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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1882
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The election of Messrs. Rice, H ulsey and
Hoge to the legislature gives Fulton county
ar. active, intelligent and efficient representa
tion in that body. Mr. Rice is a man of
affairs, and Messrs. Hulsey and Hoge are suc
cessful lawyers. All have had experience in
deliberative bodies, and, while they will work
untiringly for the interests of Atlanta and
Fulton county, they will not lose sight of
the interests of the state. The three gentle
men make up a delegation that will compare
favorably with any that has been sent to the
legislature from any portion of the state.
“GOVERNOR STEPHENS!"
We have all thought it, ever since the old
commoner declared himself through The
Constitution squarely in sympathy with the
organized democracy and thus scattered the
assumptions of the independents, but we have
never had the right to say it formally until
this morning.
But it is “Governor Stephens” at last, and
by a majority unprecedented, in view of the
smallness of the vote and the lack of excite
ment in the campaign. Without more agita
tion than follows a stump speech here and
there, a majority of al>out 50,000 Georgians
have declared by their ballots that Mr. Ste
phens must consecrate himself to the service
of the state for the next two years, and that
his life shall be crowned with this special
testimonial of his people. This is the first
time that Mr. Stephens has ever repre
sented the whole state directly and
numbered every Georgian as his special
constituent since Georgia was fashioned into
d riels, and as full as his life has been of
honors he loves his people too dearly not to
feel touched at the splendid manifestation of
their love and confidence, shown forth in our
columns this morning.
As for this result, The Constitution has
predicted it front the first. From the very
day that Mr. Stephens sent his famous inter
view through our Washington correspondent,
declaring that he would run only as the nom
inee of the organized democracy, we said that
he would be nominated and elected. He was
nominated by an overwhelming majority in
the face of a fierce campaign and now he is
elected overwhelmingly in spite of soreheads,
bolters, republicans and independents. And
eo closes a very interesting chapter of Georgia
history.
WORTHYlOF CONGRATULATION.
The people of Georgia are to be congratu
lated on the result of Wednesday’s election.
They have done well in calling to the execu
tive chair a statesman of such wide experi
ence and such high renown as the sage of
Liberty Hall. In (honoring Mr. Stephens the
people honor themselves. The Constitution
favored his nomination and advocated his
election, not only because the occasion seem
ed to suggest such a course, but because of a
conviction shat his administration would
touch the intelligence, the desires and the
needs of the people at every conceivable
point. There will be no disappointment on
this score. Mr. Stephens is a great man,great
in his simplicity, in his experience, in his in
tegrity, and in his utter devotion to the best
interests of the people. The very highest
hopes of his administration may be indulged
in with the certainty that they will
be fulfilled in every detail and par
ticular. He will be the governor of
the whole people, and will be accessible to
the humblest citizen. He will be controlled
by no ring, or combination of rings. He
will be his own boss. He will conduct the
affairs of his office with wisdom, prudence
and economy. He will seek to promote the
happiness and prosperity of all the people of
every class, color and condition. His admin
istration will perpetuate the harmony and
unity of the democratic party, which, in
Georgia, means the organization and combin
ation of the best elements for the promotion
of the Inst interests of all classes of citizens.
This is wliat democracy means in Georgia,
and it has never achieved a more hopeful
victory, nor came nearer to carrying out its
designs than in the election of Mr. Stephens.
We repeat, the people are to be congratu
lated.
MR. STEPHENS AND THE YOUNG MEN.
A remarkable phase of the campaign which
has ju»t closed was the ardor and enthusiasm
which the young Mien of Georgia have mani
fested in behalf of Mr. Stephens. In Atlanta
these manifestations have been most marked,
and have resulted in a lively campaign in
augurated and managed wholly by young
men. and managed well. A Young Meu’s
Stephens club was organized in Atlanta early
in the canvass, with Mr. John M. Graham as
president ami Mr. Clarence Moore as vice-
president. When this club was in thorough
working order, Messrs. Graham and Moore
organized cluhs in every ward, and car
ried on the campaign with the dis
cretion of veterans and the energy of
youth. In this work they had the
active sympathy and assistance of nearly all
the young men of the city, and there is no
doubt that their efforts bad a marked influ
ence on the election—as all earnest, disinter
ested efforts must have whenever and wher
ever they may be put forth.
But we did not start out to make an invidi
ous mention of names. We intended merely
to point to the activity of the young men in
behalf of Mr. Stephens as a good sign. It
shows that they have a high appreciation of
character, integrity, wisdom and experience;
that they respect and venerate the results of
a pure life and tbe achievements of a great
intellect. Tbe state is to be congratulated on
the attitude of its young men,
MR. FURMAN’S FARM.
We have never printed in The Constitu
tion a more important letter than the one
that this morning gives the details of the ex
periment made by Mr. Farish Furman with
the scrub land of middle Georgia.
It is a notable thing that a farmer should
take 65 acres of thin land,producing less than
one bale of cotton to eight acres, and in five
years bring it up a bale and a half an acre.
It is better that lie has done this with home
made manure costing less than $4 a thousand
pounds, and that yields every year double the
cotton the manure cost, and in the fifth year
$3,600 surplus cotton on $942 worth of manure.
That he started with less than $2 worth of
manure to the acre, and achieved his highest
result with $14 to the acre puts his system
within the reach of the poorest farmer. That
he did all this with two mules is an evidence
of what a small farm well tilled means, and
that his land has risen from $5 to $100 an acre
is the inexorable sequence of his plan.
Of course there are some farmers and many
cynics who will laugh at his presen -ation.
The farmers will say, “why, I was planting
cotton before he was born.” The cynic will,
say, “we’ve heard of these fancy farmers be
fore.” All right. As long as Mr. Furman
can do wbat he is doing he is perfectly inde
pendent of farmers and cynics. As for us, we
believe his work is a good demonstration. It
is the result of a clear-headed, well educated,
determined young fellow giving himself up
to a scientific and practical study of the soil.
He has proceeded quietly and cautiously, but
intelligently, risking nothing and achieving
wonders. Just as sure as there is land to be
farmed in Georgia he has farmed it right, and
to his system or something like it the farmers
must come before Georgia fills her full
destiny.
At present it takes ovei 334 acres of Geor
gia land to produce one bale of cotton, ac
cording to the department reports. In our
opinion, it takes full four acres to make one
bale. Therefore, it took 3,200,000 acres of
Georgia land to produce the 800,000 bales that
made up Georgia’s crop last year. If every
acre was farmed as Mr. Furman’s is, 600,000
acres would have made that crop and left over
2,500,000 acres, now impoverished in bringing
a sprinkle of cotton, to either lie tallow and
let nature build it up or be put in other
crops, or in grass for stock to graze on. Of
course this result cannot be reached in a few
years. But every approach that is made to it,
every improvement that looks towards the
result Mr. Furman has achieved, is just that
much grined for Georgia. Intensive farming,
as he has put it into simple practice,
means rich acres, broad meadows, herds and
flocks, happy country homes, and prosperous
farmers, and these things mean a prosperous
people and an independent state.
A RIDICULOUS PROPOSITION.
A special dispatch from Washington to The
Constitution yesterday stated that the secre
tary of the republican central committee in
that city had received a telegram from A. E.
Buck, chairman of the republican state com
mittee of Georgia, announcing that in behalf
of General Gartrell, he will contest the elec
tion of Mr. Stephens on various grounds,
namely, the bribery of voters at the polls,
open and notorious intimidation, false counts
by the managers, failing to open the precincts
in some of the counties according to law, and
the voting of convicts.
This is all so absurd, and so peculiarly in
keeping with republican management and
methods in Georgia, that our readers will
doubtless be inclined to seek some informa
tion in regard to this chairman of the repub
lican committee who is thus advertised to act
“in behalt of General Gartrell” in this mat
ter. In our opinion neither the general nor
his real friends will relish this self-assumed
guardianship on tbe part of the republican
chairman. Many more Georgians will seek
nformation in regard to the person who so
glibly brands them as bribers, intimidators,
and false counters of ballots. As the exigen
cies of the campaign between him and Mr.
Hammond for congress in this dis
trict may require, these questions will
be fully answered. For the present
we content ourselves with showing that he
and those who may propose to act with him
are absurdly ignorant of the subject that has
engaged their attention. In paragraphs 4 and
5 of section 1 of the Constitution ef 1877, we
find these provisions:
Par. IV. The returns for every election of gov
ernor shall be scaled up by the managers, separate
ly from other returns, and directed to the president
of the senate and the speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, and transmitted to the secretary of
state, who shall without opening said returns,
cause the same to be laid before the senate on the
day after the two houses shall have been organ
ized, and they shall be transmitted by the senate
to the house of representatives.
Par. V. The member* of each branch ef the
general assembly shall convene in the representa
tive hall and the president of the senate and
the speaker of the house of represntatives shall
open and publish the returns in the presence and
under the direction of the general assembly; and
the persons having the majority of the whole num
ber of votes, shaU be declared duly elected gov
ernor of this state. * * * * *
By the same constitution, the general as
sembly must convene on the first Wednesday
in November, which this year will be the
first day of that month. That constitution
fixes his duration of office, prescribes his offi
cial oath and proclaims his official powers and
duties.
By section 49 of the code of 1873, the elected
governor must be inaugurated during the first
week of tbe session of the general assembly,
“and on such day of that week as the general
assembly, by joint resolution, appoints. On
failure of appointment, it takes place at 12
o’clock, meridian, on Saturday of that week,
uuless prevented by providential causes.”
There is no law for contesting the election
of a governor of Georgia. All the law as to
"contested elections” in Georgia is in sections
1329 to 1334 inclusive. Section 1333 provides
for contests "for constables, corporation offi
cers, or otber officers not provided for
above,” before “tbe court or persons who, by
law. issne the certificates of election.” Sec
tion 1330 is as to contest for seats in the gen
eral assembly. The only otber class of con
tests specified is called in section 1329 contests
for “any office requiring a commission from
the governor and elected by the people.” In .
these last the governor is the sole judge of the
election. What officers they are will be seen
in sections 133 and 134 of the code. They may
be said to be all civil officers, except as above
stated.
It is true that the constitution declares in
paragraph VI of the article 5 quoted above,
that “contested elections shall be determined
by both houses of the general assembly in
such manner as shall be prescribed by law.”
And that applies to the governor. But the
general assembly has not prescribed snch
manner, and were it unanimously in favor of
doiBg so it could not in time to prevent Mr.
Stephens’s inauguration. For by our consti
tution it takes six days to pass any law, and
he governor-elect must be sworn in under
existing law on the fourth day of the session
at the latest. Surely those who have talked
and telegraphed as to the intended contest do
not suppose the general assembly would
make itself so ridiculous as to begin after the
governor’s inauguration a plan for trying
his title to his office.
We have heard it stated that the chairman
of the republican state committee denies
sending the telegram announced by D. B.
Henderson. What we have said, however,
may serve as information not only to Buck,
but to a great many other people who have
some interest in the matter. There is no
mode of contesting a presidential election,
and none for contesting the gubernatorial
election of Georgia. Whether there should
be is a different question. Let those who
think there ought to be blame past legisla
tures for not prescribing the manner of such
Contests.
In spite of every statement to the contrary, the
Guiteau administration has made a desperate at
tempt to destroy the democratic party in Georgia.
Money has been sent into the state to aid the coali-
ion, and every trick known to the modern republi
can politician has been employed. To-morrow will
settle the matter. We hope to show the Guiteau
administration just how trickery overreaches itself
when it comes in contact with genuine democracy.
Editor Gorham has officially announced that the
accidental president is in favor of the coalition in
North Carolina. No official announcement is ne
cessary to show that the Guiteau administration s
in full fellowship with the Guiteau administra
tion. It has been patent here for months; in fact,
it has been advertised by the republicans from one
end of the state to the other.
Collector Tom Johnson, of Savannah, has re
tired from the congressional race in the first district.
This is a good thine for the democrats. Collector
Johnson has a large personal following in the dis
trict, including many democrats who would vote
for him regardless of party lines. Nicholls will
have no difficulty in defeating Atkins.
of the sunny south can go to bed to-night and take
a brief respite. But it is only a respite; there is
other work to do.
Governor STETHENb'8 majority is large enough
to justify him in taking immediate charge of aflairs,
bnt he will defer to custom and the law in this
matter.
It is thought that Rufus Hatcn is about to attach
himself permanently to a circus. He is of the opin
ion that continuous travel, night and day, will cure
dyspepsia.
The defeat of Mr. Stephens in Bartow county
shows what a tremendous influence General Long-
street has. He didn’t visit the county more than
half a dozen times, and now behold the result.
It was generally understood that Dr. Felton’s
friendship for Mr. Stephens, which has beea so
fully and freely advertised, was of the left-handed
variety. .
Phipps, who was caught stealing the poor-house
supplies in Philadelphia, admits that he has voted
the republican ticket ever since he was fourteen
years old.
A place has been reserved by the side of the re
public&u stiff for the remains of the coalition.
Editor Conley, of the National, will please raise the
dirge.
If the coalition would study Georgia law about
two minutes and a half, we should hear nothing of
this ridiculous talk about contesting the governor’s
election.
The majority in favor of the true Jeffersonian
democracy of Georgia is assuming metropolitan
proportions. No wonder the coalition wants to con.
test
The tariB mission made several attempts to
strike a town where a circus was performing, but
ihe newspapers nd railroad schedules misled
them.
Six years ago we had occasion to remark that the
democratic party of Georgia was a very big thing
We take pleasure in referring the reader to our files.
Editor Charles E. Smith, of the Philadelphia
Press, is making a tremendous effort to down Cam
eron without joining the independent movement.
Hubbell has made a striking success as a pamph -
leteer. When Dorsey takes the field, tbe republican
campaign may he said to be fairly inaugurated.
The Constitution will contain a full account of
Buck’s contest of Mr. Stephens's election—also a
report of his examination of Benator Brown.
They have no contests out in the wild northwest
The next governor simply gives his opponent seven
ty thousand rubles to leave the ranche.
We advise Folger to prepare to contest. The
best way to begin is to send to Georgia for one of
ur talented Georgia republicans.
The republicans ol the west are all getting closer
to beer. They have discovered that there is a good
deal of comfort in it.
If the coalitionists had consulted the people be
fore announcing themselves as candidates th ey
wouldn’t feel so tired this morning.
Viewed through Mr, Barnard’s spectacles, Mr.
Cruhl’s comet is inclined to cut up some capers.
For instance, yesterday morning it celebrated the
election of Mr. Stephens by dividing into three
pieces. Superstitious gents will please give the
comet room.
The esteemed New York Tribune says that Gen
eral Gartrell has "certainly succeeded in giving the
bourbons the worst scare they have had iu many
years.” This is funny. It shows that the editor of
the Tribune has been watching Georgia with an
eagle eye.
Mr. Stephens’s majority continues to grow. The
coalition smelled like a collection of Peruvian
guano and really acted as a fertilizer for the organ
ized democracy. Hereafter, wheu there is any ne
cessity of increasing the democratic majority it will
be well to call up the ghost of the coalition.
Right in the face of sixty thousand majority, the
esteemed New York Times says that.the election in
Georgia “shows that-the people are nearer ready
than ever before for new combinations and inde
pendent voting.” WeU, weU! Does the Times
propose to contest?;
The idea of contesting the election of Mr. Ste-
pnens could only have originated in the brilliant
minds of the republican leaders in Georgia. It is
supposed that the leaders of the custom-house and
capitol wings have pooled their issues on this.
We trust the American astronomeis will not come
to blows. The comet may be solid, or it may be
divided, but the gentlemen with telescopes should
bear in mind that Mr. Stephens is the next gover
nor of Georgia, and that the state is solid. These
facts ought to satisfy the astronomers.
Our accidental president is now engaged in fish
ing on our northern shores. A man of such signal
ability ought to be engaged in jumping up votes
for Folger. The sample rooms in New York city,
miss his genial smile.
There is some consolation in the fact that Jay
Hubbell’s campaign pamphlet puts the south and
the civil service reformers on the same general foot
ing. Some of the republican editors are feebly at
tempting to repudiate Hubbeli’s pamphlet, but
there is no doubt that it represents the sentiments
of the republican party.
The New v ’ork Sun says that the sooner the pur
chasable editors of the country are bought up by
Jay Gould, the better for the country. But perhaps
Mr Gould is too shrewd for this. He has already
made one or two noticeably bad bargains in this
direction.
“What will become of Judge Twiggs next
month?” the Chronicle asks. The answer to this
depends pretty much upon the successor the failure
of the republican attempt to consolidate all the op
position to democracy in Richmond county under
one tent.
Bob Ingebsoll, who believed in the innocence of
the star route thieves for a consideration, doesn’t
believe there was any such man as Noah. If old
man Noah has any surviving relatives, they ought
to feel very grateful.
We judge from the tone of Folger’s letter of ac
ceptance that he would have made a most success
ful street fakir. He is so plausible and so wordy;
and his dignity is mixed with so much geuuiue
condescension.
It is generally understood that the republicans of
the fifth district will make a still hunt in order to
beat Hammond. The programme is a very nice one,
but will it work? Probably not.
It is said that the editor of the New York Tribune
has offered to pay Editor Gorham’s passage to Cali
fornia—all for the good of the par.y. This indi
cates quite a state of thi-.gs
The sage of Liberty Hall made the closing speech
ol the campaign in Augusta Monday night
UNCLE REMUS AND THE COMET.
You all folks may be a havin’ a mighty good
time,” said Uucle Remus, rubbing the back of his
head against the door facing, “but I let you know
dis ain’t no wedder fer no picnics. I’m a talkin’
now; I’m a flinging de essent er de trul at you.”
“Why, what has come over you?” said the socle
ty editor, • pausing in the middle of an announce
ment relating to Miss Smithkins, of Smithkins-
vllle.
“Well, I des tell you w’at,” said Uncle Remus,
“I bin mighty mizerbul, en I ain’t no better now.
Look like ter me hit gits wuss. Ef I stays at home,
I feels lonesome; en ef I goes ter chu’ch, I gits stir-
news,
you ole
red up;.^n ef I loafs ’ioun’ town, I years bad
‘ ’T’er night I say ter myse’f, I did, ‘Remus, y<
The white republicans have demonstrated the
fact that they cannot control the negro vote. We
hardly know whether to congratulate the white re- jg ~ « me’eve’y time she gimme a plate er viules,
rapscallion you, you better go down dar whar Brer
John Henry preachin’, dat w’at you better do
You better go down daren year ’im sco’ de sinners.
W’id dat, I tuck my foot in my han’ en I put out,
en w’en I git dar, de house ’uz full, en dey wuz all
a settin’ dar des ez ca’m. en des ez cole blooded ez
mudeats in de mont’ er J iner wary. W’en I walk in
dey all cas’ der eyes on me, en dey keep on a look
in’ at me, twel bimeby I say ter myse’f, I did,
“Bless yo’soul, childun. I’ll des ’bout show you
who I is, en whar I come fum. en I des rar’d my
head back en I lit on ter dat ole time chune:
“Come along, true believer, come along.
And walk in de he v’mly way—
I rastle wid Jacob all night, all night,
I rastle wid Jacob all day!”
"You ain’t year me sing, is you, boss? Well,
bless yo’soul, I shuck dem niggers up, en defus
news you know I hadum swayin’ backards en for-
rerds same like I had um on a string. I des natally
hetted um up. Den I sorter ease down, and Brer
John Henry, he riz en begin for ter preach. I lay
back, I did, fer to ’joy myse’f, en I ain’t mo’n doze
off’fo’ he begin ferterietch on de comic.”
“On the what?” the society editor asked.
“On de.comic—dis yer stair w’at shows up’fo’ day
wid Vr back hair down. I done got my ’spishuns
er dat .comic, and Brer John Henry aiu’t no sooner
toten on ’er, dan I picks up my hat, I did, en makes
fer home. Brer John Henry done sent me wud dat
hegwine fetch me up at coufunee. aaze I vi’late de
‘ciplia.’ but I done got too ole en settle fer to squat
down en year dezeyer preacher mens take dertexes
on de comic. Is you seen ’er yit, boss?”
“No, not yet.”
“She’s a sight, mou! She look lak she done drap
loose fum some’rsen lef’ a streak er fier behime ’er
ez big ez er omlybus en loug ez a freight train; en,
honey, she’s desaeallyhootin’.”
“It is more than probable.” said the political ed
itor, “that if we don’t bother the comet, the comet
won’t bother ns.”
“Dey mout be mo’ dan one proberbul,” Uncle
Remus replied, “but, chile, don’t you fret; I ain’t
gwine nigh dat comic—dat I ain’t. De furder off
w’at she is de mo’ better I feels. Ef no comic don’t
come a-huntin’ atter me 1 ain’t gwine huntin’ after
no comic—now you kin des mark dat down wid de
p’int er yo’ scissors.
"W’at pesters me,” continued Uncle Remus in a
troubled tone, “is de way Miss Sallie gwine on
Bless gracious! I can’t git in sight er de house bid-
out Miss Sally come a-hollerin’: ‘Remus! Oh, Re
mus? Man done fine n’er comic. Yer de ‘count
right in de paper.’ Ef I ain’t forgit some, deyer
mo’n ’lev’m un um right now in;de Nunlted States,
en deyer all a-makin’ fer Atlanta, Georgy. I ax
Mars John ’bout it. en he hoot at me, bnt Miss Sally
she say ef l don’t b’leeve w’at she say, I kin des git
up’fo’ day and look todessunnse, en, bless gracious!
dar wuz de comic right at me. De way I puts it
down is dat Miss Sally got mo' sense dan me en Mars
John hole puttergedder.”
“Hit look like,” said Uncle Remus, after a little
pause, “hit look like dey can’t be no mo’ ’leckshuns
’roun’ In deze naborhoods ’cepin’ deys a comic
hung up in de elements. I duuner w'at kinder
sign dat is, but dar she is. Miss Sally, she talk pol-
publicans or the negroes.
For. fear that people at a distance may think t aat
Buck is an ignoramus, we will state that he is a
very shrewd man. He simply gets off hi* feet when
he seats himself to telegraph w Derby Henderson.
The while republicans of Georgia will continue
to claim that they coutrol the negro vote in Georgia
whereas, they do not control one-lenth of it.
What does Jay Hubbell think of this?
There is a moral iu tne result of yesterday’s elec-
fou for the gentlemanly leaders of independent-
ism who contracted with the republicans to destroy
the democratic organization.
The democrats of the fifth congressional district
will now have an opportunity to turn their atten
tion to the fine Italian campaign which Mr. Buck, of
the coalition detail, is making.
The Jeffersonian democracy of the empire state
but 1 mos’ fear’d fer ter go np dar en slip in my
ballots. Eve’y time I year talk er 'leckshun, den I
year talk er comics. Las’ year, year 'fo' las’, en
now dish year. Up dey comes an' dar dey hangs.
Some you kin see, eu some you can’t, but you kin
year tell er all un um. Dey comes up en dey looks
at us en den dey goes a sailin’ off. Whar dey comes
fum en whar dey goes ter, I be bless ef I know, but
w’at do dey come fer eve’y time deys a
’leckshun up? Dat w’at I wanter know.
Sho ez youer settin’ dar, hit’s mighty quate dat a
cullud man can’t go en cas’ his ballots bidout dey’s
a comic a settin’ up a watchin’ 'im. I ain’t
skeered,” continued Uncle Remus, moving to
wards the door, “but I'm gwine to keep one eye on
MissSallyan’te’roneonde comic, an’w’en Miss
Sally startslin fer ter pack up den I’m gwineter
gowid’er. kaze w’en dey done fool all de yuther
folks, de day ain’t gwineter come we’n dey fool
Miss Sally.”
BUZZ AND BOUNCE.
THE GOSSIP THEY HEAR IN NEW
YORK.
8piey Talk* and Bright Aneodotea of the Men and
Things Fast and Present in the Metropolis of
the New World—Beeoher snd His Politi
cal Sermon- Theatrical .facts.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
New York, October 5.—Henry Ward Beech
er has created quite a stir here by
preaching a political sermon in which he
insisted that the defeat of Folger would tend to
purify the republican party. The sermon, which
was eulogistic of Cornell and his administration
and teeming with abuse of the men who packed
the Saratoga convention, is published in pamphlet
form and distributed liberally through the city.
It is charged openly that Beecher was paid by the
Cornell faction to deliver the sermon as a campaign
document to beat Folger. The sermon was a spicy
one, and I will give you some sample extracts
fromrt:
“Politicsis one of the noblest things the mind
can contemplate,but the latter day politicians have,
by their scheming, covered the term politician with
reproach and made it a synonym of immorality.
The politician is popularly considered as a worm
who bores into the timber of state.” „
“The platforms of the two parties.” he continued,
differed in little or nothing. They were both loud
ly iu favor of honest government, honesty for the
laboring man, for the soldier, and for the people.
But platforms were mostly masks behind which
men concealed their real designs. The men who
made them laughed most heartily at them.
“There is no manner ot doubt that Governor Cor
nell was set aside not for his vices, but for his vir
tues. There were two influences behind it all.
One was revenge, the other was avarice. You re
member it is written that when Christ was con
demned Tilate and Herod were made friends. On
the day that Governor Cornell was set aside Avarice
and Revenge met and kissed. 1 can see in my mind
one man who was glad to see him dispossessed be
cause of his revengeful feelings, and another be
cause of the money that he was jingling in his
pockets. Let me say rather that he would
have had less to jingle if Mr. Cor
nell had been renominated. I won't he a part
ner in any compact between Avarice and Re
venge. My right hand should forget its cunning
before I vote for any man who Is presented to me
to gratify revenge or malice. The republican can
didate has earned a high name. They cannot
bribe me by putting up a good man to vote for in
order to displace a better man. I say that such a
man is a mere cats paw, used for the purpose of
putting a face of respectability ou an infernal act.
“Ought there to sit on yonder police board, which
is notoriously feed, a man who has participated in
recent party proceeding* of such a doubtful nature?
Is it not an outrage and a scandal that the presi
dent makes such a man his bosom friend? Is it
not an iniquitous thing that instead of conciliating
the mass of outraged voters a man has been picked
up and made chairmain of the state committee
who is simply notorious for a want of reputation?
They should know that the sentence is even now
being written on thousands of votes which will de
scend noiseless as snowflakeB, but with all the force
of an avalanche. The republican party should not
countenance the forgery and fraud perpetrated at
Saratoga by voting for the candidate foisted upon
them by the convention.”
Talmage made gambling his text last Sunday,and
handled the stock exchanges, lotteries and gift en
terprises without gloves. He said:
“In ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, when
a man loses money he hushes it up. There aic ex
ceptions: As when the police of Boston broke into
gambling den and found there the merchants of
State street and the poor ones of Ann street; as
when Bullock of the Georgia Central road was dis
covered to have stolen *103,COO for gambling: os
when a man in Wall street transferred *180,000 from
the accounts of his customers to the pockets of the
gamblers.
“Oneof the main pipes to the sewer of iniquity
is business excitement. Most of the day gambling
houses of New York have been found to be in the
neighborhood of Wall street. When men get
through one form of gambling they pass to another
in order to keep up the excitement. The excite
ment of the stock exchange disqualifies a man for
going home. So they pass from the exchange to
the faro or the roulette table.
“In the presence of God this day I arraign gift
enterprises as being mainly responsible for the fear
ful spread of this evil. Men who failed in other
business got up gift concerts. Then came the prize-
package humbug. You bought a package on the
promise of finding a great prize and you found
nothing. Yea, the very name of ebariry was in
sulted by the association with it of such enterprises.
After the war they were gotten up professedly for
widows and orphans by men who would let the
widow and the orphan starve on the doorstep. I
have no faith in an enterprise which for the sake
of present benefit will open Vide the jaws of a
monster for the reception of bodies and souls.”
“There Is a capital fellow who sprang into fame
very'suddenly,” a friend of mine remarked the
other day as Joe Keppler, the caricaturist of Puck,
passed. “A few years ago he was working hard
and making a scant living by writing for the SL
Louis papers. Some of Frank Leslie’s folks seeing
a rough election cartoon of his offered him StOO a
week to come to New York, which he accepted ea
gerly. Soon after he came here he started “Puck,"
Schwartzman, his partner, furnishing the money.
Puck, which was the only German comic paper of
any sort of ability in this country, sprung into pop
ularity with its first issue and immediately be
came a well paying investment. The cartoons,
being bold and attractive, became so
popular with the Americans that the partners
decided to publish an English edition. The result
was that in less than a month the F.nglish transla
tion doubled the German edition. It now has over
65,000 copies in circulation in English
and 15,000 in German. Now each of
the partners draw 81,000 a week besides improving
the property and leaving a surplus to make up a
reserve fund. Keppler’s rock and tree faces in the
Hancock and Hayes campaign gave him a reputu_
tion that made him the rival of Nast ” By the way (
Tom Nast is getting to be one of the richest news
paper men in this country. He has been getting
*250 a ivtek from the Harpers for ever so long, be-
sides what he has made by outside work and in the
lecture field. He is without any extravagant habits
and has saved his money. Matt Morgan, who is
probably the mast cultivated and versatile charica*
turistin this country, and who was brought over
from England by Frank Leslie—to compete with
Nast in the Greeley campaign, has abandoned the
profession and settled dawn in Cincinnati. He gets
*200 a week from a large show printing house and
is building a $10,000 house ou the hills.
On last Saturday the house of A. T. Stewart was
closed. Mr. Edward J. Dunning, who has for a
long time been superintendent of the retail husi .
ness, has rented a portion of the store and will carry
on the business as before. He will employ all the
old clerks, and saj s he will try and keep up the rep
utation for having tne best which Mr. Stewart
worked a lifetime to establish Samuel Groocock,
who had cha.geof the hosiery department, H. C.
Sylvester, who was ac the head of the Paris branch
of the house, and two sons of Judge Hilton have
formed a copartnership and will continue the
wholesalebusines-of the old firm. The two first
floors of the building will be rented to the new
firms, the upper stories will be fitted up as whole
sale dry goods stores with elevator*, electric lights,
and all modem improvements. Judge Hilton said
that the business had always paid well, and that
he closed it because it was too heavy a tax upon his
ill health to attend to it. Running the store with
its seven branch houses and several factories pre
vented his carrying out Mr. Stewart’s plans con
cerning Castle Garden, and several other things
that he now pioposed to devote himself to exclu
sively.
I met Peter Cooper the other day with his rubber
shoes, his water proof top coat, his umbrella and
his air cushion. He was commenting on Thurlow
Weed’s ill health is this wise: “He is only eighty-
four and ought not to die so young.” Cooper is up-
in the nineties and wonders how it is that a man
a half a dozen years his junior should ever be sick.
Bishop Potter is eighty and attends to his large dio
cese without assistance, and is iu better health
than he was thirty years ago. Ex-Governor E. D.
Morgan is a perfect picture of health at seventy,and
William K. Dodge, six years his senior, does not
look a day over fifty. August Belmont is three
score and ten, but has always taken care of himself,
except when he fought a duel and was wounded
and has a good prospect for a dozen more years of
active life. Russell Sage, though seventy, does the
work of ten men and looks younger than Jay Gould,
who is only forty. Mr. Tilden,though not seventy,
is completely broken down; politics has worn him
out early, as it did Horace Greeley. I am getting
bald myself, though I am not yet fifty.
The semi annual book trade sale began last week
at Clinton hall with a consignment of stereotype
plates. Brown’s Folio Bible brought *1,500; Catho
lic Bible, with notes, *2,000: Nicholson’s Encyclo-
pa'dia of Architecture, *1,000; Rural Cemeteries of
America, *500; Lossing& Spencer’s Complete His
tory of the United States, down to the present ad
ministration, *7,000; Moore’s Byron, *2,500;
Works of Thomas Moore, *2,000-
the Rollo Books, (first published over
twenty-five years ago). SI,750: Rollo’s Tour in Eu
rope, *1 250; Abbott’s American History for Youth,
S4S0; the Florence Stories, §300; the Harlie Stories',
*150; Theodore Tilton’s Tempest Tossed, S50; Hill's-
Life of Washington Irving and Bryant, *120; the
new American edition of Itoget’s Thesaurus, *1,005.
and Spurgeon’s Sermons, *1,015. In many cases the
copyrights went with the plates. ’> he first bookson
the catalogue, those of Appleton * Co., sold very
well: the works of Darwin, Iiuxl ,-y, Tyndall and
Spencer bringing 75 per cent of the retail price.
Yesterday was openingday of the National Trot
ting and Horse Breeding association at the Gentle
men Driving park. The trots were well attended.
Mr Robert Bonner drove a fast chestnut colt. Mr
Frank Work held the reins over Dick Swiveler and
Edward. Wm H Vanderbilt rode behind Lysander.
General Grant drove the old sorrel mare—pacing
mare—that pulled his open wagon »t Long Branch
all summer. Governor Stauford drove the cele
brated Calfomla trotter Wildflewer. W K Vander
bilt rode behind Boy Dick and Early Rose. Mr Sea
man Lichtenstein had out his handsome chestnut
team. Topper and Harry Venu. J S Shaw drove his
famous marc, Jessica, and WmShaw drove TriHheL
The trotting was good and Idon’trememberotever
seeing as many of the best horses of New York to
gether as I did yesterday.
on Its stock bonds and leases amounts to S5,G39,U46.
After publishing a list of the bonds, mortgages, etc.,
and interest paid on each, it says: “From a study
of these tables it is manifest that the must earn in
round numbers something like *170,000 net per
month in order to meet its interest, siuking fund
and car trust bonds. The statement of the earn
ings, gross and net, which are issued and printed
from time to time by the company, show that the
gross earnings are at the rate of *1,000,000 per month
and that the expensesare at the rate of about 09 per
cent, or *750,000 per mouth, leaving *341,000 per
month to cover fixed charges, thus demonstrating
incoDtestably and irrefutably the inability of this
corporation to continue for a much longer period to
pay interest upon its obligations ”
Dr. H. L. Little, of the Jefferson hospital, Phila
delphia, has just performed a surgical operation
that is creating a great deal of comment. It con
sists of transplanting a piece of membrane from a
rabbit’s eye into the eye of a patient, which had
been injured by sulphuric acid. Dr Little removed
the eyelid from its firm adhesion to the ball and
made it ready for the new piece of membrane,
which Dr L W Fox, assisted by Dr Hewson, had
carefully dissected from the left eye of the uncon
scious rabbit, and the part was rapidly transferred
to the under surface of the man’s eyelid and neatly
stitched to its place. Another operation will be
performed that will, it is thought, restore sight to
the injured eye.
POINTS.
Jay Gould has asked for estimates from threeship
builders—John Roach, of Chester, the Cramps, of
Philadelphia, and Steers, of New York—for an
ocean yacht which shall eclipse anything afloat
The requirements are that It shall surpass In ele
gance and comfort any ship ever built, shall sail
faster and smoother, and be built In such a way as
to prevent seasickness. his looks as if he was
preparing for his journey around the world.
Talmage in his sermon on gambling says: “Sir
Horace Walpole tells of a man who dropped dead
on the steps of a club-house in which he had gamed
away a fortune. And when his lifeless form was
carried into the house the men began to bet on
whether he was dead or not. It was proposed to-
bleedhim, but one of the gamblers said that was
not fair play.”
Ross Raymond, formerly of the Herald and fora
while New York correspondent of The Constitu
tion, is now in I ondon and a reporter of “The Tel
egraph;” He is; also rehashing eastern letters
which he dates in Egypt and publishes in the San
Francisco Sunday Chronicle.
In New York people go every where. A few
nights ago I dropped, into Dick Parker’s variety
show on 3d avenue, ami saw Leonard W. Jerome
president of the Long Island jockey club, drinking
beer with some young friends and apparently en-
joymg the perfotmauce.
| |The demand for seats at Mrs. Langtry’s first ap
pearance iu this country Isso great that Abbey has
decided to sell them at auction, commencing a
week before the first performance and selling so-
many seats a day until they are all taken.
Bancroft, the historian, has over 14,000 books in
his library, and is said to value more than any other
book he has the original edition of the historv of
Captain John Smith.
Miss Rosalie Beecher, a well known society belle
and a relation of the great preacher, will make her
debut on the operatic stage in “Lucia.” with Stra-
kosli opera troupe at the Grand opera house on to
morrow night.
Thegreat Newbuig poker case has been sett!»<l
by Hedges and Scott giving Newbui-g 320,000 fbt-
which they got his receipt in full payment of all
claims.
. It seems that Mrs. Langtry has become common
in the old country. Her photographs are being
sold for two pence in England.
Howard Carroll, of the New York Times, 6-
prominently spoken of as the republican nominee
for congressman-at-large.
J R Keene and family will leave next week for
Europe and will remain in the old world two or
three years.
Theo’s husband is a fashionable Parisian tailor
who makes her stage clothes.
Buzz and Bounce.
The Absent-Minded Man nnd HU Box.
From the Oil City Derrick.
“IwasgoingtoKlnzua, when a young man got
on at Warren and sits down side of me, and bym’by
says he, ’I’ve a little box here I call my bean box.’
With that he pulls outa little round box an’ shakes-
it, an’ I hears somethin' rattle. ‘Now,’ says he,
‘s’pose we jest bet the cigars on their being odd
or even beans in that box, ‘All right,’ says I, ‘it’s
o<id.’ ‘You’ve lost,’ says he. ‘Yes,’says I;‘we’U
get the cigars at Kinzua.' And then we falls to-
talkin'about somethin’ else along time, until all
at once says he, ‘I j tut want to show you a little bean
box I've got here;’ an’ he pulLs out that box again.
Says he, * Let's bet the cigars or something on odd or
even beans in this box .’ Thinks I to myself, you poor
absent-minded critter, can't rem- mber that you
showed that to me a minute ago. And I says,
•AUrieht; s’posewe make the bet five dollars.’" I
thought I'd jnst teach him to remember things.
‘I'll do it.’says he; ’now what is it?’ ’Even,’ says
I. lie opened the box and ” “Well, what
then?” says the reporter, as the colonel paused.
“He wasn’t so absent-minded after all,” said the
colonel. “There wasseven beaus in that box.’-
"I found out afterward that the box had no bot
tom, or rather had covers at both ends. Ou one of
the cavers was fastened three beans and there were
four loose beans in the box. When the man who
bet said odd, the cover to which the beans were
fastened was taken off, and when he said even, the
other end was lifted.’ ’