth ing. He refused to buy, but had scores of agents purchasing: The next day Welligton’s messenger ar rived. The truth was known, and stocks went up. By this singlo lie the great houso of Rothschild made $5,(XX),000, After that the firm rolled in wealth. It made its pow er felt iu the palace of every ruler in the far East, and in this Western world at tho fircsido of the New Eng land farmer, and in the log cabin of the pioneer. The Rothschilds of to day have the spirit of (heir ancestors. They wield a dangerous power. They have but to set their combinations to work to affect the price of the daily bread of every laborer in the civilized world. With their encouragement kings and em perors stand ready to rush into bloody wars. It is in their power to give us flush times or to bring on a general panic. Doubtless the world would be better off’ without them. NO. 29 WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING. Apropos of suffrage for women, Gov. Francis E. Warren of Wyom ing Territory, who ;s now in Boston, writes as follows on the practical workings of woman suffrage in that territory, in a letter addressed to a member of the legislature: I huvo been a citizen of that Territory ever since its organization while it was yet a part of Dakota. And from niy experience and observation I a iu compelled to say in justice to women ot Wyoming that woman siifl'rage lias not lowered the grade of public officials in that territory. On tlio contrary, our women consider much more carefully than our men tiie .character of tho candidates, and both political parties have found them selves obliged to nominate their best men in oilier to obtained the best men in order to obtain the support of the women. Asa business man, city county and territorial officer, and no v as Governor of Wyoming Territory I have seen much of the woman suffrage but ! have yet to hear of the first case ot domestic record growing out of it Our women nearly all vote, and since hi Wyoming, as elsewhere, the ma jority of women arc good and not bad, the result is good and not evil. V bile I had no hand is passing the act which gave to women this privi leged must knowledge its success now after fifteen years’ trial; ami I will add that no attempt to repeal tho law bus been made for ten years, and none I believe is contemplated; tho practical workings of woman SU f. t rage commend it more to favor among men and women as they under stand it better and know more of its ln "‘ B ' It has been productive of much good in our Territory. If (i, c women of Massachusetts ai'o as intel- Itgetit and public spirited as those of Wyoming (and I have no reason to doubt they ate) their political influ ence will ho for good government and public order. Certainly ibis is the case in Wyoming,” SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS A circular sent out by four cotton manufacturing companies—two at Columbus,Ga., one at Memphis,Tenn. and one at Grantevillc, S. c. to Southern cotton milts stockholders asserts that for tho last three years cotton manufacturing industries i„ the South have been on tho decline, and Unit nino-tcntlis of tho cotton nulls are in a deplorable condition. Jhe purpose of the circular is to bring about an agreement among mills owners to limit production by dosing a certain number of mills. The prop position, of coui'so, is that those which are closed shall participate in tho profits of those which remain open Tho depression i„ co(ton Koodß . g greater titan it lias been in years. The price of them is remarkably low. The impression all along has been, how ever, that the Southern mills were do. tug much better than the Northern mills. This circular, however, leaves giouml for reasonable doubt on that point. At the prices at present pre vailing, there is no margin of profit tor the mills, and from tho tones of tiie circular they will suffer serious loss if something is not done to relieve an overburdened market, despooling plan suggests itself l 0 some of tho mill owners as tho best that can bo adopted at this timo. It will ho known soon probably whether it meets tl.o approval of a majority of them.—Sa vannah News. The growing demand for soul hern n on out west encourages the produc ers of Alabama and Tcnnesee. There has been no material advance in price but there is a better feeling i„ the market and the furnaces aro rapidly selling their surplus stock. Much southern iron is now being shipped to Chicago, where itcomcs into direct competition with Lake Superior iron, rho Pennsylvania iron men are re* joiced to know that the atten tion of their southern competltoi® is being diverted to tho west. A good deal of southern Iron, however, still comes cast on old contracts and prob ably the greater part of tho Virginia output is sold in our eastern mar kets.—Boston I’ost. In a slugging match with the devil Sam Jones knocks that Plutonian functionary out of time with a regu lar John L. Sullivan lick.accornpanied /villi a sort of lay-on-McDuff iuvlta -1 tioa te como again.—Texas paper.