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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 20/ 1 SCO.
Don’t Want to Vote.
Forney mentions, as in favor of tie Chinamen,
that they “have no propensity for politics, and
don’t want to vote.” Of no race of people
could this be said more strongly and truly than
of the Southern negroes before the Radicals
began to manipulate them. Not one in a thou
sand had a thought about politics or cared to
vote. But with the aid of the Radical partizans,
lay and clerical, they were made hot politicians
in Sixty days or less, although the most of them
had no more definite idea of politics than an
ourang outang, and were terribly puzzled to
know whether the “constitushum wor a white
man or nigger.” It was “stan’ up for de race!”
and will any man of sense pretend to doubt
that the Chinese will “stan’up for de race,”
too, or that they will find hundreds of thou
sands of white partizans to help them to “stan’
up for de race” in their own interests?
Let no man delude himself with the idea that
the Chinamen who will swarm this country by
millions will hot be a huge political power in
the land. And it can’t be helped. The fatal
concession was made when the Radicals, in or
der to justify their horrid treason to American
traditions and the white race, in arming the
blacks with the ballot and introducing them into
politics, proclaimed the heresy of “manhood
suffrage.” The concession of the ballot to the
blacks necessitates its concession to the Chinese.
Had all but the white races been excluded none
of the others would have complained or felt
aggrieved.
The Ilnlbert Press Expedition.
IVe have received a good many inquiries in
relation to this expedition; but inasmuch as
we never interchanged a word with Col. Hul-
bert on that or any other subject, and all the
details of the expedition rest with him, we are
in no condition to impart information. We have
assumed, however, thattho circular of invitation
is to be strictly construed, and is limited to one
representative from each newspaper in Georgia.
Now, as there are some sixty-three or four
papers in the State, and we have no doubt most
all of them will be represented—that alone will
make a goodly company. Then we know that
some parties skilled in metallurgy have been in
vited, and presume that largo numbers of scien
tific and practical men, likely to add interest to
the investigation, will be of the party.
When, therefore, we consider the long train
necessary to afford all kinds of accommodation
to such a numerous party, and the difficulties of
the commissariat and sleeping accommodations
for such a thfong, we think good sense will
recognize it os a case for strict construction.
To New Subscribers to the Weekly.
The accessions to our weekly subscription
list, between the printing of the outside and in
side of this edition, have been more numerous
than we made allowance for, and therefore we
shall bo unable to send the present number of
the Weekly Telegraph to evory one of the new
subscribers. Wo will, however, send them the
Bemi-Weekly until we print the next edition of
the Weekly. One county since our last edition
of the Weekly,sent us sixty-five new subscribers.
Can Macon Save her Trade?
•Or any portion of it—or is she gone up hope
lessly ? That is the question of the day with
this town. It is the opinion of our best lawyers
that her remedies are ample. Is she to surren
der without a struggle ? See communication.
Newbpaper Representatives.—We had a call
on Thursday from Col. H. H. Jones, the editor
of that sterling paper—the Cuthbert Appeal—
and one of the most safe and judicious political
counsellors in Georgia.
Mr. R. L. Gentry, representing the Savannah
Morning News, called on us yesterday, on his
way to the Southwest. The News is a first-
rate paper—particular when our friend CoL
Thompson don't get after the Macon Tele-
gbaph.
CoL Styles, of the Albany News, has also been
in the city during the week.
Ohio.—The Democracy of this State have
maintained their reputationfor wisdom by nom
inating another live man for Governor— Hon.
Geo. H. Pendleton, who takes the place of Gen*
Rosecrans, declined. If the Radicals can beat
Pendleton the Northern Democracy may as well
disband at once. But he will carry the State by
twenty thousand majority.
We are glad to see from the foregoing that
our gallant friend of the Republican has come
back to us alive and well. “O, where did he
come from?” etc. The Republican is sound on
Ohio if he doe3 halt on Pennsylvania—that’s a
comfort.
Macon ami Brunswick Railboad.—We are
requested to say that this company was not a
party to tho suit against the Eufaulaand Bruns
wick Railroad noticed yesterday.
• The weather is now warm and dry. The
atmosphere is getting fallish—a little chilly in
the shade and more so in the mornings—while
the sunshine is feverish. We hear little from
the planters, and presume they are all specially
busy getting ready to pick cotton. Many of
them will begin next week.
The Ingratitude of Sambo.
A Northern lady in Southwestern Georgia,
engaged under the auspices of a Northern socie
ty in instructing the negroes of. that section,
writes a letter to Mr. Swayze, of the Macon
American Union, condoling with him upon the
fact that the negroes all turned against him in
the late Turner trial and swore they would not
believe him on oath—thus, on tho first occasion,
abandoning their white champion and requiting
his services and sufferings in their behalf with
deadly injury.
Tell it not in Gath, that this Northern teacher
pronounces this conduct upon the part of the
negroes as not exceptional, but characteristic of
the whole race, according to the universal expe
rience and testimony of the army of Northern
teachers who have been employed since the war
in educating the negroes. As this is a strong
bill of indictment from a strange source, we
copy so much of the letter as makes the charge:
But the object of this letter is to direct public
opinion to a fact patent to all teachers among
the colored people, and which has publicly and
glaringly manifested itself in this Turner mat
ter; and that is their ingratitude. This, of
course, is more or less attributable to their for
mer condition; but still, a brute often exhibits
the strongest feelings of gratitude to those of
the human family who treat them kindly or
shield them from harm.
My experience proves to me that tho more
one does for them the more they expect to be
done, and I have long been convinced of this
disposition among them. Here is one instance
among many I could cite, but I repeat it be
cause it happened to myself: When I first came
South to teach, I was sent by a Northern Soci
ety, with the understanding that my salary
would be paid by the society, but my board
would bo paid by the patrons who sent their
children to schooL My board was paid the
first month promptly, showing their ability to
do it, but afterwards it fell behind, until at last
I was compelled to pay my own board to pre
vent my landlady from turning me out of doors.
When I remonstrated with them for their negli
gence, and their failure to comply with their
agreement, they said they reckoned I could get
the money from the Society at the North if I
would only ask for it. And this is only one of
several instances of a similar character of which
I know. They are profuse in words, and like
their old masters, make any amount of fine
promises, but never think of fulfilling them.
We submit to the fair witness that she is
hardly competent to involve the Southern whites
in a similar charge of faithlessness and ingrati
tude. It has been the misfortune of the North
ern teachers that, operating among the blneks
in a spirit of antagonism and hostility to the
whites, they have not mingled with the latter
and know nothing of them; or their knowledge
is confined to exceptional and non-representa
tive cases. If among these this fair correspon
dent has found any slippery fellow “profuse in
words and fine promises,” we’ll be bound he is
no recognized knight among the Southern chiv
alry.
But mingling freely and socially among the
blacks, she and her compatriots are good wit
nesses, as to the fact upon which they testify,
although they may be unable to come to a phil
osophical explanation of it They have assumed
that the negro is the intellectual peer of the
white man and judge him by the same rules.
With a much longer and more thorough acquaint
ance with the negro, the Southern white does
not look for the same moral and intellectual se
quences. They know that feeble intellects are
incapable of the same development of the moral
sentiments as they expect from stronger ones.
Nor is the appreciation of services and obligations
the same. The Southern people have found
gratitude in the blacks; and numerous and touch
ing are the instances in which it has been dis
played ; but it was in harmony with the intel
lectual condition of the race, and the result of
services which it could clearly appreciate.
We are glad that experience and observation
are bringing the Northern people to a juster ap
preciation of the Negro, and think it worth while
to put on record this testimony of one of their
teachers, bearing the weight of the universal
recognition of alL
SrST TELEGRAPH.
Ax Enterprising Colored Teaches.—Enoch
Parker, a colored school teacher of Bibb coun
ty, organized a Sunday School at Stone Creek
Church, twelves miles from town, in Twiggs
county, the fourth Sunday in July last, with
fourteen pupils, and the second Sunday in Au
gust the school numbered 148 pupils. He has
now three Sunday Schools in charge and a
large day schooL
Mr. Stephens.—The SouthemRecorderlearns
from a gentleman of Milledgeville, who spent a
day recently with Hon. A. H. Stephens, that
Mr. S.’s general health is very good, and that he
is slowly but certainly recovering from the ao-
cident which has for months deprived him of
locomotion and caused him so much suffering.
With the assistance of crutches he moves fre
quently through the passages of his airy house,
Notwithstanding his situation, his indomitable
mind is occupied in the preparation of the sec
ond volume of his great work, “The History of
the War between the States,” which in a few
• months will be given to the press..
Manages Ford, of the Holiday Street Thea
ter, Baltimore, will visit Savannah, Macon, and
Augusta, also other Southern cities, the coming
season.
The Chapman sisters will also come Sonth,
Blance, with her rich soprano voioe, and Ella
charming by her life and vivacity, are now in
Buffalo.
To illustrate the precisiou of astronomical
soience, it may be stated that another eclipse of
the suit will take place in eighteen years, 11
days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 3.648 seconds—
"that Is, on the 19th of August, 1887! It will be
.visible only in tho Eastern Hemisphere. The
next solar eclipse visible in the United States
oecun on the 28th of May, 1900.
As astounding as it may seem, Brigham
' Young's flock of polygamists is receiving consid
erable accessions, mostly from Europe. A late
Omaha paper mentions the arrival at that place
recently of six hundred Mormon emigrants,
. route to Salt Lake City. They came from Eng
land, having been induced to embraoe the Mor-
From Washington.
Wabhixotox. August 13.—Doubt regarding the
Christian name of his successor enabled the resigna
tion of the Mississippi District Attorney, Adams, to
beat the pending suspension.
Gen. Eagar has been removed from the New York
Custom house. ■ ■ - - —
E. C. Cambridge has been appointed Post-master
at Old Point Comfort, Virginia.
Tho War and Navy Departments have transferred
to the Treasury Department the power to contract
for the recoveiy of all vessels, both Confederate and
Federal, sunk during the war in Southern and other
waters. The entire matter has been assigned by
the Secretary, to the division of captured and aban
doned property, in his office. .'
Revenue to-day, half million.
Washington, August 14.—Cabans hero have ad
vices to the 5th, containing Jordan’s report of tho
engagement near Holqnin. Yalmaseda being rein
forced determined to surprise the Cubans.
FROM CUBA.
Jordan, being fully advised, prepared to meet
Yalmaseda. Jordan advanced in small force, to lead
Yalmaseda into ambuscade. The strategem suc
ceeded. Yalmaseda’s forces were thrown into con
fusion. Jordan charged, forcing Yalmaseda to re
treat in disorder. His impressed negroes broke on
the first attack. This fight has destroyod Yalmase
da’s army, giving the Cubans control of tho entire
Holquin District. The Spanish loss is one hundred
and seventy killed and wounded, and over seven
hundred captured and deserted.
Revenue to-day, $895,000.
A largo distillery at Philadelphia has been seized.
Tho porter and guager have been arrested.
The pay of Assistant Assessors in Tennessee,
North Carolina and the Gulf States has been re
duced fifty cents per day.
Rear Admiral Davis has been ordered to make ar
rangements for a survey of the Isthmus of Darien
for ascertaining the feasibility, cost, etc., of a ship
canal.
The Times says: The question of enforcing the
test oath in the case of the members elect of the
Virginia Legislature, has been decided affirmatively
by the Attorney General, and it will be accordingly
enforced by Gen. Canby.
From Texas.
Galveston, August 13.—The British brig, Han
nah Lizzie, Ferguson, master, from Liverpool to
Galveston, which went ashore on the North Break
ers at midnight on tho litb, filled with water yes
terday. She is probably a total loss. The crew is
safe.
Worms have appeared in the cotton on annmbcr of
farms along the Guadalonpe and San Marcos rivers;
but few have appeared in upland crops.
From New York.
New York, August 13.—An evening paper says
it is rumored that Judge McCunnhas directed the
sheriff to call out his posse, if necessary, to en
force the order of the court, discharging Pratt It
is rumored that the 69Ui regiment has been ordered
under arm to enforce the sheriff’s authority. Judge
McCann will do all in his power to avoid a breach of
the peace; but will sustain the dignity of the court
at all hazards. General Barlow is confident that
he has sufficient force at his command to resist any
attempt to rescue the prisoner. A collision seems
inevitable.
New YonK, August 14.—Marshal Barlow was last
night escorted to Staten Island Ferry by a company
of United States soldiers.
Judge McCunn has adjourned proceedings in the
Pratt case to Monday, giving time whereby, it is
hoped, a collision may be avoided.
No Corn In Egypt.
Lest it may have escaped the observation of
the reader, we beg to call attention to the fol
lowing extract from a letter from Indiana, 7th
instant, to the editors, published in the Tele
graph of yesterday:—
The wheat crop throughout Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa is far ahead of anything of the kind
ever before known. Indeed it is unparalleled.
“ speak knowingly. But the com! What shall
say of that ? It is a sad story for the Georgia
planters who depend upon these States for a
supply. Rains, continual rains have ruined it.
Between here and Chicago, to use the expression
of an old farmer, “you couldn’t gather enough
com to feed fifty bead of hogs.” From this
point southward, a distance of one hundred and
sixty miles, to the Ohio River, the crop is bet
ter. but will not yield more than one-half of
what was expected.
That corroborates what we have repeatedly
stated of the Western com crop. But the truth
is, Georgia usually gets the larger proportion of
her imported com crop from tho Valley of the
Tennessee and tributaries, and here, we are
sorry to say, the casp is still worse. James A.
Nisbet, Esqr., tells us that from about eight
miles eastward of the intersection of the Ala
bama, Georgia, and Tennessee lines, all through
the East Tennessee Valley and up to the Poto
mac, the com crop is an utter failure. In most
of the country they have not got back their
seed. They have had no rain for nine weeks,
and the standing com in the fields was fre
quently so parched and lifeless that it would
bnm like dry shavings. Through the whole of
that fertile section, the grainery of cotton
growing Georgia, so far from being able to ex
port com, they would not have near enough for
their own stock. /
Mr. Nisbet earnestly advises such of the
Georgia planters as will be compelled to buy
com the ensuing year, to make their arrange
ments as early as possible and buy a supply be
fore grain rises to a price which it is certainly
destined to reach in view of these existing croP
failures.
We devoutly hope that a large part of our
planting interest will be able to get through the
next year on their own resources—particularly,
if forewarned, they set about at once availing
themselves of every domestic resource to eke
out their supplies. Let them gather all the
forage possible—seed down rye pastures—plant
for early oats—and use every expedient tbeir
ingenuity will suggest to increase their supplies
of food for stock.
From Virginia.
Richmond, August 13.—A riot occurred to-day be
tween the whites and blacks at Heathville, North
umberland county, in which a sailor killed a negro.
The sailor was committed to jail, and at night was
rescued by the whites. Canby has sent a detach
ment of troops to that point.
Richmond. August 14.—It is stated on good au
thority. that Gen. Canby will, within ten days, issue
his elective proclamation convening the Legislature,
and applying the iron clad oath to the members;
and when a member elect cannot take the oath, giv
ing his seat to the candidate who received the next
highest vote. This news produces different feel
ings among different parties. The Wells Republi
cans who form nine-tenths of what was the Repub
lican party, rejoice over it. The Democrats are con
fident that the effect is to give the State to the De
mocracy in seventy-two and permanently thereafter,
and the Walker true Republicans, who elected their
ticket in the idea among the whites, that there was
to he no more disfranchisement and test oaths, are
very sick.
General ITews.
Sax Fbaxcisco, August 13.—A Convention ■ has
been called to nominate independent candidates for
municipal offices. Never since the Vigilance Com
mittee days has there been so much interest in mu
nicipal affairs.
There is an unusual stringency of money, and
mining stocks are completely demoralized. The
bottom of the market seems to he falling out.
New York, August 13.—Barlow has a company of
United States soldiers at his office to resist any at
tempt to arrest him for contempt in violation of
McCann’s order relative to Pratt.
An evening paper says DeRodas has ordered the
Spanish iron clad Victoria, to Demerara, to capture
two Peruvian monitors.
Montgomery, August 13.—Two more bales of cot
ton of the new crop were received early this morn
ing. One was raised in Lowndes county and the
other in this county. One hale is to he expressed
immediately to LeBarronBros., New York.
Buffalo, N, Y.,August 13.—Goldsmith Maid, won
the $10,000 trot in three straight heats: beating the
American Girl and George Palmer. Time 2:19%;
2:19%; 2:19%, being the fastest aggregate time
ever made.
Nashville, August 14.—The United States Sena-
torship is exciting general interest. Emerson Eth
eridge and Andrew Johnson are its most prominent
candidates.
It is understood the Banner of to-morrow will
take strong grounds against Johnson.
Memphis, Ausust 14.—The prospects of the cotton
crop are less favorable. It is calculated the yield
in this vicinity will be the same as last year.
St. Louis, August 14.—Commodore Jarvis, aged
seventy-four, is dead.
Port Huson, August 14 The Silver Spray col
lided with tho Comet Spray, and snnk in fifteen
minutes. The passengers and crew were saved.
Chicago, August 14.—The Milwaukie and St. Paul
train ran off the track to-day. The engineer was
killed and several persons hurt.
Harrisburg, August 14.—The train on the Cen
tral Railmid ran off the track to-day. The engineer
and fireman were killed; a man lost both of his legs,
and several others were hurt.
Cause or Rust.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel calls at
tention to the following from the Sandersville
Central Georgian, and asks for the result of
planters’ observation and experience:
“The rust is in almost every field, especially
where fertilizers have been used liberally. I
have noticed several fields of cotton which have
been manured with tho “Soluble Pacific Guano,
entirely ruined by rust, or it resembles rust.
This is where 250 to 300 lbs were used. 'Where
less quantity was applied, the injury is less. Up
to 20tb July, the “Solnblo Pacific” was believed
to be the best commercial fertilizer in use in
this community, but wherever it has been liber-
ally applied the rust is very destructive—more
so than with other fertilizers.”
We shall be very slow to believe that fertili
zers, unless injudiciously used or in very unpro-
picious seasons, can be conducive to rust or any
other disease. Any thing that stimnlates the
growth and adds -to the vigor of plants will the
better enable them to combat or escape disease.
Nevertheless, it is an excellent time now for
planters in their clubs and the newspapers to
tell tbeir experience about rust, and how it may
be ctued or avoided. Let ns hear from them.
From Cuba.
Havana, August 14.—Count Yalmaseda captured
a Rebel Convoy moving toward Holqnin. The Reb
els fled after a short fight, their commander Jordan
escaping. This is considered the most impor
tant capture of the war.
Further Cuban advices report the slaves through
out the island as exhibiting symptoms of insubordi
nation and in sympathy with CeBpedes. They are
joining Cespedes in large numbers, thereby saving
the emancipation proclaimed by the Provisional
Government. They make, it is 6aid, good soldiers.
Quesada is nearly ready to attack Neuvitas, with
a certainty of success, unless the Spaniards are re
inforced- It i3 believed that they will avoid the
contest. The vessels ara sufficient to remove the
garrison concentrating before Neuvitas.
The Macon Post-Office.
Washixgtox, August 14—The recent dispatch
telegraphed upon information famished by CoL
Edwards, was wrongly printed in many Southern
papers.
The facts as furnished were: The negro Turner
has been suspended, and Mr. Washington, the for
mer incumbent, restored to the Macon, Ga., Post-
office.
The City and Central Railroad Again.
Editors Telegraph: Many of the readers of
your valuable paper are too young to kpow, and
others have perhaps forgotton, the history of
Maconin connection with, and in aid of the Cen
tral Railroad; and the consequent ingratitude of
the latter towards our city now is not known and
appreciated as it will be on a resume of a few
facts now almost out of memory.
Dr. Collins and Mr. Jerre Cowles, of Macon,
projected the road in its inception. Its charter
had failed to pass. Tho Georgia Railroad,
then the strongest corporation in Georgia,
fonght it, and fought it successfully. The lead
ing men in the Legislature lived along the line
of that road, and were successful in choking
down the incipient struggles of the Central
Road fox birth. The bill for its charter was de
feated, when Macon sent over a deputation of
her mo«t influential citizens to Milledgeville,
starting them at night, about sun-set. They
reached Milledgeville in the night, and the next
morning went to work, and succeeded in having
the rejection of the bill reconsidered, and the
bill passed. This was the amended bill, which
conferred banking privileges, and was passed in
1835.
The first act was passed in 1833, and was
granted to the corporations of the cities of Sa
vannah and Macon, and such other corporation
and itdividuals as those corporations shall ap-
pointwith them.” The principal office was lo
cated at Savannah, but subordinate offices re
quired to be kept at Macon, and the right given
tho stockholders to move the principal office to
Macon. Indeed, Macon runs all through the
Act, as much its beneficiary as Savannah. See
Prince’s Digest, page 300.
Mason contributed five hundred thousand
dollars to build the Central Railroad. She bad
to borrow money to pay her contribution. She
was sued upon a part of it; sold her stock at
seventy-five dollars per share to pay the debt,
and gave her bonds for the remaining twenty-
five dollars. Thus all her stock in the road
went, and her books will show that she has paid
all of seven hundred and fifty .thousand dollars,
principal and interest, to build this road, now
seeking to prostrate all her interests. Verily
corporations have no soul, nor heart, nor grati
tude. Therefore let all the people of Macon
unite in demanding that our city authorities act,
and act at once, in averting, if possible, the des
olating career of this soulless corporation.
Thus, and thus only, can these authorities sat
isfy the Tax Payers and Voters.
Big Cotton Products.
We read of large cotton products all over the
the State. The Bamesville Gazette, of the 12th,
says:
We are informed that cotton is still holding
its forms, notwithstanding the great amount of
wet weather we have had for the last two weeks.
The prospect is still good for a large yield. We
understand that Mr. Culberson, of Zebulon, has j
a patch of several acres which good judges say
will make at least two and a half bales to the
acre if no mishap occurs. It was planted in
rows six feet apart, and given good distance in
the row.
Mr. John Pearson, of Upson, has four acres
which already has a sufficient number of groicn
bolls upon it to make over a bale to the acre.
Nine Tears Among "The Celestials.”
ILyxchburo, Va. , August 4/1869.
Editor.of the Daily News—Sm: The propo
sition to import Chinese laborers in this coun
try to the extent of supplanting the negro in
his old fields of labor, although originated but a
few months since, has already acquired such
breadth and seriousness as to produce the most
profound concern in the minds of all who
thoughtfully consider the future of the South.
That I should _ share such concern is not re
markable or in any way- exceptional, aid it
alone would famish no occasion for a commu
nication to the press. But it has been my for
tune to have lived nine years in China; to have
had some singular and extended opportunities
of observation in commercial ihterconrse with
her people; and what I have thus learned of the
character and habits of the people whom it is
proposed to make so large an element in our in
dustrial and even civil organization; I feel un
der some sort of obligation to communicate to
the public, and offer to the serious reflection of
those who, like myself, have all the interests
and hopes of their lives invested or employed in
the Sonth.
In the first place I do not deny that the
Chinese, in many respects, are useful and
patient laborers—they are industrious, even
painfully so. Their labor, at least when em
ployed in their own country, is the cheapest in
the world—the average wages being two to three
dollars a month, the laborer finding his own
provisions and clothes, or say less than ten cents
a day. Their wants are few and simple, their
diet’being vegetable (principally rice,) and
their scanty dress, which may be completely
enumerated as bamboo hat, flowing cotton shirt
and browsers, paper or wooden shoes, serving
them in all circumstances. They are, more
over, docile as laborers, not a little ingenious,
and managed by very moderate authority.
This is about the sum of the recommendation
of the Chinaman as a laborer. But this affords
only a very imperfect and narrow view of the
question, and our people seem to have, merely
computing the cost and ontward convenience of
a certain kind of labor, entirely lost sight of Ml
that vice, filth and unnatural habits of the Asi
atic population which such an importation of
laborers would necessarily bring into and per
haps confirm in our midst. The Chinese are
the filthiest of the Asiatic races. The prostitu
tion of their women is the common, almost uni
versal, condition of the lowest classes. In addi
tion to these hideous and worse than brutal
practices, they are universally gamblers. It is
a curious circumstance that young and old ha
bitually gamble for tbeir food and for every ar
ticle they buy at the stalls in the bazar—instead
of paying the price down, throwing dice or
using some other chance to determine whether
they shall pay double or nothing.
The almost invariable experience is that the
coolies gamble away their wages, and are thus
fettered by tbeir improvidence and vices in
whatever land they have been carried, as labor
ers or apprentices. When we -consider the
results of such a people, with their poisonous
vices being fastened upon us, perhaps in hun
dreds of thousands—possibly millions—we are
also to reflect that it is the very scum of this
population, of the very lowest and most de
based of the coolie class, that emigrants are per
suaded, and that we must expect to recruit the
ranks of Southern labor. What effect such a
population, permanently fixed in the South, and
possibly ascending in the future to political in
fluence, would have on onr civilization, our
morals, our atmosphere, is a question, to my
mind, more serious and larger than that of any
mere cheapness or convenience of labor.
I do not disguise that I should be sorry to see
the scum of a vicious Asiatic population sup
planting the comparatively clean and healthful
negro. I own to affection for the black man,
and so far from sharpening any resentment
against him at this time, I think we should
await the results of those recent influences which
are manifestly bringing him around to a recon
ciliation and better understanding with the white
man. The fact is, I cannot see that we want
any foreign additions to the labor of the South.
We have the same labor that we have always
had; and as it is well known that the natural
multiplication of the negro exceeds that of the
white man, the supply must continue to be en
larged in proportion to the demand. What is
needed is to reorganize and discipline this labor
rather than to increase it by dangerous methods
The Chinese Laborer.
From Forney’s Philadelphia Prett of the 10th.]
_ The industrial problem of the hour, unques
tionably is the coining Asiatic. Already every
housekeeper in the land is opening her home to
take him in; already we are Yold he means
cheap coal, cheap railways and what is bet
ter than all, reliable labor; already the Dem
ocratic party have divided on his living among
us, and between Biddy and the black man. the
stranger will have, for a few years—perhaps it
can be reduced to months—a hard time.
The opinions of this jonmal on the question
have been freely expressed before. Cheap la
bor, and plenty of it, will not harm the Ameri
can laborer. Nothing can that develops the
country; nor will it likely reduce legitimate
wages for generations at least. Onr vast conti
nent is yet almost unbroken ground for indus
try. We limit ourselves to-day to facts. Every
item of intelligence now is grateful to a State
like ours, that has not one-tenth enough of la
bor withinits borders, nor that oftenof the right
kind.
We have just had the pleasure of a long con
versation with Mr. Marcus D. Bornck, editor of
the Spirit of the Valley, a gentleman of wide
range of information, whose observations pos
sess more than ordinary accuracy and intelli
gence. Mr. Boruck has been for twenty years
a citizen of California, mostly resident in San
Francisco, and his opportunities for possessing
himself of the facta are only equalled by Ms
practical and philosopMc powers of generaliza
tion and inference. From recollection we hasti
ly reproduce and group together the main points
elicited in a protracted but most interesting in
terview.
Chinamen have done the entire rough work
Wonders Attendant on the Eellpae
The philosophers and astronomista who have
made pilgrimages with their instruments to the
track of the solar ecKpse, are now revelatbo
At Springfield, Illinois, Professor Pearce’s
party write:
• of pauper immigration; and besides this the
great want of the South may be described as
capital, not labor—the first to employ and di
rect the other, and thus bring both development
and peace to the South.
As to the man Koopmanschap, the self-con
stituted agent of Chinese emigration, who has
been recently malting such important displays
w . - ■ , , . .. - of himself, I have known him ever since Ms
but the abovo are most generally* spolL of, and ! ^ l
are quite a good specimen of what mav be ex-1 , fJ. , . j
. j, Ti i- .. r J , 1 of anything but a mercenary motive in the en-
pected from a bberul application of manure and .
attention in cultivation. j J**!™® he P ro P°ses. He is anxious to make
nr Y„ . the immense profits that must accrue in selling
Of course it is not to be expected that the , laborers to ^ South for eight dollars a month,
above is an average of field crops in tins vicini- . . rY-ZNV.
ty, but of rich garden spots that have received !
; amount of wages in their own country. The
Pacific Railroad Company—that monster north-
extra care and cultivation. Cotton in fields is
quite promising also.
Mr. Weaver is said to have two hundred acres
which is the finest crop in the county. One hun
dred acres of which, good judges say, will make
one hundred bales unless injured by some mis
hap. With a good crop of cotton, at remuner
ative prices this fall, we may expect Georgia
again to prosper, and her citizens to feel that in
dependence of character that was their wont
previous to the war.
Tlie Garden of Eden.
A London letter to Scribner’s New York Book-
buyer contains the following, which promises to
settle the long-mooted question of the site of
the Garden of Eden:
“Sir Harry Rawlinson, at the last meeting of
the Royal Asiatic Society, gave the remarkable
em corporation—the embodiment of its avarice
and money power—is anxious, too, to reap its
revenue of millions from this traffic; and it is
already said that a New York capitalist is ready
to put on seventeen steamers to cross the Paci
fic ocean if the Southern planters will afford
sufficient encouragement for such an enterprise
of transportation of labor from the shores of
Asia.
Indeed, the avarice and perfidy of the North—
so eager and cruel in tMs enterprise of supplant
ing the negro by the importation of another
race of laborers—is the most remarkable thing
in the whole affair; and it alone should condemn
it in the estimation of every just and humane
mind.
After all their professions of affection and so
licitude for the negro, we find northern men
ready to seize the first profitable enterprise to
When the total obscuration took place
heavens and the earth presented a scene of a J
ful sublimity. A brilliant, amber oolored cotti
na appeared around the sun and moon, shootin
rays of light outward in all directions/when
whole horizon was illuminated with a light f
the same color. The planets Mercury and \t'
nua, and a number of fired stars, were distinct!'
visible, but no planet orbs between Mercury and
the sun were discovered, A brilliant, rose-coL
ored flame, or protuberance, was noticed on th
western limb of the sun during the period of
total obscuration. The phenomenon known a
“Bailey’s Beads” was also distinctly witnessed
This phenomenon, Professor Pearce thinks, t
occasioned by the refraction of light. He is a’
so satisfied that the corona, or halo, at the tim'
of the total obscuration, was occasioned by tho
son’s atmosphere. 3 ce
—the cutting, ditching, grading, and filling—of
the Central Pacific Railway. The road has had
as many as fifteen thousand of them employed
at one time. The finish and execution of their
work is far superior to anytMng we know of.—
They are artists in clay. This is a natural se
quence of the Chinese mind and Mstory. For
this kind of labor they are paid one dollar a day
in gold, the bosses, or foremen, about thirty-five
dollars a month, gold.
A day’s work of a Chinaman is better.in quali
ty and amount than that of the average Euro
pean. \
The personal qualifications of the CMnaman
as a laborer are excellent He is inexpensive—
eating little or no meats, and having no palate
for the luxuries of the table. He confines him
self to the simplest of diet.
He is eminently docile and obedient; doing
what he is told, and never requiring to be told
twice. If treated kindly Rnd fairly, he is hon
est and faitMul to Ms work. As a’ rule, there i3
no trouble between employers and CMnese em
ployes. If there is, it is because of great in
justice done to the latter.
He never “strikes,” and does not know what
that means. TMs, we may add in passing, is
very significant. It would seem as if the CMna
man in a rough way was to become the solvent
of the present question of “strikes,” which this
year has been growing so portentous. At Omaha
the Union Pacific Railroad Company is testing
the matter at this very hour, and if we know
rightly the men who are managing that road,
they will give the strangers a fair trial
They have no propensity for politics. They
do not expect to vote, nor want to do so, nor
think at all abont the matter. In this view they
are a far safer importation than the lower class
of European emigrants. San Francisco need
never fear falling tinder the feet of a gang of
CMnese poliemen. CMnese roughs will never
stuff our ballot-boxes or disgrace our courts.
They keep a ' contract inviolably—these pa
gans and idolaters. Ninety-eight per cent, of
those in California can read and write their own
language. Most of them are rapid in figuring.
Their children learn our language quickly; the
parent with difficulty, though, they soon manage
to acquire a stock of words and sentences wMch
answer their purposes. They show a great anx
iety to send their children to schools where En
glish is taught, though few facilities have been
given them, for wMle they payfujl school taxes,
they have as yet furnished but one school house
for forty pupils. As a class, there is none so
law-abiding—not even the Americans—and none
more honest. They pay all taxes to the Gov
ernment cheerfully and carefully, even unjust
ones, and the school tax of the State, thongh
they have very small returns for the latter.
They make excellent house servants—the
best in the world—learning with rapidity. Al
though their system of cooking is somewhat dif
ferent from ours they readily change, and be
come in a few weeks good American cooks.
With equal facility they turn out nurses and
chambermaids. Whatever they are once shown
they can do, and will do it quieuy and regularly.
As house servants in California they command
from ten to twelve dollars a month.
They are singularly unobtrusive in their de
portment, never pusMng themselves into notice,
nor becoming in any way offensive or disagree
able through personal assertion. They do no
care for the fifteenth amendment nor the eqnat
rights bilk They never enter a car or public
conveyance unless asked by the conductor or
some passenger, standing patiently on the out
side.
With these good traits abont Mm we think
the presumption to be on the side of the CMna
man, and demand that he shall be humanely
treated when be comes among us, and have fair
play, and that every Democrat shall not have
the right to slaughter Ms babies or bum Ms or
phan asylums.
announcement that the progress now reached in . crUB& him out b foreign competition, 'anxious
the collection and arrangement of the Nineveh ! nltoturnsuc ^ an enterprise to a scheme of
inscribed fragments, made it beyond a doubt j £ ev . makin g and to sacrifice to “the almighty
hat they would be able to derive the whole of , doU J, the ve ^ last remnant of the b]ackm Vs
the Mstory given in the Book of Genesis, from
the time of Abraham, from the original docu
ments ; and it was not too much to expect that
almost the same facts and descriptions would be
found in the Baylonian documents as in the Bi
ble. He hoped very soon to have ready a paper
on the Garden of Eden, in which be wonldsbow
that was the natural name of Babylon. Tho
rivers bore the very sa^e names, and the Baby-
hope, the very crust of bread that freedom has
condemned him to earn in the fierce and heart
less competitions which they would now inaugu
rate,' and by the sweat of his brow, which, so far
from alleviating, would wring out anew.
It is well that this consideration should be
put to the negro. Certainly, if any addition, is
needed to the instructions and influences wMch
are now bringing him back to the sympathies of
Foreign News.
London, August 13.—The yacht race of forty-five
miles for the Byde Town Plate—value one hundred
pounds—came off to-day. Yachts and time:—
Egcrea, 5 boors and 19 minutes; Aline, 5 hours
and 24 inmates; Gnnnoere, 5 boars and 34 minutes;
Egera, 5 hours and 39 minutes; Condor, 5 hours
57 minutes. The Egerea won the plate by an allow
ance of time.
tt it.tfat, August 13.—It is believed that the great
coal mine owners of Pennsylvania are attempting
to monopolize the coal trade. Their agents hold
many of the best mines in the Province, keeping
them unworked except at two points.
Madrid, August 13.—Estartus, at the head of
five bandied Carlists, has entered Spain from
France at Pnigcerda. The entry of other bands at
various points is expected.
< • « . , • I WAV Uw II UllUUUiK UUU Dllvii luc o»UJUdimVO VI
Ionian documents gav : exact geograpical ac- hia old maste ?, | nd dissuading him from the
count of the Garden oi Eoen- The Flood and . North it wonl ’ d be suppUed b ° this exposition
the tower of Babel would be found to be mos | of the ’ poli of the lat ^ r _ a p £l icy that dooms
amply illustrated in the Babylonian documents. him fa £ uorsQ tban ^ery-tbat of beg
gary and death.
Tennessee.—The Cincinnati Enquirer of the
11th says:
The majority for Governor Senter in Tennes
see is only 70,000. His competitor, Stokes, has
gone on to ■Washington to request the govern
ment to set the election aside, and appoint Mm
(Stokes) Military Governor! We shall see
whether the aimiable Grant will comply with
his modest request If he does, what use can
it be to elect a candidate anywhere that does
not suit His Imperial Majesty of the White
House, whose regal pilgrimages are so faithfully
chronicled by the Jenkinses of the press?
Richard Pollard.
The Educational Convention.—The dele-
g ates to the Educational Convention left yester-
ay evening for their homes, well pleased with
their visit to the Gate City, and thongh the Con
vention was thinly attended; yet. we firmly be
lieve that their labors will result in good to the
cause of popular education. President Tucker,
who is deeply interested in the cause, will, in
the selection of committees, put active men on—
men who aro known in Georgia and identified
with the cause. We believe that there is suffi
cient wisdom in Georgia to devise a common
Wine-JIakfng in France—Naked Wo
men to Give it “Boquet."
To the Editor of the New Tori-Tribune: Your
California correspondent, writing of wine
making in .France, refers to the practice the
naked women have of going into the wine-vats
up to their waists, to stir the fluid, and thus fa
cilitate the process of fermentation! I have
often heard of such a practice, but was an un
believer until a late visit which I made to the
vineyards on the Rhine, and in Champaigne,
France, where I found the custom was univer
sal, and, on referring to authorities, I found
Tlie Chinese.
A Boston clergyman, Mr. Abbott, who has
been studying the CMnese in San Francisco, is
strongly in favor of their emigration to this
country. He says they are all bound to go back
to China, and will do it as soon as they have a
little money. He remarks that the CMnese
character is a perfect incarnation of non-resist
ance. It answers to the etiiics of the gospel in
many ways. It never renders evil for evil Its
cMef glory is meekness of spirit. At first men
abuse and make a mock of this disposition, but
by and by it commands respect, and the remark
is made that the CMnaman is harmless, there
fore, leave him alone. The writer observes that
a hundred different branches of labor are al
ready dependent upon the CMnese. They are
faithful to their employees. They are apt imita
tors, and can do anything that is shown them,
The writer regards them as an open missionary
field, and says that hundreds of them are in the
San Francisco Sunday Schools.
This is the intelligent, frugal, cheap industry
that we reqnire for the low country of South
Carolina. If the pigtails are not wanted in
Virginia and Georgia, so much the better for us.
We want them, and/will have them despite the
dog-in-the-manger policy of some of our con
temporaries.—Charleston News..
At. Mattoon, Illinois, where there was a-
other gathering of the scientific, this is said • ~
At ten minutes and fifteen seconds past f 0 -»
the eclipse commenced, the moon's ni, t cort-
with the sun occurring when the former va-
nineteen degrees south of the solar en-ato/
On the west side the thermometer, which a f-i
moments before had risen to one hundred a-s
two degrees, began to fall rapidly. At eWn
minutes and fifteen seconds past five o'clock iH
sun became totally obscured. The darkness was
equal to that of a moonlight night, and th- te
perature wa3 forty-five degrees cooler than o~-
hour before.
The eclipse ended at nineminntesend twenty,
two seconds past six o’clock. In the obserra-*
tions taken the phenomena corresponded pre
cisely with the computations previouslv made"
Six spots were visible on the surface oi the sua
before the eclipse, two of wMch were very prom
inent and the others much less. The cusps on
the moon had a ragged and blurred appearance.
As the eclipse progressed towards totality tj-I
form of the moon became visible.
Near the cusps of the phenomenon of totalitv
“Bailey’s Beads” were seen distinctly by all the
observers, extending through an arc of at lei:
fifty degrees. The moment the eclipse became
total the flam e-like protuberances were seen
with wonderful distinctness, one very large oi
the lower limb of the sun, and three nearly as
large on the upper limb,' while at least seven or
eight of them in all were visible, The one on
the right hand or lower limb had somewhat the
appearance of a full-rigged ship with sails set.
In its part nearest the moon were two or three
jet-black spots. To the naked eye it seemed as
though there were openings in the moon, two
on the east side, and one on the southwest side.
Just after the.total eclipse, through the opes,
ings the lurid glow of the sun was distinctly vis.
ible. The corona was not, as generally de
scribed in books, etc., a halo of light surround,
ing the. moon; but was distinctly seen, in tie
shape of a five-pointed prong on the lower, asl
two prongs on the upper circumference of the
moon. These points presented 1 a radiant ap.
pearance. The generally received theory, re
garding this corona, that it is the atmosphere
of the sun, does not seem to be sustained b;
observations made at tMs point. It is conjec
tured that the corona is in some way caused bv
the phenomenon of. light passing through tie
atmosphere. ,i- ; ..1 ' . .
Although search was made, no planetarr
bodies were observed between Mercury and ti;
sun. During the totality phase Mercury, Ve
nus, Regains, -Mars. Saturn, Denebata and
other stars were visible. The temperature ia
the shade at the beginning of the eclipse to
seventy-seven degrees; during totality, forty,
five degrees, and at the' end of the eclipse
it had risen to seventy degrees. - At 3:40.
in the sun, on the grass, the thermometer was tt
100 degrees. A few minutes after four o’clock
it rose to 102 degrees, wMle during the total
eclipse it fell to : sixty degrees, but subsequent
ly rose to eighty degrees.
Parties at the Sonth.
From the A*«»o York Times of the 9lh.i
A controversyrelatingto the Democratic party
engages the attention of many Southern jour
nals. The' key-note was struck by the Savannah
Republican, wMch rebuked the folly of North
ern Democratic nominations, and counseled the
South to keep dear of . Democratic entangle
ments. The facts assigned by the Savannah
journalist were undoubted;' the prudence of
Ms advice was as apparent as the integrity of
the motive wMch dictated it. But the old be
lievers in the Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions protested against interference with their
idolatry. They worsMp the dead past in fall
hope of its joyful resurrection. The Demo
cratic party is to them as the ark of the cove
nant; it is the depository of the principles an!
promises on wMch they rely for deliverance
from the abominations of reconstruction. De
prive these men of • fellowship with that party,
and you take from them their last hope.
Bat this class, judging of them by the news
papers that echo their views, are, numerically,
an almost insignificant minority. More practi
cal ideas animate the majority. The adopt the
saying of a Portuguese Minister: “Let us boy
the dead aud take care of the living." Depre
cating appeals to party traditions, they propose
to apply their brains and hands, “to develop and
utilize the limitless resources” with which Provi
dence has blessed their section. They see tbs:
any attempt to “galvanize the dead party organ
izations of the past” will produce only disap
pointment and defeat; and they urge that pros
perity and peace can be secured only “by union
justice, obedience to law, steadfast puisuii d
the richt.” and an honest fulfillment of th;::
A Very Obtuse Witness.
Pat Fogerty went all the wav from Manches
ter to London, to thrash Mick Fitzpatrick, wind
ing up the , performance with the assistance of
an “.awful horse Bhoe.” He was detected and
brought before a justice. A part of the examina
tion is annexed;
Court—Well, sir, you came from Manchester,
did yon?”
Pat—Your honor has.answered correct.
Court—You see the complainant’s head; it
the statement fully confirmed. Writers disagree ® u t by a sharp instrument. Do you know
na fn flie nKia/if nf +l>ia nrnnet convo nlcimincf I Wflal CUb U •
as to the object of this practice, some claiming
that the natural warmth of the body hastens
Pat—Aint your honor after saying a sharp
devoted to vines in Prance, it is to be hoped
j that the French mode of making wino will not
school system that will meet our wants without; b e introduced into this country—at least, till
copying the system of another country. Let us ; Yankee ingenuity hss been exhausted in finding
fermentation, and others asserting that the ! did. *„
stirring about and mixing up of the pomace in! Court (becoming restive)—I see yonm,
tMs way gives the wine a “fuller body,” a i e< l ulvo . e -
deeper color, or a superior boquet.
As it is now estimated that we have already
planted in the United States 2,000,000 sores of
vineyard, or an area equal to two-fifths of that
develope, in our midst, sufficient self-respeot to
believe that we can achieve success by our own
efforts.—CoiMtution.
University of Georgia.
We underftand that the following young men
have been appointed to free scholarsMps in the
, State University, in addition to those already
There is considerable excitement at Malaga, ow- • enjoying this privilege, viz :
ing to the republican movement there. j J. J. Collier, Talbot'county, .Georgia; J. M.
Paris, August 13.—The Emperor has signed sev- Renfroe, Brooks county, Georgia; Garland
eral decrees of amnesty for press and political j Head, Upson, county, Georgia ; Jas. T. Wilis,
a substitute.
G. A. L.
>— u , _ . , , ( The instruments of the observatory of Yesn- ow..- • i ...u • .uu u
mqn faith and «m 0 3U*> -brigaaai s agems to I indicate that a fresh internal diauibance is 0 in different parts of the country, hut are by no The hops are»U destroyed id the hop-growjng -, regarded as the greatest event inthe commercial
*d«o«*tay. . oomtaenciag in the interior of the mountain. 1 means formidable. ‘ ' regions in WtoooMin. r r ' tatawry of Cimahwti.
- a m m —Ml
offences.
Havana, August 13.—The Juniata arrived yester
day.
All qualities of-sugar have slightly declined. ,
Paris, August 14.—Marshall' Neil, Minister of
War, is dead.
Yiesna, August 14.—'Hie Press, a Government
Bibb county, Georgia; J. J. Jnhan, Carroll
county, Georgia; Jones, Elbert county,
Georgia.
Great activity prevails in the University in the
preparations making for the ensuing session,
September 1 st. Besides the law professors, and
those of the high school, there are ten profes
sors in/he University,so that all the departments
Affairs m Griffin.—The Star of- yesterday
says:
Business is looking up. Our country friends,
now crops are laid by, pay ns more frequent
visits, and buy something most every time they
come. They are in exuberant spirits about
crops.
A few dried peaches have come in. We quote
pealed at §6 per bushel; tMs is too low. "Wheat,
very little received; worth $130. Farmers
won’t sell. Two bales of cotton received yes
terday, stored at Rhea & Boyd’s Warehouse.
Prices nominal, say 29 and 30c for middling.
Now, Bir, you cut that head—you
came here to cut it, did you not? Now, sir,
what motive brought yon to London ?
Pat—The locomotive, sir.
Court (waxing warm)—Equivocating again,
yon sconndrel ? (Raising up the horse shoe and
holding it before Pat,) Do yon see this horse
shoe, sir?
Pat—Is it a horse shoe, your honor ?
Court—Don’t you see it is, sir? Are you
blind ? Can you not tell at once that it is a
horse shoe ?
Pat—Bedad, no, yonr honor.
Court (angrily)—No ?
Pat—No, vour honor; but can yerself tell ?
Court—Of course I can, you Btupid Irish
man!
Pat (soliloquising aloud)—Oh, glory be to
goodness! See what education is, your honor;
sure a poor ignorant creature like myself
wouldn’t know a horse shoe from a mare’s.
A Washington letter says: “Nearly a hun
dred small postoffices in various sections of the
country, mostly Southern, however, have been
discontinued in consequence of the . negligence
organ, says, the business relations between tlie • are thorongMy organized tor instruction. - . — . . - . -- ,, v—
Turkish and Lombardy, railroads have beenentirely ! - astronomical party that went with Pro- i thl
erotb, n e enoe of the budget, sai - Tbs marnte- t urnedj and'the friends of the University are ' The purchasers of the textile fabrics on ex-
nance of peace will be easier if the defensive forces hirfjy gratified at their success.—Atlanta Con- ' Mbition in Cincinnati are principally wholesale
of Austria are not diminished. stitution. .. : dealers. The amount realized is satisfactory.
Several additional bands of Carlists have appeared : ' ~~~~— > ! The exposition has been a great' success, and is
A traveller in Paris, haring occasion for . a
hair cutter, sent for one.. At the appointed
time an elegantly attired person arrived, and
the gentleman sat down before his dressing case
to prepare for the operation. The man walked
round his “client” once or twice, and finally
taking his stand at some distance, attentively
scrutinized the gentleman’s face with the air of
a connoisseur looking at a picture. “Well,"
said the traveler, impatiently, “when are you
going to begin?” “Pardon me, Bir,” was the
polite reply; “I am not the operator, but the
physiognomist !”• “Adolphe !”he cried out, and
a sleeved and aproned barber entered from the
hall, “a la Virgil!” With this laconic direction
as to the mode after wMch the gentleman’s hair
waste be-arranged, the artist retired.
the right,” and an honest fulfillment
obligations. ’
Of sucb are men who, with Republican he-F-
elected Walker in Virginia and Senter in Ten
nessee. Such are they who, imder the name c-
“Conservative Republican organizations’’
almost certainly carry Mississippi and Texas J?
November. They care notlring for party s .^‘
auces or party traditions. The new era hss
dawned upon them, with new duties, which the;
avow theii; readiness to perform. ,
Rejecting the Democratic party, as such, aoa
discarding antique Democratic maxims as of iw
more practical account than the inscriptions on
the Pyramids, they are equally averse to pm*
and simple Republican organizations. TMJ
are anxious for lasting pacification, on the basa
of "reconstruction, and will work to that es-
But, wMle good judgment keeps them bab
from the Northern Democracy, feeling—perhaps
principle—keeps them apart from extreme m-
publican partisanship. They propose to
store peace and prosperity to their btat.es, a
for that purpose seek new non-partisan alliances
In this combination the foundation is laid to.
new organization, which, for some time 1
come, will probably control the political
cems of the South.
It is not a coalition in a corrupt or
izing sense. It is not a combination from/'
honest Republicans must necessarily
which Northern Republicans may proper 1 :
sail. *" For it stands squarely upon a BepaO^
foundation. Strict compliance with the “
secured. All that Congress or the Presides'
enjoined is done. Every requirement of
Reconstruction acts is provided for. In res Pj
of principle, tMs new-born alliance is idenn
with the out-and-out Republican party-
ing bnt personal considerations separated t
in Virginia; nothing else separates the®
Texas or Mississippi.
The accession of the large number of
crats who are enabling Republican niino =
to perfect reconstruction and take possessw '
the local Executives is, then, a dear » e P ^
- It accomplishes all' we have soug*
can gain.
in the precise manner that has been in<
and with this we should be satisfied.
The ultimate party result is contingent
circumstances. Whether a movement v
contains the germ of independent actio® . e
in the formation of a tMrd party, holdiDg
balance of power between straight Bern . ^
and straight Republicans, is a problem
the course of the Administration ana 01 c .
gress will probably solve. If the union o'Pj
tical Democrats and moderate RepubUWf' ^
a Republican platform, be treated as
can scarcely hope for its continued co^^ f
tion. The wiser plan would seem to be ^
cept the aid which is rendered in 8°"* ^
and to cultivate its continuance by mod*"
and generosity. The duration of EepT. u i>.
independenoe at the Sooth depends upon
Means themselves.
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