Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Z-VdVXY, JANUARY 20, 1882.
t lx 1» wliispored In Republican circles
».at Pledger will decline to be Back’s
»lie Too.”
Aeteb Macon gets through with her
jj Mayor Huff, any half grown jastice,
asurt can handle him.
Vws new party is badly mixed on ljard
sad soft money, bnt this is not apt to be
IU greatest financial stress.
st« Uuvr has had Macon in the swing
. fin aterm of years. Macon now proposes
•swing Mr. Muff awhile.
Vsilkss Mr. Uuff numbers the Su
preme Court among bis assets, a few de
velopments yet remain on the programme.
passed here on Wednesday
night with a single barrel shot gun and
% hr indie setter in search of alligator
staaks.
£r seems that the invitation to Farson
SSeitou to speak at Augusta was fixed up
in advance of the Markham House coah-
tsloe: caucus.
Charlie Willingham, who has been
price docile up to this stage of the
campaign, now rises up and calls every-
sody a liar.
ir is generally admitted that llio city
sC Uaoou is ■ unuing a hotel in Atlanta.
Xfesis what may bo termed an involun-
L*ry onterprUo.
ir Mr. Huff has any claims on the Mai-
■beery street pump, we trust he will levy,
sod have it removed to make way for tbo
ait exhibition building.
Ir people should dress according to
ut-uru, tho costumes of Adam and Eve,
previous to the apple matinee, would come
alto vogue again.
Ds. Mary Walker says she is not
Savor of hanging Guitean. Neither are
re, if Mary will elope with him. He
would hang himself in three days.
f>ocitKBKi’BB Browni.ow a.iys no man
■«Muprcttid of Democracy” shall stay
about him. Nobody but a suspected man
-jpvjuJ stay anywhere about Brownlow.
Somebody heard a Boston girl say: “1
• uik he looked like a perfect raving am
;jl la his uniform! He was awful heav-
«lyl” It was a lieutenant of marines in
Vaelungtou.
Mr. Freiingbnysen says ho is not going
«• have a diplomatic tangle with Great
Britain over Uo Clayton-Bulwar treaty.
Tie is not so fond of fireworks as Mr.
fi?lain«.
•:«v. Bhown, in a wild moment,
m:pcd the fence of tho Democratic sait-
ug pea and wandered eff with tho dry
-a&tte. He proposes to carry the bell in
-die raugc from now out.
Candidates for Governor have pop-
wed up so rapidly and prematurely that in
the burly burly, we bad forgotten to note
*sLs fact that the Hon. B. B. Hinton, of
Asuwicus, proposes to take the prize.
Gentlemen of the Georgia Press :
beg leave to introduce to you the Na-
tutnaJ Art Exposition. The grand debut
wiU take place next fail. In the mean
time toasts and sentiments are In order.
Acolohed Major Hicks, of Covington,
wilder sentence of death by banging on
the 27tli prox., is down with the small
90K. The neighborhood is fearfully ex.
-sited lest ho should die and spoil the
anticipated pleasure.
Dau Bliss is of the opinion that Gnl-
should hang. Bliss is probably
right, but at the same time It must be
remembered that be and Guiteau liave
werer been able to agree upon ’ the man
«*ho killed the President.
The tussles between Macau and cx-
Stayor H ill have been onfi-slded affairs
hPherto; the latter having “all under-
?sjSd.” But tho coming struggle will be
wpxa the Greco-Roman plan, and Mr.
3XidI will learn what is meant by setting
down at full'lcngth.
Oscar Wilde has a social tariff ar
ranged* Five-minute calls, $1; talK about
iifac Beautiful, $1.60; anecdotes of the Ar-
fc-ocrccy, $5; discourse on Mrs. Langtry
<wh.li photograph), $10; staying the whole
•evening and being introduced to guests,
t?oO. Cheap for cash.
How ioAhe world it escaped ns we can-
■st imagine, but the fact is Editor David
■Vaid, of Dublin, has pretty near exhaust
ed bis honeymoon, and we still imagined
tewing on his own buttons. Never
theless, here’s health to thee and thine,
’avid Ware. May you always find hap
piness in Dublin.
Hon of Senator Beck’s constituents
ought to induce him to go out to Ken-
utOtj to eat dinner and spend the night
occasionally. He lingers so long in Wash
ington society that it is as easy to get an
endorsement from him of a stalwart
statesman, as it is to get the signature of
Mr Stephens to a patent medicine certifi-
0sts.
Ta« Augusta and Savannah brokers
*ave played toes ball with Georgia and
Antral stocks nntil they must be tired
-.I’awapplug margins. If they want a
. quare deal let them shingle the Skida-
' ay and Coast Line roads with a syndi-
csfte and cut out blocks of common and
...t.furred stock. The field for specula
tion is wide and wild.
a. Kentuckian says oiBurbndge: “He
.1 a Robespierre without a motive, a Ca-
Igola without courage. Ho was n„t act-
...g -v.eu under a mistaken or fanatical
uau iot isin, for I know this to^be the fact.
iir )im had men selected to be shot, and
:pou paymfcut of money would take
tiy. xie wlio was able to purchase his life
tixmi among the vlctiirs and supply his
■.dace by some other prisoner.
i un new party in Augusta is threatened
wkb u split. The new members who
isave never sailed on the canal want to
rake Parson Felton up with the accustom
ed festivities. If the campaign funds are
isgiumdered iu that way Bill Moore can-
<*ot get * shampoo atd a clean collar to
voeet hfs Suuday School class in Atlanta
Healthy .Entballelim and the Art Ex-
hlbltlea.
It is natural that practical America
should laugh at Oscar Wilde and his
school of tosllietes. Their code of aesthet
ics is exaggerated, and exaggeration is al
ways unhealthy to mind and body. None,
however, who know whereof they speak,
will deny Mr. Wilde’s assertion as to the
existence of an indefinable “somethin*”
In art and nature that appeals powerfully
to the human mind; nor are they prepared
to accord him the credit of discovering
this vague something, for the simple rea
son that poets, sculptors, artists, and en
thusiasts generally, have felt and recog
nized its power ever since the shepherds
chalked figures on the rocks, or piped bird
notes npon their reeds. The point on
which practical America and the icsthetic
Wildes differ, is that one sees in labor and
manly independence of character and ac.
tion, the true foundation of snch
a physical and mental condition,
as will best receive and profit by tbe
influences of art ard nature, while tbo
other, forsaking tbo means necessity to
prepare one’s seif for these influences,
hug to their breast a single idea, and in
chasing the shadow lose tbe substance,
tbe broad English of America, tbe differ
ence lies between a healthy and an un
healthy ffistheticism. •
In common with all fun-loving Ameri
cans who sit behind tbo pencil wo join in
the ridicule of Mr. Wildo ai.d is remark
able code; we cannot consistently believe
that tbe fashion of a man’s dress has any
thing to do with nature; nor do we believe
that a man who has dined on a lily, or
supped on mental exhilaration only, can
be healthy. Nor yet do we have any
faith in knee pants and long hosiery in
these the declining years of the nine
teenth century. But we do not ridicule
the {esthetic sido of humanity. ^Esthetic
craze is one thing, and the philosophy of
taste is another. Healthy {estheticism Is
the capability and willingness to feel the
influence of nature, art, music and the
higher range of literature. We laydown
tho broad proposition, that a mfc or wo
man who has no {esthetic sido to his or
her nature can ever he cultivated, or, as
a natural consequence, refined. Show us
a person upon whose mind a beautiful
picture, sunset, stretching landscape or
strain of music has no effect, and without
changing tho direction of our gaze, wo
will point you out a person upon whose
brow failure Is already written. On the
contrary, pick from a dungeon ono whom
all these things delight, and though he
may stand neck deep in degradation, there
are within him possibilities that reach
through eternity. •
The truth is, now tbat we are fully
into this subject, this and every country
needs a healthy code of aesthetics. Men
grow up from youth to old ago with every
passion agd appetite drawing them to
ruin. Opposed to these influences we
cultivate a code of morals difficult to
grasp, and hard to follow; a code tbat
would be sufficient if It could bo univer
sally enforced. The trouble is we attempt
to ram it into a humanity tbat would
adopt it if its moral nature bad been pre
pared for it. This samo {csthctical side
of our nature, is, we believe, the shortest
road to morality. Create iu any mind an
admiration for the beiutiful, a fancy for
art, a delight in music and a craving for
literature and Christianity is almost
natural result. The mind would travel
to it just as sure as a man moving away
from tbe North pole would come south
ward.
Wo have enough confidence in this doc
trine to believe tbat a man who has been
taught to love nature in all of her ways
will love bis Creator of his own accord.
It is certainly the easiest to teach. Sight,
sound, and feeling ate more potent with
the masses than reason. But wo want a
healthy code. We want it understood
tbat while the love of beauty, of music, of
art, ol nature, is not inconsistent with
manlinoss; while it is ennobling and re
fining—the foe to crime and a missionary
to ignorance—still it mast not ran to ex
cess. Unc of the most incongruous sights
in the world is to see a jackass browsing
on lilies, and filling the ear of nature with
discordant praises. - *
All reforms begin in a first step. We
do not mean to say that our people have
as yet no {esthetic cultivation, for opposed
to the assertion would bo our large corps
of home artists, our tastefully decora
ted houses, oar musical societies, colleges,
libraries, and flower gardens. Bnt as
people we have not yet taken tbe first
step. Tbe National Art Exposition will
be tbe first grand* movement in the direc
tion desired. Bear in mind that no pride
of city, or of energy, lies in the origin of
this enterprise. There is a higher motive.
Tbe cause of education and refinement
sleeps at tho bottom of it, and
to advance this cause becomes tbe
duty of every man and woman in
the land. It will, we believe, enlist the
sympathies of every educated person who
understands it, and tbe assistance ofevciy
educated and refined mind in the coun
try. Heads of families, of colleges, min
isters and public men, philanthropists
and artists will press forward the enter
prise to a grand success. Wo think the
gentlemen who have charge of the aflair
realized this when they decided tbat inch
an exhibition could not be prepared by
May, and we see in their careful begin
ning an augury of a favorable result.
Move on gentlemen! Name October as
the month for the exhibition, and bend
every energy toward success. Perfect
your organization, place men at tbe head
of it, erect your building and fill it with
every variety of art; fill ft with cameos
from Rome, mosaics from Flor
ence, glass from Venice, filigree
work from Genoa, Sevres porcelain,
Gobelins tapestry, Lonis Qninze mar
quetry, Dieppe ivory carvings; paintings
from England, Germauy, Italy; sculptures,
engravings, works of art in gold, silver,
bronzs and china, wood carvings, mosaic
tables and buhl cabinets. Let there be a
full exhibition of American productions
in art, but place no limit upon your ob
ject. When you have blended here all the
beauties of tints, colors and forms,
wrought from nature and linked with fancy
you will have done a work tbat will live
long after you. Do not imagine that these
exhibits will fail to arrive. This country
of oars is filled with them and they can
be sscured.
tatob Edmunds, according to a
lingion correspondent, recently put
1 to Senator Hill, of
irbat do we two believe
fenjbow?” To which the
tnitoi replied: “Why, J®°
'0 in the higher law, while we stick
ooj Atltotioo.”
Colcsinus is nothing if not sporty. She
lias a troll trig carnival on hand with slow
tlmt>. The Macon horses will lower the
schedule.
Oor. Brown and tbe Men Party.
A late Washington special to tbe Louii-
ville ConricrJoumal says;
It was stated to-day by Mr. Myer, of Geor
gia, who is the private secretary to Senator
Brown, of tbat State, that overtures are
being made by the adrainifltration to indaoe
Senator Brown to lead the liberal move
ment down there. It will be remembered
that Senator Brown was elected to the Sen
ate in a sort of independent way. It was
then predicted of him that he would, when
he came here, pursue an independent
course, but all such predictions were dis
pelled by the manner in which Senator
Brown discussed iiahone in the Senate. It
would seem, from the reported overtures of
fhe administration, that somebody bigger
than Representative Felton or Speer is
wanted in the endeavor to Mahonize Geor
gia. It is not known how Senator Brown
has treated the overtures of tbe adminis
tration, but ho is a pretty frequent visitor
at tbe White House.
Mr. Myer, who is a clerk in the Treas
ury Department, may speak by the card
as to the overtures. If so, the stalwarts
are iu haste to secure a leader, and Gov.
Brown must have much business with the
President, be had barely reached
Washington when tbe above telegram was
sent. That tho stalwarts want a man of
brains and energy in Georgia is a conced
ed fact, and all signs indicate that they
are prepared to pay for such an one liber
ally, very liberally. But Gov. Brown is
not open to negotiations ef this sort, and
the stalwarts know It, for the reason
that they had already made
overtures and met with a
promt repulse. In tho heat-,
cd unwise campaign which re
sulted iiAke election ot Governor Brown
to the Sem^La portion of the Georgia
press, by cominaliv decrying Gen. Law-
ton as a mau s^id methods and wedded
to deed Issues an? juch cheap campaign
stock, created tbe 'finpression tbat Gov.
Brown was going to "Washington as the
leader of a new and advanced political
movement. This IrapressU u was strength
ed by the fact that when otavBrown ad
dressed the Georgia LtgiAn, Speer
wa3 present on the stage, just «*(ne, too,
Platt,” is always found danglinLAt the
coat tails of Mr. Conkling, ThaL/fsult
was that when Gov. Brown went to \ £h-
ington tbe Democrats were at first
him, and tho Radicals were ready
dicker. Botbjwere quickly undeceived,
peremptorily refused to countenance
support Jack Brown for sergeant-at-;
of the Senate, and mingled with Hi
Dawes anu Logau in a style tbat they
cherish in their memories for many
Some years since Governor Bi
broke with the political friends and
elates of b<s life, and wandered about
and around into very strange places and
companionships.
He has returned to the fold of the true
faith, and is entrenched. He will bo
somewhere about the front in the coming
campaign in Georgia, but not at the head
of a column of tho formulated coalition
taucus.
Georgia and Iler Bonds.
In a late issue of the New York
Tribune we find the following editorial
paragraph:
The decision ot Bank Superintendent
Hepburn that tho savings banks of New
York are restrained from investing in tho
bends of Georgia because she repudiated n
portion of her debt in 1877 will not be
agreeable reading for tho people of the
proud and prosperous -commonwealth that
has just been displaying her greatness at
ths Atlanta exhibition. They cannot say,
however, that they do not deserve tho hu
miliation. Their act of repudiation, em
phasized and perpetuated by a constitu
tional amendment, was shameful and
wicked.
It is just notiqpable that so soon as the
formulated coalition caucus promulgated
its manifesto, with a somewhat Delphic
utterance as to the payment of “honest
debts,” tho Republican press of tho North
finds it convenient to devote marked at
tention to tbe finances bf Georgia. We
have given a specimen above. 4t may
not be pleasant reading to the editor of
tho New York Tribune, but it it is a fact
nevertheless, that Georgia does not feel
any humiliation at tbe ruling of Bank
Superintendent Hepburn. She recalls
that some years since she was threatened
from similar sources with an entire
prostration of her credit, and that
to-day her bonds are far above
par, and have been secured by
prudent men looking for safe and perm a
nent investments. In view of the recent
robberies and thefts in Northern banks,
by the high-toned members of the God
and morality party which the Tribune
serves, tho depositors of the Ne\v York
savings banks would feel much more
secure and contented if their institutions
were backed by Georgia bonds in plate of
tho bloated securities that are tossed
about day by day by tbe bulls and bears
of Wall street. Does the new party in
dorse the position of the New York Tri.
(nine?
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company's statement tor tbo six months
ending December 31, 1881 (Cincinnati
Sbort-llno provides its own interest, and
is not included): Gross earniugs (1,835
miles), $5,037,844; operating expenses
(00 1-10 per cent.), $3,429,810; net from
traffic, $2,208,028. Other income from
investments, etc., $319,014; undivided
earnings June 30,1881, $485,221; total to
credit of income account, $3,012,2G3.
Fixed charges and taxes, $1,886,285; sur
plus, applicrble to dividends, $1,125,078
less dividend of 3 per cent., payable Feb
ruary 10, 1882, $543,000. Undivided
earnings forwarded as of December 31,
1881, $582,078.
If Geo. L ijeuey, Esq., the liberal pat
ron of educational institutions, will take
charge of the Northern wing of tbe Macon
National Art Exhibition, theie would be
a ripple In art circles tbat would set many
a gem of art afloat.
Our friend Phil Carroll, of Augusta,
repudiates the new party. In a card in
thp chronicle and Constitutionalist, of
Sunday last, he says:
Some time ago I was standing on the
street conversing with Mr. Aiutln Mullar-
ky and Mr. James W. Turley, when
Judge Hook approached us with a petition
or paper, and asked us if we did not wish
to hear Dr. Felton speak. I told him then
that I was not in j>< 1 tical affiliation with
Mr. Felton, bnt would like to hear him
speak, and we thereupon signed the pa
per.
Since its signature Mr. Felton, Judge
Hook, Gen. Longstreet, Col. Farrow, and
others are reported to have held a caucus,
or meeting, in Atlanta, and formed a
scheme to revolutionize the politics of
Georgia, the result of which, in my opin
ion, if successful, will be to place our
irosperous and growing Commonwealth
u the hands of the ignorant and vicious,
from whom we wrenched it ten years ago
and placed it upon the road to wealth and
prosperity. I would never have signed
the invitatiou if it had occurred to me for
moment that such a move was in con
templation, which culminated in the
meeting held in Atlanta a few days ago to
start a Stalwart party in Georgia.'
Anew young man having climbed to
the editorial tripod of the Panola (Texas)
Watchman, tragically remarks: “I desire
it distinctly understood that I have un
sheathed mj (word, bared my breast, and
shall ask for no quarters.” Does our
young brother expect bis patrons to pay in
cord wood, sweet potatoes, sorghum and
such things?
TbS Latter Bay Salats.
More than a quarter of century ago the
Mormons of Utah had grown so strong
and insolent in their defiance of the au
thority of the United States government,
that it became necessary to take them in
hand. A, for that day, powerful midta-
,iy column under the command of Albert
Sidney Johnson amid great privations
and hardships was marched to Salt Lake
City. Brigham Young was cowed, the
United States Courts were held Without
interruption and the lives and properly of
American citizens were secured. Tho at
tacks on emigrant trains ceased, travel
ers on the plainf wore no longer murder
ed, but tbe Mormon went on with his
proselyting, his preaching, his farming
and his wife taking. Law and order were
restored by tbe strong arm of the soldier,
but tho Mormon problem remained un
solved and remains in tbat con
dition until to-day. Nor does it appear
to be any nearer a practical solution than
it did under tbe administration of James
Buchanaa. It was thought that as the
great railroads traversed the western prai
ries and plains, and sturdy emigrants
from all parts of tho old world found
homes on the lands, men and women who
recoguized and practiced the social rules
of American civilization, thatMormonism
would bo encircled with a wall of fire,
and like a snake in the flames would sling
itself to death. This was a delusion.
Mormonism has continued to grow and
to prosper,and while it bos not thrown itself
into open revolt against the United States
government, it has successfully withstood
ail attempts upon the part of tho latter to
wipe out the foul blot of polygamy.
The present Legislature of Utah, con
sisting of thirty-six members, who make
ail the laws for that Territory, have more
than fifty wives among them. Several
members are not practical polygamists
and tbe number of the wives of the others
could notbe ascertained. Thconly check
on any legislation that may be enacted by
this Legislature rests in the veto of the
Territorial governor appointed by tho
President of the United States, and the
power of revision by Congress, which is
seldom if ever used. The Mormon wo
men have the right of suilrage, and
though Gentiles, as they are called, have
settled in the * Territory and engaged in
business, they can never expect to com
pete in power with the MormoiS. From
one end of this country to the other, and
ail over the continent ot Europe and in
Groat Britain, Mormon mission
aries are at work, and
are daily adding converts to their faith
and muscle and money to their material
progress. During tbe last year Utah by
iar surpassed all of tho other Territories
in the number of her immigrants. Mr.
Gladstone, tbe premier of England, when
appealed to to interfere in behalf of the
young English girls being taken away to
fill the harems and to feed the iusts of tho
head Mormons, replied that he and his
government were powerless, as the girls
went of their own consent. This govern
ment seems to be just as powerless as that
of Great Britain, for the Mormons control
their own courts and juries. They marry
or are sealed in private, and it has been
found impossible to obtain convictions for
polygamous marriages, for tho lack of
legal evidence and the open sympathy of
the juries with the parties upon trial
They openly proclaim that if one wife is a
blessing a plurality oi wives becomes a
blessing in an increased ratio. This spe
cious declaration takes with the class
among whom Jhe missionaries labor, and
Mormonism and polygamy flourish and
grow in equal proportions.
Mr. Garfield in his inaugural address
gave promise of a vigorous Crusade
against this foul excrescence on our body
politic, blit he was called away before op
portunity came for him to formulate and
publish to the country his plan of cam
paign. Within a few days past his party
friends in the Houso of Representatives
have made a wild and ineffectual effort to
do something against the Mormons by
seating a man as a delegate from Utah
Territory who was not elected. -That
they should have tried to seat a man
who was not elected is not strange, for
this is the tradition and practice
of the Republican party, but
if they had succeeded in the
unseating of one mim and the seating
another it is difficult, if not impossible, to
see in what measuro this would havo con
tributed to the suppression of polygamy.
After a prolonged and heated discussion,
the matter went to the committee on elec
tions. The indications arc that the com
mittee will send the qnestiou back to the
people of Utah. It so, the people of Utah
can and will elect a polygamous delegate,
and tbo government and tbe Congress
will stand bafiled and abashed at last.
Every consideration of public safety, de
cency and morality demands that polyga
my shall be uprooted.
But lioAv are you to deal with fanatics
and crash oat fanaticism in its most de
graded and disgusting form? The ques
tion seems to be too hard for the Ameri
can statesman.
One suggests tbat the laws cf evidence
should be so changed that a Mormon wife
could be made a witness against her hus
band or her part of a husband. But their
marriages or sealings take place in private,
and the wife number one is not a guest at
tho wedding of wife nnmber two. And
would women who embrace the faith and
its workings be likely to consign by tbeir
oaths to prison the man who gives them
food, raiment and.drick?
Another recommendation is to divide
Utah and attach it to Colorado, Idaho and
Wyoming whose established laws would
be able to reach tbe cunning and lecher
ous leaders. But would the leaders go?
Would they not rather leave their posses
sions in the valley as they did in Nauvoo,
and seek rest from what they call per
secution further West, thau to give
up the one great bond which
binds them together as a com
mon community? A Western Con
gressman is credited with a capital and
witty suggestion, viz:..to compel each
Mormon to livein the boose with all of his
wires. No doubt the remedy would prove
prompt and perfect if there were no bar to
its becoming a law. As it is, the Ameri
can Congress has tackled the question
fairly and squarely, and has not only
been wonted, but utterly routed.st tbe
outset. ;
Perhaps if Utah would enter into bonds
to become a Republican State, tbe stal
warts might fix up to admit-her in time
for the next Presidential election, while
prelenniulng an expression of opinion as
to any peculiar practices upon the part of
the people.
Grant is reforming fast. He has re
fused to be one of the incorporators of
the Nicaragua canal. He never refused
before.
Joe IlAiuns bss more Ilian once thrown
out tbo unfeeling and cruel Imputation
tbat Macon is jealous of Atlanta. Now,
we do not wish to retaliate. We sre not
anxious to put a cuckle burr under any
body’s saddle. We would scorn to clothe
a friend in a horsehair undergarment.
We do not fQ9> around with a pan of live
coals looking for somebody’s head to cool
them on, but we are bound as a journal
ut to speak the truth, even if it shall cause
bitter memories.
Macon only completed her police bar
racks Friday morning. Before tbe 11
o’clock lunch counters wero cleared, be
fore a single Macon man had reclined on
the crimson plush sofas or lolled in the
spring-back Russian leather rockers, an
Atlanta man broke in and luxuriated in
tho top cream • of tho first hospitalities.
No thanks! We only did our duty, and
did it generously.
Mr. L. G. White, of Jasper, Jasper
county, Texas, claims that alter twenty
years of study and experiment he has fally
succeeded in producing a worm^proof cot
ton. Not only is the plant worm proof,
but it produces, he says, more and larger
bolls to the stalk than any other cotton
matures earlier, and has a better staple
and finer lint than anyother cotton grown.
The young man who does Washington
news for tho Louisville Courier-Journal
ha3 taken charge of Georgia politics. His
latest Is that Joe Brown is going to send
Colquitt to the Senate and make Ben
Hill goverffor. An intimate acquaint
ance with blue grass Bourbon may be
pleasant, but it does not comprise tho en
tire wardrobe of a Georgia politician.
The Macon National Art Exposition is
now spoken of as a recherche affair.
When our people are compelled to step
over Webster’s unabridged dictionary afid
the slang amendments to invoke the aid
of a three-barreled foreign adjective to de
scribe it, it is a pretty good indication
that the *Exihbition is outgrowing the
American language.
•
Beecher’s allusion to tbe Brooklyn
school m&rms has been suddenly if not
unexpectedly explained. The New York
World says: “A visitor at the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher’s residence last evening
stumbled over a bundle on the stoop as he
was leaving the house. It contained a fe
male infant only a day old.”
Chattanooga Times: Wo havo no
doubt the Independent movement, so-
called, in Georgia needs a more reliable
leader than can be made of the skyrock-
ety Speer, or of the ill-informed and loud-
howling Parson; but they will not cap
ture Governor Brown—not tbis evening.
Cannon, the Mormon delegate, says
his opponent, Campbell, is only a left
banded saint. He dances the german,
gallants tho girls and enjoys the usual
Mormon privileges without any prelimi
nary ceremonies of sealing and blood
atonement and the like.
Washington telegram: "Gov. Brown,
of Georgia, stated that ho was sure he
would make a poor Mahohe of Georgia,
“for,” said he, “I intend to vote for the
Democratic nominees in 1884, and for tho
Democratic candidate for governor of
Georgia, as well.”
The level-headed New York Sun takes
occasion to observe: Let our esteemed
contemporaries contain their zeal. The
great change in the South will take plaoe
when the great change in tho Boui non
Republican party has taken place, and
not a day before.
The Baltimore Times, the new journal
which started off with a sixteen thousaud-
dollar press, special telegraphic wires and
a very large and expensive staff, lias come
to sudden grief. It seems that Mr.
Hazleton had only a few thousand dollars
and an immense amount of cheek.
‘At Beecher’s last matinee lie got off tho
following gag: “My friends, you and I
are no better than many men wearing
striped jackets and breaking stone at Sing
Sing.” The audience did not respond
with three cheers and a tiger, as usual.
While Congress was indulging in
spasms of morality over a Mormon with
one wife and two concubines, “Royal
Bob” Ingereoll was belching up a lot of
pagan rot over a poor little dead child in
the Congressional cemetery.
Mr. Randall, after a day at the Gui-
tcau trial, writes his solemn conviction
that tho prisoner is “mad as a march
bare.” He says this opinion is shared by
a large number of physicians, lawyers and
prominent citizens.
Any editor who refers to the Art Exhi
bition, and ignores the capital division of
the spelling book, U no friend to Macon.
The Exhibition is altogether a capital af
fair, and can be made a success with
great Es.
The folly of crossing the natural
boundary of her sex was illustrated by Dr.
Mary Walker on Christmas Evo. She
bang up her pants, and Santa Clans put a
razor in one pocket and a shaving mug in
the other.
Old Deacon Stanley, of Memphis, is
miserable because Miss Sailie Gordon
jilted him and married young Mr. Whar
ton. If she had taken the old fool he
would have become acquainted with
misery. ]
The Mississippi Legislature (Demo
cratic) has elected two negro doorkeepers.
The United Stales House of Representa
tives (Republican) refused (0 elect one
negro clerk,
There must have been sonio misappli
cation of tbe campaign funds of the new
Republican Independent party. Col.
JohnE. Bryant, of Skowhegan, Maine,
has not been on deck for sevoral days.
John Maund reiuses horseback exer
cise. He sat down on a vaccine lancet in
a Columbus doctor’s office. He spends
most bis time just uow looking over a
fence at his fattening hogs.
The county of Burke has been hoard
from. She refuses to put down her name
for any abates of stock in the new Repub
lican independent party.
Kkifer began life as McKeever, but he
has aliased himself out of his entitlement
so far that not a drop of Irish blood
runs in bis veins.
It looks as* though there was to be a
new guard mounting. All of tbe Federal
beef eaters In Georgia bave left in a bur
ry for Washington.
Miss Eusia Abbott sti 11 warbles, but
she cannot wobble. Her variola car
buncle is just above her kneeling down
place.
mnesasd Prussia.
It is a noticeable fact that just as tbe
Kaiser* William of Prussia finds it neces
sary to tighten the governmental reins
npon his people and to impress npon them
that the “King can do no wrong," the
elections in France settle beyond question
tligt she has’assim'.lated h$neli to repub
lican ways and methods. A popular vote
has quenched the last hope of tho Bour
bons, the Bonapartists, the royalists and
all other factions in France. She has
taken a grand step forward in the direc
tion of a government of the people, and
thoso who have looked "With doubt and
apprehension as to tho result of an exper
iment upon a population mercurial
in temperament and revolutionary
in habit, may now regard tho French re
public as an accomplished fact. Tho
world at laigo will watch with interest,
not to say anxiety, the future career of
tiiese two powerful nations. Tho scars of
tbeir iato great conflict, one ot th<? many
in which they have engaged, are yet
fresh. jTho resentments oi tho two peo
ples are viilent and unsubdued. Prussia
has added nothing to her strength since
the war. Tho fabulous indemnity im
posed upon France, together with her rev
enues, have been swallowed up in the
maintenance of a largo army. Indeed,
Prussia ‘may be said to be an
armed camp. Her great Chancellor
Bismarck has been in a constant
feud with tho Catholic Church and the
factions of his own people who are not
satisfied with the vigorous and iron rulo
of tbe government. -A great mass of the
people of Prussia are restless and discon
tented, and despite all efforts to the con
trary, are seeking cheap lands, remunera
tive employment and free government in
America. The rescript of the Emperor
assuming to himself supreme and unques
tionable power will havo a tendency to
increase rather than to allay popular re
sentment. The Emperor himself cannot
be justly set up as a popular ruler at any
time. His first prominence followed bis
services in tho revolution of 1648. Ho bad
been a rough, hard riding dragoon, with
the bold instincts and bolder practices of
a soldier wko knows no law save that
of force. Tjjiero was nothing of the
courtier or statesman in his compo
sition. Among his chief dislikes was the
Baron Van Humboldt, who was always a
welcome and honored guest at the Impe
rial palace. Meeting him in the corridor
ono day the present Kaiser, then an army
officor, rudely said to him: “Why is this
houso filled with philosophers and
bawds?” Humboldt quickly replied
“Tho philosophers cauie to see me and
the bawds to visit you.” The anecdote is
illustrative of the two men. It is said
that upon reaching his eighty-fifth birth
day, now near at hand, he will virtually
abdicate the^irerogatives of bis position
in. favor of his sou the Crown
Prince. This young man, of gen
tler moods, and educated in more
liberal methods, may by a kind and
liberal rulo win the confidence and affec
tion oi his subjects, and start F.nssia
forward on a career of progressive pros
perity.
France, on the other hand, has day by
day learned to be more contented with
her new government and her new rulers.
After a short tutelage under Marshal
MacMahon as a military ruler, she learned
to sit still under Thiera and to walk under
Grevy aud Gambetta. She paid her war
indemnity without a shrug, and has filled
her treasury to repletion. Hor men and
women stay at home happy and contented
for tbs mo3t part, and hor thousands upon
thousands of small industries flourish and
givo strength and solidity to her financial
system. But under tho decorations on
tho breasts of her soldiers and
under tbe blouses of her peas
ants rankles the humiliation pnt
upon them by Prussia, and the memory
is present that the yellow fields of Alsace
and tbo purple vineyards of Lorraine have
passed into alien hands. While shaping
out the system of civil government, lop
ping off an excrcsccnco hero and putting
in an improvement there, she has remod
eled and mobilized her army. So to-day
she has the finest and most easily managed
military force in the world. Thus armed
and equipped she bides her time and
pants for occasion. Von Moltke is giving
way under tbe pressure of years. Bis
marck, through excesses of all sorts, holds
to life aud office by a frail tenure. Gam
betta, on the other hand, is in the prime
of life and intellect, and marshals with
tho inagneiism of a fiery and irresistible ge
nius the French pooplerat his beck and
bidding. Many who rcW these lines will
live to feel almost to see and hear, the
shock of battle wbiah must come when
these giants meet again, impelled to fury
by the recollection of defeats, humilia
tions, the glories and victories of many
years. With immense armies trained to
tho latest, methods of modern warfare,
with all tho improvements In death-deal
ing weapons, France and Prussia must in
evitably meet in battle. The straggle will
be sharp, furious and bloody beyond com
parison, and tbo ond may find, Instead of
Prussian guns trained on tho beantlful
city of Paris, the tri-color of France float
ing from the citadel of Berlin.
la (ha Hatter of Katteree. I James F. WrLSON, who has just been
It appears from an Interview with tbo j chosen to tbe Senate for the full term of
chief keeper of the penitentiary,published | 8 ix yesn, to succeed the Kirkwood term,
in the Atlanta Constitution, that Governor u the ablest Republican in tbe State of
Colquitt has at length determined to exe- Iowa. He is not as polished as Kasson
Some thin-skinned people are of the im
pression that because a "bum ballifi is not
permitted to nab a Congressman on bis
way to and from his boarding home, that
au allusion to ono as an ass or a dead-beat
is against the statutes of tho State. We
beg to givo as the result of personal inves
tigation tbat no three hundred men picked
at largo can furnish so great aj percentage
of asses and dead-beats as tbe same num
ber of Congressmen. This assertion is
made with the full knowledge that the
people with whom we deal are informed
tbat we have been; an occasional lounger
in the galleries of a Georgia biennial
Legislature.
The Atlanta mau who btoke Into dbr
new barracks and fell in love with tbe
kalsomined walls, wept like a child aud
butted bis head against the bnhl furni
ture when the officer came to carry him
home. He spent money to readi this
place and appreciated it. The return trip
was free, however, a fact which seemed
to impress him, for he remarked facilis
descensus Ateml when he left,and the po
lice said they believed It was, after Jim
Simpson translated the words.
Mr. Speaker : We shall not consume
our time under the five-minute rale. We
only rise to remark that we do notobject
to every Congressman having a clerk,
provided always that clerk is a male. To
those unacquainted with us, this may look
a little like leaulng towards tbe present
administration, but we have arrived at
tbat time of life when it is Imperative tbat
we should set oor face against Mormon-
ism la any form.
cute the law, and has imposed a fine of
five hundred dollars on tbe lessees of the
convicts on the Marietta and North*Ueor-
gia railrAd. It was within his power to
have made the punishment heavier by
taklng tbe convicts from tJw lessees-
We do not propose with tbe limited
facts in our possession to criticise the ac
tion of the Governor in this case. We can
only trust that the punishment inflicted
may bave a salutory effect, and that we
may not be compelled to add another to
tbe long list of violations of law
tbat have come from tbat quarter. We
should feel somewhat safer if we knew that
the fine had been paid.and was properly
covered into the State treasury. But we
must be thankful that llio Governor has
sufficiently overcome his natural and ac
quired sluggishness to vindicate an open,
inexcusable violation of law. In this
effort he has had tbe invaloable prodding
of a portion of the State press, which can
enjoy tho satisfaction of knowing tbat it
has prevented the Democrats from being
handicapped with an ugly freight in the
coming campaign
The reason for President Arthur’s fail
ure to refer to tbe sectional question in
his message has been made public. His
gir.gerbread-hued valet, who is drum ma
jor cf the White House, takes occasion to
make himself insolently insufferable to all
visitors. Crump will be certain to strad
dle him, and then we may look for a
war of races aud Congressional interfer
ence.
Nevada has a resort of peculiar inter
est totbo baluheaded8ide of humanity.
Owing to the ciimatl and water, hair will
return to the loneliost cranium as If by
magic. Popular ? Well we should
grimace I Why every female minstrel
troupe, Black Crook company, and ballet
corps in the land is billing the country
for next spring. All it needs now is a
theatre with 1,309 front seats.
Fon several years we have been en
deavoring to school ourselves into the
faith and practice “that human endurance
should be equal to human calamity,” but
when we know that Phillip Phillips,^he
“sweet singer of Zion,” is heading
way, the old Adam in us causes us to
weaken.
A Macon man dropped in last night to
remark that he opened the police barracks
of Atlanta seven^ or eight years ago. He
says tbat the cement was wet when he
entered, and the prints of his heels yet re
main on the wall five feet ten inches from
the floor. It will be observed that the
two cities are now perfectly homogene
ous.
nor as facile and shre wd a politician as
Allison, bnt be is a mac of strong, ragged
intellect, and be is one of tbe few sieh
who have been great leader; jn the House
who can greater in the Senate. He
bad nothing of tbe dash of Blaino or the
readiness of Garfield in tbs popular branch
of Congress, but when a great dispute
arose on a great issue Wilson was greater
than either. He is a devoted follower of
the Plumed Knight of Maine, and his re
turn to tbe national conncils with the
unanimous vote of bis State means much
in the future of Republican politics be
yond the election of an eminently able
United Slates Senator.
Arthur has appointed Counselor Da-
vidge a visitor to the Government- Insane
Asylum. If Counselor Davidge performs
his duty as visitor he may regret that he
performed it as prosecutor.
Somebody has said that the chief end
of an American citizen Is to elect some
body, or be elected to office. But accord
ing to Atlanta history, the chief end of
man Is a mnd'splitter.
Prof. Scrubs ought to swop his organ
for a piano. A man who has to work two
seta of keys with his hands, and thirteen
treadles with his feet has but little time
for negotiations.
Prof. CaRl Schurz is by no means
dead. Before tho early crocus lifts its
timid head, he will be heard making
overtures upon tbe piano to the Arthur
administration.
Larry Gantt has made the Athens
Watchman a sort of gatling gun, and
there is likely to be a thinning out of half-
breeds in the lower beat of the old
ninth.
Oscar Wilde speaks of “divine
crookedness and holy awkw&rduess.” We
can shat our eyes and see Parson Felton
turn wearily from Mr. Wilde’s orat’on.
President Arthur sent Mr. Stephens a
nosegay on his birthday. Tender Presi
dent Hayes Mr.Stcpbens was permitted to
hmwae in the public posy patch at will.
We have received a circular from tbe
Commissioner of Agriculture setting forth
“The analyses and commercial values of
commercial fertilizers and chemicals
analyzed, inspected and admitted to
sale in Georgia to the 4ih of January,
18S2.” Let those interested send for cir
cular No. 24.
One of the greatest anticipated benefits
to the country and public morals, is tbe
speedy retirement of Gultcau from public
view. Tbe doctors may disagree as to
his sanity, but there can be no two opin-
ions of his utter depravity. It seems that
a little of all tbe rottenness afloat brs
touched and stuck to him.
Senator Vooruees and ex-Senator
McDonald will doubtless be disappointed
to learn that when the Democratic party
next makes a draft for President and
Vice President, tho names of Indiana
statesmen will not be dropped in the hat.
The fragrant memory of William Eng
lish will forbid.
Ir Representative Hammond does not
ride the river and harbor bill wKli an
appropriation for a steam dredge to
deepen tho channel of tho streets of At*
lanta, we shall feel compelled to advo
cate the repeal of the law making tbat
city a port of entry.
Some of our readers are so timid that
they would not have us deal boldly with
wrong. Wo claim the right to criticise
the conduct of any public man, and un
like our advisers, we would not whisper
to another what we would be afraid for
him to bear.
“It is no uso talking, ma,” said tbe ex-
citod daughter. “I must have them. We
must keep up with the times.” ' “But. this
extravagance will cause your father ,to
fail.” “Suppose it does, ara’t failures
fashionable—and sometimes profitable,
too?”
One of the dearest rights vouchsafed to
an American citizen is. to defend home
from improper visitors, and this right he
ought to exercise conscientiously. This ap
plies to books, magazines and newspa
pers as well as to men and women.
AbthubGrat is building a iot of
blinds of lime barrels along Parson Fel
ton’s drives in the seventh. At the prop
er time Jud Clements will occupy
them with a breech-loader aud a belt of
brass mounted shells.
In tbe language of a well-known and
popular Georgian, the Independent move
ment has lor its prospecitice point Augus
ta and its objecilitc point Atlanta. The
most ostensible man at present seems to
be Mr. Felton.
The favorlto American aphorism
tbat “the majority rules,” is a snare aud
delusion. Majorities are sluggish and
easy-going, while the aetive minority
pulls the wires and directs tbe proces
sion.
Oscar Wilde says that “to disagree
with all England on all points is one of
tho first elements of sanity.” Aa free
trade is one of England’s strong points
we feel inclined to hear Mr. Wilde again.
As General Hancock is an officer on ac
tive duty, is also the president of a rifle
team, and has recently joined a “Loyal
Legion,” it is to be presumed that he has
no time to devote to Presidential politics.
It is charged that two men in Athens
got a large slice of the Confederate
specie.- We can now understand _ how
it is that John Wateiman is able to go
down to Atlanta ao often.
There are two questions tbat will ab
sorb oor lady friends at church to-day—
what did she wear? What did it cost?
Tint carberus of the White House Is a
stalwart mulatto.
t is rumored that Col. Mairsllus
Thornton wears a watch which will make
him round-shouldered before the cam
paign sheds its pin feathers.
People who suppose that foreign dukes
refuse to travel South, ought to come
down to Macon and see the Italian noble
men whirl organ handles.
A fervent petition in the prayer of a
modern divine: “Let the drunkenness of
the men and the extravagance of the wo
men come to an end.”
*- Buck Grant, son of the* “old man,”
has arrived in Washington and has open
ly declared for Blaine. This is the ser
pent’s tooth.
An expensive#farce: Putting civil
service reform in the (filiform and I
the most unprincipled
fice.
A Public
of the Republic
Congress.—2
faction at the majj
mittees, we hca
very Sngnific
Mr. Robeson,
committees—
and expenditure
ment. As a men
tions committee 1
committee in charge'
priation bill.
Cerberus, with three
irunk. As a member
examinee, he suggesUj
desirable; as a memb
tions committee,
amounts; and, fir
committee to ini'
tho Navy DepartmeJ
approves the
and made.-
■r.Lmisa
ChU
Washington, .
says: “I propose 1
way. I shall per
op himself and 11
am not prepared
thing about the 1
yet come. I wish
Grant’s reasons 1
Interview tbat
reasons to givo to the (
peeled change of position-!
given any yet. But the tim
come for me to talk in this 1
say Ibis, however. This
Grant has not changed a sit
the Senate, and you may be
that the President is not goinj
the case.”
The Oldest Democrat Diy
111.—Peter Markius, 1
Arkansas, died at his
River, Washington emu:
nary lGtb. He was!
D. C., in 1779, and le
baker in Alexandria,
ed ail about the Cor
He had always
voted at every PrcsiJcr
that of Jefferson to Hanc
Mr. Randall’s Views
Tariff.—I met Mr. Randall yesl
and had a long talk with tbs
tbe minority in Congress. 1 spoke 1
freely and frankly of tbe tariff, ari^
was open-handed on tbat ugly
Mr. Randall will favor revision,'no i
ter what the Pennsylvanians may
about it. “I am a free trader per si
said Mr. Randall, “but we must deal ^
the tariff question as one of practic
statesmanship.” Mr. Randall is in ex
cellent health, and as confident as ever of
the future of the Democratic party. Un
like Mr. Hendricks, he does uot regard
the tariff as a non political question.—
Omaha Herald.
Tho Elder Guitean
Washington, January 10.—Dr. Dut
ton, now of Massachusetts, who occupied
the position of physician in the Illinois
State hospital for the insane at the tim 3
Luther W. Guiteau, father of Chai les J.
Guitean, visited and spent some time at
tbat imitation, has written a letter to a
gentleman in this city in which he says he
remembers with great distinctness that
the eider Guiteau exhibited most unmis
takable evidences of insanity, evidences so
clear aad convincing as to leave no room
for donbt tbat he was an insane man, and
tbat his recollection is clear tbat Dr. Mc
Farland entertained at tbe time, as now,
thi same view.
A Fine Crop Raised by a Nlgro
Boy.—A young negro, sixteen or seven
teen years of age, planted and cultivated
during tbe year 1881, eleven acres of b; t-
ture land on the plantation of Martin
Glynn, Esq., on the lower channel of
False nver, from which he gathered nine
teen bales of cotton, each weighing over
450 pounds. Besides his cotton he a'*c
made com enough to feed one team fo. a
a year. As a matter of course, he cuuld
not pick out this immense crop himse'f,
but had to hire tbe picking of more
than half.—[Points Coupee Banner.
Aeybodt can catch a cold now. The
trouble is to let go, like the man woo
caught tbs bear. We advise am readers
jokeep a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup