THE WILMINGTON POST.
W. P. CANADAY. Ed'r & Prop'r.
WILMINGTON. N. C.. u
Sunday MbRNiKO, March 21, I860
1837 when Van Buren, Harrison, Wei 3
at r, Hugh L. White and Willie IV
Manguni were Voted for, since those
old days when it was fashionable to
have four or ; five Presidential candi
dates, things have not been so much
confused as they are now. . Odd tbiDgs
occurred in those days,, when Jefferson
supplanted Burr, when J. Q. Adams
supplanted Andrew Jackson, when Van
Buren beat Harrison and . when Harri
son afterwards beat Van Buren out of
CARRYING SOUTHER ' STATES.
The -northern papers are enquiring as
to the probability el the Republicans
carrying some of the southern states.
are, we are confident, eo anxious to
avoid a solid north against a solid
S)utb. .To make such an issue would
be upon the part of the south the ex
treme of folly. Its duty is to obey, as
Among the statements fe notice in the r it is the part of ail parts of th country
I ' The public printer has announced
that tho printing holiso must, close unr
less an appropriation was made the last
( iht the publication of the
! rknnrwional- Record must cease for sight, and when bid Zick. Taylor beat
f funds. Satan a xingaom s i yuas, uu ucu xjiuwu luuo u uu mo
down." - - l iriumpnai wave.
Now things are badly speckled among
the Democrats. Tilden, odious in all
the south and parts of the north, domi-
want
luinblin
Infer Ocean an' pinion of uol. R. W.
Douglas tp the effect that Grant could
carry North Carolina. He might as
well have said that any. Republican
would be likely to carry it with a fair
vote and count. North Carolina is nat
urally a Republican state, as : the past
elections down to 1872 "prove, witn a
fair vote. The population is less vio
lent and unscrupulous than that of any
southern state probably. And yet it, is
to obey, what has been declared to be
the supreme law of the land. The op
posite course would be Bimply suicide
and the placing in the hands of the
"atroner man" partv the most effective
weapon in their armory. '
the; science of prison r.E-
- . . ; FORM. ;; .V.
The; recent death of the Rev. Dr.
Wines, who has become so distinguished
In South Carolina it was proposed to
nasaalaw providing that no person
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could vote unless tney Bignea iac v" i neer3 W1ta jxi& hideous Yisage over tnat jn 187G was fraudulent. There was not
. list. There began to be grumbling in. 0ij chieftain Thrirman, the chivairic 233,000 votes in the state as was re-
liayard, and nendricxs, ana Major ported and counted.. The Democrats
General Winfield Scott Hancock, whom can cheat us in the coming canvass if
there is a disposition to push forward they please, and we are not able io
on the pari of the south, on the same help it, because they have passed such
fallacious and hypocritical grounds as iaws that they have all the election
they put forward Mr. Greeley, lhe
southern. Democrats do. not want Han
cock mueh mere than ; they I wanted
Greeley', only that , they think there is a
as an advocate ot reform in prison dis-
the nninion of nWof thn best iudir- cipline, just as he had written the c os
ment of both narties that Vance's vote nS the Preface of a new work
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the uD-country wnere me jgnumui,
whites live, and on examination it was
found that the act would disfranchise
at least twenty thousand red shirts, and
shct-zuns. The bill did not pass.
Nothing, since the Totter committee
cave red the Democrats with obloquoy
auu ridicnle, has occurred so' inju
rious to! the Democrats as Vborhees
exodu committee. Voorhees has be
mmp Hip. laurrhiner stock even of his
own party. -. The absurdity of creating
any such committee at all, as if it was:
any business of the government if citi
zens wero disposed to change their
residence frora one place to another, is
on
,the
of its proceedings. Voorhees has cov
ereds himself with disgrace, and filled
Chance of winning with him as a can
didate. The dark horse of the Demo
crats may be Senator Davis of Illinois
yet, and is now Horatio Seymour from
whom they summon faint i responses,
while he is buried in his constrained
retirement. The really strongest Dem-
machinery in their hands, and we haye
no remedy. They have some iear, how
ever of the U. S. Courts, and know
that they run a good deal of risk of
of being put to annoyance and expense
if they are detected. The Republicans
generally are believing , that we will
have in 1880 a fairer vote than usual.
Several of the other southern states
would certainly go Republican with a
on thai subject, affords an opportunity
to sav something of the author, his
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work and the subject itself. j
The prison system of the United
States, not being under the federal gov
ernment, but under the control of the
states, varies .very, much in character.
In some states, aa: in New York (and
Massachusetts, prisoners are governed
under the most enlightened ideas of!
preventive institutions, emb-acing thej
principles of humanity, while in some
others, they are conducted according
to old and barbarous ideas. The reH
viewer of Dr. Wines works says: 1
THIS PROSPECTS OP MR. SHUR-
A statement having been telegraphed
from Washington I by same unscrupu
lous fellow that Mr. Sherman contem-
SIIERMAN. plated withdrawing in favor ot Mr,
The following letter from Secretary 1 Blaine, the correspondent of the Inter
ilized and Christian world. How great
are the demands of the subject upon
the people of this state would becomt
apparent on further Information.
Sherman was addressed to Mr. M. L.
Scudder of Chicago, and explains it
sell: ; ' ' '
Washington, D. Cm March 10;i880r
My Dear Sib: Your letter of the
7th inst., in which you express your
strong dissent to my retiring from the
Presidential race, is received. ' I never
for a moment have contemplated such
a course, and the rumor you speak of
was no doubt promptly denied. -The
first public mention of my candidacy
was in the inference drawn from my
letter to tfe Hon. Mr. Haskin, of New
York, ip which I stated what I ; would
seek to do in cae of my nomination
and election. Since that time PteTe
been considered by the public as a can
Ocean sought Mr. Warner M. Bateman
of Cincinnati, President of the Sher
man National Committee at Washing
ton, and broached, the subject to jthat
gentleman;' Mr." BatemeaV reply wa
very emphatically that "there is not a
word' of truth ' in it. It is absolutely
without a shadow. of foundation.'
Mr. Bateman proceeded to say that
he did hot think there would be any
nomination on the first ballot, but that
Mr. Sherman would go into the con
vention and show eo. much strepgth
that it wohld constantly increase as
the voting went on. ' The possibility of
Jtt'uRKia ITS VS.
fair vote and coun. The certain Re
ly equalled by the fruitlessness of ocratic dark horse is probably Judge publican states of the south, that is
enquiry and the ridiculous puerility Field of the Supreme Court, who makes those which have unquestioned Repub-
sluu,1,0i'uvul "vt" KV"V" Vi "can majorities are, ooum Carolina, b j exce"pt in the seuthCrn states
i ;,. rf" J x iwiiuiv, aiauauia, jjnaoiaoipi i xma Jaw, nowever, mere IS rcaauu I
state of Delaware. The lash, as a dis
unusual, or degrading puRishments
within the prison, are forbidden now
didate, and have so regarded myself, nu wimurawmg ior uiame or anyooay
with the purpose neither to press any else had never entered the minds of
one to support me, nor to decline such aDy one of his friends.
lT oronnv to As for the further statement that Mr.
theeyS no'tneSry coovers hd
for me to belittle or arraign vrenerai I ,,..',.1si '
credit such a statement. It would be
Grant, Senator Blaine, or any one else;
nor will I use my official position to
promote my candidacy. ! ' W
Very truly youre, JohnShehman. .
In regard to political matters in.Ohio
the Secretary says that he is well sat-,
isfied with the time of meeting of tho
Brutalizine punishments, sucn as
t i - i- : : J i
oranamg, cropping, wujpiug, tut, Qhi 6 vention: in fact, that whatever 1 "U,,rTy
ture have been pbohshed, except in the u v " -CUV , ' - ' i . A .1 They have
contrary to Mr. Sherman's habit in all
his references to rival caudidates.which
had'uniformly been kind. Ih further
cocjversation on the subject Mr. Bate-
candidate.
from
the ininds of even his associates with
disgust.
The two alternative bills offered by
Mr. Dortch commend themselves to
good sense. The first is, that the state
shall grade the 43 nfile from Asheville
to Paint Rock, and thcu the President
and Directors of said road shall have
power to "contract wttb. any person,
corporation or company, "to supply the
necessary iron, &c, &c, and furniture
from Salisbury to Paint Rock." The
second is, after wherases, that the state
shall create a Commission, to be com
poied'bf Treasurer Worth, Hon. George
Davis and Hon. Burgess S. Gaither,
with authority to sell alii the roads
: owned by the state for casi at public
auction after notice of 90 days, with
such conditions as may amply fortify
tho state against all loss, and that the 1 General Grant, Senator Blaine, or any
and Louisiana. Lift off all intimida
tion, cheating and ! rasiality, and let
sioij pattern. If he had been cut out
by measure and made to order ps a
tailor makes a suit of clothes, it he had I there be an
been born lor this special occasion, he public will at the polls and all these
could 'not have more fully , filled the states mentioned are inevitably Repub
southern requirement fer a Presidential licau. There is no intelligent man liv
What extrication there is
this complication, now afilicts
caucusses, and committees, and Demo
cratic! sanhedrims.
The Republicans on the ott er hand
really have so large a surplus" of excel
lent statesmen, fitted to be "President,
that they seem to be embarrassed which
to take, and are-, carrying on a sort of
good natured rivalry as to which they
will select. - The best evidence of the
salubrious temper among them is the,
message which Mr. Sherman sends out
to the people : "I do not think it nec-
essary tor me to belittle or
' funds thu3 received, shall be devoted to
the extinguishment of the state debt,
and the draining of the swamp lands
owned by the state for the benefit of the
,. school fund. Thus the state would un
load the uncomfortable pack now on
its back; get rid of responsibilities that
anTonerous, relieve itself of its public
debt, and provide a school fund for the
education of all the children of the
commonwealth.
id this part of. the country that
does not know this. Of course they
deny this in their newspapers; and the
persons elected accept the positions,
but the facts as we. state them are ab
solutely unquestionable, j It is true that
in some districts where the Democrats
are split, as is the case in Georgia, and
as may possibly be the case injSouth
Carolina, where there is a feud between
the friends of Hampton and General
Gary, and posaibly in a lew scattering
districts in the other states, there will
be something approaching a fair vote,
because both factions cater for Repub
lican votes. The factions which are
one else." Of the three principal can- fighting' each other, where the contest
tioa solid at Chicago Among others
from whom dispatches ave rbeen re
ceived is General Robinson, late Chair
man ot the committee
WHAT A
Mr. I. B.
GOLOSIED MAN SATS.
Abbott a
colored man,: and
arraign
didates before the people, Sherman,
Blaine and Grant, not one has indulged
in any language towards the other, so
far as is known, which would mar their
personal relations. And then we
abound in those reserved political forces
termed dark horses, or "the man cn
horseback," those possible candidates.
One, Senator Edmunds, stands high up
in that Tyrol ot America which he rep
resents, looking out from a singularly
significant vantage ground. Then there
is Senator Conkling. Who does not know
that one tap of his finger would make
the 70 votes of New York solid for him,
as quickly as the tap of Crcsar'a finger
stilled the, Roman Senate? I There are
at least halt a dozen others, sucn as
Elihu B. Washburne, Gen. Logan,
Senator Windom of Minnesota, and
Hartranft of Pennsylvania, who afe
liable to be brought forward in some
emergency by their localities or states.
As the probabilities now are; there
will be no nomination on the first vote
boom-
time is agreeable to the committee is
flffreable to him. The Secretary is
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very far from wishing to dictate in the
matter, or even to advise, and has not
interested himself about it. He is sat-.
believe, is evaded, especially in thp isfied with the date, and would have
prisons of this state. Imprisonment uppn satisfied With iinv other date.
hont expression o. the tlTlLlBS t0 tbe con,mic, Ue ha,
ons. Penal labor, such as the treaa reuciveu uumcmus y.iaia.0
mill, so common in England, Js for- j Ohio, assuring him that all the indica-
bidden here, and industrial or prd- tio s are that h0 wiu the delega-
auctive laDor suDsuiuiea. . - jom muni
tion" is applied in very many of oi(r
state prisons, and sentences can be ab
breviated by good conduct,' while, ijn
some, a portion of his earnings can be
saved by the convict. There is no
longer any mingling of sxes, except n
county . jails. 1 Two state prisons for
women; and managed by women, haye
been founded one in Indiana and the
other in Massachusetts. Schools, Sun
day schools, libraries, and chaplaincijes
exist now in most ot the northern arid
western prisons. Not a century has
passed since the first sermon wias
preached in a Pennsylvania prison, uh
der the protection ot a loaded cannon,
L ;.L1.I 4 n Kor. Thin ,t ( h A
progress in that field. Reformatory what may be called "knock down argu
prUons for youth have been established, raents" ia fayor of Sherman, The more
in addition to sucn lnsuiuuons as
Houses of Refuge and Reformatories.
And finally, a prisoner in some of otir
sUtes 'can rehabilitate himself to citi
zenship by an absolutely clean record
in his prison life. i '
These great practical reforms which
cover so itfuch of the fiold of prison
management, and which have added! so
mrch to-human happiness, and hve
tended so much to prevent the contiriu
ance ol crime, have sprang eseciajlly
from the hand of - reformer, of whpm
Dr. nines was one, ud have been
man' said that
occupy an attitude of entirely friendly
neutrality toward the other candidates.
no controversy with either
The steamer Montana, the largest
ship of the Williams and Guion line
New York and Liverpool, run sground
on the rock in Church "Bay,-four niilrs
from Hollyhead. and is Ukely-t prove
a total wreck. Passengers and ma "is
saved, The pilot was asleep when she
run aground. ' . f
One man named Railton, and .
English women of the lower claws, call
ing themselves the "Salvation Army,'' ;
are holding meetings in New York on
the streets and iu low places, andaki ng
prayers. They are exhorters and"j)ro
pose to convert the whple world.
Lynail Pasha, the exKhedive of
Egypt is livings near Naples with his
harem of dark-eyed Egyptian women,
much to the scandal of the Neapolitans,
Me has gone to iiome and ia going to.
Paris .-v..-' . '
The Arch-Duke of Austria ia thiut
ing of marrying the Princess Stephanie ,
of Belgium, a long-nosed blonde maid
en, with a splendid patrimony in pros"
pect. .: . " ;i
Gen. Grant has pres;nted to Li Hung ,
Chang, the Viceroy of Chili in China,
a splendid silver pitcher, ornamented
withivry leaves, butterflies, beetles,
etc., in bronze, irou and gold. ? .
Lord Derby has gone over to -the lib
erals, greatly to their delight, and
greatly to the consternation ot the conservatives.
There are to be two new Atlantic
Cables sunk this coming summer, one
Grant or .Blaine, and will not be led
into one. They consider that Mr.
Sherman has exceptional claims for
the position, and that his attitude is
such as to attract the support of the
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mCn 01 me omer canaiaatea wnen frcm Valentia to Heart'k Content, ad
the latter become convinced that they - A j . ' r
rannnt. nominA thpir favnrif i onc-from Piucentia to Sydney.
cannot nominate their favorite.
We think that the prospects of Mr.
Sherman, as already stated, are very
promising. He believes he will get
more than half the south, and Ohio
-solid, and strength from every other
northern state, and wil I receive thg
nomination at Chicago.
Sydney.
Things are, looking better in Russia.
i
The Mansion House Relief Commit
tee ot Dublin have XI 17,124. .
England, France, Germany, Italy,
Belgium, Portugal, and the United
i- States have agreed to the proposal .of
Spain for a conference, to be held in
hear at Madrid in May or June, to arrange
Morocco rules re-
Ii wives could be trained to
night tho iootsteps of a burglar as soon with tho Envoy of
as they do those of their husbands, they lating to protection by foreign powers
would make the best watch dogs out.
editor ot tho Newberne Good Samaritan
paid a visit to this city, recently in the J J. Watch out for the long faced, sahcti
interess of his paper, and the order nf monious looking individual, who neither
Good Samaritans, and he gives tho re- looketh to the right nor left, or forward,
suit of interviews among thecolored but downward. Maybe he's trying to
people here, and a right good amount find a nickel on the sidewalk, and if he
of good, hard, horse sense of his own shouldn't succeed, he might be studying
over Jews and other subiects of the
Sultan of Morocco. .
The Jesuits are to" be sent odfc of
France.
Lord Beaconsfield is making a deter
mined canvass for his foreign policy,
and ignores the Irish questions.
It has leaked out that there . was , a
ludicrous Ecene in the Senate Commit
tee n.Priyelegea and Elections, when
Ben. Hill moved io report that Sena
tor Kellogg was not entitled tO' his
seat. pr. Sauls bury hac. hurried thp
Committee together, and looked around
aud asked if any one wanted to say
anything. The1 Tones correspondent
relates the occurence as follows :
Senator Angus Cameron looked at
the Democrats satirically, as he said:
"There is one Senator in the Senate
who did not enjoy the formality of be
ing voted for by even a pretended Leg
islature.' "Who is that?" asked Sen--ator
-.Vance.'' "M. C Butler," was the
reply. Then Mr. Cameron addd: "I
thought there was some understanding,
when Butler was tidmitted without any
real title in jompany with Kellogg, strength will subside, and there
turbed." "Oh' said Mr. Vance, 'Ithat
would bo a conspiracy" "Oh, 1 don't
accuse you of that," said Mr. Cameron.'
"Of course you gentlemen knownoth.
- ing about any conspiracies. You may
call it a breach of faith it you like,
that's better.' Here Senator Cameron
opened the drawer of his desk and
directed the attention of his committee
associates to the neat arrangement of
his papers inside. "You see," he said,
"I keep my papers in good order, so if
, I am called any morning by you Dem
ocrats, I may be ready to move out.
You certainly have as good a right to
my seat as you have to Kellogg'a"
In the meantime Senator Hoar
bounded t? hisj feet and denounced
what was to be dono as a crime, as
much as the first firing on Ft. Sumter.
is very bitter, permit the colored people
to vote soraeti mes, if they are useful to
them. In Virginia this process was
carried to such perfection that tie
readjustee, led by General Mahonp,
and the Republicans absolutely control
the state. , !
If anyrof our northern friends, doubt
our statement, we wish they would
come down into these sate5 and seCifor
themselves. Bo the northern Republi-
licans need not indulge themselves in
the expectation of carrying any of theEe
southern states unless the present poli
cy of the Democratic managers is to
tally abandoned, and a fair voting al
lowed. Atrocious as it U, one great
.organized fraud v in the states we have
mentioned, there is no "help for it un
less in rare and exceptional cases. The
Democratic policy is to suppress the
voice of the majority. And it is done
"as remorselessly and as cooly as if the
acts were right in themselves. Of
the colored men know of Mr. Sherman
the better they like him. If the colored
voters of this state could have . their
way the delegates from this state to
Chicyco would be solid for Mr. Sher
man: J
We were told by
liked our paper very
disliked to see us .advocating the cause,
of John- Sherman f6r the Presidency
was our candidate,
e that there was
up some plan whereby
neighbor.
to defraud his
i Lour American Brrdsres. 1
Since the disaster to the Tay bridge
there has been some uneasiness felt as
many, that they
much, out they
Thomas Boyd, an English diver, now
living at Louisville, jumped the other J to the safety of some
day headlong from a span of a bridere I suspension bridges in
Over the Ohio, and fell into water a
distance of 100 feet, but was taken out
safe. He thinks that sometime he will
rival Sam Patch. , I
Wefpld Jihem that he
ard we did not bene
Burvevs are now in broorress' for thp.
1 construction of a short line between
greatly furthered by the national and' a colored man in the! south, that could
world conventions which he organized, give a single reasoa why he could not
This important work, whose title we
support Mr. Sherman in preference to
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ail wno are at present nameu ag canal
dates. Then I asked for a reason why
we, the colored people, should not ad-
vocate nis claims, y ae gave me ms
Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla. Ar
rangements have been made to cross
the St. Mary's River at Dixon's Old
Trader's Hill. The Georgia Division nlaeed with iron, the work bein? ".
I . w . r I r j- . : ' ' O v
WiU be known as the WavCrOSS and rnmnTisihpd wifhnnfc anv intprfwrpnoo
Florida Company, and the rad from
reason : "Because all the white people Jacksonville to the Georgia line as the
are in favor of Geh
fernother reason.
formed us. that Mr;
Grant." We asked
"The people in
. Sherman has a
East Florida Company. .
course it
south
at Chicago. No desperation in
jmg can very much change the present danger ia
attitude of the,, situation. There is no returning
evidence that the Sherman' or Blaine's
?. if
Grant goes intothe convention at all
it will be with a diminished fraction.
We look in any event for long and
perhaps fluctuating voting, such as will
inevitably be produced from the com
plicated state of things. Fate hks not
interposed in the matter, and there are
diyerse preferences which can . only be
accommodated by longi controversyv
The occasion is one open to contingen
cies at all points, with a result; to be
finally educed in accordance wita that
general good sense. which usually 'comes
sooner or later to these great bodies of
men. . : ; ' ' 1 " :
is a great public evil to the
iiself, and is fuli of the seeds of
the future, uuless there is a
sense; of justice among the
Democratic managers. .
Nothing can surpass the cgotkm of
the average secession Democrat, 'f hey
moye and breathe all the time, and are
constantly enveloped and enshrouded
in an atmosphere of self conceit. There
fjre when the Supreme Court of the
United States,rendered its late decisions,
confirming the supremacy of the fede
ral government, most of the B jurben
press of the south broke out iu denun
ciaion. 'Jvven our morning tcotempo-
great many agents paid by the gotern
ment, goingj through the country for
him, and they bo ieved that atUahould
have a fair chanc 3." We answered the
first ngon in these words : That some
of our white Rerqblicani Pre opposed
to Mr. Sherman because he is a member
of Mr. Hayes? Cabinet, and they desire
to stone every member to make Hayes
"feel it," But that is very weak in them
though the colored men have nothing
to do with that. The white Republi
cans are looking out for themseives,and
the time has come when the colored
ones must do the same. The second
jreason was) answered like this: That
so far as agents are concerned we do
not believe that Mr. Sherman has em-
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-The Gate City Guard of Atlanta Ijas
decided to erect a memorial armory,,
which shall commemorate the reunion
of the states and the return of peace, as
distinct from the many structures erect
ed jn the north and south commemora
tive of events which occurred during
the late war. The decision has grown I spans of 340 feet each.
' I.T 1 At a. '
have quoted above, is the life's experi
ence of its author in the prison man
agement, and the measures for prevent
ing crime among children in all civil
ized countries. The information con
tained m it is' drawn from official docu
ments, public reports, the communica
tions of governments, and of experts,
and from personal observations of pris
ons, and pergonal converse with i prison
officers throughout the world. Book
First contain a brief historical review
of prison reform and 'phild-5aving"
work in various European countries.
Book Second, of prisons in the United
States, with a tall account of the "child
saving" work under the Children's Aid
Society and similar associations in New
York City. Book Third, of fcimilar ef
forts in Great Britain and her colonies,
and in her Indian Empire. Boot
Fourth, of prison administration and
preventive institutions in all the Euro
pean countries. Boeks Fifth and Sixth,
of like subjects in Mexico and South
America. Bool Seventh, of prison
management it? such rernote pou
as Hawaii, Liberia, Morocco
Persia. China, and Japan. The
important portion o( the volume von- special treasury agents, ana ne was
taining the original conclusions of the speaking fof Sherman and that is the.
author on his sciunce is Book! Eighth, basis ofthel opposition, That Elliott
entitled an "Ideal Svstehi cf Institu- was a negro, and six dollars por day
tutions for-the Prevention and Repres- tvas too muchmoney for a negro to get. and obsolete channels. Iu a word, the
sion of Crime." The suggestions made And they are afraid, that it Sherman dlaease of UnSi. i- nnt i mnnh tkp
ef the iron, and
this "Country.
Many of them have spans much longei
than those that fell into' the Firth of
Tay, the destroyed spans being only 245
feet long. That over the Susquehanna
river at Havre-deGrace has thirteen
spansj each, over 270 feet lotig. It waSj
completed in 18GG of wood, and when
nearly fiuished a large portion ot the
superstructure was bloiyn'idown. Sinp$
1S76 the wooden porticn has 'been rp-
utrj es j pioyea special agents to canvass ior
Siam, I him. vye Know it nas pcen circulated
most 1 that Gen. R. B. Elliott was one of the
out of tho warmth and cordiality of the
reception giyeri this organization every
where on its late tour through the
north, and the projectors of the build
ing aver that its doors shall always bet
opeu to all who march under the Stars
and Stripes, which shall float from its
turrets. t '
No ptblip career is openi to, a Rus
sian who does not belong toithe official
class; there is little independent profes
sional life, and even commerce ia in
gfeat measiiro ponfinedwithia narrow
with the freight and-passenger traffics
The draw sectfon of the bridge will be
replaced with iron within the next
month or two, wheuit will sustain i;s
character of being one-of the longest
iron railroad bridges, as it was previous
ly one of the longest wooden bridges.
The truss bridge at Cincinnati has a
span of 513 feet ; that Over the Hudson,
at Poughkeepsie, has five spans, of 500
feet, and the piers are 13-3 feet above
high-water levei. Ther'b'ridgo acr:
the Missouri, at .Ltavcmvortb, has three
lhe span of
There will be a
most biUer
the Senate at this exhibition of
force. 1
debate in
brute
NATIONAL PARTY POLITICS.
It is our purpose, not to discues po
litical theoriesj nor td enter into elimi
nations of principles, but rather to take
a look at the personellc of parties, to
study a little the geographical relations
of affairs, -to take an I inventory of
stock. The Post has been so much
occupied latterly in considering the
details of the Republican party, that It
has almost forgotten that there is any.
s'uch thing as a Democratic tarty, which
is to have any influence infthe- country
hereafter.
Mr. Webster's
tossed for many days in thick weather,
and on ai unknown sea," and get some
idea of our bearings. j
Since those old days of 1801, when
Jefferson and Aaron Burr received each
73 electoral vptes, while John Adams
received G5 and CO. Pinckney G4, nd
those other days of 1825 when Jackson,
J. Q. AdamsJ Crawford .and Henry
Clay were voted for by the electoral Charlearling, of -New 'jrseyaged
college, since 833 when Jackson, Clay, 28 years;' has a head six Times the bfdi-
m.avja buu YUIVU lr, aHUvUAlY Bld
The annual meeting oMhe istock-
holders of the Atlanta and Charlotto
Air Line Railroad was held in New
York lately! The annual report for
1879 showed the gross earnings to be
$776,398.49, and the operating expenses
to be $525,677.641eaving a net earning
of $251,620.85, but of this there was
paid for construction, $S4,717;41; for
equipment, $12,900.11, and fr interest
on preferred bo3ds, $35,0X), uiafeing the
balance to income accounv lld,003 33.
The balance on hand Jan. 1, 1879, was
$34,842.60, which added to tha other
made a balance on Jan. 1, I860, of
$153,845.03.;, There. will be due for in
terest on July 1 j on $4,250,000 of bonds,
$175,000, which,' the '. company 1 expects
to be able to pay. Next month $17,500
by Dr. Wines in this "portion of his gets the nomination, he will do -too
wAi-V rhniifrli.nAf alwava nrKrihnl 1ipa rntich for the neirro anvwav1. Then we
rary broke out inclwmsy djenuupiatjon. him -verv hieh in th ranks of ' penal had them at bay. We also told hem
uch as, 'complete reyolution and sub- reformer and ofphilogopfcjp i students that at one time we chanced to be one
version of the government," "dominant of this science. They -are throughout of the Q$?lf of Customs in our district:
north."' weeVwao tvranU pow in-harnWwlth?m?st avancc-d Bi
"we see in them evil, only
tinualiy," "invariable plea
"rode over us rough-shod,
It had lhe bad taste to speak of the
Supreme Court as "partisans," and of
the late Mr, Seward &s the "arch enemy
of a genuine republican , form of gov
- f i in 3 (rrr-iT suniprr in oil pann i uuriiiir liik wuuic iuui veaia uiuuinr'
evil, cen tries, and show the ftrllf of modern vice. We told them that it wks wr6nc
of tyrants," I thought i rgl o W- I fpf joijtherh negrots to work1 against
n o o I I t li ti i" TrilA TriPnu &i f 'i arrwo n i An a
There have been two iniernational
prison conventions held in lhe world,
one in London in 1S72 and one in
Stockholm in 1878, and an internatioaal
society bag been formed for "uxbese
L11C1L LI U H JSXL. bdllr;! Ill 2LII I mil' 1
of the old war-horses agajnst slayery. WeWr ir more
He stood ids by siU with Sumner. -u f" rU'lj
aA" j t til il pulmonic lUVlLOUUI
the American white men .who. m the I H .
absence of political life and freedom as
the absence of any real life and freedom 412 s.
at all. . ISo man feels that he is in any
respect his own master, or that he can
make his own career. In this gloom
and sensg of r,9trajn ingn brood over
their"' grievance the 'inore 1 educated
compare their conditibn ' with ' what
they read of the life of other European
if no wonaer n tne
qnscrupulbu ' among
uarK conspiracies
er of society.
the bridge ihat gave way at gt. Charles.
Mo., in consequence of the qars leaving
tha trark was S20 fppit. anrl it. has tn-n
others of 406 fret each. The bridge at
St. Louis has one span of 500 feet and
two of 515 feet each. The suspension
bridge at Cincinnati has a clear span
of 1,057 feet, while the bridge over the
East river, at New York, exceeds that
length, having a span of 1,595 feet.
.Since the Tay disaster there'liave been
so many inquiries as to the safety of
this structure, when exposed -to the
force ofa gale of wiu(, that the engi
neers iaterested hayje inade reassuring
statements. ia asserted that a gale
olone hnndred miles an hour kwou!4
bring a force equal to J,5Q6 tons, while
there would be a sustainipg force of
ernment." The . y. priJ, "bicfa .n 0f forwarliDe lhe c4Use of refa;mliorj
occasions bos a.way of ulfsnag glilUr-1 !.,j,,:. .u.
-1. 11 f T -It - ' . . I
It is about tima-to imitate A.i "r V f 7 V ' T
r'i eim?isf H additional wi l fall due on preferred
;rs simile of the mariner , '' 'ii u: . . .
uuuus, uui una buiu i lie cumpany nas
already on hand outside of the amount
previously noted, lhe oldi Board of
Directors were re-elected except in three
instances where . Bichard Irvin, Jr.,
and Beldcn R. McAlpine took the re-
,way ot uttering glute
ing tiuths, having noticed the brutal
iuuc wt ihe swuihtriu Buibon prew on
the bubject, adiiihriitr d lhe fallowing
scathing rebuke to them, which is just
ly deserved;
The tone of a large number of the
southern newspaper upon the recent
decision of the Supreme. Court affirm
ing theconstitutionality of the nation
al election iaws is by no means what
could be desired, yiih one or two ex
ceptions our cotemporaries in that sec
tion are very much dissatisfied with the
decision and talk in a vague 'sort of
way about making the mandate of the
Court an "issue" in the next national
campaign. Exactly what they propose
to do they do not say. They cannot
certainly be insane enough to contem
spective places of their brothers, and Pte the calling of a convention, the
W A'.Hadden was cbogen instead ef construction of a platform and the
FPClark z ' ' ; j nomination of a candidate pledged to
& f cycisai iu. buiuc way or anotner ot
the decision in question. A programme
or a policy of this ind would be the
most certain way to secure" what he
majority of sensible men in the south
atanfjally of John Jloward, originate4
by him more than a hundred years: ago.
There is also a "National Prison Asso
ciation of the United States," of which
Hon. Horatio Seymour was President
in 1873. and for aught we know is now,
and of which Dr. Wines was the cor
respopding secretary. There are like
societies all over the ghrjstian part of
the world. Vr, Wines wa alao Com
mis3ioDer from the United States to the
"International Congress on Peniten
tiary and Reformatory Discipline" held
in London, at which there were more
than 400 members from all parts of the
world.? He made an elaborate report!
of the London convention and of the!
National: Prison Association of the
United States, held in Baltimore in
1873, which was printed by order of
Congress in 1873. ;
tthis great subjecl is therefore press
ing itself upon atenQn th ciy-
dark days of slavery took the southern
noarro slave, upon bU shoulderai, and
carried himtoue alU? 7f l U 'IIob.;
and acted as our proxy until the cause
was renjoyed. Then he continued tq
labor for us untjl e were entpngljised.
ibyhis votes, in the iirierican gisla
ture. We are American citijsensV The
man who did this for jus, is now before
'the people jf this country for the Pre
idency. If every white man in the
country opposes hirri, let us, the souths
jern negroes, :remember by our votes the
man that remembered us when we were
in the "Egypt" of slayery. Let white
Republicans do aad say as they please.
Xhey can-aflTord to do it. They cried
free as Mr.j Sherman did j they had no
ourden ot a master to wag with. Some
of them were Democrats when Sherman
was voting tho slave load off ot us. ,Jjt
would be ungrateful in, the negro to op
pose anyone of tho men who opposed
slavery. It is the dhty of the southern
negro to support Mr. Sherman for tho
Presidency for past favors rendered, or.
shut his lips. ' "
Mrs. Ouray chews tobaoco, bnt her
husband says he'd rather have her chew
tobacco than chew his ear off, like some
of the white women here want to do.
Mr. John Bright, the Augusta CAron
tefeuji, wrote thus on February 19 to
a Georian:: "As for J?nr ol(i Y
south, you will have few Englishmen
settling tjjefe so Jong as the old temper
of your people cpntiipne? to exigt. j We
hear of ill treatment to the negrof aqd
of the hostile disposition of many of
your white population toward families;
who come from the North. I know not
how much of this is true, but so Jong as
tho belief of its truth exists, your south
ern states will make small progress in
comparison with the north and . west
You haye soil and climate, but you will
not easily or speedily shake off the old
curse, and men .from Europe will prefer
a country where slavery has not pre
vailed, and where the negro is not a
considerable portion of your,population;
they, will think that north and west
offer abetter field for them with more
real freedom and less of the elements
of disorder. I wish "your states a grow
ing prosperity." i1
To make your hair grow thick, apply
Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Eenew
er, the greatest discovery of the age.
. Mrs. Sherman.
A Washington correspondent in
sneaking of several distinguished ladies
tnere reiers to Mrs. Secretary bhei
man; ' ' - ' 1
She is one of those creations which,
can be compared to the lilies of the!
field in purty of style and stately trrace
occupying the middfe.of j the grbun
between blonde and brunette, her
cawny hair, with Us naturallwave gat'h-.
ered. in the low Greek coil, without,
comb or ornament of any kind. A
simple black dressy relieved at the
tnroat with illusion ruchiog, she is
deemed the presonfied emoouimet of
one of Tennyson's poems;
Tal and dmpply fajr,!r;
Not a beautiful woman, biii' one cie
ated with so much harmony that the
wnoie mortal statue would -nave to db
pulled apart to remedy the defect Mrs.
Sherman would make a most admirabfc
"first lady" the very best of all the
candidates now in the field for in all
the years of her husband's official life
at the Capitol, herunostentatiousjehar
ity, her kindly deeds to the worthy and
deserving has enshrined her a a patron
saint in many a poor" widowfs hcait. 1
Jix-toenaior Clingman, of North Car
olina, has, it is said, fuund upon his
larm me mineral zircon in great q'lan-
and of great hardness. He subjected a
crystal ot it to the action of a biow-piFe
for two weeks without perceptible Joss
Of substance. . He believes it the metal
needed in the construction of the in-,
candescent electric lamp and the very
thing Edison has been searching for. ,