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Hip tekeliljj (Cljrwirlc ■& CjaraKtattatMlfat OLD SERIESHfOL ICII NEW SERIES-VOL. LI. (Ctjromcfe an& .Smftntl W i NESDAT, SEPTEMBER 19,1877. A reward can safely bo offered for a Chinese who parts his hair in the mid dle. m • 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.” • 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. - ia.|iw 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 ! ■ - 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. ■ 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. - 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. m a m 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.