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FRIDAY, JUNE 11,1SS0.
Tiie Tribune thinks Senator Joe Brown
is painfully lean. Others have thought
him a dry fish and made very little out of
him.
. —Of the new Methodist Episcopal
Bishops, Foss will reside in St. Paul,
Hurst in Des Monies, and Haven in San
Francisco.
TnE Tribune thinks the Democratic
Grant prophets should close their shops
and go out of business. Well, they missed
being right but a few votes. It is a point
to be remembered by posterity that in the
year 1SS0 the so-called Republican party
barely missed going for a third term and
an imperial government.
TnE Globe-Democrat announced during
the sittings of the late convention, that
Grant nomination “will beavictory over
packed convention, and over packed com
mittees by the public opinion of the Re
publican party.”
What says the same organ of the slaugh
tered Ulysses now ? Will he support the
nominee of that packed concern ?
Fine Strawberries.—Mr. W.H. Ca
son, of Howard’s district, brought a sam
ple of his strawberries, which are very
fine and large in a season when strawber
ries have usually been small and inferior.
His samples will generally run not far
either way from an inch in diameter, and
are exceedingly fair and bright colored.
They are the Wilson's Albany Seed
ling, which he says he has fouud much
the best variety for this region.
-In some interesting geographical in
ventions, made and published by Prof.
Rcade of England, the river Thames is
credited with washing away 147 tons of
solid matter per square mile ever/ year;
the Rhine, about 92; the Rhone, 2;M; the
Danube, about 73; the Garonne, 14z; the
Seine, 97. He thinks that probably
throughout the world 100 tons of rock
material are dissolved per square mile
every year; and, taking the solids removed
mechanically at six times those in solu
tion, the total denudation Ou the globe
would be COO tons a year pe r square mile,
to which may also be added one-third for
denudation effected by the sea on its
coasts and for what volcanic eruptions add
to a given stratum.
—Prof. Wickerslieimer, the celebrated
taxidermist attached to the Anatomical
Museum of Berlin, basjiyt .dferqsP.Tty 1 &
Jfead meat not only preserves it for several
weeks from decay but keeps it perfectly
fresh aud in possession of its natural fla
vor. Having treated a slaughtered calf
With his new preparation, and subsequent
ly caused it to be exposed for a fortnight
to the air and weather changes, hanging in
the open front of a butcher’s shop, he in
vited a select party of scientific celebrities
to partake of the meat thus tested, provid
ing for them, however, other viands in
case the prepared veal should fail to suit
their palates. The professor’s guests, how
ever, found his piece de resistance so tooth
some and delicate that they confined their
attentions to it exclusively, neglecting all
the other solid items in his menu
Tiib Railing to ora Confederate
Monument.—We saw yesterday a sam
ple of the material to be used ior enclos
ing the Macon Confederate monument.
The railing will be composed of polished
brass, tliat most durable of all substan
ces, arranged in circular sections, and to
be cast in Chicopee, Massachusetts. From
115 to 180 feet of railing will be required
to fence the necessary area. The height
of the enclosure, including the granite
base, will be four and a half feet, and the
cost abyut one thousand dollars. It is
due to our patriotic and public spirited
fellow citizen, Captain John P. Fort, to
state (without his knowledge, however,)
that the material for this beautiful enclo
sure was generously donated by him to
the Ladies’Memorial Association. We
trust the fact may be peipetuated by a
suitably inscribed tablet attached to the
fence. ' .
Growling Over Their Platform.
The New York Times, a leading Republi
can sheet, is down upon that plank in the
Radical platform which recommends an
amendment to the constitution forbidding
the legislatures of States to make any law
respecting the establishment of any relig
ion, and to forbid the appropriation of
• public funds to the support of sectarian
schools. " !
Ou this subject the Times says: “How
ever opposed to such appropriations Re
publicans as individuals may be—and
they are not entirely^ unanimous even
iu this—not one in a thousand of the party
has even considered the notion of forbid
ding them in the Federal constitution.
The proposition is an ill-considered one;
it Involves considerations oT great impor
tance; it is not a fair expression of any
conviction of the party, and it does not
deserve a place in a national platform;”
Some are disposed to think this plank
was designed as a covert attack upon the
Catholic Church.
—The question ot slavery has again
come to the front in Egypt and has been
made the subject of special meetings of
the council of ministers. News came
down to Cairo, some weeks ago, that a
caravan of slaves had arrived at Siout, the
capital of Upper Egypt, and was encamp-
ed outside the town.' All the authorities
of Siout must have known of the caravan,
including the officials of the special
bureau established, there for the suppres
sion of the slave trade; yet the informa
tion was only brouglit to Cairo by a Swiss
gentleman totally unconnected with the
government. A general of brigade was at
once sent to Siout with troops, and heeur-
roundei the slavers’ camp by night and
seized what remained of the slaves. The
tacit countenance lent to the forbidden
traffic by all the local authorities of Siout
is haidly more important as an indication
of public sentiment than is the renewed
of an abandoned sieve route as show
ing the revival of the old trade. Perhaps
the departure of Colonel Gordon may be
the iMtr of the rcvhal.
Last Week’s Cotton figures.
rainfall in may—weather and
CROWING CROPS.
The New York Chronicle of Saturday
reports the receipts of the seven days end
ing last Friday night, June 4th, at 23,074
pales, against 11,OSD for the correspond
ing week of last year—showing an excess
for the week of 12,5 So bales. Total re
ceipts from the first day of last September
to last Friday night 4,703,110 bales,
ngaiDSt 4,400,810 to same date last year—
showing an increase of 362,300 bales.
The interior ports in the same week re
ceived 6,991 hales against 5,371 last year.
They shipped 19,590 against 10,019 last
year, and hold in stock 130,035 bales,
against 37,570 last year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed last Friday 2,212,577 bales in
sight, against 1,700,090 at same date last
year, 2,020,127 the year before, and 2,043,-
467 in 1S77 at the same date. These figures
show an increase in the visible supply as
compared with last year of 505,510 bales.
As compared with the supply in 1S7S, at
same date, the increase is 245,479 bales,
and as compared with the visible supply
inlS77 the decrease is 371,801 hales.
Cotton in Liverpool last Friday was sell
ing at 0 11-10 for middling uplands. At
the same date in 1879 it was seven pence.
In 1878 at same date the quotation was
CJ and in 1877 sixpence. .
The Chronicle appends the following
statement to its table of plantation re
ceipts:
The above statement shows—
1. That the total receipts from the plan
tations since September 1 in 1879-80 were
4,8Stf,450 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,432,-
728bales; in 1877-78were4,220,156bales.,
2. That although the receipts at the
out ports the past week were 23,674 bales,
the actual movement from plantations was
only 11,008 bales, the balance being drawn
from stocks at the interior ports. Last
year the receipts from the plantations fnr
the same week were 6,461 bales, and for
1878 they were 7,509 bales.
Weather Reports of the Week
Ending Last Friday and Rainfall
of the Month of May.—As to Texas,
Galveston reports a warm and dry week,
and the rainfall of the month of May 3.49.
Indianola the same, and the May rainfall
3.66. Rumors of caterpillars. Corsicana,
four days of rain during the week, and
May’s rainfall 2.42. Dallas, rain on two
days and 2.50 during the past month. On
Saturday the town of Savoy was destroyed
by a hurricane. At Brenbam, they had a
rain on four days—the rain reaching four
inches. During the month of May the
rainfall aggregated 8.50. Cotton and com
very promising, but weedy. Too wet.
In Louisiana, at New Orleans, there
was rain for four days during the week,
and C.5S inches during May. At Shreve
port the weather was fair. In Mississippi,
at Vicksburg, it rained three days. At
Columbus, it rained on four days, and
the rain during May was 3.22. At Little
Rock, in Arkansas, there were four days
of rain, and crops in a very favorable con
dition. In Tennessee, at Memphis, rain
on five days during the week, and cool
nights. Too much rain and grass trouble
some. At Nashville,,rain on five days,
aggregating 2.41.
four days at Montgomery. The rainfall
in May was 7.07. The soil very wet and
weeds troublesome. At Mobile the rain
in May was 5A3. Complaint of weeds
and crop accounts less favorable. At
Selma, too much rain, and the same com
plaints of the crop. In Florida five days
of rain and crop developing finely.
In Georgia, at Columbus, weeds are
growing fast. Rainfall during May, 11.84.
At Macon, rainfall in May, 3.22. At Au
gusta rain on two days, fields clear of
weeds and crops strong and healthy,
Rainfall in May, 2.98. At Savannah,
light showers on four days. At Charles
ton, South Carolina, 1.01 of rain during
the week.
State Politics.
The Gubernatorial Canvass—Gen.
Gordon’s Atlanta and Augusta
Speeches.
Our weeklies continue to print no
tices of primary meetings and the names
of the individuals accredited to the ap
proaching convention in Atlanta, which
is charged with the duty of appointing
delegates to represent Georgia in the Cin
cinnati National Democratic Convention,
which meets on the 22d instant. For the
most part, these gatherings have ignored
any action looking to the election of a
governor and members of Congress, as an
other and distinct convention will be held
for the nomination of candidates for State
officers in August. Iu one or two in
stances only, we believe, lias any prefer
ence been indicated as to the gubernato
rial succession. But the State campaign
may he said, nevertheless, to have fairly
opened. Gov. Colquitt, Col. Harde
man and Gen. Gartrell have all addressed
the people upon the political topics ol the
hour, and each will, without doubt, make
a vigorous canvass of the State.
Col. Lester’s friends, too, are far from
inactive, and we hear that he has a laige
following in lower Geoigia. If the veter
an Warner’s claims are to be pressed, and
Col. Wofford also enters the arena as an
Independent candidate, it may be readily
seen that the contest will not be lacking
in warmth and interest.
It is impossible to say to what extent
the Joe Brown Senatorial appointment will
affect the present incumbent’s chances of
renomination. In some portions of
the State, notably North Geoigia,
he will probably gain additional
strength, while other sections are down
upon the governor and vow vengeance
against hjm. On the whole, however,
the excitement on the subject seems to be
subsiding, and m the meantime Senator
Brown, with the astuteness for which he
is proverbial, is laboring like a beaver in
Congress to show-his faith by Lis works.
It has not yet transpired whether he will
be a candidate for re-election before the
next Legislature. Wby should a man so
feeble physically and oppressed by outside
labors as he, after having been invested’
with every honor in the gift of the State,
still desire to remain in the public service
at the imminent risk of health and life?
It is believed by many that' our rising
fellow townsman, Captain A. •. Bacon,
however, has the inside track in the Sena
torial race, and will come out * foremost.
His friends at least talk confidently of the
result.
General Gordpn will not stump tne
State in vindication of the “bargain and
sale” charge, but has spoken in Atlanta
and Augusta. Of his effort at the capitol
on Friday night, a gentleman who was
present says it was a masterly and most
triumphant refutation of the slanders
which have been circulated against him.
General Gordon said he bad no knowl
edge of or participation in any arrange
ment alleged to have been made with Jo
seph E. Brown. And that if the services
he has rendered the State, and his record
for the last twenty years are not answers
sufficient to the charges brought against
himself, then they will remain forever
unanswered.” He believed these slan-'
ders “were simply an attempt to stab Gov.
Colquitt through him.”
Of the General’s speech in Augusta, a
synopsis of which will be found else
where, the Chronicle and Constitution-
ist says:
The chivalrous soldier and gifted states
man was received with enthusiastic ap
plause. HU speech was listened to with
close attention and elicited frequent
marks of approval. If there were any
doubts as to the propriety^ of Senator
Gordon’s action, they were effectually re
moved by his speech. It was candid and
eloquent. The idea of baigain and sale
has never been entertained by our people,
and Senator Gordon did not need to make
any explanation for his vindication.
They have the fullest confidence in his
integrity and honor. • * *
We are satisfied that General Gordon is
no party to any bargain and sale. We are
also satisfied from the lips of Senator Gor-
doa that Governor Colquitt is as of any
bargain and sale in the appointment of
Governor Brown, as Senator Gordon.
This is our deliberate conviction. And
we have the authority for it of a man who
has never deceived his people—who has
been true to them iu peace and in war—
who is without fearand without reproach.
We do not approve of the appointment of
Governor Brown, but we are free to say
that we do not believe that either Senator
Gordon or Governor Colquitt would in
tentionally be guilty of any act detrimen
tal to the honor or interests of the people
of Georgia. -
Progress and Politics.
The foreign immigration to the United
States from 1790 to this date is placed, in j
round numbers, at 10,500,000, or say
about one-fifth of our actual population. In
a few generations the country will present
a composite of all known races, and gen
erally of the most active and enterprising
of those races. In addition to the amelio
rating effect of the intermixture of laces,
let it be considered that, iu America
alone, the progress of improvement is has
tened and facilitated by the abundance of
wholesome food and the general comfort
of the people.
In every other country upon the earth
the food of the working classes is coarse
and innutritions—the effect of which is to
retard and restrain physical development.
In America, of bread and meat there is
no stint. A friend writing a letter for his
servant to a brother in a foreign country,
was requested to state that here, in Amer
ica, he was allowed meat once a day!
Why, said the amanuensis, stopping, why
do you ask me to write that, when you
know that you have meat three times a
day? All, said the servant, but they
would think me such a liar! They wo"ld
believe niver a word of the letter!
Now, just as successive crops on barren
soil will deteriorate,so meager and stinted
food supplies undoubtedly exercise a
damaging effect on successive generations
of a race, and abundance of good, whole
some nutriment will improve them. The
people of the United States are already
admitted to furnish the best average spec
imens of manhood and womanhood on
•-w V* vut. giuuc, emu Lucie can uc uu
doubt, if we are able to preserve a cheap
and free government, so as to secure to
many generations an easy, comfortable
and abundant subsistence, the superiority
of the American race will become still
more marked and remarkable.
It is mainly, after all, a question of
politics; for every man of middle life in
this generation is stupid if he has not seen
for himself how bad politics may easily
break the hearts, the b&ads, the fortunes
and the lives of a people. But if we are
able to maintain a government which
will permit the common people to avail
themselves of the rich heritage which has
come to them from a bounteous Provi
dence, then there is hardly a measure to
the rate of our progress in all that concerns
wealth, comfort, utility and elegance.
The American people are now the
handsomest, ablest, richest and happiest
people in the world; but their rate of
advance is rapidly accelerating—more rap
idly than is commonly conceived even by
reflecting men. Since the war all our
crops have trebled in volume, and our
mechanical and mining enterprises have
shown an equal growth. Our commerce
and navigation have been sacrificed to the
insane folly of protection; but we can
stand a great deal of bad political econo
my, if it docs not enlist the passions of
the people by its injustice. Extravaganqe
we can endure, but politics which find
their root and incentives In rousing the
prejudices and evil passions of the people
are of the Devil himself, and of tlie most
dangerous and fatal Character.
It is one great natural defect of a Re
publican and popular system of govern
ment—that the people do not attend to it
properly. “What is everybody’s business
is nobody’s!” Hence, this third term
business like to have carried the day, al
though nobody can doubt that It was a
fell blow at our system of government.
Hence, civil war came upon us with its
horrid train of ills. The causes which
Which His Name is James A. Gar
field.
The agony of the Chicago convention
terminated on the 3Cth ballot, which was
announced as follows: Grant, 311;
Blaine, 47; Garfield, 397. Necessary to a
choice, 879. So James A. Garfield, «f
Ohio, was announced duly nomiuated the
Republican candidate for president. And
so the third term imperialism expired in
writhing agony. And so the grand impe
rial triad of Conkling, Cameron and Lo
gan dissolved in mortifying frustration
and defeat. In that fell vote the illustri
ous Conkling lost the last, one of his fan
feathers. He will hereafter spread far
less than he has done for some years.
James A. Garfield has been for years
the veteran representative of the 19th dis
trict of Ohio in Congress, and since
the elevation of Blaine to the Senate, the
pretty generally acknowledged leader of
the Republicans in the House. Last win
ter he was elected by the legislature of
Ohio, Senator to fill, as nearly as he
might, the seat of Thurman. Yery possi
bly he may have a tussel with Thurman
next fall for the presidential vote of that
State as honors seem to crowd on Ohio.
Garfield went to Chicago as leader of
the hosts of Sherman, and doubtless the
nomination fell on him like a stroke of
lightning. But it will be generally con
ceded that Garfield is a man of ability-
moderate and conciliatory, and the nomi
nation a judicious one.
The Bads Unhappy. *
Democratic Harmony and Unity
an Assured Fact.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says : '
But little can be gathered from the
Democratic State conventions .which
have been held the present week as to the
strength which they have furnished any
particular Democratic candidate for the
presidency. It is claimed by the oppo
nents of Tilden that he has not held his
own, which, to say the least, is exceeding
ly doubtful. He has a way of holding
good hands without showing them until
he is ready, and then he usually rakes in
the pot. But it is not known what other
candidates have gained as few of the
delegates elected have given * any sign
which might indicate their preference.
This is favorable to Tilden, as he will be
strong at Cincinnati among uncommitted
delegates.
The wish is father to the thought with
our "Western contemporary. But he is
mistaken. He aud his Republican breth
ren have effe.ctually killed off Mr. Tilden
by their ill-natured reports and slanders,
which, though false, had just sufficient
plausibility to keep him constantly on the
defense and render his nomination unad-
visable. But the Globe-Democrat will
not be gratified when the Cincinnati con
vention assembles by auy such spectacle
of hideous discord as has been witnessed
at Chicago.
The Democracy are exeicising a most
commendable degree of sagacity, patience
and self abnegation in view of the great
issues which are involved in the pending
contest for the presidency.
It is already quite evident that when
the representatives from every State in
this broad Union of the only conserva-
The Country Great and Safe.
The victory of Garfield at Chicago was
substantially a triumph, in the Republi
can party, over the most reckless and des
perate elemeuts which enter into its com
position—the men who would stop at
nothing to accomplish their personal ob
jects—the men ready for ruin if they
could not rule. These were the leadiug
spirits who, foup years ago, were prepared
to push the country into civil war in the
maintenance of a great election fraud, and
nothing but the Quaker policy of the
Southern Democrats prevented a civil war
then. This faction represented a political
organism, the most intolerant, auda
cious ana unscrupulous everyet organized
in America, and they were supremely
confident of their ability to push it through
triumphantly .upon the capital of Grant’s
military achievements.
It is .true that, of late, there has been a
wide-spread notion afloat among both
Democrats and anti-Grant Republicans,
that Grant could have been easily de
feated; but this would have proved a
grand aud fatal mistake. While the coun
try was calm and unexcited over the elec
tion, the repugnance to a third term would
have been strongly displayed, and threat
ened defeat; hut so soon as the party
strife became warm, and the Democrats
began to assail Grant and his administra
tion personally and politically, with great
heat, as they certainly would liaTe done,
all third term objections would have van
ished, and every patriotic and sectional
impulse would have rallied the North and
West to his support.
It is not too much to say that the Demo
crats would have probably secured his
election by their attacks upon him and
his friends — attacks well-grounded in
fact; but thoroughly ill-adapted to the ex
igencies of the occasion. The noi i«n that
Grant would have been a weak candidate
had apparently strong foundation in an
anti-third term feeling as it existed before
the canvass opened, but it would have
proved totally erroneous soon after the
fight began in earnest.
We are glad this issue has been quieted
by the action at Chicago, and that now,
should Garfield be elected, no designs
fatally at war with the character and
theory of the government need be dreaded.
Garfield is a pretty fair, conservative man,
so nearly as a leading Radical politician
can approach that character. He has been
a Campbellite preacher and a Democrat,
before he became a soldier, a war Demo
crat and a Republican member of Con-
tive and constitutional party m the coun- pondent of the proceedings of the conven-
itjr wm njqnjr me tiuu, umjm. - -
in npytj me
moral of the Chicago convention and
start clear of those feuds and disgraceful
bickerings which have elicited the con
tempt of all respectable people. Taught
by the bitter experience of the past, and
keenly alive to the dangers of continued
Radical government, patriotism will rule
in their councils, and we shall be greatly
mistaken it all the Democratic es
tates of the realm do not unite shoulder
to shoulder in a crusade against
centralization, and the villainous corrup
tion and extravagance which, for long
years, have been so patent in high places
Nowhere can there be seen anything like
the virulence manifested by the Grant,
Blaine and Sbennan factions of the Re
publican party. All good Democrats have
about come to the conclusion that it mat
ters not who bears aloft the standard of
their mighty organization, if he is only a
pure man and lover of constitutional lib
erty. We predict, therefore, that the har
mony and good feeling which will prevail
at Cincinnati will be in striking contrast
to the doings of the Chicago mob.
Would that the outlook in State politics
was equally favorable. But in Georgia,
at least, great wisdom and forbearance
will be needed by the advocates of each
candidate for governor and Congress, to
ksep the party together at the ballot box.
This must be accomplished at all hazards
however, and the only way to do it is by
avoiding antagonisms aud personalisms
during the preliminary canvass prior to
the State convention in August. Let the
voice of the masses be fairly expressed
through their county primaries, and then
when the naminees have been announced
all should unite hand and heart in their
support.
“How Are the Mighty Fallen!”
Facilis descensue Averni, in its literal
sense, may not be exactly applicable to
General Grant at this juncture. But Iiis
Vaulting ambition and. overweening con
fidence in the remark so often repeated,
culminate in great national calamity that he was “the child of destiny,” have
gather slowly and often imperceptibly. If
they are seen in time to apply correc
tives, the chapter of accidents is relied on.
The masses, busy with their farms and
merchandise are unwilling to act, and
when action comes at last, it comes too
late. Up to a certain point -politics are
controllable and belong to the people.
Beyond that point, when events Lave
taken their bent, the people belong toj>ol-
itics. No force can arrest the tide of
events. Politicians themselves are but as
straws and chips on the heady and raging
torrent—powerless to diracty'curb or con
trol it.
He Is the statesman, who is able to sco
danger in the distance and watch the gath
ering elements of the tempest. The peo
ple of America have indre interest in poli
tics than any other people—and politics
embrace all the elements of comfort and
prosperity, as well as of poVeff.y, distress
and ruin. Upon thegi is staked all our
wealth and hope as a people, and they de
mand of eveiy man his most careful, cen-
scientioui and intelligent attention.
—A strange story is related by a lady in
the Providence (R.1.) Journal. One day
she went into a store to purchase a pair of
gloves. She tried on one or two pain be
fore becoming satisfied. A few days af
terwards die missed a valuable gold, ring
from her finger. Search was made for it
without success, and it was finally given
up as irreooverably lost At the expira
tion of nearly a year she Went Into tlie
same store again on the same errand as
before. In the finger of the first" pair slie
tried on slie fouud her long-lost ring,
where she left it In drawing off the glove
a year previous. She has- agreed for -a
consideration not to publish The number
and street of tlie shop, the shop-keeper on
his part agreeing not to give up the num
ber of the glove she wears.
at least hurled him from a very lofty pin
nacle to the bottom of the Republican
ladder.
In his defeat and humiliation, hoWever,
every patriot heart will rejoice, that “im
perialism,” in the transparent guise of a
tliiid term in the Presidential chair, by a
military man who never scrupled at any
thing that would aggrandize himself, has
met with an overwhelming rebuke.
The countiy will breathe easier, and
the whole world admit that a republican
form of government can be stable as Well
as liberal. General Grant, though the
idol of bis p&rty, bos failed most signally
to make his followers the pliant tools aud
exponents of a personal ambition which
knew no limit.
He has tarnished his record and shown
that the long journey around the world
was hut a subtle scheme to win-fame and
notoriety abroad, in order that he might
compass his private ends at home.
From a partisan standpoint, however,
we. are sorry that tlie Democracy will nqt
be permitted during the forthcoming cam
paign to measure swords with the “Duke
of Ainerici.” We believe tliat he could
Lave men routed “horse, foot and drag
oons.’!
Nor do we despair of beating the more,
wily and politic Garfield. All that is
needed to achieve this glorious result, is
harmony iu the Democratic wigwam, from
the smallest primary gathering to the
grand pronunclamento of the party at
Cincinnati. »
This, and nothing more.
The 'Sun says the uext campaign will
l>e an easy. one for the Democrats, since
they will only have tp reprint what each
faction of the Republican party says of
tlie others. But the difficulty lies in a
lack of credibility all round.
Heavy Upon the Kan and Brother.
The Colobed Chicago Delegates
Wounded in the House of Theib
Fbiends.
The charge is squarely made by news
papers in Chicago, Philadelphia and many
other Northern cities that the colored
delegates in the national Republican con
vention were literally sold like beef upon
the shambles many times over. Even the
Philadelphia Times, independent in poli
tics, speaking throughlts Chicago corres-
_ One of the difficulties in the wey of es
timating is the uncertainty oft the colored
element. There are about 00 black dele
gates and some have been traded off two
or three times a day for the past week.
They enjoy the prolongation and seem to
be making money out of it. Many of them
have appeared in gorgeous new suits of
clothes since they came here.
This a*grievous charge indeed, against
our colored citizens, and we trust they
will proceed forthwith to scout and dis
prove it. Judging from the votes of the
Georgia delegation, which were given
agreeably to the preferences announced
at the Atlanta Republican State conven
tion, the statement above is not sustained
by facts and is certainly slanderous so far
as they are concerned. No men ever
stood up more staunchly to the candidates
of their choice. At eveiy ballot Grant,
Blaine- and Sherman received each, from
Geoigia, the number of votes which had
been accredited to them from the begin
ning.
But ought not this talk of the Northern
press to open the eyes of Southern colored
Republicons to the it jllowness of the pro
testations of regard so blatantly made by
their white associates? The truth is
Grant’s managers failed most ignoinin-
iously to rope in by bribes, intimidation
or otherwise the sable malcontents of the
South. Now let our colored friends re
member these charges and insults, and
rebuke them by repudiating their alliance
with the Radicals of the North and mak
ing common cause with the people at
home, who- are identified with them in
interest, and with whom they expect to
live and die.
Desecrating' the Sabbath.
Under the head of “Sunday work for
Grant,” the Philadelphia Times says:
“To-day has been one of earnest prayer
among the leaders, and some of the meth
ods of prayer would astonish those who
have prayed a life-time in the old-fash
ioned way. Conkling lias prayed around
among several of the delegations, and has
had the prayerful assistance of Cameron.
It is unfortunate that Logan has lost his
power for prayer, since eighteen of liis
delegates were unseated in the first hours
of Saturday morning. But he has been at
work all day with the others.” The
bribciy and drunkenness that ran riot in
Chicago ou the Lord’s holy day are said to
hare been without a parallel in the history
of the country. Who knows hut the
Divine vengeance will make itself felt for
all this wickedness by an overwhelming
defeat to the Radical cause in November?
Many devoutly believe it.
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*A Sheffield manufacturer is reported
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get’s In.”
The Bailroad Commission.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
Much has been recently written pro and
con in relation to the railroad commission
and the schedule of rates that they have
made for the government of the several
roads of the State. The argument has by
no means been exhausted, "and soine im
portant views of the subject have not been
touched upon, in any article thaLhas
come under my notice. 1 am well ac
quainted with one of the gentlemen tliat
compose the commission, and know the
other two from reputation, and from this
acquaintance and knowledge, coupled
with the high character of the gentlemen
that compose the commission, I have
every reason to hope that their object will
be to do equal and exact justice to the en
tire people of the State, as well as to tho
several railroads.
What is just to both is therefore a per
tinent subject of inquiry. It will be con
ceded by all iair minds that the several
roads of the State are entitled to receive
from their business, such an amount of
money as will pay all the legitimate ex
penses of the roads and yield a moderate
income to the stockholders. If the rates
fixed by the commission will do this, then
the several roads should be satisfied, and
they will be. If it will not they ought
not to be satisfied. Will the rates allowed
by tho commission pay all legitimate ex
penses and yield a moderate dividend to
the Stockholders? They will not, unless
the several roads can do one of two things,
either increase the amount of freights aud
passage over the roads or decrease the ex
penses of operating and keeping up the
roada.
A little reflection will satisfy any one
that the amount of business done by any
given road in the State cannot be mate
rially increased at will. If so, then every
road in the State would soon have all the
business that the capacity of their roads
could do. We all know that there is only
a certain amount of freight to he carried
over the roads of the State., When you
have removed from any given point all
the freights that are offered, and brought
to the same point all articles that are
needed, or that can be utilized by the
community that uses the road as a means
of transportation, you have done all that
can be expected.
The amount of freights transported or
received at a given point may and will
vary slightly in different years. If the
countiy is prosperous and the products of
the country abundant, the amount of
freights transported from this prosperous
section will be increased, and the amount
received at the same point will be de
creased. While, on the other hand, if
there is a comparative failure in tlie pro
ducts of the country there will be a de
crease in the amount of freights carried
from, and an increase of the amount re
ceived at this point. It is safe, theretore,
to assert that yon cannot materially in
crease the amount of freights to and from
any given point at will.
It is also certain that if some
road in the State could, by su
perior management, secure a larger
amount of freight and travel over its
line of road than legitimately belonged to
it, that there should be a corresponding
decrease in the business done by some
competing line of road. If the business
of the roads cannot be materially in
creased, then it follows that from the bus
iness done, an amount of money sufficient
to pay aU legitimate expenses, and a small
dividenaon the stock, must be realized.
For if the expenses cannot be met, and
a small dividend to the owners of the stock
left, it is only a question of time when the
stock of the road will become worthless.
The operating, as well as the fixed ex
penses, must be paid at all ccents, and if
the earnings of the roads are not sufficient
for this purpose, then the deficiency must
he raised cither by direct contribution by
the stockholders, or by issuing bonds to
meet it. If bonds are resorted to, the
nn tlliieo Ironic inner IlftWaid. atld
paid promptly, or they would be worth
less. Indeed, a bond could not be sold in
the market if tliere was not a reasonable
certainty that all accruing interest would
be promptly met, and the bond itself paid
at maturity. If the earnings of the roads
under a fixed rati of freights cannot be
materially increased, then the next sub
ject of inquiry is, can the fixed aud opera
ting expenses ot the roads of the State
be lessened? If so, it should be done, and
done at once. Where is this work of les
sening expenses to commence. It will
not do to stop repairs. The roads must be
kept in a safe condition, and in order to
do this, a laige amount of money must
be expended annually. New rails must
be supplied to take the place
of those that are worn. New ties must
take the place of old and decayed ones,
new engines and cars must be provided
in the place of those that are wrecked,
and old ones must be repaired and kept
in order. If everything about the road is
not kept in the best possible condition,
the danger to those that travel over the
road is greatly increased, and freights can
not be speedily and safely carried. Jus
tice to the public, to say nothing of the
interest of the roads, demands that tlie
roads should be kept in the best possible
condition.
A single serious accident on any road
in the State, caused by the failure of tlie
company to do their duty in these re
spects, would result in more injury than
the cost of keeping the roads in order.
Economy, as well as humanity, demands
that the roads should be put and kept iu
go*d order. I cannot speak with certain
ty of all the roads of the State, but
know that some of them have reduced the
number of hands employed in keeping up
their roads and rolling stock to the smal
lest number possible. Sections have been
lengthened and tho number of hands de
creased, until it is not sate to economize
further at this point.
The next suggestion made by some
that should know better, is to reduce the
salaries of the principal officers and la
borers of the road, such as president, su
perintendents, supervisors, masters of
transportation, section masters, conduc
tors, engineers, etc., etc.
Can this be safely done? In order to
operate any given road to the best advan
tage, it is necessary to have meu of capac
ity aud experience. In order to secure
the services of such men, you must pay
the price that their services*are worth.
You can no more procure the best men
for these several positions at a small 711106
than you*can procure a first-class horse at
the ruling price fora “plug.” The ser
vices of men, like everything else, have a
market value. In order to procure the
most efficient man for a given position,
you must pay the price that sucli efficiency
commands. It is impossible to procure
and retain the services of a man eminently
qualified for the more responsible official
positions on a road at one-half the value
of his scmces. The demand for first-class
officials and labor for railroads is not con
fined to our State, aud if our roads cannot
pay an amount sufficient to procure the
best possible capacity, some other roads
that are more . wisely managed, and sot
hampered by unfriendly laws, will procure
them. If our roads arc to be operated at
all, they should be run so as to secure the
greatest benefits to the people of the State
using them and to the stockholders Who
own them. In order to reach this result,
you must procure the services of tho most
eapable meu to operate our roads, and to
procure this service you must pay the
price that it is worth.
A single serious mistake, made in some
important matter, by the officials of any
of the nine important lines ot road in the
State, would result in more damage to
the company' iu one month than it would
cost to procure the services of a capable
man for one year. Low-priced men in
the mote important positions on railroads
would'be like cheap clothing; made of
poor material and badly put together. If
you cannot lessen expenses at the several
points indicated, then the only remaining
thing that can be^doue is to reduce the
wages of the laborers of the roads. Can
this be done—should it be done ? Any
man that will put himself to the trouble
to make the inquiry will find that the
wages paid the laborers ou the several
roads in the State, are as low as they can
be made- and the requisite labor re
tained. Indeed, the wages now paid this
class are too small, and would be in
creased (on some of tlie roads at least) in
less time than one mouth, if the earnings
and expenses of the roads would justify it.
A certain amount of work must be done
yearly on the roads in order to keep them
up. This cannot be done without labor and
labor cannot be. procured unless you pay
as much for it as it readily commands in
other departments of industry.
A common laborer can procure better
wages to-day, as a farm hand, than he is
getting on the road, and no one of com
mon sense expects a laborer to woik at
thirty-five cents per day when the same
laborer can go to the nearest farm and
procure fifty cents per day. It is true that,
just at this time, there is* an extraordina
ry demand for farm labor, but this same
demand will be constantly recurring, and
may increase each year. More than this,
it is important to the roads that they re
tain their skilled labor. A well trained
hand in any work that is to be done on
the roads, in the shops, or elsewhere, is
worth much more than an unskilled hand.
If other hands could be readily procured
to supply the place of those that quit, it is
not at all desirable or prudent to lose the
trained hands.
I am not the owner of one dime of stock
in any road in or out of the State, but in
common with all other citizens, I am inter
ested in the prosperity of this most impor
tant interest. If desirable, I will at a fu
ture day present other views of this sub
ject. S. W.
TUBNEB ASHBY.
How the Confederate Cavalry leader
Interfered In a Deadly Quarrel to
Assert the Sacredness of Hospital
ity.
During that period of suppressed ex
citement in Virginia after the John Brown
incident at Harper's Ferry, and before the
outbreak of the war, a young mau from
one of the Northern States passed a week
or two as a guest • in the house of one of
the oldest and most distinguished families
of northern Virginia.
. The young man was frankly a Republi
can in politics, but the fact made no dif
ference whatever in the courtesy or kind
ness of his host, or the treatment given to
him by the gentlefolks of the surround
ing country, to whose houses he was free
ly invited, as a gentleman, visiting in the
house of a gentleman, their neighbor. His
business in the neighborhood was social,
not political—he was, in fact, paying his
addresses to his host’s, daughter—and his
political opinions, though- perfectly well
known, were not discussed, and, perhaps,
were scarcely thought of at all.
One evening during his visit this young
man, C. D——, was invited in company
with his host’s family to attend a recep
tion given by Turner Ashby on the occa
sion of a tournament. He went, of course,
mingled freely with the other guests, and
found nothing in his reception to mark
any difference between himself and otler
gentlemen present, until the supper was
served. Then a disagreeable incident oc
curred.
A young man of the neighborhood, who,
as C. D afterward learned, was a re
jected suitor for the hand of the woman
to whom he was - himself laying siege, ap
proached him as he stood talking with
her, and without speaking to 0. D at
all, said to the lady:
“Isn’t it a sublime piece of impudence
for a Yankee and a black Republican to
come down here now and accept the hos
pitality of a Virginia gentleman, after all
that has happened ?”
The young woman replied quickly:
“Mr. B , you should be the last per
son to criticise the catholicity of my
father’s hospitality; you have profited by
his iudispositiqn to draw social lines too
sharply. You have been received by him
as a guest upon several occasions.”
The reply was so stinging tliat the
youth straightway withdrew from tlie
supper room, and C. D , thinking it
better to retire from a company in which
he might be less welcome than he had
supposed, went to the cloak room for his
hat and coat. He had scarcely entered
the door oftlie room when B approach
ed him, saying:
“Wiust I ooia «uud W1
you and was meant to he insulting.”
Young C. D had not been used to
encounters of this kind, and had little
disposition to engage in affaire of honor;
but lie seriously intended to prosecute his
suit for the hand of his host’s daughter,
and he knew instinctively that all hope of
success there must be abandoned if he
failed to resent an insult of so gross a na
ture. He therefore struck his antagonist
in tlie face with the glove which he had
just drawn from his hand.
This was the signal for the persons pres
ent in the room to interfere to prevent a-
brutal fight with fists. A challenge in
regular form was quickly given and ac
cepted, and C. D——, anxious to have the
affair ended as soon as possible, insisted
that the duel should be lought at once in
a grove near the house, by the light of
torches.
All the persons concerned prepared
themselves immediately, and were about
to quit the room for the appointed place,
when Turner Ashby, white with rage,
burst through the door. A whisper of
what was going on had readied him.
He entered the "room, paused a moment
ana then advanced to B , quivering
as he went forward so violently that half
the persons present supposed that he had
meditated an assault upon B . His
voice, however, was low, aud his speech
very deliberate.
“What is the time fixed for our meeting,
Mr. B ?” he asked.
“I am to fight Mr. C. D imme
diately,” answered B .
“I beg your pardon,” replied Ashby,
“but Mr. 0. D— has nothing to do with
this affair. He came to my house to-night
as my guest.- When I invited him to
come the invitation was Turner Ashby’s
word of honor that he should be treated
here as a gentleman; it was my voucher
for his character to my other guests, and
for the character of my other guests to
him. I am sorry to have to explain these
points of good breeding to you, Mr. B ,
but you have shown your ignorance of
them by insulting my guest. That insult
is mine, not his, to resent. He is here
under my invitation, and that is my pledge
oftprotection. If you are not prepared to
make a proper and satisfactory apology at
once, both to my guest and to myself, you
must fight Turner Ashby, and the time
and place already agreed upoh will ans
wer as well as any other. What do you
say, sir?”
Now, fighting a duel with a young
stranger wholly unused to firearms and to
fighting of any sort was one thing; fighting
a duel with Turner Ashby, in a rage, was
very well understood to be another aud a
much more serious thing, and young
B 's consciousness of this difference
wrought a complete change in his mood.
He pleaded in excuse for his conduct that
he had been drinking too freely, and sign
ed the pair of apologies which Turner
Ashby wrote.
C. D—*- ended his visit soon afterward,
and the war came on to prevent its repe
tition. Turner Ashby’s gallantly in war
and courage and command over men, and
the story of his death, are all matters of
history now; “but his high character,”
says C. D——, “never impresses me so
strongly in reading of his military exploits
as it does when I look at that faded slip of
paper written by his hand and signed by
B——. It is-a curious autograph.”—New
York Evening Post.
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—Grant, the imperialist, says the New
York Sun of Saturday, is not nominated
yet. Hurrah and thauk God! Hurrah
and thank Cfoa tliat* tLo. hest thou ah ts
ever vouchsafed to statesmen concerning
human government, and the freest and
best civil institutions ever conceived by
mortal men, are not yet overthrown or
shaken! Grant may possibly yet be nomi
nated, against all probabilities; hut should
he be, he will only he promoted to certain
and ignominious defeat. The delay in
making a nomination amounts to a delib
erate determination that Grant, if ever
nominated, will be forced upon an unwil
ling party, withholding its voluntary as
sent, and submitting only from a want of
independence and character.
Brightening Prospects of the
Democracy.—The feeling is rapidly
spreading, says the Sun, that if the Dem
ocrats do not carry the next Presidential
election it will be their own fault; and
there is evidently a determined resolve
that they will not commit such a fault.
We believe now that great care will be
taken in the selection of a candidate, and
that the candidate, whoever he may be,
will receive the hearty and almost unani
mous support of the party. Beyond the
disagreement in reference to candidates,
beyond the difference on the third term
question, there seems to be a feeling in
the ranks of the Republicans that their
party has survived its usefulness and
might as well be disabled. The prqspects
of the Democracy are brightening.'
Of the Oberammergau Passion Play the
correspondent of the London Daily Neics
on the spot writes: “As iar as the acting
is concerned and the arrangement and
taste of the tableaux, there is nothing to
be wished for. The latter, especially, are
simply perfect. The tableaux, represent-
ing the Lord giving manna to the people
of Israel, in which over 400 persons take
part, is unique and wonderful. The
crowd of little children who stand in
their appointed positions without flinch
ing or moving, is even, when regarded
from a theatrical point of view, quite
marvelous. George Lechner, who played
the part of Judas, is almost as good an.
actor as Joseph Mayer who represented
Christ.” _ _
—A tract of fifty thousand acres on the-
Northern Pacific railroad has been bought
for a colony from Belfast, Ireland.
In'ereasinv Use of Comp.and Oxygen
by Pbyaiclisna.
A large and steadily increasing number
o'f intelligent physicians in all parts ot
the country are using Compound Oxygen
in chronic cases, which they have not been
able to cure with ordinary cases. Writes
one: “I shall make the Oxygen treat
ment a prominent feature in my practice,
for I have tested it sufficiently to satisfy
me of its merits.” Says another: “I do
know that my patient is a hundred per
cent, better, and is gaining rapidly. His
left lung was almost consolidated; but is
now free except in one small spot.” An
other physician who used it in his own
case, says: “I was relieved the first time
I used it, of a very severe catarrh trouble;
and my lung trouble promises to be a
thing of the past.” Writes another, “I
thoroughly convinced that the Com
pound Oxygen is what we need in a vast
army of chronic diseases.” We could
give columns of extracts from our corres
pondence with physicians who are using
this new treatment, all of the same tenor.
If you wish to know what Compound Ox
ygen is, and what it cures, send for our
treatise on its nature, action and results.
It will be mailed free. Drs. Starkey A
Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard street, Phila
delphia, Pa.
The “Tieliet-of-Leave Man” Departs-
lkamCnthbcrtb; Request.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger i—
Ye Lamb of brass horn proclivities has
jumped the fence of Cuthhert and left the
gap down. Sunday afternoon this com
munity was startled and shocked to learn
that one of its leading young men was en
gaged in a difficulty with a Mr. Lamb,
who was the loader of the Cutlibert cornet
band. But upon investigation of the-
trouble it was soon ascertained that the
young man in question had immortalized
himself by ebastisiug the aforesaid Lamb-
1 most unceremonious aud credi
table manner for remarks of an
opprobrious nature about the fair pupils
of Andrew Female College, which would
cause the cheeks of any lady to blush,
even at the insinuation of the facts in the
case. The most prominent citizens be
came indignant at his assertions, and thc-
band took immediate action this rooming
and gave him a prompt dismissal. He
was warned that Cutlibert atmosphere
would not be healthy for him to inhale in
the next twenty-four hours, and feeling
that other climes would suit him better
he departed on the first train this morn
ing in the direction of Macon.
Whisperings of tar and feathers were
freely indulged in by our good citizens,
and no doubt he would have been some
what sticky had he remained. Tlie young
gentleman who acted the hero was Mr.
Ed McDonald and his gallantry in the de
fense of ladies has built for him a monu
ment of admiration that will stand through
ages. Lamb was severely beaten, but
gentlemen of the press, hand him around,
and each and alf aid in shearing him so
clwely that he will be ashamed to return
to the fold, and will tie the acknowledged,
black sheep in the flock. C.
Cuthbert, Ga., June 7, 1880.
—There is many a man of the Cameron
clan
Who has followed his chief to llie Geld.
They have sworn to support him or die
by his side,
For a Cameron never can yield.
Chandler-—What, never?
Cameron—No, never.
Committee—What, never?
Cameron—Well, hardly ever,
For a Cameron hardly ever can yield.