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WEDNESDAY, APRIL - 18. 1877^
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promptly.
Henry Olay’s centenery will occur on
the 12th of April.
The American newspapers are invit
ing Prince Bismarck to spend his vaca
tion in the United States.
Somebody has figured out that the
family of Queen Victoria has been paid
over one hundred millions of dollars in
the last forty years.
The liquor law is evaded in Maine by
means of a doughnut. It costs fifteen
cents, is coated inside with tin-foil and
holds a snifter of whisky.
Judge Hancock, of Texas, was offered
the Postmaster-Generalship before Key,
but declined to accept it. The newspa
per fire on him was too heavy,
"Honest” John Patterson is now
filling a pail daily with crocodile tears.
We expect to bear of his building an
Asylum for Aged Carpet-Baggers at
Columbia.
Hon. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia,
says President Hayes is simply carry
ing out the Democratic policy. Well,
why should Democratic papers curse
him for that?
The Herald is clamoring for extirpa
tion of Mormonism. The true inward
ness of this new crusade is to get pos
session of the Mormon mines and im
pioved property.
Grant will not be interviewed on an
empty stomach and denies that he is
writing a book. The “old man” most
likely thinks he ought to read books
before writing them.
A lot of colored Louisiana politicians,
most of them belonging to Packard’s
St. Lonis Hotel gang, have invited
Wendell Phillips to repeat his yawp
in various parts of the country.
The New York Commercial Adverti
ser says the fiat has gone forth from
Washington that Packard cannot be
Governor of Louisiana, and that he
might as well think of sculling up Niag
ra Falls with a crowbar.
Gen. Longstreet favors sweeping
Packard out of the St. Louis Hotel, if
be oannot be got rid in any other way.
The General is an expert in such matters.
He helped keep Kellogg in, but he now
sees that that was a mistake.
Mr. Chamberlain will, it is said, en
ter upon the practiee of law in New
York or Boston. Corbin is quoted as
saying that he will pot reside in South
Carolina, and the general impression is
that he will not press his bogus claim
to the United Stateg Senate.
The Madison Home Journal suggests
that Messrs. Augustus Reese and
Joshua Hill be sent to the Convention
from Morgan county. We heartily sec
ond the suggestion. It is suoh men as
these that should be selected to frame
an organio law for the people.
Friedlandkr, the bankrupt Califor
nia wheat king, was, in his youth, a
clerk in a Charleston dry goods store.
He is nearly, if not quite, seven feet in
height, and exceedingly stout. He is,
we believe, an Israelite, and a man of
uncommon robustness of mind as well
as of body.
It is mentioned, with a show of auth
ority, that Mr. Tildkn never even con
templated the institution of legal pro
ceedings to oust President Hayes. Mr.
Tildbn surrendered his Presidential as
pirations to the Electoral Commission
for the sake of peace, and never dreamed
of disturbing the country’s repose by
idle and vexatious litigation.
The New Orleans Democrat frankly
admits that it oannot comprehend Mr.
Evarts’ letter of instructions to the
Commission. The Democrat forgets
that the Secretary in his pnblio docu
ment used the jargon of diplomacy. His
private instructions to the Commission
were probably short, sharp and decisive.
It is said that General Sherman has
recommended that the troops who have
so long been engaged in Indian warfare
on the frontier be allowed to recruit in
a more civilized part of the country, and
that their places be taken by other regi
ments, whose officers have been so long
iirting and dancing in Washington so
ciety. This would be an excellent move.
Ex President Grant, having been
asked how it was that Alabama and
Georgia and one or two other South
ern States get along so well compared
to the rest, replied: “They are manufac
turing, busy States. Northern skilled
labor and capital are invited in. Labor
is respected, and all goes right. Make
labor respected in Louisiana asd South
Carolina and the political field will soon
be clear of trouble. ” The troth is, they
never “got along” until they became
Democratic.
A writer in the Louisville Hexes and
Farmer suggests Hon. H. V. Johnson
and Hon. Jas. G. Cain as delegates to j
the Convention from Jefferson county. |
A better ticket could not be selected I
nor one more acceptable to the people i
of the District. The writer concludes
his communication as follows : “ A
writer from Glascock, in the Chronicle
and Oonstitu i ionalist of a late date,
suggests the delegation to be made np
as follows : Four from Richmond, two
from Jefferson and one from Glascock.
I think that would be as fair a division i
as conld be made, and suggest, in addi
tion, that each connty select its own
delegation.”
The Chicago Tribune, a Republican
paper which supports the President’s
Southern policy, has the following to
say of Senator Bill :
Senator Ben Hill is standing np for the
President in the South. Whatever spoliation
hi* speeches may have suffered after his elec
tion by the Georgia Legislature, there can be
bo question now but that his work, as a
pi stable. will be of great service in the pro
ease of restoring peace. In a late interview he
expressed the belief that no man was ever
President who had more patriotic intentions
than Mr. Hates, and no President ever began
office with a better Cabinet. If he fails, says
Mr. Him- it will be because he undertakes to
please too many who cannot be pleased. If
he succeeds, it mil be because he is a great
man and has been able to aafely tight strong
man, intellsctaally, who have bad intentions.
Praise from each a source to his people is an
aid to good government. It is an emollient.
It stays hsety, unwise, and proscriptive lodg
ments, and smoothes the way to enduring re
conciliation, To compliment Mr. Hill for
such efforts is a return to a sound currency in
the wsy of circulating the truth, and it
strengthens the purpose of the President to
do justice though the heavens fall.
THE DURATION Off LIFE.
In Masscbusetts mortality statistics
showing the average duration of hnman
life are carefully collected, and are un
usually accurate. Recent investigations
in that direction reveal some very curi
ous and equally interesting facts. The
longest number of years is given to on
employed men who live to the age of 68
—a severe commentary upon the wis
dom of those sages who have taught the
healthfulness of toil; the shortest, 22,
is allotted to factory operatives. The
average life of a Judge is 65 years; of a
farmer, 61; of bank officers, 63; of coop
ers, 58; public officers, 57; clergymen,
56; shipwrights, 55; hatters, lawyers and
rope makers, 54; blacksmiths, mer
chants, calico printers and physicians,
51; butchers, 50; carpenters, 49, masons,
48; tailors and jewelers, 44; manufac
turers, bakers, painters, shoemakers and
mechanics, 43; editors, 40; musicians,
39; printers, 38; machinists, 36; teachers
and clerks, 34. These figures furnish food
for mnoh curious speculation.
GORDON AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Greenville News pays a deserved
tribute to General Gobdon for his un
selfish service in the cause of Carolina.
The News tells but the truth when it
says “the people of the State owe a
“debtof gratitude to General Gobdon
“ for his earnest and persevering ef
“ forts to secure the victory they won at
“ the ballot box last November. We do
“ not say he has seonred ns our rights,
“ bnt we are not quite prepared to say
“we would have made the victory com
“plete, and acknowledged all over the
“ land, but for the wise counsel and per
“ severing efforts of General Gordon.
From the time the Returning Board
commenced canvassing the vote nntil
the day that the order was issued for
the removal of the troops from the
State House General Gordon labored
nnceasingly and with admirable tact
and prudence to secure the establish
ment of the Hampton government. The
success which has been achieved is
largely due to his exertions. South
Carolina is grateful for what he has
done and Georgia is proud that her
Senator has so materially assisted in the
liberation of a sister State.
THE MPEAKERNHIP.
It is oertain that Congress will assem
ble in extra session some time daring
the month of June, and it is equally as
certain that the Democracy will have a
majority of at least eleven in the House
of Representatives when the roll is com
pleted. The matter of the Speakership
is assuming importance, and several can
didates for the position are in the field
and aotually at work. Mr. Randall, of
Pennsylvania, was the successor of Mr.
Kerr, and desires a re-eleetion. He is
considered to be at present the strongest
man, though his rulings during the last
few days of the eleotoral oount, for
which he deserves praise instead of
blame,have arrayed the filibusters of the
last Congress solidly against him. Mr.
Cox, of New York, is making an elec
tioneering tour in the Sonth, and with
some effect. He was a candidate against
Mr. Kekr and against Mr. Randall,
and came very close to success in the
second contest. General Ewino, of Ohio,
is also understood to be in the race. He
is one of the most eloquent men in the
oountry, and has done good service to
the party for many years He has, how
ever, two difficulties to contend with,
either one of which would prove fatal
to his aspirations. He is anew mem
ber, and the Speaker is generally elected
from Congressmen who have served for
at least one term ; he is an inflationist,
and the Democratic party has pronouno
ed emphatically in favor of a speedy re
turn to specie payments. Mr. Walker,
of Virginia, has had his name mention
ed in this connection ; but while there is
no good reason why a Sonthern member
Bhould not have the Speakership, and
while the Southern members are strong
enough to elect whomsoever they please,
it is probable the positiou will be given
to the North. Mr. Sayler, of Ohio,
closes the list of oandidstes. He is a
bold and talented man, and would make
an admirable presiding officer. He has
many friends in the Sonth, and the race
will be between Mr. Randall and him
self.
THE GOSPEL OP HATE.
The return of Bishop Gilbert Haven
from Liberia appears to have been a
signal for some Massachusetts fanatics
to beat a devil’s tattoo on the drum
eoolesiastio. At a New England confer
ence of the Northern Methodist Church,
at Lynn, Rev. Dr. Willard F. Malla
lieu, of Boston, presented the following
resolutions, which were received with
applause and referred to a special com
mittee :
Whereas, We, as a people, for generations
hav3 suffered from the curse of slavery, in
that it has blasted the fairest portion of onr
land, degraded the master and the slave to
gether, debased the pnblio morals of onr peo
ple, hindered the cause of popular edneation,
corrupted the politics of the Government,
divided the church, disgraced religion, in
volved the nation in foreign wars, incited
the most bloody and lamentable rebellion
against the Union, and crippled the nation
in its career of progress; therefore.
Resolved, That we moet profoundly depre
cate the fact, every day becoming more and
more apparent, that the malign and destruc
tive influence of slavery is still in onr midst,
filling the land with horrors, and threatening
the perpetuity of our national existence.
Re-olved. That we deplore the ead condition
of affaire in several of the Sonthern States.
wh°re fraud and violence have subverted the
rights of the oppressed, and where to-day
there is no freedom or safety for whites or
blacks who are really loyal to the Constitution
and dare to assert the liberty of speech and
action eo common and nnqneetionable at the
North.
Resoloed, That we are alarmed and filled
with apprehension for the future when we
anticipate the practical sale of one of the great
political parties of the Republic by two poli
ticians of that party, who have held and now
hold very intimate relations to the Presi
dent, thus sacrificing principle and party and
righteousness for the sake of temporary suc
cess.
Resolved, That we protest most earnestly
against the action of the new Administration
in making terms with the chief of the Ku-
Klux and instigator of the Hamburg massacre.
M. C. Butler, and still more earnestly do we
protest against the official recognition by the
Administration of that arch enemy of the Re
public. who long since ought to have been
hung for treason, Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, who now by threats and intimida
tion, under the very roof of the White
House, as well as on railroad platforms and
other public places, defies the power of the
Government, and bullies the President into
compliance with hie traitorous and wicked
usurpation.
This Quixotic outbreak of so-called
religious fanaticism is probably an echo
of Wendell Phillips' tirade. First
we had Blaine’s bnllying harangue in
the Senate, then Garbison’s letter of
endorsement, and then the yawp of Mr.
Phillips. We are sorry to see sny
church organization, even in New Eng
land, making such intemperate, unpa
triotio and inopportune appeals on the
same line of these common scolds of
polities. Those who continue tne slavery
agitation, when slavery has ceased to exist
in the South, are either ignorantly crazy
or designedly wicked. The picture
drawn of the Sonth in the above resolu
tions is simply a fabrication, not to use
a harsher term; and the onslaught upon
the President for his magnanimous ef
forts to heal the dissensions of the
people of the Union is simply diabolical.
Luckily, the overwhelming popular
sentiment of the country, Democratic
and Republican, is in direct antagonism
to these breeders of strife and disturb
ers of the peace. Their flagrant, unjust
and infernal language can do bo harm to
anybody but themselves. The Presi
dent, Governor Hampton and General
Butler may congratulate themselves
that they are abused by such bigots
and incendiaries.
HAMPTON TRIUMPHANT—SOUTH CAR
OLINA REDEEMED.
Referring to onr telegraphic dis
patches, it will be seen that Mr. Cham
berlain has agreed to retire with the
corporal of the guard, and turn over
the Execntivo office, withont a struggle,
to Governor Wade Ha mpton. The Re
publican Pretender has shown good
sense in this last act of bis career, and,
in submitting to the inevitable, proves
that he has qualities worthy of a better
cause than he recently espoused. It is
tone that he still calls himself “Gov
ernor of Sonth Carolina,” bat this
is a harmless bit of pride. It
is useless to quarrel with him
about a shadow when he surrenders
the substance of authority. God bliess
South Carolina and Wade Hampton 1
May the glorious deliverance of the Pal
metto State sound like a knell to Pack
ard in his lair and simply ante-date, by
a few days, the redemption of Louisi
ana ! Thanks, too, to President Hayes,
who has fulfilled one pledge and dared,
amid the howls of defeated Radical Re
publicans, and to the disappointment of
implacable Democrats, to do a grand
deed of justice that mahes South Caro
lina, not the bnt the Ekect
State !
MISTAKEN SY MPATHY.
Great sympathy is fplt for Mr. Cham
berlain in many parts of the North,
mainly because he is. a gifted and educat
ed man, who was supposed to have lofty
ideals and yet was prevented from car
rying them into nxeontiou. The Troy
limes is one rf these sympathisers,
and attributes Mr. Chamberlain’s failure
to nurronndings of ignorance and cor
ruption. It dos not seem to occur to
the Times that the Reconstruction acts
surrounded every Sonthern State with
densest ignorance and corrnption,
and that paper is equally forgetful
of the fact that the entire Republican
structure at the Sou th was built upon
these very materials. Had it not been
for the bayonet-backed hordes of igno
rance and corruption, Mr. Chamberlain
never would have been heard of as Gov
ernor of Sonth Carolin a, and backed by
those hordes he now sirts up a fictitious
olaim to power. It is true that for a
while Mr. Chamberla tn played a bold
band for reforming thosie infamies wbieh
he bad helped so tremendously to erect;
but just so soon .as the better
classes of white ami black peo
ple preferred a native of the State
to administer its affairs, he repudiated
his assumed character fo r virtue, and,
led by ambition, threw hi mself into the
pools of pollution, out <of which have
sprung Patterson and Eli .istt. If ever
a man was false to his gifts and sup
posed ideals that man in Daniel H.
Chamberlain.
The Times further declares that Mr.
Chamberlain has spent a fortune in
South Carolina and ir now a poor man.
We do not know about this. It is current
ly believed that he v/as a very poor man
when the refluent t ide of war stranded
him npon the State he has misgoverned;
and if he has returned to his original
condition, so mu-oh the better, A t any
rate, South Carolina has had enough of
him as Governor, and will not tolerate
him and his ignorant and oorrnpt sur
roundings any more. If Mr. Chamber
lain feels any way sore over the .failure
of his ideals, let him pnrsne his experi
ments in a more congenial clime, and
thereby recuperate bis fallen fortune®.
THE AFRICAN IN THE WOOD-PILE.
Just now the friends of Wendell
Phillips and Attorney-General Devbns
are having a controversy over Simms,
once a fugitive slave who was captured
in Boston and returned to his master.
In 1851 General Devens, then United
States Marshal, as in duty bound, as
sisted in the remanding of Simms to his
owner. Raking up this old matter,
Phillips poured npon Devens the se
ven vials of his wrath the other day,
and ended by calling him a “slave
hound.” The friends of the Attorney-
General olaimed that while he simply
performed an unpleasant official duty,
he raised money enough to redeem
Simms from bondage. This was veno
mously denied by Phillips, and it is
now confirmed by Simms himself, who is
living at Nashville. The purport of
Simms’ story is this: He was owned by
Mr. Potter, a Northern man, who
treated him with uniform kindness.
Potter offered to sell him for eighteen
hundred dollars; but finally declined
to part with him on any terms. Where
upon Simms ran away to Boston and was
arrested. He says Potter was willing
to let him remain in Massachusetts, bat
excited Southern sentiment demanded
that an example should be made and he
was bronght back. He was finally sold,
after tnuoh wrangling, to a Mississippi
planter, with whom he remained, on ex
cellent terms, for ten years. His libera
tion occurred in 1863, so that he got his
freedom by the war and not through
General Devens.
This is a family quarrel between two
Republicans, and we have nothing to do
with it, other than stating facts. Even
when Mr. Phillips gets a kind of fanati
cal crow on Mr. Devens the better class
of Republican journals remind him sar
castically that while the Attorney-Gene
ral was fighting in the front ranks of
war for the “ poor negro, ” Phillips was
raving, mouthing and blackgnarding in
the rear. At all events, Mr. Devens is
now for peace and Union; Mr. Phil
lips for turbulence and the fires of hell.
Ip the New York Times deserts the
carpet-bag pretenders, then indeed
should wise Radical rats get out of their
sinking ship, if they do not want to be
drowned.
Donn Piatt professes to know that
Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, will be a
formidable oompetitor for the Speaker
ship of the House. We think not. He
is a man of talent and force of charac
ter, bnt almost too extreme in bis views
to snit a majority of the present Con
gress.
Bukll states that “ the first objeot of
attack will be the foreign service, diplo
matic and consular. It is well that this
should be the first step, for there is no
department of the publio service so ur
gently in need of resurrection. Grant’s
ideas of fitness for foreign service were
very peculiar. They were generally
baaed upon the fact of worthlessness at
home. Grant used to keep a dung fork
at hand, and whenever the people repu
diated a Congressman or a Governor,
Grant always forked the injured man
across the ocean somewhere to represent
ns at Court.”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 18, 1877.
THE STONE ROILED AWAY.
CAROLINA REDEEMED, REGEN
ERATED, DISENTHRALLED.
Chamberlain at Last Gives Up the Ghost and
Tort!* Over the State Hease te Hampton
To-day—A Pathetic Epistle to Carolina Rs
pahlicans—“Tender and True, Adieu.”
State of South Carolina. 1
Executive Chamber, [•
Columbia, April 10, 1877. )
Sib—Having learned that yon now
purpose to turn over to me the Execu
tive Chamber, with the records and pa
peis belonging to the Executive office
now in yonr possession, I beg to inform
yon that I will send a proper officer to
receive the same at any hoar you may
indicate as most convenient to yourself.
I am very respectfully, yonr obedient
servant, Wade Hampton.
To D. H. Chamberlain.
State of South Carolina, j
Executive Chamber, [
Columbia S. 0., April 10, 1877. \
Sib— Replying to yonr note of this
date, I have to say that my Private Sec
retary will meet snoh officer as yon may
designate at twelve meridian to-morrow
at the Executive Chamber for the pur
pose as indicated in yonr note. Very
respectfully, D. H. Chamberlain,
Governor of Sonth Carolina.
Hon. Wade Hampton.
No excitement whatever—all setira to
take the resalt as proper for the future
welfare of the State. The surrender of
the government to Hampton is preceded
by an interesting and dignified statement
of the situation by Chamberlain.
Chamberlain’s address to the Bermb
licans of South Carolina concludes:
“But the edict has gone forth. No ar
gument or consideration which yonr
friends conld present have sufficed to
avert the disaster. No effective means
of resistance to the consummation of
the wrong are left. The straggle can be
prolonged; my strict legal rights are of
course wholly unaffected by the action
of the President. No Court of the
State has jurisdiction to pass upon the
title to my office; no lawful Legislature
can be convened except npon my call.
If the use of these powers promised
ultimate success to our cause 1 should
not shrink from any sacrifices which
might confront me. It is a cause in
which, by the light of reason and con
science, a man might well lay down his
life. Bnt, to my mind, my present re
sponsibility involves the consideration
of the effect of my action upon these
whose representative I am. I have
hitherto been willing to ask you Repub
licans of Sonth Carolina to risk all dan
ger and endure all hardships nntil relief
should come from the Government of
the United States. That relief will never
come. I cannot asK yon to follow me
farther. In my judgment, I can no
longer serve you by further resistance to
the impending calamity. With grati
tude to God for the measure of en
durance with which he has hitherto
inspired me; with gratitude to
you for your boundless confidence
in me ; with profound admiration
of yonr matchless fidelity to the
cause in which we have struggled,
I now announce to you and to the peo
ple of the State that I shall no longer
actively assert my right to the office of
Governor of South Carolina. The mo
tives and pnrposes of the President of
the United States in the policies which
oompels me to my present course are
unquestionably honorable and patriotic.
Ifdevoutly pray that events indicate the
wisdom of his action, and that peaoe,
justice, freedom and prosperity may
henceforth be the portion of every
citizen of South Carolina.
[Signed] D. H. Ghambelain,
Governor of South Carolina.
To His Excellency D, H. Chamberlain,
Governor of South Carolina, Colum
bia, S. C.:
Dear Sir— Recurring to the views
severally expressed by us during the
personal conference which we had the
honor to hold with you yesterday,
in regard to the political complications
which have grown out of the late canvass
in this State, we beg leave to apprise
you formerly of the conclusions we have
reached after mature deliberation and
the gravest, reflection which we have
been able to bestow npon the sndjeet.
Whilst we are no less inspired with ad
miration for the dignified and re
solute manner in which yon con
sistently maintained your claims to
the Gubernatorial Chair by virtue of
the election held in November last, than
we are solemnly impressed with the va
lidity of yonr title to the office, we are
unanimous in the belief that to prolong
the contest in the absence of that moral
aid to which we feel ourselves and onr
party jnstly entitled at the hands of a
National Administration, installed in a
large measure through the same agen
cies which are now held to be insuffi
cient for onr maintenance, will be to in
car the responsibility of keeping alive
partisan prejudices which are in the
last degree detrimental to the best in
terest of the people of the State and per
haps of preoipitating a physical conflict
that could have but one result
to our defenseless constituency.—
We cannot afford to contribute, however
indirectly, to such a catastrophe, even
in the advocacy of what we know to bp
onr rights. We are agreed, therefore,
in counselling you to discontinue the
struggle for the occupancy of theGuber
nvtorial chair, convinced as we are that
in view of the disastrous odds to which
its maintenance has been subjected by
the of the National Administra
tion, your retirement will involve no
surrender of principles, nor its motive
be misapprehended by the great body of
that political party to which, in com
mon with ourselves, you are attached,
and whose success in the past in this
State has been ennobled by your intelli
gent and unselfish services. Wo have
the honor to be very respectfully yours—
Signed, Robt. B Elliott, Attorney-Gen
eral; Thos. p. Dunn, Comptroller-Gen
eral; John R Tolbert, Superintendent of
Education; F. L Cardozo, Treasurer of
Sonth Carolina; James Kennedy, Adju
tant and Inspector-General.
Patterson’s Opinion —A Few Classical Ex
pressions from “Honost John.”
Washington, April 10.—-The Starhtm
this: “Senator Patterson was at the
White House this morning, to have a
final interview with the President, and
protest against the removal of the troops
at Columbia. Owing to the Cabinet be
ing in session, he did not see the
President. He is quite discouraged
to-day, and though he has sent repeated
telegrams to Chamberlain, he has failed
to receive a response. He said to-day {
“Yon hear that bell striking twelve
o’clock ? It sounds the death-knell of
the Republican party in the Sonth.”
Patterson is apprehensive that Cham
berlain has weakened, and that he will
abdicate, and leave the State Honse,
and give np the archives of the
State withont a straggle. He says
that Mr. Chamberlain left here
last week with plenty of nerve and back
bone, and meant to hang on. He thinks
that when Chamberlain reached home he
found the aetioa of the President in de
ciding to withdraw the troops had
thrown the party into a panic, and he
had nothing to rely npon. “f or .see,”
said Patterson, “onr party down there
isn’t like the party you fellows have
been used to at the North. That is, the
Republican party in the Sonth was
created by an act of Congress, and thene
groee associate the Government and the
troops with the party. Now if yon take
the troops away the party goes np, for the
negroes there think the Government has
deserted them. Now if Hayes had gone
into office with a good round majority
and hadnt needed the vote of eitherOouth
Carolina and Louisiana, why he could:
have pursued his Southern policy with a:
better grace. Bat the Republicans of
the Sooth have shed blood for the party
and hesee the ingratitude is all the more
catting. And yet what do yon think,”
said Patterson; “why, by God, because I
tell these fellows that I am going to
vote to let Bntler into the Senate, they
say I am a Democrat. Yet Hayes re
cognizes Hampton, who is * Democrat,
sod thus destroys all my political chan
oes and wants me to keep Butler out of
the Senate, Well, I ain’t going to do
it with my vote. I will just tell
the friends of Hayes that I will see
them in hell firs C Why,” continued
Patterson, “this fellow JSamptop would
pat me in the penitentiary if he aosld.
They have been making their boasts in
Cduabia that they will have to build
one or two more penitentiaries to so
oonositti the carpet-baggers. Yon
see that Cain hoy massacre was a God
send for ns. I teii yos if it hadn’t
been for that massacre we ahoQlff have
lost Charleston connty and Hayes could ;
net have earned the State. Why we
loot 100 Republicans killed daring the
campaign and over seven hundred ar
rests were made, bnt I understand that
arrangements have been made with
Hampton to nol pros, all the cases. I
tall you what we carpet-baggers osght
te do. Why, damn it, we ought all to re-
sign and let the Democrats get the Sen
ate.”
A friend here suggested that Senator
Spencer said he be d—d if he was going
to resign.
Patterson, continuing: “ Well, we
ought to all resign. I can’t see what
Hayes is driving at. Why be is selling
ont his party. Talk about dividing the
Democratic party Sonth; why its all
moonshine. Hayes knows it is. He is
deliberately selling ont his party, and it
is given ont that he will divide the
Southern Democrats so that the real in
famy of the apostaoy will be surrounded
with this glamour, and the people won’t
see the real objefit in all its fullness. He
has sold ns out.*
Caroling to Gordon.
Columbia, Aprij 10, 3:30, p. m.—Gen,
J. B. Gordon, 'Washington: Perfect
peace prevails. The troops have been
withdrawn and Chamberlain surrenders.
South Carolina thanks yon.
Wade Hampton.
Washington, April 10.— Gov. Hamp
ton, Columbia, S. C.: Your telegram
just received. The friends of peace, of
jnstice and of constitutional government
everywhere rejoice with yon.
Jno. B. Gordon.
■
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
it
A Ticket SuaceoteA to the Stockholders at
the Ms# Convection.
Augusta, Ga., April 9,1877.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Knowing that the colamns of yonr
sterling paper are always open to the
public npon important issues, Ac., I
take the liberty of calling the attention
of the stockholders of the Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company to the fol
lowing faots : In a short while the stock
holders will meet in Convention, in
Augusta, and in my opinion this Con
vention will be the most important one
that has been held for many years. Im
portant for various reasons. First and
foremost, the position of the company.
This is, indeed, a most critical time for
her. She hangs suspended by a very
small oord. It may be that it possesses
enough strength to sustain its weight.
Everything depends on the judgment,
prudence and vigilance of the parties
interested. I refer here to the financial
condition of the oompany ; her debt is
large and her business gradually falling
off. Measures must be adopted by the
stockholders in the next Convention to
remedy the existing evils, and wise and
active men mast be put in office to exe
cute these measures. The stockholders
are to say whether they are willing
to carry this onerous debt longer,
and whether they intend to pay the
enormous interest accruing from the
company Vecdorsements. They will also
be oalleil npon to declare whether or no
the Port Royal Railroad shall be bought
or whether a sacrifice is to be made of
the $500,000 for which the company’s
credit stands pledged. The expediency
and advisability of running the Macon
and Augusta Railroad will also be dis
cussed and acted npon and, lastly, an
election for President and sixteen Di
rectors will be held. For these and
other reasons the Convention will be a
most important one. It is, (therefore,
very essential that every stockholder
should be present, and render assistance
in the solution of these knotty and har
assing* questions. Great questions will
be discussed and acted upon. These
questions involve the fntare prosperity
of the read. If wrong policies and
plans are adopted and imprudent, in
active and incapacitated men put in of
fice to execute these plans, &c,, then
the fntare of the road can be easily con
jectured. It is, therefore, the duty of
every one interested in the welfare of
the company to attend this Convention
in person (if possible). If this can’t be
done, then their proxies should be
placed in wise aud .careful hands. I de
sire to call the attention of the stock
holders to the following ticket, which I
have every reason to believe will receive
a warm support:
For President—Charles H. Phinizy.
For Directors—Wm. L. High, Prank
H. Miller, James W. Davies, L. M. Hill,
Thomas J. Burney, Josiah Sibley, Y. L.
G. Harris, George T. Jackson, Harmon
Rowley, John H. James, Mordecai Ed
wards, David Diokson, (Hancock), Wm.
M. Reese, George Hillyer, Wm. W.
Clark, George W. Williams.
Any comment from the writer npon
Lko fibove names would be useless, suf
fice it to sgy that they are honest, pru
dent, vigiliut, active business men, and
men that would do the ppjppany and
themselves credit in their respective pos
ition. Men who would see to it that the
road was run in the interest of the share
holders and not employees.
Let eiery shareholder come prepared
to vote this ticket. “ Vindex.”
POTTON PLANTING.
Nome Sound Advice frofff a Northern Source.
[A'ew Tori: Cotton Record j
Too much advice is sometimes worse
than done at all, and at this season of
the year, the cotton planter has probab
ly more friendly suggestions dinned
into his ear than he can well digest.—
Apart from all questions of agricultural
lore, fts to whether he should plant this
tract in corn, or reduce his patch of
cotton—for he has undoubtedly become
as good a judge of these important
elements, as the many theorists who
are constantly advocating the necessity
of making his cotton crop only a sec
ondary adjunct to the raising of his
daily supplies—the question of price
will, jn the long run, have greater
weight with him in the determination
of what amount at jjereage he shall
plaoe under cotton. For the three
years the great staple has gradnaily
been declining, and the average re
suit to ike planter has invariably
been lessened' year. The evil
was first started by tio hue and
ory raised by the manufacturers,
at being obliged to buy on a falling
market, and With it all, have a perfect
snrfeit of goods ay hand. All this has
been changed, mili-ownnys enter npon a
new era this year, for this earplug of the
manufactured article has all been cleared
off, the demand is good, prices are ad
vancing and the raw material is low. Of
coarse, this is not entirely lost sight of
by the ‘tiller’ of the soil, and even if his
judgment should dictate to him the pru
dence of sowing less cotton this year, in
view of its steadily decreasing value,
the favorable prospects for the outlet of
goods will naturally make him panse
and determine, whether after all, even
an supply of his “snowy
flakes'’ will pot be just as well taken
oare of, daring tiffi coming year, as
has been vouchsafed to him Iff the past.
“The vital point at issue to tne planter
is not then, as to the next crop being
four, five or six millions, but whether
his financial position will warrant him
in cultivating more land or not. It is
still an open question, if onr crops do
increase from year to year, whether
values wilt rfigede very materially, for
the growing favo* at 4u? fir ' caD cotton
abroad, as the real standard aftfclp, out
of which more yarn can be spun,' the
larger consumption, both North and
Sonth, will give an increased demand,
which production will find great diffi
culty in peeping pace with, now that an
equal distrihptjop of goods has taken
place. The real secret UfiS in whether
the planter is out of debt, for if
the aggregate crops are large all over
the oountry prices of necessaries
fall in a like proportion, and the
money obtained for his labor will go as
far, as if the crop had been only a small
one, for he would then have had to pay
an advanee price for his corn, molasses,
eta. The whole question then resolves
itself inti) this—that the independent
farmer m piaat with safety jnst as
much as he has the capacity of culti
vating, and his better judgmepf will in
variably teach him US deyote some of
bis land to the raising of wheat, oats,
etc. Every year will undoubtedly place
the planter in a stronger position than
ever he has been in, and, while prices
will invariably influence some, the ne
cessity of raising articles of food others,
it wiU be found that preparations for
tbs coming season will be on a larger
scale than ever before, for farmers who
are driven from sheer necessity to pay
their arrears will vie with those who are
perfectly able and willing to undertake
an increased acreage, irrespective of
their neighbor’s oops.”
ItonM nnrißd Aaineiatlaa.
At the meeting of the Georgia Phar
maceutical Association, held in Atlanta
last Tuesday, the following officers were
elected to serve the ensuing year;
President; B. H. Land, Augusta.
Ist Vice-Fresidpflt: E. W. H. Hunter,
Louisville.
2d Vice-President : R. fi. Hall, Macon.
3d Vice-President: O. Butler, Savan
nah.
Treasurer : John Ingalls, Macon.
Secretary : W. A. Taylor, Atlanta.
THE FIERY SHROUD.
A FRIGHTFUL CONFLAGRATION
IN ST. LOUIS.
The Magnificent Sontheru Hatel Bar.ned to
the Ground—Terrific Low of Life and De
struction of Property—Panic in the Upper
Stories Suffocation ; Frantic and Fatal
Leaps From the Windows—Fifty Men and
Women Perish in the Flames—Nearly One
Million of Dollars Gone.
St. Louis, April 11.—The Southern
Hotel was burned at two o’oloek this
morning. Appalling loss of life, first
supposed to be 200, now reduces to 50.
Many persons were killed jumping from
the third, fourth and fifth story win
dows. Kate Claxton, who so narrowly
escaped from the Brooklyn horror, broke
both legs jumping from the third story.
The fire originated in the npper stories.
The windows in the npper stories were
orowded with shrieking men and women,
whom it seemed impossible to save. A
few were resoued by ladders placed on
the Fourth street portico, but on the
other three sides of the building, bound
ed by Fifth, Walnut and Elm streets,
the longest ladders fell far short of
reaching the windows. Mr. Peter Blow,
son of the former Minister to Brazil,
was sleeping in his room on the sixth
floor, and succeeded, after strenuous ex
ertions, in escaping with his life and a
broken arm. The building was six sto
ries in height, and Mr. Blow thinks that
the inmates of the two upper stories of
the building must have perished. Two
men,unrecognized, were killed by jnmp
ing from the third story windows, and a
third one was badly mangled. Five wo
men were rescued from the sixth story
on the Fourth street side by the heroio
efforts of the firemen, who, after ascend
ing the patent ladders, succeeded in get
ting a rope to the half suffocated creat
ures. The fire is said to have originated
in the store rooms. It is supposed that
Forty to Filty Men Were Burned to Death
Directly, or first suffocated. The fire
originated in the store room in the base
ment, and the flames first came through
the ground floor north of the office, and
in ten minutes had ascended the ele
vators and rotunda, and spread over the
sixth story, ocoupied by employees,
mostly women. The smoke was so
dense in some of the halls that gas jets
were extinguished, whioh rendered
egress even to those most familiar with
the building, a matter of great difficulty.
The density of the smoke in the halls
drove many guests and boarders back
into their rooms, and they rushed to the
windows as a means of escape. Ladders
were raised as soon as possible, and
women and children, with nothing but
their,night clothes op, were thus taken
from the burning building. Some faint
ed from fright, and others sunk exhaust
ed to the ground from nervous prostra
tion. The ladders generally were tho
short to reach to the fifth and sixth
stories, but by hoisting them on the
one-story balcony on the north side of
the building these floors were reached,
and all those at the windows rescued.
The Skinner fire escape was also brought
promptly ipto service, and was the
means of saving mft u y lives. While
this work was going on sonjfi
Frightful Sppbps
Occurred. One man, who had been oc
cupying a window on the Walnut street
front of the hotel, became desperate at
the seeming delay in effecting his esoape.
With nervous handß he tore the sheets
from his bed into strips and tied them
together, fastening this improvised rope
to the window sill, and disregarding the
faot that it did pflt peach more than
twenty feet, he let himself down hand
oyer hand. Men below who saw bis po
sition turned away their faoes to avoid
witnessing the sickening event that was
inevitable. Finally he reached the end
of the rope, and then for the first time
he seemed to realize his position. He
stopped, threw his head back, revealing
a ghastly face, and swung slowly to and
fro, swayed by the breeze whioh the
roaring flames above .created, his limbs
swinging around ccjnyulsiy.ely as though
to oatoh upon something, thfen be let go,
and groans went up from hundreds as
he whirled round and round, and finally
struck ou the stone flagging with a sick
ening thud. He wps carried to a saloon
across the street and died in a few mo
ments. Two other men jumped from
the fourth Btory windows, one of whom
seemed not t* be dangerously hurt.
The fire engines are stjty playing on
the fire. A force has been organized to
search for fiead bofiipp. gfifi several
bodies have already been tafceb from the (
ruins in a more or less burned condition,
but have not yet been identified; also
several dead bodies at the morgue await
identification. Mrs. Moran, a servant,
was killed by jumping from a window.
George Frank Gouley, Grand Secretary
of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of
Missouri, is supposed to have perished.
Six persons, whose names ft re gnjpown,
were killed, either by jumping from
windows or suffooated by smoke, and
dragged out of the burning building.
It is difficult to procure the names of the
dead, but it is hoped that a complete
or nearly complete list will be obtained
this afternoon. Sidmore Hayden, Su
perintendent of the American Express
stables, is among the killed; also, Hen
ry IJazen, Deputy Auditor of the Mis
souri 'pacific Railroad Company. An
Englishman named Adams, said to be a
commissioner of education, was identi
fied at the morgue.
A woman at a fifth story window on
Fifth street front became panio
stricken, jnmped out and
Alighted on Her Feet.
She was carried to the St. Louis Hotel
and js Stj4 alive. Her husband, who
had been standing her side, tfien tore
up the bedding, let a loop'so made out
of the window; to this the firemen at
tached a rope, which the man hauled np,
making it fast to the window sill and
safely descended by ;t- A man named J.
E. Wilson jumped from a fourth story
window and was killed. Andrew Ens
man and Mrs. Scott met deaths the same
way. The mortality among the female
help of tfip hotel is very great. There
were two hundred of tbpgj, all of whom
were lodged in the nppek story of the
building. The panic among them was
perfectly terrible. A nnmber jumped
from the upper window on Elm street
or near the side sf thp house.
Hate (Hasten, Ht Act re*,
Had another esoape, but was uninjured.
Among those known to be saved were
H. Kretz, Texas; Dr. Gerlaot, German
Consul, jumped from a window and
broke a leg; his wife is unhurt; Charles
Tienan lost his life attempting to save
another. Philip Gerald, a boarder at the
hotel, WM fought out alive but entirely
bereft olrewnt}
At a quarter-past two, or about half
an hour after the fire was discovered,
the entire roof was ablaze and the
flames were rapidly descending to the
lower stories. A half hour later the
floors and interior walls began to fall,
the roof fell in. There is now nothing
left pf one of the finest hotels in the conn
try except the street front and
parts of Fourth and Fifth streets faoes.
Loss on the building and contents,
$750,000 to $1,000,000. Insurance un
known.
No other Southern names than the
Tegan among the names of the lost or
saved except x. T. Lion, Mobile, §§ved;
Fred Cook, New Orleans, saved,
Kate Claxton had sufficient presence
of mind to wrap her head and f ace in
wet towels and walked and rolled down
stairs. Except a few braises she is safe.
Miss Claxton lost everything. Her en
gagement began in St. Louis Monday
eve, in the "Two Orphans.”
The report that several bodies were
taken from the ruins this morning is
false. The firemen have not yet snc
ceeded in oooliag the debris sufficiently
to enable sar h, Mr. Adftius referred
to in the previous dispatch was Bev. A.
A. Adams, inonmbent of a parish in
Berkshire, England. He was on his
way from Florida to California. His re
mains await the order of friends. Lette
Allen, an actress from the East and a
guest of Miss Clifton, of the Olympic
Company, is among the saved. H. F.
or H. M. Clark, a railway conductor,
together with wife and child, are among
the killed. Milton Noble, Bator, aud
Miss Frankie McClellan, ’the adtress,
were saved, the latter very seriously in
jured. The former was mainly instru
mental in saving the lives of ladies who
were on the same floor as himself.
Great crovfis ef people have thronged
the vicinity. ' r r
Boston, April 11.— Boston insurance
companies have $57,000 risks on the
Southern Hotel, of St. Louis.
A distinguished New England manu
facturer gays that to run g factor? at
Columbus or Augusta by steam as cheap
ly as by water power, coal would have to
be delivered at the establishment at a
dollar a ton.
THE HAYS CASE.
DECISION OP THE SUPREME
COURT.
New Trial Granted—Ground* of the Decision.
The following is the decision in full
(as it appeared in the Atlanta Constitu
tion, of yesterday) of the Supreme
Court in the Hays case :
Hays vs. The State. Murder, from
Richmond.
Bleckley, J.
1. The indictment will not be quashed
because the names of two of the grand
jurors varied thus : The jury list had
on it the name of S. Wadford; the in
dictment contained the name of Seaborn
Watford; the jury list had on it the
name of John W. Stov, Jr., and the in
dictment contained "the name of John
W. Stoy. When the names so nearly
correspond, and there is no decisive
evidence showing that the persons who
actually served as jurors were not the
individuals designated by the commis
sioners, and registered on the list as
competent to serve, the presumption is
that the grand jury was legally consti
tuted.
2. When the prisoner has been ar
raigned and bad pleaded not gnilty, an
issue is formed, and the same remains
an issue nntil the plea is withdrawn, or
until the indiotment is disposed of. If,
after a verdict of guilty, anew trial be
had, the new trial may take plaoe with
out a second arraignment. 49 Ga., 103.
So if a mistrial be declared, it is not ne
cessary to re-arraign the prisoner in or
der to put him again on trial.
3. When the Judge has become ex
hausted by a late night session, he may
and Bhonld adjourn over until the next
day, though he had previously an
nounced that he would conclude the
trial that night, and counsel for defend
ant have made their final argument with
that expectation, and though the con
cluding argument for the State be thus
postponed until the Solicitor has had the
benefit of rest. There is no law whioh
requires a Court to disregard the neces
sary physical conditions of efficient
labor.
4. Where the killing is admitted the
Court may say so. (See 50 Ga., 365.)
The complaint that the rale given in the
fourteenth ground of motion for new
trial, touching manslaughter, is less fa
vorable to the prisoner than it should
be, is wholly unfounded. It seems more
favorable to him that the true law of the
case would warrant; and the same may
be said of some other parts of the
charge set out in the record.
5. Upon the facts in evidence the, 6th,
7th, 11th and 13th grounds of the motion
for anew trial are so obviously free
from error as to require no more than
bare mention. The sth and 12th grounds
are disposed of by what is ruled on the
subject of trespass.
6. As the jury have no concern with
the reviewing powers of the Supreme
Court, any reference to the same by the
presiding Judge in his charge on the
law of a criminal case, even if no. possi
tive error, should be omitted. 5 Ga.
138 9; 8 lb. 267; 11 lb. 57; 15 lb. 121,
122; 22 lb. 212.
7. To intentionally kill with a deadly
Weapon one whg is committing a tres
pass upon property, is generally murder,
and not manslaughter. Wharton on Homi
cide, section 414. No exception to the
general rule is involved in the present
case, the trespass, if any, being the ap
propriation and removal of a small
piece of timber of trifling value. What
is said in 5 Ga. 86 and 18 Ga. 194, refers
to trespass affecting the person, and not
to trespass affecting the goods only.
8. The defendant having requested a
charge on the subject of preparing the
weapon, it was nol error for the Court,
after giving the matter requested, to
add that the jury were to judge from
the evidence whether the prisoner pro
vided himself with the weapon for the
purpose of killing the deceased, and
that doing so would be evidence of
malioe. This addition was not wholly
without evidenoe to warrant it. Al
though the prisoner was a watchman at
a railroad depot and committed the
komioide while on duty, and although
under the evidence it was usual and not
improper for railroad watchmen to go
armed, yet, as there was no direct evi
dence thfit the prisoner had ever been
armed while on duty before the occa
sion of this shooting, and as it did not
affirmatively appear when, where, or for
what purpose he procured the pistol,
and as there was some evidence tending
to show fhat certain expressions escaped
him shortly after the' shooting, which
indicated that the thought of dealing
with the deceased as a trespasser was
not altogether new to him, the jury were
at liberty to consider whether from all
the oironmstances he had the pistol as a
part of his ordinary equipment as a
watchman, or whether he procured and
prepared it with special reference to
nsing it as he did use it—that is, shoot
ing the deceased with it in case thp lat
ter should attempt to carry wood from
the yard and not desist when ordered.
9. The oharge to the jury in a crimi
nal case should state and explain the
law, but should contain no argument
whatever upon the faots. The tribunal
of inference is the jury, and the jury
alone. Not only are they to judge what
facts are established, but the” srf to,
draw their own conclusions from them,
under the law, uninfluenced by any im
pression which may have been made by
the testimony upon the 'mind of the I
Judge, His convictions should neither
be deelared nor intimated. He should
state that the law implies malioe from
the preparation and use of a deadly
weapon, but to proceed in the argumen
tative manner following, is manifest er
ror. “ Well, did he deliberately intend
to do it ? Was there any circumstance
to show he had prepared himself to stop
people from trespassing on the yard ?
That he had got q pistol, loaded it with
ball, prepared him elf for the emergen
cy, and that he had previously or after
wards said he was going to stop it ? If
that was the evidence, what more delib
eration wn a man have f You are
bothered, troubled, and yon commit an
act, and yon say afterwards yon have
stood that thing as long as yon are going
to. These are facts from which a de
liberate intention may be inferred.”
This ebargp is the more objectionable
because some of ths faots enumerated
are not fonnd in the evidenoe—certainly
not in the distinct and definite form in
they qre here presented,
IQ. In the I§th ground of the motion
for new trial there is objectionable mat
ter. In arriving at intention, regard
should be had to what transpired at the
killing, as well as before and after. The
following passage should have been
omitted as partly argumentative and
partly irrelevant: “What kind of a duty
can a man feel he was performing to take
hnman life? In defense of person, habi
tation or as an officer of law,”
11. In charging the jury, the Court
should not ask, “How did he conduct
himself afterwards, as the deceased lay
before him, a victim ?” The use of the
word victim is not favorable to a cool
and dispassionate trial. Nor should the
Court decide for the jury so far as to say
to them that if oertain facts be not true,
the prisoner “is gnilty of murder.”
12. When,daring the trial of a capital
case, the Judge leaves the bench and
withdraws beyond the bar, he should
order a suspension of bnsiness until his
return. His immediate presence tends
to preserve the legal solemnity and se
curity of law. while a wit
ness for the State is under examination,
should the Jndge not retire beyond the
bar withont directing the examination
to cease daring his temporary absence,
however necessary or however brief his
absence may be.
13. The gnilty and the innocent are
alike entitled to be tried according to
law, in the immediate presence of one
of the State’s Jndges, and wjth up mate
rial error in the charge of the Gcurt.—
Beoauee the prisoner has hot'beentbus
fried he is, ad matter of right, entitled
to anew trial, whatever may be the de
gree of his gnilt. Judgment reversed.
Barnes & Camming, J. O. C. Black, for
plaintiff in error. Salem Dutcher, So
licitor-General, for the State.
Jackson, J., concurring.
Whilst 1 do net give my assent to all
the criticisms npon the oharge of the
presiding Judge made in the opinio,n of
the majority of the Cpurt.and thjnk that
the charge, taken as a 'whole,' including
the requests given, is fair, if not favor
able, to the prisoner, yet in view of the
facta that the presiding Judge left the
bench without suspending the (fid, and
was outside gf (fee fowl roo ffl pending
the eipepnutipn of a witness and the
argument, and that the Judge made
allusion in the charge to the deceased
as the prisoner’s “victim.” and on the
vital point of’deliberation in thg act of
saajawssi asssst
ticn conld a man show,” or words to that
effect, I concur in the judgment that it
is better to grant a new trial even in a i
ease like this. <
$2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Homerville has a brick-yard.
Mr. G. W. Ross, of Eatonton, is dead.
The Madison Home Journal is for
sale.
Mrs. Julia S. Saffold, of Madison, is
dead.
The State Road is still laying steel
rails.
Atlanta s Bi nevolent Home is doing
good.
Hog cholera prevails in Jaokson
connty.
Nothing more from Atlanta’s “Sharp
jeweler.”
Gwnsville’s first mosquito has made
his debut.
The Marietta Presbyterian Churoh
rents its pews.
It is rumored that Bob Ingersoll is to
leoture in Atlanta.
West Point has cabbage thieves as
well as ditto heads.
Instead of bitters Rome now delights
herself with sweet oider.
negro would rather fish than
work for fifty oents a day.
Martin Institnte, in Jaokson connty,
now has about 100 students.
There are 160 students at Emory Col
lege. The senior class numbers 17.
A daily mail between Jefferson and
Harmony Grove is now being talked of.
Banister Smith, of Patnam connty,
was recently thrown from a mule and
killed,
j Li °y d . on the Coos i river,
killed one hundred and sixty-eight rats
in two hours and a half.
John Poore, of Mitohell county, killed
a large buck and a ditto wild oat, while
out hunting last Tuesday.
The Constitution evinces a decided
vegetable tendency. Even “Old Si” ap
pears to have gone to seed.
There are fifty-one Young Men’s
Christian Associations in Georgia, with
a membership of about 5,000.
Borne is certainly improving. She
now only needs a skating rink to com
plete the sum of her prosperity.
Hon. D. E. Butler has been elected
President of the “Georgia Land, Immi
gration and Navigation Company.”
, Half the lager beer destroyed in Geor
gia oomes from Atlanta breweries. And
yet people still talk of moving the capital.
The faot has not yet flashed upon At
lanta that perhaps the “Sharp jeweller”
has removed his bazaar to Milledge
ville.
Henry Grady will deliverer a lecture
in Atlanta for the Y. M. L. A. Subject:
“ Loiterings in Borne, or Vat-i-can do
for the Library.”
Judge Daniel Pittman, Fulton county
Ordinary, should now apply his archi
tectural talents to that new Stone Moun
tain Granite Opera House.
The momentous question, instead of
the removal of the capital to Milledge
ville, should be the transplanting of
Kimball’s factory to Augusta.
The Constitution is now raking over
unpleasant facts. It asserts that the
Baldwin county tax is 155 per oent. of
the State tax. Fulton’s is only
George Williams, colored, the child
murderer, who will'be hung on the 24th
inet,, at Springfield, Effingham county,
has embraced the Roman Gatholio faith.
The Borne Tribune, of Saturday,says:
Mr. D. J. Powers, of this city, sold his
fine mare Rosa, yesterday, to Mr, J. A.
Chambers, of Augusta, for one thousand
dollars.
An old Chatham connty bummer re
ported to Hayes in person, last week,
that he was in danger of Georgia Ku-
Klux on account of informing upon
illicit distillers.
Messrs. Oree and Taggart, representa
tives of the International Young Men’s
Christian Association, aocompanied by
Mr. J. W. A allace, of Augusta, will be
in Maoon to-morrow.
An exchange Bays that the headline
man of the Constitution gets SB6 a week
and washing. Besides this he is fed
nightly on a pound of raw beef and a
quart, of gun powder without any charge,
Maffbn had a shower qf grasshoppers
Saturday njght. But for the faot that
all game chickens and other insectivor
ous fowls have been banished from that
city this plague, might in a measure, be
averted.
The LaGrange Reporter says that
Hon. Albert Cox, by request of Prof,
Orr, State School Commissioner, will
make an address in Carolton and one in
Newnan this week on the subject of pub
lio schools,
Oxford hfta a reading club.
Athena wants a Y. M. L. A.
Barneaville nniforms her polioe.
Twiggs oounty has negro Ku-Klnx.
Chicken thieves continue in Macon.
Atlanta boasts of a young Ponce de
Leon.
Mr, W. M. Lampton, of Polk Qonoty,
is dead.
Bishop Haven ift expected in Atlanta
this weefe,
The crop prospects of Banks are en
couraging.
Spalding oounty runs an anti-Conven
tion ticket.
Wheat prospects in Northeast Georgia
are not good.
Gainesville will bid for the new Bap
tist Female College.
We are glad to know that the Tocoa
Herald is prospering.
A Calhoun county man has fallen heir
to an English fortune.
Thero are only seventeen licensed
; auctioneers in Georgia.
Col. H. P. Farrow is fitting up Porter
Springs, in Hall county.
The Mitohell county sheriff is selling
up wild lands at $7 50 per acre.
Irwin connty claims to be the origin
of that “belled buzzard.”
A movement is ou foot in Athens, to
get up Company B, of the Guards,
The Southron wants a narrow guage
between Qftiqesville and Jefferson.
Three hnndred tons of guano have
been purchased in Wilkinson county.
Georgia paid last year $3,500,000 for
gnano. This year the outlay is smaller.
Luke Johnson, the leader of the Craw
ford riot, ia said to be but 18 years of
age.
The new edifice of the First Presbyte
rian Church in Atlanta is to cost $90,-
000.
Dr. H. T. Henry, of Covington, has a
oalf with a look of hair growing on each
Tom Gibson, of the Cedartown Ex
press, seems to be quite a pet in Chero
kee.
Mr, Wm. 8. Grimes, of Paoli, fatally
raptured himself while rolling logs re
cently.
Hancock county has purchased 600
tons of gnano for the season at a cost of
$36,000.
Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy has resumed
the directorship of the Northeastern
Railroad.
Four string bands lend a dangerous
attractiveness fa Atlanta feepr saloons
flight.
Ex-Governor Brown is still confined
to his bed, although he is considered
convalescent.
The Atlanta Constitution seems to
have omitted the Griffin Sun from its
adulating list.
A terrible collision occurred on the
Selma and Dalton Road Sunday. One
engineer killed.
A colored man ip Brooks connty re
cently whipped his wife for joining the
Baptist Church,
An unmarried mother in DeKalb
eoqnty dashed out the brains of her
child last week.
Judge Underwood’s name ia promi
nent in connection with the Convention
question in Floyd.
An immense crowd is expected in
Cedartown Friday to witness the execu
tion of Wm. Meeks.
Gn. W. H. Wofford probably be
sent to the Csflgtitafio#ai Convention
from Jyuffovr eoqnty.
, Tom GJenn, a provision thief of !
A™®n* has bebn arrested after a short
but “flourery” career.
Potter, the genial conductor on
the Northeastern, now totes the lozenge
of the Athens Guards.
Mr. A. M. Sale, formerly of Augusts,
baa taken charge of the Academy at
Homer, Banks county.
A Monroe county emigrant, a{U|f hM*y
mg his wife in Texas, returns to Georgia
with four hHlfl fhfld^n.
A colored infant was found un
der some fodder in an old onthonse
near Hampton last week.
Wm. D. Griffith, of Athens, was
mamed Tuesday evefiiflg to Mias Mar
cefia Deanna of s>.
, m eleven papers on the Geor
g ■ Civilisation and paste-pots
evidently follow cross-ties,
Hev. J. A, Munday, qf Athens, bap
tised four new concerts Sunday night;
among aether was his young wife,
■a U? l f 3 ®? l * o * apprehensive lest the
Northeastern Railroad fall into the vo
luptuous clutches of Hon. John P. King
OO.
The “seven whistle petrels” have
passed over Athens. This is said to be
a sure sign of the failure of tho whisky
crop.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
week ß ** 1 Bn ° W ' n the Blue HiJge last
• 0. Todd, Esq., of Lanrensville,
is dead. *
Hoy babies in Union outnumber the
girls 4 to 0.
twoSflown. 1188 hada i aild6li ™T-
Albert ouannes Todd, of Laurens,
died suddenly last Thursday.
• Bev - Ja , cob Borroughs, a Baptist min
ister, died near Pickens last week.
Jno. W. Ferguson was severely, and
perhaps, fatally, stabbed by Gbas. Au
stin, near Pickens, last week.
A mulatto by the name of Wingfield
Robertson committed a hideous crime,
in Newberry, on a girl seven years of
age.
.J? 1 ’- £ onro Smith, of Union, while
riding home last week, was precipitated
killed k' 8 10rse ’ * nto a dee P gully and
-Ex-Governor Chamberlain ” is what
.1 Washington National Republican
oalls him already. None too poor to do
him reverence.
After deducting the insuranoe upon
the-property destroyed by the late fire
in Newberrv, the net loss to that town
is over SIOO,OOO.
A few turbulent lunatics, says the
Greenville News, may attempt to blook
tbe wheels of government, but the good
sense of the people will frown down all
partisan opposition to the Hampton ad
ministration.
N. B. Eison, of Union, met with a
very severe loss last Friday night, by
the burning of a large new dwelling
house which was just receiving the “fin
lshing touches ” from tho workmon to
enable him to occupy it.
The Atlanta Constitution gets off this
good one : The probabilities are that
Chamberlain will be a mere cypher in
South Carolina. The New York Herald
onght to send a correspondent, armed
with an elephant gun to disoover the
sonroes of the nihil.
Greenville is digging eisterns.
Charleston is to have a floral fair.
cow thieves are being bagg-
Dr. Thos. F. Daffy, of Greenville, is
dead.
They say that Chamberlain is a fine
lawyer.
Thieves are living in olover around
Winnsboro.
Many bridges have been washed away
during high water.
Hiram Harris, bookbinder, of Charles
ton, turnß up missing.
The Greenville News is the official or
gan of the ditto hotel.
Amateur aotors are still at large in
the “ City by the Sea.”
Winnsboro had a grand Hampton
masquerade Friday night.
A funder storm, acoompanied with
Hail, visited Winnsboro Sunday evening.
The Winnsboro News says that white
Radicals are fast thinning out in that
oounty.
Charleston is making arrangements for
moving Northward a large truck crop of
vegetables.
Whence oometli the Northern clique
of instigators mightier than Daniel’s
throne itself ?
There are two armed colored tramps
Wandering about Orangeburg oounty
seeking plunder.
The stables and oorn crib of Mr. David
Gamak, near Winnsboro, were destroyed
by fire, Friday night.
A ixdored man named Joe Williams,
died in the Charleston jail on Saturday
of congestion of the lungs.
A Charleston guard house seems to be
a sort of bourne from whence no culprit
need swear to return. Two deaths in
durance vile are lately recorded.
LETTER FROM OGLETHORPE.
The Recent Blot—Excitement Among the
People—The Itingleader—Supreme Court
and the iiberhart Case—Minor Dots.
[CorrespondenceChronicle and Constitutionalist. \
Oglethorpe Count?, April 9, 1877.
The excitement naturally incident to
the recent trouble at Crawford has
measurably subsided. The feeling of
indignation occasioned by this disturb
ance was wiqe-spread and profound.
Qnr people were aroused as only Buch
troubles oan arouse them. We have not
yet ontgrown that old tradi ional and
inveterate horror of negro insurrections.
Mr. Samuel Lumpkin, of Lexington,
has already given your readers a very
satisfactory and reliable account of the
origin and circumstances of the riot. It
seems to have been a well concerted
scheme on the part of the negro Lukei
Johnson to advance his own interests.
Luke will probably serve a life tenure to
a place of honor on the chain-gang, if he
escapes the gallows. He has been ar
rested. He was captured in Atlanta Fri
day by a party of gentlemen from Craw
ford, and has been lodged in jail
in Athena to await his trial. He is quite*
a young negro—perhaps not more than,
twenty years of age. He is by no meane
an intelligent negro. His face has a
vicious expression. He has more pure
knavery than senso. The secret of his
influenoe with the negroes is perhaps
the fact that he has a smattering of an
education, and is a preacher. These
two qualifications are quite sufficient to
secure popularity and influence among;
colored people. Negroes have a pro
found respect for education, and feel a
great reverence for any of their race who
has the much envied accomplishment
of being able to read.
Two of Luke Johnson’s accomplices
were arrested at the same time that ho
was oaptured. There are fourteen of
these rioters lodged ia jail in Athens.
Our own oounty prison ia not safe. Six
prisoners made their escape from the
jail in Lexington last week.
Oglethorpe Superior Const convenes*
next week. The session promises to bo
?.uite an interesting and exciting one.
n addition to the cases of the Craw
ford rioters whom Judge Pottle will
doubtless bring to trial as soon as prac
ticable, the Eberhart case still hange
like an incubus over the Court. I have
my doubts about this ease being tried at
an early day. It seems to be the polioy
of the defense to delay a trial as long as
possible. At first, when popular preju
dice was strongly against the Eberhr. f t s
their policy ‘was perhaps intelligible’
but I can see no reason or 7/olicy in a
longer delay. If the Messrs, Eberharts
are guilty they ought to be brought to
punishment; if not, thpß character onght
to be vindicated, The Echo is very ur
gent in its demands for a speedy trial.
It appears to me, however, that Mr.
Gafltt has defeated the very object he
seeigs to be anxious to bring about. In
the same issue of the Echo in which he
so urgently asks for a speedy hearing of
the ease, he publishes in full the evi
dence taken at the preliminary trial, aud
if my understanding of the law ia
reference to juries is correct, the
reading of this evidence, which most of
our people will doubtless do, will dis
qualify every QUiflon from serving as
juryman in this case. This will, of
course, render it quite difficult to make
np a jury in the county, and may finally
result in a transfer of the case to some
of our neighboring counties.
Tbe .Season
Has been backward, but not otherwise
very unfavorable. Wo hav thus far es
caped most obnoxious Spring rains. My
observation has not oeen sufficiently ex
tensive to authorise a conjecture as to
the comparative extent of the corn and
cotton £if©ps, I fear, however, there
US usual, be too much of tbe latter,
and not enough of the former planted.
The condition now of our people is such
(h%t u speedy return to tho old-time
method of independent farming is not
very probable.
The Convention question
Has been bnt little agitated outside of
the columns of the Echo, to which some
unknown gentleman has contributed
some able articles ©a the subject.
W. P. L.
A. H. Stephen*’ Opinion of the Cabinet.
Cleveland Leader's Washington Correspondence.
Dr. J. P. ian Epps, of Cleveland,
Ohio, the popular education man, had
an interview with Alexander H. Stephens
to-day and published the conversation.
He said; “Mr. Stephens, do yon not
think the President has been very for
tunate in the selection of his Cabinet ?
Hava we not, in any emergency that
may arise involving the principles of
oivil and religions liberty, a safe umpire
in such men as Evarts and Thompson ?”
Mr. Stephens replied: “I think the
President has an excellent Cabinet.
The gentlemen to whom you allude I
know very well and believe them to- be
able and trne and educational advisers.
Please say to Secretary Thompson I
would be glad to renew the acquaint
ance of forty years ago. That golden
headed, black walnnt cane he presented
to me I have need over thirty years,”