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FRIDAY, MARCH 4,1881.
drent British Defeat iu Mouth Africa.
Two points are notable In tho Import
ant intelligence from South Africa given
by the Sunday telegrams in this edition,
The first is tho complete and disastrous
character of the defeat, and the second
point is the speed with which tho ill news
traveled. The battle was fought on Sun
Mb. Motat Halstead calls a state dinner
■without wine “a cold-blooded absurdity.”
The Susquehanna Gazette records tost ■ ^ Soulh Africa- The altack of the
week tho largest train ever flatsmgover the o’clock In the mom-
ss zszss?***™- '“ dcJ I £Efc***- - r
in the afternoon. Precisely what tolar
time two o’clock in South Africa may
have represented in Macon wo will not
undertake to say eff-band, but the news
with coal for Buffalo.
Miss Bo wham obtained a verdict against
Mr. McDonald for breach of promise of
mnrriagc at Lancaster, Ohio, but the jury
put the damages at only $13.
This is the first season'that actual ice- of the defeat was in Macon half an hour,
bergs have been seen in Lake Michigan, by the clock, afterwards. It beat the
They havo been formed with a base below speed of the earth in her diurnal revolu-
water of fifteen feet in depth. I tlon.
Aocobdino to the Washington Bepubli-1 This defeat is one of the most mortify'
can, when a young man in Texas goes back ing that lias been sustained by British
on a girl to whom he is engaged, they bus- I arms for a long time; and a wounded na-
pend him to a tree and let him grow up tional pride will demand a sore retribu-
with tho country. tlon. Of the relative forces engaged we
A Gkbman chemist has established tho I jj^ve little idea. From tho telegrams tho
valuable fact that wood impregnated with British seem to have brought into action
j>arnffine oil is preserved for many years sbort of nietl) an( i to havo lost all but
from rot, even under circumstances most one hundred. The Boere, we Imagine, had
favorable to decay. I a mucb i arfiSr force, for they made their
About three hundred thousand boxes of attack from tbe foot 0 f the mountain,
oranges have reached New York this season | whJch tbey woulJ bard i y bave <] a rcd to
do but for confidence in superior num
bera; and even with considerable superi
ority in force,it was a bold and hazardous
experiment. It displays a courage and
from groves in Florida. Their value is
estimated at $000,000. Ten years ago not
a box was shipped to that market.
“Well, I just want you to remember that
if the Lord keens on taking them I will,, , ,
too,” was the reply which a Galvestonian »unusual In compar-
lately met her pastor’s rebnke on entering “lively undisciplined troops; for we must
into holy matrimony with No. 6 so very remember these Boers are not ®Jdiers,
soon after No. 4 had been placed in his cof- but citizens who, seizing their own weap
fin. I ons from the chimney gun-hooks, bave
The experiment of irrigating lands in the rushed to the fray merely to defend tliem-
neighborliood of Paris with water from tho selves from an unwelcome and unjiutifia-
Bcwers is said to be working favorably. I blc foreign domination, and tbey are figlit-
Sterile tracts of land havo been converted ing the best troops in the world, provided
into fertilo plains, while no increase of with the most effective arms, as well as
sickness among the inhabitants has follow- I bolding a most advantageous position,
cd, ns was apprehended. They have displayed a wonderful spirit
At a Land League meeting in Ireland the I a nd valor. We can think of no parellel,
other day an impassioned speaker was thus unless i n the case of tho Montenegrins,
declaiming: “Our Creator gave the land and tbey bave been accus t ome d to desper-
to man for his own. He gave it first to | ^ war f are by generations of hostility
Adam ” “Arrah, be asy about Adam,”
interrupted a voice from tho crowd; “Adam
Was evicted without compensashin.”
Toe passage over the straits of Mack
inac, Mich., is to be made by railroad trains
ona powerful iron steamer, capable of car
rying eighteen cars at once, and crashing
with the Turks.
We were greatly in hope,a few days ago,
that this quarrel might be accommodat
ed with the British government; but this
sweeping defeat will put that government
on its mettle, and there is now no proba
its way throtnrh ice a foot thick. During WUtJ of a peaceful solution until they can
the season of thicker ice, tracks will be laid
on the frozen surface.
Ah unprecedented spectacle, says the Sun,
was iffforded on Wednesday in the Senate
Chamber by a little group on the floor con
sisting of Hannibal Hamlin, Chester A.
Arthur, and William Almon Wheeler—a
feel that they have punished this indig-
I nity.
Lout Week’s Cotton Figures.
THE SITUATION.
The New York Chronicle of Saturday,
26th ult., reports the receipts of the seven
man who has been elected Vice-President I j aya cn( ]j Dg tbe previous night at 138,359
and has served, a man who has been dect-l bales against 102,995 for the correspond
ed but has not served, and a man who has
served but lias not been elected.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to tho
London Daily News says: “The new Rus-
so-Chinese treaty was signed yesterday.
Tho Morqnis Tseng nnd his secretaries will
start for Paris immediately.*’ The Stan
dard’s correspondent at St. Petersburg re
ports that tho new treaty will bo sent im
mediately to Pekin for ratification in charge
of the Secretary of the Cliinese Mission.
President Haves was compelled to wait
till nearly the close of his term before the
title of LL. D. was conferred upon him by
mg week of last year—showing a week’s
Increase of35,304 bales. This continual
and heavy increase of weekly receipts is
something marvellous. Total receipts
since 1st of September last to last Friday,
4,535,165 bales, against 4,201,820 bales for
the corresponding period of the last cotton
year—showing an aggregate increase of
333,345 bales.
Tbe interior port business for the same
seven days was as follows: Receipts, 37,-
919 bales against 47,450 for tbe same days
of last year. Shipments, 50,471 against
Hew York World’* Fair.
New York should settle it in her mind,
at once, whether or no sho intends to hold
a World’s Fair in 1SS3, and act according
ly. So far, her course on the question is
well calculated to throw an odor of fail
ure on the enterprise, and injure the
reputation of the city. Of the original
committee selected to take it in charge,
a large part of the men of capital and
known enterprise have sent in their res
ignations. Tho original chairman has
resigned and his place was filled by
Gen. Grant, who, at the last meeting,
told the committee plainly, and in sub
stance, that he had little time to attend
to the business, and tbe management
must bo very different from what it had
been if they intended to do anything. As
to the location of tlie fair, the natural
assumption of mankind was that
it would be held in the Central Park, but
so universal an outcry against such a des
ecration of the Park lias beeD raised in
tbe press, that some back lots in the sub
urbs have been selected called “In
wood.”
Gen. Grant told tho committee plainly
that it must go back to tbe Central Park,
but tbe press still scout at tbe matter.
Like a prudent housewife, forced into giv
ing a party, tbe suggestion of defiling tUp
parlor is abhorrent. What! Trample
down the grass, cut up the graveled ave
nues, and even damage the trees! These
are all intended for tho amusement of
our citizens and their wives and children.
The profanum tulgus shall never bo al
lowed to put Central Park to such rough
uses. Tho parlor carpel is a great deal too
good for so common an entertainment.
The kitchen, balls and dining-rooms are
much better suited to the purpose.
The next point was to raise an aggre
gate subscription of fivo million dollars.
They have actually raised less than one
million, and much of this conditioned
upon the fact that the sum total of five
millions is subscribed. Iu short, au en
terprise which will severely tax New
York in her most liberal mood and which
will derna nda genorous, persistent and
wide-spread cntbuslasm, as the only pos
sible conditions of success, drags in every
limb and appears now to offer not tbe
first reasonable prospect of a creditable
conclusion. Tbe Philadelphia centennial
showed what labor and expense such an
undertaking entailed, and no man seems
willing to go deeply into it.
Under such circumstances, unless New
York can wake up a boom very suddenly,
the best thing will bo to drop the fair at
once, before any expense is incurred, and
say nothing more about it*. “Drink deep
or touch not,” must be tbe motto,
for New York will do herself no credit If
she undertakes the great work with less
than her whole force. She must make a
grand display. She must outdo Philadel
phia; and yet her moneyed men and
great corporations are showing, so far,
nothing like equal spirit and liberality.
Pans might as well have banished her in
ternational exposition outside of tbe city
into some suburbau village, as New York
thrust out this great American world’s
exposition from the park—the best and
most convenient spot she Las at command,
and make a kind of side-show of it in u
back room, in some remote part of the
city.
Hydrophobia iu the Mouth.
A Tebkible Case.
Several recent cases of hydrophobia in
various parts of the South—a new thing in
our history—suggest the thought that
there are a great deal too many dogs in
this part of tho moral vineyard, if hydro
phobia is lurking round. One such hor
rid death as that described in the tele
gram below to the Courier-Journal is
enough to sicken one of tho whole breed
of the canines:
the Johns Hopkins University. President- I 57,568 last year. The stocks on Friday
elect Garfield will go into office with the I last footed up 284,155 agaiust 310,972 last
title already at his service—kindly mailed I yeai at the same date,
postage free, by the University of Pennsyl
vania. It is scarcely necessary to say that, , . _ ,, . , „
itia absolutely essential to the happiness of 3 “ °“! ast 2 - 020 ’ 450 ba,6S of
Tho Chronicle's visible supply table
a President that he should bo an LL. D.
In France the damage caused by tho rav
ages of wolves has been roughly estimated
to reach a sum of 50,000,000 of francs
year. Snch a winter as the present is very
favorable to the depredatj#ns of these ani
mals, which swarm in thexlepartments into
which the Alps and Pyrenees extend. Sev- supply of 1878 of 88,734 bales. The
oral deaths have recently been reported in quotation for middling upland In Liver-
ontlying districts, the wolves showing a pool lost Friday was 0|. In 1880, at
boldness which they havo not exhibited I same date, it was 7 5-16. In 1879, at
since they followed in troops in the wake j same date, it was 5|, and la 1878, at samo
of the invading German armies ten years I j a tc, it was 61-16.
cotton in sight, against 2,630,614 bales at
j the same date last year, 2,602,094 in 1879
at same date, and 2,837,716 In 1878 at
same dato. These figures show an in
crease on the supply of last year of 295,-
| 836—an increase on the supply of 1879 of
323,556 bales, and an increase on tho
The Chronicle appends the following
to its table of receipts from plantations:
The above statement shows—
1. That tho total receipts from the planta
tions since September 1st in 1880-81 were
4,781,234 bales; in 1879-80 wero 4,511,491
bales: in 1878-79 were 4,001,350 bales.
2. Tliat, although tho receipts at the out-
ports tho past week wero 138,359 bales, tho
‘ movement from plantations
only 143,746 bales, the bolnnco going to in
crease tho stocks at tbe interior ports. Last
ago.
Anotheb Black Fbiday.—The Post of
last Friday says: During the first hoar and
half of business the Stock Exchange was a
scene of wild excitement and everything
connected therewith was at the highest ten
sion. Excitod stock brokers bid per
cent. for money for one day’s nse in addi
tion to C per cent per annum. Prices of
leading stocks fell Gtf per cent, rallied J* I crease tho stocks at the interior ports, tost
ni », year tho receipts from the plantations for
al per oent, again declined XaJ per cent, J he8ame week were 92,883 bales and for
and with frequent fluctuations the market 1879 they wero 98,239 bales,
was extremely foverish. This state of things I The Chronicle's weather telegrams of
continued until about 11.30 o’clock, when p r ;j av f or tbo wee k ending on that
news again came that the treasury had day sbow a great improvement. Very
gi\ eu relief. I jj tt | e ra j n has fallen daring the week, and
The value of tho grape and vine product j f arm work is prosecuted with vigor. Tho
of California for 1880 is estimated at $V>00,- mercnry i n Texas has ranged from 20 to
000. The State famished over 10,000,000 anJ ^ lieavicst rain for tbe week U
e a »°“ of m T’^ bran ? y , less than half an inch.
$100,000 worth of raisins, nnd grapes fori
preserving nnd table nse to tho value of has beeu dr y and the roads are good.
$100,000 or $150,000 more. The new bran- The rains in Mississippi were light and
dy is worth, at wholesale, $1.15 a gallon, the lowest mercury was 54. In Arkansas
The new vineyards that have been planted it was more wet, 1.49 of rain having
cover 8,000 to 10,000 acres. In Sonoma fallen during tbe week. In Tennessee
county alone 2,000 acres were planted in tbero were three rainy days at Nashville
vines last year. In Napa county the wine and two at Memphis—2.C4 of rain at the
Jay Gonld on the Situation.
The New York Herald, of Monday,
prints an interview with Jay Gould of
four and a half columns in length, upon
the general situation—telegraph, railroad
and corporations generally; the danger to
the public interests and liberties from the
latter; tbo telegraph consolidation, and
what is to come of it; the prospects and
condition of business and labor, and
many other interesting points in tbe pres
ent and fntnre. Gonld laughs at the
clamor about corporate monopolies, the
existence of which ho denies. Tho cor
porations are becoming more diffuse every
year. Their stocks are in tbe hands of
thousands to-day, where they were only
represented by hundreds a few years ago.
They represent Immense property Inter
ests of every sort, and this work of dif
fusion is going on with increasing rapidity
every year. The corporations, as a whole,
represent tho spirit, interest and power of
the American people.
As to tho telegraph consolidations, he
says they grew primarily out of the dis
covery that the Western Union had so
preoccupied tho field by its intimate con
nection with tho railway corporations
that the greater cost to the American
Telegraph Company of the same service
disabled competition. The consolidation,
ho declares, will result iu cheaper and
more extensive and perfect service, which
will immensely benefit tbe general com
merce of the country. The consolidated
companies, this next summer, will put
down two great great oceau cables, and in
a short timo connect with tho Sandwich
Islands, Japan, Australia, and with tho
Russian system of telegraphy by Puget’s
sound aud Behring’s sea to Kamtscliatka.
As to a government control of teleg
raphy, ho pronounces tlio American sys
tem too vast and intricate for political
control. Tbe English telegraph system
covers a territory equal to a single Stale,
while, already, tho lines of tbe American
telegraph extend over one hundred thou
sand miles; much of it through a wilder
ness.
The great mischief this country has to
dread springs from legislative interference
unsettling property values aud destroying
security aud confidence. Nature, In our
great system of navigable streams and
lakes, regulates tbe railroads and keeps
them in equitable limits. At present the
Whole situation could scarcely bo im
proved. That all classes are making
money is susceptible of demonstration by
tbe returns of tlie savings banks.
Questioned upoiithe Panama canal,
Gould said there was notliiug In it. He
did not believe Do Lesseps in earnest, for
he reason that it could never pay.
The great field open for new railway
communication was m tbe Southwest;
with Mexico. What we want now is more
foreign markets, and particularly a free
trade with Mexico. Gould saw a great
chance for prog: :*s and wealth iu rapid
railway communication with Mexico.
He saw a great future before New
York. In fifty years sho would be the ac
knowledged trade and financial centre of
the world. Ho laughed at the idea of iu
dividual manipulations of Wall street;
and said that one inau or combination
might as well attempt the control of the
raging Atlantic. Wall street was a raging
ocean, and the best any man could do was
to watch aud take advantage of the bil-
low*. ^
Gould’s Interview is lively reading. In
the course of it, he tells the following of
his first appearance in New York:
product lias increased from 297,670 gallons
in 1870 to 2,4GO,000 last year. Land fit for
wine growing may be had for $5 to $125
an acre, according to location and soil.
What Cotton Facto web Would 8ave in I
toe South.—“A factory man has written a ]
letter to tho Newnan (Ga.) Harald, giving
his cstimnte of tho amount which woald be
wived to tho South by manufacturing cotton
at home from the seed. He puts down tho
total saving at $33,000,000 annually, as fol- j
lows: Saving in bagging and ties, $9,000,-
former, and 1.77 at tho latter. Lowest
mercury 20. Alabama was comparatively
dry. Lowest mercury 37. At Madison,
Florida, tbe lowest mercury was 52. In
Georgia, at Macon, no rain. Lowest mer
cury 30. At Columbus light ralu one
day. Lowest mercury 40. At Savannah
no rain and lowest mercury 44. At Au
gusta 0.41 of rain and lowest mercury 37.
To Hitch up the Bulqine.—The
000; in ginning, $6,000,000: beating nnd I In New York and the Enquirer at
losing cotton for tho cards, $8,000,000; in Cincinnati are in controversy about tbe
freight $12,000,000.” He says farther: “The Ume required to hitch horses to tbo eDglne
famishing of $33,000,000 annually for ten after an alarm of fire. The Cincinnati
years wonld build factories enough in the I time is twelve seconds, but the Sun says
South to manufacture our entire cotton I they do it in New York in one second and
crop; besides, it would double tlie value of
tho raw material, adding to onr wealth an- [
Dually $900,000,000, and increasing the val-
nre of land and other property as much j
more.”
The fir tree growths of Puget Sound
form one of the wonders of the American
a half. The different trials Varied by atop
watch from five seconds down to two and
a quarter and one and a half. But,nath-
leas, it is true that some fires would be
past remedy even in leas time than that—
a gunpowder or dynamite fire for example.
jvriu wuu ui uic wuuuore ui tuv auichuou .. ... ... , . . v , .
world. They average 200 feet in height, ^ " U1 *° bu ‘ a d «?“‘“ ent
and some specimens have been cut that
measured 330 feet in length and 15 feet in
diameter at tbe base, with a straight and
well proportioned log length of ninety feet
to the fiist limb. The cedar trees are in
like proportions, and are moat valuable for
krooden wares of all kinds, while the firs
fire most valuable for spars and ship tim
ber yet found in any country. There are
which will extinguish a gunpowder fire
between flash and explosion.
Mb. Gould is of tJe* pinion that DeLes-
sep’s enthusiasm will never boild the Pan
ama canal. We very gladly < welcome Mr.
Gould among us. We have always thought
this oonntry would furnish the engineer
for that canal and this government boss
the job.
Little Rock, Abe., February 26.—Infor
mation was received here to-day of tho
death of Bernard Hoover at Murfresboro,
Pike county, of hydrophobia. Last No
vember he was attacked by a mad dog, and
succeeded in cutting thebruto’s throat with
large knife which he carried, but not un
til ho was bitten on the hand. The wound
soon healed, and nothingmore was thought
of it till recently, when it began to j»ain
him, and soon he was thrown into convul
sions. He suffered terribly, and towards
tbe last he became vaving mad and the at
tendants were compelled to resort to strin
gent measures to control him. He foamed
at tbe month, snapped lu3 teeth liko a dog,
and, in short, displayed tlie symptoms of
tho dreadful disease with which he was af
flicted. He died in frightful agony. The
attending physicians report the case as be
ing tho worst of tho sort which has ever
come under their observation. Young
Hoover was the son of CoL Wesley Hoover,
deceased, who formerly represented Pike
county in the Stato Legislature.
The Storm* nud m Mnril Winter.
The telegrams of Monday night brought
fearful * record of more storms in the
Northwest, from Saturday to Monday,
during which there wero heavier
falls of snow iu Wisconsin, Illinois, Mich
igan, Minnesota and Iowa than have yet
taken place at any timo during this stormy
winter. The roads were generally ob
structed, and out of twcnty.threo mails
due in Chicago on Monday only two ar
rived. This renews a general blockade
which had only just terminated. Before
this last great storm, the Chicago Times,
speaking of the winter and its effect on
railways, says:
It is safe to state that tho losses entailed
upon tho principal Western railroads by
the recent snow blockades will more than
equal tho net earnings of these lines for
January nnd February. Nearly ono thou
sand miles of road operated by the Chica
go, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company in
Minnesota and Dakota have practically
been blockaded all winter. The operating
expenses have, through this stato of affairs,
been doubled, while traffic returns have
been very smidl. Noarly hi If as much
mileage operated by the Chicago and
Northwestern Company has been similarly
blockaded a considerable part of the win
ter. The main line of both of these sys
tems have been generally unobstructed, nnd
have been crowded with moving freight.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chi
cago and Alton, Rode Island, and Illinois
Central, also lose heavily through interrup
tion in business nnd extra workjng ex
penses, while west of the Missouri nearly
all the roads have beenifightisg snow most
of the time since January 1; and the loss to
the Kansas Pacific has been especially se
vere. When not obstructed by snow, all
the roads leading west from Chicago havo
been crippled in the movement of freight
by the intense cold.
Let this winter’s experience be laid to
heart. As far as practicable, let supplies
needful for cold weather be laid In before
the snows and storms of winter. The
London Fortnightly Review, in a letter
dated in 1911, recounts, as an olden time
memory, the experiences of London dur
ing Ijut winter, growing out of food and
fuel scarcity, resulting from the obstruc
tion of railways by snow. London was at
one time almost starving and freezing.
Tbe tale reminds one of a beseiged city.
Let railways and business men trust less
to tbe certainties of transportation In
winter. _
Some of our Republican contemporaries
are disposed to poke fun at Forney’s auto
biography of Hanoock. This is contempti
ble. There is nothing the matter with the
autobiography, except that it was written
about the wrong candidate.
Irish A Hair*.
Telegrams of Sunday to the New York |
World, by L. J. J. Bay:
THE VOLCANO SLUMBERING.
Order iu Ireland is being gradually re-
Littell’s Living Aoe for February 1
20tli was received yesterday—with a fine
selection from the cream of the European
periodical press. Published every Satur-1
CUKREXT OEIXIOV.
.*V ., » V Kew York Sun.
From Mentor there comes no word
uiuc. ....UHL.,, ,n-. tfhich indicates that the President-elect
stored; rents are being paid, “Boycotting” ^ Littc11 & Co.,17 Brownfield street, thinks of any question or graver nature
is almost extinct, and the local agitators Boston, at $8 per year. “ fhces
A m co n n;KbL 0 num^r oW St ,’‘ NlC » 0LAS for March has a great party . When* Gret made“ c^biS
rest!harkbeen £b I° f f.^ 00113 »l““trat.ons-the tbetaskwasa very simple one. According
and the accused persons have b5m com-1 frontispiece being a purple picture of L"?® 1 , by hla> ’ b 1
mitred for trial without bail. The at- Lady Jane Grey. Its articles and illus- lb ^ llst °f his personal
Houre to "xclte sympathy tor theseprbon* trat ‘ Ve P ' CtlireS arellteralI r ™ merou8 the size of their fiTts Garfield^joStu^
ere^ave faUed utterly 7 P *® name. St. Nicholas has won tha so easy. He has before him an appalling
THE LEADEUBHIP to pass moil pah- universal concession that It Is tho most Bst of contributions to the vast corruption
nell to shaw. attractive monthly for young people pnb- i°
pletefybreken" a^dTt^hasTen !n tbe world. Scribner & Co., 74-3 Bi(Ie3 Doriyand GorlLl.hoSto
chiefly by Iris own infatuated course. The ® roa,lwa y> New York. Price $3.00 a they carried Indiana by the application of
— ...... — . . I I A r.aniPlllflP Alim nr. A nariionluv inninnnf
English Radicals have finally and irre- J’ ear -
vocably thrown him over, and it is alto- _
pettier probable that Mr. William Shaw, Cotton Manufacturing in South
the member for Cork county, will soon I Carolina.—The Langley Cotton will
a particular sum at a particular moment,
and precisely to tbe right place. Is it
any wonder that among all these claim
ants the President-elect makes' so many
new slates?
Philadelphia Times
When it comes to a matter of smart
be the acknowledged leader of tbo entire earned iu cntire atock and mo
Irish party in the House of Common*. . . ,. , r ’
Mr. Parnell’s second flight—It can bo call- I in e, S bt successive years from 1S73. Print- (
ed nothing else—completes his downfall. tho account of net earnings at length) practice the Republicans can always be
Various explanations hav been offered the Aiken Journal says: depended upon to get a long way ahead
for his departure, but tbe plain truth of These fitTi.r.s mav be relied on a* an °C lbe Democrats. Something In the way
the matter is that lie dreads arrest Aiiese iigures may be relied on as au- of smart practice seems to have been
THlE^OVJERWHELSIHrO^UEFEAT^OF THE tb ? “PPOrtionment bill
ronnoinv mi t I 000 , 01 lue company. Here we have as a l it has been referred to a committee, and
Tho strength of‘the combined Laud I n thC Re P“ bll ? Q committee
Leaguers and the ultra Radical* wasH* “ 10 admt , of lie ^P^ssion
shown on tho final division on tho third b * en
reading of tho coercion bill, when they Marti h ® W* S f tbe Re P ubl , icans t0 ^nder im ;
could onlv muster against that measure 5! 1 ® 3 ’ .a' 1 * 3 , 6 ngutes aro positlieiy start- possible tli 1 passage of an apportionment
touv-six members iu°! ouse of 3™1 Ins wlie , n th ? circumstances are taken in- bill by tbe present Congress. That was
Iris^hpeopl'e cannot fail to £ ee° ftom 5,Is I “f rati ° D ’ bUt W ° V ° UCh for lb ^ the re^alpartV p U? >oso at°the start, but it
tlio net result of Mr. Parnell’s leadership. | ... was found dzlhcult for a time to get the
TUE COMING BATTLE ON THE LAND BILL. I TESTIMONIALS TO MBS. HAYES.—Mrs. r ° t n ® lt J Q UUlt€ d* The ad-
In the absence of any fresh disturbances Haves Las recently received several test! ’Iftn 0 .Immediately passing an equity
in Ireland, tbe proposed arms bill will cer- ay f,, rccoh ?d several testl- a bl e bill is apparent to everybody, but
taiulybe dropped, and tho land bill w m m°niais from different “Lmons” for her partisan jugglery has been employed to
be introduced next week—that Is to say I services in tho cause of temperance. One P revent ®- It i* a heavy responsibility
if Mr. Gladstone has by that- timo fully 0 i these services was an ingenious method lor any *•*** 10 asaume
recovered from the consequences of his I ... . .. J • Louisville Cornier Journal.
recent accident. A much more serious P“ ncb in an ° rall S e 3kin > 30 Four years ago to-day there was a very
content wjll arise on this measure, as I that the social glass was dispensed with, atrabilarious feeling throughout the coun-
uearly the entire strength of the Conserv-1 and, however full a man might become, try, sequential to a very decided diffet-
atlvc party will be arrayed in opposition bo could conscientiously say I have drank euce of opinion « to the propriety of in
to it, reinforced by many old Whigs and I M ,, . . . „ ... I auguratlng a man President who had
- • • ‘ ' ' ' no liquor-not a single glass. In that I ne £ er bee ° e)octed t0 tbe offic8- Tbo/or .
way much scandal was avoided and tho bearanco of the Democratic party lia3
reputation of tho White House preserved | been of tbe Mosaic order, and to that for-
Libcrals who are against any interference
with the private rights of landlords. Tho
introduction of thu bill will be tbe begin
ning of anew and formidable agitation
throughout the whole country.
THE UNEASINESS AROUT GLADSTONE’S
HEALTH.
Mr. Gladstone's leadership is now more
than ever essential to the Liberal party,
and it is a great misfortune to that organ
ization that bo is even temporarily dis
abled. I am told that he is even more
severely shaken by his fall than liis doctors
and friends are willing the public should
know, Although not tbe slightest fear is
uncontaminated.
The New York Sun gives a list of fifty
pilgrims, saying of each, he is “gone to
Mentor.” Is a man necessarily a tor
mentor who lias gone to Mentor.
bearance and sclf-contrul we owo the
peaceful aspect ot the country to-day.
SI Louis Globe-Democrat
If Mr. Mitchell is really a man of sena
torial magnitude ho can only fulfill the
hopes of his independent supporters by
developing into a powerful anti-Cameron
boss; and lie will not meet the desires of
liis stalwart supporters unless lie prove a
worthy colleague of Cameron in arranging
for tlie distribution of patronage in the
party. He must either bo a boss against
The lost question submitted to us is,
“why are successful stage womeu so fasci-
-, , - , - , noting V' It seems to havo been forgotten
entertained concerning Ins recoveiy) ue | that each stage woman is Buocessfal to just j Cameron or a co-boss with him, or sink
was iu no state to receive a fresh shock to *h 0 extent of her correctness in imitating a I back into tbe obscurity from wbicb he has
hmSM!^h.t “VGWU^n. iI +» that exists or has existed in tho bwn called. If to acquire a preponder-
iiiqmnes to-day is that Mr. Gladstone is —iii _u- I ating Inflaence 111 a party by reason of
progressing favorably,” but, as usual, bo Bat « will not do to askwhy aro b rlor abmt or ^,11.^. „ itb tbc
usists on attending to business and would certain society women so fascinating, nor m e lb , J(l3 of political success is to beco^* a
get up if allowed to do so. Tbe truth is yet to inquire why are certain women out b0S3 tben a boss is au unavoidable evil 01
that I10 lias bcou failing for several weeks | of socioty so fascinating, for neither qaes-1 the existence of parties. Those reformers
past and I113 general health lias been such tiou describes both. The last analysis of who really believe it possible to abolish
as to call for a prolonged rest. His con- th sub j t ^ why ^ women so what they call the boss system in party
ditlon causes more uneasiness in tbe party . “ maua-iement deceive themselves, 'l’hev
than his friends are willing to avow. 1 nnrl •’"*"» 1 ° deceive luemsenes. mey
THE WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN THE
My first visit to Now York was during tho
Crystal Palace exhibition. I was a mere
boy. I was fall of ambition, nnd brought
a little thing with me from my country
homo that I thought was going to make my
fortune nnd revolutionize thu world. What
do you suppose it was ?"
“I am sure I do not know.”
“It was (laughing heartily) a mouse trap.
That mouse trap was to mo the greatest
thing in New York. It was not very big,
but I took so much pride in it—it was so
precious to mo—that I had a very hand
some mahogany box made in which to
carry it. I remember very well getting on
one of the street cars—I think it was
the Sixth avenue line. I was a little more
unsophisticated in tho ways of New York
then than I am now. I was anxious to seo
the city. It was a wonder to me and I
stepped out on the platform to look nt its
blocks and blocks of houses. In my inno
cence I left my mouso trap on the seat.
When I got to tho street where I wished to
C oil I stepped inside to get it, and to my
ror found that my mouse trap had dis
appeared. Taming to tho conductor I
sard, excitedly: ‘What has bccomo of
my box?’ ‘That box that was on tho
seat?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Was it yours?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Why,
a man who got out and turned down the
street above carried it off. If yon run yon
will probably catch him.’ I ran and I
caught him. Ho was a great, strong fellow,
but I collared him. I really regretted that 1
hiul dona iso and tried to getaway, but the
fact is one of my fingers accidentally got
canght in ono of tho button bolo of his coat
and beforo I couhl got off there was a
crowd nround ns nud a policeman, who
took both off to on adjoining station honso.
Tho statements of tlio policeman and of
tho thief and of myself were all heard. Tho
magistrate drew some nice legal and tech
nical distinction which came very near
coding mu my liberty. While the thief
who stole my mouse trap was committed
for trial I was given to understand that
owing to my inability to famish bail—
for 1 knew no one in New York then—I
should be detained os a witness Until the
trial came off. Itwn3 not a pleasant in
troduction to New York:bntInnvo never
forgotten it, and its recollection has often
afforded mo a good deal of amusement.
Fortnnately for me, thore was a detective
in tho place who had been hunting my
mouso trap thief for years, and who had n
requisition from, I think, the Governor of
Pennsylvania or Now Jorsey. He saved me.
I forgot to say that when in tlio conrso of
the examination the box was opened to verify
the truth of my .statement aud ihe purloin-
er of my great invention fonnd it was only
a mouse trap his face assumed such an ex
pression of disgnst that I could not
really help laughing at him, although
I was at the time in ono of tho most un
comfortable positions I had np to that timo
been placed in. That mouse trap incident
got of conrso into noxt day’s Herald. I re
member tho title of the article very woll—
‘How a Mouse Trap Caught a Thief.’ It
was the first appearance of Jny Gonld in
the pages of the Herald.
Improvement In Steam Navigation
Twouty years ago, says tho New York
Bulletin, tlio Canard steamship “Persia,”
then the finest vessel afloat, used to con-
sume 6 7-10 pounds of coal per lionr per
horse power. So great was the space re
quired for the coal that, though tlie vessel
was 2,000 tons burden, sbo could only
find room for 250 tons of paying cargo.
Contrast this with tbe performances of a
new steamer of tbe present day. The
“Arizona” Is about double the size of tbe
“Persia,” but she consumes only 1}
pounds of coal ptr hour per horse pdWer.
Tbe consequence is that she can carry
3,400 tons of paying freight and can steam
16} knots against tbe “Persia’s” 13, thus
burning but one-fifth of a ton of coal for
each ton of goods carried across the At
lantic, instead of tbe 6| tons burned by
the “Persia.” Tbe present expenditure of
coal in carrying a ton of goods across is
therefore less than l-30th of what it was
twenty years ago, and improvement is
still golDg on. It is no wonder that sail
ing vessels find it harder and harder to
make a decent living.
EAST.
rcles here, as upon the J
tho belief is strong
that a war between Greece and Turkey is
imminent. Tbe piescnt British ministry, j
In diplomatic cjrcli
continent generally,
fascinating, and, having reached this point,, w ~ cb ol bossei , and
onr conscientious answer is, we do I mg abolish them aUofBlber. The only
know* Wo did know, but w© havo forgot- I gg^ rid of ono boss wboso lead has
tun. | become'distastcful is to follow lor tlie time
being another whose abilities give a prom-
Tnc stately Mardi Gras shines in the so-1 ise of supplanting him. The only way to
. ... cial southwest with sunset splendor; Cin-j destroy the influence of Cameron in Penn-
alter encouraging Greece to the very charming concerts compass tho sylvania is to set up against him a man
veigo of resistance, now advises the Ilel-1imnnnfiinrv iitaiuinai : nnn J who is more than his match, and the
lenes to have patience and wait, and it ^ attempt to drop liim without following
not surprising that they deem tho first ad- dates the North with inimitable invitations. anotb e r i eader i 3 an attempt at tbe impos-
vlce tlio best. Active preparations for But hero m the South the aspiring aspara- sib j e>
hostilities are being made on both sides. I gus has the floor, while the round, rosy ■ Catskill A'. Y„ Recorder.
a „-i,ic(t!n„ VnHfc rQtUsl1 reare its hea(3 ’ 011(18118 Bwcetl y bc * Since the immense profits made by mi-
March came with a whistling North-1 tlio silent,’silvery, succulent cel-1 nlpulating tho public debt and legislating
wester and a . temperature among the I er y f content noxt to come. Thus do we I for corporations aud subsidies, from the
forties. It was a bright, sunny day, with invoke alliteration’s artful aid in thy behalf warperiod down, the Republican party has
plenty of dust in circulation; but by no oh South. systematically corrupted voters by fur-
.. , , 7,1 I riisliing immense sums to bo used at tbe
means lioiiisli enough to justify a claim 0cb esteomed friend Wm . Moore, tho P°Us- With the officeholders to assess
of a lamb-like conclusion, fapring has | ^ ty<a | and tlie treasury to draw upon tho elec-
Oun esteemed friend, Wm. Moore, tho
advanced rapidly during tlio past ten | °v;^tiwTeint« I t!ons nowada >’ s bear little resemblance to
davs The trees aro leafim- out and £ be8ltate3 , about v i? ltm 8. tbe Stat ? the former expressions of public opinion,
uajs. ine tr.es aro lealiiu s out an « | Fmr m October, because Doo Wilson and q- 0 day> a t most contested districts, there
peaches and plums iu bloom.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is of the opin
ion tliat gentlemen Bhonld wear dress coats
to operas and concerts. Doubtless the get
ting one’s self arrayed in atoning fork gar
ment of mournful line would bo a delicate
recognition of tho average operatic enter
tainment, but where is tho inducement ?
some of the other boys are loose. Such |
timidity on the part of onr delicate con
temporary reflects upon the press. But I
then a man whose nerves aro tnned to
Green street's perennial repose and Au
gusta’s brooding quiet, must be allowed j
some latitude to quiver.
are enough venal voters to hold the bal
ance of power.
Philadelphia American.
Mr. Hugh McCulloch lias come over to
tho bi-mctallists. In a letter to Bullion,
ho announces his agreement with thoio
who hold that commerce cannot afford to
seo silver discredited or deprived of its
monetary character. Wc congratulate
Mr. McCulloch on the discretion he has
, . . i Fnoir our dispatches to-dny it will be — —
Must one s hips be free when music is I nbont qjq Englishmen, including shown in selecting the time of his con-
alloat ? Do white ties choke less than Gen . Colley, have been scooped in by tho I verslon ‘ No(v lhat M Continental Eu-
black ones, or canvas bam hands make lllia wiu bc mo lanclioly new
Ho^not 1 ’ that P^ 011 of the British who are not I Gained off by England for exportation to
costumes, let them dradhe^ every B flat Iookin S for l iromotion - bnt wUon tho Mon ; America, it does not involve much risk to
coat that appears. Let them offer to bear I roo doctrine is advanced to an exaggerated predict that things must take a tnrn m
part of the_ expense, and the cut bias audi-1 degree, there is bonnd to bo a disaster I favor of silver as an international money.
somowhore. England should hnve been
content with cutting off Africa by the Suez
canal.
) expense, i
enccs will be large.
Tbe Tribune occasionally produces a good
paragraph. Its latest is, “wo defy our New
Jersey readers to glance at the article on
the fifth page without blushing.” There
are time3 when the Tribune might defy its
readers generally to glance nt any portion
of ihe paper without blushing, and there
aro times when no American can do it.
In regard to tho World’s Fair, Goneral
Grant says ho will not piny unless ho can
havo Central Park. The- jirospecta are
that the general will not play. In thiscon-
Phesxdext Hates is handling the funding
bill as carefully os a school boy wonld a
hornet’s nest. When ho takes the plug oat
of the entranco tho express train for Fre
mont should bo ready to move right off. In
this way Mr. Garfield will be insured a
warm reception, while the gentlemanly
Rogers can stand on tho rear platform and
report in perfect safety.
And when these signs of tbe times are
supplemented by official declarations of
German and French statesmen that tbe
time is coming for anotber international
conference on tho silver question, tlie
probability of a change approaches cer
tainty. But if those official utterances are
meant as feelers toward America, and we
are expected to take the initiative in this
business, we hope that the national dig
nity will be consulted by ignoring snch
hints. Tbe tone which our representa
tives at tbe last conference—General Wal
ker, lor instance,—were obliged to as
suine, and the lectures administered to
us, as advocates of silver because the chief
producers of that metal, should suffice to
The hitherto gentlemanly Rogers, the
nec'tion, wTdesifo^to csdUho'^commission- I vdl known White House usher, has at last j provent any action, except upon Euro-
nn.’ntioniinn tr, iho -port- distinguished himself by appearing as a peati invitation. The statesmen ot tho
which H not nJ Lol TLS £ ***** Mr. Rogers has now lost the op- Old World should understand that we are
which, U not now hirge enough, can be * UmuU n3 lho not suffering from the present disorgaulza-
extonded to the const with a river front all ,7^ “ “ .T,. m tIln tlon of monetary interests. On tlie con-
tho way. 016 el6ept(0n to the rule, which classes Uio traryj tbe Um J led States are tbe only
•■*«»■■ ■■ - ■ ■ . I present administration as dishonest. But power which is prospering in the great
Tn:: National Vuh-rai. Club h-M a meet- | thou it pay* h,tt- r to i-.t— under tho goner- | struggle for the possession of gold, ami
thore soems no reason to expect that the
current of gold is soon to change its di
rection.
AT. V. Tribune.
The truth rarely overtakes a lie even
when it is started in cioso pursuit, but it
is our duty, in lbi3 case, to put it firmly
ou its legs. We aro warranted in saying
that Mr. Howells neither lias, nor bas
bad, either wish or expectation iu regard
ing in Washington city and resolved not to | al rale than to bu tho exception,
march in tho inaugural precession, becauso .
ono division was to be led by the “rebel” ^ now too late for our sugges-
Genoral Field. This is not at nil snr- I tioM to bo valuable, wo would nso up and
prising; “rebel” gcnorals have beforo fre
quently led where few “national veterans” j
wonld care to follow.
A gang of dealers in watered milk havo ]
been fined in New York recently. It is but
seldom that wo find such dealers here. But I
tbey water stock with all tho punctuality of
Wall street dealers. It is difficult for for- |
cignors to understand these things, bat they
aro perfectly clear to Amorican minds.
warn tho inaugural committee that the cap
italists aro in a fair way to mako inaugura
tion day a second Black Friday. Tho conn-.
try is not prepared to bo afflicted with Gar- | 6I1 „, -"P
field nnd a panic on the same day.
It has transpired that tho celebrated
‘bangs” cultivated by our lady friends, hnd
their origiu in New Zealand. Tho plaster- |
MircBEtn, Pennsylvania’s now Senator,
is catching it on all sides. His principal
offense is, that ho is unknown. Being
Republican, Mr. Mitchell will soon over
come this difficulty. Ho lias only to pat
money in his purso, and be careless as to
whoso money it is.
to the Swiss mission. On our own behalf
wo may be allowed to add that it is an
impertinence for reputablo newspapers to
assume tbat Mr. Howells stands at tho
door of the Wliito House, cap in hand,
asking for alms every lime there is a
change of administration. No wonder
that he is vexed that people should think
that offices which aro usually tho refuge
oi broken-winded politicians should bc
regarded by any decent and reputable
A PABAOBAru is going the rounds giving
ing of bongs with spittlo and gum Arabic I ‘°ZrHfXr I 1U “° rary eltl ' 8r 8S 4 llCCCSsily ’
. . . , . , _a_a~ I railroad tram. It so mortifying to pxogres-1 v n Tinn/irmi
“ “ A**" 6 ™ >mprovcment, and wo state | ^ Americn to fiud that thig digtinguishe a We pub $&d° iMcly a teUef from tbe
honor was enjoyed by nn Englishman. president of one of the Georgia cotton
— ■ I mills, showing how successful this branch
Carlyle, it nppears, did not hnve much I of manufactures had been in “the empire
respect for our illustrious G. Washington. I State of tho South.” What was true of
We shall not comment upon tho fact. Mr. j Georgia is equally true of tlie other cotton
Carlyle, in being bom a foreigner, was I States, which have exactly the,same ad-
improvement,
it that our girls may not be robbed of nil
the honors.
Mabt Axdekhon took in $4,600 ot n mat
inee and evening performance in cul-
cliawed Boston. Compliments, accompa
nied by cash, are generally highly appre
ciated,, and doubtless Mollie bas token
down Boston’s name in her note book.
sufficiently chastised.
We have-before announced tbat one of
the “dizzy blondes" purchased a fifty dollar
outfit in this city. Bat we neglected to say
that this is the highest price ever paid in
Georgia for one pair of stockings.
Walt Whitman has Been doing very well
lately. Some of his poems have actually
been intelligable. If Mr. Whitman con
tinues to improve, we shall place him on
our exchange list.
A cbitjo says that Henry James, Jr., in
trying to be smart is sometimes obscure.
Doc Wilson swings the other way. In try
ing to be obscure, Doo js smart.
England, since her. connection with the
Boers, can sympathize with the schoolboy
who picked up a wasp's nest before the
wasps were done with it.
1
vantages. To demonstrate this it is only
necessary to refer to a near neighbor of
. ... , I ours, the little city of Natchez, opposite
Mkusteus now unabridged dictionary ^ Louisiana coast, and which isessen-
contains 1,400 now words. It is especially I tlally Louisiauian In every respect—ell-
adopted to capitalists who have recently | mate, people and ideas.
unable to find language to express
their feelings.
Mb. Fenton, of New York, Rays nn
exchange, wore out a pair of corduroy
pants in traveling to Mentor. Mr. Fenton,
we infer from this, is a modem Balaam.
It wonld seem tliat Wm. Schurz is dis
posed to regard the Indian as more practi
cal than romantic. Somebody should send
Mr. Schurz a copy of Minnehaha.
Natchez has lately been making an
earnest effort to develop mauutactures and
become a manufacturing city, and it has
been uniformly successful In these en
deavors, but most of all with its collou
manufactures.
The success of its two cloth aud yam
factories, located within the past two
years, bas been remarkable. The cloth
factory has been so crowded with orders
that it was compelled a few months ago
to suspend operations in order to increase
its capacity to supply the demand. We
were informed, a few days ago, by Mr. A.
St< ^5 ^ brilliant career. He was nnf .
this country, but he bad also tlioir-L"
virtues. In his worst politics there
dasli of patriotism. He could stand lik!
a rock against the surging tide
sansbip when occasio.f demanded tf ^
was so good a Iawver iw .. . _ «o
cissittides of public life, fcffore^d f\o«th
west will be able to send liaoVtr,.' : ' ort “-
tbc peer oi the dead man where
soon to be laid in the soil of tbo " stsS
winch ho honored and which honored
Cincinnati Gozctte.
-JS£* years ago Delaware was
unft ersally reprobated for practicing th*
old time barbarism of whipping tliieve®'
S and other petty offenders. The
little htate has turned a deaf ear to her
critics, and justifies her adherence to the
use of the lash by tbe fact that men ara
very seldom punished twice for the same
ofieiise, and that the predatory classesTr
other States give her borders a wide berth
Most persons, however, agree that public
floggings, like public executions, are d».
moralizing. Vet there are others, and
their number seems to be increasin’’ who
are confident lhat treatment in kind is ».
qnircd with respect to brutal criminal*
such as wife beaters and garroters. £q*.’
land, which has abolished, or nearfy
abolished, flogging In her army and navy
a few years ago restored It in regard to the
classes of offenders above mentioned, and
it is claimed with entire success. The
punishment is inflicted in private, and
precedes or follows a term of imprison,
ment. It has been fonnd, so the prison
discipline men assert, that tho greatest
cowards are those who have the least re
pugnance to inflicting pain on others; that
the mere locking up of such savages does
not reform them nor provide an adequate
penalty for their violence. At any rate
there is now little or no opposition to the
revival of corporal punishment any whero
in the British Isles. So useful, indeed,
it is claimed to have proved that its ex
tension, in a milder form, to juvenilo
culprits, has been proposed by tbe Gov
ernment. Canada has followed the ex.
ample of the mother country, ami it is
noticeable that In several of our Legisla
tures bills have been introduced with
similar objects.
W. F. Tribune.
There is a balm for the hurt soul of un
appreciated geuius in the statement made
by tbe assistant librarian of tbe Mercantile
Library that, an author’s works become
popular tho moment he dies. At present
there is a pressing demand for George El
liot’s novels anil Carlyle’s works, “Adam
Bede” and “The French Revolution” head
ing the respective lists. One peculiarity
of the sudden revival of interest iu these
writers’ works Is that the sexes unsex
themselves—the men calling for “Tho
Mill on the Floss” and the women for
“Sartor Resartus.” Let all unread anil
unsold “writers of books,” a3 Carlyle
styled himself, get what comfort they can
from this edifying reflection. Immortali
ty will follow dissolution. Their own
bodies may bo mouldering In the grave,
but their ideas will be marching on—for
one or two weeks, with privilege of
renewal and liability to fine.
y. F. Commercial Bulletin.
Fbomout Republican exchanges, we infer H. Abbot, a New England machinist ern-
that Congress is acting very unkindly to- j ployed to superintend the erection of new
wards Wall street. This is all wrong. Oon- machinery in the iactory, tbat within tbe
gross should be reprimanded. I P Mt two moutbs it bss been increased
Wall stbket now appears to be the hen
whose every feather is raffled because a j
from a 130 to a 390 loom mill, and tbat a
new main driving engine—a complete aud
improved Corliis oi 300 horse-power,
double tbe power of the former engine
Tbe “rockaway” waltz is the latest. It is I boy’s kite has cast a shadow in the back- employed—has been put up to do tbe in-
Custom in the Cash trial appears to have
been stranger than law. From this we in
fer that law must become custom before it
is worth anything. In the light of recent The forming of Garfield’s cabinet lias-
events it will be seen that some of our laws (rates the saying, that many are called
designed for people who are disposed to j
pleasantly chunk away time with as little |
exertion as possible. _ . ’
lx is now hinted that Mitchell is Came
ron's Richard Roe.
yard.
are anything but customs.
but few choecn.
The turkey season has just set in, but
Oonkling is too old a cock to gobble before
Msreh is well under way.
The Paris Bourse was recently demora
Used for several hours by the report that
Emperor William of Germany was dead.
creased work.
Mr. Abbot very pointedly says, “when
ever a cetton factory stops to double its
power, it’s a sign that its business is pay
ing.” His comprehensive remark is a
good enough moral to close with.
Philadelphia Record.
Tbe death of Senator Carpenter is a
public misfortune. It brings to * fail
“Cheap John” evidently is not bringing
bis steamships to Sau Francisco tor a
pleasure excursion. He never indulges
in pleasure excursions. He means busi
ness all the while. The telegraph repoits
that a second steamer with tho Dragon
flag has put in an appearance at San
Francisco, and is now offering to carry
•flour from there to Hong Hong for $5 a
ton. The Pacific Mall Steamship Com
pany is understood to meet this bid by an
offer of $2.50, aud it is now in order for
John to say how much lower be will go,
if he intends to keep the bnsincss. Mer
chants aud shippers thus bave already the
benefit of “Chinese cheap labor” on the
high seas, at the same time that a great
corporation has to compete with au ele
ment wbicb promises to bc a much more
effective regulator of the Pacific freight
market than anything else that
could bo devised. The question
now is, how long will it be beforo
the Dragon flag is seen on the Atlantia
also as a competitor for tho carrying trade
there? It Is intimated that the Imperial
government is backing np tbe Chincso
Merchants’ Shipping Company, but as
yet there is no proof of that. It is mere
conjecture, but, even If It Is, we ought to
feel much obliged to the Emperor for
doing business for us upon such favorable
terms. It will help our exporting trade.
Tbe lower freights are, the wider tho
margin of profit on the merchandise that
goes to market. If tho Emperor of China
proposes to cany flour, or anything else,
for us for next to nothing, it would be the
height of folly to look thegift-horse In the
mouth. It would be “paternal govern
ment” to some purpose. If bis treasury
or bis taxpayers can stand It, we can.
Let him go ahead.
Milledgcville Recorder.
Es:apc was hopeless; bnt the press, tho
hustings and other means, are left to os to
struggle for American freedom. Havo we
done our duty? Have wo resisted
encroachments with all the power at our
command? Shall we sink into apathy
under the weak and nerveless idea that no
patriotism and no wisdom can check the
madness of the centralists? Do we not
act as if political freedom, at best, is but a
troublesome superfluity? There never
was in human history higher incentives
fur persistent effort, a nobler field fer the
exercise of human geuius and exertion
than is presented now to the bold
and bravo to braudish the lights of
fact and truth, to save from desecra
tion the x’roudest, richest and noblest
bequest ever left by genius, valor and
patriotism to any people in ancient
or modern times. Wu are called upon by
au instinctive love of Independence by tho
memorable example of our forefathers, by
haired to tyranny in all its forms, now
moving on in a species of political insi.nity,
to call the Northern centralists to a halt,
and bring tlie people if possible, to a .con
sideration of tbo dangers which beset
them. The heroic energies ot character
must bo called into constant requisition.
No man can say tbc effort will fail, for the
leople of the North are capable of reason-
ng and cannot fail to sec that the gulf,
into which we may fall, may receive them,
too, in a common rain with us. The man
who socks to weaken the Democratic prin
ciples of the fathers, we hesitate not to
say, is an enemy to the liberties of tbe
American people in every section of the
Union.
X F. Sun.
At the last Presidential election the can
didates of this party received a majority of
the popular votes, as they did four years
ago. These votes were not bought, nor
were they the result of persuasion andiu-
timidatiou. They represent the honest
convictions of the men who cast them,
and it is clear that tlie party which is
thus sustained after twenty years’ exclu
sion from the spoils of executive power
bas no reason to despair.
But tho Democratic party can expect
success only upon one couditiou : it must
never again yield an inch of its own
gro>nd to the enemy. It must stand by
lie principles upon which Jefferson
found* tbe party, and Madison, Jackson,
and all liis worthy successors built.
Xashcille American. ,
To cripple tbe banking system wonld be
a serious matter. It might teach the
popular mind to take a more conservative
view of tbe banks, but it would be a dear
lesson. Still, we can but recall that tbe
New York banks took a very lofty posi
tion on tbe silver bill, from which tbey
have quietly receded, because tbe matter
did not turn out as tbey feared. Tbey
may be equally iu error as to this meas
ure.
Washington World. R p
There is not “a more abler man," •**
Western politician would say, than Sena
tor Thurman, and were politics left out,
as they should be, In considering tbe ma
terial out of which to make judges, no
better selection could be made than that
of Mr. Tburmau for tbe vacancy on the
Supreme Bench of the United States