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e wccliln Cljronirtr & Constitutionalist. <md MUMS mnmA *> WaH OB llbw .fU n. landii. - * OLO SERIES —VOL. ICII NE® SERIES—¥OI. LI. (Chronicle anb .Sentinel. WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 23, 1877. PAY YOl R SUBSCRIPTION. We request our readers to respond 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.