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toeefelg ®|tomdf & €oHotittttioimfei OLO SERIES—<OL. ICII NEW SERIES—VOL. LI. Chronicle and Sentinel. WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 2^1877. PAY TOYR SUBSCRIPTION. We request our reader* to respond promptly to the hills which are sent them for subscription accounts due this office. Let each subscriber who is in arrears bear in mind that there are many others also in arrears, and that while the amount due by each individual is small the aggregate amounts to a large sum. We hope our friends will respond 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.