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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 16S0.
HUBDARD’S FBDmBf Advertiser Is
one of the neatest publications in the Un
ion. It is filled brim-full with informa
tion to the craft. It is published in New
Haven, Connecticut.
—“Tell me, Dennis, what is Social
ism?” “Listen. This is Socialism. You
and I go into a beer shop. You offer to
stand treat and you pay for it; then I offer
to stand treat and you again pay for it.”
“Yes, but what if I am a Socialist too?”
“Then the beer shelter must pay.” “But
suppose he is a Socialist also?” “Then
we’ll clear out.”
—The prevalence of terrific and, in our
day unprecedented storms, says the Nash
ville American, goes far toward confirm
ing the belief that there are planetary
disturbances of an unusual nature. It is
strange that these old planets can’t get to
gether without conceding mischief and in
terfering with the meteorology of this
planet. Saturn especially ought to be
ashamed of himself after all that he has
been through with.
—“The Judge,” said Mr. Evarts,alluding
to O’Connor, “wants a strong government.
What can we do for him, Mr. Merrick?”
•“Well,” replied Mr. Merrick, “I don’t
see what better he can do than renominate
Hayes. He fills a place to which he was
never elected, and that certainly is a veiy
unusual sign of strength.’
Mr. Evarts tried a faint laugh, and then
asked what the house would do about the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
The Fall in Prices.—The New York
Commercial Bulletin publishes a table of
leading articles showing their market
value for the first four months of the pres
ent year. By this comparison it is shown
that the decline in prices is fully equal to
fifteen per cent. This should set our mer
chants to thinking, and induce increased
vigilance, industry and circumspection on
their part. With proper care there is no
danger of a panic or financial collapse.
“Gentlemen, you are in the hands of
the sheriff,” said the judge to the “addi
tion, division and silence” crowd, when
they remonstrated against the penitentia
ry. The fact is, so muny people dressed
in store clothes are now caught stealing,
that the judges feel compelled to be polite.
“My dear sir,” said the polite Sheriff Ran
dolph, to the man he hung, when ad
justing the noose, “I am awkward, but
have a little patience, and I wiil fix it all
comfortable for you.”
Gobtschakoff Recovering.—Prince
Gortscbakoff, the Russian Chancellor, who
must be nearly ninety years old, is re
ported to be recovering irom his recent at
tack of pneumonia. A Paris dispatch
to the Herald represents him as in
high spirits, chatty and bumorsome.
We sent for a hairdresser, who cut
his hair and shaved him. The
hairdresser, however, cut him slightly on
the chin. The Prince said to him, ‘For
the first time in fifty years I did not shave
myself to-day, and the consequence is that
I have been cut. I am therefore right in
refusing to employ a barber.’ Since the
commencement of his illness the Prince
has lived entirely isolated from politics.”
—Witchcraft in Russia is a profitable
occupation, but accompanied by great dan
gers. Last year, near the city of Tikhvin,
woman was burned as a witch.
Now, in the city of Saratoff, a whole peas
ant family is to be tried for the murder of
a sorcerer. The circumstances of the case
are these: A peasant known to be a sor
cerer was invited to a wedding ceremony,
and treated with the utmost attention, in
order to dispose him in favor of the young
couple. The conjurer, however, looked
dissatisfied, and when the young pair
were lying at his feet supplicating his
mercy, the mother of the young bride
instantly began to cry out as one possessed
with an evil spirit. This was looked upon
as a bad sign for the newly-wedded couple,
and their relatives fell on the sorcerer,
killed him on the spot, and mutilated his
body so shockingly that it could hardly be
identified.
—A vagrant as3, says the San Antonio
Herald, stood beside the track of the Sun
set railway at the depot this morning; an
engine moved slowly up; it stopped with
in a few feet of the ass, and the engineer
blew one of those terrible screams, pro
longed and ear-piercing; such a blast as
makes a sleeping Millerite dream of the
dav of judgment. Did the ass scare? Not
worth a cent! Did he shake the sloth
from his limbs, erect his tail and speed
away like the asses of Bassorah, faster
than the Bedouin coursers run, back to
the chaparral? No, he didn’t. He turnpd
one car towards the engine just as a deaf
man uses his tin ear-trumpet, and caught
every particle of the sound. And when
the steam-blawn whistle ceased its notes,
and all the echoes died away, the animal
straightened out his neck, opened his
mouth, and in a voice that deafened all the
railroad men and caused the freight clerk
to drop his pen, roared: “I can’t! I can’t!
I can’t! I can’t! be beat! be beat! be beat!
be beat! I c-a-n-’t be-be-be-be beat!”
Tilden and the Original Jacobs.
—A Washington dispatch to the World
lays down the facts in the caso thus:
“Governor Tilden will at the proper time
withdraw as a candidate before the na
tional convention. It goes to say that
both personal and political reasons con
tribute to this result. Ex-Govemor Rob
inson, who heads the delegation, will of
coarse be his mouthpiece in the conven
tion. It is a knowledge of these facts
which induced Senator Jacobs, chairman
of the Syracuse convention, to assert in
his place in the State Senate on Thursday
that the Democracy of New York would
be united in November.
Mr. Tilden's choice as a candidate is, it
is believed, Henry B. Payne, of Ohio.
The World some time ago, it will be re
membered, in an Interview with Colonel
Harm-’n, sent from here, announced that
Mr. Fayne was- Mr. Tilden’s - choice after
himself. The same local paper to-day,
publishes an interview with Congressman
Coffrotli, of Pennsylvania, in the course
of which, in reply to the question whether
the Pennsylvania convention would de
clare for Tilden, he is represented as say
ing, “No, Sir. We intend to send an in
dependent, umnstructed delegation com
posed of our very best men to Cincinnati
to select for us a candidate who can be
elected. My choice for the nomination is
Seymour. I believe my personal prefer
ence is Hendricks, but the eastern people
are so touchy on the financial question
that he might not suit them. The con
vention will be largely against him. I
want to see our party in Pennsylvania and
New York harmonized. I’m for harmony,
and am willing to make concessions
to bring it about. I say, let Tammany
and alj Democrats into the party. Let’s
rebaptize all of them into the Democratic
faith.”
The Chicago Convention.
According to the New York Sun's
count (27tb instant,) 380 of the 738 dele
gates to the Chicago convention had been
cbosen, who represented for Grant 218
votes; for Blaine 110; for Sherman 25;
for Edmunds 24, and for Washburn 3—
giving Grant a majority of 56 overall
The State conventions now, however, are
rapidly wheeling into line, and the count
changes from day to day.
The Sun thinks that the chances of
Grant’s getting a majority are against
him; but we believe that to be a mistake,
Grant’s backers know what they are
about. They are fierce, determined and
uncompromising. Having made up their
minds to run this goverment on imperial
principles, nothing short of a strong pop
ular negative is going to stop them; and
it has got to be very strong and decisive at
that. No such feeble and puerile opposi
tion as the Republican party is now set
ting up on the divided candidacies of
Blaine, Sherman & Co. is going to stop
the career of the man on horseback to dy
nastic power.
The whole American people are obliged
to meet this grave proposition with all
the solemn earnestness its importance de
mands. If they are ready for the mo
mentous change, well and good. They
are on the high way to it. But if they
desire the continuance of constitutional
popular government, they have a heavy
struggle before them.
Retailing Liquors.—The Wesleyan
Christian Advocate copies and commeuts
upon some liquor statistics copied from
the report of Internal Revenue Com
missioner Green B. Raum. By these it
appears that in the six New England
States there are 11,940 Jicensed retailers
of spirituous liquors, and in the six South
ern States of Georgia, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and
Texas, 13,981. The population of New
England by the census of 1870 was 3,487,-
724; and of the six Southern States enu
merated 5,334,-812.
The Advocate thinks, and is proba
bly correct in its opinion, that the popula
tion of these Southern States in 1879
doubled that of New England.
The figures are surprising. That New
England, with all her prohibitory legisla
tion should number not far from twice as
many liquor retailers as these Southern
States, (according to population), is a
strange fact, which must have its lesson.
And if we consider what proportion of
these licenses in the South represented
mere road corners concerns, with a trifling
business, the case becomes still more re
markable. We do not wish to draw any
uncomplimentary inferences from the
facts to the New England States. There
too much liquor drinking all over the
country. But certainly the fashion the
Northern papers have of habitually speak
ing of the Southern ■ people as pre-emi
nently intemperate, should be abated.
Mb. Goldwin Smith on the Thibd
Term.—The advocates of a third term
pretend to believe that it would be no
change of the constitution. On this
point, perhaps, the judgment of dispas
sionate onlookers is as likely to be true
as that of enthusiastic partisans. Were a
civilian re-elected for administrative mer
it there would merely be a breach of a
tradition too long established to be lightly
broken; but if a soldier were re-elected,
not for administrative merit, of which
Gen. Grant is notoriously devoid, but as
‘strongman"—in other words, as a mil
itary rider and possible dictator—to say
that there was no change of the constitu
tion would be absurd. There might be
none of its letter, but there would be a
serious change of its spirit. Nor do the
more outspoken of the third termers
shrink from avowing that tliej» are for a
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh term, as
well as for a third. In other words, they
are in favor of a military presidency for
life, which, after the long disuse of elec
tion, might pass more readily into dynas
tism than they imagine. If society can
be saved from confusion onlv by a man
on horseback, a man on horseback it must
have; but let it at least see what it is do
ing.
The Calcutta Markets.—The cap
tain of a vessel just arrived at New York
from Calcutta, communicates some facts
of importance with regard to the rapid
changes in the tone of the markets in that
quarter. For several years past it has
been extremely difficult to obtain a char
ter at Calcutta at all. Tonnage accumu
lated, and vessels waited months to obtain
cargo. The rate to New York in Sep
tember last was $4, but in one month it
advanced to $12, with vessels in demand
and chartered' before arrival. The change
was caused by better demand for goods
and abundant crops, but it took shipping
people there by surprise, with the excep
tion of a few brokers, who took advantage
of their superior knowledge to engage a
number of vessels at a low rate just pre
vious to the advance. In the case of the
captain’s vessel, the advance made a dif
ference of $20,000 in his freight money.
He say3 there was a great scarcity of ice
in Calcutta when he left.
A More Cheerful Crop Outlook in Eu
rope.
The latest advices by mail from France,
Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany and
Hungary, are all exceedingly favorable as
to the present condition of tho growing
cereal crops. The weather has been
warm and balmy, and the wheat does not
appear to have undergone serious injury
from the severity of the past winter.
Should the harvest prove satisfactory, and
in this country, also, the enormous acre
age laid down in wheat approximate the
yield of last year, there will be bread and
to spare on both continents another sea
son. This is a consummation devoutly to
be wished for.
The year 1880 will be ever memorable
for the famines in Ireland, India,and Bra
zil.
It is difficult to see what the starving
Old World could have done without the
teeming supplies which have been forth
coming from the abundance of the New.
Fleets of ships have been kept in constant
motion, wafting across the ocean the food
for which all Europe was clamoring. Ver
ily, the discoverer ol America is entitled
to a thousandfold more fame than Alex
ander, Bonaparte and all the renowned
captains of history. They caused the death
of millions by their cruel wars: Columbus
opened up a continent as the result of his
eventful voyage across the Atlantic, which
is now the abode of freedom and the high
est civilization, and a priceless blessing to
the overcrowded nations of the Old
World.
The spring thus far has been, on the
whole, propitious to food crops and “gar
den truck,” so-called. Tne frequent and
generally light rains in Middle Georgia
have given com a promising start, and
vegetables are growing finely. Irish
potatoes have attained the standard eat
ing size of a hen’s egg. Green peas and
asparagus are abundant and snaps begin
ning to appear. We are speaking of
home productions. The Florida vege
tables of these sorts, and even tomatoes
and cucumbers, are common. We got
the following yesterday:
. Macon, Ga., April 29, 1830.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger-Gen
tlemen : Judge Amow, of 8t. Marys,
Ga., sends us a few of the celebrated
Spanish onions, and requests us to send
you one as a sample. They are not fully
matured, but are of delicious flavor.. Try
the sample aud say wliat you think of
them. Yours, respectfully,
J. F. Gbeeb & Son.
Accompanying this note was a solitary
onion, thirteen and a half inches in cir
cumference, and weighing twenty-two
Northern Methodist General
Conference.—This body meets in Cin
cinnati next week, inquadrennial session.
It represents over two millions of member
ship. Georgia will be represented by the
following delegates: E. J. Fuller, of At
lanta, clerical; Lewis D. Ellington, of
Lawrencerille, layman; C. O. Fisher, of
Atlanta, clerical; W. H. Cragman, of At
lanta, layman. Atlanta in this, as in all
other big things, has the lion’s share.
Washburne, avowing his third
term preference, says he sees nothing in
outcry about it. Other people “see
the
millions in it.”
Fan in the Senate.
The Whittaker case has given rise to
series of very awkward and spasmodic ef
forts among the Republicans in Congress
to appropriate the suspected feud among
the white and negro cadets, in some way
not very clear, to use as party capital
Senator Allison, of Iowa, undertook the
job early on Monday last, and introduced
an amendment in an appropriation bill
directing tbe President to select aud ap
point two of the ten cadets at large annu
ally appointed, from the colored men
The amendment drew out a few objec
tions and suggestions from Mr. Maxey
and Mr. Hamlin, which Mr. Allison eas
ily met, and then Mr. Cockrell, of Mis
souri, in a most impressive and deliberate
manner, rose and' said:
“I am utterly astonished at the position
taken by the Senator from Iowa. The
country knows how kindly the President
feels towards the colored race. Delega
tions of colored people have called upon
him, and he has expressed his kindness
towards them, and shown them a circular
issued to the heads cf departments re
quiring them to recognize the colored ele
ment in appointments to office, and with
that before him the Senator from Iowa
comes and asks a Democratic Congress to
take the executive by the throat and com
pel him to recognize the colored people of
this country in appointments made by
him. He asks the Democratic party to
compel the Republican executive to ap
point colored cadets to West Point.
“Why, sir, is it possible that a distin
guished Republican Senator will rise in
uis seat and ask such a thing at the hands
of a Democratic Senate? Members of
Congress have the right to appoint cadets
at West Point. Nearly one-half of the
members of the House are members of
the party in sympathy with the Republi
can executive. They have, the right to
appoint colored cadets there, and the Sen
ator from Iowa might just as well ask
Congress to put a proviso in this bill com
pelling the representatives from the differ
ent States to appoint from the colored
people. Mr. President, I cannot think
that the Senator from Iowa is in earnest.
I cannot think that he would so
reflect upon his Republican executive
and upon his Republican party and the
record which they have been making for
so many years. It is an admission to the
country that they are not recognizing the
colored element. I have feen it stated that
the colored element will ask forVice-Presi
dent’s position in the coming contest. I
suggest that the Senator insert an amend
ment in this bill, compelling tbe National
Republican convention, when it meets in
Chicago, to nominate a colored man for
Vice-President. They constitute nearly
one-half of the voters of tho Republican
party, and I think that the party ought to
recognize them. But it ought .not to
come to the Democratic party for
compulsory measures to make them do
what they otherwise ought to do.”
Having thus delivered his protest Mr.
Cockrell resumed his seat with the re
lieved air of one who had performed con
scientiously au arduous duty. The Senate
was for a moment stunned at such a sally
from such a quarter, and Mr. Allison
shifted uneasily in his seat, blushing like
a schoolboy. After a rather awkward pause
some one on one of the retiring sofas ex
ploded in a guffaw which set the floor and
galleries roaring. The amendment wont
over.
The British Political Revolution.
The victory of the Liberals at the re
cent election, says the Baltimore Sun,
was so unexpected and so astounding that
until some analysis of the vote could be
had, it seemed difficult to account for it.
Looking back to the condition of the
country six years ago, it becomes
quite evident that the Beaconsfield minis
try entered upon office under very trying
circumstances. It was at the beginning
of that depression of trade which contin
ued throughout the whole period of Con
servative rule. The ministry was almost
immediately subjected to the troubles,
perplexities and anxieties growing out of
the Turko-Russian war. When peace was
patched up by the treaty of Berlin, war
broke out in Zululand, and before that
was brought to a close the British troops
were fighting their way through the passes
of Afghanistan. All these agitating
events, not unaccompanied as they were
by some serious disasters, bad their effect
upon the recent elections.
But the principal cause of tli6 Conser
vative overthrow was the development of
a democratic spirit among those electors
whom Mr. Disraeli created when he
forced his reluctant party to vote tor
household suffrage. The late Lord Der
by vehemently protested against it, and
declared it to be, in a phrase now famous,
“A leap in the dark.” But the law was
passed, and a few months later the elec
tion resulted in putting the Liberals out
of office and the Conservatives in, with
Mr. Disraeli (since become Lord Beacons
field) at their head.
Six years has passed since then, and
the very voters to whom he had opened
the suffrage, and on whose support he
seems to have relied, cast their votes at
tbe last election against him, cither as
Liberals or as Radicals. In the Glad
stone parliament of 1868 the Liberals, as
Mr. Labouchere has pointed out, were in
the majority. In the Parliament to as
semble a few weeks hence, the Radicals
constitute the majority. So great has
been tbe change in the political situation
since household suffrage was granted, that
through the action of the newly imported
“caucus” system and skillful organiza
tion and leadership, tbe Democratic spirit
has been strengthened, and will be felt for
the first time as a power in the incoming
Parliament.
Mb. Hendricks is not willing to play
“second fiddle” again this year to any
body, as a mere candidate for the vice
presidency. He wants the “whole or
nothing”—to continue to be a high private
in the Democratic ranks rather than ad
mit his inferio'rity to the great leaders of
his party. And so we go.
Big Frauds—Bogus Emigrants.
It has turned un that the band of color
ed emigrants from Arkansas who for some
weeks have been snugly quartered upon
their people in New York, while waiting
to start for Liberia, are nothing but laza-
roni and conning deceivers. They are
unwilling to work even for high wages.
An exchange says:
One stalwart guest was offered sixteen
dollars a mouth and his board if-he would
work, but he declined, and luxuriously
expressed his preference for lounging
about the bouse where the rest are idling,
and for being treated as company. So it
was with a number of others. But that
is not the worst of it. One of the leaders
of this poverty-stricken crowd was a day
or two ago detected in drawing from the
inner lining of his coat a large roll of bills
and deliberately counting the same.
Even after this be declared that he had
not a dollar to bless himself with. An
other, equally poor in spirit amd appar
ently poverty-stricken as to means, was
found to he engaged in a speculation
Breaking the Machines in Nsw
Tork.
A Gleam
in
bacon. He was going to "supply those
who should go to Liberia with enough of
this useful article of diet to keep them in
sandwiches during the voyage. It was
moreover found that others of these chil
dren of poverty were nicely provided
with funds and were more able to take
care of themselves than their hosts were
to take care of them. Therefore there is
a sudden change in the circumstances of
the gentlemen and ladies from Arkansas.
Their kind friends announce that accord
ing to a prevalent custom in New York
they will please to consider the first of
May moving day. By that time they are
expected to be res.dy to betake themselves
to other quarters. Failing in makiug the
needed arrangements they will be put out
into the street bag and baggage.
Now this is shocking treatment, to be
sure, of tbe poor darkies. Can the ku-
klux have settled in New York ?
Facts for onr Colored Friends to Con
sider.
The Philadelphia Times says:
The outcome of the Georgia Republican
convention shows what an unequal race
the negroes have with the few white men
who train in the same political party.
They supply about ninety per cent., at a
rough estimate, of the Republican votes
cast in Georgia, and they are overwhelm
ingly and notoriously in favor of Grant,
and yet their convention was captured
and the spoils divided so as to give Grant
a small minority of the delegation to Chi
cago. Had they not made a demonstra
tion during the absence of the managers
on committee duty, and demanded an
equitable representation of their race in
the delegation, it is probable that they
would not have secured half as much as
they did. As it is, the carpet-baggers
will do tbe bargaining for Georgia’s"vote
at Chicago, and pay the negroes what they
please.
This is nothing but the simple truth,
and the obvious moral sucli men as Jell'
Long, Wright, Deveaux, Pledger and oth
ers, will not be slow to point. Their
white confederates only court their alli
ance for personal and selfish ends. And
so will it be, too, when the army of Inde
pendents comes bumming around, asking
tbe “dear man and brother” for help, for
sooth, to elect men who would scout the
charge of being in sympathy with them,
But the colored people are beginning to
realize the “true inwardness” of the situa
tion and cannot be duped as extensively
as hitherto. They will organize and ope
rate for themselves in preference to any
such delusive game hereafter.
The Western Whirlwinds.
The past four days, says the Herald,
will long be remembered by the inhabi
tants of the central portions of the
country on accpunt of the terrible atmos
pheric convulsions experienced by them
during that short period. On the 23d the
Herald weather bureau called attention
to the advance of a large depression from
the northwest, and then stated the electri
cal disturbances would be developed as it
moved eastward. Its progress was closely
watched and warnings given from day to
day that tornadoes would be experienced
throughout the central valleys.
We print to-day dispatches from Ten
nessee, Illinois, Georgia and Mississippi
telling of the dreadful havoc made by
those terrible storms, which, * although
they are of short duration and are felt
over comparatively small sections of
country, sweep everything that comes in
tbeir way, and leave in their tracks tbe
most harrowing scenes of death and des
truction. During the one that was ex
perienced in Mississippi over twenty peo-
ile were killed outright and thirty-two
njured. The force of the wind may be
imagined when thirteen loaded cars were
lifted completely from the railroad track
and houses blown to atoms. To foretell
the approach or development of such des
tructive phenomena should be made the
study of the people paid from the nation
al Treasury. That their prediction is
possible has been fully demonstrated by
tbe Herald weather bureau on this and
former occasions. A network of stations
throughout the regions usually affected
and the careful study of the electrometer,
together with the other meteorological in
struments, is all that is necessary.
Caving In.
What were called lime sinks used to be
not very uncommon in Florida; hut they
are something novel in the up-country.
The Chattanooga Times, of the 22d inst.,
tells of one at Lakeside, eight mile3 from
that city, where the ground in a level
field suddenly gave way and formed
deep lake, 200 feet in length and 75 feet
in width, the shape of a figure eight. The
ilace where the sink occurred was former-
y used as a deer stand; here, under high
trees, the hunters waited as the deer were
driven from the mountain side. The
trees were from 50 to 75 feet in height.
The tops are now 25 feet below the sur
face of the ground.
A few hours after the occurrence of the
phenomenon, some farmers were passing,
and noticed that water was gradually ris
ing in the deep sinlc. It was then fully
1(H) feet to the bottom, and the trees, and
all vegetation were standing deep under
the ground, just as they formerly stood.
It seemed as if the ground had been care
fully cut out and then sunk, for tbe sides
are. perfectly perpendicular, and the
ground was unbroken in the fall, and ex
ists just as before. Evidently there was
some extensive cave under the place, and
the ground, rendered very heavy by the
frequent rains of the past few weeks,
overcame the resistance and * caved in.
The water is slowly rising, and has al
ready nearly reached the surface. It is
clear as crystal. There is no surface
communication at all with either river or
creek. There must be an underground,
stream flowing through the . immense
cave, which has at last found an outlet. •
There are other deep depressions near
at hand, which evidently caved in years
ago. The farmers gaze on the bottomless
pit, so lately formed, with undisguised
fear, and seem to apprehend a caving in
of the whole locality. They will give
that vicinity a wide berth in future.
of Hope for Better
Things.
We print elsewhere a telegram to the
Chicago Times which holds out the hope
of Democratic reconstruction in New
York, on Democratic principles. The
Nashville American, of the 29th nit.,
says:
A movement is on foot in New York to
call a new convention under the terms of
the call for the national convention, of all,
“irrespective of past political associations
and differences, who can unite with us,”
to appoint delegates to Cincinnati. It is
headed by August Belmont, Senator Ker-
nan, an ardent Tilden man in 1870,
Judge Comstock, ex-Attorney General
Pratt, Amasa J. Parker, Seymour, Ruger
and others, the best of the leading men in
New York. The defection of Jacobs has
been followed by that of McLaughlin, of
Brooklyn, leader in Kings county and
thoroughly honest man. There is an ev-
dent popular protest against all machines,
Tammany and Irving hall, and a desire
that the popular voice shall be heard.
This is tlie same story that comes by
way of Chicago, and all American De
mocracy will unite in bidding the move
ment God-speed. It is time that the
great Empire State of the Union were set
ting an example and exercising an influ
ence more worthy of her august position
in the federacyof the United States. To
do this effectually the Democracy of New
York must begin at the beginning—go
back to her constituent elements and
make (as we understand this proposition
to contemplate) a solemn appeal to the
people.
Leaders who. have so many private
grievances to redress, that they cannot
agree on any general basis of organiza
tion against the common foe, are power
less for good and potent only for evil
The effort to harmonize them only dis
tracts and embitters. The proper course
is to set them aside and revert to primary
and original authority.
New York should lead off in the great
struggle for a pure republican govern
ment; but as tho case stands she has be
come an incubus on tbe energies of its
friends, throwing an odor of defeat on all
their efforts. It is high time that the
Democrats in that great State, who value
the government more than cliques, juntos
and factions, should take the bull by the
horns and command the peace.
Mr. Tilden never had any personal
popularity in the Southern States. His
sole strength as a candidate lay in the
popular impression that, as a man of per
fect integrity, he would institute in the
government at Washington the thorough
reform and purgation which it was gener
ally conceded he had established in the
State of New York. It is useless to deny
that this Idea of him does not now exist
in its original force, and this is the reason
why the South refuses to press him for
re-election.
We believe a single aspiration in refer
ence to the coming Presidential election
now possesses the intelligent mind of this
country with overwhelming forth. It is,
that the candidate shall not be a machine
politician, but shall embody and represent
the patriotic aspirations of the country,
after a purer government, a nobler and
more patriotic order of things. The peo
ple are wearied of drivelling, peddling,
trading politics. They want a man.of
noble and patriotic impulses—able to rise
to the height ot his great mission, at the
head of the grand republic of the world,
and that the government shall henceforth
cease to run the partisan pot-kouse3. The
lower order of political fry on either
side may be slow to apprehend this senti
ment, but in a struggle against Grant
imperialism, it will be fortunate for
the Democracy if they are able to recog
nize and take advantage of it. It existed
four years ago and actually elected Til
den. It is stronger now, and demands a
man of high mould—not a machine poli
tician—not a peddling party strategist,
but a noble specimen of manhood; and
tbe less mired in partizan complications
the better. It demands a clean ticket—
pledged to a revival of pure, republican
traditions and usages. The country
should meet tbe empire under tbe standard
of an exalted republicanism.
Imprisoned in a Trunk.—A singular
discovery was recently made in Styria.
Some woodcutters felled a venerable oak
in'the forest of Drommling. It was found
to be hollow, aud was soon broughtto the
ground with a crash. A human skele
ton, in excellent preservation, was disj
closed. Even the boots, which came
above the knee, were almost perfect. By
its side was a powder horn, a porcelain
pipe-bowl and a silver watch, on which
was engraved the name “H. Yon Kracko-
witz, 1812.” The teeth were perfect. It
was the skeleton of a man betwen thirty
and forty years of age. It is conjectured
that, while engaged in hunting, he climb
ed the tree for some purpose, and slipped
incautiously into the hollow trunk, from
which there was no release, 'and he prob
ably died of starvation.
Louisville and Nashville Bailroad.
IV e make the following summary of the
earnings of the Louisville and Nashville
Company, for the year ending Juno 30,
1879. The gross earnings of the main
stem and branches amount to $5,3S7,611.
The whole number of miles in this, com
bination is 978. The main line from Lou
isville to Nashville is only 185 miles In
length. Its gross earnings amount to
$2,341,877, or $12,655 per mile.
The recent acquisitions of this compa
ny, consisting of the following: Mobile
and Montgomery, Pensacola, New
Orleans and Mobile; St. Louis
and Southeastern, with the ' Ten-
:e and Kentucky divisions,
and the Nashville and Chattanooga rail
roads, aggregate 1,176 miles in running
order. Their gross income only amounts
to $4,4S9,S85. The highest figure reached
per mile was by tho New Orleans and
Mobile road, $4,772. The grand total of
net earnings of all tbe roads ynder the
control of the company, amoimts to $3,-
464,000. The average per mile net earn
ings is only $1,611. We gather these fig
ures from the New York American Ex
change. ■■
—Temple Bar is to be replaced by a
handsome memorial, to be erected in the
middle of tho roadway, and adorned with
the statues if her Majesty and the Prince
of Wales. The monument is to serve as
refuge in the roadway for foot passen
gers, and the two niches hewn out to re
ceive the statues will be surrounded by
magnificent bronze lamps. Old Temple
Bar will be re-erected in Epping Forest.
The stones have been numbered, so that
it may present exactly the same appear
ance as when serving as a harrier to the
encroachments of the royal power by de
fending tbe city entrance against tbe sover
eign, and marking tbd limit beyond which
no royal edict could take effect unless
sanctioned by the mayor.
Postmaster General Key.—Judge
Trigg of the United States District Court
of Tennessee died last' Sunday. . Applica
tions for the vacancy have already been
filed in the White House. It is said that
the place will be given to Postmaster-
GeneralKey. Mr. Key would probably
fill the place satisfactorily. He has a
large family, and is said to be dependent
upon his labor for its support. An active
business life is not suited to his indolent
temperament, and it woul j be a cliarita-
act on Mr. Hayes’ part'to provide a
flue place for Mr. Key before the present
administration dies.
NEW YORK TO REORGANIZE.
Democrats After a New Beal
A New York special telegram to the
Chicago Tribune, says the' dissatisfaction
6f the anti-Tilden men over the results of
.the recent Democratic State convention
taking positive form. Judge William C.
Ruger, who led the war against the sage
of Grammercy in that body, with the en
couragement of a number of leading
Democrats—among others Judge Sanlord
E. Church and Senator Francis Kernan—
is now engaged organizing a movement
which will probably eventuate in calling
another State' convention, to send del
egates to Cincinnati.
The project is suggested as tho only
means of uniting the Democracy of New
York next fall. Provided it is found that
the convention would be a truly repre
sentative one, it will be called, probably
within tbe next fortnight. The delegates
would be elected under a call of the na
tional committee, addressed to all persons
“irrespective of past political associations
or differences, who can unite with us,”
etc., such call to be issued over the signa
tures and by the authority of prominent
and representative Democrats in all
parts of the State. "
Such a call, it is claimed, would be
hailed wjth enthusiasm by a large major
ity of the Democratic party of tbe State,
and would serve to harmonize the fac
tions now warring against each other in
tbe party. Tbe action of the State com
mittee in restricting their call for the State
convention to Democratic, electors “and
all others who intend to support the nom
inees of the Democratic national conven
tion,” fell far short of the broad terms of
tbe national call. The delegation to Cin
cinnati would probably be beaded by Ho
ratio Seymour, and would consist of dele
gates of the character of Judge T. Com
stock and ex-Attorney General Daniel
Pratt, of Syracuse; Senator Francis Ker
nan, of Utica; Amnsa J. Parker, of Al
bany; August Belmont and David Dudley
Field, of New York, and others. Judge
Ruger left to-day to consult with Judge
Church regarding the plan.
The Western Wheat Crop,
Apropos of the discouraging reports in
the newspapers about the Western wheat
crops, we find the following in the New
York Sun of the 2Sth, from its correspond
ent, Eli Perkins, who writes on the train
going west. We do not doubt tbe sub
stantial truth of tbe correspondent’s re
port:
In passing across tbe continent and
back, I am impressed with three things—
the splendid wheat crop, tbe opposition of
the voting Republicans to Grant’s candi
dacy, and the bad agricultural outlook for
poor Kansas.
The wheat crop in New York and
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana and Missouri, has" not looked
better in twelve years past. In fact, with
in the last twelve days I have been in
each of these States, aud I have not yet
seen a single .poor piece of wheat. Then,
again, the acreage is alarmingly increased.
In many places a half more wheat is in
than ever before.. Vanderburg county,
Indiana, m which Evansville is situated,
is almost wholly given up to wheat; Posey
county is one continuous wheat field, and
Gibson county, north of Evansville, will
iroduce 3,000,000 bushels. Southern II-
inois is almost entirely surrendered to
wheat. Tbe millers say that Madison
county will produce 2,700,000 bushels
this year, St. Clair 2,250,000, and Jersey
and Green counties, and, in fact, all of
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri in
the same proportion.
Old prairie bottom lands around Cham
pagne and Tuscola and Effingham, on
which wheat never used to be raised, are
now loaded down with it. A dozen crops
of corn have reduced the rich alluvial
prairie soil so that it now yields tremen
dous crops of wheat, where ten years ago
nothing but corn or wheat straw could be
raised. The wheat iu Ohio and Michigan
could not look better, and everywhere the
acreage is increased. The only damaged
wheat to be found are a few pieces of
winter wheat in Wisconsin and Northern
Iowa, which have already been ploughed
up and spring wheat substituted, and in
Western Kansas.
Last spring I estimated tbe growing
wheat crop for the Sun at 470,000,000
bushels, and the crop measured up about
that. This year I estimate the growing
wheat crop at 550,000,000 bushels. All
dealers and wheat brokers who have
looked over the country as I have agree
with me in its estimate.
How about Kansas ?
The wheat in Kansas is good up to
twenty-five miles west of Topeka, and
then it begins to be bad, aud grows worse
and worse, till it becomes worthless at
Hayes City, which is on the 100th parallel
west of tlie rain belt. Crops west of Al>-
erline and Salina in Kansas are a failure
three years out of five, and the people
might as well know it.
I have-voted for General Grant twice
for President, and what I now say I say
reluctantly. There is a tremendous feel
ing against General * Grant’s third-term
candidacy among voting Republicans all
over the country. I hear dozens of sound
Republicans say daily :
“I will throw away my vote before I
will vote for General Grant. He has bad
Philistia. A Nihilist Journal—A Paper Printed
We take the following interesting quo- rum
tation from a book published by the Har- _
, f. _ J The Mill of the People is tbe title of
per Brothers, -Scenes and scenery of ( the organ of tlie Nihilists in Russia. It
tbe Holy Land,” by Rev.Win.M. Thomp- appears in tbe most extraordinary way in
son, D. D.:
The first time I came into this region I
was agreeably surprised to find it neither
flat nor barren, nor in any way resem
bling a sandy desert, as I had been led to
expect from reading the narrative of Phil
lip’s ride through itjwith the eunuch. From
tbe distant mountains it indeed lias tbe
appearance of a level plain, but the view
is so vast that even very considerable bills
are lost to the eye. Ip reality, Philistia
closely resembles in appearance some of
tbe rolling prairies of the Mississippi Val
ley. The country i3 equally as lovely,
and no less fertile. I am inclined to be
lieve that, owing to something in the na
ture of tlie soil, or the climate, orhoth.the
sources of its fertility are even more inex
haustible than in most parts of our own
land. Without manure, and with a style
of ploughing and general culture which
would secure nothing blit failure in other
countries, this vast plain continues to pro
duce spleudid crops every year, and this,
too, be it remembered, after forty centu
ries of such tillage.
Here we are at el Muntar. I have
brought you to the top of this high hilt
not to honor the mukam of the saint, nor
because this is the “hill that is before
Hebron,” to which Samson carried the
gate of Gaza—though tlie tradition is
probably corret, since it is . in the proper
direction—but because from it there is
fine view, stretching far away to the
southeast, even to the ridge that overshad
ows el Khulil, as the city of Abraham is
now called. Nothing more than this cau
be intended by “tho hill before Hebron,”
for the town itself Is at least thirty miles
off, and behind lofty mountains. Be this
as it may, I know of no one standpoint
from which you can survey so much of
old Philistia as from this Muntar. We
are to pass through the central part east
ward to-day, and can study it at our leis
ure; but the southern region, quite to the
desert, is best seen from here. I once
came from er Ruhaibeb, spending the
night on the bank of Nahr es Suny, where
it unites with Wady es Seba’, whicli comes
down from Beer-sheba. The roll
ing plain from the Wady northward
Gaza was tl.en green and flow-
cry as a meadow, and much of it
clothed with wheat; but there is not
a village along the entire route, and all
the grain belonged to tent-dwelling-Arabs
We passed many of their encampments,
where every kind of work common in or
dinary villages was in active operation,
and carried on with the same sort of im
plements. There were, however, as was
natural, many more camels and larger
flocks than ordinary peasants possess; and
these formed a very striking feature in this
agricultural tableau. All around us were
examples of primitive pastoral life, like
those seen on this same plain, I suppose,
in the d^ys of Abraham and Isaac. Men,
women and children, clad in garments,
and following employments, pastoral and
agricultural, like those of the patriarchs.
It carried one back, a3 by enchantment; to
the tents pitched in the valley of Gerar in
the days of those venerable ancestors of
God’s chosen people.
These pastoral Arabs present a very in
teresting study. Unlike the wandering
Bedouin, their cousins, they are perma
nently settled on this plain along tlie sea
board ; and their manners of life must
closely resemble that of the Philistines
with whom the patriarch associated. We
ere passing through their encampments
for several hours, and were everywhere
welcomed as friends. The women were
not veiled, nor was there any objection to
our visiting tbeir tents, and inspecting
their furniture, their employment and
even their garments. They were far from
idle; but as the harvest had not yet com
menced, tbey-were chiefly occupied with
their flocks and herds, and in the manu
facture of cheese and butter. Some of the
women were spinning goat’s hair into
strands, to be woven into coarse black
material for tent coverings, nigs, and
sacks for the grain. Tlieir spindle wa3 of
tlie most simple kind, being often merely
stone, which they dexterously twirled
around until the strand was sufficiently
twisted. They can weave without any
loom. The ’threads of the warp are
stretched upon the ground, and made fast
at either end to a stout stick; aud tho
threads of the woof are passed through
with the band, and pressed back into po
tion by a rude wooden comb.
Boys and girls are scattered over the
plain, watching the flocks, to prevent them
irom trespassing upon the wheat fields.
From every camp broad and well-trodden
paths led across the plain to the wells,
where only the flocks are watered; and I
noticed that many of these paths turned
toward the seashore, probably because
water is there found at less depth than in
the interior. These wells are the places
of public resort, and there one can see
and study to tbe best advantage the ap»
pearance, manners, customs and costumes
of these modem Philistines. There they
gather with all their belongings, iu
groups picturesque and suggestive to the
traveler and to the eye and imagination of
tlie artist.
Some singular and even romantic inci
dents in the history of the Hebrew patri
archs are associated with wells. It.was
at a well in the city, of Nalior, in Mesopo
tamia, that 'Eliezer of Damascus, the
faithful servant and steward of Abraham,
met Rebekah, as recorded in the twenty-
fourth chapter of Genesis. It was at a
enough. We are tired of him. If the poli
ticians foist him upon us voters again we well inth0 - „ landof the people of the
wiU have to teach them a lesson by letting East „ t!iat Jacob first saw ,f ousin) the
him be defeated. “beautiful and well-favored” Rachel, and
—If the Republican party, says the Cin
cinnati Commercial, has nothing better to
offer the country than a third term
of Grant, it is high time the party was re
solved into its original elements.
Land Pirates., ,v..l
I It was hoped that the recent decision of
the Supreme Court, following the incom
plete and inconclusive investigation of the
wild land frauds undertaken by the Leg
islature, would put a stop to' the operation
of land pirates in Geoigia, but the Hawk-
imvilte. Dispatch has been put in possess
ion of facts relating to another and quite
as serious phase of the land stealing bus
iness which has heretofore escaped expos
ure. ■ , ;
The Dispatch says that i their mode of
procedure is to forge deeds and plats and
grants. One of the swindlers sold lands
in the neighborhood ofHawkinsville, took
notes for the same, and then discounted
the notes .to a citizen of Hawk-
insville for fifty cents on the dol
lar; and the same person sold lots of
land to citizens of Pulaski county that he
had never owned. Another plan of land
stealing i3 described by the Dispatch. An
unimproved lot is’pointed out to the tax
collector, and he is ordered to levy upon
it for taxes. The lands are thereupon
sold to satisfy a fraudulent fi. fa., and in
this way a fraudulent title i3 obtained.
Thousands of acres of land have been sold
in Southern and Southwestern Georgia to
satisfy tax executions against men who
never owned the lands, and the Dispatch
says that in some instances ti. fas. for tax
es have been issued against men, and
lands which they never owned, or claimed
to have owned, have bean sold to satisfy
the executions.
In the same issue of the Dispatch, Mr.
JohnW. Griffin, of Dodge county, Warns
the people of that section against purchas-
g lands “from parties representing C.
M. Dodson, and especially R. H. Daniels,
who claims to bail from Americus.” Mr.
Griffin writes to the Dispatch that he has
seen several batelies of the titles sold.Ijy
these parties, and that not one of them’is
a genuine claim. Some of the deeds and
plats given by them have been sent to the
secretary of state, and we may soon ex
pect to see the whole, matter thoroughly
ventilated.—Constitution.
Delegate Downey’s copyrighted
epic poem “To the Immortals” is furnish
ing a choice morsel for the newspaper
wits. - If it shall lead to the abolition of
the venerable abuse of publishing at each
session in the Congressional itecord hun
dreds of pages of undelivered speeches, it
both ought to and may add its author’s
name to that select list of “the Immor
tals? who are remembered as public bene
factors.
Even the evgineer who had control of
the building of the Tay bridge now testi
fies that its supports were “insufficient.”
The architect of the biidge having been
knighted because of his success in build
ing this “triumph of engineering skill,” it
looks now as though he ought to be un
knighted, if that thing can be done.
kissed her, “aud lifted up his voice and
wept.” It was also at a well that Moses
met Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, the
priest of Midian, whom he afterward
married, and helped her aud her sisters to
water their father’s flock. Did you no
tice amongst the tents of these modern
Ishmaelites any females- of surpassing
loveliness that recalled the stories of those
celebrated ladies ?
No, indeed; still, some of the young
people are ntf. wanting in attractiveness.
They have good features, bright eyes,
forms slender and erect, and a singular
ease and grace in the disposal about the
person; of their flowing garments, and in
their attitudes and. motions. Doubtless
the well is still the favorite trysling-place
as it must have been in ancient days; and
any young Bedouin bent on matrimonfal
alliance would expect there to find the
object of his ardent affections.
The Third Term.—I. Q. Howard,
one of the New York custom house poli
ticians, gives eight paragraphs of reasons
why he cannot support Grant, the first
three of which read as follows:
1. Because he has already served as
long iu the presidency as the framers in
tended one man should serve. You are
aware-that a single seven-year term was
agreed upon by those who made the con
stitution, and was adhered to until a few
days before the convention completed its
labors. Upon tbe suggestion that seven
years would be too long to suffer the in
fliction of a poor president it was then
agreed that the people should be given
the option of getting rid of a bad ruler at
the end of four years. It was the univer
sal understanding in tbe convention • at
the time that no one man was to serve
more than eight years, which was one
year longer than had first been fixed a3
the proper duration of the executive
term.
2. So long as the men who made the
constitution were alive there was mani
fested in unmistakable ways a disposition
to abide by the understanding of the
fathers on the part of all chief magistrates
from Washington to Jackson.
3. To depart from a precedent so honor
ed in its observance and declare in favor
of perpetual re-eligibility is to declare a
willingness to adopt, in substance, the
theory of hereditary ralership, thus chang
ing the fundamental structure of our gov
ernment.
Movements of General Grant.—
General Grant is expected in Chicago to
visit his son on Wednesday, and will re
main in the city for three or four days
before leaving for Springfield, in response
to a recent invitation from that city to
visit the late home of Abraham Lincoln.
• way!
unexpected corners, and when least look
ed for. They say that it is constantly to
be found on the toilet tabic of the emper
or, and under the pillow's of statesmen
and generals. The manner in which this
curious organ is printed is described at
length by the St. Petersburg correspond
ent of the Manchester Guardian. The of
fice is a gloomy, miserable room at the
top of a house in a poor locality. On the
door is an announcement of some ficticious
trade. The room is occupied by a poor
wretch, formerly a student; it is wretch
edly furnished. The bed occupies pretty
nearly the entire room. Everything is
mean aud squalid. The owner of the
apartment is editor, compositor, reporter,
printer and publisher. Under the mat
tress of the miserable bed the type is hid
den. Thence, when occasion offers, it is
transferred to the multitudinous pockets
of his great coat. He goes out into the
streets with a diminitive note book, hangs
about public building, glares at people- in'”’"
authority, whom he would kill if'a glance
could murder, writes his “leader” iu a se
cluded corner ol a park, and rolls each
page into a pill, to bo swallowed on the
approach of a policeman. As soon as the
work is finished he steals home, locks and
barricades the door, gets out'liis type and
sets up the paper, which he afterwards
prints in a primitive manner, and distrib
utes through the streets and in cafes, and
by all other means known only to con-
spiritors. This account of the difficult,
dangerous and painful duty which that
poor, patient scribe performs under the di
rection of an inexorable committee, from
whom he receives little help, may or
may not he in accordance with truth;
but there remains the undeniable fact
that, under the very nose of the terrible
third section, despite all the vigilance of '
the police, a sheet is printed, published
and circulated, aud no man can put his
hand upon those who thus contribute to
the literature of revolution.
A Just Criticism Upon the Present
Congress.
The House of Representatives evidently
resents the stigma which has beeu pinned
upon it of tho “do-nothing Congress.”-
As the political exigencies of the time
seeni to forbid discussion of or action
upon great public measures aniquestions,
such as the jurors’ test-oath, the employ
ment of soldiers at the polls, the tariff', the
encouragement of commerce, the regula
tion of inland transportation and the like,
the members have imitated the fair sex in
their hours of ennui, and keep themselves
busy by dawdling over little things.
Women excuse their fondness for dress,
bric-a-brac, cracked china and gossip, by
pleading their exclusion from the suffrage.
In the same spirit Congress, for fear it
may not vote right, only votes on trifles.
The question of the dilapidation of La-
Fayette’s portrait, hanging in the Repre-
sentives Hall, teceives prompt attention,
and yesterday, when Thomas Jeffer
son’s desk was presented to the House by
the heirs of the late Joseph Coolidge, Jr.,
of Boston, it was received with a unani
mous and effusive promptness quite re
markable in a body which cannot be
brought to a vote by any means on any of
the great leading principles which Jeffer
son held to and advocated in writing upon
that desk. The Sim has already mention
ed the bill offered by Mr. Stephen W.
"Downey, of Wyoming Territory, pleading
the apostles’ creed as an argument for ap
propriating half a million dollars to em-
belish the capital with paintings illustra
tive of New Testament history. Mr.
Downey, it appears, obtained leave to
print his remarks oil this bill, and ha3
taken advantage of tins privilege to pub
lish a “poem” in the Itecord, at the ex
pense of the country. This poem, com
prising fifteen pages and about 2,700 lines,
(as long as Hamlet, as long as live books
of Homer or Paradise Lost,) is copyright
ed, “all rights reserved,” by Mr. Downey.
It is entitled “The Immortals,” is “dedi
cated to tho Congress of the United
States,” and is written in the blankest
kind of verse.—Baltimore Sun.
The pair, says the San Antonio Herald,
came from Medina. They are on a bridal
trip to San Antonio; they were married
three days ago. The traveling outfit of
this bridal pair is a two-wheel cart drawn
by two donkeys. The pair—the bride
and the groom—arrived last evening, and
“though on pleasure they are bent they
have a frugal mind.” They camped in a..
wagon-yard. The lady is dressed in cal
ico. When made up it was full in the
skirt, but after doing it upshs hung it out
to dry and a calf ate a yard or two out of
the rear breadth. This she remedied by
“gathering,” and now the dress looks
something like a “pull-back.”
11c bought a cocoanut, a loaf of bread
and a red handkerchief. Wrapping the
bread and cocoanut iu the handkerchief,
he bun" the bundle oh one arm and with
the bride clinging to the other, sauntered
to Houston street to see the cars. “Ma
ry,” he said lovingly, “don’t you want to
ride on the keers ?” “I’m most afraid,
John.” “Well,” said the husband, “maybe
we had better not; sometimes the dum
things runs off the track and kills peo
ple.”
Later in the day he filled his hat with
water from a ditch, and, after a good
drink, the bride joining in the drink, he
hitched up his team and the two left the
city pleased to return to rural bliss, “far
from the madding crowd.”
The New Testament and “The
Light of Asia.”—Mr. Edwin Arnold
lias done good service by winning his
countrymen, who would be little likely to
plod through the wearisome theology of
Buddhism, to gather from his glowing
descriptions and harmonious verse the
higher and nobler aspects of the faith of
470,000,000 of human beings. The char
acter of Siddartlia or Gautama itselt shines
with a purity and saintliness which de
serve the English homage Mr. Edwin Ar
nold offers. But he must not be offended
if we avow another and opposite cause
for the gratitude we entertain for his la
bor of love. Nothing is more common, in
these days of free speech than, to'hear per
sons who know equally little of Bud
dhism and of Christianity compare the
two creeds, as if they stood on the same
moral and religious level. Mr. Edwin
Arnold is an impassionate admirer of this
early benefactor of mankind. The view
he takes of his hero’s gospel is not likely
to have been unfavorably colored. Let
any reader compare it and the morality of
the New Testament; the one will be felt
to be moonlight and the other sunlight;
the one is dreamland, the other is life.—
London Times.
The Tribune says the friends of Secre
tary Sherman claim that he has already
positive assurance of 101 votes on the first
ballot at Chicago. If he has, it is clear
that General Grant will not be nominat- -
on that ballot, for his margin is already
too small to admit of such a loss as this
and still remain. It becomes more evi
dent daily that nobody will be nominat
ed on the first ballot, and that if Grant is
nominated at all it will only he after a
scramble which liis friends ouce declared
lie would not permit lrmself to be drawn
into.
A New Bedford man invented a fish
pole cane which worked with a spring,
and on the latter being touched tbe inner
roils would fly out and form a pole, and it
was a man who didn’t understand the na
ture of the cane who was carrying it, and
bile carelessly pointing at a gentleman
some eight feet away accidentally touched
he spring and the piole flew out and took
the victim square ou the nose. And when
the latter got up he had to be restrained
by four men while the facts were explain
ed to him, and even then he wasn’t satis
fied.
Western Crops.—A telegram from
Leavenworth, dated April 28, says a gen
tle, soaking rain, unaccompanied by
wind, began ill this county at 1 o’clock,
and has continued all day. Tlie Times,
to-morrow, will publish special dispatches
from all portions of the State, and the
western portion of Missouri, which show
clearly the rain has beeu a general and
most beneficial one, especially m the
estem part of Kansas, where the rainfall
was the heaviest.