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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1884. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Daily and Weekly. ThkWrkkly Ik mailed to Bubkcrlbera, pos tage free, at It SO a year. 76c. (or itx months. To clubs of five $1.25 a year, and to clubs of tea $1 per year, and an extra copy to getter up 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- turners., .it club of live or leu. trims lent onverttsesnenta will be Lken for ne Daily .t 1 per squire of ten Hues or less tl per i'inere for esch Insertion. L'berjll rates to contractors. Keleeted communications will not be re nted. •’orreepondence containing Important news V ltsnusslons of living topics, ts solicited, -it must be brief and written upon but one side of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Honey Order or Registered Letter. Agents wanted in every community lo the State, to whom liberal commissions will be 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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