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The Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, GA.. FEBRUARY 19,1878.
THE GEORGIA FME8S.
Albant, like MacoD, is vary deeply
exercised cn the tax and financial que*
tions. The people there seemabontto
take the matter in hand if possible, and
hare appointed a committee of ten “to
veit upon the city council for the pur
pose of pointing out the evils complained
of in the new ordinance?, and requesting
that they ba repealed or modified, etc.”
This committee will report to a ciri
zees meeting to to held at Willingham’s
Hall on the 27th inst.
We trust such efforts will be more
effectual in Albany than here. Onr city
council is made up of antagonisms,
though occasionally they do a good thing,
as in the late action upon the taxing of
salaries. There are some wise and dis
creet members of the body, but the trou
ble is want of unity, and internal jeal
ousies. Ground the arms of your private
animosities, gentlemen, and let ns have
union, harmony and solid work for the
city dnnng the last waning year of your
official life. We are prepared to praise
when the opportnnity is afforded, but
can't bo bulldozed, and there is no use
for any of your body to try it.
Tax Albany News anaonnoes the death
at bis residence, in Dawson, on the 6!h
inst., of Msjor Henry Atkinson, Superin
tendent of the D&wson Car Works. That
paper has the following just tribute to his
memory:
To say that he worked and labored for
Dawson, and for onr whole seotion, earn
estly and zealously, is bnt to express what
his friends and acquaintances already
know. With an interest for everything
good and charitable, kind of heart and
kind of sonl, be was beloved. With vim
in his very bones, and energy in his very
movements, and a steady advance, his
path, bis influence and aots will be
missed.
Colonel S. P. Davis, of Bakor county,
has received his commission as Deputy
Marshal from United States Msrahal
Fitzsimmons. A better selection could
not bave been made in the State. We
have known the Colonel for over thirty
years, acd he is honest and reliable and,
besides, a perfect gentleman.
The News says:
Bov. John T. McBride, Pastor of the
Presbyterian Chnrob, we regret to learn,
has been quite sick since Snnday last. He
wn3 unable to preach to his charge at
the last regular appointment.
Mr. McBride is full of zeal and goed
works, acd we tiust will soon bs restored
to health.
Host. W. E. Smith, M. C., is spending
a few days at borne with bis family.
A Good Sign.—We leara from the Al
bany News that the Methodist and Bap
tist Churches are undergoing thorough
repair and renovation, and a new par
sonage for the Episcopal minister is soon
to be erected.
We desire no better evidence of sub
stantial prosperity and good morals than
this.
Thet kill partridges by felling pine trees
upon them in Chattahoochee county. Mr.
Alva Harp tried the experiment by cut
ting down seven pines, and thereby
bagged eight partridges, besides etnnning
and capturing two more. This is a sav
ing of gunpowder, bnt at the expense of
considerable muscle.
The Enquirer-Sun reports th killing
of Robert Tallas, near Cueseto,by Oscar
Flannagon, on Wednesday night cf last
week. They were both of the colored
persuasion, and quarrelled at a ball. Tal
las was ent to pieces by sixteen muider-
ens stabs.
Gnthbert Messenger:
We are glad to state that Judge Gam
ble, who was in a critical condition last
week, is mnch better.
The sama paper says that daring the
year 1877 there have been 101 marriage
licenses issued in this connty, 30 of which
were whites and 71 were colored. A gen
tleman told ns he conld have increased
the number one more bnt.it was his
fault.
One house in Cuthberthsa stored, at
this time 100,000 pounds of meat, 100
barrels syrup, and other goods in propor
tion.
Thirty-four thousand acres of wild
landB have been levied cn by the Comp
troller General in Berrien connty alone,
and are to be sold cn the first Tuesday in
March.
Dr. Munhali’a meetings in Augusta
are deeply interesting, and with God’s
b!fS3ing he is a doing a great work.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist says
cf one of their gatherings:
The church wa3 crowded with an at
tentive audience and a very large number
remained, as desirous of becoming Chris
tians. The meetings will continue as
usnal in the Baptist Church at night and
in Y. M. C. A. Hall every morning.
W* wish onr Christian friends would in
vite the Doctor to Maoon.
The Rome Courier reports the wheat
crop looking well, though some of it his
been sown’.ainoe Christmas.
Atlanta Trihunt:
We are glad to see that . D. Harrison,
Esq., Clerk of the Sapreme Coart, who
has been ill for a week past. Is again at
bis office, although not entirely reoovered.
Sale ox the Kimball House.—From
the same: “A third interest in this well-
known hotel was sold yesterday to Mr.
Simpson, a leading man of Washington,
Ga., for 143,000. It will still remain
open under its present msnsgement.”
Wh heartily, indorse .the following from
the Atlanta Constitution:
Governor Colquitt has appointed Colo
nel B. W. Frobel a delegate from Geor
gia to the Exporters’ Convention, to be
held in Washington, on the 23d. No
better appointment conld have been
made.
Wx learn from the Constitution that the
committee of railroad officials and mem
bers of tho Atlanta City Council, in ref
erence to the Whitehall street crossing,
recommended, on motion of President
Wadley, tho erection of two, foot bridges
at Whitehall street, onc-half tho cost to
be tome by the several railroad compa
nies and the < ther by the City Connsil of
Atlanta. Adopted, as also were two res
olutions by Governor J. E. Brown, assert
ing that in doing this the said railroad
companies intended to forfeit no charter
ed right or privilege, and calling upon
the City Council to aid them in keeping
off intruders or idlera, "who are often
hurt by their own carelessneee.”
The same paper has this to say of SsB-
a|pr Hill, who is now cn n business visit
to Atlanta:
Mr. Hill is in perfect health, looking,
if possible, better than when he left At
lanta. He declines to be interviewed on
any subject for print,‘but is quite open
in his views. He held* continuous re
ception sll day yesterday, and conversed
freely with his friends. He is quits pos
itive in his views, and does not abate the
. iirmess with which he has adhered to his
financial position thus far. He defenda
bis course very plausibly, and claims that
his constituents do not disagree.with
him, as the press would try to make it ap
pear.
We learn that Mr. Hill will be solicit
ed to speak on the "prevailing topic,”
whils he is in the city, but understand
that be will probably decline.
That arch conspirator A, A. Bradley,
who has [caused so much mischief to his
own race, and every community that has
ever been cursed by his presence, has
come to grief in South Cardins, where
once he lorded it over the deluded blacks
and depressed whites.
An exchange says of him:
“Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, tho pestilent
negro formerly of Georgia, was locked
np in Beaufort jail last week for assault
ing a peanut vender. He was fined,five
dollars and cost, which he refused to pay.
Bradley was again locked up bnt on Mon
day and paid the fine nnder pretest. He
has entered suit against the town for
$1,000 for incarceration.”
We only wish Aaron could bs turned
over to the tender mercies of bis own
race, who he has eo often betrayed.
Mubdsb Will Out.—The Marietta
Journal say£:
Onr readers will remember the horrible
tragedy that occurred in Pickens county
about a year ago, when at a dance Nar-
ctssa Cowart was stabbed and killed by
Kate Southern, a daughter of John Ham-
brick and the wife of Bob Southern.
The murderess end her husband fled, and
their whereabouts could not bs ascertain
ed. W. W. Findley, of Fannin county,
learned that they had farmed the past
year in North Carolina, and set out for
their capture, which he and three other
men succeeded in effecting, near Murphy,
last week. The murderess and her hus
band were carried back to Pickens and
lodged in jail.
Sale of Valuable Diet.—The same
paper announces the sale of tho gold mine
of Paine and Hillhouse, situated about
twelve miles from Acwortb. It was sold
recently to Mr. J. S. Clarkeon, of St.
Louis, for ten thousand dollars. Judge
A. N. Simptoa went to Acworth to draw
tho titles.
Eastman Times:
Mr. Wm. Pitt Eastman, with his usual
liberality, has been replacing Japan Wax
trees on Court House square, where the
first he set out died or were missing.
A Macon Man “Done Brown.”—The
Foit Valley Mirror has this interesting
item to those who seek to avoid paying
for their hash:
A young Jew from Macon, named
Wolff, who had been boarding with Mr.
Brown, who keeps opposite the Lanier
House, stole his trunk out of the house
last Tuesday night, and walked off, to
evade a board bill. He came down the
Southwestern railroad, and got aboard
the cars at Seago’s, but found bis land
lord on board xwady for him. When the
train reached Fort Valley Brown called
onr marshal in to take him in charge,
and succeeded in scaring the money out
of the fellow, who, after he had paid it,
had a good cry. He can choke himself
with the reflection that bad he not been
scared out of it, he could have stolen it,
as the marshal had no juriedition in the
case and bad no intention of making the
arrest. Brown was lacky in getting his
money, but be could hardly resist the
temptation to tbrash the fellow for bis
trouble.
Rather Hard cn “Our Bin.”—The
Barnesville Gazette is responsible for the
following:
The pnblio business is too pressing on
Senator Hill for him to come home and
attend a meeting of his constilutents.
Bnt not so when his clients need him at
home. He is said to ba at home now to
engage in a murder oas9 In whioh he is
employed.
Barnesville is still on the “make” and
improves. She is is now abont to have
a foundry nnder the anspioes of Mr. W. B.
Morphy, Mr, T. D. Dewberry, Mr. W. P.
Smith and others. Success to the enter
prise.
Willingham, of the Caitarsville Express,
sits down heavily on Senator H:ll, “thus
ISO.”
We hope Hon. B. H. Hiil will stop
his caterwauling on the financial ques
tions before Congress. His middle
ground proposition, isn’t worth a conti
nental damn to thd'people if the silver
dollar of onr fathers is not made a legal
tender for all debts to any amount. Now,
what the people want is that gold, silver
and greenbacks, shall be the same in
value as expressed spon their faces, and
payable for all debts and in all amounts.
J jet Mr. Hill understand that tho people
desire that the same money shall pay All
debts doe to the workingman and bond
holder alike. The people don’t want
any sort of aristocraoy, whether of gold,
silver or paper money. Let him remem
ber this is a free country, and that there
is no distinction on account 'of race or
color, nor of circumstances of condition.
The same money for all classes is what
the people want.
The same irrepressible editor says:
We are for Toombs for Governor,
“world without end.” The honest peo
ple of the State are for him for Governor,
and Toombs will be onr next Governor If
ha will serve, reconstructed or unrecon
structed, whatever his political condition
may be at that time.
It is barely possible that the friends of
onr present genial exeontive, and thoro of
Col. Tom Hardeman may bave a word to
say jnst there. And let friend Willing
ham remember we oan’t bave bnt one
Governor at a time. General Toombs is
a greaf'man bnt that don’t insure that he
wilt be elected Governor, or that the peo
ple desire it.
Hxak Willingham once more, and this
time his head is level:
The indications are that General Jobn
. Gordon will be his own successor in
the United States Senate. Mr. Steph
ens will be “for General Gordon against
the field,” and whenever Mr. Stephens
is for anything it generally means suo-
cess. Now, if tho friends of General
Gordon do not wish to bulldoze things,
and attempt to butt the bull off the
bridge, it will be all the better for Gor
don.
Christian Index:
The membership of the Baptist
churches of Nova Beotia, New Brunswick
and Prinoe Edward Island in 1851 was
16,000. According to the “Year Bcok”
for 1877, it is now 36,691. There were
193 churches in 1851; cow there are 334.
The baptisms daring the past year were
1,580. And yet they live in a climate
which ought to make it, according to Pe-
dobaptist modes of reasoning, inconven
ient, and therefore unnecessary, to prac
tice immersion.
Yes, but they love oold in that Alpine
oonntry, and tab each other’s noses with
snow when they exohange salutations. Still
we say let all go beneath the wave who de
sire to have baptism in that form, whether
it “yields” or-no*, even if they have to
break ioe to aooomplish the rite.
A little sprinkling, which many think is
equally effioacions, however, is deoidedly
more convenient. Bnt 1st conscience, of
course, be the monitor.
From the same:
The Circus and the Oomfteollxs
General.—We learn that the Great Bhow,
now going through the State, hoped to
evade the tax imposed by law upon oir-
onsaee, by the device of charging for the
menagerie only, and allowing the olrous to
be free. The Comptroller General, Hon.
W.’ L, Goldsmith, having learned this
fact, has issued instructions to the tax*
collectors to require the olrous to i ay
$200, and $25 on the menagerie.
The Index li one of the best religions
newspapers In the South.
The Southern 'Presbyterian Review is one
of the ablest quarterlies in the United
States. Its last camber is fall of inter
esting articles skilfully treated.
A writer in the Southern Presbyterian
newspaper says of.one of these oontribn
tions:
The first article la an able, learned and
dignified review of the derision of the
United States Sapreme Coart, by whioh
the Southern Presbyterians were depriv
ed of their property in the Walnut Street
Presbyterian ohnxcb, Louisville, Ken
tucky. The remote bearings of this ju
dicial derision on other ohnroh property
is dearly printed out: “Its consistent
- application would rob ns of every endow,
menf, every printing-house, chnrob,
manse, burying ground and school, and
every missionary or evangelistio fund
held in the name of the ohnroh.”
“Let it be remembered that to that enor
mous aot (ipso facto aot of the Northern
General Assembly of 1866) the Supreme
Court has given its fall sanotion in the
caso of the Walnut street ohnroh; and
that in virtne thereof the present oocn-
pacts actually hold that property to-day.”
* * * “For what end and use did the
Northern Assembly so eagerly engross
this law of tyranny in its own oode, and
for what purpose is it now retained there?
To promote 'fraternal relatione?’ ”
The above is certainly very suggestive
and shows upon what bottom tbe cry of
union between the No:thern and Sonth
ern Presbyterians is based. Better that
each assembly paddle its own canoe.
The Gbavx of the old Indian Sachem
Tomichichi Discovered.—Tho Savan
nah News gives an account cf the disin
terment of the remains of a skeleton about
tour feet below the surface, together with
several rusted and corrode d coffin handles,
pieces of iron shaped like the blade of a
hatchet, and a piece of ivory. All the
bones of the frame were found, but sever
al were broken.
The corpse of this famous chief was
interred in Wright’s Square in 1738, now
better known as Court House Square.
The lot upon which the remains were
discovered waB formerly a portion of Per-
cival Square, now incorporated in the
latter. There is no reason to believe that
the gronnahas ever been disturbed be
fore, nor is there any record of the in
terment of any other body on or near the
spot.
The News prints an extract from the
Historical Record of Savannah, cs fol
lows:
“In October of 1737, a grand council
of the chiefs of the four towns of the
Creek nation was held in Savannah, and
with the assistance of Tomichichi another
treaty was arranged, by which the In
dians agreed to form a friendly alliance
with the English and assist them against
their enemies. This was the last oppor
tunity that Tomichichi hid to show his
friendship to the colonists, who were in
debted greatly to him for protection.
He died the following October. In com
pliance with his request that he might bs
buried among the English, his remains
were brought from his place above the
town in a canoe, and were mut at the
bluff by Oglethorpe, the civil authorities,
acd the citizens, all of whom, out of re
spect, assembled to assist in the funeral
obsequies. A procession was formed, and
the corpse, with Oglothorpe and Colonel
Stephens, the President as pall-hearers,
was* escorted to Percival (now Court
House) square, minute guns being fired
from the battery the while. As tbe
bedy wa3 lowered into the earth three
vcileys of musketry was fired by the mi
litia.”
We hope the last relics of the cld chief
were duly cared for.
Two dally trains from, and after to-day
will be ran to Jacksonville on the Albany
andGnlf Railroad, says tho News:
The fast mail train, with whioh the
Central and Savannah and Chaileston
trains will oenneot, will leave here at 9:15
a. m. daily, Sundays exoepted, and ar
rive at Jacksonville at 9:15 p. m., thus
making the trip in the qniok time of
twelve boars. The second train willleave
at 4:10 p. m. instead of 4:15 p. m.
Atlanta Constitution:
Mr. Hill admits that demonetization
depreciated silver, bnt, strangely enough,
he argues that remonetization will not
appreciate the prioe of the metal:
The Constitution says Gen. Toombs
was the snooessfnl bidder for one third of
the Kimball House through his agent,
Mr. Simpson.
The proposed North Georgia Fair As
sociation is still in a befogged condition,
nothing positively definite having trans
pired, though there are several reports
concerning it. Probably nothing will
be done until after the next State Fair in
Macon.
The Atlanta Tribune has no mercy on
it3 distinguished townsman, Senator
Hill. Hear him:
Disposed as we know we are to a high
appreciation of him in the office he holds,
we feel assured that Mr. Hill could . sot
bave come within one hundred votes of
being elected a United States Senator had
it been known that he would have con
ducted himself as be has.
He is a Senator from Georgia till March
4,1883, and we can’t help it, bat he does
not, and he knows he does not, represent
the people of Georgia. Let him do as
he pleases; the people’s vengeance is
apt to hurt a man when it hits him, and
no amount of frantic gestures and honey
ed words can stop it. Try it, Mr. Hill,
on Saturday next if yon feel inclined.
Death in his Favorite Robe.
The mortuary statistics of the whole
civilized world show that about one-fifth
of all mankind die of consumption alone,
and the number of deaths due to con
sumption bears a greater ratio to the
whole number than that of any other
three diseases together. Moreover, in
vestigation proves that this ratio is iteadi-
ily increasing. It3 increasing prevalance
has led to the popular belief that con
sumption is incurable. Every year hun
dreds of these sufferers seek, in the snnny
retreats of Florida or the dry atmosphere
of Colorado, for health—and find only a
grave. The influence of the atmosphere,
the only remedial agent that either Flori
da or Colorado can afford the consump
tive—is at best only palliative. The enre
of consumptioe depends npon two essen
tial conditions: 1st, tho arrest of the ab
normal breaking down of the tisanes,
which prevents emaciation, and 23, the
restoration of healthy nutrition, in -order
to stop the formation of tuberculous mat
ter. Fulfill these conditions, and con
sumption is as curable as fever. To ful
fill these conditions the required remedy
must increase tbe appetite, favor the as
similation of food, and entioh the blood,
thus retarding tbe development of tuber
cles. To accomplish this, a more power
ful alterative than Dr. Fierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery has never been dis
covered. At the same time, it soothes
the irritation of the nervonB systems pro
duced by violent coughing, which in its
turn so often leads to more serious re*
salts. The use of “erpectoranto” m con
sumption is absolutely suicidal. For
while removing the tubercles already
formed, they produce yet more serious re
sults by inflaming and destroying the
sound and healthy tissues. Consumption
requires a remedy that will soothe while
it relieves; harsh medicines, bnt add fuel
to the flame that already threatens to
consume the syttsm. The Golden Medi
cal Discovery fulfills these conditions,
and hae been pronounced the beet reme
dy yet discovered to allay and arrest con
sumption. febl63awlt
Wheeler sings hymns with the Hates
family every Satdiy evening.—Courier-
Journal.
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD COM-
HON BOADF.
Addresz of Prof. »,P. Haudtord,
Before the Agricultural Socle.
ly at Americas.
On a first view it might be thought that
a discussion of roads has little or no con
neotion with the objects and aims of an
Agricultural Association. There is, how
ever, a very intimate conneotion between
the two. The purpose and aim of an Ag
ricultural Association are diffusion of
agricultural knowledge—improvement of
agricultural methods, and introduction of
improved agrionltnral implements, eto;
all looking to the ultimate end, the maxi
mum of production at the minimum of
eoat. The oost of any article comprises
two elements. 1st. Its actual produce
tion; 2nd. Its transportation to market.
As one of the grand aims of Agiioultnrsl
Associations, is to diminish! the oost of
prodnotion, bo another, and not Isbs im
portant, iB to lessen the cost of transpor
tation. The farmer watohes with intense
anxiety, the influence of the seasons, and
yet the effeot of oheap and rapid trans
portation is hardly less impoitint. All
feel and acknowledge the great ntility,
indeed, theJindlspenaableneBa of railroads,
bnt very few ever imagine, that valuable,
and even necessary, to sooiety as railroads
are, because they annihilate time and
space, the oommon roads of the country,
those which lead from neighborhood to
neighborhood, or whioh connect the farms
with the market townB of the oonntry, are
far more valuable and necessary.
It is a noteworthy fact, that roads keep
pace with the progress of civilization.
Wherever we find a high degree of Intel-
leotual culture, civilization and refine
ment, there we invariably find roads of
the most perfeot oharaoter. And the con
verse is equally true; that where a peo
ple are but little advanoed in civilize,
tion, there we find roads oorresx
ponding to this baokward state of society
When America was discovered there was
not a road, properly ec-calted, on this
continent. There were a few paths
through the thick forests, along which
tne savage occupants of this Western
world migrated from one xude hamlet to
another, but as for roads, there was
nothing deserving the name, In the
wilds of Africa, and in the South Sea
I-landa nothing approaching to a road
can be found. A narrow trail, not wide
enough for two persons to walk abreast,
often impeded by the rank grass, and fre
quently requiring to be cut away with
the knife, gives to the rude natives of
these countries their only idea of a road.
Let anyone read “Stephens’ Travels in
Guatimali and Yucatan,” and notice his
description of the roads—-narrow, ob
scure trails, lined cn both sides with the
cactus and other prickly plants whioh
tear the garments of the traveller, end
pierce the flesh, and thus render locomo
tion both difficult and dangerous And
what is the character of the civilization
cf those countries ? Exactly correspond
ing to the roads.
On the contrary, in England, France,
Germany and Italy of modem time, and
in the Roman Empire of antiquity, we
find their roads surpassing those of all
other nations. It may at first strike ns
with surprise that manners, culture and
morals should have bo intimate a connec
tion with roads; but the fact is indisput
able that no nation which had not pre
viously provided facilities of intercommu
nication among its several districts by
means of good roads, has ever made any
eminent advance in science, cnltnre or
civilization.
A question may be asked: Do the roads
make tho civilization, or does the civi
lization make the roads ? I am inclined
to think it i3 a little of both. _ The influ
ence of roads and civilization is intimate
and reciprocal. Bnt, whether roads are
the effect, or the cause, it is plain that tbe
existence of good roads is indicative of
the progress of a nation, in general thrift
amd prosperity. Bayard Taylor, in his
work, “Views Afoot in Europe,” gives us
a graphic picture of the magnificent
roads that are found throughout Great
Britain, and on tho Continent; smooth
and hard, with easy grades, bordered
with trees and sodded with grass, delight
ing the pedestrian with their comfort
and beauty, and snfficing for. the convey
ance of tho heaviest loads of prodnee and
passengers. On these roads, stage coach
es are often driven at a speed of from ten
to twelve miles an hoars, with as little
fatigue to horses as results from a speed
of four miles an hoar on onr Georgia
roads, and with less wear and tear of ve
hicles. Mark Twain, with whose "Inno
cents Abroad”’ yon are all familiar, in
speaking of the roadsof Italy and Francs,
uses the following language: “Why
these roads are as hard as adamant, as
straight as ajline.aa smooth as a floor, and
as white as snow. When it is too dark
to eee any other object, one can still see
the whits tnrnpikes of France and Italy;
and they are dean enough to eat from,
without a table-cloth.” Making due al
lowance for Mark’s exaggerated and rol
licking style, thero is no doubt that hie
statements aro not far from the truth.
In many districts of IilinoiB and In
diana, corn is sometimes actually
used for fuel, instead of coal, as the
transportation to market, would cost more
than the corn would sell for; and t'm
waste, as it seems to us, o! grain, resul-s
from the want of good roads. The rich
silver mines in many parts of Mexico, are
comparatively valueless because the roads
are so few and so bad, that the expense
of transpoitation would exceed the value
of the metals dug from them. The same
want of roads prevents the transportation
of engines and other heavy appliances
for working the mines. In Brazil, cattle
are elaughtexed simply for their hides,
while the excellent beef they furnish is
allowed to rot, or to become food for
vultures, because, from the want of roads
it will not pay the cost of transpoitation
to market. Nor are these merely isolated
instances. How many sections of our
own country might be made doubly valu
able if the access to them were easy and
practicable. What immense quantities
of the finest timber, growing in the for
ests at present inaccessible, from the
want of roads, might be mads a
source of wealth, by opening easy and
cheap communication, in the shape of
good roads. In reading the aocounts of
travellers in Asia and Africa, wo are
frequently surprised at their slow daily
progress—eight or ten miles bring an
average days journey. We forget that
they are travelling in a country where
there is nothing that deserves to be
called a road. Dr. Dutbin, President of
the Middletown University, Connectioht,
who travelled extensively in the East,
states, that there is not a decent oommon
road in any of the countries under the
Turkish dominion. This statement cor*
roborates the assertion, that good roads
koop pace with the improvement and
progress cf society. CoL H. H. Jones,
in his recent racy letters from Cuba, in
speaking of the facilities for inter-com
munication on the Island, uses the follow
ing language: "0 wing to the terrible con
dition of tbe roads in the interior, caits
acd wagons are almost wholly dispensed
witb, acd freight is transported npon tbe
backs of horses, as3es and mules.”
Tbe benefits of good roads may be ar
ranged nnder two general beads: 1st,
those whioh affect the moral, acd 2nd,
those vhich advance the material or com
mercial interests of the community. As
an example of the first, we may take tbe
ohauge which was effeoted in the high
lands of Scotland by the introduction of
good roads. The Soottieh Highlanders
lived in a ragged and mountainous region,
completely shut out from the rest of tbe
world; tbe only approach to their wild
region being along paths so narrow as
barely to afford room for tbe passage of
persons on foot, or of a single horseman.
Their isolation from the world resulted in
making them a rude and clannish com
munity. Marahtl Wide, an eminent en
gineer, was ordered by the English Gov
ernment to open a great military road
through the highlands. Tbe result was,
it is said, that his road did more for tbe
civil zition of the Higfchndets thin all
tbe preceding efforts of the British
sovereigns.
Abont a hundred years »go, there was a
benigtt’d distrfot of ooactry in tbesonth-
esst oorutr of F.icoe. Tbe inhabitants
Georgia, who go through this identi
cal process nnmbsrless times during the
year, and wbat a fearful burden of taxa
tion it piles up. If this tax came in a
visible, tangible shape, or if it were col
lected by Government officials, backed up
by bayonets, what an amount of righteous
indignation it would provoke ! But it
comes so noiselessly and quietly that
our people bear it with the equanimity of
Christian martyrs, and indeed seldom
think of it as a tax at alL
At a certain town in Georgia, which
annually ships fsom ten to twelve thou
sand biles of cotton, there was a few
years ago, a long, narrow causeway lead
iog to a bridge. Said bridge and oanst s
way being wider than necessary for one
vehiole, and yot not wide enough for two.
Whenever, therefore, a vehiole fairly se
eared the entrance to the causeway, it
was neoessary for the other vehicles at
the end of the bridge, no matter how
many they were, to wait until the first
vehicle had entirely passed over. On one
oooasion, I passed this causeway, and at
the end of the bridge I counted eighteen
vehioles—buggies with ladies and gentle
men, wagons loaded with ootton, carts
with wood, eto. There they stood, on a
wintry day, reminding one of “patienoe
sitting on a monument, smiling at grief,"
waiting, with Christian resignation, for a
one-horse team to drag its slow length
along the oanseway and over the bridge.
The owners of these vehicles never onoe
dreamed that they were paying the heav
iest sort of a tax for the privilege of ri
ding over a oanseway, tco narrow for two
vehicles to go abreast; nor did they onoe
imagine, that the loss of time in baggies,
wagons, oarts, eto., with the vexation in
cident thereto, would have paid the oost
of constructing a wider embankment,
twioe over, In one season.
All this is altered now. To the oredit
of that town, be it said, a few enterpri
sing oitizens saw the heavy tax that they
were paying, and resolved to pay it no
longer; and now [they have a broad em
bankment and a wide bridge, ample
enough to oover any. amount of travel.
Years ago, before railroads bad made
their present strides, men doing business
on Wall street, New York, often had their
residences in the country, six or eight
miles from the city. Regularly, every
morning, they came in to the places of
business, by private conveyance, occupy
ing abont an hoar in the transit. Now,
the same men have their country seats
on the banks of the Hudson, forty miles
from the city; and yet with the same reg
ularity and promptness as before, they
are seen at their Wall street offices—their
trip to the city, in consequence of the im
proved facilities for traveling, occupying
no more time than formerly.. Although
forty miles from the city, they are, for all
practical purposes, juBt as near to it as
before. The same principle, though, of
oourse.ina modified degree, applies to
common roads.
To recapitulate briefly the advaitiges
of good roads, we would say:
1. With a system of good common
roads, carriages, buggies, wagons, har
ness, and even horses themselves, would
last nearly twice as long, and thus from
40 to 50 per cent, of the expense for these
necessary articles would be smd.
2. They would enable our people to
dispense with a large portion of their
horses and males, by enabling fewer
horses to do the same work now done by
a larger number.
3. The saving of time in making jour
neys, or, which is the same thing, the
conveyance of larger loads by the same
teams, would furnish no inconsideratle
saving of expense, which would add to
the general wesltb.
4. They would enhance tho value of
land; for farms at some distance from
market would, virtually and practically,
be brought within half their original dis
tance.
Some cne may ask tbi3 questicn:
‘What do you mean by a good road r”
Answering this question in a practical
manner, I would say that a good road
should be hard, smooth, and as nearly
level a3 practicable; hard, in order to di
minish the friction, and enable heavy
loads to be carried with the least expen
diture of animal power; smooth, (that is,
free from holes or rats), eo that the road
may not become muddy by rainB.and that
the tractive power of the horse may be
mosreffective; level, in order that the
heaviest loads may be easily carried,
without straining the horse, or without
overtaxing his strength.
Can such roads be constructed all over
the State of Georgia? In my humble
opinion they can; but not in the way we
have been going on for tbe last forty or
fifty yean. In onr humble judgment,
the road system as practiced in Georgia
for the last half century, is about as com
plete a burlesque upon true roadmaking
as were the cld militia musters described
in “Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes,” when
compared with the evolutions of the Sec
ond Georgia Battalion on dress parade.
Under the old regime, a man was sum
moned, with great formality, “to work
on the road;” and at the appointed time
he came, or more likely “sent a band,’’
“armed and equipped” with a demoral
ized hoe, or a venerable mattock that
had come down from his great-grand
father. About nine o’clock he went to
work, and his whole study daring the
day was to devise ingenious ways of kill
ing time; in other words, trying “how
not to do do it;” ever and anon casting
wistful glances at the snn, whioh, on this
day, as in Joshua’s time, “hasted not to go
down.”
Pnblio opinion, on this subject needs
to be educated. Whilst railroads with
their trinmphB over time and space have
been estimated at something like their
true value, the mass of the community
bave entertained a very inadequate, not
to say, contemptuous, opinion of common
roads, Many of you know, that before
the war, the only qualification requisite
for an overseer of roads was that he
should be a man, who could get the most
work, in the shortest time, out of “Amer
ican mea and brethren ol African de
scent.” As to whether he knew anything
of the principles of roadmaking, why, that
waB a matter of no consequence at all.
On one occasion my old father met
with an Irishman, fresh from the “onld
oonntry,” who claimed to [be a Christian.
This olaim at onoe interested the old gen
tleman in the welfare of the representa
tive from Erin, and he inquired: “How
long have yon been a Christian?” To
whioh the honest Hibernian responded
enthusiastically: “Faith, an’ I was born
a Christian.*’ Jnst so with these road
makers. Like the'poet of whom Horaoe
speaka, or rather sings, they are tom ;
they are neither made, nor do they, by
degrees, become road makers. To be a
lawyer in tboBe days it was neoessary for
a man to read Biaokstone, Coke and other
learned authors, and then serve an ap
prenticeship of years at the bar; to be
come a physician, be moat attentively
read medloal work», attend courses of
lectures and examine eases; to beoome a
good agriculturist, he most investigate,
experiment and praotioe; but, to be a
road maker, why that was just the easiest
thing imaginable; a man is bom a road
maker. Dr.Lardner, an eminent scientific,
as welt as a very practical man,once wrote
this paragraph: “I do not know that I
ooul t suggest anv one problem to be pro
posed to an engineer whioh would require
a greater exertion of soientifio skill and
praotiosl knnvlidge than laying out a
road.” And yet, in onr State, when a
dqw read is to be laid cut, Mr. A or Mr.
B is generally selected for the enterprise,
for the simple reason that Mr. A or Mr.
B 1 ves close by, and oan ran over some
morning before breakfast and do tbe job.
In the first plaos, more correct no
tions in regard to tbs ntility of
oommon roads most be dissemi
nated throughout the community—tba peo
pie must be l ad to see their value and be
oome interested in their construction and
maintenance. Who ia to disseminate this
information, and got up this haallhy pub
lic opinion ? I know of no more suitable
agenoy, than the members of this Agri-
oultnral Association. Allied with the gen
eral mass of the community, by profes
sional affinities, no others oan so readily
take hold of their Impulses and gnide
them to oorreot action. Let the people
be led to see and to feel, that not only
lived almost entirely cat off from the out
side world, shut in by the mountains,
over which there were ho roads, or none
worthy tbe name. A Moravian minister,
by the name of Oberlin, was appointed a
missionary to this people. Instead of
proceeding at onoe to preach the Gospel
to them, he proposed, like a sensible min,
to improve their physiosl condition, and
became praotioally an engineer. He
represented to the people how much
their pbysioal condition might be
Improved by having good roads,
so that they might import
the comforts of life from other parts of
France. To this the people were at first
violently opposed, as they had become
habituated to their indolent and comfort
less style of life. Their fathers had
made such roads as they had answer all
their purposes, and they could do tho
same. Oberlin persevered, and finally
led ont his whole community to opfih a
road. He taught them how to remove
the rocks by blasting—to form embank
ments, and to build bridges over the
streams? The roads once opened led the
way to the introduction of articles of com
fort and luxury from abroad. To pro
cure the means of purchasing articles of
luxury, the people were inducsd to pay
more attention to agriculture. Then fol
lowed the bnildingof comfortable and
substantial houses, instead of the misera
ble shanties in which they had formerly
borrowed. After this transformation in
their physical condition, Oberlin proceed
ed to introduce schools, and preaohto
thorn the doctrines of a pure Christianity.
The change that ensued in the whole
moral and physical aspect of the people
was a wonderful tribute to the civilizing
influence of good roads.
Various schemes, such as direct trade,
foreign immigration, etc., have been pro
posed within the last few years, with a
view to develop the resources of onr
State, but I verily believe that a good
system of town and country roads would
avail tenfold more to promote tbe wealth,
properity and strength of onr State.
Onr State 13 now, and probably
always will be, mostly an agricul
tural country. Everything therefore
which serves as an auxiliary to agricul
tare, Bhonld be fostered and encouraged.
A system of good common . roads would
afford encouragement to agriculture. Let
such roads ho made, and thus afford
means of cheap and easy transportation
to market, and the farmer would, in a
sense, become independent. He would
not be compelled to haul his produoe
through almost impassable mud holes,
miry lanes and boggy swamps, to a mar
ket where he is forced to dispose of it at
unremnnerative prices, rather than haul
it home again; but he could wait until
his crop should be called for at his own
door, or until he’could learn from the
market quotations, that it was to hi3 in
terest to ship to market.
I believe that I am stating the truth
when I asiert that bad roads ccsb more
than good ones. We complain heavily of
Radical taxation for the last twelve years,
and we have abundant and‘just reason
for complaint, but I venture the asser
tion, that we pay more for the privilege
of riding over bad roads, than for all onr
National, State and connty tares com
bined; and this point, I think, is suscep
tible of demonstration. Now, let us see
where these taxes come in. Here is a
farmer, who, for the comfort of himself
and family, invests $200 in a buggy.
Now, on a system of hard, smooth, well-
graded roads, this buggy ought to last in
good running order, for ten years. In
this instance, the annual outlay for bug
gies ia twenty dollars. But what
are the real facts in tho case? Does
the buggy last ten , years? On oar
rough and uneven road?, with xu’s and
holes into which the wheels are constant
ly falling with the momentum of sledge
hammers, we doubt whether the life of
tbe average buggy extends beyond five
years. It this ba true, then there is an
annual expense of $40 for buggies—$20
more per annum than in the case of good
roads. This extra $20 per annum is, to
all intents and purposes, a tax for the
privilege of using bad roads. And now
multiply this tax for everv man in the
State of Georgia, who rides in a buggy,
and what a fearful array of figures does
it bring out; a tax for the privilege of
bad roads. What I have said in regard
to the buggy, holds good with reference
to every class of vehicles; from the $9C0
pleasure carriage, down through the list
of road wagonB, carts and humbler con
veyances. I venture to say, that if we
could get at the extra coat of carriages,
buggies, wagons, etc., with tho wear and
tear of harness, and the unnecessary con
sumption of horses and mules, we should
bs astonished at the huge amount in dol
lars and cents, that this fearfnl array of
items would foot up; to say nothing of
personal discomfort, and the wear and
tear of patience, which cannot be reck
oned in dollars and dimes, but which se
riously detract from enjoyment.
Again, another heavy tax whioh we
pay for bad roads is this, that we are
compelled to keep a number of horses
and pay an amount for their support
whioh would not be necessary under a
system of good roads. It is a funda
mental maxim with eminent roadmakers,
such as McAdam, Telford and Stephen
son, that a good road shonld be
perfectly level, or nearly so as
the nature of the country will allow.
Trustworthy experiments by these engi
neers have shown that when a road rises
one foot in height for twenty of its
length a horse oan draw continuously
only one-half the load that he can draw
on a level; and, therefore, on sneha
road two horses will be needed to do the
work of one. Now, take the common
county and neighborhood roads in onr
State. How many of them can you find
that have as good a grade as one in
twenty? How very frequently do we
find a grade of one in ten, or even as
high as one in five ? If a horse can pull
only half his proper load, when the grade
of the road rises ons in twenty, of coarse
when it rises one in ten he can draw bnt
one-fourth of his proper load. And it is
an undeniable faot that many portions of
our roads do have this injurious grade.
What is the consequence? If the load
of the horse is adapted to his power 0!
drawing on the level road it follows that
when he oomes to a hill rising one in
twenty, or still worse, of one in ten, his
strength is overtaxed, he becomes pre
maturely worn ont, and there is a con
sumption of horse flesh which has to be
resupplied with new horses; and new
horses, in their last analysis, mean simp
ly money. On the contrary, if the load
o'f the horse is accommodated to what he
can easily draw up a slope of one in twen
ty, or of one in ten, then he is under
worked on the level portions of the road,
and an excess of horses must be main-
tuned to supply this ineqnsl.ty of work.
I think it a moderate estimate to say
that, taking all the farms In our State,
at least one-fifth more horses are ted and
maintained to do tho hauling over bad
roads that wonld not be required cn a
system of good roads. If this hypothesis
be correct, then do we rot pry a t*x for
the privilege of bxd roads, equivalent to
the expense of jupportiug one-fifth of
the horses and mules in Georgia ?
Another placu where the tax for bad
road comes in, is the loss of time. Here
is a farmer who lives ten mdes from
Americas, or some other market town.
He has a wagon and two good mules; he
loads on two bales of cotton and starts
for Americas. With the ratty and boggy
roads, steep hills and deep mud holes,
you know it is a good day’s work to get
those two bales to Americas, and return
in tbe day. We will suppose at a mod
erate estimate, that his wagon and team
are worth $2 50 per day. Now, suppose
that farmer had a firm, smooth, well
graded ioid over whioh to drive his wag
on, it would be just as easy for his team
to carry four halos, as it is now to carry
only two; in other words, he conld then
accomplish in one day, the same amount
of hauling that now requires two days.
His team, as I have said, being estimated
at $2.50 per day, and his being compell
ed to take two days to accomplish the
work of one, is it not a logical inference,
that in this case, the farmer .pays a tax
of $2 50 a day, for the privilege of using
bad roads? Now multiply this itom by I their personal comfort, bnt that their
the number of farmers in tbe fctne of pecuniary interests ore deeply iavilfed
in having good oounty and neighborhood
roads.
On tbe fine roads of Europe described
by Bayard Taylor, to whioh I bave refer
red, every appliance of hardness and
smoothness of surface Is introdnoed, with
easy grades and proper shape. Gravelled
walks for pedestrians are raised, and these
walks are bordered with hedges or shnb-
bery, and outside of all, are ditches to
secure perfeot drainage,! and keep the
road firm and smooth. If tbe question
be naked; “do yon expeoi to be able to
produce such roads as these in Georgia ?”
I answer: by no means, at least for the
present. Oar population is too small and
scattered, to oonstxnot such roads. Muoh
that is expended on the roads of England,
and on the Continent, is solely for orna
mentation. This I would dispense with,
and adopt only so mnoh of the European
plan as is absolutely indispensable for a
good road. When rednoed to its lae«
analysis, a good road mnat possess
three elements—these cannot be dis
pensed with. They are; 1st, easy
grade-, 2nd, perfect drainage; and 3rd,
proper shape. One great mistake too
frequently made in the formation of our
roads is, that they ran straight over the
hills instead of winding around their
bases. I hold in my hand a hemisphere
C; yon observe it is bo farther around
tbe level base of this ball than over it;
bat were it considerably longer, good
economy in tbe saving of animal power
would dictate that we take the .longer,
bat level roate, rather than the shorter
bat steep one. In this case the old adage
holds good, that “the longest way round,
is the nlghest way home.” Eminent
roadmakers say, that rather than compel
a horse to ascend a hill twenty feet in
height, it is better for the horse that he
travel twenty times as far on a level, or
four hundred feet.
The second point in a good road ia
perfect drainage. It is impossible to make
a good road if the water stand cn it.
Drainage is absolutely indispensable.
Ditches on both sides of the road three
feet wide and from two and a halt to
three feet deep, will secure effectual
drainage, while the earth dog from the
ditches will supply the material for rak
ing the road bed above the tnrface of the
neighboring lands, and thus secure for it
the proper shape.
The third point is, proper shape. And
what is the proper shape for a road?
Many roadmakors maintain that itshould
be curved like the aro cf a circles. I
do no not assent to this opinion. Roads
with this sort of crose-section; have the
glaring defect of not being uniform
in their Elope; they fall off tco rapidly
at the sides, and the consequence is that
vehicles will only travel on the middle
of the road, and the rains will rapidly
wash the sides into ruts. In my opinion
a much better shape is that of two inclin
ed planes meeting in the centre of the
road, the point of meeting being smooth
ly rounded off. The inclination of snch
aroad is perfectly uniform from thooen-
tre to the sides, and travelers will have
no reason to prefer any one part of a road
so constructed to another.
In conclusion, allow me to say a few
words in relation to the roads of Bibb
connty. In Bibb we have about 300
miles of road, which may be classed un
der three different heads, according to
their foundation?, which consist reepec-
tlvely of sand, clay and gTavel. These
roads were in bad condition at the outset
—some of them almost impassable. With
a regular, hired corps of hands, aided by
some extra, force employed at certain sea
sons of the year, these roads were put in
good condition, in one yeu’s time, at an
expense of about seven thousand dollars.
The chain gang, was afterwards substi
tuted for the hired force; a superintend
ent and a assistant were employed, with
a quota cf guaxds, sufficient to watoh
from 25 to 40 convicts. Three or four
additional hands have been employed to
drive wagons, and do such ether work
as could not be entrus’ed to con
victs. The annual expense has
been from five to s.x thousand
dollars—very little more than would have
been required to pay jail fees, had the
convicts been kept in prison. With this
force the roads of the county are kept
in good condition; halt the time being
devoted to working the streets of the city
of Macon. In the county there are nine
militia districts, two of which are in the
city. Each district is allowed three rep
resentatives in tho Board of Road Com
missioners, all of whom are elected by
the grand jnry, and serve for four years.
Only hall the Board of Commissioners go
oat of office at a time; in this way, men
experienced in road matters are al
ways secured in the board. This
Board has centre! of all matters
relating to roads, determines the
amount to be expended cn any partic
ular point, audits accounts, fixes the
salaries of employes—furnishes tbe ma
terial neoessary fox repairs, &c. The
road foroe in any diatriot is worked under
the direotion of the three Commisfioners
of that distriot, who report to the General
Board the condition of the roads, the
amount of work done, Ac. The General
Board meets monthly, and is one of the
best attended boards in the oonnty, for
the reason that all its members appreciate
the importance of good roads and are
deeply interested in constructing them
fox the whole oonnty. The whole system
is worked to the satisfiotion of the entire
oonnty. For the foregoing fiotsin re
gard to the road system of Bibb, I am in
debted to the courtesy of Professor Wil
liams, of the Academy of the Blind, who
was, for floret yean, the President of the
Board of Road Commissioners.
•And now, In olosing, allow me to pro
poned one question to this Agricultural
Association: Conld the State of Georgia
better ntilizs the labor of her Penitentiary
convicts than to organize the whole of
them into a working corps nnder compe
tent engineero, and employ them in work
ing the oommon roads of the State ?
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington Citt, Feb., 14,1878.
HOW A DAUB WA8 HONORED TESTKBDAT.
Doubtless you have a surfeit, this
morning, of the details, speeches, etc;,
that accompanied the presentation, yes
terday, of Carpenter's so-called great
picture of L'ncoln reading the emanci
pation proclamation to his cabinet.
Therefore I shall waste few words on
it here, except to say that the word daub
seems to me to fit it like a glove. It is
a failure, complete and symmetrical, from
any standpoint. At least so it struck
my uncultured eye and taste. Every
thing abont it is tt'ff and angular. There
is not a looso joint, nor natural
poeition in or about anv figure in it.
A lot of wooden men could not be more
uncompromisingly or hideously stiff and
angular, and those who know the per
sons represented say not one of tbe por
traits is first class: Tbe general ver
dict yesterday was that it ought to be
wrapped around Vennie Ream’s $15,090
abortion in marble that stands in the old
hall, and sent down into the basement to
koep company with tbe other monstrosi
ties. But the woman who presented it
to Congress paid the painter $25,000'for
it, and I suppose it will take its place
hereafter in the Capitol gallery as a
specimen of American “high art” for
foreigners to laugh at and real
artists to bluBh for. It represents
Mr. Linooln as seated at a table
with the manuscript in his hand—with
Seward opposite, Stanton to the right,
and Holt at a desk to the left. Chase stands
near a fire plaoe on the right, and Bates
and Blair a little to the rear on the left.
They all look frosen and have a stony
stare that most have greatly embarrassed
Linooln if he noticed it.
Garfield read his speeob, bnt Mr. Ste
phens spoke hie with nnnsual animation,
eeated in his rolling ;ohair, and concen
trated the entire attention of the orowded
chamber from first to last. Both speech
es were well reoeived and round
ed iff with hearty applause. The
Senato wm present, and Mr. Wheeler
sat with Randall on the latter’s roe-
tram. Mr. Hayee was noticeably ab
sent, and so was tbe gentle Edmonds,
who staid over in tbe Senate chamber
and grumbled until hie associate* return*
ed. All th* women who oould p^y
themselves in the galleries went taere
and quite a lot who oouldn’t get in hung
around the doors and glared at
more fortunate sisters, amusing them
selves meanwhile by badgering the door*
keepers and otherwise making their lives
a burden. Only a few of the diplomatic
ducks put in an appear an oe, and looked
even more dosed and bored than ever.
HOT.
The current talk last night was of an
nnnsual amount of caloric evolved yester
day at the Cabinet meeting, and that
some of the dignitaries got mighty red in
the face, and particularly handy with the
bloody shirt which wm flapped in Mr.
Hayee’ face with most refreshing vim*.
Sherman and McCrary are credited with
most of the ugliness of temper and
speech, and Key with having given them
some very plain talk. Mr. Hayes is
quoted as advising Sherman and McCra
ry to go home and put their feet ia het
water and cold cloths on their heads to
bs followed by a mild purgative next
morning in order to cocl their healed
blood. Nothing definite was concluded
in the matter, however, so far as could
be learned, and theoaneo of all the ex
citement—the jailing cf the Louisiana
scoundrels, Anderson and Wells—still
stands pretty much where it did. It ia
supposed Hayes will write a letter to Gov.
Nicholh abont it, and also one to Dev
ons, to which the latter will reply, and
then all of it be published.
I notice, by the way, that the Ttepulli-
can, a day or two sinoe, had an nnnsually
loud bray abont the jury in the Anderson
ease having been organized to convict,
bnt entirely forgot any mention of the
faot that the Returning Board had been
especially organized to steal the vote of
Louisiana from Tilden. whioh shows tint
old Clapp has lost his memory with his of-
eial bead. If there is an honest man in
these United Stater, so-called, who doesn’t
believe that Anderson and Wells ought
not, at this very moment, to be wearing
stripes, and making shoes at pnblio ex
pense, he must belong to tho Clapp
family.
HOW IT WILL STAND,
Those very sharp people, of whom, by
the way, there are more in this city than
in all the rest of the country beside, who
know everything, especially before it
happens, have ciphered the Senate vote
on the silver bill down to exact figures.
If you will set up the drinks they will
tell you all about it. They say 49 votes
are dead sure for, and 24 equally and un
alterably against it, and that the affirma
tive vote is made np of 23 Radicals, 25
Democrats and Judge Davis. The nega
tives are 13 Radicals and 11 Democrats—
Messrs. Hill, Lamar acd Butler among
them.
Speaking of this bill, have you noticed
that since it reached the Senate acd has
been discussed in that body that $65,000,-
000 worth of government bonds have been
sent back to this country from Europe?
Clearly, our affectionate cousins
across the water seem rather prejudiced
against tho dollar of our daddies, which
we are assured is to €0 bo many good and
beautiful things for u?. Perhaps this
latter assurance is correct and we shall
all soon bs rich and hippy again; hut
really the first installment of the blessing
is not panning outvery satisfactorily in
a small way. I refer to the matter of
change which is now sll silver here. Tho
fractional currency has entirely disap
peared—not even a ragged specimen
thereof is ever seen, and sometimes the
abucdance of the silver blessing i3 pro
vocative of blasphemy. When, for in
stance, yon bny a “schooner” of beer and
are on yonr last V. and get ycur change
in 8)1 rer halves and quaiters, I have ac
tually known good men to use some very
picturesque language cn occasions like
this, and while it of course wounded mo
sorely to hear them thn3 forget them
selves, sti 11 was forced to admit the
provocation was great.
COKE GOOD READING
may be fonnd In the last repo.t of the
Secretary of the Senate. In the matter
of carpets, for instance, it appears that
the Senatorial feet this winter are caress
ed by Wiltons at $4 per yard and Persian
and Smyrna rugs at from $50 to $175
each, and that from the 29th of Septem
ber, 1877, to November 13tb, 1877, there
were $1,22S.75 worth of these articles
bought. Also,that during the same time
four paiis of lace curtains, at $60 per
pair, aid two at $33 per pair, were
bought to keep the carpets and xngs in
countenance. Also, that from July lit,
1876, to August 15t\ 1877, $1,584.93
worth of sugar and lemons for cooling
the Senatorial throat, acd socthing the
Senatorial stomach, in the shape of lem
onade, was hought. And os it was plain
ly proven on old “Blue Jean3 Williams”
that he used to slip over to the Senate
and partake thereof through motives of
“economy, retrenchment and reform,” it
seems to me that he ought to help pay
that bill. Besides other ills and expenses
Hayes’inauguration cost tbe coantry.it
is also shown in this department that
there were $363.53 woith of chairs bought
and paid for on that occasion. Other ex
penses were $313 for revolvers and am
munition therefor. The Senatorial noso
was titillated by two bottles of Maitic-
ique tnuff at the modestcost of $9, which
is very moderate.
In the matter of fanerals, however, it
ia that the nice discrimination which
characterizes the Fog Bank shines oon-
spionouEly. For instanoe: Fred Peck, a
page, wm gathered to his fathers at a
oost of only $65 50; but it ooat $255 50
to perform the same effioes for John
King, one of the Senate engineers who
waa killed by the gas explosion in May,
1876; and $1,776 to bury Senator Caper-
ton, of West Virginia.
blue ribbons.
The town teems pretty well broken out
with hire ribbons, and I had to ask, the
other day, what it meant. “Why, Mur
phy, of course,” was the answer. And
who in the devil is Murphy, was my next
inquiry, which showed my ignorance, as
I plainly saw on my young friend’s face,
who sported the ribbon. Well, it seems
Muxpby is a temperance lecturer, very
high toned, especially in bis charges
which are $200 per week and board at a
first class hotel and no end of style gen
erally. He has been here several days,
and draws neatly as well as that blas
phemous wretch, Bob Ingerscli, the in
fidel, Bienne’s close friend, He is gath
ering in the “tammies” by the hundred,
and they all wear the blue ribbon and
seem vastly proud of it. But I saw cue
yesterday on his way to the station houso
in charge of a “peeler,” and shame to
say, he was most unanimously dinnk.
Worse than all, his blue ribbon still flat
tered in the breeze, which raises the euc-
picicn that it takes something stronger
than ribbon to hold some converts steady.
A. W. R.
Keep Your Teem in Order
by using Sozodoct, which will impost
soundnet s ani parity to them, tave you
many a dollar at tbe DentistV, and pre
vent mnoh unnecessary pain and worry.
It will, likewise, lend sweetness to the
breath and impart to the gams hardness
and a rosy color. fefc6 Iw
Population or the Earth.—A recent
Belgian publication shows that tbe actnal
population of the earth is abont a thou
sand millions, about equally divided be
tween males and females. Every year
about 33,000,000 die; every day, 91,334;
every hour, 3,780; every miants, 60.
Therefore, there is a death every second.
In civilized countries there are more
biiths than deaths; but the whole woild
considered, the number of the former is
abont equal to that of the latter. More
people are born and die in the night
time than in the day, and generally
speaking, low-sized men die before those
of tall statue. Eight thousand and sixty-
jour languages aro spoken in the world
687 in Europe, 896 in Asia, 276 in Africa
and 1,264 in America.
The Maroh-April number of the North
American Review will oontain six artieles
on the subject of Eternr 1 Punishment, by
six of the moat prominent mirdstei* to
the United States, of as meny denomina
tions.