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J? dJK ! imcr. J. T. WATBIRMAN', proprietor. OUR ATLANTA LETTER. the SOLDIERS—’TEXAS RANOVR—THE SHAM BATTLE—^THE FAIRS—FE MALE PICKPOCKETS— l’ATENT PLOWS—BAD HUSBANDRY- MYSTIC owls-death’s SAD WORK. October 23, 1880. Since my last letter, Atlanta has been in the midst ot the most multi tudinous excitement. If you do not catch my meaning by that phrase, in vert the words and say she has been lull of the most excited multitudes. Everybody has been he re and their ‘ sisters and their cousins and their aunts!’ Should the quotation stagger you, just lean up against that excla mation point, which I place there for all such n ailers to steady themselves by. i / UHlVERSnY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY BANNER. CIcMccldj'g aimer. T. WATHHMAN, PROPRIETOR. , “ WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.” Volume LXIV. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1SS0. Number 52. — The inilita< y parades, encampment Ac., have furnished the chiet attrac tion. Everybody likes lo look at sol diers. While folks and black folks, old folks and young folks, wise men and tools, rich men ami poor men men and women (especially the wo men) like to gaze at them. Women will dance w ith an idiot iu uiiitorm and will rej.-ct a prodigy ol mind and culture to do so. I don’t blame them. I never could be a soldier, it for noth ing else than that my legs arc too short to keep I he step with any ordi nary man; hut I recur with syropa- ihetic pleasure to the days when as a bar. loot school boy I habitually rcit- eiated on Friday evenings, ihe deejs. seated desire of my heart: “ 1 wish I win u soldier and had a fine rud." The remainder of the patriotic coup let compo-ed for the use ot such youthful oiatois is: • I’d no iiIoiir with Jackson and ace the yankeca run.” j This part I always spoke with men-1 ta! reservation, but the fiist part I uttered in great sincerity. But al though I like soldiers I have seen enough of this kind ot thing lorawhile. It was lirst-rate at the start but a man tires ol a good thing when it is too abundant. I was so taken with the thing on the first day that I put on martial ways, if not the clothes, and called myself a ‘Texas Ranger.’ Not caring as much for the articles stolen as for the desire to sustain the charac ter assumed, I filched two or three articles from my wife’s pantry. A few remarks of the Caudle variety took the war paint off me and 1 dropped into a meek citixen. Some men can afford to play 4 Texas Ranger’ I sup pose, and I have decided henceforth not to comjiete with them in the per formance. There was a sham battle between certain of the companies at Ogle thorpe Park. They performed. on a part of the ground made hi-foric in the siege of Atlanta. It was an interest- of people filled the streets, standing so thick as to prevent the running ot the street cursor other conveyances until the great crowd would move on in pursuit of the Itcnutiful display. At such a time people become in toxicated with gayety and forget that there are any sorrowing hearts, or tearful eyes left in the world. But alas! the waves of human suffering never sleep. Often crowds of pleasure seeks ers hasten with quick step past, homes into which sickness or death has come,* and the unwelcome sound of their careless laughter finds it« way into the chamber of sadness. The omniscient eye looks down upon a world of strik ing contrasts; joy and grief stand close together in his great view. And he or she whose eye fulls upon this letter will see something after the same manner. With this detail of festivities I am compelled to mingle a tale ot grief. Miss Lanra Candler, the eldest daughter of lion. M. A. Candler has gone from her beautiful earthly home into that house not made with bands— 44 Our Fathers House ” iu heaven. She would have completed her course at the school of Madame Sosnowski in your city next summer. Just entering upon womanhood, a ! joy to Iter friends, and almost the idol of her family, death lias snatched her away. Only a handlul of dust in a grave! and the memory of a beautiful life is left. Bright eyes are closed, a sweet voice is hushed, a warm heart is stilled forever. May the good Christ who wept with Mary and Martha in Bethany comfort and strengthen the hearts bowed in grief by this great affliction. Jac. TIIE SALVATION ARMY. OPENING OF TUK CAMPAIGN IN BALTI MORE. Bsltimorc Sun. •The Salvation Army’ ojtened the campaign in Baltimore yesterday by holding meetings, afternoon and eve ning, in William Street Independent Methodist Church. The names of the two guards are Theodore Jones and Charles Bentley, aged, resi>ectively, twenty-three and twenty-two years. Jones is a Philadelphian, and joined — , w«» , . , .,%• , l aJUllvc 13 a A uuauLii»ui"HH ju»<vu ingMght. If the word Ihrimng wn i ^ g a i val j 0ll Army J under coiumis- not quite so strong, I would say it 1 8 j oner RaiRon, about a year ago. was a thrilling sight. t convince ^ ba8 B en tlcy was born in Notting- me of the wisdom of Mark 1 wain s ^ England, but came to America war policy as announced in h't card wben thirteen years of age, and en- ns a c andidate lor the presidency lisled in t he Salvation Army last the United Stales. Mark declared 8pr h, g nhortly after its arrival in this that in caso of war, he was determin- countr _ Rev. Thomas Lowe, [astor ed, as soon as the guns began to hre, o j tbe cnurcb j n w hich the meetings to get right, over the **"*• held, introduced them to the home. 1 am going with him, and we C0D „ re „ at ; 0n at the afternoon meeting expect to have a good large following j gtal j ng t |j a t he was always willing and — not because our plan is popular, but anxio “ g to help and be helped b y any on account ol our personal popularity. ( arne8l £oldier of tbe cr0M . goth Besides the military attractions wo j 0|JeJ and jj eli *]y wore the Uniterm of have had two fairs running; one all tbe ,^ rm „ ,—blue blouses with col- day and the other a good pmt of the | arg lr j mmed with red biuding. Their night. One- is the lair in the interest batg are b l*ck Derbys, with red of the armory for the hate City Kj d tjj> ghil . ld3 j ngcr ; bed Sal- Guards. This is a popular method of val j oll Army. Both men are below raising money for churches, lodges, ^ nied j uin height, Jones being libraries etc It is rarely a/oir way, corapact iy bu -,lt, while Bentley is spare though called by that name. The an , | nok J to ^ in feeb i a health. They other was the exhibition ol the North were Reated w itbin the altar railing, Georgia Stock and Fair Association. I andon being introduced Bentley said Both have been successes financially |hal thcy trora Philadelphia to to all concerned; even the pickpockets tbis city believing that there was have prospered A little sensation work done bere f or the Lord, was made by the repeated successes or and tbey bad faith t0 bope lbo way a female pickjcocket at the car shed. wou , d be ned> and ag tbo relation The married men need not affect w„n- of cxper j eucea was the best kind of <1. r about the case, however, lor evet7 c r hi hewonld relate big> a„ d one of the poor innocents has his pock". buped that Christians present would ets rifled by a woman pickpocket (o ,[ ow him and re l a ie theirs. Jones oftener than the changes of the moon. teand relatud somewhat of his There was on exhibition at the fair h ^ 0 _ he effectively. A pious of the North Georgia Stock and Fair molb er t dying while he was young, Association ^a new and wonderful m#de j.j m promise to meet her in ploughing apparatus. I do not ven- beaven . be Grayed away, became r turc to call it a plow, though it does . went ^ bad raan y nar , Col. Ben. Yancey, it is I —• =■ — *— SCISSORISMS. If a mule had as many legs as a cockroach thi-c country wouldn’t be so thickly populated. A man who a'ways is hunted by the sheriff may be ‘chased’ although not always virtuous. It is a difficult thing for a dog with out a tail to show his master bow much be thinks of him. You can't make pancakes out of the base-ball batter, although the pi'cher often catches the baiter. The man who knows more about /our business than you do yourself; always has leisure te entertain you. A Sacramento bride whipped her father because he induced her husband to drink iu a barroom. An eccentric hut pious man has built a house on posts torty feet high, at Plymton, Oregon, in order that he may live nearer heaven. Like sees like. On these pleasant Autumn evenings the tooting ofabrass hand is trequeutly followed by the metallic ring of the politician’s voice. Life, liberty and the pursuit oi happiness’ is an American’s inalien able birthright, lie keeps up the pursuit of happiness, hut very sel dom catches him. The man with a barrel does not exercise any influence on German voters; but the statesman who taps a keg—a keg of lager beer—wins their votes every timo If you can get one towel out of one yard of cloth, how many towels can you get out of two yards? That de pends altogether on how many there are on the clothes lines. A Jersey City merchant who sells candy clips off a half inch from the end of the penny stick, and nses the ends with his mixed candies. This is the New Jersey idea of the balance of trade. Dead Lake, in California, is peculiar in having no visible outlet, thou h a large stream runs into it. The I ndiana believe that it is bottomless and marks the spot where a wicked tribe once sank into the ground. No In dian can be induced to go near it * Adolphus, my dear,’ said she, ‘it’s nearly a year since you first began to call.’ 4 Yes, I believe so,’ nervously. ‘And we’ve talked about books and music every night.’ 1 Y-y-e-s I think so,’ more nervous than befoie. ‘Well, l-I-don’t you think a change would be agreeable T There was a change in a few weeks time. The pastor made it. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH The rapid recovery of the South is illustrated by a table which the Gal veston News has just published from our official statistics, showing the cot ton trade of the United States and the average price per pound at New York and Liverpool for the last fifty years. The comments of our contem porary on these figures deserve quota tion -. From a crop of 976,845 bales in 1830, production in America has increased in 1879 lo 5,064,155 bales. The greatest crop before the war was 4,861,292 bales—the greatest in the history of the country was 5,075,155 bales in 1878-79. Free labor has produced in the fifteen years since the close ot the war 9,600,000 hales more than was produced in the fifteen years preceding the war. These are extra ordinary fsets, from which startling deductions may be made. It is discov ered likewise that in ratio of in creased production has been steadily maintained an increased ratio in price. From the year 1839 up to the year 1860 the average price paid iu New York for middling cotton was not quite equnl to eight and a halt cents. From 1865 np to 1879 the price paid has averaged upward twenty-two and a half cents. The staple has settled down upon an apparent basis of some thing like twelve cents. It is estima ted by experts and statisticians that cotton now enters so largely into such variety of manufactured articles GEN. A. R. LAWTON. ' • fAupuU Chronicle and Constitutionalist] The editorial correspondence of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, dated Atlanta, February 1 1876, contained the following reference to General A. R. Lawton, then a member of the Honsofrom Chatham. We take great pleasure in reproducing this notice of General Lawton in the columns of the Chrouicle and Constitutionalist: Lawton, whose convictions were against a convention on und of expediency alone, op- ie compromise. He it one of it and ablest iffen in the Stattf, could say with truth in the There is nothing small in the Re has neither egotism nor ipoeity, neither assnmacy nor "it;. Firm in his convictions, be id in the expression of his op nions and always courteous and di nified. A gentleman of the most liwral culture and of the highest legal at ainments he stands to-day the peer of any man in Geargia. There ia ratling negative ahout him. His vi >wa on all questions are broad and n; tional, and are expressed with precision, force and elegance which always command respect, and never fail of the impression that lie is a man of great character, of spotless in- tegrity and of superior ability, lie is upt ouly a patriot, hut a statesman -pa man who has never sought office, S t one who would do honor to Gsor- i, either as her chiet executive that increased demand keeps and will officer or as one of her representatives keep fully up to the increased produc- jn the Senate of the United States. AN AGRICULTURAL CREED According to the Canada Farmer, the agriculimists of Canada met in convention not long ago, and adopted for themselves the following creed: We believe in small farms and thor ough cultivation. We believe that the soil lives to eat as well as the owner, and ought there fore to be well manured. We believe in going to the bottom of things,and therefore deep plowing and enough of it—all the better if it he sub-soil plow. which We believe in large crops, ' Rjnrs l8i i—d hotter than they A man threw a couple ot superan nuated eggs at an actress in a Philadel phia theatre Very likely he had no further use for the eggs, and thought he would give thm away, but this action brought him into bad odor with the court, and be was fined $500 people who are cunous to unueretanu • u> aftcr being liberated, h< it or see it will doubtless have an op- coaTorted j„ a jJethodist i ch jiorluiii'.y of doing so. I can not de- jjj g manner wns.ewcpfst to vehetr scribe it, and will not try. 1 have and b ; g p3tbe tic narrative afl tion. This assures prices. The American crop of 1879 realized 8228,- 335, 975. The same crop for the 1846 realized but $79,039,475—a dif ference of 8149,297,500. The two years selected will serve as an illustra tion, as they appear to strike an aver age. With this system of wealth ac cretion, how long will it take the South lo recover herself? Taking cognizance of the facts also that of the South is now herself sustaining in articles of home consumption than she was in years before the war, it must be ap- parent at a glance that she is oo the high road to a magnificent future!; Should the value of exports flora Tex-' as this year reach $100,000,000, as it is exacted it will do, it is safe to sa; that *25,000,000 of this amount wi remain as a clear profit oi capital to the State. These aggregates in a few years will become so great that mi in the South will be owned in al dance, the sequence ot which will jfa that jn all direction# will sprung,®*' manufactures and kindred e'' the establishment of which ance cf a steady and solid indepen dence. The lessons uf emancipation to the South may have been bitter in tbeir times and iue.ho.ls, but who will say that after all tliey may not prove a right royal benetaciiou ? The South I have deemed this due to the ex alted character of the distinguished member from Chatham. To him is due the credit of the measure which harmonized the conflicting views of the friends of the convention. With such men ia a convention to frame the organic law, the people need have no apprebensiou as to the result. The rights of all persons will be preserved under the new constitution, and the best interest# ot the State will be subserved * it, making both the farm and the larmer rich at once. We believe every farm should own a good larmer. We believe that the fertilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry, enterprise and intelligence—without these, lime, gypsmn, and guano would be of little use. We believe in good fenses, good farmshou-es, good orchards, and good children enough to gather the fruit We believe in clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clean cupboad, a clean daily, and a clean conscience. We believe to ask a man’s advice is not stooping, but of much benefit. We believe that to keep a place for everything and everything in its place Baves many a step ar.d is pretty sure to lead to good tools and to keeping them in order. We believe that kindness to stock, like good shelter, is saving of fodder. We believe that it is a good thing to keep an eye on experiments, and note all, good and bad. We believe that it is a good rule to sell grain when it is ready. We believe in producing the best butter aod cheese, and marketing it when it is ready. THE GREAT TROTTERS. BUSINESS MAXIMS. A prominent merchant has com plied the following maxims for his own inquiry and experience • 1. Choose the kind of business you understand. 2. Capital is positively required in business, even if you have real estate outside and credit ever so good. 3. One kind oi business is os much as a man can manage successfully. Investment on the outside do not gen erally pay, especially if you require the money iu your business. JiY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNO W THEM." One of the best things which has been done in these latter days, nod » one which crowns the life of Thurlow Weed, is his ‘ open letter ’ to Robert G. Ingereoll. Wo make an extract or” two. One is a picture of what religion has done for New York: 4 Forty > ears ago a locality too well knowu as the 4 Five Points,’- with a population of several thousand#, was the home of the vilest of the vile, and the resort ot others equally de based. Men, women and children of all nationalities and colors herded to gether, differing only in degrees of crime and the depths of profligacy habitually practiced. Their days were' passed in either idleness or de» predations. Their nights were spent in daDce-house debaucheries. All healthy or wholesome influences were excluded. Children grew up to be come either street beggars or inmates jof the almshouse, anejf their parents 'filled penitentiaries and prisons, These orgies continued year after year, de fiant and aggressive, until that pande monium was invaded by Christian tnen and women whose patience would not tire, whoso courage was indomit able, and whose devotion has been ?i*y jSautiOUsly and M what w TmoTar and relmiou. yon want, to purchase what you do hot need ; it yon do, yon will soon want what you can’t buy. 5. Insure your stock; insure your store; insure your dwelling, if you have one. If the r ite is high it is on ly because the risk is great, and of course you should not take the risk yourself. A business that will not pay for insuring will not justify run ning. 6. ^Sell to good, responsible parties only. Sell on a specified time and when your money is due domand it; do not let the account stand without note or interest for an indefinite pe riod. 7. Sell at a reasonable profit and never misrepresent to effect a sale. 8. Live within your income; keep your business to yourself; have pa tience and you will succeed. 9. Competition is the life of trade, hut in trying to run your competitor out of business be careful you do not run yourself out. i 10. Advertise your business in your home paper. It pays to patronize the printer. that work. Col. Ben. X ancey, it is I rnw following evil associates, said, bought one, and the Athens ba waa thrown into prison and one people who are curious to understand • b t. a{ber be ; ng liberated, he was it no CAn it mill rlnitllllcfla hflOA fin nllk I ® « • .1 1* ^ ^ chlirCfa vehemence, „„ pathetic narrative affected knowledge ot but two things concern- K tearg the grea te r portion of his ing tanning. The first is that patent hearera About a dozen men, old plowing machines are generally patent and youngf and several women also humbugs, This I have learned * n I related their experiences. All through traveling ahout in Georgia during the lbe meeting the excitement ran high, last few years. During that * I and during the niogiog ot hymns and have 8eeu ions ol timber and red paint exhortations exclamations of ‘Glory,’ piled up ruder gin houses and in tool . Ha)le i ujab » and -Amen’ were rife, rooms, in the shape ol patent plows H and _ aba v m g became general, while that were good lor nothing but to ««*• lwo or three of the older brethren The second fact I found during my and one e ) der ]y aster fairly danced youth in a Vinegar Bitters Almanac. witb ; 0 y. The two army men said Subsequentexperienceand observation 1 fe f tperfect w at home, and were has confirmed to me its wisdom. It is ^ ecstatic as those who bad been af- a profound principle worthy of all ao* ffcled by lheir exhortations. Bentley ccptalion mid reads on this wise: gla ( ed ; n conversation that others of ‘ It is exceedingly bad husbandry to Sa i vavion Army are expected here harrow up the feelings of your wire. io a ghort lime> . ag goou ag t he Lord This senteuoe I found among a list of opeQa tbe *3.. ;hen they would we garden items, at the bottom of the I the goape i bre0m and gweep the devil 1-age in the aforesaid publication 1 back lo b ig headquarters.’ At prea- have forgotten all the suggestions enl a ma ; or jty 0 f the army in this about strawberries and parsnips and I ooun ^ ry wag recruited in it, and when radishes, hut this has. clung to me. I Qjggiginjgger Railton comes to Balti- doubt not it Ungers in my n,,,, d for raore he will bring those recruits in- some good purpose. eluding a number of sisters. Maybe you have heard of the 0 l i Mystic Owls and their display. This is an organization which seek# to be to Atlanta what Mardi Gras is to New Orleans. They give an annual 1 Potatoes, at any time of the year, hall some night during fair week, and can he mealy if boiled in salt and wa- a street pageant. About the tall I ter and drained and then covered can not write, for this prodigal had j w j|h a thick towel and left in back of no part or lot in the music and the tbe range five minutes.’ dancing. Get you a copy e* q*o retain the color of any vegetable esl’s and stnng a lot nl milhnery terms , unge ^ int0 old wa t er after boiling, of French extraction together, Cooks make tlramistake of. boiling and hang the string around some tb ; nga t00 muc h. After reaching the fictitious name, and yon wtB have os inl meatg gbo uld simraev sr5x*«ss:as &5asur - w '— Kftr?»l'32STS& as Wtot show. It is so republican. Generally rather than over-season food. it is like tree lunch but not so in thi When anything is accidentally case. Tlie subject presented this I mafia too salt it can be counteracted year was the crusadis. Huge floats 1 by adding a tahlespoontul ot vinegar drawu by horses draped in white, each I and a tablespooaful of sugar, bearing some scene representative of j Meats of any kind should not be the , conspicuous events of the first 1 washed, but wiped with a towel to crorads. were carried, through the preserve tbe juices and quality. streets. The whole scene was lit up J ’ •• with the most brilliant lights, iu the I Tub Philadelphia police have just bauds of attendants walking on either | been: assessed $8,697 for ^republican side of the freosssion. A perfect sea | campaign purposes.^ for bis little diversion. This is 83,000 «• , mor ? P™P*rous to-day than ever a dozen for eggs, and not very good be, °^ ,n h ? r history. As matters eggs at tbat. g We seem to be getting to «>*«t may she not aspire back into war prices. i or thlrt J ^ars hence ? The cotton pickers, says the Rich-, _ _ _ . , , mond State are ‘happy in tbe tar The St. Louis voung lady goes on South’ and there is no talk of exodus, to advise her sisterhood as sagely as The season is full upon them, aud it through sne spoke from the pinnacle will cost the planters, at a close es- °1 experience. She tells them : Now tirnate, $40,000,000 to pick the crop that yon are being courted, you think this yea'",825,000,000 of which will go I of course, it ia all very well and it into the pockets of the colored labor- *U he nicer when you get married, era, the greater portion ol which will But it won t. He thinks he s be earned by the women and child- to keep on this high pitch of love rcn. And yet there are people who the time. But he won t. He doesn't believe this race is not content and know himsrif, and you doD t know haDDV here j» him. It can’t last. It must cool down. „ . . _ , w When he sees you as many times a Captain Eads will sad from New K be wants to, and may be Orleans for Mex.co on November 4, ’ he „ h „ 8ees h ead done accompanied by a party of engineers, ^ morn , / , in cur , who will examine the Isthmus of \V 7 ^ h J, off lhe Tehuantepec, in order to verify the whcn your homo contains a Captain’s ideas as to ite edapuM,ty ^ dealof J waflh ^ cradI(J and to the par^ses of a ship ra. way. ^ he won’t stand in front of Captain Itads will, at the samo time, h house for one hour out in the cnaeavorito securegovcn.ment sane- L,^ watching your light in your turn for hm proposed survey, and to w j adow He’ll L thinking rather aeccrtam what the Mexican Congress | ofgeU . ingontofthe h ousef Young woman, protract this court-hip COOKING MAXIMS will be willing to do if he decides to make the railway. I long as you can. Let well enough The Concord stieet Baptist Church ggjone. A courtship in hand is worth (colored), in Brooklyn says the Sun, j ^ wo marriages in the bush. Don’t has threatened to withdraw from the tn.irry till Chrisinas after next.’ Long Island Baptist Association if 1 colored people are not admitted to 1 Qou BLEsa the Ladies!—It’s tire privileges of the BapU-t Home. wel , u , g QVer - m Illdian3> for | 0 ,ely m a-socmiion has accordingly de- w<jinan hersclf wag rutlD ; riol with cided that, while * has no power to of ^ « nTMa . A instruct the managers of tUiHome, ^ recites that -in one ,ta senseu that all legally worthy ap- dfy0 ^ Ptand a nnmber 0 f ladies, plicants should he sdmiltad lo tlm 1^; wj|h brag8 and gtring Home, and to all the benefits thereof, Maba ,. d Ouehason a without regard to race or color. | dreS3 with red t8 aud b lue A very large Democratic meeting alld white trimmings: another wears was held at York, Pa., Thursday 1 a gkjrt of pink and a paper cap of bine Judge Jere 8 Black presided, and I a dorned with white stars; toe next • * J C»t mmhaLaw Q.inafA* I • 1 FI introducing tbe first speaker, Senator wears against a dress of dusty mus~ Bayard, of Delaware, said: T intro- Mfo a stomacher, representing the duee to yon a gentleman whose name shield of the republic, and still anoth- is a household word in all this country er—heaven save the mark—is hoist —frotn Maine to Texas, from the upon tb e gate-post, where she person- Atlantic to the Pacific. I claim for I ^ with a speckled fool’s cap and him your utmost attention, and not bedraggled blue skirt, reaching to one word will diop from his lips you tj ie wa lk beneath, the Goddess of ought not to remember. If he were Liberty. Her flag hss somehow got to die to-day his name would go entangled in a bush beside the fence, down to posterity pure and untar- and u we thunder by her an anath- nished.’ Senator Wallace and Hon. | e ma rises aliove the sound of hoofs, E. K. Adgar also spoke. We do not know that we. could add anything new to those opinions ex pressed in 1876. They were inten ded to cover the whole ground of ad miration for General Lawton. We know for certain that time has strengh- ened our convictions and that noth ing can lie taken away in eulogy. General Lawton is a man ot growth 1 and, as such, bis mental and moral nature baa advanced since 1876. He has been popularly mentioned for the ftwrafsirahra nf thii flints, to success Gen. Gordon, and in this noble ambi tion we heartily second what we deem to be a genuine voice of the people. Like Gen. Hancock, General Lawton is a spotless character. He cannot be successfully assailed individually or professionally. He has ever been true to himself, his people and his Maker. His ideal is a lofty one and will always be so. He has been tried in many ways and found faithful in all. He has been wise in peace and valiant in war. He has ever preferred principle to selfish gain, and has never deserted his fellow-citizens in an extennity for his own peculiar usufruct. True to them in past misfortune, bo will not forsake them should a dark day come again. He does not promise incredi ble advantages if the Senatorahip should fall to bis lot, bat he may be depended upon to illustrate the com: monwealth with dignity and talent and secure for her all that law allows and that personal influence can com' pass. The Titmouse art ot giving everything to everybody, by proclam alien or resolution, is easy of accom- phishment on paper; it is difficult to bring to pass in congress. We have no doubt that, if elected to the senate, Gen. Lawton will, in every way, be ac ceptable to the whole people and that tbe people will be proud of him. He represents the spirit of conciliation and not antagonism. He is equipped to meet in debate the best of his op ponents. No scandal will ever attach to his name. The practicality of his ca reer is only matched by the chivalry of his soul. He combines the sound sense of the North with the high spir it of the South. Nothing is more at tractive, winning and influential at Washington than such a combination of intellectual and moral qualities. We may be sure that on the grand arena of the Senate he will hold no second place and that he will stand among the foremost ot his peers. Georgia could have no worthier, rarer, abler Senator, nor one who, ] aithfnl to the glories of the past, is so admirably endowed to sustain the greater aspirations of the future. The following is a list of the great trotters of the world which have made a record below 2:20, in harness or to wagon : 2:10}—Maud S. 2:11} —St. Julian. 2:13}—Itarus. 2:14 —Goldsmith Maid. 2:14}—Hopeful. 2:15 —Lulu. 2:15}—Smuggler. 2:15}—Hattie Woodward 2:16}—Lucille Golddnst. 2:16}—American Girl, Darby and Hopeful to wagon. 2:16}—Occident. 2:17 —Gloster. ~ - -*■ 2:17} —Dexter. 2:17}—Hannis. 2:18 --DickSwiveler, Edwin For rest, Great Eastern, Judge Fullerton, Nettie Proteine, IUd Cloud, and Sana Claus. 2:18}—lady Maud, Lady Thorn Luck, Midnight, and Independence. 2:18}—Colonel Lewis, Slow Go, and Charley Ford. 2.T 8}—Nutt wood and Patchen, 2:19 —Albemarlde, Alley, Bone setter, Cozette, Edward, Graves, Wedgewood, Kitty Bates, and Mos- LONG ENGAGEMENTS. A St. Louis young woman enters into tome interesting statistical and malrimoniaLeonjectnres. She figures out that she knows perhaps one bun- wheels and instruments: ‘Burn my cats, ef I don’t yank ye np by the roots toraorer, ye darned eternal demonish thing.*—Chicago Times Says the St. Louis Republican Hancock is a bad raau to stir up, and died young men, in round numbers. I republicans ought to understand by Of these she thinks she knows about ^ thne that they are sure to hart jssU——f— •he would consent to marry for love I attacks oo him* It is not to be sup or money on the spur of tbe moment, posed that General Grant had any It may not be a pleasant way ot put* especial regard for Garfield when he ting it, bnt-what. she says is tnat, mi ojkHs mod batteries and began to lakrag one hundred young men as fife slime at Hancock, but whatever they come and go, only one out of J his intention, hi* assault has damaged every twenty-five can be set down as Garfield only less than himralf. No- unobjectionable and able to make a I body will assume to hold Garfield re living lor himself and wife sponsible for Grant’s low scnmkty, but it baa nevertheless been decided The London Economist is not very i effective in strengthening Hancock sanguine as to Mr. Thomas Hughes’ 1 and in that way has been most dams Tennessee experiment. aging to Garfield.’ .■J---' j ». .O’ ' ? 2:19}—Rodiue, Comec, Croxie and George Palmer. 2:19}—Thoe. L. Young and Keene Jim. 2:19}—Adelaide, Camors, Flora Temple, Trinket and Dick Wright. New York and the Tariff.— The tariff question in this State, the great commercial center, is likely to prove more disastrous to the Republi cans than the Democrats. Many of the leading manufacturers find that so many schemes have been hitched on the tariff that it hurts more than it helps them. Manufacturing in terests have had loaded ujion them so many projects which tax the people and tax them that they feel that it is better for them to cope with foreign competition with less taxation than with more. What our manufacturers need now. more than all other things, is the restoration of our mercantile and shipping interests, which will search out markets for them, in all parts of the world. It is tacitly con ceded that the continuance of the Re publican party in power means the virtual abandonment of American commerce and the destruction of Am ericau mercantile agencies and in terests. THAT CORSET STORY. Some republicans have a good deal to say about Gen. Hancock wearing a corset. But they don’t tell why he wears a corset. Here is the truth of the whole matter: Gen. Hancock was wounded with a a prison bullet iu the Mexican war, which was followed by a running sore, ard in consequ ence of which he has ever since been compelled to wear a bandage It is difficult to keep the bandage in place and a corset was brought into use. This is the whole of the corset story. It is not worn for the reason that some men part their hair in the mid dle, but to protect a wound received in defense of his country. Republi can spouters ate welcome to afl the capital they c.m make against IIan> cock by derisively retailing the corset story. It is proposed in New York to es tablish the whipping post as a means of punishment tor wife heating buss bands. The Herald says: ‘It would not keep men long enough away from their families to subject the latter to suffering for lack of the husband’s earning, as some times they do ■when one ot these brutes is imprisoned. A reestablishment of tbe whipping [>ost might seem a step backward, hut if it were done only for the benefit of wife beaters no one would be likely to ob ject, and there would be no lack of men—even women—willing to handle the ‘cat and see that the punisliraen were properly inflicted.’ AN OPPONENTS ADMIS SION. The Madisonian, an able as well as candid paper, has this to say about Emory bpeeris speech in Madison: There is no doubt that this leader of the independents in the 9th is a man ot power on the stump. His style, which has in it rather too florid a complexion and borders at times most too much on sophomorio bomhast tor one who aspires to tlie dignity of an Ameican Statesman, is nevertheless attractive;—interspersed as it is. with really eloquent conceptions and beau tiful imagery. His articulation is distinct; and'he gives proof that he has remarkable control over his voice, #s well as his manner. Notwith standing the numerous public speeches very recently delivered, we discover ed not a discordant or a harsh tone from hoarseness or otherwise in the dear ringing of bis well selected words. Taking into ooraideration hi* age f and bis brief experience in pnbuolife,Improbably has not an equal, Benj. EL. Hill excepted, as a popular orator before a promiscuous gathering. Old John Robinson’s show yester day was a grand success not only in point of the attendance, which was im mense, hut in the excellence the va riety and completeness of the exhibi tion. To tell of the many wondai ful animals, the fine horses and sprightly dogs, the marvellous feats of horse- mansbip and gymnastics.the witticis ms ot Lowlow, that prince of clowns, and countless other features would lead us far beyond the limits ot our space. Sufficient to say that the ex hibition was oue of the beet, if not the best, that our people have } et seep, and that Old John’s great show will be welcomed toLynchlmrg whenever it shall come —Lynchburg Virgin ian. Fifteen years of free labor in the South are telling there story in the census of 1880. Aud what does it teach? The negro so far from de clining iu numbers, has increased more rapidly than ever before, and it is to the multiplication of his race that the South is mainly indebted for its ability to maintain its present power in the government. And so far from running into idleness and decay, the negro never was as thrifty as now, and his labor never produced so much per head to the common wealth of the country. After Henry Ward Beecbei; had talked about politics for halt an hour at his prayer-meeting, last Friday night, a stranger arose and began to discuss the kingdom of heaven. He spoke in a cracked voioe, and Mr. Beecher at once began to frown upon him. After listening to him for two minntes, Mr. Beecher interrupted him, saying: 4 Weil, my young friend, I guess you had better wind up. As they say in Congress, we will give you leave to print the rest of your re marks ’ The young man dropped into his seat, much discomfited. To wash towels with colored bor ders let them soak in a pail ot cold water containing one teaspoon ful of sugar of lead ; let them remain ten minutes before washing; to make the colors look clear and bright, use pul verized borax in wash water, very lit tle soap ?nd no soda. To wash rod linen, use tepid water, with * little powdered borax, which serves to set the color; wash the linen separately and quickly, using viry little soap; rinse in tepid water, containing a lit tle boiled starch; hang to dry in the shade, and iron when almost dry. . ‘If you will consent to my mar riage with vonr daughter, she will be> We have above aim-1 treated as if she were an angel.’ ‘That ‘I assure you, gentlemen,’ said the convict upon entering the prison, ‘that the p'.nce.naa sought me, and Dot I the place. My own affairs really demanded ail my time and attention, and 1 may truly say my selection to ffll lliis po sition was an entire sui prise. Had I consulted ray own interests, I should have peremptorily declined to serve imt as I am in the hands of my friends, I see no other course hut to submit.’ And ho 8ubinited. In the country, the woman of the house ia in a sad fix. A big fruit yield and a Presidential election come to gether. There is any quantity of stuff to do np, but the man who should peel and pit is off carrying a torch or shouting himself hoarse, and in c >nse- quepce there will bo a dearth of sweets this year. * Seventeen Mormon elders arrived aii.8u Louis Friday from Utah, and left Saturday for Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, Mississippi,.North Caro liua and Virginia, whither they go to make converts to the Mormon faith • and secure Mormon emigrants' to reformation sq complete ttef iKf pilAf ■' ■ !!r of our city is -now- more quiet and orderly than the onco dreaded 4 Five Points.’ .Thousands of children then growing up cither vagabonds or cuts prits are now attending schools, in which they are stimulated by precept and example to live industrious and virtuous lives. Instead, therefore, of sending forth idle, ignorant and vici ous children to prey upon society, the destitute and orphan children of the. 4 Five Points,’ prepared for usefulness by moral and religious training, find happy homes in our rapidly develop ing W estei n States and Territories. ‘ Again, eight years ago Water street and its surroundings eastward from Peck Slip had a notoriety almost unenviable as that ot tbe ‘Five Points.’ That region was rife with drunkeuness, burglaries pugilism, and their kindred vices. Jerry McAuley was conspicuous in all that was wick ed aud demoralizing. He bad the reputation ot being a terror to the precinct—a reputation which, by his own confes-ion, was deserved. But ibis disturber of the public peace was converted, and then he resolved to devote the remainder ot his life to the service of his Master, and, with a faithful, affectionate wife as a helper, he has abundan'ly atoned for all bis offenses. For a long time the hisses and howlings of hi.- former associates seriously disturbed his meetiugs, but courage, perseverance and patience finally prevailed, and his work now progresses without interruption. The general character of the neighborhood lias been improved; iis social and moral tone and atmosphere have been purified. Sailors’ boarding-houses have been reformed. Sailors now carry their Bibles with them to sea. Moody and Sankey hymns are sung in forecastles. Hundredsof half naked and hungry wives and bhildren, by the conversion ot drunken husbands and fathers, now rejoice in comforta ble and happy homes. The Mission Church is crowded every week day aud evening, and three times on Sun day, with intelligent Christian men and women who, rescued from garret and gutter, are now reputable citi zens, enjoying the fruits of tbeir industry and relating with grateful hearts the miseries of the past, the joy8 oftheir present and the hopes ot their future. By alt who ‘went to scoff, but remained to pray,’ Jerry McAnley and his exemplary wife are regarded with affection, and will be remembered with gratitude.’ The other is a very clever contrast, of which Ingersoll could hardly have tailed to feel the sharpness, even un der the kiridly and courteous hand of the writer: * Let us contrast the labors of two prominent contemporary teachers— one, Mr. Moody, a Christian, and the other, Mr. Ingersoll, an infidel mis sionary. Mr. Moody is self-made and self-educated. Mr. Ingersoll is a gentleman of education, culture and refinement. That Mr. Moody’s labors have been in the highest degree bene ficial to all classes will not be denied. The highest and humblest listened wiLb charmed interest^ and all jeft the Tabernacle better and happier. The general effect, both of his preach ing, supplemented bv the never-to-be forgotten voice of Mr. Sankey, clears ed, Draced and purified the religious, moral and social atmosphere of the city. Tbe labors ot Moody and Sank- ey were practical. They not only asked, ‘ What shall the harvest he r* but they obtained in their inquiry- rooms gratifying re8pone8 to the ques tion. Hundreds or drunkards were converted. Destitute wives and chil dren and desolate homes have been made happy and bright by the rescue and return of reformed husbands and fathers. Long and gratefully will the advent of Moody and Sankey he re membered. The city is fragrant with Tabernacle memories. Mr. Moody is turning the results of his labors to good account. The Moody and Sank ey hymns, well known to tho Christian world, are now sung by native con verts in the interior of Africa. The sale of these hymn-books produces a handsome fund which Mr. Moody de votes to missionary purposes. At his home in Nortbfield, Mass., he has erected a suitable building tor a mis sion school and homo for Indian girls, some fifty of whom from the far west have already been .received. Mr. Moody, therefore, has taken np and will carry on the good work so nuspi- ciously commenced by the late Father DeSmet. And now 1 invite Mr. Ingersoll, or any of his followers to inform the public how and to what extent they have profited by his mis sionary labors |h this city, what salu tary reforms he has inaugurated or even 'suggested, or In what manner and to What extent he has contriouted to the general welfare or. happiness of his fellow-citizen#. . , ply been ’giving the devil his dues.’ is,’ was the matter of fact reply, ‘in We have no sympathy with the young 1 a short time She would not hsvo dependent in ha race. anything to wear. A statoraentjot the census ot Vir ginia shows the ppp^ation to be 1,- 509,335 in 1880 against 1,225,}63 in 1870, hn inorese fat ten yeai“s of 1 284,- 172, or over 23 per Cent. ( ' ’> d Dr. Tanner has at _last met his match, and more than his match. A calf in Holt-ooanty,-Mu»ouri, got en tangled, in a pile of rails, and reraain- edjn ,tbat position for a, period of forty-one days, without food or water. It came out all right! Dr. Kohn, the chief rabbj ot the 1*?KBS PiWth. has been community at * Pesth, has Soted a member of Parliament; making,two mhbis'now in Parlia ment,!';. ■ ' i V ‘' *—