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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 22, 1881.
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ATLANTA, GA„ NOVEMBER 22,1881.
Commissioner Henderson's quarterly report
allows that the cotton crop of the state will
not, when compared with the preceding crop,
exceed 71 per cent. The corn crop is rated at
M per cent
•STOCK-OAMnLixo has brought to ruin anoth
er national bank—this time in Boston. The
,sj*eeulative craze that turns the head of peo
ple iu every town in the country scoops in
now and then a victim from the national
banks. •
Tub humbug plea of insanity—a device to
let all criminals who have money or friends
escape punishment—should get a very black
eye in the district court at Washington! There
is no better place in which to begin the good
work.
There were 158 failures last week in the
United States and Canada—an unusually large
number. In the middle states there were 37, a
decrease of 3; in the New England states
there were 18, a decrease of 2; in the western
states there were 10, an increase of 1, and in
the southern states there were 42, an increase
of 17. The failures in the south were mostly
of general traders ami dry goods dealers. The
failures of the week exceeded those of the
previous week to the number of 18.
ATLANTA’S COTTON RECEIPTS.
It is a tribute to the energy of Atlanta's
merchants and the position of the city as a
central market that she has held her cotton
receipts of this year up to last year’s figures.
Augusta is about 30,000 bales behind, Rome
is about 12,000 bales behind, and Savannah is
about 80,000 bales behind. Atlarita, alone of
all the cities whose reports arc available, has
kept up her figures to last year's pitch. If, as
is expected now, the Georgia Pacific is finished
to Douglasville, and the two coal roads arc in
operation, by next February, we may expect
considerable late cotton from along these roads
—and a new territory for Atlanta. The secret
of ovir high receipts this season is that we
arc occupying new fields, and deriving trade
from new sections.
The crop is undoubtedly short, and lie gain
in our receipts over the percentage of loss in
the crop represents Atlanta s real gain in the
cotton trade for the season.
THE EXPOSITION AND ITS FUTURE.
At last the success of the exposition is as
sured beyond doubt.
The crowds in attendance during the week
that closed last night were more than twice as
large ns pntby the estimates of the executive
committee before the week opened. The
crowds for the opening week will be much
larger, as the information from every point
agrees that the limit will simply be the ca
pacity of the trains, and the power of the
engines. There is every probability that the
crowds will grow steadily until the close
of the exposition, and equal the
first estimates made by the managers of the
exposition.
A similar show to our exposition, in scope
completeness or interest, we cannot hope to
sec aggregated in the south again in the next
decade. It waspitiablc, therefore, to think that
it would be dissolved before the people for
whose benefit it was intended, had seen it.
We welcome the crowes of visitors, therefore
with the confidence of a man who knows that
he has a good thing, and is anxious to show it.
GENERAL SHERMAN’S VISIT TO
LANTA.
to the exposition boom (using with due cau
tion and circumspection a somewhat frayed
word) the tender chord * has not yet been
touched. Our correspondent says there must
be a Georgia day—an old-fashioned Georgia
picnic day—a dollar for the round trip, and
everybody on band. In the language of the
ante-bellum bard, we tumble to the sug
gestion of our correspondent. We know
what he would be at as well as if he had writ
ten a volume on the subject. He uses the
word “picnic" hastily and inadvisedly, but
this does not mar the symmetry of the sug
gestion among those who, upon the slightest
provocation are smitten with the spirit of the
old times. What our correspondent means
is, that before thfr exposition is brought to a
close—before the 'pleasant weather is broken
up with storms and rains—all Georgia
be invited to attend an old-fashioned barbe
cue prepared and served on the grounds in
the presence of as many spectators as may
choose to assemble. It is only with the lower
part of his bosom resting confidently against
hunk of seasoned and smoking meat that
your true Georgian is in his element; it is
only when he has gormed his face with the
aromatic savor of the barbecued pig
and filled liis beard with crumbs
of fatty bread that his native elo
quence is stirred. Imagine the emotion that
would overcome Tom Hardemon, Tom How
ard and Judge Underwood at a gathering of
this sort. Think of the feelings that would
animate the souls of Albert Lapiar, George
Barnes and all the other old-fashioned boys
that know how to appreciate true excellence.
Wc are overwhelmingly in favor of setting
apart a day for a Georgia barbecue at
the exposition.^ Let our visitors see
is wo are; let them have a taste
of genuine cracker hospitality. Let the rail
roads be subsidized so that the entire popu
lation of the state may be hanled to the
grounds; let the pigs, and the lambs, and the
kids be selected by gentlemen of taste and
culture; let the trenches be dug deep and
wide as of old; and then, at a signal to be
given from the fiery-throated cannon, let
the fires be lighted by the hands
of our ablest statesmen. The exposition may
be a success so far as the south is concerned,
but it will never be a Georgia success until
ten thousand Georgia crackers stand around
the smoking tables and grunt over tbeir full
ness. These ten.thousand people, including
The Constitution, arc now ready to grunt.
Nothing remains but for the managers of the
exposition to announce the barbecue.
There are two or three newspapers that
have tried to work up prejudice against At
lanta and the cotton exposition by allusions
to “Shermon’s Day” and General Sherman’
visit to this city.
To begin with, there lias been no “Slier-
“man's day” at the exposition, and no
thought of having onp. General Sherman
<Iul visit the exposition, as lie had a per
fect right to do. lie came as a private citi-
Ben and was met politdy—just as any other
private citizen would have been. With ad
mirable good sense and taste, he asked
that lie be allowed to study the great ex
position, simply as any other citizen. There
are special reasons why General Sherman
would not expect the people of Atlanta to
meet him with any great demonstrations of
joy On the other hand there is every reason
of good breeding why they should treat him
civilly and politely. Nothing was done that
could have offended the most sensitive critic
on cither side.
General Sherman went through the build
ings quietly and decorously, meeting here
and there an acquaintance or an old comrade.
He showed genuine interest in what
lie saw, and no interest whatever in outside
matters. He attended the meeting of the
Mexican veterans in citizen's clothes and de
clined to take a seat on the stage. After Gen
eral Jackson’s address, to which be listened
with evident enjoyment, he was called on for
a speech. He disregarded the calls until
Mexican veteran arose and said that his old
comrades in that war now would be pleased to
hear from hint.’ He then arose and made a
short, but patriotic talk.
General Sherman left Atlanta delighted
with his visit. He doubtless appreciated the
tuanly and frank manner of his reception,
and respects our people more than if the
most elaborate formalities had been tendered
him. It is but just to say that he won the re
spect of many of our people by the unaffect
ed and straightforward way in which he took
things, and his sensible understanding of the
situation. As for the rest, it is enough to say
to our agitated critics, that Georgians need
never fear that Atlanta will do anything to
- disgrace the name of the state, lower the dig
nity of its people, or sacrifice the least par
ticle of the respect due its history or tradi
tions. In war or peace, in politics and in
business, in sentiment or sense, she has al
ways borne herself worthily as the capital
city ot" the empire state.
A GEORGIA DAY.
v A correspondent at Dalton, signing himself
‘Cracker,”say3 that all of the suggestions thus
country has picked up. You should remember, that have ever been devised. She has had a com-
liitle children, when you come to be politicians,
that no enchre deck is genuine unless it has the
little joker.
The Griffin Sun thinks that Atlanta is anxious to
grab all the fat offices. The moral of this is that all
office-seekers should move to Atlanta. In any
event they will have a good deal of genuine fun.
Miss Sally Eebnhardt’s real name is Rosinc. It
is a very pretty name, too, but she shed it because
no genuine actress wears her real name before the
footlights. Miss Mollie Anderson might leant a
lesson from this; but perhaps Miss Hollie’s real
name is Louisa Jane?
A Cuban treasurer has pocked 810,000,000 and
more out of sight It will be seen that republican
ism as a profession is not confined to tho United
States.
Our colored friends, who are supposed to grow all
the cotton, are not taking an)-] great ten. in tho
cotton exposition.
There is a good deal of senseless in va
rious quarters in regard to the recent visit of Gen
eral Sherman to the exposition. It would be inter
esting to know just how many of these inflamed.'
critics endeavored to prevent Sherman's visit in
1864. The inflamed critics appear to he angrier
now than they were then,
We hasten to inform the Inflamed critics that
Goneral Sherman was very quiet and composed
during his visit to Atlanta the other day. There
was a time, however, when General Sherman be
trayed less composure during a visit to Atlanta, but
at that time the inflamed critics were farther from
the front than they are now.
We infer that Miss Sally Bernhardt has had the
experience of a St. Louis editor. She distinctly
alludes to a desire to smash somebody's head.
plcte new set made since she was here for the ’’Dame
aux Camellias.” and the lady who writes under the
signature of “Etincelle” in Figaro says that “the
dresses of ‘Frou Frou’ are perfumed with Parisian-
ism." and that those of “Hemani” sing in superb
notes the great poesy that vibrates in the heart of
an amorous Spanish woman.
An intimate friend of President Arthur
says that gentleman will certainly marry, but the
lady must be wealthy, not moderately so. but con
spicuously rich and fashionable, so that his admin
istration will even surpass that of Grant for riches
and brilliant reunions.
Patti is rather exclusive at the Fifth Ave
nue hotel. She has a horror of taking cold, and
avoids draughts as many men did in time of
war. She does not receive many visitors, but ol
flowers she has a profuse supply. She is deeply in
terested In her concerts, and hopes lor the welcome
she has been led to expect would be given her in
New York.
Patti is described as not. tall, is graceful in
movement, but no longer thin. Her eves are half
blue and brown, her mouth large, the lips red and
full, the teeth white ana irregular, the chin for
ward and prominent. Altogether, no one could
say she was handsome. Her manner was easy and
her years apparent in the gray threads that cut
through the brown locks drawn over her shapely
head.
At the recent Franco-German ball. “Mrs.
John Jacob Astor wore an imported dress of babv-
blue satin, trimmed with very deep old point d’-
Angleterre lace, yellow with age. The train was of
several colors of brocaded satin. The corsage was
cut in a deep square. Mrs. Astor’s diamonds con
sisted of a largo necklace, to which- was attached a
magnificent brooch. At the bottom of the square
was a splash of diamondsin the simps of a Marguer
ite. ana from each shoulder across the front ol the
corsage extended open necklaces. Mrs. Astor also
wore a tiara of diamon 1s. with several diamond'
stars in her hair. The diamonds consisted of three
full sets, and were much admired for their beau
ty.” m
IN GENEHAL.
Whatever else may be said of Guiteau.it must be
admitted that be is the most accomplished republi
can politician ever seen in this country. Ho ar
ranged a programme which had for its purpose the
success of Grantisra, and he carried it out most
effectually. Can the nice new administration
afford to desert its benefactor 9
The "tarifl'’convention sa traud. It is a con
vention of monopolists and their tools. We know
a good many so-called democrats who ought to be
in this convention.
The country would feel better if Guitcauism was
on trial. As it is, only one poor little represents
tivc cf tho party is to be hanged—or pardoned, as
the case may be.
THE EXPOSITION AS A TEACHER.
It is encouraging to note that the growing
attendance at the International cotton exposi
tion is not prompted merely by the common
curiosity to sec big sights and rare products
and fabrics—such attractions as ordinary fairs
present, Our exposition is doing far more
and far better than the gratification of the
curiosity of the people. It is teaching them
important lessons in industrial progress and
domestic economy. It is exhibiting to them
the methods and appliances by which other
sections—and especially the northern states
of the union—have acquired wealth and pros
perity under natural facilities less favorable
than ours. The exposition, besides contain
ing all the wonderful and attractive exhibits
of the state and intcrnationable fairs, is a great
workhouse of industry and art—a vast store
room of the improved implements and labor-
saving machiney, by which human toil
is lessened and the production of labor
greatly increased. The contrast afforded
in one of the departments between the spin
ning and weaving machinery of the early part
of this century and that employed at present,
is hardly greater than the superiority of some
of the northern agricultural implements ex
hibited at the exposition over those largely in
use now in the south. To a reflecting mind
this contrast between implements is alone
sufficiently suggestive to convey a lesson
which may, and we hope will, lead to greatly
beneficial results.
The daily attendance at the exposition is
now in large part composed of southern men
of enterprise and skill, who come here to
make a study of the exhibit. We have met
with several who have come expressly for the
purpose of learning something that may be
beneficial to them as artisans or mechanics;
and they will not go away disappointed. The
proprietors of all the manufacturing and me
chanical establishments of Georgia and the
surrounding states ought to come,
and bring their skilled superin
tendents with them, to acquire practical
information jhat they may make very profit
able hereafter. Our progressive planters and
farmers ought also to come, with a view of
learning how they may save expense in their
own honorable occupation and gain for it the
profit and prosperity to Which it is eminently
entitled. It is a lamentable fact that they
are far behind some other sections in improved
agricultural labor, and that their products are
for this reason exchanged under great disad
vantages for those of sections which have
availed themselves of all the facilities which
modern ingenuity offers. With greater ad
vantages than any other part of tho world
offers for the growth of a staple which all the
world must have as a cheap clothing mate
rial, we are very partially and sparingly using
implements for its production with less labor,
and are almost wholly allowing others to reap
the profits of its manufacture. Never before
has the south had such an opportunity as that
afforded by this exposition to ascertain the
best means of developing her dormant re
sources, economizing her labor, stimulating
and diversifying her industries, and making
one day’s work and one dollar's expense
double the present return. Come, then, to
the exposition and study it as a lesson in in
dustry and economy.
We arc now living in a transitory period
success of Mnhone will stir the emulation of office-
seekers in every state in the south. We are anxious
to know what particular issue the Georgia Mahonc
will fetch to the front.
Dm Mahone carry -Virginia? No. indeed, little
children. Virginia was carried for Mahone by bad
leadership and non-progressive methods on the part
of the democrats. But good little boys and girls
should go to bed. We cannot sit up all night an
swering questions.
The tax which the producers of the country will
have to pay to the steel monopoly this year will
amount to the enormous sum of 841,000,000. Of this
836,000,000 goes into the pockets of tho monopolists,
and about 85,000,000 into the treasury. This is a
good argument for the protectionists, and themoney
is a good thing for them. With 841,000,000 of extra
profits on steel alone, they can afford to subsidize
congress and continue the hoarhound, so to speak,
as long as the average tax payer remains blind to
his own interests.
Guiteau announces in a tone at once loud and
firm that he made Arthur president. Does this
show insanity?
Is the exposition making any extra money by
charging full price for children under twelve years
of age? The fact that the exposition has no'ijbm-
petition ought not to weigh with the managers;
The organs cannot afford to smile at Guitean’s
line of defense. He says that the death of President
Garfield was necessary to the hrfrmouy of the re
publican party, and the harmony of the republican
party necessary to the salvation and sanctity of the
republic.
President Aethur is now engaged in the arduous
duty of composing his first annual message. He
will probably suppress all allusion to the public
necessity that caused him to threaten to polish his
boots on MacVeagh's coat-tail.;
PERSONAL.
The Boston Globe says that gamblers are
betting that Guiteau will not be hanged.
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania still clings
to the literary career. She has just published an
other volume—a collection of novels in verse called
’Slurme.”
George Remington, of Suffield, had "his leg
badly broken by a barrel of cider falling upon it on
Saturday. This shows that cider should only be
used for internal application.—Boston Tost.
Secretary Blaine is a great collector of
portraits, and especially fond of those statesmen
of different ages; for example, Daniel Webster at So
and 50.
NEW YORK NOTES.
THE SENSATION OF THE WEEK IN
THE CITY.
Pawtucket, R. I., makes about 1,000,000
pounds of yarn per month.
Five million dollars a year is expended for
American school books, and it pays to do it.
Five men and a grasshopper constitute a
state whenever the republicans fall short of votes
in the United States senate.
Hindoo girls are taught to think of marriage
as soon as they can talk. This makes them
smarter than American girls by about two years.
These are 800,000 men employed in the
railroad business in this country. Is'it any won
der that the girl of the period haunts the rail wav-
stations?
“Dynastic-democratic Party" is what the
new organization is called in Spain Readjuster-
repubhean party is what it is styled in Virginia.
Both the party infants are very enthusiastic.
It will co3t $740,000 to insulate the national
library of Paris. The work is expected to be com-
detedby next summer, and the danger to the li-
irary will be proportionately lessened. The British
museum is entirely insulated.
A new party has arisen in some of the Swiss
cantons which calls itself the Winterthurerhand-
werksburKChenvorwartsgrupp. It is not every
language, says the London Echo, which Is so noble
and exhaustive as the German. Here, in a single
word, these people tell us that they are immigrants
of German race, that they are artisans and appren
tices, that they hold advanced political opinions,
and that they have constituted themselves into n
party.
During the last forty years the church of
England has spent more than $5,000,000 a year in
church building and church restoration, and built
more than 5,100 new parsonages, in addition to old
ones restored, and has increased her incumbents by
ncarly 8,000. Her curates now number some 5.300,
and she raises 84.660,000 a year to pay them, ol
which 82,000,000 is paid by incumbents. The church
of England raises voluntarily more than 827,000,000
a year; that is, nearly 82,300,000 n month.
The six healthiest cities in the United
States are said to be in the order following: Knox
ville, New Haven, Portland, San Francisco. Cieve
land, and Lawrence. The unhcalthiest are Charles
ton, Memphis, Lynn, New York, and St. Louis. St.
Petersburg is the unhcalthiest city in the world,
and is followed by Malaga, Alexandria. Warsaw,
and Buda-Pesth. In New York the deaths exceed
the births by a thousand a month, or twelve thou
sand a year.
The “churching-pew” is the place set apart
in many English churches for mothers who attend
church for the first time alter the birth of a child.
Whenever au occupant appeared in this pew the
nsual service was read without further inquiry.
An unmarried lady from another parish who had
passed the meridian of her days, took her seat one
Sunday in the pew without being aware of the pur
pose for which it was set apart. The usual service
followed, and she was only made aware of the ob
ject when the clerk, as she was leaving, asked her
when she would have the child baptized. She
rushed home to the friend with whom she was
lodging, and sank into a seat in a fit of hysterics.
“What is the matter?” inquired the friend, “have
you been robbed or insulted?” “Worse, much
worse,” sobbed the venerable maiden, “Fve been
hurched!”
A SOUTHERN ROMANCE.
Eom Raymond Relate* tho Qo«»ip. *nd Tell* U* of the
Plays on the Board* of the Theaters, a Marriage
in High Life, and Other Interesting
Events—Personal Items. Etc.. Etc.
Special Correspondence Constitution.
New York, November 18, 1881. — Th«
weather this week has not been season
able. Instead of chill November winds, the
balmy breezes of autumn have prevailed. Na
ture has caught on again with a second grip.
The trees are beginning to bud, the grass has
become green in the parks, and the phenome
non of spring weather at the wrong end of the
winter is presented. The result is sickness
among all classes of people and an interfer
ence more or less marked with every move
ment of trade, society and the people’s affairs.
Meanwhile the world turns round, the rent
day conies, the street cars go up and down,
James Gordon Bennett goes to Europe, and
the interest over election is subsiding, Patti
continues to sing to empty benches, a few peo
ple think it worth while to get married, a
man invents a new kind of steamboat,
Daly’s new play. The Passing Regiment,
proves a success. F. Theodor* Walton is on
his way back from England with a quarter of
a million of dollars that he has won on horse
races, Harry MacDona hits got back from an
unavailing search after the north pole, in
the United .States ship Alliance, the opera
is booming, your correspondent is in bad
health too; and in these facts must the foun-
nation of this letter rest.
Speaking about getting married reminds
me that the sensation of the day in this line
has been the marriage of Elie Charter's daugh
ter, against her father's will and protest. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Morgan L. Dix, son of John A.
Dix, who used to be governor and
became famous by saying if anybody
hauls down the American flag shoot him on
the spot. The son who preaches is the rector
of Trinity, the swcllest church and congrega
tion in New York. As a preacher he is a verj
uice sort of fellow, without much strength of
thought, but an eminently proper conception
of everything appertaining to the services he
conducts. It was he who was the victim of
Gentleman Joe’s caprice and mischief. Joe
wrote letters in other people’s names, making
appointments asking others to call. Mr. Dix
was very unhappj-. Nine months afterward
thej- dug a rude grave in the quarries back of
Sing Sing prison, and there carried the body
of a man whose figure was wasted to nothin,
and whose face, even in death, was
marked bj- the lines of long suffering
and pain. It was gentleman Joe's body,
and it was brought there as the last incident
in the persecution of the victim by the people
who thought so much of Mr. Dix that they
would force his enemy to the grave itself.
This wedding, however, that led me to speak
of Dr. Dix, and then to ramble off, took place
yesterday. Elie Charlier is the head
the French colony here. He has
large private school on Fiftj--ninth street,
facing the park, and is quite rich. His daugh
ter engaged herself to. a young gentleman
named Howe. Charlier said no; the girl said
. es, and being of age, consulted with Mr. Dix
and he said he would marry them any way.
This lie did in the face of the father's protest,
the ceremony taking place at three o’clock,
with the novel feature of a force of policemen
uniform standing in the chancel
suppress any unseemly demonstra
tion that might arise. Their services
were not necessary and the epithalaniuni
chants were sung without interruption.
briefs.
implements cheaper than you can buy them away
from home. There Is an abuudanee of iron nnil
wood at the command of any such enterprise
They can make pig iron In Alabama cheapen
thau they can in Ohio. There is lS
reason why your industries should not
supply castings and iron ware for the home de
mand. I saw the irom works at Chattanooga, and
was surprised to find what superior qualities of
iron and steel they Tire turning out."
“The difficulty in the way of Atlanta is tho high
price of coal,” suggested the reporter.
"I know that is true, but such an enter
prising city ought to arrange to get its
coal cheaper. To manufacture to the best advan
tage you ought to have coal delivered hero at three
dollars a ton.”
Mr. Sherman then ailnded to the prospects of
relief in this direction offered by the Georgia Pa
cific railroad, and incidentally remarked that he
was glad to learn that General Gordon had made a
fortune by his connection with the enterprise.
“How long has it been since you, were in Atlanta
before?"
’I was here in 1873 for a few days."
‘Do you see much change in the appearance of
lhecity?”
"Of course. It has very greatly improved in
every respect. It has much to do yet, but I think
it is progressing well.”
In speaking of the general condition of tho south,
the senator took a hopeful view of its finan
cial prosperity, and when the re
porter asked if ho thought resumption had
much to do with the brightening state of affairs,
he smiled and said^
"You democrats attribute the blessings ol re
sumption to Providence, hut t think some os' us
helped a little."
“Are you going further louth?”
“No. I will leave for Washington Monday oven-
ing. My family are already there.”
Senator Sherman is somewhat liko his brother,
the general, in personal appearance. He has a sin
gularly pleasing address and his manners are re
markable for their simplicity. In short, he is a man
rho would prepossess a stranger, and while his cou-
eraation is always interesting, there is an entire
absence of any effort at display. lie has made a
pleasant impression upon the people who have
met him iu Atlanta.
Keekers After Health. |
Enquirer.
Unfortunates who are seeking to renew
their health, are many. So often have they
been deceived by the advertisements of worth
less compounds, that many are discouraged,
tnd refuse to believe anything thej’ read in
the papers. Therefore, the best advertisement
of a really good medicine is tho reputation it
has gained in places where it is being sold.
No other remedy ever discovered hits grown
so rapidly in public favor as that true medici
nal tonic called Brown’s Iron Bitters. In lo-
alities where its extraordinary merits have
become fully known and realized by those
who have been in ill-hculth, the sale is unpre
cedented. One druggist iu our city reports
the sale of 238 bottles in one week. It. is,
indeed, a wonderful, health-giving, life-saving
preparation. It is soothing and refreshing in
its effect, and strengthens every part of the
body, and creates healthy appetite and diges
tion, even when the system is almost destroy
ed by fhe many hurtful cathartics so com
monly used. Reader, beware! Duty de
mands that you try Brown’s Iron Bitters, if
"our health is poor from any cause.
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The Vicksburg Herald says that on election day
in that state every second man to be met was full
of whisky. Politics and whisky do not mix well.
Isn't it about time for the wool-hat boys to rise up
and seize the Georgia legislature? There ought to
be reform in our methods of law-making.
The Indian summer sunsets in the neighborhood
are driving the entire population in the direction
of matrimony. This is as it should be. They can
then come to the exposition in pairs.
Yes, little children; the nice new president is the
man that Mr. John Sherman caused to be kicked
out of the New York custom house. Mr. John
Sherman is sometimes called Hon. John Sherman,
and he lifted the nice new president right out with
out waiting to see it he would send in an-amplc
apology. The Hon. John Sherman did not know
at that time that Mr. Arthur would be a nice new
president, but he has found it out now, and he tells
James G. Blaine will move into his new
house in IVashington about January 1. It is an el
egant mansion in the most aristocratic part of the
city, and cost $80,000. It will take $25,000 more to
furnish it
General Grant denies in part the Tribune’s
charges about his “running” Arthur’s administra
tion. He acknowledges, however, that he does
want Blaine out of the cabinet and John Russel
Young into the ministry to Japan.
Thurlow Weed voted last Tuesday for tho
63d time, and scratched two names on the republi
can ticket. He will be 84 years old to-morrow, and
has failed to votearau election only once, when on
a visit to Europe.
The last year of Baron Haymerle’s life was
martyrdom of nervous suffering, induced by a
disease which was of several years’ standing and of
cardiac origin. The smallest difficulties appeared
as crushing calamities, and the least excitement
caused a burst of tears. .
United States Agricultural Commissioner
George B. Coring offers to build, a special build
ing in Washington to contain the minerals and
woods exhibit at the Atlanta cotton exposition, if
it shall be given to the government.
Thomas C.^ker, whose estate was settled
in San Francisco, two years ago, on what was re
garded as sufficient proof that he had baen dead for
eight years previous, has turned up in the city, and
is making it very lively for the ex-administrator.
The Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York,
leaped from a street car while it was in motion, on
Sunday night, and fell upon his face. His nose
was broken and an ugly gash was made under one
of his eyes. He will bo confined to his house for
two weeks or more.
The splendid exhibit made by Commissioner
Henderson of Geoigia products arid on view in tho
galleries of the main building has not had our ful
attention and will he referred to in the termsand at
the length it deserves in Tuesday’s issue. The
pressure on our columns this morning makes this
delay necessary.
A junior member of the Vermont bench,
speaking recently of Chief Justice Pierpoint, of that
state, said that he was possessed of a greater meas
ure of that good common souse which is a man’s
chief reliance in all stations in life and in all emer
gencies than any other man he had ever met.
Edwin Booth will return to London next
winter and after his engagement there will make a
tour through England, and Scotland under the
managemen l of IV. E. Miller, of London. Mr. Abbey,
under whose management Mr. Booth is now play
ing here, proposes to take him on the continent.
The difficulty of combining scientific with
political activity? especially in Germany jnstnow,
lias been illustrated by the fact that Professor Vir
chow found himself compelled to abandon his
ethnological studies la the Caucasus a month ear
lier than he originally intended in order to return
home and address his constituents in (be recent
campaign.
Sir "Walter Raleigh’s house and garden at
Sherborne are old-fssbfoned enough to carry one
back to the days of good Queen Bess. Even the
summerhouse where the gay cavalier is said to
have smoked the first English pipe and where,
thinking him on fire, his servant dashed a pot of
| ale over him, is still said to be standing.
The French journals speak of Sara Bern
The Ilcro’nc a Daughter of an Ante-Bellum Cabinet
4 Officer.
Now Orleans Democrat.
Toward the close of Pierce’3 administration soci
ety in Washington was much agitated and inter
ested by the brilliant marriage of the daughter of a
member cf the cabinet who then enjoyed a world
wide fame as a financier and political economist.
This was Robert J. Walker, a mail oi remarkable
Intellectual acuteness, great research and indefati
gable industry.
There was no lovelier or more attrictivc young
woman than his daughter. Her mother, a lineal
descendant from Benjamin Franklin, had contrib
uted, by her talents and charms, largely to the suc
cess of her husband in polities, law and social ad
vancement. The happy bridegroom on this occa
sion was a young naval officer of one of the oldest
creole families of I-ouisiaua.
The marriage ceremonies were of the most bril
liant character. The president, every member of
the cabinet, the foreign ministers, the senators:
in tine, all the notabilities of Washington attended,
blessed, and were enthused by the happy scene of a
marriage that seemed so congenial, suitable and fe
licitous.
After their marriage the young couple went on
the grand tour to Europe, and took tip their resi
dence in Paris, where they sojourned for some
months. Their means were ample and their circle
of friends and associates were of the highest social
class. And so for some years the course of their
married life rail smoothly, until, disasters, political,
sectional and financial, fell upon them and their
families. At the breaking out of our civil war,
Robert J. Walker attached himself to the fot tunes
oijthe north and became a bitter enemy of the south
ern struggle for independence. His son-in-law was
compelled, by every obligation of honor, state
pride and duty to the ancient family of which he
was a member, to identify himself with the south.
The consequent alternations and discord led to
their permanent separation. The young wife re
tired with her child to her mother and family in
Philadelphia, and there resided for several years in
seclusion. In the meantime Mr. Robert J. Walker
had lost by the investment in a railroad enterprise
the large fortune he had acquired by his profes
sional success, and at his death left his family in
narrow circumstances. His widowed daughter, de
spite her extreme reserve, could not fail .to attract
the attention, sympathy and interest of the friends
of the father and mother. Many advances were
made by gentlemen of wealth and prominence to
engane'her favorable consideration of proposals of
marriage.
She resisted, for some time, all such advances.
At last, however, her friends and society were
astounded by the report that she had accepted the
hand of a gentleman distinguished in the profes
sional and political world, but cursed with a de
formity and mutilation as repulsive and revolting
far published in The Constitution in regard everybody he meets what* nice new president the hardt’s new toilets as among the most remarkah^ 0 ped, prove successful.
as that of the veiled Mokanna, of Moore's Lalla
Rookh. In boyhood he had fallen into the fire on
his face, and so burned it as to present even now,
in advanced age, a most pitiable and hideous
aspect.
Those who are accustomed to make summer visits
and sojourns at Long Branch liuve not failed to o!>-
berve iu the parlors of the West End hotel, on the
promenades and drives of that delightful resort, the
unhappy victim of this cruel misfortune, in a stout
gentlemen of good figure, of dignified and graceful
* -rriegJ [but with a face so blurred, scarred and dis
torted as almost to coneeal and abolish all human
resemblance, and repel with disgust all advance to
closer observation and acquaintance. Upon that
gentleman’s arm leans a lovely woman, whose pale
lace still retains the most refined and beautiful ex
pression, ami whose harmonious features and lithe
and graceful figure may be quickly recognized as
those of the beautiful Miss Walker, who, twenty-
five vears before, had enthralled all beholders, and
given her the unquestioned title to the swestest and
prettiest girl in Washington City.
The marked attention of the brilliant company at
the West End, through which they passed, the
eagerness of all persons to exchange courtesies
and engage in conversation with the gentleman
and lady, the attention and respect with which
evervthing which fell from the gentleman was re
ceived by all listeners, betokened the high consid
cration in which he was held. To draw him into
conversation and drink in his every utterance ap
peared to be the ambition of every one.
“Who is that couple?” would be the natural
quirv of all strangers; “that terribly mutilated and
defaced gentleman and thatunhappy daughter who
hangs upon his arm.” The ready answer would be,
that gentleman is the ablest, most eloquentand im
pressive lawyer and orator of Philadelphia, who for
manv vears has led that bar, and is the most agree
able and captivating gentleman of the very polished
society of that refined city. The lady is the daugh
ter of‘Robert J. Walker, so distinguished in our po
litical and financial history. The gentleman is
spoken of as a prominent candidate for the position
of attorney general, and as likely to secure that high
office, should the opposition to Howe, being devel-
As just said, Janies Gordon Bennett has
gone back to Europe. He sailed last Satur
day, and just before leaving confirmed the
fear entertained for his authority by his edi
torial staff by sending two of its able editors
to the city department to do work as space re
porters, to write about small fires,
police, cases, street car collisions and so
on. Oh, he made it hot for them,
and the reasonable wonder is whv do they
stand it. They do, though, and thus is the
autocracy of the establishment maintained so
far as they are concerned.
It is being considered now to build a tunnel
under Broadway- for purpose of rapid transit.
It is being resisted, ot course, as every new
idea is. It does seem to me that the elevated
railroads are the verj' acme of comfort in local
movement, and the tunnels, such as they
have in London, are a fraud for comfort.
Mr. Cyrus W. Field is making a move to
ward redeeming, for the best purposes of busi
ness, a port of the battery front. He will erect
a magnificent new building on the siteiof the
old emigrant hotels, and while it will be
_ ace for business offices it will be that hab
itat of the Evening mail. The Mail is in
luck.
Tho management of Patti’s concert has
been changed, and now we hear her if we
want to tor $3 a ticket, and we think it
plenty.
The service of the United States post-office
is irreproachable. A letter addressed to me
at New York followed me for nine days, with
the same persistence that a deputy sheriff
would bring a judgment.
There has been such a wail about high
trices of market articles that the figures have
legun to fall.
Grace Cortland, the “Wall street witch'
and the woman wiio exposed Dr. Bliss’s Wall
street operations during the president’s ill
ness, has gone to lecturing and speaks at
Chickeang hall to-night.
Rhea, the latest importation of a star ac
tress, is a moderate success.
Frank Bangs contemplates a starring tour
through the south; so does George Edgar;
McCullough is the most successful actor tlipt
ever played in New York; Salvini not ex
pected; "Rossi has gone in a southerly direc
tion. I have written and sold a new play to
Frank Evans—subject: “Salt Water.”
Ross Raymond.
HON. JOHN SHERMAN.
IIU VUIt to Atlanta and III* View* of the City.
Yesterday Hon. John Sherman and party, who
reached Atlanta the night before, visited the expo
sition. The following ladies and gentlemen con
stituted the party: Hon. John Sherman, Hon. B.
Eggleston, Mr. A. H. Hinkle and wife. Miss Eggle
ston, Mr. Richard Smith of the Cincinnati Gazette,
Mr. W. H. Smith, Mrs. Sage, Mrs. J. T,
Perry, Mrs. P. Hinkle, Colonel C. W. Woolley,
and Mrs. Thrall. The visitors took rooms at the
Markham where they were elegantly cared for.
At the grounds they received every possible at
tention, and appeared to enjoy the rounds very
much. After Mr. Sherman returned to the hotel ho
received a number of c *lls trom citizens of Atlanta.
Among these was a reporter of The Constitution,
who conversed with the Ohio statesman for awhile.
He declined to (xpress himself on politics at all.
Said he:
“I don't think there is anything now in thepolit
ical condition of the country upon which it would
be worth while for me to speak. When I was in Cin
cinnati an interview on these subjects was re
quested of me,but I declined.”
"What do you think of the exposition?”
”1. was much pleased with it. It; is a
great show, and it ill, 1 think, be of practical bene
fit to the soHth.”
“From what you have seen of the south, so you
think the people are becoming more thrifty and
prosperous?”
”1 do. What yon need is a greater diversity of
pursuits. Atlanta is, 1 think, the most progressive
eily in the south, and it ought to be made the
center of great manufacturing enterprises.
There is no reason why you cannot turn your cot
ton into yams and fabrics cheaper than they can in
■£.cw England. You ought to make agricultural
The cholera is playing havoc with the chickous in
Wilmington, North Carolina.
—For palpitation and other heart affections,
falling out of the hair, epilepsy, St. Vitus
dance, chronic throat troubles and bronchitis,
take Liebig Co's Coca Beef Tonic. Beware oi
counterfeits. novlSdlw fri sun wcd&wlw
A white partridge caught near Wilmington,
A or tli Carolina is on exhibition.
—Lj’dia E.Pinkliam’s Vegetable Compound,
the great medicine'for the cure of all female
complaints, is the greatest strengtlienor of the
back, stomach, nerves, kidneys, urinary and
genital organs of man and woman ever known.
Send for circulars to Lydia E. I’inkham,
Lynn, Mass. nov20dlw sun wed thur&wR
The number of children unending the schools in
Virginia is 239,046.
17orftfur«l*« Add Phonphnte
IN INDIGESTION.
I have used Horsfiford's Acid Phosphate in
indigestion arising from nerve exhaustion. It
is an admirable remedy.
St. Louis. Mo. I*. W. Bradbury, M. D.
P A. Gilman, at Paris, Kentucky, is now! killing
over 2,000 turkeys per day for shipment east.
—Coughs and colds are often overlooked. A
continuance for any length of time causes ir
ritation of the Lungs or some chronic Throat
Disease. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” arc
an effectual Clough Remedy.
A Paris, Kentucky, merchant advertises for23 C0>
turkeys. •
Don’t Get the Chill*.
If you are subject to Ague you must be
sure to keep your liver, bowels and kidneys
in good free condition. When so, you will
be safe from all attacks. The remedy to use
is Kidney-Wort. It is the best preventative
f all mularial diseases that you can take.
See advertisement iu another column.
In Norfolk, Va.. the mayor holds his court on
Sunday as well as every other day of the week.
iSeer ACecta the Kidneys
and it ni3y seriously interfere with the health
unless promptly counteracted, and for this
purpose Warner’s Safe Kidney and LivorCure
has no equal. novl5d2w sun wed fri&wlt
They are having an awful dry time of it in Pa
ls tka, Florida, wells going dry.
DANDRUFF
Is Removed by the Use of Cocoaine,
And it stimulates aud promotes the growth of
the hair.
BURNETT’S FLAVORING EXTRACTS are the
best.
Swns colonies are becoming fashionable in Ken
tucky.
Year*’ Experience of *n Old Name.
.Mrs. Winslow’s Sootitinu Syrup is the prescrip
tion of one of the best female physicians and nurses
In the United States, and has been used for forty
yeara with never-failing success by millions o‘f
mothers for their children. It relieves tho child from
pain, cures dysentery and diarrhtea, griping in the
bowels and wiud-couc. By giving heal th to the child
it rests the mother. Price ‘25 cents a bottle,
mar26—dly sat sun weditwly
The Episcopalians will have a church at Orange
Lake, Florida.
Decline or Man.
Impotency of mind, limb, or vital function, iftrv-
ous weakness, sexual debility, etc., cure«l by
“wells’* Health Rcnewer.” 81. At Druggists.
Depot, Lamar, Rankin & Lamar, Atlanta.
TnK grand lodge of Masons will meet in Wilming
ton, North Carolina, 7th ol December.
Treasury Department,
Washington, I). C.. Nov. 10, 1876.
I take great pleasure in certifying to the ef
ficacy of Dr. Bull’s Cough Sj'rup, in use in my
family and as a specific for 'colds of children
or adults, I have found it to he a cure almost
immediate and always permanent. Very re-
spectfulty, Ths. B. Price.
The budget of the German empire shows a
deficit of 88,250,000. 8* much for “Blzzy’s” finance.
Poultry.
In using the Simmons Liver Regulator with
my chickens, I take a package, mix with the
dough, and feed it to them once a day. By
this treatment I have never lost from chicken
cholera or gapes a single chicken in the last
fiveyears. T. G. Bacon, Edgefield, S. C.
Ga.” Genuine prepared only by J. H; Zcilin
& Go.
The fund for the Garfield ^professorship at
Yi'iiliam college now amounts to 817,710.
To ConnuiAptlYeM.
Many have been happy to give their testi
mony in favor of the use of “Wilbor’s Pure
Cod-Liver Oil and Lime.” Experience lias
proved it to be a valuable remedy- for Con
sumption, Asthma,Diphtheria,and all diseases
of the Throat and Lungs. Manufactured only
by A. B. Wilbor, Chemist, Boston. Sold by
all druggists.
nov!5dlw tues tliurs sat<twlt