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THE WEEKLY NEW ERA
VOLUME IV.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNmDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1870.
NUMBER 17
euiml Wager Sw:
retired list ou net
Etlrnvagai
ir Democratic friends a:
-Larses of extravagant
Suite Administration.
Ir very well that there i
When C
the total
356.635;
living l,e<
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035,
»very busy mak-
a gainst the pre-
Of conrse they
no foundation in
fact for inch charges, and so ring tho changes
ou the amount of contingent fund expended
by Governor Jenkins for cemdtes as compared
ith the gas bills for the present State House!
We propose now to state a few facts, and chal
lenge the Democracy to make a showing.
tor Jenkins was inangnn»*-*d
of thi.i Stat.- was only $ V ' J -
; when li«- was n in.»\.d from of oO,
eu in only a few months more than
, the debt of the State was $G 5 t!oC,-
,viug an increase in the public debt
of nearly FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Under the present State Government, the
public debt has not been increased one single
dollar, notwithstanding the extraordinary leg
islative expenses forced upon the State by the
new* Democratic rebellion of September 1868,
and under which the colored members were
forced to secede.
Another bit of extravagance is foaml in
evidence before the Ruilro&d Committee. Maj.
Campbell Wallace paid attorney's fees to the
amount of $38,716 15, and there is still
large sum to be paid in addition as final 1
nnder the contracting of Maj. Wallace.
Come up now, ye economical Democrats and
explain!
The public debt statement for July 1st, 1870,
is a gratifying exhibit The reduction in the
national debt for the past month, was more
than twenty millions. The reduction of the
debt during the fiscal year 1809—*70 was $108,-
053,410. The coin balance in the Treasury is
now $112,776,048, against which there is $34,-
47,120 of outstanding gold certificates. The
••■nrrency balance is $28,945,067. With a re
duction of nearly $109,000,000 during the past
year, it is easy to account for tho advance in
h c prices of five-twenties abroad and at borne.
It is stated that the demand for the stock
in the East Tennessee and Virginia Road has
increased of late.
Shouldn’t wonder! Does anybody know o
any stock for sale at fifty cents in the dollar?
More Plgnrea for our Democratic Friend*.
Tlie expenses of Gov. Jenkins* administra
tion from October ICtb, 1866, to October, 16tb,
1867, was $2^700,950 58 less $11,586 73
cash in Treasury at lost named date, making
tho total expenses for the year $2,6S9,-
969 85.
The expenses for Gov. Bullock’s administra
tion from October 1st, 1868, to October 1st,
1889, were $1,444,895 00 less $116,695 00
cash in Trcusury nt lost named data* making
the total expenses for tho year $1,328,-
200 OO being ONE MILLION THREE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE DOL
LARS less than tbs expenses of the economical:
" Democracy” under Governor Jenkins* "lace
curtain” administration for the some length of
fine.
How about the expenses for candies now?
Wlint Ollier* Think.
A gentleman writing from Savannah says:
"Each arrival of the Era brings with it new
bless. I look to it with an interest which
it has seldom been the province of a public
journal to awaken in my mind.”
A subscriber writing from Covington says:
"EncIos«sd herewith I hand yon $10 for the
Daily New E u a. I was a subscriber more than
twelve months ago, but became so disgusted
with it under its former management, that ita
very name became offensive. I like it very
much under its present administration. In
deed I am so well pWucd with it, that I intend
to constitute nn stir an agent for the purpose
of extending iU circulation. Every family
in Georgia should have it”
Another subscriber writing from DeKalb
county says:
"I am glad to know you are valiantly battling
for sound Republican principles. We fee
proud of the Era. It does honor to the par
ty and the State. Aside from its politics, the
Democrats all like it — like it so well that
they always want to see it, sometimes before
the subscribers can have an opportunity of
reading it'*
"An Old Line Whig” writing from Stewart
county says:
"I do not agree with you in politics exactly,
bat I must say that as a representative journal
the Era is nn honor to tho State. Consider
me a subscriber for twelve months.”
A gentleman writes from Trenton:
"The Era seems to be the paper in North
•Georgia. I see it everywhere I go. I regard
it as the newsiest paper in the State.”
The Prejudices of ConnervstIsm.
The unsuccessful attempt by the Irish
laborers of Killarney, last week, to dislroy a
number of mowing machines, reminds one of
the laughable incidents connected with the
introduction of Railways in Western Virginia,
Nome twenty yean* ago. The "wagoners’* of
that section threatened to shoot the Engineer
w ho should run the first steam engine on tho
Bristol and Lynchburg Road; but when the
Road was completed, and the fact became ap
parent that "the more Railroads the more
freight,” and consequently the more drayage
the more demand for fine horses and profitable
labor, tho mountaineers very wisely abandoned
their purposes of violence, and become the
foremost advocates of a triangular line between
Kentucky aud North Caroli
Loss than a quarter of a century ago, a dis
tinguished Methodist Preacher incurred the
displeasure of certain " old fashioned people”
by making an effort to build a College in the
mm% section. One old "Farmer Fogy,” who
numbered bis acres by the thousand, finally
consented to donate a barrel of Irish potatoes
to the proposed work! The donation was of
conrse accepted; in process of time, the Col
lege was built, and one of the old farmer’s
sous (then a plough boy) afterwards beeamo its
first graduate, and tlieuce one of its Profess
ors. Tho young mau is now a distingmsh-
m Public 3Irn aud the Xe\v*p*perPir«i.
*1 When a man enters public life, he maj ex
pect public criticism. llis Acts become public
property, and his record and opinions on pub
lic affairs are legitimate topics of newspaper
discussion. But this discussion should be dig
nified and courteous; and, in all cases, confined
to a man's public and ofilcial character. His
personal character and bis record as a private
gentlemen, should be held sacred. One is
public property, tho other is not; and there
can be few better evidences of the blackguard
in journalism, than an ill-suppressed disposition
to pass beyond these well defined limits, and
deal with the private and personal character
of public men. Hen of ability scorn to do itp
conscientious men null not do it nnder any
circumstances; and a well bred man ora not
do it. If therefore all journalists were men of
culture and ability, or if they were con
sdentions or even well raised, tho profession
would never bo scandalized by disgusting
personalities. Their diatrabes might be severe,
bnt not vulgar; pointed, bnt not personal,
condemnatory or even mercilessly sarcastic,
but seldom pnoriie, disgustingly flippant, de
nunciatory and venal.
Of all things with which oarilizcti people
are cursed, the most loathsome, the most mis-
cbievions and the most diabolical, is a scur
rilous newspaper press. It is an impure
fountain from whence flows one continuous,
loathsome sluice of moral contamination. It
corrupts the minds of tho youth. It appeals
to the instincts of the depmvod. Its tendency
is to subvert reason and disorganize society;
and its very existence is a terrible commen
tary upon the public ta-stos and morals of that
community from whence it derives its support
We have some of this class of journals in
Georgia, as there ore elsewhere in the United
States; and these have their supporters here, os
have the condniU of tho fllth and slime of iite-
ratnre elsewhere. It is a feature of “ civilisa
tion” by no means peculiar to Georgia; yet
we have sometimes suspected that Georgia
had more than her full share of these public
nuisances. These presses combine the gross
est ignorance with the most shameless Tonality.
They ignore argument. Indeed, they seem
not to know what argument is. They neither
use argument themselves or understand it
when used by others; god when they feel
like criticising the public nets of a ptjJJJo offi
cer, seem not to know bow else to do It thou
by ignoring bis public character entirely, and
calling him a scoundrel or a blockhead! In
this way, they convince nobody not previously
convinced. They arouse the feelings of none
bnt those whose evil propensities are always
aroused. Tbej >tirthe d. ptli -; only of a con
genial sphere; and this is, happily, in most
so far beneath the surface of enlightened
Public opinion, that that trihatm is spfdam
seriously purtnrbod by these slsngwhsngers
of the press.
A Vital (lurvflon.
It is impossibls to disguise the fact that the
great question of the hoar involves fig) very
existence of American labor. Greedy capital
ists, whose sole aim is to make the rich richer
aud the poor poorer, have allied themselves
with the semi-civilized Asiatics for the purpose
of degrading free labor. The ^imighty
DoU.tr is the canoe, the Chinaman U16 means,
and revolution or starvation will be Die Inev
itable effect It is no time to dally with the
matter. The question is not to be handled with
kid gloves. The only way to treat it
is to expose its enormity, its injustice,
and ita folly at once. The workingmen
of America believe that the “laborer is worthy
of bis hire,” and firmly demand the recogni
tion of this truth by the capitalists. The em
ployer likes n working machine but dreads a
thinking machine. He proposes to flood the
country with a horde of Asiatics in order
to make himself independent of native labor.
Recollect that this plan will not rednee the
price of manufactured articles; it premises no
benefits to' the consumer, bat everything to
the mqnnfsetnrar. The result will be high
prices, oppression, monopoly and famine.
This is worse than the combination
between “Black George, and Blifil, the
Paritan and the black-leg! It is an al
liance between the Christian millionaire and
tho Fagan slave!
We wonder that the Goths and Vandals ever
snccoeded in overturning tlie Roman Empire,
and Americans flatter themselves that they are
exempt from the possibility of such misfor
tune. We are nearer the evil than we think.
Onr Goths and Vandals are to establish them
selves in oar capitals, in oar very families.—
Their unblushing immorality makes them tar
more to be feared than the barbarians of old.
The beet men in the country realize the dan
ger and ora sounding the notes of alarm.—
Wendell Phillips and Senator Wilson have bold
ly exposed the danger and the infamy of
the measure, and the press regardless of party
.irgcnerally with them on this issue. Capitalists
'will find it the part of wisdom to pause before
it is too late. This attack upon the rights of
American lobor cannot anoceod. Our work
ingmen command the brain and muscle of the
country! They ore determined to resist every
anjast aggression of Capital, and they are
right. The people are bound to rule and it is
madness and folly tor a selfish few to oppose
cd clergy!
lief that 1
things cor
People
the
id the old man died in thebe-
old way” was net the best, all
idered.
are generally honest in their prejndi-
shere ignorance, rather than “ pure
eusseilnesa" is tlie mainspring of opposition
to Progress, it is easily removed. The same
process of reasoning that will conviuco all in
telligent plongh-boy tliat the square described
on tlie liypotlieuuse of a riglit-augled triangle
is equal to the sum of the squares described on
the two oilier two sides, will convince l-.s con
servative parent that Railways and mowing
machines are better for laboring men titan
horse carts aud hand sickles. Demonstration
is necessary in both eases, but that is all tliat
is ever necessary. A little common sense will
settle all minor objection'!.
What the 11IU Means.
From reading the debates in the House of
Repsosentativcs on the Georgia BUI, we find
that there was no donbt whatever upon the
minds of either Democrats or Republicans as
to the meaning oi striking ont the words “in
the year 187a"
Hr. Beck, the Democratic member of the
Reconstruction Committee and the distin
guished recipient of Mr. Treasurer Angler’s
slanders against the Governor, said :
“I have shown that every man who pro
poses to vote for this bill, as well as every
member of the Committeejby whom it was re
ported, knows and votes intending to indorse
ibe right of Bollock and bis Legislature to
prolong their term of office for two years, in
open, palpable violation of the Constitution
aud laws of the State, while they are unwiUing
to toko the responsibiUty of saying so, os the
original Cessna bill proposed."
Hr. Beck thus states the cose from a Demo
cratic stand-point. Instead of “prolonging"
a term of office in “violation of the Constitution
and laws of the State,” however, the passage
of tho bill marks the date when tho Constitu
tion goes into effect absolutely, and Urns fixes
the time from which the terms of office named
in the Constitution begin to run. The Con
stitution very clearly fixes the term of the
Legislature at two and four years, and to hold
longer than that term after the Constitution
goes into force by the admission of the State,
uuu'd lie a violation of the Constitution; bnt
to deny to the Legislative elected at the time
of ratification of the Constitution, the right to
hold the term named in the Constitution from
the time that Constitution takes legal effect,
would l>e a palpable violation of it, and an
outrage upon the rights of tho voters who
elected the members to hold under the Con
stitution, as also upon the rights of the mem
beis themselves. .
Two classes of persons unite in opposition
to President Grant’s Administration. The
Frank Biair-Wade Hampton Democracy
don't like him, of coarse. They never did;
and they like him less now than ever, since
bo Las not verified their prophecies, made
during the campaign of 18G8. His adminis
tration has branded them as false prophets.
Hence they ore os much opposed to him now
as they were two years ago. In this oppo
sition, however, they have a show of consis-
tentev, and this is more than the other class
can boost ot Their antagonism arises from
mere party considerations; and these have no
deepes foundation than a love of plunder,
misnamed “patriotism.” They oppose Grant's
administration as they opposed his election,
and from the some motives, tliat is, because
they are the outs, and lnnst so remain daring
the Republican ascendancy.
The other class of opponents claim to be, or
to have been Republicans. Many of them
were awkwardly mixed up with Andy John
son's Bread and Batter Convention of 18GC.
Some of them opposed (he Reconstruction
acts of 18G7. They deserted poor old Johnson
at a time when he most needed friends, and, as
if to atone for their folly and indecision, sup
ported the Republican nominees of 1868, and
this with a zeal characteristic of most new con-
verts. They wanted office—then os afore
time—and they Want it still; and ns they
have tailed to get office nnder Grant as they
tailed to get it nnder Johnson, they very con
sistently oppose both. Their condition is,
therefore, a desperate one. They are pleased
with nothing that the President has done;
and since their services have not been colled
into requisition, have come deliberately to the
conclusion that “Qiqnt is a failure!” The
people, however, seem to understand the na
ture of the case folly.
\npolron anil tbe Exiled Prince*.
Lonts Napoleon has never known a moment's
peace since the eaapd'etaL He has proclaim
ed himself tho State, and declared that the
Empire is peace, knowing very well that it it
Hit career was a romance, and
liis promises are made of tho same stuff.
He realizes the truth of the poetic sentiment
that
t tie with Wood mein.
Cnmnozot witb blued.
Audiltinn's pqp bos been to him a poisoned
chalice. The gilded splendors of tbe Tnille-
ries cannot make him forget his fears. The
shadoa's of ooming evil gather over his heed
like a pall, aud their dark drapery is suited to
his sombre thoughts. He has a throne, bnt
bayonets support it; the throne has an
heir apparent, bat his chances ore doubtful.
The Princes of Orleans and Bourbon,
though exiled, still lire and bide their time.—
Tbe gory Macbeth never dreaded the issue of
tbe murdered Rarwno more than Napoleon
fears these scions of tho legitimate dynasty.
Quite recently the Princes requested permis
sion to retbrn to la telle Fraser. Their peti
tion was refused by the Corps La/Ulatif, in
compliance with tbs wishes of Hspoleon. Al
though seven miUions of voters endorsed lha
Empire, at the lost election, the “man of De
cember” has so little confidence in the
strength of.his i1|taMlttlmf Tin jll n notpor-
«rit the Count V nfcurfiitalrlli* tbe! Count
De Paris to return. Do Paris is his great
bngbear. He is very popular in Prance. If
Napoleon should die suddenly the world may
witness a curious revolution. The Napoleon
ic eagles may yet be trampled in the dust, ami
the lillies of the Bourbons regain their ascen
dancy. .
Politic* and Grammar.
The phrase, “the United States is at peace”
Ac., as used by the President in a .recent State
paper, gives offense to the Dmqpcracy. They
object to thgt form Of expression upon the
grounds that they object to some of the
definitions in Webster's Dictionary, that is,
because it implies National nnity, or “Cons'
solidatiou.” The phrase, when* the illipsis is
supplied, reads thus: “the United States
Government is at peace,” Ac., or “the National
Authority of the United States is. at .peace,’-
Ac. To say that lh& United States are at
peaee, would imply more Governments than
one, more authorities than one; and the ques
tion would be open as to whether the United
States, as a Nation, was alluded to
all. Mr. Bnchanan, who beld
that the Union was merely
of sand,” and that paramount allegiance was
due the local State organizations, might, very
consistently with his Democratio disintegration
heresies, have used tho verb in ita plnral form;
bnt neither Washington, nor Hamilton, UOr
Jay, nor Madison, nor Adams, nor Jackson
would have been guilty of snch on indiscre
tion. They held that the United States was
a Nation, represented by a government—“one
compared of many ports,” bnt nevertheless
oxx, and not more than one nationality. And
if the war settled any question at all, it most
certainly settled the question of paramount oL
legiance. Even Hr. Davis, as President of the
late Confederate States Government, was in the
habit of employing the angular form of the
verb in connection with tho “Confederate
States”—thereby implying that, notwithstand
ing the loose theories of disintegration audio,
cil sovereignty, upon which that Government
was predicated, be regarded the Central Power
os Supreme, and therefore a National Unity.
ig 1 ’ HI
purtr—X Graceless Practice.
One of the greatest nuisances of the age is
the practice of button-holing prominet charac
ters and systematically punishing them for the
benefit of the gossip-loving public. The New
York press reporters consider ‘^interviewing”
as a fine art, and so persistent are they, that
bnt very few are able to escape their dutches.
The reporters arc making a burlesque of it
lately. Haring interviewed all tho prominent
political personages, they are now turning their
attention to the female brokers and the Prin-
Editha. But their latest joke was at the
expense of Madame Patterson Bonaparte.
Tho knights of the quill got into the old
lady’s good graces, by means of flattery—that
sure avenue to the favor of the sex—and, find
ing her in a confidential mood, made her tell
them everything about her marriage with that
graceless scamp, Jerome Bonaparte. This sen
sational romance of real life, was then duly ex
aggerated and colored to suit the public, and
printed in the New York papers. It is ri
diculous throughout The spectacle of a tooth
less octogenarian relating the follies of her
youth, and vainly deploring tho loss of her
beauty, is absurd enough, but on paper it
reads like a roaring force. Something must
be done to protect the weaker sex from these
oily-tonnged reporters ! In their present de
fenseless condition, they are ready,* on tho
slightest provocation, to tell all they know and
what is still worse, all they imagine !
President Grant and his party had a capital
fime at New Haven on the Fourth.
Around tlie "World.
The return of the Red Stocking lfcu
Club, from their victorious tour, cren
excitement in Cincinnati.
The Spanish Cortes, having foiled to t ie t a
King, have adjourned till November. M«fit-
pensier stands the best chance, at jtre.se ir
A soda fountain exploded in New York-
other day, killing its manager. j
The Prince of Wales takes great Interest in
the Public Schools of London. 4
Sunday dancing, in Milwaukee, is toY
prohibited in future. 3
James William Smith is the colored t
from South Carolina. He passed the requfcd
examination.
Frank Thome is to receive $10,000 for lc l*
ing from the suspension bridge at Niqgija
Falls on the 13th of August
Professor Smythe says next winter vfijpe
exceedingly severe. f —
Immigrants are rushing into Texas. ■
Eight thousand Chinamen have landc^t
San Francisco since the 1st of January. -f
American locomotives are used ou
railroads in Pern.
Passengers will soon be able to go tfcoi
from Cincinnati to Omaha without cl
New Foundland wants the troops withi
from the island,
About 90,000 sheep are to.be killed inJ 1
lforaia for want of pasture. ,
The Darien ship canal will have to be givto
up. The difficulties are almost iusurmonti.
able.
The wheat crop in Europe is quite prom
ising. rI
Englishmen are excited over the adultera
tion of beer. th*
Tin discovered in large quantities in
fomia.
Petroleum added fuel to the floiuo in
stantiuo^le.
A cod fish caught in Portsmouth harbe^Xho
other day contained a bottle of champagui.
The parks in the Northern and Westqxi
cities are very popular institutions!
sands of people resort there to spent
leisure hours.
The French Corps LcyishitiJ had a vcry'W-
citiug {]iscus>jon over standing armies list
week.
Quite a nnmqer of Morpions have lett
Lake City with the intention of
their homes.
Auburn, N. Y., had a rooster tournament01
the Fourth.
They know very little about haiigir^fT**-
pie in Virginia. Lewis Kennedy, the oihtr
day, did not succeed in getting himself hanged
until the rope broke twice.
The late terrible fire at Pittsburg was caused
by the lightning striking an oil tank.
In Chicago last year 14,000 dogs yere
slaughtered by the police. ^ ^
During th* IftiC httig-.r. t. \v t r^.
one firm sold 150,000 glas^s u :
did not think it a very brisk sale v _ r
The Great Rv»tcm U in V-.r^au r.:J
sailors are dissatisfied and disorderly.
The Fenians had a free fight among them
selves, nt n late meeting in Albany, N. Y.
Philadelphia is a base ball Puradho.
Eighteen thousand emigrants left Liverpool
for America during the month of June.
The Czech Catholics ef Russia say they will
join the Greek church if the infallibility degrna
is adopted.
Greece had H big earthquake last week.
Several hundred Indians on the
Sheridan is preparing for another ride.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte left $320,0)0 to
his own son.
Richmond College is to have a Law school
connected with it.
Wales has a railroad with a gauge only two
feet wide. It carries heavy freights.
Another ant£Chinese meeting war, hell in |
New York the other uight. -S0*^***\ (
Seven thousand visitors arrived at Long
Branch last week.
The outrages upon the Jews in Rouinania
were of a serious nature. They were beaten,
stoned and shot down in the streets under the
eyes of the police.
A rich silver mine has been discoverei in
New "Mexico.
Drought in New York has injured the crops.
Thermometer in CaHfornta stood at 115^ de
grees last week.
4-remarkable suit has just been triad in
Boston. Thomas & Talbot, newspaper and
magazine publishers, were sued in the Su
preme Court to recover pay for prose and po
etical manuscripts which they received from
one Charles Dickinson, and which thejtjle-
clined to publish. After keeping the manu-
cripts a few weeks for stomps to be sent for
their return, they destroyed them. The Court
decided that the manuscripts were the prgpfcr-
ty of tho author until the publishers paid for
them, and that in neglecting to return them to
the author, they became liable for their value.
The jury returned a verdict in favor of tho au
thor for $50, which the publishers paid, with
the costs of Courts.
Farrow, soon after ho went into office. Tho
lull Act of Dec. 13th 1862, authorized the Inferior
Court or corporate authorities of any town or
city, to provide suitable hospitals, da, for
those affl»c*ed with small-pox, and tho 3d sec
tion of aoid Act provides that said court or
corporate authorities shall havo all accounts for
the same properly credited, and forward them
to his Excellency the Governor who shall
draw his warrant on the Treasury for the
amount set forth in said account. This Act
of 18C2, is repealed by the Act of April 17th,
.1863, and provision made for the settlement
of all claims by the Siate, which accrued un
der said act of 18G2, after th« same had been
submitted to, and passed upon, by a special
jury' as provided in said Act of the 17th of
April, 1863. So by reference to these acts of
1862 and *63 it will be seen that Ihero is no
law authorizing the paymeflt of small-pox
cases by the State, except such as accrued be
tween the 13th of Dec., 1862, and the 17th of
April, 1863. The Act of 18C2 is re-enacted
by the Act of February 5tli, 186G, except the
3d section of said Act of 1863, in lieu of which
the 3d section of the Act of 1866, provides
that small-pox cases shall be paid for by tax
ation os provided for in said section, which is
now the law. The mistake occurred in this
wav, my copying clerk had those several acts
before him and copied the 3d section of the
Act of 1862, instead of the 3d section of the
Act of 1866, which as before stated was not
discovered until it was too late to make the
correction. The Act of 1862 and the Act of
1866 are exactly the same, except the 3d sec
tion. See the several acts of 1862, 1863 and
1866, title small-pox. I have written hastily
with bad materials, but I trust your Excel
lency will understand me.
With great respect, Ac.
David Irwin.
81’IIUT OF THE GEORGIA PRESS.
THE SOME COMMERCIAL (DEM.)
Of the Legislature and its relations to the
Georgia Bill says;
The whole matter of an election, so far as
we are able to interpet the Georgia Bill passed
by Congress, rests with the Legislature.
By that body the decision will bo given as
to whether we shall have yet ono more oppor
tunity to rid onrselvea of the tyrannical and
oppressive masters nnder whose iron heel we
ivc been ground for the past few years.'
Upon this question, no donbt, there will be
a desperate fight made. Should an election
be allowed, the Radical party fear that their
days in power are numbered and their efforts
to prevent it will be hard to bear down.
[Most candid Democrats freely admit that
the striking from the Georgia Bill the words,
"in the year 1870” defeats tho scheme for an
election this fall. It would indeed be strange
were they not to so conclude in the face of the
debates in Congress over the Bill.]
THE ATHENS WATCHMAN (DEM-)
Hasthis paragraph:
As an act of courtesy, and not from any
political sympathy, we insert the card of the
Atlanta New Era, which is os bitter a Radi
cal sheet as we know of It is conducted with
ability, but without any fairness—os its garbled
evtnrats, under the caption of "Spirit of the
fffcmocratic Press,” fully proves.
[The act of courtesy is duly appreciated. If
trolling body of old lino Whigs, whose old
party prejudices they wish to influence, and
whose old party partialities they wish to con
ciliate.
[We think the Courier over-estimates tho
Hill clique, and under-estimates the intelli
gence of old line Whigs!]
THE MACON TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, (DEM.)
In tho course of an raticle on the Chinese La
bor question, says:
It strikes ns that this grand problem of Asi
atic labor cannot even be staved off by any
thing short of absolute legal prohibition, and
even that will only delay the issue because it
will only bo a war against nature and the laws
of trade. We may liken that stupendous ag
gregation of Eastern labor to waters collected
for ages in on immense reservoir, with bonks
composed of national ignorance, prejudice,
superstition, bigotry and a policy of isolation
founded upon immoral usage.
[If the Chinese could be civilized, and ren
dered anything more than mere slaves for tho
degradation of honorable labor, and used for
anything better than the mere instruments of
a Monopoly, their sudden influx would be a
matter of less serious consideration. The
time will come, however, when the importa
tion of Chinese laborers will be regarded os a
mistake similar to that sought to be correct&l
by the Act of 1807.1
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, (DEM.)
Speaking of Colleges and College life, says:
For the lost thirty years or more, our col
leges which were located in isolated situations,
have in general been removed to the larger or
more popnjoqs $pv?ns and cities, the dormitory
system abolished, the students boarded in
genteel families near by the college, lecture
and recitation rooms.
■Students must be associated with genteel
families, else they will indulge in the grosser
vices which their isolated position encourages.
Tho necessity of removing Mercer Univer
sity to a larger place than Penfield, where it
was located thirty years ago, arises ont of the
fact that students of the present day arc not
trained for a life of asceticism, bnt for a living
busy, active, progressive world. Hence many
advocate its location in the very heart of At-
ata.
[Such considerations qs these are worthy tho
attention of those charged with the duty of
securing a location for Meroer.]
STATE NEWS.
Another picnic.to-day at Le Hardy’s Spring
... .Colored population observed the Fourth.
BANDERSVILLE,
Two mocking birds in town whistle Dixie
very well... .Hot weather.. ..Occasional rains
. .Com and ootton doing wolh
MACON.
Watermelons abundant Fourteen coses
before the Mayor Tuesday morning The
Drum Corps went to Fort Valley to celebrate
tho Fourth Three fights Tuesday Base
Ball gomes interrupted by the Tho
Printers’ pipnic passed off pleasantly with
dinnor, danoing, etc.
The Spanish brigands arc very active,
have captured a party of English travelt-
hold them for ransom.
Small-pox Claims.
Nearly every county in the State has one
or more claims for expenses on account of
small-pox cases, and we learn that ma»jr_of
them are being presented at the Executive
Department for payment. Upon inquiring at
thp Capitol we are informed that there is
much misunderstanding in connection with
these cases, arising ont ot a conflict between
a section of the Code and the text efjhe act
of the Legislature upon which the sec tick was
supposed to have been founded. The (
makes it the doty of the Governor to draw his
warrant in payment of the bills when audited
by county authorities, and the act of 184ffex-
pressly declares that the counties shall levy a
special tax to pay such bills.
The attention of Judge Irwin was called to
this contradiction between the Code and the
act, and we have been permitted to copy his
reply.
The Legislatue will doubtless take snch ac
tion as will decide the matter os to time and
place for payment of these claims.
The following is the letter from Judge
Irwin, the distinguished jurist who codified
the laws:
Marietta, Ga., July 2, 1870.
His Excellency, It B. Bullock, Atlanta, Ga.
my dear Sir: Your letter of the 1st instant, in
quiring in relation to the law authorizing sec
tion 1414 of the Revised Code, was received
this morning, to which I reply, that there is
' no law authorizing said section 1414; it is the
result of an accidental mistake, which was not
j discovered until it was too late to make tht
correction, of which I think I informed' Col.
j tl." AVuashman a single case^here-
.4 r^A it. jmilLita . contemporaries have ^becn
au4 ti'v*tttzl with unfairuess^we.wiU
rfully make the correction. This would
be better than a general assertion that the
Era is "unfair,”]
THE MILLKDGEVILLE UNION (DEM.)
Is still harping ou the Capitol question. It
says:
The Atlanta papers are very much exercised
over the Capitol question, and affect to be
greatly alarmed at an effort which, they say,
will be made, at the approaching session of
the Legislature, to return the Capitol to Md-
ledgeville. We presume no such effort will
be mode v :i h the present packed Legislature.
What the n.ends of Milleageville ask, and the
>eople of Georgia demand, is that the Lcgis-
ature do nothing at this time, bnt leave the
question to be determined at tlie next elec
tion.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, (DEM.)
Referring to tho proposition to build a new
and magnificent^State House in Atlanta, says!
■ Better buy the Opera House twice over, if
that is the only alternative, and take the
chances of selling it for a fish market when we
go lmdc to MiuedgoviUe. We are told this
scheme of building a Stone Mountain palace
which shall rival the Parthenon of Athens, is
very popular in Atlanta, but trust the negroes
will not fairly conclude the bankruptcy of the
State by falling in
[This talk about removing the Capitol to
Milledgeville is decidedly funny. It simply
can’t be did.” The people have laid that
matter on the shell Let it rest]
In another article, the same paper says:
As to the Capital we must prefer Milledgville
and uni** 8 * new reasons to the contrary, not
now apparent, should arise, we hope the De
mocracy of Georgia will put it hack there
when they can do so. But surely with the so-
called Legislature that we have, and the exist
ing Constitutional provision on the subject,
we cannot be expected to waste our time in
urging a removal now. The Milledgeville pa
pers and correspondents may have leisure to
omnso themselves, bnt we really think they had
better save their ammunition for the day of
battle.
Upon the proposition to bny the Opera
House, if we were a legislator and could not
possibly defeat it, we have only to say that
we should prefer even that to the alterna
tive of building a new Capitol at larger
expense; but as we have no infinence or
voice in tho matter at all, one way or the
other, we do not propose to busy ourselves
upon the subject until a possibility of some
good effect from our interference shall arise.
THE SANDEBSVTLLE GEORGIAN (DEM.)
Begins a long editorial essay os follows:
As all who know ns know, we were never a
Democrat, that is, we never belonged to that
great party, which for fifty years controlled
the Government, a nullifier, a State rights
man, a whig, until the whig party north be
came sectional, we battled against the Democ-
[Whether reference is here mode to tho jour
nal or merely to its present individual editor
may admit of doubt in the minds of some.]
Upon theological questions the editor seems
sound. He says:
Though the Southern character differs
greatly from Northern in that we are slow to
adopt new theories of religious belief. Groun
ded in the belief of the Scriptures as revealed
truth, the Southern mind rejects such impos
tures as Mormonism, Free-loveism et id omne
genus, which seems \o find congenial soil in
which to flourish in puritanical New England.
Even in 1843, daring the excitement caused
by Miller and his followers, which spread
prettv generally over tho North, the believers
in Millerism at the South were "few and far
between.” Dr. Camming, of Scotland, who
lias been hammering on the destruction of the
world for a quarter of a century and has writ
ten several prosy volumes upon the subject,
has made no converts at the South.
THE ROME COURIER (DEM.,)
In an article entitled "Danger Ahead,” dis
cusses some of the dangers which threaten tho
Democracy from disappointed men who are at
a discount politically, and who therefore want
to form new parties. The Courier
As wo stated in onr former article, the
greatest danger to meet lies in the blandishing
attempt by such men as Bard, Josh Hill and
liryaut, to organize a Conservative party, and
by mo doing, to win off from the Democratic
party the large, tho influential, aud the con-
Fino tomatoes in town Base Ball Club
organizing, Emancipation day was cele
brated last Saturday.
AUGUSTA.
Snperior Court trying criminal eases
Judge Carji nterin the city A conple of,
f • igjxtaduebtheother day near
the cemeiety.7 fi^bouy nurti... W. T. Wet-j
more and W. T. Hays from Atlanta «rr«*Aatl,
on instructions from that place; but set at"
liberty, os it appeared that they were guilty of
no offense Tho Fourth passed off very
quietly. A few colored people celebrated
number of small fights A fire broke out
over Rail’s bakery Tuesday night but was ex
tinguished without damage.
MILLEDGEVILLE.
Hot weather.
Judge Schley expected every day City
Court mi4obi Several small fights on
the Fourth The picnic of the St. Patrick’s
Frco School Society was a success The will
of Edward Padelford has been admitted to
probate An immense concourse of people
witnessed the Regatta at the Isle of Hope on
the Fourth. Ten boats ran the four mile
race. The first prize was awarded to tho
"Undine,” and the second to the "Wave.”
supreme' court ovgkorgia.
Jane Terra, 1870.
JOSEPH E. BROWN, C. J.
Order of Circuits with the number of cases
from each—
Blue Ridge Circuit 4
Western Circuit 1
Southern Circuit 2
Southwestern Circuit 17
Pataula Circuit 34
Chattahoochee Circuit 42
Macon Circuit 6
Flint Circuit 4
Tallapoosa Circuit 6
Atlanta Circuit 7
Romo Circuit 10
Cherokee*Circuit 6
Northern Circuit. 8
Middle Circuit 9
Ocmulgee Circuit 9
Eastern Circuit...,,,.,,,,,..,...., 6
Brunswick Circuit 5
DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
Tuesday, July 5, 1870.
The following judgments were rendered:
Thos. J. Thornton vs. Jesse McLendon—
motion for new trial from Troup. Judgment
of the Court below affirmed.
Spencer Marshall et at vs A. M. Lazenby—
Homestead from Walker. Judgment, allow
ing a bachelor a homestead, affirmed.
Michael Fricks vs. Archibald Miller—com-
>laint from Gordon. Judgment of the Court
>elow reversed on tho ground that it was too
late to set the illegality of the consideration of
tho original note, given by the officers for the
horse, after judgment W* been obtained upon
it in 1866, in the Courts of this State, recog
nized by the government of the United States.
And said judgment was a sufficient consider
ation to support the note now sued on.
Pyrant Easley vs. Joseph Camp—motion to
set aside a judgment from Henry. Judgment
of the Court below affirmed.
Allen Williamson vs. John R. Wordlow—
Motion to set aside a judgment from Walker.
Judgment of the Court bmow reversed on the
ground that the Court erred in not granting
the motion, as to the thirteen other oases be
sides that, founded on the copy note set out
in the summons.
N. J. Wilkinson ct al. vs. tho Inferior
Court—Nuisance from Tronp. Judgment of
the Court below affirmed.
J. W. Clayton & Co., vs. Campbell Wallace,
Superintendant of the Western and Atlantic
Bailroad—Assumpsit from Fulton. Judgment
of tho Conrt below reversed on tbe ground
that the Court erred ill refusing to hear and
decide the (notion for a now trial in tho care
as set forth in the record.
T. H. Morris vs. Frances Morris—Equity
from Floyd. Judgment of the Court below
affirmed.
Jack Pryor va. The State—Assault with in
tent to murder. Judgment of the Court below
affirmed,
Robert M. Clarke vs. Robert H. McCrosky
—assumpsit from Fulton. Judgment of the
conrt below affirmed. Warner, J., dissenting.
Clark & Grubb vs. Catherine Valentino—as
sumpsit from Fulton. Judgmont of the court
below reversed. McKay, J., dissenting.
Argument in No. 2, Cherokee Circuit—Sel-
weekly wages paid to persons employed in
woollen mills, in England and the United
States, in the years 1807 uudlSCff, respectively,
is taken from the table on wages in woollen
mills:
Occupation*.
Wool
Wool
Dyers.
Pickers
Finishers
Crops flourishing
NEW NAN.
McDowell Honse rented by E. T. White
from Atlanta College Temple commence
ment came off lost week Three colored
men struck by lightning Saturday last Not
hurt mneb.
ATHENS.
Tho Fonrth passed off quietly.
COLUMBUS.
Justices and Mayor’s Courts full of business
..Superior Court trying civil
Wheather pleasant Promiscuous shooting
endangers tbe lives of the citizens.
HOME.
The Southerner and Commercial proposes
that the young Romans practice for the
Tournament at the Atlanta Fair. The Seven-
Hilled city can ent a very creditable figure
if she will The Fourth passed off very
quietly. A few patriotic individuals trotted
out the “crathers," and were themselves
trotted off to the callaboose, much to their
disgust Several members of the Legisla
ture are passing through the city ou their way
to Atlanta The Committee on the address
concerning tbe Columbus, LaGrange and
North Georgia Railroad, is moving in tho
matter The Directors of tho Fair Associa
tion for the Cherokee country are taking
active steps to advance the interests of the
society Col. B. C. Yancey, President of the
Georgia Agricultural Society, was in the city
Tuesday Mr. Jas. D. Munice is dead. He
leaves a wife and several children The
picnic at Le Hardy’s Grove, yesterday, was
doubtless a pleasant affair, as every arrange
ment was made to secure its success The
Bainbow Fire Company paraded Monday, in
full uniform. They presented a fine ap
pearance.
CABTERSVIIXE.
The bridge over the Etowah river on the
Cartersvillo and Van Wert Railroad was fin
ished on the 4th. It is a fine structure, built
of the best masonry, iron and wood Some
6,000 bushels of wheat have been delivered at
this station, at $1 25 per bushel Cotton
promising A new Town Hail is to be built
Bartow Bible Society meets Sunday morn
ing. Rev. ID. Porks will bo present Tho
editor of tbe Express flies off into bucolics
thusly: “Showers continue; crops growing
finely; weather hot; fanners waging a desper
ate war against Gen. Green, who quits the field
of strife sullenly; he is on old hero of a thou
sand battles, and so often victorious, that bo
now dies bard; he is game, but be falters, he
reels! wo confidently believe ho will retreat bo-
fore the stalwart arms of tho yeomenry. Up
and at him, boys! once more to the broach!
once more charge! “ft little more grape, Capt
Bragg," and the day is ours—victory will perch
ou your standards.”
SAVANNAH.
A largo tree on Anderson street was struck
by lightning Monday, and split from top to
bottom John Donovan, returning from tho
Isle of Hope, had bis foot so badly mangled by
a cai-wheol that it bad to bo amputated
Savannah Medical Coliego wants $11,000from
the City Council A gentleman had a nar
row escape from drowning at Isle of Hope,
while bathing, on tho Fourth The Park
presents a beautiful appearauco since -it has
been improved... .Die Presse, a new German
paper, has been started Colored people cel-
ebratad tho Fourth in a very orderly mvnne r
Average wagea, (gold value*.)
i • Percentage in
U. 8., England, favor of the
1809. 1867. i U.S.
$6 75
5 50
,6 60
4 67'
C OG
3 78
6W
C 22
7 47,
4 67
2 48
5 75
5 GO
6 00
17.56
30.C9
16.00
27.25
22.93
34.38
14.81
11.57
19.67
Tho work is comprehensive in scope and
minute in detail, the object of Mr. Yoon'*
having been to make as complete an exhibit
as possible of tho present condition of industry
ana the industrial clauses. Both in collecting
and collating the information it contains,
every precaution has been token which could
contribute to strict accuracy. The report
will, therefore, be of great value to the Legis
lator and Statistician, as a reliable work of ref
erence, covering details nowhere else to be
found. It would also bo a most useful book
for general circulation, and • i.tlly «0S
among the classes in European nations from
which emigration to our country is chiefly
drawn, since it would not only enable the in
tending emigrant to compare the general ad
vantage of the United States with those of his
own country, but would indicate to him tho
particular State or section in which his own
occupation receives the most liberal remuner
ation."
In the preparation of this work, Mr. Young
has simply presented facts and figures, leaving
it to the reader to draw such inferences as tho
data before him seem to warrant
It is hoped that a large edition will be or
dered by Congress.
A Fnuny Tribute to Woman.
At the Press Banquet in Richmond, the
other night, Mr. II. C. Tinsley, who present
ed the appearance of a clergyman and in per
son much resembles Rev. Dr. Plumer, former
ly, of this city, responded to the toast of "Wo
man.” He was quite diffident, and appeared
to be very much impressed with the solemnity
of the occasion. He said be had always re
gretted that so mncli time was wasted at thewo
parties and ao little information gained. He
was glad that the toast entrusted to him was
one with which he could uss some statistics,
and make his remarks profitable to those around
him. He had compiledhis Agues from the Cen
sus Bureau, and there could be no. mistake
about them. He found that there were 17,>
836,401 ablebodied women in the States, only
two of whom were over nineteen years of age,
and both of them wdre Geore Washington's
nurses. This statement about age the speaker
confessed was a remarkable one, but he hoped
if any one present had any donbts they would
not express them; a census taker had done so
on one occasion, and ho only lived forty-eight
hours. The great disadvantage at which mau,
who.is of all ogee and of all stages of decrepi
tude, is placed in a race with seventeen million
women in perfect health and only nineteen
years old was graphically described. Woman,
tho speaker thought, was an unmitigated suc
cess in every walk of life. As a philanthropist
she was beyond criticism. She was never known
to let up in doing good, and would insist on
doing good whether you wanted her to or not.
One eminent lady (only nineteen years old)
had made it tho business of her life to visit
and rectify lunatic asylums. She attended to
one. so carefully that the superintendent of
fered to give her all the lunatics and ten dol
lars if sue wouldn't come there any more.
She refused the offer, and the superintendent
ma, Rome aud Dalton Railroad Company va. went up to his room and blew his brains out.
x*. Harbin—was resumed and con- ~As an Tinsley-thought she was
Elnilefi, OoL Wm. H. Dabney for plaintiff in dectnc, and referreaTZmaCAseofa pwsongiy
error,' and Judge C. V. McCfrtclifirfomeflflMl- rera tarerore wW. after rending two ckapteni cj
ant in error.
No. 3, Cherokee Circuit—Lucy Patterson,
ex’tr’x, vs. Thomas Tumlin—was dismissed
for non-compliance with the 10th Rule of this
conrt
Pending argument in No. 4, Cherokee Cir
cuit, th«- court. adjourned till 10 o'clock a. :
to-morrow*.
Wednesday, July.O, 1870.
Argument in No, 4, Cherokae 'Circuit—
William Solomon vs. the Commissipners of
Cartersville—was resumed aud concluded.—
CoL Warren Akin for plaintiff in enfor, and
Col. A. Johnson, by Judge D. A. Walker, for
defendant in error.
No. 5, Cherokee Circuit—B. G. Pool and
O. H. Lufburrows vs. P. R. Lewis and B. J.
Lewis—was argued for plaintiffs by Messre.
Akin and Wofford, and for defendants in
error by Judge D. A. Walker.
Thursday, July 7, 1870.
No 1, Northern Circuit—James T. Dillard
vs. the State (misdemeanor from Oglethorpe)—
was argued for plaintiff in error by Col.
Mathews, and for defendant in error by W.
G. Johnson, Esq.
Pending argument in No. 2, Northern Cir
cuit—Lane vs. Latimer, complaint trom Han
cock—tho Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a.
m., to-morrow.;
Gen. Toombs appears for Lane, and Messrs.
Linton Stephens and E, H. Pottle for Lati
mer.
A most valuable document on this subject,
of about seventy-five pages, prepared by Mr-
Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau of Statis
tics, for the Special Commissioner of the Rev
enue, is now in type and nearly ready for dis
tribution. It contains:
I. FACTORY LABOR.
Giving tables of the average weekly wages
paid in the various industrial establishments
of the United States, (from "Agricultaral Im
plement Factories” to "Woolen Mills,”) in
the respective years 1867 and 1869,
Tho tables are the result of inquiries made
of the proprietors of the respective establish
ments. This division embraces* about thirty
pages.
1L MECHANICAL LABOR.
Several pages are devoted to the wages paid
in the leading mechanical employment, (from,
"blackshiths” to "wheelwrights,”) in overy
State and Territory in the Union, giving the
average daily rates with board, and without
board, in tbe respective years 18C7 and 1869;
and a recapitulation by sections.
in. FARM AND OTHER LABOR.
About 12 pages are devoted to this branch.
Tho average daily aud monthly wages of both
experienced and ordinary hands, including
form and other common and domestic labor,
in summer and winter, with board and with
out board, in each State and Territory of the
Union, are given for tho respective years 1861
and 1869, also, a recapitulation by scctious.
IV. EXPENSES OF LIVING, ETC.
To complement tho preceding tables of
wages, die average cost of provisions, groce
ries, fuel and leading articles of dry goods, as
well as of house rent and board, are given in
each State and Territory, for tho years 1867
and 1869—also, a recapitulation by sections—
the list embracing 59 distinct items; a statement
showing the average weekly expenditures of
workingmen’s families in the manufacturing
towns of the United States; and another, giv
ing the average income and expenditure of sim
ilar families in Belgium.
V. THE COST OP DWELLINGS.
To ascertain whether the high rente paid by
workmen were justified by the increased cost
of building, inquiries were addressed to lead-
St Elmo, took ofl his paper collar and leaped
overboard. It was too much for him. As un
dertakers, they have been abreast of the fore
most, and sometimes ahead of the foremost,
having been known to skip nimbly over the
bodies of a family of orphans in order to g-t
into the first hack going to their lather’s fu
neral. [Applause.] The address oi Mr. Tins
ley was replete with similar information rela
tive to this new infusion into American poli
tics, and nearly every single man at the table
was seen to take copious notes of bis re
marks. Several married men having drawn
revolvers, Mr. Tinsley took his seat, promising
to continue-his remarks when circumstances
were of a less depressing character.
Shortly after taking his seat, the speaker,
hearing that three or four determined looking
females had been seen around Zetelle’s front
door, sent to Mayor Ellyson for a police force
to see him home.
Tire Word “Sulary" Derived From Salt.
Spilling salt was held to be an tmlacky
omen by the Romans, and the superstition has
descended to ourselves. Leonardo da Vinci
availed himself of the. tradition in his famous
pictnreof the ‘.‘Lord’s Supper,” to indicate
Jndas Iscariot by tho salt-cellar knocked over
accidentally by his arm.
Salt was used in sacrifico by the Greeks and
Romans, and also by the Jews, and is still
made use of in baptism by tho Roman Catho
lic clergy. It is an omblem of purity, and of
the sanctifying influence ou others of a holy
life; hence our Lord tells his disciples, “lie
are the Salt of the earth.”
Tho salt being spilt after it was placed on
tbe head of tho victiom was considered a bad
omen, being aupposrel to Signify that the sacri
fice was not accepted; and hence the supersti
tion.
When we say of a shiftless fellow that ho
docs not “earn his salt," wo unconsciously al
lude to an ancient custom among the Romans.
Among them a man was said to be in posses
sion of a “salary" who had his “solarium"—his
allowance of salt money, or of salt wherewith
to savor tho food by which he lived. Thus
salary comes from salt; and, in this view of
tho word, how many arc there who don't
“ earn their salt.”
Treasurer Angler,
We have received from some source a large
hand-bill, on which is printed Angier’s argu
ment for his defense. It claims that while ho
has triumphantly cleared his own skirts, he
has proved every charge he made against the
Governor. The concluding paragraph is as
follows:
"Thus you will perceive that the proof
against the Governor is overwhelming in sus
taining every charge the Treasurer has made.
The testimony shows, beyond dispute, that
the Governor has knowingly violated his oath
of office, and wilfully and defiantly set at
nought the constitution and laws, and re
garded himself as a dictator, supreme above all
considerations of a legislative body.
"N. L. A voter, Treasurer.”
Notwithstanding his arogant claims, we
think tho proof shows that Angler is a very
unfit man lor Treasurer, and this sentiment is
very general, so far as we can learn. The
Governor and Treasurer have succeeded in
very extensively "chawing up” each other,
and the latter is so effectually used up, that
there will undoubtedly bo a new Treasurer
very soon.—Griffin Star.
Dutch Ingenuity.
The Lewiston Journal says there is a steep
hill in Greene, not far from the river, traversed
by a road now unused, concerning which a
very amusing story is told. A Dutch peddler
traveling through tho town with a one-horse
team, selling ribbons, toys, and knicknacks
generally, arriving at its summit one day, and
overlooking tho valley below, thought bis horse
hardly strong enough to hold back the load
down so steep a hill. But his ingenious Dutch
intellect soon conceived how to do it. Uu-
the animal, he led him gently
ing builders in various cities aud mauufactur- down the declivity, and returned to draw tho
ing towns, asking the cost in 18C1 and 1809, I cart down him<«.lt. Getting between tlie shafts,
resx>cctively, of the various materials, as well : ’ * — ’ v ' * * -
as of labor, employed in the erection of dwell
ings for workingmen. Tho result shows the
increase in tho cost of materials to have been
58 per cent, of labor, 103 per cent, and of
building lots, 147 per cent.
Most of'the above informatio
i obtai
one grasped iti each hand, he started on the
.1. ^ Vh.wly aud cautiously at 1 ..t
heavy load soon gaining impetus, and impel
ling him forward, he furnished no more re
straint to its progress than a feather before (lie
wind. Down it came, faster ami faster, and
and faster flew the iHitclmian’s i .
by Mr. Young through the assistant assessors, j keeping time with one of the liveliest quiek-
The collation and tabulation of a vast number steps ever composed, till finally, out of breath
of returns, involving great labor, caused delay | and wholly e xhausted, be fell, tho cart passing
and" prevented their accompanying tlie last j harmlessly over him in its unchecked career,
report of tho Special Commissioner of the j and plunging with fearful velocity into tho
Revenue, to which they now appear as a sup- valley below, where it brought up in a demor-
plement. alized condition, its contents scattered about i
The following comparison of the average the utmost confusion.
