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W i NESDAT, SEPTEMBER 19,1877.
A reward can safely bo offered for a
Chinese who parts his hair in the mid
dle.
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Ben Dkßar was paralyzed by the use
of hair dye. He is now said to be dead
because he dyed.
Ir was cruel in the New York Sun to
nominate Mr. Beecher for Brigham
Young's vacant place.
There is little or no demaud on the
London Htock Exohauge for money at
the rate of lj per cent, per annum.
An advertisement in London for a
good plain cook, wages $l5O per an
num, with board and lodging, did not
elicit a single reply.
The New York Herald thinks that in
the absrnce of brilliant achievements,
the Rnsso-Tnrkish war is becoming a
mere question of financial endurance.
Gen. B. F. Bi.ti.kk, when fighting his
battles o’er again, always alludes re
spectfully to the Southern soldiers as
"Confederates,” and not as “Rebels.”
Hon. Thomas \V. Hunt, the new Mar
shal of Mississippi, is described as “a
native Southerner, a man of position,
courage, and ability, aud a sincere Re
publican.”
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Lotto Palmerston ouce expressed the
idea that the Turks lacked energy be
cause they had no heels to their shoes.
There seems to have been a change of
fashion in Turkey, lately.
In u Kentucky poor house, a pair of
nnf .rtuuate twins, boro there, received
tin names of J. Madison Wells and
Eliza Pinkston. Tho mother was a
colored womau, and did not object.
Home of the Democratic editors of
New York are makiug ugly revelations
of their “political antecedents.” They
hail better drop that, aud proceed to the
business of defeating Radicalism.
Every one will commend the tono of
the speech made by tho President at
Marietta, Ohio, Friday. His words were
as just to the Hontli as they were gener
ous, and will fiud a hearty response in
this section of the Union.
We don’t know that tho friends of
Millodgoville, or rather some of them,
are uiding the cause of the old capital
much by sweeping charges of bribery
against the men and journals advocating
Atlanta.
The Czar of Russia lias a very sum
mary way of making tax payers who are
in arrears con e up to tho “captain’s of
fice” and settle. He has just issued a de
cree requiring all taxes due to be paid
eight days uudi r penalty of being
doubled.
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While Senator Morton is stretohed
upon a bed of suffering, his organ at
Indianapolis alludes to the Himmons
gaug, reoeutly lynched, as a “band of
infernal cut-throats.” A few months
ago they would have been paraded os
the “martyrs” of a “Southern outrage."
Davis, the keeper of the Connecticut
Stale prison who plotted for .the release
of two convicts—the plot ending in a
horrible murder—was paid ouly S3O por
month. If he had not been put on star
vation wages he would probably have
been faithful to his trust. Good men
at good wages is a safe rulo for govern
ments as well as private concerns.
The tramps in Pennsylvania evidently
moan business. They are armed, wreck
trains, attack farm houses aud resist the
authorities. In the vicinity of Colum
bia iu that State, throe murders have
recently been committed by tramps, aud
a number of the latter wouuded and
captured. A littlo hemp-tea, good
apothecary !
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A sensational story from the Lehigh
Valley coal regions is published this
morning, to the effoot that the strikers
have determined on a general uprising
if the military make the threatened ar
rests. Five thousand armed men are
said to be drilliug for the outbreak.—
Timid persons need not feel alarmed
uutil the news is confirmed.
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Gold has reached the lowest point
since tho war during the past week,
bringing a fraction more than three
cents premium. If tho political quaoks
would let the currency alone the ques
tion of specie resnmptiou would soon
settle itself. But when Congress meets
every quack of them all will have his
nostrum ready to dose the patient with
and change convalesenee into a relapse.
The new Collector of the port of Chi
cago is Mr. Wu. Henry Smith, agent of
the Western Associated Press. The
party displaced was Mr. J. Russell
Jones, an intimate friend of General
Grant, and a member of what was
kuowu as the “Galena Ring.” The in
cumbent refused to resign when re
quested, aud was metaphorically ejected
at the point of the President's boot,
Georgia's new Constitution seems to
be iu accord with the views of the peo
ple of other States. Elsewhere it will
be seen that Maine adopted yesterday
two of the provisions in the instrument
as part of the oigauic law of that State.
In October Connecticut will pass upon
two more: amendments forbidding mu
nicipal aid to railways and prohibiting
extra compensation to publio officers.
Tub ingenious aud indefatigable liar
of the Army and Nary Journal, who!
proved that Osman Pasha is Marshal
Bazainb, and the yet more ingenions 1
aud indefatigable liar of the Louisville {
Courier-Journal, who proved that he is
“ H. Clay Crawford, of Tennessee,' j
will please take notice that the Turkish
Government says he is a Mussulman
who was born in Asia Minor. Perhaps,
however, the T. G. is mistaken, and
that Bazainb and H. Clay in combina
tion constitute the hero of Plevna.
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The Journal of Commerce notes that
last Saturday Messrs. R. M. Adam & Cos.
cleared from Charleston for a port of
the United Kingdom the bark Glendale
with a cargo of 30,000 bushels of wheat.
The wheat, principally from Nashville,
was hauled in bnlk from that city and
put on the vessel at the wharf of the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad. The
same paper says that the freight rates
from the West to Charleston enable the
exporters of that oity to compete suc
cessfully with Norfolk, New York and
Baltimore.
Mb. Pete book Thwbatt, before the
adjournment of the Convention, address
ed a letter to the members protesting
against incorporating the eleventh sec
tion of article seven into the new Consti
tution, because the same repudiated a
class of debts created by the State nnder
laws passed before the war. Before final
notion was taken the objectionable words
were stricken out. Mr. Thweatt’s claim
and others of the same class are still
left to the decision of the Legislature—
to be paid or referred to the Courts, and
Mr. Tmwzaty is perfectly satisfied with
the action of the Convention.
THE SII.VEK C'IKUri.AK.
Home days since the Chicago Inter-
Ocean published the replies of about
two hundred Congressmen to its circu
lar asking them if they were in favor of
the remonetization of 'silver. The only
letter from Georgia published was one
from Hon. A. H. Stephens, saying em
phatically that he favored remonetiza
tion. We oommented on it and wondered
why Mr. Stephens was the only member
who had defined his position. Copying
onr article the Inter- Ocean says :
We knew those Senators and members of
Congress who requested us not to mention
their names would get into difficulty by being
so modest In spite of all we can say the
newspapers will insist that only those
answered whose names were published.
Five answers were received from Georgia
members. All but Mr. Htephens preferred to
have their names withheld with the exception
of W. E. Smith, of the Second District, who
simply signed bis name as favoring silver,
without remark.
We note the correction, bat we still
fail to see why six Georgia Congress
men declined to commit themselves, and
why three ont of the five who announc
ed their position were unwilling to have
their names published.
AUGUSTA AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Hon. W. H. Hull, of Augusta, does not
think the new Constitution as good as the
present one. Is it not strange that nearly all
the objections to the Constitution come from
Augusta. We put against Mr. Hull Gen.
Toomis. Georgia will not hesitate regarding
which gentleman has tho moot brains.—Jejf-r
--son ( (ra.) Arms.
Our contemporary is mistaken. All
the opposition to the new Constitution
does not come from Augusta. The
Chronicle and Constitutional’st is the
only paper in the State that has publish
ed the views of any considerable num
ber of gentlemon. Of course some of
tho interviewed were opposed to the new
Constitution; a very decided majority
were in favor of it. On tho day of elec
tion it will be soen that Augusta and
tho county of Richmond will give an
overwhelming majority for ratification.
With regard to Mr. Hull, those who
know that gentleman do not fear the re
sult of a comparison between him and any
man in Georgia or out of Georgia. In
talent and culture, in knowledge of law,
in patriotism of purpose and in purity of
heart, Ws. H. Hull is the peer of any
man. He is a citizen of whom any State
might well feel proud. He was asked his
views of the new Constitution, and he
gave them frankly and fearlessly. That
they are not the views of the majority
makes very littlo difference to him.
They wore his views, and he did not
hesitate to express them.
THE NPKAKKRMIIIP.
It seems to ns that the election of a
Speaker of the new House of Represen
tatives is attracting a good deal more
attention thau it deservos. What prac
tical difference does it make to the
Democracy or to the country wh ether
Mr. Randall, Mr. Cox, Mr. Sayler,
Mr. Morrison, Mr. Walker, or Mr.
Goode be chosen ? The Speaker can do
little besides organize the different com
mittees, aud we do not think it possible
for him to use his position in such a way
aa to dofeat any measure which a major
ity of the House may desire to be suc
cessful. Mr. Hayes and Mr. Wheeler
are both in vigorous health, and
there is no danger of tho Speaker
becoming President during the next
two years. As it stands wo think
tho Congressmen who must serve
under the Speaker are more interested
in tho election than any one else, and
newspapers should not attempt to dra
goon members into the support of any
particular candidate. So far as is known
to tho publio, ull of the aspirants are
men of good character and fair ability,
aud any one of them would make an ac
oeptablo Speaker, We do not credit
the report that the Southern Pacific
Railroad is attempting to organize the
Houso in the interest of that corpora
tion or that snob an attempt would be
suooessful, if made. The publio cares
nothing whatever about the matter, aud
feels satisfied that the oountry will not
be a sufferer, no matter who Congress
may choose as presiding officer.
( OtlK SOUTH.
Tho New York Iribune gives its read
ers good advice when it tells them to
oorne South. It thiuks that there never
was a better time for emigration to this
section thau the present—that the wise
conciliatory policy of President Hayes
is fast removing “the remains of un
reasoning prejudice against Northern
men,” and in nearly all the Southern
States a public opinion is springing np
that favors the encouragement of North
ern settlement. Even in old States like
Virginia aud North Carolina, there is
still more land than labor to till it, and
in almost every county thousands of
acres are growing nothing but weeds
aud brambles, because there is nobody
to cultivate them. It is true that much
of this waste land appears to the eye of
a Northern farmer to be deficient in
natural fertility, but in most cases it is
only exhausted, and all it needs to briug
it up is manuring aud careful culture.
Of oourse woof the South know that
there has never been any prejudice of
any kind against settlers from tho
North. The only prejudice en
tertained has been a very natural
one against thoso who came not
to settle but to steal carpet-bag
gers whose only desire was to sow enmi
ty between the races in order that they
might reap position and plunder. But
we are glad to kuow that the North no
longer believes in the existence of this
mythical prejudice against bona fide set
tlers, and that such influential papers as
the Tribune areurgiugemigrantstocome
| to a section where they will be heartily
welcomed, and which offers them so
1 many inducements. The Tribune says
I further:
There are thousands of industrious men in
New York and other Fastern cities who came
from the country not many years ago. and who
have a tolerable practical knowledge of farm
ing. Many of them are out of employment, or
are living upon low wages in a hand-to-mouth
sort cf way, with no prospect of bettering their
condition. If these men would go South and
get upon the land, they weu'.d in a few years
become independent, and their lives and those
of their wives and children would be much
more wholesome aud happy. The great ad
vantage offered by the South is oheap lands,
ready for immediate tillage, lying in settled
communities within c imparativsly short dis
tances of the large Eastern markets. The cli
mate in the upland regions, away from the
malarious influences of tide-water rivers, is as
healthful as that of any part of the United
States. The Summers are no wanner, even as
far down as Northern Georgia and Alabama,
than in Nsw Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the
Winters are so short and mild that the farmer
has at least two months more in the year for
ont-door work than in this latitude.
Thb Tribune thinks that the best
method of emigration would be for a
few families to join in forming a colony,
buy one or two large plantations and
divide the land between them. From
two to ten dollars will be the range of
prioe per acre. Each settler should
have a capital of a few hundred dollars
to commence with. His first payment
on his land need be but small, and long
credits should be secured for the subse
quent payments, so that the profits can
be applied for two or three years to
needed improvements and to increasing
the productiveness of the soil. This is
a perfectly feasible and very sensible
scheme. There is any quantity of land
; in Eastern and Middle Georgia and
Western South Carolina which can be
I obtained for colonization purposes at
| low figures and upon long time. The
soil is fertile, and graiD, grass, cotton
and most fruits oan be produced. Mar
kets are easy of access and the country
is healthy. Let colonies send agents
and learn for themselves.
THE MARIETTA REUNION.
The New York Tribune says: “It will
be heard with much surprise and no
little regret that the attempted reunion
of Federal and Confederate soldiers at
Marietta was a failure, so far aa the par
ticipation of Confederates was con
cerned. Instead of tho hundreds who
were looked for, barely a score regis
tered, and, instead of the Generals who
were so.plentv in the Southern armies,
the highest rank represented was that of
a Major. This was such an excellent
opportunity of evidencing, in a striking
way, the return of national good will,
that it seems unfortunate that the dis
tinguished representatives of the Lost
Cause, whose presence was looked for,
could not have come to shake hands with
their old foes. Their absence may have
been due, however, to other causes than
a lingering resentment. The man who
is beaten never likes to be made a show
of, and these gentlemen, with the over
sensitiveness of the vanquished, may
have suspected that they would be asked
to play the part of ‘erring brethren.’
Just how cordially and freely they would
have been received it is easy to guess
from the speech of President Hayes;
and they can learn in just what spirit
they ought to have come, from the ex
cellent speech of Mr. Key.”
We dare say the chief cause was tho
inability of many ex-Confederate soldiers
to afford the expense, however limited,
of such a trip. The great majority of
our people who fought in the war can
not get away from their homes or their
crops. It is not easy to gather Gover
nors together, as the Philadelphia ex
periment demonstrated. How much
harder is it to assemble at a given point
men who aro straining every nerve, in
trades or professions, to keep body and
soul together ? Besides, our Southern
folks are not, as a general thing, given
to dramatic effects. It was not in re
sentment or ill will that the ex-Oon
federates stayed away, bat simply be
cause they had not the time or money
to spare. Every kind, generons and
patriotic act of the President is received
in the South with respectful deference
and cordial endorsement. A gathering
of Southerners at Marietta would have
added nothing to the actual sentiments
of reunion and friendship already ex
isting, and might have given a sensa
tional oast to what is a quiet and genu
ine condition of affairs.
THE SITUATION NORTH.
On the surfaoe there is no appearance
of a loss of prosperity at tho North.
Many rows of expensive buildings are
still going up in the great oities ; the
crowded thoroughfares show signs of
life unknown to the oities of the South ;
the markets are heaped high with the
products of the soil ; and almost every
thing has the appearance of thrift and
opulence. And yet there is something
very different from this beneath the sur
face. Care-worn faoes tell tales of suf
fering. Hard bargains are made by
people who never made them before ;
landlords complain that rents are not
paid ; corporations exhibit a detail of
their business, which is far from satis
factory ; workingmen band together in
distinct political factions and assail the
reputed rich in language very much
like that whioh ushered in the French
revolution. The strikes of a recent
period evidently sounded a tocsin of
alarm, and the coming Winter is look
ed to with an apprehension that
is not at all concealed. When
asked what is to be the salvation of the
North, in case such apprehensions
should turn to grim reality, the common
answer is: “We hope for a good South
ern trade, and rely upon the South for
beneficial legislation.” Really, this is
a wondrous change from the days that
followed close upon the heels of tho war.
The persecuted, insulted, impoverished
aud down-trodden South is now regard
ed as the very sheet-anchor of the Union
aud Commercial Honor! It may be
that the North relies too much upon the
South for a trade that will bring about
the flush times of old, the more so as
the South grows leas and less dependent
yearly; but it is a wonderful sign that
this steady, anxious and all-pervading
idea should be abroad in a region which
has hitherto so subverted the laws
of God and man that it would seem
to be the work of many genera
tions to restore and vivify. And
yet, this idea has become centrio every
where East and West. The appeal of
the President in his excursions to the
conservatism of the Sonth is but the
echo of the thought and expression of
millions of men who little dreamed, a
few years back, that they ever could
consent to harbor such sentiments. That
the South will do all that she oan, con
sistent with her own well-being, in and
out of Congress, to forward the general
weal of the Union of States, we seriously
believe; but the South caunot perform
miracles, and least of all can she defend
the North from the logical consequences
of her own fatal and fatefnl policy. The
North must do the larger part of the
work of redemption, and judiciously
furnish the Sonth with those material
weapons which can alone conquer a glo
rious and peaceful viotory for a com
mon country and destiny. The experi
ment of ruining the Sonth, politically
aud commercially, has been tried disas
| trously. The President has started the
| uewdepsrture in politics; the capitalists
I of the North must follow his example.
Kentucky negroes, instead of going
to Liberia, are moving into Kansas.—
Dissatisfied South Carolina colored
people had better go to the Northwest.
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A public prosecution has, according
to Mr. Bradlaugh, of England, increas
ed the sale of Lis so-called “indecent”
pamphlet from 100 to 130,000 copies per
annum.
The Twelve Apostles have hired a
lawyer to find out what is left of the
church fund of Mormondom. They
will hardly find enough to fee the law
yer.
Ths people of Spartanburg and New
berry seem in earneet about having rail
way communication with Angnsta. The
people of this city should meet them
half way. The projected roads would
bring Augusta a great deal of trade
which is now lost.
In view of the fact that yellow fever
certainly exists in Fernandina, the Sa
vannah authorities have established
quarantine against that place. Savan
nah suffered bo severely from this
sconrge last year that she wisely pro
vides against another visitation.
It is thought that Spencer, who rob
bed the State Savings Bank of Chicago,
was the victim of “emotional insanity.”
It seems that he had been lately con
verted, and, failing upon individuals,
he converted the cash assets of the
bank.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1877.
JUDGE DAVIS’ SEAT.
We pnblish in the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist this morning a com
munication warmly recommending the
appointment of Herschel V. Johnson
to fill the place on the bench of the Su
preme Court of the United States made
vacant by Judge David Davis’ election
to the Senate. Our correspondent just
ly says that such an appointment would
be one of the strongest and most ac
ceptable the President could make. It
certainly would be the strongest, so far
as the South is concerned, and there is
good reason for believing that it would
also be acceptable to the North and
West. As an aot of justice, the ap
pointment should be given to the South.
At the present time and for several
years past there has not been a single
Southern man on the bench of this
Court. That section of the Union ex
tending from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande and from Ohio to the Gulf of
Mexico—constituting almost one-third
of the Union in territory and in popula
tion—is absolutely without representa
tion in the highest judicial tribunal of
the nation, a tribunal in which the
rights and property of its citizens are
almost daily passed upon. It was the
evident intention of the framers of the
Constitution that every section of the
country should have representation in
tho Supreme Court. Beforo the war
the unwritten law was rigidly regarded,
and the Supremo Court faithfully rep
resented the whole country. Now that
all the questions growing out of the war
have been deoided in such a manner
that tho judgment oan never be
re-opened or disturbed, now that we
are in fact, as well as in name, one
nation and one people, the old cus
tom, the wise custom, should be
adopted again. In filling vacancies on
tho Supreme Court, just as in the selec
tion of Cabinet officers and the appoint
ment of foreign ministers, tho interests
of each section of the Union should be
cousulted. Common justice demands
that Judge Davis’ seat be given to a rep
resentative Southern man. That being
the case, who so fit to fill it as Her
sohel V. Johnson ? Ho is a man of na
tional reputation, was twice Governor of
his own State, was in the United States
Senate, and was a candidate for the
Vice-Presidency with Stephen Arnold
Douslas. He is known all over the
oountry, and is respected and admired
wherever he is known. He is the pos
sessor of the highest order of talent; is a
lawyer of long experience and great
ability, and stands high in his profession;
on the Bench he has added to the repu
tation which he achieved at the Bar—
his decisions are models of clearness
and power; ho is a patriot in the true
meaning of that much abused word; he
is a man of the loftiest integrity, and his
private as well as his public life is abso
lutely without stain or blemish; in poli
tics he has always been fearless but con
servative, and ho has a mind eminently
free from the control of prejudice or bias.
He can be trusted to do right at all
times and under any circumstances. He
is the man above all others who would
adorn the Supreme Court. His appoint
ment would reflect credit on the Presi
dent, would add to the dignity and in
fluence of the Court, and would give the
liveliest satisfaction to the people of
Georgia and the people of the South.
The selection of Governor Johnson
would be a wise act and a popular act.
BORDER TROUBLES.
Congressman Schleicher, of Texas,
is credited with cautioning tho Presi
dent before his departure on his West
ern and Southern trip that he had bet
ter hasten back to Washington or there
might be a Mexican invasion of Texas
before he returned. Though Mr. Sch
leicher has been watching Mexican mat
ters closely ever since the adjournment
of Congress, we are inclined to think
that lie is needlessly alarmed and that
the early invasion of Texas by a Mexican
army is not among the probabili
ties. There is evidently a strong party
in Mexico who are bitterly hostile to the
United States, and who would like to
precipitate the Diaz government into a
war with this country, but they will not
be able to gratify their wishes imme
diately. That war will come there is
good reason to believe, but tho declara
tion of hostilities may be made first by
the United States instead of by Mexico.
The best information from the State
Department says “our relations with
Mexico are extremely unsatisfactory.”
This is certainly putting it mildly. If
the State Department had said that
Mexico had plundered aud murdered
the people of Texas until forbearance
had ceased to be a virtue it would have
been nearer the mark. For the last two
years the Texan frontier has been
kept in a chronic state of terror and
alarm. Predatory bands of Mexicans
have crossed the Rio Grande whenever
they felt inclined to do so and killed
and robbed at pleasure. Thousands of
dollars worth of property and hundreds
of lives have been taken by these mar
auders and no reparation, whatever, has
been made by the Mexican Government.
The criminals have not been punished
nor the losses inflicted by them made
good. The crowning outrage occurred
several weeks ago, when an organized
band of Mexicans orossed the border,
captured an American town, broke open
the jail and released the prisoners, their
countrymen and fellow-outlaws who had
been captured and imprisoned. The
Diaz government has not even offered
an apology for this gross violation of
international law. It is time that the
present policy of our Government with
regard to Mexico should be changed.
The outrages on the people of Texas
must be stopped—peaceably, if possible,
but they must be stopped. Mexico must
pay for tho damage that has been dote,
must punish the crimes that have been
committed and must give security for
| the future, higher security than the
word of a weak and treacherous admin
istration. We hope that when Congress
assembles it will meet the question
promptly and resolutely, and if peace
and safety can only be obtained at the
point of the bayonet, why,in God’s
name, let war come. Better war, than
murder and rapine in the guise of
j peace.
Plevna has 17,000 inhabitants, about
two-thirds of whom are Mohammedan.
The New York Sun states that widow
Van Cott charges S2OO for her sermoas,
invariably in advance.
Several of the Sitting Bull Com
mission are bald-headed men—much to
the disgust of the Bull.
If Clay Crawford is aliye he ought
to materialize as a quack doctor. He
kas been advertised enormously.
Hon. Samuel Randall is thought to
have defined his position satisfactorily
on both sides of the Texas Paoifio Rail
road.
The Danbury News thinks the em
barrassment of Gen. O. O. Howard
arises from his not being personally ac
quainted with Chief Joseph.
Ann Eliza, the discarded wife of the
late lamented Brigham Young, is credit
ed with believing that her old lord and
master is now enjoying an atmosphere
of 210 in the shade.
THE ELECTION IN MAINE.
The returns from the recent election
in Maine indicate that the Republicans
lost about half the majority which they
had last year, but that they carried
the State by a much larger majority
than they did in 1875—an “off year,”
like the present. The vote of the State
for the past six years has been as fol
lows:
Hep. Dem. Maj.
1870. Governor 51,040 44.534 9.50(5 R
1871. Governor 58,757 48,126 10.631 R
1872. President C 1.422 29.087 32.335 R
1872. Governor 71.917 54,704 17,213 R
1873. Governor 45.314 34,533 10,781 R
1874. Governor 52 864 41,506 11,298 R
1875. Governor 57,085 63,213 3,872 R
1876. President 66,300 49.823 16,477 R
1876. Governor 76,498 60,652 14,846 R
Last Fall the Greenbackers cast 532
votes at the Gubernatorial election. The
last Legislature was Republican by 27
majority in the Senate and 89 majority
in the House. This year the Greenback
men poll in tho neighborhood of 4,000
votes,
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.
With commendable enterprise, the
New York Times, of the 10th instant,
publishes a letter from Augusta under
date of August 6th, telling how the
writer, while riding along the road to
Edgefield Court House, South Carolina,
saw “a white man on horseback ; be
hind him ran a black man, his arms tied
at the elbows behind his back, his hands
brought forward on his breasts, and his
wrists tied firmly together. A rope was
attached to the tied elbows, with a loop
passing around the neck. The white
man held the other end of the rope at
his saddle-bow, as he trotted unconcern
edly along. The black man seemed very
much exhausted ; the sweat and dust
gave him a terrible look of suffering.
His wrists were swollen where they were
lashed together. The two attracted but
little attentiou beyond a stare from
those working iu the fields.” The cor
respondent cheerfully remarks that
“Home rule has done its work in Edge
field,” and sarcastically adds, “Let the
work of conciliation go on.” We know
nothing of the facts of the case, but it
is safe to assume that there is no word
of truth in the whole paragraph which
we have quoted. Will our good friends
of the Edgefield Advertiser investigate
the matter and give the facts ?
THE WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS.
Wisconsin has been such a close State
politically for several years past that
the Republican Convention held in Mad
ison Tuesday evidently thoughtthere was
no time for “d—d nonsense” about the
President’s polioy. They determined to
get on both sides of the fence, and
adopted a very non-oommittal resolution,
the substance of which is that Wisconsin
Republicans endorse the Southern policy
if it works well and proves popular,
and repudiate it in the event it
does not. This is non-oommittal cer
tainly, but it is questionable if such a
cowardly piece of trimming does not in
jure their party more than a straight
forward resolution of approval or disap
proval. They favor the remonetization
of silver, and sympathize with and con
demn the railway strikers. Their pre
amble announoes that the Republicans of
Wisoonsin still consider the people of
the South “in a state of pupilage.” The
Wisconsin Republicans evidently have
not been reading the newspapers recent
ly. If they will rub their eyes a little
and look around them they will find
that the Southern people are not “in a
state of pupilage” and never will be
again; that the Southern States are free
and equal members of the American
Union and that they are a great power
in the Union. The talk now of a "state
of pupilage” would provoke a smile from
Ben Butler and make the bones of
Thaddeus Stevens shake in their grave.
The Wisconsin Republicans seem to be
fools of a high stripe.
THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.
Some days since we copied a letter
written by Mr. Henry W. Grady from
Atlanta to the Cincinnati Enquirer, in
which alluding to General Toombs’ can
didacy for the Senate he said, among
other things, “He will make a fine race.
He has never been beaten.” We stated
that in this assertion Mr. Grad? was
mistaken; that ex-Gov. H. V. Johnson
defeated General Toombs for the Con
federate States Senate in 1863. Avery
old and equally honored citizen of Au
gusta called upon us to say that we were
in error—that General Toombs was never
defeated for the Senate, but had once
declined to serve after being elected.
The Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday
says :
We presume that Mr. Grady intended to sav
that General Toombs had never been beaten
before the people. Such appears to be the
fact. General Toombs has keen in politics
forty years, and daring all that time has never
been defeated before the people. That, at
least, is our recollection; but if the editor of
the Chronicle has facts which go to prove the
contrary, of oouree we stand csrrected.
As Mr. Gbady wrote of General
Toombs’ candidacy for the Senate, and
said he had never been defeated, of
course the natural presumption was
that he had never been defeated for the
Senate or for any other position. By re
ferring to the files of the Chronic-e for
1863 we find that our statement was cor
rect. The Senatorial election took place
November 24th, 1863, and the balloting
was as follows ;
First Ballot— H. V. Johnson, 79;
Robert Toombs, 43 ; John P. Ktng, 29;
L. J. Gartrell, 31; Howell Cobb, 5 ;
Chas. J. Jenkins, 4; Hbnbyß. Jackson,
1 ; total, 192; necessary to a choice, 97.
Second Ballot— Johnson, 92: Toombs,
47; Kino, 24; Gartrell, 19; Cobb, 4;
H. V. M. Millhr, 4; Jackson, 1; Jen
kins, 1; total, 192; necessary to a choice,
97. Judge King’s name was withdrawn.
Third Ballot— Johnson, 115; Toombs,
51; Gartrell, 15; Cobb, 3; Miller, 3;
Jenkins, 4; Jackson, 1; total, 192; ne
oessary to a choice, 97. On this ballot
Johnson was nominated.
It will thus be seen that we were in
the right as to our statement. At the
same time the defeat detracts nothing
from the fame of General Toombs.
There aro few men who have spent forty
years in active political life, and during
that time encountered but one reverse of
fortune.
We regret that the President’s official
duties and previous engagements will
not allow him to extend his trip further
South than Chattanooga. He would
have received a oordial welcome in Au
gusta, aud would have learned some
thing of Southern hospitality, the
equivalent of that “noble hospitality"
which Fboudb says was the boast of
England in the time of the Tudobs,
However, we hope at another time to
have the President among us.
From a card published elsewhere in
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist
this morning it will be seen that Mr.
Adam Johnston has resigned the Chair
manship of the County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee. Mr. Johnston ac
cepted the position with reluctance, and
only at the earnest solicition of personal
and political friends in order to
benefit the party. He has rendered
most efficient service and, in common
with the committee and the party, we
regret his resignation.
The LaGrange College girls are trav
eling aronnd giving concerts for the
benefit of their Instibate.
TIIE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Gainesville wants anew hotel.
Savannah is picking rice birds.
Gower Springs are still crowded.
Atlanta’s military appear to be brush
ing up.
Gainesville College opens with seventy
pupils.
Gwinnett is agog over a camp-meeting
scandal.
Conyers talks of an Universalist
Church.
Dublin, Ga., has been bubbling with
Fall fights.
Mrs. L. D. Turner, of Putnam coun
ty, is dead.
Jefferson, Jackson county, has a Re
form Club.
Washington will organize a Library
Association.
The State is foaming all over with
“first bales.”
Mrs. Sallie Cozart Simonton, of At
lanta, is dead.
The sweet slush of sorghum is begin
ning to be heard.
An interesting Baptist revival is going
on at Stone Mountain.
The farmers are busy in their efforts
to ratify th 9 State Fair.
The Conyers Courier editor will swap
paragraphs for potatoes.
The Rome Board of Trade has invited
Hayes to visit their town.
The four dollar diem will keep dowu
the legislative candidates.
Troup county will ship about 100,000
pounds dried fruit this season.
The Gainesville Eagle is making it
hot for the non-ratifieationalists.
The Northeastern Railroad is taxed to
its utmost hauling freight to Athens.
Mr. M. J. Mizelle, of Cobb oounty,
died on Saturday, at Powder Springs.
The season for burning negro chil
dren and gin houses is a little backward.
Goldsmith Maid, two oan can troupes
aud several barbecues threaten Atlanta.
The Columbus Enquirer pays Hon.
John H. James a very high compliment.
The Old Capital seems to catoh it on
all sides. It is propably able to stand it.
Dawson county manages to worry
along with a four days’ Court every
year.
We have yet to hear of a single paper
in Georgia opposing the new Constitu
tion.
Halwick, the Athens wizard and rope
walkist, skip about in Louisville, Ken
tucky.
Jackson county is still crying for a
fast mail route. We trust our friends
will succeed at an early day.
The New York Post says that many
Republicans would rather see Hill Pres
ident than Toombs Senator.
The Crawfordville Democrat declares
that Mr. Stephens is unalterably in
favor of retaining the oapital at Atlanta.
The Athens Georgian cordially sec
onds the idea of revising the whole sys
tem of dicipline, curriculum and studies.
One of the three prisoners who es
caped from tho Cuthbert jail by over
powering the jailor, has been returned.
Hon. John A. Wimpey endorses the
Constitution as better than the one his
party made, and will vote for ratifica
tion.
A little eleven year old girl in Craw
fordville has amused herself during
vacation making a quilt an<i drying
peaches.
One wholesale house in Savannah sold,
during the month of August, one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars
worth of goods.
It is not fair to write acrostios about
Gen. Toombs until his political disabili
ties are removed, and he can defend
himself like a man.
The health of Savannah is remarkably
good now, aud the authorities are de
termined to maintain it by all pruden
tial aud'eautionary measures.
Messrs. J. A. Stephens and B. F.
Moore, of Taliaferro, are spoken of for
the State Senate aud House. Senator
Dußose, it is Haid, will not run again.
The Marietta Journal notes the ar
rest of one Joseph Glossier, of Cobb
county, for a sham marriage with, and
the seduction of a young girl only fif
teen years old.
Thomas Skates, a famous Atlanta
criminal, while confined in a cell the
other night, took twelve grains mor
phine, wrote a piece of poetry and
ricochetted into another world.
So far as the Athens Georgian is able
to discover, the people of Georgia are
pretty equally divided on the capital
question, and thinks that angry discus
sion is not likely to win friends for the
one side or the other.
The Gainesville Eagle has it that 001.
H. P. Farrow thinks the Republicans of
Georgia will take but little interest in
the ratification eleotion. They are with
out organization, and don’t care whether
the new Constitution is ratified or not.
The Berrien County News appositely
remarks this ooincidence: “The first
Constitution Georgia ever had was
made in Savannah in 1777, just one hun
dred years ago. The best Constitution
Georgia ever had was in 1877.”
Regarding the scandal about the north
Georgia lady and the Congressman, the
Jackson County IVews“happens to know
that a more unmitigated, unfounded
slander never fell from the lips of care
less gossip, or leaped from the tongue
of corrupt malice.”
The Jackson county News favors At
lanta and the new homestead, The News
considers the proposed shortening of
official terms, at this time, a serious
mistake, as well as the election of
Judges and State House offioers. It in
dorses the Constitution as a whole,
Sparta seems to be sadly in need of a
fire engine.
The West Point publio sohools have
an art department.
Anew Presbyterian Church is going
up in Floyd county.
Thomas county physicians are form
ing a medical society.
We welcome the West Point State
Line Press to our table.
Thomas county proposes to go in for
the premium at the State Fair.
The State Road lessees have paid into
the Treasury thus far $2,000,000.
Gen. Toombs has been invited to
speak in West Point and has acoepted.
Sylvester Battle, a Spartan jail break
er, has been returned to Hancock oounty.
“ Montagues,” or love locks on the
forehead, are as fashionable in Georgia
as ever.
The Henry Oounty Weekly firmly re
solves to be good humored in the capi
tal fight.
The Thomasville Times advises its
readers to fatten hogs and read the new
Constitution.
The Berrien count} News counts on
COO majority, at least, for ratification
and Milledgeville, in that county.
In the State geological room is a large
fossil turtle shell, embedded in lime
stone and shells, and all preserved.
The Sparta Times and Planter , hav
ing the interests of Middle Georgia at
heart, is square out for Milledgeville.
The Columbus Times righteously
concludes that the hands which throw
stones at Georgia as a repudiator should
be cleaner.
The Southern Musical Convention
convened at Hampton last week, about
twenty-five delegates being present.
The Eatonton Messenger states that
Judge E. B. Dardon, of Quitman coun
ty. breathed his last a few days ago at
the ripe old age of three score.
The trial of Mr. J. C. Hunter in Jack
son county last week, being one of the
most exciting which has happened for
several years in that Circuit, terminated
in an acquittal of the accused,
The Griffin News’ Atlanta man notes
among those spoken of for the legisla
ture Messrs. N. J. Hatqmond, Lowndes,
Calhoun, T. P. Westmoreland and John
Thomas. Present incumbents will also
run.
A Rome Courier correspondent thinks
that if our agricultural schools are not
what citizens of Georgia would like to
see them, it is because the State has not
yet fully oome up to her duty in provid
ing the means for thrnr support, as she
is in honor, as well as legally, bound
to do.
Dalton has invited Hayes.
Talbot county has thirty-three stills.
Jackson countyj needs anew Court
house.
Cotton seems to be about two weeks
behindhand.
A stabbing affray occurred at Clarkes
vilie recently.
Atlanta has a gold ore mill in the
heart of the city.
Talbotton is jogging along without
much preaching,
Madison oounty is said to be solid for
the new Constitution.
The sugar cane crop in Stewart coun
ty has proven a failure.
Bishop Gross arrived in Savannah,
Monday, from Baltimore.
Matt O'Brien, Esq., is penning verse
to the Columbus Enquirer.
The Athens bar-keepers are again in a
stew about selling liquor to minors.
Monday’s sunset is said to have been
one of the most beautiful on record.
INDSTINCT PRINT.
There are two banks in Athens, re
presenting an aggregate capital of $225,-
000.
J. C. McCarter, sheriff of Franklin,
caught two foxes near Tocooa last
week.
The editors of the Athens Watchman
are evidently divided upon the oapital
question.
The Talbotton Stadard is enterpris
ingly getting ont a daily edition during
Court week.
Incendiaries made another diabolical
attempt to strike a light in Macon Mon
day morning.
A. Montgomery Sale, Esq., of Athens,
Ga., has gone to Princeton, N. J., Theolo
gical Seminary.
Monroe county grand jury condemns
the principle of allowing premiums for
best worked roads.
One of Dr. Bozeman’s last acts was to
pen an able defense to the Northern pa
pers, of Georgia’s credit.
The fair grounds of Albany have been
located on ground given by Col. Tift on
the Flint river near Albany.
The Atlanta Constitution regrets to
learn of the death of the wife of Judge
Augustus Reese, of Madison.
Hon. Reason Paul, of Irwin oounty,
died very suddenly (it is snpposed of
heart disease) on Thursday last.
Oliver James, a negro in Clayton
county, has been sentenced by Judge
Hillyer to bo hung October 26th.
Judge Crawford, in his charge to the
Talbot grand jury, took occasion to com
plimeut very highly the new Coustitu
tion.
Rev. Geo. Bull, a colored octogena
rian, baptized forty converts at Lump
kin last Sunday in twenty-sevou min
utes.
The Early County News' tickets for
the December election is “Ratification,
Milledgeville and the Homestead of
1876.”
The mill of Mr. John H. Colt, five or
six miles from Athens, was broken into
on Sunday and a quantity of flour
stolen.
Turee lunatics were admitted into the
Milledgeville Asylum Saturday. By the
way, shouldn’t the Asylum bo moved to
Atlanta ?
Thomas oounty tax payers are rejoic
ing over a oonnty tax reduotion of thir
ty-three and one-third per cent, ou last
year’s rate.
Col. H. H. Jones, of tho Macon Tele
graph, and the twelve able, are still en
gaged in adjusting the amenities of
journalism.
Athens during the past year, says the
Watchman, has received 26,000 bales
ootton, of which her spinners have con
sumed 3,000.
Miohael Shaw, who murdered his wife
a month or two ago, has been tried in
Milledgeville and sentenced to be hung
on the 12th of Ootober.
We do not credit the report that Dr.
E. Dorsette Newton, of Athens, is Os
man Pasha, The dootor is now iu New
York and will soon be home to answer
for himself.
The Butts oounty Argus has a column
of sheriff’s sales advertised against sun
dry parties who have failed to pay their
subscriptions to the Griffin and Mouti
oello Railroad.
The Old Capital has this: “The oapi
tal of Georgia was carried to Atlanta by
a military edict issued by Gen. Meade.
The boomerang convention endorsed
that edict in ’68.”
A Covington negro woman, who is en
gaged as a cook, contributes a part of
her monthly wages to the support of
her old “ mistiss,” who is now quite
old and feeble and resides in the coun
try.
Friday morning, near Trenton, Ga.,
as the seotion hands on seotion No. 2 of
A. and C. R. R. were going out to work,
a negro man fell from the lever car in
front, and was run oyer and instantly
killed,
The Constitution thinks that the real
question is, not whether “we will en
dorse or reject the fraud of Bullock and
kia crew, ” but is Atlanta the most con
venient, accessible and economical
point ?
A Spalding county farmer says that
frost never comes until the cockle-burrs
were fully ripe, and as these haye just
begun to grow the indications pointed
to a late season and the full maturity of
all cotton bolls.
The Athens Watchman says: “Let the
people everywhere vote solidly for the
new Constitution. It is one of their
own making, and one that is worthy of
their suffrage now, and of their future
love and support for years and years to
come.”
The Tocooa Herald, commenting
upon the abolition of the present Legis
lature, says: “Whatever improvements
there are in the new Constitution, com
pared to the old one, it is in part owing
to the wisdom, foresight and patriotism
of our last Legislature,”
The officers of the army stationed at
Atlanta have raised a fund sufficient to
purchase the plot of ground upon which
General McPherson was killed. The
spot has been marked with a Parrot gun
firmly set in the ground, and the lot has
been enclosed with a substantial iron
fence.
Thus the Mfiledgeville Recorder : If
it is true, as asserted by the Atlanta
Coustitution, that the Capitol building
iu Milledgeville is s small aud inferior
concern, then the Atlanta people were
only getting off a huge joke on the Con
vention when they offered to erect on
the City Hall lot g building as good a,
the one in Afilledgevifle.
The Old Capital notes that the Chron
icle anp is a consoli
dation of two of the oldest papers in the
oountry, and is in every respect one of
the beat dailies in the South. Mr. H
G. Wright, well known as one of the
most forcible political writers of his age
in the country; James R. Randall, Esq.,
author of “Maryland, My Maryland,”
and magy other poems whioh have sung
themselves into the hearts of the South
ern people, constitute an editorial force
that coaid not get out a sorry paper if
they were to try. Under the business
management of Col. Patrick their
paper stands in the first of Ameri
can i*nd we cheerfully com
mend it.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
The Crop Proapet—A Bad Shewing—'Tlie Neyr
Constitution—JrSernon for IHillefrceville.
f Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
LouisviLiiE, September 10.—Having
seen but one or two short crop repoits
from Jefferson county, and those early
in the season, I have oonoluded to post
you up to date that you may have cor
rect data, so far as we are concerned,
from which to make your calculation on
the general crop. The seasons have
been unfavorable since early in the
Spring over the whole county, with the
exception of a narrow belt of two or
three miies in the northeastern part,
where they have not suffered for rain;
consequently our orops are short. Corn
is decidedly short and cotton will fall
off at least one-third—in parts of the
county it will full off at least one
half, but the average will be a third,
This is the estimate of some of our
largest and best planters. Last Friday
we had the first general rain which has
fallen for three months. Since then it
has rained more or less every day, and
should it continue so as to constitute a
“wet spell,” it will injure cotton as
much by “'shedding” as it will benefit it
in the development of the half grown
bolls. These rains will benefit peas and
potatoes, both of which bid fair to be
short. I see a good deal said in the
papers on the subject of the bright
prospects of a fine crop and the revival
of trade, but am sorry to say neither
our planters or merchants felicitate
themselves on such a prospect. More
fertilizers were bought tfie past Spring
than for several years past, and the cot
ton crop bids fair to be so short that
the planters will have but little money
left over after paying their guano
I have already heard of some
who say they fear they will not be able
to pay for their guaao. Will our plant
ers never learn sense from experience ?
If they are short, the merchants are
obliged to be short, too,
I hear but little said on the subject of
the ratification of the Constitution, but
that little is favorable, and I have no
doubt the vote for ratification will be
large ; if no better, or even worse, we
prefer it to the present one, because we
made it ourselves. It was sat made by
niggers, scalawags *nd carpet-baggers,
and wiU not be jammed down our
throats at the point of the bayonet, as
the one wo are now living under was.
For the same reason w*> prefer Milledge
ville as tfie capital. Yfa feel that it was
a trick of <f°e Brown’s, sticking Atlanta
in the present Constitution, knowing
that we had no phoiee but to ratify it,
and in that way Atlanta would be made
the capital. It the people had been al
lowed to vote on that question alone, as
they are now, Milledgeville would still
be the capital, and we hope to make it
so again. Jefferson.
$2 A-YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
The Marlboro Planter is for sale.
Abbeville has a Good Templars’ Lodge.
Chicken cholera prevails in Newberry.
Whooping cough continues in Chester.
Dry weather has injured the turnip
crop.
Lancaster wants a railroad to Monroe,
N. C.
Lowndosville has anew militia com
pany.
An occasional rabbid dog is cavorting
around.
The Spartan Rifles are to be reor
ganized.
Mrs. Esther Magill, of Chester, died
recently.
Abbeville has a municipal election on
Monday.
The Yorkville Female Institute opens
enoouragingly.
Chester has enjoyed another “ Oide
Folkes Oonoerte.”
Greenville is in earnest about a Li
brary Association.
Independent tickets threaten parly
solidity in Carolina.
An immigration agent is traveling
around in Anderson.
The Barnwell cavalry company had a
fine barbecue Saturday.
Judge Wigg has the ouly white crape
myrtle in South Carolina.
Tho Reporter gives an accout of al
monds growing in Chester.
Express delivery has been started ou
the Chester and Lenoir Road.
Mrs. Marga et Ccx recently died in
Anderson from a paralytic stroke.
Railroad projects seem to be whiffed
around on all sides by Au f umn breezes
Spring ohicki ns in Lancaster live to
the age of thirteen and then die reluct
antly.
The Democratic majority in the
special oounty election at Wmnsboro is
1,869.
There will be a tournament in the
Chappell’s Depot neighborhoi and ou
Thursday.
About four and a half miles of track
have been laid ou the Chester and Clie
raw Road.
A crack has boen discovered in the
Columbia Capitol building. No damage
done as yet,
Laurens desires railroad connection
with the Air Line, at either Greenville
or Spartanburg.
Lowndesville hold a mass meeting
yesterday over the proposed road from
Anderson to Augusta.
The Anderson Intelligencer wishes to
bring the perjured voters in the late
town election to justice.
T. P. Lawton, Esq., got out the first
bale at Allendale. Though poetically
expressed, this is no jest.
Notwithstanding the fact that the sore
and yellow leaf begins to fall, pic-nios
continue most vigorously.
Adjutant and Inspector-General Moise
has ordered a general military inspec
tion of all the State troops.
Mr. Newton A. MoCully has been
elected ootton weigher for the town of
Anderson for the coming year.
So long as new bales come in and
schools open with flattering prospects,
“there’s life in the old land yet.” .
A cavalry company numbering about
45 men has been formed near Branoh
ville, called the Fishpond Marines.”
Beer sellg in Charleston at five cents
per glass, and good times dawn once
more. Why is it not so in Augusta ?
A reunion of Company F, Sixth Regi
ment S. C. V. of the lat.o war, will pro
bably be held in Chester next month.
They seemed determined to suppress
the nefarious traffic in seed cotton in
Newberry between sunrise and sunset.
Joe Henderson, the negro condemned
to death for the murder of a colored wo
man, is to be hanged in Edgefield, on
the 21st instant.
A large quantity of steel rails have
been ordered for the Air Line Railroad,
and they will be laid dowu without un
necessary delay.
Every one around Rock HOI seems
satisfied that under Hampton, homo
rule and the no fence law, the country
is bound to improve.
Mrs. Catherine Bomar, an aged lady
of 99 years, walked in Spartauburg, a
quarter of a mile, to hear a iu
neral sermon preached.
Freight on a hogshead of bacon is tho
same from Baltimore to Spartanburg,
about 500 miles, as from Spartanburg to
Union, twenty-eight miles.
A little son of Mr. P. Nail, of Chester,
fell off a fence, tho other day, and broke
his leg. It is well that this little nail
was not struck on the head.
A little sou of Mr. John J, Mattison,
in Anderson oounty, was shot in the
thigh by a pistol discharged in tho hands
of a colored hoy Sunday morning.
The negro, Cush Harris, who killed
Mr. Lewis Holloway, and burned his
house over his body, on the night of the
6th of January last, was hung It miles
west of Edgefield Court House, on Fri
day, 31st of August.
Tho amendment to the Constitution,
says the Abbeville Hanner, levying two
mills annually for school purposes was
voted upon by our people without un
derstanding what they voted for, and it
is hoped that tho Legislature will re
fuse to ratify it,
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company has proposed that if
the citizens of Edgefield will grade and
cross tie a road from the Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta Railroad to Edge
field Court Houbc, the railroad company
will lay the iron and furnish the neces
sary rolliug stock.
Our brother, of the Elgefield Adver
tiser, has this to remark : If amid the
political bondage and ljard times which
haye beset us lor the last twelve years
some of onr people—many perhaps—
have been forced to drop the Chronjoi.k
and Sentinel or the Constitutionalism,
of Augusta, now is emphatically the
time to renew their qlfi tiigo allegiance
to these honored names; now that we
are somewhat better off in purse, and
now that both these brave, honest and
able old papers are merged into one.
Identified as it has been for many, many
long years with the people of tills coun
ty, standing close by them ip adversity
as well as in prosperity, the Chronicle
and Constitutionalist is thoroughly in
sympathy with our institutions, indeed
is one of the most revered landmarks of
the olden time now left us. A a news
paper the Chiioniole anp Constitution
alist is absolutely all tliat can be de
sired,
Greenville wants to work its convicts.
Abbeville elected anew Town Council
Monday.
Daring burglars are “starring around”
in Greenville.
The People is the name of anew pa
per in Barnwell.
Negroes around Winnsboro are still
“going to Liberia.”
Two counterfeit shovers have been
oaptured in Columbia.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson has gent
Gov. Hampton a fine setter dog.
The up-counties are trying to got up a
cheap excursion to the seaboard.
The number of deaths in Charleston
for the month of August was 166.
Allodge of Juvenile Good Templars
has been organized in Greenville.
Eleven rattlesnakes were found under
a log and killed over in Lexington Fri
day,
Greenville oounty has paid more taxes
than any county in the State, next to
Charleston.
J. T. Nix, Esq., a young member of
the Walterboro’ bar, has settled in
Greenville.
The remains of ex-Senator J. J. P.
Owens were carried to Laurens by way
of Greenville.
People in that section are pretty well
stirred up on the Chester and George
town Railroad.
It is said to he surprising to know
how few persons in Charleston possess
neither dogs or watches.
A Greenville train, the other night,
ran over and killed a colored man by
the name of Wm. Jones,
The Charleston artesian well is gradu
ally growing deeper. Whether nearing
water or not, we cannot say.
Rev. Jno. R. Reilly, of the Lanrens
ville Presbyterian Church, accepts a pro
fessorship in Adger College, WalhaUs,
A Columbia gammin want* a news
boys’ convention. Certainly; and let
this be seconded, by a Bootblack Broth
erhood.
Greenville votes $3,000 as a bonns for
the Spartanburg and Union Railroad
workshops, and the shops will accord
ingly ba located there.
ififty dollars reward is offered by the
Governor for the apprehension of John
Williams, an escaped penitentiary con
vict from Abbeville county.
Mr. F. M. M’Ateer, of*Lancaster, has
a piece of bottom land oorn in which he
can stand in one place and with a yard
stick touch sixty-one good ears.
Rev. R, L. Patton, D. D., will ocoupy
the Professorship of Greek in Erskine
College, made vacant by the death of
the lamented Dr. James P. Pressly.
The looal of the Columbia Megista
has an intermittent kerosine fountain at
work upon his brow every night to pre
idea 0 mnsquitoes from disturbing his
fudge Mackey will address the citizens
of Union on the Ist Monday in October
upon the importance of building the
Chester and Union Narrow Gauge Rail
road.
Bickson, Esq., was recently
married to Miss Mamie L. Blackwood,
daughter of J, J. Blackwood, Esq.,
Cashier of the Greenville National
Bank.
The Governor has commuted the aen
tence of Darling Nevils, who was cm
victed of murder at the la,t term of the
General Sessions of Barnwell county to
imprisonment for life.
Governor Hampton left Columbia
Saturday night for Rockford, Illinois
where lie goes to deliver the annual ad
dress before the Agricultural and Me
chanical Association of that county.
Mr. George Townsend, of New York
while walkiug down the inclined plane
at the Ashley River wharf, in Charles
ton, slipped in tbo darkness and fell on
the planking, injuring himsely seriously.
The committee appointed to make ar
rangements for military prizes to be
contended for at the State Fair in No
vember has decided to restrict the list
of contestants to South Carolina com
panies.
The Winnslioro News thinks no
attention should be paid to those silly
partisans who are now endeavoring to
make political capital by excitiug sym
pathy tor the most abominable gang of
thieves that ever got possession of other
people s money.
The Governor has appointed John S.
tVilson, ,T H, MoFaddeu and R S
Hope to nyestigate the bonded indebt
edness 01 Chester county. Also, Brown
Manning and Ga ether Pierson on the
committee to invests;-,di die debt of
Clarendon county.
11 INCOCK COUNTY.
TUe Crop Prospect—Toinuiji tor the Brn,ito.
T Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist. |
Hancock County, near Sparta, Sep
tember 9.—Since my last the crops of
this section have improved somewhat.
I now think a full half, probably two
thirds crop of cotton will be gathered.
The yield is almost entirely from the
August fruiting, owing to the more aus
picious seasons of that month. The de
ficit is in the July making. I think the
old corn lias developed generally better
than was expected, but that of later
planting, including bottom lands, is
sadly in arrears; while in turnips the
crop is almost a total failure.
Your “Constitution” articles are read
with interest and approval everywhere
This county will vote a good majority
for “ratification,” with “Miiiedgeville v
tacked on to give the ballots solidity.
There are other people than the editors
who favor Bob Toombs for the Senate,
and their name is legion, who long to
hear once more his stentorian voice
sounding, and see his majestic figure
guarding in the chambor. Hancock.
AUGUSTA ANI NUWKEItIIY liAf f.ROAO.
Newberry, S. C., September 7, 1877.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The people of Newberry are alive to
the necessity of another railroad. A
mass meeting was hold in the Court
House on Monday last, and a commit
tee appointed, of which I am chairman,
to report on the first Monday in October
all the facts as to the best routes and.
means of establishing anew line or
rcaking a connection with, lines already
established. The people of Augusta
have been invited to send a delegation
to meet us here on that day. I hope
they will be represented, and in the
meantime we will bo pleased to hear
from them. Newberry annually ships
twenty-live thousand bales of cotton,
and she can be connected with your city
by a short lino, which will bring her in
connection with Charleston, Port Royal
and Savannah. This can be effected by
tapping the Columbia and Augusta P.aii
road at or near Johnston, which will not
exceed a line of twenty-five mil.es. What
will the people of Augusta do to effect
it ¥ It is also proposed ta tap the South
Railroad, which will put ns and you on
a direct line and the shortest "to the
North aud Northwest. I hope to hear
from your people, and that they will be
represented here on the first Monday
in October. I am, sirs, yours very re
spectfully, Euuison S, Kbitt.
WIIITTEMORH ON lIAVES
A Soul It Carolina Political Trrimn on I In;
Situation.
The last we have heard of Whitte
more was at a reunion of the 53d Mas
sachusetts Regiment at Fitchburg,
Mass., last week, when he made the fol
lowing refreshing remarks :
We are standing over a volcano ready
for an eruption at any time. People
cry peace ! penoo ! and there is no
peace. Our battles must be fought
over again. When the speaker thought
of the friends and comrades he had seen
shot down, and then of tho existing state
of affairs, it hadseemodto him that they
had died in vain. He not only believed
in being a loyal soldier, but in being a
Republican as well, and when he
thought what Southern Republi
cans went through to elect the
President, who had turned them
over to their enemies, he was ready
to say that there had been no line of
policy so base since the days of Judas
Iscariot. Wo fought to preserve our
liberty, and now it as though
every man in the country must feel that
all our sacrifices are to go for naught, if
we are to have su„h meu rule over us as
ure at present m position and power.
The time is coming wheu you Northern
men wilt be called upon tu pay for all
the slaves whose liberty vuu fought fi r
and you will be Hiked'to pty all con
structive damages by the war, to com
merce and to. industry. It' -,cu refuse,
you will be treated'as rebels. In con
cluding, he expressed the wish that
Northern men might have their eyes
open to the danger that impends, to the
end that the old flag which ho had
fought for, which ho loved and which
he wanted to bo wrapped in when he
died, might ever remain the symbol of
freedom and I’berty.
WHO NHAf.I, BE SENATOR ?
Uenerul Ciordon tlio Choice of South C'nro
linu.
[ Charleston News and Courier. \
The Legislature of Georgia, at its
next session, wili have, the determina
tion of a question iu which the whole
South is scarcely less interested than
Georgia herself. It must decide whether
or not Gen. Gordon shall continue to
hold the seat in the United States Sen
ate in which he has won a national repu
tion for courage, sagacity and unselfish
patriotism. To his untiring efforts and
his hard won influence Louisiana and
South Carolina, in great part, owe their
relief from a degrading rule and from
Federal shackles; and, as it was an alter
native of greater liberty for thoae two
Southern States or more restriction for
tho others, the whole South owes a
heavy debt to Georgia’s noble Senator.
Morally and mentally, as well as phy
sically, Gordon is a towering figure in
Congress; and, as great men are not
more plentiful in Georgia than else
where, it is not likely, she can put a bet
ter man in his place. Southern repre
sentation in the Senate is still small, and
to exercise its rightful influence it must
make up in foroe for what it lacks in
numbers. Such a man as Gordon could
indeed ill be spared. It is, therefore,
with great pleasure that we find so well
informed a journal as the Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist ex
pressing the opinion that, notwithstand
ing the cloud of aspirants for tho place,
Gen. Gordon is himself the strongest
candidate in the field. It is a large field,
and includes many good men; but if all
the Democrats in the South could have
a voice in the election, Gordon would
be chosen on the first ballot by a large
majority over all the other candidates
combined.
Ijieortfiii I.MokiuK |7p.
\Jioslon Her aid. \
The Empire State of the South is
looking up. General Bob Toombs, hav,;
ing been assured that his political dis
abilities will be removed "by Congress
tbis Winter, is intending to run for
Senator Gordon’s place. Hon. Benj.
Hill, the amber-haired statesman, is
already talked of in Georgia as the next
Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency. General Longstreet, now a citi
zen of Georgia, is talked of for United
States Marshal. Georgia intends to be
a live member of the Union.
One death from yellow fever at Fer
naudina Tuesday night. No new cases
yesterday.