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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1884.
THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER.
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A iiiir loaded with wool, wine and
fruit* ha* arrived from Marseilles.
Alter she has been thoroughly fumi
gated she will bo allowed to discharge
her cargo, and begin the work of start
ing the cholera. Wool, wine and fruit
are apt to reach a variety of cus-
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Agents wanted in every community lo the
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paid. Postmasters are esp. daily requested
to write tor terras.
All communications should be addressed to
Mrs. Tiiomas A. Hendricks lacks
just nothing of being a very wise wo
man.
5%i.lioan Jim and /.uni John do not
believe in pictorial campaign docu
ments.
The sun isn’t working like a substi
tute now, but like a good, old-fashioned
volunteer.
The Tribune thinks that if the wound
of the New York showman who was
bitten by a rattlesnake had been
promptly sucked, he would not have
died. The Tribune is testing this idea
on Mr. Blaine’s wounds, but it will
find that only Kentucky whisky can
possibly save him.
The French prime minister has to lie
constantly on the alert, to let pass no
opportunity of making amends to Bis
marck and the German nation, at the
proper time and place. By adopting
and having printed a large assortment
of blank apologies, the work of the
prime minister could be greatly less
ened and simplified.
It is a very foolish Democratic rat
that climbs aboard the Binking Repub
lican ship.
The announcement that “Butler will
run’’ isn’t astonishing, though he said
in a speech at Chicago, during the ses
sion of the convention, that he would
“support the nominees.” Butler could
surprise the country only by doing a
clean thing, because the country knows
that he would have to be “born again"
before doing a thing of that sort. Dy
ing will be his last and best act, and
he will not do that if he can help it.
The Mulligan Man will be sorry he
didn't got another substitute, before
the campaign is ended.
' The cholera and the alarm it creates
grow. Let the sanitary preventives go
along at the same speed.
Ben Butler thought he would .carry
the Democratic convention, and so he
did—for the other candidate.
“Bunme” Chalmers has been nom
inated for Congress by the Republicans
of Mississippi. He goes to the dogs
fast.
The man who loses his watch while
listening to the Salvation army sing,
ought to be run over and trampled by
a calf.
There is a growing disposition in the
State to attack the ‘ court house rings.”
It is not cosy to carry intrenched posi
tions.
The weeping scene between Grady
and Butler, in the last issue of Pwk,
will be heartrending to the “widow”
and the “orphan.”
Tn* Georgia watermelon has created
several cholera panics in New York.
The tme Georgia watermelon is a sly
dog, and full of humor.
A woman is to try and swim the
English channel next week. She
ought to strap a copy of John A.
Logan’s letter about her.
It is no small portion of the glory
of the Republican party that it lias
given to the nation such Presidents as
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses 8. Grant
R. B. Hayes, James A. Garfield and
C. A. Arthur,” shouted A. G. McCook
before an audience of 4,000 Republicans
in New York Tuesday night. Of Lin
coln nothing need be said, but when
the Republican party glories in a Na
tional Roper-in, a National Fraud,
National Hypocrite and a National
Dude, the country is entitled to show
the whites of its eyes.
The Possibilities of Vaoolnatlon.
It is now asserted that a Doctor
Girerd, of Panama, has discovered a
sure preventive of yellow fever. As
usual, the style of procedure is by
vaccination. So completely has the
Doctor’s theory mastered him, that lie
submitted to be vaccinated with yellow
fever virus, how obtaiued not stated,
and suffered only from a slight form of
the disease, the fever being as light
and transient ns the warm tlusli which
surrounds a school girl when she
climbs a fence awkwardly in the pres
ence of a running mate.
Mr. Girerd’a theory is merely an
adaptation of the old proverb that “the
hair of the dog is good for
the bite;" his application
imitation of Jenner, Pasteur, Koch,
Halford and others. Mr. Jenner found
that a weak virus of the proper descrip
tion would ward off small-pox. Mon
sieur Pasteur is confident that virus in
the fourth degree will render the mad
dog comparatively harmless. Dr. Koch
is equally confident that vaccination
will yet conquer Asiatic cholera, and
Prof. Halford, it is stated, by vaccinat
ing a patient with an hypodermic - syr
inge can render him snake proof.
These are facts already before the
people. They are recalled to show the
tendency of modern medical' science,
which proceeds upon the supposition
that a grain of the preventive renders
a pound of the curative unnecessary.
As practice on the vaccination plan
gains favor, we may expect to see all
of the remaining ailments to which
poor humanity is subject brought into
line. The popular physician of the
future will be armed with a box of
lancets, a hypodermic syringe and a
box of assorted virus. With these he
will attack whooping cough, typhoid
fever, ground itch, rheumatism, dys
pepsia, misery-in-the-back, meningetis
and the whole list of annual visitors.
Messrs. Arnold, Constable A Co.
of New York, must make fabulous
profits on their business. Two of their
confidential clerks, Englishmen, have
just been overhauled in heavy 'pecula
tions. One lived at the rate ol thirty
thousand dollars a year, had a palace
to live in, with luxurious surroundings
of all kinds, and bought sixty pounds
of tenderloin beef steak at a time to
feed to his pet dogs. Both of them
stood high in the Sunday-schools a.
the Church of the Holy Trinity.
The now Blaine helmet is steel. Tho
campaign clubs, in securing protection
for their skulls, hope in their choice of
metal to convoy a delicate compliment
to their leader.
The efforts of outside journalists to
edit the Telegraph are amusing. The
esteemed gentleman who conducts the
Eufaula Bulletin, erstwhile our friend
seems to be provoked 1 that he is not al
lowed to spend his surplus time in
making the Telegraph as magnificent
a specimen of journalistic enterprise as
the Bulletin, It is to be regretted
that we cunnot accommodate all of our
friends. But the fact is, the present
force is sufficiently large to worry along
with through the summer. In case of
of emergency we will use the w ires to
summon help.
Miss Hurst's strength is now attrib
uteri to Georgia air and pork. There is
something in this. Home of the strong
est darkies we have ever seen bloomed
ont under this diet.
is now assured. At a meeting of the
executive committee of the Republi
can national convention in New York
on Tuesday, Stephen B. Elkins exhib
ited the plans in detail. Elkins is, as
stated, now the leader of the Blaine
fofbes. He is al|p private secretary to
that candidate and his action may be
taken as indicative of the will of his
master. According to the now leader,
the Republican forces will bo concen
trated in the doubtful States. These
he summed up as New York,
Indiana, Virginia, North. Car
olina and Louisiana. The plan in
New York is to encourage the labor
demonstration against Cleveland, treat
with Tammany and offset the Republi
can bolt with Democratic apathy. This
is the surface work. The inner attack
will be developed later. Indiana's
vote is classed as a question of finance,
and, according to Mr. Elkins, can be
carried on that idea, os in 1880, with
“thorough organisation.” In North
Carolina and Louisiana the protective
tariff as against the alleged tariff for
revenue exclusively and free necessa
ries will be worked with energy. In
Virginia the tariff fight is to be supple
mented with an effort to unite Mahone
with the straightout Republicans.
Such are the preliminary arrange
ments for the battle. Familiarity with
Republican methods leads of course to
the belief tliatjin these States will money
be poured like water. The fight in the
Southern States will lie bitter in all
likelihood, but in New York and In
diana such a struggle will be witnessed
as was never before afforded in an
American Presidential crisis; and as
in 1880, the attack upon Republican
record and methods will be followed by
an attack upon Democratic tariff his
tory that will not end until the votes
are* all in.
The Creelr Expedition
Now that the returns are all in, a
Nor is it to be supposed that so pro-fiance is offered for tho summing up
The Independent Democrats in the
ninth district will not follow Editor
Lawshe into tho Republican camp.
There isn't a redeeming feature in a
lapse in that direction.
Cleveland's term as Governor does
not expire until December, 1885.
Should he be elected President or re
sign as Governor his successor would
be Lieutenant-Governor Hill.
There la no doubt of California being
A wine country. At a late fire in a
village in that State claret was used to
extinguish the flames after the supply
of water had been exhausted.
The highest atmetnre in the world,
the Cologne cathedral excepted, is the
Washington monument, which has
reached an altitude of 488 feet. Cleve
land’s majority is yet to be heard from.
Ir the Republican party can have its
own way about the surplus in the
treasury, it will not last long enough to
trouble anybody. Under the arrears
of pensions act, General 8chenck, who
was in only one skirmish in the late
war, in which he was badly whipped
by General Maxey Gregg, and in
which he received n slight scratch ou
the hand while running away, received
seven thousand dollars. Many others
have received as large and larger
amounts. A few days since the repre
sentatives of a New York soldier, made
insane in consequence of bis wonnds,
were paid $10,231 arrears, which is the
largest sum paid up to this time. It
is said there are a number of other
asel before the jwnsion office not yet
disposed of, which, if allowed, will re
quire sums greater than this. Even at
this late day there seem to be no data
upon which a reasonably correct esti
mate can be made of the final cast of
the arrears of pensions act. Hail the
proposition which lately was under dis
cussion in the Senate become a lnw,
there would have been hundred*
of cases where the arrears claimed
The Tribune ought to proceed slowly
in its abuse of the Houth. A careful
examination of Mr. Blaine’s letter will
disclose the fact that the Plumed
Knight is courting, not coercing, the
South.
would have run not only up to
gressive a science will await the coming
of these annoying and dangerous ills.
Boards of health that compel vaccina-
arrest the career of small
pox can with equal justice
demand that John Smith be rendered
proof against any contagion which may
be temporarily visiting Bill Jones, his
neighbor. The perfection of the sys
tem, it would seem, must be in the era
when a child shall be taken and cate
gorically vaccinated and inoculated
against every inorganic disease from A
to izzard.
The future is bright with hope, and
yet grave doubts intrude. While it
cannot be denied that when the virus
of each ill has been secured and put on
the market men, women and children
will live longer, be happier, make bet
ter citizens and increase the physical
and moral strength of the Union, it must
necessarily appear that to obtain nil
of these, physical beauty will be marr
ed. The nether limbs of our girls will”
lie tattooed like unto the skin of the
Mulligan man, while the arms, and as
space fails, other retired portions of the
boys’ surface anatomy will bo freckled
with the foot-prints of advancing sci
ence. Any person who has calmly
surveyed a vaccination mark must ad
mit that numbers will not pleas
urably increase the scenic effect. In
deed the thought of being stared In
the face duily while engaged la person
al cleansing, by a multitude of white
welts, is enough to discourage tho bath
and thus undo in a great measure the
fine work of the preventive science.
There is one suggestion which
in view of the threatened disfiguration
it would seem, must impress itself at
this period. Let art come to the as
sistance of science. Since wo must
have scars, honorable scars, let them
liecome at the same time decorative.
Let the artist put colors in the virus of
the future and beautify utility. The
field is broad and entrancing, and will
supply many a poor struggling artist
with subsistence, while at the same
time rendering even the cabin of the
day laliorer attractive. Biddy at the
wash tub, with a “God
bless our home!” in three
colors vaccinated into ono arm, and
"Speak Gently” grafted along the
other in blue and gold, would no longer
lie an unwelcome vision. Charlet Au
gustus could be turned loose upon the
The Cincinnati papers find fault with
Cleveland because “ho is not capable
of rising above his party.” And some
of the New York papers find fault with
him because he has so risen. The way
of the politician is hard.
$10,000, but very much in excess of
those figures. Not only with such a
law in operation could all surplus have
been speedily wiped out, but additional
burdens would have been laid upon the
people in the shape of increased taxas
as absolutely necessary to prevent
alarming deficiencies.
Harper’» Weekly lias not justified the
prediction that it would wind up by
supporting the Mulligan-Kuni ticket.
It has come out strongly for Cleveland
and Hendricks. Good for Editor
George William Curtis.
Gillam, Opper, Keppler and Naat
arc very effective “Democratic ora 1
tors.” If they continue their effective
addresses through a few more moons,
there is a strong probability of Candi
date Blaine’s losing his “religion.”
The Stats Fair.
President Livingston tarried long
enough in Macon yestenlay to leave
the news that every indication pointed
to a successful fair this fall. The Press
Association, as wili be see*;, have taken
hold of the matter, anil Thomas county
will come up with a grand display.
Director-General Burke, of the New
Orleans Exposition, has notified his
assistants in the several State* that
the money quota provided for each la
ready. Now let the farmers and peo
ple generally go to work to illustrate
Georgia.
The New York Timet, is an earnest
advocate of Cleveland. The Timet in
1870 first started the charge that Mr.
Tildcn was not elected and followed it
up to the end. Con political honesty
in 1884 have been begot through per
sonal disappointment?
From a dispatch to the Courier-Jour
nal from the Atlanta young man, it
appears that Bryant is to shake the
nigger when be becomes marshal, and
will divide with the Democratlco-Re-
publico Coalition. This may have the
tendency to avoid any little difficulties
about confirmation by the Senate.
Dull Days.
The dull season is clearly upon us.
From all aides comes the cry of hard
times and little money. Persons who
are In a position to know inform us
that never before were so many drafts
sent out for collection returned unpaid.
All that remains to be done is to re
duce expense* as much as possible and
await the coming of the new crop. At
this period everything connected with
the crop prospect seems favorable. A
plenty of com, oats and cotton will pull
this end of the community out of the
depths.
world with a favorite poem versed upon
his legs, and mythology could be ren
dered popular upon the round white
shoulders of Mary Euphrenis. The old
families could hand down their ped
igrees on the surface of each genera
tion, and school boys could be made to
convey great moral lessons when they
bathed in public, by Scriptural quota
tions well displayed. And thus when
art and science have been happily
wedded it must follow that,if evolution
be not a delusion, the dim future
will bring forth a new order of beings,
beside whom the plain white or black
peivm of to-day wilt be a poor creature
indeed.
Rsv. Hennery Ward Beeches de
clare* that he will vote for Cleveland,
Tha Republican Programme.
If any doubts as to the plan of the
Republican Ampaign have heretofore
troubled the people they must have
been dispelled by the reports of the
Blaine ratification meetings in New
York and Boston Tuesday night, and
by the revelations of Stephen B. El
kina, who has charge of the Blaine in
terest*.
Both meetings to which reference is
made were large «n>4 enthusiastic; (he
speakers prominent men. In both the
line of procedure was indicated by at
tacks upon the Democratic tariff legis
lation of last winter, upon the “tariff
for revenue only” of 1880, and upon
the recent tariff plank prepared by the
Chicago convention. Every ef
fort will be made to sub
stitute for the anticipated defensive
warfare, a general and ristained as
sault upon tka tariff record of the
Democrats.
of tho main points of the Greely expe
dition.
Greely left St. John’s, N. F., on a
voyage of discovery for the Arctic re
gions, under an international agree
ment, to establish a cordon about the
Arctic ocean, from which the filial ex
pedition should bo projected. Greely
Succeeded, after many difficulties, in
reaching a position not far from the
entrance to the Arctic ocean on the 4th
of August, 1881, sending back the ship
Proteus, on August 11th. The party
wascomfortably established in a double
frame house, with two years’ provis
ions.
Three efforts were made, under the
direction of the Navy Department, to
nfford tho Greely party relief during the
three years in which they had been
prisoners. The common sense plan
would have been to proceed along the
west coast of the land opposite Green
land, nnd there cache provisions for the
party in case they started southward
upon a home journey. The provisions
should have Ireen cached at every prom
inent cape, especially at Cape Sabine,
oppoaite Littleton Island. Had this
been done, the party would have been
furnished with provisions enough to
have sustained them until recov
ered. Tho government vessels,
however, failed In this respect, and
landed their provisions on the Green
land side of the channel, or suffered
them to sink with the several ships
that from time to tinfe composed the
relief parties.
-Lieutenant Greely, alter waiting two
years for the return of the Froteus, as
promised, started southward along the
westiM-n coast, which may be described
as the far northern extension of
Labrador. This land,called Grinnell’s
Land, finally brought him opposite
the island of Littleton, and the Esqui
maux settlements. Here, without
fire and but little shelter and food, his
party spent lost winter. The channel
which lie expected to cross never be
came solid and, being without boats or
sleds, lie, with bis whole party, was
upon the point of starvation in sight ol
relief when picked up. Nineteen lives
and untold suffering was the result uf
an incompetent Secretary of the Navy,
Lieutenant Greely’* party advanced
four and one-half miles nearer the pole
than any other Arctic explorer,
and made many valuable
scientific observations. This may
bo summed up os the total
benefits of the expedition. About 450
miles yet remained to be traversed be
fore the pole can be reached. Greely,
however, discovered that both Grin
nell’s land and Greenland were nearly
surrounded by water and that an open
Arctic sea lay north of them. Had
they, when this sea was discovered,
been in possession of boats of sufficient
capacity and endurance, it is likely
that they would have steamed directly
to the north centre of the earth.
The expedition, so disastrously end
ed, adds one more to the Arctic trage
dies. With a competent home office,
it would never have ended in gloom.
Republican Tail vi. Republican Head.
John A. Logan has found it necessary
to write a letter of acceptance. He has
also found it necessary to write a long
letter; one almost as long as Mr.
Blaine’s, and it lias been put upon the
country in midsummer.
There is nothing of especial impor
tance in the Logan fulmination. Lo
gan was put up to catch the soldier vote
and appeal to tho military sentimont
of the land. It is a matter of no im
portance what his ideas upon public
questions are. Few people will take
thij trouble to find out, fewer will be
affected by them after the finding. As
a matter of fact Mr. Logan is a mere
nonentity nt present, with the possi
bility of being somebody in the future.
Tho new letter followed closely that
of Blaine. But there is one point in
which they widely differ. Blaine was
rather disposed to flirt with tho South.
He even went so far as to palliate her
alleged offenses and spoke in a most
forgiving nnd encouraging manner of
outrages which, if they existed at all,
were only spasmodic and deprecated by
the whole country. Mr. IJlaine re
membered that lie looked for help in
several Southern States.
Not so with Logan. HU loyalty had
onee been doubted. He could not af
ford t» be magnanimous. For this
reason lie makes a violent assault
upon the South. According to
the testimony of the Republican
Tall, the Southern States are over
whelmingly Republican, but the white
mau’s shot-gun is trained upon tho bal
lot-box with a persistency and a regu
larity that produces Democratic suc
cesses. It is the firm belief of Logan
that the so-called stray bullet, which
always hits a colored man, is one of
the most remarkable teatures of
American politics open for contempla
tion. But why has the Republican
Tail so suddenly developed into a de-
fenderof Sencgambianrights? A flick
ering loyalty, as stated, made him a
blatant patriot when the strong side
became clearly distinguishable. Is the
present love of the negro the outgrowth
of a vunerable record in this depart
ment? Puck so says, and lately fur
nished a cartoon which, could it be
universally circulated, would destroy
even the silent Republican majority
with which Black John has peopled
Southern precincts. Let the colored
people who admire the Republican
Tail, contemplate it. It is founded
upon the following resolution cham
pioned by John A. Logan in tho Illi
nois Legislature, just before tho war
"If a negro, or mulatto, boutl or free, shall
hcrcnltcr come Into this State and remain ten
days, with the evident Intention ol residing In
tho same, every such negro or mulatto shall
ho deemed guilty ol a high misdemeanor, and
lor tho first olTcnso shall be lined the sum of
Ally dollars. If such uegro of mulatto shall
be found guilty, aud the fltto assessed be not
paid forthwith to the justice ol tho peace, the
said justice shall, at public auction, proceed
to sell said negro or mulatto,”
Tito man who is to-day so blatantly
defending the right ol tho poor colored
man to vote In the South, twenty-five
years ago denied him freedom and the
right to lire in Illinois. The patriotism
of Logan and his broad humanltarian-
ism rest upon a craving for office. The
suspect is always the most activo pa
triot when he is within the lines.
sire to make money out of them, and
rejecting the counsels of those who
are their real friends.
In tho same section from which this
doleful account of the watermelon fail
ure comes, some truck farmers alter
last year’s failure said to a member of
the staff of tills journal, “TIioTrlk-
orapii and Messenger was rigtit faun
the first and we arc fully convinced of it,
hut we don’t like it. We want a paper
that tells us lies. It gratifies our self-
love and vanity and soothes the morti
fication of failure.”
Our truck farmers must overcome
suclt pcrvet beitess as this, and put good
judgment along with goodnature into
their business. Whatever measure of
success they may meet will givo us
gratification, and we will be pleased to
make public note of it.
Blaine's Letter of Acceptance
Is longer than any document of the
kind we can now recall. Indeed i n
style, language anti the variety of topics
discussed, it partakes moro of a Presi
dential message than a letter accepting
a nomination.
The Finding of Creetey.
In onr telegraphic column may lie
found the Interesting particulars of the
finding of the survivors of the Greely
expedition.
When the incidents are written ont
in full, the atory will furnish an episode
romantic and tragic.
Every one will feel a genuine pleas
ure that the government has been able
to relieve the men sent on a perilous
mission, and this pleasure will not be
alloyed by the fact that a Southern of
ficer commanded the successful expe
dition. With the last man withdrawn
from the North Pole, we ought to be
content to let the pole alone for the fu-
ture. The wild hunt for it ha* I teen
costly in the way of life and treasure,
and valueless in results.
That this is to be the programme me n.
There is s vast iron, coal, cotton and
sugar section south of the Potomac that
appeals to the. patriotism of Southern
Tha Truck Failure.
When a little more than a year since
wo warned our track (arming friends
against the fancy figures and false
hopes excited by the young man who
'embarrassed by facts,” they be
came indignant, and a small assem
blage ol nondescripts passed a pre
amble and resolutions denouncing this
journal. When the truck failed, itwas
Insisted that mefons would recoup the
losses. When the melons tailed, it
was laid to the credit of a glutted
market. When the season closed and
the losers gathered together and com
pared their empty pocketlmoks and
miseries, they immediately sought
comfort and consolation by denouncing
the Txlegbai'U and Mxhs^curb,
We reproduce in another column an
article from the Valdosta Timet, to
which we invite the attention of our
readers. It is the funeral sermon of
track farming. We are really sorry
that the experiment has resulted so
disastrously but feel that our shoulders
are clear, sinco we gave a timely warn
ing. The short season between Florida
and Charleston and Norfolk where
truck farming has been brought to per
fection, leaves a very precarious mar
gin to the Georgia track farmer. But
the best truck farmer under the best
conditions mnst find his profits In a
home market. There is no money to
a truck farmer In shipping perishable
products hundreds of miles from home.
But there la yet an opening to this in
dustry. The demand for canned fruits
and vegetables has not yet been sup
plied. Indeed the demand for these arti
cles for sea going vessels alone la very
inadequately supplied. Dried fruits are
staple goods just as mncli as cotton
fabrics, and command a steady price in
the markets of the country every day in
the year. Pickles and preserves ore
always saleable. If the track farmers
can get establishments for this business
established in their midat then they
will have a home market and may look
for safe and steady profit*.
We do not think there con ever be
much money in melon-shipping to
Georgia farmers. In the first place
distance, time and freights stand in the
way. In the second place competition
is growing rapidly.
We have eaten as good watermelons
raised in Pennsylvania as we ever
tasted in Georgia. Maryland raises
good ones, so do the Carolina*, Ala
bama, Louiliana, Tegas, Missouri
and Tennessee. But a few days since
we saw a watermelon patch in Indiana
Uiat looked as though it was in Hous
ton county.
And our truck farmer* will never suc
ceed by accepting the exaggerated and
fabulous ejaculations ol parties who de-
Plnntntlon Life "
It is generally supposed by those who have
not chanced to bo made Acquainted with the
facts that the change in the labor system ol
tho South has resulted In quko doing »way
with the old plantation life. To a certain
extent this Is true. In many ol the States the
great tracts ol land formerly worked by single
owners, with slave Isbor, tre now cither lying
idle, with houses gone to ruin, or have been
cut up Into small farms and are being worked
on shares or by negro lessees. In Alabama
the objection to dividing plantations still ex*
1st*, but In Georgia tho system Is that most
commonly in favor. Ucorgta was the first
Democratic Southern State after tho war, and
it if to-day the richest of all the cotton States
and tho fourth In wealth ol all the Southern
States, while It contains more real estate
owned by negroes than any other In the South.
Yet, in Southwestern Georgia, In Sumter
county, an "old-time plantation” of *,'00
acres Is described, run on modern principles
and with scientific farming, where ell the
best elements of ancient Southern plantation
life aro retained, modified only by the • Iffer-
ent relations between employer and employed,
Here are "leagues ol cotton and mips o!
corn," and an acre of corn planted to compete
for the Stato fair premium "is so luxuriant
that at a distance ol twenty steps a man
on horseback Is completely hidden Irom
sight.” Hero tho negro enjoys his sports and
his national customs after the good old South
ern fashion and without tho crack o! the over
seer's lssh. At night ho takes his part in the
"debating society" or dances the "huszard
dance" to the music of oue of those quaint old
melodies that may have bee listened t» In
Central Africa two centuries ago. Here you
have Democratic supremacy pure and simple,
which has overcome tho worst possible oppo
sition of years of Republican misgoveroment,
aud where the negro ia the happiest and the
richest of any o( his race In tho country.
The article quoted above is front the
New York Herald. It was drawn forth
by a bright and pleasing sketch of plan
tation life from the pen of our towns
man, R. Patterson. Esq., lately
published in these columns. It affords
us an apportunity to reiterate what we
have so often said concerning tho con
dition of tho Georgia negro. No race
of people freed from ltondage has ever
attained in twenty years the material
prosperity of tho Southern negro. His
condition to-day is not by any means
nil that can be desired, but in the main
wherever tho negro lias labored faith
fully and proven himself trustworthy,
he lias not only won the esteem of his
neighbors but lias increased his worldly
■tores in many instances to an aston
ishing degree. There is no hatred
of the negro in the South. Wo state it
positively and knowingly. Up to a
certain line tho negro has the best
wishes and can engage assistance of
white friends. Ho may have his
churches, schools, societies, dances,
religion, farms, shops and storehouses.
The law will and does protect him in
the preservation of his life, limb and
property. Beyond a certain line the
negro cannot andean never come. He
was told so in 18U5, he has been told
so every year sinco. He believes it.
There is no law, written or unwritten,
that can break down tho barriers which
nature has erected between the two
races. One or the other may perish,
but mingle socially never.
We say it to the credit of tho black
race, the evidences of a desire to cross
the line are fewer now in the South than
ten years ago. While there is great
idleness and Improvidence among the
negroes, whereby the country is ulllictcd
with consumers who are non-producers,
tho large majority earn their living and
many lay aside for rainy days. The
total valuation of property held by ne
groes in Georgia is in the neighliorhood
of $7,000,000. That this has been ac-
mulated under Democratic suprem
acy is as true as the other fact so tardily
but frankly admitted by the Herald
that here the negro is the happiest and
richest of hi* race in the country.
The South is the home of tho Ameri
can negro, The climate suits him. The
Southern white man has proved him
self the negro’s friend, when every op
portunity has been offered him to be
come a mortal and triumphant enemy.
Under these conditions has tho race
flourished and laid up some prop
erty. But ere long tho arch ene
my of the race, the Repub
lican emissary who desires tc stir np
■edition and discontent, will be abroad
in the land. Will the negro again turn
against his Mentis, unsettle his condi
tion and Imperil his prosperity in a
hopeless straggle for a political party
whose victory would bring him noth
ing? We believe not. One of the
things the negro h*« learned well id
that whenever rewards have been dis
tributed they have been promptly
pocketed by the “leedera,” and the
rank and file have gone back to work
poorer than before.
During the coming campaign, the ne
gro’s place is in the cotton field, the
workshop, or at his task wherever it
be. In this, only, is there money for
him. Very quietly and peacefully, but
none the less surely, the white man
will continue to govern and control the
country he sought out and has de
fended far two hundred years.
Mr- Blaine writes with perspi cuitT
and force, und injects terse argument
into tvliat lie wouldltaveas the leading
issues of the campaign. There can b«
no valid objection found to its temper
Its assertions may not alt be accepted
in the shape lie puts them, and wilt i n
the cottn-e of the camjtaign become tho
subject of discussion on the hunting,
and in the press. **
He Claims everything for tho Repub.
lican party, even the prosperity of Ui«
South. What little prosperity she
njoys has been gathered by her otva
ttdustry anti courage despite the efforts
d Mr. Blaino and his party to degrade
her institutions nnd to humiliate her
people.
The especial prominence given to the
tariff indicates his desire to make this
tho great issue to which all others
shall 1)0 subordinate. Ho will not be
gratified in this, for while the tariff
discussion will play a prominent part'
t'>e record of Mr. Bluino aud his party
will be subjected to a searching acruti-
ny. Those of his former associates
who may become allies of the Demo
cratic parly in this contest are likely to
put him individually under a galling
fire.
He indicates that under certain con
tingencies tho bloody shirt may be
unfurled. Wo do not believe that a
Presidential campaign can occur with
out a liberal dispUy of this banner
when the contest becomes hot and
close. Tho close of this century will
find the embers of tho civil strife
still aglow, and they can be fannltl
into flames by an adroit and unscrupu
lous demagogue. At this distance from
the days of the revolution a slight
cause is sufficient, to array the Amer
ican mind and heart against the people
of Great Britian. It is not expected
of the South that site shall take an ac
tivo and noisy part in the contest. She
must stand as a reset ve force to give
moral support to her friends who will
form tho "perilous edge of battle” in
tho doubtful States. Even to the vet
erans, the hardest duty is to stand un
der fire and not return it. Much de
pend upon the temper and expression
of the South as to whether the bloody
shirt shall bo w aved to rally tho wav
ering legions of the North.
CEORCIA PRESS POINTS.
When Albany gets her two daily paper*,
there will be danger of her people’s becom
ing proud.
Tbs Cartersville papers are at war over
the legal a iTertlaomeiiti. Too hot for that
sort of business, boys.
Tu* boys of the Preee Association didn't
keep cool In Atlanta on yesterday, but It
was no fault ol theirs.
AwiitsbIu the Butler Hr raid strongly
Indorses tbe candidacy of Col. H. R. Har
ris for Congress. So far, the Indications
all point to bis nomination.
Tits man who believes health, happiness
and good humor are incompatible with od-
itorial life, has only to make an Inspection
of Editor Mumford to be convinced of his
error.
Tna contest In the fifth Congressional
district is not yet settled, but Captain Jack-
son Is unmistakably far in the lead, at this
writing. Tbe fleetest runner Is entitled to
the stake*.
Congressman Candles seems to be prac
tically solid with tbe Democrats in the
ninth district. There will be no occasion
for him to us* the little hatchet with which
hp laid ont young Mr. Speer.
'Upson will name the candidate In the
twenty-fifth Senatorial district, composed
of the counties of Harris, Upeon and Tal
bot. The convention will meet at Talbot-
ton on the 2d day of September.’
Cam. Fbank Rice, of Atlanta, Is an
nounced as a candidate for the Senator-
ship in the thirty-fifth district. Clayton
and Cobb don’t seem to have any “time.”
Rotation In the thirty-fifth district rotate*
within the boundaries of Fulton.
An effort will be made to lure the Geor
gia editor, into the far famed cave, of
Luray, bat it will npteaoceed. They re
member the fable of Cacue and Hercules,
aud tbe tracks of the bovine* going Into
the care, with no track leading ont.
Tbe executive committee of the second
Congressional district will meet in Albtny
on fits 29th instant., to determine on the
time for holding the nominating conven
tion, and the place at which It will be held.
Titer* Is no opposition in the district to
Congressman Turner.
Tax Thirty-Sixth Senatorial district
is made ud of Campbell. CSweta, Douglass
and Meriwether counties. Tho district
convention will be held fn Kewnan on the
3rd of September. Captain L. It. Ray is a
candidate for tbe nomination, an-1 will
probably be tbe choice of the convention.
The wise candidate never inis-*-, a bar
becue, as has been remarked. He may
miss a nomination—he may even make a
misaof Heaven; bat wheresoever tbe vo
ter* and the smoking carcasses are, there
will the candidate he also. He U right
about it. There ts nothing like being socia
ble.
Tax Senatorial contest In the 20th dis
trict—mode tin nf RaMwts, Hancock and
Washington counties. Is waxing warm. It
is Hancock’s time to name the candidate,
and the contest is In that coanty, between
Messrs. W. J. Northen and John L. Cul
ver. Tbe district will get a good Senator
in any event.
It ia claimed that digging potatoes
produces a disease called “neuroeia of
tho locomotor apparatus of the feet and
legs.” The best way to avoid the
disease ia to dry-dock your own locomo
tor apparatus in a hammock and gat
tome one else to dig the potatoes.
A Wonderful Di
i and All
•rj*
er froi
Const
any aflt
tin-1 ncertain cur** .:i K:np i.-w ,lu
#-r> for ion- j nipt Hi :»in.Is .
permanent cures verify tit** truth of thi
•tatement. So m-tticine can -how inch ,
record of wonderful cures. Tho’.u&ndi c
once bopele sufferer* now grate! .ily pre
they owe their ttvet to tiiii
r. It
“War,” Bhonta Rev. Hennery Ward
Beecher from thl pulpit, “ha* the Re
publican party, after twenty years of
power, never lost iu good name?"
Possibly, Hennery, dear, the Repub
lican party never had A good name to
lose.
covery.
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