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(EUrouicle anti £rtUmel. WEDNESDAY, - - JDLf 4, liSTL The friends of Dr. Quasi and Dr. Hates seem to be at loggerheads. Vos Moltks is reported as saying that the Rusao-Tarkish war will be a long one. — They do say that the poorer the coun try gets the richer Secretary Sherman becomes. Moulton admits that he was an ass to “ throw himself away for such a fellow as Tilton.” — ♦ W* Tainted milk recently killed 117 per sons in London. The fatsl disorder was scarlet fever. The wheat product of California is estimated at 20,000,000 bushels, only the half of last year’s yield. Hisce 1814 the debt of Paris has in creased from 84.0.000 to a snm the in terest of which is over 89,000,000. Jesse Ghant wrote one letter to the Inter-Ocean. It appears to have about creamed the youDg man’s reportorial intellect. _ _ _ Bob Inobbsoll was paid 83,000 in Han Francisco for attempting to show, in two lectures, that Christianity is a sham and God a myth. Cincinnati rejoices in a fight over an open grave for the possession of a dead mother’s child. The uncle defeated the grandmother. Extremes meet. Mayor Prince, ol Boston, wines the President, and Mrs Livermore, the temperance leader, whines him too. The English have better carriage horses, according to Grant, than Ameri cans, bnt their trotters are no where alongside of ours. Gen. Badeau, for accepting the hon orary and swell position of “ Aid-de- Camp io waiting on Gen. Grant,” is in bad odor with the short-hair Democracy. Bishop Gibbons, successor to Arch bishop Baylky, is a native Baltimorean and abont 39 years of age. He has the gifts of sanctity and wisdom in an emi nent degree. The proprietor of the Irish Times newspaper, in Dublin, is about to erect comfortable cottages, in a healthy die trict, for his employes. They will pay a moderate rent. Old citizens of New Orleans, who could not stand WARMOTHand Kbllooo, are returning from exile. They think the South will experience good times sooner that the North. A confidential clerk who, some years ago, faithfully, honestly and without compensation, administered upon an es tate valued at 81,500,000, is now poor and unemployed. Virtue is its own re ward. „ Baron .Tames Rothschild is quoted thus : “When we are poor and igno rant we are Jews; when we are well-to do we become Israelites; when we are rich an influential we are called He brews.” Gen. A. R. Lawton and ex-Govornor Charles J. Jenkins arc apoken of for the Presidency of the Constitutional Convention. Let Governor Jenkins be honored with the position.— Neuman Herald. The injury to General Toombs’ cy® has become known from one extremity of the oonntry to tho other. Onr North ern brethren abuse the General, but no man in tho South is regarded with more interest. -■ l w The Nashville American has taken to panning lately. It says : Young Bennett’s extensive travel would win him the title of Maroo Polo the Seo ond, if he was not already Polo marker the first. All strangers who have received tho characteristic hospitality of Augm'ta pronounce it unrivalled. If President. Hayes should visit this city he will bo treated to a barbecue up the canal. Think of that! Tight lacing killed a young girl in New York the other day. The present fashionable attire for females is said to contract and distoit nearly every muscle of the body. Doctors will thrive while this folly exists. Cox, Morrison, Sailer, Goode and Blackburn will meet Hayes at the White Sulphnr Springs and discuss the Southern policy and the Speakership over the mildly moving water and the soul stirring cook tail. m - We have received a communication signed “Soon,” which we would gladly publish if the real name of the writer was given. We will not publish anony mous communications or communica tions written on both sides of the paper. The Turks have become softened by hostilities. They now, for the first time, we believe, permit Christians free aooess to Abraham’s tomb. Gen. But ler, who knows how Isaac felt, ought to make a pilgrimage to the cave of Maepelab. His comment would prob ably be like Mark Twain's at the tomb of Adam. The Herald has been caught napping. It recently stated that the Czar would consolidate Ronmania and Bulgaria into one State, to hold the mouths of the Danube, as Belgium holds the mouths ; of the Rhine. It happens that Holland, ! and not Belgium, holds the Rhine mouths. Hence the overpowering de sire of Germany to hold Holland. One of the first things whioh the Convention ought to do should be the suppression of the supernumerary busi ness. A secretary, an assistant, a door keeper and a page are all the employes that will be needed. There is no neces sity for twelve or fifteen superfluous em ployes drawing the same pay as mem bers and doing absolutely nothing in ; return. Some colored politicians of New Or leans called upon Governor Nicholls the other dy, in order to protest against the disestablishment of mixed schools. The Governor very politely, bnt resolutely, informed them that they exhibited more fealiug than sonnd sense; that the Courts were open to them if they felt aggrieved ; but that the two races should not be educated together. Col. George E. Waring, the famous agriculturist of Newport, ridicules the United States Department of Agricul ture as an old-fogy institution, which coats more than it is worth, and which onght to be utilized or abolished. The Department could be made both self snstaining and valuable if it had the right sort of a man at its head. Prof. Janes, of Georgia, if in control, would create a needed revolution. The Social Evil question still stirs the city ef St. Louis. It will be remem bered that at one time there was a social evil law tor that city which licensed houses of ill fame, and provided for regular medical inspections, etc. Two years since it was repealed. Last Tues day the grand jory made a report which says the erimes incident to the social evil have greatly increased since the re peal of the law. It says that under the existing laws the police authorities are almost powerless to suppress crimes which inevitably flow from the brothels of the city, and the jury declare that the best interests of society demsnd the re-enactment of the social evil law, with the view to check the vice sb mneb as possible. the official vote of the ntate. The Governor has issued his procla mation announcing the result of the election recently held in the State to de cide whether Constitutional Conven tion Should be called. The proclamation gave the number of votes cast and the majority for a Convention, bnt did not give the official vote of each county, nor has the official vote yet been published. The figures printed in the Atlanta Con stitution contained so many errors that the Chronicle and Constitutionalist sent to the office of the Secretary of State to get the returns as recorded there. Below we give the official vote of the State by counties—with two counties. Echols and Wilcox, yet to hear from. The chances are that the polls were not opened iB the missing counties. The fignres will be of interest to onr readers : _ § - § £>_• .2 *!!§! COUNTIES. ** gj g. I iLuiir Whin "3591 23 336!... rd 350 m Berrien 254 7 247 .... Kbb ; 62 834.... Bro ks 607... - 203 Brvan 46 68.... 22 BuNocii 504 4 500 ... Barke 482 604 -- - - 122 KaU 366 299 67.... Call onn 374 657 ... ■ 283 Camden 14 1071 ‘’ 93 Campbell 236 449 -.. 213 Cat005a!...... • .... 128 257.... CharltoD 278 5 273 .... Chatham .... .. 1779 607 1172.... Chattahoochee 227 157 70.... gsasr ™ S? S3:::: S&EEE g 2,7 Cold, <no 354 256 • ■ • • Coffe e 272 24 248| ... X, ~ 122 2 120.... coweta :;;;;;:;::: £ rß ) wford 847 2 $ 292 1 .. Kon.v.v.v.v:::: n S 84..^ SS T 7.7.77 735 98 637.... DouchertV .... 301 256 45.... DoZlas 5 .... 201 269 ....I 68 Early ' 7.7. .7... 279 548 .... j 209 Echols .„ Effingham 2? qjj Elbert 68 679 -- J 3U Emanuel 447 ~..|'378 F“"tTe 397 496.... j 99 EKa .. 794 352 442.... Franklin 77-. 536 165 371|.... S er ::... 47 736.... 689 >S ,8.4-ii &.-.V.g sn s t !“ : '.:V..... fg HI SI 12? £?.::: 5“” 8 8on •;;; 412 933... | 521 " a T 395 366 29|.... S“::i 203 133 70.... Houston "'7 9 ?° 562 408 |-"- ? r “-“ toa .7 . 96 36 60!.... San . .. 901 8B 650 j.... Ser .118 2 U 6--.. Jefferson ' i (Hi ‘ # # - is? 8 S3:::; P' 11611 J 99 560 | 361 Liberty. .7.7.7. .7.7. j 256 j 454 • ••• 198 vi nn k 305 220 85.... Madison ■ • • • Mclntosh Jg Miller M ?i9’- l fr, Milton ig iJ4 137 Mouree' 7 6261227::::] Ifll Sr ::::: SS m Ooonoe , 222 126 96.... oZthorpe ■ 4 - H 5 147 288 .... Paulding 7. 514 385 129.... Pmkens 120 436 .... 316 p,lk 383 425.... 42 Pulaski .’.777,. 288 34 254.... p “am" 236 30 206.... u"bZ 7.777.7... 201 42 Randolph 342 829 ..,. 487 Uclm ul. UM 870 814 - - Itockdale . . 289 9 200..., Sy 7.7 132 152.... 20 Seven . ..,. H 126 48.... SpaldTng 6071225 ... 618 Stewart SWI 61 177.... SSS.v.v.v.:::::. M-- Talbot . 352' li • Tahaferro. 167 M ml.:. Tatnatl 234 1‘ 277 ”'' Tavlor 24.,., Telfur ....... 4 52 1 451.... Terrell 451 360 91 .... Thoms.::::::::.::. 4g. 145 Towns ..... lob* t)0 70i.... Troup.::.: 526 m.... . 203 ... 208..,. 0ni0n':::: 7:7.7. 213 76.... Upson 37‘2| 362 j 9•• • • Walker U3| 713 ..., Walton 524 22 5o„ •• • Ware 74 133.... 59 Wairen 140 126 14.... Washington 541 196 345 Wayne 239 12 227.... Webster 174 2321.... 60 White 160 242 .... 82 Whitfield 486 110 376.... Wilcox. Wilkes 288 2 286.... Wilkinson 448 5 413.... Worth 134 133 1 ... llrmpitMlatlou. Total vote 87.238 For Convention 48,181 Against Convention 39,057 9,124 An analysis of the vote shows that of the one hundred and thirty-seven coun ties into which the State is divided, oighty-nine voted for a Convention, forty-six against, and two have not yet been heard from. The largest vote east was polled in Chatham, 2,386, and the smallest in Quitman, 73. The highest majority given to the Convention was in Chatham, 1,172; the highest majority against tho Convention was given by Decatur, 1,500. An analysis of the vote by geographical divisions giyes some cari ous resnlts. It was generally believed be fore the election that the oounties above Atlanta, fearing a removal of the capital, would vote solidly against a Convention. Yet the returns from twenty-eight coun ties north of Atlanta, mountain conn tins—Banks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chat tooga, Cherokee, Cobb, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd, Franklin, Gilmer, Gor don, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Jack son, MiltoD, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Kabnn, Towns, Union, Walken White and Whitfield—show that twenty one gave majorities for the Convention aggregating 5,579, and seven majorities against the Convention aggregating 1,553, leaving a net majority for Conven tion of 4,026. It was as generally be lieved that the people of Southern and Southwestern Georgia were almost unan imously in favor of a Convention. Yet the returns from twenty-seven oonnties situated in the Southern and Southwest ern portion of the State—Appling, Ba ker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Clinch, Coffee, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Irwin, Lee, Lowndes, Miller, Mitchell, Pierce, Quitman, Ran dolph, Stewart, Snmter, Terrell, Thom as, Ware, Webster and Worth—show that twelve gave majorities for the Con vention, aggregating 1,362, and that fif teen gave majorities against the Conven tion, aggregating 4,256; leaving a net majority against the Convention of 2,894. Had it not been for the mountains and a portion of Middle Georgia the call of a Convention must have inevitably been defeated. The election has furnished fresh evidenoe of the truth of the maxim, .I lontani Semper Libert. Mr. Dana explains that his nomina tion of Pierrefont and Childs for the Vice-Presidency and Ministry to Eng land was to secure a campaign fund from the former of 850,000 and from the lat ter $250,000. The platform is to be: “Obituary Poetry hath her victories no lens renowned than War.” THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. We print t|tis morning a letter from Dr. James F. Bozeman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lunatic Asyjf lam, written to Hon. OlalßomA SnEad| Judge of th* County Court of Richmond county, in reference to the admission of lunatics to that institution. The letter is in reply to one from Judge Snead to the Trustees of the Asylum, published and commented on by the Chronicle and Constitutionalist. We are glad to know that the Board of Trustees does not oonsider the provision* of the Code governing the commitment of insane persons repealed or superseded by the “Rules and Regulations” adopted by the Board under the act of 1877. We are much more gratified to learn that a county which pays so large a proportion of the taxes used in the support of the Asylum will be allowed to derive some slight benefit from that institution. For the present, at least, the lunatics of Richmond county need not be confined in the poor bouse and the jail. And for this, mnch thanks. _m a— LET THE PRESIDENT COME SOUTH. The Washington National Republi can says that notwithstanding the fact that the President has made no positive arrangements tor a trip to the South, it may be set down as an event which will happen as soon as the weather and the exigencies of the public service will per mit. In all parts of the South influen tial men are expressing a desire to have the President visit that section. It is well known that Mr. Hayes baa a deep interest not only in the political welfare of the South, bnt likewise in the de velopment of the material resources of that region. Many Southern gentlemen have expressed themselves as highly pleased with the thorough knowledge which the President possesses of the oa pabilities of that part of the country, and of the practical measures which are needed to develop them. Hence their anxiety to have him visit the South and mingle freely with all classes of citizens. By all means Mr. Hayes should come to the South. It has been at least twenty years since a President of the United States has set foot in the country south of the Potomac. We believe that good would come of such a visit. Mr. Lamar in the famous eulogy on Sumner which he pronounced in the House of Representa tives uttered a great truth when, in speaking of the North and the South, he said, “My countrymen, let us know one another and we will love one an other.” Ignorance is the mother of prejudice. Where we know we love ; where we are ignorant we hate. The Georgians and Carolinians who went to Boston two years ago believed when they left home that Boston was the natural and vindictive enemy of every thing Southern; they came home know ing that Boston was the friend of the South, that her people were cultured, hospitable and refined; that the Boston soldiers who fought us so gallantly when there was war between the sections were foremost in proffers of hospitality and of kindness when peace followed the carnage of battle. So, too, we have good reason for thinking that Northern gentlemen who have visited the South since the war have had no reason to com plain of thei? reception. W® desire the President to come among s ip order that be may meet not the politicians, not the place-hunters, not the office-hold ers, but the people of the South. Such a meeting cannot fail to be of benefit to the South and to Mr. Hayes. The President will see a people whom he on ly knows through Northern presses and a few public men; the peppjp of the South will see a President against whom they cast a solid vote at the polls but who since his inauguration has shown himself a wise and politio ruler, a just jjnd generous man. We promise a cor dial welcome. Let him travel from Washington to Orleans and see the country and the people of the South. WMR APPOINTING FpWER. One of the sub j eats that demands the attention at tlfo Constitutional Conven tion is a reduction of the patronage which the Governor now possesses. The extent of this patronage is simply enor mous. We estimate it as follows : Judges of the Supreme Court 3 j Judgeepf the Superior Court 20 Judges ,ol tfte Gopnty Court 50 Judge of Atlftfltft City (Uoprt 1 Justices of the Peace.,, . Solicitor-Generals 29 Solicitors of County Courts §6 Solicitor of City Court * j Inepagtors of Fertilizers and Oil - 6 Clerks fteorotaries 6 Attoruey-IJeerajl J State School Commissioner • •.- 1 State Geologist ~* Commissioner of Agriculture - I Superintendent of Public Works . 1 Keeper of the Penitentiary 1 Librarian Trustees lunatic Asylum 5 Visitors to State University 10 „ to Colored 10 * W. .. , 7,0 16 “ to Deaf and Dum * ‘A, Total Appointees. 150& There are other minor appoinments that we cannot now recollect which will swell the number of Executive appoint ments to the neighborhood of sixteen hundred. We have estimated the num ber of County Judges, but feel confi dent that our figures do not exceed the mark. This enormous patronage is for eign to the spirit of popular govern ment and is the legacy left to ns by the Republican majority of the Convention of 1867-8. That body, anticipating the defeat of the Radical party in Georgia whenever there shonld be a free elec tion by the people, endeavored to avert overthrow by conferring ex traordinary powers npon the Gov ernor, thinking that a politio Ex- ecutive would be able to maintain the party in position by a judicious dispo sition of his enormous offioial patronage. They were disappointed in this expecta tion, beoause, in the very nature of things, the Republican party, as then constituted in Georgia, conld not be held together after the withdrawal of the bayonets which propped it in po sition. Such power was never posses sed by the Executive in the better days of the Commonwealth, and it shonld not be conferred npon him now. It can not subserve any party end at this time, and even if it could, there is a consid eration higher than party which de mands that it be taken away. The present system is an approach to the one man power which should uot be telersted in a Republican oonntry. It is directly calculated to perpetuate the power of rings and cliques, and to thwart and defeat the will of the peo ple. It gives to a shrewd and ambitions Executive a band of active, influential and zealous supporters in every coun ty of the State, who, with their friends, can be used as one man in support of himself or any measure that he may find io his interest to advo cate. In other words, it gives to him the oontrol of what is known as the political “machine,” whenever he may ohoose to exercise it. We do not say that the present Executive would make use of the power whioh the Constitution places in his hands. He might or he might not. Bnt this has nothing to do with the question. The Convention is not expected to frame laws to fit any particular ease; it is to legislate for the good of the whole people. It is to make provision against bad as well as good Governors. The patronage conferred npon the Executive by the existing or ganic law cannot be safely continued. The selection of these fifteen hundred officials must be committed to other hands. We shall have something more to say on this subject hereafter. The New York Sun calls the Presi dent’s order against political officehold ers “a limited re-establishment of sla very.” CROP NEWS. The frieasß of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist in Georgia and South Carolina will greatly oblige us by sapdiaf, from rim* to tfme, brief let ters showing the condition of the crops. We would like to have a letter once a week from every locality where the Chronicle and Constitutionalist cir culates. THE RUBSO-TCRKISH WAR. When the Russians were allowed to establish themselves upon the north bank of the Danube, and the iron clad gnnboats of Turkey were either destroy ed or neutralized, the crossing of the great river was simply a question of time and place. It is probable that Ab dul Kerim will, with his inferior force, operate on the interior lines of the quad rilateral formed by Rnstchnk, Silistris, Varna and Shnmla. The intention of the Russian commander is, we think, to mask or assail these fortresses, while his active column moves glacier-like upon the main body of the Ottomans. Ibe passage of the Balkans will be the first attempt of considerable hazard to the invading army. Supposing these barriers transcended, the monster diffi culty of all opposes the Muscovite ad vance between Adrianople and the City of the Sultan. A writer, intimately ac quainted with the resonrees and topo graphy of this region, thus speaks: “Abont twenty miles from Constantino ple, on the west, and on the road to Adrianople, two little bays rnn into the main land. From the farther of these a line of hills six hundred feet above the level of the road frowns down upon it; on either flank is the sea. Batteries placed on these hills would command a plain several miles wide ; and over this plain the assailing army must, perforce, march. These batteries could be held for a long time; for reinforcements could be added from the sea whenever the defenders flagged or their ranks were thinned. For ten miles these hills render access toward Constantinople impossible. The peninsula is, however, sixteen miles across. A gap of six miles lies between tho hills and the Lesser Bal kan range,which forms theline of defense on the other side. But theso six miles are a mass of thick brushwood, inter spersed and succeeded by swampy plains, parted by sharply-rising ground —just such a spot, in short, as would give the Turks an immense advantage, confronting, from abrupt eminences, a foe struggling amid brusli and hogs. They would bo protected on either hand by the sea, and behind them they would have a well-watered valley, with pas tures running along ils gentle slopes, through which they oould maintain di reot and rapid railway communication with tho capital itself. For a space of four hundred square miles they would have free range for their horses ; and, should the enemy attempt to approach Constantinople by regular approaches, this space would be available for giving him endless annoyances. At the same time the Russian line of communication, extending as it must from the Pruth, aoross the Danube, the Balkans, and the plain of Adrianople, would be exposed thronghont this long distance to being eonstantly broken ; and here would be a perpetual danger, modified, bnt by no means got rid of, by robbing the assail ing army of regiments to guard it.” If the Turks oould oount upon an English alliance, it would be tolerably safe to say that the Russians would not plant their banner of the double-cross upon the spires of the Mohammedan capital. But this English alliance grows small by degrees and beautifully less, so fay ap we are allowed to under stand it, ftnd there is £ot wanting a pub licist who daalares that “Russia and England to day are agreed—one takes Egypt and the canal, the other Con stantinople and the Dardanelles—both from the same motive, the development of national ambition and interest. There ip no contract, no deed of trust, no bill of trust, po bijl of particulars signed and delivered. Rut the Tur|i is left to Iris fate apfl is forced back into Asia. Tq gepomplisb this Russia cares not for the mouths of the Danube, which properly belong to the Germans or the Austrians, if the latter can get them, bnt the Dardanelles control them. The ‘Eastern question’ will now solve it self. Tha battle can now go on, and in the vicissitudes of the fight hard blows will be given and received. The hu manitarian heart of England will be re lieved by seeming to aveDge the Bul garian pnfrSffcSS and actually securing the Isthmus, The rsmafnipg phristian people will say atuen to Russia on the Bosphorus, and the Moslem will retire to his original lair in the heart of Asia, there to wait for better times or anew prophet.” It ip surmised J?y the same writer that at this point Pfermsny bft 8 “ potent voice. Iu the ffenprjl par celling out of the Hi ok Man’s effects she must have her share. The Emperor and Crown Prince are said to favor the peace policy; Bismarck and Von Moltke war. Vie are told by our pnblieist that Ger i* slfCj will get what she wanls by diplomacy, thus; f ‘v !e must ; do with gs Russia has ft7*' 7 ng ' ** swap pf something WM' land - make poyets, ip Fnnce wants, some.-.. neutral exchange for Holland. Stric ity and even an earnest, honest peace might be secured by the restoration of Lorraine and Alsace or one of them. She might take Denmark without even saying to France, "By your leave,' but she can afford better terms* One thing is certain, matters cannot remain as they are. The present war footing of Ger many will bankrupt her in five years. Yet there can be no real peace until the Franco-German question, created out of tho Franco-German war, is settled. Aus tria must be paid out of tho principali ties, and with England and Russia ‘sat isfied,’ the European map may be el - once more permanently; that is to say, for a couple of generations.” Upon paper all of these schemes look very plausible and have within them possible elements of wisdom and fore cast. But who can tell what a day may bring forth ? The English peace polioy may suddenly change. Great Britain never has trusted Russian diplomacy. If England intends to maintain a strict neutrality, why has she so promptly sent her fleet to Gallipoli, the key of the Dardanelles, upon receipt of Count Shuvaloff’s admission to Earl Derby that the attempted captnre of Constan tinople had been determined upon ? In j addition to this an English corps of 20,- 000 men will scon be in Egypt on the flank of the contemplated Bnssian ad vance. It may be that these British manoeuvres are with the fall concurrence of the Czar; but they may likewise mean that the line of Russian conquest shall be drawn by Great Britain at Adriano ple. When the English ministry make that an ultimatum, it remains to be seen how Russia will receive it; and, if defied, how the other Powers shall conduct themselves. Public executions, attended with gal lows oratory and vociferous so-called piety, do not seem to awe evil doers. Suppose, if hanging is to continued, that the whole ceremony be private, and that a permanent stopper be put on the menth of the convict. recent ex amples, as well as hundreds gone be fore, tha address of the Irish Judge to the obstreperous criminal has new and vital foroe“ What we want from you is silence; and plaguy little of that!” William Loyd Garrison has gone all the way to England to praise Grant, and oondemn Hayes’ Southern policy, which has done more to restore peace and harmony to the oonntry than any policy that oould have been adopted. If Grant can stawd the praise Hayes can stand the censure. Hayes will live in history ss the Pacificator. Grant will obtain notoriety as the Batcher. Garrison goes down to obscurity as a Soold. OUR CONVICT SYSTEM—IS IT JUST IIIRfANK f Editors Chronicle tnd Constilulionalist: The policy of “firming out” the State convicts is, to say -he least, very doubt ful. This is evidtnt from the amount of discussion it hts elicited, and from the wide difference that exists in the public mind in regard to its advantages. While it has rallitd to its support some able advocates, it kas on the other band arrayed against it many persistent and uncompromising enemies. From its very inception it las been assailed with severe criticism hj the newspaper press, and by men of intelligence in various parts of the State. Its economical merits have been duly considered, as also the relative security i* affords against the escape of prisoners as compared with the old penitentiary system. But in all the discussions oi the question which have fallen nndr the eye of the writer, the most important point to which at tention should ke directed after all has scarcely been iouebed upon, viz: Is it right—is it just humane t I do not olein to have given the sub ject very close rtudy, but there are cer tain features vhich attend the opera tions of the syaiem that must impress any thinking mild unfavorably. These objectionable features should be cor rected, if posstile; or if they are con spicuously objectionable on moral grounds, and cm not be eradicated from the system, then the system itself is ob viously wrong aud should be abandoned. It is an axiom that every State has a duty to perform to every human being, of whatever legree or condition, within its bonndaris. Even the criminal is, I believe, held in law to possess certain rights whioh ‘.be State is morally bound to accord to hjra. These rights are in alienable from his humanity, and there fore entitled tn as muoh respect as those of the most exalted citizen in the land. Georgia owes it to the law-abiding of her population that crime should be punished; bnt vbeu the criminal is ap prehended and in the custody of bet officers, she aisnmes a responsibility apart from that of the vindication of her own laws which must be conscientiously and faithfully net. That responsibility grows out of her duty to protect the human rights of the criminal. When the lav-breaker becomes a prisoner to the State, he also becomes, because of his beiug in her power and unable protect himself, in one sense, a ward of the State. He has forfeited his personal freedom to her; and though she may, in the exercise of her sover eignty, inflict panisbment, either cor poral or otherwise, she is under a moral obligation to see that the penalty ex acted is neither ciuel nor excessive. This obligation cannot be transferred. It rests upon the State until the prisoner dies or becomes a freeman again; and my own conviction is, that Georgia commits a crime egaiust humanity when she allows her convicts treated with undue severity, or their physieial powers to lie overtaxed, whether under the immediate direction of her owii of ficials or of others to whom she may have leased their labor. The practical questions that ara naturally suggested by the above considerations are: Are the convicts under the existing system treated with unnecessary rigor? And is excessive labor required of them ? I cannot speak from personal knowledge on these points, but if rumors that are circulating be true, there is much room for improvement in these particu lars, in some casei, at least. Whether these stories are tiuo or false, however, we are all “just human,” as Mr. Grady told us in his admirable lecture last night, and it may be that some of ns are a little less than human, when unlimit ed power is given us over our fellow creatures to be employed iu the ad vancement of our own selfish interests. Such power should not be granted by the State to private parties to be exer oised without restraint, when the tempta tion to abuse it is so great as in onr present convict system, and I am sure snoh will be the judgment of the enlight ened people of Georgia when the sub ject is properly presented to their atten tion. ‘ Sigma. NEW YORR. FASHIONS AND GOSSIP. Rosalind Mar's LetteiwNo Use Dressing in Summer—The Petticoat—Fashionable Fab rics—Competition in Bangles, Etc., Etc. [Correspondence ChronicleandConslitutionaltsi .] New York, June 27.— 500n, very soon, it will be hard to find a Handsomely Dressed Woman, And in search of one we shall have to go to watering places. People who stay at home are no oriterions, for they say to themselves “What is the use of dress ing in Summer ?” They save over the extra fifty dollar bills for the first of September, and content themselves with a percale suit. In lien of finery, there fore, let us see how it is about these percale suits. Really one might be como “gushing,” for these warm Sum mer days, they are “just the thing”—re freshingly cqol, ip deep, solid shades of brown, blqe, or grpen, labile ladies iu mourning, welcome a’ relief from the heaviness of cloth, foy we find solid black percale aostum es especially for them. The pljeaper varieties are finish ed with fcpife pjaitings; ne?t come em broidered bands ; aud lastly, those trimmed with Smyrna lace, Tfie one thing lacking to comfort is that iuev t able train, which, under all circum stances, through good as through evil report, iu raiu as iu sunshine, every where and at all times, must be held up. So in counting what a woman can ac compliah, the right hand must be left quite out of the question. No matter how many babies, no matter how many baskets, mo mafter fiow much anything, the train must be looked alter, fn view of this The Petticoat Becomes of no small import, since it comes into full exhibition. Economize, my dear sisters, in something else, but have a pretty petticoat. This, however, is nop jo tfie exclusion of the Summer balmorjjf, apd 'sinob appropriateness is an important plewenfof t{ie grthetio, what is more agreeable to thp vision than a neat colored skirt, comporting well with tho dark colored hosiery at present fashionable for “every day.” New bal morals are of wash poplin in shades of gray or brown, and here the irrepres sible knife plattings appear in finish. I was about to say that every other lady wears B bunting suit, but my conscience LiiS that this is an exaggera tion. ¥et .’tjra how many we see,'and they offgWVeatty tfrW Pfassed er Tide ?e tpe m°rpm?r . *— bust in Nji material little prising, io. " —a tikajy to Drove to be commended, . U trftoftitory. Fancies. Imagine a yoopg |*4y wearing upon her arm attached to one ft fash, drum, horse shoe, jookey’s cap, njinpte glass, f#pboi*rioe, cowbell, harp, ten cent pieee, and turtle; while Araminta who sits beside tiCK arm attached to her braaefet. <jl ouctior, pa lette, crab, wreath, boat, whistle, sailor’s cap, shell, saddle and lizard, and as they inttrebftpgfl vows of friendship, ’tis instructive tg pote the little de vices by which PS# endeavors to impress upon the otbfil ft. spnse of the superiority of bey tfipkets. The above facts go to show tbftt there is some competition among the lair sex as to who shall have the greater number of bangles, with the greater number of triplets pendant therefrom, and the logics! deduction is that bangles are still fashionable. So are scarf pins— indeed there is qsihft a rnn upon them ; the variety is well nigh ibuitj.eas, bat iu view of ihe present rage for oaaotipg, a homo shoe is a favorite device, while as the yaebjtipg season is npon ns, ttoy sil ver oars are quite popular. On the sub ject of fans, one misfit feel perolexed by what the French call sjpbarras de richessea, for we see ao many Jd#d 8 of fans that we can say that everything ■ ;is fashionable. Bnt sizes are medium, and there is not the former rage for feathers, for perfume, fashionables de light themselves Just pow in Colgate & Co.’s violet toilet watm> Whkih is deli cions, ss it yields tha essenti^J. Miupiple of a hundred bouquets of violets, tor little more than the cost of ofle, aqd for use in the bath is equally delightful as for the handkerchief. Colgate k Go.'a cashmere bouquet extract is also in very great furor, and mention may be made of the cashtnera bouquet toilet soaps as being preferred by psr elegantes. New Beoisw. Strikingly novel and distingue, the Boston basque is tightly fitting, eat with side forms carried to the shoulders. The Habit basqne is another stylish design, tight fitting, with cut away fronts over a pointed vest, and the back in coat shape. The Celandice over skirt shows a long, broad apron, closed diagonally, and draped so far back that it hangs perfectly”smooth in fiopt and back with irregular drapery describing a point. The Villia overskirt, in effect: dressy end graceful, with drapery appa rently complicated, is quite simple and easily arranged. ’Tis beginning to be hard to find A Church with Opt* Theatres shut their doors in imitation of the churches, and actors following the example of the clerical profession, take a long holiday. In view of this, we, and the strangers within oar gates, go with one accord to Gilmore’s Garden. I really believe we have oome quite to loving Gilmore, not only beennse he en tertaius us delightfully, but because he is so agreeable himself. Certainly he is. very popular. He lives in nice style, everythin# within, and without evincing a caretal attention to (esthetic is every day life. Well chosen pictures, engrav ings, fresh earpets, knick-knacks, eta, greet one pleasantly; this being the' more refreshing to the eye because great artists are ofttfi 60 absorbed in their profession a* to be oblivious to every thing else. Gilmore is not. He dresses in perfect taste, and as he cordially welcomes a visitor, looking handsome and fresh as a daisy after his continuous labors, one instinctively wonders “how one Bmall head can carry,” etc., etc. Doubtless much is dne to the fact that be is a mar ried man. He has one daughter, a pret ty girl, hardly a young lady, yet scarce a child. It should have been mentioned earlier that at the Garden anew contriv ance for forcing in cool air has been purchased at an expense of $5,000, and is now in fall operation. Writing of pleasant people reminds me of a visit paid not long aqo to the office of the Home Journal. The two editors, Mr. Morris Phillips and Mr. George Perry, are both so courteous that one hardly know whioh of the two to perfer. Each in his own way is charming, and apropos of a fashion letter it may be added that their paper, besides being otherwise in teresting is par excellence our society journal, and is filled with the doings of prominent persons here. Vexillo.tne new lawn game, is the latest attraction among the fashionable. “Croquet in fancy dress and mnoh im proved,” as a leading paper put it. The features of the latter’s popularity have been carefully preseived, so that vex illo, while it offers its own pereuliar charms, furnishes something new to thoes who, while they would enjoy affect, ennui of the old names. Rosalind May. CONDITION OK THE CHOPS. Tlie Crop Prospect About Midway, S. C. [Corresp ndence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Midway, 8. C., June 28.—As you in vite correspondence from all parts of the country where your valuable paper circu lutes, i will give you some items from this section. The crops average some what later than at this season the past year, although now and then you hear of a planter whose crop is further ad vanced than at this time last year. There is a fair average of a stand for cotton. The crop had not commenced any honltby or vigorous growth till this month on account of the cold nights prevailing in the mouth of May. There was not as much as twenty per cent, of commercial fertilizers used the present season in this seetion. Necessity has induced the farmers to make an effort to be independent of factors and merchants in future, and they have planted full provision crops, a great deal of sugar cane and millet, as well as rice—which is now being extensively and success fully planted in this seetion in all low places where no ot her c op can be grown. Labor is cheap, efficient and plentiful. The utmost economy is practiced in the mode of living; parties who had never been known to dispense with flour, sugar and coffee, do not now use it only in cases of sickness or special occasions. Money is very scarce and business dull. In former years much of it would circu late through various industries, such as cutting timber and cross-ties for rail roads. Formerly the railroad companies would pay forty cents a piece for them and take them readily, now they can not be got riil of at twenty-five cents. But since the settlement of the political difficulties all seem hopeful of a better future—may we all live to see and en joy it. L. A. 13. THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Letter from tlie Cliiiirman of the Board of Trustee* to tlie Comity JtuUre. Atlanta, Ga.. June 28, 1877. Hon. Claiborne Snead: Dear Sir—Noting in the Chroni cle and Constitutionalist your cor respondeno with Dr. Green, Su perintendent Lunatic Asylum, in re gard to certain insane persons in Richmond county, I have made offi cial inquiries of the three physicians in charge of said asylum, as to whether these insane persons alluded to by you can now be accommodated in the insti tution. From the replies received from two of these medical officers (one has sent in no response), and whose letters I enclose you, I am induoed to think that these insane persons can now be received, and accordingly I will advise you to have them sent on, provided they have been duly committed according to the manner prescribed in the Code, and in compliance with the rnles and regu lations prepared by the Board of Trus tees, a copy of whioh 1 presume you have. These latter ipere qrdered qnder an act of the last Legislature, were sub mittod to sundry members of the Joint Committee on the Lunatic Asylum among them framer of the bill—and have been carefully revised by the most experienced members of the Board of Trustees and the medical officers of the Asylum. They have not been framed with a view of superceding the provis ions of the Code in force governing the commitment of jpsane persons, qor is it considered that tjje qct 0f1877 repeals any provision of the Code in regard to commitment of insane persons, but does give power to the Trustees to cause discharges fpm the jnstit|itiop, not hejetpfqto aqthorijed py law. If the act of 1577 does pepr tbp construc tion of repealing the provisions of the Code as to commitments the Board would, and do, in their rules and regu lations readopt these provisions as properly conservative of the rights of persons alleged to be insane. These rules and regulations are not regarded as perfect, but are believed to be in con formity to the provisions of the Code — pqnal and jnst to all applicants for the benefits of the Asylum, and reaepnpbly conservative of the economic interests involved in the management of this in stitution. Assuredly all the minds which have been exercised in their preparation have been singularly obscured in reach ing the beneficial objects contemplated in the legislative act directing their preparation if the eflect of these rules, as you pronounco ' ‘pjiana, is to keep patients out of the Experience will doubtless demonstrate defects in them apt] spggpst altpfatipnsj am] im provements, and I believe I may truth fully apeak for all concerned in this when I say for them that a diligent consideration will be given by ali parties to so amend and improve them that the philanthropic ends in view shall be most judiciously met. I may go farther, and say that a respect ful and thonghtfiil consideration will be given bY‘ aB parties charged with the great charity to sugges tions coming any quarter, Vy**p l * are designed ami adapted to promote its usefulness and comfort to the insane of the State, £ M U may bo accom plished with the mean? at thoir com mand. . ... As matter of information, I will re mark that there arc ja course of constrao- WiOttfg *>' tne accommodation of aboru fwo .."udretl additional patients. I am, respectfully, your obndiept servant, J4S. F. Bozeman, Chairman Board of Trustees Lunatic Asylum. HOBSON AND HOLDSMITH. A Card (fain Hon. J. A. Koliton Atyont the ’ ' “ ” ffu., Editors Harold and Georgian : From. your statement in last week's paper that I would be beard this week in reference to the State tax ft. fa. vs. myself, about which so much hits already been said, many seemed to anticipate a controversy between the Comptroller- Qoneral and myself. There is no issue between You have read his and the Treaß'irer r Btefoflients, they are sub stuntially correct. It is tfue I have not settled up with the Comptroller-General ! fdr the State taxes, and that I have ! execution issued against me but i for £O6 reasons : I held a large amount ’ql tixfi fas. in favor of the Stated instances there existed old judgment/ s#d mort gages againsttkedefendants sufficient to| absorb their entire effects. To have made my settlement with the State would have bee#, ifi J opinion under a decision of the Supreme .Lour), to have reduced my CBCqUCcted tax ft. fa’;, to r n equal foot isg with other judgments an# liens. To go into the G°W t 8 / or t k e e°?)edtion of ! my fi. fas- without iftp momof lien given by the State woi4 Simply he, in A large number of cases, to gat nothing ana nay the cost. There is already a large* number of the ft. fas. stopped ffrom proceeding to a sale by injunc tions, Ac., sued out upd!) the idea that I hadf tally p.ftf off the State. U?nce the hue and cry teat the ,execution vs. my self is bogus, kc. just aa soon os I can enforce the collection of my ft. fas. new hung up in the Courts I will settle withi the State to the last farthing. Should the executions now awaiting trial, miscarry I have plenty of private goods and chat tels to the State and she will and shall be s&tiafiyd to the last dollar with out loss or to &17 one save my self. Is the State, or any eitizea of toe. State, so unjust as to desire to rash me to a settlement at a large financial sac rifice to myself when I have to the best of my ability faithfully discharged my every official duty ? I hope not. Then a little patieaoe and all will be right. Respectfully, jf. A. Robson. Personal Comeliness Is greatly enhanced by a fine set of : teeth. On the other hand, nothing so detracts from the effect of pleasing fea tures, fine eyes and a graceful figure, as yellow teeth. That popnlar toilet article Sozodont checks their decay, and ren ders them as white as snow. f NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE SUMMER. RESORTS AND MINERAL >V S ALTIi OF OEOR aiA ft i_ j Rammer Resort* in Oeorcla-pelightful Re treat* fJr Invalids aud Pleasure Seeker*— Cliinate 9 Crop*, Etc. The Approaching Convention—What It Will Probably Do— The Public Sohool*, theological and Other Bureaux ot Government Gold Fields, Etc. [ Correspondence Chronicle andConstitutionalist.] Clarksville, June 26—Supposing my farmer letter readied you, I write again from this ancient Summer resort one of the most delightful in all the oouutry. In the halcyon days that pre ceded the war, it was the custom of the low couutry gentry to retreat to this mountain region to escape the heat and discomforts of the seaboard. Many of them built costly Summer residences in the vicinity, among them the late Judge Berrieu, Judge Law, Mr. Owens, Mr. McAlister, Mr. Habersham, Drs.Eollock and Waring, and others. In the days when there were no railways, it was not an unusual thing for Summer visitors to travel all the way from the seaboard to the mountains in their own private con veyances. They traveled early in the morning and late in the afternoon, and “lay by” during the heat of the day, un der the beeches and maples, on the banks of some crystal stream. They had their regular stages or journies varying from thirty to forty miles a day. I am not sure that those old times and ways were not fully as pleasant as the present. Then tbe traveler took life leisurely, and was not whirled along at a break-neck speed of thirty or forty miles uu hour, ff so disposed, he could go fisliirg and spend the day in quiet comfort without the fear of having a telegraphic dispatch sent after him. This is a most delicious summer cli mate. Tho nights are simply delightful. One cannot go amiss in all this portion of the State for a pleasant summer home. Clarkesville, Nacoooliee Valley, Mount Airy, Toecoa, Tallulah Falls and Porter Springs preseut every attraction of cli mate and scenery that the invalid or pleasure-seeker oan desire. Georgia, however, possesses many delightfnl sum mer resorts. Athens, Madison, Coving ton, Griffin, Newnau, Marietta, Atlanta, and the towns along the Air-Line and Western and Atlantic Railroads, are all pleasant planes. Atlanta presents ex ceptional advantages, especially to per sons who reside in the country when at home, and who desire gaiety and society as well as a chaDge of air. £O. Indeed, a change from the lower parts of the South Atlantic and Gulf S ales to Mid dle and Upper Georgia is all the change that onr people require. Summer re sorts further North involve too great a change for young oiiildron and for feeble and aged persons. In addition to this, a trip to Northern Georgia is less ex pensive, while the distanco is not so great but that one may communicate freoly with his friends and agents at home. Visitors are already making their ap poaranco at all tho usual resorts in this section of the State, and a larger num ber is expected this year than for some time past. Wherever one goes the eye is greeted with the j romiso of abundant crops. Along tho Georgia and Air- Line Roads the prospect for a rich har vest was never better. Tho approaching Constitutional Con vention continues to be the pfiuoipal topic of conversation in all circles. What will be done with the homestead What with the looation of the capitol— what with the Geological, Agricultural and Educational Bureaux ? These ques tions are repeated again and again where ever ono turns. The common school system has devoted friends all over the State, and so has the Geological Bureau, while the Agricultural Bureau finds most of its friends in the middle and lower parts of the State. And yet strange as it may appear, the Geological sur vey numbers some of its bitterest ene mies right here among the gold fields, whose rapid development it is stimulat ing in every possible way ! Nearly all otr minerals are found jn the northern half of the State, while the lower part pays tbe greater share of the public taxes. One would suppose that those two facts would determine the position of the mountain politicians, reported to be among the shrewdest in the common wealth. It is not believed that the capital will be changed, or that the publio sohoil syste n and the bureau will be seriously disturbed. These great agencies are doing iqupense goqcj, and should he con tinued, Tlie homestead will almost oertainly be reduoed, and nearly all official terms for the future will be cut down. Some offices may be abolished altogether ; but no very radical innova tions will be ventured upon. The Con stitution when frumed will have to be submitted to the people for ratifleatiou, and lienee it will not fye safe to venture upon too rgany and too radical changes. It does not seem to bo at all probable that the seat of government will be changed. It would not be wise even to leave the question to the future deter mination of tlie q* to refer it to a separate vote at. the time the Constitution is submitted for ratifica tion ; for what with the oolored vote and the large numbers who will object to this or that feature, tho whole work of the Qqnvejjtion, if ths capital question were also involved, might lie defeated. Large investments are b ang made in mineral lands in Lumpkin, White, Hall and Habersham counties. Very expen sive works are being eree’ed, and great preparations are making for developing the gold and other precious petals which.it is bnlio?e4, <sist in tins re gioji. ' The old system of workiug tbe mines has been abandoned. Great ex pectations are indulged as to the feature as may be inferred from the immense sums of money that aro being expended, aud the costly machinery that is being employed. But this letter is already long enough. More anon. ITonah. TIJH NKp (lON^KESS. (Jeiuo; ; r!tCic! Hiijoi'liy of Nixleeu, Willi Spye to Rear Fyoro. Washington, Juno 26.—A copy has been made of the pay certificates for the Forty fifth Congress, as fnruished by Clerk Adams to Sergeant at Arms Thompson, aud constituting his vouch ers iu account wi ll the United States Treasury, amt given to some Republican pipers as the roll of the next House made out by Adams. T;].e list stands pieoiaeji u|| diiT’wbOn ail 1 abstract of it was published Ihe first week in April, showing a Democrat c majority of six teen, with seven members to bear from. No further changes have been made, and none will be uutil the time comes for mating ..p roll. What that will be no one°yet knows, Iu the Colorado case the law ia *’,} agfijffilt 5 gj fo^ } W* l Pa terson's title to' the Resit tints p# the construction 61 an enabling act. The Supreme Court of California has given Pacliero, Republican, tho seat in the Fourth District of that State, and Wig giniou has apfiCajei], i’hp ooqtpst in the Courts over tfie Thir‘l District m Missouri is in much ‘the satac shape. The roenrd of Florida, aud the Fourth aud Sixth Districts of Louisiana are cov ered by conflicting pertificates from the rival Governors. 4(]ams will probably follow the example set by Hayes in this matter, and repognize Nichoils and the Democratic Congressmen. — — m --- —■■ ■ yf VMM Hiny-HANITV- Taking Advantage of tbe .bia|’flr|np, tf Others. IFrom the Troj/ (S. Y.) Times ] \ It is in times of great calamity and public distress that the meanest ele ments of sobiety become especially prominent. It will be remembered what a harvest the thieves of Chicago reaped at the time of the great fire in that city, and what reinforcements swelled iheir ranks from all the sur rounding W fiends in human shape set fire to buildings m all direc tion and what extortionate rates team sters asked for their services. Similar scenes of robbery, arson and extortion are reported as having been witnessed at St Johns. Roughs kindled fires in deserted houses to help on the confla gration: thieves took with a bold hand whatever of furniturh am] other prop erty tflW dpsU.ei, and teagajers pfe cisely as at Chicago, thinjung np dopbt that the fire was providentially gent for their especial benefit, charged enormous and unjust prices for removing goods. Tf is only the uprising of the charitable all over ‘be country to carry aid and comfort to the afflicted inhabitants ol lamity. ' 1 kavaoes by fire. A Krtlnnery Burned-Thread Work* Coo * - . earned. Glasgow, June -89 —ifoh# Eobartson & Co.’s spinnery, 60,000 spindles, has! been burned. L f, Bs, $400,1)00. Cause, friction of machinery. Five hundred operatives are ousted. Paisley, Scotland, Juiio 29.—Clark & Co.’s thread works are burned. The work people barely escaped. Loss, $75,006. Tbe Colnmbns Enquirer notes th§t “a Lumpkin county man caught fk beaver in a steel trap on Sunday morn ing last, which weighed sixty pounds. But bow much did the beaver weigh ? THEJTATE. TJ* I’KOPLJ# AND THE PAPERsJ 'Rome wants a city park. A.. 1 Wrigbtsboro abounds in JF 1 Macon has an ice factory tod. No colored men in the Con. Qpn. The lottery wheel still turns in At lanta. ' Gen. Green and his cohorts liavo ap peared. Eastman is to have a Presbyterian Chuob. Crops in Liberty oounty are lagging behind. Savannah thinks of inviting Mr. Grady to lecture there. Elberton is to have a money order of fice after July 2d. Gen. Thomas H. Bugerliasloft Atlanta for Washington City. Capt. L. L. Goodwin has beeu elected city marshal of Savannah. Prof. John T. Graves, of West Point, has a flourishing class of 37. In many localities wheat has been harvested in a damaged condition. The exercises of Mr. J. H. Roberts’ sohool in Waynesboro close to-day. Mr. Wm. K. Cunningham, of Double Branob, Lincoln county, died reoently. A case of spontaneous combustion le oently ocourred in Macon, No damage. Receipts of cotton at Rome since the first of September foot np 32.446 bales. Threshing machiuesaud gin mills are generally run by steam in Lincoln county. “ Elymosynary ” is the way Prof. Ham puts it, which, for first trial, is re ma-kabiv good. Rev. J. A. Monday seams to have made a very favorable impression in Warren county. Mr. J. R. Christy, of the Athens Watchman, is a candidate for Secretary of the Convention. The belle editor of the McDuffie Jour nal is doing his best to keep up with the sweet girl graduates. The recent fair in Brunswick awarded a premium for the best mare and colt to the sheriff < f the comity. A white uian named Bailey attempted suicide in Savannah, Wednesday, by entting his throat with a razor. The Olympic aud Colquitt Base Ball Clubs will play a match game at Ap pling, Columbia oouuty, to-morrow. The Vox Clionis, edited by the young ladies of tho LaGrangd Female College, is neatly printed and full of choice mat ter. Twenty two thousand feet of rope is what Prof. Heudry, tho slider of Stone Mountain, wants to descend its preci pice. Echols county has been finally heard from, and shows a vote of thirty-five for Convention aud three against Conven tion. Two negroes succeeded in combing each others’ craninras reeently, in War ren county, with hoes. Not much dam age done. The Eagle & Phtßnix mills, of Colum bus, have received a handsome order from England for their celebrated cotton blankets. General Hugh W. Mercer, formerly of Savannah, died reoently at Baden Ba den, Germany, where ho had resided tho past four years. Atlanta Independent : The Democra cy wants the “dollars of our fathers, but tlie youths of Atlanta want the dol lars of their fathers-in-law.” The Constitution thinks that Messrs. Wadley & Cos. do not merit any atten tion from tho Con-Con. This brines the At-Con. on a pretty low level itself. Laurens and Wilkinson counties are very mnoh exorcised over the shooting, by uuknown parties, of one man ami the mysterious disappearance of an other. The Methodist Sunday Schools of Mc- Duffie aud Columbia counties held a Convention last week at White Oak. Governor Colquitt aud General Evans delivered addresses. Prof. Ham further remarks that it is less dangerous to hit a man on tbe bead with the bottom than in tbe mouth with the top end of a bottle. The latter has killed somegood men. A buck negro named Aaron has been committed to jail nt Sawdust to answer for the oharge of attempt to commit rape upon the little daughter of Mr. Conner, an old Methodist minister of that place. Tho Thomson Journal states that a Lincoln county hen recently laid two eggs, one with the name of E. Gresham, Esq., and the other that of Mamie Mer cier, a little pupil the former, upon them. Says the Atlanta Constitution : “ Miss Claude Thomas, of Athens, Georgia, and Miss Daisy Beckwith, daughter of Bishop Beokwith, Rhared the first honor in Madame So.nowsky’s excellent semi nary at Athens. Mr. George F. Gohe? haa been admit ted to the bar i Siawannali. Mr. Gobor is a graduate of the University, class '7B, and is one of the most accurate young students in tho State. We pre dict for him abundant success, I lenty of dewberries Oats in Gwinnatt are not so bad after all. Blackberries are cheaper than last year. Fried chickens roost upon high limbs this year. Thnnderbolt will have a regatta on the Fourth, Dawson lias enjoyed a Cant at her Fe male Institute. Hephzibah has her commencement on the 4t,h proximo. Southwest Georgia is organizing a Fair Association. Waynesboro is t*Wu toearrom upon a new bil'iato table. Mr - .' Robert Baker, a Columbus wheel wright, is no moro. The Hartwell Sun beams clqv,iUasly aud serenely forth. The railroad fyemi Tatbotton to Gen eva is being surveyed, Tke hum of the base ball is heard “At Arlington (Ga.) College Temple, of Ne\j; *,<*, recontly had a commence^ o ' l *- The (inergia B. B. C.’s, of Savannah, 1 exourt to Augusta July 3.1. ; Horse thieves are stealing valuable animals in Chatham oounty. Talbot county is to have anew paper. Keep at it, gentlemen; there’s millionsin it. The “Schnapper” Clubs are grinding and whetting up their fibhhooks in Law renceville. Tbe caterpillar lias made ;ij appear ance in the rice fieh*; v u the Ogeeehee and Savanm^h. Andrew J. Blaek, of Rockdale, shot | and killed his young apprentice, Fiuck Black, last week. T. C. McDarter, who fell from the building of Moore £ Marsh, in Atlanta, 1 died Monday from his injuries. In Hart county the good children ex curt to the saw mills to pick up chips and sei the “wheels go wound.” It is understood that Florida melons and Georgia blackberries are being ship ped in large quantities to Nicsic. Mrs. V ttt8 y* Hargrove died in Burke county a few days ago, Sho was the grandmother of' sixty-six children. Moses A. MoOurry, son of A. W- kt®- Curry, of Hart county, died recently in the Lunatia Asylui#, at Milledgeville. A scaffold on tho round houpe of the Central Boat] fell Thursday morning, in badly injuring two ro/'g, Davis, of the Athens flfttlery,ad vertises for apajtnptp with $1,500 capi tal. Only ladies, we presume, need ap- P Airs. Bennett, 77 years old, lives in Hart coqnty and never took a, pill in her life. Evidently sffe is not an aged pil grim. Mr. Jq3. Jackson, of Talbot county, has in his orchard a pear limb, two feet long, haying on it sixty six well grown pears. It seemetli that two of the twelve able of the Ah Con. are literary peripatetics. The rest are made of stabler and sterner stuff, as it were. A mere boy in Chattahoochee is re ported to have stabbed a brother enffee in five different places. A promising youth is the m. b. An old negro woman and a water moc casin had a bout recently in Dawson. The reptile bit the 1 dust and the old dame got dp and dnstgd. The Clirrtenton Wapper gives warning of a marriage this week upon the banks of the rippling pgeechee. As yet we have received no official advices. Matrimony has taken anew start in Dawson. Matrimony, 4 0WD 6re. is as a persimmon, so to speak. It takes a few white frosts to brtog it out. Captain John T. Watkins, of Burke county,' has some Afribari wheat. It is now abqnftffo ifpet high. R #as pant ed in May, tb be flaryestfid iff Septem ber. Button hole boquets In Talbotton are composed of giant sunflowers, repcsiDg lovingly in the bosom of an immense collard leaf. They are often used as soup bunches after they leave the lapel. There is a yearling in Hart oounty wearing ea oyster onp with a rock in it for ft bpiL 4nd the joke is that the yeariing frisfs aroiifud ijf 88 ,f bore the chimes of St., Mark! upon his bovine saouklers. " 1 Mr. 8. R. Sims, of Washington, de livered an elegant oration betore the Society of Mercer University Ut The Loumville farmer says: “A boy about sixteen years o( age named Tom Gamble, who lived near Wadley, was brought to this place under a oommit ment for the murder of his brother. The Children’s Department—a fediirre of “Andrews’ BazaF^— is unrivaled. The designs are alwaye new and ing excellence. Mothers. ex ception, should see the Bazar. W. n. Andrews, Cincinnati, publisher, ' SOUTH CAROLINA. F FAKMRTTO news leaves. Anderson revels in base ball. Newberry wants an ice factory. CoW peas are abundantly sown. Some hydrophobia in Abbeville. Whwtpiug cough still in Chester. Fine stards of grass are reported. Doncaster has a Munchausen Club. Yorkville will not ’rah on the Fourth. The oamp meeting season approaches. Much interest centers in the fenoe law. L’Esprit du Corps grows all over the State. Rowing.parties are numerous in Char leston. Union wants a narrow gauge ropd to Chester. Tho new market at Ridgeway baa been finished. A severe storm passed over Newberry last week. Newberry wishes to refurnish her girls’ school. The Moultrie monument was unveiled on Thursday. The troops are still ebbiog forth from Summerville. Aiken dou’t throw much “soul” into tho fenoe law. Tbe colored Baptists in Aiken have beeu reviving. Chester and Union are in earnest about their road. Matrimony seems not to have melted away in Abbeville. Sumter wants to fill her vaeaut chair in the Legislature. A mule tried to kill Mr. Philip Dunn, of Union, last week. Tho Newberry College will be erected upon a beautiful plan. Col. Coker walks over in Darlington and goes to the Senate. Nearly every State editor wears anew cotton bloom in bis coat. The King’s Mouutain military sohool has closed for tbe season. Barnwell is compelled to quarter her prisoners in the market hall. Fairfield will have a County Demo cratic Convention, July 14t.h. Governor Hampton lias appointed sev eral ladies as aides on his staff. Mrs. R. N. Chute, wife of the Episco pal miuiater of Sumter, is dead. Ex Lieut. Cleaves has been appointed a Trial Justice by Gov. Hamptou. The slung shot villains of Charleston are fair candidates for the gallows. Mrs. Carson, the wife of Rev. W. B. Carson, died at Allendale, last week. Gen. H. G. Worthington, Collector of Charleston, will be removed, it is said. The work of the Fraud Investigating Committee, in Columbia, goes bravely on. Last week Francis M. Rhea, a York ville blacksmith, was found dead in his bed. The Marion artillery looks to an ad mission into the State militia at an earlr day. “Juba Tattings” are iu full blast among the sombre religionists of Charles ton. Ju lgo Mackey, next Wednesday after noon, delivers a literary address at Due West. Tho Abbeville Banner cannot see how the people will be beuefitted by anew oouuty, Mrs. Elizabeth Hammond, of Ander son, died last week in the 78th year of her age. Barnwell will organize an infantry and n cavalry company or perish in tha attempt. The Herald thinks that there are many fraudulent debts hanging over Newberry. London Brown, who shot aiid killed Sam Hayes near Barnwell, liv.t week, is still at large. Capt. A. A. Dickson, on nged and re spectable citizep of Anderson county, died last week. Mr. T. J. Darby, arrested on a charge of forgery in Chester, has been honor ably acquitted. Highland moccasins and little negroes in some instances, oocnpy the same couch in Abbeville. The Grangers last Monday planted a tree iu Edgefield boaido the grave of Col. Tlios. G. Bacon. Judge Towußeud, of the Fourth Cir cuit, will hold the October term of Court for Edgefield county. Pigeon shooters stalk abroad in Charleston. After all, pigeons are bet ter marks than glass balls. Liberian emigration is still disoussed by the colored troops. Where, oh, where is Marshal Douglass ! The Washington Light Infantry and Artillery will get up a brigade parade on the 221 of February next. Kawlos Anthony, oolored, Monday evening, was run over and killed, near Sumter, by a construction train. Seventeen new buildings, says the Journal, have been erected in Aiken since Hampton has been Governor. The Barnwell Sentinel announces wed dings twelve days ahead of time. This i insures the printer’s fee at any rate. A local oowhiding occurred recently in Columbia between Richardson, of the Register, and Orchard, of the Phoenix. The workshops of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad will be moved from Yorkville to Chester, says the Reporter. Tlie editor of the Newberry Herald gives notice that he is living upon black berry dumplings. Fortunate maD, he l What’s up with the Barnwell Senti nel ? At this, the dullest season of tho year, sho fi>ly beams with local news. The Anderson Intelligencer notes that i the tide of Summer reoruita to tbe Caro lina mountains is greater than ever be fore. A desperate fight between a dog and an alligator recently came off at the Georgetown wharf. The ’gator was killed. Columbia wants Henry Grady “over there.” Grady, in fact, would make a good thing by traveling around over tho South. I '1 he thermometer now finds out that there is “plenty of room at the top.” It licked the hundred notch Tuesday in Charleston, Tho oolored Y. M. 0, A.’e, of Charles toe, disclaim all intention of misrepre senting the Columbia Orphan Asylum to tbe public. James L. Orr, Esq., of Anderson, has been appointed a member of Governor Hampton’s staff, with the rank of Liera tem\ut-€)alonel. The Newberry Herald thinks that the State officers of South Carolina are equal, if not superior, to those of any State in the Union. Gov. Hampton will probably organize a polo, clmb upon his return. A good game at the base of Moultrie would be appreciated just now. A colored woman in Aiken oounty, while picking huckleberries near Boyce's mill, was bitten upon the throat by a rattlesnake and killed. A difficulty occurred 00 Saturday, in Spartanburg, in whieh Mr. Jack Abbott received a serious blow from a stick in tbe hands of Whitman. The negro Davenport, of Newberry, against whom a coroner’s jury found a verdiet of guilty of killing his step-child three weeks ago, has not yet been ar rested. Says the Abbeville Banner : “While the Charleston and Augusta papers are the very best in the Southern States,onr people do not take as many copies of either paper as they would if they could get them on the evening .of the day that they are published.” Tho Charleston News says: The sea board, at last, has answered the bngle call from the mountains, and the enter prise ah# life for whioh the np country, with its long term of Democrat ic rale, ia noted, will soon be seen and felt in re vived and regenerated Charleston. HOMICIDE IN BURKE COUNTY. A <'stored Clan Milled ia Heli-Orfcaae. [■ special to Chronicle and Constitutionalist. J Waynesboro, June 28.—A difficulty which ended in a homicide occurred this morning at Munnerlyn, a station on the Augusta and Savannah Railroad in this (Burke) county. Mr. Simeon Bell was attacked by a well known desperate negro cksnictpr najped John Carter. The negro' assiujtefl Mr. TBell with a drawn dirk and Bell, in self-defence', shpf and killisd him. “Bell has Signified fiis willingness to surrender hiquiel] ‘to tfle prpper aqthorifies, if. |N MEJ.F^IEFpNSE. Mr. Simeon Bell, af Burke County, Juetltyeil In Killian t|ie Negro, By the Coroner’* imr __ f Special to (he Chronicle CpnsliluliQnalist. j ‘ WA ¥ NEspopq, G 4., June 88. - Tflfi jury on the inquest at.Munueriyil, t|)i morning, returned a verdict that tbe negro, John Carter, oimeto his death by a pistol shot fired by Simeon Bell, in self-defense. ■ THE MAHSHALSUIP. Mnj. Smyth Discover* that Hl* Deputies Won’t Do. The Atlanta Constitute, cf ygjter day, says: Attorney-Gtoerjal DeveuW offb cially states that, after a carefnl exami nation of the charges contained in Col. Withers’report to Gov. Colquitt concern ing the conduot of the Georgia marshal’s office, and of Marshal Smyth’s reply tbereto, he finds that Marshal Smyth has been brought to tbe flotffig of-thu De partment of Justice.” We learn' tlfc't Marshal Smyth has notified his deputies that their services will npt longer be needed in his department. This action admits no exceptions, we understand, and anew, acceptable tore* will be se lected for future assistance to the mar shal. Tis well!