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arflttmicle anft jSratfnel. w i>N BSPAT, BBPTBMBBB 19,1877. Chamberlain has adopted Beecher h plan. He will brazen it oat. The Democratic vote in Bangor, Maine, fell off from 1,732 to 171. Simon Cameron lias had a warning. His brother William has just died, aged 84. Just now, it is au even wager whether the “Sedan” will be Turkish or Rus sian. _ Pig Iron Kelley says the Sheriff is the busiest and happiest man in Phila delphia. Ninety-five per cent, of murders in France are for money ; the same ratio in Spain can be traced to love—that is to woman. Some of the brethren will not believe in Morton’s improved condition, unless the assurance is conveyed under his own signature. Eliza Pinkston has recovered from her “ghastly wounds” and gains a pre carious living by plying the nimble hoe npon a Mississippi plantation. The Virginia papers are of opinion that the success of the bar-keeper’s bell punch depends largely upon the man who turns tho crank. It is like the maD behind the gun. m An English Court paper informs the fashionable world that the ex-Empress Eugenie “is enjoying the society of Cowes.” Why don’t she come to Au gnGta and bo happy ? We read of a Cincinnati drummer being robbed of 88,000 in jewelry. We thought the advance agent of a circus or minstrel troupe could alone support *mch a dazzling outfit- Antwerp has spent 3300,060 in gold for the celebration of Rcbens’ tercen tenary. And yet he was not born in Antwerp, and probably wanted cash sioroly there 300 years ago. We learn that tho membors of the X’aia graphers’ Association have a?reed to leave all their money to the Ear Infirmary. New York Herald. Is this intended to reflect upon the Dem. .Tack. Ass. of Washington ? The new era bids fair, after 1879, to witness an honest Republican President carrying out Democratic measures, and supported in doing so by a Senate and House, both Democratic. Tjie people of Canada who came in contact with Spencer, the fugitive bank robber, thought him a great liar. He soeins to have carried out Dr. Frank lin's theory that falsehood and theft are always twins. * Old Uncle William Allen, in an in terview liberally interlarded with “cuss words,” attributed Tilden’s loss of the Presidency to bis Southern claims letter. He thinks that broke the back of the •“forty Brigadiers." Ex-Treasurer Niles O. Parker, whose “clean breast” is now a sensation of tho day, has becomo a noted temper ance lecturer. Ho will very likely cause Chamberlain ct at. to nso some very in temperate remarks. The Springfield Republican rather favors casos of eutlianasin, like that of Mrs. Julia Key. It does not seo the sense of scientifically preserving a pain ful life, when the sufferer is willing and anxious to depart. The trouble is, how over, that “hopeless cases” often get ■well. Or.i) physicians insisted npon the danger of bathing when tho system is heated aud perspiration free. The best English doctors, headed by Fordyce, <3ufjiiiE, Parsons, Sir Charles Blagdon and others, now contond that then is the very best possible timo to take a .bath. | . TnE New York Democracy are quar roling over their party nominations. One faction wants tho old Slate officials re nominated, and another faction wants a new deal of straight-out men, instead of recent converts. This would be an ugly crisis if the Republicans wore united. But they aro not. Boscob CoNKLING has his war paint on. ■ . Gen. 15. F. Butler believes that “the grout trouble of tho futuro will be want of education. With good education there will bo good government.” Men who ran the Radical machine, for a num ber of years past, must have been ex -oeodiugly illiterate. Aud yet many of them bad tho impudence to laugh at Fitzhugh’s spelliug. Harper's Weekly thinks this is a good time to abolish the idea that “to the -rioters belong tho spoils.” Now that tho Democracy are about to resume control of tho Government, and every thing has beeu subsidized to benefit the North, there must all of a sudden be a return of the days of innocence, but no restoration of the plunder ! It is a grand thing to be a lunatic in confinement in Loudon. According to the report of th 3 managers of one asy lum 109 “amusements” were given dur ing the year, attended by 17,000 people. These included nine balls, fifty dances, fifty-four croquet parties, three dra matic entertainments, five tea parties, six concerts, eleven lectures, fifteen pic nics, and what are stated to be “four .Megatherium Societies.” “Tns possible purchase of a Southern Senator” is gently hinted by the Repub lican press, in case of urgency, during the extra session of Congress. Of course the “purchasing” is to bo done by De *.-erats to secure control of that body. The carpet-baggers could likely enough be bought for a consideration, but the Democracy, who scorned to win the rresidency by buying Returning Boards, are not apt to go into Senatorial sharp practice. The Governor of Maryland has in flicted a most degrading punishment upon the Sixth Regiment of Militia for responding so lukewarmly to the call for troops during the recent riots. He t>*s accepted the resignations of the fieid officers and disbanded the regi ment, giving his reasons therefor. The punishment is as just as it is humiliat ing. Men have no business to play at being soldiers who will not be soldiers in earnest. Geo. E. Spencer, the sutler Senator from A.’abama, made a little romance of ] his marriage. Tho bride was an aetress whose stage name was May Nunez. Her real name, odd S3 sonni1 ' was 1 William Louisa Nttrez. Her father was a Major in the Confederate army, and her uncle is General William Lorisg, formerly of the Southern, now of the Egyptian service. SrF-seEirmet j her in the New York Post Office, where she was discharging her father's duties daring his illness. She is a favorite j with General Patrick Joxus and Hon. Thomas MritFHEY, prominent Republi can officials of New York. As the bride was a Catholic and the Senator a Pro testant, a dispensation for the marriage bad to be obtained from Cardinal Me Olqskv. Sfesckk was formerly a bar tender in San Francisoe, and his first wife is said to have died in California with a broken heart-if there be any such disease known to the faculty. We wish the second one a better fate, but ftat bar husband will end hi* days be hind the bare of a penitentiary, we have not the slightest doubt. The marriage was secret because of the jealousy of a New York JEsculapics, who was madly in love with the pretty actress, and Anight have made mischief with his little lancet if he had been aware of what was going on. _ WILLIAM HOPE HILL. The sad intelligence was received yes terday of the sudden death, in New York, of Hon. William Hope Hull, of this city. Mr. Hull came of an old and honored family. His grandfather, Rope Hull, son of an Englishman of that name, was born in Worcester coun ty, Maryland, March 13, 1763. He moved to Georgia, and established a high school in Washington, Wilkes connty, in the la'ter part of the last cen tury. He was one of the founders of Methodism in this State. His bi ographer, Hon. A. H. Stephens, says : “ He was a man of great usefulness aud distinction in his day, and made au im pression upon the time3 in Georgia that will remain for generations to come.” His father, Asbcry Hull, was born in Washington, January 30, 1797. He graduated at the State University in 1814, and was for more than forty years Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of that institution. He was often a member of the Legislature, and repeatedly Speaker of the House. He was also a member of the Secession Convention of 1861, aud declined the Presidency of that body. He died in Athens, January 25th, 1866. William Hope Hull was born in Athens, Febru ary 20, 1820. He entered the University and graduated in 1888. After his gradu ation he studied law, and early won dis tinction in his profession. He was elected Solicitor General of the West ern Judicial Circuit, and discharged the duties of that responsible position in sueli a way as to greatly add to the reputation which he had already ac quired. He soon became known as one of the ablest lawyers at the bar of bis State, and secured a large and lncrative practice. In politics he was a Demo crat and a warm supporter and intimate personal friend of Howell Cobb. When James Buchanan was inaugurated Pres ident in ias7, he called Mr. Cobb to his Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Hull was appointed Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. When secession was determined upon he returned to Georgia and cast his fortunes with tho South. Since the war he has resided in Augusta, and prac ticed his profession—confining himself to the civil side of the Courts. For several years, and up to the time of his death, he was the attorney of the Geor gia Railroad, one of the largest corpora tions iu the State. Asa lawyer, Mr. Hull’s charaoteris tics were learning, clearness aud force. He made no protention to eloquence, though at times he was decidedly elo quent; but his eloquence was a result, not au aim and a study—the result of perfect perspicuity of ideas aud the use of simple aud appropriate language to convey them. With a decided taste for books aud without either the cares or the diversions of domestic life, ho devoted an unusual proportion of his time to study. Time bestowed by such a mind could but load to the acquisition of very extensive learning; and it in turn was firmly held by a remarkably retent ive memory. He was not at all a “ease lawyer,” but far above that inferior or der of his profession. His opinions of questions were determined by tho sound application of general principles .and the accurate aud minute knowledge of the exceptions, which vary their opera tion. When he had investigated a ques tion his judgment was nearly invariably correct. When be considered it correct his presentation of it was animated, but temperate, confident but deferen tial, clear, forcible, convincing.-- When ho had not satisfied his own sense of truth it was not easy for him to insist pven on those views favorable to that side, which, upon the whole, he considered unsound, lie was wholly devoid of that effrontery in presenting a bad case as a good one which some lawyers are found shamoless enough to beast pf, aud some laymen stupid enough to applaud. Mr. Hull considered that the argument ot purely legal questions wns his forte; aud in this opinion he was correct. But he was not correct in the distrust he felt of bis powers before a jury. Before good juries, looking for tkoir guidance to the plaiu, simple, cloar presentation of facts and principles, no sdvooate was, or do served to bo, more successful; but in pleasing contrast with the vanity of some of his shallower brethren he had an unwarranted but unconquerable diffi dence of ii< powers in this branch of his profession. Mr. Hull possessed in a hfglf dogree all the qualities that go to make up S mvn. His private life was without spot or blemish. Though tho possessor of great talents aud a great reputation, he was singularly modest and unassuming. He entertained decided convictions which he never hesitated to express, but he had no spark of partisanship. He was loyal in his friendships, placable in his eumitles, and he had a warm heart and a generous nature, His death will be deplored by a circle of friends as wide almost as his acquaintanceship, aud will bo regarded as a public calamity. His friends, bis relatives and bis State, have indeed sustained an irreparable loss. THE NORTHERN POOR. Iu some editorial remarks upon the propriety of seeking employment in the South, tho New York Daily Bulletin as sumes that there are 50,000 to 70,000 out of employmentin New York city,and says that the Philadelphia North American estimates that there are not less than one hundred and fifty thousand out of work in that city. There is a restless spirit everywhere at tho North among many thousands of the unemployed, es pecially of great cities, to seek better fortune abroad. Stupendous efforts are being made to direct these people Southward, but without much success. One of the most singular problems of the age is imbedded in this very thing. It would appear, at once, that the ten dency of migration would be Southward; but it is not. STc one who has net ex amined the matter eac comprehend the aversion toward settling ip the South. A good deal of this aversion is purely chimerical and in consequence of Radical misrepresentation, but not all. A gentleman in Baltimore, largely in terested in Southern railroads, told the writer that li9 had been in strumental in settling about seven ty persons in a rather favored region of North Carolina, but, within a few months, at least two-thirds of them returned, preferring to face the fntnre, dismal as it was, in their old homes. The general complaint was that thpy were lonesome and had few or no sym pathetic associations. Col. D. Wiaft Aiken, of South Carolina, who has trav eled extensively beyond the Border, with a most inquiring disposition, re gards the negro as the stumbling block to the majority of Northern men who wish to make a movement of this kind. He contends that, so long the present condition of the South endures, sis can not hope for any pronounced increase of population from abroad. The truth of tU matter is, we think, that the persons who wish to move South are such as w Ao not want or need, and those of fcue North who are moat desirable will not come, because thev caniiAt procure here the many ad vantages they have in their own coun try, or expect, with some reason, to get Westward. We must bide our time. The centres of wealth and population i are changing slowly. At the proper i time the South will have all the induce ments presented by more favored sec tions. We can wait tilt then. Mean while, all who come among us with the proper feelings will meet with the best welcome at disposal. Frank Leslie’s Weekly has a capital cartoon of the Indian war. It repre sents Chief Joseph and General How ard mounted on the wooden horses of a merry-go-round, like that at our Schuet zenplatz, while Brother Jonathan grinds the machine around. TWO SMITHS. It is regarded as certain that Hon. Ws. E. Smith will be the Republican candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, and equally ceitain that he will he elected.— St. Paul Free Press. We have a W*. E. Smith in Georgia, who is a member of Congren from the Second District. He was the only mem ber from this State, and one of the few from the South,who voted against creat ing the seven-by-eight Electoral Com mission. After Aliunde Joe had done the appointed work and it was certain that Tildes wonld be counted ont and Hayes be counted in, it is said that a shrewd politician from Middle Georgia who was on a visit to Washington pre dicted to Mr. Smith—“Tete Smith” the boys call him—that that vote wonld make him Governor of Georgia. “Congress man thou art, Governor thon shalt be.” Did the weird sisters speak truly ? This is a conundrum which the future must determine. In the meantime Ba con’s ideal statesmen who are willing to sacrifice themselves for their country and take Governor Colquitt’s seat had better keep their eagle eyes skinned and watch the man in Southwestern Georgia who voted against the Commission and concerning whom the words of prophecy have been spoken. SOUTH CAROLINA’S QUOTA OF ARMS. It has been widely diffused through the press that Governor Hampton could not, on application at Washington, get the quota of arms allowed for his State, because the War Department had secret ly sent all the arms the State will be entitled, for forty years, to the negroes who composed the Radical militia. This, if true, would be damning evidence against certain authorities under the Grant Administration. Chandler, Cameron, Patterson, Chamberlain and Grant are odious enough already with out any additional burdens of infamy. Later information from Washington wonld seem to put at rest this startling statement. A special dispatch to the Northern press pronounces the story false, “ for it is in direct contradiction of law, which provides for the distribution of arms annually to all States according to representation in Congress, The quota for South Caroli na was distributed a year ago, and no extra supply has been sent, so far as known to the War Department.” We shall look for a more authoritative de nial. So many villanies have been per petrated, during the last ten years, “in contradiction of law,” that any fresh revelation of rascality would not surprise the public. What Grant’s manipulators, in and out of the Cabinet, did not know about “contradicting law” is not worth knowing. THE SPARTA TRAGEDY. The arrest of Enright in Cleveland, Ohio, and his return to this oity, re vives public interest in the Sparta tragedy. It will be remembered that sometime since Mr. F. H. Roeier, a prominent merchant of Sparta, Ga., was waylaid while going from his store to his house, robbed aud murdered. Suspicion rested on three men— Lovett, Griggs and Barnes. The two former were tried and convicted. Fortunately they were convicted upon circumstan tial pyidenpe, and consequently were not sentenced to death f hut to impris onment for life in the penitentiary. Barnes’ trial is still pending. Shortly after the conviction of the two first mentioned a man named ENRioaT, who was connected with the circus which wintered here last Wipter? told a party in this oity that a mistake had been made, that he kuew the real murderers, and had been asked to join them before they started on their expedition. He entered into all the details of the case, and doiftG&slrated that he was either telling tke truth op had concocted a lie of gigantic dimensions. left here soon after upon the reorganisation of tho circus company, and when the counsel of Barnes decided to act upon his slatijiftent he oould not be found. Tho service# of a qetectivo were so cured, and EspiPHT was arrested a few days since in Cleveland, Ohio, and brought to Augusta. His evidence will will be used on the trial of Barnes this Fall, If his story is true, aud the real authors of. the crime should be secured, of course Lovett *i;d Griggs escape tha punishment to which fo e 7 h ave been and another illustra tion will bo afforded Qf th e terrible mis takes which may flow from ffjraqmstan tial evidence. The story, howevei, is a strange one, aud will bear a good deal of gjf*ju|r. CAI.I.INU FOB HELP- We have already shown how the ple at the East and West are relying politically and commercially upon the South for good government and pros perous trade. They wo likewise ap prehensive, at Creedmoor, that the Brit ish team of marksmen may beat the Americans, and so the Herald, as the spokesman of the public, is lustily crying out for Mr. Dudley Selfh, the New Orleans rifleman, to oome to the help of his fellow-countrymen, ft says ; The rifle practice of the British team last Saturday was so far superior to auy of it* previ Q&g performances that the eyes of the Am?itcaenddenly opened to the fact that they had underrate the skill of our visi tors. The average then tutu* ky the British riflemen (203 35) is so new to that of the fcpst average of the Americans (205) that the two teams now stand virtually equal in their prac tice, and the over-confidence in American suc cess which was expressed iu many quarters is now giving place to a reasonable doubt as to tho result. Prudence, therefore, dictates that tho American team should leave nothing un done to increase its strength between this time and the I3th instant. The first step in this direction should be to secure the services of Mr. Dudley pf Louisiana, as a mem bor of our team iu the international match. Mr. Selph has proved himself to be ,gne of the best shots iu America, and has achieved a national reputation. It is understood that the of our team are very desirous that Mr- SjfLl’it should shoot at Creedmoor for the championship gf the world; but for reasons of his own, he prefers tg reserve himself for the inter-State match which i* Ac follow. It is of the utmost importance that our heat rifle men should represent the United States in th, o grand contest, and Mr. Selph ought not to be left out. It is now in his power to render his country wiiliapt service, and we can see no good reason why he should refuse the op portunity. The team, no doubt, is jyijling to withdraw its lowest man to make a plac*. for this distinguished marksman of the South, and Mr. Selph should remember that if he declines to serve and the Americans should loso the tu*tph, much of tho responsibility of defeat will rest with Jim. Really, this is very flattering and the South will watch the career of her fa mous markstuaß, who has already, ae we learn by telegraph, won the Wimbledon Cup, a very great prize, which, wo un derstand, the British team fondly hoped to carry back with them. Verily, the South is looming up in all directions, and the Macedonian cry resounds in the sections which sought to crush her : “Come over and help us 1” If Sargent, of California, is such a monumental rascal, and so deservedly defeaiad, what must be said of Grant, who backed him up with patronage, and made him a personal, as well as political intimate ? Salgbnt goes to the limbo of lost demagogues. Grant makes a triumphal tour of Europe and receives the freedom of metropolitan cities. The difference no cjonbt is that between a first class brigand and the spoiler of a chicken-roost. Tap New York Sun reports a deter mination oo the part of Senator Conk lino to denounee the frond which made Mr. Hayes President, and nrges the New York Senator forward in the work. If the report proves true, it will be a novel spectacle to see a Republican President’s title questioned by a Repub lican Senator while Democratic Senators decline to re-open a question which they consider settled. But while Mr. Conk ling has been sulking, AoHiLLBs-like, in his tent for some time, we doubt whether he intends to play the role as signed him by the Sun , JEFFERSON DAVIS. A LETTER FROM EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL REAGAN To GorStifcor Porter, ol Tennessee, Hiving a UireaiaatantltLl statement of the Fliglil from Rlehinou)! and Unplure of .Hr. Davis— .... Leoernl Wilson’* Article Answered —The - Brest rkrul Rnider a. a Minrrpresenler of Facts. Governor James I). Porter, Nashville, Tennessee : On my return home, after au absence of a month, I find yonr letter of July 17th, enclosing a communication from General James H. Wilson to the Phila delphia Weekly Times, headed “Jeffer son Davis’ Flight from Richmond.” You asked me to inform yoa how much truth there is in the statement of General Wilson, and say that you desire my an swer for publication, and request me to make it full. My answer is at your dis posal, and may be published or not, as you think best. I will answer this ar ticle as well as I can remember the facts at this date, and those which are mate rial so far as they come to my knowl edge were doubtless so impressed on my mind by the deep interest of the oc casion that they will not be forgotten. I have in the outset to say that General Wilson must have written his statement from information derived from others, as he could not personally have known the facts about which he writes ; and that he has either adopted the fanciful fiction of others who know as little of the real facts as himself, or he has been egregiously imposed on. I have read the slip you sent mo twice carefnlly over, and if there is a truth in it, out side of the great historical facts inci dentally referred to—of the fall of Rich mond and surrender of General Lee—l have not discovered it. On the contrary, it is made up of statements which are utterly void of truth. I will call atten tion to some of them. The statement has been made by General Wilson, As it has been made in many other newspaper articles, that “on the first Sunday in April, 1865, while seated iu St. Paul’s Church, in Richmond, Jef ferson Davis received a telegram from Lee announcing the fall of Petersburg, the partial destruction of his army, and the immediate necessity of flight.” On that point I make this statement: On the Sunday referred to I went by the War Department on my way to church. When at the Department I was informed of two dispatches just received from General Lee, stating briefly the circum stances which made it necessary for him to withdraw his army from its position in front of Richmond aud Petersburg at seven o’clock that evening, and that it wonld be necessary for the Government archives and public property to be re moved at once. On receiving this in telligence, not knowing that Mr. D ivis had already received it, I walked toward his residence, which was a few hundred yards off, to confer with him about it, and on the way met him aud Governor Lubbock, of his staff. We three then walked on to the Executive office. He then assembled his Cabinet and sent for The Governor of Virginia anil the Mayor of Rlcliiiioihl, Directions were then given to prepare the public archives for removal, and measures were considered and directions given to secure, as far as practicable, good order and safety to persons and property in the oity until it should be surrendered. In this jyaper it \ s a i so said that, “Although he (Mr. Davis) could not have been entirely unprepared for this intelligence, it appears that he did not receive it with self-possession or dignity, but with tremulous and ner vous haste; like a weak man in the hour of misfortune, he left the house of wor ship and hurried home, where he and his more resolute wife spent the rest of the day in packing their personal bag gage.” And it is added that “those who are acquainted with tho personal character of Mrs. Davis can readily imagine with what energy and determina tion she must have prepared her family for flight,” etc. And that “they may believe, too, that although heart-sick and disgusted, there was nothing irreso lute or vacillating iu her actions.” I would express my surprise, if I could be surprised now by anything of this kind, that such a statement should come from any respectable souroe. Now tho truth is, Hr. Davis Did not, “with tremulous and nervous haste, hurry home to his more resolute wife.” From where I met him he went directly to the executive office, where he remained nearly all day, and, if I re member right, a part of the niglit, look ing after and giving directions in rela tion to public affairs, aiid seeming to take no notice of his private matters. He did not go to wliere his wife was, or act with her in preparing for flight, for neither sho or their children were in Richmond or had been for three or four weeks before that time. And lam sure there is no man who saw Mr. Davis on that trying occasion but was impressed with his calm manjy dignity, his de votion to the public iniprpgt, find his courage. It is apparent ifcuat one object of this statement is to try to produce the impression that Mr. Davis, in tho hour of extreme peril, had forgotten his grand office and trust, and descended to (Lie care of his personal baggage, while the Confederate Government was dis solving; and that another of its objects was to show that, bn this great occasion, he was irresolute, tremulous, peryous and wanting iff Bclf-i'osMe*sii dignity. Nothing could be further from the truth; and I ventnro the statement that there is no one who saw him then, or ! vyljo fane w his character, who would not unhesiiaiiugly contradict such a state ment; and I Venture t(,o farther sugges tion that neither of these charges will ever be sustained, nor will any attempt ever he made to sustain them by any le gitimate or trustworthy evidence, and that tiu hie p r will make S’ldl charges who has respect for and a just regard for hjs own reputation. "It la iuLt for me to ay that early in the war Mr Da vis allowed ali his property to be'de stroyed, or carried away from where it was in Mississippi, without making any effort to save it, and the fact thep noted as evidence of his entire unselfish ns-s. It is further said in this paper jth£f .“ft nightfall everything was in readiness, e.yeu the gold in the Treasury, not .exceeding in all forty thousand dollars, was packed away among the baggage,” etc, H it is ipeant by this statement simply that the mouey in the Treasury, gold and all, was taken with the archives and public property away 'fiou, jiichmond by the proper department officers, the statement is correct But if it is meant by Uli? insidious form of a statement to be understood that this or any other public money was tajk,vu from Richmond iu Mr. Davis’ baggage, jhp state ment is wholly untrue,' All Absurd Statement, It is also said in this paper, when speaking of the train which carried Mr. Davis and other officers from Richmond, that d'tbto train, it is said, was one whieh had .carried proyi&toss to Amelia Court House for Lee’s hard-greased and hungry army, and having been ordered to Richmond, had taken tijpse supplies to that place, where they were abandon ed for a more ignoble freight." This whole paragraph is ridiculously absurd. No supplies were theu being carried from the Souto to Richmond; I mean after Lee’s retreat Begun, And it was a train of passenger, and not of freight cars, which carried the persons referred to, and was provided for the express purpose of carrying them off. Genera! Wilson also says : “It is stated, upon what appears good authority, that Da vis had, many weeks before Lee's catas trophe, made the careful and exacting preparations for his escape, discussing the matter fully with his Cabinet iu pro found secrecy, and deciding that in or der to secure the escape of himself and his principal officers, the Shenandoah should be ordered to cruise off the coast of Florida to take the fugitives abroad. These orders were Bent to the rebel cruiser many days before Lee’s lines were broken,” etc. If the writer be lieved he had respectable authority for so important a statement, why did he not advise his readers what his authori ty was f No such question, nor any other question as to the means of escape, or as to instructions to the Shenandoah to facilitate sueh an escape, wa3 ever considered by the Cabinet, nor, as far as I know or believe, was any such ques tion considered or discussed with any member of the Cabinet. I do not be lieve that any such subject was consid ered or discussed by Mr. Davis or Any Member of His Cabiuet At any time before or after the surren der of General Lee. Nor do I believe that any man who regards his reputation for truth will allow himself given as au thority for this statement. In confirma tion of this view I may state that when Mr. Davis was informed that Gen. Sher man would allow him to leave the Unit ed States on a United States vessel,with whoever or whatever he pleased to take with him, his reply was that he would do no act which would place him under obligations to the Federal Government, and that he would not leave Confederate soil while there was a Confederate regi ment on it. I referred to this afterward in conversation with Mr. Davis, and he told me I would remember that he was one of the Senators who refused td vote the honors of the United States Senate to General Kossntb, and that his reason was that Kossuth abandoned Hungary and left an army behind him. I may also mention that after this General Breckinridge and myself proposed that we should take what troop3 we had with ns and go Westward, crossing The I'hattahoocliee Between Atlanta aud Chattanooga* And get as many of them across the Mississippi as we oould, and in the meantime keep np the impression that Mr. Davis was with ns, and for him to go to the coast of Florida and cross to Cuba, and charter a vessel under the English flag and go to Brownsville, Texas, and thence return and meet ns to the west of the Mississippi. He refused to consent to this plan on the ground that he wonld not abandon Confederate soil. I ought to add that we were in fluenced to make this suggestion be cause we thought him so exhausted and enfeebled that we did not think he could make the trip by land to where it was hoped to embody the troops west of the Mississippi. I know, too, that it was Mr. Davis’ purpose to try to get to the west of the Mississippi before onr troops were disbanded, and to get to gether as many as he could—he hoped sixty or eighty thousand—and place them where they and their horses could be subsisted on tho beef and grass of Texas, aud where they could not be flanked by railroads and navigable rivers, anil there to try and hold out for better terms than unconditional sur render. From all this it will be seen Hoiv Absurdly Untrue tlie Statement al Gen eral Wilson Is. The following passage is fouud in his paper: “When Davis and his compan ions left Richmond, in pursuance of this plan, they believed that Lee could avoid surrender only a short time longer. A few days thereafter the news of this expected calamity reached them, when they tamed their faces again toward the South. Breckinridge, the Secretary of War, was sent to confer with JohnstoD, but found him only in time to assist in drawing up the terms of his celebrated capitulation to Sherman. The intelli gence of this event caused the rebel chieftain to renew his flight, but while hurrying onward some fatuity induced him to change his plans and to adopt the alternative of trying to push through to the Southwest,” etc. I have answer ed so much of this as refers to the sup posed alan of escape. The writer seems to have been in the same predicament as many others have been who have sought to force or to make facts to suit fanciful theories. Mr. Davis and his Cabinet were not, when they left Richmond, laboring under the belief that General Lee could avoid surrendering only a short time. It was still hoped at that time that Generals Lee anil Johnston Might be able to unite their armies at some point between the armies of Gen erals Grant and Sherman, and turn upon and defeat one of them, and take their chances for defeating the other by fight ing them in detail. If I knew then where the Shenandoah was, 1 have now forgotten, and I certainly never heard the subject mentioned of an intended or desired escape from the country by her. I think I am entirely safe in saying that neither Mr. Davis nor any member of his Cabinet contemplated leaving the country when we left Richmond, but two of them afterward determined to do so. And Ido not believe that Mr. Da vis or any other member of his Cabinet afterward desired to leave tho country. Mr. Treuholm, prostrated by a long and daugorous illness, resigned his position as Secretary of the Treasury while we were on our way South, and went to his home. Mr. Mallory, Seeretary of the Navy, aud Mr. Davis, Attorney-General, went to their homes, and all of them remained there until put under arrest by the authority of the United States. ]>lr. Davis And myself were captured while endeav oring to make our way to the west of the Mississippi for the purpose of con tinuing the struggle there, if practica ble, long enough to get better terms. Gen. Breckinridge was not sent to con fer with Gen. Johnston as soon as Mr. Davis heard of the surrender of General Leo, if that is what tho writer means to assert. Mr. Davis and his Cabinet re mained at Danville, Virginia, for several days after being informed of tho surren der of Gen. Lee, and then went to Greensboro, North Carolina, and had come aR far as Lexington, in that State, that Mr. Davis received a dispatoh from Gen. Johnston requesting him to send him assistance in his negotiations with Gen. Sherman. Gen. Breckinridge and myself were then sent back by him to join Gen. Johnston at his headquarters near Hillsboro, and to aid him in his negotiations. This was done at this tims and at the suggestion of Gen. John ston, and not as soon asplfr. Daais heard of the surrender of Gen. Lee, as sup posed by Gen. Wilson. Much as Mr. Davis, uo doubt, respected and esteem ed Gen. Breckinridge, it is not true that he confided his hopes to him, or to any other single person, \yhat is said by Gon. Wilson about the “last council pf the Confederacy” is, no doubt, a fanoy sketch, intended to round up handsome ly this fiction unrelieved by a single fact. More Misstatements. Since wiitiug tjje foregoing tho Phila delphia Weekly limes, of July has been put in my hands, wljicl} contains what I suppose to bo the whole of Gen. Wilson’s letter. Much of it appears to bo an account of military orders and of military operations with which he was connected, and about which I have no personal knowledge. What I wrote above had only reference to the portion of his letter which was then before me (the first two paragraphs of it), and has no reference to what he afterward says about ipilitapy operations. His pifper is long, and I will nqt'have leisure now to review it fully. I will say, however, that ha is in error as to many of his state ments of facts, and as to many of his conclusions in that part of his letter which was not before me when I wrote the foregoing pagos. For instance: “He mat aftof he was advised by Gen eral Sherman 'of tbs' armistice which was entered into between him and General Johnston, and that one of its provis ions was, ‘that neither party should make any change of troops during the contn”“Pne of the armistice,’ ” he pro ceeds witli this further statement; “Hav ing hearu from citizens, jiqWfever, that Davis, instead’ of dbsetying; t}jq iirmis tic , was nuking his way toward the South with an escort, I took possession of the railroads and sent scouts in all di rections, in order that I might receive timely notice of his movements.” jtjc TJien Confesses To having violated the forms of the ar mistice, but excuses himself by shying that he had heard from citizens that Mr. Davis was violating it by going South with an escort. He says the first he heard of the armistice wa3 from Gen erals Cnb.h sod Smith, at Macon, Geor gia, on the twenuoj..v day of April. That after that he was advised of its exigence by General Sherman, and that it was “intended to apply to my (General Wil son’s') command.” He also says thot in a shoh’t tiwto ha was informed by Gen eral Sherman,' by t'eiygta®,‘of the ter mination of aha surrender of General Johnston on the twenty-seventh of April. Now the armistice was agreed to on the eighteenth of April, and on the twenty-fourth of April General Sherman notified General Johnston it would ter minate fp fjj.rtj-pight !’ n urs, leaving the parties‘Sound by tor"S. s nni “ * he pf April. Ifr. Jyavfa was at OUariqttp when the treaty and armis tice was agreed to, ffe remained there under the terms of the armistice until the notice of its termination was given by General Sherman, and until the ex piration of the forty eight hours when it was finally terminated, and did not leave thereuntil he learned of the sur render of General Johnston, whieh took place on the twenty-seventh of April, >Vho Violated HI. Knunpi-uiont f General Wilson says: “Tno first direct information of Mr. Davis' movements reached mo on the twenty-third of April, from a citizen, now a prominent lawyer and politician of Georgia, who had seen him at Charlotte, North Carolina, only three or fonr days before, and had learned that he was on his way with a train and escort of cavalry to the South.” This citizen may have seen Mr. Davis at the time named at Char lotte. But if he did he saw him halted there, awaiting the result of the nego tions with Gen. Sherman, and afterward the termination of the armistioe UDtil the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth of April, with perfect good faith and hon or; and not violating a solemn engage ment, alwavs binding on the true sol dier and honorable men, as Gen. Wilson confesses he was, after he had been no tified by Gen. Sherman that the armis tice was binding on him. And this vio lation of faith was aggravated by the fact that Mr. Davis was then struggling with defeat and disaster, environed on all sides by two overwhelming forces of a victorious army; while Gen. Wilson, by his own statement, knew these facts, and had the game all in his own hands, and wonld have been in no danger of losing any of his advantages by acting in good faith. I leave him and his readers to determinb whether he was justified in such A Breach of Faith by Idle Rumors, Which he has since ha 4 ample time and opportunity to know were untrue, as the whole history of this affair has long since been within his reach. There is a statement in General Wilson’s letter which is important only as showing how the most minute facts can be mis-stated, where the error can by any means cast discredit on Mr. Davis. He states, in substance, that the ferryman where we crossed the Ocmulgee river had told Colonel Harnden that we had crossed the river about one o’clock in the morn ing. This, it may have been supposed, would produce the belief that we were in precipitate flight. Now the truth is we reached that river just at dusk, and crossed it before it was fully dark, and that Mr. Davis had made his regular rides since leaving Washington, Geor gia, in the day and rested at night, with the single exception of having rode across the country north of the Oemul gee river a part of one night to reach and protect his family, whom he had not seen for several weeks, against threatened evil. There is one other statement made by General Wilson which is so gross a perversion of the truth that I must quote it at length and state what did occur. He says: “Short ly after the recognition of Mr. Davis by bis captors, Colonels Pritchard and Harnden rode np to where the group were standing. Davis, recognizing them as officers, asked which of them was in command. As these officers were Lieu tenant-Colonels of different regiments, belonging to different brigades of differ ent divisions, and had therefore prob ably never before met, except casually, much less compared dates of commis sions, they were somewhat taken aback at the question, and hesitated what an swer to make.” The Capture. Whereupon Mr. Davis upbraided them with ignorance, reproached them with unchivalrous conduct in hunting down women and children, and finally declar ed, with the airs and manners of a bravo, that they would not have caught him but for bis desire to protect his women and children. “How would you have prevented it, Mr. Davis ?” said Colonel Pritchard. “Why, sir, I could have fought you, or eluded yon.” “As for fighting us, we came prepared for that,” replied the Colonel; “it would have saved us some trouble, and doubtless you a great deal; but as for eluding us, I don’t think your garb is very well adapted for rapid locomotion.” In relation to this statement I wish to say, with whatever of emphasis I can give my words, that I was present at the time Mr. Davis and Colonel Pritchard recognized each other, as was also Governor Lubbock, and that there is not one truth stated in this whole paragraph. Colonel Pritchard did not come up for some time after Mr. Davis was made a prisoner. When ho rode up there was a crowd, chiefly of Federal soldiers, around Mr. Davis. He was standing, and dressed in the suit he ha bitually wore. He turned toward Colonel Pritchard and asked : “Who commands these troops ?” Colonel Pritchard re plied, without hesitation, that he did. Mr. Davis said to him : “You Command a Set of Thieves and Rob bers. They rob women aud children.” Col. Pritchard then said: “Mr. Davis, you should remember that yon are a prison er.” And Mr. Davis replied: “I am fully conscious of that. It would be bad enough to be the prisoner of sol diers and gentlemen. lam still lawful game, and would ra'lier be dead than your prisoner.” I have often since thought and spoken of this scene and colloquy. I cannot have forgotten the substauce of it. I think I repoat very nearly or quite the words used. Not one word was said by Mr. Davis about fighting or eluding our pursuers. Not ono word was said by Colonel Pritchard about saving any trouble. Not one word was said about Mr. Davis’ garb, for there was nothing in his dress or ap pearance to call for such a remark. Not one word was said by Mr. Davis about “protecting his women and children.” He only pointed to. the fact that they were being robbed. I doubt if Colonel Harnden had then reached where we were; but of this I do not profess to know. I only know that a few moments before his men were fighting Colonel Pritchard’s, on the north side of the creek, near which we had camped, and that few or none of the men from the other side of the creek had then reached us. And 1 do not think General Wil son had the authority of Col. Pritchard for this statement, for ho knows the facts as they are, and I cannot think would falsify them in this way. Was This Miserable Falsehood About Colonel Pritchard saying to Mr. Davis, “I don’t think your garb is very well adapted to rapid locomotion,” in tended to form another link in the chain of evidence to show that when captured Mr. Davis was disguised as a woman ? Is it to bo quoted by the next person who may write an artiole revamping this despicable slander as additional and conclusive evidence that he was disguis ed, and made conclusive by the fact that Colonel Pritohard so called attention to this disguise in the midst of the assem blage then around Mr. Davis ? Outside of those who robbed the ladies aud children, and those who rummaged among their wrappings, as this writer describes, I eauuot believe there was one man in those two commands baso enough to allow himself to bo made the author of this false statement. I will not go through the disgusting details of falsehood by wjiioh, in cold blood, twelve yonrs after the war, wheu sensa tional statements and the bitterness of passion, and even the wish by falsehood to wrong au enemy, should have died Way, (lenornl Wilson Revamps ami tlio SSpiry ol'ilfr. Ilavisl Risgijise. I will only make this statement as to what then occurred to show that if Mr. Davis had sought to disguise himself he could not have done so for want of time, and tho facts show that it was im possible for him to have conceived and executed a plan of disguise. I was not immediately with him when we were at tacked. Governor Lubbock, Colonel .Johnston, polouel W°°d au(J myself had slept qndey a tree sqmethipg like a hundred yards frop} wepj IVJr. Ijayis aud his family had camped. Yye wont into camp before nightfall tho evening be fore, and had no fears of the presence of an enemy. We were misled as to onr security for the time-being by the fol lowing facts: We -vyere getting well South in Georgia, with a view to turn Maoon and ISJontgonjery, and pass through the piney wood country to the south of these cities, where the popula tion was more sparse, and where the roads wero not so much frequented. We were to cross the Qemulgee river below, where jt coqld ho forded, aud whore there tfqre not many ferries. Gjn ap prokchihg that’ riyer rjo eypeofced to en counter trouble if the Federal authori ties knew the course we were traveling. In this event we supposed the ferries would be guarded. When we crossed the river, about dusk, wo found no op position, and at the same time learned that there was a considerable cavalry force at Hawkinsville, twenty-throe miles up jrotp yhuye'ty® mossed it. Dir. Davi*’ Garb. Learning that this force was so near, and seeing that the ferries were not gunrded, we concluded our course was not ki)own at that time, and traveled rather slowly toe succeeding day, and went into Camp early in the evening be fore we were captured, with the under standing from Mr.' Davis that he, Mr. Harrison, his staff officers and myself Would probably go on after supper and leaije family, then supposed to be out of reach'hf danger, which' caused us to leave our course ahcf join them. I state all this to show our feeling of tern porary security and the reasons why we felt and acted as we did. The first we had of present danger the firing just across tuu .... creeK we were camped on which took place bo tween the Wisconsin and Michigan cavalry, between day dawn and full light. Colonel Pritchard, as I afterward learned from him, had some time before posted one part of his command across the road in front of us, and the other part across the road in the rear of us and behind the little creek on which we were encamped. The firiug was between these troops in rear of us and the Wis consin troops, who were pursuing us on the road wo had traveled. When this firing occurred, as Mr. and Mrs. Davis both told me afterward, Mr. Davis Started Out of Ills Tent, Saying to his wife, “Those people have attacked us at last.” (Meaning the men whom we heard had intended to rob Mr. Davis’ traiD the night we quit our course and went across the country to the north of the Ogeeche river.) “I will go and see if I can stop the firing; surely I will have some authority with Confederates yet.” His staff officers and myself were camped about one hundred yards in the direction of the firing from him, and he supposed we were being fired on, as he told us afterward. As he stepped out of his tent, as he told me that day, he saw the troops which had been posted in front of us, which were under the immediate command of Colonel Pritchard, in full gallop to ward him, and within some sixty yards of his tent. He turned to his wife and said: “It is the Federal cav alary, and they are on us.” As he tamed to go out again I understood his wife threw a waterproof cloak around his shoulders; he stepped out and was immediately put under arrest. Directly afterward Lubbock and myself went to him, where he was surrounded by the soldiers. He then had no cloak or other wrapping on him; was dressed in a suit of Confederate gray, with hat and boots on, just as usual. Directly after this, and about the time the firing ceas ed between Col. Pritchard’s and Col. Hamden’s troops across the creek (I say Col. Hamden because Gen. Wilson says they were his, for I did not know before what officer commanded them), it was then the conversation above alluded to took place between Col. Pritchard and Mr. Davis. The Origin at the Slander. From these facts the impossibility of Mr. Davis’ disguise, as charged, will be seen. And it is out of these facts that the story of his disguiso no doubt grew, with all the varied forms, more or less elaborate, and it has been made to as sume by sensational and reckless wri-! ters, who seem to have been willing to originate and oircnlate any story which they thought would gratify hale and bring ridicule on the leader of a brave people, who had risked all and lost all in a cause as dear to them as life; and under whom vast armies had been or ganized, many great battles had been fought, and a mighty struggle carried on for four years, which had shaken this continent and arrestod the attention of the civilized world. TIIE CROP PROSPECTS. Gloomy Reports from Offleth'jrpe County. f Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Maxey’s, September 10.—I wrote you a short time ago in relatiou to the pros pect for crops in this neighborhood. It has not improved. We have not had a season since the middle of June. There will probably be half a crop of corn made. The forward corn that was well worked will make half a crop. The late planting is an entire failure. Tho cot ton will not yield more than one-third of a crop. It has now made all it can make. The weed is small—uot more than one-third the usnal size, and uot full of fruit at that. The gardens are burnt up entirely, aud the time has now passed to get stands of turnips. There are no stands. After sowing two or three times they have not come up, and where they have the hot sun has killed them. The citizens have a meeting on next Wednesday, having for its object the petitioning of the fertilizing companies to wait with them another year for their money, as it will take the entire crop of cotton, with a great many planters, to settle their phosphate accounts. The dry streak is narrow, not over three or four miles wide, but of considerable length. After you pass out of that there has been plenty of rain until lately; it is now dry. The crop of cotton is not good even where the rain has fallen. Times wore never as gloomy in this neighborhood iu the last forty years as now. Since writing tho above we have had rain—tho first fall since the middle of Juno. .T. H. M. MORIS IN COUNTY'. “ Opposition to tlie Constitution.” Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: We, in common with a large number of our citizens, were surprised at the following statement made by your cor respondent, “Veritas,” writing from Madison on the 7tb inst.: “The people of Morgan, it is thought, will vote against the new < onstitutiou by a large najority. I learn this from citizens who seem to be posted.” We do not profess to bo “posted,” but after diligent inquiry of numerous cit izens from all parts of the county, we failed to find one who did not express satisfaction with the new Constitution as a whole (while objecting to some features) and a determination to vote for it. We do not assert there aro not some such, but if they constitute so “large a majority,” it is a little singular that we have failed to encounter any of them. The colored vote of the county, through fears excited by reason of misrepresen tations as to what the action of the Con vention would be, voted solidly almost against the call. Wo find now a number of the leading men amongst them really enthusiastic in their commendations of the new Constitution, and of opinion that it will receive a hearty support from their people. Kespectfully differing from “citizens who seem to be posted,” we venturo the opinion that, at the present writing, a very large majority of the citizens while they would expunge some features aud insert others, favor the now Constitution. Moeoan. r.KRBNE COUNTY ITEMS. Court Week—Tlie New Con*titution—A*l lren*eti by Col. Miles W. LowiN and Judge James S. Hook— indorsement of Hayes, &c. | Correspondence and Constitutionalist 1 Gbeenesboro, Ga., September 13. Our city is very lively at present witli the usual accompaniments of “Conrf week.’* On Monday Court was con veued by Judge Bartlett, who, after the organization of juries delivered an able chargo to the grand jury on tin duties encumbent on them. There is a fnll docket of civil cases, including a large number of appeal cases, but owing to tho amount of criminal cases to be disposed of, but little time could be given toother business than that of jail delivery. Tho trial of civil cases was therefore ended on Wednesday at tho dinner hour, and tho criminal docket was thpn taken up. Tho maiu topic of discussion hero at. present is tho new Constitution. On Tuesday tho citizens were addressed by Col. Miles W. Lowis. This distinguished gentleman represented this county iu the Convention, where his great legal ability was valuably used for the benefit of his constituents and tho citi zens of tho State at large. He warmly urges tho adoption of the proposed Con stitution, and in his address, which was highly appreciated by a large audience of the people, he pointed out the fea tures which recommended it. On yes terday the citizens were addressed on the same subject by Judge James S. Hook, of your city. Iu his speech Judge Hook urged the adoption of the new Constitution on a number of grounds. IJe warmly approved of that portion whfcjh took frogi the !Li e -B* s l atttro the key tq tl;e treasury and placed it where it rightly belongs—iu the cus tody of the people. Ho regretted that tho proposed or the present homestead law allowed the husband to waive the homestead, as the wife and children ought of right to be secure iu a home beyond the reach of any harm. He urged in its favor the effectual and final dispqsitjpu it fna(le of tho fraudulent bonds, tho system of appeals from a petit to a special jury, and the desirability that Georgians should live under au organic law mndo by Geor gians for the people of Georgia. Judge Hook delivered a growing encomium on tho representatives composing the ConypntioO, adding that “no ono will deem 4 invidious when I place, as the keystone of thp intellectual arch, that great man whose influence per vades the entire work—tho immortal Toombs.” In the course of his remarks, Judge Hook strongly condemned the financial policy of the General Govern ment whifcih, with the attempt to enrich bondholders at thp expense of the work ingmen and to force of spe cie payments, bringing so great dis tress on us. He cordially endorsed the determination of President Hayes to se cure intelligent aud just rule for our people, and urged his hearers to sustain the President in his action, burying all pijst. issues, and standing by a man whose high position apu qprigiit pur pose had enabled him to secure a free government to the people of the South. The address was frequently applauded, aud seenm] to meet tho approval of the audience. C)n the capital question the citizens are’divided a majority seeming to favor Milledgevilio. Notwithstanding the low prioe of cotton, our people will make crops sufficient to insure a comparative ly prosperous YZ U , lia ™ as g°° (l „ financial future before the HI . aR times wiii pPrSB*- {JEWAIIK OF UOtfflS PfAWOW. How C'rpdMloae Custodiers nrc Swindled. Beware of bogus pianofortes. The recent burning of the Halo factory, in New York, brought a number Pf frauds to light. It is known that many estab lishments in the United States are en gaged solely in the manufacture of in struments designed to deceive the pub lic The names of well known firms are used with just sufficient variation to evade the laws. Thus Steinmetz & Sons, Stanley & Sons, and Stannay & Cos do service for Hteiuway & Sons; Becker Bros., Bekr Bros., Decker & Bros for Decker Bros ; Webber, Weber & Cos., and Webber, for Albert Weber; Krabe, Kenabe, and Knabe & Cos., for William Knabe & Cos.; Stack & Cos., Strik & Cos., and Geo. Stecke, for Geo. Steck & Cos., and so on to the end of the alphabet. These fraudulent instruments are palrnsd off on unsophisticated Gran gers in the South and a “ d are cx ' hibited by the owners no doubt as mar vels of mechanical skill ar.d ingenuity. Awful Carnage in lowa. [FrtmO& Lurliru/tsjn Ilawkeye ] Seven Massstfhasetts sewing machine agents *ad fourteen book agents in voked this county oue day lasi week. The Governor was immediately urged to send troops, but he said he had no mili tary at his command, but he would send down a couple of lightning rod men and a chroma man, who would talk the in vaders to death. Then Burlington just got np and went over the river and hid in the woods until the sounds of carnage died away. And as the pale moon rose np slowly and calmly she looked down and saw the cold corpses of seven sewing ma chine agents and two lightning rod men, while the only living creature that roam ed the awful field was a deaf chromo man, in the wild, fierce delirium of the lock-j aw. [ Anew edition of etiquette says it is no longer fashionable for young men to call on their girls on Saturday evening. This will give the girls a chance to put their hair up in bits of paper before one o’clock on Sunday morning. THE STATE CAPITAL. THE CAPITAL AND THE CONSTI TUTION. Atlanta t'lmiiginit Time- Aten’s Wives— Judges of the supreme Court—Tlie Chief Justice lluntt—iHood lirit—t Serion*senti ment—Tlie UanstitutionN I'lianeen—The Senator-Clip. [ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist ] Atlanta, September 12. — The capital is very much excited on the capital question. Atlanta has heretofore pro fessed indifference to the removal of the seat of government, but that was when there seemed no immediate danger of the question being presented in a tan gible shape. Now that the people will decide between Atlanta aud Milledge ville next December Atlanta has dis covered that the capital is worth fight ing for and is in the field with the usual vim and courago of her citizens. If she shonld bo defeated it will be through no fault of hers. The big men—those who must look to the whole State for position and pap, aud cannot afford to champion the enuse of either Atlanta or Milledgeville too vigorously—are fight ing shy. An enthusiastic advocate of the “ halls of our Fathers,” who was here the other day feeling the pulse of the Supreme Court, seemed a little as tonished to find how much Men's Wives. Had to do with the matter. Judge Jacksou had as warm nil attachment for Milledgevilio—dear old Milledgeville— as could possibly exist between animate and inanimate objects, but Mrs. Jack son preferred Atlanta, etc. Judge Bleckley yielded to uo ono iu devotion to the “ halls”—but Mrs. Bleckley yon know, etc. That solemu old pump, the Chief Justice, who works ou Sunday, and believes iu small salaries, had no wife to fall back on, and left the interviewer under the impression that he wished to end his days on the banks of the Oconee, but. when tho Atlanta Constitution took him to task for his treasonable utterances he ignomiuiously took tho back track. By the way, did you know that tho Chief Justice had Once Keen Iliinu, Aotually suspended by a cord from the bough of a tree ? Such, I am told, is undoubtedly the case. Tho old Roman (I believe that is the correct phrase) was uot strnug up for treason, arson, rape or murder, or any of the offeuses for which ho had occasionally dealt ont death himself in a professional way when on tho Bench of tho Superior Court. It was a gang of Shermau’s bummers who, iu the Winter of 186-1-5, had the ell’ron try to swing up six feet-one of Chief Justice with as little ceremony as they would have hung a side of bacon. These Union loving geutry wheu they passed through Georgia thought they would teach tho people loyalty by relieving them of such portable property as they might have in the shape of horses, muies, silver, money, jewelry and wear ing apparel. As the old barons of the middle ages whou they wished to nego tiate a loan were iu the habit of hunt ing out a Hebrew and performing a little amateur dentistry ou him, so the hummers had a number of little contrivances for making men willing to tell where their dross was coucealed. When they naught the Chief Justice ho did uot look very valuable as a prisoner of war, and they concluded to go for his coin instead of carrying him to eump. Those who know old Warner (I call him this through no disrespect, but because the members of the Bar do it) know that to demand his money is to demand his life, and that tho party who gets the one will infallibly get the other. He promptly refused, and tho bummers aforesaid resorted to moral suasion. They would have, perhaps, roasted the soles of his feet, but tho weather was cold, wood happened to he scarce, and realizing the magnitude of tho job they gave it over, and resorted to a running noose and a convenient limb. But for once during the march to the soa they caught a tartar. Throe times did the Chief Justice ascend toward Heaven ; three times was he restored to earth and asked where his treasure lay concealed; three tim s did ho refuse to tell, at first with words and then, when life was al most extinct, with signs; until at last, the bummers owned defeat and retired iu disgust, leaving their victim to recov er as best he might, while they clothed themselves with curses as with a gar ment. Tho Judge, as we all know, re covered, but ho has a horror of slip knots, eschews tight collars and cravats and likes free play about the neck. Withal he is a man of the sternest integrity ami a splendid lawyor. He remorselessly punctured all the political legislation of the Bullock region, aud though over ruled by his associates—Brown and McOay—he was invariably sustained by the Supreme Court of tho United States when the case was appealed tQ that tri bunal. But to return to. our muttou. It is not known definitely How Governor Colquitt Si a mis On the capital question. Both Mil ledgevilio aud Atlanta claim to ho his preference as stoutly as the seven towns claimed to be tho birth place of the blind bard of Greece, hut neither can speak positively, It would be straugo, however, if he did not favor Atlanta. If ho does he must differ from his wife, for the Milledgevilliaus swear that when last at the old capital Mrs. Colquitt ex pressed an earnest desire to live iu the Executive mansion there. Iq view of his Senatorial canvass Qenoral Gordon is understood tq be non-committal on the subject. Why ho shonld be I can not imagine. Every one knows that At lanta is his home, and it is but natural that he should desire to see this city continue the seat of government. I havo no means of knowing how the oth er Senator, Mr. Hill, stands, bnt as At lanta is also Mu ho.me he doubtless does not wish to see the oapital removed. How tho contest will terminate is known only to Him who knows the hearts of petty jurors, but that Atlanta is running what the elder Qolquitt was. wont to call “ A Scared Knee” There is no doubt. Seriously, in my opinion, she has cause for alarm, and unless she makes every card in her hand count between now aud the fifth of De cember she may lose the game, aud, what is of vastly more importance, the stakes. Her advooates say that people are supporting Milledgeville in defer ence only to a sentiment. This may be so. But a somewhat extended expe rience iu life has convinced me that there is nothing iu which people are more prone to indulge, when tho in dulgence costs them nothing, than sen timent. In this case the condition ob tains, and Atlanta will find sentimental ity as tough a citizen to encounter as the sensible Knights of tho Woods did the crackbrained Chevalier of La Mancha. It is somewhat probablo that there will be a Reaction Against <om*uU uiion Before the day pf election. Three weeks before the Convention adjourned an intelligent observer of public feeling would have bet odds that thp new Con stitution would bo defeated by an over whelming luniofily- Every one who could was hitting the body a rap, and predicting that its labors would come to nothing. Some of the strongest Con vention men were loudest in condemna tion of what had been and was being done, and looked upon their off spring with the dismay and dis gust "of Frankenstein contemplating the monster his art h? 4 called into ex istence. But IpoV you now, towards the close the tide turned with magical swift ness. Every newspaper in the State en dorsed the new organic law; every states man in office or in search of office looked upon tliC WOl'k and called it good; and for tlirep weeks nothing but applause has been heard. I shall be mistaken if there is not still another reaction before the December election, Ido not antici pate anything like the defeat of the new Constitution. Its defeat would, from present indications, seem little short of a miracle. But the majority in favor of ratification will not he so overwhelming ly large as the friends of the instrument imagine. This is not a very material matter. Any majority is suffioient to make the Constitution the law of the land. The election of a General Assembly in December has precipitated the question of the Senatorial Succession, Which otherwise would not havo at tracted much attention until a year from nt;xt October. It is daily assuming mere importance and the probah|lh ; ' efi and possibilities of tbe’pontest are al ready being discussed. The race will he an exciting one; the prize is tempt ing; the entries are numerous, and all of the animals have a record. I may have more to say of it hereafter. Howabd. THE r-Koi* off JB7B-’7T. The Financial Chronicle's Statement of the t rop—l 84,363 Boies Short of |,asl Vear, New Yobk, September 12. —The Com mercial and Financial Chronicles statement shows the total cotton crop of 1876 and 1877 to be 4,485,423 bales, while the exports are 3,049,497, and spinners takings 1,435,418, leaving the stoak on hand at the close of the year 119,638 bales. The crop of 1875-’76 4,669,788 bales. Do You Wont to be Toothless t Of course not. Then take care of the ivories which nature has placed in y< ur mouth. Brush’em well every day with SOZODONT, and their whiteness will astonish and delight you. Away, then, to the druggist’s, and get a bottle, t THE STATE. THK PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Much sickness in Colnmhus. Barbecues have broken out in Macon. Fall races are progressing in McDuf fie. TenntHe is to have a new Baptist Church. Gen. Toombs speaks iu Cartersvillo Saturday. Goldsmith Maid will probably attend the State Fair. Columbus promises to do a good job bing business this year. Ohas. H. Smith, Esq., (Bill Arp) will reside in Bartow couuty. Milledgeville has developed two or three municipal candidates. Thirty Atlanta boys have organized a Young Men’s Musical Association. Tho Warreuton Clipper has evidently moved its grammar to Milledgeville. Governor Jenkins has greatly im proved at tho Jordan Alum Springs. Dr. Busnell, tho inventor of the tor pedo, was a native of Warren couuty. The Cartersvillo Express thinks that Cherokee Georgia will go for Atlanta. Louis F. Garrard. Esq., is pressed for election to tho House from Musco gee. An old colored man was killed by tho falling of a tree, laßt week, in Warren ton. Simon Jones, colored, was drowned in the river near Savannah tho other day. Tho Columbus Enquirer wants Toombs elected Governor by acclama tion. Mr. Bennett., of Fayette county, has ten acres planted in Shockley apple trees. There will he a temperance mass meet ing at Brier Creek, Warren county, Sat urday. Eight or teu petitions for divorce liavo been filed in the Clerk’s oftieo of Greeno oouuty. Frank Fonntaiuo, Esq., latoCon. Con. mem., is having some very sweet things said about him. At n squad drill in Savannah, Tues day night, n gun went off and came near hitting a spectator. Mrs. Nancy Wade, widow of Mr. Rob ert Wade, died near Wrightsboro, Sat urday, September 1. C ilonel W. A. Shorter has dissolved his connection with tho Grangers’ Lifo Insurance Company. Anew post office lias been established at Messena, Warren county, on the lino of the Georgia Railroad. Many persons in Early county have died of an unknown disease, resembling yellow fever in character. Jeff Brant,ly, a little son of Mr. Fa yette Brantley, was killed by lightning near Sandersville recently. A postal card scamp has been trying to get up tho impression that there is yellow fever in Brunswick. The G. S. P. 0. A. permitted an old horse to die iu Macon tho other day from thirst and starvation. Revs. W. H. Trammell aud M. TT. Dil lard aro conducting an interesting re vival of religion at Linoolnton. Tho Columbus Enquirer thinks that the Convention, by the salaries fixed, in dicate Milledgeville as the capital. A little daughter of Mr. Jas. Reid, of Kingston, was burned to death recently while kindling a fire with keremno oil. A skunk, nc.oording to the Journal, has taken the homestead in tho base ment of the Thomson Court House, and refuses to dislodge. A Savannah negro robber fell through a hoistway to the floor in a mill the other night, and was supposed to have been fatally injured. Mr. George W. Guinn, an attnehee of the Georgia Railroad, died at Rutledge a fow days ago, of malarial fever. Ho was buried at Conyers. The Sunday School Convention was held at Linoolnton on last Wednesday. Rev. T. C. Boykin, State Suuday School Evangelist, was present. Congressman Blount has appointed to West Point, Mr. G. Simmous, sou of Hon. T. J. Simmons, as the cadet from the Sixth Georgia District. Mr. Joe Flournoy, a Columbus man, now in Colorado, is reported to have sold his Rilver mine for one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. I Tho Lawreucevillo Herald tells of al young farmer in that county who will 1 make 500 bushels of corn and ten l/kles of cotton this year, with one horHo. Gen. Wm. T. Wofford has been unan imously elected Vice-President for tlio State of Georgia of the National Immi gration Bureau of the United Stales. Says the Cartersville Express : Wliilo we see so many country papers talking about removing the oapital, it rejoices ns to know that wo haven’t any to move. If Hayes oomea to Chattanooga, we’ll warrant that Capt. Kennesaw Wrenu will deeoy him up to Lookout. Mountain. Asa diplomatist, tho Captain is unex celled. Mr. M.' W. Wright, of Lincoln coun ty, was caught in the belting of his saw mill the other day and dashed over the driving wheel, breaking his left leg badly. Emory College has opened with forty new students, and the total attendance is ono hundred and thirty-five col legians, aud forty in tho preparatory school. There are five Willinghams on the Cartersvillo Express. Before tho vener able senior’s death, there were fivo Ohristys on tho Southern Watchman, at Athens. The prospects are, says tho Columbus Times, that the pooplo of Georgia will ratify the Constitution by a majority approaching that of Gen. Colquitt for Governor, Says the Warronton Clipper : “Miss Belie Wright, one of Augusta’s most beautiful and fascinating daughters, is visiting her brother Mr. John D. Wright, of this place. The McDuffie Journal joins its contem poraries in regretting that tho discus sion of the location of the capital should have degenerated into vituperation and personalities. Messrs. Sterling G. Brinkley and J. I. Ingraham are conducting flourishing schools in Warrentou and Washington respectively. They are both capable and onergetio young gentlemen. Mr. A. W. Smith, an Emory College student from McDuffie county, has in vented a dynamometer for testing the relative strength of wires, which he in tends for the laboratory at Oxford. A beautiful and pathetic custom pre valent in Macon is when a young man’s adorable steps off with another fellow, his friends considerately sit down and apprise him of the fact in a pensive note wrapped in crape. Says the Sandersville Herald : Hon. Wm. Gibson, presiding in the place of Judge Johnson, this week, is winning golden opinions for his urbanity, as well as the ability and promptness with whicli ho dispatches tho business of the Court. Speaking of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, tho Thomasville Times says : “ The best recommen dation we know of, concerning it, is tho frequent quotations we see in other papers, from its columns. We ourselves acknowledge our debt.’* FEVEIt SPREADING IN FI-RN AN DINA. Consternation and Panic in the City—Thirty New Case** and the l>i*eae Increasing— Summary Dlenj*uri'M for Aid. Savannah, September 15.—The re port for this week shows the health of this city to be unprecedeutly good,there being not a death of a white adult from any cause. The interments for the week are 4 whites—all children, and 12 color ed persons. Jacksonville, Fla , September 15. A special to-night to the Awn and I’rests says that tlieru were two deaths from yellow fever last night, at Fernandina, also, unconfirmed, the report of two more. Among the sick is one of the doctors. There are probably 70 or 80 cases, all told. Dr. MoFarlaud says that the fever yields much more rapidly to treatment than in Bavannah last year. He lias sent for two physicians, a druggist and eight nurses. The hospital is nearly ready for pa tients. Demands for food and nurses are increasing, and the Mayor has es tablished a commissary to supply the colored people and poor. Twenty-eight deaths are reported since August 20th, of which 20 were from fever. All who can are leaving the city in extra trains. Quantities of fumigatives and disinfect ants have been requested from Savannah and Charleston, i ' ’''' |iiLter There aro reported 30 new eases this evening; nearly every one is sick. In some eases whole families aro down. The train to-night was crowded with fugitives. The atmosphere is humid and hightly unfavorable, as the fever speads rapidly, A gloomy aspeol has settled over the city. WHOLESALE IMVOKC EKV. A Probate Judge Ashamed to Produce Ilia Records—Heroic Treatment of tbe C*entle maii Salt Lake, September 15.—Probate Judge Elias Smith, having refused a committee of the graud jury access to his books and papers, was ordered to appear before District Judge Shaeffer to-day, but, not appearing, was ad judged guilty of contempt, and fined SSOO, and SSO for each day that he kept the papers from the grand jury, and costs. The Marshal was ordered to ar rest him upon further refusal, and the grand jury was thereupon allowed ao cess to the books and papers. It is sup posed the refusal was an aeeonnt of the wholesale divorce business,