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way-Safe Arrival ot Mr. Hill at the
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Way—Sleeping Car Accommodation* -
Tunnel Through the ConsMutwn-
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Speech of the Former in North Caro
lina May Save Hrm- Plenty of Room ,
and Quicker Time than by any Other
Line-For Further Information, Con
sult the New Bra, New York Tribune,
A'hire** of Mr. HiU. to the People of
Georgia, Speech of Mr. Akerman in
North Carolina, Correspondence of New
York Herald ( recently published in the
Chronicle & Sentinel), Speech of Mr.
Hill at Athens, giving Instruction* in
Detail- Weather NoteP-Gentle Zephyr*
from the North-Fructifying Showers—
Atjiect of the Stars -Ulytse* and Ben
jamin in Conjunction—Akerman Setting.
The times being out of joint, we have
remarkable evonts to record and review.
Upon a recent literary occasion, before an
unsuspicious people, assembled unarmed,
Mr. Hill, the well known author of the
Notes on the Situation,” and of sundry
more recent documents of inferior savor,
treated the audience to a dish of politics,
served up under a thin crust ot philosophy,
so called. It was well cooked, and pre
sented in a form sufficiently palatable; but
“ from this, as from a den ot disturbed
vipers, crawled out innumerable and pois
onous evils, to lame our energies and pol
lute cur blood.”
To whom were we indebted for the
shrewd turn the literary occasion took,
and tho infinite entertainment and instruc
tion of the audience on an unexpected line
of thought ? Were tho committco of invi
tation cognizant of the hill of fare l Wby
had we Mr. Hill, or any man of equivocal
position? Information is needed, Did he
push ? Did he seek it ? The (jeeasion was
auspicious for his ends. Did it come by
accident—a mere piece of good luck—or
was it by contrivance?
The fairness of tho wholo procedure,
and the agrocablo surprise of the audience
in the enjoyment of a North tide view of
themselves and their institutions, and their
unprepared state for this wholesome show
er hath on their cherished notions and
connections, served to render the scene
memorable and impressive. No disposi
tions having been mado for the unexpected
attack from within, tho hearers wero quite
taken by surprise. 'lhe confusion was ex
pressed for a while only by astonished si
lence, hut the company rallied and retired
in good order, leaving few prisoners be
hind. Most of them have Bince made good
their escape, and the handful loft in
duress, it iH hoped, will soon be undeoeived
and appreciate the situation-
The surprise attack, on the whole, was
vigorous and well concerted. Our own
colors wero on exhibition, and it was not
known how far tho new departure would
reach. The orator himself, after a retro
spect, had decided that "returning were
more tedious than go o’er.” Bold was
the leap, hut tho followers few. The
lookors on looked into each others eyes,
rubbed their own, and evidently did not
understand the business,
Whai dowry could grace the now
espousals? Mr. Akerman with tho elec
tion bill failed of Georgia, and was well
nigh up set. Mr. Hill was out of public
employment. 110 pined, ho longed, to
serve his native State-
In December last (election bill, his own
address, and all to tho oontrary notwith
standing) ho had failed signally of carrying
Georgia. So a scat in tho Senate, to serve
his teloved State, was not secured. Can
ho carry it now, by this new play on its
forbearance and patienoc ? Carry Geor
gia thus ? What an enquiry I The grand
old ship of State moves steadily on its
way. Mr. Hill’s gyrations make no im
pression- We have looked over the prow
of a ship and seen a porpoise apparently
leading tho way, running in front for a
long while. But when the porpoise—
blowing and tumbling—turned aside from
iiis course to accomplish his own ends,
did the ship turn aside with him? The
ship proceeded on ita stately way and tho
porpoiso on his—tho groat and tho small
their several ways.
But, even if Georgia cannot bo carried,
something else may happen. Some months
ago tho Chronicle & Sentinel caught a
distant dreamy view of Mr. Hill in the
Cabinet. Let us watoh and wait.
I’ossibly the good faith and good taste
of all this may be moro apparent to the
speaker and to others than to us. Mr. Hill
may unwittingly help sound principles by
showing whither unsound would conduct
us. But aro wo not a patient people ?
Tho great object ol Mr. Hill in his ad
dress seemed to bo to demonstrate that in
all tho leading matters of dispute between
tho North and South, the North was in
tho right. Tho soundness of abolition
principles, and tho superiority of Yankee
civilization, wero his main topics of dis
course. The superior insight of the Rad
ical party into the true policy of tho coun
try was made vory manifost, and our own
errors exposed in a masterly way.
Now, if wo had been invited to suoh a
banquet (of tho Delano type), and a rep
resentative man of those principles an
nounoed as suoh, had ontertained us, there
would havo been no ground of oomplaint.
But to oome in tho name of a disciple, and
with the kiss of a disoiple, was that fair
play ? By the standard of tho old civili
zation—no—with emphasis, no. But with
tho new type, fair is not tho word.
Shrewd is tho word—shrewd, sharp,
acuto (omitting tho first syllable). Theso
words are popular with the new lights.
Number them—oount them one by ono,
and try those words upon them —they will
fit them all.
The December address and the railroad
lease were in ominous, suggestive prox
imity. What is to follow the Alumni
speech ? What is to follow l
Is it to be a seat in the Cabinet ? Was
that the elevated aspiration
“ Which waked to ecstaoy the living lyre!”
Or is the conjecture of the New York
Herald correspondent the sound view i
lie thinks a third party is what Mr.
Hill is after, on the negro element as the
basis.
No one doubts he is after something. It
is not in human nature to behave so for
nothing.
To come more particularly to the matter
and manner of the address.
The distinguished ventriloquist address
ed two audiences—a Northern and South
ern. It was a hard task, and required
both tact and face, but he possessed both,
and one guiding thought sustained him to
speak to the North over the heads of the
iroath, w ithout startling the one too much
while tickling and delighting the other—
this was the problem. The easement was
this, via: that the Xorth must be pleased
at all events. This steadied him. Brass
was ill demand, hat tU« —ri-'r
quste. The display of leger tie ling (of ton
gue not hand) was tine. The little Japa
nese Tommy, who cried “ all right,” used
to jump through a barrel, not turning
over the tumbler of water, nor putting out
the lights placed within on the bottom.
Such a piece of jugglery did Mr. Hill
attempt. He went through the barrel
successfully, and landed on the northern
side, but in passing he turned over the
tumbler and extinguished the lights.
His Northern audience were delighted.
Fmans will go up in his praise from the
Republican party press. His speech will
boa campaign document, as erst was that
of the more illustrious Akerman. But at
the South—oh. here 1 he spilled the
residue of confidence, if any was left after
the speech and actions of last year. Mr.
Hill’s cauldron had been then and there
turned over and spilled in the fire. People
were angry at themselves that they had
trusted him ever. What they had mis
taken for quite unexpected manliness and
adhesion to principle on his part .was
all explained, and when seen exposed in
its nakedness. It proved to be sham and
stuff— the mere vagaries of a man in
search of self
The argument of Mr. Hill was at once
loose and dogmatic. It, too, was a sham,
and will pass away as a shadow. There
was no close and careful study of prin
ciples, or application of principles to facts.
A lew of those common places tn regard
to our people and our industry, which
were familiar to all men of observation,
and in perfect harmony with their own
established convictions—were enormously
exaggerated and blown into huge soap
bubbles by the breath of the speaker.
They broke of themselves oo the touch of
reflection. The argument assumed all the
form and gravity of aspect of a most
philosophical discussion, but it will not
bare weight. If the ostensible aim of it all
was real, then the insults heaped on our
institutions and people were gratuitous.
They were lugged into the discussion with
profuse and wasteful liberality.
The form of argument selected by the
speaker was that which gives most play to
powers of sophistry, viz: the inference of
a cause lrom an effect. There is large
range here for misrepresentation and de
ception. From an effect, to go back to its
cause. The effect may bo complex—of
loog duration, of manifold aspect, and
wound up in many an involution. The in
genuity of the sophist selects one antece
dent among the many, and says this par
ticular antecedent is the cause. The
causes may be as many and as complex as
the series of effect, bat it is his p.ovicce to
direct attention to the one eiDgle antece
dent assumed to bo the cause, which is to
explain everything. This he exaggerates
and magnifies, and so traces its effect, not
by actual comparison with facts, hut by the
method of evolution out of his o*n head,
instead of the historical mode of observa
tion and comparison.
Slavery is this one cause —the fouatair
of all our evils. “ whose mortal taste,”
&e. Never did Abolitionist look with more
evil eye on slavery than does Mr. Hill.
Would it be stranger than some things
which have happened if, in December next,
he should denounce it in the true blue
style, as “the sum of all villanies?” We
shall sec. This new derarture road is a
rapid one. “A den of disturbed vipers”
is not far short of the mark. Indeed, we
are not sure but it is an improvement,
which will be adopted by the rhetoricians.
“A deD of disturbed vipers” is even
more suggestive than “the sum of all vil
lanies.”
Mr. Hill is an expert rider of the Aboli
tion hobby he has mounted, and makes
fine time. He will evidently win the race.
With slavery in his eye, he can sec no
Other cause ot our troubles. That is on his
brain. He seems to forget that diiriDg
the entire war the slaves of the South
were under perfect control —fed the armies
in the field—fed the women and children
at home, and were among the most indus
trious of produeerr, furnishing human
muscle of an inferior ra-e, guided and con
trolled by human brain of the superior
race. Not an insurrection, and scarcely an
apprehension during the whole war. The
number of negroes, about 4,000,000, was
not too great to be occupied ia the pro
duction of breadstuff®. Was slavery then
an element of weakness?
Perhaps, however, it was not slavery,
but the mere presence of the black race in
the South in any condition that weakened
us? Mr. Hill did not say this, nor would
it help him. His congratulations on the
success of abolition policy would still tail
him. For they are here still—the blacks.
Being l.cre, do they work tieuer as treed
men than before ? Do the negroes as
citizens administer government better than
the whites without their aid? Let Mr. Hill
answer. Do the men work better? Are
not most of the women and children drones ?
Do they work as before, and as do white
women and children in Europe? In a
word, has the negro labor system improved
by virtue of emancipation ? One univer
sal outcry demonstrates its immense fall
ing off and uncertainty.
The negro is here stili. How are we
better off? Is he a help to the good or
der, industry and progress of society?
Answer South Carolina; answer cities
with negro Aldermen and police; answer
Liberty county and sea coast of Georgia;
answer deserted fields and waste places of
the South.
But it may be said it was the influence
of the negro on the white man. The ne
groes were far less numerous than the
whites. There were sections where they
were very few in number. But the ger
minal answer is to be found in this, viz.
that onr population was sparse, and so the
division of labor impracticable. It was
not slavery but a scant population which
promoted a skilled class of laborers. The
effect of this at our strength and the
proper mode of meeting it are not correct
ly given by Mr. Hill.
To trace the causes of the relative
growth of the North as compared with tho
South would require careful study of
history in detail, and much thought
would be needed to cinvey any just idea,
or to furnish rational ground of conviction
to a reader or hearer. The adaptation ol
the South to agriculture turned the atten
tion of settlers to that vocation. Not the
want of adaptation to other pursuits,
hut this was the one most tempting and
requiring leas* preparation, capital and
combination The North, presenting less
ready adaptation as a farming country,
the population entered more into com
merco and navigation, and into manu
facturing. The ordinary laws of emigra
tion carry people to like latitudes, climates,
and liko pursuits. The hepe of meeting
persons of tho same nationality, and
speaking tho same language, hus much to
do with the direction of emigration.
England being our mother country, tlic
chief tide for a long time was from Eng
land-just as. emigration to Mexico or
Cuba was from Spain, and to Canada or
Louisiana from France.
Tho commerce of tho North promoting
its intercourse with other peoples, gave
them an advantage- Their acquaintance,
the destinations of their ships, etc., gave
them the start, and opened the original
channels. The first emigrants, by corre
spondence, brought others to the same
section. The revolutionary war stopped
tho tide for a time, but when it sot in
from England it naturally sought the same
characters of olimato and productions.
Tho magnificent grant by Virginia of tho
northwestern territory opened an immor.se
body of frosh land, and cheap. The
production of grain, etc., not of cotton,
was tho prime occupation of farmers.
The tendency then was strong to the
Northwest, rather than the South. The
Northern people, by virtue of intercourse
with the world, had more of the
ear of mankind than we; and the
South was represented as a graveyard.
Life Assurance Companies assumed that it
was extra hazardous to live at tho South
or even visit our seotion. Misrepresenta
tion was equally rife of our social and
moral condition. An agricultural people
is really the most virtuous, but we were
as much misrepresented morally and
sooially as in regard to health. Such
wero among the considerations, especially
the facts that no agricultural country in
Europe cultivated our staples, and that
those in our own climate did not speak our
language, which seemed to give the North
a start in the way of population. There
were other influences of great moment.
For example, tho polioy of the Govern
ment was to raise revenue exclusively from
imports and none by direct taxation. Tho
effect of this on Southern prosperity wo
will not discuss, as our readers are
familiar with it, except by pointing to
two or three pregnant facts. Ist. Tho
South furnished the bulk of the exports.
2d. Tho imports passed in a large meas
ure to the South, whenoe the exports
started, as the ultimate consumers. 3d.
Therefore, the actual duties were paid by
the South, with commissions, &c. 4th.
Also, the enhanced value of artiolos not
imported, but virtually prohibited, were
paid by the South ucdor the policy of the
Government.
One other view; these purchases by
the South were made with the entire crop
produced, not out of mere profits. It we
we sold a cotton crop —say for $250,000,000
of which $50,000,000 was profit—the per
oent. of tax on imports was virtually
levied on tht 250 of expenditure and not on
the 50,000,000.
The expenditures of the Government
were at the North. So that the bulk of
the revenues were levied on the South,
with halt the population, and carried to
the North to be expended- • We caDnot
elaborate but only suggest.
The influence on the ultimato results of
the war, of the want of skilled labor, is
immensely over-estimated by Mr. Hill, or
misunderstood by him. Our slaves were
occupied in making provisions, and did it
well. Our soldiers were needed to fight,
and they did it splendidly. Meeting the
skilled men of the North (so-called), they
never failed on equal terms —man for mar.
There would have been some points of ad
vantoflo in nvvr pvaparwiiow ioi tlic licfO,
arising from skilled labor, but other causes
were much more operative. We have
been accustomed to number among the
causes of our defeat the fact that our self
confidence was too great, and prevented us j
from making full use of our resources.
The food supply we met. By appreciating
our want of manufacture, and arranging to
keep open the blockade, we could have
converted her many crops—in war as we
did in peace—into manufactured materia! of
any sert she needed. With the proceeds of
her annual crops she could have had ample
materials ot war. We came near to sue- i
cess even without them. But we never !
were—whether on the questions of imrni- |
gration, of taxation, or of arrangements
for fighting—quite careful enough of our
own interest, and wc suffered for this
reason in competition with the keen,
shrewd, sharp people of the North. In
our former policy, being part and parcel of
the United States, onr arrangements and
preparation for war were for war with for
eign powers, and the industry of the
country, as a whole, was sufficiently di
versified for all purposes of defense as a
whole. Even with us as with an agricul
tural people, it would have been sufficient
had we been careful to maintaiu the
means of exchange.
Indeed, in regard to the alleged weak
ness of the South, which Mr. Hill explains
as an effect, and slavery as its cause. The
thing to be explained was rather our
strength than our weakness. What other
people with the same relative numbers have
fought so » ell and so long ? Suppose the
whole strength of the remaining portion
of the United States Pad been turned
against a manufacturing section of equal
numbers, instead of against the South;
would we not have starved them out much
more quickly than they conquered ust
Food is one of the most difficult articles to
supply from a distance. It is easier to sup
ply tools than food, for man and beast—
very expensive articles of transportation.
In the original idea of the Union, the
deficiencies of our section were compensa
ted by the productions and resources of
another. It is well, however, tor each
section and State to diversify its industry.
In peace it is usually practicable with
what we do produce to buy what we do not.
It was our true policy in war to see to it
that this facility of interchange was not
taken from us. By caution on this point,
an agricultural power, instead of being
weak is really the strongest for defense.
We stood out against 20,000,000 longer
than would New England and New York.
It was notour weakness, but our want
of foresight in making the best nse of the
resources we actually possessed.
And so. on the whole, what Carlisle
would call Mr. Hill’s "little compact
theory” on the subject, is wide of the mark.
He is not much of a philosopher, more of
a juggler. So far from having given us
the cause of our weakness, he has assigned
one of the elements of our strength. To
use the expressive figure of the same
writer, he has “laid his goose egg,” and
now thinks the whole matter settled by
his short and easy method of explaining
history. Indeed, Mr. Hill’s aim ever is
not at truth but at appearances. He is
fond of the outside. He does not under
stand the subject on which he enlighten
us, and his views are as shallow as they
are insulting, and as his researches and
convictions usually are.
But why do we class him with the Re
publican party ?
Mr. Hill may deny the fact that he is
gone over to them, soul and body. His
letter is an apparent effort to struggle
back, but let us still “watch aod wait.”
He made sure of the North by that
speech, taking the chances with u®. H?
and the North now understand each other.
Having that booty in his strong box, and
beyond peradvecture, he returns to look
after the less important South, with such
protestations of affection, such longings
aDd yearnings as to make the stones weep.
But we are too logical for all that. Mr.
Hill laid down his promises, but failed
in terms to draw his conclusion —that con
clusion, logically drawn, was the Repub
lican party. H.s speech might legitimately
have wound no with a toast to that
organization. Now, it is this “ Q E. D.”
which we propose to draw. What was
the legitimate conclusion from his prem
ises ? Ought ho not, at the Alumni
Dinner, to have offered some such toast
as the following:
“ The Republican Party—wiser in coun
cil and stronger in action ; understand our
interest better than ourselves. Wo apolo
gize to them for our stupid opposition in
the past. We return thanks for the
gorvices they have reudeied uo against uur
will. Henceforth be their policy our
policy—their civilization our civilization.
Let us have but one cause—one party.
Above all, one purse !”
This sentiment might appropriately have
been followed by a song— addressed to tho
bead of the Cabinet. Air : “ A place in
thy memory —dearest.” Dinners in high
places are the order of the day, and Mr.
Hill an expert.
Would such a toast have been a non se
quitur ? Was it not the just upshot and
condensed essence of Mr. Hill’s speech.
Some Republican (of color if no white
man was convenient, or office holder) could
have properly responded.
“Abolition principles—the new civiliza
tion—the Republican party, the author
of both. It is a sound principle of politi
cal action to co-operato with the friends of
a policy against its foes. The Republican
party is the frieod, tho Democratic party
the locos this policy.”
Song—to be sung with expression. Air:
“ Home at Last.”
What fitter conclusions from the prem
ises? Nor was the tone less expressive of
the zeal and abandon of anew convert.
He saw clearly the way to the heart of
the North, and the way was pleasant to
the eye, and a thing to be desired to make
one—acceptable. The three positions suc
cinctly set forth in the Constitutionalist
recently were those of Mr. Stephens, of
the Pennsylvania and of the Ohio plat
forms. Mr. Hiil goes “a rood beyond
tho farthest mark.” Indeed, his speech
is truly, "truly loyal ’’—intensely loyal
and will be so pronounced by competent
judges.
His argument sound—then the Repub
lican party deserves our confidence, and,
what is more, our co-operation. But has
the speaker so conciliated our confidence
in his candor, his integrity of purpose, his
calmness of thought and sobriety of judg
ment, that we should forsake all other®,
and cleave only unto him ? And, with
him, accept our old supposed enemies as
our truo and only friends—as men, wise
and r.ot simply shrewd—who love us, not
ours ? Loud as beats the drum, no re
cruiter will follow the drummer. One who
sees now so plainly the contrary of what
he saw so recently, does not commend him
self to us as a guide to be trusted.
There aro those who think Mr. Hill
aims to build up a third parly, composed
of negroes, supplemented on this black
foundation by a sufficient number of old
lino Whigs,"Americans, railroad men,
office-holders, jfcc., &c., to control the
State. Does4re so read the old Whig and
American parftrs? Does he fancy them
to be mere riffraff, subject to his bidding?
Many of them rank amoDg the noblest pa
triots of the land.
What it ip, is uooortain, but nobody
doubts ho is afror something. His logic
leads him to the Republicans. What
need of a third parly does his speech re
veal ? There is a suitable one already cx
taDt and in power, and so he does best to
make up to Mr. Grant. Uneasy in his
present quarters, he is on a courting ex
pedition. He keeps wooing and cooing
around in all directions. Even “ black
Dinah ” is not omitted as ho uongees
around, seeing that his fair friend of the
African persuasion may have beaux or
husbands, blessed (under the blessed new
regime) with votes. The gay Lothario is
growing impatient and cannot wait. He
cannot keep down much longer, or, to
change the figure, Mr. Hill’s anxiety to
serve the public is growing oppressive,
and he makes open proclamation: “Be
hold, it is tho eleventh hour, and no man
hath hired me.”
Tho new civilization 1 Havo wo not truly
taken a grand start in it ? Witness the
administration of the Government, Feder
al and State, and compare them with the
past, from Washington and Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe, descend to
Abraham, tho rail spliter, and for lower,
to Grant, the tanner and jockey. By a
close day of thought, descend if you can.
The descent required a deeade of action.
The range is wide, and thought grows
weary. Remember in Georgia the days of
Nisbet, Bartow and the Cobbs, now
buried. Os Herschel V. Johnson and
Jenkins in the Executive chair. Remem
ber the Convention of 1861 with the
Stephens and Toombs, the Cobbs, Nisbet,
Johnson, and the host of groat men from
ono little State, who would have been
illustrious iu any country in any age.
Come then to the mongrel body, white,
black aod mulatto (a few names get in
as it were by chance), who formed
our last Constitution of 1868, and join
Mr. Hill, if you can, in shouting rooms
to the new civilization ! We must be
excused. Take any point of the manage
ment of the past and compare it with the
present. Take fiuance. Take judicial
dignity and honor. Take the tone of the
people and the Government. With one
accord, as when old time is compared with
new and crude, we consent. “ The old is
better.” His pathway of progress would
elevate Georgia into a Jamaica, and South
Carolina into Hayti.
And this is the ultimate test. Judge
the two civilizations by their fruits. What
fruits so QOble as noble men ! In old
times, influences like ours developed an
Abraham. In our own country, in modern
times, the'two noblest names of modern
history—Washington and Lee—we are
asked for fruits. Our mechanical struc
tures are less. Our fruits id men, ard in
all that constitutes human greatness
(other than its mere drapery and outfit)
superior. Mr. Hill asks for our Webstcrs?
We present him (suddenly estranged and
rorget!ul) with Calhoun and Clay, and
with the leading intellects which have
controlled the country—two for one—from I
a section whose popniafion is as one to j
two. Our Storey ? The Constitution es- I
tablished by out statesmen, this compiler |
could not comprehend. Marshall ex- j
pounded it.
Mr. Hill’s mind seems much occupied
with dress—clothes, hats and the like. This
is all appropriate—his lovecf the outside.
A Northern correspondent says he met
at the Virginia Springs ‘‘the worst
dressed, but best mannered men in
America.” Let Mr. Hill judge not by the
outward appearance. Look not only on
the houses, but on the inhabitants. Not
on the raiment, but the men who wear it.
Often a professional gamester is the best
dressed man in a company ; and so the
finest type of a gentleman after the style
of the new civilization. We will none
of him.
But the most sacrilegious of Mr. Hill’s
assaults was the women of the South-
They are too far beyond the reach of Lis
calumny to need a defense. And if they
needed it, they would find a defender in
every true hearted man. If ever there
was, in any country, a peculiar develop
ment of all that is admirable and lovely in
womanhood, it was here. If purity,
modesty, tenderness, sympathy, were ever
combined with practical traits, with piety,
charity, industry, attention to the sick and
the poor, thoughtfulness for the wants of
many, it was in our Southern women.
” hen he brought out his comparison,
to their detriment, with “ black Dinah,”
why did not his tongue clean to the roof of
his mouth ?
But we must have done with these out
rages on our judgment and our feelings.
With some comments on Mr. Hill s letter
we will close.
The letter is very characteristic—brimful I
of false impressions. What an unfortunate
man he is, forever begging for delay.
This master of the art of expression, how
happens it that he makes such erroneous
impressions on the public mind by his ac
tions, letters and speeches ?
He keeps himself ever suspended be
fore a puzzled world, buzzing about its
pathway. Each speech or letter is but a j
pretext for another. Explanation must
follow explanation ; apology, apology, un
til the public judgment is a—weary. Why
does not Mr. Hill think more in propor
tion to the amount of talking he does?
He would relieve himself aod the public
by following the example of Mr. Webster,
who took no steps backward, simply be
eau=e he looked before taking steps for
ward.
Tie sugar-coated bait he presented to
the public seemed to nauseate it. So he
must roll it in sugar again—in a letter—
and then publish it in a modified form,
purged and diluted, better adjusted to
the stomach of the people.
W hat a delicate sense of the proprieties he
has. He who had j ust been guilty of the out
rages we have been detailing on the known
sentiments and convictions of his audience —
this man sees great indelicacy in criticism
on his sentiments, unless the public would
wait some weeks to digest his poisoc
without taking an antidote. How knows
the public it is to be published? if the
criticisms were by persons present at the
speech, they heard for themselvep. One
commentator in bis
cannot say one thing tc-day, aod publish
an entirely different thing tomorrow, he
is not the man we take him to be. If
he cannot publish a speech which will
: contradict the synopsis already given,
and the very sense of hearing of his
audience, he is wanting in the very talent
fur which we give him most credit. This
is plain talk, but plainness of speech is
sometimes neecssary. After his bare
faced trifling with the loDg-suffering of
the public, how delicately sensitive he is
to what is due to himself.”
But whence the false impressions and
versions of his speech, of which he so much
complains? Scattered far and wide by
whom? By the very alumni of whose
unanimity in appreciation of it Mr. Hill in
forms us. That little conventional humbug
called “the unanimous voice of the Alum
ni ” was a feeble “ aye ” from a few voices-
To vote “ no ” was in the hearts of many,
but they were more considerate of Mr.
Hill’s feelings than he had been of theirs.
That is the sort of information one always
gets from Mr- Hill. How foreign the im
pression from the facts. Again, it was a
“ literary address,” “does not allude to
politics”—a bottle of oorrosive sublimate,
labelled rose water —a Radical talk, la
belled “a literary address” —the huge
black eat ol Abolition in a tub, softly la
belled, “nothing but meal," “be not
afraid.”
How marvellouJy the gentleman over
rates his importance and status. Mr.
Hili ba3 over drawn on tho confidence of
the public, and is now bankrupt in that
article. If he had understood it aright,
the election in December was notice to that
effect—confidence out.
Mr. Hiil has succeeded in acquiring the
reputation of a sort of political bigamist—
playing at fast and loose with his consortp.
There is no foundation in his political his
tory for tho confidence of the country. It
has established for him no character for
wisiom, stability or sincerity. We iiave
scarcely touched the record chat convicts
him of tho contrary. His first proceeding
is to lay the axe to the root ot that reve
rence for all that is noblo and good, which
alone can bear wholesome fruit. All his
protestations of purity of purpose and sell
sacrificing devotion to the interests of the
country make no impression. In the pub
lic estimate he is classed with the men so
well described by Judge Longstreet, who
are endowed with the dangerous and fatal
gift of “ an oily tongue unrestrained by
sincerity of heart."
It has been no pleasant task to review
these crooked ways. But it is the duty of
every good nan and true to endeavor to
stop the cjrrent of corruption, and re
store to our country, sorely beset without
and within, good government and honesty
in high places. Sentinel.
[communicated.]
Clarkesville, Ga., August 19, 1871.
Henry Moore, Esq., Augusta :
Dear Sir — l know that you take an in
terest in the improvements going on in
this part of the country as well as myself;
and have a knowledge of the topography
of the country from personal observation.
Understanding that that great railroad
company, the Pennsylvania Central, had
undertaken to finish the Air Line Road
from Gainesville to Charlotte, N. 0., and
that they had located the road to within
seven miles of this place, having come
along the ridge from the Poplar Spring to
that point, I rode out to the place where
they l«id stopped—the residence of Mr.
Sellers. There I ascertained that the en
gineers were then looking out for the best
route by which to get down near to Jar
rett’s Bridge, where they had determined
to cross the river. Now, their position
was said to be nine hundred feet above,
and the distance to that part of the river
is about ten and a half miles, equal to a
grade of about (86.71) eighty-five and
seventy-one hundredths feet to the mile.
Now this seemel to me so curious a
course—to give it no other appellation—
that on the 27ih of July I addressed a let
ter to John Edgar Thompson, E-q., Pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Centra!, of
Philadelphia, advisiog him not to descend
from the present position, but to continue
on the elevated grounds, and cross the
river at or near tho Tallulah Falls, where
the materials for building a bridge (rook
and lime, if iron is not used) are plentiful
and at hand.
Ia this course they would run across
and aloDg the only vein of lime rock in
this part of the State, and this would be
an important element of gain—an element
in which the soil of both the upper part
of Eastern Georgia and of South Carolina
is deficient. The passing of fhc road at
the Falls, which is so celebrated a curiosity,
would be another element of gain to the
company. Nature has given the opportu
nity to construct a railroad nearly upon a
level; and, it appears to me, that the engi
neering reputation of a Grant ora Thomp
son, or even of a StephensoD, could scarce
ly survive the engineering absurdity of go
ing down to cross the river below, when
such a country as that at or near the Falls
presents itself.
I do not know that this letter, which
was sent by mail, ever reached the hands
of Mr. Thompson, or the gentlemen who
are to pay for the construction of the road,
and therefore request that you will have
this letter published in tho Chronicle &
Sentinel, and a copy sent to the Board
of Directors of that company, and oblige
your friend, B. Campbell-
Letter from Scrivcu.
Scriven County, Ga , August 21,1871
Editors Chronicled: Sentinel:
From a regular perusal of your excellent
and admirable paper, I see you have no
correspondent in this county, and pre
suming a communication exhibiting crop
prospects will be of interest, at least to
some of your city merchants, have re
solved to send you a brief expose.
The corn crop slightly exceeds, in point
of acreage, that of the past year. Per
haps it would bo safe to say 10 per cent,
more was cultivated this year than last;
but the incessant rains in the early sum
mer, together with a scorching drought
later, very materially and disastrously af
fected it, insomuch that farmers can hard
ly expect a greater harvest than was had
in the past year. There will, however, be
a sufficiency for home consumption.
The cotton prospect is rather gloomy.
Sq late as the Ist of August it was very
fine, where grass had been kept in subjec
tion. After the first of the present month,
occasional cool nights and rust seriously in
jured it, in that itoaused it to shed much
of its fruit. It would, therefore, be im
proper to promise an average crop by at
least 15 per cent. Not more than one
third the usual quantity of commercial fer
tilizer was used this 1 year—large purchases
and injudicious application of them in the
past year having involved many in bank
luptey.
The oat crop has received more atten
tion than perhaps any previous year, but
was almost a complete f ailure —rust hav
ing appeared a short time before it begin
to mature. Those, however, that were
sown in the fall did mush better than
those sown in the spring. We, therefore,
thick it decidedly the best policy to sow
down this crop in the fall —at any rate,
the greater part of it. A prolific cause ot
the poverty of this important crop is to
be found in the fact that the poorest lands
are usually allotted to it, and these with
out manure. We believe no crop we cul
tivate responds more promptly to the ap
plication of manure, thorough plowing,
and other items of good treatment.
Cotton Ceop in the Southwest, —The
reports from the cotton crop in Alabama,
i Mississippi and Louisiana are generally
; unfavorable. In the two latter States the
caterpillar was webbing np and would be
out in destructive force from the 10th to
15th September. The boll worm, too,
was very destructive in some localities.
The papers in Mississippi and Louisiana
were generally predicting about half a
crop. In Alabama the Selma Times says:
We have passed onr lives here, where
the staple is raised, and we have never
! known a year as disastrous, nor have we
: ever known |a year in which the damage
j inflicted by excessive rain, and then by a
j continued dry spell, is as great as this has
, been. We saw on Monday plantations
which have always yielded well, and
i which have looked comparatively well np
j to date, upon which the small bolls on the
I stock sre literally dried up. while the
j plant is now throwing off everything that
| it ought to make ; and such is the condi
i tion of the crop generally in this section.
[cohmu.niated.]
S. C. Millett and lie Port Royal
Railroad.
Editors Chronich & Isnttnd:
I deeply regret th< appearance of a
communication in your.ssue of the 20;b
instant, copied from th Charleston News,
over the signature of ‘Allendale.” Had
“ an old and indutntia citizen ” of Allen
dale written the articl, there would be
less of which to com)laic, but the .“ear
marks ” smack uimisakably of a home
nearer the sea than Alendale. We don’r
believe it right to itea 4 the livery of the
court of Heaven t« serve the devil in, nor
are we willing that an anonymous corres
pondent should msrepresent the views of
an intelligent comnumty by hiding him
self behind the Dane of their quiet little
village. We kno; of a truth that the
people around Allmdale are looking for
ward to the compiuioD of this road with
mere than ordinary feelings of pride and
pleasure. Impoveished by the war, they
found themselves uterly ruined, and inca
pable ot contribuine a siDgle dollar to
ward the completicn of an enterprise which
they fondly cherisled, and to which alone
they looked with mxious expectation, as
likely to develop heir lands, aDd bring
happiness and prosperity once more to their
houseless and almost homeless families.
Any one, just aftertho war, who supposed
that the road woud or coal! be built by
the inhabitants aong the line, without
foreign capital, woild have been regarded
as insane. Just a this crisis S. C. Millett
made a proposititn to the stockholders,
whi :h was gladly accepted. Drowning
men, ’tis true, catch at straws.
The road had passed the drowning
point; cay, more. It was stilled in death.
It could only be resurrected by foreign
capital. This M\ Millett promised to
furnish ; althougl he ‘ailed to furnish it
at once, and in the tangible shape in which
the stockholders locked for its appearing,
still it is an inccutrovertable fact that the
enterprise, under iis administration and
manipulations, has had the breath of life
breathed into it. Itis no longer a forgotteD
circumstance, but b attracting the atten
tion and enlisting the sympathies and
aotive co-operatiouof capitalists from the
North.
“Allendale” says that Mr. Finegan was
to build and equip the road for a certain
eontraqt price, but no articles of agree
ment were entered into by which ho was
bound. Now. Messrs. Editors, had “Al
lendale” been “an old and influential
citizen of Alendale” he would have
known that no contract was ever made
with Mr. Finejan. No man of this name
has ever had the slightest connection with
the road. If Mr. George D. Chapman
ever enjoped the confidence of Mr. Millett
1 am not aware of it, but if it be a sin or a
crime to be associated with Mr. George
D. Chapman, then some of the most
prominent gentlemen of Barnwell Court
House had best atone at once for their
sin. Mr. Chapman at one time was their
beau ideal of a live, activo railroad man.
I am not the apologist ot Stephen C.
Millett, but I am a friend of the Port
Royal Railroad, and no true friend will
suffer obstacles tc be thrown in the way of
building the road by holding up to public
criticism the private character of one of
the Board of Directors. This Direotor or
Superintendent, whatever may have been
the motives that influenced him in the
past; whether parsimonious, selfish or
patriotic, he has earned, and will
merit the applause of many for giv-
ing vitality to a lifeless corporation.
When he took the road not a pound of
iron had been lurctased nor a cross-tie
hewn, and probably about forty miles of
earth-work completed. How stands the
record to-day ? Nearly seventy miles of
grading completed, one-half the ties neces
sary for the whole line, twenty-seven
miles of iron laid down and ready for the
cars, with a sufficient amount bought and
on its way to to Port Royal to lay forty
eight m les additional track. The timbers
for building the bridge across Whale
Branch all ready, aod much of the piling
driven to its place.
During the progress of this work not a
dollar has been demanded from the origi
nal subscribers along the line of road.
Through whose influence did this money
come? I assert that S. 0. Millett was
mainly instrumental in inducing it to be
poured out in the lap of old Beaufort and
Barnwell countie®. No, Messrs. Editors,
turn it and twist it and wriggle it as you
may, the object of “ Allendale ” is too
transparent, not that he loves Port Royal
less, but he loves the South Carolina
Railroad more- James Appleton, a man
“entirely? unknown to Allendale.” This
is a clincher. If “ Allendale ” had long
resided at that lovely spot he would have
known more AppletoDS thaD James.
Mr. Millett never expected or intended
to build depots within one mile apart, nor
nearer than five miles; but at the same
time if a conflict arose (along the line), as
it lias arisen, as to the exact spot fer a
depot, both parties can be accommodated
by paying for the privilege. If the writer
owned real estate on the road he would
be willing to make extraordinary sacrifices
to secure a depot on bis land. All know
the advantages likely to accrue from
having a handsome depot erected. To say
nothing of the increased value of building
lots, the sale of wood and keeping the
water tank, would justify a large outlay
of money.
Bat I have extended this communica
tion far beyond my original intention. In
conclusion, I earnestly ask “ Allendale”
to say no more about the President and
Superintendent. Let us all rather hasten
on than retard the enterprise. What he
has to say can be said when the road is
finished with much more propriety. The
Port Royal may very well say deliver me
from my would-be friends.
Veritas.
Ex-Dctective Wood and tlie Na
tional Frauds.
Ex-Detective Wool announces, by a
card in the New York Sun, that ho has
abandoned his intention of exposing the
fraud and corruption at Washington in a
book, but will do so in a series of articles,
to appear in that journal. He says:
The fact of my official connection with
the Government, familiarity with the per
sons implicated, aud with the details ol
much of tho semi-official villainy, corrup
tion, fraud and favoritism in praotice at
the nation’s capital, and of my own know
ledge of the intriguiog, unscrupulous and
dishonest political demagogues who now
have the control of the Government, war
rant the supposition that, if I am pos
sessed of the abilities requisite, l have the
material facts irom which to give an ex
hibit which should interest every lover of
his country, and induce him to demand a
change of Government officials.
I am aware that such a course will bring
upon me a degree of personal vituperation.
I intend to remain at Washington, and
will not be less a Republican because of
this expose, by which I desire to show the
public the stylo and practice of tho politi
cal demagogues and financial villains who
have been and are desirous of continuing
the control of our nation’s politics and
finances. I shall affix my name to all pa
pers emanating from me, and will respond
only to those who will show their hands in
like manner.
My papers will open with the establish
ment and proof, beyond successful contro
versy, of the gigantic fraud on the public
and Government in the article of United
States bonds, relating to the redemption,
exchange, and interest thereon. I shall
endeavor to give this subject (so little un
derstood) Bach an expose that the humblest
mind shall not fail to comprehend the cor
ruption and fraud by which the people or
the Government are swindled to the ex
tent of millions of dollars annually.
Duriog the progress of these epistles to
the people I shall expose the peculations
and mismanagement of the Printing De
partment of the Treasury, as also the
glaring frauds and favoritism in the paper
contracts of the Secretary of the Treasury,
in the speciality of what is known as the
fibre paper, and promise in advance rich
developments in that particular. Among
the many matters I shall expose I intend
to give the bktory of the steamer Golden
Rule, which vessel was wrecked, pre
meditated'y, on the Roncader Reefs, in
the Caribbean Sea, and about three
miliions of Government treasure was
stolen the Government safe
on board. Know as I do the parties
who committed the theft, I will show
how one of these parties became intimate
with President Grant (probably through
Parisian ontfits for ladies), and that ulti
mately this man’s name was actually sent
to the United States Senate for confirma
tion as a high official representative of our
Government at Paris. I will show how
and why said nomination was rejected,
and what high dignitaries have drank
abundantly of the French wines presented
to them and purchased with the funds of
the proceeds of the robbery of the nation’s
treasure on board the Golden Rule.
I shall continue these papers for the
benefit of all concerned, believing it is to
the interest of the public to understand
the characters of those who rob and rule
them in Washington.
Wm. P. Wood,
487 Maryland av’e, Washington, Aug. 11.
A special telegram from Cincinnati, of
the 22d August, to the Louisville Ledger,
states that prominent Democrats say that
the letter telegraphed from there by the
Associated Press, regarding the sanity and
withdrawal of Gen. McCook, Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio, is false
and malicious, the only foundation for the
statement being that Gen. McCook has
been obliged to withdraw from his en
gagements on account of overwork in the
canvass.
The letter was evidently written and
published to injure the Democratic party.
GKOBGII POLITICS.
MORE ABOUT THE THIRD PARTY
MOVEMENT.
THE NEW DEPARTURE'S FATHER.
Ben Bill an Aspirant for Senatorial Hon
ors —Foster Blodgett in the Cold—Joe
Brown to be the Third Party Candidate
for Governor —Has President Grant
Debauched the Republican Party ?
[From the New York Herald .l
Atlanta, Ga., August 12.1871.
The exposition made in the Herald of
the game which the Southern politicians
are playing has created a genuine sensa
tion. not only in this State, but throughout
the South generally. What is remarkable
is the tact that although the new political
movement, as weli as Ben Hill’s convers
ion, was known to many persons in this
city tor some time previous to my arrival
here, all of the papers remained profound
ly silent of the subjec*. And yet—would
you believe it? —one of the editors of At
lanta said to me yesterday, “ Why, my
dear fellow, I have known all that is con
tained in that letter for several weeks
past.”
THE TRUE FATHER OF THE NEW DEPARTURE.
I still remain under the oonviction that
there is a conspiracy to break up the Re
publican party and prevent an election by
the people next year. Much depends up
on the result of the elections this fall,
whether it will be formally made known
to the public. Should the Democrats gsin
ground in the North you will see the
movement inaugurated immediately after
ward?. So far as Georgia is concerned, the
“new departure” has taken immensely
with the Republicans. This reminds me
that Ben Hill claims to be its father. As
the story goes, Ben went to Washington,
where he had an interview with Senator
Hendricks, to whom he imparted his idea.
“By Jove, Hill,” exclaimed the Indiana
leader, “those are just my views ; only I
haven’t been able to give expression to
them as you have done.”
After this gushing confession of his
paucity of words, Hendricks is supposed
to have written to Mr. Vallandigham and
persuaded him to act as obstetrician to the
“new departure.” Now, lest Hill and
Hendricks deny this story, I must here
state that w*o told wo by one of the
most prominent Radical leaders in (ienr.
gia, as coming from Hill himself.
SENATORIAL ASPIRATIONS.
Bnt whether or not Ben’s prolific mind
gave birth to the latest political infant, it
is certain that he is desperately in love
with the babe. In his recent address be
fore the Alnmni of the Georgia University
he departed from the “customary forms
and modes of speech,” and delivered a
regular political oration. For this he has
been, and still is, roundly abused by the
Democratic papers; but the Rip Yan
Winkle editors of this State in their men
tal somnolency don’t perceive what Ben
aims at. He has the Un.ted States Sen
ate on the brain and the disease is really
bad. You must know that the Legisla
ture which meets here in a few weeks will
elect a Senator to succeed Dr. Miller,
who, by the way, is said to have drawn
$16,000 for four days’ services, his term
expiring four days after his admittance.
Well, a part of the plan is to get the Legis
lature to elect Ben, and to bring this
about the “new departurists” are work
ing like beavers. If they can find a suf
ficient number of “ new departure” Dem
ocrats among the members they may suc
ceed, but I doubt very much if they can.
IIOW THE OLD THING IS WORKING.
I wrote in my last letter that Joe Brown
had been brought to the front, and I now
express the opinion that he will bo the
third parly (late Republican) candidate
for Governor. I have heard men say that
Joe is “a durned rascal;” but I have
never heard any person say that ho is “a
durned fool.” He is really a very clever
man, a pleasant companion, and an adroit
politician. Furthermore, he is “as mild
a mannered man ” as the old Greek pirate
in “ Dan Juan.” and is as sleek and oily as
an applicant for subscriptions to enable a
religious society to send a missionary to
the Fiji Islands. “Joe, sir,” said a North
Georgian to me yesterday, as he squirted
a gallon of tobacco juice into an adjacent
oorner, “Joe Brown is just about the
cunningest scamp in Georgia;” and I be
lieve he is right. True onough, he has
more enemies in this State than any man
1 know of in public life ; but he is virtually
master of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, which runs through the heaviest
Democratic districts of Georgia, where
there are few negroes and maDy white
men. He alto has the influence of* the
“Air Line” Road at his back, and the
supposition is that the Brunswick and
Albany and Macon and Brunswick influ
ence will be given him. Jog Brown is an
ambitious man. He would like to boa
Senator in Congress, but he knows that
the presont Legislature won’t touch him
with a ten foot pole; hence ho has re
signed his Senatorial aspirations with a
sigh, and is working for the Gubernatorial
chair- At present he is cultivating North
Georgia, which was formerly his favorite
battle ground. He attends all public meet
ings in that section, participates in the
discussions at the cessions of agricultural
societies, and the style in which he cod
dles the farmers is a caution. He no longer
tells them, as he told the Republican Na
tional Convention at Chicago in 1868, that,
having been a secessionist in 1860, it was
only natural for him to be a Republican in
1868. Oq the contrary, ho is touchingly
conservative, and eschews politics in word,
while recommending himself politically in
intent. His speeches are essays on what
he knows about farming, and when he ad
vises the farmers to plant grass and make
their own hay, he is really hard at work
“ making hay while the sun shines” for
himself.
TRYING TO SPLIT THE DEMOCRACY.
Joshua Hill, one of tho Senators in
Congress, also socks the nomination for
Governor, but Josh can’t get it. Brown
has the wires in his bands and is pulling
them energetically, Should he be nomi
nated—and I believe he will be—next year
will witness the most exciting campaign
ever held in Georgia. Joe and his allies
are making desperate exertions to split
the Democracy. Rumor has it that they
have bought up some of the Democratic
papers of the State, which will, at the
proper time, come out in their favor, but
I doubt tbe story. It is certain, however,
that the Democracy of Georgia are not
united on the “new departure” question.
An overwhelming majority of them op
pose it, and they, headed by such in
fluential men asiToombs and Stephen?, will
control the convention whioh nominates
the candidate for Governor, and you may
depend upon it that the platform will in
sist upon an adherence to the principles
laid down in New York in 1868. The
“ new departurists ” are manoeuvring to
bring about the withdrawal from the con
vention of all those delegates who believe
in accepting Mr. Vallandigham’s platform,
and persuading them to coalesce with
the third party.
BEN TRYING TO GET INTO BLODGETT’S
SHOES.
In this new deal Ben Hill and .Toe
Brown are the great Moguls of the Blue
Bottles. Poor Foster Biodgett has been
thrown overboard- Excepting the post
masters and other Federal officials he is
about the only man left in the Republican
party of Georgia. He still “sticks” to the
old love, and is in favor of Grant’s re
eleotion. He is also trying hard to get
recognized as a Senator from this State ;
hence, although he says he is no more a
Republican than any man who advocates
the “new departure” movemen', he must
be excluded from among the list of the
“ third party” leaders. Should Ben Hill
succeed in getting elected Senator, Fos
ter’s former friends and allies will not
hesitate to work against him and help kill
his already dying chances of ever getting
a seat. But can Ben be elected ? I am
very well aware that some papers will
term it “sensation,” but I am not respon
sible for the statement that Democratic
members of the Legislature have been
already “sounded” on the subject. Ben,
it is believed, will enter the lists as a can-
didate of the “new departure” Democrats
and not as a Republican. The Republi
cans will vote for him en masse, and the
hope is to get a sufficient number of
Democrats to support him. Once elected
he will probably persuade Congress to re
move his disabilities and to admit him,
on the ground that he would have been a
full-blown Radical rose had not the fact of
the Legislatuse being Democratic “nipped
him in the bud.” Ben Hill is the most
agile political acrobat in Georgia. He can
leap from one camp to the other with
perfect ease, and do it with the smiling
countenance peculiar to those who perform
virtuous or meritorious actions. You will
remember how Democratic he was in his
late interview with your correspondent—
how he used language indicative of a
belief that the re-election of Grant would
be a most calamitous event. Would you
believe it that this same Ben Hill did
express the conviction, shortly after he
made his great somersault last fall, that
the re-election of Grant was necessary for
the salvation of Georgia. Should he deny
this 1 am ready to give him my authority
for the statement.
NO GO.
Neither Brown nor Hill can succeed, and
simply because the great body of the
whites are bitterly opposed to the views
they represent. In Southwest Georgia
(the Black Belt) the feeling against Brown
is intensely hostile, and for every vote be
may gain in North Georgia his party will
lose two in the first named section- Still
he will make a better fight than many
imagine and will die hard. As for Ben
Hill he cannot be elected unless with the
aid of Democratic votes, and it will be po
litical death for any Democrat to vote for
him. Both these gentlemen will be doom
cd to ohew the cud of disappointment.
Ben is really to be pitied. He is one of
the most unfortunate politicians in the
SoutK It has always been his misfortune
to “flop over” at the wrong time, and
this timo his flipping has almost ruined
him.
THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.
As regards the probability of the third
party putting up a candidate of their own
for the Presidency, that i?, as I stated in
the previous letter, still a matter of specu
lation. The opposition to President Grant
is strong among many of the Republican
leaders in this State, and 13 the same in
ail the Southern States were the Radicals
are in power. Just look at the row iD
Louisiana, the troubles in Mississipi and
the split in Arkansas. I have been told
to a=k this question, and I now put it, as
follows:
“ Has Senator Fenton ever been in cor
respondence with any prominent men in
the South on the subject of the formation
of anew party, and the probability of the
Southern people supporting a ticket head
ed by a ‘ new departure’ Democrat and a
‘new departure’ Republican, the latter to
be the candidate for President and the
former for Vice-President?”
I had another question given me, but
shall not pm it because it implicates cer
tain prominent New England Republicans,
one of whom is said to have written in a
letter to an Ohio politician, who quoted it
in a letter to a Georgia politician, that
“ Grant has so debauched the Republican
party that it has become as bad as the
Democratic, and anew organization is
necessary for the preservation of our insti
tutions ”
I am assured that numerous Republican
politicians of the North have declared that
if the Southern people will lead the way
for the formation of a third party on a
platform similar to that of the new de
parture movement they will join it, but
that their past record forbids any affilia
tion with the Democracy.
THE GEORGIA DEMOCRATS.
I had intended saying something con
cerning the Georgia Democrats, but hav
ing readied the prescribed limits must
make them the subject of a separate let
ter. They are not quite as harmonious as
they might he, and unless their newspa
pers scop quarreling will help the opposi
tion immensely.
I From the Atlanta Constitution ]
NKW DEVELOPMENTS IN STATE ROAD
MATTERS.
Yesterday morning the organ of His
Excellency Governor Bullock contained the
following official order, without date at
the bottom or any time of publication
specified. The genoral opinion on read
ing it was that the investigation already
begun was approaching too close certain
parties, and it was necessary to get the
books and papers in order to shield them
selves. Here is the official order :
Superintendent’s Office, 1
Western & Atlantic Rairoap, f
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 24, 1871. )
By virtue of authority vested in mo by
order of His Excellency Rufus B. Bui
lock, Governor of Georgia, under date of
the 19th instant, as above,
Ordered, That N. P. Hotchkiss, Au
ditor, Isaac P. Harris, Treasurer, and
Charles P. McCalla, .General Book-keeper
of the Western and Atlantio Railroad,
are hereby removed from the Board of
Commissioners to bring up tho accounts
and records, etc., of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad-
Foster Blodgett,
Superintendent.
The remarkablo feature about the order
is that the general book-keeper should be
removed, he being the only officer of the
State Road that has paid anything into
the Treasury of the State for a long time.
We learn that he has paid over to Treas
urer Angier $5,531 conscience money re
turned to him.
When Charles P. McCalla, General
Book-keeper, went to room 45 in the capi
tol building, yesterday, he was met by
Win. Pettus and informed that he was in
structed by Foster Blodgett, Superinten
dent (so-called), to prevent his entrance.
Mr. McCalla relired to consult with Maj.
Z. B. Hargrove. Major Hargroves dis
patched Tim Murphy and J. B. Quillian
to Room 45, witli orders not to allow
Foster Blodgett, A. L. Harris and others
to enter or carry off or destroy the books
and papers there. Attorney General Far
row called for Tim’s authority, when Tim
exhibited the order. Farrow slipped down
stairs, and procuring a duplicate key, and
while Tim’s attention was diverted, by a
“cute trick” by slipping into the room
and locking the door. Not to be baffled,
Tim procured a chair, and pushed his head
through the transom over the door, saying,
“ I see you, sir.” Tim kept his eye upon
him, and would not down at Farrow’s
bidding. Farrow said he did it as a joke,
hut Tim said the reason Farrow outwitted
him, lie (Tim) thought he was dealing
with a gentleman. It was certainly car
rying the joke too far, for it. tavn™ of the
suspicion of a desire to conceal something.
The qestion is pertinent. Why thus
try to get possession of and control the
books? Why should Foster Blodgett and
A. L. Harris show such anxiety to have
the books turned over to II P. Farrow ?
They claim that H. P. Farrow is attorney
of the State Road. If so, his office should
be at the depot, and his consultations with
the lessees. Mr. Farrow wanted to take
possession under the following:
Office Western & Atlantic R. R.
11. P. Barrow,Attorney W. & Atlantic
Railroad —Sir : By virtue of authority
in me vested, 1 have removed the General
Book keeper ot the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, and in oonsidoiation of the con
dition of the unfinished business of the
said road, and in consideration also of the
fact that the past conduct of certain per
sons heretofore connected with the road,
needs investigation,
You are hereby instructed and required,
as Attorney of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, to take charge of the books and
papers of the said road, and employ such
assistance as you may need, to bring up
the same, and tako all legal steps proper
in the premises.
[.Signed | Foster Blodgett, Supt.
Major Hargrove put McCalla in posses
sion of the office which ho now retains.
Mr. Farrow also occupies it while strong
guards watch over both.
After a long conference between Attor
ney General Farrow, and CjL Bleckley,
Solicitor General Howell and Major Har
grove, it was agreed last night that the
books should be placed in the custody of
Dr. C. L. Redwine. Dr. Rcdwine has
consented to it. The guards of both
parties watched tho room all night.
A street rumor has it that Foster
Blodgett and A. L. Harris own a large
interest in the ice factory.
Public opinion yesterday centered upon
ono leading idea, and that was that the
earnest, decisivo and strong measures re
sorted to, to obtain posseision of tho books
and papers of the book-keeper’s office was
proof positive that there was “ something
rotten in Denmark,” and that the shaking
knees aDd chattering teeth were evidences
that the guilty parties had seen the “ hand
writing on the wall.”
The New Five Per Cent. Loan.
We find the following in the Philadel
phia Trade Journal:
So many contradictory statements have
been made by the public prints, in regard
to the recent action of the Treasury De
partment of the United States in regard
to the public loans, that we have been at
some pains to get the latest and most re
liable information on the subject. *
In regard to the new five per cent, con
solidated gold loan of $200,000,000, there
only remains $50,000,000 for general sub
scription. $70,000,000 of it have already
been subscribed for, the greater part of
wbicli was by the national banks. SBO,-
000,000 have been alotted to the foreign
markets, and is now being rapidly taken
by a syndicate of the mort reliable English
and continental houses, $15,000,000 of
which have been already subscribed. $50,-
000,000 have been reserved for general
subscription in this country for a specific
period of time, $10,000,000 of which have
been already subscribed l>y a syndicate
composed of the largest dealers in Gov
ernment bonds, among whom are Messrs.
Fisk & Hatch, Vennilye & (Jo., Henry
Clews & Cos., Clark, Dodge & Go., Leon
ard, Sheldon & Foster, First and Fourth
National Banks, New York, and others.
The interest on this loai is payable
quarterly in gold, viz: in February, May,
August, and November. Coupon and
registered bonds will be issued for it, and
it will be free from all taxation by the
United States or State governments. All
kinds of national bonds will be taken in
payment for it This will be found a very
convenient loan for investments by execu
tors, institutions, &c.
“Syndicates.”— Wall‘street rejoices in
anew nomencla'ure. Pool and cliques and
rings arc to be known no more, and com
munes are things of the past. “Syndi
cates” have sprung from their ashes, and
now we have Erie Syndicate, the Read
ing Syndicate, the Panama, Western
Union, Pacific Mail, &e., Syndicates.
There is something ponderous and re
spectable about a Syndicate. The very
sound of the name repudiates any suspi
cion of aught but the most high-toned in
tegrity. Can “lame duck” ever be a
Syndic ? Can a “squeeze” of the “shorts”
ever form part of the dignified operations
of a Syndicate ? Unless words have lost
their meaning, such a name is a guarantee
against anything of the kind.
Telegraphic Summary
Saratoga, August 24. —Amid almost
breathless silence, only broken by some
betting man proclaiming his readiness to
lay SIOO to S3O on Longfellow, the flag
fell at the first attempt to start the horses.
Helmbold at ouoe took a lead of three
lengths, but in going around the upper
turn Longfellow closed the gap and be
fore reaching the quarter pole had taken
the lead from llelmbold. He led a length
along the back stretch, and at the half
mile mark was a length and a half in
front, which space ho kept open along the
lower side to the home stretch turn. A
burst of applause greeted him as he went
under the string on tho first mile a clear
length and a half ahead, in I:ss—both
horses under a strong pull. At tho turn
Hembold drew a little closer, and lay at
Longfellow’s quarters throughout the next
quarter mile, and as the half mile polo
was passed, ho reached his opponent’s
saddle girth?. On the lower stretch
Longfellow again drew slightly away,
and as they went under the string
on the second mile run, in 2:50, he
was exactly a length ahead. He retained
this advantage to tho quarter, but at tbo
halt mile Heimhold was agaiu at his sad
dle girths, hanging to him like a shadow,
that would not be shaken off. The mur
mured applause of tho vast assemblage
Durst into a thunderous shout of irre
pressible exultation as Helmbold closed
and oollared Longfellow in coming up tho
home stretch, passed him and went under
the string on the third mile a clear
length and in s:4s—the great Kentucky
“crack” already beginning to hoist unmis
takable signs of distress. The backers of
Hembold became frantically jubilant at
this unexpected change in the aspect of
affairp, and shouts of exultant applause
rent the air. At the upper turn Hembold
was two lengths ahead and he increased
his lead to three lengths at the quarter.
Along tho back stretch he' steadily
drew away from his already beaten oppo
nent, and the six lengths advantage
he bad at the half mile he made into a
score along the lower stretch. The race
was virtually over, for Helmbold galloped
up the home stretch and under the string
an easy winner, twenty lengths ahead of
the much distressed Longfellow. Time of
the four miles 7:49J. The first mile was
run in 1:55 ; the seoond mile in 1:65; the
third in 1;55, and the fourth and last mile
in C;OS4* llelmbold carried 114 pounds;
Longfellow, 108.
San Francisco, August 24 Don
Abel Stearns a resident of Los Angelos
since 1828, and a native of Massachusetts,
died there yesterday. His estates form
erly extended from Los Angelos to San
Bernards, 65 miles. He sent tho first
California gold to tho Philadelphia mint
five years before tho discovery on Gen.
Sutton’s property.
Gov. Spafford, with 300 well armed men
and two month’s provisions, has entered
the Pinial and Magellan mountain country,
Arizona, determined to prospoct fully the
regions from whioh so many parties of
whites have been driven back by the
Apache?.
Gen. Crook is North of Gila, in the
mountains. Ho has been unable to bring
the Apaches to an engagement as yet.
St. Louis, August 24. —Dispatches from
Huntsville, Missouri, says that 1200 Con
federates met at Roanoke Fair Grounds
tc-day. Gov. Reynolds, Gen. Shelby and
others addressed them. Polities were not
alluded to. The meeting passed the fol
lowing resolution:
“That it is the duty of all to turn thoir
backs upon tho past, and grasp manfully
the duties and responsibilities of tho fu
turo.”
London, August 25. —A Tory has been
elected from East Surrey, vice Charles
Buxton, deceased.
The British ships St. Cearns and Knight
Errant, were both lost off Cape Horn.
They were bound from Liverpool for San
Francisco. An unknown schooner sunk
yesterday in the channel, and eighty lives
lost.
The cholera being reported at Antwerp,
the Italian Government has ordered a
strict quarantine for vessels from that
port. Weather tempestuous and many
vessels ashore.
New York, August 25. —A Herald spe
cial from London, says the Romanian
trouble Jins been settled. Railroad bond
holders will be indemnified by anew loan,
guaranteed by Prussia and Austria.
City Mexico, August 18.— A Catho
lic priest was imprisoned in Marlia for
harrangues and inciting Catholics to vio
lence, who attempted a jail delivery. The
result was a great riot, in whioh many
were killed and wounded.
Brownsville, August 16.—Governor
Davis’ health officer was imprisoned et
Brazos, Santiago, for contempt of Judge
Davis’ court. Got. Davis will sustain
Wood, and martial law is expeoted.
Paris, August 25, evening. Radical
journals unanimously favor dissolution of
the Assembly.
Versailles, August 25, evening.—It
appears that Thiers actually wrote his
rofl)«rnaiiou jruotciday, but withheld It after
the adoptiou ot Duorot’s motion.
Paris, August 25, night.—Don Carlos
has arrived at the Ray of Oune. His
adherents in Spain arc devided in opinion
as to what course to pursue.
In the Assembly to-day, tho amended
bill, providing for the gradual disbandon
ment of the National Guard, passed.
The journals sorrowfully comment on
scenes in the Assembly yesterday.
It is said that Thiers will acoopt no com
promise on the question of prolongation
of hia powers.
Gen. Faidhorbc has written letters cen
suring the Assembly and resigning his
seat as Deputy.
The first conrt-martial has concluded
the hearing of oases before it. Judgment
will probably bo rendered Sunday.
Tho Government has forbidden public
rejoicings in this city on the 4th of Sep*
tember, tho anniversary of the revolution
in Paris last year against tho Bonapartes.
It is reported that assurances have been
received at Versailles that tho Prussian
troops in France will be reduced to fifty
thousand on the Ist of September, and
those who remain arc to bo lodged in
barracks.
London, August 25, night.— Duke of
Broglie and Lcdru Rollin, has roturned to
London.
The determination of the French Gov
ernment to push in the Assembly and
otherwise, the disarmament of tho Nation
al Guard, is due to discoveries made by
tho police as to the hoperations of tho In
ternational?.
Independence Beige of so-day discredits
the reported appearance of cholera at Ant
werp. At Konigsberg, on Wednesday,
127 cases of cholera and 48 deaths ; and
at Danlz’c, on the same day, 12 casos and
10 deaths were reported.
The epidemic is decreasing in Russia.
Washington, August 25. — The Tyne
crew will row at Halifax, with Kelly at
stroke. Renforth’s inquest developed the
fact that lie had had five fits. When first
attacked in the boat he said: “Oh hurry,
I have had something given me.” The
Doctors are making an examination.
During Butler’s speech at Springfield,
F. B. Sanford denounced one of his state
ments as false. The audience, wild with
excitement, cried Sanford down. Gen. J.
R. Hawley sent a dispatch, which lie re
quested some friend to read to the ineet-
ing, denouncing Butler as a liar and black
guard.
McDonald and Whitney, leading stock
brokers in Sin Francisco, reported failed,
were largely short on Yellow Jacket, wbicli
advanced heavily this week.
Commander Douglas, of tho yacht
Sapho, challenges any yacht in America,
30 miles, for a cup of a thousand dollars
value.
In the French Assembly, Gen. Pallisscr,
brother of the Marshal, opposed the dis
bandonment of the National Guard as in
opportune and dangerous. Viscount
Meux advocated immediate disbandon
ment, and was vociferously cheered. Thiers
attempted to speak, but was violently in
terrupted by the Right. Theirs conclud
ed it was evident he had lout the confi
dence of the Assembly, and he knew what
course to adopt. The amendment pro
posed by Gen. Ducrot for gradual disban
donment wisthen adopted, 487 to 151.
Vincent Colliers’ report from the New
Mexican Indians is unfavorable. They
are nearly all scattered through fear of
the ruineis and Mexicans. Cochise is in
the mountains sick, and eating his horses.
The Mexican Government is offering large
bounties for Apache scalps.
The census tables, finally revised, give
the total population, 38,555,983.
Cincinnati, August 25.—A yiolent
storm occurred at Crestline. Trees and
houses were prostrated. The engino Louse
oi the Indianapolis Railroad was wrecked.
New York, August 25.—The Nassau
Herald, of the 19th, reports that the
schooner Oliver Jamison, from Richmond
for Galvestor, loaded with railroad cars,
went ashore on Henry’s Bank, but was
got off by wreckers.
The West India and Panama Cable has
been successfully laid to the Island of St.
Lucia.
fiT. Louis, August 25.— Indiana killed
threo aDd capiured three of a party of
eight whites, thirty miles south of Chey
enne.
The capitol movers have a mass meeting
to-night.
Fortress Monroe, August 25.—Pedro
G. Paleci, son of the Mexican Minster at
Washington, and Secretary of the Mexi
can Claims Commission, was drowned
while bathing on the beach.
An incendiary fire has occurred at
Hampton. Loss, $5,000.
The Spanish brig Lola was picked up
off Hatteras aDd towed in. She encoun
tered a hurricane on tho 16th.
Selma, Ala , Aogust 25.— The army
worm oommcDocd operations on tne 21st
in this vicinity, and is now committing
/oarful ravagos. The cotton crop will be
materially shortened.
„i^ A A S nl N T N ’ . A ¥ ust 26,-Napoleon
visited Chatham tc-day. The French As
sembly will probably adjourn on the 10th
of September. The state of Beige in the
departments will be raised when tho Na
tional Guards are disarmed.
Blanco’s rebellion in U- uguay has been
crushed. Amnesty has been proclaimed.
Iho police and populace t f Rome con
flicted, and ono person was killed and two
wounded.
The Governments of Great Biitain and
tho United States havo ohosen Count Lu
igi Corti third arbitrator at Geneva under
the Washington treaty.
It is positively announced that tho
Rmncror of Germany and Austria meet
at Salzbourg soon.
Reports of Boost's retirement from tho
Austrian ministry are groundless.
J'ho entry of Cat lists into Spain is immi
eont. Fivo heavy columns of troops havo
boon sent to tho frontier, and the oivil
guard concentrated.
The Archbishop of Madrid direots tho
clorgy to refuse tho saorament to all per
sons married by civil rite.
Wilmington, August 20.—A telegram
received from the Mayor of Charleston
this morning, says that the ye.low lever is
in Charleston, and that the Board of
Health think it lias assumed an epidemic
form. Through trains have been discon
tinued between Wilmington and Charles
ton, passengers now changing cars at
Florence. Sleeping cars are not allowed
to run at all between the two cities. The
authorities and citizens here are bending
all energies towards improving tho sani
tary condition of the city, as a measure of
precaution.
Oar city authorities have issued an or
der, of whioh tho following in an extract :
“No person from Chari'Stou will bo al
lowed to stop within tho ceporatc limits of
this city, and no porson who may visit
Charleston from this city will be allowed to
return during the continuance of yollow
fever in Charleston.”
Goldsboro, N-C., August 26. —Very
gloomy but reliable reports rcaoh tho
Carolina Mcsseng<r newspaper from nearly
all of the counties in Eastern North Caro
lina of groat dnraogo te tho cotton orop
from the rust. Much alarm prevails among
tho planters. The prospect, which was
good a few weeks ago, is now very unfa
vorable, especially in tho cotton counties
of Wayne, Dauphin, Lonoir, Groon, John
ston, Wilson, and Pitt. In these counties
tho drouth and rust will necessarily out tho
crop short fully one-third from last year’s
receipt?. Similar acoounts are given by
gentlemen who havo reoently passed
through tho more western counties.
London, 0., August 26. —Mrs. Collins
was honorably discharged.
Harrisburg, August 26. — A passenger
and freight train collided at Westport, on
the Erie Road. Four employees aud two
passengers were killed.
Boston, August 26,— John Adams Bates,
one of the oldest paymasters in the United
States Navy, is dead.
SUNDAY NIGHT DISPATCHES.
FATAL, RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Boston, August 27.—Tho Bangor Ex
press ran into the Beverly train, 7 milos
Irom Boston. Eighteon men and throo
women are dead, and forty to fifty are
wounded.
Later. —Particulars of the aocident on
the Eastern Railroad, at Revere, last night
are appalling. The Express ran into tbo
Accommodation train at full speed, with
such force that tho ongine and tender
reached the centre of the last oar, which
was demolished. This car was crowded
witli passengers sitting and standing. The
woodwork instantly took fire, and the
scene which followed was terrible. Tbo
boiler of the engine hurst and the victims
were enveloped in a cloud of steam aud
deluged with hot water.
Latest.— The flames have been extin
guished. ' But few of tho passengers in
the car who were not instantly killed by
the collision escaped the fatal effect of the
steam. Tbo other cars in tho accommo
dation train took fire from upsetting the
kerosene lamps, but tho passengers got
out in time.
Tho number of dead, so far, is t wenty
four, among them Rev. Dr. Ezra Garnett,
of Boston.
At the time of tbo collision tho Accom
modation train for Beverly had its red sig
nal lights behind, and the red signal was
hoisted at, tho mast head of the signal post
for tho Express to hold up, whioh it did
at Everett, but subsequenily proeoeded,
and was under full headway whon, near
Revere station, tho enginoer evidently not
being aware of tho proximity of tho Bov
crly train until perhaps within sixty rods
of it. Ho thon whistled “down brakes,”
but not soon enough to avo'd tho
calamity. Some of tbo passengers
in the rear part of the Accommodation
train beard the whistle, but too late to
escape. On came the express train at
great velocity, and the engine struck tho
car the centre and toreed its way in
a telesOTpe manner. The car was crowd
ed with people, every seat being occupied
and many utumling in tho nislo. In
among these the locomotive rushed, quick
as a flash, just as tho Beverly train had
started, mangling and killing in the most
frightful manner. Subsequently the boiler
exploded and shattered the lamps and
fired the cars.
MARINE DISASTERS.
Jacksonville, Fla., August 27.—Tho
brig Pomona, of Richmond, Maine, went
ashoro twonty-fivo miles south of Capo
Canaverol, August 17th. Her cargo of
cotton can be saved. No livos woro lost.
The steamer Lodona stranded six miles
north of Capo Canavorcl. Tho beach is
strewn with her cargo for thirty miles.
Tho Captain and twenty men woro lost.
Tho first offioer, seoond offioer, chief engi
neer, first assistant onginccr, chief cook,
one fireman, Captain Harvey’s son, tho
moss boy and five seamen were saved.
The brig S.& W- Welsh, of Philadel
phia, is ashoro fifteen milos south of Cana
veral ■ Her cargo of sugar was washed
out. Capt. Watson was drowned and his
body buried on tho spot.
Tno brig H. G. Berry, of Baltimoro, is
ashoro fifty yards from tho Wolsb, and is
a total wreck. Her cargo consisted oi
sugar and molasses.
The barque Hilda, from New Orleans,
bound to Cowes, stranded six milos south
of St. Augustine. Her oargo of tobaeoo
and stores is a total los?. Ono man was
drowned.
COMMERCIAL HEVIEW.
New Yohk, August 27.—The domestic
produce markets have been fairly aotivo
during the week, with an advance in most
of the leading staples. At the Produce
Exchange, flour lias advanced, chiefly on
spring wheat flours, and a fair business
has been transacted, partly for export.
Wheat lias improved, with a continued
demand from the continent of Europe for
winter. There has been an increased de
mand from England for spring wheat, but
the available supply here of this description
is not hrgo. Corn has advanced, with agood
demand bit’n fjr export and home con
sumption. Other grains have boon dull
and oats have declined. The "corner” in
wheat at Chicago rosultcd in largo losses
to parties operating on tho “bear” side,
and a number ol failures have taken place
at the West. Those “coiners” in articles
of food are a disgrace to modern civiliza
tion, and all oiheers of financial institu
tions who encourage such operations, by
loaning money to speculators ongagod in
them, should bo held up to public scorn.
MISCELLANEOUS.
St. Johns, August 27. Renforth’s
Viscera has been sent to New York for
analysis.
Littj.k Rock, .August 27. —Crop re
ports are not so favorrble. The drought
and worm arc mischievous in some
sections.
New York, August 27.—A man who
was struck with a tumbler in a saloon
went for a shot gun, and wounded one
man and threo women at a single shot.
Chicago, 'August 27.—Goldsmith Maid
won the five thousand dollar trot in three
heats. Time, 2:38J, 2;20J, 2;22J. The
track was heuvy.
from new yohk.
New York, August 27.—Mayor Hall
declares his iutontion to sue the Times for
ground rent. It is also stated that ho will
at once move for ths appointment of a re
ceiver.
This morning Coroner Hermann made a
post mortem examination, at the Morgue, on
the body of an unknown female discover
ed ou Saturday in a trunk left at the
Hudson River Railroad depot, for Chicago.
The verdict was that the cause of death
was inflammation of tho bowels, brought
on by abortion. The corpse is evidently
that of a young woman, 18 or 19 years old.
FROM THE WEST INDIES,
New York, August 27.—Later advices
from (Vest Indies state that the fire which
recently visited Point a’Pietre, the capital
of the Island of Guadeloupe, destroyed
nearly the whole, town, including the
Bank, Treasury and Custom House. Six
teen blocks were consumed and the entire
northeast portion of the city, known as
“ La Petite Terse,” was totally devastated.
The Church, Court House, Hospital and
Theatre were saved.
YELLOW FEVER.
Charleston, August 27.—Sinoo last
Friday three new oases of yellow fever are
reported, and 000 of (ho cases previously
reported died. Tho first excitement occa
sioned by tho appearance of tho discaso is
subsiding, and tho fccliDg of tho commu
nity is quiet and hopeful.
FROM. WASHINGTON.
Washington, ' August 27.—The Fortress
Monroe dispatch of to-night reports no ad
ditional disasters.