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ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTI1 UTON. C PRIL 16. 1878.
The Atlanta Constitution
WEEKLY EDITION.
TERMS OF WEEKLY.
Wttk'j, per annum —
•• rlx moo toa... ——
(Jen. Field, ’ll ho haa been besieged
on tiro continent*, has wisely decided
not to mfcke any changes in the force
of doorkeeper*. He does not deei
another siege.
The silver certificates are on the
market, and the demand for them in
New York is very active. Eight mil
lions of them are wanted in that city—a
want that cannot tie supplied in lear
than ten data.
i nple. I’ was to make J >bn T. Hoff* I The e:ec:m*l vo*« at Urge to to aad«»ed In fact, the wily Russian chancellcr *«ek* tomske uenontl profit or political char-
m a pmidtnt, Fete, B. Sweeney tec- i do “, the "> itETa
retary of the treasury, and Tweed ; rjkChdUt/lllbt i 3g , n : ;t 4. oootel , clor *i TO to, : counter discussion. •«<>•*• that
United States senator, where he would j to he given :o toe piura itjr collate
of course overlook the administration A of *-ch •*** into as many e’ec-
* * ”— —*-“-“*-htaeiecor»,a plurality
Illinois elms no officer this ye-r
of higher rank than state treasurer,
hut the derm crats of that state have
inaugurated a canvass that promises to
be successful. Their platform is the
embodiment of public sentiment it
the north-wee*.
Southern members of congress are
said to view with anxiety the situation
in Europe. They need not trouble
themselves on that account. L*ave
that matter to Baliabury, Gortochakofl
and Bismarck ; and give your minds to
at peed y and hAtri factory deposition
of the public business in your hands
Yon should he able to adjourn in June
The position of doorkeeper in the
house of representatives is no sinecure
That official, instead of openiug doors,
has one hundred and twenty-two sub
ordinates to open them, and be is re
sponsible for the manner in which
the/ discharge their duties. Worse
still, he has to satisfy two hundred and
ninety three congressmen, all of whom
have an over scpply of needy friends,
in the filling of these one hundred and
twenty-two situations. No ordinary
man can stand the pressure.
VBKSlUKXUAL FBOUNOSTJCA TIOSS
The Burlington Hawkeye think-
that Bamuel J. Randall will be the
next democratic candidate fir presi
dent. Mr. Tilden, it says, is practical
ly out of the race, Mr. Hendricks has
no strenglh in the eastern states. Mr
IVndleton is shelved in the v senate. Mr
Thurman is a strong man, but the can
didate must come from outside the
sennte walls. There!ire Samuel J.
Uiiidall is the coining mao. So fayt
the Hawkeye. We give the IlawkeyeV
speculations:
Mr. KmdaU'a fiicnda would count upon »
block of from the New Jenwy coart
V» the Wahi»h river. aud unit** the republican*
of N w Jtnwy, iVnu-ylvania, Ohio and Inliana
cut entire:! dear from MajcaUra and sup upon
the Ohio platform, there would be evary pr>»b.-
I.l ltv that Mr. Randall's tij^ctatioua If noin •
n»h«l, soul I i»e icUlz d, ai d toe executive de
Pertinent of the government would pass luu>
democratic control.
Trio ktrertgih of Mr Handall rathe democratic
Candida* c can lanl le c •mprehended l*y a giar.ee
at Ihu elector d vote, coiceding that he wonld
carry hianwii a ale of IVunaylvania. A-auminr
that the electoral t»!lcga will not be changed by
the *<1 ni*ri >n of any new atatea prior to th«
ttcal ; Traldt.nV.al eiecUon, we have, aa repub ]
cana, the. folb-w.ng figure* to confront:
The solid mu h. n _ — 13H ToU
and direct the government. Had it j
not been for the crushing in of j
ti.e Tammany ring—had no, |
this emeu**, c unmerced by Sam Tiiden, j
been just when it waa-there is no tel
ling to what extent Tweed would have
pushed hid ambitions rcheme. He bad
already taken vigorous steps towards
bocsmplishin r hia end, when he was
forced to withdraw h - attention from
he c >untry at large and attend to his
wn home affairs. It is currently be
hoved that he established a paper in
this city which bore the name of Hoff
man, and furnished it with $-.500 as a
s arting fund.
When once.the ring was broken how
ever his fall was. sudden and terrible.
From a palace to the penitentiary, in
one breath ! That is all there was of it
Despairing of retrieving his fortune-,
brought back from a most desperate
attempt at eecape, Tweed at last broke
down in body and mind, and turned
to the last and lowest refuge of ra*ca:s
he offered to purchase his own liberty
by practicing on hia pals. Even
this abject offer was spurned,
and he was left in bis felon’s ce.
until nature gave way, and death pit
tyingly came to his rescue.
It is hard not .to pity the sorrows of
the old man. In his utter repentance,
in his long years of suffering, we are
apt to forget his sins, and wish that
human forgiveness might here each
the old man’s soul before it went to the
bar of God. It is bo-t, however, as it
i*. His life and his death will touch
all mankind for generations yet to come,
that justice wiil overtake the criminal
sooner or later. It wilt te ch all Amer
icans that the democratic party is hon
est in its purposes aad stern in i*s jus
tice,and that it will pull down and pun
tab, even to the death, any member cf,
its party that violates theJaw.no matter
now great his power, or how high his
position.
vote. Thia rives each
He asserts that
Russia has left room for an ulterior un
derstanding respecting most of the
points of the treaty to which
exception has been taken. The boun-
t nu di«trtcte u
vote lr. eci dirt
7. The cnxaol....« »— *— »•»— . . _ ,
voter u many vot« u the ft*o- hi- elector*. | danes and organization of Bulgaria,
wnich cm cooc< s'nte u he choosts. The : aie to be left to a mixed commission,
eUc ora to the number to wh ch the rut* t» j j a which the several powers will be
SSJ* *° * *• 1 <3ndld ;“* "" iTin « ,he represented, and Kasua will withdraw
b’t brat camber of vote*. With * little ebaog- r * . ...
1 her troops as soon as it is possible.
Toe f*ro;osed new Bulgaria would, it
tbit plan can b>- w> adapted u to dltpenae »i:h
the ncoenlty of elector*
& Tbe limited vote plan, which would restrict
each viter to C4it hl« ballot fa* s portion of th#
e ectcral csiididstei, or of the total eiecto:si
GKO BUI A MS COSO UAHS.
II*....
at tor Itmdall..
1»
*IS
Nitwary to a choice IV*
In the above mtimtt ft will be obMr.ed th*
three of the atotra already have clt inurratir
Eovcmon and lodalaturea, and in ai three Mr
Randal) I* (HtpitUr and coutd fnao htaown atat*
and a.ill U> elec tel. Hut iViii.aylvanla at.<1
Ohio are natttr«lly o-|>iihllcau atatca. and if th.
reputiMrana make Judicious r.ominationa th. y
«*ti t»e carted for the r. |uiiUcau candidate ,
«ej «v»aliy aa*«atiiat Ili-mtrUka or soy of th«
oilier atnbiuour democratic Mplrants except
poawlh'y, Mr Uuidall. It la th«a.i fac a wh:cti
p dnttothe ptraciit speaker of the hou-e a*
the moat available candidate the democrata car
put In the field, and which make hia uomina
Uou In lS:0«|i»l»c probable.
7 hk cock Flam is a Four.
For seme days past we have been
giving a good deal of our space to the
port of a series of cock fights announce d
to tske place at Charlotte, North Caro
linn.
Wo take litis early occasion toapolo-
gizt» to our readers for the appearance
cf these articles. And yet we find
necessary to publit-h them. We regret
to say that a portion of the reading
public demand them, and we fumis)
them. We utterly condemn the senti
ment that encourages cock-fighting and
the law that allows iL It is a brutal,
useless, wanton sport, cruel to the
chicken* and ti tiding to hrntaliz.* those
who witness iu It cannot |»ossiMy
eventuate in anything good. Uulik
horse rscirg, which serves to iiuprov
the bottom, speed ami usefulness of on
horses ntiliko atnletic matcliesof a
sorts, which tend to strengthen the
sinews and develop the muscle of our
youth—unlike, in fact, almost even
posMh’e diversion of man, it aims
at no good results and tends
toward no improvement. Its hurtful
tendencies are manifest and seriom
We can imagine no spectacle tha
wonl»* Tend to excite the worst passion*
of men and stifle the humanity in
them than the eight of a score or so
chickens armed with cruel gaffs, stab
lung and slashing and laceralirg each
other. The ferocity that surrounds the
prize ring is nothing to that which ria-
from the ci>ck-pit. A more inexcusable,
wanton, cruel sport does not exist. I
surpasses the odious little horrors of the
rat-pit, for there terriers are tiained for
a useful purpose. It ranks in all essen
tial respects with bull-baiting, wh ; rb
has been ruled out of ah civilized couu*
tries.
Hence while we consider it our du
to publish the news, and the news ol
a ccck'fUht just as we w. uld of an>
other tight, we hss:en to express
thorough disapprobation of .he practice
and the hope that the Uw-mskers
soon reuder it impossible for such spec
tu ps to dcm.'ralizj our people,
biuul the pubMe sense of morality
Mr. Stephens obtained unanimous
>naent on Tuesday of last week to
introduce a bill to provide for the free
importation of works of art in certain
cases. This bill may be tbe outgrowth
of the desire of the monumental asso
iation of Augusta to import portions
of their proposed monument from Italy.
In the tenate, General ujrdon pre-
ented the j>etition of the mayor of
■Savannah, the president of the cotton
sxcharge, the president of the Central
railroad, and other “respectable citi
” of Savannah, asking that the ap
propriation heretofore granted to the
light-house at Tj bee island he not dis
continued.
Mr. C iok began by a speech in favor
•f Colonel Polk, ibe doorkeeper of the
house, hut before he had finished his
(•marks, the house adj turned. Mr.
Candler presented the petitions of J jhn
I>. George, U h ri J. Mitchell, H. C
Home, J J. Hunt, and -75 tlher citi-
of Griffin; of Robert A. Alston, J
N. Wilson, J »hn B. Worn mack, and
155 other citizens of D -K ilb count)
of Campbell-Wallace, A. Austell, J
Brown, V'. R. Tom me y, Lucius J. Ga
troll, A. C dc B. F. W ylv, Garrett &
Bro., Dunn, Ogletreedt Co., Benjamin
Crane, U F. Maddox, K P. Howell
Frank P. Rice, and 1,400 other ci
•f Allants; and of R. C. Harris, J G.
Phinpzee, 1>. G. Proctor, Jeffrrson Ho
gan, B. II. Napier, and 4it0 other ciii-
x -nsof Forsyth, Georgia, that govern
.nent aid be exlettdvd the Texas Pacific
railroad.
Gen. C.x k’s speech in defense of C »l.
I’olk, appears in full in the l^cord ol
April the fifth. Messrs. Bell, Blount
and Candler, voted in favor of declar
ing the position of doorkeeper vacant;
Messrs. Cook, Harris, Uartridge and
S.nith, voted in favor of retaining
Colonel Polk; Messrs. Felton and
Stephens did not vote. In rhe senate
Mr. Hill, presented by if quest, the pe
tition of Thomas M. Bradf *rd, Corne
lius D. Harper, Thomas J. Hughes and
others, cUizdns of Clarksville, Haber
sham county, prayiDg for an amend
ment to the constitution of the United
Suites prohibiting the several states
from disfranc' ising United States citi-
z-ns on account cf sex. In presenting
the petition, Mr. Hill remarked that it
was signed by gentlemen, and tha* it
did not appear that any women wat ted
’he privilege. General Gordon and 51 r
11 ill voted to postpone the considers-
tioi of the Pacific railroad funding bill
until Monday. The vote was 52 to
51. The doorkeepership matter wa-
postponed in the house to 51onday bv
a vote of 125 to 112. The Georgia
delegation voted “ay,” except Mr
Stephens, who was not present Mr.
Felton presented the petition of D m-
i 1 Dietz, for pay for supplies taken by
the United States army. Both houses
adjonrned until Monday.
The vexed question of tbedoorkeep-
ship was taken up last Monday ; and
so engrossing was the subject that for
the first time iu years the states were
not called for bills or resolutions foi
reference. Ail the Georgia member*
voied for Gen. Field, except Mr. 5Ste
Pliens, who was paired with a Massachu
-etts member. They also voted in favor
of puitirg Gen. Suields, the deteaUd
candidate, on the retired list with the
rank of brigadier general. This vote
was for the purpose of counteracting ti.e
demagoguery of the republicans of the
house, there being expectation tha
the republican senate will sanction the
resolution. The mouths of the bloody
shiners were thus effectually closed.
Mr. 0 .ok presented a paper relating to
he establndmient of a pist route In-
.ween NL.nLzaraa, Evansville, bnow
Drop, He .derson’s, Green Hid and
Hawk in s vt lie, and Mr. Felton, the
tion c i cit z ns of Cobb county far t! e
establishment of a branch mint at Ma
rietta.
possible, and
doubtless unprr fi eble to ennmerate
the schemes that have not met with
any considerable degree of popular en-
dorsemenL They are almost as nu
merous as the financial plans that have
been pushed upon the people, and
about as erratic and unsound.
The chief objection to the firs* six of
the mentioned rchemee, and in fact to
a I of them but the list one, is that
tney look, not so much to the pre
vention of frauds in and dis
putes over the counting of the vote,
as to radical changes in the manner
of casting the vote. We do not so
much want a change in the method of
electing a president as in the method
of ascertaining the result of the elec
tion. A.l desire an amendment that
will satisfactorily settle any disputed
1 lestion that may arise, but all do not
desire a change in the manner of cast
ing the vote. It is the counting out,
and not the counting in, that needs at
tention.
The bill that bears the endorsement
of the house committee is open to a
similar obj-ciion It provides for a
sweepir g change that will not be en
dorsed by the conservatism of the
country. It does not provide a remedy
against fraud, which all desire. It is,
fact, a measure doomed to de
feat. I. proposes to do awav
with the elec .oral colleges, and
to substitute a direct vote of the people,
each state retaining the same number
of electoral votes as under the present
system. But th* votes are not to be
cost in a lump ks heretofore. To as
certain the number of votes in a Btaie
to which a candidate is entitled the
proposed amendment provides that his
popular vote shall be multiplied by the
number of electoral votes to which the
state is entitled, and the
product divided by the "aggregate
popular vote of the s*ate. The qu atient
is to be carried to three decimals. Ap
plying this rule to Georgia, we find
that Mr.Tilden’s vote would have been,
instead of 11, a little tet-s th&u 8 votes,
and that Mr. Hayes would have re
ceived something over four electoral
votes. The total vote of the state was
180,554 of which Mr. Tilden received
150,088 and Mr. Have- 70,642. The
state is tutit’ed to 11 electoral votes.
Tnese figures will peimt
anyone to accurately ascertain
what the vote would have been in 1876
under the proposed amendment. We
have staled it approximately. Of
course the rule is fair, the theory car-
red ; it gives the reriilt to the man
who receives the most votes ; bu*. our
obj ction to the plan is, that it does
not make fraud impossible. False con t *
would be as feasible under* the pro
posed amendment as now. We
need just now a scheme
by which all disputed questions may
he detetmined, aud we can affjrd to
wait until public sentiment endorses a
general pi. n that is nearer peifeclion
than the prewar* s«-w*en>.
77/A' i)AJ "III OF WILLI A* X 7»*AAZ>
We doubt if the history of the world
will show a more interesting life-his
tory thten the one that closed when
Wm M Tweet! breathed his las: in the
1, :dlow street j til.
Few men ever retched so high a
point of power, to fall to such u'tei
degradation as did Tweed. Sorting life
aa a l-asket-tnaker, he went into ward
politics. Being elected an alderm.i
he rose with marvellous rapidity, li
w«a in a few years tl
absolute master of New York
Here millona upon m.Uion?.
upon millions cf revenue was in his
hands, and he lived in a style of mag
mficenc* never equalled cr approached
in this country. He was lavish in hi.-
gifts, at one time giving $50,000 to the
p er of his ward. Tae marriage of his
daughter was the sensation of the
year, the brilliancy cf the wedding
surpassing anything ever seen in this
country. Besides being a veritrble
money-king Tweed was tbe originator
of a p ot—very nearly successful—that
if carr ed out wonld have put this
whole country in hia hands. Holding
the great city of New York under his
control, being the undisputed master
of Tammany, which was the leading
democratic authority, it is not surpris
irg that his ambition led him to hope
to cod.{>i» the continent of America.
The scheme as since exposed was very
hi a autusesru AMayvxsyr.
By a bare mijority the house com
mittee on the electoral count have re'
ported a plan f r tbe counting of the
votes. We give in another column t:.e
full text of the proposed amendment,
more because of the importance of the
general subject than of tbe particular
plan. Tbs committees cf the hou-e
and senate wiil probably bold a con
ferenee soon, and it is to be hoped that
•he pint product wi-1 be more accept
able than thu of the house committee.
Tte conference will have before
hem a variety of proposition-; fir
-here are at least nine schemes that
nave elicited more or leas favorable
c >mmrnt:
1. E«cUcm by aduwci rots ©t the jaope,
without regard to »t*te Use* or < lector*! c>l*
:e«ra; * p'.ara liy Tote to eloct the candidate lor
praadeut or Ttoe-pcvridenr rrceinux lu
2 E.ecCou by eke.oral vou*. the »utee io be
isftigued a anmter m at present and th «e
role* to be divided in each rtale atnoeg th-
candidate* exactly aa ears U rnULed on the
harts of ms proportionate to to.
S. An aarfmaem of toe eUc:orial rotes is
each state to each candidate, in t roponior. to
nisrote In such s aw ; to candidate to receive
one elector*! vote unie«* he has received tall
ot toe electoral raUo, to be found by dir: dii r toe
whole number off Totes cast bj toe noabe: of
elector* to which the etna is en'it i 1; no tr»c
uons of a voce to he given, and any candidate
having more than hall as e.ectoral ratio,
to receive an addl’iona; vote to that to which
he is otoeiw.*e entitled.
«. Two else oral votes ax large in each state u
b* aas:gned to the candilate mviv.u« toa plu>
aiiiy vote to rach suite; the ra . n:c< v.v.e o
vaua to be manned pro ra'o to s*ch caad 1 law
VUVAlA CLJlXi.
Mr. Clarkson Potter, has intro
duced a hill to relieve congress of the
great burden of cobsidering the massed
private claims constantly pressing up
on it. The Miibj *ct i» one of broad irn
portance, and we ther fore give the
entire bill:
Srcilon 1. \ny pereou who may have a clpim
tgUoat toe Unite <
if.otdcd
if cl.iica would Lot
«». but loucltd U|*on (ijut!.•
See. 3. Any iMUtf of fact j deed upon ruch bill
m y be tried by the * *
provided lor
I fi jd the facta appear
•y i
biCJ H ha* jaii-fiction.
Sec. a. The court coaii C ud th>
ing from ibe t« stiatony (Wore them iu each
catwaudabail repott iheir findin*a •* io:ierei>t>,
with their opiuioii* aa to lb <ieiermin*U w n that
bj made of sccii ciaisa.
. Congrt t» • shall not conaWer nor allow
hortze lh<* payment «>f ai.y private c!a
uut payable uu er«si*nrg law* until the ms
has tweii heani and r« pcr.u1 to congieva by s*
K d du»-.biny t
' i* bfO '
\p; when ibt*
three yc.«i
afU
diaatMlity
It will be observed that this bill d<-cs
not propose to take from congress the
final dicision; it simply prcq*o«es to
relieve it of the t xsmination or consid
eration of bills for payments, or gifts,
or bounties, or relief, or some ioroi of
privilege to private {tersons. There are
at least two theus nd such bills now
pendii g in coLgrees—t»o many that im
portant public bills aie cloxged, and
j.iat claims often ignored. These pri
vate bills are also a prolific source of
corruption. Tbev are first referred to
a committee f ten or so, who, in turn,
refer them to s me one member, who
hears the statements or ex-parte evi
dence effertd by the applicant, and re
ports the b.ll back to the committee,
who, if they approve it, report it to the
house, by whom, f f er brief discussion,
it is passed or rtj cted. All this ib
usually done ex parte, with’ ut any op
posing interest being heard, without
any general publicity,without any oral
examinatic n of witnesses, without any
check against fraud and without
any prescribed rules or rtgula-
t ms. That such a determination o!
claims should necessarily result in great
abuses is unav. id*b!e. The court of
c aims now hi-s time to attend to this
new c’aas o f business, and the inter-
• s s of claimants as well a^ci the pub
lic demand the change.
Tae truth is, this country has out
grown some cf its old ways of truusao
irg public business. The time of con
gress should be given to the c n-
sideration of genera: measures. I
should cot be bothered with claims
that do not rite to the digni y
of casein .»jasrice’s court. Wnv, for
•in ex. tuple, should :Le postmaster of
a Georgia town, when he io-e* a small
draft by the burning of a postal car, be
compelled to seek relief in congress?
The passage «f suih a bill cot long ego
cost the people more than the dra t
amounted to; and the case in question
has scores cf JupiicaTes before cmgress.
The evil isancua ly increasing, and can
only be remedied by a bill similar to
'!r. Potter’s. We see no defect in his
bill.
is true, destroy Turkey as an European
power, but it would not necessarily
become practically a part of Russia.
R >umania, governed by a German
power, lies bet w ween. Prince
Gortechakoff is more pjeitive
Arme.na, and
the indemnity demanded, he thinks
tnat the moderation of Russia is above
cecsure. In concioeion he reminds
L >rd Salisbury that he has recognized
that great changes in existing treaties
are necessary, and invites him to indi
cate what those changes should be, and
what form of settlement he has to pro
p09e wh eb, while taking into scconnt
the rights Russia has acquired by the
sacrifices she has borne alone, shall se
cure good government, peace and liber
ty for the oppressed population.
This opens the door to a renewal—by
Germany, probably—of the negotiations
for an assembling of the long-mooted
congress. L-*rd Salisbury’s reply to the
Russian circular is anxiously awaited,
but now that E gland can with dignity
state what she desires, there seems to
be little doubt that the outcome will
be a congress of the powers and an
amicable solution of the whole diffi
cult v.
The truth is, neither Russia, Eng
land, nor Austria wanted a general
war. Least of all could Russia, at the
end of one coaUy war, afford to haxard
i s results by plunging into another with
a nation far richer than herself and
possessing the^moet powerful navy
the world. She coaid not count upon
either Turkish assistance or Austrian
neutrality. Instead of England’s be
coming isolated, it began to look aa if
K tssia wonld be. Turkey dare not en*
ter into an alliance with Russia, for the
first blow would deprive her of Egypt,
Arabia, the 51editerranean islands and
all the seaboard of the Levant; and it
is thought that to Turkey’s refusal is
to be attributed the abatement
of Russia’s pretensions.
The congress once assembled with
tbe concurrence of all the powers, means
will be found to settle all questions, no
matter how difficult they may seem at
tbe outset. It begins to look—assuming
that a congress is a fixed fact—as if the
despoiling of R mmania of her Bessara
bian teritory would betbe most difficult.
Prince Gorttchskc IT say -/‘there is no Ion
gerany pro*eet fur oebarringRussia from
the possession of Bessarabia, as the
freedom of the Danube is secured by
tbe international commission.” This
will not be so cle^r to Austria. Biesa
rabu is a narrow strip of territory that
in iixelf is not a very important part
f Prince Charles’ dominion. It lies to
the north of the meuth of the Danube,
and its retrocession would give Russia
one shore at the, mouth of the
great river. We say retrocession
because the treaty that followed the
Crimean war took the province from
Russia and gave it to Bonmania.
was a biller pill for Russia to swallow,
and to wipe out the shame more than
anythiLge'se Kussia demands its retro
c ssion. Russia is stronger now than
she was in 1856, and Austria, backed
probably by Germany, will strong
ly intret that the warden
ship of the mouths of the
great water highway to central Europe
should not be transferred to that over
shadowing power. A sdution will
however be found for the question in
the event of a meeting of a congress of
the powers.
But until all the questions involved
are anrcibly disposed of there must be
an uneasy feeling; for tbe
situation is fall of dangers.
The Russians still occupy Sm 8tef-
ano, about fifteen miles from Constan
tinople, with fifty thousand Turkish
troof s drawn up opposite them. The
former are constructing a line of earth*
works from Cbeckmeje, near the sea
of Marmora, across the country north
to Berkos, on the Black sea. This line
is about fifteen miles from Con
stantinople. An army is located
so as to se-ze the upper
Bisphorns at Buvnkdere. Eng
land on the other hand is sharpening
her ssord. A portion of her fleet is at
Prince’s 1-.laud,ten miles from Constan
tiuople, and another p.irtiou off' Gslli-
poli, guarding the Dardanelles. Tne
English ministers are ready for war.
Peaullory fighting U goiug on between
the Turks and the Greek insurgents in
Epirus, and Thessaly. With to much
combustible material near Constanti
nople, the coveted prize, danger is to
be apprehended; bat there are good
reasons far believing that precautions
will be taken to prevent a conflagration.
Uthe part of zLooI* and hj«naa to del re iuio
toe trenches where the i-ntrid carcamm ore
buried, and drag them out to fatten upon toe
feast. It is not manhood. They have been
brought out again t.*-day. It waa left to toa
gentlemen from Me-aschuetts and Maine to re-
tu*4 to allow a subordinate officer of toe boose
to be elected without fighting toe war over
again False charge* have been hurled against
us, and sot for the first time, either. We have
been told here to-day that toe candidate who
has been nominated by the democratic caucus
for the doorte* p^r o! this boose deserved, by
every law homu and dl>lne, to have been
hanged. We have teen told—uslug him as an
averaga specimen of the element which embra
ces eight millions of the people of the land—
that they wm all breatnlng a miserable exist
ence at toe sufferance, and were Indebted for
tneir poor, miserable ixvea to toe magnanimity,
ol the Ire publican party. That has been
| told to os year after year, and
told us to-day. It is false
and the falsehood shoe d wither and die on the
lip. that ottered iL How was it possible, 1 ask.
for a man who belonged to the army of the con
federacy to have beec hang after the terms of
surrender and csp’.tsation had been agreed
upon ? Do yon mean to say that the well-earned
reputation lor courage and gallantry and man
hood which the soldiers of toe union army had
illustrated by overwhelming and conquering my
people, was to be blotted and binned for the
fint Ume in the history of civiliz’d warfare by
this government ignoring conditions of surren
der, and hanging unarmed men whom it had
agreed to protect in order to induce them to lay
down their arms 7
Mr. Butler—Hare I uttered any such seuil-
Mr. Blackburn—I su v m t to the mind of every
candidsminded man on this fl or, whether he
this side or the other side of this cham
ber, whether I have not quoted you oorreclL-
Mr Butler-Have I stated, or even hinted, toa'.
after the confederates laid down th.*ir arms they
ought to have been hang d? The Ume wss be
fore.
Mr. Blackburn—Aye; but the difficulty was to
hacg them so long aa they bore arms. 1 would
like to know how many men ccuid have been
hanged In the confederate service while they
were standing In line ol battle with glitteniug
bayoactaon their country *• battlefield. Whtn
a member of the house areerta that im»
nominated candidate if the d«mo.
crall yaity lor the doorkeepsnhip
deterred by every law, human and divine, to
have been hanged, and when that utteranoe is
accompanied by toe boast that be alone stood
by that law and executed it, I wou’d like to
know what Interpretation or construction can
possibly be given to hia laDgusge exce pt that
confederate* were to be hanged when the power
to bang them was conferred.
Mr. Butler—Not after we had agreed not to.
Mr. Blackburn—It Is Ume* sir, that tola
should stop. It is time that false charges
should cease to be mrde. and that toe ttuth
should be observed. It la time that it ahouid
be admitted that, without doing violence to
the plighted faith which your country (or our
country, if tout will suit yen better,) bad pledg
ed, the men who wore u uniform on toe other
side should no longer be refused admission to
every personal right. privilege, and
prerogative of dtizmehip, so long aa
they observe the conditions of their parole It
is time it she uld be admitted that these men,
from then till now, were not only entitled to
every personal liberty and property, under the
cocstitutioQ of the country, but that they tbould
become the object of. protectidn at the hands of
th - dominant party Itself, and that youreolcmn
promises and your word deliberate y given
should not be violated, aa tlrey cannot br vio
laud without rendering infamous the man who
dares to do it I am sorry that it was necessary
for a member of the hou-^e to remind us of the
exercise of what he chooses to term
clemency, tut which impartial history will de
nominate but cemtnon fairness, and that in 11
luitrating this magnanimity for which he
claims such credit to his party, It was necessary
for him to parade before us boastfully toe exe
cation of an unarmed and he.pleta prisoner,
toe on’y man, 1 believe, whom the history of
tbe war shows to have been killed or injured on
the confederate side by the warrior from Massa
chusetts. I Loud laughter and applauae on the
democratic side ]
BlXtKEX 1U AMEND* EXT
The Mew Plsu Proponed by tbe
House CoMbitiiee for Electing the
Preilacst ami V.cv President of the
Potted mates
WriiUn for tlu Wttkly Cnutltvllo*.
I found that the china trees in front of
her gate had taken unto themselves “ And. pray,
ififi Auraub iu AuiAum 1 SX&ss?
THE EASTERS MUDDLE.
A report in favor of the proposed
constitutional amendment to change
the method of counting the e.ectorai
vote for the office ol president has been
made by a sub-committee of four to
the foil committee on the electoral
count, and accepted bv the whole com
mittee by a tnaj *ritv of one. The im
portance of the proposed amendment
induces u to give it in iuil:
A&ticlk 16: The president and vice
president of the Uuited S'ales Fhall be
‘ y the people of the several
states. The electors in each state shall
have the quHlificatior s requisite for
electors of the most numerous brauch
of the slate legislature, and they shall
vole by ballot for the president and
vice-president on the day provided bv
law, which day shall be fixed by con
gress and be the »»me throughout the
United States. Each state shall been-
titikd to a number of »enators aud re
presentatives to which tbe state may
be entitled in the congress. The elec
toral votes and fractions thereof
of each ^ person voted for as
president in any state shall be ascer
tained by multiplying his entire popu
lar vote therein by the whole number
of tne electoral votes of the stale aud
dividing the product by the aggregate
popular vote of the state for all per
sons voted for as president, and the
quotient snail be the number of eltc
toral votes aud fraction thereof to
which such person shall be entitled,
using for such fraction three decimals
and no more. The foregoing pre*vis
ions shall apply to the election of vice-
presideut; out no person constitution
ally ineligible to the office of president
shall be eligible to that of vice-presi
dent of the United States.
Within ten days after any president
ial election, the returning officers of
general elections in each state shall
make proper returns of the votes cast
for president and vice president, and
shall transmit the same under seal to
the secretary of state, or other officer
lawfully performing the duties of nuch
secretary, by whom the said returns
shall be publicly opened in the pres
ence of the chief executive magistrate
of tbe state, or, in case of his failure to
b9 present, then in the presence of the
attorney-general and auditor or c >n-
troller of the stale, aud said officers
shall appoint aud make appor
tionment of the electoral votes of
the state, as hereinbefore provided,
and shall thereupon make distinct lists
of all persons voted for as president,
compnang the popular vote by coun
ties, parishes, or other principal divis
ions of the state, aud their appointment
aforesaid, which lists they shall sign,
certify and transmit unuer seal to the
seat of government of the United States,
directed to tbe president of the senate.
S.-id aupointment shall b * made on the
same (lay throughout the United States.
The person having the highest num
ber of electoral voles for president
shall be the president; hut if two or
more persons have an equal and the
highest number of votes, then from
such persons the house of representa
tives snail choose immediately by balin’
By J. C. HARRIS.
that age was dulling her observation—
lor the brown hair that the breeze man
aged to blow loose from the prim tuck
ing comb was largely mingled with
But Dan cal’s me Jack ”
who is D.in 7”
know Dan? Why | €,W * B 6“* D«»i«mm*-Th« How-
town more’n a weak -- ! wtmmlmm Stmtum.
Dan an* me is. That’s D in's store ” St fwwuwoso April is —ihc Agence Ru«-e
printin'.In the di.ee,ion of the sw.’y- | lSSS^ F Wft!gSfeS
every poiut oi toe treaty, has
ANS WEES IO VOUELSFOADMXTS.
Mloodjr Origin of n Bad Word
CARTEKSVIU.K, Ua , April U.
Editors Constitution * What is the
origiu of the word ‘'bull dozlug?a.
la the olden time when a Slava was to be
whipped, aud it was desired to gire him
extra touch, bull bile was iusUtaied for c
hide, a* it was much heavier aud toucher. The
phrase then c >me, “They are s'jlug to give him
a bu 1 dtzj "
touie Here, 1.1!tie Boy.
A* LA NTS. 6 a., April 11.
Editors Constitution : Can you tell
me where whales ate hatched. If aLall.aud how
large the wha ets are at the outset T P.
They axe not hatched at all. They are born.
They are from l a to fourteen feet !oug when
b >m, and do not havo any little brother* or
sistere.
Watch oar Advertising Col tun on.
Chxstxbfield O. H , B C., April 11.
Editors Constitution: Can you tell
me where toe • Uriswold, or (irisjld" cotton gin
is made 7 Has the mauufactarc ot it passed into
other hands? Will It not turn oat more lint ptr
hundred than any other gin in Georgia? Please
do me the kindness to answer. Yours, J.
Tbe parties handling this gin will donbtlera
answer you through our advertising columns.
Watch toemJ
A3 TO THE VILLAGE.
To write accurately or even adequate
ly of E )ckville, one would have to fall
in:o the idyllic mood. The peace and
quiet that surrounded the little village
were immemorial and the serenity com
plete. Rockville rhymed with ail sea
sons, and each rhyme seemed periect
in its way. In the spring-time the red
hills robed themselves in green, the
pines clothed themselves anew, and the
mighty oaks put torth their leaves.
The martins flocked musically about
the eaves of the white court house, the
dogwood blossoms gleamed white and
fair in the valleys, and the peach or
chards were so compute in their beau
ty as to suggest to the village poet, who
was clerking in a grocery store, the
idea that they had bee~ subjected t<> a
fall of pink snow—an idea which he
embodied in a poem of thirty-six stan
ds, printed in the Middle Georgia
Vade Mecum, a six column weekly de
voted (if the advertisement of Plnnker,
the editor, was to be believed) to “lit
erature, art, science and the news.”
The school-boys waded in the branch
that skirted the town, catching min
nows and avoiding moccasins with a
precision that was rather a tribute to
their instincts than to their
training The b ue birds flitted hither
and thither, hunting homes in hollow
posts and trees, and the robins, flying
northward, paused to surfeit them
selves v ith ihe ripe china-berries that
grew in profusion in the town. This
was in spring time.
la summer the inhabitants of Rjck-
v lie gave themselves over to perspira*
tion, even the poet deigning to appear
upon the streets without his
coat. The cattle forsook the open
pastures and coccealed them
selves as best they could from the obser
vation of tbe sun by taking refuge un
der the tall oaks on the hillsides, or
browsing carelessly among the elder
bushes aud willows on the brookside.
It is to be feared that some verbal
critic, following with some degree of
pains,this unpretentious chronicle, will
smile when he reads of “elder bushes,”
bu* I confidently appeal to the pop-gun
brigade of the present generation to
bear me out in the spelling. This was
in summer-time.
Iu au umn, the hickory trees changed
from green to golden yellow, the sweet-
gum phone red in tbe forest, and among
the pines could be seen an occasional
sentinel of the season clad in sober rus
set. The chestnut., faded out utterly,
and tbe leaves of the dogwood glowed
as though a torch had been lighted in
the deep, dark w< ods.
I suppose that other places were as
rhythmically set to the seasons as
R:ckville, but i is next to impossible
to believe it; aud as for the people. 1
am quite sure that no other Georgia
town had its Bledsoes, its Spiveys, its
Bagleys and its Padgetts, and I am
vbe president,but in choosing the p. t - SfKJtet
FAJt
OB Hadif
Tne Russian beir is not grew.ing, nor
the E .glish lion roaring, as much as
formerly. The bluster is abating, and
peace begins to appear larger on tbe
horizon than war. The altered asp€c:
of affairs is due to the impression that
Prince GortschakutFa circu’ar in reply
to that of Lord Salisbury, has created.
The good tern per of the R tseian circular,
its plansib'.e explanations of the treaty
of San Stefono and its professed aspi
rations fora **pe-.cefal future” have had
a soothing effect on E: g.ish nerves. It
contains no concessions to England,
but the tenor of the entire c : rcalar in-
d.cates a willingness to have al* ?':
1 material points « the treaty discr
Tbe Ealoatoa Bobbery.
Tne burglary in E itonton, by which
CoIooelT G. Lawson loai in toe aggregate
some twenty-fix thousand dollars h»i created
no little excitement in that portion of the state.
Such a burgUry has not occurred in an interior
town in many yean Since it recurred all the
detective power* in the tc wo have been at work
todlHCorer the perpetrator, aud a man by the
uatne of J. A Cameron has been arrested, tried
and uvumit’t d as the pereou who did the deed
The evidence *Rai* s', him in entirely cin ura-
*'antial. It has been nicely worked up. princi
pally by Citloncl Lawton, who feela confident
•hat he h*a ta> en the right party. The rtremu-
•tturea form qute an lntfrcKiiiig chain. Tne
cleverness of tne j >b pointed ‘o the fact that no
one con tl have Mjcceeded in gctUne into tne
*afe except a skilled tcechaaio Tbit threw
rttapiemu on this class in toe U.wa.
The first clue was a bloouy match box which
wai taken from under the broken piaster of
pan* which fonn»-d tbe iuaide of the walla of
the safe The blood ou it indicated that it
come from the forefinger of toe left hand. It
WHsmendmed in the n part that there were
drop* of blood about tte floor
*‘*“ '* uchanic. He was
of their arrival. Th*t n g.:t tbe burglary vu
eahavisgg, bat could
i the fore fi ’ger of hi* l.-ft hand,
-ponamg to the requirements of the bloat on
f match box. Tne wouud he tried to con-
On the other hand Mr. Cameron has borne a
good character io Eatontoo and hat been
o*sful man. None oi to? money or bond _ .
6-en recovered and his conn eel are confluent
of a speedy acquittal. He haa a wife and one
child and is a portly and flue iookii g c
is the rwittr of two a • w milii
Mr H- J. Denni*, dtp
county, reached Mn&ml
Atlanta, where he
- -Xixeu in J u.ton c
ping-
ilia bond has been fixed at 8 2,000 An effort
w»li bi tn-de to have it re*drevd The matter
was tohfcvecorae before Jud|.e Bi:tl-i*te. who is
now in recity, la*t evening, hut by consent it
wh* postponed uutil next week, wben the Judge
wi!l near the motion at Jones superior court.
Colonel W A L f on L couueel for toe prisoner.
-ALcan Teltgiapii.
AX iXCUlXO DEB A TK.
One of the most exciting debates that
has taken place in the house since the
war occurred the other day over the
election of a doorkeeper.
It was brought about by a bit of dis
reputable tactics on the part of Bjn
Butler. 'Ibe democrats nominated as
their candidate for doorkeeper General
C. W. Fields, of Georgia, an ex*Confed
erate officer. Gen. Shields, ot Massa
chusetts, a veteran of the Mexican war,
and a distinguished soldier on the
union side during tbe war, was before
the caucus but was beaten. Although
he was a life-loDg demcciat, Gen. But*
Dr, as the republican leader, took him
up and pressed him against the demo
cratic nominee. Tne cbj ct of this
sudden love for a democrat was, of
course, apparent. In fact, Gen. Butler
in the bitter debate which followed
s ated it in term?. The democrat* bad
nominated an ex Confederate soldier
a^ainbt a battle-ecarred union soldier.
“I am determined” said Gen. Butler,
“to force upon the democratic party
this very day the issue as to whether
it will fleet a man who wae a traitor to
his country over one who in twro wars
lias fought ard bled in her. defense.
I' wili be seen that this issue was most
adroitly pnt, and Butler and hia col-
14 agues urged it with great vehe
mence. General Butler was evidently
carried away with the excitement so
of the debate that he delared
that the southern soldiers should have
beeen hung, fer their treason. Tuts
statem-nt produced a g*eat deal of Del
ing, and we give it in the exact words
of Gen. Butler. He said, in speaking
of the points in which Gen. Fields d f-
fered from Gen Shie ds.
Mr. Bui.er—It i* tot? d.fference between loy
alty, the fl*g azd government which educated
him a"d brought him up and treareo to that fl*g
[applause ou the R» publican aide], for which
ireascn he ought to have been hanged. IL tuga-
v r 1 By all law*, human *nl divine, he ought
to h*v-» been haeg.-d. but toe clemency of toe
c unuy raved h:ta from that penalty, and I
have toe niforttinate preeminence of being
about toe only man whs ever did enforce that
penalty, aud I.uni by the act.
Messrs. Clvmer of Pennsylvania, and The citizens of New Orleans are fond
Cox of New York made speeches in re- #
ply condemning this re-opening of the
A a accident 0! a most distressing
character cccurreU ct the real fence of Mrs L. A.
Hall. No. 31 Cuurch street, yesterday a’lcrcoon
about half pas: two, by which. In a.i probabili
ty, the death ot Aded-ie Tbum**, a colored ntr<
vast
KNPLOYXn ON TH* PKKXI*I9,
will occur The • flair a* related to ue by Mre
Hall, i* as follow*. Yesterday afternoon at to
hour above mentioned. Mis- Hal inv.ructed be
cock. Adeline, to kindle the fire in toe k : tcben
stove and prepare lor getting dinner The wo
man at once kindled the fire in obe
dience to the command of Mrs HalL The fi e
bunted slowly, end Adeline with a view of
harrying on the work took a kerosene con
HOLDING A GALLON OF CIL,
filed that day. commence a pouring the treach
erous fluid upon the kindling wood. In a
stant, as the floid touched toe burning wood,
an explosion of the oil occurred, and the oil
fi wall over toe cx>k, eaturat ng h:r garments
completely. A.moat instantly, with the evplo-
non. the flames took hold of th* woman 1
clothes and In a moment thj
WAS WEAPT IN A BHZZT OF >LAVXS.
She rnshed into toe honee from the kitchen
crying for help.
The <i rnutliy of ot .however, made a terrific
fire, and th; woman fell pr-.-strate opm the
floor, after every thread of clothing had been
burned from her body-
With ecarcely any ife in her charred body she
was removed to her room on toe premises and
Dr G G Boy summoned. The phytidan
* ponded and did all in his power to alleviate
t he suffjrings of the nmortnnate creator*.
When heard of las: night she waa Kill alive,but
with poor hopes cf recovery.
uleut the votes shall betaLea by sluics,
the representation from each state hav
ing one vote. A quorum for this pur
pose shall consist of a member or tnetu
bersfroai two-thirds of the states and
a majority of all the states, and a m>»-
j >rity of all the states shall be neccs-
8 .ry to a choice. And if the hou«e
of representatives shall not
choose a president, whenever
the right of choice shall
devo’ve upon them, before the fourth
day of March next followiug, then the
vice presideut shall act as president as
in the coi?e of death or other constitu
tional disability of the president. The
person having the highest number of
electoral votes as vice president ehali
be vice president, but it two or more
persons have an equal and the highest
number of such votes, then from such
persons the senate shall choose the vice
preeidenL A quorum for the purpose
shall consist of iwosthirds of the whoie
number of senators, and a maj >rity of
the whole number shall be necessary to
a choice.
UJilUWAS hour shy.
The Texas Bobber* nod tbe Fxprr
Csmpnny— Ibe.LHtirr Drlei mint-*!
io (aptare nxtd 1‘ankvU
HlgbwiO men.
Memphis Appeal
Highway robbers are making things
lively in Texas. Their daring deeds
and exploits bear comparison with
those oi Jack Sheppeid, Dick Turpin
and other noted highwaymen in their
palmiest days. trains have been
stopped and ilie express ard mail cats
plundered some half d« z-*n times with
in the poet four werks. The last of
these daring deeds occurred on Thuro-
day, at Eagle Ford, a station on the
Texas and Pacific railioad, about six
miles from Dallas. At this point an
armed gang, about a dozen in number
mounted the train, a p>rtion ot
whom, with pointed pistols,
took charge of the express mes
senger, mail agent aud railroad em
ployees, while the balance leisurely
devoted themselves to plundering the
express Fate and mail bags, and when
they had secured everything of value,
'liey quietly drove off iu a westerly
dire* tion. Afier the second train roll
bery over there, about three weeks
Hiro, the -overnor, railroa d and expre
officials j -intly organized a large fore
for the purpose < f hunting 'down the
robbers, and in addition offered a re
ward oi nine thousand dollars for their
capture and conviction. But the uu
terrified highwa> men are still at large,
and seem to be pursuiug their villain
ous career with increased energy. As the
postoffice department is not liable tor
the loss of any money, valuable pack
ages or registered letters sent through
the mails, a great many poor people
will no doubt be made sufferers by
these robberies. Tbe express company,
of course, is liable for all Jos-ies, and
those who remitted through that chan
nel are all right. We understand that
the express company has lost im
mensely by these series of robberies in
Texas, btill, every loss wxs promptly
made good on presentation of receipt.
M. J. O'Brien, general superintend
ent ot the Southern and Texas express
companies, was in the city during the
past week, and on receipt of d s >a'ches
announcing the robbery at Eigle Fold,
he immediately left forTsxas, with the
determination to adopt such rneasur s
a( will bring ab^ut the capture of the e
daring high wat men, regardless of the
cost and trouble incident thereto.
Some years ago train and express
r bteries were as frequent in
this section of country as
they arc now in Texas ; and their in
frequency, or rather entire cessation of
late year?, is owi;.g to the cffec.ive
measures which the officers of the
ciouthern express company took in
hunting down and briig>n? robbers to
ju-tice. Mr. O’B ien is now about to
adopt similar measures in Tex*?, and
he will no doubt meet with the success
there that he did in this Eection. Ti.at
he may do so is tbe wish of all good
and law-abiding citizens.
ML GENTLE FIG.
old wounds, but it was reserved for Mr.
BlackDurn of Kentucky to get in the fin
isher. He made an etequent and point*
e-1 £r«M>ch, and closed with the following
* Uespiss to* jraiLbeis or riaewfcere. who
•vsty fisc day. Altera extern gtren pablidy
g ven tosy tare once a month the Grand Drawing
of theLoziriaa* State Latter/ Oompaay, which
a conducted with strict integrity and great
ability on the part of itt Masagera for chart-able
and ed a cation 1 purposes. For any information,
those corona are invited to oorrespxnl w to M
A. P — phin, P. O Box 691. N$w Crteat*. La.
t:i April d4wlt
Cincinnati, April 11.-The Ch cm
nati Pxice Current’s twenty-ninth an
nutl report of the pork packing in the
est; will be published to-morrow. The
total winter packing in the wes* wae
6.505,00; average net weight, 226 4 100
poundr; yield of lard, 38 61 100 » ei
hog; cost of 100 pounds net, $4 90
Compared witli las' winter, there is an
increase of 1.404.000 in the number of
hogs packet'; 10 12-100 pr-nres, in the
average net weigh ; 4 53 100 io the av
erage yield of lard, and a decrease ' f
$2 19 TOO in the average cos. per 100
barrels net. The totnl production cf
barreled pork war 723.368 bairels, an
increase of 86,101 Tae aggregate pack
ing for the twelve months endieg
March 1, was 9 043 566 hosra. The win
ter product of lard was 7 611 192 tierce?,
of which it is estimated visible 6Upp'y
in tbe west and at seaboard, including
interior points, was 250,000 tierces, or
33 per cent. The winter products
of cured meats was 980,000,000 pounds,
including the barreled product, of
which there was at the large cities in
the interior and at seaboard 333 000,-
000 munda up to tbe middle of March,
or 40 per cent. The report is elabo
rate in its presentation of the details
of tbe season’s business and compari
sons with previous v*»ra.
—Time is money; emphatically so
when Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup f. *-quent-
ly cures colds, coughs, etc., in less than
a day. Price, 25 cento a bottle. Sold
everywhere 243
all this wide world had its Mit-s Perry
man, its Mrs Pruitt, its Mrs. Padgett or
ito Mrs. Duseubeiry. 1 say this ad
vis“dly.
Bui for all thi?, it is aim ist too ab
surd to believe that Rockville ever h. d
a romance of any fort, and I
sure that the title I have affixed to this
rambling aud d i-c mnec.ed chronicle is
not, in some degree, an exaggeration
intended to entrap the unweary read
er; for of all villages in the
universe, Rockville would be the
the least likely to have a romance,
anything bordering thereupon. Save
nuou sale days when the Wards, the
Fullers, the Caswells and the Dawsoua
rode carelessly into town, and lying
their horses to the various convenient
racks about the public equire, proceed
ed lo tire upon each other from behind
convenient corneis and eligibl tree
corners, R ickville was the quietest
place imaginable. A* I have said, its
serenity was immemorial, for it would
iL-become me, as a dignified chronic -
to dwell upon, or even to tike into con
sideration, the family feuds of the
WprJs and the Dawsons. Tney were
fierce enough, heaven knows—and
deadly enough—but neither their fool
ish causes nor their deadly results dis
turbed the peace of Rockville. Nor
was this pastoral repose broken by
the utilitarian devices of the present
age. Neither the hiss of steam nor the
roar of machinery was heard. The
whistle of a locomotive would have
thrown the community into convul
sions, and the setting up of a barber’s
eign would, in all probability, have re
sulted in an indignatiou meeting In
deed, I am not sure that in 1848 the
barber had been invented—certainly
not, so far as Rockville was concerned
There were hair dressers, to be sure,
but the man with the razor was nn
known to the civilization of the little
town.
What is now called the R.ckville
hotel wa* then known as Bigley’s tav
ern, and albeit it might be policy to
admit that the name has been
improved as to euphony,
Bagley himself will tell you
should you chance to meet him, that it
is not at all safe that the seasonirg of
the soup is one whit more artistic as
to accuracy and timeliness; or, to use
Mr. Bigley’s own expression, “puttin'
paint on the roof (lin't whitewash the
cellar.” Y >u will be introduced to
B. gley later on, but in the meantime
you must take my word for it that he
was what the h)ys around town called
a character. The Middle Georgia Vade
Mecum lias also changed its name, af
ter an interval of long suspension, but
it is by no means sure that Col Pontius
Bogardue, who now edits it, is a more
conscientious guide of public opinion
or a safer counsellor of the nation than
the amitb'e Plunker, who was one of
the pioneer journalists of his day.
daily train of cars has taken the p'ace
of the stage-coach that connected
Rockville with the outside world, b
I am inclined to doubt whether this
mode of communication is more satis
factory than that afforded by the b _
led coach and the spanking four-in'
hand that John Bsll used to drive. It
a word, R jckviile in 1848 was as thor
oughly provincial as isolation coaid
make it, oud as thoroughly satisfied
with itself. For the rest, it had a
church—a union cnurch—which was
the pride of the village, and two good
schools whose fame had gone abroad
attracting pupils from all sections.
The first in importance, as far as 1 cau
gather from the files of the Vade Me
cum, st»ll preserved in the office of the
ordinary, was the male academy, pre
fided over by William Wornum. The
female academy was under the super
vision of Miss K 4te Underwood,
a lady who had ventured
leave her home in Vermont for the
purpose of reclaiming the people of the
south from tbe heathenism in which
she had been taught to believe they
langui-hed. Her not ocs with respect
to the barbarism of the people among
whom she had cast her lot underwent
a ppeedy change, aud she established
school tor girls that became renowned
for the thoroughness of its discipline
and the completeness of its curriculum.
In forgetting her mission she but made
it the more complete- managing, in a
motherly sort of way, to in'use into her
pupils something of the New England
thrift aud energy characteristic of her
race and training. Thus it came about
that Rjckville was well satisfied with
itself, and fome of the leading citizens
even locked forward to the day wheu
their interests would be uplifted upon a
wave ct progress. Precisely from what
direction this wave would fl>w was not
a subject of calculation among the
sages and the prophets who gathered
on tbe street corners every day, or who
congregated aronnd the stove in Floyd’i
bir, which. I have omitted to mention^
was one ot the institutions of the
place.
ll.
TUE BOY IS THE TREE.
The spring-time dropped suddenly
upon Rockville-crept up in a night,
as it seemed, and filled the town with
swollen buds aud bursting blossoms,
and eprinkle-i an indefinable odor of
new liie and freshnets upon the sweet,
cool air of the morning. When I say
that fpring crept npon Rockville al
meet in a night, I speak literally, for i
took Miss Jane Perryman by surprise,
and thoFe who lived in Rockville in
1843, and remember her bustling ways,
her trenchant tongue and her active
charity, do not need to be told that
spring w*;8 a very subtle season if it
found Mi?s Jane unprepared; and yet
this particular epring had slipped down
from tbo sun with each Burprising
quietness that wben Miss Jane came
out one morning, broom in hand, an4
Jane came to inspect ner violet
- 6 l,fo r ,8C atered here and there,hidden
by the leaves she found more than cn *
modest little witness, testifying by its
odorous presence to tbe fact that some
cccuit influence had made ib elf felt.
Discovering these things, Miss Jane
leant upon her broom a moment and
looked first at the budding trees and
then at the far blue sky. In a china
tree near at hand a mocking-bird,
stirred by some mysterious impulse of
the season, gave a prem mitory whistle,
and then broke forth into a matchless
melody, while in the sky, a swallow,
quivering and twittering, swept swiftly
across the field of blue. Before Miss
Jane could adjust her spectacles to fol
low the uncertain flight of the swallow,
a yellow butterfly, darting hither and
thither, as though perplexed with the
newne s of things, lit upon the wall of
the little cottege, just where the sun
shone brightest, and then proceeded
with great apparent satisfaction, to fo-d
and unfold its wonderful wings, as if by
that process it would* atch a Drg ursui>
ply of tbe warmth that seemed to b
wasting in the cool shadows tha*, drift
ing around this one spot of brightness
in wavy successions, made it in some
sort an island of snnshine. But the fact
that the sun had found Miss Jane in b d
gave her some excuse for resenting the
perplexing forwardness of the season,
and she gave vent to her vexation by
addressing the butterfly:
“Ilayef I fetch you a swipe with
this broom, you won't be lightin*
round here to do your noddin’.”
But the domestic weapon which Mies
Jane poised in the air did not descend.
Just at that moment a bee, coaxed
into the sunlight by the exceeding gra
ciousness of the weather, flitted tuio
the porch and hovered a moment, in a
languid and despon Jent manner, among
the unfruitful vines that clambered to
the roof of the little cottage. Samebow
or other the noise of the bee arrested
the attention of Miss Jane. It
carried her back to the days
when she need to hnnt for hon
evsucklea somewhere on the
banks of the Ooonee, and the broom
that had been raised to demolish the
butteilly was stayed, and fell harm
lessly to the floor. In a moment Mih>
Jane had forgotten both buttetfly and
bee, for just across the narrow street,
shaded by china-berry trees was a new
sign staring her in the face. It h-d
gone up in a night. Nsver bef »re d
anything occur in Rockville without
previously coming to the knowledge of
Miss Jane, but here was the sign, i
plain view—“D Vanderlyn, Gu--
maker.” Mies Jane regarded it with
astonishment.
Much we want with gunmakers,
reckon. Nobody roun’ here lacks fer
a gun, ’cept it’s George McHenry, au’
he’s a born loony.”
But the sign was there, whatever
as Jane might say. It was a t i
s gn, too, neatly pai ted, aud ewuu.
easily in the cool breeze that somewhat
tempered the balmiuese of the spriiu!
morning. Miss Jaue was really puz
zled. The thop was a new establish
ment so far as her knowledge was co
cerued, and the business of g in-mak
ing, she was willing to vow, haviug
lived in the village for nearly thirty
years, wus a novelty in Rockville, bu
the fact that the occupant thereof ha<
moved in, bag and baggage, and put up
his sign without ouce attractin'
her attention or that of her neigh
bore, was a source of great p.-r
piexity to the veteran maide
aud she stood staring at the phenome
non with unusual interest. She ha?
one consolation, however. Neither
Mis. Pruitt, the mantua-maker, nor
Mrs. Dusenbery, the little tailor’s wif»
knew anything about the matter; aiv
what they didn’t know, Mi*s Jane ic
wardly remarked, “nobody else needn’
try to find ou*. ’ While Miss Jane wa
thus standiog, wondering how a next
inhabitant could have settled in R jck
ville without her knowledge, the bea
buz %ii«g around the little porch, in a
^^numbed aud bewildered way, struck
t te defiantly-poised* room, and fell tc
tbe floor, where, lighting npon its back,
it vainly endeavored to clutch the air
with its feet. This aroused Mips Jaue.
Well, the Lord V massy ! Nobod.
can’t never have any peace, la the
winter you’re freeztn’ to death, and
wben warm weather comes it’s as mac 1
as yon kin do to keep the bees and tha
bugs oaten your years. But I lay 1’
fix you!”
But she didn’t carry out her purpose
Just at that moment a voice that seem
ed to come from over head, called out
“Ef you fool with that feller muc*
you’ll have to tote a poultice around
It was not an unpleasant voice, and
for a wonder Miss June was not star
tied. Looking up, she caught sight of
boy nestling and swinging in the top
most branches of tbe China-berry tree
in front of the porcu. If Miss June
had an aversion upon earth, it was tbe
smal -boy, and the sight of ’his parties
lar youth caused her wonder to culini
nate iu genuti e vexation.
Uon'ft r ght d iwn frum tbar this
minnil! I ain't gwine to have my trees
broke down. I’ll holler f >r Uncle Be
ef you don't move. Whatter you doin'
up tlMr,ennyhow ?”
“Oil, Pm jest a lookin’ at the birds
ain’t doin’ no damage.”
It was a bright, pleasant, lauzhing
f<tce tha* the b *y turned on Miss J.:t
as he rep'<ed, aud 1 am not sure that
d'd not i 1 some degress take the edgi
off her anger, but if she was at all m >!
lified it was not apparent in her tone.
“Yes yon aie doin' damage, an’ the
fus’ thing you know that lim’ll break
an’ Ton’ll git your chunk knocked out.”
Miss Jane was not particularly fond
of children. She had little or no eym
pathy with the spirit of perverse humor
that prompted the average small boy
to trample upon flower beds, rob bird’s
nests and make himself ridiculously
ruinous in the several and various
directions suggested by his extraord
na y ingenuity. Upon one memorab
occasion, the Rockville small boy had
even gone so far as to make a raid, and
a very disastrous one, upon Mist Jane’s
bergamot bed, and her primroses and
oleanders had likewise suflered. From
that moment Miss Jane declared open
war against the whole tribe ot small
boys, and her reputation for feroci
was widespread.
“I ain’t going to have any trees broke
up an* tore down by nobody, much less
by ^rou young rapscallion*. Ef you
_ tin sign that had attracted the no*
tice of Miss Jane. With the intu.tion
natural to children and to dumb aui-
mals, he had already caught and
gauged the gentleness of the school-
mos’er, and appreciated as only a boy
caa the whimsical humor that charac
terized William Wornum. “1 je»*
started to go an’ see you, but I wus
afeard er rouzin’ the house, an’ so 1
thought I’d 8»»rter wait roun’.”
T hope,” said the schoolmaster, with
great apparent seriousness, “that you
didn’t expect to find me roosting in the
tree.”
Oa, goodness, no! But you might
flue wus places. Many a time Dan au’
me wou d ’a’ felt mighty go d, ef we
could ’a* fouu’ a tree Lke this ’ere.”
‘I know’d he wuz a heathen,” re
marked Miss Jaue, with u ction. “I
know’ll it the miuuit I sot eyes on
him ”
u Y*s ” said the schooDmaster, “but
you must remember that the heathen
have i^iven us our greatest philoso'
reined by him c
practically established toe dtscusriou oi too
whole treaty, and thus shown how email a
foundation the Britiah objections had If the
«»5Tre-me* t(iht*re win bo no objection to fall
diNcutatou but the admission of the treaty im-
• °T, au act , w 6, ich no independent power, Kux>
land i«aat of all, won to «d~tt. * b
A HOAX
Doxbjn, April 13 • A K.uu r telcgrrm from
&t tvterebnru f*ys: A Minima.y publirtud l.v
tne Lo. uku c.mtrtl pre*a y. *u rday 01 11,«* cir
cu.ar •ccompanying Prince GumcUakf.tr * rei.ly
to Loru Salisbury is Hpocb:y p; ,*i. i a Ulc
oi common. Gladstone, who v.r.rl in ih m,.rn
■tic. W«« loudly hooted l.y me oonaervaUvea.an.i
there waa aacvhe ol. rcat txcltcment.
There h« been lea exdlemetit at Porumou n
doer yard thta we. k. The work In hand i» i„
assuror g it* ordinary routine character ox"r
* hAkbeeu RetereUy Morped. L ule
”* ' " * ike prepi
to-ua idler had
— — ...a; MUinualtv to Por s-
aekmir how loin? it would uke
t reauy for sea the tl niju
ftonboau built for H-rvIo? in the Baltic
during tbe last Kuoitian war. wt:d lor the m’Vst
pm tit.C* lyiu* on ehtp« hi lla-iao. The-e are
formidable tittle meets of ton* dr-pise-
pfcers
Well, ef I was y u, William Wore*
nutn, I wouldn't make fun of the
child,” said Miss Janr, suddenly chang
ing her tone and her ;series.
Willi.-m Wornum turned suddenly
and looked at his landlady. He was
used to her eccentricities of temper,
but something in her voice arrested his
attention, and as he gHnced quickly
at the worn, trouble sea fid face befoie
him he thought he caught a glimpse ol
something like tenderness in the sharp,
shrewd eyes, and he w*s certain that
she looked at the boy aud smiled —a
bright bu weary smile, as it seemed to
theschco master.
Who Sa'di solve for us tire* mystery ol
children’s lam? Rough men —miner*
and convicts - have been known to fall
aweeping at the rig it of a child’s face,
and most of ue, I imagine, have been
thrilled through aad through with emo
tions similar, hut le.-s acute. 80m* how
or other, the laughing face of the little
boy, framed in the green leaves of the
China tree, reminded Miss Jane most
vividly of a time wheu she, too, was
young and hopeful,—wlieu hand in
hand with a fair, brave youth, she
wandered through the glad gnvn land.
The youth who had wandered with Mias
Jane, and who came back to her now
as a vision, had died years before. Ills
dearest friends had forgot .cn him, and
even Mis* Jane had coated, save in a
vague way, to clothe his memory with
regret, but to-day, in some mysterious
mauner, the face cf the wayward b »y,
of whom she desired the rchool
to mr.ke an ex unple, brought hick to
her mournfu ly pleasant memories of
the olden time
1 am far from making fun of this
vouch, Miss Jane,” said the schoolmas
ter, “l was merely gloating over the
fact that we have c ptured him. He '
ours. It is impossible for him to escape.
What shall be done with him 7”
‘Lst ’im alone. Goodness knows
iti consolation ’null’ to know’t heaint
one o’the nasty p«ck that sets up
your school house an’ hatches devil
ment day in an’ day ou'.”
The schoolmaster sni led. “Go, John
Vanderlyn,” said he, in a semi-irag
voice. “You have trespassed most
grossly upon the pri nv.es of this lady
here, but she raruon
“Gracious me, W-Liam Wornum
Folksagoin’ by’d take you for a naten
born lunatic. Come down, Vandler-
min, or whatever your name ia. You
ain’t kilt the tree, I reckon.”
ays I’m light as
feather an* s«*if- as a bir *.”
D u'a a loicev,” remaiked Mi 1
Jane sententious y.
“ It is uiy opinion, young man,” said
the schoolm inter, smiling one of his
most serious smile?, “tuat you have
fallen among enemies who are friends
ri disguise, and if mine eyes deceive
me not you will soon fiad out their va
rious we8knej8es.”
I told Dml was cornin’ over to see
the school-teacher, but it looked like to
me it was loo so >11, an’so I i=*s’ thought
I’d git up here an’ play like I was a
jay-bird.”
“ Well, npon my soul,” replied the
school-master in a tone that irritated
Jane, “ your mn?q terode is wonder
fully life-like. You lack the wings, the
feathers and the remarkable tepknot of
the blue jay, but I dare say you are
capable 01 kicking up quite as much of
a rumpus. They are v.-cifcrous enough
when they choose to be—these jay
birds.”
“Well, I don’t care,” said the boy
seriously. “A jay-bird lit right here
ou this limb a while ago, an* he didn’t
squall much- He sorter rutlli i hu&e’f
up, but he didn’t flutter ’roun’ like he
was sheered.”
“He wasn’t one of Mi«p Jane’s kind
o! birds,” remarked the
school master with such se
rious emphasis as to exasperate bis
landlady ; “otherwise your eyes wonld
have ten pecked out and your clothes
torn off.”
“That child don’t know when ycuVo
jokin’, William Wornum,” Miss Jane
said in her most threatening tone.
“If yon will fly down from your
perch, Jack,,’ remarked the school
master, pretending to ignore Miss
Jane’s asperity “if you will drop the
commonplace level of humanity, we
can have a talk together. 1 believe
you said you wanted to sie me?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the boy, sliding
swiftly down trio rough trunk of the
tree. “D.tn said he reckon I belter
come over an’ see you.”
[TO BE CONTINUED ]
ment with two sen-ws and c „
Kan in the bow. Prepare 1 ion* were m
begun to fit them with maittz.ma, when I
uriug them forward.
HONK OPINION*.
’etereburs. opinion m?arrfine Gortecha-
cuiar ia much divided S »me eouaidcr
it a complete political proi;rauiue,fu!l of n ud,1
- eu. t power!
introduction
around
It ban greatly dtapimfcd tb(*e
9 wt*h the governinnu to nail iheir
mart aud ri*k all rather than m i
..Inert concession. The op;ciou at
continue* rkeptic*) about the nu <v*s of t
illations The Nord D.uuche Z.Miuug
rday. referring to Germany's nndm:i.»u
The j lint appeal of Ragland and Rm
* — ' Jcrmajy oou' * *-
rtiea were wi
would pul nu'of qu
isMbiii yof either p.u;j chilleugiiigthn ottur!
hia Mt niwo i. dici-t: L.at t.oagreenu-m La*
bceu reached, ano wiat
OkKMANY IS DIL'KIFUL
about the aincertty of the d«-*ire for nti under*
udr*Kt>y and IierrTi zu
at Perth, attei dine Lj
Tue lidii g< ll. lirauauo briug* from
Mve. According to mws from
rest the popular mind iu U,rnnaiil«
•ems scarcely prepared it accept such ad vice,
whatever be the disposition of ministers.
SITUATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE
is still regarded a* dangcrou* Io peace, uotwith.
trending the protestation* of the forte Thcie
are iutrigues goiug on amoug the iwMi**. Hint
the ditcreliouof too Kutaian omnmuJ r nnl
of Mr. La/ord arc doubled. Mcbcmt t A i and
Mnuahtar, (reman. Rouf aud Said PaMm*. hii»1
several other Turkish generals, tl toed wito Mr.
L cyard yreterday.
THK UBKKKS AND Bt'1.0ASIANS
in Roumnui* and Tnrac- are qu*rn 1 inc a tv nt
the po6t>e»iou o( the Greek church* *,nyp •n'.u.y;
to the Kumians •—■ **•- —*-- * - —
a’ m< sphere of O
daily tp.coming t
BOOKS Fit EE.
•lon'tcome down, I’ll call Mr. Wornum.
You forgot he was boardin’ here,
reckon.”
Mies Jane waa so accustomed to ig
nore the boys with whom ste came ii
contact, that they were like herd of
bay h* rses to her, all bad and all alike.
She concluded, therefore, that the brat
who was perched amid the budding
greenness of her china tree was one
the pupils of William Wornum, the
principal of the R ickville male acade
my.
“ I was jes* cornin’ over to see him.
responded the boy langhingly. “but _
looked so nice up here that I thought
I’d climb up here an’ set in the sun.”
Mias Jane waa not as angry as bhe
supposed she would be, but she kept
up tbe pretence.
“ Well, you’ll see ’im soon enough
fer your good, I reckon,” she said, aud
swept indignantly into the house.
“6he’s agoin’ to fetch him out now,
the boy Baid, laughing outright, “and
raise a rumpus. But ef he gits to kick
in'too high, I guess Dan’il cool
oi.”
It appeared to the bright-eyed chap
who sat in his high perch, swinging h.
fe*t thoughtfully in the fresh air of th.
morning, that MUs Jane was a long
time on her errand. Presently, how
ever, he heard voices in the* house,
Miss Jaue’s sharp tones mingling with
a man’s pleasant voice.
“He’s a settin' up thar,” Miss Jane
was saying, “jes as sassy as ef he owned
the place.” Then they both came our,
and the boy beheld the man who,
above all others, was to mould and
fashion hia life—William Wurnum,
school-master. He was a tall, serious
looking man, bat this appearance
of gravity was the result rather of the
thoughtfulness oi the face than of any
j eculiarity of temper. Consequently,
when he lifted hia eyes, glancing in the
direction indicated by Miss Jane’s
threatening forefinger, and saw the
s niling face of the youthful culprit, he
buret out laughing—a very p>&sant
laugh thsboy thought—and Baid:
“ Well, upon my word, Mias Jane, I
th nk the boy ought to receive praise
iustead of blame. Not a boy in my
school could clamber to that perch.
What is vour name, young man 7”
“Jock Vanderlyn,” replied the boy,
blushing like a girl.
tyell? John yAhderlyn—”
TUB TORMENTS OF HELL.
(Glared Cl«!rt9ra«*i Sletorr Them
»*«• <nat« an i;w|»r<rrU*nirft R«»l
val at lllcbmoad, Tn.
It chmond, Va , April 7.—An un pre
sented revival of religion has commen
ced here among the colored peop’e.
Hundreds of colored men and women
are to be seen proclaiming with the
peculiar E hiopian unction their con
version. All the colored chuiches are
in full blast, and morning, noon ai d
night the ministers are thundering i
to the ears of their listeners ibe tr
ments of belt Brother John J*-p-
has, for tbe while, given
preaching that the sun moves
and htfl gone back to
“hell.” Nothing could exceed the viv-
idnesB with which ho pictured, this
evening, the torments of eternal pun
ishment, and he scathingly denounced
Beecher and those other preachei
who attempt to show that tbeie is no
he 1. Some of his congregation grov-
ehd upon the 11 >or in very agony
he told that “t>ame as a head of cab-
ba^e in a bilin’ pot w:ll de sinner i»e
tor everlastin’ in hell” “The pot will
bile and decahbago will burn.but nev -r
burn up. You all will be like dat c .1»«
bags it you don’t repent.” There were
six hundred mourners at Mount Z on
to night, four hundred and fifty
Ehenezn*, five hundred at Brook's
church, two hundred and thirty at
Memorial church, and abou. the san.t
i umber in the other churches in R ch
mond and Manchester. Yesterday Hie
revival spread to such an extent among
the hands in some tobacco factoriei-
that they deliberately gave ap work,
and went to shouting and mournirgi
and numbers had to be discharged
lhis evening a bevy of colored girls
went on Franklin street. Richmond
boulevard stopped and shook hands
with tbe gay throng cf kid gloved brlDs
and beaux of the aristocracy and urg d
them to seek salvation. To night, at
supper at one of the hotels, Martin
Thompson, a waiter, suddenly became
converted as he wae enter n/ the din
ing-room with a drib of h owed oyster?,
and, slinging the dish and contents to
the floor, he raised bis hands and
began to tell how he w s
c inverted on 'he spot, and io
preclaim the visions of gl .ry that had
been revealed to him and were pass
ing before him. At them xer church
to«day, a lit le colored girl, eight )ears
o*d, stood up and tola the congrega
tion of a vieion which *he had teen
last night, and tha' she had seen tbe
moon bathed in blood, ard the an<rel
Gabriel catne out of the cloud 4 and
told her that this meant the woi id was
com rig to an end right away. This has
caused a profound s-neatior. Such a
rev.val has nev<*.r been known here.
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Memphis Appeal, dern.
The south ouly asks au equal share
with the other sections of the country
in the work and burden of government.
She asks immunity from centrahziti >n
and bayonet rule, and wants local self-
government. She wants her represen
tative men in the senate and limne of
representatives of the Uuited States.
She af-ks no more, nor does she want
herc.aims pressed by the other eecriors.
And»oputanend to sectional jealous'es
and contentions, shs will not proas her
favorite statesmen, worthy and able as
they are, to the front at this time.
luiniUcrntlcn Kxirennllnnry
New York Tribune, rep.
Major-General Field certainly has
ir best wishes ; for we are getting tired
of this fleeting panorama of doorkeep
ers. We presume he has the sympathy
of everybody. Aad we need m.t tell
him he can count on the co-operation
of Georgia, for by this time the able-
bodied population of that state are
either in Washington or on their way
tbeie to tiler their co-operation in per
son.
Dm*** ol nmuiiK
New York Commercial Advertiser, rep
We cannot deem Mr. Wood quite
candid in looking for larger customs
from his bill if it should become u law,
since befoie introducing the subject to
the house yesteiday he moved to sus
pend the sinking fund indefinitely, as
though it could not be kept up with
the proposed loss on the tohacotax
snd the real bearing of the reduced
duties from imp*>rt«rionp.
Mo Longer aa « «■!-**«»*.
Detroit Free Piew, dem.
It is more than ever apparent that
Ben Butler has “lost his g.ip.” Time
was when he bestrode congress as a Oil*
ussus, and much better men, both in
his owuparty am! among his opponents,
went peeping arou ;d, not to fiad them
selves dishonorable graves but to escape
the ven« m of his tongii•*. N »w even
the Southern members lteut him.
iao'i F.xprewi Thi m«< Ivra.
loubville Courier Journal.
North Carolina and Georgia wonld
Ii ce to express themselves upon the
barbarism cf the tiger-hull fights at
•Sah Antonio, Tex.v, had not all ar
rangements been made for a cccking-
rnain between the two states, in wlrch
numerous gallinaceous contestants are
to be horribly margled fer the amuse
ment and profit of sundry gambollere.
Correct Hat llurdrnoomc
New York World, dcm.
An income tax may be theoretically
the most equitable form of taxation,
but experience has proved that in this
country it cannot fail to he practically
burdensome end corrupting. Nothing
can juitily the impo«irion of such utax
here but grea' immediate need of ready
money in a great public emergency;
and no such justification now exists.
Tb« ( rati Kehnketl.
IfadlNOB Home Journal.
Governor Colquitt has raado ruch an
enviable record as chief magistrate that
we see no came at this present writing
why he should not be his own succes
sor. We make this remark merely to
warn some of ouriditorial brethren to
bottle up their ammunition until the
wool-hat boys speak in the next guber
natorial convention.
Hr Kotnlmrt'ft Rill.
Washington Star.
I nasmuch as the bill introduced by
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, with refer
ence to the metric sy s’cm, is meeting
with criricism, for departing from ti.e
metric standard, the friends of that
gentleman say the bill was not his own,
but was introduced by him al the re
quest of Mr. Bomhart, one of his con
stituents.
Ike Toorkrept-r’s -lUdre'n.
Ch'CKo Inter Ocean rop.
“To the Hon. Charles W Field, ter
mer y of the U BA, late oi lheC 6
A., later of the K.yplian forces, and
now commander-iu chief and dooi-
keeper extraordinary to the American
democracy,” is the proper method of
—The attitude of the mottof the
republican senators toward trie jdrniu*
tstration may be described as—on the
fence. They will not get down on one
side and pitch into Hayes, nor on the
an ^ defend him. They prefer
that matters rock along until after the
imn election, when we can take
addressing him.
Mrn K*’, It irnt.
M mpfiia Avalanche.
I- p *id there is one congressman
who is not a candidate for ie-eh c ion -
***** v Albert C. Walker, of Virginia
but a report eo apparently incredi
ble, and ro. inconsistent with the
general working of things, need* s.rong
confirmation.
Ihe Dfacrraia Mionld Be Content
Utica Repab. c*u, rep.
What more could the democrats ask
for 7 They get all the advantages of a
democratic administration through
Hayes, and incur none of its responsi
bilities. This must be delightful to
them.
i Who ’ - end* tbe Door.
Wa*h n*ton Port.
r —„ toe octet)
down bis grcai-y v
In toe spring toe actetcbln; jabbcrwock pu’!i
down nls greacy vest;
Iq the spring the wanton biue bird climbs itt
the marten's neat;
In the spring tire avenge oongres man up ends
upon toe 11 x>r.
Aud make* a grand and a • fa! speech on Ibe
Tb*» ureal r«wm.
Cincinnati Euqu'rer, dem.
The great powers oftLe world at this
t me seems to be Rurm*. Germany,
Great Britain, America, Baton and
Montg mery BUir.
Hone Once M*re.
Boston Poet, detn.
_ . ------ - * The administration has returned from
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