Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188?, April 30, 1880, Image 4

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Criegrnpfl nuh JItesEitgBr 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. 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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.