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WE KLVTE K»KAHH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1884.
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subsequent Insertion; and for the Wkekly at
Let ua Look Facts In tho Face.
We have heretofore taken occasion
to recommend this duty to our readers.
The people of the South are mere spec-
tutors of tho groat contest waging over
,1 change in the government. They
can do nothing to aid the Dem cratic
party hut to deliver, as they have done
these many years past, tfie e'ecioral
vote on the 4th day of November.
Partisan appeals will count for nothing
here. The reproduction of lioastB and
brags from Northern journals ami in
ti I- r , i-ttre for "each inaertion. Liberal dividuals as to the result in November
n Kr;ccted > communication, will not bore- cannot possibly change it. Attempts
“•A . . , , , to make the great Republican victr ry
■•«rr,,«oondence containing Important now. ...» .
n ’ -Uacusalons ol living topic., i. aolicltod, m Ohio a defeat for that party may tie
ant must be brief and written upon bntone heated narti-
aule of the paper to have attention. pleasant reading to tne neateu parti
Komliiitiic1 ihould be made by Exprem, Ban j,ut it cannot be proiluctive, and
Mnnav Oma. ffiiulitorpil Ti>ttpr. ’ . . # »•
is not the proper training for a uisap-
W-'iuy Order or Regi.tered Letter.
Agents wanted lu every community In the
State, to whom liberal eommli.tooa will be
paid. Postmasters are eapeclally requeated
to it rito for terma.
AU communications ihould he addreaaed to
cian and lie has yet to become suffi
ciently earnest and serious in work to
rise to the plane of statexmanship.
Personally, we lake it, defeat carried
but tilth; disappointment to him. So
far aa intellectual results are concerned
lie perhaps outshone his competitor,
but it w as proper I hat he should full,
despite that lie was tlm courageous
leader of a false issue.
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date to which your subscription has been
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promptly.
Goa. Clcvilakd is going to review the
Few York militia. Deputy marshals, look
out.
Tin window pictures ot Miss Patti Rosa
present her as a drummer for a ready
made false tooth factory.
WATritsoK has eloped to Illinois and
Wisconsin with the etar-eyod goddess.
Come back and all will be forgiven.
Tax $1.00 campaign fund scheme bu
not npto' date betrayed any evidence of
popularity. The leading Democratic or-
gan, the H'orM, acknowledges the receipt
of $860.50 up to date.
Fellows who are hoping tor pap are be
ginning to form Cleveland clubs and to
apout and hnrrab, to provide for a possl
ble contingency. The South will go to the
polls and vote without this.
_ Tui Courier-Journal devotes thirty lines
to a grand musical feast in Louisville
Monday night, and two columns and a
half to a dog fight How a reporter
could attend the tntuicale and yet learn so
much shout the dog fight is what pusztes
the public.
The New York Star wants the whipping
poat restored. A good, stout, pine post,'
plenty of rope and a snake whip in each
oonnty, together with authority to apply
the same for the suppression of crime,
would stye to Georgia a half-million dot
) an each year.
“Ada," said Father Neptune, drawing
from the hip pocket of Secretary Chan -
dler's pants that the laughing mermaids
bad justdraggelin, a plug ot black to
bacco. “It is then true that Mr. Chandler
carries the 'navy' In hie pocket.” And all
the sub-marine courtiers laughed as in
duty bound.
Mr Booewalteb does not harmonise
with Northern and Bontbern Democratic
conatruction of the party platform. Mr.
Bookwtlter is just as vociferous In bis **•
sertion that it mesns constant reduction
and final free trade, as Mr. Rsndsll Is hon-
estwbsn he sags it means pro'ectlon. Both
of these gentlemen, however, are thorough
Ds mocrat*. *
Boctbxex plgtron now finds amarket in
New York and New England, "paying a
remunerative margin orer Western
prises.” Daring tbs last few weeks 25.000
tons bare been disposed of in the direction
indlcsted. And yet there sro people silly
enough to believo that the South would be
betterofTIf It had to compete under free
trade with cheaper iron, not only in the
stations named but in ite own territory.
Would it not be perfectly logical at last
for tba Courier-Journal to rally to the rap
port of Bclva Lockwood? It can never
support Blaine; Cleveland.stys the tlorfd,
Is not alt that Cot. Watterson's (ancypalnt-
ei him, and 8t. John is an arch enemy to
Kentucky’s great staple product. Belt*
Lockwood only It left. She has shown
herself lolidtous of Kentucky's welfare by
.Tutting end encouraging the Exposition
and rides the tricycle with singular grace
and conspicuous agUlty. Henry Watter-
ton is gallant and chivalrous. It need sur
prise no one should tie accept a teat over
the third wheel ol Belva’s machine. No
body ever supposed that Cbtrlet A. Dana
would ride upon the platform of Benny
I Butler's palace car.
Tim philologist* speak with truth
ami to til • p int wltmt they te'l the
English student tint the history of
his lauguixe and literature is an in
exlntua-ihln fountain of pleasure. It
is a study that once entered grows in
interest au-l neuussanl- lirnefits the
searcher if lie be thoughtful aud his
memory retentive.
But let it not lie supposed that the
pleasure o search and discovery iu this
silent land of thought aud record fa alto
gether unalloyed. It is not At every
turn, almost, the searcher is confronted
tiy records ami facta that cast the
shadow of doubt upon the legends of
his youth and the beli.-is of his man
hood. He finds that Ilia old heroes
wer i not .ho epigrammatic as unscru
pulous; that hi* witty great men bor
rowed their glory; that legcndB lie and
the tine “facts” of the popular romance
ate fancies ouly There is something
pathetic and yet Immiyous in the man
ner in which so majiy popular notions
ere upset by dates, recorded facts and
simple logic.
Tho school boy knows now, but ho
did not twenty years ago, that Wil
liam Tell was a myth. D -ubt has long
since been east upon the story of Wash
ington aud his hatchet. Santa Claus
or 8t.* Nicholas, it now appears, does
not conte down the chimney but throws
his gifts through the window as in the
earliest legend couo-rniiig him. Ab
salom, poor boy, did not hang by hi
hair from the limb of a tree as tho old
Sunday-school pictures used to pre
sent him, but by “bis head.” It
is thought the fork of a limb ul
horsed him. William the Con-querer
dul not invent and set in mo
tion tlie curfew bell, sad as it is to
acknowledge it, and the “sparrow” of
the scriptures held in the‘‘hollow of
the hand,” was a thrush No sparrows
are found in Palestine. But it is not
enough that, the sparrow poetry is thus
p^jntment that may come.
There is no certainty of Democratic
success. What have been called the
doubtful States are now more doubt
ful than ever before, and the contest
for them, while it will certainly be
terrific, will as surely remain doubtful
until the tally sheets are closed.
As good reading for the occasion, we
reproduce portions of the leader of the
Cincinnati Enquirer on the election in
that State. Despite the flings at it,
the Enquirer is a Democratic paper of
power and extended influence, and did
yeoman's service in the battle, the
brunt of which fell upon the city in
which it was published. It is in posi
tion to speak with better effect ffh to
the past and future conduct of the cam
paign. It says:
The Democracy of Ohio have been deresu.fi.
The fight which closed on Tuesday lacked In
nothing oa either aide to call out the peoplo.
Both parties had fair notice that on the ttth
of October there would be a tremendous en
counter lor politic!! aupremaey In this State.
No plaudltorial excuse, no appeal lor sympa
thy, no complaint against outrageous conduct
—in abort no “baby act"—can aoltcn the situ
ation or palliate tho effects ol dcleat. There
[a no substantial complaint lor anybody In tho
proposition that one party had more money
than tho other party bad, that anyb dy w, a
intimidated, or that either political party was
outgeneraled or outnumbered. The matter lor
present consideration is tho result, howevet It
may have been accomplished.
THE XfFECT OF THE V1CTOET.
The effoct ol the Republican victory Id Ohio
on other States will ol neceislty be conablcra-
bk No aenilldo Democrat will desire to bo
Dllndod to the true situation. No man, how
ever ardent In his Democracy, will deny the
animating effect on Republicans, It he subor
dinates his desires and his prejudices to his
Judgment. The Ohio result, even II there ' di*tnrt>e<l Newton, it has been discov-
sha'l be a considerable reduction ol tho ma-; ered,did not discover tlie law of gravi-
Swift. Thooriginal “Ryu” song was—
“II a body meet a body going to the lair—
II a body klsaa body, need a body care."
In conclusion, evury boy whoso ears
have been bored out with a coarse
towel by a “mammy" will testify that
ho was led to botieve that the celebra
ted declaration “cleanliness is next to
godliness” was divine; nay, further,
they will tell you that they have
tamely submitted to being thrashed
under tlie supposition that Solomon
said “spare the rod and spoil tlie
child.” What must the feelings of such
be when they discover that ono was
a sort of school motto in tho East be
fore the Christian era; the other fa
from Butler’s Iludibras.
To study one's language is undoubt
edly beneficial to him; but who that
luvea tlie traditions of his youtii and
fet-is a-tender affection for his Idols,
can bring himself face to face with the
cold facts that ruthlessly upset them
and not feel the loneliness of his posi
tion stealing over him?
last annual report contains a statement of the
mortality among the whites and colored peo
ple ol that city lor nearly every year.from and
including IMS to 1682. Only alx years are
omitted. During the earllerpartatthlapcriod
the whites appear t-) hare lost mors by yellow
fever than the blacks. This was the ease
down to 1853, when tho death rate per thou*
crop. Spring oats rarely do well. On
the other hand, fall oats properly put
in the ground never fall.
The crop has becomo so important to
our plantation economy, that wo trust
-our farmers will take tlie chances and
*7.28
1872 27.2*
2873 ,32.79
1874 29.33
ater returns from West Virginia are
not ttiiugetuer
Lstek ra_ _
r so promising as they
were at first. The Senate last year
stood 17 Democrats to 9 Republicans;
this year it will be a tie. Tho House
last year stood 45 Democrats to 21 Re
publicans; this year it will stand 31
Republicans to 35 Democrats. The
counties composing the Tenth district
are entitled to five Representatives
and one Senator. At the last election
tho district returned one Democratic
Senator and lour Democratic Repre
sentatives; this year it returns one
Republican Senator and four Republi
can Republican Representatives.
Tha Ocean Traveler.
There is now afloat and ready for her
long conflict with the Atlantic waves,
the largest—Great Eastern excepted—
Teasel that ever rode upon a keel.
Umbria is the name of the ahlp to
which reference fa made. She fa a Cu-
narder 020 feet long, with 57 feet
breadth of beam, 41 feet depth of hold
and measures more than 8,000 tons.
The salon of this magnificent a team-
ship is 70 feet long, nine feet high and
Hghted by a lofty cupola. Her
passenger capacity is 720, all of
which is firet-claia, there being no
provision for steerage -travel. The
Umbria's engines are the most power
ful in the world. “The centre high
pressure cylinder is 71 inches in diam
eter, and the two low pressures are
105 Inches, with a six-foot stroke.”
She carries coal for sixteen days
It iaalikely that the Umbria will
seize and hold the championship for
many years. On Saturday last she
made her trial trip andaboweda speed
of twenty-one toffee an hour. This rate
will easily bring her serosa the Atlantic
in six days.
Jority claimed by the Republicans ycstcriley
morning, means that the Democrats mint
put forth every effort to lavo New York,
New Jersey and Indiana to Clcvolaud
and Hendricks. What they may be able to do
In this direction Ilea in the future, and II they
act Intelligently they may not be indifferent
to the fact that Blaine and Logan will derive
great benefit from the Republican aucceaa of
last Tunday. The Republicans, triumphant
In Maine far bejond their greatest hopes; aud
victorious In Ohio, with oceans ol money In
their party treasury, and further large contri
butions easy to obtain, with every campaign
appointment and the working farces under
thorough drill and discipline, are decidedly
more formidable than they were forty-eight
hours ago.
a GUEST SUSTAXX.
It was a gr-at mistake on the part ol Demo
crate to claim Ohio. This state has uniformly
given Republican majorities at October elec
tlona In I'reaidcutlal years, and has with com
parative rarity given Democratic majorities In
off years. Precedents considered together
should have governed, and not single and ex
ceptional years. Men are easily led by their
hopes la politics. Enthusiasts selso the (lag
and carry It to the front, only to lay It at the
loot ol the enemy, while the more thoughtful
and sclf-pneseeacd, though not less loyal to
their party and active In Its service, are
pushed to one aide and left in the background.
Enthusiasm Is one ot the commonly necessary
antecedents of success, but It ctnnot be exclu
sively relied on. Whet Democrats did tnnthcr
y> ars, when thestake was not the Pre-idcncy,
should uot hsve been allowed to weigh against
the tremendous R-publlcan efforts uow.
the oxHXxaMHir oi'm.Aist asulooak.
Whatever may have been tho general Demo
cratic Impression two weeksag >, it Is apparent
now that the victory ol last Tuesday was In a
great degree the sequenceof the presence and
magntllcent genera ship ol both Jamea G.
Blaine itud John A. Logan. Mr. Maine is so
much better thau his party that he command!
attention where It does not! He has not lost
those personal qualities which have attracted
so many men to him in the past, and he has
unquestionably strengthened himself nt every
point he has visited. Gen. Logan, also, unques
tionably wielded a large Inlluence. Ills pres-
senee stimulated memories ot the days of V2,
'63. 'fit and '83 among the men who followed
him In battle. The bitter feelings left by the
civil confilct may have passed away, hut sol-
dlen, even In their most forelvln; spirt', de
light to honor a man ol stalwart bravery and
tangible accomplishments in war. Gen. Lo
gan’s speeches added much to hts effective
ness. He led the Republican column on the
stump.
hot norm'!.
The I 111! ol October comes only once In last.
The work of that day cannot be done again.
tafion. In Troilus ami Cressida
Shakspeure makes a character say:
“The strong base and building of .my love
Is ae the very centre of the earth.
Drawing all th nga to It."
Who shall say after this, that the
Hon. Benjamin Franklin's kite and
lightning experiment is aafo?
Hut the disturbance of the old botiefs
becomes more violent as we proceed.
Cinderella’s glass slipper was a fur
slipper. The story is from the French;
the panloufle en pair, or slipper made
of fur, was translated aa though it had
been pantoufle en verre, or glass slipper.
It has long been a mystery how
Cimlen-lla could dance around in her
glass si pirers without smashing them.
We willingly sacrifice tlie legend for
tho sake of tlie explanation. But not
ao easy is it to calmly receive the in
formation, that the cup that “cheers
but not inebriates" was a cup of tar
water, Hisliop U.-rkoley having so used it
in “Sirla” previous toCowper’a effort,
Uow have tlie mighty fallen I Napo
leon did not originate the sentence
'one step from tlie sublime to tlie
ridiculous,” although lie proved it
T.mi Paine was the guilty man. Nor
was it a Napoleon who invented “inex-
ora'ile logic of facta,” but Maxxini
Milmc. Pompadour started “after us,
the deluge” upon its travels, not Met-
tenth'll. Montaigne may have felt ami
said that “no man is a hero to his own
valet,” but Mtdaine Comuel, who
died long before him, had already
commented upon tlie fact. Abbe
E lgewotel did not say to Louis XVI,
as his head full under tile axe, “Son of
St. Louie, a-cend to heaven.” Tho
Abbe says that the newspaper* started
tho rumor. The gentlemen who re-
vis <1 the Bilde have discovered that
"strain at a gnat suit swallow a camel”
ahonl.i l*e “strain out a gnat,” etc.
The same g-iitlemon have abolished
hell ami substituted hades, and if the
old saying "change the name and not
tlie letter is to change for worse and
not f»r better” he true, they have not
rend*-r-d tlie world-a s-rvice.
But to continue: Commodore Tatt-
1877 ....25.% 49.02
42 20 1878 ...5205
1879 20.85
1880 ..ai.96
1881 25.79
1 lu r la no hlog to do b a t-. v - i-t the *• ault
and gel ready tot the November light, and nail did not originate the expression
alter that for the fight ot Mas.
Trank Hurd
Went down in the Ohio conflict. It Is
a pity that Carlisle, Morrison and some
other* could not have fallen by his side.
Tlie conspiracy in which these men
were engaged during the last session of
Congress was of that character likely to
invite political death. By reason of
locality, Carlisle is for the present safe
but it U not unwelcome news that
Morrison is hard pressed. Bat for the
useless and nonsensical free trade
speeches made last winter, thy nation
al Democratic party could now see its
way clear a victory, in place of being
closely pressed by doubt* and dangers.
Among the political tradition* of Ohio
is one to the effect that Frank Hard is
always beaten at alternate elections.
Perhaps this was hit time, but an’Ohio
dispatch saya he was overweighted by
hi* free trade sentiment*.
We feel a sympathy for him prompt
ed by personal liking, because be did
not attempt to dodge hit own wont*
or to decieve hit constituents. He
openly avowed that he was a free
trader. Ite is skilled in the sophis
tries ot free trade and delights to
toy with politic* aa he might with a
favorite watch charm. Possessed of a
bright and cultivated mind, a large in
come ami great independence of
thought and expression, be knows and
care* little for the aria of tlie polili-
lilood is thicker than water.” It can
befoundin oneol Walter Scott’s novels.
Mr*. Malaprop really said that com
parison* were not becoming to young
girl x; but ”cnm|*triaona are odious"
is front “ Mili-li a dj About Nothing."
“Concerning snakes’’ in Ireland ought
to he Iceland. The “March hare" was
a “marsh hare." Sterne’s "God
tempera- the wind to the shorn lamb”
wa* not original, but adapted from a
French proverb. Bhakspeare ad-pted
hit “who steal*my puneateala trash,”
etc., from a sermon. It was Goldsmith
who wrote—
Man wants but little her* below,
Nor wants that liula long."
hut Young preceded him with
“Man wauls but little, nor thet Rule long.
Even Tennyson's charge of the “Light
Brigade” suffers as the records are
brought out and aired. Michael Dray
ton's "Battle of Agincourt" baa it;
a Candid Confsaalon as to the Tariff.
Tlie Meridian Mercury credits Sena
tor Pugh, of Alabama, with this ex
pression :
There la not moro Ignorance on any other
aubjc eta In the world than there is on tho tariff.
I used to make speeches and rear and paw
the air; and I didn t know what I was talk
ing about.
Senator Pugh is a man of brains and
honesty. The words sound like his
and they are doubtless true. Senator
Pugh entered into politic* at a time
when the tariff was discussed at the
South merely with a view of
finding out some way to punish the
New England manufacturers, who
were abolitionists. What the South
then meant by free trade was that it
was to be a retaliatory measure to pun
ish Iter political enemies, just as the
re-opening of tho African-slave trade
was discussed and indorsed as an off
set to the higher law doctrine of New
England. Rnt few, comparatively, of
our leading men, really studied
the tariff as a question of po
litical economy, or an adminis
trative policy. The ignorance
which Senator Pugh ascribes to him
self was widespread, and his testimony
could be strongly fortified if kis polit
ical compeers were as frank as himself.
In the years immediately preceding
the war, the exasperating sectional is
sues gave no time or opportunity to an
examination of the tariff and in those
that followed defeat, men were too
busy trying to save local government,
personal rights and n support for them
selves and families to give much atten
tion to subjects so abstruse and
dry as the scalo of tariff duties or their
effects upon tlie country.
But with the 'death of fioctionaliam
the question looms up. Behind it
stands the prosperity and strength of
the North, ita actively employed capi
tal and its accumulated wealth. The
tariff is presented as the ground work
of tho policy of one of the great parties
which seeks to control the government,
the party, in fact, which now controls
It, and has done ao for many years.
Senator Pugh shows by hfa confession
that he has unlearned something,
and that he has an earnest
desire to loam other things. Ae a
Senator he is addressing himself to a
study and examination o( the tariff.
The mats of his constituency, and that
of every other Southern Senator, even
including the able country editors, are
rearing and pawing tlie air, just as
Senator Pugh used to roar anil paw.
And this is about all they knowconcern-
ing the tariff. Tho South could not be
more greatly benotlted in any other
way titan if tiicse people would seri
ously try to inform themselves on a
subject of which they are profoundly
ignorant.
The Democratic party, once near the
goal oi victory,was defeated by Ita posi
tion on tbo.tariff. Now again it is in
volved in a mighty contest, and charges
again and again with the cry of reform,
while State after State wheels into an
opposition line, under the lead of men
who do understand what a tarifl is and
how to use it.
If the people of the South understood
the tariff and kindred subjects, they
could see and appreciate, that under
tlie plea ot tariff reform an attempt is
being made toaoreduce thedntlea upon
imports, that the internal revenue sys
tem may be fixed upon tho country
with ita unjust and unequal taxation,
its spies, pimps and informe a, its
dally oppressions of the citizen. They
would see and understand that those
who are shouting tor tlie destruction
of the tariff are animated and inspired
by tlie desire and intention that the
whisky ring, with its iniquities and
abominations, ahail live and prosper.
Tlie South rears and paws the air. The
North grows rich and powerful, and
control* the government.
l)»t since .that day Democrats
over the county have been iaduitrW
^working to repair the damage th«
Until within* fow days many Bln
game people indulged the hope that'
harmony .would be brought about; W
the nomination ol a citizens’ ticket •
New York city means nothing more o')
less than a fight on Tammany, ivint
effoct this is to have upon the fortunes
of Sir. Cleveland remain* to seen but
that there is danger ahead may 2
learned from thiaextra:t from the Ne.
York Star: ew
Nobody r^cctl be informed that the runi* a
a triangular contort in Now y or k city m„°
necessarily be dleaztrous to the Dom-ema
national ticket,>t only In Nov York buTte
every other doubtful state. It , IU
imlor and change enthusiasm into disco,,,.."
ment. If any Democrat or isolated ItcluJu
can kicker bugs the fond deluslou that j.mL
G Maine will not get a larger voteih.
Grover Cleveland In this Bute outside »
York city, that sangulno and sappy Individ,m
possesses more hopo than Judgment win,
th.e party united here four years ago we ,uu
lost the State, and with it the President
The blame, of course, was laid at Tam manv’i
doors because of Grace, although he
then, aeuow.notthe nominee ot “
but of tho County Democracy.
William R. Grace has already fliiwH «r
highest political offleo which he Is cverlltei!
to attain by popular vote. We np<*rt * ei,r
pivsoo, n,m it is not witnm our province here to discuss the record ho achlovlt T
to speculate os to their motives in doing machine ho tried to build up, or thcscsndj
These figures are borne out by the I 80 - That the practice is likely to beget «u»«l by hla eecret naiuraliseiiou the night
carefully-kept records of every South- suspicion is made evident by tlie letter ,? tr ; Elk i“* c»u well afford io
era city that have come under our containing the queries to which wo are penice, and Graco bldDalr tohe < l* mP * l * ,1 **'
notice. At present only the health re- responding. bered aa doing politically for lfancwkand
ports of the Macon hoard of health for Great injury is done to the public by Cleveland what uuiteau did physically for
the year 1883 are at hand. During U'»e railroads in giving these passes to P*!®' 14,
that year there were 327 deaths in tho Hie members of the Legislature. It is ., eeem8 to u " “ ,ttt an organization
city of Macon. The record shows that I tHo causo of their neglecting public ^ llc “ cou mako 8u ch a display u
209 of these were negroes and 118 duties and prolonging the sessions’at! i ‘' m j nan y on Tuesday night last is
whites. When it is remembered that tl,e expense ol the people. absolutely necessary to Democratic sne-
tho former loss came from a popula- Some of the States forbid such ac- C0SS ’ 111118 8 aDemocra Hc fight. No
tion of 10,000 and the latter from n tionon the part of railroads, by stat- ° n0 . «»“ fl“« 8t, on the Democracy of a
population of 12,000, that the ute, and Georgia would be benefited by that . “"““to its aid such speak-
negro death was g0.03 to tho tho enactment of a similar law. But 1™ tt8 . , en T e ur “» n . Senator
1,000 as compared witli a death rate I th e man with a Docket full of free I “d ex-Uov. Carroll. f
of 11.80 among the whites, it will be passes may hardly be expected to de- j _ ° could P lle U P indorsements as to
readily understood that some appalling P r ive himself of them. The courtesy of , ‘ ng wo , 1 more ' n ti'* 8
error is creating frightful havoc with the railroads has been wantonly out- c ° n “ 8t M,8n thousands upon thousands
the African race in this country. raged by the selling and lending of ° ... 10 . 0 enterprising Georgia
What is tho cause? Tho writer theso passes. Wo have one in our pos-L 11 ° r ’ a . or ,‘ e pr . u8 . cnt l"? 1)C ‘’
quoted assigns several. They are pov- session now, that was taken from a T v* '* ° r ’"“, ons ol George
or tv dennndnnt unnn ItnnmvLlanon nun. not a leuistator. who Venn riflin'* * . ’ ' Sl l’> a Barling merchant
snud Among the whites was 1,21, and among B °w whether it rains in time or not.
the blacks forty eight. But from that dato for- Let them make the experiment on good
»f rd '.r h K, her v ln *, lr<! ‘ n !^7'! lo T ,c J e 7 roth "' land and an area too large. With
wise, the blacks haredledat rates far In excess a. .... . .. s .. ,
of the whites. There or j but two exceptions to * er | l ' lza ^ ,on “ lls 18 proper method
this rule, which aro furnished in the years insure a crop.
1^17and 1878. During tho succeeding years, I " - •••■
(town to 1882, the death ratca of tho two race. Fr,# PaBI,a f or Public omelxla.
per thousand per annum are -.von aa fol- Eorroas TxLEoaarn Ann MisitNota: Please
low.: excuae the qucstlon-do you think It right Ur
Yra. Whites. Blacka.|Yra. White.. Rlacki. member, of tho Leglilature and other public
M'Simv S’S 41MI functionaries to receive “free pesKi" over
'* > l - ij lJj the various rallr >ad. In the state? What doe.
32.41 It rooau, aud what can he tho purpojo of tho
3138 railroad. Jn thu. favoring theie servants ot
|J5 the public? la there not at lcaat cause for
suiptclon In this gratuity on the part of the
Aceordingto the census of 1880, the white r “ d,? Please ana*er. aa It la a question In
population of New Orleans was 1’8,3]7, aud wa * c,, ,|1B » r0 Inlorerted, and one
the colored population was blfiii. The pro-1 •* , * n, ^,^ r ^ c h we trust they wlH speak out In
portions of the two races were something leu condemnation, believing it, os we
than three whites to one b'a-dc. The following iniquitous and disgraceful to tho
remark, taken from the report of the board r f “ on 9*. and Plide ot oar grand old common-
health, I. therefore an oier>tat?ment of the Dx mock at.
death rate amongtho negroes but, after allow- We think it wrong for legislators and
lug for theexaggerat’on in thb re.pect, It pro- all other public officials to receive free
Mints a startling picture of the reality. The „„„
report saya: "It fa worthy of remark that P asse9 over various railroads of the
while tho whltea exceed tho blacks In the pro- stst®.
portion of about four to one, at the same time The railroads have a right to extend
?® d ^' mon8th « btsckpopulation,cent, these courtesies to whomsoever they
(led by the coroner, actually exceeded thoie „i„„ , . .... . '
among the whltea tn the proportion of 472 to p -' as0 ’ an, l it is not within our province
erty, dependent upon improvidence, man, not a legislator, who was riding 1 1 '’ „ 8
idleness and vice; poverty dependent on it, and wo have had our attention . , .’ " a 8 e n cman of judicial
mind and temper. We' find these ob
servations from him in tho Augusta
Chronicle and ConetUulionalut:
"Did you note the political outlook?"
poverty dependent
upon ignorance of mercantile anil pro- called to several similar cases,
feseional pursuits; crowding and neg- ~ , *
lect of sanitary rules, and imperfect The attentton of some MtheNorthcrnPBI, ML JRHW
TJn, e , nf0rC< i? b , y destltutlon: want °f journals is beingdrawn to the increas- “J could not help It. Bu.lne.smen in New
skillful medical attention, and medi- ln B number of railway di.aster* caused ' ork c "y now abandon everything for poll-
cinos and diet for the sick colored wSl ’ T? ™ ** a matter wiih
Dy maueious persons, flow any per- your banker; some one comes in and talks
nn . son can becomo so blinded by malice Cleveland and your man is drawn off la the
These are the causes; but the excel- and tho f or revenge as to be will- P° lltlcal *<>*«*• Tho business men’s demon-
lent article quoted strikes the koynote in - 10 , he liv , . * t «r«!en In honor of Cleveland, In Wall .treet,
of suffering when it dwells unon the . 8 i : V . I! , mnoce nt was ono of the mo.t brilliant, significant and
. .A \ . P “* e travelers in order to obtain revenge for lmprcailvo exhibition, that I ..or .aw I
fact that the race has been tempted to | n j ur j CB inflicted by corporations is be- found myieU In the middle of It In hunt of
forsake the country for tho cities. In yon j y le understanding of most pco- Tre ““T building and waa unable
tlie crowded town the average negro is n i„ p eraQn . however who have in *° bo,t or ba4 * , • 1 do not ,hlnk ' hcM c ‘“ to
at sea. Opportunities to indulge his n T.’i : to “? *>»ht about New York, and It.c m, t„ to
nna.lnna „mt h “ nJIe th ° dlllly J ournaT » ot lar RO cities, generally conceded" that New Jersey I. ufely
passions and appetites, temptations to know that there exist* a large class of Democratic. stlU, when you meet a Blaine
debauches; the necessity for crime; absolutely without moral in- ®»n h «talke Jnetasetrong; Hubpegeantiare
the charms of idleness, all surround BtinctB « V mnathotic emotions or a Ukcw,M m ** nIflc ' n <- 1 “"er saw panic, io
him. The large death rate of the negro 1 P f ~ ‘ “ thoroughly organized or determine.! Both
„„ ? ™. ■ , . ,.f 8ense o* responsibility. These persons .tdc.aroun!!ormed,theBlalncltc.aroplumed
race springs direct from immorality, ar0 the abandoned of society. They I the Democrat! are dabbed, ami th- Mount
which is fostered nnd Increased by city work on j v to keen off starvation I New York wlu to ablaze from thu time until
Sfc , . .. ,, Crime is to them a delight.’ The suL ^Towltont .he Dem.cr.Ue dl „u.
The natural conclusion of the argu- [erlngB of lheir lellow racn lt | ra noL» Yo,k“
ment is, the negro should go back to emo tion within them beyond a secret “That Is the only thing remaining to be
plantation life. This is reached in the Mtufotion in beholdingothera envoi- Jj"* 1 U P* *
article quoted: * TO i Mrv Democracy will vots for Cleveland, but If they
“Philanthropists, who have labored to bring ‘ T ,. y t t * x coul< * only be I rought to unite on county of-
the negroes to the towns and cities to be cdu- * bis class, fortunately for society, is fleers the effoct would be better and the gene*
cated, ought to see In the foregoing facts that not organized. To tlie credit of the hu- rat result much more certain. ’
a great mistake has been made; that the best man race, bo it said, they are the “AndTammanyl”
Pl.ee forth.negro, Phyled'y and mordly. m0 „, m0nBtr0B | t | 0 . 0 f the ago. YatL "l j^ ^Ytaee 4 thrt rwd lajurilesjus
Is the plantation, and that tho appropriate .. . , , . * . . \ .. » been done this branch ol Democracy. Tam-
work for them to do Is to build school houses ^ ChRDDt be denied but that their many Ilall Is ono of tho most powerful and
among the farm houses, Instead of spending number increases. One places an Ob- respectable organisations In this country. Ido
the bulk of tbolr money In giving higher edn- st ruction on a railroad track; another notre 5 ar ‘l*bo membership an aggregation of
cation to such as crowd into the cities.” aliins nn infernal machine on an nconn 1®°*'** M Kelljr •* •“ unprincipled boas.
|. . . . . n 4 . ,n, P i an lnIornai nwcmno on an ocean Ucket Juit nominated is one of the
Ana not only snouia tno negro go steamer; another still throws a bomb best ever brought out In New York city, so all
back to the plantation ami tho simple, under a public building, and yet an- "Me* acknowledge. The County Democracy
healthy \ife of his youth, but he should other applies the torch. Undoubtedly and ,nrln * UaUf •hould supj»ort jhis ticket
be kcpl ‘hero by being aboliahetl a. a J„ soma instances* prospect of gaining y"?/^ preb^y tata- loUn.'ttV'Z
political factor. As long as no is of plunder induces these crimes. Rome- tervlew with Kelly meant something. I be-
value to the political demagogue, just times it is a blind personal revenge; but Here John Kelly la ps true a Democrat os there
eo long will he become his prey. the majority of instancos seems to bo M* country, and that Southern people
based upon only tho venom of immoral Bh 5S?^ bc 1 th ' ,? t l? sl J? up0D l lra .«
[The Drouth, Small Grain and Farmers* n «inww lllv , n ftn n i )nn rmil na*«lnn th** drives away old
The prevailing and widespread ^nn abnormal pu.ton tor frta|lh ani , t . omradcB t „ maWe a coal’.
drouth is a serious annoyance to moat The clai ; o| crtme , nameJ , aaifflcnU ll0 " t " i ‘ b “ f “ ld “ 8 cnemIes - '* l » 8 dan -
pcoplo in more way* than may quickly to roachi and thero haa boen no pun . K 0f0a » condition.
b *,.*° Wn *r* tad l but . ‘ 1 ‘\*" b " d ‘ y ishment of anffleient severity provided Arr . lt inx th. P,o.r... of con.u
called a phenomenal visitation of the i f or t j ie gnJl t y wretches. There can bo i a this disease, as every one is
no punishment too severe for the the only hope ol the patient lies in the
Long drouth, .recommon during the wretch who ^ to doBtroy Ufe from ‘to^re.ch tiWrolS
[lato summer and early fall months, | m ere wan tones* and love of human | out-door exercise, and by various otbrr
means for SsTpmrtug the R<-nerul beallh
which are known to involicla amt physi
cian.. Now, In the Yltal zin* Trcalim-nt
particularly throughout the cotton-1 misery,
growing region. It does not require
hey sow to fifht Jure (one,
Armour on armour ehone;
Drum now to drum did (rasa—
To bear waa wonder.
That with th. erie. they make.
The very earth did ■hake;
Trump. I to trumpet apaka.
Thunder to thunder.
Hurely this must have served aa
Tennyson's model. Talleyrand ia not
the author of “Speech waa given to
mao to d sgulte hi* thoughts.” Vol
taire was the inventor. The “sweet-
nma and light” of a somewhat dndiah
literary school dales back to Dean
Destruction of tha Negro.
A writer in the New York Nun has
lately given some intereiting statistics
affecting tlie negro race, which go to
prove the usertion that hit death rate
is far in excess of that of the white,
and gives color to the oft-repeated
claim that the negro race is dying oat
It is shown that in Boston the death rate
among the negroes to M.lOtothe thou
sand greater than the whites; in
Providence, R. I., it to 0.75 greater
in SL Louii 15.75 greater; in the State
ot Illinois 3.33 greater; in New York
3.43 greater.
But In theie cities it to not likely that
the teet to a fair one since the climate,
mode* of life and ot occupation are all
unfavorable to the negro. Not ao, how
ever, in New Orleana. In the Crescent
City the negro should flourish; indeed
hi* chance* for life ahonld be there
greater than those enjoyed by the oppo
site race. Let us examine the evi
dence:
Th* moel atriklnf and sppanioc trident* of
th* eraalehzasM of th* cotor*diae*l*fur-
Llihed Is th* report* from Hew Orleans The
■F New Englund Slavery. — — „
the memory of the oldeet inhabitant to! ...... I of Dr*. Starkey & Palen, HU) Girard
recall drouth* as severe and protracted -S y ? d „ L' £7 } h 1 , ,y *™M*jM* l i* | a. hs* Ireen dl.covrr, d
.. . r differed from the New England system an egent that vlve« directly this blgber
os the present one. Itwssa svstam tin.lnr which vitality, which becomes upparent nt tn
Since it lias been demonstrated that , w “ * , ,y “ n , , , , very outeet of its net ThU is manlfeit in
.. ... . ., ... people were hired for Ufe instead of by an almost Immediate lucre sea ot apiteiue,
Georgia to well adapted to tho cuttiva- ^ * . . d bu k tha , ,nd In a e*n» of life and b .illly romforL
tion of oats, and that it Is a most valu-j. \ y , , .. . II the Treatment It oontinued, a eteadr
-him rmn one farmer, have | the slave* Were Well treated, provided I Improvement m-urlv slw.y follow.; and
,, , li t . « with food, clothing and medicines, and -here die disease has not bocome too
plained that tho dry falls did not fur- ,, , ’ . . “ , , . deeply seated, a cure may be confidently
ni.li ommrtunitv to DroDerlv seed this allowed ■ “I 4 * 10amonnt of recreation; (or . If you u.„ -tot
nish opportunity to properly seed mi* ^ com(ort| were really as ex- ry erldenee of this. Mud Dm. fit.
crop. There to some reason to consid- , „ , c .. ,v Palen for *m-!i document, and r.-;>oria
or tills complaint more imaginary than ten . 8 Te “ thy ^ured by the wagea ^ yo? , jiu]( ,J tor
, 1 am! hours of New England laborer#. Ltieh yoarsdf, and they will be }«:o;npUy
m.’ .. . n- . a . i . But what would Mr. Carlyle have (urnl bed
£ e a f FostpenefiUuiirJIaiiludo
gay,- England State? A correspondent of _goRol*. bibb coi ->tv —tty virtu* . tea
i . . . 1 . ... the New York IKorfd ssserta that socll U order of the court of orllnary of aald .gun-
i eeterday a prominent phyelclan of thle . fin will he sold to toe hlghe.t hl.lder, on the
city recalled a reminiscence calculated to slavery exist* tn Vermont. He says: ffntTuezday In November, Isct, between the
prove very encouraging to th. farmer.. He A* their town meeUnfs lu those tow ue that “ | tk<l
stated that during a drouth about th* year of have no poor farm, they pnt up alt the old, property, tnsrlte one tot containing m viz*
1S32 he wa* at a dinner party at CUftoa, Cum- Infirm and poor people thu come on tho town mom dwelling. dour.Ie kitchen, etc., on the
berlaad county, the reeldenc* of Mr. »*n- *ore«pport and teU pernio the loweet bidder ^V^oM;»"““d 8 h“rtrtr«talnl(aN'J.
dolnh ltarrizon. Th* eonveraatloa turned forooeyear. and they aregonerally bid off by Lraori.-a, and on .-hurt back tnaleofoot
upon the weather and lu probable affect upon ! (annera, always with the sxpeclstlon that alley 1TO feet, mere or leas. Al-o Uie va.»
the crops, when Mr. Harrison, who was then they can get work enougk ont of them to pay MoOioMot tmolluMoa JOhnamieWjjU-^j.-
•eventr yean ol age, said that during a season for thalr keep, aothu what they gat from the ; n rear^fha whole Ik-Ihi owned Jointly by
town la clear gals, as they fores them to work h. loMnin. xuardun of B. 1'. M.lk-r.n-l
they ca, stand up in tha field, aa Ml*« A w a j her, who will make deeds to
only Danners. Ye,, even ooorold I lh * whole on day of zUe. Termacmh.^
in hlz (Harrison's) youth, wheat waa sown tn
ground io dry that it d'd not eproot unUl
Chriztmaa week, when It waa brought up by a
saow, and yet the crop waa a very In* one.
We take it that what is true of the
■oil in Virginia to alio true of that of
Georgia and that oat* differ in no re
spect aa to sprouting from wheat. It
to more than likely that U these grains
are gown now they trill come np
after tlie rains and make an abun
dant yield. It to at least worth the
time and labor to make the ex
periment. Hard clay lands, and those
heavily covered with a growth of gras*
and weeds, may be difficult to break
np'now.but land* that have been cloee-
ly grazed and thoae upon which cotton
ha* been cultivated, may be seeded in
wheat and oats without difficulty.
In this section it to important that
these crop* bo pnt in the ground deep
and in the early toil to insure a good
they are only psnpen. Yes, even poor old |
crippled soldier* fare the same tat* tn
Imtancea; and then have been cases where
lb* horsewhip haa been need to epurnu poor
men to do more work. Then, when etee-
octl lawlw
Guardian ot Benonl 1‘. Walker.
Applit.lion From Onlioiry’s Court
tion day cornea, they are forced to vote tkw I MoiiiuymNu^
Republican ticket. Thle la a fact that I have her next t will iu\kc appU^MtlonJo the Co*
«-f ordinary of aald coua&y f,#r lraro to «cll t
Tho Fight on Tammany*
The New York Herald and tho New
York Tima, which hare led the pres
ent Presidential campaign, started
with the avowed purpose to crash that
branch of the New York city Democr
ey known asTammany Hall. They we
ably seconded by the peculiar friends of
Mr. Cleveland and a few Southern
journal* were loud in their demands
that the organisation should jra read
out of the Democratic partv. This
movement received the im
primatur of the Chicago convention,
nt of helra au<l creditore of said dcceai
K C. SAWYER,
A'linlnl*tr»t'>r of riix-imMllSawy*
WEAK, UNDEVELOPED PARTI
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