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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION
VOLUBLE XIV.
TUESDAY MOKSTCNXL XOVEMBEB 1, 1881.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
WASHINGTON.
BREAK ING OF THE DEADLOCK AND
FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
The C3o*ln* Hour* of the Extra Session???A Bess,
lut-.oa by Ur. Hltl-A Republican Caucus???
Bcaolutlons of Thank, and Other In.
cldenta of the Closing Beene.
Washington, October 29.???The executive session
of the senate closed at three o???clock this morn
ing. No decided action was taken on the Stmtham
nomination, and when the doors were
reopened the senate adjourned to
meet at noon to-dny. Owing to
the late hour at which the senate adjourned last
night there wan but a small attendance of senators
when tho journal was read this morning.
Mr. liill, of Georgia, offered the following resolu
tion:
Resolved, That appointments to offices under the
federal government ought not to be made to con
trol or influence the elections in the several states,
and appointments with such intent are unwise, un
patriotic and contrary to the spirit of our political
institutions, and If continued without rebuke by
the people, will become dangerous to the perpetuity
of our institutions.
Mr. Hill asked for Immdediatc consideration of
the resolution, but Mr. McMillan objecting.it was
aid over under the rules.
The republican senators held a caucus this mom
ing to define what course should be pursued in
regard to the existing deadlock over the Lynch-
burg post-office nomination. As a result of the
brief interchange of views, it was decided to ap
point a committee to confer with President Arthur
and to be guided by hiN wishes, whether to con
tinue tlieirstruggle for Strathatn???s confirmation or
to^llspose of other unfinished executive business
this afternoon, and allow the Lynchburg nomina
tion to go over without action (unless it be with
drawn by the president) and adjourn the senate
sine die, leaving the Strathum induction to office to
be effected by presidential appointment inline
dlatcly thereafter. The committee appointed in
accordance with tills determination will wait upou
President Arthur, and it Is generally belived that
the result will lie the break of the deadlock and
speedy adjournment sine die.
The senators who conferred with the president in
relation to the Lynchburg nominations were Ferry
and Mahone. After their return the nominations
were laid aside, und the senate dispatched the re
maining business readily, and a number of nomi
nations were confirmed before the limit adjourn
uicnt
The senate, at 12:30, on motion of Mr. Allison
went Into executive session. While the doors were
still closed, but uftor the transaction of executive
business had been concluded, Mr. .Sherman offered
a resolution for the apjiointmcnt of a committee of
two to wait on the president and inquire if lie hud
c any further business to lay before the senate. The
resolution was adopted and Messrs. Sherman and
Iiuyunl api>olnted on said committee. Subsequent
ly they reported that they had performed their
duty and that the president had nothing further to
communicate.
Mr. Mnxey moved that when the senate adjourns
to day it he sine die. Agreed to.
Mr. Bayard offered the following resolution.
Resolved, That tho thanks of the senute are
hereby tendered to lion. David Davis for the
??? onrtesy, impartiality and ability with which
lot has performed his duties as president pro tern
.il iyg jiln.OwV.
Mr. liat???Is having resumed the (hair, which fora
moment lie had vacated, said:
Senators: 1 am touched by the generous expres-
renominated, and that Cameron and Mitchell
will name the man; Imt they fear the effect
on tho Philadelphia election of appointing a
stalwart over Thompson. President Arthur
is an adroit politician, and he is inclined to
the side of discretion. He is as uncompro
misingly. as bitterly and as aggressively stal
wart as Grant, but lie will wait until after the
November elections to begin the work of
slaughtering the Garfield men. The appoint
ment of Morgan, who does not want tho place,
is one of Arthur???s shrewd devices. It shocks
none of the Garfield element, as lie was ex
pected to accept and retire In December or
soon thereafter, when Uoscoe . Conkling could
lie called to the cabinet, unless Lapham can
be sent abroad and Conkling elected to the
senate; hut Morgan has declined to he made
a warming-pan for Conkling. Blaine and all
the Garfield element for the government will
soon cease to be known in the administration,
but it will not be done in time to enable the
republicans to rebuke stalwartism at the No
ember elections.
OUR CHICAGO VISITORS.
sinus in the resolution which It has pleased the sen
?????ie to pass in tny honor, and I am grateful for the
courteous eo-oi>cration which lias been extend
cd to me front ull sides in ad
ministering the duties of piesiding officer of this
high mid enlightened body. Hoping that every
liieinlit-rof the senate will rctiini happily und
safely to his home and be permitted to resume his
duties here at the next meeting of congress, it
only remains for me todeclaru the senute adjourned
sine die.
Tlte doors were then, at -I :.tt), opened and the
usual leavestnklng exchanged and in a few mo-
mctitsThe senate chamber was deserted.
Dr. Coring, commissioner of agriculture, lias is
sued a call for the cotton growers convention to
assemble at Atlanta November 2d, in connection
with tin* exposition, now being held there. Notices
have been sent to nil the agricultural societies in
the cotton growing states, with a request to send
delegates.
Commissioner 1 .or ing will deliver the ad
dress at the opening of the convention
Wednesday, aftvr which a general discussion
will follow. Arrangements have been made with
Mr. Kinibull, director general of the exposition, for
tin* management of the convention, amt many
questions of interest will be proposed and di-
cussed.
Tire following is a copy of ox-Govcrnor Mor
gan's telegram to the president declining to
accept the office of secretary of the treasury
New York, October 2s.???Hon. C. A. Arthur, presi
dent of tlie United Suites: It is painful to re
fuse any request of yours. It has been specially so
during the whole of the past week and more so now
since your generous action and the prompt
Concurrence of the senate. Rut considering my ug
and the engrossing character of the Untie
of the treasury department. 1 am com|>ellcd
to decline its acceptance. Thanking you for the
great honor, I am with much respect and esteem
your friend, K. D. Morgan
Tho leading stalwarts of the party liav
lieen in close conference with President Ar
thur during tho last Tew days. The pres
dent???s consultation with Grant, t'ntucron, I.<
gan. Jones, Ethnunds, Beale, and others of pro
nounced stalwart views have been frequent,
and often protracted until after tin* midnight
hour. It is an open secret that the only gen
end question discussed was how to get- the
stalwarts into complete possession of i lie ad
ministration without fatally shocking the re
publican party of the country. General
Grant is closer to the new president than any
one man outside of C-onkling. The president
makes no concealment of his devotion to
Grant. Grant lias been tlte first and
tlie last man at the secret presiden
tial conferences. Grant had Arthur as his
fellow guest at General Beale???s to dine on
Sunday, and Arthur called on Grent
and took him to tlie railroad depot on Satur
day when Grant left for New York, a courtesy
that is almost unprecedented from the presi
dent to any one. Grant has been for an ini
mediate and entire stalwart cabinet, which
would at once dismiss all of the Garfield eabi
net but Lincoln, who was a Grant delegate to
tlie Chicago convention, but not admitted
Grant urged tire immediate nomination of
Conkling. Bout well, Beale, and others of that
lHisitive stalwart type, to the cabinet. lie
oelieves that the way to sustain a stalwart ad
ministration is to make it stalwart boldly
and let tlie party understand that Garfield '
dead, and his policy with him. He wants
Boutwell and Beale in the new cabinet.
His love for them is equaled ??? only by
his hatred for Blaine and MacVeagli. Senator
Cameron earnestly antagonized Grant???s plan
for an immediate and entire stalwart cabinet.
He protested against tlie immediate retire
mem of Blaine, and said that it would cost
the republican candidate for treasurer (Bailey
in Pennsylvania many thousand votes, aiid
increase the vote for w olfe, anti-machine re
publican, very largely. He urged the jiost
jsinement of the execution of Blaine to stal
wart izc the administration until after tlie
November election; and he as earnestly
urged the president to retain MacVeagli, if
it were at all possible, until the elections
arc over. He said that when they could
take possession of the cabinet and everything
else in a few weeks after tlte elections are
over, without exposing themselves to rebuke
by the people at tlte iiolls, it would be foolish
and probably suicidal not to wait. For tire
same reason he urged the appointment for
surveyor of the port of Philadelphia. It
BILL ARP ON PREACHER???S AND
AMUSEMNETS.
A GHmpm* at th??* Men of the North went-
For several diiys a distinguished party cf gentle
men from the great northwest, technically grouped
in the hurried purlaneeof the street as the ???Chicago
Isilors,??? have been quietly studying the
city and the exposition in such time
oh they could snaa-h from the courtesies tendered
them, and have up to date escaped special treat
ment iu The Constitution. We present herewith
some gossip concerning these gentlemen, hastily
picked up.
We defer to the honor of our profession In put
ting first???even ahead o^the cx-Uovemor???M. W. K
Sullivan, the city editor of the evening Journal,
the oldest paper in Chicago and one of the ablest
journals In the west. Mr. Sullivan was fora long
lime connected with the Chicago Tribune and is a
fine tyjic of the direct, practical journalist, and
stands highest where lie is best known. He served
a term in the Illinois legislature as a member from
Chicago, and was for three terms
member of the Chicago board of education, being
honored as president of tlie board bis last term.
He is also president of the Chicago press club, and
is esteemed through the northwest as a nan und
journalist.
Mr. George S. Bowen, the ???Moses??? of the party,
is one of tlie llowen family, famous in Chicago ami
the northwest. Hu is an enterprising, energetic
man, full of vim, original in his ideas, devoted to
American industry and is a zealous protectionist
who believes that the United States can ami should
produce everything needed by its population, and
in thut resjiect be iudei>ciident of the world. He
organized tlie excursion, and to him more lliun to
unyone else is Atlanta indebted for the visit
of tlie Chicago delegation. Hon. Williiim Brass
is one of the byst known and most highly respected
citizens of Illinois. He was oue of the pioneers of
Chicago journalism and is one of the largest stock
holders in ihe Chicago Tribune, to which he is a
eonstunt and valuable contributor. His shaggy
head is known everywhere in Chicago. From 1804
to lWls he was lieutenant governor of Illinois, when
General Oglesby was governor. He is a happy and
graceful extemporaneous speaker. William T
Allen is the head of one of the great wholesale
grocery houses of Chicago, where ho stands high
socially, commercially and every other way. He
takes no specially active interest in pnblic matters,
his real business engrossing all his attention
Mr. J. H. Bradley is a???model merchant and
model gentleman. Although he has not yet reached
the op** of A-ny.-Tia is the controlling power ci the
Faust it Bradley manufacturing company.one of the
most extensive establishments in the United .states.
He is a man of exalted character, of unusual ami
remarkable executive ability, a distinguished mein
tier of the commercial and other organizations in
Chicago.'and a citizen whose almost unlimited in
fluence iscver exercised to promote the publiegood
Mr. A. H. Andrews is a merchant und manufuctu
rer whose products are known all over the country,
lie looks like a student mid a scholar, is handsome
and dignified in appearance, and though young in
years, is reckoned among the most prosperous and
prominent men in ???the A tlanta of the north.??? Mr.
15. D. Holton is a retired merchant and capitalist, of
Written for The Constitution.
1 don???t care. The preacher says its wrong
to go to the circus, and tlie preacher is a good
man. I love him and I love his wife and
children, but I???ve been to the circus aqd I
dan't care. I???m no further off from heaven,
wish the preacher would go and take his
ife and his children. Poor tilings. How
ranch they have lost. That is lost as humans
???just humans. We are all humans, aint wc?
and we can???t help wanting a little fun and a
little frolic now and then. I???m sorry for
these folks who go into convents and shut
themselves out from tlte world. These priests
and nuns and these old-fashioned puritans
and Quakers "who think the world is afield
of sin and it???s wrong to laugh or to dance or to
be merry, may be all right, hut they don???t
suit me. I think it is a right good world, and
if it aint we ought to make the best of it if we
can and be thankful. What???s the use of going
around with a sad face and the corners of tlie
mouth turned down, and if a man meets
you and asks after your health
_ on say witli a sigh, ???I???m not
well??? and so forth. Why not brighten up and
andsay ???1???mpoorly, thaukGod, how are you????
Enjoy what you have gut and if you haven't
got anything, then enjov what you haven???t
got und be contented still. Life * is too short
to worry. A fretful complaining man is a
curse to himself and the to the communty.
They can stand him of course, but I???m sorry
for his wife and his children; who have no
escape and have to endure him every day.
And its just so with a complaining fretful
wife who is never satisfied and always hank
ering after something she hasen't got. She
has no glad welcome for her husband when lie
comes home tired and troubled, and a bank
note to meet, and she begins to tell him about
how the cook broke another skillet, and the
washbowl fell off the shelf, and the rice is ont
and the washwoman has struck for higher
wages, and so forth,and so fifth, Until his head
begins to swim and lie says to himself, will
tliis thing never stop? Is "there no rest this
side of heaven? I heard of a man once who
died and went up to St. Peter???s gate and
knocked, and St. l???eter dident recognize him
and wanted to see his passports, and he dident
have any, for lie dident belong to the church,
hut he looked mighty sad and ventured to
say, ???Mr. Peter, 1 had a mighty hard time in
the lower world, for my wife was a fretful
complaining woman, and I was tied to her
and couldcnt get loose. 1 reckon you knowd .
Arnandy Jane.??? St. Peter said, ???My unfor
tunate friend, I did; and thougji thou tcured
not God nor regarded man; yet I cannot re
fuse thee a comer in heaven,??? and so he let
him in. There was another fcllerstandingby
who dident have .any passpefrts, and to make
sure of getting in, lie told St, Peter he
had ??? been married twice, and both
of his wives were hard cases and kept
Milwaukee, which city he a lily represents in Atlan
ta. He has had great expene:
traveled extensively, is well reu
on many subjects, lias in him a philmi
tliropic spirit, is a fluent and poetie
speaker and fee???s as deep an
interest in the success of the Atlanta exposition as
if it were located in his own beloved "city of
creeks.??? Mr. 8. T. Merrill is also an eminent citi-
zen of Wisconsin. He is a large manufacturer at
lk-loil. Ills venerable nspect und courteous de
meanor enable him to command the respect which
he receives from those with whom he comes in con
tact. Mr. P. K. Studebnker, of South Bend, In
diana, is one of the famous Studebakcr brothers, a
hard-headed business man. with a large head chock
full of ???horse sense.??? He is a charming gentleman
and lias fallen so much in love with Atlanta
that be intends to bring ids family away from
the inclement weather of.a northern w inter to enjoy
the glorious climate of Georgia. Mr. D. W. Simj:
son, of Aurora. 111., is like most of those who have
been mentioned as self-made men. and as Horace
Greeley or somebody else said, he has reason to be
proud of his makefile is a keen, wide-awake, ???up
and up??? business man. and one of tlie handsomest
and ???best fellows??? of the party. He is very good
looking. He is as shrewd as a Scotchman, as witty
as an Irishman, and all in all, is a line specimen of
the go-ahead American. He traveled ???on
the road??? for many years as a ???drum
mer.??? and has risen from l>ein.,
employe to being the employer of a small array of
mechanics. He is a rising man. Mr. George G.
Bowen is the son of his father. George S??? mentioned
above, and is a ???chip of the old block.???
Mr. F. Mthing is correspondent of the ItUnois
Stoats-Zeitung. the most influential German-Amor-
lean paper in the northwest.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
A Letter to
lion. Campbell Wallace from Commis
sioner Pratt, of Missouri.
Jefferson City, October 25,1881.???Hon. Camp-
bell Wallace, Railroad Commissioner, Atlanta, Ga
???Dear Sir: Some kind friend has sent me a copy
of Tiif. Atlanta Constitution containing the plait
for a United States railroad commission, suggested
by the Hon. J. Fletcher Johnston, chairman of the
Kentucky commission and indorsed by you.
I wish to say that I also approve that plan, as you
will see by an item in the Tribune of this city, :
copy of which is herewith mailed to you. In fact
1 think it a happy hit, and hope that Commissionc.
Johnston, or whoever may draft tlie act of congress
on this subject, which may finally become law.muy
be as happy in detiniug the jsjwers and duties of
that commission.
In this country, most jrailroad franchises are
granted by the state governments. Railroad com-
panics arc created by them to be public servanis as
common carriers, and my tnind is perfectly clear
us to the right and duty of the state to su pervise
their operations. In creating railroad commissions
for this pur;H??se. we have, I think, made the right
move, as is shown in the pamphlet on ???transporta
tion by railroad.??? herewith mailed to you. But a:
to the precis" powers to he given to and tlie duties
to be imposed upon such commissions, cr. ill the
language of the paper quoted by Commissioner
Johnston. ???The principles on which state laws
regulating rates of transportation by railraad should
be based.??? I confess that after six years constant
study of these matters. I am yet open to conviction
and would be glad to have a report on the subject
from a committee of experts.
As to congressional action I have been of the
opinion that when we shi 11 have perfected the
inode and manner of state supervision, we 'will
be better prepared to approach the
subject of supervision by the general
government. Unquestionably congress has the
right to regulate inter-state commerce, but the
principles applicable in the states will doubtless
apply to tlie United States: so that when Jthese are
settled in respect to the former, there will be little
difficulty in regard to the latter ease.
In the elucidation of these subjects. I think the
country has a right to expect that railroad commis
sioners shall take the lead, and I am willing to meet
with the others once or twice a year, and to take
time fora full discussion of all subjects that anv
commissiouer may briug forward. Very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
George C. Pratt, Commissioner.
settled thut Lucius P. Thompson will not be not much sought after!
Cantatas of No Account.
Savannah Times.
Crowds still continue to flock to the Atlanta ex
position, and the multitude of ???colonels??? and
???majors??? is simply startling. There is also a little
sprinkling of ???captains,??? but their light society is
THE BRIGHT SIDE.
Is Better to Laugh Than to Be Crying???He Goos to
the Circus and Carries the Children???Bill Wants
a ???Colonel???s Day??? at the Exposition-
Thinks It Would Draw a Crowd.
???lone in any section of the union. The same thing
is true of academies and private schools. If the
census of 18G0, as taken by the United States au
thorities, be correct, the white population of the
northern states in that year was nearly 19,000,000,
and of the southern only a little over f\000,000. At
that time the north had 203 colleges, the south 272,
the north 1,407 jirofessors, the south 1,488:
the north had 29,044 students, the
south 27,ftV>: the north paid for
these colleges $1,614,293. the south $1,682,419.??? He
deplored the present illiteracy of the colored popu
lation of the south, and seemed to imply in his
remarks that he was in favor of aid from the United
suites government. He can hardly have reflected,
however, that the effect of such action in the pres
ent state of our civil sendee would be to supplant
tl(P state schools or reduce the influence of local
sentiment upon the conduct and teachings of the
schools to a minimum, unless, as is suggested in
some quarters, the money appropriated by congress
tor education in the south be handed over to the
state authorities, to be used according to the judg
ment of the state authorities. In a word, ???nation
al??? schools in the south, it is feared, would be but
n reproduction of the freedinan's bureau, a politi
cal propaganda.
THE GOLD BELT.
Haw the Blushing Bride Should Act end the Bashful
Bridegroom Behave???The Proper Thing* in the
Way of Wedding Girts, and How to Treat
Them???Ceremonies. Receptions, Etc.
Mining Affair* In Lumpkin Couuty, Georgia.
Dahloxega, October 27.???Editors Constitu
tion : Gold mining in the Lumpkin regiou of
the Georgia gold belt is now a fixed and per
manent business, as much so as cotton or iron
manufacturing. For many years mining was
followed simply for what was in sight, and
tlie rudest processes were used in the cheapest
fashion, and only that quality of gold that
After a time the conclusion was reached
tjiat these mines were giving out, and this
impression getting out so universally, pre
vented many of a speculative turn from in
vesting, but a few miners, as in all other
countries, kept persistently on at work, strik
ing new mines, and finding gold in new
character of ore, to them, which required
hew kinds of machinery and processes
to work them, and all this has gradually
brought about the present state of develop
ment and caused the mines now being worked
to attract the notice of capital, and nevor in
the history of gold mining in Georgia has
there been such interest taken as at present,
and never better machinery used, or more
substantial improvements made in any min
ing country than on this gold belt.
It is true, that owing to tlie nature of our
mines and the simple, practical manner of
working them, the large and costly mills of
tlie west arc not needed, but those in use here
are accepted as doing their work well and to
exactly suit the mines on which thev are
built.
The hydraulic process, or plan of washing
down the hills of slate and quartz and Hood
ing this material into the mill, for reduction,
through sluices, was at once so cheap ami
effective that it completely revolutionized
gold mining on this belt and brought in the
present era.
; The quartz and slate are of a low
grade . in their yield per ton, but
???arc so uniform in this yield and
so generally permeate the whole belt, it
makes mining profitable almost to a known
??? ertainty when managed as it should he.
One great difficulty here has been the want
of a quantity of water sufficient to supply tlie
niines now opened at an altitude that would
permit them to reach the highest point with
water to use for flooding material to the mill,
but one large canal lias been built so far, and
the dry season of this year has forced new
enterprises of a similar character to be started
go'll way
fools.??? But still I like the preachers. They
hold us back from going to extremes. They
are tlie conservatives. They arc good citizens
and set us a good example. They are the
balance wheels of society, the scotch to the
wagon, the air brakes to the train, the pen
dulum to the clock. They are like tlie Hab-
batli that gives us rest and peace. They are
to society what the judge is to the law. I
love ???em all, and when they are blotted out,
which God forbid, I want to go too. In sick
ness, in trouble, in affliction, yea, in the last
agonies they are with us and comfort us, while
tiie busy world wags on. God bless the preach
ers of this land???the preachers of every creed
that teaches love to our Creator and love and
kindness to one another. Nevertheless, I
sometimes feel sorry for the preacher???s chil
dren, for tlie good man is so afraid
he will do wrong lie leans
tlie other way. It did me good
the other day when I saw one of ???em take his
children to see the circus procession. It was
so kind and considerate. If they can???t let the
little chaps see the circus do let???em see the
procession. By and by may be they will get
old enough to be trusted within tlie canvass
and see the pretty horses in the ring and the
men ride round, hear the clown crack his
jokes and laugh at him because lie is such a
fool. 1 don???t admire these folks who are al
ways a laughing whether a tiling is funny or
not. and 1 never did like to see a pretty girl
giggling at everything that happened, but
stiii it is better to laugh than be crying. The
world is not draped in mourning. The birds
sing and the butterflies float around in tlie
happy sunlight. At night the cricket chir
rups on the hearth and the katydid sings his
evening song, sweet flowers are blooming eve
rywhere, and Solomon in all his glory was
not so arrayed like one of these. All nature
is happy except a few snakes and hyenas, and
I don't want to be like them.
They were just made for contrast, neverthe
less when a man or a woman of dignified rais
ing goes to tlie circus they feel a leetle bit
mean as they come out. The fact is they
would rather slip in and slip out if tlieycould.
It???s a sort of a let down, a loss of dignity and
self-respect, and they take on a pmver of com
fort because their nalxirs went. I saw l)r.
Felton there the other day and it helped me.
for you see it raised me up to him or pulled
him down to me and established an equality
which is all right. I think I shall vote for
hint for governor if no man runs whom I like
bettor. 1 will, shore. Especially if lie jines
the democracy and gits nominated. I???m not
going to be hide-bound about a tiling of that
sort. Tlie circus is a wonderful levcler. It???s
just as much a poor man???s show as a rich
man's. It???s sorter like death and taxes. The dif
ference is that a stuck-up man will come out
and say it was a poor show,but a poor, bumble
countryman like myself will talk about it
and enjoy it for a month.
Well, I'm glad to see you all have had a
big powwow over the governors, and shook
hands and buried the hatchet again and had a
love feast. I like that. But its the confound-
est hatchet I ever saw. It won???t stay ???buried.
Every fourth year it comes up like a locust
and goes to chopping around for a few ntontiis
and then we bury it again. I???m gettingsorter
tired of digging graves, I am. Governor Col
quitt has been at it for years and buried
hatchets from Maine to California, but every
now and then the handle sticks up. I???m
going to see how long tlie last one stays
under.
Now, I want Mr. Kimball to give us a
Georgia colonel's day. That will gather ???em.
Their name is legion, and they will come all
the way from Texas and Arkansaw. I used
to be aeolonel myself, but the war broke out
and I got reduced to a major. I like it better
than colonel, for tlie ladies can say it so sweet
and soft, ???Good morning major.??? Oh! I tell
vou its musical. Get to be major if you can.
Yours, Bill Ari\
run to the mines.
Tlie report from tlie mills now running in
this immediate section is that they are doing
well. The principal of these, tlie Bartow and
Hand, Findley consolidated company, and
the Singleton, are good mines and are well
managed.
Two new and extensive purchases were
made recently for mining property near Dab-
lonega, on which improvements' are being
made and mills will soon be erected for crush
ing tlie ore.
River mining is attracting more attention
from practical men than heretofore, and new
inventions and machinery are being brought
to bear to get up the gold from the bottom of
the rivers. Several companies are already
formed for working in the Chestatee anil
Etowah.
Captain Noble, who has charge of the
???vacuum process patent,??? will, in a short
time, be able to demonstrate tlie practicabili
ty of liis machine. He expresses unbounded
confidence in its success, and its operations
will be watched here with great interest. The
boat is already built and waiting for the ma
chinery, which has been shipped and will lie
on the ground within a week or ten days.
Item.
A PHENOMENAL CHILD.
School* for the South.
Baltimore Sun.
Dr. Currv, agent of the Peabody Fund association,
speaking recently at St. Albans, Vt??? made the point
that ???the south, before the war, in proportion to
white population, taking man for man, sustained a
larger number of colleges, with more professors,
more students aud a greater annual cost, than was
Only Three Year* of Age nnd Weigh* One Hundred
'und Thirty Pound*.
Evansville, Ind., October 28.???There ar
rived in this city to-day a man named Adam
Castleman, of Casey county, Kentucky. His
family is with him, one of which is a striking
curiosity. This isa young hoy only three years
old, who stands three feet four inches in his
stockings, measures sixeen inches around the
calf of the leg, twenty-six inches around the
thigh, forty-two inches around the waist,
thirty-eight inches around the chest, and
weigits one hundred and thirty pounds. The
child weighed but nine pounds at his
birth;-but at six months had increased to
forty-nine pounds, and then jumped by rapid
stages to liis present enormous proportions.
The child is bright enough, although physi
cians have counseled his parents not to tax
him closely with mental effort. Physically,
although so huge for his age, he is sound and
healthy, and makes what might be called a
waddling effort at romping around. Castle
man and liis wife, though both of good siz;
are neither of them large, and cannot remenit
her any ancestor from whom this prodigious
boy could have inherited liis extraordinary
proportions. They have another child, an
infant girl three months ohl, but giving no
evidences of following in l.er lm t e: ???s foot*
steps. The father proposes exhibiting the boy
through the country as a curiosity.
Stilus a Railroad.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Miss Louise Montague, the celebrated
???Lalla Rookli??? of Forepaugh???s circus, filed
the suit yesterday for damages against the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, concerning
her intentions to do which much lias been
written in the papers. She says in her peti
tion that she got on board a train of cars run
by tlie defendant at Bowling Green about 10
o'clock on the night of September 22; that
almost us soon as she stepped on the platform
the train started off at a high rate of speed,
and ran into some other cars which bad been
left on the track, producing a wreck, in
which she was caught and lier
left limb bruised and lacerated
and the Hesh torn; that at the time she was
an actress in Adam Forepaugh???s circus, re
ceiving $333 a week and traveling expenses;
that by reason of the accident to her she has
been confined for four weeks, suffering great
bodily and mental pain, losing her salary and
incurring great expense for treatment and as
sistance; that it will be a long time before she
will be able to fulfill her duties as an actress,
and, besides, after she recovers the limb will
still appear scarred and mutilated, and will
be a source of great discomfort and great pe
cuniary loss to her. In consideration of all
of which she demands $20,000. Colonel R.
W. Woolley is tlie attorney for the injured
beauty.
HOW TO GET MARRIED.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE PROPER
FORMS TO OBSERVE.
As this is tlie season for weddings, Harper's
Bazar gives some valuable suggestions: A
bride elect begins, sometimes three months
before her wedding day, to invite her brides
maids, for there are dresses to be made and
gifts selected. The groom chooses his best
man, and his ushers of whom there are gen
erally six. These gentlemen receive from
him cravats and scarf-pins, and tlie groom
frequently gives each bridesmaid a locket.
Tlie bride often gives eaqh of her bridesmaids,
of whom there are also generally six, some
small token of her regard; but not, as former
ly, her dress. Bouquets are always provided
by the bride for.briilesraaids.
The church must be engaged for a fortnight
ahead, to Svoid the gloomy catastrophe of
meeting a funeral coming out, which has
happened, and which is of course depressing.
The clergyman and organist both need time
to get themselves in order, and tlie florist,
who is to decorate the altar with fresh-cut
flowers and growing plants, also needs time;
he also should have plenty of warning.
THE READ USHER.
When the happy day arrives the head
usher goes to the church an hour before the
time to see that a white cord is stretched
across theaisle, reserving pews enough for the
family and particular friends, and to see, in
fact, that all details are attended to.
The ushers should be in attendance early,
to scat people in convenient places, ana good
manners and careful attention, particularly
to elderly people, make life-long friends for
these young gentlemen at the weddings where
they officiate. When the bride???s mother
arrives the white cord is dropped, and she is
taken to the front seat; all the family friends
take their places near her in adjoining pews.
Then tlie clergy come in and take their
places at the altar, followed by tlie groom anil
his best man. who have been safely guarded
in the vestry room. Tlie groom looks down
tlie a : sle to watch for his coming bride. The
organ strikes up the wedding inarch as the
first couple of ushers are seen entering the
eliurcli door. They come in slowly, two ami
two, followed by the bridesmaids," who bean
bouquets of one color.
THE BRIDE ENTERS.
Then the bride enters, leaning on her fath
er???s arm. A very pretty and becoming fash
ion is for the bride to wear her veil over iter
face, throwing it back at the altar; but this is
a matter of taste. |
The ushers part company, going to the right
and left, and remain standing on the lower
step of the altar. The bridesmaids also move
to the right and left, neyt the altar rail, leav
ing a space for the couple who are to be mar
ried. The bride is taken by tlie hand by the
groom, who receives her "from her fatiier as
She mounts the first ?????*???**.
The service then proceeds, the organ play
ing very softly until the prayer, when the
music stops, and all join in the familiar
words. Then the blessing is given, the cler
gyman congratulates the bride, and the
young people turn to leave the church, fol-
d by all
posed to be paying the true respect to the de
parted. A bride should never dc married in
Hack or put on a black traveling costume.
The ceremonial of
CHURCH WEDDINGS
at the Catholic and Episcopal communions is
to be commended, as it compels both parties
to take a public vow and promise which can
not be lightly broken. For this reason many
of tlie clergy of other denominations are
using the beautiful ritual of tlie English
Episcopal church. Every pair, however, can,
of course, choose for themselves their
own church, and the etiquette must
vary a little to suit the occasion. Long
exordiums from the clergyman are no longer
a fashion. The couple are married as quietly
as possible, to avoid agitation on the part of
the bride, to whom a church wedding is a
severe ordeal. Nor is it a good plan to have
a hymn sung during the service, although
some people of great good taste have done it,
for it keeps the bride standing, ???the cynosure
of neighboring eyes,??? too long for her peace
and comfort; at "a moment, too, when, with
heart fraught with feeling, and a reception
before her, she has need of all her strength,
nerve and composure.
It should he added that if the bride is an
orphan, and wishes the support of her
brothers and her sisters, it is perfectly proper
that several married couples should"precede
her into the church, and should stand about,
lier in the space near the altar. A mother
who isa widow can accompany her daughter
to the altar, and give her away.
ERA OF PROSPERITY.
lowed
reverse order.
the bridesmaids and ushers in
AFTER IT IS OVER.
Maids are in waiting in tlie vestibule to
cloak the bride and her attendants as they
come out from this pageant into the cold anti
dangerous air. This is a great exposure, and
often leads to trouble; our churches all need
larger vestibules. The bride and groom re
turn to the house of the former, followed as
quickly as possible by the bridesmaids, and
stand to receive their friends under a floral
bell, or a floral arch, or some other pretty de
vice. The bridesmaids are arranged on either
side, and the ushers (whose place is no sine
cure) bring up tlie guests in order to present
to the happy pair. The bride???s mother, va
cating the place of hostess for tlie nonce,
stands at the other end "of the room to talk to
her friends, and to also receive their congrat
ulations. Of course her own family arc al
lowed to kiss the bride first.
The bride remains at her post an hour and
a half, then leaves the room to ascend and
dress for her bridal tour. She conics down in
tlie quiet dress fitted for traveling in this
country (where the bright blue velvets and
shiny silks which are used in England for
bridal trips are not allowed, probably owing
to the fact that our railway trains are more
public and less clean than those of the British
isle), and bids her friends good-by. Getting
into the carriage followed by the" shower of
rice and slippers, which are thrown after
them for luck.
THE WEDDING PRESENTS,
which in the houses of rich and popular
brides are wondrous fine and costly, are fre
quently shown. Some families object to the
display of tlie presents, and the bride???e inti
mate friends alone are allowed the pleasure
of beholding them.
The bride writes a note, over her own hand
always, to thank the sender of each gift.
The wedding ring is still tlie old, strong,
pure circlet of virgin gold, with the posy
within, and the initials of bride and groom,
the date, and anything else which the parties
choose.
Tne manner of announcing engagements
seems to be frequently this: The groom steps
into his club, and tells an intimate friend;
the lady writes to her intimate friends, and
her mamma has the day before informed all
the grandparents, the aunts and cousins.
Weddings in tlie evening are in tlie same
order as the morning wedding, with the single
difference that in the morning the gentlemen
are dressed in frock coats and gray trousers,
while in the evening they are, of course, in
dress suits of solemn black, with white neck
tie, and, iu fact, full evening dress. The bride
makes no difference in lier dress; be it morn
ing or evening, she is in full dress, with lace,
diamonds and flowers.
FOP. A WEDDING AT HOME,
which is so much preferred by some people,
the most convenient place for tlie clergyman
to stand is arranged by the lady of the liouse,
and cushions are laid down for tire bride and
Krooni to kneel upon. The clergyman stands
facing the company, while the jiair to he mar
ried stand with their backs to the guests.
After the ceremony the clergyman retires,
and tlie bridal pair takes his place.
For a widow or an elderly jierson a bonnet
at her wedding is de rigneur, and a veil out of
the question. Many elderly brides wear dark
velvet or silk costumes and bonnets to church
???are married, so to speak, in traveling cos
tume. Such brides disjiense with brides
maids.
There is a sumptuary law against appear
ing at a wedding in mourning. If the bride???s
mother is a widow she should lay aside her
Cap and veil on that occasion. In England the
very uncompromising color, bright red, is
considered wedding mourning, that is, the
bride???s mother or sisters, if in deepest
morning, will wear the color of a Jacque
minot rose to the wedding and still be sup-
What an Albany Correnpondent Think* of IL
Albaxy,October 21.???The very intelligent und ob-
servant correspondent, ???C. It. M.,??? of the Neiv York
Times, In a recent letter to liis paper of October 19,
from Atlanta, thinks ???tlie Atlanta cotton fair isafar
less interesting study than the new spirit in tho
south, of which it is an outcome,??? and he confi
dently predicts a ???most energetic awakening' ??? in the
development of its latest resources, the multiplica
tion of its productions, and increase of its material
wealth, ns an outgrowth of the near future. While
we read these glowing predictions with a sensation
of pleasure, and would fain believe in their early
fulfillment, ive are yet forced by the inexorable
logic of facts, and the evidences immediately
around us, to the conclusion that llic outlook from
the standpoint of Atlanta,iu the heyday of her great
exposition, would not be tints encouraging were
the observer???s range of vision extended over this
imrtion of the state, known and distinguished par
excellence os the cotton belt We, down here, can
only hope thut his predictions may take us iu, arid
that this portion of Georgia may eventually partic
ipate in that full title of prosperity and develop
ment which he now sees iu a vision. Without in
tending an essay on this topic, or probing for causes
which in general lie sufficiently llear tne surface,
we may take this occasion, by your leave, to lay be
fore you a few facts in regard to this immediate sec
tion, which can be readily confirmed by the expe
rience and observation of any number of intelli
gent and thoughtful observers.
One of the late committee appointed by the grand
jury to visitant! inspect the several convict camps bl
eated in thiscounty was Mr. B.T. Kemp, a prominent
citizens of Albany. Prior to the war, Mr. K. as an
overseer, was kuown as one of the best and most
successful managers and cotton planters in south
west Georgia, lie managed tlie planting interests
of the late Dr. llarloiv. of Sumter, for seventeen
years in succession up to the latter part of 1866, al
ways receiving the highest wages for liis services.
Becoming disgusted with free labor, he removed to
Albany early in 1867, and has been engaged iu suc
cessful business here since. -Although he has been
so long a resident of Albany, until lie was appoint
ed the other day on the above commission, he had
never been a mile out of town in any direction ex
cept by railroad. His observations oil. what he saw
on this trip through the western part of Dougherty,
known as the Oaky Woods, first to the White
Hill place, sixteen miles west of Albany, thence
to the Royston place, fourteen miles southwest,
then back to town by v.-sv of tb fcav'.i * i-ku a)!
plantations on widen convict i.ioor is worked by
Colonel B. G. Lockett, being those of an old-time
farmer, conversant only with it state of things long
since passed away, and existing only in tradition,
may show that the dawn of the era of prosperity for
this section at least, is farther oil' than the 'limes???
correspondent may have imagined. The route
taken by tlie committee led them past nearly all
the best cotton plantations in Dougherty county-
places which, before the war, gave a reputation of
almost fabulous wealth to the Bonds, Tarvers,
Bealls. Jordans and others who owned them. 1 will
add here that Mr. Kemp???s observations are precise
ly those made by your correspondent when lie had
occasion to traverse a portion of the same route a
few weeks ago, though from a far more capable and
practical source. All these large and formerly
splendid places, except tlie three convict camps,
appeared to be iu the last stages of dilapidation and
decay, and looked us though they had been given
up entirely to their negro tenantry, who were in
many cases theironly occupants. On all tlie places,
as seen from tlie road, tlie leneing was iu many in
stances down and missing, and everywhere greatly
in need of repair. The condition of all the slock
seen, partook of the nature of their surroundings,
being almost without exception miserably poor,
and apparently omthe verge of starvation. One re
mark ne made wtfs, that along the whole route he
saw only one hog, a venerable row, mines a tail,
one car entirely gone and the other pendant and
flopping over a most wo-begoue countcn-
ancefijfor a sow to have. She was
apparently the last of her race???iu that vicinity???
???the only one left of all the family,??? and lay in a
fence corner awaiting the inevitable, aud in her
ease, not very distant summons, with stoical resig
nation. The houses and quarters ever}'where, wore
a look of dilapidation, and imparted to thescene its
crowning air of neglect and decay. In a fe\t in
stances, the main dwelling, tlie white folks house,
would be entirely destitute of an iuelosure, und all
crumbling away and falling to pieces, as though the
blight and milldew of a century, instead of a short
decade, had fallen on them. That these places,
thus managed, or rather thus neglected, can yei,
produce the short crops they do, aud even support
after a fashion the hordes of colored tenantsand oc
cupants upon them, is proof conclusive of the in
trinsic value of the land, and its possibilities under
a different regime.
The few and far between exceptions to this most
discouraging prospect were iu the eases of a few
farmers, some of them colored, who had isolated
themselves, in a manner, on small farms, cut off
from tlie larger places, and which, coni]sired with
them, looked like oases in a desert. In fact, the
above remarks only apply to those large estate-sand
plantations which are attempted to Ik- kept up aud
run in a manner like they were iu tlie ante-bellum
days, when the titles to any of them gave to its for
tunate owner all tlie importance and distinction
that attaches to the name of a mail of property.
When, too, a transfer of those titles would involve
a consideration ranging from $20 to $:* per acre,
and were always iu demand at these figures
But to show how changed are the condi
tions now, we may state incidentally that
the News and Advertiser for some time past hits been
running an advertisement for the.-ale of the lauds
belonging to the Georgia land and cotton company,
an English association, which purchased a number
of these large plantations just after the war, at fair
prices, for the purpose of raising their own cotton,
the places thus advertised are four in number, sit
uated a in Dougherty and Baker, and a purchaser
could, beyond a aoubt. almost dictate his own
terms. They have been for seveal years past ujam
the market, but have thus far attracted no pur
chasers.
The only places our informant saw, during his
brief tour, which were in anything like good condi
tion, and thut reminded him of the days of yore,
were the three convict camps above
mentioned, where labor can lie com
manded, and discipline enforced. All
the rest of these line plantations, with land naturally
as good and productive, and some of them superior
to the convict camps, were in the condition de
scribed pibove. It is true, the long protracted drouth
and the present season of the year, being just after
the slender crops have been mainly gathered, no
doubt udded much to this scene of desolation and
decay, but it cannot be said to be. greatly over
drawn. The section, we may add, is one rarely
visited by strangers, and certainly, iu its present
state, presents few enough attractions for a visitor.
What the future may have in st ie for this portion
of Georgia, we cannot divine. But certain it is, tha
a radical change in population and methods, man
ners aud customs, etc., must take place before an
era of pruspprity can be confidently counted on.
Matter* Constitutional.
Eiberton New South.
The Atlanta Constitution has a mission and is
worthily fulfilling it.
Covington Enterprise.
We were debarred the pleasure of praising the
exposition edition of The Constitution when it
was issued, because we had no paper. We now de
sire to remark that never in the history of Georgia
or southern journalism was so much vim aud enter
prise exhibited by a newspaper. Thirty-two pages,
and every page spoke in unbroken language of the
prosperity and pro ressive spirit of a live, business
people. Atlanta, as well as tha south, hits just
cause of being proud of The Constitution
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