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THE TVTEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, APEIL 18, 1882/ THE CUlMdTlTUTlUJN. Entered at the Atlanta Poet-office as sccond-clas mail matter, November 11,1878. Weekly Constitution, prtre 81.SO per a»u. Clubs of twenty, 820, and a copy to the getter up the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS,81.00. ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 18, 1882. Over 50,000 people now read THE WEEKLY CONSTITU TION. Our aim is to have it go to every fireside in the state. Do you take it ? If not, send iruyour name at once. Don’t force your family to borrow it. The more readers we get, the better we can make the paper. We promise that it shall be bet ter, brighter and fuller than ever before this year. Send in your name. 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,