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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AKD MESSENGER. FRIDAY, APRIL 25,18S4.
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The Wines We Drink.
It is just as well for tlio people to re
alize at once, that in tho interests of
money-getting, a determined assault is
being made on tho American stomach
from every quarter. Tho Western hog
comes to us with trichinosis; we spread
our adulterated flour bread with oleo
margarine butter, and sweeten ourcof-
fco with glucose. Doctored milk clings
to our glosses, and black dust lies
concealed in our pepper. What neat?
This:
A Philadelphia wine merchant has
been enlightening a Timet reporter
upon tlio character and quality of the
majority of wines now imported and
sold to American consumers.
Beginning witli champagne, the ex'
pert says, that under the old process
champagne by fermentation used to bet
witnesses have been examined under
oath, and the law lias been expounded
by the court, it is tho exclusive pro
vince of the jury to find tlio verdict,
and public journals should be careful
to say nothing that can possibly affect
the result. No roan can have a fair trial
where the local newspaper takes part
for or against him.
Tho Bottle or Shiloh.
We extract the following statement
from the Memphis Avalanche of the
20th inst.:
A conversation with (leu. Hardee In 1RG6 in
reference to the battle ol Shiloh is reported by
a correspondent of the New York Tribune,
Gen. Ifttrdco tvas In comuianit* of one of the
great divisions of the Confederate army
Shiloh, and he said that In his opinion the op
portunity of the South was lost with that bat
tle. Had the first day's attack upon Gen.
Grant's army been kept up. it would have been
come wholesome, the wine first ferment- successful. Grant must hnvo been crushed
ing in casks and then in bottles, the | and captured or driven into the Tennessee
corks of the latter being drawn after a
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the issues which will come up in the
State and national elections this year,
and a summary of tlio important nows
of the world. It will contain nothing
unsuitable for ladies and children to
read. Every one who is not familliar
with it should give it a trial this year.
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Some of the "truck” dealers, last year,
were cu-cumberers of the ground.
The earthquake in England was almost
ns big a thing as a Northwestern cyclone.
Judge Miosiion Is frequently mentioned
as a candidate for Congress in the first
district. The time has arrived when the
Judge should deny the allegation or shuck
the judicial ermine.
Tm:v say now that when Mrs. Hayes
held high carnival at the White House
t the country cousins who flocked thither
were compelled to sleep three iu a bed
after the Ohio fashion.
Tuosa journals of the North which are on
horrified that Georgians do not purchase
tho home of Mr. Btephens in Crawfordvilie,
will do well to remember that Daniel Web-
stor's home at Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Is now advertised to be Sold.
Patkiui that are in tbc habit of altering
dates and falsifying the facts of history
nro poor authority in or out of the courts
of justice.
Kecretabt or War Lincoln has raised
lilmscif immensely In popular estimation
by the prompt style in wbicli he has
demanded a court-martial to break Swaim,
ono of the offensive legacies of tbc Garfield
administration.
certain time to remove impurities and
to allow the nitrogen to escape. Under
tills process a long time was required
to perfect tho wine. Under the now,
only ono fermentation is permitted, and
the wine is thrown upon the market in
two months, full of nitrogen, hence the
headache of tho champagne drinker.
The expert asserts that the manipu
lation of wines is general m France and
Germany. Ho pronounces the manu
facturers there tho most skillful in the
world. Not one man in ten thousand
knows enough about wine to detect
fraud.
An interesting fact is found in the
statement that despite the failure of
the French grape crop, owing to the
ravages of the phylloxera, for six con
secutive years, the French wine supply
bus not diminished, and the United
States exported to France last year
0,500,000 gallons of white and red wines.
France admits wine intended for ex
portation again, free of duty, and tho
American wines cost the manipulators
from forty to seventy cents per gallon.
The wine goes across in sailing vessels
at five cents per gallon. When it
comes back, we pay all charges that
have accrued since the first sale, and a
profit besides.
We are not more fortunate in sherry.
It is pronounced the most harmful wine
in tlio world, being made of spirits,
water, glycerine, sugar and oil of bitter
almond, the latter containing prussic
acid. Port as commonly sold is raw-
claret flavored with raspberries and
mixed witli spirits, suf^ir, fuclisineand
anaiyne dyes. So on through tile list.
While we shall perhaps continue to
suffer from the use of adulterated food
until legislation lias perfected plans to
prevent it, there is no reason why we
should suffer in the matter of wines
Tho wines made here in Georgia, sweet
and dry, arc absolutely pure, and
highly palatabie. Under the impulse
of a liberal public patronage, in a short
timo the manufacturers will-bo enabled
to produce wines that will compare
favorably with any of the samo charac
ter made in Europe. Nay more, we
believe that under an abolition of the
Internal revenue system these light
Georgia wines will do more for the
causo oi temperance in this Stato than
all tlio lecturers combined. Drunken
ness is not a feature of the countries
where cheap wine is produced
river, Anvil's army could have lieen beaten
in detail and the Southern army marched to
Dike Erie, separating the East and West, thus
conquering a peace. Hardee said that after
the death of Johnston the command devolved
upon Beauregard, who suspended the attack,
and thus substantially ended tbc battle. Why
Beauregard failed to follow up Johnston’!
success, no mnn could answer. Tho Confed
erate troops were In condition to attack and
Grant’s amy was demoralized and shattered.
Buell’s forces had not then appeared, and one
of the greatest errors of the war was commit
ted hy this failure to attack the Federals.
a proof of the ability ot tho Confederate army
to achieve this success on the first day,
Hardee spoke of the great contest of the
second day, and the great difficulty Grant
had In driving back the Confederates after he
had been reinforced by Buell's entire army
and the fresh corps of Lew W’allaee, which
had not arrived ou the field on .the first day.
What, he said would have been tho result if
those great reinforcements had not arrived'
To tile suggestion that the position of Grant
army near the end of the first day, behind a
ine nnd ridge, with powerful artillery,
most formidable and that the fire of the gun
boats was also of great assistance, Hardee lin
ed that these obstacles had been exag
gerated and would have been overcome by a
spirited attack, such as tile Southern troops
ouM then surelylmvo made it It had beeiy
"Cak Blaine tie'scooped ?"’ asks tile Sa
vannah Timet. It depends, we suppoee,
on the size of the scoop and the skill of the
Bcoopcr. A Democratic Inveetigstlon coni-
roittce can’t do the work, as was shown by
the utter fsilare ot the Mulligan move
ment.
New JfitsEY it one ot tho foremoet man
ufacturing States ot the country and the
price of her farm land, per acre, la more
than fifteen times greater Ihan the price,
per acre, of farm lands in Gejrgis, accord-
to official returns from the Department ot
Agriculture at Washington. Doesn't this
prove that the Georgia farmer* have a
personal interest in establishing and fos
tering manufacturing industries in their
State? It unquestionably does, unless
even demonstration is to be denied.
TncsE isn't a tingle product oi the farm
that fails to bring a high price In Georgia.
If the formers loaeall thesilvan tagetgruw-
Ing out of this state of affaire by being in
the market at buyers, instead of as tellers,
they have only themselves to blame. To
lay the blame for their necessitous condi
tion at the doors of the tariff system in
stead of at that of their own thriftless end
improvident methods, i> the result either
of unpardonable Ignorance or of unprin
cipled attempt* at deception. It lea plain
case to all except those “who, having eyes,
nee not”
The flippancy with which some South
ern Democratic papers refer to Congrevs-
man Randall as "a good man for the Re
publicans to nominate" does them little
credit. Mr. Randall has never voted the
Republican ticket ; and his manly and un
tiring defense of the South in Congress, all
through the cruel and passionate days of
the reconstruction period, certainly enti
tles him to fairer treatment at the hands
of the South. His opposition to free trade
no more makes him a Republican than
Beecher's advocacy of it makes him
Democrat.
Our Congressman and the Tariff.
Mr. Blount, as a member of the com
mittee of ways ami means, had to
attempt to sustain the Morrison hori
zontal bill.
He found it a job beyond hiscomprc-
fcension and capacity, and was afraid to
tnst himself away from his printed
slips.
In «late Washington letter Mr. Ban
dail, who was preient, writes;
Mr. Blount read his speech Ira m printed stipe,
aad hotly resented the I—** tnierraptkm. The
tariff Is s new problem for bins, end be has not
beta able tosueter It,
Me. tlr.g Hon. William Eaton this morning.
Isold: "What question Hid you wish to ask
Mr. Blount when he wes rending his speech
yeeterdayend refused tobe Interrupted?" !!e
answered: “I desired lo ascertain from Mm If
he knew how loiffBaglend bed throe to pro
tection. I I.ipeet that he did not koowlhal
It wee lor 700 yean.’*
Newspaper Treatment of Crime.
Surprise is sometimes expressed by
well-meaning persons, that the Tele-
graph and Messenger docs not accom
pany its record of startling crimes by
some expression of opinion aa to tlio
guilt or innocence of tlio defendant.
It is tlie custom of many nowspapers
we are aware, to give their opinions
upon all questions that arise, including
that of the guilt of the accused. In
this way public opinion is sometimes
unduly affected ami an impartriai trial
defeated. Even the verdicts of juries
are more or less influenced, to the dis
credit of justico as administered by the
courts.
It was only a few years ago that the
people of Georgia were startled hy a
homicide committed in the capitol of
tho State, and still more by the course
pursued by a lending journal in the dis
cussion ot tho merits of the
case. The people ot the
vicinage were greatly excited
thereby, and a verdict of guilty was the
result. The case was carried to the
Supremo Court and there affirmed,
Tlio groat chief justice dissented from
a majority of tho court, however, in
words that startled all thinking men as
if they hod been aroused by the peals
of a fire bell et night. "Without ex
pressing any opinion," ho raid, "os to
the guilt or innoaeoce of the defendant,
and not believing that ho has had a
fair and impartial trial under the con
stitution and laws of his country, there
is no power on earth that can extort
from me an opinion affirming the juilg-
mentof the court below."
We do not consider it a part of the
duty of the press to express any opin
ion as to tlie guilt of persons accused of
crime. It is the business of tlie courts
to administer tho law and to try crim
inals. The newspaper may very prop
erly print nil the facts and circum
stances attending tlie commission of
offenses, hut beyond this it tag no
right to go.
All men, however guilty, are entitled
under tbc law to a perfectly just and
impartial trial. This is perhaps what
the criminal does not always desire,
but it is wltat all reasonable men
should insist upon according to him.
Indeed, Georgia—great and powerful
and magnanimous as she is—docs not
desire, and cannot afford, to have even
pennittefi by Beauregard,
Tlie letter of the Tribune’s corres
pondent did not attract our attention,
and we should not know what credit to
attach to his statements. We feel
very sure that General Hardee is in
correctly reported. It is agreed on all
hands that General Beauregard made
a fatal mistake in not driving Grant
into the Tennessee river, or capturing
him nnd his army Sunday afternoon,
as a prompt nnd vigorous pursuit would
have enabled him to do. This fact was
as patent to the actors the next day
os it is to commentators now.
But we arc informed by the corres
pondent that Gen. Hardee stated in
1806, lour years niter tho
battle, that the formidable character
ol Grant’s position "behind n ravine
and ridge," and “the fire oI the gun
boats,” had been exaggerated, “and
would have been overcome by a spir
ited attack such as the Southern troops
would then surely hnvo made, if it had
been permitted by Beauregard.”
This may all ho true, and yet we
do not believe General Hardee is cor
rectly reported.
Tlie writer was present nt General
Beauregard's headquarters on the field
about fio’cock p. m., talking with him
about tho linttlc. In a few minutes,
Generals Hardee, Bragg and other
officers dashed up, flushed with victory,
and reported verbally to tlio General
in command. There was universal ex
cltcraent and rejoicing, in the midst of
which General Beauregard made in
quiry about tlie advisability of pursu
ing the enemy. General Hardee re
plied that Grant'a forces were crouched
under tlio bluff and ridges near the
river, and were protected by tho gun
boats, and that the Confederates could
not advance. Tills view was supported
by General Bragg and others. General
Hardee was riding a fine young
blooded animal, ami he remarked to
the writer that so great was her alarm
at (lie fire of tlie gunboats, lie could
not force hot forward.
That General Hardee, soon after the
battle, came to believe that tlie obsta
cles referred to"had been exaggerated,’
is probable cnougit, though nt the timo
both officers and men had a dread of
those novel engines o( war. But we
arc not prepared to admit tho accuracy
ot the correspondent's statement. Gen
eral llardeo could hardly have con
demned General Beauregard in 1806
(or not doing what lie had advised him
in 1862 was impracticable. Grant and
his army were thoroughly demoralized;
there was hut little danger in tho gun
boats, and pursuit was practicable, just
as it was at Manassas, and General
Beauregard should have disregarded
the report ol General Hardee and others
and advanced. This is ail plain enough
now, as it doubtless was in 1800, but
Ilanlec was too just and chivalrous an
officer to condemn his old commander
(or listening to his own suggestions.
resourceful man, capable of cloaking
resentments, if he indeed bears them,
and will make a speech, powerful and
interesting, even if not convincing.
He cannot save tlie hill, but Mr. Car
lisle may save iiis party..
The time lias come when a partisan
and personal struggle between factions
of the party must cease, or the integ
rity of the party will be destroyed. Its
organization must speedily follow.
It is plain to every one not entirely
blinded by prejudice that tlie bill can
not pass in its present shape. There
is not the slightest hope for it save in
tlie closest and severest emasculation.
The party must begin to prepare for
the l’resldcn.tial campaign. If it can
not enter tho contest witli an united
front, it were best that it do not tender
fight nt all.
That reason is beginning to resume
her sway, is evident in tlie declaration
upon tlie part ol Mr. Wuttcraon that
lie will supportjitandall or Payne, upon
tlie Ohio or Pennsylvania platform.
There is no recognized leader ol that
wing of tho party upon the floor of
the House which supported Mr. Carlisle
and elevated him to his present posi
tion. It is not within the range of
probabilities that Mr. Uandall nnd Mr.
Morrison can make a truce to which
their excited followers would grace
fully agree. But M r . Carlisle can com
mand the peace. He can suggest n
compromise, and all great political
measures are tlio resultof compromises,
that will weld together again the dis
cordant elements.
It would be interesting to see Mr.
Carlisle address himself to a task aban
doned by others. Intellectual courage
commands the same respect accorded
physical bravery and prowess, but in
the contention which would assuredly
follow, tlie Democratic party alone
would furnish the list of killed and
wounded.
At a crisis like this sophistries as to
free tradejand tariff reform, while they
might add to the admiration that Mr.
Carlisle’s friends have for his discip
lined mind and crafty methods, would
fait to meet tho requirements of tlie
occasion.
He has been an honored and trusted
Democratic leader. That some of the
ablest and best of tho party have re
fused to follow him further, should
give him pause.
IVe repeat that the Morrison bill is
beyond tho touch of political surgery,
hut tlie throbbing artery of a dissev
ered party awaits tho bold and skilful
hands, that can apply the ligature and
staunch what appears to be a mortal
wound.
Britannia ana the Earthquake. these thing,, wc contend that these two t-at-
Tho severe shock of carthquako ex
perienced in England has sent a thrill
throughout all Christendom. Exlrav-
ngant as it may seem, tho ono thought
—suppose the British Isles should
sink beneath tlie waves—intrudes itself
upon the mind.
And yet not extravagant is the as
sumed possibility of such n catastrophe.
There is no certainty, nor is there prob
ability of absolute fixedness about
any portions of the earth’s surface.
History is full of the records
ties are aa Important aa Paul Revore'a solitary
cantor, and yet tho achool book in uao In
Pennsylvania schools does not lay a word
about these fights.
Tho samo hook aaya slaves tvoro held In
Pennsylvania. Tbc writer forgot that staves
were held In New England, and what la of
more Importance, ho forgot that the abolition
movement started in Pennsylvania. Ho tells
about the one witch that was tried here, but
does not Olid that sire was found not guilty.
But /orBenjamin toy and tho Pennsylvania
Quakers and the earliest attempt to suppress
slavery In America, he has not a word.
From another school book iu common uso
In Philadelphia schools—a geography, pub-
; fished In Now York, the children learn that
of disastrous changes in tho fuco and puiladclpiila ts the second manufacturing oily
Mr. Carlisle to tho Rescue.
Tlie New York Times is authority for
the assertion that Mr. Speaker Carlisle
will shortly leave the chair and take
the floor in advocacy ol the Morrison
horizontal tariff bill.
There is nothing unparliamentary in
this, for the Speaker is still a repre
sentative from the Stato of Kentucky,
and is privileged to be heard in debate.
It is not often that a Speaker avails
himself of this privilege. It may be
truthfully said that occasions are rare
that demand this from tlie presiding
officer ol the House.
In this case the necessity which
(orccs Mr. Carlisie to this last resort is
not complimentary to Messrs. Morri
son, Mills and Blount, who
Cordon's Position,
General Gordon’s mission in tho
Soudan nnd its attendant events, con
stitute ono of tlio most singular ovents
of history. Asido from tho reckless
daring of flic innn there is nothing
pleasant in it. Gordon undertook to
pacify tlie Soudan, not to conquer it,
Belying upon his prestige as its former
“good governor,” ho went with but
one man ‘to tlie largest city of the region
and began his work of pacification with
money nnd tlio abolishment of oppres
sive tax laws. He rallied around him
the native forces of Khsrtoum and
seemed at ono time about to succeed in
h!s mission.
Rebellion, however, had readied a
point where more than tho mere effects
of bad government slept at tho base of
it. Religious frcnsy, under the skill
ful efforts of certain ambitious lead
ers, spread throughout tho Moham
medan tribes, and despite wise conces
sions from tlie new governor, brought
into open warfare against him neuriy
the entire population of the surround
ing country. To-day he is hemmed up
iu the city named, with only a small
force of defenders and provisions for a
few months, relying upon tlie annual
rise in tlie Nile nnd the assistance of
British troops for safety.
But tho singular feature of the mis
sion is tho fact that tho British govern
ment lias abandoned to his fate tho
man who, at its instigation nnd as its
aecrediteil agent, took his life in his
hands and mode an attempt to extricate
that government from its trying posi
tion and avert an impending war.
Gordon went to Khartoum represent
ing England and using England’s
money, to effect tho object of
his mission. To-day British
troops are encamped along
tlie Mediterranean, and British
papers are calmly discussing Gordon’s
chances ot escaping by a journey up
the Nile and a flight through Equato
rial Africa. Gordon himself is in ig
norance of the intentions of his govern
ment. Such dispatches as have been
recently sent through the enemy’s lines
by him show that he believes liim*,l.’
about to be rescued by an English
army.
Buell an instance is, we believe,
without parallel in tlio history of civi
lized nations. It is in sharp contrast
to the action of the American govern
ment in rescuing tlio bodies of De
Long's followers from the Arctic re
gions, and the present efforts to rescue
Grecly, undertaken without regard to
cost. It is in thorough accord with the
selfish policy of England.
Gordon’s death, and nt present it
seems almost certain, should damn
England for all time. The very men
tion »f hia name should suffice to bring
the blush of shame to every British
check.
features of the earth in every quarter.
Probably if the records could have sur
vived, it would have been found that
none remain as in tlie beginning. IVbat
lies hidden beneath the wave we know
not, except as relates to modern his
tory. Beyond Herodotus,- the ages
sleep, and whether limited to tlie few
thousand years of tlie Christian system
of construction, or expanded into tlie
millions of tlio scientists, they guard
their secrets. But modern his
tory shows that even such
a disaster as tho destruction
of Great Britain by a sudden convul
sion of nature is possible. We do not
mean by mere earthquakes, fer however
damaging such convulsions may be,
they do not annihilate. A severe earth
quake might tumble into ruins a dozen
cities, crashing a quarter of a million
of people, as in Antioch, eighteen hun
dred years ago; but by some mighty
change in the topography of that por
tion of the globe where rests the British
Isles the sea may roll unbroken
History is not devoid of such
instances. Only a few months
since an entire island with
lofty mountains sankotitof sight in the
far Pacific, carrying with it a hun
dred thousand people. A somewhat sim
ilar disaster less than six months since
destroyed an immense amount of life
ami property at Ischia, in the Mediter
ranean. In 1822 100,000 square miles
of territory in South America, between
the Andes nnd the coast, was elevated
permanently from two to seven feet.
Tliis tract is four-fifths the size of the
British Isles. In 1692 a thousand
acres upon which stood tlie capital
city of Jamaica went down witli
its inhabitants beneath the
waves. In 1772 an area
fifteen miles long anil six broad, on
which stood a lofty mountain nnd for
ty villages, in Java, sank from sight.
In Lisbon in 1755, during the earth
quake which destroyed GO,000 people,
all who had taken refuge upon the gfeat
quay were suddenly engulfed with it.
Where once it stood the water is now six
hundred feet deep, and of uii that went
down, ships and human bodies, not a
fragment ever returned. Simultane
ously with tills tragedy of nature was a
shock in the British Isles, and tho
sudden fall of waters iu tlie Scottish
lakes. A thoisand instances might he
quoted.
But England itself hears evidence
of prehistoric convulsions of nature. In
her "old red sandstone,” Hugh Mil-
len found every evidence of a territory
lifted from tho sea; shells, fish and
fossil remains—a handwriting the most
ignorant could understand. Why mny
not the sea reclnim what it onco gave
up? This evidence of a former exis
tence under water is common
to nearly all sections of the
globe, ft is found upon and imbedded
in tlio highest peak* of tlie Rocky
mountains; it is exhnmed from tlie
foundations of tho fnr plains. In tlie
face of it, no man can deny the possi
bility of sudden disaster to any nation,
nor affirm that tho hills of any country
are eternal.
A change in nature that would blot
out tlie British isles,while only remote
ly ]K>ssible, is suggested by tlio late
physical phenomenon described in
tlie dispatches. They hare been
singularly lreo from such dem
onstrations. Tlie chemical processes
of the earth’s interior are eternal and
past all comprehension. It may be
that tlie shock felt in England is tlie
opening up of another mighty depart
ment in nature’s great underground
laboratory, anil that as beneath tlie
tropical, so in the temperate zone will
the conflict of water, gas, vapor, firo
and acids lie carried on, whose action
shall at times be signaled to the upper
crust, by angry rumblings anil terrific
shocks, to end as did Verne's "myste
rious island,” by the inrusliing ocean
meeting with inextinguishable fires,
and the destruction of all confines in
ono gigantic explosion.
Scarcely less interesting are tho geo
graphical anil political speculations set
in motion by the results as suggested.
Russia would be mistress of tho East,
France would seize upon Egypt, and
independent colonies would struggle
for existence throughout the world,
should Britannia, who “needs no bul
warks,” for lack of proper foundations
sink below the wave.
Tlie tendency is dangerous b*vn
expression, nnd it seems to grow r -V
than diminish. Buch tv.,- I
mfluenco produced by tlio into iulmirrt*|
tration in Georgia, that though^ chtol
officer wasknown to becorrupt, no a. I
in the last. Legislature dared to move ,!l
uncover his malfeasance.
In tlie Union. Wo nro Inkles Infinite ptlns to
tench our i-hfidreu wlial Mr. Lorln Uloilget
has taken tho trouble to tUapruvo. Again, tho
Press protean that thin la a matter concerning
which Philadelphia children should he taught
facts.
It appears to us that the complaint is
well founded, and could bo joined in
most justly, by journals representing
many other States beyond Pennsylva
nia. The trick of tlio Now England
historian to put tho onus of slavery
upon Pennsylvania alone was almost
as provoking as the attempt to depre
ciate the manufacturing importanoo of
Philadelphia.
Reduced down, it amounts to about
this: New England has written these
school-books for tHis country, anil that
they are partisan and unreliable, ami
should be discarded. Tlie Tress is
-eminently right in its protest against
the children of Pennsylvania being
taught out of books of the class to
which it alludes.
Tlio Press concludes with a very
frank confession when it says: “We
smile at the mingled enthusiasm and
absurdities of tlio school histories in
use in the South. But wo take, accept
and tcacii our children tlie more artful
absurdities contained in the New Eng
land school hooks.” Woof the South
have been using these same New Eng
land books, no doubt, and others that
arc quite as bad and some worse, no
doubt.
As to the laughing part, wo can join
tho Press, but not for the reasoits ad
duced. Wc can stand the enthusiasm,
if we ever find it in Southern school
histories, and may excuse tlio ab
surdities, which may tie plentiful.
Sucli Southern school histories
| have had time
to examine are sketchy, inaccurate,
and devote too much attention to the
political motives which controlled
events.
The whole subject is interesting and
important, and we refer to it again to
impress its importance upon parents,
guardians nnd those who propose to
take charge of our educational in
terests.
Call Me Pot Names, Lore,
Courier-Journal.
Tlie Atlanta Constitution airs- _
"J t wilt be reiueuiben-d thatHenrrlv.. I
torso", of tho Courier Journal, winr ^I
Washington City aa the paid loblViiUrm I
whisky ring; that ho went ou the fi£' tb, ,|
tho House because lie could go tu ,!? 1 1
reason ol the fact that the
ibatnc-t were tolerant enough ol ill,f,,I
et him go for a very short ""expired Kl
o Congress; that he was driven out b v .u I
tentmn hrn-g called to the feet that heJt I
there lobbying fur tlio hill then under 2? I
siilorntion." ‘ to u* I
This is a wanton, wicked nnd shamolf,. I
falshood. It is made out of a whotfffiB I
and inspired by a malignant and mo, a-?
Clous spirit. A newspaper which coul I
surt to such an invention puts itself 0 uL 1
side the pale of recognition and rcspomL
billly and proclaims itself not onlv ,V mh.
he robber, buta common liar. ' 1 u:i I
CROSSED IN 6 DAV8 IQ 1.2 HOURS.
The Oregon Cuts n Big Slice on «,
Transatlantic Record.
New York Sun.
It was reported to the ship news office
last evening that the Guion steamer Ore.
gon had been sighted off Firo Island at Mj
o'clock and at 0:42 o'clock, six days anJ
ten and a half hours from Queenstown
had grounded ill Gcdney’s Channel, ouL
side of Sandy Hook. This was at low tide
The sea wes smooth and the wind light
from tho east at 11, anil she was exon-rat
to com ! off at high tide ot 2:30 o'clocYtMt
morning. Tlie Cunardcr Anranla, whu-b
sailed three and a bait hours later than
tho Oregon, was not signalled last nighL
A* soon as tlio report of the groundine
of tlie steamship reached the city, tinner-
intendent Ewer, of the Guion pier, started
for the Oregon on the tug Cheney with
Copt. Barrett. About raiilnlglitadispatch
was received stating that tlie steamship
Nevada of the satuo lino passed Sandy
Hook, Inward bound, at 10:42 p. m. :jCh
reported tliut tlio Oregon was riding safety
unit not aground. 1
"The Oregon,” said Mr. William H.
Onion, Jr., last evening, “has made the
fastest time of any ship across the \L
lantic. Six days and eleven hours. Just
think of Hint. It heats the Alaska's fa
mous record of six days and twenty-one
hours. The Oregon did not race with the
Cunardcr Aurania or any oilier vessel.
Her average speed was nearly 450 miles a
day. Slio is not aground. She could not
cross tlio liar to-nfglit on eecounl
ot low tide, but she wifi rido over at hieh
water at 2 a. in. to-morrow, and wifi be at
tier dock, foot of King street, at 7. The
Alaska's best timo going to Liverpool Is r.
days, 18 hours and 37 minutes, but the Or
egon lias beaten even that by seven hours"
The Oregon lett Queenstown last Sunday
at noon. Her time from “bar to bar" was
II days, 10JS hours. Sbo Is tlie first steamer
to leave Queenstown on Sunday anil reach
Sandy Hook on Saturday.
Tlie City of Rome, of the Anchor blue,
ones made tlie passage Irom Fantnet Light
to Fire Island til 6 days, 20 hours and 51
minutes.
The clipper ship Dreadnnught, under
tlie command of Capt. Samuels, once
crossed from Handy Hook to Liverpool la
a little over nine days, tbc fastest time on
record for sailing ships.
Journalistic Independence.
Tlio following letter from a subscrib
er lias been received at this office :
Farm Omcs, April 19,18SI.- Editors Tn.i:-
orai-ii and Mrmzxiier.—I notified jour asent,
II. C. Fryer, it Blakeley, that I would settle
my subscription April Sth. And suro enough
at that time your paper stopped. I now re
new my auWriplIoh, when, ft the paper bad
continued to come, I would havo settled for
good and quit, but as It It I don't feel like I
could do without,it. Independence is not only
ttrcllfoof the newspaper busfucss, but of
every other.
This way that somo editors hare of continu
ing a paper after tho subscriber says stop ft, ts
very unjust, and has a tcudency to ilcgrlule
and Injure tho'whole newspaper and edito
rial business. I know of some of my neigh
bors that wilt not subscribe for a paper for
these reasons. I wilt now renew my subscrip
tion, and glory In your spunk and Independ
ence. You can publish this If you see fit. As
ever, B, L. Woir.
We print Mr.Wolf’s letter, not mere
ly became ho gives ns permission to do
so, but to assure him and others tfint it
is our endeavor to conduct tlio Tele-
graph anu Messenger on business
principles. We feel obliged to subscri
bers nnd advertisers for their patronnge
and we hope to merit their good will by
giving them full value for all we re
ceive. At tlie same time, wo desire to
preserve our own self-respect ns journ
alists, ss well as their esteem, and to
do tills we must observe those rules of
business which obtain in all well regu
lated establishments.
We have no wish to impose our
selves upon unwilling subscribers. We
feel that wc print a bright, honest and
independent paper, and that good and
honest men and women cannot spend
their rnonoy more profitably than by
subscribing for it. If, however, any of
them think differently or grow tired of
it, they have only to notify us of tlie
(act. We shall have a good word, for
good men and good measures, snd a
lash for evil-doers and men of un
clean and dishonest methods; and we
shall endeavor to bestow the one with
the same judicial fairness that we ap
ply the other.
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Ayres’ lfelr Vigor is universally rum-
tnended. ft eradicates scurf ami daml-
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its fading or turning gray.
X
Cener.it Crnnt.
J. G. Blaine.
The fame of General Grant was full. He
had entered the serrice with no factious
advantage, and hit promotion from the
first to the last hail been based on merit
alone—without the ahl of political inllu-
ence, without tlie Interposition nt personal
frienda. Criticism of military rklll ts but ’
Idle chatter In the face ot an unbroken ca
reer of victory. General Graiit’e czm-
puigna are varied In their requirement*,
and but for the fertility of bl* resources
and Ida unbending will, might often
have ended In disaster. Courage Is as eon-
tagioua aa fear, and General Grant pos
sessed In the highest degree that fac
ulty which it essential to align at comma-
dera—tho faculty of Imparting through
out tlie rank and file of ms army tbe same
ili-temilnatlon to win with which he wot
himself Inspired. One peculiarity ol Gen
eral Grant’s military rarer was his con.
slant readlnes* to fight He wished tor
no long period, of preparation, lust no
opportunity which promptness could turn
to advantage, lb-always accepted, with
out cavil or question, tlie position 11 which
he might be assigned. Ho never troubled
the war department with requests or com
plaints. and when injustice was Inflicted
upon him hi submitted quietly, nnd did a
soldier’s duty.
have essayed anil failed
support the first great movement
the retl-hamled murderer executed ex- towards free trade, upon the floor. The
cept in pursuance of the law. "It is
better that ninety and nina guilty men
should escape, than that one just per
son should suffer."
The duty of the press ends with a dis
passionate recital ol the facts and cir
cumstances of the crime. When tbe
friends of the bill admit tbs’: it has
been fearfully worsted in tlie debate
and is in a precarious condition. Mr.
Carlisle recognize* the danger, not
PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS.
We will send the Weekly Tki.e-
OBAi-ii and Messenger for one year,
free, to any one who will get np a club
of five subscriber* for it at one dollar
and twenty-five cent* each per year;
or to any one who will get up a club of
ten subscribers to it at one dollar each
per year. Tliis is an easy way to se*
only to the bill, bnt to his political | CU re without cost the best Weekly pa
future, and will no doobtsrr.akea stren- per published in Georgia. Give it a
nous effort to save it. He ia a cool,' trial.
A Blast Asalnst New England School-
Book Publisher*.
Tlie Philadelphia Prnt protests most
energetically against the New England
histories used in the public schools of
that city.
As we have had occasion to urge a
similar complaint, we* reproduce the
laxly of the complaint of the Prttt as
follows:
Wc do not even object to the fact that the
Vew England writer of the school history In
question should have retold the atory of Paul
Revere fn hit own pleasant style. tie did It
for tbe benefit of New England pupil*, not for
the edification of Fenmylvmula scholars. If
Pennsylvania school board*, cebool anperin-
n-ndcuu and teacher* cbnoie to u*e tbe New
England veraUmot American hlatory, that It
their lookouL Rut in tho nameof the scholar*
of Penuylranla, we pnitnt that the bottle* of
Genr-tntown ami Brandywine, when taken to
gether, eooaf J-.-ring the number of killed and
woande.1, ami the poialbUlty that If the
Americana had won the - (fight on the
the Brandywine, Philadelphia might never
have been occupied by the British, and the
•lory of Valley Forge might never bar* boos
rang In song or told In itory, remembering
Cur* for Hendncho.
Mora rase* arises from disordered stom
ach than any other enuse. Use Norman's
Neutralizing Cordial to correct your stom
ach and you will nut lie troubled with tlda
E infill malady which has become the
ne of our exutenc*. Try tL
Senatorial.
Barnrtvfile Gazette.
The Senatorial aeptrantz now roaming at
large in Monro* county era said to be quite
numerous. Only about n half dozen names
are prominent however. Monroe should
put a good man in tlie field If she expect,
l'ike anil Bibb to support him cheerfully*
As there seems to be ro many aspirant*
and tom* of the issue* to he uuuU capobk
of stirring np the eedtaMBi la tta notifies]
pot, we would suggest that Pike or Ilibh
prise. ,
of whom will be acceptable. We .-hail
watch the fight with some interest, even to
the result of tbe nominating convention.
Presidential Heredity.
Tlio prominence given just now to
Robert Lincoln a* a probable candidate
for tlio Vice-Presidency, provokes the
Lockport Journal to say that the time
will sorely arrive when "the Garfield
boys will come in, like Robert Lincoln,
(or a share of the nation’s sympathetic
gratitude in tlie way of being named
for office.” This is not new. As
Grant’s second term gravitated towards
empire, the succession of his son Fred
w as gravely discussed.
If the Democratic party shall in the
future display no more wisdom than
has marked its course during the post
decade or more, it may be that tbe
Republican party will become io
strongly entrenched, and so debauched
with power, that it may attempt to
carry out the idea foreshadowed by
the Lockpoit Journal. The pros
pect is not pleasing to centemplate.
Only think of Presidential terms under
Fred and Buck Grant, the two Gar-
fields, a couple of cubs of Hayea and
One Hundred Cents.
Messrs. Zimmerman it Johns
giats of Westminster, 8. C.. in tli
order purchased onlv the dollc
Norman's Neutralizing Cordial. Those-
who try the 23 cents »ize always buy the
large size next time, thus iu use advettUes
its merit*.
Agknts should
offer of premiums i
sue.
net fail to
ilsewhere
tco our
i this ia*
a
A Lady's Lite
lfaj depend upon the medical tratment >he
receipt»for tb« remorel of ho*e trouble* pecu
liar to her a*x. That thc*e ntj. .ti..n* .tn I,*
cured la deerljr deronotratrd bjr fho
of teeUmonUlt on r.to at the of Dn. J»ek
•on A BuiuettaV. K. corner Keep nnd Smih
•tretrtt. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Onr advice to our lady re*»li n fitocorn*-
pood with them. They ere v -nllfiil and l*era«d
tja m*-ct with Min t io their nu-Uee.
I a. Bmk ^ r
ihowithe efficacy of thdr treatment:
Mertimnrllle, I d.. June 19.
Dra. Jackson A Burnett,Cor. Race mid '.
Cincinnati, Ohio*;
Dear Bin: I hare been an ittt
jean. Your M.O. I*muuce v
to met
to me by a phy»IcUu. Wb<n I com e
their u*e, I baa been uusb e to w*.lk f-r m
two yean without the nee
nuar r
Hi lloetrumeut
one box of the fttatiHeJ
uMe. never a aia to take It u|P-_ JUI. ■
■oothi wai ei t;« |y cured ot Retroversion and
. ro’afMCtofui? tern*, litre also been me!
of Le-ucvrrh'Fa. From my
Preiapauaofut
of Leucvrrboea. „„
end that of eume belt dozen oth*n th*i
u»« d ih-m. I roatldtr the Piutillee the nmi
luMkh medlefne ever three to tta mar
Arthur s dudiah acton. Kldlculoua ae mBhrlug women, ae they hove never felled in
all thin may teem now to the avenge | ^mMaiSvcs-.AtSmtf'Sttft
reader, it i« bnt the outgrowth of the
(x-raoual politics which ha* controlled Yxazs nspzctfa'lv.
the general government ami many of i Dra J. * B. .how thriM.i-i.
the State* for year* past. I bj xrarapUbo
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