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6 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTOR, DECEMBER 20, 1881 AT THE EXPOSITION. FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE DAY NOTED. Director-General Kimball Issues an Add re-s Belallve to tbe Close of the ExpoeiUon-Kesolations of the South Carolina Legislature-Jeffer son Davis and the Great Show. ???The Atlaata" ON IIEli ItETCBN TRIP To CINCINNATI. The trim young ship ???Allanta,??? laden with the products of Will them soil and the results of eon them Jiilior, weighed anchor at 3 o'clock yesterday and started on her return to the port in which she was launched. It is to be ifcpcd that she will encounter favoring winds, uud that she will mnlce n safe voy- iie.- to Cincinnati. 'Jlie flowers with which she wne Ire-dcckcd on tier lirst voyage have been re moved, and her hull la covered with Florida moss with a, trimming of cotton. The rigging tt???e in triiu ofder. The chimneys were cov ??? se'l with moss with a hoary band of corded nothin- The life-boats were covered with cot ton and tilled with aamples of southern products. The main mast was a stalk of Flor ida sngar-eane, and from Its side near the lop hung the tassel of a sugarcane stalk. The caption???a deck was of cotton, uud there Black well's hull ???held the fort.??? The dock was of cot- 1,,11. The cargo consists of twenty miniature bales ..f cotton???two of them from the Jaccurd jewelry company and the others secured by the committee. This cotton will be placed on the deck. The hull is tilled with other products. Mr. Voylc, of the Florida exhibit, furnishes all the fruits with some other products. Florida thereby shows in the cargo: Florida moss, a large shaddock, citrons, or anges, lemons, Umes, grape frs.it, Maumee apples, figs, tamarinds, cucumbers, vegetable marraw, watermelon, pine upples, .lupunese persimmons, sheaf of oats and sheaf of rice, rice hulled and rice polished, corn, hemp, Florida Havana tobacco, small and huge cocoa nuts, dates, sea shells, coral sponges, pinders. gooln rs, cork, bread fruit, sugar cane, | iota UK'S. etc. With the other portions of the cargo are samples of the goods of the Ragle At File nix milts, the Williinantic linen company, tobaccos, mid farm products. On the deck is a vase of cocooons. All these products make up a varied cargo for the little ship. Major Black- nall, of Blaekwcll???s Durham, contributes a goodly quantity of Bull Durham cigarettes tastefully ar- ntngeil In i-ases and In pyramids with a liumi.c-r of packages of Blackwell's long cut. The Duke of Durham has a similar supply of tobaccos, one piece licinga w ell built light house, made of packages of tobacco. One of the most unique things with the cargo is a set of four silk handkerchiefs, made iu the main building by tbe Wortemlyke manufac turing company, having in the center a picture of Ihe building and grounds. The handkerchiefs were manufactured for the four ladies who accompanied the ship on its first voyage to Atlanta, and who made the presentations Of the baskets of Bowers to the officers ot the expo sition. The handkerchief for each has the name of the owner In the comer. The names of the ladies are: Mrs. Frank Alter, Mrs. G. W. Harper. Miss Belle Duhumcnnd Mrs. H. M. Warren. The sails of the ship are of blue silk, presented by- Mr. Julius I???inney, representing Cheney Bros. The ship was decorated and loaded by Mr. G. W. Kingsley, and goes to Cincinnati under the care of Mcssra. <5. W. Gest and W. II. Bowen, who will ar range it in position on its arrival In the queen city. At three o'clock yesterday the party which will accompany it lioarded a special sleeping car at 'the union depot and left for Cincinnati. The party was composed of MnjorJ. F. Cummings, lion. William Markham, Commissioner Voyle, of Florida, Mr. .Sidney Boot, Mr. B. W. Wrenn, Mr. Julius Finney, of Cheney Bros , Colonel Cole, erf Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Redd. Miss Mabel Cummings, Colonel Sam W. Small, who will make the presentation ad dress, and Mr. F. D. Gilman. At the exposition hotel the train stopped, and the ship was tuken on lioard, and the Atlanta with cargo and crew started on the return to Cincinnati. The party will return Sunday. A Telegram PROM THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL. The following telegram, which was received yes terday from Governor Haygood, of South Carolina, by the director general, explains itself: Columbia, 8. C., December 12,1881???To H. I.Kim ball. Director General: The lollowlng concurrent resolution has been adopted by the general assem bly of this state: lie it resolved by the senate, the house of repre sentatives of the state ol South Carolina concur ring, That this general assembly have received with pleasure tiie invitation of the director general of the Atlanta exposition to attend the said exposition bn the 21st instant, and there to meet our fellow- citizens of the Kentucky assembly That we recognize In said cordial invitation a re newal of the kindly feelings existing between our people anil those of her sister state, Georgia, and we send them God speed in their laudable endeavors to develop the resources of the south. That we urge upon the members of the general assembly which will then, in all probability, be iu reecss to attend the said exposition iu body on the said twen- ty-Ilrst instant, and to leave Columbia on the twen tieth instant; that thegovemor of this state is hereby requested to communicate this action forthwith to Director-General Kimball, and also request to join with the members of the general asscrablyTn said visit to the exposition: also such of the other stale officers as may be able to attend. That the railroad commissioner, Hon. M. L. Bon ham, be and lie is hereby requested to ascertain what rates of passage und convenience of tmns- IHirtatlon can tic arranged for said visit nnd that he do report as soon as practicable, that such members of the senate and house who desire to attend the said exposition shall forthwith give thetr names to the clerks of their respective bodies. Johnson Haygood, Governor. An Address. The director general has issued the follow ing address to the press: To the Editors of the Country: The announcement has been repeat edly made that the International cotton exposition will certainly close December 31st, but from hun dreds of letters daily received at this office It is evi dent that the people generally hope that something may occur to induce the managers to extend it through January. I, therefore, respectfully request the press lo say that such an extension is absolutely impossible. The exhibits will remain intact until the last evening of this month. The work of removal will begin January 2d. I would also announce that the last will be in all respects the most Interesting and important week of the ex position, and that the closing ceremonies will be particularly impressive. In giving to the press this, which will probably lie the last general bulle tin I shall issue. I desire to thank the journals of this country for the untiring and unstinted support they have given to the exposition from first to last. To this more than to all other causes combiuod its magnificent success is to be ascribed. H. I. Kimball, Director General. Jefferson Davis. A personal letter to Mr. 8. Root contains the fol lowing relative to the exposition: "I rejoice'In the success of this effort to attract notice to our section and to nromote its material development. Need 1 add that I sincerely regret my inability to witness the manifestation? With cordial regard, I am very truly yours, Jefferson Davis.??? The ISrnrh Show THE AWARDS THAT WERE MADE. The bench show opened yesterday, and at once nrou???til the enthusiasm of a large crowd of people, who made a rush for the show as soon as the doors were thrown open. The keraaels are arranged on the so -ond floor of the nsnex at the extreme west end of the art building. They uro neatly filled with straw, and the docs are eomforiably eared for. Each kennel Is supplied with a card bearing the name, the name and residence of the owner of the occu- jmnt, with the breed and value of the dog. There was very little delay.in getting everything arranged, and to-day. when a few belated dogs arrive, the ex hibition will be complete. Among the dogs that will be put on exhibition to-day will be Director- General Kimball's famous pug, ???Bijou.??? To-day at 10 o???clock, the judges will begin their la hits, and os fast as a' eonelnsion is reached it will b i made known, so that to-day will be full of inter est. The judges are as follows: Major J. M. Taylor, of Lexington. Ky., will judge the English. Irish and Gordon setters and pointers: Colonel Huge, of Atlanta, and Major Taylor will judge the Georgia setters: Captain Heyward and Major Taylor will judge the spaniels, fox hounds, grey hounds and Scotch deerhounds; Captaiu Heyward will judge the non-sporting dogs. The exhibition will close Friday. Below are the dogs that were In their kennels yesterdav in the order in which they are kenneled: 11. \V. Smith. Atlanta, shows two mastiffs, ???Turk'??? value 5500. and ???Lady,??? value $250. 11. C. Edmonds, Elberton, Ga.. shows ???Lady,??? a Newfoundland, with no price affixed. Eugene Franklin. Ball Ground, Cherokee county, shows ???Bull.??? a Newfoundland, valued at $500. \V. C. Sparks, Atlanta, shows a mongrel cur, -Low." with a valueof $200. A. M. Perkerson. Atlanta, shows a number of beautiful fox hounds. J. Sam Teal, of Rome, shows an English setter, valued at $250. Butler Woodward, or Red Clay, shows an English setter, valued at $5tW. .. , A. ombenr. of Rome, shows an English setter, valued at $350. ... T. F. Taylor, of Richmond, shows a black, white and tan English setter, "Dashing Rover." which he holds at the modest price of $10,000: and \Y. H. Clayton, of Atlanta, has an English setter alongside of him with a similar valuation affixed. W. W. Lagare, of Walhalla, South Carolina: a <1,000 doc. A. W. Foster, of Madison, has a fine English set- ter, which is not for sale and to which no valuation r-as been fixed. Robert I. Hampton shows a $500 English setter. Willis E. Venable, of Atlanta, shows his English setter pup. ???Sam, Jr.??? John F. Chapman, of Americus, Georgia, shows his Irish setter. ???Mnk.'' J. O. Green, of Boston, shows his$1,000 Irish setter, yTrix.??? A. W. Buckman, of Rome, shows some pretty mongrel pups, valued at $15 each. , William Towers, of Rome, shows a $200 Gordon setter. John F. Chapman, of Americus, shows a fine Gordon setter, to which no valuation is affixed. II. W. Hopkins, of ThomasviUe, Ga., shows a Gor don setter. ???Scott." W. I. Heyward shows his fine setter ???Sport," to which he affixes the value af $10,000. C. F. Fairbanks, of Atlanta, shows a $100 setter. W. I. Heyward, of Atlanta, shows a setter bitch with a Utter of pups: the kennel valued at $7,500. A. B. Wrenn. of Atlanta, shows a fine setter. Annie Dixon, of Atlanta, shows a Georgia setter, II. R. McComb. of Memphis, shows a fine pointer, ???SL George,??? valued at $150. W. W. I.egare, of Walhalla, S. C., shows his famous pointei r ???Rao.??? valued at$500. Edmund Orgill. of Brooklyn, shows his famous pointer, which he values at $150. The three lust named dogs are brothers, from Rush, and will make uu interesting contest for the prize. T. M. Clark, of Atlanta, shows his pointer ???Romeo.??? W. W. Legate, of Walhalla. S. C., shows his pointer ???BeUona,??? valued at $500. George N. Appold, of New York, shows his three hundred dollar pointer ???Bravo.??? J-. M. Myers, of Rome, shows his hundred dollar pointer "Barney.??? * Edmund Orgill. of Brooklyn, shows his famous pointer dog ???Rush.??? This dog is said to be the iuost valuable dog in the entire exhibit, and has had a valuation of ten thousand dollars affixed to him. Mr. Orgill has several other dogs. L. W. Fatnbrn, of Atlanta, shows a hundred-dol- lar pointer??????Chance.??? J. C. Chapman, of Americus, shows his pointer, Bell.??? J. W. Hopkins, of Thomasville, shows his pointer ???Nip.??? boiunel Frank E. Howe, of Boston, has entered for exhibition only nis beautiful field spaniel ???Jet.??? This is one of the finest dogs in the exhibi- ion John Berkelc, of Atlanta, shows ???Ralph,??? a hnn- d red-dollar pointer. H. W. Hopkins, of Thomasville, shows his pointer ???Peggy.??? R. L. Vanert, of Pittsburg, shows a fine pointer. C. B. Hargrove, of Rome, shows his two'hundred dollar pointer pup, ???Senev.??? W. W. .Lagare, of Walhalla, 8. C., shows two pointer pups valued at fifty dollars each. Harvell spaniel club shows a field spaniel valued at $250. A. W. Foster, of Madison, showsa fine fox hound, lily McKinney, of Tliomaston, shows his hundred dollar fox hound "Ball.??? Dock .Smith, of Atlanta, shows his famous fox hound, ???Forrester,??? valued at $1,000. A. M. Perkerson. of Atlanta, has, among other hcnnHful dogs, his well-known fox hounds,???Lead??? and ???Fox,??? Waiter Echols, of Rome, shows his fox hounds, ???Hop??? and ???Dora.??? H. W. Hopkins, of Thomasville, shows his beagle ???Crook??? and two pups, ???Dan" and ???Ned.??? W. Graham, of Rome, has a hundred dollar fox terrier ???Nipper??? on exhibition. L. H. Foster, of Madison, shows a beautiful grey hound ???Jim.??? William Fox, of Lumber City, has on exhibition his colly ???Smart??? valued at $500. W. L. Edmondson, of Washington, Ga., has on exhibition his $75 colly ???Fleece." W. C. Sparks, of Atlanta, shows a $500 colly, and a $250. colly. William Jones, of Atlanta, shows his colly "Tobc.??? The show is a very fine one and the hall is crowd- ed. An admission See of 25 cents is charged. Mr. W. W. Legarc???s setter. Vie, is one of the finest specimens of the canine species that is on exhibi tion. Loloncl Heyward's ten thousand dollar dog, ???Spot.??? was formerly owned by Captain Ilyde, of Decatur. Things at the bench show moved along nicely yesterday. Tire attendance was large and consider able interest was shown. The principal addition to the dogs was the arrival of Mr. J. M. Elliott???s Siberian blood hound ???Zaff,??? a dog who hails from Rome. __ The judges were busy all day, and completed their labois by a late hour in the day. The prizes were principally $25 for the first and $10 for the second. Below are the awards: Class 1???English setter dogs???First prize. Dashing Rover. T. F. Taylor, owner; second prize, ???Ben, Jr..??? Butler Woodward, owner, Red Clay. Go.; eoni- ??????icnded ???Mountain Dew,??? J. Sain Veal, owner, Rome, Ga. Class z???English setter bitches???First prize, ???Vic,??? \V. W. Legate, owner, Walhalla,S. C.: second nrize, ???Videau,??? T. B. Legate, owner, Camden, 8. C.; commended, ???Opal,??? Butler Woodward, owner: highly commended, ???Kate Claxton,???.R. I. Hamp ton, owner, Rome, Ga.: very highly commended. ???Dutchess of Devonshire," A. W. Foster, owner, Madison, Ga. Class 5???Irish setter dogs???First prize, ???Captain,??? J. C. Vance, Chattanooga, owner. Class 6???Irish setter bitches???First prize, ???Gypsy Queen," J. C. Vance, owner, Chattanooga; second K ize, ???Pink,??? John P. Chapman, owner; very ghly commended, ???Trix," J. O. Green, owner, Boston. Class 7???Irish setter dog puppies???First prize, ???Comanche.??? J. C. Vance owner, Chattanooga. Class S???Irish setter bitch pups???First prize. ??? Daisy,??? \V. L. Edmundson owner, Washington, Ga. class 0???Gordon setter dogs???First prize, ???Scott,??? H. W. Hopkins owner, Thomasville, Ga.; second prize, ???Lang,??? Williard Bros, owners. Jonesboro, Ga: commended, ??? 'Rake,??? Gordon kennel club owners. Class 10???Gordon setter bitches???First prize. ???Toot.??? Williard IBros. owners, Jonesboro, Ga.: second prize, ???Mab,??? Gordon kennel club owners. Class IS???Georgia raised setters???First prize, ???Sport," W.I. Heyward owner, Atlauta, Ga. Class 14???Georgia raised setter bitches???First prize. ???Sadie,??? C. F. Fairbanks owner. Atlanta.- Class 15???Georgia setteT pups???First prize ???Lee,??? Annie Dixon, owner, Atlanta, Class 16???Pointers over 55 pounds???First prize "Rab,??? W. W. Legare, owner, Walhalla, S. C.; sec ond prize ???Dan,??? R. T. Vandervort, owner. Pitts burg; highly commended "Riot,??? E. Orgill, owner, New York: commended ???St. George,??? *11. B. Mc Comb. owner, Memphis. Class 17???Pointer bitches over 50 ponnds???First prize ???BeUona,??? W. W. Legarre. owner. A Class 18- Point dogsunder55pounds???Firstprize ???Kush," Edmund Orgill, owner, Brooklyn. .Sec ond prize ???Random,??? same owner; very high'y commended "liravo'" G. N. Appold, owner. Balti more. Highly commended ???Chance," L. W. Fum- bro, owner, Atlanta, and ???Nip.??? H. W. Hopkins, owner, Thomasville: commended ???Rolph,??? J. Berkle, owner, Atlanta. Class 19???Pointer bitches???First prize, ???Rne," E. Orgill owner: second prize, ???Peggy.??? H.W. Hopkins owner, Thomasville. Very highly commended. Lnek,??? R. T. Vardevort, owner. Class 20???Pointer dog pnps-Firstprize, ???Scney,??? C. B. Hargrove owner, Rome. Class 23???Field spaniels???First prize, ???Benedict." Homell Spaniel club owner, Hornellsvllle, New York. Class 26???Fox hounds???First prize, ???Jim Skinner,??? A. W. Foster owner, Madison, Ga.; second prize, "Forrester,???'Doek Smith owner, Ailanta;highly com mended, "Lead,??? A. M. Perkerson. owner. At lanta, commended, ???Hop,??? Walter Echols owner, Rome. Class 28???Beagle dogs???First prize, ???Ned,??? If. W. Hopkins owner, ThomasviUe. Class 29.???Beagle bitches???First prize, ???Crook,??? H. W. Hopkins, owner, ThomasviUe, Ga. Class 32.???Grey hounds???First prize, ???Jim,??? L. H. Foster, owner, Madison, Ga. Class 34.???Collies???First prize, ???Tobe,??? William Jones, owner, Atlanta. Second prize, "Fritz," W. C. Sparks, owner, Atlanta. Class 35.???Mastiffs??? First prize, "Turk,??? and verv liiglily commended ???Lady, both owned by 1L \\. Smith, of Atlanta. Class 37.???Newfoundlands???H. C. Edmunds's dog verv highly commended. Class 46.???Miscellaneous???W. C. Sparks's bitch, ???Lucv,??? highly commended, and J. M. Elliott???s Siberian blood hound very highly commended. Colonel Morehcad's Address. We publish below the able address of Hon Frank C. Moiehead, president of the National cot ton planters' association, delivered before the asso ciation in the hall of the house of representatives Tuesdav night, nnd which we have been unable-to give sooenr, owing to the heavy pressure upon the paper's space. We bespeak for it a careful perusal. Mr. Morehead said: Gentlemen and Members of the National Cotton Planters??? Association, and Cotton Manufacturers' Association, and Cotton Exchanges of America: We are on historic ground, the <aty of Atlanta, ground made memorable In the annals of war, but destined to be far more so in peace, good will and progress which the present year murks in its history and records as an era in the history of the south and the welfare of the nation. Every patriot within the hearing of my voice must appreciate the undisguised feeUng of pleasure 1 cannot but express in meeting such an assem blage of representative men not only from the en tire south, but our country at large, on such an occasion. As a represen'atlve of the agricultural ists of the south, it affords me peculiar gratification to welcome la our hospitality with heart and hands the distinguished men I see before me from the far north and east and to express to them the involun tary conviction that we deem their very presence a harbinger of closer ties of friendship, business and mutual prosperity for the future. This meeting together of planters and manufac turers, cannot but be productive of the greatest J ;ood to both classes, their Interests being clo nterwoven in many respects, for indeed the ms facture of cotton commences at the gin house and not at the factory, as is commonly supposed. For while planter can add fully one cent E -r pound to tne value of his crop by adopting the test improvements for cleaning and ginning, or as I said * on a previous occasion, clear the cost of such improvement every season, or on a total crop of 6,000,000 bales save twenty-five to thirty million dollars per annum, at ten cents per pound for cot ton. the manufacturer would also be benefitted by being able to dispense with an eqnnlamount of cost when it reaches the factory, and it is thus that what effects one affects the other. I did not intend at this point to go into the economies of planting, but rather to illustrate one of the many relations between planters and manu facturers, as au appropriate reason for our meet ing here together to-day. I would remark in addressing you on this occa sion, I shall avoid as much as possible the details of statistics inasmuch as I have dealt so liberally iu them in my previous addresses, iiotwithstaud'ing the knowledge of the fact that they are the modem levers that move the world. It has cornu to be an established custom that the president shall deliver a formal address at the an nual reunions of the National Cotton Planters' as sociation, aud the too great partiality of my friends has caused me to have the honor of addressing vou now for the fourth time. When I was elected to Ibis office for the second time. I accepted it on the condition that there should be no third term fully u: tending to surrender the honor and the labor it entailed, and especially the labor, to abler hands for the future, convinced 1 had done my part to the iK-st of my ability, whk-h was all that should have been expected of me. As our political brethren would say, however, when in the hands of their friends. I submitted to what appeared to lie the unanimous voice of our conventions, and there fore. am here before you again. Indeed, though an enthusiast in the beginning, I am a thousand times more so to-day, aud see a nearer approach to the realization and accomplishment of the grand work in which we are engaged, than at anv time since its commeneeinen t. The clouds themselves seem lifting, and the at mosphere and very stars seem brighter than at any period since the accursed wur swept desolation over our fair land and homes, not onlv in regard to the ???ture ol the association, but equally, if not more so, in regard to the progress and development of every material southern interest: and my friends you well know that at present the prosperity of the twuth is the prosperity aud welfare of the nation, b???t no member of the body can languish without affecting the entire system. On every side of ns, throughout the length aud breadth of the south, from the battle-scarred fields of xirgiuia. and the Carolinas, redeemed by teemiug crops and busy mills; through the empire shite of Georgia, with its abounding of water power sutlieient. it is estimated, to turn the spindles of the world; to the everglades of Flor ida, now being transformed, as if bv magic, into a paradise for tne traveler and pleasure seeker, des tined, if it does not already, to occupy the same re- latiou to America tliat Nice and the Mediterranean do to northern Europe; through the states of Ten nessee and Alabama, with their limitless cotton area and thousands of square miles of coal land ly ing side by side with the richest iron and other ore now being opened up with vast mines, furnaces and factories (the state of Alabama alone contain- tug 5,000 square miles of coal land in one bodv) to the great inland sea, the father of waters, ???whose waves are as amber and whose sands are as gold,??? that wash for hundreds of miles the great state of Mississippi, which to-dav is one of, if not the best, timbered and greatest, cotton state in the union, twenty of whose counties, by actual esti mate. will produce, with proper drainage and cul tivation. more cotton than the total Americau crop now amounts to. From the state of Louisiana, with its three great products, cotton, sugar and rice, whose metroiKilis the city of New Orleans, is the queen city of the south and the Paris of America: tde largest direct receiver and the greatest exporter of cottou in the world, and destined in the near future, no matter what the railroad freights from the west to the east may be, to become the largest exporter of grain of all cities in the world, aud even now, while X am speaking to you, possiblv the elec tric ring of the sledge may be heard by a different aud distant assembly in driving the last spike in the last iron bar which shall link this greatest citv of the south with the golden shores of the Pacific and the great city of Sim Francisco; a state containing in proportion to its area more fertile and less poor land than any state in the union; from this natural garden of America, then, through the state of Ar kansas, which produces to-day more vatifcd crops with a higher average of production per acre than any state in the union, und whose mineral re- sources are equally varied and valuable with tim ber, and water power unexcelled, to the voung giant of the south, the empire of Texas, whose iim- itless area and resources aie too well known to need anything said by me. Yes, throughout all this fair domain, from east to west, tbe clarion, promise of hope for the future has sounded the death knell of by-gones, and though the last census told for os a not unflat tering tale, our next one will astonish the world. Our mints, forests, and streams and other naturai factors of wealth cry out und demand the right to take part in this marvelous race of civilization by which we are surrounded, and receive their just recognition from the capital of the world, and it is a matter of fact they do not cry In vain. We have only to look, my friends, at our sur roundings, and reflect that 4,000 miles of new rail ways have been built this year in the south, and almost eutirely in the cotton states, adding at a cost of $30 per mile, $!20,000,000 to our wealth, and giving us for our next census report with ihe same rate of increase over one billion and a half dollars of wealth and as many miles of railroads as the entire union contained in lsu i over and above and without counting the now existing Hues; which should convince us that our fortunes have turned, and that the south now enjoys once more a public confidence that warrants the highest hope ami ant- bition in the breast of every person within its borders: nnd atthesametimeby thus increasing the strength und wealth of tne nation, cause every American wherever lie may be to thank God that he is a citizen of this great Roman republic of the nineteenth centurv???an American citizen. The building of onr great railway system is not the only evidence of our progress, for in all the cotton states, cotton mills and manufacturing en terprises of many kinds are being started, while in some of them the most gigantic mining operations are being taken. In the state of Mississippi, one English firm has bought over one-half million acies of pine timber land with the view of utilizing the lumber and colonizing the land with farms and factories, and two other American parties have also bought equal amounts, In fact the three parties in side oi three months have bought all the public land there was for sale in that state; while in all our other states great land operations of more or less magnitude???all with a view of colonization are taking place, which tells the tale of or r next census. Iu regard to southern pineries I would state a fact most important in connection witli our future wealth and not commonly knowu, which is, that they are everlasting, for when cut down young trees spring up and attain a growth ready for the ax in twelve to fifteen years, whereas when the pine of the northern latitude is cut a growth of crub oaks follows. ine word, my friends, iii regard to these gigantic enterprises going on around us wnich scorn to deal in less than millions of dollars throughout the south, and north as well, and which the wise acres predict will culminate in a terrible crisis at some more or less remote time, find which one of the most scientific journals of 'London says cannot be delayed longer than 1884, judging by certain sun spots which invariably precede them, and also by the commercial rule that a panic must occur within every eleven years, the last ouc being in 1873. Let me say this much in encouragement of those at a distance, who are investing their money with us, in regard to the extent southern enterprises anil property would be affected should a panic come, in comparison with those of the north and west, and which is said from a 'close observation and knowl edge of the facts. It Is this, that the railroads now existing and projected in the south arc far less in extent than the actual demands of commerce and the country, and this has been so for the past twen ty years, indeed has always been so, and conse quently should the general volume of commerce and freight traffic be partially suspended by a panic the local business of southern roads would not be affected. In other words, the local traffic of new lines in the south far exceeds that of the new lines in the west, because the south is an old and well settled country, while in regardtoour factories and furnaces, they are far short in their capacity of the local demand for goods, and do not require to seek distant markets: illustrative of which during the panic of 1873, not a single cotton factory in the south stopped or shortened time, and indeed they paid dividends right along while many of the factories of New and Old England stopped, reduced wages, had strikes, and nearly all of them were greatly distressed. There is yet another important consideration I would draw your attention to. while speaking of tlie advantages of southern investments, which innv serve a purpose not only to capitalists who come among us. but to many persons us well throughout the country vwho may not have had their attention called to the fact, and it is this???the freedom of the south from all years of communism and which fact in my deliberate judgment makes thi< section the sheet anchor of American liberty and constitutional government to-day. To more pointedly illustrate this I have only to beg you con ??? sider a comparison taken from the census of 1880 of the native aud foreign-bom population of the south and north, from which it will be observed that northern states and territories contain a total population of 32,313,869, of w hieh 5,903,606 are for eign-born, or 18.45 per cent of the total, while the fourteen southern states, out of a total population of 17,838,999, eoutain only 713.751 foreign-bom persons, or 4 per cent of the total; the ten cotton states show onlv a proportion of 2.19 per cent foreign-bom. The fact is well established that the rioters and strikers of the summer of 1S77 through- out the north were almost entirely for eigners, while tbe southern states were absolutely free from disturbance on all railroad lines and in other branches of industry. It is not my pur pose to draw upon the imagination or deal in rhetorical flourishes, but faithfully to endeavor throughout my address to make such statements os can be substantiated by facts and figures, with al ways most conservative estimates. I now come to speak of the national cotton plant- ers' association and the great work it has in view. It has long been the desire of the association whose membership has heretofore been mostly in the western cotton states to have more intimate rela tions with the progressive planters and farmers of the Atlantic states, who have managed to raise larger crops on poor land jthan the fertile valleys of the west, whose lands have decreased in produc tion per acr - almost as much os the lands of the east have decreased. It is proper that I should give some idea of the aims and objects of an association that comes almost a stranger before the planters of the Atlantic states, asking their indorsement and co-oper ation, but which has been before the country at large now for over three veats, and recived a pnblie consideration that perhaps no other agricultural association ever enjoyed iu so short a time. The governor and state treasurer of Mississippi declared it had done more by constant agitation in connec tion with its official organ, the Planters Journal, to awaken and develop a spirit of progress aud im provement in that state, than all other agencies combined, nnd Senators Lamar and George, of Mis sissippi, recently stated to me that the association transcended in importance their most sanguine hopes when it started, and that it now justly en joyed a national reputation that was second to none in tlu-union. While it may be seen from these and many other sources that the association has gained great prom inence, and is confidently expected to accomplish wonders, it is due to the public to say that we have never been in a position, from lack of funds, to do our greatest good cr even iu fact to approach the good results that would follow were we financially able to carry out our aims and intentions. As set forth in the charter and by laws, the objects of the association are as follows: To develop all the material interest of the land- lord and laborer by the more scientific and economic cultivation of the soil; to urge on all classes inter ested the absolute Importance of a diversity of erops, to the end that we may be a self-sustaining country, and consequently that cotton shall be- come a surplus instead of as now the onlv crop: to encourage the introduction of all improved and labor-saving machinery and farming implements for the drainage of lands and handling of crops by competitive trials of the same be- fore competent committees: to promote the selection and improvement of all kinds of plantiug seed; to foster the introduction of the best classes of live stock for breeding proposes; to enter into correspondence at once with various countries for the introduction of additional labor, and to keep prominently before the states embraced in this association, the absolute necessity of some united practical plan of immigration in which this associa tion will co-operate; to be the- medium through which parties interested may obtain information in regard to plantations, timber or cane lauds for sale or rent. And in general, to harmonize and concen trate for the above proposes the efforts of all those engaged in the cultivation and sale of cotton, as well as those engaged in tiie manufacture of imple ments and machinery therefor, and for such other purposes as may b-??? hereafter determined. From which it will be seen that the principles of tiie association are those that underlie the very ex- istence of our prosperity, wealth and progress'and that although in name acotton planters association, it isiu facta fanners' association of cotton planters endeavoring to make diversified farming a success, and that this can be done we have onlv to refer to the many planters who have made it a success. To sum it all in a nut shell, ouraim is to have one head association or parent oflico with branch associations of planters and farmers in every county iu the cot ton states. These farmers' associations in the coun ties are for the purpose of meeting together once a month uud discussing matters relating to the craft of planting and embodying the result iu reports to the parent office (furnished in blank) which shall give an account of any improved implement, seed or fertilizer, condition of crops, etc. The reports from the branches shall be condensed by the parent office and given back in turn to every branch through the journal of the association and by letter, so that the planters of Texas, for illustra tion, may be kept constantly posted as to what is going on iu their line of business in the Carolinas, and vice versa. Annual meetingt of the entire as- sociation with representatives from every branch are to be held in first one state and theu another, at which there shall be exhibits anil annual trials of farm machinery. With respc-ct to local affairs or management of the brandies the head office of the association claims nothing to do. In short, the parent office is one grand clearing- house or exchange for information received from the branches. \\ hen we consider of what imiror- tance correct cotton reports are to a large portion of the commerdal world, the benefit of such an or ganization in this respect alone is incalculable, for it is well known that at present there is no data on the subject to be relied on, those who ate said to be good authorities, difl'ering to the extent of one million bales as to the crop. The price of cot ton would advance five cents per pound to-day, if it was definitely known that the crop now being gathered would not exceed 5,0(10,000 bales, and one eminent authority says it will be even less. If this is so. and one-half the crop lias been al ready gathered, the balance would bring $50,000,- 000 over and above the price they would receive without this information. A very handsome profit to be given to speculators next March, after the planters have sola. Now, if any neighborhood or county of farmers and planters in the cotton states will say that they are doing well enough; that their lands are producing as much as they should, and possess a fair, salable value, uud all other condi tions are equally favorable, I might admit they had arrived at the acme of intelligence and well- being, and did not need any information of the do ings of their brother planters or the outside world, and were a law unto themselves, and had no use for a co-operativtf planters??? association. But where is the country in the whole south whose lands will bring one-half their value and ho\v many alas are they that have no sale at all and that are burdened with mortgages that under our pres ent unfortunate system can never be paid. On one occasion 1 saw a team of what once had been very good mules worrying along a heavy mud road, ana evidently the worse for want of corn, and asked my friend with whom I was standing, and to whom it belonged, if it could be his brag team that was once the pride of the neighborhood. He replied, I know you are astonished to see them looking so badly, but the truth is they have got so many mortgages on them it makes them poorto carry them. Now, my friends, this is the condition of our country, and the man is recreaut to himself and every trust who sees himself getting poorer every day, or even standing still, without an eflbrt to bet ter his condition, and I say to you the vital and un dying principles of this association are the onlv sal vation of our country by which a check can be placed and a change made in our ruinous systems of credit, share and tenant farming, and the bane of all, the raising of but one crop, cotton. liet all the agricultural associations in the cotton states, whether granges or not. place themselves in communication with us simply for the purpose of helping each other with information which could be none with little or no cost, and try the experi ment for one year of co-operation, for we have no jealousy, nnd, on the contrary, only the best feel ings for all such associations. Our platform is broad enough for ail to stand on, being without creed, nationality or politics, and with no secret meetings and no greasy poles to climb for initia tion. It is only???a few years since the best cottonin land Egypt were selling for $50 per acre, while the other day I saw a statement that they were bringing now from $100 to $350 per acre, and they are no better lands and have no more advantages than millions of acres in the south. The great question is, what can we do to raise the value of our lands. , .If we had a provident peasantry that would raise what they consume, and make cotton a surplus crop, and save their earnings, the question would be solved. If the south, in any way, could save or keep for home investments the $250,000,000 it pays out every year to buy meat, bread, mules and forage, all of which could be made at home, then again the question would be solved, and we would have the richest country on the globe, with no occasion to go to Boston or England for money to build our fac tories and railroads. I have studied the question closely and earnestly from every standpoint, und from personal experi ence, and the experience of planters in nearly every cotton state, and now deliberately declare my con viction to be that such conditions of general indebtedness with rates of interest exist as to prevent the planters from adopting the onl y system, that of wages, by which ihey can intelli gently direct farming operations, and that these conditions, together with others, will always pre vent not only the blacks but many of the whites ever becoming that thrifty land-owning peasantry or yeomanry, so necessary to the prosperity of a country. When I ask my planting friends why they do not adopt the wages system and give intelligence, econ omy anti diversity to their farming, they reply, I am???too poor to pay wages, or all my neighbors work on shares, or rent and wages labor is very unrelia ble nuder such circumstances. Mr. H. W. Grady, a gentleman of Atlanta, who has given much study to the question, in a very able article in Harper???s Monthly, recently said that the labor and- farming systems of the south would resolve themselves into either one of small farms or large land holders, and I agree with him entirely, naming the latter only as the system that must prevail if we would have a country prosper ous alike for landlord and laborer. We have only to look around us to-day to see that the planters of the largest scale are the most prosperous* because they are able to buy more largely and practice more economies. I do not al lude at all to fanners, for they are all 'prosperous, but to planters only. Some persons might take issue with me here, and from sentimental reasons or otherwise, declare that large landed estates were inimical to republican institutions and degrading to the yeomanry of a country, or that the system of small farms and land-owners was more necessary to the future pros perity of a country than those 1 advocate on a large In regard to its being degrading to labor to be hired and unrepublican in spirit, I would simply sav that all the great manufactories of the north and south, and all the farms of the north, are worked by the owners with hired help, and nowhere can the proper system be maintained except by hired labor. Must we, from sentiment, continue to make partners nnd landlords of pauper labor? Is there any demand on the laud-owners of the south to treat labor differently from the manner in which it i* treated in ail other parts of the world? Now, considering our labor in connection with the share and tenant systems. Have those systems a tendency to make labor work thriftily and save? Is he not like the planter, degraded with debt from January to January; and are not his morals from this cause, together with drink, becoming worse every year? is he not dissatisfied at every aununl settlement he ever has, (l mean as a rule) not able to understand accounts and interest? Now com pare the sugar plantation of Louisiana worked by wages, with the appearance of even the best tilled cottou land worked on the share or tenant systems. Well, my friends, there is no comparison: one is a garden, tue other is a uisgaree to fanning. And no wonder that the planter under such systems, pays so little or no attention to permanent improvement and adornment of his home. You will say we agree with you. anil if we could arrive at a wages system it would lie best for all parties: best for us because we could keep our places in repair and bring our lands to a nigh estate of fertility and make what crops we choose and best for the laborer, because there could never be any ill feeling about accounts, lie bel: g paid every month according to his work, the planter retaining a part of the wages to insure carrying out the contract, and labor hav ing lien on erep for deferred wages. It Is simply nonseuse to tell us who know that the present laborers of the south will ever generally become land owners. Land was sold to freedmen on the most favorable conditions without a dollar down, and with mules and provisions advanced for an entire year, and in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred it had to be taken back. Far from being averse to selling them land, it was, for a long time, a delusive dream of many planters to sell their lands, and thus give the froed- men the same interest in the country that the white owner had, but every practical planter before me knows that, with rare exceptions, such sales have been failures. In justice to the colored mail on this subject. I would say that in many cases it has only been the fault of his want of education which has made him an easy prey to the local store-keep, er, and cotujK'lled him to give up his pureliase- Tliis lack of education stil! exists, however, and must continue to exist for a long time to come, and we must contend with the problem as it is The only way I see to solve the problem of in creasing the value of their lands, giving our coun try its due share of prosperity, is to .interest capital* ists and have them furnish the money under some equitable adjustment of values and consolidate ten to fifty plantations or more under one manage ment with a cash system: diversifying farming, adopt the latest improvements for cultivating, ginning and packing cotton and erect central plan tation cotton seed oil mills wherever most con venient to the whole??state, and in tine adopt the same business system throughout that brings suc cess to a railroad or factory. Large areas tti land in India. Egypt and South America, are worked on this plan, and there is no possible doubt iu regard to its paying well aud with greater security to capitalists than is offered by many of the stocks that find current sale on Wall street to-day. In answer to those who ask. can you find capitalists who will join you in the enterprise. 1 would say, undoubtedly, yes, under proper condi tions nnd representations, and 1 now predict that in five years??? time one-third, if not one-half or more of the present cottou area will be cultivated iu this manner. The convention should, therefore, take some step to bring the advantages of the system before the capitalists of the world. This is co-operation, and I wish you to think now. my friends, of how all the great works of the world have been accomplished by co-operation: of tbe great number of farmers clubs throughout the world, with their libraries of thousands of volumes, the statistics of which 1 gave in a previous address, and how few wc have iu the south. Is it not time fora change? Should we not read more and try a little book funning and other changes? I know many good farmers laugh at such suggestions aud imagine they cannot be taught anything, but some times they laugh in the wrong place, for instance, when all iris neighbors, forty-six years ago, laughed at John Johnson, a Scotch.farmer of Geneva, N. V., foe importing drainage tiles from England, the first ever laid in America, and thought him crazy. In two years he was raising the finest crops in the country, and the laugh was turned. The most im portant of HU work on a farm is good drainage, which is necessary to make large crops, and the next most important is the latqst improved imple ments for cultivating and handling them when made. The question has been asked me, can cotton be made at 2% cents per pound, to whk-h I would reply, that the p an ter who raises everything he uses and mnkcscotum an absolutely surplus money crop, can make more money at 2'Z cents, than the all-cotton planter can at 10 cents. 1 do not thin!;, however, cotton raising can he made remunerative whenever it is a surplus crop under 6 cents, and where it is not. at under 12 to 14 cents per pound. I believe the present crop has cost 9 to 10 cents pgr pound, and that the next will cost even more, owing to the high price of the necessaries used iu its making, ami 1 would earnestly pall the atten tion of plauturs to tiie importance of planting large ly of grasses and grain tuis whiter and spring, as of the greatest value in the economies of plaining. Now. my friends, there are several things this convention should do. Wc should urge immigra tion, legislation, und aid as a duty upon our states. We must ask tiie government to give us an experi mental farm', under this association. We must ask it with no uncertain voice to make the United States commissioner of agriculture a cab inet officer, and give him a fund of not less titan $1,000,000 for the United States agricultural dejiart- ment, which would then be far less titan anv other first-class government on earth gives to tltis intjtor- tant department, nnd far less than it needs for its great work. While on this subject I would mention that I have understood that southern members of Congress had defeated the Southern Pacific bill, and again the subsidy bill to establish a line of ships from New Orleans to South America, und it has been intimated to me that the democrats would not vote to make the United States commissioner of agriculture a cabinet officer and place more money in his department, for fear of adding strength to the party iu power. For my part, gentlemen of tiie convention, I must say that I should deem any such action on the part of our friends on tltis subject a most misguided und mistaken policy. I take it that a broad and liberal- minded mau, who is a true agriculturist and true to his craft and a lover of it, and otherwise fit to;>>e at the head of so important a department, wool 1 always be conservative and add conservatism to any party. He should bea ppointed as a conservative aud known to be a conservative iu politics. A man may be a decided republican or a decided democrat and still be conservative, and such n man I believe to be the distinguished occupant at present of that office, and who to-day is our honored guest, the Hon. George B. Loring, the first United States com missioner of agriculture, let us hope, ever made a cabinet officer. I would state, under the laws of Mississippi^the National cotton planters??? association is cinjiowered to issue $100,000 stock, and that wo have placed the par value of the shares very low, in order that ev erybody who feels sutlieient interest may subscribe and assist in the great work of regenerating our country. if there still lingered in the minds of any one present the vestige of a doubt in regard to tile ca pability and earnestness of the south in the race of progress now being so eagerly and hotly contested in every part of America, it has surely been more than banished not only by the railroads, factories and enterprises now being constructed in cverysee- tion, but by the living and inexorable facts of the great exposition, by which we are surrounded to day. What has brought about this one of the most wonderful industrial exhibitions of its kind ever attempted before iu the world, and caused it to be situated away down here in Dixie, surrounded by cotton fields, and far remote from the denser hives of humanity? Have these enterprising exhibitors brought their vurious-products aud machinery here, spent thou sands of dollars and months of time for an idle show or in mere vanity? Has tltis great body of representative men before me left their plantation and vast business interests of all kinds to coinc here for a pastime and without a purpose? Ah no! doubly ond thrice no! My friends, the exposition is a world's recognition at last of what has heretofore been an undiscovered country to enterprise nnd capital in its wide and true sense; and the exhibitors but follow the instinet of true en terprise the world over in bringi ng their wares tbus prominently before a country that must become in the future far greater customers than they have ever been in the past. As the exposition is to the world of mechanics, so this convention is to the world of thought, the one is incomplete without the other, indeed the one is the complement of the other. Has the exi>osition done its part? Has it brought together the manufacturers of all kinds of agricul tural implements and machinery and textile fab rics? Has it made a faithful endeavor lo itisplay the varied und wonderful resources of ourcountrv? I think every mau within the hearing of my voice will answer with me and say yea, und well done then good and faithful servants. ??? This body Is an integral part of the exposition without which it would be as a wagon without wheels or a house without a roof. 5Ve are to be the exponents iu thought of the re sults here witnessed uud suggested, and to crystal- izethem into actual experience; and it is our part and duty to arrive at facts, and to spread these facts broadcast before the less fortunate of our people who from one cause or another have been unable to attend it and see for themselves. I think it would be proper to say a few words in regaid to the inside history of the exposition, that i fear would be left out entirely if it were not for me, and thus fail to do justice where it is most deserved. 1 assume that the first correspondence on the sub ject was between Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Bosion, and myself, which took place long before auything appeared iu print, and was carried on during the first part and middle of the year of 1880. The Mississippi Vailey Cotton Planters??? associa tion, out of wnich this association grew, and which was commenced in the spring of 1879 with a mem bership of four states, made, as every one knows, several efforts to have the exhibition of cotton ma chinery on a large scale a part of their annual meetings In the autumn of 1879 an effort was made to have one on a grand scale in the citv of New Orleans, and several thousand circulars were issued???by myself, jointly with Hon. \V. h. Harris, commissioner of agriculture, and Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, president of the Sugar Planters' association, of Lanitiana. With this view 1 visited the Cincinnati and Chicago ex positions and St. Louis fair, to obtain all the nec essary information, and everything wentfarenough to assure us of a great success, but it had to be abandoned because of our failure to procure a suit able building. To our annual meetings at Vicksburg the next year, and at Memphis the year after, wc sent out several thousand invitations to manufacturers to meet us aud exhibit their machinery, but with only i??artial success. The progressive efforts of ours, and correspond ence with Mr. Atkinson on the subject, I doubt nut suggested the idea to him, and 1 feel certain that we deserve that much credit, and that lie would give it to us were he here, for he is too great and just a man to feel that partial credit given toothers- could detract from the laurels he so richly deserves at the hands of the entire nation, and ospeciulTy from the south, forliis distinguished name lias done piore limn any other to contribute to the great suc cess we see before us. which i, with all true patri ots. would now place u|am his brow. The first article that ever appeared in priut on the subjeet was iu a letter by Mr. Edward Atkinson to the New York Herald in August, 1SSU in whk-h as in his letters to me, he insisted that the exposi tion should l>e held either in New York or Wash ington, while in my correspondence mid in the ??ec- oud article that ever appeared iu priut, written by myself iu the September number cf tne Planters' Journal,the official journal of this association 1 took strong grouuds against its being held anv- where out oi the south, bcliuviug it would fall short of its conception aud prove a virtual failure so far as it was to be an educator to the planting interest which was the main idea with us all. Mr. Atkinson himself soon saw the force of this reasoning, and in a persoual conference with him in Boston iu tin- fall of 1880, we agreed that I should return to Vicksburg, ami as president of the associ ation, call for a conference between representatives of the city of Atlanta, Louisville, Memphis ami New Orleans, and these representatives should agree to hold the exposition iu that city which should offer the greatest inducements. Mr. Atkinson gave me the name of Mr. Logan Murray, president of the chamber of commerce, of Louisville, and gave me -Mr. Kimball???s, ami I think several others at Atlanta, that ho had either seen o: corresponded with on thesubject. 1 called on Mr. Murray, who told me Louisville would give #150,000 to secure the exposition, but 1 frankly told him that Ixtuisville was too fur north undlshould vote against his city, and that I thought New Orleans Would be the only other city iu the- south Unit would do better or as much. To the enterprise of Atlanta and tile great press of the country und its thousands of talented ami underpaid correspondents belong the undving fame therefore of this the greatest cotton exposi tion ever held in the world aud the seeond greatest exposition of any kind ever held iu America, and which will be known as the era of the 19th century in the history of the south. To Mr. Kimball, the direetorgencral, thecmmtrv owes a debt of gratitude, not only for his grand conceptions, but the faithful and lultorious service he bos given to the work, huu the masterly execu tive ability lie lias shown iu the rapidity of its exe cution. It is not my purpose to speak of all the honoied names that deserve men tion, but simply t<> give a few men justice, but before leaving tiie subject I would sug gest that this body, before its final udjourment, is sue a call for all tiie planters who can lo come here and visit the exposition, ami also urge the expo sition authorities and exhibitors to hold ojk-u for at least two more months. I would have it pass resolutions also urging rail roads to give low fares every day until the close, and in case there is a deficiency when its accounts are finally settled up to urge the people throughout tiie country to make it np by private subscription, and not allow tne men wlto have stood in the breach to suffer. I would gladly start a list witli $100 for the suite of Mississippi. Before closing I must allude to a subject that I deem most appropriate, coming from roe os president of the Planters??? association, which is that of planta tion manners. Vi'e are all planters, nnd this is an association of planters, amt we know that the manners of the best type of plantersare now and have always been those of the cultivated gentleman, nnd that iuthedavs gone by they were courtly lo a degree almost unna tural in a republican country, all brought about by the system which made the south a country of large lauded proprietors who in all ages and countries have been considered a class possessing the highest degree of gentility, tefinemeui and courage. Inasmuch as the early plautcs of Virginia and the Carolinas were allied with the best nnd noblest blood of England and Fiance, aud in many cas*s belonged to the nobility of those colonies, affected the most courtly manners of Europe, and Sir Walter Uuieigh, whose vlruin Queen Eliza- beth. the mother of suites, the great state of Vir ginia was named, ami for who was the host man nered man iu the kingdom, could welt be consid ered a type of their cluvahy. Thackeray lias sought to illustrate tiie finest trails of English character and manners by taking Vir ginia tis tiie scene of one of his best novels. Tin- first lesson taught to their sons by the plant ers of the old regime, from whom we take tbe name of planter, were to speak the truth and ride horse back, und, their education was continued afterwards at borne by a private tutor, under the influence ??f a refined, Christian mother, until they were readr for college: when they were sent to ihe???best univer sities in this country or Europe. It is a historical fact, that the first agri cultural or horticultural exhibition in the United States, was by the planters of South Caro lina, and its record shows tiie high state of socictv in the country around Charleston, not only in the value and artistic l isle of the prizes, but also in tin- rules and regulations of the society. When, in ad dition lo what 1 have said, we consider that Wash ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Clay, Calhoun. Tyler and Randolph were pianteis, it needs nothing more to endear plantation-manners ns a herituge of all manly, noble and refined traits to the hearts of every man, woman and child wherever the name planter Is known. Let us then far from allowing the iconolnst* and tricksters of the day to hike from us this precious lieri'age of good manners by ridiculing ana calling them vulgar; rather teach the youth of ourcountry that they can have no higher aim than to cultivate, emulate and be proud of the plantation manners- of Washington, whk-h at least my friends are only those of tiie cultivated gentleman throughout the world. In connection with tltis subject, it is proper 1 should express thanks to the lion. John Perkins, of Louisiann, for some valuable suggestions. 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