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glflromcle anft &gntnul 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.