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THE TKLF.GBAPH AND MESSENGER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1884. dated election returns are still coming in. There yet remains a feeble hope that the “lostcourier" maybe found. A New Yota Journal claims Sen. Jno. It. (Jordon as a citlien of that place, and notes his intention to remain there perma nently. East, bh cities hare been visited by a se vere southwesterly storm. St. Louis has euft. r. d from severe cold, but the Sonth laj nny. Thkee's a painful rumor afloat that the late visit of Mr. Hendricks to Hr. Cleve land did not doss in a cordial spirit and understanding. Bevvy Ana has gone back to Kentucky. She probably wants to get Col. Watter- son's Indoisement for the position of star eyed godess to the administration. Dcmno allot thlaruction we have llsten- i in vain tor an assurance from Colonel uy 1 to the statesmen of the Fulton conn- chsln-gang, that their suffrage is in no Tilt latest New York idea is for young Is 1 is To knit suits of silk nnderdothing for their sweethearts. Many a man when he reads this will admit that he married too soon. A VATton is supposed to keep a navy tor the protection of its merchant shipping, but we are prepared to argue that for the protection of his merchant shipping, Un cle Sam ought to retire bis navy. This is a Thanksgiving day, and to-night the jaybird, joree, thrasher and wood pecker that gets back to his home with less than an ounce of shot in bis anatomy may well lift his voice In gratitude. Eonon Whitilaw Reid, it seems, would rather sit on the journalistic fence anil watch the Democratic bull go charging by, than to try and bead him off with a Sen atorial toga. No wiie man will ajlow a bull to toss him twice. ign. On the w! I of the Vice-President was the occasion of a kind of love-feast among the brethren over their hard won vic tory. But things are not altogether so •the lovely as they seem. In the course of 11 bc Ida speech at Brooklyn, Mr. Hendricks took occasion to say something as to the fruits of the victory. This has not pleased one of the new leaders of the Democratic party, the New York Times. And that journal mtkea haste to ex- press its displeasure in very emphatic language. The very active interest taken by that journal in robbing Mr. Hendricks of the Vice-Presidency in 1876 will account for its venom Among the unexplainable perversi ties of human nature is that which begets hatred against a party that has been deeply wronged, A man may forgive and condone many offenses, but he cannot bo mads to feel good towards one whom he has injured without cause. The immediate cause of the wrath of the Timet is the language held by Mr. Hendricks as to civil service reform. That some curious opinions are held by individuals in connection with this po litical snare and delusion is admitted. That both of the great parties have made some utterances therein intend ed to catch Toters is true. That any party as an organisation believes in it and intends when in power to enforce it, will hardly catch the ear of the most credulous.' Parties are made up of individuals and in this great country, there are a very few per sons who believe that a party can run the government with its enemies in office, and fewer still who entertain the most distant idea that it will be at tempted. The practice of the Repub; lican party forbids even the suspicion. There is a homely adage that says "there are more ways of killing a dog than choking him to death with butter." The adage carries its own application. We reproduce the most charming part of the leader of the Timet. Alluding to the Independent Republicans it proceeds to say: ■ s now in elcomed mocratio gallant point where Tom Ilendrit All of this but if it be party has J small awl in it is “no matter” what ks says? is not surprising to us, all tme the Democratic kindled down lo a ve-y ignificant, concern. niocraiic The Timet winds up itii Culmination tion of n with this wa •nlng: We are not ft tns back to Andrew Jackson of political methods. visit to Then tho I imet is not going any fur-1 tlier with tho Democratic party. An- 11 Ll drew Jackso u is tho patron politics! s of the ItA VI hit saint of the Democratic party. Ho sxved his con ntry in the field, held the Th. Valua of a Cltl! 0 Southom Stales cast n members, an nvcrng„ member of Congress. T eight t , nit,. erago While the Cbiuftfufren gang was raiding the Legislature just after the election news bed been received, somebody carried off the office cannon, Hehadawlsehead. The want of aderrick, only, prevented his car rying away the office horn elso. "i'l-.iENDa must garrison the captured tort- rasa,- Is the way a Democratic Mississippi paper puts it The betting Is one hundred to nothing, and no takers, that the Democratic patriot who penned the sentence la “very hungry" (or a postmastersblp on toast— Tribune. And that the man who penned the above has kinfolks in office. . The day will be duly observed by the great American small boy in an attempt to slay all of the jorees, yellowhammers and woodpeckers that have escaped the dollar anil a half gnna oi the lately enfran chised brother in black. It will be alto gether prudent for those solicitous oi life and limb notto venture beyond the corpo ra's limits. •‘Imagine a few colored couples waltzing at Buchanan’s inaugural ball In 18S7,” says the Globe-Democrat. Can't do it. Nor can we imagine them wallxing at Cleve land's in 1885. Fact is, we cannot even recollect that they waltzed at any inaugural balls, though their belored friends, the Republicans, have had several Thi managers oi the New Orleans expo sition have been searching the world for curiosities to be placed upon exhibition, and have eo far secured of the colossals only the Great Eastern. Here is an oppor- tunily for Benjy Butler. Benjy, mounted upon a podestal of dry goods boxes oover- ed with green cloth, and posing as the squint-eyed god of reform, would attract national attention. Union together ted its laws, I submission, an these may be c its President, execu- ght his enemies to stood by his friends, lidered old-fashioned virtues by the pigmies, who have risen to place in these days; but the sooner the Democratic party gets back to An drew Jackson's methods, the better for the. country. In the St. Louis Grand Opera House on Sunday last was enacted a scene not down on the bills. The theatre canght fire and burned to the ground, but standing oh the stage, the firemen, snrronnded by flames, amoke and toppling scenery, made a long and gallant fight. Never was so thrilling a scene witnessed theie before, but when for the last time the cuitain came thundering down, it fell amid Ihe blazing ruins and no applame awoke. President Livingston, in return for the liberality of Macon, la attempting to fix Atlanta as the permanent place for hold ing fairs of the Georgia Agricultural Socie ty. We recall ono-ot the fairs at At lanta, that was run by the irrepressible Bev Wrenn. A local journal announced fifteen thousand people on the grounds. fVe look the precaution to count the crow d, which numbered to a figure six hundred and forty-lire. The moat notable attrac tions were a bearded woman, a bushel of turnips, a half-dozen fourth-rate race horses and a brass band. In fulfillment of a vow made years ago, u Nantucket man went to hfs father's grave and communicated the glad intelli gence that a Democratic President had at last been elected. We will never, never know, perhaps, but ft may bo that the dead man’s sympathies were all with the fellow who was “left out in the cold." We do not know that a man waa ever drummed out of ranks in a Georgia mili tary organization, but now that our popu lation U becoming mixed the time may come when eucli examples will be neces sary. The LegUlature, in reorganizing the militia law, ought to provide for this contingency by desIguaUng some- air as th* “Rogue's March.' 1 It seems to ns that "Marching Through Georgia" would fill Thousands ot them voted for the Demoeratfo candidates on the assurance that their elec tion would not endanger what has been gain ed In the way of civil service reform, but would result In the maintenance and faithful application of tho MtabUshcd system. With out this assurance It wo Ud have been Impos sible to elect a Democratic President, and we have no doubt that tho assurance was well founded. Should it prove - otherwise tho Democratic lease ot power will be very short. Now comes Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, who was dragged Into the positlc-n of Vice-President-elect by tho strength of tho head of the ticket, and li a speech In Brooklyn gives hfs idea of civil ser vice reform. "I am very free to say to you people to-night," he remarks, "that I tun not particularly confident ot success after tae schoolmaster's examination, but I will tell you what I have confldeace in ss it wee In t days oi Andrew Jackson. Let a man come be Preatdent of the United states, and let true men be oalled around him and aid him In the pnbUc service. Let these men resolve that the only qualification for office shall he hon esty and fltnesa for the service, and then you have clvl service reform." If we were to de pend upon the resolves ef theae "true men" of the Hendricks order we should have noth ing of the kind, but a very prompt return to the spoils system. But Mr. Hendricks Is an old-fashioned Democrat, end heply'he over rates his Importance in this time of triumph. The men who made Mr. Cleveland' election possible would gladly have voted for the head of tho ticket wlthoot accept log the old-ityle appendage if the thing could have been done. Mr. Hendricks and his friends did their best to prevent Cleveland's nomination In order that the Indiana states- man might stand at the head of the ticket. In which case the Democratic party would have been onco more detested, and tbe country would have suffered tho humiliation of Blaine’s election. Wo doubt If Mr. Hendricks's namoeontrlbu- ted In the remotest degree to tho success of the ticket. Possibly ho helped to secure tho vote ot Indiana, hut It was not needed, and certainly he came perilously near causing the loss ot the vote of New York, which waa need- ed, for tho Independents votad for him with reluctance, and many a Republican who bated to vote for Mr. Blaine and was Inclined to hive confidence in Cleveland would not vote for Hendricks at any price. However, ai Byron remarks of Bishop Berkeley's state ment that there la no matter, tt la no matter what he says. AVe do not desire any office and cer tainly do not expect that offices will bo so plentiful and seekers so few that wo shall be drafted. Bat gentlemen, Democrats who do, in the language of Mr. Squcers, “Here’s richness.” Tho New York Tima leading the Demo cratic party, tho Now York Timet that holds that it is Republican still, the Now- York Timet that advised its adherents in every State to support the Republi can State tickets, which they did so faithfully that no Independent Repub lican Congressmen were elected, de mands that in return for its thirty thousand Republican votes in New York Stato the Republi can rascals shall not bo' turned out. How do you who contributed the other necessary votes relish this 7 Hen dricks was dragged through by tho head of tho ticket. It is a matter of record that when tho ticket was made there was an immediate and nnaui mous shout that the cart had been placed before tho horse. And "Hendricks causod the dole vote in Now York," and "did not con tribute in tho remolest detreo to tho success of tho ticket.” "Possibly” ho did something in Indiana. Do you re call how you hung about the bulletin boards, (or weary .lays and sleepless at tl nights, to learn what Tom Hendricks ter v did in Indiana? Who gavo Tho “assur- j havi The Futux of the Negro. If any one has seriously bethought htm that the result of tbe recent elec tion has solved the negro problem he isdeBtined to a rnde awakening in the not distant future. The roseate view taken by noisy and oxultant politicians ot both sections to the effect that agita tion of the negro question will be silenced by tbe election of Mr. Cleve land, is sure to meet disappointment. The pfesses which supported Mr. Blaine, Bince the result has been defi nitely ascertained, are flllod with ex pressions on the exact line of the recent speech%f this gentleman delivered at Anguata, Maine. In the four years that most follow the 4th of March next an opportnnity will be afforded tbe people of the South to address them selves to a solution of this difficult problem that, upon its dark face, shows no point of light. Those journals which have appeased their personal malice and attempted to advance their eco nomic plans by an alliance with the Democratic party during the late cam paign, ere filled with cheap advice to Southern men as to their course to wards the negro. Having themselves ignominously failed to better his condition, to elevate his ambition, to make him a better cit- sen and a more reliable laborer, they are glad to throw tho responsibility upon other shoulders. They have no words for the negro. All of their cheap admonitions are directed to the whites. Looking at the question as it now presents itself there seems bnt little of hope. While one faction of the North ern people demand of the South im possible things, the other pre pares itself to keep the negro under such agitation as will unfit him to nnlearn the lessons of the last twen ty years and to accept new teachings. We have so far noticed bat one man who seems to have learned anything from the results of the contest. Fred Douglass declares that tho future of the negro is dependeht upon his complete Elimination as a political factor. But how is this to come about 7 Mr. Blaine and his friends, and they still consti tute a formidable party, are determined to prepare him for the contest of 1888. In the interval between now and then, he is likely to fall into the hands of the bad white men of the South who seek political power and its rewards. He is apt to be used in the State elections whiih occur about the middle of Air. Cleveland’s term. It is possible that the carpet bagger will be dis armed. The plain expectation of the Southern people is that the Federal offices will be bestowed upon a differ ent class ofpeople. The plea of Inde pendent Republicans will not avail, for there were no Independent Repub licans in the South. But now comes the opening for the scalawag. Many of tho men now in active politics of the South have made some use of the negro voter, and have deaired to make more use of him. The great struggle in the South on the part of good men, has been to keep bad white men from using the negro for their own selfish purposes. The solid hostility of tho North has aided them somewhat in this difficult task. While this solidity has been broken to some extent, yet there is a large part of the North still solid in a determination to agitate the negro question. The condition of the good negroes and good white men is likely to be improved by the overthrow of tho Re publican party, but it presents new opportunities to the bad class of both races, of which they will not bo slow to avail themselves. The political peace of the South is still to be threat ened by the negro under tho tutelage and guidance of the big end of tho Republican party of the North. Under such surroundings wo must begin the the attempt at a solution of tho negro problem. And from this standpoint at present, the future of the negro is as (lark as his complexion. Dralntnx Rainwater Ponds. A valued subscriber writes from Eu- faula, Ala., to learn the now mothod for draining the surface ponds in Southwest Georgia. Tho process was successfully demonstrated upon a pond on tho Hickory Level plantation, near Ducker’s station. A log crib was built in the deepest portion ot tho pond and ah apparatus for boring an artesian well erected upon it. Boring was be gun, and after proceeding a short distance a pipe was driven in, tho mouth which was level with tho bottom of tho pond. Joints were screwed into this until the end of tho pipo was above water. Through this ing was cqptinued until a crevice about fifty foot un-lcr ground :k. Till pip, bottom ot th s allowed to i ; passed off, ance” that the rascals should not lie j tooted by rocks, was placed over the diaturbed? And has it reached tho I vent, and a perpetual drain secured. as then unjointed pond and tho wa in out. Tho water tting pro- ither words the political value ofa> nOtilo and New Jure3 la less than lolltlcal ratne ota white man In MUttulppl tnd Alabama. And thin w tho sort ot thins rhtch the white torn of Ohio and New Jersey ire expected to halite a bleued revolution in the interest of the public.—N. Y. Tribune For tbe sake of argument wo will all in with tho Tribune and continue the analysis of the above figures. Af fairs are eveu worse than our bitter contemporary intimates. Tbe 271,100 above quoted were not ail white votes, as the IWOune states.lt is swell-known fact that more than one-third of them were cast by tbe negroes. The result is, arguing as per the mothod given, the average Southern voting negro or white than is superior in political strength to the average citizen o! Ohio and New Jersey. Instead of making the negro equal, if there is anything in tho Tribune't argument, the law has made the negro far anperior to citizens in some sections. Wo have no regrets to express for this “lamentable” state of affairs. At one time the North by aid of tbe ne gro vote, made white citizens of Ala-, bama*and Mississippi inferior to tbe negro. The North with the aid of this black political ally became atrong enough to destroy the Southern man’s political power entirely and left him in the hands of robbers who stripped and beat him unmercifully. When the white citizens of Alabama and Missis sippi were disfranchised and tbe vote of the New Jerseyman or tho Ohioan represented five times their proper vaine, did the Tribune lift up' its voice and weep? It lifted up its voice and shouted for joy. But really there is nothing in th« ar gument of the Tribune beyond tho sumption that the Southern white man lias prevented the negro from voting, a most unwarranted presumption since not an attack upon a negro has been re ported daring tho Presidential election, and no man is silly enough to believe that simple moral pressure could have kept back the negroes had they desired to vote. Tho basis of representation is the Bamein New Jersey and Ohio as in Mississippi and Alabama. In the for- mer States the people ore intelligent and employed in manufactories. They were addressed and tampered with for months preceding the election, and the result was a large vote was polled. ■ In the latter States nearly half the people are ignorant. No orators came among them to speak upon the issues of the day, although the press cordially invited men of all political prejudices. It is queer that the Tribune should expect the alleged Republicans of Mississippi and Alabama to leave their tasks and lose a day in cotton- picking time to accomplish that which their leaders^pronouncod hopeless in advance. The result was, only a small vote was'polled To [attempt to determine the average, value of a citizen in an admittedly solid section by tho voto'cast and draw a contrast between him and the aver age value of a citizen in a closely con tested State is a task well suited to the Tribune't methods. But it need not hnvo come South to secure a contrast. The vote cast for Air. St. Johns in New York was 30,000; for Mr. Blaine, 562,000. Yet the will of the majority was defeated by the minority. The New York Prohibitionist is, according to theIVliune style of argument, superior to more than eighteen Republicans. The Tribune may rest assured that had tho negroes voted in Alississippi and Alabama to a man, the Cleveland ticket would have triumphed. A vote of 000,000 would have made the two' sections contrasted, equal in point of personal political power and have se cured the result attained by less than half that number. Why should our contemporary tear his beard because the Southern darky to a largo extent saved a day’s labor? result; some that tlio effect will Bcarce- re votes ]y bo visible, while others boldly con- o North* ,eni1 t,ult 1,10 ruvmlue wil1 bo incrcas- ■ twenty-1 et *- But the effect upon a reduction horofore in tho Internal revenue is easily usa. in j perceptible and not disputed. The luff "the lttst rolluc,Jon in tho tax brought ultalppt J down the revenue from $13! of thins 1000,000 to $115,000,000 during the year ending September 1st, 1884 Tho falling off in receipts is a thing than can be easily calculated, from tho’ reduction rnado and tho production of the previous year. Not so with tho tariff. While tho tariff should be corrected wherever and whenever it is found to be defective or uselessly high, without regard to revenue, all reduction in receipts ought to be made upon the internal revenue before the tariff is resorted to. Direct taxation must go, and should be the first jto start. The internal revenue is more of a war tax than the tariff. It has been for centuries tbe curse of every country that baa resorted to ft in any form. That it lingers in this free country but proves the dangerous power of the ring it fosters. Turn the internal revenue out. Turn the Internal Revenue Out. The New York Sun sounds tho key note of what should be Democratic pol icy from now on, as follows: There aeomi to be > general agreement of opinion that something muit be done to lei- ■en Federal taxation. The government la tnd hai been raising more money than It needa. The only qneatlon la, what taxti ahall ho re duced! Hero tho endkis row between tho protecUonlita and free traders breaks out again, and a ntperfinona revenue continues to be collected became people can't agree whet particular inperfluity ahall be lopped off. Bat a surplus revenue Is a standing pre mium upon (read and extravagance. Is there any better wty to curtail It tban by abolishing the internd revenue taxes tnd making proper prevision (or (be deficiency so created, If anyf These taxes art unpopular, and havo always eon, The American people never liked this form of taxation. One hundred and ten years ago the Congress of the colonies denounced anexetteas "the horror of all free people* • ■ ' the most odtoue of taxes.” It ought to be eo still, and the machinery of spies and in formers which Us collection makes necessary, and the Injustice and hardships which It In volves, must always make It unpopular. The Internal revenue taxes were revived and Increased to monstrous proportions as a war measure. There Is now no longer any necessity or excuse for them. Thoy have been changed and lowered already. It Is lime that they were swept away altogether. The Southern States, where the abuses of the Internal revenue system are best understood, ought to mtkt tho strongest effort to have the odious tax abolished. The Southern States ought to, and doubtless will mako tho fight upon tho lino suggested. Indeed, in tho last Congress Hon. Seaborn Roosomado an Impressive speech upon just this lino. Tho effort to reduco tho revenue will certainly bo renotved in tho noxt Con- Let it be in the direction of a swooping redaction or totalabolitlon of tho internal revenue. Tariff reformers are not ngre, Quitting Cuffee. Commendable efforts are being made in all sections to qntet the alarm, part of which, by the way, is purely imag inary, that is said to exist among the negroes over the election of Cleveland Mr. Cleveland himself has spoken; tbe great dailies have thundered; meetings have been held and speeches made in the cities of Alabama, Georgia, Caro lina, Alississippi and Florida, and the aid of tho-coiored clergy invoked. The best means for convincing a darky is to induce his “preacher” to tell him tho facts dcsifed to be conveyed. No people in tho world roly so implicitly upon their clergy. For this reason the peoplo of Sonth Carolina and of Richmond are to be congratulated that their local press have induced the preachers to speak out in meeting. Rev. John Jasper, of the latter place, “the sun do move" apostle, has assured his people of their safety. In Charleston the movement was more elaborate, and the Newt and Courier publishes interviews with the leading pastors, ail of whom are em 1 phatic in their declarations that the negroes have nothing to fear. One of them goes on to say that the “political independence of the colored people will date from tho election of Cleve land.” It is to be hoped ton* all excitement upon this snbjectj9nicreven found, will soon be allayed. It is more than likely that the jesters are responsible for the darky’s unhappiness. The Comlns Problem. The Philadelphia Chronicle, a very bright and newsy Republican sheet, says: The next great problem which la looming up In American politics: “What shall be done with the negro vote of the Sonth—shall that section havo forty-one Presidential electors and forty-one Congressmen who really repre sent nobody?" The Republican North is getting tired of the negro ballot. Well, the Republi can North forced it upon the whites and negroes of the South over the pro test of some of their leading men. Now while the Republican party is still strong, while it commands one branch of tho national Legislature and holds power in Now England and many States of the West, let it bring up the problem. Let ns see if revolu tions ever go backward. The Repub lican party, when the South was pow erless and helpless, pnt the ballot in the hands of the negro in order that he might humiliate tho Whiteman and rule over him. Tho colored ballot in tho absence of tho bayonet was unable to perform this work, but the effort has cost the South much. Now let us poll the North on this after twenty years of trial. Let ns see where the Chronicle will stand, where the Republican load ers and statesmen may be located. The Tribune Mlaauotes. If thSre is any one accomplishment upon which a Now York editor prides himself It is his ability to correctly quote the poets and detect error in the renditions furnishod by his contempo raries. Many peoplo look upon their efforts in this direction os attempts to givo a learned tone to metropolitan journalism and rob Boston of its glory os tho true literary centre. Editor Dana’s skill ax a quoter and keenness as acritic have gained for him the title of "pnrist” In the metropolis, and made him tho envied of all contem poraries. Tho World, the TViitmr, the Tima, and tho Star even, all put forth claims and strong efforts for the leader ship, and rend each other in the most heartless wanner when opportunity offers. Nothing can be more frightful than theso literary battles which from time to time shako even the suburbs of Harvard and rattlo the windows of Yale. A small grievance only is necessary to precipitate one of theso conflicts. The Sun has been known to wreck a whole litcroryburcau with the quivering carcass of a contemporary who merely omitted a comma from a classical allu sion. Recently, tho World played havoc with Editor Dana bccauso he misquoted Lowell and credited Whit tier with tho medley, a proceeding so sanguinary that two whole weeks have since elapsed and not a line of poetry has, until now, ventured into the edi torial columns of any metropolitan jour nal. The first to break tho portentous si lence is Ool. Whitelaw Roid, and if there can ho anything more extraordi nary titan tho error lie makes in his , it is tho fact that it escaped -discovery. Referring to the j pending struggle for pntronage, Col j qiiotatn Hint ■fleet a r ■ luctiqp in tile turi "non (lie revenue. 8onte argue I Heid was pleased to say sweeping reductions will be the "There’ll be razors Hying through fle etr. That Mr. Longfellow’s well known I That Dublin slot Dl.patoh. poem, Evangeline, should bo thus mis- This dispatch published in the Pliila- quoted by a journal that proved itself | delpbia Prat as a special, purports to so eminently correct In the matter of como from Atlanta: election figures, and whoso every sen- Atlahta, November le.-oeorgla h» to day fence is measured with a tapeline be- . bec , n lb0 ‘ c ,°" e 01 lwo exciting sensations, l . . , . ■•■II both of which BTC fiUDriOSC'tl til a ramilt nf foro inserted, seems incredible; but t h 0 recentpolh ioDatn«r*«uuoi such is tho fact. In tho second heat of ono of Afr. Longfellow’s immortal can ters, about the quarter pole, may be found the following footprints in tho sands of time: "Bar'll be razor! a-flylng In tho air. 1 By uaing the words "a-flying through,” Colonel Roid conveys the Idea that the razors will be thrown, a meaning altogether foreign to the poet’s intention, who knew that the negro, from the time New England imported him until the present day, never was known to throw his razor. Equally ridiculous is tho idea that ho says “TliereTl,” though it mnst be ad mitted that “Dar’ll” la far from correct Itself. We mention these things not to vin dicate Mr. Longfellow, because his fame fs safe, but to show that a con temporary who errs so frightfully in a matter with which he should be famil iar may also be erring in his estimates of affairs of which he can know bnt little—say, for instance, tho condition of the negro in the Sontb. Conklins for Senator. Perhaps, strictly speaking, we are not concerned as to the choice of New York for Senator. That she needs to make a wise choice is sufficiently illus trated in the fact that tbe oleaginous and inebriated Lapham incumbers seat in' tbe Senate. But we notice that others are free in their criticisms of Georgia’s choice for Senator, and under this license we may say something. We are not interested, in the prolonged and wavering fight between Blaine and Conkllng any more than we could be in tho contest between a couple of skunks. That Blaine drove Conkling from the Senate was a blessing to the country at large, and it is again blessed .that Conkling has aided to de stroy the hopes and ambition of Blaine. It may be polit ical strata jy in the New York poli ticians to play these men and their ad herents, the one against the other, and some temporary triumph and advantage may follow the wallowing of one by the other. But the country can-well afford to dispense with the services of both Blaine and Conkling. Indeed, if we are on the eve of a generat reform, if the sections are to be pacified, and thegoremmentisto be brought back to pure methods, the full fruition of all this, cannot bo enjpyed, with either of these partisans in place to vox the public mind and temper. For more than twenty years the South has breasted a storm of vituper ation, insult and oppression, and with out quailing has steadily thrown her electoral votes in unison with tho Dem ocrats of New York, Now that along delayed triumph has come, wo submit ttatitwillbeasorryrotumto Southern Democrats to see their brethren of New York enter into dicker to bestow Sen atorial honors upon Roscoo Conk ling, the most implacable and insnlting foo whom they have known in the days of their distress and help lessness. If he was promised this for his services in hamstringing his ancient adversary, then wo surtioso good faith demands that the bargain shall be kept in letter and in spirit. But Southern Democrats cannot share the malign satisfaction of Conk ling,or forget that he was the right-hand man of Grant when the latter humiliat ed them into tho very dnst. They cannot forget Conkling’s speeches upon the admission of Senator Butler, nor ad mit to themselves that Democratic harmony or Democratic hopes will be assured by clothing with a senatorial toga, a man who lives only to nnrae the mean and little passions, hate and vanity. A Sound Senator, Alabama does the proper thing by nominating Senator Pngh, not only unanimously but by acclamation. She rounds off her Senatorial delegation, by sending back to the side of a Senator who talks so much and says so little, one who talks so Uttlo and says so mneh. An admiration for and an at tachment to Senator Pagh, formed many years since under circumstances calculated to tost a man to the core, have caused us to watch him with an eagerness not unalloyed with anxiety. There was an apprehension lost, on a return to pnblic life after a hiatus both exciting and depressing, ho should find that the procession of ovents had marched too far ahead of him to admit of his place in the ranks. It was an idle one. His great good senso and well-balanced understanding have put him alongside of his peers, full abreast. Tho young representative of old Ala bama has grown to bo tho well- equipped counsellor and adviser of the now. With singular frankness but a short time since Senator Pngh referred to tho days whouinhls ignorance ho used to paw tho air over tho tariff. Lator investigations jn connection with a com mittee on labor and education havo greatly widened and ripened his views. It is possible, perhaps probable, that a year since he mayhave leaned favora bly towards the mischievous monstros ity of a Morrison horizontal bill. It is quite safe to say that such a measure could not find favor in his eyas now. Tho now aspirations of Alabama, her new and growing interests and indus tries, for six years at least, havo been put into friendly hands by the re-elec tion of Senator Pugh, Ho will never paw tho air again. Mr. llnruiscli's colorsal statuo of John O. Calhoun is now in tho plaster mould at the flarnisch workshop In Rome, and ready for cnating In bronze. dtabllih- eAent and thot among tUo nrprocitliat the returnof tho 1 ocratlc part? to power meat meat of ilayer;. At two o'clock tbU morning news reached thlaclt; that aterrfble riot wm In pr greaaat Dublin, Laurens county. Dublin 1, one <-t the most thrifty towns In tho 8tate. It h as a popu lation of 1,000 people, but being forty miles distant from both railroad and telegraph, la not easily acccs-lble. Tho meagre reports re ceived picture the turmoil u a race war, In which several lives have been lost How many Is not stated, and what Is tho condition of afTatis Is also unknown. Mounted m<* sonters were sent to learn the true facta, but up to this hour nothing has been hoard from them. There are strong reasons to bcilevo that it was telegraphed from that point. It was based upon an Associated Press dispatch and was enlarged to suit the purposes of the sender. It must have been sent by some one who had access to the Associated Press dispatches, either a telegraphic operator or a night employe on a newspaper. It is not probable that any of the special manu facturers and senders were prowling around at 2 o’clock in the morning. These fellows usually make up their specials from printed matter. It is a very mischievous dis patch, but is clean, wholesome and harmless as compared to many specials sent out from Atlanta, some of which have been brought to public notice and commented upon. The Philadelphia Prat is not going to tell who sent it, nor is at all likely the name of the real sender will be furnished at the telegraph office In Atlanta. It is possible that it may not have been sent from Atlanta, bnt there are no means by which this fact may be ascer tained. This incident should convince our Legislators of tho absolute necessity of protecting their State and constitu ents from the malignity and depravity of the senders of such specials. If something is not done to remove the shelter under which this dirty work is done, incalculable mischief will be likely to follow. Every Legis lator will admit this, bnt no one will move in the matter of reform. What is everybody’s business seems to be the business of nobody. This city has suffered in more ways than one from these special dispatches, and will be likely to suffer again. We, therefore, call upop our representative, Mr. Harris, to ad dress himself to the enactment of some legal preventive or remedy of which the citizen may avail himself. A de mand at a telegraph office should uncover the wretch who injures a com munity or slanders a citizen by the manufacture of lies or their dissemina tion by wire. BREVITIES. ben the fat Thunk*giving turkey’s not a cob- bllnc-not a gobbling; Ind the butcher’s just a looking 'round for fun-’ronnd for fun. And tho dinner guests for sweetmeats are a squabbling—are a squabbling, Then a turkey's lot la not a hai Mpjrotre. lappy one— When Yfie dog star’s shining high abOTe his brother—'hove hla brother, And the hungry newsboy grazpi the sugared bun—sugared bun, Taking ono consideration with another—with another, A turkey’s lot la not a happy one. Them wore 100,000 cigars and fifty bales of sponge shipped from Key West to New York last week. The cigars were ail "genuine” Havana, Would it be impious to suggest that the first time the town wee painted red was on the night that the Destroying Angel went about the land of Egypt? The House of Representatives of Vermont refused to increaae the Gov ernor’s meagre salary to $2,000, but added $500 to the present amount and made It $1,500. ALBAuan’s now opera house will be used tor holding the inauguration ball on tbe 4th of March. With tbe orchestra chairs floored over, it is estimated tbe bonse will famish space for from 6,000 to 8,000 persons. At a recent trial ot sheaf binders at Shrewsbury, England, nnder tbe auspices of the Royal Agricultural Society, ten Eng lish and six American machines contest ing, tbe English machines gained a com plete victory, the American machines be ing scored ont at last. Daring tbe last quarter of a century American harvesting machines have uniformly borne away (be English prizes and medals. A medal has been struck in com memoration of the hundredth anniversary of Methodism in this country, aud is sold in duplicate by authority of tbe Bishops. Tho case opens like a book, and in tbe central portion, snrronnded by velvet, the medal i9 so flxed that both its sides are ex posed when the cover is opened. A pastor regrets that he lately found a convert kneeling before it In adoration, using it for an Idol. He has heard thatauch a perver sion of the object is common among tbe negroes of tbe South, where the medals are held In xwe as possessing supernatural qualities. The reputed site of tho Garden of Eden, at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates, Is now a sterile tract, where the only vegetable life consists of a clump of date trees near a very small and dirty village called Gama, at which the Turks maintain a garrison and n telegraph office. The inhabitants point ont to strargers the Tree of Knowledge—a most sickly speci men, bearing a small green berry which utwiuiK a outnii (jitcd ucitjr mill'll would certainly cause even a goat to turn away in disgust. The Times of India gives an account of a native cure of snake bite at Walkesh- wur. A Hindoo woman having been bit ten on the ankle, her husband applied a bandage above the wound, unu *vut for a famous Indian specialist in such matters. The man recommended the chicken cure. 2 Twelve live chickens were brought to the f house and applied to tho wound one after the other. All of them died from the effects of tho poison, and two more were sent for; theae two lived, and the patient was dedared cared. Tho matter having been reported to the police, the woman ™ removed to a hospital, but at the end of live hoars tho doctors found no signs of poisoning, and permitted her to walk home. A Fatting Qlrl. In Cincinnati a sixteen-year-old girl recently died after a fast of lifty-two days. She had been attacked by some thing like paralysis, which rendered it impossible for her to take nourish ment. The human system cannot thrive without good food and good ability to digest it. 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