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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. r ATLANTA, GA*" TUESDAY DECEMBER 58 1886
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ATLANTA, QA„ DECEMBER. 88. 1888.
Greeting t
A merry Christmas to aU I
It !a a wholesome and a hearty greeting,
and though it hta been repeated for hun
dred, of yean, and in all manner of tongues,
it still And, a response in every human
heart that has felt the influence of Christian,
liy. It is a greet lug that lo In eome sort a
blessing and a benediction. Aronnd it clns-
ter a thousand associations and memories,
some of them happy and some of them sad,
tint nil of them precious. It recalls familiar
facto, the beaming of bright eyes, the laugh
Ur of red lips, (be ahimmer of golden hair,
the waving of white hands. Home of these
we shall see no more, but the memories of
(hem are to be cherished.
A merry Christmas to all!
It is a greeting that belongs to all Chris
tian dimes, bnt it is nowhere more appro
priate than now and here, for this Christmas
of 1888 finds Georgia and tbe south entering
upon s carter of practical prosperity to which
no man can fix a limit However precious
the memory of the past may be, tho heart
cries "Onward,” and Hope bar. its eye on
thoArtnre. It is peculiarly fitting, there
fore, that The Constitution which has
songlit to defend the old south and to push
forward the new, say to its readers—
A merry Christmas to yon alii
The Death of Senator Logan.
Tho sadden death of John A, Logan will
he a surprise to tho public.
He bad jnst been entered for the republi
can nomination for tbe presidency in 1889.
His trip to California last summer brought
him prominently before the old soldiers.
Tho lines were drawn, and partisans lmd al
ready taken aides, lint the aspiring states
man was seised with his ihtal Illness while a
leading organ of his own party, the Cincin
nati Commercial-Gazette, was throwing
donlrtnpon his loyalty dnrlug tho war.
t Logon was bluff and blunt, sticking close
ly to his chosen Mends, and leaving no gap
for the reconciliation of those whom he hod
estranged. Nevertheless, he had qualities
which commanded respect, bat ho represent
ed the era of war and not of peace.
A New Country.
Tho northern newspapers como to us
Weighted with comments on Mr. Grady's
speech before tho New Kogland society of
New York, l’erlincnt quotations from the
speech wero telegraphed Into New England
and other parts of tho country; and, if we
are to judge /him She expressions of opinion
that como from every section, the people of
(lie whole land have been patiently waiting
fbr tome one to say precisely what Mr. Grady
has said.
We seem suddenly, in oonseqnence, to
have aroused owselves to the fact that tho
people of this prosperous and genial genera
tion are tbe inhabitants of an entirely new
persecuted in the old world, cannot
brought to understand this.
The most that can bo hoped for in this
case is, either that contact with the people
will give him on inkling of the situation,
that his children, if they are bom here, will
make good citizens. No argument, no form
of reason, can he expected to reach him. He
is opposed to all government because all the
government he knows is tbe rale of the
ewotd and bayonet
There is qnite n pathetic aide to the fmy
of these imported socialists, and their atti-
tnde is the natural one under the ciienm.
stances. Tbe wrongs they have suffered in
Europe they bring with them as a part of
their baggage, and a keen sense of these will
remain with them nntii it is fretted away
against the perfect liberty of manhood that
exists in this republic. -
Bait Ibr Mr. Blaine.
Mr. Blaine is an unfortunate man in many
respects. Sometimes a blandsr trips him
np. Sometimes the other fellow’s votes are
"loo many” for him.
Jnst now the goat is whit is the matter
with Mr. Blaine. Instead of keeping on his
pins in a statesmanlike fashion during the
holidays, the plained knight is laid up.
Now, it would be a small matter with most
men to meet with such an affliction, bnt in
(he case of the Maine statesman it is suspi
cious. The prohibitionists, who are in a bad
humor with him jnst at present, firmly be
lieve that gout is generally caused by drink,
and, entertaining this conviction, they will
naturally slew the malady of the distin
guisbed safferer with critical and unfriendly
eyes.
Mr. Blaine Is in n bad way. Tho llqnor
men suspect him ol prohibition sentiments.
The prohibitionists think he has been drink
ing on tho sly. The Protestants credit him
with Catholic inclinations. Tbe Cathollos
rrgnrd him as a man with no religion to
speak of.
It is to lie hoped that Mr. Blaine begins to
Me the drill of things. He has always made
it a point never to take a straight path when
a crooked way would lead him to the de
sired goal. If his slips and mishaps have
net taught him that this policy will not pay,
then he has not properly ntilized his expe
rience.
A Deadly Doctor.
According to a London physician M. Pas
teur is not entitled to bo regarded as n bene-
factor. The novelty of tho great French
man’s alleged remedy for tbe care and pre
vention of hydrophobia dazzled and capti
vated the public. Bnt how about results?
The London doctor says :
or tho patients Inoculated by M. Pasteur fifty-
three havo already died, and of those threo have
died In England. Tho circumstances attending
two of the deaths arc of such a suspicious nature
that they demand tho ftillcst Investigation. On tho
man Colli, who died In London, an Inquest was
very properly held. Ills illness begin ten days
after the completion of the Pasteur treatment, and
in three days ho veaa dead or adlseoso thought to
he a rare form of paralysis. Mr. Huxley undertook
to Inoculate rabbits with his spinal marrow In or
der to provo whother or not he died of hydropho
bia. t understand that the rabblu are dead; but
the results haro not been published as yet.
In the more recent can of Arthur Wilde, a young
man who died on November Ird at Rotherham, no
Inquest waa held. Ills lllnem began fourteen daya
after the completion of the Paitour treatment, and
he died tn four days. Tire causa at his death waa
stated to be congestion of the lungs, but the symp
toms did not correspond to this- The report of the
case and of tho aulopey published In tho Rother
ham papers showed a suspicious resemblance to
the paralytic symptoms manifested by Coat.
Wilde’s mother, who mined him In his lllnens. Is
satisfied Ibat her son did not die a natural death,
and In a tetter which the haa addressed to mo she
mentions other symptoms which mako the resem
blance stljl more plain. With much reaaon, aho
blames the ltiteur treatment Ibr her aon'a death.
country, to flu- as sectional prejudice la con- .
rented The old dava nrn no more and thn > * ,ul thc 11 anxious that att obtainable light ahould
Mr oZ”: honoring ta """ "**’
and venerating the past, spoke of the new
nonth. The New York Commercial Adver-
tlaer, a representative republlcan’newspaper,
commenting on the speech, esye : "There is
a new north aa well ae a new eonth—* north
that is willing to let tbe dead bnry the deoil
while it joins hands with all who lovo lib
erty and wish to abare lla blessings.”
We trust and believe that this la so, for it
will require a new north—new in spirit, if
not in pnrpooe—to keep pace with tbe new
aontb, which ha* now addrcaaed itself to
matters of pith and moment respecting the
prosperity of Ha people.
We present elsewhere some comments of
prominent newspapers on Mr. Grady’s
speech, not ibr the purpose of exploiting that
effort, bnt for the purpose of showing tho
temper with which it waa received.
Industrial Prosperity.
We print elsewhere an article from the
New York Journal of Commerce on “The
increasing prosperity of the eonth.” The
article ia well considered and shows more
plainly than enthusiasm In other quartet*
would, what a large sham of the public at
tention this section has as a field forinveat-
ments. •
It strikes a note of warning, moreover,
that our own people would do well to heed.
This ia regard to the organization of stock
companies for the purpose of selling aharee
to northern capital lata. One speculative
concern of this sort would do untold damage
to the real and legitimate enterprises. The
■outh cannot afford to go into tho wildoat
business in any shape or form.
The warning ia well enough, and, aa we
■ay, should be hetded, but we think the
anxiety of our people to open np ami de
velop the wonderful material and industrial
resources of this section, and the bet that
these resources are so varied and extensive,
ought to be a guarantee of good faith.
Tbe aonthern boom is on to stay.
The Socialists and tho Workingmen]
The workingmen of this country will be
compelled, sooner or later, to cut loose from
the socialists. One of the socialist’s leaders
in New York recently leaned an onler pro
hibiting the members of the Central Labor
union from reading newspapers which be
docs not approve of.
This fellow’s name is Jablonowaki, and
he is a foreigner who knows no mote about
American inatiintiona or about the princi
ples of liberty and freedom than any other
freshly-arrived Foie. His onler haa bee a re
scinded, bnt tbe fact that it was approved
of by the socialists shows that these people
have nothing in common with American
woikinpurn. Tbe socialists belong to n
class of foreigners who have suffered so keen
ly from the oppressions of such governments
ns Bnasis and Germany that they have eome
to believe that all governments ia oppressive
and tyrannical. In thie country govern
ment to simply the organisation of society
Jbr its own welfare and protection. Bata
ibrfigner who has been banted down and
nupldona l« true, others may bo itctsrrod from
niitnlUK the ssuio terrible rlak. Tho dlsesso matt!*
foted by theao two men ta exceedingly tike the
“raraljttc rabies" of which II. Pasteur says tho
rabbin die, and It la slmnat Impossible to avoid
coming to tho conclusion that tha nineteen lnoeu-
Itllons with tho aplnal marrows ot tho diseased
rabbits was tho causa of doalh !i£both Instances.
Theao facts are well calculated to throw n
cloud over Pasteur, but it must be admitted
that they do not make out a conclusive cate
against him. In strict justice ho ahould bo
given the benefit of tbe doubt, but in n mat
ter of »uch terrible importance men do not
lean to tbe eldo of fniraem. When Pasteur
surprised people he drew patients. Now
Hint he has frightened them his business ia
at an end. However, if there ia anything in
the cure it will some day bo revived and
glveu a new trial.
The Bnrth-Tnb at tbe Nartli.
There woe one little episode during tbe
recent vote on the Morrison bill that appears
to have created profound excitement among
the republican editors of the north. It seems
that when the yeas and nays wero called
Congressman Ilcogan was absent. He dis
appeared jnst before roll-call and failed to
answer to hia name. He could not be found.
Mtfscngete and pages were eent alter him,
hut they eome back ono by one, declaring
that Mr. Kcagnn could not be found.
When the agony waa over, Mr. Reagan pat
in an nppeuranco. He walked coolly among
the living and announced that though the
weather was bad, be waa feeling remarkably
bad. In response to inquiries, Mr. Keegan
declared that be had been enjoying a both.
This simple and satisfactory announcement
was the signal for an attack all along the
republican line. The correepondente hired
by Murat Halstead and other blackguard
republican editor* have reported aU the
facts, nml these feet* have carried consterna
tion to the heart of the loyal north. A
southern democrat has been fonnd guilty of
bathing. If one to guilty other* may be
equally guilty, and what if it ahould be
found that all the (outturn barbarians are
guilty of cleanliness? Then to hurrying to
and fro among tho republicans, and a reform
ing of live*. The republican anglomanlac*
of New York and the tomtoms of Boston
will bo at their wits’ end, or at the end ot
such poor wit as they have. Theoe amiable
calvn have a refined way of announcing
whrnvcr they go that they are “jnst out of
a harth, you know,” and now they will have
to drop this delectable habit. They will
hare to cease informing thetr young toily
frtct.da that they are just out of a harth; for
it now appears that a republican rascal, who
is just cut of a barth, to no better than a
disloyal southerner who haa just bathed.
Tills to a terrible state of affaire Where
to the booattd civilization of the “narth,” if
it ran be proved that the aonthern barbari
ans arc aa fiuniliar with the harth-tnb, and
make less (baa about it than the loyal citi-
rrra who count themselvee among the elect?
John Nabberton, the novelist, a*y* that a
"gentleman” at the north to n map who.
•hal f* every day and keep* up in thefoahion
in collars. In the south n gentleman to that
played out person who cares something for
bis personal honor, who holds that it to un
manly, to say the least, to lie, or cheat, or
steal, and whose word to hia bond.
It to not alone tbe barth-tnb to be ran ont
of the "narth.” We propoee to ran ont
their puddlers, their iron-mongen and the
great majority of their moat important in
dustries. At the same time, we wish them
a merry Christmas!
Christmas a Century Ago.
Christmas in this country one handled
year* ago was a gloomy time for everybody.
At that time Hhay’s rebellion in Massa
chusetts had reached its height. The horror
and dread extended even to the for south.
General Washington was in a panic. He
wrote to General Knox the day after Christ
mas os follows:
* I feel more than I can express to roll for the dis
orders which havo arises ia these states. Good
God I Who, besides a lory, could have foreseen, oe
a Briton predicted them? I do assure you that
even at this moment, when I reflect upon the pres
ent prospect of our s flairs, It seems tome to be like
the vision of a dream. My mind can scarcely real
ize It aa a thins in actual existence; so strange, so
wonderful docs It appear to me. In this, is tn most
other matters, we are too elow. When thia spirit
first dawned, It might probably hive been easily
cheeked, but It is scarcely within the reach ol hu
man ken, at this moment, to say when, where, or
how It will terminate. There are combustible! tn
every slate to which a ipark might set fire.
* The Rutledges of Houth Carolina expressed
similar apprehensions. Here in Georgia
there was leas alarm, doubtless because the
growing importance of the Indian problem
gave us enough to think of.
While the clond of domestic warfare dark
ened every hearthstone in tho land, there
were other drawbacks to tbe enjoyment of
Christmas. It must be recollected that the
masses in those days enjoyed few comforts.
To say nothing of the absence of the great
conveniences ofonr civilization, the lot of
the American people one hundred years ago
was hard and bitter. The leading families,
with few exceptions, had been almost im
poverished by tbe revolntion. In the cities
and towns there was general destitution.
Out in the country log bouses were the rule.
Food was served in wooden platters. Ton
and coffee were almost unknown. White
bread was a rarity. There were few car
riages, and a man who took his wife to town
generally carried her on hia horse behind
him. Everybody lived a longdistance from
everybody else with hnrdly any means of
traversing it. The lavra were not well en
forced, and tho hard drinking habits of the
people disturbed the peace of tho country os
well as ot tho town. The poor had few
rights, although they had just passed through
a bloody struggle to secure them. Families
wero stripped of everything to satisfy credit
ors, and good men rotted in filthy cells un
derground because they owed a few dollars.
Of course Ihero were exceptions. In Now
England, in New York, Maryland, Virginia,
the Carolinaa and Georgia there were a faw
great mansions where the wealthy owners
and their gneata celebrated Christmas in
grand style, bnt, as we have said before, tho
great body ofthe people bad a dismal time
of it, and even if they had felt in tbe mood,
they would have been withont the material
for Active enjoyment.
It to well today to look backward to those
days of tronblo and turmoil in which oar
great-grandfathers, with strong arms and
brave hearts, laid the foundations of tho
prosperity which enables sixty millions of
people to enjoy today, with sansbino in their
hearts, peace and plenty in their households
and brighter hopes for the coming year.
Turning from that immortal historic past,
let na make tho most of tho glorious present,
which is destined also to be historic and im
mortal !
Tho Frtctlinan’H Bank Hu-Indie.
Tlie freedman’s bank swindle is still lie-
font congress. Tbe fteedmnn’s hank, it will
lie remembered, was chartered by the repub
lican party and managed liy republicans.
Its pass-books were ornamented with tho ca
daverous portraits of Lincoln, Grant, Sher
man and Stanton. It had branches in every
sontbern city and town, and received on do-
poeit millions of dollars belonging to tho
lately emancipated negroes.
Just bow this vast amount of money was
disposed of will never be known. Whether
it was expended to carry on republican cam
paigns, or whether it wasdivided out among
tho honest und patriotic republican lenders
It would lie impassible to say; hut the mon
ey—the hard earnings of tho nnforttmato
negroes, who fonnd themselves facing all the
haidahipeof a swift freedom nnd enjoying
none of its compensations—was seised and
disposed of. The negroes were swindled—
their money was stolen.
When the fraudulent concern suspended it
owed two millions and a half to over sixty,
one thousand depositors. Homo of these de
positors have been partially paid, bnt more
than a million of dollars to still due them.
A democratic president and n southern
comptroller of the currency earnestly recom
mends that congress make restitution of this
money. Under the circumstances, we do
not see how the republicans ran afford to
oppose inch a proposition, but it to likely
they will. They love tho negro only when
they are swindling him, and they am not
swindling him to any great extent jnst
now.
A Bentetly Necessary.
The railroads are depending on the MnaU
to defeat the Reagan bill, and, in vnrion'
ports of the country, they are bringing to
getber voluminous argument* going to shot;
that the pool ought to .be the pride of li»
country and the delight of the patriot ami
private citixen.
Leaving the discussion of the Reagan bill
to another time, we may say that there
never was any justification for tho existence
ofthe pooling arrangements by which the
railroads of the conntry, both greet and
small, are enabled to wring taxes from the
public. Tbe jnly reasonable excuse for the
arrangement waa offered some years ago by
Colonel H. S. Haines, who Is not only an
experienced railroad min, bnt a gcntlemiu
ef wide culture. Colonel Haines declared
that the pool was necessary in order that
the railroads might protect themselves
against the results of kid management.
This to a good excuse, bnt it is not, nor was
it intended to be, a justification.
As the railroads themselves bare outgrown
the expectations of the men eren of this
generation, so the results of the pool are
more serious and retch farther than incom
petent management. The pool, In other
words, has outgrown the hope* of its invent*
ora. It waa inrentrd, os oar realctu
know, to cure the evib ef com
petition, bnt the realm of it hare
proceeded far beyond the first intention. It
fa not only a barrier to even reasonable
competition, but it ia employed to fort*
larger tributes and taxes from the pocket* of
the people. More than this, it ia employed
aa an instrument of punishment—aa in the
case of Atlanta, which haa been violently
sand-bagged by the pool, to to speak, be
cause it is supposed that Atlanta ia respon
sible for tbe railroed commission.
Not the least of its evils is that ito rat«
represent a per cent to be divided ont among
all the roads in the association. One rail
road ia enabled to divide its income with
other roads. When a new railroad to taken
into the pool the rates mnst be advanced in
order to pay the now road for work that it to
not expected to do. There is no limit to
such progress os this. We have beard of
parallel roads that were constructed so that
they might he sold ont to their rivals; bnt if
tbe pool continues to bloom and flourish,
we shall hear of railroads that are built
merely for the purpose of enjoying the
"diwy” which the pool provides for,
There ooght to be a remedy for the pool
somewhere.
Homo Important Hcsolutions.
The democratic house seems to be at last
waking up to the fact that the power and
inflnence of the United States' treasury are
dally used, contrary to law and good policy,
in the interests of Wall street, and there la
to be inquiiy on the subject. It is notorious
that for years tbe real interests of the people
have been held subordinate to the specula
tive business interests of New York city by
those in control of the people’s money, and
it will be a great day for the whole country
when the secretary of the treasury is com
pelled to conform to the law.
Yesterday Rio Weaver resolution was re
ported back to the house from tho committee
on banking and cnrrency and adopted. This
resolution calls on the secretary of the treas
ury to inform the bouse (1) whether nny por
tion of the money appropriated by tho sun
dry civil bill of last year has lieen expended
In issuing notes of large denomination in tho
place of notes of small denomination cancel
led or destroyed. (2.) How many, if nuy,
of the one and two dollar notes hare been
cancelled and destroyed since the passage of
the act, by what authority they were de
stroyed, and wlmt snm was expended in
their destruction. (It.) How many of snch
notes wero mutilated, and whether notes of
like denomination were issued in their stead.
This resolution, as wo have said, was
adopted. Under a call of states, Mr. Towns-
hend, of Illinois, introduced a resolution
providing that the secretary of the treasury
be requested to ascertain whether any na
tional banking association in thocityof New
York has, during the present month, loaned
lta surplus money or deposits to brokers or
other persons operating in stocks and bonds
withont security, enabling speculators to
lock np money nnd thna inercaso the rate of
interest on loans. Tho same resolution also
asks the secretary to Inquire whether, dar
ing tbe same period, any of the national
banka in New York city, for the purpose of
making the rates of interest higher, know
ingly permitted the total liabUity of any
'person, corporation or firm to exceed tho
amount limited by statute.
Another reaolntion waa introduced, ask
ing the secretory of the treasury whether ho
bos paid interest on certain indebtedness of
the United States before the interest was
dne, nnd withont rebate, for the purpose of
affecting the market value of certain stocks
on Wall street.
All these things wifi serve to stir np the
speculative boys, nnd it will be well for tho
whole conntry if tho democrats in congress
can impress on the secretary of tho trensnry
that tho money in his care, as well as his
power and inflnence, belong to tho whole
country and not to Wall street.
Memorials of tho War,
There has been considerable discussion
going on in the state of Alabama over the
fact that the govenor, in a recent message,
opposed tho erection of confederate monu
ments by legislative aid, holding that, in
i of civil strife, the effort shonld bo
to forget rather than to perpetrate post dif
ferences. Commenting on this position of
Alabama’s governor, tho Chicago Herald has
these apt remarks:
This was the policy of the curly Greek states when
the erection of trophies on battlo fields was s cus
tomary thing, hut in that case the aim was not so
much to do honor to the dead as to perpetuate the
memory of triumphs. A victory won by Greeks
over Greeks was accordingly celebrated by the
erection or a wooden trophy which would bo cer
tain to aoon yield to the actiou of the elemeuti,
Whereas a success by Greeks as sgulnstaforclgu foe
was; commemorated hy costly msrble and bran.
Blncc U la not proponed lu any southern or north
ern state to build monuments commemorating bat
tles, but ouly (nfspcclflc coses to do .honor to brave
men who fell in defeuse or what they believed to
be right, it is difficult to uuderstaud why objection
should be made to reasonable expenditures in
that line.
If It ia fitting that the dead should be appropri
ately entombed, then no good reason can bo giv
en why the dcail of a war ahould not be given the
•erne honors. There It a van difference between
this common Impulse of humanity and tho erec
tion or costly memorials on battle fields. A dispo
sition on the pari of the people of the south to build
s monument on the field of Bull Run for the pur
pore or perpetuating the memory of the defest
there Inflicted upon the national arms would be
Justly subject to severe critlchm. Decent memo-
rifts In honor of the soldiers who fell In battle for
the south have sometimes been reprobated hy ex
tremists at the north, but the governor of Alslssma
is believed to be the first southerner to tako ihe
ground that even these should be abandoned la tbe
Interest of a more perfect union.
This is the most Mnsiblo and mattcr-of-
fuct view, that could be conceived of. It is
the very essence of common sense. There is
thia much more to be said, on which onr
Chicago contemporary does not touch, name-
That any monument which is intended
to commemorate the heroism of the soldiers
of one section mnst necessarily be a memo
rial to tbe -valor of the aoldier* of the other
section. For heroism is an active quality; to
display itself thoroagly it mnst meet with
stout opposition.
Titus we see tbe common interests of the
union joining hands over the graves of feder
al and confederate dead. These interests arc
eo powerful and so impressive, the American
people are so thoroughly homogeneous that
blcody civil war has simply served the pur
port of drawing them more closely together.
There is do reason now, nor ever will] he,
why monuments should not be erected to the
heroism of the soldiers of both sides.
The Coltou Movement.
The Financial Chronicle's cotton reports
show that for tbe week ending December 17,
the total receipts have reached 260,65# bales,
against 227,8H6 bale* last week, 275,716
holes tile previous week, and 290,262 boles
three weeks share; making the total receipts
since,tie 1st of September, I860, 3,236,133
bales, against 3,151,221 bale* for the same
periodofl885, showing an increase since
September 1,1886, of81,911 bales.
The exports for the week reach a total of
198,910 boles, of which 112,412 were to Great
Britain, 15,312 to France and 71,158 to the
rest of the continent.
The total sales for forward delivery for the
week are 672,400 bales. For immediate de
livery the total sales foot np this week 1,872
hales, including 540 for export, 1,332 for con
sumption.
The impoits into continental ports for the
week have been 27,000 bales. These figures
indicate an increase in the cotton In sight
tonight of 52,938 bales, as compared with
the same date of 1885, a decrease of 127,814
hales as compared with the corresponding
date of 1884, and a decrease of 369,822 bales
as compared with 1883.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1, 1886, were 3,599,029
hales; in 1883 were 3,619,613 bales; In 1884
3,676,199 bales. Although the receipts at the
ontports the past week were 260,659 bales, tho
actual movement from plantations was 269,-
627 bales, the balance going to increase the
stocks at the interior towns.
In regard to the Indian cotton movement,
Bombay appears to show an increase, com
pared with last year in the week’s receipts
of 11,000 bales, and an increase in shipments
of 3,000 bales, and the shipments since Jan
uary 1, show un increase of 327,000 hales.
The weekly consumption in Europe is now
138.000 bales of 400 pounds each, against
132.000 bales of the same weight at the cor-
rcsjiomling time last year. The total spin
ners’ stocks in Great Britain and on the con
tinent have increased 60,000 bales during the
month, but are still 20,000 bales less than at
the same date last season.
A Southern Field Crojr Contest,
Mr. F. C. Morcboad, president of the Na
tional Cotton ITanters’ association, has Issued
a circular letlcr in regard to the cotton
states’ agricultural field contest to bo held in
1887. It is the jmrposo of the National
Cotton Planters’ association to offer prem-
inms for tho liest field crops, including all
sorts of grass, nnd ranging all tho way from
cotton to ramie and jute. Premiums are
also to be offered for the best home-mule
and commercial fertilizers, for tho be3t farm
implements, for the !>est plan of farm build
ings, nnd for everything, in fact, calculated
to improve southern agriculture. These
premiums range from $500 to $10,000.
The readers of The Constitution will
understand the plan nt once when we say
that it is based on that of Mr. George W.
Scott, of this city. It is true that Mr. Scott’s
plan is the outcome of an advertising scheme,
bnt it lias taken the shape and dignity of
most important enterprise. Stimulated by
his premiums thousands of farmers in the
sonth have been led to improve their lands
nnd methods, nnd the results are more far-
reaching than even Mr. Scott cqultl have con
templated.
The plan of the National Cotton Planters’
association is an elaboration of Mr. Scott’s,
and tlie results thereof will bo worthy the
attention of the whole agricultural world,
There is to bo a contest not only In field
crops, bnt in machinery, and in improved
farm bnildings. The legislatures of all the
cotton states that may meet between this
ime nnd the antumn of 1887, will be asked
to give tho enterprise their encouragement
and snpport, so for os their authority may
warrant. Speaking for the Georgia legisla
ture, we think there can be no donbt that its
members may be counted on to favor an cn
terprise which promises so many good
results.
President Morebead says tliat within the
next thirty or sixty days ho hopes to have
the organization ao complete as to enable his
association to set forth a complete programme
of the contest. Menntlnre, The Constitu
tion proposes in n day or two to print the
partial premium list which the association is
considering.
Getting Acquainted With Mars.
The big Lick telescope soon to be erected
on Mount Hamilton, California, is expected
to reveal wonders.
The object glass of this telescope is thirty-
six inchea across, and under favorable condi
tions it wonld enable ns to see an object on
the moon ns large as St. Paul's cathedral.
Bnt tbe moon is not a promising subject.
We may secure ftirtber evidence to convince
ns that it is a dead world, bnt that is all.
Slats, however, attracts a largo share of
onr curiosity. With the telescopes now in
use it has been pretty well settled that cer
tain creative forces are stlU at work on tbe
red planet. Objects supposed to be canals
have been distinctly seen, and from time to
time new canals appear. Of coarse it follows
that if anch immense engineering works are
in progress somebody is in charge ofthe con
tract, and is going ahead in a booming way.
The Lick telescope may enable ns to learn
more about this mysterious business. It
onght to be able to make cities visible if
they exist, and it is reasonable to look for
them in a world which is enterprising cnoagb
to dig canola.
Unfortunately, we cannot expect to pash
onr discoveries very far. The itatnre, per
sonal appearance and habits or onr neighbor*
mnst remain unknown, with the exception
of inch details aa drift from the ingenious
pens of Jules Verne and his associates. Wo
must give np the hope of establishing any
sort of communication with this distant
world and its people, bat there will be noth
ing in the way ofour wishing them a “Merry
Christmas,” or a “Happy New Year,” when
we feel in the hnmor. This much we can do,
and, one thing is certain, there need be no
rivalry, no ill will between us.
Song of Christmas.
Sound over all waters, reach out ftom all lands,
The chorus or voices, the clasping ofhandi-
Sing hymns that were sung hy the Stan of the
fling songs of the angels when Jeans was bom,
With sunt jubilations
_ , , , Bring hope to the nations!
Tbe dark night Is ending aud dawn has begun;
Sing the bridal of notions with chorals of lore,
Mne ont the u or culture and sing In the dove,
Ttirthc hearts of the people keep time in aet-otd.
And the tolceof the world lathe voice of the
Lord!
Clasp hands ofthe nations
The dark nlzht teraSp^drUwn has begun;
tof*. bora- ol the ages, arise like the sun,
AU ipcwli flow to tsufiic, aU hearts boat u one.
Rlow, bugles of bsttle. the marches of peace.
Lint, *e>t. t.orth and south let the lone <iuarrel
rnx;
Hark! joining In chottia
The heavensband o’er us-
The dark night la ending and day hat began;
the. bopc<yih»a«c*.artse Mkethem?
AU speech tow to music, all heartsbaalaaorre.
—JehnU. Whittier.
PROSPERITY IN THE SOUTH.
From the Journal of Commerce.
If the south can make anything out of the
speculative tiding that la abroad, we ofthe north
ahould not grudge her the good fortune. The aonth
has much to offer to capitalists -for Investment,
Bnt sho tatbe-.vlctlm both of Ignorance and dis
trust. Menytuorthcrncra know less about her than
about England, France and Germany. They go
abroad every year, bnt they never go eonth. Or, If
they do venture beyond Waihlugton, It la to hunt
or fish,‘or grape the rigon of northern winter.
The south fs a rated book to a majority of north
erner! to whom the treat Is an open volume. If
the present Tipecutatlve tendency, of which there
are so maoyalgne all around us, iball inure to tho
advantage of,the eonth by enlisting capital In her
undevc-kqied. Industries, wo. shall be glad.
We, of course, refer to legitimate buslnem op
portunities! not *to the organization of stock
companies for tbe purpose or selling Mures at the
north. Nothing would eo quickly cause a reaction
against tho couth as the attempt to play upon tho
credulity of her friends and well wither* of the
north. IVe ahould, for example, bo nupfofona of
gold mines, sUver mines end diamond bed! at the
couth. The precious metal* aad the rarest gem*
may exist there, for aught we know, In paying
quantities, awaiting only the magie wand of cap),
tel to call them forth. But there Is an excess of
that kind of speculation In California and Nevada.
No other part of the country can reasonably hope
to compete with them In supplying tho market
with trashy mining claims and worthless shares.
The south can take a strong hold upon the north
ern imagination, confidence and sympathy only by
means of legitimate foulness which offers proba
bilities of fair retnnu for money invested.
U ndcr this head her manufacturing tn
terprises may properly be classed. Onr southern
exchanges are publishing many Items to ihow the
interest that northern capitalists already take in
the development ot the coal and Iron Industries of
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Within the pest thirty days, It la said that at least a
dozen “large concerns" havo either purchased
manufacturing tltei In those atatea or are erecting
extensive furuaccs.mUU anil factories on properties
already secured. These are tho more Important
transactions, Involving outlays tn some cases re
ported as high aa (2,000,000 cash. Simi
lar operations on a smaller rale are
of everyday occurrence. The press or
the routh is now naturally very hopefol about her
tuture, aud with good reason If we may-judge from
the appreciation of real estit* at all her business
centers, and the enlargement of her known pro
ductive areas of coal and Iron. Unless her wealth
tn the latter respect Is greatly exaggerated the bids
falrat no distant day to compete with Pennsylva
nia In the supply of those two great staples. And
this prorpecLas wo have pointed out In previous
ank les, has already caused a great change throng-
out the routh tnfavorof protection aa against her
old leanings toward free trado. Pennsylvania Is
now and henceforth to bo aided in tho defence and
policy by Alabama,
ee and some other
■ show oomplexton
on inc nia issue.
New York is deeply interested In the honestly
earned prosperity of tlm south because she is ono
of our best enrtomers. The Inercaso of her wealth
menus more business for our merchants and ship
pers, our manufacturers, our banks and Insuranco
i,Hires. A good share of northern money Judicious
ly Invested at the sonth finds Its way north again.
This cannot be said of capital sunk in those mining
speculations of the west which have drawn so
much from New York, while tho south has long
begged In vain for a similar display of confidence
in her resources. And, aside from the practical
business view of the matter, there Is always reason
for us to rejoice over signs of better times at tho
south, because, with tlielr coming, tho last linger-
In tents $500
Last Christmas wo'gavo our agents a 'Chrlstmu
dinner, sending each of them railroad tickets to
and from Atlanta, We trill not repeat the dinner
this year because aU our ageutz cannot attend. We
want to do something that will give the agent In
Texas and Virginia-In tbe Indian territory and
Vermont—the same chaucejas the agent to Georgia
and Alabama.
We have determined to distribute ajot of JChrist.
mas presents to oar friends, beginning with *100 to
gold, and running dawn to teas valnaale presents
to every agent. We cannot give It to tha agon
sending the blggeat club, Ibr that leaves out tha
smaller agents, who are just aa faithful and deserv
ing. We have therefore adoptedjtholfollowta*
We hare had printed a number of small squara
tags. For every new subscriber sent In during tha
month of December wo will writ* theaame ofthe
person who sends It, on one ofthe tags and put It
In a box. On the first of January, wo will have
thia sox, containing the toga, taken to (he prose tic,
of three responsible agents and thoroughly eh aken
One of the agents ehall thou tako a tag from tha
box. The person whose name ta on that tig shall
have tho *100 premium. Another agent shall then
take ont a teg. Tho person whose namota on .that
tag shall hare the too premium, sad ao on until
the premtomt are all taken.
This ta of course no tottery or anything akin to It
It ta a free, voluntary distribution of presents to
our friends—for which they pay nothing, land for
which we ask no pay. Wo want every lubacriber
to share to this distribution. Any subscriber there
fore who eenda ns tha name of a new subscriber;
Wtu havo hta or her name put on a|ttg and dropped
In the box. If they sen* two new subscribers thetl
name will be written on two tags and put to the
box twice. Ono who sends a club of five subvert-
aeia win be on five tags In the: box,land will thna
have five chances instead of one of getting a pre
mium.
Now here are the premiums.:
1 premium, In gold, of. —..... Jlto
1 premium, In gold, or.....— eo
1 premium, In gold, of. . ——— zs
2 premiums of (10 each— ta
6 premiums of 86 each «
1 prentum or hfgheSi raehlne.... — a
1 premium of low arm machine.............— «
1 premium of Constitution gun
10 premiums of Waterfoiry watches .
ffXXXLX COKRtlVnOH..,
ITotal...
..1130
Now, let us be distinctly understood. This ta a
free and voluntary gilt to our friends and suaacri-
bers. We want every one to participate. To do
this yon have simply to get ns one new aoucriber
Your name goes Into the box and you may gpt tha
(100 premium, Foreach additional mheerlbtr JOB
get an extra chance. Now here are three rule*
1st If you are already a. subecrlber, you must
send a new subscriber, and.for.eaeh new subecrlber
your name goes to the box.
2d If you are a regular agent your name will go
into the box for every renewal that expires daring
December, and of course for every new subscriber
3d. If you:are not;* subecstber your name goes to
the box for your own subscription andjhr every ad.
dlttonal subscriber yon send.
Now let every subscriber aendlto a new nib*
icriaer, and tens get a place ta onr Premium Box.
Let every agent send ta hta list* Let every person
into whose hands this may fall send to hta sub
■criptlon at once and gat a place to onr Premium
Box, and add two or three more so as to get two ot
thret chances.
Of course every one will not get a preminm, bnt
every one will have a chance. A little child who
gets one subscriber may get the tiOO to gold,tor tall
tog in this, the toO-or some other premium. You
cannot poaribly lose anything—for you give nothing
fbr the chance. Hyongetafriendtosnhecrfbeyoa
do ns a favor and you do your friend a favor, fog
yon get him started with the best newspaper to th*
conntry, and he will thank yon every week for It,
If yon take It yourself, yon get the biggest and bast
and Cheapest paper to America. Now let every,
body come’to end get a place to onr Preminm BOX
and try to get ouc ofour Christmas present*
Of course our other premiums will be given Just
usnaL For every threo new saaacribars ire will
•end one of our superb pictures, end ell other pre
miums at advertised. These special Christmas
presents are pure and staple gifts to our friends—
made In grateful acknowledgement of thsir kind
ness end devotion.
AU who went agent’s outfits to work wtth-«peel>
men copies, poster* pictures, agent’s book* blanU;
envelope* etc., can get them by witonctona fin
We offer good canvasaera preminm* for get
ting rubecribers, and Tnn Coxerrnmo* ta nndoob
edly tha heat paper in the country to canvass for;
auspice nnd outfit If yon want
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