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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,188-1. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally and Weekly. Weekly fa mailed to nibicrlbera, pea tage Iroe, at J1 SOayear. 75c. (orslx month;. To clubs of Are $L2a a year, and to clubs of ten II per year, and an extra copy to getter up ef club of five or ten. •t ransient advertisements will be taken for ne DiUY at-l per square of ten lines or less forthe first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion; and for the Weekly at |1 per square for each Insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Rejected communications will not be re- rned. s’orrasDondencc containing Important news n' discussions of living topics, Is solicited, ■.at .oust be brief and written upon but one side of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. Agents wanted tn every community In the Bttta to whom liberal commissions will be paid. Postmasters are especially requested to write for terms. All communications should be addressed to finjnex Is not only “the ornament of the ignorant," but the refuge of the guilty. %Eanrtu.E has no csts. This Is fortu nate, for people who live and die in their boots hnve no bootjacks bandy. The French general who got whipped by the Chinese has received the additional mortification of governmental censure, One of our exchanges describes the model husband. There can beno model husband until the wife la cot upon a universal pat tern. Captain Mekby's report of the sink ing of the Tallapoosa renders a court- martial imperative. The scandal-mongering part of the campaign is about over. The tariff' is being brought to the front. Because Colonel Ira Jennings can afford to sacrifice eleven sheep, our representatives that are to be, may not be excused from making a holocaust of the "curs of high and low degree.” The popular idea that it is no sin to cheat the government is as old as the Spartan belief that thesinof thiev ing lay in detection. We differ from the Spartans, however, in that we have a Canada near at hand. Plain Positions on Vital Issues. I Blthon Oeorae F. Pierce. All government expenditures should | At any time within the past several be met with revenues derived from years the death of Bishop Pierce would The drouth, is broken in Virginia, and as we write the Bigns ail betoken a decided change of weather in this lo cality. About this date in 1881 occurred the fearful storm off the seacoast of Georgia which was destructive to hu man life and property. A man, while eating with his knife, r ,-ccived a blow from his angry wile, ■with whom ho had been quarreling, and nearly cut his tongue out. II he had been eating with hit fork, the tinea would have gone through his neck. Never eat with your fork when quar reling. The Savannah Morning AVtca thus Tebukes the previousness of its Macon correspondent: "Our Macon corres pondent apparently got matters a little mixed in speaking of the Telegraph and Messenger's Republican proclivi ties. What he probably meant was that it doesn't take kindly toCleveland, It ia hardly among the probabilities that our contemporary intends to give any aid to the Blaino canvass." These ia much interest in the (act that the Wsahingtonmonnment, whicli baa been about thirty-five years in course of erection, hssatlsst reached a stage where the workmen upon the upper tiers labor os a building further from the ground than ever before re corded in the history of tho world, butterfly, whose life is compassed in a week, one of nature's frailest works, can lift itself in a few minutes out of sight above man’s tallest structure. Let us not be vain. An esteemod patron, w-lio ia not in politics and who will not be, a gen tleman whose judgment and opin ion are standard in this commu nity, in a communication over tho signature of "Justice” in another col umn, takes occasion to say some kind and encouraging words to the Tele graph and Messenger. While we have no fears of our capacity to suc cessfully meet and stop the malignant attempts to misrepresent and injure this journal, we are not insensible to this kind and timely expression. ■A bboad and liberal view of the uses of the Sabbath day must include plen ty of rest and harmless recreation. It will be unfortunate, however, it corpo rations shall so encroach upon the day as to deprive,.under the plea of neces sity, any considerable portion of the la boring people ol rest. Let the great wheels of business sleep on Sunday and the fires be hanked. The human frame will be better for it, and so will posterity. Nature demands that the bhdy should have regular periods ol rest, and people who oliey noother, will do well to consider obedience ol na ture's laws as the best substitute for religion. duties on imports. These should be so distributed ns to protect American products and Ameri can labor. The governments of the States are maintained by direct taxation. This is jiaid by the people oi this country. We are opposed to direct taxation by the Federal government in the interest of foreign producers. If they have the privileges of our markets they should pay the Federal taxes. So think all the people of all the States. So think the great majority of the Democratic pat%-. » Internal revenue taxes are direct taxes. They are so defined by the Demo cratic platform adopted at Chicago. We are in favor of wiping the last vestige ol the internal revenue laws from the Federal statute books. So are a great majority ol the people of the United States. So are a great majority of the Democratic party. So are the people of Georgia. These are the doctrines we have ad vocated for years. Upon their plain and unequivocal enunciation by the national Democracy at its convention this year, and the nomination of a candidate for the Pres idency whose position upon these ques tions would have given pledge of the party’s purpose to adhere to its plat form, we believed the success of the party depended. The platform is not clear upon either of these propositions. The men who framed it cannot agree as to what it means. Governor Cleveland failed in his letter of acceptance to place himself upon record by a plain and courageous interpretation oi its meaning. We regard the doubtful teachings of the platform and the silence of Gov ernor Cleveland upon these points as very damaging to his prospects ol elec tion, We shall vote for him on the present platform as a matter of duty .Because the supremacy of the white race is the para mount question to the people of the Southern States, and because the Dem ocratic party is the white man's party. We should have voted for Thur man, Randall, Field or Bayard with hope upon the platform upon which Gov. Cleveland was nominated. We would have voted for either of them, or for Cleveland, with confi dence upon sach a platform as we have indicated as embodying our views and, as we believe, those ol the Democracy of the Union, as well the majority of the people embraced in other parties. We challenge open and fair criticism of these positions, and stand ready, in a spirit of fair discussion, to maintain them against all comers. They embody our judgment of govermental policy, as well as oi the questions upon which tlie pending Presidential contest will be determined. They have been maintained since the Telegraph has been under its present management. We challenge the proof of its columns to sustain the assertion. These positions are known to ail of its readers, of sufficient intelligence to comprehend tho plainest English we can command. • Wc cannot he driven from those po sitions by the braying of an ass in a lion's skin, or the prcconcetted howls of a lot of political “cut-purses.” . We have fought within the party for the principles we believed must under lie a sound, industrial and coonomic administration, aud the policy essential, in our judgment, to Democratic success. The man who charges us with want of fidelity to the party, or any purpose to abandon the fight with in its lines, or to make it or assist in making it elsewhere, willfully, mali ciously and deliberately lies. We make this statement to every man who has directly or indirectly made such a charge. have been received with no surprise. The announcement that the end came on yesterday will carry with it pro found sorrow to all classes and creeds in tills State, and to multitudes beyond its borders, for his character and ser vices had home his fame abroad, and his daily walk had clustered about him the respect of all, and the love and con fidence of his people. For near half a century he had been a towering figure in the religious organization of which lie was one of the distinguished heads, and in the daily history of Georgia. Possessed of n commanding person, a ripe scholarship, a handsome and Tree Planting; I capitol, a school of technology nnd a A man out of office cannot serve his department of geology under such ad- country more profitably between times ministration. Her great and hidden than by planting trees. Those who resources cannot he developed go long Iiavo ground should belt it with trees, as site is a borrower to meet her honest which add to the beauty of the lands- obligations; and tho present state of cape, induce rain, furnislt shade, lessen affairs are likely to continuo until men heat and supply posterity with tim- are sent to tho Legislature who are not her. Plant trees, and take care of afraid to pass laws for the valuation them after they have been planted. aud assessment of property that will The importance of this duty, for duty largely add to her yearly revenue. it is, has impressed itself upon but - few men. Not one of a hundred Th * Con *" ,!U ' ,m of Ceneral Toomb »' amongst our landholders has ever A -correspondent of tho Memphis Ap- given it a thought; yet each 111 J urn 8 un *> a General demands in some form, a portion of the L ' Walker to that journal, writes: 1 Fifteen years ago General Walker gave a forests. They live in houses use fur- ‘moan'd^r.tn”ryTm, Set nituro, ride in vehicles and handle meeting the night before Fort Sumter wai utensils which this demand caused to bombarded, and in teat conversation paid a winning face, joined to an enthusiastic he removed from the earth as trees. h **? co “ ,,11 “ cnt l0 , < i* ner “ 1 ,T? < ^ m , b, ' temperament and rare qualities of ora- For those who own lands all the world ^tuMtS%IohnU^oro^^hr«Im!l^.’ tory, lie might easily have reached the labors in one way or another to supply walker said he paced the floor ilka a caged highest pinnacle of political honors. them with food, raiment, the necessa- lion, and suddenly straightening himself up But putting aside the promptings of ties and the comforts of life. The idle * 11 hl * P h r»ic»l »ud intellectual grandeur, earthly ambition, ho devoted the efforts land is silent machinery giving nothing youTpll^ Ld reflect^beforyou gTvTan in return. It is easy to understand that I order which will shake the confluent aud of a life to the service of his fellow- men. As a teacher, a preacher, a bishop, his public work was ably and conscientiously dope. Nobody but himself and his Maker know how much good he has accomplished as a citizen, a friend and counsellor. No question that concerned the wel fare of his State and people failed to receive the earnest consideration of his inquiring mind and judicial spirit, and while eschewing the vulgar ways of politics, he managed to throw a strong and guiding light upon the troublous questions that followed the overthrow, of the social and political conditions of a great section of the country. But a few months since he promised to prepare lor this journal a series of papers upon the proposed higher edu cation of the lately enfranchised race. Duties and feeble health perhaps pre vented the inception of the work. The people of Georgia will join ns in the r^ gret that death bos prevented its con? pletion. The secular press, busied with the stirring incidents of the day, cannot do more than to point to the great example oi this man’s life, and to express a common grief at his death. To his co- laborers must be left the melancholy pleasure of suitably embalming his name and fame. We were present at tho General Con ference in 1834 that conferred upon him the office of bishop, that lie has worn so grandly and worthily these many years, and frequently since upon great occasions we have been ono of the manv entranced listeners to his witching ora tory. A Georgian ourselves, we have watched with pride his goings in and comings out about his daily duty, aud while not inclined to his religions tenets, it affords us pleasure to put on record that we have not known an humbler, truer man and a more power ful nnd eloquent preacher. To his church, beset to some extent by the restless spirit oi change and the threats of new doctrines,the loss o£this man,whoclung with fervor and faith to the landmarks, is irreparable. To-morrow, and in the bosom of Georgia, will he laid all that remains of a son, who through aiongand event ful life often gave her cause for pride and joy, and never once for regret or shame. The New Yolk Journal oj Comtnerce concludes an able editorial on the working men with these pregnant sen tences: “The best triends ol ‘laboring men’are their employers. Their worst enemies are the politicians. The very men who are now counselling them to make trouble would not give them dime apiece to save them from starva tion, except in payment (or votes. The politician will never do anything, even in the indirect farm of legislation, to benefit the class in whose behalf he has so much to say before election. If tlie workers oi America listen to his siren voice they are sure to be cheated. The loss will be theirs and the gain his, and ts t!>is role there is no exception. They might as well expect to make money out of a three-card monte man or a banco steerer as to reap any real ad vantage from association with the pol itician. Cold Water vs. Common 8«nso. The Macon Ttuoiura and Messenoer continues to throw,cold water on the nomina tion ot Cleveland anJ Hendricks, This is irom the Mid'Ue Giorgio. Tir.re. movements The Tima U simply wrong. The Tel- eobapu would be delighted to see the South make fifteen million bales of cot ton and get twenty-five cents per pound or it. Bat that ia no reason why it should fail to show that the Ironth wss affecting the crop in one sec tion and the caterpillar wss busy in an other. Nor is it a good - reason why it ahoild fail to point oat how the visible snpply and surplus of goods may affect the price. It constant applause, wild prophecies and an increasing hubbub could elect Mr. Cleveland there would be some sense In them, but they will not. All the tiapers in Georgia, devot ing every inch of their columns to applause (or Cleveland from now until November, could not affect an electoral vote. No man has ever l»cen elected President by such methods. Is itiiot more sensible to watch and discuss the causes which operate for and against our candidate, thus paving the way for future success with knowledge gained from experience? Is it treason to dis cuss tlie campaign coolly? Is it Re publicanism to publish the news? Sand (or Spaolman Copies. The Democratic paper that persistently searches for and publishes opinions scale at the Democratic nominee (or President, labo riously brings In, editorially, taiucs foreign to the campaign, and i-ontluuously condemns the Democratic platform and tho letter ol the Democratic nominee, It s Democratic journal only tn name. • • • • • Many of the editorials and qnoted opinions recently published tn the Macon Telegraph and Messenger arc at strong and probably etTecilre Republican campaign documents as any we have teen alnca tbe lata Chicago con ventions. All ol which la from the Ifouilon Home Journal. The TKLEonAfti is con ducted as a daily; it has an extensive news service,cheap telegraph rates and an army of correspondents. It has upon its exchange list the best and wisest journals of the North, East and West, and is daily in communication with I men who give directions to political Its editors and owners are life-long Democrats, working in thorough accord. The Journal’) opin ions or the opinions it expresses will not stampede our force, nor alter the papers course. This will appear singu lar, and, perhaps the Journal may not believe it, bnt it is none tlie less true. Improbable as it may seem tlie Tel egraph does not consider the Journal exactly a safe guide to anything, un less possibly to lnnacy. Furthermore, the price cf tlie Tel egraph will remain the same. Daily, $10 peryear; Weekly, $1.50. Send fpr specimen copies. there must, some day, be an end to a drench tho land in blood.” source that is never replenished. There ie no reason to doubt the cor It must appear that beneath the tre- redness of this statement. Those who mendous strain upon them from with- have not seen General Toombs in coun- out and within, the forests of the cil can form no estimate of his wisdom Soutli will soon go down. Where now and conservatism. Judge Martin J. are spread the great cotton and grain Crawford, late of our Supreme Court, fields of Georgia, Alabama and Mis- has often observed to the writer that sissippi, where stretch their railroads General Toombs was the safest coun- and lie their cities, towns, villages aud sellor he had ever known. This judg- hamlets, a little more than half a cen- ment will no doubt be indorsed by tury since were forests almost unbro- many Georgians. His professional and ken. The demand for timber now, financial success goes to establish the timber and hard woods of every de- ] claim, scription, is as powerful an enemy to When not engaged in matters oi mo tile remainder ol these forests as was ment, the exuberant, intellectual en- the settler’s clearing axe. Under the ergy ol General Toombs hursts forth in influence of these two causes they extravagant, picturesque and epigram- must soon pass away. matic declarations that convey to the Plant trees and plant them well. Nor listener tlie impression that his impet- is it wise to confine yonrself to one or uosity of temperament overrules his two varieties. If you have any worn- judgment, out fields,sowtkemoutin acorns. Time It is unfortunate for General Toombs will come when tho production of tim- and for many of the younger men of her and the reclamation oi the land will this State, that they have seen only he a source ol profit to your posterity, this one side of this many-sided man Add to the beauty and consequently the I He was ono of the leading spirits in the value of your place with trees. There I formation of the Confederate govern- may lie arranged a crab apple hedge, I ment, and both in the Congress and with its auroral blooms skirting your cabinet his opinions were received with fields like near rainbows. You may great weight. Upon tlie formation of have around your lots and postures with- the permanent government, great re- out cost, quick growing chinas, fur- gret was expressed at his declination to nishing shade for stock, and the accept a Senatorsliip, the disappoint- hardest wood of rapid growth ment ol Hon. R. M. T. Hunter being known to cabinet makets; wood, by I deep and strong, the way, which makes handsome fur* I His influence was marked upon the niture, and furniture that is bug and I provisional Congress of which ho was Insect proof. Again, you may have I a member. The records ol this body hedges of mock orange, as in Alabama, I nnd the history ol the civil side ol blocking oat tho fields, furnishing I the Confederacy, lie in tho War De- shade, adding wonderfully to the cheer-1 partment at Washington, untouched fulnets of your landscape, and furnish-1 the appropriation for publishing battle ing, when desired, a wood for which reports not covering these papers. But there are many uses. Persimmon is their publication would give hut one of the most valuable of woods, and I skeleton. Tho great debates upon tlie the tree gives fruit from which may pe formation of the government and the made a drink superior to chum- raising of its armies and forming its pagne in flavor, and producing financial policy linger only in the mem- bad effects; fruit which, il ories of the few survivors of tho first not utilized otherwise, is eagerly Congress. There was but one cou.pe- sought .after by swino. Dogwood, tent atenographer within the bounds of whose early blossoms make tlie fisher- the Confederacy, a Mr. Kean, whose man’s pulse beat faster, and brighten I work in reporting the proceedings of our spring woods, is also in body valu-1 the Virginia convention stands without able for the manufacture of many hard a rival. Ho might have reported the articles. The oak, hickory, scaly hark, debates and at ono time it was so order- poplar, birch and gum are too well ed, but the resolution was rescinded known to need comment. within a few days, on the score of econ- There is, besides, a largo family of omy and In tho Interests of secrecy nut-boaring trees which will flourish Mr. Toombs, then iu tho prime of upon the hill sides and along the water physical and intellectual manhood, courses, and which will repay all the boro a prominent part in the dclibera- at tent ion bestowed upon them, tions. Amongst these are the pecan and ha- We recall some speeches of his ze l, which, if reproduced, would establish It is hard to Induce Americans to fol- 1,18 ™P“tation for conservative states- low any course that does not promise manshlp beyond any of hia previous or an early profit. Speculation has only a *® r effort *. its centre on Wall street; Its arms are One was on the salaries of officials, Fait* In Ever/ Eespect. Mr. Sidney LewU ha* retired from tbe e«Ut' orial tuff of the Macon Telegraph, and It Is ftld that bis retirement is due to tbe fact that be was not in sympathy with the political tons of tbe paper, which has manifested some very strong Republican proclivities of late.—Alba* ny Xews. It seems that in connection with the fact of Mr. Lewis' retirement the AV >u has seen fit to state that the Tele graph “has manifested some very strong Republican proclivities of late." The charge is false in every respect, malicious, and designed to injure this joorasl. Thk first effect of tbe reuniting of tbe whisky pool wss to sdrsace the price. Where tho Difference Lies. We are glad to And in the "great and goo*}” Telegraph amd MC5IF.nokr ol Tuesday last, a paragraph advising Democrats to vote for Cleveland and Hendricks in November. This good advice is given to one of its old subscrib ers and an honored cltlxen of Georgia, who has been a life-long Democrat, who was befud dled as to the position of the "great and good, 1 and in doubt as to how iu editor Intended to vote. While we are glad to know that the ed itor of the Tclcoeapb will vote right, wc claim that he owes us an apology, if be would treat bts renders impartially. We, just like his old and honored subscriber, were confused ss to tbe position of tbe Teleorapii, and for in dulging in a bit of criticism and expressing doubt as to bis Democratic fealty, be threat ened to pack bis duds snd tool chest and come over L> Eufauls and trepan oar head. Why did be not go for the subscriber as be did for this doubting Thomas?—Eufaula Bulletin. Tlie “old subscriber” was not con futed by anything that appeared in this jonmal, but by the malicious lies circulated by a few of its contempora ries. A fall and polite explanation was made him because he was entitled to and could understand it. Such an an swer was not male to the editor of the Bulletin, because nothing short of a trepanning operation coaid have gotten it into hi* head, and it would not even then have affected his coarse. stretched through every division of la- » notlier UB °“ rai,ln 8° ml bor. Slow increase in the value oI «nny, another on the military blU to land for fifteen or twenty years “ ect tb ° ex “' enc >; of the retirement of is not attractive. Yet in this ' he twelve months' troops, and the las alow increase there is safety, and in and greatest upon the resolution grant- the accruing value there is n provision tho M 0, ‘ he «OTenunent to cotton for our children. After all, do wc se- planters or the purchase o all cotton cure at any busine« much more thsn by the Confederate authorities Tbe first was in strong contrast to his efforts In the constitutional convert C.orala Finances. I tion of Georgia. The credit of tho State of Georgia is In the second he urged the putting of first-class. Her taxable property ia 150.000 troops in the field and millions large and rich, yet there seems to be <“ the treasury at once. In the third some faulty management as to her be overthrew and rooted Mr. Benjamin monetary affairs. The last Legislature in debate, who, as a cabinet officer, made no appropriation for the interest ‘ben Secretory of War, defended the falling due on bonds on the 1st of July; administration budget. In a speech ol so tlie State had to become a borrower ball an hour he so effectually killed tlie in the markets in the midst of n pecu- “‘ton purchase scheme that the Hon. niary panic. It will not be forgotten I Walker Brooke, its patron,' never at- that her efforts to borrow money in tempted to resuscitate it. New York, the financial centre, were Jbose were stormy days, when pas- unsuccesstul, snd but for assistance of 8 ' 0n * ran high and judgment was ham- railroad corporations and citizens of l*”*! by resentment; but General capitol tlie State would have been Toombs was a conservator and stood in defanit. These are cold facto, by the fundamental principles of gov- and as warm os the weather is, they I erument. are very far from being comfortable General Walker’s brother, Bichard, ones. Within a few days the chief w »» “ member of the permanent Con executive has levied an additional tax, I?"**, and by his wisdom and persever- but the returns from this will not be ance onr P*°P'6 were saved much available for some time to come. A | trouble, in that ho contrived to make a careful reading of the letter of our At- confiscation act one of sequestration lanto correspondent in Wednesday’s | on 'j • issue will be sufficient to convince any one timt Georgia will soon have to be-1 w , htw bMD uUd ^ , pfomln , B , cU i OT came a borrower again. Such a con-1 of Kastman whether or not tbe Muon Tele Sale of Government Property In the South. The Chronicle and Conslitutionalitt is disposed to find fault with Hon. Sea born Reese, that on his motion the provision to sell the Augusta arsenal was stricken from tho sundry civil bill at tlie last session of Congress. The complaint is not just. Augusta desires tho site of the arsenal for a summer hotel, for which it is admira bly suited, but many sites for a sum mer hotel may be found on the hills encircling Augusta. The United States government has some military posts in the South that it should dispose of, now that tho South is no longer on the frontier. The fact is that there is a disposition upon the part of the government to sell off its posts in the South. The Secretary of the Navy recommended to the pres ent Congress the closing of all Southern navy yards. The North has reaped immense advantages from the government works in her midst. Everything appertaining to the army and navy is made at the North. The advantage of having these manufac tories there caimot he overestimated. They add to industry, population and wealth. And in this respect the gov ernment seems disposed to neglect the South, and some of our people appear indisposed to resent the neglect. The inhabitants of Southern seaports only know that we have a navy from hear say. Tho writer during the last thirty-five years has frequently visited the ports of Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans, and with the exception of some moni tors in the Savannah river, for the pur pose of removing barnacles from their bottoms, wo hove never seen the flag of the United States flying from a war vessel in either of these harbors. This is an apt illustration of the studied neglect of tho South in this respect by the general government. Our people, after their experience witli tlie army during reconstruction, do not desire the presence of garrisons. Tlie day lias long since passed when the uniform of the army was the badge of a gentleman and a passport to every home. While these garrisons might spend a considerable amount of money this could not compensate for the many and patent disagreeable disadvantages that accompany them. It was proper to sell the Savannah barracks, situated in the heart ol a city. But it is differ ent with the Augusta arsenal. .Here is high locality, with incomparable health, situated near a largo manufac turing city in the heart of the South, with a network ol railways leading to cheap coal and iron. It is within easy reach ol a country abounding in the finest timbers of all kinds. No better place could be found for the establish ment of a government foundry, powder mill and a manufactory ol arms and ordnance stores. Such an establish ment would add to the in dustries ol Augusta and Georgia and our people would reap some bene fit from its establishment. At pres ent oar coast is bare oi forts, light houses, and fife saving stations ns com pared with that ol the North. The latter section Is smart enough to secure everything that tho government hss to dispose of. Let us learn a little wisdom and not only reach out after our pro portionate share, but insist upon jhav- ing it. The action ot Congressman Reese we consider eminently wise. It Is the misfortune of the South that she does not have more Congressmen as alive to her material interests. Whilo the South has been splitting hairs over con stitutional abstractions, tlie North lias been filling her own pockets. Nona So Blind as the Wilful. dition of affairs suggests indifference or nuxrn is a Democratic or Republican sheet, incompetency upon the part of the I eendldlx confess that wt don t know. As , . . . * _| ,Jv* . . »news journal the Telkoeani la second to Legislature. The obligation* of the u prcuDt , u political state baa the State are clearly set forth in the admi- eppe.ranee ol being very uncertain, as he rable report of the present treasurer, *r. Cleveland end Mr. Blaine.-Eaat- and a reading will inform any .. , .. _. one when these obligations the editor of the T.me, state. Iiecome due. The (allure to provide '**"'““* tl “ Poetical standing of the for their payment is unfate T,LMM ™ ta u nln »'“d he knows it; to the creditor Ltd unjust tothe State. £ he j* l “ c *P a J* le of ^"tanding the The only reasonable hypothesis upon ** fc "* Iu,h the { >a P CT <»» command, which this neglect or indifference can ™ cre „ hM l " c , ver £ W ?. rJ J ul , V0c8 be satisfactorily accounted for is the 'H- Blaine in the editorial col- prevailing spirit of parsimony whkh anins of the paper; bat, with a clear- was the inspiration of our present h 6 ** only lho,e who wooU 1,01 htve abominable constitution. GeorSa^- Wled to p,rce,r *'“ ^ ,rom time to not progress with a lot of charing I <)uty of .11 Demo- statesmen who hope to reap farther cr *** n the coming election. political honors upon their records for j Gix. Feexox; favors Blalnr. It Is tbe economy. She will not have a oewj same eld stoiy of the fox and the trap. His Vlca-Eicaiianor. The thought that in some careless moment tlie President of these itnited States might be jerked out of a canoe by n twelve-pound boss, blown up by an experimental torpedo or fatally shot with the regulation blank cartridge has been a source ot inexpressible anxiety to those of our fellow citizens to whom the sight of tho executive pants are dear, or to whom the death ot the only remaiulng hero of the ticket ot 1880 means anarchy. We are pleased to Btate, however, that it has been demon strated that the Executive's lavender pants sit not ungracefully upon the nether limbs of tho Hon. Alec Powell, who fills the responsible position of White House valet. Indeed, it is understood that Mr. Powell, long may he live, would scarcely (eel the shock of change should he some day thrust his distinguished legs through the Presidential pantaloons into the executive shoes, and draw over his manly back tlie Commander-in-chief's best broadcloth Prince Albert. Nor is Mr. Powell wanting in tlie grace and expression befitting his high position and -its possibilities. Re cently he hid occasion in common with other high figures of the upper fashionable Washington circles to visit the Catskills. The President himself was of tlie party and they were hand somely entertained by General and Mrs. Sharpe at Kingston. Wbst sen timents the President expressed in re turn (or the warm welcome extended j will perhaps never be known. It it possible that none were expressed, since Mr. Arthur, in the fishing sea son, is a hard working man. But Mr. PoweU was not slow to demonstrate how well fitted he is for any position of honor. His note to the host and hostess is unexcelled by anything of the kind on record. It reads as fol lows: heart, rises up as we read It j, „ pleasure we turn from the hollow mock cry of fashion to contemplate this bit of courtliness and good breeding i, well known that “no man ia a iiero to his valet;” Mr. Powell bids fair to demonstrate that beside his cxecu tive master a valet may be a real tout' tier. If the hand of fate should render vacant the Presidential chair, whvmav not Mr. Powell finish out the term, nor force tho country to mix with the reg ular contest an unseemly wrangle over its few remaining days ? A few lessons with the fishing tackle at hand and the distinguished wardrobe Mr. Arthur has accumulated, united with natural po- liteness, ought to make of Mr. Powell s President fully up to tho modern stand- ard. A Seashore Idyl. A little hit of old-time romance and heart history has intruded itself upon the worldly people who follow fashion s follies along the summer coasts of Jet- sey. The hero of the romance is Cap tain Mike Bradford, of the life-saving service, and the heroine the beautiful seventeen-ycar-old daughter of a wealthy Quaker of Philadelphia. Last summer, so thd story goes, the fair maiden, while bathing, was swept by the under-current far out to sea, but not to drown, ns the terrified spectators believed. Tlie gallant captain before mentioned plunged in to tlie rescue, aud , breasting the waves with mighty strokes of his strong limbe, reached her side just os old Father Neptune’s eager fingers were wreathed amongst tho tangled curls. The gods smiled upon mortal heroism as of old, and in the struggle for pos session that followed bore up tho hu man hero until the shores received him safe again. And the gods Kid goddesses, big, little and interme diate, including Cupid, smiled upon the couple ashore so forcibly that Hymen felt authorized to light his torch. And better still, they sosheset the old Qua ker himself that to his great surprise he found himself able to contemplate the blazing torch without a blink of his honest eyes. This is the story of the season.. Re porters laugh at but dwell upon it, men of business hear it out nor scoff, but tlie old dames and grandpas sit amidst their satin and laces, jumpers, broadcloth and chokers and whisj-er it to each other; tell it in fact with many quaint little quaver in their voices nnd a happy little mist between them and the sparkling sea. They remem ber, and they have time to remember, how along thoso self-same lands in the merry yesterday they walked and sang and kissed and romanced the summer away, just like the young fools of the now age, though they do not think that; how feminine terrors found voice among tlie breakers. and manly arms upheld, just as they did in ti, new but solf-samo story with Its spice of danger; and how tlio day - were all sunshine and sealiglit, songs and smiles. Thus do they live it over, un til the gong sounds. Ono touch <A memory and the dinner gong prove all the work! akin.* Backlns'tha “Telearnph and M•••ena•r.• We give tho following extract from* letter received from a distant part of tin State, in regard to the coui.-e of thia journal: "Although some may onrosc the course of the TRLEf.ftAIMI AND MeASKXMIR SS t+ p.irvis the present President.al ticket, all candid thinking men cannot but lulmireitt (earless honesty. Any one who will reflect non the late Chicago convention and who ill, after such reflection, expre*"* bis can did opinion, must admit that it made a grievous mistake and was carried away by caufelr-i enthusiasm, and we are now reaping the fruits of that error. It la idle to undertake to awake any enthusiasm over the ticket in the .Somb. Tbe carrying of Georgia is a foregone ooodeflon, anil il ih* !'• !!!••< ra< y No:an I in tin* t.'o.irii doubtful Southern Matt - will do as wel we can dispense with tlie wh doping part of the programme, whicli some editor s seem to think sadi an essential part of this cam paign.” id yoo: Thousands Say So. Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan "I never hesitate to reromui* Electrtc Bitters to my custom give entire satisfaction and are rapid sell* era.” EtootriiBtttm VO tht purest as! best medicine known ami will positive y cure kidney and liver complaint*. Purify ■ 1 ill id r«*gii l:tt*'i th<* l> >w* family can auoru to be without their. They will save hundreds of dollars in doc tor’s bills every year. Ho.d at fifty CtnttS bottle by Lanmr, Konkin A Lamar. —Governor Cleveland lias come oat of the woods, Mr. Blaine ba•» g«>t over h-* cold and ia working State fairs, Ben Ba*.:-' is swinging round the circle and .'-L Jobs is putting in a lUUc quiet work in the Waal* but Pre'ident Arthur condemns him?* :i w iiun-partiian hospitality nt Newport An old physician, retired irom pr.t * tiro having had placet 1 in his h:tn East India missionary the formula «»f a simple vegetable renivdy I;-r ' speedy and permanent cure of Con* sumption. Bronchitis, (Jatarrh. \ ' and all Throat and I.ung < * :tl-o ;i positive and radical cure : -i N T0UB Complaints, after having test*! it s \\ > tie let mi curative powers in t sand*. «•! cas**s, has felt it his <1 " make it known to hi* suti'ering f* Actuated by his motive and a : - relieve human BUiI'ering, I will ‘•• n l fr* e of charge to all w lio de-ire it ’ ; , - r«-« ipe. in < ii-rman. Freni h or 1 with lull using, with sta ns for preparing a: * by mail by addn taming this paper, W. A- I'tju.n I* eoi>Hwi.-»w101_ HALL’S W? Hair Renewer. TI,.- lL-.t 1. ll.' Chcapc-t- q-iatliI r.n. of a pre[ .r.- *» ( “Permit me In tlu mate and itltnl lanfnaxa har . raUurtl.it ot this ;*n to thank you Leartllj (or the kln.l- pertena neat I race Ire-1 at joar hands -luring m, so- eonfltmee jonrti tn Klnsaton an/I the CalakllU. Upon : to bo rood ILL my wont, I was never bet tar treated at nny ■ place I bar. chanced to be with bte Ei- ■ --Gi|j-t. leney." 1: " 1 Instinctively the pleasing picture of IB. P. Hall & Co., Si a courtier losing, with hand above hi-1 - nt-ysaDe., ,. M# Buy and nxs wit;t i ■ • * >r xiot« which mrjbotly It- ” Hjliu Benewxx will -11 ;i.i, N.H-