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OLO SERIES —VOL. ICII
NE® SERIES—¥OI. LI.
(Chronicle anb .Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 23, 1877.
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promptly to the bills which are sent
them (or subscription accounts due this
office.
Let each subscriber who is in arrears
bear in mind that there are many others
also iu arrears, and that while the
amount due by each individual is small
tho aggregate amounts to a large snm.
We hope onr friends will respond
promptly.
Increase your crop of sweet potatoes.
Champagne at the White House
lunches, they say.
The rain came exactly right for the
grain crop. There’s millions in it.
The Southern planter who feeds him
self this year will be “a biger man than
old Grant.”
The Herald says : “The month of
the Danube Alla the eye of Europe.”—
Methinks we see it.
'SABMoTH should^fay'in’' TmXev when
he gets to Europe. The Bashi Bazouks
are yearning for him.
An exchange feelingly alludes to a
persistent attempt to “ bull ” the ship
ping of American beef to Eugland.
Pikohback aaya he never was a slave
and hence could not have been lost by
his reputed daddy on “two little pair.”
Hickl.es endorses the integrity of
Woooin. Is this not a case of Jack
Sheppard standing secnriiy for Dick
Turpin ?
Ho long as the New York Time* thinks
u solid .South dangerous, there should,
if our people are not fools, be a very
solid South.
Sunset Cox endorsed the application
of Gkorob 11. Butler. He no doubt
did so out of respect for Wicked Ben.
Shoo fly !
The Chicago Tribune has not yet pub
lished a war map, but it has au editorial
strategist who periodically “ crushes
Turkey like an egg shell.”
Aocordino to the Graphic a wi.ll
trained legislator is never bribed, but
adroitly sells his jack knife for SIO,OOO,
and calls it a business transaction.
A Western paper says the indirect
cause of the war is that the Turk is an
alien iu Europe, now about the Rus
sian ? It is dog rat dog on that point.
A rao picker in Cincinnati, who lives
iu squalor and has more dirt to the
square inch on his body than any man
extant, eatH strawberries at eighty cents
a quart.
Nearly every paper in the United
Htatcs has this stereotyped warning to
young men : “Stay at home, young
man, stay at home. Nothing doing in
this State."
Why not send Calmi Cushino as min
ister to the Ottomans I—Boston Bulle
tin. Because the President is relied
upon to “sit down” upon all such
Cabinet ware.
A brother of Vice-President Wilson,
who retained the family name of Col
bath, and has long been a door-keeper
of the Senate, received hia order for dis
missal the other day.
Perhaps wicked Ben’s awful nephew
has been appointed to the Black Hills
for scalping purposes. Should the In
dians “raise his hair” he would look
much more like his old uuole.
Gen. Meade’s sister, who was dis
missed from tbe Interior Department,
is seventy years old. Had she been
young, pretty aud fast, there would have
been no dismissal—not much.
As many doctors are applying for po
sitions iu the Russian army, the Court
■er-Jtmmal wickedly remiuds thoie
from Dos Moines that the Emperor Al
exandre is very careful of his troops.
A. New York bigamist is paid $3,000
fie* annum by one of his bogus fathers
in-law just to keep away from one of his
so-called wives. It is needless to say
itbat the innocent parent is a Chicago
man.
After a careful perusal of his obitua
ries, Mr. Stephens is said to have de
clared that from them he has learned of
incidents of his life and traits of
character of which hitherto ho has been
ignorant.
I'.hk New York Tribune states that
"many of its readers are martyrs to
neuralgia or some other nervous affec
tion." Subscribers to the Tribune now
know what ails them and can apply the
proper remedy.
Sergeant Rates, Ben Butler and O.
P. Morton are suggested by the Boston
Globe ss standard bearers for the Pro
phet’s fl.ig. What they do not know
about the pro-tit iu the flag business is
not worth knowing.
A Northern contemporary will be sat
isfied it the Russian campaigu in Asia
Minor aball result in a railroad depot at
Jerusalem nd a modern hotel in Jeri
cho. Architect Mullett is not invited
to build the latter, and rams’ horns will
not Vie blown.
A Biple reader, who sees things in a i
vmou, predicts that England will meet
Russia near the site of Bozrah, in Moab, j
and afterwards uear Jerusalem. Hav
ing given this information he promises
full particulars of the tight iu his next
.communication.
tfi.vyyissioNKß Janes is beiufc highly
■compliuMttted for the ukase he issued
vecommewkstg Georgia planters to cul
tivate grain lately, pending the Eu
ropean war. It may not be amiss to
state that the newspapers were rather
•bead of Commissioner Jane* on that
aabject.
The briefest and moat aiguitlcant ex
pression of opinion regarding the Presi
dent's policy is that of ex-Congveseman
Rusk, of Wisconsin. He says: “I—ah—
nm—umph—ahem—um— m—m urn." —
He is a candidate for Sergeant-at-Arms
pf the Federal Senate.
P ac j;ard is poor and has a large
family. He is said to be weakening
and, having eaten the leek, will take a
sop of anything handy from the Admin
istration. A bachelor “av defy the
Powers ; but a needy politician with a
large family loses courage at the pros
pect of a row in the do neath? circle. —
Growing children do not appMuiate
principles ; they want potatoes.
And now it is currently reported that,
•fter bis bridal trip to Europe and re
tort to America, Warmoth will be tbe
President’s right-bower in Louisiana.
We Lope not. If there is a man cor
dially hated in Louisiana Warmoth is
that individual. No one who loves his
country need wish tbe re-appearance of
Warmoth as Hates' best man In Louis
iana.
A CHEAP NEWS HEKYII’E.
Aihalon. Mac n.—We can answer your query
only by stating that the news service of the
Constitution is far superior to that of any other
Georgia paper. Yon have only to compare any
day’s issue of this paper with the same issue
of any other daiiy in Georgia to perceive the
vast difference. Moreover, the comparison
wdl be exceedingly interesting. We spare no
expense to give onr readers the latest news,
and the most casual examination will show
that none of the other Georgia dailies can com
pare with us in this respect— Allanta Constitu
tion. |"
The superiority of the Constitution's
“ news service ” is easily explained.
Dispatches to the Western Associated
Press two and three days old have the
date line changed so as to make the
reader believe they were received by the
Constitution on the day preceding their
re publication. Dispatches to the Cincin
nati Gazette or Louisville Courier-Jour
nal of May 2d, tor instance, appear in
the Constitution under date of May stb.
The expense of this “ news service ” is
self-evident. It is incurred by changing
the figure 2to the figure 5. The Consti
tution is a very good paper, after its
kind, bat there are plenty of others just
as good that do not go to the “expense”
of this crooked “newsservice.”
THE EI.. V TE V T i> BJUjfIUT. ,
Thu Lonisvilie (refferson county)
News and Farmer suggests that a Dis
trict Convention be held in this city on
the 22d iust., for the purpose of nomi
nating delegates to the Constitutional
Convei.tion. Home time since a promi
nent citizen of Glascock published an
article saying that as tho. e was no diffi
culty about the basis of representation
it would be fairer and more satisfactory
to let each coujty select its own dele
gate or delegates, the people of each
county being the best jadges of the
qualifications of their citizens. Ricog
nizi>.g the justice of these views, and
seeing that they had been adopted by
many other Senatorial Districts, tho
Executive Committee of this county met
some time since and recommended that
each county in the Distriot select its own
candidates for delegates, on the basis
that seemed to have been adopted by
common consent. The people of Rich
mond held meetings yesterday and se
lected delegates to a County Conven
tion, and this County Convention will
assemble next Saturday and nominate
delegates to the Constitutional Conven
tion. We hope the people of Glas
cock and Jefferson will hold meetings at
as early a day as possible aud complete
the ticket for the Distriot.
THE VITALITY OF POLAND—A VOICE
FKO.H THE TOMB.
The death-hug of the Russian with the
Turk, and the probable involvemeut of
other European Powers in this gigantic
contest, naturally recall the fate of Po
land and her undying hope of deliver
ance. Many times lias she revolted
ngainst the barbarous yoke of the Mus
covite, and many times lias she, by the
untoward fate of uneqnal war, been
forced to sound deeper depths of igno
miny and servitude. By no potentate
was Poland more cruelly betrayed than
by the first Napoleon, unless history
falsifies the record ; but despite of per
fidy, and a despotism that seeks to crush
tho miud and son), the light of liberty
iu Barmatia is unquenebed and un
quenchable. In this connection, we are
pleased to see that Karl Blind, in one
of his masterly reviews of European
polity, has done what he could to put
an end to the idea that the death-war
rant of Poland was virtually sealed by
Thaddeus Kosciußzcko, who, when al
most mortally wounded, on the unfor
tunate field of Macieiowioe, in 1794, is
reported to have exclaimed : “ Finis
Polonite ” —“ It is the end of Poland !”
Now, thousands of orators, aßd no
end of historians, have periodically and
dramatically repeated the alleged words
of tho heroio Pole, when, in point of
faot, he never uttered them, but, on the
ooutrary, took the earliest opportunity,
in most indignant terms, to deny their
authenticity. This denial is found in a
letter of Kosciuszcko’s, religiously pre
served in the archives of the family of
Count Skour, and the pertinent parts of
which we quote :
MoxsiF.ua lo Comte : * * * *
Ignorance or malignity, with fierce persis
tence, has put the expression Finis Polonies
nto my month,—an expression lam stated to
have made use of ou a fatal day. Now, first
of all, I had beeu almost mortally wounded
before the battle was decided, and only re
covered my conscience two days afterwards,
when I found myself in the hands of my ene
mies. Iu the second instance, if an expres
sion like the one alluded to ie inconsistent and
criminal in the month of any Pole, it would
have been far more so in mine.
When the Polish nation called me to the de
fence of the integrity, independence, dignity,
glory aud fteedom of our fatherland, it knew
well that I was not the last Pole in existence,
and that with my death on the battlefield, or
elsewhero, Poland could not, and would not.
be at an end. Everything the Poles have done
since, or will do yet in the future, furnishes
the proof that if we, the devoted soldiers of
the country, are mortal. Po'and herself is im
mortal; and it is therefore not allowed to any
body either to utter or to repeat that insulting
expression (Voutrageante epithete) which is con
tained in the words Finis Polonies !
What would the French say, if after the bat
tle of Bossbach in 1757, Marshal Charles l>e
Kohax, Prince de Soubise, had exclaimed.
Finis Galliot! Or what would they say if
such cruel words werj attributed to him in bis
biographies ?
I shall, therefore, be obliged to yon if, in
the new edition of yonr woik. yon will not
speak any more of tire Finis Polonia ; and I
hope that the authority of your name will
have its due effect with all those who in fu
ture may be inclined to repeat these words,
and thus attribute to me a blasphemy against
which I protest. * * * *
Glorions language and worthy of the
valorous sonl that inspired them ! The
workmen die, but the work goes bravely
on. Men and issues perish, bnt princi
ples are immortal. We rejoice that
KosuurszKO never, even in the agony of
defeat, aud at the very gates of the
grave, despaired for a moment of the
osuse of bis native land. The friend
of Washington, a defender of American
liberty, a hero so pare that even the
Russian Czar srho oorqnered him ten
dered his own imperial sword, which
was declined by the captive, bee&nee he
" had no country to defend ” -such a
man could not have despaired of free
dom in any land, and, least of all, in that
land which gave him birth.
We rejoice, therefore, that Karl
Susb tiaa attempted to pot this matter
at rest, and thereby rdaee another laurel
wreath, at this late day, upon the tomb
of him who sleeps beside Sobikski, and
in whose honor a grand mound has been
raised, made of earth gathered from
every field where JPolish valor triumphed
or bled in vain.
It is not beyond the possibilities of
the future, and it may be nearer than
many persons imagine, that the jeal
ousies and fears of two of the original
partitioners of Poland may find it ad
vantageous to reconstitute that country
as a barrier against the Russian. While
there seems to be a perfect understand
ing between Germany and the Czar,
| upon the Eastern question, there will
oeysr ha perfect accord upon anything
else; sad is always in sppre
banaion of her powpxU# overbear
ing neighbor. The type rampart of
Western Ear ope against Russia was
the Kingdom of Poland, and the day
may come when Prnssia and Austria,
yielding their robbery, will, for self
protection, permit the country that
nourished Scbieski and KoscirszcKo to
[ regain her ancient independence, and so
there shall be anew birth and uot the
“ end of Poland.”
THE EXTRA SKNSIOM POSTPONEMENT.
The Bt. Louis Republican has a sen
sible view, we think, of the postpone
ment of the extra session. It says:
“ There are those in both parties to
whom the postponement will be a dis
appointment—a few Democrats and a
great many Republicans. The oppo
nents of Mr. Hayes, in his own party,
were preparing to take advantage of the
special session to declare war od, and, if
possible, break down his Southern
policy—and on them the Administration’s
adroit manoßavre will have a bewilder
ing effect. The policy which might be
safely attacked as an experiment iu June
will have hardened into au unassailable
fact by October. This is clearly the
reason for the postponement, and the
reason why it will be a disappointment
to Hayes’ Republican opponents. We
do not see that the country has any
reason to complain of P decision,
however. It is growing ore peaceful
and cheerful every day under the exist
ing condition of things, and it may well
wish to avoid the agitation into whioh
po, organised attack on •* PU'-uitle-eea*
of the Southern policy would bring.”
Besides this, the business of tie
country, bad as it is, might be made
much worse by political agitation.
NOT DOING THE SQUARE THING.
Southern Republicans may reasonably
complain that the Administration has
not done and is not doing the Equare
thing by them in the matter of office.
Laws with regard to the Treasnry De
partment and good conscience with re
gard to all the other Departments re
qnire that the offices shall be apportion
ed among the different States iu pro
portion to population. 'I He last Blue
Book issued by tho Government shows
how shamefully the Northern Republi
cans have defrauded tho faithful in the
South. Alabama, though entitled to
172 positions in the Departments at
Washington has hut 34, a deficit of 138 ;
Arkansas, entitled to 88, has 16, a deficit
of 72; Florida, entitled to 43, has 7, a
deficit of 36; Georgia, entitled to 197,
has 23, a deficit of 174; Kentucky, enti
tled to 217, has 48, a deficit of 179 ;
Louisiana, entitled to 130, has 32, a de
ficit of 98; Mississippi, entitled to 130,
has 35, a deficit of 95; Missouri,
entitled to 298, has 57, a deficit of
240; North Carolina, entitled to 173,
has 32, a deficit of 141 ; South
Carolina, entitled to 109, has 37, a de
ficit of 72; Tennessee, entitled to 217,
has 45, a deficit of 172; Texas, entitled
to 160, lias 16, a deficit of 114; Virginia,
entitled to 200, has 204, an excess of 4;
West Virginia, entitled to 59, has 52, a
deficit of 7. These figures show that the
Southern Republicans have received
1,452 offices iu the Departments less
than they are entitled to. The greedi
ness of New England is the cause of this
condition of affairs. Every New Eng
land State save one has a large number
of offices in excess of its just apportion
ment. The greediness of the New Eng
land Republicans keeps the mouths of
fourteen hundred Southern Rt publicans
out of the public crib. We advise re
bellion, rebellion determined and re
bellion prolonged until there shall be a
more equitable division ol the- spoils.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
If there is one thing a Boston Repub
lican clamors for.more than another, it is
the “inalienable right of freedom of
speech.” It is true that, before the war,
the Southern people were devoted to de
struction because howling Abolitionists
were not allowed to patrol plaatations
dealing out incendiarisms to the black
people; but it is equally true that, dur
ing the war, many men were sent to the
bastiles of New England for using that
“inalienable right” in an unpalatable
way. We are led to these observations
by reading the subjoined editorial iu tho
Boston Globe r
It will be well for tho Southern people not
to encourage speech making on the part of Mr.
Jf.fferson Davis. There is no penitence in
him, and too much glorifying of the lott cause.
Iu response to a serenade in New Orleaus late
ly ho spoke of that cause as “crushed but uot
destroyed—for it was the cause of truth, which
is eternal.” Again In said, “Ilia cause for
which you struggled was that of jnstico aud
of tru'h. The triumphs of these may be post
poned, but in the ordering of Piovidence must
oome at last.” And there was much more
twaddle of tin same soil, which is not in
keeping with the professions of the South, on
which the confidence of the country is now
placed. The causo of slavery and of the dis
memberment of the Union may be glorified
with the names of Justice aud Truth and “con
stitutional liberty,” but the cause is dead and
must be buried, and the sooner Jeff Davis is at
rest with it, unless he can accept his bereave
ment in a more becoming spirit, the better for
the country. Bo is the one irreconcilable from
whom we do not care to hear.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has just as much
right to “make a few remarks” as any
other man in this country. He has noth
ing to repent of, anil if he chose to
speak respectfully of tho Southern Con
federacy, he may not do any good, but
neither does he do any harm. The cause
of the South was local velf government
and anti centralism. That cause is not
dead; it did not die with tho Confeder
acy; it is immortal wherever a freeman
dwells, and it cannot die. Most of all,
it will never perish while the Puritan
propaganda survives, llris may appear
to be “twaddle” to the Boston Globe;
bat recent events, signaling the recovery
of constitutional guarantees in Louisi
ana and South Carolina, tell a different
story. It is the twaddle of the Aboli
tionists and Jacobins that has rained
the country; and it is the slogan of the
anti-centralists that is redeeming it. Mr.
Davis may be “tbe one irreconcila
ble” from whom tho Boston Globe
does not “care to hear;” but we
piesnme Mr. Davis will not be
intimidated by this haughty animadver
sion. Truth in the month of Jeffer
son Davis may be peculiarly unpleasant
to a Boston Republican of the Sumner-
Garrison school; but it is troth all the
same, and the Southern ex-president
has just as much right to speak it as
Wendell Phillips has to utter maledic
tions aud mendacity. The Bostonians
have clamored for free speech, and the
frogs in tte Pond have echoed that cry.
We insist on free speech therefore,
whether it proceed from Ben Wade,
James G. Blaine, or any other man.
An ex-Sen&tor was made President of
a Bank. He stole most of the funds.
To get him out of jail his friends and
lawyers represented him to be “a bro
ken down, white haired man, whose
sands of life had pearly run out.” As
soon as he became a free citizen hie
health end intellect instantly recovered
their former tom . fle is now ready to
hold another office of trust sod wreck it
secundum artem.
A Japanese scholar writes, in idiomatic
English, to the North American Review,
his opinion of the United States. He
thinks this the most backward country
in the world, because a of
voters cannot elect the President, and
declares that in a hundred years we have
taken one step, end that backward,
namely, we have 'given to s number of
ignorant negrqes the power to in e
-lectiug a President who is not responsi
ble to anybody.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAT 23, 1877.
THE DEAD AND THE LITIXG.
Mr. Edward Hunter delivered a very
chaste and eloquent address iu Louis
ville, Ga., on Memorial Day. There is
one portion of it that furnishes more
food for reflection than is usually afford
ed by speeches upon such occasions.
Describing the death of a Confederate
soldier on the field of battle he said that
his dying agonies were soothed by the
thought that be had fallen in defense of
his country and the belief that his wife
and little ones wonld be protected and
oherished by a grateful people. Con
tinuing, he said :
Have Lis countrymen indeed been grateful ?
Have they indeod been a husband to the wid
ow, and a father to the orphan ? Or is this
grand decoration of the soldier’s graves a
sham ? Hollow mockery ! To adorn the
graves of the dead with dowers, and allow the
living, the dearest to them on earth, to suffer
for bread ! However this may have been in
the past, from this day forth show your grati
tude to the dead soldier by acta of kindness to
his orphans. If they are needy, assist them.
If they are s* aying from the paths of recti
tude and virtue, gently lead them back. Pity
them and advise them, for they have no fath
er to lead them by the troaoherous shoals and
dangerous reefa, which so thickly throng the
stream of life.
The question is a pregnant one. Have
'tfeewarvtWs Df ’ deacT'in
deed been grateful to the men who gave
up life aud hope in defense of what
they considered the right ? Or let us
put the question in another form : Have
they shown their gratitude in a practical
way by taking care of the widows anil
orphans of Confederate soldiers who
were left unprotected and poverty
stricken? We are afraid not. Monu
ments to the Confederate slain there are
plenty of. They rise all over the land.
But how many homes have been provided
for the destitute widows of Confederate
soldiers ? How many shelters have been
erected for their orphaus, to keep them
from want, maybe from a life of sin and
shame ? Few they are and far between.
We do not wish to be understood as
saying a single word iu disparagement
of those women’s associations which ex
ist in every town and city, and which
have for their object the erection of me
morial monuments. It is proper that
such monuments should be built; it is
eminently fitting that women should
build them. It is appropriate for wo
men to express grief or gratitude senti
mentally. But Southern men should
have manifested their appreciation of the
sacrifices made by the dead soldiers of
the Confederacy iu a much more practi
cal manner, and Widows’ Homes and
Orphan Houses should have beeu estab
lished in every Southern State.
WOMEN IN THE DEPARTMENTS.
We have received a communication
from Washington City complaining in
bitter terms of the employment of wo
men in the Departments and urging the
President to discharge all the female
clerks in tho service of the'Government.
We hope the President will do nothing
of the kind. Single women anil unpro
tected women Audit exceedingly difficult
to make a living. There are few avenues
open to them. Instead of closing any
one of these few wo’should endeavor to
open others. The work in the Depart
ments done by women is reputable and
sufficiently remunerative to afford a
comfortable support to the persons em
ployed. From all accounts the women
discharge their duties faithfully and
efficiently. Why should thoy be dis
charged to make room for men who can
obtain employment on the farm, in the
machine shop, on pnblio works, in the
professions ? Our correspondent seems
to think that prostitution is very com
mon among these clerks, aud their re
tention in oflioe is therefore demoraliz
ing. We do not agree with either the
premise or the conclusion. We have no
good reason for thinking that the female
clerks iu the Government service are
prostitutes any more than that females
employed in any business are necessari
ly unchaste. At any rate, the average
female has just as much virtue as the
average male, if not a great deal more,
and there is good reason to suppose that
the woman clerk is no worse than the
man clerk.
Mohammedanism, as it carno from the
Prophet, is simple Unitarianism.
When men are fonnd hanging to trees
n Texas the obituary usually runs thus:
‘Cattle thieves. Such is life ! ”
Some people think that the Moslem
hate Christ. This is a capital error.
Mohammed ranked Jesus among the
sublimest apostles of God, and the
Koran, we understand, punishes with
death blasphemy of His name.
Mr. Robson, the comediaD, says “the
very qualities necessary to success as a
novelist or poet are fatal in the drama.”
How about Sbakspeare and Btjltver?
Mr. Robson Las gone beyond his last,
and should stick to his mummeries.
mam
The Tribune, an authority in archae
ology, confidently expects that Dr.
Schliemann, on his return to this coun
try in the Summer, will at once set
about making excavations in some West
ern mound, in the hope of digging out
a genuine Old Line Whig.
The Chicago Times thinks the polioy
of Hates npou any given subject matter
appears to be asoertaipaple by a very
simple rule. The rple is, to find what
Grant's policy was, apd take the oppo
site. Upon no other theory csn we un
derstand his reported attachment to
Warmoth.
i New York cotton dealers are attempt
ing (o devise some plan to stop the ex
tensive stealing of cotton in that city.
The state xent is made that ten thousand
bales are stolen annually. Asa conse
quence buyers are beginning to avoid
that market end the cotton trade of the
C'ty is being injured. This heavy Bteal
age is the result of petty thefts by
weighers, samplers and trncksmen. The
loss on ootton in New York is from 6 to
7 per cent, while in Liverpool it is only
£ to § per cent.
George H. Butler, who was recently
appointed Post Office Agent for the
Black Hills country, has been removed.
The appointment caused a great deal of
surprise and the removal will give gen
| eral satisfaction. Butler was Consul
! General in Egypt a few years since and
was removed because of tbe scandal oo
casionad by his conduct. He is a nephew
! of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and was
given a position upon the application
of the latter, strongly endorsed, strange
to say by letters from Messrs. Saylkb
. snd Democratic members of Con
i gress.
——<i mm
We hear from Washington that it is
probable that a person not in sym
pathy with oar people will be appoint
ed to the important offioe of United
j States Marshal. If the appointee shonld
not be acceptable to the people of Geor
gia the responsibility will rest upon our
j Senators, as President Hates is willing
to appoint any gentleman upon whom
onr Senators nnite. If, with this assur
ance from President Hates, out Sena
tors fail to endorse or agree upon some
preper man for the office, the people of
Georgia spoahl hold them responsible
for their neglect of doty. • ■ bl~ ;
WEST AN® SOUTH.
AUGUSTA RAIL
Meeting or tbe Convention—Large Number ft
Delegates Present—HVeat Interest Mani
fested—Permanent Organization—Commit
tees Appointed.
-4*'< ... t
The Angusta and Unoiville Battfoad
Convention met at tlifGper* Boose yes
terday morning at half-past ten o’clock.
On motion of Mr. V 7. Wheless, Maj.
W. C. Sibley was requested to preside
over the meeting nntn a permanent or
ganization could be effected.
Mr. Sibley thanktff the Convention
for the favor conferred. He explained
the object of the tteeting, and hoped
its result wonld be S§ Supplying of the
missing link bstweenjthe West and the
Sonth.
The proceedings. Jwere opened with
prayer by Bev. J. S. Ylamar.
Tbe Chairman intr**poed Mr. M. J.
Verdery, who deliMjlwj the welcoming
address to the delegedtelß.
Mr. Verdery said Hgsraa the intention
of the resident delfffjites to have the
welcoming address delivered by a dis
tinguished mrEraber ghf the legal fra
ternity, but Superior Court being in
session prevented thjf, aniil be was snj)-
stitnted. He said tip them, welcome !
welcome ! thrice f welcome ! They
were welcome , the lepresen
tatives progr^^^n*i£nterprise.
made themselves acquainted with the
advantages of the Augusta aud Knoxville
Railroad. We in Augusta have sub
mitted long enough to a monopoly. Our
citizens are wide awake to the impor
tance of the new enterprise aud in every
sense they mean business.
Mr. Samuel McKinne, of Knoxville,
said upon him had fallen the choice of
the Knoxville delegates to reply to the
welcoming address. He felt a very deep
interest in this matter as a citizen of
Knoxville and East Tennessee, because
he had grown up with it. He remem
bered that twenty years ago, when he
was a child, a convention was held iu
K noxville upon this very subjeet. He
was asked what Knoxville was prepared
to do. He would speak for her, in the
presense of her Mayor aud several
of her Aldermen, he would speak
for East Tennessee when he said
they came here meaning business
and prepared to do their part.
They had been left dependent upon their
own right arm and the expectations of
the fntnre. They were here now to say,
in response to the invitation of Augnsta,
that they were willing to do their part.
It seemed to him that all the intersect
ing lines of trade aud commerce were
pointing to this one great road. The
line which is before this Convention is
the nearest from Chicago and Cincin
nati, by two hundred aud forty miles, to
Port Royal and Augusta. Tbe time is
propitious for the work. We are free
from political matters, and we see for
tlffe first time since 1865 a regenerated
Sonth. Peace is over the laud. He felt
that this opportunity wonld not be lost.
Bound together by a common interest,
•with them there was no such word as
fail. He trnsted that harmony would
prevail over their deliberations, and the
great enterprise set on foot so that ere a
twelvemonth the sound of the axe and
the pick would be heard along the line.
On motion, Martin V. Calvin, Esq.,
was requested to act as temporary Secre
tary.
Mr. J. W. Wallace moved tho ap
pointment of a committee of five on cre
dentials. Adopted.
The Chairman appointed as the com
mittee Messrs. J. W. Wallace, J. H.
Grogan, General Bradley, T. H. Heald,
W. H. Howard, Jr.
Mr. Caldwell, of Knoxville, moved the
appointment of a committee of five on
permanent organization.
Mr. E. F. Verdery moved as an amend
ment that the committee consist of ten
delegates, the members to be selected
from the Knoxville delegation.
Mr. Charlton, of Knoxville, moved as
a eubstitnte that a committee of ten on
permanent organization be appointed.
Adopted.
The Chairman appointed as the com
mittee Messrs. D. A. Carpenter, A. Cald
well, W. W. Woodruff, R. Jones, John
McGrath, S. McKinne, of Kqox county ;
R. N. Hood and C. T. Cate, of Blount
county; W. D. Lamar, of Anderson
county, and N. L. McCandless, of Jef
ferson county, Tennessee.
Mr. Caldwell thought some Georgia
men should be on the committee. He
moved that the motion just adopted be
reconsidered.
Mr. Wheless moved that a committee
of fifteen, on permanent organization,
be appointed by theChairman. Adopted.
The Chairman appointed as the com
mittee Messrp. D. A. Carpenter, A. Cald
well, W. W. Woodruff, R. Jones, John
McGrath, S. McKinne, of Knox county ;
R. N. Hood and C T. Cate, of Blount
county; W. D. Lamar, of Anderson
county; N, L. McCandless, of Jefferson
county, Tenu.; Prof. Smith, of North
Carolina; Colonel CanuoD, of Rabun
county, Ga.; Dr. H. R. Casey, of Colum
bia county; W. TANARUS, Wheless, of Augusta,
and G, M. Jordan, of Abbeville, S, 0.
Mr, Caldwell stated that Mr. Heald,
appointed ou the Committee of Creden
tials, was not present, and requested
the Chairman to substitute Mr. Charl
ton’s name. Agreed to.
The two committees retired for the
transaction of the business entrusted to
them.
Maj. Rucker, of Anderson, 8. C., was
called upon to make a few remarks upon
the subject of the railroad. Maj. Ruck
er, iu response, said he might say he
had a sort of hereditary interest in this
enterprise. A convention on this sub
ject was held in Knoxuilio in 1830, and
his father was a delegate to that con
vention. He thought tho proposed
road was one of tho most important ever
contemplated. Wherever the chain of
the Biuo Ridge Mountains had been
penetrated by railroads, the most bene
ficial results had followed. The whole
of Tennessee, the whole of Georgia, the
whole of South Carolina, the whole of
North Carolina Jj®4 interest in
the building of this road- Au
gusta had been relegated to the
back ground by Atlanta, but this
road ouce built it would occupy even
a better position than Atlanta. Then
Augusta will be a great distributing
point for the Southeastern States, and a
great deal of the commerce with the
West Indies will be directed to Port
Royal through Augusta. It is 700 miles
nearer from Chicago to Port Royal than
from New York, aud perhapi to New
Orleans. It is.important, if this Union
is to last, it should be a Union in
eveiytbipg. 'fhis pad built, it will do
more j,o bring together Ip real har
mony than an the political parties in the
country. Those cities which under
stand the situation shonld constitute
themselves distributing points, great
commercial centres, ft is on account
of the grept
AtUfttg tbgt slip hips sucii pro
gress. August* should’ boy inaugurate
a great through liup (;o connect it with
the West, and thus hepoijae 3
ing point for North and Booth Carolina
and Georgia. He believed that many
thousand bales of cotton can t e secured
to Augusta if this line is judiciously
run, aye more, he felt satisfied that a
large subscription could be secured in
South Carolina if it was properly run.
He believed for one, that the road was
perfectly practical, The people in the
country yanted the road bailt. Augus
ta’s hopes were their hopes, and her
success would be their success.
The Committee on Credentials,
through their Chairman, Mr. J. W. Wal
lace, reported the following list of dele-
gates.
Franklin, N. C.: Prof. C. D. Smith.
Rabun County, Ga.: H. W. Cannon.
Blount County, Tenn: P. N. Hood,
W. W. Lawrence, Wm. H. Wright, J. C.
Howard, C, T. Catee, J. J, I anlkner J.
Hf. ijverett.
Knoxville: Hon. D. A. Carpenter, A
CaldweH, T. H. Heald, John McGrath
N. L. McCandless, W. Coffman, W. J
Ra inmage, H- H. Hubbard, R. J. Wif
soß, J. L. Lamar, J. K. Wilson, Hod
Betef Stanb, J. f. Baumann, S. C&hn,
B. D. Lamar, Skm;l McKinney, Major
N. E. Scales, Captain W. W. Woodruff,
C. Vf. Charlton, B. Jones, J. Vf. Gfpit,
W. G. McAdoo.
Elbert connty.Ga.—Col. J. H. Jones,
J. 5. Grogan. Dr. M. P. Deadwyler.
Wilkes county—B. M. Fortson.
Lincoln county—Eli Lockhart.
Columbia county—Dr. H. R. Casey,
Capt. F. E. Eve, 8. A. Gibson, James
Lamkin, J. P. Williams.
Angnsta—Wm. T. Wheless, Wm. E.
Jackson, R. H. May, W. C. Sibley, Jas.
A. Gray, W. H. Barrett, Gen. M. A. Sto
vall, Bam. H. Sibley, H. G. Wright, Z.
McCord, R. A. Walton, T. D. Caswell, A.
Mullarky. E. R. Schneider, George T.
Barnes, J. M. Clark, W. F. Herring, b!
Fleming. J. B. Doughty, Patrick Walsh,
Geo. T. Jackson, Chas. A. Doolittle, J,
j. Pearce, Henry Moore, John Doaeber,
Solomon Marcus, W. H. Howard, Jr,,
Wm. B. Young, Eugene F. Verdery. J.
H. Alexander, Jae. G. Bailie, E. W.
Harker, J. 0. 0. Black, Henry Franklin,
John W. Wallace, Judge Snead, L®.
roj jl. Miller, C. A1 Platt, Chas. Spaeth,
Patrick Armstrong, Ed. O’Donnell, M.
J. Verdery, J. V” H. Alien, Patrick
Doris, John 1* Maxwell, Wm, Mulherin,
Peter G. Bornm. Edgar B. Derry. G V.
DeGraaf, W. Daniel. H. D. D. Twiggs,
John % B Desman, J. T. Armand, John
S. Davidson, J. T. Rothwell, Samuel
Levy, IX R. Wright, T. B. Phinizy,
Martin V. Calvin* Thomas G. Barrett,
and Capt. B. W. Smith.
Port Royal, S. V. : W. fl. Scott.
Athene, Gil: A. K. Childs, Johii
White, R L. Moss, A. F. Pope, E. D.
Newton. Alex. 8. Irvine, Reuben Nick
erson, J. A. Bunnicntt.
Charleston, S. C.: Geo W, Williams,
k- Trenhoha.
Nasßville, Tenn. ; W. C. Morrill,
President Knoxville & Charleston Bail
road,
Greenwood, S. C.: Dr. M. C. Taggart,
P- Boozer, Thomas L. Reiley,
G. M. Jordan, J. N. Bendy, T. Shep
pard. Thomas M. Dendy, C. A C, Wal
ler, Gen. P. H. Bradley, Captain B. W.
Light, B. Reynolds.
Edgefield Conuty ; Major W. L.
Parks, Catlett Corley, Z. Harris.
Anderson County, S. C.: Hon. J.
Scott, Murray, Major W. W. Hum
phreys, Hon. E. M. Rucker.
Seneca City, S. 0.: Hon. J. H. Liv*
lufesttfn, Slocum.
Walhalla, S. O.: Col. R. A. Thomp
son, Hon. D. Bieman.
On motion, the report of the commit
tee was received as information.
The Committee on Permanent Or
ganization, through its Chairman, Mr.
W. T. Wheless, reported as follows:
For President: R. I. Wilson, of Knox
ville, Tenu.
For Vice-Presidents : Prof. C. D.
Smith, of Franklin, W. 0.; Dr. H R.
Casev, of Ga.; Gen. P. H. Bradley, of S.
C.; Robert A. Thompson, of S. C.; W.
C. S'bley, of Ga.
For Secretaries : W. J. Ramaga, of
Knoxville; J. L. Maxwell, of Augusta.
On motiou, the report was received and
adopted.
The Chairman introduced to the con
vention Mr. R. J. Wilson, the permanent
President. Mr. Wilson thanked the
convention for the honor conferred. The
enterprise now in hand was one that had
long been before East Tennessee and
South Carolina. He recollected when
prominent gentlemeu of South Carolina
rode through the mountains to Knox
ville to consult about this very route.
1' rom causes with which they were fa
miliar, the projeot failed then. Since
the war it had been again agitated. By
the invitation of Augusta they had now
met here. Knoxville was almost a unit
upon this question. They were prepared
to make such propositions as would
secure the building of their part of the
road and now they came to ask what
Augusta was williug to do. Thera was
but one route through the gap to Knox
ville, and that route was the natural
way, up the Savannah river. Cincin
nati might be induced to turn from her
present course to Knoxville, and thus
the connection which the people of Au
gusta desired so much might be scoured.
Reference had been made to monopolies
audthedisoriminationin freights against
Augusta. He had boon told that grain
could be carried from the West to Char
leston and brought back to Augusta for
two or three cents a bushel cheaper than
it could be landed directly in Augusta.
If these freight discriminations are to
be continued, how is Augusta to oome
into competition with the country around
her? How much money would the
amount saved in this way by building
this road amount to ? If they would
look into it they would see that it was
the interest upon a very large sum.
Would the merchants of Augusta be
prepared to remain in their present con
dition after this showing ?
Col. Caldwell was palled on to repeat
the substance of a conversation with the
Vice-President (Mr. McGhee) of the
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad.
Col. Caldwell said Mr. MoGhee re
garded this road, personally and offi
cially, favorably. He stated also that so
soon as it became positive that the road
would be built, connection would be
made with the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, thus giving Knoxville direct
communication with Cincinnati. They
had assurances from the merchants of
Louisville that if they would meet them
at the Tennessee line, they would build
from Louisville to that point. The
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad once
built, Augusta would become the great
distributing point for the products of
the West. Competition was the life of
trade. He had learned s|npe hp papie
into Georgia that the road running from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, jjqi|t with the
means of the people of the State,
leased to a company for $115,000 per
month, paid seventy-five thousand dol
lars a mouth to its twenty-three or four
stockholders. The people of Augusta
paid tribute to make up a portion of
this sum. No vit wap in their power to
relieve themsplves from thig burden by
building the Augusta anti Knoxville
Railroad- He had beep oyer Ibe proposed
route, and knew its advantages. None
of the estimates for building this road
exceeded SIO,OOO a mile. He had been
amazed at the great mercantile and man
ufacturing advantages of Augusta, She
had the finest water power iq tfie world.
By buildiug this roafi her importance
would bp greatly enhanced, ft would
open a great country, Why was it that
they sent North for their hoes, their rakes
and their harrows, even for their hoe
handles and axe handles, when they
could be made in Augusta just as well.
If Augusta and Knoxville were willing to
submit to this it might be said that
they were dormant, in a sort of half
live, half dead state. Since he had
been here he did not believe this of Au
gusta. He found her a liver oity than
he thought she was. But she had great
possibilities in the future. She must
take advantage of the great route opened
for her by the God of Nature. In a few
years Augusta foil’d hear the hum pf
machinery op all sieves. H , np f be
ll eye thpt a fiqpr opportunity copld be of
fered to Augusta to promotefier interests.
The first object was to get a trunk
line. He hoped that there would be no
conflict on this subject between the peo
ple on the different sides of the river.
Knoxville was much in the same posi
tion as Augusta, its regard to her rail
roads, She was treated as a sort of way
station. The Georgia Railroad was in
some senses a monopoly;the Western and
Atlantic Railroad was a 1 great monopo
ly. If the proposed rose} was built, this
would' be done away wRh, ills (hey Would
have t£e be no lon
ger dependent; upon Joe Brown’s road,
as they called it in East Tennessee. Mr.
Caldwell’s speech was received with loud
applause.
The President said the Convention
was now ready fer bnsiqegz, and he
hoped propositions wofild come 1 from
this side. 1 '' “• 1,1 ” *'
Mr. Henry Franklin moved that a com
mittee of fifteen on business be appoint
ed. Adop|ecj." ; " u * 4 • f
The Guainnan appointed the following
committee >
Robt. Walton, Eugene F. Verdery, 8.
H. Sibley. Henry Franklin, Jno. M.
Clark, J. W. Gant, C. W. Charlton. W.
D. Lamar, N. L. MeCandless, P. Staub,
W. W. Lawrence, li. N Thompson,
Col. Cannon, fy-ogSn, B.
On motion, the Convention adjourned
until 3, p. m. -
4peruana Session.
The Convention wag called to order at
3, p. m., by the President.
The Committee on Business reported
as follows:
Asa part of the bnsiness of this com
mittee, while we do not intend t map
ont and determine the exact'line of this
Augusta and Knoxville Bailroad, yet we
hold it to be obligatory upon ns to carry
out the great leading idea of a direct
connection between Augusta and Knox
ville. First and foremost, we hold that
Gabon Gap is the great objective point
common to the citizens bf both the
northern and sontheni terminns of this
road ; that the trunk line, fromthis oity
to Walton’s Island, we leave to those
immediately interested; that from this
point the next objective point we hold
to be the connection with the Elberten
Goad, graded, and to b graded, from
or near Thompson Faotory, on Broad
river, to Toeoa City, and from thence
the most practicable and feasible ronte
on to the Gabon Gap.
From Toooa to Clayton 27 miles,
Clayton to North Carolina line. 9 "
From Augusta to Toooa Oity.. 126 “
Total 161 “
From the best information we ean get,
the opinion of the committee is, that
Auguste can, with the assistance of th#
counties of Columbia and Lincoln, com 4
plete the Augusta and Kdexriffe Rail
•
road to Broad river, say within a mile
of Factory.
On iho&idtr, the report of th&coaatut
te< wti rethwA ,
Maj. Joea moved that the report be
M*r. Wilkes, of Anderson, S. 0., mov
ed as a substitute, the fotiowiug ;
Whbbeas, The proposed line of rail
road between Augusta, Ga., and Knoi
yille, Tenn., is divided between differ
ent interests sonth of Babnn Gap, eaoh
interest claiming to be a snitabte trunk
line; and, Wherras, One of the factors
in determining said route ia the amount
of local trade which shgll be tributary to
road;
And further, an additional and impor
tant consideration is the amount of lo
cal subscription ..either State, county or
individual, that may be obtained for the
competing lines; therefore,
Ist. Be it Resolved, That the loca
tion of said trunk line be postponed to
an adjourned meeting to be held at ,
on r _ day of .
2d. That a committee of- be ap-
pointed by the- Chair, whose duty it
shall be to obtain the necessary informa
local support and local subscrip
tion and report the same to the meeting
provided for In first resolution.
Mr. Wheless moved tfcat the substi
tute be laid on the table.
001. Murray asked for permission to
speak upon the matter, whioh was grant
ed. Col. Murray said this enterprise
had occupied the attention of the people
of the Mississippi Valley for forty
years, and he thought it best not to set
tle upop a location for the road now
without considering the merits of the
different routes proposed. The
choice of looation was between the
east of the Savannah river and the
west. Augusta already has the trade
west of the river. If the road is
run east of the river from thirty to
forty thousand bales of cotton, yearly,
will be secured to Augusta which she
has not now. If it is built on the west
side, slip will got only the trade that she
already has and lose that on the east
side.
Maj. Jones, of Elbert, said, believing
that the location of the road as indicat
ed by the committee would be to the
best interest of the people along the
line and to the Augusta aud Knoxville
Railroad, he moved the adoption of the
report. The oost from here to Tocoa
City would be from five to twenty times
less than by any other route. Whenever
the people of Knoxville wonld oome to
Tocoa City and the people of Augusta
will g o to Broad river, the people of Elbert
will present to tho Augusta and Knox
ville Railroad 75 miles of graded road.
Aye! more than that, they would grade
the other twenty-five miles. ([Loud ap
plause.] It was only one hundred and
fifty mifes from Augusta to Rabun Gap.
This was the only proper route. It
would cost less than any other. Au
gusta would lose all the cotton from El
bert if she didn’t build this road. El
bert had been wanting a road for a long
time and she intended to have one some
where. She wonld rather have it to Au
gnsta, but she was determined to have
one.
The substitute was lost and the report
of the committee adopted.
Mr. Wheless moved that Prof. Smith,
of North Carolina, be requested to ad
dress the convention.
Prof. Smith said the feeling of the
people in his section was all right.
They were all in favor of the road. They
had a magnificent mountain country
and without this road its treasures must
remain buried. A public meeting a few
days ago adopted a resolution to meet
the people of Georgia at the Georgia
line with a graded road. That portion
of North Carolina was rich in mineral
resources. He was safe in saying that
six counties would supply at least two
million dollars worth of iron and copper.
That was a pretty guod freight list to
commence with.
Mr. M. J. Verdery moved that Col.
Charlton, of Knoxville, be called upon
to give his views.
Qol. Charlton said he felt very highly
oomplimeuted by the call. He would
only say a few words. He had had the
opportunity for several months of feel
ing tho pnlse of this beautiful oity of
Augusta. He reoolleoted a year ago
that they held a convention in the city
of Charleston, whose people they all
loved. He meant to oast no reflections
upon Charleston and her people, but it
was Well known that they did not meet
with success. Socially they were
treated all right, but little was done for
the railroad. When they wept home
they decided to hold the next conven
tion in Augusta. He wrote to Augusta
about the matter, and received an invi
tation, numerously sigued, for the
convention to meet in Augusta.
Prominent business men of Augusta
took the W° r k ’ll hand with a vim, and
secured the passage of a charter for the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. The
Tennessee delegates came hore pledged
heart and sopl to (he people of Augusta
and tfie section along the river for the
completion of the trunk line. South
Carolina had her opportunity, and she
lost it. He thought the pathway before
them was clear. He saw nothing in the
way qf linking together Knoxville and
Augusta. They were going home in the
very best possible humor. They were go
ing back to tell their people that Augusta
was all right, and would do her duty. He
would say to the people of Augusta that
the people of Marysyille and Knox
ville intended to show their faith by
their works- In lesa than ninety days,
if tfie people of Augusta and North
Carolina gave substantial evidence of
what they intended to do, they would
have their portion of the road under
control.
General Bradley offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted :
Resolved, Ist. That the rafir ad here
tofore known as (he Greenwood and Au
gusta Raifroaa shall be incorporated
into and become a branch of the Augusta,
Knoxville and Greenwood Railroad.
Resolved, 2d. That all moneys hereto
fore paid on the stock of the Greenwood
and Augukta Railroad shall h e acknow
ledged a@ ap rnpoh stock paid into the
Augusta, Knoxville gnd Greenwood Rail
road Company.
Mesulved, 3d. That a business com
mittee, to consist of fifteen members,
shall be appointed by the President of
the Augusta, Knoxville and Greenwood
Railroad, whose duty it shall be to can
vass the entire line running though the
State of South Carolina, Horn Walton’s
Island, in tfie Savannah river, to Green
wood, the upper terminus of the old
road.
Resolved, 4th. That a commisgiqu, to
consist of fif^/ *F*s"be ap
to the pireß(detit<if the Augusta,
B o*nle and Greenwood Railroad, with
full authority to secure the right of way
by deed and title from parlies through
whose land said road will run.
Resolved, s th. That a oommiLL v e of
three members |£all hy the
Augusta, Knoxville
aufi Greenwood Railroad to examine
carefully the charter of the Gr.-euwood
and Augusta Railroad and see if tin {a is
anything in it that wil} U mcuhipatible
witfc thy tjorrenfidr 6f said charter, with
all its rights and privileges, to the Au
gusta, Knoxville and Greenwood Rail
road, and if so to petition the Legisla
ture of Sonth Carolina to remove opy
such impediments.
R e olved (-fa. all moneys, loans,
Ktef °5 subscribed in the State
°* pouf h Carolipa snail be used in the
construction of that portion oi the road
lying ip onto Slate, and that a committee
of three members shall be appointed by
the President of the Augusta, Knoxville
and Greenwood Railroad to petition the
Legislature of said State for the convict
labor now in the penitentiary of South
Carolina.
Col. Charlton moved thy. appointment
of an Executive tfoffimittee of five to
deaide upon the time and place of the
next Convention. Adopted.
Mr. Calvin moved that the Chairman
appoint the committee at his leisure.
Adopted.
The the following
Fbanhjmn, N. C. May 6,1877.
To (he President of the Augusta and
Knoxville Railroaand
Dbah Sin—f feel that $ hazard but
little, idj WgthiVQ, in saving to jon, and
through yon, to the Convention over
whieh yon preside, that the people of
this eounty will meet any railroad corpo
ration with a graded road at the Geor
gia line (the locust stake), whenever
they can be met at that point in like
manner.
Begretting sincerely that I e*nnot be
with yon on the 9th last., and wishing
the enterprise great success, I am
Your obedient servant,
W. L. Love,
President G. G. 8. L. B. B.
Prof. Smith said he hoped they would
hear from Augusta.
Mr. W. C. Sibley said, the gentlemen
who were expected to address the con
vention to-day were unavoidably de
tained by a eaae in the Superior Court.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
He Could only say that Augusta was in
earnest. This was uot idle talk bnt it
meant business.
Mt. Wheless said that Angusta wonld
db her part in the enterprise. The peo
ple of Georgia would build the road to
fche North Carolina line and if neeeaaary
they vt' Id penetrate North Carolina
and theN ! expected Tennessee to meet
them. > •
Mayor Carpenter, of Knoxville, offered
the following resolution whioh was
adopted :
Resolved, That the Chairman of this
Convention appoint a committee, com
posed of fifteen, from tbe States of
Georgia, North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Tennessee, whose duty it shall
be to memorialize Congress, in the name
of their respective Btates, in favor of
ea’abliahing A navy yard and station at
Port Royal, S. 0.
Col. Gant, of Knoxville, offered the
following resolutions, whioh were adopt
ed :
Resolved, That the visiting delegates
tender tbwefes to the various railroad
opmpaniea over which they traveled to
Augusta for courtesies.
Resolved, That we also return thanks
to the citizens of Augusta for their
prinoely hospitality and their hearty co
operation in the enterprise that called
us to their beautiful city.
The President said before the Conven
tion adjourned it would be proper to
state that Dr. Morrow, President of the
Charleston and Kuoxville Railroad, was
in the oity, and would have been pres
ent but for sickness. The p oprietors
of that road were willing to join it
with the Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road on favorable terms.
Ou motion, the Convention adjourn
ed.
The following committees were ap
pointed by Mr, Whelees, under General
Bradley's resolution :
Business Committee—W. L. Parks,
L. Middleton, 0. L. Blair, J. P. Black
well, Dr. J. H. Jennings, J. A. Tolbert,
T. 0. Corley, A. B. Kennedy, R. J.
Robiusoo, J. N. Dendy, W. R. Bradley,
L. A. Rucker, J. T. Parks, A. P. Boozer,
T. F. Riley.
Committee on Deeds and Titles—P.
H. Bradley, W. L. Parks, C. A. C. Wal
ler, J. D. Neil, G. W. Nixon.
Committee on Charter—W. R. Blake,
M. C. Butler, A. M. Aiken.
Committee on Petitions—M C. Tag
gart, G. M. Jordan, T. M. Dendy.
LYNCn LAW IN GEOUUIA.
Thu Recent Lynching In Ilurke—The Bcn
tiinent of the Southern Jlumnch A Slcttio
rtwt AliuiHter’s Views—The Chronicle and
Oonatitutionalist Commended.
The following is a letter to the New
York Methodist from Rev. Attious G.
Haygood, D. D.:
A few days ago a cold blooded mur
der was committed in Burke county,
Georgia. A man named William O’Brien,
a quiet and inoffensive peddler, with his
pack on his back, was walking along the
pnblio highway. He was seen by a ne
gro named Wells. The negro’s cupidity
was aroused, and his plans were quiekly
laid and quickly exeouted. He waylaid
his viotim near a lonely swamp and brain
ed bim with an axe, He rifled the paok
and pookets of the dead peddler. Soon
after, with the stupidity that murderers
often show, ho offered the stolen goods
of the murdered man for sale. Finding
himself suspected he fled to escape ar
rest. He was pursued and oaptured.
Ho Confessed His crime and pointed out
the murdered man's body. On Tuesday
night, Marob 20th, Wells was taken out
of the county jail iu the town of Waynes
boro and put to death.
It is now in order for n score or more
of editors iu the Northern section of our
Übion to ask whether the Southern peo
ple approve the kiliing of Wells? It
would be quite as reasonable to ask, Do
Southern people, do Southern Metho
dists, approve the hraining of the ped
dler in the shadows of the lonely
swamp ? Aa reasonable questions have
been asked, and some who have asked
such questions have not seen fit to give
their readers the answers whioh should
have been given. Is it lawful to say
that the inuendoes whioh snob questions
contain, are, to state it somewhat mildly,
getting to be tiresome to us, at least ?
Is it not possible that they are also a
trifle unjust ?
For the nine hundredth time let it be
said, with all possible distinctness,
Southern people—the great overwhelm
ing majority of them—neither approve
the braining of peddlers iu swamps, nor
the lynching of their murderers, be
they black men or white men, in jail
yards or elsewhere. They disapprove
such things. They dates! and abhor
them. Ne doubt Wells approved the
braining of the peddler; no doubt the
bad and lawless men who shot the mur
derer to death approved the lynching.
But the overwhelming majority of ne
groes in Georgia do not approve the
braining of the peddler; the overwhelm
ing majority of them are quiet, inoffen
sive and law-abiding, and the over
whelming majority of the people of
Georgia—white and black—condemn the
lynobing of this eonfessed murderer. To
say otherwise would be a libel of meas
ureless proportions. Its magnitude
would be equaled only by its malignity.
The news of this lynching reached
Augusta—the third largest oily in our
State, and not fftr from Waynesboro
on Wednesday, March 21st, the day
after the dark and bloody deed. On
Thursday morning the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist, the oldest paper in
Georgia, and one of tbe most influ
ential, came out with a column-long
leader, giving an unmistakable edi
torial judgment qq the cgse. R has
been charged by some, who seem anx
ious to, m®k e lqt a case against our
people, that Southern condemnation of
ontrages upon oolored persons if it is
ever uttered, is slow, reluctant, com
pelled. Was the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist prompt ? What did ‘bis
paper, having a larger OUhttlatiuu in
Bnrke counts Any other daily
thin
ly Democratic paper—say t Yon have
not room for the whole artiole; the
following extracts will suffice ;
Vlt may be said that Wells was
guilty of a crime that deserved the
punishment of death—clearly guilty
guilty according to hja uwn eonfeasion.
These things admit. The orime was
the gioiUseA known to the penal laws
of the State, and its commission wjs
attended with circumstances qf \tnuau
ai barbarity. * * * But it was by
the law alojgu h should have been
tried Md hAßdemned 5 by the hands of
the officers of the law alone should he
have suffered."
The editor then refers briefly to the
sad state of things in Georgia for sevsral
years after the war, when, bj ike fearful
abuse of the pardoning power, criminals
by sooresi unwhipped of justice,
and the consequent danger of our entire
social order furnished the onlv pallia
tion of lyueh law that exfat in or
ganized society. The editor continues
his de\iyuteuce'on the case in hand, and
the present status of affairs :
“For the last six years the law has
been faithfully administered in Geor
gia. Judges and juries have not hesi
tated to convict. au<t the Executive has
uniformly paused to disturb their judg
me**, except in, oapes by ex
traordinary ciijcumstanoUM of mitigation.
, The sole jo* lynching has been
,nd be who reaorta to it now
is a murderer—ho more, no less. In
the present case there was not the
shadow of a pretext for the deed. * *
Plain words are best. We tell these
men, and those who may fee\ disposed
to approve their conduct, that lynch lav
shall [sio] cease Georgia. The good
people oi the State are determined that
the law shall be respected, and that its
violated majesty shall be vindicated.
They are resolved that reckless and ir
responsible men shall not ttye
functions of the mete out
iustice as to
mow tyai their own safety, as well as
< the dignity alnd honor of tfcv State, is
endangered by such qu act kp that done
at Waynesbqfti jflup. wW undertake to
punish the guilty J some day assume
to pass judgment upon the innocent
upon those who have in any way in
curred their displeasure. It is time to
cry halt; to proclaim iu a way which
shall be unmistakable, that he who
by the sword shall perish by the
sword; that he who taken W* into
his own hands ’ey. punished by the
law. Our duty ra piain ; the men who
broke the jail in Waynesboro Tues
daybignt, and Bung and shot Wells to
death in the jail yard, mast be arrested
and brought to trial, and the officers pi
the law must spare no efforts te tmie
their conviction. One fiction will
pnt a stop forever lynching in Qeor
gia.”
Tijiese words of the Cbboniou;
, Constitutionalist are as wise and, right
l as they are brave. “Let all the people
say Amen!”
' I have just written my thanks to the
Chboniobx ani?. Constitution AIJBT,
Oxford, Ga., March 22, 1877.
. THE STATE.
THE PEbPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Union Point has a tin shop.
Crawfordville has no fresh meat.
Newton oonnty is SB,OOO in debt.
Macon sells ice at one cent per pound.
The Meriwether brass band has armed!
Stone Mountain builds anew acade
my.
West Point has sold over 1,200 tons of
guano.
The flies are injuring wheat in Newton
oonnty.
The temperanoe paper will hail from
Acworth.
The Sparta Amateur Band is rapidly
improving. J
Walker county is shaking up her agri
cultural elnb.
The Baptists of Lexington are raising
anew steeple.
The Oartersville farmers affirm that
fertilizers “do pay.”
The flame matrimonial is about to
flare up in Columbus.
A young .cyclone last week passed
through Terrell county.
The late trost injured cotton to some
extent in Newton county.
Miss Fannie Hunter, of Millodgeville,
clicks the wires at Sparta.
.. The question is, has Gen. Gordon’s
standing been impaired ?
i'!l I<3g £-& ibs ?, n is Praising this week
at the Wilkes County Court.
Work is now progressing on the chapel
of LaGrange Female College.
The cotton stalk and new gin mill are
peeping above the Oglethorpe sod.
Gen. Toombs has been invited to en
lighten Columbus upon the Con-Con
Gen. L. Martin Johnson, near Craw
ford, reports a field of oats in full head.
The “Queen of the May” continues to
ft PP'y glyoerine to her frost bitten lips.
.Over ten thousand gallons of syrup
will be made in Newton county this year
The Gazette, of Elberton, asks if Gen!
Colquitt is sound on the bond question?
Twenty-five thousand gallons of sorg
hum will be made iu Butts county this
year.
The Troup county farmer is advised
to sow German millet and drink sassa
fras tea.
Lexington has more Hue clover patches
and more poor cows than any town in
the State.
The weeklies don’t like the maunor iu
which the Governor distributes his proc
lamations.
The Cummiug Clarion wo understand
is to be emerged into the Zealous
Christian.
The babble of many mineral waters
and the roar of the June bug are heard
in the land.
Far-seeing farmers in Terrell county
are ploughing up their ootton and plant
ing more corn.
A casual glance at Griffin journalism
is almost equal to a ten cents jaunt on
the flying horses.
Elberton has a negro man who hasn’t
been wide awake two hours at a time in
twenty-five years.
The storm last Friday night blew the
new residenoe of Judge MoOalla off its
pillars in Conyers.
Eugene Speer, Esq., has sold out. the
Griffiu News to 001, J. D. Alexander,
his former partner.
Judge Wright, of Rome, has con
sented to be a oaudidate for the Consti
tutional Convention.
Middleton Cowan, Esq., of Jackson
county, and one of its first settlers,
died last Wednesday.
A Newton county man last week tied
a note aronnd a buzzard’s neok and
turned the bird loose.
The Echo learns that Dr. Foster, of
Augusta, speaks of returning to LexiDg
ton and settling there.
Salted dough cost a Wilkes county
lady one hundred and seventy-five young
chickens the other day.
An extra session of the Superior
Court of Clarke oouuty commences the
3d Monday in this month.
The Eagle advocates the organization
in Gainesville of the “Northeast Georgia
Agricultural and Stock Association.”
The odor of the sweet shrub and the
fragrance of the Spring onion linger and
mingle around the Lexington maiden.
Ex-Governor Smith has returned to
Atlanta from the Hot Springs. Ex-Gov
Brown has recently departed for that,
place.
The Louisville News has this awful
aocident: Martin ; . Bird was killed iu
a branch near Wadley tho other day by
a hawk.
Nq respectable criminal will remain
for any length of time in Jefferson county
jail when breaking out is as easy as at
present.
Two brothers, living with Mr. Eisha
Ayoook, in Cuthbert, got into a difficul
ty, in which one was stabbed eleven
times with a knife.
The Memorial oration of Prof. John
T. Graves, delivered at LaGrange, is
one of the most beautiful and appro
priate we have ever read.
The Gainesville Eagle hears a rumor
that the Air Line Bailway Company has
bought the road running from Athens to
Lula, on the former line.
Parham Mabry, of LaGrange, ent into
the femorei artery of his leg the other
day and oame near bleeding to death be
fore the flow could be stopped.
The Elberton Gazette dons its Spring
garments, and chirps as cheerfully as a
cricket, this week. We could ill-afford
to do without the Gazette upon our
hearthstone*
A Houston county husband no more
larrups his squaw with impunity. A
sojourn in jail now invariably follows
This is calculated, we fear, to break
down family lines.
Ihe News and Earmer man, whoso
aversion to the “half shell” in every
shape is known, declines to acoept baif
fare tickets to tho press convention. He.
prefers to shell out both ways.
Tho ‘‘‘headline man,” of Atlanta, has
urea another chunk of pleasantry into
the susceptible pauuch of the Macon
P a P er i ar >(l the usual apologies follow.
The Atlanta Constitution, we learn,
has employed an “apologizing editor” to
cover up the traces of the gushing head
fine man and imaginative interviewer.
Numerous and intricate are the elements
<4 modern journalism.
THE CONTENTION' QUESTION.
.Speech ofJuAs* Wm. iU. Reeee.nt 'Vlioinnoii
[McDuffie Journal K \
First reviewing the history of the
present Constitution, the speaker made
clear the fact that a Convention should
be oalled though it did not change the
present law by the crossing of a t. or the
dotting of an i; simply because it was
forced upon us arbitrarily by Congrese
and military power. Then he took up
his objections to the Constitution, the
same whieh have already appeared in
our eolnmns,and discussed them exhaus
tively. The homestead, as it stands,
the abuse of State aid, the mass of lo
cal legislation, the recklessness of mu
nicipal corporations, all met his criti
cisms and the rounds of applause ex
pressed the approbation of bis hearers.
When asked his opinion about remov
ing the capital he said that to him the.
matter was indifferent and that a lobby
would fallow the Legislature even to
| the Okefenokee Swamp. He alluded to
the extravagance of the Legislature,
spoke of how twenty-five hundred dol
lars per day was spent week after week
in passing local bills which were merest
trash, Even granting that the Couven
venUou would cost a hundred thousand
! dollars, he said that this amount would
I be saved by the first assembly which
met under the new Constitution. The
homestead he waijUd was one which
would be permanently for the benefit of
the wife and children. The one we have
now is 1 iffi large and was in fact a nul
lity, since it went back to the creditors
\o the marriage ol a widow, or the ma
jority oi the minors, and above all be-
CVjm it could be waived by the hus
. baud- Toward the close of his address.
| Judge Geese alluded to the late cam
paign and to the success of the princi
ple that the military should W in obey
ance to the civil power. Tilden and Be~
form had been our slogan; we bad lost
a chieftain yet gained a victory. And
raising his voice ’till it rang through the
entire, budding, he said that while teat
principle for which we contended was
ruling the land he had rather be Tilden
in York than Hayes in. the Presi
dential chair. Cheer aft#* cheer greet
ed the sentiment and the floor trembled
under the heavy rod of applause.
A theatre aotor of considerable promi
ses writes to the Jtfew York World
i that “the stage is very prompt to hear
the cry of suffering.” Yes, that’s so ;if
you want to stop the stage, just raise
the e*y of whoa. Then the driver will
doq and ask what ia thunder yon are
raising all, that dashed racket about, and
you want him to oome down and
: punch your participle, participle, par
ticiple tool head.
Orangeburg had a alight fall of hail
last week.