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FRIDAY, JULY 23,1SS0.
—The postmaster general calls atten
tion to the fact that cards with one cent
stamps stuck upon them are not postal
cards, and that they will not be allowed
to pass thiough the mails hereafter.
—The immigrants arriving at the port
of New York during the year ending June
30,1SS0, numbered 203,726, against 00,-
224 in 1870; 72,507 immigrants arrived at
the principal ports during the month of
June last; 14,100 were from Ireland, 13,-
548 from Germany, 7,812 from England,
12,323 from Canada, and 1,789 from
China.
—A Philadelphia swindler opened a
store in Arch street, stocked it with bot
tles of what ho called club sauce, and
advertised for “a partner with $250
in a prosperous business.” He averaged
for some time about one new partner
every week, for the dupes would drop out
quietly on ascertaining that the business
was a sham, and leave their money 'be
hind.
—Fishermen engaged in the Greenland
fishery say they never experienced any
thing like the terrific ice blockade which
now extends down to the fifty-second par
allel of latitude. The field lying to the
eastward of Newfoundland, the southern
extremity of which now bears 120 miles
distant from St. John’s, of the heaviest
floe description. Thousands of icebergs
are to be seen.
Death op am Old-Time Emtok.—
Joseph R. Chandler died at his residence
in Philadelphia on Sunday night The! 1th.
Mr. Chandler was bom in Massachusetts
in 1702, but, coming here when a-boy, be
gan the practice of the law about sixty-
five years ago. lie relinquished the law
soon after having been admitted to the
bar, and began editing the United States
Gazette. He served in Congress Irom
1S49 to 1855, and as minister to the Two
Sicilies during Buchanan’s administration.
He wrote a book on English grammar,
and was a Free Mason of high rank.
■Wood fob the Big Bridge.—The
New York Sun says that there was to
have been a special meeting of the trustees
of the East river bridge Friday afterhoon,
but as a quorum was lacking, the execu
tive committee met and opened twenty
bids for furnishing the lumber for the
roadway of tbe bridge. The contract was
awarded to Eppinger & Russell of
Brooklyn for $24.70 per thousand feet for
1,005,190 feet of yellow pine. The con
tract for lumber which was some time ago
awarded to the Baiubridge (Georgia) con
tractors was cancelled, because orf the al
leged inferiority of tbe material.
—A natural ice-house is one of the cu
riosities of northern New Jersey. It lies
behind Blue Mountain. Tbe ice gorge is
several hundred yards ih extent, ten to
thirty feet deep, with caves and clefts in
the rocks where the ice lies. The shade
at the gorge is very dense, the sun appa
rently never penetrating it. The bottom
of the gorge and the little caves and
crevices are filled with ice. The ther
mometer, which registered the nineties in
Newton, marked 38 degrees at the bot
tom of this gorge. A few feetrfrom one
end a spring of the most delicious, spark
ling water bubbles up. The water in
this spring stands at 34 degrees.
—One thing leads to another thing in a
curious way. In the British House of
Lords one archbishop and eleven ibishops
voted against the bill for marriage -with a
deceased wife’s sister, and thus -it was
thrown out. Upon this, sundry persons
who regard the law against such -mar
riages as a relic of bigotry, suggest the
formation of a society with tbe express
view of obtaining the passing of an act to
exclude bishops from the House of Lords.
And after that will probably come another
society tor promoting the abolition of the
House of Lords itself. The agitation in
favor of abolishing the law would seem
to indicate a great desire on the part -of
British widowers to marry sistera-in-law,
and the feeling on the subject can hardly
be understood in this country, in most
parts of w'htch such marriages arc entirely
lawful.
General Grant.—A Washington dis
patch to the Baltimore Sun says that a
prominent Republican politician, who
enjoys the personal friendship of General
Grant, said to-day that he was advised
that tbe latter had made np his mind not
to take in the future any active part in the
politics of the country, but to devote the
remainder of his days to business pursuits,
He believed the statement telegraphed
from Galena that General Grant intends
to settle up his affairs and go to New
York, where a lucrative position awaits
him, to be true, as it accords with his own
private information. In reply to a sug
gestion that General Grant might be
brought forward as the Republican nomi
nee for the presidency four years from
now, this gentleman said be had reason to
know that General Grant would never
again allow his name to go before apoliti
cal convention, but would abstain from
participating in future political contests.
. Cadet WraTTAKfiB.—The case of Ca
det Whittaker was brought to the atten
tion of the cabinet last Friday by Secre
tary Ramsey. ■ No action was taken, and
tbe question of “what shall be dona with
this small elephant” was postponed until
next week. Whittaker is not without
strong backing in Republican quarters,
and those who are looking after his inter
ests here feel very confident that the ver
dict of the court of inquiry, as well as the
recommendation of the commandaut of
West Point that he be dropped from the
roll of cadets will not be approved by the
president. 4 number of prominent Re
publicans have evinced so much interest
jn the case and taken such strong ground
in favor of Whittaker that the President
cannot approve of the action of the mili
tary autljorities without subjecting him
self to very sharp censure from some of
his own political friends. If a court-mar
tial is granted, and Whittaker can estab
lisb his innocence of the charge of self-
mutilation, his backers here are certain
that be will be continued at the academy
aud afforded another chance to pass the
required examination.
last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The Crop Situation.
The New York Chronicle reports the
receipts of the seven days ending Fri
day night, at 10,001 bales, against
2,800 the corresponding week of
last year. Total receipts of the current
cotton year up to last Friday 4,800,895
bales, against 4,430,381 to same date last
year—showing a net increase of 436,514
hales.
The interior port business of these days
was as follows: Receipts 3,521, against
1,280 last year. Shipments 9,273, against
6,452. Stocks 0C,19S, against 15,528.
Tiro Chronicle's visible supply table
showed, on Friday, 1,753,210 bales of cot
ton in sight, against 1,390,713 at same
date last year; 1,572,995 at same date
tbe year before, and 2,187,400 in 1877 at
same date. These figures show an in
crease in the visible supply, over that of
iast year, of 301,503 bales; over tbe sup
ply 1878 of 185,221 bales, and a decrease
■of420.2S0 bales on tbe visible supply of
1877 at this date.
Cotton, last Friday, in Liverpool, was
quoted at 01 for middling upland. At that
■date the year before the quotation was OJ;
in 1S78 it was OJ, and in-1877, Of.
The Chronicle appends the following to
Its table of receipts from plantations:
The above statement shows—
1. That the total receipts from planta
tions since September 1st in 1S70-50 were
4,925,792 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,442,011
bales; iu 1S77-7S were 4,251,345 bales.
2. That, although tbe receipts at the out
ports the last weekivere 10,091 bales, the ac
tual movement from plantations i\ as only
4,939 bales, the balance being drawn from
stocks at tbe Interior ports. Last year the
receipts from the plantations te satm
week were bales, and for 1878 they
were 1,243 bales.
The Chronicle's weather telegrams of
Friday from the growing crop exhibit, on
the wuole, a favorable condition. In
Texas, at Galveston, there were showers
on five days of the week. Crop prospects
continued good. One bale of cotton had
been received from Houston and one
from Indianola. Picking had generally
begun in the coast districts. Indianola,
light showers on two days, with a rainfall
of 0.S4. C.*op3 good and picking begun.
Corsicana, one shower, weather’ warm,
highest mercury 100, average 87. Crops
doing well. Dallas, one shower, mercury
72 to 100, average 87. Brenham, warm
and dry, crops needing rain. Picking be
gun in a small way.
New Orleans, rain on five days with a
fall of 1.90. Average mercury 82
Shreveport, heavy thunder storm3—rain
fall 2.54. Highest mercury 90—average
84. In Mississippi, at Columbus, there
was 1.32 of rain during tbe week. Vicks
burg does not report. At Little Rock, Ar
kansas, weather dry and hot. Average
mercury 83—highest 06. At Memphis,
there was rain on one day. The crop was
developing finely. Thermometer 73 to 95.
At Nashville, 0.33 of rain. Mercury 73
to 95.
In Alabama, at Mobile, there was a rain
fall of 1.28 during the week, mercury 71
to 97. Crops in fine condition. Cater
pillars have appeared and poisons are vig
orously applied. At Montgomery, hot
and dry; only one showery day. Cater
pillars are now webbing up. Mercury
from 73 to 97. Selma, too much rain in
some places and too little in others. Crops
ia general developing finely. Madison,
Florida, fields clear of weeds and crops
promising, mercury 70 to 88, average
82. In Georgia, at Columbus, 1.88 of
rainfall, mercury 81 to 98, average S5.
At Macon, 0.20 of rain, mercury 71 to 95,
average 83. .Crop accounts continue
good. At Savannah, rain on five days.
At Augusta, 2.04 of rainfall during the
week.
Bad Grammar and Bad Politics.
The New York World amuses itself by
contrasting Garfield’s bad grammar and
bad politics with the grammar and poli
tics of the constitution as displayed in the
following extracts: First, Gen. Garfield,
in his letter of acceptance, assaults Mur
ray and the constitution as follows:
“They [the Republicans] insist that the
United States is a nation with ample
power of self-preservation; that its con
stitution and the laws made in pursuance
thereof arc the supreme law of the land;
that the right of the Hation to determine
the method by which its own legislature
shall be created cannot be surrendered
without abdicating one of the fundamen
tal powers of government.”
The World contrasts this extract with
several from the constitution, wherein
that venerable instrument incidentally,
by tbe use of correct grammar, defines its
own origin and status. It is not an in
dependent, self-existent concern, called
by its own will to • an irresponsible and
unlimited mastery of the States; but is,
in fact, the common and joint agent of the
States, for the execution of certain dele
gated trusts, with powers direct, incidental
and implied, needful to discharge these
trusts: It is not the singular and all-
sufficient monster that Garfield would
conjure up, but only the employe of the
States to effectuate certain specifically de
fined objects needful for the common de
fense and welfare, which cannot be
effected by their independent action.
The constitution of the United States
speaks is the agent of the States because
it creates a common organ of their joint
authority. Speaks of the government it
created in the plural number because It is
tbe government of each and all the States
exercising their joint and several author
ity through a common agent, and there
fore authorized to express that fact in the
plural number—the singular number be
ing wholly inapplicable eitherto its origin,
nature or character. Where docs the
government get authority to do anything
but from the constitution, which is a mere
record of delegated powers conceded by
and from the States.
Mr. Garfield, tUcrefotf, in order to up
hold his idea of an original, undelegated
government, totally irresponsible to and
independent of the States—their master,
and not their agent—is pushed up to the
necessity of this lamentable outrage on
grammar—“the United States is.” Now,
Garfield are said to be a scholar; but this
docs not look like it. The World quotes
the following extracts to show how the
constitution phrases tbe matter:
Article 1, section 9, recites:
“No title of nobility shall be granted by
the United States, and no person holding
any office of profit under ‘them’ shall,
without the consent of the Congress, ac
cept of any present, emolument, office or
title of any kind whatever from any king,
prince or foreign state.”
Article 3, section -3, redtes:
“Treason against the Uuited States
shall consist only hi levying war against
‘them’ or adhering to ‘their 1 enemies.”
The thirteenth amendment, which was
drawn before the doctrines of centraliza
tion had advanced to their extreme conse
quences, reads:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servi
tude * • • shall e'xist within the
United States or any place subject to
their 1 jurisdiction,”
Forward Bice.
Importance of Rice Culture.
We learn from the Darien Timber Ga
zette that the rice crops on the Altamaha
river are in excellent condition, and
promise an abundant harvest. The
Messrs. Gigniliiat, father and sons, who
own splendid plantations on Cathead
creek, near Darien, report their fields al
most ripe for the sickle, and will begin
cutting very soon. By the way, among
all the grain reaping inventions by horse
power, or otherwise by which the harvest
ing of wheat, oats, barley and lye, has
been so much simplified and expedited,
nothing so far has been able to supplant
the use of the hand sickle in cutting rice.
This is owing to the fact that the ripened
heads turn down and hang low. Hence
by tbe ordinary scythe, thousands of them
would be cut ofl and prove a total
loss.
A good laborer will cut down one
acre of rice per day, which is* fair task
when it is considered that he must grasp
’with his hand every spire of the golden
grain before it can be cropped.
There is no field crop at the -South more
profitable than rice, whether cultivated by
tide water irrigation or upon ordinary
upland. In the latter case, however, the
white rice, a much hardier variety than
the ordinary “golden” or Carolina grqjn
is sown anu cultivated with the hoe and
plow, precisely like corn, andon the same
land, and side by side, will double the
yield of that cereal every time.
On damp, second low lauds tho writer
has also known from twelve to fifteen
bushels of rice to be gathered when
planted, like peas, between the hills of
corn, in addition to a full yield of corape
acre. In Liberty, Bryan and Chatham
counties this high land rice has taken the
place of cotton as a market crop, and, at
present prices, pays much better. We
look to see it, at no distant day, one of the
most important staples of the State.
An Anti-Dueling Campaign.
The press and people of South Carolina
are much enlisted in a war against the
duello. The excitement was very great
before tbe late barbarous duel between
Cash and Shannon, resulting in the death
of the latter, but has increased vastly
since that event. And this excitement
has been intensified by the extraordinary
attitude of the Cash family, who seem to
have taken issue with the opponents of
dueling, and prohibited ail discussion of
the subject on pain of instant death at
their hands. This has put the papers on
their mettle, and they everywhere pro
claim a moral war between “Cash and
civilization.” They are organizing anti
dueling associations in all the counties for
the purpose of creating a healthy public
opinion on this subject.
The essenc-e of the duello iscontempt for
legal remedies, and its influence and end
are to subvert them. When a man be
comes a member ofa political community
he covenants to submit to and abide by the
law and judgment of his peers. These
necessarily constitute the supreme arbiter,
and if they are defective either in their
character or operation, tlie first business
of all is to bring them to aproper and sat
isfactory standard.
No other remedy is possible! No man
will abide by tbe judgment of his enemy,
be it right or wrong. The duello settles
m wrong3or quarrels, but perpetuates
them indefinitely through generation!,
“difficulty,” so-called, -which might be
healed by tbe judgment of a disinterested
tribunal,when brought to the bloody issue
of combat, becomes a family feud—^ven
detta—* stream of malice, blood and mur
der—which the earth kill not absorb, and
which is at fatal war with law, order, vir
tue,religion and all those influences which
bless society.
Society must, therefore, figbt'the duello
or become a felo-de-se. The two so called
remedies are at war and -utterly irrecon
cilable. The more* man sets up to be
above law and unwilling to submit to its
arbitration, the snore imperative that this
common arbiter should -be' insisted on,
and tbe more injurious bis influence in
the destruction of law and order.
Dueling finds its chief support in meD
who feel themselves erf too much -conse
quence to accept the common defense pro
vided by law. The young and inexperi
enced are always ready to follow the lead
of persons laying claim to social distinc
tion, and to exceptional provisions in
their own favor. The man, therefore,
who advocates tbe duello, -either -by pre
cept or example, whatever -opinion be
may entertain to tbe contrary, is warriDg
upon the foundations of civil order,
These necessarily waive tbe claim to pri
vate redress, while he refuses to waive it.
Bat if all take to elub or pistol, where
tbe use of law and social organization?
They are valueless just to tbe extent that
the claim to private redress is conceded.
It is, therefore, as the Carolinians con
tend, a distinct issue between dueling
and civilization. An Arab of the desert
may meet his enemy with sabre and
broadsword, but civilized man must sub
mit to the judgment of his peers. This is
indispensable to his position as a good cit
izen, and ^dispensable to the peace and
order of society. The practice of carry
ing deadly weapons secretly, and all the
well known usages of bulldozers, braw
lers, swaggerers and bullies, grow out of
this notion of private redress, which lies
at the foundation of the duello, and must
be uprooted from all highly advanced and
Christian civilization.
Signs and Portents.
It has already been shown to the super
stitious that the three initials of W. S.
Hancock stand for “Wil! succeed Hayes/
Now, an Ohio correspondent of the New
York Sun shows that—
1. Taking all the letters in tbe name of
Winfield Scott Hanoock, and giving to
each letter the number of its position in
tbe alphabet, tbe numbers sum up 215,
which represents the electoral votes
claimed, for Hanoock, to-wit: time of
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecti
cut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Vir
ginia—23 Slates, in all casting 215 electo
ral votes.
2. Taking in the same way the letters
embraced in the name of James Abrabam
Garfield, they represent 154, which makes
up the electoral college—the total being
369.
3. There is in this fact a singular coin
cidence withahe last presidential election,
wherein. Samuel J. Tilden in the same
way represented 203 electoral votes, which
he actually received (though be was
robbed of nineteen), and Rutherford B.
Hayes 100, which be received and was en
titled to. All this is funny.
English and Northern Farm Property j “The Machine.”
There is a lively discussion just now t The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a stal-
about what is to become of farm property ; wart organ of the first magnitude, says
' “the machine represents 95 per cent, of
the Republican party.” That is a brag
estimate of a thoroughly machine Repub
lican. But we apprehend there cannot bo
tbe smallest doubt that, although the ma
chine was, from exceptional causes, sig
nally defeated at Chicago, it really does
hold the controlling power. A tactical
combination and surprise defeated Grant
and nominated Garfield; but it is gene
rally conceded that, had tho contest
reached another ballot, or perhaps two
more, Grant would have carried the day
far more signally than Garfield did.
But this victory of Garfield was followed
immediately by the nomination of Arthur,
the head and front of the New York
machine men, whose ejection from office
had been officially declared by Hayes in
dispensable to an honest administration.
Next, it is followed by a letter of accept
ance from Garfield, as all authorities
allege, substantially dictated by tho ma
chine men; and another from Arthur
boldly declaring^ substantially, that
machine control of tlie ballot is essential
to an honest election, and that the scheme
of an impartial supervision of the polls,
advocated by Garfield in Congress, was a
surrender of tbe ballot to fraud. Tlie
machine, therefore, emerges from the con
flict at the head of the column, and the
question before tbe American people is its
thorough reinstallation at the head of the
American government.
Now it is wholly due to the temporary
suspension and inactivity of the machine
that sectional peace and good order have
been restored to tbe existing degree. The
machine had elaborately planned and px-
ecuted tlie great fraud by which the ver
dict of the people in the last Presidential
election was overruled and set aside, but
it was found impossible to carry through
ail the details except by tbe concession of
some pittauce of equity to the Southern
States. It was this concession, restoring
some of the rights of self-government,
which has practically quieted the coun
try. It was, however, a deadly offense to
the machine. They have never forgiven
it. They spit in abhorrence at every men
tion of Hayes, and the ticket nominated to
succeed Hayes is, as we have seen,
pledged to restore the machine in full
vigor.
This election is to test whether the
country demands the full restoration of
machine politics, or whether it seeks a
continued policy of justice, equity, peace
and conciliation. The machine means
the widest and most unsparing sectional
domination in the exclusive interest of
party power and plunder. It was illus
trated in Grant’s Slate legislatures, or
ganized at the point of the bayonet and
sworn in behind forged certificates and
Gatling guns. It means simply a new
era of force and fraud, and the extinction,
if possible, of tbe element of consent as
tbe basis of Southern government. The
machine is properly named by its adhe
rents in the readily suggested idea of a
vast and resistless engine, as inevitable in
its power to crush and mangle as it is deaf
to all suggestions of law, justice, pru
dence, patriotism or pity. A great cast-
iron machine cannot be reasoned with.
As tlie partial suspension of this ma
chine has been tlie great point of contro
versy in tho so-called Republican party
for tlie past four years, and has given rise
to so many fierce intestine quarrels, it may
well be assumed that its proposed re
sumption will oe a main point of interest
in tliis canvass. We believe a large ma-
ority of tbe better class of the American
people do not want to see it at work
again. They want peace, justice and
tranquillity. The support of nancock by
tlie Southern people offers tlie best evi
dence that they are for peace and volun
tary cc-operation for the common welfare.
It now remains for the great North and
West to take the same ground, and bury
the partisans of strife aud ill-will, with
their machine, out of sight.
in the Northern States and in England.
As against farm products of the fertile
West, nothing that either cair produce of
fers remuneration for the investment and
the labor. Western wheat can be placed
on tlie Eastern markets at a dollar, and
in the English market at very little mpre.
Texas beef and Western pork, in both
markets, are sold Tor less than they can
be produced in either. In both countries
there seems to be no possible employment
of tbe land wbicb will leave the smallest
margin to cover iuterest on valuation.
New York and New England farmers
admit that they are living, on past earn
ings and are running behind-hand in tlie
cultivation of standard crops. Unless they
can strike out something iu the way of
fancy agriculture, which will avail them
of the better prices paid for luxuries, tlie
future opens no prospect but ruin. The
prices paid now to Western producers pay
inadequately. Speculators and middle
men take the profits. The best Western
tanners of tbe old sort have to be content
with small gains. But a class of farm
producers are coming forward, who till
vast areas of land, cultivate mostly by
machinery and all tbe costly but efficient
substitutes for human labor. They are
making money at the existing low prices
for their grain. The .competition with
these great factory farms, which ■ has be
come wholly impracticable with the pri
vate farmer eastward from Illinois and
the English farmer, is severe on tbe small
farmer occupying the fat and unexhaust
ed lands of the far West, and helps to
complicate the roblem.
The State Campaign.
In the gubernatorial race there has been
that lull for a day or two, which prefaces
the shock of battle in tbe large number of
counties (about fifty), which elect dele
gates to the State convention to-day.
Baldwin, by a close vote, gives her voice
to Colquitt, but the following of Colonel
Hardeman was very large, and shows
how much he was appreciated.
We think there is a growing disposition
to concentrate upon him should the con
vention fail, after reasonable efforts, to
cast a two-thirds vote for any candidate
in the field. Hardeman’s friends should
nurse this feeling, and strive to remove
every barrier to his success. Surely no
man’s record is better as a legislator,
Democrat or patriot.
Indeed, we honestly believe that Colonel
Hardeman has done more valuable per
sonal service to the party since the war
than any one man in tlie commonwealth.
His labors have been unceasing, and never
has he failed to come to time and lift his
eloquent voice in behalf of truth and jus
tice in the hour of need.
We simply throw out these suggestions
in advance that the delegates may have
time to weigh and consider them.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Baldwin county gave an overwhelming
majority yesterday in favor of the re
nomination of our present able and ad
mirable representative for the sixth dis
trict in Congress. This closes the prima
ries of the several counties, and gives Col
Blount a clear majority of all the dele
gates to the convention, which assembles
iu Milledgeville to-morrow. We trust
with this showing all opposition will be
withdrawn and that he may receive the
unanimous vote of tlie convention.
Garfield and the Stalwarts.
The view taken by tlie Northern politi
cal gossips of both parties is that Gar
field’s letter of acceptance heralded
complete and necessary surrender to the
stalwarts. It was the result of much ne
gotiation on his part, in which he finally
surrendered all grounds of difference,
civil service reform, Southern toleration
and everything set up by tbe Hayes wing.
When this letter came out, Don Cameron
recovered bis health at once and set oil
for Pennsylvania. Conkiing got better
and postponed his European trip. The
whole stalwart camp roused from its
slumbers and became busy as bees in
swarming time. The most peremptory
orders have gone forth from the White
House to the countless officials employed
by tlie government, and the country will
resound with the clash of offensive war in
a few days.
A Fashionable and Favorite
Health Resort.—We have private let
ters from the Chalybeate Springs, which
give a glowing account of that charming
watering place. Macon is at this time
well represented there, and the guests
number a select company of one hundred
and fifty. Large additional arrivals also are
daily expected from Alabama, Columbus,
and other portions of Georgia. The warm
mineral baths are represented to be per
fectly delightful, and the plunging min
eral pools so cold a3 to refrigerate the
most mercurial youth in a trice. The fare
is all that conldbe desired, and a fine'
lively stable, billiards, ball room, ten pin
alley, and other amusements, all free,
keep ennui at a distance.
A popular writer has promised to favor
as with some -of the passing events and
on dUs of this delightful health aud pleas
ure resort.
We are advised that Messrs. Martin &
Freeman are provided with swift teams
and good drivers to transport passengeis
from Geneva to tlie Springs, and tbe
road is in capital order.
This and the old Indian Spring should
be, par excellence, the chosen summer
abode of tbe people of Maeon. We trust
both will be liberally patronized the pres
ent season.
Another Concession to Down
trodden Cuba.—A late Havana dis
patch says:
The Official Gazette promulgates a
royal decree, dated June IS, assimilating
the whole system of public instruction in
the island with that of Spain. The Uni
versity of Havana can henceforth confer
doctorates in law, medicine and pharma
cy, as well 'as the title of licentiate in
philosophy and science. High colleges to
prepare students for entoring the universi
ty will be established in all tbe provinces
of the island. Heretofore, oftly the High
College of Havana has existed. Tlie ma
triculation and title dues, which have
hitherto amounted to $100, are reduced
to $37.
It does seem that Spain is making au
honest effort to lessen the burdens and
improve the condition of her principal
colony. If the turbulent spirits who arc
constantly fomenting discord and sedition
could be banished from the island, we
doubt not a change for the better would
soon take place under the present king.
Hancock’s Acceptance.—General
Hancock having been interviewed by an
associated press reporter at Governor’s Is
land, New York, last Friday, in regard to
his letter of acceptance, said that it would
not be ready for probably a fortnight or
Hardeman to the Rescue.
So far, at this writing, 7 p. m., Wednes
day, we have telegraphic returns from four
counties only, showing the result of the
numerous primaries held to-day. Two of
these, Dodge and Telfair, elect Hardeman
delegates; Terrell pronounces for Lester
and Randolph sends an anti-Colquitt un-
iustructed delegation, one of whom is said
to favor Hardeman and the other Lester.
Doubtless before going to press, very many
other telegrams will come to hand and
there will be more light upon the situa
tion. Col. Hardeman starts off well, and
thousands of anxious,sympatbizingfriends,
still hopeful, are anxiously, like Mlcawber,
waiting for “something to turn np” in be
half of their favorite. Should the colonel,
^either as a “dark horse” or regularly en
tered courser, win the race, there will be
great rejoicing in Macon and the environs
tliereof.
Later.—Since writing tho above our
special telegrams announce that Newton,
Rockdale, Greene, Brooks, Hancock and
Spalding Lave declared for Colquitt. The
plot thickens, and soon the denouement
must come.
The Republican Campaign.—A
Washington special to the World says
that from a remark made by Mr. Jewell
it would he infen ed that the plan of the
campaign to be conducted by this party
purposes the ignoring of personal attacks
upon the Democratic candidates and a
vigorous contest for the supremacy of the
Republican party on its political and his
torlcal merits. ’ The assertion that the
South is solidly Democratic is to be met
by a hard fight in four or fire Southern
States, including Virginia, North Caro
lina and perhaps South Carolina, Florida
and West Virginia. It is understood that
the campaign in Connecticut, New Jersey
and Indiana will be left to the State com
mittees, there being In these States besides
tlie presidential issue the contest for the
Slate legislators, which necessarily de
velops the entire strength of the party in
the hope of seenring a Republican sena
tor from each of these States. New York
State wilt be carefully nursed by the
national committee aud the aid of the
campaign fand judiciously extended
wherever it will do the most good.
That old Banner Countt.—The
Hinesville Gazette publishes a certified
record to the effect that in 1792 Liberty
county, with a voting white population
then not exceeding 400, had an organized
battalion numbering 239 soldiers, under
the command of Colonel Daniel Stewart,
Lieutenant-Cplonel W. McIntosh, Jr.,
and Major Simon Fraser. The Liberty
Independent Troop, which, is still in a
Senator B. H. Hill Ventures a Word
of Counsel.
Mr. Hill, in view of tiie fact; that his
name had been suggested as a delegate
from Fulton county -to the State conven
tion, declines to serve in that capacity,
aud, in a letter to the Constitution, says:
While I have been much absent from
the State, and my field of labor has been
national,! have not been inattentive to the
Democratic situation and tendency in
Georgia, and a sense of duty to the party
and the people impels mo to say a few
words in this connection now.
The Democratic situation in Georgia is
bad—very bad, and the tendency Is worse.
Serious dissensions exist,are daily increas
ing, and if not arrested will inevitably
disrupt tbe party.
He is not an intelligent Democrat who
does not see the cause of these evils, and
he is not a true Democrat who is unwil
ling vigorously to apply the isinedy.
The cause may be expressed in one
word, and it is personalism in the party.
It is no new distemper in political organi
zations. It is easily cured if taken in
time, and it is certain death to the party
if not taken in time. What is personal
ism in a party ? It is tlie attempt of in
dividuals—one or more—to use the party
to advauce individual ends. Personal
revenges, personal vindications, personal
grievances, and personal rewards, and
personal glorifications, are all but forms
of the same disease, and in every form is
equally daugeroils and despicable.
Political parties are organized solely
for the public good, and those who com
pose them unite to promote that public
good by securing a faithful and efficient
administration of government according
to a common political faitb.
Those who seek to use a party, thus or
ganized for the good of all, to further the
good of ono or a few, whether for reward,
or for revenge, or for vindication, are at
tempting to use for one or for a portion
that which was formed for all. Corrup
tion within the party or independentism
are the invariable fruits if those who at
tempt such personal ends are not repudi
ated as leaders
It will bo with the convention which as
sembles on tbe 4th of next month to de
termine whether existing dissensions
shall be continued to a final disruption
aud tbe party he precipitated into a hit
ter, angry personal canvass; or whether
those dissensions shall cease and a nomi
nation he made which will secure a har
monious canvass to the party and result
ing in an election that will give tbe State
an administration which shall be strong
in the united confidence and support of
tbe people.
If the delegates come together animated
by a desire to advance the personal, de
sires or ambitions of pets and favorites,
tbe worst evils will follow. But if they
come together resolved to remember that
their supreme obligation is to represent
tlie whole party and work for tbe good of
all, they will render a service worthy of
patriots, and ail the people will have cause
to bless them.
In this matter “I have no friends to re
ward and no enemies to punisli,” and
nothing personal to accomplish. I could
support cheerfully my worst enemy (if I
had one) if his nomination would avert
the evils mentioned, and I cottld vote
against my own brother if his nomination
would not avert them.
I shall hold myself in readiness to co
operate with all who sincerely desire to
preserve the harmony of tlie party, and
through that harmony to secure a faithful
and efficient administration of the State
government. Ben H. Hill.
—-■ ■
Garfield’s Defense.
In another column, says tlie Herald, we
print what appears to be General Garfield’s
formal and final defense against the
charge of official misconduct in the Credit
Mobilier case. It is extracted from a
forthcoming campaign life of the candi
date, all the details of which are an
nounced as obtained by tbe author direct
ly from General Garfield himself. It will
be noted that the statement of the circum
stances on the specific point of General
Garfield’s personal dealings with Oakes
Ames is made in the first person, as if the
General’s actual words were written down
for his defense.
Much has been said within a few
months past, especially by orators and or
gans of the Republican faitli, on the un
happy condition of a great party put on
the defensive by the record of its candi
date, and in view of the document re
ferred to Republicans will have new rea
son to reflect deeply on that point and
even to consider that if a party on the de
fensive is badly off; a party on tlie defen
sive without any defense is certainly in a
much more lamentable position.
General Garfield is exceedingly generous
in his statement and vouchsafes answers
to many questions that are not asked m
this connection. His generosty, indeed,
in giving abundant information on points
as to which there was no doubt, is in pro
portion to the rigid strictness of his de
livery on particulars as to which a freer
speech would have better satisfied public
curiosity. ‘He defines tbe Credit Mobilier,
and the people already knew just what it
was. He gives a statement of the forma
tion of tlie “ring of seven persons,” and a
glimpse of how they operated and kept to
themselves the secret of their game, as if
to lay the ground for the suggestion that
tliis very secrecy guaranteed the innocence
of the persons who received a part of the
spoils.
But is It a virtue in a man not to know
that which it is his official duty to know?
Secrecy was part of the game, of course,
and they paid for it; bribed Congressmen
not to legislate for them, but to help them
along by leaving them alone. Did Gen.
Garfield accept a valuable consideration
for his silence? That is the point before
the country, and the answer is not satis
factory. He says he had a loan. Evi
dence enough to guide the popular judg
ment on that point lias already been
given. In this defense there is a new
trait of vacillation. The accused returns
to that statement of his case which he
made before tlie Congressional investiga
tion had proved his complicity, yet holds
on to the loan theory, which was a pre
varication due to tlie fact that the investi
gation had proved his original statement
to be false. But it is not strange if in a
case where every defense made is so poor
a man should not be aele to decide wlii:h
to stand by for a finality.
Mactn, Dooly nnd Houston County
Fair.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: On
the 22d and 23d of this month, Macon,
Dooly and Houston counties will hold au
extensive fair at Montezuma, consisting
of the agricultural, horticultural and
mineral, fine arts, needle and handwork,
mechanical and merchandise.
The display of horses bids fair to be the
largest of any similar fair ever held in the
State. The display of sheep and swine
will be fine.
Extensive preparations and arrange
ments are being made to have an exten
sive affair. We will haTe some fine racing
by some of the best horses in the State.
Many well known horsemen will be here.
Wo have one of the best half mile tracks in
the State, which has recently been put iu
fine fix.
Three splendid brass bands are coming
to enliven us with music aud to contend
for the prize which has been offered by
the agricultural society.
Fine racing purses have been made for
the two days, and many other races will
be made for the day following (Saturday.)
Many of your merchants will do well to
display goods here in the exhibition, as
Macon sells our town, many goods, be
sides numbers of merchants will be here
from Americus, Dawson, Fort Valley,
Hawkinsville and other places.
Wo cordially invite you, Mr. Editor,
and all who will come. E.
—A tramp consented to do a small job
at digging post holes at Carson, Nevada,
though labor was contrary to his custom.
He returned to his employer’s house in an
hour, threw down his spade, and said he
flourishing couditlen, ia the oldest carat- J had changed his mind. He had found
more; that he had not commenced it yet, ry corps south of the Fptomac. It was or- ) $130 worth of gold bars which some j tember—when turnips are tlie principal
visitors and business taking up his time, gauized in 1789. >. miner had buried. - n crop. *
Gaining Courage.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, since the advent there of
Marshall Jewell and Senator Don Came
ron, says there has been a more buoyant
feeling existing about the Republican
headquarters, and the visit of these two
Radical magnates.has inspired the subor
dinates engaged in sending off campaign
documents with the hope that Garfield
may yet force through, and they be re
warded with good offices for their labors
during the campaign.
Until within a few days the Republicans
li&vc been in & sort of dazed condition
and they looked upon the enthusiasm in
the Democratic ranks for Hancock as in
explicable. They were in a demoralized
condition, and ready to believe as true tbe
merest rumor that certain Republicans
had come out for Hancock. In a measure
they have now recovered themselves, and
talk with more confidence as to the future.
It needed the presence here of both Jewell
and Cameron to stiffen up the backbone of
the administration Republicans, and to
give them faith for tbe future. Many Re
publicans who privately admitted the dark
outlook for their party are more hopeful
now, because they believe that the deter
mination of Don Cameron to go into the
fight means in fact that the friends of
Grant are going to bcuy their griefs and
try and save the party from going to de
struction.
Without the aid of the Grant forces it
was conceded that a canvass on the part
of the Garfield men would be a very tame
affair, but with the assistance of the polit-
cal machinery centrolled by the Grantites,
the contest would become hotter and more
uncertain. • It has been current rumor
here for some days in Republican quar
ters, that Senator Don Cameron has been
moved to go into the figlit through the in
tercession of Gen. Grant himself. It is
said that letters have been written by the
latter urging his friends to go to work and
try and defeat Gen. Hancock. This is
suppored to be the secret of tho sudden
determination of Cameron, Conkiing, and
others to take an active part in the cam
paign.
Chinese Emigration.
The best authenticated statements
place the population of China at 350,000,-
000, though the Celestials claim 530,000,-
000. But even the former figure is far in
advance of the population of any other
country on the habitable globe. No peo
ple, however, have greater emigrating
propensities as will be seen from the fol
lowing extract from an article in the New
York Bulletin’.
With regard to the present number of
emigrated Chinamen—that is to say, Chi
namen how in other countries—it is esti
mated by some writers at 15,825,000, to
which must be added 3,000,000 iu India
beyond tbe Ganges, Malay, etc., or a total
of nearly 19,000,000; a number far exceed
ing the entire immigration into the United
States during the present generation. We
have no idea that the emigration of this
extraordinary people can be materially
arrested by such prohibitive legislation as
that which the superior race, especially
on the Pacific coast, are so vehemently
urging. It may be checked, but it is a
question whether it can be permanently
turned back. If we close our ports
to it, it is tolerably certain it will
ultimately obtain ingress through
British Columbia, Mexico and Central
and South America. The politicians of
both and all parties may resolve against
it as much as they choose, in order to con
ciliate popular prejudice, but unless they
can make the Chinaman something else
from what in fact he is—a perpetual-
motion-industrial-machine, so to speak—
we are inclined to think he is bound to
come and to stay. There is an unseen
economic force back of him, which will
assert itself in every country where, as in
our own, “cheap labor” is a necessity, and
that assertion will be in a thousand ways
of which its opponents, we suspect, little
dream. It is the part of wisdom to recog
nize that force, and to seek to utilize it as
much as possible in developing tbe re
sources of this vast continent, instead of
blindly opposing it in obedience to dema
gogic appeals or tbe class or race preju
dices of the passing hour.
This is good advice, and our people
may as well make up their minds to re
ceive, utilize and Christianize the “hea
then Chinee.”
Personal.—We had a pleasant visit
last night from General Gordon, who is
in fine health and spirits, and made many
interesting revelations, which he does not
desire printed during the pending guber
natorial contest. Suffice it to say, how
ever, General Lee’s “right bower,” our
own peerless Gordon, is as true to his
State and country to-day as when he was
pressing back the Federal forces on
the fatal day of the Appomatox surren
der.
If republics are sometimes ungrate
ful, let it never bo said that Confederate
soldiers and the lovers of the “lost cause”
went back on oce of their battle-scarred
generals.
Grant and the Classics.—Grant,
in an interview published in a Denver
paper, shows an unexpected familiarity
with English classics—notably with
Dickens. He says:
“There is no reason why any Republi
can should not vote for Garfield. I know
him to be a man of talent, a thoroughly
competent and an upright man. I have
nothing against Gen. Hancock, but Gar
field is the man for the office.”
No one can read this remark without
being reminded of that affecting passage
about Little Nell aud Mr. Thomas Cod-
lin, in tlie Old Curiosity Shop: “Codlin’s
tlie friend, not Short. Short’s very well
as far as lie goes; but the real friend is
Codlin—not Short.”
Does God Reign in Sin?—This was
tlio somewhat staggering inquiry pro
pounded suddenly yesterday to the wri
ter by one of the most godly and devout
pastors of Macon, wbom he met on the
street. We tried to respond according to
the belief that is in us, but will not in
flict our ideas upon the public. Let eve
ry reader answer the question if he can
for himself, or if in doubt seek for light
on the subject.
The News.—Tlie morning telegrams
contain some important news. The Irish
land bill lias passed tbe House of* Com
mons. In Germany the church bill has
passed and there is apparently some pros
pect of quieting that controversy.
A lamentable casualty happened to the
Hudson river tunnel, now in process of
construction, by which the tunnel filled
and twenty out of twenty eight laborers
were killed. The Democratic executive
committee is in session in New York.
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—The population of Pennsylvania, ac
cording to the new census, is about 4,226,-
000, an increase of twenty per centum in
tea years. There is but one county,
Venango, which does not "show an in
crease of population, but there are a
dozen or more in winch tbe increase is in
significant. McKean county, in the oil re
gion, shows an increase of 375 per cent.
■English farmers can be arrested and
fined for killing hares on the farms they
lease and cultivate. The right to game of
every kind is reserved by the owners,
who think nothing of riding over the
crops that may be standing when tbe
sporting season opens—the I2th of Sep-
I DVRRTISfi&fl, »*nd for our Sel«t Li«t of Lo
ll cal N*w*»*pers. Geo. P. Bcwe l A Co, 10-
Sprue* S«.,11. T.
NOTICE LEAVE TO SELL LAND.
G ROIQIA. JOMM COUNTY.—Pour w«£s
after date I will app’r to the Court of Ordi
nary ol Joan county for lo»va to sell at private
•ala all »h« wil i lands belonging to estate of Le
vey 8in*l*ton. deceas'd.
*LL»N*ING7BTON. Bxeeatvur.
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O RDINARY’S Otn e lone* County. Georgia,
June 98, 1880.—wh-rea* John A. Johnson
executor cstat*ef Martha M. Seabrook. deceased
applies far ditwita<on.
There are to elto and admo-ihh all ptiaons-
concerned lotbow cans- at this office o>i erby
the fir«t Monday m Cctobe*. if any they have to.
the contrary.
Witness ay hand officially.
jetSHd* POL/NIT. I C?h. Cidinary*
Notioa to Debtors and Creditors*
A LL aereaet indebted to the estate of H. B..
JX. Troutman are h-reby i.otifird to makein.-
maoism p.jmer t of the same to the undersign
ed: and all faniaona having claim* a.ainat jaid*
estate *r* hereby notified to pn>**ut the same-
dulv authentioated Interna of the law.
M. L OUTM AN. Bxacutor.
vM. ta-wl-v
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AIDUfAirS Office Jones County, Georgia,•
Y . June tttb, ’88u.—Whereas Samual Barron,
administrator with the will annexed, on estate off
Benjamin darrun, deceased, applies for ditmia—
•mu from same.
There are to eito and admnnkh all psraoaa*
concerns* and tha legawwa ol said tatoie to tw
in* appear at tha OctoOer term next oMhia
court, and wimem a resiiement ot hit adminis
tration, reeei-e their distributive tbaret, and
show easts if m) they h»vo why ha shall not ba
direharged Pen aa:d admmutrat’on.
Witneaamy band rffieially.
jntletd* ROLAND T. R038, Ordinary,
G «U®gi», BIBB Oi'UNTV.-Waereaa, John-
I. Sullivan has made am ieatiou for letter*
of adaiai-tratioo un the estate of Thomaa C»
Bullivan, late el raid county di ceased.
Tbete are therefore to cite atd admonish all'
persons concerned to be and anrear at the Court
of Oedinary *f **id county on tbe first Monday
in > usual next, to tbow cause if any they have,
why letters of adaiuMratiou should not be.
granted toappliea-t.
Witness my official signature.
, . , . J-A. McMANUS, Ordinary.
July 8, ’S'O-etd*
NOTICE LEAVE TO SELL LAND.
OBORGRA. JOVRS COUNTT.—Four week*
VJ after date l will apply to tbe Cc-urt of Ur
dinary *f Jones county Icr leave to tell a'l the
land, belonging to estate of Peyton A. Bclkoom.
deorered.
PSUX B. BA1 KCOJt, Adm’r.
Juh 7, isto-td*