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TITE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, 8EPTEM PER 12. 1884. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally and Wookly. every Friday. Tn Daily it delivered by carriers In the city or mailed postage free to snbserthert at •1 |H.r muuih, u 50 (or three months, $5 (or six months or $10 a year. Tub Weekly is mailed to subicrlbers, pos tage free, at $150 a year. 75c. for six months. To clubs of five $1.25 a year, and to clubs of ten $1 per year, and an extra copy to getter up cf club of five or ten. Transient advertisements will be taken for ne Daily at <1 per square of ten lines or less for the first Insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion; and for the WIekly at |i per square for each insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Rejected communications will not be re nted. ' 'nrr.'SDondonce containing important news u> discussions of living topics, is solicited, must 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 in every community If the State, to whom liberal commissions will be paid. Postmasters are especially requested to mite for terms. All communications should be addressed to H. C. “Help us! Cash us! or we sink.” Yours earnestly.—Sieve Elkins. Senator Anthony left $200,OCO. All pow Republican Congressmen die young. England can brag as much as she pleases about her navy, but ours cost the most. • Now is the time to mark for the present cotton crop. The last was under six mil lion bales. Bruce does not get the Secretaryship of the Treasury. Arthur Will not have any Coon in bis. Queen Victoria gets $3,000,000 a year salary, and yet she threatens to strike for higher wages. George Bliss has come out in defense of Blaine. The political field, however, Is as murky as ever. 1 have this thought to comfort me. The pockets of my lost pants will never be searched.—Billy Chandler. Queen Victoria’s maids of honor receive $1,500 per year each, and yet they borrow chewing gum just like other girls. “Blaine will bring peace to a divided "Union,” shouts the campaign orator. That’s sv, Blaine once before made the Union Pacific. There never yet was a time so propitious (or a campaign song. And yet the dust on Mr. Schurz’s naturalized piano is an inch and a quarter deep. And now the Irreverent paragrapher re fers to the bouncing and beautiful Belva Lockwood, the coming presidentess, as “Old Belve.” 8hoot him on the spot. Mr. Dana thinks Ben Butler will infuse new ideas into this section. If Butler in fuses any Ideas at all into this section they will undoubtedly be new to it. The peo ple and Butler are yet very far apart. The headgear of the woman’s Presiden tial ticket is all right. But there’s a hitch MM to the polonaise. Atlanta, of course, •will rush to the front for a place. How would Granny Norcross or Col. Marcellus E. Thornton do as a flouncer? George C. Goriiam is out of a job and has been dickering with Cleveland. This gives rise to the rumor that be will support Cleveland. The Democratic managers should see to it that this additional handi capping Is not put on a candidate that has not been in the lead so far in the race. The vision of a sportive dolphin dragging Secretary Chandler’s summer breeches hilariously through the coral eaves is enouah to make the sea nyraplis blush and grim Neptune hold his aching side. Uncle 8am would enjoy it, also. If Mr. Chandler had remained with Ids breeches. The New York Herald is a very uncer tain paper politically, but it heats “Old Frobs” on the weather. It predicted a change on the tenth and as we write we enjoy the premonitory symptoms of an equinoctial gale. We use the word enjoy, (or any change must be preferable to the blistering heat of the past several weeks. The Herald as a political prophet Is with out honor. All honor to it as a weather •agur. . Rape and Lynch Law. Recently ft negro fiend in Troup county was hanged by indignant citi zens for violating a white woman. This was but one of many similar oc currences daily happening in every portion of the South. An unfortunate schism in the Demo cratic part)' of Troup , county has in* ipired the negroes of that county with a hope that they may succeed in gain ing political control. At a recent meeting of the negroes at LaGrange the following among other resolutions were adopted: ’Whereas. Lynch law has become so preva lent, and as it is a direct violation of the Di vine law and the common law of both state and Mtion; and, Whereas, 8uch a law la so exceedingly un safe and inhuman, because Justice is left to the dictation of a mob. which, as a rule, Is Is made up of that class of men who have no regard for human rights and are, at the same time, in a heat of passion which overrules all serse of cool deliberation, and thereby the in nocent may suffer forithe guilty; and, Whereas, This inhuman and ungodly prac tice does not tend to lessen crime, but on the ether baud, its tendency ia to Inflame and atir indignation between the two races, and thereby augment lawlessness; Whereas, By this law, in ninety cases In a hundred, all things being equal, the negro is ictira; for these and many other rea sons; Resolved, therefore, That we support no candidate forofilce, Whether municipal, coun ty, State or national,who, in any way known to , has taken part in or advocated the lynch law. Resolved, further, That if any one is put in prison for any alleged crime whatever, and if there be any indication on the part of any party or the public to take the liw into their hands, or if the civil authorities do not interfere to prevent such violence, we pledge ourselves in honor bound as law-abiding citi zens, to protect such defeudaut at all hazards. All right thinking and iaw-respecting people deprecate the fearful necessity of lynch law. It is a desperate reme dy, hut in some cases is rendered nec essary by the frequency and brutality of crime, for the protection of society. Many years ago the citizens of Vicks burg, Miss., were compelled to hang a number of desperate characters who had endangered the public peace and defied tile Ian-. This same remedy was repeated in the city of San Francisco, some time subsequently. Crimes against white females by ne gro brutes have been common for years at the South. We regret to add that, notwithstanding the swift and severe punishment that has followed, they grow rather than diminish. But hang ing will check it after a while. It will at least put an end to the brutes. These resolutions were evidently- aimed at the case referred to in the be ginning of this artieie. Strange to say, they contain no denunciation of that particular crime, or any other that ne groes have freely indulged in. They make no mention of the breaking of the law by brutes who have ravished weak and unprotected women and children. But they do contain a threat. Now the negroes may as well understand this tiling sooner or later. Every one who is guilty of that crime or an at tempt at it on a white woman will he killed. It may lie that an indignant populace, frenzied by the details of the crime, will take the responsibility of making way with the perpetrator. Some relative njay relieve them of this duty, or the course of the law will be waited for. In any event deatli will ho the penalty, and ought to be. More than twenty years have passed since by a lawless war negroes were tinfranchiscd and given the ballot. Re ceiving their earliest lessons of tho re sponsibilities of citizenship from the camp followers and scam of tlie North, they are still arrsyed against the people upon whom they arc dependent, and still have dreams of political power and social recognition. They have steadily progressed in crimes of all kinds, as the record of the jails and chain-gangs will attest. Ttyo crime of rape among them is growing. The opportunities for Us commission in thinly scattered sections are many, and the chances for escape yean, and nearly six millions of that in the next two yon, It la ,not going to be an easy lash In the Legislature to steer clear between present oppression and future burdens tor the people. Among the measures likely to assume prom inence aaa remedy .for the heavy drafts on the State treasury will be the sate of the State road. In 1872, when this road was leased to ex-Gov. Brown and associates, It was one of the best paying roads in the country, and politiclas felt confident that its sale would at auy time balance the eutlre State debt. Since that time, however, the State gave a charter to the Hast Tennessee road, which ruus parallel with the State rood much ot tho way, the two tracts being In light of each other. The State road Is not now worth more than half Its valu.tion In 1872. and the prospect la that It will steadily decrease. The conviction and fact that the people will not submit to a heavier rate ot taxation thau at present, will force the I-egls- lature to sell the road to meet the demands falling due.' The existing rate ot taxation Is Insufficient to carry on the State government, and the Governor was compelled, last June, to borrow 8180,000 to meet the deficit. Tlie sender ot this dispatch is one of tho editors of the Atlanta Constitution. This gives it a significance that it could not otherwise claim. The initiatory movement is to be made in the present campaign, and in tlie coming Legislature. As there is no contest sgve in a very few counties and many of the primaries have been Held, tlie manipulators of this scheme, may feel confident of their men. But the election is yet to be held,and tlie people have the power still in their hands to protect themselves. Candid ates can be compelled to avow them selves. If they do not make a clear and satisfactory showing they can be defeated. The issue is a highly important one, involving many millions of a property that belongs to the whole people. One of the railroads belonging to the people has already been sacrificed. It may be in contemplation, perhaps is, to sacri- the last and remaining one. In view of these facts, perhaps it will occur to thoughtful men, with a stake in the community, as it has to us, that perhaps it would bo wise if the editors of sundry country weeklies be enjoined from the immediate destruction of tho Telegraph and Messenger. It is in position to do service in be half of the people, and it has never yet failed to stand between them and men who are actuated and controlled by selfish purposes. It behooves the peo ple of the entire Stato to give this mat ter prompt and serious consideration. fill these people witli mean whisky and then turn them loose as so many wild beasts upon helpless women and chil dren, who arc^tlirough isolation placed beyond tho protection of law. The rough-edged cross-road bar rooms have been trading posts in hun dreds of communities in this State, whero stolen farm products have been bartered away for drink. This basis of settlement is tlie only sensible one that suggests itself to our mind. Wc have more faitli in its effi cacy than in nny system of prohibition that 90 per cent, of the people who fa vor it are willing to have enforced so far as every one else is, concerned, but who expect and intend to violate tlie law whenever it is made applicable to themselves. If the prohibition and liquor ele ments are not competent to adjust this question, then it is the duty of an intel ligent public to take hold of it, in advance of that dire contingency when through this medium the control of the State chall pass into tlie hands of the rabble. do less than house, clothe and equip the men in her service and bear their expenses, while under arms. Time enough to economize in this direction when a call is not responded to, or when the military falters in the hour of danger. A tTgAKEoat has teen shipped to Oregon from England on an ocean steamer and will be carried over the mountains on the backs of tbe natives for use in the waters ot I large, a lake. Here is a hint for tbe government. The white men of tills country know Why cannot the United States war shlps be tj ie ir duty in this particular, and will moved up end down our coasts on the backs of the native*, and shipped ecrosn tbe ocean on the steamer* when it is nec essary to cross 7. Every possible safeguard ought to be thrown aronnd tho navy. Tin Sew York Herald interlerdt Ita ed- ortal page with this paragraph We are now Informed by Mr. Grtmke, editor ot the Hub, Judge L. Ruffin, J. C. Chappells, Lewis Haydea. J. H. Wolf aadJ.J. Smith- all leading colored cltlxena ot the “Athena ot America"—that the colored vole ol Boston ia ■olid tor B’alne. Well! what la the Berald going to do about it? A large meeting in Boston in dicated that the negro vote ot Massnchn- setts would go Republican. It has always done so in Massachusetts and other North ern States, and there la no reason why it should not do so again. The negro vote of several Northern State* makes them safe and solid for the Republican party. not hesitate to perform it though it bo a bloody one. This crime must he stamped out if it shall cost tlie life of every negro man capable of its commis sion. We take it that tlie people ot LaGrange are alive to the matter, and are fully capable of looking after these fellows whenever they shall seek to carry their threata into execution. Maln«a Yesterday a State election occurred in Maine, tlie home of Mr. Blaine. By this time to-morrow we shall have tbe approximate reauit. The canvass even in Maine, lias been quite a* aplritli as elsewhere, and we have no prognos tications concerning it. Maine, for several years, has been a close and dt lubtful State. In the off year of 1877, when a light vote was polled, the hitherto reliable Republi can majority sank to 5,All votes, and tlie year following, daring the “green back” flurry, the State gave 12,757 ma jority against the Republicans. In 187* tlie Republicans again lost the State, and every one remembers the alarm tlie State gave tlie Republicans in l'-O by going Democratic at the election corresponding to the present one. “As Maine so goes the Union,” ah'Mitedths Democrats in high glee; but tlie Republicans recovered from tbe shock, and by a big effort carried tbs Sla‘e for Garfield by 8,84! majority, Two years later, in 1882, tlie Republi can majority fell off again to 0,880. The Coming Issue In Ceorata Polities. To every observant man In Georgia it bos been plain that the next great issue calculated to convulse the State, is the sale of the State road. Commenc ing with the late Cole charter which was intended tocripple this great prop erty and to depreciate its value, the movement has been qnietly but surely maturing. We did not expect that it would so soon acquire strength enough in the judgment of the manipulators, to be presented to the public. But it lias come, and the people may as well prepare themselves to meet it. The Louisville Courier-Journal of the 8th instant contains this special dis patch from Atlanta: Atlaxtx, September ".—There U (rest la- tereat ceaterint In tbe election ct the next Georfta Leililature, which take* place la Oc tober. It will have to arrange for tbe pejment ot 8SJBSJSM ot tbe State's debt, and will bare to Inaugurate ra< h legislation ai will meet other draft ol 15.000 (og which falls due before tbe succeeding Left.tat nr* can handle It. Tbe debt thus lobe met 1» as follows: In lH&VSt, 8200,000 each year of the 1 *! and '78 bonds, making 8400.080; In two, 81.(00,010 of State road bonds ol 1M>. To this add the 8150,0s) bor rowed In July last to meet a deficit in tbe finances caused by an oversight In the last Leg tsUtnre: gjn.ooo eactt year (or tbe butldlmr ot tbe new capltoL Then about 8»0,u)0 each year foe current Interest, and there ts the enormous amount ot SV.VO.OOO to be provided for by tbe coming Legislature, In addition to the utual appropriation for carrying on tbe gov ernment. Farther than this, tn 1"'* *2,299, *-79 more of debt falls due. meant for meeting which should betaken by the next Legiila- turt; then In USg83,00^000. So that with over tea mlUtoae of Money to provide foe ia five Democracy and Prohibition. Tlie fierce conflicts that have marked the progress of prohibition in Georgia are causing thoughtful men to look with serious apprehonsion to future re sults, if temporate counsels do not pre vail in the ultimate struggle over the whisky question. In Pike county tho Democracy are divided, and already the w^iisky and prohibition factions have placed candi dates in tlie field to represent the coun ty in the next Legislature. Tlie results that may follow in this parti:ular coun ty from this unfortunate division, are of little consequence outside the per sonal passions and personal interests of tho contestants and their partisans. We have a broader purpose than tlie treatment of this local development of an evil that is wide spread, and which threatens serious divisions among tho people. Tlie question is on, and it is neither wise to ignore it,nor seek to de lay its settlement. Men of extreme views, upon both sides are damaging the prospects of the temperance cause as well as tlie whis ky Interest. People who are conserv ative, and who are opposed to drankt enness on the one hand and to sumptu ary laws on the other, are at best left but a choice of evils as between the warring elements of fanaticism, and vested and Involved interest. It must be plain under this condi tion of affairs that a settlement of this question that promises permanency in tlie way ot relormation in relercnce to drunkenness or tlie whisky trade, must be mode by the great body of tlie peo ple who as yet have not become blind ed by partisanship on either side. looks as if both had griev ances and in a measure can justly complain. Both are strengthened with conscious reliance upon principle The prohibitionist consulting con science and public judgment believes that both approve tlie moral and social quality of his struggle. On the other hand a cautious (ear of fanaticism and its influence upon public affairs,at well as a judicious opposition to all laws affecting the private rights of tlie cit- isen, make men who desire to see a pro[fer settlement of this question hes itate. We submit that so far no remedy has been mggested that commands confi dence in its efficiency to eradicate drunkenness. Prohibition does not prohibit it in instances where, under our observation, it has been tried. Drunkenness cannot be suppressed by taxes or by laws that are not sanc tioned by public sentiment. If this l>s true, tbe question of remedy is an im portant one. To our mind it is simple, and it is strange that it bos never been applied. Moral suasion mutt prepare public conscience for the performance fearlessly and faithfully of public duty, and penal justice thns enforced under laws making drunkenness a crime, will eradicate tbe evil, if it can be done at all. It is no objection to this plan to say such alaw cannot be inforced. This is answered in tbe plain statement of a universally developed troth that prohi bition laws cannot be inforced. Those who are seeking to take care of the whisky trade should consent at once that the retailing of liquor shall lie confined to towns snd cities main- Bulld Up the Country. Louisiana has led off again in an ef fort to secure settlers for her unoccu pied domain. An agent of the Immi gration Society has been to Antwerp and has secured a colony of two hun dred and fifty people, who will come provided with money to purchase land, and a determination to make them selves independent citizens. Georgia needs a larger population of this de scription. Money spent to secure tax payers and producers is money well spent. There is a way, however, to secure such a population without going to Europe for it, and it lies within the power and province of the railroads to do it, not as public benefactors or on the score of patriotism, but purely as a business investment. Along the lines and within ten miles of Geor gia railroads may be found thousands of acres of land that can be purchased for from $1 to $5 per acre; fertile, healthy, well watered lands. These could tie purchased by the railroad companies, divided into fifty or a hun dred acre farms, supplied with com fort&ble dwellings and sold upon terms that would enable any industrious fam ily to purchase. The railroads would not only regain their original expendi tures witli a profit, but would build up a passenger and freight business that, W£re the original investment lost, repay them a thousand fold. If tlie want of funds proves an obstacle to this enter prise on tbe partof the rood, and doubt less it does, an outside investment and improvement company, with n pledge of co-operation from the railroad com panies, might be formed, bonds issued upon a real estate basis, and a thriving business be built up. Cotton and Cotton Manufacturing. The New York Journal of Commerce publishes a list of cotton mills wholly idle at present or running reduced time, representing 4,927,200 spindles and 121,982 looms. As stated in tho article from which we gather the above, with other impor tant facts, only such mills were includ ed in the memorandum as could be vouched for. In addition to the foregoing large ag gregate of idle machinery there are many mills in tlie South not included, which have been running reduced time for months past, and some that have been idle altogether. The fact that many mills have re duced time or have suspended opera tions and have failed or refused to re port the fact is deplored, for the reasou that the extent to which production is actually reduced, is important as bear- ngupon stock and future prices If this stoppage of machinery repre sents an average of half time and each spindle one half pound of cotton a day for consumption when running full time, then the reduced demand for cot ton on account of idlo machinery of say pound per spindle on 4,927,200 spindles leaves a vacuum in the cotton market for over 2,500 bales of cotton a day. If this state of things is to continne for one year tho falling off in home de mand for cotton would aggregate 750,- 000 bales. The cotton manufacturing business has reached a crisis. It is evident that there is an over-production of goods. This can be met by reduced produc tion, increased homo demand, increas ed foreign demand or bankruptcy of the mills. Home demand cannot bo increased so long as labor is idle and the business of the country is depleted on this ac count. The foreign demand cannot be met except upon scales of wages for mill operatives in this country that are paid in Europe: The mills cannot and will not continuo to run fall time when they are losing money, and when there is no prospect of a change for the bet ter. Tlie solution of this question, it seems to us, must come from reduced time, and hence this must affect tlie the demand for and the price of cotton. What is true of overproduction in cotton goods in tlie United States is true of most other brandies o manu facture. These conditions extend alike to ait the manufacturing nat the world. Men may speculate as they ple.se in reference to trade. Its unsatisfactory condition may bo attributed to high tariff or free trade, according as tlie locations of different theorists may supply them witli opportunity to favor or condemn the one policy or the other. There are other conditions that not only contribute to the general result, but control it; and this is made appa rent by the waning prosperity of tlie A Few Figures. Mr. Mulliall, a member of the British Association, has been giving the report ers some interesting figures concerning tlie world's debt. This gentleman, many years ago, constituted himself general bookkeeper for the terrestrial orb, and has published several books upon his department. lie may be con sidered authority when he states that the total debt of tlie world lias increased from $(195,000,000 in 1713 to $27,155,000,000 ill 1884. From tlie treaty of Utrecht till tlie Freeh revolution, a period of eighty years, tlie debts of nations in creased at tho rate of $30,000,000 per year. The rate of increase for the next twenty-two years was at tho rate of $200,000,000 per year; and since the battle of Waterloo down to this year tho increase has been ot the rate of $300,000,000. In 1900, thinks Mr. Mulhall, tho nations will owe $35,- 000,000,000, not including local debts. Sixty per cent, of this represents war debts. Tlieso figures are certainly large enough to alarm the economical, but really there is no reason for alarm. The world, fortunately, has no outside creditors, and the debts are inter changeable. One dollar suffered to travel constantly would in timo pay off most of the debts. Moreover, in Eu rope public wealth increases far more rapidly than public debt*, and in Amer ica public debt decreases rapidly, while public wealth increases beyond .ill precedent. The posterity that comes of age during the next sixteen years will have to help pay off the obligations of its ancestry, but at the same time it will enjoy blessings and wealth,such os no devisers ever yet left to lie administered upon. In 1909 the estate will in all likelihood be free and nniocnmbered, and tlie young sters arriving thereafter will have com paratively an easy time. How Uncle Sam’s debts stand in relation to his as sets may bo seen from Mr. Mullmll’s summary; The debt ratio to weslth per cent., at the preient time, Is a. follows: United Kingdom, 8.4 percent; France. II.9;Gcnstny, 5.2: Russia 12.7; Austria, 12.8: Italy, 18.5: Basin, O.fi; Por tugal, 28,5r Holland, 9.4; Belgium, 9.4; Den mark, 3.0; Sweden and Norway, 2.0; Greece, 8.5; Europe, 10 8: United- States, 2.9; Canada, 5.6; Australia. 183: Argentine Republic, 7.9 Uruguay, 14.8. total, 9:9, Here we see that there only eight countries In which the debt rstlo Is up to 10 per cent, ot the naMonal wealth. The national debt of the United States, when eompsred to tho wealth ol the country, is ooly2.o per cent.—lower than that of any country included tn my inquiry. i would, A Chans* of Front. Tlie most remarkable movement ol this most remarkable campaign is now in process. Mr. Cleveland was nominated upon the assurance that ho-oould carry New York, tlie pivotal State, and that New Jersoy, Connecticut and Indiana, tho doubtful States, could be secured for tho Democracy, Tho fight was opened in tlie East and the New York IForfd, I manufacturing interests of both free tlie organ of Mr. Cleveland in that sec- I traile nnil protective countries. tion, announced that Mfl. Cleveland himself would constrao the Chicago platform as against the interpretation of Messrs. Carlisle, Hhnl and Morrison.. Since the late speech of Mr. Hendrick* it is proposed to abandon tlie East ami to concentrate on tho West. Tbe Phil adelphia Timet and Courier-Journal are prominent anil pertinacious in tlie now movement. The Courier-Journal fern islies tho shibboleth of the new cam paign in these lines.; Revenue reform ti the balt’e cry for the Weat; not a reform which will ootlify Mr. Bar- bum, Mr. Randall or Mr. Convene, hut a real radical revenue reform such. as meets the rlcwa of Mr. Carllsc, Hr. Hurd and Mr. Mor rison. Tills means tlie abandonment of the national committee, in whoso bonds the campaign lias been placed. We don't know anything about tills new movement, or its prospect of success, but everybody lias heard of the “houra divided against itself” and tlie homely adage about “swapping jack-knives when crossing a stream.” The ntfi tional committee has called a session. Perhaps this flank movement is to be considered In a council of war. Stand by the .Military. The organization of military posts throughout the State to secure legisla tion favorable to the existence and prosperity of the State militia cannot be too highly recommended. The TiLxoRApn has for years appealed to tlie people and to the Legislature to sustain and foster the militia. It the State's bulwarks, exerting an enor mous silent influence in favor of order, and standing between the people and violence when peaceful methods of preserving it have failed, But for the existence local military organisation with ready arms, Georgia could not have survived the fifteen years that followed Appomattox, without wading through a sea of blood; but for them, the next ten years might be full of anarchy they now are of uncertainty. Stand by the milita-y. '.It has illustrated and defended Georgia. It is a burning'shame that the State’s military organization* have under the rule and direction of cheap politicians and demagogue* been reduced to mere skeletons, whom only the glory and memory of a former greatness hold together; that her soldiery hive been compelled ^year after uining regular police systems. It will; year for nearly a generation to defray appear to any man of reasonable pur- tlie expenses of a precarious existence, poses and principle* that with the Urge rely upon the general government for class of reckless and brutal consumers; meagre (applies of arms and at the scattered over the country, it jeopard* same time sene tbe whole people when personal safety and private rights to called upon. Georgia cannot honorably The cause is to be found in over-pro duction. It were folly to say that the milisol this country, or tlie labor em ployed intlieiroperation, could find re lief from stagnant and unprofitable trade by a large influx of foreign goods. Tlie idle machinery and labor of Eng land, if put into operation and employ ment to supply our demand, woqld supplant ourown machinery and labor. If it were possible for us to compete with Europe for the trade of Central and South America, China, Japan, Africa nndlndia, upon American seal** of wages, just to tlie extent that tve employed our surplns capacity in this trade, just to that extent would idle ness come to tlie machinery and labor now employed in Europe for this pur pose, Manufacturing has outgrown con sumption. The nations of Europe real ize this fact, and hence colonization marks the policy of all the great pow ers. England, leading all others in manufacturing development, was the first to realize the vital necessity for outlets. As other nations developed capacity to supply their own demands and produco a surplus liesides, they (ell upon her colonial policy, and are looking with jealous interest now upon her vast trade conquered by the sword, In every quarter of the earth their aimles and navies are stationed to pro tect advantages already gained and for the purpose of securing# others as op portunity affords them, There are ominous growls and strange alliances among European cabinets These indicate a new policy, in which the balance of power, so-called, will in reality be tlie balance ot trade. ■The greatest ability of European statesmen and the highest arts of her diplomatists are displayed in the strug gle for manufacturing supremacy, for the employment of her labor, and for commercial advantages to distribute its products to the world. England ex cepted, protection is tho rale. They jealously guard ss their own oil home demand, and are entering into a su preme straggle for the privilege of sup plying that outside. For privileges that England and ail Europe are ready to go to war with barbarians to acquire, the free trade element in this country is seeking to place within her grasp without any compensation whatever. Butler's Candidacy Mr. Dana is, os a rule, astute, but lie never wrote a sillier assertion than that “Gen. Butler is destined to break the crust of the solid South and infuse a new set of ideas into that portion of the Union.’' Ben Butler’s name alone is enough to make the South as solid as the silver he stole from her helpless women. When But ler succeeds in gaining favor with tlie people whom he robbed, tradneed, insulted and oppressed with tho heart lessness of a Nero and tho malignity of a Caligula, tho standard of public mor als will have become too low for re demption- Tiiroughout tbo South people respect the bravo men who fought them face to face, who took and gave haul blows and observed tho rales of civilized war fare. But for Ben lib tier, tlie robber, and W. T. Sherman, the incendiary, the Attlia and Alaric of tho nineteenth century,thoy have an infinite contempt and an unchanging hatred. To assert that either of these men can ever find favor witli tlie Southern people is an insult to every man and woman who breathes Southern air. The roan who supposes otherwise must be short of ‘memory and wanting in sense. The spirit which ai.imatsd tlie dm ol this section to engage for four years in the most heroic straggle of the age, which Inspired a womanly devotion each at no age before has witnessed,has not grown so-poor in twenty years as to slumber- under every insult, Peace reigns in the land, and the bitterness ot ruined homes and broken family circlet it, under tho inflnenceof the fading years, gradually losing ita sting. He is no friend of peace, no lover of tlie Union, who would place coals of fire npon tlie few raw places ot the liody politic. This blear-eyed Mas sachusetts thief is neither Democrat nor Republican. His political history is as splotched snd repulsive as his morals. AU thingstoall men, a dema gogue of the coarsest instincts, a crea ture of the most brutal passions, with out a party, without a people, without principle, leave him to oblivion and the mercy of his Creator. Do not test too severely that of his fellow-men CLIPPINCS. THE END Or Till II MVZK. P , She; BUl wt.h7.'&w“ y ° U kn ° W ' U They tell me if* lively In town 'iISt/° fir-good-bye: th.nk ,„ u Forread/ng me all those nice hooks “ ' bUudl, P ; ,OP0 ” <! ' ' U, “ U “ IU >■« He's not such a tool as ho looks.) HO; ‘Oh, yes, it Is true; I am colnz to-mo,,— Good nlsbtandiood-by?. Mi„uS w: And there salways abane tor the world'ofsor- In thinking of yonr lair lacs. Ah ' m son! Ut the,? P"” 10 ** “ re **4 beyond res- Don't lauah-U Isn't a tear." 1 “ son- U1 C ° mc to thu P'*« next sta rve had a close shave this year.) • —W. J. Henderson, In Puck, Tub wheat crop is estimated all the way from 504,000,000 to 630,000.000 bush. The issue of silver dollars for ths week ending September 0, was $348407. corresponding period of last year, $512,qji; An East Indian demands justice front the English government. Re sold three of his wives and the buyer baa fallii to pay him. He might su/oit a writ ' goods 11 ' bUt hC prefera the money to the A very unpleasant sect to disagree, with is a new religious body whose 5? encehas within a few months come to light in tbo Crimea. Members deem It tbcir duty to kill on tho earliest opporii^ nity those who differ with them. 1 Tub Chinese troops are uniformed in the hues of the rainbow, besides black snd whits. Imagine 100 laundrymen in scar let blouses and royal purple trousers drawn up in line, adjoining them a company in pure white, then a company In bn,,t green, then one In light blue, and you have a Chinese regiment. When they march they lift up their feet like cats in the snow! Mamma—“It is very wrong in you Johnny, to qnarrel in this way." Johnny (who has just bad a fight with his brother Tom)—“Well, I got mad and had to do something." Mamma-"But you should not let your temper carry you away in that manner. I will tell you a good iu!e: When you are angry always count twenty berore you strike. Tommy (tbe victor in the recent unpleasantness)—"Yea, and he’d better count forty liefore he strikes a fellow that can lick him.” A pAsssNGER in an Arizona railroad train was arrested by a sheriff for a minor offense a short timo ago. Seeing a judge playing poker in the smoking car with a brace of colonels, tbe sheriff prevailed upon bint to stop the game tor a few minutes and try the prisoner. The judge did so fined the prisoner $10, and before an hour had passed away had cleaned out every colonel on the train. Then be played a lit tle game with the late prisoner, who promptly won a 1 the Judge’s pile, and set up the drinks for tbe crowd. A Methodist minister tried to-start a church In a Western town, but from lack of support had to (rive up the project. This was the peroration of his farewell ser mon: "At the last day the i-ord will sav to Saint Peter, "Where Is vour flock?' nnil Saint Peter will answer, 'Here, I.or.) f He will sav to Catvin, “And where are yonr sheep?’ and Calvin will reply, -Here,Lord; - and eo ail ot the shepher.lt can answer. But when he asks me. 'Where lire your sheep?’ how will you feel when I am com. IK-lled to reply. ‘Lord, I haven't any; mine were ell hogs.' ” Albany Kxprett: Tlie war in China has visibly affected the tea market Re cently 30,000 chests of black tea. inctndlng Foo Chow. Among and l'ormo-a. were sold here at an advance of three cents per pound. In London tbe pries of tea has gone up five cents. From the island of Formosa this country receives annually 230,000 chests of tea, ami if the French, who have already seized K« Lung, an im portant tea exporting point, should close up Tamsul, broken say there will be a big advance in the price of black teas. About 50,000 packages of teas annually bare usually come to this country from Foo Chow. —tienerul Booth, of the Salvation Army, has spoiled for s trade mark on al design of which the principal features are a eras snd entire snd tbe words "Blood 1 and Fire." Tlie trade-mark Is to be used in cutlery snd edge tools, in furniture upholstery, snd Anally in pr( the teeth and hair ands preparations for Tiie great remedy for rattlesnake’* bite at Long Eddy, N. Y.. eras learned eighty years ago from a half-breed Indian b !■•-•) 1 1 lb-,-. !!,-• I J-- tM ,T. Il 1- 11- fullowa: Apply '0 the wound a poultice at one-half each of common salt and indigo, mixed with cold water, and renew every two hours. Est freely of Ut* leaves, or drink often of a tea mad* from them, of a variety of blue violet, commotilv known a- the arrow-leaved violet (V. Sagilialai. If the bit* bs> upon a leg or nu arm hind the leaves in a circle around it. nhovc ami ju«t beyond the swelling. Moisten with cold water as often as they get drv from the fe ver created by the poi-on slid renew two or three times a day. Conkllnsln th* Pandlnst Presidential Cam* salgn. Washington, September 7.—Mr. Cook* ling's position in a Presideiiiial canvass is alwats a matter of great Interest. It hat been announoed that be would support Cleveland, and this has been followed by reports that he has consented to make a immberof speeches In favor of Blaine. But the ex-Senator himself hsr taken and will taka no part In the campaign, in conver sation with your correapomlcnt within the paat few day- Mr. t oakling said that in- would never enter politics agsiu; that ha would never accept an other office; that he would never make another political speech, but sh-iuld devote himself entirely to his law practice, which demandsalibisUtne That bedocs not favor the election ot Cleveland can be emphatically stated, for he has no respect tor or confidence in the man. Mr. Conk- ling DOW has a very largo and profitable law practice, which compels him to em ploy elxassistants, anil until la-t week, when ho went to Utica for n few days' reel, has not bail a day of b-i-ure for more than a year. Ho hat received a gnat many Invitations to msk- not only politi cal but other addrer-es. hut has declined tbemaO. A Subject for Judge Lynch. Our Atlanta correspondent notes the fact that on Peachtree street, in tlie very heart of the city ol Atlanta, the privacy of a seminary for girls was in vaded st night by a black brute, ar.d that he escaped fortunately before he had attempted his hellish purpose, and unfortunately before the police could lay bands upon him. We allude to tbe subject in this way for two purposes. First to call atten tion to the diabolism with which negroes seek to assail white fe males, of which tills is most marked case, and secondly to remind tbe people of Georgia, that this outrage occurred in a city where a col lege for negroes receives eight thorn dollars per annum from the State, in which social equality is taught by precept and practice. The (act that tlie college is there and is thns supported in part, attracts a Urge negro popula tion. The criminal statistics of At lanta show it to be a vicious one. The fact npon which we comment will ■hock tbe whole people of the State and tend to accelerate the bloody as* sizes presided over by Judge Lynch. Cablegram London. September 7.—Tbe ability of a human being to exist for a long period without natural food monstrated in a recur beta inratigated * th«* Amtri »rt doctors lost her way in a Rob unable to return to derad many mile-, been le an fo at and i home. She wan- I at I. mrth sank down exhausted, and was uncon*ckms and unable to respond when her neighbors went tbroti'.'li the for.-tH linking and < alimg f«*r her. 1‘nrtiM of villager* continmd t-* search for her in vain, ami at tho end of a month ull hope of finding her alive was abandoned. On the fortv*5ixth day after" she had been lost she wat discovered by accldt-fit. The poor woman wni “till alive, but wai in a moat pitiable condition. Sw hud Mii,- -vd entirely hy miekini: dew from the leave-* ami by eating grass. When found shewn' -urroundeti by a num ber of half famished f tag the death of tlu .1 prey. —Dom Pedro, Emperorof Ilr; a-ked and obtained lenve of ab two years to visit Japan ami Chin An old phj tice having li an East Indi; of a simple v speedy and Mimption.Br n j and all Thn i also a nositiv TouaCompIn its wonderful sand.H of cast Ml in his h; ilrom prn<- Him* |-wr as felt i» hi l.-ii make it know n to hi Actuated by his mol relieve human sulT fr • •• • : . 1 a r. ripe, in (h rman, Fn m li w ith full directions for p u*ing. Sent by mail by w ith stamp, naming thift p Nonja. 149, /'-j * Block, New York. formula table remedy for the manent run* of (on* hiti*,Catarrh, AMl.ma and l.urur AtlWtmtH, ml radical cure for Ser- i, after having t.strd dm ,11 H-nd it this