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Wednesday Morning,—Nov. 14, 1877
Democratic Nominations. Fioyd
County.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
S. C. TROUT,
JOEL BRANHAM.
(Election on Wednesday, Dec. 5.)
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Me are authorized to announce Col. A. J.
Kixn as a candidate for Representative from
Floyd county.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina,
is Gen. John A. Logan’s cousin.
Mr. Hayes’ smile will not be child
like and bland when he comes to pon
der the possibilities of refusing to sign
the silver bill.
When an Atlanta or a Milledgeville
man tabes a drink, he smacks his lips,
and looking dreamily away into the
dim future, says: “Capital, capital.”
The Illinois corn crop for the present
year, as given by the report of the State
Board of Agriculture, is 301,646,473
bushels, worth, at 20 cents a bushel
$60,229,304. The. acreage planted was
S,935,441, the average product per acre
being a little over 33 bushels.
A cable dispatch to the New York
Herald represents Grant as expressing
deep feeling at the sad news of Sena-
ator Morton’s death. He said that
“but for Merton’s ill health, he would
have appointed him Chief Justice, after
Mr. Conkling had declined the appoint
ment.” This country has evidently
made more narrow escapes than it is
aware of.
C 1 M ^
The Augusta Chronicle is not alone
in holding the opinion that, as the
straightout policy was gloriously suc
cessful in South Carolina 'last fall, it
would have been equally successful at
any preceding election. This is an
error, says the Charleston News. The
times were propitious last year, yet
Hampton had terrible difficulty in ob
taining his seat. At no preceding elec
tion, since 186S, could the Democracy
have prevented the Republicans from
counting them out Nor could the
fight have been won at all, had not the
country at large been made cur friend
by the compromise policy adopted in
1S70,1S72 and 1874.
The South Carolina papers want the
Moffit bell-punch introduced into that
State. The Charleston Weirs & Courier
vs that “South Carolina, for her size,
Itch drinking as any otter
State in the Union,” and it thinks the
punch would be a capital aid in getting
the State out of debt. It would not
be strange if the little instrument were
to become a famous appendage to our
system of finance. Its chief merit is
that it accomplishes for a State what it
would not accomplish for an individual;
it enables it to drink itself out of debt.
The more it drinks, the more money
goes into its treasury, and so in time it
comes about that the State floats its
debt out of existence on a sea of whis
key, beer and mixed drinks.
When acting as counsel in an impor
tant case before an Indianapolis court,
recently, Gov. Hendricks was indecor
ously taunted by one of the opposing
counsel with not acquiescing in the de
cision of the Electoral Commission.
The Governor was on his feet in an in
stint, saying: “There is nothing which
I have said, either in public or private,
which authorizes what the gentleman
hasjust said. I did not believe the
Commission did its duty, according to
the law, but never favored a resistence
to its authority, and that was known to
the gentleman himself.” When asked
if he was not in favor of contesting the
decision, he replied : “Never. I had no
thought of a law suit. I thought the
decision, when made, must stand.”
Senator Patterson’s case, says the New
York Tribune, does not grow brighter.
A Charleston dispatch reports that an
other indictment has been found against
him on the testimony of twenty-four
ex-members of the Legislature, who de
clare that they were bribed to vote for
him as Senator. The great difficulty
in proving charges of bribery has al
ways been that those who gave the
bribes and those who took them were
equally unwilling to bear evidence
against others that would also disgrace
themselves. But here is a cloud of wit
nesses already secured, and unless there
is some slip in the progress of the case,
it cannot be long before the Republi
can majority in the Senate will be fur
ther reduced by one, and the R“publi
can minority—let us hope it is—in the
South Carolina jail be increased by the
same number.
PARTY ORGANIZATION.
Without intending in this article to
say anything for or against the County
Convention of the 3d in6t., we propose
to say a word, as we think it now in
season, in favor of parly organization.
Mr. Jefferson expressed the opinion
that in Republics the existence of par
ties is essential to the preservation of
liberty.
Parties are based upon principles.
Such principles if put into practice in
the government will secure and perpet
uate the blessings of civil liberty, form
the foundation upon which the Demo
cratic party rests. Now, in order to
put themselves into vital operation, it
is necessary to place them in the keep
ing of a party that is in the majority,
otherwise correct principles are of no
use to the individual or the public. So
far as government is concerned, to main,
tain the supremacy of our principles,
we must have men to advocate them of
sufficient ability and courage to sustain
such principles. In advocating them,
necessarily they come in contact with
those who hold adverse doctrines, and
incur the displeasure of the opposition
party. Hence the necessity for party
organization and paity nomination in
order to hold up the hands of the bold
unflinching adherents of Democratic
principles; to do otherwise is to allow
the other party to select for us from
among our own men, and they will
select the one who is milk and cider,
and who feebly advocates the princi
pies of the party, if he advocates them
at all. We say, support the Democrats
who enjoy the confidence of the party
The Philadelphia Times, speaking of
the United States Senate, says : “The
death of Senator Morton will add an
other to the Democratic strength of the
body, giving them thirty-five, includ
ing Davis, and leaving the Republicans
thirty-eight, including Booth and Chris-
tiancy. Should the three Democrats be
anmitted from Louisiana and South
Carolina, the Senate would be made a
tie according to the natural affinities of
the Senators. The admission of Eustis
can hardly be opposed by anything like
a solid Republican vote, and the ad mis
siou of Kellogg is quite improbable now.
There may be protracted delay in the
admission of Butler, of South Carolina,
but it seems reasonably certain that
Corbin can never reach the place. If
Butler and Spofford shall be denied
their seats without admitting Corbin
ard Kellogg, the result would be their
re-election by Legislatures whose com
missions could not be disputed. We
look for the early admission of Eustis
which, with a Democrat from Indiana,
will divide the Senate into thirty-eight
Republicans and thirty-six Democrats.
So far as probable issue in the near fu
ture is concerned, the Senate will not
be likely to pay severe respect to party
lines. In point of fact, while the Sen
ate is not Democratic, it is no longer
Republican in the- therto accepted
party sense, and it ( -will soon attain
what it ever should be—an indepen
dent body over which no party can
crack the caucus whip. When the
Senate escapes the thraldom of partisan
domination the country will be vastly
the gainer thereby.
AGRICULTURAL.
The October report of the Commis
sioner of Agriculture for the State of
Georgia has been received, and Com
missioner Janes has our thanks for the
same. We transfer to our columns the
following interesting paragraphs from
the report:
The merchants and farmers in every
section of the State report les3 corn and
meat bought this year than in 1876.
The number of hogs being prepared for
pork this fall is larger than that butch
ered last winter. The area planted in
corn this year was reported one per
cent greater than in 1S76. The yield
will not be quite so large in consequence
of summer drouths in some sections of
the State. The crop of oats was small
er this year than last, but the increase
in wheat production probably more
than compensated for this deficiency.
The unusually large area being sown in
small grain this fall will supplement
the short yield of corn, so that a still
further decrease in importations may
be expected next year.
In spite of all the difficulties with
which the farmers of Georgia have con
tended, they have to a large extent ac
complished their emancipation from
the ruinous effects of the “all cotton
system” pursued for so many years.
When they reach the point of raising
on the farm all the supplies necessary
for home consumption, they can pro
duce cotton profitably as a money crop,
even at present prices, but not on pur
chased supplies.
TI1E ELE TIONS OF TUESDAY.
Congressman Finley, of Florida, has
introduced a joint resolution in the
House proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States that
the President and Vice President shall
be elected by a direct vote of the people
of the several States; that electors in
each State shall have the same qualifica-
tions as electors of the most numerous
branch of the State Legislature, and
that if two or more persons shall each
receive an equal and the greatest num
ber of votes for President, then the
House of Representatives shall from
such persons immediately choose the
President. The resolution further pro.
pose3 that the election shall be held at
the time now provided by law for choos*
ing the Presidential electors; that the
returns be canvassed at the time and
in the manner now provided, and that
the two bouses of Congress shall be the
judges, each house voting separately;
and in case of a disagreement of the
two houses, then the matter shall go to
the Supreme Court for final decision.
The latest news we get from the States
in which elections were held last Tuesday
indicates that there has been no very
great change in any of the States except
in Pennsylvania, where the Democrats
have made large gains, and have carried
the State by a majority of about eight
thousand.
The assembly of New York is so near
ly even, as far as the result is certainly
known, that it will be some days before
its exact complexion will be known. We
are fearful the Republicans will carry it,
as wherever there is doubt the Democrats
are generally counted out.
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
They have a telephone between Da
rien and Brunswick.
It is said that Jasper county will
make enough cotton to pay for her
guano.
Mr. Dudley Rowell, an old and high
ly respected citizen of Haralson county,
died at his home on the 5th inst.
Mr. Hartwell See, of Meriwether,
was murdered by unknown parties,
about a week ago. He was returning
home at night from a corn shucking,
A Henry county man spent a night
in the calaboose at Covington, and
asked the marshal next morning for
his “script,” thinking he had been serv
ing on a jury.
There are now in Georgia five hun
dred and thirteen Granges, in working
order, forming the Order of the Patrons
of Husbandry, and the outlook is re
garded as very prosperous.
The Convention antTlBfe"
moeracy.
For the Home Courier.
The Democratic party of ; Floyd, in
holding a convention and making
nomination of candidates to represent
the county in the Legislature, has not
done so in any spirit of opposition to
the wishes of a majority of the people.
The convention was held, believing by
organizntion, principles would
maintained, harmony better preserved,
and the true interest and welfare of the
county better secured by selecting and
nominating two gentlemen, for candi
dates well qualified in every respect to
represent the county in the next Leg
islature, having to enact laws adapted
to the new Constitution just made. We
repeat, that the Democratic party, in
holding this convention, has only done
what was desired for the good of
the county, in securing good and suita
ble men as Representatives, and we are
well assured that all good men who
have the inteiest and welfare of their
county at heart will approve of the
nominations made. In nominating
Captain Trout and Col. Branham we
are fully assured of this fact, that two
gentlemen have been chosen who are
fully qualified by their intelligence,
honor and reliability to make the
county good and faithful Representa
tives, who will legislate for the good of
all their constituents, and will be influ
enced by no petty feelings on the
grounds of resentment or retaliation to
ward those who may have opposed
them. They are men who will look to
the interest and welfare of their con
stituents, and not to their own personal
aggrandizement, or for personal friends.
And this has been one of the times
when the office has sought the candi
dates, and not the candidates soughtthe
offices. And as regards organizations,
which of late so many persons have
taken exceptions to, what would be the
result of all bodies, religious, political,
or social, without organization? Con
fusion, discord, distraction would be
the result. Order can only be obtained
through organization ; it is indispensa
ble to good government among all
bodies. Where there is no organiza
tion disastrous results ensue, and no
people should know this better than the
Southern people, from our last fen
years' history; for so long as Radical
rule kept down the organization of our
best citizens at the South by disfran
chising them, the country was given up
to misrule, plundering and all manner
of iniquities. We all know that 'to be
true, fer we experienced it. For so
soon'as organizstion was had, how soon
the country was redeemed and good
government was restored. It is a ques
tion not to be controverted, for all re
flecting men must know that organiza
tions only can maintain good govern
ment. Again, what, do we now see?
The Northern States wheeling into line
in support of Hayes’ Southern policy,
they are all going Democratic, jfully
satisfied that a d’jjwganized government
as was brought about by Grant’s ad
ministration has brought down ruin
upon the whole country. As such
when we see that the Northern States
are becoming Democratic, to rescue the
country from bad government, is the
South so regardless of her political in
terest and welfare as to disorganize the
Democratic party South, when the
North is coming to the rescue of the
Government. Surely we cannot be so
short-sighted and thoughtless as to dis
band, when Ohio, New York, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey and other States are
organizing. We see in a short time,
how prosperity i3 being regained
throughout the country by an Adminis
tration that is trying to bring about an
organized system for good government
And, as regards the Independents we
have among us, they lay down no plat-
form of principles. All they say is,
they are opposed to Conventions and
nomination, believing in a free race.
Can any country maintain good gov
ernment, or an enlightened and consis
tent constituency under such a state of
things'? Better it would be for the
country were there two organized par
ties whose principles and policies were
clearly defined and understood. Then
there would be forced before the people
two sets of principles, from which to
choose and act upon. But a party with
only a name, and without principles, is
merely a faction contending for place
and power, and without chart or rudder
for its guidance. No good can result
from such a party, for they are only a
disorganized body under the leadership
of demagogues. As such, we trust that
the citizens of Floyd county will re
flect on the condition of the country
and not let their passions and prejudi
ces lead them astray by what may be
said against the organization of parties,
for rest assured where there is organiza
tion, there is a set of established prin
ciples by which such parties are gov
erned and act upon, and if adhered to
will maintain good government and
save the country from that nuisance
which factions are sure to bring about.
There is but one Democratic party, and
no such thing as Independent Demo
crats. When one leaves the Democratic
party, he may become an Independent,
Republican, but there is no such
party as Independent Democrats, or
Republican Democrats. The word Dem
ocrat, when coupled with Independent,
is merely a catch word—a fraud. Dem*
ocracy has nothing to do with such.
Floyd.
1A Med of %e coth, for resump-1 Georgia Contented Wi*h Mil-
firm nnwnnoaa on/1 fn coll fnnr nornont lisJmAmlln A4-1n«fn -
tion purposes, and to sell four percent
bonds for legal tenders which shall be
receivable for all dues against the U. S.
It is claimed that the bill embodies the
views of the President and Mr. Sher
man;
Notwithstanding Mr. Matthews as
surances that the silver bill will receive
the Senate’s assent and the President’s
signature, its opponents will present a
resolute front in the Senate; and it can
not be doubted that a great pressure
hh£ ajfejuj!/ been brought to influence
the President against it The result of
the WisConsin -election is cited a proof
of a re-action in the West against it,
and the movement for the repeal of the
resumption act; and it is now confi
dently stated that the unexpected heavy
vote thrown for Rice in Massachusetts,
was wholly or largely due to the appre
hensions aroused by the action of infla
tionists in Congress. At all events it
is safe to conclude that both measures
will be stubbornly contested in the Sen
ate.
Members of Congress are oftentimes
obliged to base their votes on the infor
mation furnished by their associates as
to the merits or demerits of a pending
bill or resolution. It would be quite
impossible for the most liberally en
dowed to be thoroughly posted upon all
the thousand and one measures brought
forward every session. Much of their
time must be given to those coming be
fore the Committees of which they are
members; and in this way they are
sometimes betrayed into votes that
gives them much concern and proves
very damaging to home popularity. It
was generally understood that Mr. Bland
last Monday moved the passage of his
bill of last session; but it was found,
subsequently, to differ quite materially
from it in some of its minor features;
and many members are alleged to have
expressed themselves as very indignant
at the deliberate deception practiced,
Mr. Randall among them; and it was
said he would take an early occasion to
discourage such tactics-tin future, by
candidly expressing his opinion of those
resorting to them. I don’t know that
Mr. Bland is enumerated as one of
them, but for some reason the vote given
has seemed to require many explana
tions.
The politicians have quite generally
settled down to the verdict of a drawn
battle on Tuesday, and the prevailing
sentiment appears to be one of quiet
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, Nov. 9,1877.
Sanator Stanley Matthews’ resump
tion bill, recently introduced into the
Senate, provides that redeemed legal
tenders, or those returned to the Treas
ury may be re-issued as required by
public exigencies, but that the amount
of those outsaEding shall not, at aDy
time, exceed $350,000,000. It also stip
ulates that a reserve coin fund of $100,-
000,000 shall he retained iu the Treas
ury, redemption of legal tenders in gold
to cease when it shall have been reduced
to this point, the Secretary being au
thorized to issue four per cent, gold I
out serious disaster to their respective
sides.
While Mexican affairs lost, to some
extent, their interest to the public with
the convening of Congress, they still
appear to be regarded with anxious so
licitude by those responsible for their
peaceful solution,
are satisfactory as confirming the good
faith of Diaz and his officers; but they
also render it certain that the present
authorities of Mexico are opposed by a
determined faction equally hostile t»
them and us.
Washington military authorities ap
pear to think that the Turk, if not ac
tually in the “last ditch,” hasn’t much
fmther to go to reach it. In other
words, that his situation could not well
be more desperate.
French politics afford us some diver
sion, and a fresh delegation of Indians
of the Ponca tribe have taken up their
quarters at the Washington House,
where they are daily interviewed by a
stream of callers, largely female.
The theatres are doing a fair business,
our leading hotels are tolerably well
filled, and the weather, though rather
wet, is warm and balmy, many out
door flowers having so far escaped seri
ous damage from the frost. Knox.
ledgeville—Atlanta Greed
the Occasion of Agita
tion.
Rome, Ga., Nov. 8,1877.
Editor Courier—Enclosed I send you
an article, from the Athens Watchman,
on the capital question, which I hope
yon will publish, in order that your
readers may be reminded as to who
has been responsible for the agitation
of this question for many years past.
History shows that the citizens of At
lanta haye kept it np, which has al
ready cost the State many thousands
of dollars. You will see by the articl e
that every time the question of removal
was voted on, Milledgeville beat Atlan
ta by a very large majority. I ask a
careful and impartial reading of the
article. Fair Play.
From tho Southern Watchman.
Messrs. Editors—I ask space in yoar
columns to review the history of the
agitation of removal of the capital horn
Milledgeville. And I propose to show
that Atlanta has occasioned this agita
tion from the year 1847 to the present
hour; aud that Atlanta is actuated by
selfish motives—which both the Legis-
tures and the people have been ever
rebuking. And in the outlet, permit
me to thank Col. N. J. Hammond, of
Atlanta, for valuable dita culled from
ni8 historial compilation of the capital
agtiation.
fin 1847 a bill was introduced ‘to
proyide for the removal of the State
GoVernment of this State to the town
of Atlanta, in the county of DeKalb,
anS to provide for the erection of the
necessary buildings to accommodate the
General Assembly, State House and Ex
ecutive officers thereof, and for other
purposes therein mentioned.”—[Ham
mond’s Historical Compilation, p. 4.
After various amendments, provisions
and substitutes were voted upon, “the
bill was then defeated by sixty-eight
nays to fifty-five yeas.”—[Hammond’s
Comp., p. 4.
“So much dissatisfied were the peo
ple with Milledgeville that the agita
tion for removal continued. On the
the 17th of February, 1853, the Gener
al Assembly provided that the people
should vote “removal” or “no removal,”
and “if to be removed—where.”—[Acts
of 1853, p. 100.
“No removal” had 49,781 votes, and
“removal” had 34,545 votes; of which
29,337 were for Atlanta, and 3,802 for
Macon.”—Hammond’s Historical Com
pilation, p. 5.
This is history—history made by At-
Janta. What does this history prove?
That Atlanta began the agitation for re
moval in 1847, when she was rebuked
by the Legislature! And that Atlanta
renewed the agitation, and continued
thankfulness that it is well over with-. ^ until 1853 when the Legislature sub-
George William Curtis, in last week's
Harper’s Weekly, speaks very freely
to his brethren concerning the true in
wardness of the Republican party, and
candidly acknowledges that the party
managers are wrapped in selfish
schemes, and are antagonizing the pub
lic welfare. He refers to his own State,
but his remarks cover the whole party.
He says:
“The Republican party is full of men
who believe that the public welfare,
and not party success, is the great ob
ject of political action. Such men are
Republicans because they hold that or
ganization to offer the most probable
means of obtaining certain results. But
if they see that the organization is ruled
by those who despise those results, and
who aim at personal end? and power,
they are very apt not to vote. For how
can they hope to change that rule if
they do all they can* to confirm it by
making it successful ? If in any coun
ty, for instance, a man’s party managers
nominate improper candidates for of
fice, can he expect to secure the nomi
nation of proper candidates if he meek
ly sustains the nominations? In the
same way, if he desires a reform in the
civil service which shall secure the ap
pointment and retention of fit men and
the exclusion of politics from the ser
vice, how can he rea=onably expect to
promote it by supporting a party man
agement which is bitterly opposed to
it?”
London, Nov. 10. — Constantinople
dispatches deny the report the Mukhtar
Pa3ha was wounded in the fighting near
Erzeroum on Monday last. They also
mention an engagement at Baiburt which
may account for Mukhtar Pasha’s deter
mination to defend Erzeroum, as Bai
burt is on his shortest line of retreat to
Trebizond. Or it may be the Russians
unsuccessfully attempted to prevent rein
forcements going to Erzeroum. The lat
ter is most probable, as further Turkish
dispatches reiterate accounts of a Russian
defeat in the lost attack, which would
be hardly possible had not reinforcements
arrived.
The Standard's Alexandriopol special
correspondent telegraphs as follows i
The Ardaban colum joined General
Heimann after the battle of Deoe Bonn.
The Turks lost twenty-five hundred
killed, wounded and prisoners, and a
great part of their artillery
Washington, Nov. 7.—Dr. Poisal re
signed the chaplaincy of the House.
The Committee on Appropriations
desired delay on the army bill, and the
repeal of the resumption act is under
consideration.
“When I die I want to go where there
no snow to shovel,” said a married
man. His wife said she presumed he
would.
mitted the capital question to the peo
ple. A popular vote was then, in 1S53,
lad, and Milledgeville was victorious
over all competitors. In a popular
vote of 84,326 there was a clear majori
ty over all other places for Milledge
ville of 15,236! And this was the will
of the people expressed at the ballot-
Latest’dispatcher] ^ ^“Andwhy ? pH ° r l ° th *
“Rather than incur the expense of
the removal of the seat of government,
and build a new State House, etc., the
people voted, in 1853, to keep Milledge-
l ville as the capital. Atlanta, then six
^Lyears old, was its main competitor.”—
[Ham. Com., p. 6.
Yes, Atlanta the agitator!
And the next chapter in this instruc
tive history was the tr-de in 1868 be
tween the Mayor and Council of At
lanta and the “pie-bald” convention of
that year, which sat in Atlanta by mil
itary order of the United States General,
Pope; and the subsequent traffic and
barter which resulted in the purchase
of the Kimball Opera-house, and the
final saddling of a mortgage of now
385,000, in favor of Atlanta, on said
Kimball Opera-house, which Atlanta
can foreclose, and sell the building un
der, should the capital be removed.”
[Ham. Com., pp. 7 to 11.
And then follows the offer of Atlanta
to the convention of 1877, which that
convention rejected. And at last, after
many years continuous agitation, we
are just where we begun in 1847 and
1853. The convention of 1S77 has again,
in response to Atlanta agitation, sub
mitted the question to the popular vote.
In 1853 the race was open to the world,
and old Milledgeville came off victori
ous, with a clear majority of 15,230 over
all competitors in a vote of 84,326 And
now Atlanta and Millidgsville are the
only entries.
In 1853 our people were rich, pros
perous and proud; and after a full dis
cussion, they voted for Milledgeville.
Why?
“Rather than incur the expense of
the removal of the seat of government,
and build a new State House, etc., the
people voted in 1853 to keep Milledge
ville as the capital.”—[Hammond’s
Com, p. 6.
People of Georgia, are we more able
now to erect grand buildings iu Atlanta
than we were in 1853? Then we were
growing richer and more powerful
every day of 1853, and yet, at the bal
lot-box, we rebuked Atlanta’s grasping
greed for the capital.
Now we are poor. We are impov
erished and burdened with debt; pur
taxes are onerous. This very liourthe
tax-gatherers are pressing heavily upon
upon. Daily the noble women—oqr
wives and daughters—are denying
themselves all save the very necessa
ries oflife—bread, meat, and needful
clothing. Few of us can educate our
children. None of us can give them
the advantages we would wish them to
have. And yet, after years of self-de
nial and struggle, many have seen their
very homes pass away for debt And
even now many homes in Georgia are
falling under the sheriff’s hammer for
debt and taxes.
Let ns emulate the example of 1853,
and forever rebuke all agitation of cap
ital removal, by rolling up an over
whelming majority for Milledgeville.
In 1853 the voters of Georgia declared
it was madness to incur expense of re
moval. What was madness in 1353,
will be criminal folly in 1877.
As to Atlanta’s selfish motives, I
quote from Hammond’s Compilation,
page 19; “The question has been ask
ed, ‘How is it that Atlanta is so anxious
to be the capital of the State.’ Because
she deems it advantageous to her char
acter and trade. She has always acted
upon the idea that it pays to draw trade
and add to her reputation.”
Yes, though Atlanta live upon the
vitals of the balance of the State I
And this same interesting history,
compiled by N. J. Hammond, says, on
page 115; “Is not that (trade) the seoret
of Macon’s interest in this matter?”
Well, that’s the ‘‘pot calling the kettle
black.” Live and Let Live.
Tttouse.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 10.—The
House to-day finished the consideration
of the Army bill in Committee of the
Whole, when another amendment was
adoped limiting the force of the army
to its present number, but directing four
cavalry regiments (with 100 men to
each company) to be stationed in
Texas. This was found, after the bill
was reported to the House, to conflict
with a previous amendment, and as
there was not time to straighten oat the
crookedness no final action was taken
on the hill The discussion in the Com'
mittee developed the fact that within
the last few weeks the army had been
recruited to the number of 565 men.
This action of the Secretary cf War was
characterized by tile Chairman and
other members of the Appropriation
Committee as being without law, and
deserving of impeachment, Foster, of
Ohio, remarked that recruiting might
well be done without money, as the
army itself had been run withont
money. To which Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, replied, that for that act an ex
planation would be soon demanded.
Fester challenged inquiry, and remark
ed that when it come the people would
be treated to a rare show. Blackburn
replied that the show would be con
demned by the better part of the peo-
ple.
Au amendment was offered by Mr.
Hooker, of Mississippi, providing that
no money should be expended in send
ing any part of the army into any State
for the purpose of suppressing insur
rection or protecting the peace, unless
on application of the Legislature or
Governor of such State.
Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, attacked this
amendment as one intended to shackle
the President, and which, if it had been
on the statute book in 1860, would have
tied the hands of the Executive and de
stroyed the Government. He did not
mean to imply that there was any such
object in view now, but the proposition
at this time was calculated to alarm the
country.
Mr. Hooker disclaimed having any
other intention than that of preventing
the army being used for p olitical pur
poses, and reminded Mr. Garfield that
the substance of the provision was en
acted in 1787, and appeared in the re
vised statutes of 1872.
Mr. Speaker Randall took the floor
in response to one of Mr. Garfield’s re
marks about the army being left to
starve, and threw back the responsibil
ity upon the President, whose province
it was to have called an extra session of
Congress immediately on his inaugura
tion.
Mr. Goode, of Virginia, made a strong
speech against Hooker’s amendment, in
which he expressed the trust and confi
dence which the people of the South,
and particularly of Virginia, had in
President Hayes.
Similar sentiments were expressed by
Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana.
When the question came to a divis
ion there were but thirty-eight Demo
cratic votes in its favor. The Republi
cans waited for all the rest of the Dem
ocrats to vote, intending, if there was a
Democratic majority for to let it be
agreed to so as to have a yea and nay
vote in the House; but the Democrats
checkmated that game and voted it
down themselves. The Republicans
then joining and voting in the same
wav.
ConsTANWNOPi.E, Nov. 10.—Forty-
eight persons in the service of ex-Sul tan
Murad have been arrested in conse
quence of a recent conspiracy. Murad
aad his mother remain at Tcheragan
Palace but have been warned that it
might be necessary to remove them to
another residence.
We give below some extracts from a
late number of that sterling Democratic
paper, the Augusta Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist, upon the subject of party
organization, and commend to the seri
ous consideration of those who, as Dem
ocrats, have helped to free our common
wealth from the clutches of the robber
and the thraldom of the tyrant. The
article is in response to a proposition
by a contributor, the drift of which is
evident from the tone of the response
“We see no reason for publishing the
whole of “D.’s” long article in the Jef
ferson News and Farmer in opnosition
to making nominations for office. “D.”
says the Democracy need not disband,
but can keen on the lookout for an ag
gressive movement from the Radical
party, which may, “Minerva-like, spring
into existence.” If the Democratic
party is divided and disorganized by
means of the Independent movement,
it cannot be re united and re-organized,
and the Radicals will be enabled to ob
tain control of the State government.
In three weeks’ time, Conley, Blodgett,
Bryant and Akerman could make the
Republican party as compact and as
formidable as it has ever been in Geor
gia. The Democracy, composed of en
tirely different material, cannot be
brought back under a common banner
if they ever desert its folds. “D.” says
that “nominations do not accord with
Democratic principles.” This is a great
mistake. In every State in the Union
the Democratic party nominates its
candidates for every office, either by a
Convention or by a primary election.
Even the candidates for the Presidency
—the highest office within the gift of
the people—are compelled to go hefore
a Convention, to which delegates are
chosen from the different States, and
stand or fall by its action. * * *
But if improper nominations are made,
it is the fault of the membere of the
Democratic party, who either do not
take part in the primary meetings, or,
else, vote knowingly for bad men, just
as when improper persons are elected
to office it is the fault of the people, who
either do not go to the polls or, else,
misuse the ballot when they do. A ma
jority of the members of a political
party can always control its nomina
tions—no matter by what method they
may be made. “D.” thinks that while
there is but one party and nominations
are equivalent to elections, nominations
ara unnecessary. There are two parties
in the State—one active, the other
latent. If the organization of the for
mer is not maintained, division and
disruption will inevitably ensue and the
latter will spring into new life and
power. The dissensions which at firet
cause the loss of a Senator or a Repre
sentative will, unless checked, eventu
ally cause the loss of a Congressman, of
a Governor and the State, of a President
and the UnioD. A Democratic Presi
dent in 18S0 is among the things that
are certain, if the South remains true
tc the colors of Democracy; but if the
selfish schemes of Independents are al
lowed to destroy the Democratic organ
ization in Georgia and other Southern
States, the long and dreary night of
Radicalism will not coir e to an end—at
least during the life of this generation
of men.
™-■'--’Stjvr*-.
Eddie’s First Trowiers- The Churches i n
TfaeToilowiDg^tiiiaof^^' -
es in this State may be inteLr^
Trowsers make an era in any boy’s
life. There went cut of my hoose one
afternoon, writes a fond mother, a chub
by little fellow less than four years old
westing a little child’s frock. I remem
ber distinctly that frock of toft white
cloth, with pretty blue trimmings. It
was Eddie going to the city. In two or
three hours he came back. My! What
a change! Up the front entry stairs he
came, looking like a dutch captain cat
short, with blue jacket and trowsers on
(real ones), and in his hand was an Ameri
can flsg waving!
Thac Dight he couldn’t sit in his high
chair at the table. He was too big a boy.
The high chair might do for Beelins (a
name from the Chinese or Choctaw or
Hotten'ot, given to the baby by her young
sister), but a boy in trowsers must have a
chair like other folks.
I really think he felt the change to
trowsers »»< so marvelous an event that
others would think the h->v L, trowsers
might go back to roinettiiug else in the
morning, like ics cream that, left in the
kitchen over night, goes back to the sweet
milky stuff on the morrow. So in the
morning, when Uncle came down stairs,
Eddie cries out, “Here I am, just the
same.” There was one change, and a
hopeful one, a change of purpose. “I
am not going to ‘kv’ in my new t’owsis;
I am too big a boy to ky,’ ” was the word
for the future.
The Episcopal Church has 29 c h n „f
-;aK"S. 4 ' soo “““«S
The Christian Church has 50 chnr,v
es, with 5,000 members and 40 •
ters, and property worth $150 000 &
The Catholich Church has’over.J)
Unfailing sources of interest were the 0Q° n ? e “bers, 25 churches 35 chaptfc
24 priests, 10 religious schools, IcoQ
pockets. Oh, those pockets! As a fat
list was plunged into one, it was pro
nounced a “werry deep pocket.” “Feel
in them ! See if they ain’t deep 1” was
the challenge. As we walked down the
street one fine morning be cried :^‘I have
got to put my hands in my pockets.
There’s Mr. Dean wid his hands in his
pockets!” So the two men went “wid
bands in their pockets!”
I left Eddie just now sleeping on the
back ’parlor sofa, a hand resting on his
plamp chin, and one fat leg thrown over
the other. If I should put him while
asleep in his frock again, it would morti
fy him dreadfully on waking. But wlien
I think that jacket and trowsers signify
that he i3 growingolder, and I shall soon
lose my chubby hoy, I sigh for the little
white frock with blue trimmings, and
have great mind some day to put that
frock on him again.
A waggish gentleman passing through
an old field recently, plucked a sprig
or two of what is called in common
parlance the “life everlasting plant,” a
known wild herb, good for poultices,
etc. Making the blooms up into a de
licate little posey, he presented it to
one of the girl graduates of Wesleyan
College, ahd a bright representative of
Miss Baldwin’s Staunton Seminary,
asking what was the name of this “rare
exotic.”
They both examine and smelt it care
fully Ransacked their botanical learning
and finally said, “Oh, yes, we know,
they are immortelles.?’
Query. Would not those girls have
had more practical knowledge, if, in ad
dition to their college attainments, they
had been taught to milk the cows make
nice biscuit and master the herbaceous
and woodland arcana of nature? And
some of onr readers * - ‘ c ‘ CSIIr, g to
The Baptist Church in
193,000 members, nearly one
six persons in the State orV 0 t5ei J
000are negroes. Them
ciations. The Church has **»•
control one university and • - w ■«
fine high schools. * C|ur veiy
The Methodist Church q n „,i.
95,000, of which 13,000 1 *
longing to the Colored
Uhurch, an independent orgBS*
The Chnreb ! as over 1600 wmi '
two universities of high stanK
four colleges ant*, two bomMfJ* 1
phans. ^
The Methodist Church. \ T nr tt, ,
15,000 members, about 3 Oflft {f 2 *
white _This Church has one nni 3
ty and five academies.
Tho Protestant Methodist Chrwi l
2,500 members.
The Presbyterians have in o- ■
146 churches. 56,000 sitting
members and property worth
of high order, 1 asylum for’orplto
and property worth over 8500,000 s
The Lutherans have ten chun-t*.
and 3,000 sittings. 9
The Universalists have 3 chnrrU
and 2,800 sittings. -
There are in. Geoifcia 2,620 Israelite.
There are several synagogues, the thrs.
at Atlanta, Savannah and Macon bin.
worth $100,000. Besides there are set'
eral benevolent institutions.
Grain Items,
Tue Buffalo Commercial sayt:
The movement of cereals for ft,
month of October has been immense-
almost without a parallel in the bistort
of the port The receipts of all kinds
of grain aggregate 14,328,916 bushels
Of this amount 8,326,505 bushels
wheat, and 4,127,351 were corn. The
total imports from the opening of nsti
nation to October 31 were 51,949 V3
sushels to 38,628,153 last year, and 43-
929,153 in 1875. The movement tins
far is in excess of the entire receipts is
many previous years. The showing!*
canal is also very gratifying. The of.
ferings for October have been greater
than the capacity of the boats nowavai-
able fer the business, and hence a large
quanitity has gone forward by rail
The total shipments by cans! for
the season, as reported by the Caul
Collector, are 52,361,696 bushels, to 24,-
478,489 last season, and 30,193874 ia
1875. The total collections reach $4(7,-
182 this year, to 8513,996 in 1876. Be-
ceivers, forwarders and carriers hat!
had all the business lately they cared
for, and the prospect is that there will
be no scarcity for the next month. The
season of 1877 promises to be i
ttiiu. nuuuiauu arcana oi nature r Ana t,^, tu: » u -
would not they make better wives, also the best this port has nad since the war.
by so doing? In other words, to bring TVsrsfTV^hl<r To lb
the matter home our daughters should xexas AaDie laiK.
not be crammed like turkies, and grad- s.n Antonio Her.ld.]
unfed before they are half grown to the A San Antonio gentleman recently W I
utter exdusion of those practical pur occasion to visit a neighboring L.
suits which are all essential, and will H e did not expect much in the way o!
form so important a share in their fu- accommodation at the local hotel, and in
ture career.—Telegraph & Mesenger. this his anticipations were more An
Protract the period cf their education realized. Hewas very hungry, bnt had tit
unfa, both mud and body are better i nck to ] OS emost of his appetite beforele
matured, say until they reach the age got through with his dinner, owing to hi
of ticcnty, and allow time for lessons of discovering a few blonde hairs in th
domestic economy at home and we shall gonp . He thought tho landlord would
haye sweeteharts who won’t flirt quite feel ve bad about it bnt tliat
so much, better wives and more practi- man mere ly remarked, as he excavated
cal, useful women. I a perishing fly lrom the butter: “AllI
. ask is, Judge, that you don’t fish ’em oat
Can si Wife Eire Her Husband ? | with your finger. You have got to use i
fork. It is one of the rules of the house
A novel question came up before I that no gentleman is expected to paths
Judge Schenck, at Asheville, N. C., the fingers in the vittles. This aint no nib
the other day. At the spring term of road town but when it comes tostyleaud
Buncombe court, Judge Furches sen- tone we carry off the blue ribbon every
tence 1 one Shaft to imprisonment in I time the born toots.”
the county jail for a month, the county
commissioners, having seen the recent Jfg Neglect,
acts of the assembly Slowing them to 6
hire out convicts to the public works or Freach paper.
individuals, proceeded to hire Shaft One of the social stars of Paris is re-
out to his wife for five dollars per buked by a friend, who said, sternlv:
month, and Shaft moved his head- “Cora, if I were you I should be
quarters to the old domicil 33 the pris- afraid of having bad luck. The wey
oner and hireling of his wife. The mat-1 you neglect your poor, old blind father
ter being now presented by the Solic-1 is awful, and you so rich now.”
itor to the Court, his Honor ordered “Nezlect him ? Why, yon are ms-
that Shaft be committed to prison as taken.”
an escaped convict, holding that, though “No I ain’t Isn’t he begging at tie
the letter of the law had been complied street corner not half a mile from
with, it was a violation of its spirit and here ?”
meaning, and a virtual nullification of “Well, and every time I pose don'tl
the sentence of the court. Captain Me- give him a penny ?
Loud, the prisoner’s counsels, has ap- «—
pealed to the Supreme Court. | A Boston swindler has made thous
ands of dollars in New England by
John Morissey was elected State Sen
ator from the Seventh District in New
York city one of the wealthiest in the
State. He defeated Augustus Schell,
one of the most prominent men in the
city and Democratic party. It was
Tammany vs- Anti-Tammany, Moris-
sey representing the latter. John Kel
ley lives in that district. Though a
Deomcrat as good as they make them,
the Republicans voted for Morissey so
at to defeat Tammany and its chief
John Relley.
It is too evident that President Hayes’ sl ?>' in S at hotels over night in the gusd
political party can not help hira. If °* a .traveling salesman, receiving
he expects much of it he will lean upon P rcv ‘ 0U3 arrangement with a conteder-
a broken reed. For the last half of his ate : ]etters con'aining worthless chew
term it will have no power in either a , pretended directions ,ron i
branch of oongress, and even for the I P^°F eI 'i an( l mducing the lanulor »
first half it is powerless in the House the checks. His easy, bu= -
and fatally crippled in the Senate. l'b e manner, and the simplicity o
This state of things opens a grand oppor- f j raU( ^> enabled him to succeed in
tunity to the President if he is sagacions I ■? evel 7 instance,
enough, has moral elevation enough and
political courage enough to improve it "l”"7—, T „ w.rtu
for the benefit of the country. He can P llot ” f tbo ‘ rr - v boat
do what none of his recent predecess- *“**“ SUK lb ”. ' " "fit
orshave Lqd any possiUIi y uf accom- fa, ¥ to r ^7' 1 ' ,°. a
plishing Ife can emancipate himself f D S‘ n *f 1r «• t ’the
from ali party ties, ca.^isesuperior to h ‘« d . back motp, extendedlasit
all narrow partisan views, and giva ns, a . ct s,aP '^ ,he . m ‘ T $
for once iq till? generation, an admin- (T"': v; ^ & Jeffi.elviile
, parr, llis dealhs
Louisville, November 8.—When the
istration conducted with an eye single Jv eu w,,n Ule 1
to the public good.—.V. Y. Herald Ind Ueiry company .„ ---- ^
* ° supposed haw rescind from M artua
In respect to the charge of a New - .
York paper that he is the owner of a I “To this night’s masquerade,’’quoit'
plantation and 13S slaves in Cuba, Mr. I Dick, “hy pleasure I am beckoned, 8U“
John Welsh, nominee for the English think ‘•will be a pleasant trick to £° a
mission, says that it has na other foun-1 Cnatles the Second.” . ■
elation than that he is largely interested I Tom felt for repartee athirst, ao |
in the sugar and molasses business, | thus to Richard said: ,
and has constant dealings with Cuban j “You’d better go as Charles the Firs.
planters. He also says that if any I for that requires no head.”
plantation in Cuba, or any slaves there, | - — .
are accredited to his firm, it is without I The crop of Colonels in Georgia an
their authority, and ha is ready to free South Carolina this year will fal) t* e °j
such slaves at once. Nobody in Phila- ty-seven per cent below the yield
delpbia believes the charge. I iR7fi -i-a suffering
1876, and great public suffering
destitution is feared, unles a
Congressman Candles aeeipa to he a I North comes to their relief with lw
very qnanitqous man on the currency | subscriptions.—Hawlcexjc.
question. When the first test vote wag .... . •“TUT” v *» said a
taken on General Ewing’s hill to repeal , Musing on the infinite, el,? ®
the section of the resumption act which f a “ u ° ni ? ba P t0 a melam ho y ^
provides for forced resumption of speoie ln< *mdual who was walking S
payment in |879, Mr. Candler voted I roadslde WIth bowed bea<1 aa f E hiog -
witb the anti-resumptionists. When I countenance. Well, yes; sam
another vote on the same question was | tain kmg of my debts, -tx.
taken the next day Mr. Candler voted 7 T “
with the resumptionieta. I .This, from Jennie June,
of meaning:
. , . “I wish Gen. Butler would pr°Pr?
ty sinoe the war to Anna Dickinson again, ani
t m the hands of I , „ . She *001“
The Republican part’
ntfv»fp accept" him."’ She «■
Qitver P Morton. There will be a itrug- ma ^ e a magnificent wife.”
;le for the wires, hot no other man can ° „ M «
handle them an he did, and the party London, Nov. 8.-A Reuter tek*^
wifi Jiever go thronghthe same motions | froln Dome says it is believed^
Christmas is the time fixed **
. Pope to issue an apostolic lett« ^
London, Nov. 7, noon.—-Pnoes lower tablishing the Catholic hieranw
yesterday, and general decline for con- Scotland.
sols and American securities of 8-16d — * —•—>■
occurred, in oonsequence of cable dis-1 Two and a half million ousu
patches stating that Congress had pass- grain were shipped from f' ew
ed the silver lull. I last week.