The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-10


mon divine image, he talks of what is impos-
ible on any other hypothesis than that of a
plurality of gods.T
NO, THANK YOU.
From the NJ Y. Tribune.
The London Spectator, discussing ''the use
of Prince-Dukes, proposes among the public
employments in which the Marquis of Lorne,
after he becomes the husband of a Royal
Princess, will be peculiarly serviceable, that
of British ambassador at Washington. We
most earnestly hope the young man will stay
at home. We have no doubt that he is an
excellent person; but an event so portentou5
as the introduction of Royal Princess into
Washington society is not to be contemplated
without terror. The effluence Of titled aris-
tocracy, even of the humber sort, has pain
full effect upon the American character; and
winter at Washington, with Queen Victoria's
daughter presiding over the hospitalities of
the British embassy, would be to sensible and
thinking people almost uncomfortable. We
hate to be impolte, but the truth is, the
women of this noble republic are not to be
trusted in the society of the
children of royalty. They are too ready
to get upon their knees. What hideols
arena of ignOble mannuvres the national capi-
tai would become when half the fashionable
women of the United States were there
scheming for the favors of the Princess
Louise! What envy would tear the bosoms
of the fair, what wrath would shoot from
jealous eyes, what vulgar elation would fol-
low every social victory Going to Washing
ton would be something like getting pre-
sented at court, and we should have here at
home, right under our eyes, degrading our
daily lives and convulsing our families, all
the petty intrigue, meanuess, vanity, and
elfabasement which distinguished q certain
section Of the American colony in Paris
tno, ,F W.
prefer simple gentleman like Mr.. Thornton
to any such gorgeous embassy as the SpectH-
tor Is kind enough to propose for u.s. The
Princess Louise would doubtless be boon to
some capitals, but not to ours. She woud,
SO TO speak, take all the starch out of the
moral character Of the American woman.
THE NEGRO AND COTTON PICKING.
From tie ". y. journal Of Commerce..
Journals in the cotton States complain of
the scarcity of labor for cotton picking. The
chief trouble is with the negroes, who are up
to their eyes in politics. and spurn the most
tempting offers to pull the crop. Florida
paper says that the negroes there "have be-
come SO excited on the subject of politics
that the planters have great difficulty in get
ting their crops harvested" The Memphis
Appeal asserts that ''though the fields are
white with cotton, the picking force is made
quate. Many negroes are deserting the fields,
and efforts are making to supply their places
with white labor" The Galveston NeicS re-
marks-''many of our freedmen refuse =
cents to 81 andupwards, specie (per 100 lbs
for cotton picking" To head OF, as far as
we could, this misfortune of the scarcity OF
labor at the most critical time, which occurred
last year, which occurs this year, and which
will occur every year as long as the freedmen
are the prey of political colporteurs,
we have strenuously recommended
the importation of Cinnamon to the
South. This is the first and best remedy for
the ills prevalent not only at this time of cot
ton harvesting but at all times and in all
pursuits at the South under the new order of
things. TO Chinese labor the Southern
planter, and many Northern manufacturer,
too, will have to come at last But, foresee-
ing the great obstacles that would be thrown
in the way of getting hands, we told Euro
pean immigrants idling in the North (less for
want of work than for the disposition to do
it) to buy tickets and go South by tho middle
of October, and there in the cotton fields they
would find plenty of not overheard occupa-
ton at good wages. Once there, we coun-
selled them to stay and work plantations on
shares, making the contracts from
| January next. We showed how well
this had paid where the experiment was
tried. Immigrants newly landed, or citizens
not well-to-do in the North, who took
|
or was, the scarcity Of labor owing to the
profound immersion of the negro in politics,
that the New Orleans Price Current, in a
recent article, thought it would be cheap to
| give free railroad or steamboat tickets and
return to hands in the North to 90 to Louis.
lana, Texas, or Arkansas, and 81 30 per day
and rations for the whole six months from
October 10 to April 10. The laborer during
| that period would escape the cost of extra
f1GI o1H n. of nrth ,ipfa ln
we'll fed, and have at the end of six months,
il saving, over 1925 clean cash in his pocket
more, probably, than he ever had before
Perhaps some such scheme will be organized
for the next season. 1t is not too late for
Northern laborers to make a good thing out
of the South this winter. But they must
pitch in at once, and on their own account,
not dawdle about the great cities waiting for
| some Southern committee to hunt them up.
THE AGE OF STEEL.
| From the Industrial Bulletin.
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