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Tiie Greoigia "Weeisly Teleg^ra/oli a,ndL Joumal Messenger
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, OCTOBER 31 1871.
~GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
rOCETH DAY—CONTINUED.
A. M. Crowder, represented by Lawton &
Willingham, sbow a cotton chopper.
Von Pl'ul & M.illon, East Baton Range, La.,
show the Holly Wood Cnltivator, a very inge
nious machine, well made and which runs with
-two mules. Adapted for cane, com or cotton,
and so arranged that yon can do any kind of
work desired, end even adapt it to stnmpy
ground. This machino is said to be a great fa
vorite in Louisiana.
J. G. Minor, of Nashville, exhibits several
plows—subsoil—ingenious combinations of sub
soil and turning plow all in one ; also sweeps.
The subsoil received the Georgia State prize
last year.
A good many corn and cotton planters are on
exhibition.
Hall & Speer, Pittsburg, Pa„ represented by
W. J. McEwing, show six varieties and sizes
of plows in wrought and cast iron and steel.
Their breaking plow has tt straight steel mould
plate and performs its work splendidly, so it is
said. A remarkably fine lot of plows.
The Sprague Mowing Machine Company,
Providence, B. I., represented by Hough &.
Church, of Knoxville, East Tennessee. Exhibit
n one-horse power machine, which demands a
draft of only 125 pounds in operation, with a
foot cut. The machine is all iron and tseel, except
shalves, and the work all enclosed. It costs $00
and is the machine for this region. The two-
horse is priced at $100.
Evatt’s Patent Shingle Machine, Dunleitb,
Illinois, represented by its builder, C V S. Bust.
This is an elegant Machine, with a capacity of
12 to 15,000 rhingles a day. In this machine
the saw revolves horizontally—the cut is with
the grain and the shingle is as smooths as if
shaved or planed. The thickness uniform—the
shingle can be cut to any length up to two feet
and of any width below seventeen inches. The
cost is $300—delivered by W. W. Parker,
agent, in Macon.
Low’s patent shingle or barrel head sawing
machine runs with a vertical saw, and is much
the same thing as the other—owned, in fact, by
the same parties. These noisy and rapid ma
chines attract much notice.
Habbis Rotaby Engike. entered by the Brown
Cotton Gin Company, New London, Conn.
This is a steam engine in which the power is
applied directly to a wheel famished with buck
ets much after the fashion of a water-wheel.
The engine exhibited here is claimed to have
six-horse power, and is driven by a wheel of
18 inches diameter. The whole arrangement is
very simple. The steam is generated in an up
right fine boiler, and from thence conducted in
an inch pipe to the wheel. A pulley on the
main shaft connects with a belt to the driving
pullies above. The machine is as 6implo as a
windmill, and great durability is claimed for it
on account of the absence of friction in the
motive parts. This steam engine, boiler and
all, is valued at $600—the price being about a
hundred dollars to the horss-power. Mr.
Brown 6aya that very soon steam will be applied
in this way to water craft and land carriages,
and he expects to run a boat on this principle
up and down the liver at the next Macon Fair.
He is now driving with it a Brown Gin, made
by the-same company, and which tnrnod out on
tho trial yesterday 300 pounds seed cotton in
seventeen minutes and fifty-five seconds. This
gin is also supplied with a self-feeding apara-
tes, which is a very important addition to the
cotton gin.
The same company exhibit a cotton seed
bnller and crasher, which is n compact and ef
fective little affair sold for $35, and will work
np three to four hundred bushels of cotton seed
per day.
Mr. Israel Brown, who represents the com
pany on tlieso grounds, is well known to Geor
gians—a brother cf Brown, of tho Brown
House, and long associated in business with
E. T. Taylor, as E. T. Taylor & Co., and sub
sequently of the firm of Clemmons, Brown & Co.
Culveb's Ikojj Dbag Saw, Barbaroux & Co.,
Louisville, Kentucky. This is a cross-cut saw,
driven by a portable horse power. It is de
signed to cat up trees jast as they fall in the
woods, to any length that may be needed, either
for fire-wood or mechanical purposes. The saw
Is extended at right angles, along tho trank, by
means of gas-pipe shafting, connected by uni
versal joints. It is claimed to saw through a
three foot pine in two minutes, and that two
men and two mules will cut up 25 cords of
wood with it in if day. Brannon, Norton & Co.,
Louisville, manufacturers.
Blan'dy's Fobtable Engine and Saw Mm
is the noisiest piece of machinery on the gronnd
—a perfect raging monster among saw logs.
Manufactured by Blandy & Co., Zmesville,
Ohio, and exhibited by the agent, W. W. Par
ker, of Macon. This concern is said to ent a
hundred feet of lumber per minute, and while
in operation is thronged by visitors.
Findlay Bbothebs take the Blue Ribbon for
the best horizontal and upright steam engines
for plantation uses; and also for the Craig
Horse Power for ginning and threshing. They
have made a fine show and with the beet re
sults to themselves—taking three of the highest
prizes.
Cotton Peesses.—The time made by the dif
ferent cotton presses on trial was as follows:
Findlay’s Eelipso Press 3.17; Utley Lever
Pres3 3.45; Schofield & Son 5.12. The com
mittee awarded the highest prize to tho Scho
field Press. The Schofield Press was exhibited
in all patterns, and we congratulate this enter
prising firm on carrying off tho prize.
A Patent Gate is exhibited by Robert J.
Hodges, of Sumter county, Ga., in which the
gate traverses back and forth on two iron cas
tors eight inches in dameter. A very good idea.
Hall's Cotton Gin look the premium for
the closcBt work and cleanest seed. There
was some misapprehension among exhibitors—
the most of them thought time was the point to
be aimed at, while the committeo looked mainly
at length of fibro and cleanness of seed. The
principles of tho decision do not seem to have
been fully known in advanca; and probably it
would have been better to have tested all the
gins in both particulars.
Snydeb Bbick.—Sparks & Knight, exhibit
some fine Macou brick, made without sand by
the Snyder maohine.
Poetable Engines.—W. E. Tanner, Metro
politan Works, Richmond, Va., represented by
H. R. Brown, took the highest prize for porta
ble steam engines. They had two engines on
the ground—one of 40 and one of 25 horse pow
er. Tho former drove the works in the Machin
ery Hal!, and the latter is now going to drive
the works at tho Alabama State Fair next week.
South-westebn Raileoad.—We deeply re
gret tho publication in onr local columns, two
days since, of a report that transportation
could not be afforded for the multitudes who
were desirous of visiting the Fair on the lino of
that thoroughfare. We are authorised by Presi
dent Holt to state that any suoh rumor was ut
terly without foundation. Ample means to
move double tho number offering to visit Ma
con have been in readiness at all times, and not
the slightest delay has occurred to any passen
ger.
No better appointed road, or one more abund
antly provided with roiling stock, can be found
at the South. We may add, likewise, that its
time table seldom varies five minutes, while
the conductors are all gentlemen, and the em
ployees, so far as we are acquainted with them,
faithful and attentive to their dnties.
It gives us pleasure to correct thus emphati
cally tho damaging rumor which unwittingly
crept into our columns.
Personal.—We aro glad to meet among onr
many friends in tho city Dr. J. O. Lee of Mont
gomery, Alabama. The Doctor visits onr great
Fair in the interest of, and as a representative
of the Alabama Agrienltnral Association, which
holds its great State Fair commencing next
Monday. The premium list offered by the Ala
bama Association is one of the most attractive
ever offered in the Southern States. Number
ing among its prizes $1,000 for best bale of
cotton; $t,000 for the fastest trotting, and
>000 for fastest running horse—to its regular
list. We also notice quite a number of special
premiums offered by the enterprising citizens
of .our sister city of Montgomery. (The list,
Wlio special premiums added, amounts to nearly
twenty-five thousand dollars.
Montgoateby Blaib made a short speech at
Sligo, Maryland, last week, which is the pith-
iest production of the age. We must try to
-find room for it.
Urrliappy South Carolina.
The partizan rancor which is now overturning
all civil order in Sonth Carolina is ioflioting the
• severest pecuniary damage upon that oppressed
! people. At the very moment when the tax-
I gatherer is most clamorous for an extraordinary
I portion of their substance, labor has ceased and
the crops aro rotting ungathered in the field.
The story of these calamities is most pitiful.
But pecuniary losses hardly deserve mention
in comparison with the loss of all personal secu
rity. Every man in those ostracised counties
is at tho mercy of whoever owes him a grudge.
No charge will be made which cannot be proven
by any desired number of witnesses, and as the
negroes will have the ear of tho court, convic
tion becomes a mere question of will. Scroggs,
Titus Oates and the meal tub plot trials are re
vived on a larger and improved scale.
But where is this business to stop ? Injustice
breeds injustice—and wrong breeds violence.
How long will it take to harmonize society in
Santh Carolina on a basis of exparte trials and
convictions through negro testimony ? Let us
suppose that tho administration is successful in
all its measures—that the whites are fined and
imprisoned by hundreds—that Radicalism and
Africanism, hand in hand, ran riot over all
Sonth Carolina, and while tho storm of persecu
tion lasts tho whites are driven by scores into
exile and concealment—or move about with
bated breath and palsied arms and tongues—
what then? What has been accomplished?
Nothing but mischief 1
This system of terrorism cannot be perpet
ual. The memory of wrongs perpetrated nnder
it will far transcend its existence; and the
deadly feuds it will engender may exist for gen
erations. All these proceedings will only
aggravate the evils they purpose to remedy. The
entire policy of tho Radical party from first to
last—which seeks to play upon hostility of race
in order to secure party possession of the ne
groes—is fraught with untold evil to the latter.
The negroes can accomplish nothing for them
selves except in harmonious co-operation with
the native white population of the Sonth. |
policy which sets aside all the ordinary machi
nery of public justice and employs the negroes
as familiars, spies and informers and witnesses
against their employers, must be inexpressibly
vicious and mischievous iu all its consequence?.
Every philosophical statesman mnst admit
that 60 great a social revolution as has been
wrought in the South by external force, must
necessarily leave temporary agitation and dis
turbance behind it. It conld not be otherwise.
Tho wonder is that this disturbance, from so
great a shock, has not been greater, instead of
less. Now what is the cure ? Lot the waters
settle of themselves, by the natural force of
gravitation. The great law of necessity and
interest was operating day by day, with silent,
but irresistible energy, to re-adjust conflicting
ideas and prejudices. What was needed was
“ hands off.” But this might have identified
the two races too closely for the purposes of
radicalism. The sympathy might have run into
politics, and the negro vote might have been
divided, end hence the Ku-Klnx enginery is
demanded to re-agitato the waters of strife and
division. Thus the whole Radical sytem is
equally and fatally at war with the best interests
of both races. It demands division, segregation
and discord. Its greatest enemy is peace, and
social harmony.
Look to Your Policies.
The recent calamity at Chicago demonstrated
one fact beyond all caviL That is, that insu
rance is tbe sheet anchor of commercial and in
dustrial prosperity. All the sufferers who were
fortunate enough to have their policies written
in substantial and reliable incorporations, had
their claims adjusted and paid without delay,
and are already preparing for their usual trans
actions. Among the valuable experience de
rived from this dreadful ordeal, one of the im
portant features is the fact that those organiza
tions doiDg a general bnsiness, carefully distrib
uted and discreetly scrutinized, are much strong
er and infinitely more reliable than those doing
a local business. Indeed, all the incorpations
forced into liquidation by the Chicago occur
rence, were of tbe character last refered to,
while the former paid every dollar of their lia
bilities promptly.. Take, for example, that sterl
ing organization so favorably known through
out tho whole country—The Undebwbitebs’
Agency of New Yobk, which is composed of the
four leading corporations: The Hanover, Ger
mania, Niagara and Republic Insurance Compa
nies of that city. The total losses of this con
federation by the Chicago ordeal, were nearly
$1,000,000; yet so thoroughly are their affairs
managed, and so perfect is their system, that
as early as the Thursday after the fire their
agent was on tho gronnd cashing their liabilities,
in many cases without even going through the
formality of adjustment; and after the total
loss was paid, dollar for dollar, they bad intact
besides their united capitals of $2,500,000 a
cash surplus of $500,000. This simple illustra
tion of tho value of this system, even under
almost any conceivable contingency, affords
ample evidence of its vast superiority. Our cit
izens are aware that Henry L. Jewett, Esq., a
gentleman whose reputation as an experienced
and always reliable underwriter is second to
none other, is tho Macon representative of the
New York Underwriters’ Agency.
The Gbeat St. Gothaed Tunnel through, the
Alps will soon be commenced. The tunnel will
be abont tho same length as (hat through Mont
Cenis. The amount of capital necessary to
bnild the tunnel and connect the railway with
other lines is estimated at thirty-seven millions
of dollars. Of this, Germany, Italy, and
Switzerland have together furnished by subsidy
seventeen millions; thirteen millions will be
raised by the issno of bonds, and seven millions
by tbe sale of capital stock. French capitalists
hold aloof from the enterprise, as calculated to
damage the interests and influence of France.
Hon. Thomas Ewing, Sb.—This gentleman,
who died at his home in Lancaster, Ohio, on
Tuesday night, at the advanced age of 82 years,
had been a very prominent man in the politics
of the country. He was born in Ohio oonnty,
Virginia, in 1789, and in 1792 moved with his
father’s family to Ohio. In 1830 he was sent
to the United States Senate, where he remained
seven years—was Secretary of the Treasury un
der the Harrison administration in 1841—Sec
retary of the Interior under President Taylor
In 1849—again U. S. Senator in 1850, retiring
therefrom in 1851—was delegate to the “Peace
Congress" that met at Washington in 18G1, and
also to the Johnson Convention of 1866 at Phil
adelphia, and was a delegate to the Democratic
Convention of 1868 at New York. One of his
daughters married Gen. W. T. Sherman.
General G. J. Wriglif, or Albany, Tor
tbe Senate.
Editors Telegraph, and Messenger: Without
disparaging the claims or merits of others, the
friends of General G. J. Wright, of Albany, xe-
speotfnlly present his name to the Legislature,
and will urge his election to the United States
Senate. It is unnecessary to tell the people
who Old Gib is—they know him well, and will
approve this nomination. Geoboia.
The Atlanta Era says:
Forney’s Press gets off the following:
“Democracy, or, to speak more accurately,
the Democratic party, now is simply “organ
ized ignorance.”
And the Radical party is now, and always has
been, simply organized rascality. Better ig.
noranoe than knavery. * j
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The deaths at Savannah, daring the week
ending last Monday, were only 20, against 30
for the corresponding week last year.
The Central Railroad is building a warehouse
at Savannah 315 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 23
feet high. There will be two lines of tftsk run
ning to it—one on each side.
A young man, whose name is not given, was
knocked down and robbed in Savannah, Tues
day evening.
Three United States soldiers developed a*
buggy and horse belonging to Mr. Galpin, of
Savannab, on Tuesday, and sloped for parts
unknown.
Some of tbe planters of Scriven county have
held a meeting, and resolved as follows:
Resolved, Thatafter hearing the statements of
the planters from tbe different sections, of the
county, we beg leave to -report the following:
That so far as the use of commercial manures
have been tested by those who have purchased
them in this connty the present year, they have
been, as a general thing, of no advantage or
benefit; and inasmuch as they have failed to
increase the yield of the crops, it would be con
trary to good conscience, on the part of the
vendors of useless fertilizers, to demand pay
for the same, and injurious and unjust to the
planters to be required to pay for that which
has not profited them anything.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says:
Anotheb Exodus Thbeatened fbom South
Carolina.— Scott’s fuss on his picket line
promises Georgia much good. We had the
pleasure of meeting yesterday several substan
tial citizens from certain counties in Sonth Car
olina now nnder martial law, who visit our
State in quest of lands A venerable, old
gentleman, whom we have known for years,
whose portly carriage, saying nothing of the
infirmities of grey old age, consort but illy with
our preconceived Idea of aotive, virile, ghost
like Ku-Klux, tells us something of tho pro
cedures under martial law. There are about
seven hundred United States troops at York-
ville, the headqnarters of the Grant Club of
South Carolina, and two hundred more are
expected. About two hundred arrests have been
made. The arrests are always at midnight.
The suspected or charged party is arrested and
taken to headquarters, and there an investiga
tion commences.
Mr. W. W. Turner has retired from the edi
torial management of the Eatonton Press and
Messenger.
Judge J. T. Bowdoin, an old and mnch es
teemed citizen of Eatonton, died last Friday,
after an illness of nearly one year.
The negro Ku-klux of McDuffie county burned
a crib with 800 bushels of corn, belonging to
Mr. Vincent Reese, last Friday. Now lets see
whether the Present Taker will declare martial
law down there.
We clip the following items from the VaIdo3ta
Times, of Taesday:
Obstbuctions on the Raileoad.—We learn
that obstructions consisting of heavy pieces of
timber twenty feet in length were placed npon
the railroad track near Quitman Thursday night
last. Tbe fiends did not succeed however in
their diabolical attempt at destroying numbers
of lives, for tbe passenger car going east ran
into, and cleared them from the track, damag
ing only the cow-catcher.
ince putting the above in type we learn that
ten thousand dollars was in the express car. An
evident attempt at roborry.
The Judgeship.—Considerable hap been the
excitement with some, of late, with regard to
the Judgeship of the Allapaha Circuit. Judge
O’Neal has resigned and the vacancy is not yet
filled. Applications, however, have been be
fore tho Governor, and in reply he informs as
pirants that no appointments will be made un
til the l egislature meets. Poor consolation wo
would call it if we were one ; the Legislature
many think, will throw a damper over “matters
and things’’ by casting the circuit overboard.
The great majority of our citizens will not “kick
up a row” about it either.
Ho foe Libebia.—Jeff Braswell with sixty-
four of his colored brethren leave to-night for
Liberia. All of them are jubilant and antici
pate fine times “ober dar.’’
The Columbus Sun, of Wednesday, has the
following:
Cotton Sales by Wabehousemen.—The total
sales for tho fiscal year ending October 1st,
amount to $1,486,599. This includes only tho
soles by warehousemen proper. Returns show
$035,044 for one; $C09,722 for another; S207,-
005 for another: $19,186 for another; $15,572
for another. Tbe city tax is one-tenth of one
per cent- on warehousemen’s sales; nothing on
those of planters. So the returns yield a reve
nue to tho city of $1,486 59.
Pbemiums on Cotton.—Measures are being
taken by public men to get up a premium of
$1,000 for tho best bale of cotton exhibited at
our Fair next week—$500 for tbe first, $300 for
the second and $200 for the third—open to
competition by the world.
Much Betteb.—Mr. A. D. Brown. Sr., was
pronounced yesterday by his physicians to be
greatly improved, mentally and bodily. The
apoplectic fit has been an advantage. His
mind is now more unclouded, and his memory
clearer than for some time.
Fast Time.—An old (in experience) engineer
tells us the pissenger train tho other day ran
from Macon to Columbus, 101 miles, in three
hours,
An old man named Eagene O’Connor was
found dead in a yard at Augusta, on Wednesday
morning. Too much benzine.
The Constitutionalist of Wednesday, says:
Almost a Fatal Result.—Monday night, at
a late hour, as some ladies were sitting around
the bed side of a sick friend in Mr. McLaugh
lin’s house, on Greene street, a missile crashed
throngh a window pane and lodged in the wall
jnst over the ladies’ heads, passing so near that
had one of the parly been standing it would
most infallibly have stricken her down, and
perhaps caused her death. On investigation,
the missile, which had batted itself in tho wall,
was found to be a pistol ball.- The matter was
brought to the attention of Lieut. King, of tho
police force, who immediately commenced
hunting up the offender, and after some search,
fonnd cause to suspect a colored youth named
Henry Bowles, who was at onco arrested, and
on being conveyed to the guard house, con
fessed that he fired the shot, and delivered np
the pistol, a small single barrel affair, bat
declared that the shooting was altogether un
intentional on his part, the weapon having dis
charged itself accidentally.
We find the following in the Atlanta Consti
tution, of yesterday:
Impobtant Decision.—In the case of A. C.
Van Epps vs. The City of Atlanta for damages
in Fulton Superior Court, the counsel for the
defendant objected to the jury on the gronnd
that they were citizens of Atlanta and interested
parties in the suit. Judge Hopkins decided the
objection to be valid, and as he (Judge Hopkins)
was a citizen of Atlanta, likewise interested, ho
could not preside m the case. Therefore no
cases for damages against the city will likely be
tried for the present.
Commuted.—We learn that Governor Bullock
has commuted the sentence of C. O. Reese from
hanging to imprisonment in tho penitentiary for
life. Reese was convicted for the killing of
Edwards in Taliaferro oonnty, and sentenced to
be hung to-morrow.
Atlantic and Gbeat Westebn Canal.—-Major
McCalla, of the United States Engineer Corps,
is in the city, and stopping at the Cannon
House. He is here for the purpose of organizing
an engineer corps to survey the route of the
Atlantic and Great Western Canal. Here is »
fine opportunity for our young men who are ac
quainted with civil engineering.
The Albany News says that Mr. F. K Wright,
formerly of that plaoe, has just returned from
Texas and reports the cotton crop of that State
almost a failure. Planters are very much dis-
oouraged, and have no hope of gathering more
than one-fourth of a crop. His own observa
tion covers a vast area, and being an old cotton
planter himself his judgment may be relied on.
The British ship Sunbeam from London and
bound for Savannah, went adore on Osaabaw
Island last Saturday night. She will be gotten
off with little material damage.'
Of the atatns of the D’Montmollin affair,' the
News of Thursday, says:
Wo have been informed that the wounded
men would be released from custody and al
lowed to return to their homes, while another
report is to the effeot that they will be oonveyed
to Beanfort for trlaL
pickets regularly stationed, and not allowing
anyone to enter the lands except with their
permission. Thus matters stand at present.
Some party whose name is not given, but who
is^esignated as “a well known citizen” by tho
Savannah Advertiser, has been amusing himself
by forging the name of Mr. W. S. Bogart,
another well known citizen of that city.
The Advertiser says the grand jury in the
U. S. District Court now in session there have
found indictments for various offences sgsinst
certain Federal and ex-Fedeial officials of this
State. The Advertiser mentions tho case of
Kryzanowaki among others that had been inves
tigated.
The Columbus Sun, of yesterday, says:
Dboffed Dead in Opelika—Telegrams state
that Judge John A. Lewis, of Russell county,
Ala., dropped dead in the streets of Opelika on
Taesday afternoon. He was attending court at
that place. His age was forty-six years. He
has resided all his life in this section, and was
one of a numerous family. He was a lawyer of
ability and enjoyed a large practice. For many
years be was Judge of the Probate Conrt of
Russell, and represented that connty in the
State Senate several sessions daring tho war.
He was a good man and a true citizen. The
remains are expected to-day on the Western
train. They will be buried in this City.
Mrs. Louisa Frederica Crook, matron of the
Orphans’ Home, and F. G. Hilz, are announced
among the most recent deaths at f!avannah.
“Senex,” in the Savannah News, writes as
follows from St. Simons’ Island:
Deab Sie—In your paper of tho 19th is an
article copied from tho Boston Post, headed
“Western Fire,” in which appears the follow
ing : “Our history famishes no parallel to the
record of the present time, and the series of
shocking catastrophies are calculated to call
out the best works of charity," etc.
Hr. Editor, it is not necessary to go back ten
years in our history to find conflagrations that
are not only parallel, but infinitely surpass tbe
Western fire. I refer to fires made by Generals
Sheridan and Sherman. The writer of this has
watched at a distance of twenty.miles, the black
cloud of which overhung the* march of Sher
man’s army in Carolina. “Bum all the painted
houses," was the order of this modern Attila;
and, for a breadth of fifty miles, every edifice,
including churches, was swept away through
he whole length of the State.
The destruction of breadstuff's and live stock
in the West is great. What was destroyed by
Sherman in Georgia and Carolina, it is impossi
ble to say, bnt in his offioial report, Gen. Sher
idan claims, among other devastations, that he
destroyed in the Valley one thousand bams, all
the mills, and killed one million of sheep.
The women and children of Chicago and the
West, fled from their burning dwellings to be
received and welcomed in the houses of their
moro fortnnate neighbors. But in Columbia,
ladies fleeing from their burning mansions,
were glad to seek shelter from the bratality of
the incendiaries amid the inmates of the mad
house.
The incendiaries in Chicago,caught in the act
were hnngtolamp posts; but Sherman and Sher
idan are overwhelmed with honors and riches.
The “fire in tho West” was a dispensation of
God. The fire in the South was a “military
necessity.” God help the men who can invent
any “necessity” for making war upon women
and children, to serve theij political ends.
. . Senex.
There are 8,774 white and black children, be
tween the ages of five and twenty-ono, in Rich
mond connty.
We clip and cordially second tbe following
appeal from the Atlanta Constitution:
To the Legislatube.—It is essentially im
portant lhat every Demooratio member of the
Legislatnro be on hand at the opening of the
session to participate in the organization. Let
those who live at a distance so time their leaving
home as to get here punctually.
CoL Avery, of the Constitution, whohas been
on a visit to Dalton, his old homo, writes this,
among other things, to his paper:
Republican Reoeganization.—I hear many
rumors of an entire reorganization of the Re
publican party in Georgia. The body of the
party are against Bullock and Blodgett, and a
strong effort will be made to throw them over
board. I learn that leading men in that organ
ization contemplate calling a State convention.
It is proposed to reconstruct the Executive Com
mittee. Akerman, itis believed, will takea prom
inent part. Already bis Radical State friend
are urging his name for Governor. The name
of Dawson A. Walker is also mentioned. Of
one thing I am assured, and that is, that *a
lively Radical warfare is proposed against his
sacred Majesty Rufus, and his henchman in-
chief, Foster of the State Road. Their “food?,”
as the pure Covode used to dub irregularities,
aro too heavy for even that pious party of moral
ideas to tote safely.
We quote the following from the Atlanta Sun,
of yesterday:
Anotheb Unsettled Item.—When Mr, Kim
ball sold the Opera House to the Legislators,
there was a mortgage lien of $60,000 npon it,
created by Mr. K. That mortgage i3 still un
satisfied—or was a short time ago, and wo sup
pose is yet. Did the Governor pay any lawyer
a foe to examine the tide to thid property, be
fore it was accepted and paid for by him ? If
so, who was it, and what fee was paid ? Did
Bullock know of the existence of such mort
gage.
To Make a Rise.—It was currently reported
in the city yesterday, that a dispatch had been
received from Mr. Kimball, stating that Clews
& Company had effected a sale of his bonSs,
and that he would be back in a few days with
ample funds. We could not trace this rumor
to any reliablo source.
Tho Calhoun Times, says:
Skull Bboken.—We give below the facts, as
we have heard them, of a difficulty which oc
curred last Monday, near tho lino of this county
and Whitfield, between a man named Rooker
and a Mr. Gossett.
According to Mr. Gossett’s statement, a party
of men went to his house a few nights previous
to tho difficulty and drawing their pistols, or
dered him to stand, whereupon he immediately
made his escape. It seems that on the day of
the difficulty, when Rooker was passing Ms
honse, Gossett accosted him and after accusing
Mm of being one the intruders who had vis
ited Ms houee the few nights before, dealt him
a severe blow with a brickbat, which knocked
him foomhiB horse and fatally fracture dhis skulk
The Dalton Citizen, of yesterday, sa^-s:
A Little Gibl Bubned to Death.—We learn
that a little girl of a Mr. Weatherly, about eight
years old, living near Red Clay in this connty,
was so horribly bnrned, on Friday last, by her
clothes taking fire from a burning pile of rub
bish in the yard where she was at play, that she
died almost instantly. She was not discovered
until nearly all her clothes were consumed.
The New Yobk of Ihe South. —Atlanta is
no longer tho “Chicago of the South." The
New Era, of yesterday, says:
The best evidence of the constant stream of
emigration to this city, the New York of the
Sonth, is the scarcity of store houses and
private dwellings. Rents are disproportionately
high, and residences for the middle classes are
in great demand.
The Constitution has the following upon the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad again: We are
informed by the letter to which we referred
yesterday that Mr. J. A. Burns, the Superin
tendent of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad,
on the morning of the 20tb, left the road with
out notice to anyone.
Among the oontraotor to whom it is said Kim
ball has sold out Ms interest in the road are
given the names of Lyons & McLendon, A. Blue
& Oo., Hines & Hobbs, and others. The price
is said to be $150,000.
Colonel 0. L. Schlatter, the Chief Engineer,
proposed that the employees who had seized
rolling stock for their debts should release it
and let him run the road and pay them.
The employes refaBed unless paid or given
security that payment would be made in tMrty
days, they to appoint George L. Cook Superin
tendent.
There seems to have been great excitement.
Everybody was grabbing. Whisky flowed freely.
Engines and everything else available were
levied on and Beized indiscriminately.
In connection with Governor Bollock’s seizure
of the road Ms proclamation implicates Mm in
a fraud npon the State.
He oasts suspicion on tho bonds he has had
executed, registered, ana by himself delivered
toH. L Kimbalk In. the case of the endorsed
bonds “as fast as every ten miles is built in a
substantial manner, and the same in good run
ning working order, wMch shall bo certified to
hy an engineer appointed by the Governor, tho
company shall present to the Governor the
_ . . I bonds of said company, which Ms Excellency
The negroos are in forcible possession of the is requiredto endorse and deliver to said corn-
plantation of Mr. DeMontmoUin, having their * pany.” If then has been no fraud in the de
livery on the part of the Governor, he has no
further control over the bonds thus delivered,
and they aro bona fide tho property of the com
pany, the State having as security for the en
dorsement tho road completed and in rnnn’cg
order, npon which the State has tho first
lien. And the Governor advertising tho
bonds and appointing courts to receive evidence
of validity or application, of itself is presump
tive evidence that the Governor has practiced a
fraud upon the State by endorsing and deliver
ing bonds before tho road was complete. And
by application to tbo proper officers wo find
that $3,300,000 of tho endorsed bonds, by
order of the Governor were signed, sealed with
the' great seal of the State, registered and
delivered to Ms Excellenoy; the last as long
ago as the 18th day of April; while the road is
very far from being completed to the extent to
authorize anything like tMs amount. In addition
to the above, the Governor has had signed and
scaled with tho great seal of the State and
delivered to Mm $1,880,000 State bonds for tho
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company,being
the fall amount stud road is entitled to when
completed the entire leglh to Eufaula; making
in all, aid by the State to said road, five
MILLIONS ONE HUNDBED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND
($5,180,000) dollabs ! twice the entire indebted
ness of the State at the close of the war. No
wonder the Governor has token a sudden flight
to New York.
Wo learffthat the Governor has not used the
services of the proper engineer, Colonel Frobel,
the Superintendent of Public Works, to exam
ine and report upon the railroad preliminary to
the indorsement of bonds, bat that ho appointed
an engineer in the employ of the road, whose
connection with the road should have precluded
his selection as the State’s agent.
It will be observed that at present there is no
evidence of the delivery of the bonds over the
legal amount to Kimball, only of the prepara
tion and delivery to Governor Bullock of the
entire amount that tho road would oall for when
completed.
Tho question arises whether he has delivered
the surplus to Kimball in violation of law, cr
whether he has them in band ? If the latter,
what has ho been doing with them since April
and May? Is his California trip connected with
this matter ? The subject engenders much spec
ulation.
The truth is that the Governor is sinking
deeper in the mire daily. The coils close aronnd
Mm. New evidences of wal-administration rise
to tho surface almost hourly.
Whatever may be the alleged impolicy of im
peachment, the thorough investigation and pun
ishment of tho grave official delinquencies of
Gov. Bullock are demanded as an imperative
measure of right
On Friday, the Atlanta Democracy oleoted as
candidates:
For Mayor—John H. James.
For Cotnolmen—FirstWard—John P. Mayes;
C. W. Wei’s: Second Ward—O. O. Hammock,
E. J. Roach. Third Ward—L. P. Grant, T. A.
Morris. . Fourth Ward—H. L. Wilson, R. M.
Farrar. Fifth Ward—A. Leyden, A. L. Fowler.
How an Old Atlantfan Lost a Fortune—A
'Georgia Diamond Worth Twenty-Five
Millions of Dollars.
From the recently published work by Dr.
Stephenson on the geology, mineralogy, etc.,
of tbe State, we take the following interesting
account of the diamond mines of Hall county.
Many of onr old citizens will recognize the sin
gular adventure related by tbe author of Dr.
Loyd, the whilom proprietor of the Washington
Hall, in connection with the diamond hunting
in that valuable section of our State:
Running parallel with the marble is the im
mense ledge of itacolnmite, or elastio sand-
stone, the matrix of the diamond. It extends
throughout the country for thirty miles, and in
every gold deposit, or branch mine near it,
have been found splendid diamonds by the
gold washers, who being totally ignorant of
their nature or value, either lost or destroyed
most of them. Some were sent to Europe to
be cut and set in jewelry, but most of them
were lost. Some of them are still in the hands
of the finders, who keep them as momentos,
in their rough state. Being entirely, ignorant of
their nature or value, none were picked up bnt
such as were without incrustation, which, in
Brazil and Golconda, amounts to only the one-
tenth part of the whole product. Four-fifths
of nil tho diamonds found in any country are
small, and only fit for mechanical purposes—
in general, being less than half a carat, or from
one to two grains. The carat is a fraction less
than four grains (three and one-sixth), bnt in
ail estimates and sales in the mines tho carat is
put at four grains. It originated from the use
of the seed of a plant in the East Indies, in
the sale of diamonds. TMs berry, wMch grows
only in that region, though not very accurate,
answered the purposes of the semi-civilized In
dians for several thousand years.
The yield in Brazil, for forty years, from the
labor of from thirty thousand to sixty thousand
hands, ranged between one thousand and twelve
hundred ounces. Of this large amount they
rarely found moro than three or four, and never
moro than ten, that weighed more than thirty
carats. These’facts strongly confirm the opinion
that, when developed, Hall connty will be as
rieh in diamonds as Brazil, and contain even a
larger per cent, of sizable ones of the first
water. In washing for gold, all the large ones
would, from the construction of the machines,
recessarily bo lost or thrown away with the
quartz gravel with which they are associated,
and only suoh as passed into the riffiers, with
the grains of gold and fine sand, would be found
in the pannings, after tbe day’s work was done.
All of those fonnd in Hall connty were thus
found, weighing from two to six carats, some
few less, and three were of large size. One pf
these, as before stated, was broken up to see
tbe cause of their lustre, by tbe ignorant min
ers. Another was used for years, by the boys,
as a “middle-man” in playing marbles; and the
largest one by far was lost by Dr. Loyd, who
was employed to oversee thirty negroes in work
ing tho Glade Gold Mine, a deposit twelve mile»
northeast of Gainesville.
Daring tho four years he was employed, he
picked out of the sands of the pannings for gold
every night, after the day’s washing was over,
about half a pint of pretty stones, which he
gave to his wife, who put them in a mustard
bottle in an old cupboard, except such as the
children took a fancy to, which were generally
lost. When the bottle was full, she made a little
bag an'd put them into that for future amuse
ment. Some of these, from their size and re
puted lustre, must have been worth from twenty
thousand to fifty thousand dollars. Rut the
“big one” was found by himself whilst working
in the pit in the place of a sick hand. He said
that about two hours by sun (be had no watch),
while raising a gravel, be found a stone just like
tho little ones, except that it was bright and
sMning only on one side, the other side being
covered with a crust of brown stuff. It was
about the size of a “guinea egg.” Being hard,
pushed to keep the wheelbarrows filled with*
gold gravel, so as to furnish grit for constant
washing, he laid it on the bank by a gum tree,
which stood close by, until night, when he in
tended to take it np to the cabin and givo it to
his wife and children, as being the largest of the
pretty stones he had found. But when night
came, the machines were emptied of their gold
sand, and, in tho hurry of the moment, he for
got all about the pretty stone.
Twelve years afterwards he was shown arough
diamond, and at once recognized the contents
of the “ mustard bottle,” and the “ big one,”
he had laid up by the gum tree. Soon after hq
fonnd the “big pretty stone,” the lease ex-
ired, and the company who employed him sent
tome the hands, and quit work. About the
same time Mrs. Loyd died; and his daughter,
who had reached womanhood, married, and
moved away to Southwestern Georgia, and took
the little fnrnitnre they had, among wMch was
the cupboard, wMch then contained the fated
bag. Whon he became satisfied of the value of
the stones, he at onoe toft Atlanta, where he
was keeping the WasMngton Hall, and went to
his daughter; bnt she had no knowledge of the
bag or mustard bottle. They were gone. He
then went to the mine, and looked long r.nd
anxiously for the stone by the gum tree. No
tree was there. The ground had been oleared
and cultivated in corn for ten years. He looked
in vain for any sign of the place. None
existed. He now washed the gravel from the
heaps where he thought it was, for weeks and
months, bnt he found it not. Discouraged and
weary of hunting, he returned to Atlanta to die.
From Ms discretion of its size and character,
there can be ho doubt of its being a diamond;
and being, as he described it, abont as large as
a “guinea egg,” must, if pure, have been worth
about twenty-five million dollars.
Republican Elections.—The telegrapMo re
port yesterday lhat the Radicals were about to
rule out the Democratic representalives-elect
to Congress from Texas, is the last illustration
of the farce to which State elections have been
reduced by the Republican party; The gross
Demooratio majority is some where between
twenty and thirty thousand majority. '
“Workingmen and Demagogues.-
A BBILLIANT EFFOBT AND AN ENTHUSIASTIC BECEP
TI0N AN ADVERSE TEEATMEXT OF THE TRADES
UNION QUESTION.
The Academy was filled last evening to its
greatest capacity to bear Miss Anna E. Dickin
son deliver her new lecture, “Demagogues and
Workingmen,” an effort that has met with un
qualified approval wherever it has been deliv-
ered. . . .
As usual, tho music of the evening was do
• yond reproach. “The Blue Bells of Scotland,
by Mr. Pearce’s choir, and “Tho Last Rose of
Summer,” by Mrs. Keilaher, were both very
finely rendered, as was also “There is no Place
Like Home,” an encore by the gifted j oung
songstress. , .
At the conclusion of the musio Mis3Dickinson
appeared on the stage, and was greeted with
prolonged applause.
She opened her lecture hy showing how, in
all times and in all ages, there had been a ten
dency toward equality amongst mankind. The
movement has sometimes 6toppcd, sometimes
even turned backward. It has had its rests, its
battlefields, its sleeps, bnt throngh all and above
all it has always gone on. The straggle has
been known by different names in different
ages. It has been between king and noble, serf
and lord, and here, but lately, in our own land,
between master and slave. Now we call it capi
tal and labor.
The reformers say that laborers—that is hand
laborers—are the working men of the country,
and that they aro poorly paid. I take issue at
ono3 with this proposi-i-ja -hat only hand labo
rers are workingmen; every man in America is
a workingman. The laboring men here are just
as much the lawyers, the clergymen, the physi
cians, as they are the workers in wood, in coal,
or in iron. For their own private purposes and
ends, the labor reformers foster the spirit of
discontent that is rife in the land, and instead
of putting the blame where it rightly belongs,
they they tell us in sarcastio phrase that all the
trouble arising between master and man arises
from the civilization of the nineteenth century.
They say that our workingmen are drifting
to a worse condition than that of the working
men of England, and that there is no chance
for the poor here to rise to prominence or
wealth because the rich and powerful grind them
down. The lecturess alluded to the strikes in
England, and showed what a difference there
was between a strike amongst the Newcastle
miners, where they deprived themselves of food,
of clothing, of life itself, to obtain an advance
of eight cents, and hero in our greatest, the
long strike at Albany amongst the brickmakers,
when the point demanded and carried was for an
advance of a dollar and a half a day, and wMle
these men were on their strike they were kept
in abundance and plenty by the unions in other
parts of the country!
In the face of this fact, any politician who
says that Amerioan workmen are falling below
those of England, insults Ms hearers. The
workmen of America are taught to believe that
their relief is to be found in legislation rather
than in a reliance upon their own hands and
brains. The tronblo is that onr land is already
overburdened with legislation, and that two-
thuds of our laws are not obeyed.
Ehe asserted the shallowness of the arguments
adduced by the coal miners, and that their pay
in reality averaged more than that of members
of the learned professions. The facts of the
case are that when the mine owners make
money, the miners make money, and when the
mine owners lose money, tbe miners continue
to make money. So much for the starving mi
ners ! She gave instances of intimidation and
murder that had occurred in the coal regions
and then said, “And this is moral ’suasion!”
She examined in detail the onion systems, de
claring that their principles and practice were
wrong and wicked from beginning to end; il
lustrating this by saying that while a shopkeeper
had a perfect right to demand any price for his
goods that he pleased, he had no right what
ever-to jump over the counter, seize his cus
tomer by tho throat and compel him to pay a
price extortionate and nnfair. She alluded to
the system of terrorism practiced by the unions
and said that in overthrowing the authority of
Ms employer and submitting to the authority
of this master the workman killed the lion only
to be devoured by the wolf, clinching her argu
ment with the words, “All tyranny is bad, but
the very worst is that wMch works wilh the
machinery of freedom.”
She said that by their exclusiveness and arbi
trary laws the unions closed every door to the
non-union working man bnt that of tho prison,
and that even when drivow by these cruel soci
eties from honest work and forced into crime,
and by crime into prison, these lordly dema
gogues objected to convict labor because, for
sooth, the dimity of laboring men by it was
towered, ana an unfair competition resulted
with which they could not contend.
She then reviewed at length the introduction
of “Chinese cheap labor,” stating that the cry
amongst the workmen here was, “Join shoulder
to shoulder, strike hands together, and press
back this new element into the sea!” and told
how in San Francisco she had seen a mob attack
a freshly-landed band of Chinese laborers and
shoot them down in the streets, when at that
very time the great want on the Pacific slope
was for men to till the land and work the mines.
This massacre, she said, was bnt the legitimate
working out of trades-union principles.
I want to ask a few questions of such work
ingmen as may be amongst my audience, for I
am enough of a Yankee to believe that I have
a message for the workingmen, and thus have
a right to question them. The whole cry, from
one end of the land to the other, is for moro
skilled labor and for more men. Why, theD, is
skilled labor and why are men barred from
coming into onr land? Yonr law. is that only a
certain number of apprentices can be employed
in union shops, and your reason for this is that
apprentices compete with you in your trades.
TVhy do not members of| the liberal professions
raise the same objections ? A student of di
vinity can preach in a pulpit, to the exclusion
of an ordained minister; a student of law can
draw a brief, to the exclusion of a man who has
for years practiced at the bar, or a student of
medioine prescribe for a sick man, to the ex
clusion of a regular pbysician. Is not their
case the same as yours ? Why do not they, then,
kill and maim those who encroach upon their
rights and privileges ? Have they not as good
grounds for suoh violence as you.
You have been told that your hands are em
ployed to gather riches for drones, for men who
pass their days in idleness and sloth; this is
false, utterly false. Are not brains needed to
guide your hands? I met the other day in Mas
sachusetts a man who had lo3t an arm in the
war, and I said to Mm, if yon had lost both
arms I suppose you would still have devised
means to support yourself? “Oh, yes,” he re
plied, “I should have got along somehow.” “But
if you had lost your head,” I stud, “how do you
think you would have managed then ?” I tell
you, workingman, if the head gets more, it is
because it is worth more. I say, and I say it
without fear of contradiction, that the richest
men in Amerioa, are the hardest-working men,
and this is proved by the fact that almost with
out an exception the men that manage die early
deaths, while the men who only carry out live
to a good old age.
You may snouted in obtaining equal rights,
but you will never succeed in obtaining equal
condition; that depends upon individual will
and individual strength of mind. It is nonsense
to aocuse the spirit of the nineteenth century of
being against you. It is the spirit of your own
ignorance of mind and perverseness. Any man
ean raise himself from the lowest to the highest
positions in Booiety, as has been shown again
and again, and to blame a man for being better
or richer than you, is joBt as sensible as to
blame Mm for being stouter or taller.
Remember that yonr surest meansto climb in
the social scale is, not to strike with clenohed
fist the man above, bnt to hold out your open
palm to the man below—feeling certain that in
helping another to rise you will rise yourself.
Let humanity make brothers of us all, and the
lesson of dependence that we learn in sickness
and suffering let ns teach to others in the power
of our strength.
Tonight it is yours to listen, mine to Bpeak.
Let nis go oat from here prepared to straggle in
the great fight till the sword falls from onr hand,
the dented armor drops from off onr tired should
er?, and we go to a far oountry. Not there to
sit down in idleness, or to have sword and armor
put away, but to renew the fight with bright
and glorious weapons, to be dad with armor
burnished like onto gold, and to win victories
suoh as now we cannot understand. And may
God help ns all to Bitch an end l—Philadelphia
Press, 21st.
Rich Mineral Discoveries in Utah.—Salt
Lake, October 23.—The tin mines of Ogden
are attracting increased attention. The Gov-
emor and a large party of capitalists went to
day to visit them. An experienced miner and
expert from Corn wall, England, reports .them
wonderful, and that the vast quantities o*f ore
in Bight of the Star of the West—the pioneer
discovery—will average twenty per cent, of fine
tin. He Bays these discoveries are destined to
work a revolution in the trade cf the world.
New disooveries are being made daily, and
another claim has bean bonded for $200,000.
The Slew Tory Alliance.
The story of a political alliance bet*«
tain English conservative leaders and thT*!*
of the working-men wMch appeared ft
World recently is of so unexpected a n- D ^
to seem at first glance almost incredib’e , 1
ter elsewhere published more than confix?'
statements heretofore given, and thern ^
no doubt of the truth of the facts
by our special correipondent. A brief'2;
of the aotual position of the English arist^
will show the reason for tho formation 0 ®*)
strange an alliance. “ C ‘J
No one can deny that the growth of re
can views among the English working2?
been wonderfully rapid during the
year?. With these men the question of 8 7l b
ment is one of economy instead of sett;
Where the French radical would clamors*,
Commune because it would be the express; 1
Ms dreams of equality and foatennfv tbe?'
lish working-man wishes for the re public b,
it would be a less expensive form of g 0Ter ,
than tbo monarchy. The London SpeM>. i
in an ablo article commenting on the
English republicanism, expresses the belS"
there is a feeling wMch goes much deeper;,?
heart of the English people than any vis? -
abstract equality—a feeling equivalent to ir
found belief in rank and a bitter jealo-^i
those of their own grade who rise aboveld
fellows'. They have no objection to the moswl
or the aristocracy simply as something
themselves, but a3 something which they >51
support by their money and their labor?
which therefore curtails their own resource! ^1
enjoyments. Thisobjection obviated, andt> I
rather prefer the prestige of the throne mm
titled class. The platform on which the c-t
and the laborers have agreed to unite cciS!
greater concessions than the latter conld K|
to gain from the leaders in an actual rep-51
Now, too,- that the governing power has
almost wholly from the crowD, and in a g
measure from the House of Lords, the Har
are asking why the oountry should be so Wl
ly taxed in order to support the expensive lal
ry of royalty and aristocracy. The inn>J
amount of land owned by the English nobiy
is another cause of complaint, and the Efpjj
lican leaders demand that the countless a?J
of Argyll and Devonshire shall be held tog
nation for the benefit of tbe people. The {
that a real republic would bo far less eipeff
than a nominal monarchy is so plain that hi
-impossible for even the most reckless politicj
to venture to deny it.
Now, among the members of the
aristocracy there is a class of educated, {»:,
ing statesmen snch as our own system of pi
eminent has—humiliating as the confe&J
may be—failed to produce. Such men u 5 1
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Derby, 1*
Sir. Stafford Northcote are-far too keen-iitL.
to permit their prejudices to blind them tab
inevitable future. They recogniz&thefactib
power is daily slipping away from their oriel
and that if the English aristocrary is to be sk
it mnst secure friends in the ranks of itspre
enemies.
It is not only the working men who are fcj
ed by the nobility. The capitalists—the kij
bankers, the railway kings, the mill owners,^
iron masters—are more bitterly disliked bj-j
average aristocrat than is the working mas.
is this class of moneyed men, who have gm
rieh "by trade -and commerce, who rirfi f
richest nobles in wealth, and who rule i;]
measure the House of Commons by (he v
that they control, who would really rale an I
lish republic. Accustomed to measure ci?i
value by the standards of trade they are:
natural enemies of an expensive and uaej
form of government, and to them quite as fo:
bly as to the struggling artisan comes the arrj
meat that a throne and an aristocracy that's
longer govern have no title to exist.
Between the capitalist and the workii,
there is no love lost, and however united £
two classes may accidentally be in their pod
cal opinions they naturally distrust and d&bl
one another. Now the shrewdness.cf SalisbcM
Derby and Disraeli, could not fail to perettel
that tho aristocracy by making friends with til
workingmen will have a powerful ally again
the growing power of the moneyed class. S::
is doubtless the motive which ha3 led to £
overtures made by the conservative leaden:
the workingmen. They propose to yield to it
latter all their demands which are compeii'd
with the existence of the crown and the ami-
racy, and so, by making it evident to the I
ing men that they will gain more from the hi
gift of the conservative party than from cl
wildest promises of the Republican leadail
make it their interest to support the ariff l
racy and the monarchy against the ler&l
utilitarians of capital.
Unexpected asthisbold experiment is,i::4
confuse no ono who recalls the faot that Is
raeli as the cMef of the conservatives, not 1:*-1
since placed his party in the then unprecedsk'
position of the supporters of a reform billc:;
sweeping in its measures thau auy bill p:n|
0U9ly proposed by the liberals. Doubtless, th
bold and brilliant leader—whose innate sjmpt
tby with socialism forms a perpetual under-®
rent in Ms novels—is the prime mover in ti
present new departure. The representatives:
the two parties to this strange alliiance octal-
engaged in the negotiations as given by oc
correspondent are, on the part of the peers, ti
Earl of Lichfield, the Earl of Carnarvon, Manju
of Salisbury, the Marquis of Lome, Lord Bara
Lennox, Lord John Manners, Sir John Pakte; j
ton, SirStaffordNorthcote, andGathomeHaK;!
on the tuirt of the working-people Robert Appll
garth, William Allen. Daniel Gnile, George Ho* I
ell, T. W. Hnghes, George Potter, Loyd Jcpssj
W. Broadhurst, Wetstone, Deighton, BaissJ
Squiers, Barry, Latham, Englander, and See:
Russel.
These latter are all artisans, some of
conspicuous for their connection with refcsl
movements of the working-men. The nHXSj
show that the men connected with the prestij
negotiations fairly represent the classes :|
which they belong. The duller and more otol
nate Tories will, of course, oppose the e»«I
ment, but in turn they will suciumb to pujl
discipline, and we may expect to soe the_E:c^l
aristocracy and the entire Tory party in ope j
alliance with the radicals and socialists oft-|
working class.— World, 23d.
The Death of Theodoric Bland Ftf|
or, Son of Gen; Roger A. Pi7 or ‘
Mention was made yesterday of the fh^l
in East River, New York, and identificaticsjl
the body of Theodorio Bland Pryor, who t£ I
been missing since Sunday, the 15th. Geitf!
Roger A. Pryor, father of the deceased, M
lives in Willow street, Brooklyn, says matel
the morning of the 15th young Pryor, wh(K*l
been studying very closely, complained cf
ing im well. He was found to have a high ftf-1
accompanied with agne. The youngmaCi tc . r 'I
ever, clung to his books, and when at Ini»I
was persuaded to abandon them, he P nt0 °CI
hat and left the house to take a stroll, 5 ' I
said, and cool off. He was never seen I
until the body was fonnd as above I
Young Pryor, who was about twenty |
age, wa3 possessed of brilliant attainment 3 ? I
Mgh moral culture. He entered Princeton l' I
lege in 1SC8, and in 1870 graduated with a l
honors as had never been attained in th&tn> I
tution but by Aaron Burr, nearly a centurv I
His grade was 99.!), and the examining prot^ I
declared that the examination which _he^ I
passed almost challenged belief. He gaine:-' I
Jay Oooko mathematical fellowship, ^ 1 *•,. I
being open to Mm.. In September 1870, be I
to the University of Cambridge, England, ;i
in a single year won every prize and the® I
scholarship wMch was open to him. i°r?l
Pryor studied hard after Ms return I
land, and it is thought that his too zealo^M
; plication to books impaired Ms reason, aw j I
n a fit of aberration he drowned EinaBen- ; a
contusion was discovered on the body* 11113 ® *
left eye. _
The great professors who can face theb^I
of a thousand eyes dkeoted to them on tn 1
tram are frequently The most diffidento'^ J
when taken away from their regular s Pr7^|
labor. There was Professor Aytonn.wii I
too timid to ask papa for his wife. W'rv m I
Emily Wilson hnggested to him that I
oonld give her absolute consent it I
necessary that he should obtain her f* l c® ^1
proval—“Yon must speak for me,
suitor, “for I could not summon
speak to the Professor on this subject. ^ I
is in the library,” said the lady.
had better go to Mm,” said the suitorjT“j>|
wait till yon return.” The lady I
the library, and taking her father ]
by the hand, mentioned that Professor ^ I
had asked her in marriage.
I aooept Ms offer, papa ? He is so dims
he won’t speak to you abont it himself* „ ^ I
we mnst deal tenderly with his feeltatfi ^1
the hearty old Christopher. Ill write ■
on a slip of paper, and pin it to
‘ ‘Papa’s answer is on the back of my 1
Miss Jane, as she entered the drawing, ^ 1
Turning round, the delighted suitor r I
words: “With the anther’s compum eP1
Mb. A. G. Bittm sends ns a stalk ° ( ^
Clover, over three feet high, grown np 0 ®
county uplands.
