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, THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTOR, DECEMBER 13 1831. VS in 'T'HTi' mMQTTTITTTnW { comineivlations of his Secretaries. Ho prows | ler periiteniss-saks. DatsouuVd ter me pow???fuily ; sas: RII Abercrombie, of Alabama; S J Bell, of A LUiNOlll VJ A XU1N. ! ... . like wun er dose adfertizin??? Vvanta ri.r. ???>t i .. ... Atlanta Font-office nicccond-cliur : poses the adoption of an effective matter, November 11,1878, Wee lily r u.-tif ntlon, prlrc ??l.iO per annum. Clnbs of twenty, 420, and a copy to tire getter up the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS, SI. tt ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER0,1881. Flute*, like Guitcau, relied too much on the success of his book. The Arthur catechism, prepared by Lawyer .Scoville, is full of information. HmalicPox is epidemic in Chicago, and that city is now pitted against the world. Mississippi stands alone as the only state in the union without a national hank. Me. Pendleton still wants to have the com pany of the cabinet officers in the senate. Danfoed settled up bravely when the de positors made the matter a little pressing. 4 The election of Mr. Riddlcbesger to the United States senate from Virginia, is one of the probabilities of the future. He will he an eloquent advocate of the republican i??o.icy of repudiation. Sherman has beconre a three percenter. "While secretary of the treasury he denounced the Carlisle hill, and induced the Fremont fraud to veto it. But John wears a political coat of many colors. The eastern iron trade is very firm, busi ness being brisk anil orders heavy. Not only is the demand increasing for railroad mate rial. hut for every other branch of business into which iron enters as a factor. The message has been well received by the jteoplc of the country, regardless of party lines. Government conducted on plain busi ness principles is what the people want. Fine spun theories must give way to plans of prac tical utility. - i enthusiastic on the Indian question, and pro- j *r des* adfertuin- kyards dat???s got ??? 1 Mormon i " rlease doan??? look on dc udder side,??? primed on de ??? i . * I | back.??? policy. The message occupied two hours and : ??????How???? * a half in the reading, and was immediately i ???Wy. we all kno???s dat he'd jess ez soon be presi- referred by the houses to appropriate com- dent nex'time ez ter stau* roan??? hongry wid bis mittecs. " i hed oberde top rail too fur fmndetroff ter git eben ?????? ! er smell ob de feed.??? The relations between the cotton manufac- j ???Well?" turers of Sew England and their operatives j ???An' cf yer gwine ter try ter jump de fence are in a strained condition, and a general strike is more than probable. Those period ical disturbances cause great loss to both par ties???to the employers by the stoppage of business and to the employes by the stoppage of work. Such strikes are unknown in south ern factories, where the advantages of climate reduce the necessities of the operatives, by which they are enabled to work for lower wages and thus give a wider margin of profit to the manufacturers. This is an advantage that should be carefully studied by manufac turers while visiting the exposition. The proper place to manufacture cotton is in the cotton fields. while de udder hosses iz er feedin??? mighty bizzy an' frolickin??? moughty frisky, yer got ter giter good runnin??? start fo??? yer takes dc rize." "That???s so.??? ???But Mister Blaine better tess hiz lungs moughty well an??? mezhur moughty close er he ar gwine ter go foul. I???ze bin ter raenny er jumpin?????? match as??? I???ze seed hit time an??? agin!??? "Seen what???? ???Seed er man git back so fur an??? den run so fas??? dot w???eu he gotjter de rizen-line hiz ham-strings re fuzed fer ter pulsate! I tells yer time an??? space am de rite an??? lef legs in er perliterkul race!??? And with this outburst the old man slid into the art rooms of the sanctum. THE COTTON PLANTERS. Another theatrical trap horror,this time in Vienna, will make the whole world shudder. Over three hundred persons were roasted alive in a burning building, where sufficient exit and proper precaution against accident were not furnished. '??? The state department has dispatched a se eret missive to South Americif, in order to reach a bottom fact or two. The best thing the department could do would be to Hurl- blit and Kilpatrick. Moke national banks were organized du ring the past year than in any other y6ar since 1872. This is another evidence that the prosperity of the country has fully re gained all the strength of its best period. The Mahonc alliance in Virginia is in trouble. Ridillcberger insists upon the sena torial prize ns a vindication, while tlie repub licans claim it for Lewis as recompense for services rendered. The way of tlie traitor, as well as the transgressor, is bard. Cabinetspecnlationsarcrife in Washington. Among tlie appointments that seem most probable, will be that of General Longstrcet to t he portfolio of tlie navy. The general bap always been a landsman, but?? sliqrt term <>Y service in the naval department would make him as bold a tar as any of liis predecessors, Tiie growth of Atlanta is the growth of Georgia, The city is but the creature of the wealth of the state. If the entire people did not contribute toward successful production, there would be no surplus upon which a city could thrive. Therefore, the sound of every hammer and tlie laying of every brick in the city represents the accumulated wealth of some Georgian who seeks a new investment that he may aciunuilate still more. John Dunn is in a fair way to become king of Zululand, John was a London Bohemian, who left Britain many years ago to seek his fortunes. He first went to Natal, but finding no opening there pushed on to Zululnnd, made friends with the Zulus, became Cety- wayo???s prime minister, opened up a trading post, accumulated a fortune and not only aspires to but will secure the vacant throne, from which eminence lie can return to Eng land and be as much a king as Victoria is queen. t The completion of the new transcontinent al line of railway, composed of tlie Southern l???aeific and Texas Pacific, and extending from San Francisco by way of El Paso to Texarkana, at the southwestern extremity of tlie state of Arkansas, noted a day or two since, marks a new era in tlie Southern and Pacific railway system. There will, of course, lie connections leading by way of Shreveport, La., to New Orleans; by way of San Antonio and Austin to tlie coast of Texas at Lavacca ai.d Galveston; to tlie Atlantic eitiesby way of tlie Georgia Pacific and Richmond and Danville system to Baltimore, or by way of Memphis and St. Louis to the coast cities fur ther north. "Whatever doubts may have existed as to the success of the exposition during the first weeks of its existence, must have been dis pelled by tlie immense throngs of people who have crowded into the city during the past few days. From every section of the union, from the Canadas, from Mexico, and from many parts of Europe, have come visitors who have went away loud in their admiration of the pluck of Atlanta and the magnificence of the great exhibition. The testimony given by ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, was enthusiastic, unreserved, and totally unso licited. That testimony but voices the ex perience of all wlio have visited the grounds. The president's message, after referring to tlie late tragedy, the bountiful harvests, our peaceful ^relations with foreign powers, and other routine subjects, recommends tlie repeal of the silver certificate act, the act requiring the coinage of a stated amount of silver each mouth, a suspension of gold certificates, and the adoption of such financial legislation as will limit the volume of currency. It also re commends a repeal of all revenue taxes ex cept upon tobacco, whisky, and matches, the relief of national banks from the tax on capital and deposits, and even intimates that in time it would be safe to lower the tax on whisky and tobacco. The tenor of this part of the message is in favor of restricted money and reduced taxation. The depart mental reportsare handled in routine fashion, the president giving liis assent to all the re- The juries of award at thecottou exposition are charged witli tlie most important duties ever devolved upon similar bodies of men on this continent. They occupy potential posi tions in tlie work of tlie great fair, and the members should feel properly the dignity and far-reaching results of their decisions. Since the centennial so vast a number of improve ments and inventions have marked American industry that to be a juror at this exposition is to confer upon one both honor and onerous responsibility. We trust that those who have been assigned to these offices will be prompt, industrious and cir cumspect in their labors, to the end that the awards they make may possess influence, in trinsic value and carry confidence wherever they may be advertised. The makingof these awards is really the most exalted work to which one may be assigned in so great and so universally popular exposition. THE PLANTERS??? CONVENTION TO-DAY. The convention of cotton planters which assembles at the exposition grounds to-day is perhaps the most important body assembled in tlie south in many years. It seems to us that every section and every class is interested in- the success of this com vention and its permanency. The planters themselves need to be inform' ed as to tlie best methods of cultivating their crops and the latest improvements made in fertilizers, implements and seeds. It is important to the merchants that the crops should be carefully handled and prop erly sent to market. It is important to the manufacturers that the cotton should be ginned in better manner, baled in better style, and marketed in better shape. All classes arc interested in the improve ment of cotton culture and handling, and this can only be done by organization. The only organization that promises anything is the National Cotton Planters??? association. It is proposed, we understand, to raise enough money by issuing stock, to put tlie associa tion on a (inn basis. We do not know what the scheme is, but we hope the projectors of the association will have no trouble in getting what they want. ??? They certainly should have none. GENERAL ALFRED AUSTELL. In tlie death of General A. Austell Atlanta loses one of its best known and most promi nent citizens. General Austell lias for years been a finan cial leader in Georgia, and dies one of the wealthiest men in the state. His career was an eminently successful one, illustrating the strong record of self-made men only possible in America. Wise, prudent and sagacious, he carried the enterprises of which he was the head through storm and sunshine, amass ing fortunes for those who were connected witli him, and standing as a bulwark of Atlanta???s finances. His fortune is estimated at nearly or quite a million dollars???a fact that we mention in this connection only to suggest the vast amount of work that the poor Campbell county boy must have done, the wisdom that must have guided his steps, and the strong, earnest purpose that must have inspired him to have brought him to such a height. Better than all this, General Austell dies in the fulness of integrity, with out a blot on his name, leaving to his chil dren the legacy of an honest and stainless name. Tl??c Second Dtj???n Solon of the National AMorintlon The second day's session of the National Cotton 'lanters' association was held yesterday, the morn ing session convening in Judges??? ha'l! at 11 n.:u, with President Morehead presiding. On motion of Colonel Hardeman the old officers were retained In office for the next year. By this motion the officers remain as follows: President???F C Morehead. Treasurer???George M Kline. Secretary???James M Ogden, lfon George B Loring, United States commission er of agriculture, then delivered his address on the mutual relations of American industries which we publish in full elsewhere. The committee on credentials made a report which was adopted. The following are the dele gates as reported by the committee: Alabama???Wm H Ross, \V G Little, B F Fitzpat rick. C L Stickuey. J II Y Webb, A M Avery. Thos W Oliver. P li King, R D Berry, John Mellwaue, Wm Morrison. J M Clay, G T Gardener, RII Aber crombie, W N Hayes, E O Hurd, W T Webb, R T Withers, A V Gardner, J M Thomson. Arkansas???E C Stevenson, Marshall K Kev, N Straub, J A Trask, Hugh T Thomas, John S Walker, Frank F Smith, Thos McKae, John M Pittman, Lewis Fletcher, Fred Hanger, Thos W Steel, A R liazeu, W P Grace, John if Adams, S R Cockrill, James W Corcoran, John P Murphy, J W Pitts. N B Trulock, R Breckenridge, V 1) Wilkins, R L Pow ers, O P Robinson, Geo C Dodge. C Pemberton. Florida???Joseph Voyle, D S Place, W H L Town send, Wallace S Jones, J P Terry, Robert H Gamble, J L Inglis, R J Mays, W D Barnes, J W Perrv, E L McKinnon, S B Thomas, R A Whitfield.-E S "Tyner, D W Gwin, John N McGahee, John H McKinne, John Milton, A RGoodwin, J R Bolls, S T Shirley, A D McKinnon, W J Daniels, H G Bryan. Georgia???R II Jackson. R E Kennoii, J W Week R M Brown. Dr D F Gunn, Pulaski Kirkland, A J Snelson, F J Williams, G F Sims, D G Puree, George Walter, George P Walker, P D Duffin, II D Stevens, George I'rehn, A A Denham, J M Williams, Thomas Hardeman, Jr, E C Greer, Dr J S Lawton, L J XI v- iugston, S A Franklin, Silas Star, J Ben Wilson. J J Stevens, 1, t Favor, Dr Jos Lauc, J W Graham W L There is real humor in the prediction of the New York Tribune, that the anti-bourbons of the south will follow the example of the Mahonites and be come republicans. The Tribune will discover that the necessity which compelled the republican party to foreclose its mortgage on Mahone was fatal to the whole programme of breaking up the democratic party In the south. The enormous ox-fioru in the Thomas county dis play at the exposition is supposed to be the handi work of Editor John Triplett, of the Thomasville Times. This shows what an editor can do when he tries. Atlanta has.been accused of blowing her own horn, but Atlanta never had any horn like that. The Augusta Chronicle says that Mr. Iilainc in his trip through the south will have a grand recep tlon everywhere. Good gracious! what will the In flamed critics say to this? Is Editor Grubb, of Da rien, to be vindicated without a struggle. ??? John Taylop. , the head of the Mormon church has already begun to celebrate Christinas. lie lias taken another wife. The Sparta Ishiuaclite is of the opinion that the farmers of Georgia are in a worse condition than The Constitution is disposed to admit. This may be so. but if their condition was as bad as the Ish- maelitc makes it out to be, the thousands and thou sands who have visited tlie expositor! during the past few weeks would not have such generally prosperous appearance and such smiling faces. Still, we are disposed to compromise differences with the Ishmaclitc. A sensible printer in a Philadelphia paper com pels the editor to allude to the ???Atlanta ocean.??? Now, there is something tangible about this. It doesn???t hurt a ship to strike bottom in the Atlanta ocean "OLD SI.??? He Iloa a Warming fbr a Visiting Statesman. Old Si came in yesterday afternoon and while polishing up the marble lillles about the stem uf the esthetic editor???s lamp, inquired: "Does yer reckin' dar's env trufe in de ???port dat Mr. Blaine am sho??? ???nuffcomiu??? terdeexpizishun???? "I imagine it is too too utterly true!??? ???Well. I ain't got no konflick fer ter git up, of he do," said the old inau. But, as he finished his job, he said: "Now, datarbizness notis in de tellergram am what took my eye!" "In what way?" "Dat de trip wuz unnertooken jess ferplezhuran??? Louisiana???J \V Montgomery, JlioKimbaii,Thorn ton Drayman, James J Duke, P Earnest Lorio, L G Tatliern, Heury C Kemper, William H Reagan, \V R Parvis, Dr J J Gauthrcaux, E Creighton, Charles 0 Mouton, Amcdic Tcte, Christ Chafl'e, J A S Chap- nls, Burgess F Young, William McCulloch. F S Shields, George Foster, T W Castleman, John C Vance, J M Hollingsworth, D E Nicholson. E J Har well, Walter Crowder, J A Allsworth, J E Logan, G C Phillips, Dr A Breard, C A Larcndon, Thomas D Lindsey, H Octave Colomb, Samuel J Harrell, T It ridge man, W L chaw. Mississippi???William Striekland, A J Phelps, W F Stone, J Winchester, R B Witheis, C A Taylor, J F- Townscnd, A W Darby, Richard B Smith, II M Hoi lingswortb, H A Buford,John R Moore, LD Fletch er, Jerry Robinson, Thomas W Turner, James S Oliver, A J i???axton. A J Lewis,F E Whitfield, David A Horde; Wesley Weems, S B Day, Samuel H Hall, Geoige W McGinnis, B F Ligon, \V L Nugent, J G Me Arthur, J L MeCaskill, George T McGcliee, D C Love. H A Rice, Eugene Carlton, J 11 Gordon, D F Chapman. James G Sallis, C Slendtis,-\V A Boyd, C II Smith, John M McCutehen, Joshua Skinner, John H Evans, James Slone, W M Worthington, A B Carson, George B Worthington, J D Smith, S M Spencer, W W Stone, Dr Fred Stanton, T C Morehead, J J Evans, H P Fenniu, Dr W B Gunn, Oliver C Carr, J I. Brown, S W Weens, Colonel I???niat, J O. Meriwether, W A Polloek, T R WallH STITavIor. F A Gully, Wilson Dunham. W R Surlev. J L Wof ford, Joseph E Lowe, William Jackson," Thomas L Bussey, Newman Casey, J II Duke. South Carolina???\Y E James J w Fui-gnson, Lu cas McIntosh, W E Dargan, E R ilclvor. Colonel E Tweedy, Lutner II Huukitison, W W Miller, \V G Vardell, W C Hownrd, Townsend Mikell, John Gadsend, Jr, J Stoney Porc.her, Jenkins Mikell, W G Hinson, E L Roche, W L Howard, W E Adams, Thomas II Russell, D P Duncan. North Carolina???James S Battle, Wm A Graham, J R Thigpen, J R lleamau, A Graves. Tennessee???J D Arnett, A D Hurt, J L H Tumliu W M Cousar, Joseph Uhl, M C Cheek. Texas???J W Dunn, J N B Henslee. W W Park, J Daniels, G C Kunelly. J M Jones, F L Yoakum, J W Johnson, RII Chatham, Elisha Trumball, S J T Johnson. Virginia???R S Sanders-, Henry S Reynolds. New Orleans cotton exchange???Christ Chaffe, Jr, Sami. H Buck, John Powell. Vicksburg cotton exchange???John M McCutehen American-Belgium cotton exchange???Hon W Scve, Hon L DeGive, L Chnrrier, 11 Droozmans. Mr. Foster, of the committee on transportation, made a report on the investigations of his commit tee. Mr. J. D. Ozier read an article on cotton seed and cotton seed oil, by Major Charles Mann, of Yazoo City, Miss. The paper was a verv able one. By resolution by Mr. Shields the secretary was authorized to hnve made lithographed certificates of membership. The president appointed the following commit tees: Committee on By-laws???Georgia, TP Janes; North Carolina, A Graves: Alabama, J HY Webb; South Carolina, W G Hinson; Arkansas, W PGrace; Flor ida, J H McKiunie: Louisiana, A W Crandell; Mississippi, J S ??'askill; Tennessee, Judge J H L Tomley: Texas, M B Farr; Virginia, R A Saunders. Committee on Resolutions???Mississippi, William R Strickland; North Carplina, Mumforu McGchec Louisiana. Judge J W Montgomery; Arkansas, li 1 Thomason: Tennessee. J B Killebrew; Alabama, W C Stubbs; South Carolina, Stoney Porchcr; Texas, G L Mumley; Virginia, R S Saunders; Florida, J H McKinney. Committee on Ways and Means???Colonel Ed Rich nrdson, Mississippi, chairman; Majqr George C Waddell, Louisiana; Major John D Adams, Arkan sas: Albert Baldwin, Louisiana; TM Smedcs, Mis sissippi; W L Hemmingway, Mississippi; W A Pol lock, Mississippi; Cyk'iiel W E Barrows, Mastsv chusetts; C it Breckinridge, Arkansas: f ^Shield-, Louisiana; S J T Johnson, Texas; S H Burk, Lou istana; Dunbar Hunt, Mississippi; John Milton, Florida; W T Blackwell, North Carolina; William N Tinner,South Carolina: R S Saunders, Virginia; S M Inman, Georgia; T O???Conner, Tennessee; J M Lewis, Alabama. Hon. Edward Seve. representing the Belgium government, addressed the association briefly. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Cask-ell: Whereas, this is an agricultural country and more dependent upon that branch of industry than any other: therefore, Be it resolved, that it is the sense of this associa tion that the commissioner of agriculture should lie a cabinet officer and that department be placed on an equal fooling with the other department of the government, and that we request and urge the members of congress from the cotton states to ad- vocate uud vote for a law to accomplish this pur pose. This resolution was amended by Mr.Moreliead so that it would ask for an appropriationof a million dollars for agricultural purposes and passed. Mr. Voyle, of Florida, introduced a resolution re- ? uesting congress to use the surplus funds arising rom the patent office in making appropriations for schools and colleges where agriculture is taught. The resolution was passed. A resolution requesting the legislatures of the va rious states and thecongress of the United States to devote more attention to agricultural schools and colleges was Introduced by Mr. A. M. l???axton and pa-seu. A resolution was passed for the appointment of a committee of one from each state, to report to the conven lion such ways of co-operation of the agri cultural colleges aud the association as would re sult in real good. The session then adjourned to convene at the capital at 7:30 p.m. At the appointed hour the association met in the hall of the house of representatives. The first businiss was the election of vice presi dents. The following were elected: Alabama???Ex-Governor R M Patton. Arkansas???Colonel S R Cockrill. Florida???John Bradford. Georgia???Judge R H Jackson. Louisiana???Hon H R Lucas. North Carolina???William A Graham. South Carolina???E K Mclvor. Mississippi???C H Smith. Tennessee???A D Hurt Texas???Ex-Governor R B Hubbard. Virginia???R S Saunders. The association on motion, agreed to hold the morning session for to-day at nine o'clock, in Judges??? hall. A large attendance especially of mem bers of committees is desired. The president was appointed a committee to see Director-Geneal KinriKdl in reference to a commit tee for the examination of gins aud presses. The following committee on gins was appointed: Colonel Ben S Kicks, of Mississippi; Thomas W Castleman, of Louisiana; N B Truclock, of Arkan oeorgia. The following committee on presses was ap pointed: W W Stone, Mississippi: G L Boncy, Louisiana: Colonel iliomas W Hall, Arkansas; J 1> Field, Mis sissippi; Mr Gravham, of North Carolina. A resolution was passed limiting speeches to five minutes and confining speakers to oue speech on each subject. The third day???s session ot the National Cotton Planters' association was held in Judges' hall yes terday, commencing OJd o???clock. The day was devoted to a small amount of unim portant business. The principal feature of tlie day???s proceeding was meeting betweeu the manufacturers of the north and the association. The president made a short address of welcome, which was responded to by Colonel Bar- rows. of Connecticutt. and ex-Governor Patton, of Alabama. Hon. W. 1???. Grace was introduced, and poke for the west. The report of tlie committee on by-laws was read and adopted. The dav session then adjourned. The night session convened in the hall of the house of representatives at 7:30 p. m., President Morehead in the chair. The unfinished business of the committee on reso lutions was taken up. Mr. William Strickland presented the following resolution from the committee; Resolved That as a rule the cheapest meat, bread and forage consumed by planters and faimers gen erally is that produced at home. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. Stubbs presented a set oi resolutions on the classification of .cotton. On motion of Mr. Crandall, of Mississippi, the resolutions were tabled. Mr. George C. Waddell presented resolutions aud report from the committee of ways and means on raising funds aud organization of association which report was adopted. The report was as follows: The committee on ways and means consider that the power and usefulness of this association require an increase of funds aud of membership. As a way of attaining tltese ends, we otter the following reso lutions : , 1. The president shall appoint nine members of the executive committee for the ensuing year, and every cotton state shall give in the name of one member to the president, but in default of their doing so the president shall till such vacancies, and five members shall constitute a quorum. It shall be the duty of this committee to compose a consti tution and by-laws lor tlie association, or only one of the aforesaid if they deem it sufficient, which shall govern this organization until its next reguuir meeting, and then shall be submitted to the na tional convention. It shall compose a charter and by-laws to regulate a branch association in every eottou state aud for every county. To constitute these brauch organizations, the president shall appoint a comiuiitee of four for every state, io which shall lie added the vice presi dent of that state, who shall lie ex-officio chairman of the committee, and this committee shall provide for a committee for every county, which shall con sist of a member front every township, or district, or ward. The county committee shall convene a county con vention at its discretion for organization, at which every planter or farmer wlto shall subscribe to the roll of membership and pay $1.00, which shall be an annual due, shall be a member, aud may par ticipate in tlie proceedings aud permanent urgaui zation. After a county organization has been effected tlie convention snail elect its permanent committee of one from each township, and the state convention which shall be convened as may be directed, shal fleet its psnnausut committee, with the viee-presi- dent as chairman. - 3. A uniform day shall be appointed for all regu lar state meetings, and also for all regualr county meetings, and also for all regular township or ward meetings, I. Alter the organization as provided for in sec tion 3 shall have been efleered, the chairman shall publish as directed the days for tywilri'ip aita county meetings, aud the towushlp meetings shall appoint delegates to the county conventions, the county conventions shall appoint delegates to the state conventions, and the state conventions shall appoint delegates to the national conventions. 6. A due allowance shall be made for fiefraving the expenses of delegates to the state find national convention's, and the fees of Sl.oo Shall be divided between tlie state aud national treasury as may be directed. 7. The executive committee is fur ther charged with establishing a system of cheeks and balances, and of vouchers and forms for the handling of association funds and for transact ing the business of ihe'associatioii. They shall fix the salaries of the employes of tjie association- restricted to a basis of industry and economy, aud they shall pass upon every claim aguiust the associa tion before tlie association is paid. 8. Every state shall haven permanent secretary, who shall be paid, and there must be, at least, one secretary for the national association who must be paid. ???J. The president and tlie executive committee are charged with the execution of these duties, and of doing all else under these genera) directions that ;may be necessary for the good of the association. All laws or by-laws in conflict with these resolutions are hereby repealed. The president is ex-officio chairman of the executive committee. 10. To put the foregoing into operation the com mittee have started a subscription which will ac company this report. These funds, however, are to be considered in the light of a loan to be repaid whenever the association can do so without incon venience. [Signed] E. Richardson, chairman; George C. V* addcll, John T. Adams, Albert Baldwin, T. M. Smedes, W. L. Hemingway, W. A. Pollock, W. K. Barrows, C. R. Breckinridge, F. S. Shields, S. J. T. Johnson, L. II. Buck, Dunbar Hunt, John Milton. The subscription proposed in the report was opened and the following amounts weresubscribed: E Richardson, $200; John D Adams, $100; Thos \Y Smedcs, $30; Geo Waddell. $100; Dunbar Huut, $.70; A S Shields. $50; W A Pollock,$100: Oil Smith, $100: Bens Ricks, $100: S R Cockrill, $100; G L Boncy, $75; FC Morehead, $100; E Cord went, $50; A D Hunt, $50: James Pipes, $100; J W John son, $5(1; \V F Katidall,$50; Maywood Company.$100; P. K. Dcdcrick ??ti Co, $100: Benjamin S Kicks, bale of cotton; Thomas W Steel,$50; Edward Seve, con sul general of Belgium, fell; John Chaffee, $100; Louis Fletcher, $10; Benjamin 4c O???Kelly, bale of cotton: J A Turley, $10; Wilson Durham, $10; SM Spencer, $35; J A Horde, $35; Jackson Warner, machine for killing cotton worms; J D Ozier, 100 bushels Ozier silk cotton seed; Duncan, 10 bushels Duncan???s mammoth prolific coiton seed; Major Jones, $10, also a bale of cotton and 50 bushels Jones???s improved cotton seed; Major Webb, 10 bushels storm proof cotton seed. Mr. Dederick proposed that if any member of the association would give an order for a Dederick press before the close of the exposition he would donate fine hundred dollars of tlie amount to the association. C K Breckeniidge. $10; R H Gamble, $25; RII Jackson, $10; W A Graham, $10; A M Mar- A GRAND RECEPTION TENDERED TO THE BUSINESS MEN OF NORFOLK. Norfolk Send* a Large Delegation of Her Commar- ial Men to the Exposition, Where They axe - Heartily Welcomed???Speeches of the Oocasion???Incidents of the Day. of Ozier cotton seed; J p Ross, S II Jackson 10 bushels Jackson coni; W T Webb, 5 bushels com; A W Crandell, 10 acres of land; I D. Ozier, oue mule; R Y Carmicle half of premium on cotton if be gets it; R II Jackson, $10; W A Grayham, $10; H M Marshall, $5. All the cotton seed were sold at prices ranging from $2.50 to S3 per bushel. Considerable laughter was created when the forty acres and the mule were subscribed. The amount subscribed exceeds $3,000. TllS following resolution was presented and pas ed: Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the na tional executive committee to have prepared blank repoit* for averaging the condition of crops and other matter of interest which shall lie furnished to the secretary of each county association whose duty itshiillbeto till out and return the same on the first of each mouth to the secretary of the na tional association aud should there fail to be a regal ir organization in any county, it shall be the duty of the"state executive committee t?? appoint a county executive commit tee from lime to time, so that -there may be no county unrepresented. Mr. Ricks moved that the chair appoint a com mittee to solicit subscriptions, which was done. Colonel 1 bourns moved that the executive com mittee have the constitution and by laws printed in pamphlet form, and that each membi-r be fur nished with a copy. The motion prevailed. Mr. C. B. Breckinridge moved that the executive committee be instructed to invite manufacturers whose goods are adapted to the uses of planters to exhibit theln at national meetings of the associa tion, and that the attention of inventors be called to the field for invention .of machinery for the gin ning and picking cotton. The motion prevailed. Mr. Tichnor, of the committee appointed to in vesiigate inventions, made a report. Mr. W, P. Grace presented an invitation to the association to hold its next meoting-at Little Itock, Ark., commencing with the opening of the state fair on 17th of next October. The invilatiou was from the state fair association of Arkansas. D. P. Duncan, of South Carolina, invited the as sociation to hold its next meeting at Charleston. Major Webb presented uu invitation from Mont gomery, Ala. The invitation from Little Rock was accepted by acclamation after a few minlUes^discussiou. President Morehead stated from the chatr in the most earnest manner his sincere regret as president of the association aud in its behalf.and also i>ersoii- ally on his own account as a member of the Press association of Mississippi, that there should be any misunderstanding in regard to the cordial invita tion he bad extended to that association to have their headquarters while in Atlanta at the head quarters of the National Cotton Planters' associa tion. and trusted that this personal explanation and assurance of high regard would be received by the president and members of the Mississippi Press association in tlie friendly spirit itzvas uttered. The association then adjourned to meet in Little Reek on the 12th of October next. The delegation of Norfolk business men who arc- now in attendance on the cotton exposition were received formally in Judges??? hall yesterday morn ing at 10 o???clock by Director-General Kimball and members of the executive committee. \ Mr. Kimball delivered an address of welcome, in which he stated tliatot all the cities which he had visited in the'interest of the cotton exposition, not one was found more earnest than Norfolk, and none had given him a more cordial reception. He snlit that when he visited Norfolk in less than half a day all the money that he asked for was subscribed, and Norfolk, he further stated, was the first city to pay her subscription in full. Mr. Charles G. Elliott, president of tl* Norfolk cotton exchange, responded to the address of wel come. At the conclusion of Mr. Elliott???s address, Major Cummings, of Atlanta, made a few remarks. Below we present Mr. Elliott???s remarks in full: Mr. Director General: On behalf of the cotton exchange and business interests of the twin cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, it is my Priv ilege to thank you for the distinction capfcrrcd on them by your designation of this as Norfolk day; and for those who nave the honor to compose this delegation, to express our high appreciation of the courteous and kindly manner lit which we have been received. Watching with deep solicitude this groat enter prise trom its inception, we have read with great pleasure the universal testimony to its complete success: but tlie half had not been told us, and I cannot find fittingterms to expressonrgratification at the splendid aehievmcut, its grandeur, its beau ty. its marvelous usefulness. " The departments assigned to cotton, its growth, manufacture and handling iu every way. especially command the attention ot Norfolk people, for they feel on absorbing interest in everything that per tains to the great southern staple. The close relations existing between the planter, the merchant and the carrier are being here very properly discussed itt all their bearings, and our people feel that it would not be inappropriate to make some allusions, upon this ocasion, to the inti mate connections now established between our port and the cotton growing region. Prior to the civil war the receipts of cotton at tit port of Norfolk were limited to a few thousand bales, produced in the eastern counties of North Carolina and Virginia???all of which were forwarded to noitlicrn markets???the first record in 1S53 being 3,700. In 1SIV7-C., after peace was declared, about <50,000 bales were received. During tlie following year many bouses engaged in the trade and the receipts were more than double those of 1MJ5. From this period cotton became tlie chief article of produce sought by our merchants; and great enterprise and energy were exhibited by those who embarked in the business with such limited capital as could be commanded by a southern city, so lately occupied by hostile armies. A comparison shows Unit lhc fifogrsss of development was rapid. In five years, viz: iu 1870 the in crease was 400 per ceut, more than 300.000 bales being handled at our port. In the ten years following, these large receipts were nearly doubled, the record for 18S0 being 500,032 bales. While for the last cotton year, ending Augustjlst, 1881. there wasa further iucrease of 21 per cent over 1880, the grand total being 713,020 bales, more than oue hall of which was exported direct to foreign coun tries. Beginning with the first crop planted after the war, it will be seen that the annual trade of Nor folk rose in fifteen years about 660,000 bales. In l$6ti the first efforts were made to establish di rest trade. The steamer Ephesus WAS chartered by Colonel William Lnmo, whose:thail and energy instituted the first experiment This vessel never reached her jKirt of destination and the returns from her cargo came from the underwriters. In lsni, Messrs. Reynolds Bros., induced the sending of the steamer Brazilian. She made a successful voyage, aud de livered in Liverpool the first cargo of cotton from Norfolk, 3,5:10 bales. No firm in tlie south is now more widely known and respected, and to them more than to any other is due our progress and growth in this business. The record shows for that year, foreign shipments. 14,168 bsles. But the bus iness made no progress during tire six years follow ing. In 1874, 20,340 bales were shipped. In 1876, 108,683. In 1878,1511,357. In 1880. 258,065. Aud dur ing thecottou year ending August 31, 1881. 328,818 bales left our wharves in seventy-seven ships for Liverpool and the continent direct, while about 40,000 were forwarded by our exporters, on through bills of lading via oilier ports: Murk the compari son : In 1874 20,000 Idles In 1881 300 000 hales A gain of 1.700 per cent iu seven veins. ??? ??? From a recent article by Senator Johnston, based upon data taken from the official report of the United States bureau of statistics, we take the fol lowing comparison between tlie decrease anil in crease in the business of the six largest cotton ports, between the six years ending August 3tst, 1861, and the six years ending August 31st, 187???J: MARKET. RATE. Galveston Increase 197 per cl. New Orleans Decrease 2s, .er ot. Mobile | leercase 43 per ct. Savannah Increase n perct. Charleston Increase per ct. Norfolk Increase 1,212 perct. It is well to consider tbe causes that have con tributed to these results. We are not here to duim in a boasting spirit that our merchants are su|??erior in intelligence, enter prise or ability to those of other ports. Nearly all of them were strangers to the business and very few expert In huudliug the staple. And with ref erence to the capital it need only be mentioned that they were southerners who had shared the common fate of their brethren. While the city of Baltimore which has lately been here brought into contact with Norfolk hud be come greatly enriched by tlie civil war, in the co lossal expansion of her great railroad to the west ???(a railroad for whose existence to-day she stands in part indebted to old Virginia)???that disastrous conflict had swept away almost the last dollar of banking and mercantile capital of old Norfolk. But thank God! the men who undertook to direct her new career had character and credit and an utKOU ilicraWc spirit tried in the fires of recent affliction. At every step in their progress the merchants of Norfolk have been met and confronted bv the mon ey and the itilluence of the merchants of tlie great city at the head of the Chesapeake. And yet the cotton has come to Norfolk, year bv year gaining in the immense projiortioiis before stated! ?? ?? s ?? ?? s And while Baltimore has to-day one compress, ut up last year, one merchant, as we learn, en gaged in the foreign export cotton trade and no or ganized cotton exchange, Norfolk has an exchange numbering forty firms, seventeen of whom arc ex porters to Liveipool and tiie continent, comprising representatives uf the wealthiest houses known to the cotton trade of (he Woild. The demands of this trade have been so great that, in our harbor within tiie past year, 14,580 feet, nearly three miles, of new wnarf frontage have been constructed, more than for seventy-five years before. Immense warehouses built (even now in adequate) and six powerful compresses are in oper ation, with a daily capacity oi 10.000 bales. It is true there are in Baltimore certain parties largely interested in cotton, namely the matiuiact- urers of commercial fertilizers. These gentlemen claim that their products add largely to the yield of cotton, are indispensable in certain sections and hat true economy dictates that southern farmers houlil continue to buy them in Baltimore, paying he long hr.nl (ulihough the fish of waters near the Atlantic and tlie phosphate beds of South Carolina furnish a large proportion of their valuable com ponents!. Not disputing thisclalm, it is not denied that many thousands of dollars have been realized, in a few years, by a few gentlemen in Baltimorejas their incidental proportion of the profit in coufer- sing such great blessings upon the southern owner of poor lands. Their energy, enterprise and skill are greatly to be comemnded and considering their usual astuteness, it would be strange, indeed, if it should appear, that they have overlooked our Norfolk cotton mar ket entirely, when they sought to realize upon the cotton they receive from many states of the south iu barter for their goods. The fertilizer dealers in New England, in New York, Philadel phia. Wilmington, Delaware, and Richmond have much of their cotton sent to Xotfolk for sale, even from Georgin, South and Nortli Carolina. Hours is the best mntket for them, why is it not for our friends up the bay? We do not despair of includ ing them among our customers also. In this branch of business they may also find Norfolk in the future a formidable comjietitor. The fish scrap of our lower Chesapeake is most highly esteemed, and we are 200 miles nearer to the materials imported from Euro]>e and the South Car olina phosphates. Anil no brands of fertilizers in Baltimore stand higher than those of our Upshur guano company and the Pocomoke company. Is it worth while to argue before thoughtful men that the great increase of the cotton business of Norfolk results from anything else thau obedience to the laws of trade? As all lnlcHigent merchants well know, our port is better situated for a foreign exoort trade than any upon the south Atlantic coast." Upon Elizabeth river, whose three brandies aflbni twenty-five miles of shore line on deep channel way???but seven miles from Hamptou Roads, into which flow, also, the James an i Naiisemoud rivers, with thirty feet of water along our wharf front, within thirty-live miles of tlie Atlantic ocean, and no obstructing bar. Our safe and commodious harbor tempered by the warmth of the gulf stream and not once in n century obstructed bv ice for five day???s together; whereas, the Delcwnre, lh commodate the mammoth ships now being built ter carry ten to fifteen thousand bales of cotton. Jiist across the roads to he shortly connected by ferrv barges there are to be established in the near future the most extensive coaling ??????billons in tlie United States at the wharves of the Chesapeake and Ohio at Newport News; also, an elevator for 1,500 - 000 bushels of grain and terminal facilities for the products of the west.--cheap and abundant coal mixed cargoes of grain, provisions, ore aud cotton. Commodious wharves upon the deepts: wiucrs to tin: greatest ships' These all mean cheap freights to foreign countries and at no distant day a large import trade. Merchants and planters of ure south and west, we offer these to you at Norfolk. Uow can vou reach them? From the south our sea- boari air line extends 350 miles, meeting at char lotte the Piedmont route and connecting through the eastern Carolina* the whole south Atlantic coast. Possessing terminal wharves atul warehouse property in Portsmouth, immense in size and con venient" in construction, and its policy conducted bv a management prudent, conservative, able and alive to the demands of its tributary country Leading to the west we have what we are proud to call ???Our Own Norfolk Line,??? with Memphis on tlie west, and Montgomery, Selma and Meridian in tlie south, ns its interior present connectings points under a friendly management, everywhere ac knowledged to be unsuriMissed for ability, for en terprise, and the capacity to grasp and solve the great problems of imnsi??irtatio:i. The Norfolk and Western road, upon whose line we have come w ith- in one hundred miles of your city, crosses at Burke- ville, in Virginia, the Richmond and Dauviile sys tem at a jaunt 218 miles nearer to Cape Henry than a continuation of tlie latter route via Baltimore. A just and amicable policy of interchange between these two lines otters to snippers in the Piedmont country of the Carolina.* and Georgia a cheap and expeditious route to the sea at Norfolk, which, time and distance considered, must in the future be de cisive. Traversing the fertile valleys of southwest Vir ginia at New river our Norfolk road taps rich and valuable coal and ore beds, and crossing East Tennessee, abundant in resources, opens up to us the cotton-producing country of tlie south and southwest. Over this line cotton from every southern state goesto Norfolk. In tbe fall it brought to us a considerable proportion of tlie receipts of Mobile, Montgomery,Selma, Opelika, Meridian and other points which were seeking rapid transit for early delivery in Liverpool. And it certainly affords to Memphis, that great mart of the Mississippi valley, the best outlet for her large accumulations of stocks of cotton. Tlie track of this road runsdireetly to the wharves on deep water, and freights are earily transferred from car to ship or compress at very low eosi, no cartage being required. From tlie northw est we have the Chesapeake and Ohio, now connecting Cincinnati and Louisville, through the Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, with Dampum ???roafls soon to open another route to Memphis. A trans-continental link binding under one control the Bay of San Francisco to die lower Chesapeake, shortening tlie avenues of trade and travel between the west and east by hundreds off miles, and destined to be a formidable rival of any. of the grand trunk lines. Among the other causes of Norfolk as a cotton port may be mentioned thecxtei sion northward of the nrea of cotton production and the huge increas ed yield of .South Side. Virginia, and of nortli Car olina, our near neighborand best customer. With this progressive and highly favored state, whose exhibits here is so reu arkahlc. Norfolk is closely allied .not only by the .Seaboard and thi J.N'orfolk anil Western Hues, us before mentioned, but bv two c.utals and a new railroad, the Elizabeth Citv aud Norfolk connectingc.urharbor with a low country region unsurpns.'tcd ior fvitility and wa tered by 1,900 milesC? inland navigation. We would also refer to the large truck farms around our city. These supply fruits anil vegeta- Tbe South Georgia Conference. CotX???MBVs, Ga., December 9.??? In the session to day of the South Georgia conference of the M. E. church, south, the following delegates were eleeteil to the general conference, which meets in Nash ville. Tennessee, in May next: Ministers???J W Hin ton, J S Key, J B McGhee and T X Christian; lay- men???WT Green. Isaac Bardemart. EM Butt aud j??utat>sco, and the upper Chesa;ieake are almost a e G K Glenn. The business of the conference will be ??? nually closed for weeks. We have the only port finished to-morrow, and appointments will be read 1 south of cape May, (except the bay of Mobile, tliirty Sunday night, when conference will adjourn. miles below that aty), which can receive and ac- puyitig business to lines of splendid coastwise steamers in the summer when the cotton trade is, light, and thus are made strong enough to compete successfully for the carrying of cotton as against the all-rail routes t at"T-rar lltift* of steamers have a tonnage of??? ,~vs Tlie shipments of peanuts alone amount to 1,200,000, and of oysters 1,500,000: and a lumber trade of $2,000,000 employs a large number of sail ing and steam vessels. Possessing these advantages, the people of Nor folk are inspired with confidence that the intelli gence of the merchants and planters of the south will surely direct them to makegood use of our [tort as far ns their best interests may dictate. Deeply sensible of the honor of speaking here for Norfolk, and feeling how imperfectly I have dis charged this duty, I thank you lor the attention shown me, anil hnve pleasure in presenting one of our to*:mint inercliuuU wh. se name is a familiar one throughout the entire south, Mr. Henry 8. Rey nolds, of Reynolds Broth res. Tire ISufttncM .7IiuiV Best Friend, Mr. C. L. 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