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FBI DAT, DECEMBER 30, 1881.
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Th* annual meeting of the survivors of
the 21st Alabama Regiment will be held in
Mobile, January IStb.
Am Indiana lover has set fire to and de
stroyed the store of his rival. There ia no
knowing what a little spark may do.
The Inter-Ocean notices one redeeming
feature in Gnitean’s life—ho never wrote
poetry. Be moat have reserved this for hi
crowning deviltry.
Guiteau the other day proclaimed him
self "a high-toned gent.” We hope before
. long to be called noon to annonnee him as
a high-strung gent.
TounoEsis to begin the publication of a
literary and political journal m Philadel
phia on the first of January next. Is this
another “Fool’s errand?”
Oca exportation of breadstnffs for tha
first 11 months of this year falls off nearly
$47,000,000 from last year’s figures for the
corresponding period.
Quitkac's head is said to bo misshapen.
This doesn’t necessarily prove anything
but that it was always a trouble to fit h'm-
aelf to a hat.—f New Haven Register.
Ajb Bum through stalwart spectacles Mr.
Howe is as tall as a house and as round as
a mail pouch; to the microscope of the half-
breed journalist he is about the size of a
\n6-cent stamp.
Some years ago Miss Libbie Mintyer, of
Rochells, Ill., lost both arms by falling in
front of a reaper, To-day »hp is earning a
good living by oil painting, holding the
brush in her teoth.
Toe auditor of Kentucky has informed
the Legislature, in response to on inquiry,
that there are now 867,1G3 legal voters in
the Slate. The total vote for President in
I860 was bnt 2GG,S79.
The Readjnster organs in Virginia have
announced their policy to be ns follows:
“If there are not enongh Readjustee! to get
aroand in filling the offices, then abolish
the snrplns offices.”
The bootblacks of London arc divided
into societies. One of them, known as tho
Saffron Bill, numbering sixty six members,
has earned in the lost twelve months be
tween £3,000 and £4,OCO.
Since the beginning of November twenty-
two earthqnake shocks have been observed
in various parts of Switzerland. They
seem to have been most numerous in the
neighborhood of Schaffhausen. <
Santa Baboaba, Cap., has scored a tri
umph. The gas company charged bo out
rageously that the public took to kerosene.
As a result the gas company now offers to
yeduce the price from §6 to $2 per 1,0C0
feet.
Mbs. Mabiam L. Dow, “the only lady
broker” in Philadelphia, after a prosperous
career in speculating with money intrusted
to her care by confiding women, is now in
the toils of the law, charged with defrauding
one of her customers.
Toe Dnnkers of Indiana consider gram
mar frivolous, and therefore protest against
their children being taught it in the public
schools. The State superintendent decides
that the teachers may omit the offensive
study, but tells them to impart orally to tho
Bunkers pupils "all that is practical in the
subject.”
Secbktabx Foloeb disclaims any inten
tentiou to anticipate tho January interest,
and says he considers sach a step uncalled
for nnder the present satisfactory condition
Of the finnnccs. He made this statement
in explanation of the published rumors that
he proposed to antiepate the January in
terest.
Boston points with pride to the Back Bay
as an evidence of her remarkable growth.
When the Hotel Brunswick was completed,
in 1873, there was nothing beyond it in tho
wsy of haman habitation, and nothing be
tween it and Beacon street It is now only
on the edge of the populous and handsome
new fashionable quarter of the city.
Cox. John H. Ceisp has twice been a can
didate for Congress from the Kansas City
district, Missouri, and he announces that
he will stay in the race until he reaches
Washington. He has jost been indicted on
a charge of stealing thirty-eight turkeys
from a neighbor, bnt does not mean to let
that hinder him in tho least
The Appeal’s Aberdeen, Miss., special
Bays: W. Robert Jones, murderer of the
Walker boys, near this city on the 26th of
last month, was arrested yesterday near
Tuscaloosa, Ala. His identity was proven
beyond doubt Great excitement prevails.
It Js feared he will be dealt with summarily
on his arrival hero to-morrow.
Pbebident Ahtiiub has disapproved of
the sentenoo of tho conrt-mnrlial before
which Oapt Eagan was tried, dismissing
him from the army. He holds that the ele
ment of fraud essential to bring the failnre
to liquidate indebtedness within the pur
view of the charge, “conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman,” is not founi
to have been established by proof.
The bill introduced in the house by Bep-
sentative Hammond, of Georgia, to amend
the constitution relative to the office and
duties of President and Vice-President pro
vides that the exsentivo power shnll be
vested in a President, with three Vice-Pres
idents, all choren for a term of four years.
The first Vice-President is to act as Presi
dent of tho Senate, ond in the event of the
inability or removal of the President to
succeed to that position. The second Vice-
President then acts es President of the
Senate, and so on.
Judos Biddle, of Philadelphia, in pass
ing sentence on David Moaat, remarked:
t “Yon have stated to me here what is really
the melancho’y aspect of this case. We
find men who are reputable in the ordinary
walks ot life, good husbands and good
fathers, and in time of war good soldiers,
who do not hesitate to do for their party
wbat they would be ashamed to do for
themselves. Can there be a more striking
instance than this case? Here is n man
entirely familiar with the election laws and
u member of the ward executive committee
who does not think It wrong to enter a pre
cinct house, throw all the ballots on the ta
ble in the presence of a crowd of people
and change tho election returns already
made oat. I think the time hasoome when
this thing must come to an end or else we
will come to an end.”
The New England protective association
of hotel, boarding honse and restaurant
keepers has had a convention in Boston to
discuss the "dead beat” and devise means
of exterminating him. A report of the pro
ceedings says: “Sad-faced women re
marked that there was no place here or
hereafter bad enough for the beat—forget
ting boarding houses evidently; and irate
men claimed that the wrongs inflicted on
them by beats were harder to bear than the
suffering of the Poncas.” Legislation on
the subject was demanded.
The True Velee of Htable Yard Ha- |
■are. a
The close of the year Is at hand, and
not many weeks will elapse before our
farmers will find, themselves face to face
with the plowing season. It Is well
therefore, to turn attention to certain
preparations which will be found highly
advantageous as factors in the next crop.
The purchase and preparation of fertil
izers is one of the heaviest expenses which
farmers of middle and southwest Georgia
are called upon to bear. We do not dis
courage the use oi commercial fertilizers,
when that use is judicious and the article
dealt in Is of fair quality. In the Inten
sive system of planting, which is slowly
being adopted, it is paitly necessary at
tills period, and upon certain lands most
always be necessary. It is obvious, how
ever, that any effective substitute that is
cheaper must at once commend itself to the
intelligent tanner.
Much has been written in an indefinite
way concerning the common barnyard
manure. It lias generally been under
valued,though at times most ridiculous
values have been placed upon it. We
propose in this article to treat the subject
practically, discarding all useless prophe
cies and relying only upon accepted facts
and indisputable figures. To do this we
shall calculate the market value of the
various elementa that make the manure
desirable, and coinparo it with the com'
uerclal fertilizers treated In the same
way. AH manures or fertilizers are valu
able only to the extent that they enrich,
or, in other words, only to the exteut they
contain plant food, and the power to gen
erate plant food. These qualities consist
mainly of ammonia, potash, phosphoric
acid (or phosphate of lime). Just to the
exteut as sell contains these chemicals is
it rich. If it contains them not, or but a
portion of them, the deficiency must be
supplied,for they are the life of plants. It
is obvious, therefore, that wbrtever fer
tilizer contains these provisions in the
best proportions and nearest to the extent
demanded by plants, is the most valuable
ks a fertilizer on average loll.
In regard to tho value of good stable
manure, the following result of an analy
sis by the chemist of the Ohio St&le board
ot agriculture, and furnished to the Coun
try Gentleman, by W. I. Chamberlain,
secretary, is undoubtedly reliable. A
sample wrs fairly drawn from a large pile
lount! on a well cultivated farm, and was
made up about iu the proportion of twelve
parts by weight of manure, eight parts of
urine, one part wood ashes, and ten of
muck and straw; the last two being used
as absorbents in the stable and in the
compost heap to absorb ammonia as the
mass was decomposing. The analysis
showed 0.98 per cent, of ammonia, 0.41
per cent, of phosphoric acid and 0.71 per
cent, of potash, the latter increased, of
course, by the addition of the ashes to the
compost.
Rated on the basis of the value of com
mercial fertilizers, would give the follow
ing valuation per ton:
Per Per
cent ton
Ammonia 0.98 19.6 lbs. at 15c. .$2 94
Phosphoric add 0.41 8.2 do 8o.. 65
Potash ..0.71 14.2 do Cc.. 85
Total estimated valne per ton $4 44
For the sake of illustration, we shall
compare this with the analytical value of
a standard guano, which, perhaps, has the
largest sale of any fertilizer in Georgia.
Tho analysis of a shipment of this guano
yielded the following results:
So'nble bone phosphate of lime 14.00
Reduced 6.32
Available 20.92
Insolnble 658
Total available 27.50
Ammonia 3.05
Potash 1.85
We have ammonia and potash clear. To
compare the soluble bone pbesphate of
lime with the phosphoric acid of the barn
yard manure we mnst first reduce it to
that term. A formula applied yields us
in the place of 14.00 per cent, bone phos
phate ofliue, 0.70 of phosphoric acid
The result then, osing the same table of
values as applied to the manure is:
Per Per
cent ton.
Phos acid. .6.75 135 lbs at 15 cents-20 15
Ammonia..3.05 61 lbs at 8 cents—4 80
Potash 1.35 27 lbs at G cents— 1 G2
Total estimated values of like materials
in one ton, $2G.G7.
Thus we have in the stable yard ma
nure worth in the actual wholesale value
of phosphoric acid, ammonia and potash,
$4.44. One ton of standard guano worth
in tho same elements $20.07. In other
words, s;x tons of common atable-yard
manure is worth one of commercial fer
tilizers.
Rut this analysis of stable-yard manure
was made from a heap on a farm, and
though important as showing the value of
the average manure from such sources,does
not, unfortunately, give the value ot this
fertilizer under the most favorable cir
cumstances. It is the common custom to
construct these manure heaps In the open
air, where they He sometimes for months
exposed alternately to the rain and sun
shine, the ammonia and volatile gases
constantly escaping, and the liquid sink
ing into the earth or draining away into
gullies. If any one desires to witness an
evidence of the waste of plant food, let
him suspend above a smoking manure
heap a rag wet with muriatic acid. He
will see the ammonia coming in contact
with it and producing dense fumes. Or
let him wet a cloth with acetate of lead,
and be will see the escaping sulphurated
hydrogen discolor It rapidly.
That tho strength of these manures
would be nearly doubled if the stable
floors weie water-tight and covered with
straw to absorb the urine and escaping li
quids, and the manure heaps were pro
tected from the elements, cannot be
doubted.
But take the manure as it lies, six tons
is worth one of commercial fertilizers,
and there is scarcely a larmer but wbat
can reduce by fifty per cent, his expenses
in this line. An experiment has demon
strated that ten animals fed on good hay,
or its equivalent in grain and straw
made in five months one hundred and
twenty tons of this manure, by adding the
proportion of ashes, straw and muck as
stated. A larmer, therefore, who owns
five head of stock and feeds them proper
ly, may save himself the purchase of at
least six tons of fertilizers, for he will
have on hand sixty tons of manure. This
put into tho ground early will answer his
every purpose.
These values may seem high, but they
are the results ot estimates that cannot be
attacked, and experiments rather than
theories. Economy in farming is as nec
essary as economy in commercial life and
they who practice it are oftenest suc
cessful.
Coltsa Statement. I Intensely
According to the Financial Chroniclej
of Friday last, the receipts at all the porta There can no longer be any doubt
for the week ending that day were 201,630 *1*® policy marked out by wbat Is
bales. Receipts same week last year
237,080 bales, and for corresponding week
or 1879,207,601 bales.
These figures show a falling off of re
ceipts for the week, as compared with
tame week last year, of 36,125 bales; a
falling off, as compared with 1870, of
0,740 bales.
The total receipts sines September 1st,
1881, are 2,041,408, against 3,107,879 in
1880, and 2,011,871 in 1879, showing a
falling off since September 1st, as com
pared with last year, of 200,421 bales, and
an increase compared with 1870, of 20,087
tor same time.
The total visible supply last Friday
night was 2,025,301 bales, compared with
2,754,063 bales in 1880, and 2,023,357
bales iu 1879, showing an Increase
in stocK in sight of 170,398 bales
compared with same date last year, and
402,010 bales same date iu 1870.
The stocks at interior ports increased
9,123 bales last week, and were 00,010
bales more than at same date last year.
Fence or No* Fence.
The ordinary of Bibb county has is
sued a proclamation ordering an election
to decide the question, fence or no-fence,
in Bibb county. The election will take
place on January 21st. Those favoring a
fence will eudorse upon their tickets
“fence.” Those opposed will write “no-
tence.” Every person who votes is re
quired to do so in the district in whlcT he
lives.
We have already pointed out toonr
readers the benefits that hare inured to
those districts that have tried the no fence
system long enough to test its
merits, and the probable benefits
to Bibb county under such
a system. There can be no dcubt that
our cattle will be finer, lands richer, and
crops better protected under such a sys
tem. One great argument, however, has
scarcely been Invoked. Ike cost of fenc
ing is uiie Of the greatest drawbacks to
those who desire to engage in farming.
When the price tf labor and the growing
scarcity of timber is considered, as well
as the owner’s time, it may bo easily im
agined that this is aseriousmatter. Fur
ther, in fencing land he is obliged to use
the very timber, that it left free might be
placed upon the market as fuel and be
made a source of revenue.
A prominent farmer of Howard district
stated in this office that he was opposed
to the enactment of the proposed law be
cause nnder tho present system he had
the advantage of a fine range for his cat
tle along the river bank, a range that ex
tended through the land of several neigh
bors, and gave as an excuse for the seem
ing selfishness of the plea, that tlie neigh
bors had the same privilege with his
land. This is the argument most com
monly used against the proposed law—
the sacrifice ot long enjoyed range privi
leges. The argument has only to be ex
amined to show how shallow it is. There
is nothing iu the proposed law to prevent
neighbors from enjoying, by mutual con
sent, one common range. All
that is necessary to be done
is, to preserve the extreme boundary
fences. But, continue these opponents,
“there may be one man, perhaps, who
will kick against it.” Just here the very
law proposed is needed; a law to protect
the unwilling victim of cattle-owning
neighbors. It is said, however, that the
law will reduce the number of cattle in
the county. This is true. But on the
other hand, the cattle that remain will be
foitud falter and finer. If it comes to the
question, “shall we continue to eat tough
beef, or be flooded with it for a brief sea
son,” we say let us endure the brief jaw-
breaking season, and enter into better
times bye and bye.
The keeping up of cattle has been found
to work well in tbe city, and in many
districts. Give us a vote that wilt bring
Bibb county within the law.
Mb. Phelps, oi Connecticut, wants a
Presidential Commission established to
look into the spiritual and temporal con
dition of tbe colored people. If Mr.
Phelps would carefully read the Tele-
graph and Messenger he would learn
that the colored people are doing as well
as any race under tbe sun. But perhaps
he desires to head the commission and
pocket a double salary, to say nothing of
traveling expenses, fees and emoluments
generally. Really tbe colored people
should ask for a commission to examine
Mr. Phelps.
“The Coming Buds” Is the title of a
poem sent In by a young and uamelesa
poet, who has been deceived by the warm
wet weather. Gently, dear friend. Don’t
seek to entrap old Mother Nature in the
matter of buds. It is not only unhealthy,
but it is au effort which all right-minded
people will regard suspiciously. Bend in
your poem about April 1st, and wo will
see that it has a prominent pigeon hole in
tho waste basket.
Tiie court martial which tried Flipper
was unanimous In the recommendation
that he be dismissed. It Is within the
Judge Gibson, of Augusts, hung up
his stocking Christmas night, butwbrn
he discovered that the entrance at one
end was no larger than the ravages of
time at tbe other, exclaimed emphatically,
“Dam the sock.” Dear Judge, it does no
good for a man to dam his sock. There
should be a woman at tbe bottom of it.
Most we continue to admonish you, year
In and year out?
The Russian Jew is tbe latest addition
to the National Orphan Asylum, and it is
proposed now to teach him English and
turn him loose. A Russian Jew needs no
capital. After he learns to break tbe
English language he can break most any.
thing else from a faro bank up to a busi
ness competitor.
The Constitution thinks there Is no
toy in Savannah too small to blow a
hom. Possibly Savannah thinks that
there Is no hom In Atlanta small enough
for a boy to blow. Thus do we umpire
these State issues la advance.
The Baroness Bnrdett-Coutts lost $375,-
000 per year by marrying Asbmead-B*rt-
lett. Asbmead will have to step around
lively to make up tho deficiency.
Booth's Theatre in New York is to be
turned into a dry goods establishment.
And yet actors continue td boast of the
elevation of the drama.
Nothing exists but for use, and poor
is he who bath no friend. A scientific
gentleman is now wielding his pen in de
fense of the shunk.
Savannah is smiling over tbe appear-
' ance of the first shad of tbe season. But
range of probabilities that Flipper will be ‘ for the catfish, Macon would be a great
flopped. 1 a bad centre.
Stalwart—Wbat we lay
_ Expect.
as to
com
prehensively termed the administration.
The most sanguine patriot In the land,
with the signs of tbe times swinging so
conspicuously before him must by this
time have lost hope iu tbe future, as far
as the new government is concerned. That
administration which is at band Is destin
ed to be intensely stalwart. Washington
is fairly hazy with the elements that con
stitute stalwartism. The President has
surrounded himself with the stiffest back
bones in the land; tbe Speaker is pure
blooded and unspottedly stalwart; the
appointees are “men that can be rei'ed
upon,” and the House committees are
made up regardless of fitness or diguily,
only one qualification being necessary.
Above the President’s door can be read
through tho commonest pair of spectacles
“only stalwarts need apply.”
For four ysars these extremists gazed
with contempt and disgust upon tho
trembling hand that Hayes laid upon the
helm, and when he released his grasp
sharp and fierce was tbe struggle for its
possession. Defeated they beheld the
victor at his post with envy not disguised,
and when crime, bora of their passion,
hurled him over tbe bulwarks, closed in
upbn the prize with a satisfaction that
even the fear of tho hour could not dis
guise. The bubbles have scarcely burst
over the dead man left behind, but already
every sail is set, the course is altered, and
the whole crew is off upon the most expen
sive cruise this count: y lias ever stood up
under. And such a complement and
crew it is 1 Fore and aft, from the of&xr
in the cabin to the common sailor sipping
his modicum of government grog below,
everything is stalwart. It Is needless to
say this extraordinary crew has cast ex
pense to the dogs and bid farewell to re
form. A glance at the roll will argue
one’s judgment to that conclusion.
The question that puzzles the think
ing men of this country to-day, and will
astouud them to-morrow, is, where will
all this end ? Never before iu the history
of the States have the liberties of tho peo
ple been in such jeopardy. War is too
fresh iu the memory of the people to serve
as a blood letter for tbe angry boil that is
forming upon their institutions; the scar
of the recent surgery is loo bright before
their eyes. The patient has not now the
fearlessness that invited the knife, and
yet every bad blot in tho circulation is
rushing to a common centre. What
stalwartism but unscrupuiousness mixed
with greed and animated by ambition?
Wbat has it worked ? It was stalwartism
that butchered Mexico and Peru; that im
poverished Ireland; that beheaded
Charles I; that sacrificed Poland; that
pillaged India; that brought anarchy to
Rome; that crowned Napoleon; that made
Waterloo a necessity. Stalwartism has
wrought ruin wherever it has ruled, and
American stalwartism is no better than
its foreign namesake.
The President of the Unitea States is
whom? A man elected for his patriot
ism, intellect and judgment? Fy
means. He is a New York “boss” and a
surrogate lawyer, Vice-President by acci
dent, President by crime—a crime born of
the principles that govern him,-if Gui-
teau be not insane. What can be ex
pected of such a man, surrounded as he
is by the advisers he lias chosen; what
but political plunder and rapiue. The
fear of vengeance upon him, for the death
of Garfield made sunshine in the minds
of many while the white heat of passion
was on the country, for Arthur’s words
were smooth, aud his friends knew bow
to promise, but the waves have subside d
now, aud facts begin to take tbe place of
words; facts that cast shadows. If any
man can look upon tbe crew that sails
with Arthur to-day and believe that
aught ot promise exists iu the vision he
must have the perception of Jeremiah or
the faith of Elijah. Gazing upon the
motley crowd that rule in the depart
rnents aud high places, it is not difficult to
uuderstaud how Rome looked when the
Gauls broke through and stood iu the
capitol. The men in tegas, shrouding
their dignity in silence, stand helpless in
the corridors, or yield their heads instinct
ively to the wanton blow.
Tho evil that threatens the country lias
not been felt, but the time is at hand.
Like causes produce like effects, and figs
cannot be grown on thorns aud thistles.
But we do not believe that the overthrow
of this country Is at hand. History re
peats itself- Eevery nation has its destiny
to fulfill, and exists until its work lias
been accomplished. This “refuge of the
world” is but in tho infancy of its cause.
It has not yet taught tho world liow to be
free, and Providence will not suffer it to
depart.
Tbe great evil that threatens :s born of
tbe accumulation of wealth, that should
have been employed to develop. By Us
power a government has come into being,
which, while it lacks the brain to govern,
lacks also the brain to avert the annihila
tion that awaits itself. Out of confusion
will come a mau born for the times, as
have come ruling spirits at every crisis in
a growing nation’s history; a man clear
headed, able, eloquent, just and majestic;
a man born to direct aud reform. Tho
times are almost ripe, and upon the bor
derland of dreams we fancy liis footfall
even now is heard.
War Declared. I Tbe Trojan Horae.
The Mauon Telxobafh and Messences It will be remembered that during re
does not think there is mnch fire, if any, construction the Radicals attempted to
beneath the thin column of smoke that it ... .. . .. . ‘ _
says, is giving atarm to some of the “timid seduce the bouth by the payment of war
sentries on the rural towers,” in regard to I claims, and according to John Sherman
b^sSS tEUfc many miUiPOS of dollare were paid out.
Virginia, bnt to-day it haa tbe great iState Most of this money was paid upon fraud-
i Q ® . . nlent claims, anJ the greater portion of
And there is great danger it Georgia, and I 7 , , v *
the “timid sentries," os tbe country week- that went into tho hands of attorneys and
lies are called, are doing well to wara the claim agents. The scheme was not sue-
people in advance. When the political bat- , . f . — . . . .
tie comes off, we will see who will be ce33 ' l “> out the Trojan Horse is to be
“timid.”—Monroe Advertiser. rolled to the front again.
If our esteemed contemporary will A Washington letter says: “There is
pause in his self-imposed task of wound- an indication on tbe part of the Rcpubli-
tog himself by hugging to his manly bo- can members of Corgress to settle all le
soin briery words, and take a calm, dls- gitimate war claims as rapidly as poesi
passionate view of the surroundings, he b!e. An indication of this has been shown
will perceive far more iu the remarks ta during the last two or three days by seud-
which he refers than, judging from the J Ing oat from the claims committee of the
paragraph he has constructed, occurred to Senate to prominent men in the South
him at the first shock. In the first place, letters requesting them to furnish Con
he has picked out from among our re- gress with all possible information as to
marks, expressions that would, taken as the legality of the claims now before the
they are inbroken doses and minnsthe coat- committee. It is proposed to push these
ing of sugar whichevery journalistic chein- claims until the docket is clear.”
ist recognizes as necessary, imply that the The Republican party resisted the ef-
noble band of workers known as “Georgia I forts of the Democracy to rise into power
weeklies” are held by us in light esteem, by the effective use of this war claims
an inference that needs no argument to question before the people of tho North
set aside other than Is contained in our and when the Democrats did get control
constant invasions of their columns and of the House, the Republicans obstinately
reproduction of captured material. Now, I and successfully opposed any and ail
to bo plain about it, the very remark to claims from the South,
which our sensitive contemporary alludes I This fresh movement is a sham and
was written to include the Daily Consti-1 delusion. It may catch a few men hero
tution, the official organ of the “Cracker j and there whose self-interest is paramount
City.” It was the trembling form of Har- j to their love of or duty to tbeir section,
ris, as he sounded the tocsin, that hrat but they will not be rewarded for tbe sao-
caugbt cur eye, and it was to allay the I rifice. Tbe rigid rule has been establish'
tremors which shook his mortal frame,that I ed by the Republicans that no recovery
we langbed and tried to look unconcern- | can be had except upon the most indubi
ed. Tliis is an admission wrung from us table evidences oi loyalty, and tho Dcmo-
by tho unkind fling of a journal we have I cratic minority is strong enough to hold
loug regarded as trustful of us. I them to its strict enforcement. No civil-
Vmuecessnrjr Alarm,
Columbut Enquirer. Dii
»7e cannot see wherein tbe iiolitical situ-1 * es H°? in JWf direction warms’ into life's
ation in Georgia is in such a bad predica- ? n ?P 1 ® 10 ? that his proposed conference ia
ment It is truo that there is some talk of I 88 * teap. We donotrefuseto at-
Mahoneizing the State. bnt it -takes a con- I f? n r Sr® conf ereac3, bnt we may say now
stituency, as well as leaders, to amount to I , there are to be no more compromises
Far Le it from us to admit lb,l Mahooe-I lied conauy .are ltd, La. ever nr *£> aSSSSSSSrSJSt ™ SKf ttat SSM^a^TSlL
forward the young men, and giving them I ■?. * heretofore set forth. This is our
on opportunity of developing tboir ability I “timatum.
in an official capacity. ‘J his is the age of I —
The attention of Col. Estiil is called to
the fact that Joe Harris being worsted in
an argument, attempted to save himself
by divulging tbe seerets of the guild.
Preparations for bis execution may be
made when the boys go up tbe Augusta
canal next spring. We have refused to
sign a petition for his pardon.
Little Mamie; Your buddie cannot
go to school next week, but he can see
when the doctor takes the oiled cloth
from his face. It will be a long time be
fore he has any hair on his head, but be
will never pour powder from a gourd on
a red hot coal again. But it was funny,
wasn’t It?
The Constitution refuses to abandon
Col. Thornton as tho leader of the Ma-
hone movement. Atlanta parts with do
treasure that once falls within her walls.
When, in tbe early days of the exposition,
a visiting statesman lost two dollars and
a half aDd shouted for the police, every
Atlanta man present buttoned bis coat
and refused to be searched.
ism in Georgia is a small thing. That I fused to repair the damages in-
were indeed a serious eiror. The indi- Aided by war upon cburcbes, charitable
cations are that it is large enough to in- asylums and institutions of learning,
eludes in its limits Emory Speer, Mar- I When this act of common justice is done,
cellos Thornton, the independents j It may then be in order to look into the
generally, and all oi that noble body of grievances of the “trooly loll.”
unfed martyrs known as the Republican The fiercest debates iu the Forty-fifth
party of Georgia, leaving room for a Congress were over tlie proposition to pay
dozen unheard from expensive heroes of for tbe destruction of that venerable insti
field aud flood; not only large enough to I tution, William and Mary College, which
contain them, but large enough to give was wantonly burned by Federal sol
some of them opportunities to become ir- I diery, and whose blackened remains were
recoverably mislaid. It must be admitted | present to remind every one at the Yoik
that it would lake a scheme of noble pro- town cenlenuial how, in less than a ecu-
portions to include Colonel Thornton tury, the citizens of the great republic bad
alone, much less to furnish him space in | learned to become vandals aud barbarians.
which to become mislaid. Iu the acci
dental wounding of his sensibilities, the
truth is our contemporary has lost sight
of tin only issue now before the State.
Wo appeal to bis patriotism to forget the
Injury and unite with us against the com
mon foe. Tho Constitution continues to j
press the claims of Colonel Thornton to j
the leadership of the great movement
which has begun in Georgia, the attempt
to Mahoreizo the State. This action is
based upon the sole idea, as we have be
fore pointed cut, that Colonel Thornton
is an Atlanta institution; and ignoring tho
fact that the strongest man in the State is
thus being pressed for tbe
very office which he bluslilngly
desires, that journal con-1
tinucs its novel and unwise labors. The
State will bear witness how earnestly wo |
havo striven against this policy. Our
idea, aud secrecy is no longer possible,
was to put at the head of tbo movement
Mr. Speer, witli Thornton as lieutenant,
Tbe Confederate specie,
A private in Gen. Vaughan’s brigade,
who was at Washington, Georgia, says
that the $300,000 Confederate specie which
is missing was stolen from a wagon train
by a band of marauders, headed by Capt.
Abbott. A mau named Stephens received
about $00,000, and a man named Thomas
and bis two sons also received a large
share. Stephens gave a portion of his
money to bis mother, who lived in Mor.-
roe county, east Tennessee, cud it was
stolen from her by Thomas, who then fled
to tho sonthern portion of California,
where he now lives. Stephens went to
Texas, where be died.
‘Ollie Ollkndorf,” Wesleyan
Female College: We are not de
ceived, that is not your true name,
But to your question. Captain Har
ris, best known as “Uncle Remus,”
though an incomparable dialectician is
not an apt aDd accomplished linguist. He
well knowing that before many moons I did take one course of French lectures un-
bai v/aned dissensions would arise; “that der Richardson of the Homing Netes,
you have wronged me doth appeal in but was dropped from the class for eating
this” would fall from the lips of one, and I a horse apple in school hours. The famil-
“you yourself arc much condemned to larity he displays with French, Italian and
have au itching palm,” would be burled Spauish idioms is the inspiration of Col
back from tiie other’s. Tills would end Broofay, editor of modern languages, mu-
in separate camps upon separate bills as a sic, dancing and calisthenics on the At
natural consequence. It was the plan of lanta Constitution, and architect of a gold
our campaign then to drive one iu’o the medal for English prose improvisation iu
mountains, aud chase the other into the tbe Atlanta Girls High School. You may
dim recesses of the piney woods, and we tell this to the other girls and also to
refer the public to any accepted sebool those “awfully conceited things” over at
edition of mililary tactics to ascertain if Mercer. There! there! rim along now,
this policy was not the true one. Our pa- the president’s coining this way. Ta ta
triotic labors have been met by the grasp-1 You can send that little poem, “Ob, tell
ing spirit of Atlanta, which has for its mo do tho stars have loves,” any time be-
molto, “The Gate City first. It matters | fore Sunday,
not what next.” To our invitation for a
conference a reply has been returnid
which completely handicaps the move
ment, inasmuch as our contemporary will
come only as an instructed delegate, and
he so announces. Further, Mr. Speer’s
well known modesty aud retiring disposi
tion may receive such a shock as will lead
him to decline the leadership. Never
theless wo have avowed our policy, and
now that war has been declared, will uot j
depart from it.
SoruoMOBE, Mercer University:
We sympathize with you. Spelling is
very hard; in fact, it is a lost art In this
country. It can only be learned from an
old field pedagogue with a blue back
spelling book in one hand and a hickory
withe in the othey. We would advise you
tojointbearmy.lt does not requires good
speller to make a great soldier. Napoleon
spelled wretchedly, but General Forrest
could discount him. The board of exam
iners at West Foint last-year reported that
not one of tbe graduatingclass could spell
“cider” in three trials. But we must not
Tbe Boom Iu Confederate Bonds.
Tbe public was for a time greatly puz
zled at the sudden rise and boom in Con-1 be understood as prophesying that all of
federate stocks and bonds. As tbe truth these lads are going to make Napoleons
came out, to the effect that there were no | or Forrests.
assets of the late Confederate government
in England, or anywhere else, tiie puzzle
became more confounded.
The whole movement was based upon
a most insecure foundation. The secre
tary of the association of English holders
of Confederate securities has made it
public. “Wo are aware,” writes the sec
retary of too association, “that the United
States has, by the fourteenth amendment,
Tiie Assassin’s Christmas.—Guiteau
spent Christmas very quiety. Few per
sons are peiinitted to enter the ail on Sun
days, and only his brother and sister are
allowed to visit tbo prisoner, unless by
authority of Judge Cox or Scoviile. John
W. Guiteau, accompanied by a few ac
quaintances, called during tbe day, and
had an Interview with his brother.. Late
on any of the debts of tiie late Confeder
ate States, but we believe that the gov
ernment can be persuaded to rccofisider
aud repeal this amendment and recog
nize a claim that is pronounced by tbe
most distinguished legal authorities to bo
a valid aud subsisting debt.”
Thin as is tbe basis upon which these
people rest their hopes of ultimate recove
ry, there are bonds, stocks and securities
sold daily upon the London market which
promise no better guarantee. Tho greed
left, Guiteau partook of a hearty Christ
as dinner. The prisoner has prepared
another statement for publication, which
lie intimates contains important and in
teresting revelations bearing on bis case.
For it he wants $100.
A disgusted visitor complains thattlie
Atlanta exposition did not have tbe club
pealed to public patronage without it.
But tho fact is that tbe extreme cold of
forspeculation when there is a plethora of I last winter, the scarcity of cord wood and
money induces men to invest iu the wild-1 the burning of many museums have short
est aud most chimerical schemes. Years I ened the stock of these clubs. They are
ago under a silk growing excitement tbe almost as scarce now as Joo Brown’s war
South expended large amounts in morus I pikes
multleaulis, or mulberry trees. At a later Thb „ York Uerald is worryhlg itr
date she invested in the Lopez bonds for ae , f over ‘ sectional illiteracy. Will the
tb6 liberation of Cuba, and at a still
later date backed up Gen. Walker in his
filibustering expeditions. Men arc gam
bling to-day in stocks in New York and
other commercial centres that are quite
as worthless as Confederate bonds.
The Thornton-Speer conference will be
held. Any contributions in tbe way of
refreshments, solid or liquid, or cigars
Jlerall ploaso tell us which is proper,
“Gol darn it,” or “Dog gone it!”
John M. Carson has exchanged his
position of Washington correspondent of
tbe New York Times for a clerkship on
the ways and means eqjumittec.
The grand national Christmas matinee
of premature explosions, bursted fingers,
will be taken in change by the agricul- I dimmed eyesight and cramp colic, went
tural editor of the Constitution. I Tith the usual eclat.
i iug, they never went wandering about af-
Freddy: John Chinaman did notin-
rent the cannon popper. It was the wick
ed work of a hoodlum in Sau Francisco to
frighten the Chinese. We are afraid of
men and boys also when tney are too | t^r'anotberstar.
good, but you should not have touched} - -
one of them off under your grandpa’s ! Ububh, of the Darifen Gazette, is mad
chair SoDday morning. It may have because Macon hotels don’t have sturgeon j
helped bis rheumatism, but did not do steak and rice muffins for breakfast, [
his deafness any good. bnt be is a Bacon man all the same.
If the wise men of the East felt half as I A oou> medal and ollier ** ouor3 awa,t
bad after tbeir visit to Bethlehem as tbo the man who ma y ,n?ent a ahort andsure
average young man did yesterday morn- wa * of *^8 a Christmas horn.
A Proposed Van tar the Kecljr otor. suggestion—we have long known that suoh
... & to** Pott mtpatch. plans were on foot; and they have been w
It has been suggested that G*pt Eads I on foot in the-very teeth of the fact that
should secure the control of the Keely mo- I Colonel Thornton has been for years tho
tor. It is claimed that this powerful ma- I only real In iepeudent iu Georgia, all tha
ohine could consume a jug of oold water | others rating themselves as independent
and then climb a mountain with a big Democrats. This is history. Even now
loaded ship on its back. I Mr. Speer is declaring by nearly every mail
—— that he is still a Democrat, and his friend."
A You.* Woman am a Kidnapper. are careful to have these declarations re
t a
month, yesterday, in whiota it appears that Untly become threader of snch a
a yonng woman is accused of kidnappinga » ,0 ". U0r . or J*? c “ a.moro-
yoang man from Portsmouth twei ‘
years of age and weighing about ta_ „„ „„ vcr an a h nm
drod pounds. The case was examined pri-1 - ’t.-.—» —-»«- ’•• - s . aot now,
vatelv, and the mayor reprimanded the ac
cused and then discharged her.
a Democrat, and he can well afford to take
charge of a campaign winch, while it may
be in the interest of Republicanism, will
nevertheless, leave him free to advocate hi*'
own particular political theories, which ara
all in the direoti mor true Independence
We are not tho champions of Colonel
The Bowses nod the Meant Cue.
Public Ledger, Ind.
The circmnslanoee ot this cane are re , __ . „ - — , uael
hearsed for a double purpose—first, of I Thornton-on the contrary, when ho tekes
showing how the anm ot all insolence, the I charge or the campaign, it will te our in-
display of all Tillainong andacitiee in crime I work for his defeat; bnt in nuy
are used for the protection of the “bosses” I con.est between the so-called independents
—these are the “divinities” with which the I on ‘i tmtpwl leader of the Independent
politiciara try to hedge about their kings; 1 <ul ,, ItepobliCBn cohorts, we are emphati-
second, for the purpose of showing the j cally in favor of Colonel Thornton. It is
enormous difficulties that district nttor- I ,?*f 16 , 18 am I'ly able to take cnreofbim-
neys, juries and judges have in bringing I *° lr » " nt we feel bound to defend him
criminals of that stamp to justice. I from such insinuations of inequality as
— have found their way into print in vario“
Oaltenu’s Numerous Creditors. I quarters.^ It is not m the best of taste to
Eea, Fork Sun. - I j» * °ewsp«-
Tho method in Gnitean’s madness is no- I of toe Macon TklwmunrThatf unon^n 1 ^
whore more plainly shown than in bis cent occasion, when ho was ’ frisl. rJ.™
greetings to his numerous creditors as they I Washington and imbred T
take their place in the witness stand. In enthusiasm incident thereto SLia
ordinary cases tne fact that tho prisoner as his opinion that if a Sonthenfir
owed tho witness money would induce tbe placed in the cabinet, Co? Thornton w™??
jury to weigh the witness’s testimony with be toe man, and ho gavo substant^af re£
care, as coming from one naturally preju- sons in support of his belief. Wo remoST
aicod against the prisoner. It is not un- j btr, morover, that we told the editor nforn-
likfly that Guitean has thought of this, and esteemed contemporary that’Ool. Thornton
so ho prefaces their testimony by acknowl- was not in search of a cabinet position? If
edging his indebtedness. | the editor of the Telequato is of the opi“
Ion that onr proposed compromise had any
symptom cf a white flag about it, he woe
fully mistakes the nature of it. His sug-
IteRtirm in this rliwaah'An .
progress, end the young men of the coun
try nro the ones to lead to its success.
Poor Keller’. Scalp.
Philadelphia Time*.
One thing may be taken os assured in
suvauoe. The Speaker’s parliamentary
life will be far from a happy one. He has
weakened tis own ranks where disaffection
will he most troublesome and he lias in
spired the minority with a perfectly justi-
’•N'ull hold
Chronicle and Conttitulionalist
Somebody urges ns to pitch into General-
Joe Johnston. iVhat’s the nso ? We can
not hurt him half as mnch as he has hurt
himself.
Another an 't|Iisu'ls Kiid ol lie-
pair
Cleveland Uerald.
« . r——— w t —— . Mr. Pendleton will have no prospects
able contempt and hatred of his methods. I with any portiotfof his party if he docs not
warfare, therefore, may bo expected from | repair his fences in Ohio. They are being
the opening of tho suasion to its close, an j torn Jown iu several dlrecfons.
with such consummate tacticians as the { ...
Democrats have at hand it is easy to fore-1 Unfortunate Heller.
BOe that the majority will succeed only at f Xashcille American
great cost in the various nitorior designs! xr- lr.sr,,, . , -
the power* shamelc63 prostitDti3U ° f self
" ’ Mhan half of the Republican pnrty for his
Country Life vs. City Idle.
Fete Uaven Eegitter.
‘Well, I tell you, Josh,” said Farmer I
Robinson, “I’m mighty glad yon hitched
on to that city gal; but I’m sorry yoj’ro
going to leave the farm to tackle ’be temp
tations of business in the city. Von may
narrow partisan organization of the com
mittees which are charged with legislating
for the interests of fifty millions of people.
Interviewing a Dead Man.
Aeto Fork World.
The force of "interviewing” can hardly go
be worth $10,000 in tho morning there and beyond the point reached by an enterpris-
be $20,000 worse off than nothin’ before I in K evening joni-nal ot this city which yes-
night. Here yon can live in an easy sort I terdny published some views on foreign
of way and if yon can’t get your own price 1 coaches and coaching, alleged to havo been
for your vegetables, why, hang it all, yon I yesterday communicated to one of its ro-
can oat’ em. Tnere’s no starvation brink | poiters by* n gentleman of this city whoso
in a farmer’s life.” Bnt these arcmiiQiits I l 8m08 lri dfiath&broad w&sihroQiclod sev-
sufficed not Josh goes to toe city, will be- I ® ral weeks ago, and whose remains havo
come “Hon.,” “Aid.," “Mayor,” “Member j reached his native land.
Cong.” and ail that sort of thing. He has j ■■* ■
looked the thing up and sees that tho city’s | The Happy South,
best men are from the country. I Industrial South.
ta. jsssS! -S’hSKfi:
Heir Uatcn Register. I looking for great fields for largo invest-
It is reported from Washington semi-of- I ments are turned towards the South, and
ficially that tiie verdict of tho second court I to thost who aro informed as to tho vast
martial against colored Cadet Whittaker and varied resources of the Sontb, there is
will be set aside, and that Whittaker will I Du reason for wonder that it is so. No-
be reinstated. If tliis should prove to he I where else perhaps in all tbo civilized
the result it would be a most high-handod | world is there a land so attractive to money
proceeding. Whittaker was found guilty I »nd mnaeie ns is this southern land of ours,
of conduct unbecoming an officer and gen- I It not only offers every opportunity and
tleman by a West Point court martial. His I everr means of making money, but it
counsel applied for a new trial. The ap- I offers also every adjunct and association
plication was granted and a now court, I tor the enjoyment of money after inak-
uomposed of officers supposed to be partic- | ing it.
ulariy favorable to Whittaker, was detailed | _ .
to retry the case. After a long, patient I “*“•
and tnoronch investigation of the facts a I A or hr tile mtrican.
second verdict of guilty was rendered. That I Fret, fnme, twist and turn, vex ihem-
verdict accords with tho evidence in the Reives and each other ns they will, it ia
case, but it does not suit tho Republican I ideas at last that will marshall and com-
poliiicians in Washington. Consevnently I mnnd them, and all their scheming goes for
the findiugs are to be set aside. Should I naught. From onr standpoint, cue idea
this be done a most damaging blow will be I seems to ns of supreme importance to tho
dealt to the morals and disciplno of too I State mid to Democracy. Let tho Demo-
regular army, bnt then tho Republican I cratic party take that lofty ground
party seems to earo for nothing so long as I which is the true ground everywhere,
point can be scored for party purposes. | cease to bid for ignorance, prejudico ana
dishonesty, and aim at a high line oi pro-
Jiutlce Late lint Mure.
St. Lou * Pott Vitpatch.
Socrates was a stonecutter by trade, bnt j
too lazy to follow so honest a calling. He
loved to talk too well and sppnt his timo
lounging on street corners and gathering
young men as idle as himself around him.
His personal appearance was disgusting in
tho extreme, ard one has bnt to gaze upon
the Lanvre cast in tho gallery of which we
are so justly proud to straightway sympa-
gressive, honest policy, such ns will secure
it a following of the best conservative in
telligence North and South, and its fntnro
will be assured.
A Voice from Abroad.
Vicksburg Democrat.
On toe 13th instant Mr. Albert R. La
mar took the editorial control of tho Macon
(Ga.) Teleobaph and Messenueii. The
new editor is evidently a clear-headed man
and a fine writer. If we are to judge from
thiza with poor, abused Xantippe. Ho had kj, first article, we can place him
a flat note, th’ck lips, prominent eyes, bald j am0D{ , the progressive Democrats
l??’’?? awkward gait, Q f t [, e Soulli, one fully imbued with
^^a* ad ’ Wa8 »'t I the national sentiments of his great name-
Cl8 «ke.‘hedistinguished Senntor from Mis-
in . -SSLJK 1 ?.I “isaippi, and like him, bold and fearless
whembo was attracted by her singular con- in t £ e Bdvocflc , of d ropp i n g the sword
versottoaal poweia. and although he be-1 -Bhich has so long cut the way to defeat,
lieved he himself excelled all his contemt-o- and seekinB with diplomatic ptemmet and
ranes m that respect, yet ho found that she Una ^ <£^1 £ U ch may lead to suc-
far excelled him in the command of Ian- 1
gunge. He cared nothing for the welfare
of his wife and children, loft them to sup
port themselves as best they might, while
le spent what time he could spare from the
curbstone seances and wasted tho treasures
of his thought at tho foet of Aspasia and
Theodote, whom he pretended to desire to
convert that ho might add lustre
Tbe nip
Evening Star.
A too inquisitive passenger was asking
a conductor how ho managed to build a
house end buy a fast horse out cf $50 a
month. The answer was one of the frank-
to his own name—sly old dog—and in ad-I es f-
dition to all this he would invite the lazy I . son see, sniff this noble man, some-
creatures who surrounded him to dine with 1 times we get a way passenger wlo pays a
him when there was nothing in the house to I quarter or a half dollar for his fare.. Well,
entertain them with.
It is natural that ibis would bo very irri
tating to proud-spirited woman, who was
struggling for herself and littio ones. What
woman in existence could have borne her
sonl in patience nnder snch provocation ?
A Mailer af Klxht and JTuMlce
Atlanta Constitution.
We rrint elsewhere the reply of the Ma
con Telegraph to the protest of the Con
stitution against the unwarranted attempts
of onr esteemed contemporary to ignore
the geographical position and belittle the
advantages of the real leader of the Geor-
we flip the money up—heads for the con
ductor, tails for ths company.”
“BnL” persisted this investigator after
truth, “sometimes it must tarn ap taxis.
What do yon do then ?”
“Ob,” replied tho conductor, with-an in
effable contempt, “then we Sip it np
again.”
So that passenger went homo and. sold
out liis railroad shares.
Another ■lebmoud.
Rome Courier
The Atlnnta Constitution and the Macom
Telegraph are engaged in a mimic dil
ute as to who is to bo tiie leader of the
nantx* ^acknowleagee, te a mannef| the | “jjnhoneizo” Georgia. The Constitution
contends that Colonel M. E. Thornton is to
style m which thiBisdone is not all satis-1 mftn and the Telegraph insists that
factory to ns. We do not relish, for in- Sr,V s™ i, to be the leader Wo
stance, the ill-conooaled. fltoWW with d 0 ° n bt Ter y much whether either of
‘hem has named toe right man. Tbe Ro-
with which Capt. Cook was killed. This gg to arrirt &SAA ^ j*
is the ohly first-class show that ever ap- thoughtful man in the State. The eoitor s ^ e J r ’. and itwould ^uite mcjnristeut
of onr esteemed contemporary is expert- j j Q t j iem t 0 recognize hfc leadership in the
enced enough, both in journalism and m state. nnd vet onnose him for Congress.
Our country brethren ot the quill allow
themselves full. time to brace up alter
the Christmas nog.
Whitelaw Reid is mercilessly prod
ding the Arthur administration with a
very sharp stylus.
. r - i State, and yet oppose him for Congress,
politics, to know tuat great controversies | The Georgia Mnhoue will be a mnn upon
are not sctt.ed by either flippancy or sat- I w {, om the Republicans and tho so called In-
ire, and he ought to be aware by this time, I dependents can neartiiy unite, if they can
that such weapons as these are altogether l 8acb a m „
out of place in a discussion as calm and I
dispassionate as that to which we have in-1 ... . .
sited him. We print his reply in order Mexican vs Atacrlcaa.
that onr readers may have an opportunity I Sun,
of understanding the precise nature of the Tho capture of Alzctta and mor.- than
controversy that now threatens to create a j two score of his followers by tbe Mexican
bitter and lasting schism between oures- troops is an auditiocal illustration of tbe
teemed contemporary and onrselves. readiness of tbe Mexican government to
The position of ths Constitution in this co-operate with onr own in ridding the
matter ras taken only after mature delib- border of thieving ind inns. Mexican troops
eration, and onr firm purpose is not to be l overtook and killed Viotorio and nearly an-
shaken. Grounded on a solid basis of right I mhilateJ his band, after be had baffled our
and justice, we aro not to be moved Ly the I forces for years and had ravaged tho fron-
fl : ppancies of our esteem< d contemporary. I tiers of New Mexioo and Arizona. If the
His sinister arguments have no effect upon old policy of sending armed soldiers upon
us. We are willing to lend an ear to apol-I Mexican territory is again resorted to, it can
ogiesand explanations, bnt further than I not be upon the former plea that thonbigb-
this we do not propose to go. Oar oom- I bor republic is not doing her part toward
slaint against the Txkeobafk is that in re* putting down the plunderers of toe border,
learsing the probable programme of the Ths Mexican troops haveof late been mere
independents, it gave Mr. Speer toe leader. I expert than our own, or at any rate more
ship of the cohorts of that party, nnd delib I successful, iu their capture or destruction
erately named Col. Marcellos Thornton as I of hostile Indians, m<Dt of whom have es-
‘lieutenant,” thus foiling into tbe plans caped from our own reservations, to carry
which the so-called indei endents have de- on their marauding upon both sides of the
vised to ignore and otherwise humiliate the border,
very man by whose attitude and example |
inaependentism in Georgia was made pos
sible. We did not charge that theTELs-
gbaek was a party to these plans and de-
visements, nor do we make the charge now;
but the fact that its own - purpose in allud
ing to Colonel Thornton as ‘'lieutenant”
runs parallel to the desires of theso-oaUed
indei endents, is, to say the least of it, not
without a suspicions savor. Apart from this
A Distant Fall»re.
Courier Journal.
Blaine's attempt to aroose toe “national
spirit” to the extent of approving a foreign
war has thus far proven a failure. Koaon-
cans will fight in a minute when there is a
cause, but they will not be forced into a
foreign war because one manor set of meu
wiun/ubB DUC|Siuiuuo res* via # ajsui til UUI warj IUIclj|U WOI iwjoubc uuu
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