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Eighty-five ships, with 8,843 emi
grants, left the Mersey In November. 7,-
918 chine to the United States.
A thousand persons, mostly women,
are employed In engraving and printing
Oovemmant money and bank notes at
Washington. They are so strictly watch
ed during work hours that they look upon
themselves then as prisoners.
Hereafter, no married woman is to
be employed as a teacher In the schools
of Cincinnati. The samo regulation has
been adopted in Chicago, St. Louis and
the East. The reason given is a delicate
one, hardly proper for newspaper men
tion.
. As an encouragement to immigration,
the Legislature of South Carolina has
passed a law exempting immigrants in
to that State from taxation for three
years.
The States that have increased most
rapidly in populatian during the past ten
years are Colorado, 389.82 per cent.; Ne
braska, 207.83; Kansas, 173.14; Oregon,
92.22; Texas, 91.24.
The project of an elevated railroad in
Boston is hindered by the great cost of a
right of way. The city will not give up
street without a provision for full com
pensation to property owners. The same
view of the question is taken in St. Louis.
A correspondent tell a story about a
Baltimore girl whose mother transformed
her from a biunette to a blonde to tnarry
ber to a young man only to see hrr die
within a year after her marriage of an
eruption brought on by the substance used
in coloring her hair.
Thx expenses of Government printing
for thr»:uirent fiscal year are over $2,000,-
OOO, *ue Congressional Record alone
costing about $130,000. The Agricultu
ral Bureau’s printing cost about $230,000,
and lithographing and engraving, $140,-
000.
The New York Telegram, says a society
lady of Baltimore, Mrs. George W. Uer-
tings, will receive with her sister in that
city. This lady's costume was made by
AVorth. The roatcrialsare maroon velvet
and embossed silk of the same shade.
She will wear upon this occasion $30,000
worth of diamonds.
A Pretty Dear Vote The Wash
ington Star says: (Jen. McDowell has
been rewarded for having come from the
Pacific coast to New York to vote for Gar
field, hut bis vote cost the Government
about $1,200. He got an order from the
War Department for himself and atde-
de-Camp to come East, and under that
order both of them drew their regular
mileage and allowances, amounting to
about $1,200.
The Blackfcet, Blood, and Piegan In
dians on the northern border of Montana
are said to be abandoning their savage
life aud settling down iu ways of peace
and civilization. The Helena Indepen
dent reports that forty heads of families
have built log cabins and are cultivating
small farms, potatoes, turnips and carrots
being their favorite crops. AH of the
labor done at the agency during the past
three years in the way ot cutting and
banling firewood, putting in crops and
building fences, has been performed by
the Indians. Their children attend school,
and seem very fond of it, and some read
and show creditable attainments ^arith
metic.
The Chicago Time* prays the people to
cease talking about Boston as though it
Was the centre of a Puritan aristocracy,
since, in fact, there are fewer descendants
Of the Pilgrims in Boston than in New
York, the only city which really celebrates
Forefathers’ day. Boston, in fact is an
Irish city-one of the largest Irish cities
in the world. Like the Puritan, the Irish
Came over, bat he didn’t come over in the
Mayflower. The Plymonth stock is scat
tered throughout the Northern States of
the Union, and, owing to its loss of hardy]
vlrtne, is fast disappearing. In Boston it
may influence Beacon street, but it cannot
carry an election. The Irish and their
progeny, coming thick and fast, have taken
possession of the Massachusetts capital.
Boston is no longer the modem Athens.
It is the latter-day Tara.
The dress worn by Flora Sharon when
married to Sir Thomas Hesketh at San
Francisco is described as follows; “It
was of a new style of silk, known as the
gros de tour, the skirt being one solid
mass of embroidery, wrought upon white
satin with beads, crystal, and pearls of
the very best description, tho pattern for
Which was copied from a painting of an
old court robe now hanging in the gallery
of the Louvre, in Paris. Down the side
of this embroidered front piece were pan
els of point d’Angleterre lace, 15 inches
wide, with reverse of the pearl embroi
dery. The deim-sleevcs were finished
with a fall of the same rich lace about
2) inches wide, and above it a band of
embroidery; hut the crowning feature of
the robe was the rich piece of lace (also
point d’Angleterre, and the same width
as the lace panels), which commenced at
the point of the body in front, was carried
gracefully over the hips, and met in the
back, falling over the entire train and
reaching to the bottom of it in two broad
Waves, being canght to the gown with
bunches of white flowers.”
IsTEROMANIC CANAL SCHEMES Al
though there has been an immense deal
of talk and oceans of ink expended on the
subject of the interocearic canal schemes,
says the Baltimore Sun, and although sub
scription lists liAte been opened both in
the United States and in Europe in behalf
of sine or the other project In this connec
tion, shrewd observers here have not real
ly aay idea that a canal across the isth
mus will be built in their day or genera
tion. There are well-founded doubts sj
to whether any measure incorporating s
company to build the canal would oi
could be framed in such terms as to meet
the approval of Congress. It is certain,
or seems to be certain, that no govern
ment subsidy can be calculated on for
such a work, and experience shows that
private capital, while available for enter
prises secure of paying a low rate of inter
est, is not disposed to run much risk.
The day has gone by when people who
h«ve;«aney to invest e gulled by
gUtlertac paper prospectuses,
The Eastern Question.
The telegrams of the 2d from Greece
open every prospect for a war-struggle
between Turkey and that little kingdom.
The people of Greece have become so in
flamed on the subject of the acquisition of
Thessaly and Epirus, according to the
terras of the Berlin treaty, that they are
uncontrollable. The proposition for an
arbitration of the controversy is scouted
at. The clamor for the dread alternative
of war is fierce and unanimous. The
struggle between two such powers as
Greece and Turkey, of itself, * would be
no great matter, but it is conceded that it
must inevitably involve the allied powers
themselves, in which event no man can
antic'pate the end or foresee what it will
lead to. That it will probably result in
closing up the accounts of “Turkey In
Europe,” aud a partition of the territory
seems very probable.
An “Active Capital.”
New York has a capital building which
has cost twelve or fifteen millions of dol
lars, but it is now solemnly declared rests
upon quicksand, and sooner or later will
slide into the Hudson river with the hill
on which it stands. The Albany cor
respondent of the World tells this alarm
ing story:
The underlying rock here Is what is
known as Hudson river shale. Above
tills are sand, gravel and clay beds ex
tending from the top of the various hills
hereabout to a depth of from fiity to a
hundred or more feet. The city is in
durated by carbonate of lime, and some
of it is very fine and saponaceous. In
digging for the foundation of the new
capital the workmen came upon quick
sand, aud in order to have any kind of
solidity at tin base of the mammoth
structure a floor of cement was laid equal
in extent to the whole of the building
and from five to ten feet deep.
The soil composing Capital Hill is of
the sliding kind. When it becomes per
fectly saturated with water it resolves
into wliat geologists term “liquid quick
sand.” Tho constant ooziug of water
from tills deposit undermines tho hills,
which often slide off, the whole constitut
ing a moving mass saturated with water.
These slides most frequently occur in the
spring when tho frost leaves the soil,
though they occasionally take placo in
summer after powerful rains.
There is scarcely a building in Albany
which does not show signs of this phe
nomenon by large cracks extending irom
top to bottom. Judge Araasa J. Parker
once had a barn which kept thus cracking
and sliding down bill until he had to de
molish it altogetherand erect a new one
n its place. Not unfrequently whole
irows of buildings have siidden into utter
ruin in this city, owing to the shaky na
ture of the earth uuder their foundations.
Close examination will convince the
most skeptical that it is only a question of
time about the new capital removing from
its present site and depositing itself in the
Hudson. Even now the entire hill upon
whicli it tests is evidently in motion to
wards the river, and of course no excava
tion or fixture could be made permanent
on such a foundation. This sliding effect
may be hastened at any time by a severe
storm wetting the materia! deeply and
giving it greatly increased weight, besides
loosening its attachment to the more solid
mass below, to-wit: the scale. The slid
ing down a declivity to the plain below of
a body of earth is precipitated when a
heavy substance, as the new capital, rests
on a clayey or sandy layer, and the latter
becomes wet, thus causing the upper lay
er, or the building, on its concrete base, to
slide down on the softened bed. When
tlds lower layer or deposit becomes thus
softened by percolating water it will be
pressed out laterally by the weight of the
superincumbent structure, and then the
Albany people will b < compelled to let
their new capital slide. We have here all
tiie conditions ripe for a gigantic slide.
There is ample chance for the wet layer
or quicksand to move or escape laterally,
and some day it will move out witii ter
rific force and destructiveness. The rav
ines whicli interspect the Hudson at this
point have been cut by the action of wa
ter upon the alluvial soil, and materials
are almost cveiy day sliding down in
small masses into these chasms. Many
cracks may be seen in the hill-sides aud
the earth is liable to slip at any moment
after a prolanged rain. When the new
Capitol starts down hill great destruction
will ensue, as the streets below are dense
ly settled.
New York (city and State) is filled with
a wise, wealthy and sagacious people,
and yet one may roam the round globe
over and never light upon a spot contain
ing so many melancholy illustrations of
waste, fraud, and misjudgment in build
ing. They know exactly how not to
build safely and economically, and their
new capital, which was to be the grandest
fabric in America, is going to be the most
conspicuous monument of human failure.
At last accounts engineers were employed
on a careful survey to ascertain how much
the building had moved, and the walls
deflected from perpendicular. But with
ten feet of solid masonry to stand on, the
house should slide down whole until it
touches the bottom.
Progressive America.
Early Skatixo Experiences.
Yesterday, in bis almost abortive and
decidedly ticklish attempts to perambu
late the ice-encrusted streets, the writer
beheld a spectacle which has probably
never been witnessed before in the annals
of the so-called “sunny South.”
It was nothing more or less than a liny
sleigh, which bad doubtless been ab
stracted from the realms of Queen Mab
its petite occupant, a crowiDg, kicking
babe, whose cheeks were red as peonies
and redolent of health and pleasure.
The unique vehicle was propelled by
the delighted young parents, paler familia*
in harness and mamma alternately push
ing and kissing their darling. Crunching
under foot the frozen snow, and ever and
anon narrowly escaping the loss of the
‘perpendicular,” the little voyager, well
wrapped and strapped to his elfin equip-
age, right joyously did that happy couple
face the wintry atmosphere, in their glee
utterly oblivious to the arctic surround
ings.
It was a pleasing sight, well calcnlated
to thaw the heart of the most incorrigible
and iron-clad bachelor, and tho writer,
yielding to his constitutional weakness for
children, paused to kiss over and over
again those downy little cheeks, through
which the lifeblood mantled and flowed,
like a rivulet of carnation circulating be
neath a transparent shield of alabaster.
May that dear babe never lack the cheer
and support of hands and hearts less ten
der and true than those which guided him
so deftly in his first snow ride.
But what next ? When infants of two
or three spans’ length only go sleigh rid
ing, we may soon expect to see the utter
disappearance of the “blessed baby,” and
little men and women will be bqrn ready
made, and prepared to grasp the reins of
government forthwith. Talk of this
not being an age of “kiting” progress?
Old people, step off and out, and clear the
track for the “young ’uns.”
Appeal fob the Dutch.—The gov
ernment and people of Holland are now
arranging to make a solemn appeal to the
Britons to permit the independence of the
Boers in the Transvaal, bnt there is small
chance of an affirmative answer. The
rage for territorial acquisition and colo
nial dependencies is the-crowning passion
of. Great Britain.
Mew Tear Fete*.
Receiving Under Difficulties—A
Magnificent Entertainment.
Pleasure seekers, and those who bad so
elaborately prepared to minister to the
happiness of their visitors on New Year’s
night, were doomed to disappointment on
account of the almost insurmountable
blockade imposed by the slippery, snow-
covered streets, and the heartless—no, not
heartless—but.(paradoxical as it may ap
pear) tender obduracy of tho liTery stable
men. The latter canceled all their car
riage contracts and left the uohby young
gentlemen, with their graceful “swallow
tails, dainty gloves and immaculate cravats
shivering in the cold, hopeless and forlorn.
Very few, save the “engaged,” who would
face brimstone or an Alpine avalanche
alike for a sight of their “particular stars,”
dared brave the weather on such a night.
As a consequence, there was comparative
ly but little “calling” done.
Tills deponent limited his Arctic ex
plorations to the hospitable mansion of
Mrs. J. S. Schofield, which happily was
safely reached, maugre the lack of
Esquimaux dogs and sled. We found the
elegant dwelling ablaze with light and
insido a noble exemplification of the
warmth, good cheer and genial hospitality
for whicli Southern homes are so famous.
The lady of the house was brilliantly
supported by Mrs. Thomas Hardeman,
Jr., Mrs. Dr. Holt, Mrs. J. L. Hardeman,
Miss Sailie Lumsden, Miss Ida Holt and
Miss Margie Allen, of Alabama.
The toilets of the receiving ladles were
elegant, the hostess, Mrs. Schofield, being
arrayed in the richest black velyet, and
Misses Holt anu Allen appearing in pale
blue dresses of silk brocade, most tastily
trimmed and almost precisely similar.
Kind speeches, well spiced with witty
sallies, went circling round, and under the
genial inspiration of the hour the rigors of
the season were entirely forgotten. In
regard to the refreshment part of the pro
gramme, it is cnougii to known that Mrs.
Col. Hardeman. Mrs. Dr. Holt and Mrs.
Schofield were concerned In its prepara
tion, and they fairly excelled themselves
on this occasion. Tho viands were all
that the most hypercritical epicure could
desire, and their arrangement the very
perfection of taste.
In tho midst of the entertainment, a
welcome visitor appeared in the person of
Mr. Ed. Schofield, a son of our host, who
had just arrived from Boston. He lound
a feast much better than that of the Prod
igals fatted calf awaiting him, and no sins
of a like character to he coufesscd and
condoned. It was a joyous re-union.
On the whole, therefore, we have no
reason to complain of the New Year re
ceptions, or at least of the only one we
were privileged to attend. It was delight
ful and recherche in every respect, and the
inclement and freezing atmosphere which
without seemed to draw closer together
those who had braved the elements that
they might participate in this pleasant
social re-uninn.
The German Jew-phobia.
Many of our readers would like an ex
planation of this sudden and mad out
break of race hostility to the Jews in Ger
many, which lias not only disgraced the
mob, but has been disgracefully exhibited
in the Imperial Parliament itself. We
cau give no reason for such an extraordi
nary outbreak of mediaeval race hostility.
In Berlin, on Monday last, the Hebrew
population were mobbed, stoned and pur
sued like hounds, principally, as was
stated, by uulversity students; and the
police were powerless to control the riot
ers. Such an exhibition belongs to a past
age—the age of the crusaders, when few
could read even among priests and nobles.
But here in Germany, the headquarters of
literature and science—the vanguard of
civilization—at a time when all the rest of
the world is proclaiming the univer
sal brotherhood and equality of man
as the crowning triumph of civilization—
when the dogma of “no distinction on ac
count of race or color” is thought so grand
and important that it must be incorporat
ed into the organic law, all at once Ger
many breaks out into this rabies, which
has no other foundation than race descent
and would exterminate a people for being
bora Hebrews. And this at a time when
the Jews, as a people, are universally else
where assuming a more elevated and in
fluential position in the business, politics,
literature and science of the world. It
certainly demauds explanation. On tho
face it is highly discreditable to the Ger
man people, of whom the Jews constitute
a large portion, and have contributed no
small share to the elevation of the nation
al character.
Christmas Too Much.—The chances
seem to be about even, when a lady goes
Christmas shopping In New York or
Boston, that she will spend the night in
the calaboose—if her friends do not live
near enough to get out a writ of habeas
corpus before sundown. Strangers stand
no chance without a passport and a certi
ficate of respectability from the city clerk.
The Public Debt.—To impose \>n a
single generation of the American people
the task of fighting through a great war,
and then paying all the expense of it out
of their own earnings, is not statesman
ship so mnch as It is cruelly. It is not
the suggestion of patriotism, bat ot a
miserably mistaken greed, whicli rests
business prosperity on the idea of com
pelling the fifty millions of the American
people to bny all their supplies at home
through the operation of a heavy tax on
foreign goods. In spite of the enormous
waste of our government, and the vast ex
penditures for pensions, all of which come
out of this generation, and the wild ex
penditures for internal improvements
which come oat of the earnings of labor,
the payments on the principal of the pub
lic debt run from six to ten millions a
month, which will extinguish the debt In
less thau twenty years, although It Is all
needed as an avenue of safe investment
for the people. Tho rapidity of this
movement is not consistent with a sound
currency or sound financial policy, so far
as the people are concerned. It is a rough,
madcap policy -terribly bard on tax
payers, aud doing nobody good at this
time.
Illustrated Pacific Press. —By
chance a copy of this superb publication
fell into our hands. It is a sixteen-page
paper, the same size as Harper's Weekly,
and with some as fine illustrations as ever
graced any publication. 'The whole-page
icture of the “Deer Hunt” is finely exe-
uted. It is published in San Francisco,
monthly, at $1 per annum.
The orange and lemon crop new being
gathered In Sicily U the largest on record,
end the fruit is unusually fine in quality.
Too Greedy.
The Dissolution or Decline of the
British Empire Possible, if not
Probable.
Her Imperial Highnea* the Empress of
India, more familiarly recognized as “Ba
by Vic,” under the leading strings of her
masculine advisers, is by far too ambi
tious and grasping In the desire for do
minion. Albeit her ancestral domain
proper is limited to two diminutivo ocean
isles not near so large as the State of Tex
as, yet the Brlarean arms of England en
compass huge sections of vast continents,
and reach forth almost from arctic to ant
arctic zones. The Union Jack and Brit
ish flag are unfurled and defiantly floated
in every sea and latitude of the habitable
globe. Hundreds of millions of subjects
in Asia, inhabiting an empire fifty times
greater in extent than the so-called ‘mother
country,” pay tribute to “proud Albion,”
while the New Dominion of Canada, the
immense realm called British America,
English Guiana in South America, several
rich islands of the West Indies, a big share
of South Africa, Malta, Cyprus and Gi
braltar, those impregnable keys to Euro
pean supremacy, and the people of divers
other possessions, scattered all over the
earth, meekly render obeisance to Eng
land’s Queen.
The boast of the Britan is that “the snn
never rises or sets” upon his grand empire.
This is, to a wonderful extent, true, but
the people and countries who have been
thus ruthlessly subjugated for the ag
grandizement of these arrogant islanders
are growing restive under the yoke.
Tho thirteen colonies of America first
raised the standard of revolt, aud suc
ceeded, after a long and bloody struggle,
in winning their Independence. India
has made frantic but abortive efforts to do
the same. The Canadas, after years ol
contention, now, as the “New Dominion,”
practically enjoy the rights, without the
responsibilities of sovereignty. Tho Per
sians, Zulus, Boers, and down-trodden
Ireland also, have been or are still in
arms to resist the tyrannous sway of Great
Britain. The outlook is by no means fa
vorable for the perpetuation of this colossal
empire, which is even greater than that of
Alexander, the Grecian conqueror. It will
probably fall ere long of its own weight,
and it must be admitted that there is
much to condemn in the aggressive policy
of tho ^English. They have literally sought
to run roughshod over the civilized as well
as pagan world, aud cannot hope always
to maintain their vaunted superiority.
No one can even estimate the foreign
complications and final results of the
threatened outbreak in Ireland. A civil
war once inaugurated there, may endan
ger the peaceful relations of many coun
tries with Great Britain. It is about time
for haughty Albion to moderate her pre
tensions to be the “mistress of the seas”
and owner of so much territory in every
quarter of the globe. A little more prog
ress in civilization and the art of war
among her distant subjects will open the
way without doubt to their early inde
pendence. Even now there is a growing
disposition iu every part of the British
empire to rebel against tho domination of
the parent government.
Comfort and Auarance.
Tho Courier-Journal Washington cor
respondent lias bad a long talk with Sen
ator Morgan, of Alabama, and feels belter.
The Senator has no idea that Garfield is
going to let Conkling and the stal
warts knock the daylights out of tho
Southern States, because it would be bad
for trade. The New York merchants will
make a fuss about it and hold Garfield in
check. Nothing will be permitted that
will hurt trade, and as for the power of
the Southern people to pick up a living
the Senator says:
“Yes; the facts justify my faith, and it
is abiding and immovable that the South
has soil, climate and people that will
make her rich and powfcrtul, but not arro
gant or despotic. So long a3 we cau raise
all of our food supplies, including a largo
surplus of sugar and rice, and keep pos
session of the only good cotton country in
the world, and can spin the cotton in the
fields where it is grown at a saving of fif
teen per cent, of tho cost of raw material,
we can live and do well. When it is add
ed that we have the best available forests
in the world, and Inexhaustible coal fields
and that we can manufacture excellent
pig Iron, in the heart of a fine agricultural
region, at a cost of twelve dollars per ton,
aud can ship it to the seaboard or to the
interior on deep rivers, or on railroads of
easy grades and cheap construction, It is
not a vain or boastful spirit that causes
me to say that I firmly believe in the abil
ity of tho south to triumph over her worst
calamities, without the necessity of beg
ging her way to success.”
We Accept the Terms.
Tjc National Republican says:
“If, when the war closed and the re
bellion surrendered, the situation had
been accepted in good faith by all the peo
ple of tho Southern States, the curtain
would have dropped upon that tragedy, aud
the preceding asperities and events would
have been speedily banished from memo
ry."
None are so blind as thoso who refuse
to see. The people were willing to ac
cept an honorable defeat, and would have
cbeeriully abided the terms of surrender
at Appomatox, and the terms agreed upon
by Generals Sherman and Joe E. Johnson
in North Carolina, but when called upon
to accept the: tenets of the Republicau
parly, with its record of crime,
rapine and blood-shed, the instincts
of common humanity revolted. That wo
were whipped we were ready to acknowl
edge, hut to become fawning spaniels was
foreign to every emotion of our manhood.
And wbatis more, we never will accept
the policies ql the so-called Republican
party. The South is solid against the
“putrified carcass” of Republicanism, and
it will remain so.
While we say this much, we are ready
to co-operato iu every laudabld undertak
ing to “banish from memory the asper
ities acd events of the past.” We are
ready to meet half way any movement
looking to the re-establishment of frater
nal relations upon an honorable basis
We are just as loyal to the government
proper as the editor of the National Re
publican, and so are the masses of the
South. “They may curve Casar, hut
they love Borne, nevertheless.”
“The Dark and Bloody Ground.”
—The Courier-Journal, on New Year’s
day, exhorts Kentuckians to turn over a
mw leaf about killing. Since everybody
must kill • somebody, there is only one
apiece to be killed, and hence no man
must be allowed to kill three or four.
Yes, It will be a good thiug to cut down
the murder rations in Kentucky as well
as elsewhere.
Cincinnati has a Sunday school class
of thirty-three Chinamen, all of whom are
apparently sluMre converts to Christian-
*!•
Southern Literature—Its Statu* aud
Outleok.
We have received a handsomely Stereo
typed pamphlet with the above title, pub
lished by J. W. Burke & Co., for the La
dies’ Memorial Association of Montgome
ry county, Virginia. It is an address by
J. B. Wardlaw, Jr., A. M., delivered be
fore that Association at the White Sul
phur Springs, and is offered for sale by
tne Association at tho price of twenty-five
cents per copy. It cau be obtained from
J. W. Burke & Co., of this city.
Those who are familiar with the geuius
of Mr. Wardlaw, aud who have enjoyed
the graceful handiwork of his pen, as an
occasional correspondent of the Tele
graph, will not be tardy in possessing
themselves of this delightful essay, in
which the superb style of the writer has
risen to its highest mark. There is a crisp
ness, a flavor about it which reminds one
of Judge Jere Black’s keen pen. A young
man who, a few years ago, conquered for
Geoigia tho hard contested honors of
Princeton, he is one to whom many ad
mirers look more than to any other, as
worthy both to Interpret and to supply
the needs of Southern literature.
We think no one can read the pamphlet
without feeling that the writer knows
whereof he speaks, and has been inspired
to make a noble and timely utterance on
a subject of the deepest concern to our
people and our time.
Wo can do no more than present a brief
ontliue of the main argument, without
permitting ourselves even to mention the
many by-paths of interesting thought and
discussion into which tho gracelui pen of
the writer has led him.
Tho words of Introduction pay the
tribute of a Southern man to the memoiy
and the motives of the Contcderate dead,
and yet in no Bourbon way; for, we are
8liownhow such a tribute is consistent
with belonging to the new South, and
of forgetting the things that are behind
and pressing forward over dead issues to
new purposes of national life. It will be
a revelation and a tuition to the Bourbons
of the North, to find the chosen orator for
such an occasion tako a new departure
from florid iterations of Southern heroism,
aud discuss Soutliarn literature in a spirit
which permits him to say, further on,
“Emerson’s brave transcendentalisms are
as catchiug beside a Georgia hearthstone
as in Faueuil Hall, and I can feel the fine
fire In Whittier’s anti-slavery odes as well
as in Timrod’s trumpet-calls to arms.”
He first admits that our literature in
the past lias been meagre and insufficient,
and discusses the causes of this fact. With
tslent aud with genius, which made
Southern minds the leading spirits of our
republic; with a broad and liberal cul
lure which gave to Columbia, Richmond,
New Orleans and Savannah a truly Athe
nian society; with the elegant leisure aud
independence which belonged to the feu
dal life of the old South; with a back
ground of natuie in mountain, sky, field
and stream, grand and beautiful as ever
inspired any form of human thought, it
would seem that all the conditions were
met lor the production of a worthy litera
ture! But it was not so, and tho reasons
for this fact are shown to have been, first,
the fugitive and occasional
character of literary efforts. We had
no authora who were authors only. For
thoso who wrote, writing was a side issue,
Our master minds touched too many
things, and the result was dissipation of
power. The second reason was the activity
of tho Southern mind in politics and af
fairs. “All or nearly all the best thought
went into forensic forms. The spoken
oration and the political debate were the
great methods of expression, and in them
were poured out many an unwritten page
of fine philosophy, of parllamentaiy wis
dom, of classic eloquence, of genuine po
etry. The energy of thought w as so large
that men were reckless of its conservation.
The earth was irrigated with wine, and
only here and there a vessclful was caught
up to show the flavor of the vintage.”
A tliitd reason was tho very fullness
and richness of the old Southern life.
“They may have felt—these brave ances
tors of ours—that poetry could pitch life
no higher, and sang could sing it no sweet
er, than it was, and so had been content
to live it, and let who would write it.”
We cannot attempt even to give an out
line of Mr. Wardlaw’s dtscussion ot the
outlook for Southern literature. His
prophecies are Inspired by a robust faith
which magnetizes the reader into acquies
cence ; nor docs he fail to give the reasons
for Ids faith. Wo can only say, in con
clusion, that wo wish this able production
could find its way to tho reading table of
every Souiliern home.
We could not, by any power of language
or any stress of thought, exaggerate our
sense of the importance of adevelopmen
of our literatnre. Some are crying “Lo,
here!” and “Lo, there!” Many are looking
to Senator Brown as the expciieut of the
new South in politics, which is to bring us
salvation by,appropriations; others look
for the great blessing of prosperity to come'
by immigration; others by manufactures.
But if national appropriations cleaned out
every river in the South, if immigration
poured i’v hordes upon us, If the smoke of
factortss Jarkened the Southern sky, we
would never be a great people until we had
a literature. Ono such magazmo as
Scribner’s, published in the South and
embodying tho best phases of Southern
thought, would do more to reveal the
South to the world,to invite Immigration,
to enhance our prosperity, than all the ap
propriations of Congress, or the labors of
immigration bureaus. To England and
to the great outlying world the South is
absolutely unknown. What they know
of us is worse than ignorance, for it is
based upon the perversions of our foes.
Our people need never hope for a recogni
tion of their character or their resources
until they create and maintain a litera
ture which the world will read. We must
hold up the hands of every one who seeks
to upraise in the general darkness the
torch of a literature which shall Illumi
nate the South, and which the world will
be glad to welcome among Its best lights.
It is as true as any trueism in politics
that—
“The voice of any people is the sword
That guards them, or the sword that
beats them down.”
“Landlords are to Ireland' what the
carpetbaggers were to the South,” said
Father Ryan, the “poet-priest,” in an ad
dress in Baltimore on Tuesday night;
“and the Irish people Will rid themselves
of their oppressors as the South rid itself
of the carpetbaggers.” In conclusion
Father Ryan said (pointing to his bead):
“Agitation here must be clear,” (to his
mouth), “here it must be prudent,” (to
his heart), “and here tender and Impul
sive, which, if followed, will crown your
with >n<vttafl. tf
Last Week's Cotton Figures.
Temperature—Rainfall in Decem
ber—Snows and Sleet.
The New York Commercial and Finan
cial Chronicle of Saturday,1st instant, re
ports the receipts of the seeven days end
ing Friday night, 31st ult., at 198,435
bales, against 154,308 the corresponding
week of 1879—showing a week’s gain of
42,129, which is extraordinary, taking in
to account the stormy weather. The total
footing up to the eniTof lbSO was 3,454,090
bales, against 3,168,855 bales to the end
ot 1879—showing an aggregate increase of
287,244 hales.
The interior ports received during the
week 72, 118 bales against 85,223 last
year. They shipped 80,908, against 74,200
last year, and their stocks footed up 321,-
225 bales, against 355,943 bales at came
date a year ago.
The chronicle’s visible supply table
showed on Friday last 2,773,089 bales of
cotton in sight, against 2,564,210 in . 1879
at same date, 2,474,112Jn 1878, and 2,517,-
328 in 1877. These figures show an in
crease In the visible supply of 208,879
bales as compared with the same date Iu
1879—208,979 as compared with 1878, and
255,701 hales as compared with 1877 at
same date. Middling upland In the Liv
erpool market was quoted last Friday at
fij. In 1S79, at that date, the quotation
was C|. In 1878 it was 5 7*10, and in
1817, Of.
The Chronicle adds the following to its
table of receipts from plantations:
The above statement shows—
1. That the total receipts from the
plantations since September 1 in I860 were
3,754,381 bales; in 1879 were3,515,497
bales; in 1878 ; were 2,995,273bales.
2. That the receipts at the out-ports the
past week were 100,425 bales, and the
actual movement from plantations 207,045
bales, the balance being added to stocks
at the interior ports. Last year the receipts
from tho plantations fur the.same week
were 140,323 bales, and for 1878 they were
130,503 bales.
The Chronicle prefaces its weather tel
egram of Friday with the following:
This week the bad weather which has
prevailed over so much of the South during
this picking season has culminated iu a
genera! freeze and snow storm iu almost
every State. Of course there can be no
ga'heringof cotton under such circum
stances. How much of the considerable
remnant ot the crop now iu the fields will
ever be saved Is problematical.
As to Texas, Galveston telegraphs a
mercury at 18—grave fears that the or
ange trees are killed. All work suspend
ed and cotton picking over. There is
great suffering among cattle. Rainfall in
December 1.71. Indianola makes her
lowest temperature 14. Picking over.
The remnant in the fields cannot be saved.
Rainfall in December 0.04. Corsicana
reports her lowest mercury at 0. Rem
nant of cotton in the fields cannot he
saved. Rainfall in December 0.77. Dal
las says her lowest mercury was 0. Pick
ing ended, but not finished, and never
will be. Sufiering very great. Rainfall
in December 0.72. Lowest mercury at
Brenbam 10. Picking^ euded. Rainfall
in December 0.50. At Waco, lowest mer
cury 8. Much cotton remains unpicked,
hut fanners have all they can do to save
corn iu the fields. Very little work done.
Rainfall in December 0.75.
Iu Louisiana there were four days of
rain and a fall of 1.92 in the week. At
Shreveport, two days of rain followed by
rain, sleet and snow. Lowest mercury 9.
It is thought one-eighth of the cotton crop
remains in the fields. In Mississippi, at
Vicksburg, rain and snow, weather veiy
cold. At Columbus, 1.2S of rain on three
days and three inches of snow. From
Little Rock and Memphis there are no
telegrams. Nashville reports rain on two
days, lowest mercury 2, average 24. Less
cotton on plantations than last year.
In Alabama, at Mobile, rain 1.03 on
three days. Lowest mercury 14. Snow
stonu of wide extent. Rainfall in De
cember 3.73. In Montgomery, rain on
four days—four Inches of snow on
Wednesday. Lowest mercury 7. Rain
fall of the week 1.07—of the month 5.68.
Selma, eight inches of snow.
At Madison, Florida, lowest mercury
22.
In Georgia, at Columbus, six inches of
snow and one inch of rainfall. Lowest
mercury, zero. Rainfall in December
8.40. At Macon, four and a half inches
snow—rain on two days; lowest mercury
3. Rainfall In December 7.20. At Sa
vannah, lowest mercury 16. At Augusta,
four iuclics of snow and shet; heavy rains
on two days. Ralnlall in December 4.13.
IIeads are Falling.—Followers of
Senator Conkling, says the Suit of the
2Sth ult., aio complaining that they no
longer get any of the patronage of the
custom house. They say that all the re
cent appointments here have been of anti-
Conkling men, and are mostly from St.
Lawrence and adjacent counties. Herbert
E. James, a son of Congressman James,
of Ogdeuhurgli, and Fred D. Winslow, a
sou ot State Senator Winslow, of Water-
town, are among tho appointees. Thomas
Laulor, a relative of General Patrick, of
St. Lawrence county, is also appointed to
succeed an officer recommended by Dis
trict Attorney Phelps and Coi. Geo. Bliss.
The older customs officers say that the
son of Senator Winslow was appointed
because his father controls ono vote for
tho next United States senator. He was
kept on the customs pay-roll while pur
suing his studies at a law school. A few
days ago he was promoted over the heads
of gray-haired and experienced clerks to
the position of refuud clerk iu the seveuth
division at $2,200 a year.
The advocates of civil service reform,
who arc displeased at the methods pur
sued in the custom-house, are compiling
a report on the subject, to bo submitted to
Congress. They charge that the collector
is using the custom-house patronage to se
cure the election of Wm. A. Wheeler,
Vice-President, as the next United States
Senator from this State. Mr. Wheeler’s
brother-in-law is auditor of the custom
house.
A Christmas Tragedy.—Jackson-
bobo’, December 20.—Will you be so
kind as to publish tho following sad, sad
story: Yesterday morning (Christmas) a
negro who works with roe came up to my
house and told me that there was a dead
white man lying down on the railroad
about four miles from this place. I took
my wagon down to the place indicated,
and found a nice looking, poorly dressed
lad lying dead near a spot where he had
built a fire to keep himself from freezing,
for it was cold and rainy Christmas morn
ing. I found in his hands, which were
clasped across his breast, the following
little note:
“Whoever finds me please bury roe
where I am. My name is James Maxey
Timmons, from Greenville, S. C. Fare
well forever!"
According to his request I did bui7 him
where be died. It was a very pretty
place, too. I dressed him nicely, and put
him in a very neat coffin. lie had no
money on liis person, nor anything else
valuable but bis cuff buttons. I put them
In a clean shirt and put it on him.
S. J. Elliot.
.The American Sentry is the name
of an eight paper published weekly in
New York city. It is in the interests of
the Greenback party, and Radical in ev
ery other feature. Subscription $1 per
aenum.
Why WeEemain Poor.
The struggle waged agaiust poverty in
tho South is one ot the most heroic ever
made. It is true we are often taunted by
those who have fattened on our misfor
tunes as being indolent and unused to la
bor. But to any unprejudiced mind, the
struggle that is made to-day by our
people to regain their lost possessions, is
one of heroic grandeur. The efiort is
honest and persistent. The recuperation
has been wonderful, taking into the ac
count our peculiar surroundings. Still
we are not as prosperous as we ought to
be, considering the amount of labor ex
pended. Sixteen years or struggling
should cause an appeal to thought. In
vestigation will lead to profitable develop
ments. The secret and the cause of our
want of success will be made apparent.
A people who a few years ago were
willing to sacrifice their possessions aud
jeopardize their own lives in the issues of
war ought to be able to practice a self-
denial that would bring prosperity to every
village and hamlet in the whole land. The
victories of peace are more to be desired,
and more lasting, than the glories of war.
Yet, humiliating as it is, there is a want
of public spirit among our people—an In
difference to personal independence
which a little foresight and efiort would
bring to us. We labor lianh but we spend
all we make. We do not’ husband our
resources, hot foolishly expend them in a
foreign market for that which we could
produce at home or very well do without.
There are many small industries which
ought to be inaugurated and fostered in
our midst, which ultimately would bring
competence, if not^ndependence.
W cur fanners would get back to flocks
of sheep, pens ot hogs, brood mares, and
larger com fields, thousands of dollars
would be left in our midst with whicli to
purchase laud and make lioiuc improve
ments.
If our business men would patronize
home manufactures, aud our people get
in the habit of purchasing home-made
material, the bauk account would be
larger at homo than in New Yoik. It
would Inaugurate and lead to the practice
of a stricter system of economy.
This is the greatest reason for our pov
erty. We work hard and make money,but
alas ! we never save it. We spend as fast
as we make. The laboring man now fre
quently spends more in self-indulgence
than he did when a slave owner in 1601.
This is true especially in the case of
single men. A man with a competent
salary ought to be able to lay up something
and each year add something to the
aggregate weajth of the community. But
alasj the first of January comes, and in
stead of having what the community had
a right to expect ho has only a few
clothes, no taxable property, and not even
able to pay his poll tax of one dollar for
the general education of the country, when
called on, and in many instances it is
never paid at all, unless somebody wants
his vote. They fail to appreciate the ad
vantages of citizenship, and by their ex
travagance lose all interest in the public
good. The Idea of maiily independence
and the welfare of the community in
Which they live never enter into their
conception of life. Thus living they lose
all sympathy for their kind. They work
hard, but the world nor they themselves
arc bettered by it. n
- i i j
Where the Angels took a Hand.—
A colored man named Bounty Smith, liv
ing on Antoine street, was before a Jus
tice of the Peace yesterday forenoon
charged with the larceny of fifty cents
worth ot fire wood from a white man liv
ing next door. The prosecution had a
circumstantial case. Some one was heard
at the wood pile in the night. There were
tracks in the snow leading directly to de
fendant’s house. The dcieudaut was
found in possession of wood ex
actly like that missed from the pile,
and he admitted that he not pur
chased any wood this fall. The
defendant said he wished to be sworn
in his own defense, and after he had
taken the stand he began: “He claims
dis wood was tooken away Sunday night.
Now, on Sunday mawnin’I war’tacked
by rbeumatiz an’ couldn’t step till Mon
day night. Dis right leg war bent back
so, an’ dis left one war skewed out so, an'
my wife had to feed me win a spoon.
War* I in shape to go out an’ steal wood?”
“Go on.” “Well, ’long ’bout dark de old
woman said de las’ stick qf wood wart
gone, an’ we went to bed to keep warm.
Could I go out when I wart in bed?” “I
guess not.” “Sartin I couldn’t. When I
remembered dat we had no wood for de
uex’ day I went lo prayin’ dat some rich
man’s heart might be’ opened to char
ity. Fust I knowed de sticks of wood be
gun to hit de doah, an’ de old woman
scrambled out aud fotched dem in. If
any man rubbed dat man’s wood pilo it
war an angel who was sent to help me.”
“But you forget the tracks in the snow.
They were just the size of your boots.”
“Tracks I Was dey any tracics?” “Yes.”
“Well, dat’s nuffin agin me as I see. I
’spect de angel had to stan’ alongside
de woodpile to load up.” Two of the
jurors seemed to take this view of the
case and the result was a disagreement.—
Detroit Free Press.
ed i
The rumors afloat in the West thaj
Victorio, the Apache chief, was not kill
ed by the Mexicans, has been eet at rest
by Major Mahan, of the Iuaiau Bureau,
who recently saw the famous warrior’s
wife at San Carlos, N. M. She was in
mourning and had cut of her hair, a sure
sign that her husband is dead.
Gen. Garfield forgot to buckle the
lines to the bits m hitching a pair of colts
to his wagon, after service at Mentor
church,-last Sunday, and narrowly escap
ed a runaway. An old farmer gravely
remarked: “General, you will have to
do better than that when you take the
reins of the Government, or me political
mules will get away with you.
The great snow storm seems lo have
extended from Texas to Canada and was
espeoially severe along the Atlantic coast
from our State northward. The mails
are everywhere deranged and general de
moralization exists in all the departments
of business. Schedule time on the roads
is a tiling of the past, and the “fast mail”
is a myth.
The sixteen Southern States now con
tain a school population of 5,214,004.
There are enrolled in the public schools
2 078,822 children. The average amount
paid to teachers is $34.64 for males and
$31.01 for iemales, the highest salaries
being paid iu Arkansas. The total in
come of the schools Is $12,718,403, Mis
souri being in the lead, with Maryland
and Kentucky following.
Here is a thirsty item: The Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue thinks that
the whisky distillers are crowding the
mourners. On the first day ot November,
1880, the amount of whisky on hand
was 32,040,000 gallons, an increase since
the 1st of July, 1879, of 13,000.000 gallons.
The Commissioner thinks there is an over
production, and that the distillers are
likely to incur large losses it there should
happen to be a redaction of the spirit
The Prison Question.
ScHArs OF Confederate History
Never to be Forgotten.
The last number of the Southern Uls-
torical Society Papers which covers the
months of October, November and De
cember, 1880, is replete with Interest to
ex-“Confederates,” and should have a
prominent place iu every Southern libra
ry-
Amopg the articles is an editorial re
view of a contribution to the Seio Eng
lander, for November, 1880, which cox
tains au elaborate discussion of “Ander
sonville,” written in a mucii fairer spirit:
than is wont to be exhibited by the North
ern press.
The remarkable, but perfectly true ad
mission is made that ll the United Slates
government alone teas responsible for the
failure of the cartel for the exchange of
prisoners,” and therefore for all the mis-
and distress experienced by the cap
tives on both sides.
Professor Ricbardsou, however, wrongs
the South by placing her on the “defen
sive” iu this controversy, while the offi
cial records, alike of tho Confederate and
Federal governments,clearly show that the
blame rests upon the latter. He justifies
a war measure the refusal of Secretary
Stauton to consent to au exchange of pris
oners, which is ono of the ameliorating
and universally recognized customs of
civilized warfare.
How cau such a proposition be sustam-
in view of the following facts, which
are ably presented, at length, by Dr
Jones, the intelligent editor of the Histor
ical Society Papers.
1. Medicines were declared “contra
band” by the Federais, and their sale for
bidden, even under solemn guarantees
from Confederate surgeons that they
would be used solely tor the sick of tho
Union army.
2. The Federais refused to accept the
permission accorded to them of tarnishing
surgeons medicines and hospital supplies
for their oicn sick andteounded who were
prisoners of war, and at the same timo de
nied the like privilege to incarcerated
Southern soldiers.
3. They refused even to consent to an
exchange of the sick and wounded.
4. After all efforts to effect the usual ex
change of prisoners had failed, and Judge
Onld for the'Confederates in August,1804,
proposed, if transportation was afforded
from Savannah, to tuns over, without
equivalent, to the Yankee authorities
fifteen thousand prisoners then confined
at Audarsonville, the oiler was not ac
cepted until the following December. In
the Interim, thousands of the unfortunate
bluejackets fell victims to disease in that
Southern prison.
In view of the above statements, all of
whicli in sustsnee are of official record, is
it not both uncaudid and unjust for Pro
fessor Richardson to endeavor to justify
the cold-blooded and cruel policy of the
Federal government to its own citizens
and soldiers under the specious plea that it
was simply a “war measure?” Out upon
such mercenary inhumanity!
The Professor concludes his article
with the following tribute to the memory
of the brave fellows who were deliberate
ly sacrificed by their own comrades and
government: “Whether there was not a.
possibility of a Waterloo or a Sadowa on
the Rapidan, instead of an ‘attrition’ cam
paign continued through a year, will al
ways remain an interesting question. But
at any rate, as the course of events actu
ally turned, the men who languished
at Andersonville played, Iu their
sufferings and death, a most
essential part in the campaign. This part
was not so stirring as charging on the-
guns, or meeting in the clash of infantry
lines; hut their enfi -eed, long-continued'
hardship made it possible lor mere superi
ority of numbers to decide the struggle,,
and for the Confederacy to crumble with
out iu Waterloo, and to terminate its
existence by the surrender of those less
than eight thousand muskets at Appo
mattox.”
Was ever there a more candid admissipn
that the subjugation of the gallant South
rons was effected not so much by the
prowess of their enemies as tho brute force
of overwhelming numbers? And to ac
complish this result thousands of their
own soldiers were allowed to pine and die
in captivity, simply because an exchange
of prisoners, though man for man, would
hare partially recuperated the depleted
ranks of a struggling people who were
shut out from all succor and relief from
abroad. We challenge the world for a
similar parallel of neglect and barbarity
on the part of a civilized government.
It Is about lime that all the rant and non
sense concerning the treatment of Ander
sonville prisoners had ceased. Let it never
be forgotten that by the figures of the Fed
eral Secretaiy of War, Mr. Stanton, and
Surgeon General Barnes, drawn from the
records of the War Department, of220,-
000 Confederates confined in Northern
prisons, no less than 26,430 perished,
while out of 270,000 Yankees captured^
and Imprisoned by the so-called rebel
government, but 22,570 died. This sore
ly ought to settle, the question of the treat
ment of prisoners by Ihe respective bellig-
ents during the late war.
The Hew York Capitol.
The Herald says the new capital at Al-.
bany has already cost fourteen millions
of dollars, and as much more will be ex
pended on it before it is finished and
ready for a slide into the Hudson. Tha
surveys of the architects establish the fact
that the building has not moved, and the
numerous cracks in the stones of tho build
ing resulted from settling, and do not mil
itate seriously against tho security of the
edifice. The surveyors fouud a difference
of an inch iu the elevation of the corners,,
showing a marked inequality in the set
tling of the edifice, but they were satisfied
that no apprehension need be felt in re
gard to its stability. The capital of New
York at Albany is the most gorgeous pub
lic edifice in the United States, and is so
destined to remain until they build the
new capital at Atlanta.
The Pennsylvania Senatorsbip.—
he Keystone State is in agony under the
strain of a contest for the maintenance of.
the Cameron dictatorship in tho Senato
rial election. Gaiusha A. Grow is the can
didate of the anti-Cameronians, and Oli-
ts the representative of that faction.
Both are confident of success, but the
Camerons have owned Pennsylvania a
long time, and Galushy has no otb-
merit than that of an original,
squashy abolitionist of the one-idea type,
concerning whom his friends never in
dulged but one vain regret, that he was
born with a white skin. They should U7
the value of buret cork on him for