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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GAt TUESDAY JULY 6 1886 THB WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. SSStt the Atlanta iwoaoou moona-ctam MsU oiMr, Kent, bur 11, 1178. Weekly Conjuration, 01.23 p*r «Mm OIut>aori!vo.»LOO:*acKi cinbe of tea *L00 etch •■a a oepy I* *etl*r-ep of Club. A WORD WITH YOU. jj worn are not n enbacrlber to The ftonxtf- (otlon, this Copy U Mut yon na a eample, ■rttkaroqnMttbatyon examine Bad decide ■bother or not yoa want to taka It. Too need a good paper for ISM. Wo think The Seaotltntlon to the boot paper you can get. neaoe|examlae£H carefnllr. Read It, oom- gam It with other papere, and nead na your •abeertptlon. It wtU bo the beet laroetment ^KvyU one year and yon will noror qott It. ' ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. JU1.V 6. US8. The Beginning of Prohibition. Thursday the prohibition law went into ef fect in Fnlton connty. Tlie law was adopted afler a campaign in which every argument on both eide* was exhausted. It was in many reaped*, a heated campaign. Every citizen had on opportunity to decile the mat ter for himself so far aa bia ballot was con cerned. The popularity of the measure was put to the supreme test, and prohibition was carried by a majority sufficiently large to show that the public aenlimeutof the county was overwhelmingly in ita favor. The conditions that rendered the adoption ef the law possible, have not changed. A large majority of onr people are in still in favor of carrying out the strict letter, aa well astbespiritoftbelaw. The predictions and citations that have been made in regard to the injury that has been and will lie done to the business and properly interests of Atlanta have had so effect The public sentiment or the city and of the county has concluded, it see ms, that whatever sac rl lice is necessary to be made for the suppression of the liquor traffic, will be more than myd* up, morally and materially, by the results to be derived from a rigid enforcement of the law. Those who oppose prohibition ought to be convinced that the majority in lavor of the law is not to be reversed by either argument or prediction, and It seems to ns, therefore, that, under all the drcuni'tonces, it is to the interest of the whole community loses that the law is enforced. The "Baine John B. Gordon." “ The Savannah Times of a late date con talced the following. (isnerel Cordon tbsn may be nominated for governor, and It nominated will lie elected. He will never agelu, In their eatlmstlon, be the John B. (Jordon of the post. This is unfortunately trne. To such a pitch has political discuislon descended in this state, that it would have been trne of any other man, who stood In Gonlon’o shoes. Thrro was a time tn Georgia when an hon orable gentleman might icek honorable pre ferment In the ranks of his own party and among his own jieople, without the certainly at being besmirched from head to foot with abase and vilification. Bat that time has peered. Within the past fow years then has arisen in this state, a small party of violent people, who, sslf-right- cons and dogmatic, intolerant of nil virtue* sava those assumed by them- •elves, foil with savage and senseless fury on cvciy man who dares to oppose their aolllah schemes. It Is this gang of malcontents that has vilified Gordon. It will not do to say that they have been Justified In their assaults. Wa may admit that Genital Gordon u a public man has made mistakes—that in pri vate buslneee aflaira he has been unfortunate. Bull then is nothing in his career or his character that admits tha possibility of his being either a liar, a coward, a thief, a bribetaker, a perjurer, and yet ha has been charged directly or by potitlvo implication with being all these combined. Nor will it do to say that General Gordon himself is responsible for these amaults being made on him. It Is the intolerant aplrit ef this gang that strikes all men and spates none, that is responsible. The his- (oiy of tbs past ftw years affords plentiful proof of this. It is the same spirit that charged the immortal Ben Hill with having sold his senatorial in licence, and led one of Its apostles to say that be was so filled with "shams and disgust” at Benator Hill’s conns that ha would have denied his birth place if questioned, became Mr. Hill was also a Georgian. It was the same spirit that so vilified Benator Hill that he said in his amazed indignation that the “vilest pro duct of tha carpet-bag slums” bad never aqtitlsd its mendacity or venom. It la the annas spirit that clouded tbs last days of Alex Stephens with reproach and abuse and denounced him aa on imbecile and a traitor te bia party. It is the same spirit that now denounces Governor Smith aa dishonest and unscrupulous and cowardly, where It foe* muty praised him as ail that was admira ble. Itie the seme spirit that charged Jodge Bimmone with "selling justice from the bench" in furtherance of Ida own octroi re, when a month afterwards the united Ur of Moron, with enthusiasm aud without division, geve him ouch testimonials of uprightness and ebilify as no Georgia Judge hat bed before or eince. It is the eame spirit tUt, when Judge John T. Clarke accepted an invitation to be present at a meeting of e Gordon clob, eekl that this foi l proved him to be utleily unfit and unworthy of s seat on the supreme bench. It it the same spirit that denounces the gentlemen who have taken the stomp tor Central Gordon as “paid emiasaries’’ and "wretched hirelings.” It is the lame spirit that denounces Gov ernor McDaniel without ceasing end characterises tha past twelve years, cm- baring the administrations of Smith, Col- quilt, Stephen*, Boynton aud McDaniel, ae "twelve yean of robbery ami misrule." It ia the same spirit that struck Governor Boynton down from e place he had not Bought, hot which he was entitled in all courtesy sad tsireeoa to hold. It is the same spirit that charges that even voting for Gen eral Gordon ia "a crime," and that the honest thousands wlro support him am die. haaret te abort, It ia tb aama spirit tUt dmits no honest difference of opinion, tie- jnanda that CTtry man shall truckle to ita hand and considers every man a scoundrel who dares stsnd up in opposition. General Cordon, we tear, will never lie “the same General Gordon” to some of onr people. In spite of his amaxing and over, whelming victory, there will be some who will listen to the chargee pat upon him. To such be will not U the "same General Gor den;” bnt to tens of thousands ot others he will be the better beloved because of this— because of tbe heroic comradeship of this terrible conflict that have hound them to him stronger than with bands of steel; and by all good men be will be honored became he boa been strong enough In tbe love ami confidence of his people to pat down the hosts of slander and viliflcatlon and gal lastly lead his frlenda to victory from tho midst of a straggle that in bitterness, reck- lestness and rancor stands without parallel or precedent. He has taught in this earn, paign that a good character in this old com monwealth is proof against the amaults of slander, and that a reoord of twenty-five yean of honorable and stainlom service can not be dimmed in a day’s passion or ob scured by a month oi mud-slinging. This lemon ia vastly more important than his personal victory, and we have the best rea son for saying that he himself considers it so. Mains anil Crops. The recent heavy rains throughout Georgia have been very damaging to the agricultural interests of tbe state. The small grain crops have been materially injured. Wheat has been flattened out, so to speak, and oats have been rained. Corn is a great absorber of moisture, bnt the recent storms have been too much for it In many sections it has a yellow, sickly appearance, due to the fact that it has been drowned out. It is supposed that cotton has also beefein- jured, bnt cotton is one of those mysterious plants that flourish in spite of the weather. A few days of sunshine will relieve and rc- diem cotton from almost any trouble. For many years now we have seen tbe cotton crop ruined, but somehow tbs number of bales continues to increase. It may be said, therefore, that while other crops have been injured by the heavy rains, the injury to colton will mainly came from the Aagast drouth, which we are sure to have. The rainy weather, however, has been accompanied in many sections by violent winds, nnd the damago baa in tills way been extended beyond tbe orops. In some parts of the state the rains have taken the shape of freshets. The streams have overflowed their hanks, and the crops on the bottom lands hove been washed away. The form ers, all things considered, havo lieen having n very bard time. But thoy keep np their spirite, in epite of rain and storme. Indeed we know of no clam that accepts misfortune with more equanimity—no matter whether it is tbe misfortune of low prices or the mis fortune of damaged crops. Wa tiust the damage from the recent rains is not ns large as it now aeems to lie. if any class deserves tbe smiles of Providence, it is the farming cIssb; nnd it is to be hoped that sunebine and heautlfol weather may be the mesne of laving the crops. As for the grass, which ii known in Georgia as General Green, Providence baa very little to do with that. In order to overcome General Green, the formers will be compelled to meet him on bia own ground. They are used to this, however. They can kill General Green and vole for General Gordon, and that is about as much aa any farmer is expected to do. A Plain Matter of Fact. Certain of the Bacon organs in their rage end mortification at the overwhelming victo ries won by Gordon, go very much out of their way to find an explanation. Their first suggestion is that money is being used to corrupt the people. This charge is false, utterly, absolutely and wickedly Adae. In yesterday’s Chronicle it is charged that the "eagle bird” won the fight for Gordon in Lincoln connty. We as. ■ert mast positively that not one dollar of money, not ono cent, was lent Into Lincoln county. General Gordon’s campaign in Lin coln was headed by Messrs. Colley, Hollins heed, Barksdale, Hell end others, end more honorable gentlemen, or upright democrats, do not live. The charge that the "eagle bird" won In Lincoln ie a alamlor on them. It waa charged in tho Athena Banner that money wsa need to buy the votes of Oconee. Mr. Gantt, the editor of that paper, boa tn a manly way apologised for certain paragraph! touching Oconee, which were inserted in his absence. We presume tliat bis reparation coven the charge that money woe corruptly used. U it docs not, w o repeat here that not ono dollar was aont into Oconee couuty. Not one single cent was spent by Mr. Cal houn or any other friend of General Gor don’s, except Mr. Calhoun’a legitimate trav eling expenses through tbe county. We uu- dcntnnd it was charged in Uwiunctt that money waa being need to buy tbe votes of that county. We amort that not one dollar has been sent into that county for tbe pur pose of buying votes or for any other pur pose. The above denials we have made ex plicit and plain. We challenge contradic tion of one of them and defy proof to the contrary. In general terms wo assert that notone dollar boa been expended in this campaign by the friends of General Gordon for the pnirhan of a single vote, as for aa our knowl edge extends. The charge that the eoaotiee, In which white democrats alone hove voted, have been corrupted by money, Is a slander on the people ns well as on the friends of General Gordon, and the men who make the charges know that they are bin when they write them. There has been money ex pended on both sides of this campaign The Macon Telegraph, in an article which was eloquent with an intonation for more, pub licly thanked tbe people of Savannah for having contributed one thousand dollars to the Beam campaign tend. This ie doable n much as any city, or any corporation, or any perron whatever ba* contributed to the Gordon thud. As n matter of ronree, the one thousand dollars sent op by Bevonnah waa supplemented by Urge tuuouuts sent in by other cities for the llacon nmpaign fond. And this amount has been used to promoting Major Bacon's inti rest. We presume it has been used to a leg' limato manner. We hare ro evidence that it has been used otherwise. Wa uaett plainly ned positively that there bee cot here an illegitimate dollar apent in the interest ef General Gordon, with the knowledge or consent of any Ode charged with the rondnet of his campaign, end wo defy proof to tbeeoolrary. We admit, even et the riek of inclining the eternal comity ef Statesman Walsh, that some little moery- has keen invested inbress hands This, how ever, wsa done before the statesman had sig nified hjs deadly aversion to martial music. The charge that money had been used to buy up the democratic primaries of Georgia is absurd an ita face, wicked in it* purpose and folse all through and throngb. It is the cry of fellows who have been beaten throngb their own blunders, and who are ashamed to stand np like men and acknowledge it. In addition to thia charge there is another qnito as vague, and quite as false. It is charged that General Gordon’i victories hare lieen won throngb some sort of “pressure” or "delusion” of the masses by which the people were driven or misled Into doing what they did not intend to do. This is a misera ble reflection on the intelligence, and staunchness of the democrats of Georgia. Where does the "pressure” come from? From the press? Let us see about that. The Constitution is the only daily paper in Georgia that supports General Gordon. The Angnafo Chronicle, Angosta News, Macon Telegraph, tbe Macon News, the Athens Banner, tbe Borne Courier, the Al bany News, the Coweta Advertiser, and the Bavannab Times, have fonght him openly. The Savannah News is opproed to both Ba con and Gordon, and the Columbus Enquirer is neutral. Here we have the daily press of the state on one aide and Tag Constitu tion on tbe other. Do the Bacon organs contend that Tiie Constitution alone has been able to mislead the people when every county in tbe state has been sown ton-deep with their sheets? But ia it tbe politiciaas? Let us see aboat that. Every man of intel ligence knows that eight ont of ten of the politicians oi Georgia, that is of tbe men who usually control in county and state afl'aiiH, are for Bacon, and are against Gor don. There is no denying this. Do the Bacon organs contend that tha few politi- dsna who favor tbe Gordon men, have mis led the people over the protest of the many who favor Baron? The truth is, General Gordon has succeed ed very largely through tho blnnders, tho stupid and senselesa blunders, of tho man wliusupport Major Bacon, and eapectallyof newspapers that rapport him. This fact is notations, and its assertion is on the Ups of two men out of every three that yon meet, whether for Bacon or for Gordon. General Gordon's marvellous strength with tbe people—the earnestness, and enthusiasm of his supporters—tha vigor nnd frankness and capodty with which his friends in the various counties have managed bis campaign—the justice of his cause—aud hie stainless and illustrious record for twenty-five years—all these hod made np e canso for Gordon that was well nigh resistlcis; bnt a very important contri bution to his success has been the wretched and persistent blundering of the men who have managed Major Bacon’s campaign, nnd especially of the newspaper statesmen who have taken the job of running the affairs of this state. The chagrin of these men at the miscarriage of their schemes—mortification which comes to them when they find that friend nnd foe have placed upon them tbe responsibility of their blunders—nnd the rage which foUows crashing defeat. All these have conspired to make them hunt for a scape-goat on which they can tumble their own shortcomings. Hence we have charges that the democratic voters of this groat state —as staunch nnd incorruptible demoemte as there are in this republic—have been bought nnd corrupted by gold. And that the intel ligent people of Georgia—aa intaUigent vot ers as there are in thia ropnblio—have been huddled like abaepor misled like fools into doing wbat they ought not to do and what they really did net intend to da. Both chaiget are false, and both chargee are absurd, end the men who print nndciroalato them, know that they are both false and absurd when they send them ont. The peo ple of Georgia honor John B. Gordon became they love him, and because they have confi dence in him, nnd because they feel that he haa been wickedly nnd wantonly nnd nn- justly slandered, and tbe senseless rage and blundering* of those who try to beat him down, has made the way easy for the people to honor him. ■Willing to Obey tho Law. Binee the prohibition election in December about one handled saloons and liquor stores have closed np. The owners of theas estab lishments were opposed to prohibition. They fonght it, but to their credit it must be raid that they did not go beyond the methods usually employed in a political campaign. When the fight went ngainat them they tawed glare fully to the will of the majority, and accepted the situation. . When it is recollected that theas men had, lome of them, large interests at stake, while others bad their all thus invested, it will be seen that they did not yield without making a sacrifice. Yet, through the oontlict, and down to the hour when they closed their doors, they conducted themselves with the moderation end tropeet for taw which are Uio distinguishing characteristics of good citizens. They did no more. They an nounced their intention of giving prohibition e fair trial, end to a man, so far aa heard from, agreed to do their part in securing the enforcement of the lew. Under all the circumstances the spirit in which these who were engaged in the liqnor traffic have accepted the remit ie worthy of all respect and deserves high praise. It speaks well for tbe good citizenship mid good fellowship of onr people. It is another proof that onn is eminently a law and order community, where men arbitrate their dif ferences et the ballot box, and then pull to gether, shoulder to ebonider, for the common good of ail. After aU, the notable thing about Atlanta ia the unity of her people. Sometimes the lights and shadows of diver sity play over it, bnt it is unity ell the tame. , Sonic Points of the Campaign. The Bacon organs having failed to defeat General Gordon, art now trying to becloud the splendor of his victory. They charge that his friends have bull dozed and mialod the people. That his vote is the result of Uickeiy end wire-pnllieg. That it is the work of a “ring." That it haa been achieved by disreputable methods. Mr. Welth, ef tbe Augusta Chronicle, goes so fori*toroy Ural "anothersuch victory will disrupt ike party.” We eie ready for a detailed discussion of the iacucn involved in this campaign, and tb* methods by which it waa wan, when ever it is necearary. lathe meantime we submit t Jew paints that are simply unas sailable. We ask a calm and reasonable censideralioa of them by all fair minded pccple: 1st. General Garden entered the cam paign jnst six weeks ago. Major Bacon had been quietly canvassing for about two years and bad nn organization in every connty in the state. 2nd. The very firat step token by Gen eral Gordon waa to declare for “primary” diet ions and ask Major Bacon to join him in requesting the state committee to order primaries in every county. Everywhere end ell the time General Gordon has advo cated primaries. Bo has The Constitu tion. If, in two or three cue* his friends have voted for mam-meeUage, they have done to against his expressed views. 3rd. More primaries lmve been held in this campaign, ten times over, than in any campaign ever known in Georgia, and Gen eral Gordon has loot bnt three counties in which primaries were held—Macon, Han cock and Chattooga. 4tb. Tbe vote in the primaries nnd mass- meetings of this campaign have been an- prcccdentiy large. In many counties the largest democratic rote ever polled has been cast—and In many more tbe vote has nearly equaled tbe white registration of the coun ty. The interest haa been general nnd the turnout has been much heavier than'ever known. fitli. General Gordon has carried a larg er percentage of counties since he entered the race than any candidate who ran with opposition, within onr memory. On the important votiog days it has been 7 conn ties ont oi 0, and 0 ont of 11, and 10 ont of IP—1 to 0, and on yesterday 5 to las for as heatd from. 0th. General Gordon’s majorities bars been overwhelming, while the majorities in those counties he lost have been smell, and where tbe vote is largest his majorities havo been surest. We recall these points in no spirit of boasting. We present them merely to show the falsity of the charge that General Gordon has won by thimble-rigging or trickery. He has won through the people and by the people. He has won by a singu larly frank and manly canvass, no has ap pealed to tbs people and the people have stood liy him with unprecedented enthusi asm and emphasis. The facts show this, and they cannot be controverted. Southern Industries. Pittsburg la in a flatter at last Several of the large iron mills there are now rising pig iron from Alabama and Tennessee. Thia iron sells fifty cents per ton leas than the price of the Pcnnsylnania iron. Naturally the Pittsburg furnace men are alarmed. Their fight against southern iron has been nnenccessful. It needs no prophet to foretell the result. The monster iron pleats of Pennsylvania do not propose to compete with their sonthern rivals. They will pull np and move south. Within the past few weeks two huge plants have been moved to Alabama, and others wiU follow. Aa it is with the iron mills, it will be with the cotton mills, tanneries, wood-working industries and others, for which the sonth opens n profitable field. We ore now see ing only the beginning of the mighty move ment. It is coming, and it will be here be fore we are ready lor it. One thing ia incompnheniibls. Jnst as onr borne industries are showing signs of vigorous life and prosperity, some of our southern congressmen are bestirring them selves in the interests of tha free-trade folly. They would let in tbe cheap product* of Eu- rope, and force our straggling formers end mills to close doom. We ell have too much at stoke to permit any mischievous tinker ing with the tariff. Oar farmers are os deeply interested in this business aa any body else. The building np of our own in dustries means more people, more towns, bigger towns, in a word home markets. Tho Tldo or Immigration. The south is tho only genuine American section. In tbe northern and western states the tremendous foreign immigration of the pert two generations has transformed tho character of the people, affected their lan guage, literature and religion, and left its impress upon politics, legislation and public policy. In seeking the explanation of this state of affairs, the 8L Louis iiepnblican holds ths negro responsible. The tide of foreign immi gration enters New England, rutu through the middle states and across tho broad prat- rieaoftho west. It tarns aside from the ■onth because the n-.-gro is there. Our eon- temperary rails attention to the following itatiatlcs: In the lut two generation!, from two down to tbe present day, other lends have poured Into ours 12.GOO.OOO louli, who, with their immediate dm- ceudanla, now number 80,000,000. But against this great tide of ever-moving people, deluging nil the northern half of the oountry. the nagroaeof the south have lucccaafuily mood ilka a black ram part, taming it aside from that region more effect ually than a hundred anti-immigration statutes could havo done. The lUUaUee which exhibit this are surprising, rive yean ago, tn uoo, there waa 1 foreign-born person to 2 native-born In Cali fornia. to Illinois there was 1 foreign-born person to about 1 native-born. In lows the proportion waalloS; In Kansas l to 8: in Maine, ltol0;ln Massachusetts, 1 to *; In Michigan, 1 to 8Xi In Minnesota, 1 to 2: In Nevada, 2 to 3; tn New York, 1 to I; tn Pennsylvania, 1 to SJ4: In Rhode Island, I to 8; tn Vermont, t to 7; In Wisconsin, 1 to 2J4; 111 Dakota, S to 8. Now turn to the sonthern states nnd observe how small the proportions become t In Alabama, 1 to 128; In Arkansas, l to 80; tn Delaware, 1 to 18; in Florida, I to 26; In Georgia. 1 to 153; In Kentucky, t to 27; In Louisiana, 1 to 10; In Maryland, 1 to 10; In Mlsatmlppl, I to 118; In Nocth Carolina, 1 to glO; tn Poulh Carolina, 1 to 118; In Ttammsi, 1 to SO; tn Virginia, 1 to 100; In West Virginia, 1 to 88. Tha two former Slava statos that show tha largest pro portion or foreign'born to naUro-bom are Mlaaourl and Texas—t login tha former and 1 to 13 lathe The compariaon may ha more sharply presented by placing a northern and n southern state of nearly equal population aid* by aid*, thus: Ala- ham* had only 9,734 foreign-born Inhabitant!, whllo California had 292,874. Delaware had 9,408, while Rhode Island had 73,983. Florida had 10,000, while Vermont had 41.000. Georgia had 10J64, while Michigan had 388,000. Kentucky had 80,000, while Iowa had 261,000. Louisiana had M.000, while Minneeou had 201,000; Maiytand had 84- 000, while Wisconsin bad 406.COO. Mlaaiwtppl and North Carolina toxether had only 13,000, while Massachusetts had <43 000. Virginia, South Caro lina and Tennessee together had only 39,000, while New York had 1,211,000. This i-» stilling view of an interesting Milijcct, anil the points are strongly prawn t- «L But some very important facts have teen belli hack. The lines of ocean travel from the European parts ended at northern port*. The last railway facilities led tbe immigrants westward. The public lands were in that diiw-i ion. Nor wav thia ail. The weaiern eta'ts and the rail way liars, en riched by enormous eorrrnmeat iaad grants, bad their immigration agent* ait over Europe. They flooded the old world With pamphlets and circular) in which the north- rm part of th* unless wo* pictured aaa pars- dic* for tbe poor man. Even the map* cir culated by three agent* were fraudulent. They represented the sonth in a black shadow, with the statement that it was “low and marshy, inhabited by negroes.” Then the popular rrritera -of the north, whose work* were read in Europe, contributed to swell the general fond of misinformation. They described the sonth aa a lawless, semi barbarous country, whose people were illit erate and mnrderon*. Naturally, these methods influenced pub lic opinion abroad. Immigrants avoided the south, bnt it cannot ba laid that it war ■imply on account of the negro. The fact!*, no race prejudice has ever kept people out of a country, when ita cli mate, rail and money-nmking opportunities invited immigration, Europeans seek Mex ico, Central America end South America in large numbers, They forco their way info India, China and Japan. Ia all of theie lands they have to contend with mixed races. In some countries they have to com pete with slave labor and in others with free negro labor. Bat perhaps the crowning an swer to onr contemporary is to be found in the favor with which all ichemes for the colonization of Afirioa are regarded in Europe. If the negro ia an inenrmountable bar in the way of white immigration, he ongbt to be able to hold his own in Africa. Foreign immigration will come this way before we are ready for it Tbe public lauds in the weat will soon he disposed of, and a rush will then be made for onr cheap lands. In the meantime, a tide of domestic immi gration is beginning to come in. Florida is a notable example, and so is Texas, but these two states have been belter advertised abroad than any of their sisters. As soon os they adopted the methods of securing immi grants *o long punned by the north and west, they had do difficulty in securing their full ibnre of settlers. Tbe Baltimore Manufacturer's Record is an authority where southern intereeta are concerned. In a recent issue it rays: To any one who will study Util matter, either by penonxt investigation in the north, or among northern tettlera In the south, there will come somewhat of x revelation In a ding how wide spread li the "southern fere.-.'' The commlarioocr ol immigration in one eouthera state alone now has the names of some 9,000 or 10,000 people who have writun to him In regard to Killing ia that stale. The tide of Immigration hu turned ■oath- ward, and It behooves lonthern people to be ener getic end enterprising In making the attractions of their country known. Where In til the world can be found n country ■urpsselDg In beauty, In climate, la natural wealth, the country that extends along the mountain ran ges through Virginia, the Carollnts, Georgia and Alabama? There will be found every variety of toll, cepable of yielding In nbnndxnoe the widest range of agricultural products. The wheat aud com grower end the live stack raiser need no bet ter land In which to cast their lot than tho world- fsmed Shenandoah volley, nnd all nloag down through the Piedmont section, through much or Tenneseec nnd Kentueky, the some excellent sou, well watered by the purest of mountain stream), It found. Tnc hortlcnltnriit will look In vain for n better frnlt country than he can find in the some section. Of the mineral wealth of that country, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Rouoke, rocohontas. Anniston and many other manufacturing nnd mining centers will give some Idea, bnt oven they have only berely touched the hidden riches, which an destined to make that country the scene of the greatest industrial activity ever wit nessed In America, if not in the world. We have good reason to be satisfied with the outlook. Let the American rattlers coma fink They will assimilate with our people. They will add to our development and prosperity, and nothing wUl then be needed in the way of advertising. Prosper ity apeak* for itself. It draws the crowd. In a few yean tbe south will reach n point where European immigration will not lie considered at all. Of course capital and en terprise wUl be welcomed from any quarter of the globe, bnt it will never be onr policy to encourage th* immigration of the oft scotirings of Europe, each immigrant! as are now threatening the social and governmental fabric of tbe northwestern states. Alto gether, we are very happily situated, and w* need feel no anxiety about the foture. An Inlquittous System. There are some very queet 'deas about the tariff afloat in oome of the papers edited by so-called revenue reformers. Here ie a bright paragraph from the Savannah News: Theprotsetlon papers that acknowledge any sort of fealty tothe tartfi reform plank In tat na tional democratlo platform all arise In arms, ns it were, In opposition to any tariff revision that does not begin with abolition or the Internal revenue on spirits end tobacco. They well know that to abolish the Internal revenue would render any re daction of the tariff Impracticable for many years to com*, tvbat the people want Is not free to bacco, but agradtttl relief from a system of taxa tion maintained for the beneStlof monopolists and extortioners. Tho internal rcveuuo, now that It Is honestly collected nnd disposed of, Is not felt to be x burden anywhere, and nobody asks to have It abolished except those whosro Interested la main taining Ihe present robber tariff And hera is another almost ns bright from that great inteUeetnsl concern, the Cincin nati Enquirer; fa the fiscal year of18848 we neeelred from the regular Internal revenue tax upon tobacco *28,06.',• 4(0. In addition to this there were penalties •mounting to 1289,144, nuking a grand aggregate ot receipts from the tobtcoo tax of 126,881,811. If tala la got rid of, and If the pension atealx are kept up, and Ifsraexpend tbamonev that we (ought to opon onr coaat defenses and onr navy, then tha tariff mnat he cestllnuod aa It la. That Is the great aim of the ultra protectionists. We must confess that we do not under stand inch logic a* thia. These ao-calied revenue reformers are never tired of an nouncing that the tariff, on it stands, ia a high tariff; tom* ef them isy it ia a prohib iting tariff. They denounce it asiucb, nnd cry out for a tariff for revenue only. That they are insincere in regard to their own view*, unless they are ignorant, is shown by such paragraphs aa we have quoted. They ought to understand that if tbe op pressive excise laws are repealed, as they should he, the government would be com pelled to depend on the tariff for its revenue. According to the logic of the paragraphs we have qnoted, this would necessitate the peipetnation of the preeent high tariff; bnt bow could this be? te order to secure suffi cient revenue to carry on the government, the tariff would have to Ire reduced to tbe revenue point, and this would bring aboat a systematic and thorough revision. This the free-traders claim to he in favor oi, bnt when they are brought face t> face with the Lome, they btat it in the illogical manner set forth in tbe extract* we have made. They cry ont about war taxes, and yet there never war a more iniqnitiotu system of war taxes than that which flourishes nearly a quarter of n century after the war and which is known as tbe internal revenue system. It is a fraud upon the people—a lailerons and miquitiona system, and yst, wherever yon find a democrat ready to crip ple tbe Industrie* of th* country and to d«- •troy the prospect* of tbe sooth, there yon will find a democrat anxious to perpetuate tbe iniqniteoa seven nc system. It is a system that was wen enough dare ing Ihe wsr, bnt, in a time of profound peace, it has been made the exenae of mur der and bloodshed; it haa been employed to oppress innocent men and women, and to pamper greedy officials. And yet tbe free- traders and the peendo tariff reformers aay it eball Ire perpetuated. Tbe Planets and the Prophets. The conjunction of Jupiter and Mars took place lost Monday morning. For several nighte past people bare been gazing at these two planets, evidently regarding their eon- junction na a pretty spectacle. In old times such an event wonh] Jure caused general consternation, and even in these days the predictions of the astrologers have their believers. Of the present gitaa- tion nf Jupiter and Mara Zadkiel, the Lon don seer, says in iris almanac; ‘-This conjunction cannot fall to cause aerirtis evil for the British empire In the shape of earth quakes xnd epidemic diseases. There la therefore resaon to apprehend on invasion ot cholera. For the United'Btatea, shocks of earthquake on the 77th degree of west longitude, tn New York nnd Pennsylvania, may be looked for. Great thunder storms nnd waves or Interne beet will paw over taeatates. There will be great excitement lu America, xnd a religions movement of nn enthu siastic nature.” An all these remarkable occurrences are booked for the next few weeks it will not take long to make up our judgment about Mr. Zadkiel. While we are on the subject it may be of Interest to see what an Ameri can prophet has to aay about it. Mr. Strain- ski, of New York, lays bis London rival in the shade. He says that the moon is nearer to the earth than it lias been in thousuds ot years. This afieets everything. The human brain feels it. We may expect to see insan ity and hydrophobia on the increase. Wars will come and only tbe strong will survive. Queen Victoiia will lore her life within the next twelve months. Next year a great comet will come close to the earth. It will produce cyclones. The weather disturbances of this year ore due to the procimity of this comet. This is had enough, bnt Mr. Stroinski has still more to eay. In 1603 New York and Long Island will be submerged as the result of a great earthquake. After that year things will improve, and there wiU be peace and plenty. The foct that inch cranks as Zadkiel and Sfroinski ore able to make money ont of their ravings, and find followers, is a curious commentary on onr civilization. It would appear that men, even in the most civilized state, are always awed by gigantic and mys terious national phenomena. They gaze, and wonder, and revert to the superstitions of childhood and ravage life. The failure of oil theas predictions will have no affect In the next generation other prophets will spring up, searing old women and tearing np the nervous system* of timid people. There is no getting rid of the evil. Wo must grin ana bear it. A New Industry, It ia possible that be*tie farming ia des tined to become one of the profitable indus tries of ths future. A word of explanation will doubtless be demanded by onr readers. We are not speaking of beetles in general, bnt of a cer tain species. The discovery has been made that a beetle, common in eonihem Europe, is a never-foiling antidote in cases of hydro phobia. In Russia it is widely known os tbe only efficient remedy for rabies. When a person is bitten by a mad dog, he takes ■ slice of breed and one of these beetles, • cetonia aunts, it it called, makes a sort of sandwich and cats 1L Then he goes along qnittly about his buainaat, satisfied that he is proof against hydrophobia. As the Revue Sclentifique Indortas the cetonia aurata in the highest terms, it will he scan that thia novel antidote deserves onr consideration. It is expensive to send pa tients over to Pasteur. Madstones are not to be found everywhere, and there it little faith in the ordinary resource* of medicine. Every neighborhood should havo its beetle farm. Beetles should be kept on sale in the drug stores, and, in fiict, there is no reason why prudent men .ahould not carry their pockets foil of three bags. There it no hsim in abundant caution. We have onr doubts about the mode of administering the remedy, bat that can be arranged. For per sons of delicate stomachs who object to bug sandwiches, an extract or tincture could he prepared, or something in tbe shape of a highly spiced beetle catxup. The presibili- tice involved in tho thing cover such a wide range that we cannot do justice to th* sub ject within th* limits of this brief article. Onr scientists and patent medicine men are respectfully recommended to give tbe matter their attention. . Apparently “Wet,” But Really "Dry.” As a rale when we meet a man with un steady gait, congested face and neck, vacant eyes with drooping lids, nnd with spirituous breath, we have no hesitation in pronouncing him intoxicated* It is hard to bell* vs that these symptoms may aU exUt and be consistent with perfect sobriety, and yet such is thstact. The Lon don Lancet, a high medical authority, says that it is very easy to he mistaken in esses of this kind. It refers tothe French colonel, Herbinger, who was tried for drunkenness while on duty. This officer was (bond to he the victim of cerebial amentia. Frequently he wss giddy and could scarcely sit on his hone. The Lancet rays: Not only will samite of the bnln, however in duced, cams gtddiasMbul certain forms of defect- ivciarrimitation WIU brio* aboat th* Maw results, together with symptoms Hill more decretive. Wo need to Rudy men clomly ta* efiecta of an acorns of oxalic acta In tha blood, of accumulated uric •eld, ov urate of ammonium, of neetooe, eta. Something haa betndooo in tats direction; bnt, so for aa wa arc awars. the prtcla* cause of n pecu liarly offensive odor of Ibe breath expelled from the mouth, seemingly dietlnctly alcoholic.hsgnot good clinical observers with a fair knowledge! o ibe chemlitry of digestion and elimination ban undertaken to ■olre the problem. It would be ittefbl to Investigate toe subject further urns* light is desirable nnd evennecemerr. We do not feel inclined to eigne the ques tion. In fact we ogre* with onr learned contemporary that more light ie desirable and even' necessary. Of course we ere wil ling to admit that the apparently “wet" men who occasionally disturbed the serenity of very “dry” communities, are in reality not "net," bqtthodiyostoftbe “dry,” but we want a tent that will enable ns to distin guish Ihe counterfeit article from the gen- uize. Until medical science maker) farther pro grata in thia direction, we mast take J man’s own word for it. We may hare good reason to believe him to be aa drunk os the treditioual “biled owl.” but if be piernfo mebts) nmrsria, oxalic acid, and all that sort ef tiring, we must yield; and if be lives in • "dry” town it would r.how obstinate prejudice to doubt his explanation.