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FRIDAY, APRIL 13.
Janes was cut ofl in the prime of
jeoth. He never oven got tJ be “eolo-
hwu tbe barber who lathered Hampton,
dll it waa Hamilton who lathered Sber
Tim Billy Chandler and Teller in the
Aaaident’a cabinet, what chance U there
bithoneatyandncolored man?
Cm appointment by Chandler was not
mnde to appear Ute “haU-breeds." It was
Asa to cot oil Blaine’a right arm.
T«* Ohio mother who inse nines
eggs : n*l>emy«terionsdepthaof her dangh-
corset on the evenings when her young
mo called, deserves the palm.
Jc&.iun fiom the wild Western lament,
w»are disposed to believe that the sheriff,
BMi not Jesse James, sbonld have been
■Skd. The wrong man baa perished.
It* pat barely possible that now that
■Uj Chandler commands the nary, a fel-
A feeling may cause him to restore the
■meallowance, cut off under Hayes’cold
Jot? .hi; ministration.
’ Mm aichange speaks of “the poor Chi-
jasiivl Italians who ate ground down.”
Vs tare had little experience with the
Oiksu, hot i: is the Italian who does the
(down this way.
tr Ford, the murderer of James goes to
j^iJora year, the kind hearted Western
psarpi* who have petitioned for Sergeant
Jtcrn’s release will see that Betsy Ford
and the baby are provided for.
Tmr Ixdroit /•<«( is responsible fo f this:
*Im Drown of Alabama has a tariff idea
Mad mnn it fail to please his constituents.
flU a in favor of a tariff that is not too
tav, but that is just large enough.”
X Fiamiua paper gravely informs church
ffmmg iieople that it is not proper daring
garrisua to go u|> to the pulpit for a drink.
Saws infer from this that the bottle should
l» Sari in tiie |kitv nnd consulted with bowed
Stow hang Ford, the fellow who killed
Jtoan. The man who is dead was a mur-
dbrer over whom lament is wasted. At the
an« time, he too waa murdered, and mur-
f—* for money. There is no difference
UMtoesn Ford and James.
©urn exchanges keep on notifying na
tot "uneasy lies Ibe head that wears a
■sawn.” We respectfully remind our eon-
toervoraries that under this statement, on
% those who linve had the crowns of their
i removed, are resting at all com fort-
CnannnKB will probably content
if with commanding the navy from
a private room at Welckers, or from tbe
White House wine cellar. Billy is not the
mow to venture ont on the oce
Tto sight of so much water all at once
•toil be apt to make his heal swim.
Taa “syndicate” which pays ont the Geor-
&» office*, wisely chose Washington as
Ifeaff quarters. They aro aomowhat reliev-
aditif applicants for while most of the offlo©
aaskers could have walked to Atlanta
Atom are hut few who can nffonl n trip to
Wwtington, or raise a postage stamp to
torTtsjiotid.
tk« paragrapher of tbe Detroit Post haa
•tod another attack of the jim-jams. He
■Meta to Somme*, who for years deflod tho
tmy of the United Htalcs, nnd who lost hig
toiodon ship fighting against an iroii-clad
to a voluntary, conflict, na a “thieving old
aaaak.” Tho malice of this man would be
toniblo if it were not so hamorons.
Ttona are rumors afloat to the effect
tori something dreadful has happened to
toa Emperor of Chins, but as it takes sixty
I s for a dispatch to get out of tho royal
•* wo do not look for partioolars yet
awhile. It may be that nihilism has ex
torted eastward and that, like the ordlLary
Chinaman of America, the Emperor “must
•"T.vr Mnoon, (On,) TxLEussni says this
MSer “utters nu old-time stalwart howl,
totsiaso the South Carolina press urges the
•» u P'o of that State to stand up squarely
awl resist Brewster's attempt to ovor-
■to it It on a trumped-up charge that there
tors ftaudn in the election.” It wnuis the
Jbto aiui Trihunr by way of diversion to
aaplam liow it is that tlioso investigations
wranovor ordered in the ItepuhliObuHtat a.
too explanation is simple enough. In the
toynMlcan btatca the “best eftixene” do
tot make a business of carrying election*
“VI? */ on8 i high or low. is
• flSBgftt in that dlftroputntile prnctice, tho
atonehes aro that ho will meet with speedy
ftajk* in ths State oourls, wilhont any call
*“• general government for niil
0aug him hi* dceert*."—Detroit Post.
It seems, however, that Billy Chandler
Who stole tho vjles of two entire Htntea,
took the State court chances with the ut-
I nonchalance and safety, and gothia
*•- in tho Republiean sense of the
, at the hands of the chief executive of
tto general govrrnuu-ut, who has just
^irt# him secretary of the navy. Ourron-
toaporary had best search for another an-
Ckrr. Jack Wheaton and Maj. Joe War-
30* are in Washington in behalf of tho im-
p-ovtoiect of tho harbor of Savannah.
Tee oommitteo is good, bet is not large
•suragh for the job. Having tested Gapt.
Jack’s speod and staying rowers, wo know
••■will be at tho front always, bnt Major
J»t has been off work so long we fear that
* 11 not bo ablo to keep np with the
ima um ion every day.
a •viioanonatoof the Atlanta Consti-
-> - 11 writes to that journal: “If he is as
I. : a the troth in other respects as he
win r-;n'.ild id the Southern white man na
h UKuor, provided our section here—a
jrrt . ii 'f middle Georgia—is any crite-
«uy than, in that case, it would be
at*- y ii’H'Ofsiblo for the Macon Tele-
,.j overdo the thing by any ex-
of di.-gost that it may have in-
u.” But the Constitution still
Jayhawker.”
Ore-in
Jol^-od
Hx. r. r (iHinv orsure<l us that Bill Moore
asm Coop's circus matinee rarndo. Wo
.'Cild riot discover him. hut the Zmn Kirg
«sve ns a very wicked nnd familiar leer iu
OsorgU IMpssdssUisA
One of the most amusing features to be
found In tbe columns of many of our
Northern exchanges Is the standing asser
tion tbst Independentlsm is upon the eve
of overwhelming this State, and absorb
ing the assets, without waiting for a dis
tribution at tbe hands of the lawful offi
cer usually appointed alter a demise. The
idea permeates tbe Republican division ot
tbe press, and is more distinctly marked,
tho further off it Is found. Thus while
around about New York it appears that
tbe victory of Independentlsm over organ
ized Democracy js assured; away In the
far Northwest the victory is already being
celebrated and anthems sung. Independ
ent stock, to adopt a financial method of
speech, which is ninety-eight per cent,
below par in Georgia, In the immediate
North fluctuates along about the seventies'
In Illinois, ninety Is asked and given,
while In Michigan it is above par, and
held as a permanent investment. It will
be seen that 11s course Is very
much like Colorado mining stock, which
grows In vtlue as it travels, until an an
touched claim in the mountains, whose
whereabouts out there is unknown, be
comes a bonanza of the first degree by the
time it reaches Boston. All thtoM due to
the American hurrah plan, am^pnds to
keep the political and financial markets
active, to say nothing of tbe broken.
Bat it is not of this kind of independent-
ism we propose to speak. There is another
“lead” under that name which is growing
upon its own merits, and of which oar
contemporaries North know bnt little.
We refer to the vein of true independ-
entism, which is cropping out
through the rock and the ihale and
earth- To develop this vein is one of
the leob . laid
out for itself. We will not rest nor cease
to labor until we see the people independ
ent in alt that goes to make up true inde
pendence. Democratic, w e see In organ
ization the only method of opposing the
meat dangerous organization known to
the history of this Country; tbe only
method of upholding and perpetuating tho
prindpk i of Democracy. At the same
time tbe fight for these priflbiples must be
open, relentless and fearless. Wo have no
sympathy with tbe cringing policy which
panders to any class of people or clique
of leaders, either to gain political power
or worldly profit. The people have
been too ready and willing to listen to
every upstart journalist or politician
who comes amongst them from tbe North
■welled with self-importance, and ■ to
swallow their advice because of policy.
Within the last six or eight months it has
transpired that public speakers as de
scribed, have appeared before Georgia
audiences asd while paying them a few
sugar-coated compliments, have alczed the
occasion to ram down the throats of the
people travesties and criticisms contempt
ible and unwarranted. It has reached
tbe pass, that in some sections the people
are told that to Northern pluck and energy
is due the State’s development for the
last filtccn years; that to these two causes
held up before tbe eyes of the people as
gods, they must look for ail of the progress
yet to come; and they are taught to
bend the knee to them in supplication
for aid and succor. We are ashamed to
admit it, but to all of this rot but few de
nials have been returned and fewer pro
tests.
Tho Slate but recently lias been favored
with the spectacle of a high-standing
journal publishing the letter of a traveling
liar, who liad openly mallgaed the people,
and refusing, when criticized, to refute
the slanderous article it had given circu
lation, thereby giving it a tacit cndotsc-
rcfciit. A course that makes slander
profitable, aud encouiages falsehood.
We have this to say tor Georgia. The
State stands second to none in tho South
ern galaxy. With its rich lands and bid
den wealth of minerals, :t has a future of
unlimited possibilities before it, and noth
ing in its past to blush for. Tbe people
are hold and energetic. Its thriving cities,
growing industries and general prosperity
are due to tbe pluck and energy of her
own people, who defended the soil until
their chosen leaders commanded peace,
aud accepted the conditions imposed
by tho victors. Enterprising, honest
men they welcome amongst them, come
they frpm any - section or country under
the sun, guaranteeing them tho political
and social rights they are entitled to,
come thoy with or without capital. But
they do not exalt these comers into phi
lanthroplats, nor tiiolr coming luto neces
sities. If they come at all they do ao for
personal alms and profit; what the State
is she has made herself, wliat she will be,
she expects to make herself. Those who
are in her borders, wliito or black, have
equal rights under tho law and courts in
which to maintain them. To no class
doeasho guarantee aught on account of
race, condition or anything else, more
than the law gives them. There Is not
now, nor will there, ever be any division of
property or office among the races, because
of race. The government is in the hands
ot white men because they created and have
sustained it. They built tho cities, de
veloped tbe country and created the In
dustries, and thoy propo’o to hold them
by right of superior power and intelli
gence. Whenever the negro race readies
an intelligence, aud a development sufli-
dent to cnablo it to lawfully wrest these
things Irom thoic who hold them, It may
tako possession peaceably, but until that
hour comes, this will ho a white man’s
State. Theao aro trullis and there con be
no policy so vitally Important as to hush
them. Thoy are the golden foundations
to whldi leads tins vein ot independence,
which politicians, and tosomoextent, tho
press have so long partially covered with
earth.
It may bo that this line of thought and
such declarations will not suit that branch
of Democracy which lies toward tho North.
We caro little whotber it does or not.
That branch haa cot lulled us. To a
solid South it has brought Ncrthorn di
visions; to Southern promptness and
courage It has joined hesitation and cow
ardice. In tho future lot It dress on our
poslitou; wo can no longer afford to dis
order our front by dressing on unsteady
lines. Whether wo suit tho other party,
we care less. Goorgia is perfectly able to
take care ot itself, and porfoctiy willing.
Her strength lies in hortelf and her peo
ple. Let tho prose teach this and culti
vate the true independence.
Tub course of troo lovo never dots run
smooth. The young mnn who Is *pnrkintf
Queen Vio's gal is linving hie bliss delayed.
A cablegram soys: “When inWnldockhU
royal highnesi accidentally kiokod against
a root wliilo walking nnd sprnlnod Ills
right knoe. Than again at Montouc, bo-
-<>ro the royal joint was in working order,
Priuce Leopold slipped ou a piooe
o-ange peel aud gave it another twist.”
BATASKAH very pruperiy syygvn w —W |
terribly in earnest about h$r sanitary eon-1
dition,
of any clique, ring or organisation within
the party. If any one has attempted to
commit him beyond this in any way, we
have tbe highest reason for tbe statement
that it bos been done without warrant or
authority.
Esllsblealas a Cou temporary
“Free Toads in Colleges.”—Under this
bead the Macon Telegraph complains:
“No effort is made to placobefore tho student
erthm.
both sides ot the
The magnificent
I tne nt
arguments uttered' by leading statesmen In
Congress, tho terrible array ot events and sta
tistics. ths coMMtrcisl histors of th s country
notcut the height of prosperity under a pro -
tective tariff-all these are neglected, and
the dull, exploded maxims of theorists substi
tuted.”
The italics aro ours. They show where tho
Telegraph begs the whoio question. The
country might be more prosperous, snd such
great prosperity as it has is In despite ot the op
pressive tariff. The "commercial history” of
the country will show that under the protec
tive laws our merchant marine has dwindled
to insignificance, while tho apparent success
ot the manufacturers of the country has been
purchased at the expenso ot agriculture and
commerce. The farmers are, of course, the
greatest sufferers, as tho purchasing power ot
their crops Is reduced from 33 to 00 per cent
bv tho tariff.—Charleston News and Courier.
The course of the Charleston Newt and
Courier hasbeenaimllarto that of several
of our prominent Georgia contemporaries
who have essayed to settle tbe great ques
tion of the day. Starting upon a free
trade doctrine, it has, by unanswerable
logic, argued itself over to protection.
Not that we believe our contemporary
fully realizes where It stands, or exactly
how it reached there; hut the fact re
mains, and will bo more fully demon
strated to its own dissatisfaction when the
retrograde movement to tho first position
Is fully under way. Wo desire now, since
by opposing the reform in colleges pro-
Unitod States 62..
All other Nations—...130.
tonnage.
..27),OU)
_ 71,000
..150,000
Since 1872, the United States has built
145 ocenn going ships of 257,583 tonnage.
In other words we have built in ten years
more ocean going stoam tonnage than
England bad in 1880, and fonr times as
much as we had at that time, much of
which, too, was unfit for ocean carrying,
Lastly, in the ten years we have built
more than one-half as much steam ton
nage as was owned in tbe world in 1880.
This is what our luminous contemporaiy
calls dwindling. Tbe building of the
fleet has reduced tbe freight rates in
coasting trade nearly filly per cent, since
1870, and our coasting fleet is superior tn
the steam fleet of any connty except Eog-
Iand
As this development bu exceeded the
success of manufacturing Interests, what
becomes of tbe assertion that the mxnu
factoring Interests have thrived at the ex-
penae of commerce? Nor have these in
terests, os charged, thrived at the expense
of agriculture. Let us sec. Our produc
tion of cotton has Increased from 4,823,-
770 bales in 1850 to 0,580,320 m 1880;
corn, from 638,702,740 bushels in 1850, to
1,754,440,435 In 1870; wheat, from 173,-
104,024 in 1850, to 450,887,043 bushels in
1870; wool, from 00,000,000 In 1861, to
232,50u,000 in 1870. Exports have in
creased as follows: In tbe fiscal year 1850
we exported 1,386,738,675 pounds of cot
ton; in 1831, 2,101,078,712 pounds. In
1859,1,710,008 bushels of corn; in 1881,
01,008,175 bushels. In 1859, 3,002,010
bushels of wheat; in 1881, 150,505,477
bushels.
The statistics of the country show that
eighty-five per cent, olthe gross amount
BcTHEsroRD B. deposited his ballot at
tho late election in Fremont, Ohio, square
against bock bter.
Jesse James was a bad man, but there
have been worse. He never voted the Re
publican ticket.
posed by tbe TELBonArn our coutem-r
They also show that while this enormous
Gov. It row u nuu the Itlate Canvass.
We are at liberty to atato that all re
ports connecting Gov. Brown with
auy aspirant or aspirants for office in the
coming State canvass, aro utterly without
foundation. Ho lias been in no caucus,
conference, combination or movement of
any kind looking to <tlie advancement of
any person to official position. We havo
reason to know, that iu common with all
men, who regard the welfare ot tbe
State as above tho ambition cf tbe
individual, he only desires that tbe De-
out tbe position to which it has brought
Itself unaided. A few days since we clip
ped from tbe News and Courier, this par
agraph :
tVc all know that absolute free trade at this
time is out of the question, bccauso tho govern-
meut needs a larger revenue than can be re
cused by Internal taxation, by any plan which
is now popular.
By tho very terms of the question there
can be no free trade, other than absolute
free trade. Tho instant a restriction is
laid upon any article, whether for revenue
or for protection, free trade Is destroyed.
Free trade is a theory which, if true, must
be true in every part. That policy which
allows a restriction upon one ai tide, for
any purpose whatever, is not founded
uptn free trade, but upon trade expedi
ency. If, then, in the language of our
contemporary, “free trade is out of the
question because of tbe necessities of our
government,” the INetcs and Courier has
abandoned free trade, or professes to ad
vocate what it acknowledges Is anim
possibility. No senslblo man can believe
that tho leading journal of the Carolinas
has any idea of adopting the latter course.
In the criticism which heads this ar
ticle, our cotnemporery is voiy positive
that tho protective tariff is oppressive, and
there being but one other position left for
him to cling to, we fiud him an advocato
of a tariff for revenue ouiy. It will be
seen that in defining our contemporary’s
position, wo have assumed but one ihiDg
only, aud that is that he occupies any po
sition at all. We might have located
him in a more direct manner by simply
asking why, if “free trade is out of the
question,” does he oppose our recommen
dation that the colleges cease teaching it,
but wo did not caro to await his answe
or confuse him.
Having located onr friend, let us now
examine tbe foundation of somo of his
utterances. Ia the first place there hav
ing been no denial of onr statement con
cerning the college evil, it is difficult to
seo where there exists any question to bo
begged. Our charge was that “no effort
Is made to place before the student both
sides of the question,” and until there is
some doubt raised by a denial there can
be no room for discussion. Any argu
ment our contemporary chooses to ad
vance concerning protection can only be
regarded as an effort to avoid the force of
the statement, if made before issue is
joined, or as an effort to dodge the ques
tion afterwards. Wo point out these facts
not became wo havo any desire to over
look tho enthusiastic assertions made from
thodorooof our contemporary’s newly
chosen position, but as an indication of
our iuteution to hold him to logical meth
ods and common senso rules.
Tho first break mado in his rash away
from tbe subject, is to the effect that the
country might be more prosperous, and
such .greal prosperity as it has is in de
spite of tho oppressive tariff. This is
begging an entirely new question, and it
would be a wasto of space to argue upon
possibilities. No man can reason intelli
gently except from somo known basis.
He can build a castle to tho clouds, but it
must rest ou something. If our contempo
rary will say that reasoning from the con
dition of .the country when a tariff for
revenue ruled, that the country now
would bo more prosperous than it is, we
will argue tho proposition, bnt with
mere guesses we canuot afford to deal.
But our contemporary at last conde
scends to be positive in bis language aud
make a definite assertion. “Tho commer
cial history of our country will show that
under the protective taws our merchant
mariuo has dwindled to insignificance,
whilo tho apparent success of tho manu
facluresof tbe country has been pur
chased at the expenso of agriculture and
commorce.” It Js clear to our mind that
tho ablo hlstoriau of the Newt has gotten
tho merchant marlno mixed up with the
American navy. Either that, or some
one has passed a|comlc almanac on him for
a commercial history. Tho United States
to-day has a bolter fleet than it ever had
before. Wo build more ships than any
nation in tho world oxcopt Euglaud,
and havo reduced tho cost to
within twelve per cent, of what
it is Englaud, aud that too without
reducing American labor. The history of
tho world does not thqw so vast a devel
opment as that of our coasting trado in
the last ten years. It lias exceeded, un
der protection, even the unparalleled suc
cess of our manufacturing Industries,
which the Netcs says flourish at the ex
pense of the marlno commerce. Counting
he contracts already In hand to ho com
pleted by I8S2, in the ten years from 1872,
we have built one huudred and twenty
iron icrew ships, of a’touuago of 280,000
tons. We have also built twenty-five
wooden screw steamers of 27,503 tons, a
total for our coasting and foreign trade of
nearly 200,000 tons, 230,000 oflt Iron
steamships. Tills, while in 1870, there
did not exist in this country the facilities
lor building such an Iron ship as we re
value is exported that ninety per cent, of
the entire agricultural products of the
country is consumed at home. This
large home consumption is rendered pos
sible only by- the immense purchasing
power of the masses of this country,
the result of that protective policy that
keeps them employed at good wages. Stop
the protected industries of the country
and drive the labor thus employed into
agriculture, which all English
free traders advise, thus destroy
ing the demand upon the
present agricultural interest for supplies
of food for this iarge class, and force upon
the export demand the surplus products
of agriculture thus created, and the com
petition would at once make the price ot
a|l exports just so much lower than at
present. No class of people in America
have been benefited more by protection
than the agriculturists, as reference to
the statistics will show. Not only has
the production been overwhelmingly in
creased, but higher prices aro obtained
for them, and lower prices paid for
manufactured goods. The man
ufactures do not flourish at tbe ex
pense of agriculture, as our contemporary
charges, and we lay down the proposition
that manufactures cannot be protected
without protecting agriculture. Tbe re
sults of protection in this country have
been to reduce tho price of all manufac
tured goods, and advance the price of
raw materials and larm products of all
kinds.
Whose la tbe Fault?
Our late mails have brought us numer
ous complaintzrtrom subscribers who have
failed to receflCtkeir papers. The fault
is not in this office. A Teleobapu and
Messenger is mailed promptly every day
of the week, Monday excepted, to each
subscriber, S3 our books will show, and
when papers fall to reach their addresses,
it is for reasons beyond our remedy.
Slnco the 1st of January there has been
but one occasion when the paper left this
office behind mailing time, and the reason
for the delay was given in the following
ssue.
It was an Indianapolis bank officer
Need we say more?
The Mother Goose renaissanco seems to
be general.
The potato bug is beoomiog cultured in
taste. At present ho is devouring tho Nor
folk strawberry.
The colored journals of the State are
down on tho syndicate, and in favor of
Gon. Gartreli.
Jack Wharton was not oold in Now Or
leans whon Pitkin and Morey were after
his old shoos in Washington.
The latest testheto contributed to this
country by England, is J Umbo, Esq. Ho
comes with only one trank.
Toe Constitution docs not smilo so andi.
bly as it did, but it still doclines to express
an opinion as to the trntfi or falsity of
“Joylrawker’s” letter.
The fire seems to havo gone from ont of
Col. Marcelius E. Thornton. We shonld
not bo surprised to see the P.-A. gently
glido into a religious and litorary weekly.
Da. Mart Walker has been tampering
witii tho mails, and has gotten herself
lockodup in the barracks. Wo always
thought the boys would get Mjry into
tronblo.
We are informed that Col. Albert Cox is
“giving it to the Bourbons” away over in
Heard. Whon tho Bourbons got through
|hilg it io Col. Cox, ho will feel liken
piio-drivor had dropped on him.
We ooald join the Constitution in a smile
at “Jayhawkor’s” letter in an Ohio stal
wart organ, but when it appears in
Georgia Democratic journal, wo do not ex
actly seo where tho laugh comes in.
The proof seems to bo>trong that Josao
James was a Democrat, but that was no
warrant for his assassination. As tho Mis
souri penitentiary is filledewilh the other
party, perhaps Jesse preferred doath to
disgraeo.
The Constitution rather boasts that it
publishes, without comment, worse slan
ders on its patrons and readers than “Jay-
hawker’s” lotter. In this tho Constitution is
singalar. This feature of journalism is
unique, if not admirable.
Suiprerd, who is making more money
as a witness before a Congressional inves
tigating committee, than he is likely to get
out of guano, says Blaino “refreshed me as
so'many wines.” Blair and Boutwell must
have set him up equal nnto a couple of
brandy cocktails.
About this time of the rear, tho north
ern ice men begin to announoe that next
summer’s crop will fall below anything
known to the trade, and may be worth
nintey cents per pound by August. At the
same time they go on contracting to deliv
er it at 33 rent* per hundred.
. >
Db. Selhon claims to have found a rear
edytotake cholera out of hogs. If the
Doctor can take the hog out of men his
fortune is made.
“Cnar,” “Fresh” and the balanoe of the
boys have gone on a regular jamboree
down to Old Point Comfort.
Tms temperance people are mad. Ar
thur refuses to hang the portrait of Mrs.
Lucy Hayes over the sideboard.
Texas is in tho agonizing throes of a
State Legislature. We can only say that
where there is life there is hope, orwords to
that effect.
A special reporter of the Court Journal
has interviewed Arthur’s coachman. Tho
oonntry will bo glad to know that tho oil
horso is not as good os the nigh ono.
Judge Wxllv, of tho Distriot of Colum
bia, decides to force the star route thieve*
to trial. Dorsey’s bond has been forfeited
and a warrant issued for his arrest; but
Dorsey is far away.
In scuffling out of tbe way of the “Jay-
hawker” letter “Onole Remu*” tripped
over on iron cotton tie and fell with a
terrible thud. As heroso with tbe dust
and lint he swore that Liverpool controlled
the cotton markets of the world.
On Sunday night last, in Jacksonville,
Fla., Miss May Roberts died in want and
distress. Her husband, Mr. Butler, was
lying dangerously ill at the same time.
They were stranded actors of the disband
ed Wallace combination.
Bill? Mahons proposes to readjast tho
University of Virginia. His sympathizers
in Georgia seem to have a similar intent
toward our State University. The Virginia
Beadjuster works with a caucus. His
Georgia friend uses a pistol.
The mental condition of Guiteau is like,
ly to lo tested in the courts. His sister,
Mrs. Scoviile, through her lawyer, a Mr.
Johnson, ha* applied for a writ “de lnna-
tico inquirendo” and prays that she may
have custody of his person and effects.
It . is announced that Jumbo, the ele
phant, is the largest living thing that ever
crossed tho ocean alive. At first we looked
upon this assertion cs a direct attempt to
belittle the Prince of Wales, bat happily
wo remembered that the Prince camo over
deadhead.
Hebe and there in the rarol dis
tricts Mr. Speer |haa an adalatory shirt
smeller. It seems not to have occurred to
the A. S. S., but still it is a frigid, solid and
perhaps a sad fact that the Telegraph ia
not run to satisfy the adalatory shirt
smeller of Mr. Speer.
Gotove* Kilter *sa the AMretia Mar- ^ mocracy, in a spirit of fairness and can-1 day build. If our contemporary desires | Savannah very properly appears to be
1 dor, shall meet and determine who shall I comparison*, we can give them also. In
It wot a matter of no small gratulatlon be its standard-bearer*, and that this re-11800, the ooeanjgoiug steam tonnage ofthfc ,
to the right thinking people of the State [ suit shall not be controlled by tbe action | world wa»43l,(XK 1 , or 339 steamers
that violence, death, and outrages of Isw
did not follow quick upon the murder of
young Rountree. As order was at once
restored It was hoped tbst tbe lsw was to
be left to take its course, and that the
fearful tragedy would fo impress oil of
those who might read its details that
Georgia might expect to escape a similar
horror and disgrace in tho near feature.
There were in Athens over one hundred
young men, at an age when the hot blood
of youth is not liksly to bo tempered by
the virtue ot discretion. If, when their
comrade and friend was borne to them
sorely wounded and bleeding his life away,
they had with a common impulse risen
and wreaked summary vengeance upon
his slayer, no wonderment woald have
gone along with tbe distress which the
act woald have spread. The provocation
waa^reat. It was borne with a fortitude
thatTs simply beyond praise. But the
lesson seems to have been lost to some of
the colored men of the State. As an evi
dence of their advance and improvement,
the negroes have established several
weekly journals In the various cities of
Georgia. They could have devised no
better plan for the speedy and sate devel
opment of their race than the establish
ment of these agencies, provide? they
were properly conducted.
So far as our observation has been di
rected to them, they have been edited
with fair ability, but.we regret to add
in a spirit of extreme partisanship. All
the friends of the negro must regret this
for the sufficient reason he is in no condi
tion to enter into the field of politics in a
partisan spirit. Ono of these journals is
published in tbe city of Atlanta, and
bears the striking and perhaps the nnfor-
nate title 77te Defiance. Its editor speaks
of the Atlanta University as his alma ma
ter, and leaves the presumption that ha hag
had over and above tbe mass of bla people,
the benefits of education and culture.
Journalism opened to him a fine field for
the display of bis acquirements, and if ho
bad approebed its stern duties In a becom
ing spirit, be might have made hlmaelf a
worthy and useful leader and exemplar
of bis race. We fear that he has misap
prehended the duties of his calling. In
commenting upon the killing of young
Ronntree, he has this to say :
Lost Tuesday afternoon, Frank Johnson (col
ored) shot and killed Walter Rountree, a stu
dent of the State University at Athens. The
origin of tho difficulty we have not learned,
nor even haa tbe Atlanta Constitution, which
speaks In such hitter terms. That paper ad
vises students to carry weapons; but we have
lean#* quite enough to s* -.te that Rountree,
llko the majority ot the young Southern hot
heads, think they can kick and cuff every poor
negro around without being interfered with;
bnt they are sadly mistaken.
We have gained Information from reliable
sources that Walter Ronntree attacked Mr.
Johnson several times with abusive language,
and even went so far as to. slap and kick him;
and he (Johnson) was forced to offer resistance,
which rightly ended in tho death of Rountree.
It seems that every times colored man kills a
white man, let It be in self-defense or any oth-
\ cr way, every Infemat white journal In the
State begins war on him, and every epithet
snltcd to a brute la applied to tho negro. Mr.
Johnson was right, and we arc surrounded with
just such devils as Rountree, and moroof
them should receive the same blessing. The
colored citizens of Athens are not the people to
tic trifled with. The mayor of that city ad
vises merchan.* to sell fire arms at cost In or
der to supply theso hell-deserving devils with
weapons to lynch Johnson; bnt tho brave col
ored citizens did not give down, but guarded
the jail’each night to protect him from theso
roughs. We can praise Mr. Johnson forhl*
bravery.
We give the editorial entire,not to create
the resentment its langauge Is calculated
to arouse, bat for two reasons. In tho
first place, that our readers here and elea
where may seo how an educated colored
editor conducts his paper in such
emergency, and to address a word or two
of adylco through him to those who may
feel disposed to follow him.
It was altogether natural that he should
have felt a strong sympathy with the
slayer, that he should have accepted bis
version of the difficulty. An expression
of indignation at tbe time
and under the circumstances
would not havo been deemed unpardon
able. But tho language we have quoted
is unjustifiable^ The man who cherishes
the feelings which gave it birth Is a bad
and dangerous citizen to any community.
Ho is an unwise aud incapable leader,
and if bis pcoplo follow his teaclnncs
they will but march to disaster and death.
Ho has overestimated the power of his
own people, that of the miserable poli
ticians who havo been flattering them for
their votes, and, we may properly add, of
tho government which he >as been led to
think stands witii an army aud navy
at his back. There exists no power
in human hands anywhere to givo to the
negro element of the South tbe political
control of this section. Nature has plant
ed a social barrier between the white man
and tho black man that can never be sur
mounted. Tho sooner the editor of tho
Defiance acccyts and understands these
truisms in their full significance and goes
to work to Impress them upon bis people,
thq better for him and for them.
The writer has no personal feclfog
against him or any man of Ids race. He
Is one of that class of meu who are being
rapidly thinned ont by time, who
from association, has a genulno sorrow
for tho troubles by which the
negro Is environed, and would relievo him
from the Influences which aro working
to his rulu. But he Is also of that race
of men who Intend to hold and control
tho social and political destinies of the
South as a matter of safety and a matter
of right.
Wo regret that tho odltor of the Defi
ance has takou an unfortunate occasion
to show that there was meaning and
design In tho namo with which his
journal was christened. IIo has put
to print aud published language
which will be put to tho dtscredh of hlmtolf
and ol Ids pojplo. Wo cannot better
Illustrate tho real position and sontlmcnts
of tho white pcoplo of Georgia, than by
saying to him, that if any white man, at
sucli a time and under such circumstances,
had given expression to such incendiary
languages, it ia doubtful if another Issue
of his Journal would have found 11s way
to tho public.
PftBSOXAMj.
Some of our Western exchanges are horj
rifled over the fact that Mrs. James claims
that Jo3se has gone to heaven. The Chica
go Inter-Ocean is especially alarmed. A
moment’s reflection ought 10 teach these
fellows that it Sira. James is correct in her
information they are rid of the outlaw for
ever.
The United States Courts of Alabama
and South Carolina are trying election coses
in Huntsville and Charleston, with a view
of affecting tho contested election cases in
Congress. At Charleston Judge Bond held
that the United States attorney could pack
tho jury, aud if the jury convicted he
would grant a motion for arrest of judg-
meut* -
As two very important food crops to the
Goorgia farmer will soon bo seeking a
market, our railroad commission should
fix tho rates of transportation of plums and
blackberries. It is to be hoped that a
just discrimination will bo made, between
tin dewberry and the blackberry. Peaches
and melons, “both wafer and mush,” may
engage tho study of the commission at
later dato. This is an important matter
and should not bo neglected.
The rumor oomos that Judge Gibson has
been unanimously elected to fill ths posi
tion of lion-tamer in Coups great circus.
If this be true, tho circus has recupod it
self nobly. The next thing wo expect to
hear, is that ho is riding around tho ring,
kicking at invisible flies with Mademois
elle Few clothes, tho great baro-back eques
trienne, or swinging by his check with
Mademoiselle Stuffed-legs, in tho flying
trapeze.
Lonostreet, Farrow and Bigby took
CoL Darnell’s scalp, whereupon Col. D.
called them bad names. Col. D. may be as
sured that bo can say nothing of them that
the publio will not believe. It is but fair
to add that thoy can say nothingof Col. D.
that will be calculated to stagger popular
credulity.
The Constitution says: “No cri'icism
could be made upon our people that wo
would not be either indifferent to or
amused at, and we believe this to bo.the
attitudo of every thoughtful man in the
Sonth.” And in the samo paper publishes a
protest against the fetter from a corres
pondent. The credulity ot the Constitution
far surpasses its candor.
How Three Bisters Died.
Philadelphia Times,
IVithln the brief period of thirty minutes
strange manneron Eatiinlay ijptH
Mrs. Sarah Watson, widow of Captain John
Watson, mariner, who died about eight years
I ago, has ot lato years lived with her sister.
Mrs. Robert II. Wlnsmore, the wife of a retired
mariner, at 329 Wharton street Tbo family
Iintl tea at 6:30 on Saturday evening, Miss An
nie Howell, saleslady at Fourth and Wharton
streets, being of the party. The servant was
Bewie McGee, who has been in tho employ of
tho family for several years. A neighbor was
nlso present and she went away
nt 9.40, Mrs. Watson seeing her to the
door. Directly tho tamily retired to
their rooms, Mrs. Watson's room being in the
front of the third stonr. In a short time she
was heard moving about uneasily and Mrs.
Winsmoro proceeded to her apartment to ascer
tain tho cause. Finding her sister ill and suf
fering, a messenger was sent to summon tiie
family physician, Dr. H. D. Renner, of Ml,
South Third street, and although he made
I haste, Dr. William Macpherson, of 317 Whar
ton street, who had also been summoned, ar
rived first. Ho foetid Mrs. Watson uneon-
tclous and apparently dying. When Dr. Ren
ner reached her bedside two minutes after-
wards she wa» dead. Mrs. Wlnsmore was so
overcome by the event that sho sank away
and was immediately bereft of her senses. Be
ing taken to her room in the rear of tho third
story sho was place-1 on her bed. In ten
minutes sho was dead.
I11 tho mcantimo Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, wife,
of Captain Samuel R. Smith, of 1333, South
Fourth street, had been summoned and had
arrived in tho house. As soon as she
raallil the til* rawing tact ol the
death of Iter two sisters site swoon
ed away nnd was unconscious from that
instant, and within twelve or fifteen minutes
had breathed her last The two phy siclan* had
decided to bleed Mrs. Smith, she being large,
I fleshy and of apopietic habit, but before the
j-roper blood vends could be opened it was too
Dts. Renner and Macpherson, shocked at the
sudden and triple deaths, wore at first puzzled
nstowhatcnusctoa'.tibuto the dentil of Mrs.
Watson, but as to the other two ladies they de
cided that shock prod ceil nervous prostration,
nnd both being elderly ladles and.of full habit
-Mr-. Smith's weight being235f-ouuds—they
were tillable l<- r.-i’.lvaud r---i-i tile exhausting
rAbets of the visitation, They were Inclined 10
tho belief, in the first moments of their deliber
ation*, ilmt apoplexy had struck down Mrs.
Smith. Further investigation and thought con
firmed them In the decision that the shook,
aetimt U]ion the ni vnius systems of Mrs. Smith
and Mr- Winsnion-, was really the immediate
cuu-e 1 lu-ir deal!
—f.Atiiiisiiiiii a iavonie .
—Jules Etienne Joseph Qulcherat, tho
archa-ologbit. Is dead.
—Senator Anthony’s re-election with
out opposition in conceded by the Providence
star.
—Governor Nance, of Nebraska, is the
youngest governor In tho United State*—aged
fit years.
—Governor Cornell, of New York,
wants tho Legislature to poos a law making
Good Friday a legal holiday.
—Archbishop McCabe ia to receive hia
cardinal's haf this week, and in Dublin he U
to live like a pnnee, with carriage, four horses
and liveried attendants.
—Rutherford B. llayes helped to give
Gambrinus a block eyo ot tho rorent town elec
tion In Fremont, O., whero bo lives. Tho tom-
pcranco ticket was elected.
—Ella, the two-year-ohl Great Toil
flllr, who won tho half mile at the Mobile
rare*, defeated1 foil sMsn lo Babcock and
MaramottisL That will do fora starter.
—-OainpMlsi is a favorite In Now York
sad sven s
whs as Has
ration.
—On* who knows Intrasys th* widow
SS'WMWtfC
and tin,light much ot him.
—Thera lately dlsd In Paris a remark
able man In the perwmofMr. Blind worth, who
was ealM.ti»#"E»ii ot thn Kuropean corps of
aptru.” Tho non of an bullish mechanic, who
had settled at Oottingon, bo poraod his life as a
K lltieal Blale spy. and grew rich Iu tho hurt-
Me
—“Your letter created quite a sensa
tion,” mid a reporter to-day to First Assistant
I’Munasler-tJenernl Hatton. “Ia that i«>T” was
hi* rcznotiso. "Well. I surpom tho civil scry-
Irn reform fellow* won’t like It; bnt that is
what I did whoa 1 was postmaster. It is com-
non sen
—Mr. Hoar will not be likely to resign
his seat In tho Senate beciiuo President Ar
thur ha* nominated for tho Boston collector-
ship tho man whom ho opposed; but tho shoo
pinches, iicvcrtheleae, and Indications aretoat
lie wlllhardly wear it with tbe becoming graco
he urged upon Mr. ConkUng.
—S. P. Colt, wbo was remembered to
tho amount of SjO.wjO by the lato Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt, was elected Attorney General of
Rhode Island Thursday. Ho is a prominent
member of the Rhode Inland bar, ami has been
assistant Attomcy-Uencral for tho past two
years. Mr. Vanderbilt frequently visited Mr.
Colt at his home in Bristol.
—The Prince of Wales’ eldest son has
finished his seafaring Ufe and will enter the
Military Academy atWoolwich in the autumn.
He Is at erect und handsome lad with a face
which has not yet put on tho heavy outlines1 of
Hanover. His brother George Is tobe tho sailor
of the family. Their three sistera arc not par
ticularly pretty children, but they havo the
pleasant manners which distinguish their
mother.
—Mr. I. C. Fowler, the Readjuster
Speaker of tho Virginia n use of Delegates,
In an editorial lettcraddrcssedto his paper, the
Bristol .Veter, writes: "Tho logical position of
every Ueadjostor is that of a supporter of Mr.
Arthur's administration * • • In the com
ing campaign for Congress tho district nomina
tions must be and win bo conferred on those
only who are In full accord and sympathy with
the administration. .
—Tho Post-Dispatch has Information
from New York that the Supremo Court grant^ -
cd on order for tho arrest of Gen. Clinton Ili r c t e ty ot Faris tells us, from a scientific point of
Fisk, charged with havlrg obtained *70,000 w h«» it u to be “dead drunk.” It
upon false and fraudulent representations to
the well known New York broker, Francis A. that this condition exist! when the vita
Fogg. Gen. Fbk wa* formerly a prominent
citizen of 8l Louis, raised brigadier of Union
troops dnring the war, is the founder of Fisk
University and has been Indian commissioner.
—Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the distinguished
English member of Parliament and temperance
advocate, *ay» that the newzpapeis of the
liquor dealers havo bestowed the following
nicknames upon him: That Old Cracked Tea-
I’ot, the Watery Jester, a Demented Creature,
that Washed-out Water Party, the Drivelling
Idiot, the Brainless Fanatic, the Cpnttoeatonr
Molly Coddle, tne Empty-Headed Noodle, the
Peregrinating Pump Handle, the Tot-Drinking
Twaddler, the Pop-Ro.Ue Bump Orator, tho
Permissive Platitudlnist. the Peripatetic Agita
tor, the Utopian Dreamer, the Maudlin Mouute-
bank, the Crooning Clown, that Fcol of Fools,
auemiBs.
Good 1 uck with all the anglers go!
And may they know
Tbe ke< net joys of tfle pursuit.
And vain, to boot:
And when, with baskets full, they come,
Rcctuitcd home.
May they omit, to our surprise,
The usual lies.
The Congressional contest In Virginia
bids fair to be the bitterest ever had in ths
State.
Before the Monill tariff, ou May 1,
I860, ingotcopi>erso , dfor23cents a pound; It
is now sold at 18j)£.
A Cincinnati body-embalming firm
offers Mrs. Samuels *10.000 for the body of her
son, tbe outlaw Jcsnc James, with a sharp In
tho proceeds ot the exhibition which they esti
mate at 9100,000.
The State of Michigan lias a university
with an Income of t300,000 per annum. There'
are fifteen hundred students in attendance. In
the State there are sixteen flourishing high
schools, working on plans leading In the uni
versity.
At s plowing match in Iverness, Scot
land, a prize was offered the plowman who had
longest abstained from liquor, and when tho
contestants came up, the glittering bauble of
triumph was taken by a man who bad tasted
no liquor since dinner, two hours before.
A Vkrmotnt watchmaker haa enriched
tho world with “a clock which acts ont the as
sassinatoin of President Garfield.” The trains
run into tho depot, Gnitcau fires his shot, tho
President is carried off, \ clergyman enters
reading the funeral service, and finally the as
sassin is worked off with punctuality and dis
patch.
Berlin has a negro colony of about 60
persons, many of whom camo from this coun
try, though others are natives of Africa and ar
rived direct. With one exception they aro all
employed a* servants. One is a servant to
Prince Charles. Many of them have not only
acquired the German language, but are said to
use the real Rcrliu dialect. Three have married
white girls.
It is learned that James Fitzgerald, who
swindled Charles Francis Adams out of a largo
sum, is a well known criminal in that line,
whoso first operations were In Milwaukee. Ho
was appointed by ex-Scnator Carpenter's In
fluence to a position in M a&hlngton, bot found
swindling more profitable, and engaged in nu-
lncrou* schemes, all of them, however, less In
amount than the last.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat be
wails the fate ot the deer of that State, and says
"huntsmen may a* well put away their rifles.
There is nothing left but ducks and snipe to
shoot.” Driven from their haunt* in the back
woods and swamps bv flood, hunger and the
vast swarms of builalo gnats, tbe deer have
sought protection from man. only to be massa
cred by thousands, with rifle and bowie knife.
IN Nevada City, Cal., boys of fender
years and highly respectable families ltavc been
found to bo addicted to the vice of opium smok
ing. In most cases these youngsters, who have
joined tho ranks of tne unfortunates, have
been found to own the paraphernalia necemuy
to gratify their depraved tastes and the ofiu trs
cannot legitimately interfere with them.
There is weeping and wailing among some of
of tbe first families.
A paper laid before the Biological So-
that thiz condition exists when tne vital Hold
presents tne proportion of one of alcohol to 19b
of blood. It is at this stage that most drunk
ards cease drinking, or we would have more
deaths from alcoholism: for when the inebriate
continues to drink until each 100parts of blood
contains one p<ut of aichobol, death Invariably
ensues.
Curiosity is expressed as tbe reason
for the delay tn the report of the select commit
tee to audit the expenses attending the illness
and death of the lato President Several weeks
back it was understood the committee had
made up the account ready to be presented to
—- been laid before
at some members
moment heaitated
IS" -UP • 01 tne committee at mciasi momcai owuani
the Mailing Cant the Arrant Humbug, tho ( M »ome of the enormous allowances
Apostle of blops. . I made, as they were fearful they could not be
—The announcement that Prince Gorts- justified. Whenever the bill* ure presented
ohakoff who so lone directed the foreign poll- discussion is sure to follow, and the committee
Ruwto!Ssat fcnSffiiSb^own^SSt, may as well lace tho music first a.* lazL
** At the last ait reunion at tbe Grosve-
UJ Ul Illl'Ma, 11U3 Ut IL-UrIU, OV VWI*
been re’leved bv the Czar from the active func
tions of chancellor of the empire, is an event of
polities. Bom July ltth. 1798,
note in European polities. Rotn July ibin. uus,
the Prince, after a long period spent in diplo-
matte service, became in 1856 the successor of
Nesselrode as minister of foreign attain, a posi
tion which ho has up to the present time con
tinued to hold with much distinction. Hts
most brilliant achievement waz ptrnap* tho
skillful maneuvrc by which, in 1371, he secured
at the London eon.ereucc the revision of the
clause of the treaty of Paris, which neutralized
the Bla:k Sea. It w»s for this the Czar con
ferred on him tho dignity of Serene Highnr -
Farewell to the Arms’.
A Colored Cadet is .V. Y. IVorld.
“Haply, I am black.”—Othello.
O, row forever
Farewell the dress parade, farewell tbe band;
Farewell the admiring girls, and the brass but-
That make ambition virtue! Oh, farewell.
Farewell the back saloon, and the big trump.
The sgltlt-stlrring bar-keeper, tho ear-slitung
The sympathizing Greener and all quality.
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious
war!
Farewell! Poor Whittaker's occupation’s
gone.
Niton's Lucrative Employment.
Shaaohin Times.
Mason tn the Albany penitentiary is doing
more for "Betty and tho baby" than over ho
did In the army.
The Chinese Mill vs. tbe Dollar BUI
Chicago Times.
It was stated that the sons of the Flowery
kingdom resident in New York, ont of the
abundance of their joy at the veto of the Chi
nese bill, telegraphed hts American majesty
as follows: "Cnllneemen in Mott stlcet alieo
lieapeo jollec: send heapco thlanks. lllsh Mcl-
ican man no good: dllnk heapee bind waisk-
lcy; vloto heapee times evley 'lection wlong
side. Yours tlulee. Quong Lung Jin, Hop Lee,
Loon Sing, coralitec." But inquiry in Mott
street developed iLe fact that John Chinaman
was tending strictly to business and not inter
fering with affairs of state. Quong Lung Jin
was interviewed, and declared: “Me no calcc
'bout Chlincc bill; me llkcedlollar bill though.
Me scllec tlcc, cloffee, fluit and slugar, smoke
cigalctte, have heap good time—Chlincc bill,
no Chllnec bill; vlecto, no vlccto.”
Fastest Steamer ia tbe World
London Times.
Tbe Stirling Castle was tried in the Clyde on
Friday and Saturday, and-gavc a speed which
shows her to be tho fastest ocean going steamer
in the world. In tho course of a run of six
hours on Friday she gave an average speed of
13.18 knots, aud on Saturday six consecutive
runs at the measured mile gave a mean speed,
calculated on the admiralty method, of 13.418
knots, or 21.3 miles per hour. Tho actual time
taken In running each mile respectively wa*
3 minutes 13 seconds; 3 minutes 23 seconds; 3
minutes 12 seconds; 3 minutes 18 seconds; 3
minutes 13 seconds, and 3 minutes 18 seconds.
The veael has been built for M-gsrs. Thomas
8ktnner & Co., by Messrs. John issi-r A Co., of
Fairfield for the China trade, ana was tried
with a cargo of 3,000 tons dead weight on board
ready for tho voyago out Her length is
410 feet, breadth .0 feet and depth at
feet aud she registerz 4,£00 ton*. Her
cng*t!es are the three cylinder type, and they
developed 8,237 horse power. Tne diameter o.
till lilgii 11 liwnin cylinder is 62 inches, and
the two low-preanue 90 inches with a 5 foot 6
inch stroke. Tbe boilers aro of steel, and
present a total heating surface of 21,161 feet;
the grate surface is 781 inches; and tbe working
preware 100 poun-ls to the square inch. Some
of the speed Is due to the character of the pro
peller. It is made ot' a mang&neze bronze, Is
22 feet 4 Inches In diameter, with a pitch of 31
feet. Tho maximum number of revolutions at
the trial was f*'-'per minute, accompanied by
absolutely no vibration, except in the imme
diate vieiniiy of tho screw shaft The hull Is
built of steel, on plans approved by the ndrai-
raliv, with a view to national requirements,
nnd I* capable of carrying coal fora twenty-
four days cruise. Great Interest is attached to
the pcriormancc of the vessel, as she may be
regarded os first favorite in the annual tea
race.
Tbe Athens Disorder.
Jactsontilie (Fta.J Union.
A few of the bolder Georgia dailies have
opcnlv and frarteady charged home this state
of affairs upon the inflammatory precepts and
disreputable practices of the Independent par
ty as led by Hon. Emory Speer, ol Athens, and
fostered by tho encouragement and pnirouage
of the stalwart President of this republic.
There Is no question but that these and similar
disorders and outrages may be justly ascribed
lo political Influences. They are imt confined
o Athens or to Georgia. In our own State and
city these race antagonisms are frequently
made manifest, aud most frequently in the ag
gressive conduct of negro childio.r toward
white children, frequently forcing the latter
to leave the sidewalk and otherwise treating
them with rudeness and Indignity, if
the negro were not a voter this thing
would not !>e so. Certain political
parties flourish and exist only
by encouraging and keeping alive
the unnatural antipathic* between the two
races. It is rapidly becoming with the negro a
tiling of education, instilled Into him by po
litical teachers and taught under his ^rental
shelter. The evil must be remedied at its
source. Teacher* and parents rnu-t be made
to see the terrible future consequence* of this
unchecked feeling, and inu--t instill other and
better lessons Into the minds and hearts of the
next generation. This state of affairs must
stop and stop soon. The forbearance of the
impetuous and hot-blooded Southrons toward
this inferior ami but lately i-erviie race, lias
never had !Ls i-ursllel in the history of the
world. Every day, u!l over this Southern coun
try. chivalrous Southerners -u:;:aU to indigni
ties and insults irom tn-grues that they would
not tolerate for an instant from a white man.
Their toleration and moderation have been su
perb. But this iorbearancc, iike all things else,
has a limit.
nor Gallery it was noticed, says the London
Truth, that positive colors are evidently
getting the better ot the neutrals, so that the
resthetio craze seems about to have spent itself
even in this, its ono official stronghold. Vel
vets tn strong reds, blues, yellow*, purple and
green are seen on the backs of healthy young
women, and limpness and lankness were con
spicuous only by their absence. It is evidently
high time for Oscar to get back, or hi* flock at
home will as quickly desert him as the maidens
.n "Patience" desert his prototype Bunthojne.
The answer of tbe Poetmaster-Geoeral
to the House resolution of March 29lh, inquir
ing wby the letters addressed to the Louisiana
State Lottery were not excluded from the mails
was forwarded without reading to the post
roads committee and was made public to-day.
General Harvie recites the action of J udge Key,
who ordered the exclusion originating on the
13th of November, 1379, and countermanded
that order, so far as the Louisiana company
was concerned only, on the 27th of February,
1830. Mr. Howe says that tbe evidence of the
-- t.ii.-r«n-l«;l ti.e.-late oliiier.- ••! t-.ii.Kiu.it
is that the lottery is a legally established in
stitution, and as such is entitled to tbo mail ter
ries.
It Las been anuounced that tbe Rogeq
Locomotive Works, at 1’atcrsou, N. J.,
about to discharge 500 of their 2,wu hands. The^
York Times says the cause ot this proposed dis
charge of the men is the countermanding of
one order for ninety locomotives, and the probl
abilities that still others will follow. At the
Grant works ten new engines were counter
manded after they were completed, and last
week they were stored away. It is thought that
a number of new locomotives from various
shop# will be stored when completed, becau;*;
they will not bo delivered until paid foi
tiie railroads ordering them are unable
for them. The Paterson locomotive 1
turers a month ago would accept no
be completed inside a year. Now i_
take contracts to be filled by suimlj
Baldwin work* at Philadelphia have
an order from the Philadelphia railroe
completed in a few months, which]
dined to take a short time since and ;
of a year.
Whitman oss Longfellow.
In tho Critic.
Longfellow in his voluminous works seems to
roe not only to be eminent in the *tyle and
forms pf poetical expression that mark tiie
present age (an idiocrasy, almost a sickness, of
verbal melody), but to bring what is always
dearest as poetry to the general human heart
and taste, und probably must be so in the na*
ture of things. He is certainly the sort of bard
and counteractant most needed for our materi
alistic, self-assertive, money-worshiping, .Anglo-
Saxon races, and especial I v for the present age
in America—an age tyrannically regulated witii
reference to the manufacturer, the merchant,
the financier, the politician ami the day work
man—for whom and among whom ho comes as
the poet of melody, courtesy, deference—poet
of tiie mellow twilight of tiie past in Italy, G tr-
many, Spain and iu northern Europe—poet of
all sympathetic gentleness—and universal poet
of women and young people. 1 should have to
think long if 1 were asked to name the man
who lias aone more, aud in more valuable di
rection*, for America.
I doubt if there ever wa* before such a fine
intuitive judge aud selector of poems. Ills
translations of many German ami Scandina
vian Pieces are said to be bettor than the ver
naculars. He docs not urge or lash His Influ
ence is iike good drink or air. lie is not tepid,*
either, but always vital, with flavor, motion,
grace. He strikes a splendid average and does
not sing exceptional passious or humanity’s
jagged escapade*. He is not revolutionary,
brings nothing offensive or new, docs >i.,t deal
hard blows. On the contrary, biz songs soothe
and heal, or if they excite, li Is a healthy and
agreeable excitement. His very anger is gen ■
tie, is at second-hand (as iu "The Quadroon
Girl” aud "The Witnesses.”)
There is no undue element of jensiveness in
Longfellow’s etraina Even in the carlv trans
lation, "The Manrique,'' the movement is a* of
strong and steady wind or tide holding up and
buoying. Death is not avoided through his
many theme*, bnt there is something almost
winning in his original verses and renderings
on that dread subject—as closing "The Hap
piest Land" dispute:
And then tne landlord's daughter
Up lo heaven raised her hand,
And said: “Ye may no more contend,
There lies the happiest laud."
To tiie ungracious complaint-chanre (by Mar
garet Fuller many years ago, and several times
since) of hi* want of racy nativity aud special
originality, 1 shall only say that America and
the world may well be reverently thankful—
can never be thankful enough—for any such
singing-bird vouchsafed out of tin- centuries
without asking that the notes bedlflorent from
those of other songsters—adding what I have
heard Ixiugfeliov* himself sav. that ere the new
world cat) be worthily original and announce
herself and her own heroes, she must be well
saturated with tiie originality of otheu, and re
spectfully consider the heroes that lived before
Agamemnon.
Without jealousies, without mean passions,
never did the personalty, eharaeP.-r, dally and
yearly life of a poet more steadily and truly as
similate his own loving, cultured, guileiew!.
courteous ideal, and exemplify it. In tiro
world's1 arena he had some special sorrows—
but he had prizes, triumphs, recognitions tho
Extensive and heartfelt as 1% to-day and haa
been for a long while, tbe fame of Longfellow
it is1 probable, nav certain, that year* hence it
will be w ider and deeper.
What is beauty's chiefost charm—
Melting eyes or rosfbud lips.
Flowing tresses, form of grace ?
No: fine teeth those charms eoiinss.
And there sure preserver is ^
T, to*t dentifrice.
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SOZODONT,
