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THE . SUNNY SOUTH.
TALMAGE.
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California, landing from their, ships on the
Paoifie beaoh, took the Weet.in the rear.
And the workmen of the Union Paoifia and
northern Pacific and Southern Pseiflo came
npon it with their apadea, and the giant Weat
hae eeaaed. And t k 'oogh many, might sup
pose that it might be said of it aa of Mow:
“No man knoweth of hia aepwlehre to thia
day. ’ I think that the Yoeemjta Valley ia its
aaloophaguH with El Oapitan tat the head
stone and Cathedral rook at tM foot. The
millions of foreign population, that are yet
.for
to cross the sea for America wifl soon fill all
the area between the Atlantic and the Pacific
Bat in the words of my text I
“Another door toward the
Isay Sooth, I do not mean
States of the nation, bqtlx
cent infinity of opportunity
gaeae America, the fifteen SfM
X blies and the islands of
Through that door
plete and glorious relisfjfpr all this
It'
orer-sopply.
within fi'
will come within ten years,
... re, within three. On the 18th of
next month, at the New Or leansammeitMB 4
that door will begin to swing ones. And if
the Government of the Uoitetf Santee Mty
od the m
appreciate the opportunity and (be people
help, the highest water math that the
will
ware ofour national proeparity hae ever
' ed feet w
what
retched will be a bandied
■hall speedily be the full tideof aemmercisL
agricaltar&l, manafaetaring, Mantare and
moral soeeess. In the name of God I pro
claim revolution. Not by award or dyna
mite or nitroglycerine or giant powder, bat*
by plough ana esw add yardstick and factory
hand# and new lines of sterna ace and whole
nations rising op to greet oar nation in
commercial amity. --Oar Maple for the
moat part sit in appalling iggAttmoe of an
opportunity, anoh as was netac’spread oat
before any nation sinoe the morning stars
sang together. “On the Soot >, three gates,”
yea, three thousand gates, all at them wide
open.
I have had facts put before me, enough to
keep a man awake nights
Startling significance and si
ed with meaning that they
Splendor and power of the
my at Waterloo—Sootoh Gi
Guards and Peek's infantry
of Ponsonby and Ryland,
Belgians, and HighlgtylerB
bagpipes. Ayel Aye! It
Waterloo which will decide
destiny of North and Booth
simple fact is that the Vast !
lation iu the tropics are bn;
Atlantie nations almost i
from ns almost nothing, and
to torn, and the tide will in;
this sermon to help it tarn,
tingle with the intensity of
1880 five billion and three b
ty-nine million doUaeswortfi'i
nfaetnred in the United States,
per oent. taken by foreign
is a marvel that American
are not as dead as the prove)
My only wonder is that nil
manufactories have not gone .into bank
rnptoy, and ninety-nine one-bajadredths of
the factory bands gone into starvation or
the alma house; and it will te Worse if the
battle ia to go on between Iambi! spindles
here and Manchester 8pint^H*theire—be
tween foreign merchants wbtidlrknt tariffs
down, at)d American mer chaff* who want
tariffs up. There is noTelief ^Wr ns in the
markets of Europe, end will fife none till
moons shall wax and wane no-t&ore. “An
other door toward the South. Dn the South
three gates.” This nation to-day is like a
silly dry goods merchant who Mhnda behind
the counter haggling with a t-nslill customer
about three yards of tape, whep there are at
the eounter, impatiently waiting, three
prinoeBses wishing to purchase- their bridal
tronsseanx. May God rou^ftbis nation
from its commercial idiocy I ’.y.
On the south of us are regionsnearly three
times as large as the United ’States, which
are without manufactures, without woolen
goods, without agricultural ‘’implements,
without telegraphs, without telephones,
to of their
so load-
with the
ke’s ar-
*the Lite
.ttalions
Dutch
g their
fit 1 (bloodless
menial
oa. The
of popu-
m trans-
ig, and
to ought
I preaoh
ears will
ital. In
and six-
man-
id only two
anies. It
mfdotories
door-nail,
mtbs of the
seven cities that8tevens, the traveler, found
a little way apart, and walking through the
corridors and under the arches and in the
great door ways and over the miracles of
Mosaio, and along by the monumental glo
ries of another civilization, and ancient
America will, with oold lips of stone, kiss
the warm lips of modern America, and to
have seen the Andes and the Popocatepetl
will be dee mad as important as to have seen
the Pyreceein and Balkan ranges. So there
will be fewer people spoilt by foreign travel
and in our midst less poor imitation of the
French shrug and the intentional hesitancy
of the brainless swell. The faot is that there
are more people made fools of by European
travel than.any other, and thoogh.sensible
when they embark, they return with a collar
and a cravat and a shoe and a ooat and a pro
nunciation and a oontempt for American in
stitutions, and a bend of the elbow that make
one believe in evolution backward from man
to ape. Of the thirty thousand Americans
who now cross the sea annually there will be
thousands who, on pleasure din'd business,
visit the tropics, and as toqrist and merchant
and socialist and capitalist, will all help in
thia national development.
1 wish that somehow oar next Congress
FLORIDA THIRTY YEARS AGO
ters of the first class, residing on the islands or | of congress. They have got to play a new role
might take the $100,000,000 of surplus in the
United "
Without shoes, wttbgut @«wiD* maobiues,
without ten thousand thing?!: Ufat we have
and they mast have. Where-.shall they get
them? They are getting tbMtf from three
thousand miles away, and wdhtt the next
door from them areT btiried under a snrplns
of there very things. They arbidble to trade
with us for their sugars and coffees and
spioesand fruits and valnabtfe woods we
need as much as they need onr products.
But look and then hang your heads at the
statement that while our nett door neigh
bora, the Southern republics^ad Brazil and
neighboring colonies import $675 000,000
neighboring _
worth of goods in a year, only*'$126,000 000
are from the United States. Only one-fifth
of the trade is ours—European nations tak
ing the four fingers and leavingfUs the poor
thumb. The sister republics op’the Ameri
can oontinent have a foreigfr commerce
amounting to $428 000,000, of which we hive
only the feeble aDd paltry sumd^$63.000.000.
There is nothing but a oompirifeve ferry ba
be wi
tween thto country and the
while there are raging seas of tang voyages
between them and other obnfitaents. Yet
they import $116 000 000 wofttfof goods a
year, and only $31 000 000 oomff from us.
Now, all this is going to be speedily
phanged, and the ohaDge is going to be the
notation of the labor question*iBd the bread
question, and the oommuhifit question,
and the over-prodnotion-underconsumption
question, and almost every otett question.
It is going to set all the milla mtthe Merri-
mao, and the Connection^ ktrffthe Sn-que-
hanna, and the Chattahoochee tabuing day
and night with double sets of hands,
and calling for ten factories where we have
one factory, and potting all tbstaMb who are
now out of employment into’Vork at good
rages, and to ohange thisst^y pfi dull times
' 11 bn in fnll
l Way to the
States treasury, whiob the Republi
cans did not steal, and before tab Democrats
get a ohanoe to steal it, and in some way ex
pand it in establishing new lisas of s hi oping
bat wean tbs porta of North and Biota
America, and in dredging their harbors,
and in building telegraphic wires, and in
qwtakaaing all that glorious consummation,
which is sore to coma. Go on, gentlemen,
dis—sing your high tariff, and low tariff,
and horizontal tariff, and no tariff at all,
until the question is malodorous as the
moss-bankers that the Long Island fisher
men throw on the fields to enrieb the farms.
Bat meanwhile, God is going to prepare for
the rescue of the millions hard-working men
and women of this country, who have been
hungry and oold long enough, and this door
of t .e Sooth open, is going to tarn on them
a summer of bright warm prosperity. In
anticipation I nail on the front door of this
nation an advertisement—
Wanted—One hand ed thoosand men to
boild Booth American railways long as from
here to Brtn Francisco.
Wanted—Five thousand telegraph opera
tors.
Wanted—Twenty million dollars worth of
dry goods and hardware front New York.
Wanted—All the clocks you can make at
New Haven and all tan shoes yon "an manu
facture at Natick, and all the brains you ean
spare from Boston, and all the belle yon can
mould at Troy, and all the MoOormtok reap
ing machines yon can fashion at Guicago,
and all the hams yon ean fnrnish from Cin
cinnati, and air the railroad iron yonoan
send from Bointon to Pittsburg.
Wanted! 1
Wanted right awayl
Wanted by express, Wanted by rail train,
wanted by steamer I
Wanted lawyers to plead onr oases!
Wanted doctors to enre onr sick!
Wanted ministers to evangelism onr popu
lation 1
Wanted professors ta establish onr univer
sities.
“Another door toward the Sooth. On the
Synth three gates.” Lift up yoor heads ye
everlasting gates, and let the North oome
Sontn, and the Sooth oome North, oorreoted
forever the geographical blunder of the cen
turies, which says there are five, continents
when there are only four—Europe, Asia,
Africa and’ America. Our Arctic, and Ant-
aioti , only the crystal latches on front and
baok gate of the one palaoeyard. Aye, the
continent is one living queen of beauty and
power. Tho gh the eouuuent be narrow at
the waist, if yon girdle it at-'Aspin all, it is
still one living queen upon whom God hath
pat the richest uiadeui of all the v;orid. On
this Thanksgiving Day 1 thought I would
tell you of your inheritance. Henoetort.
pot this into yonr prayers, tune it into yoor
doxologies, and let capitalis e and states
men lift .t into their plans. What is the
use of gat ering a whole fleet of laden
steamers at the month of a small river, try
ing to pile them in, jostling and smok fast,
when there is this great wide, Southern se ,
with room foi largest merchant men to
spread sail or drop auohor?
Without this opening prospect this day
would be very CKk for those of u* who are iu-
terested iu the laoonng classes. To-day
there are one mil ion people in the o ontry
ont of work. Ten per oent of the laboring
classed with nothing to do bat suffer, ana
another twenty per oent toiling a bat!
wages. I shall not take my seat at the
Thanksgiving table to-day until I look at
the bare plates , f these multitudes, and at
their empty wardrobes, and invoke upon
the mere, of God and the generous consid
eration of those in oomfortable cnou in
stances. Congress assembles next week
and let it waste no time on abstractions,
bnt some swift enactment open this door
8 jutb and all the other legitimate doors for
the relief of men who ean get no work and
who stand in this November cold wringing
their numb lingers with helpless fami les at
their back. Hungry men and wt men never
have been q .iet and never will be quiet and
never ought to be quiet. Bread tuey ought
to have and bread'they muat have and biead
,. , _ 1 1 ey will have. With this, the filth plenti
es! Indies, | Q j j, arve8t> j{ there be any one man, woman
or child without food and without oumforta-
A Trip 4m the Welaka to Jacksonville
—Incidents of the Voyage aud
Comments Upon Them.
It Is an indistinct memory of mine that that
cynical genius, Thomas Carlisle, said on different
occasions that Scott wrote for the coin of the
realm, but Bums wrote because the fullness of
his heart had to have utterance. It is this full
ness of the heart that impels me to write the in
cidents of a trip I took to Florida about the third
of a century ago. From the time I hail intelli
gence enough to know of the then territory it
had about it the halo of romance for me. As its
name indicates, it was “the Land of Flowers.!’
-It was settled by Spaniards, and was a prov
ince of Spain when that kingdom was the first-
class power of civilization. It contained the
quaintest, the queerest, and the oldest town in
the United States. Comparatively, it was in the
tropics. Its trees, plants, fruits and flowers
were tropical. There, the skies were bluer, the
waters clearer, the birds of gayer plumage
and sweeter song, the flowers of brighter color
and daintier odor. There the red man, within
these states made bis last stand for his native
laud. There perished iu the struggle for his
tribe Osceola, the last renowned Inman warrior.
Before the days ot, coinmumcatiou by steam,
there settled the cavaliers of Virgiukt and the
Huguenots of South Carolina—the cream of tiie
cream of both states. There yet lingered the
civilization of the days ot romance aim chivalry,
with its disliuguishing characteristics of the
duel and the tournament. There was a grand
succession of magnificent lakes ior hundreds of
lmles, called by the Spanish and English the St.
Johns liver, hut by the Indians the setter and
more beautiful name of Welaka. There the soil
atmosphere and balmy breezes were supposed
a specific lor that prevalent scourge of civilized
humanity—consumption. There Uie north star
was so low in the horizon as to suggest the ap
pearance of the Southern cross. For these, and
many other considerations, real or ideal, the
faces of Ihe people and the longings ot their
hearts were turned to Florida; but tiie means of
communication were so limited fe» eouid enjoy
the precious privilege of a visit to the favored
laud. Then there was hot a mile of railroad in
that direction from Savannah or any other point
of Southern Georgia. FToin Macon there was a
tri-weekly line of stages to Tallahassee, a dis
tance of two hundred and twenty miles. From
Columbus and Albany there were liver boats to
Appalachicota, iu West Florida, and from Sa
vannah and Uharieston the country of the St.
JohU3 coiulU.be reached by steamers of small
capacity, going either the outside or inside pas
sage, according to their build.
ft was hi early 'December, 1852, on a Saturday
afternoon 1 took passage at Savannah lor Jack
sonville, by the We taka, under the command ot
a short, stout, weighty, florid mail, named Cap
tain Knur. 1 learned there Was another captain
or steamboat official'ol the Same name, and Ui
distinguish them with brevity, our captain was
Called Captain Aide King. Wlieu we lell Savan
nah, and throughput Uie Trip, the weather was
fine—indeed, perfect, for in natural things per
fection is attained, and especially is one’s atten
tion sometimes called to this—iu the weather.
Nothing particular occurred that alleruoou, ex
cept my wonder that so narrow a stream as the
Romney Marsli could float a steamboat ladened
with freight and passengers. Early next morn
ing we were at D.trieu, hut from the early log,
and perhaps the situation, 1 could see veiy little
of the old town, it had made an impression on
me when a small hoy from its being tiie third
and only Scotch settlement iu Geoi gia, and was
the home of several Scottish clans. We, soon
arrived at Brunswick, which abuut fifteen years
earlier was tiie rival of Savannah. FTotn what
1 then heard of Brunswick 1 thought it would iu
a few years surpass Savannah. When 1 was a
youth a dear ohi lady who had my prosperity at
heart advised lue as sopti as 1 got to work ior
myself go to Brunswick, "it is going clear
ahead of Savamiah,” she said. “That bar and
harbor are bound to make a large ciiy.” I be
lieved what she said—for was she not aii old lady
of much reading, knowledge and intelligence?
After some fifteen years lsaw Brunswick for the
first time, and it then flushed upon me that the
old lady's prediction would not be fulfilled iu my
day and generation. 1 saw at once the leasoti
of it, and that was, it takes so many more things
to build a city than a fine bar and harbor. Nev
ertheless, 1 admired the laitli and pines of tiie
Brunswick people, if ever a mall worked hard
for a result, and Imd faith iu his work, hj). was
Thomas Butler King, to promote the prosperity
of Brunswick. Next to him, and who lived the
longest, is Colonel Schlatter. He has been com
pensated by now seeing “with his own eyes - ’
Brunswick take rank with oilier Georgia cities
and placed on a substantial basis, in course of
time there lias grown up more people, more mo
ney, more lines ot coinmuuicaliou, and with fur
ther increase, more and more will the bar and
harbor of Brunswick he utilized. Fifty years
ago such was the rivalry between Savannah and
Brunswick that the charier ol Hie Central rail
road was first delealed in the legislature, aud
passed by a small majority alter reconsidera
tion.
In a short while after leaving Brunswick our
craft, iu ihe attempt to pass trout the hay aud to
the main of the Georgia coast. They were ei
ther the planters of rice or Sea Island cotton.
Such planters generally had large properties,
and were gentlemen of culture and refinement.
In their youth, their wealthy parents had sent
them to the colleges of the South, the North or
of England.
In tli
leir return to the plantations, having the
necessary leisure, they occupied that leisure in
reading, hunting, boating, other athlt
hunting, boating, other athletic exer
cises. and in social intercourse. Thus educated
and trained, they acquired the business of plant
ing, and discharged their duties faithfully and
gracefully, whether at home or abroad. Such
habits also developed a peculiar type of physic
manhood. The soundness of the body kept even
w ith the cultivation of the mind. This was man
ifested in the wealthy planters of the Georgia
coast. There was a style of physique and man
ner,, which was more or less common to all lrom
the Savannah to the St. Marys. They averaged
above the general medium size, had a courtli
ness of manner, and a military carriage. Such
might have made an impression of the mere af
fections of pride, il it was not palpably natural.
The large estates of these planters gave them
e p
unqualified credit. The failure of one or more
crops, made no difference in their style of living,
for their estates of land and slaves, made
their paper as good as the best government
bonds, and the first year of a flue crop, would
set them even again.
Among the planters on the Welaka were James
Maugin Smith, of Camden, and James Hamilton
Coujier, of Glynn. I had known both of these
gentlemen by reputation for years, and the first
alp:
named ttersonaljty for.a few years. They were
both distinguished in their vacation and iu so-
Tofaper particttlarlysu. Inspeak-
clal life—Mr. O
ing of either an exception was made in their
favor by calling each by his middle as well as his
first and last name, which was ilsi
itself a general
conception to their distinction.
Both of them are long since dead-, and in their
time were representative men of that most su
perior class of Georg La planters residing on the
sea coast. The first named was a gentleman of
high intelligence and cultivation. -He bad a
most gracious arid affable manner, a courtly
bearing and was delightful in conversation
His life, having been almost entirely a private
iee
one. he was not widely known, but wherever
he had contact, he was sure to make and leave,
the most pleasant impression. He was, I be
lieve, a native of lower South Uaroliua. aud
came to Georgia after his majority.
The second named (Mr. Couper) was for his
vocation as piautei, and without political service
or aspirations, the nest known man in the State.
Born and reaied iu the section where lie lived
a graduate of Yale College. of extensive
knowledge both general and scientific, of much
practical usefulness, of fine presence aud man
ner. lie had impressed himself upon the people
of his section of the State, to an extent no other
man of his vocation had. A peculiarity of bis
bearing, was tlial be made no difference in the
courtesy with ulncbbe treated others, because
of the social position of tiie persou addressed.
To cat'll and all lie was tiie same kindly con
siderate and properly communicative gentleman.
His eourtesy was without the‘slightest affecta
tion and his conversation devoid of pedantry or
pretention. Except, as he evinced the inosf
thorough knowledge of the subject, and showed
the gontieman by bis demeanor alid attire, lie
made uo impression of his great wealth or emi
nent social station. His presence, manner and
conversation were altogetber so natural and un
obtrusive, as to reacii the most exalted ideal
of oloquent simplicity. George IV was called
the first gentleman iu Europe, but he was not.
if among the many flue gentlemen of the Geor
gia coast, there could have been any first gentle
man, that distinction would have been accorded
Mr. Couper; and there would have been no
doubt cf Us having been deserved. He was one
of tiie passengers aboard that ill-fated steam
ship Pulaski, iu June, 1838, and saved the lives
of Alts. Nightengale and iier babe, and of Mrs.
F'razier and her child. This success was owing
to his strong physical manhood, his expertness
as a swimmer, his knowledge of tiie sea, and his
courage and presence of mind, in the face of ti e
awful danger to himself, and the precious lives
he determined to save. (Vide White's Histori
cal Collections of Georgia.)
las alread:
As this article has already grown to an impar
tial length 1 must reserve what remains for an
other. Richard H. Clark,
Atlanta, Go.
BILL ARP
Seeks an Office, Bat Yields to His
Friends.
pursue us inland passage by entering one of
lit
into s prosperity which wilL
i until the Mississippi 1
..... ay
Golf of Mexico, lam no more thankful for
the past blessings of this count y than I am
Uiankfnl for this opening oppbrtpmty in its
height stupendous and in its width hemis
pheric . ““
Hov will it be done? Amongeiher things,
by snob notion ..as that whidk Jed onr Con
gress to appropriate $1800 000 to the New
Orleans exposition, Mexico JflWtlK $200,000
qpd New Orleans $600 000 nittxpdsitiou,
though preceded py the 8} denham Crystal
e, and the PreDoh, and taife.lTienna, an d
itogee. On
glieia. Pern,
A, Salvador,
Ecuador,
ties to meet
Hail
niladelphia exposition
xeaebiog significance, more
all of them, pat together,
chiefly what had been dona,
tion.of next month will bni,~ ~
which the nations of the Ai
■haU oome for .introduction
taeceial epoch in the history ol
that platform will come np'
Paraguay, Uruguay, Venn
Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa
Brazil and the brunette West .
the blonde and smiling United
marriage day of North and Sitttl While
toe pessimists hare been hooting up the
-burial service to read ml the death of Ameri
can commerce, and the stoparof the organ
were being polled ont for the dgaid march in
Baal. I, an optimist by nature Mid by grace,
-take op in aniicpstion the jMight-covered
wedding servioe, and as thtlloiide North
iaksetbc brunette B tat by fbe Band, say
ing : “With all my worldly goods t thee
-endow,’’ I cry, “Whom God hath j,lined to
gether, let not foreign despotism or Ameri
can demagogery ever pnt ass trader ” Then
let all the organs and ehoira and orchestras
make every thing from the Montreal iee pal
aes to the halls of the Montegomas quake
noder the rolling t'mtdsra of the grand
mar oh of North and Sooth American pro
gie<e. .
This 8 mthern door will be fastened open
the more firmly by the tides of travel diverted
from Eorope to the land of the Azteoe. Mnoh
of the one hondred ai d six million dollars
yearly expended by Americans in Europe
will be expended in Bjnthern exploration in
tanking at some of the rains of the forty-
those many so-called creeks, (lekyll by name, 1
believe), ran aground aud stuck iu the mud.
Tbc tide was too low, and we bad to wait until
Uiat important force and feature of nature
8liould eotue to our relief aud float us off. We
there remained some two or llnee hours. This,
while vexat.ous, gave us more Ilian eonipeusa-
tiou iu our enjoyment of the scenery aud the
beauties of the day. it had been one of those
clear, calm, lrosly mornings of the low and coast
country ol Georgia, which with advancing day
produces a temperature, a purity and brilliancy
of Uie atmospheres not to be surpassed. The
bay iu which we lay was a magnificent sheet of
water. There was nothing then io make it a
“troubled sea.” There was not another d aft of
aiiy soit iu view, and ours was distinguished in
its loneliness. She was without eumpetiiion or
The air was filled w ith innumerable
company.
hta Miiuni and wuhnnt shelter there must t e wI1 ‘ 1 fowla of h«uiy descriptions, and among 1 hem
Die apparel ana wunoot shelter tneie mast t e flotks u( dficks in every direction. Among the
” “ “ " ' passengers there‘were several fowling pieces,
someiniog awlolly wrong. May the suffer
ing Const, who onoe had no wnere to lay
hm nead, onampiou the cause of the helpless
aud smash the great- monopolies that are
built ont of the bones and oemented with
ihebiood of poor workmen send a sap*
ply this day from every rail pantry to every
destitnte home, and so ohange the condition
of those hardly bestead t at when another
Thanksgiving day arrives the poorest man
in America shall have upon hia table a
twenty pound tnfkey royalty browned and
basted and staffed, pnt npon hia plates,
dashed with Cranberry and emptied only to
make way for pumpkin pies, snoh as New
England matrons baaed, it the more
ciaesioand j jioy mines pie, such as onr
dear old mother made with her own
hands before those hands were folded in
the last Sleep, j jet before they entered npon
the long Thanksgiving day of beaveu,
where we shall yet throw onr arms arouud
them, and the other departed one6 who
need to be with ns on these holidays and
give them a raptnons hag and kiss, all the
heartier for the preseut painful separation.
1 believe ho more' in the Fatherhood of G d
than 1 do in the brotherhood of ma . For
all the world may there be plenty to wear
and plenty to'eat. Amen, and amen, amen
and amen I
Why he Didn't Think Blaine Was
- v PtftsbmgChroo kle.
A. Blaine man and a Gtavelsnd msa were-talk
ing about-the result. -
"We’Ytj gov you/’ crowed the Cleveland
parfy.
“it wag a mighty close shave, though."
“It was IdCthy to go around.”
“That's true; but now that it is ah ever, don’t
you really think Blaine was right?”
“Most i-miihalicaily mil.”
“Why?”
“Because he was left.”.
but not one was discharged at tiie choir ol game.
••Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy
was strictly-observed, and neither tiie exnlosmn
of guns or other noise disturbed the calm ol that
delicious Sabbath. Tiie passengers came out
aud gathered ou the upper deck in the open air
to enjoy themselves. Many of them—perhaps
the most of them, were consumptives from the
North aud Southwest, going to Florida to tem
perate their waning health. At that time that
class of persons made the majoiiiy of visitors to
Florida. There were few, if any, ou our boat
who showed emaciation, aud vith many there
was uo appearance or other evidence oi disease,
yet there were some who were on a visit of
pleasure or profit. There was quite a party
from Detroit,. Michigan. A moug them there was
a Mr. limit'd, a lawyer, and bis wife, fnaipear-
ance they were more distinguished than any
oilier couple. He was a stoui, broad-shoulilered
man; he was of a dar- —a very dark complex
ion; so muchso as to have a lowering yet <hKni-
fled look. He had a quiet, but severely delib
erate manner. No Southerner to look ai him
would suppose he was a Northerner. ln a| pear-
auce and demeanor he was a good specimen of
the typical Southern gentleman. His w ife was
just tiie opposite of liini iu figure and complex
ion. She was a blonde of almost the ultra type
and a “wealth of golden hair” gave perfection
i. It is now tliiriy-1 wo years since I
toherstyle. —-
saw this gentleman aud lady for ihe first and
last time. 1 do uotknow if now, they are among
tire living or Uie dead. The pertainiugs of
this special notice will herein alter appear. The
famous Col. Tuijg wus among the paS»engers.
He had only 1 recently located iu Florida «»f was
thither going for the first time. As 1 remember,
there was also a younger brother and. sutler.
The bitter was a brilliant brunette, iiaiidsppm,
'farm
large and of iin|>osiiig presence. As to her I
eau repeat what I said of the LarnedS. Tills
topic suggests tome what 1 have often *aid.
And lie gnaweth a file. Well, it is right hard
vittels, I know, but sometimes it helps a man tr
explode, and thrash around under great disap
pointments. It sets the pent-up bile to working,
and when he gets rid of it he feels better. Mr.
Blaine feels better now, I reckon. May be that
Augusta speech saved his life, for I heard folks
say that he was a very sensitive man, and if he
got beaten be would kill himself. But the dan
ger is all over now and the crisis is past.
Let us have pity on him. Let us pass
resolutions of sympathy, for a great man
has fallen this day in Israel. Well, he fell sev
eral years ago, but he didn’t fall so far nor so
suddenly, and the whole nation did not see him.
It was an awful shock this time, and he had to
say something. He had to abuse somebody. He
had Beecher and Burchard and Nast and the
Harpers and the Times, but he was afraid of
them, and so he takes the Solid South for his
victim—the old martyr that has stood the brunt
of a thousand slanders and still lives. Thank
the good Lord, she still lives! They have
thrown boomerangs at her for twenty years, but
the boomerang is a dangerous weapon in care
less hands. They tell me that a man can throw
now. When the fifteen applications for the Car
tersville post office are sent up to the postmaster
eeneral he will do like that officer always does.
He will refer tiie whole lot to Mr. Clements, and
Mr. Clements will look over the names to the
petitlans. and after considering who is the best
man for the office and for the people, and for
Mr. Clements too. he will recommend 6ne. and
thereby make one friend and fourteen enemies.
So. there is going to be the dickens to play in
ffie district and all over the state, and lots of
disappointed patriots are going to get fighting
mad. Bnt I hope they will have sense enongh
to spelt the word "acquiesce," and not go to
gnawing a file. I'm sorry ter onr inambers of
congress. A man told me in Atlanta that Gov-
enor Brown’s mail now was about a bushel a
day. and it took two clerks to read them and
file them and make out a talley sheet, so that
the govenor could get an idea without reading
them. Govenor Colquit got 47 letters in one
mail, and 40 of them were applications for office.
It is .very encouraging to think that we have so
many wh - - -
jo are Utter., for I know they are all
fitten: their friends' say they are.
Sometimes I think 1 would lika to get a good
fat office like Mr. Cleveland ha-s always got his
That is, have it shoved on me. I was ruminating
over his wonderful career. There is nothinglike
it since old Father (^incinnatus was hailed from
the plow to govern-the Roman empire. But they
don't call them front Ihe plow now. I have
been looking up the road for seven years for a
committee to come'after me and take me from
the plow, bnt thpy don’t oome. and so I have
unit plowing. The shoving process seems to be
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trjereeme trill decide the
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‘ ' - — - ' hi
who works the. hardest and has the longest poke
generally knocks down the persimmon.
So, wade in, boys, and fortify yourselves.
Combine confederate, make promises. It is no
sin to hold office. It is honors hie. but If you
can do anything else and make a living yon had
better dolt, for fear you may be disappointed
and have to gnaw a file-
JAttntseraents.
DsGIYE’B On
IOIjI
THOMAS KEENE.
This great tragedian, who, since the misfor
tune of McCullough, is, with Booth, at the head
of the profession on the American stage, will be
in Atlanta December 12th and 13th, Friday and
Saturday. He will present some of bis grandest
characters, and among them Richard III. Mr.
Keene has always been warmly received in our
city, and his patronage lias steadily iucreased
with his talent and his reputation. This time he
comes to us with still higher elogiums from the
cities through which lie has been playing, and
all critics agree that his acting, which is always
grand aud magnetic, has pretty nearly reached
perfection. "We cannot too strongly urge our
readers to give to Mr. Keene areceplion worthy
of his great talent and of the well known appre-
ciationof our community. Let the great Shaks-
pearean interpreter be greeted by crowded
houses.
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PREPARE!. BY.
MIACO S
Humpty Dumpty.
We take pleasure In informing our young
folk s of the appearance, next Saturday, at
night, and matinee, of the great Humpty Dump
ty in onr city. This is a special occasion of
pleasure for the children, small and large, and
we want them to enjoy it Tiie Brooklyn Eagle
thus speaks of the fuuny play, its star, Miaco
and its support:
The audience which greeted Humpty Dumpty
Messrs. Hyde & Bellman’s. Theatre last
night, strained even tiie capacity of that spa
cious play house. Loud, long and vehement aj)-
platise attended the laughable contretemps, in
which, accoiding to established tradition, the
mischievous clown, the all pervading panta
loon, the beautiful columbine and the sprightly
harlequin are involved as presented by Miaco s
Humpty Dumpty. The play, Humpty Dumpty,
loses none of tiie funny features winch of old
fixed its fame as tiie most abiding ot popular
pantomimes, which business, that is new and
equally amusing, has been tnlroduced m the
i,lav. The coluHlbine. Miss Laura Miaco, and
fairy queen, Miss Donna Stickney, are pretty
and graceful, and with the best of all clowns,
Alfred F. Miaco, taking the leading role. The
action throughout moves with a rapidity and spir
it at once refreshing and eutertaing. The tricks,
which are many, are good. The transformation
scene being particularly happy and effective.
Miaco lias been successful in gathering about
him a company of capable and painstaking per
formers whose conscientious efforts to please do
not fail to meet with their just reward. Snppli-
mental to the pantomime, an extensive variety
entertainment is given which presents many ex
cellent features aud astonishing novelties.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
The k omany Bye.
This great play, with its three carloads of
scenery; will be presented in Atlanta December
8th and 9th, two nights and a Tuesday matinee.
We give below tiie critical appreciation of the
Columbus, Ohio .Times, which will inform our
readers as to the merits of tiie piece and of the
company, better than we can do it ourselves,
Columbus, Ohio, Times, September 4.—Com
stock’s Opera House was pact, ed last night to
the door at the third presentation of Romany
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The old ballad of “The Babes in the Wood”
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nephews by Richard III.
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Rye, and the audience was one of the best in
it clean round a bouse and it will come back and i every respect ever assembled Within the walls
hit him if he don’t dodge. Better quit throwing
boomerangs. They threw one at us when they
gave the negro the vote, and It has Just got
back and hit them a terrible blow. It hit Mr.
Blaine in the pit of the stomach, and it hurt, and
he gnaweth a file. And it bit Murat Halstead,
and he gnaweth a file. And that Milwaukee
feller gnaweth a file. I'm afraid that files will
be scarce up there, and as they seem to like
such vittels, I think I will send them a few old
ones from my blacksmith shop—I reckon they
are good eating to folks who like them.
But I am sorry for Mr. Blaine—I really am—
and I hope our folks will give him the charity of
their silence. Say no more about Mulligan, or
Hocking Valley, or Joy, or Fisher. Don’t kick
a man when be is down. Don't punch a poor
coon just to see him bite the stick. They
punched ns after they whipped us, and I never
could understand it unless it was like the fellow
who killed a dog for biting him, and after the
dog was dead he kicked him and mangled him
and cursed him until a man who stood by said:
“Don't yon see that biute is dead—what are
yon kicking him now for?” “Dog on him,”
said he, I want to teach him that there is a little
hell and punishment after death.”
Bnt now let us all have peace. Let ns return
good for evil. We have got friends up there,
and for their sokes let us forgive aud forget. I
wish we had invited Mr Blaine down tu onr
jubilee, and got liimto make another speech.
_ be onr sunny South and our hospitality
would have affected him aiid set Ills -liver
straight. We could have given him someth S.
8., besides, aud sent him home a- better and a
happier man.
1 wonder what office he would like under Mr.
Cleveland—some little thing to taper off on—a
consulate to South America, Brazil or Tene
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is the best known col
lector and probably the best judge of lace in
America. She * news every stitch is the
of every country, aud can tell at a glance the
that the animosity between the sections might! Del File go, or maybe tiie Cape of Good Hope,
not have existed, had the people of each ktown Good hopes are good ttangs for a disappointed
each otherhetler. In this respect I claim we I man. There would be a wide field for his pliil-
liad the advantageof the North. We sentlbere aiithrony down there, for the people are black—
to schools aimcolleges, our girls and hoys-1 hey solid black. I think ;t would lianr
Our
harmonize Hal-
sent none South. Our merchants made them stead and company to give them an office, and w e
annually at least two visits, ami it was etcep- will have lots of offices. 1 was afraid we wouldn’t
— ** - - - —tli. —’
tT.rtial for one of their merchants to come South, have enough to fill them, but 1 reckon w e w HI.
All of our people who had pecuniary ability vis- Our boys seem to be light patriotic. Tlieie are
iteil their cities watering -• - -...a .Iifrar tiltPPii volunteers frrr tlifi fi*;<iiersvilie
points of resort. Their p
pleasure or health, did not
- or came a hundred miles to take it as soon as it
svacant.■'Such patriotism ought lobe re-
rded. I was thinking about a snug little sin
,* „p,ces aiid other fifteen volunteers alieady for the Caiiersville
neonle in search of postoffice, and I feel encouraged. They are all
ot coiiie South, and good men and willing. I hear that one man
*“ i when they left the country, went to Burnl* or cam- - i.....o-oa —♦- *» — — “
fabric Cuba, if these are fads, then our knowledge was
ce tiie of them was better than theirs of us. I’oiiu- Wiiri
J ' ~~~ * I ciaiVs aiiVt oiiier^rtfiiYoeV«).V.«“ t.V.v advantage cure myself, and went down to Atlanta to see
dale, the point, and the value of anvthhm In thU S ,hV m,rtheni! Vejndic? “fralust domestic about it and offer my sei vices, but a man lack-
prejudice against
upon something wonderfully ‘rare or beautiful m'ent of us wasjnade U up from ignorance- and away off round a corner and said he was alter an
fident of a purchaser prejudice. When a small boy, al sahool at Ihe office,joid wauteil^mcJi)^ hel]i him pd it.^ ahd
in antique lace, may be confident of a purchaser
hut let"* *
in Mrs. Astor; lint let him beware attempting to
palm off a reproouriion or a second-rate hit of
old point upon this most critical judge. In Mrs.
Aslor’s collection there are two or three flounces
aud lengths formerly the property of sovereigns
—among liiem a beautiful flounce lielongiug
once to N:i|Mi|e»n's second spouse, Marie Lia
ise, an exquisite and gossamer-like labiic wiili
tiie symbolic “Bee” wrought in its meshes witli
Uie imperial arms of France. She is also very
rich in jewels. Mrs. Hugh Jewett, tiie wile of
the railroad king, is another lace collector. Her
taste runs more to tiie old Irish and Italian
laces, anil she numbers some exquisite Bounces
of old Dish point among her treasures.
boy,at
heard our while servant girl lell .t vis
itor of tier’s, that i came from where Ihe negroes
were slaves. She proceeded to pity tiie slaves,
and said, how it would make her heart hired to
see one of tiie poor cieatures. ] could lune re
plied to her. (hut respect for her age anJ sex
prevented) that our stave domestics doing U>e
same work she did, had an easier aud h-PPier
time than she.
It must mil he supposed, that nil the passen
gers on the Welaka were Northerners, or front
distant |iortions of onr own State, or tlie pmith.
There were several on llieir return home imm <3
business visit to Savannah, and went ashcre at
different points on tae route. Tbvy were plan-
told me how lhat he had Woiked for the
pally for 20 odd years, and never had had
nothing, and he was poor and needy; and when
I asked him what < ffice it was. he named the
very one i was alter. Well, 1 am earily over
come hy a friend iu distress, and so 1 promised
1o do all I could, aud in ten minutes alter I left
him I met another friend who wanted it. and so
1 promised him. and befoie 1 lelt town 1 liad
had promised six. and I felt relieved to think
that 1 was regarded of so much influence and
could do so much good in helping tiie needy, it
is a good sign to see that so many are volunteer
ing. for it will give Mr. Cleveland plenro
choice. It is going to be right hard on our mei
of this favorite place of amusement. The Ro
many Rye with which Columbus is favored this
week is known as Company “B” and belongs,
by right of purchase from Brocks and Dickson
to J. W. Morrissey and J. T. Dickson. This is
the third year ol the popular melo-drama in this
country, and its reception here, where it had
been played before, is proof of its sterling pop
ularity. Columbus was selected for the opening
of the season by the excellent company of
Messrs. Morrissey and Dickson and they are
satisfied that a better selection for a starting
point could not have been made, as the house
has been literally packed every night with the
most fashionable people of the Capital City,
which is sating a great deai when it is remem
bered that Coin
uuibus is not put down by outsid
ers as a metropolitan city. Of all the success
ful modern melodrama Uie Romany Rye seems
to be tiie most successful in tiie large cities, on
the road and elsewhere. 1 he Company this
season is stronger than any before sent out. it
embraces Mr. Hsndyside, the leading man. as
Jack Hearne, Low the principal London thea
tres and though a new man. tie has developed
wonderful popularity ly hls ,.
acting. Miss. Kate Baker, the hero
ine. is remembered as a member of Uie
Anuie Pixley combination. Miss Baker is
verv melly vnd makes a cbarmiugGertie Heck-,
ett Mr W. T. Johnson ably sustains the strong
character ol Je.e Heekelt. the Uind<m bud fan
cier and housebreaker. He rs really better than
Dominick Murray, who has distinguished liim-
, Mliie Neuville asMother Ship-
ton reminds one ol the best representations of
Mother Froeliard. Jos. F. Conyers as Boss
Knivelt ke|it Uie house in a oonUnual tout by
his inimitable l-ondon street slang. Miss Joan
Goodrich as Laura Lee, the Gypsy girl, gives a.
painstaking aud conscientious rendition. This
was her first appearance in the character. Her
refined portr iture <4 ihe G>J sy girlpaxulmiate-
ly in love with Pliili|iKny*toii, splendid
Piece of real lffe actingwlilehcaj lured t he au
dience and wrought up the ladies Lfthe nlgbest
pilch ol enthusiasm. Mr JCbartes J-Graves; th e
sterling actor and geuUeuiau as-Edward Mars-
ton, the oily-tough ed conniver at crime, sug
gested to ilie mind the Uriah Heepof Dick-
. ^ ... J «1. A ruril.1i nf u rhpulttrfipld. Mr. MilU*
ens and the polish of a Cheslerfield.
• _ w ‘.ta iPi.nr
rice Drew made an excellent Philip Royston
the smooth-tongued villian. and il In
tie had not
been"such a ii iridsome man he would have been
roundly hissed, so realistic was his portrayal Of
the villian. George B. McDonald as Scragger
w as excellent, and FraB' Dnud. brother ofOH-
ver Doud Byron, played Ginger Bill with great
fin *
success. The comjiai.y altogether is strong and
evenly balanced, the scenery is very fine, the
mechanical effects new aud ihe costumes pic-
turrsQtie anti, beautiful. The feature of uie
drama is the gypsy camp, a happy conception of
Mr. George K. bims, the author.
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Eczema is one of tiie ugliest anti most trouble
some of al) blood diseases. It i rot ends front
humors in the blood which are simetimes very
difficult to eradicate. Fur five weary years Mr.
J. D. Budefer, of Green date, Va.. suffered ter
ribly lrom this disease. He writes: “
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