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W EDS ESDAT, - - JUNE 6, 1877.
T*h Bbceck is the Ring of the Turf.
Conklibo has the sulk* and will not
lnnch with the President.
Phil Sheridans twin daughter* are
named Irene and Loris*.
The Standard of the Prophet has been
in Constantinople since 15®5.
Suicide and divorce ars very prers.
lent among our Northern brethren.
Warmoth is married, and, so far as
Louisiana is concerned, we hope, set
tled. 1
Ben Wadi’s nephew estimates the
Democratic majority in Ohio this yesr
at 20,000.
If you want to lose the calves of your
legs, go to Boumania and interview a
Baahi-Bazonk.
Would not onr “ex-sovereign rather
have had the freedom of London in a
silver bottle ?
President Hates had a private Score
tary named R. E. Lee. He is now Con
sul at Frankfort.
Ihb threat of sending the Softae—
theological studente—to the front, bat
had a soothing effect upon them
The Cretans want Gladstone as their
Prince. It is suggested that Thomas
Carltle be made Prince of Bulgaria.
P. M. General Ret made a ipeecb
at Nashville and, among ether things,
[>roe leaned himself still a Democrat.
Hok. Tom Lwino, of Ohio, rails at
Eastern Democrats; and aaya they “ led
the party to a surrender after victory."
Jt is suggested that the Turka ough
to get their revenge by blewiDg np the
names of Russian Generals with torpe
does.
Yates, 19 years old, is the champion
ehecker player of the world. Reports
of his being insane will presently be in
order. [ m
A professional tea-taster gets a
guinea an hour, and, at the expiration
of three years is a mental and physical
wreck?
Av Indiana paper consoles its readers
with the reflection that Morton can not
be duplicated, and thanks God for such
mercy. |
A ucw war map is in oonrse of prepa
ration which will have a plentiful
sprinkling of trees for the officers to
crawl behind.
A “pessimist” correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch thinks Hill, Hous
ton, Bowles and KeY will split the solid
South. Bosh !
“Bogus Charley," one of the Modoo
remnant, has been converted to Chris
tianity and will not eat and worship
snakes any more.
Spencer, bogus Senator from Ala
bama, will shortly emigrate to the Black
Hills. He will find plenty of rogues
and sutlers there.
The Tribune thinks tke immortal six,
led by Bryant and Fisher, do not make
an imposing party, but they will do well
enough for a coroner’s jury.
By what authority does Wicked Ben
assume that Isaac “kicked and squirmed
when he lay upon the altar under the
knife of his father Abraham.”
The Philadelphia Times, anent the
literary follies of the President’s Secre
tary, threatens the advooaoy of a “So
ciety for the Suppression of Rogers. ”
Major Mellon claims the SIO,OOO re
ward offered by the State of Missouri
for a specific cure of bog cholera. His
remedy is a simple one— turnips. Ttj
Rev. Mr. Hanna, a gentleman of edu
cation and culture, denies the truth of
the Cofkrnioan theory of astronomy,
and challenges any one to assail his po
sition.
Heirs are wanted to $12,000,060 now
lyiug *in the Bank of England to the
credit of one Shepherd. We fear there
is much lying out of the Bank of Eng
land.
The treasure of Holy Shrines at Mecca
has dwindled down to $8,500,000. At
least this is the report of the Sherif,
who probably retains a few millions for
commission.
iti—
Does anybody know the origin of pre
senting the freedom of a city in suuff
boxes ? When made of gold apd
studded with diamonds they are not to
be sneezed at.
Numbers of itinerant preaohers are
engaged in proving from the Bible that
the end of the world is nigh. This is a
melancholy truth so far as a great many
people are concerned.
The cable telegrams say ‘‘Grant re
sponded with unusual gayety of man
ner.” Probably the London liquor had
more body in it than his old White
Honse stock oontained.
Russia bought the big Knurr gun ex
hibited at Philadelphia. The ship that
carried it away was wracked ; and so the
Centennial monster is harmless at the
bottom of the Baltic.
BA Inoebsoll says he is a “Natural
ist,” and does not want to believe in one
God or a hundred divinities. The fact
is, he worships Bob Inoebsoll so intent
ly that it would be supernatural for him
to reverence anybody else.
The most graphio description of Rus
sia is that of Count vcn Moltke, who
says it is a land of striking eontrasts,
where a brilliant capital stands in a
waste, palaces are elbowed by huts, a
railroad runs four hundred miles with
out approaching a town, and coarse
ness coexists with exoess of refinement.
He divides the Russians into half a
million of cultivated and sixty million
totally uncultured.
We print in the Chronicle and Cox
‘vtitctionalist’ this morning the text of
the speech recently made at McDonough
by Hon. E. W. Beck. Mr. Bbcx's sub
ject was the necessity of calling a Con
stitutional Convention, and he handled
it with masterly ability. In Mr. Beck’s
district a gentleman who holds the
office of Solicitor-General, and who is
afraid of losing his position if a new
Constitution be framed, is heading the
acti-ConTentionists. The reports com
ing from that seotion, however, give us
every assurance that the Solicitor-Gen
eral and his clique will be soundly
beaten at the polls.
The Executive Committee of Virginia
has issued a call for a State Convention
to assemble on the Bth of August for the
purpose of nominating Democratic can
didates for Governor, Lieutenant-Gov
ernor and Attorney-General The call
makes the number of Democratic votes
cast at the last Presidential eleotion the
basis of representation and allows one
delegate and one alternate to every one
hundred Democratic cters, and frac
tions of one hundred exceeding fifty.
Some snC*h apportionment as this is
sadly Deedeu in Georgia. Under the
present system .“presentation in State,
Congressional and County Conventions
is not based either peg population er
Democratic votes, bat upon
territory. The absurdity and
of such a system is apparent, bat W
steps have yet been taken to effect a
change. Unless something is done be
fore the bolding of the Conventions aea*
year we fear that the people will raises
to be bound by their action.
A HIT PLAIN WOES#.
We mb in frequent receipt of lettffes
requesting ns to send the paper to par
ties who desire it, and to wait natal the
Fall for tha money. We cannot comply
with the aeqoaaU ,ef onr namenms
friends for the ream that we have to
pty cash for labor and material. In
deed, everything necessary for the publi
cation of onr paper ha# to be paid for
in cash. This being the case, wo are
compelled to decline furnishing the pa
per to any person unless it be paid for
in advance. If on t friends will only
bear in —ind that we must meet onr ex
penses weekly they will not be so un
reasonable as to expect us to furnish
them the paper antil it suits their con
venience to pay for it Perhaps each
party who makes the request thinks it a
reasonable on*, and is disappointed at
onr refusal to oomply, but • little is
flection will show the unr leeonsbleoees
of onr friends, some of whom seem to
think that it requires no money to pub
lish a newspaper. The esses of thin
character —those who want papers on
credit—are not isolated. They number
hundreds. To each individual the
amount of subscription is very small,
but the aggregate, which falls upon ns
when the paper is famished on credit,
is very large, and we must be exonaed if
we decline to shoulder so heavy a bur
den. We pay cash for everything ne
cessary to the conduct of onr business.
We most, therefore, deeline to famish
oar paper on credit.
We hope that onr friends in the eity
and oountry, whose papers have been or
may be discontinued, will appreciate
the justice of our position.
GEN. BI’TLEB>S LAST APPEARANCE.
The Herald reporter did not succeed
in extracting from Gen. Benjamin F.
Butler any words of wisdom, bnt elicit
d more profanity to the cubic inch than
has hitherto been contributed to the
American tongue. The Sun reporter
aas more fortunate. The Sun calls Mr.
Hayes a “fraud,” and so, between Ben
and the reporters of that paper there ex
ists a fellow-feeling which is said to
make men who pig in the same bed
wondrous kind. The Massachusetts
sage denied that he was going to Colo
rado—whereat Colorado will rejoioe—
and likewise denied that he was opposed
to the President’s Southern policy. He
was in favor of “giving the policy a
ohance,” etc. On the subject of the Pit
kin letter, Wicked Ben seemed a trifle
sore, especially sinoe Wayne MoYeaoh’s
retort, which, like John Randolph’s de
scription of Ben Hardin’s wit, resem
bled the work of a “kitohen knife sharp
ened oh a brick-bat, making a ragged
and ugly gash.” Ben wrote the Pitkin
letter, and sticks to it, jnst as the
Frenchman did who bad sworn a horse
was sixteen feet high; bnt be oannot
help intimating that it was a private let
ter, and for Pitkin’s eye alone. We are
astonished that an old campaigner like
Gen. Butler should”not have known
that letters were dangerous, especially
when placed in the honorable keeping
of a scalawag, hailing from Louisiana
or any otber place.
The truth is, Ben Butler, while safe
enough in wbaoking the President and
Garfirld, did set calpulite upon the
bellicose proclivities of Simon Gahbbpn’s
son-in-law, who seems to be a second
edition of Flubllen, the Welshman, in
the play of Henry Vth. The Phila
delphia Times cleverly touches this
blander of Benjamin in these sarcastic
words : “It happened that Wayne was
looking about as mnch for Benjamin as
Benjamin was looking for Wayne, and
he oomas back at the New England mas
ter while ha is engaged in the laudable
enterprise of flogging tbo whole school,
and calls a decidedly awkward halt on
the anti-paoifioator. MacVeaob gets the
better of Butler on two points so
elearly as to greatly deform the sym
metry of Butlhb’s brilliant satire On
oivil service reform and sectional paci
fication. In the first plaoe, MaoVeaoh
tells the truth end leaves Butler rather
more than inferentialiy a falsifier ; and
in the next plaoe, he gets in a cruel
brain-clout on Butler by the pertinent
suggestion that it’s yet possible to do an
honest thing in politios, however slow
men of the Butdkb school may be in
comprehending it. It was a terrible
blow and delivered below the bait, bnt
as Butlkr seldom bits anywhere else,
the country won’t call ‘foul’ on Mao-
Vbaoh, Benjamin must try again.”
We think the shrewdest and most tell
ing thrust of M6Yka@h’s was that
whioh presented the Wioked One as a
military thief at New Orleans; bnt
tastes will differ, and where there is so
much to sciect from, it is hypercriti
cal to quarrel about trifles. De mini
mis non curat lex.
It is amusing, however, {to read the
comment of the New York Sun upon the
Massachusetts hero’s missive. It is
short, sharp, decisive, and as follows :
There is no need of a key to the grim bu
rner of this epistle. In faot, there is npver
any possibility of misunderstanding General
Butusb. The letter r^? B strangely like Mor
ton's. with the sarcasm a little sd*P ted
to ordinary comprehension. In this Case
lkb’s face ie turned toward Pitkin, but his
remarkeble left eye is fixed point blank on
Haves. How do Hates and his friends like
the expression of that optic ?
Of oonrse there is no need of a “key
to the grim epistle,” not even a post
master of that name; bat what does
Mr. Dana think of Wayne MaoVeaoh's
reply? Morton’s aaroasm runs to legs and
Butler’s to strabismus. It is a case of
Arcade* ambo— blackguards both. Em
erson, the Great Mogul of New Eng
land metaphysicians, has written that
“an eye oan threaten like a loaded and
level gun.” We know that the fire of
little Napoleon’s orb made the big Lord
Keith cower and grow dwarfish when the
sword of the captive Emperor was de
manded by the British Admiral; but
Ben Butler’s optic is of a different
order from that of the Corsican eagle’s.
It may make Mr. Hayes laugh, but will
hardly intimidate him, especially since
the hero of Bethel and Fort Fisher has
had it almost gouged out by the Penn
sylvania athlete. Ben’s bald head is
not orowned with any laurels, Oarsar
hke, in this enoounter; but his “remark
abla left eye” needs a raw beefsteak
poultice, and can be turned on no one,
for the present, with terrific effect.
STATE LEGISLATURES.
With the gradual consolidation of the
General Government, State Legislatures
seem to be coming into oontempt. Geor
gians know how the Legislatures of this
State have, since the era of reconstruc
tion, been ridiouled and censured. At
the opening of each session the opinion of
the press and the people is that a better
and more thoroughly representative body
of men never assembled in Georgia. At
the dose of each session the verdict of
press and people is that there never was
a more hopelessly imbecile and oorropt
gathering outside of the walls of a luna
tic asylum or the penitentiary. Asa
matter of coarse all this ridicule and in
vective is heaped upon the Legislature
in the abstract, not upon the members
in the concrete. Each and evary coun
try paper bean willing testimony to tin
mental inefficiency and moral obliquity
of the General Assembly generally, but
points with pride to ita local representa
tives aa shining exceptions to the rule.
It most be somewhat oonaoling to
members of the present and past
Georgia Legislatures, and to citiseiu
of Georgia generally, to know
that the people of other States are
equally aa mensileaa in their criticisms
upon their representatives. Two Legis
latures have just adjourns*!—the Legis
latures of of Massachusetts and Illinois,
two of the foremoet States of the Union
in wealth, intelligence and culture.
The Salem Pott complains that the Leg
islature of Msemchnsatts was in session
for nearly six months and did not ao
oompltfh W r** 1 * ■■■** tta*
State would ban* bean better off with
ont the aaaakm end its lews. The Leg
hym of minds comes in for this
terrific excoriation from the Chicago
7V.6une. th. iMdißg p.per of tlge SUte :
tion aa to the fitness of tha people to select
their own law makers. The predominant and
ruling characteristic of e majority ot the late
Legislature was ignoranee—ignorance of lew,
ignorance of all principles of government,
ignorance of popular and public rights, ignor
ance of all things relating to all the proper
subjects of legislation, ignorance in the ab
stract J in the ignorance profeaaed
and stolid, igaorenes beyond the reach of en
lightenment ! As A natural conesfutnos, the
ruling majority wave narrow-minded, mean,
and miUckm; vttt ooßMitad and viiß-gloh*
one; wen tricky and untruthful; and they de
fied criticism after the man—fin which the
ostrich hades from its pursuers.
Even (ho Georgia Legislature was
never visited with each merciless criti
cism as that. If the truth wore known
we have so doubt that for honesty and
ability the Legislatures of Georgia will
oompare favorably with the Legisla
tures of any other State.
THE NEW PARTY ANB MOUTHER* AP
POHTMENTS.
The project of anew National Union party
appears to have a real foundation. Profes
sional politicians and wire-pullers fight toy of
tha subject in fear of losing one hold on pat
ronage without securing another. Con
fidently, however, some of the rnoet sagacious
admit that a judicious distribution of patron
age in tbs North on the same plan that Mr.
Hates has pursued in tbe Sonth would attract
to his standard a large folioning from the
Democratic ranks. With the masses the idea
of anew party is unmistakably popular. The
impression prevails that the oonrse punned by
the President in the Southern States ie just,
end that he should be endorsed without regsed
to former party ties. —New York Herald.
The project of anew “ National
Union” party, or of any otber new par
ty, has no existence save in the distem
pered imagination of such sensational
newspapers as the Herald and snob
played-out politicians as Fisher and
Bryant. There are bat two parties in
the oountry—tbe Republican and tbe
Democratic—and it is folly to expect
either one of these to disband before
the next Presidential eleotion. The Re
publican party is in power, and we have
yet to learn of the party in possession of
the Government disbanding. Tbe De
mocracy feel assured of victory in the
next campaign and there is every reason
why the members of that party should
not desert its standard. Above all
things else, the faot remains that there
is, at present, nothing to make anew
party out of—that there are no issues
upon whioh anew party could give bat
tle with any, the least, hope of suooeas.
Without members and without a plat
form there is small reason to
dread that the new party will
effect a revolution in American
politios. The Herdld thinks that the
distribution of Federal patronage in the
Southern States has attracted a large
Democratic following from the Demo
cratic oamp to the President’s standard,
and it expresses the belief that a similar
“judidicions distribution” of Govern
ment offiees at the North would beat
tended with a like happy result. Grant
ing tbe correctness of the Herald’s
premises, they by no means lead to the
oonolnsion whioh that journal seeks to
establish. Admitting everything it says
to be trne, the only effect to be pro
duced by this “judicious distribution”
is the bringing over of Democrats to the
flag of Hayes. The President has stated
emphatically that he is a Republican,
that he does not favor anew party, and
that he will do nothing to build one up.
Therefore the only result, accord
ing to the Herald's own declaration, of
this‘{judicious distribution” would be
to strengthen the Bepublioan and weaken
the Demooratio organization. This is
certainly got building up anew .party.
Bat the Herpld does not state facts oor
reotly. What distribution of patronage
has there bees in tbe South calculated
to strengthen the President or divide
the Democracy ?
The Herald knows, and its news col
umns have borne testimony to the faot,
that there has not been made a single
Federal appointment in the Sonth which
has in the sb’ghtest degree strengthened
the Administration. The truth is that
very few of the obnoxious appointments
of Grant have been changed, and where
they fiaye. been the new appointees
have usually been quite as objectionable
as the old. The people of the South
bad every reason to expect from Mr.
Hayes’ letter of acceptance and from
his inaugural address that in the dis
tribution of Federal patronage in the
South bp would give offices to good
men,irrespective of party, where accept
able Republicans could not be found.
Yet from Yirginia to Texas there are not
twenty aooeptable men filling Govern
ment positions. Carpet-baggers and
renegade Southern men, fpy the most
part without character or position, and
having no interest in the States where
their offioial duties are performed, still
rale the roast as they did in the days of
GrantaSß. A few removals of Grant’s
appointees have been jnade, bnt in no
ease have tha people been the
gainer by tbe change. A few days
sinorL. CasJ Carpenter resigned, or
was forced to vacate, thex^ oeof 0o^ eot ;
or of Internal Revenue in South w. ro ‘
lina. Several good men, one of them a
native Republican of fair character and
standing, were applicants for the office.
It was given to E. M. Bratton, another
and a doable carpet-bagger, a man who
had to Georgia, had re
mained until the reign of Bullock and
hie band of thieves camfe to an end, and
who then oarpet-bagged to South
Carolina and united himself with
Chamberlain and the Big Bonanza
job. This is a fair sample of the
President’s civil service reform in tbe
Sonth. In the State of Georgia—a
State overwhelmingly and hopelessly
Democratic—e State whiah cannot mas
ter a hundred white Republicans—nine
tenths of the Federal offices are filled by
men who are bound to the communities
in which they live by the single tie of
salary, and who, if removed, wonld re
turn within twenty-four hoars to the
States of Maine and Massachusetts,
from whence they came. The Herald
has need to restrain ita ardor in the
cause of the new party whioh the Presi
dent’s •‘judicious.distribution” of pat
ronage is building np in the Sonth. He
will get no reoruits from this seetien in
any event. But he owes it to the South
ern people, and he owes it to himself,
to give them a decent civil service.
This he has not done.
Paskievitoh, in 1828, took Kars in short
ordar, with 20,000 men. The Bnwiana
of the present day are sluggish and bad
ly commanded. Von Moltkb, the Dane,
stands alone in his glory.
Mb. Tilden’b interview with that
‘ ‘citizen of Alabama” is pronounoed a
mythical affair. He has made no public
utterance of his feelings and opinions
ooneatuiug the Electoral Commission.
The Richmond Ditpatch thinks the
President's Secretary did right in get
ting his newspapers for nothing. The
'Ditpatch probably supposes that the pa
pers ought to stand it if the Secretary
The Oourier-JoumtU never believed
that Loose declined the Brasilian mis
sion. He could not even decline a
Greek noon. Nay, he is so weak that
ha has not the strength to refuse a five
dollar hiß.
m*——i the Fsranan Minister, who
ones made e pot full of money, by the
Guano agency, is now poor and humble.
He built a homaeat, Newport for 8225,-;
000; sold it for $175,000; and now it is
resold for SIOO,OOO.
The New York Tribune says people
witt not emigrate to a State that repu
diates its binds. Perhaps not; bat
plenty of people emigrate to Minnesota,
which woo and keeps the prise ehzomo
for that very thing.
THE CONVENTION QUESTION
HKABONBWHY A CONSTITUTION
AL CON TUN* ION SHOULD BE
* HBU> ’ .
gpetarii Jt Hm. SVlKjjfeck, at .HcDonoa*h—
lAoJUGlMrijMpWtrC—WkKl u. C*to
DliOM People—What It Will
Do—Aa Uaaaswerahle Ar*uinrni.
Fellow-Citizens— l am before you by
invitation of the friends of retrenchment
and reform, to discuss tbe questions
whioh now engage the public mind. The
people of Georgia demand an opportu
nity to better their condition by bringing
ilio Stito govtnu&mt vitiuo the
limits of tbe strictest economy. Mis
rule, extravagance and a reckless disre
gard of the nghta of the people charac
terize much of the history of onr State
government since the year 1868. The
people, tame and again, have demanded
relief of tbe Legislature, bnt ia has been
refused as often as it has been asked.—
The Legislature has at last, in recogni
tion cl the true principle that the peo
ple in Convention assembled must bring
to our State the reforms demanded,
passed sn set calling a Constitutional
Convention if tbe people so determine,
it is a recognition that all power in our
Government erne nates from the people,
uid that in making or changing the or
ganio laws, the people in Convention,
and not the Legislature, should be in
veeted with the exercise of this great
power. This is the highest prerogative
of a free people, and one which no pow
er, State. or Federal, can abridge or
usarp. It is sovereignty itself; for sover
eignty in its last and best analysis is
tho will of the people. I know it is
claimed that this right belongs to the
Legislature; having been so vested hy
the Oonstitation, and that relief can
come through the Legislature as well as
by a Convention. That we can accom
plish all by way of amendments made
Ity the Legislature, that can be accom
plished by a Convention. This is possi
ble. But did the framers of the Cousti
ration ever contemplate that the Legis-*
tature would ever exeroise it to the ex
tent of the changes now demanded?
Bight years have passed, and the need
ed relief has never come. The Legisla
ture remands the power to whom it pro
perly and legitimately belongs—to the
people in Convention. It is now for the
people to accept or reject the only plan
by which they can be relieved, and by
whioh they can secure to the State the
prosperity of former times.
It is the history of this and all free
governments that when taxation goes
beyond the resources of the people,
there is a clamor for relief. Where is
the power that can stifle the voice of the
people or defeat their appeal ?
In what do our complaints consist,
and from where is our relief to come ?
Look at onr resources before the war
and now. Get up your old tax receipts
and see your State and county before
the war, aud what you paid last year.
Prior to the war tho taxable property in
Georgia was valued at $700,000,000;
sinoe the war, bv the loss of our slaves
and the devastation of the armies, our
taxable property has been reduced to
$240,000,000. And yet you are paying
four fold more taxes to-day than in
1856. I know it is insisted that the
slave property swept away by tue war
is removed from taxation, and this of
consequence increases the taxes upou
property remaining. But the increase
is not in proportion to the loss. The
increase in taxation is four fold, while
the deorease in property is less than
three fold,taking it at its ante-war valua
tion. Bnt onr resources have diminish
ed since the war in the depreciation
of onr property. The depreciation con
tinues, and who knows where it will
stop. But while values continue to de
cline, taxation is not diminished, be
cause expenses are not reduced. Why,
in 1868 onr lands were worth one hun
dred per cent, more than they are to
day; cotton was worth more than double
what it is now, and everything is leduo
ed exoept taxation. Fellow-citizens, is
it any wonder that the people demand
relief ? Is it surprising that they re
fuse to wait longer upon the Legisla
ture ? They have waited eight years,
and they will wait uo longer. Reform
they must have and will have.
We have seen what our resources are ;
now let us see what onr disbursements
are. The total disbursements by the
State for all purposes, from 1850 to 1860,
averaged about $700,000 a year. In 1876
the total disbursements were more than
$2,000,000. From 1873 to 1877 the aver
age disbursements for each year exceed
ed $1,800,000. Why this increase ? Why
is it the poorer we get the more we
spend? Now our resources to pay by
taxation do got exceed $875,000. Our
public debt is over $11,Q00,000; putting
the interest at our taxes pay
the interest on oqr pqblic debt', with
only an pjfaess over of about SIOO,OQO to
go tq pay current expenses. (The speak
er was asked by one pf the audience if
the eleven million dollars included the
repudiated bonds.) lanswerno, They
would swell our debt to more than $lB,-
000,000. The eleven millions is the
amount of publio debt that the good
faith and honor of our State is pledged
to pay. N°Y7 the difference between our
resources and disbursements will doubt
less surprise maDy of yon. You ask how
do we run the government, when within
about SIOO,OOO of the entire taxes col
lected goes to the interest on pur public
debt? Then where does thetpopey come
from to keep us afloat V An act of the
Legislature of 1877 is the reply. This
provides lor the issue of new bonds to
pay those maturing, and the borrowing
of money upon the faith of the credi tof
onr State, to protect our credit and meet
our current expenses.
With a debt of more than eleven mil
lions, augmented by the waste of hun
dreds of thousands more annually above
our resources, what' can the fqture be
but bankruptcy aid ruin. Now, it is
true that our disbursements include the
payment not q ly of the interest on our
public but bonds as they fall due.
But the debt is not reduced materially;
we issue new bonds to pay oft old ones.
How did we become burdened with this
debt ? How is it that we came out of
the war owing three millions only, and
when the Democrats succeeded to power
after Bullock’s flight they found a debt
upon the State of over 818,000,000. Gnr
debt in July, 1668, was §-5,827,000. Bul
lock and bis elfin from that data to
January, 1871, ran up" the figures to
over eighteen millions. Sow did they
The answer is—the Constitution
of 1868 did no* ;: otect the, Treasury of
the State. These “deo.2P e *S. Who
build railroads as well as make consti
tutions, put the State in for-millions by
way of aid to railroads. In Governor
Colquitt’s message on the act to aid the
Cherokee Railroad, he states that we
now owe in bonds over five millions in
aid to those jnsqlyeqt corporations, rail
roadffthat are insolvent ghd pd divi
dends. And there is o relief. The
debt is on ns and we have to meet the
interest annually. Fortunately for us,
these plunderers, so eager to rob us,
were too reckless in the manner in which
it wgs Jone, and we are relieved of the
debt in e*t.qss qf tl>e $5,000,000 because
fraudulent and without cqnsiqe(i^4op;
Now I have alluded to this state of af
fairs to show you Some of our burdens,
and from whence they come. State aid
is aot prohibited in the Constitution of
1868. slo' do l believe it was prohibit
ed in the Constitution qf But be
that as it may, while we ogonot help the
past, we can be protected as to the fu-
ture.
We cannot trust the Legislature.
They violated the Vill of the people
upon this subject in giving aid to the
Canton and Cherokee Railroad. They
will oontinne to do it. fbqre js to day
no barrier between the people and the
exercise by the Legislatuie of this dan
gerous power. The people in conven
tion alone can and will protect ns. If
for nothing else, the people owe it to
themselves and their children to have a
Convention, and place an absolute pro
hibition in the Constitution and stop
this drain npon the people. Who oan
foresee the debt that may be piled npon
the people by fntnre Legislatures if they
continue free to do as they please ?
Stop the drain with counties and towns,
“look the door of onr treasury and give
the key to the people.” Bnt '‘State aid”
is not all of onr troubles. The extrava
gance of onr State government. We
need reform, especially in onr legisla
tive department. From 1868 to 1870
Legislatures eost the people an aver
age for each year of $324-000. The
Legislature of 1876 cost $lll,OOO, of
whioh $26,000 was paid to the cierical
expenses. The Legislatures from 1868
to 1877 oost the State on an average of
over SIBO,OOO a year. Now, at this rate,
can we ever reduce onr public debt ?
The rule is, with an individual when em
barrassed, cat down expenses and live
on leas, and pay all over expenses npon
debts. This onght to be the rule with
governments. Gan we reform the legis
lative department, save money, and at
the same time not impair the rights and
liberties of the people ? I think we can.
It has been demonstrated to my satis
faction that we can reduce the Legisla
ture to one hundred members—reduce
the per diem to four dollars a day—
ahaagß to biennial sessions. The ex
penses for clerical services can be re
duced to $4,000. Then estimate the
mileage at $5,000. ¥on will see that we
can have a forty day seem on at the ex
pense of only $25,000. If this is practi
cable, and I do not see why it is not, we
oan save to the impoverished tax pay ers
of Georgia in ten years over one million
five hundred thousand dollars, and in
my judgment have wiser and better laws.
I say wiser and better laws, because we
would get better men. What we lose
ia numbers we would make np in intel
ligence and true worth. Then again,
the proposed change wonld secure the
only proper basis of representation. As
it now stands, there is no equality of
xepresentation. The Main of reptoaen
tatiou should be populplion and not ter
ptory. Ido nt see wy oti
tha citizen are not to well secured byj
making population instead <$ cogptie|j
the basis. There eai be no equality and
impartial justice fwetoW'SyS?
tern is changed. Let the change take
effect after the expiration of the present
Legislature.
Then again, fellow citizens, local leg
islation should be taken from the Leg
islature and vested ia the oonnty au
thorities. The Legislature of ’77passed
sixty-one public laws and more than
two hundred looal or private bills. Ihe
latter did not concern the pnblie inter- ’
est, bnt yet oost the whole people thous
ands of dollars. There were nearly one
thousand bills introduced and retd is
both Houses. Do you wonder at the
number and pay pf the clerks ? Now,
the people of Henry, perhaps, were only
interested in the pnblio laws passed, and
yet are taxed to pay the expenses of the
entire legislation. This can be remedied
ana no right abridged.
Now, how are these reforms in the leg
islative department to be made. Re
forms must come, expenses mast be ont
down, leaks mast be stopped, and how
shall we stop them ? I answer, tear
away the dam and pnt in fi new mod
sill. Give us a Convention and let tbe
people change the fundamental law.
Will the Legislature make this re
form ? Well, they have never done it.
The people have demanded it, bnt the
change has never been made. Bat Ido
not know that we Bhonld blame tbe Leg
islature in this matter. Fellow-citizens,
a change so vital and organic should be
made by the people in Convention, and
not by the Legislature. Tbe Legisla
ture doubtless took this view of it, and
remanded the power back to the people.
But, upon the score of economy, a Con
vention is preferred. To make the
change by Legislatures it will cost, ac
cording to what tbe Legislatures of
1876- 77 cost, $222,000, taking two suc
cessive Legislatures to pass the bill.
The oost of the Convention of 1865 was
$45,000, but taking $50,000, the extreme
to which the opponents of a Convention
go in stating tbe amount of cost of a
Convention of 1877, and we have $172,-
000 saved the people in favor of a Con
vention.
Bat this is not all. We save in tbe
two years the reduction of the Legisla
ture, reduction of expenses, and the
change to bi-ennial sessions $197,000.
If we can effect tbe changes we can hold
a Convention every year for five years,
and save money to the people. Now I
have given you the two great objects in
a financial point of view that demand a
Convention. State aid prohibition, and.
redaction of the Legislature. Thefie
.two justify a Convention. But let this
word of reform be extended to the ex
ecutive and judicial departments; re
duce salaries where practicable; sweep
away all needless offioes, and save the
people’s money wherever it can be done
without detrimeat to the publio in
terests. But, fellow-oitizens, there has
been mnch opposition to a Convention
beoanse it is said we intend to abolish
the homestead. Down in my district
they say I am opposed to a homestead.
I have denied it there, and I will deny
it here. lam in favor of a homestead.
But I want one that is not a sham. The
present homestead is a sham. You have
virtually no homeetead at all. By de
cisions of the Couits it is a limited es
tate—a use that may terminate at any
time. The wife dies, the children be
come of age, and jou, no longer head of
a iamily, are tamed out, without
shelter, at the very time of life you are
least able to labor and provide for
yourself. Theu, again, you] can’t sup
plement a homestead. That is, you
can’t add to it. If you take the
exemption iu supplies to the extent
of amount allowed, and when consumed,
you can’t take it again, even if your
wife and children are starving. Now,
if the Convention interferes in any way
with the homestead it will be to per
fect it, not to abolish or in any way
abridge the right. If anything is done
it will be by way of amendment, and
not by repeal. Fellow-citizens, I favor
a homestead that is ample, a protec
tion at all times for the debtor’s family
that is permanent so long as any mem
ber of the family needs its benefits.
Save the helpless from the poorhonse;
save the helpless from orime by mak
ing this great right a citadel of pro
tection for all time against the pro
fligaoy and misfortnnes of the father
and husband. While it should be
ample, it should be reasonable and
permanent. It should not in amount
go to the extent of so contracting the
basis of credit, to making the man in
solvent against his will and- without
his fault. Creflit cap be maintained and
the helpless protected; credit is gold,
especially to the poor m&h- It is not
strange that we fire charged with betog in
favor of abolishing the homestead, when
to do this will defeat the Constitution
when made? J do not know that it
will be changed at all. Certain it
is that I shall favor no change that does
not improve and perfect it. What I
cannot improve I shall not disturb. For,
fellow-citizens, next to the capital, it is
the least of all questions in the contro
versy. We are not going to allow the
homestead question to defeat the great
reforms thp people demand. We want
cheap government aed low tastes. We
will not strangle onr Oonstitation by
making an amendment to the homestead
law that the people will.vote down. We
say give us reform, lessen onr taxes, by
giving us honest and economical govern
ment. Keep your homestead just as it
is, it you prefer it. Our work will be
submitted back to you for ratification.
We would dishonor ourselves and be
traj the great trusts reposed if we re
fused to let you pass upon our work.
The act provides for this submission to
the people. Fellow-citizens, if we dis
appoint you, 'np harm is done; vote
down what we do. If we are faithful
and give ypu a better Constitution than
the Wap Department gave yoq jn 1863,
sanction jt, and Geqrgjawil prosper as
she did in fjrmer times.
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
The Governor’s Appointments—The Interest
Clause—Members’ Day—Carpenter’s Place.
{Special to the Journal of Commecce.]
Columbia, May 30.—The Governor
has not yqf spnj; in jiis ljsji of appoint
ments to the Senate, 1 th® com
missions have already been issued to
many of the appointments. In addition
to the appointments Imentioned in yes
terday’s Journal of Commerce, the fol
lowing have been made : Barnwell, J.
J. Weisinger, Auditor; Marshall Hare,
Jury Commissioner. Laurens, Dr. Wm.
Anderson, Treasurer; W. L. Boyd, Au
ditor. Edgefield, B. F. Mayes, Treas
urer; Jos. Merriweather, Auditor. Oco
nee,JS. S. Bqrbhes, Tteusursr. Pickens,
A. H. Beyy/’preasurer; 1 John J. Davis,'
Auditor; W. T. Bowen, Jury Commis
sioner. Abbeville, A. W. Perrin, Treas
urer;, J. T. Robertson, Auditor. Marion,
G. A. Mclntyre, Treasurer; J. A. Smith,
Auditor. Beaufort, W. F. Gooding,
Treasurer; B. B. Sams, Auditor; Dr.
Johnson, Health Officer.
1 4n e&oit'vqii be wwfp WIbWH the
interest olause to the appropriation bill,
but with very doubtful success. The
Democratic Senators, seven in nnmber,
who voted for eleven dollars per diem,
sny they did so because it was the best
compromise thev could make with the
Re'publibins who airotu}/ bP}4 certifi
cates for SBOO. The Senate Investigat
ing Committee met this morning bnt
did nothing. Indications are that Judge
will be ousted and General
Kershaw ana Maher are already
spoken of as his successor. Carpenter
is in looking after the office
of United States District attorney.
A HORRIBLE CRIME.
What a Party of Jerseymen Did on Tuesday
Night.
Newark, N. J., May 30. On Tuesday
night, three men went to the house of
John Bollinger, a farmer, residing near
Bound Brook Creek, and asked for beer.
Bollinger was absent in Newark, and
only his wife and daughter were at
home. On being refused, the men seiz
ed the two women. The daughter, how
ever, escaped from the house, bnt the
mother was several times outraged.—
Soon after the women met Bollinger re
turning from Newark, and with him
came to the police headquarters and
asked for officers to protect them from
farther violence, bnt none were sent.
Last night two mule friends volunteered
to stay with them for protection. At one
o’clock this morning the door was broken
open with an axe, and seven men entered,
and with knives and pistols, foroed the
males into a bed room- They then took
the women from under a bed where they
had hid themselves, and fonr of the men
took the mother into a room, while the
three other men seized the daughter,
whom they earned to the woods. Both
were ravished many times in snceesaion.
Bollinger managed to escape from the
honse and made his way to the police
headqnarters when a squad of officers
were sent to the scene. The three men
with the girl were surprised in the
woods, two being captured, the other
making his escape. The prisoners, Wm.
Cavauagh and Owens Gillen, are both
youDg men. The police ape on the track
of the others.
Effects entirely disproportional to
causes are frequently induced bjr the
simplest circumstances. A little pim
ple, indicative of the beginning of dete
rioration of the blood, will, by peglect
of preventive means, develop into the
loathsome nicer and sap .hearth or vro
bably destroy life. Dr. Ball’s Blood
Mixture prevents such catastrophes.
WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY 1
CHIEF JUSTICE W AITE'#OHABUii
* AP 1
Fl fr K^clio*; : andj|*)r*iinil foj|Df- I
‘ffcld Calor mm
■ions of l’enerntiu—Ttfr illrfed Con
spiracy Encoinpasaiag the Tragedies.
Charleston, May 31. —The argument
in the EUenton conspiracy case in the
United States Coart before Chief Justice
&g£NMfMb*££23£
eleven white citizens of Aikea county,
who are oharged, under the Enforce
ment set, ’*ith* conspiracy to interfere
with the political rights of David Both,
colored. Some 250 or 300 whites from
the same county have been arrested and
held to bail on similar charges, bnt only
these eleven have been brought to trial
aa a teat, The evidence adduced on
trial on both sides shows that from Fri
day, September 15th, 1876, to Thursday, :
September 21st, in the Southwestern
portion of Aiken oounty* bordering on
Barnwell county, end in the neighboring
part of Barnwell oounty, a number of
acta of violence were o >mmitted by both
whites and blacks, and the people of
both races were in a state of great ex
citement, especially from Sunday morn-,
ing to Tuesday noon.
The TUeery of the Preseenttea
Is that the violent acts of the whites
were in pursuance of a general plan to
intimidate the colored voters, and that
several of the defendants having at va
rious times and plaoes been more or less
connected with bodies of men, some of
whom committed these various violent
acts, are-themselves responsible for all
of them, and one of these acts was the
killing of David- Bush. The general
conspiracy, inferred from general acts
of violence, becomes constitutionally a
special conspiracy against Bush, and de
fendants are as responsible as if they
severally and jointly had combined for
that particular purpose.
The Theory of the Defense
Is that a lawful attempt on the part of
the whites to arrest a man who had as
saulted a white woman, caused resist
ance and excitement on the part of the
blacks, that the consequent assembling
and riotous conduct of the armed ne
groes, their threatening language and
demeanor, and their actual waylaying and
killing of white men, burning of proper
ty and wrecking of railroad trains, ren
dered it necessary for white people to as
semble in pelf-defense, and whatever
acts of violence were committed on the
part of the whites grew naturally out of
a quasi war of races thus inaugurated.
The number of witnesses examined on
either side has been large. The pro
gress of the trial which has occupied
the Court continuously since the 15th
instant has excited much feeling, the
ease being treated by the prosecution as
an effort to visit deserved punishment
on deliberate and systematic violators of
political and personal rights of theblacks,
and by the defense as a political persecu
tion in which defeated Republican candi
dates are using the machinery of justice to
gratify their personal spleen and to re
kindleenmity between races now almost
entirely allayed. The charge of Chief
Justice Waite to-morrow, is looked for
with great interest. The jury is com
posed of six white and six colored men,
with Geo. W. Williams, a wealthy
Charleston banker as foreman. The
general expectation is that they will be
unable to agree upon a verdict.
Charleston, June 1. —At the opening
of the United States Court this morn
ing Chief Justice Waite charged the
jury in the Ellentou conspiracy case at
considerable length.
After explaining the nature of the
charges and the statute alleged to have
been violated, be said the controlling
element in the offense oharged in the
4th and sth counts is the raoe or color
of Bush. “It is not enough that the
defendants may have conspired against
him on account of his political opinions
or on account of his support or ad
vooaoy of any political party; that
is not a crime of which they
are in these oounts accused. In the
seoond and third aounts such is in effect
the charge, but in the fourth and fifth it
is not. To convict under the latter
counts ft must appear that the objeot of
defendants, in their unlawful combina
tion, was to interfere with the right and
privilege of voting
QnApptmmqf Rave or Color,
Without regard to political belief or
association. As it appears from the ev
idence that Bush was killed on the 18th
of September last, it follows that yog
must find that the conspiracy against
him, whatever may have been its char
acter, was formed on or before that day.
It has not been attempted, on the part
of the defense, to contradiot the evi
dence offered by the Government to
prove that Bush was a colored man, or
that he was a oitizen of the United States,
or a lawfully qualified voter of Aiken
county, or a member of the political
party which, ou or about the 15th of
September last, put Smalls in nomina
tion for electjqn gs q tfl ei hher of Con
gress for the Congressional District in
which Aiken county is situated. It is
not probable, therefore, that you will
have any difficulty in arriviug at a con
elusion upon these preliminary ques
tions. The real controversy before you
is as to the existence of the alleged con
spiracy. It is to this point that tho evi
dence to which you have been listening
with suoh attention for so many days
has been principally directed, and here
it is proper to say in the outset that the
defendants are not oq trial for the
killing of -U ns b> or tor any other
of fbfi nqmeroua fiomioides that werp
committed quring the disturbances
which followed tl<a alleged avtqck
by twfi hegto.es upop ftfrs. Barley
and het little son, gear Silverton, on the
mqrning of Friday, the 15th of Septem
ber. The shocking details of these
transactions, which have been given in
evidence, are only to he considered by
you with reference to their bearing upon
the existence of
The Alleged Conspiracy
To prevent by fo.ce, intimidation 0|
threats, the ancj ady.bcapy tiy
Bash of t{ie election of Stalls, or to in
timidate bi’ta on account of his fade or
oolqr in the free exercise of hia right to
vote. However mnoh you may depre
cate the acts which have been described
by the witnesses, the punishment of
most of them has been commuted by
the law to other Courts thau this. The
power for that purpose exists in the
government of the State, and under
our political system the Courts of that
government can alone be' ‘feaovted to
for th?i trml oduyictian of such
offenders. But the aeta themselves are
proper subjeots for your consideration,
so far as they legitimately tend to prove
the crime charged in this indictment,
and which has been made an offense
against the laws of the United States.
It is not for you to consider whether
these laws are wise or unwise; * tt!&t"-s£s
the cjuty at Oougrtsa'tfben it passed them;
neither you nor the Court nave at this
time anything else to do but to see that
they are properly enforced. Their object
is to proteot the citizens of the United
States in the lawful enjoyment of rights
which have been secured to them by the
OenstitiUipu anq ’fhd'buited
States, 4p wMle is tfirs caee they have
been resorted to on account of the al
leged violations by white men of the
privileges of eolored men, they are
equally open to th r white- —; ngt the
ueCu ouonm occasion ever require. So
far from arraying race against race. t;heir
object is to prevent suoti a calamity.
Neither are you to inquire at whose in
stance the indiotment has been found or
the trial had. Equally unimportant is
it to you or to us whether the State or
its offieers have been unable or unwill
ing to punish offense.? against its own
laws, or to bring to judgment in its own
Courts the violators of its own peace. It
is enough for us that the Government of
the United States has seen fit, through
its own appropriate department, to
bring this case here for judicial investi-
gation.
Oa the part of the defendants it is
claimed that at the commencement of
the unfortunate occurrences which are
in evidence they were acting as officers
of the law for the arrest and punishment
of the two negroes who made the attack
npon Ur. Harley, and afterwards for
the suppression of a riot which arose out
of an attempt by the colored people in
that vicinity to resist them in the per
formance of their duty. It is claimed
on the part of the Government that the
process of the law was used only as a
pretext, and that the real purpose of tfcp
parties was to carry into effect a conspi
racy which had already been formed by
them or some of them against Bash.
This is the precise question which yon
are palled upon to determine, anil you
are compelled to determine it upon cir
enmstantia! evidence alone. That kind
of evidence, if full and complete, is as
convincing as that which is called di
rect; but to warrant a conviction upon
such alone, the circumstances proven
must not only be consistent with the
theory of the guift of the defendants,
tint they must be entirely inconsistent
with any other rational conclusion.
To convict under this indiptmeot it is
not nepeesary to fiqd that the conspiracy
charged was formed” sgsinst Bosh alone.
It is enfijoient if jt is made to appear to
yoar satisfaction that fee was included
among persons actually conspired
against: neither js it necessary that he
should nave been mentioned by name in
the agreement or mutual understanding
qf the conspirators.
Ton moat farther find that the oonspi
racy was formed against a class which
included him, and that in the execution
of the common purpose it was actually
oarried into effect againstjjfeim. g
tharactrr of a Coamlrac}. g
Each member off! oonsppfaey is respon
sible personally fdl the act* of every
member thereof done in furtherance of
its illegal purpAw.lwhetber Se be him
self present or netp'T'follows heroj tha’.
the acts and dpflßialions of one of the
conspirators, while actually engaged in
giving effect to the common purpose,
may be given in evidenoe against
his* fellow-conspirators, having a com
mon purpose. The aot and declarations
of tfOe, while carrying that purpose into
effect, are the acts and declarations of
'■iphim roars ■■ ii|i i
divide ala who may have been engaged
in the conspiracy cannot be usedagainst
the others, unless it appears that they
were done in furtherance of the common
purpose. All are bound by them if they
resulted from the original unlawful
agreement between the parties to aooom
plish by their concerted aotion the pro
posed result.
All who were present when the ,aots
of violence, which are reliqd upon as
evidenoe of the conspiracy in this oaae,
were committed, may not have been con
spirators, it is possible that some may
havh supposed that the whole object oi
the assemblage was to suppress a riot
and preserve the peaee. Others, who
were in fact the conspirators, may have
taken advantage of the ocoasion to oarry
their unlawful purposes into effeot;
whether this was so or not is for yon to
determine, and in order that justice may
be done, and tbe guilty punished while
the innocent escape, the law permits
you to so frame your verdiot as to ac
complish that end. It may be—first,
“Guilty as to all upon all the counts.”
Secondly, “Not guilty as to all upon all
the counts ” Third, “Guilty as to some
upon all the oounts, and not guilty as to
others.” Fourth, “Guity as to some
upon one or more or tbe aounts, and not
guilty as the others.”
The harden of proof, gentlemen, is
upon the Government. It is a wise
maxim of tbe law in favor of life
and liberty that every man is pre
sumed to be innocent until he is
proven guilty, and this presump
tion is to continue with you sitting
as jnrors until it has been overcome by
the testimony beyond a reasonable
doubt. But a reasonable doubt is some
thing more than a captious doubt, a
mere vague notion that possibly the ac
cused may be innocent. It must be a
doubt for which a reason may be assign
ed. It need not be reasonable sufficient
to convince another; it must, however,
be such as may properly influence tbe
mind of one who is honestly endeavor
ing to perform his solemn duty as a
juror. And now,
Gentlemen, we say to you that both
the Government and the defendants are
entitled to the ihdependent judgment of
each one of you upon the issues pre
sented for your consideration. It is
sometimes the case that jurors agree
that the vote of a majority, or some
other number less than the whole, shall
be adopted as the verdiot to be returned.
Such an arrangement is not in accord
ance with the requirements of the laws.
Each of you must fiud the verdiot he
agrees to upon his own oath, aud no one
has the right to shift the responsibility
of bis final action from his own
conscience to that of one or more of
his fellows. Yon may be convinced by
bis reasons, but you ought not to put
yourself in a position to become bound
by bis personal vote. It is your duty to
consult together, to compare your recol
lections of the testimony, to consider
carefully among yourselves the bearings
it has upon the faots to be established,
and to harmonize your views, if possi
ble; but your verdiot should be in ac
cordance with your own deliberate judg
ment. A single word more: It has been
argued before you that this is
A Political Trial,
And that the prosecution has been insti
tuted and carried on for political pur
poses alone. Such arguments, gentle
men, should have no influence with you.
The case to you and to the Court also is
political only in the sense that it grows
out of an alleged offense against the po
litical rights of a oitizen of the United
States, secured to him by the National
Constitution. That a numbed of citizens
of the United States have been killed
there can be no question, but that is not
enough to enable the Government of tbe
United States to interfere for their pro
tection under the Constitution; thatduty
belongs to the State alone; but when an
unlawful combination is made to inter
fere with any of the rights of National
citizenship, sseured to eitizens of the
United States by tbe National Constitu
tion, then an offence is committed
against the laws of the United States,
and it is not only the right but the abso
lute duty of the National Government to
interfere and afford to its eitizens that
protection which every good Govern
ment is bound to give. The case as
alleged in this indictment is such
a case, and you as citizens are
bound to lift yourselves above the
political #rena and render your
verdict regardless of popular clamor
or partisan exoitement. The statute
which is to day invoked for the punish
ment of an offence against a colored
man may to-morrow be used for the'pro
tection of a white man. All citizens of
the United States, whether they be white
or black, are included within its provis
ions. You have,- gentlemen, a solemn
and important duty to perform and tbe
case is committed to your most careful
consideration.
The case was then given to the jury,
who have been out all day. Few antici
pate that they will agree upon a verdict.
m* NHRTH 4NH the
North' ll and Webern IUfM Desire to Caul
Their 1 .01 With tJ,
Niles, Mich., May 28,1877.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Haviug recently returned from a so
journ of some tliree months in your
State, I am gratified to be able to report
to my friends here the existence of a
feeling (sincerely I ' doubt
not) on the part of m%uy intelligent
citizens t met, that a better un
derstanding antj more earths* relations
might obtain between tha North and
South- Sueb a consummation is de
voutly to be wished. Besides, there are
many at the North who have special rea
sons for desiring that harmony and good
will may subsist between the sections.
A large number of persons, from con
siderations of health, would b’e yx make
permanent homes in tha Soqtb. A still
more class pjf perspne who, as
agricnUviita'ts, aif'e looking to the West for
* possible h.°@es, would graatly prefer
the ‘'Sunny South,*' with its delightful
climate, and its acknowledged superior
pecuniary advantages. Bach have been
deterred from going South hitherto by
fears, no doubt erroneously entertain
ed, that they might not hp nail received
by the Southern people, qh’d’ n,re now
waiting k> sec qtteranoes of states
men capibje of taking a national instead
of q partisan view of political questions
(sueh men as Lamar, of Mississippi,
Stephens, Hill and others of yoar State,
and endorsed by a portion of the South
ern press) are to be accepted by khe
Southern people. Ii yoe’tnay expect
a mtiiux of tfie better glass of
Noftßern pedpfe as a s,'ufe rasult. M. P.
UUNEKAf. UKA NT ABROAD.
Tbe London Newspapers Praise Him ns
One of the Greatest Soldiers of the A|.
New Yohs, May A London spe
cial aa'ys’i ‘'Almost every newspaper of
any note this morning has an editorial
article about General Grant and his visit,
complimenting him on his war
his late administration under adverse
circumstances, assuring him of the hos
pitable feeling prevailing' throughout
all England toward him and the nation
whom be unofficially represents. The
leading article of the News speaks of
him as unquestionably one of the great
est soldiers living. In spite of all ad
verse criticisms as to certain motors ol
detail and difference- of judgment in
subordinate matters relating to the late
rebellion, nothing can do away with the
faot that to his judgment, general knowl
edge of both the political and military
situation and skill as a soldier, was dfle
the final victory of the Union armies.
The morning papers, as a role, follow
the example of the News, speaking of
the ex-President and ex-General as one
who succeeded in a gigantic task wbe?e
all had failed before him. The Um of
the press is geq@jUy to the effect that
the visit of General Grant is extremely
opportune, as- it affords the English
people an opportunity to exhibit to
Americans in the person of one of her
most illustrious citizens, and till lately
the highest in point of official standing,
the kind feeling entertained throughout
England toward America.
A tf Raise Tblaaa.
(Waco {Texas') Examiner.)
Gen. Grant has bought one hundred
acres of land in Florida, and will try his
hand at raising oranges. If as success
ful in this as he has been m raising Gam
at Washington during the past eight
years it is suggested that he has a great
fottnne in waiting for h'm.
■■ y ■
The W** 1 “•
Anri the enamel surface of the teeth are
rendered invulnerable by Sozodont, lb
tbe great antisepic and disinfecting den
tifrice, which thoM who have once used
it take care to be alwaya provided with.
It is superseding every article of its
class.
THE STATE.
THE PAPERS.
tr-Hersifiel vffjohnson mS
V. on, of Athens,,
is dead.
An earnest religious revival is going
on at Oxford.
Base ball is creating much enthu
siasm in Maoon.
Athens will have a juvenile hook and
ladder company.
Sheriff Cullars, of Lincoln county, has
been quite ill recently.
©otaartras,
has been adjudged a lunatic.
Two belligerent brothers had a "set
to” last week in Lawtonvjlle.
Gen. Garltagton will shortly an
explanation of “tbe royal fee.”
The Thomasville fair appears at this
distance to have been a suocess.
, Ex-Governor J. E. Brown was at San
Autonio, Texas, at last aooounts.
General Joseph E. Johnston is in At
lanta, having returned from Texas.
Eunymfis sprigs reoently poisoned a
yearling of Dr. Pitts, of Thomson.
Hon. Stephen A. Corker will not stand
as a candidate for the Convention.
Mr. Geo. Lott, of Thomson, reoently
fell from his mule and broke his arm.
There will, on next Saturday, be an
excursion from Savannah to Augusta.
Tt is said that Bishop Gross will be re
quested to deliver a lecture in Atlanta
soon.
The McDufiie Journal moves that the
Convention institute some reforms in
taxation.
A blacksmith’s shop, on Mr. Wynne’s
plantation in McDaffle couilty, burned
up last week.
There is the largest acreage planted in
sorghum in,Lincoln this year of auy
year since the war.
Dr. J. M. Johnson was suddenly
stricken with paralysis in Waynesboro
Thursday morning.
Mr. Jno. Bailey, of Floyd county,
committed snioide recently, by hanging
himself in a stable.
The examination exeroises of Mr. E.
Gresham’s school, near Lincolnton,
comes off on the 20th of July.
Three' negroes were lynched, Satur
day, in Stewart county. What are the
authorities going to do about it ?
A grand picnic at Lula City will be
given Thursday, June 7th, for the bene
fit of tbe Baptist Church at that plaoe.
A Lincoln farmer, recently deserted
by one of his negro laborers, places bis
own hand to the plow, and does dou 1 le
duty.
Mr. Louis Mcßryde, an old resident
of Talbot county, committed saicide by
cutting his throat with a razor, last
week.
Mr. Green Arnold, an old oitizen of
Twiggs, was killed on the 14th ult. by
having administered to him by mistake
a large dose of morphine.
Of Judge Aliunde Bradley, the Griffin
News says he has a face dark enough to
pass for a mulatto, and mean looking
enough to oouut in a half dozeu fraudu
lent Presidents,
The Lumpkin Independent remarks:
“Just for a ohange we would like a Mis
ter nominated tor the Convention just
onoe. So far, no one below the grade
of Captaiu has been honored.”
Jas. Williams, four years since, killed
young Marshall, iu Wilkes county and
fled to Texas. He has now returned to
Washington, remorseful and conscience
stricken, and will stand his trial.
We understand that a movement is
on foot among the University of Geor
gia Trustees to recall Dr. Wm. Leroy
Brown, now at Vanderbilt University,
to Athens. We sincorely trust it will
succeed.
Yesterday’s Savannah News says: “It
is authoritatively stated that the mor
tuary record up to to-day shows that
Savannah ranks as the healthiest eity of
her population in the country, and the
sanitary measures which are being car
ried out induce the conviction that she
will remain so.”
Cotton in Cobb is sorry.
North Georgia wheat is fine.
Newnan has no martial pride.
Wheat crops are fine in Warren.
Dalton wars upon her town cows.
Oxford has a soda water fountain.
Sandersville is learning telegraphy.
Cotton is dying out in Merriwethar.
Whitesbnrg is to have a Y. M. 0. A.
There are six schools in Dade county.
They are rading on faro banks in
Museogee.
Maoon county is in an excellent finan
cial condition.
Grasshoppers appear in great num
bers in Gwinnett.
A base ball dance is what they are go
ing to have iu Columbus.
James Lawshe has been arrested in
Atlanta for counterfeiting.
Mrs. Frances K. Leonard died recent
ly, near Columbus, of cancer.
There are more rattlesnakes this year
in North Georgia than ever before.
Miss Susan W. Gurry, of Washington
county, has been adjudged a lunatic.
Ham says that checkers are again on
draught in almost every store in town.
Mr. Thomas Wood, of Borne, died
suddenly of oramp eolic, Tuesday night.
The Conyers poets have joined a base
ball club, and have ceased from troub
ling.
Bishop Beokwith will deliver a tem
perance lecture in Dalton at an early
day.
Mr. Isaac Langley, an aged citizen of
Pike oounty, died last Wednesday with
canoer.
There is a chicken in Barnesville that
has a set of wings on its legs below tbe
knee joint.
There is a lady living in Emannel
county wfca lias a silk, dress of her own
Wake throughout,
A compauy of Northern capitalists
speak of erecting a largo faotory in Go
lambus in the Fall.
. Mr. J. P. Dobbs has secured an expe
rienced and skillful miner to work in his
gold mine, near Marietta,
Bev. W. H. Scarboro baptized, a few
Sundays ago, in Washington oounty, a
Mr. Rollins, 71 year* of age.
Rev. J. H, Monday doses his revival
meetings in Warrenton, and will insti
tute a scries at Crawfordville.
An old family servant of Mr. Amos
Walden, of Jefferson county, recently
fell dead with heart disease.
The cases of the Btate vs. R. B. Bul
lock will he called for trial by Attorney-
General Ely on next Monday.
A colored man of Cherokee county is
worth at least ten thousand dollars that
he has made farming since the war.
Iflvo hundred names adorn a petition
to. commute the death sentenoe of
j Brinkley, the Newnan wife murderer.
Oapt H. M. Drane is being strongly
urged for the position of Superinten
dent of the Macon and Brunswick Rail
road.
At the last session of Troup. Superior
Oourt not a single juror asked to be ex
cused— Uejug the urst instance of the
soil; ip, the history of the county.
I A, writer .in the Southern Christian
Advocate points to the faot that “out of
10,000 Methodist families in North
Georgia, only 1,200 infants were bap
tized last year.”
A youth named NektX died near Ir
winton the Qthsj> day, and a post mor
tem examination brought to light two
tumors, one weighing twenty and the
other two pounds.
The best war map appears in the War
renton Clipper. It is the product of the
Warren Oounty Whittling Club, and but
for its omissioß of thojryvtetualliog of
Niesic, would bo ppsfeat.
Savannah News says:
In a shooting match at a private pic-nic
on the Ggeoohee canal yesterday an Au-
g uata belle, on a visit to this city, hit the
ull’s eye at the first shot.
Mr. Oliver E. Stone, six seven
miles from Louisville, Jefferson county,
while on a falling excursion on Satur
day last, unding the boat sinking, jump
ed overboard and was drowned.
The following are the Emory College
Soph speakers: R. E. Barry, Decatur;
B. F. Daniel, Griffin; H. R. Dejarnette,
Eatonton; W. F. Dumas, Barnesville;
W. Dunbar, 8. O.; L. H. Hill,
Washington; 8. A. Moreland, Grant
vflfej W. H. Williams, Griffin; and
Messrs. Wooten, of McVille, and Wright,
of Barnesville.
Captain W, W. Scott, the nominee of
the Madison Oonnty Democracy, is one
of the intelligent citizens of that
county, so says the Elberton Gazette,
The Athens Georgian tells that in a
difficulty between two negroes in Oconee
oonnty,Burrell Thompson strnckone Jen
nings a blow on the head with a
hoe, indicting probably a fatal injury.
The Bainbridge Democrat remarks
that it tbe colored people vote solidly
against the Convention it will be defeat
ed by a large if not overwhelming ma
jority.
A Troup farmer has pnt thirty-five
hundred pounds of fertilizers on an acre
ol corn, and is going to turn himself
loose on that patch and see how mnch
he can make. > ,
A difficulty oocurred in Johnson ooun
ty, between Thos. Logue and William
Johnson, in which the former strnck
the latter with a pole, breaking his arm
I and fracturing bis skull.
Messrs. J. W. Wallace and F. T.
Lockhart, of Augusta, will visit West
, Point, Jane 12th, to carry on a series of
meetings in the interest of the Young
Men’s Christina Association.
Meriwether oounty boasts of a piano
: 58a yean old. As the first piano was
not made till 176®, Professor W. H
Peck, of Atlanta, is iaefcned to dqabt
the antiquity of the instrument
Walter Jt. Brown, Esq., a prominent
young lawyer of Atlanta, gave a p.nl lie
dinner at the Markham Honae yester
day, to the news boys. We appreciate
the appropriateness of an invitation and
regret oar inability to attend.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Spartanburg has had a boat raoe.
“9fi” dotes on concerts and balls.
|j Gnyflle still decimates the dogs.
Cqpte* don't >ntjpibrary just yet.
Tipi oottotHyoMggi very disoourag-
Sptttanburg wants a cattle vagrant
law.
Chester will have a juvenile brass
band.
Who said Lanrnsville was a doll
town ?
Meningitis has appeared in Newberry
county.
The Senate is now ou “the fence,” so
to apeak.
Thermometers riso with the dawn of
Summer.
The fenoe burners have organized in
Newberry.
Anew fish pond has been stocked in
Greenville.
A steam shovel is scooping around in
Greenville.
A gambling harem has been broken
np in Newberry.
The Abbeville Medium groans over
too much reform.
" Rust has appeared on the wheat blades
around Greenville.
A Chester rose bush has one hundred
and nineteen bnds.
Obituaries of Whittemore are now nu
merous and lugubrious.
Oats and wheat are looking remark
ably fine around Newberry.
Spartanburg applies for a manufac
turing enterprise’ corporation.
The Fairfield oounty impounded fund
will be satisfactorily disposed of.
Spring chickens are in demand in
Greenville at fifteen cents for unfledged.
A “stinging snake,” something new of
its kind, was killed last week in Newber
ry-
Tbe commencement of Newberry Col
lege (Walhalla) will come off,the 28th of
June.
Mr. W. H. Carwile was last week mar
ried to Miss Mamie J. Peoples, of New
berry.
Small boys around Newberry have a
dangerous habit of boarding passing
trains.
Tuesday night a festival was given at
Ridgeway for the benefit of the Hamp
ton Rifle Guard.
The Greenville News is pleased to
term Gen. Gary the Jaok Randolph of
the State Senate.
A cutting scrape recently took place in
Spartanburg betweeu A. T. Petu and
Wm. Magill Fleming.
The wheat prospect in the Donalda
villo section is fine—oats not so good
and badly needing rain.
The annual ce'ebration of the Young
Men’s Christian Association of Due
West came off on last Friday.
An old divine once remarked of New
berry that it was the hardest place to
run a gospel plow he had overseen.
Messrs. L. M. Leraore, Sr. and Jr.
have been arrested in Chester for assault
ing G. H. Smith with a deadly weapon.
Gaffney’s, one of the most progressive
towns in the up-country, will get np a
military organization—artillery or oav
alry.
The Spartanburg and Asheville Rail
road will reach Cold Spring Gap, Polk
oounty, North Carolina, by tho 4th of
June.
Mr. James Gaffney was reoently run
over on Broad river bridge by a train on
the Greenville and Columbia road and
killed.
The Hodges Rifle Club will have a
shooting match and picnic at the Sul
phur Spring, near Cokesbury.ou the 9th
of June.
The honey crop this year is far supe
rior to that of last year, both in quantity
and quality, so says the Newberry
Herald.
Dr. Clement F. Jones, a son of the
late Dr. C. F. Jones, bas returned to his
home in Spartanburg, after an absence
of many years in Mexioo.
Abbeville is to have a livery stable.
Judging the Judges is still in order.
The Greenville brass band bas blown
np.
Spartanburg bar rooms close up at 9,
p. m.
Richland is sadly in want of a Pro
bate Judge.
Explosions are common in the Aiken
town lamps.
“La Petite Ledger,” ia what the Reg
ister calls it,
They are investigating the public of
fices of Yofk.
Torkville proposes to organize a ma
litia company.
Barnwell’s poor house is in a dilapi
dated condition.
Lowcdesville and Greetwood are talk
ing railroad matters.
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain left for New
York Wednesday night.
Mr. Benjamin D. Cunningham has
been admitted to the bar in Abbeville.
The contest for Carpenter’s place is
narrowed down to Meetze, Kershaw and
Rhett.
The Barnwell Sentinel wants a return
to the good old way of only two Courts
a year.
The Barnwell Sentinel oonoludes that
the legislators will spend the Summer in
Columbia,
The Sumter Watchman complains of
the presence of grave yard thieves in
that town.
Gov. Hampton has appointed Mr.
Tom B. Chaplin Trial Justioe on St. He
lena Island.
Judge Reed was serenaded recently in;
Abbeville, and made a short and appro
priate address.
The notorious outlaw, Redmond),
killed Mr. A. McCreary in Pickens, while
plowing in his field.
On the 22d instant the dwelling house
of 8. 8. Baker, of Abbeville, was burn
ed by an incendiary.
Johnnie Jones, of York county, was
last week thrown from his horse and
had his leg fraotnred.
The little baby boy now entering life
craves no higher shibboleth to fame<
than the initials “W. H.”
The Rads about Abbeville are making
big calculations as to the feats they will
accomplish at the election next year.
The President of the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad has applied to the-
Legislature for two hundred oonviots.
A patriotic citizen in Columbia wants
to sec the harpoon of the law driven,
into the blubber of the whale Cardozo.
A little son of Mr. G. C. Tennant, of
Wilmington, accidentally slashed into
his brother’s foot the other day with am
axe. ' _
The United . States South Atlantic*
navy squadron is ordered to renJezvons
at Port Royal for drill by the middle of
June.
It is reported that the United States*
steamship Dictator will return to Port
Royal as soon as she receives necessary
repairs.
The stands of cotton and corn in*
Barnwell county are equal to any previ
ous years, but they are three weeks be
hindhand.
Col. Christopher Hampton, brother
of the Governor, has purchased the
handsome residence of ox-Governor
Chamberlain.
A writer in the Abbeville Banner
takes pains to announce that Gen. Mo-
Gowan made no combinations in his
race for Chief Justice.
At the recent election of town officers
for Fort Mill, J. W. Ardry was elected
Intendant, and R. Gibson, T. B. With
ers, R. 8. Wilson and R. Younge, War
dens.
There are now 450 oonviots in the pen
itentiary. Their servioes in grading
railroads would be worth two hundred
and fifty dollars a day, says the Abbe
ville Banner ,
GQiI>M.nrTII’S MAID’S GREAT FEAT.
Tbe Bant Time [Ever Made an Any Track
Went of Bocbeater, N, V.
[From the San Francisco Call.)
The train from the South on Friday
evening, and the early morning train
from Red Blnff yesterday, were filled to
the utmost capacity with those who
wished to see Goldsmith Maid and
Claras. The grand stand was crammed,
the balcony of tbe Club House was like
a great bouquet with every bright color,
and still more blooming happy faces.
It required four trials before the*
horses received the signal to start for
the first heat. Barns had a length the
best of the start, but tbe advantage waa
of short duration, Goldsmith Mahl
olosing the gap at every stride,
and she led past the quarter in 36*
seconds, Rams a few feet behind.
The pace was 'tremendous down the
backstretch, and the half-mile waa
made in 1:08—a rate for that part of the
mile of 2:10. Coming ronnd the further
turn there vas little change, but coming
home Barns made a gallant effort for
victory, and was beaten by only a short
neck in 2:19*.
The second heat they ware off tba first
time they came to the score, Goldsmith
being nearly a fall length in advance.
This enabled her to go rather leisurely
for the first quarter, tbe time at that
point being 36. seconds. Bat as in the
preceding heat, the back quarter was
made at raoo horse speed, and the mark
for the half mile was 1:07, and there
was little diminution of the rate oh the
southern semi-oirele. Just a* she en
tered the straight run to coma home the
mare made a skip, but Dobie managed
to catch her at once, and welt it was, for
1 Rams was coming like a whirlwind, and
; his head waa at her shoulders when she
had fairly regained her atride. Notwith
standing her determination, be still
gained, and at one time it looked as
though he must prove the victor, but
i the wonderful nerve forea which has so
, often won the heat ont of the fire came
to the rescue, and she was first under
the eye of the judges by half a neck in
2:14*.