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Ovomclc ant jSentmet. WEDNESDAY, - JUNE 13. 1877. Massachusetss monrns over 25,000 able-bodied tramps. The silver inflationists want “the dollar of the daddies.” London mothers apply artificial bloom to their children’s faces. The best vegetable gardens in Lon don are disused graveyards. Cooker snails restore the tone of a badly injured stomach. Try them. If the Russians capture Erzeroum they will control Turkish Armenia. Jerusalem has 8,000 Christians, 13,- 000 Jews and 15.000 Mohammedans. j The Established Church in England i has an annual revenue of 830,000,000. The steamer L'Amerir/ue, after being twice wrecked, is ready for another dis aster. Me Lawd Piekrepawkt is the way the wags call the American Minister in Eng land. There are 33,000 lawyers in the United States, with several counties yet to hear from. < Vapor baths, in connection with re laxants and nervines, will cure hydro phobia. Gess. Beacreoard and Early have been superintending a lottery drawn at New Orleans. * _ Ida Greeley Smith has a son. Of course he was named after the founder of the Tribune. Niobio is hungry again. Perhaps a telegiaph man, on toast, would satisfy the people there. The Baltimore -Board of Health com pels housekeeper* to separate ashes Irom kitchen offal. Pretty soon the men who complained of the drouth will be fulminating against the raiu. Watch them. The sleeping car of tliepresent weighs from 24 to 34 tons. The car of the fu ture is to weigh 19 tons. The Herald praises Mr. Beroh for helping expose and bring to punish ment the swill-milk poisoners. Fletcher Harper left about 8750,000 to his family. The son of blind preacher Milmjrn gets a legacy of 8500. Prince Bismarck is credited with the sayiug that “everybody likes to smug gle a little, especially the women.’ A delegation of Uunkards called at the White House and were announced as “Drunkards.” The ice-tea froze. Anew bug has been discovered out West. It has destroyed chestnut, but ternut, elm and cottonwood trees in lowa. A rural editor says “ we can’t all be born in Ohio, but we oan cuss those who are.” The pious people can dis-ouss them. Senator Beck says : “I don’t believe in getting off our platform because President Hayes has happened to get on it.” A niiTLE girl in France has been “ crowned ” for supporting an aged grandmother and little brother by hard labor. ——■ Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the poisoner, has been recaptured. We were in hopes that she would fascinato and marry Ben Butler. The St. Louis Republican insists that there is no bore like a political corpse that insists upon making post mortem political speeches. Gail Hamilton wants to know of John Siierman whether in the Eliza Pinkston affair he was “telling the truth” or “making a lie.” If the Russians prop e to sit down in the mud and rain and await the dis solution of Turkey, they may be dis solved by General Plague. A “Boy Borgia” is the latest Penn sylvania horror. He killed his father because lie whipped him. Who would be a father in Pennsylvania? Some schoolboys in New York played London Assurance. The schoolmarm was east for Lady Gay Spanker. She made a “ striking impression.” If tlio people of Nicsic will send a deputation over here we will give them a barbecue up the canal, and endeavor, by proxy, to appease their phonomenal nppetite. a Every person in Nicsic must be alfliet ed with tape-worm. A good quack doc tor at the head of the Ottoman army operating iu Montenegro would perform prodigies. Gf.n. Blivhkk preceded Grant in re ceiving the freedom of Loudon. As “Marshal Forwards ” rode along the streets he exclaimed: “What a fine place to sack I” ___ The vagrant has the consolation of knowing that when father and mother forsake him, there is one who may be depended upon to take him np—the “policeman.” Frank Hurd, of Ohio, is Hon. G. H. Pendleton’s most prominent rival for the Senatorship. Frank is a man of genius; but there is but one Gentle man George. A French Legislator, who has violat ed the pledges he made to his con stituents, appears iu the Assembly with a false nose, and attempts to ccir ceal his identity. Pat Donan, having charged Proctor Knott with being “a brain-pirate fat tening on other men’s wits,” the Nash ville American retorts that “if he gets fat on Dokan's, we shall believe in mira cles.” m m m Old Thurlow Weed speaks of the “high bluffs of Mobile Bay.” We may be mistaken, but our recollection of the locality is that the only bluffs there about are the mirages raised by a game of draw poker. While Pennsylvania sheds tears over the municipal default of Savannah, we notice that Pittsburg is delinquent on the semi-annual interest of 85,000,000 in bonds, and makes no effort to provide for the obligation. Grand Puke Alexis pronounced Miss Suliyanv, i>f Boston, the finest type of American txaauty he had seen. She is now Mrs. Burges*. The Grand Duke seemed to think Aimek tb Ernest type of French beauty he had seen ia America. A Souther* physician think* dyspep sia would be unknown in the South bat for hot bread and the fryiDg pan. Pie and cake work the same mischief at the North. Southern biscuit is less danger ous than New England pie. Why can jjot we get in Augusta such bread as sthey bake in New Orleans ? The CinciMfia.'i Enquirer, discussing Mr. Lee’s title to f£e Arlington estate, thus sums np : “Tfie only serious ques tion is whether, when he recoyers, the Government will agree with him tv pay i£or the land, or will condemn it Jqr a ’ Natioial Cemetery, or will remove its i •dead to some more hallowed place, where , visitors will perforce recall the memo ries of this stain put npon these men who died in fighting men and not in lit igating with women.” FEDERAL APPOINTMENT*. The Missouri Republican, treating of civil service reform, says : “ Good Fed eral appointments in Louisiana will ma terially assist the Administration in overcoming Republicaa opposition.— Bad Federal appointments in Louisiana will add fuel to the fire of that opposi tion. For his own sake, and for the counvry's sake, Mr. Hayes should exer cise the utmost care in making his se lections.” This is jnst as applicable to Georgia as to Louisiana. Can it be true that the President has determined to share his patronage among carpet-bag gers, scallawags and negroes in Louisi ana ? And if this determination holds good in the Pelican State, is it to be followed oat elsewhere in the South ? ADd is this latter day programme the outcome, on the part of the President, of fatal and stubborn disagreements be tween Southern Senators ? We pause for a reply. BEN BUTLER’!* REJOINDER. General Butler has made a rejoinder to Wayne McY’eagh, but it is not half so funny as it is funereal. Ben was struck home and hit hard. His reply is not so much a blow at the Pennsylvania man as it is a diabolical leer at his sis ter. Failing to whip McVeagh, Gen. Butler makes mouths at his female re lations. The New York Sun, whose editor hates Hayes, loves BcTleb, and, according to Deacon Richard Smith, has made a compact with the Devi), thinks Wicked Ben’s last missive is “pungent and homicidal,” having "the soul of scorn, the fire of wit and the rage of war.” The Boston Globe, on the con trary, concludes that Gen. Butler would much better have let Mr. Wayne Mac- Veagh’s letter alone and attempt no retort. “That document was so brief, so concise, bo to the point, and withal so conclusive and unanswerable that it was foolish for him to meddle with it. It settled the controversy beyond resur rection. And the doughty General, who evidently has pluck and don’t know when he is baaten/shows in his long and impotent reply that McVeahh’s letter was unanswerable, for he does not at tempt to answer it.” This, we take it, is the opinion of the vast majority of men who care no more for Butler than they do for McVeagh, and are perfectly content to see a Kilken ny cat fight between the Lord ol Spoons and Simon Cameron’s son-in-law. We think, however, that Mr. McVeagh can afford to laugh at Butler’s attempt to retrievo himself. Bek gives a piercing cry, but it is the spasmodic ejaculation of a stuck pig, or the lank howl of a bafiled hyena. If there is any humor in it, wo fail to see it. The laugh is all washed out, and the grin is horrible and ghastly. General Butler lias realized the dreadful apprehension of Falstaff. Ho has anticipated hell by having Bar- DOLpn's fiery nose engulfed within him. THE STATE UNIVERSITY. A paragraph last week in the news column of, the Chronicle and Consti tutionalist announced that a strong movement was on foot among the Trus tees of the University of Georgia to replace at Athens, if possible, Dr. Wsr, Leroy Broun, now of Vanderbilt Uni versity. Following this announcement quite au able and elaborate article ap peared in the Atlanta Constitution of Saturday, .setting forth the importance of Dr. Brock’s recall at this time, with facts which may render bis return probable. Upon the unfortunate circumstance? which led to the withdrawal of Dr. Broun from the University in October, 1875, we will not now dwell; they will be remembered by those then connected with the College, and were deplored by overy one. Whatever of antagonism however, then obtained in the Board of Trustees seems, in a measure, to have disappeared and the movement to which allusion is now made and which appears to be agitated with so muoh earnestness among the friends of the Institution, is already a precursor of bptter things. Dr. Broun, at the time of hia resigna tion, held the Chair of Physics, in which department his admirable lectures be fore his classes, marvels of research, clearness and beauty, made the course ouo of tho most comprehensive and thorough in any American college.— Not only did he possess a com plete mastery over his profession, with the rarer power of imparting his knowledge and inspiring others with his enthusiasm, but Dr. Brodn was au eminently practical and pro gressive man. JJis valuable services in the army, where his talent was con tinually developing and utilizing jtsolf, his distinguished contributions to the Georgia State Agricultural Society, in which his ability has always been recog nized, and his excellent care of the Ag ricultural College, which, under his en ergetic aud prudent supervision, orga nized and flourished, all prove his abili ty to lead and to manage. In short, linked with erudition aud research, lie possesses what few scientists have ever had, an administrative mind and execu tive will. It is well knows that the position of Chancellor of the University will hereaf ter be supplied by a Chairman of the Faculty, who, being elected from the professors, performs the active duties of the office, the honorary title of Chan cellor being conferred npon some dis tinguished resident of the State. It is then to this position of Chairman of tho Faculty that Dr. Broun is. recom mended in conjunction with his Chair of Physicff, aud to which he will proba bly be appointed by his colleagues, should he couetade to return to Athens In alludiug to the antagonism manifest ed toward Dr. Broun, we had o refer ence to the distinguished and scholarly divine who retires fiom the Chancellor ship in August. Dr. Tucker was placed at the head of the University at a critical period of its egktpnce and that he has done much to harmonize the jarring elements, we well know. A logical thinker, conscientious official and Christian gentleman, he stands high iu the admiration of evety one and the esteem in which he is now held by the students of the college and citizens of Athens, well evinces his sterling worth. We would, however, be glad to see Dr. Broun at the head of the University and State College, and, with the assist ant of Prof. Charbonnier, who has so ably presided over the agricultural de partments, we feel confident that these institution* will ampiy £ll their mission. We thank the correspondent of the Con stitution for his well-timed sentiments. They are the more weighty, emanating from one who derives his knowledge of the* matters from sn intimate associa tion wi<A the University, both in the ranks of the m*dents and npon the pro fessor's bench. Georgia cannot spare Wh. Lekoy Broun; the University de mands hi* recall, and we trust tM the same mo tires griiifiji once prompted so much relnctaaoe in Lie departure will speedily induce him to ret.bflf f° 4he State of his adoption. Mr. Jackson J. Schultz, having been eiamined as to the knavery of the New York CWtem House, declared that Mr. Stewart had to pay 810,000 a year to certain persons to his goods ap praised. He concluded with this peep ing charge : “We are a nation ef male and female smugglers. Ladies moving in the highest sqoieiy smuggle gold watches and laces in tßeie .old shoes. Four members of Congress: came over in the same vessel from Eu rope with me, each one bringing dutia ble goods, but neither of them P*id any duties. A detective traced a camel’s hair shawl to a lady whose husband was a United States Judge, who had to de cide smuggling cases.” . The .Vseyenteen year” locusts have appeared in sew 5-ork and New Jersey with “W” on thair banka. Opinions ace divided as to whether this means the Russo-Turkish or a railroad war. MEXICO. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, has far vored the Nashville American with his views on Mexico. The Senator spent some time in that country, and there fore speaks with intelligence. He is opposed to anbexation. He says tfiere are 7,000,000 of worthless popula tion to 1,000,000 of intelligent, good citizens, and we cannot afford to deal with the problem of carrying more of them than we have. He thinks it the duty of the Government to pursue a firm and just course, repressing all law lessness, and building np Dade, and supplying an orderly, law-abiding popu lation. In the course of time he thinks Mexico will, if such a system is follow ed, fall into onr arms whenever it is her interest and ours—that is, when the country shall be_ developed and built np, populated by a sturdy, solid, indus trious population, Americanized. Then it will interest both to come together, and neither, nor any class of either, will oppose it. He says the educated classes are men of sense and thorough educa tion, while the other classes are more than usually objectionable as citizens. To take charge of them as their guar dian he would regard as unfortunate, a dear responsibility with no correspond ing benefit. He thinks we have terri tory enough to occupy us for the next few years, without getting on our hands such an elephant as Mexico would be, with her present population and almost total want of development. HEN. TOOMBS. The Springfield Republican indulges in a little pleasantry, thus: Ani still they come. Bob Toombs—the orig inal Bob, he who was going to call the roll of his slaves on Banker Hill—endorses the Presi dent’s policy in the warmest terms. He claims to be a rebel still, with no apologies to make, and c mid nol endorse the manner of Hayes’ accession to offico, but he must say that the President is the first man he has known after foity years of political life who has more than fulfilled the promises made previous to his election. Despite his insistence that he ii a rebel still. Toombs will lose his character as the champion Bourbon if he keeps on talking in th's way; indeed, the crowd to which he made this speech at Hot Springs, Ark., were almost persuaded that it must be a case of mistaken identity. We understand that Gen. Toombs de nies having asserted that he threatened to call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill; indeed, in his own language, he declares that “no decent negro in Georgia now believes that lie said any such thing.’’ But this is a small matter. We should like to have the full text of Gen. Toofifis’ speech at Hot Springs; the more so as it was doubtless garbled by telegraphic reports. But we do not see why anybody should be as tonished' at the General’s giving the President credit for what good ho has done anti what evil he ab stained from. Gen, Toombs is a man of intellect and a patriot. He oan be a “Rebel,” according to his own defini tion of the term, and yet be fair and gen erous to a political adversary. People at the North who confess that, on acquain tance, they have found Mr. Hill to be totally different from their fancy pic tures of him, may find also when they better know Gen. Toombs that he is a wonderful man, full of talent, practica bility, and even patriotism of the better sort. THE RIVER DANUBE. The Danube is an historical river and has figured conspicuously in human an nals for 2,000 years. It was the auxilia ry of the Turks for invading purposes, and it was an important factor in the crusades for the transportation of troops to the Holy Land. The Danube has itp source in Baden and is 1,820 miles long. It drains with its tributaries an area of over 300,000 square miles. It passes through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary and Servia, to the Carpathian Mountains, where it separates Roumania and Bul garia, and passes into the Black Sea through several months, the principal one being that of Sulina. Ths Danube is navigable for steamers as far as Ulm, in Bavaria. At Nicopolis, in the four teenth century, 100,000 Christians were driven by the Tfi r^B into the Danube, and in the fifteenth eentu r y 40,000 Turks were slain on its shores at the siege of Belgrade. Napolboij's crossing of the river is familiar to ail readers of the famous Corsican’s career. The stormy scenes of that passage seem to be re posted at this time, for we hear of mud £pd rin and floods being the chief impediments of the Russian grand army on its banks. We read that the passage of the Danube in j.B2fi was a bold and brilliant undertaking. The Turks had divined the Russian’s inten tions from the prepr2! iona being made, and had intrenched themselves opposl.“ to Satunovo, the selected point of cross ing. To reach the river bank here the Russians had to make a causeway no less than 7,000 paces in length; 3,000 troops were under fire from the Turks while at work. Tho Russians had a flotilla on the Danube, and when their causeway was complete a detatchment of light infantry and Cossacks was sent across the river in boats and landed be low the Turkish intrenohmenls, conceal ed by a wood. The Turks did not dis cover their presence, and the Russians rushed upon the rear of the nearest in trench ment, taking it by storm. Then the Turks, more than 10,000 strong, were seized with panic and fled, aud the position was abandoned. How far history will repeat itself we must wait and see. Unless the Ottoman empire should indeed dissolve before the Russian has dared to cross, the day cannot be far distant when the mighty Muscovite host must attempt the pas sage of the watery wall dividing them from the children of the Islam. When they shall have crossed, the hard work of the campaign will have begun, unless the Turkish army has become a mere rabble. We venture to say that, rabble or no rabble, there will be a desperate fight before the foot race begins. Some of the papers say that Flipper is from South Carolina, and a West Point correspondent of the Herald adds: “There is iu existence a law specifying that even black regiments shall be offi cered by white men, and it is thought there will be oomo trouble in assigning Flipper. As any such law is in opposi tion to the constitutbMwl amendments, of coarse it will be easily rescinded. From the disposition shown by most of the enlisted men with whom I have eon versed at odd times upon the subject, I fancy that if Flipper were appointed to the command of white soldiers they would be yeotiye, and would, if out upon a scout, take the first opportunity to shoot him; and'this feeling exists even among men here who have learned to respect him for what he is Col. Henry Wattkbson, singing a funeral dirge over the Sultan, says : •'Bravery, patriotism, fanaticism, can not exist o>y *ir. They must have a finan cial and bread and substructure, else they will faiat and iaii. That is whpt fs ffie matter with the Turks.” i That j# what ju the patter with a good many Christians. t&fl ‘‘air diet” holds out uncommonly wed. Rsv. C. H. Colltns is descended from a long line of gouty ancesters, and has sqfiefdd torture from the gout. He quit liquor aud meat. Result: a perfect cure. II you bav • goWi join the Good Templars and dine upon tarnipJ and .cold water. ■ ■■ The Herahf. John Bull will not interfere between Jmsaui nr ‘ key, and appearances indicate that the “Sic# Map” is at last in a very bad way, and they want- (W k ow w £ at “ in hlB will and. above ail, do get ttm OSS tom of his heirs and successors in the estate. 1 Th* first Texas flour of the season reached New Orleans on the sth of June. The first Augusta flour was ground on the 28th of May. A STRIKING SCENE. THE KEY. DR PLUMER AMONG THE NORTHERN PRES BTTRRIANB. An Impressive Utterance at the Chicago Assembly. Oa Tuesday of last week, when the subject of the restoration of friendly re lations with the Southefn Presbyterian Church was under consideration in Chi cago, in the General Assembly of the Northern Presbyterian Chnrcb, the fol lowing scene occurred. We copy from the report in the Chicago Times: Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, in the couree of a speech against making any further con cessions, though he said in substance that he was opposed to the late war, alluded to a statement which had been made in tbe city to the effect that a del egate was in Chicago from the Southern General Assembly, and that this General Assembly had refused to receive him. This was not true; but a distinguished divine of South Carolina was visiting the city, a man whom he had loved as his own soul, and he moved that the Rev. Dr. Plumer be invited to address the General Assembly upon the subject of reunion. To the discredit of the members tbe motion was not unani mously carried. The invitation so churl ishly accorded procured a response which must be characterized as extraor dinary. All eyes were torned toward a cyno sure under tbe gallery, near the main entrance. A little gentle clappirg of hands in that direction disseminated no infection beyond the narrow immediate circle. Slowly the group sepaAted, and through the friendly breach thus formed strode a majestic figure. As the grand vision dawned upon the upturned faces of the Assembly resistance to its charms was impossible; generous impulse over came the heat of prejudice, and cour tesy paid voluntary tribute to the high est type of manliness. The applause arose and swelled, and waned again; then waxed higher and more fervent as the royal form went on down the aide, and as the gallery canght the first glimpse of his advancing figure ladies and gentlemen rose en masse and cheered and cheered again, while the pent up emption of the scene found vent here and there in unchecked tears. This man might have sat for Michael Angelo’s Moses. Dr. Plumer is a living sculpture of historic mould. As he stood there facing the Assembly, calm and rigid, one could not resist the fancy that the statue of a pat riarch or a proph et, a Moses or Elijah, would have such a personification. Above the aver age height, symmetrical iu proportion, straight and firm, be presented the rare and beautiful spectacle of perfect old age. His hair and beard are white as the purest snow; the latter waved about npon his breast like a flowing vestment. His hair lies thick and undulating, in lines of statuesque grace. His eves are bright, as with a consciousness of being near enough the Gate of Light to catch a reflection of the glory from within. His featuies, aspect, stature, expression, gesture—already his curving arm com manded a thrilling silence—all spoke a man of power, strength and grace. At first his voice was low.but uot indistinct. The volume increased with the increas ing unction of his thought, and us he proceeded all eyes were rapt upon his, for brief as was his speech the Assembly recognized the flrst truo orator who had stood before it. What he said must be read in full. How lie said, that pen would be indeed presumptuous which would attempt to desoribe. The spec tacle was one never to be forgotten by those who saw it—as a spectacle of the grandeur of age, with no trace of its weakness; of the tenderness of age, without imbecility; of the eloquence of age, with undiminished fervor, delivered over a register of cadence mellowed by a tremor in harmony with the snow upon liis head, but vivified by a dynamic power in harmony with the valor and sanctity of his aspect. Let npt any read er omit the perusal of what he said. He pleaded, as Paul in old ago would have pleaded, for oharity, love and brotherly good will. He pleaded that the preseut might be used to brighten the future and hide the past. “By what this As sembly does to-dav,” he exclaimed, “ Christ will be greitly honored—or dishonored.” He had been told of one who had so excelled a memory that he never forgot anything. “I have read of one who hspl a still better memory— Archbishop Cratjmer, who never forgot anything bijt injuries, May Qod in His mercy give us all su-ih memories," But the appeal was in vaiu. Wliac Dr. Van Dyke Saul ol Dr. Plumer. There is a venerable father belonging to that branch of the Presbyteriau Church in this city-a man whom I love as I love my soul—and it has been re ported in this city, I was confronted with it a dinner table only three days ago, that be came here as a delegate from the Southern Assembly and we would not receive him. Sir, I take it upon myself to say it, uud if I am wrong let the brethren correct me, if the ven erable Dr Plumer—God bless his white head—if he had come to us with papers or without papers and said: “Brethren, I am authorized to represent the South ern Assembly iu this body,” we would have received him with open arms—| ap planse;'“that’s so”]— with unanimous ac clamations; and Lis face, as we would have sat here upon this platform, would have been to us like the face of an angel, shining, as tho face of Moses shone when lie camo down from communion with God upon tho holy mount. Aud now, sir, I pledge myself, if Dr. Plumer will' eoifie forward and say he is au thorized to take' bjs seat as a corres ponding delegate fropfitho Sputheru As sembly iu this body, he would he re oaived. [Applause.] Dr. IMiiiner’s Spaccli. Rev. Dr. Plumer: No, sir. Sound as cends, not descends. I shall be heard. I wish to say, first of all, why I am in Chicago. lam hero entirely ou social accounts, aud would have been here if this Assemlfly had metiu San Francisco. I am Cot here to-day to do anything touching this business, except to preach Christ’s Gospel, aud see some of my old friends before I go hence. The second remark I wish to make is, sir, that I -fully and cordially estimate the embarrassing condition iu which I am placed. If I say anything I say it solely for myself and on my own account. I am not deputed here by anybody, by letter or otherwise. And, thirdly, I wish to say that in my heart I do glory in the truth conveyed to me in his last letter by one of my old teachers now in HcaveD. It is this: “I would not give one hour of brotherly love for a whole eternity of contention.” [Applause.] That is my sentimetit. God iu Hismerey grant that we may all reach that conclusiou. One hour of brotherly love is worth a whole eternity of strife and bickering. Now, sir, God in His providence—a providence that no man ou earth claims to understand —baa raised np Presbyte rian churches North and Booth. The Southern chureh covers a vast area of territory, and has great interests of i.a mortal souls—4,ooo,ooo people who are not dying out; it was said that the col ored race would die out; it is not dying out. The last census shows an increase, including ffip 4e° a<^e daring the war, of ten per cent, js going to live; we have great interests there; nepd help. The Southern church, through its As sembly, has invited all the world to come and work in the field and do good. Can’t ie do something that shall profit these people-? Sir, if getting on my knees, if lying on this and allow ing all men to trample on my body, would be the means of saving the soul of one poor black man or black woman, when any other course pursued would jeopardize the interests of that soul. I would lie down cn the floor. [Applause.] I ask brethren to think thus matter careful ly over. *you say you can do something; you have done something. God be praised for what you have done; but can’t you do more ? Suppose you were to treat the Southern church as three honored brethren in your church have ] urged—one in Baltimore, one in Phila delphia and one in New York—that you should treat it the way you treated the j Waldenseß: give them funds, give them means, and ask them jfco employ these l means in building up the cause of _ Christ; and for every dollar they ex- ’ pended there would be good results, blessed resnlts. We honor your mis sionaries and servants there; we love them. Dr. Mattoon was the companion of my own nephew, who bore my own name in the mission in Siam; he is my friend; books that I have written are class t>ooJ:s in that institution. Can’t you help us i*t jihi; thing? Suppose, brethren, by the grafce of Go£, “ou were enabled -to say what will at on ere forever , silence all contests and bitterness, can’t j you'say it/' 1 J Would give anything if you could. And ye* you mrtst'judge for > yourselves. We have workers there- ; "Why, there is a gentleman here from 1 Tennessee who knows how all these things wqrk. He is on the committee who reported the resolutions—he knows fiow it w orks. I see a brother here who lives thirty-six miles from me, in South Carolina. He knows Low if works. Cannot something be done? One brother says the time is not yet. Mr. Moderator, did you ever know an old wound or 30 old sore to get well by let ting it alone,? It is never done. I know not what the vote ol tb;s house shall be, but one thing is certain—Jesus . Christ will this day be greatly honored or dishonored by this body, and this; body mast judge whether its action is to honor or dishonor the Saviour, and i not L . ... j Another thing I wish to say is that j this body will candidly, I have no donbt, to-day vote as it has donehilherto —can- didly vote what it wishes to say. It will be understood; it will be settled. I would love to see these hindrances re moved in my time; but there will be a good many things done after my head goes down to the grave. And if God denies me that privilege, be it so. Can’t yon do it ? There is not a man in the Southern country who does not desire fraternal relations on terms eqnal and honorable. [Applause.] There is not a man in the Southern country who wishes this body to humble itself or abase itself before anybody. But this is true: If I have stated, Mr. Moderator, that you are not a gentleman, it is due t® me—it is more due to me than it is to you— that I t-hoald say that I ought not to have those words. [Applause.] We ask no regrets in the senseof repentance; nobody asks that. There is not a man in the South that would esteem any man more if he were to humiliate himself. That is not it. But, sir, I might say if Mr. Dixion had said of the Moderator something unhandsome, I might truly Bay to Mr. DixioD, “I am very sorry, Dr. Dixion, that you said that of the Moderator; I regret it—ldo not repent it.” Can’t you say that ? One thing is clear: If the resolutions reported by your committee are rejected, it will be understood everywhere, North and South, and it will be a finality on this whole subject. Now, sir, I heard a con versation day before yesteaday about memories. Someone said that a man had an excellent memory—that he never forgot anything. I had read of a better memory than that; it was the memory of Lord Archbishop Cranmer, of whom it is said he never forgot anything but, in juries. [Applause.] Oh, what a memo ry that must be, to cherish everything that is endearing, and forget aud for give. God in mercy give us all such memories. [Applause.] MORGAN, JASPER, PUTNAM. Meeting of tbe District Nominating Conven tion But the C*entlemen from Morgan Fail to Be Present—lion. Augustas Keese uml lion. Joshua Hill Put L T p by tlio Con vention. ■Madison, Ga., June 6—There was a Convention held on Monday, at Shady Dale, Jasper county, for the purpose of electing candidates for the Constitution al Convention from the Twenty-eighth Senatorial District. Upon a call for the credentials of the delegates from the three counties composing the District it was ascertained that there were pres ent regularly appointed delegates from tlio counties of Putnam and Jasper, but none from MorgaD. The Convention then proceeded to the election of candi dates. the District being entitled to five. It was decided that according to the population or number of voters of the three counties as shown by the census of 1870, that Morgan wis entitled to two candidates, Putnam two and Jasper one. The delegates from Putnam then uamel T. G. Lawson and R. B. Nisbet as the choice of tbejr county, and those from Jasper named'John Key as the choice of that county. There beiug no delegates from Mor gan, the Convention wis somewhat em barrassed as to what course it should pursue in regard to the candidates from that county. Some nembers were in favor of nominating a full ticket for the District, that is, nvo candidates, while others opposed this plan and favored the policy of nominating two candidates from Putnam and oue Irom Jasper, and taking no action iu reference to Morgan. After hearing statements from several gentlemen present from Morgan, but uot delegates, to the effect tkattke Hou. Augustus Reese and the Hon. Joshua Hill were the choice of the county and that Morgan wanted them nominated, the Convention passed a resolution no tifying the people of Morgan that the counties of Putnam and Jasper would place the names of Messrs, lleese and Hill upon their tickets and vote lor them on the 12th of June, unless Morgan should, in the meantime, in some official manner, object to snch action on the part of the Convention or place two oth er men than the ones mentioned in nom ination. We think, Messrs. Editors, that this was the very best course that the Con vention could have pursued, and we earnestly ask you, iu behalf of tho citi zens of Morgan, to publish this article in your paper so that the people may know what the Convention did and know how to vote. We trust you will publish this, and that the Chronicle and Constitution alist will copy. Z. J. T. 11 All, HAMILTON. Don Plan's Sketch of Some of Her Personal Traits. [ Washington Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer ] This lady has been heaving small cans of dynamite at Senator Blaine’s eno rnies. and the afflicted are insisting that the fixed amunition comes from Senator Jig}- In otlipr words, tfiey assert that Blaine, ofMaine, is fightingbehindGail’s breast works. To those who know both personally this is bosh. Were Blaine possessed of the force of expression lhat in humor, sarcasm and invective, is of the keenest sort in this little lady, he would have been a terror to his enemies. Gail Hamilton, as is known, is a feme solf. of a. certain age who does not “pretty mfIPU,” as they say jn Infiiana. when she is ip a state qf repose. I hardly think she would scare horses on the avenue, as some of our female pen drivers can; but she is not oue to make more than six susceptible Yankees die of love. But she is a charming conver sationalist, possessed of the fact to talk a good deal with her ears. She not only listens with appa-ent interest, but she adroitly leads her victim to talking on subjects ip which ho js at home—gener ally himaeif. Jt'Vn study tp gep lljiss Hamilton nt a dinner party, seated next some old legislative duffer, and note how she helps him mount his hobby. Once on, and away goes tho 1. and. I said to her one night after a dinner of this sort, “Old Pig-iron Kelly says yon are the most brilliant conversational ist fie encountered.” “And I pledge you my worii’ of fiopor,” sfie replied, smiling, “that l have riof; ußeyed five words in two hours. My brilliant con versational talent consists iu listening with intense interest to his talk on the farcef, which, you know, means him self.” . These attacks of Miss Gail s have interested me amazingly. She was an acknowledged classic when I began my public tu'orts with the pen, and as we were thrown together a g’ood ileal, she lias kindly manifested a motherly caro of poor attempts. She has been exceedingly grieved at my indulgence in vituperation. Now, to see the little woman justly arousefi, assaulting the enemy with tfie weapon, is rather encouraging. LEVIED FQR J.IBEL. Foster Blodgett Will Trf f*if* Is#ue W! l *' Bryant. [Atlanta Constitution.] On Tuesday Foster Blodgett, by John L. Cgnley, bis attorney, filed a criminal information ip tfie (City Court against J. E. Bryant, the s.p-,called Ohajfman of the Republican State Gentral Commit tee, and present editor of the “Kenuebec Bloody Shirt.” It seems that Bryant, in the last issue of h.s sheet, took occa sion to apply epithets to Blodgett which were anything but complimentary or poiiie. Blodgett took exceptions, very naturally, to tiris language and announc ed his purpose of cow nftling the [ifiow heganite upon sight. Some of his friends, in view of the closely approach ing trials of the State cases in which Blodgett is interested, dissuaded him from his iuteutfons, and hence his resort to the criminal coda for redress. Brvant was arrested by Officer Lang ley late Tuesday evening upon a bench warrant issued by Judge Clark. He gave bond in the 6um of five hundred dollars, with good and sufficient securi ty, ana thp case will be ready for trial early negt weefi, we learn. It is the un derstanding that Brvant plajms that his language was not "libellous, and, if it was, it is true. Blodgett intends to push the case vigorously, ana test the question raised by the charges made by Bryant. The case will be an interest ing one, of the nature of a Kilkenny fight, and is of interest politically, in the view that it is a deadly contest between a native Republican and a scalawag Radical. Let the feood fight go oa. * A Treasure Train *>t*leu in Ra-tsia. I fall Mall QmeUe.} Strange disappearances are by no means uncommon in these days; but one of these mysteries which, according to a correspondent of one of the German capers, has lately occurred in Russia, is | truiv martling An express train in that country, carrying Z, 000.000 of rubles, i not only failed the other.day to ry-r.ch its destination, bht has -altogether disap peared, without leaving the slightest traces affording 5 as to what has become of it. That the tram be . stopped and the money taken is con ceivable; but that the thieves should actually carry off not only rubles, but engine, tender, vans, carriages, and all, is so “uncanny” an incident as to raise ground tot imcpim _zn that the powers of darkness have Seen at wiiim- At any rate, the story is a most uncomfortable one, and it is to be hoped anew horror is not about to be added to railway traveling by the total disappearance of train*. It may fie imagined how pain ful a senhation would be created if the “Flying Dutchman” or some other fast and famous train was never seen or , heard of again after leaving London. Snch a catastrophe would be, if possi- ble, even worse than a collision. HARD TIMES IN THE SOUTH. Effect ol I lie Eastern War in liaising tin* Price oi‘ Provisions—Corn Up and Colton Down. [Dr. Redjield in Cincinnati Commercial J Views of aOeorgia Planter. A few days ago I was talking with a Georgia planter about matters and things. This planter had a thousand broad acres cultivated by his “ late slaves,” whom he spoke of as the “hap piest people on earth.” They were, in fact, happier than he, for they could not see so far ahead, and the fact that they would be reduced to meat once a day be fore the end of Summer had not occurr ed to them. The effect of the war in Europe had not reached their planta tion, but was coming. This planter was very gloomy about the war,in fact mad that there should be one. “ Can’t the confounded fools set tle their differences without upsetting us in this way ? Why should Ibe made to pay 30 per cent, ext; a for corn and flour and then have twenty per cent, knocked off my cotton, all on account of a lot of cut-throats in Europe ?” Alas, my planter, all the world are kin, and an upheaval like this inEnrope affects every man who breathes air. Wherever bread is eaten the war is felt. The loaf which the baker now brings you is smaller in size or higher in price, or both. The planter was sad, and saw no pros perity for the South as long as the war lasted. It has, as he said, raised the price of the provisions he was compelled to buy 30 per cent., and knocked 20 per cent, off the only thing he had to sell— cotton. A moment’s reflection will show how and why this war will be a severe blow to material interests in the cotton States. The provisions they are com pelled to buy go up, and cotton, which is the only thing they have to sell, goes down. And the longer the war lasts the more depressing will its influence bs in the cotton States. In Columbia, South Carolina, I talked with a colored laborer, an old man, who told me that he “worked about” on ex tra job, doing whatever his hand could find. Yet the best wages he got was from fifty to seventy-five cents a day. “I ask seventy-five,” said he, “but. when I can’t get that I take fifty.” Out of this scanty sum be had to board him self and support his family. “It’s mighty hard,” said he, “worse nor what it was in old slave times.” “Meal Thirty Cents a Peck.” “I could sorter get along on fifty or seventy-five cents a day, but now work has got scarcer and meal has gone up and up,” he continued in a doleful tone. I asked him to what point meal had readied in Columbia. “Thirty cents a peck,” said he, “and still a risin’.” “What was it a month ago ?” I asked. “Only twenty cents,” he replied, “and work liain’t gone up to correspond.” Yes, indeed, and this is where the shoe pinches the laborer. The bread for his table has advanced and the price of his labor remains the same or has fallen. This is one of the effects of the “revival of business” on account of the European war. Where it helps one man it hurts ten, and the ten it hurts very bad, for it fairly may be said to take the bread from the mouths of their children. I asked him if he knew why meal had advanced. “Oh, yes,” said he; “ihe man I get it of says there is a war be tween Europe and Russia and the sol diers eat the meal. That’s what the matter. But I can’t hear that they fight much. ’Pears like they hurl the poor darky in the stomach more than they hurts one another. “While we are talking let me tell you what some of the boys say. They say that there ain’t any war in Russia, and that the speculators have started the story so as to put up meal to thirty cents a peck and make a pile of money. There’s no telling what people will do these days.” I asked him if flour was up. “Yes,” he replied, “they say it’s seven cents a pound by the small, but I never buys it, times is so hard. This darkey lives on hoe cake, and it ’pears like hoe cake is goin’ out of reach, and then I reckon we’ll die.” He told me that therej were many col ored families in Columbia who bad nothing to eat but corn bread and cheap molasses. ‘lt was hard enough on the darkey,” said he, “afore this war started in Russia, and now, with work scarcer and scarcer, and meal thirty cnts a peck, the Lord only knows wha’ll be come of us!” The Old Times. j Then he fell into a talk on old times. He did not Vant his people back into but as for himself, if he could have his old master he would rather be back. “Us old niggers,” said he, “would be better off as it used to be, for we had plenty to eat, whether meal went up or down. Lord ‘ah’ mercy, sab, we never heard about wars in other countries, or whether weal was ten cents or a dollar a peck. My old master always had plenty. My belly stuck out like it had a pump kin in it, and our mules was so fat that a nigger would roll off of ’em. Them was high tim s, I tell yoi. These times is nothing ” He continued, with a ges ture of contempt: ‘ A man would give a nigger half a dollar for holdisg his boss. Now he holds him hisself, if he {ms one, wbjcb is seldom. But with all these advantages of the old times over the present, and notwifh staDdiug the fact that meal is thirty cents a peck, this old man would not say he preferred slavery, unless he could have his old master. He didn’t want to try new ones. But he gravely and with apparent sincerity gave it as his opinion that they would all be back in time. “I may not live to see it,” he said, “but the young folks cornin’ on will. They will be put back by staryation. No free nig ger can stand it to pay thirty cents a peck for meal. White folks will say there is a war way off somewhere, aud that meal is scarce and must go up high, and then the poor darkey will be starved back into slavery, and that’s whar they’ll finally laud. I don’t expect to live to see that day, but the young ’uns will. Hit’s a cornin’.” A young fpan, a mulatto, came to us, and thig vepepiblp Mold Wipes,” who thought meal at thirty cents a peek would be the ruin of the darkeys, re peated* the opinion: “No,” said the young man, “I don’t care if meal goes to two dollars a peck, and meat to a dol lar a pound, we’ll never go back to slavery. I’ll die first.” The old man replied that time would teli hoy it. yap, trjnl ahoy that lie was right. As'for himself ho didn’t care. He had not long to live anyway, and as long as times were so hard and provis ions so high, he had about as soon be in slavery as free, “Freedom ain’t no easy tliiou, ’ said he, '-when the belly is empty.” The old man, out of york and out of provisions, took a glooqiy view of all things because meal had advanced to thirty cents a peck ! Wording f°r cents to seventy cents a day, and not being able 'to get’ woi*k half the time, and finding provisions advaucingas work fell off, can we blame him for imperfect appreciation of freedom with an empty stomach ? Poetry and sentiment aside, the blanks oi the coffin States find that freedom for? them meank the' right to work about as hard as ever they did and have fs j’ittje to show for it, A Hard Year. It will be a hard year for them, and in fact for all classes and conditions of people in the cotton States. Ihe war in Europe has bronght down cotton and sent up bread axu moat. There is not an interest in the 1 cotton States that will be advanced by this war. A few men in the cities who happen to have stocks |of provisions on band will reap a benefit, hut Jrow small in proportion to the bur dens ydrich are imposed upon the great body of the jiooplo. Asa means of a relief the Southern papers are all yelpiDg at the planters to grow c<?rn, peas, potatoes, vegetables— anything, no matter what, that the peo ple can eat. Stop the cotton, they say, for the indications are that if the crop is large the price will not pay for plowing. ‘But with all the preaching the editors can do, a great cotton Wop is put in. With a fair year the product will be over four millions of bales. Toe plant ers would serve themselves better if they would put in half a crop and the rest of the land into corn, peas or anything that would grow. By restricting the produc tion to say tWo millions of bales the prices could be £ept up to a good pay ing point-. 1 sut Syery plantar feels the need of money, money. He must have cash. Cotton brings cash, and so he puts in every acre possible; and goes in debt for bread aud meat, The system is wrong and an injury to the producers, just as the over produc tion of coal oil is an injury to those who produce it. If the supply could be re stricted prices would advance to a pay ing basis. It is within the power of the Southern planters to put cotton up to say eighteen eeut-3 and keep it there, if they woultl all act together. p.ow mnch better it would Be for’the cdffton grow ing region to phi in but half a crop for a few years, and the rest in corn and peas, or anything that man or beast will eat. But, like the coal oil producers, they cannot be made to act together. Growers of Corn are Happy* Shortly after the conversation referred to shove, I fell in frith a large producer of corn on the Tennessee nver. He was happy. He had five hundred acres of river bottom, and had pitched a crop that would feed the Turks. Every foot of his ground was in eorn, and the corn was up. “I’ll work that corn like a gar den,” said he, “and I’ll make it bring sixty bushels to the acre. It’s done it many a time when the price was but thirty cents a bushel, and now I’ll make it do it, for that war in Europe will bring me sixty-five cents cash in hand. Think of that! Let me see; five hundred acres at sixty bnshels to the acre; put that down; that is thirty-five thousand bush els. That good old war will make it bring sirty-five cents. It’s that now, and I’ll bet a hoss it don’t go down. Thirty-five thousand bushels at sixty five cents will roll in 822,750. Zounds, I’ll have a pile of money if that war don’t stop ! But I hope it won’t stop till we get off at least two corn crops. That war is the best thing that ever happened for East Tennessee.” Yes, East Tennessee will be largely benefitted, for it is a corn-growing sec tion, and has the great Southern market immediately at hand. But the South, as a sectiou, will be hurt. The benefit of spots here and there where corn is grown is inadequate compensation for the injury brought upon the planters and laborers of tlie cotton States. Taking the whole oountry in view, North, South, East and West, the war works more injury than benefit. Where one man, who grew corn, is benefitted, ten who eat corn are injured. And the laborers in the large cities of the North will suffer along with the laborers in the cotton States. Their bread has risen, but not their wages. It requires no ab struse calculation to show that more are hurt than helped. Besides, is it not impossible, in the nature of things, for a war to be of ad vantage to the mass of mankind? We see destruction broadcast and wealth consumed as effectually as if done by fire. To say nnhing of the lives lost, can mankind be benefitted by such as this? I am of those who believe that it would be better for the material inter ests of America, taken as a whole, if the war should cease to-day. H. V. R. AUGUSTA TO KNOXVII.I.E. Action of the Knoxville Board of Trade—A Letter from President Wheless. Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: I received officially, within the last day or two, the enclosed copy of resolu tions passed by the Board of Trade of Knoxville upon 1 the subject of memo rializing Congress in behalf of the A. & K. li. R , and as your able journal has ever been progressive, advoeatiug all schemes looking to the advancement of the material interests of our city, I do not feel that it, is trespassing to ask the publication of the resolutions and ac companying communication. As the present Administration of our Government has foreshadowed the poli cy of restoring the political equality of the South, and favoring to the reha bilitating and building up the waste places in our country, we feel that the time has arrived when fraternal rela tions can he strengthened by the bonds of commerce. Our system of agriculture, the almost exclusive culture of cotton, necessitates the purchase of provisions abroad, aud as the West produces the article we are compelled to buy a large extent, the in terests of the two sections are closely al lied. The neoeHsity for a trans-conti nental railroad from the Northwest to the Southwest seaboard is gradually be coming more apparent. The Western people being directly interested in the construction of a shorter line to reach.importaut Southern markets,and to enable them to overcome the difficulties in the way of shipping to Europe, via New York and New Or leans, will certainly co-operate with this section iu making the contemplated iron highway of natioual importance. But it is not to be supposed that such benefits are to be conferred upon us without an effort on our part-—far from it. It is absolutely necessary for our people to take the initiative in project ing and commencing the building of a new route to the West. We are daily assured that so soon as Augusta begins in earnest upon this end of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, steps will be promptly taken to push for ward the work along the entire line. Then let it not bo said that the great work is delayed by the supineness of our citizens. Undoubtedly our com merce is languishing, on account of our geographical position and unfavorable railroad connections. We will jeopard ize our present trade from a large sec tion of territory if we continue to de lay action to extricate ourselvos from our present situation. We find that the contemplated build ing of the Augusta and Knoxville Rail road is attracting the attention of prom inent gentlemen in various sections of the country, and it is predicted by them that if the road is built Augusta will rapidly attain a prominent commercial position. Within the last few days the Presi dent of an important Southern railroad stated that when the building of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad is an assured fact, he desires to locate part of his family here, believing that Au gusta will become the most flourishing inland city in the South. Such opin ions are very encouraging to the young er portion of our population, and an in centive to labor strenuously for the suc cess of our cherished enterprise. Our aged sires, also, doubtless feel that one cf the surest legacies for their posterity -next to wealth—is flourishing busi ness interests. We are taught a beautiful lesson by the inhabitants of some of the Eastern countries; while the aged labor for daily sustfenance they forget uot to per form some act which will result in com forts and blessings to their posterity. It is stated that they plant by the high ways, fruit and shade tiees, under whose boughs the care-worn travelers of future generations may refresh and rp gale themselves. Certainly the inhabitants of one of the most civilised countries in the world will not ignore the duty we owe to those, who are to succeed us in the arena of business, politics, &e. Great enterprises never succeed with out great efforts on the part of the pro prietors, bnt success brings ample re ward for the untiring labors of thpae who continue steadfast until t{io work has beefl complete!}. Ibp Wl’itPl feels sanguine that the success of the A. & K. li. R. is only a question of time, and if Augusta will respond liberally to the call now being made, it will be but a short while till success is accomplished. W. T. Whemsss. Action of llie JponrU of Trade. Knoxville, Tenn., May 15, 1877. W. T. Wheless, Esq., President Au gusta and Knoxville Railroad, Au gusta, Ga. : Sip. —At a meeting qf t.fie “Board of Trade” of the fiity of Knoxville, held this day, I was instructed to notify you of the following action of the Board : Resolved, That this body request onr Representative in Congress, Hon. J. M. Thornburgh and our Senators, Hon. Isliam G. Harris end Hqn, J. T*J. Bailey, to secure United States aid to the build ing of the Knoxville and Augusta Rail road at the rate of seven thousand dol lars per mile and that they be requested to use such means as they may think best -for the accomplishment of this object sq vital tp the interests of Knox ville. Resolved, That the Secretary of this meeting notify the President of the Au-' gusta and Knoxville Railroad of this action and request him to secure the co-operation of the Representatives of Georgia in Congress. I have the honor to be very respect fully, Wm. J. Ramage, Secretary.. Death of Major John Randolph Whitehead. The Macon Telegraph and Messenger says: We are pained to learn from a rel ative of the sudden decease of this gen tleman, which too|c pl3p on the sth instant, at hfs plantation, in Miller county. Major Whitehead was well known in MacoD, haying recently resided here, and his death was sudden and un expected. On Wednesday of the past week he returned from a visit to Savan nah, and the two following days rode over and examined his crop. The next day (Saturday), after taking a nap in the afternoon, he poipp.lained of a slight headache auc( called fqr hjs wife. She hurried to his side just in tipie to see him fall helpless to the floor. He never spoke afterwards, but gradually suc cumbed under a general paralysis of the whole body, until death ensued. The deceased was a native of Burke county, Georgia, and the son of Judge John Whitehead, one of the most noted affd excellent citizens of tbSt once opulent county. He was about fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss. Before the war Maj. Whitehead settled a plantation (the scene of bis death) in Miller county, and was regarded as one of the most successful and intelligent planters in that section. He once represented Mil ler in the Legislature, and retained his influence and popularity to the last. During the war he was elected Major of the Georgia regiment commanded by Judge Gibson, and was wounded in Vir ginia: Since that period, for the most part, he has resided on his Miller plan tation, and was notably one of the most skillful and suooessfnl farmers of South ern Georgia. To the bereaved widow and family we extend onr heartfelt sym pathy in this their hour of sadness and calamity. Why Beecher B*des With Russia. [From, the Times.] That Mr. Beecher should be filled with indignation against Turkey is only natural He is well aware that the Turks are addicted to polygamy, and his im pulsive nature revolts at the very thought of the harem. SOUTH CAROLINA. PALMETTO LEAVES. Spartanburg waters her streets. Hogs are going mad in Newberry. ~ Barnwell has a photograph pavilion. The Ellenton trials cost over $50,000. No more repudiation talk if you please. Bee hives are flourishing around Ab beville. Greenville is lunning over with brick and lumber. Charleston proposes to reorganize the Knights of Pythias. Since March Ist Chester has shipped 1,046 bales of cotton. They arastill dedicating music sheets to Governor Hampton. By the way. what has become of the Edgefield Advertiser ? An “Olde Folkes” Concert is soon to come off iu Winusboro. Mrs. A. M. Aiken, of Greenwood, Ab beville county, is dead. The Newberry colored Methodists are building a neat paisonage. Gen. McGowan was in Columbia and visited the Capitol, Wednesday. Muskrats in Newberry carry whole bunches of oats in their months. A Barnvillelady has picked 110 quarts of strawberries from two small beds. A telegraph line from Allendale to Barnwell, via Blackville, is spoken of. Newberry will soon be treated to the finest theatricals and tableaux ever known. Colonel DeTreville, of Orangeburg, is named for Solicitor of the First Circuit, iu place of Buttz. A correspondent of the Edgefield Ad vertiser says that Gov. Hampton has 7,149 namesakes in this State. The residence of J. H. McLaughlin, three miles south of Aiken, was burned about 12 o’clock on Monday last A mule belonging to Mr. Thomas M. Like, of Newberry, fatally injured itself by running against the sharp edge of a rail. Wo. H. Taggart, of Abbeville county, died near Calhoun’s Mills, on Saturday last, after a short illness, aged about 57 years. A few more base ball clubs are to be licensed before tbo Solons go home. Give them time, geutlemen, large bodies move slowly. Having whipped out the Radicals and scalawags says the Spartan, it is now our duty to clean our rauks of political “bummers.” Mrs. Gns Edwards, of Warrenton, died suddenly at home last week. She was in good health until within five min utes of her death. Six thousand votes since November have been gained by the Democratic party in Orangeburg, Fairfield and Chester counties. A bill to prohibit the sale of intoxi cating liquors within two miles of Lang ley Factory, has received its second reading iu the House. The dwelling and furniture of Mr. Tichbourg, on the Camden Road, near Columbia, were destroyed by au acci dental fire on Monday. Ex-Solicitor W. Magill Fleming and Mr. A. T. Peete have had within the last few days as many as threo separate en counters iu Spartanburg. The Sentinel noticos that the Sandy Run Mills, in Barnwell county, were set on fire last Wednesday night, about 11 o’clock, and entirely consumed. The Columbia Register thinks that six hundred dollars without mileage, giving S3OO for each session, is the fair est adjustment of the salary qiiestion. Tho Newborry Herald remarks that the Legislature that met on the 24th day of April, and the purpose for which it met has not been accomplished yet. The Charleston Journal mentions the rumor that the ex Speaker of the Bogus or Rump House, E. W. M. Mackey, has been appointed Collector of that Port. Mr. Alfred Aldrich, of Barnwell, has received the appointment of Treasurer, aud Mr. John J. Weissinger, of Black ville, that of Auditor for Barnwell county. The junior crews of the Palmetto and Carolina Boat clubs are preparing for an aquatic contest, to take place some time this month, in the cove of Sulli van’s Island. It is probable that the shops of the Spartanburg and Union Biilroad will be rebuilt at Spartanburg, both for the Spartanburg and Asheville and the Union Railroads. The Press and Banner says that “if Lowndosville allows the Georgians to get the contemplated railroad from Au gusta to Clayton, Abbeville will be for ever left out in the cold.” The Columbia Register truthfully re marks that with Mclver as Associate Justice and Kershaw upon the Circuit Bench, it will indeed seem that South Carolina has her own again. The Abbeville Banner says that “the Augusta Chkonigle and Constitution- AiiisT is a choice daily. The weekly issue of that paper should be taken by every man iu Abbeville county.” The Charleston News says that Mr. Viett, the sculptor, is hard at work carving a heautiful shaft to be erected over the grave of the beloved lady of tho Rev. W. H. Adams, at Athens, Ga. A (11.ANCE AT THE CKPUNALS. llling punier uf a Woman—A Hlart lipg i onfession in Hie Penitentiary—Wns the Wrong .Man Hung for the Mutter of a liirl A Desperate IMan Regains Hit* Lib erty. Richmond, Va., June 9.— Jack Pleas ants, colored, was hanged at Dinwiddle Court House yesterday for the murder of Ann Lundy, colored. At Opelousas, St, Tammany parish, Louisiana, yesterday, Louis Rosseau was hanged for the murder of Cyrus Brignao. Chicago, June 9. —A confossion just mado by two criminals confined in the Ohio penitentiary, if true, proves that the wrong man was hanged for the mur der of a young girl named Mary Murray, waylaid, outraged and murdered near Pontiac, Illinois, id 18ft9. A young man named Wyley L, Morris was arrested, tried and convicted of the crime, lint solemnly swore to his innocence to his last momenta upon the scaffold. New Yoke, June 9. Charles. Reoker and Frederick Elliott, indicted for the forgery of a $04,000, cheek and passing it on the Union Trust Company, weee taken to the Supreme Court chambers this morning on a habeas corpus. Roth were bronght to tne Court handcuffed. Wheu inside the building the manacles were removed and almost instantly El liott sprang to the door and disappeared in the crowd. Up, tq the present time he has nof been recaptured. COMPRO MISE with criminals. Ex-Comptroller Connolly Wont —fn Fact) 110 liUinmtcv, a* Much. New Yoke, Judo 9.— The Herald says that what ex-Controller Connolly’s son in-law did say about the latter’s alleged offer to compromise was this: “Con nolly told me that he would sec the city of New York eternally tiamned before he would give it a cent, and that he didn't care if he never saw the place again.” KEY’S SOUTHpHN EXCURSION. Highly Pleased—Fast Mails to New Orleans. Washington, June G.—Posimaster- General Key speaks with mush satisfac tion of his recent trip to the South, and with his intercourse with the business men aDd citizens in regard to the postal service. The appropriation of $175,000 for fast trains between here and New Orleans, Judge regards as inade quate, but he will employ ft to the best advantage, distributing it to such roads as shall bring up the speed of the mail trains to the requirements of the public j Service. BUYING RUBBER. Kxteiibive Sale in Bouton—-Tho Rtnc ofPriwtt and Fall of Humors. Boston, June 8. —The rubber sale closed to-day. The Western bnyers who held back on Thursday hoping to, get goods cheaper to-day, were disappoint ed, as prices advanced towards the close of the sale, and they were com pelled to pay from 5 to 10 per cent, more for the same classes of goods than they brought at the opening of the sale. The prices to-day ruled about fifteen per cent, below the combination price list. The result is eminently satisfactory to manufacturers. In a letter from “John Cain’' to, the Montpelier Argus, dated Rutland, Vc., March 19, the writer does not predict very brilliant results to the town from the rumored removal of the “Howe Beale Works” from Brandon to Rutland. He writes as follows: “I sbonld be glad to witness the bnilding np of Rutland; bnt, in this matter of the ‘Howe Scale Works,’ is there net a cat under the meal ? These works have been in operation about twenty years, and no one has yet re alised any dividends. There is a con troversy as to the water power, and an expensive big law suit pending relative to the rmht of the present Company to the Strong and Ross scale patents. The stock has been too freely watered. The capital is 8250,000, while the amount given into the Grand List is only $17,- 500. It is said), too, that application has beep made for additional injunction bonds for $20,000 in the case pending as to the patents. The Gordon Light Infantry, Hamp ton Rifle Guard and the Greenbrier Rifles, of Fairfield county, think of forming a battalion. THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Moiitezumu has singing soirees. The poultry in Coweta are dying up. An alligator club is fishing down in Dooley. The Oxford Senior Class have finished their studies. Covington has planted plenty of watermelon seed. The Cherokee Railroad is doing well for these hard times. Ham is said to have passed off as a single man in Thomasville. Two elderly ladies live in Fayette county, aged 104 and 94 years. A Walton county man oomes to the front with the first cotton bloom. An experienced agriculturist in Bar tow advises farmers to save their wheat dry. Mark A. Hodin, Esq., of Bartow, is a candidate for Secretary of the Conven tion. Fine wheat crops and the Convention cause florish in Gwinnett without op position. Bartow’s new jail is not air tight. Four prisoners recently escaped from Cartersville, The Herald states that Squire Thomas Bennett, an old citizen of Gwinnett, died last Monday. Nearly all the track on tVe State Road between Atlanta and Cartersville is com posed of steel rails. A young lady in Fort Yallev is named after Longfellow’s Indian princess, “Laughing Water.” It now seems to be the impression of the State papers that Gov. Colquitt knows what he is about. A Newton county debating olub has decided that woman’s education should be superior to that of man. Two ladies aud two childreu came near being drowned in Butts, by their horses baekiug into a mill pond. The Georgian states that the Air Line has joined the Georgia Railroad in its freight discriminations against Athens. The Covington Enterprise says that almost every white man, woman nnd child in Starrsville are Good Templars. Now that the war in Europe places provisions out of their reach, Barnesville merchants think it no harm to go fish ing. Tlie Cartersville Express states that several Fulton county men think that the anti Convention ticket will carry the day in that county. The Barnesville Gazette states that tho several volunteer corps of Griffin, Forsyth and Barnesville are ngitating a camp battalion drill at Indiau Spring shortly. The following are the Oxford Junior speakers, as we learn from the Coving ton Enterprise: A. E. Bird, Guyton, Ga.; W. .1. Harris, Griffin, Ga.; J. C. L-ngston, Elberton, Ga.; A. S. Lovejoy, Oxford, Ga.; A. IT. MacDonell, Macon, Ga ; R J. Muuroe, Quincy, Fin ; T. D. O’Kelly, Conyers, Ga.; T. D. Oliver, Alexander, Ga.; L. Z. Rosser, Oxford, Ga.; H. W. Smith, Oxford, Ga.; A. W. Wilder, Forsyth, Ga.; J. F. Regers, So cial Circle, Ga. Protracted meetings coutinueiu Romo. Mrs. P. A. Clayton, of Columbus, is dead. Huiidersville boasts of its charming widows. Captain P. W. Sale, of Lincoln coun ty, is dead. Mayfield ushered iu tho month with a rousing pie-nic. The Lincoluton Debating Sooiety has been resurrected. George Norton, a typo, died in Rome Saturday morning. Atlanta is rigidly enforcing her cow and hog ordinance. Mules in Washington county are dy ing up from eating sand. The Burke county negroes have nomi nated a Convention ticket. A Y. M. C. A. will probably be or ganized in Hancock county. The Independent announces that tho Atlanta Water Works is a failure. The election for delegates to the Con vention takes places next Tuesday. Rattlesnakes and baso balls aro skim ming the grass arround Columbus. This is tho only time of the year when tho ootton crop comes out “square.” Dominoes and marbles are the chief sources of amusement iu Sandersville. Captain Jas. Hicks is a candidate for tho Convention from Johnson county. Tlie hum of the thresher is heard in the dell, aud tho wheat stork lieth low. They are running Joseph E. Brown upon an anti-Convention ticket in At lanta. Gov. Colquitt, Hon. B. H. Hill, Hon, W. H. Felton and lady were in Rome Tuesday. Judge Pottle would not allow his name to be used in the Convention from his distriot. Atlanta lias thirty-five barber shops. Next to goodliness, there’s nothing equal to barber shops. Revs. W. H. Trammell and P. F. Bur gess are conducting a Beries of prayer meetings at Lincoluton. Mr. Geo. Smith, of Warrenton, jump ed off tbo train last Friday, near tho Ogoechee river, and was seriously hurt. It is said that Senators Gordon and Hill have both recommended Mayor Huff, of Macon, for the State Marshal ship. There was a square acre of courting done at the Mayfield picnic, says tho Clipper, and not a single engagement made. Harry Wilborne, who made his escape from tho penitentiary nine years ago,, lias recently been captured at Chatta nooga, A young mail in Warren county, 22 years old, has never taken a drink of whisky, a chow of tobacco, nor smoked a cigar. The kitchen of Mizel G. Wood, Sr., of Washington county, together with its contents, was accidentally burned a few days since. To say that Ham is settling down once more would be to put it mildly. The Clipper this week sparkles like a newly, polished sherry oobbler. A little son of Malaohi Shurling, of Satidersville, was kicked by a horse on tho bead and so seriously injured, that it is feared death will ensue. Major Georgo Hillyer, of Atlanta, has been appointed, by Governor Colquitt, Judge of the Fulton Circuit, to fill the vaciuicy caused by Judge Peeples. Mr. W. H. Howard, Jr., was upon the Maeon train at its recent run off, but was uninjured. Dr. Lovick Pierce was in a car which did not leave the track. Wm. Zimmer, a United States soldier, was run over aud killed by an engine Wednesday afternoon, at one of the At lanta street crossings, He was intoxi cated. The Thirteenth District sends two : preachers as delegates to tho proposed Constitutional Convention—Rev. George F. Cooper, of Sumter, and Eider John R. Respess, of Soliley county. The McDuffie Journal notes that in a little pie-nic scuffle Col. Ham, of the Ciipper, was knocked down with an empty sarsaparilla bottle and seriously hurt. The whole affair was in the ut most good humor. Some evil minded sage in the Atlanta oaper is continually advising Col. Trip lett, of the ThomaHville Times, to get married. While we do not believo that “there’s anything in a name,” we mnst admire tho prudence of the Thomas ville editor, and commend him to all rising young men as a “gentleman aud a scholar.” Among other thiDgs, it is suggested that the whole medical profession North, South, F<ast and West unite in asking Congress to appropriate $400,000 as “an anaesthesia fund,” to be divided equally between the families of the four physi cians, in which case Dr. Orawfonl’W. Long, of Athens, would certainly reap his just reward. TIIE FRINGE OF PEANYM. lls w Ihe Yttnnjf Kina fToarlsliis—'The U'lfc tun Crop in the Houlh—Reports Front l.oulsl una, Mississippi awl Arkansan. New Omjjans, June 9.—The National Cotton Exchange has made its report for May. Louisiana has an increase of area of cotton equal to 1 per cent.; the stand being generally good, but a trifle later, no commercial fertilizers nsed. Mississippi—lncrease area 2 per cent., weather average, stands fair bnt a week late; labor good; the use of fertilizers limited. Arkansas—l per cent, increase area, weather too cool and dry, stand small and ten days late; labor ample; | no fertilizers used. Alabama—Considerable increase of i area, weather somewhat less favorable, f stand fair to good, crops abont ten days late, labor more satisfactory. Missisip pi— Slight increase of area, weather less favorable, crops ten days late, condition of crops good, clear bnt small. Nash ville-Exchange reports increase in area, weather generally less favorable, crops average 12 days later, no commercial fertilizers used. Jubilee Offerings to the Pope* [jVeto York Herald.] The contributions to the Pope, exclu sive resents of articles of value from various countries', whifch have hlrCadj* been presented to his Holiness, are very large. It may be mentioned that the subscriptions of the people of Ireland were made up of small’sums, although one oounty (Wicklow) contributed $5,- 000. Cardinal Cullen took tp Romp S3#,QOQ collected in Dublin alone- Tbq principal offerings were as follows : Franco.... ...$220,n00 j Germany I 70,000 United States. 100,000 I Belgium- .... 70,000 Ireland ...... 130,000 Forrugal...., 42,000 Italy 100,000 1 Australia 73,000 Spain 100,000 | Canada ...... 30,000 England 100 000 I Holland 32,000 Austria 75,000 | Scotland 30,000 S. American.. 75,000 j Switzerland.. 26,004)