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When President Hayes gets out of
Tilden’a office, he is going to make a
southern tour.
An eminent scientific gentleman
predicts that 1881 will be an unusu
ally wet year.
Gen. Grant has been made presi
dent of the world’s fair, to be held in
New York in 1883.
A dog fight recently came off at
Troy, N. Y., for 81.000 a side, with
bets amounting to $10,000.
New Yorkers can figure up fifty-
four murders in the last twenty-eight
years in which no arrests were made.
After a long imprisonment Asa
Gunn has at last been discharged
This is one Gunn that did not go off
prematurely.
It ia a question now whether Conk-
ling is going to control Arthur, or
Arthur Conkllug. In either event, the
country will be the sufferer.
Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, Ky.,
recently, whose united ages was 1,300
years, or an average of 86$, years.
The oldest was 96, and the youngest
82. ______
Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of Hart
county, Ga., tells stories of the Rev'
olutionary war. She is 107 years of
age, and still in splendid health, re
turning all her faculties.
There are hundreds of entertaining
writers who would be good historians
it they did not know so many things
that have never happened.—New Or-
leans Picayune.
Receipts from enstomsj internal
revenue and miscellaneous sources at
the United States Treasury Depart
ment are for 1879,8398,553,930, and
for 1880, $359,496,730.
SENATOR EDMUNDS AND “ CONTROLLING
FORCES IN AMERICAN POLITICS.”
So far as the temper of this signifi-
can 1 article in the North Americon
Review for this month, is concerned,
it is mild and apparently consider
ate. There is evidence on the
surface of its pages, that the writer
is trying to look deeper than
the mere facts of current poli
tics and get at the principles which
underlie the action of the two great
parties dividing tho country. In a
word, the Senator proposes to deal
with his topic as a philosopher. Just
now, philosophers in American states
manship are much wanted; and we
arc glad that no less a man ihan a
Senator has had the courage to avow,
that such a thing as philosophy is re
garded as a surviving possibility in
the governmental affairs of this land,
A. L. 1881. ‘ Controlling forces; the
reader will understand to mean the
Philosophy of‘American Politics,’
andp of course, this philosophy is all
on the side of the republican party.
A fair specimen of this philosophy
in one of its tranquil analytic mo
ments, is contained in the following
sentence, viz; ‘The Democratic party,
in every effective sense, is as it was
before the rebellion, no'.hiug else than
a party founded and existing upon the
ideas of a slave-holding system, which
has always been, wherever it has exs
isted, a corner-stone of arisiocratical
governments.’
All the facts ot history contradict
this view. All of them show that both
the Federal and Democratic pai ties,
or, if preterred, the Whig and Demos
cratic parties, bad taken shape and
had grown into complete strength,
long before slavery became an issue in
practical politics. Thousands of
Whigs, as wise and pure men as ever
lived, were slaveholders; thousands
of Democrats eqnal'y wise and pare
were not slaveholders. The simple
fact is, that slavery had nothing to do
with the original status of the Federal
parly, or with that of its antagonistic
party. Nor had slavery any thing to
do with the relative positions of the
Whig and Democratic parties as it
respects the fundamental doctrines on
which they were organized. For sixty
years, democratic principles governed
this country. The fruits of this rule
FALSE MEWS ABOUT THE SOUTH.
No one conversaut with facts can
doubt, that a change is going on at
the North and West with respect to
the South, and that this change fore
tokens a vast amount of good to all
parts of the country. Misunderstand
ings, prejudices, sectional passions, in
which all parties and interests North
and South, East and West, have sliar.
ed and because of which all are guilty
have had their day and have done
their work. It has been a long day ;
it has been an evil work. The bitter
experiment, in which all have been
participants, has had an exhaustive
trial. How far one section has been
more guilty than another, it is imposx
sible to determine. If it were possible
no good could come of it, for it would
only make the most guilty party more
vehemently bent on selt-jusliti cation,
while it would puff up the less guilty,
with silly pride and overweening
vanity. The sensible thing to do is
to quit all discussion of the past and
to make real for once in the history
of American politics the fabled waters
of Lethe and its mercifnl oblivion.
Now, us one step in this direction
we beg to suggest to all fair-minded
people North and South, that it is
extremely unjust to the South to sad
dle everything in southern civilization
on slavery. This is constantly done.
It is done now and done daily. If
illiteracy is found here in our midst;
if manufactures are wanting; if diver-
sity of industrial pursuits does not
exist; if population is comparatively
sparse ; if poetry, art, and science, do
not flourish among us as much as in
some portious of the world ; the sup
posed defects are straightway charged
to account of slavery. Writers and
speakers North are still harping on
this string. And some of our own
people too are beginning to thumb on
it with more zeal than discretion.
This way of looking at matters in
the South is radically lalse. Slavery
may or may not have increased some
of these things, but slavery did not
create them as so many profess to be
lieve. Climate, soil, agriculture,
hereditary tastes and traditions, ancesx
tral blood, and fixed providential laws,
have had far more to do with these
resalts.than slavery. Nay ! Slavery
WASHINGTON LETTER.
GARG1ELD ON THE NEGBO QUESTION.
The Representatives IVom the Ninth on Cot
ton Manufactures.
From our Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 15, ’81.
The most notable thing of the week
is the language of the president-elect
to two delegations of colored citizens
who have visited him at Mentor. This
illustrate this. In one of the Western
States they were about to hang a man
who had been condemned for some
offense, and a large crowd was stand
ing around wnlchiug the interesting
proceedings, when a citizen stepping
out frem the crowd, addressed the
criminal on his commanding rostrum,
and said : “It will be, sir, some fifteen
miuutes before you arc dropped off,
and we would be very much obliged
properly falls under the head of Washj, Jr ' v> ou ir you would in the mean while
, . ... | itself was, in large part, a product of
were order, peace, punty of adminis- the§e aulecedent condilioD8 . The
An old negro barber living in Dela
ware claims in his day to have shaved
Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor,
James K. Folk, Millard Fillmore,
Wm. Henry Harrison, Franklin
Pierce, and John Tyler.
A pure ballot would make an ah
roost ideal republic. A good registra
tion law would go a long way toward
making a pure ballot. By all means,
Georgia should have a registration
law.
In the House of Commons Friday,
Mr. Parnell gave the lie to Mr. Viv
ian. The latter may have lied, hut
Mr. Parnell did bis cause no good by
his rash speech. His amendment to
the Queen’s address was overwhelm
iagly defeated. The Irish leader needs
to have a cool bead.
FEW WANTS AND FEWER WISHES.
A friend said to ns the other day :
11 1 have few wants and fewer wishes,”
and we concluded on the spot, that
this man had a “ Happy New Year”
in his heart.
The secret of it he did not tell us,
but is there any secret about the mat
ter 7 Surely none; if there is any
mystery, it is in those who have what
they fanoifully oall many wants and a
still greater abundance of wishes. Oar
friend, we take it, is a natural human
being whose desires and tastes and
habits are natural.
What is it that makes life in 1881
so expensive ? Nature in us all is the
same old-time nature—mouth no big.
ger, stomach no bigger, brains no big
ger—than they were in our grand
fathers. They were content to satisfy
their wants. We are not. The su
preme thing we aim at is to gratily
oar wishes. Twosthirds of these wishes
are not natural; they are artificial,
and, in many cases, they are absurdly
foolish. Our real wants are not oost-
Jy. If they were, the world won'd be
depopulated. It ia our false wishes—
the wishes of rivalry and energy and
jealousy—tho wishes to keep up ap
pearances and not to fall behind others
in style and show—these are the
wishes which are far stronger than
wants, far more exacting, and far
more tyrannical. And these self-same
wishes make fools of as, ana in 1881,
fools of any sort and fools of all sorts
are very costly animals.
tration, and immense prosperity ; and
the very power which the Republican
party now wields by means ot banks,
corporations, and the vast wealth un
der its control, is altogether due to
the policy of the Democratic party, by
which the material interests of the
country were bo rapidly and so won
derfully developed.
It was not until a late day, that
this supposed connection of the Dem
ocratic party with slavery occurred.
And it occurred precisely as its con
nection with a'i anti-tariff for protecx
tion and an anti-bank (the old United
States Bank under Nicholas Biddle)
occurred, viz: by its resolute opposi
tion and determined hostility to the
encroachments of the Federal gov
ernment on the constitution, on the
reserved rights of the States, mid on
the equality and freedom of the
whole people* Slavery, therefore, was
a mere incident in the great career
of this just, sagacious and
patriotic party. And, hence, the
view given by Senator Edmunds can
not be anstained by the facts ot the
case. The view is directly opposed
to these tacts. Had there been
slavery in America, the struggle be
tween the two great political organi
zntions, based on the widely different
principles of Hamilton and Jefferson
and on those of Adams and Jackson,
would have been the same earnest and
intense struggle. The essential doc
trines of democracy date back to the
colonies of the mother country on this
continent. They emerged in fuller
form in the old thirteen States, and
they re-appeared in completed devel
opment in the formation of the Fed
eral Union. And we beg to refresh
the Senator’s memory by reminding
him, that the democracy was just as
truthful to its instincts and just as
energetic in ita guardianship of the
interesta of constitutional liberty, when
the South opposed the continuance of
tho slave trade so vigorously carried
on by New England, as it was when
it did its best to prevent the election
to the presidency of Mr. Lincoln. This
is history; and history is * philosophy
teaching by example.’
whole system of life and labor in the
South was the necessary effect of the
more extensive system ot colonization
and civilization which grew up on the
North American continent. Indi
rectly, and in some respects directly,
New England, New York and the
North West have had their agency in
shaping the exact form of society and
industry that prevailed for generations
in the South. If New England had
had no codfish, salmon, and mackerel
along her shores, and fewer rocks in
her soil, and less winter in her atmos
phere ; if New York had not been the
natural maritime, commercial and fi
nancial centre of the country ; if the
North West had not been such an im
mense producer of cereals; it is quite
certain that the South would not and
could not have been precisely the
South she has been. Had the North
and West beeD other than they were
by reason of latitude and longitude
and by virtue of hereditary proclivi
ties, the Southern States along the
Atlantic and the Gulf would have been
other than they have been. In each
case, the stern enforcements of provi
dential law have taken effect. And
hence the absurdity of charging on
slavery what is simply dne to the de
velopments of a very mixed and in*
perfect civilization in the whole conn-
try. Let us stop all this crude and
onstatesmanlike reasoning. It is high
time for the whole land, North, Sontb,
East, West, to cultivate that sort of
common sense which is only another
name for a wise and broad comprehen
sion of aJU the facts pertaining to a
subject. Instead of this, we have too
generally had that other kind of corns
mon sense whioh sees bnt never fore
sees ; which clutches at the immediate
advantages of the present and ignores
the past; and which, in the end, is a
curse to most sections and
to none.
The Banner is much pleased to note
that the Representative from this dis
trict has introduced a bill into Con
gress to adroit machinery for cotton
manufacture free of duty. Tariff for
protection ia an outrage on consum
ers ; and as a vast majority of the peo
ple of this anion are consumers, pro
tection may be safely called an outrage
on the public. Mr. Speer is on the
right line, and his people will endorse
all his aotlons in the direotiou of free
trade;
ington. news, because it is discussed
more here than it is elsewhere. It has
a great deal of significance. The delx
egatiuii was composed of such leading
colored republicans as R. B. Elliott,
of South Carolina, J. B. Deveaux, of
Gco-gis, and others.
They made a statement of the con
dition of the South, which has been
frequently heard, and was very severe
on the conduct of elections; hut the
most material allegation was that the
difficulty under which the colored peo
ple labor was not so much the unwillx
ingnrss as the inability of the state
governments to meet the demands ot
the masses of the people for the edu
cation of the children.
General Garfield replied. He said,
among other things, “ I noted as
particularly significant, one sentence
in the remarks of Gen. Elliott, to the
effect that the majority of the citizens,
a9 he alleges, in some portions of the
South are oppressed by the minority.
If this be so, why is it so ? Because
a trained man is two or three men in
one, in comparison with an untrained
man ; and outside of politics and out
side of parties, the suggestion is full,
brim full, of significance, that the way
to make the majority powerful over
the minority is to make its members
as trained and intelligent as the mi
nority itself. That brings the equality
of citizenship, and no law can confer
and maintain, in the long rnn, a thing
that is not upheld with a reasonable
degree of culture and intelligence.’’
These opinions of Gen. Garfield are
fruitful of thought to the better class
of our colored people. The ameliora
tion of race conditions cannot be ac
complished at one swoop of political
action. The problem has to be worked
out by industry, and by a right and
proper discharge of all ot the duties of
citizenship. There are many of the
best people in the South who will be
willing to aid and encourage this
effort all in their power—but law can.
uot make and unmake a people. These
views of the president-elect clearly
indicate that he has a most correct
understanding of the difficult southern
problem. But I will not make your
letter a political treatise.
A GREAT TRAGEDIAN.
The gayeties of Washington life are
opening finely. McCulloch has been
playing gt the National theatre this
week in Othello, Virginius, Richard
ILL &c. McCulloch is classical in bis
randition of the finest characters of
Shakspeare. In Othello, he is simply
superb. I have never had so vivid a
conception of the genius of Shakspeare
as since I saw the “Moor of Venice,’’
as rendered by this truly great trage
dian,
GOING OUT IN A BLAZE.
The balls and receptions &c., are
now in full feather. Mrs. Hayes, who
has been entertaining some charming
yonng ladies from the North and
West, has been quite lavish in her
entertainments at the White House,
and the setting sun of the adininistras
tion is glowing with nnwented brill
iancy.
HARD AT WORK.
Congress, however, in spite of the
fascinations of this gay capital, is hard
at work, and if the 46th congress had-
been distinguished in every session by
the'same energy which marks this, it
would have gone down into history
as a more useful body than, I fear,
-will now he the case. But then the
curse of party spirit which was engen
dered by the extra session and its
mistaken policy, marred the efforts of
this congress. The funding bill has
been the principal subject of discussion
for the oast week.
favor us with some remarks on the
tariff."
REMINISCENCES.
The Weaver-Sparks embroglio has
put all of the quid nuncs in a pleasant
fever of excitement, and having worn
out the details of this bloodless , n-
counter, they are indulging in remi
niscences ol ail of the lights that have
occurred in congress ia the post.
Whenever one is anxious to get a
breezy reminiscence his best plan is
to go to Alex Stephens. Mr. Stephens
was a young man when “Old Hick
ory” was in the While House, and had
a long talk with him in one of the
rooms which are now occupied by
Rutherford B, in wliicti interview
“Old Hickory’’ was abusing the conv
mandant at Columbus, Ga., because
he didn’t marcli his troops over into
Alabama, and exterminate the In
dians, who had robbed the U. b. mail
coach, aud massacred sundry carpet
baggers of that day who were explor
ing the Indian country.
THE FIRST FIGHT BETWEEN THE NORTH
AND THE SOUTH.
Mr. Stephens says that he lias seen
forty men fighting in the House at one
time, aud fighting as hard as they
could fight. I have never seen the
incident in print, and 1 send it to you.
There was at one time before the war
a member of the house from South
Carolina whose namo was Keitt. Keitt
was like some other congressmen, and
like some people who are not congress
men, loud of the “ flowing bowl,”
and on the day of the “ conflict,diie’’
was indisputably drunk. Galusha A.
Grow, of Pennsylvania, was then, as
hi^ju now, a strong partizan, and was
at that time one of the leaders of the
Free Soil party.
Party feeling was very high, and
much more personal than it is in these
“ piping times of peace.” Grow came
over on tho Democratic side ou some
business, and Keitt resented his pres
ence, and called him a d—d abolit
ionist. Grow said he had the right
to go over there; but Keitt said if he
did’nt go back be would make him go;
and Grow, seeing that he was drunk,
said something pleasant in reply; and
Keitt mistaking bis meaning, jumped
up to strike him, and fell down with
a great crash.
Grow bad not touched him, but it
spread like an electric shock all over
the House that Grow had knocked
Keitt down, and without a word a
Dumber of gentlemen on each side en
gaged in the first actual battle be
tween the North and the South. Mr.
Stephens says that he never left his
JOURNALISTIC.
Mr. F. H. Richardson is here as a
regular correspondent of the Consti
tution, and I learn that a Ifr. Morgan
is representing the P jst-Appeal. By
the way, the Post-Appeal is coming
out handsomely. It is bright and
full of Georgia news, and its editori
als pungent and pithy. We are very
glad to get it in Washington. Our
stale capital ought to support two
good daily papeis.
OLD JOE WANTS LIGHT.
Gov. Brown introduced on yes
terday a hill to light the Savannah
river from Tyhee to Savannah.
This is like old Joe. The Delaware
is lighted so brightly that a ship can
sail up the river to Philadelphia as
well in the night as in the day time ;
and the gentleman from Gaddistoun
wants the same thing done with oar
Savannah. He properly says that the
exports and imports on that river are
852,000,000 per annum. He says, too,
with l.is usual judgment that a ship
that reaches the bar after 12 o’clock
iu the day can’t go up tiutil the neap
tide, which is the midnight tide, and
as the river is not lighted it is impos
sible to go up until 12 o’clock the next
day, which is a loss of twenty-four
hours, a vast loss in these days of
speedy trans-shipment and brisk com
petition. His bill provides for f40,-
000, in.l he thinks that light-houses
can he erected at that cost, which will
enable shipping to come up by the
midnight as easily as by the mid-day
tide.
The Banner now reaches nj with
much regularity, and is always most
welcome.
The sub committee ot elections
having charge of the Bisbee Hull case,
have unanimously reported in favor
of Bisbee, and against Hull. L. C.
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library lamps, Dixon’s stove polish,
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“ TUE SOUTH, THE NORTH, ASD THE
NEGRO.”
Under this caption, the Christian
Union, of New York, has an editorial
in its issue of Janaary 12th, which we
transfer to our columns tbis morning.
Its spirit is open, manlv and fraternal.
-4t one point, it is in error, viz: “when
the war closed there was not a single
Southern State that had even the ruin
or the seed of a true free school svs
tem.’’ But let this pass. The great
questions that have been pending be
tween North and South, have had little
or nothing to do with free schools,
They have been far deeper and more
vital than education. Had there been
a common school system in every
Southern State, it is not likely that
the essential principle of northern in
terference with the affairs of the
South, would have been other than it
seat. In this fight no blood was wa * 1
The electric light, immediately
upon its general introduction, is des
tined to prove a formidable competi
tor with gas, because it will be sup
plied at much cheaper rates. One of
the New York companies is now
placing its wires along ‘.hree of the
principal streets ot that city—Broad-
way, Wall and Broad—agreeably to
the application of many owners of
banking and other business houses.
The price at present is only a trifle
less than that of gas, but when the
light comes into common use the cost
will be greatly reduced.
This time it is announced that Jef
ferson Davis’ memoirs will be publish*
ed jn April.
THE MEMBER FROM THE NINTH.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, spoke in
favor of a higher rate of interest than
that fixed by the bill, and Mr. Speer
discussed the impropriety ot making
this generation pay all of tho debt, if
it was determined to refund it. He
stated that be was generally opposed
to refunding, bnt if it was determined
to continue the indebtedness of the
government, be saw no reason wby
posterity sbonld not bear its share of
the burden ot paying th‘ debt The
principal feature of Mr. Speer’s speeoh
was his allusion to the bill introduced
by him to exempt ootton machinery
from tariff duties. -
“REMARKS ON THE TARIFF."
In committee of the whole every
thing is in Older, and I believe it is
always in order to speak on tbe tariff.
I heard an anecdote once which may
spilled, except from tho nose.
PISTOLS IN THE. HOUSE.
Mr. Stephens says that pistols have
been fired in the House, and the old
gentleman very clearly intimates that
he saw the pistol fired. There was an
investigation by the House as to who
shot the pistol, but Mr. Stephens,
says, “ I said nothing about what I
saw.”
WANTED A HAND IN IT.
I believe it was at the time of the
Keitt-Grow fight that a Kentuckian
who was outside and wanted to come
in to see the row and perhaps join in
kr The door keeper stopped the
Kentuckian, who incontinently pulled
out his pistol and let drive at the
Door-Keeper, and missing him shot a
messenger through the arm.
It was nothing uncommon in those
days for gentlemen to summon each
other to the littla dueling ground at
Bladensburg, whioh may be easily
seen by those who travel the Bnlu
more turnpike, about four miles from
Washington. Not a few gallant men
in response to a notion of lalse honor,
have expiated their mistaken ideas on
this historic spot Now, however,
there is bntlitile danger in billiugi
gate. Publio sentiment has changed,
and improved fire-arms have also con
tributed to this result.
THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
It seems that Fitzsimmons must go.
Hon. Evan Howell is here, as is also
Mr. d. I. Kimball. It is well known
that the Constitution has been fight
ing Fitzsimmons. If Fitzsimmons is
removed, H. 1. Kimball will most
likely be appointed, and Kimball is
by no means so bad as we used to
think when the carpet-bagger was a
novelty. ;
got for Mayor of of Atlanta will con
vince a good many people that he is a
useful man, and I shall not be sur
prised It be makes a good .Marshal.
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Old Original Carpet Store, 71S Broad sL, AUGUSTA, GA.
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nov9-d&w Old Stand James G. Bailie & Bro., 118 Broad st, AUGUSTA, GA.
The last paragraph of the editorial
*s not quite in keeping with the main
body ot the Union’s article. No doubt,
the North felt itself under obligation
to help “fit the negro for freedom and
the ballot.” If a man gets his friend
into a new and difficult position, for
which that friend has not the slightest
pieparation and for which moreover,
he has been utterly unfitted by all his
antecedents, it is certainly proper, on
the mere ground ot humanity, that he
should stand by his friend and see him
through “the untried hazards of the
State.’’ And so the North wns in duty
bound to “ help” the negro. On this
point, Judge Cobb made no issue.
The issue presented by the Judge was
as to the true way, the wise way, the
statesmanlike way, and above all, tbe
Christian way of managing the “help”
given to the negro. This and this only
was the matter under discussion. The
policy adopted by the North to “help”
the negro has proved to be not a
“help’’ but an immense hindrance,
and furthermore, it lias been a most
grievous wrongs to tbe white race ot
the South. Nothing but the interpo
sition of Providence by means of nat
ural instincts and organic laws—in
stincts aud laws beyond the reach of
unwise legislation—has kept the
scheme of “help” from being fatal to
both races in the Southern States. Yet
this is in the past and let it all be for
gotten. A better day has dawned.
North and South can only bo wise'and
true by being noise and true together;
and in this spirit, wo heartily recipro
cate the kind temper of the Union.
Merchants, look to your interest
Many staple articles in crockery,
glassware, lamps See., have greatly
declined. McBride & Co., have by
all odds tbe best and cheapest stock
ever brought to the State. Their
stock is crammed whh novel fast sel
ling staple goods of their own direot
The vote that Mr. Kimball [“importation. Hold your orders, come
and select in person. McBride Sc Co.,
guarantee to save all freight and
breakage and delay, and to not pat a
single jdece of unsalable stock on yon.
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