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THE TVTEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, APEIL 18, 1882/
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Bill Arp cornea out in one of his old-time
letters to-day—real, old fashioned homely
talk—just what the plain, honest, old fasli
ioned people of the ftmth like so well to hear
thei- old friends talk.
For a first speech Mr. Turner has made a
strong impression. When a member of con
gress is able to command attention at the end
of a debate on the tariff by his own contribu
tion to the subject, he must be generally
recognized as a man of ability, which Mr.
Turner is.
Mr. Ciiilcott, who succeeds Secretary Teller
as senator from Colorado,is a well-to-do lawyer.
While his appointment is better tiian that
of many men who might have been chosen
since Colorado, though a young state, is politi
cally corrupt, he will probably swing in line
for anything Grant wants done.
For the last quarter, ending March 31,
more than eighteen per cent increase in
the sale of postage stamps took place. The
same Increase was also made in the sale of
]>ostaI cards. At this rate we soon ought to
have a cheaper rate of letter postage. The
increase of the business of the postal de
partment has been steady and regular for
some years and will soon justify a reduction
in rate if it does not now.
cess. It has been shown that without excep
tion every one of these was a “corn-raiser.”
We now offer place for the “all-cotton” men
and shall be glad to hear from them.
THE ARTHUR-CONKLING CABINET.
Mr. Arthur has succeeded at last in formirg
a cabinet that is wholly stalwart. The fol
lowing shows at a glance the changes that the
old ward politician has siowly made:
Garfield. Arthur.
Secretary of 'late. Blaine Frelinghuysen
.Sec'etaryfol the treasury, \t indom Folgcr
Secretary of war, Lincoln Lincoln
Secretary of the navy, Hunt Chandler
Postmaster-general, James Howe
Secretary of the interior, Kirkwood Teller
Attorney-General, MacVeagh Brewster
Owing to the nature of Mr. Arthur's title to
the presidency he did not care to cross the
sentiment of his party by a sudden and com
plete overthrow of the Garfield cabinet; but
hie work has not been less thorough because
of its dilatory nature. Unlike Mr. Garfield,
he has selected a cabinet from one section of
his party. In the words of a New England
paper, it is stalwart from stem to stern. In
eluding' Mr. Lincoln, it is a cabinet practi
cally sworn to favor a second term, and to up
hold the stalwarts against the forces of Blaine
in the coining intestinal war of the republican
party. With the single exception of Mr. Lin
coln, it is a cabinet of politicians,and in this list
of wire-pullers the name of William E. Chan
dler leads all the rest. The president is him
self a politician of rare capacity, and he has
gathered about him men as near like
himself as he could find. The cabinet of
Garfield contained at least four, men who
were not accustomed to the work of the mere
politician—Wayne MacVeagh, Thomas L.
James, Robert Lincoln and William H. Hunt,
Mr. Arthur has a terrible fight before him,
and he has, therefore, summoned advisers,
not with an eye single to the public good,
but to the next general convention of the
republican party.
last decade than any other state. Texas
Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Iowa—nine in
all, and each in its order—are the only states
that show larger absolute gains than Georgia.
The gains of Texas and Kansas are remarkable
and exceptional—the first having received the
larger part of southern emigration, and the
latter being the chief objective point of the
northern tide. Of the nine states that gained
each more people than Georgia did, Pennsyl
vania’s gain was 20 per cent; New York’s, 16;
Illinois. 21; Ohio’s, 20, and Missouri’s 26 per
cent, while Georgia’s percentage of gain was
30 per cent.
In the south, Texas and Missouri alone
gained more people than Georgia. Against
our gain of 358,071, Alabama was content
with 265.513, South Carolina with 289,971, and
Tennessee with 253,839. And this recalls the
fact that the population of Tennessee is
1.542,359, and that of Georgia 1,542,180—a
difference in favor of Tennessee of 179 only.
This is a small difference, but it is large
enough to throw Georgia one point lower
down in the list of states. In 1870 Tennessee
outnumbered Georgia to the extent of 74,411.
Georgia passed Virginia during the decade,
and if she maintains her rate of growth and
prosperity—if, in other words, her sons and
daughters stay at home instead of searching
for misery and misfortune in Texas and other
uncomfortable states—she will pass before
1890 Tennessee and be neck-and-neck with
Kentucky.
PERSONAL.
If I live fifty years longer, I will never under
take to build up a partv on the negroes; it
won’t do.”
“Who are you for for governor?”
“I am for Gartrell."
“Suppose another candidate is nominated
in Jnne?”
“Then I will support the man that is se
lected?”
“Will you go to the convention in June?”
“I expect to be there.”
“Will you be heard?”
“I will—that is, I think I will.”
We informed Mr. Norcross when we parted
that we would print his views, and the old
man looked at us over his spectacles with a
merry twinkle in his eye ana enjoined us to
put in no foolishness, but to print just what
he said, and we have tried to obey his request.
THIRTY-THREE PER CENT.
BERRIES AND POLITICS
NOTES OF A JOURNEY |
SOUTHWARD.
strawberricsail6 cream. So am I-on.l there is a
full night of wdltl.'’B 111 M “con before we get any
nearer When we dn Set there, however, it will be
all the better for the j^ow approaches.
H. W. G.
W. CL, on the Road to Thomas villo’s S raw-
berry F.elds-Senator Brown’s Search for
Health—The Theft of Florida in 1876—
Folttics in the 7th and 9th Bistricta.
A CROWD oFaCONVIOTS
Hf.uktofork, in most of the state courts, a
wife-beating husband went free with slight
punishment. The decision is now published
of the New York supreme court that a wife
may sue for damages for assault and battery.
The trouble generally is with wives who are
beaten that they would not prosecute if they
could. But there is some satisfaction in know
ing they can make a husband pay for his
brutality, if necessary.^
W. A. Slater is a name which will deserve
to be mentioned with gratitude by the colored
population, lie founds a trust fund of a mil
lion dollars for their education. Excepting
llutiicrford B. Hayes, the names of the trus
tees arc satisfactory, and guarantee that the
fund will be administered in a conservative
munner. The value and use of the fund will
wholly depend on what that manner is, and
there would be nothing cosier than to make
the work ineffective through ignorance of the
kind of education needed.
Stanley,- the African explorer, has been
heard from after a long absence and silence.
He went to Sierra Leone from Zanzibar in
Septemlier, 1879, going in the interests of the
Belgian commercial company, of which the
king is the largest shareholder, with the in
tention of opening a way to the heart of Af
rica along the Congo river, which falls into
the Atlantic ocean about six degrees south of
the equator. His course has been up the
Congo, a dangerous and rapid river. In May,
1881, Stanley was so sick as to be given up for
dead, but on July 4 he wrote that he was well
again. Since then almost nothing has been
heard from him.
HOW SHALL THE COTTON PLANTER BE
PROTECTED?
Our friends, the monopolists, are mak
making arrangements to increase the already
heavy tax on cotton ties, which the southern
farmers are compelled to pay, on the ground
that American labor must be protected. The
ground is undoubtedly a good one, but is it
broad enough? What is American labor? If
American labor is to be protected, how does
it hapj>en that our friends, the
monopolists, find it so convenient
to propose measures for the protec
tion of the farmers and cotton planters of the
south? Indeed, we might go further and ask
why our monopolist friends, who are also the
friends of American labor, are in favor of rob
bing the southern farmer by placing an addi
tional tax on cotton ties? Why bring section
alism to bear in a matter of this kind? Why
should the poverty-stricken farmer of the
south pay an extra tax, ostensibly to “protect
American labor,” but really to add to the
profits of a few Philadelphia manufacturers?
The truth is, there is no industrial interest
in this country that stands more in need of
protection than that which devotes itself to
tile raising of cotton. So far as we know, the
cotton-raisers of the south, white and black,
are the only American laborers who come
directly in competition with the genuine pau
per labor of the old world, and there is no act
of congress by which it can be prevented. At
the same time, the results of this competition
can be materially lightened by statesmanlike
legislation. As there is no hope for this, cer
tainly there is no impertinence in protesting
against the McKinley spoliation bill
The price of American cotton is fixed in
Liverpool, and it is fixed with reference to
the cotton produced in India, in Egypt and
in other foreign countries. This may seem to
be a small matter, and it has been heretofore,
but it is growing rapidly more importantyoar
by year, and in the very near future it will
become overshadowing. The farmers of the
south cannot afford to raise cotton at the
prices paid last season. There is not only no
The oldest man on the New York police
force is 84 years of age. He wields the club.
Judge Blatchford is said to be the wealth
iest man that ever sat upon the supreme bench.
Mr. Spurgeon is a lover of birds, and he in
vites them all to his lawn with daily showers of
bread crumbs, but never thinks of imprisoning one
in a cage.
The only office Longfellow ever held was
that of elector on the republican presidential ticket
years ago.
Mr. Matthew Arnold says: “I have never
received, from first to last, a hundred pounds from
America, though my books have been, I believe,
much reprinted there.”
Marshal Henry says Mrs. Galfield is in
wretched health, the recent attacks upon her hus
band almost crushing her. A fortnight ago she
wrote him that her troubles were more than she
could bear, and that if it were not for her children
she would be glad to die.
Capt. Fred Burnaby, who recently crossed
the English channel in a balloon, is six feet three
inches tall, strongly made in proportion. He is ex
tremely fond of adventure, and since hisrecentride
to Khiva, has engaged in various trips, the last of
which was an expedition to Tunis.
A GOOD DECISION.
Governor Colquitt, who has returned from
the west much improved in health, says that
the Slater fund, of which the governor is a
trustee, for education of the colored race,
is to be devoted wholly to tuition and
not at all to buildings or other property. A
■wiser disposition could hardly be made and
the colored citizens of Georgia arc to be con
gratulated on the fact that a portion of the
fund is likely to be secured for their benefit.
It may be mentioned incidentally that Mr.
Slater is a director of the Washburn and
Mocn manufacturing company, whose ex
hibit attracted so much attention at the cot
ton exposition. He is proprietor of a cotton
mill in Jersey City, and has helped build sev
eral academics and Congregational churches.
A Wife Huy Sue Her Husband for Damage* for Auault
and Battery.
New York, April 14.—7 he general term of the
supreme court has decided that a woman may sue
her husband for damages for assault and battery.
The question was before the general term upon an
appeal from a chambers order denying a motion
to vacate an order of arrest obtained by Theresa
Schultz against her husband, Theodore Schultz.
Judge Brady -wrote the opinion sustaining the or
der, and Judge Daniels concurred In it. Presiding
Judge Noah Davis concurred in the sentimental
grounds of the opinion, but dissented from the
construction oi the law expressed in it. Judge
Brady holds that, by the act of 1860 relating to the
rights of married women the legislature intended
to. and did, change the common law rule that a
wife could uot sue her husband. He says: “To al
low the right [to sue] in an action of this character,
in accord nee with the language of the statute,
would be to promote greater harmony, by enlarg
ing the rights of married women and increasing
the obligations of husbands, by affording greater
protection to the former, and by enforcing greater
restraint upon the latter in the indu lgence«f-their
evil passions. The declaration of such a rule is uot
against the pollcyof the law. It Ls in harmony
with it, and calculated to preserve peace and, in a
great measure, prevent barbarous acts, acts of
cruelty, regarded by mankind as inexcusable, con
temptible, detestable. It is neither too early nor
too late to promulgate the doctrine that if a hus
band commits an assault and battery npon bis wife
he may be hela responsible civilly and criminally
for the act, which is not only committed in viola
tion of the laws of God and man, but in direct an
tagonism to the contract of marriage, its obliga
tions, duties, responsibilities, and the very basis on
whien it rests. The rules of the common law on
this subject have been dispelled, routed, and justly
so, by the acts of 1860 and 1862. They are things of
the past which have succumbed to more liberal and
just views, like many other doctrines of the com
mon law which could not stand the scrutiny and
analysis of modem civilization.
That la the Advance In Meats and Groceries—The
West end the South na Meat Producer*.
“There has been an advance of 33 per cent
on the great bulk of meats and groceries,”
said Mr. Scoville, of the Kimball house.
“But this advance is not so gre *t as it has
been in similar articles in the eastern cities.”
“What is the cause of the difference?”
“The demand, in the first place, is less, and
it is more nearly met by the local supply than
is the demand in Boston, New York or Phila
delphia. There they have" to rely on as far
west as Chicago for their beef, in 'which city
their orders have to go in competition with a
strong local demand.”
THE CAUSES OF THE ADVANCE.
“What is the cause of the increase?”
“To some extent it is due t-> the failure of
the western corn crop; to a considerable ex
tent it is due to fatal diseases of the year
among cattle, resulting in the death of much
stock; and lastly, the lieavy demand for pur
poses of importation. Good prices are being
f aid now for American beef in England and
'ranee, and the laws forbidding the importa
tion of beef cattle having been considerably
relaxed, also increases the demand.”
“On which market do you rely for vour
supply of beef?”
. “Until a short time since we drew exten
sively from the far west, but the price kept
advancing to such a point that we were forc
ed to look to other sources. For over eight
months we never used less than 125 lbs. of
tenderloins a day. The price kept going up
to 15, then as high as 28cts. per pound, to
which add lOcts. freight, making the meat on
onr tables cost 38cts. per pound. Sueh a
price was simply ruinous.”
“What resource had you then?”
“We fell back on the East Tennessee mar
kets, but here again heavy freights, and the
dangers incident to the season in the trans
portation of cattle, came in as serious draw-
jacks. Our supply now from that source is
very limited and next month it will be cut
oil altogether.”
the home market.
“You will then have to rely on the home
market entirely ?”
“ Yes, sir; but we are prepared even for the
failure of that supply. We have a large num
ber of cows on our dairy farm. We have
placed twenty-five of them in fattening, and
as some are killed off, the number will be
kept up by recruits from the herd, until the
usual sources of supply are open to us again.”
“ How does southern compare with western
beef ?”
“ There is really no inherent difference in
the two. The difference which does exist is
due entirely to causes which any southern
farmer can remove, if he will put his mind to
it. _ In the west, cattle-raising is carried on as
an important industry; great care is exfercised
in_the selection of stock; plenty of corn is
raised for food, and the grasses are cultivated.
All these elements go into the production of
good beef. Now, can you tell me any reason,
either in climate, soil, water or healthfulness,
why a stock-raiser in Cobb county, exercising
similar care and methods, should not furnish
beef equal to any that the west can send us? r
LONDON PRONUNCIATION.
profit in growing the staple under the present I New York Tribune Correspondence,
conditions, but for several years the crops '
have been made at a dead loss. The pinching
policy will do well enough for seven or eight
years, but accounts must be settled
aftca awhile, and when they are settled,
each and every cotton planter in the
south will find, not that farming
Wien X was a young man coming home from
Germany and German education, I discovered that
the most fashionable of all things was to pro
nounce one's “r’s" down in the throat, after the
German and French manner. The most agreeable
man of his day, charming in every way, is “Pussy.”
otherwise Lord Granville. “Pussy’s” r’s are very
low down in the throat—genuine guttural sounds,
but harmonious and pleasant. The sound is en
tirely different from that emitted by idiots, such as
Hut iVtof nnftnn tireiy aiuerem ir^m mat eminea oy idiots, such as
is an unprofitable pursuit, but that cotton youI J g Oxford curates and the like, who say
cannot be crown in the south except at a loss, “vewv” instead of “very.” It is nearly like
, , .. . . . I “velirhy,” so far as it is possible to put it upon
The remedy for this is to remov e all extra I p a p er _ The prince of Wales and all his brothers
burdens of taxation from the planters’ shoul- nave this German accent in perfection. “Vehrhy
„ . . , _ . good” is the expression one hears very frequently
ders. To suggest this, however, is treason, , rom the heir-apparent. To-morrow becomes “to-
especially when such patriots as McKinley ™ ^ ***** G "’
bring forward propositions for robbing the
Special Correspondence of The Constitution
On The Train, April 12.—For some time I have
meditated an assault on the strawberries
Thomasville. Beyond a prompt and comprehen
sive appitite, I have special partiality lor this de
licious fruit. I remember hearing of a person of
leisure, who devoted his life to the pursuit of
strawberries and cream. In early November he
would go to the sonthermost part oi Florida. Here
he would find the berries just reddening under the
sun’s kisses, and lightly turning to thoughts of
cream. Following the berry line steadily he would
find himself iu Jacksonville in March, in Georgia
in April, in Virginia in May, In Pennsylvania in
June, in upper New York in July, and in
Canada in August. Closing the season here
he would beat southward with the summer birds
and begin anew his round of flavorous delights.
There is one strawberry-patch of twenty acres at
Thomasville. I have been frequently solicited to
lose myself in it. When a few days since Judge II.
W. Hopkins wrote me that there was the best oi
bass fishing a half-day away, I seized a cream pitch
er and a fishing pole—and here 1 am.
Senator Brown is my companion. Or rather as
we travel iu his special car. I am his companion.
Mrs. Brown does the honors of the car, and imparts
accurate information and shrewd suggestions on
the country through which we pass. The senator
goes south because of a serious bronchial trouble,
and a suspected lung. He, who never ran from
anything else, flees before the chill winds that ride
upon the flanks of Tuesday’s snow-storm.
This, then. Is the object of ouijoxpedition. I go
for berries He goes lor health. My incidental mo
tive is fish. I presume his to talk with the folks. I
will eat while he improves. He will talk while I
fish. We are comfortably fixed, and are both in
the mind to think with our eyes and ears. Thonv-
asville is the objective point with both of us. After
that he will map out the route, while 1 will stand
on the platform and assume the air of the matt who
owns the car.
In the meantime, as the noblest study of Geor
gians is Georgia, we may see much that will interest
us and bear the retelling. If so it shall be faithfully
retold, between the berries and the cream.
cotton-growers.
THE GROWTH OF THE STATES.
Tho census of 1880 continues to lead to the
production of tables and comparative statis- I mni n iy good will, was nearly S1,000,000. I learn
NEWSPAPER PROFITS.
Springfield Republican New York Letter.
Some time ago I mentioned that the price paid
by Schurz, White and Godkin for the Evening Post,
THE “ALL COTTON” PLANTERS.
We have received a complaint from a sub
scriber about the recent remarkable showing
made in our columns on the work of the
corn-raisers. The writer says that we have
made a one-sided showing and have not
given the “all-cotton” men a chance.
This charge cannot lie at our door. We
made no one-sided inquiry to begin with. We
sent out a circular letter asking first, for the
names of the five most prosperous farmers in
the neighborhood ot the person to whom the
letter was ’addressed. This was the first ob
ject of the circular, viz: to find the really
prosperous farmers of every militia district in
the state. The second inquiry was as to the
method by which these prosperous farmers
achieved their property. We did not know
whether it was planting cotton or by raising
provisions. We simply wanted to find out and
let our readers know. The fact that every
correspondent, after he had selected the five
most prosperous farmers of his acquaintance,
found out that they were corn-raisers without
exception, and that in all the ranks there
was not an all-cotton planter to be found,
cannot be charged to us. We published the
letters exactly as they came to us. We gave no
favor to either theory. We presume our cor
respondents gave the facts exactly as they
found them and every man wrote over his
own signature.
But we now offer to give our columns to
any man who will write us the name and
methods of a single farmer who makes money
by rairing cotton alone and buying the bread
and meat and hay to make it with. We have
already printed the names of one thousand
farmers, selected solely because of their auc-
tics, and readers seem to revel in the figures
that the correspondents and the able writers
get up to order. The New York Sun presents
in answer to this popular demand a new table,
“to make more palpable to the eye” the abso
lute gain in population by each state from
now from good authority that, notwithstanding the
h'gh figure, the Post has, in the nine months since
its purchase, made a return at the rate of more than
12 per cent per annum ou the investment, and
added 7,000 to the circulation, now set down at
about 20.000. Speaking oi newspapers. I am told
that the Daily Graphic has been for some time pay
ing regular dividends. Begun about the date of
the great financial reaction in the autumn of 1873.
*i, P npreenta^e of the it had for a long while a very hard struggle. The
18<0 to 1880, secondly, tne percen 0 o I Tribune made, I understand, $150,000, including
min of each on its population in 1870; and I rents from its offices, in the last fiscal year. This,
? , , .... c TO „ r « s .nti. I with all its recent profits, has gone toward reducing
lastly an exhibit of the changes of representa 1 ^ on ,j, e new building. No dividend, I be-
tion in congress effected in -twenty-five states
under the new apportionment. We give this
table:
lieve, has been declared on the stock for ten years.
STATES.
Alabama
Arkansas ....
California-
Colorado -
Connecticut —.......
Delaware
Florida
Georgia —
Illinois —
Indiana
Iowa ...........
Kansas-
Kentucky —
Louisiana
Massachusetts-...
Michigan-
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nebraska.
New Jersey
New York -
North Carolina....
Ohio
Oregon-.
Rhode Island..
South Carolim
Tennessee. —
Gain in
10 y’rs.
Gain
j’r ct
Old
No.
265,513
27
8
318,054
66
4
304,447
51
4
154,463
3S7
1
S5.246
16
4
21,593
17
1
81,745!
43
2
35S.07l|
30
9
537,9S0j
21
297.664]
18
6
430.595]
36
631,679!
ITS
327,6:9!
25
211,031
29
22,021
4
151.019
20
325.734
22
452,578
38
341,067
78
303.675
37
6
. 447.085
26
IS
. 329.409
268
1
. 19.775
47
1
. 28,691
9
3
. 225,021
25
7
. 700,112
16
S3
30
8
. 532,802
20
20
. 83,6K
92
1
. 760.94(
22
27
.. 59,171
27
2
.. 289.97
41
5
23
10
.. 773,171
94
6
1,TS!
3
.. 287.40!
23
9
.. 176.44.
40
3
.. 260.82 -
25
S
New
No.
Vermont •
Virginia —
West Virginia..—
Wisconsin —
* Maine, New Hampshire and Veimont lose 1
each
A glance down the first column of figures
shows that Texas gained more people in the
Hon. Jonathan Norcross’s Views.
Hon. Jonathan Norcross arrived in the city
yesterday—returning home from his winter
trip to Florida. We are pleased to see him
looking well; he has spent a very pleasant
winter, he informs us, and is in good health
and as full of vigor as could be expected of a
man of his agi.
Mr. Norcross is probably the strongest re-
S nblican in the state. He was the last candi-
ate that party had in Georgia for governor,
and he says he believes the very name of
democracy is vicious. When we say the
strongest republican in the state we 'don’t
mean that he controls more votes
the republican party than any
other republican, for . he does not.
Mr. Norcross is too honest for that. We
mean that he is strong in his political faith,
as he has a right to be, as every man has a
right to be. We met him yesterday, and, of
course, we had to say something about poli
tics; and, after waiting awhile, he com
menced on the new movement.
“I tell yon,” said he, “you have all raised
Cain since I left.”
“Yes,” we replied; “what do you think
of it?”
“Why, it is just what I have been trying to
do for two years, and we are going to sweep
the field. You will see. I am heart ana
mind in the movement, and will do all I can
to make it successful. I want to beat the
democracy. I believe the very name is
vicious, and it will be better
for the country when we defeat
them in every state in the union and every
county in every state.”
“It has been your policy to divide the colored
vote?”
“Yes, I know it is better for the republicans.
of improving quality.
“Do you notice any improvement either in
the quantity or the quality of the local pro
duction?”
I do, most decidedly. During the past
year we have bought and used more Georgia
beef than had been presented within any
three years previously. The most gratifying
part of this fact is that it was of such improved
quality, proving that more attention is being
paid to this industry Ilian ever before. Every
season that Georgia allows to pass without in
creasing her live stock interests costs mints of
money. For instance: The cows run dry,
and for a long time they have either to be fed
without yielding any return, and thus ‘eat off
their own heads;’ or allowed to run in the
woods and browse, losing flesh and quality;
or perhaps they are driven to town, lean,
starved out and haggard-looking, and sold for
perhaps $15 or $20.”
A WORD OF ADVICE.
“What would you have them do?”
“I would have them rely on the growing
stock to supply the next year’s herds. Instead
of keeping the other cattle in starvation all
winter, or selling them for a mere song when
in a starved condition, let oar farmers culti
vate corn, the grasses, the food crops generally.
As a consequence, they can fatten their sur
plus cattle and go home with $30 per head in
their pockets instead of $15. Just in such
matters as this the farmer must find his for
tune. Now, wliy should I order a beef from
Illinois, for instance, if John Smith, from
Milton county, should drive one up to my
door equally as good and offer it for sale?
There is a magnificent field open to the south
ern farmer in the beef market.”
MUTTON AND PORK.
“How do you find the mutton market?”
“Scarce and high. We purchase the bulk
of our supply from Tennessee, but we are ad
vised that we will soon have to look to other
sources. Mutton has lately advanced three
cents per pound. And here again the farm
ers around Atlanta certainly are losing
money. Sheep raising is one of the easiest
and least expensive agricultural industries
when compared with the profits yielded.
Mutton at 11 cents per pound will bring $11
for an average sheep fattened and sold as mat-
ton. Right how, for to-day’s use, if five mut
tons were offered me at that price I would
take it. Instead of availing themselves of such
golden opportunities, here are our farmers
wasting their energies on cotton, cotton, cot
ton.”
“You think it pays better to feed a man
than to clothe him?"
“That is my doctrine precisely, and I hope
our people may soon be converted to my
views.”
“What about pork?”
“There again you have a scarcity and ad
vance. We have thirty-five in 'fattening,
though, and propose to be prepared for it.”
'Toultry, game and such like?”
‘Poultry has advanced 50 per cent, though
the supply is easy. There is always ready
sale for poultry, and it is also an * industry
which I would recommend to the more care
ful attention of onr farmers. They
need never know vvhat a turkey or a
hen costs them, for they may
lie said to pick up their own living, and yet
how handsomely the turkey pays at 12 to 15
cents a pound when Christmas conies! The
game market,however is always run on a fancy
basis, and should not be considered in con
nection with staples. Sugars and southern
productions have not advanced, except in
some peculiar lines. But you will be safe in
saying that the every day snbstantials of life
ha've advanced 33 per cent on former prices.”
The last time I rode with Governor Brown in this
car was when we came back from Florida, after the
republicans had stolen that state for Hayes.
How many changes have taken place
since then! Hayes, the beneficiary oi
that theft, has gone into history as the
worst of presidents, and into private life as a sniv
elling hypocrite. Despised by his party, distrusted
by the country, pitied by the opposition, he failed
to dignify the crime of his confederates by manli
ness or ability, but forced its exposure from the lips
of a creature, whose greed he had excited by jug
glery, and whose demands he failed to satisfy
through fear. •
To the other actors in the contest for a state, va
rious fortunes have come. Manton Marble, who
should have died before he went to Florida, has
married since he left it—and now wears a night-cap
and drinks chocolate. Noyes, who was the hand of
the conspiracy as Chandler was the brain, had four
years in France, and having given a receipt in full
therefor, is in uneasy but permanent retirement.
Chandler—the keenest politician since Talleyrand
and the worst since Walpole—now waits, with a
portfolio at the door of a senate, that
has a ready pronounced him unworthy a clerkship,
and with his arm in the president’s coat-sleeve
cracks the party lash; McLin, the chairman of the
returning board, died a miserable death; Cowgill,
his weak associate, is in grateful oblivion, and
Cocke, the Democratic member, is a judge in Flor-
Th rough the City on Ihclr Fw ‘°* ho ‘'»»w at
Augusta.
When the State road train 111 yester-
dav there disembarked seventeen' men and
, one woman who, with the exccptts’n ofthe
v® I woman, were dressed in doth of that ^peculiar
o f stripe, which on first sight tells the laic .of the
wearer’s misfortune. The men were chained
together. Eacli had the iron ring riveted
about his ankle and fastened by a chain to a
long chain which ran along between tw»T
lines of the convicts. Near the middle of the
gang were two white men. The chains
clanked measuredly as the crowd faced abont
and started for the station house un
der the direction of Mr. J. 11. •
Turner, of the principal keeper’s
office. The woman, a little, coal black indi
vidual with a “had eye,” headed the proces-
on.
“Where did you get them?” asked a Con
stitution reporter of Mr. Turner.
“I got some at Coal City and others at Ce-
dartown.” . *
‘Whither are they drifting? contained
the reporter.
“To Lowe’s camp at Augusta.
‘Any of them for murder?”
“Oh, yes. That woman is for murder and
has a sentence of lifetime imprisonment.
There are several others, but take these lists
and you can get the names of them all.”
The reporter took the lists and made up the
following which is a list of the
convicts who were being transferred
with the crime committed and the county in
which the conviction took place. Peter
Minims, burglary, from Bibb county; Wil
liam Malone, assault with intent to murder,
from Fulton; William Rodgers, attempt to
poison, from Terrell; Arthur Simmons, at
tempt. to kill, from McIntosh; Joe Solomon,
attempt to kill, from Wilkinson; Josie Sta
ler, burglary, from Upson; Anderson Speer,
murder, from Bibb, sentence for life; Henry
Williams, murder, from Houston; Caleb
Barrow not given: Charles Courtney, burgla
ry, front Harris; Davis Carnell, larceny, from
Montgomery; Gus Cody, burglary, from
Houston; John Ficher, robbery, from Ran
dolph; Jack Johnson, murder,from Chatham;
Mollie Johnson, murder, from Chatham, sen
tence for life. Dennis Lundon, larceny, from
Hancock; Frank Maxwell, burglary, from
Talbot.
Courtney and Carnell are white. Jack
Johnson and Mollie Johnson are in for mur
dering their child. It is said that Jack could
have been cleared, hut entered a plea of
guilty in order to be with his wife.
Along with the crowd was a blind boy
named Squire Reed, who has been sentenced
to ten veurs for an assault. He put his eyes
out wh'ile in jail a day or two before the guard
arrived who was to carry him to the peni
tentiary. He claims that it was done acci
dentally. He does no work, and simply sits
about the camps a burden to the man who
gets him. He is from Taylor county. The
crowd left last night for Augusta.
Ben. Evins’s Boy’s Blunder.
From the Hartwell Sun.
Ben Evins was chopping sprouts a few
days ago, and set fire to stumps in the field,
lien’s hoy was ploughing. He had unfas
tened his gallus, which for economy’s sake
had the button sewn on its end, and could
thus be used 011 any pair of pants. Just as
the boy ploughed up to the side of the stump,
a large snake finding his quarters becoming
rather warm ran out of a hole in the stump
towards the boy, who droppedUliis plough
and dashed off at a rattling gait. The loose sus
pender floated out to the breeze.awd the heavy
metal button would strike the youth on the
bulge of h:s anatomy at. every jump. The
poor fellow with terrified eyes glanced back
over his shoulder and thought the serpent
had him dead suie. This hut increased his
IdarJohn Co^Twh; TaTiV VoS c^Aot I ^ ^jA^i 1 ity, aiirt lie allied by 1. i-daddy
Blacks Drilling.
From the Athens Banner.
Mr. J. W. Frazier, a highly respectable far
mer of Gwinnett, was in town yesterday. He
reports that while crossing Mitchell’s bridge,
three or four miles from Athens, on Sunday
night, he came upon a large crowd of negroes
drilling, under command of a fellow from
Athens. As soon as Mr. F. was discovered
the blacks set np a shout that made one of his
horses break loose, when they began to curse
and abuse him. We think it prudent not to
repeat the threats made. We would like to
ask if the negroes expect the whites to remain
quiet so long as they are meeting in the dead
hours of night for the purpose of drilling,
which is a threat within itself.
Tilden in Florida, is in New York very much re
duced and out of employment; Dennis, who exe
cuted the Alachua fraud and then exposed it, is a
candidate for congress in his old district Of the
five Florida democrats most prominent iu the con
test, Bloxham is governor, Rainey is attorney gen
eral ; Drew, then governor, is a saw-mill man; Hen
derson is attorney of the Reed syn
dicate with a fortune in sight, and
Wilk Call is senator. Governor Brown, whose
active re-eutrance into politics dates from that cam
paign, has been elected United States senator over
whelmingly, aud the other day declared on the
floor that Florida was given to Hayes by peijury,
villainy and theft, and found no repub'ican who
dared or cared to deny it. Fierce Young, who
worked manfully in Florida and deserves much
at the hands of his people, has had nothing. Of
the journalists who were there, Redfield is dead.
Dyke is still at the head of the Tallahassee paper,
Howard Carroll has married a rich and charming
wife, McIntosh edits the Albany News, Ampt is the
target of mild jokes in Cincinnati, Snow is forgot
ten, and I am pretty well, I thank you.
That was the ugliest chapter of American history.
It was worse than war, and more odious than
treason. As it was the first crime of its
sort in the Listory of the republic it will be the
last. Never again will the American people be in
the temper to submit to so flagrant an outrage. It
was inexorably proved before the case was decided,
that an Alachua county politician and a negro, by
stuffing one ballot-l>ox, actually stifled the voice of
fifty millions of people and reversed the edicts of
thirty-eight sovereign states. This juggling was
afterwards confessed to by the man who did it.
"And yet the verdict stood for four years, aud the
dire stress for peace enforced submission to a fraud
that fixed the character of one administration.
Truly it was an unholy swarm of strikers that in
fested Tallahassee during that period. Spies, false
witnesses, bummers and ballot-thieves—more vic
ious than the flies that issue from her sands—filthier
than the buzzards that lolled on herchimncy-tops!
At the depot just as I was leaving Atlanta I met I
Mr. Rankin, of the 7th district, and Mr. Findlay, of j
the Sth. Each oi them hod views on affairs in his
district Said Mr. Rankffi:
“Dr. Felton has lost ground in the 7th district in
the past few months. He is unmistakably weaker
than before. This matters very little to him, how
ever. His eyes are set on the United States’senate.
Whether he runs for congress or governor, he is try
ing to get to the senate. His object is to have an
independent legislature elected, and to succeed Mr.
Hill. This ambition explains his attack on Mr.
Hill, the bitterness of which was out of proportion
to the cause. He is going to be a candidate for the j
senate unless the coalition movement is overwhelm
ingly defeated in the counties."
Mr. Rankin is observant and shrewd and very
bright I had the impression, however, that it was
agreed Dr. Miller should have the choice of what
ever the coming legislature would offer the inde
pendents. Mr. Findlay said:
“Had you noticed the change in the journalism
of the ninth district In the last race there were
seven papers that supported Speer. Now there is
but one—the Gainesville Southron. Besides this
one, there were last year the Athens Banuer,
Franklin Register, Athens Watchman, Dahlonega j
Signal, Athens Blade and one other. Both the
Athens papers, formerly for Speer, arc consolidated
under bitter anti-Speer management. The Signal
has passed into the hands of Colonel Price and is j
fighting Speer. The Franklin Register is moved
out of the district, and the Athens Blade is dead.
So where he had seven friendly papers he has now
only one.”
A bystander suggested that there was only one
paper in the 7th—the Cartersville Free-Press—
friendly to Dr. Felton, where there were several in
the last race. I do not know how this is. It appears
to be beyond dispute that the gossip of tne “coali
tion” has been damaging to these great leaders of I
independentism in Georgia. To what extent, or ]
whether, we shall see at the polls in November.
like a quarter-horse, yelling, “snake! snake?’
The old man finally managed by taking
through cuts to stop the lad without running
him down with the hounds, but it took him
an hour to convince his affrighted heir appa
rent that the snake was not a caudal appen
dage.
Some Cat Fish.
From the Rome Courier.
Yesterday evening Lee Youngblood drove a
one-horse wagon into the city, having for a
load three cat fish which he caught in Ar-
niuchee creek about half a mile above its
mouth. The aggregate weight of these three
fish was 175 pounds. The lightest one weighed
fifty pounds, the next one sixty, and the
heaviest sixty-five. The two lightest he caught
in one net at the same time.
A Chapter of Accidents.
From the Early County News.
We mention as incidents of the week the
putting out of an eye of a little negro girl by
a splinter piercing it; the amputation of an
extra finger from each hand of another little
negro girl by Drs. Dostor and Etheridge; the
breaking of an arm of Mr. E. J. Tabb’s little
son and the same sort of an accident to a little
negro boy
VIA SOLITARIA.
AN UNPUBLISHED POEM. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
From the Independent.
Alone 1 walk the peopled city.
Where each seems happy with its own:
Oh! friends, I ask not for your pity—
I walk alone.
No more for me your lake rejoices,
Though moved by loving airs of June.
Oh! birds, your sweet and piping voices
Are out of tune.
In vain for me the elm tree arches
Its 1 ’
In vai
Its plumes in many a feathery spray;
nn the evening’s starry marches
But, yon may say this is a long way off from
An snnlit day.
In vain your beauty, summer flowers;
Ye cannot greet these cordial eyes;
They gaze on other fields than ours—
On other skies.
The gold is rifled from the coffer,
The blade is stolen from the sheath;
Life has but one more boon to offer.
And that is—Death.
Yet well I know the voice of duty.
And. therefore, life and health must crave,
Though she who gave the world its beauty
Is in her grave.
I live, O lostone! for the living
Who drew their earliest life from thee.
And wait, until wilh glad thanksgiving
I shall be free.
For life to me is as a station
Wherein apart a traveller stands—
One absent long from home and nation,
In other lands;
And I, as he who stands ar.d listens.
Amid the twilight’s chill and gloom.
To hear, approaching in the distance.
The train for home.
For death shall bring another mating,
Beyond the shadows of the tomb.
On yonder shore a bride is waiting
Until I come.
In yonder field arc children playing.
And there—oh! vision ol delight—
I see the child and mother straying
In robes of white.
Thou, then, the longing heart thatbreakest,
stealing the treasures one by one,
l’U call Thee blessed when thou makest
The parted—one.
September 18,1863.
Now that our best and sweetest poet has left us.
re n{rf n B J > Ic h i» dcpa i t s Ur ? ! the veil of that sanctuary
feeling—it may not bo unlaw
ful to publish, what would have been sacrilege be-
™,Mir»™^ v V°. uchI , ng P°° m ’ not written for the
eje : {* ut simply to give utterance to his
• ,rl, cru f. B sorrow after the death of his wife,
in 1861. It was sent to me by a friend in Boston
Toara ago, after my own great alUict[on, and
double sacred ness to all who have
similar sorrow. It will be read by
eyes, when they remember how
long and patiently, with what brave and uncom
plaining heart, he has waited at the “station,” till
. the P?rted” are made “one.”
Ouvet College, Mich* H* M. Gooowui,