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WATDRPaV, OCTOBKH 30. 1 S7<J.
The Projected African Swindle.
The Washington correajiondent of the
Augusta Chronicle, says:
Ihe grand African Continental Kail
way project (i. e. swindle) is making con
siderable headway. General Butler fa
▼ore the project and will purchase a large
quantity of the stock. A considerable
order has also coiue from South Carolina:
indeed the Treasurer of that State is one
of tho ‘bosses' in the undertaking. Ex-
Treasurer Parker, of South Carolina, who
was recently unlawfully released from jail
by one Mackey, has already gone on to
Liberia to confer with President Roberts.
Parker takes with him in his foreign
night over #200,000 of 5-20 United
States bonds, which he stole from South
Carolina in the coupon steal. It is to lie
hoped that he will remain abroad.’’
I'rom ail accounts it appears that a for
midable movement is on foot, headed by
prominent carpet-baggers and negro
leaders at the South, for the organiza
tion of a big swindle under pretense of
promoting negro colonization in Africa
and building railroads in that country.
Their plan contemplates large grants of
land, money subsidies by Congress, and
a line of steamships from Southern
ports to Liberia. Some of our am
bitious and discontented negroes
may be in earnest in the movement,
but the carpet baggers are doubtless
projecting for a big steal. If they should
succeed in establishing a line of steamers
to Africa we apprehend they would ulti
mately bring more wild Africans to the
South than they would convey civilized
negroes from the South to tho wilds of
Africa. The business would be under
the entire control of tho Radical carpct
> gers, who would see in every negro
emigrant a Radical voter lost, and in
every wild African immigrant a Radical
voter gained. Tbero is, however, very
little prospect that the present Demo
cratic Congress will favor this method of
Africanizing the South.
Delano’s Worthy Successor.
Old Zach Chandler's appointment as
Secretarv of the Interior Department is
a bombshell in the Radical camp, and
meets with almost unanimous condenina
tion from the decent portion of tho Radi
cal press. The rum old Michigander is
said by the Washington Star to bo ‘*in
fine spirits,” though he was sober enough
to put in an appoarance at the Depart
ment on Tuesday morning, where he
remained for a few Lours, receiving
the congratulations of his friends, among
whom was Col. John H. Mosby. Old
Zach says that when he It ft Michigan for
Washington he had no more idea of
being invited to a seat in tho Cabinet
than of going to heaven, Elijah-like, in a
chariot of fire, and that, consequently,
lie would return home the latter part of
this week to arrange his business and
bring on hiH family. He will return in a
week or ten days.
There is said to boa fluttering among
the clerks in tho department, it having
beojp whispered around that the new Sec
rotary will use the large patronage of the
oflice to get himself hack in the Senate
and promote Grant’s third term aspira
tions. A Washington dispatch says he
makes no secret of tho fact thnt the body
where for eightoon yours he did nothing
but howl alternate denunciations of the
rebels of the South and tho British lion
is the objective point of nil his thoughts
and acts.
The Settlement of the Chinese
Difficulty. —The question between
Groat Britain and China has been settled
at last, upon terms which not only secure
present peace, but promise to prevent
tioulAe in the future. Ainy^the Lo
ginning of the negotiations the Chinese
Government was willing to concede the
right of foreigners to travel in the in
terior, and to make proper reparation for
the outrages which gave rise to the
trouble; but, iu accordance with Chinese
policy, tho authorities there were unwill
ing to publish an edict on the subject,
oftloially promulgating tho treaty of
Tientsin, made in 1858, but never pub
lished in the Gazette. It is a point
strongly insisted upon by his Celestial
Majesty’s government that concessions
made to foreign powors shall be kept
► secret, the authorities fearing the wrath
of the people or dreading their contempt.
In tho present oaso publication was in
fact the one thing necessary to tho proper
enforcement of the treaty, and the British
negotiators have insisted that the terms
agreed upon should bo made public by
Chinese official authority. After consid
erable delay they have carried their
poiut v ftiid an edict has been published
in the olticiul gazette, referring to the
murder of Mr. Murgary, declaring the
right of Englishmen to travel through
the interior of tho country, and recpiiring
Chinese official personages to toko cog
nizance of troatios, their neglect or re
fusal to do which hns been a cause of
trouble in many cases.
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An Emhaiuiasski* CiTr.—-Commission-
L ers representing the city of Mobile, Ala
bama, are now in New York endeavoring
to effect au arrangement by which its
debt may become less burdensome. From
their statement it appears the total debt,
principal and interest, to bo paid in six
teen years, will be $4,415,800 (iG, being 25
per cent, of the total assessed value of the
mty. If held to this, the commissioners
say tho city will become hopelessly insol
vent and can never pay, and to help to
ward the settlement of these difficulties
-th<£_ Legislature of Alabama passed an act
giving tho Governor of the State author
ity to appoint three citizens of Mobile
as commissioners bo settle the city debt.
This act provides for the issue of $2,000,-
000 of t> per cent bonds, payable iu thirty
years from May 1, 1875, and creates a
first lien on the real estate belonging to
the city, as well as on the revenues of
the city.
The Macon Telegraph comes to us with
a flaming pictorial advertisement of the
Philadelphia centennial show, filling two
ttwbole pages of that paper. In a thrill
ing editorial entitled "The One Hun
■miMi Anniversary of American lude
ftendence,” the editors say :
H -‘The Telegraph to-day is almost a Cen
lenniat sheet. Aud we are not ashamed
Hf it- nay, rejoice in the good work of
Bromoting peace aud harmony through
*ut th<Ftimfts of this broad Union. Our
fathers barect their bosoms aud spilled
■ their hearts blood.” Ao., Ac.
We see no reason why our friends of
the I'tlegraph should he ashamed of the
big advertisement, if it is well paid for,
as we presume it is. As for the editorial
gush—well, no matter. Every one to
their taste.
Joe Brown Snubbed.— This from the
Washington correspondent of the Au
gusta Chronicle, does not corroborate
ike report v. had some days ago
tSat our thrifty ex -Governor, Joe Brown,
had been offered the Secretaryship of
the Interior, but declined to accept. The
writer says : “The Cabinet met at noon
on Saturday, but arrived at no definite
conclusion as to who would be Delano's
successor in tho luterior Department.
Joe Brown’s name was proposed, but was
promptly veted down, with the snubbish
remark of the ‘.Bobtail clam Yankee’ that I
no more Ackermans were wanted in the
l Cabinet.”
The Kulllonist* Mot Out or the Woods.
It is very evident from the tone of the !
bondholders’ organa in the North and ]
East that they do not regard their pur- ;
chased triumph in Ohio as any proof of
the weakness of the anti contractionists.
On the contrary, the canvass in Ohio has
developed a wide-spread and resolute de_
termination on the part of the people to
resist the money power, and to demand
of the government a halt in its ruinous
financial scheme for plun ering and op- j
pressing the producing and laboring ;
classes for the benefit of the money mon- j
opoliats and stock gamblers. The New
York Commercial Advertiser, a Wall
street organ and a zealous advocate of ;
the Radical policy for forcing a return
to specie payments, says:
“We are not altogether jolly over the
official returns froni Ohio. We discover
far more inti ition and repudiation than
undoubted popular conviction in the turn j
of the figures. It would be folly to say
that the heresy of Allen and Cary and
the Erie Convention has
been seriously repuLsed, much less stamp
ed out. We confess that the look of the
currency question is only partially im- j
proved by the Ohio result. Outside the
cities of Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleve
land, where the German voters turned
the tide, the soft money theory has made !
fearful strides. In the coal and iron j
districts, along and near the Ohio river, I
the changes against the Republican j
party are significant of what they may i
be in Western Pennsylvania, if not j
in the Eastern coal districts next !
month. We hope that Governor Hart- j
ranft will be re-elected, but there is no
certainty as to the result while the Erie
platform, backed by a most formidable
popular vote in Ohio, confronts them
Turning to our own State we are frank j
to say that unless the Republican and
Liberal masses make the question of
sound currency and inviolable public
faith on the State and Legislative tick
ets, from Buffalo to Montauk, the great
issue on the second of November, and
rally in full force to the polls, there is
imminent danger of a fatal “step back
ward.” The declaration by Tilden’s con
vention to the contrary is not to be
trusted. Tilden himself would go back
on this declaration in St. Louis, next
spring, if he could he made the nominee
for tho Presidency by the South
and West. His course in 1868 is
proof sufficient on this point.
Ho then assented to the vilest
planks of repudiation and disloyalty, dic
tated by George 11. Pendleton and Wade
Hampton, to defeat Mr. Chase and place
Governor Seymour in nomination. He
would do the same thing over, if the
South would trust him. But ho is prob
ably done for at St. Louis in any ovent.
Tho danger to the public faith will come
from the representative men of the
Democracy of New York, like Fernando
Wood and Sam Cox, who voted against
the redemption act last winter —so as to
be roady to fall on either side of the cur
rency issue iu 1876—and other men, like
Judge Church, all of whom really sympa
thized with the party in Ohio, aud would
have left tho “hard money” plank out of
tho Syracuse platform, if consulted.
A shrewd Democratic observer at Syra
cuse expresses his belief that two
thirds the convention really sympathized
with Allen aud Cary. And if Tilden suc
ceeds in carrying his ticket, aud also the
Legislature, these men will come forward
ready to do anything the South and West
may d< maud of them, whether Tilden or
Church be made their candidate, or
neither. It is asked why, after the victo
ry over repudiation in Ohio, wo have any
fears in other quarters? We answer,
vifitojai4s not conclusive.
The leaders in Ohio are not cast down,
‘ nor their following discouraged. They
have a world of backing and sympathy,
not only South and West, but in Penn
sylvania, aud, as wo have shown, in New
York. Iu a party sense, this sympathy
has been fairly won, as the figures
prove.”
After a survey of the figures showing
that on the financial issue in Ohio, the
Democrats carried several of tho strong
Republican counties, and that the defeat
of Allen was owing to the defection of
tho Germans and the influences brought
to bear by tlio contractionists in the
largo cities—Cincinnati, Columbus and
Cleveland, the Advertiser admits that the
prospect of a Radical triumph in Penn
sylvania next month are very discour
aging. “Inflation and repudiation” be
ing tho real Democratic issue, “it is easy
to see,” says the Advertiser , “that the ex
cellent and popular Governor of Penn
sylvania has no easy task for re-election.
His friends must fight hard, as he will
fight, to bring out a full vote, and to
combat tho mischievous declarations of
the Erie platform.”
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire.
The prevailing opinion is that in getting
old Zachariah Chandler for Secretary of
the Interior, vice Columbus Delano, in
voluntarily resigned, the country has
swapped the devil for a witch. The New
York Tribune, which used to put up with
almost auy kind of a Radical appoint
ment, is utterly digusted at Zach’s eleva
tion to a Cabinet position. The editor
says:
“ With the single exception of the
nomination of Shepherd as a District
Commissioner after Congress had abolish
ed the entire District Government in
order to get rid of him, this is probably
the very worst appointment General
Grant ever made. The choice is a gross
outrage. The personal unlitness of Mr.
Chandler for auy high place in the public
| service is so notorious that it would be
folly to ignore it. His unfitness for the
Department of the Interior, honeycomb
ed as it is with frauds and scandals, is
simply monstrous.”
All very true. But the Tribune ought
to know that the greater a man’s “per
sonal unfitness for any high place in the
public service” the more he assimilates to
Grant himself, and the stronger his
claims on the Presidents favor.
It is hinted from Washington that tho
President will place Gen. Humphries on
the retired list, so as to promote Bab
cock, his “man Friday" and Fidus Acha
tes, to be chief of the corps of army
engineers. The latter’s present position,
says the Nashville American, is that of
chief cook and bottle-washer at the
YVhite House. He is the President’s
trainer, in fact, if not indeed “the gov
ernment.” No man knows better how
many fingers of true inwardness his Ex
cellency spiritually requires, and when to
veil him from the public gaze and “put
him in his little bed” with his boots on.
Iu the heavy military budget of Ger
many tho pay of the soldiery figures
largely ouly iu the totals. A Berlin let
ter says that the only ration which a pri
vate soldier receives in peace is 1 j 18s. of
coarse bread. His pay is 36 thalers a
year, or about 9s. a month ; from this a
deduction of 1 j groschen, or about ltd.,
a day is made for messing, and to this
is added an allowance made by govern
ment, which vanes according to the gar
rison, and is fixed quarterly. The Lon
don News says that no other nation
spends so much upon the clothing of its
army as Great Britain.
; Unveiling of the Statue of Stouewail
Jackson.
To morrow the statue of Stonewall
.Jackson will be unveiled in Richmond,
Virginia, with imposing ceremonials wor
thy of oge of the most interesting and
touching events in the history of this or
any other country. The most extensive
preparations have been made, triumphal
arches will be erected in the streets on
the entire route of the procession, in
which it is said twenty-five thousand
persons will join. Public and private
buildings will be decorated with flags and
evergreens. The Norfolk Virginian says :
“The ceremonies will be imposing,
the throng that will gather to witness
and to be part of them will be more
imposing yet, and still, the occasion
is greater than either the ceremonies or
the vast crowds which shall that day do
honor to the famous Stonewall soldier.
“Never before in this country or in any
country was such a tribute paid to worth
and virtue as this offering from the Bri
tish Islands to a defeated leader of a
wasted State. Never in all times did any
race of mankind clasp hands across an
ocean and bow together in reverence be
fore a monument, raised not by wealth or
power, nor dedicated to success and
mastery, but raised by the free will of
generous sympathy and dedicated to a
genius that triumphed in disaster and a
virtue that rose superior to fortune to be
forever famous in defeat. Columns of
Trajan and of Bonaparte, Arches of
Triumph and Temples of Victory have
risen ere now only to tell through molten
bronze and sculptured marble the same
ghastly tale that grins from the pyramid
of skulls built by the Tartar Khan or the
Dahomey Butcher.
“Stately piles like Blenheim, fair de
mesnes like Strathfieldsaye, have reward
ed by tax-wrung millions the labors of
conquerors, or expressed the gratitude of
nations to their own leaders.
“But, this statue is of no conqueror, the
gift of no vanity nor even gratitude, the
mumorial of no gain won by the sword.
It comes from our race in the old world,
to claim here in the new a part in our
just pride in the simple virtue and the
steadfast heart that makes Stonewall
Jackson a name. England and Wales,
Ireland and Scotland, and the lesser isles
that ring them round the land of our
forefathers, sends to us, their kinsmen, of
Virginia, this monument to stand by
Washington, in token that our Jackson,
too, is counted in that shining roll where
Hampden s name if found, and Nelson’s,
Falkland’s and Havelock’s, Sidney’s and
tho Bruce, and a great company beside,
famous by land and sea.
“Their blood is ours, and Virginia
claims her kindred, whether they sleep
in the gorgeous abbey or the quiet
churchyard, or boneath the shifting
waves. Now England comes to claim
kindred with our countryman who lies
“at Lexington, in the Valley of Vir
ginia,’’ and to offer to his memory a
tribute which honors her while it pro
claims honor to him.”
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Grant’s Last aud Worst Appointment.
There has been much speculation
among politicians of all parties in regard
to the possible reasons that induced
Grant to givo the position of Secretary
of the Interior to that reprobate old
Michigander, Zich Chandler. As yet no
satisfactory conclusion has been arrived
at. Some are of the opinion that he
owes his appointment to the fact that he
is such a relentless hater of the South.
Others think he owes his elevation to his
wealth. Still others maintain that
his appointment was in consideration
of his being an out and out third termer,
and tho best judge of whisky, after
Grant, in Washington. We are of the
opinion that the national smoke-stack
was governed in his selection by a course
of reasoning similar to that relied on by
the dealer in dogs. Ho had sold to a
neighbor a dog, which he guaranteed to
be a first rate coon dog. The purchaser,
upon trial, fiudiug that the dog
didn’t know a coon’s track from a
wagon track, insisted upon canceling the
trade on the ground that the dog was
not what he had been represented to be.
“Ain’t a good coon dog ?” inquired the
original owner. “No,” replied the de
luded purchaser, “he’s just about the
meanest, no account cuss I ever saw.”
“Well, said the dog jockey, “I thought
he might be good for something, and as
I bad tried him for all kinds of game,
and tried him for a yard dog and found
that he warn’t good for anything else, I
thought he must be good for coons.”
There was something like logic in that,
but then Grant knows old Zack like a
book, and he ought to know that he isn't
even good for Indians—that he is not fit
to fill the position vacated by his friend
Delano, that of head chief of the ban
ditti of thieves and swindlers known as
the Indian ring.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, on the next decision day, will
probably render its opinion on the con
stitutionality of the enforcement act of
1870, which Congress passed to protect
the colored voters in the South, and
under the 6th section of which numerous
arrests aud imprisonments have been
made. The case before the Court is
known as the Grant (Louisiana) parish
cases, where some eighty persons were
I arrested for “conspiring, combining aud
confederating” to deprive certain citi
zens of the United States of the exercise
of the elective franchises. Some of the
defendants were convicted on several
counts of the indictment, but on a motion
for arrest of judgment aud on an appeal
to the United States Circuit Court, Asso
ciate Justice Bradley and Circuit Judge
Wood were divided in opinion, and on
this division the case comes up to the
Supreme Court on the constitutionality
of the act of Congress. The case was
elaborately argued at the last term, and
the decision is awaited with much in
terest. The counsel for the defendants
rely mainly upon the opinion of the
Supreme Court in what is known as the
slaughter-house case, for a favorable one
on this.
The Public School System —The
New York Herald puts it plainly and con
cisely thus: “The public schools have
nothing to do with religious training.
They are secular, and, in the broad sense,
political institutions. It is of the utmost
importance to the security of liberty and
intelligent government that all the chil
dren of the community shall have a com
mon school education. The possession
of an elementary education enables men
and women to make an easier and better
living, and thus checks pauperism, which
is one of the dangers of civilized nations.
It is undoubtedly a help toward moral
living and self-restraint, and thus checks
the increase of crime. It is also a means
to help the citizen to vote more intelli
gently on a public policy, and thus saves
the nation from costly blunders. These
are considerations which justify the
existence of public schools. None of
them require religious teaching within
these schools, and moreover, in this
country this is carefully and almost uni
versally done by the different Christian
denominations in Sunday schools, which
now have religions instruction as their
main object," ,
The .November Elections.
The most of these elections will be
held November 2J, at the same time that
we vote in Pennsylvania, but several
States are yet to vote this month. Y es
terday Oregon elected a member of
Congress, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of George A. La Dow,
Democrat, who was chosen at the last
Oregon election. Besides Henry YVar
ren, Republican, and Lafayette Lane,
Democrat, the candidates of the regular
parties, there is an Independent candi
date in the field. Mr. George W. Whit
ney. Y'esterday Colorado also held
an election for members of the Con
vention to frame the Constitution
for that State, preparatory to her admis
sion to the Union next year. On Octo
her 30th Missouri will vote for or against
the ratification of the new constitution
adopted by her convention last August.
The chief elections are, however, held
on the first Tuesday 2dj of November.
A large number of States on that day
choose members of their Legislatures
and county and municipal officers,
whilst in six States where State officers
are to be chosen the elections are of im
portance. These six States are Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Wis
consin, Minnesota and New York—all
having Governors to elect excepting
New York, where the chief oflice to be
filled is Secretary of State. At the last
general elections in each of these States,
excepting Minnesota, the Democrats’”
were successful, and in order to judge
intelligently of the prospects of each
at the approaching November election,
we will give a brief statement of the
elections in each State.
In Pennsj ivania, last year, Lieutenant
Governor Latta, Democrat, was elected
by 4,679 majority, the temperance party
then, as now, having a third candidate in
the field, Benjamin Rush Bradford, who
got 4,632 votes. Governor Hartranft is
the Republican candidate for re-election
as Governor; Judge Cyrus L. Pershing
the Democratic candidate, and Robert
Audley Browne the temperance candi
date. For State Treasurer, the other
State office to be filled, the candidates
are Henry Rawle, Republican, Victor E.
Piollet, Democrat, aud Elijah F. Fenny
packer, temperance.
The Massachusetts election is also for
Governor, that official being chosen annu
ally. William Gaston, the present Gov
ernor, who is the candidate of the Demo
crats for re-election, was chosen last year
by 7,032 Democratic majority over
Thomas Talbot, Republican. Mr. Talbot,
who had been Governor for an unexpired
term, was a strict temperance advocate,
and was opposed by the entire liquor in
terest, their opposition not being made
against the balance of the Republican
State ticket, which was chosen by majori
ties ranging from 12,000 to nearly 23,000.
This year the Republican candidate for
Governor is Alexander H. Rice, of Bos
ton, and the Labor Reformers and Tem
perance party have also placed tickets in
the field, so that the Massachusetts vo
ters will have four candidates to choose
from.
In Maryland the Democrats have uni
formly carried the elections for many
years past, their majority at the last
general State election, that of 1873, when
a State Comptroller was chosen, having
been 19,983. This year the Democratic
candidate for Governor is Johu Lee Car
roll, who was nominated by the Demo
cratic Convention after a bitter contest.
Accusations of corruption were made
against his supporters, who were also
charged with not conducting the affairs
of the State government as they ought,
and the party divided, a faction, the
fctrengtli of which is-not very clearly es
timated, forming a coalition with the
Republicans, and nominating J. Morri
son Harris as the Democratic Reform and
Republican candidate. Theie is a very
active canvass going on in Maryland, the
reform question overshadowing all others.
In New York the Democrats elected
Governor Tilden last year by 50,317 ma
jority. This year the candidates for
Secretary of State, the chief office to be
voted for, are John Bigelow, Democrat,
and Frederick W. Seward, Republican.
Much of the interest in the New York
election is just now absorbed in the con
test in New York city for the local ofiices,
where the various parties opposed to
Tammany Hall have united upon a ticket
in opposition to the one already put in
the field by that organization.
In Minnesota, fhe Republicans elected
Chief Justice McMillan last year by 9 885
majority, and Governor Davis, in 1873,
by 5,519 majority. There is a Governor
to be chosen this year. In Wisconsin, in
1873, the Democrats and Liberal Repub
licans were successful over the regular
Republicans, and elected Governor Tay
lor by 15,412 majority, and a‘Governor
is also to be chosen this year. Minnesota
and YVisconsin are what have heretofore
been known as “Granger” States, and in
each in 1873 the “Patrons of Husbandry”
or “Grangers” were allied with the suc
cessful party. Asa political force, how
ever, the “Grangers” are not now regard
ed as of so much importance as they
were some time ago, and this may affect
the elections next month.
These six States will hold the most im
portant of the November elections, from
a political standpoint. In New Jersey
there will be a member of the Legisla
ture chosen, and their selection is of
local importance, owing to the legisla
tion rendered necessary by the recent
adoption of amendments to the New
Jersey constitution.
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Among the latest engineering projects
is a proposition to flood the Desert of
Sahara by opening a channel from the
Atlantic Ocean, and turning it into an
inland sea. And now comes a gentle
man who suggests that this project fer
utilizing the Desert of Sahara will throw
the earth off its present balance ! Just
how serious a disturbance there will be
can be ascertained, he says, upon find
ing the actual length and depth of the
desert. Meanwhile, he leaves room for
the imagination to picture the earth
tumbling through space and seriously
interfering with the equilibrium of the
other inhabited planets of the universe.
This, remarks the Chicago Tribune, is a
suggestion for the Millerites. They will
find, in addition to any scientific testi
mony they may be able to collect on the
subject, their position strengthened by
“Mother Shiptons” prophecy of the
end of the world in 1881. If we are
not disappointed in this cheerful prog
nostication, there is a chance that some
of us now living may be in at the death.
The Scandal Suit Juby’s Extra Pay.
—The memorial of the jurors in the suit
of Tilton agaiqst Beecher, asking for ex
tra compensation under a recent act of
the Legislature, was transmitted to the
King's County Board of Supervisors in
Brooklyn yesterday. It is signed by all
the jury except Mr. Whelan, who says he
is in favor of his associates receiving ex
tra pay, but does not like to become an
applicant for it in his own behalf. The
document states that the trial began on
January 4 and ended on July 2 ; that for
six months the jurors “were prevented
from properly attending to their own
business that they actually served for
124 days each, and received only $248
each for their services. A reading of the
memorial was prevented by a sudden ad
journment of the board until November
\.—N. T. Tribune, 20th.
TME STATE FAIR.
, An Well aOther ThSo*—So** Prefuto
rlal Remarks—The i’alr a4 U Sar
ronntiings—Tbr Slate Shows sad Their
AliarhiaeKe—Hnverly’s Trsahmloara—
John Thai.a and the Brown Hoaw—
ltlding ona Rail.
I [Editorial tVrc-ipondeiice of the Morning
News. J
At Home, or. Elsewhere, Oct. 24.
i raEFATOEUi— AS A GENERAL THING.
It is so exceedingly easy to palm off a
date—(please pardon the far-fetchedness
of the pun for a date should come off a
a palm)—upon the readers of a modern
newspaper, that, after consideration, I
think I shall venture to have nothing to
do wiftii -jgtes, particularly as the mat
ters an jjßngs to which I shall allude
take of a confused jumtffo of
pleasant reminiscences instead of a suc
cession of hours and days. The admirable
letters and telegrams from yodr special
correspondent in Macon leave me little
| to write abont in relation to the more
prominent events in connection with the
: State Fair, aud I shall not attempt
ito supplement them even by an
elaborate attempt to fill in the
: details which may have escaped his
1 untiring energy. Consequently, if what
follows may Seem to be somewhat
disconnected—not to say dislocated—the
| fact must be attributed to the embar
rassment which one naturally feels in a
poor attempt to gather grain in a field
which has been already gleaned.
A COMPARATIVE FAILURE.
First, and foremost, I must say that I
was diasappeiutc-d in the State Fair. The
display was neither as large nor as varied
as the friends *of the State Society had
expected to see, nor was the crowd as
large as might naturally have been ex
pected. These are facts that I
am sorry to chronicle, but they are
| true —so true, indeed, that a majority of
those whom I questioned, in order to see
i if their impressions coincided with mine,
went still further and in the most em
phatic manner pronounced the Fair a
humiliating failure. To this, however,
Ido not agree. It was not a failure, but
then I will not say it was a success.
There are several plausible reasons why
this is the case, but it would be useless,
and, perhaps, invidious to allude to them
here.
MORALITY AND SIDE-SHOWS.
It was understood, I believe, from the
start, that this particular exhibition was
to be run upon high moral principles,
and I was led to believe, from the tenor
of the debates and resolutions of the
Convention, that everything not abso
lutely industrial, agricultural or mechan
ical, was to be rigidly excluded. It
is true, horse-racing and agricultural
horse-trots were prohibited ; but I was
much astonished to observe two side
shows in full blast upon the grounds. I
visited then. Tor the purpose of discover
ing if they •/ ere up to the usually high
standard of shows of their character, and
I found that they were —if not more so.
I observed, moreover, that the three
card monte and brass jewelry
lottery establishments attached thereto
were even more attractive to the
averago agriculturist than the charms of
the fat woman or the healthy develop
ments of the Kentucky giant. These
worthy people—(the f. w. and thek. g.)—
are objects of curiosity no doubt, but
they are not nearly so curious as the deft
ness with which a verdant Granger ‘can
pick up the w rong card. There is some
thing abnormal about the whole business.
TRIO as THAT ARE VAIN.
That they are more moral in their ten
dencies than u horse-trot, however, I
not the least doubt, for it was observable
that whenever any one with a ribbon
badge came in, the three cards disappear
ed, the lottery show ca3e took the shape
of a stereopticou wherein views of all
parts of the world were to be seen,
and the wheel of fortune was mysteri
ously made to represent the changes of
the seasons, the signs of the zodiac and
the phases of the planets. YVho will pre
sume to say that I have not gained valua
ble information by attending that partic
ular session of this particu! .r side-show?
THE ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENT.
As I said before, I shall not attempt
any cataloguing—that already having
been done to a very interesting extent by
Major Herbert; but I desire to pay a
passing tribute to the artistic taste and
judgment of whoever had the arrange
ment of the articles on exhibition. But
for this the display would have been
meagre and uninteresting indeed. A
feature of the exhibition, and a
very attractive one to me, was
the poultry show, which is said to
have been the finest ever made in the
South. It was certainly large and inter
esting, and of a kind calculated to make
the mouth of the chickefi-fancier water ?
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
One thing that is no doubt calculated
to damage future exhibitions of the
State Agricultural Society is the
fact that there is a vague idea
among the people who were
present, and who took the trouble to
mark the drift cf matters, that the Fair
was made the occasion and the excuse of
working up the centennial and certain
other schemes not altogether of an
agricultural character. What ground
there is for such a belief, how
ever vague it may be, I leave your read
ers to judge; but that the “gush” ele
ment was unpleasantly prominent is not
to be denied.
A FINE ENTERTAINMENT.
About the most pleasant feature of
Fair week to me was the nightly per
formance of ilaverley’s Minstrels. I
think it may be oafely said that this com
pany is the finest, without exception,
that ever took the road in this country.
It is composed of gentlemen who are
devoted to their profession, and who
take a pride in making manifest the fact
that a man may be a negro minstrel and
yet a perfect gentleman in every sense cf
the word. Mr. Barlow, the leading
comedian of the troupe, is a gentleman
of education and refinement, and in
his delineations of negro character is
unsurpassed. He is a true artist,
and in his line a great one, and
I am not alone in that opinion. Mr.
Asa Watson, of the Macon Telegraph, who
is a critic of no ordinary ability, and
conscientious withal, says in a notice of
the troupe, that, he considers Mr. Bar
low’s rendition of “Jonah and de Whale”
as exceeding anything in genuine humor
he has ever witnessed, and adds that the
personation of “Old Black Joe” by the
same artist, is “equal in its character to
any action of Joseph Jefferson •in fiis
great character of ‘Rip Van YVinkle.’’’
JOHN THOMAS.
The hotels wrre unduly crowded, of
course, buL notwithstanding this the
Browns managed to keep things up to
the old Rtandard in their caravansery.
John Thomas, the well-known head
waiter, was on hand, and by his prompt
ness, tact and experience, succeeded in
keeping the thousand and one guests
from devouring each other bodily.
J. T. is most thoroughly
at home upon the floor of
a dining-room, and knows where to
place everybody in the best and most com
fortable seat. So much for John Thomas.
SUNNING ON TIME.
I returned -ome in the day train con
trolled by Mr. R. J. Courtenay, and am
indebted to him for vinous and unusual
courtesies. We were delayed an hour
and a half by the breaking down of the
locomotive cf the up-freight train.
The time, however, was very cleverly
made up by Mr. Charles Patterson, the
engineer of our train. In doing so, he
frequently let his locomotive go at the
rate of fifty-one miles an hour. There
was but one brake upon the train, and
when that is taken into consideration,
together with the fact that he never
missed his “ stops” more than twenty or
thirty feat, I think we must give Patter
son the credit of knowing how to drive a
locomotive.
THE BRAKES PUT ON.
Speaking of stops reminds me that I
should have made minp at the last station.
It is not too late, however, as Savannah
is just in sight. Therefore consider your
self, traditionally,gentle reader, as having
been relieved. J. 0. H
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
It el urn of the Wanderers—An Executive
Powwow—The War Senator From
Michigan Newspaper Dodge*— The
Poor Nomads—Oils Podrlda— A Healthy
Board—Visitors to .Mecca.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, October 21, IS7.">.
Sam Grant has returned again and his
ragged regiment are pouring in after him
rapidly. Hts peregrinations have ex
panded his intellect, cost him nothing,
and enabled him to provide for some of
his crowd in the West.
The excitement that has existed over
the Secretaryship of the Interior culmi
nated on Tuesday last. Old Cam., of
Pennsylvania, with an assorted delega
tion of Pennsylvanians, assailed the
White House on one side, old Ram., of
Minnesota, was urged by the Northwest
delegation on another flank, while Zach
Chandler, the big-footed pile-driver
of Detroit, backed by the Union Repub
lican Congressional Executive Commit
tee, of which he is President, Joe
Holt and Jim Edmunds, the Postmaster
of this village, held possession inside.
After a few refreshing libations of the
“crooked," furnished by Ben, direct from
Kentucky, Sam told Zach that the eyes
of the nation were on him and the coun
try would be ruined unless he accepted
the vacant chair in the Cabinet. Zach
wiped his proboscis on a twenty-cent
ypsilantio handkerchief, dusted his paw
on the seat of his pants, and, extending
it to the third-term candidate, said:
“Sam, I’m yer man; put ’er there.’’
Babcock then got out the Executive hack
and trotted off for old Judge Carter, fol
lowed by a crowd of broken-winded news
paper men eager to get the news. From
this throng several of the prominent Bo
hemians were missed. Adams, of the
New York World, and Ramsdell, of the
Tribune , were on top of the Washington
Monument taking observations, through
an old telescope, into the Executive
kitchen window. Preston, of the Her
ald, was blacked up and filling the
place of an African in waiting,
draining the news and the glasses, while
old man Gobright was flattened out under
the sofa on which old Fish’s form re
clined. Babcock got back with Carter,
Zick was sworn, the fifty cents paid, and
congratulations were just commencing,
when a scene ensued. The contraband
was seen to dart out of the door, followed
by a cadaverous stranger, who eeled out
from beneath the sofa, slipping betwixt
Zach’s legs, making him perform a salaam
before his excellency. “Treason, mur
der, fire,” were cried, the African slid
down the banisters, the cadaverous rolled
down the stairs, the watchman gave pur
suit, the avenue was reached, police, dogs
and niggers joined in the chase. Thir
teenth street was reached amid fearful
excitement and wild cries of the ad
ministration having been assassinated,
and iD ten minutes the news was in
New York that ex-Senator Zach Chandler
of Michigan, father-in-law of ex-Repre
sentative E. Hale, of Maine, wet nurse of
the third-term baby, and God-father of
the Radical party, was appointed to
Delano’s desexted seat. After the party
at the White House got simmered down
and liquored, the Cabinet was called
to session, arid after some notes of travel
and indiscriminate cursing of newspapers
in general, Zach went for Buell heavy.
He also announced his solemn intention
of using up every Michigander in town
who went back on him in the election,
and every clerk who failed to come down
with the stamps to the committee. To
which all responded amen. Then the
marine band being sent for, music sweet
broke on the morning air, and the clerks
of the Interior Department were given a
half holiday to driuk the health of their
new Secretary at their own expense. The
deed was done, and Cowan waltzed away
upon his curricle. The
BOARD 01? HEALTH
will now be called in to remove the corpses
that Zach will make, and will have a time
of it. 'l'he said board is a nice adminis
tration luxury. It consists of two hy
drargerous allopaths, one spectacled ho
meopath, one diuretic hydropath, a broken
down soap boiler and a sienna colored
nigger, the latter being also President of
Mr. Howard’s university and professor of
miasmatics, tautology, lleabotomy and
peanambutics in the same institution.
About a dozen inspectors are employed
by this board ; some to disinfect govern
ment officials, and others to gather up
supplies of meat, vegetables and fish for
the board by the pretence of condemning
it. One of these chaps tried to rake in a
load of North Carolina watermelons a
couple of months ago, but after a half
dozen mountain sweets were busted un
der his ear, he crawled out of the rivor
and went home to dry under the impres
sion that those melons needed no inspec
tion; that like Bristow’s baggage they
were above reproach. A barrel of car
bolic acid might be put over old
COMMISSIONER SMITH,
and not remove the odor cast upon him
by the Red Cloud investigation. But he
is going out soon to the little homestead
accumulated by honest toil, ala Ely
Parker. Yet he keeps on in the good
work, and has sent out an assistant ex
horter of Newman’s church with a load
of pocket bibles for the Utes, who will
be followed soon by Custer, chief
of the educational division of the Indian
office, with light reading, agricultural re
ports, Congressional records, Ac., for the
Apaches. Old Capron should be brought
back from Japan and sent among
the Comanches to bend their stub
born minds to the plow. The
phalanx of warriors now fattening on
palmetto cabbage at St. Augustine are
to be sent as pupils to the “Oh Golly”
college to be taught theology and the
rule of one by Prof. Gleason, to prepare
them for missionary work in the Indian
Territory, while Drew will be walnut
barked and his flowing locks inked to be
sent among the menomonies of his native
Wisconsin. All contributions for these
various purposes can be sent to Mr.
Smith, who will put them where they will
do most good.
JEWELL AND OTHERS.
The snowy-crested son of Connecticut
has made his chief clerk, Knowlton,
Postmaster at Bristol, Conn.; bonds
$30,000; P. T. Barnum, showman,
bondsman. The Governor having mar
ried his daughter into the great importing
house of Phelps, Dodge & Cos , has the
coast clear to manipulate for Guberna
torial and then Senatorial honors. The
President has been trying to coax Ed
munds, of Vermont, to accept the United
States Judgeship, in order to get him
out of the Senate. Old Edmunds is a
Tartar, and proposes to fight many of
the appointments before the Senate this
winter. Bob McFeely has been jumped
from Major and A. C. S. to Brigadier
General and Commissary General
over seven officers who ranked fhim.
Beckwith, of Vermont, Lieut. Col. and
A. C. S, will fight the confirmation, and
Edmunds is backing him heavily. Benet
has been jumped to chief of ordnance
over the heads of seven other officers and
they all propose to fight it. Commodore
D. Ammen has been reappointed Chief
of the Bureau of Navigation and a list of
Bear Admirals and Commodores propose
to fight this. Chandler will have to be
confirmed, Duel! will have to be put
through and a host of others, while dis
appointed Camerons, Shermans and Win
dom’s will have a word to say in the con
test.
* olla podbida.
Orville Grant has gone into the lumber
business in Maryland and Virginia. He
has, it is said, received some flattering
contracts from the Navy Department.
He has made himself well to do in the
world, and if Sartoris can manipulate a
match for him with Miss Burdett Coutts,
we will find that the prize for Grant dele
gates in the convention will be SI,OOO a
head, and third term be assured.
Belknap is smiliDg over the Senatorial
prospect in lowa. The Des Moines sol
diers’ convention and Grant’s speech
made him all right. He has just got
through appointing a number of Lieu
tenants in the army, and has strengthened
himself and master thereby.
Senator Bobertson, of South Carolina,
floats around here behind two Abdallah
colts worth $1,500, and fives in style at
the Ebbitt, while his coadjutor, Patter
son, has cheap lodgiDgs on Twelfth street
and walks the pave like a plebian.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is here, and
rides around in Grant's landau, His son
is a partner of Fred’s in the banking
business. He blows considerably about
“what we did in Ohio.” He says noth
ing of the thousands spent, or the emi
gration induced by the contest.
Senators Jones and Conover are both
here. The latter is manipulating same
Florida appointments. A successor to
; the festive Drew must be appointed, and
some special agents made for election
eering purposes. Ex-Senator Yulee, of
the same State, is also here.
Boss Shepherd has built one hundred
and twenty-six houses this year, and
still carries the District Government in
his pocket. The latest of the tricks is
laying brick pavements. How much
heavy travel a soft brick roadway will
; stand no one can say.
A number of Canadian Indians and run
away negroes, who were put through by
; the underground railroad in the old days,
! as well as a number of repentant bounty
jumpers, want to be removed to the
United States. They should be sworn
into the Union League, and located in
some State considered doubtful by the
Radicals.
Norman Wiard, father of the Wiard
gun and friend of Secretary Robeson,
has gone into bankruptcy for $270,000.
Persons were surprised to find the sum
so small. His assets are some claims
against the government, some advertis
ing pictures, several autograph letters
from Robeson, an Esquimaux dog pre
sented him by Williams when Senater
from Oregon, several caveats on other
people’s patents, and some empty
bottles.
Stickney has been appointed United
States Attorney for the Northern Dis
trict of Florida, vice Drew resigned.
How’s that?
“Cyclops.”
LETTER FROM EATONTON.
An Introduction—The Business of the
Town—lmprovements, Etc.— Eatonton
as a Cotton Market.
[Special Corresponder.ce ot the Morning News.]
Eatonton, October 23, 1875.
INTRODUCING MYSELF.
K., the former correspondent of the
News at this point, having retired to the
shades of his “truly rural residence,”
where he expects to spend so much of
his time as to be unable to keep up with
affairs here, has deputized me to stand
in his shoes, and send you an occasional
letter, of which appointment receive
now the first fruits.
RESURRECTION OR GALVANIZATION.
If ever there was an instance of resur
recting or galvanizing a dead town, cer
tainly Eatonton affords one. For some
time after the war she did not near con
trol the trade of her own county. She
shipped some cotton and bought some,
but a great deal of the staple went from
Putnam, to Madison, to Greensboro, to
Milledgeville, and some was hauled on
wagons as far as Macon. This, too, a
good while after the railroad to this point
had been put again to running The
few stores that were here had such small,
incomplete stocks, and sold their gcods
at such exorbitant prices, that it drove
purchasers to other pladfes. The fact is
the people seemed to have lost every
spark of spirit or energy. Not a store,
nor a dwelling of any importance was
erected till about 1871. At that time, if
I remember correctly, Mr. Wiley C. An
derson bought an old wooden building
that was next above Mr. J. Gerding’s
present stand, pulled it down, and re
placed it with a brick store. A year or
so afterward, Mr. T. Ward built another
brick store, just above Anderson. This
store is now owned by Mr. Frank
Leverett. The ball was now started.
Messrs. Davis Brothers built next to
Leverett, and Mr. W. R. Respess next to
the Davises. This last reached another
house that had been vacant, and this
vacant building was now converted into a
store. There, you see, were five new
stores where none stood before.
TWO FIRES.
I am by no means sura that my chro
nology is exactly correct, but I am sure
of the substantial truth of my narrative.
In, I think. 1871 or ’72, a fire'broke out
at what was then. Adams’s corner, and
about half the stores on that
line, being stopped at an old brick store
owned by Mr. Leotard. On this burnt
liue Mr. G. W. Brown, Mr. J. L. Adams,
Mr. S. R. Lawrence built each one a
store, leaving part of the line without
houses for some time. In 1873 or ’74,
another fire destroyed all the stores on
that side of the square that escaped the
other conflagratian, leaving, I believe,
some of the walls of the old brick house
before mentioned. Temporary shanties
were soon erected, and business went on.
At this time the trade was increasing a
good deal, and our cotton market stif
fened so as to begin to interfere with
the neighboring towns. Last year Mr.
Frank Leverett erected a two-story bank
building of brick, Mr. E. Ward a brick
store adjoining, and next to him Mr. J.
Webb put up another of the same sort.
All these where there had not been any
store before. On the corner opposite
Mr. T. Harvey’s, Mr. McDade built a
two-story house. This was on the burnt
row. At the corner, which is at the other
end of said row, being Adams’s old cor
ner—Hudson & Thomas’s a long while
ago—Mr. C. D. Leonard built two brick
stores, larger than any that had been
built before that time. The first of these
on that corner is now occupied, and I be
lieve owned by Messrs. Walker <fc Respess,
the other still by Leonard.
BUILDING THE PRESENT YEAR.
Mr. C. D. Leonard has, during the
summer just over, finished another brick
store and has another that will be in two
or three days ready for the occupants,
who are ready to move in. Mr. W. T.
Hearn is rapidly building up two more
brick stores next to Leonard’s. Over
these two I learn that Mr. Frank Leverett
is to put a beautiful and commodius hall
—something that we have long needed,
as the one over the stores of Messrs.
Young is considered unsafe for large
crowds.
MORE OF THIS MATTES.
As to the cotton market, in the course
of the past two seasons, Eatontoa has
distanced Madison, Greensborough, Ac.,
completely. She has taken away Madi
son’s almost entire Jasper county trade,
and is now vigorously carrying the war
into Africa. Whereas Madison, situated
in Morgan county, used to take cotton
and trade from Putnam, in which Eaton
ton is situated. Now a great deal of
Morgan cotton comes to Eatonton and is
sold here. List Saturday week, Mr. Mil
ler, a Northern man, who bought a plan
tation in Morgan of Hon. Joshua Hill,
brought a wagon tram, ten in number,
loaded with cotton. The following Fri
day, I understand, he brought about
as many more. On same day, Dr. H. H
Cogbura, residing out on the Madison
road, though in this county, but who,
several years ago, in common with many
Putnam planters in-that direction, traded
almost entirely in Madison, brought in
about the same number of bales that Mr.
Miller did. All this, besides more, was
standing in one short street at the same
time. It was almost impossible to get
through it. There was other cotton, on
other streets, besides. Nearly a hundred
bales came in on the Madison road that
day—just one road, mind you.
ALL SOLD HEBE.
I think every bale of the lots of which
I have been speaking was sold here.
Nearly all the cotton brought is sold here.
Shipping by planters to commission mer
chants in Savannah has almost entirely
ceased, though, of course, the cotton is
sent by our purchasers to Georgia’s
beautiful and flourishing seaport, the
city founded by Oglethorpe. The fact
is, our cotton buyers pay such prices
that the planter who fails to see that it is
to his interest to sell here is blind indeed.
Prices rule in Eatonton sometimes higher
than any other place in the State outside
of Savannah, and there is very seldom a
time when any other place than Savan
nah pays higher than we do.
GOODS CHEAP.
And then our merchants have in*
creased so largely in number, in means,
in spirit and enterprise, that they offer
such inducements as bring purchasers
from all directions.
UP,
Eatonton is now a lice town instead of a
dead one , as it once was, and has, I firm
ly believe, entered upon a course of
prosperity and growth that will in a few
year* more make it entirely unlike its
former dull, worn out, decaying self.
Of all which I shall keep you duly in
formed.
Deputt K.
CITY AFFAIRS.
home skill and kntehpuise.
1 Visit to the Workshop* of the A. vV (3
R. It Cenipnny.
On Saturday last when in the vicinity of
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad depot, we
concluded to take a peep into the work
shops of the company. Mr. Charles Collins,
the master machinist, was present and
courteously voluhteered to pilot us through
the various “hives of industry” which adorn
the spacious enclosure. We were really
surprisod at the extent aud variety of tho
work accomplished by the compaov, not
knowing the magnitude of tho workshops.
The first specimen of the ability of the com
pany to turn ont superior work we noticed
was an elegant fruit car, which has just
been completed, and will be exhibited at
the Thomasville Fair. This car will be
used during tho winter season in
the transportation of fruits and veg
etables from Florida to the West. The car
is the same as an ordinary box car, with the
exception that it is lined or ceiled ou the in
side, in order to protect the perishable mat
ter from the weather. There are throe ven
tilators ou either side, and two in
the top, and one at either end.
It will thus be seen that there will
boa perfect current of air through
the car when in motion. These ventilators
are so arranged that, when necessary, they
cau be securely closed, aud the car con
verted into a close box. Covering the ven
tilator at either end are wire gauze screens,
to prevent sparks or cinders from the loco
motive passing in. The car is supplied with
the uecessary pipes to render the patent
brake in use on Western roads easy of ad
justment. The car is complete in every par
ticular, and will doubtless attract much at
tention at the Fair. We understand that
several others will be constructed should
the increasing trade demand it. The enter
prise of tho Gulf Road in this ysrticuliar
is commendable.
We also noticed in the car shop the Pull
man sleeping coach -Florida,’ which has been
undergoing a thorough renovatiou and re
painting, aud will be ready for the road in a
week or two. The work has boon done in a
most thorough aud excellent manner, and
when tho -‘Florida” is again seen ou tile
rails, it will be the equal in appear
ance to any sleeping car in tho country.
It will be furnished with new upholstery
throughout, a patent heater and a ladies’
dressing room. The painting aud varnish
ing are particularly fine, and reflect credit
upon the workmen engaged.
We understand that it is in contemplation
fo build two first-class passenger coachos,
and, from our observation of the facilities
of the company in this line, we are convinced
that the work cau be done in a mamier
equal to. if not superior to, similar work at
the North.
There at present several passenger
coaches and locomotives undergoing repairs,
and after being repainted inside and out
will be placed iu tho service of the compa
ny.
Mr. P. N. Raynal is the efficient fore
man of the car shops, and keeps everything
iu excellent trim. We noticed that tile other
departmen s are crowded with jobs of dif
ferent descriptions, and in fact the entire
enclosuro presents a scene of activity and
bustle—an evidence of the progressiveness
and energy of the company.
Relntion of the State to Education.
Amid the suffering that is everywhere
drawing forth groans of distress from our
people, the policy is bocomiug generally
adopted to deny ourselves all luxuries aud
secure only the necessities of life and of
society. It becomes a delicate questioh
sometimes to draw the dividing line be
tween luxuries and necessities. Iu regard
to education, we are all agreed as to its ab
solute necessity; but the quality furnished
*s as important to consider as is the quality
of our legislation, our markets, or our police.
Iu a recently printed essay by Hon. W. F.
Phelps, of Minnesota, on the relation of the
State to education, we find a page that is so
replete with strong common sense that we
present it to our readers. --.The present
juncture in our local educational affairs
lends it additional interest. The author
says:
“No greater mistake can be committed
than the adoption of measures character
ized by false notions of economy iu this
direction. The groat question is not, how
little can we get along with and exist ? but,
how much can we judiciously and wisely
expend iu tho education of the people ? No
investments aro so certain to yield an ade
quate return as those which aro carelully
made for the increase of intellectual and
moral power; for the rescue of the
young from ignorance, degradation,
and crime. With ail the faults that
wo so justly attribute to our systems”
of education in this country, it must be con
fessed that we get about ail that we are en
titled to, because all we pay for. The way
to obtain adequate results is to make ade
quate investments for education. We ven
ture the bold suggestion that when we judi
ciously expend ten times the amount now
annually exponded for school purposes, wo
shall be better satisfied than we now are,
both with the returns anil the investments.
The statesmanship which measures the
value of au educational institution
or system by the paucity of its ex
penditures rather than by the qual
ity and quantity of the fruits which
it brings forth, is totally incompetent to
shape the destinies of a great nation.- The
question should be, How much can be pro
fitably applied to the extinction of ignorance
and the exaltation of intelligence and
virtue? When this policy prevails, we shall
have little occasion to deplore the in
adequacy of our means or the poverty of
our results in national education. This is
no plea for extravagance or unnecessary ex
penditures. No investment can b j ex'iava
gant which is necessary. But so long as
education is llie creator of wealth, it is
necessary that wealth should be liberally
and wisely employed to advance education
and extinguish ignorance, the source of
poverty. So long as civilization is the pro
duct of culture, civilization must pay the
price necessary to render culture universal
through the extension and perfection of
our system of education. There can be no
surer sign of national degeneration and
decay than the policy of retrenchment
here.”
Bankrupt Kolb
We learn from Mr. McPherson, Clerk of
the United States District Court, that the
following proceedings in bankruptcy have
been filed in his office :
Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy filed
by—
A. C. Rogers, A. C. Rogers & Cos., Chaffin
Laurence, Thomas Branbury, George E.
Leighton, President; John S. Denham, Vico
President; S. E. Alexander, cashier of the
Mercantile Bank of St. Louis; David Ogle
tree and S. Griffin, petitioning creditors
against Wm. Lampliin and Henry G. Bean,
partners composing the firm of W. L. Lamp
kiu & Cos., Forsyth, Georgia, on which order
has been made for process to issue, return
able on the first Tuesday in November at
the Clerk’s office.
Petition in voluntary bankruptcy filed
by-
Jacob Russell, Macon, Bibb county, Ga.;
Wooten & Simmons, solicitors.
Petitions for final discharge filed by—
Wm. Lundy, Macon; Nisbett, Bacon A
Hines, solicitors.
William F. Kirksey, Lumpkffi, Stewart
county; li. F. Watts, solicitor.
Henry H. Spear, Bainhridge, Decatur
county; J. E. Donaldson, solicitor.
Wright Bradey, Americas, Sumpter coun
ty; A. Fort anil W. A. Hawkins, solicitors.
Daniel G. Proctor & James M. Ponder,
partners, composing the firm of Daniel G.
Proctor & Cos., and John L. Coleman, of
Forsyth, Monroe county; A. D. Hammond,
solicitor.
Theodore Heilbron, Cuthbert, Ga.
Isaac Carroll, Jeffersonville, Twiggs coun
ty ; J. D. Jones, solicitor.
James Bobbett, of Jefferson ville, Twiggs
county ; J. D. Jones, solicitor.
Hubbard Reynolds, of Griswoldville,
Twiggs county ; J. D. Jones, solicitor.
John H. Denson, Bullard Station, Twiggs
county ; J. D. Jones, solicitor.
Through Cotton.
During the cotton week ending Friday
night the Western Railroad of Alabama
brought to Columbus, en route to Savannah
and New York, 2,568 bales cjtton—o from
Mobile, 1,624 from Montgomery, 620 from
Selma, 297 from Opelika, West Point and
othor stations, 0 from Vicksburg, 0 from
New Orleans, 7 North and South Railroad.
The total through movement by th’s route
since September lis 5,840 bales—3o9 from
Mobile, 2,C00 from Montgomery, 1,3:56 from
Selma, 1.227 from West Point, 6pelika, etc.,
0 from Vicksburg, 95 from New Orleans, 23
by North and South Railroad. The total
movement last season was 11,781.
DuriDg the same time the Mobile and Gi
rard Railroad has brought up 1,098 through
bales, against 308.
Henby Wabd Beecher’s Guilt.— This
famous case, which has occupied the at
tention of the civilzed world, has inflicted
a terrible blow on Christianity and shock
ed the feelings of the virtuous in every
land. There is a diversity of opinion re
garding the guilt or innocence of the dis
tinguished pastor, and in all probability
there will never be a unanimous verdict
among the people. But as regards the
virtues of Dr. Tutt’s Liver Pills for the
cure of Bilious Diseases, Dyspepsia, Fever
and Ague, and the many ailments inci
dent to a torpid fiver, there is no doubt.
In every portion of the globe the jr€rdict
is that they are the best fiver Medicine
ever invented. Volumes might be written
on their virtues and cures, and read in
every family and produce no other blush
than the blush of health,
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
.Summary of the Week’s Dispatch**
A LOTTERY FRAUD.
Alexandria, October 23. —Th* report of
the investigation committee of the Montne
lfer lottery, made this evening, shows that
only seven t housand of the tickets were anld
in New York aud five thousand at the office
here. Seven thousand eight hundred ticket*
were put in the wheel after the drawing
among those gold at this office. The coml
mittee say that, notwithstanding there has
been a most glariug fraud practiced upon
ticket holders, your committee, from all the
evidence they could obtain, are unable to
designate the guilty parties ; but we think
those officers of the association to whom
were entrusted the details of the manage
ment of the Alexandria office have not ex
ercised that watchful care over their agents
as we think they should have done, and
through their negligence gross frauds
have been committed. We called upon
the president and directors of the associa
tion to make a thorough investigation of
the affairs of this office, and give the result
to the public. Mr. Metcalfe claimed to be
the regularly appointed agent of the asso
ciation through an appointment from the
secretary of tho association, Mr. Aistrop
but in fact while wo find Mr. Metcalfe was
the published agent of the association in
New York, yet we find that no moneys ever
were sent to him direct, and, as be state*, he
received all the moneys—some slo,ooo—
Mr. Alexander, who, we believe, was
really the general manager in that plaoc.
In regard to tho delay iu making this re
port, the committee say it was occasioned
by the faint hope that we had of obtaining
some information by which wo would be en
abled to present to you tho guilty parties
concerned in this fraud; but we are frank to
say, thus far all our efforts have been of no
avail.
PICKETT’S OBSEQUIES.
Richmond, October 24.—The funeral ob
sequies of Geu. George E. Pickett took
place this afternoon, aud the demonstration
was indeed worthy of that gallant soldier.
Tho entire poDulaee of Richmond, together
with thousands of visitors from other points,
wen out en masse. The streets along whieh
the procession moved were, iu many cases
so crowded with spectators that the move
ments ot tho line were greatly impeded.
Many private houses were tastefully draped
in mourning and flags at different points
halt-masted The procession was composed
of the First Regiment of Virginia as cort.
a corps of Cadets from the Virginia Mili
tary Institute at Mouticeilo, the Guards
from Charlottesville, the Attuck Guards’
colored, tho Virginia Grays, colored, the old
First Regiment Associates, veterans of the
Army of Northern Virginia, tho R ohmond
and Petersburg Commanderies of Knights
Templar, State ami city executive officers,
relatives aud friends of deceased, and many
prominent Virginians in carriages, together
with a long cortege of vehicles with private
citizens, the entire line beiug nearly a mile
aud a half in length. The remains were
conveyed to Hollywood cemetery, where
they were interred with appropriate ceremo
nies. It is estimated that not less than
forty thousand peoplo witnessed the proces
sion, and that there about five thousand in
the line.
THE STONEWALL STATUE.
Richmond, October 23.—The prepara
tions for tho ceremonies on Tuesday
next, in honor of the unveiling of the
Stonewall Jackson statue, are progress
ing most extensively, aud indicate that the
demonstration will be one of the grandest,if
not the grandest, ever witnessed in Rich
mond. It is estimated that the population
of Richmond on that day will bo nearly if not
doubled. Military and civic organizations
from different portions of the State, as well
as outside, have signified their intention of
beiug present, and tho colored military of
this city, in this case as iu that of General
Pickett’s obsequies, liavo asked aud received
permission to participate, and will Be as
signed positions in the grand pageant.
MOODY AND SAN KEY.
New York, October 24 The first of the
Moody and Sankey revivals was held at the
Brooklyn Rink this moruit.g. Tho building
was crowded, fully ten thousand people be
ing present. Rev. Dr. Buddington opened
with prayer, aud after singing by Saukoy,
Moody delivered a long discourse. Among
those ou tho platform were Revs. Drs.
Cuvier, Duryea, Prime, Buddington, DeWitt
Talmadge, and Geo. H. Stewart, of Phila
delphia. In the afternoon tho ltiuk was
again packed, at least five thousand people
beiug uuablo to gain admittance. After
services it was announced that there woaU
bo revival mootings at tbo ltiuk every even
ing during tho week, except Saturday.
FOREIGN Cllor REVIEW'.
London, October 25.—The Mark Lone Ex
press, in its regular weekly review, says “an
other week of storruß aud floods, with great
extent of damage, has further retarded the
autumnal sowing. Nothing could have
been much worse, for the condition of sam
ples aud the abundance of foreign old wheat
seems to bo tho chief security from whole
some dread. The more we know of tho
crop of 1875 tho less satisfaction it gives.
France about maintains her rates, but Bel
gium and Holland are rather dearer. Ger
many is generally very steady, but Danzig
is higher. Prices at Bt. Petersburg, Vienna,
' aud Hungary are unchanged;”
ALABAMA POLITICS.
Montgomery, Ala., October 23.—Andrew
Smith, the only State executive ofiicial, who
is a Republican, has published a letter
warmly supporting the new constitution.
Ho states in bis ofiicial capacity, as one who
has charge of such matters, that the maxi
mum amount to be paid out for the State
expenses, in case the new constitution shall
bo adopted, will save annually, as compared
with the old, $2(15,000. The change proposed
in the school system, he says, is a wise meas
ure, and will increase the amount available
for the pay of the teachers. Nearly ali the
white Republicans of tho State are for rati
fying the new constitution.
WARM POLITICB.
New York, October 23. — During a quarrel
last night at tho Fifth Avonuo Hotel be
tween Charles JI. Ferris and Edward Hag
gerty, two well-known Democratic politi
cians, as to tho prospects of the election in
the Fourth Senatorial district, which is con
tested by ex-Congressman John Fox, the
Tammauy nominee, and ex-Congressman
John Morrissey, who is running on the In
dependent ticket, Ferris was shot in tho
groin by Haggerty and seriously if not fa
tally wounded. Haggerty fled.
FOUND GUILTY.
St. Louis, October 24.—The jury found
Col. Joyce guilty on four counts of the in
dictment. The penalty on each indictment
is 'he penitentiary—not less than six months
and a line of not less than one thousand
dollars, and forever debarred from bolding
a Federal ofiiee. A motion was made for a
new trial. Col. Joyce was placed in custody.
The United States Marshal lias the freedom
of the city.
an equestrian feat.
Galveston, October 23 At the Waco,
Texas, Fair to-day, R. A. Ford rode sixty
miles in two Lours and forty-nino minuies,
tho fastest time on record by five minutes,
after dismounting from forty-two horses.
Ho made the last mile iu two minutes and
Beven seconds. He rode common Texas
horses.
JOURNALISTIC.
Richmond, Yiuginia, October 25.—Moses
P. Handy aDd Charles J. Jones, late of the
editorial staff of the New York Iribune, and
Jameß H. Beall, Jr., late of the Boston Paul,
have purchased the Richmond Enquirer, and
will issue the first number under the new
management to-morrow as a Conservative
Democratic paper.
PRINCE LEOPOLD.
London, October 25.—A special meeting
of (he Court of Common Council held
at Guildhall to-day. Prince Leopold, upon
invitation of tho corporation, formally took
up the freedom of the city of London, to
which he is entitled by patrimony. After
the ceremony the Prince was entertained at
a dejeuner.
DROWNING.
Bt. Louis, October 25.—Stephen Lewis, a
fisherman and ferryman, was taking a load
of colored people across the Mississippi
river, when the skiff, being overloaded, cap
sized, and all but two were drowned. Lewis,
in attempting to save two women, was him
self drowned.
LOSS OF LIFE BY THE RECENT FLOODS-.
London, October 25.—Thirteen perished
by the floods in Nottingham, and six at Bur
tou-on-Trent. Between the 14th and 22d
fifty-five lives were lost by shipwreck on the
eastern coast of Scotland, between Peeter
ween and Peterhead.
DROPPED DEAD.
Fortress Monroe, October 23.—Tazewell
Taylor, Esq., a prominent member of the
Norfolk bar, wbilo attending court at
Hampton yesterday, fell dead from,
apoplexy. The deceased was about sixty
five years old, and was greatly respected b;
all who knew him.
•another balloonatic.
Owensbubg, Ky.,-October 24.—The bal
loon, when several hundred feet high,
caught on fire, and Professor Atchison was
precipitated to the earth, and his recovery
is doubtful.
count von aenim.
London, October 23.—The Poll Mali Ga
zette has a special dispatch from Berhn
which says it is reported that Count Von
Arnim’s sentence will be commuted to a flue.
A Horrible Butchery.— Denver, Col,
October 21. —A moßt atrocious murder
was unearthed here to-day. A small
tenement-house in the eastern portion
of the city, which had recently been
vacated by some Italian musicians, was
visited by a policeman to detect the cause
of a steDch that appeared to issue from
it. He discovered in the cellar of the
building the dead and putrid bodies of an
old man and three boys, all Italians.
The bodies bore ghastly marks of the
knife, the throats of all having been cut.
The murderers are believed to be
Italians. Intense indignation prevails,
and detectives are out in all directions;
searching for the murderers.
The Turkish Government has deefiartd
its willingness to give the great powers,
any guaranties compatible with the na
tion’s honor for the fulfillment of itsi
financial obligations. ,