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EUrottitle 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*.