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NEW SERIES—VOL. LI.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 2^1877.
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promptly.
Among the recent dismissals from the
Treasury Department was one lady who
bad lost two husbands and three sons
for the “Union cause.”
The delegation of French working
men at the Centennial Exhibition have
officially reported that American spool
cotton is superior to that of Qreat
Britain.
Hon. Aha B. Foster, a Canadian “rail
road king," has become bankrupt. It
is not a little curious that he met his
crowning defeat at Waterloo. France
is slightly avenged.
Wonders never cease. The Chioago
Tribune now declares that Grant's ad
ministration, composed of tedious dra
rnatio acts, closed with a conspicuous
farce. The “old man” had better get to
Europe as quickly as possible.
The tranquility and content among
the colored people in South Carolina act
like gall and wormwood upon the stal
wart Republicans at the East and West.
The lie has been practically given to the
whole Reconstruction infamy.
The SpriDgfield Republican notes
that the so-called religious weeklies have
suffered most of all in the hard times,
mainly because they were a hot-bed
growth, fertilized with chromos and
dug about by special agents, and they
go down now almost as fast as they went
OP-
The Chicago Tribune, a recent con"
vert to grace, admits that the whole
thing in Louisiana is rotten and corrupt,
and the sooner the business is closed up
the better for the country. The Tribune
likewise admits, by parity of reasoning,
that carpet-bag Republicanism caused
all this rottenness and corruption.
Baltimore prides herself upon her
goats as scavengers. The Gazette says :
“With Billy and Nanny, and a little as
sistance from the health department,
we will manage to keep off all malarial
fevers during the coming Summer. All
that is needed now is a few ostriches to
eat the broken glass, stove-pipe and
hoop-skirts. Then our health depart
ment will be complete.”
Stanley Matthews is not the Presi
dent’s brother-in-law, but he is Henry
Watterson’h uncle—thus: Mr. Hayes
married Mira Webb, Miss Webb’s broth
er married Miss Matthews. Her brother
Stan'i-sy married a sister of Henry Wat
tebbon’’s mother. Mr. Wattkrson is
editor ox the Courier Journal, of Louis
ville,, Imdiatfnctly avers that
he has n<? in fluence with this Adminis-
P*;
The Troy Times says “nothing has
been needed during the twelve years
last past to draw to the South a large
emigration from the North but a cessa
tion of political and social disturbances
based npon sectional hate and bigotry.”
We would remind the Troy Times that
nothing has been needed during twelve
years last past at the South but a cessa
tion of political and social disturbances
based upon Northern Reconstruction.
It is presumed that the etiquette at
Hke White House, in the matter of State
diaoers, has been reduced to this pro
gramme: Wine shall be provided for
foreigners but none for citizens of the
United States, when these latter sov
ereigns compose the bulk of the guests,
lu auy ease, Mr. aud Mrs. Hayes will
uot participate in the drinking of ardent
spirits. The President’s wife has issued
her ukase, and Zaoh Chandler and
Grant will hardly oare to dine at the
Executive Mansion.
Is praising President Hates for his
mat'ly and honest dealing with the
Southern problem, the St. Louis Re
publicinn justly lauds the oouduot of
Mr. for his behavior from the
beginning of the campaign to the end
of the Electoral Commission business.
He did nothing, said nothing to bring a
blush to a Democratic cheek, and we
are persuaded that whatever doubts
there may be now in regard to the wis
dom of his course will disappear entire
lly in the purer and brighter light of the
future.
A “ Southern Abolitionist to the
manor born,” now living in New York,
writes to a paper there that “ time will
yet prove that the negro will find more
re*l sympathy, a true 1 , manly, recogni'
tion, and a more generous sympathy
from the white gentlemen of the South
than he will ever receive from those who
make their professions of good will for
him a matter of profit and show.” He
brands the anti-slavery demagogues as
the real authors of all the country's
woes, and adds that Phillips A Cos. are
attempting to make the Puritan the
master, the Confederate the overseer and
the negro the serf.
Ms. Henry Behoh, the sometimes ;
officious philanthropist, “ glorified i
beasts” the other night in a New York j
fashionable chnrch by saying that they <
nevec get drnbk, or smoke or chew
tobneoo. The New York Sun thinks he
might have added that they never go to
church, or deliver speeches, or start be
nevolent societies, or carry on revivals, i
or write essays, or attend Sunday
schools, or pernse the Scriptures, or
arrest each other under legal proeess, or
drag one another to court for trial, or
pass aronud the hat for subscriptions,
•or issue Annual reports of their labors,
•or wear etoee-pipe hats, or shave off
their beards wttfc razors, or do any
•other things the sinners pf the human
cooe are prone to practice.
Mb. Hknrt W. Gbady thus describee
Mies Ada Dyas, the actress who is said
to have been too intimate with Mr.
Oa&kt Hall :
She the most beautiful woman I ever saw.
Sbe is a white woman—as white and serene as
a star. There ia no cheap color Stalling out
in her pure face. Beyond the bine of her
eyes and teatross brown of her hair, the
chaste creaminess is nowhere broken, save
where the prisoned blood frets itself into a
red passion in her lips, or kindles like a pent
taste m her rosy palms. I think men become
tired of those women over whose faces the
dowdy pink and scarlet ran at every caught
breath. The oolor is pnt on too near the surface,
a suspicion that it is not an essential
integral illumination. But a charming,
serenely white creature like Dtas. with the
-glow coating from the depths of the eoal and
just tomng the face np to cream color, leaping
into flame at the lipe only, and barely pinken
■ing the finger tips. Ah, a passion bnilded np
wgßinst s woman like this outlives the grave,
■as. is a great white rose with a sunbeam
ipiMooedin the bod.
A great white rose with a sunbeam
jprisoned in the .hod! Gosh !
THE NEKHO PROBLEM.
It is said that Wendell Phillips and
his man Redpath have recommended
the negro shall go over, bag and bag
gage, to the Democracy for some fell
purpose. We can conceive of only one
possible motive, outside of vengeance
against Hayes, and that is a hoped-for
debauchment of the Democracy by
damping into it tueh a mass of ignorance
and semi-barbarism. The negro has
been a Frankenstein monster to the
Republican party, and the baffled con
spirators hope that he will do for us
what he has perforce done for them. We
have one safeguard, in snoh a contin
gency, and that is a better understand
ing of the coloted man’s character. Be
sides, the more intelligent negroes now
comprehend that they have nothing
whatever to hope from the carpet-bag
gers or their allies and everythieg to
fear. Agaio, the colored people shoald
know at last that their only chance of
prosperity is based npon the friendship
of the Southern whites. Even in South
Carolina, the leading spirits of the black
people, save and except a few maloon
tents who were imported after the war
from other sections, are submitting to
this inevitable destiny, Governor
Hampton, we perceive, is making the
most of it. In a speech to many colored
persons who called npon him in Charles
ton, the other day, he is thus reported :
All that I have to aay to you now, and I say
it when victory baa crowned our efforts, is
that I stand now precisely where I stood twelve
years ago. I was the firat man in America,
certainly the first mania the South, who advo
cated the granting of the right to vote to the
colored man. [Applause.] That ia on record. —
Only a few days ago I saw in the New York
Tribune a statement made by its editor, White
law Beid, that in 1865 I told him that the
Northern Republicans would want to take
away the right of voting from the colored peo
ple long before the South ever would. [A voice:
That's so | During the late canvass I made a
prediction that the only protection they had for
their elective franchise would be from the
white men of the South. You will live to see
it. I meant to tell yon an incident which has
happened since my election. When I was in
Washington recently, five or six or more pro
minent Republicans—men high in position—
actually consulted me as to how the vote of
the colored man could best be restricted. I
tell you what is true—my answer was: We
don't want the vote of the colorod man taken
away or restricted; for, aside from the friend
ship we bear their race, their right to vote
gives us thirty more votes iu Congress, and
when peace comes wo are satisfied that the
beet mon in both racee and parties will vote
together for the common weal. We don't want
to take that right away. [Oreat applause.]
The same prediction made by Gover
nor Hampton in 1805 was repeated to us
by ex-Governor Weller, of California,
about the same period. And it is now
being agitated toward fulfilment, by
writers, politicians and presses in differ
ent parts of the country.
At the same time that there are propo
sitions made to quell or qualify the ne
gro vote at the South, efforts are like
wise being put forward to restrict the
suffrage of the poorer classes at the
North. All of these movements are en
gineered by Republicans, who, finding
their game of equality has “played out,”
are anxious to try the other extreme and
build up in Republican America a privi
leged class, which shall rule the poor
with a rod of iron. The resistance to
snoh a policy in the North will of course
be triumphant, for white men there are
not easily disfranchised. It would ap
pear iron) the utterance of Governor
Hampton anil others ,at the Hsuth that
negro suffrage will not be disturbed, bnt
protected by Sontbern men, and that
the negroes themßelves will see the im
portance of an alliance politically with
the Democrats of this section.
Even in the religious papers of the
East this topic has a prominent place.
We read, for example, in the Church
Journal this striking paragraph :
Our kindness is nearly as disastrous as our
cruelty. We insiet ou it that all races are
capable of the same conditions as our own. In
freeing the negro as we did we did a good
thing for his owner. We did an equally good
thing for him had he been an enterprising,
ambitious Yankee. Bat not being an enter
prising or ambitions Yankee, bnt an indolent,
ignorant and semi-civilized negro, we cast him
loose to "sink or swim, survive or perish" in a
social life where ignorance, laziness, lack of
self-assertion and self-control stand no chance
in the competition for the means of life. He
is his own master now, and he mast prosper
accordingly. But not content with thus tuni
ng him loose to live or die, we encouraged a
set of disreputable politicians to alienate him,
for the sake of his vots, from the white men
that must employ him, and live with him, and
help him if be is to be helped, until he stands
as an alien and an enemy in the place of his
birth. Thess last creatures, having got
through with him, are now leaving him.
Here is a distinct confession of a
Northern Abolitionist, with a conscience,
that the Republican party completely
misunderstood the blaok man and his
relations to the Sontbern planter ; that
freedom as bestowed, with its subse
quent privileges, was a curse to the
freedman ; that abandoned by political
rogues of th,e "God and Morality”
stripe, he has no other safe refuge than
the Southern man and the Democratic
pariy, Yerily, these are redoubtable
revelations from a most unexpected
source, and betoken a counter-revolu
tion in the next decade which will shake
up dry bones and make Ezekial’s vision
a modern realization.
A RELIGIOUS BUGABOO—THE SWORD
VS. THE GOSPEL.
There ia a broad grin upon the faoes
of the knowing ones when it ia solemnly
avowed by the Russian Czar that he
draws his sword against Turkey, not for
conquest, but for the Christian religion.
This wilt do for a slogan to procure men
as food for powder; but everybody
knows, who cares to know anything,
that, since the days of Pries tb; Great
and the Empress Catharine 11., the
policy of Russia has been inflexibly bent
npon the possession of Constantinople,
sod the command, in consequence, of
the key to f&e trade of Enrope and Asia
by means of the glgok Sea. The pro
tection of Christians is Tu£jey may he
necessary, bnt the necessity would not
bo near so urgent if Russia had not con
stantly stirred up sedition among the
Ottoman provinces, where the Sclavic
race predominates. So long as these
I Dannbian principalities are held by
j Turkey, she ia bound to suppress insur
-1 rection among them, and Husain has
always kept tfie Sultana uncom
monly busy in maintaining authority
t with an iron hand. Asa general
proposition Russia has been the great
op oppressor of the two. Where has she
1 snow c any extraordinary zeal in favor of
trodden sU&n nationalities? On the
contrary, as a reee**i jrriter has observed,
j “ she is the power which, i£_roughout
history, has been the most eonaiawni
upholds of absolutism in Europe—the
only Eutopeaa power whidb bas to this
day no representative syite®, and which
oontinnes to be an absolute antooraoy pi
the purest type.” Can it be forgotten
how she trampled upon Poland and
i atamped out Hungarian independence 1
To this day the largest sect of Chris
tians in Poland is visited with barbari
l ties and soul crucifixions unparalleled it
the annals of the race of Gesqfaw. Lei
, the snows of Siberia and the myriad
| dead of that ioy region answer. Whal
blacker pages does history contain that
the treatmeat dealt out by the Muscovite
conquerors to the people of the Csncasm
and, only four years ago, Uy jnfamiei
wreaked upon the women and ohUdret
of defenseless Khiva ? Her methods oi
propagandism by the sword are far mon
remorseless than those prescribed by
Mohammed in the Koran, and carried
out by his successors or followers.
1 It is a monstrous hypocrisy for the
Ozar to base his bloody advance against
the Ottoman Empire upon religions
scruples. We protest against that sham
Christianity which makes religion a
cloak for invasion and its attendant mis
eries. We agree rather with another
writer upon this fruitful theme, who
says: In the old time the call was “Go
and preach the Gospel to every crea
ture.” The new call is, “Go and shoot
the gospel into every Turk who is a Mo
hammedan, and to every ship and sol
dier that will not welcome the Russians
upon the Danube and Bosphorus, and
not for a day, bnt for all future time.”
A certain class of Americans, at the
North especially, sympathize with the
Rnssians because the Czar gained some
cheap glory by pretending to side senti
mentally with the war party of that
section, from 11860 to 1865. But even
then the better class of our hyperbo
rean brethren rate this Russian sympa
thy at its proper value, and are now
ashamed of the encouragement of the
most aristocratic of despots for the most
Republican of f peoples.
Wherefore no one need be deceived at
this pretension of the Emperor Alexan
der that he points his ' sabre toward
Constantinople as the champion of
Christendom. He is simply carrying
out, or attempting to do so, the policy
of the Romanoffs, which is conquest
and empire, as a leverage for universal
dominion in Europe, and the dominance
of a large part of the Orient.
LYNCH LAW IN OGLETHORPE.
We print thiß morning a detailed
statement of the recent lawless occur
rences in Oglethorpe county. It has
been somewhat difficult to obtain trust
worthy information concerning them,
but what we publish will be found sub
stantially correct. It will be seen that
a band of disguised men took a man
named Alfred Turner from his house
for the purpose of whipping him and
murdered him when he attempted to
escape. Auother colored man was
seized by the same band and cruelly
beaten. We know that the good people
of Oglethorpe county had nothing to do
with the commission of these crimes.
Speaking through the grand jury of the
county, they have severely censured the
perpetrators. But we say to them that
mere censure will not do. They owe it
to themselves, to their county and their
State to ferret out the guilty parties
and bring them to justice for their
brutal and murderous deeds. It cannot
be plead in extenuation that a band of
turbulent negroes have threatened the
peace of the county and the lives of its
oitizens. The Courts are made to pun
ish orime and protect society, and in
Oglethorpe county the protection afford
ed by the Courts is ample and complete.
The juries are composed of good men,
the State famishes an able proseoutiitg
attorney, and ihe Judge has acquired
an enviable reputation by his rigid en
forcement of the criminal laws. The
best answer to this plea is found in the
statement that at this very term of Ogle
thorpe Superior Court, Luke Joiinson,
the ringleader of the riot in which the
Marshal of Crawford was wounded, was
tried aDd convicted. We call upon the
Governor to offer a reward for the ar
rest of the lyuohers, and we call upon
the good people of Oglethorpe to do
everything in their power to bring the
murderers to justice,
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE—THE SOUTH’S
PRIME DUTY.
While some of our contemporaries
give glowing accounts of what a foreign
war ia to accomplish for our railroads,
farmers, producers, manufacturers, etc,,
others do not fail to point out that there
is another side to the picture which is
the reverse of pleasant. We are remind
ed that “war means oost to consumers
for bread aud meat to eat at home,
bonds to be returned to the United
States for payment, a higher interest on
gold, less inoome on foreign imports,
wild speculations and productions, which
oftener end in disaster than proceed to
profit. War undoubtedly means busi
ness, but unfortunately it is not the
right kind of business. It may break
the commercial stagnation which hangs
like a pall over the land and almost over
the world. It will substitute soldiers
in Bussia, Tuikey and elsewhere for
growers of wheat and producers of other
grains. There will be a great slaughter
of men and horses, towns burned, cities
devastated, and all the beauties and
glories and consequences of war, but it
can hardly be that our national pros
perity will depend upon such an aggre
gation of evils as war. Look on the
war picture of inflation. Speculations
and false expectations even at home,
and against it offset the little present
gain against the present and ultimate
cost, and the balance, even in national
profits, will not be much upon our
side.”
We have already warned our brethren
of the South, especially the planting
community, that they should prepare to
oultivate less cotton and far more grain.
Jt is absolutely necessary that this
should be done, in order to avert a pos
sible calamity, which our section could
ill endure at this time. Now, more than
ever, the South should learn habits of
thrift and self-dependence, particularly
in the matter of her food supply.
If we are to oredit the foreign dis
patches, the advance of the Russian
army upon Turkey is now in course of ac
tive progress. The crossing of the Pruth
and the violation of Roumanian neutral
ity mean nothing else but the march of
Muscovite power toward the Danube, at
which point the Ottomans will no doubt,
first of all, seriously dispute invasion.
It is at this strategic point the military
frontier of Turkey properly begins to
ward the North. There are two fortified
: ns in Bulgaria and on the Danube,
j whioh stand in tjbe way of the Czar, and
which, we presume, must either be car
ried by storm or neutralized by invest
ment. These obstacles are Rastchuk and
Silistria, the former containing about
30,000 and the latter 20,000 population.
We read in one of onr exchanges that in
the different Rnsso-Tnrkish wars which
faaye occurred daring the past eentnrj
the Russia us haye several times cap-
tnred Bustehuk. They toog 4 in 1.810
after a long siege, and held it nstil 1812,
when they evacuated and burned it. In
1829 they took it again and the fortifica
tions were razed, but before the Cri
mean war they were rebuilt, and are now
_juite formidable, both in strength and
weight Qt metal. But the great point of
Russian attack ia Buying southward to
ward Constantinople has always
Silistria. In 1773, and again in 1779, It
y^cepssfully resisted the Russian at
tacks. la i.0j.0 the Russians oaptured
it. In 182s they abandoned the attempts
to take it after a siege of several months.
In 1829 they reduced and held it for a
considerable time. Twenty years later
the fortifications were increased and
Strengthened, and in 1851 the Russians,
after a of six weeks, were repulsed
with a loss of Ut.hQi gen. Silistria is
the strongest defensive position op the
line of the Danabe, bat it isnot the only
obstruction to an army moving on Con
stantinople. If Silistria were taken the
passes of the Balkan range have still to
be foroed, and this has only beenaccom-
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 2, 1877.
j plished once by the Rnssians, with rn
| army which, when it reached Adriano
! pie, was in no condition to continue the
war and dictate terms of peace if the
Turks had only known the state to which
they had reduced it.
It will be seen, therefore, that several
weeks must elapse before the Russians
can march in force from the Pruth to
the Danube, and that when they reach
that memorable stream their difficulties
have but commenced. What diplomacy
may accomplish in the meantime, we
can only conjecture ; but it cannot be
too often repeated to Southern farmers
that, war or no war in Europe, their
true policy is diminution of the cotton
area and extension of that of grain,
THE HIGHWAY TO THE WEST.
The enterprise known as the Augusta
and Knoxville Railroad is rapidly crys
tallizing. As announced in our local
columns yesterday, the corporators ef
fected an organization by electing the
officers prescribed in the act of incorpo
ration. It was a happy choice—the se
lection of Mr. W. T. Wheless, for Presi
dent, a member of the active and de
servedly popular firm of Sibley & Whe
less; President of the Commercial
Bank, well and most favorably known
throughout Tennessee and portions of
the Great West; sagacious and untiring,
Mr. Wheleb will bring to the important
work in hand all the tact and energy
necessary to its consummation. He be
lieves the enterprise practicable ; more
than that, absolutely essential to the
future of our beautiful city. Col.
Jones, the Vice-President, is a gentle
man of no ordinary ability and no little
energy, experience and influence. These
he will exercise to there fullest extent in
behalf of a road which will give to the
people of this section what they have
long desired, and do still desire—quick
and direct communication with Augus
ta. The Treasurer, Mr. John M. Clark,
senior member of the firm of John M.
Clark & Cos., proprietors of a large
flouring mill in this city, is at once one
of the most cautious and successful of
our business men. He is always—mind,
body and purse—ready to eontribute to
the furtherance of every undertaking
that has for its object the advancement
of the publio good. Now let the work
be followed up. There is not a mer
chant, not a clerk, not a mechanic, not
even a day laborer, who is not inter
ested in the construction of tho Augus
ta and Knoxville Railroad. The build
ing of this route signifies the promotion
of their welfare.
BEN WADE AS A HOWLING DERVISH.
While Packard’s “simulacrum” dis
solves in dishonor, it is accompanied
with the squeals of Eliza Pinkston, the
stalwart bawling of Jim Blaine and a
ululation from Ben Wade, whom every
body supposed dead until it was stated
that he had enough life in him to gasp
out maledictions upon President Hayes,
and, like tho old maid at Ismail, rush
about for somebody to ravish his writ
ten imprecations.
Why Ben Wade should have been
disappointed in Mr. Hayes is perhaps
comprehensible on the ground that the
venerable sinner of the Western Reserve
mistook the character of the President,
and presumed that he was saturated
with the same chicane or dishonesty
that has hitherto been the stock-in-trade
of a majority of leading Radicals from
Seward’s day to Warmoth’s. I iscovering
that Mr. Hayes is not a double-dealer
and a hypocrite, and that he is more of
a patriot than a party man, such crea
tures as Wade and Blaine feel the bit
terness of their own humiliation, and,
with an agony too potent for silent en
durance, they fairly vociferate in de
spair.
Men like Wade forget, or do not care
to remember, that this country has tried
their experiments under the relentless
Grant for a number of years. These
experiments, even by Grant's own con
fession, have proven not only prodigious
blunders but unnatural crimes. They
have uot only exasperated and impover
ished white men of the whole Union,
but reduced the negroes to grievous aud
unmerited Straits. The country North
of us bore these quackeries for a
great period of time, and at enor
mous sacrifices of property ; but the
day has come when such ghastly tom
foolery does not pay, and, however sul
lenly, the vast body of Republicans can
not help but retire from so abominable
and extravagant a propaganda.
The difference between Ben Wade and
the President is immense. Mr. Wade is
a lunatic on the subject of the negro.—
Mr. Hayes is sane enough at all events
to prefer that white men shall not be
degraded and plundered merely to carry
out a Puritan hobby. The President
seeks the welfare of all the people; Mr.
Wade is solicitous only of the negro
vote as a Republican machine. There
never was any slavery like that of
these poor freedmen who have been for
years driven in gangs to help destroy
their white fellow-conntrymen of the
South, and by the same reckoning
destroy themselves. In aiding to
break that bondage, Mr. Hayes has
achieved a second emancipation by no
means inferior to the first, and the whole
country will very soon feel the good ef
fects of it, üblcss indeed, as he express
ed the apprehension, bad men at the
North and South band together to
thwart his benignant and large-minded
purposes.
The President is to be congratulated
that he has arrayed against him such
pestilent marplots as Garrison, Phil
lips, Blaise, Butler and Wade. The
fact of their being in antagonism is a
wholesome thing for him and for his
country, especially since they represent
only a malignant minority aDd viper
like may sting themselves to death. What
Southern uian can align hiroaelf with such
unsavory agitators? Very few, if any
to speak of. The hostility of a Wads
compels perforce the friendship of every
generous Southerner for the President
who has elicited the Jacobin yells and
is yet unshaken by them.
Mr. Wade winds up by reminding tbs
President that "hell is paved with good
intentions.” At first blnsh, this wonld
look like a dexterous Innge at the Execu
tive; but it is a petty and senseless
fling. It may be true that the infernal
abode ia paved with good intentions,
which were never fulfilled. But such
an application bas no f’orep directed to
ward the President. His intentions were
good and he bas consummated them.
When Ben Wade visits his Satanic
kinsman, in regions below, he will find
no doubt such pavements as he alludes
to; but not a brick composing them will
be marked with the brand of R. B.
Haver Southern policy. These good
intentions have been Honestly accom
plished and the best proof of it is the
hideous howling of old Ben Wade.
Mb. John E. Owen* informed Mr.
Hbnb? W. Giupr that one of the most
successful of his plsys is "The Live In
dian,” written by Col. W. T. Thompson,
of the Savannah News. He said “it
I had pnt thousands of dollars” in his
pockets. We wonder how much the au
thor has pperived We capitally donbt
whether the brain worker has received
‘‘thousands of dollars,” though he de
served them far more than does Mr,
Owens.
A PERSONAL MATTER.
PENDING BETWEEN EX-GOVER
NOR BHOWN AND COL. ALSTON.
The Correspondence Relating to the Matter.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
The following correspondence, which
explains itself, has been handed us for
publication :
Mr. Finch to Hr. J, L. Brown.
Atlanta, April 16, 1877.
Mr. Julius L. Brown
Dear Sib—Col. Alston has formally
demanded the name of the author of the
communications signed “Citizen.” I
have replied that I have no definite
knowledge of the authorship of the
articles. Have you any that will justify
me in sending Col. Altson a supplemental
.answer. Respectfully.
N. P. T. Finch.
When the demand for the authorship
of “Citizen” was received we addressed
the above communication to Mr. Julius
L. Brown, who it was said delivered the
manuscript to Col. Howell, one of the
editors then absent. We learn that he
sent word to his father, Governor Brown,
that Alston had demanded the author
ship of “Citizen.” Governor Brown,
who had driven out from home, received
the message about two o’clock, p. m., of
the same day, and supposing that the
demand covered both; articles signed
“Citizen,” immediately addressed us
the following note : '
Ex-Gov. Brown
Editors Atlanta Conswflj
I have just been infqphed by my son
that one of you informal him this morn
ing that Colonel R. A. Alston has de
manded the name of tljp author of the
two articles whioh lately appeared in
your paper,'signed “Citizen.” Ido not
know whether he has complied with the
nsual rule on that subject or not. But
as his name is mentioned in one of the
articles, I desire you to give him my
name as the author, without delay. Very
respeotfully, Jos. E. Brown.
Col. Alston to Exooy. Brown.
Atlanta, Ga., April 17, 1877.
Ex-Gov. Joseph E. Broun
Sir —ln response td my demand for
the author of the article signed “Citi
zen,” which appeared in the Constitu
tion of the sth inst., the editors gave
me your name.
In that article I find the following
language : “And just here let me re
mark that those who know Alston’s
standing cannot account for his positive
control over Gordon.”;
The ofiensiveness j' and derogatory
scope of this language, so far as it con
cerns myself, is of a character that
I feel it incumbent to Stafford you an op
portunity to disolainri any intention to
insult or injure me.
My friend, Major •J. Gadsden King,
will bear this and receive your reply.
Respectfully, t B. A. Alston.
Ex-Gov. Brown lev Col. Alston.
Atlanta, Ga„ April 20, 1877.
Coi. R. A. Alston: 5
Sir—Your commuuication, dated the
17th instant, was delivered to me after
II o’olock, a, m., on the 19th instant,
and in reply I have to state that in my
article signed “Citizen,” to which you
refer, I was dealing with the publio acts
of a Senator and Representative in Con
gress upon *a very important question,
and it was no part of my purpose either
to discuss or assail the private charac
ter of any one.
A correspondent signing himself
“ Truth,” in reply to my former article,
among other things! claimed that Sena
tor Gordon alone oJall our Representa
tives remained at Washington working
for his people. Ai Tt as more had been
said probably in iMa community about
bis effort to seourwour appointment as
Marshal of the than bad been said
about all his your name uot
uouatuitally camAjUto the discussion in
my repjy to that wcmmunication. But
it was - the mere jiJioident, aud uot the
object of the diso&Bsion. It was no part
of my purpose tqSliseuss your private
character, nor didlLitend by anything
I said to deyHtfJfraftr or de
fend it. If I had considered it a ques
tion in which the public felt any inter
est, and had wished to discuss it, I
should have done so in a separate arti
cle, over my own signature. Bat seeing
no reason for any such course, I engaged
in no such discussion.
You take exception, as I understand
you, to the following sentence iu my
communication : “And just here let
me remark, that those who know Alston’s
standing cannot account for his positive
control over Gordon.” Now, whether
you are aware of it or not, a great many
people believe that, from some unac
countable reason, you have, when you
oh'-ose to exercise it, a positive eontrol
over General Gordon. And in using the
word standing, as applied to you, I in
tended to do so simply in contrast with
the standing of General Gordon, and
not in the bense of making an assault
upon your character, and with no pur
pose to insult or injure you. One of the
prominent meanings given to the word
standing is rank; as rank in an army,
for instance, from the private up to the
general. When we speak of a man’s
standing in the army, we speak of the
rank he occupies as compared with those
in the same connection or organization.
When we speak of the standing of an
attorney at law, we do so in comparison
with the other members of the profes
sion. In speaking of the influence or
oontrol which one person has over an
other, the standing of the two, in con
trast, is naturally suggested. And in
speakiDg of your standing, I simply in
tended to do so in comparison with that
of General Gordon, over whom you are
supposed to exercise a controlling in
fluence.
In other words, I was neither consid
ering nor discussing your character. I
meant to say, that in point of standing,
you were greatly inferior to Gen. Gor
don. In point of position, whither civil
or military, yog stand far below him. In
point of intellectual force, you stand far
below him. In point of iptelijgenoe, you
stand far below him. In point of abili
ty, yon stand far below him. jn a word,
in point of the large majority of the
mental characteristics and traits which
make up a man who should eontrol
others, your standing is, in my opinion,
very far below that of Gen. Gordon.
In my article I said nothing as to the
height of Gen. Gordon’s standing. That
is a question about which persons may
differ, whicn I did not discuss. I simply
intended to say'that whatever may be
his standing, in the contrast, you stand
very far below him. And the contrast
would seem to suggest the conclusion
that if either exercised a controlling in
fluence over the other, Gen. Gordon
should exer6ise ft oy&.yon, and not you
over him.
As you prefer to receive this commu
nication through your friend, Major
King, I deliver to him. Resr eotfully,
Joseph E. Bhown.
Colenel Alston to Ex- UoTernor Brown.
Atlanta, Ga., April 20, 1877.
Ex Gov. Joseph E Brown, Atlanta, Ga. :
Dear Sir — l am just in receipt of your
letter of this date, handed to me by my
friend, Major King, and note your re
marks:
"It was no part of my (yonr) purpose
either to disease or assail ttie private
character of any one,” and again, "in us
ing the word standing’aa applied to you
(me) I (you) intended to do so simply
in contrast with tfie standing of General
Gordon, ana not in the sense of making
an assault upon your (my) character,
and with no purpose to insult or injure
you (me).”
Inasmuch as you so emphatically dis
claim any intention to insult or injure
me, I am constrained to acknowledge
your courtesy, and to express myself as
quite satisfied with your reply, so far as
it relates to myself.
As far yonr opinion of General Gor
don’s standing, the same not being ger
main to the subject upon which I had
the honor to address you, I most respect
fully decline to discuss it. I have the
honor to be, your obedient servant,
R. A. Alston.
THE MAftSHAI.SHIP.
Tfce Hollowness f Hayes’ Profession to the
•Somh.
[Atlanta Constitution .]
Mr. "Babe” Burke, of this city, wrote
President Hayes a letter the other day,
asking hiip to hurry up and appoint
somebody Doited States Marshal for
Georgia. "I have no interest in it,”
wrote this young man, “except that a
crowd of local politicians hang around
my office all day and discuss it, and I
want to get rid of them The fact
that President Hayes has not answered
this letter will give some idea of the
emptiness of his protestations of affec
tion for the Sontb.
The flower thieves have not yet been
withdrawn from Colombia.
UNDER WHICH KING?
BOUMANIA FORCED TO SPEAK OB
DIB.
The Czar’s Whiskered Pazdeara Creaa the
Frontier sad Held Oat Royalty end Protec
tion—Tzrklah Faailllera Belch Vengeance
at the Qaakliiz Province—Auatrla’a Army
Couchant—Russia** Manifesto to Frlenda
and Foe*.
Constantinople, April 24—An im
mense crowd witnessed the removal of
Russian insignia from the portal of the
Embassy. S
London, April 24—GortschakofTs
eircnlar regrets that Russia finds her
self under the neoessity of proceeding
single handed to realize the wishes of
Europe. Russia has in view the im
provement of the condition of Chris
tians, not territorial aggrandizement.
War Gossip.
When Russians oross the Pruth, the
Turks will seed a large force of Circas
sians to destroy the railroads.
Audrassy now favors the mobilization
of Austrian forces sufficient to protect
Anstrian interests. The Russian army
commences its march to Ronmania on
Wednesday. The Russian naval au
thorities have suspended navigation be
tween the Crimea aud the Oaucassus.
Russia has promised Ronmania inde
pendence and royal t jtle,. Tbe Anstra-
Wcfim emergency. Turkey
is bringing timber from Transylvania
for bridges over the Danube. There are
only 7,000 Turkish.troops in Crete, and
the people are organized for insurrec
tion. The Italian squadron, whioh
sailed from Taranta nnder sealed orders,
is bound for Solenica. Twenty thou
sand Rnssians concentrated on the Pruth
will soon be resdy to oross.
An Ameer of Washgar is assembling
au army on the Russian frontier of
Khokland. General Kanffman asks for
reinforcements. A formal declaration of
war will be issued Wednesday.
St. Petersburg, April 24 —A dispatch
from Kisobeneff, dated yesterday and of
ficially published to-day, announoea at a
review of the troops by the Czar at Ti
raspolimra yesterday, his Majesty, ad
dressing the officers, said; “I felt grief
in sending yon to the field of battle and,
therefore, delayed aotion as long as pos
sible, hesitating to shed your blood, but
now that the honor of Russia is attacked,
I am convinced yon will all to the last
man know how to vindicate it. May
God be with you. I wish you oomplete
sucoess. Farewell until yon return.”
The Czar’s manifesto to the Russian
army and people was promulgated to
day. The Emperor declares that in view
of the rejection of the protoool and ob
stinate refusal of the Forte to yield to
jnst demands of Europe, the moment
has arrived for Russia to act indepen
dently.
London, April 24.—1n the House of
Lords this afternoon Earl Derby stated
that 17,000 Russian troops crossed the
frontier last night. Count Sohouvaloff,
the Russian Ambassador, in communi
cating the Russian circular to Lord
Derby to-day, stated that a general or
der to cross the frontier had been
given.
St. Petersburg, April 24.— The fol
lowing is the text of the
Czar’s Manifest*:
“Onr faithful and beloved subjects:
Knowing the strong interest wehave con
stantly felt in the destinies of the op
pressed Christian population of Turkey,
our desire to ameliorate and assuagp
their lot has been shared by the whole
Russian nation, whioh now shows itself
ready to bear fresh sacrifices to alleviate
the position of the Christians in the
Balkan peninsula. The blood and prop
erty of onr faithful subjects have al
ways been dear to us and our whole
rei-rn attests onr constant solicitude to
preserve to Russia the benefit of peace.
This solicitude never failed to actuate
us during the deplorable events
which occurred in Herzegovina, Bosnia
and Bulgaria. One subject before all
was to effect amelioration in the position
of the Christians in the East by means of
pacifio negotiations and in eoncert with
the great European Powers, our allies
and friends. For two years we have
made ineeßsant efforts to induce the
Porte to effect such reforms as would
protect the Christians in Bosnia, Herze
govina and Bulgaria from the arbitrary
measures of local authorities. The ac
complishment of these reforms was ab
solutely stipulated by anterior engage
ments contracted by the Porte toward
the whole of Europe. Onr efforts, sup
ported by diplomatic representation,
made in common by the other Govern
ments, have not, however, attained their
object. The Porte has remained unsha
ken in its formal refusal of aDy effective
guarantee for the protection of its Chris
tian subjects, and has rejeoted the con
clusion of the Constantinople confer
ence. Wishing to essay every possible
means of conciliation, in order to per
snade the Porte, we proposed to the
other Cabinets to draw up a special pro
tocol, comprising the most essential con
ditions of the Constantinople conference,
and to invite the Turkish Government to
adhere to this international act whioh
states the extreme limits of onr peaoeful
demands. Rat our expectation was not
fulfilled. The Porte did not defer to
this unanimous wish of Christian En
rope, and did not adhere to the conclu
sions of the protocol, Having exhaust
ed pacifio efforts, we are compelled by
the haughty obstinaoy of the Porte to
proceed to more deoisive aots, feeling
that our equity and our own dignity en
join it. By her refusal, Turkey places
us nnder the neoessity of having recourse
t arms. Profoundly convinced of the
justice of onr eanse, and humbly com
mitting onrselves to the graoe and help
of the Most High, we make known to
onr faithful subjects that the moment,
foreseen when we pronounced words to
whioh all Russia responded with com
plete unanimity, has now arrived. We
expressed the intention to act indepen
dently when we deemed if necessary,
and when Russia's fiqnor should de
mand it. Jn now inyefcjng tRe blessing
of Qod qpqn opr yaliqnt armies, we give
the order to cross tbs Turkish frontier.
(Signed) Alexander.
Given at Kisobeneff this, the 12th day
of April, in the year of Grace, 1877*
and in the 23d year of onr reign.
Prince Gobtbohakoff.
The Turkish Embassy departed from
St. Petersburg to-day.
Constantinople, April 24.—Mr. Lay
ard is stated to have informed the Porte
that England had gnaranteed the integ
rity and independence of the Ottoman
Empire only on the conditions laid
down by the treaties stipulating for the
exercise of oontrql by the powers. The
Porte having contested fhis right it has
forfeited’ tire' benefits guaranteed by
these treaties, and Rnglanfi could not
intervene with arias in its behalf,
Prinoe Gortschakoff's ciroalar, after
an elaborate narrative, concludes : “My
exalted master has resolved to under
take that which he had invited the Great
Powers to do in oommon with him. His
Majesty has ordered his armies to cross
the frontier of Turkey. You will bring
this resolution to tha cognizance of the
Government to whioh you are accredit
ed. In fulfilling the duty which is im
posed op him by thp ipterat of Russia,
whose peaceful development is im'peded
by oonstaht troubles m 'the East, His
Majesty is convinced that lie at the
same time fa {he yie>e of
Europe.
[Sign ed j Gobtsohakow. ”
Prinoe Gortsohakoff has also sent the
following note, dated April 24th, to the
Turkish Charge d'Affairs there: Hoars
est negotiations between Imnerial
Government the Porte for a dabble
pacification not having led to the de
rest; aWe to fdrce of arms. Be there
fore so kind as to inform your Govern
ment that from to-day Busaia considers
herself in a state of war with the Porte.
Lohlon, April 24. —ln the House of
Lords to-night, Earl Derby, replying to
a question put by Earl Grey, said:
Some will doubtless say if we had
taken some other course, the result of
the negotiations might have been differ
erent. Throughout the negotiations I
found on the part of the Porte a deep
seated eonviotion thgt, make what
concessions they might, sooner or later
war would be farced upon them. It is
not for me to say whether that opinion
was right or wrong, but that being the
feeling of the Porte, it was impossible
fa bring about an understanding. Look
ing at all the circumstanoes with the
light of experience, I do not see that
any other course than that which
we adopted would have had a more sue
cessful result. I believe that in endeav
oring to maintain peace under the con
ditions that actually existed, we were
engaged in the solution of an impoasible
problem.”
A Renter telegram from Jassey re
ports that the Grand Dukf Nicholas, in
a proclamation to the Roumanians, says:
“By order of the Czar, my army, des
tined •to combat the Turks, enters your
territory. We come as friends, desirous
only of furthering your welfare, and
hoping to find among yon snoh no
ble sentiments as your ancestors dis
played towards Russian armies in
former wars against the Turks. The
passage of the Russian army through
your territory will occupy only a short
time. I invite you to pnrsne yonr usual
avocations and provide onr army with
means to satisfy their requirements. I
have taken measures to enable the mili
tary treasury to pay without delay
for all purchases. The army will
nowhere disturb your tranquil!
ty. Roumanians, onr ancestors shed
their blood for yonr liberty, and I
believe we have a right to require yonr
support for the army, whioh is travers
ing your territory for the sole purpose
of helping the unhappy Christians of
Turkey, whose distress has aroused the
pity of Russia and all Enrope. ”
London, April 25.—The advance for
crossing the Pruth eonsists of fifty thous
and men, including cavalry. Turkish
preparation for defending the Danube
mnst be formidable in gun boats and
iron clads. The Turkish iron olsd squad
ron iu the Bosphorus is resdy to sail. —■
Shots have been exohanged between the
belligerents in Asia. The Russians, af
ter crossing the Pruth, took the direc
tion of Galatz. They will reach the
France.
A Berlin special telegram to the Times
says that Gen. Von Moltke’s speech at
tracts as much attention as the Russian
manifesto. It is generally assumed that
Gen. Von Moltke intended to tell the
French that Germany is watohing their
armament; that she is acquainted with the
peculiar disposition of their troops; that
she oannot conceive their immense mili
tary efforts to aim at anything else save
revenge at the first fitting opportunity,
and warning her that Germany will not
allow her to profit by the Oriental trou
bles for a possible pursuit of anti-
Teutonic plans.
Pabis, April 26.—The majority of the
Paris paoers, particularly the Repub
licque Francaise express, the opinion
that General Von Moltke’s declarations
in the Germain Parliament yesterday
were not intended as hostile to France.
The London Press
Unanimously condemn the Russiau
manifesto. Even the Daily News,
whioh is the most favorable to Russia,
says • We have to deal with a Russia
in whose policy better or worse motives
mingle. Unfortunately the action of the
British Government has tended to
drive back the nobler influences and
foster a more ignoble and self-seeking
one. The solitary action of Russia
will almost necessarily be the action
primarily for Russian interest. The
best hope of the Turkish Christians is
the poor one of transference from
Turkish to Russian despotism.
The Times says Russia has hastened
to stop all further negotiations, and to
aot as if she alone had an interest in the
tranquilization of Turkey. Thus she
has forfeited any right to speak in the
name of Europe, nor has she given the
Powers the assurances thev had a right
to expect Nothing is said in the same
strain as in the Lividia declarations—
that Russia had no annexationist ob
ject. It would doubtless be rash to in
fer from this that the Czar purposely
leaves open the possibilities of annexe
tion. His words at Lividia are as bind
ing a pledge as he could have made in
his manifesto, and we may presume he
would moreover be restrained by ob
vious and overwhelming motives of pru
dence. Still, the omission of assurances
against annexation from the manifesto
is a grave error. The Czar’s manifesto
and Prince Gortsohak&ff’s circular are
disappointing in their reticence, and be
tray hastiness of action which invites
severe condemnation.
Several French and English papers
oomment on the omission of any aßsur
ances against annexation.
Constantinople, April 25—There is
skirmishing on the ontposts near Kars,
on thß Aiatio frontier.
The Standard considers the mission a
most striking and ominous circumstance
which will cause and justify the daikest
forebodings. It considers that the at
tempts of the manifesto to throw the re
sponsibility of war upon Turkey are be
neath notice, and says; “Never was
there a more unfortunate specimen of
imperial logic.”
The Daily Telegraph says: We have
been tricked and duped by tartar diplo
macy, but in policy and action we shall
not be so easily dealt with, for we shall
now have for a single consideration, na
tional interests. The nation waits
unanimously tp support whatever meas
ure the Government may judge neces
sary to safely gnard those interests.
The Post says the oonduot of a des
potic and overbearing Empire will be
resented by every free people. For our
selves, we may safely affirm that we shall
not look on patiently while the Cossacks
trample down the Turkish Constitution
and bar our own road to tbe East.
St. Petersburg, April 25.—An impe
rial order was promulgated to-day de
claring Bessarabia, the literal district of
Kherson, and the provinces of Taurida
and Crimea in a state of seige.
THIS REQEfMIEP STAT®.
Matters In Columbia—Tl|o Chief Justiceship
vHawptou for Willard—tJeneral Uury‘
Position—Financial Adairs—Composition of
the Senate.
[Special to News and Courier.]
Columbia, April 24.—Concerning tbe
Chief Justiceship the indications are
that Willard is ahead, tbe situation hav
ing obanged materially since yesterday.
Many members, snch as the delegation
from Abbeville, while voting for a local
candidate on the first ballot for local
reasons, will, or a majority of them will,
vote for Vuillard on the second ballot.
Goyernor Hampton takes no part what
ever in the election, except to tell those
gentleman who ftsji his opinion that in
his judgment it is fight and wise to elect
Willard. Bie event of Willard's elec
tion aa Chief Justine there will ’’e a va
cancy for Associate Justice. For this
position there are a number of candi
dates, none of whom have, however,
manifested aay considerable strength.
It is understood that the committee
who went to Washington, representing
the bankers and merchants of Charles
ton, have to-day made a certified recom
mendation to Governor Hampton in con
nection with fiscal legislation. The pa
per is not made pnblic, but it is report
ed that the committee reuommend 'that
no interest Ipe paid on State debt
until its folu He'And character shall be
ascertained and every bond called in and
examined, and that a similar copfge be
taken with reference to the ‘bills of the
Rank of toe State,
Gen. Gary denounces as utter withont
foundation the street rumors as to his
having any negotiations with the Re
publicans. He states that he is the
same Straight-out Democrat that he has
always been, and that he does not pro
pose to form any alliance with the Re
publican party, county, State q; Nation
al; that lie does propose t'o sup
port any yepubiicau for dffice, under
any circfimstanbetf, and, that he is an un
compromising opponent to Hayes
Southern 1101107. yjhioa fpeqns the for
mation oj ft payiy 00m posed of South
ern Conservatives and Liberal Republi
cans j that the old Jeffersonian Democ
raoy is stjll good enough for him.
Lee, the member of the Mackey House
for whom a bench warrant has been is
sued upon a ° h 6l his bavjpg com
mitted laroeny in stealing SSOO entrusted
to his care for the purchase; upijorms
for members oj ft tcplitia company at
Chester, has pot been arrested. He is
knowp to be in Columbia, bat be has
snooeeded thus far in evading oapture.
The absence of Senator Johnston, of
Snmter, and the incarceration of Dublin
Walker, of Chester, together with the
admission of the four Democratic Sena
tors to-day, gives the Democrats a ma
jority of one in the Senate.
Tbe Carolina Legislature—Fierce Conteot
Over Excluding the Macteyites.
Columbia, April 25.—1n tbe House to
day the Democrats passed a preamble
and resolutions declaring all members
of the iqte klackey House in contempt,
and referring their credentials to ajoint
committee of the Judioiary and Privi
leges and Elections to pass upon their
legality and title to seats. This action
was fiercely contested by the Republi
can members of the Wallace House, who
held that members of the Mackey Honse,
althongh they had done wrong, were en
titleS, upon a prirna facie showing, to
their seats. The oommittee has already
gone to work, and will report to-morrow.
The probability is that the members of
the Mackey House, with the exception
of five or six, will be admitted.
Senate proceedings unimportant. The
Governor’s message is expected to-mor
row. •
$2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE,
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Rice in Mclntosh county looks well.
Brunswick will have a danoing acade
my.
Wheat orops in -North Georgia are
good.
Lexington negroes will have a May
party.
A Senoia male is afflicted with the
asthma.
Lightning bugs and apricots begin to
come in.
A party of Atlanta gents will summer
in Paris.
Cotton is creeping out of the ground
near Senoia.
Early oounty’s peach crop promises to
be abundant.
Cotton seed is very scarce in South
west Georgia.
Warren county seems to be infested
With wild cats.
Thomasville is trying silk oulture as
an experiment.
Atlanta follows Augusta by getting up
a fireman’s parade.
Evan the Oglethorpe Echo ia soaroe of
local news this week.
The Spring Fair of Thomasville prom
ises to be a huge success.
A telegraph line is to be built from
Gedartown to Tecumseh.
A Laurens county man has eight hun
‘‘Two Atlanta youths had a out-throat
encounter Saturday night.
The Thomasville aud Florida Air-Line
Road is all the talk just now.
The Eberhart-Stnbbling case has real
ly commenoed in Oglethorpe.
A Young Men’s Lyceum Association
has been organized at Brunswick.
Elberton needs a cemetery or a mea
sles exterminator, one of the other.
The recent galea wafted away a color
ed church recently in Elbert county.
The Medical Association had a big
bacquet in Macon, Thursday evening.
A Dawson angler bags fish by jumping
into the water and running them down.
The editor of the Rome Courier takes
his latin like his bitters—ajlittle mixed.
A phantom party and base ball club
rank among the organizations of Perry,
Prof. Willoughby Reid, the champion
elocutionist, has been invited to Greenes
boro.
Mrs. Caraway, so brutally assaulted
recently in Sumter county, has sinoe
died.
Tne vote on the constitutional amend
ments the first of May, will be very
light.
Dalton has shipped this year 2,000
opossum skins, 1,000 muskrat and 600
eoon.
The Atlanta Constitution continues its
attacks upon Mr. Wadley, of the Central
Road.
Strawberries aud red bugs continue to
lend their rosy charms to the pio-nie
season.
Two white men are now in Rome under
sentence of death for the murder of
ntgroes.
The Sparta Times and Planter esti-
mates the guano sold in Hancock oounty
at 900 tons.
What Augusta now needs, next to a
few more cotton factories, is a five cent,
beer fountain.
Six dozen bananas soaked in Sohie
dam make a temperate morßel for an
Atlanta epicure.
Hon. Peter Cooper, soft money man,
will soou visit Columbus to invest in a
large cotton factory.
All the lamp posts of Thomaston have
been cut down, probably in consequence
of their bearing no fruit.
An Elberton equine, upon whom the
sheriff was about to levy, laid down and
died like a sensible horse.
Atlanta, though not a remarkably
“quiet” town, manages to enjoy a
“mum” party wonderfully.
Wheat looks well in Houston oounty,
while an extraordinarily amount of fer
tilizers will be used on cotton.
It is stated that the Central and Geor
gia Railroads will pass delegates to the
Press Convention for one fare.
The Atlanta and Richmond Air Line
will hereafter be known as the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air Line Railway.
Rose Henderson, negro, of Dahlonega,
out the throat of her new-born babe and
threw it in a ditch on last Sunday,
A Thomasville tyro nursed a gourd
vine tenderly for six weeks, thinking
that he had a watermelon bonanza.
Wm, Collins, Esq., who died last
week at LaFayette, willed all his goods,
$3,000, to the Dalton Catholio Church.
Dawson was the first county in the
State, after thewar, to ask four a law pro
hibiting the sale of spirituous liquors.
Dr. Browning, Clarke oounty sheriff,
has some of the flower of Georgia’s
criminals reposing neath his grated
dome.
The Madison Dome Journal com
plains that the train does not wait long
enough at that towu for passengers to
get on.
The report suspending Dr. John G.
Westmoreland from the Georgia Medioal
Society was not received by the Macon
Convention.
The residence of Mr. Joseph Young,
at Antioch, was burned one night last
week, together with all the furniture,
clothing, etc.
The tri-weekly Georgian, of Athens,
will be issued every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings. We hope it will
soon commence,
Rome girls have organised a calioo
club, pledging one another to buy
nothing but calico for their Spring and
Summer dresses.
Capt. A. R. Zaohery, of Greene coun
ty, has a twelve acre field in wheat that
will average three feet in height and is
heading out finely.
An old negro woman, aged 70, and her
grandson, aged 11 years, were found
dead in the wop.de, near Maxey’s, daring
tue cold snap of jast week.
Dr. J. B. Roberts has arrived from
Missouri with Amos Lawrence, colored,
who is to be tried for ftp offense com
mitted in Washipaipn county thirteen
years ago.
The Savannah News, of yesterday,
says; “The steamship Seminole brought
out as part of her oargo from Boston
some twenty-five car loads of machinery
for the Enterprise Cotton Factory, of
Augusta, Ga."
The Wesleyan Female College confers
its honors thus : First Honor—Misses
Marien Broombead, Susie Lee Biggers
and Jbannie H. Wright. Seoond Honor—
Misses Lucy Lockett, Bessie Rogers and
Lula T. Wood.
The cotton blanket, quite common in
France and Germany, is made by only
oqe mill in the United S ates, the Eagle
and Phoenix, at Columbus, Ga., and
doubtless, in the event of v?ftL |here
will beau extensive for those
fabrics,
Ex-Senator Norwood is in Washington
City.
Wheat in Monroe county looks prom
ising.
Spring chickens are beginning to
quack.
Dawsonvillq recently had a sail de
livery. 1
Griffin spb; fjeropfna at fifteen cents a
galley^.
Aftrs. R. Q. Carlton, of Uotan Point,
is dead.
Rome wiU have her memorial on the
9th of Afay
The wheat crop in Gilmer county is
looking well.
Baoon thieves are on the rampage in
Wilkinson county.
The Bine Ridge, in npper Georgia,
continues snow capped.
The “stage struck” fraternity fit in
creasing in Carnesvillq,
Lumpkin is getting up names
WWW cWb gang.
plat Shoals, Elbert county, now has
an Odd Fellows’ Lodge.
A Covington fishing party is at pres
ent located at Port Royal.
Several new residences are to be boilt
in Covington this Summer.
Two oows were recently killed by
lightning in Stewart county,
Mr. Seth W. Parham, an old citizen
of Griffin, died Sunday night.
“Old Moother Goose” had ft re flick
ing levee, in Athens, last week.
The Athens Tri Weekly Georgian
will bloom opt Thursday, 26th.
The gnawing of a nyUeh by a rat
caused a fire in Alapaba recently.
4 Temperance Jubilee will be held at
Mayesyille, Jackson county, May Ist.
A six months’ calf in Lumpkin gave
half gallon of milk at the first milking.
The clerks of Colnmbns are beginning
to advocate the 6 o’clock closing system?
Griffin was unrepresented in the Young
Men’s Christian Association, at Nevnan.
The colored infantry company in At
lanta has been levied upon by a bailiff,
A Rome flower thief offered, in open
Coart, to take 25 lashes and waive
trial.
Mr. G. F. Underwood, of Jefferson
county, lost his corn crib by fire last
VTftek.
A negro, woman and her offspring went
to pieces in a storm near Union Point
recently.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Hopewell has anew corn mill.
The game law is dow in force,
Greenville has an eleetric clock.
Darlington has a string and a brrse
band.
Liberty, Pickens oounty, elects a wit
ticket.
Snmter is moving in the cotton faotory
enterprise.
Smoke house thieves are robbirg
Bishopville.
Major John F. Haynesworth, of Snm
ter, is dead.
Irish potatoes have appeared in
Georgetown.
It was reported that Ghlory Carpen
ter had resigned.
Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves has for
mally surrendered.
A oolored cavalry company has been
organized in Charleston.
. Last week’s snow storm in nnper Caro
lina was as severe as general.
Greenville continues to grade her
streets and level off her spitz dogs.
, .Aldington’s town anthorities allow no
hitohing of horses on the sidewalks.
The Eonea Path Depot was blown
from its moorings by the reoent, g le.
Chicken lifters and revenue raiders
are abroad in the mountains of Pickens
***** * nd
esteemed citizen or Kershaw ooanty, is
dead.
J. R. W. Johnston has been appointed
postmaster at Walhalla, vice Alex
Bryoe, removed.
A soiree dansante in Columbia, Tues
day night, will be given for the Palmet
to Orphan Homo*
Mr. W. D. MoDowall was elected
Treasurer of the town of Camden by the
Council on Monday.
. There seems to be conspiracy in the
air, and the party lines should bo “drawn
tight.” So should trout strings.
Miss Mattie Tompkins, while going to
ohuroh in Pickens last Sunday, was
thrown from her mule and seriously
hurt.
The Pee Dee Watchman, No. 1, edited
by Messrs. A. A. & F. A. Gilbert, has
reaohed us. It hails from Darlington
The Charleston Hook aud Ladders,
when they come up lo Augusta, will
give an excursion over the Carolina
Road.
The Newberry fire occurred six weeks
ago, and the debris of one store, which
contained 600 bushels of com, are still
smoking.
Judge Mackey has ordered a special
term of the Court ‘of General Sessions
and Common Pleas for York oounty
15th of next month.
Congressman Rainey is taking testi
mony at Darlington, we learn, in the
contested case between himself and
Capt. John S. Richardson, of Sumter.
The tax bill will be light.
Honest John has returned.
Cass Carpenter has not resigned.
Greenville, last evening, had a calico
ball.
Charleston’s lumber mills are kept
busy.
The robber and inoendiary are abroad
in Snmter.
Winnsboro is rigging out for theatri
cals next month.
Laurensville proposes to organize a
oavalry company.
Charleston lays violent hands upon
her ootton thieves.
The Charleston Vigilants will send a
delegation to Augusta.
The Legislature, says the Register,
will last about ten days.
Mr. Charles A. Calvo, Jr., is a candi
date for Clerk of the Senate.
Chester fired one hundred guns over
the redemption of Louisiana.
The Irish companies in Charleston
think of forming a battalion.
The Senatorial apple will not likely
oreate much discord in ranks.
A storm is gathering in the political
sky, thinks the Columbia Register.
Colombia has but one ten pin alley,
though the capital of an ereot State.
Greenville’s City Oounoil, as yet, re
fasee to muzzle the street ear horses,
H. Anisausel forged a check upon Mr.
A. R. Todd, of Laurensville, for $276 25,
The Senators from Edgefield, Laurens,
Barnwell and Abbeville have been seated.
The Knights of Honor have organized
a Grand Lodge of the Order for the
State.
“Old-man-afraid-to-go-home” is the
way they designate Senator Patterson in
Washington.
The camp meeting at Ladson’s Station,
on the South Carolina Railroad, will bo
gin on Friday.
Greenville’s City Council is making
overtures to the Terpsichorean Club. A
fusion is probable.
The Greenville News accuses Hayes
of Micawberiem. James Redpath did
no worse than this.
Greenville is hopelessly divided upon
the Eastern question. An internal rov
olntien is imminent.
Did we hear somebody talking about
the Union-Her aid, or was it the spectra
of a vanished spirit ?
A young operator in Charleston at the
Toale Factory lost four fingers Tuesday
evening by a rip saw.
The annual inspection of the Charles
ton Fire Department takes place on
Friday, the 27th inst.
The Orangeburg Agricultural and Me
obanioal Association hold their annual
Floral Fair on the 17th of May.
Hon. Dnblin J. Walker, State Senator
from Chester, was arrested for issu
ing a false teacher’s certificate.
Gleaves’ withdrawal under solemn
protest is a sight calculated to make the
Archangel rinse out his watery eyes
The Washington Artillery, of Charles
ton, Tuesday hailed the deliverance of
Louisiana with a salute of fifty guns.
A Greenville man wants to i.now where
he ifi tft *® !I P the benefits of a free gov
ernment if he has to muzzle his dog.
It is stated that Governor Hampton
has commissioned C. TANARUS, Hopking, color
®d. Trial Justice for Greeuville county.
General Gary denounces as utterly
withont foundation the Columbia ru
mors as to his having negotiations with
the Republicans.
Ninety men were lately brought out
from New York to Port Royal to com
plete the force required to run tbe big
monitor Dictator, whioh will shortly l
leave that port for the North.
A Radical organ gets off statistics
tff.fto i “At a low estimate the tender
youths of South Carolina carry around
one million dollars worth of pistols.
Enough money to build four ootton fac
tories.”
4 Uttlo girl iu Charleston carried
Hampton a bouquet, attached to whioh
was a eard with the following senti
ment ; “God bless onr loved Governor,
and may He lift upon him forever the
light of His countenance.**
ESfW OMNES.
T s& , f! wr ? ln Blne Fi,e “ r Packard’* Ben
WUb the Noon.day Hour—ltealli Knell to
Hcnlawnsnerj and Cnrpet-iinggery—!Spof
ford Elected United States eeuntor.
New Orleans, April 24.—Gov. Nich
olls has issued a proclamation request
ing tbe citizens of New Orleans to at
tend to their regular business to-day.
As the Cathedral clock struck 12 to
day, a detachment of tbe Third Infantry,
under command of JLieut.-Col. J. R
Brooks, marched out of the Orleans
Hotel and passed np Charles street to
St. Lotus street, and out St. Louis
street to the river, where they embarked
on a steamboat for the barracks. Aboat
one hundred men from other regiments
assembled on the opposite side of the.
Street i frost of the Orleans Hotel to
see their comrades move. When the
infantry band began to play, a few hun -
dred persons gathered on the streets,
along the line of march. There was not
the slightest demonstration of any kind.
On the galleries of tbe Orleans and St
Louis Hotels stood a few of the ad
herents of Governor Packard, looking at
the of the troops and the
people in the streets below.
Tne Legislature in joint session elect
ed Judge Spcfford to tbe United States
Senate. Many Republicans after pa
triotw speeches voted for Spofford. Bal
lot— Spofford, 140; Wiltz, 1; blank 12-
total, 153. Necessary to a choice, 7 L
THE SIOUX WAR ENDED..
Crazy Horne Surrenders nnd .Sitting Boil Re
ranine ftweng the W ild* of tbe Sierras.
New York, April 23.—The Bed Cloud
Agency dispatch says; “General Crook
leaves to-morrow for Chicago to consult
General Sheridan upon Indian matters,
and will probably go to Washington.
Couriers continue to arrive daily from
Crazy Horse, reporting his approach to
the agency with all his people. He will
doubtless be here within a week, when
the Sionx war may be considered at an
end, as there will be no hostiles in this
department, aDd the few remaining out
under Sitting Bull, in the Department
of Dakota, will find it impossible to pro*
traot hostilities.