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3att£ti*U & HHBfesusumg^ rAMBirv a vniucn Dallr';»7i Wwiklf, RBNO If VSJM fJcuJ*y, an J i fstpllUhtf *-m» trsrj _ , »Utw4 by rerrtera la th* sit? d pcrogs free A suUcrlbf n at f 1 pel tlM lot three meathi, SS let sis Rseoraa or $:0a jsar. *.va w-.fttr 1» mailed to snbteriben. pestagi Ires, at S2 a j*ar and II tor tlx month*, nr* :vs'*.ni advertisements will be taken atom soUarper square cf ub lines or lem tor th« tm lsMrtlon, and fifty eeote lor Liberalratesto contractors advertisements wanted —M be aeaom panted by tbs writer's nam* • M S Ureas, sot (or pobUealttn, but as at e ridenee of good faith, ojexol eotamunlcatloai will not be returned urenondenee eonUinln* Important news and dlseumteos of living topics. Ir • bat must be brief and be writtei ifie side cl the paper, to hare atten .ilcadoni should be addressed to J. f. If Alton, iMagsr, Macon, Georgia. liCOH THM1PD m MESSESSEi FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1882. Ooxoasu has adjourned, and Robeson hu returned to the bosom of hla noble con stituents. Bsmtob Baowu will probably resign ere long in pnrananoe of “a capital under standing." A *1111 at the I'oint, Meet a lot of Weal l’ointen where you iz»y, an hour or so will be certainly filled With remlnircenoes ct their claw days, of flirtations with the girls at the balls at Cozzens’s Hotel, the frolics at Bonny Ha- rent’s and the noted fights which took place In their time ; and Indeed In all the times, from when Jube Early kicked Camp Shermau across the campus, until the day they broke ranis on their last pa rade. For be It remembered, that not a class has entered and graduated from that institution, that has not had to record among its memorabilia a regular stand-up. and knock-down fight. Boys will be boys, and cadets In uniform are no exception to the rule. Our boys are sent to West Point to be trained as fighters, and It need not be a matter of surprise if, on. their own mo tion, they commence the curriculum witlfi their fists, nature’s first and best weapon. |7tal Once or twice, perhaps, in the history of West Point, a cadet has us£ia knife or other weapon, but the have been very rare, though m^^^lrs since a Joust with siuglo stick^Fas not iufre- quent. Heretofore It hi custom and wisdom ofj not to notice these mi at all, not lo_mark ment topi Ooaoanu having adjourned, there is ooj c reason that we oan see why the' should not meet in battle array. n the policy, in authority r if noticed im by a punish- of the day knot of lace for Tux next Georgia Democratic vill cot be "done in a" Jt “corner," as was the present maktjl affair. Joseph Bet cannot, in the natlpi things, bold his grip mueh longer, wi hs has departed, whose shall all tt litical thing be ? Ali.k.i William*, one of the Greenback candidates for Coogree*man-at-large in Kansas, Is a colord man. And Allen will be elected to stay at home very largely. tfaauuis still haggravating the Hen*- I'.ih. He doesn’t “fold bis tent,” like a g joil Htrab ought to, “hand silently steal ilawny.” This is more or less distressing. Tbs editorial children of the kingdom have been oast out, np in tho ninth district, and to n*t« nnanimonsly taken backseats. They are saddest when iu** sing. Gordon Pasha, at last aooonnts, had not been offered a portfolio in the new French oabinct. Grevy was probably fearful that he would resign in favor of Alfred Pasha or Joseph Bey. _ Maui is congratulating herself that Blaine haa decided to write one letter in stead of making twelve speechee. Doubt- leu his example will be followed by onr own uncles. _ William Aar's idea that Mr. Stephens will settle (be race issue in Georgia is more amusing than any of William’s supposed humorous effusions. William is funniest when he is solemn. Ur to this time, by actual count, Presi dent Arthur has rooeived just 8,CIO invita tions to visit different watering places, and plaoee of general retort, each ui which be has aeoepted. Thb Detroit Pott and Tribun* publishes a chart showing the comparative mileage of rallroada throughout the United States. Georgia is 13th with 2,581 miles in opera tion on January 1st. Jons Bull will find it a difflouli job to run down and capture the Bedouins of the desert. John in not built up from the ground with a view to hie running races or jumping high fences. Ws do not suppose there would be any impropriety in saying that Congress has adjourned sine dro. Tho perfunotory prayers that are put up in that body estab lish nothing to the contrary. Rscxxt developments in the Philadelphia fish market are calculated to temporarily eheek the demand for cels. They show that the usefulness of a man’s Ufa is not measured by the Ume he sotually Uvea. Iris said in eertain quarters that Judge Ttflgga will make the Independent raoe in in the eighth district. This may be true, but we do not believe it. The danger #111 come, in onr judgment, from McWhorter. A touxo New Jersoyman, named Robe- n, was arrested hi Philadelphia onBat- rdtiy, for stealing $800 from his father. And the old New Jerseyman, named Robe- wbo has stolen millions, is still »l larse. _ Tuc great iron strike haa lasted two months, and the strikers have lost about $4,000,000 in wages in the Pittsburgh dis trict alone. And the poor wives and chil dren of the strikers have been the princi pal sufferers. It is bad policy—not to ci-Aroetetixs tt more harshly, for Democratic Congress- mi n to engage in dishonest raids on the tr. isury. That is the “ouuiiueruiai policy,' however, and it is omnipotent in Georgia, just now. Ir is, perhaps, not too mueh to say that Gen. A. R. Lawton would not rooeivo the earnest support 6t Joeepb E. Brown for the Benatorahip. Lawton and Blaek are in the same condemnation. Joey is re vengeful, we take it. GaoaoiA ought to have a first-class Sena tor even if Joey Bey is deprived of the I ritiK-ge of having a Me Too to register hia decreet. U is more important for Georgia to have a Senator than for Boas Joey to have a Me Too. The Porto wants an explanation, “as is an explanation," of tho hoisting of the Biitish flag over public buildings in r tSaid, when It was occupied by the EngUsh. The explanation given has been declared to be unsatisfactory. i, It is hard to sec how the failure of shad to ran up the Savannah river could injuri ously affect the candidacy of a man for Cougres*, yet such is said to bo the case. This is a queer world an j how, and there are few things in it queerer than some of the Georgia * ’sovereigns.” Ir is aaid a cornet player in Berlin burst a blood veasel trying to sound a Wagne rian doable note. There is a born or a blood reuse! or a double note or a blower or something else in the neighborhood that will have to buret before there is any pc.ee or comfort. Ossof the striking indications of Eng land's painful aed distracting position in Eg; pt is her anxiety to have the Porte pro claimed Arab! Bey as a “rebel.” The Ports hasn't yet got the consent of its mind ta rid England of her dilemma. The Porta will centoally side with Arab!. 'I he French «.bow that it is mnsAi easier a new one. The trouble with tbe French »*, they do not know what foreign policy will be f.<-uriag to Bumarck. If they wr«r« Nit.-fled on this point, they would not be long in taking a -t.-uid on the Eastern , ileruifr^ a jdiese combats lived ouljr in th(?^JJ7>"ies of those who witnessed them. They became part of the traditions of the Point, but never found their way into print. Though wedded to all of the legitimate purposes aud enterprises of tho dfjly press, we must protest now that the brassy and ubiquitous reporter has found a way to slip hy the seutinels at West Point, or lias become possessed of tho tslismsnic password. Iu tlie .New Y..L .l.ilie,of Um 4th-ln> slant appears a full and circumstantial account of a mill at West Point between Gsdet Scudder, of Mississippi, aged twenty-one, and Cadet Cook, cf Rhode Islaud, aged eighteeu. We are not troubled that the Southern er was vanquished lu the encounter, for he stood and took his puuisbmeut like a man, and every day since David slew the mighty Goliah, ft has been demonstrated that mere physical strength will not pro* vail over science and skill. Cadet Scudder seems to have been un fortunate in more than one icspect. He had been, as he thought, outraged by his superior cadet ofllccr, and challenged him to fight, ^be officer declined, but oflered Cadet Cook as his substitute. Here Ca det Scudder was unfortunate again. Thirty years ago or more and the writer of those lines knows that thero were more amateur sluggers in Providence, R. I. than In the balance of the world beside. Cook may have come of this breed, aud most likely did. His performance more tban sustains the susdIcIou. The rmntt was that Cadet Scudder got no satisfac tion, but was badly battered by a cadet against whom Le bad no feeling. Whilo nursing his eyes in hospital he may have time and opportunity to reflect upon his want of Judgment In picking a fight aud his lack of skill in conducting it. When ho gets cut and becomes sea soned It will bo In order to pound the fel low who really injured him, and then all things will be square. Cadet Cook, having won a light, will keep fooling abont with bis fists until some other cadet will knock the wind and senses out ol him. Wbat we object to Is that the matter should have been paraded In the New York dailies, garnished with all of the slang of tho slums. A few fisticuffs more or less among the cadets can do no harm, and should not be noticed any more severely thau hereto fore. But if West Point Is to be turned into a training placo for prize fighters, cannot be abolished too soon. Perhaps some cadet who hu been a voracious reader of dime novels and tho Police Gazelle has put this fight to paper, if so, he should be ducked iu the Hudson to point just this side of drowning. It seems that Cadet Scudder went to the ring unat tended. When he gets so be can see over his nose, and proposes to enter the lists again In search of his lost laurels, we would advise him to take a friend aloug to see fair play, and that It shall be agreed upon by all parties that noUiiug sliaii be Mid about the fight outside of the corps. grate upon the feelings of partial friends, this should not silence It. The surgeon doe* not stay tho knife becaase the patient groans or the flesh quivers in agony, or that the relatives of the patient weep at the signs of blood and (offering. He Is cruel that he may be kind. To have used language leu plain would have been to stifle facia and give play to innuendo and conjecture, either of which are capable of greater harm. If Dr. Fitzgerald, whose profession leads him to the study of minds diseased, hu concluded from experience that thousands of men in political life, from the editor to tho chief magistrate of the country, might well be sent to an insane uylum, then It behooves .the people to elect with critical caution a sound rosn to represent them. If political pursuits lead to tbe .citemcnt which begets insanity, our •teinent is good, that the friends of Mi* Gustin may do him a wrong, by pushing him into a political coutesi from one of which he retired broken in physical aud mental health. The man who aspires to represent the varied and Important Interests of a large constituency should come before the pub- Ur, not to uk for charity, but to luvlte criticism and to defy censure. Hr. Uuslln’a candidacy. We publish elsewhere to day a com munication from John 1*. Fort, Esq., aud a card from Dr. Fitzgerald, in reply to au editorial which appeared in this paper on Sunday last, bearlug directly upon tbe candidacy of Geo. W. Gustin, Esq , for tbe Seuatorship from this district. Mr. Fort hu appeared iu print ofiener probably during the past Cow years tban any citizen of ibis county. But few Is- sues of importance hare lieeu made with out au expression of opt niou from him. This is well. It would be better If others of our people would follow bis eximple. As wc have been able to observe, we have no recol lection now of his ever luring been on the right side of any question. He cer tainly has failed to show any comprehen sion of the principles that underlie, or ap preciation of tbe duty that prompted the editorial in question. We will state them tor his benefit and challenge him to as sail tbelr cone ct ness. We assume,first, that when any man be comes a candidate for a position of honor or trust, his antecedents are tbe property of tbe people to whom be appeals for sup port. In the second place, the duty of a public journal is Imperative to Inform the people who read it of all matters affecting the public interest. Upon these principles we based the editorial in quetliou. They are correct, and cannot be successfully assailed. Any attempt tc evade tbelr force In tbe inter- eat of any candidate must tend to yeaken his bold upon public reteem. ▲ word in reply to tbe eard of Dr. Fitz gerald. Tbe charge of uncharitablenese cannot be justly laid at our door. We again repeatin all sincerity a declaration dy made. We have none bat tbe | We fear there are a great many who can- kindeet personal feelings for Mr. Gustin, not share his sublime faith In tho capacity and have no personal or political ends to \ of Mr. Stephens to solve tbe race problem. iLscrvw. I It Is now near twenty years since If the criticism of a public journal may I Salmon P. Chaos, the Chief Justice of tho lotion Mtatement. According to the New York Financial Chronicle of August 5tb, the receipts of cotton from September 1st, 1881, up to last Friday night, August 4th, were 4,061,- 024 bales, against 5,1*15,310 bales In 1881, and against 4,800,884 bales in 1880, show ing a falling off of 1,004,352 balei as com pared with 1881, and of 238,800 hales as compared with came date in 1880. The total receipts for the week ending on Friday night last, weze 4,815 bales against 17,818 bales in 1881, aud against 8,082 bales in 1880, The stocks in the interior towns on last Friday night were 24,440 bales, against 52,441 bales in 1881, at corresponding date. The stock at Macon on last Fri day was 080 bales, agaiust 2,501 bales at same date in 1881. The total visible sapplyncf cotton on last Friday night, August 4tli, was 1,500,- 057 bales, against 1,872,283 bales in 1881, and against 1,531,471 bales in 1880. These figures indicate a decrease cf 305,620 bales as compared with 1881, and an Increase of 35,180 bales as compared with the cor responding date in 1880. Middling cotton was qnoted In Liver pool on last Friday at 7d, and on same date last year it was quoted at 0 13-10. The weather during tho past week has been generally favorable, although In some sections too much rain has fallcu. The caleipillar has made its appearance in some portions of the country. In Texas picking is going on lively. In Georgia the sreoud bale is more difficult lo get out Ihau the first. The Solution of the Negro Problem. William Arp, best known to the people of Georgia as a humorist, is also a volun teer farmer and something ot a ready made philosopher. Every Sunday he contributes a column or soof quaint philosophy to tbo Atlanta Constitution Illustrating the daily ups and dowus, the mysteries, miseries, bad luck and happy surrouudlngs of a Geor gia farmer’s life. These essays have all beeu light and jocular, aa also relishable and tradable. But the sun seems to havo been clouded about William Arp’s homestead of late. Terhaps the heavy rains have caused tbe liornj heads to qu’t biting In tho spring brandies, or maybe the rabbit trap hu caught a ahoto, or the neighbors' little nig gers have robbed tlie muscadine vine. He may haye failed to find the guinea hen’s nest, or somebody hu plugged his pet wa termelon. Any or all of these misfortunes wore more than sufficient to make a more hilarious man than William Arp serious. But he turns from domestic matters iu his latest contribution "and drops into politics, which causes us to think that “Hightower Bill" Felton may bo entting an uncommon wide swath along about iu the territory of Bartow. William's mind seems to have been wrestling with aflairs of State,oblivious of the fact that a grea»*v worrynuut still is Just ahead In the shape of fodder-pulling time. Ho appears to to have beeu cogitating over the colored brother and his present aud future rela tions to tho white man. Tlteso last twen ty years and many a man and womau, too, soutb-of tho l'otomac, hu laid awake of nights and thought upon this subject, while the darkness grew darker still, and daylight came at least to drive away a spell calculated to bsille judgment, reason and experience. Strange to say, William Arp hu cog itated himself out of,a labyrinth ot difficul ties. His mind hu reached a satisfactory conclusion; the solution of the vexod problem I* laid out In all dearness before him. And be hastens to lay it before the read ers of tbe Constitution. We reproduce It for tbe beuefit of those who are euy of faith, as follows: Mjr traatsst hope of Mr. Stephens's adminis tration Is In a quietus of the negro's |»oliUcal ambition. For sixteen years tho public peace tuu been disturbed at every election by unscru pulous politicians fish ting along the color line for the colored vote. It has kept up discord among tbe whites and resulted In no good to the negro. They have been bought up like sheep, and the hypocrisy of the white man who made the purchase was more disgusting tban the stupidity of the negro. Juat after the the carpet-baggers promised him forty acres and a mule, and they have been fooled with promises ever since. Mr. Stephens Is a philoso pher and a student of history, and knows that race has got to be subordinated to the other. There ta no compromise, no social equality and no political equality except paper. Rut Mr. Htephcns knows it all, and 1 feet sure will rebuke all time servers, ail hypo crites. Georgia must take the lead in settling this problem between the races regardless of what the North may say or do. 1‘eace at home is Iietter than office at Washington. It la Ume that statesmen and sages delivered themselves of the truth boldly, fearlessly, zed the whole naUon will listen to Mr. Stephens on this subject with more respect than to any liv ing man. Mr Hill was aggressive and grand and noble In his utterances, but Mr. llill was bitter and made enemies. Joe Brown is smart and philosophic, and plays with Uie people like Talleyrand. Joe Brown is personally a great success, bat somehow there Is an ideal that his creed Is peculiar. Joe Brown lint, his Htate next, and last of all his country. Joe Brown has boxed the compass and may box It again If be lives, and as often as ho ascends a step higher on the ladder, the people look up wbat he wilt do next But Mr. Slcpheiui has been the same conservative hold-barker all the Ume. There are few right-thinking white men la Georgia but that will agree with Wilt- lain Arp in moot of the language embraced in tbe paragraph* which we have quoted. United States, proposed a solution, viz; that the victorious Norib should give to the enfranchised African all of the polit ical power of tbe South, aud thus compel tbe white men to leave the country. Aci- ug upon this inspiration, the Republican party has followed and Is still following this plan to the best of Its ability. Amer ican statesmanship stands bailed and de feated at the outermost edge of tho great est problem ever presented it, and we cannot see with the eyes of William Arp how Mr. Stephens Is to solve it. In the absence of reason and argument, it is the fashion of the enthusiastic admirers of Mr. Stephens to endow him with prescience and powers almost supernatural. Per haps this is not altogether unnatural in view ot tho fact that one so seemingly frail should have occupied so much of public attentiou during these forty years. But the enthusiasm of partisans can impart no further physical strength or In tellectual. for to to Mr. Stephana. In these seventeen years past he hu done nothing toward solving the race Issue. It Is true that while he was in open revolt against bis party, the negroes supported him in his rebellion. They rallied to Gov. Colquitt under similar circumstances and bore him to the guber natorial cbalr over the protests of tbe best white people of the State. And to-day, notwithstanding tbs jeal ousies between the b'.adc and white lead ers, the negroes are solidly organized, u agaiust the candidacy of Mr. Stephens, for the reason, u they claim, that lie dallied with a coalition of which they were the greater part, and finally took service with the Democrats. In place of harmonizing the element, tbe only result so far shown from tbe caudidacy of Mr. Stepbons, is disaffection,disappointment aud distrust in the ranks of the party to which he at pres ent claims allegiance. Can it bo reasonable to hope that onv with a divided party at his back can weld it into harmony, and further cause it to take up aud assimilate iu action and principle with a large aud antagonistic element? Looking at this subject in all of its length aud breadth from our stand point, wo can but admire even if we fall to share that faith of Wiiliam Arp's which would appear to bo capsblo of tho mov ing of mountains. Wo take it that the late Republican convention in Atlanta presented a fair sample of the present political status ot the Southern negro. Tue larger wing was marked by a deep- seated antagonism to tho Southern white mau, and there was no attempt at con cealment. li was evident that the negro wav the controlling element in Kepubti canism in Georgia, though a few white office holders cling to hla skirts. blow as hu been their advance towards a culmination, yet it hu been sure, that iu the absenco of a Radical halt and re treat, tbe negro problem must eveutualiy resolve itselr into a conflict of races. In tho lauguage of our dying Senator, “there can be no good society or sound government here, where oue party at tempts to dominate the other by the use of the negro vote.” He might have gone a step farther and said with equal truth that there will be no solid peace here so long as the negro Is arrayed in eumlty agaiust the white man. We have noue of tbe hopes of William Avp as to the power of Air. Stephens to silence for the present tho war ol con tending factions. But even it he possess ed such power, who is to wield it when tbs few years that are allotted to him shall have passed away? When we see a brazen and truculent negro, whohu had his head turned by as sociation with white men who have dis graced their race and .blood, wave hla cudgel over the head of a lieutenant-gen eral, whose fame u a soldier once filled the world, aud know that said negro Is recognized u tbe leader of the Republi can party tii Georgia, we may be permit ted to doubt If tbe two years' administra tion ol Mr. Stephens can solve tbe race problem. And we may be allowed to think that our safety, present and prospective, can le found aloue In the unity or all good white meu to protect aud preserve onr Slate go vernment. A Chance for llawhtns. PaovinKKCx, K. I., August 3-W. A. T. Hmlth, a colored clergyman, made persistent application for accommodation at the Adams House this afternoon and was refused and driven out. avowedly because of his color. He has i-ui ployed counsel to prosecute the land lord under the civil rights law. At the Adams House, lu tlie plantation of old Col. Authony~somctimes known as Rhode Island, we would expect tbe doctrine of the equality and brotherhood of the races to find recognition. One would expect that doctrine to prevail at auy house lu old man Anthony's planta tion, hue espsdally at a house named for Adams—a supposed apoetlo of freedom and equality. The reason of the case Is even stronger when we contemplate the fact that tho man demanding liberty, equality «nd fraternity, in the instance before us, was a clergyman—“a col ored clergyman,” whatever that may mean. What the particular color of the clergyman was—whether he was red, orange, yellow, green, blue, iu- digo or violet, or any combination of any or ail of these colors—or whether the term “colored” applies lo tbe skin or tbe character, the paragraph la silent. But It does tell ns that a certain clergyman, of an uncertain eoler, registering himself as one of a great family, was denied beard and lodging in tbe Adams House, in Radi cal Rhode Island, because of hi:, race, color, previous or present condition l We are tempted to suspect, from all the cir- cumttancez ot tbe csss, that tbe Rev. W. A. T. Smith ia an African, and we have no question hut that the proprietor ofthe Adams House is a Puritan Radical. It Is not to be thought that such a state of af fairs can be tolerated in Rhode island. Hawkins, the Radical candidate for Gov ernor of Tenuessee, says tbe negro shall have equal rights, or blood shall flow. We shall call hla attention to this denial of equal rights in Anthony's plantation. There tent any place better than Provi dence for tbe inauguration of Hawklcs'a blood-letting ; and we don't know any body that tbe country could better spare thau a Puritan Radical Boniface—nnlees it be Hawkins himself. Ths Altamaha river, tor the improvement of which tbe river and harbor bill appropriates •uuesumof *r>,0u), is tbe stream which, according to tradition, once got so dry that they had to have water from a neighboring la^f to in the ferries mtoh.—PMUtMpki* Pr**t. Tbe Philadelphia Press ha* mixed rivers. Its the KUkeminitas, of Harry White'* dis trict, in Pennsylvania, that was drank op by n thirsty now. The AlUmahe is navi gable at all seasons from its rnoetb to Us headwaters, and bean on its bosom one of tbe largest and moat remanent!vt timber trades of the entire country. A Useful Crank. Clark, a Chicago drunkard, beat his wife with his wooden leg, and was sent to Jail for ten days. The prison was crowded, and Ihe con victs were doubled in tho cells. Clark's com panion was Prindell, a mau verging on insani ty. Clark related his crime to hit companion, set bis leg In a corner, went to sleep and snored continuously. Tho anoring erased Prlndell, and he killed Clark with the wooden weapon. There are a number of Interesting points In the above paragraph—too many to be considered iu the short space allotted to a newspaper article. It Is Just such a paragraph as could have been gathered up nowhere on earth so well as in Chicago. Ofjall cities that is the . one in which a brute would be expected to get drunk and beat his wife with his wooden leg. There Is more unadulterated human diabolism there, to tbe square yard, thau there probably is, to the square rod, in any other city on the globe. There are many Clarka there—wooden-beaded aud wooden-hearted, though perhaps there are but few of them there that can boast of so convenient and handy a weapon for wlfe-bea'ing aa me villainous Clerk. He seemed o bo somewhat better equip^d for tbe 1 usiness tban most villains o his trade. It mustn’t be supposed that wife-beating haa any special premium ou It In Chicago. It Is apparent that such conduct Is mildly objected to in that modern Sodom. Clark was sent up for ten days. This was in tbe nature of a mild protest against the risk be ran of taking the poor woman's life, rather tban as a punishment for exer cising tbe privilege of teaching a drunk ard’s w'fe tbe full measure of her misery. It is reasonable to suppose that bad Clark taken a switch, or a raw-hide, or some other Instrument, not liable to produce death, he would not have been punished stall. “Ten days” for such an unwar ranted and murderous use of a wooden leg Is few enough even for the modern Sodom; and, according to this estimate, there would be no time at all given to the mere offense ol wife-beating. It was evidently the use of the wooden leg in so dangerous a manner that offended Chica go Justice. The penalty would liave been as severe, perhaps, U the victim had been a bcok agent, a lightning rod ogan, a legislator, or a learner on wind instru ments. Rut Just think of the Idea of a man’s being allowed to go home druuk and beat his wife with a wooden leg, at the ridicu lous cost of ten days’ confinement in jail A year in!the quarries would have been Inadequate to do Justice to the subject. Hanging would be a punishment none too severe for brutes like Clark. But Clark was not simply a drunkard and a wife-beater. It lias been seen that those little peccadilloes are soon forgotten In Chicago. Had be not also been one of thorn depraved individuals, who make iiislit hideous by snoring, he would per haps have been living to-day—a bright and shining light In ths city of brutes. Clark’s jail chum was a crank. Tho crank Is at home in Chicago. Tbs water, tlie tood, the society and the atmosphere of that city tend to the production ot cranks who, it must be confessed, are of ten Improved by tbe loss of their ruin da— such as hey are. This was evidently tho case with Frindell, Clark's cell-mate. He showed most excellent taste aud judgmont lu his dealing with tbe snoring wifo beaten As a general rule, it conb! never be main tained that a man, who anores in kis sleep, Is entitled to either life, liberty cr the pursuit of happiness. If true as an independent proposition, then surely no ouo can deny that rrindell played the Judge, Jury and executioner, on this occasion, in a manner exceedingly becom ing to tbe great State of Illinois. Besides •11 this, there was something of retrilm* live Justice in the druoksn wretch's being brained with tbe weapon which be bad used so mercilessly upon his wifo. If tome similar fate should meet all tbe wretabca who run the schedule of the Chicago Clark, there would be fewer tear- stained faces in homes that onco were happy ones. Tbe (looker. If Georgia was ever given to the culti vation of the goober, or, as It Is same- times called, the ground pea, and again tbe peanut, we cannot recall tbe time. Of course there was a sufficiency of tlie crop raised for local demand and con sumption, but why the Georgia troops In the late war should liave been denomi nated “goober grabbers," ta still a mys tery to us. But they were distinguished In this way on tbe march, by the camp fire, and when pleasant jest was tossed about the bivouac. Some ambitious poet of those days even embalmed the idea in verse, and from the misty realms of mem ory we can recall the bright face of a pretty girl, long since laid away in the valley, who was accustomed to slug a song, the refrain of which was— "No, my love, I'm a goober grsbbler." If the madrigal had been dedicated to tbe North Carolina infantry, we shouul have at once done honor to Us uniqueness and appropriateness, for North Carolina was then and sven before, the chcsen aud promised land of the goober. Running out of Wilmington ono brisk morning in tbo yet early autumn, the train carried not only Its usual load of military and civilian travelers, but Cling- man's bricadc cf North Carolina, suddenly ordered to Goldsboro. About seveu miles out the train, with the exception of the engine, suddenly left the track and rolled down an embank ment -o the edge of a bold little creek, with a depth of two or three feet of water. Just on the opposite side, a farmer had turned up, with a shovel plow a day or two previous, the goober crop in a field of about four acres. Without waiting to see if anyone was hurt, and the only dam age was a cut on tlie bead of a colored train hand, the men of Clingman's brigade dashed through tbe creek and charged the goober patch. In lest time than It has taken to write these lines there was not a goober above ground in tbe patch. Then, was not a Georgia brigade in the field that could have carried the position as quickly and cleanly. Passing by that spot several timet dur; lug tbe days of peace, wa have noticed that tbe four acres of goober-patch along tbe line of that road have grown into hundreds. We have no statistics at band, but (he goober-trade of North Carolina and the portions of Virginia adjacent must be very large and valuable. Tbe nut has become not only an article of home consumption, but enters# largely into commerce and manufacture. From it la expressed tbe best article of what la known as olive oil, far superior to the cotton seed oil, and the kernels are large ly need in tbe manufacture of caudles. An article on ihte subject In tbe Norfolk (Va.) Landmark details some informa tion of interest and information to onr farmers. A Mr. Elliott, of that city, hti a goober factory in which a Urge number ol girls and women are employed iu the light and pleasant work at remunerative wages. It is just tbe thing that ia needed in every considerable town In Georgia. Mr. Elliott pays from eight to eight and a half cents per pouud for goobers, and has paid to cne farmer as much as ten thou sand do’lars for bis crop, and he alone haudles from 80,000 to 100,000 lacks of goobers during the year. The market for them when prepared Is always good, and extends from alaiue to Texas. What we desire to impress upon tbe farm era of Georgia who havo beaten their awords Into ploughshares, Is that If there, was no reason for calling them goober grab ble™ during tbe war, they should makes reason for it now. It is admitted that our future prosperity will depend in a great measure upon di versified crops and small indistries,and the capacity to turnlsb to women and children light aud remunerative employ ment. The cultivation of the goober and Its subsequent preparation holds out the hope—nay, mors—the certainly that it will fulfill these conditions. Tbe sell and climate of Georgia are ad mirably adapted to tlie growth and pro- J ictloo, and we certainly have men of ejterprlse and energy who will agree to uar .* all that may be raised. Dipping tbe subject from its se vere aud prssaic surroundings, tbe goober should bs JnrUhed for its more tcsthetlc and sentmuatal conditions. Some pbiijj;pher of these latter days has observed that Southern statesmanship lias declined with the gradual fading away of the old-fashioned barbecue. It is quite certain that we have none of that ready and vehement eloquence of tbe hustings that was heard throughout the land du ring the old days, when the blue smoke of tbe barbecue pit rose In every county from the time roasting oarebsgauto ripen until a nipping frost had taken all the twist out of the persimmon. But if the barbecue was intlmrely con nected with the flerco Jousts of factious on tho stump, the goober, the fragrant aud oily gooberr beld its own In the council chambers of the State. Those werogood old honest days, when the present leader of tho “Jeffersonian phalanx" In Georgia made his daily lunch ou a pint of parched goobers, and when there were a race of economic statesmen from North Georgia, of whom but one specimen Is lett in tha person of Doctor Bei^jamin Dugfar, who wnen elected to the Legislature were ac customed lo parch and carry tbelr own goobers. There are men in Mllledgeville this day who can tell you that when tho sessions of the Georgia Legislature camn to a close the halls of tho capltol were half Ifg deep In goober shells. So let our farmers bring back one of the lost and useful arts of agriculture, and in doing so prepare for our coming statesmen a brain food that shall put to shame the pborphorescent fish. Don't let us have tlie name without Ike game. Let us be goober giabblere for ail that the tcim is worth. Tbe Demscrarj of (he nixlb. To their eternal credit, be it said, utter ly failed and refused to follow tlie late State convention in breaking down the two-thirJs rule, though Mr. Blount’s nomination did uot make Its adoption an absolute necessity. Tbo American Dnntml A«u>elatfon. Among nil the publio meetings tint have been held at different parts of the country daring the last month, nous has so inter cried ut •• the meeting of the Amrrioan Dental Association. Political conventicnr have met, wrangled, adopted platform?, passed resolutions, mode nominations snd adjourned, but, outside of the few direoily interested parties, the world has cared naught. Friendly barbeones, peaosfol picnic*, riot-raising camp meeting* hare failed to disturb the even tenor of affairs, beosnse in every case tbo influence of the event was circumscribed. Bat in the proceedings of the Amsriosn Dental Association every mao, woman and ohild is directly or iodi- rsctly interested. It is wilh ranch relao'nuee that wo are foreed to tay that we are no little disar- pointed in the results of this convention. It has, thoogb, failed of its high mission, and shirked the importnnt issues before it. Tho problems whiob should have been before ths convention are these: IIo* can a man be made to en ter into a dentist’s off!-re without feeling and exhibiting that fear which is unworthy a true man ? How can he be m»de to stay in tbs presence of the dentist without oon- oeiving the most violent hatred for him, and the most intense desire to rise np and throttle him 7 Aud how can he be made to leave ths office without having effeetooliy destroyed all tbe argument to be advanced In support of the "bolineae’' theory 7 It haa Ung since been elearly demon strated to onr mind that no man, possets- ed of nerjee, can have hie favorite and msst sensitive molars ground away, his gams cut loot# and pinned badt, and a lump of gold wedged into hi* tooth with a' diminutive sledge hammer withoot experi encing tbo emotions expressed in tbe problems. For the proper solution of these difficulties the poblic naturally look ed to tbe dental association. It was ex ported that its members would discover some acid powerful onoogh to palnieeily dissolves tcoth to the required extent without racking a man’s nervous system, by tho oso of rasping files and grinding drills. It was expected that instead of driving golden wedges with the blows of a trip hammer, other and gentler methods would bo resorted to. It would be an easy thing to bathe the surface of the tooth with a solution of a metalio salt, and then by means of a weak battery, resort to tho •Isotrot)pie or gaovanoplastio system and with touche* as soft as the dropping or feathery flakes of snow deposit the metal in the desired spot. And if • tooth should get iu such a condition as to require pull ing, it was thought tbat a plan would lie devised by which a coil eould be passed around it, a mi met be produced by mean* of the induced current, and then, jwith a single breaking of tbe circuit, tho work would be accomplished. These wore tbe things the people expected. Bat how have their expectations been realize i 7 From a report of the proceedings w# see that tbs first paper read before tbe conven tion wa* on "Diathesis snd Cacabexia.” This was followed up by a treaties on the “Etiology of Dental Caries,” after which the convention visited the zoological gar dens. This is evidence enough that all hope of dental reform at present is hopeless. For another year at least ws have got to make up our minds to bo polltd,punched, ground, drilled uni bored according aa tUir pleas ure may dictate. Tbe outlook la dark and gloomy. Our hopes have been thrown to tbe ground again and again. Yet we are It ie a noteworthy fact that ell profreeioia! dentists oppose the Innovation. But far ell that, woman will sneered, end under her tender touch** pain will disappear es by magic, and tbe present tyrants will b» driven to the rmlcr permits ’which alone they art fitted to follow. “A touho lady iu this Etate was struck dumb the other day, and before the next week was engaged to be married.” It seems aa useless to publish things of this sort aa it ia to warn the people against the dangers of the toy pistol. Women so quick in all things else invariably fail to oatch on here. Thz latest telephonio feat was tho result of a Belgians Invention. He conversed, without effort, over a line of two hundred and sixty miles length, two hundred of which was sub-marine. This opens up a •till wider field of telephonlo usefulness, for it is now thought that the new princi ple Involved can be made to work success fully on trans-Atlantio cable lines. Jud Clucbxts was renominated at Dal ton on yesterday. It is now In order for Mr. Stephens to return to Georgia and re deem the pledges made by his friends, to the effect that he would wipe oat Indepen- dentism. Thero is an issue between Jud Clements and "Hightower Bill" Felton. Upon whloh eido of tbs issue will the “Jef fersonian” leader of the oleomargarines drop? Boms of the people in Richmond county are disposed to laugh at the reasons of the Chronicle tor not taking a part in the pre liminary campaign tor Congressman, in tho eighth distriot. The fact is, tbe Idea of tbe Chronicle'• having no preference “before the convention spsaks" ie some what startling. Unols Aleck’s “navvy” is a "broth of a boy.” " Tbs children of this world are wiser In thsir generation than the ohildrsn of light" Mr. Htephana will not resign his •oat in Confress until after ths election. Brother Hsls's Unele Lucius will smile at the prudence of Brother Walsh's Unole Al eck. There is nothing like spending one’s evuniugs in oomtuQniom with the goloid dollar to make a fallow secretive and con ning. Tna Astor that was beat for Congress by Demoora.ic Flower hu at lut found balm for his hart, in a consulship to Italy. He wishes to lay in a supply of Italian works of art, and, not being disposed to bear the traveling expenses, this office is givon him with a view to having his expense* paid by the United Statu. This poor man wilt thus be able to “make tbe ends meat,” Nonnxa could more certainly establish the sincerity of Sonator Hill’s pol’ticnl convictions, and his fsarleuucu in givisg expression to them, than ths fwt that he won his Imperishable fame by fighting against majorities. Ben Hill was too pare nud too brave a man to foWow tlie multi tude to do evil. He had tha courage to follow the lead of his convictions, and his grandest moments were when majorities would have crushed him, but could not. Who among oor rising young statesmen will, like him, have tbe courage of thoir convictions? Mr. Watterson decs an Inst. Ceuntr-Jeumel. The Republican party is committed to the policy of war taxation in time of peace. Tlie Democratic party Is committed to the removal of tbe grievous burdens im noted under the Republican principle. That Isa live enough isvua “Tax people constitute the but elvil ser vice commission. The heavy-weight offi cials are within their roach." This is trn% Bat ths fact that ths people pat np with n certain civil service for a given length of time, does not prove that the people in dorse ths serrioe, or that a majority even approves it. While the people are all pow erful, at the same time they are tolerant. The very eonsoiousneas of power tusks* them tolerant. The great majority of them, engrossed in their owo all dr*, aro slow to di«cover the errors of a systuu of service! But a party that fancits itself se cure, because thj people suffer it to go un robuked for a season, U InUmg itself iuto a false eecarity. Tn« New York Tribune, commenting on the greet strike, svye that it is estimated that the strikors around Pittsburg alone have lust not leu than $4,000,009 in wage*. The oonfliot botween labor and capital, of con no, presents ths most difficult qouttion which political eoonomisU have ever at tempted to solve. It is well understood that there oan bs ao prosperity when th* two are et war. Ws believe that th* same corporation* whub yield to tbe demand-* of the strikers, would make equal'p libers! roncessions if approashed is a pacific way. Ihe manufacturers and mi'ro»d corpora tions have uot f-vraottee ths Oommaniatie fires which raged iu*Pittsburg but u few years ago; nor have they rosovered trov the loas ot the millions of d jllare’ worth of property which fed the flames. It ia nof to be supposed that ths resolleetiou nf those days is calculated to soften tlu-ir views now. They naturally regard the loa* of this $4,000,000 on ths part ot the strik- rn as a just retribution. Until aoras oth»r spirit than tbe ouo ihatauimstsd tie strik ers, then. Is mon>fosted.ltis not bs expect ed that capitalists will yie d. Titans has been a system*tie effort t* ft np a yellow fever paste for the p«.< several weeks. It ha* b>on eh*-gel .hat this was done to inluaues OosjiVs* t» pass a heavy appropnxttoo f >r the National Board of Health. But perhaps there is something else covered op in tli'-s thing. The Wall Street (.V. Y.) Reporter ot a re- c«*ut date says: Thera appear* to be coa•l.tershte ground for apprehension that this tt to bs a yellow fever year In tbe South, Judgiog from some private dispatches which ware received tn this c<ty on Saturday. Inhabitant*of Luuttiatta and Texas are said to b« moving North In large numbers, and many cams exist that are not mentioned in the Aaroclated Pros dispatches. Every ef fort Is being made to prevent tbe real facto from coming to light, aa buainrM In the South would suffer materially, but the tenor of our information tt that the fever has become epi demic aud is spreading rapidly. The South has been uansurily free from epidemic* so far. NewOrlosna has had but two casts of yellow fever, and none have been reported at say of the Gnlf or Atlantic ports. It is not likely that the disease will trawl trim the Rio Graadu across tbe continent of Ibzas. It is simply impossible lo cocoesl tbe prevalence of yellow fever in any Southern city, and e stock journal in New York city tt the lest place to look for news of this character. nnr.wiftRH. “Pu*ca” punches G'a tetnne In this way: The grand o'.d boy to the vt < tf i.l go. In the Jingoes' ranks jou ..Sul him. With Diuty's sword he will ».-.*« a blow; And his own harp slung Ik bind him. _ “Laud of th* Sphinx,” this w^r.ior bard sings out, "Though tricks they play thee. One grand old boy ihy right shall guard; By jore I won’t betiay thee;" Tns victims ot *stir*»ad disasters In tbe United 8tttM average more than oue a d&y. Tns sparrows are not hated so much iu Pittsburg- Bouse of <bc: there have Just wblppcu a cat. The pension bureau has grown to be ct such colossal proportions that it requites th* additk n of sou clerks The international Association of Short- hand Writers In the United States and Canada will meet In Cincinnati oo the Sttt Inst The Virginia Slate Teachers’ Associa tion has doidod that the rod tt e Item ta a w*U are. We fear our Methodist friends in Wis- con*in are getting rather too frisky. A rtrd wi •man's toot race was oes of the s turns of a recent Methodist pirate tn th»t htate. Os Tuesday last tlie driver of a wagon In New York becaa** enraged elm ply because htt horn switched him sharply is Um face with hto tall while attempting to keep the fftee off, beat the animal with a cart rang until the brute, driven against a wail, turned et bay amt kicked th* man to death. It la fair lo conclude freta the follow- 1 A ffenttemaa dartres to Cads portlier with res- I itaTkoamtos him in th* lutekma daM . Weak. Owe whoowsa a fryttg yah aods Hera I U pork prefer t* rod tt a nrermary imuii ot school (unit- change. Water thus affected by t ht k de clares to be agree t nervine .an J refrlgerantas well as an astringent. Is tbe probate court at La Crosse, Wis., a decision has just beeu rendered which tt of interest to all speculators in futures. Amen who had been speculating iu gram througlffa broker, who died, brought suit to recover un a promissory note for fti.uw given In couuecUou with their grain business Tbe court held that the transaction was gambling, tbat there waa no legal consideration, aud that lbs note waa Invalid. This tt tho most direct decision yet rendered upon the legality of such operations. . The portrait of a captain in tho Salva- t*on Army in Philadelphia tt giveu in tbo H'sr Crw, the journal ot the movement. Ills name 1s Milton Light, but htt title ot Jack tt printed In much larger letters, and the picture represents him with a gun in bis hand, a pistol and knife at htt side, htt belt stuck full of car tridges, and an expression on htt face that might be regarded as ths threat of a cutthroat or tho reproof of an evangelist, according as the likeness to assumed to hare been taken before — after his change of heart. The difference between military and elvil methods of dealing with persons accused of cruelty to animals is illustrated by the c of Corporal Kelly. Just disposed of by a oourt- martial at the Jefferson barracks, who so bru tally and crucllv brat a government horse that “ ‘■oL Kelly was fined tl and costs For the military offense ho was In the e . w sentenced by the general court-martial to dishonorably discharged from the sendee of Ihe United mates, to forfeit all pay and allow- ami to be confined at hard labor in the military prison at Loavenworth for six yeara. Some of tho item* in tbe snalry civil appropriation bill are interesting. Wa find • hO.W) tor furniture for on# wing of ths War and Navy Department building, ti .700 apiece fur elevators; f.70.000 for a dry dock ut tii- Mare Island navy yard, a very notorious In&tno for fradulentami slra n work of a'l klu-tt: « i> ujs for‘■additional beef for Imilni*," «ud the In dians will be fortunate if the gut >; o »i «., n h of It: repairs to Senate elevator, f.o. «r. which reminds ua of one of Robeson a reiM.rvshirs, the repairs on which costing a good dt-t re than the ship Itself cost. The sundryeuii i> It is a capacious receptacle of job*, nud U>ut is very little problug done. The San Franclaco'Commrre/u/ Humid of the JWth July says: “Ws have to note tbe ar rival in our city of several Arab merchant*, who reached here via Panama by the Pacttic Mail steamship Grauada. These Arabs era from Jerusalem, and come to this city with the intention of opening an cftabltohmtut here for the sale of Turkish gowls and curios, under Uie firm nr— a Arabs claim t< As they wear tneir native costume, consisting of a long, bright colored gown, or kiblr, and fir head dress, a cone shaped cap of red doth, they very naturally attract no llttlo attention ale of Turkish goods and curios, under Uie name of Bicharar. Michel A Ui The * not only speak English fluently, but it to speak all ot the principal laugusxes. streets." Died Before Jim Dlff. rote and Tribune. Jim General* died In a barn at Luzerne, Pa, Wednesday night If* was a colored man, ami •lied a starving pauper. And yet, two years Hgo^uindry *i>ceulaten in tbat vicinity held J ln\“ euerals in be worth tJOfi.OW and had that insurance on htt life, but the insuring com* panles died many months before Jim did. One Grand Reunion. Cincinnati Mnquirtr. The Sultan of Morocco has three hundred id rixty-four wives, snd only needs one more ~j have on* for each day in the rear. Htt life Is cne grand reunion, and every day he renews his acquaintance with the wife he last met tho previous year. When th* Monday wariring tt hung out In the back yard of the Psltco it looks like a dry goods store In an Iowa cyclone. Calculated to Hake a Han Die. Norrietown Herald. At a political meeting at flan Antonio. Texas, s man was seized wlthlauahter, and tils oon- tori ions became so great that It required sev eral men to hold him, and h* did not become quiet until morphine waa administered. It ta *u r posed that tlie speaker said the Independ* — tn Pennsylvania were sincere reformers hat utewart would poll half a* many votes aa Heaver. Such remark* vre calculated to ‘ i a man almqet die a laughing. Where Gefl^tanj Is Dehlwd Exchangf. Tn Germany the sofa Is th* feat ef honor, and . omit offering its privilege* lo an Invited gue»i Is to write one's self down tgunraut ot lire usages of polite society. But a gentleman may not sit upon the sofa; to take a scat there uninvited 1* very presumptuous; and to ask even an Int'tnaie acquaintance to placo him self beside her on that sacred resting' place, would be highly Ind^cnmui in a ymug lady. Huch i* the custom of tbo country. Tom’s Old Habit. Taras flingt. Jim Webster, au Austin colored voter, re turned a few days ago after an absenco of a week in the country. After he gut back he was asking Undo Mnao how hit ne gro acquaintances were coining on, and amoni id among —. — „—, j*Mnu hi* lock of sociability and stiffness, was do ing. “Didn’t ycr meet a funeral as yerwas coinin' Into town 7” “Yea. I did, Uncle Moae." I'em was Tom Knott's obsequious, day was ” •Wo'1.1 tnout hsd rurased lilt. Dat ain't da fust time he has passed me on de street wtdout tewin' on dat l e Loosed me ' •Ihers, what Tom Knott, who < Roman (lo. London Truth. A very interesting llule story belongs to the exhibition of the royal academy this year. A ltdy and her daughter, in a sudden shower ut rain, took refugo in a doorway, it was tbat of a great artist'* s.udio; and tbs great artlrt him- •cTf entering at th* moment, Invited them to come in from the rain. As the rain steadily poured down, he studied atteuUvtly the young girl's face and figure; and preocmly, produc ing hi* card, he MUcd the mother's permiuion to make a painting of her daughter. Ho Oat- terlnf a compliment from so distinguished su artist could not be declined; and a beautiful portrait, the result of a great msny sittings, wa* finished In due Ume, and is one of tho or naments of thi* year’s exhibition. Huch a painting would have an Immense value; but it wa* gracefully presented by the artist to tlie roung lody heraelf. Its only fault to that it hardly does jurttee to tho lovely original. Real Runner*. Pteeseut MUUrhood. "What do yon call rale manners r' fitoppln * in de road on de way from de soring, lmlnncin' plguin of water on yo’ head ao r leitin' de mannus ttpectable rullud folks tn big planta tion* fo' de war use ter bave-U, when you sees nut her puraon you ain’t seed lately, to lo ssako a nice. p'iite curchy, an* aay, 'Good arawnln', rturr Booker*—or fits Tildy,' 'chever It ta—*bow <1ow doeayo' copperuaity seem to saggashint#r Den, if she's got any n'liteneae 'bnt her, she'll spon back an' aay, 'Pm very serrennlbl# 'cord ing to my conrtllarittta,Ste Jyara.' Infs what (calls mannus aa to mannus! But Ms otetimey darkle* tt gittin* mighty sra’ee; an' 'iwon't be long— 1 'twon't be long—'fo* dear an’ vtelr lino manuuz tt all pamed away 1" A Qumtlou of Taste. AV* York Timet. There was a funny episode in th* Illinois Greenback State convention. Mr. Francis H. Hall having been placed in nomination for Htate Superintendent of Insirjction. a dele gate, following the inuruc.lons of his county convention, placed in nomination Miss Francis E. Willard, the temperance and home protec tion advocate. Another delegate from th* mow county >Md be had juet retired a die- patch from Mua Willard saying she cvnld not accept the non I nation, and tbe first delegate then withdrew it A third then moved that U b* unanimously resolved that hsd she not re ined she would have bees nemlastsd. whteh proposition was received with mlugi*4 tangU- ter and hisses, and th* second delegate Moved to substitute a vote of regret, which, on mo tion. was laid on th* table A fourth delegate remarked that It waa not In good urte to teU Mr. Halt that he would not have been nomi nated If th# convention could have got som# oneeira. Hall was then nominated by accl - Tbo Urate of I.lglit-Uo Dangramem Castle Is to day a^crut JSSiated'uiS r dil?u“o.r.‘ 1 The^a . site®vs,