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»vtUt 3fi»m7siJl & l^s#*tt0*xr< m Xerm« of the Telegraph and Jfeaaen- K*r. Postage free to all Editions. Pails Tslegraph and Messenger glO.OOper gr ► 5.00 6mo* 2.50 Sum. Daily Telegraph and Messenger and Southern Farmer's MosVdy lJ.50/wr»r. D’eelhj Telegraph and Messenger 2.00 .. .. •• •* •* 1.00 0mos. Weei'y Telegraph ana Messenger and Southern Farmer's Monthly 3.50per yr Remit by F. O. Order or Registered Letter, to gf.B.DATI8. Manager. <fel?grapij nnh Brtetnger 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. -- - Out-DoobLife in EuRon^: By Edward Payson Thwlng. Messrs. I. K. Funk & Co., publishers, New York. Price 20 cents. This new volume is full of novel inter est, describing iu a scries of brilliant word- pictures, out-dsor life abroad. It includes sketches of people and places, aud street scenes In all tho principal cities in Europe. Tills volume is fully illustrated by engrav ings and etchings. It fills a vacancy in the history of travel, dealing with all classes, instead, as is too often the case, confining the descriptions to court scenes and aristocratic society. This volume is described as “bright, breezy and .beauti ful.” Messrs. Funk & Co., keep up their publications in character, which make them indeed a “Standard Series.” *A Sheffield manufacturer is reported to have told liiq workmen to vote just as they pleased—“in fact, I sha’n’t tell you how I’m going to vote,” he said. .“After it is over I shall have a barrel of beer brought into the yard.” [“Hear, hear,” shouted the men.] “But I sha’n’t tap It unless Mr. Wortley, the Tory candidate, 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. VEGETINE Purifies the Elocdj Eenovates and Invigorates the While System. —0— READER, HAVE YOU GOr SCROFU LA, SCROFULOUS HUMOR, CAN CEROUS HUMOR, LANCER ? Y«ju Can PimtiTJy Ba ciiei, THOUSANDS OF 1E3TIMONIALS PROVE IT. Yegetine Cures When Phy sicians Fail. Cbab Oichasd. lincoln c-o- Kr- I15B, kfb , M«- H K. 8TKVEN3—Sir : I ’confer it* uuly that 1 owe yon and ihe eublie to let you know wha: year medicine. VEGATINH. hi, cone tor my daughter, about four years *ro she was an .filleted with Scrota!. >. to be drawn to one side a* ihe walked. 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Veeetina is so-d bv all Druggists. 0 app29 tua thr sat daw. 0 —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.