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®fre tocefelg & CrnistitniSmalki OLD SERIES-VOL. ICII NEW SERIES OL. LI. Chronicle ant) .Sentinel. WJSI NESDAY, MAY 9, 1877. PAY VOIR NIBMRIPTION. We request our readers to respond 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.”