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BY E. B. MURKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1880. VOLUME XVI.-NO. 23. A LEITER FROM COLORADO. DENVER, COL., Nov. 25, 1880. Mu. EDITOII: My ?tay in the city of Denver has not been sufficiently long to form a correct idea of tho place, neviv thelcsi T will give you the advantage of what information I have thus far ob tained. I arrived in Denver thc 18th of October, and, to my astonishment, found tl io city lilterally covered with snow. Bvgan to thiuk I wa? incorrectly inform ed aa to the climate. Expected to find an Italian climate, if reports were true, but instead of such we have extremes of heat and cold. The winters are marked by storms of great severity, and thc sum mers are hot, dry and dusty. Since my arrival we have hud but .-. week of pretty weather, the remaiuder of the time it has been cither snowing or preparing to snow. The last four days the thermom eter has been 25? below zero ; but ? 5 below zero here doo? not count the same as at any other point of the name lati tude, owing to thc altitude of the {.'acc. The altitude of Denver is 5,224 feet. The climate of Colorado (and Denver is uot an exception), though changeable and nt times severe, has been proven be yond a doubt to be especially adapted to dyspeptics and invalids generally. "Col orado cures asthma." Hundreds and even thousands of persons diseased with asthma, bronchitis, and even consump tion, have been cured by ?he simple, yet powerful, climate of Colorado. Do not understand inc as saying, all consump tives, of nil stages, are cured-far from it. Hundreds come while in the last stages, and they all die-tlic greater por tion very shortly after they arrive. This is because their lungs are frail, and the atmosphere being dry nud rare they can not receive tue necessary amount suffi ciently fast to support life, and death is the result. Colorado, the pet Slate of the Republic, which was ?admitted into theUuion four years ago, with a population not exceed *_rn nnn 1_?_ .1_oeo nn.1 C,111 ?U iujj ou,vvu, una wxjnj i.vi/,uuv, ?ul... lut tide of immigration continues. Thou sands Hock into the State daily. Last Spring the daily anivals ut the hotels of the city were five and six hundred. That was called the Denver boom. The same is anticipated this Spring. At present mining is the chief industry and great revenue of the State. Mining interests are rapidly on the increase, ns may be seen by the annual producta. The supply of minerals in tho mountain:-; of the Stute appear to be inexhaustible. New mines are being discovered almost daily, when Ibo weather will admit of prospecting. Stock-raising is carried on to a consid erable extent. Agriculture is yet in its infancy. It has received heretofore com paratively little attention, owing to the unfrequency of rain. But now the water of the streams is being utilized for agricul tural purposes, so that funning is begin ning to demand more attention. Colo rado's chief charm is her magnificent mountain scenery. In this respect she is the Switzerland of America. Denver, tho Queen City of the West, twr.nty years ago was a straggling town of tents and windroofed cabins, is to day the raoBt active, enterprising ami flour ishing city on tee continent, with n pop ulation of 45,000-10,000 of whom may ba called flouters. Thc city is beauti fully located on a plain near thc foot cf the Rocky Mountains. Has wide and level streets, nud through the western portion of the city flows the Platte, a small river, the waters of which supply the city. Among Denver's population may be found representative people ol every nation and tongue. Even the negroes are here. Majority of tho in habitants are from the East, and a great many of them monied men, who brought with them their money, and have invested in mines and in thc dovel opments of the city. Denver is a citv of considerable influence, owing to the wealth of her citizens. She possesses to day more wealth thdn any Eastern city iii proportion to iier population. It may be readily seen by observing the elegance of her public and private edifices, as well as tho many modem improvements nud conveniences. All public building*!, and even some private residences, aro heated by steam. Tho citizens are noted for their sterling energies and ardent desire to maka money. Their goa! is money, in nn honest way, whether it is obtained by physical or mental labor. Few days ago I received a letter from a friend, who asked this question : "Have you an#;cjt?r?hea in Denver?" Such on ideal'"' If waV'sUrprlsed'to know any one entertains such an opinion of Denver, or even think I nm so completely lost tn everything that is good, noble nod worthy of appreciation as to go beyond the pales of Christianity or tho conflues of civilization-a ship upon tho sen without either chart or compass. Why, wo have twenty-eight churches, repre senting ten different creeds, all of which employ the most able divines. Tho most of them filled pulpits io cur largest East ern cities, such as New York, brooklyn, Philadelphia and others. The majority of the churches uro elegantly nnd tastily constructed, and every Sabbath they are filled with attentive audiences. Brides theso regular church services, there are quite a number of religious organiza tions, ai! workii.'g for the promotion of the cause of Christianity. Before I came West I repeatedly heard the Western country spoken of as filled with a desperate cluss of men, utterly void of thc fundamental principle* of peace and good order. Theso reports are all slanderous-no foundation for them. I have never been nWong a moro peace able, law-abiding and God-fearing people than may be-found in Denver. At the same time they do not like tobe trampled upon, neither are they deaf tn all insulta nnd injuries. Tho only disturbance the city has ever experienced was the riot, called the Chinese riot, which occurred a few weeks ago. - The citizens of Deuver were not Hie aggressors in tin's tragic scene, and neither should they he accused of it, as they haveHicen. This riot, although it happened upon the streets of Denver, still there is no doubt but that it was committed by miners, who carno from the mountains lo participate in tho election. The common schools of Denver aro equal, if not superior, to those of any of our cities. There are in the city at least eight large, commodious and imposing building?, with beautiful grounds. The schools are graded, and taught by tho most thoroughly competent instructors. They are in session thirty-eight weeks in tito year. The average attendance is nearly four thousand. Teachers are handsomely compensated for their ser vice*. Before closing I must say a word ot all, especially young men, who anticipate coming to Colorado for a fortune. You must nut hoist your expectations too high. Colorado is not a paradise, with streets paved with gold. Neither is Denver. If you have money, you may come ; without it you mny bo several days obtaining the desired fortune. Those who have money accumulate it very rapidly by lending nt 1J to 2 per cent per month, with real estute as se curity. It is an acknowledged fact that the avocations of labor are more numer ous than in olden countries, but the de mand is greater. The country is filled beyond its capacity. There are to day upon the streets in Denver hundreds of young men out of employment. The same is comparatively true of every por tion of the State. The only class of men who get employment readily und well paid are mechanics and brick masons. This is owing to tho vast amount of building and improvements going on in the city. Although Denver hus her dis advantages, still she is a mighty ciiy. Thousands and even millions of dolhirs have been made by her citizens witL in thc Inst few years. And thousands of persons have added length to their days by coming here. Most respectfully, DAVID A. ZEAOI.KII. Tho End or tho World. The following dismal picture of tho end of the world ic by the noted French scientist, Camille Flammariun : The earth was born ; she will die. She will die either of old age, when her vital clements shu)i have been used up, or through the cxtinctiou of the sun, io whoso rays her life in suspended, one might also die hy accident, through col lision with some celestial body meeting lier on her route; but this end of the world is the most improbable of all. She may, we repeat, die a naturul death through tho absorption of her vital element.?.' In fact, it is probable that the air and water are diminishing. The ocean, like the atmosphere, appears tri huve been formerly much more consid erable than it is in our day. The terres trial crust is penetrated by waters which combine chemically with the rocks. It is almost certain that thc temperature of the interior of the globe reaches that of boiling water at tue depth of about six miles, and prevents tho water from de scending any lower ; but the absorption will continue with the cooliug of tho globe. The oxygen; nitrogen and car bonic ncid, which compose our atmos phere, also appear to undergo absorption, but slower. The thinker may foresee, through thc mist of ages yet to come, tho epoch, yet nfur off, in which the earth, deprived .of the atmospheric, aqueous vapor which protects her from the glacial cold bf space by preserving the solnr rays around her, will become chilled in thc sleep of death. As Henri ' Vivurel says: "From the summit of tbs j mountains u winding sheet ot snow will descend upon the high plateaus and the ' valleys, driving before it life and civiliza i tion, and inadtiug forever the cities and tintions that it meets on its passage." Life and human activity will press insen sibly towards tho inter-tropical tone. St. "Petersburg, Berlin, Loudon, Paris. ! Vienna, Constantinople and Home will i'ull asleep in succet>siuu under this eternal shroud. During very ninny ages equatorial humanity will undertake Arctic expeditions lo find again under tho ice the place of Paris, Lyons, Bor deaux and Marseilles. The sea coast will have changed and the geographical map of the earth will have been transformed. No one will live and breathe any moro except in tho equatorin' zouc un lo the day when the hist family, nearly dead with cold and hunger, will sit on the hhnro of tho last sea, in tho rays of the sun, which will thereafter shiue here be low on an itmbulent tomb revolving aim lessly around a useless light and abarren hes?. MULES.-Previous to 1783 there were very fow mulet iu the United States, and those of such an inferior order as to prejudice farmers against them as unfit to competo with horses in work upon tho no jacks, and' no disposition to increase the stock. But Washington became con vinced that thc introduction of mules generally among tho Southern planters would prove to them a great blessing, ns they are much lesa liable to be injured than hones by careless servants. As soon as it became known nbro.J. that Washington desired to stock his Mount Vernon entntc with mules, the King of Spain sent him two jacka and two jennets from the Inland of Malta. The first waa of a gray color, sixteen hands high, heavily made, and of sluggish nature. He wis named the Royal Gift. The other was called tho Knight of Malta. He was about as high, and lithe and fiery even to ferocity. The two sets of ani mals gave him tho most favorable oppor tunity of making improvements by cross breeding, the result of which was the favorite jack Compound, because he par took of tho best points in both originals. .Tho General bred his hlnrwled mares to these .jacks, ever taking those from his own stables for that purpose, and pro duced such superb mufes that tho emin- ? try was agog to breed sotno'of the sort, and they soou becamo quite common. This was tho origin of improved mules in the United States. Though over eighty years . .v, there are now some of tho third and fourth generation of the Knight of Malu and Royal Gift to be found in Virginia, and Ibo great benefits arising from their introduction to the country are ?cen upon every cultivated acre in the 8outhcrn States. - ''There Are No Birds in Lnst Year's Nests" is the title of a Kong. Probably not. If it were equally sure that theie aro no rata in lost year's rat holes the public mind would bo more at rest. THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. ! Judge Black A nert? tbe Inherent Mights of the People. The New York Chamber of Commerce recently sent out to leading bn-iinesa and professional met? through the country \ series of questions relating to the general subject of the freight rates and discriini- ? nuting larilis of railroad companies. . The object was to collect opinions in re- i gard to a matter of pressing importance to the trade and commerce of the cuun try. Among other answer*, received is a long one from thc Hon. Jere S. Black, who deals ill his.well known clear ami incisive way with the general subject of i tho relation of tho great transportation j of corporations tn the Federal and State Governments. Mr. Black's views are ! bold, not to s..y radical, but he puts them in a stylo which forces mention. The legally vested rights of railway coi nitra tions, he says, like other rights ot prop erty, are sacred, and no violation of them comes with i II the scope of honest inquiry. But, rays Judge Bluck, "on this question railroad men misunderstand their nuta tion." He holds that railroads aro not holders of property, but of franchises, und adds : "They believe, or pretend to believe, that railways are tho property of tho companies authorized to run them, which is a cardinal error, and tho parent of much false argument. A public high way cai not be private property, und a railroad laid out and built by the author ity of the State for the purposes of com merce is ns much a public highway as a turnpike road, canal or navigable river. It is tho duty of tho State to promote in tercourse and trade by making highways nf the best sort through ber territory. To this end she may take laud and mate rials, which is an exercise of the power of eminent domain. She can build a railway at her own expense, using the direct agency of ber own officers, and after it is built she can mane it free to all comers or reimburse the cost by special tax on individuals who have occusion to use it. She can delegate the taking and the taxing powers to a corpo ration or a natural person ; and that is what she always does when alie grants a railroad charter. But in either or any case the road belongs to the State, and all the people havo the right to uso it upon compliance with the necessary reg ulations mid payment of the proper tux. "The corporations who have got into tho habit of calling themselves the owners of tho railroads huve no proprie tary right, title or claim to the roads themselves, but n mere franchise annexed to and exercisable thereon. They are the agents of tho State for the perform ance of a public duty. If the franchise be forfeited or surrendered, 01 if it ex pire by efflux of time, the State takea possession of tue road and runs it hersei I or employs a new agent. The company cannot keep the road any more than an outgoing collector of a port can appro priate to himself tho Custom House where he did his official work. The Suite having need for a public highway at n particular place, makes n contrae! with n corporation to open and put it ir condition to be used, and by way of rc imbursing the builders and operators sh< authorizes a tux upon those who travel or carry merchandise over it. But thh tax must be reasonable, just, uniform prescribed and fixed, so that every citizei may know beforehand exactly how mud he must pay, and so that when he pay: or tenders tho proper amount he wii acquire an absolute and perfect right 'tc tlie use of the road.' The amount of tin tax, toll or freight in any case is not i subject, of bargain between tho shippc ami the corporation, but n thing tu bi settled, fixed and prescribed by publi authority. If tbe company may charg what it pleases then the road is not public highway ; the public has no right in it at all, and thc charter which au thorizes the taking of land to build it i unconstitutional and void. "These principles," Judge Black sayi "Hie discussed fully and carefully lah down iii numerous decisions of the court: Being public properly, it is absurd tosa that the (state hos nu right to regulut them and control them iii the perforir ance of their functions by such laws i will prevent partiality, pluuder nnd e; tortion. No free State can disarm iL?e of this power by any act of its exccutivi legislative or judicial officers. The Could as lawfully sell tho State out au out. The franchises of railroads nt property, but their limits must bc regt lated by law and these limits must noll exceeded. A charter doing so ia vol Legislation to bring fares and tolls withi reasonable rates hus been decided by tl Supreme Court to be constitu? ional. Tl real, not the apparent, cont of n, roi must be tho measure of the rcasonabl ness of rates. STATUS OF LAND ?RANT ROADS. "Most of our Western roads werebui with the proceeds of public lands granti mediately or immediately by tho Unit States to the several companies whit now have them in charge. They didn really cost thestockholders anything,ai in some casca they got lunas worth great deal more than all expenses making, stocking and running the roai The Inn r? irv?pubCt?TCC?? OiH?un ?i Sau Francisco raised in cash out of gc eminent bunds, lands and mortgages their franchises four or five time much as they necessarily expended up ibo roads. Tho stockholder.--, withe paying anything, put the enormous RI ??l M j; ir.io th?!r "Ti.-.- -. thus built at the public expense, and some eases paid for by the public f times over, are now claimed as the j vate property nf tho companies, nn? l right of the public to use them as hie ways is utterly denied ; nevertheU-.-: think the claim of these companies tnko reasonable tolls stands upon i samo foundation ns that of compati whose roads were built by the ste holders themselves at their own pro expense. The grant of the Innds vested the grantees with a title wli could tiot bc revoked if the condition! it were performed. "If railroad companies have tho limited po?~-r they claim, all inc trie? are at t li et r m e rey," says J u dge Bli "No such power belongs to thom leg? yet in many cases they have usurpei and ubused it. DISCRIMINATION IN RATER. "They badly express their detona tieri t./Ch?7g? ni mUCti n? i hi: iin?uu bear ; that is to say, they will Uko from profits of every many's business as muc can he taken without compelling hin quit it. In tho aggregate this atnoun the most enormous,oppressive and un tax that ever was laid upon tho indu of any people under the sun. The regularity with which this Ux is makes it still harder to bear. Met into a business which may thrive present rates, nnd will find themst crushed by burdens unexpectedly tbi upon them after they gea started." Judge Black goes at large into tho jeet of discrimination, selecting ruin: the most striking caaes lo illu?trate argument. He says tho railroads go every sort of business in their impel way, and they must be regulated so they will be compelled to do the d they owe to the public faithfully ?ind without discriiuiiiHliou or extortion. The States huvc thc power to do tin?, but Congress munt regulate inter state com merce, bud to do so must have super vision of rates and tolls. Judge Black concludes : THE POWE H Of COHPOItATION*. "Doubtless you arc right in the belief that publie opinion will bo in favor of your movement. Reflecting men cannot deny its justice. Bil the influenco of' these grci.'. cor|M>rfttions can hardly be ? calculated. They have methods of do- I lenee and offence which make them almost invincible. You have referred to portions of their history which proved ' this, Some of the State governments are literally ruhjugated by them now. It ' will require a strong organization and j much luhor to reduce them. Undisci- i plined militia in the opea field make a poor fight against regulars intrenched. What .we cornstalks against cannonf j Such is truth against money. You ?od: what I think of regulating these ti fla i rs '. hy the agency of commissioners. In 1 England? I believe that plan has been i a complete success ; in California I un derstand it is a dead failure." Cruelty lo Convicts. A report from Dr. D. L. Pope, who, in i company with Messrs. Shields and Seo- ? gers of the Penitentiary Board, has re- ; (ditly made an inspection of the candi- j timi of tl?e convicts cngnged on the ! Edgefield and Trenton Railroad, lins been submitted to the House by the Su- I p??rinlendeiit of the Penitentiary, and ' contains some facts, of interest. Tho Ai!luv. in;; is an extract: "Al Trenton we were met by Messrs. ' Jones, Clark and Norris, mcmb. rs of the j Board of Directors of ?!*e Edgefield and . Trenton Railroad, and made the inspec- j lion in company with these gentlemen. There were sixteen convicts "under tho ' control of the Directors of this railroad. Ono of them was employed as a cook, and seemed to he in good health. Three were sick in hospital, one had c scntcry, the other two had scurvy and were suf fering from the effects of a very severo whipping. Twelve convicts were at work 1 on the road, five of whom bore the marka 1 on their hacks, abdomen, sides and else- | where of what appeared to me unusually ! Hevere whippings. All of theso men ? have H? I of the symptoms of scurvy, and with but two exceptions were not su iii - , ciently strong to do thc work they were I employed at. Four of these men guvu | evidence of a considerable progress of the disea-e by functional derangement of, the heart, diarrhoea and the failure of the tight. In the case of five of these men I the disease was in its incipiency, but I still there waa considerable foss of: strength even with these. These men j are forced to walk about three miles to j their work and the same distance back ' to the stockade in the evening. !aeh man has about 405 cubic feet of breath- j ing space. If more attention is paid to j thc cleanliness nf thc convicts and their surroundings this may prove sufficient, | M the house is well ventilated by means ! uf four windows ?nd a chimney, and has no ceiling. Sufficient attention has not j been paid to the diet of the prisoners ? under medical trottinent. The arrange ments for sleeping aro very meagre, sim ply consisting of two blankets to each man, and a plant floor without straw. These men ure in no condition to with- ! stand cold or diseased impressions of any kind. They have commenced tn fail already, and unless something is done at once to better their condition many will Jie." Opium Drunkards. The public were shocked nothing MUCO ' by tho account of tho death of a lady, the daughter of one of the most eminent professional men in this country, from an overdose of morphine. The wretched story was published all over tho country. This woman was young and bfeaulilul. She hud high culture, and was hy nature gentle, loving and lovable. A lew years ugo ?ho began to take opium for some disease, and soon became its victim. AU her struggles against it were vain. At lu age when she should have been in tho full vigor of her womanhood, H happy and retired wife and mother, K IO died ulnae, and her downfall ar. J disgrace were blazoned in every city of the Un ion. Opium drunkenness is said to bo on the increase in this country, and il pre vail? largely among women. Very few ma trons or young girls, when sulfuring from weakness or uervonsdisorders, would re sort to brandy or whisky. But a dose of laudanum, or some other anodyne, they regard as harmless. Physicians, too, heedlessly prescribe something which they vaguely call "drop?" to an overworked mother, or girl exhausted by ince-saut dancing and ltirting, when tho proper remedies would bo a few week's rest from labor and care, and a more wholesome, rational life. American women are, as a rule, ener getic. Thc bn-y housekeeper and tho eager belle find resort to a seemingly in nocent little black bottle, when they nro "run down," much easier than tho giv ing up of work, or i"no sacrifice of bails and germans. Before they aro conscious of their danger they are victims tc '.no most hoptdens and terrible of appetites they aro opium drunkards. It is probable that no one who bas ever become addicted to this habit has been .Ll... ._-.-? ? ?-?.*-? ? . - Mu.v ^.MMIUCI .v. L'\ V^IIIILJ tumo n irm. that for druniatic horror and pathos has not its like in literature, to prove that it was possible to rise "out of thc deep ;" but he sank again helpless and hope less. The be.it monograph on the opium habit written in America, was the work nf a brilliant man of letters who believed himself cured, yet died its victim. Most of our readers can recall at least one opi um drunkard whom they have known. Tho livid, corpse-liko skin, tho glassy eye, the vaguo air of terror, are unmis takable. They are signs that tho night mare, life-in-death, has seized its prey, and is dnigging it nurdy down tn the grave.- Youth's Cumjuinion. - Austin, Texas, is to havo a capital, costmjr $1,500,000. - One-half of tho world dosun't know ho?? the other half lies. - Men are often like tea-the real strength and goodness are not properly 1 drawn out until they have been iii hot water. - When a man and a woman are made one, the question "which oueT*' is a bothersome ono until it is settled, ns it soon is. - The Vermont housewife who read that English nobles havo lots of bares in their preserves, says she tried it to tho extent of putting a whole chignon into some blackberry jam, and thc jam didn't seem n bit better for it. - Tue late "Blue Jeans" Williams be lieved emphatically in economy. When applied to once to aid some charitable cause, he said to the ladies who asked it : "If you would dispose of your jewelry and fine clothe? and givo the proceeds to this object, and drei? at plainly as ray wife, you would not need to solicit aid. A WONDERFUL CAREER. The Story o? How John II. Inman Mmla hit Fortune. ATLANTA, November 20. A abort (?me ago I printed an article on "Self-made mon." Thia banty sketch took the rounds of lite press, and I am led to believe did some good. It cer tainly kindlrd fresh hopes in some young hearts iii at nero despairing, set aright some designs tbat were going away, anchored eouio lives that were drifting, and lilted the eyes of some young follows that were groping about blindly. The article was effective, because il taught by example and not by percept. I have become ncquuintci' with thc history of a mau and a family that is a tit supplement of that sketch. How I gut the facts that I detail need not be known-it is enough to say that I am sure of their correctness. I will not stop to consider with what relish those interested will seo their affuirs put in print-I merely know that it is au in structive and interesting history, and I set it out ni .* pattern life. In 18155 a young Tenncsseeun, after an honorable and arduous uervice of over four years, in which ho was always at tho front, brave und uncomplaining, with his parole in his pocket, came out of >,.c Confederate ranks, and returned to lan dridge, with less than $100 in money, and no properly. - In 1870 bc iiinrried a charming and intelligent Tennessee girl, and then rcckoued his wealth at about $75,000. Last year his net income for thc year was $100.000 and bis fortune is now about $1,500,000. Ho is iust 30 years of age, in perfect health and is just entering tho prime of life. And now to the details. Tlie other night I was introduced to Mr. John II. Inman-a youngish-look ing man, with a ruddy complexion, high, brond and unruffled forehead, finely cut features, a mouth in which decision and kindness were singularly mixed, aud a head very much like that of our Sam In man. The first glance betrayed the per fectly well-bred man, quiet attentive and winning-but the suggestion that held mo was tine of great reserve power the hint that beneath thnt untroubled and decorous face there was a forceful and earnest brain that had done notable things, which led me to push an investi gation so to speak, when shortly after wards I fell in with one who knew tho points in Mr. Inmnn's iifo. The Iiimuns are of English stock, though American born for two genera tions. S. W. luman, W. H. luman and Wa IL-er P. luman were three brothers born in Alabama. They started life in humble circumstances, but soon manag ed to get a competence. Tho brothers were very much devoted to each other, and cast their fortunes together. They established a mercantile business in Du nd ridge, Tennessee, to which banking was nhortly added, und out of which comfortable fortunes were made. Mr. S. W. Inman married a Miss Martin, a lady ofunusu.-.i strength of character and ex cellence, and of this union came Samuel M., John H. and Hugh T. Inman. Of Miene Sumnel M. and Hugh T. are well known here os the heads of two of tho moat prominent Soulhern firms. The war bad broken the fortunes of their father and the three young men were left literally without anything. Gen. Alfred Austell, of this city, and Mr. W.H. luman, one nf the origiunl brothers, had opened in N*>w York a cotton commis sion business. Young John Inman rea soning that lo "make money one must go where money in," aud being anxious tor an opportunity to "beard the Hun in his den," applied for a ckrkship in the firm of Ai- adi & Inman. His offer wns ac cepted and he went oui into the world to make his fortune. He was then 20 yours old, just out of the Con feutra to army, au East Tennessee boy, with n fair oduea lion and with less than $100 as hi* en tire possession. The firm then had a working capital of $30,000, was doing n sinai; business, and struggling hard against Northern competition. The ?oung clerk put his whole soul into tho usiness, mid making it his studv day and night soon mastered all its details, and built up a most extensive Southern connection running through every cotton State. He bad not been in New York quite two years when his capacity for business nud hie sagacity and dovotion became so marked and notable that he was offered an interest in one of the old and rich wholesale dry goods IIOUBCS of the city. He felt, however, a deep sense of gratitodo to Gen. Austell and Mr. W. H. lumati who bud given him tho chance to mtko a stnrt, mid declined an offer that would take him away from them. They properly appreciated his worth, however, mid tendered aim a third in terest in their business, which he accept ed. The firm then becume Austell, In man St Co., aud the working capitil was increased to $100,000. Although then under 24 years of ago, ho gave en tire direction to the business, and it begun j to grow with great rapidity. In 1869, General Austell, owing to tho increase in his private business, sold his iuterest, and tho firm nf Inman, Swann & Co. was established consisting cf John H. Inman. W. H. Inman, and James Swann -the latter being also a young Tonne ucean. By this time thc business was ?inmenso, nud the firm soon went into thc very first rauk in New York. In 1870 young Inman, then 25 years of ago, finding that he bad left bis heart in the mountains of East Tennessee, left New lor:; tor a vacation and iciuiiicd no Miss Coffin, a beautiful and lovely girl, ns his bride. Coming of an old and steadfast family, her anccstor-i having landed at Plymouth Rock, she has been a worthy partner of his success. When Mr. Inman married he was worth about $75,000-every dollar of which he bad coiued out of his own brains and energy-a pre'.ty good accumulation for the country youngster tbat had left his Tennessee home penniless five years before. From this time forward he has grown rich rapidly. In the ten years between then and now he has laid aside very much over $1,000,000-averaging over $i??,0?? a year, in that time he has ?pent and given away over a quarter of a million dollars. Last year his nee income was $190,000 and for the next year it promises to go heavily over$200,000 As he is just thirty-six years of age, it can be readily seen that when he pat-ee-i fifty ho will be one of tho richest men in the country. The business of the firm of Inman, Swann St Co., aggregated over $10,000,000 last year, and grows heavily and continually. Last year it handled nu enormous quantity of colton,cud the profits ol business in all its departments ran from $350,000 to $400,000. The working capacity is $1,000,000 cash, and the members of the firm are worth near ly $3.000,000. It stand* among the first cotton firms in the world. I doubt if there is a firm anywhere that does so large a cotton commission business. Mr. j loman who bas been for the past twelve years the managing head of the firm, h perhaps the leading authority in cotton circles in New York, and on 'Changj Iiis word is standard-a smait march from the ragged rebel boy that came to a ruiucd Tennessee home, at the close of , the war. Outside of the enormous business ol Inman, Swann A Co., Mr. Inman has a number of private enterprises. Amono, others be is engaged in the guano ana fertilizer trade, tho manufacture of which is now ? great standard industry, some ider. of tb magnitude of which may be patLeit?c' irom tim fact that he had $525' OOO oi his individual cash capita! invest ed in it last season. From ono factory ho took 10,000 tons-from another 5,000, and so on through. Tho business being so satisfactory, he will the coming seas:,,! have $000,000 in the same trade, controlling over 25,000 tons, chiefly on conimission. With all thisho has every thing so systematized and movcB with such pr tmp'nehs and decision that bc spends .rom four to six months of eacli I year with his family nt the seaside oi som? resort. It is a cardinal pnrt of hit creed never to speculate or to take any speculative risk. In tho pupers of hi; firm lhere are the strongest nrticlei agr.i nst speculation eitlier as a furn, oi b either of tho members as individu?is The profift, therefore, though immense are perfectly legitimate, and come cor tain and steadily. Mr. Inman lives easily and comfortably, and having culture ant taste (iuds .hat his wealth, instead o palling, only opens ever-fresh vistas o enjoy ment. He devotes a large sum an anally to charity and philanthropy. Th< handsome donation of his firm to th; Hood children, tho largest made by anj single firm, will bu remembered. In ; quiet way hu has done much more-a? lor instance, he has giver, over $2,004 individually to the r-irst Presbyterial Church of this city. In short, ho pre sents thc interesting spectablc of ti mat of fine instincts, excellent health and felicitous relations, who has made a for tune while he isyoungj enough to enjoj it to tho fullest- -and lins so orderet his habits that lie hos not dulled li ii impulses, chilled tho genial currents ol his iniil or hardened Iiis heart in tin struggle w<th tho world. For tho ucx ten years his income should averagi $250,000 a year, and from that time for ward will b.? fnllv half a million a year if he remains in business. What a fifi of usefulness and happiness is ahead o this man. With a happy Christiai home, a loving wife, affectionate children a heart still fresh and a nature yet un warped-willi a clear head, and a cur rent of strong old Presbyterian blom coursing through his Te?na-truly hi lives aro cast in pleasant places. What an exemplar is hero for ou young men. What a brilliant promis to draw them away from tho arid wuys t; politics and the hardly less arid ways ti professional life. Just look at the chap tera in this one man's history. At .tren ty out of thc dust and heat of batik penniless mid alono; ut twenty-liv worth $75,000, happily married, and a the head of n prosperous house ; a thirty-six worth a million and a half, ii good health and heart, and with a nc income of over $200,000 a year ! Follot thc probabilities. At forty-six wort j five million dollars and possessed of n income of over half a million a year, am just in tho prime of a well ordered lift How this example should druw its fo! lowers I How completely it should tcac that in the wrangling of public lifo an the pretentious ways of the professior there is not all the honor or UBefiilnes Ah I but is it impossible to attain sue di?zy heights ss this? To be sure, thei will be few who can hope for such Buccei ut nothing is Mirer than that a young mn who starts with clean habits, a dei head, a faithful soul, and works earnest and devotedly can get far enough alor tn come into the sunshine, while yet ll flowers on the wayside are wet with de and the air of the morning embalms tl carib. As for me, I should be charged wil irreverence if I wrote down how mar politicians, in uy opinion, this oi ouog merchant is worth. Tho me computation gives me snmo hint of tl severe contempt with which solid men ' business look out from their world upi the babbling orators who declare th paralysis or prosperity waits alt?rnate upon the victory or defeat of a faction sala ry .mongers. I should Uko to stril a balance between tho lives of Jo] Inman, merchant, and sonic one of o eminent latter day statesmen, when bo aro dcud, and see which had done t most and the better work. Then i should sec bow much speeches count against deeds-prophecy against perft manee-boasting against fulfilment. ' drop into metaphor, we moy say that t farmer and mechanic create the bio which enriches the body corporate-t merchant, stationed in tho heart suppl the vital force that sends it courai through the veins-the professional m icm per:, the flow, gauges its current n defines limitations-while tho polittcia camped along its channels, fatten on exhalations and put tho whole hotly in fever by swearing that tho veinous superior to the arterial blood, or v versa-not hesitating to spill cither disprove the excellence of the other. H. W. G FitoM THE TALMUD.-"Who is stroi He who subdues his nnssion. WI. ; rich ? He who is satisfied with his h "Ile who ??Ci ifieia n winne oiTeriug sh be awarded for a whole offering; bc v oilers a burnt-oflering shall have tho ward of a burnt-offering ; but ho v offers humility to God and man shall rewarded with a reward as if bo hud fered all tho saciifice in tho wort "T?icic mo four characters in schon Quick to hear and quick to furget, gain is canceled by hi? los? ; slow to h and slow to forget, his loss is cauce by his gain ; quick to hear and slow forget is wise ; slow to hear and quic! forget, this is an evil lot." "There four characters in those who sit un tho wise : a sponge, a funnel, a strai and a bolt sieve. A sponge which st up all ; a funnel, which lets in here lets out there; a strainer, which lets the wine and keeps backs the dreg bolt sieve, which lets out the pollard keeps buck tho flour." "He who moro learning than good works is lilt tree with many branches but few rn which the first wind throws on its fi while be whose works are greater I bis knowledge is like a tree with ni root* and fewer branches, but which the winds of Heaven cannot upro "If thy wile is small, bend down whisper in her ear. Ho who fore the love of his youth, (Sod's altar w for him. He who Bees his wife clio before him, hos, as it were, been prc al the destruction of tho sanctuary i -h rou nd him tho world grows df "He who marries for money, his chi; shall be a curse to bim." - The editor of tha Cincinnati merdai, who has farming ideas, tho that to have buttermilk bo must t goa*. - A Western writer thinks that i proper way to spell tho is '"though, is "eight,*' and boa is "beaux,'1 proper way to spell potatoes is pc tcighteaux. - "You wouldn't Uko a man's cent for a cigar, would you ?" "Cei ly I would," remarked tho propr "Well, here it is, then," passing o cent, "give ure the cigar." Tho Scourgo of thc Carolinas, I? 1775, when in his twenty-second year, Tarleton wns gazetted as cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards. In 1776 he obtained permission from tho Colonel of his regime.it to volunteer for service in North America, where "tho insolent re bellion of Great Britain's ungrateful children," as it WOH regarded In this country, had just burst Into al?ame. His first act, ofter lauding in New York, was to surprise and capture General Charles Le?, who, being nu englishman by birth hi? i, upon the outbreak of the American rebellion, resigned his British commis sion and joined tho cause of tho insurgent colonies. Gen. Leo was looked upon with singular antipathy by thc officers of the army which he hud deserted, and in 17711 and 17S0 Tarleton'M health was the mehi popular toast thnt it wu* possible to propose at a mess dinner in England, or nt any of the public meeting? held lo cel ebrate what was then regarded in this country ns the approaching collapse of thc rebellion. A century has passed hince those days, and it is necessary nt present tor an En glishman to vis:- thc Stntesof North and South Carolina in order to appreciate the terror s:ill awakened in those regionB by the name of Col. Tarleton. Fiction has added to the daring, unscrupulous deeds in which he was the principnl ac tor, and we arc acquainted with no vol ume which is moro pregnant with ma terials for a military romance thou ono from the pen of Rev. Dr. druthers, en titled, "Interesting Revolutionary Inri dentH and Sketches of Character, chiefly in the Old North Stute," which ia the local mime for North Carolina. In this and in other works of u Uko kind, Col. Tarleton stands before us as ho appeared to the dwellers cn the frontiers of North und Houth Carolina, through which he curried Rte and sword. "Tarleton," says a contemporary writer, "possesRed a form that wns a perfect model of mnnly strength and vigor. He stood rather above tho middle height, and lind a faco almost femininely beautiful. Without a particle of surplus flesh, his rounded limbs and full broad chest seemed moulded from iron, yet nt the same time, displayed all the elasticity which usually accompanies elegance of proportion." We were admitted by the samo writer Ui the spectacle of a combat between Tarle ton and ii violent horse, which no ono eho dared to mount. The untamable brute was u coal black stallion, magnifi cent in shape and appearance, and with un eye thnt seemed to defy control. He was led hy two grooms to the front of Turleton's tent, and atabound the Colonel threw himself into tho sadie without touching the stirrup. For nn instant the animal seemed paralyzed with terror ; then, with ti perfect yell of rogo, he bounded into the nir like n stricken deer. The undaunted rider plied tho scourge and rowel without mercy, until, with u screnm of pain, the tortured and vanquished animal flew liko an arrow ncross the level ground in front of tho encampment. "I have witnessed many stirring scenes," says the writer, I "during tho Revolution nnd since, but I never ono half so exciting as tho strife I between that savage mun and savage horse." The war in tho Carolina! was a conflict beween guerrillas rath' er than between armies, and " in il Tarleton distinguished himself by raid; which ho executed under cover of "night The country, sparsely settled, was full o "lories," as they wero then called, or loy allst who sympathized with the English and of "rebe's," like Marion and Sumter who were a mutch for their enemies in tin field. Buch were tho distances ovei which Tarleton nnd his little band o picked horsemen traveled by night, thai no rebel ever lay down to reit withou dreading, lest he might her r the tramp o horses nnd oaths of dragoons beforo morn ing broke. A charactcristsc story of th Colonel's prowess in still told. In th upper country of North Carolina, thor once lived a rebel nnmod Kcitt, who aidei by a few congenial spirits, had worstei every party of English soldiers that np prout lied his lonely dwelling in the woodi Faking haifa dozen well-mounted troop ers willi him, Tarleton resolved to su rprifo the desperado, and after a ride c more than 100 miles he stood beforo th door of a log cabin just after midnight Keilt was at home amillone, and, in rei ponso to a loud command bidding hie "surrender in tho king's name," ho dil charged his rifle through a loophole, son ly wounding Tarleton ? homo and nnrrov ly missing the rider's thigh. Beforo lt rebel could reload, Tarleton had apron through op open window and grapple with Iiis assailant. Tho struggle wt short, and Kcitt, whom Tarleton respec ed for bis bravery, escaped tho fate usual! meted out to rebels-u short, shrift and long halter-and was carried back a pri oner to thc English camp. Stories of such desperate acts of pe snnal dnring ns this preceded Colon Tarleton to England, and upon the clo of thc American war nono of the office who hud worn the King's uniform wi moro popular among his countrymen ' home than tho son of thc Liverpool mc chant. He was admitted upon terr of thc closest intimacy to the little cntei .riL. _~c MT -1 - . i r_t-1 - -J - vj, btiu x ??.ii.v "? ?* ?sica ?itooup, cuu iv sent to Parliament by his native town its member. In the House of Comino he distinguished himself among tho ran of the opposition, which never ceased wage an active and unscrupulous w against the King nnd Mr. Pitt.-Loud I AWjtSplt._ Mit. GARFIELD AND THE SOUTH. Conjecture and spcuclation are rife as tho probable character of Mr. Garfiel policy toward the South after ho sh have assumed the Executive helm, is an essentially profitless question tod cuss as long as tho Mentor compact mains shrouded in secrecy. So far as Mr. Garfield is persona concerned, we hnvo no doubt thnt if 1 to his own instincts, be would seek treat thc Southern States with impartial and go down to history as a man broad, patriotic views, "who had tal up the policy of amity and frat inly where Abraham Lincoln's mented hand left it. Doing this, would do much to redeem the ern equivocations and lapses from rectiti that tarnish his past record. Rut Mr. Garfield has always hm weak joint in his spinal column, i there is no reason to believe that election has stiffened it so as to im him -villi pluck enough to resist the y of tho Stalwart faction. These stand o milted ton forcible reconstruction of South. They say that they will sn that section into giving Republican joritics. If it yields, well and good party will have so many additional v for tbe next election. If it does not bugaboo of a solid South must be ?j revived tu save tho Republican part; 1884. This is the programme laid d' by Conkllng, by Grant, by Logan BoulwoH A tr. .uendons pressure will be brm to bear on Garfield to shape his Soutl policy, not for the good of the Se not for the good of the North, but sir and sorely tor the interests of bis pi Is bo strong enough to resist tho ] suret We think not.-ytv) York i - A man who opona oysters doe? thing? hy halves. - There's lots of cold comfort in is hundred pounds of ice. - The acreage of wheat in the United State? sggiegate 30,000,000. j - Every person in America writes an average ol twenty letters per year. - Cruel husband calls nfs wife "green fruit," because eho never agrees with bim. - Russia has abolished the duty on salt, which will greatly benefit the poorer classes. - Tho firstcaso in which an Indian ap peared in court was recently tried io Omaha, Nebraska. - A leading New Orleans authority estimates the cotton crop for tho current "ear at 5,700,000 bales. - Tba assessed value of trxablo prop erty in Georgia has increased $14,000,000 during the past year. - "One touch of you, mn, makes tho whole world spin," aa tho boy said when his mother boxed his cars. - They say Chicago girls never find it hard to elope. They make rope lad ders of their shoe-strings. - Thero aro soma men so talkative that nothing hut the toothache can make one of them hold hi? jaw. - We hear great complaints at Wash ington D. C., that the mails from tho South do not arrivo promptly. - Tho Georgia Legislature adjourned last Saturday. "Bill Arp" says tho whole concern had tho mumps. - The Commissioners of Immigration of Florida thinks 18,000 people have im migrated to that State within two years. - There is a movement on font by prominent members of the Tennessee Leg islature to cut down the uumber of elec tions. - "Darling husband," sbo said, "nm I not your treasure?" "Certainly," bo replied, "and I should like to lay you up in Heaven." - President Hayes in his raessago to Congress recommends that Gen. Grant be made Captain-General of the Army, with suitable pay. ' . - During the postal year recently end ed 3,853,651 letters and packages, went lo the Dead Letter office. Nine thouand liad no address. In money letters were found $1,600,000. - The Sandwich Inlands is ?b?b?m.er nation of tho world in education. Every ..nilli is obliged to learn reading- and writing, and tbero are absolutely no illiterates in a population of 58,000. - James Christopher, of Forest City Ark., recently went to the house of a col ored woman, and, in attempting tn force Iii? way in, was killed by her. She was 1 ir charged on tho grounds of self-defense. - Thero are deficits in the budgets of l?verai departments of the City Hall of Mew Orleans. Tho appropriation for pay if the police is $40,000 short, and the improvements Department is short $32, 100. - Inquiry at Republican headquarters icvelones the fact that as far ns heard from there will be five contested seats Trout South Carolina, one from Georgia, mo from Alabama and two from Missis lippi. - "Shall we Bell or abandon our girls?" editorially ask? the editor of the Hawk ri/e. Do neither. Give 'em away. When a girl is given away, if she is not "sold," the young man is-in a majori ty of cases.-Norristown Herald. - Thero is a movement in India to Abolish the seclusion of Hindoo women md have thom brought into society in the European fashion, but it is opposed by tho nativo papers on the ground that tho young Hindoos are not moral enough to tssociute with unmarried women of their iwn race. - Wash i n ton Star says: "It is stated, and upon good authority too, that Gen. barfield has been assured personally and by letter by several Senators that they intend heartily to support his administra tion in hop3 that sectionalism, which is io futal to the South, may be forever re moved from politics." - Tho returns of tho census in Georgia iiave been completed in tho census office, with the exception of ten counties. It is ;stimated that tho total results will show that Georgia has a population of from 1, 530,000 lo 1,540,000. Tho population of Richmond County is 34,569; that of Durke is 27,127; Columbia, 10,465; Mc Duffie, 9.4-19, and Jefferson, 15,069. The returns from Fulton and Chatham have not yet been footed up, but it is not improbable that Richmond will bo mown to have n larger population than Chatham. - Sarah Bernhardt is represented aa so elevated over success in this country that she has agreed so lengthen her engage ment with Abbey, and may even go to California. Her New York engagement ?lo-cd Saturday, and she begins at Boston this week. It seems certain now that Abbey is going to moko a lot of money aut of her ; just bow much is what is now bothering the correspondents, and they are already figuring it all the way from 550,000 to $100,000. - Secretary Sherman's annual report is an able document, presenting the con l??iiuu Ol Clio tic???ijr iii ? Cic?r atm graphic manner. The surplus of revuuo is large an increases yearly above ail possible demands for government pur poses and fur tho sinking fund, and tho secretary says it is for Congress to deter mine whether it will reduce or modify taxation so as io diminish Tho revenue collected, or appiy the suniusea as they accumulate to a father reduction of tho public debt. If taxes are to be reduced he suggests that it should bein the shape of a repeal of all internal revenue imposts other than those on bank circulation, spirits, tobacco and fermented liquors ? In providing for refunding that part of tho public debt which falls due on or be fore July 1,1881 and which amounts in all, to $687.350,600, the secretary recom mends the issue of treasury notes to tho extent of $400,000,000. These notes are to bear interest nt rho rate of 4 per cent., to be in denominations of not lesa than $10. to run from one to ten years, te be Bold for less than par, and the proceeds applied to the payment of tho ? and 6 per cent, bonds of 1881. He thinks that such note, could now be floated at 8 per ccut., but might not be the case with a lesa favorable market. He also recommends that authority bo given him to issue $400, 000,000 fifteon-year bonds, bearing inter est at the rate of 3.65 per cent. With these bonds and the coin reserve in the treasury maintained intact, the secreta ry bas no fear of sustaining resumption in any contingency. He earnerstly urges upon Congress, however, the policy of suspending the compulsory coin-figo of standard silver dollars, or else of increas ing tho weight of these coins so aa to make them equal value with the gola dollar. Ho recommend?, as a means to procure a chango of the British orders In council in regard to the importation of American callie, that a commission bo created to investigate the subject of pleu ro-pneumonia among our cattle and take measures for the suppression of the disease. If such a commission waa crea ted and proper authority given to it, the British orders, so restrictivo o? trade, ml! doubt*.eta bo rescinded1..