Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

I ■■■■> <§*acssg anJt Saucnal & fflgggewfltT. W« 4r UM T«l«fr*fh U4 Mmk*- gmr. Postage free to all Edition*- bail,I Telegraph and Messenger, QlOidOperyr * 0.00 6 mot - •• •• •• 2JW S not. Haiti Telegraph and Meeteager asd Souther* Famer > * Mesthly WMperyr. Weekly Telegraph and Messenger *•#« “ 1*0 Cmoe Work’i Telegraph ana Meteeuger and Southern Farmer'* Monthly SM peryr Remit by P. O. Order or Registered Letter, to ML B. PiTH.««MHW Ctlrgrnplj uni Jtasragrr 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-