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THE TOGCOA NEWS.
fcBW. SCHAEFER, Editor *
TOCCOA, GA., APRIL 8, 1832. _
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
It is understood that the President
will probably veto the anti-Chinepe
bill, recently passed by congress.
The bill providing for the sale of
the military barracks at Savannah
has passed both houses of Congress.
Mr, James Atkins, who is the choice
of the Georgia, syndicate, has the
inside track for the new district
judgeship.
General D. M. Du Bose and Ron. F
' — Colley, of Wittea county, are
' * possible candidates
3 s as for
congress in the eighth district.
The veto of the anti-Chinese bill
bj r a republican president, it is
believed, will give the Pacific states to
the democrats in the fall election
Rev. I). \V. Putman, a minister
of the primitive Baptist church, and
who was widely An own and esteemed,
died at his house in Oglethorpe
county a few days ago.
Guitcau has sold two suits of his
old clothes—the one worn by him
when lie killed president Garfield and
the other the suit in which lie ap¬
peared during his trial—to an agent
of Coup’s circus company, for $350.
President Arthur hr s vetoed the
anti-Chinese bill, giving among his
reasons the twenty years suspension
of immigration, which he views as
a breach of the spirit of our treaty
with China, if not of Us letter.
Judge Blatehford, the newly ap¬
pointed judge of tbe supreme court,
took his seat upon the bench last
Saturday. Aii the members of the
court were present except Judge
Harlan, who was temporarily absent
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother ol
JPilliam II. Vanderbilt, shot and
killed himself at his rooms in Glen-
ham hotel, IVew York, last Sunday
evening. Mental derangement, pro¬
duced by suffering from epileptic fits,
to which he had been long subject, is
given as the probable cause of the
act.
>•'
Jesse James, the notorious train
robber and desperado, was killed at
St. Joseph, Mo., on Monday last, by
Charles and Robert Ford, who are
believed to have been two of his
former confederates. It is supposed
the Fords were influenced to commit
the murder by the hope of getting the
large reward which has been offered
for James, dead or alive.
American Newspapers in 1882.—
7’he American Newspaper Directory,
which will be issued next month by
Geo. P. Rowell & Co„ of New Y'ork,
will contain the names of 10,611
periodicals in the United States and
Territories, which is a gain of 344
in the year just passed. The number
of daily papers has increased in a
somewhat larger proportion, and is
now represented by a total of 906
against 921 in 1881. The largest
increase has becu in New York—10
dailies, 29 of all sorts. Illinois and
A/issouri show a percentage of gain
which is eveu greater, while Colorado
leads all others in the percentage of
increase, both** of daily and weekly
issues. California, Nebraska, Nevada,
Oregon, South Carolina. Tennessee,
Vermont, aud West Virginia have
fallen behind 1881 in the total num
ber of periodicals issued. In Georgia,
Maine aud Massachusetts the sus¬
pensions have exactly counterbalanced
the new veuturcs. in every state,
not mentioned above, and in the
Territories, therehas beeu an in-
crease.
SdP There is more Strength restor
iug power in a 50 cent bottle of
Parker's Ginger Tonic than in a
bushel of malt or a gallon of milk.
As an appetizer, blood purifier and
kidney corrector, there is nothing
like ful invigorant it, and invalid* find it a wonder- !
for mind and body, i
Bee other column. |
mr 18 41* I
WASHINGTON LETTER.
-
From our Regular Correspondent,
Washington, D. C’.. April 4th, 1882.
It would be strange if the character
of the present Congress and the po
majority party therein
were not clearly understood over the
country by this time. From what
has occurred w ithin the last two
wee.vs it may be learn that ho hope
be entertained of a reduction of
our excessive internal revenue taxes
at the hands of the party now it.
power. In nearly every State in
Union large bodies of workingmen
are clamoring for higher wages and
complaining that they’ find it impos¬
sible to live. If they will look below
^he surface they will discover that the
chief cause of their distress lies in
the iniquitous tariff which compels
them to pay double for more than
one-half the necessaries of life. A
prohibitory tariff is maintained
against our imports for the benefit
j capitalists and manufacturers, while
i at home war taxes are continued m a
time of peace that capital may r»ap
unprecedented profits and that the
taxes wrung ftom the people may be
divided among the lobbyists and
subsidy-seekers who are darkening
the walls of the Capitol. This pol.cy
of maintaining a needless revenue
leaves an enormous surplus in the
treasury, and that is what the job¬
bers who have always been a part
the Republican party are aiming at.
Gble statesmen are sitting up nights
to devise ways and means of getting
rid of that surplus. Patriotic indi¬
viduals are sitting up nights to show
them how and where to do it. 2’he
combination hayc succeeded so far
admirably, and from the indications
there won't be any surplus to speak
of at the close of this congress. The
senate has added a couple of millions
on the post office appropriation bill,
reported favorably on a grand ocean
steamship subsidy scheme, offered
$50,0( 0.000 to Capt. Eads, restored
the franging privilege, projected an
extensive steel clad navy, and raised
certain classes of pensions. There is
no deception about this. If there
was any doubt as to the reckless
character of this congress, it should
be silenced in the 4J to 15 vote on the
restoration of the franking pri vilege.
It carries us back to the halcyon days
of the Credit Mobilier period when
the public revenues were divided up
between sherry and shampaign.
There seems to be a strange fatality
connected with our National Library.
For several years measures have
been pending to provide a place for it,
but somehow nothing'is ever done,
Talk about a building began about
75 years ago. In a copy of the
Washington Gazette dated December
8, 1817, I find an article on the Li¬
brary in which, after referring to the
appointment of a committee by Con¬
gress, the editor says:
^We are disposed to indulge a hope
that this committee will be more
active than the former ; and that, as
literary men , they will not neglect
the interests of this establishment.
To coop the Library of the United
States in a garret is degrading both
to literature and the Nation, and we
trust that congress will see the
necessity of erecting a building for
its accommodation near the Capitol.
To foster and encourage this estab¬
lishment would, we doubt not, be
gratifying to the Nation, and wc are
sure liberally could not be * better
bestowed on any other object.’
If some medium now on earth could
communicate with the spirit of Mr.
Elliot, then editor of the Gazette, be
might be gently informed that the
hope he indulged has proven a forlorn
one : that the intervening years have
contributed very little to the wisdom
or National pride of the Congress¬
man ; that the National Library still
occupies a garret as it did sixty-five
years ago, and is likely 7 to remain in
its present state of narrow dustiness
owing to the successful interference
a certain lobbyist who is interested
in the Capitol extension scheme—a
scheme to ruin the building by an
attempt to raise the dome and add
another story to its central portion.
The almost useless condition of this
vast collection of nearly half a million
volumes is daily forced upon the
observation ot congressmen, yet their
‘l iber alRy’ and ‘National pride’ do
not ineite them to decisive measures.
Some of our Washington working-
men who undertook to serenade Gen
Grant during his late visit here are
entitled to the sympathy of all good
people who feel that the age of aris-
tocracy is pa«t. These workingmen,
of whom about 300 are employed at
the Navy Yard, took it into their
heads that because Gen. Grant
favored the eight hour law, enacte.1
wllile he wa9 p rcs id en t, he must
sympathize with them, and therefore
t bey w OU ld serenade bi m and get a
8 p Cee h of encouragement: So along
^ camc> marching to marlia! music
and under torches, whereof the glare
revealed the proud features of the
American citizen. Their marshals,
who were horney-handed clerks in the
Government service, led the free-born
serenaders before Gen. Grant; but
instead of warmly pressing each palm,
that great person snubbed them in a
what-the-devil-arc-you here for tone
of voice, while Mr. Arthur fled to the
baefc part of the building. Thus
rebuffed the poor workingmen sought
Air. Brewster, whose reception also
was cool; then the procession filed
over to«Colonel Ingersoll s house, to
learn that its owner teas out;
the band played before Senator Lo¬
gan’s residence, which also was
empty as to its head. In fact, the
sons of toil met with nothing warm
until they disbanded at a place where
warmth is uubottled at so much a
Thono.
IIAMPTON-SIIERMAN.
FRESH LIGHT UPON A SERIOUS
TORIAL DIFFICULTY.
(Washington Post)
Senator JTade Hampton, of South
Carolina, cut Senator John Sherman
dead in the barber shop of the senate
the other day. The Ohio senator
was notified in this way that the
South Carolina senator did not regard
him as a fit acquaintance for a
gentleman. The scene in thejharber
shop has been a subject of much
gossip among senators, as a .personal
explanation in the senate may follow
the cause that led to this cut direct
Mr Hampton was in the senate bar-;
ber’s chair having his double chin
shaved and his huge side whiskers
trimmed, several days ago, when Mr
Sherman entered. There are two
chairs side by side in the senate
barber shop : one .was vacant. The
Ohio senator dropped his angular
figure into the vacant chair, and called
to the second barber to trim his beard
and whis&ors, and then give his head
a gOv'd rub. As he sat down he
glanced over in a calm'way towards
senator Hampton, and then he turned
towards him and said, with an attempt
to be pleasant:
‘Ah, Governor, good morning -
You must be having delightful
weather in your State by this time.’
Senator Hampton raised himself
slowly up at this, and turning a face,
covered with lather and indignation,
towards the Ohio senator he looked
at him in the deliberate fashion of a
mail surprised at an unjust display of
impudence, and then he slowly san&
back without a word, expressing by
his silence a contempt for the distin¬
guished senator s presence that was
the reverse of flattering.
The Ohio senator was very uneasy,
and apparently at a loss to account
for the senator’s sudden cessation of
civilities, for notwithstanding the fact
that these two gentlemen had a
political quarrel during the last
campaign, they have yet been on
speaking terms until the incident in
the barber shop occurred.
The reason for Mr Hampton’s
course has developed.
A careful investigation made shows
that he has a very good reason for his
action. During the last campaign,
it will be remembered that Mr
Sherman made a very violent
personal assault upon the character
of senator Hampton. Later ou Mr
Hampton challenged Mr Sherman to
produce his proofs, and enclosed his
postoffice address. This was con-
strued throughout the North as a
challenge from the South Carolina
senator, and was utilized at once as a
campaign document. A week or two
after this incident there appeared in a
Charleston paper, called the Mercury,
a letter written trora Washington,
containing a scries of very malignant
attacks upon the personal character
of senator Hampton. The corres-
pondence in the Mercury stated one
instance in the career of Hampton
follows; fu Mississippi, several vc-nrs
ago. in ti e comity where Hampton
lived, a colored man was elected
sheriff. The correspondent said that
the sheriff although elected by a large
aaejority, was not allowed to qualify ;
that Hampton headed a party of
roughs, went to this colored man anti
him that he would br kilte.i if he
attempted to take charge of the office,
Labef the bodies of thirty dead
colored men were found in the
vicinity of the town, and their murder
was charged in this letter to Hamp-
ton.
It was further charged that Hamp-
ton, during the campaign, was a
fraudulent bankrupt, and that he had
swindled his creditors in an outrage-
ous way. This letter was used against
Hampton during the campaign,
and was very widely circulated. When
he came to Washington this fall to
take his seat in the senate he began
investigation to see if he could
find out who wrote this letter to the
Mercury. Several days ago he found
out. through a friend, that the letter
was written by Roland H. Kirk, a
clerk in the treasury department,
appointed from South Carolina. Kirk
is a man who has been quite promi-
nent in South Carolina politics. He
was an active member of the Repub¬
lican party in that State when it was
led by such men as ‘Honest John
Patterson’ and others of his stripe.
Senator Hampton learned that Kirk
was still employed in the treasury
department. He went to secretary
Folger aud laid the case before him.
He showed him the original letter
had appeared in the Mercury, and
outlined the infamous character of the
slanders that had been multiplied and
repeated against him upon the basis
of this letter. He' asked Mr. Folger
if he thought it was right to retain a
man in the employ of the government
who would use his position to vilify
public men.
.Mr. Folger replied, ‘certainly not,’
and lie sent for Mr Kirk.
.. Mr Kirk' came in and the secretary
said to hiih, after explaining the
matter, ‘I will have to ask for your
resignation.’ Kirfc protested at once
against this punishment, and pleaded
.with the secretary, saying that iie had
a wife, and six children dependent
upon him, » He saiddo the secretary,
‘If lean sIwjvv that I wrote that letter
practically under the orders of a
superior officer, will you not accept
that as a defense for my writing itV*
The secretary, promised to take the
matter under advisement. He scat
for senator Hampton, and said to
him : ‘This man evidently has been
used as a mere tool. He has a wife
and six children dependent upon
him. if he is dismissed - they will
suffer, aud as I understand it he wrote
the letter merely under the orders of
a superior.’
Senator Hampton replied that he
was not making any war on women
and children, and such being the case
he would not insist upon Kirk’s
dismissal. But he said, ‘I must have
the name of the superior officer. The
secretary said, ‘Very well.’ and again
sent for Kirk. Kirk came in and
was asked bj r the secretary to dis¬
close the name of the superior officer
who had ordered him to prepare these
slanderous assaults upon Hampton
Kir k wanted to know if it was an
imperative condition of his being
retained in the public service. The
secretary replied that it was.
‘Then,’said Mr Kirk, ‘my superior
officer was the then secretary of the
treasury, John Sherman.’
The South Carolina senator refusad
to believe this. He said it was im¬
possible. I cannot imagine that a
man in secretary Sherman’s high
position could stoop to an\ r such
meanness as that. What proof have
you of your statement?' At this, Mr
Kirk produced a letter from Mr John
Sherman, which he allowed the South
Carolina senator to read. The letter
was in answer to" a note written by
Kirfcto the then secretary of the
treasury. Kirk’s note conveyed to
the secretary the fact that he
knew of soincfctingof a very injurious
character to Hampton's reputation,
an( j jfthc secretary would
bc wou i d wri te them up and have
them published. This was a mere
burst ofma’icious zeal from a clerk,
who fancied that he would gain
favor w ith the secretary on account
Q f the then pending quarrel with
senator J/ampton. Mr Sherman’s
no t e acKnowledges the receipt of
Kirfc’s letter, and states that he would
be glnd to have him -prepare the
matter described bv him in his letter,
He then goes on to say: In my
position I cannot notice these things ;
^ u t 1 *“ish that you or some one else
would make a formal statement of the
kind against Hampton. I his, said
Mr Ktrw. *i considered as a practical
order to prepare the matter aud under
that direction I printed the letter.'
Its publication Mr Kirk said was
afterwards approved by the secretary,
Mr Hampton then said to secretary
Folger that he would not insist upon
Mr Kirk s dismissal. He then asked
Mr Kirk to furnish him with a copy
of the letter. This Mr Kirk was not
willing to do, and the matter was left
there for the time being. Hampton
afterwards consulted wiJi senator M
0 But:er bis colleague, and told him
about the allair. Mr Butler said t lat
Mr Hampton had only one course in
the matter to pursue, and that was to
demanda copy 01 Ibe letter-or the
dismissal of the maiKn . r
| itself was necessary in order to show
officially the base character ot the
attack and the motives which had
inspired it. I he matter dragged ou
for several days,
A day or two ago a triend ot Kirk s
called upon Mr Hampton, who has
been negotiating to secure a copy
the letter, and informed him that
Kirk was not as much afraid as he
had been of dismissal, because Mr
Sherman had assured him if anything
happened to him he would take care
of him. The South Carolina members
are very indignant over the whole
affair, and denounce Mr Sherman in
very strong terms. As one of them
said yesterday, ‘a man who would be
guilty of such an attack, and who
would employ such means to make it,
is capable almost of any crime where
courage is not required.’ The affair
promises to have a sensational devel¬
opment. Copies of the letter will be
insisted upon as a basis for future
personal explanation.
THE CONTEST WITHDRAWN.
Last Monday being the day set by
the Ordinary for the investigation of
alleged fraud in the recent election
for Fence or No Fencc, a large class
of our best citizens assembled at
ourt House to bear the
and the ruling of Ordinary Baldwin
on the much discussed question The
Fence men appeared ae contestants
with Col. A. S. " Florence and
Dudley Campbell as their counsel.
Col. Florence, of Social Circle, was
tlie leading attorney for contestants,
and presented his argument with
ability and ingenuity: He asked
permission of the Ordinary to amend
his petition so as to allow him genCr
al inspection of the ballot box. Under
the statutes the Ordinary was
compelled to rule against him, stating
that he could only permit such
specific inspection as is laid down in
the statutes. Before this ruling Judge
Reese made a very pretty speech
urging the great necessity of the law
which protected the ballot box. Col.
Florence and Col. F. C. Foster also
made some ver}^ pertinent remarks,
sustaining their respective positions.
Afler the above decision on the
part of Ordinary Baldwin, thecounsel
for Fence asked time for consultation,
and court was adjourned for this
purpose until 2 o’clock p. m. when the
contestants, seeing that it was a
useless fight, withdrew the contest.
The ‘No Fence’ system now obtains
in old Morgan. 7’bcre were many of
our best farmers and moat honorable
citizens who were strong advocates of
•Fence’—but now since they were
defeated, we hope that all will forget
the dissensions which were thus
brought about and strive to work
together for the common good.—
Madisonian
LONGFELLOW.
Heury Wadsworth LoDgtellow, o„e
of the most popular of modern poets,
died at his home in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, ou the 23d instant,
Ue was born in Portland, Maine,
February 2,, 1807. He was educated
a t j^owdom College, in wujch institu-
tion he was for sorri£ years professor
ot modern languages, aud subse-
Tuently was professor of b dies let-
tres in Harvard University, Cam-
bridge, for some twenty years. He
visited Europe and spent a
ot ‘ there, and had
years an opportun-
of gratifying,bis literary taste by
a familiarity with the choicest P ro *-
Auctions of continental literature,
which enabled him to collect the
materials for his beautiful eom'pila-.
tion, entitled ‘The Foe.* and Poetry
of Europe.' In 1854 he retired from
hj s professorship in Harvard Uni*
versity, after which ho was lett in the
uninterrupted enjoyment of his
literary pursuits, and has interested
811( } delighted the refined and literary
circles in both Europe and America
w ith his famous poetical productions,
And i t was said of him in the
‘Standard Dictionary of Authors/
that what the University lost bj ? bis
withdrawal from his prof ssorship the
world at laige
eminent*for the fragrance and
i uxur ; ance D f its early blossoms, and
whose golden summer has not
‘unbeseem’d the promise of its
s l >I | n ^- riehlv endowed and foil v
storC( ^ w { th a jj *' tbc attainments and
beauties of the literature of our age,
has departed from this material
world for a higher and purer sphcie;
"' ' e iSesr’inL.cU
g ds ofto
delight mankind, name.—American and give
i, nmor t a lity to his
Register,
‘Oscar Deaji.’-Wc have just
received a copy of the Great American
Comic Song with waltz chorus called
‘Oscar Dear;’ composed by M. II.
Roscnfcld. This song is now all the
rage, and is nightly sung with
immense applause by such artists as
‘Lotta,’ ‘Tony Pastor,’ Sol Smith
Russel, Eliza VVeathersby, &o.
This song is east/, so it can he
played on the piano or organ. Price
50 cents per copy or three copies for
$1.00. The title page contains a
very striking funny picture that will
make you laugh to look at. Copies
can be obtained free of postage by
sending marAed price to the publisher.
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