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THE SUNNY SOUTH
IOH.1 H. SEAM, Editor * Proprietor.
Vn. B. SEAM, Prop'rend Cor. Editor.
■ART E. BITAH, (•) Associate Editor
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ATLANTA. GA., SEPTEMBER io, 1881.
The President and His Removal
The removal of the languishing President
from Washington to Long Branch was suc
cessfully accomplished on Tuesday last, and
the job was admirably managed throughout.
Surely no man has ever been the recipient of
such tender and universal regard as Mr. Gar
field, and should his life be spared he will
find himself greatly embarrassed by a knowl
edge of this fact. It will be a difficult matter
for him to know how to act and in his over
weening desire to prove his gratitude, he
may be led into many indiscretions. But if
good nursing, unceasing care, medical skill,
human sympathy and human prayers can
save a human life he will live. In the lan
guage of the Constitution, “never perhaps
in the history of the American people has
there been such an earnest and sympathetic
season of prayer, as that which has brought
the nation to its knees in the past few days.
On last Sunday week from a hundred thou
sand churches all over this land—from the
hearts of millions of worshippers, went up
prayers in behalf of a dying president. A
whole Christian people, without regard to
creed, sect, or party, bowed their heads in
srpplication for the life of one man. On yes
terday, business was suspended over a conti
nent, and men left their stores, shops and of
fices, and women came from their homes,
that they might hear from pulpit and forum
the petition of God’s people. If there is any
power in prayer—if the prayers of the right
eous avail anything—and we are not permit
ted to doubt this—surely these prayers will
be answered.
More precious than ever will be the life
of Garfield to the country, if he is spared
now. Secure in the sympathy and love of a
whole people.he can rise above the restraints
of party or the demands of partisans and
give this country an administration that
will be absolutely imperial, enlightened and
pure. Chastened by suffering, touched by
universal sympathy, consecrated to a great
mission in the very presence of death, his
ambition tempered and his prejudice lost in
a tender sense of gratitude and brotherhood,
he will bring to the new discharge of his du
ties, qualities that will make him in truth
and in earnest a president of the people and
for the people.
At this writing it cannot be determined
what effect the change from Washington to
the sea-coast will have upon him.
Corporate Moaopclles.
We commence in this issue of the Sunny
South a series of articles, from the pen of
Hon. Stephen D. Dillave, of Washington, D.
C., on corporate monopolies. Mr. Dillaye is
a lawyer by profession and possessed of a
large and lucrative practice, being associated
with the Ho •. Edward R. Mason of Louisi
ana, with offices in Washington city and
New Orleans. He has one of the most accom
plished and versatile minds in the country, is
a deep and methodical reader of historical
and literary works and keeps well abreast of
modern thought in the political world. He
is a natural born Democrat and in the purer
days of the Democratic party and up to a re
cent date acted with that organization.
During the administrations of Franklin
Fierce, and James Buchanan, he filled several
offices of trust and honor, being at one time
appraiser at large for the ports of New York,
New Orleans, Charleston, St. Louis and
ethers. He is opposed to monarchies, aris
tocracies, monopolies and tyrannies of all
kinds that oppress the people. He is an ac
tive, living worker for human liberty, human
rights and human equality.
Mr. Dillaye, very appropriately dedicates
his proposed series of articles on the history
of corporate monopolies to Hon. Peter Coop
er, New York’s pet and model mechanic,
merchant, manufacturer and philanthropist.
As will be seen, he starts his series at the con
quest of England by the Norman conqueror,
who, after subjugating the country, divided
all the lands out among the so-called barens,
a sort of cod-fish aristocracy of that day and
time. He proposes to bring the question
down to our present day, glancing at the
past sufficiently to point out the spirit of its
tyrannies, and shows up those controlling
monopolies which have left their imprints in
the histories of human wrongs and sufferings.
Coming on down to the present, he will por
tray the character of the huge monopolies of
to-day, that are so rapidly seizing upon pub
lic power, private rights, and State and na
tional sovereignty.
Our readers and exchanges would do well
to preserve these articles of Mr, Dillaye, be
cause they treat of a vital and living subject,
—one that will not down at the bidding of
the monopolists and their willing tools. It is
a question that will force itself into our poli
tics and the sooner the people’s attention is
turned to it the better it may be for them
and constitutional government.
The Rome Courier calls on the people of
that city to establish cotton factories, and,
by way of enoouraging them to do so, cites
the case of the Trion factory, thirty miles
from Rome, with a capital of $235,000, which
has already declared two seven per cent div
idends this year, and promises another of the
same size. The Trion factory has no advan
tage of railroad transportation, and has to
haul all its manufactures to Rome, it requir
ing six six-mule wagons to do it. The Cou
rier thinks a factory at Rome would pay
better than at Trion.
MONOPOLIES.
Their Origin, Growth ud De
velopment.
Editors Sunny South:—
The conquest of England by William of
Normandy was an entire overthrow of all
the social, political and property rights
which had been established in the thousand
years since Ceasar conquered Britain. It
was the inauguration of a new gevernment,
based on feudal principle and catholic policy.
It was a complete transformation. France
reigned; but England, from that day, assum
ed a new character and new institutions.
The spoil was confiscated to the conqueror.
He ruled over it with a conqueror’s arro
gance; yet he established an order so definite,
and mapped out bis policy and h>s donations
with a foresight and care so scrupulously ex
act, as to have made his surveys, recorded
with Norman accuracy, the D ,omsday Book
of all titles in England. He not only confis
cated the soil, but he monopolized it into a
system for baronial aristocracy and feudal
servitude, which has, in a greater or less de
gree, adhered to it till this day.
Every foot of the soil of England was
measured—marked by monuments, regis
tered, and made to support and enhance the
power, military, civil and religious, by and
through which the conqueror became the
feudal lord of the realm and the king of its
people.
Men, to day, are known to be inequal in
their capacities and in their wants, but it is
the boast of our institutions that they are
equal in their rights. At the period of the
conquest the poor man’s life was illumined
by no illusions of hope. Labor, servitude
and obedience were his fate. He lived but
to live. He was neither his own master so
cially, legally or physically. Injustice and
violence reigned. The strong ruled, the
weak obeyed. The workman was under the
yoke of feudal exactions. There was but
oue measure for rewards or wages for him,
it was limited to the necessities of existence.
Land, the source of all wealth, the inspira
tion of the dreams which are enshrined in the
trinity of man’s hopes, duties and endear
ments—country, patriotism, and home—and
the only means by which individuality can
identify itself with nationality was wholly
excluded from the people. They could en
rich it, cultivate it, improve it, and give to it
all the sweat of toil, but they could not own
it. The land of England, like the land of
France, at that time belonged to men of no
ble blood.
Man lives on the material products of the
soil. It is these products which constitute
the essential elements of wealth. The people
could neither own nor possess them, except
as tributary slaves. Hewers of wood and
drawers of water to arrogant idleness, on the
one hand, and to military brigandage on the
other, they were forced to poverty, ignorance,
and dependence.
This monopopoly of the soil, thus establish
ed by the conqueror in England, had existed
in France, and pervaded the whole govern
mental system of Germany for centuries. It
was the aristocracy of power. The law of
force created it even to resist the brutality of
lorce. Civil and political power was subju
gated by the Northern hordes which overran
Italy, Spain, France, and a part of Germany.
All that was left of civilization was forced to
combine for protection. The feudal system
was the result. It was autocratic in all Its
powers, it was aristocratic in all its elements.
The lord ruled, the serf obeyed, defended,
and supported him. The one principle which
dominated the whole system was the absolute
superiority of the lord and the absolute infer
iority of the serf. This was provided by a
system of laws which left no hope to the
laborer. The future was secured to the no
ble by the law of entails and of primogeni
ture.
Tnis monopoly of the land of the old world
by the noble few has been the legalized bul
wark which has kept whole centuries of men
in poverty, in ignorance, and in debasement
USES FOR WOMEN.
The Marriage Estate.
with men tress' cruelty all efforts to escape
from its galling tyranny.
The long and cruel agony of the people, as
distinguished from the privileged, is a mar
vel to the men and women of our age; per
manent misery made perpetual by land
monopoly was the cause. It made millions
of mendicants; it organized poverty into
wretched orders; it filled the fields with
srarving despair. The slaves of the South,
if they were treated like beasts of burden,
were at least fed, clothed, and housed by
the master, but the taxed, over-worked,
hopeless serf of the soil, like the tenant-starv
el victim of rent in Ireland, was forced to
rob his stomach^of the necessaries of life to
load up with luxuries the pampered appetites
of indolent lords, their masters. Men were
treated with an indignant hardness and cru
elty which no pen can describe.
The law of entails, to tie up, and the law
of primogeniture, to keep the power, wealth,
and insolence limited to the few, seemed to
secure an immortality to monopoly of the
soil, dooming millions upon millions to want,
servitude, ignorance, and despair to create a
landed aristocracy.
But the Crusades came; fanatic faith
heralded the way to the tomb of the Ke-
deemer. The landed nobility were swept
into the vortex, and the way was opened and
the first step was taken for man’s enfran
chisement. What that step was I shall de
scribe in my next letter.
Stephen D. Dillaye.
Washington, D. C.
The best use to which a woman can be put
is to be made the honest wife of some good
man and the judicious mother of healthy
children. All the art and learning that she
can compass are not of so much value to the
world as the example of a life passed quietly
in the exercise of domestic duties and abcial
righteousness, in the gift to the country of
children who shall carry on the national tra
dition of courage and generosity, of unself
ishness and virtue.—London Truth.
This excellent suggestion is not new, but
does it never occur to the London Truth that
it married life is to be held up to woman as
her true profession man ought to give her
the social right of proposing marriage to the
other sex? We submit that nothing can be
meaner in man than to assure woman kindly,
calmly and profoundly that her true place
is to be a wife and then coolly but firmly bid
her wait for that opportunity till some man
condescends to ask her. Suppose nobody
ever asks her. Suppose a cruel fate has de
nied her personal charms or a dowry. Sup
pose instead of “some good man” presenting
himself, she has a succession of offers from
men who each and all have Such defects of
character that even no man would care to
enter into partnership with them. Must she
take the risk,—now with a profligate, no .v
with a brute, or a selfish pig, now with a
spendthrift, now with an incapabie who can
not earn a living for one, much less for two,
now with an old man blase and invalid?
Truth’s article which begins with the above
quoted sentences has for its title “man
traps;” how about the “woman-traps?”
Who takes the greatest risk in marriage and
is most likely to appear as a complainant in
the divorce court? Or suppose that the
London Truth's ‘ ‘good man should turn ub,
and the woman did not, would not and could
not love him, or finally that on some general
principle of feminine obstinacy she didn’t
want to marry at all ? There are men who
do not choose to marry,—cannot woman also
honorably choose not to marry?
And in any of these contingencies, some of
them highly probable, what is woman to do
but earn her living in the world by indus
tries to which God has fitted her just as pe
culiarly as he has man, and from which
nothing excludes her but the mean prejudice
and contemptible patronizing philosophy of
those who would shut women up to domestic
life with men not worthy of them?
Of course, abstractly, what the London
Truth says about the “best use” of woman is
true, but it is no truer ot her than it is of
man. The best use to which a man can be
put is being a good husband and raising goofi
children. To raise a perfect generation li
the whole end of civilization, But the Tru't
would not accept the same sauce for goose
and gander. Its view of marriage is that it
constitutes the profession of one sex, but not
of the other. This is degrading to both. It
raises monstrosities of complacent selfishness
among the men who regard that woman is
deficient in womanliness who does not look
upon a life-long partnership with “some good
man” as a sweet boon and the end of her be
ing. The class is larger in England than
here, who regard woman as made for man
but not man for woman,and who feel the on
ly way to insure the superiority of one sex to
the other is to distrust equality of opportun
ities and of educational advantages. This is
the effect upon men; upon women, it is dif
ferent. It impresses girls with the idea that
marriage is necessary, and they fall into a
foolish panic lest they should “get left.” These
are the only ones who get so indecent in their
struggle for matrimony that they set the
traps of which the Truth complains. The
prevailing notion of society, which is that of
the London Truth, puts girls at a certain age
in a pitiful frame of mind, which is shared
by tneir mothers. It is less so now than for-
A Tribute to a lioble Wife.
Some two weeks ago the wife of Rev. Dr.
David Wills died in Washington City. Dr.
_ _ Wills being a chaplain in the U. S. army,had
The iron hand o* power has struck down merly, and girls now spend in educatiju^ n to hja mgi»»><a;>±—in W-sehfngtr—
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
of Atlanta, having obtained permission to do
so, are now putting up temperance literature
boxes at various public places in the city.
They intend keeping them filled with choice
reading. There is one at the Department of
Agriculture, and we saw ene on its way to
the State Road depot.
Vagaries ot Religious Thought.
We used to hear that intellectual culture
was a safeguard against religious error. The
history of mankind does not establish this
proposition. Men of the finest mental train
ing have often adopted articles of belief
which Doctors of the Law adjudged hetero-
dox and common sense pronounced absurd.
Of “the follies of the wise” more may be
charged to their religion than to any other
one thing. At this day, we are wont to
boast of the splendors of intellectual light
amid which we live. Our highly cultured
classes are more learned than ever before,
while the ignorance of the uneducated is far
less dense than of old. Yet we are ever and
anon hearing of some new vagary into which
men are led by their religious propensities.
Not only are doctrines embraced which are
opposed to all sound logic but practices are
adopted utterly abhorrent to sound mo
rality. For a long while men and women at
the North have from time to time been
startling the thinking world by starting
some strange theory. Perhaps the seed
thought in each instance was a truth; but by
some perversion in the culture, there sprang
from it a rank growth of error—yet it won
advocates, and in no long time there was a
new sect. Such histories however have been
rare in our section. The large bulk of our
people have attached themselves with zeal
and fidelity to some of the old religious or
ganizations, and have not been much driven
about by divers winds of doctrines. Our peo
ple have been much disposed to look upon
promulgators of new creeds as missionaries
of error, and have given them the cold
shoulder. But it seems that we are no longer
to enjoy an immunity from the vagaries of
fanatics. The emissaries of the Mormon in
iquity are busily at work in the northern
portion of our state, while we hear reports
from some of our middle counties that a
strange species of fanaticism has appeared
which threatens disorganization to our
churches. Of course these things begin
among the ignorant. But have we any as
surance from the past history of mankind
that they will continue there? Intellectual
culture m not a safeguard against religious
error. * *
tneuiseives tor sell-support some ot the years
which were formerly spent in angling for
husbands and worrying for fear they should
not get a bite. But many ill-starred mar
riages are contracted now in the face of great
risks in the character of the man, which
would be saved if the young woman were as
sured of independent position and was free
to reject or accept. Nothing has done so
much to cultivate domestic happiness in
America as the elevation of woman to an
equality with man in educational advantages
and attainments and her consequent advan
tage as a contracting party in matrimony.
It elevates equally the single woman whose
social position was once deemed inferior to
her married sister’s. It raises the standard
of the home, because it teaches that the per
fect home is no less the concern of man than
of woman, and helps to correct the conceit
that man has outside of it any purpose in life
nobler or more important. —Springfield Re
publican,
The problem of finding employment, says
the American, is one whose serious relation
to the moral welfare of society is coming into
appreciation. It is ascertained that the pres
sure of want through unwilling idleness is
one of the principal causes which drive many
unhappy women to unwomanly and vicious
careers. Every one sees that women have
not had a fair chance in the distribution of
employment. Many sorts of light work for
which they are exactly suited, are almost
monopolized by men. One of these is the
trade of the barber. In old times, when ev
ery barber was so far a surgeon as to be ex
pected to practice phlebotomy, and when the
red streak on his pole stood for human gore, it
was natural that men alone should be barbers.
But phlebotomy has gone out of fashion, and
what is left of it is monopolized by the doc
tors. Yet men continue to monopolize a
profession for which they are altogether un
fitted. The matter of cleanliness, which
might be supposed indispensable to the busi
ness, is something to which they seem quite
unequal A thoroughly clean barber’s shop
might be sought in vain in any city, one find
ing it nowhere. The smell of a barber’s fin
gers in the vicinity of the nasal organs is for
many a man good reason for sawing away
with a blunt razor at home, in preference to
putting himself into hands odorous with the
bad scents which poison oar soaps. And,
whatever be the truth as to the charge of
loquacity sometimes brought against the fair
sex, no average woman can talk up to an
average barber. It pleases us, therefore, to
record that two women in Binghamton have
broken the bad tradition in this regard, and
have set up barbers’ shops in that town.
May their example prove infectious.
John Howard Payne.
Interesting Reminiscences.
A correspondent of the Rome (Ga.) Baptist
Sun gives some interesting reminiscences of
prominent Cherokee Indians assembled on a
momentous occasion, at Cassville, Georgia,
in the fall of 1835. A bill of injunction had
been filed by these Indians against the whites
for taking possession of their lands before
they left, and as the Cassville superior court
was in session, many of the chiefs with their
wives were present. John Howard Payne,
the author of the immortal “Home Sweet
Home,” bad been sent out to obtain the his
tory of the “Cherokee country” from the ab
origines. He had letters of introduction to
the writer’s father at Cassville. The latter
invited the bar, the chiefs and Mr. Payne to
tea in order to give opportunity for social
intercourse, and to afford Mr. Payne a
chance to acquire desirable information.
The social was a success and the writer re
marks: “Mr. Payne was highly interested
and pleased, having met with facilities for
getting information unexpectedly. I am
sure I was quite flattered when all the guests
had retired he asked me to play ‘ Bonnie
Doon ’ again. • His manners were extremely
courteous. In bidding good night he took
his cap in hand, walked up in front of each
lady, bowing gracefully, and leaving the
room without turning until he reached the
door. My father regretted not having an
opportunity of rendering him further assist
ance, as he (my father) left in a few days
with his family for southern Georgia, in
time to return to Milledgeville to take his
seat in the senate.
“Soon after our arrival, father was sur
prised and mortified to hear of Mr. Payne’s
arrest by Gen. Bishop as a spy and aboli
tionist. It caused Mr. Payne some trouble
before he was released. I heard that when
he returned North he wrote a drama, the
scene in Spring Place—the place of bis arrest.
In this play Gen. Bishop and others were
made very conspicuous character s. It was
acted on the stage in Washington at one
time when Gen. B was present, who recog
nized himself in the drama in a very unen
viable light. Mr. Payne also wrote a noble
defence of the Cherokees, and presented the
memorial to congress during the succeeding
winter.
The reminiscences ef this correspondent
have called up some recollections and inqui
ries about John Howard Payne. I have it
from some authority that he composed
“Home Sweet Home” on a dark and dreary
night near Allatoona, Ga., or conceived the
idea of the poem there. Does any one know
the history of the poem, when and where
composed ? I have heard it stated too that
while a prisoner at Spring Place the soldiers'
sung around him “Home Sweet Home,” and
on being told he was its author they at once
liberated him. I could not vouch for the
truth of this statement but would like to
know. Whether Mr. Payne wrote a drama
1 do not remember, but he did in some way
m03t severely caricature the parties connect
ed with his imprisonment.
There were two brothers of the Messers
Bishop. CoL W. N. and Capt. A. B. Bishop.
Capt. B was a gentleman of polished man
ners, but rendered himself very obnoxious
to the sensitive poetic temperament of the
prisoner and when Mr. Payne wrote his cari
cature he always spoke of Capt* B. as the
“smooth and silky Absalom.”
I would be glad to see again, a poem by
Miss Adair, a farewell to the Cnerokee county.
How it would appear now I dont know, but
it impressed my young heart as having the
ring of merit in it. Can any one furnish a
copy of it? It was published about the time
the Indians were moved West.
Kingston, Ga. W. J. C.
We learn that Wm. W. Sublette, Esq., has
retired from the management of the “Peo
ple’s Mutual Relief Association” of this city,
having sold his interest to CoL Jas. G. Blount,
who now becomes vice-president instead of
Mr. S. While we congratulate the associa
tion on the acquisition of talent possessed by
the new vice-president, we regret the retire
ment of our friend, Mr. S., whom we have
known well and favorably for many years as
a perfect gentleman, and the most accom
plished and successful life insurance man in
the Southern States- As an organizer snd
manager, he has no superior in the field of
insurance—certainly not in the South. We
hope to see him located here, a permanent
fixture of the “Gate City.” We need and
would welcome all such enterprising men,
and trust he may yet find it to his interest to
make Atlanta his future home.
Territory, and had arrived in Portland, Ore
gon, the day she died. He at once telegraph
ed to keep the body until he could reach
Washington, so that he could see the last of
her on earth. He arrived at Washington on
last Wednesday, and the funeral took place
on Thursday. The venerable Doctor stood
by the open grave and his deep and touching
grief found expression in words—words al
most too sacred to be put in Sprint, After
speaking of the great beauty of her youth,
her sublime devotion as wife and mother, the
pure and disinterested benevolence of her
heart, and his own poignant grief on the oc
casion, he concluded with these tender and
hopeful words;
“My darling angel wife! Thou wast a suf
ferer for many years, and none was more
patient, trustful and cheerful than thou wast.
The ministry of sorrow was thy ministry,
and how well thou didst fulfill it is known
only to God and thine own smitten house
hold. In all suffering thou didst display the
spirit of the martyrs of all the ages. Above
the voice of the tempest of pain and anguish
thou didst hear the music of the mighty
throng which bad come out ef great tribula
tion, and the darkest days of thy history
brought out the stars of the promises in the
richest golden clusters. Never can I forget
how sweetly thou didst often speak and sing
of that better land whor j the inhabitants
shall not say ‘I am sick,’and where God shall
wipe away all tears from every eye.
“Precious one! Thou art not dead, but
sleepeth. ‘I am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in Me shall never die.’ The
blessed Gospel thou didst profess to practice
has abolished death and shed the light of im
mortality on the gloom of the grave. But
for this glorious hope I would be of all men
most miserable.
Farewell, darling Rebecca, till we are join
ed in holier bonds*
‘Beyond the parting and the meeting,
Beyond this pulse’s fever beating.
Beyond the rock-waste and the river,
Beyond the ever and the never,
Love, rest, and home.’
“May the night dews fall gently on thy
silent resting place. May the flowers that
bloom on thy sainted grave be the sacred em
blems of thy immortal life, and may the light
of the stars form a bright aureole around thy
lowly head forever.
“I know that my Redeemer liveth, and am
persuaded that that Almighty Saviour whom
thou loved, in whom thou didst trust and
with whom thou art still united, will watch
over thy sacred dust till the great rising
day,and then mould it into an immortal form
of loveliness and perfection.”
maudlin Sentiment.
The silly, sentimental manner in which
many persons and papers have spoken ot
Mrs. Garfield’s attentions to her husband re
ceives the attention of the journals. The
New York Graphic, ot Tuesday, indulged in
the following comments, among others, on
the subject: “This is all gush and maudlin
sentiment. No one wishes to call in question
the fact that Mrs. Garfield is a very good,
sensible, clear-headed, warm-hearted and
affectionate woman and an excellent wife,
and that she has borne herself admirably
during her afflictions, which may not yet be
ended. But it is a very unjust reflection
upon the other equally good wives of the
country to place Mrs. Garfield on a pedestal
and call on all the rest of her sex to look upon
her as the only woman in the land has ever
taken good care of a sick and wounded hus
band.”
This country is too Dig for a famine, too
rich for a panic, and too strong in the faith
of liberty and free government for dismem
berment, anarchy or revolution. As the
Baltimore American says, “its foundations
are too strong to be shaken to pieces by the
death ot one man or the extinction of one
party. They rest securely upon the love and
affections of the people, and, while men may
come and men may go, they remain for
ever,”
BILL ARP S CHAT.
After the Rains.
I think we are feeling better. The late
rains have revived ns. Crab grass is spring
ing np and every farmer can save some
whether be has a mower or not. If the rag
weed is mixed with it cut it all down to*
gether and cure it, and the stock will eat it
all up clean. Cattle like a variety of food,
and it is astonishing to see what they will
eat when yon turn ’em in the pasture. We
used to think that rag weed was a nuisance,
but my nabor Lowry is a good farmer and
always has fat cattle, and he mows down his
weed crop when it is tender and mixed with
crab grass. There is a plant that bears what
is called beggar lice that has always had a
bad character like cnckleburs and Spanish
needles, but it is akin to lucerne and is ex
cellent food. Cattle will eat jimson weeds
and peach tree leaves as a digester. It’s as
tonishing what they will eat and digest and
I’ve often wondered if old Nebuchadnezzar
relished them sort of vittels. It must have
been a pitiful sight to see him going about
on h is all fours among the cattle eating grass
hnd hull nettles with claws on his hands and
feet, and feathers on his back, looking as
much like a bird as a beast, and I wish my
friend Mr. Moser would draw a picture of
him for my children.
Hogs have the same habits as cattle. If
you will give your fattening hogs a good bait
of corn you can turn ’em in the cornfield with
impunity. They wont break down a stalk,
but will eat the grass and weeds, and roqM
about for worms and bugs, and lie in tn^
branch and woller and grunt and grow fat.
When they find an ear of corn on the ground
they will eat it, but they won’t damage the
standing crop any to speak of. Turn ’em
out at night, and feed ’em again on corn in
the morning before you put ’em in the field.
Rye and barley and turnips are pretty sore
of a crop now—that is, if a man has soweu
the seed. Mr. Speaker Major Bacon told me
that if a man would sow barley in drills two
feet apart on top of a liberal amount of barn
yard manure, it would grow up quick and
keep growing all winnter, and he could cut it
over and over again and feed more stock off
of a little patch than anybody would believe
who had never tried it. i believe our people
will learn a heap from the failure of their
crops. It will make ’em shifty, and maybe
pull ’em out of the old ruts—for with a heap
of us it’s going to be root hog or die to get
through the winter.
Governor Brown give us good advice about
what to sow, though, as my friend Duggar
says. I thought he laid most too much dis
tress on turnips. Nevertheless, turnips are
a good thing, and so is salad. I tnink the
general outlook is pretty good cotton or no
cotton. Our northern brethren begin to look
down this way with some interest and a
power of money. They are gettin hormoge-
nous, as Mr. Tharp says. Tfiey are not as
afraid of us as they used to be. For fifteen
yers they have been looking upon us as the
prodigal son who left his father’s house and
wasted his substance and eat corn shucks,
and because we wouldn’t get down on our
marrow tones and say, “Father I have sin
ned” they wouldent kill no calf. Well, a few
of our folk did get mighty humble, to all ap
pearances, and confessed to sins they were
not guilty of, and got post-offices, and reve
nues, and calf meat and all that, but the
average rebel wouldent do it. He came back
to the house but he made no confession. On
the contrary, the rebel brigadier stepped in
to congress with his hat on one side and his
head erect, and looking around upon his
northern brethren exclaimed: “Well, boys,
yon see I’m back again. Nop, whore’s my
veal?” Well, of course, the saints dident like
that. They mistook independence for impu
dence, but it paid in the long run. As Sen
ator McDaniel said in his speech on Mr.
Cole’s bill, “The dawn of a new era is upon
us—an era of fraternal and financial union.”
I like the major first rate. He is a good man.
When he found he coulden tamend Mr. Cole’s
IviHYc -Tbai—sbirsrod
his appreciation of the enterprise and his re
spect for his fellow senators.
He is another man who would make a good
governor, and I am for him whenever the
people call him. I like to hear him talk, for
there is just enough impediment in his speech
to make him interesting. When he hesitates
on a word his hesitation gives it emphasis
when it does come, and it is always the right
word. I asked him the other day would he
be willing to sit in the gubernatorial chair if
the people called upon him, and he said
“most assuredly” as good as I could say it
myself. He didn’t hesitate about (that, and
it shows his respect for his fellow-citizens
The trouble with some of our good men is
they think they hear a call when they don’t,
and so they go about bowing and scraping
and saying “most assuredly” a little ahead of
the music. A man told me the other day
that the people had been calling on him ever
since the war and he has give way and give
way for harmony. Well, I’ve traveled round
a good deal, and I’ve never heard anybody
agonizing in that direction. Now, we are
going to have lots of railroads down south,
and the building of ’em will scatter a power
of money among onr people and increase the
value of our lands and give employment to
our young men. We are going to come in
contact with Northern industry and North
ern economy. Our boys will learn to move
up with alacrity, for those men won’t toler
ate any fooling around. No time to go coon
hunting or to campmeeting or mardi gras—
hardly time enough to get married, and as
for a feller courting a girl like we used to on
a picnic or a fishing frolic, it’s not to be
thought of. A fe low has got to shoot on the
wing now or not shoot at alL The girls will
have to do most of the courting, for they have
the most time. When they fancy a young
man they must sing, “Whistle and I’ll come
to you. my lad,” and if he whistles it’s all
right, and he ought to whistle. I’ve no pa"
tience with a young man who won’t whistle.
I don’t believe in a young man waiting until
he gets rich before he marries. It’s a fraud
on tne girls, for not many young men get
rich, and those that do get used to doing
without a wife and don’t marry at all.
That’s what’s the matter with New England
now. The boys go off to seek a fortune and
never come back. any more, and those who
stay at home wait till the flush of life is gone
and don’t raise any family to speak of, and
so that country is about to lose its identity.
The Irish and dutch are crowding out the
native Puritans, and I don’t care much if
they do. So it’s all right, I reckon. It’s all
right.
Our legislature seems to be a good working
body of men. It’s no small job to repeal all
the code by sections, and vote away whisky
from all the churches and camp grounds. It
takes biennial sessions twice a year and twice
a day to do it with dispatch. Some of ’em
are trying to get through by the time the
cotton exposition opens, but I understand
General Kimball wants ’em to hold on a week
or two longer and adjourn to the fair grounds
as part of his show. It’s curious how we
swing the laws round in a circle, I remem
ber how in 1865 we passed a wild land bill,
and it raised a howl and the next legislature
repealed it, and then we passed another and
another, and now they have repealed them
and gone back again to the first one. I re
member how we used to elect judges by the
people and then by the legislature and then
nave ’em appointed by the governor,and they
have been changing around first one way
and then another for forty years and now
this legislature wants to change the constitu
tion and give it back to the governor again.
They change the tax law most every year,
and the jury law and the lien law. No sort
of law seems to stand the test of time and
give general satisfaction, but I think they
change ’em most too often. By the time the
time the new code is printed there will be
right smart of it repealed. If they do change
the mode of selecting onr judges, why not
try a new tribunal—one that has never been
tried—the supreme court. That court knows
all the leading lawyers in the state—knows
them better than the governor or the people
—knows their private character and their
professional ability. Any way is better than
to leave it to the people. I remember when
candidates for judges and solicitors went
round electioneering like they were rnnnihg
for a constable’s office and it took hypocrisy
and lying to get elected. There was a feller
elected solicitor general who was fond of
gambling. He would stand np and prosecute
gamblers all day and sit down and play with
’em all night. One night he played with ’em
all night and lost all his money and got ex
cited, and as they were all under indictment
and were to be tried next day, he put np a
nol pros as a stake and bet that and lost, and
then another and another until he had lost
all of ’em, and he got up in court the next
day and told the judge he had no proof to
convict and threw all the cases out. The
people hardly ever elect the best men for the
bench,for the truly great and good man is to o
modest to go round among them hunting for
office. It is the same now that i was in the
£ Eng David when Absalom wanted
to be king and stood by the gate and said to
the people, “Oh, that l were made judge in
the land that any man which hath any suit or
cause might come unto me and I would do
him justice. And it was so that when any
came nigh to do him obeisance be pnt forth
his hand and took him and kissed him, and so
did Absalom steal the hearts of the people.”
I don’t like these folks that are always kissing
and smiling no how, for Judas betrayed his
Master with a kiss and a man can smile and
snule again and be a villain. Bill Arp.
SPECIALMENTION.
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
It is estimated there are seven million Jews
in the world.
, Senator Voorhees thinks that Gen. Han
cock will be renominated in i884.
The census of India has been completed and
shows a population of 252,550,000.
When he came home tipsy he told his wife
he had been out sherrynading.
A rich widow is the only second band
article that brings a first-class price.
The world we live in is the best world pos
sible to those who use it; the worst world pos"
sible to those who abuse it.
A woman may be a friend of a man she
does not love; but she is al wavs the enemy of
a man she loves no longer.
A little boy remarked: “I like grandpapa,
because he is such a gentlemanly man; he al
ways tells me to he!' myself to sugar.
The only way to escape an avalanche is by
running, and a run for anything less than
150 miles an hour is all thrown away.
Greenfield, the New York murderer, who
had six trials and was then hung, said he was
glad to have it decided one way or the other.
The first inter ment in Greenwood cemetery,
New York, was on September 5, 1840. Since
then 2io,oco people have been buried there.
A collector in this city has the following
pasted up in his office as his motto. “Never
put off until to-morrow what can be dunned
to-day?”
Tis a sad thing when men have neither art
enough to sppak well, nor judgment enough
to hold their tongue; this is the foundation
of all impertinence.
Keep your promise to the letter, be prompt
and exact, and it will save much trouble and
care through life, and win for yon the respect
and trust of your friends,
Queen Victoria is very solicitous regarding
the condition of President Garfield, and has
the substance of all telegrams on this subject
sent at once to Osborne House.
A singular exhibit at the Atlanta exposi
tion will be by a North Carolina firm of over
two thousand specimens of the medicinal
herbe which grow in that state.
Tbe pastor of one of the leading churches
in Augusta prayed fervently the other day
in his pulpit that the state might be delivered
from the present legislature.
He is a great simpleton who imagines that
the chief power of wealth is to supply wants.
In niuety-nine cases out of a hundred it cre
ates more wants than it supplies.
Fifty extra policemen are to be elected in
Atlanta for the three months daring which
the exposition will continue. More than
eleven hundred applications for the positions
are on file.
The Atlanta Constitution.—Our clever
neighbor came to us on Tuesday morning
bedecked, bet rimmed and bestuck in a new
dress, new shape, and new make-up gener
ally. And though not so bright and cheery,
somehow, as the familiar old garb, yet, when
its new clothes are worn awhile and the fold
ing machine becomes more expert in stick
ing and trimming its leaves its present shape
will, no doubt, add to its popularity. It is a
source of genuine pride to every worthy and
unprejudiced member of the fraternity to
see evidences of succees attending the labors
and struggles of his brethren; and while the
Constitution, tor some unintelligible reason,
adheres to a fixed rule of ignoring its city con
temporaries, save at so much per line, there
is Mot one, we dare say,which does not rejoice
at its continued prosperity and financial tri
umphs. And why? Because it is worthy of
its successes. It is an honor to the profess
ion. It is complete as a news gatherer, and
clear, able and conservative in its exposition
of public questions. It is true and uncom
promisingly devoted to its friends and the
city and State from which it derives its sus
tenance. It is therefore in every way worthy
of success and its brethren are gratified that
it is reaping it. In the wilds of Wisconsin a
copy of it was handed to us and it was like
a fresh breeze from old Georgia and we arose
from its perusal as much refreshed as if we
had made a visit to friends and home scenes.
Let it luxuriate then in its abundant success
and no one will rejoice more in its victories
than we of the sunny south From their
own columns we copy the following:
The Constitution appears this morning en
larged, amended and improved. Barring a
few maladjustments incident to a hurried
change, it goes to its readers to-day in the
shape it will hold for the next year or two.
The advance recorded in this change is in
steady pursuance of the policy long ago
marked out by the proprietors of this joumaL
That policy is to keep The Constitution
abreast ot the best sentiment of its constitu
ency and apace with the progress of the
south. Let this progress be ever so rapid
the time shall never come, through lack of
energy or purpose on our port, when The
Constitution shall be one whit behind the
pioneers in the grand work of development
in which the south has entered.