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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPII AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, APRIL 25,188}.
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Macon, Oa.
It is evident that Atlanta doesn't intend
to secede from the State, under the dicta-
tionof tliwConsfifution, at New Orleans or
elsewhere.'
Tbs people of the tenth Congressional
district are under obligations to Major
Jos. B. Cumming lor the postponement of
the nominating convention from the 1st
of May to July 1.
Tut animats killed by railway trains are
always blooded animals—very valuable to
their owners, while those killed by light
ning are often of very little value. Whi
ttle trains discriminate against fine stork
is not hard to be understood, for railroads
are so very, very wicked.
Prophecies of evil are more rcadly be
lieved in than predictions of good, and the
fulfillment of tlio former are more earnest,
ly remembered than ^ that of flic latter.
Men arc more prone to forget blessings
than misfortunes; and it would lie better
for them if the reverse were true.
Tnx reports of the Department of Agri
culture tor the United States show that
drilled wheat has suffered less from
drouths, rains and freezes than that Which
was sowed broadenst. There is |>oint
enough in the showing to attract the atten
tion of tarmers, to say the least of It.
Tug British bayonets at the battle of
Teb, bent like hoop iron when they came
in contact with an Arab's bone. It bad
betn so long since the British bayonet had
been in use, the contractors probably re-
gariled them as merely ornamental, and
turned an honest penny by palming off in
ferior metal on the government.
The navies of the world will toon be
composed almost entirely of Ironclad
ships. Under the fire of the heavy guns
of fleets uf iron ships the old time forts and
batteries would soon become masses of
rnbbish. But why should not forts and
landbatteries avail themselves of iron
srroor io resist the shot of iron armored
ships? Ironclad batteries on land have
nothing to fear from Ironclad batteries on
the water and there is nothing problemati
cal about It
The Democrat that Isn’t a free trader
will find that he sacrifices no principle in
standing on the Ohio platform. The man
who favors direct taxation and opposes all
impost duties will, of coarse, prefer a dif
ferent platform. 8o long as the revenues
of the government are raised, tn the main,
by tariff taxation, It la not postibio to avoid
extending “protection to American Indus
tries.” It follows, then, that all who favor
that system at raising revenue are In favor
of “protection," whether primarily in
tended or merely Incidental. A fight over
that point Is mers word-war.
Ooartsiox Is the very least evil that can
come from the contention foreupremacyof
two distinct races of people, occupying a
common country. That much worse re
sults may follow Is plain to oil thoughtful
people. That in many ages of the world,
and in many countries, strife and blood-
abed have resulted bom the given relation,
is the voice of history. The negrophiltsts
in training the negro race to acquit itself
to the best advantage tn the conflict for
supremacy here simply effect a prolonga
tion of the contest, while detracting noth
ing from the certainty of its coming.
Columbus.
On Thursday last.n'neteen years ago,
Columbus, in this S ate, was ravaged
by General Wflson and his column of
vandal cavalry. As la stated by the
Inquirer, he burnt eight cotton mills,
00,000 bales of cotton, and nil the
bridges, foundries, workshops nnd
other industrial establishments in the
place. The only mill o( any kind
spared, eras the Palace flour mills,
owned by the late Colonel Mott,
a well-known Union man and
popular citizen. Bo great was
the distress caused by the torch of the
invaders, “that meat, for the want of
money, was taken for railroad fares.
This act of barbarism was inflicted
upon a helpless people, some days
after the fall of Richmond, and after
Lee’s surrender.
But Columbus has risen from the
ad.es by reason of the pluck and energy
of her own people, and is to-day one of
most thrifty and prosperous cities in
the country.
Macon and Florida Railroad.
Yesterday the long-delayed charter
for the Macon and Florida Air-Line
railroad was received in this dty. The
document was Issued by the Governor
immediately upon receipt of certain cer
tificates imperfectly drawn in the first
instance, but which, corrected, were
on Saturday sent in.
The pnblic has recently manifested
considerable impatience over the ap
parent hitch in the enterprise, hut we
have reason to believe that the pros
pects for the early commencement of
v. ilk on the road are unclouded. The
anghuera are to-day engaged upon the
estimates, and when the probable cost
baa been figure-! out and all details at
tended. Col. A. J. lame, president of
the board, will leave for the North, to
eonsult with capitalists, with whom lic
hee been in corresjiondence.
In the meantime friends of the enter-
prtsa in this city ami along the line of
route are counseled to patience. The
building of two hundred and twelve
miles of rood is a task not fo be entered
•pon hurriedly.
Mr. Blount's Speech.
After the speech of Mr. Morrison in
defense of his bill and the reply of
Judge Kelley, interest seems to have
flagged, in the teriffdebato. Our noon
despatches of yesterday make no refer-
efee to it.
The last speaker heard from was our
immediate representative, Mr. Blount,
one of the committee of ways and
means.
Tlie bill lias been so framed as not
to induce a debate upon the tariff it
self. This was fortunate for Mr. Mor
rison and his Democratic colleagues on
the committee, for it has saved them
an exposure of their profound ignorance
upon the subject. The proposition is
to lop off everything at a twenty per
centcut, and this affords opportunity for
the wildest generalization. Mr. Blount
is at home with this style of argument,
and was no doubt at his best on this
occasion, though the House was thin
and the galleries empty.
We'do not propose at present to an-
alyize tltis effort of onr Congressman.
He will avail himself no doubt of the
privilege - f revising or re-writing his
oration before it finds its way to the
public through the columns of tlio Con-
gressional Record. t’erhaps we may find
another occasion to perform this duty
if it shall then appear in the light of
a duty.
It will be seen that Mr. Blount de
clares himself in favor of raising the
revenue for the support of the govern
ment by impost duties. In other words
Mr. Blount favors a tariff. Not to put it
too strong, Mr. Blount favors a tariff for
protection; for it is admitted, that a
tariff which will raise revenue snllicent
to ran this government,must of necessity
protect American labor and industries.
Indeed, Mr. Blount denies most em
phatically that lie is a Free Trader.
This must have astonished his col
leagues, Messrs. Mills and Blackburn,
and may be received with
some astonishment by his constituents
in this Congressional district. If he is
sincere in this statement, common
honesty and decency should compel
him to silence his strikers, who have
liecn industriously booming his aspir
ations for another term upon, the
ground that a large majority of the
people of this district are free traders,
and that Mr. Blount is in full accord
and sympathy with them. Mr. Blount
announces himself as opposed to any
"sudden change of policy,” lest it
might produce “disaster.” He also
puts off the reduction in taxes for
twenty years.
Now the Telegraph and Messen
ger Is opposed to any “sudden change
of pulley,'' for the same reason,
Mr. Blount ought to call off his hired
scribblers, who are making vain and
weakly attempts to misrepresent this
journal. The TELEORAru and Mes
senger, as does every respectable jour
nal and sensible man, favors a redac
tion of taxation. But wo propose to
make it as immediate as possible
Mr. Blount woald run it through twenty
years. We propose not only to lighten
the burdens of the peoplo and toreraovo
the spies and informera who are an
noying them, but to destroy tlio inlqui'
toils Internal revenue system, at once
and forever.
After reading the telegraphic report
of Mr. Blount's speech, we must coir
elude that he has suddenly fallen an
dor conviction. In no other way can
hiscoimection with the free trade faction
in Congress these many months bock,
lie satisfactorily and consistently ac
counted for.
It was decided to have an Atlanta head
quarters; whether in the Georgia,ex
hibit or elsewhere, was left to be here
after decided.
We apprehend that in this matter
the practical, clear-headed business
men of Atlanta will now lie heard: If
opportunity is afforded them, they will
act for themselves and for the good
of the Btate, as well as tlie
advancement of their own city. They
have too mucli penetration and experi
ence not to realize that, in a business
point of view, they have more to gain'
at home than abroad as merchants,
manufacturers and contractors; that it
is to their direct interest to join forces
with the people who are trying to build
up the Btate as a unit. The vast pur
chasing capital of Middle and South
west Georgia, already not over-
partial to Atlanta, will have more
force with the business men of
that city who court it, than a year’s
compendium of the silly vaporings of
the Constitution.
To state the matter plainly, a deter
mination on the part of Atlanta to cut
itself loose from the State, will he a
declaration of war promptly accepted.
It will become in trade a campaign cry
which will w ork that city more damage
than a dozen expositions will compen
sate for. The Telegraph merely states
this as a fact; not as a threat. This
journal, with tlie interest of Georgia
more at heart than the temporary ad
vantage of its own city, does not en
courage suclidissension.lt appeals now
direct to the good sense of the business
element of Atlanta, and states the in
evitable consequence of such a mis
taken policy as that contemplated by a
journal that does not represent with
authority any important class ot Geor
gians.
There is no objection to Atlanta hav
ing a special headquarters for the dis
semination of statistics, exhibition of
views anil everything necessary to ad
vertise the city. This is the plan we
advocated for Macon. But gather un
der one head all Georgia cities, natural
products and manufactures. A place
for them and power, if needed, can be
liad; hut to distribute them throughout
the general exposition under placards
bearing local names, would he to ren
der them insignificant and ridiculous.
Coorals ana the Exposition.
The Constitution continues to insist
upon a separate display fur Atlanta at
the New Orleans exposition. The argu
nu-nt lias now reached a point where it
is more unique than forcible. The able
journalist who edits this particular lea
turn of the paper named, crowded into
'esterday’s Issue more illogical conclu
ions and fewer (nets than lie lias at any
one time heretofore submitted for pub
lic inspection. This is putting it
trongly, but the able journalist’s work
speaks for itself.
In the first place, the Atlanta con
temporary asserts that “an assessment
of two per cent, has Meen laid on the
taxable property of each county for the
support of the State exhibit.
Now it stanils to reason that
such tax has been laid
since no one lias the power
to lay it. The statement is moreover
rendered absurd by a simple calcula
tion. Taking tlie taxable property of
tile Stote at $280,000,000, the sum yield
ed from such a tax would amount to
$5,600,000. It will hardly require this
sum to support the State exltibit.
Nor is there any force In the asser
tion tliat, “in no exhibition, at no
time, in no country has a State ex
hibit and a city exhibit lieen made in
the same department.” That there
no necessity (or a city exhibit is the
argument nsed by tlie State press
which favors a general State exhibit.
Nor is there any reason why the entire
display nl a State should not lie made
together. Persons who visited the
Centennial at Philadelphia and other
grand expositions, will rememlier
that many countries displayed each its
natural productions and manufactures
side by side with fine effect. That
there were no city exhibits in tlie Bel
gian, Japanese, French or English de
partment* disproves the Constitution'
theory ami argues against its plan.
TLc truth is the Constitution las long
since ceased to represent the people of
Atlanta. It does not represent them
in this natter. On the 15th inst.,
strong movement against separation
tlie ex[K>sition was made by prominent
men of Atlanta. Despite the presence
of one of tlie proprietors of the Cons/
toll/m in tlie choir at a meeting, held at
tlie resilience of another proprietor,
idea of a special and separate building
fur Atlanta was argued and abandon
That Tax.
The exact percentage o( the tax pro
posed to lie levied upon the people ol
Georgia by a back room convention in
Atlanta, and the precise method of its
collection is not made plain to us. AYe
regard it as certain that Georgians will
make any proper and reasonable effort
have the resources of tho Statu In-
rably exhibited at the New Orleans
Exposition.
With tills view, tlie city of Macon
has already agreed to put her fair
grounds in thorough order and to con
tribute in addition tlio sum of $.1,000.
Her ixxiple, always prompt, gcuerous
and public spirited, are ready and, will-
ing to bear their full proportion in any
levy (or tlio general welfare and.the
honor of Georgia.
Wo do not propose to take aback scat
in this matter. Bat there arc some im
portant anil necessary preliminaries to
be satisfactorily adjusted. It must be
known beforehand who is to handle
ami disburse the moneys to bo raised.
Air. Commissioner Bacon would be
considered on eminently wise and
solo custodian of the fund. But if the
junketing party that was prepared to
take in the Bostou exposition is to
tako charge of tills movement, or to
liuve a controlling vote or voice in it,
it may be safely said just now, that the
people of Georgia will have nothing to
•lo with it. Tlie cicerones of tlie sweet
potato, tlio duennas of tho young veg
etables, tho escort ol the pumpkin-
squash uml the chaperones of tho ten
der rutabaga must be selected and an
nounced, before the tax collector starts
on his rounds with tlie caporious hat.
need it, and tlie North may not?
We have heard, indeed, that it is al
ready a debatable question among the
proprietors of cottpn mills, foundries
and machine shops in New England
and Pennsylvania, whether It were
not better to let tlio tariff' go, nnd thus
strangle Southern enterprises of a
similar kind which cannot prosper
without protection. Tlie idea is be
ginning to be discussed among them,
whether the Atlantic ocean, with the
difference in distance and time, might
not afford them tlie necessary protec
tion against foreign competition. They
already foresee that their most formi
dable rival in the future will he the
South. As soon as tlife North reaches
the point where it can hold its hand
against foreign manufacturers, it may
conclude that it will he wise to aban
don the tariff, and destroy its Southern
competitors whilst yet in their infancy.
A moment’s reflection must satisfy
the inquiring mind, that the South
stands in greater need of protection
than the North, that we cannot build
up large and varied manufacturing
interests without it, and that with pro
tection we may eventually become the
rivals of the world, at least in cotton
and iron manufactures.
But what interest has the farmer in
a protective tariff? He lias this: All
manufacturers of whatever discription,
and all persons who handle or trans
port them and the raw materials out of
which they arc fabricated, must
be fed, clothed nnd housed.
To do this, the surplus products
of the farmer nnd producer are required.
If the millions of consumers who are
thus engaged, were thrown out of em
ployment, their only recourse would he
to agriculture. This would lead to
overproduction, since every man would
produce what was necessary for his
own support, and the surplus which
no# finds ready sale, would he left to
perish on his own hands for lack of
purchasers. Thus it will be seen that
a protective tariff helps the farmer as
well Its the manufacturer.
When tlio Southern people come to
study this question in all its bearings,
and free from sectional prejudices, they
will become the most ardent protection
ists in the country. Tho North still
needs protection against tlie pauper
laboi of the old world, and Southern
mills will perish at no distant day with
out it.
land, found old Adams still alive and
the controlling spirit of a devoted band
of disciples. Since then the colony
h&s been, to a certain extent, under
the patronage and protection of Eng
land. In 1831, the population having
outgrown the means of subsistence,
persons were transported to Tahiti;
but disliking their new home they
returned to the old one within six
months. In 1855, tlie number having
again become too large, all were re
moved at their own request to Norfolk
Island; but in 1856, two families, em
bracing seventeen persons, went back
to Pitcairn; and from these, with some
small reinforcements, tlie present pop
ulation of fifty-two males and fifty-
three females lias risen. They have
tliier own code of laws, as primitive al
most as those in the Garden of Eden,
and complete isolation from tho world
has saved them trom all of the world’s
vices an d tliemost of its miseries.
The friends of the latter gentlemen af-[ The chief executive nf ti,„ a. . T“,
feet to feel equal confidence in the re-1 stood unmovld in the presence' M sb?
suit. The absence of Mr. Hammond man’s wife and2^^°^
with woe.
Southern Manufacturers.
Tlie Hawkinsvllle Dispatch contains
the following paragraph:
one ot the mart enthusiastic admirers and
patrons ol the Macon Telegraph axo Mea-
sexoek Is Mr. C. U. Murrell, ot Kastman. He
he would delay his dinner any time to
read that paper. But Mr. Murrell differs with
tho Telegraph in Us protective policy, lie Is
a pretty strong tree trailer. If he Isn't careful
the Tr.LEup.APH will instil Into his mind its
views on tlie tariff.
We arc glad to learn that Mr. Mur
rell ii a friend and admirer of this
journal. It is a pleasure to number
such hearty supporters among our pat
rons, and to know that we have the
sympathy and approval ol intelligent
readers, whether they agree with us
upon all topics or not. If Mr. Mur
rell “Is a pretty strong free trader,”
as we are assured he is, wo can only
say he is as much entitled to his opin
ion on the tariff question os tlie Til-
BAFH AND MESSENGER Is. We llRVe
no quarrel with friends whose views
differ from our own on economic sub
ject*.
Down to 1860, os has already lieen
stated in these columns, the people of
Georgia were about equally divided on
tariff and free trade. Nearly all man
ufacturing establishments in tlie South
were destroyed during the wsr, and
with them was swept away the means
to relHiild and equip them anew. The
great loos sustained by our people in
life and property, and the wrongs in
dicted upon them during the recon
struction period, very naturally engen
dered a feeling of hostility to thc'man-
uioctaring interests of the North and
the policy which hod fostered them.
Those interests are now so firmly es-
lislied that possibly some of them
might be aide to survive the adoption
of a free trade policy. But could we
o( the South stand such a policy? Can
the South get along without tlie foster
ing care which Infill up the great enter
prises uf the Northern States? If this
protection was necessary in their case,
is it not equally so in oars? Shall we
withdraw all protection, now tliat we
A Mesinaa From an Edan In tha San.
On April 12th the following tele
gram was sent oat from Boston, Moss.
The ihlp Mercury, from Port Townsend,
reports that sho passed Pitcairn Island on
January 11. Inhabitants came aboard and
reported 105 persons on the Island—52 males
and 5.1 females She took their mall, some
twenty-live letters, for-UlTeraul parts of the
world.
It recalls one of the most interesting
romances of the sea, one (amilliar to
every school boy and girl ol the last
generation, but which is still new to
many.
Tho Globe-Democrat compiles the
following history of these peoplo who
have sent messages to a few friends in
the outer world, which will be read
with far more interest than a resame of
tariff debate.
In December, 1787,the British gov
ernment sent the ship “Bounty,” un
der command of Captain William
Bligh, to Tahiti for the purpose of col
lecting bread fruit plants which were
to be introduced into the West India
Colonies. On tlie voyage from Tahiti
to Jamaica a long-slumbering mutiny-
broke oat, due in a largo measure to
tho unbearable tyranny ot Bfigh, who,
as the sailors say, had "a genius for
making a hell afloat.” The leader was
the ranking midshipman and acting
first lieutenant, Fletcher Christian, a
young man of good family, who
seemed to lu\ye suffered until forbear-
anco ceased to be a virtue. Bligh, and
eighteen men who chose to acompany
him, were set adrift in an open boat
and managed to -make their way in
safety to Timor, an inhabit
ed island 3,000 miles distant.
Tlie “Bounty,” in charge of
Christian, went hack to Tahiti, where
sixteen of tlie crew preferred to re
main. Tho rest, nine sailors, with six
Tahitun men and twelve women, after
cruising about for somo time, landed on
I’itcairn Island, where the ship was
broken up and bunted and a perma
nent settlement made. As soon as
possible after Bligh'* urrival in Eng
land, tlie government dispatched tho
“Pandora” sloop of war in search of
tlie mutineers. Of the sixteen who
had remained at Tahiti, fourteen were
captured, of whom three were exe
cuted in September, 1702; hut no trace
could be obtained of their companions,
and the search was finally abandoned,
Xot until 1808 were they heard from
by the outside world. In tliat year
Captain Folger, an American
touched at what he supposed
a desert island, and found a happy and
prosperous little colony—all of whom
spoke English—under the leadership of
tlie last survivor of theoriginal settlers,
Alexander Smith,'who had clanged his
name to John Adams, lie was very
uncommunicative in regard to the past,
but admitted that tlie mutineers and
the Tahitians had quarreled among
themselves and killed each other
Christian having been murdered in his
own house, which he had built on
lofty peak, where he could sweep with
his glass the ocean, which sooner or
later, he feared, would bring tlie minis
ters of vengeance. Adams hail been
converted from evil ways by meant
of a Bible and prayer-book, and on
these ho laid the foundations of the re
form which produced a Christian com
munity, in which crime was utterly un
known and perfect peace and larmony
prevailed. Folger, on his return, re
ported what he hail seen to tlie British
government, which was tlten too btuyr
with the Napoleonic wars to give the
matter any attention. In 181$, how
ever, a British vessel called at the 1*
Protection and the South.
Some of the Telegraph's irrecon
cilable contemporaries—nnd it is a
matter of regret that there are such—
cannot resist tho temptation to abuse
this journal for its tariff principles.
Abuse calls for no answer; we care not
to reply to sueli; hut whenever argu
ment has been brought to bear against
us, we have not failed to support our
position with statistics, facts, and tlie
logic of facts.
Tlie Telegraph’s position Is easily
explained. It is this: The liest policy
for tlie United States is to protect every
industry against outside competition,
and the result will always he to (1)
build up industries at home, (2) give
employment at good wages to labor,
(3) create a market for agricultural pro
ducts, (4) cheapen manufactures by
homo competition, (5) and make tlie
country self-sustaining.
This policy has enriched the North
and East; it will enrich the South and
West. When this journal, nearly three
years since, began to advocate the pol
icy described, there was not a daily
paper in Georgia, and as far
as known, but one weekly
that agreed with it. To-day the six
ipost influential out of the twelve
dailies in the State, and twenty week
lies stand with it for the same prin
ciples. The growth of the protection
inciple in the neighboring Southern
States has been equally as rapid. The
Richmond Dispatch, Nashville Ameri
can, Nashville Banner, Memphis .1 ta-
lanche, Chattanooga Timet, New Or-j
leans Picayune, New Orleans Times-
Democrat, Louisville Pott, Mobilo Reg-
itltr, Selma Times and the Daily Age
of Birmingham, Ala., are in the ranks
of the protection army, In company
ithmany fine weeklies throughout
the States named.
Tlie main difficulty with which the
Southern protectionists liavo had to
contend, has been the prejudice against
protection growing out of the fact that
for twenty years it has been embodied
in the Republican platforms. The fact
has been used os an argument against
the Teleoraph tirao and again. It
seems to have es-aped the recollection
of many of the older editors in the
South and the observation of the
younger, that prior to the war the South
was about equally divided as between
Whigs and Democrats, and tliat the
former advocated protection in almost
the identical terras of what is now
known as the Ohio platform.
As the manufacturing and industrial
interests ol the South increase, and
the increase is now constant aud mar
velous, the protection principle will
strengthen. Tlie day will come in no
distant year when the South wilt be it
warmest advocate. The prophecy of
Mr. Kelley that the South and New
England will some day stand together
upon this platform, Is bound to lie real
ized. Tlie longer prophecy of Edward
Everett, that they will change places
on the tariff qncstion, may he fulfilled
events liegiu to foreshadow such a re
suit.
These facts confront ns with a deter
mination irresistible. , Neither the
Telegraph, nor all tlie papers of Geor
gia united, could stay the growtli of tlie
protection principle; hut they may
speed it to the advancement of the
State's material interests. In this
work the Telegraph is engaged and
will continue. Let tlie press unite
upon the same line.
from tlio district however, and tlie ac
tive and intelligent efforts of Captain
Jackson and his friends, who are can
vassing every foot of ground, cannot
fail to have their effect.
In tho new tenth district the execu
tive committee has held a meeting,and
designated tlie first day of July and
Sandersville as tlie time and place for
the meeting of tho convention to select
Demobratic candidate for Con
fess. Mr. O. H. Regers, of Wash
ington county, a young gentleman
of promise, was chosen chairman
of the executive committee of tlie dis-
trict, vice General DuBose, deceased.
The committee acted wisely in reject
ing tho proposition to hold the nomi
nating convention in May.
No action has been taken in the other
Congressional districts looking to the
call of conventions for the nomination
of candidates. We observe tliat Mr.
Xicholls, the sitting member from the
first district, has been “called, home on
important business,” and possibly to
look after his politicalinterests.
Candidates for the Legislature con
tinue to he announced by themselves or
their “many friends.” There are prob
ably a thousand men, more or less, in
Georgia who are ambitious to serve tlie
commonwealth in the capacity, of legis
lators. It is rumored tliat Dr. Felton’s
friends desire to send him to tho House
of Representatives from Bartow coun-
The Doctor, unlike Sir. Emory
Speer, lias steadily refused to unite
himself with tlie Republican party.
He claims to he a Domocrat—an Inde
pendent Democrat—and lias, it is said,
always supported the Democratic nom
inee for President. His appearance in
the Legislature will creato a sensation
in political circles throughout the coun
try.
Political Situation In Csorgia.
But few changes have occurred in
the political situation in this State dar
ing tlie past week.
Governor McDaniel Is still without
opposition, and no candidate has yet
entered the field against Senator
Brown. The coarse of the Governor
in commuting the sentence of John
Thomas, a negro, and in refusing to
commute the sentence of Tobe Turner,
a white man, lias caused a ripple of
excitement in Coweta and Meriwether
counties, but it will soon pass away.
The only State House office, over
which there will lie a contest, is that of
Treasurer, the most important in some
respects In tho gift of the people. It is
now probable that Mr. Humber, of
Putnam, will eventually yield to the
wishes of tho people, and consent to
the use of his name for the position.
Should lie enter the race, os he prob
ably will, other candidate! may make
up their minds to a vigorous contest.
Mr. Ilamber is a man of great popu
larity among the people, is admirably
qualified for the duties of the office, and
possesses withal a character of perfect
roundness and parity. Ills losses and
personal injuries by the great cyclone
of February will enlist the sympathy
and good will of all classes of people.
It is believed in well-informed cir
cles in tlie fifth Congressional district,
Cheating the Gallows.
For the second time in Georgia with
in a few years, the gallows has been
cheated of its. victim. Tobe Turner, of
Meriwether county, was permitted, in
imitation of Milton Malone, to take his
life which had been forfeited to jus
tice.
It is not that the gallows has been
cheated of its victim, that demands
this notice, but that the law of the State
has lieen set at defiance. Society rests
upon tlie firm aud certain execution of
the laws of the land, and this man
committed suicide under circumstances
that should call for the most immedi
ate and searching investigation. If the
sheriff of Meriwether county shall
be found to have neglected
liis plain duty, then the proper
authorities should make at
example ol liim. When a convict pass
es into the hands of the officer upon
whom the State lays the duty of exe
curing Its mandates, after his ease has
been passed upon by the highest tri
bunal of tho State, and the Governor
has refused to extend executive clem
ency, it is expected that such officer
will faithfully execute the sentenco of
the law. No feelings of pity for tho
condemned man, no sympathy for his
living friends and relatives will warrant
him in becoming an active or silont
agent, in any schema whereby outraged
law shall not bo fully vindicated.
Tlie State of Georgia demanded that
Tobe Turner should be hung upon a
gallows, for that he had maliciously
taken the life of another man.
The (set that Tobe Turner
klllesl himself in jail does not satisfy
tho law. True, the State and society
have been rid sf s bad citizen,hut not in
such a way,as to impress other hold and
had men. The clrcamstance* sur
rounding this case, so far as they have
reached the public,raise a presumption
of gross carelessness against the sheriff.
Tobe Turner hail sinco tlie day of his
conviction declared that he would not
dio on tlie gallows. This declaration
was repeated anil reiterated on his way
to execution. He was credited with an
attempt at suicido in Fulton county jail.
The eye of the sheriff or one of his
deputies should have rested upon him,
until the drop fell. It is customary In
Northern prisons to set a death watch
on condemned men for days before that
of the execution, tn order to prevent
themfrom circumventing the law and
cheating the gallows. In view of this
and a former occurrence, the practice
might well obtain here. If there is no
warrant tor it in our statute hook, the
next Legislature should supply the
omission promptly. Tho people should
bo informed that it is a crime to Incite
one to commit suicide. In event of suc
cess, It Is murder under the comrfion
law.
A trial in which the law was authori
tatively settled in Massachusetts took
place more than half a century ago at
Northampton. A man by tho name of
Jewett was convicted of Hie wilful
murder of his father and was sentenced
to he bang. He was confined In an
apartment ol the, prison adjacent to
that of one Bowen, nnd the latter re
peatedly advised and urged the former
to ilestroy himself, and thus disappoint
the sheriff and tho people who might
assemble to s$e him oxecuted; and, in
the night preceding the ilay fixed for
his execution, he put an end to his life
by suspending himself by a cord from
the grate of the cell in which he he was
imprisoned.
Bowen was indicted for murder, and
the most eminent counsel ol that day
were engaged in the trial. The court
•Iccidedthatlf Bowen’s a-lvice procured
the itenth of Jewell, the former was
guilty of murder.
It can readily lie understood how the
sternest man eould have been touched
by the piteous pica-lings of the agci
Tlie sheriff should have been equal
to the occasion. If his soul revolted at
the act imposed upon him by his office
he could have resigned. So long as ho
held it, tlie law demanded tliat lie
should obey its mandates, and execute
its decrees and it had clothed him with
full power to do so.
Wo trust tliat we have for the last
time in Georgia witnessed tlie success
ful defiance of law through the care
lessness, ignorance or connivance of its
officers.
All government rests upon tho faith-
ful and impartial administration of jus.
rice.
English and Morrison's Bill.
The prime objection to the Morrison
hill urged through the protectionists in
Congress, it lias been charged repeated
ly, comes from the manufacturers who
profit by the tariff, and should not for
that reason have any force with the
friends ot tho bill. Will Messrs. Mor
rison, Hurd & Co. examine the follow
ing?
The London Iron and Coal Trades
Review speaking of English customers
in America says: “It is prettyjevident
tliat tlie protectionists are no longer to
have it all tlielr own way, and consu
mers may before long have the right of
buying in the cheapest market, wherever
that may bo.”
The London Machinery Market says
it is not to ho supposed that there will
be free imports into tlie States, but
a “tariff for revenue only,” which is
the leading cry of the Democrats,” will
open im immense additional field for the
sale of English’manufactured goods in
the Slates. The same journal Bays the 9
fact that England is now buying from
the States nearly as much in tho way
of manufactures in iron and steel ma
chinery ns sho Is selling to them, is a
result that “must be looked upon as
miserable," and says that while England
must search for a better customer, she
must not fail to “watch the opportunities
which the tariff reduction in the States
will open up to us."
The London Iron and Coal Trades
Review for February says, “for some
rime past there has keen but little
chance of supplying English iron in
the States, owing to the very low prices
of native iron," and hails with satisfac
tion the introduction of Morrison’s bill.
Tlie London Spectator says: “Of course,
tlie North of England holds that Amer
ican free trade would be greatly to the
interest of British manufacturers.”
The Pall Mall Gasetle has it: “The
progress of the Morrison bill will be
watched with interest by English export
ers to the American market, inasmuch as
it can hardly fail lo lend in our favor."
It cannot be denied that whatever
in American tariff legislation calls for
satisfaction in English manufacturing
circles, is ground for alarm in this coun
try. Just to tha extent tliat tlio United'
States purchases from England are tho
United States industries affected. It a
20 per cent, horizontal tedoction of tlie
tariff increases foreign exporting facili
ties 20 per cent., it damages American
manufacturing to tho same extent.
How is labor benefited by goods 20 |>cr
cent, cheaper, when 20 per cent, of la
bor's remuneration has been sacri
ficed?
Drawing tha Color Lina In England.
England boosts of her absolute free
dom from prejudice as toraco and color,
nnd we may add, In tlio language of an
amended constitute.n, “and previous
condition.’’ But even in England’s
capital the negro la compelled to tako a
sent in tho rear of the white man.
Messrs. Frohmon Brothers liavo
brought Callcmlnr’s Minstrels to the
Ilolborn Theatre under tho manage
ment of Mr. Gcorgo Rignolil. The gen
uine negro’s gennine plantation melo
dies are always to the taste of English
audiences, with whom tlio memories of
“Uncle Tom’’still linger. They may
wonder at tlie selections given by two
colored damcels, and at tlie drilling ol
the black Zouaves, but tlio real attrac
tion is found in tboso songs of alavo
life in which Callender's Minstrels ex
cel. A carious part of tho performance
was the preliminary force performed by
the regular London actors. Without
tills the Lord Chamberlain refused to
license the theatre.
Hon* R* C* Humber,
We are glad to state that tills gontlc
man Is able to get about by the use of
cratches, and tliat ho has been in Ma
con for a few days on a visit to friends.
He will return to Ids home in Putnam
to-day.
It will be remembered tliat Mr.
Humber was seriously injured by the
great cyclone that swept ovor Georgia
February 19. His dwelling and out
houses with their contents were de
stroyed, and a lady taking shelter
with him was instantly killed. His
losses are L-stiuiat-'d at $12,000.
Many prominent business men called
on Mr. Humber during his brief visit,
and urged 1dm to allow the use of bis
name for the responsible office of State
Treasurer. He has not yet decided
what he will do, hut will d-miiileM
announce his purt>osc at an early day.
that tlie announcement of Mr. My-
natt's name was made at too late a day
to seriously affect the relative strength {the officers ol justice and on antra
of Captain Jackson and Mr. Hammond. : community.
In tlie 1(1-■ -1 will nearly always show itself
in tlie spring. If it does not come in the
►lint* of blotches, nimplta, eruptions, etc.,
it eausesa dull nnd heavy feeling, indistw-
sition to exertion, loss of appetite, and a
general letting down at the system. Na
ture at this junction requires Mime assis
tance to help throw oil tills poison anil
clean up the organism for tlie trying sum
mer weather. Knr this there is notLhig
better than Swift's Specific.
I-eUer* from twenty-three of the leading
retail druggists of Atlanta say. under the
dateol Match 2$, ISM: "WeecII more of
Swift’s Specific than anyotberone remedy
i and three to ten times *« much as any
I Giber blood medicine. Wo ssfi It to all
their boj from an infatr.on* death. I rl R***’- sml many of the best families use
Tu them Ins crime did nut seem oa to I ''Treaties "un'ld I "mid -kin l>e.i-ei
•d I mailed free. _
The Swirr Przctnc Co.,
DrawivS, At!*:.la, tia.
father and mother, whodesired to save I rnhw ilh-sl muiicine.*