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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS-;LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc.-JPRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM.
4 GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1881
VOLUME LV-JSTO. 19
TitE BLACKSXITIVS SOXG.
Through the casement roseate dawn
Already steals with cheanne ray;
Let’s to the forge, and wake the morn
With boist’rons voice and jocund lay!
Bellow?, blow; and furnace, smoke;
Bend the glowing metal soon I
Hammer, fall, with telling stroke I
Sing to my anvil’s merry tune,
“Strike
Pong, Pong—
whilethoIron’s hot!”
With lusty stroke my hammer rings;
Strike hard! ’tis for your chubby boy
Who to his mother fondly clings,
And trills his cooing note of joy.
Thanks to tho sweat that bathes my face,
The paths of learning be shall tread,
And knowledge make her dwelling place
Within my darling’s fair young head I
Labor unto the heart givw case,
And will our daily bread supply!
It decks the charms of my Therese,
My wife, my household deity!
Our hands were never formed to make
Muskets or sword blades, bolts or chains;
God gave us arms for labor’s sake;
Oar minds He for love’s work ordains!
Nor all who day by day pursue
Some darlinghope, some cherished end—
Old hearts who have but power in view;
Young hearts, who love’s soft call attond;
Men who wonld wield tho sword or pen—
Sages and fools, peasants and kings—
If you’d succeed, toko ns the word
Of wisdom, what my anvil rings;
Pong, Pong, Fong—
“Strike while tho Iron’s hot.”
ATLAXTA AXGIjIXGS.
The Grand Competitive Cotton Test
Production — All Abont It—T h e
Basil Expected—Postell’s Shells
Atlanta, Ua., May 0, 1881—The
competitive test of cotton production for
the cotton exposition, done under the su
pervision of the able commissioner of
agriculture, Judge Henderson, is a big af.
fair, and gives promise of fine results
Each competitor has a half acre of
ground right by the exposition buildings
at the fair ground, and every step in these
beats is taken under closo watching, and
with a record of cost, labor, time, prepar
ation, etc. There are twelve competitors,
viz.: Dr. W. P. Harden, of Smyrna; Mr,
Stone, of Cobb connty; Mr. Fleming, of
Cobb county; Mr. Sloan, of Norcross;
Clies. Howard, of Cartersville; Col. T. C
Howard, of Atlanta; Major J. W. Warren,
of Kirkwood; Jordan Johnston, Mr. Aus
tin, Durden & Hansell and Mr. Lyon, of
Fulton county.
The lots were drawn by lottery. The
premiums amount to tho large sum of
$2,000, and are divided as follows.
1. $70o; for tho greatest percentage of
net protit on total investment in land,
labor, seed and fertilizers. The best half
acre, as determined by test or unfertilized
rows to be valued at $10, and the other
plots valued in proportion to the yield of
the natural soil, 20 per cent of the value
of the plot to be charged to rent account.
The lint cotton for this and the second
premium to be valued on the same day
according to its quality Oil the Atlanta
market. The yield of seed to be credited
at 15 cents per bushel of 30 pouuds.
2. $000 for the greatest actual profit an
the half acre. Other conditions as per
first premium.
3. $-100 for the greatest per cent, of in
crease in lint cotton over the production
of the natural soil.
4. $200 for the greatest absolute increase
in lint cotton over the production of the
natural soil.
5. $200 for the greatest absolute yield
of lint cotton per balf acre.
No premium shall be awarded to any
contestant who produces less than at the
rate of 2,000 pounds of seed cotton per
acre.
The relative natural fertility of the
plats to be ascertained by taking the mid
dle one of three rows, of which the out
side rows are five feet from any fertilized
row, and the same sort of seed are to be
used without any manure of any kind.
The superintendent of the contest Is
Hark Hardin,and everything in the wayof
gitbering, ginning, etc., the cotton is dene
by him, each competitor to attend and see
it properly done if he pleases.
The superintendent keeps a record in
which every particular of the planting and
cropping of every plat shall be entered,
covering date of steps taken, implements
used, character of ploughing, sorts and
quantities of fertilizers and everything
about it.
Applicants for plats shall deposit $25
w “icb is foifeited if the plat is abandoned.
The committee to settle all disputed
questions are J. T. Henderson, J.S. Now-
man ami J. J. Toon.
The competitors have done some mar
vellous preparations—plowing and cross-
plowing, subsoilinjr, harrowing, manure by
ton. commercial fettilizers, ditto, etc.
Clies. Howard drew the first bloodletting
a long start ahead iu the first cotton
plants. He is about to chop out.
PREPARING FOB TUB EXPOSITION.
The troublesome problem anticipated is
the capacity ol the city to entertain the
crowd. There are talks of new hotels.
The Kimball House will fiuisb up the bal
ance of its rooms, which will complete
Hus grand hotel and make it the largest
and finest hotel In the South. Tho own-
*j* encouraged to this expense because
house has been crammed for six
months under the management of Mr.
owule, the present masterly young pro
prietor. There has been an unusual run
w travel this past fall and winter and it is
kept up.
POSTELL’S SHELLS.
i a ,** ames FosteU, of St. Simon’s I*-
**ua, u here, with twenty-four boxes of
•ueils, the superb collection of a lifetime,
and probably the finest collection in tbe
t be allows the Young Men’s
Library to use, and which will form a
“agnilicent attraction for Ibe library.
jr r, .£°*toll lias been offered $5,000 cash
•or the collection but refused it, and now
Sets $150 a year from the library to
'“able him to manage the collection,
coming back and forth. Georgia is
many things. Wo have
rich in
®* D 7 antiquarians. Mr. Fostell ex-
*? ‘he shell line. Colonel O. C.
•■ones is famous as a collector of Indian
"Wies. We have a man iu Atlanta
“J* a rare and enormous collection of
uwerflies, Including thousands of speci-
■WS, Worth several thousand dollars. It
ffi:« n v oa * how men with such fancies
enng to their hobbies. They value money
ii ‘, ug ,n comparison.
“y the way, Mr. Julius Brown, the
president of tho Young Men’s Library
‘•"Ociation closes two years’ presidency of
»«.. u mcern with a showing of practical
JJj'Jhthtwfil never be equalled. A
building, a vastly increased llbra-
*7»*b(la $5,000 collection of shells are
fruits of his incumbency. Pretty
bwa remits for one man.
i Reality,
~ nJk-n
.Won't Recognise It.
Sparta Ishmaelite.
discovery of a now comet
~.i.S oc ?.amJly placed at our service, for
of nnr^°j ^ ho old cornels have not been
in the 1 8et 7 ioe to toe people of this section,
to dniS.*’ an “ unless tho new ono is going
itsm.rb. r,we n0 ‘ care to recognize
this ance ‘, Until we are satisfied on
oiaeL 0lat ’ W0 s h®fi shut down on the new
The Sens OUI Round
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
“Could I see tbe editor?” she asked,
looking around for him and wondering
what was going on under his table.
“Eh I yes; I’m him,” responded the edi
tor, evolving himself and slipping a cork
Into his vest pocket. “What can i do for
yon?”
“I am a student at Parker Institute,'
responded the blusblog damsel, “and I
have written a little article on ‘Our School
Days,’ which I would like to have pub
lished in the Eagle If you think it good
enough.”
“Certainly,” replied the editor, gazing
ip unconscious admiration upon the beau
tiful face before him, “Does in commence
‘Our school days 1 how the words linger
in sweet cadence on the strings of memo
ry! Is that the way it runs?”
“Why, yes,” responded the beaming
girl. “Then it goes on, ‘how wo look for
ward from them to the time when we
shall look back to them 1’ How did you
know ?”
Never mind,” said the editor with tbe
engaging smile which lias endeared him
to the citizens of Brooklyn. “After that
comes, ‘So shiney! So gilded with the
pleasures that make yojith happy, thoy
tiave flown into the immutable past and
come to us in alter life only as the echoes
of sweet recollection.” Isn’t that it?”
“ It certainly is,” answered tho aston
ishedgirl, radiant with delight. “How
could you know what I had written ?”
“Then it changes from tho pianissimo
and becomes more tender: ‘Tho shadows
gather round our path. Tho roses of
friendship are withering, but may we not
hope that they will bloom again as wo
remember tbe affection that bound us
here and made,’
“No, you’re wrong there,” and tho soft
eyes looked disappointed.
“Is it ‘Hope od, hope ever ?’ ” asked the
editor.
‘•That comes in farther on. You had
it nearly right. It is, ‘The dun shadows
close arouud us. The flowers of friend
ship are sleeping but not withered, and
will bloom again in the affectionate re
membrance of the' chains that bound us
so lightly.’”
“Strange that I should have made that
mistake,” said the editor musingly. “I
never missed on one before. From there
it goes, ‘schoolmates, let us live so that all
our days shall bo as radiant as those we
have known*here,and may we plnck happi
ness fronr every bush,forgetting never that
tlmjthorns are belowjtbo roses, and pitying
those whose hands are bruised in the
march through life.’”
“That’s it P’ exclaimed the delighted
girl, and then comes ‘Hope on, hope
prAr.* W ■
“Sure’s yon’re bom!” cried the editor,
blush : ng with pleasure, and once more on
the r.gbt track. Then it runs: “And as
for you, teachers dear I”
“Yes, yes, you’re right,” giggled the
girl. “I can’t see how you found me out!
Would you like to print it?” and her face
assumed an anxious shade.
“Certainly,” responded the editor, “I’ll
say it’s by the most promising young lady
in Brooklyn, the daughter of au esteemed
citizen and a lady who has already taken
a high social rank.”
“That finishes the school commence
ments at one swoop.” sighed tho editor
gloomily, as the fair vision floated out.
“Can’t seo how I made that blunder
abont the shadows and roses and friend
ship. Either I’m getting old or some of
those girls have struck out something
original. Here, Swipes, tell tho foreman
to put this slush in the next tax sales sup
plement,” and the editor felt in his hair
for the cork, and wondered what had
happened to his memory.
Car Sickness
Rapid traveling and long journeys liavo
mads car sickness a very common com
plaint, and the anticipation of it destroys
the pleasure of many trips to the sufferers.
A Boston paper says:
A lady who bad occasion to take a short
trip on the Lowell road—and sho never
travels by rail for pleasure—was, as is
usual with her, as thoroughly sick as ever
a landsman is on the “heaving deep," by
the time she had ridden a dozen miles.*
Tho conductor of the palace car, who was
apparently very familiar with such cases,
told the sufferer’s companion that a sheet
of writiug paper, worn next to the person,
directly over the chest, was a sure pre
ventive of the trouble in nine cases out of
ten. He had recommended it to hundreds
of travelers, and rarely knew it to fail.
The prescription seemed very liko a
“charm”—a horse-chestnut carried in the
pocket to ward off rheumatism, or a red
string around the neck to pre
vent bleeding at the nose. But it was
simple, and could at least do no harm*
For the return trip a sheet of common
writing note paper was fastened inside
tiie clothing, as directed. Result, a per
fectly coinfortablo journey, without a hint
of the old sickness that had for years made
travel by rail a terror. It was so liko a
superstition ora happy accident, how
ever, that the lady wonld not accept it as
real until subjected to a more severe tc*t.
This came in a day journey to New York,
and that hardest trial of ali—a night trip
in an “alleged” sleeping-car. Both were
taken in triumph. The “ebajm” worked.
And the lady writes: “The day journey
was a perpetaal wonder and delight to
me. 1 could sit up and read, and look at
the landscape through which we whirled,
and act as other people do. And still 1
didn’t feel ready to confess to a cure until
I had tried the sleeping car, which had
always been a horror to mo. But even
here the “spell” worked. 1 ate a hearty
supper in the diniDg car—and kept well.
SI *pt soundly all night, got up as com
fortably and dtessed with as level a head
and as steady a hand as tbougii I had
bean Id my own room. Read until break
fast time -a thing I have never before
done on the cars—and was hungry for my
morning meal. It Is really wonderful,
almost too good to be real. For tho first
time in my life I have experienced the
pleasure of traveling.
Give tbe Hoc a Chance.
X. Y. Tribune.
There has been a pie-eating match in
Philadelphia, at the National Theatre, in
which six boys of oormorant appetitos en
gaged, tbe prizes being a silver watch ana
a gold ring. Tho pies consumed were of
tho dried-apple species—the most dreadful
form of that truly American viand. I no
winner swallowed five and_ a half l* 103
five minutes, nnd was still living when last
heard from. Afterward eleven young men
contended, devouring monster pies fifteen
inches in diameter and two inches thick.
Tho winner mado nway with his in one
minute and five seconds. He. too, stilt
lives. It is a pity, however, that human
ambition should b© ■ waatod in^ such nn-
worthy struggles, in companion with
which spelling matches rise to tho height
of intellectual sublimity. It is only fair,
in eating matches, to allow the donizons
of the sty to compete, although they would
certainly carry off all the prizos.
Who?
• An Insider” in S' Y. Herald.
Who carried Indiana ? Dorsey.
Who was in constant communication
with Garfield during the October cain-
whom’did Swaim, Garfield’s doar-
est chum, most sincere friend, most do
voted adherent, go with tears in bis voice .
^To^iiose rooms did Swaim. Piatt) . U°r-
ham, Filley, Woodford, and all tho mag
num bonuins” of tho party go in Iudiau.ip-
olis ? Dorsey’s.
IXTEItES TIS G LETTER Ell OH
800CU01V, CAUSA.
A CKjr of Low Reputation—'Twenty-
One Centuries Old—Hoar the Celes
tial Government Protects Foreign
Residents—How tbe News of the
Denver Riots Was Received in Soo-
ehow—Tbe Heathen Chinee Setting
an Example to Christian America
The subjoined letter from a nephew of
the editor who lias, for tbe past nine
years, filled tho position of a Presbyterian
missionary in Soochow, is pcst-marked
10th February, and was forwarded to the
editor while sojourning on Cumberland
Island last April, and subsequently mis
laid. It is therefore a little older than
necessarily compelled to be; but it is par
ticularly interesting as showing the efforts
of the Chinese government to protect for
eign residents and the pains it takes to
afford the most ample security to Ameri
can missionaries. In these respects the
Chinese government has displayed a lib
erality, courage and justice which may
well rebuke tbe reckless intolerance of
tbe Chinese shown by tbe mob in this
country in many cases in California, and
in the bloody assaults upon them last
winter iu Denver, Colorado, news of
which had just been received when this
letter was penned:
HEATHEN
and the unavoidable irregularity in at
tendance, is forced to spend most of bis
noon recess in bearing recitations, who is
compelled to neglect many home duties,
wiiose incessant labors preclude all oppor
tunity for aelf-improvemcnt; who, from
his own slender, insufficient salary, must
supply tiis school with brooms, buckets,
chalk and glass for bis windows; who
works on patiently, faithfully, cheered by
no ray from “the powers that be,” save au
occasional beam from the kindly facu of
our ever genial superintendent. We ask
you, gentlemen, of the board, for public
recognition; we ask yon for the encour
agement of your presence, for the work
man Of whatsoever type or excellence,
is cheered by the presence of
the master. We are glad to know
that a move has been inaugurated to give
us what we wish. We stand ready to doff
our liats to the originator of the idea to
have tho president appoint from the board
a visitant to our closing exercises in tho
summer. We will welcome such an one.
It is what we want. We envy not tho city
teacher his comfortable room, his good
round salary, his extras and his school
appliances. He ought to have all-of these.
Wo do not complain because ho has six
hours per day for self-culture, his school
journal, and for shaping up the thousand
and one contrivances that tend to make
school-room attractive and school work
successful. He needs all of these. He
could not be a good teacher without; but
ifourworkbe equally meritorious, give
us a part of that public recognition
so lavishly bestowed upon our brother
pedagogues of tho city, understand, gen-
I tlemen, we are not afraid of wast’bg our
IN THE HANDS OF THE
a «A.iaaiir.nat I “sweetness ou the desert air”—we are sure
preacher ot£cw\ork, t? i, ]eav? ourprlnts”-but wo awfully hate
iu a centennial historical discourse, took
for his text: “A citizen of no mean city.”
Sorry I cannot do the same for Soochow.
Listening to the half dozen epithets in
common use, which are hurled at us on
all occasions, especially when on the
other side of the canal, of which “foreign
devil” is the most respectable, ono ‘is
tempted to think it a mean place. Satan
was a philosopher when ho said: “Skin
for skin;” “touch Ins bone and his flesh.”
Curses fall lighter than brickbats,
The present object is not a historical
sketch, for the history of this city fills
eighty-four largo volumes, covering
twenty-one centuries. Tbe Cbineso have
a proverb: “Above is heaven; below
Soochow and Hangchow.” Its popula
tion is rear that of Philadelphia. For
nearly nine years I have resided within
its walls. The foreign community (adult)
consists of one less than dwelt in the
ark, to-wit: A Georgia lady, a gentle
man from North Carolira and his wife,
another from Missouri and his wife, and
tbe writer, from South Carolina, whose
good wife is from Alabama.
By the treaty of 1842, flee port* were
opened; siuce then this number has been
increased to twenty. In theso the mer
chant must reside, and here only can Iio
transact business. There is a clause In
the treaty to the effect that missionaries
may travel anywhere and preach. Tbe
Mandarins interpret this that they may
rent chapels in the interior. Iu this city
five lots have been bought by foreigners
and bouses erected.
Missionary work lias been carried on In
three ways, principally: First, by opening
schools, at present about nine in number;
second, by tbe ladies visiting the women
from house to house, and the wojnen
coming in great numbers to sec them;
third, by daily preaching in tho chapels,
where all who pass by drop in and hear,
staying as long or short as they choose.
The preaching is necessarily in the teeth
of their superstitions and religions.
Soon after we came, living on a crowded
street, on a procession day, thirty women
coming to worship was the occasion of a
disturbance. The officials and the consul
quickly settled tho aflair. Two years ago
a gentleman took off bis trowsers (in
China the most forcible way of showing
disgust), and, imting them against the
door of a friend’s chapel, cursed. The
Mandarin commended his conduct, iu same
livery, to tho tune of200 bamboos (lashes).
Except theso instances, the people have
been very friendly.
Some four years ago an Englishman by
the name of Margary, while exploring a
route from Burmab, was murdered.
Since then the government has been very
particular to protect its foteign guests. A
colporteur, who tho last two yeare sold
19,000 Bibles in a Western province, told
mo that the mandarins would insist on
sending a guard of soldiers with him
from ono city to another. In Soochow
they have a foreign secretary connected
with tbe-Yamsm, who visits us regularly
and asks us to inform liim of all friends
who arrive that protection may bo
afforded. Sometime ago one hundred
proclamations were issued, commanding
the peoplo to treat foreigners with respect.
So great is the love of the Chinese for
children, and they like so much to look
at them, considering little foreign girls as
‘goddesses of mercy,” that nowhere in
tho Empire could a man accompanied by
child bo harmed.
In connection with my chapel I have
opened a reading-room, supplied with re
ligious, literary, and scientific trans
lations. On tho desk are several
icriodicals and the Shun Pao, a
Shanghai daily with a circulation ot 10,-
000. In It appeared a full and minute ac
count of tho Denver riot, with all of its
horrible details. Pleasant truth, for a
foreign reading room 1
One would think the Chinese would
riso In revenge 1 Not so. Ho is a very
plethoric animal. He thinks, “well I
could have told you so! What did you go
to tho foreign devils' country anyway for?
Did you not know the outside barbarians
were a fierce set? Of course tho red-
haired-men would eat you up.”
H. C. DuBose,
Southern Presbyterian Mission.
Letter From a Country Teacher.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: A
humble country pedagogue respectfully
asks a portion of your space to say a word
in behalf cf country schools and countiy
teachers. The writer will hazard the as
sertion that in the city of Macon can be
found fifty men, prominent in business,
in politics, in the professions and in trade,
who know not the number of country
schools; who know nothing of the teachers
cf these schools, or of their work; who re
gard the country school as a bone to soothe
rather than to benefit the countiy people.
We of the country are mindful of the
great excess of tax paid by the citizens of
Macon for tho support of our splendid
system, and we. sincerely appreci
ate their munificent liberality
in establishing and successfully operating
our sehools. We wish them to know of
our appreciatiou by personal observation.
True, the board of education, through our
gifted superintendent, obtain periodical
reports of tho general chatacter of the
work dono In country public schools.
They know that the schools are moving
along, they have tabular statements of
the number of pupils, number of teachers,
attendance, etc., but.as country teachers
e want them to know more of us. We
isli them to meet us face to face in our
school-rooms, to become acquainted with
us as meu aud as teachers, to criticise onr
work, and bo able to render a verdict,
whether or not the country Is deserving of
the liberality ot the moneyed men of Ms-
coj. We wish them to know not only
the kind of work but the amount of
it dono by the country teacher
whose labor begins at seven and closes at
live; who, from the multiplicity of his du
“to blush unseen.”
Very truly,
Country Ped.
8ESVISG US IVORD.
Another Acconnt of Vienna’s Tragedy
—Forayth aud Fort Valley Com rib
ate Items.
Special. to the Telegraph and Messenger 1
Vienna, Dooly county, May 9—A
most terrible accident and dispensation of
divine providence occurred hero yestor-
day. L. J. Stovall, familiarly called
“Jeff,” a yoitug man beloved by every
body, of noble traits of character, a do
ting mother’s pet, was shot through tho
heart and instantly killed by bis brother,
J. J. Stovall, who was laboring . under a
fit of insanity, incident to delirium tre
mens, at the time. No pen can describe
tho feelings of the agonized family, nor
portray the suffering of tho unfortunate
brother, who, in a dim way, begins to re
alize the awful occurrence. W. W. S.
Fort Valley, May 10.—Wo regret to
chronicle au accident that befell little
Louis Brown on last Sunday evening. He
was swinging, when the rope broke and
threw him on his right leg and broke tho
little bone in it above the ankle.
Tho citizens of Houston have, we un
derstand, filed a petition to have the
“fenco or no fence” question submitted to
a vote of the people of the county on the
1st Monday in July. There seems to be
little or no opposition to this law, and
tbe probabilities are that thero will be
“no fence" in Houston next year,
A. V. R.
HOVERS COURTSHIP.
How tlio Practical Blends with tho
Romantic.
Brooklyn Eagle.
“And you really love me dearly ? ” he
asked, as he coiled his arm around her
wasp-like system. “And you’ll always
love mo so ?”
“Always, Frederick; ever so.”
“Aud you pledge mo to sew but—”
“Sir!”
“You pledge me to so beautify my life
that it will always be as happy as now ?”
“With my last breath, Frederick.”
“And, darling, you will mend my
soe—”
“Yourwhat, sir?”
“You will mend my social ways and
draw me upward and onward to a better
existence ? ”
“It will be the pride of my love so to
dp, Frederick; I will sacrifice all for yoar
complete happiness.”
“1 know that, sweetness. But suppose
some accident should happen to—to— say
the trou—? ”
“You forget yourself, sir. To the
what ? ”
“To the trousseau; would it defer the
hour which makes you mine ? ”
‘Never, Frederick. I am yours, mind
and heart, and naught can separate us.”
“But what I want to say is, that should
my pant—?”
“Begone, sir. What do you mean ?”
“Hear me, my life. 1 say, if my pant
ing bosom should grow cold in death,
would your love still warm it!”
‘As the sun melts the iceberg, Freder
ick, so would the rays of my affection
thrill your heart again.”
“And you will care for me ever, my
soul, and I for you, for though I may
never have a shir—”
“Enough! Leave me forever.”
“But listen. "Thingh I may never have
a slinking disposition. I shall soicetimes,
perhaps, in the struggle of life, forget tho
plain duty—”
“And I’ll remind you of it, Frederick,
in tender actions, and mako tbe duties of
existence so pleasant ra performance that
to avoid them will be pain.”
And so on. That’s modem courtship.
Lots of abstract swash,.but % manifest
disinclination to contemplate such con
veniences as buttons, socks, trousers and
shirts.
Colliding Bait.
Washington Special to N. Y. Tribune.
There is no indication that Senator
Conklinghasyiclded iu any degree his de
termination to exbanst every possible re
source to prevent Judge Robertson from
becoming collector of the port of New
York. For weeks ho has been laboring
with great assiduity among Democratic
Senators to enlist their support. Among
other circumstances that have attracted at
tention lias been tho part played by the
Vice President. It has been noticed during
tho Inst two or three weeks Hint he tins
quite frequently vacated the chair, and has
usually, though not invariably, invited a
Democratic Senator to preside. Either
Mr. Harris, Mr. Cockrell or Mr. Voorhecs
lias been called upon such occasions; and
curiously enough, thoso three Democratic
Senators are among those claimed ns re
cent recruits to the anti-Robortson ranks
A Democrat remarked to-day that he did
not believe Senator Harris would “rise to
that bait.”
THE COLLECTORS OE CARDS.
.Hnacbt?-Calltire.Iaii>.
London Fun.
Lady—“You wish to leave, Parkins ? But
you only came yesterday 1” Parkins—“Yes,
mann. Hin engaging, I thought you was
sparrer-gxass gentry; but when I 'ears from
the cook last night that you cat pertaters,
cabbige, carrots, and sich like seeond-hand
vegetables,I ses there ain’t nothing hestket-
ic in it, aud I resigns my staff of horfice, so
to speak. _
“WhM “Fa” Did and Said.
Augptta Chronicle.
Mr. Speer is Of the opinion that General
Longstreot owe3 his appointment' as mar
shal of Georgia to him: Perhaps so; but
when did the General become an indepen
dent ? Oucc wo know, at New i trleans, ha
wont over to Greeley, but Hopped back in
time to save his bacon witli Grant. Gen.
Rosser got from Fred Grant that “pa” was
wroth with Longstroot, who wrote him a
penitent letter. “What did your father say
whon lie got that letter, Fred?” “Well,
unswereu the cub, “pa tore it to pieces in a
rage and oxclaimod —! 1” The reader
tics,
„ —, „ - —- ■— , must imagine what that dash and those ex
ilic ungraded condition of his school clamation points may mean.
Ax Epidemic That Sparc* Neither
Old nor Tout,
“It seems to have first broken oat
Boston,” saida scrapbook and album
manufacturer, speaking to a reporter of
the Sun about the card-collecting mania.
“At least, it was from that city that the
great increase in the demaud for books
first came. New York soon followed;
lias broken out with great violence in
Philadelphia, and is moving westward
like the epizooty. It does not yet seem to
have penetrated the South to any extant,
but it looks as if it would sweep the
countiy. Our house manufactures 200
differeui styles of card albums, and turns
out a thousand a day. We are behind our
orders, and yet we are only one house
among a dozen here iu the business.”
The books manufactured by this house
for the use of card collec ors range iu
price from twenty-five cents to ten
dollars apiece, and in quality from com
mon cardboard backs to full morocco,
with pages of fine cardboard on which
to mount the cards. All sorts of de
signs embellish the covers—Japanese,
arabesque, East lake, and nondescript.
On some, sliver paroquets sit on gold
boughs: some display red palms, blue
flowers, aud birds of gorgeous plumage
sailing in golden skies; some display
groupings of cards in various colors;
but tho most expensive and durablo are
in plain morocco aud gilt.
“Wo always have had more or less ap
plications for our cards,” said a member
of a firm that usc3 a large variety of pic
ture cards for advertising purposes, “but
they used to come mostly from school
children. and Saturday was the day for
tho children’s visits. But during tho lost
six months card collecting seems to hare
become a fashionable pursuit with all
classes of people. I understand that one
of the finest collections in the city lias
been mado by tho wife of ono of tho vico-
presldents of tho Erie railroad. Another
fine collection has been made by the witc
of a leading officer of the New York Cen
tral road. One of the finest collections I
have ever seen was made by an up-town
doctor. At first wo used to give cards
freely to callers, but the pressure became
so great that wo had to stop tbe practice.
Now we make collections of cards which
we sell for postage stamps from three
cents upward. \Ve pay as much as $100
a thousand for some fine large oleographs,
which are In demaui as ‘centers’ for al
bum pages. When a person comes in for
cards, wo simply hand him a circular giv
ing our terms aud stating that we can at
tend to applications received by mail
only. We still receive many office appli
cations, but the bulk row come by mail.
During the past year we have sect out a
small profit on them, while at the same
time they bear our advertisement. We
buy our cards in so large quantities that
wo can disposo of them to collectors at a
a small profit to ourselves, and yet sup
ply them cheaply.”
Every mail brings many letters, enclos
ing stamps, to this house. Most come
from New York,Boston and Philadelphia,
but some from as far West as Chicago,
and as far South as Charleston. Tbe firm
have cards put up in collections ranging
from three cents to $1.00 a set.
Somo few shops put up a notice of “No
cards given away,” in order to keep off
collectors, but most of them are making
use of the mania for advertising purposts,
aud give away cards to draw trade.
Tho cards of invitation issued by many
up-town retail stores for their “openings”
this spring were beautifully illiuniuated.
A millinery house got up a beautiful card
in the shape of two birds of gorgeous
plumage, whose wings when opened dis
played pictures of tho latest styles in bon
nets. Drug stores receive iunumerablo
applications, but these aro mostly from
children.
Seekers for tho beautiful in art cards
have learned that really'Bno cards aro not
to bo procured by tho more asking. A
sort of reciprocity system has sprung up
among houses which get out fine cards.
In order to give variety to the collections
which they send out, they mako exchanges
of cards among themselves, each house
thus pelting tho advantage of the connec
tions of the others in sending out adver
tisements. Caro is taken not to disfiguro
the cards in printing advertisements upon
them.
The demands of the collectors hare also
created a special business in the supply of
cards. It is now a common thing along
the thoroughfares to seo card peddlers,
with their wares spread out in large bas
kets. The weekly papers are full of ad
vertisements of card dealers. Tho last is
sue ot tbe Weekly Sun contained the ad
vertisements of 21 firms which make a
specialty of supplying cards to collectors.
Great taste is displayed in tho making
of fino collections. In inountiug cards on
album page, a large fino card must be
badforthu centre, aud small cards aro
arranged on tho borders. Fains are
taken to mouut the cards so that they
will harmonize in color and design, and
bo symmctriccl in their arrangement on
tho page. Collectors become very ex
pert in judging ol tho quality of cards,
and can promptly tell whether a card is
German or French, or whethor it is an
American imitation; how many impres
sions of color it has received, and what
quality of colors has been used. Somo
of tho best collections have as
genuine and artistic value in their dis
play of the varieties and excellence of
color printing as collections of prints
have in their exhibition of the graver’s
art. While dealers do not expect the
present mania to last, they say that it
lias done great good by stimulating de
signers and color printers to ilo their best
work, and by creating a demand for fine
art cards that will ho permaneut.
The clerks at the post-office say that
last year not over 5,000 Easier cards
passed through tho mails; this year thero
ware 00,000.—N. T. Sun.
Jeff Davix’Speech «t New Orleans.
New Orleans, May 11.—At the con
clusion of the ceremonies attending the
dedication of the tomb of tbe Association
of the Army of Northern Virginia, and
the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall
Jackson yesterday evening at Mataire
Cemetery, Jefferson Davis, after compli
menting Gen. Lee’s address, and congrat
ulating tho association ,on the completion
of their tomb and monument, referring to
Gen. Jackson, said; From the academic
shades of the military institute lie went
forth to battle for the cause of State rights,
self-government and constitutional liber
ty. Nobody expected that this quiet pro
fessor would have au opportunity to show
the great qualities be possessed and be
come the great hero of tbe war. To-day
he stands in the opinion of Europeans, so
far as I kuow it, the mightiest chieftain ot
the Confederate cause. This silent pro
fessor constantly rose liko a meteor over
the battlefield cf the Confederacy—only
litre a meteor in Its brightness,
for bis light was as steady as the orb oi
day. It shone to the very close, increas
ing in brilliancy and In tbe trust which tbe
people put upon it. Such was Jackson.
He lire;! for his country, never doubting
in the justice of her cause, believing it was
rights ms and trusting in it. He died as
l live to-day, feeling that the Confederacy
ought to have succeeded because it was
founded on truth and Justice. He > gave
his life for the whole country, and the
countiy gave its heart to Jackson. You,
the men upon whom be leaded in tbe
Tbe ffontbera Baptist Convention.
This body, comprising delegates who
represent the conventions and general as
sociations of the Southern Baptists, met at
Columbus, Miss., on tbe 5th of May. Dr.
P. H. Mell was elected president, and Rev.
C. E. W. Dobbs and Rev. Lansing Bur
rows, both of Kentucky, were elected sec
retaries.
This convention is organized for
the purpose ot eliciting, combining and
directing the energies of the whole denom
ination in promoting foreign aud domes
tic missions, and other important objects
connected with the Redeemer’s Kingdom.
Fcr these purposes it has two boards—one
for foreign missions and one for domestic
missions, whose duty it is to collect and
expend the money tho Baptists of the
South contribute for the propagation of
the gospel. The first thing at each ses-
sioti of tho convention, therefore, is to
hear the reports of these boards, made by
their corresponding secretaries, declaring
what has been dono during the past con
ventional year. It will thus be seen that
our Southern Baptist Convention lias
nothing at all to ao with governing tho
church, and being in that respect totally
different from a Method>st General Con
ference ora Presbyterian General As
sembly.
HOME MISSION BOARD.
The report of our Home Mission Board
demonstrated the contribution forborne
and Indian missions during the past year
by the board of*$21,000, of which there
was expended in the employment of
missionaries during tbe same period SIS,-
000. Twenty-six missionaries were om-
iloyed in the States as follow: Iu Flor-
daS, Georgia 2, Texas 2, Louisiana 1,
Arkansas 2, Tennessee 2 Alabama 5,
Virginia 3, North Carolina i, Kentucky 1,
California 1. Among the Indians of the
Indian Territory seven missionaries were
kept employed. Of the labor of all these
domestic and Indian missionaries tho fol
lowing is a
GENERAL SUMMARY.
Weeks of labor, 1,203; churches sup
plied, 59; other stations, 43; sermons aud
addresses delivered, 3,316; prayer and
other religious meetings attonded, 976;
baptized, 119; received by letter, 101;
irofessod conversion in connection with
ds labors, not baptized by missionary,
316; Sunday-schools, 59; pupils, 2,619;
pupils converted, 71; Bibles and Testa
ments distributed, 108; religious visits,
V241; miles traveled, 54,669.
“KIND WORDS.”
The report of the board said, in repard
to this Sunday-school paper of the con
vention, which is published by J. TV.
Burke & Co., of your city: “The paper
is gotten up iu good style, and conducted
with marked ability. It deserves,and is re
ceiving, a liberal patronage from the de
nomination. It is a Sunday-school mls^
slonary, Baptist paper.”
levering school.
This is the name of a manual labor
school started in the Indian Territory for
boys and girls by the Home Boaid. Tho
building will be completed in July, and
with the adjoining land purchased, will
cost $10,000, aud will affotd a homo and
tuition for fifty boys aud fifty girls. This
will be a great aid to oar mission among
the Cieek Indians.
■ THE FOREIGN MISSION BOARD.
The receipts of this board were about
$47,000. Its disbursements about $46-
200. In expending this amount the board
has maintained in China seventeen mis
sionaries and fifteon assistants, as follows:
At Tung Chow, six; at Shanghai, four,
and four assistants; at Canton, seven and
eleven assistants. In Central Africa it
has maintained four missionaries and two
assistants. In Italy, it has maintained
five missionaries, four of whom are Araer-
cans, and eight assistants. In Mexico
one and in Brazil three missionaries are
sustained. It will thus be seen that we
have thirty foreign missionaries and twen
ty-lire assistants. It is a sad task to bo
compelled to state that one of our mis
sionaries to Mexico was murdered by a
band of Indians and Mexicans on the 18th
ot last December, but his place is supplied
by another. In that country wo have
eight Baptist churches.
Our Rome chapel has cost us $30,519.73,
and is a fine building in a central locali
ty. The board expects to build another
residence for our missionaries in Canton,
and enlarge that ot Dr. Taylor, in Rome.
Contemplating a mission in Cuba, where
there are a few Baptists who desire a pas
tor, the foreign board inquired of Secre
tary Blaiue what toleration might be ex
pected for missionaries in Cuba, and
what protection might be expected from
tho United States government. The fol
lowing is Mr. Blame’s reply:
Department of State, )
Washington, March ISth, 1831. $
H. A. Tupper, Esq., Corresponding Sec
retary of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, Richmond, Va.
Sir—I havo received your letter of the
8th iustaut, wherein, representing the
Southern Bapt’st Convention, you in
quire, “Whether the Spanish or Cuban
government would protect or tolerate
Baptist missionaries in Cuba; and, if not,
whether our government would do any
thing, by treaty or otherwise, to secure
protection for any of our citizens, whom
the above named conventiou might ap
point as missionaries to that island ?”
In reply, I have to observe that, while
the existing treaty relations between the
United States and Spain protect the
rights of our citizens, as such, no as
surance can be given in advance as to the
action of foreign authorities toward the
missionaries themselves or in respect to
their work. This government, however,
is always ready to give all due protec
tion to Americans, it their rights as citi
zens are infringed. I may add that it is
not thought likely that your agents in
Cuba will meet other or greater obstacles
than in the countries named by you,
where the convention already has missions.
I am, sir, your obedient servant.
James G. Blaine.
Tbe convention will consider this mat
ter.
Mexico.—There is a strong tending to
establish a Baptist mission in Mexico,
there being, now, Baptists and Baptist
churches at Monterey and Santa Rosa,
Ebanos, Montemorelos aud at four other
places—eight in all, with 200 members.
T. M. Westrup, tho proposed successor of
J. O. Westrup, who was murdered, is in
Mexico, at present, prepared to enter up
on the work. Our three missionaries in
Brazil report two churches and 44 mem
bers.
Africa.—The African mission has
churches and missionaries at Lagos, on
tho coast, Abbeokuta, Ogbomosho, and
Gaun in the interioi, 4 churches, 92 mem
543.
There is a loud call for more missiona
ries to be seut to China.
Italy.—The following list of U:o mis
stouaries employed by Southern Baptists
in Italy aud the points at which they la
bor, together with the number of church
members: At Rome, G. B. Taylor, Mrs,
Taylor, J. H. Eager, Mrs. Eager and
Signor Cocorda; at Torre Pelhce, Signor
Ferraris; at Milan, Signor Pascbetto; at
Modena and Carpi, Signor Martinelli; at
Naples, Signor Colombo; at Bari, and
Barietta, Signor Volpi; at Island of Sar
dinia, Signor Cossu; at Venice, Siguor
Bcllondi; at Bologna, Signor Basile, and
Signor Torre. Baptisms 26; present
membership, say, 175.
I have summarized the home and for
eign reports for the information of many
of your readers, as brtefiy as I could
add a few words of the conclusion of Dr.
Tupper’s interesting report:
A terrible blow fell upon us in tbe
murder of our missionary in Mexico; but
the Lord overrules In tbe proffer to our
service of his more able and experienced
brother. Two brethren of South Caro
lina, where their praise is in all the
churches, Rev. T. P. Bell, and John
Stout, have come before the board and
been appointed missionaries respectively
to Tung Chow, aud Shanghai. Drs,
Crawford and Yates will be greatly en
couraged and strengthened, as tho board
is, by tl 10 signal answer to long and
agonizing prayer m the gift to our cause
of these two gifted men. The board ac
cepts their self-consecration to the
heathen as a token cf divine favor, and
as a distinct signal to “go forward.”
Cuba pleads for help; and Hong Kong
presents to us a fully equipped mission ot
one hundred members. Nor are laborers
lacking. Two candidates are to meet at
the convention a committee of the board.
Yet otliers are ready to offer, if encour
agement is given. Our Jehovah moves
in advance, Afid says, ‘‘Folloff me.”
I The proceedings of the convention,
86 far, havo been unusually interesting.
Many of tho vary best men aud ruling
spirits of our denomination are here and
tbe spirit is excellent. All seem bent on
advocating and advancing the cause of the
Gospel. Dr. S. Landrum’s missionary
scrjnon on Thursday night was universally
commended. The foreign mission ad
dress of Drs. Hawthorne and Curry on
Friday Right were superb. A memorial
from the Mississippi btato Board was pre
sented, urging the convention to engage
in mission work in New Orleans, and a
special report on the matter was brought
in on Friday, supported by some of our
strongest speakers, although they opposed
buying or building church edifices there.
The seminary was ably advocated, and
Dr. Wharton succeeded in raising over
$5,000 for it, mostly by subscription. Rev.
Mr. Kerfoot, of Baltimore, made a strong
speech, in accordance with a resolution oi
our last convention, In support of a plan
for more effectually obtaining the contri
butions and co-operation of the masses of
our denomination. It is an important
subject and 1 may allude to it again. The
more definite action of the convention on
various matters must bo deferred to an
other mail. S. B.
■ Columbus, Miss., May 7tb, 1831.
REACHING THE MASSES.
I Tbe last convention appointed a com
mittee to render a report to the present
convention, setting forth somo plan by
which contributions from tbe masses for
the purposes 4 of the conventiou maybe
best reached or obtained. That commit
tee reported through its chairman. Rev. F.
long address explanatory of a printed re
port which embodied their recommenda
tions. These wero to secure (1) a close
and influential connection withtheStates,
(2) a diffusion of information, (3) an ac
tive representative of tho convention m
each State, (4) an annual address from
each board to tbo denomination, (5) a re
port lroin each Slate to the convention.
This report was submitted to a special
committee of one from each State, Rev.
E. W. Warren representing Georgia, and
they brought in a report, which, summed
up briefly to suit your columns, is as fol
lows:
Plan adopted to elicit, combine and di
rect the energies of the denomination:
1. Tbe two convention boards to lorm
tbe closest possible connection with the
State boards oi tbe different State conven
tions, and unite with them on some plan
mutually agreeable for attamiug tbe ob
ject.
2. Disseminate information on mis
sions as much as possiblo and prepare an
annual address from each hoard to tho
people, and secure, if possible, the co-op
eration of the pastors.
3. Keep a record of the churches and
associations which contribute and try to
win over those which do not.
4. Appoint a working vice-president of
each of tho two boards in each State, with
definite duties assigned-
5. Results to be reported at each con
vention.
6. Tbe second day of each convention
to be set apart for the consideration of
these reports from the different States.
7. The recomendations to become by
laws of the convention and alterable, but
not during tbo latter days of any session.
NEW ORLEANS.
The Southern Baptists have ever recogniz
ed New Orleans as a grand strategic point,
from which Baptist mission operations
should radiate, especially so because of the
overwhelmning number of Roman Catho
lics in that city and throughout Louisiana.
For that reason the State Mission Board
o.f Mississippi and East Louisiana made a
strong and pointed appeal to tbe conven
tion to begin a mission in the city of New
Orleans, strengthen tho two Baptist
churches in that city and aid them in
building houses of worship. Much and
earnest discussion ensued, many being
unwilling to build bouses and incur pe
cuniary responsibility.
A special report cn the subject was sub
mitted by Captain W. H. Hardy, of Mis
sissippi, who made an able speech on the
memorial of the Mississippi State Board,
favoring mission" In New Orleans. “Cap
ture New Orleans,” said tho speaker,
“and you take the citidel of South Amet>
ica!”
Dr. Burrows, of Kentusky, opposed the
report and moved to recommit.
Dr. T. G. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn.,
made a strong and eloquent speech in fa
vor of the New Orleans mission. Dr.
Ford opposed the building of Baptist
churches by the convention, and said,
“Send men to preach the gospel.” Rev.
T. J. Walnc, of Mississippi, made a touch
ing appeal to the convention in behali of
II1C IIIUl upuil nuvua UG IU MJW *|UU f,
hour of danger, iri honoring him also Statistics— Baptized, 72; 'pupils, 190 1 ,
’ honor yourselves.” contributions, $474.14; church members,
bers, 180 Sunday-school scholars, 93 day , missions In New Orleans, and touched on
school scholars, 26 catechumens; baptized j the spiritual blindness of that great city
during last year 22, and baptized since . with moving pathos.
1875, 84. The colored Baptists of the | Much feeling and heartfelt sympathy
South are co-operating in the support of was aroused, and a report was adopt-
this mission. Brother David, a white ed, which embraces the following
missionary, in Africa, appeals for two action, in regard to New Orleans:
more white men immediately. 1. A recommendation to the Baptists
China.—The following is a summary . everywhere to aid the First Baptist
of our China missions: j church lu New Orleans to secure a house
Missionaries at Tung Chow (post-office of worship.
Cheioo).—T. P. Crawford, Mrs. Craw- 1 2. The home mission board is iustmet-
ford, Mrs. 8. J. Holmes, Miss L. Moon. ed to’send two or more missionaries to
.At . tjhanghai.—M. T, Yates, Mrs. , New Orleans as soon as practicable to
Yates. Native Pastors—Woug Ping San ’ preach the gospel; With reference to
aud Sea T’ay San, wita four other native Cuba the convention declined to enter into
assistants. \ $ny missionary work in that island, as the
At Canton—R. fl. Graves, Mrs. Graves, missions iu Italy, Brazil and Mexico call
Mias Lula Wailden. E. 4- Simmons, Mrs. for as large au. expenditure of means and
Simmons, Mias bailie Stein, Yocg Seen labor as tbe convention can devote to the
San, aud eleven other native assistants spread of the gospel among the Latin
and Bible women. peoples. This was doubtless a wise de
cision. It wasjresolved to press the mis
sion work in Mexico, and to push forward
with all possible diligence in onr China
missions. Tbe two brethren, Uer. T. P.
Bell, ot South Carolina, aud Rev. John
Stout, of Alabama, who are going to
China, made affecting speeches and ox-
eited tbe heartfelt sympathies of all, and
received tho heartiest commendation from
each one on account of their true mission
ary spirit.
Their speeches followed the reading,
by Rev. R. A. Graves, returned mission
ary to China, of the special report of
China missions. These two young men
will probably set sail for China with Mr.
Graves next October.
Perhaps the most brilliant events of tho
session, so far, havo been the mission
speeches In favor of foreign missions, by
Rev. J. 1). Hawthorne and Dr. J. L. M.
Curry on Friday nigbt,to a vast audience.
Tbe former is veiy graceful and eloquent,
and his graceful gestures, timely words,in
polished sentences, and his earnest elo
quence may become fruitful in well di
rected effort iu mission work hereafter.
In regard to Dr. Curry’s address, tho Tri-
Weekly Dispatch of this city, says :
“Dr. Curry, although not well, waspro-
vai.ed upon to speak on this moving
theme, and royally did he do it. The
earnestness of tho speaker, bom of a love
for souls and an intense yearning for the
spread of tho gospel into all lands, begot
an interest and attention and sympathy
in the subject the like of which has not,
perhaps, been seen and fejt in Columbus
before. Dr. Curry Is au orator, and to the
qualities of oratory adds a learning most
profound. His indorsement of mission
work is an indorsement carrying vast
weight. We have not beard a lecture in
the recent past that was more to our lik-
iDg, and Dr. Curry has the thanks of
nearly all that heard him for his earnest,
intense words of soberness and truth.
Truly, tho occasion wa3 a field day for the
friends of missions.”
After the addresses Dr» J. W. Mi Wil
liams, of Biltimord, quite captured his
audience by a few minutes’ talk, and no
contribution that has fallen under my ob
servation was ever taken up with such
general good-will. Tho $239.00 given
was certainly a free-will offering.
On Saturday night Dr. William H.
McIntosh read a fine paper on tbe history
of tbe Homo to a large audience, and was
followed by Dr. E. T. Winkler, in au
able address on home mission work. A
collection of $150, I believe, was taken
up. This wound up tho week.
On Suuday the churches and Sunday-
schools were crowded to hear the different
preachers and speakers; aud as the names
of these are matters of gcnoral cariosity,
I send a list of the appointments as a
fitting closo to this hastily written letter:
Baptist church—Dr. H. H. Tucker,
Georgia, 11 a. in.; Dr. John A. Broadus.
Kentucky, 8:30 p. m.
Methodist church—Dr. J. L. Burrows,
Kentucky, 11a. m.; Dr. J. B. Hawthorne,
Virginia, 4 p. m.; Dr. J. W. M. Williams,
Maryland, 8:30 p. m.
neehytai ian church—Dr. T. O. Jones.
Tennessee, li a. m.; Dr. rv. nr oarroll,
Texas, 8:30 p. m.
Cumberland Presbyterian church—Dr.
F. H. Kerfoot, Maryand, 11 a. m.; Dr.
M. B. Wharton, Georgia, 8:30 p. m.
Jewish Synagogue—Dr. E. I. Winkler,
Alabama, 11 a. m.
SABBATH SCHOOLS.
Baptist—Rev.J T. M. Bailey, Ala
bama; Rev. Lansing Burrows, Kentucky.
Methodist—Rev. S. Boykin, Geor
gia; Rev. J. Rowan, Tennessee.
Presbyterian—Rev, J. Wm. Jones,
Virginia; Rev. J. Curry, Texas.
Cumberland Presbyterian—Rev. M. T.
in
rell.
Christian—Rev. S. A. Iladeu, Texas;
D. W. Hughes, Tennessee.
S. B.
THE BIG POLITICAL HILL.
Tint Blood Claimed Tor tlie President
—Conkllng Somewhat urocnr on
His Pins, Bat SU11 ltr the Bins.
Washington special to Cincinna i Enquirer.
Tbo ruling political sensation continues
to be the New York complication. It is
discussed at all public places, and tho
probable outcome variously speculated
upon. Tbo issue seems to bo irreconcila
bly joined between the President and
Conkling, and overtures in the interest of
peace are useless. At tbe Senate to-day
everything was calm. Conkling was early
on hand, and for the first time siuce the
Robertson quarrel begun he clearly be
trayed sigus of anxiety. It Is altogether
in looks, for with the few who spoke to
him he maintained his defiant air, and as
sumed that the battle had not yet been
lost.
At the capitol to-day the opinion that
Robertson would be confirmed appeared
to be general. A friend of Senator
Conkling said to him that he believed
the confirmation of Robertson could not
be prevented. The reply of the New
York Senator was to the ellhct that he did
not share in his opiuion—that the matter
was not yet settled by any means. In
short, Mr. Conkling expressed himself as
still holding a strong position. Efforts to
bring about a Settlement of theattair, so
as to avoid a coutest within the party, are
still being made, and tbe indications are
that a good many Republican senators
still hope to see some kind of a com
promise effected. Several Senators of that
party called on tbe President again this
morning, and urged the withdrawal of
Robertson as the best and surest means of
harmonizing the party. They argued that'
as the New York nominations bad been
withdrawn, if the President would now
recall Robertsou’s name that would re
move all cause of irritation; that then an
entire new deal could be bad with New
York patronage which would satisfy both
wings of the party. The President ad
hered firmly to his former declaration that
he conld not withdraw the nomination.
He expressed himself as sincerely desirous
of party harmony, but thought it was ask
ing too much of him, under all the cir
cumstances, to withdraw Robertson’s
name.
It is given out that Senator Conkling ba3
accepted the President’s ultimatum, and
does not indulge in any idea of his re
ceding from his ppsiUon. If there is no
report made by the commerce committee
on tbe nomination by Wednesday next,
tbe talk is that another caucus will be
held, and that the friends of the ad
ministration will have enough votes to
reconsider the action of the previous cau
cus, and, having accomplished this, re
fuse to be bouud by any ukase which
will delay any longer the crisis. The
long-beaded Senators say that as peace is
now impossible, the sooner the tight is
over tbu better for all concerned.
What the PnsMszt (MboaM Bo.
Philadelphia Times
Commissioner Le Duo ought not to be
turned oat of office; he says so himself.
Hie reason for this is, that he has now got
the tea-plant in good humor and it has con
sented to grow successfully in this oountry.
it has been growing for a great many yean
in some parts of the South, but it has been
disoovered tint it costs three or four dollars
more a pound ta ratio ten in this country
than it does to import it. If the cultivation
of tea in this oountry is necessary, and the
watchful oare ot LqDuc is essential to the
enterprise, tbe President should though fully
take the Agricultural Bureau off his shoul
ders and give him full swing a$ the tea bus
iness ou his own account,