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6 THE CONSTITUTION. Entered nt tlie Atlanta postofilco ns second class mail matter, November 11,1'-73. The Weekly Constitution *1.2.1 per annum. Clubsofflve, Sl.OOcaeti; < 3:bj of ten, 81.00 each and a copy to getter-up of club. WK WANT YOU. The Constitution wants an agent at every poatoffice in America. Agents outfit free and good terms. If you are not in a club, wew an you to act as agent at your office. Write us. OUR “CHRISTMAS BOX’ OF PRESENTS. On January Ist wo will distribute $1,060 among our subscribers. From September Ist to January Ist we put. the name of every subscriber received in a box. On the latter date we shake up the box thoroughly, A holo is cut in it. One of our weekly agents, in the presence of three others —draws out a name. r i hat name gets SSOO, the box is then shaken again, and another name drawn. That name gets S2OO, •nd soon through the list. Now you ought to subscribe for the paper without expecting to get one of the pt' i nts. 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We give you besides an equal chance witli every other sub scriber in sl,oooin gold distributed as presents. No other paper does this. So, if you like our paper as well as any other, take it, for besides the paper you have an interest in our "Christ mas box,” which no other paper gives you. lint if you do not like <ur paper ;:s well as •omo other paper, take that paper and drop ours, for yon may not get one of oar preset,ts •nd then you would be d -.t ..>d. Take the paper solely for the pipet s -.ike.nd if you..’ • present, you will be just that much hap pier. * pil—l -■■■ ... ATLANTA,GA. NOVEMBERS, 1-7. • ■ Cotton I tgnres. The New York l inanV il Chronicle says that the marketing of <</.: mliyraildn.’.n.- October has been on a vr. liberal- .'.v.a:.! It is equally true tb.it never Lt.fi re It; so much cotton reached a market during Octo ber as in the present season. Ti.is re tit has been made possible, fir-t, Vc.v.xe the crop isan exceedingly early one, and < . :.d, on account of the favorable conditions for gathering it which have thus far generally prevailed. The month's gross aggregate I Overland i~ 205,214 bales, against ! ' ,1:1 ' bales in I**6 and 159,' 1- in l*-5. The gain ; has been well distributed over the v.>: routes except that no cotton has I • n car ried thus far this year, via Hannibal, while last year the movement reached 3.521 bales. ' For the two months the total nioveii,. nt • \- hibits an excess over the like period a year •goof 78,13'3 bales, and in compat <ei with IK*5 the increase is (.5,548 bales. In the n.t for the month the rains over pt. .. • ■ ,rs is not quite so marked as intlu go t id. Ing 88,042 bales compan d with last y< irand 85.247 bales contrasted with I*Bs. For the sees >n to date the excess is respectively 57,- 869 and 51,799 bales. The not port receipts during the month hate been decidedly heavy, reaching 1..!. 401 bales, against 1,034,450 bales a y< trago •nd 1,055,624 bales two years since, lor the two months to November 1 tie ex. compared with !•- is 474.527 bales, th., gain over IbS'i being 4211,914 bah s. The ex ports to foreign port during October have been 791,202 bales, and compare with 579,- 115 bales last y.-ar and 590,016 bah sin 18*5, •nd the total sit ■ ■ September 1 records a large excess ovci < itlnr of the two preceding years. It will be noticed that the continent has taken 204,840 bales more this year than last, or an increase of over 138 percent. Northern spinners had up to November I taken 443,213 b ile . an increase over the Corresponding ; er;, d in 1886 of 87,365 bales •nd an Increase over the same time in I*Bs of 44,307 bales. Tlie amount of cotton marketed since September 1 in l-*7, is 549,- 89'1 bales more th in in 1886 and 503,713 bales more than in I**s. The movement up to November lof the present y.ar is 61*, | bales more than in 1880 and 566,713 bales i greater than in I*<> The Chronicle, in its weekly review of the cotton movement, says that for the week Muling last Friday night the total receipt* have reached 2*9,17 I bales, against 294.934 ■ bales last week. 271.799 bales the previous week and 276.-76 bales three weeks since, making the total receipts since the Ist of ’ September, 1887, 2.038,745 b les, against 1,615,466 bales for the same period of I**6, •howingan increase since September 1, 1887 of 423.279 bales. The exports for the week reach a total of ' 113,226 bales, of which 95,591 were ’ to Great Britain, 15,6.56 to France •nd 101,979 to the rest of the ' continent. The total sales for forward de- I livery for the week are 474.100 bales. For ' immediate delivery the total sales foot up this week 1,336 bales, including forex- port, 1.: lit for consumption, —for specula tion and —in transit. Os the above I Vai s were to arrive. The imports into continental ports have ! •ecu 55,W9 bales. There has bcm an in- f ena.-o in the cotton in sight of ,7ki ' bale-as compared with the same date of 1886, an increase of 2.-1,475 bales as com puted with the com -ponding date of 18.-5 i •nd an increase of 172,179 bales as u npared With 1884. I The old interior stocks Lave increased during tin* week I 5,(838 bales, an 1 are to- ' Bight 21,813 bales more than at the same I periisl last year. The receipt* at the same towns have been 3,126 bales less than the Mme week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 200,535 Palea more than for the s*me Uuic in loco. | The total receipts from the plantations ( since September 1,1887, are 2,316,876 bales: in 1886 were 1,847,090 bales; in 1885 were 1,903,669 bales. Although the receipts at. i the outporta the past week were 289,174 bales, the actual movement from plantations was .122,3-2 bales, the. balance going to in crease the stocks at the interior towns. Last ' year the receipts from the plantations for ’ the same week were 322,352 bales and for I 1885 they were 321,579 bales. The increase in amount in sight, as com pared with last year, is 544,655 bales, the increase as compared with 1885 is 490,066 , bales, and the increase over 188-1 is 607,905 bales. 7 he weather reports of the Chronicle that picking is making rapid progress under the influence of generally favorable weather conditions, and in districts of the southwest is almost completed. Killing frosts are reported in Texas and elsewhere, but with no appreciable damage. Some correspond ents note an improvement in the prospects. The Chronicle says that the speculation in cotton for future delivery at New York, | lias been less active, with the tone fever ishly unsettled for the week under review. ■ foreign advices early in the week were gen erally favorable, and the movement of the crop (except In the receipts at the ports as reported on Monday) ceased to show any excess over last year, while stocks at the ports continued comparatively small. But it was found difficult to maintain the higher range of values. The “short interest” had been almost wholly eliminated, and the market therefore lacked the artificial support which that influence affords. There was also some disposition to increase crop esti mates; recent minimum figures were gener ally abandoned. Freight brokers reported less urgency in European shipments. Thursday a better crop report from Mem phis and a fuller interior movement caused many of the bull party to sell out, find some of them turned bears, putting out contracts for lower prices, and there was a decline of a few points, most decided in the early months. Friday there was an early decline tinder the weak foreign advices, but there was a quick recovery and a dearer closing on the report that a New Orleans authority of some repute estimates the crop at no more than 6,550,600 to 6,600,000 bales. Cotton on the spot has been very dull. Quo tations were reduced l-16c. on .Saturday. Friday, with a further decline of l-16c., middling uplands closed at 9 9-16 c. Tired of the Queen. Thet rades people of London are loud in their complaints at the general stagnation of the business of the metropolis, and popular disfavor attaches to the queen as being the prime cause of the prevailing commercial dullness. Unusual distress is expected during the j winter from this state of affairs and the | question arises, in what way will the com i plaint of the people express itself. Already ; unmanageable rioters are parading the streets of London, and only a few Sundays | ag.. afn 1 m< b assailed the sacr-d pre- ■ i ci nets of Westminster Abbey, shouting | denunciatory epithets to the canon during service, and to bis words directed to the welfare of the laboring classes, cried “Give us Work.” It is but short work fora few thousand hungry and tsm-mployGl b. trigs to i leap tic- bounds of order and seek occupa- I tion in ib-truction and clamor when th< ir j incllnati. il to peacefully sustain themselves cannot be met through the usual course of ' commercial and industrial activity. In i ext hanging his Jalx-r for pay a laborer rar I lers .»- he would in any other trade, but if 1 he finds no buyer he Naim s the public. Comui’.rcial stagnation in London is felt in every branch of industry and both capi tal and labor arc complaining and poor old Victoria is unconsciously bearing the brunt of blame. Th. ; q ' are not satisfied that the good old lady shmtld remain so inactive, while but an effort by her would start at full play the wheels of commerce. Her delay in returning from the Highlands, where she b > pn--.d a longtime at her summer home, l;.n held back the fashionable social season and this has checked expenditures which wer.- expected from this and oilier conse > 'tent movements. The impression also prevails that she has remained in retire mens much longer than was necessary, she having kept constantly from the public since her husband's deatli nearly twenty five years ago. Her penuriotisness is pro verbial and is the source of discontent, for of the millions voted her she spends but lit tle. and giies away less, and the people know tl. it court luxury isan example which will be followed to the public good; and, in consideration of liberal allowance to her they expect gratuitous contributions from the crown, in certain instances. The prince of Wales, whatever may be said of him. is the favorite of the people and tin y long fur the day when he shall become king. He suits their fancy in the matter of liberality, love of display, extravagance in living, fondness for social gayety, and has made himself very popular throughout the kingdom. England may love her queen, but it will be better satlslied with Albert Edward as l king. tnswertiiK a t orre»pi>i„lent. I r.'. -.ii.u- C .s-uii 11. X■!n a , t editorial this morning im.kr Hie head . f ...i.i.m s Mission. ■ I you »|sttk of the northern • Moody shirt'’ in »crime i against the nation. Now will you answer a candid I reader of your (a;., r. a candid question? Row is it i that It a sjaMker at Hie north refeia to the hue re bellion tlie south lin iu tint. !i eras ‘bloody shirt, ’’ but at the same time that same -o uh can | reject a I Davis hlpixMixitue through its territory and bury n i city in confedemte lbws, and the north must remain : s lent and say nothing about it. rieaso answer this little poser. Nohthehs Democrat. The question of our correspondent may ■ be a candid one, but it certainly is not a j poser, nor is it. in our opinion, from the pen of a northern democrat or any other : kind of a democrat. It is fashioned pretty I much as one of Murat lialsiead's young i men would fashion it. Moreover, our cor- i , re-pondent is not as candid as he claims to j le, for he fails to send us his real name. There can be no candor In a person who ■ hides behind an anonymous communieation. But we let these things pass. Is it really > j true, as o.tr ttneandld and anonymous cor tespondent says, thia the south, or any f t> pr> -..’illative of the south,cries out "bloody shirt” when a northern speaker or newspa per “refers to the late rcbtllion’?” Has it : ever been true? The Cons rm tion has never, in the wliolecourse of its experience, . observed such an incident. From a northern standpoint, the term "rebellion’’ is a per fectly prvpef one to use. just as the term | “war betwecnXlhc states'’ is a perfectly THE WEEKLY CONSTITtTION, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1887. ' proper one to use from a southern stand ' point. Practically, it can make no difference to the present generation whether the war was | a rebellion or merely a civil war. The real I point, now that the strife is ended and tlie i question of secession settled, is, shall there be peace and unity and fraternity between the sections? Our correspondent may not regard this as the real point, but at least it is worth considering. ’ When Foraker and Halstead announce that the war is not over—that the south is trying to steal a march on the country —and that the negroes are prevented from exer cising the right of suffrage—this is what we call waving the bloody shirt. And it is something worse. It is an appeal to the spirit of sectionalism, and the spirit of sec tionalism ought to be buried in the grave of secession. When The Constitution com plains of the waving of the bloody shirt, our correspondent may be sure that its pro tests are directed against a revival and a re newal of the spirit of sectionalism. As to the demonstration over Mr. Davis, we do not know that the south has stipula ted that the republican organs of the north should remain silent over it. They have not remained quiet, in fact, and, so far as we know, their inquietude has not been co piously criticized in this climate. The pol iticians are entitled to all the capital they can make out of the episode; this we freely allow; but thoughtful persons will question whether such political capital can beof any lasting benefit to tlie party that seizes on it. They Must Hang. The decision of the supreme court yester day in the anarchist cases, shuts out the last ray of light for the condemned men, for there is not the slightest hope for executive clemency. Grave doubt has been expressed, since the terrible Haymarket riot in Chicago, if the instigators and murderers in the tragic event would be punished as their offense merited. When the cases of the seven con spirators and incendiaries went before the courts, many doubted a conviction and more feared that the strong local influence exerted in their behalf by their sympathisers would prevent the infliction of just punish ment. The conviction of the men received the heartiest indorsement of the whole press and public. It is horrible, of course, to see seven men swing into eternity in a moment, for any cause, but there are occasions which justify it, and if there ever was such an oc ca-ion that of the doomed anarchists is one. Such a doctrine as their's begets the worst crimes, and such crimes must be met with the severest punishment. Hut these men will go to the scaffold with their murderous theory closest their hearts, and their last words will be for their follow ers to uphold their dangerous teachings, or possibly, to vindicate their death by the riot of anarchy. Consequently the public has no sympathy for them. • .... Will They Hang? ! Next week’s Constitution will carry to I its read-, rs the most important piece of news in its history. I On next Friday the seven anarchists are Ito be Lung in ( ago. The scaffold is 1 biing built. The jail is garrisoned by scr [ eral companies of trorq s. Detectives are j | statl ?ned in every corner of the city. In spite of these precautions it is feared that Friday will be a stormy day in Chicago. It is known that the anarchists have sworn that the seven men shall not die unavenged. Fear is even felt in other and distant cities win re the anarchists may attempt to show th.it in every prominent American city the blood of their comrades shall be avenged. In the meantime Governor Oglesby is con sidering petitions for pardon, but it is felt sure tl-.at he will not interfere. We shall have full detailed account of this terrible sc. ne in next week’s issue, sent us by our own correspondents in Chicago, together witli talks with each one of the doomt d men in liis cell before the hanging. It will make a great historical chapter. Don't fail to get next week's paper. See if your time is out. If so, renew at once. If you are not a subscriber subscribe at once, and we promise you that next week’s CoNsriTt rtON alone will be worth your whole year’s subscription. Send immedi ately, so we will get your name in for next week’s great issue 1 About the Farmer®. It is a favorite argument with those who admire the free-trade teachings of Brother Henry Watterson to announce from.time to time that the farmers arc growing poorer— that there is a great and an increasing depression in the business of agriculture, and all on account of the tariff, which is “taxing tlie poor farmer for the benefit of the monopolies.” We think it is safe to say that the farm ing interests of the south are in a better condition today than they have ever been in the history of the country. They are cer tainly in a better condition than they were from I*ls to I*6l, when the tariff for reve nue only was in operation. Not only is agriculture in a better condition, but every other material interest of the south. We not only have diversified farming on a sur prisingly large and profitable scale, but we have more diversified industries than ever before. The increase in our manufactures and the development of our material re sources have astonished not only ourselves, but the world. As to the condition of agriculture in the ; south, we can only say that if Georgia is an | average state, there is nothing the matter I with our agricultural interests. On the con- ' trary, they ais flourishing as they have 1 never flourished before. The fairs that I have recently been held ntid that are now j holding in Georgia give a flat denial to the j declaration tli.it the farmers of this state are ■ I growing poorer year by year, or that our 1 I agricultural interests are declining. At the i riedmont exposition there was a most ! wom’.i:display es the purely agricultural ■ 1 resources of the state. A more wonderful, ! ■ a more hopeful exhibition was never given. ! Take, as an example, the county of Put- I nam. Tm thousand of the visitors at the ; Piedmont were amazed that Putnam failed i to carry off the first prize; but Putnam was only one of three or four counties, and a good portion of its exhibits remained un- i packed, owing to the lack of space neces- i I sary for their display. We have Cited Putnam because thM ; county is the centre of the purely agricul tural region of Georgia. Its farmers are i prosperous to a degree, and the improvement ' and development of its resources during the past twenty years have something wonderful. The entire agricultural display at the Piedmont exposition showed what has been accomplished during the past twenty years, and yet the Piedmont was not intended to be an agricultural show, but the farmers took possession of a good part of it. They brought their farm products, their horses and their cattle, and the result was an astounding exhibit of progress and development. That was a purely agricultural fair, and jit was the most success ful in the history of the society. Hancock has just been holding a successful horse show, and this is a definite part of our ag ricultural development. This week Athens is holding a most successful agricultural fair, and there is no sign anywhere that the farmers arc not improving their methods and increasing their profits. Hang Them First, Our dispatches indicate a remarkable re vulsion of public sentiment in Chicago in the case of the condemned anarchists. As the day appointed for tlie hanging ap proaches thousands of men who have all along been clamoring for the blood of the prisoners begin to weaken and waver. The petitions for executive clemency are filling up with the names of signers embracing some of the best and most prominent citi zens. Doubtless these tender-hearted citizens agree with the lawyer who said in speaking of the Haymarket crime: “This is not ordi nary physical assassination.” IVc fail to see how this can give the plea for clemency any weight. The fact that the anarchists were engaged in a work of extra ordinary physical assassination would ap pear to make it plain that they deserve the severest penalty of the law. Their plan of assassination was the most unmerciful im aginable. Their bombs were as likely to kill women and children as to destroy monopolists and policemen. It is no time for the people of Chicago to split hairs over the question of the ordinary or extraordinary guilt of these fiends. After the hanging, let the matter be discussed if there is nothing more important on hand. The thing to do now is to send the senti mentalists to the rear, and give the sheriff and his deputies elbow room. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. In the death of Madame Goldschmidt, who is lovingly remembered in this country as Jenny Lind, the world loses one of the sweetest singers that ever delighted mortal ears. Jenny Lind was born in Stockholm in 1821. She was a singer from infancy. At the age of ten she began to win her stage triumphs. After singing in all the capitals of Europe, she visited America under an en gagement with P. T. Barnum and gave one hundred and fifty concerts. Her first con cert in New York netted her SIO,OOO, all of which she gave to local charities. The rage to hear her was so intense that some of the tickets sold for hundreds of dollars. Her marriage to Otto Goldschmidt in Boston turned out happily, and during the retoainder of her life she refused to sing in t public except for the benefit of the poor. _———> Two Feeble Old Men. In England people are asking the ques tion: After Gladstone dies, what? In Germany men are wondering how the death of the Emperor William will affect the empire. The belief of these anxious inquiriers is that Gladstone is the liberal party, and that the German emperor is the empire. That the fortunes of the two countries-depend upon the lives of these men is probably a mistaken conclusion. The idea represented by Gladstone is full of life and vigor, and it is growing. It means freedom, and when its great apostle dies it is reasonable to ex pect that other strong men will spring up to take his place and battle for a popular cause. Witli the Emperor William the case is different. He represents a dead or dying idea, the old idea of the divine right of kings. His death would throw the empire into the hands of the crown prince whose feeble health makes him easily influenced by his wife, a woman of iron will and great determination. It is generally believed that the crown princess will induce her husband to liberalize the government and place the supreme power in the hands of the people. Taking this view of it, the death of Glad stone will not imperil the home rule cause, but the death of William will end the pater nal despotism which cramps the energies of the German people. There is no other view to take. The world has long since outgrown the idea that it cannot afford to have its great men die. No man is indispensable. A Ctesar or a Napoleon cuts a mighty figure when he is above ground, but as soon as he is under the. sod the world wags along as usual. The world is several sizes larger than any Colos sus that has ever attempted to straddle it. The New View of an Ohl Horror. A Mr. Lawrence Gronlund has written a book which is destined to provoke consider able discussion. The book is a study of Danton’s course in the French revolution, and the author’s purpose is to show that his hero was a moderate reformer, a fair rep resentative of the great middle class, and that, so far from being a murderous mad man, he was an earnest and consistent so cialist. Perhaps all this throws some light upon I the designs of our American socialists. It I will be recollected that jt is not very long i since Mr. Henry George threatened us with ' “a belly-full of such reforms as came through the French revolution,” Follow- ■ ing his line of talk. Mr. Gronlund writes a ' book to prove that Danton was a very nice i man. The next thing in order will be the ! vindication of Robespierre and Marat. No I doubt Mr. Gronlund is prepare 1 |to assert i that they had the heads of their fellow citi zens cut off simply because they loved them, ' and that the whole wild, red carnival of the ' revolution was a sort of socialistic love ' feast. I Titore is one point, in this business that should teach a lesson. It is that those who | raise a storm cannot control it, and that ■ those who sow the wind are pretty sure to | reap the whirlwind. Admitting that Dan -1 ton was at least a moderate socialist, his i stormy eloquence fired the rabble and urged men into excesses which their leader was ; utterly unable to check. Whcu Danton said i , • ; to his followers: “We must dare, and again dare, and forever dare,” he was planting , dragons’ teeth and only ono result could , j have been expected. It is true that through | out the lurid haze of that, terrible period we catch glimpses of this Titan, this Satan, as some of his admirers lovingly called him, making tremendous efforts to shape the bloody chaos into something like order, but like many other rasli reformers he found that while the work of destruction was easy, the work of reconstruction was almost im possible. The trouble with Danton was that his moderation came too late. A moderate reformer with cranky ideas will not do to'trust. Danton’s associate Robespierre, is a case in point. Like his colleague, he was a lawyer, but unlike him his moderation was at the beginning of his career, instead of at the end. This pale faced weakling resigned a judgeship be cause he was too tender hearted to pro nounce a death sentence. He went into politics with one special hobby, the aboli tion of capital punishment. Yet, a few years later, heads could not fall fast enough to suit him, and he declared that: “There is a period in revolutions when it is a crime for some men to live!” He threw his mod eration away just when Danton was ready to pick it up. If Mr. Gronlund expects to commend so cialism to us by this tribute to Danton lie will find himself mistaken. We care noth ing about the late moderation of Danton or the early moderation of Robespierre, when we know that at the pivotal turns of the upheaval these two men infected everybody around them with their madness. Still, this book will do some good if it leads us to keep an eye on such moderate socialists as Mr. Henry George. Mr. Gronlund has un wittingly shown us that the moderate crank is liable at any moment to pulldown the en tire social fabric, and run-a-muck with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other. It may be well to bear all this in mind. To-Morrow’s Elections. There are elections in a number of states tomorrow. lowa, Maryland, Massachusetts and Ohio will elect governors, state officers and legislators; New Jersey, New York and Virginia, will elect legislatures; New York, Nebraska and Pennsylvania will elect judges of their supreme courts; New York a secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, state engin eer and surveyor; New York and Pennsyl vania, treasurers; Nebraska, regents of the state university; and Oregon will vote on a prohibition amendment, and on a proposi tion to change the time of holding state elections from June to November. In lowa two years ago, when there was a . gubernatorial issue, the republican plurality was only 6,979. The latest accounts from that state show that there is great apathy among the republican voters this year, and some sanguine democrats even hope to carry the state. Perhaps this is hoping for too much, but there is no doubt that the repub lican majority will be very small. In Maryland, the democrats will have a majority as usual, but perhaps not the usual majority. The party there is infested with cranks who call themselves reformers, and these cranks will vote with the republi cans. This contingent is mainly made up of disappointed office-seekers and their friends, but their united opposition will not be sufficient to defeat the regular democratic ticket. In Ohio, the general impression is that Foraker will be re-elected. He is a man of very small calibre, and a typical Ohio repub lican. Moreover, the belief is general in the rural districts of that state that if Fora ker is re-elected he will turn out the demo cratic president and proceed to apportion out the federal offices in accordance with the Ohio idea. This is a very happy view, indeed, and, in connection with the wild alarums of Halstead, to the effect that an other confederate war is in progress in the south, will do much to solidify the republi can voters of Ohio. As to the other states, witli the exception of New York, our readers will have to do their own guessing. In New York, the newspapers have been carrying on a most scurrilous campaign, but there is no reason to believe that the democratic ticket will be defeated. Gordon’s Mission. A correspondent writes to know if Gen eral Gordon went to Ohio to change repub lican votes. We may say that he had no such intention. He lias not discussed the issues between the candidates at all. He went to Ohio for the purpose of convincing the decent people of that state that the bloody shirt crusade against the south is a crime against the union. If the north really fought to preserve the union, thefl the south, if it be a part of the union, should have the benefit of the result, and not be made a scarecrow every time such a nonen tity as Foraker appears on the scene. It is General Gordon’s mission to set the south right, and not to say to the people of Ohio whether they should choose between a small man like Foraker or a man like Powell. Northern and Southern Prejudice. General Gordon’s visit to Ohio will have one good result, even if it has no other. It will show to the thoughtful voters of both parties the great difference between the temper of the democrats of the south and that of the republicans of Ohio. Perhaps no American going from one state to another ever had such a ferocious reception. Seeking to heal the wounds of the war and to vouch for the good faith of the southern people, he is denounced as a traitor, a secessionist and an enemy of the union. With a message of unity and fra ternity on his lips, it is charged that his hands are red with the blood of innocent negroes. His character and his integrity are assailed with a virulence, that must be new, even to Ohio, where tlie political hell broth. if we may use a mild term, is always I | brewing. All this shows clearer than anything else ' could show that the red traitors, the real I disunlonists of the present day are those ! who are shaking the bloody shirt and shriek • ing over it. The war is now being fought over in Ohio. Foraker blackguards decent I men and is praised for it, and Halstead and i his newspaper gang ace trying to bulldoze ! : honest people into the belief that such men i as Governor Gordon are trying to innugtt- 1 i rate another rebellion. I But witness the contrast between the re- I publican organs of Ohio and the southern i people. Gordon in Ohio is villlficd; Ids i character and his integrity are attacked; | his honesty is called in questions he is denounced as a murderer. Hova j are-northern men received in the soutlifj j Always with courtesy; always with liospLi tality. General Sherman, who. burned AW lanta to the ground, has revisited the sccnesi of his operations on two occasions. lie was • treated with consideration and respect. He 1 was so enthusiastic over his reception, in-i deed, that he wrote a long letter to the edi4 tor of The Constitution, in which he paid( a well-merited tribute to the recuperative! capacity of the people whose homes he bad( ordered burned. Nor is this all. When Hayes, who stole! the presidency, appeared amongst us, ha was treated with distinguished tion. And recently, when John ShermanJ who was H tyes’s right-hand man in this stupendous steal, visited the south, therd was nobody found to blackguard him, H® was treated with decency. This is the lesson that Ohio teaches. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. A NEW workingman’s paper in Texas ist called The Daily Dinner-Horn. An organ says “the tide is running strongJ ly in favor of the republicans.” May be it is » salt water tide. The Philadelphia Press says that th<r time has come for two parties in the south; Well, as we said before, send on your orators. 1 Send on your orators. A Tennesseean up for selling liquor withJ out a license was saved by the testimony of liis neighbors that whenever he got hold of any. whisky he always went to work and drank ib up. “Wrap-Up-His-Tail” is the odd name o? one of the rebellious Crow chiefs on the Big Horn. There is no hope for an Indian who flaunts such a name as that in the face of out civilization. The Philadelphia Press thinks that a, world’s fair would be too big a thing for At lanta. Well, we are not talking about holding it today, but tomorrow. A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub-; lican says that Mrs. Jefferson Davis keeps a, fine picture of old John Brown, of Harper’s Ferry fame, in her photograph album. Anarchist Parsons would be a free ma» today if his lawyers had not thought that iff would have a good effect for him to surrendev himself and stand his trial. The lawyers madei a big mistake. ( Fourteen men in one little town in Ireland have been imprisoned for cheering for Mri Gladstone. The British should fence in all o$ Ireland as a penitentiary if that sort of thing is a crime. . Inspector Byrnes observes that the reasorj many girls and ladies are so well dressed in' New York is that of late years various new iiR dustries are opened to women by which thejg are enabled to earn easy salaries. They are queer people in Boston. Kittj, Russell, after a married life of twelve has left her husband because he abused her, and now turns out to be a man. The deserted! husband is doing as well as could be expected. According to the mystic goose bone, th® weather from December until late in April will be terribly severe. When we add to the predictions of cold waves for November ib will be seen that the coal dealers are on Jtop. i If you must drink anything, drink beer. A3 Chicago woman, for drinking beer, was thrown out of a second story window by her husband. If she had drank whisky her husband would probably have thrown her from the top of th« tallest building in the city. Sylvanus Cobb, the novelist, said in hia will: “Let no blackness of crape or funeral! weeds cast its gloom upon my memory. I would that my beloved ones should sock thet brightness and fragrance of faith and trust ini God rather than tlie gloom which belongs tef doubt and unrest.” Since Spurgeon’s pull out from the Baptist; Union his tabernacle will not hold the immense crowds that assemble to hear him, in expec tancy of hearing sensational sermons bearing, on his withdrawal. In this, however, they* have been disappointed. King Ja Ja, the African monarch deposed by the English authorities for attempting to' get up a corner in palm oil, lias been sent as a. state prisoner to London. He is at present con fined in-the baggage-room of one of the hotels, and the British colonial officers are wondering what on earth they are to do with him. When he was actually dying, and when en tirely too weak to sign his name, the late Gov ernor Bartlett, of California, told his brother; that he had promised the mother of a young man imprisoned for forgery that ho would pardon her son after he had served tinea years. “Convey my wishes,” he said. “t<4 Waterman after I am dead, ami I know het will carry them out.” Governor Waterman) has now announced the promised pardon. DIVIDING OUR PROFITS. And Giving Our Headers Some Big Christ mas Presents. We furnish our subscribers with , The best family paper in America. The cheapest paper printed—the only 12-pago weekly. The paper that pays more for special features than any other. * Whm we do this our contract with our subscribers! ends. But in the past three years our friends havo increased our circulation from 9,000 to 112,000 copies.' Appreciating this we shall distribute to ti e u on) January Ist some big Christmas presents. Here is d list of them: One present of SSOO in golds, One present of 200 in gold.; One present of 100 in gold." Ono present of no in gold- 1 Ons present of 25 in gold. 1 To tlie IO next 1810 eaeli ICO in goldq To the 5 next 85 each 25 in gold? Total Presents sl,ooo| You do not pay a cent for this. You simply pa® for your paper, just as usual. We put yonrnnme 13 our “Christinas box" and on January Ist tlie first? name taken out—the box being shaken and the* agent blindfolded —gets §509 iu gold, the next *2boJ and so on through the list. j Now note this well. Send in your own snbscrtp-' tion and we will put your name in the box. There fore every other name you send iu we will put in’. your name again. If you send ten subscribers your name goes in ten times, ami you have just thia many more chances. We want every man, woman or child who read* this to go to work at once for The Constitution. 1 Don't delay a day in sending in names. The morel you get in now tlie more you will get in later. Com mence at on< E. You ought to have 100 mimes in 1 by January Ist. Remember tins. Some name with be taken at haphazard from the Christmas box om January Ist, and that name g< t« 8500 iu gold, it be yoiiiT. In any event you risk not a cent. You get the best and cheapest paper printed, and if you' get tli. 8500 or tlie 8200, or any of the other presenta it ls|tl>at much made. Now be ;!n at oh<v. Send In your own name and I that of lour friend, an 1 then login 11 regular can-' va.-s. The box will belli u Highly rolled and shakenJ nd tLe first name may be taken from the bottom. BIG PAY FOR YOUR WORK. But we h ive teincthiug e’.se fuF our agents. An<J( here ft Is: To tlie ; ,• nt Ft ndlnß in (lie biggest lint ofc Mih-. rilxTH h« ior«* January Ist, u. Will o In gold. 1 Tn tin* next In I >»” nt s>l<»O •• •• I<» th«> n«-x I Im t ill’ ll! AO •• «» hilllC IH'tl li! »l m. 5 •• «• In th<- in xt Im -I i*>:« nt !(>•• •* Total agi nts’i.ii iuliiina *4XI. In ini'l “i to 11.’ 1 v.. allow the bent rnith : -II ;> d?, , |<n| ir. W•• tilhuv Lettt coin. mil*limn in • y»-ni - in! at once and get <niß> . outfit, ft Ii | ) 1 b» ' ‘UiC iin agent of t'owßnTt non. ? Wuu.inl a. 1 nt« nt « -icc. Hcnd for our\ Ifnivl lt>n)k <4Ht(i 1 m,i. Anyone tan be<«>me ■1 i 'nt I 'fi m ill n| t|y ’ Tlir. < • A*ini tion '(• be Im it pttj . r y..n « \ . r w ik< <l for. aud the easiest! i logut tuiMK.HIK.rB fur. Apply nl <>ntoi