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(Chronicle anb iSrnttnrl.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1*77,
Jenny Lind, though 51 years old, has
a beautiful little baby.
Undertakers should never tell sick)y
looking men that “this nice (lay to i
t ike a rideu”
Is odo year the silver dollar varied 20
per cent. And yet some people want it 1
as a “standard of value.”
Mrs. Lydia Shrrman is a most inter-!
eating woman. fibtf has poisoned three j
hn-bands and seven children,
John Lord, not yet 30 years of age, is ‘
the editor of the. New York Timm. He
is a Scotchman from Glasgow.
Senator Gordon’s brother-in-law, J.
G. I’ayns, is a candidate for Hergeant-at-
Arms of the House of Representatives.
The Radicals are beginning to believe
that Southern men know how to ran re-j
turning boards iu their own interest,
with several “modem improvements."
Somb people begin to believe that j
Bun.nK and MauVeuih have not au- 1
hacred each other at all, and that there i
is a deal of truth in the accusations, pro
and con.
The most amusing visitor the Presi
dent has recently had was n negro min
strel, who did not want au office, and
was mistaken by the lobby fora bonanza
Benator, on account of his store clothes
and diamond pin.
Gen. Oomly, Minister to the Sand
wich Islands, at a salary of S7,(XX) gold
per annum, can speak the Kanaka luu
guag ■. But Gen. Noyes, another Ohio
man, Minister to France, doss not know
a dozen words of French,
The President was invited to Jake an
excursion on a “temperance steamboat;’
lint he declined on the ground that Mrs.
Hayes ran that part of the schedule.
The fact is R. B. is not amiss to cham
pagne cocktail, hut knows when to stop.
Local self-government is Republi
canism. That France knows nothing
about. The truth of the matter is that
imperialism exists as much as ever,
although called by a different name.
When MutAIiEAU set up a tuilor shop, he
was still the Connt do Mira beau.
J. B. Hyphax, once a slave of the
Arlington estate, and recently a member
of the Virginia Legislature, advocates
the election of General W. H, F. Lee
for Governor. Sypiiax believes iu blood
aud family, and thinks “Rooney” is
“one of us.”
The Atlanta Independent endorses
Senator llir/L for tho vacant place on
tho bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States. We do not believe Mr
Him,desires the place; besides, like Fals
t,ape’s tailor, when tendered Bardot,-
i'h's bond, wo like not tho endorsement.
The Washington National Republican,
speaking of Hon. ,T. Randolph Tuck
er’s recent address, says "lie will not
realize that four years of war knocked
State rights theories highertban a kite.”
Ami yet the Aliunde Electoral Commis
sion counted in Mr. Hayes on extreme
Statu rights theories, and, on the same
theories, N iohollu and Hampton are
Governors of Louisiana and South Car
olina. The Republican must try again.
The New York Herald thinks we are
prosperous, but we learn that there were
thirty-one failures in New York city in
May, with liabilities of $1,354,024, and
assets of $534,751. Assignments and
adjudications iu bankruptcy increased
these liabilities by $050,000. There is
ail increase of llfty percent, iu tho num
ber of failures over last month’s record,
while the liabilities are about forty per
cent. less. The total liabilities for the
mouth are, in round numbers, $2,000,000.
—■
A remarkable Scotchman, David
UagcHAHT, at Naples rocently. He
loved Turkey and hated Russia. His
edneation was profound aud his literary
work considerable in several languages.
Uo turned au Irish country house into a
Turkish palace, and conceiveil the no
tiou, too, many years ago, that children
ought never to be clothed until they
were well grown, aud horrified the whole
of Britain by allowing his little boy to
wander stark naked all over his house
and grounds aud compelling the little
fellow to live thus through ull kiuds of
weather.
Atlanta lias often boasted of the
rn .re than Komau virtue of her citizens
n voting against the Bullock Conven-i
iou iu 1868 and spurning the tempting
bribe of the c ipital held oat to them iu
that instrument. It now appears that At
lanta has been traveling,asnsnal,on false'
pretences. The Independent, the Hayes
paper started in that says Atlanta
at the election of 1868 gave 4(H) majority
to the Democratic candidate for Govern
or and 200 majority tp the Radical Con
etitutiou which made Atlanta the seat of
government. Atlanta’s ballot generally
goes with Atlanta’s pocket book.
It is now said that a son ot Qon.M. C. Butt er
was one ot the two young white *a*.n who per
sisted in riding throagh the lines of *• color
ed military company at Haul nrg. 8. C., • tao
fatal day last July.— Cincinnati Gazette.
'•lt is now said” is as grCat a liar as
flic notoriously mendacious “they say.”
It was nut one of Gen. M. C. Butler’s
sous who persisted in riding through
the lines of the military iu Ham
burg “on the fatal d*f last Jnly.” It
lias been fully proveu that the two
young men—neither one of whom was
son of General Butler—did not in
sist *pon ridiug through the lines, ete.
On the .ooijtrary, they were uot permit
ted to pass along a public highway, and
bon they appealed to the Courts Dock
Adams aud his men defied civil law.
They defied it to the last and ttve .Lot
whiob ensued was the work of their awn
hands.
TaKES was a memorable divorce suit I
ia a Coumectient Court the other day. j
We read iu one ot pur exchanges that
when the trial had been iu progress for f
some time the counsel for one aide au- j
uounoed that he had reserved the worst;
testimony, and was about to introduce j
some of it when the Judge said that he
had a few remarks to make. Both the \
parties to the suit, with their children
and some ot their friends, were present.
The Judge said ke had been thinking of
this ease with particular reference to :
bringing about an amicable settlement,
and he didn’t like the idea that either
party should suffer by the presentation
of uuclean evidence ; he referred to the ,
children in aneb terms as to put nearly
ail in the Court room in tears. Even the |
lawyers wept, and when a lawyer weeps j
tu a Court room it is for no ordinary
thing. The Judge concluded with a;
proposition that there should be a con
sultation betweeu the counsel and the
parties to the case before it went any
further. This was agreed to, and to the I
satisfaction of ail decent people the con
ference did not have much difficulty in
arriving at an amicable adjustment.
This ia divine law on earth, and the
Connecticut Judge deserves a niche
higher up in the temple than most of
his kind should occupy.
“ROLTHERN HONOR.”
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
baa hatred of the South which some
times degenerates into positive mania.
Nothing seems to please the editor of
that sheet so much as to concoct a
: monstrosity which is supposed to re-
I s°mble anything in this section, and
then go to work and demolish it.—
Just now the Philadelphia journalist
1 has, in the parlance of the day, “ got
his jim-jams and got ’em bad.” In his
i paper of June 9tb, we are treated to a
lengthened disconrse upon “Honor”
as it is pr. fumed, in the Evening Bullet
tin office, to prevail at the South. We
learn, for example, that “the average
Southerner prides himself upon the
sensitiveness of his honor. It is so very
delicate, indeed, that he generally car- j
ri ts upon his person a weapon with I
which to defend it. If it is impeached, j
he either vindicates it by drawing his
revolve'r and perforating the impeach
er with a ballet on the spot, or he i
challenges his assailant to meet him 1
upon the field where there will be a
chance that his honor will be satisfied
by the mutilation of his ribs by a mis
sile. His honor is so dear to him that
he would rather commit murder or
place his own life at hazard than to
have a stain placed upon it. When
tho war began he may not have be
lieved in the righteousness of the
Southern cause, but his honor required
that he should stand by his State,
right or wrong, and so he fought
against the Union in which he believed
aud slew men who were trying to keep
him from robbing himself of a country
aud a Government. If he gambles and i
loses, what he owes to the winner con
stitutes a debt of honor which he fuels
that he must pay at any sacrifice, eveu
if there is a suspicion thut his antago
nist had aces hidden iu his sleeve.—
Now that slavery is dead and the South
is poor, tliere is but one way in which
he can earn his bread ; but his honor
is so nice that it forbids him to engage
iu menial labor such as niggers are em
ployed at, aud so he puts a mortgage
on his plantation aud either spends
his time playing tournament, or loiter
ing in a bar-room where lie discusses
politics iu the iutervuls of drenching
himself with mixed drinks.”
m average Southerner, like the av
erage gentleman everywhere, has a nice
sense of self respect, and, on occasion,
will defend it a V out ranee. But in this
he differs not from the man of the
North, except perhaps his tenderness
upon a subject which does not greatly
concern such men as Ben Butler et al.
The truth of the matter is, as to the
carrying of concealed weapons and the
use of them, that a majority of our
people do not own them at all, aud that
a minority who do carry them either
have been obliged to do so in self
defense from ruffians that Reconstruc
tion let loose upon our rural communi
ties, or do not draw them with lioßtila
intent oftener than the Northern man,
if newspaper records are to be believed,
For every murder in tho South there are
ten murders in tho East or West. Most
of the men who faced bullets iu the war
believed in the righteousness of it;
and a good many would have
believed it still more strongly had they
been able to conceive tho infamies of
legislation ip store for them when the
war was at an end in the field. Tho
picture drawn of the average Souther
ner who is too nice to engage in manual
labor is a lying caricature which we
have exposed over and over again in
these columns. We have in the South
idle aud dangerous men, but they con
stitute but a small fraction of our popu
lation, and wo venture to ay that the
city of Philadelphia can boast of more
loafers aud thugs than can be found in
any three Southern commonwealths.
Tho language of the Bulletin man ill
becomes a Northern editor who knows
not how to defeud his people from in
numerable “tramps,” or, perhaps, like
some of his brethren, advises that these
human “results of the war” shall be
pistoled and even lynehod.
Going a little farther, this Philadel
phia editor discovers that the “average
Southerner” is not quite ■so sensitive
about payiug his debts, and the illustra
tion is as follows :
When the war broke out the South owed
millions to the Northern merchants, but in
stantly the cry was sent up that theao debts
should not be paid, and most of them have
not been to this day. The State of Virginia,
that State in which honor is claimed as the
precious heritage of every one of her sons, is
heavily in debt. Keceutly Sbrtain of these
honorable sons proposed that the obligations
of tho Commonwealth should l e repudiated,
and certain other lionoiable sons, who would
shoot on the iustaut any one who should
charge them with partiality for theft, advocat
ed the proposition with earnestness, one of
them going no far as to nrge that the State
does not owe the money at all, hat that it is
due from the Federal Government as the con
queror of Virginia. In South Carol ua the ac
! tion of the Republican carpet-baggers and
(he negroes has j list prevented the native
men of honor from repudiating a debt from
, which the creditors have already thrown fifty
• per cent, upon a pledge given by the chivalry,
j iu Democratic Convention assembled, that the
! remainder would he recognized. In North
! Carolina, a State wherein Northern mudsills
and ignorant negroes liavo never been in con
j trol, but where the cavalier with exceedingly
| delicate honor has always been snpreme, par-
Itial repudiation of the debt of the Strte has
been consummated, and there is not a great
I deal of hope of pajment of the rest. In
1 r_Mineesee, the chivalrous Southron, haviug
I boi-u\'>L money and with it budded a superb
(State House other publ c edifices, lias
forgotten his liquor stuaeicntly to permit him
to kick out of Court the claims of most of hi 8
I creditors, and that, too. without manifesting
i any disposition to surrender the property
bought with the creditor's npnysy.
What proof has the Evening jiullfiUn !
that the debts due from Southern!
merchants to the merchants of the j
North after the war “mostly remain tin- j
paid to this day ?” Our information is I
j list the reverse. We h& e sa.en state
ment after statement in the Northern
press that the Southern merchants had '
acted wifh extraordinary “honor" in this ,
matter, considering their fallen and for- 1
lorp condition. And since the war, we
venture agaifi to say, that there has been |
uo more default at the ijqutli among her
commercial classes than at the East or ,
West.
As to the State debts, it is clear that;
the mode of their increase, during Re
construction, was so inefiablv vile a
brigandage that common justice need '
not have hesitated to reject larger
amouuts than h&ye l/epp outlawed. The
public aradjt of- Georgia has not been
impaired by throwing, overboard;
Bullock’s fraudulent bonds, and I
many of our best men are of
opinion that we are paying inter
est still upon some $2,000,000, which
shonld have been declared bogus. The
i State of Virginia ia no doubt doing her
I best to stagger under her mighty ia*
, volvment. and doing a great deal better
! than Minnesota, which has not had to
endure thus same palamityof Abolition war
i and Radical Reconstruction. And so of
j North Carolina, and possibly of Tennes
see. The largest repudiation in South
; Carolina was under Chamberlain’s gov-
I eminent; and any one who has carefully
read the dabntas in the Hampton Legis
i lature must lsngh at the idea that “ne
groes and carpet-baggers prevented the
native men of honor from repudiating
the debt.”
An individual and a State should pay
debts honestly contracted. If it be true,
as the political economists show, that
only five per cent, of mankind ever
accumnlate anything, it stands to
reason that the ninety-five per cent.
: of nnfortunates will be compelled at
some time to make creditors suffer. This
is a melancholy fact; bnt it is a troth
that is known and recognized the world
over, and not confined to any section or
to any people, average or otherwise.
The Evening Bulletin warns the South,
jin conclnsion, that “the State that
| cheats its creditors now will have to ac
cept hard terms when it wants to borrow
again.” So be it. No journal has more
staunchly fought unlawful repudiation
than the Chronicle andConsitutional
lst, but we have not hesitated to urge the
weeding out of false securities and bogus
bonds, imposed by illegal legislatures,
backed by bayonets, and procured by rob
bery and fraud. The State will not cheat
its true creditor, and Radical bandits
should not have cheated the State. We
believe the Southern States will pay dol
lar for dollar every honest obligation ;
or make honorable compromise of what
cannot be paid, after unexampled de
struction of the sources of wealth by
Northern mrchinations. Had Pennsyl
vania suffered half as much as Virginia
has suffered since 1861, she would have
many more “average” loafers, ten times
as many “average” ruffians, and not
half as strenuous an effort would have
been made l.y the “average” legislator
to pay the public debt.
THE WAYNESBORO LYNCHING.
The attempt to secure from a grand jury
indictments of the mob of Georgia rioters
who lynched a negro a few weeks since at
Waynesboro, in that State, failed; the only
reason thus fur assigned is that the proceed
ings were found to be void in law, owing to
some informalities in the commitment of the
lyn hed man to the jail from which he was
taken and hung. Tho Augusta Chuonicue
says:
“ The reporter asked Solicitor-General
Dutcher if this non-action by the grand jury
did not end tho matter, to whicti ho replied
that it did not.”
The course of the local prosecuting officers
iu regard to this crime haH thus far been
marked by appearances of sincerity, aud it is
fair to presume that they will take other steps
to see that justice is not, defeated in this mat
ter. —Detroit {Mich.') Tribune.
We are afraid that the Tribune is
mistaken in its statement of the reason
why the lynchers of Welsh were not in
dicted and brought to trial. We fear
that it was not the absence of the neces
sary formalities of the law, but want of
inclination on the part of the grand
jury that kept these men from being
presented. The crime was wholly with
out justification, and was attended with
circumstances of unusual atrocity, but,
as has been the case with all lynching,
the perpetrators will escape punishment.
Such deeds are made possible only by
the condition of public opinion, and
public opinion must be changed before
justice can bo done. It is gratifying to
know, however, that such a change is
beginning to make itself manifest in
Georgia. The press is swift to denounce
mob law and to call for the punishment
of lynchers. The best citizens of the
State, the Governor and the civil officers
generally, sustain the press, and all the
indications point to the speedy and com
plete suppression of mob violence. In
the present instance, Solicitor-General
Dutchf.r made a determined effort to
punish the men who outraged the law
by ttie murder of Welsh, and while he
has so far failed, through no fault of his
own, the example he has set will be pro
ductive of good results in the future.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
It is announced in a Hepublican contempo- j
rary that one of the most prominent Demo
crats journalists in Georgia lias established a
paper at Atlanta for the express purpose of
supporting the Southern policy of l’residfent
Hayfs. Is thoro any information of any prom
inent ltepuhlican journalist doing any thing of ,
that sort ? —Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Enquirer has been misinformed.
“One of tlie most prominent Democratic
journalists in Georgia” has not “estab
lished a paper at Atlanta for the purpose
of supporting the Southern policy of
Presidpnt Hayes.” A weekly paper has
been started in Atlanta for the purpose,
ostensibly, of supporting the President’s
Southern policy, but really to get con
trol of the distribution of Federal pat
ronage in Georgia in the interest of one
clique of what is humorously known
here as the Republican party. It is a
very spicy and readable sheet, but we
think the editor would be the first man
to repel the charge that he is a promi
nent Democratic journalist or a promi
ueut Democratic auy thing else. The
editor’s name is A. L. Harris ; he is an
importation from Ohio, aud, of course,
is fighting the carpet-baggers ; was the
sworn friend and ally of Bullock,
Blodgett Ic Go.; organized the infa
mous Legislature of 1870 in direct viola
tion of law and precedent; and while
connected with the management of the
State Road aoted in such a way as to at
tract the attention of a Fulton county
Grand Jury. He is a man of intelli
gence and is a good writer, bat he is not
doing much to help Hayes or hurt the
Pemooracy in Georgia.
THE PKti*>H)KNT A SLOW’ BjUT DETER
MINED, MJN,
The Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans Democrat has a very j
trenchant and lively way of illustrating i
his political ideas. He pictures the
President as a quiet man, but, once
aroused, heroic in his courage. He
needs a sharp, hard fight to bring him
out, like the “slow fighter” of Piochp, '
tho anecdote about whom rnnfe thus :
The “slow fighter” was a tail, rawboned |
specimen of the Pike connty breed, and when
he arrived in die mining camp the boys began
to have fun with him—to “mill him.” as they I
eali it in the parlance ot the mines '
[ He stood it for a long 4one with perfect j
equanimity, until finally one of the party dared ;
him out of doors Saht.
Ho went. When they got all ready J
squared off, Pike countv stretched out his long j
neck ifui presented the tip of his big nose i
temptingly close to his tormentor • “ I'm a
i little slow,” he said, “and can't tight unless |
I'm well riled ; jnst paste me one—a good 'un •
I —right on the end of that smeller !”
His request was complied with.
! “That was a good ’un," he said, c&lmly,
“but I don't feel quite riled yit"—(turning
j the sije of his head to the adversary)—
j ' 'please chug afo ajjojUer live!'- one under the
j ear:”
The astonished adversary again eoiuptied,
whereupon Pike county, remarking that he
i was “not quite as well riled as he would like
1 to be, bat would do the best he could,” sailed
into the crowd, and for tho next ten days the
| “boys” were engaged in mending broken jaws,
repairing damaged eyee and tenderly resur
j reeling smashed noses,
i The Washington correspondent draws
! from this “little story” an appropriate
! moral. He says : “ Mr. Hayes will
light. But he is ‘slow.’ He requires
! to be ‘pasted one on the nose,’ and
then to be ‘chugged a good one under
I the ear’ before he gets ‘well riled.’—
■Jnst now the boys are ‘milling’ him.
And they will continue to mill him to
the great scandal of his good name and
to the infinite disadvantage of the coun
try until his sluggish blood gets up and
| he resolves to accept the issue they of
i fer. When he does this the paltry herd
- won’t last ten minutes. But he oau de
pend upon it, that so long as be will
endure they will inflict. He c&nnot con
ciliate them, because they do not know
what gratitude means. They belong to
that cowardly breed of cars which can
ouly be disciplined by kick and cndgel,
and upon whom all kindness ia loat. It
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1577.
is a pity to see so good a man as Hayes
wasting so much kindness upon such
reptiles. ”
Perhaps the President sees exactly
how it will be as well as the correspond
ent does, and perchance bis Exoellency,
like a first-class anaconda, is simply
salivating Blaine, Morton, Butler &
Cos. preparatory to swallowing them.
They will be tough of digestion, but
the President can take a long rest when
he shall have gobbled them np.
ROUMANIA.
Roumania is the ancient Dacia, and
from that province the Romans not bd
frequently drew their gladiators who
were “ butchered to make a holiday.”
Trajan conquered Dacia 1800 years ago
and the remains of a great wall built by
him can be seen to this day. An inter
mingling of the Latin races with the
Dacians produced the Roumanian tribes.
These Roumanians are widely diffused
in the Turkish principalities, number
ing, it is said, 15,000,000. The Balti
more Sun has collected the following in
formation regarding them ;
They all belong to the Orthodox Greek
Church, but take their spiritual guidance from
their own clergy. The Roumanians moat ad
vanced in civilization are those of Moldavia
and Wallachia. They are a bright, quick, apt.
people, fon I of gayety and uieplay, yet with
sterling qualities that have brought them of
late years very prominently into notice as a
race that might easily be welded again into
one nation, under one rule, and interposed,
like anew Trajan’s wall, between the Rus
sians ou the 0.. e hand and the Turks on the
other. It is a popular error to class the Rou
manians as Slavs. 1 hey are a totally different
race. A Bucharest correspondent, who has
made this people a study, is of the opinion
that if the hoped for confederation of the
States of the Danube should ever be constitu
ted, the centre of the new union must be
fonnd in Roumania. The establishment of
some such confederation as a bulwark against
the march of Russia westward has loug been
considered alvisable by the statesmen and
publicists of Western Europe, and if a king
dom of Roumania were organized to cover the
old Dacian kingdom and extend across the
Danube to the Black Sea south of the Balkan
range, and if Servia aud Bosnia were annexed
to Austr.a, tk6 Turk iu Europe would fiud
himself under bonds to treat the Christians
kindly, while Russia would he deprived of a
standiug grievance and of that pretext for
annexing additional Turkish territory of which
she has frequently profited.
We imagine that, if so welded into one
nation between Russia and Turkey, the
Roumanians would bo between the up
per aud nether millstone or between the
devil and the deep sea. It is their des
tiny, in case Russian progress toward
the Black Sea and Mediteraneau be not
impeded, to suffer absorption, like so
many other people, that lay in the line
of the Muscovite march. In case this
should happen, the Christians most like
ly would suffer from the Czar’s church
the same persecution that the Catholics,
Jews and Greek Uuiates eudure in Rus*
sia—a propagaudism that matches in
ferocity and pertinaciousness the per
secutions of Nero and Diocletian, when
Rome survived. Poland was the true
bulwark of Western Europe against the
Russian Empire; but it was allowed to
perish piecemeal. It is not at all likely
that Russia will permit any rampart
like Roumania to be erected against her
triumphant policy; and, if erected, it
would have about as much life as the
treaty of Faris. Just now the Republi
cans in Europe eepm to be in the de
clining scale, while tho Cossacks rise
into greater dominance that ever.
HON. BEN HJJ,L.
The New York Ilcrald does not alto
gether like Hon. B. H. Hill’s LaGrange
speech, and portrays the eloquent Geor
gian as having his “head down and tail
up.” Tho Herald tnan snorts because
Mr. Hill protests against a isiata Con
stitution that brands the people of the
Commonwealth as rebels, and declares
that the paramount allegiance of every
Georgian is due to the National Govern
ment. Mr. Hill simply asserts his self
respect, and calls upon fellow-citizens,
thus branded, to assert theirs. Pur
suing this bke&e, however, from
its own peculiar stand-point, ' the
Herald says: “Mr. Hill is noto
riously the best talker to Buncombe in
the whole of Georgia. Nobody need
imagine that he believes all be seems to
be saying. He is at the bottom a very
sensible man, and he knows that the
late war was a rebellion, and that every
Georgian, just as every New Yorker,
does owe paramount allegiance to the
Federal Government. But ho wants a
Constitutional Gonyeptjop, and so he is
giving those reasons for it which he im
agines will carry his point. That i3 all.
Only is it quite right in so eminent a
man, so able a man, so sensible a man,
to go about among his fellow-citizens ut
tering balderdash ? He has just been
elpcte.d to the Senate for six years, and
no Presidential election is at hand. What
is the use ? Mr. Hill made a good deal
of campaign thunder for the Republi
cans in the Winter of 1875-6. Why not,
as the street boys say, ‘give us a rest ?’ ”
We dare say Mr. Hill can talk Bun
bombe superbly when the occasion de
mands it; but he spoke the words of
truth aud soberness at LaGrange. Mr.
Hill, being at bottom, and top too, a
sensible man, and acquainted, as his
fferqlff critic probably is npf, with the
history of the formation of Union,
never could believe that the war between
the States was a rebellion, If ay, he has,
over and over again, in loftipst language
and with relentless logic, demon
strated exactly the reverse. Of course,
what Mr. Hill knows to be truth on
this subject,“the Herald man deems, in
his prejudice or ignorance, “balder-
I dash.” Mr. Hill was speaking at La-
Grango as an earnest man to earnest
1 men, and not as a “street boy” to the
I readers of the Herald. We shall have
i a Gopyentjon and if will do justice to
| all classes, branding pone, ft will be
, called by a popular vote and tho funda
i mem* 1 B hall have “bout it no hedge
i of bayonets and no sm?)l of fraud. Mr.
Hill would have been false to himself,
i to his people, and to hjs common coun
try had he not spoken as fie did.
The latest version, and moat season
able one, of an old song is : “Drink to
me only with thine ice.”
A Liverpool banker named Heju’abd
died the other day, leaving an estate of
$12,500,000. Being childless, he left
$5,000,000 to a nephew.
Blaine does not encourage Flipper
to get a commission in the army, but
thinks he had better “go South and be
come a leader of his race.”
Senator I’erry, of Michigan, is seri
ously ill of congestion of the brain. Too
much Electoral Commission, they pay,
caused nervous’prostration.
—■ m.
Salem, N. C., ships annually 3,000,-
000 pounds of black berries and receives
therefor nearly $500,000. This is equal
to 9,000 bales of cotton at ten cents per
pound.
Alluding to West Point matters, At
torney-General Devens stated that “the
son of the tailor who made olothing for
the cadets graduated at the bead of the
class in which was the son of the Presi
dent of the United States.” Perhaps the
son of the President would not have
graduated at all, if it had not been for
his father's position.
EX-REBEL FELICITATIONS.
TOOMBS ON THE NEW ORDER OP
THINGS.
Why He Talerntes President Hayes—How
He Still Proudly Worships the Confederate
Platt and Glories in the Reassertiou of
State Movereigoty.
The Indianapolis Journal has pro
cured a report of the speech which
Robert Tooms, of Georgia, made in re
sponse to a serenade at the Arkansas
Hot Springs on Thursday night, May
31. Gen. Toombs was introduced by
Hon. M. J. Henderson, and, after the
applause had subsided, spoke substan
tially as follows : .
“I thank you for your kindly greet
ing, and I assure you I appreciate your
kindness to me personally. I have had
many evidences of this good will in the
six or seven States through which I
have passed since I left my native Geor
gia. Althongh they have been pleasant
to me, especially from the source which
they came, yet they have not been un
mixed with sadness. Most of the gen
eration in which I have lived have
passed away; many of them have been
gathered to their fathers in quiet aud
peace. Many, after long and useful
lives, many of them in humble life,
have been taken away in peace. They
have gathered around them the drapery
of their couches and -laid down to
pleasant dreams; but a targe portion of
the men of my generation have passed
away in the tempest of tho storm. De
voted to liberty aud patriotism, they
have gone out iu the roar aud thunder
of battle. [Applause.] They have
joined that great army of martyrs who
have fought for liberty and country
from generation to generation,for thous
ands of years. They have joined them
on the high eternal plains where glory
keeps eternal watch over the bivonacs
of the dead. But they have left behind
them some of their old comrades in the
great struggle—they have left some sur
vivors of their glories and objects; and,
alas, they have left widows, mothers,
sons and daughters.
I congratulate your State ou many ac
counts. She, in common with many of
her sister States, after the sufferings of
the war, for four years spoliation, lias
by the wisdom, prudence aud modera
tion of your servants (among whom is
tny distinguished friend whom you have
honored yourselves in naming this
county after), who, after the State had
beon wrested from spoilers’ hands, and
though poor aud battered, yet with the
heavons above you; with strong arms,
stout hearts; with soil boundless iu fer
tility, you are again ready to struggle
for prosperity and wealth, security, lib
erty, stability and order. I congratulate
the Southern States that after all the
waste and devastation and ruin which
have overspread them, especially our
sisters who have recently emerged from
chaos, after haviug lost the glorious
Confederate flag, which I am proud to
worship now as I did on the battle fields
of Virginia, Maryland and Georgia, that
they are again the masters of their own
destiny. I congratulate them upon the
ohange after the defeat aud disaster and
wreck and ruin of ten years, that they
are the masters of themselves, and'as
ready again to defend right and liber
ty and, republican government. It is
true that the old Constitution and all
'those palladium# of liberty thrown
around us have perishpd. it is true we
have what is called anew Constitution,
which I regard as no Constitution at
all, and tho amendments I defeat and
abhor, and will never reeoguize them as
a fundamental law. But we have the
traditions of liberty, we have the tradi-'
tions of our English ancestors, which
neither defeat nor disaster can eradicate,
and are stj|l ready as ever to maintain
those glorious privilege.
I congratulate also our fellow-oitissens
of tho North. It has taught them some
wise lessons. Instigated by the lust of
gain, undor the guise of piety did they
many wicked things. I thank God there
is au avenging Nemesis that follows the
track ofreveugful victory to right wrongs
aud punjsh evil doers. They have found
out that the men WOO prantieeU crime,
despotism, and inflicted ruin to the
Southern States, want to practice the
arts they have learned upon their own
countrymen- Like the children of death,
begotten iu sin, when they bihf destroy
ed us, they went home, and have set
about eating the vitals of their own peo
ple. Now throughout the land we hear
the wail of want and misery generally
over this country. But everything is
not lost as long as we have such a coun
try aud meu fit to Ijve in and govern it.
Nations have waged’ war fiejofe ; batjiles
have been lost and won ; countries have
been devastated, but those who have
been true to the principles of good gov
ernment have risen again,'uncouquered
and unconquerably,
I congratulate our friends of the
North, too, for the greater reason that
they have found that there is no safety
for the public except in the great prin
ciple of State sovepeigqty. Tfie people
of the States delegated to the General
Government a portion of their sovereign
powers, others they vested in their
State governments, and the balance they
held themselves—they haven’t trusted
them to eitbep government—aufi the
destruction of either one or' the other
was tho destruction of one of the great
est and strongest safeguards of liberty
and law. In tearing down those bul
warks they have opened the sluice-gates
of corruption and filled the land with
thousands o£ ill-regu}atad. dangerous
corporations, excisemen and people who
live not by labor, but by fraud, and are
purely national, abhor sectionalism, and
steal from all alike. I thank those
patriots throughout the North who have
aided us in our groat struggle in the
cause of reform of public evil. In a
very large majority of the neiy states,
the wards of tho nation began to see the
rigbt t at least they began to ’feel op
pression—they hafi sense pnough to
know that when t**ea came
like a pestilence they did not
escape; the law took pence from
poverty as pounds from wealth. I
voted for'neither Tilden nor Hayes, and
therefore I can speak to you, fellow
citizens, with impartiality. The only
consolation I can find is that the evils
done have been so tfia) good
may now oome of it. Let us go back to
tho old principles. After 40 years of
public service I could tell all I know of
government in a single paragraDb, and
it would not tfieij be; Ualj as long as'some
sentences ip ope of Secretary Evarts’
speppbes.
Government was not jpadefor the few,
but for all. _ |t was made hecaqse wick
ed, Ljad ( unjust m*sn would not do jus
tice to their neighbors. The good men
of the oountry said: “Let us get to
gether and establish a legislature to make
laws, a judiciary to interpret them, and
an executive to execute them. With
these principles alone we will get peace
and security; we will make the country
secure, and then we will let everybody
alone; and that is t}io whole soieuee of
government. To keep the country from
invasion and from domestic trouble, ad
minister justice between man and man;
draw the true dividing line between
powers of the Government and the rights
of the individual man, aud then let
every man pursue bis otvn interest. It
is a great mistake to suppose that the
interests of one honest man eyer conflict
with the interests of another honest nian.
This is the experience of all the material
world in all cf Qcd’S works. Think you
the Great Father of us all has made
harmony in this great universe every
where else and failed in this, the greatest
need of man) No. no. no 1 It is not
true. Heaven forbid it. God’s wisdom,
power, mercy, all forbid it.
When you spend money taken from
the Treasury for the benefit of one olass
or part of the country, you are commit
ting a great wrong. Wrong always
comes home to roost. We see it-now.
I have heard it all my life, and 67 years
of experience has proved the fact to me.
I do not like the principles of the pres
ent so-called Democratic party, but I
like less the principles and practices of
the Republican party. The Democratic
party have not had recently a chance to
have any practice at all, and they took
the best they coaid get, and that was
bad principles. Hayes got in, not by
his own act —he is there by the folly or
incapacity of the present Democratic
party. Hayes is President (le facip. I
paid ljttle attention to his promises,' bnt
he has taken his poet, and carried them
out. He has done all that Tilden could
have done so far as Louisiana and South
Carolina are concerned. He has given
them back that pearl of great price, he
has gives back that jewel, that life-blood
of good government, which makes all
else possible—State self-government. He
has brought back the arfi of the Govern
ment and placed it where it belongs. He
has commenced civil service reform; he
has ordered his officers to turn out bad
men, and to turn out useless officials,
who feed upon the people as drones in
the hives; and I applaud him for these
things. I will approve of whatever good
he does, and will condemn whatever he
does of evil. This is the duty of every
patriot. Is it not time that we shonld
sink the partisan into the patriot ? The
Sonth never songht any pecnniary ad
vantage from the Government of the
United States; she onght to seek none
now. I was in Congress seventeen years,
and in my own distriot in Eastern Geor
gia, and I say to yon now that I never
got a dollar out of the Treasnry for one
single spot in that district. I was not
sent there to steal. Every dollar taken
from-the Treasury for any one particu
lar locality is an injustice to the rest cf
the country, and I can tell you, to the
glory of my constituents, that in the 17
years of my public service in Congress,
no man iu Georgia asked me to do it.
We have a grand country ourselves—a
goodly land, a magnificent heritage, all
that a good man needs in this world.
We can be quite prosperous and happy
if we will stand by the old landmarks
and sustaiu good progress. Let us hang
our banners on the outer walls, neither
chagrined by treaohery, disheartened by
desertion, nor overawed by defeat. Let
us display a magnanimity as great as the
occasion, as prolonged as the conflict—
all then will he well for ns and our chil
dren and children’s children “till time
shall be no more.”
— I
NATIONAL COTTON EXCHANGE RE
PORT.
District of Augusta—Crop Report for May,
1877.
The Augusta Exchange, (
Augusta, Ga., June 11, 1877. (
To the President and Board of Directors
of the Augusta Exchange:
Gentpe^en—We respeotfully submit
the following report for the month of
May, as to the prospects and condition
of the cotton crop in the District allot
ted to this Exchange. Our repirt is
based upon forty-one (41) replies from
eighteen (18) couuties. Average date of
replies, June Ist.
First: Whitt is the qreq, of Jand plant
ed in cotton in your section as compared
with last year? State per ceutage of in
crease or decrease ? Answer : The acre
age under cotton is gepeiully reported
the same as last year,' Threo counties
report b per cent. dess.
Second; What has been the character
of the weather, and has it been more or
less favorable for planting this than last
year ? Answer : Asa rule the weather is
stated to Lave been more favorable for
planting and working, but decidedly
less favorable for growtj), oiyiujj fo al
most constant pool and dry weather.
Third : How are the stands of cotton
hi your section ? Answer : Stands are
fair to good where planted early. Very
poor and defective on late plantings,
whero some of the seed has never come
up for want of moisture. On the whole
they are not as good as last year.
Fourth : How muph eqrijer qr later is
the cotton oj-op jp yogr section this than
last year ? Answer: Generally ten to
flfteen days later than last year.
Fifth : How is the labor ip pug)ber
and efficiency, pojppawl with last year?
Answer ; In numbers, same as last year,
in efficiency fully as good, and several
correspondents report an improvement.
Sixth : Has the use of fertilizers in
creased or decreased as compared with
last year ? Answer : An average increase
of about 8 percent, is reported in the use
of commercial fertilizers. Two counties
only renort a decrease. The use of home
made tlisncres was greater than hereto
fore. ,
Seventh ; What is .the present con
dition of the cotton crop in your sec
tion ? Answer : The fields are well work
ed and very free from grasses, but the
plant is unusually small for this season
of the year. It is strong and well rooted,
however, and with favorable weather
will grow rapiffly.
Eighth : State'any material facts not
covered by above question ? Answer :
From three counties some little damage
is reported from cut-worms. Early
planted cotton came up well, but was
stunted by cold, windy, dry weather,
and has grown but very little. The late
plantings came up badly, a smaU per
cpßtP£p Bt*U reported as ■ t not up" for
want of rain, tlio drouth in this section
having lasted in various localities from
three to six weeks.
Your committee beg to add,
that since the date of our above reolies’
copious raipa haze fallen gii dye# the
section referred to, and that within a
week the plant has taken a fine start,
and prospects may be considered as
materially improved. Very respectfully,
L. L. Zulavsky, Chairman; It. W. Heard,
A. M. Benson, W. Daniel, W. M. Read,
H. Franklin, (J. A. Rowland, Committee.
GENTLEMAN JIM.
Romance From a Mine Disaster In the
Lackawanna Valley.
(ftp Cmt'jrpqff '^inies,. j
Ju the “Diamond” shaft there was po
steadier, harder worker t|ian Jjgl Gardi
ner, ' he did with bis money was
long a mystery^—he had no wife, no
family, no expensive habits, no relatives
that any one knew of, and yet do
ings.bauk account. It was learned later
that all but the little aepfled for his
dajly wants went for hilarity— found its
way quietly, unobstrusively, into the
huts of women and children whose hus
bands and fathers had gone down in the
crush of falling timbers or come forth
black and crisp from the scorching fire
damp. -
There was something about Gardiner
that'sUggested a former life of a higher
grade. He talked little, but that little
was in words well chosen, and of choice
dialect. His dress was as rough as the
roughest, but he carried it as a man who
had been used to face the world smiling
ly. They called him “Gentleman' Jim”
in the mines, put tfihy aft liked 1 him as a
man who always plhyed fair and asked
no bdds. ” ’ " > ‘ 1 ’ * ’ T
Jn the accident of when the
roof of a part of the mine fell iu, Gardi
ner was killed. It appeared in the evi
dence that there were a few seconds,
during the crack of timbers, before the
roof fairly came down, and in that brief
time, in those few beats of tbe nv.jsp,
“Gentleman Jim” o"glit two fioyS \Vith
his Hpn-hgo stroUgtp,’ oofl (ossed them
clear out bf tlio ifitiV chamber info the
safe main alley, ’then he went down
with the roof.
When hiq body was recovered the
pest qay, they found him with his right
hand thrust inside his vest and clasping
tight a little pocket-book. There was
nothing in it save a card, on which was
fastened, with a drop of scaling wax on
the stegi, all that remained of a rosebud
and twoi geranium leaves. Underneath
was written, in a woman’s hand, “Marie
Toute a toi— June 4, 1867.” Just be
low was written, in aman’sband, “June,
1870 —all withered, except the thorn.”
THE SPARTA TRAGEDY.
Ho mil king More About Cftv Roller Murder.
I Correspondence Chronicle and Const Uutionalist.]
Sparta, Ga., June B—ln8 — In publishing
my telegram yesterday announcing the
trial and conviction of W. R. Lovett,
charged with complicity in the Rozier
murder last February, the initials of Mr.
Du Bose should have been A. M. instead
rf “C. S.” as yop have if. ‘ A. M. Da-
Bose, Esq., is a younger brother of Hon.
C. 8. Dnßose and has been leading coun
sel for the prisoners in this case since
their arrest. The great fidelity and zeal
displayed by him in defense of his cli
ents has elicited from the presiding
Judge flattering encomiums. The case
against polumbus Q. Barnes, the third
party charged with this horrible crime,
has "been continued untfl (fie regular
session of Hancock Superior Court, to
be held in October next. Griggs and
Lovett have both filed motions for new
trials, which, if overruled, will go to the
August term of the Supreme Court. The
present prospect is that these yonng
men are doomed to a most fearful des
tiny. But if guilty no punishment Is
too severe. Tim evidence is entirely cir
cumstantial. The prisoners will be re
turned to Richmond jail and spend the
summer in your city. X.
A case of interference cair>e before
Examiner Wilbur, at the Latent Office,
Tuesday. The question is ip regard to
the propriety of the invention of certain
improvements in woo) washing ma
chines. Tbe carries to the controversy
and Thomas %ampson and Clegg vs.
Frederick G. Sargent. Sargent has a
patent dated March 28th, 1876, covering
the improvments in question, and Samp
son and Clegg, the other contestants,
claim to have made tlio invention at
Providenoe, R. L, in March, 1875, and
now seek a patent for the same. The
counsels in the case are B. F. Butler and
David Hall Rice, of Boston, for Sar
gent, and George Harding and Connel
ly for the others, of Philadelphia.
Social Circle will have a swimming
match on the 4th prox.
WHAT A. H. STEPHEN* THINKS OF
HAYES’ TITLE.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
While it is yet too much tbe fashion
in certain quarters to make, what must
now seem to all candid and thoughtful
men, unjust and improper allusions to
the title of General Hayes to the Presi
dency, I deem it proper to ask the pub
lication of an extract from a -private
letter of Mr. Stephens to me, in order
that the public may see bow a truly
great and good man feels and talks on
this subject. Will not our people take
the oue from the illustiions Commoner
and noble patriot, and henceforth desist
from a course which, to say nothing
worse of it, is at this time under the
circnmstances in exceeding bad taste ?
Knowing that Mr. Stephens has no
political sentiments which he desires to
conceal, and believing, as 1 do, that the
publication of the following extract will
accomplish a good end, I offer no other
reasons for taking the liberty of askiug
you to give it plaoe in your columns.
“As to your inquiry about the report in
the Cincinnati Enquirer of an interview
by some of the Western excursionists,
as I passed through Wilmington, N. C.,
on my return home, I can only say that
it is substantially correct as I have seeu
it republished from the New York Tri
bune. The Cincinnati Enquirer, to
which paper the report was made, I have
not seen. I did say that the Democracy
North, as well as South, ought to eu
dorse President Hayes' Southern policy
as far as it has been developed. Anil
while I say the report is substantially
correct, yet in some of its details it is
quite inaccurate. For iustapee, the re
port says: When a oorrespopjeut of the
Cineipuati Enquirer asked hipi if they
ought tq endorse a map who
holds his office; by fraud? Mr.
Stephens replied, ‘That has nothing
to do with it, whether Mr. Hayes
went into office by fraud or other
wise; it makes no difference now that
his policy fiqs bcoome known.’ What I
did say in reply to_the question pro
pounded was substantially that the mat
ter of fraud in Mr. Hayes" election was
no louger an open question, it was rs,%
adjudicata. Mr. Hayes ppw (whatever
may have beep any pf our opinions touch
ing the infamous frauds of the Returning
Boards of Florida aud Louisiana) holds
tire Executive Office by a legal tenure
that oau never be successfully assailed,
and which ought not to be questioned.
He holds it by a judicial depiplpn rvp
dered by the highest jqdimal HRipnal
ever pQuaritqtftd to flfis 1 cqqptry.. This
is tfie Bpbstanpe, though put the exact
language perhaps used by me on the oc
casion referred to.” * * *
Justice,
“BE OF GOOD CHEER.”
A Noble Little AjGvWH tram Hauiuul J. TH-
Tt<e Ultimate Dethronement of Fraud
and Triumph of Right—The Late National
Outrage Never to be Repeated.
New York, June 12.—Governor Til
den made a hrief speech at the reeep
tiop of Manhattan Club to-night. After
alluding to the departure of Governor
Hendricks to-morrow, with best wishes
for a prosperous voyage and safe return,
he said : “Everybody knows that after
the recent election the men who were
elected by the people President and Vice-
President of the United States were
“counted out,” anfl pmu who were not
elected “pounted in 4 ' and seated. I dis
claim any thought of the personal
wrong involved in this transaction. Not
by any act or word of mine shall that
be degraded into a personal grievance,
which in truth is the greatest wrong that
has staiued our National annals. T°
every man of the four sfid a 4 ,la ri er
millions who deluded rff (he
fruits of (hpir elective franchise, it is as
great a wrong us it is to me, aud no less
to every man of the minority will the
ultimate consequences extend. Evils
in government grow by success
and impurity. They do not arrest their
own progress. They can never b? limit
ed except by externa’ V the
men in possj.sgipvj‘of the Government
can iu one instance maintain themselves
in power against an adverse decision at
the elections such an example will be
imitated. Temptation exists always ;
devices to give the color of law and fiflse i
pretences on which to fraudulent
decisions pot be wanting. The
wrong will grow into a practice if once
condoned. In the world’s history,
changes in the succession of Govern
ments have usually been the result of
fraud or force. It has beeu our faifh
and our pride that we had patqlp,fished a
mode of peaceful chMgp (ft "he worked
oi(t by (h 8 flgeaoy of the ballot box. The
question now is whether our elective
system, in its substance as well as its
form, is to be maintained. This is the
question of questions. Until it is finally i
settled there can be flft founded
on inferior auesrieps ol 4fl,ffWiaWtive
P9h(s* H (fig fundamental
right of tJm people, ii involves the elec
tive principle, it involves the whole sys
tem of popular government. The people
must signally condemn the great wrong
which has been done to them. They
must strip the exarnplg of everything I
that can attyayf They must
refush a prosperous immunity to crime.
This is not ail. The people will not be
able to trust the authors or beneficia
ries|of the wrong to devise remedies, but
when* those who condemn the wrong i
shall have the power (Ley mfiqt Revise i
the measure vjpicfi sfiall (epdftr q yep.eti
t’ou 0) ]|e vfyong forevay impos
sible. If my Voice could reach
throughout our country and be
heard in its remotest hamlet, I would •
say: Be of good cheer, the Kepubiio*will i
live, the institutions of our fathers are
not to expire in simple, th? sovereignty 1
of the fifiaU’be Rescued from this •,
perif an J re-established,’ sqcyesafpl
wrong never appeals so |rii Wi pha,nt as
on the very eye of fail. Steven years
ago a dynasty culminated in its
power oyer the million of people who
live iu the oity of New York. It had
oonquered or bribed or flattered and
won almost everybody into acquiescence.
It appeared to be invincible. A or -
two later its were in the pent- :
yy fh exile, H'story abounds
m aqaUai‘ examples—we must believe in
tue right and 1U the future, A great
and noble 'Bill noi sever its politi
cal frqifl its moral life.”
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH.
Quarterly Report—A Dividend of (1, 1-2
Cent, Declared?
New Tontt. dune J3,—The quarterly
report of the Western Union Telegraph
Company for the quarter ending June
30tb, has been issued. It nays that the
net profits for the current quarter end
ing the 30th inst., based upon official
returns for April aud nearly complete re
turns for May, an if estimating the bu
siness of Jqnn; will be about $650,31? 52;
add surplus to April Ist, $128,577 10;
total, $778,894 62; from which appro
priating one quarter interest on bonded
debt, one hundred and thirteen thousand
dollars; one-quarter portion of sinking
fund, $20,000; total, $33,000; leaves a
balance of $645,894 62. A d’Vfteud of
If per cent, on tfie capital stock out
standing (gquires $507,213, deducting
whjoh leaves a surplus of $138,681 62.
In'view of the preceding the oommittee
recommend the adoption by the Board
of the following :
Resolved, That a diviqeud of'li per
centum from the aet earnings of three
months, ending June 140, be and is here
by declared payable on the 14th day of
July next to the stockholdeqa ol the re
cord at the close of bqsines% Aft the 20th
day of-Jqne in at apt,
The Bank With the Largest Capital.
[From the Virginia City ( Nevada ) Chronicle.]
The Bank ol Commerce, of the city
of New York, has recently reduced its
capital from to $5,000,000.
This action c,ft (he part of that old . and
conservative organization leaves the
Bank of Nevada, in San Francisco, the
wealthiest banking corporation in the
United States, ft also shows thqt bank
ing capital is in greater demand on this
coast than a( the East. The capital of
the Bank of Nevada is now $10,000,000,
held by five individuals. Messrs. Flood,
Q’Brien, Mackey and F®’t eaeh own
23,760 of (he shares, or $2,375,000 of
the atoek, and Louis McLane, the Presi
dent, 5,000 shares, or $500,000 of the
stock. _ The only bank on the continent
exceeding it is the Bank of Montreal,
whose capital is sl2,ooo.offi> ipfie ifer
ehants’ Bank of Myniteql ranks next to
the Neyada Batik, wi(h a capital of $9,-
GflUtffijffi The Oentral Railroad and
Banking Company, of Savannah, Ga.,
has a capital of $7,500,000. There are
three banks in New York with, % capital
of $6,000,000 each. The united oapital
of the Bank of Nevada and the Rank of
California offsets these three.
B-
Dr. H. H. Carlton, the able editor of
tbe Athens Georgian, has gone to the
mountains to recuperate.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE' STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
ELberton wants a beef market.
Union Point has a Literary Club.
Macon ships bottled beer to Berlin.
Oatsin Oglethorpe ooze out “orfully.”
Greene county wants a Farmers’ Club.
Good Templars continue to lodge in
Americus.
A turtle nest with 150 eggs has been
found at Tybee.
Mr; James M. Lester, of Rockdale
county, is dead.
Smoke honso thieves ruminate iu
Spalding county.
Apropos, they do say that this is a fine
year for rattlesnakes.
Is the Gainesville Eagle really op
posed to a Convention ?
A full fledged Voudoo Chief is work
ing his charms in Taliaferro.
The Swaiusboro Herald is neatly
printed and carefully edited.
A photographer has “pitched his tent”
in Swainsboro for a short time.
The Waver steamer wius the prize in
the firemen’s contest iu Savauuah.
Coal in large quantities is being
shipped South over the State Road.
A colored woman in Crawfordvijle
give birth Thursday night to triplets.
Many ticks of many kinds, including
politics aud lunatics, are ou the ram
page.
Mr. Wm. Bennett and Miss Mollie
Estes died recently of consumption iu
Hart county.
One of the chief duties of the Conven
tion will be to send a few of the “Colo
nels” to Texas.
A large round black “C” constitutes
the strikingly unique war map of the
Conyers Courier.
Hart county says she’s tired of being
shut off from tfic outside world and longs
for thp iron road.
A young lady in Talbotton is anxious 1
to procure some rabbit eggs. They are :
rare bits, it seems, iu that cuuqtfy. '
A mule, belonging to Mv. John Kersey,
of Emanuel fioquty, was bitten by‘a
the other day, aud died from
it,
Mr. A. H. Henk, of Emanuel county,
is running a turpentine still which yields
0 barrels of the fluid and 2 of rosin per
day.
Wednesday evening General Loag
street 4 Gainesville, fell from a step
'“ddev, painfully bruising his head and
shoulders,
A esohaugesays that he went to Texas
from Georgia to seek his fortune, and
now telegraphs his father : "Fatted
calf for one.”
Dr. A.G. Haygood delivers the an
nual literary address before Wesleyan
Fetrialfl College m lieu of Mr. Emory
Speer, who is sick.
Mr. B. Bradley, a hard working, thor
ough goiug farmer, residingo43 the farm
of Mr. John W. Bpftitb, near Baitow,
died on Friday last.
E. Q. Roane, Esq., recently got in a
difficulty with Mr. J. F. Murphy, of
Lexington, in the course of which the
latter was considerably cut up.
A Muscogee county Justice says he'll
be dinged if he don’t fine the lawyer
who would muddle h.is judgment by
reading Supreme Oouit decisions.
A largp eagle 7 feet 8 iuobes from tips
was recently killed in Emanuel county
by means of poisoning the carcass of a
calf which the bird had demolished.
The Crawfordvillo Democrat contends
that Mr. Nat Barden, of Harris pouuty,
is the oldest Clerk of Ooqrt in the State,
having held that QffrfiP continuously
since 1836.
It now appears from the Columbus
Eifquirw that the negro murderers iu
Stewart county confessed to have vio
lated the person of Mrs. Chambliss be
fore killing her.
A colored man in Savanaali is pre
pared to announce that an ice box is no
place for a sick chicken. The fowls
after such treatment stiffly decline all
medical overtures.
The Constitution's late romantic Sally
turns out highly Quixotic; but we always
believed that the “twelve humane” were
lined with good intentiouSj *ad eveu
though one is known Vtf his deeds, he
should be judged according to his inten
tion^
Thus speaks the Hartwell Sun : “If
our people had been as careful about
running in debt in the past as they are
this year, the county would now be in a
good condition, and next Fail all tho
cotton crop w°uld not go to pay for pro
visions, s*nd guano,'*
Tot not the “twelve humane editors”
of Atlanta be weary of well doing. Al
though their recent chivairic efforts
in freeing a “galley” slave hay 51 been
flaunted, let them now "o to work to
build a pontoon across Whitehall street
railroad oTLsaing, and mangled hu
manity will rise up in their praise.
Most too much moisture.
Much sickness in the State.
Toccoa Falls has a billiard tjiblo..
Hampton has a goose 4d years old.
Conyers has two debating societies.
Jefferson wants anew Court House,
the Con. Con. talked to death ?
Mrs. D. M. MeClesky, of Athens, is
dead.
There are twenty-five pianos at Stone
Mountain.
Lithonia fights chickens ou the streets
for amusement-
Em.anwd Episcopal Church, in
Athens, is undergoing repairs.
Next Monday the Savannah Volunteer
Guards’ Band excurt to Augusta.
Athens resolves not to trade with any
city which discriminates against her.
Savannah, fit to have a Brigadier-Gen
eral tft command her cit-izeu soldiery.
The Southern Musical Convention will
i meet at Hampfim some time this Fall.
The indebtedness of Newton county
ia computed at seven thousand dollars.
The Aloova, Yellow and Oconee rivers
have recently been revictualled with
shad.
A large and extraordinarily fine wheat
crop has been harvested in Halier
sham, ,
The CmbmAewiuOßeporter, No. 3, has
reached us. It is quite neat aud gos
ippy. .
A white infant, nicely done tip in a
hag, has been fished out of the Ooonec,
at Athens.
The Athens police now propose Warm
themselves with pistols. This docs not
seem to be a bad idea
The residenoe of Mr. W, H. Buchan
an, near Alberts, was destroyed by fire
on Wednesday afternoon.
A man in Athens who had a cheap
“corner’’ of beef is now “behind the
bars ” to answer for stealing a steer.
An Atlanta policeman rec/ ntly mar
ried a couple in Atlanta, This is a spe
cies of “starring” heretofore unheard of.
Dr. A. A. Lipscomb, the venerable
ex-Chanceflor of the University, is ou a
; visit to Athens from Vanderbilt Uni
versity,
The S. M. F. College, at Covington,
and Lucy Cobb Institute, at Athens, in
augurate their Commencements, next
Sunday.
The Atlanta Independent endorses
Senator Rill for the vacant place on the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
: United States.
Mr. Thomas Filyow, at Aloova bridge,
on the Georgia railroad, had his right
hand painfully lacerated with a circular
saw last week.
The Star notes that Mr. W. F. Her
ring’s family returned to Covington, last
week, and have taken up their residence
for the Summer.
A mammoth locomotive, to be used
as n pusher, is now being constructed at
the machine shops of the Central Rail
road in Savannah.
One Prof. Hendry last week slid down
the steep side of Stone Mountain, and
when the rope gave out, like the Knight
of old, slid up again. " ,
A bridge over the Tngslo river, in
Habersham pqnpfy, three hundred feet
long, lifted from its pillars last
week by a severe wind. *
Mr. J. G, Peyne, of Newton county,
candidate for Sergesnt-at-Axms of the
next House of Representatives, Is a
cousin of Mrs. Senator Gordon,
The entire set of passenger train offi
cials on the Air-Line Rond, from con
ductors down to brakesmen have been
dressed in neat blue uniforms, with
brass buttons.
The Carnesville Register reflects that
while farmer boys now rank upon the
rostrum in Commencement “their
heads are as empty of prayimai agricul
ture as a last year’s bird’s nest.”
Bishop, Pierce will preach the sermon
and tpir- G- Haygood, President of
Emory College, will address the literary
societies of the North Georgia Agricul
tural College at JJtohlonaga, July 20.
The Athens Watchman says: “Dr.
Broqu is one of the ablest and most
thorough educators of youth ia the
whole country, and his return to the
University would be a most valuable ac
quisition at this time.”
How can I have a clear aud brilliant
complexion ? Simply by using Dr.
Bull’s Blood Mixture and observing the
rules of health,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Abbeville closes up at 6, p. m.
Cock fighting is raging in Pickens.
They are finding gold at Antreville. .
The Camden Histrionic Club is again
upon the rant.
Mrs. T. C. Lipscomb, of Ninety-Six,
is extremely ill.
T. D. Kennedy, Esq., retires from the
Blackvillo JVews.
Ninety-Six lias ordered out a Hook
and Ladder Truck.
The slung shot brigade of Ninety-Six
should be disbanded.
A colored woman at Abbeville li'as
been crazed by religion.
Micajah Alexander, of Pickens county,
was 90 years old on the Bth ult.
Elberton fcnd Abbeville will play a
match base ball bout next Friday.
The M. E. Distriot Conference will
meet iu Ninety-Six on the 12th of July.
An accidental fire destroyed the Bap
tist Church in Mt. Pleasant last Sunday.
Colonel J. Towns Robertson has beeui
appointed auditor for Abbeville county
A charter has beeu grouted to the
Grangers’ Savings Bank of Anderson.
W. H. Taggart died iu Abbeville coun
ty 011 last Sunday from typhoid pneu
monia.
The kitchen of Rev. B. Hay._,g 0 f
Anderson, was consumed by fire Tues
day night.
The Medium thinks this a good time
for farmers to amuse themselves voting
for a fence law. B
A negrt) child in. Charleston was re
cently beaten and burned to death by
its stop-father.
A bridge will supercede the trestle
over Crowder’s Creek, on the Chester
and Leuoir Railroad.
Captain Peter MeEellar, of Green
wood, is sanguine of the Greenwood and
August a Kail road scheme.
The Presbyterian Church at Anderson
has granted Rev. D. E. Frierson a leave
of abseuco for two weeks.
Ninety-six county, from Abbeville,
Laurens, Edgefield and Newberry is be
ing earnestly agitated. *
The Horry News has suspended publi
cation and sold out press, material aud
good will to the Georgetown Cantef.
M. L. Bonham, Jr., assumes editorial
management of the Ninety-Six Guar
dian, We wish him groat success.
Col. Thomas J. Pickens has received
the appointment of County Auditor for
Anderson county.
Mr. Oskar Nicliel, Secretary of the
Charleston Freimdschaftsbnnd, left yes
terday for the fatherland.
They are shooting dogs promiscuous
ly in Columbia upon the principle-that
if they aren't mail they ought to be.
The Rock Hill Dramatic Association
enact the “Lady of Lyons” and
‘Toodles in that town Tuesday night.
All the signs indicate, says the News,
that Winnsboro will have a severe aud
and protracted attack of base ball this
Summer.
A grand pic-nio under the auspices* of
the Rifle Club of Bamberg and Gra
hams will be given at the latter place
on the fourth of July.
Several holders of “Coaled plaster”
were in Blaekville the other day hunt
ing for the man who pays 30 cents on
the dollar for it.
The volunteer company forming in
Yorkville is to be known as the “Jen
kina Rifles,” in perpetuation of file
name of the gallant General Mioah
Jenkins.
Elder J. S. Lamar, of Augusts, will be
in Charleston on the fourth Sunday iu
this month and deliver a series of doc
trinal sermons on the Christian Church.
A Columbia paper is continually ad
vertising “lawyers’ wrappers.” But,
isn't it most too warm for lawyers to
wear wrappers.
A mad dog at Benton the other day
bit all the other dogs in town, and was
killed before his “method” had fully
developed.
A long tirainof wagons passed through
the Fork last week hauling earn from
the Air Line Railroad to Hartwell, Ga.
Bad sign that.
The Abbeville Medium states that
Mr. Robert JoneSi’little boy fell down
the steps at the jail Jant week and cairn
near cutting his tongue off.
Rev. W. H. Strickland, of Anderson,
will deliver the annual literary address
before the sooieties ef Furma’n Univer
sity during commencement.
The Intelligencer states that work
will immediately bo begun upon the
Pendleton. Factory to put it iu running
order.
Grand preparations are on foot to
have the ceremonies attending the un
veiling of the Moultrie Monument iu
Charleston of an imposing nature. *
The boys at Dae West are. running
mad about a Georgia girl who lias beeu,
spending some time in that town, and is
an heiress to three hundred thousand
dollars.
Tbe Legislature has passed a bill to
prevent the sale of spiritous liquors
within three miles of Williamstou Fe
male College. This is doubtless a groat
deprivation for the girls.
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SINKING A TURKISH IRONCLAD-.
Two Hundred nijd Five Men Sent to Tlieir
Death in the Waters off Kraila.
[ From (he Ijondon Engineer.]
An eye-witness gives the following
account: “On Sunday, the fith inst., a
Turkish ironclad with two turrets paid
a visit to Braila, anfi threw some fifteen
9-itch shells right over the town to the
railway station, juet as the Grand Duke
Nicholas arrived by train from Galatz.
The vessel did not remain long, and on
the following Friday,'the 11th inst., she
returned about J, p. m., and dropped
anchor, with the object apparently of
shelling Wit> town. She several times
shifted her position slightly, iu order to
bring her gnus to bear more convenient
ly. A Russian battery at once opened
fire on her with bronze rifled howitzers,
the range being 5,000 yards. A second
battery, armed with 25-pounder siege
guns, also opened on the Turkish ship,
anil the oauuouade lusted for about
forty-five minutes. The Russians fired
in alkahout twenty rounds. Suddenly,
a small puff of white smoke or steam
rose from the ironclad, followed by huge
flames, which ascended to a height of
some 20 feet. These were carried away
by the wind at a alight angle, and were
succeeded by a cloud of dark smoke or
steam rising high into the air, and sur
rounded by black objects. A dull re
port was beared, and when the smoko
cleared away the ironclad was gone.
Nothing was to be seen of her but the
mizzenmast standing far out of tbe
water and still flying the Turkish flag,
which, curiously enough, the Turkish
boats, palling to the rescue of thedrown
ing sailors, did not attempt to seenre.
These boats eame from a second Turkish
ironclad lying“at the timo a little fur
ther up the stream. Whether they suc
ceeded in rescuing any of the crew is not
known. But the cook of the slijp jvas
subsequently picked up by tfie Rus
sians, who also curried off the Turkish
flag as a trophy. The man was much
hurt, but he was quite able to give the
explanation of the occurrence.
It seems that the commander of the
Lutfi Djelil had gone ashore at Matoh
in, about four or five miles further up
the Danube, and had given instructions
to his second in command to get the
ship into position, but not to open fire
until he returned on board ; and, as a
fact, the Turkish ship did not reply by
a single gun to tb,& Russians. His ob
ject in going to Mitch iu was to arrange
with four other gun vessels for a con
certed attack on Braila, which, as we
know, never came off'. According tifthe
; survivor, a shell entered the side or base
of the funnel, and exploding in the up
take, the boilers at once followed suit.
Further than this the cook knows noth
ing until he was picked up. It was Lot
possible safely to make any examination
on the spot after the ship went down,
for a body of Circassians, posted among
some willows on the river bank, were
very busy with their rifles. The crew
consisted of 182 men, 20 officers, and 3
pilots, all of whom were Turks. Two of
the Russian officers vsho laid the howitz
ers have been decorated.
THE COMANCHJES.
A Skirmish WUk the Red Men—An Orderly
Killed and Maeli Baoly Taken.
Chicago, June 13. — Captain Lee, of
the 10th cavalry, forwarded to General
Sheridan, from Fort Griffin,Texas,an ac
count of an engagement with a band of
Comanche Indians, Dear Lake Quemado.
The skirmish occurred on the 4th of
May. Four Indians were killed and six
squaws and fifty-six head of mules and
horses were captured, and fifteen lodges
with a large supply of powder, lead,
driedjaaeats, etc., destroyed. First Ser
geant Charles Butler, was killed.
It is said now, that Sitting Bull is at
Wood Mountain, Canada, where he will
spend his Summer vacatioq.