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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 22, 1881. ■attl THE CONSTITUTION. Entered at the Atlanta I’ort offipe a* second-class matter, November 11,1878. W.-*kJjr r.aaUt.Uo., prlre *1.60 p«r mnnum. Clubs of twenty, 820, and a copy to the getter up of the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. SIX MONTHS, 81.00. important. We send Till Constitution and Cultivator to one address for 82,.V). This does not apply to past sub serf,.lion. Both subscriptions must be made at the same time. 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. nov20 difcwlw 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. 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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