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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.