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WEDNESDAY, - JUNE 6, 1877.
Mbs. Warfirld, the Southern novelist,
is dead.
Yon mm get $8 lor your vote in 8m
Frsueisoo. ___
The wealthy Baltimorean commits
suicide in Drnid Hill Park.
Garrison is going where his ideas
have bean for some time—abroad.
The Turks, under MohakmkdlL, cap
tured Constantinople 424 years ago.
The standard of JBasse d’Abc is still
preserved in the Cathedral of Orleans.
Blaines new party is called, by the
Republican brethren, a blaek-mail par
ty. m
Fellows who wear a red ribbon in the
West are presumed to be temperance
men.
Ht. Petebhburo papers allude to Lou
don aa the actual aeat of Moslem power
in Europe.
The largest subscriber to the church
of Notre Dame at Paris is a gambler.
He sent $60,000.
The .Tewish population in Bussia ex
ceeds 2,000,000, and is about 400,000 in
European Turkey. •
Boston mothers—some of them—have
their girls, under six years of age, pho
tographed in a nude eondition. The
world moves.
Morton’s letter is happily described
as an illnstration of malice toward all
and oharity to none.
Peter Papin is now known from Chi
na to Pern. He has got into jail and
into the newspapers.
Even the Massachusetts Republicans
think Piebbbpont, the flnnkey, is no
improvement upon Scbenok, the poker
player.
Major Jewell, at Oreedmore, mads a
soore of 213 out of a possible 225 points.
This is the best individual shooting on
record.
A Maryland father named his son
Demosthenes Aristophanes Plutarch
Mathematics Jones. The poor devil
is prayfnlly beseeohing the Legislature
for a bob-tail.
All true believers at Constantinople
have been ordered to gamble less and
pray more. Meanwhile old Abdul Ke
rim insists on more troops and fewer
proclamations.
Heorktart Evarts is preparing a let
ter to “stir up” Governor Stone, of Mis
sissippi. Mr. Evarts will get on a high
hone, and his sentences will dangle
from the stirrup.
Some of the knowing ones say that
Morton’s letter simply means that he
will advocate the Preaident’s polioy so
long as he has all the patronage he wants
through Tyner et al.
Home doubt having been expressed as
to whether tbe war proclaimed by the
Sheik U 1 Islam is a“holy war”or not,the
Cincinnati Enquirer replies that it is
wholly against the Russians.
A wagon-likr machine has been in
vented called the Picker, whioh, when
driven through the ripened fields, picks
dean every sorap of ootton, and saves
the labor of one hundred hands.
Alluding to some very unseemly lan
guage which passed at a ohuroh meeting
between two Universalist clergymen,
the Now York Sun fears that those who
disbelieve in hell hereafter prefer bell
on earth.
Goi.nelius Vanderbilt cays be does
not intend to dispute the "old man’s”
will, and declares that be has, (or some
years, led a "blameless life.” Has be
restored to Mr. Gseelky’s daughters the
$40,000 be borrowed from the founder
of the New York Tribune t
All the editors are showing Mukhtar
Pasha what to do in oase bn should be
attacked in the triangular position he
holds, Kars and Bardes being at the
base and Olti at the apex. We dare say
Mukhtar knows what he is about.
Tin Herald predicts that England
will be able to play to the end the safe
role of bullying everybody and not fir
ing a shot, and gathering up carefully,
when peace is made, suoh crumbs of
plunder as are within her reaoh.
Gen. Ttlrr, the new Baltimore Post
master, is a native of Ohio, did muoh
service during the war, commanded the
regiment of which the President was
major, married a Maryland lady, and is
commander of the Grand Army of the
Republio in the Monumental City.
Thb Springfield Republican thinks
Morton's letter goes far enough in sup
port of the President to make it easy to
keep on if it promises to pay, and leaves
a way of retreat open to pitch into him
if there turns out to be a good chance
for political glory in that direction.
Col. Bob Ingkrsoll commenced his
lecture at Denver thus: "1 have serious
doubts whether Hayes was eleoted
by the people, 'although Congress,
whioh represents the people, saw fit—
I think wisely —to deelare him the
President.” Is Bob trying to crawfish ?
It appears that the Associated Press
did not telegraph a correct account of
the action of the meeting of creditors of
Ravannah held in New York last Friday.
We publish this morning a full report
of the proceedings. The resolution
whioh was adopted declares that the
New York bondholders will compromise
with Savannah at eighty cents on the
dollar and six per cent, interest.
Jeff Davis mast have read Morton’s
letter with grim satisfaction, especially
this sentenoe: "Should* the North, by
unhappy disoord, be divided and thus
fall prey to the solid Confederate Sontb,
rebellion will have been suppressed in
vain, tbe fruits of the war lost and our
last condition worse than the first.” Mr.
Morton really seems to think that the
South will be victorious after all.
The following are among the candi
dates for seats in the Constitutional
Convention: Char. J. Jenkins, Robert
Toombs, Joshua Hill, Aooobtcs Ruse,
A- R. Lawton, W. M. Rusk, W. T.
Thompson, A. H. Haxskll, Hugh Buch
anan, J. W. H. Underwood, A. R.
Wbityt, W. T. Wofford, N. J.
Hammond and Jab. R. Brown. We think
sneb men can be safely trusted to make
a Constitution for the people of Georgia,
Thb Cincinnati Gazette, a Republican
organ that once praised Reconstruction
as the sum of all wisdom, new says:
"The foundation of a political party on
a mass of ignorance, and an antagonism
of race, founded chronic civil war. Tbe
making of the ignorant class the govern
ing class was the surrender of States to
degradation and spoliation.” If Ohio
Republicans should lose the negro vote,
the State would go Democratic beyond
a peradventure.
TIIE eighteenth district.
We are gratified to learn that tbe differ
ences at one tine existing in Glaaoock
concerning the selection of a candidate
to the Constitutional Convention from
that county have been happily adjusted.
At the meeting held on the 25th insk,
the nomination of Jndge Braddt was
confirmed, and the ticket for the Eight
eenth Senatorial District is now com
plete. It is as follows :
Charles J. Jenkins,
Robert H. Mat,
Geo. B. Sibley,
Adam Johnston,
Jas. G. Cain,
D. G. Phillips,
W. G. Braddt.
The ticket is an excellent one and
should receive the cordial support ef the
people of the District on the day of
election.
THE RIMM-TCRKNH WAR.
There has, as yet, been no fighting of
importance on the European side of the
Black Sea. Tbe news of tbe destruction
of another Tnrkiah iron-clad in the
Danube, by means of torpedoes, is con
firmed, and the accounts of the affair
show great courage and coolness on tbe
part of the Russians. The entiie south
ern bank of the Danube is picketed by
Turkish soldiers, and the Tnrkiah com
mander has given orders that all of the
inhabitants of the fortresses which
compose what is known as the
quadrilateral Rustchnk, Silistria,
Shnmla and Varna—who have not
provisions sufficient to last six months,
shall leave within twelve days. If this
statement be true it indicates that .the
Turks are expecting an advance across
the Danube by the Russians aa soon as
that river beoomes low enough to make
pontooning practicable, lu Asia the
situation seems to be daily growing
more serions, aod it is evident that
movements are progressing which may
soon terminate in driving tbe invading
army beyond the Turkish frontier
or in opening to the Russians the road
to Scntari and the Dardanelles. Imitat
ing to some extent the campaign of
Paskevitch in 1828, the Russians seem
to have determined upon forcing a pas
sage along the route by Erzeroum. The
road from Kafirs to Erzeroum lies
through a mountain range and is easily
defended against direct assaults, bnt
the Russians have attempted to tnrn all
these positions by two flanking oolnmns,
one proceeding from Artvin, on the
right, and the other from Baya
zid, on the extreme left of their
line. This flank movement seems
to have been snccessfnl, as it is
stated that the Turkish General has
been compelled to abandon the position
taken by him at Olti, between Kars and
Erzeroum, and ia falling back behind
the latter city. It remains to be seen
whether the Turks will allow this flank
ing process to be continued, or whether
they will stop it by coming ont of their
fortifications and offering battle to the
enemy.
REASONS FOR SUICIDE.
Just before Oakby Hall levanted
from New York to Europe, ohoosing
ignominious exile rather than confront
the Tweed revelations, he wrote a rather
ingenious article on suioide, whioh was
published in one of the weekly papers.
A yonrg lady read this essay, was im
pressed by its sophistry or philosophy,
and deliberately put in practice tbe
theory of self-slaughter. She was a
little deaf, bnt this malady led her to
cultivate her mind the more assiduous
ly. A few hours before her death, she
sat down to her writing desk and, ap
parently with perfect cold blood, wrote
the following note:
Why I Committed Suicide.
The cause is not mortification or disappoint
ment, dread of the future, or ill-health, or
lack of friends or want. I am young—twenty,
healthy. I have had always friends—never
enemies. I never have known laok of food,
or clothing, or love. The oause then arises
from a deep-seated oonviotion that this life is
not worth living for the prospect of a life be
yond the world, which this is but a prepara
tion for, is too vague and chimerical to make
the aspirations unfilled—the straggles unde
served which the best of mankind must needs
experience (.and the best most) worth the re
petition by each individual. I hold that the
Ufa of every person belongs to them to keep
or destroy, as they deem best, and it is my
wiU to destroy mine.
Tbe reasons given for self-immolation
are just suoh as a really healthy mind
would use to remain in the world and
enjoy suoh exceptional blessings. The
deprivation of such bounties as this girl
confesses to have had always in abun
dance drives reekless thousands annual
ly to despair and the grave. That she
had grown weary of the very light of
life is, to our minds, proof positive of an
insane taint. The trouble with her was
that she bad mighty instrumentalities
of usefulness, bnt did not employ them.
With wealth and health and youth what
possibilities arise for blessing and being
blessed ! That she should not have
preoeived this was a melancholy fatuity.
If any reader is at all curious to pur
sue this theme, let him procure the
worksof Jean Jacques Rousseau, aud, in
La Notivelle Heloise, we think, the argu
ment for and against suicide is well
nigh exhausted, from a philosophical
stand-point.
In the curiosities of literature
nothing is more curious than the
reasons men and woman have given
for taking life. We have never seen
any explanation from these nnhappy
persons whioh did not rest upon an un
reasonable hypothesis, that is, if man is
indeed a “little lower than the angels,”
and immeasurably superior to the beasts
that perish.
Montaigne, who is accounted among
the wisest of mankind, happily snms np
this subject when he says: "There is
more constancy in suffering the ohain
we are tied in, than breaking it, and
mere pregnant fortitude in Rkgulus
than iu Cato. * Tis indiscretion and im
patience that push us on to these preci
pioes. No accidents can make true vir
tue turn her back; she seeks and re
quires evils, pains and grief, as the
things by whioh she is nourished and
supported. The menaces of tyrants,
racks and tortuea seive only to animate
and nerve her.”
The French army has been elaborate
ly reviewed in Blackwood. Mr. Dana
snma np tbe purport of the article thus:
"France at last haa created an army.
No doubt some time is yet required to
perfect it in detail, bnt the main work
is done; it is an army whose magnitude,
readiness, completeness of equipment
and scientific organization now satisfy
Fox Molten's definition. Thus pre
pared, a nation is aelf-proteoting; and
the English reviewer points out that
should Germany repeat the menace of
two years ago, France would no longer
owe hev existence to the intervention of
Europe. Were the purpose again pro
claimed to crush her onoe for all before
aha could be ready to take the field,
France might look her enemy in the
faee and say—‘lt is too late I’ ”
The Rev. Dr. Talmaob declares that
"the devil is the biggest fold he knows
of.” It strikes ns that the fellow who
gets fooled by the devil is the bigger
fool of the two. But theologians will
differ, end we do not ears to know the
devil
THE CONTENTION.
The time is'rapidly approaching when
the people of Georgia will deride by
their votee whether or not a Convention
shall be held for the purpose of framing
anew Constitution. Two weeks from
to-day the election ordered by the Leg
islature will be held. It is important
that a fall vote should be polled. While
we are fully convinced that a large ma
jority of the people of the State desire
the assembling of a Constitutional Con
vention, we are equally as well assured
that the enemies of the measure are
working secretly but actively to defeat
it. They are not making much open
opposition, except in a few counties, bnt
they are quietly organizing their forces
in the hope of turning to account on the
day of election the over confidence Of
the people. By not making an open
fight they hope to deceive tbe people in
to believing that there is no opposition
and into staying away from the polls.
In the adoption of such a policy
lies their only hope of success,
and they are panning it adroitly and
systematically. Office and Atlanta are
straining every nerve to prevent the as
sembling of a free parliament of the
people. They will spare neither labor
nor money, and they will resort to any
means to accomplish their purpose.
They have secured the assistance of one
of tbe memben of tbe Republican Cen
tral Committee and will endeavor,
through bis influence, to throw the
whole Republican vote of the State in
opposition to a Convention. We do not
believe that Conley can oontrol as he
pleases the Repnblican party of Georgia.
Even if he can, we do not believe Atlan
ta, Office and Republicans can defeat a
measure which is of such vital impor
tance to Georgia aud to Georgians. But
the people must not grow apathetic from
too much confidence. On the day of
election all the enemies of a Convention
will be at the polls; all the friends of a
Convention must be there also.
HARD TIMES AND DOCTORS.
The Louisville Medical News has an
article on hard times, showing how the
physician is effected thereby. It turns
a longing eye to the flush era of twelve
years ago and says :
“ What a harvest there was just after the
war, when everything was sweeping along with
the speculative madness it introduced ! The
great doctor went away up in the thousands,
and very few of the lesser ones starved. ’Six
ty-five and ’sixty-six were booming years, and
the seventies were turned amidst plenty as
general as mayhippen to a calling where one
iu tbe ten geta the business to do. The panic
of 1873 marked the decided turning point, and
the bellies of the little fish began to tnrn up
ward in the streams. The stagnation of 1877
reached the deep water i aud grounds many a
whale.”
It would appear from this that
hard times make the collection of
bills a very serions difficulty,
but even the Medical News ad
mits that as men grow poorer they call
on the physician less and less. We are
shown in the -snbjoined extract to what
shifts the patient is reduced:
The doctor is as often a luxury as a neces
sity. It is nothing to call him in far a head
ache when money ia plenty; his society may be
worth the price of his visit when little is ailing.
But when the dayß of economy are upon us he
suffers next to the chnrch. Then comes the
trust of nature worthy of a better oause, or
wretched makeshifts, the taking of neighborly
advice, the duplication of old prescriptions,
the consultation of the drag-store man, or the
experiment with nostrums. Then comes the
count ng of visits also, and gees the smile at
his too frequent entrance, the "letting him
know if necessary,” etc.
The doctor must therefore fall back
chiefly upon his well-to-do patrons, and
this reliance may not always be a profit
able one, sinoe, in such hard times as
now befall the world, even the reputed
rich consider themselves frequently on
the verge of min, and indeed there are
very few who do not suffer in the “shrink
age of securities” torments unknown to
the maD who has no securities to shrink.
We are rather astonished, however to
see each an admission as this in the
Medical News :
Barring the epidemics, there has been a
steady falling off in diseases during the last
few years, generally, we believe, bnt marked
in this community. Thirty-four was the num
ber of deaths iu this city last week—one in four
thousand people! Let ns at least try to thank
Qod for His general mercy.
The Courier Journal, amazed at the
above confession, comments good na
tnredly thus : “ Now, in flash times,
when every one on the slightest provoca
tion employed a doctor, the Secretary of
the Board of Health need to report to ns
from forty to fifty deaths a week in this
community. In these hard times, when
no one will employ a ddctor except in
the direst necessity, and when he is
compelled to do so bows him ont after
a visit or two with the assnranee that he
will be informed if he is wanted again,
we have only thirty-fonr deaths in a
week. If we were not kindly disposed
to the doctors, if we did not believe in
physio, and if we did not lave great
faith in the medical skill, we might find
room jnst here for the suggestion that if
hard times are hard on the dootors they
are good for patients. Bnt as we are not
disposed to snch ill-natured reflection;
so we will join the doctors in longing for
the good time—not for them, bnt for all
of ns—that ‘was to have been when the
troops were moved, and is postponed
now until the crops are moved,’ and join,
too, in the hope that at least it will
come when something is moved that lias
between ns and prosperity.”
THE MAIN CHANCE AND TRUE HE
ueioN.
The temperance oanse is jnst now hav
ing a father pyrotechnical illustration in
the person of a great revivalist named
Murphy, who, as an eloquent ‘.‘a*-ram
seller,” has turned many men from tbe
Bednctive oock-tail and the insidious
milk-punch. It seems, however, that
even Brother Murphy, while evangeliE
ing his fellow-man, has a shrewd tarn
for the main chance and turns his godly
calling to a strictly business account.
Here is his advertisement:
“With malice toward none, and charity for all.”
CHBISTTAN TEMTEHANCE MEETINGS
or
FRANCES HUB PHY.
Philadelphia, May 19,1577.
Ht Dear Bbothkh—l will dm id jf the month
of June deliver twenty (26) lectures, and as
your people have expressed a desire to secure
my services, I take pleasure in inf arming you
that they may do so by applying, at the earliest
possible moment, to your Brother in Christ,
Francis Mcxpht,
Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia.
P. B.—My terms per lecture are S2OO, two
hundred dollars.
The beauty of this proclamation is,
like a woman’s letter, at the end of it;
and it has led the arch-foe of Deacon
Bichard Smtth to observe that, in this
case at lpsst, tee to tali am pays better
than keeping a first class bar. It may
be true, as tbe truly good Deacon ob
serves, that Mr. Dana has entered into
an unholy compact with the Enemy of
Mankind, but the facts and figures he
gives are unimpeachable, via: “Twenty
leetvres a month at $360 each will bring
in SI,OOO a week, or say $59,000 a year.
If he can get work all the time at this
rate, Murphy ought to be a millionaire
in time."
Clara Morris denies that she cries all
the time when her husband begs her not
to act. She aay her trouble is that God
has given her a strong brain and a week
body.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 6, 1877.
■ora HIDES.
We desire to state lor the informa
tion of ail our readers that each side of
any public question can always obtain a
hearing through the columns of the
CHBonoLn and Constitutionalist. Be
cause it i the only paper published, or
likely to be published for some time, in
Augusta, its proprietors end eooduoton
do not desire to stifle free dwenemon of
any public matter with regard to whioh
e difference of opinion may exist On
the contrary, no matter what position
tbe paper may take editorially any oiti
zen is free to combat its views in its
own oolnmns. We will not take any po
sition that we -would be unwilling to
subject to the teat of adverse criticism.
Our object is to make tbe Chronicle
and Constitutionalist a paper for the
people—to open its oolnmns, subject to
the proper limitations, to the diaonssion
of al! pablio matters.
A MELANCHOLY FARCE.
The Superior Court of Burke oounty
was adjourned yesterday. The grand
jury was discharged and no indiotments
were found against the men who went
down from Angnsta to Waynesboro,
broke open the jail and hanged and shot
to death a man who was in the custody
of the law. We feared from the first
that indictments would not be found
against the murderers; we feared from
the first that even if bills should be ob
tained against them jnries wonld refuse
to oonviot, and we are not at all sur
prised by the result. The whole inves
tigation has been a melancholy faroe.
For the third time within the past
few years it has been shown in this seo
tion of the State that a mob may admin
ister the law as they please, put to
death whomsoever they will, and go free
of punishment. We do not know what
testimony was offered to the grand jury
when tbe bills in these cases were
beiDg considered, bnt it will pro
voke a smile of just derision when
ever the statement is made that a
band of fifteen or twenty men, wearing
no disgnise whatever, could ride on the
oars from Augusta to Waynesboro, carry
the jailer to the jail with them and in
duce him to open the building for them,
take a prisoner out, shoot him to death,
hang him to a tree, mutilate the body,
remain in the town for several hours, re
turn home and send around a committee
to oollect money with whioh to pay the
expenses of tkeir murderous mission,
without some of them being Teoognized.
The fact is, there must be a change in
public sentiment before lynching can be
stopped and mob-murder punished.—
This change must be effeoted by the ef
forts of the press and the courage and
resolution of the offioers of the law.—
The press is doing what it ean, and in
this instance a determined effort has
been made to punish lawlessness. The
Solicitor-General of this Circuit —Mr.
Baler Dutoheb— deserves great credit
for the zeal and intrepidity whioh he
has displayed in his attempt to protect
society and to vindicate the offended
majesty of the law.
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
Some days ago we briefly alluded to
the French crisis as probably a contest
between Religion and Infidelity; be
tween Faith and the Red-Republican
Revolntion. This appears to have been
a true solution. The English reviews
and journals are by no means favorable
to what is called the “Clerical party” in
Franoe; bnt some of them have most
admirable impartiality and evince a
sturdy desire to ascertain and proclaim
the tiuth. Notable among these is the
Saturday Review. In its edition of
May 12th, recounting the progress of
the Left—the Gambetta party— to nltra
Radicalism, it says: “The Radicals no
longer confine their attacks to points on
whioh the Ultramontanes differ from
moderate Catholics, or even from re
ligions Protestants. With characteristic
thoroughness, they go to the root of toe
matter, and attack the Founder of
Christianity as the most certain and
comprehensive method of attacking
Christianity. The Ultramontanes can
insist with truth that it is not they alone
who are the objects of Radical hostility.
Tbe other day some of the Radical
journals of Paris could not let even M.
Loyson escape nnharmed. All his quar
rels with the Ohuroh oould not wipe ont
the inextinguishable disgrace that he
professes and calls himself a Christian,
and believes tbat he has a soul as well
as a body, It is this state of things tbat
makes the Ultramontane agitation for
midable. The Radicals begin by con
founding Ultramontanes and Christians
in a' common condemnation. The Ultra
montanes accept the confusion, and in
sist, witb very good reason, tbat if the
Radioals had their way it is not only
Ultramontanes that wonld suffer.”
We believe this to be a jnst view of
the subject. Tbe Red Republic works
for the extinguishment of all forms of
the Christian religion. ?his seems to
be the polioy of the Left, under the lead
of Gambetta, who is, we believe, an in
fidel. It is not to be wondered, there
fore, that Mao Mahon, in tbe interest of
Christianity as well as Order, should
confront the enemies of Religion and
Peace. Neither is it to be marvelled at
that, in assnming suoh an attitude, he
should be joined by all parties who re
member with horror the days of Robbs
piebre and Marat, their bloody reprisals,
their overturn of society, their smutty
Goddegs of Reason and their prostitu
tion of Liberty, Equgljty and Frater
nity. Any religions faith is better than
infidelity, and tbe President-Marshal is
too conscientious a man to permit
France to drift, from whatever moorings
she may have, upon the reefa and quick
sands of modern socialise and monkey
worship.
Queen Victoria is 58.
The new German Ambassador to the
Porte is Prince Reuss. He is a Lieu
tenant-General, 52 years of age, and rules
over about a$ many inhabitants as a
New York Alderman.
The New Orleans Republican (Pack
ard’s organ) advised the negroes to vote
for aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad.
The project wgs defeated. Savannah
onght to be a warning to all other South
ern cities in this respect
The Republican papers declare that
Morton’s letter is “luminous,” “lucid, ’’
"(unmistakable," "clear to the
apprehension.” Then they go to work
and try to explain it. Very few of them
think alike. Morton’s letter is Delphic.
We are inclined to believe that Secre
tary Etabts never bad any intention of
"stirring np" Governor Btohe, of Mis
sissippi If that sort of thing is to be
done, let the first experiment be made
upon a Republican Governor. Lord,
how the States Bight doctrine would
come oat then!
Some of the religions conclaves are
attacking Sunday newspapers. As some
of the attacking brethren own stock in
street railways that pay good dividends
and ran on the Lord’s Day, they con
cluded to let the Sunday papers alone.
A wise decision. Nearly all the trouble
in the world comes from meddling with
other people’s basin ess.
THE ROYAL FEE.
UTOB OF BX GOV. SMITH TO
GOV. A. H. COLQUITT,
fa WkM Certain Difl'ereacea al Opinlan Are
AllaM Te—And tbe IjNesliea Is Raised As
Ts Whether Gar. Smith Brer Made a Caa
traet With Cal. Alston—The Circumstances
Under Which the Matter Was First
Masked.
Atlanta, Ga., May 29, 1877.
His Excellency A. H. Colquitt, Atlanta,
Ga.'
Bib—A report has appeared in the
newspapers to the effect that you recent
ly paid to Messrs. Alston,and Garling
ton, by virtue of a oontradt made while
I was Governor of the Stale, the snm of
thirty thousand dollars let their services
in collecting the claim on which you
lately received a large aiqeunt of money
at Washington. I have reason to be
lieve that, in conversation witb mem
bers of the press and others, yon have
sought to confirm this report, by at
tempting to create the impression that,
bnt for my oontraot, you wonld not have
paid so large an amount of the public
money to the gentlemen named. You
have deolined to correspond with
me by letter or- thesubject men
tioned, and bare Informed me tbat
you feel “ responsible to the peo
ple of Georgia alone ” for yonr ac
tions. Yonr condnct leaves bnt one
oonrse open to me, and that is to ad
dress you through the same channel by
which the report referred to reached the
pnblio, viz: the newspaper press of tbe
State. It is due “to the people of Geor
gia,” as well as to myself individually,
that the injustice attempted in that re
port should not be peimitted to suc
ceed, aud that tbe responsibility for the
payments allnded to should be placed
on yonr own shoulders—where it proper
ly belongs. According to my recollec
tion of the fact- 1 , no contract between
myself, as Governor, and Messrs. Baugh,
Alston and Garlington, as agents of the
State for the collection of tbe claim
allnded to, was ever perfected. The
joint affidavit of the two last named
gentlemen is on file in the Executive
offioe, and I will now refer particularly
to the points of difference between my
own remembrance of the faots and
theirs as they have therein stated it.
They deposed in effeot that the un
signed memorandum attached to their
affidavit contained a true statement of
the agreement referred to. This state
ment is not in accordance witb my re
collection. The memorandum sets forth
substantially that it was represented to
me that Col. Alston woald visit Wash
ington on the business of the claim, if
sufficient compensation were allowed to
the agent. My remembrance is that it
had been agreed between Messrs. Baugh
and Alston that the latter should be ad
mitted into the Bullock contraot as one
of the agents for collecting the claim,
and that, at the instanoe of the former,
I gave my assent to the arrangement.
This, according to my recollection, took
place before anything was said to me in
reference to allowing au increase of the
compensation specified in the Bullock
contract.
It is further stated in tbe memoran
dum that it was proposed tbat the fees
should be equally divided between the
three agents, Baugh, Alston and Gar
lington. I do not remember that any
such proposition was ever stated to me.
The proportions in which the agents
were to share in the eontrapt amongst
themselves was their own peouliar affair,
and it is not probable, therefore, that
the snbject was mentioned to me at all.
The memorandum further sets forth
in substanoe that I agreed to allow the
agents for their services a contingent fee
of 25 per cet. on the amount collected.
Aa I remember the faots, this statement
is not correct. According to my under
standing, the agents were to be entitled
to claim an increase of the contingent
fee specified in the Bullock contract, not
to exceed 25 per cent.; but the increase
was to be ascertained witb reference to
the service rendered and the amount
collected. This increase was to be al
lowed because it was. insisted with good
reason by the agents, I thought, that
tbe rate of compensation specified in tbe
Bullock contract might, under circum
stances likely to occur, he fognd very
inadequate. It was uncertain whether
anything would over be collected, but
it was very certain that, in order to col
lect anything, it might become neces
sary, in the then existing state of affairs
at Washington, to offer very liberal in
ducements to expert and influential
agents there. This could not be done
under the comparatively low rate of
compensation fixed by the Bollock con
tract. While 12£ per cent, would be
large compensation for collecting two
hundred thousand dollars, it might be
very poor compensation for collecting
twenty.-flve thousand, fifty thousand, or
even to much as seventy-five thousand
dollars. If anything at all were collect
ed, it might be a comparatively small
sum. In such a case, 25 per cent, on
tbe amount collected would possibly not
be too much. But if a large sqm were
collected then the rate of compensation
ought to be diminished and fixed with
reference to that fact.
Bat to fally understand all the con
siderations which entered into my nego
tiation with the agents, it is necessary
that the condition of affairs at Washing
ton should be borne in mind. A claim
presented in behalf of the State of Geor
gia was not then (some three years ago)
likely to be received with much favor by
the party in power. The political situa
tion would probably increase the diffi
culty of collecting the (fiaim. Qur Sena
tors and Representatives ip Congress
possessed comparatively little influence
with the dominant party, and to over
come all tbe obstacles in the way of sno
cess, it probably would be necessary for
the agents to enlist the services of per
sons who would have weight with the
Government. These considerations, and
others whioh I will not here stop to re
fer to, led me to consent that the change
of the contract whioh I have mentioned
•hsn!4 be fflsde,
Thp asdavit qf Meijsjs. Alston and
Garlington further states ip substance
that l said to the parties, at the time the
agreement wss made, that I would en
dorse tbe game upon the papers which
contained the original Rqlloolj ooptraot.
I do not rememberthis,but I do recollect
that, before the subjeot of making anew
cpntraot was mentioned at all, it was
snggested that the faet that Col. Alston
had oome into the case should be en
dorsed on the papers containing the old
contract. It was understood, as I re
member, that the new contract was to
be redncedjto writing and executed by|the
parties, and that it should thon.be enter
ed on the minntes of the Executive De
partment. The law required that all
the official acts of the governor sfiqald
be entered or recorded ip ‘ the book of
minutes. The contract, through the in
attention of the parties, was never exe
cuted and perfected, and hence no record
of it was ever made-
The affidavit farther states in sub
steppe that the “memorandum” was pre
sented to me by Messrs. Alston and
Garlington; that I read it, prononneed
it correct and then stated to them that I
would give it my “official sanction.” I
do not remember that I ever more than
merely glanced at the contents of the
paper. It is not in accordance with my
recollection thgt Colqpel Alston was
present when tne paper was handed to
me, or that I ever stated to any person
that it waa correct. Ido remember that
the character of tbe paper was very
briefly mentioned by General Garling
ton when he gave it to me, and that I
felt willing to sigp it if, upon examina
tion, I should find it oorreot. The par
port of the document was intended to
be a written statement by myself as
Governor showing tbe terms of contract
with Messrs. Baugh, Alston and Gar
lington, and it only needed my signa
ture to complete it. This could have
been given in a moment, and it is re
markable if I took tbe time and pains to
examine it with anfficient oare to pro
nounoe it oorrect that I did not then
also take that additional moment and
give it my "official sanction.”
It thns appears that the facts, even as
stated by Messrs. Alston and Garling
ton themselves, raise the presumption
that it was my intention to take time to
examine tbe paper farther before I sign
ed it. I will state, in this eonneetion,
that the memorandum was not handed
to me nntil near the ead of my term of
office. I was busily engaged in prepar
ing to meet the General Assembly, and
to torn over the Executive Office to my
ssooeeeor. These duties were so absorb
ing as to require my entire attention. I
aid not have any time to give to the
matter of the memorandum, I did not
see bat that my soepesaor might com
plete the unfinished contract as well as
myself, if he shonld approve it, and
hence I did not understand that there
waa any very urgent neoeasity for my
acting in the matter at all. I never sign
ed the paper, or in any way intended to
give it the Executive sanction. It was
never made an office paper by me, bat
Was left unfinished, and withont any va
lidity whatever.
A few words in regard to another pa
per which appears on file in the Execu
tive Office. I refer to the affidavit of R.
A. Alston, appended to a written instru
ment executed by Colonel Baugh, on —-
t December, 1876, in tbe presence of W.
T. Johnson. In that instrument the
terms of the oontraot, it is pretended,
that I had made with the agents are set
forth by way of rew.al. In the affidavit
jnst mentioned, it is stated in substance
that the instrument was shown to me
after it was executed; that I read it and
stated that it contained a trne recital of
the agreement; bnt tbat the execution
of snoh a paper was perhaps unneces
sary, because I had already sufficiently
protected the rights of Messrs. Alston
and Garlington by an entry on a oontraot
between Colonel Baugh and General
Henry R. lack son. My memory is en
tirely at fault if I ever knew or had so
much as ever heard of the existence of
tho instrument referred to in this affi
davit, nntil I was furnished with a copy
of it a few days ago at the Executive
Office. I remember that Colonel Alston
spoke to me in reference to the entry of
the Executive approval on the Baugb-
Jackson contract, and that I thought he
agreed with me that his rights were in
W Way-endangered thereby. Bnt Ido
not remember that he ever spoke to me
iD reference to the paper allnded to in
the affidavit last mentioned.
Briefly here, in relation to the Bangh-
Jackson agreement, and to the entry of
Executive approval which appears there
on :
The effect of this agreement was sim
ply to associate Messrs. Jackson, Lawton
and Bassinger with Col. Baugh, as
agents for the State in the claim ease.
The parties to the agreement, viz. ;
Col. Baugh on the one part, and Gen.
Henry R. Jackson on the other, desired
that Borne Executive recognition of the
right of Messrs. Jackson, Lawton and
Bassinger to act as such agents might
be given. I did not hesitate to give the
recognition desired, bnt, inasmuch as
the effeot of the oontraot would be to let
additional agents into the ease, and as
tbe number might be still further in
creased by private arrangements be
tween parties, I took the precaution in
making the entry of approval to speci
fy tbe maximum rate of compensation
which would be allowed to all the agents,
in the following language :
“ The above oontraot and agree
ment is approved and the compensation
to be paid to all agents by the State is
not to exceed 25 per cent, of the amount
collected upon the claims.”
These words, entered by myself and
appearing on the record, are relied on, I
learn, to show that, at the time I made
the entry, I considered the unfinished
contract with the agents perfected and
binding on the State. It is proper,
therefore, that I should pause just a mo
ment bsrp tp comment upon and explain
them.
Tbe language employed simply states
that the compensation to be paid to all
agenls is not to exceed 25 per centum of
the amount collected. It is not stated
nor is the inference given that the com
pensation may not be leas than that rate.
If it had been intended by that entry to
flxt 25 per cent, as the only rate, language
expressive of that intention would have
been employed. It would have been
stated, for example, that the compensa
tion to be paid to all agents by the State
is to be (or shall be) 25 per centum of
the amount collected. These words
would haye bepn pqtjjrally suggested to
the mind as expressive of such an in
tention. But when tho language used
simply expresses 25 Qer cent, as a maxi
mum rate which is not to be exceeded,
the presumption arises that the inten
tion was not to fix what tho compensa
tion shonjd be, but to specify a rate of
per cent . above whioh tiro compensation
should not go. The proposition stated
in the entry is simply to the effeot that
the rate of compensation must not be
great,ef than 25 per oent. on tbe amount
collected; but ppt that jt plight pot he
less. It is not intended that at all events
the rate mnst be as high as 25 per cent.)
but that in no event shall it be higher.
In conolqsipp, on this particular point I
will ald that it wap n H t m jnlpfffipo, ift
said entry, to fix wi at the fate pf pom
popsajion to be paid to agents should
actually boj bqt iftthef to pjMbjt them
from claiming that they oould under
any circumstances receive a higher rate
than the one therein mentioned.
Having given in substance my recol
lection in reference to the making of the
pretended contraot, I now invite your
attention to the following brief State
ment of my objections to your oondnet
in settling it and paying out the money
under it:
1. The law expressly declares that
among other books of record whioh shall
be preserved in the |}xeoutive osoe
there s4f})l be jfept “a‘jou*Dal or book
of oiiHUtes, jn whioh the Governor shall
cause to be entered all his official acts.”
The law requires that all the official
acts of thp Department of the
government ahdh bp reporded.
the law requires that a fact shall be re
corded, the existence of that fapt ought,
if brought into question, to be shown
by the record. 4 judgment of the Su
preme Gonrt of the State for instanoe is
an official act of the Court, which the
law requires shall be recorded and kept
in the proper office. Could yon legally
set up such a judgment otherwise than
by the records of the Court ? If the
reoords were silent on the subieot mjght
you nevertheless nroye thf existence of
the judgment by oral testiinopy,'and
tlseq proceed to giye ;t the qpq
effect of a legal iudginpfltf flqt. yqu
could not do thi. h°w wmd you sot up
and give validity to an official apt <4
your predecessor upon oral evidence
alone? The making of the
contract if made at all. w' B his “official
act, and the requires that it should
-e recorded and kept in the Executive
Offloe. When you examined the record,
therefore, aud found nothing showing
the “official SPt" hud been performed,
yU shog’d have paused. Even if cir
cumstances raised a presumption that
the reoords were silent when they ought
to have spoken, you should nevertheless
have held the matter up for the action
of the legislature. You ought not to
have assumed the power to determine a
question in referenoe to which no legal
evidence whatever existed. This was
apparently your first blunder.
9. But when you bad consented to
make this blunder, and to hear parole
evidenoe, why did yon not call for alt
the witnesses ? Jnst in this connection
you will be pleased to bear in mind that
the amount claimed nnder the alleged
contract was very large ; that there were
only three living witnesses (so far as 1
knew), viz : Messrs. Alston, Garlington
and myself, who possessed a knowledge
of the facts in relation to the pretended
agreement. I, it was stated, had made
the contract, and Messrs. Alston and
Garlington were claiming thirty thou
sand dollars nnder it. Qu the day be
fore you paid out the money Jndge
Hammond, the counsel for Col. Baugh’s
estate, went directly from myself tovonr
office, and, as he has since informed me,
advised yon that I was ready on your re
quest to lay before yon all the facto in
my knowledge in reference to the pre
tended contract. For several days af
terwards I was within easy reaoh of your
office.
You did not attempt to obtain my
evidenoe, however, bat yon did hear the
interested witnesses, and if I am oor
rectly informed, yon set np the pretend
ed contract on their evidenoe alone, Do
yon think that this condnot on yonr
part was either fair to me or jnst to the
Commonwealth ? Ought yon not to
have heard me before yon decided to
place the responsibility of making such
a contract on my shoulders? Before
von made yonr deoision, yon were nrged
by friends, one of whom ooonpies a high
judicial position in the State, to call
upon me to fnrnish my evidenoe. Bat
yon declined to make the request. You
gave as a reason, I learn, that I was not
your friend. Was that reason a suffi
cient one, in yonr judgment ? Does a
just Judge refuse to bear evidenoe be
cause he suspects the witness to bo in
imical to him ?
But did yon not also owe it to the
people to hear my evidenoe before yon
deeided to pay away so large an amonnt
of their money, nnder snch very ques
tionable circumstances ? Yonr adminis
tration was to be signalized, yon will re
member, by rigid economy and earnest
reform. No waste or extravagance
would be tolerated, and all officials were
pat on notice at the very outset that
yon expected that they woald for ex
ample’s sake, if for no other reason, be
very saving of the people’s money. But
here, in this payment of thirty thousand
dollars of the public money for services
never rendered, you have furnished to
the public yonr practical commentary
upon the principles so handsomely an
nounced in yonr inaugural address.
3. But when, by the testimony of the
interested witnesses, you had set up
“Alston’s bonanza,” as ft has been some
times termed by the press, what evi
dence was furnished to show you that
the claimants had performed services
which entitled them to the “pot of
money,” as Roger Riderbood wonld have
oall ed it. After yon had paid out the
'4 snm mentioned, I called at the
Executive Office and requested to be
for lisfaed with oopies of any depositions
or other writings on file showing that
services had. been rendered under the
fire (ended oqntraot. 001. Warren, your
Sec rotary, informed me that he did not
kn< w of the existence of any such pa
per i. 001. Alston and Gen. Garlington,
in Ihe affidavits already referred to, do
not oiaim that they, or either of them,
evcjr performed any aervioe under the
praitended contract. Even in the very
deposition in Whioh they set np the oon
trapt, they do not venture to stale that
its terms had been complied with on
thejir part. I do not charge that they
did not in faot perform any aervioe, for
I know little or nothing on this particu
lar! subject. My complaint is, that af
ter! setting np the contraot upon insuffi
cient evidence, yon then paid the par
ties, it seems, withont any proof that
they had ever oomplied with its provis
ions.
' Yon must bear with me here, a little.
It was not snffioient, before paying the
money, merely to know that tbe alleged
contract had been made and waabinding
on the State. Yon ought to have gone still
fntther, and required strict proof that
the agents had oomplied fully with its
terms. Before you paid them the 25
, per oent. under the pretended contraot,
you should at least have known that,
according to its tenor, they had earned
the compensation it allowed them. Bnt
what evidence did you have to show
that the agents had performed the alleg
ed contract ? What witness testified
that 001. Alston, General Garlington, or
any other agent nnder the contract, had
collected the money ? The oontraot, as
proved by Messrs. Alston and Garling
ton, provided that the agents were to be
allowed “for their services a contingent
fee of ,25 per cent on the amount collect
ed on tbe claim.” The legal intend
ment here was that they were to be paid
the fee as a consideration for collecting
the money. Was it in faot oolleoted by
tbjeir efforts ? or was it oolleoted through
tho services of our Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress ? If the pretend
ed contraot was valid, then the State had
two distinct sets or olasses of agents,
each charged with the duty of collecting
tfiis claim. First, her personal or pri
vate agents under the opntrapt, who
were to be paid for their services accord
ing to the terms therein agreed on. Sec
ondly, her Senators and Representatives,
who were bound by offioial duty to serve
their State in this matter. If the claim
wsb oolleoted by reasdh of the services
of these offioial agents, then the personal
ageptg, not having performed their con
tract, had no right to claim any compen
sation whatever nnder it. It would
hardly be pretended, I imagine, that
001. Alston or (Jen. Garlington qught to
be paid for services rendered by Senator
Gordon or Mr. Hill, aa representatives
of the State in Congress. Then, What
services did our offioial agents render in
collecting the money? Did they, or
either of them attend to the duty p( jn
tha MU *o pay the claim ? Did
they watoh and attend it in its progress
through eommittee, and did they Dually
seize upon an opportune moment to
press its passage and thns secure the
collection of the moneys
j If they djd, (hep the personal agents
pox entitled to compensation un
der any special contraot whatever. If
Colonel Baugh had worked up the evi
dence jn thp gasp jjf Qpq (Wmgton
had drawn a memorial, and if Colonel
Alston had given the influence of his
presence at Washington to aid opr mem
bers of Congjegg |g performing their
dpty |u the premises, then these gentle
men should have been paid whatever
their services were reasonably worth,
and no snore. They were not enticed
to be paid under apy gppeiei oontraot.
Efeq tpe sqiloek agreement itself was
out pf the question. No contract writ
ten or unwritten, had been performed
by them, and they were entitled to
claim only according to the yalpe pf the
seryiees they had actually rendered to
the State. Other grave abjections to
your cgndbct exist, which I snail notioe
only briefly at present. You did not
require the aooonnts of Messrs. Alston
ana Garlington to be audited by the
Comptroller-General, as the law directs,
before you paid them. The payment
was not made under ej was
drawn bv yo M yjeit directly- out of the
Treasury, the Treasurer, as I learn,
simply taking yonr receipt therefor.
The money was not paid to the parties
by the Treasnrer, but, after being drfiwp
fromjthe Treasury, was pais by yourselfi
The money no fcaid wai’ no part of the
fund received by you in payment of tho
claim at Washington. That fund was,
as I learn, placed to tbe credit qf the
Treasury in New Yoffc; whejWl the w>-
ftey MM Wie drawn dnectly from
thp Treaqqry ip Atlanta. Ifo tp Gl
uey had been appropriated by layf tp
pay Messrs. Aletop ppd GqipUogtou. The
Constitution pf the State inhibits the
payment of money out of the Treasury,
unless by appropriation of law.
In conclusion, permit me to inquire
why were yon in snoh a hurry to pay Al
ston and Garlington ? There were grave
obstacles in your way, but you resolute
ly surmounted them all, Jvipnds ad
vised you to I h,'aya been inform
ed yo werh eyen ooqnsaMaa
friend in high judicial PQgitiafl (ft ?üb
mit Ihe whole qMv m the dudgea f the
W tfceif opinm Bu
rndt asya that yon would net *- n wait
™ ItoH r ,rem Rumbus, where
roiwesaefl remainon a vigifc a day
or iwn Now, why this very great haste
co pay these enormous fees, under cir
cumstances of such doubtful propriety ?
What necessity were yon under to pay
tnem in suoh a harry ? Ought you not
to have deferred payment, even until the
meeting of the Legislature ? Was it
not worth while to take the advice of the
representatives of the people in so im
portant an affair ? It was the people’s
money it was proposed yon should
pay away; ought you not to have
given them an opportunity to say
through their representatives wheth
er their money should be spent in
this way ? Did the fact that you thought
I had made the contract lead you to be
so prompt to pay ? You also thought I
made contracts with the counsel in the
Jones oase, but you deolined to recog
nize those contracts so far as to pay any
money on them until the Legislature
had taken aotion in reference thereto.
Now, why this difference ? It was al
leged that I had made the contracts in
both instances. You were very cautious
in the one, even going to the extent of
taking my statement in reference there
to; but in the other you declined to
either bear me, or to lay the matter be
fore the Legislature.
Many statements in referenoe to this
affair have appeared m the newspapers
—at whose instanoe, it is not for me to
say. I have not replied to them, and
shall not notice any snoh hereafter. If yon
should ever think fit to relpx yonr official
dignity so far as to explain directly to
the people, over your own signature, the
grounds of your aotion in this matter,
yon shall have my notice. But in the
meantime yon may understand that all
attempts to involve mein the discussion
of side issues with other parties win be
unavailing. I am, very respectfully,
yonr obedient servant,
Jambs M. Smith.
THE GLASCOCK. DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist :
The difficulty of choosing one name
for the county of Glascook to go on the
ticket of seven names to represent the
Eighteenth Senatorial District in the
State Constitutional Convention in Jnly
next, if held, is settled. Let Jndge
Braddy’s name be need. There would
have been a much larger vote for the
delegation in this county if the name
had been chosen by ballot from the
suitable persons contended fox by their
friends. This is the conclusion of the
Consultation on the 25th instant.
W. J. Wilchbe.
Glasooce Cotthtt, May 28th.
AMil Kerim’S Klepemeat.
ILondtm World.]
When only 20, Abdnl Kerim, now
oommander-in-chief of the Turkish
army, eloped with a pretty Moldavian
Jewess, the vivandiere of his regiment ;
and the lovers withdrew into a remote
village, where they were discovered a
year after. He was degraded and re
duced to the ranks.
The Cuthbert Appeal says the present
wheat crop in that section is the best in
twenty yean—-more planted, and the
yield larger.
Mr. Join F. Mcßae, of Telfair conn
tv, is the oldest Superior Court Clerk in
the State, having held office oontinnons
ly since 1844.
s2' A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE. .
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Corn is soarce in Cherokee.
From the crad'e to the bin.
Corn tassels are coming up.
Albany sighs for a town dock,
Macon has a blind piano tutor.
Lithonia has a photograph gallery.
Jackson county elects anew Coroner.
Dr. J. L. Cheney, of Columbus, is
dead.
Dr. Alfred, of LaGrauge, has made a
violin.
Maj. E. H. Bacon recently died in Sa
vannah.
Mrs. Seaborn Few, of Morgan county,
is dead.
Tocoa elamors for a hook and ladder
oompany.
. Colquitt and staff were photographed
in Savannah.
The whirl of the lottery wheel is
heard in Dalton.
Green apples and salt—no child should
be without them.
It takes a mint of whisky to make a
Perry man lively.
Croquet and temperance are gaining
ground in Hampton.
The Atlanta Independent, a Hayes or
gan, will soon be started.
A religions revival has-for three weeks
been going on in Madison.
’Hog cholera and swarms of locusts
prevail in Lumpkin oounty.
The Georgia Teachers’ Association
will meet in Tocoa in August.
“Die Schnapper” Clubs ish still dang
ling aud angling in der river.
The song of tbe scythe in the wheat
fields—“ Mower and Mower,”
Ruby lips and striped stockings are
now dyed with mulberry stains.
They are macadamizing Perry with
chessmen and backgammon dice.
A Savannah man f lipped upon a six
inched curbstone and broke his lpg.
Roseola Seems to have broken out
among the seven whistlers in Athens.
Crops in Jackson county, though a
little backward, are not discouraging.
Mrs. Thos. K. Wynne, wife of one of
tbe proprietors of the Columbus Times,
is dead,
One hundred thousand young shad
have recently been deposited in the Oc
mulgee river.
A nine feet rattlesnake, with thirty-six
rattles, was killed the other day upon
Lookont Mountain.
Prof. Win, Henry Peck disputes the
antiquity of Rev. W, W. Prather’s piauo
in Meriwether county.
The anniversary exercises of tho liter
ary societies of Mercer University
came off Friday night.
The press gang at were
regaled with home made wine, rice ar
tillery punph. played out.
Rust has made ita appearance in wheat
fields in Banks county. The crop in
Franklin was never better.
M. W. Stinson, of Crawford county,
makes one hundred and fifty pounds of
elegant butter every week.
Enooh Anderson, Esq., announces
himself for the Convention from Ranks,
Hall and Jaokson couptipj,
Mr. A. M. Pound* was billed at Stew
art ? in Jones connty, last week by
a young man named Lincoln,
Georgia is one of the thirty-three
States tbat have made laws four the pre
vention of cruelty to animals.
The i mentions that Misses
Sphaub ana Estes, of Augusta, are
spending a pleasant time in Athens.
A few more jokes upon Atlanta’s
muddy water before thp citizens filter it
and the opportunity be lost forever,
Ex-Qoy. Smith was at Griffin on Sat
urday, and made a rousing argument in
favor of tfie Constitutional Convention.
James Porter, colored, of Savannah,
is an applicant for the position of United
States Minister at Monrovia in, Liberia.
It is said that there are foity lawyers
in Atlanta between tbe ages of twenty
anfl thftty. The remaining eighty are
over thirty.
The Columbus mills have taken since
September Ist, 8,738 bales of cotton,
against 9,931 last year, a decrease of
1,193 bales,
Dqbfanega begins the season with sev
eral cases of measles, two amateur
drummers in town and a pack of wolves
on the suburbs.
A party of disguised men recently
took one Chambers from his house, near
Hampton, and soundly thrashed him for
some indecent behavior.
The ComvlMilm says “an Atlanta
gold fish has eaten nothing in ten years.”
Neither has the witch chain on which it
is worn. —Perry Journal.
The Press Convention took appro
priate action upon the sad death of a
worthy ex-president, Col. J. fl. Christy,
oi the Athens Watchman.
Charles Seograves, a young farmer of
Spalding county, was found banging by
a trace chain, lqsit Wednesday, from a
liml) pear bis father’s bouse.
Tfie Sandersville Herald says the far
mers of Washington county will have to
deliyer nearly sixteen hundred hales of
ootton next Fall to pay for guano.
Anthony L. Goble, for killing W. L.
Brown in Mareh, was at Gilmer Court
last week found guilty, and sentenced
to be hung at Ellijay on the 22d of
June,
A tobacco drummer is Albany last
week gave his age at 61 years. He says
his graDdmpthef is 121 years old, his
I|o% his father 10& sad all still
living.
The Atlanta Constitution suddenly
concludes that the O' ventlon is a lie
• ,_Wt I*’ , f however, to discover
FV* authority said Convention could
exercise over the Central Road.
Messrs. W. I. Hudson aud J. M. Mob
ley, of Harris; Messrs. John Dickey and
E. A. Flewellen of Upson, and J. T.
Willis and W. R. Gorman, of Talbot,
represent tbeir district in the Conven
tion.
The delegation from the First District
entire is as follows: Bryan county, A.
F. Smith; Chatham county, A. R. Law
ton, W. T. Thompspn, John Screven,
Waring Russell, J. L. Warren, J. M.
Guerard; Effingham county, Stephen F.
Keller.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad bss
been mortgaged for 81,000,000, and
Jessrs. H. H. Epping, President of the
Chattahoochee National Bank, Colum
bus, and J. E. Jones, President of the
Georgia Central Bank, Macon, appoint
ed trustees.
Another of Augusta's fair visitors left
the city yesterday morning for her home
in Savannah, and so great was the ten
dency to view the departure through
Swoll’n lids, that even eye-glasses are
said to have burst tbeir gold rims and
assumed a convex form.
As nothing has been since heard of
the Atlanta visitors to the canal baibe
cue, our citizens are strongly in favor of
dragging that stream. Now while we
do not share in these fears we do think
that a champagne plummet judiciously
dropped into the Oconee and a similar
“sounding” of Conductor Purcell might
be instituted with just cause and proba
bly good effect.
Carroll county wheat is rusting.
Cotton in Monroe county has a flop
eared look.
Spring oats and pic-nics are playing
out in the State.
The Washington Gazette failed to
reaoh us this week.
The cherry is no looger chary of its
blushes ifi these parts.
The rats in Forsyth are gnawing away
at little children’s toes.
The fat men held a convention last
week in Monroe county.
The new party in Georgia seems to be
afflicted with a premature rnst.
Mr. W. V. P. Hodgson, of Athens,
has been stricken with apoplexy.
The Recorder’s Court of Atlanta paid
SI,OOO last month into the City Treas
ury.
Major James O’Farrell, we learn, is
prominently spoken of as Mayor of Lula
I? is in Early county, of course, that
corn-tassels have appeared. No news
from Cobb.
W. H. Ross, W. A. Lofton and T. J.
Si unions represent Bibb county in the
Convention.
“The nymphs du pave,” says the
Rome Tribune, “take possession of the
streets after dark.”
A murderer has scaled his prison walls
in Irwin county, and is basking in the
sunshine of liberty.
The dwelling home of Mr.. H. O.
Colley, of Wilkes connty, was acciden
tally burned recently.
A woman living in Franklin county
attempted to commit suicide by drown
ing herself the other (toy.
Henry Jenkins committed snioide on
last Tuesday morning in his shop at
Louisville, Jefferson connty.
Gov. Smith did net make snch a rous
ing speeoh on Saturday in Griffin, after
all. In fact,,he was Bot there.
Atlanta has. 135 miles of streets
through which 35,649 people walk aud
are defended by 30 police men.
Commencement sermon oi the Lucy
Pobb Institute, at Athens, will be
preaohed next Sunday two weeks.
Major r. A. Burke, of Athens, says
that the Augusta Evening Mirror was
thejfarst paper in Georgia ever printed
by horse power.
n/£n e “f l ? odlSt Quarterly Conference
h u ave res ° lv ed to vigorously
prosecute all oases of misbehaviour dur
ing dm ne servioe. .
rs ‘ f.A Murphey. consort of the
edttor of the Central Georgia Widely,
iftol'tuiyjs; b ""“‘ “'" o "‘‘ e
to the Convention in Decatur oounty on
the opposition ticket •’ 3
° o, }i f l tuiion ,notes that-Mr. James
Moody, of Dmon Point, has an apple
wLtv L f S Wbloh bears a different
vadety of apples everv year
county has a contract to sup
ply the Czar with oorn next year, while
nppn the Oconee bottoms principally de
pends the future revictualling of Nicsie.
Mr. Jesse M. Goss, a young rrßutie
man of great promise and formerly a
citizen of Atlanta, died in Hempstead
Texas, on the 20th of May, of typhoid
A little scuffle occurred upon the
streets of Athens, Saturday, iu which a
pistol was accidentally discharged
i ß htl y the
Du . iu a “ altercation
wm killed? aailroa<1 * Pnda y eveniu -
Wilkes county is in first rate financial
condition, as will be seUn by the iollow-
Rfcefpt°s rt !87 ° OUnty , IVeasl -r<-r :
o, I V ?> f 7,BbG expenditures, 53,-
361 43 balance on hand May 9th $4 -
The literary societies of the Universi
tL“i\ V ® held theil ' Spring elections. In
f ß Tu. eulo9tbenian ’ Messrs. A. C. Riley
c °nn‘y; T. A. Atkinson, of
Wastwn th i er * and Toombs Dnßose, of
Washington, receive the Senior, Junior
PhpK°“ 0re o lUedalß res P e ctively. In,
h ! ? t appa Societ y- Mr. A. D. Smith,
of Marietta, reoeived the Senior and Mr.
iiSSE? •*
Outhbert has twelve bar-rooms.
Savannah wants more rifle clubs.
lhe flower thieves are in Atlanta. *
liL°n ln iT hf *. S a big ootto ’- crop.
Justice Bradley has gone to Atlanta.
lanta 1 meetlnga continue in At
fount RCOa ° ity ’ S snrobariu B soda
* S to bnve a swimming
There is a good deal of siokness in the
country.
Mr. Emory Speer, of Athens, has lioon
quite sick.
Crop prospects in Southern Georgia
are hopeful.
The Convention race in Muscogee will,
be a merry one. *
Northeast Georgia wheat and corn
crops look well.
Mrs. Jesse Armstrong, of Newton
oounty, is dead.
. history of Georgia will shortly be
issued in Atlanta.
They aro cultivating vineyards iu
Habersham oounty.
.Fishing in the waters around Savan
na(h is said to be splendid.
The anti-Oonvention war now “ trebly
swells the gale ” in Spalding.
Messrs. John Gammell and James
Garry, of Savannah, are dead.
Senator R. E. Duster declines to run
for the Constitutional Convention.
The Atlanta paper rejoioes that
“Mr. Hayes has learned Evarts a les
son.”
Mr. Abe Din coin killed Mr. Ambrose
Pound, in a wrestling match, at Clinton,
last week.
Larkin Turner, of Meriwether county,
is one hundred and seven years old, hale,
and hearty.
There were figs, peaches, other fruits
and enormous vegetables in abundance
at the Thomasville Fair.
Thomas Black has been acquitted, in
Fulton Superior Court, of the shooting
of Win. Pettis, in February.
Mr. Fred G. Hodgson, of Athens, has.
been awarded the West Point scholar
ship from the Ninth District.
Mias Redding Smith displayed 350 va
rieties of flowers in one mammoth bou
quet at the Thomasville Fair.
P. F. Lawshe, of Gainesville, Ga., is
an applicant for United States Marshal
for this State and is strongly endorsed.
The Star is grieving because it costs;
more to get freight from Augusta to Co
vington than it does from New York to
Augusta.
Capt. Hardeman, of the Cadets, and
Lieut, Serutschin, of the Fulton Blues,
arc candidates for Major of the Atlanta
Battalion.
Alfred Marshal, the negro who* mur
dered Mr. White, of Randolph county,
has been sentenced to be hung on the
27th of June.
Small grain crops in Lincoln county
are suffering terribly for rain, and cot
ton, though healthy, suffers somewhat
from bud worms.
Additional nominations for the Con
vention are Dr. D. F. MoOrimmon in
Wilcox, and Capt. Ruel W. Anderson,
in Pulaski county.
PROTECTING SHEEP.
Tlie Text of the Maryland Don Law.
An Act for the protection of Sheep
Husbandry.
Section 1, Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That if any
dog or dogs shall be detected in killing,
injuring orpursuing any sheep, the own
er of said sheep shall have full power
and right to kill said dog or dogs, un
less said dog or dogs shall have first es
caped to his or their owner’s premises.
Section 2. And be it further enacted,
That such person or persons whoso
sheep have been killed or injured by aDy
dog or dogs, may proceed against the
owners of such dog or dogs before any
Justice of the Peace of the State having
jurisdiction within the county where the
killing or injuring may have occurred,
who shall forthwith issue a summons for
the owner of such dog or dogs, and for
such witnesses as may be necessary to
ascertain the amount of damages sus
tained by such killing or injuring, and
such Justice of the Peace shall forthwith
give judgment for such damages as may
be ascertained, which shall be collected
as other debts in this State are collect
ed, and such Justice shall also require
the owner of such dog or dogs to give
bond, with good and sufficient security,
in the sum of not less than fifty dollars,
that such dog or dogs shall not hereaf
ter kill or injure any sheep, and upon
failure of saeh owner of such dog or
dogs to give such security, then said
Justice of the Peace shall require some
one of the constables of the county to
proceed forthwith to kill such dog or
dogs, and said constables for such kill
ing shall be allowed the sum of one dol
lar for each dog killed by him upon such
order by the Justice of the Peace ns
aforesaid, to be taxed against the owner
of such dog or dogs as a part of the
costs in sueh cases; provided\hat noth
ing in this act shall be oonstru- and to pre
vent the right of appeal as in other
cases, and provided further, that Caro
line, Cecil, Howard, Dorchester, Wi
cemico and Worcester counties be ex
empted from the provisions of this act.
A Great Legal Triumph*
In the Atlanta Constitution, of the
19th, we find a vivid description of the
third trial of Jake Stafford, colored, for
the murder of John Casey. Stafford had
been twice tried previon ly, twice found
guilty and twice sentenced to death, but
tbe indefatigable energy of his counsel,
Mr. R. S. Jefferies and Mr. Howell C.
Glenn, left no stone upturned to clear a
man who was believed by many to be
innocent, notwithstanding the adverse
verdicts of two juries. Mr. Jefferies,
who was the leading counsel for the de
fendant, made the case of Stafford a
special study for nearly three years, and
gave to it the best portion of his legal
thoughts and attention. Every point of
evidence, every principle of law attached
to the case and every branch and
step in its progress were perfectly
familiar to him, and he used his
knowledge and his talents with consum
mate skill in his eudeavor to save his
client, an endeavor which was finally
crowned with success. In his fourth set
argument of the case he surpassed all
his former efforts, and made a really
grand speech. He seemed so absorbed
and wrought upon in his impassioned
appeals to the jury that one might
readily have imagined him to be plead
ing his own cause and begging for the
safety of his own life. No man on trial
for his life ever had a more terribly in
earnest advocate than Stafford had in
the person of Mr. Jefferies. The speech
was admired by all who heard it, and
was pronounced a most excellent and
creditable production, worthy of the
lawyer, the case and the Court. The
jury returned a verdict of not guilty,
and Stafford was discharged.