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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1880.
The Duchess of Montrose recently won
JE 16,000 by fortunate ventures on the turf.
AN Alaska iceberg ot the largest size
will send its waves a balf-doaen miles or
more before they are spent.
The Lacrym® Ch-Isti wine made from
grapes grown on the lava enriched slopes
of Mount Vesuvius is unusually fine this
season.
An English lady writer protests against
■educating girls too highly, because they are
inclined to indulge in false hopes, and
the reaction sometimes brings utter de
spair.
“The great misfortune.of France,” said
a worthy statesman when conversing
with Monsignor C , “is that them^ori
ity who govern have no religious convic
tions.” “They make up for it,” replied
the priest, “by the abundance of their re
ligious evictions.”
The well-known Russian. millionaire,
TVarschawski, has been arrested by order
of the Russian Government in Odessa and
brought to St. Petersburg. It is stated
that evidence is forthcoming to show that
he defrauded the authorities to the extent
of not less than 22,000,000 roubles by.
army contracts during the late war.
A society" of Mormon girls, having for
its object the securing of monogamic hus
band*, lias been discovered add broken up
at Salt Lake. The members took a vow
to marry no man who would not pledge
himself to 'be content with one wife.
Five grand-daughters of Brigham Young
had joined it
The New Orleans Picayune says: XV.
329 has been chalked on the White House ‘ in Alabama, at Mobile, it rained six
door. The guns of liberty have been spik
ed. John Chinaman shall do the wash
ing for Miss Colombia. The road to a
nation’s shame is covered with DeGoiyer
pavement. The American eagle no lon
ger soars aloft. It is sore all over.
The London Telegraph says that, in
conseqnence of the advance in value of
many securities held by the Glasgow
Bank, the liquidation is likely to show
much belter results than were at one time
anticipated, and those shareholders who
have met their calls in full will be hand
somely remunerated. i .
Parisians delight in mobstrosities ot
various kinds, and have been crowding
round one of Chevcl’s windows in the
Paiaise Royal to see an enormous mush
room, which grew in a wood at Versailles,
and was brought to Paris with the ut
most care as a positive phenomenon. It
Is more than a yard in circumference, and
the weipht is something over 24 pounds.
At Allahabad a Mahometan girl of ten
years of age was some time since married
to a boy of seven by the Mahometan form
of marriage. She never lived with him,
and, indeed, never saw him after the
ceremony was performed. When she
came to maturity she married the man of
her choice, by whom sbehas had children.
How, however, the first husband has
claimed her, and by an order of the Chief
Court.
The Society of Arts is puttingtabietsup
in London on houses once occupied by
famous men. It has already marked
fourteen bouses, including the residences
of Johnson, Faraday, Garrick; Nelson,
Dryden, Reynolds and Byron, and
ordered six more tablets for the erection
of which it has obtained permission.
Charles Dickens’name is down on the
list. . .
Mr. James G. Fair, of Nevada, is of
Irish birth, and Is 49 years old. ’ While a
boy he lived In Illinois, and at eighteen
went to California, and in time became a
superintendent of mines. In addition to
his fortune made from the Big Bonanza
mines he owns nearly a hundred acres in
various parts of San Francisco. He suf
fers from rheumatism. He is-of medium
height and heavy, with a large beard
-streaked with gray.
Mme. TACfcfOXi, once the famous dan
se use, and since the Franco-Prus-
sian war a professor of dancing in Lon
don, has quitted Engiand^aad is, it is said,
about to retire into private life. Before
her departure the Princes*-of Wales bade
her farewell and presented her with a
jewel "as a recognition of the trouble she
had taken in teaching the young Princess.
Mme. TagUoal is now beeeoty-tbree years
of age, and she has weii earned her re
tirement. '
Dr. Cutter says that the increase of
nervous diseases, decaying teeth, prema-
ure baldness and general Back of muscu
lar and bone strength are generally due to
the impoverished quality-ef flour now In
use, the gluten being thrown away in
order to make the flour wfeK*. He urges
the use of unbolted flour and of eggs,
milk and butter. He denies that fish is
brain food or that Agassi* -ever said that
it was and claims that butter, being
nearly all fat, is a better Jdod of brain
food than any other.
A motor yacnt without steam now
makes her way about Boston harbor. It
illustrates the working of a compressed air
petroleum engine. No wneke-pipe - is
visible, for there is none; nor any need of
any, for there is no smoke and not so
much fire as the flame of an ordinary kero
sene lamp. The whole engine and run
ning machinery are contained in a long,
low box In the bottom of the boat, oeenpy-
ing scarcely more room than would be re
quired for the ballast ot a sail-boat of its
size. The peculiarity of this engine is
that a common match brings it instantly
Into full'worklng power.
On Sundsy, October 10, a fine, stalwart
young man named Alfred Garnett, twenty-
one years of age, butcher, belonging to
Carlton, near Skipton-in-Craven, died in
Reeds Infirmary from hydrophobia. As
far back as the beginning of April be was
bitten on his thumb by a stray dog at
Carlton, and it was not until last week
that the more serious effects of the injury
became apparent, lie became ill and
gradually the symptoms of the terrible
disease appeared. It was thought neces
sary to remove him to the infirmary, and
despite the skill and attendance which
were there afforded the sufferer grew
worse and expired in great agony.
Last Wiefcls Cetiosi FiffOr**. V
The New York Chronicle ot Saturday
reports the cotton receipts of the seven
days ending Friday night, 5th instant, at
251,168 bales, against 225,087 bales the
corresponding week of last year. Total
receipts from 1st September to last Fri
day, 1,642,064, against 1,447,222 bales last
year to same date, showing a gain of
194,842 bales. [The Exchange figures
make the gain 245,213 bales.]
The Chronicles interior port tables
makes the receipts at those ports for the
seven days ending Friday night 118,164
bales, against 102,122 the same week of
last year. Shipments 88,061 against 83,-
952 last year. Stocks 204,759, against
183,905 at same date last year. * ‘
The Chronicle's risible supply table
showed, on Friday night last, 2,060,416
bales of cotton in. sight, against 1,755,038
bales last year at that date, 1,625,821
bales in 1878, and 1,079,058 in 1877, At the
same dates. These- figures show, an in
crease of304,783. hales on the supply of
last year, 434^35 bales on the supply of
1878, and 381,358 on. the supply or ait
this date.. * | /
In Liverpool, last Friday, middling up
land was quoted at 6|. Last year, at
same dale, the quotation was Of; in 1878
it was 5 11-10, and In 1877 it wasC 9-16.
As to the Chronicle's weather-reports
fof the week ending last Friday, and other
reports to Monday, we judge that the rec
ord of the growing crop m the-field has
been generally conpluded. Rainfall, fhost
and the election made a poor exhibit of
picking for the week ending last f riJay,
and transportation has been a good deal
interrupted in Texas. * The rainfall in
Texas during October was 2.20 in Galves
ton, 3.42 in Indianola, 1.40 in. Corsicana,
2.05 in Dallas, one inch in Brenbam, and
the same in Waco. - In New Orleans the
rainfall in October was 1.88. In Vicks
burg it rained six days during the week.
In Columbus, Mississippi, there were four
days of rain during the week and a killing
frost. The raiufall in October at Colum.
bus was 4.51. At Little Rock there was a
killing frdst on Monday, tire 1st install!.
The rainfall in October was 2.24. At
Memphis there was five days of rain in
the week and 1.95 in October. Half the
cotton picsed and the crop suffering from
rot. At Nashville it rained four days in
the week.
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■Vthere ft dne fact faert fcortffghly™- r Macb wid'and -Written iflhc-1 A perfect NiagJfta of counsel pours
nressed upon the public mind in Georgia •• fh* Wnrthmr-and-Western oreas-nn-
days in the week, the rainfall amounting
to 3.11. In October the rainfall amount
ed to 9.40. At Montgomery it rained tour
days in the week, and the fall amounted
to 2.60. In peorgia, at Columbus, one
day’s ra : n in the week, amounting to 1.55,
and the rainfall iu October 3.80. In Sa
vannah, there was rain on five days of the
week, amounting to 1.03. ■ Augusta, rain
on four days, amounting to 1.49. Rain
fall in Octobor 2.03.
The Chronicle appends the following to
its table of receipts from plantations:
1. That the total receipts from the plan
tations since Sept. 1" in I860 were
1,825,SS0 bales; in 1879 were 1,573,826
bales; in 187S were 1,332,075 bales.
2. That the receipts at the out-
ports the past week were 221,768 bales, and
the actual movement from plantations
270,S51 hales, the balance being added
to stocks at the interior ports. Last
Year the receipts from the plantations for
the same week were 243,257 hales and for
1878 they were 217,338 bales.
Since Friday snow and ice have been
noticed in Texas, and the mercury in
Georgia has been down to the,freezing
point, or very near it, as low as Maoon.
The growing crop has been dosed, '
Hew York, The Fly in the Apothe
cary’s Ointment.
Since the advent of the “barn burners,'
in the days of John Van Buren, who split
in twain the Democracy of the Em
pire State, to the present time, New
York, great and potential as she is in
population and political influence, has
been a mere marplot in the councils of
the party. Local questions have been
made to override national politics, and
corrupt cliques and partisan hacks have
dominated in every election. This has
been eminently the case also in the recent
Presidential contest. Iu the language of
the World, “the vote of New York State
will be given to General Garfield, not be
cause General Garfield is tbe choice of
a majority of the voters of New York,
but because, not for the first jttae in the
history-of our municipal pasties, local and
personal interests have been preferred to
the general welfare of tbeyarty and of the
country.”
It was so in the days of Tweed, when he
ran Car the New York-Senate and was
elected, though at the cost of an entire
county ticket ana Democratic Legislature.
New York, says the World, in the re
cent election, “ has sec*red a Democratic
city government, which is so far a good
tbfcig, but it remains to De seen whether
New York could not have secured this at a
less cost than that Off the 35 electoral
voles which, added to 138 from tbe
South, 9 from New -Jersey and 3 from
Nevada, not to mention California, and
Oregon, would have elected General
Hancock, President of the United States.”
It is too late, however, to complain of
this shameful action on the part of John
Kelly and other representatives of the
wretched Tammany and anti-Tammany
factions, which have set only disgraced
tbe Democrats of New York, but re
duced their influence to zero. Once
more has it been demonstrated that the
Democracy of the Union must hence
forth in all critical emergencies make no
caianlation upon the wqpport of the Em
pire State. Nor should that turbulent
and selfish commonwealth, as hitherto, be
tendered the tbe lion’s share of the offi
ces and honors of the nation. She has
been deferred to long enaxgb, and only
sets aa ugly example of insubordination
and defection to the other States in their
hoar of supremest need. Te the selfish
ness and Internal dissensions of his party
in New York may Gen. Hancock ascribe
his defeat. This and nothing more.
Tennessee Legislature .-The Nash
ville American, (very reliable authority,)
estimates that tbe Democrats have elected
fifteen State Senators and the Republi
cans leu. Tbe House will stand Demo
crats thirty-five; Republicans, thkty-slx;
Greenback* r» one. Three floating dis
tricts are yet to bear from which will send,
Democrats.
It is now generally conceded that the
Democrats are certain of the continued
control of the next United States Senate,
while in the House tbe parties will be
very evenly divided, the Greenbackers
probably holding tbe balance of power.
It is very clear, therefore, .that Garfield’s
election will be a barren victory to the
Republicans, to far as the inauguration of
any of their pet schemes for Southern op
pression are concerned. Tbe [party will
be kept per force on their good behavior.
The late election will by no meant prove
a Sedan to tbe Democrats. Let us take
heart and stand by our colors as firmly as
ever.
pressed upon the public mu» lia i fol - th e superior nutrition of unbolted
than another, it is that we have too many ^ heateQ bread , 0 ver the finely ground and
elections. They are demoralizing in ti^eir
influence, and destructive in their tenden
cy. We have, passed through the mbet ex
citing State campaign that Georgia has ex
perienced in many years, and also through
tlie Presidential canvass. Most of our
cities have next oh docket municipal elec
tions, to 'be followed in January; 1861,
with county elections, all of which pro
duce more or less friction. Wc are tirecl
of this political turmoil and beg for rest.-
While it is true that the public func
tionaries, by long occupancy, are liable to
become independent, forget that they are
servants and assume to he masters; yet
being fixed for a period in wMeb politics
may change greatly, they are more apt to
serve the people ihan^tfeeir, party ,• follow
ers. ' r. - -/'-I .
At ail events experience demonstrates
that even the best tnetr can accomplish
but little good during a brief term of of
fice. To the writer the most objectiona
ble feature in onr new constitution 1 is the
one shortening the term of Governor and
other oflicers,involving the people iu the ex
pense and political commotion attendant
upon a popular canvass, i Far better; if
these opportunities! “were lesB ^frequent.
The people need a cessation of party
strife; and a fall opportunity to devote
their- energies to thei Mspvarement of
their material condition. : t The longer the
period intervening between these ex
citing political contests the greater will
be their prosperity. r r " ” .
Legislative Matters.
It is presumable that. the. wheels of leg
islation will remain fast locked at Atlanta
until the numerous elections now pending
are over. It is to be sincerely hoped,
therefore, that they will be all held this
week, as nothing can be more distracting,
not to say demoralizing, tb memhais than
the active canvass among them of half a
hundred aspirants for office. Some feel
ing appears to he manifested as to thq or
der id be observed in conducting these
elec‘.ions.*|The usual precedents, what
ever they may be, of course ought to be
adhered to, though perhaps each General
Assembly is competent to regulate its own
action iu the premises. At all events let
the matter be settled by taking the sense
of both houses with the least delay possi
ble, and then proceeding to elect at once.
Wc trust the session will be both brief and
harmonious.
French Enterprise and Fash.
Whatever the French government un
dertakes, it usually prosecutes to comple
tion with the greatest industry and suc
cess. The project of building a railroad
to connect the provinces of Senegal with
the river Niger and Soudan in the inte
rior of Africa, seems to be an assured
fact." The New York Bulletin says:
The scheme originated with the minis
ter of marine, who has provided the ways
and means to carry it out, and is likewise
charged with the execution of it; the funds
being provided by the French Parliament.
Under the command of M. Desbordes, of
the marine artillery, a column of soldiers
and workmen will erect a line of forts be
tween Senegal and the Niger. Under the
protection of this column a band of sur
veyors, astronomers and other scientists
will explore and map the route) their chief
officer being M. Derrien. On October 5,
MM. Desbordes and Derrien embarked
withtheir officers at Bordeaux forSt. Louis,
in Senega!, aud from thence they will pro
ceed to Bafoulabe up the Senegal river.
Here, some 300 leagues from tbe coast,
their survey, will begin, and the best track
for a railway for Medine to the Niger via
Bafoulabe and Fangalla, determined.
After this preliminary survey has settled
the general route, a second expedition will
take more careful levels,audtbeengineer-
ingofthe work will then he begun. The
Niger once reached by means of this rail
way, Timbuctoo will be accessible by
boats, anJ a great commercial centre
there established for trading into equato
rial Africa.
This enterprise will probably do more to
civilize aud Christianize the benighted
heathen of Africa than a thousand mission
aries. Who can estimate also the im
mense benefit likely to accrwe to all
Christendom by opening up to cultivation
the fabulously fertile and vast region of
central Africa?
artistically treated flour to which house
keepers are so- much wedded. We have
seen it asserted that, tbe matter having
bden fairly tested daring many long and
fatiguing marches of the English army,
the British government now feeds its sol
diers exclusively upon bread made of
wheat, * simply ground but not bolted.
‘•Graham Wead,*’ as it is termed, is be
coming very popular also in this country,
and is found even upqu the tables of the
rich and our most fashionable hotels. Per
sons of sedentary habits often use no
other. An English' paper of recent date
says:
A large meeting was held at'the Town
Hall, Kensington, in England, the other
day, under the auspices of the Bread Re
form League, to advocate- the universal
'use of what is technically- known as
“wheat meal bread.” Dr.,B. W. Richard
son; tbe well known authority on hygiene,
presided. One ol the speakers maintained
that the bread in common use was forty
percent, deficient in sustaining qualities.
An entire grain of wheat containing every
thing that was required for nourishing
purposes, and yet the better half of it was
wasted, and this half was much healthier
food, especially for children. r A white
loaf, in fact, was only, half: a loar,
for a. large portion of the- material that
formed muscular flesh, and nearly all that
formed bone, were taken from it. Chil
dren fed on white bread were very liable
to sufler from rickety bones, consumption
and bad teeth; because their food did not
nourish them properly. The outward
whiteness Of the flour might be considered
an outward sign of the starvation within.
One shilling’s worth of wheat meal bread
contained three times the flesh-forming,
seventy times: the heat-producing and
three times tbe bone-forming material to
be found in a - shilling’s' worth of beef
steak.. Dr. Richardson maintained that if
tbe mothers of this kingdom were to give
their families whole meal, which con
tained the structure of the skeleton, in
from three to lour generations all the de
formities of children, not eaused by acci
dents, which they now saw, would pass
away, as by the hands of an invisible en
chantress. i;-'-
Sfll Arp on Kamo.
In a recent racy letter to the Constitu
tion, Ha§or Smith says:
Macea is a splendid old town; so much
latitude and longitude; such magnificent
distances; such beautiful and stately
bouses; such abounding shade of ever
greens and vines; such frosts and flowers
and flair women to make-glad the hearts of
a wayfaring man like sue. I visited the
public library and spent'fbe morning of a
rainy day most happily. Charley Iferbst
has gathered there a thousand quaint and
•curious things that I never saw anywhere
-else. There are pieces of the old battle
flags of nearly every Georgia regiment. A
samp of the old 8ilt is these contributed by
Miss Ida Spullock, who‘helped to make it,
and it awakened many sad but sweet
memories. There was a Vicksburg paper
printed on wa&l paper during tbe
seige, and an army biscuit baked
in the year ’64. There was a speci
men of every bill and bond of Confeder
ate money aud same old.issues of the first
revolution-continental money of 1778 and
d779. There was a Georgia provincial
4)111 of five shillings dated 1555, aud one for
thirty,Spanish dollars, with a razor-back
hog in the center of the seed. There are
newspapers 140 years old,rand a commen
tary on the 13th chapter of Revelations
(printed at the old Bayiy in 1056, and one
atill older called ffiie Amphitheatre, print-
•edm Latin in 1588—venerable relics of
the ages that are past. Maean has a his
tory. Judge Warner was here and told
me be bad beenddwn to see die old block
bouse that was called Fort Hawkins; that
be practiced law hereabouts fifty years
•go, when tbe city eras not laid out. I saw
a (printed advertisement that appeared in
the first newspaper in 1825, published by
Simri Rose, and it read as follows:
-“To the Publick.—An evil inteader have
levelled at my carabter in the following
manor to-witthat I made apfdikation
to him for me to give the man one dost of
madison and I would give him ton dol
lar^—alluding that my intentioac were
vllUcIy — 1 pronounce turn a
D D 4ier. This barfoac vagybone wish to
make the communetjr Deleave be was
hones and would not exrep the offer.
Mankind of Dizzemmeat Knows etrne
harkoa to tbe sound of a D D Raah.ll
every man is a Roeg bat bisself 1st
Morris
. “Elderly mistress Beand states that tUs
nostrum fold's lie on her.”
“Tom” Hughes, after Ids lecture on
Dr. Arnold at Philadelphia was made
LL. D. by tbe President of Harvard Col
lege. Speaking ot Arnold be said: He
was a fine, tollman, six feet high, loosely
pat together, and, although a great and
rapid walker, be rather shambled, as your
President Lincoln did. He be had busby
hair, deep-set, piercing eyes and a very
strong, heavy jaw; but his most remarka
ble feature was a lip which would swell
outwards and plainly indicate when be
was annoyed at tl£ stupidity of onr an
swers or at any mean action which would
particularly incense him. When that lip
began to swell we knew that it was not
a time to cut up any pranks. 1
An Incident of the War.
Related dy K. J. Warren.-
Bragg was hanging threateningly around
Perryville. and the Confederacy listened
in breathless silence for a great and de
cisive conflict near the borders of Ken
tucky. I had just got out of bed aud
come upon the streets in Richmond, Vir
ginia, when I saw a dapper little urchin
ploughing his way along the streets with
a perfect mountalu of newspapers, and
using all imaginable flexions;- genuflex
ions and aspirates in attempting to cry
them off. “ Which, Itexuminer, Enquirer,
.Chronicle and Recorder, (in sing-song
style). Big peace meeting in Ohio!” On
he went, and it was enough to make one
cry to see how energetically and yet how
unsuccessfully he endeavored to cry off
h : s unmarketable merchandise. The lit
tle feet went on, the little voire still sung
its plaintive song, but the mountain tow
ered as before. A half hour afterwards,
rs I stood on the steps of the American
Hotel, the same figure aud the same pro
digious burden came moving down Main
street. Suddenly the song changed:
“lP7iicJt, JJexaminer, Enquirer, Chronicle
and Recorder 1 Big light in Kentucky.”
A mighty rush was made-for the little
auctioneer, and in less time than is em
ployed in telling it, the papers were gone
and his pockets lined with currency. The
papers contained but a single item with
reference to affairs in Kentucky, “Bragg
and Rosccrans still occupy threatening
positions. A decisive battle cannot be
postponed much ledger.”
In vain W»S eVery column and every
article scanned &hd Scrutinized for later
and more important news.” The stub
born papers told no more. An hour later
the same little boy was fronting the Pow-
battan, singing the same song, and reliev
ing himself or a load of papers. Just as be
sold the last one aud started to leave I got
to where be was, caught him by the arm
and stopped him. “My little boy” said I,
“there is’nt a word about any “big fight In
Kentucky in those papers." “Who said
there was?” “You.” “No I didn’t say it
was In narry one of them papers neither,
aud I don’t want nobody to accuse me of
telling a lie too.” With this he tore away
and was soon moving down towards
Chimboraso with another cargo of papeis
aud as the music of the same fruitful song
“rose with its voluptuous swell” like Bun-
yan’s Christian he was losing his burden.
Prompt Action of compound Oxygen
in Iimi PUeoseo. -
The promptness with which Compound
Oxygen acts in throat and Lung dis
eases is very remarkable. Mrs. Alice A-
Dauieis, of Ramsey's Station, Alabama
sends, without solicitation, and for publi,
cation, a statement of tbe results of its
use ia her case, from which we make
single extract. She says: “Infour days
after-commencing to inhale the Compound,
Ort&en, -chilis, fever and night-stceuts
were all:gone l My appetite, which be
fore was atdts lowest ebb, soon became
good. My strength increased veiy rapidly
and improvement has been steadily going j
on ever einoe the first inhalation. My|
cough-slowly became milder, and to-day
1-cau truthfully say that I ata almost a
well woman.” Send for our treatise on
Compound Oxygen. It will be mailed
free. J)b& Stabkey & Paxjcx, 3109
and dill Girard street, Philadelphia, Fa.
She State Treasurer’! lapert.
The annual report of J. W. Renfroe,
ffieq., is a remarkably plain and ducid doe-
lumentj-ahowing that ’.be Treasurer had
•kept his bodLs carefully, and with • meth
odical exactness. Accompanying the .re
port is a table giving a list of robe insu-
tce companies that have deposited $25,-
•fifit each imflie treasury, under the pro
visions ofanrnct approved Febsnary 28,
3t£7. These Are forty-two in aumber,
anti cover many of the strongest -compa
nies in the Union.
As the main features of the oqport, In
volving the financial status of itbe com
monwealth, watte set forth in the (Goveni-
ot’ls message, wfcich has already appeared
infihsse columns, it will be atnueres-
saiy to re-pxodnee them. Of the-4 per
ceot. fronds, known as the “Baby heads,”
$254(900 were paid into the treasury by
Ihe purchasers ofthe Macon and £nns-
wlck railroad, leaving still outstanding
$107,ttd, which Mr. Renfroe suggests <ean
be called in and redeemed next January
from funds now on hand. Tbe repost«
the Treasurer is ably and exhaustively
drawn, asri gives a highly flattering ex
hibit of tfie finances of the common
wealth.
Isabella McCulloch, formerly, of
South Carolina, the soprano singer, died
at tbe residence of. Wnf. H. Neiisou,
Eighty-fourth street and East River.
Borne ten years ago she mat Brignoli, and
sdler neatly two years of ftiosl persistent
wooing on his part she nurried him and
left tbe stage. After six yeait of married
life, part of it spent in Europe, Brignoli
abandoned her, and her suit for divorce
about two yean ago finally separated
them. For a number of yean past she
has supported herself as a church singer,
for a time in Grace Chureh, and - later in
St. Stephen’s, in New York city.
The rumor that General W. T. Sher
man intends to give up bis present posi
tion and go upon the retired list does not
find many believer*. The Shermans are
I qpt a retiring family.
from the Northern and Western press up
on the “solid South,” but tbe< philcpqpli^
of its abundauce Is to he found in ’ its ex^*
cessive cheapness. If it cost anything, or
were worth anything, we should not get
so much of it, although we freely concede
that those people' were never anything else
than persistently didactic, and- always
disposed to second .their admonitions with
the lash.
The high eminence of a teacher is grati
fying to human vanity, ylt presupposes
superiority in knowledge and wisdom;
bat still, as tbe old judge. said to the flu
ent yoifag harrlster,' “The court is to be
presumed to know something.” The
Northern brotherhood , of: counsellors
should be prepared to concede a little
commdn sense: to their Southern pupilage.
They should admit that our chances of an
intimate knowledge of the Southern sit
uation Ip. all its aspects are far greater
thanthiefrs. . *
For example, it never, seems to odettr to
them that our first interest, j after all, is
domestic and belongs to home govern
ment. Only a few years ago tbe Southern
States were in thelaststagesrtfiankrnptcy,
disorder and ruin, brought upon us by these
Northern wist acres, and nothing saved us
■ri-nqtiiihg. secijreidiua fjroui eyery.peril to
which a misgoverned people could’be ex
posed, 1 but this-very'solidify—a firm up-
ion of the Intelligent people of the Slates
to ye-estahiUh public order and accounta
bility.- This done, .we could breathe* free
ly, and look with some hope to
Still farther advances. ‘
....
Up tc that time the federal govern
ment had never tfotie’anything else for us
but harm. Its influence had: been stead
ily on the side of public disorder. Its in
terference, during the whole period of so-;
called reconstruction was not for good,
but for positive evil to both races. Indus
try prospered in spite of it. The treasury
sops it doled out to its trusted agents were
not of a straw’s value compared with those
fundamental conditions of public order
which the Southern States were able to
secure as a result of a firm union of intel
ligent opinion. --el rH
The talk we hear from them now is,
“divide your intelligent people.” What
it means we can learn ;by remembering
our ruinous condition before it was united
—with no public interest safe—with noth
ing h-peful or improving. Southern men
may perhaps now be found willingto back
this delusive proposition, but they are
selling themselves, very cheap, No fed
eral honors—no share in the pnhlic plun
der—can compensate the loss of an intel
ligent and reliable local government.
Every considerate Southern man must sec
that our highest interest, as pertaining to
government, lies at home, and must be
maintained by the effective assertion of an
enlightened public opinion, even if it be
done at the cost of maintaining onr con
scientious views on federal politics.
But the advice in favor of Southern di
vision, is fallacious in respect. to mere
federal success, and well do they know it!
So long as the Southern States can hold a
consolidated power, so long are they in
tbe best condition for self-defense—the
best condition to restrain federal cot rup-
tion, and the best condition for victory.
Stand where wc are firmly and patiently-
and the problem will work out at last.
The question of corporal punishment
in the public schools has arisen anew in
Boston. The Superintendent says: “Teach
ers of both SeXeS use personal violence
with their pupils in such forms and such
frequency that the facts if published would
cause unpleasantness. Some putchildreu
into painful and even dangerous positions;
some shake them at times with
such roughness as to lean their clothing,
while many still apply the the rattan as
freely as if it were a feather, and strike not
merely the hand, but the head and body.
Within the la-t month or two some pite
ous cases have been reported to me by
parents whose children had suffered.
The monthly reports of some grammar
schools <ootne in ringing with the echoes of
blood.” A committee examined into the
sul^ject, and a majority reported in favor
of dismissing teachers who inflict whip
ping, except on boys in the grammar de
partments.
The Cape Cod Ship Canal.—Work
•is to be immediately resumed on tire Cape
God Ship Canal, and before September,
1882, between $10,009,090 and 12,600,000
will be expended in excavating an im
mense basin 10 miles long, 200 foet wide,
and 20 feet deeper than mean Tow water.
Negotations between Boston >and New
York capitalists ontfcs suljeet have been
completed, resulting in a practical con
solidation of tbe eM«nd new'companies.
The new corporation will hte 'organized
under the charter granted 7^- the Massa
chusetts Legislature of the .present year,
and Henry M. WWting Of the Metropol
itan Steamship Company will probably
be retained as Presided*. Assurances
have been recetoed that tike Dtiawsoe and
Hudson Canal Company, 'the (Pennsyl
vania Railroad, and'other corporations In
terested in coal conameree will take an
metive interest fat the'enterprise. Dreis
*iach Sc SiuUaMta will he the principal
contractors, and 1,800 (Italians'will be em
ployed in tbe wetic.
The Trappista inhabiting nue convent
of-“La Tomba,” three asilesout of Rome,
on the barren waste toward 'Ostia, some
time ago undertook to redeem-er “bonify
tbe Sands around thair convent, which are
now cultivated and rendered healthy, by
tbe planting ot thonsends <of eucalyptus
trees.
Faeposterous aaA Bt-Aiyised.
Tbe$areposition of some madcap Dem
ocratic fxditicians to attempt to set aside
the vote.of New York, by an appeal to
Congress and the appointment of a com
mission to investigate tbesttieged Repub
lican frauds, finds no favor with General
Hancock, and cannot be too-etasngly. de
precated. Aside from the impassibility
of fairly counting out a majority of20,000
notes, we should have the jyreetade pre
sented pf similar commissions which
would be demanded for other States both
North and South, where the least ground
form! investigationcould be devised. The
result would be “eonfluion worse eon-
founded,” even if civil war did not super
vene. Such a procedure would also cause
great fluctuations in the stock market, If
it did not precipitate a . disastrous panic.
Even the mention of the matter has al
ready had a sensible effect upon “ ’Change.”
No, tbe Democracy have been outgener
aled and vanquished in the late contest,
and should now make the most ef It and
learn wisdom in the future. We do not
suppose the above insane project will
amount to anything serious.
An Opportune Production.
Wrhxvrreceived a pamphlet prepared
-Taylor, ofAtiabU,
which furnishes a list “of all the outstand
ing bonds ot Georgia, valid and invalid,
and of railroad bonds indorsed by the
State, in which the good and the value
less are designated.” To obtain this in
formation, which lay scattered along for
years upon the public records, and reduce
it into a compact and authentic shape, re
quital much patient labor and research
on the part ot the author, and be is enti
tled to the thanks of.Abe public. Here
after, there' will he no excuse for those
who are victimized bjr the purchase of tbe
bogus securities.
Of the invalid State bonds, Class I
comprises the gold bonds issued by Gov.
Bullock in aid of the Brunswick.and
Albany Railroad Company. .These
amounted to $1,880,000.
Next, under Class H,.comes the bonds
of the Brunswick aud Albany railroad,
formally issued and indorsed by compe
tent authority, but not registered in the
office of tlie secretary of slate. They ag
gregate $1,500,000, “
Class HI covers another batch of Bul
lock’s Brunswick' and Albany railroad
gold bonds , lor $1,800,000, payable in
1860. ; • *£P • ,, . „
Class IV includes $1,000,000 of “gold
quarterly coupqn bonds'of . the State of
Georgia,’.’ Issue'll also by BuUock, but de
clared to he illegal and void by , act of
Legislature, approved August 23d, 1 1872.
Class V. gives the State’s guaranteed
bonds of. thq Cartersviile au^ Van Wert
Railroad Company, nnmboriug $275,000.
Class VI-—The State’s guaranty on bonds
of the Cherokee Railroad Company,
amounting to $300,000.
Class YH—Every: guaranteed bond'of
the Balnbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus
railroad company. Total of sail} bonds
$000,000, of which however only $240,000
were ever reported to the bond commit
tee.
Class VIH—The State’s guaranty of
$194,000 of the bonds of the Alabama aud
Chattanooga Railroad Company.
Class IX—Bullock’s seven per tent,
“currency bonds,” issued under the act of
August -27, 1870, of which there are out
standing $670,000.
Class X—The $375,000 stolen six per
cent, currency bonds of the State, iuued
Feb. 17,1S54, and intended to be exchang
ed for outstanding? per cent, bonds Of the
Central Bank. These bonds were not re
ceived by the bank, however, and were re
placed in the treasury. They were after
wards stolen while the capital was held
by the Yankees and takcu West to be dis
posed of. As they had never been duly is
sued by the State, of course their payment
was refused.
Class XI—The bonds of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad Company, issued un
der act approved October 27, 1S70.
Amount, $600,000.
Class XII—Outstanding past-due bonds
of the State to the amount of $37,000.
All of the above bonds and secur ities,
after full investigation, have beeD passed
upon and pronounced invalid by the Leg
islature of Georgia^ and the decision rati
fied by a vote of the people.
All the other outstanding bonds of the
State, which it is unnecessary to enumer
ate, are not only valid bnt gilt-edged secu
rities, Commanding high premiums.
Mr. Taylor closes his work with a state
ment of Georgia’s bonded debt aud when
it will mature. It is as follows:
Whole debt, $9,952,500.00. Will ma
ture: in 1681, $200,000; in 1882, $100,000;
in 1883, $100,000; in 1884, $100,000; in
1885, $100,000; in 1880, $4,000,000; in
1889, $2,298,000; in 1890, $2,09S,000; in
1892, $307,500; in 1890, $542,000 ; 4 per
cent, currency bonds, $107,000.
The State is only liable as the guaran
tor on $724,000 of railroad bonds, to-wlt:
$464,000 of the South Georgia and Florida
Company, and $260,000 of the Northeast
ern railroad bonds. Both companies gave
first mortgages on their road-beds and
property, and the State can lose nothing
by them. *
Ail other State aid to other toads has
been formally canceled and repealed by
legislative enactment.
The above is a succinct resume ot Mr.
Taylor’s useful work.
A Change of Policy.
We see it stated that the Republican
party have not abandoned tho Southern
question. They might as well do so un
less they abandon their “bloody shirt”
policy. No perceptible headway can he
made in winning the South until the bla
tant harangues of Conkling and Blaine
and other stalwarts are silenced. We
claim to he civilized and, in a large meas
ure, Christianized, and expebt .to receive
that consideration due to such a people,
It the Republican party expect to retain
its hold upon tbe masses of the North it
must change its policy and approach the
Southern question with an even, judicial
spirit. The absence of this spirit has
thwarted every previous effort to solve the
Southern question.
Self-preservation is the motive which
prompts opposition to Republican rule by
the communities of the South. RepubIL
can rule here means carpet-bag misrule
and negro domination. It Is to turn over
to a set of cormorants and to a set of men
bankrupt of all virtuous reputation at
home, every interest, both private and
public, in the land. It would ho to re
store the Scotts and Moses, the Kellogg’s
and Wells to their former power. It is
this fear that keeps the Sonth solid. It
does not partake of the bitterness or hate
engendered by the war, hut arises purely
from practical considerations. The
“spirit of rebellion” has long siuce died
out, but the spirit of self-preservation
will always exist, and so long as the cause
of carpet-bag government istheeauseof
the Republican party iu the South, just so
long will there be a solid South against
tbe Republican party. If tbe business in
terests and the prosperity of the North be
coupled with the success of the Republi
can party, just so surely are the business
interests aud the prosperity of the South
bound up with the fortunes of the Demo
cratic party. The experience of the past
demonstrates the truth of this proposition.
Therefore, if the Republican party
would win its way into the South it must
show that it does not aim at the restora
tion of the carpet-bag government. It
must show a disposition to deal generous
ly with the South in the matter of na
tional appropriations for internal improve
ments. It must do all this with no hope
of partisan advantage or Republican mle
in the Southern States. If the only way
to break up tbe solid South is to go into
the Republican party it will never be bro
ken np. Here was tbe failure of Mr.
Hayes’ Southern policy. He came with
ces and emoluments in one band,
and tbe conditions in the other. He was
ready to barter bis patronage provided the -
South would vote the Republican ticket.
If Mr. Garfield has’ noiriaer'measrtrts
thed tlieae to propose,'he will as signally
flail. Le! these appropriations and other
measures be tendered tbe South because
they are right, and because she is entitled
to them upon the score of justice, and it
will prove a greater power In convincing
the South that the Republican party is
seeking the good of the whole country,
than all their offers of barter. We area
commercial people to some extent, but
We do not sell our boner or self-respect
merely for the benefits of an office.'
A Curious Scrap of History.
Colonial Greenbacks: 11!
The American colonies early learned thb
advantages of a paper representative
money. In 1690, six ] ears before the
establishment ofr the Bank qf England,
Massachusetts issued $36,000 to payoff her
soldieis who bad been on an expedition
against Canada. Tbe form of tits notes or
bills was as follows: ^J r^i'
“This indented bill, of ten shillings due
from the Massachusetts colony to the pos
sessor, shall be In value equal i to money,
and shall accordingly be accepted by the
treasurer and receivers subordinate to him,
In' ail public payments, and for any stock
at any time in the treasury.”
These bills circulated at par with coin
for twenty years and until redeemed.
In 1703, another issue of bills in the
same form for $45,000 was authorised, and
made a legal tender for debts andredeem-
able in taxes. :I - 4 ,
Id 1716 another issue of $750,000 was
atittiqrized to be distributed among Aha
different counties. The issue was put into
the hands of five trustees in each county
to be loaned out on real estate security in
feertain specific sums, for the term of ten
years at 5 per cent per annum—the inter
est going to the State, and the principal
redeemable in taxes. This amount was
increased from time to time—giving the
people an ample supply of money, and
from its interest-revenue the colony be
came free from debt in 1773. All the col
onies’followed the example of' Massachu
setts, until England saw that the colonies
were'becoming too independent-and pros
perous for them long to remain .dependen
cies. Parliament in 1?61 passed an act
forbidding the further issue of colonial
money and declaring all actsi authorizing
it void.
This was a blow almost as severe as the
contraction and resumption acts of I860
and 1S75. The money sharks of England
Bad conceived the idea that their interests
rested .on a specie ‘ basis, and they ,deter
mined then as now, that, rigid or wrong
everybody else should subscribe to the
idea.
David Hume, in a letter to I Abbe Mo-
rellet, make the following remarks on the
colonial money of Pennsylvania:
, “In our colony of Pennsylvania, the
land itself, which is the chie{ commodity,
is coined, and passes into circulation. A
planter, immediately after he purchases
any land, can go to a public office and re
ceive notes to the amount of half the
value of his land, which notes he employs
in all pay ments,and they circol ate as money
throughout the colony by convention. To
prevent tlie public from being overwhelm
ed with this representative money, there
are two meaus employed; first, the notes
issued to any one planter must not ex
ceed a certain sum, whatever may be the
value of his land; secondly every planter
is obliged to pay back into the public of
fice every year one-tenth of his notes.
The whole, of course is annihilated in ten
years; after which it is again allowed him
to take out new notes to half the Value ot
his land,”
This was an ingenious expedient and
must have made money as plentiful as
blackberries. But as time rolled on the
system of issuing “shinplasters” based
upon individual credit came into vogue,
so that literally every man that chose to
manufactured his own money. It is as
tonishing how current some of these
“promises to pay” became, and with what
favorthey were received “on change.
The writer remembers, soon after the
war, when the personal bills of J. McK.
Gunn, of Cuihbert, were considered every
whit as good as the national 1 currency.
And so they proved in the end. Not a
dollar of them was disavowed or dishon
ored. V
But, unhappily, such was not the fact,
with the paper of many other irresponsi
ble private persons and corporations, and
the direct effect pf this private currency
also, was to curtail the supply of green
backs and cramp the mercantile opera
tions of the community. These consider
ations alone, and not the laws of the coun
try, which, as in the case of usury, could
easily be evaded, eventually put
quietus to the utterance of individual
shinplMtere. And most fervently do we
trttst, for the safety olthe public, that they
will neyer be tolerated and taken again.
The Lost Alpena. '
Everything relating to the - wreck of
this uufortunate craft is read with avidity
by our community, In consequence of the
tragic interest connected with It through
the heart-renliug bereavement of our res
pected townsman^Judge T. G. Holt. With
tbe going down of that vessel sank the
cherished hope3 aud aspirations which
had been centred in an only son by a de
voted father and mother. God help them
in this hour ot unspeakable calamity.
From the National Citizen and Sol
dier, of Washington City, we clip the fol
lowing:
The fate of the Alpena, which left
Grand Haven on Abe night ot October 15tb,
bound for Chicago, seems more deplora
ble, if jxissible, than that of tlie Vera
Cruz, for from the latter vessel a few
wrecked'survivors were left to tell the
fearful tale, hut iu the fearful stoim which
raged through the night of the loth eighty
souls went to the bottom of the lake in
all probability, and only eternity will re
veal the story of that hour of supreme
horror. As usual, no one Is to blame.
Those who have seen parts of the floating
wreck declare the timber to be thorough
ly rotten. The owners and officers laugh
at such a report. If an investigation
should follow, of course, like all suen in
vestigations, the truth will never como to
light.
The Southern Farmer’s Monthly.
After a careful perusal, we can truthfully
say that the November number of tbe
Southern Farmer’s Monthly, published at
/Savannah by Mr. J. H. Estili, may be pro
nounced the best of any previous issue.
Tbe table of contents shows that subjects
eminently practical and useful have been
treated of, and, the reader will admit, ably
handled. The present ard future work
of the farmer and horticulturist, the man
agement of stock and poultry, fish culture,
the proper application of fertilizers, the
rotatiou ot crops, hygiene, the fall and
winter fashions, aud a large amount of
intereating miscellany, furnish a most
attractive bill of fare to the subscriber.
This journal of agriculture is not only
thoroughly established bnt justly takes
rank with the best enterprises of the kind
at the South. In Georgia it has no supe
rior, it, indeed, a single equal.
The Farmer's Monthly is furnished at
tbe low rate of $2.00 per annum.
Northern Republicans are rl»iiping to
have elected a President without tbe as
sistance of tbe colored brother. This will'
leave the colored vote simply as a J sign, the amendment wag rejected and the
merchantable article in local markets. j addna etosneA K
There are fifty thousand acres culti
vated in rice in Louisiana, and the crop
is estimated atdSO,000 bushels.
The Cleveland Leader is the only Re-
pnbhcao paper Which gives thanks to God
for Garfield’s election. The other organs
give Grant and Emory Stdrrs the glory
and nominate Grant for 1884.
Nordenskjold has ordered a vessel
to be built at the mouth of the Lena,
whence he will set out In 188# on another
voyage of discovery in tlie Arctic seas.
By going overland through Siberia to the
mouth of tbe Lena he hopes to “steal a
march” on-the brief open season.
Coming Senators.—By common con
sent Hon. Joseph R. Hawley is named as
the successor of Hon. W. W. Eaton as
United States Senator from Connecticut,
and Secretary Dorsey, of the Republican
National Committee, says Hon. Geo. M.
Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, will
be chdaen Senator from New Jersey to
aacotod Hon* Theodore F. Randolph.
Louisiana is raising an imrAense crop
of oranges the present season. The New
Orleans Democrat says there have been
shipped By-a single railroad already to alt
points of the West 6,300,000-Louisiana or
anges. The cwltivation of this delicious-
fruit is constantly increasing and is des
tined to be an enormous source of revenue-
to Louisiana.
Virginia’s Resources. —The Bristol
News says: Prof. Stevenson, the New
York geologist, has completed his geolo
gical survey of the country from Bnstol
to Imbodqn City, and is now in this city.
He says the developments to. be made by
the Narrow .Gauge railroad are tlie grand
est on this continent, if not the greatest
and the most wonderful in-the world,
e Death of Solon Robinson.—Mr. So
lon Robinson, for many years tbe agricul
tural'editor of the New York Tribune T
died at his residence in Jacksonville, Flor
ida, Tuesday: morning, in the seventy*
eighth year of his age. Mr. Robinson was
the author of the story, “Hot Corn, or
Life Sceues in New York,” of which over
50,000 copies were sold; Mr. Robinson
also published in 1800 “How to Live, or
Domestic Economy Illustrated;” in 1864,,
“Facts for Fanners,” which had a large-
circulation, and in 1807 a romance enti
tled “Me-won-i-toc.”
. Mrs. Spraoue to Sue for a Di
vorce.—The New York 8un states that-
Mr. Winchester Britton, ex-distriet attor
ney of Kings county,' has been re taiued to
bring an action for divorce for Mrs. Kaie-
Chase Sprague against ex-Gov. Sprague,
of Rhode Island. He will have the pa
pers ready for service in a.few days.
Mr. Britton, on'his visit to Providence
last week, framed replevin papers for a
piano and a portion of Mrs. Sprague’s
wardrobe, and placed them in the hands
of the sheriffto serve. He has since learn
ed that they have been served.
It is estimated, aays the Baltimore
Sun, that 8,000 wild ducks were taken on
the Susquehanna flats, in tbe vicinity of
Havre de Grace, last Monday, the first-
day of the ducking season. A number of
prominent gentlemen from New York,
including Judge Gildersleeve, participated
in the slaughter. The greatest number
of ducks killed by any one hex was that
of Messrs. Mahan and Dobson, who secur
ed 540; the highest number of any sneak-
boat was that of Capt. Todd, who got lift.
The fiats still abound with ducks, and it
is said that there is no perceptible de
crease since the day before the gunning,
season opened.
A Tribute to General Hancock.—
The New York Herald says: “Gov. Cor
nell’s Thanksgiving proclamation is pub
lished, and Gen. Hancock lias probably-
issued a private and personal thanks
giving order of his own. Among tho men-
who have been prominently before the-
public in the past few months ncce have-
found the excitement &3 distasteful as he ^
on the other hand uo candidate has been,
so magnificently impervious to malice and.
mud. To emerge from a heated cam
paign'with a reputation as good as he-
started with is greater glory than could
have been gained by an election to the*
presidency.”
The death at Richmond, Ya., on tbe-
27th of October of Bishop D. S. Doggett,
of the Methodist Church,South, has created
a profound sensation in the Church to*
which he belonged, and in church circles
generally. He was for more than fifty
years an active and influential minister,
and won aud retained great renown as a
preacher, besides filling many positions ot
trust and honor, even to the highest in.
the gift of his Church. His funeral on-
Oct. 29 at Richmond, convened, an im
mense concourse of people, and d-as join
ed in by nearly the whole Protestant
clergy of the city. At Vanderbilt Uni
versity, Nashville, Tenn., an imposing
memorial service under the auspices ol
the Methodist clergy was held on Sunday >
October 31.
Who Killed Cock Robin?—Every
body knows the responsible man—John:
Kelly. He is the mau who broke down-
the Democratic party in the State last
year and elected a Republican governor
by a plurality, of 42,777, when the Dem
ocratic vole, if united, was large -enough
to have re-elected a Democratic governor
by a majority of 34,789. This gave tho
whole vast State patronage into the hands
of General Hancock’s political adversaries
to he used in aid of Mr. Garfield ibis year.
That was the first act in the tragedy,
Tbe second act was played a fortnight agos
when Kelly forced a follower of his own,
as the Democratic nominee for mayor,
with the desperate design of making the-
Democratic Presidential ticket carry the
load through for liis own personal advan
tage no matter how much harm it might
do to General Hancock’s vote.
Tammany’s Lament.—The Tammany
Democracy have issued an address to their
brethren throughout the country, la
menting the defeat of Gen. Hancock as a
great national calamity, and attributing
it to fraud, the colonization ot repeaters,
and tbe intimidation of laboring men.
In support of this they ask that the vote .
ol New York city be scrutinised and com
pared with tbe vote of 1876, when the.
Democrats cast 112^30 ballots and the,
Republicans 58,561. In 1880 the Demo
crats cast 123,102 and tbe Republicans
81,726, showing a Republican increase of
23,165, and a Democratic increase of 10,- .
572. The independent press in New
York city is assailed and made partly re- -
sponsible for the disaster. The address
also declares that tbe nomination of Mr.
Grace did not lessen Hancock’s vote.
An amendment was offered that Hancock’s
defeat was due to mismanagement and •
bickering of the Democratic leaders in •
Kings county and New York qity. After-
heated discussion, in which a
member coiled oa “Boas” Kelly to re-