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/ > THE CONSTITUTION, PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE DAILY CONSTITUTION 1» publithed every day except Monday, and la delivered by carriera in the city, or mailed postage free at *1 per month, *2.50 for three month*, or «10 a year. THE CONSTITUTION, la for aale on all tralna lead- in* ont of Atlanta, and at news i tan da In the princi pal eoath era cities. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, published every Tuesday, mailed postage free for *1.60 a year-ten cop ies *12.60—twenty copies *20. Sample copies sent free upon application. Agents wanted at every post-ofBce where territory is not occupied. ADVERTI8INQ rates depend on location n the paper and will be furnished on application. CORRESPONDENCE containing important news BO. 1 cited from all parts of the country. ADDRESS all Tetters and telegrams, and make all drafts and checks payable to THE CONSTITUTION. Atlanta. Os. THE CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 20,1881. The French have taken Susa, but they have not taken the wickedness out of the Arabs or the swiftnessjout of theirliorses. They will have to occupy a ifrcat many more towns before the Tunisians become good French subjects. The drouth is now broken up and abolished, the 'southwest alone possibly excepted. The lonff summer and the drouth have departed to gether, and no one will shed a tear over the change. The blessed rain is falling once more in satisfactory quantities. A national convention of jiostal clerks is to meet in this city next week, and on the llth of October the state railway commis sioners, nearly one hundred strong, are com ing. If there is one thing above another tiiat people like to do, it is to come to Atlanta. And Atlanta is glad to have them come. Tiie old time “equinox" that the scientists have tried to rob us of is now about due, and we hope the elements will show the men of science that there are some things they can not comprehend. We speak for nil old-fash ioned equinoctial storm—one that will fill the wells and springs and branches, and give the turnip crop a lwnun. Turpentine, us well as cotton, is going up, and thus the farmers in lower Georgia are en joying a double boom. Turpentine that last year at this time was worth 31 cents, is now worth fifty tents, and the tendency is still up wards. The drouth did not affect the crop, and yet turj>entine moves up with everything else. The truth is the country is too prosper- ous for low prices. Nearly everybody has be come an active consumer. Ip onr readers were rich, if Georgia was blessed with good crops, we would urge a practical answer to the appeal of Port Huron for help in taking care of the blinded, home less, starving people of northern Michigan. Let us hope that the rich and prosperous every where in this country will see that the coming cold weather does not find the afflicted people of the devastated counties without food or shelter or medical attention. ago, took the first prize for claret at the Paris exposition. Its business,' from a small lteginning, increased until it had become immense. Its wines became famous over the whole country. There were vineyards established in all the adjoining counties to supply it with grapes and numer ous smaller companies organized for making wine. The other night its buildings were humed and over 18,000 gallons of wine stored in the cellars destroyed. So great had been the success of the company, however, that the directors at once determined to rebuild and rented houses in which to press this year’s vintage. These are but samples of what money and sagacity can do in the south. There are oj>- portunities of this sort to be found in almost every county in the south. They are waiting for cash and brains. The Egyptian colonels are quiet, hut flic khedivc is practically their prisoner. It seems that the settlement which tiic colonels ac cepted was obtained chiefly through the efforts of General Stone, an American, who was ap]Kiintcd chief of stair by the khedivc some time ago. The action of the colonels may result in a considerable change in the affairs of a country that comes nearer being the world's center than any ytlier that can be named. The action of the Irish league convention is convincing proof that the land agitation will go on regardless of the oi>erations of the land act; and it is also plain that a land-re form agitation in England itself ia inevitable. The liberals seem to be ready to promote it. Altogether the prospect is not a good one for “the most powerful aristocracy” that the world has ever known; for land reform in volves the abolition of primogeniture and other important- changes. The strike at New Orleans was settled by a committee of the chamber of commerce acting as mediators between flic contending parties. After a suspension of work extend ing through thirteen days, it was agreed that tlie employers should hereafter lie free to employ whom they pleased, but they agree to deal fairly with the late strikers. The tariff of the workingmen was accepted. In other words, the employers are now rid of obnoxious rules, and the laboring men will return totheir work free from unpleasant conditions. The settlement will doubtless prove enduring, and all concerned are glad it has been reached. The Anglo-French, or even the Anglo s’ urkisli control of Egypt is imperilled by the recent uprising of the little army under Arnby Hey. It is not known what brought the outbreak about. Some people in England seem to think that France had something to do with it—that she desires an excuse for occupying Tripoli. But the probability is, the feeling against foreign intefcrcnce togeth er with a Mohammedan revival, led to the demand of Cherif I’asha and a constitution. The mob got the minister they wanted, but it is not probable that they will secure a con stitution. for that means indei>endence. The country is now practically controlled by Messrs. Blignieres and Colvin, the one an English officer, and the other a Frenchman, and the English and French governments have no intention of turning the finances and general management of the country over to its own i>eople. If the revolt is kept up the Egyptians will reap, instead of independence, foreign occupation. The Egyptian army is a mere shadow. Five thousand soldiers from Eurojic could scatter it like chaff. THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH. Two items in the i>apers of the past day il lustrate the southern development going on in states outside of Georgia. A company was organized in Nashville with $2,000,000 capital for the purchase and im provement of the Sewnuee eoal mines. This company was organized by Mr. John H. In man. Mr. Inman came south for the purpose of seeing whether or not it was safe to loan $100,000 on the property, and found it so tempting that lie and his friends put $2,000,000 in it. It is said that he cleared at present figures $300,000, and the development of the property will add to this large sum. The Monticello wine eomjKuiv, of Char lottesville, Vo., organized about seven years teutiontothe fact that the capitol had not at that out, however, his changing his attitudes in theleast time been worn out by biennial sessions. Can as degree. much be said now? Many a young lady in society has been deceived by a clove. A member of the legislature suggests-that the cir cuses are very backward this year. This is probably true; but the time seems fast approaching when every member of the legislature will be a circus unto himself. The intuitions of a good woman are invariably the essence of wisdom. Garfield, it is said, is vehemently opposed to any movement which has for its object the install t n o Arthur in the exec utive chair. We are b > nd to believe that Mrs. Garfield is a true Jeffersonian democrat. THE FARMERS AND THE CORN CROP. We print this morning a remarkable inter view with Judge George Hillyer touching the shortage of the com crop of the northwest and south. Judge Hillyer is no alarmist, hut eareful, observant and deliberate in liis opin ions. His testimony following close ui>on that of Governor Brown, who wrote of the condition of the crops in the southwest and west", is entitled to tiie gravest considera tion. We have little doubt that the United .States will grow this year tiie smallest crop of corn that it has had in years, and that the price will be pushed to high figures. We have little confidence in the great corn reserve that is said to be in regions so far distant from the railroad that it has not paid to haul it for sixty or seventy cents a bushel. Our opinion is that the shortage will not he supplemented by the erojis of any areas not usually drawn on. The pro liability that our cotton raisers will get a high price for their cotton is of very little account in a general calcula tion. The advanced price of corn, fod der, wheat, meat, hay and other necessaries, which will follow the price of eom no matter how high it goes, will be felt grievously. The increased price of cotton will hardly do more than counterbalance the shortage of that crop. The farmers should, therefore, take the advice given through our columns and save every pound of hay that can be cured on their farms. In the meantime we shall not consider the mis fortune of the short corn crop without its compensation if it will teach Georgia farmers the utter folly of raising cotton exclusively and dejiending on the west for their pro visions and forage. The whole country is prepared to lean fondly to a wet spell; but the disposition of the wet spell seems to be the other way. PROTECTION FOR CONVICTS. To whatever extent the details of the death of the unfortunate convict Mathews may be toned down by additional explanations, the affair cannot but he regarded as a most horri ble exhibition of wanton and unjustifiable cruelty. All its features are so exceptional that it is not necessary for the press to discuss or denounce it. It is a most unfortunate oc currence, but, happily, it will do more to bring about reform in the right direct ion than all the clamors of the demagogues and all the arguments of the sentimentalists. It shows precisely where a reform in the system should begin. The convicts arc to be protected from irresponsible men who are employed to guard them. The law, acting swiftly iii this in stance, has already taken this particular case out of the domain of discussion. The most important feature of the Hawes penitentiary bill is that section which pro vides that the ordinary prison discipline which is one of the necessities of all punitive systems shall he administered by some re sponsible person to be appointed at each camp by the lessees. Every breach of discipline is to be brought to the attention of this officer, and his judgments will necessarily he dispas sionate. Any guard or other unauthorized l>erson who shall strike or abuse a convict, will, under the Hawes bill, be sent to the pen itentiary for one year. Tins is sufficient to deter those who are inclined fo be cruel or brutal, and thus the convicts, as well as the lessees, will be protected. But the question arises, how would this law operate in regard to the convicts employed on the Marietta and North Georgia railroad? These convicts were donated to the contract ors of that road by the legislature, and, as we understand it, they are not under the control of the lessees. It may lie that the legislature, making this donation, empowered the contractors to assume the authority well as the responsibility of the lessees. AVe have not time just at this moment to investigate the matter. If there is any omission of this sort, it should he promptly remedied, so that these convicts may profit by the protection afforded by the new penitentiary bill which recently passed the senate, and which will undoubtedly pass the house if the reformers in that body are earnest in their professions. The dry goods clerk who has overdrawn his salary to pay his iee-eream bills will regret to hear that the theatrical season is upon ns. A dollar will go a long ways in Atlanta. It will buy a dozen rice birds, or, what is better, twelve pounds of beef haslett. Federal oflice-holders in the south should begin to learn a trade. If internal taxes arc abolished they will be compelled to scuffle for a livelihood. The president is constantly achieving victories over his doctors. Doctor Bliss, however, seems to bear up under it One of the depressing resnlts of liver-pad as tronomy is seen in the remarkable speed with which the comets retire from our neighborhood. December is rapidly approaching. December is the month in whieh congress meets, and everything poiuts smilingly to the time when Conger will add the violence of his vocal calliope to the ravages of the drouth. The train robbers of Missouri appear to be pro vided with letters de catch it. We despise to quote French when there arc no italics in the office; but under a republican form of government the privi leges of the individual must surrender to the neces sities of the public. Guiteau’s fatigued guard seems to have been a member of the solid south originally. We hardly know whether to be proud of him or not. We judge from the remarks of Editor Walter, of the London Times, on the American press, that he has not been a regnlar subscriber to The Constitu tion. If tills be true, he owes it to his readers to in stitute a reform. For our part, we pride ourselves on the fact that we are able and willing to send The Constitution to foreign tourists at the rate of $1 a month. There is no extra charge to editors. Some of oiir esteemed contemporaries allude in a jubilant tone to the praise which The Cosstitctjon lavished upon the present capitol building four ■ years ago. In this connection, we desire to call at- A young man sends us an essay on “The Plati tudes of Plutarch.” It is as long as a biennial ses sion, but this doesn’t matter. Instead of telegraph ing it, he sent it by mail and now the facts are out of date, comparatively speaking. As soon as Plutarch platituded, the information should have been put upon the wires. It is given out that Miss Sally Bernhardt proposes to start a newspaper iu Paris. It will be reman bercd that Miss Sally has the first requisite of a suc cessful editor—leanness. Warner, of Rochester, who suspects that the heavenly bodies are affected with kidney disease, has offered a prize of 8200 .lor the best essay on comets. The essays are to be descriptive anil all technical terms are to be penned up in brackets. This scheme looks like it would work. A young lady of West End, who was serenaded by an Atlanta youth recently, declares that she had an attack of male aria. She has now concluded to wear a sunllower at her belt as an antidote. Guiteau now knows what it is to be shot at, and he doesn’t like it. It may be mentioned here that Guiteau is by no means through with his troubles. The New Jerseyman who married his mother-in- law ought to be a statesman. He has discovered the sweets of conciliation. A palace car has been named in honor of Emma Abbott. It is proposed to fit the car for opera by omitting to grease its wheels. In the bright lexicon of the operatic stage, one squeak is as good as an other, and probably lietter. Complaint is made that when American preach ers return from Europe they smuggle a guide-book into the pulpit. • Your Uncle Samuel is marrying off his younger relations prejairatory to going to war. This shows that the obituary which appeared in the editoriul columns of the New York Herald of Sunday is some what premature. Atlanta is the mother-in-law of a new fashion. When the front hair is made up into little rings which are subsequently slighly torn up with a fine comb, the style is known as the Fulton county fluster. v A married woman never gets familiar cnoug with her husband to allow him to sec her sidling and backing in front of the mirror. When she is caught at it, she says she Is hunting a pin. Naturally, the guard who unloaded his blun derbuss at Guiteau is an Ohio man. The future historian will comment upon this fact as one of the least attractive features of the affair. It is now believed that the backbone of summer has been sawed in two—and no thanks to Vennor, neither.^ • . Several members of the legislature have rushed off to sow their turnips. Of oleomargerine, it may be said that cotton seed oil is butter than this. If your landlady is disposed to be communicative, she will tell you that a pullet is not always chic. Old Probabilities ushered in the rain storm by prophesying light local rains. O. P. would do well to* make way for Vennor. It is a little sad to reflect that there arc compara tively few colonels in the country outside of Geor gia. Six theatrical eomiwuiies have already dissolved— and the season has barely begun. The gifted min strel troupes, however, still hold their own. It is enough to make one seasick to learn that the czar and the emperor of Germany kissed each other. They say that William got Alex, by the under lip and held on like n domincckcr rooster. Iroquois carried off the English purses honestly. Otherwise we should begin to regard him as a pos sible republican candidate for president. There was a young man from Savannah Who carried a temperance banuah: A cinnamon bud He used as a cud Whenever he called on his Hannah. Prince Henry, of Prussia, is a particularly intelligent young man, and all he saw during his visit to the roval dock-yard, whether on board ship or in workshops, was regarded, not with superficial carelessness, but with intelligent inquisitiveness. The prince isulrcady a general favorite, particularly at Osborne. The execution of Djalel Agha, the Persian marauder, at Teheran, was an imitation of Anglo- Indian punisluneni. He was tied fast to an upward- pointing cannon, placed upon a platform, and then was so thoroughly “distributed” that only one rib was found, and this was given to his wives, of whom he had many. There was not enough left of him to go round. A house has just been finished which Queen Victoria has built for Mr. John Brown within the grounds of Balmoral, but which that fortunate sub ject has not vet occupied. It is a spacious and plain square mansion, occupying a pleasant situation in the center of a lawn-like expanse of the royal de mesne, with a carriage-drive leading to it from one of the avenues. Dr. Bliss says that when the president was in the reclining chair Tuesday his attitude was about thirtv degress perpendicular. Dr Boynton savs his position was a recumbent one—simply a change of couches. While the president was in the chair his daughter Moliie, Luke Rockwell and a son of tiie attorney general were in bathing. He could see them plainly, but he made no remark. Mrs. Shaw, the daughter of Professor Agassiz and wife of the Boston millionaire, has es tablished over thirty free Kindergarten schools in Boston and the neighboring suburbs. She has busied herself so energetically in the work of found ing the schools and collecting in them the poor little waifs of the city that her health has given way and she is suffering from a nervous prostration brought on by her exertions. The Hon. Artemus Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass., is doubtless the oldest ex-congressman liv ing, having been born October 20, 1783, and is therefore nearly 98 years of age. He served in con gress from ]SlT> to 1849. The Hon. Murk Alexander and Judge James Garland, of Virginia, both served in congress as far buck as 1832. Judge Garland,who is now nearly 90 years of age, is still judge of the hustings court of Lynchburg, Vu. Clara Belle, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who recently went to see a boat race between two crack crews and was shocked when they appeared naked to their belts, whieh were below the boat’s side, and the only apparel visible was some figuring in India ink on one fellow’s wrist, thought there was some mistake, as she had never seen an earnest boat race before, but the other women among the spectators didn’t iliuch, and so she stood her ground like a heroine. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, once lived in a house in Norfolk street, London. He had a pceping-hole at the entrance through which he surveyed every one who came to see him before they were admitted. One of these, having been made to wait for a long time, asked the ser vant Impatiently if his master would not see him. “Friend,” said the servant, “he hath seen thee, but he doth not like thee.” The caller was one of I’enn’s creditors. General and Mrs. ‘Grant arc never seen at anvof the public hops, and there is not a cottage at the Branch where life goes on so quietly and iu so thoroughly domestic a manner—a quiet drive in the deep laudan, or the society of two or three friends from the city, being the nearest to dissipation the family indulge in. But the house over the way, where Jesse Grant lives, is the center of a good deal of guvetv, and the lawn is generally animated by the presence of u number of lively young people. The aristocracy of Home have divided into twocanqis; one, including all the younger members of tiie aristocracy, went with the king, while a few, who were considered the legitimists, remained faithful to the pope and the moral principles of the church. One of the latter, an old prince, hitherto deemed pious, has left his family for one of the danseuses of the Costanzi, for whom he has pur chased a villa and four splendid horses, and who appears at the opera with him in the most exquisite- toilets. This moral defection has given great pain to Leo XIII. Mbs. Florence, the actress, says that she talked with the princess of Wales in the box of a London theatel? and found her charming in man ners and person. Her voice is soft and extremely musical, and a slight German acecnt makes her speech all the more pleasing. Mrs Florence pro nounces Lady Lonsdale and Lady Mandeville among the first of English beauties, and says of Mrs Langtry: “She is not strictly beautiful. Shu has a fair skin, and large, rouud, dark eyes, which she uses very expressively, and with all the art of a professional actress, in conversation. The natural color of her hair is chestnut, but she is as often seen with very light or reddish frizzes as with those of IN GENERAL. WAITING FOR THE ENGINE AVERAGE INHABITANT OF DALLAS AROUSED. Bill Arp Meanders into Paulding County, and CTieeks His Reins in DaHas, Where He Catches the Spirit of the Times, and Takes an Interest in the Question of Railroad Development. PERSONAL. The latest reported wealth of Mr. Tilden is $15,000,000, Tinney Rucker is already making prepara tions for the Gainesville convention. Mr. Edwin Booth will open liis season at Booth’s theater October 3rd with “Richelieu.” Alice Oatf.s lias gone to Australia, and Mr. Marvin, therefore, has no rival in this country. Litz once vowed that he intended to retire from public- life, but twenty-eight years afterwards he was still before the public. General Burnside’s fine presence will he missed: his good intentions for the south by his education bill will be long remembered. James R. Keene has jiurchased for $75,000 an English estate, upon which he intends to build stables for the purpose of training his horses. ■ Mb. Peachy R. Grattam, an old lawyer of Richmond, Va., and a brother-in-law of the late ex- Govemor George K. Gilmer, of Georgia, died a few days ago. Bismarck is growing fat. In 1874 he weighed 207 pounds, in 1870, 219; in 18,/, 230; in 1878, 243: in 1879,245; in 1880, 247, and now he turns the scale at 251. Dictator Pierola, of Pern, has made a journey of nearly 1,700 miles, chiefly on mule-back, and over the rough roads of the Andes, during the past five mouths. General Grant is adopting the loud New Y'ork style of dress. His solemn suit of black has given way to more swell colors, and he wears a blue necktie with red poker dots. The king of the Sandwich Islands, it is said, will spend the first or second week of October in the blue grass region, examining the blooded stock, of whieh he owns considerable. Lotta has received the new play written for her by Mr Fred Marsdeu and is said to believe that it is the best which she has. This is not saying a very great deal, but everybody will hope that it is true. Said old Cornelius Vanderbilt to a young man who came to tell him the sad story of how he had lost money by stock operations: “Sonny, don’t ever buy what you can’t pay for, and don'tseli what you haven't got.” The sultan is said to have a singular dislike to foreign ambassadors, and Mr. Goschen declares that there is only one way of making one’s self ac ceptable to the sovereign, and that is never to re quire anything from him. Maurice C. Blake, the mayor-elect of San Francisco, was born in Otisfield, Me, about 1817. His father was a distinguished physician of Otis field. The inayor-eleet w as educated at Bowdoin college, and graduated in 1845 at the head of his class. He is umarried. Senator Allison, of Iowa, says that his wife, who attempted to drown herself at Silver lake. New Y'ork. a few days ago, is now much beter. Mrs. Allison has been an invalid for several yeats. She passed last winter and spring in Philadelphia under treatment. Garibaldi’s face is described by a recent visitor ns absolutely livid, the yellow-white of a _ . _ corpse, and his hair and beard perfectly white. His ! which instructs nearly 1,500 students for a merely eyes, however, retain fire and move about from side ' nominal tuition, has received scarcely any aid from to side, following the people about the room, with- individual benefactions. —Guiteau’s guards are exasperatingly had shots. —The oldest Mason is not dying with his accus tomed regularity Out of every' one hundred inhabitants of the United States sixteen live in cities. The most beautiful woman at Saratoga this season is said to have been a circus rider. It would seem that Blanche Douglass has as many husbands as General Morion has wives. TnF. usual cost to the candidates of an elec tion to the German rcichstag is about a million of marks. Tiie Germany and Switzerland Methodist Episcopal conference has 9.717 members,showing an increase during the year of 273. It is now said that “Clara Belle,” of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a young lady of Newport, Kentucky, who has never been to any of the water ing place’s. And still they come. The Virginia Post, published iu Alexandria, and owned and edited by colored men, has come out fail and square for the democratic state ticket. The city of Baltimore intends to give a re ception and entertainment to the Frenchmen who come over to attend the Yorktowu centennial, Octo ber 10,11 and 12. A woman who dressed herself ill men’s clothes and went into the army during the war, so that she could be with her husband, and who was wounded in the service, has just received $600 in pension arrears at St Louis. A Denver girl advertised for proposals of marriage. Her father published a catd to say that her advertisement was merely a foolish freak, and that nobody should regard it seriously. Then the girl came out with a declaration that, being of legal age to choose a husband for herself, she lias taken her own means of getting suited, and did not meun to abandon the plan. Tiie Irish are to have an exhibition of Irish manufactures in Dublin, hut, us the Philadelphia American truthfully observes, unless it is pierred out bv the remarkable collections of the Irish arcliicologicnl society, and thus made to include Irish manufactures from the times of Brian Boru to those of Queen Victoria, it can be little else than a testimonium paupertatis—a display of their poverty. It is expected that the yield of wheat on Dairy mole's famous “wheat patch,” in Dakota, this year"will be 600,000 bushels. Ths cost of production averages $7 an aere, or $210,000. The wheat is sold at an average net price of $1 per bushel, therefore tiie profit of Mr. Dalrymple’s little garden in 1881, which is said to be a poor year, will be the differ ence between $210,000 and $600,000, or the tritie of $390,000; more than 200 per cent, on the entire iu vestment. Said he: “Andyou love me better than all the world beside?” “Yes.” said she. “ And you love me better than anybody else?” said he. “Yes, dearest.” “And you wouldn’t think any more of me if I was worth a million dollars?” Said she: “No; andif 1 was a rich heiress, you wouldn’t want to marry me any more than you do now?” “No, darling."” They were not lying, gentle reader; they were simply courting—that was all.” It will not be long until the United States will be the wealthiest nation on the globe. She now stands third in the list, and a good third at that. England comes first with a capital of 44,000 millions of dollars; France second with 36,000 millions, fol lowed closely by the United States with 32,000 mil lions. The annual increase of national wealth in Germany is 200 millions, iu England 325 millions, in France 375 millions, while in the United States it reaches the enormous figure of 825 millions. Sax Antonio, Texas, is to have one of the grandest hotels in the United States. Colonel Ed. Wiekes has the matter in hand, and Juy Gould and C. P. Huntington are down for $50,000 eaeh, to lie increased to $100,008 each if necessary. It will be known (so it is now thought) as the Great Southern hotel, and will be the half-way house between the Citvof Mexico and New Y'ork, as well as between Sari Francisco and New Y'ork. All the money nec essary to build a mammoth structure can be had at once. A queer conception of architectural styles they have out west. In Cincinnati they are going to build a union depot “in the Eastlakc style, with Queen Anne facades, which go to make up the modem gothic.” Such a building must be analo- f ous to the brunette person with Grecian features, [oman nose and blonde hair. It is to be feared that the technical phraseology of architecture has about as much meaning to the Porkopolitaus, as the won derful French of the fashionable hotel bill of fare does to its readers. Tiie productive property and income "of the principal American colleges is given in the cur rent number of a monthly review. Columbia col lege has the greatest resources; property valued at $4,763,000. with an income of $315,000. Harvard is second with productive assets of $3,165,000, with an income of $231,000. Johns Hopkins university has $3,000,000 of property, and an income of $180,000. Yale has property to the amount of$587,000, with an income of $136,000. Most of these Institutions have been liberally endowed. One of the greatest of American colleges, the university of Michigan, Written for The Constitution. Dallas, September 17.—I’ve seen higp;r towns than this town, where the population was more thicker, more denser, as Cobe says. A man told me before I got here that I could tell the town when I got to it by a wide place in the road, hut 1 found several stores, and some nice dwelling houses, and plenty of flowers, and a good court-house, and a brick jail with nobody in it, and that’s a mighty good recommendation for any people. Pauld ing has a voting population of 1,500 whites and 300 negroes, and Judge Underwood gets through his court business in three or four days at a session. Bartow and Floyd have got about twice as many people, and brag about their high civilization and refinement, and it takes twelve weeks in a year to keep up with the court business in each county, and the like of tiiat is what shakes my faith in the morality of big towns and cities, and wealth and an overdose of education. I like these primitive old-fashioned, hard-working country people because they are honest. I want ’em all to be able to read and write, but 1 wouldn’t send ’em to college if I could. Now and then you may find one who would profit by it, but in nine eases out of ten it spoils the boy and a good citizen is lost to the state. I’ve, seen the ignorance of our country people slurred at by northern newspapers, but I’m not ashamed of ’em. I’m willing always to put ’em side by side with their masses in every thing that constitutes good citizens. The dif ference between us is. they have got one standard and we have got another. How to make money is theirs—“get money, get money; put money in thy purse honestly if thou const, but at all events get money,” as Iago said. Solomon says, “rejoice in thy labor and do good in thy life, for all else is vanity;” and Ben Franklin never said a truer thing than that idleness is the parent of all crime. So when I .see these humble farmers at work in the field I’m not afraid to take shelter under their roof. If my horse gets sick they will doctor him. If my buggy breaks down they will mend it. Con stant industry is the salvation of a man. He rejoices in his labor apd lias no inclination to steal or cheat or take the nigh cut to fortune. I found the good people of Dallas all jubilant and serene; a hundred souls made happy by the prospect of a railroad coming to their town. For weeks they have labored and en treated and reasoned with the magnates; for weeks they have lived in a state of alternate hope and fear, for the New Hope line was the shortest, and that left them out in the cold, l’unkin vine and Raccoon creeks meandered through rough ravines and wild mountain gorges, and the surveyors hunted in vain for an easy route. Line after line was run, and at the last it was rumored tiiat Dallas was doomed and then the people were sad and town lots were offered at twenty-five dollars with no bidders, and old Father Foot said he was too old to move, and should stand by the flag, and the preacher fixed up a consoling sermon for next day’s service, and his text was, “Blessed are they who expect little, for they shall not he disap pointed,” and Braswell—the indefatigable, irrepressible Braswell, who, like Colonel Jones, of Rockmart, had pulled off his coat and roll ed up his sleeves and put on his seven leagued boots and piloted the surveyors into a thou sand thickets, and tip muscadine vines and down into dens and caverns, hunting for a way from Dallas to Rockmart. Oh, Braswell, where was lie? There was the Braswell line and the Jones line and the Spinks line and the wild turkey line and tiie red fox line and various other lines ranging from two hundred to a thousand feet grade per mile, and I saw a drawing of one of ’em which went through a tunnel and immediately crossed a bridge five hundred feet high slanting upwards and ending in the mouth of another tunnel, and a mule was pulling the engine and there was a man on the mule with a thrash pole ten feet long, for you see the boys have to work up at night all "the ground they have gone over by day and send it to Mr. Samples’s headquarters, who has to decide which line is the best. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon .of Satur day a cloud of dust was seen rising afar off on the Powder Springs road and soon the form of a horse and buggy and a man driving furious ly was seen and his driving was like the driv ing of Jehu, and his horse was all in a sweat of perspiration, and his whip was wore off to the handle, and it was Ragsdale—Ragsdale, the mail man, and his face was all aglow and his eyes shone like crystals as he opened his mouth and spoke and shouted, they are coming by Dallas. The railroad is coming by Dallas. Hurrah for Dallas, it‘s all settled. I heard the letter read, the things happened, the bullgine is a coming shore. When Jie had given all the particulars and convinced the doubting, some of ’em cut the pigeon wing, and some turned a summerset, and some run ’round the court-house, and some threw up their hats and kicked ’em afar offas they came down, and hollered “All Hail Columbia, Happy Land,” and the married men hurried home to tell their wives, and the boys run all about town blowing like a locomotive toot, toot, to-oo-oot, pish, ish, isli and shouting, “All aboard. Go to the Foot house, sir; carry your baggage, sir; buy a Constitution, sir.” But Braswell! where was he? In due time he put in an appearance, but nobody knew where he came from. Going up to Dr. Foster he said solemnly: “Did you sa\ you would take six thousand dot lars for your farm—railroad or no rail- oad.” “Yes,” said the doctor. Quietly pull ing out a roll of money as big as your arm he handed it over to him and said “count it and make me a deed” and then, and not till then were all doubts removed and the railroad question considered settled. Dallas is the high and dry center of a good deal of space, and as Judge Underwood re marked Paulding is the best county in the state to the looks of it. They have got very good crops and their cotton is moving to mar ket rapidly. Most of their farmers will make coni enough to do ’em and a little to spare and it wouldent be a bad idea for a man who is had off at home to take up winter quarters there on the line of the railroad. He could get plenty to do and work for his teams, for it will be lively times along the line this winter. Commodore MeKechney has got a wagon load of money and is going to scatter it, and if our people don’t get their share it will be their own fault. Tiie people of this country have been lonesome for a long time. Some "of ’em never saw a bullgine, ami so the Marietta folks thought they would educate ’em’ to it by de- grees, and they sent two young men over to Powdqr Springs on bicycles, and as they came rolling down tiie street, the noiseless*things slipped up on a mule with a man on it, and the glitter of the silver spokes a whirling around scared the animal and left the man on the ground, and he followed ’em up for a fight, and they apologized in most respectful language, but took on powerful and said that the next time they come a runnin’ of their dumed old spin ning wheel along side of his mule, he’d be dogond if he dident gewliallop the spizirenk- tuui out of’em. Thinks I to myself if a little bicycle is going to upset a feller that way, what will they do when the locomotive comes thundering along, and tooting a horn that shakes the air for a mile. But it will all work out right in the long run, and as Mr. Shak- speare says, all’s well that ends well. Bill Arp. The debt of Austin, Texas, Is $150,000. Quincy, Florida, is to have a wine factory. The rice crop of Louisiana, is unusually line. The chestnut crop of Tennessee will be large. The value of the sheep In Texas is $13,800,000. Birmingham, Alabama, will have an opera house. Florence, South Carolina, wants a street railroad. Middle Florida is suffering much for the want of rain. Arkansas boasts of twenty first-class watering places. Mobile received during the year 392,319 bales of cotton. There were 104 deaths in Richmond, Virginia, last mouth. The Alabama state fair opens on the 7th of No vember. Drouth is killing the trees in some sections of Virginia. There is a water famine in the Vienna section of Louisiana. The farmers of Florida are raising jute to cover their cotton. Sells Brothers’ circus will visit South Carolina in November. Tropical fruits and vegetables are plentiful in Kcv West, Fla. Last week one firm in Pensacola, Florida, shipped north 3,000 fish. Many fanners in upper East Tennessee are plow ing wheat lands. Dry murrain is playing sad havoc with cows in north Alabama. The public .schools of Knoxville have eighteen hundred pupils. Hoc cholera seems to be spreading in various sec tions of Virginia. The dried fruit crop of East Tennessee thisseason, is simply enormous. North Carolina furnishes most of the mica now- used in this country. Louisiana has ins varieties of trees well suited for lumber ami fuel. The Wateree river, in South Carolina, is lower than it has ever been. The mines of North Carolina have produced 1,000,000 in five years. The log and lumber business of East Tennessee is grow ing to be immense. Baltimore is exercised over its Baltimore Oriole and October celebration. Over $15,000,000 were handled in Montgomery, Ala.’s trade the past year. Mrs John Platt, of Nashville, gave birth to trip lets last w eek—three girls. Nearly two thousand of Knoxville’s, Tcnn., pop ulation are going to school. The drouth has killed a good many apple trees in Shelby coauuty, Kentucky. W W Bruce lias paid $20,000 for the opera house property in Lexington, Kv. The result of Major Bell, the Texas evangelist’s work In Bell county, is 1,014. Considerable quantities of wine have been made in Columbia. S C, this season. A storm destroyed churches, school buildings, and crops in Dallas county, Texas. The Tennessee river at Chattanooga is lower than it has been for over fifty years. A man in Greene county, Alabama, killed sixty squirrels last week in one day. Louisiana has a school population of 290,036. Of this number 189,657 are colored. Thirty-one divorces have been granted in Talla dega county, Alabama, this year. Forf.paugh'8 show, which will visit Nashville the 26th, has 20 performing elephants. The manufacture of sheep cheese is one of the promising industries of Chattanooga. Crops in all parts of Tennessee will turn out much better than was thought awhile bock. Arkansas lias eleven daily newspapers—an in crease of five since the first of January. Tiif. new artesian well at Charleston, .South Caro lina, has reached a depth of 1,101 feet. Nashville is to have a mammoth manufactory of barrels, hubs, spokes, axe handles, etc. New Orleans owns 552 vessels, with a tonnage of 85.310. Twenty-one are ocean steamers. The university of North Carolina opens with a larger number of students than since 1860. About one-tenth of Arkansas is covered with the yellow pine, which attains an enormous size. Many mountain counties iu Kentucky report the best corn crop they have laid in fifteen years. * Mecklenburg county, Virginia, will make a tre mendous quantity of applebrandy this year. Twelve hundred and fifty-five vessels entered the port of New Orleans In the past business year. Tiif. state fair of the East Tennessee stock breeders association will beheld near Sweetwater October 3d. The Tennessee annual conference of tiie M E church south will convene in Lebanon October 19th. Forty-three wool growers in Tom Greene coun ty, Texas, sheared the past spring 412,210 pounds of wool. At Galveston, Texas, employes of all sorts from cotton handlers to barbers have struck for higher wages. Of over 700,000 square miles of timber lands in this country, the south owns 460,000, or nearly two- thirds. Four large cotton seed oil mills in Memphis, have been running ull the year and three will be started this fall. Before the end of the year over 125 houses will have been erected in Knoxville, Tenu, during the year 1S81. T. J. Jarnagan, a merchant near Tate Spring, Tennessee, bought $1,000 worth of dried fruit last Saturday. The forest acreage of North Carolina is probably greater than three or four of the northwestern states combined. \ Talladega man with a two acre patch of mel ons, made $207 profit and $50 to treat on, and a good crop of hav. Two gentlemen in New Orleans have succeeded In making a first rate article of butter from the oil of cotton seed. Thf. woolen mills company, of Charlottsville, Va., during tile past eleven months have sold $120,857 worth of gooas. The city council of Charleston, South Carolina, refused to reduce the license on Coup’s circus, from $300 to $100 per day. Water has given out at the lunatic asylum at Lexington, Kentucky, and they now haul it for the use of the patients. Last year there were 1,980 looms in operation and 105,136 spindles in South Carolina; 37,621 bales of cotton were consumed. There are 348 convicts in the North Carolina penitentiary—65 whites. Fifty-one female convicts, only two of them white. Tiif. National association of fire engineers, at its recent convention made II M Young, of Augusta, one of its vice-presidents. q During the year South Carolina has put two new cotton factories in operation and six more are being built with southern capital. Twenty thousand sets of Mr. Davis's books were delivered in the southern states w ithin twelve weeks from the day of its publication. During the month of May last the Knights of Honor of Kentucky paid out $80,000 to the wives and children of deceased Knights. There are two regular licensed colored lawyers practicing in the district court at Brenham. One of them is employed in five divorce cases. The consumption of grate and stove eoal in Nash ville has doubled within the past two years, while the consumption of steam coal has trebled. 8 E Callahan, of Mecklenburg, Virginia, has a stalk of corn bearing thirty-one good cars. Twenty- nine will average over four inces iu length. A lumber firm has contracted for 5,000.000 feet of nsli, poplar and walnut timber in Buncombe, Mad ison and Haywood counties. North Carolina. Thf. Wallace Brothers, of Statesville, North Caro-"’ lina, will exhibit two thousand specimens of medic inal herbs, at Atlanta, grown in tiiat state. United States Senator J S Williams, of Ken tucky, has sold his crop of tobacco from 75 acres for $21,419.06, or an average of nearly $:W0 per acre. The water question is becoming troublesome in Natches anil other locali ties in Mississippi. On Fine ridge, drinking water is procured from mud-holes and hog-wallows. At Raleigh, S C, a few nights since, Robinson’s elephant “Chief,” the same who killed his keeper at Charlotte last year, killed a dog and committed other mischief. In Botetourt county, Va., Berry Nouryer will can for sale this year 150,000 two and three-pound cans of fruit, T. C. Denton 100,000 cans, and J, C. Moor- wain 200,000 cans. Shreveport, Louisiana, last year handled J7.49S bales of cotton, imported $11,253,960 worth of goods, and exported $.5,537,COO worth. Pretty good fora 12,000 population town. The colored society of Richmond, Va., have or ganized a social club. The club room will be somely furnished. They will also have a billiard hall, restaurant and reading room. Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, will go to- Y'orktown in style. He is to be accompanied by six companies of soldiers, whose expenses his excel lency will pay out of the stutc treasury. At the sale of the racing stable of the late H P McGrath, near Lexington, Kentucky, last Friday, forty-three animals brought $31,055. fcusan Ann. a Lexington mare, brought $6,500. Within the past week 32,000 acres of United States lands at $1 25 per acre, and 20,000 acres swamp and overflow,lands at 25 cenLs per acre—all wild lands— have been purchased at the proper office in Jackson, I Miss.