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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1SS0.
—The New York Herald, it is reported,
is about to establish a line of cheap mom-
- ing papers all along the route from New
York to San Francisco.
—Prussian authorities estimate that 2,-
000 soldiers can be transported in a single
train, and that a whole army corps can be
sent by rail at the rate of twenty miles a
day.
—The shipments of live cattle and
fresh beef from thi3 country to England
coutinue to increase, over three millions of
dollars' worth having been sent from the
port of New York during the first three
months of this year.
—There is terrible distress in Asia Mi
nor. even within filly miles of Constanti
nople. Cattle, sheep, and Angora goats
are carried off in large numbers by dis
ease. Brigandage, which is almost ne
cessitated by hunger, is on the increase.
The country between Angora and Ismidt
is becoming a desert. Four thousand
people of the Moussoul district have emi
grated to Bagdad.
—It would be interesting to know what
Windsor Castle has, from first to last, cost.
In 1830, on the vote for $500,000 to defray
the expenses incurred by the alterations of
Windsor, a member objected on the score
that $4,500,000 had already been spent,
and there was no knowing when the ex
pense would cease. The bill was with
drawn for the time. Enormous sums have
since been expended.
—It is computed that the sum total of
the cost of the last war between Germany
and France was $2,500,000,000. A French
economist does not share the opinion ex
pressed in some quarters that Germany
did not profit much by the war. After
pointing to many things which the indemni
ty has enabled Germany to accomplish,
he says that there is a fund of $300,000,-
000 unaccounted for, which he presumes
has gone into the the famous war reserve
fund.
—Ah Wing, a Chinaman, has for a year
‘ past been attending the Bible class of
Trinity Baptist Church in New York city.
He made known his intention of turning
Christian, and after passing a satisfactory
examination as to his sincerity was bap
tized in the church on Sunday last. Ah
Wing is the son of a college professor in
China. There were fourteen other China
men present at the ceremony, and the ex
ample of Ah Wing will probably induce
others to join, as he is considered a leader
among them.
—A transalantic yacht race is to be one
of the events of the coming summer. The
contestants are three yachts not yet
launched, and one is not named. The
owners are G. A. Osgood, Charles J. Os
born and W. F. Belden. The two former,
to be called the Stranger and Corsair, are
on the stocks at Cramp’s shipyard, in
Philadelphia, and the last at Roach’s
shipyard, in Chester, Pennsylvania. The
shipbuilders are doing their best to make
the race a fast one.
—Professor Prosdocismi of the Este
Museum, who discovered a prehistoric
cemetery on the slope of dho hills over
looking that town, has unearthed in the
same vicinity eighty-two tombs, forty-four
of them violated apparently during the
Roman period, the rest untouched, with
all their pottery and bronzes. The urns
are of three periods, some colored black,
with linear ornamentation; others adorned
with circles and wavy lines; others with
alternate bands of red and black. Some of
the accessory vases might serve as elegant
models for modem potters. The bronze
ornaments are also very interesting, and a
| bronze chest bears three designs, compris
ing in all seventeen warriors and a priest,
seven animals (horses, oxen, stags, birds,
and a dog), several plants, and a kind of
chariot with a man seated in it. The
Professor considers these the finest prehis
toric remains in Italy. ■
The Kino of Siam and a Shipload
fc* op* Servants Coming to America.—
Si At the cabinet meeting on Friday, Mr.
fEvarts read a letter from the United
I 1 States Consul at Bangkok, Siam, saying
^tbat the King of that country would start
lie latter part of this month for a tour
f through Europe and the United States.
After giving the details of the route which
the King would take, the Consul urged
that preparations be made to properly re
vive the King in America, and that he be
rested with every consideration. It was
concluded to notify the Congress committ
ees on foreign affairs of the King’s an-
icipated visit, and to recommend an ap-
iropriation sufficient to receive him. The
iracticability of sending a United
Hates man-of-war to convey him from
England was discussed at some length
Vithodt action, it being thought best to de
er the question until the King shall have
Irrived in Europe. The entire party, in
ti uding servants, it is thought, will be Iar-
er than can be accommodated on a trau-
f-war.
—The New York Sun says “theDemoc-
icy of New York adheres to Mr. Tilden
ilely aud exclusively because he was
lected President of the United States in
S70, and because he and they were cheat-
i out of the election, and they are for his
i mi nation now not because they love
m personally, but because they believe
the right of self-government, and Wish
vindicate that right in 1880 in the most
nphatic manner possible.”
The Philadelphia Times says “Mr. Til-
in never showed to better advantage
lan in his management of this crisis, and
Jo work of Tuesday wHI strengthen his
%im to the respect of the party at large,
•* though it may not better his prospects
* obtaining the nomination. He is not
j ;ely to be the nominee, but he is more
I an ever in a position to say upon whose
^ Mulders his mantle shall fall.”
I The Feathered Sprites.—A • lady
Macon was saying, the other day, that
Q r household, including servants, are of-
g i imposed on by the mocking bird’s
u ver imitation of the postman’s whistle,
§ ilch is as perfect as the whistle itself,
id ley go out to get the letters and find
if- ;k on a spray near the fence blowing
whistle and looking entirely innocent
intention to play April fool on the
® asebold,
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The New York Chronicle of Saturday
reports the receipts of the seven days end
ing Friday night, at 36,714, against 36,183
the corresponding week of last year. To
tals to that date, 4,608,009, against 4,294,
724—showing an increase of313,2S5 bales,
The New York Exchange statement of
Friday night was 4,618,469 against 4,270,-
814, showing an increase of 347,655 bales
By the same authority the week’s receipts
were 35,933 against 36,418.
The interior port business of the week
was—receipts, 12,905 bales, against 17,495
last year. Shipments, 30,015 agaiust 24,-
167. Slocks, 220,930 against 87,296 last
year.
The visible supply table shows 2,375,-
575 bales in sight last Friday, against 2,-
105,113 at same date last year; 2,530,173
at same date the year before, and 2,880,-
113 at same date in 1877. These figures
show an increase of 352,622 bales on the
supply of last year—a decrease of 02,899
bales on the supply in 1878, and of 452,-
250 bales on the supply of 1S77, at same
date. Cotton stood at C| for middling
upland in Liverpool last Friday. A year
ago it was 6f—In 187S, at same date,
515-16, and in 1S77, at same date, 6}
There are no important points in the
Chronicle's weather telegrams of last Fri
day. The weather has been generally fa
vorable, and planting operations are going
on quietly. Memphis says the average
estimate there is ten per cent, increase in
acreage. ■ Florida complains of-unfavora-
ble weather and a poor stand. Columbus
notes three days of rainfall during the
week, Augusta three and Savannah four.
Ellison & Co., of Liverpool, say the av
erage weight of AAerican bales in this
crop is 4S5 pounds against 473 last year—
an increase of twelve pounds to the bale.
They estimate the crop now going forward
at 5,600,000 baRs. Others say, counting
the increase in weight, the crop will be
equal to 5,740,000 bales cf last year’s
weight.
The Tornadoes.
Yesterday’s edition of the Telegraph
and Messenger announced three terri
ble tornadoes, destroying many lives and
much property. One of these was in Ma
con, Mississippi, which, in that little town
alone, killed seventeen persons,'wounded
twenty-two and wrecked property valued
atone hundred thousand dollars. An
other related to a very extensive tornado
in the State of Illinois, attended with
great destruction of life and property, not
definitely stated. The third was in Dal
ton, Georgia, which unroofed several
houses aud wrecked a church, but fortu
nately was attended by no loss of life.
These three announcements - follow on
the heels of that unprecedented tornado
in Missouri, the centre of which was
Marshfield, which it swept with the besom
of destruction—destroying a hundred lives,
or thereabouts, and wounding a still
greater number.
These terrible displays of the eneigies
of Nature, which set at naught all human
prevision and precaution, fill us all with
dread. They are something new—dating
back only a few years in respect to their
frequency, and apparently multiplying
very fast of late. It has come to-this, of
late, that every indication of violent
weather is looked upon with apprehen
sion; but as summer advances, we must
expect squalls frequently.
It is well, therefore, to remember that
every manifestation of a cyclone or torna
do, which we have seen or read of, has
been attended by a peculiar, luminous,
lowering and angry horizon, and the track
of the storm is marked in the heavens by
a small tunnel or funnel-shaped cloud,
the nozzle of which gyrates sbrew-fashion,
and the whole moves rapidly over the
storm pathway.
Such a cloud we saw in 1841, at a dis
tance, passing over a timbered region,
and though we never saw or read much
about a tornado, felt sure that it marked
one; and passing over the track a few
weeks after, saw thousands of huge pines
wrenched from the earth or wrenched off
at their butts, as if they had been pipe
stems ; and in some cases the splinters
projecting upwards fifty feet or more. Sub
sequently there were other such storms in
Southern Geoigia, and several more have
been recorded in the western and central
parts of the State, in all of which the
mighty forces of the storm laughed at all
human obstructions. It behooves every
body to build \vith a view to the best re
sistance to the. winds; but, after all, a
house caught in the direct track of one of
these mighty tornadoes is gone, no mat
ter how built. Tornadoes are sent, per
haps, as another reminder ‘ of human
helplessness. They are ancient institu
tions, for the Book tells us that the whole
family of Job was swept away by one of
them; but it is only of late that they
seem to come every few days.
Now let philosophers tell us what Is the
abnormal condition of the heavenly
bodies, or of the earth’s surface or atmos
phere which develops such a crowd of
these awful phenomena. It is an interest
ing inquiry, though prevention or cure
be impossible. Are they due at all to
any of the rapid changes going on in the
face of the American continent—for illus
tration, to the wholesale denudation of
the timber? In any case, unless a change
takes place in the temper of the winds, an
other must be added to the risks covered
by property insurance—the risks from tor
nadoes. _
Whatever else may be . doubtful
about the intention of the authors of our
tariff laws, they undoubtedly meant to
place on the free list all materials used in
the manufacture of paper. It happened
that pulp of wood, which is by far the
most important element in the manufac
ture of paper used by the daily and
weekly press of the country, was not spe
cifically and by name exempted from duty.
Under a Treasury decision which held
that this verbal omission was fatal to the
free admission of wood pulp, a few manu
facturers of that article have been able to
impose an exorbitant tax on the general
body of paper-makers, by whom it is of
course shifted on the consumers, the
newspaper publishers of the countiy, and
the burden tails with special hardship on
publishers outside of the great cities—we.
consequently, being impoverished so that
a handful of monopolists may grow rich.
The most powerful champion of these
monopolists Is Representative Garfield.
Were his opposition to the bill withdrawn,
the restoration of wood pulp to the free
list, where it belongs, would be accom
plished in a few days. While his oppo
sition continues the monopolists are se
cure. ‘Can Mr. Garfiel d afford to continue
his support of a most odious and op
pressive tax which brings in no revenue
to the Government, but which interferes
very decidedly with the dissemination of
knowledge among the people?
Grant in Georgia.
The action of the so-called Georgia Re
publican Convention is accepted by the
third-term stalwarts of the North as the
worst backset they have yet encountered
The Washington correspondents of all
the leading Northern prints so pronounce
and acknowledge it. It is particularly
funny that the game of stocking the con
ventions should go on North and South in
reverse directions. It has already been
made clear enough that Pennsylvania
and New York have been stocked for
Grant contrary to the will and judgment
of the great body of the Republican party
in those States; and now it is transparent
that Geoigia has been stocked against
him, contrary to the will of the colored
population of Geoigia, who constitute
nine-tenths of the party in the State.
It may be truly said of the latter that
they scarcely recognize the existence of
any other demociatic leader than Grant
aud consider him as embodying the life,
soul, power and beneficence of the party
and the country. Therefore, to be turned
bodily over to Sherman by a few intrigu
ants, as they have been, and forced to in
flict a wound on Grant’s fortunes and
prospects, is a thing which will thoroughly
enrage them when they come to know it.
They will have a heavy reckoning with
these convention representatives. They
will make things hot for them.
The Life-Saving Service.
The following facts demonstrate the
value and efficacy of the life-savingservice
They are gleaned from official reports by
the Norfolk Virginian. The number of
disasters along the coast in the year 1879
was greater than in any previous year
since 1871, owing to the greater violence
of the weather, yet 2,049 lives were saved
out of a total of 2,105 on board the vessels
that came within the scope of the service,
showing only a loss of 56.
The value of the vessels wrecked was
$1,922,276, and of their cargoes $905,640,
making a total of $2,8S7,2S6 and of this
amount $1,445,080 were saved. In eighty-
one instances vessels were borne off when
stranded, repaired when damaged, or
similarly assisted. “Without this aid,”
says the report, “both vessels and crews
in many instances would have been de
stroyed.” During the eight years that the
present system has been in operation,
8,030 lives, out of a total 8,392, have been
saved on the coast, and property to the
amount of $9,510,40S has been saved from
destruction. This record is one that
speaks everything for the excellent effi
ciency and courage of the men engaged
in the service.
Memorial Lay.
The manes of the precious Confederate
dead received an ovation on Monday in
this city which has never been surpassed,
if indeed ’equalled, since the dark and
bloody days of the war, when the corpses
of the fallen, in all their gory ghastliness,
were laid to rest amid the tears and la
mentations of kindred and countrymen.
As has been stated, despite the threat
ening clouds and pouring rain, our patri
otic citizens turned out almost en masse
to do honor to the glorious martyrs to
Southern liberty. It is estimated that
fully three thousand interested auditors
occupied the seats about the stand, and
filled every inch of ground under the
spreading trees, overrun with ivy, which
formed a magnificent canopy—nature’s
own handiwork.
In the rear, the swiftly gliding river was
plainly visible, emblematic of the ebbing
tide of life, which never ceases to flow un
til lost in the ocean of eternity.
Among those present wa3 the venerated
form of Mrs. Winship, the president of the
Memorial Association, whose labors in
the hospital, by the side of the wounded
and dying, and subsequently in the ar
duous effort of rescuing from oblivion the
remains of the patriot dead, justly entitle
her to the gratitude and reverence of every
lover of the “lost cause.” Her lady asso
ciates and the worthy gentlemen, too,
who belong to this association, were all at
their posts. Much had been done to pre
serve the idenjtity and beautify the
graves of the sleeping dead, who in long
ranks await the resurrection signal of
the .Archangel. A large number are
surrounded with a low copin;
of brick, and the association
could not more appropriately employ
such funds as they may be able to raise
than by thus permanently designating
each, and every soldier’s grave. We would
make still another suggestion. Let it be
the future aim of the Ladies’ Memorial
Association gradually to supply the de
caying head and foot boards of the fallen
braves With plain upright granite slabs
inscribed with their names. In a few
years the work would be completed^ aud
then nothing will remain to be done but
to keep down the weeds' and grass and
make the annual deposit of floral offerings
upon the tombs of the departed. This sa
cred duty we trust will not be lost sight
of. •
The address of Rev. Mr. Glazebrook
has been laid before our readers. It was
most felicitous and patriotic.
As the years roll on, we trust the beau
tiful aud touching custom in each recur
ring spring, of visiting and decorating the
graves of the cherished Confederate dead,
instead of falling into desuetude, will
grow in the hearts .and affections of our
people. Na better, way could be devised
to keep aglow the fires of patriotism, and
impress tipon succeeding generations the
prowess and sacrifices of their fathers in the
most unequal and memorable struggle
tiie world ever beheld.
The Word "Infinite,”
as all know, applies only to ' the Divine
character and attributes. With some show
of propriety it is also applied to things so
vast or numerous as to be practically im
measurable or incomputable. Thus we
read of “infinite space” and the infinity
of the heavenly bodies in their number
and distances without nausea. But this
sublime adjective haz, of late, come to
qualify everything which is thought to be
great or uncommon. A man takes “in
finite pains,” whenhe has’oniy put forth a
little more than ordinary exertion. A
graceful woman has come to be “infinite
ly beautiful,” and a smart speech to show
“infinite-wit and humor.” The applica
tion of this great word has got to be as
common as blackberries in June, and to
all thinking men is offensive and almost
blasphemous. Extravagant terms emas
culate any man’s style.' They forfeit the
confidence ot men who treasure language.
They are offensive as the talk of a man
in his cups. The more one eschews ad
jectives the better be will like his own
writing or conversation if he will use re
flection.
Hendricks, in an interview on Friday,
again stated that he would not allow Ids
name to be used for the Vice Presi
dency.
The
James
Retirement of CoL
H. Blount.
The following letter will be read with
surprise and the deepest concern, not only
by the immediate constituents of Col.
Blonnt, but by the people of Georgia aud
the entire South. After the announce
ment that has been made, it is certainly
not improper to say that our member has
earned a higher reputation and more sub
stantial laurels in the lower house of the
Congress of the United States, for his un
swerving devotion to the public interests
during the past eight years, his superior
sagacity, his untiring industry, his per
sonal purity aud commanding influence,
than almost any other of his peers.
There is not probably a more popular
man in the State, or one who possesses
more wholly and unreservedly the confi
dence, esteem and respect of the people.
He will he greatly missed in the councils
of the nation, and difficult indeed will it
be to supply the place of Col. Blount.
We wish him success and happiness in
all his future career.
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.,
\ April 23d, 18S0.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger;
Numerous solicitations that I should con
sent to become a candidate for the nomi
nation for the 47th Congress have been
received by me. c
Frankness to a constituency which has
so frequently honored me with a seat in
the House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States, suggests that I should take this
open method of replying. I shall not be
a candidate, but a co-worker with tbe
Democratic party in securing the elec
tion of an acceptable successor to my
self.
For the past honors which have been
bestowed upon me, my heart shall ever
turn in grateful recognition to the people
of the 6th Congressional District.
Your obedient servant,
James H. Blount.
Beaten Oil in the Sanctuary.
In the absence of the beloved pastor,
Rev. E. W. Warren, who was in attend
ance upon tbe Baptist Convention at Sa
vannah, tbe pulpit of tbe First Baptist
Church was filled on Sabbath morning by
Rev. J. J. Brantly, D. D., of Mercer
University.
The Doctor selected for his text the
12th verse of the 14th chapter of Romans:
“So then every one of us shall give ac
count of himself to God.”
It is a peculiar characteristic of Dr.
Brantly that he always approaches his
subject directly, and without the least by
play or formal exordium proceeds at once
to explore its lowest depths. While seem
ingly ignoring the flowere of rhetoric, yet
his discourses are models of pure English
and logic, expressed in terse and graceful
language which admits of uo doubtful
interpretation.
On this occasion, he preached most ex
haustively on the significance and power
of that important word, “responsibility.”
In every possible phase did he hold up
and declare its true meaning and import.
Man’s responsibility to his Maker, to his
family, to his country, to himself, was
graphically drawn.
The sermon was the best embodiment
of religious metaphysics, stripped of the
platitudes of the schools, that we ever re
member to have listened to, while, at the
same time, it was thoroughly imbued with
fervent piety and the religion of the Re
deemer, who spake as never man spake.
The doctor commended the unswerving
attention of his auditory throughout.
’ Sermons like the one under considera
tion should be carefully printed and pre
served in book form for the benefit of the
church and posterity.
Wine Making.—Grape-growing, says
the Montgomery Advertiser, both in Ala
bama and Georgia, is yearly increasing
and promises to be an important industry.
The vineyards, especially those in tbe
neighborbood of Cullman, have, within
the last two or three yeais, greatly enlarg
ed, and we are told some of the “pure
juice of the grape” they produce promises
to become famous. But a California
writer says that “if our experience be es
teemed, wo advise that raising grapes he
left to individual vineyardists. Compa
nies can do .better to put up laige works
and buy the grapes. Small wineries will
not secure uniformity of brands, which
commerce requires. Thirty small twenty-
fire acre vineyards at Anaheim, each mak
ing its own wines, failed of success, but
by combining in a single factory and get
ting standard uniformity their wjnes got
fepute, and soon brought wealth to the
colony in Los Angeles county.
Am I Mr Brother’s Keeper? Gen.
iv: 9.—These were the words from which
Rev. S. S. Sweet delivered an eminently
apposite and 4 practical address in the
Yineville church on Sabbath night. He
took the ground that every man is his
“brother’s keeper.” That he was bound
to refrain from slandering him—to exhibit
a kind interest in his temporal and relig
ious welfare—to remember that like him
self he had been created in the image pf
tbe Most High God—that -no one pos
sessed the right to ignore the claims of
duty and humanity—in short, that the
community is made up of units, each oc-
cupying his own space and performing his
allotted part, but the whole making up
the grand aggregate of aociety.
The applications ot the text were point
ed aud appropriate, and the moral of the
discourse most timely aud excellent.
Gubernatorial. .
The people are slowly beginning to realize
the fact that they will be called upon this
fall to select a bran new batch of rulers,
from the President of the United States to
the most humble officers of the govern
ment. Hitherto but little has been said of
the race for Governor. Quito a number of
competent gentlemen have been mention
ed, however, in connection with that high
office, among whom are the present in
cumbent, Colonel Thomas Hardeman,
Jr., General L. J. Gartrell, B. E. Lester,
Esq., J. W. Underwood, Esq., Judge "War
ner, Colonel J. H. Blonnt, Judge Reese
and others.
On tills subject the Augusta Chronicle
and Constitutionalist says:
A very shrewd and distinguished public
man from another part of the State was
conversing here the other day, and gave
utterance to the following comment on the
situation. He said;
“Undoubtedly, the strongest man for
governor with the masses of the people to
day is Colquitt. I do not enjoy his close
friendship. I am impartial between him
aad others. Bat there is one feature in
which his administration is the most suc
cessful the State has ever known, and it
alone is enough to put him back in the
executive chair, if he wishes it. I allude
to the management of the State finances.
I have looked into it thoroughly, and I
tell you it is something astonishing in it3
merit. In the three years of his adminis
tration, the public credit has risen to the
highest point; a floating debt of a third of
a million of dollars has been wiped out;
the rate of taxation has been reduced
nearly one-tbird, saving a quarter of a
million dollars in tax burden; a quarter
of a million of money has been collected
from tbe United States government on
claims that hung up for years upon years,
until he had them pushed through; fully
$150,000 has been collected of back taxes
from railroad*, and half a million from
tbe same source is expected, relieving
tbe popular burdens; tbe expenses of ev
ery department of the State government
have been reduced in accordance with
economies suggested by him in his first
message; and, finally, we see from all
these causes the income of the State so
swelled that not only will the regular in
stalment of the State debt be paid this
year, but tbe governor has funds to re
deem an extra quarter of a million of
State bonds and is now doing it. Talk of
financial success. It is something won
derful what Colquitt’s administration'has
done.
“There is another thing about Colquitt’s
term that is worthy of remark. It has
given him and the State more character
abroad than any administration in half a
century. 'Colpuitt, to-day, is better and
more favorably known over the Union
than the governor of any other State in tbe
Union. These facts cannot be ignored,
and will have a learful weight in the can
vass. There is another practical consid
eration that must not be overlooked. Ev
ery one of the other aspirants is a friend
of Colquitt’s. Lester took a manly and
hold stand in the State Senate, in one of
the finest speeches of the session, for the
full exoneration of the governor in that
vile slander business. Hardeman retired
in his favor in his last campaign and has a
brother in the comptroller general’s office.
Underwood is a pronounced and avowed
friend, and proclaims his regard openly;
while General Gartrell declares his kindly
feeling. _
“It is the merest dictate of ordinary
sense and plain political management for
each of the candidates te prefer Colquitt
to the others. For if Colquitt is re-elected
he will only hold the one term and then
retire. But if either of the others are
elected he will wish a second term, and
the chance to be governor for the others
will be further, ofi'.than if Colquitt is tbe
man. And iu addition to this, Colquitt
and bis friends can defeat any man that
violently antagonizes him.
“I give you this emphatic talk for what it
is worth. The speaker is one of the best
posted mqn in the State, and known to be
an uncommonly sagacious observer of
public events.”
* We stand ready to support any good
citizen that the people unite upon in
convention. That is the duty of every
“organized Democrat,” and without or
ganization and unity there is danger of
defeat.
Miss .Emily Faithful to the Res
cue.—Miss Emily Faithful, who made
such a sensation in this country some
years ago by her efforts to rebuke the
spendthrift propensities of her American
sisters, will return to the United States
in September, and repeat at divers times
and places her celebrated lecture on
“Modem Extravagance, its Causa and
Cure.”
Miss Emily ought to be welcomed by
every impecunious benedict in the coim-'
try, and all the lads, too, who are engaged
to be married, hut on account of slender
salaries and the dressing proclivities of
their sweethearts, are afraid to make the
matrimonial plunge. Let ’er come and
“roll.” ,
Personal.—We are glad to note that
Colonel C. A. Nutting is convalescing
slowly, and able now to ride out. He has
been long and critically ill with a compli
cation of maladies which at one time it
was thought would baffle the skill of the
medical faculty. But thanks to a good
constitution, tender nursing, and proper
treatment, there is every prospect that he
will be fully restored to health. Mr. Nut
ting’s condition is still so feeble - and pre
carious, however, that his family physi
cian has forbidden him to attend to any
business matters whatever at present.
Irish Distress.
Mr. William Thompson, the chairman
of the Dublin relief committee, tliu3
writes to John Wanamaker, chairman of
the Philadelphia citizens’ committee:
I regret exceedingly to have to state
that the distress in many counties appears
to be increasing. The number of appli
cations are tenfold what they were a few
weeks ago, and we are obliged to use
great discretion in dispensing the fund
which you, in your great charity, were
pleased to entrust to us. I have dis
pensed the sixty barrels of corn meal as
indicated at foot, the poor people ot those
localities being solely in want of food.
There is not a shadow of doubt but the
worst is still to come iu some parts of
this unfortuuate island, aud this is tbe
opinion formed by many very experi
enced persons to whom I have spoken on
the subject. I have to advise the after-
mentioned grants dispensed by our com
mittee on Tuesday last. We again meet
on next Tuesday, when, I much fear, the
balance at our disposal will be completely
exhausted.
The Weekly Independent.—We
have received a copy of a thirty-six col
umn paper hearing the above name, pub
lished in New Orleans, by our old-
time friend, Kev. R. J. Harp. - The sub
scription price is only one dollar per an
num—certainly the largest paper in the
South fiprushed for that price. It is ably
edited, for, as a gentleman expressed the
idea, “Harp is a bora editor.”
Mr. Harp will be remembered by hun
dreds of Georgians, when he labored so
earnestly to supply the boys in the field
with Bibles, hymn books and tracts, dur
ing tho late war; and also when he was
editor of the Army and Navy Herald,
published in thi9 city. If any one desires
a first-class weekly paper, let them enclose
a dollar to R. J. Harp, 106 Camp street,
New Orleans, La.
—New York city has 497 churches, a
gain of 98 in the last ten years, and yet
these have accommodations for not more
than a-fourth of the population, should
ail wish to go to. church at once. The
Episcopalians have the largest number of
churches, hut the Catholic churches have
the largest accommodations for their
flocks. There is more than room enough
in the New York churches, it is said,
for the church-going people. New York
er-8 do not belong to the church-going
classes, and it is a sad fact that only a few
of the working people, outside of the
Catholics, ever enter a church, except on
special occasions.
—There can he np doubt about the
genuineness of the conversion of the un
known man who sent $130, m the follow
ing letter, to the War Department: “I
was in the army of the late war, and I did
a great wrong by taking a horse belonging
to the government and sold him and kept
the money. I joined the H. E. Church,
and asked Goa for mercy, and I had to
promise him to pay for the horse, and I did
so, and he forgave my sins, and now I am
able to pay tbe money into your hand, as
it belonged to the government.”
Backing Down.
The Herald, of Monday, reviewing the
developments on the third term question,
looks upon the protest of Blaine in the
controversy with Senator Carpenter, os
tensibly on the Geneva award bill, as a
significant effort to put himself in line
for Grant and the third term, and “cast
an anchor^ to the windward.”' Blaine
fully endorsed Grant’s administrations, of
which he claimed to have been a steady
and uniform supporter, and left a clear
implication that his objection to Grant
rested solely on that violation of prece
dent implied in a third term; and this
was very mildly expressed.
The Herald thinks the third term oppo
sition might £3 well give up now and for
ever, unless they are prepared to make a
square, downright aud tamest fight and
unite upon a common candidate against
the whole proposition. If Blaine’s friends
cannot agree to support Sherman, and
Sherman’s to support Blaine, then let them
■unite on Edmunds, or give up the fight al
together. Grant is gaining on them so fast
that the Presidential race is getting to be
like that of Eclipse—“Eclipse ahead and
the rest nowhere.” They can’t fight the
third term heresy by making provision for
themselves in advance when it triumphs
—like the unfaithful steward who scaled
down his lord’s claims in hope that when
he failed the debtors would receive him
into their homes.
That’s not the way 1 to fight third term
imperialism—and when Thurman who
had listened to this apologetic encofinter
between Blaine and Carpenter, probed the
situation by’ epening with the remark
“the two Senators having set themselves
right on the third term question” the out
burst of laughter from the Senate floor
and galleries showed that the situation
was universally understood.
Tbe anti-third term party i3 diffusing
itself among a brood of lame ducks,
has nb force or point. Every man of
expects to be beaten, and is providing be
forehand a soft nest for himself. If “the
Empire” is not to the mind of the Ameri
can people, they must find some other de
pository of their united negations. The
Republican opposition, as it stands,feeble,
divided and helpless, is practically a sup
port to third term imperialism, because
it emasculates opposition on the part of
the Republicans. It does nothing hut
mischief to its professed purpose, (if hon
estly entertained) to defeat a movement
practically to revolutionize our govern
ment. With the triumph of Grant in the
nominating convention, they will all sub
side quietly into the ranks of the third-
tenners, and throw up their caps lustily
for imperialism.
West Point in Danger.
The New York Tribune, in a cautious, but
very minatory, and suggestive article, hints
to the West Point Academy that it is get
ting on perilous ground, and had better
tread lightly, if it would move at all. It has
not displayed a proper degree of humility
in this 'Whittaker investigation; or rather
in its own investigation in respect to
Whittaker. Says the Tribune :
The trouble seems to spring from the
false estimate which this government
school has long placed upon itself, and
which unthinking people have been in
duced by much iteration to accept. The
average West Point young man considers
himself a great deal better than a civilian,
better educated, better disciplined, more
of a gentleman, incapable of a mean or
cowardly action, the nearest approach to
an aristocrat that is possible in a demo
cratic country. Hence he thinks him*
self much too good to sit on the same
bench with au octoroon, much too good
to have his word called in question or his
conduct investigated, much too good to
be polite even to a man like Mr.
Townsend. His superior officers nurse
this unamiable delusion; and iu the'midst
of the inquiry the major general com
manding issues an absurd order to flatter
the vanity and self-importance of the
corps, and to tell them that the criticisms
aud suspicious of the civilian public are
an outrage to the military order. Gen
eral Schofield is not likely to improve the
temper of such brutal and ill-bred young
men as may be under his charge.
“It is about time,” adds the Tribune,
“to prick this bubble.” Yes,it is about time
to knock iu the head that aristocratic pre
tense of being “incapable of a mean ’or
cowardly action.” We say it with equal
candor, regret and truth, that, so far as
our long observation extends, such a pre
tense in relation to a colored school is
bound to he as hollow and empty as a
bubble; but perhaps it is, after all, a
wholesome delusion to encourage. Pride
of diaracter should not be necessarily of
fensive, even to the Returning Board or
Visiting Statesmen. It, is not necessarily
treasonable to Republican institutions. It
is not essential to liberty or to .imperial
ism that a man should consider himself
“capable of mean and cowardly actions.”
We are glad, iu fact, that West Point en
courages its cadets in the belief that it is
morally impossible in them to lie or steal.
As to the deficiencies in its scientific
and literary training, compared with
New England colleges, we cannot speak;
but of the Tribune's severe animadversion
upon its moral training, based on the as
sumption that Whittaker was actually
mobbed by his fellow cadets, that has
yet to be proved. Should the Republican
partisans justify their muttered threats,
aud abolish the school, it will not cause
au hour’s loss of sleep iu this region; hut
they had better be cool, and wait for the
facts in this case, before offering up that
institution a sacrifice to Congo. No such
proposition has yet been insisted on in
respect to Congress, in which Africa and
America have so far been able to move
along together without a fight. But the
first lesson of the soldier is unquestioning
obedience, and all the cadets who refuse
to learn it should be dismissed. Since
negroes are legally sent to West Point,
they must enjoy the same rights there as
others.
Smrpjxo Silver by Mail.—The
committed on coinage in the lower House
of Congress has reported in favor of re
commending the Secretary of the treasury
to send coin to all the small towns and
villages where there are no banks of de
posit, and change is needed for the neces
sary transaction of business through the^ - _ .
medium of the mails. This will prevent the opinion that
the large'accumulations of coin in the
treasury, which now amount to $21,000,-
000. It would be a great convenience to
the people if this measure could be adopt
ed, and we trust it will go through with
out opposition.
The Western Wheat Crop.—Some
weeks ago tbe Western papers were prog
nosticating an enormous winter wheat
crop, but now say the situation has chang-
The Herald scores District Attorney j gsd, and the crop will be short of the gen-
Townsend’s course in the Whittaker ’ eral average, and that more than half the
case, and thinks that the government. crop has failed in the Western States.
Absolute rest and quiet are pronounced j might well have felt assured of justice in I They are still looking, however, for a fa-
necessary for some time to come in his * court of its own, over which it held 1 vorable change in the condition of spring
.«“•» • • .t.-k-ia®', all control. ‘wheat.
A Heavy Import Trade. j
The last monthly returns show that the
total receipts of foreign merchandize for
the eight months ending March 1st, foot
up $397,300,000, against $2S7,500,000 for
the previous year. A.critical examina
tion of the list, however, establishes the
fact that the increase has been mainly on
free goods and not those that are dutiable.
This shows the baleful working of a
tariff for protection.' On chemicals, dyes,
etc., which are exempt from duty, the
gain is $1,500,000. The importations of
coffee and tea, which are also on the frefl
list, show an increase on the former of
$9,250,000, and in the latter $6,300,000.
Of indigo, $3,000,000 more have been re
ceived; rags $1,000,000, and block and
bar tin $2,300,000.
Now, if all duties, save those sufficient
for the raising of a reasonable revenue,
had been removed, what an immense
amount of cheap goods, covering all the
necessaries as well as the luxuries of life,
might have been placed within the reach
of impecunious American consumers.
But even in dutiable articles there has
been a decided increase, at the expense of
the people, who could not be supplied at
home, and therefore were forced to pur
chase abroad, even with the enormous
tariff superadded.
Thus of iron and steel rails, etc., despite
the boom in prices on this side of the wa
ter, the increase in imports has amounted
to $6,160,000.
So in silk manufactures, the increase
is over $400,000, and in cotton goods $0,-
000,000, albeit every loom and spindle in
the country has been busily at work.
Leather show3 c. gain of $3,000,000, or
over 100 per cent., and the increase of tin
plates has'nearly doubled, amounting to
$5,800,000. *
We trust that this abnormal increase in
our imports may not result in an over
stocked market and consequent loss from
the break in prices, which has already
commenced.
The Best Business in the World.
A gentleman of the highest intelligence,
who cultivates a plantation in Lee county,
netted fifteen percent, on his entire farm
ing capital last year. In this calculation
the land was valued at ten dollars per
acre, and mules, cattle and stock of every
kind placed at a fair estimate. An exact
debit and credit account was kept of all
farm products and expenses, and a bal
ance sheet struck with the above result.
This is better than merchandising, bank
ing or anything else, and infinitely more
independent and satisfactory. Why,
then, do not a larger number of our city
bred youths try their fortunes in the
country? They would make better, hap
pier and more prosperous members of so
ciety on the farm than in the pursuit- of
almost any other vocation.
What a mistake to imagine that'the
profession of the agriculturist is less re
spected and dignified than doctoring the
sick or wrangling in the coqrt room.
The truth is, the farmer is about the
only member of society who dares speak
his candid sentiments upon all questions,
and can afford to vote precisely as he
pleases, without regard for persons or af
terclaps.
Our county fanners’ clubs and State
agricultural society, are doing a great
work for the elevation and enlightenment
the people. God speed them in their of
mission.
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—A four-year-old girl lately made the
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Idyls of the King. By Alfred Tenny
son. Unabridged. New York: Messrs.
I. K. Funk & Co., publishers. Price
20 cents per copy.
This is another publication included in
the “Standard,Series” of Messrs. Funk &
Co.* The Poet Laureate, of England never
wrote anything so exquisitely beautiful as
these Idyls. They have found their way
into the homes of the rich in embossed
and costly binding, but now, thanks to
Messrs. Funk & Co., every cottage may
be embellished with a dopy. It can be
procured from newsdealers in the city.
Bbeadstuffs, com, wheat, fresh meat
and live stock continue to be exported to
Europe in large quantities. Last week,
from the port of New York, alone, an
ocean fleet took away 2,000 head of cattle,
1,700 sheep, 200 hogs, 7,500 quarters fresh
beef, 2,500 carcasses sheep, and 500 dress
ed hogs. In addition, no less than 198,000
bushels of corn and wheat were shipped,
besides heavy amounts of bacon, lard,
butter, pork, oil cake, salt, tobacco, starch,
etc. Verily America is, indeed, the great
store house of the world.
Thr Baptist Convention.—Our
readers will find elsewhere a succinct re
port of the most important proceedings of
the Baptist convention, which has just
concluded its sessions iu Savannah. For
some inexplicable reason the notes of our
regular correspondent failed to come to
hand. We trust nothing of importance,
however, has been omitted.
Gold in East Tennessee.—East Ten
nessee is aflame with gold discoveries near
the North Carolina line, where the people
daily exhibit their washings and their dig
gings of the day before, and it is said
every evidence points to the fact that the
gold exists in quantities to bring rich re
ward to the workers.
Thh Tariff!
ington telegraphic
£ Tribune's Wash-
ipondent4kpresses
ways and means
committee will yet report a blH decreasing
tariff duties on some articles a little—for
example, on steel rails a cent a pound.
North Carolina.—The sixteen dele
gates from North Carolina are reported to
stand thirteen for Sherman and three for
Grant.
—A letter received in Columbia last
week says that ex-Govemor Chamberlain,
formerly of South Carolina, has been pro
nounced insane by his physicians.
Endorsed by the faculty. The repu
tation of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup has been
solely achieved on account of its merits.
* Physicians prescribe it.
—A Washoe man was recently tried for
stealing milk from a neighbor’s cow at
night. The jury, after mature delibera
tion, returned a verdict of “guilty of milk
ing & cow in the first degree.”
—The youngPrinces, Albert Victor and
George, sons of the Prince of Wales, havo
been promoted to the rank of midship
men, with a consequent increase of pay
from one shilling to one and ninepence a
day.
—Lord Beaconsfield figures as Hamlet
in one of Tenniel’s latest cartoons in
Punch. He has received the returns from
borough and county, and with eyes roll
ing fairly out of their sockets and a grim
ace which seems to Indicate retchings im
mediately behind the imperial decorations
on his breast, mutters to himself, “To he,
or not to be—that is the question.”
How Alabama Feels About It.—
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail lias
received 3,700 answers to circulars ad
dressed to Alabamians, asking an expres
sion of their preference in the matter of
a Presidential candidate. Of these let
ters 759 name Thurman; G15 Hancock;
725 Bayard; 271 Seymour; 285 Hendricks;
231 the nominee; 341 Tilden, and the re
mainder scattered.
—Secretary Dick Thompson finds that
western hoys do not make as good seamen
as he anticipated; as seven-tenths of those
he persuaded to enlist are now terribly
homesick and their friends are constantly
besieging him- ibr their dischaige. He has
about decided to take further naval re
cruits from the Atlantic seaboard cities, as
heretofore, and will probably abandon his
idea of sending a. man-of-war to St. Louis
for recruiting purposes.
—The West Point outrage, says the
Wilmington Review, is still as much &
mystery as it, ever was. The investiga
tion thus far has produced nothing re
liable, but it has just about readied that
stage wherein, there will be found people
who, to secure a little temporary notoriety,
will coin strange stories and make dark,
innuendoes which-it will only take an
hour or two- to explode. We still think
that Whittaker was the author ot the out
rage on himself.
—As to the sea island crop iu Florida,
a letter to the Jacksonville Hews says the
prospect for a sea island crop is indeed
“blue.” No county iu the east has a stand
of cotton; the wet weather last fall ruined
the seed, and they can’t be had for love
nor money. Farmers are writing from
middle Florida for seed. I have just
bought fifty bushels of short seed for the-
negroes, aud made them plough up their
long cotton (their stands are 30 bad) and
plant short cotton. The prospect is the
poorest we have had for twenty years.
—On taking possession of the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad the Louisville-
and Nashville management found a half
dozen or mere engines which were fit only
for the scap heap, and they were taken t»
Louisville and sold to junk dealers. Two-
of them—a fact of which the management
were not aware—had copper fire boxes,,
from which the junk dealers realized
some $2,000 more than they would had
the, engines been iron, as was supposed
when the purchase was made.
Washington special to the New York
Herald: Matters have now got to such a
pass with some of tbe Republicans that
they seem ready to commit their party to
any absurdity, provided only that the
Democrats oppose it. It certainly seems-
foolish for the party to go into a close
election burdened with a policy of using
troops at the polls and making the most
disreputable selections for election mar
shals, and there are Republicans who see
this, but there are others who think “the
people will stand anything,” and they act
accordingly.
