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WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 1874.
THE ATLANTA HERALD.
The printers of the Atlanta Herald
are on a strike. The proprietors state as
the cause of difficulty that the printer
demanded payment for an advertisement
■which they had not set up or handled,
and which came from a job office. Th<
proprietors refused compliance with
what they considered an unjust demand,
and the printers left their cases. With
their customary energy and vim the pro
prietors set to work, and, with the ap
prentices and a little outside assist
ance, issued their paper on time the
next morning. It is a very creditable
specimen of amateur labor, and looks
as well and contains as much matter as
many dailies which are not afflicted with
a strike. We wish our friends a speedy
deliverance from their troubles.
RECONCILIATION.
It has been proposed at West Point,
says the Baltimore Gazette, to have a
grand reunion of all the graduates of the
Academy, Federal and ex-Confederate,
next June. A resolution has teen passed
to that effect. The proposition emana
ted from Professor Davies, of Portland,
in his address to the Alumni of the in
stitution. He made the appeal as a
means of healing the wounds left by the
war, as he phrases it, “ that from the
snnny memories of many joys common
to them all, and from the grave of all
painful recollections, never to be dis
turbed by thought, by word, or by deed,
there may' spring up a closer brother
hood, a purer patriotism, and a more
abiding love of country.” It is believed
that all or nearly all the Alumni, North
and South, are cordially in favor of the
project. More than this, President
Grant is reported as not only heartily
assenting to it, but it is intimated that
he will bo present in person on the occa
sion to assist at the celebration.
POLAND AND DUBELL.
Judge Poland, of Vermont, has inves
tigated so mud; rascality of latfe that
there seems to bo danger of the vener
able Congressman’s moral sense becom
ing entirely blunted. ThoKu-Klux and
Credit Mobilier investigations have so
familiarized him with vice that he is
unable to discoyer anything repulsive in
its appearance.
—‘-familiar with its face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
The numerous perjuries of Radical
witnesses in the Ku-Klux cases, and the
false swearing and thefts brought to light
by the Credit Mobilier developments,
have made him consider as venial errors
or harmless peccadilloes every species
of falsehood below the grade of perjury
and every kind of larceny which does
not attain the dignity of highway rob
bery. To a moral sense blunted by the
rascalities of Oakes Ames, Colfax and
Patterson, the iniquities of Durell
furnish nothing disgusting or revolting.
Such small offenses in a Judge aH drunk
enness and the issuing of illegal decrees,
by means of which a State government
was overturned and a usurpation inau
gurated, he does not deem deserving of
punishment or even worthy serious con
sideration by Congress. Winking at
the thefts and extortions of subordinate
officials is a very light charge to make
against a Judge, so long as there is no
positive proof that ho was an actual
and direct participant in the wages of
corruption. Therefore Judge Poland
deals very tenderly with Duuell and
deprecates any attempt to impeach or
punish that miserable tool of the Louis
iana ring. We nro afraid that the Judge
lius set up a standard in villainy almost
unattainable. It will be many years
’ere even America can hope to rival tho
rascalities of Messrs. Colfax k Cos., and
if Judges are not to bn brought to ac
count until they reach this isolated
summit of seonndrelism, every Court in
the country may become as corrupt as
Cardozo’s and still remain without the
pale of impeachment.
THE "MODEL JUDUN."
Homo time ago wo took occasion to ex
press our fears (hat .Tadgo Hopkins, of
tho Atlanta Circuit—tlio "model Judge”
—bad boon spoiled by over praise of his
strict discipline and rigorous treatment
of criminals. Now we are quite certain
that the Judge’s head Ims been turned
to such nn extent that the ns-istance of
the Legislature may be required to set
it straight upon his shoulders. If the
incident told of him by our Atlanta cor
respondent be true his conduct deserves
the severest condemnation. He had
sentenced a negro, convicted of burgla
ry, to live years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, when tho counsel for the
accused asked a lighter sentence upon
tho gronud that ho had been cruel
ly whipped and had suffered much
abuse in jail before his Mai. —
The Judge at once suspended op
erations and sent for tho jailer, who,
in answer to questions from the Court
stated that tho negro had been “rather
impudent and insubordinate,” and that
he hail whipped him three times, he
“believed.” Instead of demanding by
what authority tho jailer punished in
sueh a cruel manner a prisoner entrust
ed to his keeping, Judge Hopkins en
dorses his conduct and, without inves
tigation, imposes ten years additional
imprisonment upon the criminal. Five
years’ imprisonment was deemed a suf
ficient puuisbmeut for burglary, but
when that offense was supplemented by
conduct in jail “rather impudent and
insubordinate”—according to the state
ment of an official who was interest
ed in presenting it iu the most
unfavorable light, and which had i
already been punished by repeated j
whipping—Judge Hopkins thought fif
teen years scarcely enough. It seems
to ns that the wrong party was pun
ished- that at all events it was the duty
of the “model Judge” to order a strict
examination of the charge made against
his officer. We would like to know by
what authority a jailer whips a prisoner
who has been committed for trial ? Sup
pose Mr. Gaines Chisolm had been
“rather impudent and insubordinate”
while iu Fulton county jail awaiting his
trial for murder, would the jailer have 1
ventured to whip him three times or
even onee ? If he had, how long after
wards would he have remained in his
position ? Is there any statute which
allows the whippiug of a man who is
awaiting trial and who is presumed to
be innocent of the ofl'ense with which
he is charged ? Does the difference iu
the color of prisoners sanction any differ
ence in their treatment? We have yet
to learn that in Georgia there is one law
for the white man aud another for the ,
negro. ____ __
This is what the Brooklyn Argue;
thinks on the subject: It says cotton is_
likely to advance, if it be true, as re
ported, that the acreage sown this year
is ten per cent, less than last year. The
promise for the yield per acre, also, is
not as favorable as it was at the same
time last year, but upon this poinf little
catr be told until later in the season.
Plant °-i-s have, it would seem, taken the
verv sensible advice given them and di
versified tli crops. They mean to
raise more food hereafter, and they are
right. They wih' get as inch money
from the reduced er,°P of tlii» year as
they did from the yield of
last, besides doing much fc'r their own
support. Up to a certain poiu't Europe
has to pay our prices for cotton. India
and Egypt can raise the plant, it is trite,
and get large yields, but the land in
both countries is valuable for other pur
poses, and prices must be good to tempt J
<sotti?n culture in either. While the!
the South should look upon rice, eotton
and tobacco as its great staples, it should
not confine itself to them. Itshouldgrow
its own food to a great extent.
A little boy heard W* mother tell of
eighteen head of cattle being burnt the
other night. "Weren't their taila burnt
also ?” inquired the verdant youth.
THE COTTON EXCHANGE.
The report of the proceedings of the
Cotton Exchange Convention, held re
cently.in this city, will soon be publish
ed in pamphlet form for distribution
over the country. In adopting the very
full reports of the Chronicle and Senti
nel, the Exchange paid a handsome and
well deserved compliment to the local
editorof this paper, by whom the session
was reported.
TAX Eli ON BONDS.
The proposition of the Senate Finance
Committee to impose a tax upon the
sales of bonds and coin has caused a
good deal of commotion in financial cir
cles, and petitions are pouring in by the
hnudred to avert the threatened legishe
tion. It is a little singular how sensi
tive people are upon the subject of the
taxation of bonds and stocks. Real es
tate rnay be burdened with taxes and
but few complaints are heard, but let
tbe tax-gatherer lay his finger upon the
capitalists, who have locked up their
money in securities, and the courts
and country ring with their clamors and
complaints. Leaving the case before
Congress—which taxes the sale of bonds
and not the bonds—out of view, we
think it would be much better to tax
bonds as high or even higher than real
estate. In Augusta the tax upon both
species of property is the same. But in
nearly every other city in the country a
nominal tax is placed upon bonds, while
real estate groans under imposts which,
in many instances, amount to an actual
prohibition against building. Such a
policy is short-sighted as well as wrong,
and is bound to prove disastrous to any
city by which it is adopted. The city
which wishes to grow should extend
every encouragement to building. A
tax so small should be imposed that the
net income from a rented house would
more than equal the interest on a first
class bond. Unimproved property should
be taxed at double the rate of improved,
so as to force tho owners of vacant lots
to build upon them or else sell them to
parties who would. Bonds stand in
need of but little protection. Real
estate (improved) requires a great deal
and it is high timo that changes were
made in most of the tax laws.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The Albany Hewn, commenting upon
the statements contained in a letter
from Athens to the Chronicle and
Sentinel, says the institution “ought
to be more liberally endowed or aban
doned to its own merits for support.”
It thinks that $.10,000 per annum, in
stead of the present pittance of SB,(KMX
would bo little enough for its mainte
nance. We agree with the Hews in all
that it says upon this subject. The
University should receive an endowment
liberal enough to make it equal to any
institution of learning in tho country.
There is no good reason why it should
not he to the South what Yale and
Harvard are to the North and East.
Heretofore Georgia has shown all her
economy at the expense of her schools.
It is time that such a suicidal policy
was stopped. Georgia is not too poor
to give, and to give liberally, to the
cause of learning. A proper subsidy
would make it the chief educationial
institution of the South. Negro rule
and State Civil Rights bills have de
stroyed the colleges of South Carolina,
Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Alabama is without a university of her
own. Tho youth of these States would
all come to Athens if offered the advan
tages of Massachusetts and New Jersey,
and Georgia could he made tho Empire
, State of tho South in learning as well as
in other and less important things.
'THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
Yesterday the Radicals of the Fifth
(Atlanta) District held a meeting at
Griffin for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Congress. The general
impression seems to be that the meeting
was called at that time by an interest
unfriendly to Mr. Freeman, tho sitting
member, as it .was thought his Congres
sional duties would prevent his presence
at the Convention. But if such were the
expectations of tho anti-FREEMAMTES
they were doomed to disappointment.
The Griffin Hews announces that Free
man arrived in that place Tuesday af
ternoon, fully prepared for the fight. We
do not think he has much, if any, cause
for alarm. In the event that the
Convention makes a nomination, the
chances are very strongly in his
favor. His record is as good as
that of any Republican Congressman
from the South, and he has the reputa
tion of being a much more decent man
than any of his party associates. The
Radicals have sufficient intelligence to
know that their only hope of success in
that District lies in the nomination of a
man whom their white allies will not
be ashamed to support. His only danger
would seem to be from the adoption of
the policy favored by the friends of
Lociirane, viz: to make no nomination
but to allow that distinguished crcma
tiouist to run upou an independent ad
ministration ticket, with the hope of suc
ceeding by dividing the Democratic
vote. But, then, Loohrane is Free
man’s brother-in-law and it is to be sup
pose that the two meu will not allow
their interests to conflictN In any event
Freeman has nothing to fear.
We hope, ns we believe, that no mat
ter whom the Republicans nominate nor
what policy they may think proper to
pursue during the coming campaign,
they will sustain a complete and igno
minious defeat. The District was lost
in 1572 through Democratic misconduct
—by bad management on the part of the
lenders or through the apathy and indif
ference of the party. There are half a
dozen good men in the District who
wish the nomination—any of whom if
properly supported can bo elected by a
large majority. Let these men submit
their claims to a convention and do all
their family fighting before the nomina
tion. Let the nominee, whether he be
Col. Alston, or Col. Stewart, or Col.
Glenn, or Col. Lawton, be sustained by
the full strength of the party, and there
can be no doubt as to the result.
AN OUTRAGE WHICH SHOULD BE
PUNISHED.
The Covington Enterprise gives an
account of n shocking act of cruelty re
cently perpetrated in Newton county.
It seems that about two weeks ago the
house of Mr. H. T. Stanton was robbed
of one thousand dollars in gold. Sus
picion fell upon a colored man named
Simon, who had hitherto borne a good
reputation for honesty, and he was ar
rested last Saturday night. While the
officers of the law were carrying their
prisoner to a house for safe-keeping dur
ing the night, a band of fifteen men sur
rounded them aud took Simon from
r-itlieir custody. “He was carried a short
distance and hung by the neck and
thumbs until almost senseless, and then
whipped with a plow line four double
until he confessed that he bad stolen
the money and gave it to his sister,
who hid it beneath a chestnut tree.
He was then released.” A few days
afterward he was again arrested and
j taken to jail, where he stated that
he was innocent of the offense with
which he was charged, but he had made
a confession of gnilt iu order to save his
life. The commission of such an out
rage withiu its borders is a disgrace to
the county of Newtou and one which
can only be removed by the prompt ar
rest and speedy punishment of the law
] less and inhuman wretches concerned in
I the deed. It is time that moa of this
! class were taught that the good flitUwms
[ of Georgia will not toler^* 6 °*
ruffianism. It- is time they were ta”*bt
that there ar a laws which th»y must
obey and Courts to punish them for dis
obedience. The Georgia of to-day is
not the Georgia of 1868. There is no
longer a Bullock at the head of the gov
ernment to befriend criminals, and by his
abuse of the pardoning power place a
premium upon crime. On the contrary,
the laws are rigidly and sternly enforc
ed, Courts and juries do their duty, and
Governor Smith shields n># man from
the righteous penalty of his misdeeds.
There is not a shadow of eicuse for
such atrocities as the one upon which
we are commenting, and men with law
less hands and cruel hearts must learn
that they have no sympathisers nor de
fenders. If the prisoner had been
proven guilty of the robbery it would
would have been a highhanded outrage
to take him from the custody of the of
ficers of the law and subject him to
such inhuman treatment; how much
worse does the transaction appear
when it is remembered that the victim
had only been arrested upon suspicion.
We are glad to see that the Enter
prise, speaking for the respectable peo
ple of Newton county, boldly condemns
the crime, and calls for the speedy pun
ishment of the criminals. It says : “ We
“ are pained most bitterly to think that
“ our State has within its borders fifteen
“ men who would so wantonly take the
“ law in their own hands. This outrage
“ is disgraceful to the intelligence and
“ good sense of our people, as it would
“be to any civilized community. Let
“ it be fully investigated, and the parti
“ cipants identified and severely punish
“ ed. While such wickedness is allowed
“ to go unwhipped of justice no man is
“ safe even in his own house and around
“ his own fireside.”
We hope that Governor Smith will
look into the matter, and, if necessary,
offer a reward for the apprehension of
the men who have so wantonly insulted
the authority of the law. But the peo
ple of Newton owe it to themselves to
see that the parties do not escape pun
ishment. They can be easily identified
and just as easily arrested.
THE “McDUFFIE JOURNAL."
We learn that Hon. W. D. Tott and
Paul C. Hudson, Esq., have purchased
a two-thirds interest in the McDuffie
Journal, which paper will now be con
ducted under the firm name of White,
Tutt k Hudson. Under such a man
agement our cotemporary cannot fail to
prosper. Mr. White, who has been in
charge of the paper for several years
past, is an experienced newspaper man
and an able and vigorous writer. Capt.
Tutt was a gallant soldier of the Lost
Cause, a prominent member of the last
Legislature, and is a lawyer in fine prac
tice. Mr. Hudson is his law partner and
i3 well known as one of the most talented
and promising men in Eastern Georgia.
For some time past the Journal lias
ranked among tho best of the weekly
papers in Georgia. In the hands of the
new firm we confidently predict for it an
increased circulation and a larger meas
ure of popularity and prosperity. We
hasten to tender it the best wishes of
the Chronicle and Sentinel. *
TnE ilavicomous youth who dab
bles in local matters in local matters
in Augusta, and daily ding-dongs
the readers of the Augusta Chroni
cle and Sentinel with splenetic
STEpnENisM and sardonic stupidity,
seems disinclined to allow the “rural
roosters” of the press to pose an oppinion
on the great quarrel adverse to the little
God he toadies, and actually bristtles his
yaller hair when one does a remark fa
vorable to Mr. Hill’s side of the ques
tion. Wo allow to the young man vast
intellect, and superior powers of racia
cination, but in this controversy, it is
our deliberate opinion that we are
equally as honest and equally ns capable
of discovering the truth as well as the
strength of tine argument, as he is. And
it is our opinion also that he is not our
superior in any single element that en
ters into the composition of true man
hcod.—Albany Hews.
The thick-skulled murderer of Lind
ley Murray and Noah Webster, who
penned the above, is requested to be a
little more careful in unloading his
rhetoric. There has been nothing in
tho local columns of the Chronicle and
Sentinel concerning the “great quarrel”
between Messrs. Hill and Stephens,
and very little about it in any other de
partment of the paper. As our neighbor
lias been running the “great quarrel”
to a considerable extent, and has
thought proper, also, to comment
upon the Albany News at times,
it is doubtless tho Constitutionalist
which has evoked the above tirade. If
so, let the talented editor of the News bu
a little more particular in his publica
tion of names. We have no serious
objection to his hurling such epithets
as “flavicomous” at our rival, or to his
monopolizing all the t’s and p's in the
alphabet when “bristtling” at that journal
or “poseing” an ‘ ‘oppinion” of its articles
on the great quarrel. If tho Constitu
tionalist can survive such treatment we
shall extend our congratulations. If it
succumbs we shall do our best on an
obituary. But we wish the reckless
warrior of the News to empty his dirty
water on the proper parties. We don’t
care to have any of it on our premises.
Marston’s safety ballot box, the adop
tion of which by the States is recom
rneuded by Cougress, affords a fair
sample of that spirit of the age which
looks more to the artificial correction of
evils than their prevention by natural
means. The patent ballot box promises
to prevent stuffing, repeating, and what
not, It is supposed to be a complete
substitute for human honesty. The
biggest set of rascals that ever run the
machine could not make it tell a lie. To
do these things it must be endowed with
an intelligence and virtue which all the
schools aud the Bibles in the land have
failed to impress on this universal Yan
kee nation. An honest man’s the noblest
work of God. An honest ballot box is,
perhaps, the noblest work of man. But
we have no hope of Yankee invention
eclipsing Almighty Wisdom in the man
ufacture of honesty,
The Gadshill outlaws of Missouri have
imitators in lowa, or else the murderers
of lowa are given to reading dime novels
and story papers. A tailor has been
found dead in Des Moines, and on a
scrap of paper found near the body was
written, “This is the twenty-seventh
man we have killed, and we will never
be taken alive.” It may be, however,
that the murder was committed by one
man who has taken this method of mis
leading and frightening the community.
In these days of corruption even a mur
derer may stoop to a coutemptible fraud.
| The Civil Bights bill gave its last
1 gasp Thursday. Even General Butler
| admits that it is dead for this session,
■ which is equivalent to saying that it is
i dead for all time to come. Congress
i will adjourn next Monday aud the South
may breathe free again. Had the bill
become a law incalculable mischief
would have resulted from any attempt to
j enforce its obnoxious provisions.
■ v
| The telegram which gave an account
| of the railroad slaughter in North Caro
j lina Wednesday stated that it was diffi
i cult to obtain particulars, as the com
-1 pany (the Carolina Central) “prohibited
! the sending of any telegrams” which did
j not pass through its office. If this is
the way in which North Carolina rail
roads carry things the sooner the Gran
gers take them in hand the sooner they
will learn that they are the servants and
not the masters of the people.
It is gratifying to know that the ef
j forts of the people of Augusta o make
j pleasant the visit of the delegates to the
Cotton Exchange have been fully appre
ciated. The delegates from Mobile and
New Orleans, especially, have acknowl
edged in the handsomest terms the
courtesy and hospitality of our city.
A good deal and surprise is manifested
at tfca violence offer.-* Bochefobt by
the mob of Queenstown. e?plana
,. * mvstery may be found in the
, . . * noon priesta by Hie
crnelties practice.. ..
assassins of the Commune.
A Detroit paper noticing the fact that
a man lately dropped dead while comb
ing liis hair, says, “And yet there are
people who will persist in this dangerous
habit,”
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Can a Governor be Tried Before Im
peachment? The Affirmative Side
of the Question— Dumb Dogs of the
State Press—They Bark at Last.
[special correspondence chronicle
and sentinel. ]
South Carolina, J une 16.
With many others who read your
views on Judge Graham s decision in
Governor Moses’ larceny case, I was
disappointed to see that yon sustained
the decision. I pray yon, whenever a
thief of Mose3’ calibre is concerned, he
verv careful to consider the spirit as
well as the letter of the law before pro- i
nouncing anjlhing in his extenuation.
What says the Constitution, article six,
section three. “The Governor and all
the executive and judicial officers shall
oe liable to impeachment, but judgment
in such cases shall not extend further
than removal from office. The persons
convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable
to indictment, trial and punishment ac
cording to law.” Now surely it is no
fair and true construction of this clause
to claim that a Governor or other Execu
tive officer, or a Judge (for the applica
tion lies equally) may commit treason,
murder, rape or larceny and be
exempt from arrest or indictment
until he is impeached and re
moved from office. But so Judge
Graham has decided —very much I think
as did the old time Magistrate who
solved all krottv questions, “by main
strength.” The cases which the Judge
cites for authority do not sustain him,
and I am compelled to think that the
case against “our native young scrub
was dismissed on condition that he will
not enter the race for the gubernatorial
sweepstakes next Fall. The Attorney-
General is evidently a party to this ras
cally compact. He and his lovely part
ner, Chamberlain, are both keenly after
the succession. Suppose Moses had
found that Orangeburg County Treasurer
intractible ard instead of affording him
the means of stealing that money iu the
way that he did he had found it neces
sary to kill the darkey as a preliminary
movement in the treasure that he had iu
custody—what then? Or to make the
case plainer yet, suppose Humbert
having been murdered —there was not
found enough money in his office to
serve the Governor’s turn, what was to
prevent Moses’ summoning Ben Her
maudez to his assistance, and killing a
half dozen County Treasurers, if so many
were necessary to make up the requisite
sum of money to purchase an interest iq
the Columbia Union-Herald (From
reveling in four editors but a short time
since, this harmonious thieves’ organ
acknowledges none at present). The
Legislature not being in session to im
peach him, he and Ben could raise a
round sum in a short time ! I think it
is plain tha; when any official perpe
trates a crime which renders him infa
mous upon conviction, from the moment
of the criminal act he is civiliter mor
tuus. In this case there was no doubt
that the crime had been feloniously
committed, and Moses was civilly dead ;
and there was nothing left but for the
Court to pronounce him so, and hold
his body on durance until the Legisla
ture could assemble and consummate
the sentence.
Have you observed with what refresh
ing naivete our State newspapers copy
the recitals of “ring rascalities” from
the columns of the New York Times ?
I dare swear that it furnishes the soli
tary instance in the comprehensive his
tory of journalism where it is more
agreeable and profitable to publish as
“copy” what might, with equal facili
ty, have appeared days before as “origi
nal matter.” I would not have you in
fer from this that the average South
Carolina Jenkins is ordinarily behind
his reportorial fellows of other States in
enterprise. That would be doing Jen
kins the grossest injustice—a thing I
would scorn to do. But without going
into any tedious explanation, I shall
only say that the papers without the
limits of this State, not being beholden
to “the ring” for any division of the
public printing, are not necessitated to
be so circumspect in their revelations.
Verbum Scipienti.
Our neighbors and friends at a dis
tance will often say that it is greatly to
be lamented when a corrupt ring of
thieves have it iu their power to rob the
State of millions, and then, by subsi
dising the press, veil their nefarious
transactions from publicity. But we at
home deplore, yet more sorely, that the
papers of the State, with but a few hon
orable exceptions, are of such composi
tion as to render such a disgraceful and
humiliating thing practicable. Os
course, those papers avowedly Republi
can are expected to be the apologists of
the thieves; for to be otherwise would
indicate the basest ingratitude, since in
the domination of “the ring” they “live
and move and have their being;” but
what must be said of those journals
which claim to be on the side of decen
cy and gentility? In my final summing
up I shall forsliadow their fate in as de
vout a pruyer as ever fell from the lips
of Holy Hermit. Bourbon.
THE FALSE HAIR TRADE.
Getting ‘Suited to a Hail-”—lnterest
ing Details.
I'Reportoil lor tlio Boston Commercial Bulle
tin]
The hair goods business of Boston, in
proportion to our population, is greater
than that of any other city in the coun
trjr. New York does most of the im
porting, and has of course a large whole
sale trade, but there is not the same
local demand there, while in Philadel
phia the business is still but a small
one. It has long been known that in
few fields of business was a better har
vest of profit gleaned in Boston than in
this, and within the past two or three
years a great number of new firms,
among them some of the largest in the
city, have gone into tho business, until
we can now boast of forty-two places in
Boston which sell human hair exclusive
ly. A careful estimate puts the annual
sales of these at above a million dollars,
while there are also immense quantities
of hair goods sold by milliners and
others. All this at retail alone. There
are eight wholesale establishments,
whose arnual business amounts to a
round two million dollars. Most of the
hair goods stores are located on Winter
street, Temple Place, and West street,
and that part of Washington street that
connects them. Since human hair be
gan to be a considerable article of com
merce, hardly a dozen years ago, the
business has made vast strides iu this
country, until now the annual importa
tion at New York is valued at $1,500,-
000. Valuable lots also arrive at Boston
with nearly every steamer.
THE HAIR HARVEST.
Much the greater part of this hair
comes from France, Germany aud Italy,
the most liigly prized from the first
named country. The “crop” in England
aud Ireland is no more than enough lor
home consumption, arul none is export
ed, except in a manufactured form.—
During the past two years immense
quantities of hair, of a very inferior
grade, have been brought here from
Italv, and made into cheap switches.—
One firm in New York imported a hun
dred tons of this cheap Neapolitan hair
last year. To satisfy the demand for
hair to cover the head of the American
woman, the dealers have now had Nor
way, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland and
Spain under tribute. The hair from
Norway and Sweden, being much of it
of a rare blonde, commands a very high
price. The reputation of French hair is
derived rather from the way in which it
is prepared than from any inherent su
periority. Pelleray hair (from Leon
Pellerav, of Paris, the man who puts it
up) is the standard, and brands with
this stamp will bring from fifteen to
twenty-five per cent, better prices than
other kinds.
HOW IT IS OBTAINED.
Every large hair dealer iu the great
European centres of the business Lon
don, Pans, Berlin and St. Petersburg—
has his score or more of “cutters,
whom he supplies, before they set out,
with from §SOO to §I,OOO apiece, with
which they are expected to purchase a
pack full of the thousand and one trink
ets that allure the feminine eye. This
great business is still almost entirely
carried by a system of barter. The cut
ter traverses every nook and corner of
the section assigned him, being particu- ;
lar to attend all the fairs, and exchanges
his cheap trumpery for the lightly prized •
tresses of the simple village belles.
Though the day for the best bargains
has gone, it is still not uncommon to
obtain a magnificent chevelure from a
Breton peasant for a gaudy cotton hand
kerchief or a pair of twenty-sou earrings.
Tying his horse to a spreading tree, tne
hair-monger, armed with a formidable
pair of scissors, soon attracts a crowd of ■
village maidens, who, after a little hag
gling, submit to be sheared like so many
sheep. After dexterously and gracefully
clipping the locks, he deposits them,
neatly tied, in his basket, and Jeanne is
liberated to be greeted with shouts and
laughter from her companions, for so
well has the work been done that her
head has the appearance of being
shaved. Nowhere but iu Brittany will i
the girls submit to this wholesa'e crop-,
ping, insisting upon preserving a few
thin locks, at least, of one of nature s
fairest gifts. In that province, however,
where the custom is for women to wear
bjdeous, close-fitting caps, hair which
would Lk the glory of American ladip is
useless, there that the hair
mercbaait reaps his riches*- wri’est.
NSW SOURCES OF SCPFLi.
As civilizatluZ progresses supply
Q ( ~ood natural hair . •
less adequate *o the demand, and p..ces
of the best advance at a rapid «****»“
year to year. Hair foi which a dollar
lu ounci would have been considered a
high figure twenty years ago would be
thought cheap at ten dollars. To an
swer this ceaseless call for hair from
both sidt-J the Atlantic new sources of
supply are opened up every year. It
has long been known that among the
prizes of the Parisian sewers the chiffo
nier hold hair in the highest esteem, but
of late years the ragmen of every city in
continental Europe have made requisi
tions for cast-off hair upon the dirt bar
rel ami tl e ash heap. Sach an article
could never sell in Europe, but it pays
the dealers to collect it, sort it out, clean
and comb it, for long experience has told
them that there is no rubbish in the
shape of human hair too dirty for the
American market. And here let us say,
what cannot be too strongly in isted
upon, that there are no bargains in hair.
The woman who buys a seventy-five cent
switch gets just her money’s worth. It
is strange that, after long experience,
purchasers of hair goods are so stupidly
ignorant as to the quality of what they
buy. Put a clean, finely prepared switch,
that costs at wholesale ten dollars, on a
counter beside a dollar article, and ask
twelve dollars for each, and ten to one
the latter will sell first, because the hasty
way in which it is made up leaves it the
bigger of the two. A short time since a
poor fifty-cent switch was taken from the
heaJ of a lady of the highest social posi
tion iu this eitv, who said she “couldn’t
see why it wasn’t as good as any other.”
HOSPITAL AND GRAVEYARD HAIR.
Much of the hair cut from the heads
of the fever-stricken patients of the
great European hospitals is known to
find its way into the stock of the hair
merchant. Another source of supply is
the convent. The splendid tresses of
the devotee are employed for the world
liest of purposes, perhaps to be plaited
with her own hair by some fashionable
belle of New York, in order to insure an
eligible suitor. The prison, too, fu~-
nishes its share, and, worst of all, there
is a grade known to the dealers as
church-yard hair. It is said that this
class of hair has occasionally come to
market with pieces of the scalp adher
ing. When we lemember that hair is
almost indestructible, that locks in a
perfect state of preservation have been
found in Theban tombs two thousand
years old, and when we bear in mind the
tempting prices that are offered for long
tresses, such as are now lying buried by
the thousands, we need not wonder that
even the grave is desecrated iu this
eager “hunting of the liair.”
A VISIT TO A HAIK FACTORY,
We were recently shown through a
hair factory in Boston, and watched the
interesting' processes the article goes
through in its preparation. Nearly all
the raw hair is worked up in European
establishments, and this is one of less
than half a dozen factories in America.
The raw material, in great bundles, that
from each head tightly bou; and up by it
self, is first thoroughly cleansed by
washing in ammonia, and sometimes
scouring inland. This is simply to get
off the dirt* and the fatty matter of the
hair, the nits being left for a subsequent
process. The locks are then hung up to
dry iu an airy room, those from each
head being separate. To pass through
the nittiug machine, the hairs in each
“leach” or lock musts be of the same
length, because the nits adhere to the
hair so closely, and in such a manner,
that tho leach must be drawn through
the comb from end to root before they
will give way. As they are cut from the
head, of course, the hairs are of all
lengths. Accordingly all the locks of
each shade are put together, and the
longest hairs are drawn out by them
selves, then those a little shorter, and so
on. Next the leaches are passed, over
and over again, through stout steel cards,
to be nitted. It is rarely that a lock of
hair is found entirely free from these
nits, but the foreman of the establish
ment informed us that, in a twenty
years’ experience, he had never seen
anything alive in the hair. It is at this
stage that the gray hairs, of which there
are some iu two-tliirds of the locks that
come to market, are picked out, one by
one, the high price obtained for this
shade just about paying for the trouble.
After this there is little to be done to
the hair but to tie each tress neatly with
a ribbon. A lock as it is finally sold
may iucludo hair from a dozen persons.
The waste of hair during these processes
is from twenty-five to thirty-three per
cent.
WHAT MAKES THE VALUE.
The value of hair is determined by its
length, color and fineness. Common
dark or black hair is worth from 80 cents
to $8 an ounce, the latter figure being
obtained for fine hair a yard long, pre
pared in France. The Neapolitan hair
we have spoken of brings $1 50 an
ounce, though last year, when there was
a greater glut of it than now, it sold for
$4 50 a pound. A kind of coarse black
hair, imported from China, sells for
$1 50 an ounce. It is very long, and if
it were a little finer would bring double
that price. Asa general rule dealers
find that the longer the hair the coarser
it is. Very light hair, from g r ay to pure
white, which is the most difficult of all
to obtain, and for which there is a con
tinual and urgent demand, always com
mands fancy prices. One of our dealers
recently had a switch of fine white hair,
36 inches long, for which he asked $l5O
an ounce. A distinguished actress was
willing to pay another dealer here S4OO
lor a switch to match her own hair,
which is of a peculiar bluish white tinge.
Several switches have sold here as high
as S4OO apiece, and in New York it is a
common thing to pay from SSOO to SBOO.
One old lady there, with whom money
was an altogether secondary considera
tion, sent to Europe for a pure white
switch, for which she paid $1,200, the
highest yet. Years ago wig making was
the principal part of the liair business,
but now the vast women’s hair trade has
pushed it into a secondary position. At
present there are some 50 persons in
Boston engaged in making wigs. The
wig hair is woven on threads of silk, and
sold by the yard.
KLEPTOMANIA GOODS.
A company of Girls, Disci’eetly Gay,
Execute a Raid on Certain Up-Town
Merchants.
The stores in the vincity of the Ninth
Street Market were recently the scene of
an amusing raid by a bevy of up-town
belles, and the merchants in that vicini
ty were the victims. It appears that
several young ladies resolved to combat
the general dullness by going out upon
an expedition which they resolved
should be
DISCREETLY GAY,
And yet afford them some amusement. —
Passing into a well known establish
ment, the leader inquired of the brisk
and frisky clerk—the one that wears a
necktie or brilliant colors—if he had any
kleptomania goods. The innocent youth
—that is, innocent of dictionary words
—had not long been iD the counter line,
and pride of profession compelled him
to say yes, albeit, the blood mounted to
his face until it was redder than his cra
vat. He hurried away and seemed to be
mumbling something to himself, when
light apparently broke in upon him, as
with a delicious yet sympathetic smile
he turned to the young ladies and said:
“You know there are two grades, which
do you want, the first or second ?” The
ladies were now non-plussed, but fear
lessly demanded a sight at both, and so
the young clerk hurried after the goods,
and soon produced sundry samples of
first and second
MOURNING GOODS.
That was his idea of kleptomania, and
the young ladies, shocked at being taken
for widows, hurried out and into another
store, where they instituted the same
inquiry. A sedate master of the house,
repeating the word kleptomania in an
under tone, proceeded to institute a
diligent search for the desired article.
In rapid succession he tumbled out the
various kinds of goods for Summer
wear until the poor fellow could scarce
ly see over the pile. The joke was
played on him, and so the fair ones, as
suming an attitude and tone of offend
ed dignity, accused the merchant of
ignorance of his business aud departed,
shaking with laughter at the poor man’s
expense.
Thus they proceeded from store to
store. In some they were received with
a significant shrug of the shoulders,
that is significant of ignorance of the
particular goods inquired for, and in
others they were dismissed with
A WONDERING STARE
And a hesitating “no.” At last the girls
were matched. Passing into a very
nice establishment!, they were met by a
gentleman who received them with a
decided stretch of good humor and
courtesy, “H.,ve you any kleptomania
goods ?” A sly, but smile,
played around” the gentleman’s mouth
as he replied: “O, yes, certainly.” In
a moment more he presented to the ad
miring gaze of the lrylies a handsome ;
wedding toilet. “Do you call that
kleptomania?” asked the leader of the
party. “Certainly I do,” he replied.
“I know of no mania among women so
great as the desire to wear a wedding
dress!” The joke was out, and with a
hearty laugh the lasses were about to
depart, when the handsome clerk said,
“If you must steal, steal me !’ —Aew
Orleans Herald.
“Boy, is that a licensed dog?” asked
a Detroit policeman. “No,’ said the
youngster: “he’s a rat terrier dog, and
I’m taking him down to have his teeth
filed.”
“I want to know whether we are going
to keep house or board beforegoing into
ft>i£ thine,” said a young lady at the
altar in San fprancisco. Commendable
foresight.
The Savannah boat dubs pJ e
dally. They will get even with Charles
ton next time.
THE SOUTHERN' STAPLE.
Official Estimates ot the Cotton Acre
age of 187-f—Au Interesting Exhibit.
[From the New York Bulletin. June 17.]
The Department of Agriculture has
issued its usual June statement of esti
mates of the acreage of land planted in
cotton for the current year. The esti
mates are stated in per centages of the
area planted last year, and, therefore,
in order to reach a definite result, we
have to take the estimated acreage of
last year, and from the per centages
given in the D.partment report, deduce
the estimated acreage for 1874. This we
have done in the following table:
Per centage
Acreage of 1873 Acreage
1873. in 1874. 1874.
Texas 1.180.227 102 1.208.831
Louisiana 957.528 80 760,022
Mississippi 1.710.292 88 1,505.056
Alabama 1.488.295 86 1.279.933
Floida 145,136 91 132.073
Georgia 1,471.811 90 1,324.629
South Carolina. .. 613,707 91 558.478
North Carolina.... 514.953 89 458.3.i8
Tennessee 035.367 92 584.537
Arkansas 857.249 89 762.951
All others 269.158 78 209.939
Total 9.843,723 8,785.756
Decrease 1,057.967
Per cent, decrease on 1873 10.74
In the case of every State, except
Texas, there is a material decrease, com
pared with last year, in the area planted.
The total estimated acreage last year
was 9,84:3,723; while this year, as shown
in the above statement, the returns of
the Agricultural Department indicate
8,785,756 acres, or 1,057,967 acres less
than in 1873. All other things being
equal, this decline of 10.74 per cent, in
the area planted would imply a corres
pondingly smaller crop than last year,
or, to be more explicit, a reduction of
about 450,000 bales compared with the
crop of 1873. But we cannot be by any
means certain that all the conditions
affecting the outturn will be equal to
those of last year. The conditions of
weather, labor, state of soil, insects, <fco.,
are all at present undetermined, and we
have therefore no means of judging how
far the yield will correspond to the re
duction in the acreage. The agricul
tural report gives estimates ns to the
condition of the crop iu June; the esti
mates being expressed by regarding 100
as representing a normal or fair condi
tion, while the figures show the approxi
mation to that standard. The follow
ing are the estimates for each State,
compared with the like returns of con
tion for June, 1873 :
Juno, 1874. June. 1873. Difference.
Texas 90 86 Inc. 4
Louisiana 70 94 Dec. 24
Mississippi 76 92 Dec. 14
Alabama 82 93 Dec. 11
Florida 90 102 Dec. 12
Georgia 80 94 Dec. 14
South Carolina. 81 88 Dec. J
North Carolina. 89 85 Ine. 4
Tennessee 85 90 Dec. 5
Arkansas 90 92 Dec. 2
This comparison makes a very un
favorable showing for the present con
dition of the crop, the cause of which
is thus well explained in the report:—
“The season has been remarkable for
heavy and frequent rains during the
month of April throughout the Cotton
States. In some sections the aggregate
rainfall reported exceeded sixteen
inches. All the rivers, creeks, and
spring branches even, overflowed their
banks, destroyed the plants, and pre
vented germination in newly-planted
lands. In the more southern licit re
planting was general, both in bottoms
and uplands. From the first week in
May to its close drouth was almost
universal. The soil was packed and af
terwards baked by the suu, retarding
cultivation and preventing growth. The
stand is thrrefore very poor, many
plants not having made their appear
ance on the first of Juue. Since the
last of May light showers have been
general, and the prospects are much im
proved. Fields are much cleaner than
at this date last year, and can easily be
kept free from weeds. With favorable
weather rapid improvement is certain,
and a fair comparison with July is quite
probable at the next report.”
The following comparison of acreage
planted with the actual* crop, each year
since 1869, shows that the correspond
ence between the yield and the area
planted is by no means uniform:
Acreage. Crop in bales.
1874 8,775,756
1873 9,843,723 *4,200,000
1872 8,867,557 3,930,508
1871 7,811,696 2,974,351
1870 8,885,545 4,352,317
♦Estimated.
In 1870, when we had a crop of 4,350,-
000 bales, the acreage was only about
100,000 acres above that of this year,
and last year’s crop was about 150,000
bales less than that of 1870, although
about 100,000 acres more was planted
than in the latter year. In 1872, with
80,000 acres more planted than this
year, the crop was 3,930,000 bales. The
average area planted for the last four
years has been 8,852,130 acres; and the
average crop for the same period 3,864,-
294 bales; the acreage is consequently
about 67,000 acres below the late aver
age; and, therefore, if the law of average
could be relied upon as governing the
crop, we might anticipate a yield of
about 3,830,000 bales.
[for the chronicle and sentinel. J
AN AUGUSTA BOY’S COMPOSITION
ON GOATS.
Gotes is a very useful animal. They
sometimes give milk, but the billy-gote
don’t. I never eat any gote’s milk, and
I don’t think I would like it, but I have
heard folks say iu some conntrys where
cows is scarce people live on it. Gotes
is very peculier in there taste. They
has a speshal rellish for tobacker and
young shade trees. I have seen lots a
trees on Green street which the gotes
had chawed all the bark off’em. Its
real fun to see’em go for ’em. They just
peals ’em clean in np time. I believe
they think the City Counsel has the trees
set out just for ’em to eat, but I don’t.
Gotes has a very sweet odor. Some
people like’em for a perfume better’ll
guana, but of the too I like cologti best.
Gotes is very partickler where they lays
down. They won’t lay down in the
street if they can find a pierza or a door
step to lay on. I have known ’em to go
into a parler when the door was open
and but at tliereselves in a glass. I
don’t know why gotes and cows is al
lowed to run loose in the street, but
they is no doubt a good reason for it.—
I did hear one man say it was to give the
place a city look. I don’t see how that
is though. I would like to be a gote.
They don’t have no taxes to pay like
other dogs, and then they hasn’t no lit
tle niggers runnin’ after ’em all the
time poundin’ and beaten’ ’em till they
is most dead. I don’t know any more
about gotes at present.
P. S.—Gotes is also good for boys to
drive in a waggin.
PRISON BIRDS.
Threatened Mutiny in the Missouri
Penitentiary.
St. Louis, June 19.—Since the muti
ny in the penitentiary at Jefferson City,
a few days ago, there has been a very
turbulent spirit manifested by the con
victs and much unruly and insubordi
nate conduct. For two days all work
ing in the shops had to be suspended
and the prisoners kept in their cells.
Yesterday several of the ringleaders
were lashed severely on their bare backs,
and this is to be continued from day to
day until all those most active in the
mutiny are punished. One of those
whipped yesterday confessed that a plot
to escape had been planned, and the at
tempt was to have been made to carry it
out yesterday, but the action of the au
thorities in confining the prisoners in
their cells rrevented it. It is believed
the mutinous spirit has been quelled
and no more trouble will occur.
A Newsboy’s Rise.— The St. Louis
Times publishes the following, in a re
port of an interview with James H. Mc-
Vieker, the well known theatrical man
ager, of Chicago : He said he had been
the first newsboy who had ever sold pa
pers in St. Louis. In 1837 or 1838, he,
then a lad of thirteen, was employed in
the office of the St. Louis Gazette, a
paper published by a “typo” named
Jerry Allen and his brother. He was
ordered out one day with a bunch of
papers under hi3 arm, to sell Gazettes,
and was instructed to go down Pine
street to the levee, and say to every man
he met: “Buy a paper, sir ?” He tried
this on, and, when at the levee, then the
great business centre of the city, he came
to a knot of gentleman and put the words
to them, “Buy a paper, sir ?” “Buy
h—1!” said one of the gentlemen, and
young McYieker went back to the office
discouraged and almost crying at the
rebuff. His employers, however, sent
him out again, and he succeeded, by
perseverance, in doing a pretty fair
business. Subsequently he went into
the Republican office, where he rolled,
while George Knapp, now principal pro
prietor of that great paper, “pulled
press.” In those days the Republican
was run by hand-power. A year or two
later he learned to set type, and a year
or two later still, he entered the the
atrical profession under the tutorage of
Jo. Field, stage manager of the old St.
Louis theatre, Mr. Field then being also
editor of the Reveille newspaper. From
that Mr. McVicker steadily rose, till
now he has hardly a superior as a the
atrical manager on this continent.
Sidney Dell has been invited to de
liver an oration at Crawfordville, on the
Fourth of July next, and has accepted
the invitation. After the regular order
is over Hon. A. H. Stephens is expected
to make a few remarks, if his health will
permit.
FOREIGN SEWS.
The Pope will Concede Nothing.
Home, June 19. — At the reception of
Cardinals by the Pope, Tuesday, His
Holiness mentioned that proposals had
been received, emanating from an ex
alted political pasonage, looking to a
reconciliation between tUe Papacy and
the Italian Government. He declared;
however, he would yield nothing—that
any con 'ession on his part would bo in
jurious to church and society.
The French Assembly.
Paris, June 19.— 1n the Assembly to
day a clause in the municipal organiza
tion bill, giving to the largest tax payers
the right of membership in municipal
councils, was rejected—yeas, 325; nays,
373. The Left, the Bonapartists and a
portion of the Bight Centre, voted with
the majority. They regarded the clause as
au attempt to restrict universal suffrage.
This rejection will probably prove fatal
to the bill. The announcement of the
vote created a considerable sensation. —
M. Fourton, Minister of the Interior,
expressed his willingness to accept as a
compromise limitation of the Govern
ment’s right to appoint the Mayors of
city for three years. The Postai Com
mittee have approved a report in favor
of au American Postal Convention. The
Assembly will probably ratify ihe re
port shortly,without further discussion.
Threatened Combination.
The Bight Centre is negotiating with
the Bight and with a portion of the
Left Centre in hope of forming a
new majority upon a programme
based on the bill submitted by M. Lam
bert De Saint Croix, on the lotli just.,
providing for the confirmation of Presi
dent MucMulion’s power, the organiza
tion of a second chamber, conferring
the right upon President MacMakou to
dissolve both branches, and tlfe ap
pointment of his successor by a joint
convention of the two The
negotiations will probably prove abor
tive—the Left Centre adhering to the
provisions of M. Casimer Ferier’s bill.
M. Du Favre intends, when tlio bill of
M. Perier’s comes up for debate, to dis
tinctly warn the Bight that 335 Depu
ties are prepared to demand a dissolu
tion of the Assembly if the organization
of a Republic is prevented.
The Ronanas-tist Bully^
M. Goulard is very sick. M. f’aul De
Cassaguac is cited to appear before the
Assize Court Mouday next, to answer a
charge of inciting citizens to hatred of
each other.
The Spanish War.
Madrid, June 20.—Gen. Concha is
continually receiving reinforcements. —
Balanoios, with ten thousand men is
marching against Cantaviseja, the Carlist
head quarters in Arragon.
Paris, June 20.—The wifo of Don
Carlos is now cn route to join her hus
band in Navarre.
Death of Bellewf
London, Juno 20, 6, a. m.—Bellow,
the reader, died last night liter a long
and painful illness.
Garibaldi. '
The Daily News reports that Gari
baldi is so ill that he cannot move and
is incapable of writing, or feeding him
self.
Victoria’s Anniversary.
To-day is the 37th anniversary of
Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne.
The day is observed by ringing bells,
firing a salute aud the other usual de
monstrations.
Tho French Situation.
The Times’ Paris special says the de
bate on giving the Government power to
nominate Mayors will take place to-day,
as the Legitimists liavo promised to
support the Gevernment. The latter
may have a small majority when the
measure comes to a vote. Lucien Brim
informed the Committee of Thirty yes
terday that the Legitimists intended
again to introduce iu tho Assembly a
motion in favor of the restoration of
a Monarchy. i
Paris, June 20.—1 t is reported that
the Government has consented to accept
the amendment to the municipal bill,
extending for two years the operation of
the present law, which provides for the
nomination of Mayors by the Govern
ment.
Agricultural Exhibition.
Bremen, Juno 20.—An agricultural
exhibition is being held here. Among
the visitors to-day was the King of
Saxony. There are a large number of
American exhibitors, and many have re
ceived prizes.
The Chamber of the Assembly was
crowded to-day with deputies, and the
galleries well tilled with eager observers
of the proceedings. The municipal or
ganization bill was again before the
body. It appearing that though tho re
porter of the Decentralization Commit
tee yesterday announced its withdrawal,
the minority of that, committee subse
quently took up the bill, and secured its
adoption by a vote of 579 against 3 of
the amendments maintaining the present
system of municipal elections, thus
overthrowing theclausesof the bill which
provide lor representation of the mi
nority by cumulative voting.
The Senate of Bremen to-day gave a ban
quet in honor of the exhibitors. Crown
Prince Frederick William, of Germany,
spoke in reply to a toast given to the
Emperor William, and his remarks ex
pressed the hope that the foreign ex
hibitors would in their return to their
homes convey the assurance that no
where was the wish for a peaceful con
tinuance of the labors of civilization
stronger than in the rehabilitated Em
pire.
The Papal Benediction.
Toronto, June 20.—Archbishop Lynch,
of Toronto, sent a cable dispatch to the
Pope, expressing congratulations on his
twenty-eighth anniversary, and solicit
ing the Apostolic Benediction;to which
his Holiness sent the following reply :
“ The Sovereign Pontiff, in general
acknowledgement to yon, the clergy,
aud the faithful of the Diocese of To
ronto, from his inmost soul accords the
sought for benediction.
[Signed] Antonklli.
Intel national Law.
London, June 20.—The Pall Mall
Gazette says the success of the Congress
of International Law, to be called to
meet in Brussels, is very doubtful. The
Governments of England, France and
Austria, says that paper, raise objec
tions to the scheme, and Switzerland
extends to it but a feeble support.
The Dutch Ministry.
The Hague, June 20.—There is a
crisis in the Dutch ministry. The
Chambers have rejected the Government
bill lowering the franchise, and the Min
isters have, in consequence, tendered
their resignations to the King.'
AVASIIINGTON NOTES.
Washington, June 19.—The Secre
tary of War, in response to the resolu
tion of the House, gives reasons in jus
tification of the issuing of army order
No. 32. He quotes from judicial decis
ions and the laws of Congi ass, arguing
therefrom that the constitutional right
of the people peaceably to assemble
and petition the Government for
a redress of grievances has no ap
plicability to the military service,
because Congress has provided in the
34th and 35tli articles of war exactly how
far an officer or soldier may obtain re
dress of grievances by individual appli
cation through certain military channels.
Should officeis or soldiers endeavor to
assemble with a view to make a joint pe
tition or application, such conduct would
be a military offen-e, liable either as se
dition or as conduct to the prejudice of
good order and military descipli no. It
would strike at the root of descipline.
Correspondence on official matter must
be conducted through the proper offi
cial channels, exceptin cases of pressing
necessity. The endeavor of any officer
or soldier of his own motive to address
Congress, or either House or its mem
bers, soliciting, suggesting or recom
mending action for or against military af
fairs concerning the whole army, is liable
to be detrimental to the public service
and disrespectful to the President.—
Therefore the order provides that all
petitions to Congress by officers relative
tosubjectsof a military character should
be communicated to the General of the
Army or the Secretary of War for their
action and transmittal. In view of the
explicit and peremptory laws, the Secre
tary of War says he had invariably
refused permission to any army officer
to act as agent or attorney for any
individual tar the prosecution of any
claim against the United States, or any
claim in which the United States are a
party. The officer who is recommended
by a retiring board to be wholly retired
from the service ceases on the approval
of the President to be connected with
the public i ervice.
A II fllooniat in Trouble.
Ai.lento l rsr, Pa., June 20. —Yesterday
Prof. Pierc :, of Philadelphia, attempt
ed a balloo l ascension on a trapeze bar
from the Floral Fair Grounds. The
lifting powier being insufficient he was
dragged through the trees and against
a house. More gas was supplied and on
the second attempt he sailed above the
houses for abodt a block. When descend
ing he struck against a dormer window
breaking his collarbone, and several ribs
and sustaining internal injuries threaten
ing his life.
Meridian, Conn., lias no coroner, and
the suicides of the city are forced to re
sort to strangers, who have no tender
feelings, and do not exclude reporters
from roe inquest.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional*
Washington, June 20.—1n tho Senate
last night, Pralt sent to the Clerk’s desk
and had read a letter from the Commis
sioner of Peusions, stating that the pas
sage of the bill would add 32,221 soldiers
to the pension rolls aud 16,000 widows,
aud that the total amount required to
pay them would be $15,091,584. In the
post office appropriation bill the main
disagreement was in regard to postage
on newspapers, the House insisting that
one and a half cents per pound was
enough, while the Senate had fixed the
rate at four cents per pound.
The Senate passed bills to remove the
political disabilities of Henry H. Sibley,
Thomas M. Jones, Dabney H. Maury
and Charles M. Fauntleroy, of Virginia.
The House has authorized the Arkansas
special committee to exercise its powers
during the vacation of Congress. The
House is now considering the conference
report on the currency bill.
The Senate passed as a rider to the
sundry civil appropriation bill half a
million for the flooded people of the
Southwest. It had already passed the
House and will go to the President.—
Morey’s bill, giving $25,000 for levee
surveys goes to the President. Govern
or Hebert will bo one of the civil en
gineers. Both Houses are iu session to
night, and the usual confusion prevails.
In the House, a resolution impeaching
Judge Busteed, of Alabama, was pre
sented, ordered printed and recom
mitted. Cessua, of Pennsylvania, pre
sented a minority report. There is no
possibility'of action,either in the Busteed
or Durell cases this session.
Tho House non-concurred in the
Senate amendment making Montgomery
a port of delivery and it goes to a confer
ence. The Senate amendments to
awards of the Southern Claims Commis
sion were concurred iu. The bill goes
to tho President.
A motion in the House to-night to
take up the Civil Bights bill failed by n
vote of 140 to 91, not two thirds. About
forty liepublicans dodged tho vote.
Eleven Republicans voted against the
bill, namely: Butler, of Tennessee ;
Harrison, Hyde, Lowndes, Phelps,
Bay, Smith, of Virginia ; Stiinurd,
St. John, Thomas, of Virginia, and
Thornberg.
Nomination—Bluford Wilson, Solic
itor of the Treasury, vice Banfield.
Harper's Ferry.
West Virginia wants a resale of the
Harper’s Ferry property.
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA*
The Spring Fair—The Display -Cul
ture of Corn Four Premiums—The
Best Dress—Dilemma of the Judges
—The Millitary Muddle—How ihe
Matter Stands.
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINI L.]
Macon, June 19, 187\
The Annual Fair of the Bibb County
Agricultural Association.
As usual, this snug and comfortable
little Fair came upon us yesterday un
heralded by sounding brass or tinkling
symbal, without in a word, any other
premonitions than one or two modest
advertisements in the local press. The
American people have yet to learn that
merit is its own best trumpeteer, and
because this exhibition had not been
sounded by “tho kettle to the trumpet,
the trumpet to clouds, the clouds to
lieaveu and heaven to earth,” its first day
was greeted by a very slim attendance.
This might be to a very great extent ac
counted for by the hard times—times
when men anil woman count the small
amount of fifty cents two or three times
before spending it. To . this no solid
objections can be raised.
The day was as fine as could be
wished. The Park, refreshed by the re
cent rains, was looking more grandly
beautiful than I ever saw it. The walks
and drives, the lawns and plats, had
been swept as clean as the floors of the
neatest house-wife, and the ‘buildings
coming up to the full standard of those
who accept the eleventh commandment
declared by John Wesley; “Cleanliness
is akin to Godliness.”
The Exhibition.
The main display was in Floral Hall,
on the lirst floor. Though not so exten
sive as in former years, there was scarce
ly a table or a show case which did not
contain something really worth going to
the Park to see. Passing by the forty
or fifty coops of chickens, geese, ducks,
pigeons, etc. I went to tho Department
of Field Crops and there saw green
stalks of corn twelve feet high with two
and three ears, as fine wheat, oats,
rye and barley as I ever saw grow
ing in old Kentii'lcy. The question
at once came up, if this country can
raise such articles as these, or only half
as good, why in the name of our fathers
dou’t it produce enough to do it ? It is
not worse than folly to spend twenty
four million dollars a year in bringing
them from other States? To all the
croakers who assert, “Oh weean’t raise
corn hereilike you people in Kentucky,”
I can truthfully say : “Yes you can,
there it is, tho only difference I see is
that yours is; a great deal better.” “But,
that took a great deal of manure.”
“ Well, so does the corn in most every
part of Kentucky.”
Something to Eat.
The central tables up and down the
vast hall were devoted almost exclusive
ly to the display of garden vegetables.
I there saw blood red beets which could
well fill a half bushel measure. In the
line of potatoes, squashes, onions, to
matoes, cucumbers, tho display
was magnificent. It made one’s
mouth water. Then there were
apples, peaches, pears, figs and the
like, not very remarkable either in size
or beauty ; but, being tho first of the
season, they were for that reason very
attractive. I wouldn’t give a cent for a
man who don’t love a good garden, and
tho man who could go among these
splendid vegetables and not be enter
tained, certainly lias not been educated
beyond Georgia wire grass beef and corn
dodgers. I saw in one basket eiglity-ono
pounds of Irish potatoes, which had
been raised from one pound oi seed or
“eyes.” This department certainly de
monstrated one fact, that we ought to
live better than any people in tho world.
We not only can raise everything the
Northern people do, but many times
better, and twenty other articles of daily
use which will not grow in their climate.
Here wo are to-day reveling in every
thing good of this sort, when their seed
has us yet scarcely come up. I am a
friend of these county vegetable
shows, if for no other reason,
they convince the dullest chowder
head in Georgia who follows plant
ing that he can live like a king if he
wants to. There they are—look at
them—you have the ground—you can
get the seed for a dollar, and if you
don’t want to spend the dollar you can
get somebody to give you enough for a
start. Toss that old idea that your
granddaddy didn’t have these things on
his table, to the dogs, and strike out on
a schedule of your own.
In General,
The display of flowers was very ordi
nary. They are either nil gone or else
the premiums offered were too small to
make the ladies take any interest in this
department. A prominent merchant of
the city had offered a handsome pre
mium for the best made dress. This
brought a dozen or more specimens,
more or less remarkable. I pity
the judges who have to make the
decision. Were I iri that dilemma,
I should cither vote each one the best,
or require the judges to sit in “ Star
Chamber” Committee fashion, with the
penalty of death understood to anybody
who revealed how I voted. Such exple
tives by a defeated candidate as “ hor
rid !” those “judges were stupid !” “they
have no taste;” “ what do they know
about dresses?” “I’ll vow I’ll never
make anything for this Fair again ?”
“The idea of their giving the premium
to that Miss Brummel !—the i-deah /”
would not be considered very high com
pensation for the self-sacrificing and
wholly patriotic duty of deciding such
an intricate question as, what lady in
Macon has the best taste about making
a dress.
Upon the Whole,
The Fair was a nice little affair, full of
articles of interest from end to end,
side to side. It did not come up to the
one of last year, either in display or
people, but it was a fine opportunity to
extend agricultural education, neverthe
less.
That Battalion Difficulty.
As the baulk in the reorganization of the
Second Georgia Battalion is not correct
ly understood, I deem it best to give
the exact facts about it to the public.
There are three companies here, which
proposed to Governor Smith to form
the Battalion and elect a Major.
The Floyd Rifles, * Captain Thom
as Hardeman; the Macon Volun
teers, Company A, Captain Geo. S.
Jones, and Macon Volunteers, Company
B, Captain Tindlay. The Governor
issued the order according to request,
and the election was to have come off
the other night accordingly. But just
prior to it, Captain Hardeman, who used
to be Major of the old Battalion, found
out that the Volunteers intended to vote
for Captain Jones, and having a majori
ty, his defeat was assured, lie then re
quested the Floyd Rifles not to go into
ihe election and they did not. At the
election Captain Jones offered to yield
if Lieutenant W. H. Ross, of the Rifles,
would accept the office, but he perempt
ously refused, and Jones was elected by
the two companies. According to one
of the plainest military rules iu the
world, the Floyd Rifles belong to that
battalion, for the plain reason they
were ordered to join it by Gov. Smith,
their Commander-in-Chief, and what
makes it still more binding, the Rifles
asked the Governor to give this identi
cal order!
The Crop Situation.
The crops in all this portion of Geor
gia are as good as heart could wi&li.—
And so the news reads all south, and
west, and indeed all around us. The
corn crop may bo pronounced made,
and u fine one it is, too. Nothing
like it in a decade of years.—
Cotton grows apace. I hear not a word
of complaint from mortal tongue. The
showers are falling about every day.
They keep the ground so moist that the
most active work is necessary to sucess
fully tight grass. The changes for the
week ending to-day have all bo -n for the
better. We now have only one thing in
the future to dread—the caterpillar. -It
will be time enough to meet thuttroublo
when it comes. Let us not go a mile
from home to meet a misfortune.
The Bibb County Criminals.
Judge Hill will not take up the murder
docket until July. Pike was brought
before him last Tuesday and the defense
pleading not ready, the case went over
until the 9th of that month. The Bulls
will be tried later—tho third Mouday.
The Civil Docket.
The Court has been on the civil docket
during the week—the Spottswood Hotel
owners and landlords coming in for two
or three days of tho time. There was a
mixed case about that brought out by
the owner of the house, J. C. Mcßumey,
ousting Pat Wlialan, tho lessee, upon a
distress warrant for rent, and involving
Tom Harris, tho present occupant, and
lot of furniture which has been used in
the house. The case wen* against Mc-
Bnruey to the amount of $3,600. His
attorneys took it to the Supreme Court.
Tt was a mixed up affair all tho way
through. Jean Valjean.
TIIE RECIPROCITY TREATY.
A Protest Against Its Enactment.
Philadelphia, June 20.—A meeting
of the Philadelphia Book Trade Asso
ciation was held to-day at noon, the ob
ject of which was to enter a protest
against the enactment of the reciprocity
treaty with Canada by the Senate. Un'
der this treaty Canadian merchants deal
ing in any manufactured article can im
port them from England or nny other
country, and after handling them can
ship them to this country duty free. A
series of resolutions were unanimously
adopted expressing alarm at Canada,
under the provisions of the treaty, be
coming tho great entrepot for the recep
tion of goods from all parts of tho
world, to be legally smuggled into tho
United s States, and stating that the
treaty inaugurates free trade, and in
volvws the necessity of collecting the
entire revenue of tho Government by in
ternal taxation.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
At Cincinnati, a young man named
Lewis Sherlor, while bathing Friday
night, was seized with cramp. A friend
pained Ephraim Carat hers went to his
assistance but, was seized by the drown
ing man, aud both were drowned.
Friday night a freight train whs
thrown from the track on tho Pennsyl
vania Railroad near Wilmore, Pa., by*,
running over a cow. Tho engine ami 15
cars were thrown down a steep embank
ment, killing thq engineer and fireman.
A collision occurred- yesterday morn
ing on the Pittsburg and Castle Blum- .
non Railroad between two coal trains, 1
seriously injuring tho engineer of each ;
engine. ;
A dispatch from Springfield, Illinois,
says the Supreme Court of Illinois bun 4
rendered a decision in tho ease of
Porter and others, against tho New
York, Rock Island and St. Louis Rail
road, which'involves tho question of as
signment by the Board of Equalization
of the capital stock. The decision sus
tains the Board of Equalization.
COTTON.
New York Weekly Statement.
New York, June 20. —Tho market for
cotton lias been extremely dull and de
pressed,and prices show quite a dpctino
since this time last week. Tho supply
offered is more than double that of list
year, and with tho absence of demand
there was nothing to cheek the down
ward tendency of values. Forward de
liveries have boon very unsettled and
weak, at a heavy decline. The sales of
the week were a hundred aud forty-four
thousand and twenty-one bales, of which
a hundred and thirty-nine thousand
nine hundred bales were for future de
livery, and four thousand one hundred
and twenty one for immediate delivery,
as follows : Two hundred for export,
three thousand two' hundred anil fifty
tive for spinning, and six hundred and
sixty-six for speculation.
Lost Her Anchor.
Boston, June 20. —Tho schooner
Caro Bell at tliie part from Ellsworth,
Maine, reports that at eleven o’clock
Thursday night, when 105 miles north
east of Capo Ann,she ran into the ocean
telegraph cablo buoy, losing the anchor
and ten fathoms of chain. She endeavor
ed, for two hours, to get clear of the
buoy, but the weather coming on thick,
she was obliged to cut tho chain which,
together with the anchor, were left
hanging on the buoy. The buoy is a
lurge one and lies iu tho track of coast
ing vessels.
The American Girl Abroad.
[Prentice M til ford in San Francisco Bulletin.]
Our American girl, while in Italy lust
Summer, three days after meeting
Prince Vermicelli, makes an appoint
ment to meet him by moonlight alone,
and that without the last thought of im
propriety. She wants adventure. "Are
you aware that your daughter has gone
out rowing along with Prince Vermi
celli ?” said an English matron to tho
Americun mother. “Certainly,” replied
she, without the least idea of the enor
mity committed, at least as regards ap
pearances. But her next remark was
more startling: “And I think she lias
used the Priuco very badly, too, fur she
neglected to keep an appointment with
him yesterday rooming.”
Tho English matron is astounded.—
Liberty to her seems license. Tho
American wonders at her companion’s
squeamishness. Neither party• under
stands each other. Our Amerieau girl
should not have gone out alone with
Prince Vermicelli, for on thiscuide of the
water the worst construction is placed
on such action. Appearances hero are
deemed incontrovertible proof of acts.
But the American girl and hermother do
not care forthis. “Her daughter," she re
marks, “can take care of herself. They
are not going to be cramped by any
such old world notions of propriety.”
This is independent, but it may not be
profitable. It may occasion the incon
venience of causing both mother anil
daughters to be regarded as almost dis
reputable ■ characters by the shocked
English. A nice young lady taking her
morning bitters at tho Long Tdm saloon
would liotcause any greater sensation and
aversion than does the lawless young
American lady hero at times. Now let
us be profound. Prejudice aud custom
must be respected to secure friendship.
When among the Romans, etc. Tho
Shall of Persia, on visiting England, had
the good sense to leavo his tiireo or four
hundred wives at home. Let us imitate
the spirit of the Shah, and thereby se- .
cure closer communion witli our British
brethren. If the Columbian lady will
be “loud” and “fast” she will not enter
the penetralia of the best English so-
ciety.
Our American girl who made the ap
pointment with Prince Vermicelli came
back that day with a flushed face and
glittering eye. She was in a rage. Tho
Prince had not been gentlemanly. But
she had “taken care of herself.” The
I’riuCe had a black eye. She had, sho
remarked, “ wiped him” with her para
sol. The Prince was puzzled. Ho had
only acted as any man of fashion in his
country \jould have done. But liis only
trophy was a black eye. Anew light at
last dawns upon the American mother.
She sees that sho is in adand where tho
standard of “propriety” is widely dif
ferent from that of America.
“I could not with the best intentions
toward you,” said the kind-hearted
English woman, in conversation after
wards with her, “afford, after the liber
ty you allow your daughters, to recog
nize you iu London society.” Some
times the American girl professes not to
care for English opinion in this matter.
Rut “I don’t care,” too often on tho
lips, mean "I (lo care,” in the heart. It
is natural to desire that which is dlffi-
cult to obtain; to see wbat is
hidden from the many; to go into
exclusive circles; *o have a glimpse of
London society. However, the American
girl’s self-reliance, despite its abuse,
seems to be the winning card. Conti
nental respectability and propriety
teaches its daughters that they are
weak, unable to guard themselves, and
that men are ravening wolves. Other
wise, may not the masculine be trusted
out of the mother’s sight with Jhe girls?
It occurred to a Danburf scholar,
while writing a composition, last week,
to make the remarkable statement that
“an ox does not taste as good as an
oyster, but it oan run faster.”
An old woman was beaten almost to
death in Apango, Mexico, recently, for
having brought the small pox into tho
oommunity by means of wito^raft,