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Established 1826.
MACON, ITUESDA.Y, APRIL 25, 1876.
Volume LXaXfriSos 36
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Talk tor the Hard Times.
Charleston News and Couriir.J • r ■.
In all this broad land there are proba
bly few individuals, be they rich or poor,
who have not in aoaaa wnfr ksy kronght
to a realisation of the imploy ni; net
that these are hard times. - {a fatting
about for a remedy which shall soonest
and most effectually brighten the dismal
aspect of effairs, there is one subject that.
deserves a large share of attention. and
that is—individual economy, It cannot
bo denied that no cause has eo much con
tributed to bring about hard times as oar
general extravagance, both pahHc and
private, and nothing will so much aid to
'“ Ko -° ♦h° m *• to remove the cause. We
are tho most extravaa^t people on the
face of the earth, spending more money
for the same amount of happiness than
any other people. Oar homes, jsar food,
our dress, our pleasures, and sac mi
nor habits and customs, in, nearly all
respects, call for vastly more xeiourcea
to keep thorn np than those of any,other
JLetter from Colorado.
Pueblo, Col., March 29,1876.
Editor* Telegraph and Messenger: It
has been many months since I have had
a chat with the readers of tho Telx-
obafu and Mkssemoeb, and when the
opportunity presents itself of talking to
then- as in days gone by I feel qnite like
a stranger, and am inclined to ask to be
formally introduced. Time changes us
all. and our thoughts, hopes and affec
tions are continually making new chan
nels, but still we cannot forget the past
and the friends of other days, and it is
pleaeant to think of and talk to them.
This is a land of strangers—now names,
ttew faces, new friends, new land-marks
in the social world every day—yet it is
sad to think that the staid old land
which we once called homo is changing,
and soon the writer would be a stranger
then. We expect changes in the West,
but hope for none in the South. Your
people are fixtures. Strangers from a
strange land do not invade all your sa
cred places, but tho boy of yesterday is
the mao of to-day, and occupies the
piece of your friend of yesterday. And
you- friend I Well, each one has his his
tory and his fate. But let memory close
the chapter for one night, and I will send
a greeting to those who still have a be
ing and read tho Teleobafh and MES
SENGER.
Since my last letter I have been in
almost constant attendance on the courts,
and so have traveled much and seen a
great deal of Colorado which I have not
heretofore visited, and did time permit I
would love to take you with me to the
booms of our Mexican citizens, to the
quaint mud towns of the Pueblo Indians,
the last lingering remnant of tho ancient
and powerful Aztec nation, and linger
amid the ruins of buried nations who
have no history, or oven traditions to
tell their origin or fane.
Visiting courts here is qnite an under
taking, ti-.e county seat of counties often
bring a hundred miles apart, and the en
tire route to be traversed by private con
veyance. While the circuit has its trials
it has its sweets. The bar itinerate
tog- tbwr, and no fellows as genial and
fml of fun are t-> be found on earth. Tho
day’s journey may be hard but; then at
ni.'ht all is forgotten when listening to
humorous stories, quaint songs and side
sp itGng laughter. One of our bar ex-
pres-es our experience when he says in his
q.i .int way “we now measure fun by the
bushel, hut. when «h„ -a—J =-
c<i no ounce will last one hundred miles.
At the last, court we attended, an amus
ing 1 rial took plack which the bar at least
appreciated. A poor devil of a Mexican
semblo in the morning on the bouse tops
to worship the rising sun and pray for
the coming of Monteznms, and from tho
housetop tbo chief .announces the order
of work for the day, and each man knows
his plan and bis duty. They manufac
ture a specimen of pottery which far sur
passes anything of the kind I have ever
seen. It is true it has not the delicacy
of chins, but then it has not its glassy
brittleness. I have seen jars whi-.h
would hold nearly & bushel, and were
not thicker than an ordinary cup, very
light, and so durable that little danger is
to be apprehended from breakage. The
extreme lightness and durability of their
pottery is simply wonderful. I lovo to
watch this people; for they aroa link
from a past age. As they live now, eo
they lived in the golden ago of the Mon-
tezumas. Other things greatly inter
ested me. Here were the ruins of old
cities and settlements—so old that even
Aztec tradition could throw no light upon
their history or their fate. Here were
crumbling walls—the traces of old
canals—piles of stones which we
could fancy were once their al
tars and temples, now ruined, broken
and desecrated. Around some of these
old ruins I found arrow-heads of jasper
and absidian, of beautiful finish, show
ing that these lost nations, in their day
and generation, were skilled woikers of
stone. It 13 sad to watch these faint
glimmers of light as they come to us
from a buried people and a lost age.
History and tradition aro both silent, and
imagination runs away with us. We
build up theories only to have them pass
away and give place to others. But
enough of this. More anon.
Quidam.
with no monev or friends was indicted for
the larceny of six chickens. Capt. ,
a young lawyer, but old preacher, was
appointed to defend. It was ht9 maiden
effort at the cold bar. When some mem
bers of the liar fr -m curiosity, or inter
est, desired to know the line of defence
he was going to adopt ho would nod and
wink and sagely remark. "I have a pint.”
0'ir curio-ity was excited and tho bar, to
a man, remained in constant attendance
for tear of “ losing the pint ” The case
is called, a jury empaneled, the evidence
on the part of the people introduced.
Ko evidence on the part of the defend
ant The Di.-trict Attorney waives the
opening argument, and Captain
came to the front with his “ pint. “May
it please the court and yon, gentlemen
of ibe jury—this is a very solemn occa
sion—I am before you to defend a man.
yes a poor man, charged with the steal
ing <>f six chickens. Mark the language,
six chicken* What’s a chicken? Is it a
domesticated fowl ? Well, this indict-
nu-nt don’t say so; itsimply charges him
with the stenling ct six chickens Do the
witnesses tell you he stolo domesticated
fowls? No, sir; tncy say he stole six
chickens. Do they tell you what sort of
chickens? No. sir! Now you know there
is more kinds of chickens than one: there
:s the domesticated fowl, and there is—is
—the prairie chicken. The court will tell
you that one is the subject of latc .-ny and
the other is not. The latter is •ferre
■nf»r«.” and you could not steal one if
vou tried. T nis is the law. Gentlemen
of the jury, think of your duty—think of
your solemn oath—thinK of a dark cold
dungeon—think o' my poor client—then
think of prairie chickens It is your duty
to presume that the chickens my poor
client took were prairie chickens. Do your
duty at all hazards; say to tho world
by your verdict that these were prairie
chi- kens, and my client goes scot free. I
leave tne case with you, feeling in my
heart of hearts that the chickens in ques
tion were prairie chickens, and you must
acquit ”
Since my la-t letter to the Telobaph
ind Mkss’xnoxb business culled me to
the Southwestern part of Colorado, and
a part ot New Mexico, and while there I
visito t trading parties irom Navajoe In
dians and visited some of the Pueblo
Indians, and I found them so different
in manners, customs, laws, and religion,
that they seemed but little like their red
brethren of any part of our broad coun
try, and really belonged to ano’her ago.
To begin with, the Nuvajoes are an ag
ricultural people—have furms, flocks and
herds, and in some of tho mectianical arts
far excel their pale face brothers. They
refuse civilization, as we understand
the term, yet they have a civiliza
tion of their own, and the gilded
attractions of American splendor and
life seems to possess no charms fer
them. I cannot enter into details and
give all my experiences and only par
po-o in this to speak of some of their
mechanical attainments. Your readers
wili doubtless bo surprised when I assure
them that I washed in basins made of
willow sprigs, ato from plates and drank
from bottles made of the same material.
Their bottles resemble tho wicker work
of a demijohn, yet contain water as well
as if made of glass. Their boots and
many articles of domestic use and econo
my aro made in a similar way and of
like material. Their skill in the manu
facture of blankets is perfectly wonder
ful, and tbo fano of tnem will spread
over the world for I saw many which
were bought by traders and destined
for tbo European markets. These blan
kets are made of the finest wool and the
colors of the same are as brilliant and
lasting as the colors stamped upon the
finest silks of commerce. They are
warm, Bolt, flexible, yet so closely woven
as to bu perfectly impervious to water.
Indeed, I have often seen them used for
the purposo of transporting water. The
Pueblos are a remnant of the ancient
Aztec nation, and are citizens of the
Atlanta—Donnybrook Fair,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Don-
ny brook, in Auld Ireland, bos long been
considered the best place in the world
for excitement, “divarsion,” and “rale
fan” m the shape ot extempore fights,
broken crowns and bloody noses. But
our Atlanta bo3 challenged the prize
and wins it. She always has excelled in
all manner of rush and turmoil, tricking
and humbug, and fairs; hut now (just
by way of keeping her hand in, I suppose,
for the coming campaign) she is indulg
ing herself in the most delightful little
street fights. An Irishman drag3 his
coat on the ground and begs that some
one will step on it. Our Col. Thornton,
of game eating notoriety, gives a man a
bloody nose for whistling a partridge
call as he passes. Two gentlemen had
regular set-to in Whitehall street
yesterday, and Mme Velasquez frighten
ed Ramsay nearly to death. I remarked to
the Southern Publishing House, was
unfortunate in his transactions with tbo
ladies. Hi3 last rencontre with Mme.
Velasqueezher (as the people pronounce
the name) wa3 exceedingly ludicrous. It
appears Mme. is rot satisfied with the
manner in which Ra nsay has published
her book, and they have been publishing
each other in the daily papers. So when
they meet in the street, Madam called
Ramsay to account for his last card and
after arguing and gesticulating excitedly
for a few minutes she raised her hand,
some say with a knife in it. Be this so
or not, tho gesture floored Ramsay, who
fell into the gutter, crying frantically
"murder! po.ice!” At last, scrambling
up, ho took to his heels. Madam, who
was laughieg heartily, pursuing; but
when a policeman arrived she walked off
with him apparently highly enjoying the
fiasco, while Ramsay crept pack, and,
with the assistance of the boys, found his
hat Poor fellow! he has apparently
read Madam’s adventures in “The Woman
In B’ttle” to such good effect that he
has imbibed a holy terror of her prowesj.
7YP0OBAPHICAL ECHOES.
Here I shall put a question to you in
all candor: Is there any temper in tho
whole world sweet enough to stand the
way in which editors and printers treat
our manuscript? Words left out, or
misspelled; the delicate little touches in
which the writer particularly rejoices,
utterly lo3t, etc., ad infinitum. Now, I
pride myself on my stoicism, and try to
bear these injuries with that contraction
of the facial muscles which is called a
smile, but, honestly, I sometimes feel an
other class of muscles’, viz: the flexors
and extensors of my arm. It is a sore
subject, so I will only venture to quote
anum attempted to drink off their con- teem with eloquent sermons on the con
tents—one ounce and a half grains of elusions which tbe past ten years have
opium. Fortunately her brother saw demons.rated. The people seem to have
her and, snatching the second phial waked np to the truth that farming,
from her hands, rushed off for the doc- upon proper principles and methods, may
tor, who administered a powerful anti- be maide remunerative; and that it must
dote, the fourth of a grain of atropia every be made so before we ever attain any
thirty minutes ; the fortieth and sixtieth substantial prosperity. This awakening
of a gram being the usual dose. Atropia we may consider as the dawn and pram'
ia tbe extract ol Bella Donna and is an- iso of a prosperous future; and we should
tagonistio. to opium—one poison form-. hail it as the weary watchers cf a long
nately killing the oshp.r. T am begin- night welcome the first flush ot the east-
ning to be a convert to homeopathy- . era sky. Cincinnatus
I wish, on the same principle, we conld *—
find out a way to make one rascal nen- Tbe Presidential Outioolc—
tralize another. Such a discovery would If enrtrlCkS and Victory,
greatly add to_the healthy condition of EdUora TeUgraph ani Messenger: Tho
our people. When I expressed my sur- _ _ * * , _, .
prise to-day, at the way in which all Democratic party has it in its power to
these flourishing individuals appear to elect the next President of tho United
eiaape punishment, and crawtiBh them- States, provided tho St. Louis Conven
selves out of difficulties, I was answered, tionacta wisely in making its nomina-
" that if all tho rascals in Atlanta were .. , - „
taken up. there would not be men enough tlons and doe3 not M^dly ignore ««t-
to run the machine.” But really, now, ing facta apparent to all. There are sev-
tbis is a little too hard; and I at once cral propositions to be considered by that
eet down the speech 83 tho growl of a convention, and practically adopted, in
disappointed man-some defeated office j candidate to head tho
seeker perhaps. Nevertheless, it is mar j A _ ... , .
velloua how the quibbles of the law aro . ticket, else the Republican party, not*
used to protect tbe breakers thereof. withstanding tho recent disclosures in*
fostxe blodgett. , volving in ruin and disgrace many of itfl
: >—* •»■**
broke,” he says, farming in South Caro- I mocracy.
lina.” He was to have given bail for | Tho whelo country has grown tired
$17,000—$5,000 on three indietmenta and : .nil restless, if not disgusted, with the
fargir £7 K 5L£! p~r* •-
know not. Tho legal penalty on these tration. Grant, as a soldier, was success*
indictments would amount to eighty , f ; *> u t Grant, as a civilian and
years in tho penitentiary. Such a fir is man, is the greatest failure as President
like being on a lee shore with bare poles, that the United States has ever known,
and anchor gone. But there is no telling. Uneducated to civil or political life, ho
Tho law may yet make a bridge for him carried into the White House,the habits,
to get away oxi, and somo who ought to customs and tyranny of tho camp. Ho
be in the Fame boat may throw him a ; surrounded himself with ft body-guard of
rope. So I understand he insinuates. ( urmy officers, glittering in their splendid
S. E. G. uniforms, and inaugurated in Washing*
i ton’s society, through himself and mum-
Light in the East, j bers of his Cabinet, a style of imperial
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Much grandeur—exhibited in magnificent res
mant, unutilized resources of Georgia, tertainments. rivaling the courts of for-
Tho unlimited waterpower of her streams eign kings and emperors, but wholly ua-
the coal and iron imbedded in her hills, suited to our republican government.
expectation that when our redemption ,jj ent t<) the p res ident and hi3 Cabinet,
from the poverty entailed upon ns by tho and hence tho offices of tho Government
results of the war, is achieved, it will bo were basely sold for money to enable
., , . , * . ,members of tho Cabinet and others in
through tho development of these mm- “ u!on about the white Hoas0 t0
icg and manufacturing resources by ho i,j a high carnival of luxury and ex-
Northern capital. If this is our only travagance in Washington,
hope, then is our condition indeed, a The military arm.of tho Government
forlorn one. If this is not once more to the first time in its history, has been
bo a land of manufactures, then is our used to control popular elections, and
future for many years to come, disheart- ‘ oven to decide contested seats between
ses a reversal of tho natural order of country, North and South, grown wearv
things. In tho proRi-cooof aooio*. a statesman and a'civilian for
mechanical arts follow in the work of ag- President. The Democratic
riculture. Wen a county makesitsown ^^“^^^erefore be careful not
bread and has plenty and to spare, then ... -miiitarv man as its
its surploa energy and capital is turned but ifc ahmild select a
in the direction of manufactures. statesman whose ability, patriotism and
Despite the boasted mining and mann- statesman nnalifv him
factoring facilities of Georgia, she is fteSfeSI
nevertheless pro eminently an agnculto- h £ propoHit i on i s , that tho nom-
ral State. This is her character now and «• convention must be
will be for many years to como. Her ofnQ doultful antecedent,. He
farming interests are her great inter- ^ ^ , o a ^ well known to tho people,
wm grow C with E their growth and and whose.private character and reputa-
strengthen with their etrengt,., and with Mr. Greeley
their decay she must ver^uun^h It ^er advocated his
Jartment 0 of manufactures, so long a. • has never regretted a ™d ho uttered1 in
meat.
a fellow sufferer’s words:
•*I wish I had an editor
Ab- ut a half a minute,
I’.l hang him to my heart’s content.
And with an h begin it.
I’d jam hi* Idle, eyes and bone?.
An i spell i-with a d.
And send him to that “hill of life
Th -the sp-Hs with an e ”
the bound bobin op the disuooists,
That lately defunct Legislature, which
appeared to excel! in doing nothing, has
nevertheless left some stings which not
only irritate this ant hillof our?, but also
all the other ant hills in the State- The
attacks made upon tho druggists were
especially venomous, and upon the com
munity, through them, absolutely inhu
man. * First, no druggist in Georgia can
sell a simple little glass of bitters with
out paying $25 for the privilege. The
druggists say their trade in this neces
sary article is ruined. And what is to
becomo of tho pious fraternity who, es
chewing liquor as a deadly sin, neverthe
less must have their bitters ani their
“schnapps” for their stomachs’ Fake?
The druggists of the State have, there
fore. gotten up a “ round robin,” on an
enlarged scale, as a petition to the Gov
ernor, praying him to liold_ the bill in
abeyance until the next session
opium—VETO.
Again, tho druggists are forbidden to
sell ~ooinm, morphine or any poisonous
drugs, without un array of forms, which
is terrific. First, tbe buver must tell
wbat ho or she want3 with it. Now
think what a terribly embarrassing affair
thi3 will be. Of course nobody will tell
tho truth. That would be simply against
toe nature cf opium eaters Then the
full namo and residence must be given
with tho quantity bought. All of this
together, with tho namo of tho vendor,
and the date, must be put in a book kept
especially for the purpose, on the penalty
of $1,000 fine, or imprisonment for six
months. I shudder at tho very idei of
the false words which modern doomsday
books will contain; and I think the Leg
islators ought to take shame to them
selves for so tempting people to invent.
At tho same time it will be “quite a
lark” to get hold of somo of these ex
cuses, for I hear the fertility of opium
eaters in thi3 branch of romancing is
marvelous. Th-.t said remarkable leg
islature refused to pay onr dogs the ro
spect of a poll tax, yet it taxed our bit
ters and our opium. Now, dog* in these
matters set us a good example, for I have
United States. They lire in villages and | never beard of a dog b getting drunk
cultivate their lands like gardens Their ftoicc. An English friend of nnne did
styloof architecture is peculiar and gro- once succeed in making hi.* dog Crunk
tesque. Their hou.-e3 aro built of adobo or
sun-dried brick, have no doors or windows,
and tho only point of ingress or egress
is r.n opening at the top. This is reach-
id by means of a ladder, and this always
'irann np at nights. Like the pnirie
dog, they crawl into their boles and pull
ihe hole in after them. Their roofs are
flat, and being sun worshippers they as-
greater than they were in 1872. The
bold and manly course be pursued last
Sommer in canvassing Ohio in favor of
the Democratic nominees in that State,
while he did not wholly indorse the local
platform upon which Governor Allen was
nominated, challenged the admiration of
tho party throughout the Union, and
gives him now a stronger hold upon the
Ohio Democracy than any other candi
date can rightfully claim.
_ His position upon the currency ques
tion is a conservative and safe one for
the extreme resnmpti—iau inflation
ists to unito npon. The writer or uuo
article is a hard money Democrat. He
desires, as soon as it can safely be done,
to seo tbe currency restored to a specie-
basis. Bnt this cannot be forced by par*
ty platforms, or Congressional action,
before breakfast, without wide-spread
ruin and disaster to every material in
terest of the country. It is the mission
of the Democratic party to restore the
currency gradually, bnt surely, to a
specie standard.
The first, and by far the most import
ant step towards accomplishing that
result is to secure an honest national
administration. We shall thon have, as
naturally as day follows the night, an
honest currency. Believing that Gov.
Hendricks com bints more elements of
strength and availability than any other
member of the Democratic party, and
would, os President, givo us an honest
administration, we favor his nomination
by the St. Louis Convention.
The following calculation of the elec-
toral votes will show that if ho is chosen
as the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent, and we placo upon the ticket for
Vice President somo such men as Hon.
S. S. Cox, of New York, or Gov. Curtin,
of Pennsylvania, or Gov. English or Sen
ator Eaton, of Connecticut, his election
will be assured.
It reqnires 185 votes to elect. With
Gov. Hendricks as our candidate, ho will
with reasonablo certainty carry tho fol-
turned the wrong way, just so as to turn Tbe eastern Cloud Growing,
the roof from over your head, and all for ; New York'World.]
your good, at that, as some will contend. | Things are growing very warm again
The negotiation may create a smile on' , .. , . . . ®,
the one side, bnt the winding np will bo i on the eastern ,rontl6ra of Auatm - Th «
a wail on the other. Does.a corporation , Bohomian newspapers, the cable this
ever forget tne interest of others, and yet i morning informs ns, are patting about a
at the same time propose to run their j 8tot y that Serbia has received positive
schedule ? They sometimes dream of i . ... . . „ . _
forming combinations, ostensibly for tho i a8surance3 0l protection from Russia
good of the people, and yet having tho \ uguinst any attempt on the part of Ans*
best eye open and always turned toward j tria forcibly to prevent the Serbians
home. Read Mr. Jamea* letter again, j from declaring war against Turkey,
and see if it doeo n-ok »mpf hke it sprang i ... f ». . , ...f
f-om auoK m. corner. and not from tho j Aether this story be true or false, if the
softer impulses of flesh and blood. | Bahians believe it trne they will give
The decision of the Supreme Court j Austria an infinite aeoi .s *~inhln before
npon the homestead question, compli-
i men ted by Mr. James in such extrava
gant terms, and against which, let it be
understood, we have nothing to say, was
many i eeka have passed; and if the Aus
trian forces once come into serious collis
ion with the Sclaves on the Danube, the
declared by that tribunal from a sense of - Eastern Question will be preoipitated up-
duty. They had no intention of fixing | on Europe in the mo3t uncanny fashion,
np a down grade for any man to ride into i ...
officer, nor did they suppose their judicial | Meanwhil., Constantinople is no better
act would gather force as law from a j pleased with Vienna than is Belgrade,
mere newspaper endorsement. In this,
Alabama
..10
Delaware....
.... 3
Georgia
11
Kentucky....
....12
Maryland
.. 8
Missouri
....15
Texas
.. S
North CarolinalO
Arkansas
. C
Florida
.... 4
Louisiana
.. 8
Mississippi...
.... 8
Tennessee
..12
Virginia
....11
West Virginia.
. 5
Connecticut..
.... 6
Indiana
15
Oregon
.... 3
C&laforni?
. 6
Nevada
.... 3
Colorado
.. 3
Total
...167
our agricultural interests. If we are to , atraightont------- i 1D ldlv
masters, hutof intelligent ending 8aoc S is. that
farmers. Tho demand for such immt- ^ ^ geekfor our ^date where
acres in this broad land Iio idle; a bur- the star of emgre has taken its way
E M ^moc^S f ^noSabJ
nothing to tbe State sayo toxes. Thou^ , ^ . with nominations in tho last
e .. i two Presidential elections* Under her
sLflSurirJnK**£ aftasaasMS
s^aarjaf-jss: k,£3s3mSl£
els to our people in qualities in which it P-\riy mother States that has been he.e
must he confessed that wo are behind tofore so generously extended to them,
them-system, tact, ingenuity and en- a “ d J^rker to head toe ricket,
Bnt hero again i. is vain to look to tho ' By pursuing a generous course m this
North for help. Generally speaking, the respect, New York may be able to secure
intelligent nnd enterprising-the only tho nomination tor ViWiPresrite fc
* * m maintain themselves sides, owing to divisions m tho «
in any country. Thriftlessness or no- tho Democratic party in New York, a
cessity drives men to emigrate. So deop Rood Western Democrat, P*
arc our local attachments that tho pres- > both factions can unite, will moro ccT.
sure of necessity or the hope of gain tain y can y that S ate ini the _November
must bo strong which carries a man election than if the candidate himself
away from tho land and associations of resided in New Yort.
bis childhood. Help must como from ^ Again, there must ho no outside inter
ourselves. Tho sooner we recognize this ferenee witn the conven ton, no attempt
truth and cease to look abroad for North- ed dictation by Congressienalnngs to force
era • apital or Northern immigration, the the nomination of any candidate chosen
Receiving these one hundred and sixty-
seven votes it would only require eigh
teen more to elect him. The only doubt
ful Southern Stat* included m this
calculation is Florida.
Tho Democrats of that State confident
ly declare that they can, and will carry
it. Bnt should we loso Florida wo can
Ahtainel»nw)iero the twenty-four votes.
Gov Hendricks. - -
New York, in tho last State election,
went Democratic, and it is not probablo
that her people will sustain the weight
of corruption, bribery and fraud, with
which the Republican party is now loaded
down. Wo may, therefore, safely count
on hor thirty-five votes, which would
givo us eleven votes more than we need
ed to elect. Besides, wo havo New Jersoy
with her nine votes. That State also
went Democratic in her last State
election.
In addition to these States wo will
stand a fair chance for tho decteral
votes of Ohio and Wisconsin. The
political parties are very nearly equally
divided in these two States. We will
probably carry one, or both, of them with
Gov. Hendrieks as our candidate. If Gov.
Curtin should be nominated for the Vice
Presidency it would greatly increase our
chance for carrying Pennsylvania.
In conclusion, Messrs. Editors, we
think we have demonstrated the propo
sition with which we began this commu
nication : that toe Democratic party has
it in its power to elect tho next President
of too United State?, and that Hon.
Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, is the
man who can surely load us to victory.
A Geoboia Democrat.
sooner will our prosperity return. Our in Washington city by interested politi
fruitless fields will bloom again; our cians, gathered together in caucus around
Generous soil will smilo with the varied the festive boards of Congressmop
bounty with which nature has blessed it; who aro themselves aspiring to tho nomi-
our land will coca more bo a laud of nation The convention, composed as it
bread and of plenty; and tbo financial will be, of delega-cs fresh from the peo
darkuess which overhangs ns will be ple-the people who make and un-rake
cleared away by tho light of a brighter Congressmen at their will-should resent
^ ra J J any such attempt to influence their choice,
But is it not visionary to look for tho and promptly ret asido any candidate
realization of this dream, when so many whose name may ba pressed m that man-
of our people, disheartened by the losses ner.
of the past ten years, have lost faith and We must also remem or that thoDem
confidence in farming and betaken them- ocratic party was virtually defeated m
selves to other pursuits? the last Presidential election^ by the re-
It is unhappily true that farming. 03 suits of the October clec.ions in Penney!
a vocation, seems, in common estimation, vania, Ohio and Indiana, ihe national
to have lost tho dignity which it held in party was so demoralized by those Octo
the ante helium days of peace and sun- ber deteats that it never rallied after
shine. There is no calling in its nature wards, and the Rtdicals ga.ii.ed an easy
more honoraole or more conducive to victory in November. Pennsylvania no
substantial happiness. Better that any longer, wo think, holds her state elec-
other vocation should be in disrepute tion m October, bat Onto and Inditna
than this. The history of failures among do. Here. then, ts to bethe ba.tle ground for
our farmers during tbo la-t few year?, the neat Presidency. It too Democrats
seems to give color to the assumption lose botn of those states in October tbe
that farming with negro labor must al- chances are ninety-nine in a hundred
ways work failure. But cannot these that they will be beaten in November
failures bo otherwiso accounted for?
Tho war utterly swept away our labor
Bystem. Oar farmera bad suddenly
I hen is it not clearly the best policy for
us to run a3 a candidate for President
man who can surely carry at leant one if
thrown upon them the necessity of ac- not loth of those States? Every good
, • Democrat will answer yes. Fortunately
on beer, but ever after tbe sight of
Dewier cup would set him off in a rage
of snapping and snarling.
A CASE Of OPIUM TAKING.
A “ taste ” of opium proved very
nearly fatal here a few days ago. A
yonng woman, one of the employees in a
drag store, concluded"not to be” nnd
getting possession of two phials *
commodating themselves to an entirely . ,
new state of thing?. Is it surprising that for tho party and tho country, *e have
they were not experts in an untried field man possessing all the foregoing qualifi-
—that they refused to learn wisdom ex- cations, who can carry onr flag in tn-
cenfc through experience? Time wa3 umpb. and by anoverwheimingmajority,
needed to master tho now lessons ra- in Indiana, and wo believo lu Otuo also_
auired of them ; and ten years wr.s not a He is honored and beloved throughout
lnnw time for the ta*k. Experiments had tbe wholo Union as an able, patriotic,
to be made with foreign labor before it conservative and experienced statesman,
wab found to be inferior to negro labor, a Democrat who has never deserted the
Tho fallacy of expensive fertilizing had flag, and, above all, one woo s.ands
to be learned by bitter experience. The proudly before his countrymen as tbe
tolnous error of supposing that a Georgia nob lest work of God-an honest man
farmer can buy bis bread and meat in Amid all the disasters and defeats that
Ohio and devote himself wholly to cot- befell the Democracy m 18,2. in every
ton, was not seen till onr lands were section of the Union, Horn Tbomas A.
locked np under homestead laws, or sold Hendncks.'of Indiana, as the standard-
und^fact^tuS. bearer of toogjJUnt Democracyofhi,
But have not tbjjg) hard laesons at hut
The Homestead Decision.
Caetebsvillb, Ga., April 17,1876.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: An
articlo appeared in the Atlanta Constxtu
tion a fow days ago, over tho signature of
Jno. H. James, upon tho homestead ques
tion, which ought to be reviewed, if po3
sible, from too .centre of tho State. As
you havo each a geographical position,
and your paper a circulation touching
well nigh tho mass of the common peo
ple, your columns will be invoked for
this purpose.
This singular communication of Mr.
James, like tho old Metho<)i*t hymn, com
mences with a kind of religious ecstapy,
very rarely to be found in a more politi
cian—“ Joy to tho people of Georgia.”
How it is that ho can smell in the
breeze such a God send to the common
seople, when tho first and the only hal-
elujab, so far, comes from -ho interest
felt by a money power, it is difficult to
understand.
Ho terminates his announcement of
this supposed jubileo to the poor pre
cisely in the same words,_ “ Joy to tho
people of Georgia,” showing, a* we un
derstand him, who ho considers the
people, and how completely the question
has absorbed him; and showing, farther,
with what peonliar emotion he would
meet the approach" of power coming
under a law, and how ho would court a
lino of policy bending even the smallest
interests in too Stato toward the success
of these who may have too money, or
want it very badly 1 .
When we remember the business of the
writer and his remarkable success, ic is
no longer a matter of wonder that he
becomes the first man in tho State,
who Eounde a trumpet from a bank
window, rejoicing in the fact that there
aro now a few more acres in Georgia
which can be covered by mortages. A
careful perusal of this letter will disclose
something like tho secret spring of all
this joy, which may be, that now tho
wholo of a poor man’s effects may be
fettfred and covered by a mortgage.
While, perhaps, this is all just as it
should be, especially if the aim is to pro
tect those who can stand alono and op
press those who < annot de r end—wheth
er torn is so or not, does such rejoicing
find its rise in tho good which is to flow
from this homestead decision to tho
mortgagor or to the mortagee ? Query,
It is true that a new road is now opsn,
which may be traveled uy the constable
with his executions, against tho poor ;_in
favor of those upon whom even the wind
has blown their wealth; politically con
sidered it is also true, that the money
power had a fair share of the yoke before
this decision ’was made. For such rea
sons, a day of thanksgiving upon this
question will be slimly observed, except
by those who have enjoje 1 so high a rate
of interest, and are now engineering for
tho corpus of small estates.
Are not snch ideas as these the true key
to some of this voluntary rejoicing, by
which Mr. James proposes to untocn a
little bank for all the poor? Lookout,
Mr. Poorman. Yon are invited to meas
ure both soul and wits with a corpora,
tion. Be not deceived t this key may bo
however, the court may have been mis.
taken, for some how or other it becomes
necessary for snch endorsement to ap
pear. If we receive the judgment of the
court as law, as wo ought to do, let ns
receive it as it was intended, and for no
other purpose.
The present ontlook to Mr. James may
bo that of a green pasture, from his
stand point and for hi3 purpose; judg
ing both from his words, this is undoubt
edly true. The working of affairs under
this recent decision may increase his in
terest, and multiply his securities. It
may incase such wealth even within a
copper lining, but what interest have toe
people of Georgia in that—will somo ono
point it out ? A cool survey of the whole
field may kindle an amount of good feel
ing in tbe breasts of monied men which
can be shared by only a few ; but then
let us inquire something about the
trouble, sweat, and p-ivation innocent
women and children may have to under
go in order to increase the field of opera
tions of such men and magnify their joy.
Here are two classes whose interests con
flict, the one in affluence, impelled by the
lore of gain ; the other cramped and des
pondent from penury. They aro all citi
zens, and as a statesman Mr. James
ought to look at both sides.
In this question, some of those who
havo felt the beel of oppression may feel
an interest. They aro in the majority,
although they are poor, and this is a gov
ernment resting on majority. These
people need the sympathy of those tho
political tide throws'into power, worse
than they do the advice of the so-called
better class; they need encouragement
a3 least as badly ns they do tho taunts of
those upon whom fortune has smiled.
They have been told how, nnd where,
they can find the latter; as to the former
"themselves.** v * tho ™vilego
The purpose of Mr. James in this let
ter is rather difficult to understand.
From one standpoint it may be consid
ered obscure. Possibly no one but him
self can point out a necessity for it, or
givo one intelligent leason for waking
up too public mind. It could not have
been to dignify a decision of tho Supremo
Court by the indorsement of one man.
It could not havo been to uscover a great
political fact, which he suppose hU fel
low-citizens would be unable to see.
Such a charge would bo to lay vanity at
his door, and this is far from ou* purpose.
It may have resulted simply from a mis-
takened leap of a gubernatorial aspirant
toward the popular current, and there is
but one man in the State who can toll
positively just how this ia. A suppositi
tious and plausible motivo would seem to
bo easily understood.
If such indorsements as this, where
none is necessary ana where tbero is no
sort of liability, can make a Governor,
the applicants for this office will becomo
as plentiful, if not a3 troublesome, as
buffalo gnats on a 'Western prairie. The
original of said letter and this reply will
give to the State two Governors precisely
of tho same value, and then where will
the matter stop, and what will become of
the interests of tho State? Congress
had better let tho national thieves slip
through and F.ot about making new
States, for fear too supply ruin3 the
demand.
When the people come to consider
soberly tho immense relief laid up in
store for them, which is to flow from in
cumbrances to be made on the homestead,
they will ba sure to reward somebody,
especially if it tarns out to be true that
Mr. Jame3 is right; that is, that relief
is to come to tbo country under a wave of
trouble, by the shaking of a bush on forty
acres, from which outside influences have
taken away nearly the entire value.
If this is the panacea for all oar ills, and
the -ourt conferred this boon as a politi
cal measure or even as astroke of judicial
policy, then they may expect to be called
ont ono at a time and ba made Governor
for at least one term. But if Mr. James
alone is entitled to all tho credit, by
reason of his indorsement, then ho ought
to select his private Secretary at once, if
he has not already oerformed that duty,
for the Deople are likely to lay hands
upon him and force him in or keep him
out, one or the other, and the future will
show how thUis to be. The great foun
tain of milk which Mr. James thinks he
has discovered consists.mthis, “That by
toe waivor of the homestead everybody
kept the insurrection alive in the Herze<
govina; the insurgents look upon Austria
as having prevented them from expelling
the Turks. Russia, meanwhile, assures
both the Turks and too insurgents that
she has turned the matter OTer, so far,
to Austria, hoping that Austria would
succeed in settling all the difficulties
fairly and justly to overybody concerned.
The peace makers are rarely blessed in
the politics of empires, perhaps because,
as is clearly the case with Austria just
now, their efforts are chiefly directed to
getting toe better of toe belligerents.
It begins to look as if the entente cor
dials of the throe great empires, Russia,
Germany and Austria, for the control of
the Eastern Question, cannot much lon
ger be maintained. An Austrian officer
of rank has just scandalized Vienna by
selling to toe Russian Embassy there the
military plans of tbe lower Danube from
the Austrian War Office, together with
tho order of battle made up m that offico
against the mobilization of too Austrian
army. The Austrian autboritiesat Prague
give notice that Serbia having bought
60,000 captured French ebassepots at
Berlin, tbe transportation of these wea
pons by way of the Austrian dominions
must at all hazards be prevented, to
which toe Berlin newspapers reply that
the arms can perfectly well be sent and
will be sent to Serbia by way of Russia,
Boumania and toe Danube. No wonder
that all these things disturb the exchan
ges of the Continent and perplex not the
princes only but the people of Europe
with fears of change which aro all too
more disturbing that it is quite impossi
ble to foresee at what particular moment
or from what particular quarter the ex
plosion of the exiating order may be ex-
Washington Correspondence Boston Herald.]
It has been known hero for a good
while that Mr. Blaine has been a large
holder of Western railroad bonds, and it
has been understood that he ha3 been
an owner of the bonds of tho Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company,
which aro allegpd to have passed in the
transaction with the Union Pacific Rail
road Company. Of coarse, in disprov
ing the charges against him, Mr. Blaino
will show cither that he has these bonds
still, or how ha has disposed of thorn.
It is unfortunate for toe ex-Speaker
that he has to go into this matter at
this time, as he will probably have to
meet other inquiries relating to toe
manner in which he obtained possession
of such bonds.
Tho first that was ever heard of too
Little Rock and Arkansas railroad here
of late years wa3 in 1869, when an ap
plication was made to Congress to revive
a land arant previously conferred on the
company, which wa3 about to lapse.
Tho land grant wa3 a valuable ono. The
road wa3 unbuilt, and everything de
pended upon its continuance to the com
pany. Tho company was successful in
The Turks look npon Austria as having *° uld no £ fr ** 5n
r 6 I tamed in any other country at all. A* a
its demand. An act wa3 passed April
10, 1869, extending too time for com
pleting tho first section of twenty mites
of the road for threo years from May 13,
1867. After tho passage of this act land
grant bonds were issued of a largo quan
tity, of which Mr. Blaine seems in some
way to have become the owner, yet the
strange fact appears on tho record of ono
of the Arkansas courts in which toe re
cords of the company were lately called,
that it wa3 shown that the company
still owed Mr. Blaino $25,000 loaned to
them by him. That he should have
loaned so much money to a wildcat rail
road, and taken wildcat bon-ls for secu
rity. was certainly a very extraordinary
proceeding; but there can bo no doubt
that such is the record, -unco there is a
report t-> that effect on filo in the court
in Arkansas.
Mr. Blaine appfars to have becomo
the possessor of these bonds in tho sum
mer of 1869. They, as well as a lot of
mortgage bonds, were put on the mar
ket in Boston Tho companv was char
tered in the Stato of Arkansas, and had
a certain amount of State aid granted to
it on condition that if tho company
failed to pay the interest on tho State
can now get as much money as they bon ci a guaranteed, then the State would
need.” Let ns sea whether this is trne p OSSe ssion of the road. This tap
cr not, and what will be the probable re- i pene( £ an d explains how tho road got
suit of such an effort. | f nt0 CO urt. In the meantime there was
Suppose, for instance, that ono of too ] father favorable legislation by Con-
poor and medy. alluded to in a certain : _ rpgSjan acto f March 8.1870, providing
other old hymn, and who resides out of that a p rov j 80 eff the act rt 1869 should
Atlanta, should knock at ths door even ; bc repea i e( j t which was to the effect that
of Mr. James’ bank and recount his hard- j „ aar j eP Be otions of land should bo sold
ships and his wants, and offer tho mort-: tQ actua i Be «ler3 at not more than $2 50
gage, with the homestead waived, how j aQ acre< q; course this added to toe
much money will he be likely to get toat, asseta 0 f t ao r0 ad, and required friendly
he could not have obtained before ? Will j Berr j ce3 £ n Congress for its passage,
ho not bo requested to go home and make
resnlt of this, we find bureelyes ia such
stringent times as these, when we cannot
get Urge wages or make great profits,
suffering for the comforts of life boeenae
we have not learned to separate them
from the luxuries and take them without
extravagance. In many other conn tries
the times are never better than they are
here, and the people never make more
money than we make now. But the dif
ference, is toat the life of people else
where is adjusted to a smaller amount
of means, and toe facilities of getting
such comforts as are indulged in by all
are regulated with a view to srrettw
cheapness, there being less waste by tho
consumer, and less profit to thedoaler.
A few examples will illustrate onr
meaning. While in America every fam
ily must havo a house of their own, in
Europe, especially m the largo cities, tho
houses are so built as to toko up less
space (or rather to allow no space to be
wasted) and to furnish more accommo
dations. One house in Berlin or Paris
will ordinarily aocommodate & dozen
families, and gives each family as much
room as a family here uses: so that while
one of our families pays fear hundred
dollars for yearly rent, a European family,
in like circumstances, pays one hundred
and fifty dollars. So with regard to our
food. While an American has three
meals a day. for which the tablo is three
times spread, and the fires three times
kindled, and the work three times done, a
European family rarely sets the table bnt
once a day, which is generally for dinner,
providing for breakfast and suppera little
coffee or tea.wito cold bisenit or something
else that does not require much work or
expense. The average breakfast on the
Continent doos not coat moro than ten
cents per individual, whether taken in
toe family or at the restaurant, and that
though all the materials used are dearer
dQSIUilll9,’lx‘*iun^A.na. Jnd jshut is in
waste any thing. No more is put on the
table than is eaten, and no more i3 cook
ed or bought than is wanted Instead oE
buying whole roasts and steaks for small
families, the people buy slices of meat
and pennyworth’s of vegetables, the size
of the dish not being thought to add to
its respectability. If anything remains
over after a meal, it is served up in an
other form, and not given to the doge or
garbage cart. The French and Germans
have more varieties of hash thin we have
of staple dishes, using up m them not on
ly remnants of meat, bnt also of bread,
vegetables, broth and everything else.
And these hashes, instead of being m
any disrepute, as they aro here, are
gotten up with such taste that they com
pare favor bly with our best viands.
It has often been remarked that two Ger
mans can live off wbat ono American
wastes, and live better than the Ameri
can. The Europeans, moreover, use np
many products that we do not nso at all,
as the stems of cabbages, beets and other
vegetables, and the refuse of the butch
ers’ shops, many of their most favorite
dishes being made np of such scrapings.
We have so few ways of preparing our
food that we cannot make anything pal
atable except out of the best materials,
while a skillful French cook, with an
onion ani a pennyworth of spices, can
transform chaff, bran, weeds and brine
into edibles. In dressing, too, Europe
ans show tho same economy. Instead of
going to expensive tailors and manta-
makara and getting an outfit, that costs
three time3 the price of tho materials of
which it is-compcsed, and repeating this
expenso every season, or every time the
fashion change?, they study how they
may get their clothes cheap, and do as
much work upon them themselves as
they know how to do. A French lady
will cut up. retnm.and rearrange her old
dress and bonnet until bardiy anything
of toe original material remains, always
keeping in fashion, and always keeping
in taste, and yet comparatively without
expense. A French belle dresses with
half the material and with one-fourth
the expense of an American, and looks
equally as well dressed. At funerals,
with all their hired mourners, the ex
penses are very small compared with
ours, ic not being the custom to take
your friends to the grave ia hired htekt.
In Bhort, in nearly all respects, the Earo-
oeans, although they lire as well as we
ih the substantiate of happiness, do it at
much less expense, owing to an arrange
ment of their customs looking to cheap-
this waiver to some neighbor, in order
that the coop may encircle two instead
of one, and when they roturn see if they
War and Produce
War rumors from Europe, says tho
are not informed thst Mr. ——J over toe World, havo at length become an .nfln-
way, is doing such bnsine33? Bankers enceof importance in tho speculation in
and moneyed men generally think, feel C0tt0Dj breadstuffs and provisions, and
and see alike, and if Mr. this fact ia an evidence that there is
not loftn money on ft homestead undei ft . «. .
declining value, who else would do it? something in them. The only resnlt yet
and if nobody answers, whero is the sweet produced is upm cotton, which quite
relief to come from ? If toe whole thing brobe (j 0WI1 oa Thursday, in the face of
is empty, and barren of results, because cirC umstance3 which seemed
all small landed estates have merely a some circum»tau c . .. ,
nominal value, then whera is the senso favor an advance. Thero has latterly
or dignity in gasing over something b een a very large business in rye, an ar
that does not exist? Character is but ti c ] e which it is true has been growing in
rarely won in this way, andUfi« »» consumptl on, but is rarely bought
not so cheaply won. chkbox3b. * ...
F J “ T ! jn large lots, except for export. It will
1 he remembered that some months before
Nevr Orleans Cotton Statement.
[.Telegraphed by the Americxn Press Association | the Franco-German war broke ont an
New Obleins, April 18. 1876.—The active demand for grain sprung up in
following computation is published by this market for shipment to G-rmany,
the National Cotton Exchange to-day t j when tbero was nothing in^th^ ets
Receipts at tho United States ports since
September 1st 3,7S2,023
Stock at United States ports...
Total overland direct from producer?
Shipments direct to mills
In transit to delivery ports
Foreign export* and Caned* •••
In transit between delivery ports
Taken by Northern spinners from ports,
WUCU IUU1U »U-o — —o - a
of that country to warrant it. A renewal
7S“023 of the export demand fer cured meats is
ss -a- *•
559 641 tion to military supples
471 ties of a serious naturo occur in Europe,
its immediate effect npon us would be
•S716S very marked, in reversing the drift whioh
prices and speculation have taken in the
17.0C9
etiitse P®*t f® w wec hs.
If toe American people aim at & lasting .
prosperity, they mnst emulate toe eco
nomical habits of older countries. The
bard times will have been a signal bene
fit to us if they teach ua to adopt cheap
er ways of living well. We have hitherto
been consuming mere than-we needed
and more than we enjoyed, which has
given rise to a fictitious demand Now
that the people are contracting and giv
ing up their unneceesary purchases, the
merchants effect fewer sales, and henoe
the cry of bard times. Onr necessity has
somewhat taught us already to live eco
nomically. and now that onr factories
and other sources of production bave
partially stopped, we are still living off
the snrplns of former years, thrown on
the public to supply their inflated de
mands. A* this supply gives out, and
our ’necessities begin to call again, and
not merely our luxuries, business of all
kinds will revive, and if we keep to legit
imate consumption, will have a substan
tial support. Bnt as long as we still ke?p
consuming what we do not need we^ will
not have money, even if we do have busi-
nes?, and fo will not be prepared for times
of depression like tho present, even if we
should temporarily prosper.
Tnn Financial ijuxsTioK.—A Wash
ington letter says s “ Too leading Dem
ocrats in the Senate and House have had
several conferences of late on ths finan
cial question. They united in the unan
imous opinion’that it was necessary to
express some definite views on the sub
ject as one of the issues of tbo approach
ing political campiigo- ^ It was also
a”reel that it would be oetter to toko
this question up.at an early day in Gou-
gress, in the desire to settle upon a poli
cy tbero rather than leaving it to tho
undisciplined members of a nominating
convention.