Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188?, October 12, 1880, Image 4

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r 4* <§*aegfs {juleataplf aitfr Jgmmal & Mgggimggc. Terms of the Ttlemph an* Messes- «er. Postage fret to all Editions. Doily Ttlegraph and Mrsstngtr $10.00per yr . VJ/.'SO “ 0.00 6mos •• “ *• MO 3 mot. Daily TcUgrupk end Mtsstmger andiron/hern Farsu/sMsntkly HJ&Oprryr. Weekly Ttltyraph and Messenger 9.90 •• •* 1.00 6 mos Wnek'y Telegraph ana Messenger and Southern Farmer's Monthly OJhOperyr Remit by P. O. Order or Registered Letter, to . H.B.BAW|X*M«er. $riegrapji aub Stemger 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. • V v**t*Ai**i.‘ p 4; y TJX ■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-