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OLQ SERIES—VOL. ECU
NEW SERIES -lOL. LI.
(Cfjromcle anb Sfnrtnel.
WEDNESDAY, - MAY 80. 1877.
A dbubken correspondent calls them
Boozy- Basbooks.
A Kt. Lorn lawyer, wbo misapplied
trost funds, baa been sent lo tbe peni
tentiary for two years.
Con. Fosses, the newly appointed
Postmaster of Richmond, Va., is a native
of the State and an Old Line Whig.
According to tbe New Eogland papers,
Bculh Carolina darkies are naming their
twiu troys after Hampton and Hat as.
'J he weather man of tbe New York
Herald consoles us with the prediction
that cooler days will be in order soon.
It is reported that tbe Herald and
Times will urge an attack upon Canada,
in oose England goes to war with Rus
sia.
The import of coffee to this country
has decreased, daring tbe past eight
months, 25 per cent. Hard times and
cheap chicory.
Partisans of President MacMahon
represent that be Las made tbe issue
tquarely between Christianity and tbe
iniiJel Revolntion.
Hon. John Bioenow coaid not recog
nize President Hayes by calling upon
hi,ti; but Hon. John Bigelow’* wife at
tend 'hl tbe reception in fall feather.
ClarJ Morris’ husband allows bis
sick wife to play npon the stage to
’’keep her irom fretting and crying all
the time at home.” Hensible man, that.
Zaoh C handler thinks Chant a “b g
er man than old Washington, ” and says
bis civil reputat ion will “go down to
history.” Yes, we believe it will —very
far down.
The Courier-Journal paragrapher ac
counts for the surplus crop of five cent
cigars by citing the fact that 5,000,000
heads of cahhages were ebipped North
ward last season.
The first railroad in Russia was built
in 1838. The present total length of
railway is 20,000 miles, with a capital of
$1,500,000,000. The Government owns
one- half of the stock.
Fred Douglass is advised to go to
Liberia. No “ white trash” can vote or
hold office there, although, if it were not
for the British and American protec
torate, the wi’d natives would gobble
np tbe concern within a week.
ii~i a ■
Dr. Ayer, by cathartic pills and allo
-puiL'ic advertising, made $15,000,000.
He never took one of his own pills; but
he dosed the universe and reaped the
shekels. Wo almost forgot to add that
he is incurably insane.
Russia's theory of corruption is
through the instrumentality of cham
pagne, ccarte and opera bouffe. A pleas
ant way of going to the devil, perhaps;
but it drove Abdul Mejid into bank
ruptcy, Addul Aziz to auicide, and may
drive Abdul Hamid baok to Arabia,
The Northern papers do not think
Stamper county, Miss., an attractive
to go to. We agree with them.
Nrtlt*r is a Molly Maguire or Bender
umfikborhood npecially seduotive to
peaceful people. There are bad loca
tions everywhere, even in godly Massa
chusetts. ____
Ths Ciuoinuati Gazette congratulates
itself that the “ sotiJ Houth” is break
ing up because ox-OiHigtteasman Leach,
of North Carolinu, has sued* anew de
parture. The Gazette predict* that
ex Congressman Leach will knock the
Democratic party of North Carolina into
smithereens." We prediot that tbe Dem
■ ocratio party of North Caroliua will
knock ex Congressman Leach into
■ smithereens.
The Washington correspondent ol
tlhe New Orleans Democrat says that
Gordoh has returned to At
]aD ♦l* wage wa* against ex Governor
BrowY, We don’t knew how true this
statemeul If, but U that we
are abou tto ban' ver y tilae m
this State. The po litic9l P eaoe ° r the I
last four y ears will b*,' broken and the
rather profiane name of tR 8 9on ß known
aa “ Raisiu Hell in Georgy m *y 8 “ oa
be oharaoteiistio of affairs in - 6 *' ia *
pi re State.
Somebody has been rummaging in
statistics and Buds that North Carolina
has a population of 1,070,120 people,
wbo pay $8,500,960 for intoxicating li
quors, $1,000,000 for educational pur
poses and $269,830 for ohui rh enterpri
ses, ministers’ salaries, eto. The entire
crop of ootton averaging 200,000 bales of
400 pouuds each, selling at 19 oeuts per
pound, will not meet the liquo.r bill by
$560,960. The wheat crop will pay but
half the amount, and all the corn, about
18,454,641 bushels, at 60 cents per
'bushel, is only one-third more than is
annually paid out by the people of this
State for spirituous liquors.
We in pleased to learu that Colonel
Charles C. Jones, Jr., of New York, has
moved to Summerville, near this city.
Colonel Jones comes of a well known
family of Southern Georgia, and waa
himself once Mayor of Savannah. He
served with conspicuous gallantry in the
Confederate army during the war be
tween the States, aud after the surren
der weut to New York and became a
member of the law firm of Ward, Jonrs
A Whitehead, tbe senior member of
which was Hon. John E. Ward, form
erly Minister to China. We understand
that Colonel Jones expects to resume
the piaotice of bis profession in this
city. He is an author as well as a law
yer, and one of his books, especially
“ The Antiquities of the Southern In
dians,” has made him a reputation in
Europe as well as in America. We con- 1
gratnlate Augusta upon its acquisition.
Tax New Orleans Picayune says the South
- proposes to quit politics—except so far aa ts
necessary to maintain good gorernataat-and
go to work, the people are much mote anx
ious about material questions than abstract
political ones." This is one of the best signs
yet If the South would intelligently act on
this idea, it weuld speedily make hopeful pro
grees. Detroit Tribune, Hep.
If the Now Orleans Picayune had not j
been too busily employed in the con-j
•traction of poor pans and wishy-washy '
leaders to be familiar with home affairs •
\H would not have published so silly a 1
sentence. The Southern people have
worked bravely, energetically and suc
cessfully since the surrender, and it ie a
libel upon their manhood to say that
<jhey have aot. Stripped by the war of
<gVi-rything they owned in the world,
it hey .indulged in no vain repinings, no
Unmaif regrets, but weut heroically to
work to retrieve their fortunes. The
’beat blood in tbe South has sought tbe
tmoet menial service, and performed it
cheerfully and welt. We have no doubt
ijhat Northern Republicans would like
tie to abandon politics to the noqpm
ijjliaked carpet-baggers and the cultured
■megcoas. Bat we dour'2 intend to do
uy ttuug at the sort. We ean vote as
■welt as work, and we propose to do
both. kooa
THE WAYNEnBOEO LYNCHES*.
We are glad to know Hist Mr. HaISW
Ditcher, tbe Solicitor-General of
Augusta Cirouit, is doing everything ii
his power to bring to jastiee the we t
who in violation of the laws of Go
and Man entered tbe jail at Wayneebor >
and lynched the murderer of the peddler
O’Brirn. There was absolutely do eX
onse for this crime, it was not done in
the heat of passion by the friends of
the murdered man; there waa an inter
val of days between the arrest of the
accused and tbe lynching, and tbe prii -
oner wga confined in a jail twenty-Asp
miiertrom the city. There was no m -
min to believs that be woald
punishment; the time for bolding tb >
Saperior Court of the oonnty was ek* i
at band and conviction and exeontjio i
-were certain to follow trial. Tbs mm i
'who went down from thiaeity to Waynes
boro and did that negro to death com
mitted a wanton and a brntal mur
der. Not satisfied with shooting Red
t aging the object of tbaig^fSbfv
BJ mvuxrm My V>to* It/SiiFw'^TnS
ears and carried it away as a
trophy of their barbarons deed. It is
mortifying to recapitulate these shock
ing facts—bnt that they are facts can
not he denied. The men wbo thus took
the law into their own hands do not
seem to have attempted to conceal their
crime. Days before the lynching took
place it was commonly reported that ths
negro was to be lynched. The lynohers
went to Waynesboro without any dis
guise, remained in the town several
boars, executed their purpose and re
turned upon the train. They then bad
tbe hardihood to send oat a committee
to raise money from the citizens with
which to pay their expenses. It is true
that these men did no more than what
they bad seen done before in Augusts.
To the shame of our city be it said that
on two occasions has the jail of (he oily
been broken open and men in tLe
custody of tbe law been murderously
put to death. No attempt was made on
either occasion to punish the guilty
parties—grand juries refused even to
find bills against them. It is small
wonder, then, that men should think
lynching no murder, and tbe Waynesboro
tragedy was tbe legitimate offspring of
previous lawlessness that had gone un
punished and nncondemned. This is the
only mitigating circumstance of the
crime—this the only thing that should
recommend the criminals to the mercy
of tbe law. In attempting to ferret
out and punish the parties the
Solicitor- General is doing his dnty
and in doing it he will be sustained and
applauded by all good citizens.. Mr.
Dutches has shown himself an able and
a fearless official, and the example he
has set will be productive of good all
over the State.
But while we fully endorse the Solici
tor General’s determination to enforce
tbe law againat lynchers, and while we
believe that all true men will commend
his attempt to put a stop to mob mur
der, we regret that be has pursued a
course which has produced great exoite
ment in tbe community, and which
seems now—we say it in all kindness—
to have been wholly unnecessary. So
far as we can learn thd facts of the case,
it seems that, without placing auy war
rants in the hands of the Sheriff, tbe
highest civil executive officer of the
county, and without requesting the
Sheriff to make an arrest, the Solicitor-
General called npon a military company
tor assistance. The company, of oourae,
would have necessarily been placed un
der the command of the Sheriff, but
Captain Clark was called upon without
the knowledge of the Sheriff, and before
it had been shown that the services of
the military were needed. If we under
stand our law aright, the Sheriff is the
ohief executive officer of the county. If
he is given criminal prooess to serve,
issuing from the proper anthority, and
the parties against whom it is directed
successfully resist arrest, then he may
aurnmou a posse of citizens to his assist
ance. If the Law breakera are too strong
to be taken in this jvay, then he
may demand tbe assistance of the mili
tary—aud not before. In this instanoe
the Sheriff says that he was not given
any warrants to serve; If be bad had
them he believes they could have been
executed without extraneous assistance;
; and he did not desire the support of the
military. The Governor, too, seems to
have taken a false view of his dnty in the
prefeiafti and to have suggested the em
ployment of foroe instead of
waiting until ths fctoerqjf asjied for snoh
unusual assistance. Ths letters pf Gov
ernor Colquitt to Sheriff Sisley and
Oapt. Clark seem to pre suppose such
a of affairs in Richmond coun
ty that .^ le c ‘vil authorities cannot exe
cute the ph.' cesß 01 the Ooart aad tbat
military force fcO <3B bri “K offenders
into the custody ol i>je The peo
ple of this county are ** i*j-abiding as
those of any other aectK'** Pf th#
and we have yet to learn of a cftFe i
where the civil authorities have been
cessfully defied. By all means let the
Waynesboro lynchers be brought to jus
tice, but do not let ths military be call
ed in until it has been shown that their
presence is absolutely necessary.
OOUiBAI. TOOMBS AND STATE HOY
EBKJUNTY.
General Toombj is sometimes oalled
an “knpraetieable.” Possibly he may
be in * mie thing*. But impracticable
or not, he is a mqn of brains and a lover
of his GUte. When the Soath was
passing through tbe ordeal of recon
struction (?) tie denounced it aa a farce
and a usurpation-; sod though to-day he
may be eoneideied sm extremist for
speaking hia mind plainly in regard to
its results, he is at least logical atU con
sistent. When Georgia’s obligations
were threatened with financial ostracism
by the New York Exchange, because
bar people refused to aeknowiedge
fraudulent bonds lßsned by an alien and
a usurper of the offioe of her Chief Mag
istrate, General Toombs, by the loan of
hia private funds, and through his in
fluence with other wealthy citizens, res
cued the State from mortification and
embarrassment. Onq of General Toombs’
latest expressions of opinion npon pub
tic questions is hia letter on the subject
of a Constitutional Convention. As
might have been expected from a man
of hia pronounced sentiments in regard
to home rale and home-made laws, he
is a etrong advocate of a Con
vention and of anew Constitution.
In the letter referred to he makes sev
eral wholesome suggestions for the con
sideration of those to whom will be en
trusted the responsible duty of providing
anew organic law for the State of Geor
gia With characteristic directness, he
mjs, among other things, that the Con
vention Bhonld reaffirm the doctrine of
State sovereignty. Doubtless some who
read this declaration, said, without
mnoh redaction, "The idea is imprac
ticable,” “it is premature,” or “it could
do no good, and might do harm.” Bnt
we oak why shouldn't it be doae ? And
wby ia not note a proper time to pro
claim that Georgia is a sovereign State,
and her people free to govern them
selves as they see fit, without outside
interference, so long gs ehe acts within
tbe bounds of her nndeiegated power
and authority ?
Such is the doctrine proclaimed at
tbe poUs by tbe voters of the United
States when they elected Tlldbn to the
Presidency. And though we have been
tabbed f the trails of oar victory by
fraud, tbe masse* of the people have un
mistakably pronounced for local self
government and State sovereignty.
Even the Republican party, in ita
efforts to preserve its pewer, defied all
its post betlum record and precedents,
aad with a refined regard tor the re
newed rights of Louisiana, refused to
expose and undo tbe villainies of her
Betnrning Board. Snoh being the politi
cal situation we see no reason why
Georgia, in her Convention soon to as
■enable, should not reassert her unde
niable right to govern her internal affairs
without let or hindrance f.om Washing
ton. In other words, that in all re
aped*, save' wherein she has, by her
own act, delegated her anthority she is
■ sovereign State. Does any one say
that this would be an empty claim—a
Bounding sentiment without reality or
■nbatance ? We answer that the logic
of events is daily vindicating the South
in her steadfast championship, through
/rood and evil report, of this cherished
doctrine of the fathers of the Republic.
And the time is not distant when all of
her enemies will be forced (as many of
them are already being forced) to ac
knowledge by their ads, if not in words,
the folly of their attempt to destroy
this vital principle of American Con
stitutional Government. Then let Geor
gia, aa ahe was the first of the Southern
sisterhood of States to throw off the de
grading yoke of Radicalism, be also the
first to declare once more authoritatively
her uofalteriog devotion to the time
honored doctrine of State sovereignty.
Let tbe delegates to the Convention take
up the note of General Toombs, and let
it go sounding throughout the land that
Georgia has in reality as well as in name
resumed her place in the Union; and
that she feels herself the peer of the
brightest star in all the galaxy.
THE CONVENTION QUESTION.
Hod. Wm. M. Reese, c.f Wilkes,
will address the aitizeos of Columbia
oouuty upon tho subject of tho Consti
tutional ConventioD, on the first Tues
day in Juue, tbe sth day of the month,
at Appling. A valued correspondent
and friend wbo sends us this announce
ment inquires why the press of Georgia
is so silent upon the matter. We can
answer for ourselves. The Chroniolb
and Constitutionalist has never let the
question flag; but, in season and out of
season, urged it in all shapes and by
every method known to tbe profession.
If the people of this section of the State
are apathetic, the fault is with them and
not with us. Perhaps if men like our
correspondent would aid the press a lit
tle more, by personal influence and mag
netism, the masses would be roused
from their lethargy. Possibly there is
not much excitement because the calling
of the Convention is looked upon as a
foregone conclusion.
A FEW PLAIN WO It US).
There seems to be a mistaken notion
in the minds of some otherwise well in
formed people as to the exact nature and
mission of journalism. It is a popular
fallacy to suppose that publishing a
newspaper is, in any way, different from
auy other legitimate business. A news
paper is not a public institution, but a
purely private enterprise. It is usually
printed solely and entirely for the bene
fit of its owners. This may be a selfish
and perhaps a sordid view of the ques
tion, but it is nevertheless the true aud
honest one. This obvious fact is too
often overlooked by individuals seeking
the use of its columus for special pur
poses. It is a matter of almost daily
occurrence for a publisher to be solicited
to print gratuitously certain articles not
bearing upon public issuoß, but simply
advocating private or corporate inter
ests. This is frequently done on the
specious plea that supposed industries
or municipal interests may be ultimately
benefltted by the publication, when in
reality no effort would be made to seoure
the result if personal interests were not
at the foundation of the transaction. We
are now speaking of covert advertise
ments, articles written as interesting
reading matter, ljuf shrewdly intended
to put money ju tjje parses of the in
dividuals or corporations seeding their
publicity. This, of course, does not
oover great and grave questions of pub
lio policy, whioh every honest and inde
pendent journalist will fearlessly dis
cuss without considering who may be
pleased or offended, or wh-t effect his
course may have upon the question of
patronage. The point we desire to make
is tbaf t)jp same rules which apply to
general business sboyjhj be invariably
extended to newspapers. Ths advertising
columns of a newspaper are exactly like
the wares upon a shop-keeper’s shelves,
aud it is from their proper and legiti
mate use that the publisher, in connec
tion with the sale of his paper, obtains
revenues which enable him to issue
his jonrwM
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•OMETHIbG rft+CflgA l.
While the sentimentalists
are howling over the death “Judge"
Chisholm, and the papers are essay iT®
to demonstrate the prevalence of South
ern barbarism, oep/aaiglly in Mississippi,
there are not wanting, qfdfi in the
North, influential persoos who use the
press legitimately to show how much
better the Sonth has been since Recon
struction was fairly or unfairly kicked
and cuffed off the political stage. Nau
seous aa the dose is to the disciples of
Tead Stevens, Garrison and Sumnbb,
they have perforce to swallow it. Their
pet theory is a crime figainst nature, a
desperate sham, an RrfiJCgyledged
failure, and, what is worst of all to the.
; cjuuy New England fanatics, it does not
; and it 4jd not pay. It is not pleasant
: for pretention# grjseacres and “reform
ers” to be corfvietod, by Resistible logic
*a4 actual experim' ll *. £re
madman at fools; but ReconstiT ,a UO°
salts hare come back to plague Recon
struction inventus, and the practical
element, even at the North, will no
longer tolerate the ghastly and expensive
humbug.
Wh&t the God and Morality folks par
ticularly hate is tbe fact that their hot
bed of roguery has been broken np and
that an overwhelming majority of Re
publicans, who happen to have some
honesty and good seuse, are glad to be
' rid of each unspeakable scandals and
: such harrowing reproach. Mr. Smallry,
Ia correspondent cf the New York Tri
| butie, contrasts the carpet bag and De
mocratic role, and, in a letter from Mis
sissippi, says that since the overthrow
of the carpet-bag government in 1875
taxation has been greatly reduced and
brought within reasonable limits. Tbe
rate of the State levy is only five mills
on the dollar; nnder the Republican
1 regime it was fourteen mills, and the
valuations, then exoeeaively high, have
been greatly reduced. County taxes
have, on the average, been cot down
folly one-half, and a law has been passed
reetrioting the whole amount of county
j and State tax that can be levied without
i special enactment to fifteen mills on tbe
dollar, a rate which the tax payers in
moot Northern States would think ex
ceedingly low. The Legislature spends
Ipsa than half as much money as it for
merly did. Last year the whole oost of
running the State government, includ
ing the expenses of the charitable inyti
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY’ 30, 1877.
tu lions, was only #518,709, sod for the
current year tbe estimate is $462,750.
After paying the interest On the State
debt and retiring certiflcatea’ of indebt
edness to the amount of $122,504, the
Treasurer bad a surplus st the begin
ning of the present year of $160,944, aad
had about $300,000 or book taxes yet to
come in. Retrenchment ia oonnty ex
penses has folly kept pace with that
in State outlays, and it ia within bounds
to say that the people have been re
lieved of more than one-half of the bur
den of taxation.
When a long-haired Puritan, who is
blind to bis home fsnlts bat bswk-eydd
ia the perception of his neighbor's
laches, ia inclined to ululate over
Chisholm and consign tbe Southern
people en masse to perdition, let him,
we pray, think for a moment how many
rascalities roam anohecked under his
very sanctimonious proboscis, end let
bisi, like a man of affairs and figures,
observe how the “accursed Democracy”
of the South are striving to redeem
both blaok and white people from the
effects of Radical and negro abomina
tions. We oannot prevent Praisb-God-
Barkbones from howling over C hisholm,
bnt, when relieved thereby, let him acan
the facts and figure* presented above
and wipe his weeping eyes.
VOILI MON PLAN.
General Beauregard, during the war
between the States, was a model strate
gist. It waa a treat, indeed, ta hear him
explain how victories oonld be won, and
it ia bat fair to say that, in numerous
instances, had his counsel prevailed, the
Confederate cause would have been
spared ebooks effected by incompetent
generals. It was Beaureo ird’s misfor
tune, or at least he thought so, to be
unappreciated by Mr. Davis, to whom
several plans of operation were submit
ted and treated with neglect. At any
rate, tlie little Creole oommander had
precise and striking military ideas, and
a most happy and dextrous man
ner of conveying them to the
ecientifie or unlearned listener. It ap
pears that tbe all-pervading interviewer
has sought out and. tapped him concern
ing the war in the Old World, with the
subjoined result :
Aa you remark, Turkey offer* magnificent
lines of defense—the Danube and tbe Balkan
mountains. WitU two or three hundred thou
sand Confederate troops, I would guarantee to
hold them against any number of Russians. 1/
I were in command there I would fortify those
lines well, and with my ironclad gunboats I
would prevent the construction of any bridges
across tbe Danube. 1 would send General
Fobesst with 25,000 or 30,000 cavalry ta de
stroy all the depots of supplies, railroad* and
bridges from tbe Danube to middle Russia,
thence to some port of tbe Blaok Sea, where I
would transport bis command to some other
favorable point, Bay in the rear of tbe Russian
forces operating in Asia, south of the Black
Sea. Fobbest would be provided with camels
to transport the light field artillery, baggage
aud light pontoon trains. He would have al
so a full supply of carrier pigeons to keep me
posted as to bis movements. My fleet in the
Black Sea would keep it free of tbe enemy’a
ships. I would destroy their suppliee at Odes
sa and any other porta on the Blaok Sea. In
other words, I would bring starvation to my
assistance. How long do you think Russia
could stand such ad- fensive war '/ Moreover,
I am confident that tbe other powers of Eu
rope wiii never allow Busaia to get any nearer
Constantinople than tbe Balkan mountains, if
aven she gets there. Toila monpUfn dr cant
paigne.
We have no doubt a war against Ras
sia, on the American plan, would be a
vast improvement upon some of tbe
methods now in vogue. According to the
best accounts the Turkish soldier is all
that could be desired, especially when
defending etrong positions. Tbe weak
point of the Ottoman forces is in the
offices, instead of getting ex Con
federate tyoops to r^id 9 or contest
fastnesses, the Sultan should procure
commanders like Beapreqaro aud Fob
best, who could doubtless prevail upon
quite a. number of subalterns to follow
them ia quest of fame if not of fortune.
Iu ease the Louisiana General should
accept such a proffer, aud make tbe
Russian pause at the northern slope of
the Balkans, or drive him headlong from
tbe Danube and across the Prutb, it
would be magnificent to hear him ex
claim, with the voice of Edwin Booth
and the action of Talma, Voila mon
campaigne (
JJU INJN K MONOpnLY.
In the South, more perhaps than else
where, quinine is extensively used, and
justly regarded as the best anti-malari
al yet discovered. An article of such
universal demand should not, aa a gen
eral proposition, be placed beyond the
reaoh of the poorer classes of the peo
ple. And yet, within a twelvemonth,
the price per ounce has advanced from
$4 2Q to $5 Scarcity of the Peru
vian bark and frequency of Houtfi Amer
ican disturbances are given as tbe
oanses of this remarkable rise. The
Baltimore Sun, ever careful and accu
rate, has looked into the mat
ter, and ita deductions and pre
sentations of fact are so valuable
that we reproduce them. It says :
“That there ia a shorter supply at this
tim£ iff £urope wonld seem to be true,
and this fact justices eoije increase of
tb* price there. But tftb scarcity of
bark in ?&urppe appears to be owing in
good part to thef heavy importations
into the United States, so heavy, indeed,
gg pf) repder it doubtful whether the
plea of i*i Jwg not h® Bll
gotten up by speculators tq fet
price of quinine. Instead of there bay
ing been a decline in tbe price of Din*
chona bark, as some assert, our statis
tics of imports show that tbe quantity
has been annually increasing; that in
the past fonr years the imports have
risen from 2,852,841 pound's, in 1872, to
£.380,150 pounds in 1876, the imports in
the lotto* being one million of
ponnds in exeeeg of those gt 7|. It is
suggestive, in this connection, tfegt np 1
to 1870 cinchona bark paid a doty of
twenty per cent., but in that year it was
made and a heavy' dnty placed on
forpigu qutwny, gfypb connection We
see it siai&l tbat ‘all the Amencjgn
ities ie produced by two or three manu
factories in Philadelphia,’ coupled with
the remark, ’why tbe doty on cinchona
bark waa removed and aa almost pro
hibitory duty placed on foreign quinine 1
will, with this explanation, appear ob
vious.’ ”
“The effect of this impolitic measure
has been to exolude foreign quinine
from the markets of the United States
so extensively that the importations
which in 1873—before tbe Philadelphia
manufacturers hod gotten a monopoly
of the market—amounted to 122,784
ounces, were redaoed in 1876 to 22,7£6
ounces, and woald have oeased entirely
if it were not that some persons believe
that the foreign qoinine ia snperior to
that made here and more efficacious in
operation. Entertaining this belief they
were willing to pay a higher prise for it
than for the American article, whioh tbe
shrewd monopolists, protected by a
heavy dnty pat at a price jast below
wbat foreign quinine could be imported
at and sold st a profit. All special leg
islation in a particular interest, and ea
pecially when that legislation creates a
monopoly, carries with it a taint of tbe
lobby and suspicion of a job. Whether
it was by unjust influences that a heavy
duty was pat on foreign quinine we do
not undertake to say, bat tbe effect of it
b*s been to deprive tbe United SUtes
pf the revenue before derived from tbe
importation of bark, and algo by reason
of tbe prohibitive dnty of all revenae
bat a mere pittance from tbe importa
tion of quinine. Tbree American firms
have control of tbe drag. Within the
past four yean ten millions of pounds
of oinokona bark in excess of the impor
tations of tbe foar previous years have
entered tbe porta of tbe United States,
and by rudueing tbe Eon peon supply
caused the pries abroad to advance.
The American mannfaoturi r* of qoinine
have thus been able to double the price
to consumer*. Booh legislation as im
poses duties that produce no revenue to
tbe Government, while it mints oat com
petition end make* enormqus profits for
a few nt the expense <i the many,
ia ant only to be profound* deprecated,
bnt should be corrected in an essential
degree whenever tbe tariff ! again oomee
up for revision, or even bus special aot
for tbe purpose if neoeaaafy. Tbe Ma
ryland Medical Associating, at ita re
cent annnal meeting in Mgs city, took
aotion on this subject by (appointing a
eommittee to memoriaiizjgOongre** with
a fi eat to getting tbe Tiiltome'*iax on qui
nine removed.
“The Supervising Surgeon-General of
the United States Marine Hospitals has
also called tbe attention of the medical
officers of that branch [of tbe service to
tbe extraordinary price of the sulphate
of quinine, and suggested a fair trial of
other species of cinchona, but more par
ticularly tbe quinida of oinohonidia and
oinohona sulphates, whioh are much
less costlj. and believed to be equally
efficacious with the sulphate of quinine
or salts of oalisaya bark. Mnoh more
to the purpose wonld be the redaction
of the duty on qoinine, whioh woald
have the doable effect of bringing in
considerable revenne to the Treasury
and reduoiug the price by breaking
down tho existing monopoly and encour
aging competition.”
Jehad is the Turkish fop holy war.
■* m~. -
SEVBNTy-Fiya unhappy couples were
divorced in Boston last week.
Farmers in California are threatened
with ruin because of the promoted
drouth.
It is said that Gambbtta has but one
eye, and is, by extraction, an Italian
Israelite.
The knowing ones say that if Post
master-General Key should resign, his
place would be filled by a Republican.
Mosbt is apparently quite at boQ) e at
the White House. The President has
granted several of his political requests
lately.
Ie nobody pays taxes in Chicago, how
does the maohine contrive to run ? Po
litical economists elsewhere should
study this important subject,
— awn- T-r...
The Duo de Broglie is a grandson of
Madame de Stael. The New York Eve
ning Post describes Aim as the advocate
of a Republican government by a cen
tralized Cabinet.
The accumulated treasures at Mecca
are calculated at $120,000,000. As this
fund is for the defense of Islam, the
Sultan’s display of fb® Prophet’s stan
dard may bring out the sequins.
The President has refused to continue
in the office of Revenue Collector, for
tbe Petersburg (Va.) District, one Rich
ards, a Maine carpet-bagger, who has
had eight years’ term of service.
The New York Times states that the
Saltan prefers foreign officers because
he can not trust bis owu bad crew, and
a military critic writes ; “For more than
a year I b*4 shared the fortunes of a
Turkish army; I had seen the merits of
these poor, patient, stanch, unflinching
troops, g 4 tb® gb.qrteQtb'Bg. 9 of (heir
corrupt and venal officers. I knew—
none better—how the Turkish soldier
has to bear hunger, thirst, privation,
ill-usage, arrears of pay, and bears all
without a murmur. I have seen him
starved and oheated that his Colonel
might gorge, aye, and drink to intoxica
tion of the forbidden liqnor; and I
wondered not (as none who know tbe
nation need wonder) that Russian gold
will work its way to the defeat of a Turk
iah aproy far pyjjtyf fjmj) fU the
steel that bristles over the thronging
columns of tbe Muscovite.”
MINOR TOPI CM.
When Representative Gibson, of Louuiana,
was here a few day* ago he called to see the
President in eompany with Mr. Gayabbe, the
well-known literateur of Louisiana. Mr.
Gayabbe, who ia a Conservative in his political
convictions, was an applicant for the position
of nival ofijeer at Orleans,' and his ap
poiptmept ff% asked of the President by Mr.
Gibson. The President s|id to K'r. GijsOn ip
effect that he had gotten through with tbe
Lonieiana Conservatives, having dons all for
them that he could do consistently, and all
that they had any right to ask. As to the dis
tribution of the offices he mast consider the
olsims of members of his own party in prefer
ence to those of the opposition.— Washington
™ er -
A short time ago a couple of Pints Indians
Kent to % pertain stare on Maine etreet and
flkivhaeed the entire stoek of playing cards
contained fherdin. These-thdy took to their
camp and marked, and then 1 takiag'them back
to the store, and putting on that look of
misery which only an Indian knows how to as
sume, whined out that they were “ beep
proke,” and offered to sell the cards back for
one-fourth of v?h*t they bad paid for them,
fte op tpgse
terms, ap4 were subsequently pnrgbagpd from
th* storekeeper, a peek at * time, by the Sbo
ebone Indian*. Tbe Piute* knew that the
Shoshones purchased tbe oards at this par
ticular store ; and poor Mr. Bhoehone, un
aware of the Pints manipulation of the cards,
purohaeed them and played poker with tbe
wily Plate without * suspicion that all was not
—as Governor Bbadlbt wonld say—” on the
dead squar." The result was that the Pintee
gqp Sfi jhe money the Shoshone§ posse seed,
end not 'tbb&b
gnashing of terib, etokclqtb 404 a*hg§, and
’‘heap hogadi” in the camp of the Shoshone.
-Austin
■ T I ■*
UNDER THE VIOLETS.
BY OUyEB WRNpELL HOLMES.
Her hands are cold; her face is white;
No more her poises come and go;
Bar *s arc shot to life and light;
Fold tha white feature, enow on snow;
Aad lay her where the ri&sfa’blo^,
But not baneath a graven stone,
To plead for tears with alien eyes;
A slender cross of wood alone
Shall say that hare a maiden lie*
In peaoe beneath the peaoefal skies.
And gray old treee of hagest limb,
To ß &t^.Sr^W^f^^S W 4/ Qal^‘,
That drinks the grebnneas from the ground,
And droop their dead leaves off 1 her motthd.
When o’er their booghs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves the robins call,
And, ripening to the Autumn sqn,
TT aoorna aim the cheslnuta fall,
Doubt not that she will heed them all.
For her the morning choir shell sing
IU matins from the branches high
Aati every minstrel voice of Spring
That trilhi beneath the April skv
Shell greet her wjtb ita cry.
When, turning round their dial-track
Eastward the lengthening shadows’pass,
Her little mourner*, clad in black,
The crickets eliding through the grass
Shell pipe for her an evening mass.
At last the rootlet* of the trees
Shall find the prison where the lies
And bear the b- ried dost they seise
In leave* and bloeeoms to the skies.
So may the soul that warmed it rise.
If any, born of kindlier blood,
Should ask, “ What maiden lies below ?"
day on'y this, •* A tender bod,
That tried to Mnesnm in the snow
Lies wittiered where the violets blow.
BLACK AND WHITE.
EX (GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN ON
THE CAROLINA SITUATION.
Strutted by III* Party—Refarma Dafealed
by Near. Ifuruct aad White Corrupt! an
—Kindly Tribute to Hupln.
\ Neio York Herald. \
Reporter: Coming from Sooth Caro
lina after the reoent political straggle,
what is yonr impression concerning the
existing political condition there and its
possibilities? .y -
The Political Situation. *
Governor Chamberlain: Well, Mr. Re
porter, the story is briefly told. The
Democratic party is now in fall posses
sion of the entire government of the
State—legislative, executive and, for the
most part, judicial. Praotioally there is
no effective opposition by the Repub
lican party. The means by whioh this
result has been accomplished is a matter
of history with which the country is
generally familiar. The contest for the
oontrol of the State was bitter and vio
lent. I have heretofore publidy stated
my view of the methods employed by
the Democratic party and sufficiently
emphasise 1 my condemnation of nrarij
of them. It is a fact, however, that now
there is peace trad good order through
out the State, although I do hot think
that this should be to any extent re
garded as a justification of the illegal or
violent measures that were resorted to
for the purpose of obtaining oontrol.
Still, it may be recognised as a fact that
so far in the State at large there have
been no outrages of power or abuse of
the colored people or Republicans gen
erally.
The Oiffliulfy gf Governing Igugranpe.
Reporter ; Among yoqr Gubernato
rial difficulties did you have to encounter
the ignorance whioh is natural to a re
cently enfranchised class, and learn the
fact that intelligent whites would not
accept offioe nnder your administration
because they would naturally be forced
into objectionable company and be
thereby socially ostraoised ?
Governor Chamberlain : Frankly, yes.
I regarded the jgnoranoe and inexpe
rience of tho masses of the republican
party in South Carolina as one of the
inherent snd great difficulties in the
political problem. I was under the
political necessity of making political
appointments to ojjjces from a party
which, as a rjilp, wqsnot able to furnish
competent officers to represent the gov
ernment.
Reporter : Did yon at all times find
in the Legislature of South Carolina,
eyen among the so-called Republicans,
whites as well as negroes, the support to
whioh you considered yourself entitled
as a Republican leader.
Governor Chamberlain : Here was the
greatest of my difficulties. The ma
jority of the Republicans in the Legis
lature wore never heartily in sympathy
with me during any portion of my first
term of office. Nearly all the public
measures io which I took a deep inter
est were passed by minorities of Re
publicans and Democrats, lhe redac
tion of nnd a more economical ex
penditure of public funds were naturally
the leading objeots which I had in view;
and here it is but justice to say that I
met with almost entire opposition with
in the ranks of the Republican party.
I had to expend the greater part of my
strength in resisting what I regarded as
bad legislation, and I bad very little
time of stfepgt'h left to ijevote to the
inauguration of better methods or the
enactment of better laws. Of course
my idea of the way in which a reforma
tion must be brought about was through
the Republican party, beeanso j knew
that a majority of the people of the
State were attached to that party, and
that there was no hope of inducing them
to join any other organization, even for
local State purposes. But the habits of
legislation whioh had grown up between
1868 and 1874 were too strong for me,
and the result was that J was oyeyggme
and my <mt.
A great deal of eyij was .prsfented and
some positive good was none, but only
a small fraotiou of the results wbjph
were within the power of the Republi
can party, had it co operated with me,
was made evident, 1 feel bound to say
that if I had been heartily supported
from 1874 to 1876 the state of feeling 1
which preceded the nomination ot Gen
eral Hampton would not have existed.
In brief, if my administration had been
supported by the whole Republican
party, it woij4 filive uejinved the Dem
ocrats of their grievances and made them
ac-quiesce in the supremacy of the Re
publican party for a long series of years.
A Frank <Ww!<h|, ;
Reporter, Did you hod,during this pp
riod.support or sympathy or the promise
of such from the representative com
mercial or political leaders of South
Oarolina, and were yon in any manner
influenced thereby ?
Governor Ghamberlain: I am glad you
have asked the question. In answer,
most ussuredly I did, and no change of
circumstances in political fortnnes will
ever lead me to deDy or depreciate the
generous and hearty support whioh the
best men of South Carolina and of the
Democratic party pledged pm fv°T? |374
dowp |o tbiT £iiye ,, oj!Hftlf nomination of
Hampton in the Fall of 1876. It was
generous, because they recognized that
my. policy meant the welfare of the
htate, and that so far as this was con
cerned, mere political considerations
had no weight. I doubt if any public
mau was ever more heartily or unselfishly
supported by political opponents tban I
was by the Democrats of South Carolina
during the period to which I refer. Our
subsequent differences occurred from
other oanses than the want of sympathy
between their views and mine npon
questions of practical administration
lyithip ttffl Sfgtg.
as Lawiyer-
Reporter: Now, Governor, let me ask
yon what is the result of your experienoe
after these several years of offioial life as
to the ability of the colored people to
take possession of a government and
legislate in their own way ?
Governor Chamberlain: I think the
colored people are just as competent to
legi late and conduct a government as
any other people who have had #f) little
education and experience, They only
want brains. It id idle to expect, nnder
any circumstances, a good government
without a large preponderance of intelli
gence. The strength of every commu
nity in the Union is measured by this
fact. While, therefore, Ido not refleot
on the colored race in saying (bat they
were badly prepared for (he task tpey
assumed, J wiHw'ntend ; fbM successful
self-government, under the law of uni
versal suffrage, requires eduoation, in
tellectual training and a large amount of
accumulated political experience—in
short, an understanding of the dntiea of
citizenship. Concerning the intentions
of the masses of tbe colored people of
Sonth Carolina, I think they are honest.
Their misfortune has been that they
were not able to anticipate or follow the
effects of measures that were enacted by
their representatives until tkfte meas
ures bid taken: rqdf awd wrought their
evil results. And then they were toe
ready to be led by designing and un
principled men, who became, by force
of Superior opportunities, their lead
ers. ”nen I /ay thiß, I desire
particularly to add that I do not cast
mute blame, gapp
the while lekders ot the Republiban
party in Booth Oatolida, UpoftJbfl
whole, I think my own lade has 4a much
to answer for any connection with bad
leadership in that State as the ooloyed
rasd, Tbe vaaou is the same. Rad lead
ers and ignorant followers could not
work out the problem of good govern
ment. This has been the great obatftcU
and hinderanoe to the success of the Re
publican party in the Southern States,
and it may be set down as tbe principal
ottose of our overthrow,
4 fieM WR!■*•
Reporter : In other words, Governor,
the Republican party in Booth Oarolina
has been compelled to carry q dead
weight Of inoompetency, a kind of igno
rant dry rot—negroes, Northern bush
whackers and anybody else intent on
spoils and self-aggrandizement—is that
so ?
Governor Chamberlain : Tea; the
difficulty was that a majority of those
who undertook to lead the Republican
party in Sonth Carolina made a profes
sion of politics and lived aooordrnglj.
Now, I don’t think any man is qualified
to lead in political life unless he baa
anch substantial interests in the commu
nity to which he belongs as will pnt him
in complete sympathy with the perma
nent institutions of that community. It
is not always necessary that a man shall
be born on the soil where he Uvea, nor
that he shall be a property holder; but/
in my judgment, it ia neceaaary that be
should have something besides what he
can gain by mere political effort, to the
•nif that ha may possess a spirit of oou
eemtiem and a disposition to do tLe
falfeet and most exact justice, and at
the same time be a safe oountel os a
pnbiio spirited official or oitizeD.
The Presidential Pulley.
Reporter : It is rather a delicate ques
tion to ask yon. Governor, bnt have yon
any objeotion to state your views with
referenoe to the pending Presidential
policy 2
Governor Chamberlain : I oonsider
myself withdrawn from politics in Sonth
Carolina, and from politics generally,
gffSjPtherefore have no objection. Yon
are,Yof coarse, swore that I did not ap-
Sove of the aotion whioh President
ayes took with referenoe to Sonth Car
olina. It was an experiment, and time
alone can vindicate his jadgment. I
think that as a prime result he will find
that the Demooeatio party will derive
all the profit and that the Republicans
in South Carolina at least will remain in
a permanent minority, having little or
no inflnenoe on pnblie affairs in that
fitate. So far os tbe material and finan
oial interests are concerned the Demo
cratic party brings more wffidom, more
experiepoi and more representative
character to the diaohorge of the duties
of the administration, and l oan readily
believe that under these conditions of
Genera) Hampton's administration tile
people will be satisfied. He is or); do
ing what I oonld and •hootsl have done
with the same inflnenoe around me, and
therefore I shall heartily rejoice in his
snocess. It is bat natural for me to
wish that along with material prosperity
might have come whatl regard as politi
cal prosperity, and by that I mean the
perpetuation of the Repnblioan party,
which to me means equal rights and the
protection of the hlfwtyest pitmen in
the enjoyment qf the free and untram
melled exercise of hja poiitlaiil prin
ciples.
I*TTBB FROM ARKANSAS'
Tiie Plenaure of Travel—Wbat One See* fcv
tUe ‘lVav.ide—Teaueeiee—Texas Pacific
fits.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist.]
Little Rook, Akk., May 21.—There
is precious little of melancholy in my
make up—hence it is that no months of
the whole year appear half so delightful
to me for travel us May aßd June. And
there is no seotion of tbe cot! fry übioh
spreads, during the seiuibh, ' a more
gratifying feast for the eyes, or pre
sents so many objeots upon whioh one
may fasten hie thoughts more,profitably
than tbe Northern portions, notably, of
Georgia, Tennessee and the Garolinas.
There ia a song in sephyrj'there is
joy in the laughing sunlight and gliding
shadows; there is a lesson ia the olover
fields, and a promise of a higher degree
of prosperity in the stook range and the
well ordered farms, which, here and
there, greet the passers-by. Politios are
atso great a discount that one never hears
even a passing reference to them. The
war is ended, and tbe people are at work—
working with old time energy and joyfal
hearts. The course they are so eagerly
pursuiug means that they believe Rmt it
is now intljeftiMKei; in njake hew for
tunes. Who will say that this belief,
supported by a willing mind and by ready
hands, cannot accomplish results, too
often classed with impossibilities ?
Tennessee has restored tbe snoient
landmarks to a very encouraging extent.
In improved farm work; m ifiarllaed
educational facilities; in stock raising
and the improvement of stook; in a word,
in all that tends to the most thorongh
recuperation and certain wealth, Ten
nessee is not a whit behind {jCP meet
progressive sisters-
A few days ago, just below Nashville,
I had the pleasure of greeting my old
division and corps commander, General
Frank Cheatham. He looked as fresh
and robust as of old. There was no
offioer in tbe army in whom his men had
more confidence; nor was t^e^
referred t3? 1 *o||. yes,” aajd the
Gene^i: 4 remember ' battal
ion; yon wer g rtie right 'Aha* morn
ing, and at u ovilaok you moved up to
ana into the oedar thicket. That was a
rough plaoe.” There are scores of your
readers, who remember, as if it were
yesterday, tbe exceeding roughness of
that locality. Jaokaon’s (Gen. Jno. K.)
Brigade had a bitter experience there.'
Gen. Cheatham Las beau in
farming slow 'fin,' and the w> rid is using
himwell.
Tennessee is particularly interested,
just now, in the Texas Pacific Railway.
The friends of this grand enterprise are
marshalling their strength, and
solved (p legyg ’dfltaSWd'llft’SftfoMi in the
effort tft secure Government aid to a
work which, it is claimed, will greatly
benefit the Southern seaboard and open
up the fertile regions beyond the Mis
sissippi. Let ns hope that their efforts
mAy,prove successful. It is high time
the South was enjoying what almost
every city of twenty thousand inhabit
ants North, East and West have for
Sears enjoyed directly or indirectly—the
enefits of Government subsidim.
The city, from which I wißeryou, is
improving rapiffljy. * Tentered" Arkansas
a tnigstfJM,"4nC passing "through the
swamps, at various paints, was not
favorably impressed. I expeoted to find
a land which oonld not be deolared to
be fair to look upon. This expectation
was based on representations that bad
fallen under my eyes. I oonfessthatl
was most agreeably disapnoii%A Take
L’Angnille prairie sra % sample ol what
may I itT various parts of the
State. I never saw a stretch of country
of tbe kind more beautiful. At firet
glance, I wondered that any one should
come into the State, leaving a good
home in the older States, I R now.
Why, Artw>B* fa a pew state, praoti
eqUy/po WOgh whq will seek their fortnnes
in this direction, to those who are will
ing to work—work early and late, just
aa i| elsewhere required—Arkansas
offers inducements in rich lands. Bat a
man can make a fortune in grand old
Georgia just as easily. There is no
where on the earth a place where one
ead, by legitimate means, make himself
rich except in the sweat of his face. Ar
kansas is moving forward in tbe educa
tional line. She is feytunate in having
at the head ol the department Hon.
George W. Hill, a native of Laurens
district, S. 0. He is the right man in
the right plaoe. This city has a fine
system ef graded public schools similar
to year own. Mr. Fish is the efficient
superintendent. Immigration continues
Texas ward* ArVeeses gets hdr share.
Everywhere the primes of Georgia are
upon the liprf‘6f the people.' They all
say, Qod bless Her . 1
’ Maßtin V. Calvin.
rrHR constitutional convention.
A Letter from Chief Jaatlea Hiram Warner
, Ob tbe Sahieet.
The' LaGrange Reporter prints the
following letter to tbe editor from Judge
Hirsm Warner, on tbe Convention ques
tion ;
tiggghyiLbW, Ga , May 18, 1877.
D*4Sia-T am in receipt of yonr
letter of the 10th instant, requesting my
views as to the necessity of holding a
Constitutional Convention. The only
sovereign which the people of this State
reoognice is their fundamental 4*
embodied in their
moral power WU lerce oi'its mandates
must neoeaarHy 1 dfcpend upon the free
will and voluntary consent of those who
-a*e Inquired to obey them. The f and*-
mentai law by whioh tbe free of
a sovereign State ate to Hd ibyAf&ed
should wt Mo* adopted
by tijrtrfree Mid Vofanfary Gdusent, but
should also be adapted to thii oondt
tiqnand
“uat are the present condition and
oirenmeteuoes of the people of tbe State?
At the eloee of the war millions pf del
lars of nwjffi invested" in slave
property, oad peen accomulated
by the labor, industry and economy of
several generations, WO* suddenly de
stroyed apd sweat existeuee. That
property sq suddenly destroyed consti
tuted almost the entire capital npon
which Hie credit of the people was
based. After the destruction of their
capital invested in slave property to the
amount of millions of dollars, what did
the people have left ? They bad hPPb
plundered of their §tfic| and filter prop
erty. until fiotfiibg was left but their
worn oat land, and that was very great
ly depreciated in value in consequence
cf the destruction of their other proper
ty. Huoh wes the condition of the peo
ple when the present Constitution of the
State was made for them; and under its
provisions and legislation authorized by
it, the expenses of the State government
were increased from twenty-five to fifty
per cent.; and np to this time the Gen
eral Assembly has not shown any dispo
sition to rednoe them, and lodging the
future bv the past, if win not do so un
der the present Constitution. The ex
penses of a private family should be
regulated according to its means and
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
ability to pay them; the same principle
is applicable to the expenses of the Stale
government in view of the condition of
the people.
The Convention had better be called
now, when the times are hard, thau in
more prosperous times, for the reason
that it wilt be more apt to frame a Con
stitution adapted to tbe condition and
oireamstauces of the people. There are
many amendments aud alterations which,
in my jadgment, ought to be made in
the present Constitution; but as i Jo
not expeot to have everything as I might
wish it to be, am willing to trust the
Convention to frame such a Constitu
tion as, in their wisdom, will promote
the present and future welfare aud pros
perity of the people of the State. To
assume that the Convention will not do
this would be to say that the people of
Georgia are not capable of self-govern
ment. Let the Convention be called,
and let the people see to it that the best
and most experienced men are sent to it.
Very respectfully, yonr obedient ser-
Yank, Hiram Warner.
si .FRANCE.
THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
Same of Ita True linvardue.s Division* of
the French Assembly—ls Itluc.’UaboH Miui
-0 **r*f 4je Situation y-Republlr or Empire.
[Baltimore Sun.)
To the ordinary 01 indifferent observer
of French politios tho present ministe
rial orisis in France, with its apprehen
sion* of a meditated coup d'etat on the
one hand and of threatened revolution
on the other, must have pome with the
suddenness of a plap of thunder out of a
dear gfcy. Ifn the absenoe of any par
liamentary orisis, when the ministry aud
the majority of the legislative body were
still in accord, the President abruptly
compels the resignation of tho ministry
by an expreasion of his, not of tbe popu
lar want of confidence. A bill, whioh
the ministry does not oppose, for the
repeal of tho severe restriotioss upon
the liberty of the press, imposed by the
law of 1875, receives the sanction of a
majority of one of the Chambers. Presi
dent MacMahon, in a personal ipß?i;,
upbraids M. Jules Simon, thft head of
the ministry, with not having cffeotually
opposed the QegiuVe, aeoordiDg to
agreement,* as he says, aud loaves the
minister no alternative but to tender his
resignation, which is promptly followed
by three of his colleagues. In tha fcae
of the popular excitement. or the in
dignation of the ItUhmbiloan party oeca-
tiqs'sitep, and of a formal dec
laration by almost a two-third* vote of
the Chamber that no ministry cau have
tho confidence and support of that body
whioh does not represent tne views of
the majority. President MacMahon
next prooeeds to construot a uerv Cab
inet which is decidedly monarohicftl find
reactionary in its tendencies, and can
only hope for the support of a miuority
ieg'slative body. Not content
with this, the President aeiit, in the ex
ercise of his ft&ustitntional prerogative,
prorogues the Chambers for one month
—that ia suspends their sitting for that
time—with the probability that he will
formally dissolve them and direct anew
election for Deputies by tha people.
Such is the general character of the
orisis which, among a people as exeita
*8 iwTwnoh and so prone to resort
to revolutionary remedies in preference
to waiting for the slower operation of
public opinion manifesting itself through
constitutional U sufficiently
grave, it (guaf he admitted, to excite ap
prehehaion both at home and abroad.
However it may appear to the superfi
cial observer, the careful student of
French politics aDd of the state of par
ties in France will not ba at a loss for
an explanation of this breach between
President MacMahon apid h*§ Ministry.
ScoordiDg to faWVRV- classiffoation
°f WWNO eyer si,uc the velative
•WWW* °f l he seat* occupied by them
m the Rational Assembly suggested a
new Qomtraoi&ture, the conservative,
mouarohioal and olerioal party in France
has Been designated in general terms as
Oftl elements in like manner are
tied as the Left, or the party of (he peft
At the present tijqathq includes
alike tho l egjtiqy.Hts o.r supporters of
the Vipufrt dh Ghawbord, (Henri V.,) the
Grleanista, supporters of the descend
ants of Louis Philippe, and the Imperi
alists, or partisans of tho young Prince
Imperial, son of Napoleon in mid all,
in short, who iq the necessity of
a regal ox imperial Government for
I EtMWO, and regard tha present state of
affairs, the Constitution and the Preßi
deney as merely “provisional.” Path
the Right and Left are subdivided, ac
cording to the viewa more or less pro
nounced of those who belong to them,
into Right Centre and Extreme Right,
and Left Centre and Extreme Left. The
Right Centre and Left Centre, composed
of the more moderate rueruheva Loth
parties, occasionally sufficient
ly near to aaoh, o.tljtek to, he able to act
tofiptyffj iUflto, control the action of the
Together they hold the
balance of politieal power in France.
Marshal MacMahon, who is personally
mueh more of a soldier than a politician,
resembling jo this respect President
Graat, CSiongs to the, of the Right,
<llß own predUeotio.hH being rathar Im
perialist, while, hi?, wile, ho is said to
hass influence with him, is
4 Legitimist and strongly in sympathy
with the Clerical party. All of Marshal
MacMahon’s original Ministers were
taken from the party of the Right.
Lately, when the large gains oij the Re
pnblioans at the oloopofla had given to
the party °4 the Left a majority in the
Gha&bera, and led to the defeat and
resignation of the Ministry of M. Du
fanro, Marshal McMahon had been com
pelled, somewhat agaiDst the grain, to
entrust the administration to M. Simon
and his colleagues, for the most part
belonging to the party of the Left, M,
Simon being, moreover, p rsonally and
especially obnoxious to CHerieals.
As was natural, there VIA® a want of har
mony between tha ohief of the State aud
his lots Ministry from the beginning.
Marshal MacMahon, a thoroughly honest
bnt opiniated and somewhat arbitrary
soldier, never took kindly to M. Siphon
or hia views, and hence, prqbqUy, the
rapture and the Preqjikut’s return to
more congenia' poetical and personal
association, with, tbe Duke de Broglie
and, (be party of the Right. All th;,a,
making due allowance Ipr the (\ia#rence
iu the character of (bp two men, is won
derfulfy suggestive of Grant. Both
1 the Jfrenoh soldier and the Ameri
'oan show tbe same susceptibility
to personal influences and pre
judices, and the same disposition
to prefer the ideas and methods of
the camp and the barrack to those of
civil life. MaoMahon’s letter tq Jj|. Hf
mon is as curt as tbe by a
commander-in chje( ot q syiblMtblß who
baa tailed or ip, the execution
ol (t remaina to be seen how
i France will relish the arbitrary aotion of
the President, and that depends upon
which party really has the sympathy
and support of a majority of the French
people. Is France honestly and at heart
republican, or is she ur i m ,
perialist ? Upon the” answer to that
vhe'wnoie isano hangs, and ac
<*tfdig to our American ideas the only
Way in which that answer can be had
by an appeal to tho people r.t ballot
box. Should the Chambers bo dissolv
ed, and a n?.* election, result in the
triu-nh ol (fießepublican' tpeit, of the
;>nppqrxer3 of lR.' Gambetta and M. Bi
imoq.'H is hardly conceivable that the
Prwidcnt ar the Dnke de Broglie will
atttffipt to carry on the administration,
with a Cabinet constituted in
to the popular will, haying the
support of a ininority. Kven
Preeidsn( Haye? would find, that a diffi
cart uhder(4king, and if President Mac-
Mahon ehbnld oarry hia upruonai and re
actionary (eelingo tq that length the
situation) already grave, would Become
dangerous. A rash step on either side
may make it so at any moment. In the
meantime it is to be hoped that the
French Republicans wiil continue to
display the moderation and confidence
in peaceable and legal ftetnods of re
dress manifested, in tb'yir address to the
country
REFUBI.IUANiH.II IN FRANCE.
LegtthniM* Came liver lo tbe Left—riamoet
ta an the War Path.
Pabis, May 23. —lt is said that a party
of Legitimist Senators, dissatisfied with
tbe Government’s intentions concerbmg
the clerical question, have to
join the Left in refusing to, grant a dis
solution. Marshal has power
to prorogue hut hot to dissolve tbe De
puties, Ydambetia will visit larger pro
vincial towns to superintend the Repub
lican resistance.
Bomb Southern editors oomptain that
the President is not ridding the offices
of that “alien element.”
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AMI THE PAPERS.
Sea coast rice crops are fine.
Labor in Hawkinsville is cheap.
Btunswick is still shipping cotton,
Atlanta has twenty-five soda founts.
The Convention opponent gives it up.
Cotton inEmanueloounty looks finely.
Dahlonega wauts a temperance lodge.
The sky shooters are ferreting out bull
bats.
The people still hold up Gordon’s
hands.
Church 1118 bn ' l<iing u P a new Episcopal
Wheat crops are flattering in Coweta
county.
Governor Colquitt will be iu Savannah
tomorrow.
In Polk county the wheat flv is doing
much damage.
Two panthers are cantering over Wil
kinson county.
Mrs. Amanda Zaohery, of Morgan
county, is dead.
Darien is shipping muoh yellow pine
to foreign ports.
. £ ho l oe butter and fresh eggs abound
in Taylor county.
~ av 4 nna h oame near having another
a flair of honor. ”
Goiitsaml fever are doing much dam
age in Carterville.
The Atlanta batallion is looking
around for a major.
Thomas county is receiving immi
grants from Indiana.
The mosquito and sand fly are buz
zing around Darien.
A Houston oounty planter sold 250
bushels of field peas.
. Clayton county develops much oppo
sition to the Convention.
The bird hunters are still slanehtering
their game in Meriwether .
. Jake Brumby, Esq., of Atlanta, has
beeu admitted to the bar.
Oglethorpe farmers are saving their
bacon by raiainpr sorghum.
Palmetto don’t Hoorn to profit by the
reopening of hw grog shops.
Biahep Gross is now in Columbus.
Where he will remain a week.
J Xouug com around Dahlonega looks
fine, and there is plenty of it.
Coehutta Factory, near Dalton, iu
M "Tray county, has been burned.
lhe Franklin county Register couuts
high ou hue wheat, and fruit crops.
mu 16 Thomasyille fair commences
TtUirsday and will be a fine exhibition.
The Grantville Academy, in Washing
ton county, has beeu destroyed by fire.
A maimed Confederate soldier and
family are in great distress in Columbus.
Thus far received, the total vote for
ratification is 20,376; against ratification.
A disease, quite fatal in its effects, is
prevailing among the oattle of Jackson
county.
Rev, M. J. Cofer is assisting in a very
interesting Y. M. C. A. revival in Dali
lonega.
A negro desperado was last week cap
tured in Jackson county by two Athene
policemen.
Col. J. D. Matthews and W. G. John
son are the Convention nominees from
Oglethorpe.
Southern timber lands will, within a
short time, beoome a bigger bonanza
than gold veins.
Cal. Alfred Shorter has made a dona
tion of $20,000 to the Baptist Female
! College in Rome.
The subject of bee culture is exciting
considerable interest in Southern and
Southwest Georgia.
Rev. Thomas Crymes, editor of the
Tocoa Herald., was “flung” from his
mule the other day.
W. B, Francis, Esq., a worthy farmer
of Washington county, has been selling
hams to Savannah.
The weekly shipments of lumber from
the saw mills in Emanuel county aver
age about 320,000 feet.
Hon. Lucius Newton, of Jasper coun
ty. representative of that county during
the war, died last week.
The corpse of awoman has been found
in Spalding county hanging to a bush in
the Flint river. N o clue,.
An Oglethorpe hut was burned fast
week, bnt the pickaninny accom
paniment escaped its usual roasting.
Muscogee county pulls down the party
bars, makes no nominations, and allowe
any one to run for the Convention.
The Courier says that Rome’s busi
ness and substantial prosperity now look
brighter than at any time in the last five
years.
Oapt. James G. Paine, of Newton
county, will be urged for the position of
Sergeant-at-Arms by a large number of
Congressmen.
Rev. Z. B. Graves aud Miss Ida Ritch,
the beautiful daughter of Capt. Jerry
Ritch, of the AtWas Georgian, were
married last week.
Notwithstanding the prevalence of
“the fly” in wheat, we hear of no com
plaint of its presence in oorn. In a
solid form, at least, this grain is fly proof.
Says the Madison Journal: The re
cent cold weather is said by old farmers
to be the very “making” of the wheat
crop, though the cotton has to “grin
and bear it.”
A colored woman, in Savannah., Sun--
day, hombarded a policeman so ani
matedly with brickbats that it was fear
ed the military would have to be willed
out to arrest her.
Speaking of the Knoxville Road, the
people of Franklin desire to shake hands
again with their Augusta friends, and
renew the intimacy that existed in the.
“batter days of the Republic.”
Covington has had a cyclone.
Gov. Colquitt is in Brunswick.
“A dry May day for a good arop.”'
The press gang convened yesterday.
Cotton chopping is going on finely.
Ex-Gov. Smith speaks in Griffin Sat
urday.
The sap now begins to rise through
the straws.
The wheat crops are very promising
around Lithonia.
The European war has no eflfeet npoa
the rise in mercury.
DeKalb county affirms that her tax
assessments are correct.
The anti-Oonventioniats are ululating
around Spalding county.
htilledgeville has lost Jthree eminent
physicians in six months.
judge Underwood, of Atlanta, wears
his hat while on the bench.
Athens has more Israelites than any
city, of equal size, in the State.
Most of the Georgia magis are betak:
ing themselves to the Hot Springs.
The Athens Guards realized sixty dol
lars from their strawberry festival.
Mr. Louis Kapp, a young German of
Albany, was accidently drowned recent
ly.
The Atlanta Constitution again pro
claims that Wadleyism is growing mcino
tonoua.
The movements of the Georgia belles
just now, are very vacillating and in
tricate.
Colonel N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta,
has returned from, the Hot Springs, Ai
kansas.
The ahinrng braids of the Ooviagtons
maidens are adorned with Irish potato,
blooms.
Mme. Murrelli, formerly of Atfeens,
is eliciting much admiration by her con
certs, in New York.
Han. F. C. Furman and Captain T. F.
Newell are the choice of Baldwin county
for the Convention.
An effort will be made to have a grand
military display in Atlanta soon. A
dozen military companion will be invit
ed.
The Georgiy Grange announces the
association with it of Colonel E. Y.
Clarke as general business and editorial
manager.
A young man in DeKalb county be
ing thrown from his mule became so
entangled in the harness as to, sustain
fatal injuries.
A correspondent of the Atlanta paper
weeps his “pearly plummets” because
the Richmond coupty delegation con
tains no lawyer.
Dr. J. L. Cheney, of Columbus, is in
quite a critical condition on account of
havi'wg been bitten several days ago on
the thumb by a spider.
Mr. Bmith Clayton, of Atlanta, has
beeu invited to make the address at the
commencement of the West Point Fe
male College on the 26th of June.
Milledgeville asserts that her Capitol
bailings were erected for the State in
times when honest and substantial work
was done, and they refuse to decay.
The late Dr. Samuel- G. White, of
Milledgevilv, was surgeon of General
i T\ R. R. Cobb’s Legion during tbe war.
He leaves an insurance policy of SIO,OOO.
' Three of the Crawford rioters recently
' nscaped from the convict camp at the
Fonteuoy Mills, in Greane county, but
one of them was recaptured after being
severely wounded.
Mrs. Anna Hmith, of Rabnn county, ia
104 years old; is the mother of sixteea
children—twelve sons and four daugh
ters; twice the mother of twins; nevex
took a dose of medicine in her fife or re
quited the services of a physician.