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grnromcle and jSentfnri.
WEDNESDAY, - MAY 30,1877.
Mr. Evarts will uot practice law while
he remains Secretary. Good boy !
A sentence written in Arabic looks
like a Doctor’s prescription struck by
lightning.
Somebody suggests that Pinchback
wonld make a good Whig because he
was once a barber.
The problem in Cincinnati now if,
whether the town owns the Southern
Railroad or the railroad the town.
The champion colored minister of
Kentncky can baptize, by immersion,
105 persons in thirty-five minutes.
The military critic of the Courier-
Journal (Hon. J. Morrissey 1) bids the
Turks and Russians “put np or shut
HP-”
The man who drowns himself willing
ly in the Suez Canal certainly commits
Hoezcide, according to the best authori
ties.
The names of some of the towns nrar
Erzeroum, on newspsper war maps, are
Mush, Chewh, Oumgum, Chynyss, Saw,
Tatoss, Kian, Bars and Cornyank.
Da. T. Heton Robinson, the accred
ited envoy, will soon visit America for
the sale of titles and decorations. A
hereditary Earldom will be offered for
*IO,OOO. The family chateau must be
in Spain.
Mb. Smalley, of the Tribune, writes
that Southern white men are on top,
and mean to stay there. He commends
that determination. What a pity Tri
bune philosophers did not find that ont
years ago.
Protesting against England being
dragged into the Russo-Turkish war,
the Rev. David Macbae said “there
nesmed. to be parties who, for selfish
ends, would maintain the integrity of
bell and snbsidize the devil.”
And now it is said that ex-Congress
mtm Leach, of North Carolina, joins a
new party every week. He resembles
Gen. S:;dtt, who used to, from his loy
alty, take the oath every morning before
breakfast. He took it in a glass darkly.
Chicago is not only mortgaged to the
last stone and brick, but there is serious
danger of the buildings erected since
the great fire tumbling down. Accord
ing to this her growth though as rapid
as Jonah’s gourd is just abont as un
substantial.
The Ukiah (Cal.) Dispatch is edited
by Miss Belle Lynch. She said some
thing exasperating about Mr. F. L. Ca-
RCTnERS, who thereupon invaded the
“sauctissima” and caned the lady. Miss
Lynch will graduate in journalism after
awhile; but what a town'.Ukiah must bo!
Virginia militia companies were order
ed out “to suppress a lion roaming at
large, a fugitive from some menagerie.”
The boast was found and killed. It was
a large “yaller” dog. A stray police
man might have answer* and all purposes,
but that did not happen to be the Vir
ginia stylo.
Just before his death President Har
rison issued au order informing all
office holders to attend strictly to their
duties and let politics alone, under pain
of dismissal. This would be a good
thing to revive, but as President Hahri
mon did uot live mauy days after its pro
mulgation, there may be danger in it,
We read that a municipal election was
held in Vermiliouville, La., last week,
and tho whites divided into two parties,
aim of which put up a ticket composed
entlttelj of whites, and the other one of
whites sod blacks. The white voters
were almost evenly divided, and the
diction wan decided by tho negroes,
v who gave a majority for the straight
eVlAtn ticket.
Tho Capitol building at Albany, New
York, was restricted in cost to 84,000,-
000. It has already absoibed 87,723,-
(395, From present appearances it can
not be completed for less than *10,000,-
000, and because Governor Robinson
objects to farther lavish appropriations
n mob came very near attacking the Leg
islature. Extravagant follies, publio
aud private, havo mads hard times
Larder. _
“It is to be feared that the Democratic
Jackson Association, of Washington,
D. C., has too keen a nose for offices.
Those who hanker after the flesh-pots of
Egypt may fail to reaoh the promised
ilaud.” The Dem. Jack. Ass. crowd, as
Don Piatt appropriately calls them,
constitute a national nuisance, which
should be abated. Let the President
offer a reward for their arrest with proof
'sufficient to send them to an asylum for
(idiots.
Our Atlanta correspondent states that
a sharp correspondence between ex-Gov.
Smith and Gov. Colquitt, relative to
the “big bonanza" fees, is progressing,
and intimates that it will be given to
the public to-morrow morning. Gov. j
Colquitt claims to have paid the twen
ty-five per cent, in accordance with a
contract made by Gov. Smith with the
attorneys, and Gov. Smith denies haring
made auy such contract and has called ■.
for the proof. It is a very pretty quar
rel as it stands. “ God sliaw the right.”
Mr. Tildes said he did not stand up
to his rights before the passage of the
Electoral bill because he was afraid the
Republicans would resist and drench the
laud in blood. Upon (he same principle
a man should not resist a highwayman
for fear of committing murder. If Mr.
Tildvn had displayed proper firmness
aud courage there would not have been
any Electoral swindle and he wonld have
been peaoefally inaugurated Preeident
of the United States. Three years tepee
(the Democrats should select aa their
candidate a man who lira a little more
brain, a little more blood and good
deal more backbone.
The Philadelphia Record has disoov- j
ered the true inwardness of the demon- \
stratioL's for General Grant, He is to ]
be the next Republican candidate for
the Presidency, hoping in that way to
realize his dtearn of a third term. The
speeches made to the ex-President on
bis departure certainly smack in that
•direction. His late Secretary ef the In
terior said: “Whatever criticise he
may receive now, full justice will be (
doue to him three yearJ .hence /” Gen.
Sherman, addressing hints**/ directly to
Grant, said: “If yon want anytiWS in
the gift of yonr country when yon re-(
turn, there are thousands, yes millionS,
who will give it to you for the askiug.”
Ami, most significant of ail, Simon i
G'AMtROS said: “I believe that, when ■
fie returns to us again, he trill be asked j
to take the helm again —when the Ship :
of State is sb*.s to be going to Des
truction !”
“Tins Mayor of Savauoab now in ’
New York for the purpose of conitiripg
with the holders of Savannah bonds
with & view t arranging a “eompro- j
raise.” The Savaaoah officials ray that;
their creditors have been unduly alarm- j
and advise them not to sacrifice their
hoods. -That city, they affirm, has no
intention of repudiation. It may want
a compromise, but at no such figures s 1
25 cents ou the dollar. Coupons are
still received in payment of all taxes due
prior to the Ist of last January, It certain
ly ought to be highly consoling to the
bondholders to be told that they are not
expected to accept a compromise of 25
vents on the dollar, and that coupons
are still received for taxes due prior to
the Ist of last January. Such atate
,xnents ought to be nearly as satisfactory
as having the money in hand; but most
of the unreasonable bondholders, we be
iieve, prefer the money.
A PEN PICTURE OF HON. BEK. HILL, j
A correspondent of the Spungfieid 1
(Mass.) Republican write* from Savan
nah as follows:
1 met Senator Hill, of Georgia, st tb* Pu
laaai House, and it wonld have done the most
ardent friend* of Hie ‘ Seely* movement"
good to have heard the words of praise that
he showered on the late member from the 10th
District. He thought the trustees and friends
of Amherst did a great wrong when they took
the Profeasor ont of Congress, for, said he.
“ench high-toned, clear-headed, fair-minded
men are needed there more than anywhere
else." He added very modestly that it was no
honor to Professor Beelvk to go to Congress,
but it was a duty which he ought not to have
been allowed to lay aside. This from Ben-
Hill, whom General Bctleb last Fall told his
constituents was such a terrible “fire-eater
and demagogue that they mustn't fail to sand
him to Washington, as the only man from the
North who was able to cope with and control
him ! When will we get ndof the misrepresen
tations of politicians ? Certainly not tiH we
get rid of Bctlebum. Senator Hill has al
ways been represented to us as a bold, bad
man; and. when you meet him, you find a cour
teous, dignified gentleman of fifty, with a clear
blue eye, an open, honest, rather scholarly
face, with calmness and sincerity written all
over it. Contrasting him with the member
from the Seventh District, Massachusetts
should be humble and silent.
The people of the North *eem to like
Mr. Hill more than they onoe hated
him. A personal acquaintance with him
has conquered th* prejudice of thou
sands. Mr. Hill is indeed a marvelous
man, and a ten minute* talk with him
would convince the moat skeptical that
hia gifts are of an extraordinary char
acter.
THE RINSO-TUBfO WAS.
The dispatches yesterday
gave very little definite information con
cerning the progress of the great strag
gle between the Russian and Tarkish
armies. One stated that Bu.-aia was
proceeding with the mobilization of her
entire army in order to crash Turkey
by superior strength, but that an at
tempt to cross the Danube would prob
ably be postponed until the middle of
June. This postponement is due as
much to other causes, as to.the process
of mobilization. By reason of the spring
freshets the Danube can rarely be
pontooued until the first of June. When
the rains cease the heat becomes in
tense, and on the south bank of the
river breeds pestilence and death. Op
erations in that quarter have necessarily
to be exceedingly rapid as soon as the hot
weather sets in. In Asia, on the other
side of the Black Bea, the war seems to
have commenced in earnest. The fall of
Ardahan, CDS of the most important of
the Turkish frontier fortresses, has
greatly weakened the Turkish line of
defense, and if Kars and Erzeroum fall
or are flanked the road to Scutari and the
Bosphorus will be open to the Russians.
Each place, however, is a formidable
fortress, anfl, from the configuration of
the country, susceptible of a stout de
fense against a large attacking force by
a comparatively small garrison. It is
reported that the Ottoman General,
Mukhtah Pasha, has been nnable to
hold the mountain passes between Kars
and Erzeroum, and has retreated with
out giving battle. If this be the case
communication between Kars and the
interior has been cut off, but the for
tress has been victualled for a long
siege, and may hold out for manths,
as it has de ne more than once before. —
It hAS in the past few days sustained
two assaults without effect, and at last
aoconnts another was progressing. It
does not seem probable that the fortress
oan be taken except after a long siege
and an obstinate resistance. If the
statement be trae that a portion of the
Russian army has left Kars in its rear
to march on Erzeroum, end that the
Turks have moved on Ardahan, it wonld
seem that the Hood and Shebman move
ment of 1864 is being imitated in Asia
Minor in 1877—with whatreault remains
to be seen. _ t
THE MISSISSIPPI BUTL'IMRY.
11 is asserted that Governor Stone, of Mis
sissippi, Las been looking carefully into the
Kemper county affair, and has decided to “let
it blow ever,” rather than take any steps that
may stir up more angry feeling in that section
or famish material for assaults upon the fair
fame of the State. If tbie statement has not
done groes ir.jusiiiw to Governor Stone ha has
been guilty of a serious errot. Tbs atrocity of
the Kemper oounty affair is so great that the
whole country baß been shocked by it, and no
greater injury eonld be inflicted on Mississippi
than to attempt to bush up so monstrous a
orimo permit its perpetrators go nnwbipt
of Justice.— Cievefflnd Herald.
If Governor Stone attempts to let the
Kemper oounty tragedy “blow over,” if he
neglects to use alfthe means in his power
to bring the guilty parties to trial and
to punishment, he will justly inour the
execration of all civilized aud God fear
ing people. The crime was atrocious
to the last degree—bloody, barba
rous and brutal; punishment should
be speedy, certain end commensurate,
so as human laws can make it com
mensurate, with the enormity of the of
fense. Governor Stone cannot “hnsh it
up” even though he shoal* try to do so.
Until the civil authorities of the State
exhaust all their power in attempting
to bring these ruthless men—whose
murderous hands were not stayed by
either the age or set of their viotims—
to justice,the deed will remain a foul blot
upon the fair fame of Mississippi. To
let these wretches escape will give oolor
to every story that our enemies have
told of the South and prove to the
world that in one Southern State, at least,
the slayers of boys and women have im
munity from punishment. It will cause
the world to say, too, that in one South
ern Democratic State, at least, the an
archy born of Radicalism did not die
with th£ death of Radicalism, bnt was
continued and fostered nnder the role
of wealth and intelligence. We hope
that the Governor and the oihar eiyil
officers of Mississippi will do their duty
in this matter; but there has been so
long a delay that we begin to fear tbe
worst. Indeed, one of the leading pa
pers of iLa State, the Meridian Mercury,
has disgraced iteeif by offering excuses
for the butchery and advising that no
gteps be taken to bring the butcher* bo
justice. We have written this artiole
with regret aai bnt we
feel assured that every jyord of it is
fully justified by the facts. We#© not
aoadepan mob-murder in Georgia and
palliate it in Miraiaaipi. Hew oan a
State hope to prosper, fesjr can a State de
serve to prosper, whence!, a ©onstrous
crime as the Kemper tragedy goes hb
pnnished and uueondemned?
HR. JOHN 1- CONLEY AN# WE N.-
VENTION.
Mr. John L. Conley lives in Atlanta,
and is a member of what is known as the
“ Republican State Central Committee.”
Impressed with tiisgigat importance of
jiie position he holds, and constituting
Lmuj.wt tj;e head of the RepnbuCSß;
party, Mr. (Sottiff baa addressed a let
ter to the (Republican Sr P® o *#* * d '
yising them to vote against (©©Ling a
Constitution** Convention. My. Cat- ■
let's cbj ectioris to a Convention are: that
the present Constitution © Avery good
one for RepubUMW to Kw>ffi&>r;thij
if a Convention is held H W, **•*-
pense of *250,000, adopt a Constitution
which will re-establish the whipping
poet and imprisonment for debt, abolish
the names tea and and education laws, and
make the ;miliary elective; lastly, he
opposes a Convention because if called
the success of the measure triil fro due
to the efforts of the “Bourbon sinmaat
of the Democratic party.” We do not
believe that many Republicans will be
moved by the reasoning born of Mr.
Conley’s ponderous intellect. Mr. Con
ley natoally objeU* to anew ConatitoJ
tion because among the (rasters of the
present instrument were his father, Mr.
Ben/. Conley, Mr. Bufus B. Bullock,
Mr. Footer Blodgett and Mr. J. &
Bryant, whoaajto now denounces so bit
terly. Eliminate this fiat from the
question at issue and we capitally doubt
whether Mr. John L. Conley is con
vinced by his own logic.
There is no danger of any Gonstitntion
being force* upon the people. When
framed the instrument will be sub
mitted to the voters of the States,
Republicans and Democrats, fcf rat
ideation or rejectiojL If it be o#
pressive or objectionable, its a Heaff
can easily be accomplished. It is safe
to say that there are not a hundred peo
ple in the State who favor either the
whipping post or imprisonment for debt.
The snggestion that these things will be
incorporated in the Constitution is a
silly sensation origuated solely for the
purpose of defeating the ConventioiL*
The whipping post was never “e.tab
lished” in this State, and imprisonment
for debt was practically abolished by
tbe Convention of the people whioh as
sembled after the war, in 1865, under
the call of President Johnson. It may
not be amiss to remark here that the
Republican State of Massachusetts is a
good deal behind Democratic Georgia in
this respect, having recently voted down
a proposition to abolish imprisonment
for debt. The right of married woum* to
hold property—the abrogation of whioh
Mr. Conley fears if the Convention meets
—was first granted by the Legislature of
1866 anterior to the formation of a Radi
cal party in Georgia. Instead of break
ing up the free school system of the
State it is much more probable
that the Convention will strive
to promote the cause of education
by increasing its efficiency. Some' of
the strongest friends of the schools have
been nominated as delegates, and will
carefully guard the interests committed
to their keeping- Mr; Conley had not
been informed of the nominations that
have been made throughout the State,
or he would have suppressed his allu
sion to the “Bourbon element of the
Democratic party.” Nine-tenths of the
candidates—and nearly all ths candi
dates have been chosen—are noted for
the liberality of their views. Instead of
abolishing the homestead, the Conven
tion will seek to make it—what it is not
now—permanent and secure. We say
to the Republicans of Georgia that de
signing men in their own and in the
Democratic party are attempting to
dupe and mislead them. The people of
Atlanta, and those whose interests are
identical with the interests of thaticity,
are making desperate efforts to defeat
the calling of a Convention. They can-,
not do this by Demooiatic votes, and
they now seek to accomplish their pur
pose by tbe assistance of Republicans.
The Convention is not called in hostility
to Republicans, white or colored. It is
called in the interest of the whole peo
ple of tbe whole State—white and Mack,
Democrats and Republicans. . It is call
ed to remedy defeots in the organic law
which the experience of nine years have
made patent to all intelligent meD.
Terms of offioe are too long; the patron
age of the Governor is too large; the ex
pense of administering the government
is too great; the safeguards around
State, county and municipal treasuries
are too weak; the power of govern
ment to eontrsot debt and increase taxa
tion is too extensive, and needs limita
tion and restriction ; the homestead
mast be made secure. It is not pro
posed to interfere with the political
rights of any citizen. The Convention
could not abridge any man’s political
privileges if it would, and wonld not if
it could. The question of suffrage and
of oolor has been settled and the settle
ment is universally acquiesced in. The
ooloied man iu Georgia is übder the
law and the Constitution tho equal of
the white man. He is entitled, to the
game protection of his life, his liberty
and his properly. Me is entitled to just
the same rights and privileges. The
new Constitution will be madejor him
just as much as for the white mau. It
will be made to foster the interests and
improve the condition of both races alike.
None bntknavesandmadmen assert that
any attempt will be made to harm the
colored race by means of this Convention,
and colored will men not put much confi
dence in either the one class or the other.
It is apparent that as the matter stands
at present the Convention will be called
by an overwhelming majority. In but
half a dozen counties of the State is
there anything likeffrganized opposition
to the measure. The necessity Tor a
Convention is everywhere recognized.
The character of the delegates nomi
nated show ß the t the body will be
composed of the ablest and best of our
citizens. The enemies of a Convention
are those who fear the removal of the
capital and those who hold offices which
they think they may lose. The opposi
tion resolved into its last analysis is either
Capital or Office. Realizing the
sities of t)ie case. Capital and Offioe are
now making a desperate effort to prevent
the people from framing the organic law
under which they and their children
mast live. These two selfish classes
will work in any way—no matter how
questionable it may bp—tp defeat a
measure wbicb they totok ©enspep
them. The people mpst sec to it. that
their schemes are rendered abortive
when the day of election arrives.
Clara Mp.®®? B hurts herself every
time she falls upon tfep stage when per
forming Camille. An exchange pays :
“ Many parts of her body are black and
blue, from the effects of falls. Her hus
band has begged her net to in j are her
self in this manner, bnt allow herself to
be oaaght iu fhe “”t of falling, feut her
reply was characteristic ; ‘I will do any
thing in the world for you, except
change a line or alter the business of my
profession asd op entering their room
at the Evans House in day
last week, Mr. Harriot found bis wile
busily praotioing the back-fall, striking
with the back of her head upon the floor.
Thi is a feat which bat one man, and
no other woispn has yet
We no longer wonaee that ’her spine is
geriously affected. Bhe yilf break her
aesfc Og feep some day, and
then her faßstoamfi t the last awful,
moment, have tbe apt isf an tip# of paying- j
" Clara, I told you so 1”
Gen. M. O. Butler, of South Caroli
na, does not receive a monopoly of slan
der pud calumny from Northern- men.
Tbe Phiiadelphjf Times records that
Mr. G. R. Messersmith, mtil} yas a bank
cashier at Ohambersborg at the ffinn,
General Jkb Stuart raided upon the
place, has written a letter to the Senator
elect, who was ope qf tjie raiding paity,
which letter is fall oi thp spirit of good
will which the President’s policy has in
spired. Mr. Musersmith says that
long age he jeered that as soon as all
irritating troea of jtfc# war were oblite
rated he wonld writ® BfTLpa;
and tbanjr hup for £>• jkind and gentle
treatment of his family, M
time when Chambersbnrg was in tbe J
hands of the Confederates. ,r ltow,”
•ays Mr. Mbsskbsiuth, “ that President
Hates has released the last of tbe
States from military rale, I deem H a
Citing >A°'or to do se, and to assure
you of
wishes, and to ray to yon now what I
opold not say ‘when last we met,’ that T
would ips gld to see yon at my home,
where a warm and cordial greeting will
always await you.” Ship ia a good kind
of reconciliation, and Mr. Mksseb
sjfiTWp jetfer will doubtless" give Sena
tor Butler a somewhat different charac
ter than to has bad in tile eyas of most
Northern people.
The most original reason given for
the postponement of Congress is the
following squelcher whioh the President
ip supposed to have addressed to Jut
Blains at a sto&pagne lunch : “In
Ootober I will have given peace to the
country and found for Pap* Rosa his
little Charlie.” A member of tbe Para
graphers Association is responsible for
the truth of this.
Mopmis does not altogether
please Boston. Mere are some of her
prouunoiatiuac.* “Respeotnrfnl, ‘•‘Tim
best er friends,” “Look id me, 1 ’ “Mor
children,” "You see it is nort die,” and
tbe like. Perhaps that “back fall” has
injured her front brain and partially
paralyzed her tongue.
OUR ATLANTA BETTER.
-the coiiYjßirTioNOcrjMrioN agi
TATIS®.
tike C'irculaire Dodge—Radfcula Moving—
Pointed Kiting—The l!i Bonanza—Wat er
Question— Summer Visitor*.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Com tihilionalis'.}
Atlanta, May 25 —As the weather
grows warmer, the interest in the Con
stitutional Convention begins to attract
more attention, and one can very readily
see the crowd arrayed against it, and also
ihe solid column of patriotic Georians
who favor if. The "crowd” of Opponents'
may be summed up thus : Ist. Bullock’s
understrappers who made or helped to
make our present Constitution. 24.
Some of the negroes. 3d. A respect
able lot of gentlemen who own’property,
or arc otherwise interested in Atlanta,
anil fear the removal of the Capital if a
Convention is held. 4th. The home
steaders, or those who have availed
themselves of tbe benefits of the home
stead provision of our present Constitn
tion, and who fear a “wipe ont” of all
protection-against debt-laws if a Conven
tion is held. sth. This class, for the
honor of Georgia, I regret to mention.
They call them c elves the “inns,” and
refer to the people— all who are not
holding office—as the “outs,” and say
that the Convention movement is a war
of the “outs” against the “inns !”
The Senatorial District composed of
the counties of Fulton, Cobb aud Clay
ton held a Convention here yesterday
and readily agreed upon a good ticket.
But I hear this morning the mutterings
of dissatisfaction. It is alleged that the
Fulton delegates are all Convention
men, and there is stiong talk of an inde
pendent ticket. The question naturally
arises, why is this thusly ? Cannot L.
J, Gartrell, P. H. Mynatt, John Collier,
N. J. Hammond and Bn Crane be re
lied on in any position ? “0, yes,” it is
said, “they will aoswer very well, but it
is thought some of them are- not entirely
harmonious with the ‘inns,’ and hence
the independent ticket is demanded.”
It is surprising to see the juggling
and working that is going on
here amoDg a certain class. Those
who keep a sharp lookout say that
prominent Democrats and Republi
cans are dashing; to and fro about the
printing offices just now,getting up anti-
Convention literature to be scattered,
secretly, just a few days before the elec
tion. Rumor has it that Capt. John
Conley, a prominent Republican of this
city, has prepared an address to the
“ faithful,” in which the Chairman of
tli£ Executive Committee of the State
is snubbod, and a number of reasons
given, why Republicans should turn out
and vote down the Convention move
ment. This would seem to indicate
that lie is also opposed to any Democrat
getting the amount he received from
Bullock, to wit : 811,000, orsorno other
large sum, for compiling a pamphlet
from the Constitution of 1868. It is
said that Capt. Conley, in his circulars,
hurls a blast against a Convention, be
cause, when it assembles it would be in
dependent—beyond all control -save its
own will and that it might overturn our
present State government, and cost a
quarter of a million of dollars. Why
this anxiety on the part of a Radical
for a Democratic Govercmett? And
why is tbe blast hurled against the
chief of the Radical party in Georgia?
There is nothing wrong about the thing,
as a matter of course; the “inus”
wouldn’t talk to “ Shad” Conley, and
not one of them would recommend him,
it he wanted to be Revenue Collector
here in place of Clark. Bdft still, it is
said, that certain gentlemen, high in
authority, among the “inns,’’have made
the recommendation. So much for the
policy of President Hayes’ conciliation
and the new party, that is said to he
under way. I have also heard that there
is another clrculaire now afloat in this
section gotten up, it is hinted, at the
office of a leading Convention paper,
giving twenty-four reasons why a Con
vention should not be held. If I can
get a copy of the document from some
of the faithful I will send it to you.
Rumor has it that none of the “circu
laires,” so far gotten up against a Con
vention, show where they are published.
Is this not significantly strange ?
The Bonanza Haul.
I understand that Governor Colquitt
and ex-Governor Smith are having a
sharp correspondence over the big fi es
paid Messrs. GarliDgton aud Alston for
collecting (?) tho 8199,000 from the
United States on a Western apd Atlantic
Railroad claim- The cj Governor, it is
said, has on spurs apd is rifling a high
horse. fje indignantly denies tho
charges bYoqght against hi© in regard
tq an alleged contract betweon himself
and tho attorneys ip this Big Rouai sa
case, and olaimea that Governor Col
quitt had written notice to hold
up the money until the meeting
of the Legislature, that that body
might investigate all the f cts>, testi
mony, &e., in relation to the matter,
and make such appropriation as in their
judgment the services of tho gentlemen
interested demanded. If Gov. Smith's
version of flip ©alter is correct, the
temporary howl "that has been raised
against him will finally settle with with
ering effect upon his successor. The
public, however, should suspend their
judgment and vajt patiently for the
fact?. Jt is said they will appear in
Sunday morning's Constitution.
Summer is closing in hero with per
ceptible effect, and the people are dis
cussing the water question, and waitiug
patiently for the Summer visitors. If
the truth has been half told abont the
poison in the wells iu Atlanta, and the
mud that is said to bo so freely mixed
with the water works water, the mos
quitos will be tbe principal visitors that
will permanently here during
the hot season’ The hotels and springs
about Gainesville, J undejrstand, ai,Q all
ready, with better accommodations thau
they eyer pafl before for the vast crowd
that ijee annnallyfrom the seaside to the
epol tops of the elevatpd hill county for
rest sfa4 4 n P country
gentleman remarked to ©e vegterday
that if the Convention was called, the
people of AJtlanta would find to their
sorrow that the water question had been
discussed most too freely recently. I
tolfl him professor Land would not get
through wi{4 Ip ß analysis before the
eleotioi) 04 thp Contention question,
but that wfcea ue piafle }us report it
would be found equally as satisfactory
as the report of Architect Fay iu regard
to the safety ef the Capitol, submitted
to the Legislature in January last. Asa.
TfJV. WAYNESBORO LYNCHERS.
Au Atlanta Opinion of thp Affair.
) Atlanta Constitution.]
A little breeze of passed
over Augusta the other day. It appears
that Mr. Salem Dutcher, the Solieitor
jQeneral of the Augusta Circuit, had
received information as to the identity
and whereabouts of certain parties who
were implicated in the outrageous and
brutal crime of lynching a negro at
Waynesboro some time ago. He there
upon with the Governor,
and asjieijf liijn’ to place )h e military at
the disposal of jtjie civil authorities. —
Whether uie thought that the
i#uriipato4 parties tffiqld .arrest,
or whether their friqpds would pajie as
attempt to rescue them, does not ap
pear. At aDy rate, he called upon the
Governor for the troops, and the Gover
nor directed the commander of the Rich
mond Hussars to place his company, or
a sufficient detail, under the orders of
the gber;#. Governor Colquitt also
notified the Sheriff that th® necessary
instructions had been issued. The
Sheriff, however, informed t'. e Executive
that no warrants had been placed in his
hands by the Solicitor, and that should
such a process CO©e to him, he would
execute it without the assistance of the
military.
We hope to see these brought to jns
tiee right speedily. They took a negro
from toe jail of’ Waynesboro and mur
dered hijito cold blood. The negro
was himseli resting under a charge of
murdering a poddlef fcanmd O’Brien,
biit Liß“crfmd w&'s net ©d>e afrocions
and cold-blooded and " brutal than that
which the lynchers committed. It is
stated that they not only shot and hung
the negro, but they actually ent off one
Of his ears and carried it away—a bloody
of a barbarous crime. The
Stoals are knor:. They, went to
WxyßfMundisgnised.remaineu ... are
severaTndura, ©ordered the negro, re
turned to Augusta, and’tneu, stated
by the Chrosicle— though it is’difficnlt
to believe that even effrontery could
take this shape—sent out a committee
to raise money to pay the expenses they
had incurred in joing to Waynesboro
upon their murderous errautj.
As we said before, we triist these men
will b,e' brought to justice, but, at the
name time, we cannot but regret that
the military were called. This sort of
thing was unknown in Georgia before
the war, and it is ummcegsarj’ i;ow. It
is one of the suggestions of reconsirub-,
tion, and Sheriff Sibley did honor to
himself and defended the dignity of his
office when he informed the Governor i
that he could arrest any party or parties
in Richmond county without the aid of
the military.
Hare* Killed tke riootker* Repabliran*.
iToledo Journal.]
The talk about North Carolina and
Tennessee going Republican this year is
bash. Hayes has knocked the stuffing
all ont of the Republican party South.
¥on might as well try to drill a hole
th rough a Berea grindstone with a Ba
logna sausage as to break up the Demo
cratic party South by adopting their
principles and appointing rebels to of
fice.
MORTON RJVJCTITkLLFd).
MERCCHtAX OllS-fltoNT;pPO tDfU#
UPON TUB TBOUBf& fATKRfI.
Oliver Telle *fn fJ§v HiOApi
Flections Cntn in Idee auk I.ouMaoa*e Sena
tor—lias Kellogg (he Legal Tapes In
alienable Rights ud Southern Outrage*—
The Drlanel Uovernmcnto—Tbe President’s
Polier—A Slimy Amalgam.
Washington, May 25.—Morton pub
iishes a letter on the situation in answer
to an open letter published jnytlle Nek
York Times and other private letters.
- He ears, ragaitiiag- tire - eviileudralii *1
Kellogg after they had been referred to
bis committee: “Tbe Oommittee on
Privileges and Elections met soon after
wards, ai|d tbe Republican members
united in a rej ert that, priina facie, S.
B. Packard was the lawful Governor of
Louisiana, the Legislature was the law
ful Legislature, and that Wna. P. Kel
logg had heeu elected iu conformity to
tbe act of Congress, and was entitled to
be sworn in and take his seat in the
United States Senate- Asa number of
the members of the Senate were absent,
and the subject wonld lead to a long de
bate, and there was general anxiety to
adjohrn, the report was not laid before
the Senate. If the majority of the Sen
ate shall, at the next session of Congress,
be of the opinion that Kellogg was law
fully elected by the Legislature of
Louisiana, be will be entitled to his
seat notwithstanding the events that
havo since, occurred. No subsequent
breaking uf ol that Legislature or any
combination or arrangements can in the
least, affect his title or destroy the le
gality of what took place at that time.
Though tko very members who pro
claimed th* election of Packard and
aud made of Kellogg should sub
sequently declare that of Nicholls and
take part in the election of Spofford.it
is too clear for argument that they could
not take avg the rights wlrch had been
vested, r iShke that unlawful which
had been before lawful. Unless Kel
logg voluntarily withdraws, the Fenate
will have to decide the question of his
election as it stood at the time of ad
journment. The Republican governments
of Louisiana and South Carolina have
yielded to force. They bkve gone down
before au armed minority whose threats
of future violence were gsaranteed by a
long train of bloody deed* done in the
past. I regret that the real character of
the transaction should bt obscured in
the least by pretended investigations or
negotiations stripped of all disguises
and pretenses. The simple fact is that
Packard and Chamberlain were not able
to maintain themselves in authority, and
the Government of the United States,
in the exercise of its discretion, refused
them its support. Then the Legislature,
finding themselves defenseless, fell to
pieces and from their ruins, in part new
Legislatures have been constituted,
whose legality oonsists only in the fact
that there are none to oppose them. The
law and the rights-of the majority have
yielded to au armed and aggressive mi
nority.
Morton, after describing what Grant
might have done, intimates that had
Hayes proceeded to maintain Packard
and Chamberlain by using the army he
would have proceeded to inevitable de
feat. He says : “The Republican ma
jority in the Senate upon the Southern
question is but nominal, if it existed at
all. Five Republican Senators voted at
the late executive session against seating
Kellogg and to refer his credentials to a
committee, thus refusing to recognize
the Packard Government; and a number
of Republican Senators sufficient, when
added to the Democratic members
to constitute a mojority, have steadily
refused to recognize the Republican
State Governments in Louisiana since
1873 by voting against seating a Senator
chosen by it. While in my judgment it
was clearly the right of the President,
nnder the Constitution, to recognize tho
Packard Government aud
Support It by Military Power,
Tbe undertaking wonld Lave been
futile and the failure disastrous with di
vided public opinion in his own party
and both- Houses of Congress against
him. He would have failed in the end.
The Democratic House has power to
destroy the army entirely, and from my
knowledge of the Senate I am sure the
Republican majority of that body could
hardly be relied on to support him in
such a course.”
“I do not believe that President Hayes
inteds to
Destroy tlie lieputdipan Party
And attempt the erection of a now one
upon its ruins. I believed that iu liis
patriotism aud high integrity, it is his
undivided purpose to ©ako tfie Admin
istration a beneficence to the pountry.”
The large body of the white people
who engaged in the rebellion are firmly
united iu favor of several things and
they will stand by the party that favors
them, and oppose to the bitter end the
parly that opposes them. Among tliepe
ia the payment for rebel property taken
or destroyed by our armies. When Mr.
Tilden wrote his letter just before the
election against these claims be
lost his hold upon the South and
was made to feel it in the late
in Congress. Isfo Deipocfatic candidate
will repeat' hip jo tbp late
House the dividing line between rebel
and loyal claim? was ignored, and in a
single Democratic administration wonld
be obliterate 1; when this comes to pass
about claims the distinction in rebelaud
Union debt will bo obliterated, and lost
slaves will be treated as other property
sacrificed by our Government.. It will
not all be done or allowed at once, but
step by step, already more rapid, until
the public mind has become demoral
ized. The rebellion has ceased to be a
orimo—scarcely a mistake. The com
plete restoration of fraternity will
demand abolition of all djstipctjops iu
law between lgjajyr apd frptjsbp, The
Republican party vjas neyer ©ore neces
sary to the nation than it is to-day, and
all talk about layiDg down the Republi
can organisation to take up a neyr one
with anew title, into wbicb old Confed
erates may enter without wounding their
susceptibilities, wopld bp eri©inal if it
were not supremely silly.’*
Dots About tlie White House.
The State Department has advices
that Mexico is abpqt jmpqsing an addi
tional ten pef cent, tarijf on all imports.
4ttofnpy-tjeueral Peyeps hag giyen em
ployment ip his oißce to Thomas Simms,
whom, as Marshal of Massachusetts un
der Fillmore, he overhauled as a fugi
tive slave from Georgia. A woman ar
rested for drunkenness was burned to
death in a cell of the city jail. It is
supposed she fired her clothes in trying
to light a pipe, bnt spontaneous com
bustion is also suspeoted. Some 150 per
sons' hel'd a meeting last night and or
ganized a secret political speiety ip op
position tq Hayes. Morton seem? to be
di?eoj}tent with appointments. Mem
bers say that the movement is in the in
terest of Blaine, bnt his friends declare
the action was without his knowledge or
authorization.
The award of the contract for sta
tionery for the Interior Department will
be made Monday. Secretary Schurz
takes the trouble to deny positively,
that he ipafle arrangements with any
firm (o' forjaApe Cjinfraots for tbe Gov
ernment’s advertising. The State De
partment has advices that the Turks
have jestprejl to jTnngary the Corrinia
library, vbigh tfipy cgrrie<j off during
r.ne of the old wars. Speeches over the
returned library indicate a strong apte-
Ruasian feeling.
Mr. Fulatour, of New Orleans, is here
after the consulate at Bordeaux. It is
urged against him that bis father is ex
tensively engaged in trade with Bor
deaux. Major Rogers, steamboat in
spector at New Orleans, is here to see
about the report that Col. Nortou was
his place. Major Rogers
has hc.fl no notice t’o quit. 1
Governor Aiken Is Uajalng Mfrfngt*
For the Colleetorship of the Port at
Charleston. Patterson, however, is ob
stinate in favor of retaining Worthing
ton.
Chief Justice Waite has appointed
Tiiomju S. Atkins Register in Bank
ruptcy; ypo becomes post
master at Riclimona, Y*. Ex-Auuitor
Robert TANARUS, Smith bss been appointed
Collector of Customs at Mobile, Mrs.
Thompson, daughter of Rev. Alex
Campbell, postmaster at Louisville; Gen.
E. B. Tyler, postmaster at Baltimore.
Minister Booker at the White Honse
““oks he was asked to resign the Bus
sian mission the Cameron influ
ence. The Cabinet to-day appointed
Ellery **. Braytop Collector of Internal
Revehmfe in South OaroiiflA, w.. e Cfiss
Carpenter, resigned, ! 4 •
SAVANNAH’S BONDHOLDERS.
Meeting in New York—f-caling (ke Inierent
>*lateTneot ofMnjef Wketita-A Cmmfro
mise ot Ki*ht> Ceula oh the Dollar. ’
New York, May 25.—A meeting of the
bondholders of the city of Savannah was
held to-e*,y.
bonds were represented, judge Schley
presided.
Mayor Wheaton, of Savannah, being
introduced, said that the funded and
contingent debt of the city of Savannah
amounts to 84,185,000, and by scaling
the interest fhe whole amount can be
paid off in 26 years—interest to be g per
cent, for ten years, 4 per cent, tor five
years and 6 per cent, for ten years. The
annual resources of the city amount to
8350,000, and the expenses of the city
government are SIBO,OOO. The propo
sition that the bondholders accept 80
cents on tbe dollar was carried by a vote
of Bto 3. This actiouis npt considered
binding, except on those acceding to it,
but is regarded as an initiative for fur
ther action by the bondholders.
AUGUSTA AM) a?>'VNJOLLE.
The Angonta and Knoxville Railroad
Convention -pet in Augusta last Wed
nefedjiS, as Jper fcnnouneemenV There
wetli present ou ike occasion representa
tives from every portion of every route
that had beeu mentioned from the West
to the seaboard, including about fifty
Tennesseeans, and quite an enthusiasm
was aroused from the earnest manner of
all who participated in the meeting.
The first great question to ber deter
mined by the *€onvntion, awl one, we
imagine, of a very serious character,
■v >hs lantiua ot-dha main . Boat!)
Carolina presented the advantages of
taking up the Valley on her side of the
Savannah, and connecting w.th the Blue
Ridge Road at Anderson. Athens main
tained that the only practical routo was
on tho Georgia and Northeastern Roads.
Elberton presented a line graded by na
ture from Petersburg almost to the gap
made by the same good engineer
through the towering Blue Ridge moun
tains, with but one'stream to bridge be
tween those two points—Tallnls, the
Terrible. Nature’s argument—or that
of her representative, Maj, Jones—was
irresistible, and the route was establish
ed by Elberton and the now graded road
to Tocoa.
Augusta, with wbat assistance she eau
proonro along the. line, promises the
road bed to Broad river; Elbert makes
a like promise from that point to Tocoa,
and Tennessee and North Carolina will
meet them at the gap. Augusta, we are
told, went to work last Friday to make
an energetic canvass, with the expecta
tion of realizing at once a subscription
of $150,000, whicli wilt do capitally to
start on. Elbert will have her welcom
ing hand extended when the lower
qoupties reach Petersburg. She has
never yet violated a pledge, and does
not intend to.” Tennessee and “the Old
North State are amply able and ready
to comply with their part of the con
tract.
Need we say to the people of Augusta
that the success of this great enterprise
depends entirely upon their efforts. The
commencement of the work within thirty
or sixty days would spread enthusiasm
throughout the entire length of the line
Can they afford to procrastinate, or will
they, by united effort, seize the oppor
tunity which may now be presented fyr
the last time? Augusta’s luture as a
commercial city is now at stake, and we
cannot but believe that her intelligence
and enterprise will be exerted to avert a
calamity which failure would almost cer
tainly bring.
The efforts made by Augusta will be
ably seconded by Columbia and Lin
coln counties. They have for years
urged the assistance of Augusta in build
ing a railroad to revivify their waste
places, but their appeals have heretofore
been unheeded. They are as ready now
for the undertaking as ever before.
As to Elbert’s share of the work, as a
guaranty ef what she cau do, she points
to what, with the assistance of a few
faithful friends, she has already done,
and she will come up with her seventy
five miles of graded road, and we hear
ou every side the song swelling up, and
gathering force as it rolls over the rich
valleys, storm-washed hills, and the
gurgling rills that abound on every
hand—
“ Yes, we will meet you at the river!"
The truth is, Elbert will have a road.
Towards Augusta her people have a
feeling which has grown with their
growth, and it has been handed from
father to son for generation l . To sever
the ties which have existed for so long
is not desirable, but if the necessity
arises it will be done.
The prospect for building this great
railroad has never beeu so favorable as
now, tho people along the line are
ready, and Augusta bolds the loins.
SHKPUKItns ENTERING THE FAMILY
FOLD.
A Reiiianlic Story—A Practical Deposit—Af
fectionate Hclativcs.
Brocktyn, May 24. Proceedings
have been commenced in the English
Courts, on behalf of a number of resi
dents of this oily and of Long Island,
to recover, as heirs at law, twelve mil
lion dollars in money. About, the year
1810, Robert Shepherd, a wealthy resi
dent of London, deposited in the bank
of England one million ponnds sterling,
to the credit of Elizabeth Shepherd, his
only sister. She bad made a runaway
match with John Shepherd, a poor cou
sin, and this resulted in an estrange
ment from her relatives. The ooup)e
went lo Canada to try their fortunes,
and were lost sight of. Iu the course
of time the affection of Robert for his
sister revived, aud he used every effort
to discovor the whereabouts of the
young couple, but was unsuccessful.
He then deposited the sum named to
his sister’s credit, and shortly afterwards
died. The money lay in the bank for
sometime, and no claimant appearing,
advertisements were inserted in the Eng
lish newspapers and the New York Her
ald, inviting the heirs < f Robert and his
sister Elizabeth to cyme forward and
claim their inheritance.’ No response
was eve • receiv. c], and tup money still
lies in the bank. Bjn<-p then, however,
several heirs have turned up. All these
are great grand nephews or grand neioes
of Elisabeth Shepherd and Robert Shep
herd, and of Richard Shepherd, a broth
er who died before the money was de
posited by Robert. It is estimated that
the million ponnds sterling will now
amount at compound interest to about
$12.000,000
SIXTEEN EXECUTIONS ORDERED.
Ten for One Dny-Gov. Ifartranfl Bent on
Terrifying tlie LawleHM.
Harrisburg, May 22 —The Governor
to-day issued warrants for the execution
of eight AfoJly Maguire murderers, in
addition to four issued a few weeks ago
Hugh McGehan, James Roarity, James
Boyle and JameS Carroll, convicted of
the murder of the Tamaqua policeman,
and against whom the Supreme Court
recently decided, will be hanged at
BoftsYldp fin tjie same day—the list of
Jqne—op whifih Thomas Munley. the
murderer of Thomas Sanger and James
Urens, mining bosses, will be exeonted.
Alexander Campbell, oonvioted of the
murder of Jehu P. Jones, mining boss,
will be hanged at Munch Chunck, June
21, with Miehael Doyle, Edward Kelly
and John Donahue. The 9th of August
has been designated for the execution of
Patrick Hester, Hugh Tully and Patrick
McHugh, of Columbia county, convicted,
of the murder of Alexander W. Rae,
Superintendent of a colliery, in the Fall
of 1868. The Governor also fixed the
same day for the hanging of Thomas F.
Curley, the murderer of Miss Whitby,
of Montgomery county. The number of
unexecuted" depth warrants issued by
the Governor the past two months is six
teen, all of which will be oarried into ef
fect in June, July and August. On the
21st of June ten murderers will expiate
their crimes on the gallows of this State.
Nine of them are Molly Maguires.—
There is a prospect "that Duffy, one of
the Yost murderers, will hang with hiR
accomplices at Pottsville, if the Court
records in his case should reach the gov
ernor the present weejp He 'is desirous
of executing many murderers together
and on the same day as possible.
TfIB EUROPEAN CONFLICT.
menta— Servia Reported to be Preparing to
Take the Field on Russia** Hide.
London, May 23, Morning.—Connt
Schouvaleff, the Russian Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of St. James, who left last
week on a visit of extreme importance
and secrecy to St. Petersburg, will re
turn here next week. He went to the J
seat’ of the Russian Government pre- !
pared to lay Before *the Emuerota confi
dential cugqduniqauou of the situation
iu England and the chances wbieh exist
of Her Majesty’s Government interfer
ing in the struggle between the Czar and
the Saltan. It is whispered also that be
bore with him what has since transpired
to be an understanding between Eng
land and Russia roD-tr.-e to tap ofitsupa- 1
tion* of Uonra&itfalt territory by the
Czar's forces, aud the neutrality and in
violability of the Sues Canal, Bliould
a friendly feeling spring up between the
two powers, and should England feel
satisfied that the Russians mean ail they
say with regard to tneir purposes in the
present campaign, it would greatly re
lieve Her Majesty’s Government of a
very disagreeable task, that of esponsing
a cause in which a large portion of her
subjects would take no hearty interest.
But ne*t pop*eu Austria# interests,
which seem to be torched equally with
those of Eogfank. '■ A telegram from
Betgraue announces that Prince Milan is
preparing to take the field on the aide
of Russia. Austria has always insisted
that Servia *nq otpw ty>*qp provinces !
keep out of the contest, and* should this
information prove Irae, she will doubt
less protest agaihst it to the Czar.
—< —- -Bag--- * —
[Mew" Ode ms Democrat.)
In the arrangement by Mr. Elaine of
Packard's lecturing campaign we sug
gest that Liza Pinkston be engaged to
accompany tfip great lecturer. The ex
pppure of npr '■pounds would not be less
harrowing tfcjn the ex-Marshal’s elo
quence.
Tkere Is Ns Gammon
About Bozo dost. It is, beyond all per
adventure, the purest, most agreeable,
and most effective purifier and beauti
fler'of the teeth ever offered to the
American people. It has completely
won the publio confidence, and has
proved itself worthy of it. t
WHAT .MR. TIL DEN SAYS.
His Lame Excuse Far Not Up to
Ills #hat Will Not
Be jfe W jf 4f W
W\sHi\Orov, May 22. —An eminent
citizen offklabjlma,
Washicgtdh ywteiday on his way back
from had, while iu that city,
an interview with Mr. Tildeu. He said
to Mr. Tildeu that the people of the
South were convinced that he had been
fairly and lawfully elected to the office
of President of the United States; that
the people of that section, in common
with the great body of (he people of the
wbole Ucutod Btatae* thought that Air.
Tildeu, as the lawfully elected ruler of
the conntry, should have taken, early
after the election, a decided attitude
aud insisted upou bis rights; that bad
Le done so, and the proper announce
ment of the vote of the Electoral Col
lege been prevented, the House of Rep
resentatives, would have elected him Ac
cording to the forms of law, aud made
itself responsible for his induction into
the offica which belonged to him.
Mr. Tilden list* ned intently to the re
marks of his visitor, a gentleman nearly
twenty years his senior. He replied
that he had thought carefully and most
conscientiously over the subject in all
its possible phases; that he had become
convinced that, should he adopt the
course suggested, it would be resisted
by the Radical party to the extent of
drenching the land in blood; that he
shrunk from tho responsibility of pre
cipitating another terrible civil war upon
his countrymen, and oonseuted to the
compromise whicli averted so dread a
disaster. He felt as keenly as any oue
the impropriety of the means by which
the present result bad been brought
about, but for all that he did uot regrot
his own action. As it was, the people
of the United States understood it; the
Democratic par y to-day occupied such
a proud attitude before the country as it
had never occupied before, and no mpi(|
tax power could resist its triumphal"
march to success in 1880.
THE POWER OF PRUSSIA.
Tlie .Military Pow er of the Laud of Blsuiarck.
[Extract from an Editorial in St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.]
There may be men in the other Euro
pean armies who are able to manage an
army of 100,000 lighting men, but if
there are, they remain to be discovered.
Hitherto, the experience of the only two
nations which have come into conflict
with the Prussian system has been that
tho men who had aa army to manage
might, perhaps, have beeu able to man
age a corps, while the corps command
ers might have been good brigadiers
But iu the Prussian system there ate at
least a half dozen meu who can direct a
campaign on any scale that the exigen
cies of war may demand, find who are
certain to find iu each rank beneath meu
fitted for their positions. Add to this
that the same vigilant aud systematic
thoroughness which directs the tactical
operations in the field provides also for
the subsistence of the soldier, for the
knowledge of the country to be travers
ed, and for each detail that may help to
make the science of war really a scienoe,
and we have a machine which, if not ab
solitte perfection, approaches so near it
that all other military systems are good
in proportion as they imitate it and ap
proximate to it.
Agaiust the compact solidity of this
system all the armies of Europe might
hurl themselves wilh no greater effect
than is produced by the dashing of a
wave against a rock. An English army
invading Germany would be doubled up
like a sheet of paper ; the Russians will
make no better show against Prussia
than the Turkomans make against Rus
sia ; Austria has learned something, but
Austria is dull and slow ; the only coun
try that might hope to make its army
effective is France, which, during the
past six years, has done all that could
be done by energy, patriotism and in
telligence to discard a faulty military
system aud to substitute a better oue.
But the Prussian system is not a six
years’ child ; the veterans who now con
trol it learned its lessons when they en
tered the army, and they have been go
ing to school ever since, it being a part
of the system that every officer shall
know more at tho end of tho year than
he did at the beginning. Suoh a system
continued through two generations has
bred a raoe of commanders such as no
other country ever knew, and if any
combinations are enteri and into through
a non-calculation of the German power,
it will be a terrible mistake for whoever
makes it.
CINCINNATI’S SIXTEEN MILLIONS.'
How I’oi-kopolis Hus Beeu Deluded by tlie
Soullieru Railroad.
Cincinnati, May 21.—Cincinnati has
a large sized elephant ou its Lauds in
the shape of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, which has already cost sixteen
mi lious and wants several millions more.
Rather than further inorease tho burden
of debt tho trustees determined to lease
,the road to a responsible company who
would oomplele and operate it. In the
meantime a company lias beeu formed
for the temporary lease of the completed
portion. Tho stock has been fixed at
half a million dollars and books were
opened for subscriptions. The citizens
were slow to subscribe and when the
time came for closing the books to-day
less than half the amount of stock was
taken. Jnst then a subscription was
made for six thousand shares in behalf
of a combination of Cincinnati capital
ists. These men will have control of,
lease or run tlie road, It is believed to
night that eventually the whole South
ern Railroad will be in theirhands. Pre
dictions are plentiful to-night that Cin
cinnati will never see any more of her
sixteen millions. Tin men who have
taken this stock are among the wealthi
est in Cincinnati, and tho course which
they have taken is oue with which no
fault can thus far be fouud.
The Fluu of the Prophet.
i Constantinople Correspondent of the Hew York
Mercury 1
The saored emblem of Turkish faith
will play a great role in this war. It is
dark green, about two yards long and
one and a half wide, and was originally
a curtain in the bed chamber of Aischa,
tho best beloved wife of the prophet,
who died in her bed. When Moham
med was on liis death bed and about to
take leave of bis generals, who were
about to enter upon anew campaign
against the heathen, the dying prophet
gave them the curtain that overhung his
bed as a battle flag, an that the
faithful should forever remember that
they were doing battle for God
and His prophet. Ever since that
time, whenever the CaHphr. went into
battle they took this flag with them, but
in later years it was resolved to carry
this holy relie into battle only whenever
a war of religion wus being waged. In
1683 the same flag waved from the walls
of Vienna, and again whenever cause
of the Islam had to bfi defended it was
unfurled rally tfie faithful and en
courage teem to deeds of heroism.—
Wnat, however, is the most important
feature of this flag is the belief that any
Mussulman who fights and falls under
its shadows dies as a martyr, for whom
the portals of Heaven are opened at once.
From the Caliphs of old this banner has
been aaoredly retained by the SultaDS of
our day, in order to inspire still more zeal
in their soldiers. Yesterday the no
folding of this time honored banner took
place with great pompt aud ceremory by
the Sultan, Abdul Hamid, in person,
who handed it to the Scheik-Et Islam in
solemn trust. The latter was mounted ,
on a horse literally covered wRh gold,
and, while holding the essred banner in
his hand, he was accompanied by the
Sultan, himself al’sfc oh' horseback, with
sword 'in band, through the principal
streets of Constantinople. Couriers and
heralds preceded the two high dignita
ries of State, and, pointing to the nn
fnrled banner, loudly proclaiming to the
people that the war for faith ht eoih
menced. This ‘the same relie
-wfiioh iu6 Turks regard with the same
holy awe as the Israelites of old did the
Ark of the Law—was sent under heavy
eaeort to the Danube, there to lead the
Turkish hosts to battle for Allah and
his prophet.
Baakrupt Turkey.
[Constantinople CorresporoJence of the Philadel
phia Press]
Whoever comes here with tbj idea of
putting monev in pocket by serving
the Tares wifi have his travel for his
pains. What payments are doled ont to
the army are in paper money. This is
now at a discount of 50 per cent., and is
daily sinking in value. Th? ti#6 h hot
far off when '% \ril oe comparatively
worinleM, An attempt is to be made to
; negotiate a foreign loan, but its chanoes
of success are' uot fluttering. People
will hardly be disposed to lend mcjyg; to
a Government that Iwag sfhe3 eeased
paying HKt 'interest do what it has al
ready borrowed.
Mi Cameron and CJeaeral UranL
IMdff York Tribune.)
The Hou. Simon Cameron nominates
General Grant to save the country again
as soon as it gets niaely ruined. It is
computed that about twenty years will
be required to accomplish a fairly suc
cessful ruin of our institutions without
the assistance of Mr. Cameron, so that
the ex-Senator is probably the first to
name a candidate for the campaign of
1896.
The dwelling of a prominent Italian
Prefect was undermined with powder
and blown up yesterday.
THIS PBOPLB Ak THE PAPERS.
f. Griffin, too, is after the dorgs.
I, Wyl Lotto n has anew steam mill.
AtfiPmn9ftis*i had a fire iu a month.
Spalding is raising a fine wheat crop. ■
The Dalton boys fight chickens against
owls.
Athens has not had a pie-nic this
Spring
Gen. Johnston is meeting with an ova
tion in Texas.
Thomas B. Johnson, Esq., of Waynes
boro, is dead.
.. TX w w a> , m yarn. i■ ii._
mr, trOTirn; RlHniu, Of r&luOttOu,
has gone to Texas.
The cherry crop is good for the first
time iu three years.
Talbotton .wants that railway to Gene
va, aud wants it bad.
Fulton oonaty will run a straight out
anti Convention ticket. ..
Dr. R. Y.'Rudicil represents Chattooga
county iu the Convention.
Atlanta’s Finance Committee kaS bor
rowed money at) 6 per oent.
A Talbotton man killed a grovo of
China trees by trimming too close.
The Thomasville jail birds plauned an
escapement last week, ’tint were foiled.
A dog and bear fight Constitutes one
of the amusements of the Thomasville
hot sun combined with.dry winds
is shriveling vegetables in tke whole
oonntry. v
Brunswick is to have an agricultural,
horticultural and floral fair, beginning
on the 13th of June.
Tne up passenger train on (he State
Rond killed a man and a cow on Sunday
evening near Kingston.
Tuesday morning Mr. Louis Moßryde.
who lived near Geneva, was found in iri ß
corn crib with his throat out.
Mr. Ben A. Smith last week, in Sen
dersville, killed a monster wild <sat,
jaeamriug four and a half feet. .
V.B'*
'been- nominated as delegate to the Con
vention from the district at large.
Judge Porter Ingraham is announced
as a candidate for the Constitutional
Convention from Muscogee county.
A son of Mr. David Lindsay, of Wash
ington county, a few days since, fell
from a horse aud broke his right arm.
Dr. Battey, of Rome, has gone to
Boston to read an essay before a medi
cal association to assemble in that city.
The Talbotton A. M. E. Church is
bolding a revival, and tho town is reso
nant with the bowlings of tho young
convert.
.T. E. White, Esq., editor of nur able
neighbor and cotemporary, the McDuffie
Journal, has returned to Thomson from
a Florida jaunt.
Hon. J. F. Walker, of Colquitt coun
ty, has been nominated for the State
Senate to fill the nnespired term of Sen
ator McDonald.
Mr. Frank Arm u, a nntivo Spaniard,
but for twenty-five years past a citizen
of Sandersville, has been quite ill for
some months past.
As blackberry time approaches, a
number of freedmeu in McDuffie |who
are dissatisfied with their contracts, are
quitting their employers.
Fulton county’s Convention nominees
are : Gen. L. ,T. Gartrell, Judge John
Collier, P. L. Mynatt, Col. N. J. Ham
mond and Major B. E. Crane.
Mr. C. A. Nutting, of Macon, accom
panied by his son and daughter, have
started upon a trip to the far West, in
cluding Colorado and other points.
The mgro who shot and killed Mr.
White, in Cuthbert, some two weeks
ago, has been tried and found guilty of
murder, ard will be sentenced to be
bang.
The Chatham Artillery, who fought
under Gen. Colquitt at Olustee, greeted
the Governor on his arrival in Savannah,
Wednesday morning, with a salute of
17 guns.
Hon. James T. Nisbet aud Mr. George
W. Gustiu are spoken of as delegates to
the Convention from Bibb. Mr. Nisbet
was once editor of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist.
The Journal says that over two hun
dred dollars worth of cows have been
killed on the railroad near Thomson
since the first of May, by the lightning
Macon train.
Mr. C. E. Boynton, of Atlanta, has
endowed Emory College with a medal
fund. The medal to be presented for
the beat essay each year at the college
commencement.
A Mr. Cbalker, who resides in Glas
cock county, put two of bis children on
a mule to ride. The mule becoming
frightened, threw off the children, kill
ing one of them.
The delegates nominated for the Con
stitutional Convention are : Jones—E.
C. Grier and A. S. Hamilton ; Wilkin
son—F. Chambers aud E. J. Coates ;
Twiggs—P. W. Edge. -
At a meeting at McDonald, Col. Jas.
L. Seward and Hon. Aug. H. Hansel),
of Thomas ; Bryant Creech, of Brooks,
and Henry Gay, of Colquitt, were nomi
nated for the Convention.
Wheat and oats iu Warren county
seem to be clear of rust, aud with a few
showers of rain an abundant yield may
be expected. Cotton is yet very small,
owing to the cool, dry weather, but corn
looks remarkably well.
Bob Oado, an old colored ferryman in
Lincoln county, died recently, leaving
two buckets of money, which ho direct
ed to be dug up three days after ho was
dead. Oue had been planted iu 1837,
aud contained $460 25.
Plenty of hogs in Gwinnett.
The wheat orop is a good one, any
how.
Mrs. Sallie M. Anderson, of Newnnn,
is dead.
The ball and mallet begin to clash out
on the lawn.
The dry May is favorable for a good
honey harvest.
Frog hunting and gar fishing prevail
in Hart county,
There i§ a big crop of hogs growing
up in Bartow county.
Bartow oounty now glories in the
safest jail in the State.
A Taylor county man has fodder in his
barn fourteen years old.
The grasshoppers are destroying corn
and cotton in Newton county.
Cattle running at large on the side
walks are making Rome howl.
Mr. Fambrough’s distillery in Gwin
nett was burned up last week.
Mr. Thomas H. Sanders, of Hartwell,
plowed up a horned snake 6 feet S> inches
long last week.
Paul Freeman, a negro oe.ypenter, well
known in CoviDgtou, died suddenly
Wednesday morning.
The Friends oi Temperance of War
reutou will have their annual picnic at
Mayfield on tUii Ist of June.
A larg* grey eagle bird was killed re
cently in Whitfield county. He tipped
off 64 feet from wing to pinion.
Some fellow has beeu three weeks tell
ing the Covington Enterprise wbat he
saw at the Augusta Convention,
A young man named Morgan was in
stantly killed, near Tilton, on .Saturday
last,'by falling from an ox team.
While colored preacher in Butts
county was baptizing a brother, a third
negro stole the preacher’s olothes.
Col. A. D. Hammond, Capt. J. TANARUS,
Ponder and W. H. H. Bush represent
Monroe county in the Convention.
Proposals for cross-ties for the Ma
rietta and North Georgia Railroad from
Marietta to Canton aro now in order.
Campmeeting at the Hartwell camp
ground will commence, this year, Wed
nesday Dight before the 2d Sunday in
August.
Dalton proposes to give her hens mix
vomica to kill tbe hawks. If tho chick
ens can stand it tbe hawks will probably
do likewise.
There is a prospect, nays the Coving
ton jfcnt&fyr’M, of a eolpny going from
! Middle Georgia to settle on a largo tract
of land in Western Texas.
A little child in Rome has been nearly
fatally whipped by its grand parents.—
Tbe latter are now before tbe
upon the charge ef assault and battery.
Every Norwegian girl must be able to
knead brejd alid to knit stockings be-
Uhe eau be married. Every Geor
gia girl must be able to play croquet
and pull ’lasses candy.
Tbe Constitution says Jak,a Stafford,
who was acquitted last Friday,had twice
seen the gallows on which he was to
have 'been hong, built in front of his
oell window in Fulton county jail.
A woman, a few miles from Hartnell,
a short time ago gave birth to, s ehild.
On the following mornipjf she got np
and cooked breafewst for herself and
children. UUA week afterward she
walked a mile', carrying her infant.
1 AX ELEPHANT ON THEIR I!\NU.
DiHCttsnlasr Wbat to Do WM t.'ranr—Prece
dents—*X-Moverelo.
jMtw. York, May 24, —A Herald Lpn
’ don cable says: “The London
yesterday devoted a leader to the ap
proaching arrival Grant, say
ing he will be leeeived in England as an
illyyiUiwao man. Grant’s coming promi
ses to be an event of the seasoD.
English Government has the
'question as to ke shall be re
ceived officially u a P? vate , gentleman,
or as. tW e*-CW Magistrate of
united States. The precedent di-mae
ed are the cases of FP.lisore and Van
Buren, whom Lod Palmerston decided
to receive as private gentlemen. Lord
Beaeonsfield’s Cabinet have now decided
that Grant shall be received with ftU the
etiquette observed toward ex-noeereigas.
and have so inforgtaUy informed on
Government*' m
Says the Macon Telegraph : We are
grieved to learn that Brother Skinner,
of Hancock county, a Baptist divine of
color, boa been compelled to anspend
bis pulpit performances for five mu.
on account of a little mistake in the
ownership of five chickens.
Sypt CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NKWH LEAVES.
SlewberW wants a soda fount.
CiiambeHain talks wells enough.
Daniel wa-i*t Colombia Monday.
OreenvftLfTiaa an Augusta street.
Hog cholera prevails in Darlington.
YouDg cotton iu Union is dying out.
Mr. L. R. Jennings, of Sumter, is
dead.
Miss £my L. Young, of Grernville, is
dead.
Charleston has a Phil Sheridan Base
Ball Club.
Lexington’s blackberry crop is un
precedented.
The Charleston cotton men have form
ed a quoit club.
Green apples and snakes b?giu to
adorn the pic-nic lawns.
Mrs. Wardla formerly of Abbeville,
has moved to Newberry. *
Base ball is turning the heads of all
the people in Ninety-six.
The Union Herald actually cachin
nates over Willard’s election.
The Medium thinks that Abbeville
wonld favor the “no fence law.”
Furman University will have an ex
cellent commencement this year.
The Abbeville Rifle Club have their
anniversary celebration June Ist.
Spartanburg prop bps a public lecture
for the Wm. Gilmore Sims’ fund.
Tho Spnrtau Rifles, of Spartanburg,
organize with R. O. Sams, Captain.
The mad dogs are still running at
largo in many portioua of the State.
Tho I'/uenix thinks the Legislature
will hardly finish up in a fortnight.
Aniufaut son of Mr. G. M. Girardeau,
of Newberry, died recently of croup.
Spartanburg is running np her pro
tecting rods with lightniug rapidity.
The New berry Silver Cornet Band had
an excursion to Ninety-Six, Thursday.
Whitesides, a horse thief from Aiken,
was arrested in Columbia, Wednesday.
Georactojvn. ir>!!Utar_-aojv>).*i. -
railroad connection with the up-country.
There aro twenty-four practicing at
torneys or students of law at Abbeville.
The brick yard in Newberry, says the
Herald, is turning out 12,000 brick per
day.
Cbamberlaiu will uot deliver the Col
lege Commencement speeches this Sum
mer.
To-day has been set apart by Governor
Hampton as one of thanksgiving and
prayer.
There are five young men at St. Mary’s
College, Emmettsburg, studying for the
priesthood.
The inaugural ball managers turned
over $97 to the ladies of the Memorial
Association.
Rev. R. H. Fair, of Newberry, is try
ing to organize a Presbyterian Church
in Edgefield.
Lieutenant-Governor Simpson is spo
ken of us Associate Justice, iu case of
Wright’s removal.
A cattle registry, for tho purpose of
detecting stolen nnimala, is suggested by
the Columbia Pluenix.
The Grand Lodge of Newberry coun
ty, I. O. G. TANARUS., will convene upon tbe
first Wednesday in June.
A. O. Yonug died at Anterville on last
Saturday, after a very brief illness, from
congestion of the bowels.
A regiment of cavalry has been or
ganized iu Colleton county, aud Capt.
J. J. Fox elected Colonel.
The jurors in tho Ellenton cases aro
taken out daily by the Deputy Marshal
in charge of them for exercise.
Mr. Sheltou Laugford, of Newberry,
was thrown from bis mule recently and
broke his left leg above the knee.
The Spartanburg ar.d Union Railroad
will hereafter bo known as the Spurtan
burg, Union and Columbia Railroad.
Abbeville’s sheriff cocks up bis bat
and waves liis cimeter over the bench
and bar, as in the cavalier regime of yore.
The boys have commenced putting
pebbles ou the Street Railroad track
and Greenville feels herself a real city.
Burrell Davenport, one of the prison
ers that escaped from Newberry jail!
three weeks ago, is still prowling about;
the country.
Tho Winnsboro News says that tho
phosphate royalties of the Slate should
be a fruitful source of revenuo, if prop
erly collected.
Mr. M. C. Connor has succeeded ill
securing the press, type and office of the
late Waltorboro News, and will issue
another paper.
Hon. Priuce Martin, of Fairfield, is
sought for by bis county sberifl. Two
wives are not even allowed law-makers,
by the laws themselves.
Frank Davenport, released from the
Newber y jail before liis time was out,,
made good use of his liberty by steal
ing a erlf Saturday night.
In tho Ellenton trials, Major Hutson
Lee was rejected as a United States
juror because he had been a volunteer
in the Confederate service.
Tho Greenville News, always sensible,
has no fears of Governor Hump on as
suming auy authority outside of his
own executive department.
A good many farmers in Newberry in
crease their corn crop by planting rows
of corn iu tlieir cotton fields across the
cotton rows, sixteen feet npart.
Congressman Bnttz gets into trouble
endeavoring to act as Solicitor in Or
angeburg. One office seems about as
much as the honorable gent eau well
shoulder.
The Abbeville Medium advises tbe
Legislature to listeu to the dictates of
no man hereafter. “Another Willard
cauvass will destroy the Democratic
party completely and forever.”
Tho Abbeville debatiug Club hag de
cided that the war iu Europe is uot
beneficial to this oonntry, “Soldiers of
army of the Dark rolling Danube will
please to cease firing.”
Mr. N. Weeks, of Packsvillo, Claren
don county, lias named liis beautiful in
fant daughter Francis Gordon Woeks.
The second name, Gordon, is giv,n the
child iu honor of Gen. J. B. Gordon,
Governor Hampton has commuted the
sentence of John Gibbz, colored, who
was convicted two yohrs ago of the mur
der of Mr. Geraty, of James Island, to
imprisonment i/; the penitentiary for
twenty years,
Abbeville's crops aro not bad.
FonrtPhn prisoners in Aiken jail.
Tho health of Camden is excellent..
What about the bond ring in Colum
bia?
Mrs. E. B. Dnnlap, of Camden, is
dead.
Ninety-Six’s railroad platform is a
nnisanee.
Anderson complains of drouth and
hydrophobia.
Ninety-Six will throw anew bridge
over her creek.
Some men in Chester nro too lazy to
go a fishing on Sunday.
The Abbeville Banner does uot en
dorse Willard’s election.
The young St. Patrick’s in Ninety-Sir
shoot snakes for pastime.
F. J. Cassiday, Esq., has been admit
ted to tbe bar at Barnwell.
Cotton is sickly and puny in York ;
wheat continues promising.
The Anderson Intelligencer favors the
farming out of the convicts.
A sturgeon, 204 lbs. in weight, has
been captured in Broad river.
Court stenographers are to be abolish
ed iu all but the First Circuit.
The Sumter cotton factory is pro
gressing favorably and surely.
The Aiken Gesselscbaft have a moon
light hop next Moiiday evening.
A. F. Lee was killed in Richland!
county Wednesday, while stealing.
Barnwell wishes her Conrt House to
be legated somewhere permanently.
The do-ra-me class iu Chenier baa
given away to the I-a-dore ya club.
Tbe farmers around Ninety-Six aro
planting stumps to scare away crown.
Mrs. S. K. Friday, of Columbia, died
Wednesday very suddenly, of epilepsy.
A Ninety-Sis farmer expects realize
several Hundred bushels of Irish po-
W^oee.
Grand Democratic jubilation pic-nios
are spoken of in several parts of Camden*
county.
Flannel shirts are now embalmed in
caimpjtar and laid away in their Bummer
i tombs.
The Sondley house, eleven miles from*
Newberry village, was burned down not
long since.
Henry Wcesells and Henry Bchroder,
of Aiksa, are going ou a visit to the
Fatherland.
Onr Aiken neighbor, the Courier-
Journal, is improving immensely in;
local matter.
An old negro woman fell dead from)
sun stroke while working in a field near
Aikeß, on Tuesday.
Mr. Horace Whitaker, an aged citizen
of Kershaw county, died at his residence
near Camden recontly..
The paper* begin to pitch into the*
legislators which is a sure sign of De
mocracy and home rule.
Mr. Aiken Hair, or AbbavrMe, last
week was struck by lightning, and it ie
feared, seriously injured.
Aaron Cireeu, of Richland, Barnwell
county, was last week robbed of about
four hundred ponnds of bacon.
i An impecunious theological tramp has
i been traveling around imposing pon
good people generally in the State.
The Chester Keparitr, a live sheet,
has entered upon its seventh volume.
May it see its seventy times seventh. >
Mr. J.uo. Grant, of Greenville, while
whitewashing, soma days since, fell
from his ladder and was severely hurt.
The Journal nates that the subject
of stock raising is receiving more con
sideration than usual in that communi
ty.
Tbe Ninety-Six Guardian, Mr. M. B.
Sweeney editor and proprietor, has made
its debut. Its first steps are firm and
elastic.
The Press and Banner rises to an
nounce that Augusta’s connection with
the West should be through Abbeville
county.