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MACON, FEBRCJARY 28, 1871.
Fair in Macon.
Tho Executive Committee of the State Ag
ricultural Society determined yesterday nem.
con. to lioltl one Fair during tlie gear, and to
lold it in Macon in tho month of October next.
Very confident that this would bo the result of
tho matter, we have said nothing at all in the
paper one way or tho other to influence tho con-
clnsion of tho Society, although, at tho request
of some members, we havo published appeals
from tho Atlanta press in behalf of two fairs—
ono to bo held in each city. Wo preferred to
mako no solicitations of any kind in behalf of
Macon. The original arrangement was for al
ternating fairs, and good faith, perhaps, re
quired that to bo carried out. But we chose
not to insist even on that point.
Tho Convention, in a body, sow tho ample
arrangements for holding a fair, which aro far
superior to those of any other point in the
South, and these, together with the centrality
c f Macon, wa havo no doubt, determined tho
selection. Macon will give the Society a splen
did fair. Tho buildings aro all ready now, and
so aro tho grounds, with a small expense for
additional embellishment. Tho space is ample
and the appliances complete for a magnificent
exhibition, and wo shall anticipate such a result
with entire confidence.
The Now York Tribune says: “A newspaper
comes to tho Tribune from a Western city with
tho indorsement upon the margin ‘X or be
damned.’ Tho alternative Is fearful but, as of
two evils tho Tribune mak£3 it a rule always to
choose the least, it declines to ‘X.’ A ‘little
story’ is appropriate hero. Some yearn ago, a
young man of caltnro and good tasto went to
hear a noted ranter preach. Getting disgnsted
Leforo the sermon was half throngh, he left his
seat and was going on tip-toe toward the door,
when tho preacher roared out: ‘Young man,
had yon rather go to hell than hear me preach ?’
Somewhat startled at first, the young man faced
about, and with a graceful bow, responded:
“On the whole, parson, I think I would.’ ”
Terrific Hurricane at San Francisco.—A
terrific hurricane at San Francisco, last Monday
night, blow down a lira wall twelve feet high
and sixty feet long, upon a frame building,
crushing it and burying fifteen or twenty per
sons beneath the ruins. Mrs. McDonald, wife
of the watchman at tho State Prison, her child,
ten months old, a daughter twelve years old,
and Mr3. Hagan, were all instantly killed and
frightfully mangled. Several others were in
jured but nono fatally. Three alarms of fire
added horror to tho night. There was more
thunder and lightning in one hour than ever
bsforoseen or hoard in San Francisco altogether.
A Fuss in San Domingo.—Tho morning tele
grams report an impending revolt against Baez
and annexation by tho negroes of that country,
who are intensely hostile to tho project. Wo
refer tho reader to an article iu this edition
gleaned from the correspondence of the New
York Sun. It will bo seen that tho masses of
iho Dominicans are uncompromisingly opposed
to annexation, and that iho pretended plebiscite
of Baez was an unmitigated fraud—a mere
piece of political manipulation.
Greeley is taking pains to brand as lies
somo of tho stories about his clnrography.
Next, he'll probably deny that when Senator
Bevels wrote him, asking about the best mode
of cultivating strawberries, he advised him to
plant them with his com, “dropping two or
three strawberry seeds in each hill, and letting
the vines climb up on the cornstalks. In this
way they need no polling, and fruit can be
shaken oft in tho fall and pickled for winter
use.”—Boston Post.
Robert Barnes, of Evansville, Indiana, lately
dcoeased, left his entire fortnno, estimated at
$400,000, to found an orphan asylum for the
State of Indiana. We'll wager something hand
some that Barnes has been a hard case in life,
and is seeking by this sort of post mortem, atone
ment to cheat tho gentleman under the floor.
When a man goes back on Ms own kin this way,
it is pretty safe to assume that ho labors nnder
some such delusion.
The Fcss in Indiana.—Tho completion of
the census of 1870 and tho impending reappor
tionment of representation in Congress have
made it necessary to re-district the State of In
diana. This State has been horribly Gerry
mandered in tho interests of Radicalism, and
unwilling that tMs party dishonesty shall bo
corrected, tho Radical members of both houses
have bolted and left the Legislature without a
quorum.
New Music.-—Wo had a pleasant call yester
day from Mr. Georgo A. Oates, tho well known
and popular music publisher and book-seller of
Augusta, who left with us two pieces of music
recently issued by Mm. The “May Fair Waltz”
and “Whispers from Home,” tho last by the
author of “No ono to Love.” Our musical
friends visiting Augusta will not forget to give
Mr. Oates a coll.
South Carolina Aricultubal College.—Tho
South Carolina negroes havo passed a bill to
establish an Agricultural College in that State>
and appropriated $20,000 for buildings. The
bill locates tho college “in or near Charleston.”
Tho streets of Charleston, wo donbt not, will
afford all tho arable land the negroes want to
to till, even experimentally.
The Senate, yesterday, by a purely party
vote, except that of Mr. Trumbull, forced
throngh tho bill to tako chatgo of elections for
representatives in the States. If tho Radicals
keep in power long, they will run tho entire
State machinery by act of Congress, or try to
do it.
“A Memory.”—Tho author of tho verses en
titled a3 above is respectfully, informed that
they havo beon received and read, and that
they aro not judged of sufficient morit to justify
publication. Besides that, they aro unaccom
panied by the real name of the writer. Wo most
adhere to this rule.
Feom July 4th, 18G6, to November 30th, 1870,
the New York Collector’s share of fines and pen
alties for violations of the revonne law, was
$92,861, tho Surveyor’s $96,881, and tho Naval
officer’s $28,602. No wonder these chaps never
dieorroaigo.
On last Wednesday a slaughter house in New
York City, in wMch there were 300 sheep, was
burned to the ground. It is not staled whether
“Mary’s little lamb” was in tho lot, but we hope
so, if it will dam up tho flood of doggerel that
beast has let looso on tho country.
Christopher Starts, aged sixty-nine years,
committed suicido at Louisville, Tuesday morn
ing, shooting himself with ahorse pistol, loaded
with balls and pebbles, blowing the entire face
and 6kull away, leaving nothing of tho head but
tho chin wMth a scalp hanging over it like a
cloth.
The Chug? Justice.—Washington dispatches
say that Judge Chase will arrive in that city on
tho 5th of March. His health is greatly im
proved, and ho walks two or three miles a day.
Coal retailed in New York city, on Tuesday,
at $15 per ton. The mercury went down, ana
of course, coal went up.
THE DOMINGO COMMISSION.
Arrival at Snmana autl Investigations on
Shore.
Tho New York Sun of Tuesday has qight
columns of revelations from its correspondent
with tho San Domingo Commission. Tho voy
age was a pleasant one—interrupted only by a
single thunder sqnall, which lasted eleven hours
and in which tho sMp behoved with duo dis
cretion. The party arrived at Samana Bay at
8 o’clock on tho morning of the 24th of January
and anchored in fourteen fathoms of water two
miles from land, and tho city of Santa Barbara
do Samana. TMs is a town of 800 people, in
cluding five or .six whites and the remainder of
all colors down to tho mo3t sooty. Tho popula
tion of the peninsula, of wMch it is tho capital,
is about 2,500 blacks and mnlattoes.
As soon as anchor was dropped, tho wholo
party proceeded to business poll moll. The
soientist put after bugs and Crustacea—tho com-
missoners began to tako testimony of Baez’s
negro functionaries on tho matter of what they
thought and what tho people thought about an
nexation, and, of coarse, they thought all right.
Sigel and Fred. Douglas, under forco of ten
days’ repressed eloquence, rushed ashore and
harangued a little crowd of Samana negroes in
German and English for an hour or two, after
which they put it to voto whether tho hearers
wanted annexation, bui as only three hands
wore held up, Sigel swore that thoy “no under-
stan" do question,” and as neither ho nor tho
negro Douglas could “speak 'am mittho Span
ish, it was ver lectio ash better to say noting at
all.”
Tho Sun correspondent, however, says ho put
ashore quietly and investigated on Ms own ac
count. Ho says ho discovered that upon the
establishment of tho Dominican Government,
it claimed and took possession of all tho old
Spanish land grants on tho island, and has pur
sued the policy of leasing lands for the term of five
years, renewable at the expiration of tho lease,
if the payments havo been made; and that every
inch of tho property advantageously situated
around Samana bay is so leased by parties in
New York.
Being the only ono of the party who conld
speak Spanish fluently, he talked freely with
the people, and observed their condition. He
says: •
The morals of the inhabitants of the town of
Santa Barbara are rather below par, if the padre
knows anything about it. He told me people
generally are averse to marriage, that daring
Ms incumbency—nine years—he married only
forty couples, as he expressed it “a la fuerza,”
and that ho knew over 120 couples living in a
state of “concubinage” in the immediate vicin
ity. I am inclined to think that the objection
to enter the marriage state is based on the ex
pense—$8. A man was bnried the day wa ar
rived; thr padre collected $16, paid in advance,
for reading tho funeral service. Is is, conse
quently, twice as cheap to get married as todio,
and yet more appear to prefer tho latter.
In relation to tho pnblic sentiment about an
nexation ho is very explicit and clear. In town,
whoever held a lease of a lot—kept a shop—or
was a creature of Baez, was very decided for
annexation, but they all admitted that the feel
ings of the country people were unanimously
hostile to the project. A trader who kept a
store in tho town and was in favor of annexa
tion told Mm:
Not ten out of every hundred men who are
stated by tho Government to have voted In
favor of annexation—and the Government pub
lishes the affirmative vote at 15,695—voted at
all. Tho whole fraud was managed by Baez
precisely as the Spanish invitation was man
aged by Santana. As far as Samana is con
cerned, the lave plebiscite was taken simply by
a few of the Government officials forming a
caucus and calling before them the leading men
of the place, and signifying to them the advis
ability of their taking an active part in obtain
ing the unanimous vote of the inhabitants.
Only two rash men dared to voto no. As to the
country people—that is, tho people of the com
mune residing outside Santa Barbara — the
trouble and expense of repairing to the polls
was kindly saved them; their names were writ
ten by the tools of Baez on the slips, and put
into the electoral urn, or rather box.” The
foregoing was the pith of Mr. X.’s statement.
Tho result of his operations in town deter
mined Mm to visit the country and converse
with the people; and ho gives tho substance of
several con vernations with tho colored peasantry.
All of them without exception, violently op
posed annexation for many reasons—somo of
which ore too characteristic to bo doubted.
Thoy did not want tho wMto people on the
island. Tho Spaniards were bad enough, but
the Yankees would be worso than the Spaniards.
But says tho correspondent, the Yankees will
give you a good government! Wo don’t wau’t
a good government. We can’t afford it. We
don’t wan’t to pay your poll taxes and tariffs
and property taxes. Now, wo pay nothing.
Now wo work when wo please and don't want to
work much. Wo want to live quietly and easi
ly ; but if yon Yankees come, yon will tako
control of affairs ont of our hands and the Do
minioans will not stand that, and then there
will be war. Oar own people will not allow ns
to live in peace with you. Moreover, uono of
your schemes for improvement will bo practica
ble hero. No white man can work in the fields.
A peasant said:
I do not imagine that slaves will ever again bo
brought from Africa, and only by slavery can
this island produce more than it consumes. Tho
Spaniards brought to Samana one thousand
Ohinese from Havana; they were acclimated in
Cuba; they were put to work in tho fields, and
when the Spaniard left there was not a single
Chinaman alive. The Spaniards were driven
ont at least as much by tho climate'as by the
Dominican arms."
The correspondent says that the peasants
complained of the ignominy of being governed!
by an alien race of another color, and all of
them predicted war as the certain result of an
other attempt to bring it abont. One of a party
of these mnlattoes whom he accosted said:
“Oh, yes, sir,” he said, “it would no donbt
bo much better to havo a good than a bad gov
ernment, but we can’t afford a good one. If I
chose to work more I might clear more of that
wood,” pointing to the edgo of a wood not a
hundred yards from tho back of tho hut, “and
if I choso to work from morning to night, I
might raise more staff and sell it in iho city and
get rich; bnt, first of all, I don’t like working
in tho sun, and tho more yon havo tho more you
aro expected to pay. So most of us want to be
allowed to bo lazy, oven if wo aro poor. We
don’t want to work for anybody else, even if it
i3 tho government; and, of course, Iho better
tho government might be, the more wo would
naturally havo to pay for it,”
"When tho correspondent got back to tho ves
sel, he found the commissioners had- mado up
their report abont public opinion in Samana,
and it was “unanimous for annexation!" Thoy
got their facts by sitting in the cabin and ques
tioning tho functionaries of Baez, who were pa
rading abont in tattered epanlets and ragged
breeches.
The New York correspondent of tho Augusia
Constitutionalist says:
At a lecture recently delivered, it was stated
that in ono house in New York, 100 feet by 25,
there aro living 307 persons, representing" five
different nationalities, and of these, one hundred
were, when called on by a city missionary, des
titute of bread. Tho population living in cel
lars is 20,000. Ono half of tho inhabitants of
America’s metropolis are foreign, there being a
greater number of Irish than in Belfast, more
Germans than in Hamburg, and Jews than in
Jerusalem. Of the latter, it is estimated there
are in New York at least fifty thousand, having
for religions worsMp different synagogues. Of
tbeso, as is well known, the principal is Emamo
El, on Fifth Avenue. The greater number of
this congregation aro Germans, and, indeed,
two-thirds of the Jews resident hero belong to
that nationality.
“Tom,” said a man to his friend, “I think it
highly dangerons to keep tho bills of small
banks on hand nowadays.” “Tim,” answered
tho other, “I find it more difficult lhan danger
ous.”
The Situation in Georgia.
Tho suggestion of a correspondent in relation
to repairs of city highways by convict labor,
no donbt embody a long cherished idea of many
of our readers. With any effective system of po
lice and justiciary, such as must bo established
in Georgia if we mean that tho fraits of labor
shall be sccnro to tho industrious, there will bo
many convictions for those petty offences wMch
striko at tho root of industrial security and pro
gress. Pilfering from flocks and herds—from
garden and field, and from barn and crib and
fowl bouse, must bo punished, ond there is no
way to inflict tMs pnnishment, except at too
much exponso to society, unless wo compel theso
ovil-doers to expiate their offences by labor
upon tho pnblio roads, bridges ond buildings.
So, too, vagrancy should bo punished. An
incorrigibly idlo man Is necessarily a groat mis-
cMef maker; and if he is lounging about with
out any visible means of support, let the county
feed him and compel Mm to earn Ms bread by
honest labor. Then, moreover, that system of
charity which begins and ends with a weekly
dole of meat and bread to needy applicants, is
ono of tho worst ever devised by man. It has
beon tried many years in Great Britain wiih
deplorable results, as confessed by all.
Undoubtedly, there aro many cases in wMch
such aid must bo extended—there are many
sick and disabled who most bo fed, but it is the
inevitable tendency of such a system of pnblic
charity to encourage vagrancy and idleness,
and therefore, all permanent public relief, ex
cept in extreme cases, should be confined to the
the inmates of an almshouse. Under such a
system, labor in tho garden and on the premises
for the weakly, and labor on tho Mghways for
the strong, might servo to alleviate the burden
of pauperism and keep it witMn bounds ?
These aro ideas for reflection and elaboration,
The social condition in Georgia and the South
now no longer permits the loose, belter skelter
system of tho olden time. And if our.publie
men cannot quit the barren field of politics long
enough to address themselves to these and the
other vital problems, let the people bring for
ward a new and more practical class of states
men. What wo want in Georgia just now is
not so much political and party schoolmen and
stomp orators, as men who will show us how to
secure order, justice and harmony in this
mixed population of whites and freo blacks—
men who will study into the situation and pro
vide measures practical and energetic for tho
protection of property and premises—who will
secure tho farmer’s crops and stock to Mm—
who will provide early and practicable means to
enforce faithful payment of labor on tho one
hand and faithful service and fulfillment of con
tracts on the other—who will address themselves
to all the evih wMch harrass and obstruct the
productive labor of the State and give us wise,
praotical, simple and available statutory rem
edies adapted to the peculiar situation.
The situation is extraordinary, and demands
legislation adapted to meet it. The old plan of
semi-annnal terms of Superior Courts, and tho
new one of' District and Municipal Courts, are
not worth a straw for tho great practical pur
pose of protecting Georgia industry and prop
erty from depredation, and enforcing the rela
tive rights and duties of laborer and employer.
We must have something new, cheap, energetic
and summary to apply to tho wholo range of
of industrial evils and disturbances in dealing
with petty offences. In a word, we want now
practical common sense statesmanship applied
to every day life and every day concerns far
more urgently than constitutional theories.
TIio Pests of fiociely.
We propose to briefly review some of them.
And first the sneak or spy, as ho or she is by
odds, at once the most contemptible and dan
gerous of them all, paradoxical as the assertion
sounds.
Thoy lurk, and watch, and eavesdrop and pry
indefatigably, and generally have their reward,
for to minds as evil and hearts as venemons
as theirs, trifles light as air are confirmation
sufficiently strong upon wMch to base the
whispered insinnation in which they specially
delight, or tho bold declaration when there
lurks no danger in its utterance. They ate
never so happy as when unearthing foolish
scandal that would, if let alone, die of inani
tion, and by adding a little hero, and taking off
a little there, manipnlate it into sometMng that
will sting like a serpent and bite like an adder.
ToacMovo this consummation they reck not
either of honor, truth, decency, or even tho
proprieties of social life. To galvanize tho
corpse into temporary vitality they will resort
to any device, and stoop to any baseness.
Pesping through key-holes and cracks, listen
ing at doors, watching around corners, writing
anonymous letters—any means aro legitimate
to these creatures, provided detection seems im
probable, and tfco arrow promises to speed
straight to its target.
And tho devilish malics of theso bushwhackers
of society, is only equaled by their more than
vulpine cunning. Thoy can assume an air of
virtuous incredulity, or Good Samaritan charity
and benevolence in tho presence of their slan
ders, that is truly edifying. With rare dexterity
they manage actually to speed the libel on its
way with a frown of seeming reprobation, or a
word of plump discredit. Skilled in all the arts
of dissimulation, and graduates in that school
whose pMlosophy is that words aro meant to
conceal thoughts, they cheat even their vic
tims into the belief that in their sheltering
bosoms will tho stricken ones always find a
haven of rest and a shelter from tho storm.
Professing a loyalty in friendship that almost
shames oven tho grand ideal illustrated in tho
touching story of Damon and PitMas, they
uso the cover it affords, and tho opportunities
it offers to botray like Judas, and stab like
Bratus. They are over ready with advice and
sympathy for those who suffer from their base
ness, and their words of condolence and sooth
ing aro in direct ratio with tho venom of their
souls and tho force andspitcfalness of tho blows
they have dealt. They aro never so well pleased
as when proffering their good offices to their
victims—except when forging tho weapons
wherewith to stab them.
Against their machinations and their poison
there seems—alas! too often—no shield, no nn-
tidoto. They move in good society, thoy vannt
themselves upon their “position,” they oven,
sometimes, aro found nestling under “tho horns
of tho altar.” They havo friends who speak
their praise, and families and connections who
cherish them as altogether lovely and without
reproach. Who Bhatl deliver ns from them—is
a cry that has gone up from honest men and
women from almost tho foundation of the world.
They haunt' every circle, and are found in every
country. What a pity that thoy cannot bo treat
ed ns alone their deserts demand! When will
tho social reformer make Ms appearance who
will suggest and mako practicable some ade
quate punishment for their crimes?
Next Sunday, perhaps, wo shall tako up an
other class of theso pests of society.
Senator Sumner’s angina pectoris, figures in
tho prints os angelo peutonis, angaria peltoris,
aDgora fectoris, angesa pelelons, anguisha ful-
cromis, and various other maladies. The tele
graphic operators and the printers ore not quite
up in tho diseases which flesh is heir to.
In the CMcago convention of suffragb-sbriek-
ers, last week, Mrs. Swisshelm said: “We are
determined to ernsh ont all opposition to- wo.
man suffrage.” The only wonder is that, such
feet ns thoso women havo got, they haven’t
crushed it out long ago.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Tho shipping in port at Savannah was beau
tifully decorated with flags on tho 22d, in honor
of Washington’s birthday. The oonrts of tho
city also adjourned.
Mrs. Butler, residing on tho comer of Jeffer
son and York streets, Savannah, ate her supper
at half past six o’clock Wednesday night, and at
half past seven was a corpse. Heart disease.
Lydia Thompson and h6r tronpe of blondes
are to initiate the Savannah folks into tho mys
teries of the leg drama, some time soon.
A negro who killed F. J. Walton, last Decem
ber, in Montgomery county, Alabama, and for
whose arrest a reward of $500 was offered, was
arrested by tho Oolumbtis police on Wednesday.
Columbns had abrilliont wedding Wednesday
morning, the parlies being Mr. Jas. L. Whittle
and Miss Fanny King, sister of Mr. John King,
tho banker.
Tho Savannah Republican of Thursday says
rumors were current on ’Change the day before,
that the junior member of a Bay street firm had
absquatulated, and that several merchants of
of that city are considerable lowers thereby.
The name of the firms burned out Wednesday
night at Savannah are as follows:
Messrs. Boll & Hull, auctioneers; E. A. Wal
lace, paper and paper stock warehouse; Tries!
& Herman, auctioneers; M. Y. Henderson,
dealer in Mdes, etc.; J. B. West & Co., com
mission merchants and steamship agents; W.'
M. Poole, auctioneer; W. M. Davidson, whole
sale liquor store; A. M. Cohon, tobacco mer
chant; J. McLaughlin, auctioneers. Among
losses, wo may mention that of Hacker, Malo
ney & Co., who had 250 tons of guano destroyed.
Their insurance was $10,000.
The loss is variously estimated at from $250,
000 to $500,000.
We clip tho following from the last issue of
the Atlanta True Georgian:
The Next Georgia Assembly.—Hon. William
M. Reese, of WasMngton, and Hon. James M.
Smith, of Columbus, aro very gonerally spoken
of for presiding officers of our next General
Assembly. Hon. Mr. Reese as President of the
Senate, and Hon. Mr. Smith as Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Both of theso gentlemen are men of eminent
legal abilities, of high social standing, and great
personal influence and integrity.
Georgia could well be proud to see them pre
siding at tbo head of tho respective branches
of our Legislature, as they would reflect honor
and dignity upon the responsible stations.
Their unblemished rectitude of character, exec
utive ability, and sincere patriotism, give une
quivocal assurance that tho best interests of
our people would bo safe ia their hands, and
that tho necessary legislation would not be re
tarded to please an unscrupulous Executive, or
truth and justice violated for- partisan ends, as
has been done repeatedly under the regime of
the Bullock faction.
Mr. Robert H. Guyton, for thirty-seven years
a citizen of Bartow county, died last Tuesday.
Last Wednesday was a warm day in Griffin.
There were two fire3 and ono alarm—the dwell
ing house of Mr. Jason Burr and a blacksmith
shop being the houses burned.
By the assistance of Rev. J. T. Leftwich, Mr.
J. T. Brown, of. Coweta county, drew a very
pretty little Toy—given name Jennie—in a mat
rimonial lottery at Atlanta, on Wednesday.
The Constitution of yesterday says:
A deranged man, who states that he is from
Alii ton county, could be soen on the street yes
terday. He says that a Superior Power has
changed the name of Atlanta to Sodom, and
that that Power has sent Mm hero to reform the
place. We do not know if he be tho “coming
man,” but the reform perhaps is needed.
His coming to Atlanta on that mission, proves
his insanity beyond question.
Tho Constitution says tho following named
persons have been arrested and brought to that
city for distilling illegally: Wm. E. Howard,
Wm, Hammond, George Pitcher, John Miller,
Wm. Mathis and W. S. Hammond, of Forsyth
county; Benjamin Dnnnigan, Joel Smith and
D. V. Copeland, of Hall county; Robt. Smith,
John C. Clark, Wm. Clark and John Berry, of
Lumpkin county. Abont 1,500 gallons of bran
dy and wMsky were captured, seven mules and
two wagons; also fifteen distilleries were de
slroyed.
The Savannah Advertiser estimates the loss
by tho fire in that city, Wednesday night, at
$225,000, upon wMch there was $115,000 in
surance.
The Augusta Fire Department celebrated the
22d by a parade and inspection. In the eve
ning the Georgia Fire Company had a supper,
at which General Toombs made a speech about
the State Road lessees!—“which we wish to re
mark” we don’t see the-connection.
W. A. Refo, a well-known printer, died at
Augnsta Thursday morning.
Jerry Bloom took a pop at Pat Carr, at Au
gusta, on Thursday, with a double-barreled shot
gun—the same with intent to unroof Pat’s
brains, but he missed Ms mark, and now the
law takes a hand in tho game.
The death of Hon. JohuT. Monroe, ex-Mayor
of New Orleans, at Savannah, Wednesday, was
caused by an over dose of laudanum.
'Commodore M. F. Maury, the distinguished
scientist, now professor in the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, is visiting Savannah.
The Covington Examiner reports farming
operations in Newton county unusually back
ward.
The Greensboro Herald gratifios us by tho
statement that Hon. A. H. Stephens’ health has
much improved during the last few days. By
the aid of orntohes he walked in his garden,
last Sunday, for tho first time since December.
Messrs. Maulden and Griffin engaged in a carv
ing match near Quitman, last Sunday, which
resulted in the former's being very scientifically
sliced in several places.
Aaron Lamp, for whom there was a reward
of $1,000 offered by Bullock, for murder last
summer, was captured in Brooks county last
Sunday, and now sMnes in Quitman jail.
On last Tuesday night, the jewelry store of
Levy & Tinsley, at Covington, was robbed of
of $2000 worth of gold and silver watches, $400
or $500 worth of jewelry, and $25 in money.
Rooney & Warner’s furniture house at Colum
bus, caught on fire Thursday morning, and
narrowly escaped total destruction.
Lewis Noble, of Columbus, had Ms arm
nearly shot off while hunting, on Thursday.
Tho Columbus Enquirer, of Friday, says:
From Brazil. —We were pleased to meet and
interview, yesterday, Mr. Chas. M. Hall, a son
of Mr. Hervoy T. Hall, formerly of this city,
but for tho last three years of Brazil, the family
having left here in April, 1SG7. Young Mr.
Hall left Rio on the last day of December, by
sail, for Baltimore, wMch port ho made in thir
ty-three days. By tMs interview we learn some
interesting facts in relation to Brazil. Mr.
Hall’s family settled in the Province of San
Paulos, whore there aro perhaps as many as fifty
American families. Their attention has been
turned principally to cotton raising, and results
have proven very satisfactory. Mr. Hall (fath
er of Charlie) has raised threo crops. Tho first
year was merely experimental. Tho second
year ho made 32 bales on 27 acres of the land,
and the tMcd year 55 bales on 54 acres. He
cultivates 90 acres, and raises in addition to
cotton sufficient Indian com, potatoes and cof
fee for his own consumption. Ho carried with
Mm threo yam potatoes, from which he raised
sufficient for Ms own uso the first year, and
6ince has supplied the adjacent country with
seed. Potatoes grow to an enormous size, some
weighing S3 high as 14 pounds. The native po
tatoes are inferior and not to be compared with
those carried out from this section. The sea
port of the American settlement is Santos, from
whence there is communication by rail to Jun-
diaby, fifty miles distant from Mr. HalL The
gap -vrill be shortened to thirty miles daring the
present year. Cotton is carried by wagon and
roil to Santos, and thence shipped direct to Liv
erpool. Lands are remarkably productive—
those for cotton being worth from $5 to $10 per
acre, and coffee lands doable that amount—
The climate is remarkably equable and delight
ful, and the health exoellent. • The Americans
are generally well pleased with the country.
The Savannah Republican, under the bead of
“A Useless Railroad,” suggests the “switeMng
around” of the branch road from Gordon to Mil-
lodgoville, to Tennille (No 10), and Milledge-
villo, thus giving an almost straight road from
Savannah to Milledgovillo and Eatonton, and
saving about 30 mile3—tho distance from Ton-
nill to Milledgeville via Gordon being about 50
miles, while from Tennillo to Milledgeville, di
rect, it is only about 30 miles. The Republican
thinks this shortening of the line would enable
the Central road to compete more successfully
with the Macon and Augusta road for the busi
ness of Baldwin and other counties along tho
line of tho proposed road.
TIio State Agricultural Convention,
WMch met in Macon on Wednesday and ad
journed on Friday last, was not only a very
large and Mghly intelligent body, but was re
markable for its practical character. It was
composed almost wholly of planters—worthily
representing largo landed interests, and.bea:
ingin their appearance all the indicia of “solid
men.” As might have been expected, tho prop
ositions before this body were all of a highly
practical character, and were disoussed with a
brevity and point wMch do not often character
ize the efforts of professional speakers. Tho
five minutes limit was early established and no
irrelevant talk allowed. The propositions de
bated and what wa3 done with th6in have al
ready appeared in our regular reports.
Inside and outside of debate, the great drift
of thought seemed to bo the necessity of a sys
tem of independent farming and of a more
varied and self-sustaining agriculture. To pro
duce our own food supplies for man and beast
—to fertilize the soil, as far as possible, with
domestic products—to cut down expenses—get
ont of debt and abandon tho system of mort
gaging crops ia advance, were tho current lead
ing ideas and purposes of the men in the Con
vention, and we trust the influence flowing f:ojn
it will bo stroBgly felt all over the State.
TIio Bomiagcss on Annexation,
The Boston Post, of Wednesday, prints the
following:
A private letter from St. Domingo City, dated
January 31, says “the feeling amongst tho pop
ulation against annexation is more bitter than
ever, but no one dares to speak out openly for
fear of banishment 'or imprisonment. A com
plete reign of terror has beon inaugurated by
Baez; our vessels of war, in conjunction with Ms
troops, have overawed the free will of the peo
ple ; therefore, Baez does as he pleases. But,
mark well, if annexation do take place, the Uni
ted States troops will be obliged to exterminate
the present race of Dominicans, so sure is it
that a bloody revolution will follow. It is
strange that President Grant has allowed him-
self to be so deceived. Not one-tenth part of
tho people favor annexation, and nearly all who
do are in this city alone.” -
That is very late and confirms fully the state
ments of tho New York Sun from Samana,
while it prepares us for the still later dispatch
of the Herald, that a pronunciamonto against
Baez and annexation, had already taken place.
Briefly, let the administration conclude that
its affection for the San Domingo darkies is un
requited and spare them.
What Daniel Webster Thought op Beast
Butler.— For several years Butler was a blar
ing Democrat. He was a. delegate to all Na
tional Conventions, and made himself conspic
uous by Ms servile devotion to the slaveholding
interest. At the trial of Dr. Webster, Butler
attracted some notice, and a gentleman who bad
met Mm in conversation and taken a strong
aversion to Mm, asked Daniel Webster if he
knew the man Butler, and what there was of
him. “I have "seen him, sir,” was the reply.
“Ho is what wo call a sharp practitioner. A
pert, pushing lawyer, superficially educated,
with the impudence of tho devil, and a con
science to mateh.” “Such a man might bo dan
gerous. Is he likely to attain a position in
which he can do much mischief?”' “No, sir—
no.danger of that. He is certain to be hung
before ha reaches a position of that kind.”
So says the Albany (N. Y.) Argus. And had
there been no Radical party we do not entertain
the shadow of a doubt that Mr. Webster’s
words would havo proved prophetic. He evi
dently had no conception that there would ever
arise a party ia tMs country whose strongest
point was its devotion to, and reward of politi
cal and personal scoundrelism.
A racy traveling correspondent of the Chris
tian Index, “R. W. F.,” in the last issue gives
a racy account of a trip down tho Georgia
Road:
Mells’ kingdom.
On tho train which left Union Point for Ath
ens. I had taken a seat in the farther end of
the Mndmost car, and had asked the conductor
to inform mo when wo reached the Bairdatown
depot. After an hour’s travel tho whistle blow,
and the train stopped. Some one shouted
“Bairdatown,” and I alighted from tho back of
tho car- The depot was certainly unique. I
was all alono. Not another human being in
sight. On ono band was a dark, weather-stained
house; on tho other there was a dilapidated
worm fence. Before me there was a long
stretch of pines and a road.
Under these circumstances the road was the
only hope, and upon reaching it, there, sure
enough,wasBairds town—twelve dwelling houses
and two stores. I was told, however, that the
neighborhood was thickly peopled; and there
is something peculiar ia tho religions condition
of this community. For twenty years this sec
tion of country has been the tramping ground of
Dr, Mell, and ho has made clean work of it.
Within a' circuit of eight or ton miles, scarcely
a Methodist, Presblterian, Episcopalian or Ro
man Catholic can ba found. Every man, wo
man and child—infants only oxcepted—is cither
a Baptist, or has a decided Baptist tendency.
A Methodist preacher, passing at railroad speed
through tMs region, glanced out of the window,
and said to mo, “This is Moll’s Kingdom.”
Ku-Klux and Bug Poison.—Tho Columbia
correspondent of tho Charleston Courier, in a
recent leter, tolls tho following funny story:
In my letter of Monday, I alluded to the fly
ing rnmors about tho Ku-Klux, which have so
badly frighted some of the colored people here.
Tho fright is even more widely extended than I
had supposed. A certain vender of Isaacson’s
Bed Bug Poison has decorated the walls abont
town with his advertisement in this wise: Two
ri&ndcsoript bugs, supposed torepresent roaches,
surmounted by a fat looking rat, over the in
scription “Sure Pop.” The advertisement may
bo seen in almost any newspaper, a3 the inventor
is a firm believer in the efficienoy of printer’s
ink. Among tho more ignorant colored people
these signs havo been taken to ba Ku-Klux
warnings. To add to tho excitement a horse
trader came into the city a few days ago and
enquired whore.ho oould obtain forage for 500
horses. It was immediately rumored that he
was an avant courier of the Ku-Klux, and Bince
then tho excitement has been unabated. Last
eveningit culminated in a real stampede. About
eight o y clock an alarm of fire was sounded, and
some boys raised the cry of “Ku-Klnx.” The
dismay that was depioted on the faces of some
people is more easily imagined than desoribed,
and had the fire been of a serious character tho
firemen would have had all the room they de
sired to work in.
Governor BnllocU’s Randolph Coun
ty Pardon—Damaging Statement of
the Grand Jury. *
Prom the Cuthbert Appeal. J
- Cuthbert, Ga., February 16, 1871.
Wo, the following grand jurors, of the ad
journed November term, beg leave to submit
through your columns, to the public, the fol
lowing statement:
In last November, at the regular term, we, as
grand jurors, found a true bill against James A.
Jackson for “carrying concealed, weapons.”
The evidence on which the bill was found
showed that tho accused entered, at night,
house where several persons of his own color
wore engaged in peaceful conversation, and up
braided them for being members of the colored
firo company of Cuthbert. Upon their telling
Mm that thoy felt that, as good citizens, they
ought to feel disposed to aid in protecting the
town against fire, ho became very violent and
insulting, and finally drew from Ms pocket
(where tho same tray concealed) a Colt’s repeat
er, and presented it at one of the party, who re
tired in fear of his Ufa. Tho witnesses, who
wore present, state that he tried to shoot, and
would havo done so, had not tho. party with
whom he. was disputing effected a rapid and
successful escape. Tho colored man so assailed
presented tho case. ' Tho witnesses were col
ored.
Yef-tbo grand jury loam from the extensively
advertised proclamations of Governor Bullock,
that ho has granted to said James A. Jackson,
“a full and free pardon of all and'every offence
alleged against Mm in said indictment,” for that
said Jackson wo3 compelled, through reasonable
fear of his life) from the violence of his polit
ical opponents, “to carry openly and publicly
in his hand a cavalry pisiol" from hi3 house to
the public square, and to the depot; and that
from that act ho was maliciously, and through
political aniniosity, indicted as aforesaid—and
further, that Jackson is under fear of Ms life,
that he dares not appear to defend himself at
law against said charge. In tMs act and proc
lamation, Governor Bollock slanders tho com
munity, and especially this grand jury, publish
ing to the world that through malice we have
foresworn ourselves and falsely charged a man
with carrying “concealed weapons" when the car
rying was “open and public" beyond all donbt.
And upon what evidence doe3 Ms Excellency
mako this gross accusation against us? The
unsworn statement of the accused himself—made
far from the community in which the offence
was done, and in tho absenco of bis accusers.
Which ‘ statements, provided they come from
one of his party, have more weight in M3 en
lightened mind than the strongest sworn testi
mony of men of any and all colors, and the
sworn findings of a respectable grand jury.
The charge that Jackson conld not meet his
trial hero, without endangering Ms life, is a
base fabrication. He would have been as safe
here os any man in the community.
Tho truth is, that several recent acts of vio
lence, by both black and white, have suggested
to Judge Harrell, and to tho public, the impor
tance of enforcing the laws against carrying
concealed weapons; and, at the November term,
the Judgo was very emphatic in Ms charge to
ns on this subject. As a result of Ms commend
able zeal for tho suppression of crime, and the
dilligent efforts of ti?o grand jury to preserve
i tho peace and security of the community, a
large number of persons, wMte and black, (but
principally tho former), were indicted at that
term for this offence. They were bound over
to stand their trials, and had the law been al
lowed to take its course, much good might re
suit. But the efforts of the grand jury are
vain, the exertions of tho bench are futile, and
the best endeavors of good citizens are defeated
by the reckless, wicked, slanderous interference
of a mere partisan Executive.
Instances of violence against the blacks are
far less frequent and gross than Bullock, for
party purposes, represents. They are less fre
quent than might be reasonably expected nnder
their anomalous circumstances of onr people.
But, whether few or many, we sincerely depre
cate them; and in common with the majority
of our citizens, long to see peace and kindly re
lations between the races, and impartial justice
done to all.
Actuated by these sentiments, in behalf of
onr own reputations as jurors, and that of our
over-slandered community ; in behalf of the
peace and security of the blacks as well as the
wMtes, we solemnly protest against such reck
less sacrifice, on the part/of Ahe Executive-of
the State, of all these grave interests, to tho one
low and wicked ambition of serving a political
party.
We respectfully request the Cathbert Appeal
to publish tfco above, also all the papers through
out tho State.
John L. Brown, Foreman.
Joseph D. 0”t. \V. H. Arnold.
W. Harden; " H. B. Elder.
W. B. Gurry. O. R. Knowles.
S. N. Ivey. J. M. Ferguson.
J. T. Harden.. G. S. Baldwin.
J. E. Brideges. ' O. L. Tumlin;
T. Moody. T. L. Smith.
H. Bright. J. G. Ray.
N. Arthur. J. A. Fiilingham.
How Mrs. Jimphisque Looks.—We have
heard all about Mr. Jimphisque, but Mrs. Jim,
heretofore, has escaped photographing by the
reporters of the New York press. One of them,
however, saw her at a ball last week, and says:
She is exceedingly rotund; blonde, like her
lord,'and resembles Mm in face and form. A
ctranger would call ber his sister. She dresses
gorgeously. At the 9th regiment ball she wore
satin can de Nile color, and point lace. At the
Leiderkratz she wore com oolor covered with
thread lace, and such diamonds. During the
week she graced her box at the grand opera
house robed ina violet velvet pelisse, faoedwith
ermine, and a satin skirt made with countless
flutings, the same shade, coral ornaments. A
violet velvet hat with a small, beantfful bird of
tropical plumage on the side completed a charm
ing toilette. As a dresser, Mrs. James Fisk is
a success. She seems a very jolly woman.
The Joint High Commission.—Leo, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Charleston Courier,
expresses the qpinion that the result of the la
bors of the Joint High Commission will be sat
isfactory to all parties, although he apprehends
some danger from the Canada annexationists.
Kev. Sir. Clieney Formally Suspemlert
from 4 lie Ministry—He Appeals and
is Sustained By His Cliurcii.
Chicago, February 19.—Yesterday afternoon
Bishop WMtehouse, in accordance with -the
verdict of the Ecclesiastical Court wMch tried
him, formally suspended Rev. Charles Edward
Cheney from the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Mr. Cheney was present, as
were quite a number of tho members of Ms
church. The sentence was that Mr. Cheney
be suspended from all offices and functions of
the priesthood and ministry of the CEurch of
God, until such time as assurances shall be
given of contrition for tbo past and of con
formity in the matter wherein he has offended
in tho future.
After sentence, Mr. Cheney presented the
following protest:
Charles Edward Cheney, a presbyter of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and reotor. of
Christ Church, CMcago, do enter my solemn
protest against the constitution, the mode of
proceeding, tho ruling and the verdict of tho
Ecclesiastical Court by wMch my so-called trial
has been conducted. From its decision and
verdict and form of the scntenco pronounced, I
appeal to the judgment of Protestant Christian
ity and to that Supremo tribunal before which
all must appear.
[Signed] Chas. Edward Cheney.
A meeting of the wardens and vestry-men of
Christ Chnrch was held in the evening, when
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Roy. Charles E. Cheney"
be requested to continue his services as rector
of Christ Churoh.
[Signed]- R. A. B. Mill, Clerk.
less Work and More Pay.
Mr. David A. Wasson in a recent leoture de
livered in Boston on the Labor Problem, so-
called, in a few words exposes the futility of the
proposition to reduce a day’s work to eight
hours, while the wages are maintained at the
old standard, or increased. Says ho:
WHAT DOES THE LABOR REFORMER PROPOSE?
What is his remedy for the evil? Give ns, he
says, less work and more wages—less woik at
any rate, and more wages, to say the least, rela
tively to the amount of labor performed. I
here speak of the more sober and sensible class
of labor performers, represented by such men
as Wendell PMllips and fra Steward. There is
another class whose conceits swell to a dimen
sion I shall not attempt to take the measure of.
The former cry for less work and relatively at
least more wages. This in the end is to bring
abont co-operation which is the ideal goal. Ob
serve that these men have not set out to secure
leisure at their own cost, but at the general cost
of the community. Not only this, but thoy dis
tinctly expect peouniary benefit from the meas
ure proposed. Their expectations cannot thus
be fulfilled. You cannot make eight hours a
day’s work without making the laborer poorer.
I suppose in saying this that wages aro not low
ered. Let labor be reduced and wages remain
the same and the laboring man is inevitably im
poverished. The workman gets the wages of
labor. Into what doe3 he convert them in or
der to obtain what they are worth to Mm? Why
into the fruit of labor. Now it is simply impos
sible that the average wages of a day’s work
should purchases more than the average fruit of
a day’s work. They may do much less, but by
no possiblity.more. The price therefore in
money of a day’s industry is simply a tioket en
titling the holder (approximately) to the average
product of a day’s industry.
The New York Ledger advises General Grant
to dismiss Secretary Bout well. If Bonner will
send Dexter to the stables of the WMte House,
and write Ms advioe on the back of the deed of
gift, Boutwell will go out in less than twenty-
four hours.—Courier Journal.
“Youb field may be furrowed with care,” but
it cannot be “harrowed by the xeoolleotion.”
The Long White tw"
Aalcimierofedthehaibor^
The lights began to gleam. '
No wave the land-locked harbor atirrAS
The craga were whito as cream J ’
And I marked my love by candle-light
Sewing her long white seam
Its aye sewing ashore, my dear
Watch and steer at sea" r ’
. It’s reef and furl, and haul the i;„„
Set sail and think of thee. ‘ r ‘ 0 ’
I climbed to reach her cottage door •
Oh, sweetly mylovesingBl ’
Like a shaft of light her voico breaks bn.
My soul to meet it springs 8 Iort “>
- As tho shining water leaped of o'd
liken stirred by angel win^s.
Aye longing to list anew, .
Awake and in my dream
And peace drop down on that low rant
For the eight that 1 did see 1
voice, my dear, tbat’rang so c!m,
All for the love of me. c ' eu
Fo ,[ 0 £> f or oh, with brow bent low
By tho flickering candle’s gleam
Her wedding gown it was she wrought
Sowing the long whito seam.
[good 11 ordsfor q
Ttie Post Office Frauds.
Surface Indications, ShonIn~ n *•»,
Peculation-Tho Beauties of John‘s •>
CreswcU's Department-Sow A
Mas Been Done. ta ° ’blag
Washington Correspondence of tho rw
Commercial.
Since the exposure of the Chotpemm.p Mc
certain gentlemen in the House of remL t
tives have been running in that dircctionJZ
considerable success. The Chorpenniao
doesnot stand alone. The ingenious, gentled
a former law partner, assisted by o theta
to havo had a variety of irons in the
how much has been madesofar by those offici,!
agents of blanks, twine, and envelopes, is aiMt
tor of conjecture. Two cases of attemZi
swindle have come to light. *" a
Sometime since an ingenious gentleman mad*
and patented an improvement in letter boi"i
that not only cheapened the article, bat i?
creased its facilities. He applied to IheixS.'
office department for a conlraot, but they twA
poohed the boxes and ho left discouraged t’
add to this discouragement, shortly after there
appeared an article in one of the papers m
porting to bo an account of a letter fcoitlni
had been invented, far superior to anything™,
discovered, and especially an improvements™
tho ono our ingenious friend had tendered'th
department. While he was in the lower stages
of despondency, with Ms money spent,’and tk
box on bis hands, an agent of tho department
turned np, and bought one-half of the right fa;
a mere trifle, I may say a mess of pottage, ia
the money was just sufficient to pay his bosffi
bill. So soon as this was accomplished the de
partment saw the beauty of the improved letter
boxes, and large quantities were purchased, "i
good thing was mado of it, but not so good a
the hungry desires of the postoffice department
longed for. There was an absurd law on tie
statute book that proMbited the department
from putting up boxes in cities of less than 50,.
000 inhabitants. On the same day that the
Chorponning resolution rode through trinmpi-
ont, a resolution was passed the House by tie
same parties, authorizing the postmaster gen
eral to supply these patent cheap and handy
boxes to all tho cities of the United States, let
the population be more or less. This resolution
was not so lucky as that wMch carried the
Chorpenning contract, and it came to grief in
an amendment from the Senate.
Tho other case is thafcof Eli Norton. If Ire-
mber rightly that is the name of the gentle
man. Eli had invented a process for cancel,
ling stamps some years since, and the postoffice
department, nnder the administration of Andrev
had seized and used this process, as the govern
ment has a right to do. without compensation to
the patentee. Eli did not,like this, and he
sought to have a bill passed through Congress for
Ms relief. A. bill was so prepared, and intro
duced under tho title of a bill to relieve Eli Nor
ton, giving him $50,000 for tho use of his admir
able process of cancelling postoffice stamp!
TMs passed the Senate, but when it reached tire
House a discussion sprang np that faily riddled
poor Eli. Powerful reasons were brought for
ward and urged by those whoknow the individual
against the relief sought, and the debate ended
in the total defeat of the bilL Eli was disoenrag-
ed, and would probably havo retired from the
field disgusted with Congressional equity hadit
not been for tho postoffice people, always onto
lookout for such little games. Tinder the m
of these benevolent gentlemen in an opportsa
moment, daring tho closing hours, when Gta-
pennning triumphed, a resolution was introduc
ed for tho relief of Eli but so ingeniously worded
that Eli’s name did not appear. The depart
ment was authorized to pay for tlie use of a cer
tain patent, issued at a certain date, and reis
sued at another date, and used by the depart
ment from a certain period. This is tho sub
stance of the description, bnt it runs on at soma
length, and I regret that I have not got it before
me on pnt to record, as a curious specimen of
postoffice literature, wMch shows how not todo
:.t. When on its passage, however, through
the House, the Hon. Wifiiam Lawrence, ever
on the lookout for suchdemandsuponthe treas
ury, so amended the resolution as to strike out
the word “pay,” and merely authorize tho de
partment to take up and consider the claim,
whatever it was, and report to the next session
of Congress. In this shape the resolution pass
ed to a law, and tho honorable member of Con
gress, in search of such .literntnro, followed it
up, and tho other -day found that a report had
been elaborated ia the department for the bene
fit of Eli, that was both ingenious and immense.
Tho officer arrived at the compensation to be
paid Eli for the use of Ms process for cancelling
stamps by an inquiry as to how many stamps
one could cancel in a day by hand. Then, tak
ing all the letters distributed through the van-
ous postoffices in tho United States where fc
cancelling process had been used, he allowed
Eli the difference between the hand labor and
the macMne. The sum total amounts to mil
lions. Eli, who failed tqget Ms $50,000, ianov
the postal heir to millions, and would be ahapn
man bnt for that abominable amendment intr
duced by Lawrence, that sends Mm back to an
unjust Congress. Ho, however, hold3 a beita
position than he did before. A man cannot cw
much, in these degenerate days, with a f w,ww
claim, but when it gets up to millions it hnss
m argin that insures success.
The Mr. Brown in the department (whichW
name is Earle) did not propose to give it np so-
The next move upon the legal chess board w»
very happy. Yon will recollect that, ashen ve
had a commission for codifying the laws, o®'
sisting of the venerable Col. CosMng, to gite
dignity to the ooncern, and our booby, Johnson
to enliven it by his delicato wit and
hnmor (drawing Ms pay with healthy regnian-
ty), and our Charlie James to do all the wor ,
one of the visible results was a codification
the postoffice laws. This the bearded lam-
worth, chaiimau of the committee in tho novset ■
has stolen bodily, and embodied in a law
to hand the bearded Farnsworth down to an ■
miring posterity through all time to come, no >
into the body of this bit of codification
backers of Eli in the department eneceede _
injecting the relief so loDg sought and sign
for. So when Mr. Farnsworth’s stolen cm®.
tion passed to a law, Eli’s stolen relief
glay tho hearts of his agents in tho postal -a
of our government. . n i.
These are only snrface indications. **
believed that a real mine yet lies below. a .
charming a thing it is, in these hard ti mes .To
days of heavy taxation, to have departmen
which ingenious and energetic people can re-
and make a comfortable living for therasc,^
and their families. 'When looked at from
reasonable and benevolent point of view o-
shrinks from the proposed civil service reto
I doubt whether the reform will reach cas«
tMs sort. The objections to the post-cmco
psrtment are not either of incapacity—by»“
they are strong on that point—but fr°ai a ^
gular moral obliquity that confuses Uncle s .
uel’s money with the private coffers of the »“> !
which means the pockets of an official.
" Several years ago there was quite,
because the Prince of Wales was married am-
ason of Lent, wMch, according t0 .
Church authorities, was quite uncanon >-
Since then, as if to mark her displeasure oi
clerical interference, the Queen has, as a
held ner “ drawing rooms” on Fridays, to w ^
the clergy have also objected. And now,
though to bring matters to a orisis, the
riage of the Prinoess Louise has been nxeu
take place, not only in Lent, but on a n“ - e
Already the Archbishop of Canterbury an
Bishops of London and Oxford have a
their remonstrance, and it remains to
whether her Majesty will succumb to tne p-
ure thus put upon her. To outsiders it g
odd that there should be any object*on
Friday, even though it occurred during -jj
It is generally believed that the marnag
take place on the day already selected, h> V
of the Episoopal protest—London metier.
