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WEDNESDAY, APRIL - 25, 1877^
Son wag says Wendell Phillips’
nightmares are much superior to his
speeches. The “stalwart” oomes out
terrifieally. < .
Ta* abolition of capital punishment
has been tried in Maine with poor suc
cess. Murder is on the rampage, and
hemp will hare to be stretched again.
Ta* King of the Topers in Bavaria
went on a fifty-five hours’ spree, and
drank, meanwhile, eighteen gallons of
beer. What a stomach ! What a diges
tion ! |
A sister of General Meads was among
the clerks dismissed from the pension
offloe last week. That looks like bsse
injustice to General Meads and his
memory.
Newbcbtpobt, Maas., has 1,3G0 more
women than men. It is a small place,
and, according to the New York Sun,
“a wedding there creates almost as much
sadness as a funeral. ”
Senator Bayard has ranged himself
alongside of Mr. Hill in supporting
the Southern policy of the President,
but Mr. Hill gets all the abuse from
the implacables, especially in Georgia.
Th* Chicago Tribune says the per
plexing Biblical conundrum just now in
the minds of infuriated carpet-baggers
is, “ Lord, to whom shall we go ?”
From present appearanoes, they are go
ing to the Old Boy as fast as possible.
Prince Louis Napolbon, now living at
Florence, is in freqaent receipt of mon
etary gifts. The Prince being very rich
distributes the gifts to the poor. If the
Prince were a poor man he would never
get any money. Who hath, to them
shall be given.
Th* complete returns from the recent
New Hampshire eleotion show that the
constitutional amendment abolishing
the religious test for office has been
adopted. This gives Roman Catholics
a legal chance, for the first time, to hold
office in the Granite State.
According to the Greenville Newt,
Foster Blodgett is not pleased with
the President’s Southern policy. He
thinks Louisiana is in the same boat
with South Carolina, and says “his
‘oussed fraudulency’ will prove conserv
ative and bring about peaoe and har
mony in the South.”
Warmoth, finding that his chanoes of
buying a Senatorsbip were very bad in
the Nicholls Legislature, has made a
pretence of dying in the last ditch with
Packard. It would be a good thing for
Louisiana if he were to die somewhere,
but there is not much chance of his
perishing in a fight with his boots on.
The Brooklyn Committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic invited General
Roobb A. Pbyob to address them on
Decoration Day. Pbyob aocepted. A
Post of the G. A. R., called the “Barbara
Freitchie Lodge,” objected. Pbyob then
withdrew. Subsequently the matter was
arranged and General Pbyob will orate.
Th* red Republicans are placarding
Washington with some sentiments ex
pressed by Mr. Evartb before the Electo
ral Commission, touching the “ ever
lasting negro.” At last accounts, Mr.
Evarts enjoyed the joke as much as
anybody, and the fellows who thought
to hurt his feelings are madder than
ever.
Mr. John G. Thompson is a candidate
for re-election to the position of Ser
geant-at-Arms of the House of Repre
sentatives. Mr. Thompson has render
ed valuable servioe to the Democratic
party, has made a faithful and efficient
official, and we hope he will be elected
without opposition.
Apbopos of “blue glass” and other
manias, the Nashville American thinks
there are some people in this world who
will be humbugged. It is their mission
in the world. They are sent here to
demonstrate the potenoy of humbug.
Yes, and frequently the men moat easily
humbugged are those who boast of their
worldly wisdom and practicality.
Herr Krupp, the great Prussian can
non manufacturer, complains of dull
times. A contemporary justly observes
that Herr Kbupp probably looks upon
the war cloud without uneasiness. Bnt
with the great works at Essen idle it is
not worth while for our American iron
men to build high hopes of trade npon
the prospect of a European war.
Whin President Lincoln was report
ed to be ill, the “oopperhead” press in
sisted that one of his bad jokes bad
struck inward. Now that the oarpet
baggers are to be kicked out of the Re
publican party, the late bloody shirt
organs say that to read Packard’s ful
minations one wonld think he had swal
lowed a live goddess of liberty, and that
she was troubling him with indigestion.
A New Orleans letter writer says :
“Yesterday, just as 1 was starting for
ohuroh, a distinguished member of the
Louisiana Senate called in his carriage
and extended to me a polite invitation
for the cock-fight” How much easier
would have been the work of the Com
mission had the members thereof gone
to a quadroon ball and made the ac
quaintance of the woman with the pink
eyes!
P*of. Yocmaes, in the Popular Set
noe Monthly, in reply to somebody
who asked him what he thought of
Pleasantoh and the bine glass cure,
eays : “We thiuk the man is a pestilent
ignoramus and his book the ghastliest
rubbish that has been printed in a hun
dred years." And yet Pleasanton has
certificates enough to make the fortune
of a wilderness of quacks.
Tu fire hundred applicants for the
late Fmur Claytos’s consulship at
Callao are semi-officially informed that
this consulate is now temporarily filled
by Mr. Clatton’9 son, and that Repub
licans and Democrats in Georgia hare
united in a recommendation to retain
him permanently. At all events, there
is no present intention at Washington
to take up any of these foreign appoint
ments until the meeting of Congress.
Is the case of Wilson '. the State,
which went np from Morgan oounty, the
Supreme Corn* of Georgia seem to inti
mate that sednotion by promise of mar
riage means the ruin of s virtuous un
married female pending an engagement
to marry in! oonseqnenoe of a repeti
tion of such promisee, and the relianoe
of the woman upon the plighted faith of
her lover. We think the fiapwaae Court
la right, and that there is jvery m little
difference between the woman who sells
her person in consideration of a promise
of marriage and a profess local prosti
tute.
Lo.ndon papers and magazines make
some carious mistakes when writing
learnedly of American affair*. For ex
ample, the Ua/urday Jtevieur, treating
of political complications in this coun
try, solemnly says: -There has not yet
been time to test the capacity of the ne
gro race in favorable circumstances, bat
philanthropists may derive a
oouragemeat from the remarkable pro- 1
gross which has been adpered under
the disadvantage of slavery. The
ixmos and the Pagsabim axe not, per',
h.p. satisfactory statesmen, bat they
eppi lurh much more nearly to the high'
cat American type (ham lo the
worthipping savage* from whemi they
are descended. On their own continent
Africans scam to be irreclaimable, hut
after two or three generations of servi
tude they begin to resemble inferior
Europeans.” Kellogg and Packard
have bad some bard licks, bat none so
galling an the above.
HEOPATH'S lUVIXtiS. .
Jambs Redpath, who delights to
•tyls himself the “Kansas Republic* n,"
and the “Joh* Brown abolitionist,” has
joined the ranks of PmUara and Gar
rison, of Butlbb and Blame, of Chand
lbb and Cbagin, of Packard and Pat
tebson, and thunders against the Presi
dent and his Sonthern policy. It was
not to be expected that when the other
storm birds were on the wing this pes
tiferous sgitator and murderous fanatic
would remain quiet. The company is
too congenial, the ooeasion too oppor
tunely inopportune for Mr. Bbdpath to
refrain from joining this devils Hab
bat anl swelling the din with his own
discordant voice. The whole of Mr.
Rkdpath’s unhappily long life has been
devoted to keeping aglow the evil pas
sions of mankind, to the promotion of
strife and of bloodshed. He is enraged
because the President is not a lover of
discord and hate and prefers to give the
country peace and quiet rather than
turmoil and war, and he turns npon him
in his anger and snaps like a vicious
and ill-conditioned cur. Mr. Hayes, to
him, is everything that is bad in the
vocabulary of political crime. He is
the betrayer of Republicanism, a politi
cal parricide, a deserter from princi
ple, the oppresser of the negro, an in
grate, a ooward, a traitor. This shower
of abuse is caused by the President’s re
fusal to believe the monstrous fictions
concerning the treatment of the negro
in the South put forth by this same
Redpath, and by the President’s refusal
to prop rotten governments in the South
with National bayonets. Happily Mr.
Redpath’s howlings will do no harm.
On the contrary, they will make the best
men of both parties support the policy
which is honored by the hatred of snob
a man. His advice to the oolorr and men
of the South is good, notwithstanding
the man who gives it or the motive for
which it is given. Colored men should
join the Democratic whites because by
uniting with them they can materially
assist in building up the country, and
because they will share in the prosperity
that is certain to follow.
übobgia and the stock exchange.
Some disinterested party at the North
has been kind enough to send ns a print
ed slip containing a long editorial arti
cle from the Boston Herald. The Her
ald has learned that “ a good deal of
“ excitement is likely to be caused be
“ fore long in the New York Btock Ex
“ change by a formal application to the
“ Governing Committee of that body to
" have the securities of the State of
“ Georgia struck off its list.” The
Herald is evidently sorry for Georgia
and would be glad to see the blow avert
ed by a prompt recognition of the bogus
bonds. We appreciate the Herald's
sympathy, but we do not see how the
danger is to be avoided. On the first
day of May the people of Georgia will
kiok the last spark of life out of the car
cass of these bonds and defy the light
ning of the Governing Committee and
the Btook Exchange. The truth of the
matter is, all of the “excitement” will
be confined to the Stook Exchange and
the Boston Herald. There will be no
excitement in Georgia even if the dread
threat should be carried into execution
and the State’s securities be stricken
from the lists. The faot of the business
is, the State of Georgia doesn’t care a
continental for the Btook Exohange ur
the Governing Committee. This threat
has been made several times before, and
has never had, and never will have, the
slightest effect. The Bullook bonds
were disowned beoause a thorough in
vestigation showed conclusively that
they were illegal, null and void, and
were purchased or stolen after the world
had been informed of their character
and put upon notice that they would
never be paid. The State will never
pay a dollar of them, principal or inter
est, and Hhnby Clews, Russell Saoe
and J. Boorman Johnston & Cos. are sim
ply losing money by not sending them
to the rag merchant. Every dollar of
the valid obligations of Georgia is
promptly paid, principal and interest, at
maturity. Georgia bonds are worth to
day from four to seven per cent, pre
mium and will never be any lower. The
Stock Exchange may do as it pleases in
the matter. It is weloome to all the ex
citement it can generate in this connec
tion.
reversing a revolution.
The perplexity of the Radical doctors
over the negro vote, ever since the solid
South became so powerful an element
in politics, is rather amusing to the
speculative philosopher in this seotion
of the common country. Some of the
Repnblioans, like Redfield, are pre
paring the way for disfranchising the
negro now that his usefulness is ended
for Radicalism; others, like Redpath
and Wbndll Phillips, counsel the
blaoks to go over in a body to the Demo
crats, and thereby take a consummate
revenge, as they imagine, upon the
Hayes wing of the party.
The truth is, while the simon-pure
fanatics of the North really believed
that the negro was only a blaok white
man and should be raised to an equality
with the dominant race, at any sacrifice,
the later leaders of the Radical maohine
simply used the colored vote and the
old abolition yawp for purposes of per
sonal revenge and lustful gaio. Now,
out of spite, the Redfatbs would re
tain the negro vote and consolidate it
with that of the powerful Democracy,
while the Redfielpi, having squeezed
that lemon, are agitating to throw away
the psel. The oarpet-bag organs in the
South, for the present, prefer the Red
field plan, and the New Orleans He
publican, the leading paper of that ilk,
plumply advocates stripping the freed
men of this present privilege of the bal
lot. It says :
“ We do not hesitate to say that it the Re
publican party should fro n any oau*e be
brought to beliett that the representation of
the colored people oan no longer be directed
by them in the manner that their heart and
conecienoe would distats, the vary object of
granting that representation weald be best
promoted by suppressing a power captured and
turned against its defenders.”
Ttu> minute the oolored vote ceases to
hold any Southern State in subjection
to Radiosl misrale pud robbery,
that minute the Radical party mgnpgers
at the North have no farther use for,!
and, if possible, on one pretext or an
other, will attempt to suppress if. The
better classes of the colored people per
ceive at last that the love of tbfi carpet
bagger is a shallow end selfish, not to
say calamitous, pretense, fn future,
therefore, in tbs South, they srili either
vote the Democratic ticket or retire
from active politieal pursuit*. It it sot
likely that the Radioala who seek to dis
franchise the negro will snooeed in the
umiartnkiog. Ihe South has that whip
in her hand nog, and will it effec
tually—not to please pmsppTjj £ Ca
bot for her own protection. W di,4
want negro suffrage, and we protested
against its imposition. Bat the enemies
of this section forced if upon ns, and ao
let them beware of the rebonhd.
9T, Uigy’S (.GEORGIA) IMMIGRATION
g’r
The authorities of St, Mary’s, Geor
gia, have passed an ordinance to the ef
fect that any person who will pat ap n
building worth three hundred dollar*
and dear, fenoe and plant in pecan or
sweet orange tree* on lota 218x400 feet
will receive a fen simple title to the
> The lota are 400x496, and parties
will nae of the other half lota
for ten years, <m g&ieh to plant vegeta
jjlea and vine fruit* for tfye New York
market, and when these half loy are
sold Sffi't peryon* will have tbs refusal.'
They can if .they dtqpee use lota for fac
tories instead of as above gtpted. The
city qjw* Jfirge, quantities of land and
out of dabVand the antluptip are enx-1
tons to-build it pp.
i JEW- ———
Th* Chicago Tribune bopea Kan
Claxton’s look will follow her into the
other world.
GENERAL GORDON.
78J5?, -
We print in tfce ChbosMJlb and Con-
wia morning an extract
from a private tatter written by Onneml
Gordo* to Cofcnel J. JL Billups, of
Madison, which ha# bean famished ns
for publication. We cam mend it to the
attention of onr readers. It will be
seen that General Gordon denies in the
most emphatic language that there was
any bargain between himself and Fos
ter or Stanley Mathews pending the
electoral count. General Gobdon Bays,
and with equal emphasis, thst he never
influenced and never sought to influence
the votes or action of those members of
the House who resisted the efforts of
the filibusters. Before the passage of the
Electoral bill Genen Gordon took
strong ground against the pretensions
of the President of the Senate and in
favor of the House exercising its consti
tutional privileges. When the Electoral
bill became a law he thought that good
faith required the Democrats to adhere
to it He was by no means the only
Southern man who entertained the same
opinion. When he became satisfied
that the cause of the Democratic candi
date was lost he determined to do all in
hia power “to save from the wreck local
■elf-government to South Carolina and
Louisiana.” We do not see why Gen
eral Gordon should be censured for
whst he hss done. The people of Geor
gia will not readily believe that one who
has stood so loyally by hia party aDd
who has rendered it suoh brilliant ser
vice in the past abandoned the party or
betrayed its leader in the trying months
that followed the battle of November.
It was hardly necessary for him to write
in his own vindication, but conceiving
that he had been nnjnstly assailed he
hM thought proper to reply to hia as
sailants.
HAYES AND THE SOUTH.
We print this morning a letter from
Hon. Job. B. Oukmino, of this city,
written in answer to a circular request
ing his views for publication. Major
Cuhmikg, like seven-tenthsjof the Ameri
can people, believes that Mr. Tildbn
received a legal majority of the popular
and the electoral vote—that Mr. Hayes
is a minority President, owing his elec
tion to the machinery of the Electoral
Commission, and not to the suffrages of
the people. Bat he does not see how Mr.
Hayes can be held responsible for tbe
work of a tribnnal created, with singular
unanimity, by the moderate men of
both political parties, nor does he think
that Mr. Hayes deserves the slightest
censure for accepting the offloe which
came to him in this way. Under the
peculiar circumstances of the case he
suggests that Mr. Hayes would not have
been justifiable in declining the Presi
dency even if he had sincerely desired
to do so. Tbe attitude of the South to
the new Administration should be one
“of sleepless vigilanoe, bnt also of
“ scrupulous fairness, leaning rather
“to generosity than suspicion.”—
Sinoe the coarse of the President
towards South Carolina and Louisiana,
Msj. Cummins believes that the people
of the South should stand ready to sup
port all jnat and sound measures of his
Administration. Without- the exac
tion of any other oondition than faitbfnl
performance of duty, Maj. Gumming sees
no reason why Southern men should not
acoept Federal offioee. In many cases
it wonld be a duty to do so’in order that
nnworthy officials might give place to
men acceptable to the people. Maj.
Cumkino writes briefly bnt vigorously
and effectively. We believe that the
sentiments expressed by bln# reflect the
views of the great mass of the
Sonthern people. It is mere childs
play now to disonss Mr. Hayes’ title to
the Presidency. He is President, and
so long as he acts justly and generously
to the South, he is entitled to the sup
port of the Southern people. He has
restored self-government to South Caro
lina, and he promises to make Louisiana
a State instead of a province. When
this has been done there is still a great
work before him, viz : Filling Federal
offioes in the South with good and ac
ceptable men. To do this he must, in
many oases, seleet men who are not
Republicans. He must go outside of
his party, and eonfer his appointments
without regard to polities. It remains
to be seen whether he will do this, or
whether he will let the National Govern
ment be disgraoed, as it undoubtedly is
in a great many instances, by the char
acter of its officials.
BiomupHlciL Sketch of Judge Linton Bthph
ens. By James D. Waddell, Atlanta : Dod
son * Soorr. 1877.
This is an attractive volume of four hun
dred pages, in large and legible type, opening
with a likeness, and closing with a good index.
The active life of Judge Stephens covered
twenty-five years of the most interesting
period of State and National history. The
compromise measures of 1859, whioh for ten
years delayed sectional war —the episode of
the American party—the straggles over Kan
sas and the Territories—the Charleston Con
vention (the beginning of the end)—the cul
mination of strife m secession—the war—and
reconstruction—were tU embraced in this
quarter of a oentnry. This memoir gives ma-y
glimpses of the History in the correspondence
of those who made it.
In the whole revolution, Georgia played an
important part, and Judge Stephens was
closely associated with tbe course of events
by his intimate relations with tbe Legislature
—the successive Governors of the State, and
leading Congressmen in both Houses.
Biography serves to present history with the
side lights and from the stand point, which
bring it nearest home to us. Thus tbe life of
Washington or Jackson is a history of the
country for the time. So the life of Governor
Troop by ifr. Harden is one of the finest
supplements to the history of Georgia. The
present sketch furnishes a like contribution
for a more recent and even more important
period. The letters of Judge Stephens, like
his speeches and conversation, are siDgularly
full of thought-germs, and of those acute
obeervations which ole we through all obstacles
to the core of a eubjsot. Bis style was in
duct in word and thought. He was a thinker;
and on many leading subjects of government,
mind and morale, had profound and original
views.
Through si lhis letters are scattered fire
thought*—ofteu decisive —on the nature and
obligations of government—the relations of
the Federal Government to Statea—to cons i
stitntional principles involved in secession—
on the action of the Government in
conscription—improvement —the writ of habeas
corpus, and other moaanres of jrar and peace,
including the constitutional amendments and
reconatruction. Hia brief comments on Mr.
Calhoun (p. 381-349) are acute and atriking. A
pregnant thought is discussed in one of hia
letters ~pry) ejtoess as the vice of governments.
His speech bsfors the D- 8. Commissioner
when arraigned at Macon for an alleged viola
tion of the Deforcement act (p. 331) was a
m sterpieoe of argument and aloquence in a
spirit worthy of Hahpden. Such passages
lend to t bp hook its interest to the general
reader. But to * l*ips cjrcle of friends it poa
sessos * far peeper it texeat in ifs memories of
personal character, of incidents in his life, of
friendship and &<*• relations peculiarly
happy end age-tiopate. Bis relation to hia
children is illustrated bg a letter to his daugh
ters (p. 189) which strikes ***** gem. The
beautiful friendship of the two brother* and
his peculiar tenderness in the relation of hus
band and father are exhibited ia a letter brim
ful) of heart—characteristic of the writer—Col.
BiogAap tf. JonssTOX. The analysis of his
judicial character by dodge Bucket is an ad
mirable specimen of critical power. Among
the thoughts on general subject* we were
struck by those on miracles, on ’nomenclature,
on avowing modest or white lies, and with an
■mlni|iii/p-—jgp on the theory of reasoning.
These memorials tying to ns a freeh
sense of our loss, and .recall the thought of
hqw much we miss him, and how all .too early
was tys Wo can but think of the aei^!
vwshaaoaMWV P ConetitntMmal
Convention, an* of hf* ejtanent fitness for
Cnagwas True, in one aenas, he had never
been tried there, bat hie fitness had really
been amply tested, by ooueperison with those
who had borne the test. He wes the acknowl
edged peer ef men. who were the peers of any
statesmen In the country, in the forum or on
the hasting*—with tongue or pen.
Before the recent High Commission no (me
oould better have represented the right In ar
jwinujX* truth and honesty he had scarcely an
equal. His indignation against all
. fraud* and hjpoedy wee something
grand and genuine. Bach an assaults* hsjas
capable of was well nigh irrsstsHMs There’
we* we* only exposerr as in the blase of as’
light, but an electric fire, too seething to stand
under. ’*
Bat after all that has been preserved of him
in **■ volume, much of the eaaeDoe end aroma
has neoeaaeniy escaped. Eloquence and tone,
and personal power and magnetism, cannot be
put on paper. Be. too, his table talk, and
every dey conversation, in which he was pecu
liarly powerful, has perished. Enough, how
ever, is left to make the work a rare treat,
especially to those who knew him in life, and
oan supply f i om memory these incommunicable
traits. The general reader will be repaid by
many a successful “guess at truth,” by one
who constantly made love to it for its own
sake—and wooed it not in vain.
Samuel Barnett.
Washington, Georgia.
HAYES AND THE SOUTH.
The Dntjr ef the South to the Presideut—
-BktaM H—thera Men Tmlte Office from the
Administration—A Letter from Hon. Joseph
B. Camming.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Dear Bibs—A oopy of your circular
letter of March, 1877, was received by
me some weeks ago. In the meanwhile
the opinions of distinguished gentlemen
in and ont of the State have been fur
nished yon, and published in the Chbon
icle and Constitutionalist. Feeling
that I could present no new view of the
■object, nor give any interest to the con
sideration of it, it has not been my pur
pose to oocupy valuable spaee in your
paper; but as you have again (this time
orally) requested me to give you, iu this
form, what I have expressed in conver
sation, I very obeerfully do so, hoping
that the ideas advanced may have more
interest than I claim for them.
I understand three inquiries to be em
braced in your circular. They are these:
What should be “the attitude of the
Southern Democracy to President
Hayes?”
Should Southern Democrats apply for
office under him ? And should they ac
cept office under him if tendered to
them ?
None of these questions, of course,
would have ever arisen bnt for some
thing peculiar in the position of tbe
President. They would manifestly have
been no queetions at all if Mr. Hayes
held his office as all his predecessors
held it. The essence, then, of the in
quiries is: Did Mr. Hayes acquire the
office of President by suoh means, and
does he hold it by such a title that the
Democracy of tbe South cannot, without
sacrifice of principle, lend themselves to
any polioy he may adopt for his Admin
istration? Can Southern men, without
a sacrifice of personal dignity, apply to
him for offiee, or even acoept office from
him ?
As, therefore, all the doubts suggest
ing the inquiry arise from the manner of
Uis entrance into offioe, wonld it not be
well to consider what that was ?
Beyond dispute Mr. Hayes hid a mi
nority of the popular vote. Iu our opin
ion at the South, he also had only a mi
nority of the Electoral College. If the
old methods of ascertaining and declar
ing the result bad beeu followed, Mr.
Bayes would have been declared not to
be President. And undoubtedly Mr.
Hayes would havo acquiesced with quiet
dignity. But these oid methods were
departed from—whether tried by the
exigencies of the hour,not by the result,
it was a wise departure, is not now
under consideration; anew method was,
in fact, adopted, with an extraordinary
unanimity of the moderate men of all
parties, and hailed with very general
satisfaction. This new process was put
into operation and Mr. Hayes was the
result. He was drawn into this grand
electoral mill a defeated candidate, and
was ground out a President. In
all this he was entirely passive. In de
vising the machinery, in setting it in
motion, in running it, he had absolutely
no part. We Democrats, at least, be
lieve that the majority of the Electoral
Commission were recreant to their high
trust, disregarded the plain truth and
shook the foundations of confidence in
human integrity; bnt we have yet to
hear any one charge Mr. Hayee person
ally with any direct or indirect further
ance of the wrong. What was he to do ?
Was he to say in advance, “I will not
submit to the arbitration,” and having
submitted, was he to say afterwards, “j
will net abide the award ?”
I cannot help entertaining tbe opinion
that, the whole country having united in
a scheme, the result of whioh declared
Mr. Hayes President, he was no longer
at liberty to decline. If we could
imagine the case of sincere desire on
his part not to become President in this
way, common patriotism would have
impelled him to acoept. The tranquili
ty and the business of the country de
manded it. Suppose the case of his re
fusal, and imagine the consequent con
fusion.
Mr. Hayes having been inaugurated,
bis possession and exercise of the office
being unopposed, no scheme to oust
him on acoount of defect of title beiug
entertained, I give it, in answer to your
inquiry, as my humble opinion, that
from the outset, from the moment
all purpose of active resistance was
abandoned, if ever entertained, the “atti
tude of the Southern Democracy to Pres
ident Hayes" should have been one of
sleepless vigilance; but also of scrupulous
fairness, leaning rather to generosity than
to suspicion. That now, since his course,
though more faltering towards Louis
mna than we think justice permits or
prudence requires, has been towards
South Carolina what it has been, the
Sonthern Democracy should hold itself
ready, cautiously but firmly to support,
all jnst and sound measures of his ad
ministration.
Suoh beiug my view of “thp <)ttit|}c|r
of the Southern Democracy,” you can
readily anticipate my answer to the
other two questions.
To apply for offioe is always a deli
cate matter, and to whomsoever made,
the application may, by its mode, com
promise one’s personal dignity. But
with the understanding that the “atti
tude of the Demoorats of the South” is
one of fair and generous support to just
and sound measures of a Republican
President, not the espousal of Repub
lican principles, I see no peculiar ob
jection to the applications of individ
uals, based upon the same understand
mg.
As to your third inquiry I answer un
hesitatingly, that I can see no impro
priety in accepting an office when freely
rendered without the exaction of othei
conditions than iaithful performance o'
its duties, and I can see that it might
be a high duty to do so, and thus to re
lieve the South, to that extent, of one of
its greatest afflictions —incompetent and
generally unworthy Federal officials.
I have only to add: It seems tome
that neither statesmanship nor R°°d cit
izenship tolerates a middle course in this
matter. There being n> thought o'
onster oh account of defective title, with
such thought, should also cease any
course of conduct, personal or public,
based npon such defect. If there it
to be no war let there be no unfriend
liness. Very truly, yonrs, m
Jos. B. Cumming.
A MOST BBtriL MURDER.
A White Lady Murdered By a Negro Fiend.
[Macon Telegraph ]
From gentle nj e P who came up on the
Southwestern Road last evening we get
the particulars of a most brntal murder
committed Monday morning near Smith
ville. Mrs. James Caraway, a worthy
and estimable Isdy, was murdered by a
negro name i Charles Thomas, in order
that he might have an opportunity to
plunder the house. Mr. Caraway is a
thrifty farmer and generally has some
money about hia house. The negro, who
was at one time employed by Mr. Cara
way, was aware of this fact, and knowing
that Mr. C. was absent at one of his
plantations three miles off, he went to
the house for the purpose of robbery.
He found Mrs. Caraway alone in the
house. She, seeieg the negro, told him
that if he wanted to see her husbaud he
mast go to the plantation. The monster
walked into the house and struck Mrs.
Caraway a blow on the bead with a
heavy club which he carried. The blow
felled her face down ward npon the floor,
where she lay motionless. He theD
proceeded to rifle the drawers and
trunks in the house, and secured ten
dollars in silver, and some two or three
thousand dollars worth of papers and
notes, which he destroyed. As he was
passing ont of the house, be observed
that Mrs. Caraway was groaning, and,
fearing thats)ie might recover add tell
on him, hp gtrjtyj? the prostrate woman
two more heavy blows ppon fhe head
with the same clnb with which he
knocked her down. These last blows
crashed in her skull nntil the brain
oozed out. Taking his pitiful booty,
the monster then fled toward his home
in Terrell county.
leeendiary Fire.
Mr. Wm. Turner’s stable and barn,
near Jackson station, S. C., were de
stroyed by fire last Tuesday night, be
tween twelve and one o’clock, together
with three lioyses belonging to Mr Tur
ner, a horae belonging to f)r. P. H.
Eve, also, a fine xniloh cow,' a four
horse wagon, a cart, 460 bushels of corn,
3,000 pounds of fodder and 70 bushels
of pegg. The place eh* on fi*®* ** “
supposed, by egrpee, <W t c 4 rer f D f e ’
as Mr. Turner want on the bm Q* the
Ellington prisoners, There was no in
enrance on the property. Mr. Turner
has no negroes on his plsca, employing
white men exclusively. He has the rep
utation of being an orderly and good
citizen. He was not at home at the
time of the fire,
Unscrupulous Dkaiabs have tried
to filche from Dooley Brothers their
talent and refutation. Dooley’s Yeast
P wder is always sold in cans, and is
absolutely foil weight Be sure you get
the right article and it will be a _ bless
ing to the household, and a saving to
the pone.
EXTREMES MEETING.
REDPATH ADVISES THE NEGROES
TO BECOME DEMOCRATS.
The Ml Brown Abolitionist On the War
Tath—Advice to the Colored Teeplo- A
Savage Aeeoalt On Hayee, the Betrayer of
Hie Party—Alexander H. Stephens the Real
President —Phe Negro. s should Vete With
the Democrat* —A Recralt fer Blaine, Bat
ter <& Cos.
Washington, April 14, 1877.
Drab Sib— You ask me what I think
of President Hayes and his policy, and
what the colored voters of your State and
the other Gulf States should do if the
National Adminietrati n abandons them?
I shall answer you fully and frankly;
and, as these questions are constantly
asked, I shall print my reply, and grant
you the liberty to use it in any way yon
please.
“ President Hayes is the wisest and
ablest statesman of the day”—that is,
Mb partisans and the office seekers say
so. They have unanimously voted
that be is a great statesman, an Ameri
can Richelieu or a second Bismarck;
providentialy sent to recement the
Union with the milk of human kindness.
History shows that God has a veto
power over all such verdicts, and that
His ancient servant, Time, always re
cords His opinion and uot that of the
voice of the parasites. And Time, I
think, will write it down that Hayes
was a man of good intentions—sb it has
already recorded that “Hell is paved
with good intentions;” that he was a
man of moderate intellectural capacity,
with just firmness and
Brains Enough to Commit Political Parricide
—To destroy the party that invented
him; that his vanity was so great and
his grasD of contemporary tendencies so
feeble that he founded his polioy not on
e icial facts and organized forces but oa
air-woven sentiments and pedagogical
theories—unlike the epoch-making men
of history, who first diligently sought
the truth without regard to their own
wishes, and then directed the complex
elements existing around them. Hayes
is honest enough and he means well.
But, as Buckle hau shown, the greatest
ills that have oome to man, through
governments, have been inflioted by
conscientious rulers—men of excellent
intentions; like good little Hayes.
As Lincoln will be known as the Libe
rator of the Slaves, and Grant as the
Preserver of the Union, so Hayes will
be remembered as the Betrayer of Sonth
ern Republicans. Lincoln freed, Grant
conquered, Hayes surrendered. Do you
forget that it was to “save Ohio”—that
is, to elect Hayes as Governor—that
Grant was induoed, against his own
judgment, to refuse the call of Ames
for troops to protect the Republicans of
Mississippi? That was the inaugura
tion of Hayes’ Southern policy. He is
acting to-day in entire consistency with
his history in preferring tbe bandit
chieftain, Hampton, and the Ku-Klux
cyclops, Nicholls, to the lawfully elected
representatives of the Republican voters
of South Carolina and Louisiana.
Leprous Lazarus.
One word, constantly in Hayes’ month,
reveals his character. That word is—
Policy. That word is the shibboleth of
his motley horde of oamp-followers.
Once the inspiration of tbe Repnblioans
was—Principle. The party was a war
rior of the Lord then, with a light from
God’s Throne on its forehead. As far
as Hayes represents it, the party now is
a leprous Lazarus, whining for the votes
that fall from the Southern Democratic
table. Open yonr eyes, my friend, and
dare to see the truth, even if it makeß
you sick at heart. For the truth will
set you free from partisan bondage—a
great boon even if the price be so great.
I have given too much of my life to this
grand old party—asking nothing from
it but the delight of serving it—not,
now, to have grieved over its unhonored
and dishonored grave. How luminons
its pathway has been since a little band
of us, Northern men and boys, called it
into being by confronting the armed
emissaries of South Carolina and Mis
sissippi on the unsullied soil of Kansas !
First, resisting slavery as aggressor;
then, smiting slavery as traitor; then,
making of chatties black men, and of
black men American citizens—its record
is a shißing trail of glory. Its battle
cry was equal rights, and it was a noble
defender of the faith. And now Jlayes
surrenders the brave leaders who saved
to ns South Carolina and Louisiana in
order to conciliate the assassins whose
triumph in November would have been
his defeat. He is President to-day by
the votes of the South Carolina and
Louisiana negroes; By their unreason
ing self-sacrifice, by their sublime devo
tion to the party that freed them, they
“saved the pearl of liberty to the family
of freedom.” Lo ! Hayes has pawned it
to their persecutors ! All the perfumes
of Arabia will never sweeten this perfi
dy most foul. All the pleading tongues
of m n and of officeholders will never
keep down this spectral Ranqno-truth :
That Packard, and Chamberlain, and
Hayes are each and all and equally, the
rightful or tbe fraudulent rulers of the
people who elected them by the same
vote on the same day and by the same
party.
A. 11. Stephens the President.
Don’t be deceived by what Hayes
says. Rulers are men of deeds. His
acts speak for him. He appointed a
oolored man to office—and then made
haste to abandon a colored State. Fred
erick Donglass gels a post worth 85,000
a year, and the fact is trumpeted as if it
were a decisive proof of Ifaypa' friend
ship for the negro—as if it were a ‘ ! new
departure.” Why, Grant appointed
Bassett-a colored man—to a SIO,OOO
mission, to Hayti; another, to the lu
crative post of Liberia; and still another
to a consulate ip Spqin—besides giving
black men throughout the South honor
able positions by the score. Hayes
says, or is reported to have said, that
“if the rebels do not act in good faith
he will soon change his policy.” This
■a boy’s talk, or worse. How can ho
change his policy after he yields his
power ? As soon as South Carolina and
Louisiana are abandoned, Hayas is as
powerless to help the Republicans as
any private citizen. “Who will care for
Logan,” then ? The Republican plat
form declares that the United States ia
a nation —not a league; but the Demo
crats adopted that article when they
insisted that Congress should go b,ehind
the Florida returns—thereby qbapdon
ing their theory of State Rights, and
Hayes adopts the cast : off Democratic
theory and repudiates tfoe Rpppfjlipan
loctrine when he declares, both by his
words and acts, that he has no right to
interpose the arm of the nation between
the negro and his persecutors. As far
ls the Gulf States go, the President of
the United States is net Rutherford B.
Hayes in the White House, but a de
orepid old man, wasted and worn in
body, but still vigilant and acute in
mind, who lies on his sick bed in a com
mittee room at the Capitol—Alexander
H. Stephens. Stephens dictates; Hayes
executes.
The Suicide of It epujilienniaui.
Yon ask—yonit the “old Republicans”
rally and protect the blacks? How can
they do it ? A surrender admits of no
rally. My friend, don’t be blind to the
troth. Look at the facts and see how
hopeless is your hope. Hayes’ po'ioy is
partly a good one I think be 4*4 right
in patting a Southern Demoorat in his
Cabinet. But, be ought also to have
put a Southern native white Republican
there. A great man, a real conciliator,
with principles and courage both, would
have put Key, and Alcorn or Settle and
Frederick Douglass—all three of them—
in the Cabinet, even if he should have
been forced to enlarge the body of his
councilors to do so. That would hate
meant equal rights,' justice and ponejlia
tion. Like all weak' men, Hayed went
just far enough to lose and not far
enough to win. It was an insult to the
Southern white Republicans in every
Southern State to leave them unrepre
sented. The organs of the President
have heaped fresh insults on this oon
spicnons insult by sneering them as
unworthy of honor and trust —they, the
most sincere and the most trustworthy
Republicans in all this nation. As far
and as fast as Hayes shall tarn ont of
office in the South the political birds of
prey from whatever State they may
‘kail’ giving to the citizens of the
Southern States all the Federal offices
in those Scales; as far and as fast ak he
shall weed but; witbbrit pity or excep
tion, every officeholder in the depart
ments here who is “credited” to
a Southern State without being
a citizen of the State thns taxed;
as fast and as far as he shall show
by word and act that the crime of rebel
lion is absolutely and forever condoned
—the President ehonld receive the cor
dial co-operation of every patriot and
especially of every friend of the blacks.
Nobody but demagogues have ever de
sired to keep alive the memories of the
war, excepting so far as they serve to
convidt nie t’epels of to-diy. General
Chalmers' opfenly defying the Cbnstitu
tion in the “Whip-Cord District” of
Mississippi, calls np by his own set the
black spectres of Fort Billow, as General
Hsifipton, by his arrogance, uncovered
the grayed of the national soldier* whose
dead bodies were exposed in the streets
of Charleston with a derisive placard on.
their baUrt-044104 breasts. I‘ **■ *
with the rebels against the country that
we had any quarrel, because that eon
test had come to an end; it was only
with the xebels against the constitution
al guarantees of equal rights that wese
the ripest and best fruits of the war.
Bat even that fight is over now. It is
idle to-day to denounce Hayes or to op
pose his policy of abdication of Presi
dential prerogatives to the Democratic
banditti. We made him our leader,
and he surrendered, and we are boned
by his act. I was one of the Radical
Republicans who advised Go?f. Cham
berlain to make no useless contest, and
inevitable hour in which
Foroe shall triumph in Louisiana. It is
bettcf for the Bake of the Macks that the.
surrender should be made quietly snd
quic .ly. The officeholdera eay that “we
should' give Hayes’ polioy a fair trial.”
What part of' his policy ? No one op
poses conciliation. Every decent man
desires it. That is part the first of
Hayes’ policy. But part the second is
surrender. It means the acquiescence
of the National Government in the rule
of the majority by the minority; because
that minority of citizens has a majority
of property, intelligence and military
power. Now that policy has been tried
in this planet of oura for ages upon
aeons ; for six thousand years by the
briefest and least scientific computation;
and it has always, in every clime and
amocg every race, resulted in the op
pression of the ignorant and the poor.
It has had “trial” enough in this world.
Republicanism means not the rule of
respectability but the rule of the ma
jority; and Hayes’ Gnlf Htate policy is
the snicide of republicanism.
The Blacks Should Be Democrats.
Now, then, for yonr question, What
should the blacks do ? First of all, they
should be taught that they can now free
ly and honorably choose their political
associations without reference to the
past history of their race. They should
be taught that the men who fought for
their freedom are now in a helpless mi
nority in the Republican party; that the
blacks owe it no allegiance whatever
now; and that its recognized leaders,
who wield the power of the Govern
ment, are to day the recreants who ad
vocate and defend and decree their aban
donment.
It is true that the Democratic party re
sisted their enfranchisement, but it is
equally true that the Republican party
refuses to protect them in the exercise
of the franchise that they gave. There
is absolutely no difference whatever,
now, between tho Democratic party and
the Republican party (as represented by
Hayes) on the question the of rights and
condition of the negro, excepting in one
important particnlar. That exception
is a vital one. It points ont the pa h r f
safety to the black voter. It points ont,
also, the path of duty. We owe allegi
ance where we receive protection. The
Democrats protect the Democratic ne
gro; the Republicans abandon the Re
publican negro. For myself, being a
white man, and a Northern man, I pro
pose to remain in the Republican party
to do my part to purge it from the
thieves on the one hand and the peda
gogues on the other hand who infest it;
but if I were a negro and in the South,
I should join the Democratic party at
once and vote for its candidates when
ever they were reputable men. When
ever they were bandits I should refuse
to vote at all. I was a member of the
first Republican National Committee
and I have always been r Radical Repub
lican in my political action. But I was
more than that—a “Kansas Republi
can,” a “John Brown Abolitionist;’ and
through good report and evil report, I
have never wavered in advocating the
rights of the negro. There is no man so
black that I am ashamed to look in the
faoe. I feel that 1 have done my whole
duty to the black race. And with this
record, unbroken by a single word or
act conservative, I should urge the black
men of the South, if my voice could
reach them, to join the Democratic
party.
How to Obtain Protection.
If they were to do so in a body, what
would be the result? Absolute protec
tion, to begin with, in their rights of
life and property. They would not be
driven from their homes by the thou
sands as they were driven into the high
ways of South Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana, because of their loyalty to the
Republican party. The Democratic ne
gro is the safest male creature that I
know of in the Gulf States. All other
males must fight for themselves. For
him only, every white shot gun is ready
to dp battle to the death ! The exodus
of the blacks to the Democratic party
would make that powerful organization
the champion of negro rights. There is
a movement growing rapidly in the Re
publican party that seeks to limit the
franchise to the eduoated olass and to
the holders of property. The sentiment
basspruug out of the corruptions of the
shillelah rule in New York and other
Northern cities that are controlled by
the Irish vote. The Democrats will re
sist this measure on behalf both of the
Irish aDd the blacks, because the negro
vote gives the South 39 members of Con
gress which the Democrats have now
gained forever in consequence of Hayes’
Southern polioy. It will make bo dif
ference to the friends of the negro in
the North whether be votes for the
Democrats (and therehy secures safety
and jnstioe for himself and his family
in other ways), or whether he persists in
stolidly voting for the demagogues
who use him (as Hayes has done)
as a mere ladder to political pow
er—to be kicked aside as soon as
he is used. If the black man
does vote for the Republicans, his vote
will not be counted—and he will gain
the ill will of his white Southern neigh
bors without aiding his friends in the
Northern States. If ther > are colored
men who cannot vote for Democratic
candidates let them refuse to yote at all,
It is a wickedness to try to keep up a
Republican party in the South excepting
on the basis of a large native white vote,
ft will end only in still farther troubles
to the poor and misled and too grateful
blacks. The best thing that every black
man can do in the South is to consult
his own individual interest without, re
gard to party platforms (as President
Hayes has done), in making up bis mind
for wham be shall vote in all future elec
tions,
Repudiate the Administration.
The allies of the Administration will
urge your people to repudiate my ad
vice and appeal to them to be “loyal” to
the Republican organization. Let them
turn a deaf ear to these deluding dema
gogues—or ask them, at least, before
listening to them, Whether they hold
an office or afe gening an office i It
wqqld be a great triumph to the Admin
islration party if the blacks should con
tinue to be true to the President who
has betrayed them. But let the colored
people seriously ask themselves, Wheth
er it will he a good thing for their race 2
and let theqi act as tfcey shall honestly
answer tnis question.' I care nothing
for political parties hut J do most pro
foundly sympathise with defenseless
classes; and familiar as I am with the
history of the last campaign in South
Carolina and Louisiana, I should refuse
to believe that God governs this world
if the dastardly treachery of this Ad
ministration to the blacks is not visited
with the destruction of the party that
shall sustain it. The Republican party,
if it submits to the leadership of Hayes,
will not be fit to live, because it will
thereby abandon both its principle and
its saviors; the principle o{ the grown
ment of the people foj'tfoc peopleTay the
people which 1 Lincoln announced; and
the negroes of South Carolina and
Louisiana who, when the roads were
picketed with armed men, crawled, at
peril of their lives, through the swamps
and morasses and thick woods, in order
to reach the countv segts, tbp
prespnqa pf tim boys In blue made it
safe of even possible for them to vote.
It was this silent heroism, this sublime
devotion of the blacks to the party of
their liberators that elected Hayes Pres
ident of the United States—that gave
him the chance to betray these men.
I am not alone among the old friends
of the freedmen in believing that they
now owe no allegiance to the Republi
can party. I asked Wegdell Philips
the other week —alter saying that I
shou'd advise my oolored friends to join
the Democratic party in the South—if
he would blame them for refusing to re
main in the Republican party and join
ing the Democratic party ? “Certainly
not,” wai his prompt reply. I asked
Senator Bruce why he did not urge the
blacks tp desert tup Republicans who
had deserted them. I told him that I
would like to sign, with him, a letter
urging .hem to do so. He said that, as
a Republican Senator, he could not pub
licly advocate this policy ; but that he
had advised all his friends—meaning
colored political leaders—to the
best terms they equip mage with the
Democracy; to “Ibok. out for them
selves.!’ What Senator Bruce does and
Wendell Phillips approves cannot be a
false policy for the Southern blacks as a
class.
But, if I could lead the blacks, I
should say to them still further—pay
less attention to politics and seek power
through business. Become the Jews of
America. There are two great policies
both for men and races—Force and Con
ciliation. The Anglo-Saxon race fights.
The Jewish race conciliates. Both have
become great powers by policies entirely
opposite, The black raoe aaanot fight.
It would be exterminated if it tried that
policy. It muSt win power by the art of
peace. Let the blacks adopt lago’s advice;
“Put money in thy purse.” Work ! B.uy
land I Qwn your hemeste*^ 8 end patch
of garden 1 Go to school 1 Get rich 1 If
one county persecutes ydu, go to an
other; if sßtate refuses you protection,
leave 1 it and seek a jiome elsewhere.
Above all, ask for schools for your chil
dren, ana leave the State if they are not
bnilf and kept up for yon, Cease to ar
ray yourselves against the whites in
polities, but, at the same time, quietly
and everywhere and always insist on the
right of semiring an education for yoar
children. Semiring that right, your
children will secure all others, by and
by. Fraternally yours,
Jaues Redpath.
To M|. M. Howard, ex-sheriff of Jeffer
son oonnty, Mississippi.
SENATOR GORDON.
The Electoral C.ant—N. Bargain With Eas
ter .r Matthews—An Emphatic Denial by
the Soldier Senator,
ftixtrael from a private letter to Bon. J. A. Bil
• tups, of Madison, ffa., On the UlhjDf April,
famished the Chronicle and Constitutionalist
for publication ] __
And nqw one word as to myself- I see
that an effort is being made in Georgia
to create the impression that I am in
some way responsible for the defeat of
Mr. Tilden's inauguration. No greater
in jnstioe or outrage was ever perpetrated
upon aDy man in public life. I was not
a member of the House; had no vote in
the House, and therefore had ho respon
sibility in the matter of completing or
defeating the coant for President. I
never influenced nor sought to inflae' ce
the votes or actions of those gentlemen
in the Honse who resisted the “ filibus
ters,” nor of any one of them, nor did I
seek in any way to control the votes or
aotions of any one of the latter olass.
Before the Electoral bill was passed I
took strong ground, as everybody knows,
for having the Honse stand manfully on
its constitutional rights, and firmly ex
ercise all its constitutional privileges,
and boldly meet all the oonsequenoes,
whatever they might be. I stood upon
the law then, the fundamental law, and
when the Electoral bill became the law
1 1 was for standing by that with equal
fidelity.
The charge that I made any bargain
of any sort or had any understanding of
any character with Foster, whom I saw,
or with Stanley Mathews (whom I did
not see until after the inauguration),
looking either to the Presidential oonnt
or to the action of any Democrat in
reference to the future organization of
House or parties, is basely false in every
syllable and in every sense. I did not
make any promise to let the count go
on. I was not asked to make any. x
did not then, nor have I since had one
word of conversation with either of these
gentlemen, nor with any body else, look
ing to any political compromises or
political arrangements or affiliations of
any description whatsoever. My only
agency, my only effort in this Presi
dential count was this : When I saw that
Mr. Tilden’s cause was hopelessly lost—
lost by want of concert of action prior to
the passage of the Electoral bill—lost
beyond the power of rescue by any man
or set of men, I determined to do all in
my power to save from the wreck local
self government to South Carolina and
Lonisiana, which was the great end of
our endeavor in the last campaign. If
that be treasoa to principle, to party or
to oountry, let my personal enemies
'‘make the most of it.” Very respect
fully yours,
[Signed] J. B. Gobdon.
Senator Gordon Repudiates Severely the
Charges Against Him by a Southerner.
Wassington, April 17.—Senator Gor
don, of Georgia, in reply to an inquiry
concerning the extract from a letter pub
lished in the World of yesterday from a
Southern ex-Goveruor in relation to the
organization of the next Honse, which
intentionally reflects upon him, says he
does not deem the charge worthy of
notice, but simply regrets that any
Southern Democrat should intimate
that he has any knowledge of any coali
tion looking to the election of a Re
publican Speaker, or that he would be a
party to or countenance any such bar
gain. He seems to regard the attack as
more in the nature of a personal one
upon him, prompted by personal rather
than political motives, and he does not
propose to give it serious thought be
yond writing a private letter to one of
his constituents branding the insinua
tion as it deserves. What the Republi
cans may be vainly attempting towards
an organization of the next Honse Sena
tor Gordon does not know, but he is
very confident that no Democrat is con
tributing to their plans, either South or
North, and in common with the Demo
crats here he has no doubt of a complete
organization of the next House by the
Democrats. The Republicans very
generally concede the same.
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The Calling of a Convention Will Stop Agi
tation,
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I um one who has been doubtful of
the wisdom of oalling A “Constitutional
Convention.” I felt that like most ques
tions there were two sides to it; that
there were arguments pro and con. And
these arguments have, sometimes, seem
ed to me so nearly equal in weight, as
to leave my mind in doubt whether or
not a Convention should be called. Af
ter further thought, however, I am more
in favor of a Convention, and one reflec
tion that has helped to briDg me to this
point is, that it may be the means of
promoting harmony in the State. Some
of ns believe that there are some excel
lent features in our present Constitution,
and that the bare fact that it was made
by “carpet-baggers” and “scalawags”
ought not to induce us to repudiate what
is really good. Still, thefaot remains that
many Georgians are dissatisfied with
this instrument, and have been agitating
for a long time to get anew Constitu
tion. As things are they are not satis
fied. It is desir ible that they should be
satisfied. In order then to satisfy them
and stop this agitation, let us have
q Convention. “ The majority must
rule,” it is true, but even a minority
has its rights, and one of those rights is
to keep up this agitation for a Conven
tion. Should the Convention be voted
down in June, may we not expect that
discontent will the result, and, perhaps,
renewed agitation at no distant day ?
Where the arguments for and against a
Convention are pretty evenly balanoed,
why may not a regard for the wishes of
a large class of citizens and for harmony
in the State turn the scale in favor of a
Convention ? This, of course, assumes
that those deoidedly in favor of the Con
vention are in a minority. In point of
fact, Ido not know this is true. J
should not wonder if they constitute a
majority. But even if ih,ey are the mi
nority, they qrp probably a pretty strong
mjnqfjty, and their views and wishes are
entitled to respect. Perhaps a Conven
tion will give us a Constiution just as
good as the one we have, possibly even
better. If it does this and, in addition,
satisfies a large number of Georgians,
why not vote for a (lonyeptian As for
the expense, perhaps it will pot be as
great qs to have the question continual
ly discussed in successive Legislatures,
as it is liable to be, to say nothing of
the saving a Convention may effeot in
varions ways, Georgian.
TURKEY PULLS DOWN HER BACK
FEATHERS.
And Abandpna Her Martial Strut—Tbs Ar
rogant Porte Alarmed at the Sound of War
and Now Anxious to Listen to Pence Pro
posals—Active Warlike Preparations Con
llnas.
Londoij, April —A bloody fight
near Sficsigs is reported. An early bom
bardment of Odessa is expeoted. Mer
chants are warned to remove their goods,
as the Custom House has been closed.
Ships at Odessa are preparing to leave.
A Reuter dispatoh from Ragnssa stm
that the Turkish troops divided into
four poifps a.qdarksurrounding the Meri
dite goutiti-y. The iuhtbitants of several
villages have laid down their arms.
Bucharest, April 20.—A decree of
Prince Charles, issued to-day, orders the
mobilization of the active and territorial
armies and their respective reserves.—
The militia and civic guard are also
called out, and an extraordinary session
of the Chambers is summoned (0,l April
26th. "
London, April id.—A special telegram
to the “JV mes , from Constantinople, says:
“ Turkey is disnayed at the prospect of
imminent war, and would be glad to lis
ten to proposals for a pacific arrange
ment if it were not too late.”
A Reuter telegram from Bucharest
says: “The Czar is expected at ftis'&fien
eff on Sunday He Wid lold a review of
the army on the Danks of the Pruth on
Monday.”
In the House of Lords, in reply to the
statement that peace might not yet be
disturbed, Lord Derby said he did not
like to dispond, and toe House sigl)t
feel sure that if the Government saw any
hope that diplomatic intervention could
yet be successful in averting what seem
ed to be impending war, no effort to
that end would be left untried, but he
was bound to say that from all he heard
he was not justified in indulging the ex
pectation that we should be able to
avoid that great European calamity, but
he repeated what he said in May last,
that in that case the Porte must not re
ly on material support from England.
In Salfcrd Parliamentary District an
election, yesterday held to fill the seat
made vacant by the disease of Charles
Edward Cawley, Liberal Conservative,
Mr. Walker, Conservative candidate,
received, §,642 votes, against 8,372
polled for Mr. Kay, Liberal. The Times
thinks that the moral of the election is
that the country is deterguaed to keep
out of the contest in Turkey as long as
its vital interest is not assailed, and it
believes the Government to be in favor
of vigilance no doubt, but also qf’peaee.
Mr. Walker may bq taken to represent
the pqU{£ or patriotic inactivity, while
the arguments of the Liberal leaders
tend to shdw that if they power
they would use forge to impose the will
of Europe on Turkey.
Public speakers always have Dr. J.
H. McLean’s Coogh and Long Healing
Globules; they soothe and heal the irri
tation of the Tonsils sod Throat, and
core Coughing, Hoarseness and Con
sumption, Trial boxes by mail, twen
ty-five cents. Dr. J. H. McLean’s of
fice, 314 Chestnut street, St. Louis, Mis
souri.
THE jTATE,
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Eastman wants another hotel.
Americas tallies 25,018 bales of cottoD,
Many strangers propose to Summer in
Rome.
Oglethorpe oounty pays SIO,OOO for
the riot. ■
Calhoun will have plenty of sorghnm
this year.
The Macon Presbytery is now in ses
sion at Columbus.
The Columbus Choral Union, finan
cially, is a success.
Porter Springs was visited with a
snow storm last week.
Dr. I. L. Harris, of Baldwin, will not
be a Convention candidate.
The Georgia Baptist Convention at
Gainesville met yesterday.
Several crooked whisky developments
come to light in Floyd county.
Jas. H. Worrill, E?q., delivers the
memorial address in Talbotton.
On dit, that Col. Carey W. Styles gave
$5,000 for the Gainesville Eagle.
Appling county has purchased one
hundred tons of guano this year.
The printers of the Columbus En
quirer have formed a base ball club.
Well grown peaches are loading down
the prolifio boughs in Sumter county.
Phil Cook, Jr., is spoken of as a Con
vention candidate in Oglethorpe oounty.
A Knights of Honor Lodge was in
augurated in Sevaunali Tuesday night.
The peach orop of Sumter county is
considered safe, and an abundant yield
is expected.
■A Rome girl, upon a wager, rolled a
wheelbarrow fall of goods ap the street,
the other day.
The frnit trees in Washington county
were considerably injured by the hail
storm of last week.
It is thought by some of the North
Georgia farmers that they will have all
their corn to plant over.
To Mr. S. G. McClendon, Secretary,
we are indebted for an invitation to the
Thomasville Spring Fair.
The flower thief, distinguished by a
red rose in his button hole and lard on
his looks, is now in Columbus.
Mr. R. E. Allen, of Butler, was acci
dentally shot last week by a pistol fall
ing off a shelf and discharging.
Unmailable letters for Mr. Miles
Meyer and Miss Green, of Augusta, are
held in the Savannah post office.
A young man name Norton was drown
ed in Glass’ mill pond, Henry county,
last week. His body was recovered.
The Bainbridge Democrat says Mr.
John Lasseter, of that county, was
killed by a falling timber during the
late storm.
Robert Williams, Esq., of Marion
oounty, was recently killed by a heavy
log falling upon him and frightfully
crushing his skull.
The Swainsboro Herald sayi an alli
gator, seven feet long, was found in one
of their nets, by tome fishermen of that
place, one night last week.
A negro, Charlie Thomas, brutally
murdered Mrs. Jas, Caraway in Snmter
county, and rifled the residence, in her
husband’s absence, last Monday.
An Atlanta mechanic met bis death
the other day by drinking Schiedam
schnapps. This is the first signal vio
tory alcohol ever gained over an Atlanta
man.
The Milledgeville Union states that
frnit is not so plentiful as in former
years. Old orchards have died ont, and
the planting of yonng trees has been
sadly neglected.
Albany has anew omnibus.
Warrenton houses 714 beings.
General Longstreet is at Gainesville
again.
Wheat and oats are fine in Cobb
county.
The measles are raging iu Walton
county,
Dr. Hoge’s sermon in Atlanta is high
ly spoken of.
Atlanta is sharpening up her spitz
exterminator.
Marietta has a mineral spring and a
sciopticon show.
Social Cirole makes no preparation
for Memorial day.
The wood fiend has been demolishing
fences around Griffin.
The Savannah regatta will oome off
about the centre of May.
A Sandersville negro recently paid
$42 50 for a saok of gnano.
Very few Conyers’ poets were washed
away during the late flood,
A three pronged ear of corn has been
stalking abroad in Thomson.
Some Northern capitalists are probing
a copper mine in Cobb county.
Judge K. A. Rowland, of Burke coun
ty, is quite ill with pneumonia.
There are fifty Dooley county citizens
who have seen three score years.
A Lumpkin man has dng up a nice
strawberry bed to make room for
onions.
The Perry girls carry radishes and
salt with them when they go violet
bunting.
Tho past week seems to have been a
terrible era for mill dams and poor
bridges.
The Savannah inoendiary managed to
kiQdle np a grooery store Thursday
morning.
H. Grimes Dickinson, Esq., makes a
Sunday Sohool address in Newnan on
May day.
JndgeV. M. Barnes’ mill on Little
river, in McDuffie, was washed away
last week.
Atlanta has imbedded a beer keg in a
soda fount, and doles it out at five cents
per oapita.
The oldest inhabitant is still looking
for his “dam by the mill site,” and
versa vice.
The Kimball House, not one of “the
mansions our fathers built,” will have to
be sold agaiD.
A little child of Mr. Underwood, of
Johnson county, was burned to death a
few days ago.
Mr. Homer Wright and Miss Mattie
Milner were married Wednesday, in
Crawford county.
Mr. Wm. Cheek, of Warren county,
was drowned in the Ogeechee, above
Jewell’s mills, last week.
Mr. Benjamin Samuels and Dr. B. F.
Bently are mentioned as Convention
candidates of Lincoln county.
A little daughter of Mrs. W. T. Mur
ray, of JJnoolriten, fell in the fire last
week and was severely burned.
A Lumpkin county genius is prepared
to swear that strychnine as an appetizer
ia not a proper element of swine rood.
Col. J. J. Morrison, of Morgan coun
ty, appears to be taking a whiff of the
United States Marshalship expectancy.
Newnan is ont of debt, has $1,200 in
her treasury, and yet allows her citizens
to bog np on her streets daring maddy
weather.
Ben Hill will be in Savannah this
week. Colonel Thompson oan then
meet him hilt to hilt, politically
speaking,
Mr. John Mobley, of Tatnall eonnty,
died last week, aged eighty-three years,
on the plantation where be was born
and had lived his entire life.
The McDuffie Journal states that
there is to be a Hampton and Col
quitt fishing party at Dallas Ferry, on
tne Savanush, about the first of May.
A quadrangular pistol fight recently
oocurred in Monticello, in which, after a
lively skirmish, the parties were taken
off, all unhurt and gloriously satisfied.
Ou last Saturday night Elbert Lewis,
a colored preacher, broke in the smoke
house of Mrs. Gardner, at Wrightaboro,
and stole abont twenty po.uada of meat.
We understand, says’ the Savannah
News, tbaf the steamer Katie has been
ch%tte*e3 ta|bring'down a large excursion
party from Augusta to visit the naval
fleet.
The Warrenton Collar'd Leaf, petal
No. 2, has reached us. It is neatly got
ten up, and shows that its tyy,c***pbi
oal engineer, at least, \a, B' oabbage
bead.
Mrs. Woodward, of Marietta,
o,p her sixty-seventh birthday ironed
twenty five shirts, twenty collars, six
pair of cuffs, and four unstarched gar
ments.
When a Dahlonega map duns his
debtor he captions his bill besides,
“ Get up and dust,* This, we suppose,
referg to ''gold dust,” being used as
currency.
Mr. James Barnes, of Towns county,
was carried to the lunatic asylnm the
other day. The loss of his wife and
youngest son was the oaqso of his de
rangement,
dead level sluices of Milledgeville no
insualing and yet fatal gurgle of Schie
dam schnapps is heard near “the halls
our fathers built.”
GENERAL B. W. HEARD.
The Repart of Hi* Insanity AnthariUitWely
Denied.
Editors ChroniQte and Constitutionalist:
A paragraph abont this gentleman was
copied from the Crawford vi lie Demoerat
into the Choniole and Oonstitotion
axjst, and as it gay® currency to a very
annoying miwgnpjohonsion, I am sure
you, will take pLessor* in correcting it.
General Heard had a very alarming at
tack of sickness, in which he was for
three weeks dctvriCWL As his body
finally seemed to, improve, his wife and
gyown children were strongly urged by
physioianß of reputation to send him to
the Asylum for treatment. They agreed
with great reluctauoe. As soon as he
reached Milledgetllle he began to im
prove, aud in three days was perfectly
aeand in mind. He was at once dis
charged and sent home. He has shown
no symptoms of insanity since, and ia
rapidly recovering his health of body
It ia now generally thought here that the
advice was a mistake. Papers which
oopied the paragraph will oonfer a favor
by publishing this correction. Wtwns.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
The fakirs are in Charleston.
Fester Blodgett is in Greenville.
Blackville has slain a rattlesnake.
Petty forgers are abroad in Sumter.
Charleston has a oolored Y. M. C. A.
More corn and less eotton and poli
tics.
Colored tramps are ravaging Orange
burg.
Kershaw county gives Hampton
$3,000.
The Charleston iEtnas will oome to
Augusta.
Maj. John F. Haynesworth, of Black
ville, is dead.
Marlboro’s lands are in a high state
of cultivation.
Charleston’s Frenndshafts Bund has a
debating club.
Earley station, in Pickens oounty, is
rapidly improving.
The Orangeburg post office robbers
are lodged in Charleston.
The April term of the Carolina Su
preme Court is in session.
Charley Ross has been picked np out
of the Congaree river near Columbia.
The Wagener Artillery, in Charleston,
have elected Carl Schnrz an honorary
member.
A wild turkey weighing 21| ponnds
was killed near Piokens Court Honse
last week.
An owl measuring fonr and a half feet
from tips was recently killed in Marl
boro oounty.
Considerable damage was done the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad by
the recent storm.
Colored Democrats in Charleston have
organized a “Hampton United Central
Democratic Club,"
The twenty-first annual session of the
Sonth C arolina Medical Association ia
open in Charleston
Rev. Wm. B. Yates, of Charleston,
has returned to his pulpit after a re
creating absence in Florida.
Many Beanfort freed men have collect
ed their claims recently against the
United States Government.
All the damaged places on the Sonth
Carolina Railroad have been repaired,
and trains are running on time again.
The foundation has been selected for
the new Methodist Church at Camden,
and work will be immediately oommeno
ed.
The Atlanta diamond robber had pass
ed through Charleston before the Chief
of Police had received a dispatch to ar
rest him.
Says the Register: Not since the war
has there been such an affair in Colom
bia as the inangnral ball tendered to the
Governor will be.
Sheriff Bowen, of Charleston, saya
that six thousand majority shall never
again be oast in that oounty for a Re
publican candidate.
Speights, of tho Greenville News, per
sists iu having his private opinion of a
Democrat who would take offioe under a
fraudulent President.
Intendant, Dr. J. J. Bossard ; War
dens, W. H. Epperson, Myles Morgan,
G. W. Reardon, D. J. Winn, were elect
ed in Sumter last week.
The Columbia Phoenix says it was the
Governor’s Executive seal, not the great
seal of the State, that was among the
articles turned over to Gov. Hampton.
Professor and Madame Gonzalez pro
pose giving a sacred oonoert in tb
Catholic Church, in Columbia, next
Sunday for the benefit of that church.
A little son of Mr. Thaddeus Cum
mings, of Sumter, was drowned on Sat
urday last, by falling into a day-hole in
the yard, filled with water by the reoent
rains.
Lexington’s jail is teuantless.
Slight frost Saturday in Abbeville.
Chicken fighting is popular in Barn
well.
No dog is seen in Greenville’s ave
nues.
Greenville’s street railroad is com
pleted.
Several wells in Lexington caved in
last week.
Farmers are a little behind time with
their crops.
Barnwell did not Buffer muoh by the
recent floods.
Roseville speaks of a May party at
Catawba Falls.
An intelligent thief in Marion finds it
all plain Bailing.
Marion is soon to have an elegant
new billiard table.
Whooping cough and pinbaoks still
prevail in Chester.
Spartanburg will next week have a
strawberry bazaar.
General Butler has returned to his
home in Edgefield.
Charleston’s greatest need is said to
be a steam laundry.
A reorganization of the Edgefield
Hussars is talked of.
The Spartanburg papers are sponging
off for a Spring fight.
Iron has been purchased for the Ches
ter and Cheraw Railroad.
Wm. Randal], colored, esoaped from
Riohland jail Snnday night.
The editor of the Newberry Herald
has hired a “Spring poet.”
The late heavy rains have brought ont
the grass in splendid style.
Chalmers Butler, Esq., of Jalaoa, has
invented anew ootton planter.
Rev. Jeffrey Pendergrass died Tues
day morning in Williamsburg.
Newberry’s eow thief has been oanght,
bat the gate lifter is still at large.
Aiken oonnty contemplates getting np
a grand agricultural fair next Fall.
Negro boys in Charleston continue to
pelt school ohildran with brick bats.
Colonel J. J. Hickman, R. W. G. TANARUS.,
lectures in Spartanburg on the 24th.
It costs five dollars to nae “cuss
words” on the streets of Winnsboro.
Hampton oondaots the State govern
ment with the assistance of one clerk.
Gold bearing quartz, iron and ooal
ores have been found in Spartanburg.
The negroes did n r 't seem to “take”'
in Charleston in the “Lady of Lyons.”'
A negro man was rnn over and killed
by the passenger train at Florenoe last
Mr. B. F. Killingsworth, of Allendale,
has a fifteen acre field of oats averaging
3) feet.
The Columbia Register favors the en
actment of new school laws by the Stato
Legislature.
Nearly every editor now has some
thing to say abont the “rats deserting
the sinking ship.”
The belligerent bullies of the Doe
West riot are safe iu the arms of Abbe
ville’s stalwart sheriff.
Chancellor J. P. Carroll is suggested'
by the Edgefield Advertiser as a proper
man for Chief Justice.
Mr. Jas. F. Barber, of Chester, had
his stable blown down Friday night,
smashing two buggies.
Mr. Hamlet Jeffries had a cotton gin
and grist mill, on Abbington creek, car
ried away by the flood.
Hydrophobia and measles are subsid
ing, but iueeudiarism and rogues are on
the increase at Pooolete.
Rev. W. H. Fleming died at his resi
dence, in Charleston, last Monday, in
the 57th year of hia age.
The second Quarterly Conference of
the Methodists of Lexington will be held
on the first Sunday in June.
A couple of drummers in Newberry
oame near finding a grave in quicksands
while crossing a swollen ford.
A Mr. Wakefield has moved from Tex
as to Spartanburg. The baok water of
immigration commences to move in.
Washington Gregg, cow stealist, who
escaped from the penitentiary last July,
was lodged in Marion jail last Monday.
Governor Scott, it is said, will succeed
" Chlory” Carpenter as Internal Reve
nue Collector of the Columbia district.
The only waya Chester man oan insure
the safe keeping of a whisky demijohn
is to append it to the fighting end of
male.
The sage of the Abbeville Medium ad
vises the matrons of that oity to prevent
their children from running around town
at night.
The Medium thinks that the white
Radical leaders of Abbeville county, and
net the ten Lowndesville negroes,
should bo bung.
General MoGowan has been chosen to
preside at the debate in the Philoma
thean Society, at Due West, at the com
ing commencement.
The Spring exhibition of the Senior
class, at Wofford College, will be held
on Thursday and Friday evenings, 26th
and 27th instants.
Rev. E. L. Patton, D. D., of Jaoksoo,
Tennessee, accepts the Greek chair in
Erakine College, made vacant by tbo
death of Dr. Prersly.
A large number of Ellenton negroes
are in Charleston, surcharged with ven
omous lies to dole out before the Unit
ed States Courts.
HOG RAISING IN THE SOUTH.
Howabd College, Marion, Ala., t
February 10, J 877. $
H. W. Hill k Cos., Decatur, 111. :
Dear Sirs— The Hog Ringer and 100
Rings came in due time. Enclosed I
send P. O. order $1 40 amount ot bill.
They will pay for themselves in a few
days. I wish our Southern people knew
of their value. By aid of our green
crops wbieh grow Summer and Winter
here, they could raise bogs at very small
cost. Since I received the rings and
rang my hogs they have been getting
their living on my rye which is now 15
inches high. I shall speak to my friends
of them, and in my travels through the
State in vacation, I see a good many
farmers. Yours truly,
J. T. Mubfee, Pres’t.
Kaiser William is ready, witling and
anxious to make a Knight of Minister
Washbnrne. We always thought Min
ister Washburne had an knight to busi
ness when he took care of the Parisian
Germans.