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2Tt)romcle an t s^^^- WEDNESDAY, - AUGUST 29, 1877. CROP NEWM. The friends of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist in Georgia anc South Carolina will greatly oblige us by sending, from time to time, brief let ters showing the condition of the crops. We would like to have a letter once a , week from every locality where the j Chronicle and Consiitctionalirt c.r culates. Lydia’s blondes are pronounced “plnmptitudinous.” The Macon Telegraph begs Mr. Kbt. if lie will grovel, not to burrovr. If Greece should take a hand in the melee, Poland may as well join in thf fray- __ ~ Thf. Filth Congressional District of New York sends a colored cadet to West Point. ___ ___ A man named Bogus has been awardeo a bona fide contract for coal, at Wash ington. The lauded property and houses be longing to the French State are valued at $1,720,000,000. - Charles Francis Adams’ property ha? shrunk in value $402,095, since last jeai. lie has $2,844,545 left. Thf. latt r-Oce.an thinks “palmy days'' in Ohio are scarce because old Ben Wade is in retirement. A Vermont editor’s pocket-book, upon examination by a thief, contained 20 cults and some railroad passes. Horny handed lawyers, school teach ers and editors are said to ho runningth- Workingman’s party in the West. Rabbi Wish, editor of the Israelite, “defies any Christian clergyman or pro fessor of Hebrew to write a Hebrew let ter.” ♦ Bishop Haven admits that the Chris tian people of Liberia are the only one who undress when they go to bed. The mob at Scranton, Penn., was pt down by a posse headed by “Lieutenant Brown, an old Confederate soldier. Blanton Du can claims that ho nar rowly escaped being apprenticed to a blacksmith. Hence ho is “horny hand ed,” hy brevet. Clara Morris pays her Doctor $25 per day. We know not which to admire the more, her well-puffed sickness or her well-paid Doctor. Col. Peterson Thweatt has tackled the Convention about his claims. He ■warns members that tho Rubicon has not been crossed yet. - ■ - The Philadelphia Exhibition has been opened for Bnnday visitors. It was that or a collapse, aud Broadbrim pocketed his principles promptly. Near Austin, Texas, fine hydraulic Allay has been discovered, rivaling the material from which the celebrated Portland cement is manufactured. ■ When the Lord Mayor of London’s daughter married the other day, thf cakes weighed ono hundred pounds each and had to be cut by a silver sword. Some wicked wag suggests that the only chance to capture oven Joseph’s coat ia to supersede General Howard and put Mrs. PoTirnAi; in command. The Washington National Republican continues to prophecy that no man un favorable to the Texas Pacific Railway can ever bo elected to the Speakership of the House. Senator Cochrane, of South Caro lina, positively declares that guilty Democrats, if any, will not be screened by the Investigating Committee now sitting at Columbia. An Intcr-Occan correspondent, writ ing from Mississippi, says the recent Democratic Convention developed n crushing sentiment against Senator La mar. Tho testimony is doubtful. According to an Atlanta correspond ent, General Toombs says that the State can take SIOO,OOO if the good of tho pub lic requires it. That his entiro fortune is at the disposal of tho people of Geor i- __ An old lady, 80 years old, in Ander son county, S. C., built a fire in her bed room the day she was married, about 60 -year* ago, and that fire has been kept tip tilt this day. She must boa Fin - Worshipper. The World thinks Herbert Spencer referred to the millennium when he said that the ideal marriage, with affection as the only tie, must be postponed until lien and women are good and pure •enough' for it. If you want to make General Toombs mad just show a desire to take your hat oil aud apologize to Northern opinion. Henoe tho sago of Washington must have formed a very emphatic opinion of P. M. General Key. - The Indianapolis Herald states that, -when General Howard kills an Indi n ' he halts the entire command aud holds ; religious services over the remains of ; the extinct rod. There has been no ser- j vice of the kind for several weeks. TttN President is reported to have said that he looked upon Senator Mor ton as “the balanee wheel of the Sen ate.” What and commotion would occur if Morton should lose his balance alto gether aud bo replaced by Dan Voon hees ! The Krprcss sarcastically alludes to Secretary Sherman s speech at Mans field as "a general jail-delivery of ideas which have evidently suffered from long and close confinement, and wear a decidedly convict, if not idiotic appear ance." Gambktta predicts an overwhelming j triumph for the Republicans in the > French elections, and is trying to pre- j pare President MacMahox for snbmis sion or retirement. What MaoMahon is preparing for Gambktta we acn only conjecture. The Athemrum says that no man of great and commanding genius has ever been “at the same time" a great player of chess. Napoleon was easily beaten, because he insisted upon moving vlie king to the front aud into perpetual danger, Charles XU, of Sweden, did the same thing. - -••■ The Ocmstitution names another can- i didate for tho Marshalship Judge Robert Hester. It says he has been extensively endorsed in his own section of the State, and that £ petition to the President asking his appointment has been signed by a large number of members of the Convention, The Maine Democracy are not any more harmonious than their Republican brethren. The Bangor Commercial, noting the brevity of the platform, says the party has to practice rigid economy, and great indeed is that poverty which g C es to St. Louis for a declaration of and outside the old “war horse*” lO r a candidate. Mr. John M. Postgate writes that the Russian soldier* losing their mis sionary spirit by that the -Bulgarian peasantry, bat ore the inva sion, were much better pff than the lower classes of Russia ; that Turkish oppression is no more than the same article at home ; and that there are, in all the villages, six Christian churches for one Mohammedan mosque. THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH. It is very evident that when Congress assembles in October a determined as smlt will be mule upon the President by those Republican* who are opposed to his Southern policy and to the efforts of his Administration to secure civil service reform. Snch men as Blaine and Butler are not pleased with the present condition of affairs. They do not wish the country to have peace; they can thrive only amid discord and strife, and they will certainly make mis chief if they can. The Senatorial con tests from Louisiaua and South Caroli na will afford these man the opportuni ty which they so earnestly desire to at tack the policy which gave law and or der and local self-government te those States. The duty of South ern Congressmen is plain. They should give a support, not luke warm and perfunctory, but cordial aud united to the President. His gen erous course towards the South deserves aud should receive as generous a return. The taunt that they are supporting a Republican Administration which will lie uttered by tho “stalwart” leaders, and, perhaps, by Northern Democrats, should not deter them from doing what is right. President Hayes was the Republican candidate for the Presidency, and at that time Republicanism represented h itred of the South and of the Southern people. The trinmpb of his party was to Southern men the triumph of oppres sion, of corruption and of ignorance. It meant the rule of the bayonet and the carpet-bagger. It is small wonder, then, that they pnt forth every exertion to de -1 feat a candidate whose election threaten ed such (lire calamities. As is well known, the result of that contest was for a long time involved in doubt. In order to avert a conflict which might have terminated ■ n civil war, Democrats and Republicans alike voted for the creation of the Elec toral Commission. The decision of that tribunal was a great blow to Democratic hopes, and Democrats may be par doned if they yet question the honesty of the Judges and the justice of their ver dict. But when Northern Democrats wished to defeat the counting of tho lectoral voto and showed a disposition o sacrifice everything in order to obtain he spoils of office, the Southern Con •ressmeD, sustained by the Southern ipople, determined to abide in good aith the judgment of the tribunal to which they had submitted the adjudica tion of their cause. They defeated the selfish schemes of tho fillibusters and allowed the count to be completed. It was during the memorable debates of that period that Southern men heard from Mr. Foster, of Ohio, that Mr. Hayes, thcngli a Republican, was uot an enomy to the South, but desired to restore peace and prosperity to that long and cruelly wronged section of the Union. When the end came, when the count was finished and Mr. Hayes was proclaimed President of the United States, his first utterances and acts showed that he had not been misrepresented by the Ohio Congressman. His inaugural address breathed sentiments of gonerosity. of frater-nal feeling aud of the loftiest patriotism. He declared his desire to stifle corruption and purify the public service, to do away with the rule of the bayonet and the stranger, to restore lo cal government, to heal tho gaping wounds of war, to quench the fire of sectional hatred, to make North and South in fact, as well as in name, ono people. His first official act prov ed the sincerity of his words. He selected as Cabinet advisers men nearly all of whom wore noted fjr tho conservatism o£ fhoir views, aud one of whom was a Southern Pem ocrat aud an ex-offioer of the Con federate army. His next act was to terminate tho reign of ignorance and corruption in the South. Tho bayonets were withdrawn from Louisiana aud South Carolina, the fraudulent govern ments of those States toppled to the dust and the real governments of the people arose upon their ruins. To-day, thuuks to the magnanimity and patriot ism of the President, South Carolina and Louisiana are as freo as Maine and Massachusetts—have been restored to their true place in the Union, and are again sovereign States. For the first time since 1865 the heavy hand of mili tary power has been removed from the South, aud this portion of the Union, enjoying the blossings of peace and quiet, is rapidly recuperating from the ravages of war and the blight of re construction. The Southern people voted for Mr. Tilbrn, and they believe that he was elected. They were bitterly disappoint ed when ho failed to obtain the presi dency. But, as a matter of faet, has not President Hayes done everything for the South that Mr. Tilden could have accomplished ? If Mr. Tilden had been inaugurated, ho would have re moved the troops from Southern State House* and let the legal governments of the people assert themselves. This is all that ho could have done j this is exactly what President Hayes has done. Hut such an act on the part of a Demo cratic President would have encounter ed the opposition .of tho whole Republi can party of tire Nortti apd solidified that party iu antagonism to the Soptb. Mr. llaybs, on the contrary, has given is relief in such a way as to elicit the pproval of the better element jn the Republican organization. He has so uanaged as to break down the barriers between the “solid North” and the •‘solid S.utb,” and to do much to make us one people in one country. It s true that with Mr. Tilden as Presi dent there would have been, perhaps, a complete change in the distribution of Federal pat ronage in the South. But this is a matter which to a great extent affects individuals only, aud not the body of the people. If a Government office is not administered inefficiently or cor rnptly, it makes a very iittie difference to the peoplo whether its oecapam, be a Democrat or a Republican. It cannot be denied that many of the Federal of flaicla in tho South are ignorant, corrupt, highly objectionable to the people with whom are brought in contact; but we must consider the diffi culties which have to be encountered by Mr. Hates iu this connection. Asa Republic*!! President, he naturally de sires to bestow jupou Republicans the patronage of his admiuiU£digu. As is well known, the Republican party in the South, or what is left of it, is composed of ignorant colored men led by a few whites—a majority whom arc very in differently off as to honesty and intelli gence. .Capable men might be ob tained at the so;th, but the Pres ident ia pledged, and rrgiit'ally, against the perpetuation of carpet-bag ism. He is, perforce,compelled to let mat ter* stand as they are for tho present. We yet iio*>e, however, that he will make the South an exception to the gen eral political rule and that appointments to federal offices here will be made only with reference no tjie fitness and accep tability of the appointees. But laying all these things aeide, the main point remains: that President Hates has treated the South justly, geneirc-iisly and kindly, and that his good deeds to at have arrayed against •him in bitter hostility * faction who are our sworn enemies and who hope to prosper by fanning into flame the ex piring ember* of sectional hatred at the North and fomenting fiiseord and strife and bloodshed at the South. JF there forej becomes the duty of hon orable and patriotic Sonthern men to give Mr. Hat an warm and unani mous support. That they trill do it we Lave not the slightest doubt. Mr. ■ Hayes’ wise, just statesmanlike course has done much to heat the cruel wounds of war; much to give peace to a portion of the country where the blessings of peace were so greatly need ed and so earnestly desired, but where, until his inauguration, they seemed so unattainable; mach to give good government to the country; mach to destroy sectional feeling; much to restor? to the South a feeling of love for the Union and respect for the Constitution ; and much to just ly earn for him a title as noble as that of Liberator—tbe name of the Pacifi cator. PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO. Senator Cameron is credited with the assertion that as Ohio went in October Pennsylvania wonld go in November. It is adduced, in proof of the assertion, that facts and figures are abnndant. In 1862, the Republican majority in Ohio fell to 5,577, and Pennsylvania respond ed with a Democratic majority of 3,524 In 1867, the Republican majority in Ohio being bnt 2,983, the Democratic majority of Pennsylvania was 922. In 1874 Ohio went Democratic, and Penn sylvania followed suit with 4,679 ma jority. The chances at present are that Ohio, this Fall, will go largely Demo cratic. If so, look out for a rousing Democratic victory that may place Penn sylvania alongside of New York. m 1 1, LABOR AT HO.ME AND ABROAD. Commenting npon the attempt to make the American workingman like nnto his European fellow-craftsman, Col. Donn Piatt paints the following cheerless picture: “In Europe the laws of trade have reduced labor to servitude. It is a worse servitude than that of ne gro slavery, for in the last the master was forced to feed and olothe his slave when well, provide him with medicine and a doctor when ill,and bnry him when dead. The white slave can get coarse clothing and scanty food when at work; after, ho is left to starve and die. The very poor rates aro provided by the poor, for labor pays all, and the slave in health must carry not only his rich master, but his sick, old and crippled comrades.” Evidently, Col. Piatt be gins to belive that the late nnpleasant neßß was a huge mistake for poor men at the North. nkpotis.il Tho civil service reform that attempts to scourge blood-relations from Federal office has developed some remarkable incidents. Tho most voracious of the gang seems to be a Custom House offi cial at CoviDgton, Ky. He is said to employ forty persons, and of these thirty one are members of his own household. A paper in the neighbor hood thinks the man must have ad mired Grant unduly and read St. Paul too literally, where, In the First Epistle to Timothy, the Apostle writes : “Bnt if any provide not for lug own, and es pecially for those of his own house, he hath denied tho faith and is worse than an infidel.’ The Covington Collector is certainly no “infidel," unless rigid moralists in sist that he should have filled the whole forty offices subordinated to him with relations of his own or his wife’s. Another curious case is recorded where “infidelity” must have come in play, unless ignorance of 8t- Paul ean be pleaded, This case is of a man who ap pointet five persons not of his house hold to positions, and then sent his deorepid and venerable father to a Sol diers Home, which ia supported by the Federal Government. THE EJECT r ON OF PASSENGERS. A decision relative to the right of railway authorities to eject passengers from oars for non-payment of fare has recently been deoided by the Supreme Court *f Ohio in a case in which the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Rail road Company was interested. The rates of fare fixed by the company, and which by its established rules it was made the duty of the conductor to de mand, were higher than those allowed by law. The plaintiff tendered what he claimed to be, and what was ultimately held to be, the legal rates, and, upon refusal to pay more, was ejected from the cars, but without any rudeness or necessary violence. It also appeared that the plaintiff, at the time he took passage, knew the established rates, aDd expected to be ejected from the cars, intending to bring an action for such ejection, jn order to test tbe right of the company to charge tfie establish ed rates. It was held that the plaintiff was only entitled to compensatory dam ages, and that it was eompptont for the company, for the purpose of mitigating damages, or preventing tho reeovory of exemplary damages, to givo in evidence subsequent declarations of the plaintiff, tending to prove that his object iu tak ing passage pn the cars was to make money by bringing suits against the company for demanding or receiving their established rates of fare. If gen erally sustained by the Courts of all States, this decision w>4 teijd to check the operations of litigous porsons who seek to derive pecuniary advantages by bringing actions against railroad com panies, except in instances where se rious personal or pecuniary damages have been sustained. GEORGIA STATE PfIf.LEjGE OF AGRI CULTURE AND 3IEPH4NIP ARTS. We desire to call the attention of the public at large, and especially of the citizons of Richmond county, to the ad vantages afforded by this institution of learning to young men desirous of ob taining a thorough education. With a faculty of ol.ey.en prof.ess.grs, skilled and, experienced iu thfiir work; with three special departments of engineering, ag riculture and applied chemistry, em bracing a fall course in pare and applied mathematics, modern languages(Frencb, German and Spanish), natural history, geology, general history, literature, natural philosophy /fhd book-keep ing, supplemented by lectgres ojb commercial law ; with a m a g Q ifi cen t building, erected at a cost of eighteen or twenty thousand dollars, fully equip ped with the latest scientific apparatus, with the doors of the University and four ef tensive libraries thrown open to its pupils, yl* this free of tuition, prudent parent* and ai*#Li*ip" s J oun ß men, rich in brains bnt poor itt purse, would do well to avail themselves of the golden apportunities. State scholar ships arc erranted to as many stu dents, resident* ui State, as there are members of the General Assembly- . This entitles Richmond county to three \ and the Eighteenth Senatorial District, of which Richmond forms a part, to one additional, goyty-ai yearp ago Rich- i mond’s pro rata was more than ailed, i and indeed she has had representatives there ever since the college opened. Those who availed themselves of the privileges extended have been signally rewarded. Has not Richmond at least three young gentlemen to represent her ; in the'state College ? The next session opens on the 3d of Ootobst. The, morale and discipline of the University j and State College are as good as can be found at any similar institution in the land. Communications addressed to President L. Chabboksieb will re ceive prompt attention. The “grand banquet” at the White Sulphur Springs, duriDg the Lee monu ment entertainmaul, i; described by an irate Tennesseean as a fraud, and he was reminded of a train of Confederate soldiers taking dinner at Opelika, Ala., during the war. The White Sulphur is a famoa* rt, but the fare is exe crable. Secretary McCrary, who was present at Bennington, and who heard Mr. Key's speazb, does not oonaider it neces sary for the Southern people to excite themselves about tfie matter. He says that the Postmaster-General uttered the remark “qmj*£ brethren” in jeet, evi dently, and that it was granted with a good-humored laugh. We djd not know Mr. Key was each # funny man. Asa joker he is not a success. Only one member of the American Team at Creedmore has dark eyes. Gray is the predominant color. AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE. GREENWOOD. LAURENS AND SPARTANBURG. The Andem Relation- of Anxusta and Caro, lina Redlvivus. [Correspondence Chronicle ami Constitutionalist. I Laurens, S. C., August 22.—A com mon interest between your city and this section impels me to this communica tion. In the name of this common in terest, I would bespeak your attention and that of your people to the railroad agitation now in progress in this coun ty. A large and imposing meeting was had here the first Monday in this month (on sales day), which was adjourned over to next skies day (first Monday in Sep tember), at ten o’clock, a. m., when the meeting, as declared by a resolution of last sales day, will hear anything that may be suggested from those interested in the rival projects, i. e. the Greenville and Spartanburg routes and the pro posed Narrow Gauge Road by way of Union Court House to Chester. To the eye of some of us here Au gusta has some interest in this subject. Some of us think that there is no reason why the old trade channel existing in our youth, when our fathers carried their cotton to Augusta, should uot be reopened in rails of iron. Twenty-five years ago there were more people in Laurens who traded to Augusta than to Columbia. Our people have their share of Carolina peculiarities, among which is clannishness; bnt then, you know, the corner stone of onr political faith is “free trade.” On this principle some of ns wonld like to buy onr bacoD, flour, corn, &c., at Greenville or Spartanburg, and sell our cotton in Augusta, where dealers have choice of three seaports, and where we think we could better our selves also in buying fertilizers. This new fangled way of adjusting freights, so as to compel our people to pay two and three hundred per cent. more than other people for the same article, does not go down smoothly if it has come from Charleston —our own seaport. One of our mer chants informed me the other day that he could bring his goods from Charles ton here, by way of Greenville, includ ing thirty-five miles wagon transporta tion (from Greeneville to this place), for one-third less freight than he could by Clinton over our railroad. Another of our merchants informs me that lio has shipped merchandise from Baltimore here at exactly the same that he has to pay for the same kind of merchandise from Newberry here—yes, sir, not from Charleston, not from Columbia, but from Newberry—Hl miles. Tims you see the reason why our people have so patiently permitted the enterprise called the “Laurens Railroad” to linger as it has. But few take any interest in it— nobody expects any public advantage from its completion. Whether right or wrong, they regard the whole railroad interests centred at Charleston as con trolled by influences that have no con ception of the grandeur of industrial de velopment, but are intent on killing the goose to get all her golden eggs at one grab ! And there is a growing sen timent throughout tho whole of the up per part of South Carolina, that with all the book learning and professional ability and mercantile faith, and the innumerable good qualities of our Charleston friends, their forte is not in building or running railroads or devel oping the industrial interests of the country—as shown in undertaking the old Charleston, Louisville aud Cincin nati Railroad, and building it from Charleston to Branchville; in subse quently undertaking the famous Blue Ridge (Rabun Gap) project, to connect Anderson, S. C., with the Tennessee Boad, and building to Walhalla ; and now in so operating our own road as to make it cost our business meu just as muoh in freight from Newberry here (thirty-one miles), as from Baltimore here? The people in this county are in earn est, and determined to sell where we can get most and buy where wo can buy cheapest; and, as subsidiary to this, they are determined in making a “new departure.” The universal cry here is, ‘'On to the Air Line !” either at Green ville or Spartanburg, or some inter mediate point. Has Augusta no interest in this mat ter ? Could she not safely venture as far as would be necessary to make the “On to the Air Line 1” give way to the better cry of “Augusta and Spartan burg ?” If the Augusta and Greenwood Road be a certainty, how easy to project it from Greenwood to Laurens Court House ? The distance is only 251 miles. This wonld bring back to Augusta a rich trade that till, some twenty-five years ago, from time immemorial was her's—and give Augusta her much courted connection with East Tennessee. The Spartanburg and Asheville Road, that fortunately two years ago was wrested from Charleston control, is now beyond all contingencies. The only difficult part in that whole route for crossing the Blue Ridge (viz.: the east ern ascent), has been virtually accom plished. The cars runjjto about Pace’s Gap, only eleven miles this side of Hen dersonville, and will be running to Hen dersonuille by the first of June next, and to Asheyille in the Fall of next year. The work has so far progressed as to demonstrate that the completing of the whole road frqrq Spartanburg to Ashe ville will be completed at an average cost of only fifteen thousand dollars per mile. This includes tho ascent from the east and crossing the crest of the Ridge, to achieve which, our Charleston “railroaders" accomplished the wonder ful Stump House Tunnel monument ! All who ever gave any attention to the topography of the Blue Ridge and its passes know that from Ashevillo west ward there is no difficulty whatever—tho route being an inclined plane along the French Broad, with an average grade of thirteen feet tq the mile. Hence, the barfiep of tho Rluo Ridge between the union of the Atlantic slope and the Tennessee Valley, has been re moved—a grand highway from tho At lantic to the Great West is being opened, though the French Broad Valley and Spartanburg is Augusta’s gate to that highway. Why not seize the auspicious moment, take the “tide” at its “flood,” and ridg into “fortune !” Should Augusta tajfe tfiig yiew, and make it kuowD, I have not a particie of doubt that this county would come warmly into the through line move ment, and do her full part in material aid. But in order to do this, it will be necessary for Augusta to move before Laurens shall have settled upon her plans and route. It is very probable that' these will tako shape next sales day, first Monday in September. Strong influences will advocate the immediate adoption of tho route to Greenville, the same being no further than Spartan burg, and the route being all the way along a beautiful ridge road, that crosses but one small stream between Laurens and Greenville. Tnis route can un doubtedly be put in operation for a great deal less (cost of construction) than the route tb Spartanburg, which may influence the people to adopt the Greenville route, at least unless there was some satisfactory assurance of being able to meet the extra cost ou the Spar tanburg route from sources outside of our county. It is to be regretted that the time of our meeting is on a Monday—as we are inaccessible by rail except three days pet t/eek, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday, and evee then come no nearer than Clinton, nine miles. But you know in our State, in the country, we must do everything on a sales day. But if you could have a delegation here in per son i‘ wonld be much preferable to any written eouiniuuh:ci:ipn and then such delegates could see lor themselves the extent of our people’s earnestness in this matter. Though if it be not pos sible to have a delegation (the distance by old market way is seventy-five miles), a letter would do good. All this is Of course in the supposition that your city feels an interest in the subject. One thing is certain, not only the people of Laurens but the people of this whole up country are tired of the monopoly of the so-called “South Caro lina Railroad.” The people all know it was the first railroad in the Sonthern country, tfip Jopgest when finished of any continuous fine in theTiJnited States, and “all that;” bnt these historical facts are not considered any reason why said road should be allowed to be converted into a blighting Upas tree. Newberry, Anderson and Union counties, not to name others, all feel its fostering influ ence, The people feel far more than finds veut through the pres*. Free Trade, j A Pi* With a Human Head. . [Memphis Ledger.] Dyersburg, Tenn., is excited over the i birth of a pig with a human bead. The ! pig was born on the 7th inst. It has a perfect human face and head, the rest; of its formation being that of any other j pig. It has red hair on its head ; its i teeth, month and eyes are strangely! human; while one ear is that of a hog,; the other is that of a little child. This ! new and strange production is the won der of the neighborhood. Dr. Dnffie, the druggist at Friendship, has pre served it in alcohol, and hundreds are flocking to see it daily. In Memphis wo have Scores ci human beings who are pig-headed, and resemble pigs n ° little in manner and disposition. A young mother ip this city, explain- 1 ing christening to her five year old bov, told him that when he was ebristesed he “would be one of God’s little lambs. “And will I have hind legs and go baa. eagerly asked the boy. 1 THE CONVENTION. AN ADJOURNMENT SATURDAY CONSIDERED CERTAIN. Tli#; North Georgia Danilin* Protected— .tanner of Atnendin* the UoostitoUon Judicial Circuits to Be Reduced —The Con vict I.eases Left Alone—lnsurance Ke*uin tions—Wnivin* tbe Homestead. 1 Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist ] Atlanta, August 22.—The Constitu tional Convention met this morning in the Capitol, at half past eight o’clock, the President, Hon. Charles J. J enkins, in the Chair. Marietta nnd North Georgia Road. Mr. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth Dis trict, offered the following ordinance : Be it Ordained, That nothing contained in tbe Constitution adopted by this Convention shall be so construed as to interfere witli_ the aid or loan granted to the Marietta and North Georgia Bailroad by Act of the General As sembly, approved March, 1877. The ordinance was adopted. Constitutional Amendments. The report of the Committee on Mis cellaneous Provisions and Constitu tional Amendments was taken np. Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth District, offered the following as a sub stitute for paragraph first of the report ; Any amendment to this Constitution may be proposed in either the Senate or House of Itepresentatives and after the same shall be agreed to by a rote of two-thirds of the mem bers elected tw each House, such proposed amendment shah he entered on the Journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and the General Assembly shall cause such proposed amendment to be published in one or more nowspaper in each Congressional District for two months prior to the holding of the next General Election, and shall also provide for tho submission of such proposed amendment te the people at said next General Election. The substitute was adopted. Mr. Hammond also offered an amend ment to the second paragraph of the re port, authorizing the Governor to make proclamation of the result of the elec tion on the ratification of constitutional amendments by publication, as pre scribed in the nubstitute for tbe first paragraph, hut should the majority of the votes cast be against ratification, then the Governor shall in like manner proclaim that tho proposed amendment has been rejected. The amendment was adopted, the par agraph, as amended, agreed to, and tho whole report adopted. Judicinl Circuits. The report of the Speeial Committee on Judicial Circuits, recommending that the State bo divided into sixteen judi cial circuits, aud giving the counties of which each circuit shall be composed, was read. [This report was published in full in the Chronicles and Constitu tionalist some time since.] Mr. Reese, of the Twenty-ninth Die trict, offered as a substitute that tho General Assembly, at its next session, be required to redistribute the judicial circuits of the State so as to reduce the number of the same and equalize the la bors of the Judges as far as practicable. Lost. Mr. Bass, of the Forty-second Dis trict, offered as an amendment that the number of judicial districts be fixed at sixteen. Lost, The report of the committee was then put to a vote, aud declared lost. Mr. Ingram, of the Twenty-fourth District, offered the following, which was adopted in lieu of the report of the committee: There shall be sixteen judicial circuits in the Slate, and it shall be the duty of the Gen eral Assembly to organize and apportion the same in such manner as to equalize the busi ness and labor of the Judges in said several circuits as far as may be practicable; but the General Assembly shall have power hereafter to reorganize, increase or diminish the num ber of circuits: provided, however, that the cir cuits shall remain as they are now organized till changed by law. The Clinin Gang System Undisturbed. The report of the Committee on Pub lic Institutions was taken up and read. Mr. Wofford, of the Forty-second District, offered the following as an ad ditional section of the report:" Convicted criminals in this State shall never be leased or farmed out to public bidders, and the next General Assembly shall provide by law for one or moro permanent penitentiaries, and for such employment and classification of convicts As will come least in conflict with the free laborers of tho State, and tend in the greatest measure toward the reformation of the criminals. The Convention refused to entertain the proposed section, and adopted the following report of tho Committee on Final Revision on the report of the Committee on Public Institutions in lien of the original report: Your committee have considered the report of the Committee on Public Institutions, and beg leave to report that in their opinion the subjects therein contained should not be fixed by the organic law, but the same aro proper subjects for legislation by the General Assem bly. Insurance Deposits. The supplemental report of the Com mittee ou the Legislative Department in relation to insurance companies doing business in this State was taken up. It requires all foreign life insurance com panies doing business in Georgia to show that they have deposited a sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars with the Comptroller of tho State where the company was chartered, or with the Comptroller-General of this State, as a guaranty fund for the security of policy holders. Home companies must make a similar deposit. Fire insurance com panies must also deposit renewal (?) se curities. All insurance companies are required to make a report semi annually to the Governor, showing tho condition of their afiairs. The section providing for tho appointment of a State Commis sioners of Insurance was stricken out, and the report, as amended, agreed to. Moro lloincNtciul Mr. Brown, of the Tfiirty-ninth Dis trict, offered an ordinance providing that should the people at the election on the ratification of the Constitution vote in favor of the homestead of 1868 instead of tho homestead provided by this Constitution, a debtor shall have tho right to waive exemption in tho same manner and with tho snme restric tions as in the present Constitution. Mr. Toombs, of the Twenty-ninth Dis trict, opposed the adoption of the ordi nance. Bo thought that to adopt it would be treating the people fraudulent ly by cramming into the new homestead law the most objectionable feature of the old. The ordinance was lost, nnd the Con vention adjourned until 3:30, p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. The Convention lu-assombled at 3;80, p. m. Mr. Toombs, of the Twenty-ninth Dis trict, offered the following: That the words “coroners, litigation, quarantine and roads” be added after the word “jurors” in section six, paragraph sec ond, line three of the taxation report. This authorizes counties to them selves for tho purposes above named as suggested fly the Chronicle and Con stitutionalism at the time. The amend ment was adopted through tbe reiterat ed exertions of Mr. Harrow, of the Twen ty-third District, who ohampioned a re consideration for this purpose at the time. It is now safely engineered through and another act of midsummer madness corrected. Awaiting the final report of the Revis ing Committees and the Committee on Style, the Convention adjourned till morning, alter u resolution adjourning sine die Saturday had been twice voted down. The Convention will adjourn at that time. The grand ratification meeting here has been postponed till to-morrow - Mr. Wofford on the Convict System—-Hr. Barrow Wants Two Representatives for Clarke County—The Cotton Tax—The C(in stitution Under Revision—The Convention to Adjourn TOiDay, [Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, August 24.—The Constitu tional Convention met this morning in the Capitol, at half-past eight o’clock, the President, Hon. Chas. J. Jenkins, in the Qhaiu Final Adjournment. Mr. Edge, of the Twenty-first District, offered a resolution that the Convention adjourn at noon to-morrow. Adopted. Judicial Circuits* Mr. Harrell, of the Twelfth District, moved to reconsider the subject of Ju dicial Circuits. Tabled by title. The Couvict System. Mr. Wofford, of the Forty-second Dis trict. moved to reconsider the vote dis posing of the oonviot amendment. He said as matters now stand there is no limit or restriction by law in working convicts. This convict labor comes in conflict with all the free labor of the country. The two great objections are that the system does not reform the con vict, and lowers the prioe of nearly all sorts of labor. We should fi 0 * <* e ' grade laborers and ruin living prioes. An overwhelming majority in the State is opposed to the system of leasing con victs. I propose, in my amendment, to classify convicts in penitentiaries, so as to conflict the least possible witn out side labor and in the greatest meas ure reform tbe convicts. We can adopt a system of delivering criminals nnto the State improved and good citizens, instead of the one, which commits more crimes than it seeks to pnnish. 1 have an interest in this but as an humble Georgian. As individuals, each one of us is chargable with the crime which the present sys tem entails upon the population. I pro pose to increase and not lighten the hardens of the convicted. Nothing is so potent to punish and prevent crime as solitary confinement. You send young people'to labor on the chain gang with the oldest and vilest criminals, and with them to associate. It is nothing but a school to train up and harden criminals, but I see from the indisposition of the members around me that these matters are distateful to them. They have no interest in the punishment of criminals and the reformation of society, and I bow to that will, bat I will appeal from the decision of this body to the ballot boxes ; to the officials and the good women of Georgia. I will ask Miss King, of Augusta, and Miss Peters, of Atlanta, to head a great movement for humanity. We are in earnest in this matter. Wa never intend to cease this appeal till the foal blot is wiped from the State of Georgia; and now I give notice that the friends of this movement are going out and call to our aid the good of all parties, conscious that God smiles upon our efforts, and right and humanity will ultimately triumph. Mr. Reese, of the Twenty-ninth Dis trict, said we cannot thus tear up the present contracts running for twenty years. Mr. Wofford answered that he expect ed to convince the keepers and coutrac ters of the justice and humanity of the cause, so that they themselves would voluntarily surrender the right. Mr. Reese said this is all nonsense and amounts to nothing. Men didn’t relinquish contracts for nothing. At present the State has the protecting of the convicts. The Keeper of the Peni tentiary has the care over them all. The act of 1876 provides for the comfort, health and protection of the convicts by the State. This impoverished Common wealth could not build penitentiaries. The present system is an economical one. This is a proper subject for legis lation anyhow; hence he moved to table the motion, which wns overwhelmingly carried. C’larhe County Representation. Mr. Barrow, of the Twenty seventh District, arose to discuss the rights of Clarke county to rank among the twenty six counties entitled to two Representa tives. This was postponed till his re turn. He moved, therefore, to amend section third, paragraph one, of the Legislative Department, by inserting Clarke instead of Maeon as entitled to two Representatives. Mr. Reese, of tlio Twenty-ninth Dis trict, said when Oconeo county was cut off from Clarke it was with the distinct understanding that Clarke should sur render one Representative to Oconee, and thus the latter was formed. Mr. Ellinton, of the Thirteenth Dis trict, said both Hancock and Jackson were smaller than Macon, hence one of them should be stricken out. Mr. Barrow’s motion was tabled. Tlic t'oltou Tax illt'iiioriiil. The cotton tax memorial was taken up. Mr. Hill, of the Twenty-eight Dis trict, arose to say that though a member of this committee he did not thiDk there was any probability of collecting such vast sums of money. They are general ly considered as one of tlie disasters of the war, and I am rather adverse to con sidering any such Utopian theme. If the theme is just and the Government de cided to pay ft, let it go to those to whom it is directly due and not to form a public fund, as the committee recom mend. It would afford me great pleasure to agree with the committee and I certainly would be the last man to throw any impediment in their path. The report provides that the twelve million dollars collected by the Internal Revenue Department, kuown as the cot ton tax, unjustly required of people illy able to pay it, be turned over by the General Government to the Treasurer of Georgia in legal tender bonds or land, one-third to be appropriated to educate the colored children and the remainder the whites. The report was tabled. The entire Constitution was now read and the work of revision is going on. AFTERNOON SESSION. Mr. Wofford, of the Forty-second Dis trict, Chairman of the Committee on Payment of the Public Debt, reports that the property of the State should be pledged to the payment of the existing debt, and to that end the Macon and Brunswick, North and South Railroads, the stock of the State in the Albany and Gulf Road and Georgia Road, and in the Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Com pany and personal property, be sold as soon as practicable, and on the best possible terms, and the proceeds thereof used in payment of said debt as it be comes due ; also, that the Western and Atlantic Railroad be sold upon the ex piration of the present lease and the proceeds donated to the same purpose, save such as are reserved for the school fund, and to this end a commission be appointed. The report was tabled. Re vising the Constitution is still going on. Ratification Electing:. There was a grand ratification meet ing to-night.'•}. Hon. Ben. H. Hill made an eloquent speech, asserting that this is the host Constitution Georgia ever had, and as good as any in the entire thirty-eight States. He believed it was bound to be ratified, and that the dele gates returning home would reoeiveweli earned plaudits from their constituency. Senator Gordon applaudad the handi work of the Convention and pronounced it well. He believed wo would ring out the old and ring in the new with shouts of triumph. After the speaking, D. P. Hill offered a resolution that Atlanta take the initiatory step in the ratifies tion, and here, in primary meeting, pledge itself to the support of the Cou stftutiqn. Geo, Fry, legislator, moved to table the resolution, which was over whelmiuglv lost. Amid wild cheers the motion of D. P. Hill was adopted. Tli© New C'onHtitiition Adopted-- I The Rleelion Ordinance—An Acknowledgement to CJod— The President’s Pathetic Pare well— An Af fecting Scene —Ailjourninent Sine IMc. [Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionclis' 1 Atlanta, August 25. —The Constitu tional Convention met this gioyging in the Capitol, at half-past eight o’clock, the President, Hon. Cbas. J. Jenkins, in the Chair, The Constitution Adopted. The work of revising the Constitution was resumed and finished, and on mo tion of Sir. of the Thirty first District, was adopted as a whole, by a unanimous vote and amid great ap plause. The Ratification Election. Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth District, offered the following ordinance, which was adopted • “Be it ordained by the people of Georgia in Convention assembled:First, That the Constitution as adopted and revised Ipe enrolled a,id signed by the officers and members of this Oenvention. Second, That the Governor shall issue his proclamation ordering an election for members of the General Assembly and a vote upon the ratification or re jection of the Constitution as therein provided, and a vote upon the capital and homestead questions as provided by the ordinances p* tiji3 Convention. Mr. Reese, of ‘the Twenty-ninth Dis trict, ndw moved that the Convention adjourn sine die. An Affectionate Scene. Pending this, Rev. Dr. Thorpe, a delegate from Dougherty; py unanimous | request, oubreid ffp a feeling and elo quent prayer upon the work of the Con vention, the delegates standing with bowed heads, and the densely packed galleries hushed. The scene was a most solemn and impressive one. Thanks to Governor Jenkins. A resolution was unanimously adopt ed thankiDg Governor Jenkins for the able and courteous manner in which he had discharged the dqtieS of President of the-Convention, Governor Jenkins arose and said: Gentlemen of the Convention: It af fords me unspeakable gratitude to hear the resolution of thanks just read re garding the satisfactory manner, as you assert, in which I have presided over your proceedings. God knows my and that I have tried tp Beas all mem bers of the Convention courteously and impartially. If at any time I have seem ed to have departed from such rules, I beg leave to state that such departure was unintentional. In a great Conven tion like this, where such important matters aro considered, where each member his been so bent upon his own views because he considered them for the best interests of the State, it is not remarkable that there shonld have en sued some excitement. But it has done me good, gentlemen, to behold the unanimous good feeling and uniform courtesy which has existed between the different members. I sincerely trust, gentlemen, that the people will ratify your Constitution, and that all experi ence will prove yon have done the work wisely and well, and have faithfully discharged- your important duties, i beg leave, in conclusion, to testify that my own life is drawing rapidly to a close, A gracious Providence ha3 vouch safed unto ma more than three score ’-years ,! and ten, the aU6t ted" time to man, and He only knows how much longer it will last. It baa been my pleasure to meet here some old friends, with whom I was associated long years ago in the halls of legislation. They will testify that very many of onr compeers, whom we have seen doing good service for the State, have been called to their long homes. It has also been my pleasure to have met many yoauger members, evincing unmistakably high powers of patriotism. It will not be long, then, before the re sponsibility of this Commonwealth will be funud resting upon their shoulders. For them I wish unbounded success. To those who, like myself, are superan- j uated, and must soon depart to that j ‘' Country from whose bourne no travel i er returns.” I would say they have the ! consciousness of having acted" well their ! part, and not only their constituents of ! this State, but the great “I Am,” when the last change has swept over their bodies, will bestow the well earned plaudit, “ Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”' But I must not de tain you longer. Each of you carries with you my lasting friendship, and my prayer is that you may have a safe re turn to yonr homes and happily remain with your families from whom you have been so long separated. To all of you, gentlemen, I bid a respectful and friend ly'farewell. [Great applause.] An Aflerting Scene. The sceue now was most affecting. Generals Warren and Toombs were visi bly moved, and not a dry eye was in the hail. For several seconds no sound could be detected, everything seeming to bo covered and overcome by the wave of deep emotion which welled np on all sides, and which did not subside until long after the speaker’s voice had ceased. Mr. Reese’s motion new, at twenty vme minutes past 11, a. m., to adjourn sine die, was renewed and carried. Governor Jenkins, after making his bow, retained his position in the aisle, where hundreds of delegates and visi tors lingered around to press the nobl- Roman’s trembling hand. It wns a grand consummating hour—if suoh ’twould prove to bo—to a life well spent indeed. The work of enrolling lias just been finished, and most of the delegates de part this afternoon. Toombs anil I lie Capital. General Toombs was serenaded to night and spoke at great length. He was emphatically for the ratification of the Constitution, and thought Atlanta deserved to remain the capital of the State. A Defense ot ilio Convention—Wiint One of tlie Delegates Says—Let the People .Imlfte tlie Work Wlieo Finished—l.etter from lion. 11. 11. Perry, ofßurke. f Waynesboro Expositor.] Tlio Attorney-General has elaborately argued that no money can be drawn from the Treasury over the $25,000 ap propriated by the General Assembly, and the Convention has not said one word against the Treasurer’s refusal to pay more. For one, your correspond ent regrets as much as you do the delay, but tell me who is being injured but. the members. There is some talk of borrowing money. Suppose this body does (it is hardly possible it will), who is bound by it ? Certainly not the State of Georgia, because any legal debt of that kind will no sooner meet recogni tion than the bogus bonds of Bullock. Then, for one, I complain that you should not begin to shape public opin ion until you know what has been done. The Constitution has not been sent, forth yet on the whole, and no part of it is yet fully passed upon. Then I ask, in all candor, that you will not influence public opinion too soon. The poor tax payers of our distressed State will, as surj as there is a heaven above us, learn that there is relief in this Con stitution now being made, and will not regret the time spent in fighting for their existence almost, in this body. The members, many of them, opposed re duction of the Judges’ salaries, but since the adoption of the provisions, some of the Judges have said it was right in these oppressive times. Judge Warner says $2,500 would have been ample salaries for the Justices, who ought to meet the demands of the peo ple promptly. I say to you now that the great objections urged against the reduction come from the departments where brains are scarcest. They are moving the press of Atlanta to find fault with the Convention in the hope of influencing the press at large. Every thing is being done to bring the Con vention into ridicule. The country pa pers are taking up the cry without ac tually knowing they are furthering the designs of the enemy of the pocple. It was supposed that the Constitution might bo made in fifteen or twenty days, but if any thinking person will take the trouble to run over the diffi culties in the way of changing the or ganic law, to meet the necessities of the people, they will soon discover it is no small job. There is scarcely a feature in the old Constitution that does not need some important change. This does not appear so at first sight but it docs when the whole people are together in Convention assembled. You can here form some idea of how Geor gia is reduced to poverty, how she is burdened with taxation, what and where the mismanagement is, and that her remedy is alone in Convention. A day or two is riot enough to consider these things. Yet the press is anathematiz ing this body for not going home when the $25,000 was expended, forgetting that the Legislature at its last session spent $60,000 for its per diem alone, saying nothing of printing, clerks’ hire and other incidental expenses. It is un fair, illiberal and unjust. The truth is, and will come out if I’m not mistaken, the outcry begins among those who can rob the people no longer if they accept the Constitution to be offered to them. The delegates are going to dp their whole duty if they have to pay their own expenses. The Constitution will be submitted and the people can judge for themselves. Onp Tliotisitnil Kfglit Hundred Sewing Girls in il|<: Surf. Lunch of chowder and sandwiches, and then bathing. Each sewing girl was ushered into a dressing room, and fur nished with a costume such as the sea caunot spoil—though the sequel showed that an able surf could take many liber ties with it—a costume consisting of a flannel sack ans a pair of ftanpel trous ers. Theoretical!y the trousers and sack meet, and in point of fact they meet if the sewing girl is quiet and does not venture into the water. Tho trous ers all stop at the knees, and the jackets at the elbows. In this simple but at tractive costume the sewing gipis yester day, emerging ftom the dressing room, went glancing down over tho white sandg, apd, shrieking all together, put one foot into the water. The surf was very strong and high, but there were numbers ef valiant young men already in and waiting loshow the sewing girls how to breast it. Tho got in only gradually, Tiny caught hold of the b£e lines ’ and were forced out as others came and pushed behind them. But once thoroughly wet and the question of preserving eri©psi intact j having been set forever at rest by an able aim, tney steadily thrust compunc tious aside and went in bathing. Jt was an inspiriting sight, and all Roekaway came down to the shore to see. The sword-swallower ceased his offices and Punch and Jndy stood still. The Ame rican savages at Roekaway sat upon the humps of their African camels and roiled their eyes from ope boundary of the acre of s?ying girls to the other with even a civilized enthusiasm. The Georgia darky who mimics fifteen ani mals and a steamboat whistle followed his audience, who had forsaken him, and looked, too. Every eye at Roekaway was upon the sewing girls, and the sew ing girls, tumbled by surf and twisted by undertow, filled tfiat manifold eye as it probably had never been filled before. The girls had their own manner of battling, which is probably that prevail ing among woman as a rale. Being wet and bold they went out unhesitatingly until they were up to their knees, when they sat down, keeping f"t hoid'of the life ropes. Looking seaward, and see ing no smv approaching, gradually they fell to talking and laughing, when all of a sudden the surf came right up, with out approaching ai all, and dropped down on their heads. Ceased at once ail talk and laughter, and the sewing girls themselves for a brief instant dis appeared, but immediately the water spread ont and they came into view again, each one of the t.'Sjq in a dif- ferent position. There -was a flash of a white foot there, ; and here was a whole specimen under going violent and involuntary gymnas tics, surrounded meanwhile with a thick halo of clam-shells and sand. With every surf that swept o ?er the sewing girls vesteriay sqipe mischief was done and huff a dozen out of the 1,800 at least I experienced the awful knowledge that their gown* were being unbuttoned or that their sacks were going up too far, while they were being rolled aronnd a hundred times, and couldn’t for the life of them tell which was back and which was front. Bat these things were only trifles to the sewing-girls, who had as much fan as can weU he crowded into one f ork World. K. .11. islanlon Insane. Washington, August 23. —1 tis re ported that E. M. Stanton, son of the famous War Secretary, has Ijeea taken to the Government Insane Asylum for temporary treatment. Stantoa has for some time been suffering from the f erious effeots of overwork, and, if the report is trne, any injury te his mind is due to that cause, and, it is believed, will be cured by rest. For a yonng m&u he aas had a very extensive practice, and has for some years not paid sufficient atten tion to his physical health. THE INDIANA SENATOR. " Srnnlor .Morion llrowinn Wornc llia I'rllicnl Cotulif ion Hi* Friend* Alnrincil. Indianapolis, Ind. , August *2s.—Dr. Bliss reports, at nine o’clock this morn ing, that Senator Morton passed a rath er uncomfortable night, and his condi tion at this hour is much worse than it was at nine o’clock last night, wheu he authorized the statement that the Sena tor was out of danger. 10:30, a. m.—Senator Morton is grad ually growing worse. 11, a. m —The pains are extending upwards. He is in a critical condition. 1, p. m.—Senator Morton is very low now and the result cannot be predicted, though the worse may come. Washington, August 25, 0:30, p. m Great anxiety is manifested in this city to-night, as to the condition of Senator Morton, No telegraph advices have been received later than those reported at 1, p. m., to day. Richmond, Ind., August 25, 11, p. in. —Senator Morton slept quietly from three to five o’clock this afternoon, woke refreshed and had the papers read to him. His physicians say his system is entirely free from the opiatts which had previously been administered, and his condition is more equable. The alarming symptoms last night and this morning were from thoracic effusion, which the physicians claim have been checked. At this hour physicians, family and friends are again remarkably sanguine of his re covery, in which opinion the Senator himself now joiu3. Yet people not so well informed as to the Senator’s condi tion entertain fears of alarming symp toms during the night. Speculations iin to Wliat Would Happen in Certain Event*. Washington, August 23.— Private ad vices received here are to the effect that Senator Morton’s condition is exceed ingly precarious, and that, while his friends are hopeful, it is au even cliuneo with him for life or death. His alarm ing illness has suggested a canvass of the Senate politically in case the misfor tune of his death should give Governor Williams au opportunity to appoint a Democrat as his successor. The Senate, ao now made np, is composed of seven ty-three members, there being three va cancies, two from Loui-iana and one from South Caroliua, over which there will be contests, with chances over whelmingly favoring tho admission of the Democrats. Of tlio seventy-three members thirty-nine are Republicans, in which are includod Ohristiancy and Cameron, of Wisconsin, who were elect ed by a coalition of Democrats and Re publican voters, but who usually vote with the Republicans. There are thirty three straight-out Democrats, and one Independent, Judge Davis, of Illinois, Now, if tho Democrats secure the ad mission of their members to fill the three vacaueies, and counting Judge Davis as a Republican pure aud simple, the Senate will stand thirty-six Demo crats and forty Republicans. Should Morton die, the Senate would stand thirty-nine Republicans anil thirty seven Democrats—a Republican majori ty of two. If, however. Judge Davis should affiliate with the Democrats, the body would be made up of tliirty-eight Republicans and thirty-eight Demo crats. and it would require the vote of tho Vice-President to turn the soale when the Senate divided on political is sues. It should be borne iu mind, how ever, that Edmunds, Booth and Cliris t-iaucy frequently veto with the Demo crats. Ex-Governor Wells and General An derson, of the Louisiana Returning Board, arrived here this evening. They say their visit has no conneotiou with tho information filed against them in New Orleans, and that the attorneys to defend them have boon already engaged in that city, and their object, in coming hither is altogether different from that above mentioned. HGRDER OUTRAGES. Texas Reported Arming to Repel Invasion Tlio Greasers Getting Frightened. Washington, August 25,—The follow ing dispatch was received at the War Department this afternoon : San Antonio, Texas, August 24. The following has been received from Captain Brown. “General Bonovides handed me yesterday the following mes sage for transmission to you. Colonel Gomez, commanding at Camargo, to day communicates the following tele gram: ‘ln an interview I had with the commanding officer of State volunteers who have arrived at Rio Grande City he informed me that he had received orders from the Governor of Texas to pursue and arrest criminals wherever they may be found, even though it be on Mexican soil, in case they are not promptly de livered np by the authorities. I have answered him, that I have orders to pur* sue and arrest all persons who. may com* mit depredations on United States ter ritory and afterwards take refuge on Mexican soil, that relative to delivering them up I shall confine myself strictly to the orders I received from headquart ers. I also notified headquarters that there are at present organizing in Tesas, according to the statement of said com mander, twenty-ift'o thousand volun teers for the campaign against Mexico. General Escobedo, his sous nnd San Monoy are still in Davis.’ I beg, Gen eral, to call your attention to tho afore said assertions of the commanding offi cers of the State volunteers in hie’ con versation with Colonel Qomez.” [Signed] Gknjsral Benevjdes. I telegraphed at once to Governor Hubbard: “Your letter, with Captain Hall’s, have been received. My advieea do not agree with the latter's." My or ders prohibit the mossing on trails after any se.rt ai raiders where there are Mex iean troops to arrest or pusuo such. Benevides telegraphs that Hall pro poses t.o eross at Camargo, and says he is authorized by orders from you to pur sue and arrest all criminals wherever they may be found, even on Mexican soil. If this is so, and lie crosses, un less my orders are changed, lio will cross without Rid from the regulars. Hall according to my advices, stated to Colonel Gomez that there were 25,000 volunteers organized in Texas for the campaign against Mexico. Such talk, if reported correctly, fa likely to stop efforts on tho part, ivf the Mexican authorities to capture and return tlie rescued prisoners imdor tho extradition treaty.'' E. O. C. Ord, Brigadier-General. General Sheridan, in liis telegram of transmittal, says he is of the opinion that, tho conversation reported is of but little importance. A WATEftVvt* FI.AUK BURNED OUT. THe Hotel nt Yellow Sulphur Spring* (Fa.) Destroyed. Richmond, Va., August 2a—A fire in tho main building of the hotel at Yellow Sulphur Springs, last night, destroyed .it entirely, together with a part of the outbuilding?. Its origin is unknown. The furniture in the office and in one bed room was all that was saved. Sev eral guests lost their baggage. The loss on furniture is ss,ooiL—no insur ance. Loss on buildings, 1518,000—in sured for SI2,QjOG in the Richmond and Farmvillo Company. A colored boy, aged eleven years, was killed. Warmolli IMcaHfd With the ijVHcy. John Cockerill, who writes letters to the Cincinnati Enquirer, has met ex- Goyernoi' Warmoth in Paris, and finds him in a very beatific frame of mind. He has anew wife with him and anew mother-in-law, and likewise anew fath er-in-law. In fact, he may be said to be at the head of a family already. His wife is a black-eyed, charming fitile per son, in every way prepared to uphold the wondrous byniity of American women, The Governor is highly pleased wris the policy of Hayes, and i espe cially charmed with the beatific state of Louisiana polities. He is very hope ful, and, standing at the threshold of a Dew life, sees nothing but prosperity -and red roses for the South. Trouble Abroad. “And I must say, Ulyssos,” remarked Mrs. G&ni, as she put on her night cap, whrie the General swallowed his at Windsor Castle t’other night, “I must say it was very rude of yon to ask ‘if tho meter was frozen’ when they lit the candles at dinner. You know how hard times are, how high gas is, and what a large family Victoria hax I dare say she, poor thing, has to economize ail she can. Yon know we had to when yon were King—l meant President,” and the good soul dropped off to sleep, leaving : bis Ex-ress to wonder whether J,X ieu, (ft j rnon Droit, over the fire place, was a j Latin motto, and if so, whether if meant “No smoking in bed" There is only one unpardonable sin ;in the criminal code of Binghamton, N. Y. You may elope with a Bingham ton man’s wife, or step on his pet corn,, or throw clubs at his dog, cur get tho better of him in a horse trade, or count him ont of the City Council, and expect to be bat if you, forget that his town v?as rounded by Mr. Bingham, and ; spell it with a “p,” there is no hope for you, no mercy for yon. The only son of a prominent resident of Binghamton married a beautiful and affectionate. Buffalo girl, and just io, a letter to her fathet-in-law, spoke of how happy die had been under his “hospita ble tool in dear old BinghamPton" he cut off his son with a nickel, left his. vast fortune to found an orphan asjlum, and died immediately, to make matters sure. THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Robbers are on the rampage iu New nan. The new jail of Hart county is fin ished. A drunken negro fell in a well in Griffin. Macon had a mysterious fire Tuesday morning. Messrs. Rogers and Twilley, of Sparta, have each lost a fine cow by "snake bites. Anderson's Mag, a new paper just started in Covington, has made its ap pearance. John M. Mann, a well known citizen of Newnan, has been canglit selling forged jury soript. Tho burglar is infesting Monroe, Wal ton county. Five business houses were bored out in one nigiit last week. A large quantity of German millet has been planted in Newton county, and at present the crop promises to be abund ant. The Tax Receiver of Monroe county informs the Advertiser that there are fifty thousand acres of land in tho coun ty, of which he has no return. " Turnip seed have found it difficnlt to germinate aud put np an appearance this season. Dry and hot weather operated against the July planting. We learn that Elbert Taylor, a color ed man on Mr. T. D. Dewberry’s place iu Monroe county, was killed last Fri day, by Joe Hightower, another colored citizeu. Miss Lula Cox, of Alabama, died at the Indian Spring last Saturday. She was a guest of the Molutosh House, where she had gone for tho benefit of her health. VVarrenton Clipper: Misses Mary and Katie Gordon, two Augusta belles, are spending a few days iu town, tho guests of onr esteemed follow townsman, Maj. C. E. McGregor. The negro Jack, who killed another negro for 75 cents, at or near Mt. Zion, iu Hancock county, was captured u few days since, eonernlod in one of the nu merous swamps that abound iu that neighborhood. A negro man by the uamo of Bill Tay lor was killed on the Southwestern Rail road by tho fast train from Columbus Wednesday evening, a few hundred yards beyond tlio junction, which is about one mile aud a half from tlio car slied. Warrenton Clipper: The train from Augusta to Macon rolled up to tho de pot Tuesday morning without a mail agent. Wonder what’s the matter now ? These are days of lightning, telephones and bullphones, and it behooves men to sleep, eat and net accordingly. Don’t let it happen again. Wash Brown, colored, wns attacked on his way home, near Newnan, Tues day evening. 14th instant, and badly beaten by Jonas Price and Andy Hol land, both colored. They wants and to kill him they said because ho persisted in working for Col. Strozier, who had employed him to drive a wagon and haul wood to town to sell. At a social party at the residence of a widow lady named Kelly, in Jasper county, on Thursday night last, a diffi culty arose between Mr. B. F. MoCul lers and Mr. Allen Smith, iu the course of which MoCullers shot Smith in the abdomen—tho ball passing through the spinal column. Dnriug tho moleo sev eral shots were fired, ouo of which paiu fully wounded Mr. Clias. A. Bailey iu tho foot. Auother stray bullet also struck and painfully wounded a lady, Mrs. Crawford. PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES. There has been quite a revival in the Baptist Church at Pendleton, 8. 0., over fifty|mombers having boon added to tho church. It turns out that the killing said to have taken place iu the mountains was only a fraoas, in which Durham got cut with a knife, and Harrison shot in the face. Railroads produce wonderful effects. For instance, Johnston already has street lamps—and good ones. Of course they are all on one side. Edgefield is a hun dred years old and has never had a street lamp ! As was expected, the now fence law was rejoctod iu every township iu Abbe villo county, excopt Ninoty-six. In Laurens county the law was rejected by a large majority—the negroes voting solidly against it. Iu Chester tho law has been adopted by tho whole county. In Fairfield county several of the town ships, including Winnsboro, adopted the law. The negro, Cush Harris, is to be hanged near Edgefield on the 31st iust. The execution is to tako placo ono mile west of the town, in au old field by the road side. At tho request of Sheriff Gaston, Adjutant-General Moiso has or dered the Edgefield liittes, Capt. James Bonham, and the Edgefield Hussars, Captain M. A. Markert, to turn out as a guard on this occasion. J. H. Ellison, who was arrested many months sines on a charge of robbing the United States mail, was tried and ac quitted in tho United States Court at Greenville, but because tho grand jury failed to find a true bill on one of the counts in tho indictment, although tho evidence under it was given on the trial, tlio detectives have hail him rearrostod! under that eonut and committed to jail, to await trial at some future term of the Court, HOCUS QUININE. How Ill*U<tii( k *t HniKKist* ('nil I'yfceivo the Public With an Inferior Rriitf. Tho Memphis Avalunchc has the fol lowing expose, whir.h will be read with interest by quinine eaters in this city: As all buyers of the drug have very good reason to know, the price of quinine has been advancing in an enormous degree recently. It now sells for $4 50 an miuee in this city. The drug is made from a bark found in Upper ami Cen tral South America. There the gather ing nnd preparation for shipment of the bark is quite an industry. In the dis tricts whore this industry thrives most, civil war is raging, and the strifes which have troubled the United States of Co lombia, Venezuela, etc., have sent the prieo of tho drug up. Tho scarcity of quinine has given riso to tmffic in an inferior drug, which is dis honestly palmed off on the public as quinine. The house of Powers & Weightmnn, Philadelphia, have almost a monopoly of the quinine trade in the United States. From tho refuse matter after the quinine is made, a weaker drug, callod einclionidia, is pre pared. This drug occnpies about the same relationship to quinine as bran does, to flour, and while quinino is sold for $4 50 an ounce, einclionidia can be ! sold for 75 cents per ounce. Dishonest j druggists can easily mix the two and sell the mixture as quinine. The dif ference cannot be discovered except by the chemist, A physician has detected a druggist of Memphis selling this mix tnre. if such sales are discovered here after some sensational revelations may be expected. The fraud touches not only the pocket, but the life of man. This is given as a warning both to buy ers and any druggists who may be at tempting to make money by substitut ing oiwehonidia for the stronger and I letter drug. It is a matter of import [. auee in a city where so much quinine is sold. Kvnrts ConNlruelinK a Sentence. The hour was nearly 10, p. ru., when Mr. Evarts, our erudite Secretary of State, sealed himself in his bed cham ber to construct a single sentence which be proposed incorporating in a forth | coming speech. He had devoted an hour to the work when Mrs. Ewarts rais- I ed her head from her pillow, shaded her l eyes with her hand and shrilly sung out: “William ! are you never coming to bed ?” The Secretary, without lifting his eyes from his manuscript, sharply responded : “It is absolutely impera tive, my dear, that the brief sentence, upon which i am now engaged, the na ture which is a matter of no moment io.you, shonld be brought to a conclu sion while my mind is in sympathy with the subject. It shall detain me not longer than a minute or two.” When, the clock struck twelve a night-capped head again called : “Do come to lied, Mr. E., it is getting very late.” “The sentence is nearing completion,” return ed the New York statesman, “and it shall not monopolize my time another minute.” It was half-past two when Mrs. Evarts agsin awoke, and seeing her husband Mill writing rapidly, she impatiently cried : “Husband, do come to bed ! Or are you going to sit up alt night V” Mr. Evarts dropped his pen, kicked off his slippers, and testily re plied, in Richard Grant White’s “Every day English “O, yes, I’ll come right away. I suppose I can get up a couple of hours before breakfast and finish this sentence.” And in less than fifteen minutes the Secretary of State was in bed, dreaming of tie facto aDd de jure things, and snoring in five languages.— Norristown Herald. The following brief epistle lately passed between Boston and Mount Desert: she ro HIM. Mount Desekt, July —, 1877. Beak John— Lots of pretty girls here. Do come down. Salle. HE TO HER. Boston, Jnly —, 1877. Dear Salle—Lots of pretty girls here, too. Can’t get away from busi ness. John. Sally came back to Boston the next day .—Boston Transcript.