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1 . ? III! VOL. XI. TARIFF MESSAGE OF PRESIDED MCKINLEY. PLAIN, DIlllTCr AM) l'OINTKI). Congress is Askoil to Increase the. TariIT Immediately?Thn Condition of (ho Kcvemto Pctnuiuls Prompt Act ion. The following messugo from I'resldont MclCiuley was sunt to CougrosB upon its opening : To tho Congress of tho United States : Kogretting tlie necessity which lias required me to call you together, I feel that your a->om I) ing in extraordinary session is indispensable because of the condition in which wo find tho revenues of the government. It is conceded that its current expenditures are greater than it-? receipts and that such a condition lias existed for now more than three years. With unlimited means at our command, we are presenting the remarkable spectacle of increasing our public debt by bort owing money to meet the ordinary outlays incident upon even an economical and prudent administration of the government. An examination of the subject (iiseloses this fact in every detail and leads inevitably to tho conclusion that tho condition of tlie revenue which allows it is uujustiiiable and should bo corrected. Wc find by the reports of the Socro itil j ui mi- i n nsury mat tuu l'livunucs for tho tisenl year, ending .Iline .'JO, 18512,from all sources wore $425,808,260.22,anil the expenditures for ail purposes 1 were $ 1 15,5154,806 56, leaving an excess J of roceipts over expenditures of $5),5)14,454.66. During that fiscal year $10,570, 467.518 were paid upon the public debt, . which hud been reduced since March 1, 18851, $2551,076,85)0, and tho annual ] interest charge decreased $11,084,570.60. Tho receipts of tho government from all sources, during the fiscal year, | ending June .'10, 185)11, amounted to $4(>l,716,56l, and its expenditures to , $1551,1174,887, showing an excess of re- | ceipts over expenditures of $2,.'141,671. i Since that time tho receipts of no , liseal year, and with but few excep- j lions of no month of any fiscal year, , liavo exceeded the oxpenoitures. The , receipts of the government from all . sources, during the fiscal year, ending , June 80, 185)4, were$1172,soj, pis, and its . expenditures $142,665,758, leaving a , deficit, tho first slnco the o-umption of . specie nayments. of $65),*05,200. Not , withstanding there was a decrease of , $16,7651,128 in the ordinary expenses of j the government as compared with tho , provious fiscal year, its income was , still not sullicient to provide for its { daily necessities, and the gold reserve | in tho treasury for the redemption of , greenbacks was drawn upon to meet , thrm. lint this did not sutlice, and | the government then resorted to loans , to replenish the reserve. In l-'ebru iry, 185)4,$56,000,000 in bonds , were issued, a.ul in November follow- ^ ing a second issue of $50,000,060 was | doomed necessary. Tlio sum of $117,- j 171.7515 was realized by the sale of | these bonds, but the reserve was stead- , ily decreased until, on February 8, , 185)5, a th rd sale of $62,515,400 in bonds ( for $05,110,244 was announced to Con- , gross. fin. - s ? * . e A- \? - - - ' * * iiiu ri!ui. i|)i.8 oi uio government ior 111?i fi-cul year ending June 30, 1895, were, $390,373,203, and the expenditures $433,178,420, showing a deficit of $42,805,22.'). A further loan of $100,000,000 was negotiated by the government in February, ISilO, the sale netting $111,100,240, and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within three years to $202,315,400. For the liseal year ending J line 30, 1800, the revenues of the government from all sources amounted to $409,475,408, while its expenditures were $431,078,054, or an excess of expenditures over receipts of $25,203,245. In other words, the total receipts for the three fiscal years, ending Juno 30. 1890, were insufficient by $137,811,729 to meet the total expenditures. Nor has this condition sinco improved. For the first half of the present fiscal year, the receipts of tho government, exclusive of postal revenues, were $157,507,003, and its expenditures exclusive of postal service $195,410,000, or an excess of expenditures over receipts of $37,902,35)0. In January of this year, tho receipts exclusive of postal revenues were $24,310,994 and the expenditures exclusive of postal service $30,209,389, a deficit of $5,952,395 for tho month, in February of tills year the receipts cxclusivo of postal revenues were $24,400,997 and tho expenditures, exclusive of postal service $28,790,050, a deficit of $4,395,059; or a total deficiency of $180,001,580 for the throe years and eight months ending on March 1, 1897. Not only are we without a surplus in tho treasury, but with an increaso in tho public debt there has been a oorrcsi)ondin'r increase in the annunl inter est oh urge from $22 893,883 in 1892, tho lowest of any year since 18(12, to $31,387,297 in 189(1, or an increase of $11,403,414. It may be urged that even if the rovenucs of the government had been fciifliolent to meet all its ordinary expenses during tho past thrco years, tho gold reserve would still have been inHutlieient to meet the demands upon it, and that bonds would necessarily have been issued for its repletion, lie this as it may, it is clearly manifest, without denying or affirming tho correctness of such a conclusion, that the debt would have boon decreased in at least the amount of tho deficiency, and busi ness confidence immeasurably strengthened throughout tho country. Congress should promptly correct the existing conditions. Ample revenues must be supplied not only for tho ordinary expenses of tho government, but for prompt payment of liberal pensions and tho liquidation of the principal and interest of the public debt, in raising revenues, duties should be so lovieu upon foreign products as 10 pre- i servo the homo murkot, ho fur us po.s- I Bible, to our own producers; to revive f and increase manufactures; to roliovo ' and eneourago agriculture ; to incroaso 1 our domestic and forolgn commerce: < to aid and develop mining1 and build- i ing. and to render to labor in evorv i field of uso'ul occupation tho liberal < wares and adequ ito rewards to which I skill and indust y are justly cntit ed. t The necossity of tho passage of a tarilT c law which shall provide utnpl) revonue, need rot, ho further urged. The imperative demand of the hour Is the proe.pt enactment of such a measure, and to this object 1 earnestly recommend that Congress shall make every endeavor. Ilefore other business is ?....NnAntM.l !..? .. i t 4 !-!- - mi t 4 i i IIIII'WMU! ii -1 lib I1IM | (III V 111 U KIIIUUIUIK revenue to faithfully administer the government without tlio contracting of further debt, or the continued disturhanco of our finances. (Signed) Wm. MoKinlky, i'resident of tiio I'nited States. ? ? lUIJi Alt!* IS AT WOltli. IIIh Wife Keeps Hint Kusy to Help llis Itlieuiuat Ihiii?A Iiocturo nit Woman's llights ami Wrongs. I like to work when I feel like it, but my wife likos for mo to work when sho feels like it, and so between the two I have to work nearly all the time. Yesterday 1 was grunting around with rheumatism, but she took a notion that it was a good day to take the verandah trellis down and clean away all the old dead vines, and thought, it would help mo to get warmyl up by exercise?and it did. Sho kn ws?sho has heard mo try to play off pa grippe and rheumatics before?-you. nn't tool the woman you have been 1! lug with forty-eight years?so 1 got the ladder and climbed up to the top and cut away the tangled web and trimmed the running rosevinos and tho wisteria and Virginia creeper and then tore away the old canes and cleaned up all the trash anil burned t. I4, was a big job for the verandah is lifty feot long iinci I had to move the old rickety ladilor a dozzen times?several times I got sorter 'dizzy and liked to have fallen, but my folks don't believe 1 am is old as I am, and they never will believe it until 1 break my arm, or my leg, or my neck. Then I reckon they will be sorry. A man never grows old to his own family; no man is a hero to his own servant. The servant knows him too well, and just so my wife won't admit that I am too old to be useful, and she iteeps me trotting around. She gives mo precepts and examples, for she is never idle?makes up tlio bed, cleans up her mom, puts out the washing and distributes it when it comes in, mends my dothes, darns my stockings, sews on Lhe missing buttons, hides my best pants to keep mo from working in them and scolds me ever and anon ibout my carelessness. She keeps on making little garments for the grandchildren and still finds time to boss me ii tho (lower garden and go to the Missionary meeting, and writes letters to the hoys. She never reads until ilmost bedtime, but next morning can tell us all the news worth knowing, tnd has her opinions about Cleveland mil MeKinl -y and Lyman Abbott and Dr. Hroughton and female suffrage. 1 cad to her the recent veto in parliament about that and asked her what she thought of it. "Well," said she, ' I don't care to vote, of course 1 don't, >ut if female suffrage will lessen einalo 'sulVoragc.' I iiopo it will pass. It makes my heart bleed to read about ,heso heartless men deceiving and betraying foolish young girls who trusted them?what a pitiful sccno it was? that ruined girl following that man ind bis bride into tho parlor cars in Atlanta, and in her presence upbraid ii J5 mill v> i in ii in J ll i it 1113' i\lJU Jll^l 00k around all over this country tit die young married women who have icon abandoned by their unprincipled lusbands, and now have to work and >oiI and almost beg for a living for themselves and their little ones. If a jury of women could try these deceivers and these faithless husbands they would be sent to the chaingang, where they belong, if a young man embezzles some rich man's money and runs 1 way, the judge and the grand jury tnd the newspapers make an awful fuss ibout it and send telegrams all over the ountry to catch him, but if he ruins a woman and breaks her heart ind makes a wreck of Iter life it is hushed up and nothing is done. I am lot a woman's-rights woman. She has rights enough, but there ought to bo tome way of avenging her wrongs." That is a fact, and my opinion is that her wrongs never will bo avenged intil sho is not only empowered to fote, but also to hold olllco in school ooins and in the government of the towns and villages. Tho ago of galantry and chivalry toward women lias Missed. This is the unfeeling age, and woman has to shift for herself. Thirty fears ago sho worked at seventeen iccupations, and now at 1.10, und gets ihout half price for her labor?half ho price that tho men get who do it 10 better. I am ashamed of my sex, ind I never buy a shirt for 50 cents jut what I remember that a poor wonan made it?made it in some garret ? worked all day and part of the night, " With lingers weary and worn With eyelids heavy and red." And yet these lords of creation pre,end that if woman is allowed to vote die will get down in tho slums and lose icr purity. She is dow 11 in tho slums iow and would get out if sho could. 1 i:iuw women wiiu arc iu wutk lor H588 ,han a dollar a day and luivc tosupport ,homselvos and their little children >ut of It, while their rich employers lit high up in the churches ar.d say linen and amen to the preachers pray?rs. I know women, good women, ac ompllshed women, whom men have mined hy neglect or aoandonment, and ill they can do is suffer and ho silent. know women whose unprincipled lusbands have been breaking their narriage vows over since they made ,hem, and still they pass and repass in ,he community us gentl-Mien. But ,his is the same old story?who cares. Now it is said that although the wonan's suffrage bill has passed the louse of commons by a largo majority, t will he ignonimously killed In the louse of lords ? why i should liko to enow ? The lords are not a somite whose ago and dignity might correct lasty or unwiso legislation, but they ire a pamperod purse-proud nobility. I'ho most of thorn aro and many of them lave as many wives as Brigham Young iver did. nut the time Is near at land when women will ho enfranchls;d In m ire ways than one. The laws >f marriage and divorce aro better in England now than ours. Thoy are joverned by the church?by the ecclesiastical courts. It takes no littlo Sat OONWAY ! timo to yet marrlod. The matter is i considered and discussed openly and freely before un engagement is made, it must be a union that is lltto bo made and the bans must bo published and announced from tlie pulpit for so many , -.1 ' i Mimiiinn j;r?;vuius to HIO CCPOIllOliy. , Consequently thoro arc no elopements i ?no runaways, ami of course not so many divorcee. Inconsiderate young people used to runaway to Gretna Green, in Scotland, at.d bo married by an old Scotch blacksmith, but thoso marriages were declared illegal about forty years ago, and uow it is a crime to be married anywhoro savo in the church after the bans havo been published. Great solemnity is attached to the ceremony. Hut hero anybody can run away with anybody's daughter and bo married by anybody in any sort of fashion and get loose whenever they take a notion. The whole business of marriage and divorco should bo romodellod by Cong -ess and mado uniform in all the States. It mitkos me sick to read those divorco advertisements (>f lawyers in Chicago: " Divorces obtained without attracting attention." Hut the devil is now unchained and the thousand years are out. Hit,I, AKH. MISSED A CROWN. An Interesting Chapter ut' South Carolina History. Boston Education Magazine. South Carolina has had ono prominent man of whom it may bo said, "Ho missed a crown." An account of him and his family forms a chapter of interest in the annals of tho historic Halmet to State. Tho Middletons are not only ono of tho most distinguished, but also ono of the oldest of the Carolina families. An account of them and their estates reads almost like tho history of some noble family of England. Boforo the English had been permanently settled In tho colony a dozen years, wo find Edward Mulddleton a member of the council under the Lords Proprietors. Ho was born in England and inherited a large property. His son, Arthur Middloton, headed the revolution which throw oil the rule of tho Lords Proprietors and placed the province directly under the protection of the English crown, lie was afterwards Governor of the province. Henry Middleton, son of Arthur, was president of the Continental Conpress in 1775. The most famous of the Middletons was Arthur, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Ho was the son of llenry (just mentioned), and was born at the family seat in 17411. He received his education in (Copland. In 177b he took the He'd in defense of Charleston, and the following year he was made a prisoner, but was afterwards exchanged. At ono time during the revolution he declined the Governorship of his St te He died in 1787. His home, tho Middloton Place (which was in tho low country of South Carolina) has boon destroyed, but the following "pen picture" of the grounds, nuhlishcd in 1888, will give tho reader an idea of what a line place it must have been: "The old gates with their massive pillars stand intact, but of tho homestead itself only the chimneys and parts of i ho walls remain. At Middloton Place, an Englishman would feel at homo even to-day. Many of the old terraces and hedges remain as they were a century ago, and tho ample grounds, which are tolerably well kept, have a decidedly English air. This place is still in possession of tho Middloton family." During tho present century this family has furnished ono governor to South Ciirnllnft ' thftt wua llonru MI/I. dleton, son of tho "signer;" ho filled the ofTlco 1810 12, tiftor which ho served in Congress, and was also, for several years, minister to liussla. When a young man, he travoUd a good deal in Europe, and for some time during tho French revolution was in France. His death occurred in 1810. Governor Middleton and tho late Gov. Henjamin F. Ferry were both members of tho Union party during tho stirring times of nullification, and Governor Ferry, in his delightful ''Ltominisconces" (which can well be read with pleasure and profit by many others besides South Carolinians), has given us a pleasant sketch of Governor Middleton, with whom ho was well acquainted. Among other things he says: "Governor Middleton told mo that ho was personally acquainted with almost every distinguished man in Europo. lie saw Bonaparte in every station which ho hud tilled, from that of General of tho Interior to his scat on the throne of France. Ho was on termsof intimaev with him while hewas General of tho Interior, and was in tho habit of visiting his family. At ono period of their acquaintance ho received encouragement to address his step-daughter. 'Little did I then think,'said Governor Middleton, 'that she would ever be a queen.'" Am I not right in saying that Governor Middleton missed a crown ? Who can doubt that, had ho married Napoleon's step-daughter, ho would afterwards havo been made king of some European country by tho great warrior, and lie would undoubtedly havo rnado a wise and just ruler. Wo may suppose, however, that as Governor of an American Stato ho was probably happier than ho would havo boon as king of some European country. McDonald Fukman. Kamsoy, S. C. ?It la related that about a year ago a house in Wichita, Kan., was entered by a burglar and a pockotbook containing some money waa atolon. Keccntly the owner of tho purso received a lotter through the malls Inclosing a $10 bill and the following note : " A year ago I stole a pocket-book from you containg $00. I havo been sick and remorse has been gnawing at my heart, ao I send you $10. When remorse gnawa again 1 will send you soino more. Burglar." ^ ? Aunty?I feel provoked to think that you and your mamma wore in town tho other day and went to tho restaurant instead of coming to our house for dinner. Why didn't you come? Little Nephew?Wo waa hun-j inn 3. C. THURSDAY, IV Hie Cotton Growers' Protective Association FA 11M MKS ADVISFl) TO 1)1 V Mitt I FY CHOI'S The Area Devoted to Cotton Will Yield Moro l'rolltnldo Ket urns--T he Ivind of I'roteotlon Needed for Southern Farmers. The following address wus issued by the Cotton Growers' Protective Association, which met a few days ago in Augusta, Ga., and whicit advises the growing of food crops as the surest road to agricultural prosperity in the South : To the Cotton Growers of America : The Cotton Growers' 1'rotoctive Association of America, in convention assembled at Augusta, Ga., on this loth March, 181)7, again come to you with an urgent appeal for co-operative action in planting the crop for 181)7. It j is a matter of extreme congratulation that the appeal made to you in 18bf> and 181)0 was so generally responded to and that the crop of 18i)f>, made upon the diminished acreage, did have (he cll'ect of greatly increasing the prlc< ? of cotton. The evn ? ' i..v,uei? estimated to bo 8,400,000 bales short of the crop of 1 >1)4, was in (ho markets of the world worth more by nearly $80,000,000. in the faeo of this result to abandon the idea of diminished aeroage would bo to sound the retreat in the face of victory. It is the consenus or opinion utnon^ the beat thinkers tbnt if by any means the cotton crop of America should bo held within the limits of 8,000,000 to 0,000,000, bulos per annum for live years, tho people of these southern states would bo tho richest and most prosperous agricultural people in the world. How can this be brought about? Tho answer is with you. Wo appeal to your self interest and patriotism to do all in your power to keep down the production of the staple. J)o not abandon the ground you have jftun. Kight on upon the lines laid down, make the cotton states self-supporting, put more laud in clovor and grasses for your hogs to run on, diversify your crops, and when you have done all thfs tho aroa devoted to cotton will yield more profitable returns than if you sought to increase the number of your bales. Whilo the reduction of the acreage to bo planted in cotton for the solo purpose of reducing the si/.e of tho crop may be impracticable, the increase of area planted in food crops must inevitably bring prosperity to cotton growers, irrespective of the size of the cotton crop. There has never been a time in tho history of our section of the country that a movement looking to the increased production of corn, hay, oats, hogs and other food crops, was so important and necessary. It is felt by tho most thoughtful men that wo are entering upon a year of great uncertainties, and that oven a small cotton crop may fail to give ado qua to returns for its production. Tho mtitterings of a storm are disturbing values and unsettling all business calculations. Tho prudent man will trim hi* suits to moot it. With tin: commerce of the country interrupted by war?and war may come?cotton would bo unsalable except at nominal prices. Every consideration, then, of patriotism, of self-interest and of prudence dictates that you adhero strictly to the rule of diminished acreage. Earnest men are earnestly working to lead you and to guide you into prosperity. Do not let them labor in vain, but cheerfully and hopefully respond to their appeal. in conclusion, wo dosire to say to every cotton grower, whether his crop is ton bales or one thousand|balos, bee to it lirst that your place is self-sustaining?and we mean by this to he sure you grow on the farm an abundance of corn, meat, hay, oats, peas, potatoes, etc., for all the people on the place, both whito and colored, if the tenant will not produce these articles, sell them to hi in and keep the money in your own pocket, in place of sending it out of the country. When you have done this, or provided for it, grow what cotton you can. if every farmer or planter in the cotton growing district will make this his rule of action, and live up to it conscientiously, it will accomplish the result wo so much desire of making us all prosperous and happy, whether your cotton, which will bo a surplus or/in anil f/,?. a hl.rl, ?? O.... I v.vn .v.. ?? fe" ?' lun |M IW. YYl) would urge you again to initio sure first of a cheap, homo grown living for all the people and ull the animals on the placo, and then mako what cotton you can. Wo address our argument to each individual farmer. Kvery farmer may measurably control tho cost'of producing his cotton. JiOteach individual farmer resolve in his own mind and without regard to what others may do, to cut down tho cost of producing his cotton. Iiy confining his area to the best fields and to the best parts of his field ; by concentrating his skill, ills industry and fertilizers on a smaller area ho will produeo his cotton cheaper. Kvery farmer knows that the better the land, tho better preparation and cultivation, tho moro liberal the amount of well balanced fertilizers hoapplios per acre, the less will bo the cost por pound of cotton. i'ut only tho best land in cotton and corn and tho poorer lands In rye, peas, oto. This will eortainly reduce your crop product in the aggregate, but it will much more reduce the cost. Ho that, In any event, whatever others may do, you will bo ail right. THB DIPLOMATIC POSITIONS. The Appointment of Ministers to Hnglund and France?The Best Places in the Diplomatic Service. Tho President has made tho follow ing nominations to be ambassadors extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary of the United Statos : John Hay, of Washington, I). C., to Groat Britain, and Horace l'ortor, of Now York, to Fr&noe, and Ilonry Whito, of Khodo Island, is to he secretary of the embassy at London. Messrs. Hay and 1 'ortor receive a salary of $17,500 a year. John Hay is a native of Indiana, ">D years of age, and graduated at Brown nv/ro I ARCH 25, 1B^7. University in is.">x, and bojran the prac- | tlco of law in Illinois in IBM. L'rosi-, dent Lincoln appointed him assistant Becrotary and kept him in that capacity throughout his administration. lie j Ituvuu i?n lillK'Ulll S iillJULUUb lllltl | aide-de-camp and was brovetod lieutenant colonol. Kntoring diplomatic clrolos in tho sixties, iio was at various times charge at Vienna, lirst secretary at Paris, and secretary of legation at Madrid. In 1870, Mr. Hay connected himself with tho press and for nearly six years devoted himself to editorial work on a loading Now York nowspapor. In 1*7"> ho entered politics, taking an active part in tho presidential campaigns of 1870, 1880 and 188-1, being then a resilient of Cleveland. President Hayes appointed hint First Assistant Secretary of State, which post he tilled for nearly throe years. Since his retirement from otlico Colonel Nay has resided ehielly in Washington city, where ho occupies a palatial home on LaKayette avenue and has devoted himself to literature with the greatest success, some of his host known works beiug "Pike County Itallads," "Castillian Days," and a history of Lincoln written in collaboration with John Nicolay. Colonol Hay has also been a frequent "ei trihutor to the highest class of peiiodicals, and to him has been ascribed the authorship of the anonymous novel, "The Dread winners," which caused such agitation in labor circles. General Horace Peter comes of rev olutiouary stock, his grandfather, Andrew Porter, being one of Washington's most valued ollicers. General Porter's father was David Kittenhouse Porter, at one time Governor of Pennsyvania and a prosperous manufaetiiroiv llnmiw I ....... horn just sixty years ago in Huntingdon, l'u. Ho whs woII cducatod in his own Statu, nt Harvard and finally at Wi st l'oint. Soon aft'r his graduation from tho military acadoiny ho was assign d to duty in tho South. Ho was an ordinance export, so most of his work was in tho military service on tho stall's of McClollan, Kosecrans and Grant, whoro ho earned tho reputation as a gallant and foarlcss lighter, as is shown by his brevets. Ho served in tho Chickamauga and Wilderness campaigns and was in the first assault on Charleston, where ho was wounded. General Grant was greatly attached to General 1 *ortor and mudo him Assis- 1 tant Secretary of War while ho himself filled tho secretaryship. Ho surrendered his army commission in IST.'l 1 and plunged into uetivo business, being first president of tho West Shore railroad, vice presidentof tho I'ullman Car Company, and associating himself i with other great corporations in a directive capueity. Ho is well known in tho field of literature, hcing an author of repute and much sought for i as a public speaker. Tho appointment of Mr. Henry White to he secretary of Amor lean 1 embassy in Great Hritain is practically a reappointment, as Mr. White had hold this oflieo for eight years previous to Mr. Cleveland's last adminis I tration. He has been in London most i of tho time sinco his displacement and < the fact was brought out after his nom- < ination that he had rendered Mr. Olnoy 1 important service in tho recent Vene zuelan negotiations. The present sec- 1 rotary, Mr. Koosovelt, resigned somo < Li mo ago. i TIIK NATIONAL CAPITAL. i Notes About- Men and Tilings In and | Around Washington. The dome alone of tho capitol cost $1,250,000. Turnbull painted tlie four host his- | torical pictures in the capitol rotunda. ) Tho state, war and navy building 1 was begun in 1S7I, and cost $10,000,000 I to complete. i The now naval observatory at Wash- ' ington is one of tho finest scientific 1 plants in the world. General Winfiold Scott fathered tho soldiers' home, which was established by Congress in 1857. J Tho Crawford bronze door of the , Senate wing weighs I 1,000 pounds, and cost nearly $57,000. I Ainsworth It. SpofTord has been 11- 1 hrarian of Congross sinco 1801. His < salary is $1,000 per year. 1 Tho Congress of the United States ' has mot annually in Washington sinco 1 November 17, 1800. ( The hall of the Houso of Kopresen- ( tativos is tho largest legislative as- , sombly room in tho world. The columns of tho eastorn portico ( of tho capitol are oaoh solid blocks of sandstone, thirty foot high. A marblo column surrounded hy a > statue of Lincoln stands In front of tho < district courthouse. 1 It costs about $100,(MM) a year to run tho whito house, exclusivo of tho pros idont's salary of $*>0,000. Seventh, Ninth, Fourteenth. and G streets aro rivaling I'onnsylvania avenue as business locations. Tho bron/.o propeller of his famous llagship, tho Hartford, was cast into tho statue of Admiral Farragut. Tho lingers bron/.o doors at tho main entrance of tho capitol tell tho history of Columbus, and cost $28,000. The capitol rotunda is nincty-flvo feet six inches in diameter, and from lloor to canopy measures I8.'l foot three inchos. Tho terraces of tho capitol were only completed in 1801, tho total cost of tho building footing up $14,466,000 Tho treasury building was completed in 1869, at a cost of $8,000,000. It is tho largest government department. Pennsylvania avenue, paved with asphalt, and 100 foot wide, is consider_ -1 A \ 41 * ' ? eu mo unost parauo street In tho world. John Qulncy Adams designed tho allegorical group, " The Gonius of Amorica," on tho eastern portico of the capitol. Tho Socloty of tho Army of tho Tonnossoo orectcd tho $60,000 statue to Gonoral Jamos B. McFherson in Mcl'horson square. Tiio oos to til co department building was erected in 18U0, and oxtonded in 1856, at a cost of over $2,000,000. Ttio reclaimed i'otomac tlats will add about 1,000 acres to tho mall, oxtonding down tho river in tho form of a ' promontory. I I III I II ill?I II Mil | if *>mnr V N^v *'\ % ,j\ I 7 14 j^/1' A V f ' pl| j &AKS tfG POWDER Absolutely Pure. , Colobratod for its great loavening strength ami heal thfulnoHS. Assures tho food against alum and ail forma of adulteration common to tho cheap I brands. I UOYAL MAKING I'OWDKK CO., ( Now York. A WARNING 10 lilt CO I ION FARMERS. \ DO NOT INCItEASE Til 10 AOltE A (IK. t Tho Cotton Goods Trade Exceedingly Dull ? Pood nod Enrage Crops s Should ho Ample -Make Cotton a i Surplus Crop. The following letter In reference to decreasing tho production of cotton and increasing tho production of food supplies is sent out for tho information 'I of cotton planters. Coming from an export statistician on tho production ' and consumption of colt >n, it ompliasizes tho conclusions and justifies the ^ action taken by the American Cotton r Urowers'I'retentive Association, which " mot in Augusta on tiie loth inst. Now York, March 12, 18517. i Hon. Patrick Walsh, Editor Augusta c Chronicle. t My Dear Sir : Though our present I: iwtt I mi im/ii* *t? \ 1 I ???.?lo.l.l.. - .......... n 111 |I| UUUUI) mill CXCCCU 8,f>00,000 bales and the stocks in tho * world's markets and mills at the end j, of tho season may bo oven bolow tbo moderate (inures at its commencement, ^ tbo fact remains that eotlon is half a ^ cent per pound lower than a year ago. Tbo cotton goods trade is oxeoodlng- | ly dull and prices at about tbo lowest. ^ Many American mills are running on short time. My friend Mr. Thomas j, Kllison, of Liverpool, thinks tbo Kuropean mills will consume no morocotton tbo present seat on than during Inst f season. In view of tbo injury to ? Itritish trade from tho plague and ' famine in India it is, in my opinion, c even doubtful if last season's consumption will bo actually maintained. In llombay, tho cotton mills aro practical* ly, closed, thus releasing more cotton ! for export to Luropo than bad boon estimated. It is to bo added that tbo cotton ' orop in India will be largur than tbo M estimates of several months ago. Our * Uongress is about to moot in extra ! session to discuss a gonoral revision of 1 iho tariff, and tho uncertainty as to tbo (J uutcomo of tbo matter will depress every kind of business. The session may bo a long one, and it is by no 1 moans certain that any kind of a tariff c bill will be passed as tbo Republicans I do not control tbo Senate. Tbo do- t press ion in business on account of ^ uncertainty in regard to the tariff would then continue into 1808. Those lire the conditions which confront the Southern farmers upon tbo ovo of 1 planting time this spring. It seems 14 to mo they indicate with a clearness ? which admits of no question t it every H farmer should lirst make provision for M Ample food and forage crops before jonsidering tho matter of cotton acre* Ago. In duly last, when tbo crop prospects were so favorable that many people 4 predicted a yield of 10,000,000bales, the 1 price for November delivery declined * ;o nearly o 1-n cents, while middling 1 x>tton on the spot sold at 7 1-10 cents. Had not tho severe drought occurred, t the crop might easily have reached s ),f?00,000 to 10,000,000 bales and this ad- o lltion to the supply would probably t have resulted In lower prices by fully :mo and a half cents per pound than tiro current today. I think middling ' cotton would have sold at live and a v half (f> 1-2) cents in New York and u this would have been disastrous to 0 Southern farmers and a serious injury H to the entire country on account of the M disturbance in foreign exchanges, M which would have boon caused by so great a shrinkage in the value of our cotton exports. I do not believe that one planter In a thousand can produce cotton so cheaply that he can sell It on the basis of five and a half ("> 1-2) cents a pound for middling In Now York and get back even the cost of production, to say nothing of any profit. It Is woll for our Southern farmers t'6 remember that tho cost of production exerts no influence whatever on the immediate market value of any commodity. The present price is governed almost entirely by the existing conditions of supply and demand. When commodities are sold for loss than tho average cost of production, that fact will necessarily curtail production, and a diminution in price. Farmers, however, cannot wait for 1 these processes as they are generally < compelled to sell their crops promptly , in order to meet their obligations. It is true that corn is considerably lower in Chicago than it was a year k ago, while oats and provisions are a trifle lower and wheat and flour a lit tie higher. Tho reduction in theprico x of soino of these articles, however, | should bo no reason for planting more | cotton and loss grain, for of what avail l to tho Southern farmer would be tho r low price of grain and provisions if his | cotton had to bo sold for so little as to j ?eave him no surolus monev in whinh to buy thosa things? The world does not need as much American cotton as j can bo grown on the present acreage. ^ If all Southern farmors would raiso ( their own food and forage crops (In- ( eluding meat and farm animals) and ; mako of cotton a surplus or "money j crop" they would have in their own j hands the amplest protection ugainst|| low j prices for cotton, Inasmuch as I i i i iH"IT1!1HHIWM>| ) m i L JflP1 NO 31 ^ -/ tho overproduction of tho staple would bo avoided and they would nevor bo forced to soil thoir cotton in the periods >f its greatest depression. Yours very ruly, StI AM'UKI) II. SII EPPERSON. ? ?' Is u dangerous disease. It may load lireetly to consumption. Catarrh Id mused by impure blood, and tho truo .vay to ouro it is by purifying tho blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures catarrh bemuse it romovoH tho cause of it by | nirHying tho blood. Thousands testify .hat thoy havo boon cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla. Hood's aro purely vegetable and do lot purge,pain or gripe. 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