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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBE1I IS, 1SS1.
THE CONSTITUTION.
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ATLANTA, GA.,OCTOBER 18,1881.
Tut: French are struggling with a tniniste
rial problem.
It is probable that the senate will adjourn
about tlie 25th of October.
The great hurricane in the Iiritisli isles did
an immense amount of damage. Many lives
are believed to have been lost.
Tm: sum of $!i!0,i!li0 still lingers in the hank
of England to the credit of the Confederate
States. Many eyes are now riveted upon it.
It is creditable to the people of the United
States that not u single man has offered to de
fend Guitcan. While that duty will be de
volved upon some competent attorney l.v court
appointment, it is refreshing to think that as
sassination meets with such universal con
demnation.
The Apaches arc all warlike, hut they are
broken up into small hands, and arc fleeing to
the mountains of Mexico for safety. They
will continue to render both Arizonia and
New Mexico undesirable to those who are
seeking quiet and orderly neighborhoods, hut
no disaster to our troojis is now looked for.
Richmond and Danville railroad. He will
be accompanied by Adjutant-General
Baird, Captain Jolin Milledge, Mr. Henry
Jackson, Mr. .1. II. Estill of Savannah, Mr.
J. H. V. Allen and Mr. J. II. Barrett, of Au
gusta, and two or three other gentlemen. Mr.
Miller of the New York Times, Mr. Page of
the New York World, Mr. Rawlins of the
Boston Commercial Bulletin, and representa
tives of The Constitution, and some other
journalists will join his party. Through the
kindness of Colonel G. J. Foreacre, of the
Air-Line road, the party go in his
sjiecial car, which is provided with
a restaurant, reception room, etc.
They will live, while in Yorktown,
in this car. The party will leave here on
next Saturday evening at 3 o'clock, will l??e in
Richmond at the grand parade, and will then
goto Yorktown and remain until Thursday.
They wiH then leave for Atlanta and reach
the city Friday or Saturday.
A special part of the visit is that Gov. Col
quitt will go for the purpose of extending to
the French visitors, the governors of the states
and the distinguished guests, invita
tions to come to the exposition at
Atlanta. He goes in liis capacity
as president of the exposition and hopes to
bring back ail the visiting governors and their
escorts. It is probable that the Georgia party
will accompany the excursion to Charleston.
If so they and their visitors will reach Atlanta
on the 27th, which will he known in the an
nals of the exposition as ???Governors??? Day.???
Due notice of their return and of the pro
gramme arranged for that day will be given
The Constitution-, and the chances are
that it will lie one of the grandest days of the
three months.
tie of a neighborhood should he grazed in
common in larger enclosures, thereby doing
away with a large amount of fencing. An
other favors the fencing in of all towns, there
by protecting the market gardens and
suburbs at small expense. Out
of all this discussion, let its
hope some practical remedy will be found for
the waste and burden that have been handed
down from the days of cheap timber and
cheap labor. Economy and new circum
stances demand' a change, and when the full
extent of the fence extravagance is made
known, the people will not be slow in finding
one that will commend itself to the public
mind.
We do not hear that the colored republicans have
very lively hopes of getting any large number of
offices under the new administration. At any rate,
it may be said that few white republicans will be
crowded out to make room for colored republicans.
In this business the policy of the late administra
tion will not lie departed from.
The republicans on Tuesdday elected David
Davis president of the senate, and the ponder
ous statesman was duly placed in the chair by
two dexterous senators. Thus the stubborn
ness of Mr. Bayard, in insisting upon bis own'
objectionable claims to the empty honor, has
led to the defeat of the party will. It can only
he hoped that Delaware is now satisfied with
her superfluous dignity.
We observe that a few of our Georgia ex
changes are manifesting a little had feeling
towards Atlanta in their notices of our great
c\-|>osition. Perhaps it makes them feel good
to give vent to a petty animosity of this kind.
But we have a suggestion to make to them
which might do more good to their several
sections. It is, that they invite the many
capitalists and manufacturers who will be
brought to Atlanta by the exposition to visit
their cities and counties before they leave
Georgia and see for themselves the advantages
which they offer for men of enterprise and
capital. They have only to display a tenth???qf
the enterprise and public spirit which Atlanta
has exhibited in getting up the exposition, to
reap for themselves a ]>ortion of its resultant
benefits.
A REFORM IN GEORGIA FARMING.
We printed yestenlay an interview with
Major J. F. Jones, of Troup county, which
presented some most remarkable facts. It has
been considered as settled that the cost of a
}>ound of cotton to the fanner in the south
ranged from eight to ten cents, depending
somewhat upon the conditions un
der which it wns made. Major Jones
gives the details of a process by
which lie has made cotton year after year
at less than three cents a pound, and says that
farmers in his noighl>orhood under the same
system have the same or even a better record.
It is unimportant to ascertain whether or not,
tlie details of his calculations are precisely ac
curate. It is enough to know that he has
raised the average of cotton production from
one-third of a bale to the acre to a
bale and a half to tlie acre
and that by exchanging a lnrge
plantation loosely cultivated for a small farm
well tilled he has paid off a seven thousand
dollar debt accumulated under the first sys
tem, and laid by a surplus in cash and im
provements. He has struck the secret of suc
cessful farming in this one thing, and if the
farmers of Georgia were to-morrow forced to
put the same labor and expense upon the
cultivation of half as much acreage as they
now spread it over the result would be vastly
better for them and for the state at large.
THE FENCE LAWS.
The discussions and votes in the legislature
of Georgia at its recent session disclosed some
sectional as well as individual differences on
the question of fencing in stock in lieu of
the present fence system. As a rule, the rej>-
resentatives of what are known as the ???wire-
???grnss counties,??? were opposed to a change in
the present law???even to extending ???local
???option" on the subject to parts or divisions of
counties. The reason is obvious: stock-rais
ing for market is a valuable industry witli
them, tlieir country is thinly settled, and the
range well adapted for pasturage nearly the
whole year round. A few counties of north
Georgia, where live stock are raised in large
ltumliers, were its decidedly opposed to a
change. On the other hand, the system of
fencing in stock received considerable sup
port from the older and more thinly settled
counties. With them timber for fencing
R'coming scarce, and the natural range for
cattle is not so extensive or valuable. The
question, therefore, has opjaising local inter
ests to confront.
Probably tlio legislature did. under the cir
cuinstances, the best thing it could do, by ad
liering to local option for the counties and
extending it to districts. There is no doubt
tliat the projiosition to fence in stock instead
of crops lias gained strength in some parts of
tlie state within the last year; several late
elections in as many counticsshow that. Tlie
prospect is that it will continue togain ground
as fences decay, and the country becomes
more thickly settled. It would therefore seem
to lie the part of policy as well as fairness for
tlie friends of tlie present fence system to ad
here to the local option method of settling tlie
question, so that the predominating interest
of each county or section may soonest make
the change if desired, or longest maintain the
existing status if preferred.
GEORGIA AT YORKTOWN.
??? Notwithstanding the failure of the legisla
ture to appropriate money for the representa
tion of tlie state at Yorktown. Governor Col
quitt will go with his stall and a number of
other gentlemen to represent the state at the I agricultural industries ??? tliat stock-raising
GRANT IN 1884.
The obstinacy of the fight between the re
publican factions in the state of New York is
not attributable solely to the support of Conk-
ling by the one side and opposition to hint by
the other; nor is it confined to the disposition
of the rival parties towards the administration
of President Arthur. The opponents of Conk-
liug are convinced that they will have in 1884
to meet again the question of Grant for a third
term. They know that the triumph of the
Conkling faction would give the nominating
vote of the state to Grant in 1884, as it gave
most of its vote in 1880. They fully realize
the fact that to prevent this they must break
tlie domination of Conkling in New York,
and that this cannot be done by bargaining or
compromising with his faction. This is our
interpretation of the meaning of tlie uncom
promising stand taken by the ???half-breeds???
the late state convention of the party.
They know that they have a foe full of re
sources and pluck, and that they will have
great odds to light after President Arthur has
given all tlie federal patronageof the state into
the hands of the Grant faction headed by such
a man as Conkling.
Not only in New York do wesee at this early
day outcroppings of the purpose of the
friends of General Grant to make another ef
fort in 1881 to give him a third term. The
republican state convention of Maryland,
held on Wednesday, was quite demonstrative
of that purjMise. It was managed entirely by
ex-Postmaster-Gcneral Creswell, who was
made its president, and who took care to have
the working machinery of the party put into
the hands of the stipjiorters of General Grant.
He is said to have proclaimed openly that such
was liis object.
The democratic party of tlie country cannot
be indifferent to this movement, or to tlie evi
dences that President Arthur favors it. They
cannot afford cither to ignore or to underrate
it. Grant was a hard tuan to beat- at Chicago
in 1880, when the influence of the Hayes ad
ministration, with its huge army of office
holders was against him. There is very little
doubt that but for the opposition of tlie ad
ministration lie would have secured tlie nomi
nation then, and with the help of the Arthur
administration lie may secure it in 1884. Tlie
canvass on the part of liis friends promises to
be more active for the next three years than
it was preceding the last nomination, and we
hope that it will be sharp enough inside of tlie
republican party to prevent tlieir united sup
port of him if lie should secure the nomina
tion
THE COST OF FENCES
The cost of protecting the crops of a section
from its live stock???of one class of property
from another???is attracting a great deal of at
tention. Tlie discussion of the subject be
came brisk soon after the census office pub
lished some fence statistics that are as unan
swerable as they are valuable and suggestive.
These statistics are as yet incomplete, but
they arc already sufficient to open the eyes of
all intelligent farmers to the nature of the
tax tliat fences create. It is estimated tliat
tlie fanners of New York are taxed $1.12>-i an
acre on account of fences, against 33 cents an
acre on account of state and county taxes.
The people of Georgia paid, in 1879, $1,825,-
652, on account of fences, enough to have
paid the interest on the debt of the state, and
the expenses of tlie state government,
with a liberal margin towards the support
of an efficient school system. This annual
expenditure in the state is simply waste. It is
money and energy expended without adequate
return. It is so much addition to the expense
of making crops tliat at the best are not very
remunerative. Tlio annual wear and waste
of fences is put at ten per cent. This would
show that the value of the fences in Georgia
is in the neighborhood of eighteen millions,
or something more than all tlie live stock in
the state is worth. To expend eighteen mil
lions for the purpose of protecting the crops
from ten millions of live stock, is clearly
wasteful, especially when tlie expense does not
promote tlie live stock interest???does not in
fact accomplish anything whatever except the
imposition of an unnecessary and unfruitful
tax. The farmers of Georgia are naturally
restive under such taxation, and several
counties have already decided that a
farmer may restrain Ids own stock, but he
shall l>e under no obligation to protect his
crojis front the stock of his neighbors. Stock,
in other words, must be herded as in most
European countries, or else kept in small en
closures. A ten-dollar scrub cow shall not be
permitted to compel the building of one hun
dred dollars' worth of fences in a neighbor
hood.
The-fence discussion that lias sprung up is
bringing out a good many suggestions. One
thinks there should be a greater division of
Our esteemed border contemporaries who arc dis
turbed because of the popularity of The Constitu
tion ought to be glad that we have demonstrated
what an easy matter it is to make a truly great and
good daily paper. We frankly confess that we are
not yet satisfied. We have some other features now
ill process of materialization which will make tlie
hair of our esteemed border contemporaries stand
on end like the fretful acrobats in a restless circus.
The Constitution twelve months from now will be
an age ahead of The Constitution of to-day. We
respectfully invite our esteemed border contempo
raries to sit up with us and witness the )>erform-
ance.
Tiie announcement of the discovery of the sixth
comet by the patent kidney pad process has been
made. It has been marked for identification and
turned loose again.
It is to be feared that the flippancy of General
Sherman wiil cause Thurlow Weed to write anoth
er card. We need hardly say to Mr Weed that Pri
vate Dalzell is the proper receptacle for such a doc
ument. Postage should be prepaid.
Statesman Bliss is a colonel. The question
arises???if he is a colonel in New York .what would
he be in Georgia, where even the ;motlieis-in-law
are colonels? .
The state press association meets in Atlanta to
morrow. Atlanta welcomes the boys to her palpi
tating bosom.
Now that the democrats have elected a president
of the senate, it is in order for the New York Tri
bune to elicit a protest from Thurlow Weed. Mr.
Weed has more wind than Montgomery Blair and
Blanton Duncan combined.
Your Uncle Samuel sighs and says he is still for
reform.
be held at Belfast in June, 1884. The committee of
arrangements is already at work.
St. Louis is suffering from a big freight
blockade. Some 5,i)00 ears filled with merchandise
till the tracks of eastern roads for forty miles out of
the city, and goods shipped from caste.u points
orty days ago have not arrived yet.
President White, of Cornell university,
says that institution was never before on so solid a
foundation as at tlie present time, it has an endow
ment of $1,71X1,000. luid In two or three years it will
have from $2.iiOi>.OU0 to So.iWO.OCO additional, and
be the richest collegiate institution in the country.
Six moiltlis ago there was not a house at
Glendive. Montana: now there are fifteen hundred.
The Northern Pacific railroad was opened to that
point in July. In the new cemetery there are nine
graves, including five of men killed in fights, and
two of female outcasts who committed suicide.
Mr. Fi orence, tlie actor, who visited
Pope Leo XIII in company with Mr Maekay, the
California millionaire, says the pope has one of tlie
best and kindest faces he ever saw. ???There was
something so fatherly, so gentle and good in it tliat
I shall never forget it while I live.???
Now tliat the canning season is at its height,
housewives should bear in mind that ???gelatine" is
absolutely destitute of nutritious qualities, and is
made from hoof-, horns and other slaughter-house
refuse. Many of the cheap jellies sold in stores and
served in hotels and restaurants are made from
gelatine (disguised by flavors, which themselves are
often artificial), and are not fit to put in the stom
ach. Nothing like the old-fashioned, home-made
jelly.
It is asserted tliat there will be a large fall
ing ott" in tlie Malaga raisin crop, and that a syndi
cate has recured control of tliree-fourths of the
raisin produet of California. Assutn g this to be
true, tue San Francisco newspapers are urging the
grape growers to convert ail of the grape crop that
yet remains ungathored into raisins. The demand
for Muscats ami Tokays,however, for table use in tlie
east, has been so great that the best vineyards have
already been stripped. Muscats are worth $30 a ton
in San Francisco, and Tokays of a gootj quality
bring $50 a ton.
There are 7,000 women in Mormondom
who have but a fraction of a husband each, and
only some :!.(XK> men who are over-wived, which
shows that they are credited on an average with two
and a quarter ???wives each. There are only :5,??
more women than men in Utah in a population of
144,000, of whom a fraction over two-thirds are na
tive born. There are 124,000 Mormons and 20,000
Gentiles. Most of the polygamists are aged people,
and the claims of female fashion hinder younger
men from following their example.
The Laps are rapidly decreasing in num
bers. In 1838 the population of Lapland was esti
mated at 30,000. while it is now given by an officer
of the Norwegian government as only 17,000. A
recent traveler says the causes of the dwindling
away of this peculiar race are the practice of poly
andry. the excessive use of nlconolic spirits, tlie
difficulty of obtaining sufficient reindeer moss in
winter to support the herds which supply them
with food, clothing, etc, and lastly the fact that
they are everywhere being supplanted by the
Quains, who are more industrious and intelligent.
If the country should hear a sudden noise in the
night, there will be no occasion for alarm. The
time has now arrived when Arthur may be expect
ed to break a band stave over the butt-end of the
Garfield cabinet.
The satire of the esteemed Vermont senator is
diabolical. When he alludes to ???the lottery of
assassination,??? he strikes a deadly blow at Mr Ar
thur???s peace of mind. With due respect for the es
teemed Mr Edmunds, we would suggest that this
is several degrees below the belt.
The republican eflluvia rising from the pension
office takes the shape of a fog. It is so easy for even
tlie smallest olfice-holder to practice genuine re
publicanism that lie never misses the opportunity.
Hence the stench. ^
A Chance In the Railroad Commission. ???
On Thursday by executive order Governor A H
Colquitt appointed Colonel LN Trammell railroad
commissioner in place of Colonel Barnett???the tim
for wliic-h that gentleman was appointed expiring
on next Saturday.
Colonel Trammell is a gentleman of acknowl
edged ability and prominence, and is thoroughly
in accord with the objects and policy of the railroad
commission. I11 a public career of over twenty
years no official act of his has ever been criticized
orquestioiied. Colonel Trammell was very strongly
backed for the position of commissioner. He will
enter tqion his duties on the 16th.
PERSONAL.
Queen Victoria's maids of honor average
about fifty years of age.
There are in tlie senate two senators named
Cameron, two Hill, two Jones and two Miller.
Judge Black married liis wife when lie was
26 and she 17. Their golden wedding Is near at
hand.
General Loxostkeet is freely mentioned
for a cabinet position as a representative man from
the south.
The oldest bishop in the Anglican church
is Dr Olivant, bishop of Llandaff, born in 1798 and
consecrated in 1849.
Mrs. Jackson, tlie widow of ???Stonewall???
Jackson, uud her daughter have been visiting in
.New York city. ,
Miss Edwina Booth, daughter of Mr. Edwin
Booth, is, it is reported, engaged to marry Mr
Downing Vaux, son of the well-known architect.
Mrs. Langtry is trying to recover her beau
ty at Diiiau, one of the small seaside resorts of Nor
mandy. If she succeeds the fortune of that place
will be made.
Glore Democrat: Richard M. Johnson, the
democratic condidate for governor of Minnesota, is
a Kentuckian, and, of course, a general. Nobody
ever heard of a Kentuckian being less than a major
at home or a general abroad.
Mr. Tilwex lias nearly completed one of
the finest dwelling houses in New York. He is
making his preparations to stay in the world till
1884, and to have a good time while he stays. If he
would only get married we should feel very kindly
to the old man. *
The marriage is announced of the earl of
St German, the lineal decendant and representative
of the patriot Sir John Eliot, Charles the First???s
victim, who died in tlie tower of London 1622, to the
lion Emily Labnucherv. Tlie lady is ihe youngest
daughter of Lord Launtnn. unele of tlie editor of
the London Truth, whose peerage became extinct
at his death without a son. His daughters had large
fortunes. The father of Lord St Getman was here
with the prince of Wales.
Boston criticism of Rossi is extravagant,
and some readersmight think it funny. One writer
assures us that the audience owes to the tragedian
???henrs in which the worth of living has been heigh
tened, and which have been besouled by the purest
breath of art.??? Kossi is fifty-two and Lit. however
talented, but a Boston enthusiast finds in liis
rounded physique ??? ???unexampled corporal eloquence
with which, so to speak, a statue is set to every emo
tion in its very moment.??? A third Boston otiserver
secs objects of thrilling admiration in Rossi???s hands.
???As a whole,??? he declares, ???and in the single fin
gers, they speak a e-mprchensible and convincing
language. With him the ten fingers are like an
alphabet, capable of many combinations in the for
mation of words.??? m
IN GENERAL.
American magazines thrive in England.
The skirts of the fashionable woman clear
the ground by two inches.
Colonel Wapley, of the Central, has gone
to New York with his family.
Mrs. E. \V. Cole will spend the winter in
New York with her husband.
Somebody estimates that the recent heavy
frost did Sl.tXKi.OOO worth of damage in tlie territon*
within ten miles of Boston.
A vignette of the late president will ap
pear <m the cheeks for the 6 per cent bonds con
tinued at 3J4 tier cent which arc being printed.
The project of flooding the desert of Sahara
is abandoned. There was a little obstacle in the
way: tlie desert is nine hundred feet above the
TUx-an.
Me. Joseph Clisby, of the Macon Telegraph,
has returned from the Hot springs. His friends
will be glad to learn that he is much improved in
health.
The next general council of the alliance
Presbyterian churches throughout the world will
BILL ARP???S LETTER.
la Which tic Touche* on the Railroad Boom.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Nashville is after the gamblers.
The Arkansas river is still on the rise.
Maysville, Ky, is to have a paper mill.
Paducah, Ky, is to have a pickle factory.
Alabama state fair begins November 7tli.
The population of Lynchburg, Va, is 21,777.
Carthage, Tennessee} has a pig with two tails.
Tm: coal area of Tennessee is 5,100 square miles.
Sabine county, Arkansas, boasts of a 700 pound
hog.
One firm in Nashville bolds 30,000 bushels of pea
nuts.
There will be good fall grazing throughout Ken
tucky.
Professor Cather, of Alabama, predicts a hard
winter.
Fifteen circuses are traveling in the south this
season.
The peeati crop of Louisiana is very large this
season.
Tennessee is rich in the extent and variety of her
timber.
The walnut crap of Bourbon county, Ky, is tre
mendous.
Corn is selling in East Tennessee at sixty cents
per bushel.
The peach crop around Morristown, Tenn, will be
500,000 bushels.
Immigration and capital are steadily flowing
into Tennessee.
There is quite a tide of immigration to Florida
from Kentucky.
There arc 70 students In the Baton Rouge univer
sity, Louisiana.
A fine vein of coal lias been discovered in Jack-
sot: county, Ala.
Water forJhouschold purposes is being hauled in
East Tennessee.
Some of the Texas papers are for carving it up
into several states.
Tiif. rice crop of tlie United States will rcaih
150,000,000 bushels.
Nkuce river. North Carolina, is much lower than
ever known before.
Some 400,000 feet of cross ties will be shipped from
Kentucky to Mexico.
The crops of walnuts and persimmons are abund
ant in East Tennessee.
The levee at New Orleans is to be illuminated
with the electric light.
The Mississippi stock breeders??? state fair be s at
Meridian, October 31st.
Oysters have dropped in New Orleans from thirty
to fifteen cents u dozen.
The business doing on the southern railroads is
simply unprecedented.
Pate sour water of Hopkins county. Texas, is a
sure cure for dyspepsia.
Last season Texas produced 1,200,000 bales of
cotton, worth $00,000,600.
Mississippi Baptist state convention meets in Me
ridiuu 011 the 20th instant.
Jn Green county, Texas, there are two millions of
aeres of unimproved laud.
The corn crop of East Tennessee will he better
than was at first expected.
Hoo cholera is reported as prevailing disastrously
in several parts of 4 irginia.
Wheat in Kentucky is coming up finely, and has
a vigorous and healthy look.
A 13 year old Kentucky negro girl is in the pent
tentiary for stealing a mule.
The cold wave did great damage to the tobacco of
Virginia and North Carolina.
During the last two years over 200 houses have
been built in Plaquemine, Im. ???
Governor Roberts, of Texas, is in the political
field looking for a third term.
Aiken, South Carolina, is to have a town clock
which will be heard four miles.
A cow witli three eyes and three horns is one of
the curiosities of Owensboro. Ky.
The Baptist state convention of Tennessee will
meet in Nashville November 10th.
There are300 students at the university of Vir
ginia. About 150 in the law class.
Corn crops in west Tennessee is turning out far
better than had been anticipated.
Three thousand snappers were carried to Pensa
cola, Florida, in one day last week.
The pompino, a dclieioas fish, sells in Pensaco
la, Fla, ut twenty-five cents per dozen.
Two hundred German emigrants settled in
Weatherford, Texas, on the Sth instant.
A FEW Florida fanners who have???planted arrow
root make as much as $1,000 on an acre.
At the Florida state fair a premium of six dollars
was offered for the best darned stocking.
During the year twenty-five jiublic schools have
been running in Perry county, Arkansas.
The number of penitentiary convicts in South
Carolina is 034. Twenty-one are females.
Mr George Campbell, of Hillsborough, Fla, has
egg plants which weigh live pounds each.
During recent favorable tides in the Appomattox,
sora were slaughtered by tens of thousands.
A three pound squirrel and 36 inches in length,
has just been killed hi McLean county, Ky.
Columbia, Ky, has shipped more dried fruit this
season than she has in any other for 40 years.
One baby bom per day has been the average in
Warren county, Ky. for the past two months.
A large number of Norwegian emigrants, men
women and children, are arriving In Tennessee.
South Carolina will be represented bv about 500
troops at tiie celebration of the Yorktown centen
nial.
Mississippi state printing under radical rule cost
$10(1,1100 annually, under democratic rule $25 OOOun-
uually.
The dried apple crop of Casey countv, Kentuckv,
will pruduee more money than the com crop this
season.
For the year ending September 1 the citizens of
Brownsville, Tennessee, consumed 028 barrels of
whisky.
A Pennsylvanian has leased 10,000 acres of land
near Woodbury, Cannon county, Tenn, and will
bore for oiL
The area of Tennessee is 26,800.000 acres, of
which 10,771,396 acres are still covered with the orig
inal forest.
Tom Harrison, the Kentucky ???boy preacher,
counts 1,000 converts as the result of a week???s work
in Chicago.
Nine hundred acres of Macon county, Alabama,
land were recently sold by the sheriff for one hun
dred dollars.
Written for the Constitution.
Rockmart Oct. 12.???Tiie railroad boom readies
all along the line front Atlanta to Rome, its
tiie general talk every where I go and absorbs all
ages, all sexes, and all colors. It???s one thing
tliat harmonizes everybody and has run poli
ties off tlie track. Nobody eared whether Fos
ter or that otiier fellow was elected governor
of Ohio???nobody cared who was elected pres
ident of tlie senate. I was lamenting to Mrs.
Arp tliat Foster was re-elected and she sewed
away and asked me if he had made a bad gov
ernor, and I had to tell her that I didn't
know whether he had or not, and then she
wanted to know what I wanted him beat for.
I was a jubilatin??? over Bayard???s election and
she asked me what he was going to do for us
and when would he do it. Well it does look
like these women have a way of hauling a
man up by tlie slack rope tliat is very embar
rassing. But they like railroads and they are
glad the cars are coming tills way soon. Pow
der Springs is all in a strut. They are laying
off new streets and town lots and parks and
are going to clean out the beach grove
around the springs and build a nice
pavilion there for the young people of Atlanta
to dance in, and have sylvan seats, and a mu
sic stand, and courting places, and fish ponds,
and arbors, and vines and flower beds; and
they are going to have the healing waters
gusli up in marble fountains, and they are
to cure everybody of evety disease that afflicts
humanity, and the doctors arc to go to plow
ing, ami tiie patent medicine business is to
die suddenly and adorn tlie fences no more.
Won't that be elegant!
And the city of Dallas sits up high and dry
and all serene in her new dignity, and the
very ground seems conscious of its new im
portance. They used to price town lots by tiie
acre, at fifty dollars apiece, but now they
quarter cm up and measure around with a
tape line, and price ???em by tiie front foot.
They have begun to define the width of tlieir
streets and to call 'em pc???, names, for they
never had any, and now there is MeC???niekin
avenue, and Cole street, and .Sample square,
and Hine???s park, and McCIatchy boulevards.
Talk about- your highlands and your pure
atmosphere at Marietta. There will be a new
deal _ of tlie cards before another
summer, and Dallas will come in
with a full hand of trumps.
There is room enough tiiere for summer resi
dences for all tlie blooded stock of Savannah
and Macon mid Columbus and have plenty of
suburbs left. I always did like suburbs and
when they come right up to the center of a
town like'they do in Dallas I like ???em all the
better. But there is one thing about Dallas I
I don???t like,and that is its name. I???ve got noth
ing agin the name in particular,for George M.
Dallas was a great man and a patriot, but
l???aulding and Van Wert went mighty well to
gether, and they ought never to have been
separated. Paulding and Van Wert captured
Andre in the revolution, and Van Wert used
to lie the county scat, anil they cut off some
of Paulding and called it Polk and named the
county seat Ccdartown, and left poor Van
Wert out in the cold, and tiien Rockmart was
built up and Van Wert died without a fune
ral. It???s all wrong, and I wisli they would
change the name of Dallas to Van Wert, for
it???s a better name and will hand down the
memory of a noble soldier and a true patriot
to future generations. Now,if they had named
Cedartown Dallas it would have been all
right, for Polk and Dallas run together just
like Paulding and Van Wert.
The right of way through Cobh and Pauld
ing is about all clear. Most of tiie people
along the line gave it for nothing and tlirowd
in tlieir welcome and good will, hut every
body ain???t alike in this subloonary world, and
some few had to be paid. But it' was no big
thing all told, and I think $1,200 will cover
the cost from the junction to Rockmart, and
the exhibition of liberality and good sense is
a compliment to the people. Some old-fash
ioned people don???t like railroads no way
you can fix cm, and I don???t blame cm, for I
do have a hankering After tlie gooif old times
myself when niggers was and we used t<>
wagon cotton to Augusta. I know we can???t
get along now without railroads, but I can???t
forget liow happy we were in the olden time,
when we lived plain and our wants were few
and we had plenty of time. The scarcity of
time troubles me now more than anything
else, for I don???t believe the days are as long
as they used to be and there???s not as many of
em. #
One man says lie to me: ??????Squire, I run???ll
away from a railroad thirty years ago, away
down in Morgan, and I hid out up here anil
have lived in peace, and now here conics an
other one of tiie cussed things a follerin??? me
up. I don???t want you to ???borne on my land.
I???ll get a junction agin you ef I cgn. I???m
nigh enuf to market. I can go to Atlanty in
a day, and ef there???s a show in town I can go
to it and see the female critters dance round,
and I can sell my cotton and buy the old wo
man and the gals a few tricks,and come home,
and that???s all the use I???ve got for Atlanty, for
hit???s a God forsaken village; and I???m like Jeff
Davis in tlie last war: I jes want to he let
alone, and if you???ll git olfen my land I???ll lie
obleeged to you,and me and you???ll be friends.???
Another man says he to tue: ???The railroad is
gwine to damage me a sight, I can???t paster
my stock no more and the engine will skeer my
horses, anil I???ve got a young mule that Go???.iah
nor Moses couldn???t liohl, and I???ll have to sell
him, for when tliat biillgine comes a snorten
he would jump over a pine tree, and I???ll have
to swap him off. and maybe lose ten or fifteen
dollars in the trade.???
But the women, God bless ???em all, stand up
for the railroad and want it to come, for the
poor creatures are penned up at home from
January to Christmas, and don???t see anything
but the same old road to a nabor???s house and
to the country church, and I don???t blame
???em for wanting to set tlieir
emotions free and look out upon the winged
machine that gives life and energy, to the busy
world.
Rockmart is the coziest little town I know*
of???a little gem hid in behind tlie mineral
hills???a quiet, unpretending place, where a
tired man can lie happy if he wants to. I say
a quiet place, but there is more buiness done
here and less fuss made over it than any town
I ever saw. Tiie local freights at this i>oint
average now $3,500 a month. They ship the
finest lumber in the world and they shipslatc
and copper ore in quantity???they buy from
five to six thousand bales of cotton here in a
season. This place is in the southern edge of
the finest valley in Georgia the best for clover
and grass and stock. This place is almost sur
rounded by mountains which are rich in val
uable minerals???iron ore, slate, marble, cop
per, cement and grindstone grit and lime
rock. This little town lies on tlie hanks of
Kuharlee creek that has water power enough
within five miles to run as
many spindles and looms as are on the Merri
mack. The prospective wealth and prosperity
of this locality can only be conjectured, but
there is iron ore enough and slate enough, and
marble enough, and other minerals to give
profitable investment for millions of dollars.
If these surroundings were at the north, this
property around Rockmart would command
millions of dollars. The time will come and
is not far distant when the slate quarries will
give employment to a thousand Welchmen
and the slate which is best yet discovered on
the continent will find a market in every
southern city. This iron ore will supply a
dozen furnaces and this marble will build
our new eapitol and as soon as Mr.
Cole???s road is built this lime
will lie shipped by the car load
to southern Georgia and Florida. When I
was in Florida, last winter, they were paving
three dollars for a barrel of lime at .Sanford'
anil right here it is selling for ten cents a
bushel. They have a eaen stone here that,
when first quarried, can be planed, or sawed,
or turned in a lathe intow urns, or orna
ments, or flower-pots, ana 011 exposure
to the air gets as hard as flint. In
fact there???s anything and everything in these
parts that any reasonable mat! would want,
excepting oysters and a newspaper, and they
will have tliem when tlie road is finished. Mf.
West is fixing to extend his road to Binning,
liam anil Gainesville, and then Rockmart
is bound to be tlie first industrial
town in the state, for the Creator
never filled up these hills for nothing. All
hail to the new line???Powder Springs for
pleasure, Dallas for health, and Rockmart for
industry, and Mr. Cole's road will be kept
busv. There is a good old-fashioned hotel
here with clean beds, and a clean table-cloth
and good, honest fare. I???ve been to hotels
where the only clean place in tlie towel tliat
hung in tiie piaza was a hole, but this is not
tliat sort. Old father Prcssly isanxious about
vour comfort and will let you drink your cof
fee out of the saucer and not say a word. He
furnishes good company to talk to and beau-
ful women to gaze upon anil good music in
tlie parlor and is sorry you can???t stay longer-
when you go. Peace and prosperity to Rock-
mart. Bill Aur.
THE CODE.
Uuhonc Arrested???A Bud Between Kiddleberger and
Wise.
Richmond, October 15.???A hostile meeting t.xik
place this afternoon at 4 o'clock, about ten miles
from Richmond, between Captain H H Riddlol.org-
er and Hon G II Wise. Four rounds wore fired
without either being hurt. Mutual explanations
and amicable adjustment followed.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
I11 vesterdav's first edition of tlie State there ap
peared an editorial written by Richard
F lieirne, junior editor, in reference
to the alleged confession of \V Leigh Wilson, about
the Blair letters in tlie course of which Beirne-
denounced Captain H H Riddlebcrgor, as being un
worthy of belief. In a later edition of tile same
paper" there appeared a card 01 lion George
it Wise, autographed last night, also denounc
ing Captain Kiddleberger as a liar and a scoundrel.
Since tlmt time the public lias been much ex
cited in anticipation of hostile meetings between
the parties named. At about six o???clock this even
ing Cup;. Kiddleberger and two friends were seen
to alight from a carriage at tlie office of the
Whig. 80011 thereafter it became generally re
ported tliat lie had had a meeting with both.
From the best information now obtainable
the following particulars are given: Upon the ap
pearance of the paper containing Mr Beirtte's edito
rial. Captain Ridulebergcr sent that gentleman a
challenge to mortal combat, and but a short time
after, the second edition, with Captain Wise???s card
had made its appearance, tlie latter gentleman
received a similar invitation from Captain Kiddle
berger. All parties left the city last evening to
avoid arrest, and arrangements were speedily made
for two affairs. Messrs Kiddleberger and Bieme,
accompanied by their respective friends, met at s
o'clock this morning near Ashland, in HenrycounJ
ty. but when everything was in readiness mid the
seconds had proceeded to load the weapons, it wns
found that by an oversight of otieof MrBiemc???s
friends no caps had been provided for tiie pistols, the
result was that hostilities were for the time suspend
ed, as it was impossible to obtain the necessary am
munition within any short time. Captain Kiddle
berger would wait no longer and left tlie grounds*
in order to fulfil an engagement he lmd with Cap
tain Wise. The place chosen for the second
meeting was near Henry county turn
pike, about ten miles front Richmond.
Both parties were promptly oil the ground at four
o???clock this afternoon. In this case nothing had
been left undone or unprovided, and in a few mo
ments tlie principals were placed opposite-
each other at a distance of ten
paces, armed with regular smooth bore
dueling pistols and prepared for the deadly
work. Upon the first tire Captain Wise???s weapon
snapi>ed. but be remained unhurt by his opponent's
fire. This was followed by two other rounds with
out either of the combatants being hurt. It is re
ported that Captain Wise???s hat was perforated by
the ball, while Captain Kiddleberger was pierced,
by tlie hall. At the end of the third,
round the friends of both stepped:
forward and declared that the vindication
bad been ample, and that hostilities should cease.
A mutual explanation was then made and an ami
cable adjustment reached. Both gentlemen are re
tained to have behaved bravely, holding their posi
tions without change during the whole time occu
pied by the hree rounds.
ATLANTA???S MILITARY POSY.
McPherson Barracks to be Broken Up???The Troops???
Under Orders.
Atlanta isabout to lose the old familiar sound of
the cannon that salutes the flag which floats over
McPherson barracks. On yesterday Colonel HamiD
ton received a telegraphic order from Adjutant;
General Taylor, of Newport barnteks, directing that
preparations be made for tlie removal of the troops,
after tlie first of November, and the sale of tlie gov
ernment property here with a view to abandoning:
tiie iKj.-t. The order lmd been pre
ceded by private telegrams the night
previous, and was not altogether unexpected at the
jKist. Our citizens were not prepared for it, how
ever. and considerable surprise was tlie result, lu
conversation with a number of men vesterdav. a
representative of The Constitution learned that a
-very general feeling of regret prevailed wherever
the news was known. The officers and men have
ninny warm personal friends in Atlanta, who will
regret to see them leave. Aside from this, tlie
money spent in tlie city by the soldiers is consid
erable, not less than five or six thou
sand dollars a month, exclusive of that
paid out by the government. There are now sta
tioned here about three hundred men, half the
util regiment United States artillery. They will
go to New 1 ork harbor and take the place of the 3d.
regiment. The soldiers will be greatly missed, and.
it is hardly known what will become oi the old
barracks. The improvements belong to the gov
ernment but the land is leased. Tlie lease has.
however, about expired. It is expected that the
troops will leave in about a month. It has been
suggested tliat in view of the fact
pat the exposition is going on
it would be a good idya to let the Third regiment
come on and remit in until the close of theexposi-
tion. The post can then lie abandoned and the
property sold. Steps will be taken to induce the
revocation of tlie order abolishing the post. The
trouble seems to lie that for some time a suit has.
been pending instituted by tlie citizens in the im
mediate vicinity for the opening of a street through
tlie grounds. Jt is not known, liut it may tie
that this was the cause of the
order, the government not wishing to bv
interfered witli in the matter. While the eitizens
immediately around tlie barracks would be pleased
10 be rid of some of the surroundings, 110 one has
any objection to the soldiers, and many of our citi
zens nave made urgent appeals to our congressmen
'A 1 ., iY ,,u,ors *!! interpose and continue the barracks.
Ill Atlanta. 1 lie soldiers who are stationed here
"jy.iT '??? lo interference with our citizens and spend
all their earnings with our merchants and furnish it
source of large revenue to Atlanta.
Captain G W Williams, quartermaster, has been
ordered to Fort Brow n, Texas, but lie cannot leave
beiore lie makes his transfer of tlie public property
now in liisjj^rge. It is probable tliat he will not
get uwa.vj^fcvenil months.
ANARCHY IN IRELAND.
Wholesale Arrests or the People by the Brl
Government.
Ioindon, October 15???Details of the burn can
Kngluiid show that it lias been the most disasti
known for years. But few continental or proviti
telegrams have been received. There was con
erable damage done to shipping.
'ork, October 15???The wires in Kngland
still down nml communication with London is>
and very uncertain. There is only 011c direct 1
from \ alenciu. London, and most of the land w
connecting with cables between Kngland and
continent are broken. It will take consider]
time to repair the wires and in the mcantimti
sages for transmission are accumulating and lj
ness is many hours behind.
London, October 15.???The London parks
strewn with fallen timber. Many boats are agro
in the river Thames and steamboat traffic suspt
\ery few places in Kngland have esca
damage by tlie stonn. Four hundred small t
were blown down in Southwark. Ship]
casuulities arc numerous, but 110 great di-astc
reported. Owing to tlie breaking down of telegr
w ires the meteorological office is unable to res
observations.
The gale inflicted severe damage to property
parts of the country, and several persons were k'i
and many injured. Houses were unroofed
unfinished buildings collapsed. It is reiairted 1
forty-tivc fishermen were lost at Burnmouth
hvemouth. Scotland.
The death is announced of the Right Rev. Jit
brown, Roman Catholic bishop of Shrewsbury
the age of 69. _
,, Dublin, October 15???John Itillon, member of
ltament forTipjanury, was arrested at 4 o???elia-k
afternoon, on the charge of treasonable praeti
and lodged in kilmaiiiham jaiL
Mr Sexton was Hrrested Friday afternoon on
warrants- charging him witli being suspected
treasonable practices and with inciting the pc
t??Intimidate tenants not to pay rent.
Quinn was ehuiged with the latter offense:)
were both locked in KilmuinbHin jail. Ari
O l onnor has also been arrested. At the indii
tieu meeting in the Dublin Rotunda on Fridav
hall w-as crowded and 20.000 persons were uii;
to gam admission. Two hundred police \
stationed dose to the Rotunda. The
"!i yor e i ect . presided. Mr Biggur
oilier members of parliament were present. Ti
5 e Frilly disappointed if I*am
a D!, s 1b u dilated tiie payment of rents. A mo
carried* 61 < '' ray ?????? denouncing Purnell???s arrest,
_,Zk e . Gazette publishes a proclama
signed by Mr Forster, the chief sccrctarv, wan
Persons guilty of intimidating others not to
rents, or coercing them to ubandon their la\
employment or to join the land league, will be
ble to arrest.
immediately on hearing of Sexton???s arrest
Kennedy wrote to the chairman of the gen
prisons board, warning tlie authorities that tht
rest puts Mr Sexton???s life in immediate danger