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®|je' ufeeMj) ©|ronttk & Cmtstihittonftligt OLD SERIES-m. XCII HI HI SERIES—TCI. LI (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. - - -- 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.