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% THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBE1I IS, 1SS1. THE CONSTITUTION. | exercises there next week. lie goes at his I should be confined to one section, and grain- own expense and through the courtesy of the growing to another. Another thinks the unt- Ki.lcrcd at the Atlanta I???ost-offioe ns sccond-clas* matter, November 11, lsTs. tl'nLIr Constitution. price i t-jO per tannin. ( lnt.s of twenty, $20, and u copy to the getter up of the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTH?, *1.00. nmpo riant. We rend The Constitution and Cultivator to or.e address for ??2,50. This does not apply to post sub script Ion. Both subscriptions must be made at the same time. 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