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FRIDAY DECEMBER 10,1880.
The Rcr. James Hartnett preached
sermon at Davldville, Arlc., on the duty
Of paying debts promptly. “So much for
sentiment,” lie said, finally, “and the hard
fact is that this church owes me $500,
and I shall never occupy this pulpit again
until U is paM.”
The wheat crop of the year is estimated
St 4SO,000,000 bushels, against 440,000,000
bushels la 1870. The indications are
that the home and foreign demand will
leave us little surplus, much less than was
anticipated In the early summer, provided
prices are maintained somewhere about
the ruling figures.
Mrs. Laxotot, tho “Jersey Lily,” is
comlug to America. She will meet hand
somer women before she has wa'ked three
squares on Broadway, says the Cincin
nati Gazette. To which the New York
Sun adds: But let her wait till the gets
to Cincinnati. The haudsomest women
In tho world are there.
Amherst Collego has concluded that
its students are men, their ages averaging
22, and will, therefore, no longer subject
them to dielpline as boys. They will here
after bo held responsible for their work, but
cot for their personal conduct, unless it
interferes with their duties. This has
long been the rule in German universi
ties, but has never been fully tested iu
this country, though Harvard has, to
limited extent, adopted It.
A Breakfast oh Carp.—The Circle-
Tlllc, (Md.) Observer says: Last week
Mr. Richard Holiday, desiring to taste the
flavor of carp fish, drew from his pond
two fish, one 154 inches long and weigh
ing 1 pound 11 ounces, and invited Hon.
James T. Earle and Samuel T. Earle to
take breakfast with him. After giving
the uew fish a fair trial they all pronounc
ed them equal to almost any and superior
to many of our saltwater fish, having
cone of tho flavor of the mullet or sucker
flsb, and equal to rock and perch. These
fish were obtained from Fish Commission
er UugbletL just about one year from
the day the breakfast was given. They
were then about two inches long, and
have made their great growth since that
time.
The Politicians’ Party.—The Sun
says: In some very interesting remarks
on parties, the New York Times is led to
affirm that the Democracy “is preeminent
ly the party of that class of politicians
who live by politics.” Now, considering
that the Democrats have been continuous
ly defeated la every general election for
the last twenty years, and that the Repub
licans have held all the centres of power
for this long period—only a few Slate
Governments being now and then con
trolled by the Democrats—wc must main
tain our opinion that the great majority
of the baser elements have long since
gone over to the Republicans. The mass
of those who hold with the Democracy
must «lo so from sincere principle and
conviction of duty. But the mass of each
party are sound at heart. In this fact is
the hope of tree institutions.
150,000,000 Crows.—The Lexington
Press says a gentleman who resides near
the elegant premises of Mr. Inskeep,
about six miles north of our city reports
what is probably the most stupendous
thing in the way of a crow roost that has.
ever been seen sinco Noah’s crow went to
roost in the olive tree. The roost is in
the magnificent woodland of Mr. Inskeep,
and our informant estimates the number
of birds at 150,000,000. He says the lar
gest oak trees have been uprooted, and
smaller ones crushed Into kindling wood
by their weight; that the noise made by
them is so great that the people for three
miles around have to stuff cotton In tlicir
ears, and are only enabled to communi
cate with each other through speaking
trumpets after the crows begin to assem
ble. Cattle weighing 1,500 pounds have
been killed by the birds and their hones
picked clean, and the skeletons of hogs
and sheep which weighed from 150 to
200 pounds are dangling from the trees,
where the crows have carried them, and
the whole country Is strewn with bones,
as in the prophet’s vision of “the valley
.of Jehosaphat.” Shooting at them is ex
ceedingly dangerous. A gentleman in the
employ of Nr. Inkskecp fired two shots
into one of the trees and narrowly escap
ed suffocation from falling birds.
Sectional Prejudices.—Mrs. Thom
as A. Rush, a Boston lady, but who has
spent many years at the south, and was
thoroughly acquainted with the institution
of slavery, has recently delivered a lecture
Inthat city upon “Sectional Prejudices.”
The Boston llerald makes this mentlou
of it: “She remarked at the outset that
she was educated to believe everything
that was bad in relation to slavery, but a
thorough acquaintance with the system
had removed many of her New England
prejudices. She found the Southern
people to be very genial, social, intelligent
and fully aware of the responsibility rest
ing upon them toward those human beings
that had come to them as property. All
family matters were talked over iu the
presence of the colored people, very much
to her surprise, while the patience and
forbearance shown to the slaves was a
wonder. She drew a bright side of the
slavery system, claiming that the old
slaves were perfectly contented under its
workings, and that, if President Lincoln
bad emancipated the children and left the
old ones as they were, much sufferiug
would bavo been saved. The negroes
misunderstood emancipation. They
thought thst it meant lands, houses and
luxury. The speaker also dwelt upon
the dark side or slavery, referring to
the slave-trade and the whipping-poet.
She cl aimed that there was very little
practical religion among the negroes of
the South,'while as voters, they display
the greatest Ignorance on all knowledge
as to what voting means. She made an
earnest pies for charity, for good will and
friendly feeling toward the South. The
system if human slavery has passed awty
with all its degrading influences, and
there now should be known no North,
no South, uo East, no West.'’ It is re
freshing to hear the utterance of such
sentiments in the latitude of “Hosting
Town.” |
Lost Vetk’s Cotton Figures.
The Weather and the Crops.
Tlie New York Commercial and Fi
nancial Chronicle of Saturday reports the
cotton receipts of the seven days endin,
last Friday night at 218^341 bales, against
210,167 during the corresponding week of
last ye-r. Total since first day of Sep
tember last, 2,538,057, against 2,351,165,
showing an increase of 186,102 hales.
The Chronicle's statement of interior
port business for the week shows 103,847
bales’ receipts, Against 125,412 for the cor
responding week of last year. Shipments
102,131, against 102,486. Stocks 248,865,
against 287,109.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed2,370,585 bales of cotton Insight
last Friday, against 2,128,505 art same date
last year; 2,073,454 at same date the year
before, and 2,022,4054n 1877 at same date.
These figures show the following increase
on the visible supply shown last Friday:
As compared with last year, 119,065 bales.
Compared with 1878,207,131 bales. As
compared with 1877, 348,180 bales.
Last Friday, at Liverpool, middling up
land was quoted at C 11-16; last year, at
same date, the quotation was 015-10; in
1878, at same date, 5}; and in 1877, at
same date, 6}.
The Chronicle's weather summary for
the week says at most points m the Atlan
tic States there was a decided improve
ment on the weather of the previous week,
but in the Gulf States the rain still con
tinued, delaying picking and injuring
much cotton in the fields.
In Texas, at Galveston, it ramed every
day of the week—two days of hard rain
and five of drizzle. The total rainfall was
1.34. 1‘lcking still suspended every
where and roads impassable. Large ac
cumulations of cotton at interior depots.
A great deal of open cotton in the fields
lost. The fields themselves are a quag
mire. The picking season has been
wretched. Com in the field is injured
and sugar cane greatly injured. At In-
dianola, rain every day. The fields
are covered with fallen cotton that cannot
be saved. Cora is rotting in the fields.
Planters greatly discouraged. Corsicana,
raiu ou four days and balance cloudy
Roads impassable—picking iuterferred
with. Tho fields are bogs. Much dam
age done. Dallas 1.05 oi rain in four
days and the others cloudy. PickiDg sus
pended and roads bottomless. The whole
country a sea of mud and water. The
ground in the fields white with lost cot
ton. Fanners discouraged. Brenbam,
four rainy days and the rest cloudy.
Picking suspended. Fields and roads
boggy. A great deal of cotton hopelessly
lost. Waco, four days of rain and the others
cloudy. All farm-work at a standstill.
Picking season unprecedentedly bad.
Louisiana—In New Orleans there were
five rainy days. The rainfall in Novem
ber is reported at 6.04. At Shreveport
there was 1.07 of rain Iu the week. Roads
in a very bad condition. In Mississippi,
at VickSburg, it rained every day. Much
damage has bean done to ungathered cot
ton. At Columbus ram on five days with
a total fall of 6.04! The whole rainfall in
November was 8.94. In Arkansas, at
Little Rock, rain on four days and cloudy
all the week with a fall of 1.C3. During
November 5.22 of rain fell. There were
thirteen rainy days and snow and sleet on
three days. In Tennessee, at Memphis,
rain on six days with a fall of 2.17. No
picking and much cotton falling out. In
Nashville, rain on six days with a fall of
2.07. Very little picking.
Iu Alabama, at Mobile, constant |
rain on three days, showers on two and j
clouds on all; much damage done. In
Montgomery it had rained every day the
past ten days, destroying cotton left iu the
fields; rainfall of the week 1.74—of No
vember 4.16. Selma, rained every day
In Florida, at Madison, wet, sultry weath
er has done much damage; about two-
thirds of the crop gathered and half mar
keted; freedmen contracting for next year
at same rates.
Iu Georgia, at Columbus, the rainfall in
November was 4.06. In Macon, daily light
rains. In Savannah, three rainy days.
In Augusta, showery on six days; rainfall
In November 5.81; three-quarters of the
crop marketed.
On the whole, a week’s report for the
picking season could not well be worse.
Many prophets haTe arisen previous to the j Mr. Hayes’ Message
two above named, who, going even farther; jj greatly a review of his ownadmlnla-
than they, have named the day and iiour j tration and & hymn of Lridroph over the
when the trump of the archangel shall i prosperous condition of public attain iu
sound, and time shall be no more. Still, | which he will turn over the country to his
the earth moves on in its accustomed
diurnal revolutions, and the end is “net
yet.” A similar result, we trust, will at
tend the startling vaticinations of Messrs.
Tice and Venner.
N. B.—Since penciling the above the
wind has shifted to the north, and the sun
shines forth cheerily. All nature seems
to rejoice under the influence of his benig
nant rays.
Hare Merer Upon the Little Ones.
Is There No Help.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger
Is little less than criminal to shut up chil
dren In such rooms as some of those arc
at the Polbill lot during such weather as
we have been having. Think of a room
eighteen feet square with low ceiling and
flat roof, rotting wet walls and falling
plastering, a red-hot stove in one corner
surrounded by steaming over-garments
and dozens of old, wet umbrellas; and
thirty-six children, young, tender and sus
ceptible to disease, silting in the midst of
the surroundings and compelled to breathe
this vitiated air for hoursevery dav! Ask
the superintendent, or teachers, or go and
see for yourself, if these are are not facts
—true and without exaggeration—and
then resolve to find out why one of our
three school boards or city council will not
remedy tho matter. A Patron.
REMARKS.
The writer (not tho Senior) is an eye
witness to the truth of the above state
ments, which come from a perfectly relia
ble source. The condition of one of tho
rooms at least iu the Polhlill shanties (all
of which swarm like bees with the dear
children, who are the joy of their parents
and the hope of the country,) is simply
sickening and shocking in the extreme
when the weather is cold and stormy.
Smells, loud and unsavory, emanate from
the reeking wet garments, and corrupt
breath inhaled and exhaled, until almost
every trace of nitrogen and oxygen has
been exhausted, and the atmosphere is
just ripe to receive the infection of scarle
fever, diphtheria, meuingetls, measles, ty
phoid fever, or any other contagious mal
ady. Yet there the little ones and ibelr
patient, admirable teacher sit and brave
It out day by day, albeit one and another
of her charge, from time to time, is strick
en down.
These things ought uot so to be. It is
a disgrace to the community, including
the three school boards, city council, and
all concerned. In New England a school
room like the one described would be pre
sented by the grand jury, and abated as a
nuisance. .
If the proper authorities cannot provide
suitable accommodations for the children
of the public schools, let them either be
disbanded or the number of pupils re
duced by lot, nutil additional buildings
can be erected.
The present crowding of the little in
nocents cannot be justified, and may re
sult in mourauig to many a bereaved
household.
Horrible Weather Ahead.
All Sorts of Storms and Cyclones
Predicted.
The Washington Post says: The two
most eminent and audacious prognostica
tors of the age, Mr. Tice, of SL Louis, and
Mr. Venuor, of Montreal, have made out
their weather programme for the winter.
Mr. Vennor predicts “tremendous snow
falls as far south as Washington.” Mr. Tice,
“heavy rains in the South and heavy
snows in the North, with extremely low
temperature.” The latter, casting bis
prophetic eye still further ahead, says also
that we have entered upon a period of
unusual perturbations, of which the
maximum will not be reached before a
year from next fall. All of which signi
fies In the words of an exchange that if
these weather wiseacres know what they
are talking about, we may expect to be
boned in snow this winter, and washed
out with floods in the spring; to be con
vulsed with all sorts of elemental irregu
larities for a year 'or two longer—be
shaken up with earthquakes, perhaps,
swept with cyclones, frozen into ice-
blocks, and blasted with thunde.bolts.
Therefore, the Post suggests, in the
language of the preacher, that those who
have houses had better be putting them in
order.
These weatherwiae scientists are cer
tainly, up to this time, having their dis
mal predictions verified to the letter. The
sea has been swept with terrific gales,
which have caused the stoutest ships to
founder in mid-ocean, or break to pieces,
like pottery, upon the billowy strand. On
the land, too, there have been freezes,
snow even as far South as genial Florida,
and a deluge of rain for six mortal weeks,
which has wiped out of existence at least
300,000 bales of cotton, worth over $12,-
000,000, broken innumerable mill dams,
caused the streets and highways to be well
nigh impassable, diccked traffic, and
wrought great damage in divers oilier
ways. And still, at this writing, there
seems to be no “let up” to the pluvial vis
itation. Indeed, matters begin to look se
rious generally. Fanners can dono out
door work, and the merchant wistfully
scans his big stock of goods, watches the
clouds and grieves over the sad perspective
of mud without. Every industry for the
time is more or less paralyzed.
A few days of the bright sunshine
of heaven, however, will set all to
rights again, and we have the sat
isfaction of knowing by virtue of
God’s beauteous “Bow of Promise” that
in the meantime we shall not at least be
all drowned out: igtot by the floods. With 1
regard to these ‘-..i.usual perturbations,’ i
which are „..U a year ahead with their
long train of calamities, we would say,
“sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
The Poverty of the South.—Mr?
Stephens is catching it on all sides for bis
sweeping and damaging remark that
Georgia Is poorer than she ever was, aud
declining in prosperity every year. Surely
the fact that her taxable property lias in
creased $13,000,000 during the past year,
ought to be sufficient to disprove the alle
gallon. Such talk Is calculated to injure
Individual and State credit abroad. Com
menting on this ill-advised language of the
M. C. from the 8th District, the Charles
ton Fetes and Courier thinks “it is about
time for Southern statesmen to stop talk
ing about the poverty-stricken, ruined
and desolate South. The South is mak
ing money fast, and keeps it too. Why,
then, should the South any longer hold
the position of a national pauper? These
statesmen do not understand us.” We
fully agree with our contemporary.
The Wet in Macon.—An immense
rainfall occurred between suns on the two
nights intervening between Saturday and
Monday. On Sunday night, by the rain
guage, as reported by Mr. J. M. Board-
man, two inches and eleven one hun
dredths fell, which is equal by his calcula
tion to ten and a quarter pounds to the
square foot, or considerable upwards of a
gallon. A gallon of molasses is said to
weigh ten pounds, but we do not recollect
the weight of a gallon of water. The
rain fell in torrents all night. On Satur
day night, also, as it seems to us, an
amount of rain fell not much smaller. It
was a steady down.pour all night. Few
people confess to any memory of so wet a
fall season as we hare had in the past two
months.
Dr. A. I. Clark, conservative super-
lntcndentof Lynchburg, Va., has written
a letter advocating a State conference to
decide on some practicable method for
the settlement of the State debt. The
conference Is to assemble at Richmond,
and Is to consist of three or four leading
citizen from each congressional district,
embracing both “funders” and “readjust-
ers.”. These are to map out a plan and
programme upon which the conservatives
may plant themselves against the Repub
licans on tho one hand, and Repudlators
—if such there be—on the other.
The traffic in Florida oranges Is getting
to be a large one and is growing every
year rapidly. The Jacksonville Sun
quotes a hanker in that city as saying
that his advances on this year’s crop had
been quite large, and he anticipates that
in time this sort of business will surpass
anything that was formerly done in the
cotton trade in that section.
The grain receipts at St. Louis for the
present year will probably aggregate 60,-
000,000 bushels, an increase of nearly 50
percent, over last year. These figures
do not include the flour receipts of St.
Louis which woufdadd 10,000,000 bushels
to the grain aggregate if reduced to grain,
making the aggregate for tho year 1880
close on to 70,000,000 bushels. The St.
Louis papers are naturally jubilant over
this handsome exhibit.
The agents of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company In New York were no
tified on the 2d inst. that no more freight
belonging to that road would be allowed
to pass over the Pennsylvania line. The
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company
now aunounce that they are prepared to
receive merchandise destined for that
road and Its various connections at the
depot of the Central railroad of New Jer
sey, foot of Liberty street, to be forward
ed over the new line via the Central of
New Jersey and Bound Brook route.
The Matrimonial Benefit Association is
a Cincinnati institution. There are 201
members, aud each gets $1,000 at marriage,
all the rest being assessed $3.
successor. After two Introductory para
graphs, his first care Is to strike at the
Southern States, on the score of “con
tinued opposition to the full aud free en
joyment of the rights of citizenship con
ferred on tho colored people by the recent
amendments of the constitution.” That,
In his opinion, is the topic of first Impor
tance—a groundless misrepresentation of
facts for partisan purposes. The first and
last breath of these Republican leaders is
ever devoted to the maintenance of sec
tional prejudice—so that, although tho
Southern negroes voted with entire per
sonal freedom, and the Northern whites,
on the other hand, were bulldozed shame
fully, this man gravely complains of “the
fraudulent practices in the late slave-
holding States.”
He consoles himself that the sentiment
that the constitutional rights of all our
citizens must be maintained, does not
grow weaker. But, whatever the senti
ment may be, everybody knows that
popular suffrage in the Northern States
a hoppled steed. It is fettered by official
bulldozing and bribery, and, considered
as a full expression of the will of
the voters, is a farce and a hum
bug. It has ceased to exist
controlling force in American politics,
and the sagacity of all thinking men
is challenged to lorccast the probable out
come of the experiment of a popular gov
ernment wielded against the public will
Following this malicious perversion of
the suffrage topic, he launches into the so-
called civil service topic—a pretense
utterly hollow and hypocritical that no
man can keep a sober face over this
magpie talk about it. Every minute of
Hayes’ administration has put the fool
cap on Ills talk and pretensions
about au official civil service independent
of politics. It is the hollowest and most
hypocritical all bathos, aud ive cannot
imagine why Hayes should parade it
again on his “last appearance on the
stage,” except as a pious but deceitful
show. Every employe of the government,
under Hayes, even to tho women who
washed the floors and windows of the
public offices, was compelled to work and
to spend for the party, and would have
been promptly turned out upon refusal:
and the main study now is for a more stern
discipline m this particular—so that the
official corps shall lack nothing of the
most perfect drill ot a stern partisan
phalanx.
This hollow treatise on so-called civil
service reform is followed by a flattering
financial exhibit. Seventy millions more
tax money is annually collected than can
be spent, (try as hard as they cjoj) and
this, when twenty-four years ago the sev
enty millions would have paid all govern
ment expenses aud left a surplus of ten or
tweuty millions. This is a startling tact,
and it becomes still more startling when
it is remembered that the taxes of this
country are so largely paid by the men
without wealth. The accumulations of
wealth iu two thousand million bonds are
exempt from taxation. Ouc hundred and
ciglity-six millions annually drawn from
tariff taxation really operate as a bounty
on capital employed in manufacturing,
and enrich instead of taxing the owners.
We may say, in the United States few pay
taxes who have got anything. Under
such circumstances a heavy excess of reve
nue is not good. It comes out of the belly
instead of the pocket, and if persisted iu
much longer will breed trouble.
The party that persistently runs a high
tax, suiplus schedule, and then hunts up
ways aud means to spend it, beyond the
plain and honest methods and necessities
of government, will come to grief at last,
so soon as it is understood. Extravagance
in revenue and expenditure, never iu the
history of the world was otherwise than
corruptiug and enfeebling to government
and never will be. Wc have faith that
the good sense of the American people
will speedily revert to sound governmen
tal economy, so soon os tho public mind
clears itself of the sedimentary distur
bances of war and disorder.
The reduction of the public debt—the
coinage and currency are Interesting de
partments in the message. The funda
mental position taken is as follows:
The Constitution of the United States,
sound financial principles and our best In
terests alt require that the country should
have as its legal tender money both gold
anil silver coin, of intrinsic value, as
bulliou equivalent to that which, upon its
face, it puiports to possess. The consti
tution in express terms recognizes both
gold and silver as the only true legal
lender money. To banish either of these
metals from our currency is to narrow
and limit the circulating medium of ex
change to the disparagement of important
interest?. The Uuited States produce
more silver than any other country, and is
directly Interested in maintaining it as
one of the two precious metals which
furnish the coinage of the world. It will,
In my judgraen’, contribute to this result
if Congress will repeal so much of exist
ing legislation as requires the coinage of
silver dollars containing only 412} grains
of silver, and in ita stead will authorize
the Secretary of the Treasury to coin sil
ver dollars of equivalent value as bullion,
with gold dollars.
No man ought to object to the equaliza
tion of the bullion values of all American
coin. The value of the silver dollar in
bullion has the sanction of long and wide
usage, and Should not be abandoned ex
cepl on satisfactory evidence that it can
never be re-established. Europe aud Asia
float silver currency at a higher valuation
than ours, and without trouble; but if,
after experience, it is found that the old
valuation of silver cannot be restored,
theu we should favor au increased weight
in our silver coinage, as well as the manu
facture of silver irigots, at full par value
for deposits to secure bank bills.
The message does not present the im
provement of the Mississippi river with
the prominence demanded by the iraport-
ancc of the subject. More space is given
to the Columbia river than to the Ml sls-
slppi. The public buildings, post-office,
navy, and numerous other topics conclude
the message, which is, on the whole, one
of unusual iuiercst.
How to Get Better Juries.—It is a
subject of general complaint in our large
cities that a floating jury population Is al
ways iLside, or circulating within hall of
the court room, ready and anxious to bo
employed ss substitutes for those whom
the law lias designated to flit the responsi
ble position of jurymen. From this class
also the tales jurors are often taken, and
the result is that very frequently the men
who are called upon to decide cases of life
aud death, or involving valuable property,
are by no means representative citizens.
The arc merely “professional jurors” and
serving for the pay of the office. This
custom is damaging to the cause of jus-
i lice aud reflects upon the verdicts that are
rendered. Even a single incompetent or
corrupt “pi ofesalonaljuror*” can defest the
action of eteren of the best men hr the
community.
To remedy this evil, at least part. Judge
Briggs, of the Philadelphia Court of Com
mon Pleas, declared recently:
“I will excuse uo man for business rea
sons. The business men are the very ones
who are continually growling because of
the lucompetency of jurors, aud yet
these very men, when they are summon
ed, seek to be excused, -and as a conse
quence the business of the court is turned
over to the two-dollar-and-a-half men. We
might as well close the courts. The tiling
must be stopped.”
Some such action as this is certainly
reeded topnige our juries from these pro
fessional hangers-on of the courts who are
always ready for a job.
Emancipation in Brazil.
The Effect, if Sudden and Without
Due Preparation.
It is claimed that the anti-slavery move
ment is rapidly gaining ground in Brazil,
and will soon assume such dimensions
that the government will be forced to
manumit tho negroes forthwith.
If we mistake not, a gradual scheme of
emancipation has already been inaugu
rated in the empire, and Dom Pedro is in
sympathy with the movement. A corre
spondent of the Philadelphia Record,
writing from that country, says:
A letter from Minister Hilliard to the
president of the Brazilian Anti-Slavery
Society, of the 25th uliimc, which has just
been published, l.as added largely to tie-
moral force of the movement. Mr. Hill
iard’s letter was not directed so much to
the question ot Brazilian slavery as to the
results of emancipation In the Uuited
States. By this means he has furnished
tho anti-slavery party party here with un-
answearable arguments in tavor of the
early abolition of that great evil. What
ever may be done, it is htehly improbable
that the change will be effected without a
great crisis.
If the friends of tlie negro and stable
government iu Brazil will be guided by
the lamp of American experience, they
will continue to adhere to tho pulley of
preparing the bondmen of that country by
degrees for the great changes which will
ensue after emancipation. It was bad
enough at tlie South for both black and
white for a series of years. Turned adrift
from the “old plantation,” without means,
and almost without warning, many an aged
African sank, from sheer want, into tho
grave, and thousands became the dupes
and victims of carpet-baggers, provost
marshals, bureau agents, and a horde of
other Northern harpies, who were not
ashamed to practice upon the credulity
and ignorance of tliefrecdman.
Nor was die condition of their former
masters much better. Poverty aud blauk
ruin stared them in the face. Bereft of
their property, mourners for the dead in
every household, thousands disfranchised,
their local governments overturned, laden
with taxation, their fairest aud noblsst
women earning a subsistence with the
needle or in the school-room, Federal bay
onets gleaming in every direction, military
arrests without legal process driving hun
dreds from their homes, their lands grow
ing up wi'lt briars and brambles, disheart
ened and forlorn—those were indeed dark
days. And they were the outcome of sud
den emancipation.
Hcflce, in the name of humanity and
tlie welfare alike of bond anil free, we
trust that such scenes may not be re-en
acted in Brazil.
Let the poor negroes have some time
and opportunity to fit and qualify them
selves for tlie new relations and grave re
sponsibilities which freedom will devolve
upon them before they are cast forth from
tlie snog homes and comforts they now
enjoy. Some consideration is duo to the
slaveholder, also, ere a change so radical
in his business and pursuits is resolved
upon. And this we say from the standpoint
of a disinterested and genuine regain for
both races.
Misplaced Sympathy for Criminals.
Mi:. Henry Berqu Takes a New Db
pasture.
Henry Bergli, tho renowned champion
and benefactor of the silent and unpro
tected brute creation, has recent
ly astonished the coantry by an address
in New York, in* which he advocated
wholesome coipural punishment for re
fractory and sulky convicts. The good
man’s heart goes out towards the beaten
braised and maimed domestic animals
which patiently perferm all the drudgery
of their masters, too oltcu receiving from
biped brutes half rations and cruel blows
only, in return. But for tho sentient being
possessed of a soul, and reared in
Christian land, who tramples upon the
laws, commits murder, burglary, rape and
every crime down in the calendar, Mr
Bergli has no toleration. When undergo
ing righteous punishment for any of these
offenses, he docs not believe that he
should he luxuriously lodged and pam
pered, but on the contrary, kept hard at
work and soundly flogged when he de
serves iL Of course ho would not starve
or maltreat the convicts, but draws
wide distinction between salutary discip
line and a proper prison regimen, and the
present treatment of the inmates of many
penitentiaries. In his late address before
tho Prison Reform Association, it was
stated that most of our jails aud peniten
tiaries nowadays are nothing but comfort
able hotels, maintained at the public ex
pense for the benefit of the iqgolent and
the vicious. He said:
“No man has had a better opportunity to
see wliat criminals are made of than I
have had, and I tell you that hundreds of
them commit crime to be sent to the
places which you provide for their
comfort. They are warm and clean there;
they get good soup aud nice potatoes, and
everything which hard-working, honest
men aud women can’t get in your tene
ment bouses.”
Tn corroboration of the above statement,
which the New York Bulletin pronounces
to he “substantially true,” that journal
makes tills additional remark:
Tiie taxpayers, we remember, not long
ago had to defray the enormous cost of a
prison aud court-house in- Sixth avenue,
that looks not like a prison at all, but an
imposing Tuscan palLce, with stained glass
windows, stoue carvings, lesselated corri
dors and other luxurious appurtenances.
Now, the temptation to transfer one’s self
from the wretched tenement houses to
such ducal palaces as this, it seems to us
must be, as it is, too powerful to be resist
ed. Mr. Bergli is right. By such meth
ods, as if in order that city politicians may
have fat building contracts, we hut multi
ply criminals aud aaddle new taxes upon
muest industry.
In this State it not infrequently hap
pens that the colored convicts beg to be
allowed to remain* in the “camps” when
their terms of service have expired, aud'
some have been known to commit a theft
straightway, that they may be remanded
back to their plentiful “grub” and com
fortable quarters. It is greatly to be re
gretted that tlie coudition of our finances
A Severe Lecture.
11m Hamid's- Uubtiu telegraot-
cember 5th ‘(last Monday) reports verba
tim the heavy lecture delivered to Parnell
ill the Court of Queen’s Bench, by Chief
Justice May, iu giving tho unanimous de
cision of the bench, refusing to postpone
trials because defendants were members
ot Parliament, which meets on the 6th
proximo. This decision was the subject
of bitter invective at several land meet
ing in Ireland yesterday. It is as follows:
“The court is uiiauimously of Uie opin
ion that this application must be refused.
I believe to be wholly without precedent.
Now, what are the facts of the case? I
think that Mr. Parnell and Ills associates
can hardly appreciate the position in
which they stand. For several months this
country has been in a state of anarchy.
For several months the law iu this coun
try has been openly defied and trampled
upon, Foraeveral mouths a largo portion
of the community, ^urged oa by mem
bers of this * Baud League,
have practiced a system of
fraudulent dishonesty in refusing to meet
their just debts; the process of the law can
not be executed; the Queen’s writs cannot
issue. It was only yesterday tlsat appli
cation was made to this court to substi
tute service upon the ground that no pro
cess server or bailiff dare approach the
tenant orpclnt him out to auy one who
would venture to serve him. This coun
try has been for months iu a state of ter
ror. It has been tyrannized over by an un
authorized conspiracy. People of this
country are afraid to assert their rights.
It is uot too much to say that law is de
fied, life Insecure and rights of property
violated. Under circumstances such as
these, having regard to the fact that these
were the results of an agitation which has
been sedulously carried ou for several
months, I do not think the consideration
of tho evidence of the traversers or of the
importance of their attendance in Parlia
ment can be for a moment entertained.
There Is a higher, far transcendent duty
in this court—to take care that this trial
be brought to au issue at the earliest mo
ment, to let it be decided once for all
whether it is Innocent or criminal to in
cite the tenants of this country to vio
late their contracts and to impede process
es of law in the manner in which we see
that the law has been impeded and in which
it will probably continue to be violated.
I have no hesitation in saying that I will
not accede to such >an application for a
single moment. Let tlie trial proceed as
speedily as possible. If Mr. Parnell has
to complain of anyone it is of himself aud
of those associated with him. He has 1164
thought it proper to address his demands
for changes hi the law to Parliament, of
which he is a member. He has endeav
ored to carry out alterations in tlie law
by violent speeches and violent means. I
mean that these are tho accusations,
these are the charges he
lias to meet. If he is In
nocent of these charges let it be decided as
soon as possible. If, on the contrary, he
is not innocent, it he cannot satisfy the
court of bis innocence, let the usual con
sequences follow.” No language can ex
aggerate the scusation that this speech
caused. Chief Justice May is a judge of
great ability, and rather choleric. He
seemed greatly excited while speaking.
Tho heat of his language is much to be
deprecated, as a serious objection will be
taken to his trying the agitator’s case on
the ground that he has uot kept within
his judicial capacity. Justice Barry
showed his disfavor to the Chief Justice’s
words by saying, while concurring in the
judgment, I10 would pronounce no opin
ion, directly or indirectly, upon the politi
cal aspect of the case, as it was a topic the
court could not entertain.” I understand
that Mr. Parnell has expressed his inten
tion of attending Parliament at all haz
ards, and place on the government the re
sponsibility of preventing him.
The best English opinion, it appears to
us, is to the effect that the govern
ment has lost the fight in Ire
land by delay. Parliament meets too
late. Affairs are getting from had to
worse with railroad speed. Compromise
anil coercion will be alike fruitless iu pre
venting a catastrophe by tiie time fariia-
meut lias met and a system of measures
lias passed. It is doubted whether the
Gladstone ministry can carry any meas
utes through, and whether it will not
have to break tip in the effort. Nothing
cau add to the force of the Chief Justice's
representations of the actual condition o f
Ireland.
Animal Food.
One man says, I don’t like mutton; an
other says, I never relish beeft another re
in fa, I am tired of bam ; a fourth says,
I find poultry dry, feathery and insipid,
But tiio plain fact is, each one of them is
speaking not of what God Intended the
ford to be, and what it ought to be, hut
of a base counterfeit and imposture, pro
duced by neglect.
In the first place, God frould abet the
folly aud penurlousuess of men if a good
piece of meat, of anv kind, could possl
bly be produced on bad food. Nature
never Intended such a cheat and a swin
dle any more than that wedding cako
should be made of sawdust. The man
who expects to make well-flavored and
tender meat of fence-corner weeds and
brambles, or even of ill-flavored grass, is
expecting the Impossible. Your meat
must be well fed before It can be well
eateu.
It is impossible to cat good meat if any
kind and not Uke it, and any kind of meat
in its best Style of treatment is delicious
to tho healthy palate.. As for beef, wc
fancy half our people pass through life and
never see or taste a piece of that meat
entitled to the name. And so of inilk and
cream and butter—all these, to be good,
must be the result of good food, tender
care and good management. Without
these it is impossible to have them, though
you may bring stock from Europe. It is
not till we get over the idea of reaping
where we have* not sown, and making
something out of nothing, that we can get
any good crops or good food. “The lib
eral soul shall be made fat.”
A Three Per Cent. Bond.
The Philadelphia Times says: There
is a wide difference of opinion among
Congressmen relative to financial legisla
tion, but most of them appear content to
aWait the production of the Sherman plan.
Judge William D. Kelley believes a three
per cent, bond can be safelv floated at
this time. It is understood that be will
Introduce a bill at the earliest opportuni
ty to limit the colnago of silver aud re
duce the standard dollar to 300.90 grains
from 412}, his basis for the reduction be
ing tlie international standard of values.
Thera were others who were pronounced
silver men during the last Congress, aud
efen to the last session of this, who are
now of the opinion that the international
sliver valuation is of little account, and
that the timo is favorable to the adoption
of the single standard. Those who were
loud for free coinage now commend Secre
tary Sherman for keeping coinage at a
minimum. It Is stated on trustworthy
authority that Secretary Sherman will re
commend a three per cent, bond in his re
funding bill, to be submitted to Congress
this week, but the basis on which such a
bond is to be issued is uot glreu.
Tlieje certainly can be no scarcity of
money if it ba true that it cau be had by
the million and for long periods, at tlie
low rate of three per cent, par annum.
How such talk makes the chaps of the
Failure of the Piedmont and Arling-
The Outlook of the Concern.
The repeated collapse of so many lire
Insurance organizations is well calculated
to inspire distrust in the public mind as
to the value aud reliability of this method
of making provision for the future
of one's family. We wot of .one gen
tleman who has supk large sums which
might have been saved and profitably in
vested under his own eye, iu such compa
nies as these: The St. Louis Mutual
the Mound City, the Universal Life, the
Piedmont and Arlingtou and several other
concerns. Another took out a policy for
$5,000 in the Knickerbocker on the “ten
annual” p'-an, in which the payments of
premiums were part cash, and part
by note renewed annually. At the
expiration of eight years, finding it in
convenient to carry his policy at the high
rate charged, he asked for, and obtained a
“paid up policy” for $4,000, subject to an
abatement of $900 for the unsettled note
against him. Anxious to be relieved of
alt* future obligations, he asked that the
$000 might be deducted from the $4,000,
and a clean policy for $3,100 given him,
upon which all premiums to date had been
duly paid.
Bat the company' not only refused to
grant his request, hut declared that, If the
Interest upon this nine hundred dollar
note was not paid promptly every year, ho
should forfeit the entire $3,100, upon
which every premium had been duly forth
coming. Now, where is the equity In this
case ? Suppose tlie insured party should
become so reduced In circumstsuces as to
be unable to pay the interest on the nine
hundred dollar note, which he would
gladly discount from his paid-up policy
of $4,000 if permitted to do so ? Is there
auy shadow of justice la canceling his
policy for the remaining $3,100, upon
which he holds receipts for every premi
um that was demanded of him ? The
very statement of the case is enough to
arouse the indignation of every fair-
minded man. Yet this was done; and the
same party, after receiving a paid-up pol
icy of $4,000, with the drawback of a
note for uine hundred dollars only, which
the company refused to deduct from the
said policy, which would have left him in
sured without incumbrance for $3,100, is
now forced to pay the annual interest ou
the nine hundred dollars or forfeit the en
tire $4,000. Query: Would such treat
ment be sustained by the courts? We
think not.
In the case of the Piedmont,; and Ar
lington, however, everything (j^ftas to
have been fairly conducted, and the man
agers are men of the highest worth and
respectability. / \
The unexpected and unprecedented
mortality of late among the policy holders
was the proximate cause of its-downfell.
There will be a full surrender of all the
assets of the company and something will
doubtless be sayed to the unfortunate in
dividuals who for years, at heavy sacrifice,
have been paying out their money for the
future benefit of their loved ones.
As many of our citizens hold policies in
the Piedmont and Arlingtou, we copy
from the Bichmond Dispatch a list of the
assets of the company, which have been
transferred to the trustee, Mr. Angus R.
Blakey, to be sold, or otherwise used for
the benefit of the creditors aud policy
holders.
The deed sets forth iu derail the proper
ty of the company, to-wit J
“All the bonds, notes, open accounts,
rents, choses in action, and evidences ol p
debt of every kind and description; all the
office furniture in its offices in the city oi
Richmond, mortgages, deeds of trust, se-
How Protection Works.
Wnr We Hate so Few Otean Steam-
ers.
Tbe Montreal Gazette, commenting upon
the recent report of our Register of the
Treasury, showing s further heivy falling
off of American tonnage last year, reminds
us that the “free trade policy of England
has given her a commanding position on
tbe seas. She is able to control ocean com
merce, because her citizens are allowed to
build ships without being handicapped by
protection. One kind of protection pre
vents Americans building cheap ships,,
and another kind of protection prohibits
them buying foreign built vessels. The
experience of the United States should be
pregnant with a lesson for the protection
ists in this country who affect to believe
that a protective tariff can create wealth
and insure us against poverty.”
This is wisely and appositely expressed.
After all, “free trade and sailors’ rights,”
the old rallying cry, is the best policy for
all the world. Let every tub stand upon
its own bottom, and each industry work
out its own destiny. Then will the con
sumer derive the full benefit of a whole
some competition, and breadstuff), meat,
irou, sugar, coffee, tea, and all other mer
chandise, will be sold at minimum prices
to the consumer. Why protect one class
to the exclusion of another?
Middle Georgia Teachers’ Association
Third Convention of the Same.
The programme of the exercises of this
body at its approaching meeting, on the
16th inst., at Thomson, McDuffie county,
is exceedingly attractive. The address of
welcome will be pronounced by Thomas
E. Watson, Esq., who made his mark in
tbe late gubernatorial convention, and be
responded to by that honest and capable,
but hard-head, brother, Rev. John A.
Shivers, of the Warrenton Clipper. Then
will follow the report of the secretary and
treasurer, the enrollment of names, the
appointment of the usual committees, and
sundry discussions.
Among the topics to bo considered will
be “Militaiy practice for schools,” opened
by E. W. Burfer, of Madison; “Teaching
as a vocation," by Wm. B. Fambrough, of
Thomson; “School discipline,” by Otis
Ashmore, Harlem, Ga.; “An object lesson
on the Gulf Stream,” by V. E. Orr, Louis
ville, Ga.; “Science teaching in the
schools,” by Prof. H. C. White, of the
University of Georgia; “English gram
mar,” by Rev. E. R. Carswell, Jr., of Au
gusta ; and other voluntary discussions of
various topics.
Daring the sittings of t\ie associrtion,
addresses will be delivered'by Rev. A. J.
Battle, D.D., president of Mercer Univer
sity, and the president, Gustavus J. Orr,
LL.D., State school commissioner. Fi
nally, the reports of committees will be re
ceived, the officers for another year elect
ed, aud then an adjournment will bo in
order, sine die.
At intervals during the exercises there
will be a drill by a squad of Prof. Buttler's
cadets, prize declac ration and recitations
by pupils from the schools of Middle
Georgia, and the delivery of two prizes,
one for the best recitation or readiug by a
girl, tho other to be awarded for the best
declamation by a boy.
The convention will do much good f >r
the cause of education, and doubtless tlie
attendance will be large.
xtuuuiiusiu, uccus vi uu:., ou-
curities, and ail other liens; all lands, lots,
and tenements, and parcels of real prop
erty in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennes
see. Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas,
aud Florida. Among these are named
lauds and improvement in Staunton; alto,
the laud in Amherst, fivo miles from
Lynchburg, containing 151 acres; also the
land and improvements in Charlottesville;
Bath county (500 acres), add Orange
county (371 acres); the lands and im
provements in Richmond, corner Of N and
Twenty eighth streets, 00x132 ftet; on
Grace between Twenty-first and Twenty-
secoud streets, 60x165 feet; on Thirtieth
street, 170x134; north side of Main and
Ninth streets, now occupied in part as
priucipal office of the company; in Tenn
essee, 5 acres in Shelby county; in West
Virginia, 0,040acres in Pocahontas county,
formerly held by W. C. Carrington, and
2,511 additional in said county; 2,234 acres
in tiie county of Edgefield, S. C-, and ail
lands aud improvements in Barnwell
county, S. C., and at Summerhill, Aiken
county, S. C.; 476 acres in Texas; halt of
a lot of land lu the town of Gainesville,
Fla., and the Auridando tract in the same
State; also the lands and improvements in
Cross couuty, Aik.
The trust deed provides for tho sale of
all the above property, to pay off and dis
charge all the just and reasonable ex
penses attending the suits, etc.; to pay of
ficers and employes salaries up to tho
1st of January, 1881, when salarfes are to
cease; to pay off all demands on account
of suretyship; to secure all the policy
holders of said company and beneficiaries
under policies issued by said company,
the value oi the interest ot policy-holders
or bene'Je’a ies to be ascertained by Ed
ward B. Smith, of Richmond, actuary,
and to be paid pro rata if uot cuough to
pay tho whole.
The trustee is authorized, instead of
selling at once, to let aud rent the proper
ty conveyed.
From and after tlie date of the deed all
premiums on polities already issued or
forwarded for new policies are to be
placed at once In one of the banks of Rich
mond and kept separately from tbe other
funds of the company. If a new compa
ny is organized before the execution of
tiie trust, the trustee is to turn over to
the new company all the assets transferred
by this deed. It is expressly provided,
however, that tbe present Piedmont and
Arlington Company shall not be dissolved
by tlie execution of this deed.
Authority is. conferred upon the trustee
to borrow money to pay taxes now due or
to become due.
The deed is signed by B. C. Hartsook,
president; L. S. Edwards, secretary for
tho company, aud Angus R. Blakey, trus
tee.
How the concern will pan out remains
to be seen. Fast experience in similar
cases docs cot leave much to hope for.
impecunious South tun water. As for
does not warrant the close incarceration gold and silver currency, let us have all
of the penitentiary convicts and their con-; that can be coined at standard weights,
staut confinement at hard labor. It would ’ It can never burn up or wear out, and far-
greatly subserve tlie cause of morality and mers and country people love to look at
add to the terrors of the law. aud handle tlie shiners.
Rev. F.G.DuBionon.—The Milledge-
ville Recorder says: “The Post-Appeal
thinks 'our Representative looks like a'
preacher. Here's what it says: ‘Judge F.
G. DuBIgnou, of Baidwiu, is tbe most
ministerial looking member of tho House.
Men invariably take him for the chaplain.
He also speaks with a ministerial tone of
voice.’ Well, that is good. It lout so
bad to go to Atlanta as we supposed.”
If a subject of grace, the talented
member from Baldwin would adorn the
pulpit equally as well as lie does the “halls
of legislation.” But we advise him, if se
riously incliued, to get away from Atlan
ta as fast as tbe patriarch Lot fled from
Sodom. The atmosphere of Georgia's
capital is not particularly healthful for
penitents aud mourners ou the
ious seat.” It is tlie heaven of (lie
1st and office-seeker. Not, hoiv“v.j
a good thing may not come out of Ns
re ill occasionally.
That Coal Embroglio Agai:;.-
estcemed contemporary, the JSorth Amer
ican, a journal too sedate and serious to
give way to any merely impulsive inquiry,
says: “It is a little curious that Penn-
S vania coal should be sold at Chicago at
dollars a ton, while it cost as much or
more than that right here iu Philadel
phia.” What the Forth American con
siders “a little curious,” the Record ven
tures to denominate an mferual outiage.
The price of coal in Chicago may be right
enough, doubtless it is; but the people of.
Philadelphia axe entitled to tbe enjoy
ment or the i r natural advantages. Cheap
coal is in the natiue of a birthright.—Phil
adelphia Record.
An “infernal outrage” is pretty strong
language, but wo doubt if it could be mod
ified iluriug this bitter cold weather. In
fact, it is very hard for a hungry man to
keep his temper during a “corner” in
flour and meat, aud equally so for a shiv
ering “sovereign” to preserve his equa
nimity when coal, quarried at home, is
sold lmudreds of miles away far cheaper
than to those who live within sight of tho
mines.
These abnormal discriminations stir
one’s gorge, and no wonder our Philadel
phia contemporary pronounces them an
“infernal outrage.”
On the Road to Ruin—Mr. Kauf-
inanu, of tho Washington Star, is quoted
assaying: “I have just come bad: from
New York, aud if I am any judge of the
result of extravagent speculation we
will have a panic withiu five yean;
aud I should net be surprised if it came
within three years. You can’t get a
decent suit of clothes made by any sort of
good tailor In New York lor less money
than you paid in the midst ofthc war,when
we were rioting in promissory notes.
They tell me real estate is again a sub
ject of speculation there, as it was seven
yean ago and is up forty per cent, above
the highest notch at that time. Now
business of n general diaractcr is not so -
good as it was a year ago. The mines
which were paying dividends to a large
number of people in 1870 are not now
productive, aud a great deal ot money
which got into the hands of the spendthrift
class through that means has ceased to
appear. The Christmas trade iu the out
lying cities has beguu late.* We are
rushing things again without mudt regard.
for the future.”
Mr. Samuel Ellicott, well-known
as the “blind farmer,” of Montgomery
county, died last week. Although Mr..
Ellicott had been deprived of sight since
the age of sixteen years, ho was one of
the most successful farmers in the county,
attending personally to all the details of.
thebusinessof.hu plantation..
A Popular Journalist.—Our friend,
A. P. Perham, has been elected 'Ordinary
of his county again without opposi
tion. This is a just tribute to de
served merit and a faithful officer. Per
ham is a Democrat of the straightest sect,
and did yeoman’s work for Turner in the
late congressional contest. He is, withal,
the prince of clever fellows, and publishes
a reliable ami readable paper. We lender
to him our congratulations.
Ohio's Senator.—Senator Blaine fa
vor* Sherurau for tbe senatorial succession
in Ohio over Foster, because the latter is
not as experienced aud “brainy” as the
. 1 present secretary. Sherman is a lucky
y- tnau, for it is admitted that if beaten for
that the Senate be will be the recipient of a
j cabinet apjnintiuent
field.
from President Gar-