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,«* «-o M B m av a AS A 9 533 H J X53-33 G&R^HlSS.g 2 §5 J JS "fT Qleocgia ««& 3fauimal & 3lt£*SiS**tg£*:* •tap at the Telecnph nod Xema- g»r. Pottage free to all Editions. Daily TtUgraphaud Xesssuger, 910.00per yr * “ " •* 8.00 6mot ft “ “ 2.80 3 mot. Daily Ttlsgraph and Xessenger and Southern Farmer's Monthly XlJSOperyr. Weekly Telegraph and Xettenger 2.00 “ •• *• “ •• “ 1.00 Onoi Week'y Telegraph ana Xettenger / and Southern Farmer’s Monthly SJtAperyr Remit by P. O. Order or Registered Letter, to mmmmmomo^SimJSrnSSiSBSXSm 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