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OLD SERIES-VOL. ICII
NEW SERIES OL. LI.
Chronicle ant) .Sentinel.
WJSI NESDAY, MAY 9, 1877.
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promptly to the bills which are sent
them (or subscription accounta 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.
lUtsK all the meat you can.
Plant grain and plenty of it.
Tbb South wants a big corn crop.
Printers’ ink, they say, will destroy
canker worms on fruit trees.
Arseni was the daughter of Abubekb,
the first Caliph, and the Prophet's fa
vorite wife. ___
If axok Johnston, of Charlotte, N. C ,
3SW>eeu unanimously renominated by
both parties.
To pronounce Russian or Polish names
properly, you must sneeze three times
and say “sky.”
The Springfield Republican hoots at
the idea of Kklukki being able to sup
plant Spofford.
The Southern planter who makes
plenty of corn and meat this year will
be a happy man.
A war in the ' interest of religion"
usually ends in an overwhelming harvest
for the infernal regions.
_ m
Wendell Phillips should now insist
that Eliza Pinkston must have a slice
of that "contingent fund.”
The great problem of wheat specula
tion is when to let go. It is always a
safe plan to ruke in a snre pot.
The “Northern heart” does not “fire”
over Chamberlain nnd Packard. Cause
why, the Northern pocket has been too
severely depleted.
We are told that, iu spite of warnings,
the planters of the South aro determined
upon raising another big cotton crop.
That way maduess lies, and ruin.
The Librarian of Congress claims to
be the brother of Judge Spofford, Sen
ator-elect from Louisiana. The straw
berry murk on bis left arm is all right.
There are fifteen Republican Gover
nors in the United States and twonty
throe Democratic. And yet some good
natured politicians talk about resurrect
ing the Whig party.
Tne genuine Bells Boyd is living in
Baltimore and has a husband and seve
ral children. The bogus Belle has not
been hoard from lately. She is proba
bly burying the editors she killed.
The Czar calls upon God to bless his
iuvasion of Turkey, and the Sultan im
plores the Supreme Being to aid his de
fense of the Osmanli. Oh, God ! What
crimes are committed in Tby name !
The New York Express warmly com
mends Senator Hill’s recent letter to
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist,
and adds that “the couoluding para
graph is a complete soheme of reform iu
itself.”
If Abdul Hamid unfurls tho banner
vjT the Prophot, which is supposed to bo
Atslsha's harem curtain, it will be an
other proof that woman is at the bottom
of all man’s troubles, as well as bis
blessiugs.
The Herald is still advising the Pres
ident. It recommends that Mr. Haves,
•whou ho appoints a Federal officer, to
give him this bit of warning : ‘‘As soon
us 1 catch you meddling in politics, off'
goes your head !”
The New York Tribune is pleased
with Gov. Hampton’s message, and re
marks that there is “enough political
moiwlity in these recommendations to
keep a South Carolina Legislature think
ing for * month."
Out o f the 76 Senators the Democrats
can reasonably claim in 187‘J 40 or 45.
Aud yet we hear that Democracy is
dead, and ttie time has oomo to start a
uowpaty. It looks a little like lunacy
to talk iu that jvay.
Tuk Busman ami the Turk are “pro
foundly convinced o.f the justice of their
cause.” Whereupon they call upon
Almiuhty Goo to bless that cause. One
or the other must be the ■riotim of mis
placed confidence.
A Charleston gentlemau wonders
why Georgia did not Are a hundred
guns in honor of South Carolina’s de
liverance. Georgia did not fire the guns,
but she did better than that—she helped
secure the deliverance itself.
The paragraph man of the Cour
ier-Jotimal calls Henry Grady’s
acrobatic description of Ada Dyas
*• a mad strain." It was strain enough
tto snap his heart strings ; but perhap
there was method in the madness.
An old Alabama planter has got the
matter down to a fine point, thns : “The
Southern Democrats gave Hayes his
seat, he has given them their own gov
ernments; he was a little long abont it,
I>ut it’s ail right now, and the accouut
as square."
Tbk Springfield Republican admits
that Mr. Hayes has carried out the
Democratic policy. It concludes that
nine out of ten people throughout the
country accept the result with profound
satisfaction, and the tenth doesn’t com
mand the confidence of the nine.
When Mr. Stephens said 13ex Wade's
letter was “inelegant and vulgar” he
told the whole truth. But it has not
heea many years since this inelegant and
vulgar demagogue narrowly escaped be
ing President of the United States,
pending the impeachment of Akdbsw
Johnson.
Ex-Conoressmak Tabbox, of Massa
chusetts, propounded this conundrum;
*• The Administration runs the Demo
cratic policy as cleverly aa though it had
been bora to it. Is Mr. Hate* a Demo
crat, or acu Ia Republican ? Eeally, I
don't feel quite sure of my political
identity.” Ex-members of Congreve rare
ly feel enre of their political identity.—
Another pull at the teat will help Mr.
Tarbox's comprehension or else remand
him to a better world.
This is the way the Cincinnati Ga
zette pate ii : “Ex-Governor Brown, of
Georgia, and Coh Alston, corresponded
the other day abom* a little political af
fair which seemed 4e w/lect on Alston’s
character. The cx-Gosmoothed
over the objectionable remauks, end the
•Colonel calmed himself. He wzitee a
beautiful letter, using long and elegant
words, and seems at home in the pre
& Binaries of a duel.”
MOKE DEVILTRY.
There is a paper published in the
North, New York, we believe, called the
Witness. It purports to be a religious
paper, but from that sort of religion
may the good Lord deliver us ! It ie
j aptly described by one of our Northern
I exchanges as a combination of avarice,
sectionalism and demagogism. It is
i said to hV owned and edited by unnatu
ralized foreigners. The chief design of
this pestilent sheet of lste is to “fire
the hearts ” of colored preachers in the
Booth by scattering broadcast among
them incenJiary papers brimfal of at
tacks upon the Southern white people
and upon the peace policy of the
President. It is computed that
there are five thousand colored
preachers at the South, and subscrip
tions are called for to send copies of
The Witness, owned and edited by un
naturalized citizens, io this army of
colored preachers, the obvious purpose
being to add fuel to the long existing
political race differences at the Sonth.
The devil himself could not imagine,
or seek to execute, a more demoniac
scheme “in the name of religion.” It
i gratifying to know that a paper tiim)
desperately seeking to extend its circu
lation must be in a moribund condition,
and we would fain believe that colored
preachers in the Sonth, who have re
spect for themselves, their cloth, and
their common county, would kick this
vile sheet from their thresholds, seeing
that they had better drink the deadliest
poison than receive into their minds
snch infernal literary hell-broth.
NEW AVENUES UK TRADE.
To what is Augusta indebted for the
solidity, in tho matterof wealth, of which
sue sometimes boasts ? Largely to the
.“wagon trade” of the days that were
long since numbered with the past.
Through all those years—during which
many of the men, who have left their
impress upon our city, steadily grew
rich, while very nearly all acquired
something more than a competency—
Augusta commanded tho trade, on
both sides of the Savannah, to the
mountains. The associations of those
days of matchless prosperity, when
neither factor nor merchant complained
of dullness in trade, have survived the
tryiug periods through which we havo
all passed. Hence it is, that, with great
persistence, the people of the sections
referred to have besought us to inaugu
rate a railroad scheme that will put
them in close communion with ns. Men
may dispute it, but there is friendship
in trade. The people of Columbia, Lin
coln, Elbert, Hart, in Georgia, and
Abbeville, Anderson, Newberry, in
South Carolina, are anxious to con
tinue trading at this point. But
this desire is contingent upon the trans
portation facilities that may be provid
ed. They do not expect that we shall
do all the work incident to opening up
these practically new avenues of trade.
That would be unjust. They declare
that they are willing to do their duty in
the premises, and ask that we do ours.
Unless the signs fail, Angnsta may be
said to be ready. Fortunately, the con
struction of a lino toward Elberton, de
flecting at Walton’s Island to Green
wood, S. G., signifies nothing more nor
less than the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad. But how can this trunk line
and its branch be built independent
of Augusta’s subscription ? This ques
tion is propounded by those who assert
that the pooplo are too poor to take
stock iu the enterprise. Surely they are
not poorer than the sturdy meu who,
despite the lack of outside aid aud even
outside enoonragement, graded and paid
for the Elberton Air-Line, fifty miles in
leDgth. Shall it be said of the counties
interested in Georgia and South Carolina
that they oannot do quite as much ? We
trust not. The routes indicated are a
necessity, and the necessity is upon ns.
Let us not delay longer, bnt rally to the
support of this grand enterprise with
money or labor.
THE OLD OKMOCKATK; PARTY.
While the independent papers are en
gaged iu the humorous and unprofitable
task of demonstrating that the Demo
cratic party is dead, and that it has been
dead siuce 1872, the Radical-Republi
cans were never better persuaded of its
tenacity of life. The latest scheme to
destroy the Democratic party has been
outlined by Secretary Thompson, who
proposes to frighten it to death by
resurrecting a corpse. This programme
may tickle the ribs and raise the expec
tations of o few venerable men wbo have
“come down to us from a former gen
eration,” bat it has no terrors for the
rank and file of the Democracy.
It is not often that we find anything
to ccmmend in the correspondence of
the New York Time * from the South,
especially when it is presided
over by Mr. Howard Carroll ; but
in a recent letter from New Orleans that
gentleman has bit upon some facts
which cannot be dispnted and may as
well be thoroughly understood. He
says : “There is no doubt that in Geor-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
and perhaps Louisiana, the white men
will shortly divide on local and State
questions, bnt it is quite certain that
they will be firmly united on all matters
of actional importance. For sixteen
years they have fought under the Demo
cratic banner; for sixteen years they
have sustained defeat and still renewed
the fight. They have now Loan victori
ous, and they have no idea of disbanding
their forces. They know their power ;
they know that by carrying oee or two
Northern States they are sure of a major
ity in the Electoral College, and nnless
every sign fails they will cast a solid
Democratic rote at the next Presidential
election."
Mr. Carroll, we ttuufc, does not mis
take the case, so far as national politics
are concerned. The South is conscions
of her great deliverance, she knows her
power, she penetrates the designs of her
adveroary, and she will not desert the 1
Democratic *in its hour of might.
Bnt none the less win jjouth aid the
Adminstration in all things patriotic,
wise, just and comprehensive. Sl;e ;
balds her solidarity in Democracy for
self pretactjpn. She will not abandon it
at the bidding at those who have proved
in the past her most eueadful scourge.
Of course, Mr. Carroll wouid ttaprp6S
the N'or.h with the idea that a solid
South means vengeance. He is wrong,
i A solid Bouts, Auvinr existing circum
stances, means peace, jt nion, anti-bar
bar ism, and the protection of liberty and
society against Jacobins. And so long
as these foes are to be beaten back, the
Sonth will be Democratic, and solidly so.
While huckstering Republicans are
wasting their valuable time in the vain
hope of capturing the next House of
Representatives, they to watcb
the Senate. The seating of Si-otwogc
leaves the Republicans but three major
ity. If Ecana also is seated, the Re
pnbliean majority is reduced to two.
Eliminating Judge Dxyia, a* an Inde
pendent, the Republican majority wonfd
be reduced to one. If the carpet-bag
Senators antagonise the regular Repub
licans, the Democrats may re-organiz6
hhe Senate by electing their candidate
aa presiding officer pro tempore, either
at the Jane or Pepember session.
UENEHAI. TOOMBS’ VIEWS UPON THE
CONVENTION QUESTION.
We publish this morning a most able,
eloqnent and comprehensive letter from
General Robert Toombs, addressed to
Colonel L. N. Trammell, cf Dalton,
who had solicited his views upon the
Convention question. The letter must
be carefully read to ba appreciated.
There is a warmth of coloring in some
of these views that may not please a few
persons, bat General Toombs is in the
habit ef calling a spade a spade, and the
vehicle of his thought, if not “ Eng
lish undefiled,” is, at all events, a model
of clearness, perspicacity and solidity.
It may be that some of the views of
General Toombs will not meet with the
approval of other leading meu in his
own party ; but, in the main, we believe
him to be eminently wise and right in
his suggestions and criticisms.
SENATORS 1111.1. AND CIIRISTIANCY.
We learned a few days since that Sen
ator Chkistiancy, of MieUigan, had
written a letter to Senator Hill warmly
commending the latter’s letter to the
Chronicle and Constitutionallst on
the duty of Congressmen.!*) offie-* seek>-
era. We requested the letter for publi
cation, and present it to ourreaders this
morning. It is a frank, manly and
statesmanlike document, highly compli
mentary to Mr. Hill aud highly credit
able to the man who wrote it. If Sen
ator ChrißTlANoy is not a politician he
writes like something a great deal bet
ter—a statesman and a patriot. Though
not a candidate for the honorable posi
tion he now occupies, he stood so high
iu his State with the good men of both
political parties that Democrats and
moderate Republicans united to send
him to the Senate. His course since
his election has squared with the good
opinion entertained of him and fully
justified the confidence reposed in his
integrity and love of country. That
such a mau should so warmly commend
the course of our Senator must be
gratifying to every Georgian. It is also
gratifying to know that Mr. Hill’s let
ter has been praised just as highly by
very many of the loading men of both
parties.
SPECULATION.
One of the most deplorable results of
the war between the States was the spec
ulative mania. It penetrated the whole
country, and the ruin it has wrought,
North and South, n > tongue can tell.
Bitter, indeed, havo been the lessons of
the vietims and the aud dis
astrous the experience of legitimate
traders who, by no fault of theirs, have
been swept intojthe common maelstrom
of destruction. We hnvo heard it esti
mated that two cotton crops would hard
ly reimburse tho South for what she has
lost in “futures,” and every nook and
corner of the North is strewn with finan
cial wrecks. We aro sorry to see that
this mania, which had subsided to a
reasonable degree, is again rampant,
consequent upon the warlike attitude of
the European Powers, notably Russia
and Turkey. Some men may make sud
den fortunes, only to lose them again;
but the general resnlt will be unwhole
some to the mass of business meu. The
Chicago Tribune, speaking of the rage
for the speculation iu wheat, says that
“the wildest rumors of gain have infect
ed the people. One is said to have
made §100,000; another four times as
much; another pledged his watch fora
margin, aud retired with' $20,000 in his
pocket a few hours later; the possibili
ties of gain are limited only by the im
agination, and nobody contemplates the
theory of loss.” What a crowd of mad
men will follow into that inviting but
deadly breach ! The Tribune adds that
“the fact seemed to be entirely ignored
that, when it reached $1 80, wheat was
really higher than it had ever been be
fore. It is true that it once sold as high
as $2 80 during our own war, but this
was when gold was worth two, aud
nearly three times as muoh as green
backs. Now that the gold dollar is
worth bnt a few ceuts more than the
greenback dollar, wheat at $1 80 a
bushel is highor than it ever was.”
The cautious and conservative New
York Bulletin warns its readers not to
be too rash iu speculative ventures, at
this time, and adds; “ Speculation
usually goes far beyond the facts that
give rise to it; and the current opera
tions on this side the Atlantic, in arti
cles likely to be affected by the war be
tween Turkey and Russia, does not
promise to be an exception to this rule.
Avery large advance has occurred in all
exportable food commodities, without
waiting for a moment to consider in
what manner or to what extent the sup
plies usually furnished by other coun
tries are likely to be affected. A rongh
estimate has been formed of what quan
tity of breadstuff* is usually exported
by the two countries, and the conclusion
is jumped to that the whole of that sup
ply will be out off from Europe, and
that the deficiency must be compensated
by increased exports from the United
States. This eonclnsion is altogether
too sweeping to stand the test of ex
perience, and any transactions based
upon it are exposed to a severe revul
sion.”
If the fall should be as sudden as the
rise in breadstuff's—aud who knows bnt
what it may be so?—what a legion of
“lame ducks” would throng the markets,
streets and 'Gbanges of the land ! We
regret exceedingly th&tj'qst as legiti
mate trade was taking courage and get
ting confidence, speculation should
break out again, like a smothered vol
cano, and threaten to engnlf everything
in a wide calamity.
Pinchbaok, they say, is the son of
Major Holmes, a Georgia planter, and a
colored woman. The Boston Post con
tinues the narrative thns; “One day he
was with Major Holmes on a Mississippi
steamboat; the sun was hot, and iu tbe
shade of an awning the planter with bis
friends played poker for high stakes,
and to quiet hi pevyes drank deep
draughts of iced whisky p-im.fi. The
slave boy sat in a corner watching the
game, and waiting for any orders which
might be given by the players. While
he occupied in this way, the captain
stumbled aero*e Jiis, and demanded:
‘Whose nigger are you P ‘Well, Massa
Oap’in, I don’t ’zackly know,’ was his
reply. ‘I war Major Holmes’ boy, bat
he done bet me on two little pair and
loef. I'se got to see the game through
’fore 1 eat. aafwer your question. ’”
Pinch inherited the failing.
He graduated in a gambling saloon, and,
like the “bald-headed snipe of the val
ley’’ is quick on the trigger.
The Chicago width supported
Mr. Tilden, rests the validity of Mr.
Oates’ title to the Presidency upon the
following propositions: “Mr. Hayes
was ordained to the Presidential office
by a body of authority comprising all
the States and all the people. The or
daiping body was tbe National Legisla
ture- -fU Pf f .States were constitution
ally present in the -IP the peo
ple were constitutionally present in the
House of Representatives. Each body,
by y and unquestioned majority,
^ pl3 to b® Presi
dant.”
The grand chorus in every household
now is : “Why did I not buy my barrel
of float two weeks ago !”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY" MORNING, MAY 7 " 9, 1577.
GENERAL TOOMBS.
HIS LETTER TO COL. L. N. TRAM
MELL.
Review of the Convention Question —Cogent
Reasons for Its Call—Re-advocacy of Mate
ttoTereignty—Clipping the Wings of the
Lobby—Reformation of the Government
Machinery—A Cock Cpon the State aud
3lunicip.tl Treasuries—A True Homestead
Law Desirable—The Capital Bugaboo—
Rich and Racy Criticism aud Profound
Suggestions.
Washington, Ga,, April 20, 1877.
Dear Sir —Your letter of the 17th
ult., requesting my “views upon the sub
ject of calliug a convention of the peo
ple” to review the present recognized
Constitution of this State has been duly
received. Other pressing engagements
have delayed this reply. Ido not know
a single reason against the call and the
public security and safety demand it
The existing Constitution is not the act
or deed of the people of Georgia. It
was forced upon them by force and
fraud. Large numbers of her most
worthy, intelligent and virtnons citizens
were denied the privilege of even voting
for members of the Convention, who,
with but few exceptions, were hnngry,
hostile, alien enemies, domestic traitors
and ignorant, vicious emancipated slaves.
The last
anclrariewtSwm^^tfMHMSmlitary
appointees and to amend, change and
alter it, or accept it if they like it and
thus make it their organic law. It is a
public shame that this permission was
not given by the first free Legislature
and its successor which n.et after the
flight of Bullock. Every other one of
the sister provinces exercised the right
as soon as they were able to do
so, and have greatly benefitted
themselves by so doing. The present
government of Georgia is a usurpation.
It has no moral or legal claim to the
support or obedience of tho people. It
is wanting in tho consent of the people
—the foundation stouo of all rightful
government. Therefore it is a public
shame, supported only by bad and
wicked men for selfish purposes. But
independent of the workman tho work is
not good. The present Constitution de
nies the right of the States; subordinates
them to their agent, the Federal Gov
ernment; iu effeet asserts that this is a
consolidated government; that we owe
primary allegiance to the United States,
We deny it. Lot us assert the truth and
maintain it when we can, or leave the
truth to bo defended by our children
and children’s children whenever op
portunity offers. The people wish to
review the Executive Department of the
government; its tenure is condemned by
many as too long and its patronage too
great,. Its power over the judiciary de
partment presents formidable objections
to it. The judiciary system itself is de
fective, totally inadequate to a speedy
and impartial trial of either crimi
nal or civil causes. The jury system is
vicious and subjects the country to con
stant danger. Onr old grand jury system
war far preferable to the present. The
legislative department demands review
by the people. The Senate is a mocke
ry and a nuisance. It has generally de
fended all the abuses of the corrupt
rule of Bullock and his gaug, the instru
ment of all corrupt organizations to de
plete the public Treasury and use the
public credit for the promotion of local
aud personal objects and not for the gen
eral weal. It is true there have been a
considerable number of able und honest
patriotic men in that body, but too few
to defeat tho greater portion or estab
lish a sound policy for the State on
many great and vital questions. It has
defeated tho call of a Convention for
four years, and last Winter sought to de
feat it by annexing odious conditions to
the bill.
The Senate insisted upon submitting
the call to tho people, hoping to rally
ignerant freedmen, all the remnant of
the Bullock gang, both inside and out
side of the Democratic party, all the
friends of the spurious bonds, all “ de
velopers of resources” generally, to de
feat the Convention. They remembered
that the call for the present Constitu
tion was not submitted to tbs people,
but was the work of “ sabre sway.”
Besides, the representation iu the
Senate is grossly unequal. It is neither
based upon population, taxation, terri
tory protection of all interests, nor upon
any other sound basis of representation.
It is purely arbitrary, and was intended
by its authors to perpetuate as long as
possible the power of the usurpers in
spite of the people. The tenure of office
is too long, and ought to be shortened.
Let the people meet in Convention and
try to adopt a better system.
But the great defect in the Constitu
tion is that it does not proteet the prop
erty of the people against invasion of
the legislative power. It is true that
was the defect of our old Constitution,
as well as the present one. The same
causes have greatly increased the danger
from this source in all free representa
tive governments. The failures lo limit
by organic law the power of the legisla
tive department have brought tho Fed
eral and State governments and munici
pal corporations to the verge of bank
ruptcy, and impoverished and ruined
tho people. This has been the most
frightful source of all of onr calamities.
Wo must remark and plainly define the
dividing line between individual rights
and public authority,
The age in which wa liva has deyelop
ed new dangers to free representative
governments. Even the inventions and
discoveries of genius iu the arts and
scienoes, with their new benefits and
blessings, to mankind have also brought
new dangers to good government. This
is especially true of those inventions and
discoveries which contribute so largely
to the promotion and distribution' of
wealth and the spreading of intelligenoe
among men and nations. The improve
ments in the application of the illimit
able power of steam and the utilization
of electricity are especially noteworthy
elements in their effects upon modern
society aud governments. They have
made great associations of capital in
numerable and gigantic corporations
necessary fop their development. These
corporations with large capitals are
powerful, and, therefore, dsqgepous to
society. They first absorb individual
capital—all right enough—then all they
can borrow—still right enough, and
next the treasuries of municipal corpo
rations, public lauds and all other pub
lic property, then the treasuries and
credit of the National and State govern
ments—this is all wrong, violates jus
tice, transfers the sweat of the poor
to the coffers of the rich, appropriates
the public fund to private use and profit,
and opens the flood gates of frand and
public demoralisation. What is the
remedy for these great evils and dan
gers ? We mast find it somewhere, or
; abandon representative government.
We have seen Congress corrupted; State
Legislatures corrupted ; city authorities
corrupted; all of pur guards over pub
lic property and public credit corrupted;
anew power is discovered, and political
burglary is enrolled among the useful
arts of government. The remedy is
plain and sufficient for all of these
things. We can accept no other securi
ty bat this : We must pat it out of the
power of oar rulers to inj are society if
they wish to do it. Let us make anew
Constitution, and by that Constitution
make the depository of the public trea
sury and public credit political burglar
proof, and put the key Iff the pockets of
the people, by declaring that no debt
shall ever be created by the Legislature
or binding upon the State except
for the public defense; that the
State shall never be bonnd for the
“debt, default qr miscarriage of an
other.” This will -save tfie people
and the State from rain. Nothing else
wiil, and it mast be done now or we may
be too late. Municipal corporations
should be confined to their own limits,
and not permitted to endorse at all or
borrow, except for the good government
of ttgir respective corporations. The
principal purpo.c ifpd necessity for a
call of a Convention is’ to euuaiqa? these
and such others as the people may de
sire. All acknowledge the evils. What
present reason ean be found against tbe
proposed search for a remedy by the
people ? The people have demanded it
again and again almost unanimously
through their House of Representatives
and all other recognized exponents of
the popular will. The people have
spoken; let the Convention meet.
What are the objections to it? Covert
enemies of the Convention, those who
hope to profit by its abases, including
others wbo have not well considered tbe
maids?, suggested many. Their
principal oca is- that the Conreption
might ’endanger the bemevteau law.
One of my Owh great objections
to tbe present Constitution is that
it does not secure a sound, substan
tial, homestead to tbe women and
children of the State. I want snch a
measure. It is fair better for society
that the women and children of the State
should be secured an ample and suffi
cient homestead, where they can be com
fortable and happy and the children can
support themselves and be brought up
under virtuous influences than to be
thrown on society houseless aud home
less and penniless, outcast and wander
ers, subject to all the temptations, to
crime in its worst forms, aud finally to
become tenants of jails and poor houses.
Let us demand such a homestead of the
Convention. It will injure nobody. It
will only withdraw from trade and traffic,
crime or misfortune, a sacred sanctuary
dedicated to humauity. The details
may be safely trusted to a Convention
of the people. We have no such home
stead. The preseut homestead may be
waived by the head of the family. It is
but a life estate iu the hands' of the
family and an estate for years only in
the minors and terminate! at arrival
of age. It is a sham, but even
such as it is the objectors well
know tbat such rights as have been
acquired under it are so secure that no
Convention could touch them if they
wished to do so. The objection is only
intended to deceivo the ignerant and un
wary. But it is also objected that the
Convention may remove thoAapital from
Atlanta. Well suppose they do, shall
the supposed personal interest of a few
thousand people weigh a feather against
a goad Constitution which wjjl
the rights, libertva^^aStflnH^
the true reason. The new Constitution
would certainly disposo of all future
bond questions. There would be no
further use for the lobby. Make your
Constitutiou right and then there will
be but one remaining question as to the
capital, and that would be simply the
oomfort and convenience of our public
servants iu discharging publio trusts.
Atlanta would have no competition in
snob a contest. It is not worth a
thought with freemen. Some of the
not very ardent friends of the Con
vention have taken anew disease
which a distinguished Senator calls
the “ apprehensions.” They fear that
the Convention will put themselves
and everybody else in jail for debt; will
establish Moses’ mode of punishment
and do divers other old and wicked
things if ever tho people let them eome
together at Atlanta to consider their or
ganic law. I believe it is not the prac
tice of organic laws to adopt penal
oodes. That has hitherto been con
sidered the peculiar province of the
Legislature, and we are content that it
shall remain there. But perhaps the
“wicked flee when no man pursueth.”
I am very respectfully, your obedient
servant, R. Toombs.
Colonel L. N. Trammell, Dalton, Ga.
THE THEATRE OF WAR.
A sketch of Military Operations—Specula
tions as to the Russiun Attack anil Turk
ish Defense.
[N. Y. Worn,]
Now that tho Russians have crossed
the Prnth, a topographical sketch of the
Ronmaniau territory inclosed between
the Prnth, tht Eastern Carpathians and
the Danube may be of interest to our
readers. The Roumanian principality,
which, it must be remembered, styi in a
manner owns the suzerainty of the Sul
tau, resembles in general outline the form
of a shoe, Moldavia representing the
uppers and Wallachia the sole. It is
separated from its neighbors on all sides
by natural frontiers; from Hungary to
the north and west by the eastern chain
of the Carpathians; from Russian Bes
sarabia to tho east by the Pruth, and
from Bulgaria to the south by the
Danube. The country is almost entire
ly flat, and is perhaps a little more
denselypopulated than the State of New
York, the areas of the two being almost
exactly equal. It has many extensive
steppes aud marshes, especially along
the Danube. Below the Turkish fortress
ofSilistria tho country is so marshy and
the roads leading to the river are so bad
that to approach and cross it there with
a large force seems a sheer impossibili
ty. A really serious attempt to cross
tho Danube can be made by the Rus
sians only between Widdin and Silistria
or Rassova. This explains’ the impor
tance to the Turks of occupying Kalafat,
which lies on the left bank of the Dan
ube opposite Widdin, and other Rou
manian towns which present convenient
starting points for a Russian passage of
the river.
A glanco at any good map will show
plainly that to reach one of these points
will be no easy task for a Russian in
vading army. From Jassy, its present
headquarters, two main roads lead to
the banks of the Danube : the railway
via Rnnjeskty, Galatz and Bucharest to
Giurgevo, on the Danube, opposite the
Turkish fortified town of Rnshtchuk,
and a rather good high road from Jassy
over Vashui to Berlat, whence a railway
connects with the main line from Jassy
to Bucharest. Tbe distance between
Jassy and any point on the left bank of
the Danube, between Rassova and Rnsh
tchuk, is in a direct line about 400 miles,
and by tbe railroad, which makes a con
siderable circuit by Kanjeskty, over 500
miles. It is therefore impossible for
Russia to concentrate a considerable
force on the Danube before twelve or
fourteen days at the least, and this
ought to give the Turks ample time
either to cross the river and take up a
positiou on Roumanian ground, or, by
carefully watching the Russian move
ments, to find out exactly the point
qgainst which the attack will be di
reotpd.
But supposing this preliminary move
ment successfully accomplished by the
Russian army, the difficulties it has to
contend with will by no means have
ceased. On the contrary, after crossing
the Danube the position of the Russians
will become still mope difficult; in order
to keep qp the ppinterrqpted communi
cation by rail with the {lussiap frontier,
which is indispensable for thp speedy
and regular conveyance of provisions to
the army, a considerable force must be
left at Galatz to proteat this important
railway junction against a Turkish at
tack, and more troops must be posted
along the line between Galatz and Giur
gevo. Another point which must be
strongly defended by the Russians is
situated at the m out h of the Danube,
between tbe Roumanian town of J£ilia
and the Turkish forts of Tultscha“and
Ismail, at which a considerable Turkish
force is oonoentarted, which, if not held
in check by Russian troops, may easily do
great mischief by crossing the Rouma
nian frontier into Bessarabia.
The Russian forces now concentrated
in Maldovia amount, by Rnssian ac
counts, to about 350,000 men. Of these,
80,000 at least must be detached from the
invading army to protect tha left bank
of tbe Danube. Thus the actual invad
ing force which Russia can send against
the Turkish army cannot be assumed in
any evept to amount to more than 300,-
000 men.
Now let us cross the Danube and see
in what condition the Turks are to op
pose the inyasiop. About 400,0Q0 men,
inducting the irrpgulqr troops, are said
to be eopeentratpd ip the vicinity of
Silistria and Shuiala, where the Turkish
headquarters at present are. This makes
the numerical forces about the same on
both sides, bnt the strategical disposi
tion of the Turkish army’is far more fa
vorable than that of the Russian. The
whole course of the Danube from Wid
din to Kilia is protected by a long row
of forts and fortified towns, among
which Widdin, Nixopol, Rushtchnk,
Silistria and Tnltscha are the most for
midable. A fleet of iron-dads ernises
on the river, and can speedily bring
help where it is needed. Supplies and
provisions can be speedily conveyed to
the army by two railways running from
the seaports of Varna and Kustendje to
Rushfchuk and Rassova on the Danube.
Thus the front of the Turkish army is
covered by the Danube and its forts,
and in its rear rise the Balkan moan
tains with their almost impregnable
passes, where a small body of determin
ed men may hold in check a whole
army. It is therefore evident that,
shoo Id the Rnssian army even exceed in
numbers the Turkish forces, this advan
tage is more than likely to be counter
balanced by the favorable position ibe
latter occupy on the right bank of the
Danube.
A shoit tijqe ago a lady residing at
Clifton, England, having an inoome of
£5,000 a year, was so struck by the de
votion of a young crossing sweeper to his
mother that she proposed to him, placed
him in the hands of a tutor for a couple
of a months, and when he had been in
tellectually veneered and polished, mar
ried him at Will’s Cathedral. The ex
periment was not a success, and the lady
is now suing for a divorce,
Lope de Vega wrote 21,300,000 verses,
and lived on to the age of seventy-two
years. It is such things as these that
destroy men’s faith in the mercy and
tender pity of Providence, and teaches
them to submit humbly to the barrel
organ as a natural and necessary evil.
HILL AND CHKISTIANCY.
WHAT THE MICHIGAN SENATOR
THINKS OF THE GEORGIA SENA
TOR.
A Letter front Judge f'hristiancy to Uon. B.
H. Hill I'onnuending the Latter’s Letter On
the Daly of Congressmen With Regard tn
Applications for Office.
Lansing, Mich., April 24, 1877.
Hon. Benjamin H. Hill:
Mr Dear Sir— l cannot resist the im
pulse I feel to thank yon most cordially
for your manly and patriotic letter to
the Georgia Chronicle, whioh I have
just read. Though not the first (fer
there have been many daring the last
two or three months), it is one of the
clearest and most emphatic manifesta
tions of the honest desire of prominent
Southern men to disregard mere party
names and partisan objects for the per
manent and common good of the whole
country. I hail it as a most oheering
evidence of a better state of feeling
among Southern men; evidence that they
appreciate the fair, liberal and non
partisan policy of the new Administra
tion, and that they will deserve the gen
erous confidence it has plaoed in them.
It is also evidence of the wisdom of that
policy towards the States and people of'
the£>uth, which is daily and rapidly
the great mass of tho Republicans, to
say nothing of the Democracy—having
fnlly determined to give it a fair trial,
and most of them believing—as I have
long been inclined to believe—that kind
ness and magnanimity towards the peo
ple of the South, and a generous confi
dence iu their good faith and patriotism
will do more to disarm opposition, to
secure the faithful administration of the
laws, and to protect the equal rights of
all, without distinction of race or color,
than can ever be accomplished by force
or threats of force.
I have long been satisfied that all that
is necessary to bring about com
plete reconciliation and harmony be
tween the people of the North and Sonth
is that the masses of both should fnlly
understand and appreciate each other's
feelings and motives, making due allow
ance for the differences of education,
habits and modes of thought, and pecu
liar institutions under which they have
grown np, which time and friendly in
tercourse alone can unify and assimi
late, but whioh in the meantime, when
properly appreciated, constitute no just
or adequate cause for personal hostility
or national discord.
This complete reconciliation, this re
storation of confidence and fraternal feel
ing is the one thing essential, above all
others, to the restoration of national
prosperity, and to a safe and beneficent
Republican government. To bring about
such a result should be the primary
object of every patriot in both sections
of the Union. Compared with this all
merely partisan interests and objects
sink into such utter insignificance that I
long ago declared in the Senate that,
upon the merits of any measure bearing
upon the restoration of harmony and
kindly relations between the North and
South, I should disregard party ties and
interests; and, if I understand your
letter, you have come -“bstantially to
the same conclusion. You call yourself
a Democrat, l call myself a Republican;
and there may be minor questions of
difference between us, covered (if not
confnsed) by these rather abstraot de
signations. Perhaps it might tax the
intellect of either of us to define, with
tolerable acouraoy, the various elements
which go to constitute the one or the
other; and we might never be able to
agree upon our definition. But in the
great and primary object which, judg
ing from your letter, and other utter
ances of yours, you as well as I have at
heart, an object overshadowing all oth
ers, we entirely agree, not only with
each other, but with the Administration
now in power.
Can we not then, until this great and
paramount object is fully attained, and
the harmony and consequent prosperity
of the country established on a firm ba
sis, forego or adjourn the less impor
tant question of what constitutes a Dem
ocrat, and what a Republican, with the
minor questions growing out of these
rather metaphysical entities, and enter
at once, in solemn earnestness, upon the
only contest for which I have any pres
ent inclination—which of us shall do
most to secure the great object we both
have at heart—the complete reconcilia
tion of all sections and all races of our
common country. The time is oppor
tune; the temper of the people in both
sections is favorable, and we have an
Administration ardently seeking the
same result by meanß and measures we
both approve. Let the only contest be
tween us, then, be, which shall contrib
ute most to the great result so essential
to the prosperity and permanent wel
fare of the nation; whioh shall do most
to hasten the time when the recent fra
tricidal war, which shook the oountry to
its foundations, shall be remembered
only to make us and our people the firm
er and faster friends. When this grand
result shall be fully realized, if either or
both of us should happen to die before
the minor question of what constitutes
a Democrat or a Republican shall be
finally and definitely solved, perhaps
the world might still move on, and pos
terity contrive to exist, and, to some
slight extent, even to prosper, though
this party question should be left to be
solved by them, contemporaneously
with the production of perpetual motion
and fhe dispoyery of (he Sforth Jpolp.
Your views upon the m°de of exercis
ing patronage, apd the trup province
and coprsp of actjqq of Senators in ref
erence to appointments, are so
my qwn as expressed in numerous let
ters to applicants for appointments, that
your fetter and those J have written
WO aid seem, upon comparison, tq have
been written by the same hand.
I am, with great esteem, your friend,
J. P, UHBISTIANOT.
THE MISSISSIPPI TRAGEDY.
Further Particulars uf the Kemper County
Killing—Judge Ctilaolm, n Prominent Re
publican. the Instigator of a Bloody Mur
der—He is Arrested, galled ajd Mobbed—
Heroic Condncf tjf His Wife and Daughter,
VYhqsp Torches Upon the Revolver Develop
Until ‘ldglilness and Freedom.’’
Jackson, May I,—The following ad
ditional account was reoeived of the
affair in Kemper oounty : Thursday
evening John W. Gully, a prominent
citizen of Kemper county, was assassi
nated by an unknown party, and there
was intense excitement. Every means
were resorted to to discover the perpe
trators. Saturday two colored men made
affidavits that Benjamin Rush, a white
man, did the deed, and that
Judge Chisolm, who ran for Con--
gress on the Republican ticket in the
Third District at the last" ejection,
his spn 'apa Rosenbaum ans
Hopper, a ptfiminent white fjeputjlipan,
knew of and instigated the crime.
Chisolm and son were arrested and im
prisoned at DeKalb. Mrs, Chisolm and
daughter insisted on sharing their con
finement. Sunday Chisolm sent to
Schooba for Gilmer, for whom a warrant
had t een issued. Gilmer came and on
arrival was arrested, but jnst as be ar
rived at the jail he was set upon by a
mob and killed. The jailer was then
overpowered by the mob, who imme
diately attacked Chisolm, mortally
wounding him "ca killing his son.
Miss Chisolm, ' in defending her father,
shot and killed Dr. Bosseli and Mrs.
Chisolm severely wounded yonng Gully,
a son of Gully who was assassinated.
Miss Chisolm was also setiously wound
ed. Rosenbaum and Hopper were car
ried to the woods by a mob to 'extort
from them the whereabouts of Rush' the
alleged assassin of Gully, When last
heard from, some weeks ago, Bush was
in Arkansas. It is supposed that Rosen
baum and Hopper were hanged. It is
reported that a horrible state of affairs
exists throughout that seetion, and peo
ple are wild with excitement. Other
hangings will probably follow.
A Negro Levels a Gun at a Citizen Near
Langley. * “ '
..A >
Last Tuesday, a Mr. Barrett, who is
superintending some work at Langley,
had ooeasion to go to a saw mill, about
two miles distant, for some lumber;
while walking through the woods he
met several men who were searching for
the negro convicts who escaped from
Col. T. J. Smith, of this State, some
time since, after murdering their guard.
On his retnrn he was suddenly confront
ed by a negro, armed with $ wqsket,
who stepped c,vt ai thte fcdods and halt
ed him. Before Mr. Barrett could make
any answer the negro leveled his gun at
him and palled the trigger. Fortunate
ly the weapon snapped and the negro
turned and fled. Mr. Barrett drew his
Cistol and fired at the fugitive twice,
at does not know with what effect. He
supposes that his assailant is otte of the
escaped Georgia convicts. ' 1
KINGS.
MAGNIFICENT TRIBUTE TO SAM
UEL J. TILDKN.
The True Attributes of Royalty-What the
Country Has Probably Lost, in Losiug the
L’emocralii- Lender.
[Correspondence of the Potilaud Arqus, 1
New York, April 6.— He is a little
dried up old man; he will weigh perhaps
115 pounds; he has a little round head,
a little round face with no beard there
on; a little ronnd nose, but entirely
large enough for the face; a little round
bald spot on the back of his head. His
half is brown, and has a way of drop
ping down over the little round faoe;
his eyes are blue and rather soft than
otherwise; the lid of the left drops at
times, caused by a nervous affection,
bnt the expression is to give one the im
pression or canning. He stoopß a little,
as little dried np old men will do, and
his walk is something of a creep as
though stepping on eggs. He has no
distinguished look; one would never se
lect him from a orowd as a man born to
oommand; oh no, he looks more like a
hard working oonntry shoemaker with his
good clothes on than a king, and yet in
some respeots no king, nor emperor, nor
priest, nor other man of any age, or
oonntry, has been his equal.
I : I’ABfiXcr ii-id blo@d
TTfiougu r lliß veTus eftner to feelthe
warmth of friendship or to inspire it.
As the few ounces of blood whioh he is
supposed to have is much too cold to be
quickened by the presence of lovely wo
man, be is unmarried. He never made
a great speech, never wrote a great book,
in short never did anything to call out
the admiration of mankind. He is not
magnetic; a woeden Indian in front of a
tobacco shop will create as muoh enthu
siasm as he.
At the Amerioan Institute Fair, when
open, is to be seen a great number of
ourious and most admirable machines
of all kinds, doing all kinds of work.
One may spend days examining and ad
miring these various maobiues. Away
off at one side, unsoon, unnoticed, un
thooght of, is the engine that moves
these all.. Nobody sees it, nobody
thinks of it. All notice and admire the
effect, none notice nor admire the
cause.
This little old man is like that engine,
unseen, unknown, uuthonght of, but
the cause of great events. True, for
the last few months his name has been
upon every tongue, but this was but an
episode in his life, and although his
power will be greater than ever, his
name will no more be heard. He is an
honest and an exact man; if he owes a
penny it will be paid, and if a penny is
due him, he wants it. He was once
made a Chief Magistrate of a great
State, and after election the event was
celebrated by a supper, &c. When the
bill came in, he discovered an error of
38 cents, and sent it back for correction.
This was oalled meanness by the free
and easy polititians, and added to his
unpopularity, for these political gentry
like only “ whole-souled” fellows a
whole-souled fellow being one who robs
the publio crib and soatters a good share
of the plunder among his friends. No,
this little old man was not a whole-soul
ed fellow, and was hated by all politi
cians.
A Western man once denounced Mr.
Fessenden to me for the mean way in
which he lived at Washington. Said I
“My dear friend, if Mr. Fessenden was
as dishonest as some others, he could
live as well,” O|if we could nave more
meanness like that of Mr. Fessenden
and this little old man, what a blessing
it would be.
In the year 1874 the Republicans had
entire control of this State. General Dix
had made a wonderful popular Gover
nor, and as he was a candidate for re
election, it was deemed impossible for
the Democrats to carry the State. They
made great efforts to induce one of their
popular men like Judge Churoh to ac
cept the nomination for Governor in op
position to Dix, bnt the case was so
hopeless that all declined. In this emer
gency for the Democrats, my little dried
up old man offered himself, and as de
feat was considered certain, he was ac
cepted. Judge of the blank astonish
ment of the politicians when they found
that he was not merely eleoted, but
eleoted by a tremendous majority. That
little old man’s hand was felt iu every
county and town aud school district in
the State, as the result showed, and he
becaine "the Governor.”
In this Stale are many riDgs, among
the worst of whioh was the Canal Ring.
The Governor was lordly installed be
fore he began a war against this gang of
robbers. This but made them laugh,
for they deemed themselves inyinoible.
Soon, however, things began to assume
a serious aspect for them, and they sent
the Governor a message something in
this strain, to-wit:
“Deab Goveknor —You know how
strong we are: you know that we hold
the balance of power in this State be
tween the two parties, and can elect
whom we will and defeat whom we will;
you know that neither party, and no
Governor, not even Dix, strong as he
was, dare touch us. You want to be
President, and you know that this State
bolds the balance of power in the na
tion; that whoever gets New York will
be President; now if you will let us
alone, as Dix and all previous Governors
have done, we wilj guarantee this State
to you; b'ut should yon decline, and
mr.ke war qpon qs, we wijl pause your
political death at all hazards.
“Yours Jrniy, Tse Rmq.”
io this the Governor returned answer
something as follows:
‘'?J rs -¥ u % re organized band of
pnbliQ robbers, preying upon the com
mercial interests of the State; it is my
duty to destroy you, and I will do it or
perish in the attempt. Yours,
'The Govebnob.”
That; showed the character of the man.
He had but to keep quiet as other Gov
ernors had done, and the vote of the
Empire State was his ; if he made war
upon the thieves he was sure to lose it,
so far as human eye could §ee, It also
shows the power of the man
that he hfith whipped the ringand saved
the State. It soon began to be seen that
the Governor would be a oandidate for
the Presidential nomination. The rings
became alarmed l Rig rings, little
rings, canal rings, Tweed rings, City
rings, Whisky rings, Tobaooo rings,
Railroad rings, all, all exerted them
selves to the utmost of their capacity to
defeat the nomination of the Governor
at St. Louis, for they too well knew that
his election to the Presidency would be
their death knell. In addition to the
rings and thieves of all kinds, a large
part of the leading men of his party were
earnestly opposed to him. This arose
from two causes; they knew that if elec
ed he alone would be Ij’residentj and
would require no kitphep Qftbjnet; that
the powe? fcehiftd %> throne would be
abolished. They had also been offended
by his coldness, and disliked him.
No oandidate before a convention ever
had a stronger opposition perhaps, bat
what was the result ? He swept them
all aside by a wave of the hand and was
nominated almost without a contest.
And he was elected, too ! Elected by the
people; elected by the electors.
It all over now, and the Governor’s
name will be heard no more fqjcser, He
will never be othej Jkfti* • private citizen,
and there no possible object in prais
ing or blamiDg him. We can snm up his
case now os fairly and with as little pas
sion as the case of Julias Cmsar. lam
not his friend, and in the campaign was
inactive ; but now that all is forever set
tled, I may say that he would have made
the beet Chief Magistrate America ever
had, or iilikdly eyer to hayei Re was
doubtless better fftted for the place than
any man whose name was ever mention
ed for that high position. Could he
have been allowed to fill the place to
whioh he was elected, his name would
have gone down to future generations as
th e great President. What William of
Orange was to England, he would have
been to America, in the establishment of
good government. Indeed, the two Were
much alike; both email, -<eeble men,
cold and j£J?fSHa’nt, gnd unpopular
on thkt account; both exact ana pains
taking; both possessed of executive abil
ty of the very highest order. Samuel
Jones Tilden is not simply an able man,
but a marvelous man. Not simply a
king among men, but a king among
kings. He has been lied about as few
men have ; he has been swindled as no
man ever was— cat offfii Pres
idency. But hi* iostffe smAll in com
parison to whatrthe natitfn has laaiTn
L. W. 8.
The woman’s temperance society is at
work in Beanfort.
Abdel Moulk Kahn, the eldest of
the Emir of Bokhara, yaa >odV made a
pilgrimage to Mecca', in accordance With
the- Mobatnnieaau ' custom. In this
country 1 it ! is Customary for the Monlk
KahnS to Mecca pilgrimage to the near
est river just before milking time.
m A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Conyers didn’t deoorate.
Roseola rages at Oxford.
Carnesville erects a camera.
Conyers talks of anew warehouse.
Three deaths in Batts county last Suu-
Mrs. J. W. Farley, of Pntnam oounty,
is dead. #
Jackson oounty has a perfect cyclone
of jpio-nios. .
What has become of the tri-weekly
Georgian t
Corn in Patuara county is ooming up
and looking well.
The Eatonton ladies propose to pur
chase a hand engine.
A fellow of infinite pans is the editot
of the Rome Courier.
A pro treated Methodist meeting is in
progress at Eatonton.
Nobody in Rockdale oounty wants to
go to the Convention,
A good deal of adokness in Jaokson
and FranUin oountiea.
The smoke house villain is pirouetting
aronnd in Batts coffnty.
Senator Jimn B. Gordon was born in
Upson oounty la the year 1882.
Little forty-flve year old boys in King
ston amuse themselves by flying kites.
Annie Logan,jrhe fair authoress of
OovrtTgtoS, % b&l&hea lo a
editor.
The case of Gus Johnson, the Rome
murderer, will be carried to the Su
preme Court.
Butts oounty has eloeted two coroners
this year. The second ooronation came
off Saturday.
Gov. Brown contemplates a trip to
the Hot Springs of Arkansas during the
early Summer.
The Griffin girls will soon present
“Deoine,” a oharming original drama,
upon the boards.
The Rome oalieo club is flourishing
handsomely. No boys admitted who
wear diamond pins.
The Conyets Courier must really stop
calling him “His Fraudulency. It’s
treasonable and stale.
The Register advises the farmers of
Franklin oounty to put iu jußt one more
row of oorn before they stop.
The wheat stalk flurisheth and the
head thereof waxeth strong in the region
around about Morgan oounty.
The oompositors of the Brunswick
Journal have a corner in em quads,
judging from their paragraphs.
John T. Poll, Esq., prize speaker,
University class ’75, is oonduoting a
flourishing sohool at Parks’ Mills.
W. O. Bibb, Jr., is successfully con
ducting in Morgan county an enterprise
for tanning leather by the Holleman
process.
Apprehending an attaok from the Ma
con Telegraph, the Atlanta Constitution
has plated its office with a brown mastic
stone front.
A pleasure boat off Brunswick recent
ly oapsized, and the occupants, nine in
number, after drifting about for nine
honrs, were all resoued.
Greenesboro, Eatonton and Madison
meet in pic-nio array at Park’s Mills, and
will shake hands over trenches of sand
witohes and strawberry chasms.
Hon. J. J. Turnbull, of Banks, the
eloquent “Jay Hawk of the Mountains,”
will probably have a walk over for Sen
ator Deadwyler’s perch.
We gladly note from the Madison pa
per that G. N. Dsxter, Esq., still flour
ishes. Dexter is a patriot of the old
line type and lias done the State some
service.
Mr. David O. Fowler, of Glarke
county, has received the appointment of
Deputy Oollector of Internal Revenue
for the counties of Jaokson, Glarke and
Oconee.
The patent outsides this week tell of
Hampton’s conference with Hayes and
Evarts’ sesquipedalian aentenoes to the
Commission, The “patent” man evi
dently has been caraboo hunting in Cana
da for the past thirty days.
Athens, will give her new cornet baud
a concert.
The stand of oorn in Clayton oounty
is good,
An old horse shoe thief in Athens has
been bagged.
Mrs. Fannie Toney, Jof Monroe
oounty, is dead.
Excellent stands of corn are reported
in Middle Georgia,
"Spring blushes from the hill side” at
30 cents per quart.
Macon has a mammoth tree twenty
one feet in oircumferenoo.
There are one hundred and fifty stu
dents in the State University,
Mammoth sturgeons are being hooked
out of the Chattahoochee river.
Arthur Chick Niles, Esq., of Griffin,
is down on New Mexico.
The ohapel of the LaGrange Female
College will be oompleted by commence
ment.
Young America,-No. 3, of Macon, will
visit Augusta and be the guests of Vigi
lant.
The ouuniug little confidence compan
ions seem to be lounging around the
Maoon depot.
Thos. F. DeGaines, Esq., a Savannah
machinist, dropped dead in a foundry
last Monday.
Mr. Chas. Beusse, of Athens, was re
cently thrown from a buggy and pain
fully hurt.
Jim Brown, a notoriously bad charac
ter and murderer, was last week captur
ed nea* Maoo.
Mr. Arthur Evans, of Athens, was
recently thrown from a wagon, dislo
cating nis collar hone.
The attempt to burn the Oedartown
jail was planned for the release of
Meeka, the murderer.
The Luoy Oobb Institute musio class,
last Friday evening, gave a delightful
conoert iu Athens.
The Northeastern Railroad, says the
Athens Georgian, is now iu a most
flourishing paying condition,
A double pig, in Effingham county,
with one head but two bodies, figures
among the wonders of the age.
It iu stated that Dr. Simmons, of
Stone Mountain, has inherited a million
dollars from a relative in England.
W. A. Griggs, charged with the mur
der of M. B. O’CailaghaD, in Haber
sham county, has been jailed iu Athens,
One of the best farmers of Moßroe
planted corn in land prepared for cotton
on heariug of the impending -European
war.
The Chi Phi’s of the State may like to
learn that the annual Convention of
their fraternity will be held in Raleigh,
North Carolina, in June.
The Griffin Sun hath it that a large
and respectable portion of the tried and
true Democrats in Georgia will vote
against a Convention.
The Eaijly qou,nty Jfem, aaya the old
est negro in Georgia was buried in that
county last week. He was five score and
thirteen years old.
Rev. Mr, Gee. D. E. Mortimer, who
resigned the rectorship of Christ Church,
in Savannah, some weeks since, has left
for Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A little girl in Griffin was severely
bitten last week by a hnge bull dog.
This strikes us as another argument why
children should not roam at large.
~on dit that Oal, Roundabout Harris,
of Atlanta, ja drinking in the voluptuous
stanzas of Don Juan. This fact is not
mentioned to bear npon Canal Coffer
dams or to bull Central-Wadley atook.
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Browu i* in
augurating a series of attqoga Sena
tor Gordon. however,
seems to he WWW SB impervious as
Robert Pasha, sailing down the Danube
and watching the gentle ricochet of the
Muscoyy batteries,
Ljistefi to the Georgia Grange: If
the planters of the South would make
their plantations strictly self-sustaining,
and bay nothing whioh they oould them
selves produce, cotton would never be
below thirty cents per pound, end they
would become the wealthiest people
under the sun.
Speaking oi protocols and treaties,
Mr. Lanoueheie, the proprietor of the
London Telegraph, tells this story:
“ Years ago I was in America, and went
down with the English Minister in the
United States to a small inn in Viraaja,
where we were to meet Ms. Mwtoy, the
then United %n?jcetafy oi State,
“a Ctosda
and
Awieuysed. Mr. the most genial
or men, Was. cross as a bear. He
would to nothing. • What on earth
is ike matter with your ohief T I said to
a Secretary who accompanied him.
does not have bis rubber of whisk,' an
swered the Secretary. ARfC MM* 4very
night the Minister prayed at whist
with Mr. Man>v and. qis Secretary, and
ere*y alibi we lpst; The stakes w,ere
vdr ft rifling, hat Mr. Maroy fejt fetter
ed by beating the Britishers at what, he
called their own Mis. gopd ju
nior and every morning when
the details of the treaty were bouig dis
cussed, we had our revenge, and scored
a points for Canada,”
SODTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Oamden is to have a park.
Pickens’ peaches are plentiful.
Lawlessness is rare at Rock Hill.
Judge Bond has left Charleston.
Society Hill has a quarrelling club.
Florence has refitted her fiue hotel.
The gypsies have left Spurtanburg.
Port Royal is infested with bachelors,
Beaufort is blowing about her wind
mill.
Miss T. A. Hendricks, of Pickens, is
dead.
Walhalla will soon be a money order
office.
Spartanburg’s newspaper war grows
apaoe.
The Elleuton witnesses have returned
home.
Darlington has a market house, with
a steeple.
Port Royal realized $l2O from her
ohurch fair.
Vagrants and gamblers iu Union are
faring badly.
The Dictator and Convoy left oPrt
Royal yesterday morning.
A drum fish, weight 100 pounds, has
been caught at Port Royal.
.A large stock farm has been started
near Camden by Baum Bros.
tr SnpaiP- duughte*
has been married in Beaufort,
Kellytown, Darlington county, is said
to be the abode of lawless men.
Mr. Belton O. Kennedy has been elec
ted Town Treasurer of Camden.
The Greenville News is not in favor
of electing Willard Chief Justice.
Some disgusting revenue characters
are raiding around Andersonville.
The Pee Dee Watchman gives prom
ise of a profitable and useful career.
The artesian well in Charleston ia
now 1,338 feet deep, and near water.
Geueral Johnston, of Alabama, is at
tending the Y. M. C. A. at Greenville.
An attempted jail delivery was frus
trated at Darlington a few nights ago.
Major S. H. Bocat’s residence in Dar
lington was recently burned. Incen
diary. c
The straight-out fight against Radi
calism has been transferred to canines,
it seems.
The Pendleton Factory, at Greenville,
is to be sold on the 23d of May at pub
lic auction.
The late firemen’s display in Charles
ton was pronounced the handsomest iu
many years.
Darlington “darlings” her mineral
spring, whioh, of late, has become quite
an attraction.
Tanned squirrel skins, for the pur
pose of making telephones, are in great
demand at Pickens.
The song of the whippoowill has been
heard in the land, while icicles and hot
slings have vanished.
The train on the Spartanburg and
Asheville Railroad now runs over about
thirteen miles of the road.
Messrs. W. F. Herring & Cos., of Au
gusta, have donated SIOO to the build
ing of the Port Royal Church.
If the gallows is to hold its own there
must be an end of these bungled execu
tions ; so thinks the Watchman, of Pea
Dee.
The expenses of the United States
Circuit Court in Charleston, for the pay
ment of jurors and witnesses, amouutto
over $5,000.
Mr. Tom Hames, of Union, was re
cently badly bitten by a mad dog. Other
irate canines are reported in different
parts of the county.
A negro man by the name of George
Sadler was shot and killed in Chester
oounty while in the act of stealing bacon
from a gent!■'man’s smokehouse.
Robert Gardiner, a colored man at
Allendale, who is thought to bo insane
and is tired of living, made two at
tempts to suicide, but was prevented.
The Port Royal Advertiser learns that
the railroad company intends moving
the officers now stationed in Augusta to
Port Royal some time during the com
ing Fall.
HOW ABOUT A K.\II,KOAD TO SANDER*-
V11.1.1C t
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
While Augusta is now giving evidence
of a rapid growth in business and geueral
prosperity, soon to be hers, and various
railroad schemes are being canvassed
by her oitizeus, let me suggest one that
has occurred to me recently, that in my
judgment will pay. I chanced to be in
Sandersville not long since, and for the
first time reached that city by means of
steam over a nice railway of three miles
in length, which branohes off from the
Central Railroad at Tennille, No. 13.
This road was built and fully equipped
at a oost qf $6,000 per mile, and is now
paying from 15 to 20 per cent, on its
capital stook. During my stay there the
idea occurred to me that Augusta and
Sandersville might be brought in close*
railroad connection, at little cost and
with immense advantage to the former,
by extending the “ Goodrich Road,"
which now runs within six miles of Gib
son, in Glascock county, on to Sanders
ville. It is only 20 miles from Gibson
to Sandersville, and a road of little
over that distance, say 25 miles, and with
but little grading to do, could be built
it is believed at a cost per mile but lit
tle if any in excess of the cost of the
Sandersville and; Tennille Road per
mile. A bridge and trestle over the
Ogeechee river would be the heaviest
single item of expense, but even with
this, the twenty-five miles of new and
connecting road coaid be completed and
fully equipped for from a hundred and
fifty to a hundred seventy-five thousand
dollars. At least this was the opinion
of some practical men of Washington
county, with whom the writer conversed
on this subject. When it is remembered
that Washington county is one of the.
largest ootton counties in the State, and
its northeast boundary only between 4(1
and 50 miles distant from Augusta, and
that the county of Glaseock and portions
of Jefferson and Warren would be tap
ped by the proposed road, and thus, Au
gusta would regain nearly all tho trade
of that section, which wsb hers before
the Central Railroad was built (it then
oame here in wagons), it seems to be a
scheme well worthy of the serious con
sideration of our business men and capi
talists. This road would bring n fine
market to the very doors, as it were, of
the people of this fertile seotien, whose
trade has always been large and very
desirable. It is believed the building
of this road would increase the country
trade of Augusta annually many thou
sands of dollars. A city can but pros
per that receives the trade of its sur
rounding oountry. It has been loDg
known that the Central Railroad did
great injury to the business and busi
ness prospects of Augusta, by taking off
to Savannah the trade of many counties
whioh, before that road was established,
came here. The short road now sug
gested would largely this lost
trade. Lot onr people ponder this sug
gestion Perchance, if put into practi
cal operation, it may pay better, and fa*
sooner, than some of the contemplated!
routes for reaching distant sections in
the West. While our own city would be
very largely benefitted, ao would our
little sister city of Saodcrsville be bene
fitted also. With a fine corps of enter
prising ipwohants and other business
mep, and one of the largest and best
i conducted high schools in the State,
| this city has grown rapidly of late, and
it would prove pleasant, as well as ad
vantageous, to be brought in daily busi -
ness connection with it. X. O. Y.
The Eucalypti** Tree.
“The public squares qJ the city ought
to be pu,t to scientific uses,” was the
burden of a paper read by Dr. Edouard
Sequin before the New York Academy
■of Sciences on Monday evening. Ho
proposed to effect this change in two
principal particulars. He would have
first a larger variety of trees, which
should recommend themselves by a di
versity of colors, forms and odors, and
yet more as a specific against lever and
ague. Foremost in his praise came the
eucalyptus, a native oi Australia, but.
which nas been acclimated in Europe
with gratifying results. Dr. Heguin had
seen numbers of these trees in Georgia,,
where they achieved a splendid condi
tion, and he described them as sending:
forth a pleasant odor over their whole
neighborhood. But their principal value
lies in the fact that they are a sure
counter agent for malaria. Dr. Segnin
was of uphaion that some species of
them would thrive here without difficul
ty, but should that not prove to be the,
case they could, at least, be put through
a process cl acclimatization whioh would
bring them up to the requirements of
this latitude. The second scientific use
to which Dr. Seguin proposed to put
i the squares was to, make them in part a
botanical nursery. “Fill them np with
flowers after an intelligent system,” he
saifi, “so that the children may learn
botanical classification with no more
trouble than they find in learning to
roll a hoop.”