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THE RESTLtSS RACE,
What Will the Negro Do With Him-
self,
BY HAKRY EVELYN.
(Concluded From Last Week)
The Richmond convention urges as at-- ; "riev-
.ince the fact that whites and 'uiacks are not allow
ed to intermarry, when akigher law than human
law stamps it as a thing that must not, be done. It
is just such liupracticables as composed that conven
tions that are leading the negroes to their own ruin.
lhe> are not content to let well enough alone, but
seek to impress the negroes with the idea that they
are deprived of rights and immunities important
not only to their welfare but to their very exist-
^ that were the case, they ought to go
"where there is no distinction on account of color,”
if that place can be found in this broad land, and
stand not on the verge of their going either. This
and all other efforts to force social equality, in
whatever shape will fail. It was only the other
day that Judge Erskin of the United States Dis
trict Court, decided at Savannah, Ga., an impor
tant case covering the most common point of issue
in the civil rights question.
A negro woman took her seat on the “white”
deck of a steamer. The captain ordered her below,
where accommodations were provided for her class.
She declined to go, and being put off the boat at
the next landing she sued for damages. Judge Ers
kin decided that common carriers have the right to
provide different accommodations for different
classes of passengers and to assign each class to its
quarters.
Judge Woods, of the United States Circuit Court,
has decided in a case growing out of a refusal to
admit negro children into a white school in Geor
gia, that equality does not mean identity, and that
separate accommodations may be provided and in
sisted upon for blacks and whites. Yet in the face
of such decisions as these, the demand is persistent
ly made for access by negroes to all schools, all pub
lic conveyances, and all public houses. If they ever
gain these points it must be through some other
avenue than the court-house.
A strenuous effort is tieing made by these con
ventions and conferences to impress upon the ne
groes that as a body they are oppressed by the
white people of the South: and thousands of the
more ignorant, taking their cue from these repre
sentations as doled out to them by the restless spir
its to be found in every community (and the white
people are cursed by just such croakers—ill-omened
birds,who are never happier than when stirring up
discord), really believe they are the worst used
people in all the civilized world, and that they
must flee to “where there is no distinction on ac
count of color.” And when they get to where they
have been told this land of promise ,s located, they
find that human nature is the same there as it is in
the South : that there is just as much “oppression”
there, from the very fact that “every man is for
himself and the devil take the hindmost.” This
is confessed by those who have tried the experi
ment. There is too much longing for that which
never comes to the whites any more than the
blacks—offices, and honors, and easy position, and
the comforts which wealth gives—except they are
won by intelligent energy and hard work and the
thrift that does not follow fawning. ;
If outrages are peruetrated upon negroes of the ,
character and to the extent intended to be convey- I
ed by the use they make of the term, why do not
those who suffer appeal to the courts for redress? It
will not do for them to say that the courts are not
open to them the same as thev are to white men, for
they are constantly resorting to the courts in cases,
ot the most trivial character, not only between
themselves, but also between themselves and white
neoule. If they suffer wrongs that can be redress
ed bv the courts it is their own fault, for they can
get justice from these tribunals just as easily and
speedilv as white men can. If they cannot or be
lieve they cannot, wh\ do they not shake the dus-
off their feet and leave the state whose laws afford
them no protection ? It is strange if so many out
rages are committed upon the negroes in the Sou t h
ern States, so few of the sufferers appeal to the
courts for redress in view of the propensity to go
to law” so largely developed by the race. 1 here is
a suspicton thft they are in the condition of the
Irishman who had been brought into court upon
some kind of charge, and was boo-hooing at a rath
er round rate. The judge endeavored to quiet him
bv assuring him that he should have justice done.
“Be jabbers,” he exclaimed between sobs, that is
the verv thing I don’t want.” .
According to the records of criminal and police
courts? the fiegroes are chargeable with a much
larger per cent, according to population of the
crimes committed in the Southern States than are
-.genie. Even in 11 asbingtou, where the
negro has extraordinary chances through the aid
2nd counsel of at least professed friends to show
a ,‘ r he is capable of, the arrests for crime show a
nei- cent of blacks far in excess of the whites. Last
Vear the arrests for crime numbered 5,3*5 "Totes
and- 024 blacks, and yet the white population of
t'-e city is more than double that of the negro, .lie
former being 7.4,73* and the latter 35,455 in *8?o
Thus while there are about seventy-two arrested
out of every thousand whites, there are about one
hundred and forty-two arrested out of every thou-
“"ve tad that there were arrested in Nashville du-
ring the last municipal year 2,196 whites and *o/-
nngsue population of the former being i/.49“
“fTtMKS T,iese statistit>s shmv t i ,at
white there are about one hundred and twenty-five
in everv thousand whites, there were about
3 hundred and sixty-five arrested m every thou-
one hundred anus.2 preserved if not in-
Sa,1<1 ed throughout? the South. ^'it is far from De
creased througnour contrasts of this character,
■Ktofonly done because those who assume to
and it is on y ,. ace are continually harping
SP nn k the lawlessness of the white people, as though
}hev and they alone, were guilty of criminal acts
O 5 iUnVs reinard that “comparisons are odorous,’
Dogberry sremaru^ illustrated, at least as to
the negro mcVhan by'the criminal and police sta-
tisttes of ®™e h f or all this crime, and that cause
There is , negro must at least come up
must be removed- the negr this . t be .
te the standard of toe wn cj t ;z e ns They must be
fore they can make gooa n d respect the rigbts o£
taught to oj>® • ■ 1)ecu iiarly and appropriately
- "
1 Tu^.»^ c SrES- to
! vii.cn ii sort v '.’id be had to justify the tolling of
! tlie negroes into an inhospitable climate, where
! they will rind new modes of life and labor and meet
| a different and sharper competition than they have
; encountered in the South.
The Hon. W. C. lUhitthome, of Tennessee, in a
letter to the chairman of the Committee on Educa
tion and Labor, of the United States' House of
Representatives, gives some facts and statistics
touching the treatment of the negro which conclu
sively set at rest the stories about wrong and op
pression. He says:
“Possibly in the whole history of the human fam
ily there was never such a spectacle presented of
goodly feeling at the close of a long, bitter and
bloody struggle, involving the fortunes, rights and
lives of twelve millions of people, as was exhibited
and which admittedly existed, between the white
and black races occupying the late slave States at
bail to do. and will continue to have to do white
time lasts. Hut will they or can they do this? The
light that history sheds' upon this "vexed ques
tion” is interesting, and is not, to he lightly disre
garded. San Domingo and ITayti do not give any
encouragement. Upon these islands where the ne
gro has had everything pretty much his own way,
he has made no murk in the intellectual and indus
trial departments. In this ci-uutr„ .
are stinmlat ing causes teat may induce the negro
to accomplish something in these regard-. Time
will show.
If ic- noidont tbnl ♦ LlvlVD inolfPfl f( >T* t-
however, there | the pole
wliateve
tion to sanitary laws. They have learned nothing
of this vital subject during their fifteen years' tree-
dom. They hold conventionsand conferences, both
!■ tate and national, and discuss at great length and
with much vehemence their “rights”—that is. the
right to have offices bestowed upon them, fo. their
ideas of rights seem to center upon that one object
wit*> the same constancy that the needle points to
and pass lightly, almost Hippaiftly over
tends to improve the health and increase
the prosperity of their race, as though these were
matters of but little moment. The men who set
| themselves up as leaders and spokesmen for tliei
PERSONALS.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE 1)0150 AND HAYING
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
witli no means of support but their own band, \ ^weretoid ^thgre. tf> ^ undei .
Here, then, is the place to test the innumerable
charges made in every way and on all occasions
that the colored man in the South is denied legal
The
test
hav
for
In j . .
541. In 1871, there were seven and a half million
acres in cotton. In 1S7S there were more than
twelve million acres. More than 8200.000,000 an
nual product of Southern labor enter into the purs
ly and cheerfully .
up a claim to political “rights," as that tennis
,, ,, . , , ., ,.,wt ui.ditcen doV- i clearly defined by their owu sayings and doings,
the homestead law , bin it " ou * J (1,‘ ' ?i iese ■ ,i g 1 solelv upon the basis of race, they should under-
Iars to make such an entry , t l : stand ihat this as a claim that will not bo recog-
were in a wild region,,subject to depredation.- by ; niZed ln any 8ection of the country. The people of
negro is not able to become the possessor of lands on
any kind of terms by whieli he may ever hope to
obtain a little in fee simple; be is forced to pay
more as an actual rental for lands in the South than
hts”
should
turn their attention to the physical condition of
their people, or they or their successors may find
themselves in the unevitable condition of not hav
ing a race for which to speak. Do they reflect upon
the tact, or do they even know tint it is a fact, that
their people are dying at a fearfully greater rate
than the whites? The statistics from the cities and
towns where they have been carefully gathered,
show this to be the literal truth. How is this terri
ble mortality to be lessened. The white people can
do considerable toward Ihe accomplishment of this
object, but they must have the cordial co-operation
of the negroes themselves, otherwise their efforts,
however persistent and well-meant, will prove ut
terly futile. Let the leaders of the race combine to
preach a crusade against large numbers of negroes
llocKiug into the cities and towns and crowding
| into stables ou back alleys and into shanties in the
suburbs unfit to house animals in, amid dirt and
filth ai:d odors of the most villainous character, and
advise ttiese people, whoaie fading away under the
combined influence of want and noxious gases and
oilier death-dealing agencies as if they were stricken
by t he breath of pestilence, to flee to the country
where they can procure comfortable quarters and
wholesome food, and be blessed with pure air and
water; and then teach them to practice cleanliuess
and whatever will promote their health, elevate the
standard of morals among them, and tend to make
them a virtuous aid contented people; and when
j this has beeu doue these leaders will have accom
plished more lor their race than if they had suc-
I reeded in making one of them President ofthe
i United States, half a dozen Senators and a dozen
j Representatives in Congress, four or five Govern
ors, and a hundred Legislators. If there he wise
I men and philanthropists among the negro race,
] they must address themselves to this great task,
j this overshadowing demand upon them, if they
wish to accomplish anything for the good ot their
j people. The hand of the destroyer which comes in
j the shape of insidious, wasting disease must be
I stayed, or the negro race will pas- from this country
1 iu a comparatively brief period. Can this be done?
i That is the problem with which the philanthropist
j must wrestle.
I “If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it
were doue quickly.’
******
DANIEL DREW, OF NEW YORK.
chase of merchandise and manufactures in the I
Eastern, aiul 1 Middle Rt-i f v. SoufcUevi. redr»*nd- j
have increased in earnings; Southern cities and 1
towns in growth, while all the Southern industries j
have largely and materuilly improved. ’ Mr. libit- |
thorite shows that, while the Northern farm labor- I
er is paid at the rate of 87 per capita or population, |
the Southern farm laborer is paid at the rate of 1
more than §10per capita of population. Nine mil-
lion Southern people pay 897.900:74 for labor, ,
while fifteen million Northern an l 11 e-tern people ;
pay only 8114,892. 464 “Looking to these facts,"
he continues, “can it be said that the laborer of the
South is not as well paid as the same class in other
sections of our country ? Can it be urged that the
labor of the South has been so disturbed, that its
stalwart men have "been so interfered with, as to
tlie lands are really worth, and mug snore than it
would lc.p.o-' ••uvha-Va.-fL® v-i'-i#- f: - ' ! ,-«>-
ductivo lauds iu tlie West." N< “ it happens
that there are in Mississippi more than five mil
lion of government lands subject to entry, on which
homesteads may be located, at just the same cost
required to locate a homestead in Kansas; and the
government owns lands in oilier Southern States
which are subject to homestead entry There is not
tlie slightest necessity for the negroes going to Kan
sas in order to get homes either by location or pur
chase.
The desire to procure homes has probably very
little to do with this emigration movement. Ilis
difficult to ascertain what is :he real cause. The
negroes do not complain that they cannot get as
much work as they can do, and at as fair prices for
their labor as are paid in Kansas or anywhere in
this country. They seem to have an idea that they
can better themselves by going to Kansas, just in
Movements in Southern Society.
compel one-third of them to abandon home and | wha-manner and by what process they canned
Others—-anu leaders, and then there will be
the work ofcomparisons as the complaints of
SSS.’SSS'SS their to
friends prov oke. j dera ble number of negroes
The fact that a wnsioe shows that the
who went to ^^^.pfession and wrong being
thread-baie story ot pp white people of the
S^wRbc^t subXitml foundation. It is true
tie there and there a negro may be wronged m
that here ai ano ther just as white men are
insome way or another, J 1 it appea r that
wronged; but to attempt and because tbey are
they are jl' ierta?n 1 v the silliest excuse that could
negroes, C ®I d their conduct by tliose who
possibly be ofle *1 tir U p str jfe between
are engage.! in the eltorx fth F whjte mau to
the races. It > the m*e ^ ^ pay well for
treatthe d ^‘bJmse lie needs his services as a la-
d<)fs, .. n ma y be found who
borer. w here cme „ reat Javv G t self-interest,
ossiDij oc -- ffort to stir up strife
,-e engage.! in the eltorx ^ ^ white
* e races. U ™ lv and to pay him
treat the negrocl vei ^ needg hjs services as a la-
what he does, beui may be found w ho
>rer. iUhere one w luto n.au f se]f . interesti
ill go conDary t ^ ^ ho will mee t their duty
a thousand will be f ^.uarely as it is possible
and their engageme Jj tbht exists for the la-
for them to do. The dema ^ man t() acfc hon .
hor of the negro comp i£ be we re otherwise 111-
orably and freat bnn , rforms his part in the
dined, and it the "*«=» , ite ma n, he will have no
spirit that controls the fc guch rare exceptions
cause for complamt, wi J community ot the
as develop ^ the rub. The mass
civilized world But w d aud ben ce they
of the negroes have not thu*> a ^ as a very un-
are fast becoming to o b orer s. It is to rein-
steady, unreliable class o*. ^ n that is te! ii Ilg f e ar-
edy this evil—and it is a* e and will tell against
fully against the I ” ’ tha t conventions and
them wherever they naay g d direct a n , h eir en-
conferences and leadere sn« ted their people
ergies- When they ba"? 5?“ » thrifty mid in-
into steady a d rehab e ^ accomplished more
•telbgent das-, they will. bave, ^ country should
t..r them than it “right for which the ne-
oe composed °f " e g I n oe ®’ conquerable desire. This
g ro yearns with an Merest subterfuge to
charge of oppression is the m
by many that, upon a thorough examination or
the facts connected with this exodus movement, it
will be shown to have its origin in a speculation in
Kansas railioad lands, to which a portion of the
freedmau’s money, through the Freedman’s Bank,
was first dedicated, and that the parties who aided
in the robbery of that institution conceived that
there were ‘millions’ in tempting its depositors and
their race to become occupants of the lauds upon
which they held mortgage bonds'”
If the efforts that are being expended in making
the ignorant and unthinking mass of the negroes
dissatisfied with white people among whom they
live, were directed toward improving their condi
tion as citizens, as laborers, as men and women;
making them a more industrious, intelligent, self-
reliant, and healthy class, a great deal of good
might and could be accomplished for both the ne
gro and the country. It is this kind of teaching
that the negro needs now above all things. The
South needs steady, reliable laborers, and the ne
gro can anil will have the preference if tie will sim
ply do his duty in the premises. But as long as he
will not work, or only when he pleases, and then
only under the spur of hunger or want of clothing
—as is the case with so many scores and hundreds
in every community—he must not expect to be in
high favor with the people, either of the South or
where “there is no distinction on account of color.”
White men who act t hus are no more respected in
the North than are lazy, thriftless negroes in the
Soul h.
Here and there vou will find a well-to-do negro
with a healthy and intelligent family, but. it is be
cause be lias kicked politics to tlie dogs, and entered
the race of life under his new conditisu with some
thing ol the spirit that lias animated his white
neighbors. He lias accumulated some property
and is educatiug his children, and everything around
him wears a cheerful look; and you will find that
such a man is respected by his white neighbors and
esteemed bv them for his worth. He lias accom
plished this" much by bii own exertions, aud the
position he occupies in the community shows that
liis labors have hot been in vain. But considering
tli it there a re four million negroes in the Soul ii, and
that they have had tlieir freedom for the period 01
lialfa generation, these cases are remarkably lew.
I11 the sharp competition which characterizes every
avocation, they who win must display no amount
of wliat is aptly called “grit.'' and where the negro
has possessed this quality he has made commenda
hie headway’, and just as lie has made himself, is he
respected, but the great, mass fritter away tlieir
lives in idleness and dissipation—seeking no regu
lar employment and caring for none, content il
they can pick up odd jobs that will yield sufruueut
to meet Hie present cravings ot appetite, w by is
this? Is shiftliness a characteristic of tlie race? It
would seem so, f r they have let slip in an amazing
maimer, the opportunities they have had to heltei
their condition in every respect. It is their fault,
and theirs alone, that they are not belter off as the
world goes than they are. There is not another
race ofcivilizedlpeople on the globe, of equal num
bers, who would have turned to so little accouu! tlie
splendid advantages the negroes of the South have
had, and made so little advance 111 the same length
of time in all that constitutes comfort, intelligence,
and respectability. Why is it that the mass of ne
groes make no effort to elevate themselves, when so
much of their future well-being depends upon I hat
elevation, and when it is tube attained only by
their own exertions? Is it because tlicy r nave no
ambition to secure tlie respect and good opinion of
Hie whole race as well as of themselves; or are they
content to live where President Lincoln s procla
mation placed them, because, and only because, the
nation lias not lifted them up to the intellectual
and social level which tlie white race have won
only through a severe aud prolonged struggle ot
centuries? They must go through the long and
tedious refining process, just as the white race have
done, and work out their own elevation, moral and
social, to whatever height tlieir talent may carry
them, just as nationalities in the white race have
A brilliant marriage took place on the 10th inst.,
in the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. The
contracting parties were our popular and most
worthy young friend and druggist, ll alter A. Tay.
lor, and Miss Alice May Lowry, one of the most
stylish and. fascinating of our city belles, and the
daughter of that genial, warm-hearted and univer.
sally beloved banker, Judge Win. Lowry. The at
tendants were Mr. O- J. Smith and Miss Lelia Low
ry; Mr. J. H\ Rankin and Miss Blanche Rood; Mr.
Herbert H. Brown and Miss Jennie Hammond; Mr.
Willis Ragan and Miss Kittie Peters. The beauti
ful new Church, which is now the handsomest in the
State was packed at an early hour with a brilliant
and eager assemblage of friends and acquaintances
while Mr. Guilford sat with nervous twitchings of
the fingers at the organ. When the bridal party
finally arrived there was a grand and unanimous
buzz and straining of necks and eyes to catch a
first glimpse of the beautiful bride, and truly no
louelier devotee ever knelt at Hymen’s altar. The
attendants filed down opposite aisles and stationed
themselves in front of the ministers and then came
the bridal pair, and amid the profoundest silence
the able and learned paster of that magnificent j
church, the Rev. J. IL Martin, D. D. spoke these |
words in an earnest and impressive manner:
Marriage was instituted at the creation of the first
human pair. Having formed Adam of tlie dust of
■the ground and put him in the garden of Eden, it
pleased God to make from his rib a woman, who’u
He placed by his side to lie bis wife, companion,
friend, solace and joy. He said: ‘It is not good for
the man to be alone,’ and created the woman to be
an helpmeet for him. He joined them together
in wedlock as husband and wife, saying, “They
two shall he one flesh.”
We learn from the New Testament that our Sa
vior honored and beautified marriage with his i
presence and his first miracle in Cana of Gallilee, (
while it is commended by the Apostle Paul as being 1
Gov. Holliday has granted permission to the
Gate City Guards of Ati mta Ga., to enter tlie State
sometime in the month of October.
A man with a $6J) diamond on his shirt bosom
leaned over a lieu coop i n a Cincinnati 111 u-ket, and
a hungry hen picked oil' the jewell aud swallowed it.
The thief was soon lost among the hundreds, and
there was uo way of identifying her. So the mail
bargained to have them killed, one after another,
until the right crop was found. To recover the dia
mond cost him S?8.
Jay Gould sent the Howards another five tli >u-
sand dollars by telegraph this morning.
President A. D. Laugstaff telegraphs that gener
ous Pittsburg sends 81,040 as an impromptu gift to
tlie Howards.
“Cham,” the great Parisian caricaturist, has just
died. His name was Arnado de Noe, aud his age 00
years.
Gilbert C. Walker, Governor ofY'irginia for four
years aud the representative ofthe Richmonl dis
trict in the last two Congresses, lias returned to liisr
old home in Binghamton, New York, and is a dele
gate to the Democratic convention which meets at
Syracuse to-day.
Edmond About derives a handsome income from
his paper, the Nineteenth Century. He has a sump
tuous residence in Paris where he entertains most
hospitably, and in summer he aud his wife aud
seven children go to a spacious old mansion, sur
rounded by a tine park, ou tlie Versailles road.
A number of prominent Southern gentlemen, in
cluding Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett, of Washington, Gen.
G. T. Beauregard aud Hon. Kandall Gibson, of Lou
isiana, Senator Hampton, of South Carolina, Gov.
Matthews, of West Virginia, and Gen. Joseph R.
Anderson, of Virginia, have issued au appeal for
funds iu behalf of the orphaned children of the late
Gen. John B. Hood.
Gov. Hampton has quite distinguished himself
on the Upper James as a fisherman. Iu five days
he caught 1115 bass, averaging 3!) a day. One day he
caught as many as tiS. He uses tlie tty bait. Tlie
Governor is minus liis right leg below the knee,
and though he still uses crutches, his health is much
improved, and he is quite vigorous.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the Southern peo
ple are behaving better now than at any time since
the war. Many thanks! And the Southern people
congratulate Mr. Beecher that, since the Beecher-
Tilton scrape, he has behaved himself remarkably
well—so faras the public knows.
Our distinguished Senator ill Congress and most
gallant of Southern soldiers, General Joliu B. Gor
don, has accepted the invitation of the Jasper Mon
umental Association to deliver tlie oration upon
tlie occasion of the laying of tlie corner stone of the
monument 011 the 9th of October next.
Rev. Father Wm. Walsh, of Memphis, is among
the yellow fever stricken.
And now Pittsburg comes to the relief of the
Howards of Memphis, and au even 31,000 too.
Alfred Tennyson lias declined to become the heir
of certain estates in Lincolnshire. The laureate’s
elder brother inherited Grasby Hall and some
neighboring farms many years back, and for the
sake of the one or two thousand pounds a year
which they yielded lie entirely dropped tlie Tenny
son and became Rev. Charles Turner, a name which
stands on the Mtie-page of his book of sonnets. He
died a few months ago, leaving no issue, and his
wife followed him to fie grave withiu a few weeks.
The next heir is the laureate, but he will not ac
cept the condition which enforces the adoption of
the name of Turner.
Matthew Vassar and John Guy Vassar have de
cided to erect for Vassar College at Poughkeepsie a
new laboratory at a cost of ten thousand dollars.
Alexander McLean, a prominent member of Rev .
Dr. De Witt Talmage's Tabernacle, of Brooklyn, was
in Paris last week, en route for Switzerland.
Professor Ko Kun-Hou has arrived from China
under contract to teach tlie Chinese language at the
University of Havard for three years, at a salary of
twohundred dollars per month.
may. They will not listen to reason, and therefore
words of warning are wasted apou them,
T!ie best tiling the white people ofthe South can
do is to let them follow tlieir bent. The loss oftlieir
labor may inconvenience planters for awhile, but
their places will soon be supplied by a class o ( en
ergetic, reliable white laborers, who will do more
anTl better work, ami he in every respect a valuable
aei e-sion to the productive industry as well as tlie
social stat us of the South. This feeling is begin
ning to manifest- itself among the planters them
selves, who keeniv appreciate tlie necessity for a
more relialne class of laborers. A planter from a
section of Mississippi which had contributed largely
to swell the tide (lowing into Kansas, stated in au
interview at Memphis t hat tlie while immigration
to his state was larger than ever before and that if
all the negroes were to leave, white men could be
obtained to do the farm labor, aud lie added:
“White labor will never come 10 ilie South as long
as it has to compete with the negro race.” There is
unquestionably a very strong disinclination in that
direction, but still a large number of white laborers
come to the South every year. The idea that white
men cannot raise cotton has been most effectually
exploded since the war. A letter from Charleston
contains the statement that “the most of thecotton
grown in South Carolina is made by white labor,
and in tliose sections of the State where the whites
are numerous there is a slow but eoustaut Influx
of a laboring white class from the North and North
west.” The same writer adds: "Tilts will gradually
spread over the State, aud will increase in propor
tion to tlie diminution of the colored race. This
diminution is going on occasioned by tlie fearful
death rate, and is likely to continue. Where the
whites and the blacks are equal iu number, there
are about three colored deaths to one white. The
public provisions for the sick poor are better under
Hie Democratic government than formerly, but the
death rate lias not diminished.” A Mississippi pa
per makes this statement: “Tlie old-l'asliioued no
tion that white labor was unsuited to tlie cultiva
tion of cotton is pretty thoroughly exploded. Take
the train at Delta, on the Louisiana side of the riv
er, nearly opposite Vicksburg, and you will soon
reach the hill parishes, where there are numbers of
white farmers engaged in raising corn, fruit and - . ■ , „ . - , ,. . , , -
cotton. They diversify tlieir crops, making each a , ject unto Christ, so shall wives be to their husbands
few bales of cotton. Franklin parish is a hilly re- in everythin;
gion, where the whites are industrious and success
fill. They work in the cotton fields themselves
and are a good type of agriculturalists. Texas,
which, before the war, raised some 60,000 bales, is
now producing nearly mHI.ood bales, and four-fifths
of this immense product is the result ol white la
bor. The Texan farmers do uot want negroes to
come among them. The Texas joke is to tell emi
grating Sambo to ‘pass on 10 the next, county” It
will he found that as the negroes disappear from
communities their places will he taken by white
men from the North, who will find the labor ol the
South much easier and more productive than in
tlieii owu section. They will find uo difficulty in
buying or renting lands or hiring as laborers. These
facts ought to convince at least the intelligent
among the negroes that they are not a necessity to
the growth and prosperity of tlie South. Tlieir ab
rupt going may inconvenience the Southern people
for a time, just as the sudden abolition ol slavery
did, but the one will be bridged over without seri
ous detriment just as llie other was. Fifteen years
ago Hie great b. dy of the Southern people felt that
the South was almost ruiued by the sudden ireeing
of the negroes, but to-day these self-same people
realize that they are better off financially and every
way than if slavery had been continued. Just so
will itbeiflhe negroes slinll pull up stakes and al
most. wholly leave the South. The movement would
have its present inconveniences, but the South
would soon fill up with an energetic, wealth-produc
ing class equal to those of tlie most fav red portions
of the West. This emigration movement on the
part of the negroes is far from being au numixed
evil, so far as the South is concerned.
Tlie great mortality among the negroes is attract
ing a large share of the attention of medical men.
All the testimony we have goes to establish the
fact, audit is a melancholy one, that the rate of
mortality among the negroes is fearfully greater
than that of the whites. The negroes p»y no atten-
Mr. William Morris Hunt, th ; distinguished Bos
ton artist, while laboring under a temporary aber
ration of mind, the result of nervous prostration,
drowned himself, last Monday, at the Isle of Shoals.
Mr. George Munro, the publisher of the “Seaside
Library,” has recently endowed a Professorship of
Physics at Dalliouse College, in his native province
of Nova Scotia, with tlie sum of two thousand dol
lars per annum.
John Dunn, an old journalist, who for many
years was connected witli newspapers iu New York,
but for the past fifteen years has beeu connected
with papers in Washington, died ou Monday night
at the Washington Asylum.
Aleck Stephens lias received 33-5,ODD royalty on ills
book—“The War Between States.”
Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, who has been visit
ing ex-Governor Tilden at his country residence on
honorable in all. Matiimony, therefore, is a holy, ; the Hudson, is rather iiard on that much-maligned
excellent, and blessed estate, and is a type and figs
ure of the spiritual, perfect, and eternal union be
tween Christ and the church, which is called the
Bride, the Lamb’s wife. Full instruction is given
in the Word of God with reference to the reciprocal
duties of those that enter into this estate.
It is the duty of the husband to be the friend,
counsellor, and guardian of his wife, to love and to
cherish her in sickness and in health; to provide for
her support, shield her from danger and cleave unto
her with steadfastness and unalterable affection, it
being commanded in Scripture that husbands love
their wives, even as Christ loved the church and
gave himself for it.
If is the duty of the wife to be the friend, com
panion, and solace of her husband, loving him with
devoted affection, reverencing aud obeying him and
putting on the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
which is in the sight of God of great price, it being
commanded in scripture that, as the church is sub
old man. Mr. Blackburn says that Mr. Tilden plays
the trick upon his guests of running up several
flights of stairs to tlie eupolo of his mansion, osten
sibly to show his guests a fine view ofthe country,
but in reality with the design of impressiug his vis
itors with the idea that Tildeu is yet vigorous aud
strong enough for tlie next Presidential race.
It is announced that Lord Lyttou (Owen Mere,
dith) lias decided to accept the earldom and resign
the vice royalty. Lord Dufferin L will succeed him
Tlie Prince of Wales, it is said, has recently taken
to Whisky, and, being generally quite full of that
article, lie is addressed as “Your Rye-ness.”
The band at the Industrial Exposition at Cineiu.
nati will have Theodore Thomas for a leader.
General George D. Wise, of Virginia, late Ameri
cans Cousul to Havre, lias returned to this country’
andgone to Binghamton to reside, having leased the
He then requested them to join hands and the furnished residence of Mrs. J. C. Barlow.
usual questions were propounded and the solemn
sentence of “man and wife” pronounced, after which
the Rev. Dr. Parks, the faithful pastor of the First
Methodist church offered up a fervent prayer and
the great crowd dispersed while the friends of the
happy couple received the congratulations of count
less friends.
On the 4th of September, Miss Alice Campbell, a
charming young ladj’ of Johnson county, Texas,
was married to W. L. Williams, the popular and
efficient clerk of that county, by the Rev. B. F.
Stone. The bride was formerly from Marietta, Ga
Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, one of the
ablest statesmen of the age, thus gives his views in
reply to the following question of a newspaper re
porter :
“ What, in your opinion, will be the great politi
cal question of the Presidential campaign ? ”
“Money. It is the question that will not down.
The personal q :alities of the two candidates will
probably divert public attention a little, but only
for a little while. It is the one vital subject for
the nation’s consideration. The next big question
A Parisian paper publishes the following: The
Empress Eugeue is still iu the same state of depres
sion. She receives nobody, and dines alone in her
owu apartment. She only leaves her room to go
into that of her son. On tlie first day she entered it
since his burial she nearly faiuted on beholding tlie
fatal saddle which cost tlie Prince Imperial his life.
The Empress supportsjherself with the consulta
tions of religion.
The Georgia Legislature is investigating its pubs
lie officials—but suffering humanity is invertiga'
ting NeURAL«ixe. It is the only specific for Neu
ralgia and Headache. Every bottle guaranteed to
cure if taken according to directions.
Hutchinson & Bros., Proprietors,
14 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
That brisk little lady of seventy-two summer,
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, has arrived in Wash
ington. She tells the Post that she will endeav
or to reform Congress—a startling snggestion,
truly. Her plan is to equip a large hotel in
Washington where the accomodation and prioes
will encourage the Congressman to take their
will be taxation. The present system is radically wive8 andoh j ldreu to the Capitol with them.
wrong, for it does not bear equally upon the rich, , . _ Ti. * »
and poor. A man worth 8,00,000 does not in many 1 the Congressmen have their wives to
cases pay as much taxes as a man who earns but $i ; watch them, thinks Mrs. G., they would not be
a day. This is a crying shame.” I so wicked.