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MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1880.
VOLUME NO—LV
TWO SPIDERS.
Two spiders—so the story goes—
Upon a living bent,
Entered a meeting house one day,
And hopefully were heard to say,
'‘Here we shall have at least fair play,
With nothing to prevent.”
Each chose his place and went to work;
The light webs grew apace;
One on the sofa spun his thread,
But shortly came the sexton dread,
And swept him oft, and so, half dead,
He sought another place.
‘‘I’ll try the pulpit next,” said he;
“There surely is a prize;
The desk appears so neat and clean
I’m sure no spider there has been;
Besides, how often have I seen
The pastor brushing flies.”
He tried the pulpit, but alas!
His hopes proved visionary;
With dusting brush the sexton came,
And spoiled his geometric game,
Nor gave him time nor space to claim
The right of sanctuary.
At length, half starved and weak and lean,
He sought his former neighbor,
Who now had grown so sleek and round,
He weighed the fraction of a pound,
And looked as if the art he’d found
Of living without labor.
'‘How is it, friend,” he asked, “that I
Endure such thumps and knocks,
While you have grown so very gross?”
“Tis plain,” he answered; “not a loss
I’ve met since first I spun across
The contribution box.”
—Early Days.
The Cotton Crop.
Virginia.
Norfolk, June ft.—The cotton ex
change makes the following report ot the
condition of the cotton crop. It is com
piled from seventy-five replies from twen
ty-eight counties in North Carolina and
Virginia. Seventy-five show an increase
of 10 per cent, in acreage as compared
with last year. Thirty-one show more fa
vorable, thirty-eight less favorable and six
the same weather as last year. Forty-six
show good stands, thirty-one poor stands,
and eight fair sland3. Seventy-five show
the crop an average of eight days earlier
than last year; fifty-seven show condition
of the crop May 31st as good, eleven show
condition poor and seven same as last
year. Labor is reported as good and effi
cient. .
The replies sh(\w a general increase in
the use of fertilizers, and from twenty-four
replies an average of 25 per cent, increase
Is reported. The weather during May
was very dry and late planting has been
r tarded, but the recent rains have exert
ed a beneficial effect upon the crop in this
section.
ALABAMA.
Mobile, June 0.—Seventy-five reports
from forty-one counties report the follow
ing acreage as compared with last year:
In twenty-four of the most productive
counties there is an average increase of 7
per cent., and in seventeen sandy or up
land counties the average increase is 11
per cent. The weather i* reported as
less favorable up to the 31st of May as
compared with last year in twenty-
four counties, as favorable in five
counties and as more favorable in
twelve. Out of the twenty-four above
noted counties, sixteen of which come un
der the head of the most productive,
stands arc from fair to very good, only
three counties reporting them not good.
In twenty-five counties the crop is reported
from one to two weeks later than last
year, and in sixteen counties from as early
to one week earlier. The present condi
tion of the crop is from good to fair in fif
teen counties, and grassy in twenty-six,
on account of wet weather. Labor is
generally good but insufficient, in conse
quence of increased acreage atjd grassy
condition of the crops. The use of fer
tilizers has generally increased. It is es
timated at from 25 to 50 per cent, all over
the State.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charlestpn, S. C., June 9.—The re
port of the Charleston exchange on the
cotton crop to May 31st, is based on
seventy-two replies from thirty counties.
The acreage planted is reported by sixty-
four replies as increased from five to thirty
per cent, and by eight as about the same
as last year, making an average increase
in the State of about eleven per cent. The
weather up to May 31st is reported as
more favorable by forty, less favorable by
sixteen, and about the same as last season
by eight. The stands are reported by
sixty-lour as from good to perfect, and by
eight as not as good as last year. *
The condition of the crop on May 31st
is universally reported as good *to very
fine—several reporting the finest prospect
ever known.
Labor is generally reported the same as
last year, but, owing to the increase of
acreage planted, it is scarce in many sec
tions, and it is feared considerable land
will have to be abandoned, or else whole
plantations will be badly worked, which
would have an equally bad result.
The use of fertilizere has increased in
every county, the estimate varying from
slightlv more to 100 per cent. The aver
age increase for the State is estimated at
20 per cent.
MISSISSIPPI. ' •
Vicksburg, June 9.—From nineteen
counties in Mississippi, thirty replies have
been received. The acreage is reported
as follows: In ten of the most productive
counties an average increase of 2 per cent.,
and in nine sandy or upland counties an
average increase of 9 per cent. Six coun
ties show the weather less favorable as
compared with last year up to May 81st,
and thirteen from equally- as favorable to
more favorable. Stands arc reported as
being good in twelve counties, and the
crop from one to two weeks later than
last year, and in seven from as early to
one week earlier. The crop is generally
reported as in good condition with the ex
ception of complaints of grass. Labor is
good but insufficient on account of in-
creased acreage and the grassy condition
of the crop. In counties where used,
there has been a general increase in the
use of fertilizers of from 25 to 50 percent.
TEXAS.
Galveston, June 9.—The May report
of the Galveston cotton exchange, con
densed from one hundred and thirty-nine
reports from eighty-five -counties, of the
date of May 31, says: “As to acreage,
we find the average increase to be
15 per cent. As to character of the
weather, compared with the same time
last year, nine report less favorable, ten
the same, and one hundred and twenty
more favorable. As to the stand, two re
port not good, one hundred and thirty-
seven good to very gqod, thirty-seveii re
port the crop the same as last year, eleven
one week later, eight two weeks later,
three three weeks later, four four weeks
later, while sixteen report it one week
earlier, forty-five two weeks earlier, ten
three weeks earlier, and five four weeks
earlier.
As to the condition of the crop up to
May 31st, eight reported not good, one
hundred and thirty-one report from
good to unusually good. As to labor and
how it compares with last year, seven
report that it is not as good, eighty-nine
report the same, forty-three report that it
is better. As to the use of fertilizers,
there are none nsed. Some few replies
mention a species of grass worm as having .
done some damage in a few places, but in '
almost every instance the damage is tri-
1 fling. Referring to increase in acreage,
in most cases, the largest increase is in
the best cotton growing counties. The
plant is generally reported healthy and
growing rapidly. Sufficient rain has fallen
throughout the State. Some few sections
report too much, but the complaint
confined to very few places.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, June 9.—The Cotton
exchange report for Louisiana says: We
have one hundred and eight replies from
thirty-six parishes of the average date of
May 31st. The above parishes show that
an average increase of 3[ per cent, more
cotton was. planted than last year. The
diameter of the weather has been good,
although many complain of too much rain
during the latter part of the month. The
average date of the crop is about the same
as last year. The stands are excellent and
the general condition is good. There are
few complaints of grass. Labor is effi
cient, but somewhat less in numbers. No
commercial fertilizers were used in this
State.
From Mississippi, we have received one
hundred and ten replies from thirty-five
counties of the average date of May 31st:
On average, an increase of 2 per cent, in
acreage is reported in the above counties.
The weather was favorable up to May
25tli. Since then there is complaint of
too much rain. Good stands havejjeoii
secured and the crop is in excellent condi
tion, although a few complain of too much
grass. The crop averages five days later
than last year. Labor is efficient and
working well, but there has been a de
crease in numbers in the upland counties.
No commercial fertilizers were used of any
consequence.
ARKANSAS.
We have one hundred and sev
enty-five replies . from thirty-three
counties of the average date ol May
31st. The replies show an increase in
acreage in the above number of counties
of 11 per cent. The weather to May 31st
was reported more favorable than last
year. Stands are reported to be excellent.
The crop is as early as last year, and its
condition is very good. Labor is efficient
and working well, and increasing in the
counties ot Sebastian and Pell. No com
mercial fertilizers were used.
TENNESSEE.
Nasiiville, June 9.—The merchant’s
exchange cotton crop report for May em
braces eight counties in Middle Tennes
see and ten counties in North Alabama,
comprising the Nashville dutrict.
Twenty-one correspondents from*Alabama
report 12£ per cent, increase in acreage
over last"year; five report no increase.
Twenty-two report too much rain'and less
favorable than that last year; five report
more favorable. Twenty-two report
stands very good, one bad, five not so good
as last year.
Twenty correspondents from ten coun
ties report 22| per cent, increase in acre
age; two, no increase. Nine report the
weather too dry until May, and less favor
able than last year; five more favorable,
two very favorable. Fourteen report
stands good, four generally good, two
moderate, one unusually good, and one
not as good as iast year.
The report of the commissioner of the
bureau of agriculture for May says that
owing to dry weather in the early part of
the month serious apprehension was felt
for the safety of all crops, but propitious
rains in the latter part of the month ma
terially changed the condition of things.
He makes the following averages for the
crops named: Wheat <57, com 94, tobacco
77 in middle and 81 in western Tennes
see. The fruit prospect is very fine, except
peaches, which * will not be an average
crop. Grasses are usually fine and there
will be a large crop. Cotton average for
west Tennessee is over 100, for middle
Tennessee 97.
GEORGIA.
Augusta, June 9.—The Chronicle
will publish to-morrow morning the re
port of the Augusta cotton exchange,
with reference to the cotton crop for May.
It is based on forty-seven replies from thir
teen counties. Only one reports decrease
in acreage. Seventeen show an increase
of over 10 per cent. A majority report the
weather favorable. Nearly all report
good stands. Thirteen report the condi
tion of crops good in all respects, nineteen
as good and satisfactory, seven not as good
as iastyeer, and eight as backward and
jrasay. Labor is as good or better than
last year.
Savanxah, June 9.—The crop report
for Georgia, embracing one bundled and
forty-two replies from seventy-six coun
ties : “The past season has been an ex
ceptional one. The winter months were
warm and dry, and the preparation of
land in consequence was unprecedentedly
fine. Warm weather in early spring in
duced in some sections a very early plant
ing of cotton. The cold, wet weather de
layed farming operations, and there has
been some very late planting.
There has been an increase in acreage of
about 1 8 per cent, in the State. Stands are
scarcely as good a3 last yqar, and there
are serious complaints of defective seed.
The early planting is growing off finely
and clear of grass, wlple the late plant
ing is small, grassy and unpromis
ing; hence, a very 'wide differ
ence is found in the ‘ answers
of correspondents as to whether
the crop is ahead of last year or behind
it, and whether the season has been more
favorable or less favorable than last year.
While a large portion of the crop is be
hind the average of last year, the larger
portion is in a more favorable position
than at this date last season. The increase
in the use of fertilzers this season is very
large; more than usual has been given to
grain crops, while to common lands about
12 per cent, more has been distributed.
Labor is not up to last year either in num
ber or efficiency. Serious complaints on
the labor question from now’ to the end of
the picking season arc expected.
FLORIDA. '
The report for Florida ’ is based on
thirty-one replies from thirteen counties.
There has been a slight increase in the
acreage of cotton this year, possibly 3 per
cent. Stands arc not as'good as last year,
owing to defective seed. The weather
has been favorable and the plant is grow
ing off vigorously, except where affected
by grass or too much Tain.
Labor is about the same as last year,
both in numbers and efficiency. But lit
tle commercial fertilizers was used in this
State. In the Sea Island section, the
acreage is about the same as last year.
The stands are good, and the plant is in
good condition, though reported a week
or two behind last season in size.
Georgia Convention.
Atlanta, Ga., June 9.—The
State Democratic convention to-day
was one of the largest ever held in
this State. The delegates at laige select
ed to the Cincinnati convention were:
General A. B. Lawton of Savannah, Hon.
George F. Barnes of Augnsta, E. P. How
ell, editor of the Constitution, of Atlanta,
and General P. M. B. Young of Carters-
ville. The delegates from the districts
as follows:
W. A. Wilkin, J. M. Capers, J. R. Alex
ander, B. E. Russell, L. M. Felton, P. M.
Roberts, T. W. Gunn, P. H. Brewster,
John D. Stewart, C. C. Duncan, James G,
The Late Chicago Convention.
The correspondent of the Herald records
his impression of the late Chicago con
vention in words following, to-wit:
From the very first this National con
vention has been confusion and turmoil
and if it would be understood I would
add of third term oil as well. The con
vention has been in the hand3 of a mob.
The demonstrations of Friday were pos
sibly genuine. But those of Saturday
night were manufactured and outrageous.
The Grant scene for a brief period was
excusable, but its continuance for half an
hour in epileptic convulsions was part of
the tactics of delay. It was the last des
perate effort of the third-term faction,
egged on by Conkling and Logan, to
carry the convention by brute force. The
howling, yelling mob gave way to
passion and frenzy. Beaten decisively on
every test vote thus far, and seeing no
ray oi hope in future proceedings by hon
est expression or debate on tho merits,
they sought to overawe and bulldoze the
convention by pounding and yelling.
They howled and stamped.-They broke
off the backs of the scats and pounded the
floor with them. They took off their
*ioots and pounded the seats with the
heels. They flourished their canes and
threw their hats in the air. They
screamed and shrieked. It was not the
spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm, full
of heart and cheer, that sometimes sweeps
over great crowds. It was not a tribute
of admiration or affection to the great sol
dier of the republic. It was not a dem
onstration in honor of any man or men.
a grant craze.
•ft was a display of the very frenzy of
jassion. Any ordinary display of enthus
iasm would have yielded at last to the
calls of the chair for order, and would not
have seriously interrupted the business of
the convention. But the mob defied all
demands for order, stamped under foot the
rights of the convention, and paralyzed all
business, until it was tired out and could
howl no longer.
Its barbaric display of force did not
cease until it was exhausted and incapable
of further mischief. Its legs were used
up, its lung power exhausted, and it set
tled back limp and useless, and allowed
the business of the convention to. go on
because it could no longer obstruct it. The
significance of this unreasonable, undig
nified, indecorous and insulting display
may be found primarily in the fact that
the third termers were outvoted at the
very beginning of the convention, and
knew that they would be outvoted in its
climax. They knew that the material of
the convention -was drifting away from
them. They knew that public sentiment
was against them. They knew that the
great majori y of the Republican party,
Including the honesty, decency aud re
form elements of the party, were unalter
ably and inflexibly opposed to the third
term principle.
The Food of Plants.
The Country Gentleman says there is
really no such thing as stimulating plants
save "by feeding them, much as we may
hear about “stimulating manures,” etc.
Men sometimes take wine or whisky or
Opium, wliifth, though fclicj give liu'uutii-
ment to support strength, operate on the
nerves to stimulate them to abnormal
vigor. But the vegetable world*induiges in
no such excesses, if for no other reason
than that plants and trees have no nerves
to be stimulated. There is such a thing
as forcing plants by giving food in such
form as is most easily assimilated; but it
is food none the less, and not a stimulant.
It is also true that some kinds of fertilizere
may after a time become apparently in
operative; but this is not like the drug
which loses its effect on the human system
by repeated dosing.
In the apparent effect of some kinds of
fertilizere, as salt and gypsum, on certain
soils, there seems to be something like
stimulation, but the effect is on the'soil
rather than on the plant. Salt is a pow
erful solvent, and its beneficial effect is
often due, and perhaps always, to its abil
ity to make available the latent mineral
fertility of the soil. By the use of salt,
the insoluble compounds of potash and
phosphate may be released and put in
shape for the roots of plants to lake them
up. Or it may be that salt decomposes
vegetable matter and releases ammonia
in some form available for plant food.
The crop may be immensely benefited by
a dressing of salt, and yet scarcely a par
ticle of anything in the salt itself may be
found by analysis of straw and grain.
This, however, cannot be called stimula
ting the crop, for the plants grew as they
were fed as truly as if the feeding had
been a dressing of stable manure instead
of something to develop the latent fertility
of the soil. It might, indeed, be said that
the soil was stimulated to produce more
than it naiurally would, and that in time,
unless real manures were added, these
stimulating fertilizers would cease to pro
duce any effect.
But when we look at the subject in this
light, we shall find that all manures act
as solid stimulants, that is, they help to
decompose and make available the plant
food already in the soil. When stable
manure decomposes, its carbonic acid gas
helps to decompose the particles of soil
with which it comes in contact. So, too,
in a still greater degree with the clover
or grain herbage ploughed under in June.
The advantage of a well-worked summer
fallow, is in exposing as much soil as pos
sible to the influences of nature to make
its fertility more available. Yet there
are many farmers who scout the idea of
using concentrated manures, because they
help to exhaust the soil, but who think
everything of the naked fallow whose ef
fect is even worse, for the concentrated
manure really adds some fertility, while
all that the crop takes from tho naked
fallow has been got by coaxing the soil to
part with more of its strength than it
naturally would.
It is not alone the naked fallow which
enables the succeeding crop to draw more
from mother earth. The thorough cidti-
vation which fanners give and should
give all hoed crops, answers the same pur
pose.
After having passed through the grow
ing com with the cultivator one often secs
it take a sudden start to a more rapid
growth, as if stimulated. It has been
stimulated or started by a fresh supply of
ammonia which the loosened soil has ab
sorbed from air.and rains, and dews. The
ammoniated water of summer dews is the
most stimulating of manures; but it is
stimulating only because the fertilizer is
iu the right condition for immediate use
as plant food. The same is true of liquid
manures of all kinds. They are at once
avai'able, and are used by Uie first crop to
which they are applied. If it were po:si-
ble to make all, or nearly all fertility
available for the crop, the soil would soon
be exhausted. On light sands this is
sometimes the result, unless great care is
taken to supply manures as often as the
land is cropped. Heavy clays, on the
other hand, connot be exhausted to the
same extent. The crop falls, off while
there is apparently an abundance of fer
tility in the' soil, but it is locked up in
clods where plant roots cannot reach it.
As between two methods of manuring
—one for the crops, but tending to ex-
liausting the soil, and the other to in-
Oakington, A. C. McCalla, J..C. Fain, Au .
B. Gray, General D. M. Dubose, Patrick crease the permanent fertility of the land
Walsh,"editor of the Augusta Chronicle, I —the first is altogether preferable. It is
yf. p. price and T. M. Peeples. The con- probable that on no. land can good crops
vention recommended adhesiontothe two-! be produced for a succession years, or
thirds rule. The delegation was reported even for one year, without adding to its
solid for Field, except one for Bayard and fertility. What is taken from the soil by
one for Tilden. making its plant food soluble, is more
than offset by what is added in even the
more concentrated manures above what
can be used. The use of guano has been
condemned by farmers because after a few
years it leaves the soil so poor that noth
ing will grow. But the fault is not in
what was added to the soil to make the
crop, but Jin failing to return to the soil
what lias been taken therefrom. Selling
everything off the farm where guano has
been used to grow the crop, tends to ster
ility. But so also it would if the same
money was expended in buying stable
manure, but making none upon the farm.
The difference is that stable manure is
not so immediately available, and the
process of exhausting fertility would be
slower.
The Little Shavers.
A small boy in Massachusetts, who for
the first time noticed a cherry tree in
blossom, enthusiastically ( directed the
attention of his mother to “the popcorn
tree.”
Mamma seeks to console her crying
child: “Why do you cry, John? What
ha3 hurt you ? “Mamma (and he bawls
more lustily than ever), yesterday, ! fell
down and hurt myself.” “Yesterday!
Then why do you cry today? “Oh,
because you were not at home yester
day!”
A little child has brought to the surface
a new theological puzzle. When told the
story of the prodigal son and how he was
so reduced that he was compelled to eat
husks, she looked into the face of tho
teacher with a bewildered sort of gaze and
then said: “Why did he cat the husks,
good sir?” “Because,” was the reply; “ho
had nothing else to eat.” “Nothing else ?”
responded tho child; “I think I could havo
found something.” “And what could
you havo done if you had been there, my
child ?” queried the teacher. “Why,” an
swered the bright-eyed little one without
hesitation, “I should have killed a pic
and had a good dinner.”
A boy will dig over a square rod of gar
den for fish bait, and yet lie could not bo
hired to work on a six foot onion bed.
A bad little Milwaukee boy, having
been expelled from school, returned in
girl’s clothes, and the imposture was not
discovered for several months:
“Mamma,” said Henry Thomas, a
bright little fellow over in Algiers, “Mam
ma, have my toes got eyes?” “No, my
darling; why do you ask such a foolish
question ?” “Because my foot’s asleep.”
A five-year old daughter of one of our
citizens observed to him, in tho presence
of company, at breakfast: “You inusn’t
go off without kissing me, papa.” “I never
forget to do it, do I?” he asked, surprised.
“You may not forget it, but sometimes
you go off mad, you know,” she artlessly
replied. The company consulted their
coffee.
Johnny wanted to go to tho circus, but
his father said : “J6hnny, I’d rather you’d
;o to school and study, and maybe you’ll
lie president some day.” Johnny said:
“Father, there’s about one million boys in
the United States, isn’t there?” “Yea,”
“And every one stands a chance of being
president?” “Yes.” “Well,dad, I’ll sen
out mv chance for a circus ticket.” —
a lntio .rustling soda was wanted for
cleaning purposes, so George was given a
dime and dispatched to the apothecary to
get it. George soon returns, but no soda.
Why didn’t yon get the coda, George?”
chorused the family. “I did.” “Where
is it, then?” “Idrankit?” “Drank it?”
“Yes, the man said it wouldn’t keep to
bring home.” A light dawns on the mind
of the family. It asks, eagerly: “What
did you ask for?” “Soda.” “Didn’t you
say washing soda?” “No, only seda.”
Family laughs as though it were crazy.
George doesn’t know what all the fun’s
about, but he is subsequently heard to say,
“That was a boss drink.”
“Oh, pa!” cried a little fellow upon
seeing a trout for the first time, “It’s got
the measels, hasn’t it?”
When a Quincy little girl noticed the
thunder for the first time, she innocently
asked her mother what made' God growl
so!
A boy of 4, taken to church for the first
time, listened to the organ for a lew mo
ments and then said: “When will the or
gan man let the monkey out?”
It was a little fellow who had to live
and learn who asked his mother if bees
had splinters in their tails when his bare
feet came down upon a yellow hornet.
A little Michigan girl, upon hearing an
account of the baby born without arms a
few days ago at Saginaw, said: “Why
God had not finishcd.him yet, bad he?”
Ada, (aged 4) who was doing something
andwas told to desist by her mother.
Mother—“Ada, am I to speak to you
again?” Ada—“Yes, ma, you may if you
like.”
Gen. Gordon at Augusta.
As Well Posted as His Pastor.
An Attica correspondent sends the fol
lowing to the Lapeer Clarion:
Place—Baptist chapel, Saturday cove
nant meeting. Persons preseut, the church
members and one belonging to the society
—presided over by the pastor. An inter
esting meeting followed, as this was the
last covenant with the elder.
Pastor—“And now, brethren and sisters,
as this is the last covenant meeting I ex
pect to be with you, you will allow me to
talk with great plainness.” Here follow
ed some rather sharp reproof. “Brethren,
will you keep up the Sunday morning
service and the Wednesday evening prayer
meeting? I will take a vote on it.” Vote
almost unanimous. “Now, then, who
will you appoint for leader?” Deacon
F. chosen.
Presently, with great deliberation, rose
the stately old deacon. “I accept with
reluctance the place assigned me. My
health, as you know, is not good. I don’t
like to be out nights; but I will try to do
my duty, and I hope the brethren and sis
ters will do theirs. But, brethren, be
assured of one thing, if, when I do come
and find only two or three of you here, I
shall cease coming regularly.”
Pastor with reproof in his tone, and a
self-satisfied twinkle in his eye,” “Have
you, deacon, forgotten the promise of our
Divine Master, where two or three are
lathered together in my name, there I am
!n the midst to own and to bless.” I
thought as I looked at the glowing and
egotistical countenance of the zealous
pastor, and then at the discomfited dea
con—he lias got you now, sure ; but not
The deacon came to Ids feet before
the minister sat down, and eyeing him
sharply, said: “Elder, those two or three
spoken of by the Master, I can find in my
house, and thus the blessing may be se
cured without traveling through the
mire.” The minister kept his feet some
time, but not one word could lie reply.
—At the rate ot June immigration thus
far, 50,000 will be received at Castle Gar
den during the month. That will make
150,000 for the quarter year comprising
April, May, and June. Taking in Boston,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other ports
for the same period, we may expect a
total of 200,000 for the quarter. Nearly
all these immigrants'are sturdy and vig
orous; they will increase and multiply.
The westward procession of the people of
Europe is one of the imposing spectacles
and political portents of our day.
■The New York Graphic, in alluding
to the Southern delegates to the Chicago
convention, says: “It is a great mis
fortune that the destinies of the country
should be placed in the keeping of persons
who are admitted to be ignorant, and
who, there are great reasons to fear, will
be found at Chicago to be venal.”
An Ovation.
Senator Gordon, upon his arrival at the
Augusta depot on Saturday, was met by
the Confederate Survivors’ Association,
whose President, Col. C. C. Jones, Jr.,
pronounced an address of welcome, con
cluding with these words:
“Gladly do we welcome you in our
midst. Right gladly will we listen to
eloquent words as they will fall from the
lips of one who has never faltered in the
hour ot peril—who has never once be
trayed a trust, or deceived the people. We
salute you as our friend, our ex-Senator,
our battle-scared and glorious Confeder
ate chieftain.”
The General responded, and at six
o’clock was eloquently introduced to an
immense audience in the city halt by Mqj.
Barnes.' He spoke substantially as fol
lows:
“Ladles and Gentlemen—You arc my
witnesses, that so long as I was a candi
date for public office I was free from that
trait which i3 characteristic of so many
public men—egotism—that I was free
from any reference to my own acts, but
now that I have yielded up public office I
may be pardoned it I make personal al
lusions.” He then proceeded to refer to
his early life. Before he was thirty years
of age the war found him in tho moun
tains with a devoted wife and two chil
dren. He had been deaf to invitations
for political preferment, though they had
not been wanting. When the tocsin of
war sounded he gathered around him a
few hardy mountaineers and effered his
and their services to the Confederate gov
ernment. From that hom' until the flag
went down at Appomattox, he shared
with their sons the dangers and struggles
of the war.
He entered political life after the war
with the single purpose of serving his
country. The race for governor, when he
was a candidate, is fresh in men’s minds.
When they called him to the Senate, the
South received but little corsideration in
Congress. In common with his honored
colleague, Senator Norwood, he fought
there for her rights. He had spoken in
the Senate, in South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana for the South, but it was
his "proud satisfaction that not one
word that he had said had ever
been used by the political opponents of
the South to her detriment. [Applause.]
He was not a candidate for political pre
ferment, but he simply came before them
as an ex-soldier and a private citizen
[Applause.] Through all these years of
toil there had been a few men—aud thank
God they were very few—who had never
seen one virtue in his purest motives, one
merit in his most honest action. He
thought he might oflset these with the
good opinion of Lee, “for,” said he, “when
my banner was furled and my sword
sheathed at Appomattox, I had the confi
dence and esteem and affection not only
of that grandest of captains, living or dead,
R. E. Lee, of Virginia, but of every officer
aXid'SOlUter In Iho entire •nnyv 1 *
The men who • condemned him were
strangers to patriotism themselves, and'
could not see how any one else could
possess it. They had said that he was a
candidate for Vice President, first on the
Grant ticket, then on the Tilden ticket,
then on any ticket. Well, it was said an
honest confession was good for the soul.
He would say he was a candidate tor
Vice President, but it was on Mrs. Gor
don’s ticket, and the Senate over which
ho would preside was composed of the
little Gordons at Kirkwood. [Applause.]
It was said he resigned because he wanted
to dodge-the Kellogg issue. He was not
in the habit of dodging anything. He
would say for the benefit of those who
thus spoke that he differed with his col
league, but agreed with such men as Bay
ard, Pendleton, Hampton, Jones, Thur
man and Other great Democratic states
men. He would have voted against Kel
logg resolutions, not because ho did not
believe that Kellogg was illegally elected,
orthat he was wrongfullyseated, but be
cause he saw no means to unseat him
lawfully. To vote for it, from his point
of view, was not only to violate the con
stitution, but to strike down a precedent
that had always been’upheld under any
contingency. He hoped now that those
who had given this as a reason woidd no
longer say he was dodging the Kellogg
question.
He came now to the reason of reasons.
For its authors he had nothing but com
miseration, not unmingled with contempt.
Bargain! sale ! purchase! Well, if his
record in war aud peace did not answer
this it would go Unanswered forever, so
.far as he was concerned. [Applause.]
But he would answer it/for another man,
for whom it was aimed- They saw Gor
don resign when be had five years in the
Senate, and they couldn’t comprehend it.
If they had been with Gordon in the war
they would have seen him do a good
many things that they were not capable
of. [Applause.] If they had seen him in
1862, when he was lying on his bed suff
ering from five wounds they would have
seen him refuse a place iu tho Confeder
ate Senate, where there would have been
less fighting and more money, to go back
to the field. Since tho war they might
hate seen him do other things that they
were not capable of. They "would have
seen him refuse a share in the lease of the
State Road, which he had only to step
across the street to get, and which would'
have made him $50,000.
When Gov. Colquitt appointed Joe
Brown these men uncorked the vials of
their wrath, and they said, “we have him
now.” But the hero of Ocean Pond and
Olustce still lives. Everybody knew that
he was not a champion of Joe Brown, but
ho was a friend of Alfred H. Colquitt. No
executive was ever guided by a higher,
purer motive than Governor Colquitt in
Tnnnnli L* DnAwrn * r PliA3a roll A
Blount Accepts.
Macon, Ga., May 1st, 1SS0.
Hon, James II. Blount, ■ M. C., Wash
ington, D. G\—Dear Sir : At a meeting
held at the court house in this city on last
evening, to take into consideration your
letter declining again to become a candi
date for re-election to Congress from this
district, the undersigned were appointed
a committee to propose resolutions ex
pressive of the sense of the meeting.
In obedience to instructions, we enclose
herewith a copy of the resolutions pre
sented, which were unanimously passed
by one of the largest meetings we have
had here since the war.
We confidently rely upon you to
accede to the wishes of your fellow citi
zens thus expressed, which we believe are
in consonance with the seutiment of your
constituents throughout the district.. We
will add that this action is influenced by
thorough approval of your course in
Congress, and the conviction that it is not
sound policy to dispense, at this critical
juncture in political affairs, with the ser
vices of faithful and experienced public
wfio," howdverKvortiiyfwould lack the ex
perience so essential to usefulness ii
members of Congress.
Awaiting your favorable consideration
and reply, we are your obedient servants,
Wm. R. Rogers, chairman.
Wm. n. Ross,
J. F. Hanson*
Thomas B. Gresham,
J. H. Hertz,
B. L. Willingham,
N.-M. Solomon, ,
R. H. Plant,
George S. Jones,
T. L. Massenburo,
D. M. Gugel,
C. D. Findlay,
J. W. Dempsey,
Alex. Reynolds,
appointing Joseph E. Brown ’ Those who
made charges against Got.'. Colquitt did
not wait to hear Colquitt. They rushed
blindfold into a mare’s nest. They did
not wait to hear Colquitt, but he proposed
he should be heard. Now, there were
many mcninllie Senate; there was Joseph
E, Johnson, who believes that Joseph E.
Brown was the very best appointmentthat
could be made, Gov. Colquitt explained
his motives in a letter to him. Gov. Col
quitt thought the time had now come to
liberalize the policy of the party, He saw
tbe.organized Democracy losing two of
its strongholds, the seventh and ninth dis
tricts, and disorganization threatened in
other parts of the State. He cast
about him for the best man for what was
at best an empty honor, for it could
only last a short time. He saw that Gov.
Brown was the favorite of tlie mountain
eers and one who could probably unite all
differences in the disorganized section.
But suppose he was wrong in judgment,
suppose many able men in the Senate
were wrong, was Colquitt to be branded
with detraction? Was he to be crucified?
He for one would not do it. He did not
approve Joe Brown’s course in many
things in the-past, bnt it was certainly
true that while many people who in 186&
condemned Joe Brown foVhis course then,
voted with 1dm for Greeley in 1672.
There were those, also, who professed to
be Democrats who sustained Grant when
he was putting the cold steel into the peo
ple of Louisiana, who poured hot shot all
along the line of the party when they
should have been in its ranks. When
these men were doing this Joe Brown was
let Brown come into the party, they should
at least not take his money.
He came now to the last charge, in
which it was said Colquitt and (Jordon
had sold out to a railroad. Now suppose
it had turned out that Gordon had re
signed for a totally different purpose;
what then? What would these people
have to say then? And yet such was ac
tually the case. He was not giving these
facts in his own defense, for he did not
need any defense in Georgia. [Ap
plause.] Many of his friends were cog
nizant of the fact that even before his
iast race it was his intention to retire from
public life. He had only been waiting
for a congenial pui-suit, to retire from po
litical life. It came. A friend who at
the close of the war had gone to the
Pacific coast, where he had made a for
tune, made him an offer of a lucrative
position iu Oregon. On the first day of
May this friend wrote to him an impera
tive letter, to answer yes or no. He
waited until the 14th, and then he wrote
to Governor Colquitt, tendering his resig
nation.
It was while in new- York, conferring
with this Oregon friend, after he had ac
cepted his offer, that Victor Newcomb,
for the first time, tendered him a position
that would enable him to remain in Geor
gia.
What were they going to do ajxmtit?
If there was nothing due to a lnxnthat
had made the best executive the State
ever had, it was due to their own enlight
enment and justice that they frown down
these shameful charges made by interested
political opponents. The church, society,
liberty, government, all were interested
iu frowning down such unworthy tactics
iu political warfare. If these facts cau
reach the public ear in tune, the men of
Georgia will gather around Colquitt and
bear him triumphantly to office. Truth
shall be triumphant.
Gen. Gordon closed amid great ap
plause. He was quite hoarse during a
portion of the speech, and this threatened
several times to compel him to stop.
W. B. Bogers, Chairman, and
others'. Your communication of May 1st,
enclosing the resolutions adopted at a
public meeting held in our city, to take
action iu relation to my card announcing
that I would not b'e a candidate for re
nomination, was received by due course
of mail.
Since then both houses of Congress
have been almost continuously engaged
with bills originated by the committee of
which! am a member. Thus I have
befen forced to lay aside temporarily all
correspondence.
The aclionof the citizens at. my own
home moved me with surprise and .filled
me with gratitude. Four times had I
been honored as the standard hearer of
tlife Democratic party for the sixth con
gressional district. These honors were
not unsought by myself. This Iast was
the -unexpected, unstinted, inestimable
distinction bestowed by au intelligent,
energetic and high-toned people. It will
ever be an ointment of sweetest savor in
my household.
In many other counties in tho district
evidence of similar action by meetings and
petitions have been forwarded to me.
Should this feeling accomplish my
nomination by the convention which is to
select the Democratic candidate for the
forty-seventh Congress I shall not hesitate
to accept the responsibility nor be un
mindful of the honor bestowed. - If elect
ed I shall give to the public service what
ever resources I can command.
The curse of the past has been war, sec
tional hate, centralism, extravagance in
legislation and corruption in administra
tion. Peace, .union, constitutionalism,
just laws and upright enforcement of them
must be the cure.
The future of our section is inviting.
We have felt the darkness and see the
dafrn. The top of each mountain
of i difficulty is being gilded with the
rising sun which is to bless
and unify the citizens of eveiy section of
this country as it moves in its Heaven-
ordained course. If the sky is overcast
again with gloom, it will bo the mantle
of our folly. If my public career is to be
continued, I trust I may contribute some
thing to that public weal, and so prove
worthy of the faith of my friends.
In conclusion, allow me to return
thanks to yourself and your committee for
tho.complimentary manner in which you
chose to communicate the resolutions, and
to express the hope that your hearts may
be ever aglow with that happiness you
would communicate to mine. Your
friend, and most obedient servant,
James H. Blount.
—A letter from Senator Hampton, ac
cording to the News and Courier, says:
“Bayard is gaining strength daily. Mass
achusetts, .Connecticut and New Jersey
will support him, and other Northern
strength will come to him. If the South
comes to his aid he will win. If his
friends press him in convention he will
win.” Tire chances of Mr. Bayard he
thus sums up: “As far as the South is con
cerned he will have the solid delegations
of Delaware, Maryland, North and South
Carolina and Mississippi, besides a num-
see. His speech in opposition to the
scheme to unseat Kellogg lost him Louis
iana’s vote, and he will have none from
Texas. Bayard will have at least 100
votes on the first bollot, and his friends
confidently expect he will get 150. At St.
Louis he got .33 on the first ballot, and all
these except 10 deserted him on the second.
There wiHbe nothing of that sort at Cin-
dnnati.
Eugenie'i Last Day in Paris.
When on that terrible 4th of September
the mob forced its way into the Palais
Bourbon and quelled legal opposition by
tumult, it became evident to the ministers
of the crown that all was lost, and that
the next thing was to insure the personal
safety of the Empress. At two the Prin
cess Clotliilde came to say good-bye to
her cousin—she was leaving Paris tho
following day. From time to time the
gallant General Millinet came to ask his
Imperial mistrCss if it were not best to re
pel by force the im b that was already
suiging at the very gates of the palace.
The Empress expiessly forbade any vio
lence to be used. At 3:30 M. Pietri open
ed the door and said m a low, earnest
voice: “Madame,you have only just time.”
“Make haste, madame, make haste,” ex
claimed together Prince Metternich and
the Chevalier Nigra, who had been watch
ing tho movemeuts of the mob below
from the window. The Empress went
hurriedly into her bedroom, put on a
brown waterproof cloak, a round hat cov
ered with a veil of the same color, took a
green parasol, began to collect in great
haste all the miniatures of the Emperor,
of her son, of her sister, the Ducliesse
d’Albe, and of her neice, and put them
into a lapis lazuli box which, however,
in the haste of her flight she was destined
to leave behind.
“Make haste, Madame, I hear cries;
they are mounting the stairs; they are
coming!” cried M. Nigra. Prince Met
ternich went boldly into the bedroom and
took the Empress by the arm.
“Madame, where are you going?”
asked M. Chevreau.
“Metternich will tell you,” replied the
Empress. Then coming" back as she was
leaving the room, she added, “Say good
bye to ifiy good sisters of charity, whoinT
was forgetting, and take care-of the woun
ded!” Her first thought even ini- the ex
citement of this terrible day, was for
others.
Everyone had more or less, lost their
presence of mind. The Empress left
without taking any money with her,
aitnough there" were about forty thousand
francs in tho drawers.
As Prince Metternicli’s coupe was sup-
wsed to he stationed in front of the
. Jouvre by the Church of Saint Germain
l’Auxerrois, it was through the famous
picture galleries that'the imperial party
fled.
Atone moment the Empress, seeing
from the window the mob rushing into
the courts of the palace, stopped short anil
said:
“See! It is too late, we must stay! It
is too late, we cannot pass!” Prince Met
ternich, however, hurried her on, ex
claiming : “We must madame, we must!”
At the top of the Egyptian staircase her
majesty held out her band to Messrs.
Conti and Connean and said sadly:
“You had better go no further. Some
thing might happen to you.” At last they
got out of tlie palace and reached the
street. Unluckily, Priuce Mctternich’s
coachman had stationed the. ambassador's
coupe on tlie quay. The Prince ran to
get it; but during his absence the mob,
increasing every moment,. threatened to
overwhelm me Irene' Knot of persuns ac
companying the Empress. Suddenly a
gamin bawled out: “Tiensl There’s
the Empress! - ’
“What, little wretch ■ I)o you dare cry
YivelaPrusse?” exclaimed M. Nigra, with
wonderful presence of mind. Just at that
moment a fiacre passed. The Italian am
bassador made a sign to stop, and pushed
the Empress and Madame Le Breton into
it, whispering, “Get in, Madame, get in;
we caimot wait for Mettemich’s brou
gham.” Madame Le' Breton gave the
first address that came into her head, and
the cab rolled rapidly away. The next
question was where they were to go? It
was necessary to get some, money, and ob
tain a temporary refuge. They went from
house to house; all their friends were ab
sent from home. Suddenly a lucky idea
struck Madame Le Breton—Dr. Evans,
the celebrated dentistj inhabited an hotel
in the Avenue Malakoff, and the Empress
could rely upon his loyalty aud de
votion. They drove there without
delay; aud although the doctor was
not at home, took refuge until his return.
Two days later a carriage, containing Dr.
Evans, and two ladles, both closely
veiled, and one apparently old, tottering
and infirm, drove-up- to the "door of-the
Hotel du Casino, at Deauville. The
ocJor alighted and engaged rooms for
hburself and companions, asserting that he
was accompanied by an invalid lady who
needed tlie greatest tranquillity and re
pose. The invalid was apparently too ill
to'leave her room, and her meals were
passed through the half-opened door aud
taken by the younger lady. It so happen
ed that Sir John Burgoyne’s yacht wa3 ly
ing at that time in the' Basin de Deau-
iue, on the very eve of departure for
England. A gentleman casually re
marked one afternoon to a lady, after the
table d’hote:
“You know- Sir John Bmgoyno very
well, I believe ?”
'“Oh, yes,” was the reply: “I have tea
on board his yacht every day.”
“Would you mind asking him, then, if
lie would be kind enough to take charge
of some very valuable jewels belonging to
a lady of rank, which I want to send in
safety to England ?” The lady consented,
and Sir John readily promised to take
charge of the jewels. When tlds favorable
reply was made known to the gentleman
who asked the favor, lie hesitated for a
moment aud then said: “Since Sir John
is so kind, I am almost tempted to ask
him if he wonld •willingly take charge of
the lady, in case she should want to take
refjige in England.” “I have no doubt he
would gladly do so,” replied Sir John’s
friend. “I will ask him to-night.” When
this second request reached Sir John's ears
he began to have some inkling of
the truth, especially as the gentle
man who was so anxious about the welfare
of this mysterious lady aud iier jewels
was none other than a chamberlain of the
Empress. Of course he consented to take
charge of the lady, and pledged his word
as an English gentleman that no harm
should come to her. Tlds was in the
evening, and the yacht was to leave at
early dawn. At about midnight a small
party, composed of two ladies and two
gentlemen, came on board, and one iady,
throwing back her veil and revealing in
the full moonlight one of the most beauti-
tifui faces ever given to mortal, said sadly
and sweetly:
“I am the Empress. I put myself un
der the protection of the British flag, and
under the care of an English- gentle
man 1”
Sir John bowed his knee.
Dancing and Morals.—Franco ia
popularly supposed to be tho parent of all
pleasing and fashionable vices. When,
therefore, a Frenchman who is also a no
bleman, aud may consequently be sup
posed to know something of the ways of
good society, raises his voice against any
one of these indulgences the public is natu
rally startled into listening. The Vis
count de Brieux Saint Laurent has just
published a pamphlet on modern dancing,
in which he says that young Christian
girls will polka, then waltz; then the
polka-mazourka and the scottische
passes them into the arms and on to tlie
palpitating breasts of excited young men,
and pure young girls give themselves up,
between two communions, to the clasp of
the first coiner, and mothers will applaud
—all of which the author regards as pros
titution. The facts are as the author
states them; whether lus conclusion is
correct is for society to decide, but as so
ciety tolerates almost anything that is not
done in secret, individual decisions are al
so in order, and the gravity of tho charge
demands for it the careful attention of.
parents and daughters. Once tho church
considered itself authorized to regulate
dancing or forbid it altogether; whether it
has resigned its right or agreed that round
dancing has no immoral tendencies per
haps some preacher or priest will tell us.
—New York Herald.
Mr. Fliggers’ Account of hi! Broth
er's Mishap.
He was a well-to-do looking citizen,
though the pufly fit of his clothes and a
ferryboat hat string hitched to a vest but
ton, denoted that he lived in Almeda, and
came over to tlie western part of the uni
verse at least twice a week; and as he
stepped into the city editor's room yester
day, wearing a most sepulchral expres
sion, and applying a red silk handkerchief
to his redder nose, it was apparent at once
that he was a man bowed down by some
sudden grief. He dropped into a chair
proffered by a kind-hearted reporter, and'
remained for a few moments, evidently
struggling with his sorrow. At last the
editor of the death notices picked up a
fresh tablet, coughed sympathetically once
or twice, and inquired:
“When cid the sad occurrence take
place?”
“Yesterday,” said tho gentleman from
across the hay, jn so harrowing a voice
that even the police couit special shud
dered, and the managing editor got up and
kicked the door shut. “Yesterday, about
half-past four—”
‘‘Amy particulars,” said the death sharp,
feeling in his pockets to make believe he
opened a handkerchief.
“The facts are these,” said the solemn
man. “You know the excitement about
fancy rifle shooting that has prevailed
about here in consequence of these Carver
and Ruth exhibitions?”
“Of course—regular mania—well?”
“Well, my brother Fliggers—Felix B.
Fliggers—advertises with you, I believe—
got the shooting craze and began practic
ing all the R'utli tricks, although I told liim
over and over again that some terrible
acc'dent would be sure to happen, aud so
-i:.i —j. ^riouis you know my wife
-was a Miss McMacmucK; laum cn.au.-_a.
the first flour mill in the- State?"
“No, think not, but go on.”
“Well, he kept fooling away and mak
ing all kinds of risky shots, until the other
day he started in to shoot a potato off the
head of Bobby—that’s his youngest
child”—
Hold up a minute,” shouted the “Terr
rible Catastrophe,” coming over and draw
ing up his chair. “Lenune see—infant
son, named Robert, age ?”
“Aged 9 years,” went on the Alameda
mourner, in a still more lugubrious voice,
“and one of tho cleverest children of his
years I ever saw—played on the jewsharp
l ike a grown person and took tiie spelling
medal at the Brooklyn primary last sea
son, and”—
“Yes, yes, my dear sir; but about the
shooting?”
“Ah, yes. Well, we all remonstrated
with him, as I tell you; but you couldn’t
tell Fliggers anything. Ob, no 1 He knew
it all. Held the rifle back over bis shoul
der, too, and took aim through a looking
glass—just think of that!”
“Horrible, niy dear sir, horrible i” and
tlie printer’s devil went down stairs five
steps at a Jump, to stop the press.
“I should say so! Well, I took Fliggers
aside half a dozen times, and I said:
Don’t do it, Fliggers, my boy, don’t do
it!’”
“For heaven’s sake, hurry up!” said
the reporter, handing the first sheet to the
foreman to be set up.
“But, as I said before, there was no use
trying to argufy with Fliggers, aud so we
went out to the race track with'him. I
believe they ain’t going to have any spring
races over there this year—”
“For heaven’s sake, sir, if you don’t
want the pressman to go insane, huny
up!” • .,
“Let’s see, where was I ? Oh, yes, well
Fliggers got on well enough until he came
to the potato trick. The very minute ho
raised his rifle I knew something was go
ing to happen. He pulled his- trigger and”
“His golden-haired darling fell with a
bullet through his brain?”
“Oh?”
“I say the child dropped dead.”
“Not at all. the child was all right, a3
Fliggers missed the potato about a yard,
but he killed old mother Didimus’ cow,
add she began suit for damages this morn
ing.”
And before the fighting editor could find
his club the brogans of the mournful
stranger had ceased rattling on the stairs.
It is remarkable what'good runners some
of these demi-rustics are when it’s nip and
tuck—San Francisco Post.
Oar Candidate.
While we are willing to support any
one of the many able and good men spok
en of for governor who may be nominated,
we have a decided preference for Hon.
Thomas Hardeman of' Macon. His un
questioned ability, bis irreproachable
character and his eminent services to his
party during and after the reconstruction
period, entitle him to the nomination, and
would make him a leader formidable to
any combination that might be made be
tween any dissatisfied element and the
Republicans. Hft record Is uritamished
and- unassailable. No man has ever
worked Larder for th© success of
his party and it is time his noble
work was recognized and rewarded. His
withdrawal front the race four years ago,
for the sake of harmony, whon his sup-
' port was already formidable enough to
assure the defeat of any one of his oppo-
The following morning, when people nents, was a noble self sacrifice charac-
rose to throng the beach, the yacht was teristic of the noble man that he is.
standing bodly out t to sea.—Whitehall We believe that be has more friends in
BetiewT ‘ ’ Harris county than any other gentleman
, ,,, , • whose name is mentioned in connection
/x __ i-. .' . ..... .; . with gubernational honora, and we feel
Queen Victoria has at.ained her Gist proud of our oounty because of this. It
year, an age exceeded by eleven only of is the part of justice and wisdom to recog-
the sovereigns of England, dating from ‘ n - lze merit and to reward patriotism. We
, , , *ke Norman conquest—namely: Henry cau best honor ourselves by honoring
ber 1 fr0m ! ^ il ? nia, v.- Ge ! )rS ^. ^ a ’ L \. Wh , < ? 1 ^ ^ theageo i. 67; Henry m., . 8U cii patriots and statesmen “as ThomsS
and possibly from Kentucky and Tennes- who lived to (So years; Eeward I., who Hardeman—Hamilton Journal.
lived to 67; Edward III., who attained 65 i
years; George I., 67 years; George H., 77 —The Escanaba Iron Port tells a very
years; George III., 82 years; George IV., funny story about Quinnesec Opera
68 years. On the 20th of June she will House. In getting up a recent perfor-
bave reigned over England 43 years, a pe- mance, the seats, were not ready, so the
riod which has not been cxceeedad by hall was furnished with beer kegs, of
more than four English sovereigns, via., which there se.ems to be no lack in that
Henry HI., who reigned 56 years; Edward region. The Iron Port says tlie tariff of
ILL, who reigned 50 years; Queen Eliza- rates was; Small kegs, eighths, fifty
—, jwuo, uim- rates was; Small kegs,
uirav men dui: uwiwiuu wvnu n* > uuuun He will bold his strength, and , beth, who reigned 45 years; and George cents; quarters, reserved, seventy-five
working for the people of the South, with j his friends expect it to increase from IU., who reigned for the long period of 6Q cents; half barrels, proscenium boxes tt
his voice and money. If they refused to 1 the first ballot.” ' years. ' 4 were* $1,