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THE CONSTITUTION,
Atlanta. Ga.
%hc € uustlhiiiou.
ATLANTA, GA-. IiKCKMBKR 31. !*»«.
KLY CONSTITUTION - : At ^.ANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1878.
Khan, has beaf
gliaaistan in hi»i^. ’
led to ..Shore All’s M^rtert
Da. Momrr’s bell-punch^oroduced
daring the first year, $323,*W. Thi* Is s
considerable sum, list it Is conceded that
the little hells were rang for not over one
drink out of every three that the peopl
of the old commonwealth consumed. The
trouble ia not in the bells, but in the men
who are to ring the bells according to
law. Dr. Moffett propose* certain im
provements both in the law and the
punch, with a view of securing a more
thorough registry of Virginia cock-tails,
bat there is a feeling abroad that fie is
dealing with a matter that neither law
nor invention, nor both combined, lean
folly control.
is real! table
that the rapid march (V th’
umns led to a popular iflovc
could not control. P4 r
clings to RusaLi:, Q
irresponsible of nai in'
ban always been a fi>u
and already a report *j*»
that he is at Jellalabat
securing peace from tins u>rte«y. I*
report ia confirmed, th* . rir
ended, and England wil} 'ifyave Jb»
of peace withont much regard th
wishes. Site will doubtless
“protectorate” of Afghanistan,
ready has of Beelochistan.
wonts, she will practically a ..Ala
istan as she has Beelochistan^am-
ish commissioner will reside.at ©todW;
at Kelat, making Yakoob Khan, nkoc^e
story In a few
' hen it says: “In cotton goods
■ nuWiufaruire.'v of irott-and steel in
■*eir varieti forma, which are the
bnlg8trif.' of England, we are
year i ‘-coining less of a buyer
of a < r . npoUtor. AVe are chal-
■iber in^sp own market, and in
honest!v made and
he junket.- with hi* ilh
th. It would have
■liable thing if the
■ at the end uf th
cheap
‘lift
m
The Blaine committee is the laughing
stock of the country. Poor Jim luuytitlt
his foot in it this time. Even anortho/dox
radical organ of Ohio says that ho “tfaik
to himself tlic easy part of making a
splurgy sensation,” slinking out of the
real work that his resolution calls for.
The committee has adjourned to the £th
of January, or, in plain terms, indefinitely.
The solemn Teller and his republican
associates are preparing to excuse their
non-action upon the ground that no
fnnds were provided to meet the ex
penses of the committee. Very likely;
an of Kelat, a British subject, ''his
will give England Herat, and <xntrql*t)f
the country out the
Persian border. Russia ' will
loubtlesa push her southern
frontier to Mery and the Hindu Kdosl^
but she is effectually cut off‘faun tl»<^
Indian ocean, unless she seizes alrrersif,
and in that case she will have to u.^ t; c
Persian gulf to reach the waters oijthd
southern sea that she has long epdeav-
d to gain access to. Thus probamy
will be reached another treaty rn^tb^
grand struggle Between the two western
powers for supremacy in Asia, England
scoring another victory.
A Problem for Atatewmei
In another column this morning is pre
sented some figures that are startling.
They go very far toward showing the
depth of a deficiency that has alwavi
been suspected, but never .thoroughly
understood. It is shown by them that
the returns, of “property invested in
mining” on the books of the comptroller-
VPI|I [general only foot up $72,000. This in
fer Mr, Blaine never expected it to do any- .Hudes all kind&.of minjfe. and represents
thing that would leud to an expense ntinc of property that no intelligent esti-
account. Mr. Blaine and his backers
simply lack sincerity relative to the
negroes.
The consul-general of the United
States officially writes that the cot ton crop
of Egypt, now nearly gathered, will fall
short of thcaverage annual yield, and that
the quality of the cotton is very inferi
It is estimated that the present crop will
not yield more than 1,200,000 quintals of
09 pounds each, while the exports of
cotton from Egypt during the three pre
ceding years averaged 2,900,000 quintals
a year. This great falling off in the
cotton crop for 1878 was caused by the
lowness of the Nile last year and its un
precedented overflow this year. Two
million acres, or more than two-fifths of
all the arable land of Egypt, were inun
dated in September of this year. This
* inundation included most of the lands of
Egypt, which w ere planted w ith corn and
cotton. The former crop was mostly all
destroyed and the latter much injured
as the foregoing facts testify.
Nlicnnnn and Ills Pet Bank.
Secretary Sherman is in New York
more, it is thought, for the purpose of
preparing for nn investigation of his deal
ings with the First national bank of that
city than of preparing for resumption, al
though it is given out that tlie latter is
the sole object of his visit. It is certain
that he is greatly troubled by the dis
closures of the profits which the hank in
question lias made on government capital
It has a capital of only half a million, and
yet it has had the use, free of charge, of
about $15,000,000 of United States funds.
Secretary .Sherman’s answer to Judge
Kelley’s resolution shows that this pet of
the treasury was allowed, as a memlier of
the syndicate, a fat percentage on its sale
of bonds, also the right to hold the pro
ceeds of such sales on a call of ninety
days, and in addition it was allowed the
use, on an average, of $30,000,000 in gold
a month. In other words, it was allowed
to hold all tlie way from forty-five to
eighty per cent, of the aggregate of gol<
balance to the credit of the
government in ull the national
banks of the country. Of course the
bank was wise enough to make this
money earn interest, and the proof that
the gold has been out at interest, and not
lying idle in the hank vaults, is found
the bank’s ow n monthly statement. For
instance, w hile Sherman’s reply to Kelley
shows that the bank had to its credit
$15,000,000 of government gold on De
cember 1st, the statement of the hank
for December 1st shows that it had hut
$1,000,000 of gold in its vaults on that
day. The remaining $14,000,000 had,
course, l>een put where they would «
the most good—that is, invested in l>onds
or lent out at int«*rcft in some other way.
Air. Hewitt, who is an able financier,
connection with the banking business,
and not at all given to loose statements,
and withal an earnest advocate of gold
resumption, says the hank cannot have
made less than $900,000, and the mono
value of their privilege may have ex
ceeded that amonnt very considerably.
Tlie matter clearly justifies a searching
investigation. The secretary’s remarka
ble confidence in, and generosity towards,
the bank may be all right, hut people will
feel surer of it after congress looks into
the entire business.
ng her
said of the
. cutlery, and of the better
; tools, as well as in the
veto and hoes, and other
piements, in the makin;
'/6 British manufacturer at one
ng to a great extent markets
, * having to fight even for a
Jwktt, the over-stimulated in-
durfrVand trade of England have come
gtnfiLw They were artificially inflated,
(jf tbe^revnlsion is heightened by the
rivalry of this and other
eck -* lCS - Nor can the lost ground be
regpihcd. Capital and an established
triple have been overcome, and there is
•hope of getting back in England to the
old coni^yn of affairs. The balance of
traders heavily against ike mother-land,
and her statesmen afe puzzled by the
difficult problem before them. The
Jingoes will doubtless go under before
long, bnt the clear-headed men that will
come into power after they leave office
will scarcely be able to find a solution of
the difficulty that will prevent untold
suffering for a considerable time to come.
Thus far no popular uprising has
taken place, but the presence of thou
sands of starving menj cannot bat be
matter of deep concern to those who haye
the most to lose.
mates would have placed at less than one
million dollars.
It may be that the figures are right and
that all general estimates have been
wrong, but we do not conceive this to be
possible. Our opinion is that in this one
item of property the state loses the taxes
n one million of dollars worth of prop
erty to which she is justly entitled. The
figures should certainly suggest to the leg
islature the necessity of cither framing
wc new law or so amending the old one
that a full return of property at its full
value shall be secured. Such a law is a
problem of real statesmanship. It is the
essence of good and just government that
the burdens of the government should
fall on all men equally, just as its protec
tion is accorded to them equally. It is
manifestly unjust that the merchant shall
lx* taxed to the fnll value of his goods
while the miner is only taxed on one-
tenth the value of his property. This ii
equivalent to making the merchant pay
ten times as heavy a tax.
It is important, too, in this time of uni
versal economy and cutting down, when
every expenditure is trimmed to the ut
most, so that the state can manage to
continue its solvency, that our revenue
should be made as large as it can be le
gitimately made. The fine effect of
law looking to the enforcement of proper
returns is seen in the passage of what
known as the personal property tax law in
this city. This law merely provided for the
stricter return of personal property, and
it had the effect of raising the revenue
abont $20,000 for the first year, and it
said will put it np to $30,000 increase
next year. If a law of similar stringency
could be passed for the state it would add
probably a quarter of a million annually
to the revenue. But we have no special
suggestions to make on this subject, for
we see no practical scheme; we merely
call attention to the facts that are con
tnined in our report upon this subject.
The facts themselves will suggest that
some reform is needed, and may indicate
the nature of the reform itself.
Tlie English Armies In Afghanistan.
The three columns of the viceroy have
practically reached the objective points
of the winter campaign. Owing to the
mortality among his camels, and the deep
snows, General Biddulph is compelled to
winter in Piaheen valley, but the road to
Candahar is not a difficult one after the
snow is melted in Khojuck pass, and Can
dahar itself is not capable of a stubborn
resistance. Practically, therefore, his col
umn is in Candahar. General Roberts')
Koorum valley column is entrenched at
Feiwar pass, and a reconnoisance of the
Shaturgardin pass disclosed no enemy.
He Will remain where he is until spring,
and then but seventy miles will lie be
tween him and Cabul. General Browne’s
column has occupied Jellalabod. The
town is a small, dirty place, with mud
walls, round towers, narrow streets, and
a population of about two thousand. It
is situated in tlie midst of a large plain
one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four
feet above the sea, where cattle, sheep,
mules and camels abound, and though
forage is scarce, fuel is to be obtained in
any quantity from the pine-clad moun
tains that surround the plain. It offers
a very convenient halting-place for an
army during the winter months, and will
be an eligible base whence to begin oj>e-
rations in the spring against Cabul, which
is a little over one hundred milt's distant.
The three armies, comprising an effec
tive leave fully fifty thousand strong,
are in strong positions. The winter
ill be spent in bringing ap supplies, ami
n preparing for a campaign os the snows
disappear that will put the ameer’s coun
try under the heel, so to speak, of the
western conqueror—provided tlie war is
not sooner ended by peaceful negotiations.
For the brilliant marches of the British
columns have struck tenor in
the hearts of the Afghans. It
is well established that the czar, with
nihilists and further complications with
England before his face, has withdrawn
his embassy from Cabul; that Shere All,
who accepted Russian friendship while
he rejected tlie overtures of tlie viceroy,
DUfrem In Great Britain.
As the year goes out England finds
herself in great and growing distress.
From the close of the straggle with the
great Napoleon she has been exception
ally prosperous. Her accumulated wealth
has never been surpassed. Her chief
city liecame the world’s financial center:
her capitalists had the rulers of the earth
in turn at their feet. Her factories found
ample and remunerative markets in al
most every country. Her poor had em
ployment, and wore content to remain on
their over-crowded native island; and
course all her other classes were happy,
rich and prosperous.
Th® ne-n year will disclose another and
a very different England. The mother-
country is fnll of suffering—suffering that
is steadily on tlie increase, and that has
already reached dimensions beyond the
capacity of her charitable institutions.
The starving poor cannot all be cared
for even now in the great manu
facturing districts. Furnaces, and mills,
and collieries are all involved. The pro
prietors are bankrupt, and the workmen
.starving—literally starving. This
overdrawn picture. It is the actual sit
uation. The attempt, made necessary by
the times, of reductions in wages has led
to a large strike at Oldham, where ten
thousand spinners are earning nothing.
This means that ten thousand families
will soon be on the verge of starvation.
In all Lancashire forty cotton mills out
one hundred and fifty are closed, and the
rest are not active. The iron trade is
no better condition; and upon these two
great leading interests of the country the
collierieschiefly depend. So that the three
An Influential Moonshiner.
“Potomac” In Savannah Homing News.
One bit of goasip Is an wit the Honorable Alex-
One day after the clone of the
1 . Mj. Stephen*, who had already
announced himself a* a candidate for the next con-
great. waodrtven ap tr
department of Justice.
|by hi* faithful body k I
mom of the pardon clerk. Judge Gray. Mr.
Stephen* laid before Judge Gray the object ■■
his vb*it. It was to secure the pardon of a manL.„
hw district convicted of illicit distilling. Mr.
respectable citizen,
—rict, and had viola
ted the law through Ignorance, not willfully.
ntage, and his way paid. lathis
Tlie IIIImoIa Henatorahlp.
Des Moines, Iowa, Register.
A* the south has sent its General Jo© Johnston,
il Gordon, and its GeneralWp.de
its **cneral Ben Hill, and its Uen-
ral Chaim exs to <•***?•«%.« each being respectively
.heeonf de*aot- hero of his section of the south,
so rirmtiS the great west send there it* greatest
This
i of the
f i2i*uoi5.who
i far-seeing
The Facts Mnnt Come.
Washington Poet.
The trie inwardness of John Sherman's rela
tions with the First national bank of New York is
something which the country has a right to know
and will know. If John concludes to make a
statement, he will need to have It substantiated
by men of character who are disinterested. But
the fac^s will have to come out all the same.
THE CLERICAL FEE.
AH INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR HILL.
Ha Considers the Committee’s Report Calculated to
Disgrace Georgia and the Democracy—Got.
„ Colqnitt's Obligations to Murphy—
A Parallel Drawn, Etc.
great west send there
hero and principal repub&pn ]
is unquestionably whet the repubi
nation want—and the republicans of
know that General Logan’s far-seei
tion of his state, and his remarkable
in the late campaign, saved the state to thi
lican party, ought to remember and reward such
extraordinary services with the highest honors
that they as a party and state can give. This U an
epoch-making time, that is alike a crisis in na
tional and in party affairs—and time and a crisis
that call for the strongest and most commanding
men that the loyalty and brains of the north can
present. ■
A gtatesmaa's Make Up.
Washington Correspondence Chicago Times.
William M. Evarts has introduced into Wash
ington society a new way of wearing a silk hat.
He has only lately taken to wearing a silk hat.
He generally wean some shabby old concern
knocked in at the top, with a stiff brim. His hats
have rivaled Conkling’* and Edmonds's in ugli
ness. Within the last few days he has purchased
a silk hat of the latest mode, but has disguised il
under a mourning band of such exceeding depth
tushes this hat so far back that the crown of hi-
jead is uncovered. It is then jammed on from the
back until It make* his two great ears stand oat at
right angles from his head. His hat is at about
angle of incline as his nose. Lost in
huge overcoat, from underneath which his pipe-
stem legs appear as a feeble support to the mass
of overcoat above, he has all the eccentricities of
make np that properly belong to a statesman.
Hr. Toombs to Mistaken.
Baltimore Gazette.
Roaring, ranting Bbb Toombs was in Washing
ton the other day. Of conne he was meat for the
They stuek to him closely
and many of them were rewarded with epigrams
of a most striking character. One fellow sounded
him on the Grant movement. On this point
Grant is a lion. I have i
cause he kills or wins.
how gracefully he treated Lee and our soldiers at
the surrender. Grant is better for the south, lion
though he is, than a sheep who strives to make a
point
this
The Change* of Time.
New York World.
Twenty years ago Christmas greens in a church
were the signs of prelacy, and went along with a
* " ' *- *— -rfiat wr-
taclief in the apostolic succession, and
iknown under the generic name of “Pi . .
No church of the kind known in New England as
“orthodox” was ever tricked out in this forbidden |
bravery. Of late, however, greens have
be considered things different. We believe, how-
that a “Christmas-tide service of song,” such
report in the Westminster church of Brook-
. is still a novelty amoug Presbyterian
nrche*, although from the account of it it seems
bean attractive novelty likely to commend it-
Wonderful Aptness.
Turner’* Falls Reporter.
Tht English' language is wonderful for its apt-
e.'N •< cxj.res.sion. When a number of men and
get together and look at each other from
of a room—that’s called a sociable,
crowd call upon a poor minister
a out of house and home—that’s called
_ Sherman's Share.
New York Star.
Wh vt is John Sherman’s share of the interest
derived from the WT>.000,000 of government funds
1 through his instrumentality with the
John’s Principal and Interest.
J*" Kansas City MaiL
John Sherman lets the First national bank of
New York have 564,000,000 of government money
on deposit without interest. That It to say. the
government receives no interest; but it is plain
John Sherman takes considerable interest in that
bank,'and may possibly take some ont of it.
Hp. Teller and Ills Committee.
Washington Post.
Mr, Teller will meet his committee to-day. with
heart bowed down. Having no specific allega
tion to investigate, and no money to ^defray the
expenses at. investigation, he is in the dear—*~
plight ol the poor woman who had noth!
eat and no pot to cook it in.
Old Teller's Solemnity.
. Washington Post.
The most ludicrous feature of the election in
vestigation performance is Senator Teller’s as-
** • — »* awful ttfriemnity. Noth*"**
the boards since Burton
dltion c
Resumption.
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
Hcstnxption will certainly take place in Janua
ry, says uie Pittsburg Telegraph. Certainly, of
course, it will. Men will swear off their bad
habits rtt the first, and then resumption of them
will taoe place a few days after.
Grant Again Thrown in the Shade.
Washington Post.
The tnen who can take £45,008,000 from the
treasury, and let a banking house have the use of
Jt, Wter month, is a great deal “bigger
man tbfcn oW Grant,’* as he goes-bobbing round
the world. As such he needs looking after.
self to other churches of the same communion.
it. Mr. Stephens went into General Povens’
room and waited some time for that gen
tleman's return from a cabinet meeting. When
thejrttomey-gcneral arrived, Mr. Stephens laid
before him his case. The answer he received was
a confirmation of what Judge Gray had salt
All right, said Mr. Stephens, gathering his
crun-hes. and with his servant starting to leave
the room. When he got to the door the “great
commoner” paused to look back. “I suppose vou
are right in your course, Mr. Attorney-General.”
he said, “but the failure to get this man par-
. one thousand votes in my
non?"if; hrar Out. '>£ StepSeM?’ Hr. Stephens
went bis way, and in a few days learned, greatly
to his surprise, that hL* constituent whose failure
of pardon was to cost him so many votes had
been “pardoned by the president upon the recom
mendation of the attoruey-gcueral.
The Speaker's Sanctorum.
Washington letter to the Utica Herald.
An imfiorlnnt place the speaker’s room Is Pos
sibly not half of those familiar with the capitol
know where il is. Not the speaker’s room dowu
In the guidc-Uxiks. a big, file-floored, well-win
dowed reception naira, just back of the chamber
is currently
It 1st
fcw*w*^wh|Wi the speaker has at which anything
i,'
. , , „ n°t held in this marble-walled saloon.
It is in a little closet in a dark entry below the
The
It is in i
hall. It is haul by a private
It is one of the few doors unmarked in the cap!-
tol. The corridor has no light, and on a cloudy
day Is dark. Once inside, you
in partly
covered by a carpet partly ragged. The window
—there is only one—Is screened in some cheap
way. There L* room for a straggling table, on*
lounge and three chairs. There is room for noth
ing else. If yon know him you have got in with
out a card. If you don’t know him you have not
got in at all. And in such a room von find
the third officer of the government hard ni work.
It Is significant of the publicity of public life
when it Is nnfcnced by (ms-nuik, that it is onlv
in some such coal hole that he can get time to
work. Unless he .hides himself. » many people
have a right to see him that his whole time
to waste. It is in this little hole in the wall that
three speakers, Colfax, Blaine and Randall, have
vuiio*, online »u'-i nwuau, iiuie
done the real work of legislation. Speaking
guardedly, 1 fancy more of the business of gov
erning h« done in tlial room than in any other
room in Washington.
The South and the West.
New York World.
Though the southern planters and farmers have
within the lost three or lour years taken nojtble
stepa toward diversified agriculture and adopted
the motto, “more corn, less cotton,” there is, and
must long lie an immense consumption at the
south of the western staples, grain and meat; and
with the development of the railroad system—the
next revival of railroad building wiU surely bring
the construction not only of southwestern
munication* with Mexico and the Pacific, but of
such lines as the Chicago and South Atlantic air
line—aud the entrance of the northwest into the
manufacturing business, this trade will grow to
vast proportions. Why the politician* of the
west should libel the whole population of the
south, when their leaders of the east set them at
it. may be explained, for libel is the only resource
of the “stalwarts” jnst now. But the country is
will begin once more to consider the
things which make peace prosperous. And why
should Intelligent western men. not compelled to
He for a living, strive to persuade others, or th-m-
selve*. that just across their state lines men cease
to be human, and moral and natural law s to pro
duce their wonted effect, when every merchant
or "liniminpf" *h»i can gi ve them practical
Anticipating Resumpt
Washington Fpocial to the Cincinnati "Enquirer. I
The Washington banks have already attempted
to inaugurate practical resumption, in* advance of I
the treasure and the law. Yesterday the banking-
house of Middleton A Co. announced to all of its
rutttomcRi that they could have the option of gold I
or greenbacks, and today most of the banking!
houses in the city have followed suit During t'
day a lively business has been done by all of thIH
in the exchange for greenbacks of bright new 1
S nld pieces for Christmas presents. An amusing
lustration of the fact that people don’t want goldi
happened today. A way down-south darkev eu-
tered a banking-house here and handed up a'five-
dollar check to l>c cashed. “Gold or greenback*■
said the busy cashier, laconically. “Gold^Hd
What’s dal you say?” said s-ambo.hiseyes
you want gold .
plained the pbler.l^mHmPV
btoa, every time.” Two shining bits were handed
put in shape and size very like the little pennies,
but caeh stamped 12.50. Sambo's face fellas they
dropped into his palm. “Is these yerfsr* “Yes,i
that is £.»—S’’:*: each’’ StTnln walbiui ah*
de pane—I*
little fellah
Sambo walked out riow-
dki
if ye
toft.
New York’s New Capitol.
Springfield Republican.
The marble palace in which the 102d legislature
to have cv-st
. _ , . — ——West days of
inflation and extravagance, it has swallowed np
*14,000.000 since it was begun at the close of the
war. though fortunately without entailing any
debt. It ia the most costly structure on the conti
nent, next to the capitol at Washington, and is
Uie second New York capitol at Albany. The
waa finished in 1S07, ten years after the
first <
legislature had finally settled down there, and
cost $120,000. The city and countv paid $37,000 of
this, and had joint use of the building until 18.32,
when the state took exclusive possession. Before
New York’s legislature pitched its tent at Albany,
unuuicavtucu; urjiciw. ovuuu ineuuve it had a transitory experience, beginning its *cs-
«"* 8 ° Q ™ C * of employment .re in XhX
state of at least partial paralysis. So great
an J universal was the distress, itis stated
that even the Christmas trade was re
duced to dimensions withont precedent
in Merrie England. The condition of
Scotland is equally deplorable. A cry of
distress comes up to the government from
every county ami from nearly every de
partment of industry.
We need not try to go back to first
causes. Her wars and colonial depend
envies, her resort to a gold standard, her
extravagant and oppressive aristocracy—
these and other causes may lie at the
bottom of England's troubles; hut it is
sufficient for oar present purpose to point
ont the immediate, direct and apparent
canse of the distress among the poor of
the kingdom—the condition of her trade.
Exports are declining, imports increas
ing; the price of living is advancing,
wages are being reduced. This is the
story in a nutshell; and this ruinous busi
ness lias been going on for several years.
The failure of the Glasgow bank was
only an incident of the times; behind h
and all the other financial troubles of
the country, we find a commercial trouble
that is distressing, and that absolutely
his no prospect for the better. Perhaps
no shorter way to explain the situation
can be found, than through a quotation
from a letter of the Sheffield correspond
ent of the Engineer, an English journal
representing the coal and iron trades. He
says:
Although tads Is known to be tod tn America
uid Mnuy the loot flnm in SbeSteld who
Import Aturinn and German prodnetkets an
stout the oalrpenmw who do not naapUa at
dull trade. I was ratvtwy to the *bIqt partner
of one of Ureae firms oc fiMaday. ood Ire told me
that the demand lor the Innumerable Yankee
notion*, as weU as German article*, particularly
those known as Lancashire tools, shows no so-
j.rwiabie falling off. “During all this proloogsd
to^adop^hertat^conrtituaonaMvingMo^iid
Wbut the Sonth Should do Meat Tear.
Memphis Appeal.
There are two requisites that should not be lost
sight of in that portion of the union known as the
cotton belt—one in the cide*. the other in the
country. Cities should aim to establish cotton
factories, with a view to export yam and cloth in
stead of the raw material. To farther thi*. they
should reek from congress such a modification of
oar tariff law* as will facilitate the exportation of
manufactured cotton goods. The country si '
now their own supplies—not cotton don
this way the money tor the feeding of their h
holds and laborers is kept at home instead of be-
ing sent away. Our country prese, we are glad to
see, are awakening more and more to the impor
tance of the gxow-lood-et-home policy. The Dar-
danelle Ark&nrian remarks on this subject: “We
believe the low price of cotton will do the conn try
good in the end. It will be the means of causing
our son them farmer* to stop and think, and the
result will be they will turn their attention more
to such crops as will enable them to live within
Favoritism In Photograph*.
Washington Correspondence Hartford Time*.
Noticing that the picture and photograph stands
about the capitol are always an attraction to
strangers in the city, and that they are large
buyers of photographs. I was tempted to make an
intestigmUoQ yesterday for the purpose of seeing
whose photograph* took the lead. At each of the
stands I foundjnrat Mrs. Hayes's photograph sell*
In the lead of an other*—hundreds buying hem
that will not touch the picture of Rutherford. Of
the senators. Blaine’s sells better than any other
by “one-half.” Lamar and Gordon follow.
Conkling is war in the rear. Thurman being coa-
dderaNy ahead of him. There is no demand for
Grant. On the house side of the capitol. Speaker
Randall sells well. Next to him is Alexander
Stephens; then follows Butler. Of the picture* of
the other members of the booae. there is but little
demand. The photograph dealers, in anticipation
of a run on Blaine's in consequence of hi* speech,
have laid in a supply. There are straws, though
they do not tdl exactly which way the wind is
Head-Heading Extraordinary-,
Baltimore Garette.
Just to what extant the American people will
submit to the dead-beadiag of the Grant family
Not content with having a
" * f himself and
included, the
jo say that be
«o have the society of hfci son Fred
Better Hen or Lower Salarle* Needed.
Baltimore Gazette.
When an effort is made In congress to reduce
. eof our useless <** * — 1 '** ’*
always fails, hut if we keep
Send Only Healthy Hen.
Philadelphia Times.
It is frightful to cou template how many repub
lican senators were sick last week when the
Blaine committee was being put together. It
suggests that hereafter a healthier kinu of men be
selected for election to the senate.
the expense of our useless diplomatic service it
always fails, but if we keep on degrading it as we
have for the past ten years we will certaihly be
aide to cheapen it In time. When our diplomacy
is relegated to *n«*h Jock-rabbit politicians as
Horace Maynard, Noyes. Stoughton and Kasson,
Either One Is Good Enough.
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
“Seymour and Hendricks,” or “Bayard and
Thurman.*'' or “ Thurman and Bayard,” or
'Hendricks and Hancock," are all possible
else.
and when such supercilious, conceited donkeys
as Charles Nordhnff, the Washington news-pur
veyor for the Rowdy Journal, are gravely spoken
q than $2,500 per year and beer.
Grant in theflonlb.
Springfield Republican.
The great and partisan public consideration
s the only name left to the party to
conjure with in that section. Whether *uch
advantage would inure in the long run to the
peace of tlie country, the political enjoyments of
the black race, and the elevation of Uie whole
smith, is very doubtful. The colored voter, the
south and the country had one long and dismal
experience under General Grant. As Mr. liases
suggests, it will be “safest” to go by the “it
How fltonewall Jackson Was Killed.
General Jubal Early.
>g
enemy, and then in
wait! his own line. General Jackson* was slowly
riding to the front, while making eveiy effort to
hurry forward his troops, when he was tired
- portion of his own men on the right (south) of
wheeled to the left, and he galloped into the
the left to escape the lire, when he was
General Jackson was wounded.
A Southern Junket.
Washington Correspondence Boston Globe.
A sub-committee of the Blaine committee will
start south the last of the week to “smell round."
It is not the Intention of the committee to examine
witnesses, but merely to find suitable witnesses
1 first stop at Charleston. S. C.. then take;
junket through Georgia and Alabama to Louisi
ana. James Redpatn. of Boston, who went to
Mississippi x* clerk of Boutwell’s committee, and
wrote a book full of bloody outrages which never
had any real existence, will probably
committee in the same capacity.
Mo Koch Person.
New York Tribune.
General Toombs is roaring around Washington,
declaring his preference for Grant over any other
republican in 1880, “if by the decrees of the A1
mighty we are not to be free for four years more
from radical power.” As for democratic c* '*
dates, “Georgia wants a man who can win—a
who can wield enough strength to demolish at
stroke the whole system of republicanism.”
In the language of Betsy Prig, general, “there
ain't no such person.
Disappointed In John.
Baltimore Gazette.
An absurd complaint is made that Secretary
ber of political friends in the concern, and he not
only gives the Mist national a fine commission on
the sale of four-and-a-half per cent bonds, but he
keeps a running government deposit of $45,000,000
in the vault*. The only thing that surprises us is
that John, instead of helping his friends in this
to his partners, the First national.
The Difference Between Andrew Jack-
non and John Sherman.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
In the year 1832, old Andrew Jackson jerked out
a matter of ten millions or so belonging to the gov
ernment from the national banks of his time. But
other it all got back there again, with
Jackson obtained a renomination and the
T for his act. Will Sherman get a nomi-
1 tlier pcsidency for his ? How times do
be gla
not somebody rush t
ard from his republican friends?
The Old Scheme Revived.
New Orleans Democrat.
Some ambitious schemers in Texas are slyly
forming their plans to divide that great common
wealth into five states. This arrangement would
provide place* for eight distinguished citizens in
the senate and four gubernatorial aspirants, and
result in a largely increased vote in the electoral
college. It is supposed that the measure will be
popular among the local politcians of Texas.
Georgia's Credit.
Irwin ton Southerner and Appeal.
The favorable comments of the leading papers
on Georgia’s credit, called forth by the passage of
tlie Garrard bond bill, should be a matter of gnu-
fication to every citizen of the state. Not a single
unfavorable comment have we seen. Our credit
is to-day better than that of any other southern
state, and as good as any in the union. The re
pudiation of the fraudulent bonds did not, after
all, ruin us, though some of those now loudest in
our praise said it would. Strange.
Why Sonthernera are Lazy.
Vicksburg Herald.
There are various reason* why numbers of
* reason* why numbe
southern people are lazy. The climate is
what to blame, whisky is cheap, fine-cut, plug
and twist tobacco l-^abUndant, and last, but not
least, the whittling around country stores is as
good as it was ever before. Nobody is afraid of
starving in this country, and il we do not raise
everything we need to eat, aud our governors re
fuse to call the legislatures to “grant relief," have
we notieft the glorious privilege of growling
and cussing”?
The Only Southern Statesman.
Chicago Times.
Wade Hampton is abont the only public r
the southern states who has developed since the
*' * * nan. The
in South
Carolina has given him an influence such as
other man possessed, and which he seems to have
His recovery will be a blessing to the state.
Those Christmas Editorials.
Philadelphia Chronicle.
Now tire able editor fa writing hh goody-goody
into the furnace door, and bow at night we all
cather about the sirocco, breathing rerister, and
awfully cheerful, jolly time of it. The
What a Third Term Henna.
Mr. Hayes overlooks the fact that if General
Grant can be elected next time be can be re-elected
aslongas he live*. If the people will deport so far
from all their ancient traditions as to call thi*
military chieftain back to the presidency again
“ ‘ political prophet can predict to what depths of
servility they may descend.
“The Two Orphans" of Polities.
Chicago Tribune.
The Massachusetts republicans in coca
publicans In congress fi
relieved of the resporoibiluy of Ben. Butler. 1
general is wandering about wondering where be
don’t say which Is blind.
George William In a Mew Sole.
Philadelphia Chronicle.
Harper's Weekly is playing It very low down
the democracy. It says with oracular force that
“New York must be carried” and "Tilden c
carry it more probably than any other co
itor.” Isn’t that just loTelr! Mr. George Wj
Curtis can knock the soda
eooeoed the fly in the fable.
■ off the spider that
“Gath” In the Philadelphia Press.
tickets for lfaSQ that could beat Grant or anybody
Hr. Sherman is Very Busy.
Philadelphia Record.
Secretary Sherman has not yet vouch-safed a
Needs Investigation.
It is the department of justice that wants in
vestigation quite as much as any of the state
governments in the south. The department
first cousin to the old freedmen’s bureau.
Hr. Conkling Ineligible.
Chicago Times.
Mr. Conkling has abandoned his effort* to be
considered a dark horse. His ears arc too con
spicuous to permit him to pass as a horse of any
color.
Hr. Blaine ftbonld Have Used a String.
Philadelphia Times.
Senator Blaine was very thoughtless not to tie
string around hi* committee to prevent it falling
The Difference.
Elmira Gazette.
A woman takes her nightcap, looks in the glass,
and jump* into the bed; the old u»u
the glass, takes his “nightcap,” and—generally
stays up all night.
Greenbacks will not be Entirely Tab
aclean.
Philadelphia Chronicle.
Greenbacks will be received at this office after
January 1. A ebromo given to tlie individual
bringing the most.
In the Front Rank.
Baracsvillc Gazette,
r dress and enterprise, aided by its edi-
torial|ability.have placed 9hl Constitution in the
front rank of Journalism.
Gold at Par.
Chicago Times.
The dally record on the New York gold ex
change now runs:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Gold 100 100 100
The gold gambler has gone out to see a i
The Coming Hen.
Gwinnett Herald.
General Gartrell, of Atlanta, and Colonel Thos.
Hardeman, of Macon, seem to be the coming
will not stand for re-election.
Con the Country Stand II?
Washington Post.
The great question that weighs upon the minds
of thoughtful radical politicians is: Will the
country, ty 1880, have sufficiently r—
from Gnat to endure another attack?
No Sand In Ilia Crstr,
Cleveland Leader, rep.
SenatorThurmsn ought to have been bom ...
the lake shore. H is whole life has been marked
by an absence of “sand.”
Wanta a Museum.
Boston Globe.
Dawes wants $250,000 for a fire-proof national
Massachusetts statesmanship.
1880 Merely.
Burlington Hawkeye.
The amrer of Afghan is out of a job. Why not
call him orer and give
The Han for Blaine.
Boston Herald.
Mr. Blaise might hire Eli Perkins to go south
and write «p outrages, if he can’t get any senators
Give the Country
Keokuk Constitution.
Now that Blaine has committed harikari,
hope the country will be permitted to have a
on the bloody shirt question.
Bayard Taylor aa a Poet.
[Below are given two specimens of the poetical
genius of Bayard Taylor, whose sudden death
Berlin occurred List week. These are, we believe,
among his best and most popular short poems:
THE SONG OF THE CAMP.
Baltimore Gazette’s Special.
Washington, December 23.—In regard to
tlie contest between Governor Colquitt, of
Georgia, amlSenator Hill, the latter sub
jected himself to-day to the following inter-
The senator said: “In my opinion
is not too much to say that if the report
the majority shall be adopted by the leg
islature the democratic organization in
Georgia will be disgraced and broken down
and the independents will sweep everything
before them; yes, and they ought to do it.
the democratic party shall undertake to
earn,- Murphy and his corrupt ring (for he
has a ring) the people of Georgia will not
carry the democratic organization and ought
to carry it. Therefore that report must
not be adopted, and shall not be if I
prevent it. Colquitt’s moral character must
be saved because it ought to be saved and
justly, but Murphy has no moral character
and his ring no moral nor political worth,
id no party can save them or ought to try
save them. *
“Governor Colquitt has been made a vic-
m by his own good nature, by unfortunate
circumstances, and by a lot of very bad men
around him who pretend to be his friends,
but who really care nothing for him, noth
ing for the democratic party, and nothing
for the state or people of Georjna, except as
thev can use each or all for their own selfish
ends.
“You can see that if he ltad separated
from Murphy promptly when I begged him
to do so, all this subsequent trouble would
have been avoided.'*
Reporter. “And there is the point, Sena
tor. Why did he not separate from Mur
phy? The reasons he gives are clearly ‘
utlicient. How do you explain it?”
Mr. Hill. “Well, I explain it in this
vray: In nature, habits and character Col
quitt is a good man. He has a fair mind,
hut it is neither quick nor discriminating.
He has a keen sense of obligation aud for
several years has been in a condition to ap
preciate favors. In nature, h. bita and
character Murphy is a very bad man, but
! a sharp in his line and knows how to
men as well as office for his purposes,
lie soon saw Colquitt’s weak point and
took prompt possession of it. He has
most assuredly in some way brought Col
quitt under obligations to him and this
whole case shows his confidence in
|«ower which this obligation gave him
i he governor. He first exacted $13,000.
He fell to $8,000 only after his victim—
the rolling mill—unable to pay
evy, was about to give up all efforts u,
ndorsement and Mr. Goodnow had actually
left for the north to make other arrange
ments. It was while Goodnow was gone
that he finally traded with Morrill at a lower
figure. All this shows his confidence in his
[tower over the governor. Indeed the whole
ca>e shows that during the whole investiga
tion Murphy and Colquitt seemed to ne
making common cause.”
R. “.Senator, you must admit that the
taking of money by a salaried clerk in the
executive department to influence the of
ficial act of the governor was itself corrup
tion, and the governor admits that he knew
Murphy, a clerk, was interested in that in
dorsement.”
Mr. Hill. “I do admit it was corrupt:
and no instance of that class of corruptioi
was ever more clearly proved, or more di«
tinctly marked, or 'more feebly excused.
And Colquitt does admit he knew Murphy
was interested. And all this will be made
jo clear to the legislature that I do not be
lieve there will lie a dissenting voice in that
body on tlie subject of ‘Murphy’ corrup
tion. So tlie returning brairds of Louisiana
and Florida were guilty of corruption, and
Hayes knew it. And yet he has rewarded
every scoundrel of them, hut it does not
follow that Hayes was bribed. Hayes and
Colquitt are both good men controlled by
the sense of obligation to bad men, though
the rause of the obligation in the two ca*es
is different. V>e need not conclude that
either wa* bribed, but both have beeu
kind to the public injury and their own
detriment.”
IL “Senator, liow does it happen y
have been so misrepresented in this matter?
It seems no sensible man can doubt both
the friendship and the wisdom of y
vice to Governor Colquitt.”
Mr. Hill. “Oh, all that misrepresentation
was gotten up by Murphy and his sympa
thizers. He has no sympathizers but his
E artners and hirelings, and they are reck-
“ss, active and mendacious. They have
sought to keep Murphy and Colquitt tc
getlier, in order to save Murphy. I hat-
sought to get Murphy and Colquitt apart
as to save Colquitt and the democratic p;
ty. Thus far I admit they have the i
vantage in the fight. Murphy has a major
ity of the committee.”
Perhajtt Georgia lias never produced
statesman more proud of her glorious ante
cedents, and more determined to shield her
from harm than Senator Hill. Born in that
state, and educated in her cherished
versity at Athens, Mr. Hill has ncvei
tered m his allegiance to his native state.
Prior to tlie war, when he was acquiring t‘
reputation of being one of the greatest
American jurists, he frequently turned
aside from the gravity of his legal text-books
to contribute toward the elevation and
purification of Georgia politics. To that
end he more than once took the stump and
canvassed the state against such men
Toombs and Stephens, ever pleading
honest government as the corner-stone upon
which our political fabric rests.
polisfied education and a statesman of
traordinary character and foresight.”
“Who is the choice of Georgia, general,
tlie nomination?”
’Georgia wants the man who can win—
the strongest man in the whole field—a man
who can wield enough strength to demolish
at one stroke the whole system of rotten re
publicanism. But will you excuse me, as
I see my friend, Representative Hooker,
and I desire to see him?” and so the old,
but still vigilant and invincible defender of
state rights, the ultra leader of the south,
the last conspicuous survivor of thedecadcd
Calhoun confederacy, slowly, but majestic
ally, moved away, and wa* soon lost in the
great hall, where he so often pleaded for his
principles with an eloquence like unto Mc
Duffie, Prentiss, Choate and Webster.
Hew York Millionaires.
New York Times.
The founders of the great New York for
tunes of the present century—John Jacob
Astor, Robert Lenox, Alexander T. Stewart,
and Cornelius Vanderbilt—have all passed
away.
John Jacob Astor arrived in this city at
A TALK WITH TOOMBS.
of
BILL ARPS CHAT.
HE IS FULL OF CHRISTMAS THEMES.
The Coming of Santa Clans—How the Arp Family
Stood It—Mrs. Arp’s Children—Other People’s
Children—Retailing Par ntal Gossip—Hew
Year Resolutions and Snow-clad Penance.
period of great depression, in 1784. During
the latter part of 1783 some fifteen thousand
refugees, men, women and children, left
New York, Long Island, and Staten Island,
for Nova Scotia and SL John, among them
many persons of fortune and estate. These
estates Astor began to buy whenever he
could spare the money, as soon as he got a
little ahead in the world. John Jucob As
ter’s first purchase of city real estate—two
lots on the Bowery lane or ri>ad, near
Elizabeth street—was made in August.
and from that date to the time of
his death, March, 1848, he was a
steady and constant buyer of real estate.
The last conveyance to John Jucob Astor
was made shortly before his death, in 1848.
The conveyance made to him during the
fifty-nine years which elapsed between his
first and last purchases of real estate in this
city form seven pages of closely-printed
matter in the index of conveyances on tile
the register’s office. These wise invest
ments have with time swollen into enor
mous wealth, ami the Astor fortune to-day,
as represented by Mr. John Jacob Astor and
Mr. W m. Astor, (grandsons of the first Astor)
is one of the great fortunes of the world.
At the time of John Jacob Astor’s death in
1848 his fortune was estimated at from $30,-
000,000 to $40,000,000, arid he was counted
the fifth on the list of rich men, Baron de
Rothschild, Louis Philippe, the duke of
Devonshire and Sir Robert Peel, only ex
ceeding him.
The late Mr. Robert Lenox, like Mr. Astor,
was a self-made man. He was, when he
first began, an entile stranger in this city,
where the name of Lenox is now so greatly
enerated because of the noble deeds of
charity and the lavish donations for relig
ious and literary purposes of his only
James Lenox. Mr. Robert Lenox *<
mcnced business in 1783—the year be
fore John Jacob Astor arrived—and
remained here permanently until
death, which occurred in December, 1839.
in the eighty-first year of his age. For
many years his operations greatly exceeded
those of any other merchant in the country
at that day. He became eventually one of
the most successful merchants in
United States. Mr. Lenox invested his
cumulations chiefly in city real estate. In
1817 and 1818 he bought for less than $7,000
about thirty acres of land running from
Sixty-eighth to Seventy-fourth street,
between Fourth and Fifth avenues, known
as the “Lenox farm.” much of which is now
covered with first-class brown-stone houses.
The enormous increase in the value of this
land, sold for the most part at top prices
between 1864 and 18i2, gives Mr.
James Lenox a high rank among
New York millionaires. The Lenox
farm to-day, without a brick
would he worth $8000,000. While tU
Lenox fortune is modest indeed, when com
pared with the colossal accumulations of
the Astors, Vanderbilts and Stewarts, we
venture to hazard the opinion that Mr.
James Lenox has quietly given away as
much a* the late Mr. Peabody. 'His
donations in land and money to charitable.
“A Christmas gambol oft will cheer
A poor man's heart through half the year.”
That is if he gambols in moderation, but
too much gambolin with fluid extracts
about tills time of the yeardont leave pleas
ant memories behind, and th© poor fellow
with the jumpin headache and struttin eye
balls, and his stomack all turned into an
ipekak factory feels just like old Rip Van
Winkle when he sword off and said “if I
ever do git over this spree I’ll—try it again
next Christmas shore.” But theres no harm
in fat turkeys and mince pies and lemon
pies and plum puddin and the like, and if
we cant have em we can comfort ourselves
with the memory of em in days of old long
syne. Every dog must have his day, and
when a body gets old and poor theres some
satisfaction in recallin what he used to wa*
and savin “Ive seen the day” or “if I could
call back twenty years.” But wo cant call
back, for if we do they wont come. “Tlie
mill will never grind with the water that
has passed;” so theres nothing left for
but to do the very best wc can and be happy.
The old Norwegian brought such ugly
cathcr along with him this time that all
.. c can do is to sit by the fire and ruminate
and keep tlie children from tearin the house
to pieces.
What with t he new dolls and harpaand tin
horns and picture books and fire crackers,
ami all sorts of nuts to crack, one might a*
well be in a lunatic asylum a* to be penned
up withem a whole day atatime. Italway
literary and religious institutions situated
on the Lenox farm alone amount to over
$2,500,600. This is a noble example to those
who wield the great fortunes of New York.
It is to be regretted that the name of Lenox.
* ir as the founder of the family in this
city is concerned, dies with the present Mr.
James Lenox, a bachelor now advanced ii
years. As long as New York exists hh
memory will lie remembered and cherished.
The fortune of A. T. Stewart—of quicker
growth than that of Astor—was accumula
ted in one lifetime. At Mr. Stewart’
death, in 1S76, it was est imated at $80,000.
000, or twice the amount of the highest es
timate of John Jacob Astor’s fortune when
he died, in 1848. In 1875, Mr. Stewart’s
city real estate—situated for the most part
below Union Square—was estimated at $6-
212,700; at that time the assessed valuation
represented only 60 per cent.of the real value
so that the then actual value of the real
tatc was $10,354,500, which forms but ....
eighth of his estimated wealth. Mr. Stewart,
however, owned real estate in nearly every
city in which he had dealings. He owned
a number of woolen and thread mills in
this country, ambng them the Moiiawk and
Elbceuf, at Little Falls; the New York
mills, at Holyoke; the Woodward
mills, at ^ Woodstock; the Yantico
mills. In New Jersy; the Washington
mills, at New Hartford; the CatskiU and
Waterville woolen mills. There arc also
large mills at Nottingham, England, and
Glasgow, Scotland. The pro[»erty of tlie
house of A. T. Stewart A Co., is greatly scat
tered. It owns property in most of the large
cities here and abroad,'and has continually
in its employ outside of New York, over six
thousand persons. There arc branch houses
at Bradford. Manchester, Belfast, Paris,
Lyons. Berlin, ami Chemnitz, in Saxony.
The transfer by Cornelia M. Stewart, widow
of the late A. T. Stewart, to Henry Hilton,
of all her interest in the firm of A. T. Stew
art & Co., gives Mr. Hilton a conspicuous
The Leonine Georgian Unbosom* Him
oeir as to (he Situation.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.
Washington, December 20.—General
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, nationally
known as the southern fire-eater, and the
gentleman who swore he would never yield
until he called his slave-roll at the foot of
Bunker Hill, is in the city, attending to
important business before the supreme
court For the last three years he has been
visiting Washington frequently, called
hither to argue cases before the supreme
tribunal. His law practice is very extensive,
and is said to be more lucrative than any
other private practice in the south. He
never touches a case for a leas consideration
than $5,000. As a brilliant advocate and
able and calculating jurist.Jhis reputation
in h:‘ * "
When the heated gun* of the camps allied
Grew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redam. In silent scoff.
Lay. grim and threatening, under;
81ng while we may, another day
Will bring enough of sorrow.*’
Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde,
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain’s glory;
Each heart recalled a different name.
But all sang “Annie Lawrie.”
Yoiee after voice caught up the song.
Their battle-eve confession.
Dear girt, her name he dared not speak.
_ But, as the song grew louder.
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers.
And once again a fire of hell
Rained on the Russian quarter*.
* '*■ X and burs * '
And Irish Nora's eyes are dim
For a singer, dumb and gory;
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang of “Annie Lawrie.”
The bravest are the tenderest—
The loving are the daring.
WIND AND SEA.
The wind Is a jovial comrade.
He langhs wherever be goes;
t the feet of the *
His merriment shines In the dimpling lines
That wrinkle his hale repose;
He lays him**”
Ana shake* — „—.
And the brood-backed billows fall faint <
In thentirthof the mighty sea!
But the wind Is sad and restless.
And cursed with an inward pain;
You may hark as you will, by valley or hill.
But you bear him still complain
He sobs in the cedar, and moan* !□ the pine.
And shudder* all over the aspen uee.
Welcome are both of their voice*.
as great now as in his palmy [Kjlitical days
when he fired the senate by his burning
rhetoric and inflamed the southern heart
strung by his impassioned declamation. We
met him as he left the supreme court to
day. and on presenting our card i
preliminary for a little talk we took a _
vey of the illustrious character while he
was considering our claims for an audience.
He is a man of five feet and ten inches in
height, with a full 170 pounds mathematic
ally distributed over his several limbs; his
physique is not imposing, hut it is impress
ing to one on the first meeting that within
the casing is an iron soul, a steel heart and
a golden brain; his face is broad and clearlv
cut; his eves are still gray, and shine with
but little dimness, though sixty-five years
have parsed since they first saw light; his
hair shows the penciling* of time and the
approach of the grave; it is not snowy
white, hut thorougTily gray; in quantity it
is abundant, and hangs in long, strait locks
almost to his collar; it is roughly kept,
showing that comb and brush are not the
most favorite utensils of his household.
His head is unusualiy large; the forehead
is broad and almost excessively high; it is
not a retreating but a projecting and
overhanging one; the cerebellum
is full and roundly de
veloped, making the intellectual portion of
the gentleman symmetrical and well-
fashioned. Age has shown its mark in
another [^articular by stooping the shoulders
that were once so straight and strong. His
clo lies are quite common and fit rather
loosely. His shirt was not the cleanest we
have seen, and his tie could certainly have
sustained a better Chesterfield twist.
“Well,” says he, after glancing at our card,
with a very poiite bow and a warm grasp of
the hand, “I am glad to see you, but I do
not want -to be asked any questions of a
(•ersonal or strong [lolitical character. You
must remember that I am not a citizen of
this country, so I should not be used as the
oracle of the views of any sect or organiza
tion.” After giving assurances that no per
sonal questions should be introduced, we
ventured on the broad question as to the
condition of the south. '*The south,”
said he, “is poor, not on the verge of
bankruptcy, but clear down in the abyss of
poverty; notone decade, but two, it will
take tn restore the south to her pristine
glory and position. The war left us in a
horrible condition, but by perseverance,
economy, education and the restoration of
local government, we will in time fully re
cuperate.” “Who is the south in favor of
for president in 1880 on the democratic
ticket; and if the republicans are to have
another executive who would the south
prefer?” “Well, I will answer your last
question first. If, by the decrees of Om-
ni|K»tencc, we are not to be free for four
years more from radical power, then I
should say give us a full lion, not a sucking
sheep. Grant is a lion. I have respect for
the man, because he kills or wins. I have
never forgotten how gracefully he treated
Lee and our soldiers at Appomat
tox. No, Grant is better, a lion though
he is, for the south than is a
plain further.” “But you have not an
swered my first question.” “No, sir; I must
beg not to do so, for there are so many admi
rable gentlemen, both in the north and in
the south, that are so eminently calculated
to become the democratic standard-bearer
that 1 rnnit forbear to neak -of them hv
place among New York millionaires.
Probably Mr. William II. Vanderbilt
to-day the richest man in New York. L v
inherited the bulk of Commodore Vander
bilt’s fortune, who at the time of his death
was accounted a richer man than either of
the present Astors. With the single ex
ception of Mr. William II. Vanderbilt, our
chief New York millionaires draw their
revenues from the rents, income and profits
of real estate, which has shrunk fully
third since 1873. If the Astor fortune
then $90,000,000, it is to-day worth not i
$60,000,000, and so on throughout tlie list.
Since 1825 New York has grown with a
rapidity hitherto unknown in any of the
great centers of population of the world,
and this growth gave wealth to the fortun
ate few who bought or inherited city real
estate. Their descendants are among
richest citizens. Chief among city
real estate owners who rank as millionaires
are the Astors, the Rhilamlers, the
Goelets. Mrs. A. T. Stewart, the Loril-
lards, the Schermerh-•rna. the Lenoxes,
Robert J. Lhinpoonaml Frederick Stevens,
who is the youngest millionaire on the list,
occupies on the corner of Fifty-
* a.-. <1...
did seem to me that ours was the noisiest,
liveliest and most restless set that ever
stumped a ti»e or fell in the branch. They
went through the measles and whoopin
cough and chicken pox, and I don’t know
how many more things, without stoppin to
sec what was the matter. A long time ago
it was my opinion that I could regulate ci
and raise em up accordin to science, but
didn’t find that amount of co-operation
which was necessary to make a fair experi
ment. On the contrary, I found myself
regulated, besides being from time to time
reminded by their maternal ancestor that
the children were hern, and to this day she
always speaks of em as “my children.”
Well', that’s a fact; her title is mighty good
to cm I know, and on reflection I don’t re
member to have ever heard any dispute
alnuit who was the mother of a child.
Well we can sing the same old song—how
the little folks had lived on tip toe for many
days waiting for Santa Clans, and how the
mnhle parlor was droned in cedar and mis-
sletoc and the big back log put
on and a blazing fire built
up and the little stockings hung by ihc
mantel and everything got ready for the
kind old gentleman. How that our blue-
eyed daughter played deputy to hi in, and
was the keeper of everybody's secret, and
shutting herself up in the parlor, arranged
every thing to her notion. How that when
supper was over one of the boys slipped up
the ladder to tlie top of the house with his
cornet ar.d tooted a few merry notes as the
signal that Santa Claus had arrived.. Then
tame the infantile squeal, and the youthful
veil, and the Arnian shriek, and all rushed
MM*.. f a tlin fnttirn trail
An Interesting Day in Rlalnc’a AIan>
der Club.
Washington December 28.—The first
comptroller of the treasury, after a confer- •
ence with Senator Teller, chairman of the
Blaine investigating committee, and Sena
tor Edmunds, chairman of the senate ju
diciary committee, who framed the law of
last session appropriating $20,000 to be used
for the investigations ordered by the senate,
reviewed his decision that the Teller com
mittee could not use any part of the appro-
priation of $20,000, but adheres to his for
mer opinion that the money cannot be
used by the Teller committee
without further action of con
gress. The third section of the act,
however, makes certain appropriations for
the department of justice and the comp
troller has therefore consented to refer the
hole matter to the attorney-general, as
that section pertains immediately to his
department. He has, therefore, written a
letter giving reasons for his decision and
consenting to the reference of the whole
question to the attorney-general and all
parties are to be bound by his opinion as a
law officer of the government.
The Teller committee met this evening
under a call issued by the chairman in ex
pectation of a-communication to be re
ceived from Comptroller Porter, re
viewing and reversing his recent
opinion as to the availability for
purposes of the committee, of the $20,000
appropriation of last session. Mr. Teller laid
before the committee a copy of the letter
addressed by him to the comptroller yester
day of a difficulty which has arisen from
the use of the word “said,” in the second
section of the act of June 19,
1878, which limits the use of the
appropriation to “defraying the ex
penses of said investigation, and inquiries
liavc already been or may hereafter be
directed by the senate.” Mr. Teller says
the clause in question waa reported by Mr.
Edmunds, from the judiciary committee,
on the 4th of June, when no investigation
of the description mentioned by the first
section of the act, namely: “House investi
gation of alleged frauds in presidential elec
tion,” had been ordered bv the senate, and
that the word printed “said” was in Mr. Ed
mund’s manuscript “such.” He, therefore,
argues that the printed word taken in con
nection with the word “ns,” which follows
it must be construed as if it read “such.”
The two words.be says,are frequently taken
to mean substantially the same thing, and
concludes the letter as follows: “In view of
these circumstances and in order to give
any effect to the section at all it appears to
me there can be little dif
ficulty in holding this construction,
especially so in aid of the investigation
voted for almost unanimously by both po
litical parfics in the senate, and one of great
interest to the public cither as exposing
wrongs committed against the whole people
or as vindicating the people of the several
... wild commotion to the festive hall
Then came the joyful surprises, all mixed
up with smiles and sunbeams, and excla
mations, and interjections. Tumultuous
gladness gleamed and glistened all around,
and the big bucket of famiiy joy ran over.
But everybody knows how it is hissclf, and
dont hanker after a histoiy of other peo
ple’s frolics, only I would like to recite
some of the childrens’ smart sayings. This
just can’t bo beat by Harper’s drawer.
Helen’s babies, nor any other babies, but
not long ago I was caught between two ar
dent young fathers and they talked across
me for half an hour about their smart chil
dren and told more little foolish things
on ’em than I ever heard, and I vowed
right then I wouldn't brag on mine—that
is to say, hern any more, for I perceive it
be a very uninteresting topilc to other peo
ple.
It takes a very self-sacrificing and amiable
individual to stand it with proper serenety.
I will say this, however, that when a mother
is retailin’ her infantile shect-lightnin’ it
becomes a man to appear interested, whether
he is or not, and the more admiration he
expresses the better for him in that family,
shore. Ive known young men to do some
auspicious court in through rthis channel
and if I ever should have the like to do over
again (which the good Lord forbid) I shall
know how to take the strongest fort without
storming it.
Well, the old vear has burned its dead,
and brought forth its living to take their
places. O’Leary has got through his legger-
aomain and the country is safe. The press
is very kind in keeping us posted about
such important things. And now the time
is at hand when everybody is going to open
a new set of books, and turn over a new leaf,
and pass a few resolution* to be kept about
three weeks. That’s all right. Keepem as
long as you can, but don’t repent of this
year’s sins too much at once. Don’t git
much religion at a revival, for by and
the snow will be gone, and the spring i
open and the birds oegin to sing and
flowers to bloom and man’s conceit and
dependence come back to him and make
him forget the winter and his promises, and
strut around like he was running the whole
macheen. But its all right, judge, all right
If a man is good accordin to his capacity 1
cant be any gooder. Bill Anr.
THAT INTERVIEW.
1 Fifth avenue the finest
private residence in the city. It is a sin
gular fact that ail the gentlemen we have
named, who together representcertainlv l»e-
tween $100,CWO.UOO and $150,000 0u0 oi real
estate, nut u.ic concerns himself personal lv
about municipal affairs. This reflection ad
dresses itself with peculiar force not only
to millionaires, but to our moderately well-
to-do classes, and to all those who own
property in this city. If a sharp remedy
is not quickly applied to the present use
lessly and criminally extravagant modes of
municipal government, the profession of
millionaire will soon become extinct, and
the preservation of accumulated wealth at
this centre can be classed among tlie lost
arts.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Its Divisibility Practically Proved In
the Office or the London Times.
Loudon World.
The state of expectation in which the
public mind allows itself to be held with
reference to the so-called “divisibility” of
the electric light by Mr. Edison is somewhat
surprising, seeing that all the time this di
visibility is a fait accompli in England, and
may be witnessed and tested any night of
the week at the Times printing office.
Armed with an order lor this pur
pose, I went there the other even
ing, and this is what I saw:
From gaslight we merged suddenly into
what seemed a flood of daylight, which
came from six small lamps placed at inter
vals round the room, in which compositors
and others were busy at work. These lam [is
were suspended so as to be raised and low
ered at will. In compliance with the wish
of one of the gentlemen present, one of
these lights, selected at haphazard, was
turned out by means of a tap, and it re
mained out without the slightest percepti
ble increase in the volume of light in the
other lamps. Then another light at a
distance was treated in a similar manner
and with a like result. These two were
then relit by a turn of the tap the reverse
way and turned on full power. Then one
was slightly “lowered,” so as to give about
a third of its full light, as with ordinary gas.
In short, we found there a useful and agree
able light, which can be moderated and ar
ranged to suit all circumstances. This is
the Rapieff light. I am no electrician and
shall notattempt to givea technical descrip
tion of the apparatus employed, but it
seemed to posr-ess great simplh ity. M.
Rapieff says he can burn ten ligwts in the
circuit; that his carbons can burn for ten
hours; that they can be easily renewed and
without extinguishing the lights. He fur
ther estimates its comparative cost with eas
~ less than a third. His statements may
ing from what I actually saw
office, I should say the sooner gas share
holders begin to “hedge” by investing in
electric light shares the better.
Madame Anderson’* Walk.
Ktv Yoxx, December 28.—Madame An
derson at noon had accomplished the 1,121st
quarter mile. ^
—The sunshine of* many a happy home
has been ^turned into dark^ despair by the
AT THE CAPITAL.
states from unjust suspicions. The chair
man also laid before the committee a letter
received by him from Senator Blaine in re
sponse to their recent resolution, and
it was placed on file without action for the
present.
The chairman stated in reply to an in
quiry that no reply has yet l>ocn received
from 8cnator Thurman, to whom a similar
resolution referring to his amendment war
communicated at the same time.
The comptroller’s letter not being re
ceived up to 3 o’clock, the committee ad
journed till Monday.
The following is Blaine’s letter:
Wastiinoton, December 21, 1878.—To Hon. H.
M. Teller, United State* senate, chairman select
committee, etc.: Dear sir—I have this morning
particular cln.su of frauds, outrages and violence
committeed in the recent elections which the
committee 1* expected to investigate, and
to furnish such information and evidence as may
ho in his possession and names of witnesata
he may wish to be examined.” It cannot, of
course, be the purpose of your honorable commit
tee to limit the Investigation to any particular
class of "frauds,”
mitted in the reeetit c __
fled by me. The resolution is the action of the
senate, speaking almost unanimously
not for me to say what your committee is “ex
pected” to investigate beyond what is expressed
in the resolution itaclf in very explicit terms.
It would be grow* assumption in me
to “specify” where the senate itself
has directed. But anxious to Indicate any detail*
lot frauds in South Carolina; to the laws of that
full and free
counties,
' 0ML
the murders in Tensas parish on election
_ . d to fraud*committed in the same. Tofraudi
and outrages on the ballot box in the citv of N’t a
Orleans, and even w hile I write to the alleged «*-
election. I could make further specification* in
for New England and am compelled
postpone fuller details till after my return.
Among the witnesses I would name are: James B.
Campbell, E. W. M. Mackey and C. C. Mcmmin-
gcr. of South Carolina; Governor NichoU*, his
agent. Colonel Zachary, and ©x-Chicf Justice
Ludcling, of Louisiana; Hon. Reuben Davi*. of
Mississippi; J. Cole Davis, of Helena, Ark., and
the editor of the Avalanche, a democratic paper
published at Memphis, Terra. But I beg especial
ly to refer you to the large mas* of
valuable information in the office
the attorney-general of tlie ^United States
already called for by the senate, and soon, I pre
sume, to be laid before your committee. This i*
The remarkable interview of Mr. Hill
the Baltimore Gazette, reprinted in The
Constitution, lias been the subject of con
siderable and vehement discussion on
streets.
THE GOVERNOR DECLINES TO TALE.
A reporter of The Constitution called
the governor and asked him what he had
to say about the matter.
The governor repjied:—“I really must de
cline to disciu s the subject. When these in
nuendoes were first bruited abont,I demand
ed an investigation at the earliest possible
moment, into my motives and conduct
The investigation was then made. It
close, searching and thorough. Every
charge, every innuendo, every hint
carefully run down, and, notwithstanding
they were traced back to one source, they
were all weighed in the report
Every avenue, of information
suggestion was explored and hun
dreds of pages of testimony taken.
Both the majority and minority reports,
based on this testimony, have denounced
every ramoror intimation or charge agains
me as slanderous and malignant These
reports, the result of an official Investiga
tion, to which I promptly appealed,
have taken me out of this discussion. As
to the fight between Mr. Hill and Mr.
Murphy over the fee, I have nothing to say
in regard to that In the first place, I have
no authority ovci Mr. Murphy. He is the
clerk of the treasurer, and was appointed
by the treasurer who was elected by the leg
islature. In the second place, this contest
over the fee is in the courts, and I presume
will be settled there.
Reporter—“I see that there Is considerable
discussion as to the relation between Mr. Hill
and yourself—he insisting that he is your
friend, and others asserting that there is an
antagonism between you. What is the
truth about this?”
Governor—I answer emphatically that Mr.
Hill’s course has not been thatof a friend,but
rather of an active and malevolent enemy.
No man who reads the testimony—who
reads his statements or his letters—who
reads the interview now before us, with its
infamous insinuations, can doubt for an in
stant the malign passions that have nerved
Mr. Hill in this whole matter.” No, sir, he
is not my friend!
At this the governor stated that he did
not care to go into a discussion of Mr.
Hill’s interview, and the reporter left.
official In it* character, snd in many case* has the I
welcht and value of legal evidence not requiring
further examination of witnesses to authenticate
and confirm it In offering the resolution in the
senate, I did not assume the part of public prose
cutor, but especially declined any such service.
The Invitation of your honorable committee,
however, which I cannot disregard, and cHlM
i to constitute a full and
fair compliance with all requirements of yoi
resolution. With great respect, your obedient
J.G. I
servant, J*. G. Bi.aine.
The acting Attorney-General Phillips has
transmitted to the secretary of the treasury
the following opinion upon the question
•nknitt^ regard f- '• -
submitted to him to-day, in regard to the
Blaine Investigation committee using
twenty thousand dollars heretofore appro
priated :
Department or Justice, Washington, D. C.,
December 28, 1878.—Secretary of the Treasury:
8lr—I submit for your consideration the following
reply to yours dated this day, in reference to the
meaning of the 2d section of the act approved
January 19th, 1878. entitled “An act to provide for
the ©x)N>n*cs of the select committee on alleged
frauds in the late presidential election.” The act
In questaon consisls of three sections; by the flint
these $20,000 arc added to the contingent fund
of the house of represents live*, and » '
printed
to defray the expenses of the select commltt^WP
that house, appointed under a resolution specified
therein, and directed to investigate alleged
frauds in the late presidential election. By the
second, $20,000 are placed to the credit o-
the contingent fnnd of the senate and approprif
ated for defraying the expenses of said Investiga
tions and inquiries aa hare already been or may
hereafter be directed by the senate during the
of the forty-fifth congress: and by the
—Athens Watchman: A large number of
the Georgia papers seem to favor General
Lucius J. Gartrell for the next governor of
Georgia. He Is a most worthy anti able
man, and would make a strong race.
Meriwether Vindicator: Colonel Harris
was called to the speaker’s chair the other
day during the consideration of one of tlie
important appropriation bills and graced
the position a* though he had been bom to
fill it. None but the leadnig members of
the body are thus honored when important
bills are being debated. While in the chair,
the bill under consideration whs perfected,
discussed and reported to the speaker by
Colonel Harris and at once passed the house.
—Conyers Weekly :Looking over the list of
our last men who are likely to be aspirants
for the governorsbip.of Georgia at the next
election, we see none who is better quali
fied in every particular, and who would fill
the position with more credit and honor to
the state, than Lncius J. Gartrell. Asa
lawyer he Itands at the head of his profes
sion, while his statesmanship and financial
attorney-general I
theexpcn»e» “for the detection and punishment
The question put by
— section, etc. The In-
veni; atto :s of alleged frauds in the late presiden
tial election are unlimited, except *a directed by
ffic heretofore aud hereafter during the
forty-fifth congieas. In my opinion the appro
priation in Intended for any Investigation or in
quiry whatever directed by the senate aa above.
The expression quoted abbve, “mid investigation*
and inquiries as have already been or
may hereafter be directed by the senate.”
is evidently a solecism. The most natural meth
od of getting rl<l of the blunder Is by reading
'said” “such.” The phrase “said Investigations”
*aald'
taken perae, means, of course, the very investi
gations by a special committee ordered by the
bouse. It will readily be admitted that thi* U
not the true meaning of the section, because
there are other reasons that the investigation had
already been provided for. It is suggested, then,
that “said” is intended to refer to
the class of frauds mentioned in a former
section and thus to confine the appropriation to
the investigation of the frauds in the late presi
dential election. There is nothing to favor this
Interoretation excepting the necessity of account
ing for the existence of the word ‘said”. That
tio doubt, is Is a necessity of the’ease, but the so
lution offered does not remove the solecism,
which, as 1 have suggested, at once arrest*
the attention of the reader. At the same time It
is not more probable than the explanation that I
have above submitted ax true, which does remove
such solecism. That expression in the investiga
tion, etc., waa preceded by said and followed br
point* to a ready solntion of the difficulty. I
mean that which I have adopted and now sub
mit to your consideration. Very Respectfully
8. L. Phillips,
Acting Attorney General.
The above decision will enable the com
mittee to use the $20,000 heretofore appro
priated, notwithstanding the doubts, at first,
of the comptroller of the treasury.
A Proteat Against Protection.
London, December 28.—A dispatch from
Geneva to the Times says the Geneva cham
ber of commerce has issued circulars to all
other chambers of commerce of the confed
eration, Jinviting their co-operation in a pro
posed o; position to a new federal custom
tariffs, and pointing out how greatly the
adoption of a system of protective duties
will injure the trade of Switzerland and im
pede its prosperity.
To Housekeepers.
The attention of heads of families is re
spectfully invited to the snperiorquality, in
every respect, of Dooley’s Yeast Powder.
It is entirely free from adulteration of any
kind, and every package contains absolute
full weight. Consumers should bear in
mind the fact that a strictly pure, full
weight baking powder, although it costs a
little more than the adulterated,cheap.light
weight or bulk powders, ia by far the cheap
est, both in purse and health.