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JOURNAL AUD MESSENGER. CLISBY & JONES, Phopbietors. THEFAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc.—PRICE $2.00PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826. MACON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1880 VOLUME NO—LV in tile Fourth lVatch ol tho SI(ht. ST. MATTHEW XIV., 22—33. Low, in the moonless night, In the rough wind’s despite, They ply the oar; Keen gusts smite in their teeth; The hoarse wares chafe beneath With muffled roar. Numb fingers, failing force, ■Scarce serve to hold the course Hard-worn half-way, "When o’er the tossing tide, Pallid and heavy-eyed, Scowls the dim day. * And now in the wan light, Walking the waters white, A shape draws near, Each soul, in troubled wise, Staring with starting eyes, Cries out for fear. Each grasps his neighbor tight, In helpless, huddled fright, Shaken and swayed. And lo! the Master nigh Speaks soflly, “It is I; Be not afraid.” E’en so to us that strain Over life’s moaning main, Thon drawest near, And, knowing not Thy guise, We gaze with troubled eyes, And cry for fear, A strange voice whispers low, “Tills joy must thou forego, Thy first and best.” A shrouded phantom stands Crossing the best-loved hands Por churchyard rest. Then soft, as is the fall Of that white gleaming pall By snowflakes made, Still each startled cry, Thou speakest, “It is I Be not afraid.” —Good Words. Age and the Intellect. “The richer a nature,” says Carlyle, “the harder and slower its development. Two boys were once of a class in the Ed inburgh Grammar school; John ever trim, precise and dux; Walter ever slovenly, confused and dolt. In due time John be came Bailie John of Hunter square, and Walter became Sir Walter Scott of the universe. The quickest and completest of all vegetables is the cabbage.” This slowly developed “Sir Walter Scott of the Universe” was thirty-four when ho made his first draft of “Waverley,” and forty- three when he re-wrote and published it. Nearly everyone of those tales which con ferred immortality upon him was com posed after lie had reached the age of for ty-six. He wrote the “Heart of Mid-Lo thian” at forty-seven; the “Bride of Lam- mermoor,” “A Legend of Montrose” and “Ivanhoe” at forty-eight; the “Pirate” and “Peveril of the Peak” at filty; the “Tales of the Crusaders” at fifty-four, and the “Chronicles of the Canongate” at fifty- seven. Carlyle was forty-two when he publish ed the “French Revolution,” the first work of his to which he formally put his name. The publication of this work was, it is true, delayed, owing to the burning of the • of one volume through the careless ness of Mrs. Taylor, to whom it had been loaned by John Stuart Mill; but if that mishap bad not occurred, Carlyle would ( have been over forty before Ills work could have appeared. His “Cromwell” .was published when he was fifty; the first two volumes of his “ Frederick the Great” when he was sixty-three, another two when he was sixtv-seven, and the last two when he was sixty-nine. Swift was fifty-nine when he published “Gulli ver’s Travels,” and certainly did no work on it before he was fifty-seven. Tennyson had reached fifty when his first idyls, “Enid," “Elaino,” “Vivien,” and “Guin evere” were published, and was about slxty-two when he completed the series with “Gareth and Lynette.” Macauley was forty-eight when he issued the first and second volumes of his “History of England,” and the third and fourth did not appear till he was fifty-five. Good as are the essays of his early manhood, they pale when compared with this work of his mature years. John Stuart Mill was fifty-three when his essay “On Liberty” was published, and fifty-six when he gave us that _ oa ■“Utilitarianism.” Milton was certainly more than fifty-four when he began to compose his “Paradise Lost.” He was fifty-nine when he sold it to Simmons, the bookseller. George Eliot composed “Middlcmarcli” between the age of torty- six and fifty-one, and since then “Daniel Derouda.” Bacon was fifty-nine before ho published his great work, “The Novum Grganum.” Cowper was over fifty when he wrote “John Gilpin,” and the “Task;” and Defoe fifty-eight when he published “Robinson Crusoe.” Darwin published liis “Origin of Species” when fifty, and his “Descent of Man" when sixty-two. Grote wrote the larger part of his “His tory of Greece” between the ages of fifty- two and sixty-two, and Hallam occupied nearly the same period of life with his “Introduction to the Literature of Eu rope.” The two works by which Thomas Hood has survived the grave, “The Bridge of Sighs” and “The Song of the Shirt,” were composed when he was forty-six, and on a sick bed from which he never rose. Longfellow gave us “Hiawatha” when forty-eight; “Tales of a Wayside Inn” when fifty-six, and since then has been as prolific as he has been excellent. We need only mention his translation of Dante’s “Divinia Commedia,” and his ex quisite poem, “Moituri Salutamus.” “The Autocrat of the Bieakfast-Table” was published when Holmes was forty-eight, and “Songs in Many Keys” whpn fifty- five. Washington Irving completed “Tales of the Alhambra” at forty-nine, published “Mahomet” at sixty-seven, and the “Life of George Washington” after that age. Prescott wrote, we believe, the “Conquest of Mexico” between the age of forty-one and forty-seven, and the “Conquest of Peru” between forty-seven and fifty-one. Motley completed the “History of the United Netherlands” at fifty-three, and after that began the history of “John • of Bameveld,” which he published'when he was sixty. Frenchmen have produced very re markable books long after the noon-day of life- Laplace did an extraordinary amount of mathematical work after three score and ten. Victor Hugo scarcely “got under way” before he was fifty. He pub lished “Napoleon the Little” at fifty; “Les Chatiments” at fifty-one; “Les Mis- erables” at fifty-seven; the “Toilets of the Sea” at sixty-four: “The Man Who Laughs” at sixty-seven, and the “Annals of a Terrible Year” at seventy. The great physicist and mathematician, Am pere, did not begin to devote his attention to the phenomena of electro-magnetism till he was forty-five, and it was from fif ty-one to fifty-three that he published his “Observations,” a work characterized, as has been said, by “profound thought and extraordinary philosophical sagacity.” Racine was fifty when he wrote his drama of “Esther,” and fifty-two, that of “Atba- lie,” the finest production of his genius, and a masterpiece of dramatic eloquence. Thiers was sixty-five when he completed his “Consulate and Empire,” - and Cha teaubriand, sixty-three when be pub lished his “Etudes.” Cervantes had passed his fifty-eighth year before he published the first part of “Don Quixote," and was sixty-eight when he issued the second part. He and Shak- speare died on the same day. Cicero composed most of his philosophi cal treatises between the ages of fifty-eight and sixty-two. Galileo published his “Dialogue on the Two Principal Systems of the World” at sixty-eight; the “Dia logue on Local Motion” at seventy-four, the age at whice he discovered the moon’s diurnal libration.' Goethe and Kant, two of the greatest minds that ever lived, did, in view of their later works, scarcely anything till they had passed the age of forty-five. Kant was nothing but a professor till fifty- seven, when he published his,“Critique of Pure Reason,” on which he begun work ten years before. When sixty-four he is sued his “Critique of Practical Reason," and his “Critique on Judgment” was pub lished two years later. But the most con- spicous literacy example of fertility at au advanced age is Goethe. At forty-eight he published “Hermann and Dorothea,” and at fifty-six, his immortal “Faust.” “If Goethe,” says Carlyle, “had died in 1806, (the year when “Faust” appeared), he would have achieved a greater renown than any other man of letters; but he was destined to live twenty-six years longer, years of labor and productiveness.” In 1809, when fifty-nine, lie published “Elective Affinities,” and in 1831, at the age of eighty-two, “Helena,” and tho sec ond part of “Faust.”—Boston Courier. Cotton in Alabama and Mississippi. The Mobile Begister of Tuesday says. Wc had a call from Mr. James Patrick yesterday, who informed us that he had just returned from a second tour through the country, made with the view of ob taining a knowledge of the status of the growing crop. His first visit was through several counties in Mississippi, as far north as Pontotoc. Most of the planters he conversed with—at that time—thought their crops equal lo last year’s. This was in the early part of August and before the worm or rust had done much damage. His second visit was in Alabama, and mostly in Marengo, Clarke and Sumter counties, and he now estimates the crop to be 23 per cent, short in quantity, with as much difference in quality. This esti mate is made from personal examination. The long spell of wet weather, together with the worms and the rust, have injured the crops more in the same length of time than he nas ever known before. Scarcely any picking has been done, owing to the nature of the weather, and that which has been picked is so dirty that hardly a bale of it will class as middling cotton. Mr. Patrick states that in riding through tho fields he took great pains to find out what injury the worm had actually done. The stalks are nearly stripped of every leaf; all the young bolls and pods on the top of the stalk are eaten, so that there is scarcely any top crop at all. The lower iirt of the stalk, where the cotton is open, las been so beaten down by the rain, and covered with dirt, that he advised the planters not to gather, as it would injure the sale of that which is good and free from dust. He has found many bolls rotten and full of water. He also in formed us that he states the views of many practical planters, in saying that they thought his estimate too'low, and that 40 Or 30 per cent, would bo mure exact. Grasshoppers. It is said ib»t for years there has not been known such a harvest of grasshop pers as are at present met with in the south of France. Indeed, all through Europe the crop of insects of ever kind seems to have been as abundant as the supply of birds has been deficient. In Provence, especially, they have been leculiarly vocal. The silver-coated grass- lopper, which is to be met with in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Greece, has the repute of being wholly inoffensive. There is a specimen which bites into the bark of the ash trees, and causes that flow of honeyed sap which is sometimes sold as manna. The grasshopper has fared better in ancient than in modem days, and in dis tant than in neighboring countries. He is mentioned in Homer, and was venerated by the Greeks. There is a celebrated passage in the “Iliad” where the eloquence of orators is compared to the chirping of these insects, and the comparison is in tended as a compliment. But modem Greece has taken a less romantic view of the subject, and has applied to it in a very practical way Wordsworth’s praise of his own idol as a creature “not too good for human nature’s daily food.” The Greeks eat their grasshoppers as if they were shrimps, and season the insipidity of the dish with milk and honey. At one time in Grecian history the grass hopper belonged to the milliner rather than to the cook. It was the nsage for ladies to wear them as headdresses, and there was a great art in tying the live in sect with thread, and giving it a limited liberty amongst “jelty tresses wooed -by iEgean winds.” In modem days Green admiration has passed to a very different nation. The Chinese venerate grasshop pers, but rather from a commercial than a religious point of view. They are worth a considerable sum alive, and after death find their way into the cabinets of collect ors and naturalists. Female Accomplishments. Every school for young ladies rejoices m its teacher of drawing, painting, etc., as well as its teacher of music; and under the hands of these two individuals, the whole school, as a general thing, is desir ed to pass by teachers and parents. French is studied as an accomplishment- The result usually is, that when a young lady is “finished off,” she can play six tunes on the piano; has executed three pieces of drawing or painting, which papa buys frames for, and hangs up in a parlor for exhibition to visitors; has done a little port-folio of water-colors, in which the teacher’s hand is frequently visible; has learned to dauce; and achieved a free ran of nineteen French phrases, which she could not pronounce correct ly to save her life. So far there is nothing but show. Principles have not been' comprehended, and she has in her hands nothing, not even the instru ments for winning the accomplishments which she and her friends imagine she possesses. How many misses can sketch from nature? How many, who return home “accomplished,” can sketch even the old domicil in which theyy were reared ? llow many can paint the tiger lily that occupies a comer of the garden? How many can take a simple piece of music and play or sing it at sight? How many go on from the foothold they have achieved, and become mistresses of the delightful art, soothing the husband when weary and alone, or entertaining his friends when they call upon him? How many read a French book after leaving school ? We suppose not one in fifty. Their accomplishments are a gilded cheat. The money spent to obtain them is a dead loss, and the time which they have occupied should havo been devoted to more solid studies, in which three- fourths are deficient, from the simple fact that their time has been so unprofitably spent. ■ *. The A. S. T. Co.’s Black Tip for chil dren’s shoes, advertised in another col umn, will be found to wear as long as tho metal, and add to the beauty ofjthe finest „ _ . shoe. Parents who have tried them will from comparatively small investments, have no other. sep21.1w 1 lw Pearls of Thought A German author has made a collec tion of mixed metaphors, which he calls pearls of thought. Some of them are worth quoting if only as a warning to highflown orators not to allow their mag niloquence to fly away with them alto gether. “We will,” cried an inspired Democrat, “burn all our ships, and with every sail unfurled, steer boldly out into the ocean of freedom!” Even that flight wa3 surpassed by an eflort of Justice Minister Hye, who in 1848, in a speech to the Vi enna students, impressively declared— “The chariot of the Revolution is roiling along and gnashing its teeth as it rolls.” A pan-Germanist, Mayor of a Rhineland coiporation, rose still higher in an ad dress to the Emperor. He said, “No Austria, no Prussia, one only Germany, such were the words the mouth of your Imperial Majesty has always had in its eye.” We have heard of the mouth having an eye-tooth, but never before of the mouth’s eye. But there are even literary men who cannot open their mouths “ without putting their foot iu it.” Professor Johannes Schorr is an example of such. In a criticism on Lenau’s lyrics lie writes, “Out of the daTk regions of philosophical problems the poet suddenly lets swarms of songs dive up carrying far-flashing pearls of thought in their beaks.” Songs and beaks are certainly related to one another, but were never seen in that incongruous connection before. A German preacher, speaking of a repentant girl, said, “She knelt in the temple of her interior and prayed fervent ly,” a feat no india-rubber doll could imi tate. The German parliamentary oratory of the present day affords many ex amples of metaphor mixture; but two must suffice. Count Franken- berg is the author of them. A few years ago he pointed out to his country men the necessity of “seizing the stream of time by the forelock;” and in the last session he told the Minister of War that if he thought the French were seriously attached to peace, he had better resign office and “return to his parental oxen.” The count had no doubt the poet’s paler- narura in his mind at the time. But none of these pearls of thought and ex pression in Fatherland surpass the speech of the immortal Joseph Prudhomme on being presented with a sword of honour by the company ha commanded in the National Guard of France. “Gentle men,” said he, “this sword is the bright est day of my life V’—Galignani. Tiie Convenient Shinm.aster.— The Chicago Times, in discussing the res toration of the old fractional currency, says: “There can be no question as to the superiority of the notes for certain purposes, and there is, perhaps, no great objection to a law providing for the con version of fractional silver into notes at the sub-treasuries, the silver to be held for the redemption of the notes on de mand. A law of this kind would test the demand for notes without forcing them upon the public, and give people their choice between the two kinds of currency.” Such a law would obviate all the objections usually made to the substitution of paper for coin in providing a subsidiary coinage, as it would offer a metalic reserve, dollar for dollar, for all the paper fractional cur rency placed in circulation. The cost of printing the notes would be more than met by the notes which would be lost, be' , ca’l!b , fi 1 lL h g«>v‘?5H‘ en T t „ » instead of being paid iu the form of a tax so-called, the cost would be met by the last holder. If. however, there is a real demand for the old paper shinplasters, there is no reason why the people should not tax themselves to provide the conve nience in this way as in any other. The East River Bridge A New York letter says: “There is at last a faint sign of progress in the work on East River bridge. The first consignment of steel for the superstructure has arrived, but there is not enough of it to' begin work with. The steel which has arrived comprises a quantity of small members, known as bridging truss, to go between the floor beams. These are suspended lengthwise of the river from suspenders attached to the cables, and the smaller pieces are employed to hold the structure stiff. The roadway of the bridge i3 divided into five sections. In the centre is the el evated promenade, and on each side are the railroad spaces, and the roadways for vehicles are in the outer spaces. The promenade is about fourteen feet above the roadway; so that while the passengers may look up and down the stream, and obtain a fine view, they cannot look down and get dizzy, or throw themselves into the river, as used to be the habit ot sui cides from the Harlem bridge. The roadway for vehicles will be wide enough for two lines of vehicles to pass each other. While it has not been de cided how cars will pass over the bridge, the engineers have devised plans for the use of rope-traction power, which are held in favor. The bridge will be finished probably by a year from January 1st. It will cost, when done, about $16,000,000, but it is not supposed that it can yield sufficient revenue to pay a fair interest on the investment. The convenience of the bridge to Brooklyn residents will be very great. Real estate and rapid transit in Brooklyn awaits the completion of tho bridge. —The Philadelphia enterprise of a thousand one-horse coaches, of light aud novel construction, to carry eight persons each aDd run to all parts of the city, is to be speedily put in operation. The fare is to be five cents, or six tickets for a quar ter of a dollar. The routes are so ar ranged that, for ten or fifteen cents, a trip can by transfers be made to almost any desired point; wbile a siDgle fare will se cure a ride on any one of the main lines, lengthwise or crosswise of the city. The movements of the vehicles will be ar ranged to suit the traffic. The street car companies anticipate a serious decrease in their business. Ministers not Deadheads. The recent controversy over the pro priety of a minister’s bringing suit for the payment of funeral fees moves a Troy preacher to remark that he has attended several hundred funerals, and taken many hard colds as a consequence, riding several miles in extreme heat and ex treme cold, through wind and stonn, con suming tfiany days of time, and often payiug something for traveling expenses, but has never received a penny for such services, nothing having ever been oftered in more than three or four cases. And nine-tenths of the funerals were of per sons who were not members of his own church, and their surviving friends would not even do him the compliment to go and hear him preach—or any other min ister for that matter. The preacher con tinues in this indignant strain: “I recall one instance in a neighboring city when I was sent for in the middle ot tho night to visit a man who was supposed to bo dying. He kept me by bis bedside a large part of two days and nights, and at length I went to attend his funeral in a town some twenty milc3 away. In another instance I was sent for to soothe a crazy man, and actually spent a whole day with him, when I was more than half sick myself, trying, with some success, to calm his mind ana turn his thoughts from his ailments. I am sent for by wives to reform their drunken husbands; sent for to reconcile husbands aud wives that have parted—persons I never saw and know nothing about; sent for to help people get work, and for many other purposes which I will not enumerate. For services of this kind I have never received a penny, and never desired it. I do not ref-r to these to complain that the minister is called upon for such services. I am glad to perform them, and to perform them without pay, and am conscious that many >ersons who are not ministers perform ike services. It is our delight to help suffering humanity in every possible way. I only wish yon to understand that min isters perform far more siich gratuitous service than any other class of our citi zens. And finally, alas! we marry agreat many hopeful couples without pay.” —The Polyphemus, the British steam ram now building at Chatham, is a naval monster of unique proportions and con struction, and it is expected will be the most formidable structure afloat. She is intended to be an armored, sheet-plated ram, 2,640 tons capacity and 5,500 horse power, built almost entirely of steel, and meant to use toipedces besides. It is thought that no vessel afloat, iia matter what her build, could survive one or two blows from this ram. —The expenses af the late triennial conclave of Knights Templar at Chicago were $93,000 and the receipts $87,000. The deficiency will be made good by the three local commanderies. —Last year some eight hundred women in Boston asked to be assessed as a pre liminary to voting. Thus far this year only ten Boston women have done so. H«w Honey ten be Hade. During the late rapid rise in stocks many men have cleared thousands of dol lars from the investment of a single hun dred. The reliable house of John A. Dodge & Co., No. 12 Wall street, New York, havo the reputation of securing for many of their customers very large profits Is It Yellow Fever? A suspicious sickness has been prevail ing for some time in the neighborhood of a quarantine station on the lower coast of the Mississippi river, about 75 miles from New Orleans. It was last week pronounced yellow fever of a mild type. There have been some seventy-five cases with several deaths since the latter part of August. Joseph Jones, President of the State Board of Health, denies that the disease is anything more than ma larial fever, caused by exposure in the rice fields. The fact that very few of the cases had thus been exposed; that Jones had not seen any of the cases himself; that there has been free intercourse open and unrestricted until recently between infected ships at quarantine and the neighborhood where this fever prevails, led Dr. Bemiss, of the National Board of Health, to dispatch Dr. Siomberg, an army surgeon of experience in the fevers of the Guit coast, to investigate and re port. On the receipt of the officer’s re port pronouncing the disease to be yellow fever, the president of the Na tional Board of Health tendered the Lou isiana State Board the sum ot $10,- 000 to be used in preventing the spread of the disease. Without consulting his board, President Jones^declined the aid, toeing the f^HrouSfe- *" A " hading citiren^holaing a uiflbrent opin ion held a meeting Tuesday evening, and decided to send a commission of experts to the locality. This commission, consist ing of Dr. J. P. Davidson, member of the Louisiana State Board of Health; Dr. R. W. Mitohell, a Memphis member of the Na tional Board of Health; Dr. George M. Sternberg, Army Surgeon, and Dr. J. D. Bruns, of the Charity Hospital, left for Point Michael yesterday morning on a special steamer provided by citizens. The commission returned th’s evening, but has not yet made public its' report.—Special to Globe-Democrat. Hints to Parents. A graceful habit of eating comes more by attention than by natural gift. The first step, at the proper time, is to spread out one’s napkin ; and the next, if de sired, to take a drink from one’s glass. One, of course, should never ask or expect to be helped out of turn, nor indicate a wish for any particular part of a dish un til asked so to do. Children need to be guarded against wishing to be over-helped, or re-passing a plate more than once, provided they are carefully served. Everybody knows that in eating the fork is to be used, and occa sionally a spoon, as in the case of vegeta bles and fruits. Therefore, a passing hint on never lifting the knife to the month ought to break off such a bad habit for ever. ' A large part of children’s sickness, and adults’ also, might be prevented by adopt ing a proper way of chewing the food. Some think the only method of getting through a meal, is to stuff the mouth to overflowing, and then bolt down the con tents as quickly as may be. Such doings will, in time, play fearful work with the organs of digestion; and when one finds out to his pain that he has astomacli, it is almost too late to remedy matters. One of the secrets of a strong and long life is to eat-slowly, chew the food thoroughly and leave the table feeling that it were possible to eat somewhat more. A man can make out better even on a half meal than on an over-profusion of eatables. Speculating oil Maine. The Philadelphia times, an independ ent paper, speculating on the result in Maine, says: Such a result would be a victory in Connecticut, or Indiana or New Jersey, but it is an irretrievable Kepublican dis aster In Maine. It at once deranges the whole plan of battle on the Republican side and limits the confidence and re sources of the party just when they are both most needed, and increases the con fidence and resources of the Democrats. Ten days ago the Republican plan of bat tle was clearly foreshadowed. After the decisive victory in Maine that was so positively predicted and sullenly conceded by the other side, Blaine wa3 to wear liis green garlands in Indiana and Ohio and enthuse the Republicans as only Blaine can enthuse them when in fighting trim. AU the outposts in Maine, pNew Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Ohio were to be called in, and a concentrated assault made on Indiana; but now the key of the New England wing has been stormed, and whether Blaine remains in nominal possession ot the field or not, he is defeated and his army broken. Blaine must now rally his shattered columns and labor day and night to prepare for the confessedly doubtful straggle in Maine in November, and he will he voiceless in Ohio, Indiana and California unless he would gravely imperil his own State, which should be one of the strongest Garfield positions in tho Union. And Blaine must have money and speakers and workers for Maine, for the Fusionists are again chal lenging him to action, and what coaid and should have been thrown into Indi ana, must now be withheld to fight the Maine battle over again. Nor does the reversal of the plan ol the campaign end with Blaine. Jewell must now double his exertions, his speakers A Northern Man’s View. We have received a copy of the New Em, published at Lancaster, Pa. We find in it an article from the pen of Mr. J. J. Sprenger, who is now located at Rome, in north Georgia. It seems that iu fol lowing out his-instructions from the editor in whose employ he was, “being specially detailed to furnish reliable information concerning the South and its industrial enterprises,” he lias offended some stal wart Republican. In replying to this dis appointed Radical, Mr. Sprenger says: Now, I don’t know how long J. P. re sided In the South, but I do know that I have resided here since the 12th of April last, (and not “only a few weeks,”) giving me ample time by close observation,'lead ing and much intercourse with Ihe people to form some idea of the true slap of af fairs as they exist. Allow me to put this impertineutquestiotUoJ. P.: Suppose I tion the court should have red costs bad been, in tho South only a ftm . sys. tUe defeR(laut 43 ia notice court "'V' 1 " •°" r readers thr: ° r some Il0r - reiUrdered the balance of the costs to be and his money for Connecticut; Chandler must double his labor, his orators and his cash for New Hampshire; Ohio must have all the money and effort that Garfield and Sherman and Matthews and Foster can throw into it to resist the defiant and well supplied. Democratic attack on the Buckeye State; Illinois will now tremble in the balance and must deplete the re sources of the party to help Logan in his extremity, and Indiana must henceforth be fought with divided and limited means and against the prestige of an unexpected and overwhelming repulse iu Maine. None know better than Gen.' Garfield Chairman Jewell, Senator Blaine ant Chairman Bamum, that the Republican plan of battle has been utterly deranged by the Maine disaster, and that the Indi ana and Ohio conflicts must now be waged with the Republicans greatly at a disadvantage. And all know that Bar man will not slumber to dream over a preliminary victory. He is already in the advance in Ohio and Indiana, and he will give desperate battle not only in those States, but along the whole line, in eve ry debatable State from Maine to, Califor nia. Republican orators and organs will not confess so much to their followers; but all of them appreciate the situation alike, and regard it exactly as it is herein presented. There is now but one remote chance for the Republicans to re cover from the Maine defeat, and that is by success in both Indiana and Ohio in October; but that has been made ten-fold more difficult by the route of Blaine than it was before, and the general conviction will bo, alike among leaders and follow ers of both sides, that if Blame cannot make his State give out the inspiring shout of victory, who are to save Indiana and Ohio in October? Garfield has not a tittle of tho magnetism, energy or saga cious leadership possessed by Blaine, and the death of Merton ended great Re publican leadership-in Indiana. But the Republicans cannot retreat or surrender at this stage of the straggle, and they must summon all their men and means for October as Napoleon did at Waterloo. It they can win in Indiana, they will lead in the battle thereafter and Maine will fall into line again; if they shall be defeated there, Pennsylvania, Illi nois, Wisconsin, Colorado, Nevada, Cali fornia aud New Hampshire will be likely to join the then assured Democratic States of New York, New Jersey and Connecti cut, and give the electoral majority of both North and South to Hancock. given your readers the details of some hor rid and horrifying case of persecution or murder in which the negro figured as the victim, would he doubt my word or con sider me unqualified to express an opin ion? Come, mow, Mr. J. P., tell me hon estly whether the wish is not father to the thought with you iu this whole criti cism? MISCONSTRUCTIONS. The fact is, you are construing the facts, asl give them, after gathering them by actual observation, into fancies inspired by political bias, and here is where you do me injustice, and it is against this that I desire to enter my sol emn protest. You become personal, yea, even abusive, in your desperate effort to cast suspicion ou my motives, which only serves to convince me that the truth with regard to the present state of things in the South is repugnant to your feelings, in fact that it docs not suit you, and for very obvious reasons it does not harmonize witli the exaggerated reports spread over the land by bitter partisan papers to servo as campaign aiguments. I repeat, if thi3 is what you want I can’t gratify you. I propose to keep right on, taking observations, and will continue, while God gives mo 'health, to contribute, as far as lies in my humble power, my share towards bringing about a better state of feelings between the two extreme sections of our common country. And in doing this, I, as an independent, free man, shall continue as I commenced, to give all the results of such observations and experience free from bia3 or preju dice, let it please or displease whosoever it may; and if in this I fail to convince J. P. an’d such as think with him, that tho South offers a good opening for Northern capital and enterprise, I will enjoy the happy consciousness still of having faith fully, and to the best of my ability, “fur nished reliable information concerning her industrial enterprises,” and remain the editor’s humble servant. J. P. Sprenger. THE SUPREME COURT. Decisions Rendered September 14th Abridged for the Megraph and Messenger by Jhll db Harris, Attorneys at Law, Macon Oorgia. Crawford vs. Jones. Trover, from the City Court of Clarke county. Where a defendant in bail trover brings- thc case to this court, he is not compelled lo make the security on his bail bond a party to the bill of exceptions. Brock vs. The State. Retailing without license, from Gwinnett. The commissioners iu Gwinnett county, —like the ordinary in a county where there are no commissioners—have power to grant or refuse a license to retail liquors. If a license is arbitrarily refused, the rem edy is by mandamus; and such a refusal does not give the right to retail without a license. Huguly vs. Morris & Tumlin. Debt, * from Cobb. 1. T. bought negroes and turned them over to M. It was agreed that the latter, beinga skillful trader, should take charge of them, carry them to a point some dis tance off and sell them; that the money invested by T. should be returned, the expenses paid and tbe net profits divided. M. was allowed to purchase other negroes and draw on T. for tho price of them. No agreement was made as to losses. M. sold a uegro to H., using the firm name of M. & T., and warranting soundness. The negro proving unsound, M. took him back and gave a note signed with tlie partner ship name for the amount to be paid back: Held, That prior to the code these fact3 would seem to make M. & T. part ners, aud a3 such liable on the note. 2. Under the facts above stated, if T. was not a partner of M., the latter was certainly his agent in respect to the pur chase and sale of. negroes, and as such had power to bind him in respect to the soundness of the negro,'- and to settle a dispute relative thereto by giving the note; and T. or his estate (he being dead) is legally liable on the note so given. A verdict releasing T.’s estate was there fore contrary to law. Howell vs. Glover. Motion to set aside judgment, from Cobb. 1. In order for one who has been adju dicated a bankrupt to obtain .a stay of proceedings iu a case, in a State court, to await his discharge, notice of such adju dication must be judicially given to the court and application for a stay made. That the court has seen the certificate of the adjudication In other cases, or has personal knowledge of it, will not suffice- 2. Where, on account of a misunder standing between attorneys aud their clieut as to fees, the former had their names stricken from the docket as defend ing the case, and on the call thereof, they declining to appear, there was no response for the defendant, and judgment went against him, it will not; be set aside be cause he expected them to suggest his bankruptcy and apply for a stay of pro ceedings. Smith vs. Shaffer & Ham, for use, etc. Motion, from Forsyth. Where an action ex contractu was brought in tho Superior Court for $150, and without any plea of set-off, recoup ment or payment pending suit, the verdict was for “$25 00 and costs of suit,” ou mo- 4. On a trial for rape it is essential to show, either by direct or indirect evidence,; actual carnal knowledge. Beck vs. Tbe State. Malicious mischief, from Dawson. That the principal witness for the State , _ in a cnminal’casa on whose testimony the ® ver yhody had gone to bed, and all the conviction largely rested, had had a serf- were About 2 o’clock I put ous personal difficulty with the prisoner “ ie »ey m the lock of my door—how my and testified under stroug feelings of mal- trembled lest I should fail!—and ice, and that defendant’s counsel did not ^ u ^ ne “- Ho w my heart jumped with joy know of the difficulty until after the*?, nt “® clicked and sprang back! trial, furnished no grounds for new trial. ? tben opened the door and walked nut. Sam Hill’s Escape as Related by Himself. ! ** The first night I selected for an escape didn t suit, as it rained, and I didn’t want to get my clothes wet, but the next time I was more successful. I waited until Tbe defendant knew the facts and should have communicated them to his counsel. Faw vs. Meals. ^Complaint, from Cobb. 1. Where an instrument is free from opened tbe door and walked out into the hall. As soon as I stepped into the hall I stopped, and with bated breath looked around me. Just in front of me was another door which must be unlocked to let me out of my ward. I approached —• nuere au insiruraem, is iree irom llb-a ■ 1 . ,* ambiguity, the construction thereof is sole- man 1 kf T »m * r 1 U 1 ® 8 / 1 °£ an ^ ones ‘ ly for the .court. man llke 1 1 Put the kev in and 2. Tho following obligation creates an individual liability on the part of the maker: “Received of Mrs. Julia B. Meals, by the hands of Mrs. Mary W. Phillips, $900.00, which said sum of money I obli- gate mvself to use in running capital of Marietta Mill, and keep the same In money, stock;•material and paper, not subject to the debts of the mill. I further obligate myself to pay Mrs. Meals 12i per cent interest on tbe same, payable monthly. 1 fuitber obligate myself amlpromiseto pay Mrs. Meals a3 much as $500.09 of the principal sum on or before May 1st next, if called upon, the remainder due and paya ble twelve months after date, at which said time and date I promise to pay Mrs. Meals, or bearer, whatever of saiu princi pal sum and interest which may be due and unpaid. “(Signed.) E. Fay, “Agent of the Marietta Paper Mill Com pany.” of the jury rxf.tun recovery, such a case to mean iogai Tiie finding ■>nstrued in The Men Who Do Us Justice.—The masculine mind at its best is certainly at least a more logicarmind than tbe femi nine, and tbe greatest things in science, literature and art have been done by men. A woman should never marry a man who is not mentally her superior—and never does if she is worth much, except from interested motives. But the men who boast most of the su- leriority of their sex, who consider women nferior beings, and sneer at the idea that any woman can do anything worth doing, aria always the meanest and poorest speci mens of their kind—contemptible little creatures who never have made any mark in the world, and never will, and who often owe ail their comfort, sometimes even their bread and butter, to the efforts of some hard working member of the sex they scorn. A brave and brilliant man never des pises a woman—never sneers at her. He gives her credit for all the good she does, and makes allowances for her failures. He protects her by his word and look, as ho would by his right hand if she were in danger. Yet withal, he is far more apt to applaud her and to believe It possible that she can do something worth doing, than the cowerd in whose bosom the impulse of protection never dwelt. When women receive justice, aye more than justice, for any of their efforts with pen or pencil or voice—for any work that baud or brain can do, it is from these meu who are their superiors both mental ly and physically. Just as the men who rest under the delusion that all the women are beautiful, are apt to be exceedingly handsome men; wbile very fastidious per sonages, who most criticise the softer sex, are generally the ugliest of their own to be found anywhere. And a man who canuot bear to think lightly of a woman, or to hear her lightly spoken of, is inevitably an honorable gentleman of pure life and morals; while he who mis interprets every innocent’s girl’s smile, and is a secret scandal-monger, is sure to be a very bad and unreliable person. Boyd vs. Hand et ai. Certiorari, from Lumpkin. A tenant in common acquires no pre scriptive rights by the use of a way over the common property so long as all of the tenants had au undisputed use of the premises. Where all the tenants in com mon in a certain lot united in a deed conveying the fee without any reserva tion of a private way, one of them who had been accustomed to use a way over the land could not tack such use pending his joint ownership to his use since the sale to complete his prescriptive right. The conveyance of the fee with warranty aud without any retervation of right of way carried with it any easement he might have had. Young vs. The State. Rape, from Cobb. It was not admissible to ask a prosecu trix if she did not make certain state ments in reference to the case on trial to any attorney different to those testified to by her, it appearing that such statements were made, if at ail, in contemplation of the employment of the attorney to prose cute the case, although he was not actu ally employed until afterwards. If, how ever, in the examination in chief the wit ness should testify to anything occurring in such communications material to her side of the case, the other party would have the right to inquire concerning the entire conversation. If there should be anything tending to criminate him, aud he should refuse to answer as to it, the whole conversation should be excluded. If counsel in argument travel outside of the case, the attention of the court should be called to it, and his ruling in voked cither to restrain counsel or by way of a request to charge. It is too late to raise the point on a motiou for a new trial. Robinson et. al. Application for writ of possession, from Gwinnett. 1. Where the court struck a portion of the answer of a defendant to an applica tion for a writ of possession, and be there upon withdrew the balance, he debarred himself from excepting to such ruling of the court. 2. An exception which turns upon the evidence will not be considered, if there is no brief of evidence before thfe court. Morris vs. Root. Appeal, from Cobb. 1. Where the proof is that the plain tiff, having ceased to sell goods to the de fendant, then sells them to his wife on her own credit, and so chaiges them, such a sale does not bring tbe previous account of the husband, which ha3 stood for more than four years, within- the sUtute of lim itations. 2. Open accounts are barred after four years from tiie time w hen tbe right of ac tion accrues. Accounts between mer chant and merchant, which concern the trade of merchandise, have been made an exception to the rule, and to this have been added mutual accounts between others than merchants. 3. Where a sale- of goods has been made, in the absence of proof of either contract or custom concerning payment therefor, the presumption is that the amount is payable on delivery. 4. The contract of a wife for goods sold to her on her own credit alone is not binding on the husband, though the seller may have expectedher to get the money from her husband. Wesley, vs. The State. Rape, from Cobb. 1. Where the record Is so confused or imperfect that an alleged error cannot be passed upon, it will not be considered. 2. That an indictment states that tbe grand jurors were “sworn, chosen and se lected,” is no ground foi quashing it. 3. Although a juror may appear to be competent when put upon his voir dire, and may have been sworn in chief, still he can be proved incompetent and rejected. Manning vs. Phillips et al. Illegality, from Cobb. - Where the Comptroller General issued an execution against a tax collector and liis securities, and the same was paid off by the latter, and subsequently levied upon the property of the principal for re imbursement to which au illegality was filed setting up payment in full by the de fendant to the plaintiff, and the papers returned to Cobb Superior Court: Held, that there was no error in dis- missing the illegality, as it was not the proper remedy. The Dahlonega Gold Mining Co. vs. Purdy. Machinists lien, from Sumter. 1. Where a foreign corporation con tracts with a machinist out of the State to come within its limits to do certain work, in case of a breach by the company tiie courts of this State have jurisdiction of a suit to enforce the machinist’s lien as agaiust the property upon which the work was done located here. The case of Bawknight vs. The Sir. & Sou. Ins. Co., 55 Georgia, 194, distinguished. Flemister vs. Phillips, Wedington. vs. Florence. Certiorari, from Cherokee. Under the constitution of 1877 and the act of 1S7S a written waiver of exemption and homestead is good inter se without having the same alleged in the declara tion or summons, judgment or execution, and is, after judgment, provable aliunde whetherthe lien of tbe judgment be gen eral or special, and whether the waiver be Written on the contract or obligation or on a separate paper. The Bank of the University vs. Bell- Complaint, from the City Court of Clarke - county. Where a note papable to husband and proper?? l u baal£ f< ? r collection, the the amount was paief,'))^ ^KSLgiven for husband, to a partnership debt of the lif ter, the bank thereby became liable to the wife. The fact that it wa3 a partnership debt to which the money was appropria ted, does not chauge tbe rule, for that is a debt oi the husband. On the Way. It was just this side of Detroit that a man entered the car, took a seat and de voted his attention to the morning paper. After a time the conductor came along and touched him gently on the shoulder, but without effect. Again he tapped the passenger on the arm, but there was no response, and tbe official had to speak. “Ticket, sir ?” The traveler looked wearily up from his paper and said ; “I haven’t any ticket.” “Money, then ?” said the conductor. “I haven’t any money.” “Then you must get off at the next sta tion.” “I will,” was the submissive response, and the conductor passed ou. The train stopped at the next station, started again, and was bowling along at twenty miles an hour, when the conductor again came through and saw the traveler on the same seat as before. ‘I told you to get out of this car,” he said somewhat sternly. “You did.” “Why didn’t you do it ?” “I did.” “And then got on again.” “I did.” “Now look here, my friend, want any more of this nonsense, of the car at the next station, and stay out. You hear me?” Again tbe tram stopped and again it started, and again, hut in another car, the conductor found the self-same traveler, as calm as a June morning. “You here again?” he asked. “Yes.” “Didn’t I tell you to get off this train and stay off?” “No.” “I did.” “No; you told me to get out of that car and stay out, aud I did.” “Now, my friend,” said the conductor, -■listen to me, and mind you do just what I tell you. At the next station get off this train and stay off. Do just as £ tell you or you will get into trouble.” “Agreed,” said the traveler, and the con ductor passed on. Again the train stopped and started, and again the traveler turned up on the train. The conductor was just reaching for the bell-rope to stoplhe train and eject him summarily, when the traveler stayed his hand. “I obeyed orders,” he said. “ You told me to do just as you ordered. I got out and stayed out until you said ‘All aboard.’ Then I got aboard, for I didn’t want to get into trouble, you know.” I don’t Get out put the key In and turned, and again the clicking noise of the lock told me I was one door nearer free dom. Again I went up to another door and with this, ray best friend, made another step towards liberty. One door after an other was unlocked, until seventeen doors had been opened and closed, when I at last stood in front of tlio door leading out of the building. This is a large, heavv door, with big locks, and I soor, found that mv key was no good; but I-was not to be foiled when only one door stood be tween me and my liberty, especially after I had passed through seventeen. Finally I climbed up, and, pushing the glass to one side, crawled through. From my po sition to the steps below it was fully twelve or fifteen feet, and there were sev eral steps leading from the door to the ground. I knew it was a dangerous leap, but my resolution didn’t falter. I let go and dropped to tbe steps, and rolled to the ground, a distance of fully twen ty feet. The fall hurt me right badly, but I got up and hobbled off, and be fore daybreak was several miles away from my prison, whose confinement is worse than the grave. I laid in the woods all day, and when dark cam» j started out to get something to eat. I went to a farm house and got a good meal. They didn’t know me, and I felt secured. I then started out for the rail road, and by various ways got to Macou without detection. At Macon I met a friend and he gave some assistance, and I came to Atlanta, where I staid nearly two days. My object in getting away was to come home to see my wiie, who is sick and broken-hearted, but I think she’s bet ter now. When I had been home nearly two days I left. A friend took me in a wagon to near Red Oak, where I got on the train, and, as you said in your paper, started to Newnan, but before getting to Newnan I was afraid Menko would havo me arrested, and I jumped off at Palmetto. I wandered about in the woods all night, and the next day went to Newnan, where I was kindly cared for by friends. Here I staid till Tuesday, when I came back to see my wife again, and now I have seen her, and am going away again. At this point in his narrative Hill gave way to his feelings, and wept freely. Af ter a little while the reporter said: “What are you going to do, Sam—give yourself up?” “No, never. I am satisfied that the people generally sympathize with me, and tiunk 1 ought to be free. Everywhere I go I am treated kindly. Everybody is ready to help me, and I don’t try to con ceal my identity. No fair-minded person will have me arrested, and I’ll come oat all right. The j only thing that worries me now is my poor, sick wife.-—Constitu tion. A Gloomy Man. - Tbe census supervisor is a gloomy feel- ’pftJSAD. _ He imagines he is the victim of was dying, inch'ny^mJ^ast week he ex sumption, and only recently ho'ff££Sndu , 'a» - new enemy—heart disease. He was pain fully impressed yesterday that he wouldn’t live to' vote at the fall election, and so stated to all his friends. Along in the wane of the afternoon a waggish man discovered his melancholia, and prepared a piece of Meyer’s rare old switzer and slipped it under the sweat- band of the census man’sMackinaw, and it wasn’t long afterwards until the census man began to sniff the breeze and finally declared he smelled a badsmeH. Then he got up out of his bamboo and mean dered off down to welcome the 4 p. m. ac commodation, and iu a very few moments he returned very hastily, looked sus piciously up and down the boulevard and called his law partner aside. “I think I am rapidly dissolving,” he remarked, with forced calmness and a nervous look. “What’s up ? ” “My days are up—I know it; mortifica- . tion has set in.” “Set what?” “Heart disease ! I am awfully out of gear; heart standing still—ain’t struck a lick in eight minutes! Feel my pulse.” “Pulse all right.” “Mebbe; but don’t you smell an unkind smell?” - . - — “P’rhaps so.” “How long do you think I will keep?” “Several days!” “This sort of weather ?” “This weather.” “I don’t think it. I am as mushy now as a spoilt banana!” “You do smell awful 1” “Decayinghumanity. It is awful!” At a late hour yesterday the c. in. was "1 looking up four pall-bearers, and a man to administer bis estate, with that mellow old switzer doing duty like a ton of raw- bone superphosphate. Memphis Bonds. New York, Sept. 22.—The’ commission representing the city of Memphis had a con ference with the Memphis bondholders to-day in regard to effecting a settlement with them. The matter was discussed at some length, but up to 3 o'clock no con clusion had been reached. The conference lasted over two boors, ami at its conclusion it was stated that the Memphis commission had made a sat isfactory report of the financial condition of that city, and that satisfactory arrange ments had been made for affecting a set tlement with the bondholders. Photographing Express Trains.— A California operator has had great suc cess iu photographing a horse at full gal lop. Messrs. Marsh Brothers, photogra phers, at Henley-on-Thames, England, have just obtained some interesting pict- - The conductor gave him his hand, and ? f ibe Great Western-the “Flying it was noticed tbatlater in the day they e | which the photograph Las been taken is | on the “portbow” of the express, and the The Critical Event op Life.— | definition is admirable, the details of the Many .of the errors of life admit of rem- ' locomotive coming out as sharply as the edjr. A loss iu one business may be re- ■ stationary objects in the view. Messrs, paired by a gain in another; a mlscalcu- | Marsh Brothers are new. making a flying fation this year may be retrieved by a spe- shutter which, when applied to their cial care the next; a bad partnership may j camera, will reduce the time of exposure be dissolved, au injury repaired, a wrong ’ of the plate to 1500th of a second, With step retraced. But au error in marriage 1 the new shutter they hope to get a goes to the very root and foundation ot. thoroughly satisfactory photograph of an life. Tho deed once done cannot be re- express train taken broadside on. called. The goblet is broken and the | -» , — wine of life is wasted, and no tears or —Twenty thousand first-class passen- toila can bring back the precious draught, gers were carried from America to En- Let the young think of this, and let them rope this summer up to July 24, &q In walk carefuliy in a world of shares, and crease of 4,000 over last year. Assuming take heed to their steps lest in tho most that each of them expended $500, a low critical event of life they go astray. estimate, they left abroad $10,000,000,