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®tjje toectilj) €twmde & Cimstthtfumalidt 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 ■ z 7.l’S*-*" •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.