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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1880.
The Paris Ordre states tbit Queen Vic
toria Las invited the Empress Eugenio to
spend the winter with her at Wi-dsor.
Senator Lamar was in New Orleans
last Thursday and was to leave for Wash
ington on Saturday. His health had im
proved.
Col. Bod Ingersoll says that during
the recent Presidential campaign Hayes
was not alluded to by either party, and
that the Kepublcans won in spite of him
Garfield, be says, was elected by 30,000
colored voters in New York.
Illuminated by Electricity - .—
Lieut. Gov. Weston has given instructions
to Manager Gardner, of the Troy & Green
field road, to try the experiment of illumi
nating the Hoosac tunnel by electricity,
with a view to having such illumination
made permanent should it prove success
ful
The New York Tribune has compiled
an unreliable table of the popular vote of
1880, with the following erroneous results:
Garfield 4,438,070
Hancock .... 4,337.002
Weaver 305,339
Dow 40,799
Phelps 20,072
Scattering 8,081
Garfield’s plurality . . . 708
The Chicago Times figures out Han
cock’s plural'ty to be 0,513.
Sir Alexander Cockburn, the late
chief justice of England, thought more of
the spint than of the letter of the law.
When ap uuknown barrister he was in
trusted with the defence of a man who,
having been forced Into an encounter by
a noted duelist, killed him. “Gentlemen,”
he said to the jury, “my learned friend
has told you this is murder, his Lordship
will tell you that it is murder; I know
that It is no murder, and yon know that
it is no murder.” After these words the
jury at once returned a verdict of not
guilty.
Senator Thurman has a modest
home on Fourteentn, street, Washington.
The Senator is a complete home body,
and eDjoys the society of his wife and
daughters more than the gay whirl of the
fashionable round. His bouse is worth,
say $10,000, Is fumisned modestly, but
with good taste. Mr. Thurman is seen
at his best at home In his easy chair, en
joying a good Democratic smoke from
common Powbattan pipe. Nearly all the
other Senators live in boarding-houses or
hotels.
Junos Black’s strength as a lawyer,
says the Springfield Republican, lies in
the vigorous application of old principles
to new problems. He has. not often, if
ever, better shown his strength than in
his letter to the New York Chamber of
Commerce, supporting the proposition
that railroads are public property, whoso
care, maintenance and management are
intrusted to the corporations, wbicli, in
popular language, “own” the lines they
build and operate by the permission of
the State.
New Lights Along Broadway.—
The preparations for illuminating Broad,
way, New York, from Fonrteeulb to
Thirty-fourth street with elcctnc lights
are being rapidly pushed forward, and the
indications now are that the new lights
will be substituted for gas on or before
Christmas Eve. The Brush Electric
Light Company is to do the lighting.
The experiment is to cost the city noth
ing, and the system is to he done away
With at any time if it proves unsatisfactory.
The district selected for experimenlial
illumination includes thirteen hotels, five
club-houses, and a large number of restau
rants and business houses. Property
holders have made no objection to the
erection of electric lamps, and it is not
tbougbttliat they will be displeased with
the lights as substitutes for gas.
The revenues of the Oxford colleges
have been so seriously diminished by the
agricultural depression that the Commis
sioners will have altogether to revise the
estimates on which theii recommendations
in regard to aiding the University from
this source are based. It is difficult to see
how anything whatever is to be got out of
.be colleges, tho wealthiest of which (such
as Christ Church, Magdalen, and New)
have lately been, and now are, spending
large sums on extensions and improve
ments. Tho expenditure on the schools
and the extensive repairs to the Bodleian
Library bavo encumbered the university
With a debt of £100,000, and It Is difficult
to conjecture where the funds are to be
discovered to relieve it of the burden.
Mb. Forster, the Secretary for Ireland
iu Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet, while lunch
ing at a well known dining room in Dub
lin the other day, he found himself play
ing involuntarily the role of Haroun al
Raachld. At the same table was an out
spoken young gentleman, whose advances
toward conversation were not declined
by the Irish Secretary. In a short time
the conversation turned on the state of
anarchy in which the west of Ireland is
plunged, and the opening remarks of the
young gentleman were so truly liberal
that Mr. Fourier felt they bad met on
common ground. This opinion was, how
ever, somewhat modified when bis con.*
panion, warming with the subject, said.
“Some reform lu land tenure will certainly
be necessary when the ^country becomes
settled, but no wonder It Is in such a state
when we are governed by that d ■ —d old
fool, Buckshot Forster.”
The Irish harvest this year Is described
as Ike best known for more than a gener
ation. The area planted with oats is
very large, and the yield hat turned out
to be at least 75 per cent, in excess of i hat
of last season; while the grain has obtain
ed if anything, a better price in the mar
ket than it did last year, when the yield
was so scanty. The yield of wheat has
been iu some parts as much as twelve
barrels to the statute acre; and the quali-
ity, both red and white, lias been superior
to that of any harvest withm living mem
ory. The green crops, too, as a rule,
bare given the Irish farmer satisfaction,
although tlw potato crop has been a
light disappointment.
Last Week’s Cotton Figures. -
The Chop Situation.
The New York Chronicle reports the
cotton receipts of the seven days ending
last Friday night at 243,137, against 234,
S76 the corresponding week of last year.
Total since 1st September to last Friday
2,781,194 bales, against 2,580,041 for the
same period of the previous cotton year,
showing an increase of 195,153 bates.
The Chronicles interior port table
shows the receipts of the week to have
been 127,551 bales, against 138,341 for the
same week of last year. Shipments 111
140, against 109,992. Stocks 205,270,
against 317,4CS at same date last year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed on Friday last 2,504,820 bales of
cotton in sight, against 2,303,845 at same
date last year; 2,223,180 in 1878 at same
date, and 2,083, 306 in 1877 nt same date,
These figures show an increase in the vis
ible supply of this year as follows: Over
1879, 140,431 bales; over 1878, 281,140
bales; and over 1877 421,020 bales.
Middling upland was quoted in Liver
pool last Friday at 0|. Last year at same
dato the quotation was 0 15-10; in 1878 at
same date, 4J, and in 1877 at same da»e,
0 0-10.
The Chronicle's telegrams of last Fri
day from the cotton region show
abatement of the rains and improvement
in the situation. Iu Texas, at Galveston,
picking has been renewed. The roads
were drying, though still very bad. The
rainfall in the montli of November atGal
veston was 8.82. At Indiauola the situa
tion was the same. Rainfall in Novem
ber, 5.85. At Corsicana the same. Rainfall
in November, 7.07. At Dallas the same,
aud rainfall in November is given at only
at 3.05. At Brenbam the rainfall of No
vember is reported at 3.00, and al Waco the
same. The roads everywhere in Texas
are reported to be in a terrible condition,
In Louisiana, at New Orleans, 1.43 of
rain fell during the seven dayi ending on
Friday. At Shreveport there were tbrcc
days oi rain—roads bad. In Mississippi
at Vicksburg, there was rain on three
days and at Columbus on two
days of the week. In Arkansas, on
Saturday last, there was a thunder-storm
with hail. In Memphis, Tennessee, rain
ou two days of the week. Cotton picking
thoroughly resumed. In Nashville rain
on three days with a fall of 1.57.
Iu Alabama, at Mobile, showery on
two days. At Montgomery rain on four
days and a fall of 2.01. At Selma, rain
ou two days and ice on three nights of
the week. In Florida, Madison bad frost
and ice on one night. In Georgia, at
Columbus, there were two days of severe
rain. In Macon, three days of heavy rain
with a fall of 2.82. At Savanuah, in two
days 3.37 of rain fell. In Augusta heavy
rains on three days—ninety per cent, ol
the crop gathered.
A Small Rebellion in Kansas.
Our Sunday telegrams develop a spark
ol rebellion iu Kansas. Eight companies
of citizen emigrants are encamped near
Hnnnewell, Kansas, under military or
ganization, and determined to force their
way into the Uto reservation, contrary to
the laws and authority of the United
States, there represented by a force of
Federal cavalry under Col. Cappenger,
with orders to stop the movement. The
Kansas men are embarrassed by a fire in
the rear in the form of famine. They are
in a starving condition at home, through
bad seasons, and think themselves shut
up to a forcible invasion. An earlier dis
patch from Uunuewcll says:
Recruits are constantly pouring in-
Large accessions arc expected to-morrow.
Most of the new comers are from the
droulhy regions of Western Kansas, where
the settlers have been literally starved out
for several years past. The Southern bor
der is almost a barren waste, the farmers
being unable to raise sufficient seed for
the next plauting. Women and children
came in, to-day, following their meager
outfits, and presenting a pitiful, destitute
condition. Families, with barely enough
means to provide & month’s subsistence
for themselves and stock, have joined the
colony in the hope of getting a fresh start
on the prolific lands of Oklahoma. Dur
ing the last three days, twenty-five teams
have crossed the line at this point and
moved into tho promised land. Filly
teams also moved down from Caldwell.
A large number of settlers also crossed the
Arkansas line, and a strong body is also
moving up from Texas. It is estimated
that 1,500 to 2,000 white settlers are a!
ready on the public lands in the Territo
ry, and a majority of those who have been
expelled have retraced their steps as soon
as d ischaiged from custody. The settlers Iu
camp here are resolute, not to say desper
ate. They know not what to do or where
to go if not permitted to moveupon the ced
ed lands. If it were not for the persuasion
and restraint exercised by tlie officers of
tho colony, they would have crossed the
line, in the face of the soldiers, twenty-
four hours ago. The situation is critical,
and the officers of the colony hope to re
ceive assurances from Washington before
they move from this point, that will avert
the threatened conflict.
By Sunday’s telegrams the prospect
seems lair lor a fight.
Says the New York Bulletin: The Na
tional Public Health Association, which is
just now In session at New Orleans, ap-
: >ears to have very capacious ideas of its
l unctions, seeing that much of its time thus
far lias been devoted to an exposition of
the commercial advantages of the Florida
Ship Canal and engineering other enter
prises of the same kind. We suppose no
one will question the commerciafadvan-
tages of the Florida Ship Canal, or any
other canal; but it puzzles one to know
what an organization for sanitary purposes
has to do with it. The National Public
Health Association should beware of too
many irons in the fire. Jfe sulor ultra
crepidam.
And yet this suggestion will be seen to
be relevant when we remember that tbe
idea of the health association was, that
tbe canal would do away with much of
the necessity of navigation in yellow fever
latitudes.
“Boycotting” ties up every man In
Ireland who does not belong to tbe
League as tight as if he were in a straight
jacket. He cannot buy or sell or procure
service of any kind. He can neither bor
row nor lend—go abroad or stay at borne.
He is simply “sewed up.” More perfectly
left to himself than if be were In tbe Cen
tre of the great desert.
The Kansas War.—An Arkansas
City dispatch in the Herald of Saturday,
dated the 10th, says: “When the corre
spondent left tbe camp this morning the
colonists were on military dress parade
and inspection, and the stars and stripes
at the right of tbe line. Tbe immigrants
are nerved to tbe determination to go to
Oklahoma at any cost, and should the
troops oppose or, as is anticipated, kill
their horses or attempt to destroy their
outfit, there will be a bloody conflict.”
Bibb County.—The population of Bibb
county by tbe census of 1880 is 27,140—of
which 12,761 are male and 14,386 female.
26,537 are native bom and 009 foreign
biro; 11,423 are white aud 16,723 col
ored. QBH
Hr. Battle's Sermon in Vineville.
A Touching Picture of Home.
The pulpit of the “Union Church” in
Yinevllie, which Is kindly supplied in turn
by the pastors and other resident ministers
of the city, was occupied ou Sunday evening
by the affable and distinguished president
of Mercer University. Tbo intelligent
youth of the village (aud their number is
most surprising) tamed oat in strength to
hear him, together with the older folks
and several of tbe gray-headed patriarchs
of the community.
The Doctor, always graceful and inter
esting as a speaker, on this occasion fairly
excelled himself. Seldom have we ever
listened to a discourse more eloquent,
beautiful and comforting.
The text was drawn from John, 14tli
chapter aud 2d verse:
“In my Father’s house are many man
sions; if it were not so I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
The sacred orator began by drawing a
life-like picture of home aud the sweet
surroundings of the family hearth-stone.
The word “homo” always awakens the
tendcrest emotions in the human bosom,
it matters not how humble it may be.
The merchant, absorbed in his duties
and operations “on ’change,” tbe pro*
fessional man borne down by tho weight
of his peculiar responsibilities, tbe toiling
mechanic and industrious husbandman
whose hours of leisure are few, the day
laborer who leaves his humble cot with
the earliest dawn and digs and delves
until the evening shades darken around
him, the statesman posed and bewildered
by tho gravity and perplexities of tho
political situation, the banker and specu
lator weary with peering into the un
known future where fortune or ruin
awaits him In ambush, tho furloughed
soldier hurrying with eager step to the
side of wife and children, the returning
mariner long absent from his own snug
port, even the wretched convict just re
leased from a felon's cell, all, all gladly
hasten; to their homes at eventide or
when permitted to do so, and there find a
haven of rest, and precions refuge' from
outside disappointments and corroding
cares, which are rightly banished from that
charmed spot and forgolleu, while soft
kisses bedew the cheeks, aud warm,
clinging arms encircle the weary form of
paterfamilias.
The speaker argued that if beatitudes
like these cluster about our earthly taber
nacles in this life of trial and vexations
innumerable, what must be the ecstatic
happiness and delight of those who are
assigned to tho heavenly mansions in our
“Father’s house,” which, thanks be
God, are “many.” These are provided
for all who have “fought the good fight”
aud conquered tho evil adversary, and for
the saints made perfect. There the fullness
of Jehovah’s ineffable presence will be
enjoyed forever, tbe terrific struggles of
life’s sojourn no longer affiiet the body,
and all tears shall be wiped away. Then
followed many tender admonitions aud
affectionate appeals to the sinner to turn
from the error of his ways and embrace
that salvation wrought out at the inesti
mable cost of the blood of tbe Sou f the
Most High God, and which is offered
without mouey and without price.
Before concluding, Dr. Battle toadied
upon the “heavenly recognition” as infi
mated, if not expressly laid down, iu the
scriptures. •
He firmly believes that we shall know,
and be known by tho loved ones who
have preceded us to the mansions above
and cited many passages from tlie Bible
in support of that opinion, notably, tlie
case of David, who, while Ids sick child
still lived, clad himself in sackcloth, and
out of the dust of Ids humiliation plead
that be might be spared to him. But when
tbe spirit had taken its flight from tho
form of tho cherished infant, to the sur
prise of his household he washed and
shaved himself, again put on his kiugly
-robes and exclaimed: “While tbo child
was yet alive I fasted and wept, for I sail 1 ,
who can tell whether God will be gra
cions to me that the child may live ?
But now he is dead, wherefore should 1
fast? CanlbriDg him back again?
shall go to him, but he shall uot return to
me.”
This was regarded as clearly showing
that Israel’s king, the “man after God’s
own heart,” believed that ho would bo re
united to bis dear boy iu heaven again
and there recognize him and enjoy his
precious presence forever. This belief is,
at least, very comforting to tbo bereaved
on earth. The closing passages of the dis
course, which were touching and truly
eloquent, were delivered with an emphasis
and solemnity that deeply impressed all
present.
Tho abovo does uot purport, in tbe ab
sence of any notes whatever, to even skel
etonize the able sermon of President
Battle. It is simply a feeble description
of some of the ideas which were graphi
cally delineated by the speaker.
We trust that it will not bo long before
he will again consent to take his turn in
ministering Iu holy things to those who
are wont on Sabbath evenings to worship
together in tbe Vineville Union church.
Barsrlmm Soear Again.
Several weeks ago wo called attention
to the experiments of M. LeDuc, at
Washington, under the auspices of the
government, in making and refiuingsugar
from thirty-six varieties of the sorghum
cane. The results were eminently suc
cessful, and now it turns ont that even
before the official report of the commis
sioner of agriculture was made public, tbe
manufacture of crystallized sugar in tlie
States of Wisconsin, Illinois and Minne
sota had become quite general. As yet,
however, tbe reports do not Indicate that
the business bss proved very profitable,
but it is thought that the difficulties in tlie
way can and will be removed so as to make
of it a success.
Dr. James Wilhelm, of Faribault, Min
nesota, in response to a letter of Governor
Pillsbnry, of that State, has published a
pamphlet on tbo subject of tlie manufac
ture ofsoigbnm sugar, which is thus
summarized by tbe New York Bulletin:
The Increase of labor and capital In tlie
development of this business is quite
marked, though, as usual in tbe cultiva
tion of new industries, it has from time to
time encountered serious discouragements.
Ill Minnesota, the cane matures by the
lest week in August, if propeily cultivat
ed. A frost does not injure it unless it is
quite green, but when near maturity no
bad effects are perceptible. Very little
sugar makes lU appearance until after tlie
seed bead comes to maturity. Samples
taken August 23d from cane on which
seed had formed, but with no milk, polar
ized 7.3 per cent, cane sugar, with 4.3
grape sugar, 85.5 water, 1.9 orgauic mat-
Ur. Another, taken August 27th, gave
11.8 per cent, cane sugar, 8.20 grape sugar.
Tbe result of tbs work tlie past season at
“Tbe lowest polarization during the
past season was 0.5; the highest, 15.0.
The highest Beaume test was 10 degrees
and the lowest five degrees. Our working
average was six degrees Beaume. Our
working average by polarization was 9
per cent. Tbe cane we worked at tbe re
finery was grown by twenty or twenty-five
different fanners. Some was well culti
vated aud harvested at the proper time;
others, on a haphazard scale; hence the
nonconformity in chemical analysis. Ow
ing to the limited room in our building,
we could not run our whole cane crop into
sugar, but tbe amount placed into vats for
granulation turned out remarkably well.
As a result, we obtained over six pounds
to the gallon of beautiful clarified yellow
sugar, with a firm, large crystal and en
tirely free from gum and foreign mat
ter.”
An estimate of the cost of production of
this cane is furnished from an accurate
account kept by Ur. Charles Euetis, of
Foit Atkinson, Wis.. who had In forty
acres. Tlie cost of raising one acre is set
down at $1L Tbe expanse of reducing
the juice to syrup in a fire evaporator was
14 to 15 cents per gallon, the syrup aver
aging 150 gallons per acre, equal to 180
gallons for tho use of the refiner for so
gar making. This would make tho pro.
ductiou of sugar per acre, according to tlie
average of the Faribault refinery, 1,080
pounds per acre. If these figures are any
where near correct, tho cost of the sugar
would seem to be about 2J cents per
pouud, plus tbe value of tbe services ot
tlie refiner, which would scarcely exceed
li cents, with the syrup residue to offset.
At 25 cents per gallon for the syrup as it
came from the evaporator, there’ would
havo been a uet profit of SIS per aero.
These figures are certainly satisfactory
so mnch so indeed as to have attracted
the attention and aroused the fears of the
Louisiana sugar planters. The Picayune
says:
If this material ■ for sugar-making can
be made a success in the West, it opens
up a competition that will be seriously
felt. It would seem, also, that if a sugar
bearing cane coming to maturity sufficient*
Iy early for taking off the crop so far north
could he secured, our planters would do
well to experiment iu that direction them
selves.
But the preponderance in any event
greatly in favor of tho Cuban or Otaheite
cane. The latter will yield manifold
more sugar to the acre than the best sor
ghum or amber cane, aud possesses supe
rior saccharine qualities. Besides, the
Louisiana men enjoy tlie advantages of
“protection,” and Lave nothing to fear,
therefore, from sorghum competition.
We wish success to tho growers of both
kinds of sugar and syrup. The cheapen
ing of this prime article of food, which
used in so many ways alike by tho rich
aud poor, would be a great benefaction to
tlie whole world.
The Bayard Controver.y
Referred to in a Sunday telegram will
find explanation in the following:
Philadelphia, December 10.—In
speech at Dover during the presidential
campaign Senator Bayard, alter assailing
the present tariff system and the arbitrary
power it vests in special agents of the
treasury, cited the case of Phelps, Dodge
& Co., who were compelled, some years
ago, to refund to the government the
amount of duties unpaid on certain under
valued invoices. The amount so refunded
it was stated, was $207,000. Mr. Bayart
was reported as having described ilia
scene iu the custom-house when this im
mense sum was turned over to the govern
ment officials as follows:
“When that interview took place very
distinguished gentiemeu were present, the
senior Senator from New York, among
others, Mr. Conkling; also Mr. Noali Da
vis, tbe district attorney; Mr. Arthur, the
collector; Mr. Jayne, tlie spy or special
S ent, they called him; all were present.
r. Boutwcll, that distinguished financier
who was secretary of tlie treasury, was
there also, and they all stood around this
unhappy merchant, who had given his
$25,009 subscription to Gen. Grant. This
president ot the Young Men’s Christian
Association, this member of the Union
League, and this president of the Cham
her of Commerce, lie thought alf that
would protect him. Not much — not
much. They took troro that man's pock
et in one sum $207,000 in money, and
they divided it among themselves. [Great
laughter.] Gentlemen, this is no exag
geration or figure of speech. There it
stands upon the record, and I want to tell
yon it is a thing of which I have knowl
edge and means of knowledge.”
Keferriug to this maltor and quoting an
editorial from the Philadelphia Press call
ing Senatoi Bayard to account, Secretary
Boutuell, Vice-Presldent-cIect Arthur,
Senator Conkling aud Judge Noah Davis
have addressed tlie following joint letter
to the Press, and it will bo priuteil in
that journal to-morrow:
u To the Editor of the Press: In your
issue of Uctober29, 1880, we fiud the fol
lowing editorial. [Here the editorial em
bodying the above quotation from Senator
Bayard’s alleged speech is given iu full.]
A month has now elapsed since you thus
published and characterized tllis reported
utterance. The State Sentinel, a liewspa-
par published at Dover,the place where the
speech is said to have been made,contained,
only one day later thau your issue, a like
report, yet up to this time no disclaimer
or retraction by or on behalf ot T. F.
Bayard has appeared, as far as we know.
We think it time to notice so serious s
slander purporting to come from a mem
ber of the Senate of the United States.
We therefore prouounce the statement,
by whomsoever made, a truthless calum
ny. If it was made with the assertion
that the man who made it had 'knowledge
and means of knowledge’ of its truth,
besides being a falsehood, it was a’wiilful
aud wicked falsehood.
“Geo. S. Boutwell,
“C. A. Arthur,
“Roscoe Conkling,
“Noah Davis.
“New York, November 29,1880.”
Tub Panama Canal.—A Paris dis
patch of Saturday says that tbe applica
tions for Panama canal shares In Europe
render necessary a reduction of allolmeut
to one-third of the demauds. A dispatch
from Paris to the Times says there have
been over 1,200,000 applications for Pan
ama canal shares. Five hundred aud
ninety thousand shares were offered,
John Kelly, the Tammany chieftain,
lost his office of comptroller of public
accounts for New York City ou Friday
last, and Allan Campbell, a Scotch Demo
crat born in Albany, was confirmed as the
incumbent. There was great excitement
In the city over tbe result, and tbe Her•
aid did uot dissolve iu tears on account
of it.
An Inauguration Fuss.—According
to Sunday’s New York Tribune, Springer,
of Illinois, threatens, if tbe House defeats
the electoral couut resolution by fill
blistering, tbe Democrats will defeat the
count of tbe electoral vote by persistently
leaving tlie joint session without a quo
rum—that is to say, they will absent
themselves. Springer is one of those gen
tlemen, perhaps, who never heard that
two wrongs cannot make a right nor a
remedy. The road of the Democratic
party to public coufhlence, if they are
ever to win it, must be through such a
persistent and. unflinching adherence to
right, no matter what wrongs the Radi
cals do or attempt to do, that their own
conduct shall be unassailable ou auy
grounds. Iu all the dreary waste of fraud
aud dickering aflbrded by American poli
tics, there la but one path which holds tbe
least promise of success to Democracy, and
that is the strait and narrow one of self-
evident rectitude. No matter what tbe
Radicals may do or threaten to do, the
the Faribault refinery is summarized as on ^ care of Democrats should be to do
\ follows; rght.
Tlie Irish Complication.
It is admitted in the London telegrams
of Monday that a cabinet meeting is to be
called, with small prospect of agreement
on an Irish policy—a part of tbe cabinet
being irreconcilably opposed to coercive
measures, and another part insisting upon
them or upon retiring from their bureaus
In such a condition of affairs any cabi
net agreement would necessarily be a com
promise, which would be fatal; for it
would aggravate Irish hostility without
providing efficient measures to hold it in
check. This is the most certain means of
kindling the excitement into a devastating
flame, which would at once precipitate
greet military catastrophe upon the Em
pirc, and tax its energies of - force to the
ver> utmost. When the conflagration gets
an apparent mastery, then all nice choice
of means for extinguishment is lost, and
the clamor rises for everythrng and any
thing—all that is available to quench the
flames.
This seems to be tho political augury
just now. The failure to provide force is
a confession of weakuess which will
strengthen the rebellion; aud, on tbe
other hand, if it be provided by a crippled
ana conflicting cabinet, tho provision will
only amount to further irritation—for if
force is to be used, bumauily and policy
alike demand that it shall be overwhelm'
ing.
The probable outcome will be a rup
turo of tlie Gladstone cabinet, and the re
turn of tbo Conservatives to power; but
this will involve a delay and uncertainty
most injurious to the Union cause, and
likely to aggravate largely the expend!
ture of treasure and blood in domiug to
solution of tho controversy. Every day
add3 to the menace of the situation; and
assuming, as we feel compelled to do,
that tho only possible solution must be
the reduction of Ireland, hope all centres
in reaching It with the least possible cost
of life, property and human suffering. It
is easy to see that tho Gladstone ministry
is displaying a fatal incapacity to deal
with the situation.
The business inanaeer of the Tele
graph and Messenger and his family
have bccu severely afflicted iu the death of
their first born, Orrin Howes Davis, a re
markably beautiful boy of three years
and two months of age. The little fellow
was taken ill about tea days ago of a dis
order which puzzled the medical faculty,
attended by partial and deepening into
general paralysis, under which he expired
about 12 o’clock Monday night, and is to
buried from the family residence at 10
o’clock this morning. None but a parent
can appreciate the agony of seeing the
guileless Innocent perish iu agony before
his eyes, and calliug for help which mortal
arm is powerless to render; but it is consol
ing to know that “of such is tho kingdom of
Heaven.” May God sauctify this afflic
tion to the strickcu parents, with whom
all sympathize. J. C.
The National House of Represent*
tires.
Should It re Increased In Number.
The Boston Herald thinks there
likely to b i considerable discussion over
the apportionment of the House of Rep
resentatives, In accordance with tho re
quirements of tho recently taken census.
This branch of Congress has been grad
ually enlarged, until now the number of
its members is 293. If this number is
held to, it must, of course, result in
loss of members to certain St atcs # where
tlie advance in the rate of population has
been relatively slow, and, on this ac
count, nu effort will probably be made to
so increase the membership of the House
that, while accessions are made in the
rapidly growiug States, tho others will still
be permitted to send tlie number that
they now do. In favor of such a change,
it can be urged that our popular branch
of the government is smaller than most
popular assemblies. The English House
of Commons has, when its l'sc is full, 658
members, and the French Chamber of
Deputies-is also a very laige body. But,
in spite ot these examples, it must none
the less be said that large legislative
bodies are unwieldy, and few need to be
told that we have row ail the talklug ma
terial in Congress that the most exacting
could desire! When a governing body
liko tliis has become so large that it rep
resents substantially local sentiment,
cannot be handily managed by a lobby,
and will uot act hastily, its maximum
size for serviceability has been attained.
Iu ail conscience, two hundred and
ninety-three lawgivers on" ouo floor, and
often clamoring at tho samo time to be
heard, are enough to govern the universe.
Tho question pertinently recurs, Is the
number uot too large for eflective legisla
tion ? With parties anything like cvculy
divided, “filibustering” can be resorted
to with perfect success, and to the great
detriment sometimes of tbe public inter
ests.
Speaking “against time” is now a com
mon occurrence, and calling tbo “yeas
and nays” on every motion or amend
ment, however Insignificant, furnishes an
other available expedient to stave off ac
tion in any large deliberative body.
Frequently, too, the popular branch of
our national Legislature more closely re
sembles an angry mob than a grave con
clave of statesmen assembled to consider
the weightiest questions appertaining to
tbe laws and civil government.
Why, then, add to the difficulties of tlie
situation by multiplying the membership
of tbe Hoose? Sunset Cox is about right
in saying that a reduction to 250 represen
tatives would greatly expedite the transac
tion of public business.
We hope, therefore, that instead of adding
to the size of the House under tbe appor
tionment to be made according to tbe new
census, tbe number will at least be allow
ed to remain at its present figure, by in
creasing the constituency of each member.
It would be staving of time and expense
to the country and promote the dignity
and importance of a co-ordinate branch of
the government.
Mercantile Elections.
i and cattle also, at.l in connection with In Florid i, James Ponce killed a bear
A zealous young Republican addresses “Is gin » bone crusher Is attached, which that weighed over 000 pounds. In Carter
iie New York Nation with the following is ulilizpd * >ro,luce the fertilizers whose county, Tenn., Joseph Hiiiipa killed a
bapter of his personal experience in tlie I W0lu!e -' ful eflects are so visible on every , bear weighing 400 uouhds.
the
chapter of his personal experience in the .
late Presidential election in New York: « !d ^ , . . , , 1 One shaft has been completed at the
Hospitably entertained by our genial* „~.i. • ,, , „ 1 al -
. . , . 1 b i 0041 uimes near Gordon, Tex., and twentv-
>st, who is a prince among marooners, ,„ r . , _! * , LWenty
the whole party enjoyed themselves
On election morning I went early to the
polls and stayed there all dav. i “ped
dled” Republican ballots, and watched
closely the progress of the voting and the I —-.7
methods of the workers and the poll dri-! Ceedlu ® ^’ alld returned about night.all,
vers. I discovered that upwards of 20 per ““Ightad with their visit and charmed
cent, of the votes were openly for sale. I
know that more than sixty were bought by
Republican “workers” at prices ranging
from two to five dollars each. How many
the Democratic “workers” secured by the
same means I do not know, but probably
nearly au equal number. I have since
learned that the towns in oar county each
require on an average at least $250 for the
solo purpose of buying votes on election
day, aud that this is the usual sum ex
pended in this manner. I am informed
that It cost our candidate for Congress,
in a district naturally (!) Republican, aud
who was elected by a large majority, uot
leas than $25,000 to pay his election ex
penses within the past sixty days. I find
that it would bo folly for one to aspire to
office in this county or neighborhood wiio
was not wealthy aud willing to pay liber
ally for tbe honor (1)—that wealth is al
most the sole requisite in a candidate for
any office of importance. Finally, I find
that this state of things is by no means
exceptional, but that it is precisely the
same in the adjacent counties and Con
gressional districts.
Mr. Gariiold lias been elected. The
vote of tliis State lias been decisive of the
result, and this State has given a majority
of less than 25,000. I am forced to the
belief that the use of money, in the open
purchase of votes, has gone far to bring
about this result. One would expect to
find at least some private expressiou of
condemnation for flie paiticipants in so
disgraceful a system—for those who prof
fer the bribes as well as for these who ac
cept them—but such is not the case.
Men of tho sti iciest integrity, who would
scorn a dishonorable action m any busi
ness or social matter, do not hesitate to
take an active part in this open bribery,
and they do not lose caste in the commun
ity by so doing. Their action is consid
ered a necessary part of “practical poli
tics,” and to be applauded m proportion
to their success—i. e., to the uuuiber of
votes they secure by outbidding their op
ponents.
How is it possible for any real reform
to be inaugurated with such corruption at
tlie ballot-box? How cau we expect
wise legislation wbeu our law-makers are
selected by such a process? Now, I
should be glad to devote a portion - of ray
time to political affairs in tbe interest of
good governmentsimply,but I ask: What
can 1 do? I am quite ready to lie a sub
scriber to tlie Civil Service Reform Publi
cation Society, but is that to be tbo ex
tent of my political activity? Must I
stand aside and see tbe methods of this
campaign repeated year by year, with no
effort made to change them ? My friends
ol the “machine” toil me they deplore thu
necessity for this state of affairs; they ac
knowledge that the cori option of the bal
lot-box is the root of all the evils of our
present government; they profess theoret
ically to believe in the desirability ot
civil service reform; but they say that
practically we must accept the situation
as it is—we cannot cliauge it. Are they
right? I am sir, etc., M. U.
New York, November 8th.
It is admitted that Garfield’s plurality
was aliont 3,000 votes, which, at $2.00 to
$5.00 apiece,were worth the sum-of $0,GOO
to $15,000, and turned over the revenue of
the country, amounting, in four years, to
one thousand four hundred millions to the
management of the Radicals. It was
grand and glorious investment.
-with his model farm.
Canals and Railroads.
The Eka of Speculation.
es I our more shafts are iu progress.
. One hundred and eighty-nine houses
have been destroyed at Memphis -within
two years, having beeu condemned by
the Board of Health. No compensation
was allowed. . ■ . jr
The amount paid to the eleven Presi-
The world is booming on- a spring-flood ' deu . tial * ,eclors of Georgia was $1,509.40,
Oakland Farm.
The Hobby* of our Fellow Citizen
Asher Ayres, Esq.
The writer was ono of a small party
wjio visited the pet farm of Mr. Ayres,
yesterday, situated about four miles from
the city, on the Forsyth road. The pro
prietor was along, his ample conveyance
chock full of geutlo ladies, spiced with
Episcopalian divinity.
Tbe afternoon was pleasant, resem
bling the early days of spring, aud the
roads surprisingly good, considering the
late rains and freezes.
Oakland farm is perched upon a lofty
cminence broken into sundry picturesque
ridges, all of which arc in tboliigheststale
of cultivation, as shown by tho luxuriant
cotton stalks blackened by tlie icy touch
of frost, and the fields of com and small
grain, the latter just tinging the earth
with a coating of emerald.
Tho placo gave every evidence of care
ful and judicious tillage, os manifested by
the well kept hillside ditches and plow
furrows, all deftly arranged to preveut the
inevitable washing incident to broken
laud.
Entering tho enclosure by a serpentine
roadway through stately trees of natural
growth, on-the very apex of a lofty hill
after passing sundry plats of thriving veg
etables, shrubbery and flowers, wo paused
at the rustic mansion of our Macon mill
ionaire and entered its hospitable portals.
Thence, after a brief season of rest, the
whole company sallied forth, accompanied
by onr host as guide and cicerone, to view
the premises.
He took us straight to tho sugar mill;
where the tiny hut powerfui iron rollers
expressed every drop of juice, not from the
ignoble sorghum, but the genuine Indian
cane, which, as a beverage, is botii grate
ful and refreshing, aud was partaken of
and enjoyed in its raw state, aud also in
tho form of delicious syrup Just from the
evaporator. There were no “young ones”
in the party, or doubtless a pot of “candy”
would have been improvised for their
benefit. As it was, however, several par
ents bore away sundry specimens of the
toothsome cane for their darlings at
home.
Next, escorted by Mr. Thomas, the gen
tlemanly superintendent of tho farm, we
visited the commodious aud neatly ar
ranged gin-house, where, driven by steam
power, the curious maclilue was rapidly
separating the cotton lint from the seed,
which is so valuable for its essential oil,
stock food aud fertilizing properties.
Mr. Ayres has quite a run of custom
from Lis neighbors, whore cotton he pre
pares for market. The cost of ginning a
The summer tourists are estimated to „ ag of m pounds is $2.50, and the
have left in New Hampshire last season charges for baling $1.25.
all tbe way from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000.
The sum is no donht very large, as tho
railroad receipts from this business alons
were equivalent to $000,000. Whether
two or six millions, however, there is every
reason to believe that it will be more than
doubled next year.
The Boston Advertiser says there are
assurances that a fund of $250,000 will
be secured for the Graut peusion, pro
vided New England contributes $50,000j
and if expressions of interest signify any
thing the task will not be difficult, and
that it is understood that if the present*
or any future Congress takes equivalent
action in the matter the fund will not be
called for or distributed.
A sieeting of the public creditors, of
New Orleans has been called for Decem
ber 20th to consider propositions for com
promising tlie debt, which now amount*
to a little over $15,000,000. ' ;
“Oakland Farm” embraces 105 acres, of
which 100 are in cultivation. Tbe soil,
though rolling and sandy, has a clay
foundation, aud with proper care and cul
ture, has been made quite remunerative.
In proof of this, we have only to say that
from that’ one hundred acres has been
gathered the present year thirty-two hates
of cotton, six hundred bushels ot corn,
ten barrels of syrup, besides small grain,
sweet potatoes and a perfect wealth of tlie
choicest vegetables, grapes, figs, peaches
and other fruit. We saw turnips and
beets which would grace any agricultural
exhibition. Prominent ou the grounds,
too, stands a gigantic specimen of the
“tea-scented olive,” loaded with odorifer
ous blooms, wlioso perfume can even be
distinguished by the inmates of tho pass
ing railway traius hundreds of leet distant.
The trunk of this tree (for tree it is)
would measure near two fact in diameter,
and it is more than thirty-five years old.
of a great mouey overflow. In Georgia
we are told a second railway between Ma
con and Atlanta is among the inevitables,
although the uses for it are no clearer
than tlie necessity of grease to lightning,
There is no more thau a fifth part of em
ployment for one track, and no promise
for more. On the contrary, when the
people of Augusta have opened up direc:
railway communication with Knoxville
and CInciunati, which they will shortly
do, the business of Macon, and its depend
encies with the West, is going to be done
over that line, and it will substantially in
terpose a good deal more than a third
competitor for tlie present trade over the
Macon and Western. It will control onr
coal and grain and provision transporta
tion. Cincinnati is really the best West
ern centre for the provision trade, and can
distance all rivals wheucrer she can un
derstand and use all her facilities of po
sition. Tho Augusta and KnoxYjlle con
nection is of transcendent importance to
Cincinnati and the Southern road—a fact
which the latter will he able to see iu no
great lime.
But while all these rival routes are
building, the same kind of a performance,
on a larger scale, seems to be maturing
in respect to Central America. Two in-
teroceauic canals are projected—tho De-
Lesseps Panama and tlie Grant Nicaragua
routes. Unless we assume that tlie cer
tainly of one’s success will estop the otb-
ea, aud the present Is a mere race of pre
tension for moral effect, there threatens
to be an expenditure of six hundred mil
lions on two rival projects, which could
not promise a six per cent, return on half
the cost of one. Thi3 is like the dupU-
cate railways to Atlanta, on a larger scale,
Tho latter contemplates throwing away
two millions, and the foraier three hun
dred millions, with no use for more than
the iiitli part of their capacity of either
line.]
The world U agog and crazy over joint
stock enterprises, which almost necessari
ly take the form of railways and canals.
The craze is due to tbe cheapness of
money and low iuterest afforded by all
productive enterprises. Now a railway,
or a canal adds nothing to the wealth of
the world, unless it Is an essential artery
of trade communication. As such it can
make returns on the investment and be
valuable as properly, but otherwise it
necessarily ofles3 than no value, because
it is an expense to its holders.
The general situation seems to be this
The multiplicity of the mechanical
aids to production has increased the
general range of supplies far beyond
the demands for consumption. There
is nothing in the world of produce or
manufactures which docs not present
surplus, aud there is an equal surplusage
of the earnings of labor in the form of
capital. These being the conditions, the
rage for speculation can bo understood.
That speculation, iu trade, manifests
itself in constant efforts to manipulate the
surplus of produce and manufactures so as
to produce local and artificial scarcities—
to create abnormal demands and make
money by supplying them. These opera
tions are calle£, in speculative parlance,
“comers,” and trade, in its utmost range,
is full of them.
What is to be the final outcome of such
a situation is an enquiry which opens
world oT thought and conjecture. But the
fact cannot he doubted that tbe constant
improvements in tlie modes and means of
human labor, which mnltiply its efficleu
cy, as 13 said, about 700 fold in many de
partments, have, as a matter of fact,
placed its productive power almost inimi
tably ahead of its necessities, and still the
process goes on,
Taking an elementary view of the mat
ter, ono would say the labor of the ma
chine slave, so much more rapid and
efficacious, should correspondingly lift
the burden off of human labor, and make
life more easy and abundant. It does, to
some extent, but notin an equal ratio,
The natural operation of the laws of
supply and demand is almost wholly sup
planted by human artifices, so that in the
midst of great supplies, the prices of
scarcity are made to rule.
But, aside from speculations to fix arti-
clal prices in trade, the other almost
single resource for the surplusage of capi
tal is operations In stock, looking primarily
to aud increasing the facilities for moving
the surplusage of produoe. In ancient
times, the llule surplusage accumulable
irom unaided labor, was liable to constant
destruction through local famines; but
the day of famines which can seriously
disti ess civilized nations has passed. The
facilities of transportation are now too
great, and accumulations are every year
increasingly vast. The whole world is
now operating under new circumstances
and conditions—demanding the applica
tion of new rules and principles. Tbe
laws and necessities of an advanced
civilization are yet to be developed in a de
gree correspondent with the necessities of
the situation.
EMia ration as a nations! evil is sore’y
troubling Italian statesmen. Statistics
prove to us that 1,108,090 emigrants left
their overtaxed country between 1868 ana
1878, having previously obtained certifi
cates from the Government, whereas an
unknown number annually depart with
out letting the Government know. And
of these it is estimated that one-quarter
go away with the determination never to
return. The largest ‘contingent is sup
plied by the province of Venice, the next
by Genoa, aud the third by Lombardy,
apparently in exact ratio to their foraier
prosperity.
It has been determined by the authori
ties at Washington to establish a military
post at what are called tbe Arsenal
Grounds in that city, and to that end ail
the old material with which the place is
now lumbered up is being removed to
other cities. The public will fiud it dif
ficult to understand why the capital
should be provided with an establishment
of this kind. There is no danger of a
second invasion by Great Britain, and all
peace on the other side of the Potomoc.
It military posts are required anywhere
which includes $1,000 clerk hire. The
mileage allowed is forty cents for each
mile actually traveled.
Maine stone merchants get the con
tract for the 40,000 square feet of granite
blocks for the Washington monument.
The present appropriations will carry tho
monument 224 ieet front the ground.
PEorLE are begging iu Chicago and
elsewhare for relief lor “bleeding Kan
sas” again. They assert that 100,000 peo
ple in the western part of the State are
starvlng ou account of the failure ofcrop9.
There is a State Aid Society,but the organi
zation is charged with stealing half tho
funds which come into its bands. It ap
pears tlikt Kansas can not be a very good
place for Southern negroes to emigrate
to.
In China “a woman killing her husbaui
receives ,ling chi’—cutting into ten
thousand slices—and lier paramour is
beheaded. She is bound hand aud foot
to two pieces of wood in the form of a
St. Andrew’s cross. The two executioners
with sharp knives commence Work by
slitting the flesh at the wrists, and then
slice the flesh over all parts of the body,
except the face. The finishing stroke is
one lunge of the knife into tho breast,
while the assistant tears out the heart of
the unfortunate ,wretch.”
Fat Makes Hens Lay.—The Rural
Home says: There is much refuse fat
from tlie kitchen that can be turned to
good account by feeding to tbo hens. Of
course where soap is made it will be used
in that way, but it is a question whether
It is not easier and more profitable to buy
soap and make tbe bens lay by fcediig
them with fat. Everything that is not
wanted for drippiugs for cooking purposes
should be boiled up with vegetables for
the fowls.
Only* thirty Iron vessels were built in
the United States last year, and nearly
all these at Philadelphia and Wilmington,
with one or two exceptions, for the coast-
jng trade. ’ This is not a brilliant record
for a great country iike this, aud the ship
building is decreasing every year. Tho
laws to “protect American industry” are
tho cause of this disgraceful condition (f
affairs, as admitted by the late Nat. Mc
Kay, one of the largest ship-yard proprie
tors in the country.
The apparent success of the Panama
Canal subscription in Europe, sap tho
World, is but one oi many things which
illustrate the enormous accumulation of
capital seeking investment at the great
fiuancul centres of Uic Old World.
Thirty millions of dollars were last week
subscribed in two days for a railway be
tween Hull aud Barnsley in England,
only fifteen millions being asked for, and
Mr. Jennings cables us to-day that all
solid American securities arc now anx
iously looked for aud taken up in tho
London market.
Awe-struck nr American Prosper
ity.—The London correspondent of tho
IForfd says M. de Lcsseps canal schema
meets with little or no support here, hut
all American securities are sought for
more eagerly thau ever before, iu conse
quence of the official reports concerning
tbe flourishing condition of the Union
that havo been made public dui ing the
week. The Spectator declares that
“America excites the half-awe-struck
admiration of the world at her material
prosperity.” Every body who has any
money at all now holds some American
securities.
A sea leopard was killed in Great Bay,
New Hampshire, recently by two men.
One of them saw it oil a piece of floating
ice, nearly a mile distaut. ne took a
small sculling boat and gave chase, emp
tying the contents of a double-barrel
shot-gun into its body near tbe nock.
WUh open jaws, it mado for tbe boat,
tearing pieces from it with its teeth,
trying to overturn It. The gun was empty
and they had no chance to retaliate.
The water was crimson with gore. Shute
and his companion, with an oar aud clnb,
managed to keep it clear of the boat for i
about twenty minutes, when it died
through loss of blood and was towed
ashore.
A Great decline in Stalks.—Tho
New York Post of Saturday says that
Jay Gould’s conservatory at Irvington,
on tbe Hudson, was burned this morning.
The loss is said to be about $ICO,000.
This green-house was the largest in the
country, and was filled with the rarest
and most valuable plants, exotics and
ferns. Many were imported at great ex
pense aud some could not he equaled in
the United States. The collection of
tropical plants alone could not be equal
ed in this latitude. There were other
plants that were brought here from all
parts of the world aud the cost of expor
tation alone was sufficient to maintain
an average sized green-house for years.
“Conkling’8 interested in Garfield
Just now,” said Mr. Foster. “He took %
sudden interest in Garfield just after the
Maine election. He was fishing at the
time, if yon remember. It reminded mo
of the old negro fishing at the doJcs at
the foot of Christopher street. There-
were several little colored boys pitying
around him, and one of them fell over
board. The old man dropped his line and
pitched after him, as Conkling pitched
after Garfield. He came to the surface
with the little negro iu his arms, just as
Conkling came to the surface after tbo
Indiana election, with Garfield in bis
arms, and the people on the dock threw
them a line. When they were hauled out
everybody praised the old blackamoor
ft r Ills heroism. ‘Is the little fellow your
•on?’ wked a bystander. ’No,’ the old
man rep-ied. ‘Ob, I didn’t know but what
ho waa,’ the enquirer observed, ‘because-
you pitched after him so quick.’ The old
negro opened his eyes. ‘Why.de Lord bless
you, man!’ be said, Sle boy bad ail do
bait in his pocket.” And that waswhal waw
the matter with Conkling. Garfield hsd
all tbe bait in his pocket.”
Mm p. T. Babxum, the show man, con
tinues seriously ill in New York, bis
condition causing anxiety to his frisnda.
is out on tbe frontier, where Sitting His illness is a gastric difficulty, and ha
Bull and other native American warriors ha* been unable to retain food.
Mr. Ayres has some very superior hogs ' take periodically to the war-path. {
