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WEDNESDAY, - - OCTOBER3. 1877.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Mr. Bi.aine no doubt reads of the Presi
dent's Southern tour with a “frozen smile.”
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Senator West, the Jmuisiftna carpet
bagger, has finally consented to support the
“|n>liey.”
The Democrats have succeeded in great
lr reducing the fraudulent Republican vote
of Philadelphia.
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The Doctor who prescribed for E. L.
Davenport contradicts the report that the
actor was killed by acid pills.
A New York undertaker has leen
called “heartless” because, having furnish
ed h $lO ice-box for a corpse, he wanted se
curity for a SSOO funeral.
A Baltimore evening paper hoists the
names of McClellan and Hampton for
President and Vice-President in 1880. An
other case of the tail wagging the dog.
Every well regulated newspaper office at
the North has this legend inscribed over
the door : “No |ieddlers, beggars, Harvard
graduates, or Osman Pasha telegrams want
ed here.”
We are jwineil to record that the cham
pion rogues, from Bkoadwkli. to John H.
Morton, were all supposed to lie truly
good and pious men. f I here is no vice like
hyjxicrisy.
The Pope has lieen contemporary with
nil the Presidents of the United Slates, be
ing seven years old when Washington
died. He bids fair to hear of some more
Presidents.
Mu. Moody’s health is not good. Still,
he will continue his gospel work. His next
attempt, said to lie a herculean one, will lie
the conversion of the insurance men of
Hartford, Conn.
The Herald mentions that the South has
taken terrible revenge upon the North, by
sending thither a lot of colored female
l ooks, who boast of having “wash’t shuts
for Mass’ Davis.”
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The Catoosa Courier thinks that North
Georgia is “solid" for the re-election of
Gen. Gordon to the Senate, and thinks
caudidalcs for the I legislature should lx;
pledged to his support.
As matters stand at present, Milledgo
ville would lie chosen the capital of the
State by a handsome majority. The cause
of the old capital will grow in strength as
the day of election approaches.
A few years ago the estate of Capt. E. B.
Waiiii, of Detroit, was inventoried at about
$.1,000,000 in excess of all liabilities. Since
the “shrinkage of securities” the estate is
compromising on 75 cents in the dollar.
It seems pretly certain that Mr. Ran
dall will he supported for Speaker of the
new House by most of the mcmlicrsof Con
gress from Georgia. It seems to lie also
reasonably certain that Mr. Randall will
lie elect id.
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Hon. A. H. Stephens favors Mr. Ran
dall for Sjx-aker. He thinks there will
lie no difficulty in organizing the House
Democratically. He is also of opinion that
the coining session will be the most import
ant in the history of this country.
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Mu. Wallace, United States Marshal
for South Carolina, tries to convey the idea
that President Hayes’ reception at the
South simply means the lust of otllce.—
Homebody must have been making Wal
lace feel some alarm for his place.
A man writing from Saco, Me., says: “In
three churches in this town we have not a
man who tiare vote the Democratic ticket
for fear of being persecuted and ruined in
his business.” Missionaries now in Africa
should la: withdrawn and sent to Saco.
Gen. Stdkois, who is not so truly good
as (Jen. Howard, has punished the Indians
most severely. It is said that much of
Sti'roih’ energy comes from a consuming
desire to avenge the loss of his gallant sou
who was killed and mutilated by Sitting
BULL’S Sioux
W ji kn Louis Napoleon's son addresses
his S|mnish sweelheart lie has to commence
thus : “ Ma there Maria-del-Pilar-Bereiunie
la Isaliella h'rancisea-d’Assize-t’hristina-Si
llastiaii - (iahriel -la - Francisa-Carraccio-la-
Haturina.” r I hen lie takes a schooner of
Iwh’i* and starts again.
Hknuv Mkiggs committed forgeries in
California to the amount of ft,000,000, and
tied (lie State. The Legislature endeavored
to “whitewash” him by passing an act of
oblivion, but the Governor vetoed it. Mr.
M kiggh went to Peru and got a Govern
ment contract there, which, it is said, will
make him enormously rich. Asa million
aire, lie will Ik> welcomed back to Califor
nia, provided he shall pay luu k (with in
terest) the amounts he defaulted.
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Thkrk is great anxiety on the part of the
Southern newspapers to know what became
of the report of the President’s speech
whtcli the agent of the Associated Press
commenced sending from Atlanta iast Sat
urday. The report got as far as “Fellow
citizens of Georgia," and then came toa dead
halt. If it had not been for the publication
of Hie sjieech in the Constitution of the next
day, Hi.aink Republicans might have
imagined that the Administration had fallen
a victim to the rage of Georgia Ku-Klux.
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Kx-Ministku Washburne describes the
condition of France as prosperous in the
extreme. The crops this year are unusually
abuudant. This is especially true of the
vine crops, which give promise of a supply
of wine equal to that of 1565. The work
ing classes, too, are generally well off, com
merce flourishes, and “the only one cause
,if univerwl dread and anxiety is the black
political shadow which darkens the other
wise cloudless horizon of the most beautiful
of European lands."
Somebody has calculated that the cotton
crop of 1*76 would make about 105,009 car
loads. The Kailnsui Ornette, comparing
the relative jiosiiions of cotton ports in 1577
and 1873, finds that New Orleans, New
York and Savannah arc decreasing in the
per cent, exported from them respectively,
while Chatleeton has doubled and Norfolk
lias risen from nothing to 4 per cent. New
Orleans still exports 40 per cent, of the to
tal export, Charleston 11 per cent.. New
York 14, Boston 2J. Memphis i the larg
est interior cotton market, St. Louis next.
Because the coWcd brethren arc en
couraged to go to Liberia so that they may
have slaves of their own and tap gum trees
/or champagne, the Chicago Tribunt
Axwclly says: “Men who can lie cheated by
stauaaents of this description ought to emi
grate; they are not fit to vote and govern
gn a State of the American Union.” A few
vears ago, wheu the Tribune's friends were
persuading these same negroes into “forty
acres and a mule" and “the Freedman’s
Bank,” they were ever so good to remain as
voting machines. Since the colored man
has ceased to be a power in the South, his
former Radical chums now deliberately
consign him to perdition.
The Moffett Bel! Punch has attracted
the attention of Illinois. If it shall succeed
in Virginia, the Chicago Tribune will advo
cate its adoption, and supports the idea with
the following figures:
1.000 beer saloons, 360,000 bar
rels, at $2 #720,000
1,5*0 liquor saloons, 24,000,000
drinks, at 24 cents. 600,000
Total tor Chicago #1,320.000
For rat of the State 1,500,000
Total for Illinois. #2,1*20.000
Periaps the Old Dominion has pointed
out a way to pay the National debt. Men
who think they “saved the Union 1 ’ will
have to give way to men who punch out
the debt.
THE SMITH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
We have it upon good authority that
Hon. William M. Reese positively de
clines a re-election to the Senate from
the Twenty-Ninth Senatorial District.
This declination is a matter of regret,
as no man in Georgia is more compe
tent to render the State valuable service
in the General Assembly.
Hon. W. D. Terr, of McDuffie, is
recommended as the successor of Judge
Reese. Mr. Terr is so well and favor
ably known in the counties of Lincoln,
Columbia, McDuffie and Wilkes, that it
is scarcely necessary for us to speak of
his fitness for the position of Senator.
He is au eloquent and forcible speaker
and a lawyer of prominence. He is
thoroughly familiar with the wants of
the people and is a mau of liberal and
progressive viewß. He is not without
experience in legislative affairs, having
served in the General Assembly of 1873-
’74 as tbe member from Lincoln. Mr.
Tutt made reputation in the House of
Representatives, and no member had a
larger following, or exercised more in
fluence in shaping and controlling legis
lation.
As Judge Reese positively declines
being a candidate, tbe people of tbe
Twenty-ninth District would be fortu
nate in having him succeeded by Mr.
Tutt, who would be tbe right man in
the right place.
THE NUTRKMK COURT VACANCY.
The principles of justice and equity
demand that the vacancy on the United
States Supreme Ilouch, caused by the
resignation of Judge Davis, shall be
filled by a Southern mau of eminence
and integrity, oue too, who, like the
President, lias that nobility of soul
which can riso superior to partisan poli
tics. We believe that Hon. Hersohel
V. Johnson, of this State, is the very
best selection that could be made and
in this opinion we are joined by tbe
most enlightened of our contemporaries,
on both sides of the party lino, North
and Honth.
The New York He,raid, of a reeent
date, among other things, insists that
tho present unfair geographical distri
bution of the Judges shall be rectified.
It says : “Since 1860 the appointments
have all been made from the Northern
States. Tho West has had a very dis
proportionate share. Ohio has two mem
bers of tbe Court, and until Judge
Davis resigned Illinois and lowa bad
two more, und in the East a Judge iu
New Jersey is wedged in between one
in New York and one in Pennsylvania,
while the sixteen Southern States have
none. The existing vacancy and the
next two ought to be tilled by the ap
pointment of Southern jurists if men
can be found of sufficient character and
professional eminence. The Southern
States would then have one-third of the
Judges and the other twenty-two States
tho remaining two-thirds, which would
be a fair distribution considering the
greater amount of judioiul business in
the North. Justico Bradley does cir
cuit duty in tho Gulf States, but it is a
great deal better that circuit duty be
done by Judges residing in the same
part of the country. The reason is not
merely that they are: more accessible
and can attend tbe circuits with less in
convenience, but that they are con
stantly called to administer State laws.
A citizen of Louisiana, suing a citizen
of Alabama on a oontract made in the
former State, asks a United States Court
to administer the laws of Louisiana, and
Judges are likely to be better acquaint
ed with the laws of neighboring than of
distant States.”
The President undoubtedly, in con
sidering this subject, must have been
struck with the ideas embodied in the
above extract. He would somewhat de
flect from his persistent and successful
polioy if he neglected to select some
distinguished Southern jurist for the
position now vacant. Without at all
disparaging the noted persons who may
have been suggested for this Judgeship,
we, at the same time, must insist that
no appoiutmeut could possibly give
more nniversal satisfaction than that of
Hersohel Y. Johnson, who possesses
every intellectual qualification calcu
lated to adorn tho Supreme Bench, and
whose virtues are of the heroic mould
transmitted from earlier and better days.
A NOVEL STRIKE.
Some of the planters in Mississippi
who deal with New Orleans threaten to
“go ou a strike” against the merchants
who have hitherto helped them to make
their crops in the old-fashioned way.
What the planters do not like is to be
oharged fifty per cent, profit on supplies
advanced by the factors. They do not
kuow why a pound of cotton should not
pay for a pound of bacon ; and, on this
hypothesis, they refuse to settle with
their merchant at a rate lower than 15
cents per pound for cotton consigned to
New Orleuns. The merchants aver, on
the other hand, that they charge only
what was “nominated in the bond
that they are compelled to make charges
up to 25 per cent., iu order to meet the
requirements of rent, clerk hire, insur
ance, etc.; that cotton losses consume
at least 10 per ceut. more ; and that 15
per ceut is the best margin of profit, un
der any circumstances.
Tho New Orleans Democrat conced
ing that 50 per oent. for advanoes is a
most oppressive rate, does not see why
the farmer should arbitrarily offset his
pound of cotton against a ponnd of ba
con aud then concludes: “If the mer
chant charges the farmer exorbitant
prices, the farmer ought to give his cus
tom to some other merchant. We opine,
however, that the farmers are pretty
much in the power of the local mer
chants: they cannot make their cotton
without advances of oorn, meat, etc.,
and at th*’ eud of the year it, of course,
takes ali their cotton to pay for supplies
which they have bought ou credit at
prices ranging from ten to twenty-five
per cent, above cash prices. And thus
the farmers are never able to emanci
pate themselves from the fifty per oent.
tax of the mercants.
“Let the farmers of the conntry re
ferred to step up to the office like little
men, pay up squarely for what they
bought at the prices agreed to pay, and
then go home, put enough laud in coru
to meet all their needs, raise their own
pork and provisions, put the residue of
their land in cotton, and at the end of
the year they will have corn and meat
in abundance, and their cotton crop,
whatever it may amount to, will be clear
money: they can then snap their fingers
at the merchants who charge them fifty
per cent, on advances and use their cash
to buy from those who will sell them
cheapest.”
This is the wise advice editors all over
the country have been giving the far
mers for these many years, and most
emphatically since 1865. It is pretty
safe to say that the planter who pays 50
per cent, or anything like it for ad
vances, is on the road to rain. Perhaps
we eculd observe, with equal truth, that
the factor who encourages this disastrous
policy is bound to end in a common
bankruptcy. The neglect of diversified
agricnlture and exorbitant rates of in
terest are twin curses of the South. We
believe that this truth is gradually im
pressing itself npon our people, and that
they have been forced to conform them
selves io it. High interest and poor se*
carity go band in hand. The merchant
who ruins the planter by extortion in
jures himself at last. Bat if the planter
is fool enough to make a bad bargain
voluntarily, he shonld beman enough
to stick to it, and then, tanght by expe
rience, follow the only path that leads
to prosperity—the path of independence
of usury. Men in the country who are
wise in their generation need not
“strike” against the men of the city.
We dare say the latter will welcome the
day when the former shall no loDger
need advances at snch fearful risks to
both.
ATLANTA’S PROPOSITION.
During the session of the Convention,
when the location of the capital was un
der discussion, the City Council of At
lanta made a proposition to the Conven
tion that if Atlanta was named in the
new Constitution as the seat of govern
ment the city wonld furnish, free of
cost, a site for a capital and a building
as good as the one in Milledgeville. The
Convention declined the proposition and
wisely determined to let the people of
the State decide by a separate vote
whether tho capital of the State should
remain at Atlanta or be removed to
Milledgeville. It was generally snp
posed, and with good reason, that this
action of the Convention disposed of the
proposition. However, at a recent meet
ing of tho City Council the offer was re
peated, as follows :
Whereas, The enemies of Atlanta are rep
resenting that Atlanta’s proposition to the Con
vention was not made in good faith ; and
Whereas, It was mado iu the utmost good
faith,
liesolved, That we do hereby repeat the
same, and now declare that if Atlanta isselect
ed as the capital of the State by the people in
December next, tbe city of Atlanta will convey
to tbe State of Georgia any ten acres of land
in or near llio city of Atlanta now unoccupied,
or tbe square in the heart of said city known
as the City Hail Lot, containing fivo acres of
land, and bounded by a streot on every side,
on which to locate and build a Capitol for the
State.
Itesoloeil further, That the city of Atlanta
will build for the State of Georgia, on the loca
tion selected, a Capitol building as good as tbe
old Capitol building in Milledgeville.
There are good reasons, wo think, why
this so-called proposition should have
no influence upon the people of Georgia
in determining the location of the seat
of government. It is by no means cer
tain that Atlanta could bo made to com
ply with her offer if it should be accept
ed. It is by no means certain that any
tax payer who objected could not re
strain tho City Council, by legal means,
from carrying out its agreement. No
timo is given within which the land
shall be conveyed to tbe State and the
Capitol building erected, A hundred
years might pass before these things
were done. The offer, too, is indefinite
in saying that a building as good as the
building in Milledgeville will be fur
nished. Who shall determine what this
means, and how shall it be determined ?
In our opinion, the offer amounts to
nothing, and does not deserve to bo en
tertained for a moment.
CHAMBERLAIN VS. CHAMBERLAIN.
The plea made by Mr. Chamberlain
that the Parker confession cites no
new charge against him is shown to be
true; but it remains for the fugitive ex-
Governor to clear himself, if he can, not
so much of new crimes as of old ones.
Tho New York Sun was on early and
persistent exposer of the sham reformer,
even when Yale College took him np
and made him her orator, and some in
dependent presses were hurrahing for
him as something miraculously clean
and wholesome amid the cess-pool of
Radical rascality. The same paper con
tinues to brand him as incomparably
the most able, unscrupulous and dan
gerous demagogue ever known in the
history of South Carolina. It says:
“Ho soon mastered the vulgar thieves
around him, and became the acknowl
edged brains of tbe RiDg. When the
history of events in Seuth Carolina for
the ten years following the war is ade
quately written, tho pluck, persever
ance, and executive force of the New
Englaud lawyer will command a certain
kind of admiration, notwithstanding the
base uses to which he applied those
qualities.” Wo have always shared this
opinion. Without Chamberlain's intelleot
the South Carolina Ring would long ago
have fallen to pieces. But his time
came at last, and the most damaging
testimony, except Parker’s perhaps, is
furnished by his own hand. The letter
he wrote to Parker concerning “the
footing up of the commissions” was,
when made public, his first signal dis
comfiture. It was never explained. It
could be explained only in one way, and
Parker simply furnished a key to it
which had long been suspected. It was
that letter, sold for #4,000, that Elliott
knew of and at one time possessed. It
was that letter iu Elliott’s bands that
forced Chamberlain to the very earth,
and knocked his “reform” plans higher
than a kite. It was that letter that
compelled tho then Governor to pnt
upon his ticket men, white and black,
from whom he had attempted to revolt
But the Sun declares fnrther that it
has iu its possession another letter,
written by Chamberlain to Kimfton.
It seems that the Ring had determined
to steal the whole.fvailway system of
South Caroliua, by means of a lever
age upon the State’s mortgage .of the
Greenville and Columbia Road. While
the details were under advisement,
Chamberlain, then Attorney-General,
wrote as follows to Kimpton, his class
mate and chief pal, who was in New
York :
Office of the Attorney-General. )
Columbia, 8. C., Jin. 5, 1870. j
My Dear Kimpton—Farkir arrived last eve
ning. aud spoke of the G. kC. matter, Ac. I
told him I hail just written you fully on that
matter, and also about the old il k Bills. Do
you understand fully the plan of the G. A. C.
enterprise ? It is proposed to buy #350.000
worth of the G. A C. stock. This, with the
#433,(00 of stock held by the State, will give
entire control to ns. The Laureus Branch will
be sold in February by decree of Court, and
will cost not more than #50,000, and probably
not more than #40,000. The Spartanburg and
Union cau also be got without difficulty. We
shall then have in G. A C. 168 miles, in Lau
rens 31. and in S. AU. 70 miles—in all 269
miles—equipped and running. Put a first
mortgage of $20,000 a mile on this, sell the
bonds at S5 or 90. aud the balance, after pay
ing all outlays for cost and repairs, is immense
—over *?.000,000. There is a mint of money
in this—or I am a fool. Then we will soon
compel the S. 0. K. 11. to fail into our (lands,
aud complete the connection to Asheville, N.
C. There is an indefinite verge for expansion
of power before us. Write me fully, and tell
me of anything you want done. My last letter
was very full. Harrison shall be attended to
at once. I don’t think Neaole will make any
trouble. Parser hates Neaole. and magnifies
his intentions, Yours, truly,
D. H. Chamberlain.
Was there ever such a “reformer 1”
Was there ever such an Attorney-Gene
ral ! It is farther shown that the Green
ville and Columbia part of the programme
was really carried oqt, and, “without
paying a dollar oat qf their owa pockets,
Kimpton (representing Chamberlain),
Cardoza, Niles G. Parser, Waterman,
Boon's brother-in-law, Honest John
Patterson, J. L. Xaagle, ex-Comp
troller-General, and the notorious Tim
Hurley, aiterwards a Haybs elector, got
possession of the property, put through
the ignorant Legislature a bill releasing
a mortgage of #2,000,000 to the State,
and then sold oat to their own great
profit.”
Behold the beauties of Reconstruction
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1577.
and Grantism! Could the infernal
abode have famished more rascality in
the same given time ? In view of snch
“results of the war,” we shonld like to
know what Charles Sumner, for exam
ple, thinks of his work. We know
what Blaine thinks; but Sumner was
supposed to have been at least honest in
his fanatical resolves. If any of the
Spiritualists can “materialize” and in
terview Sumner, new is the proper time.
A DESTINY FULFILLED.
The following document has beeu made
public. It was written many years ago
by Lewis Y. Boot and consigned to his
mother:
Bt. Genevieve. January 16, 1831—On this
day I left home under charge of Mr. William
Shannon, an old friend of my father, to go to
Kask&skia to read law in the office of Judge
Pofe. My education is very limited, but with
hard study I may overcome it. lam determin
ed to try it. and my intention is to return to
my native State to practice if I can qualify
myself, and while doing so to work to become
United States Senator for my native State, and
to work for thii till lam sixty years old. I
will pray God to give me the resolution to per
severe in this intention. I have communioated
this to my mother and given her this paper to
keep. So help me, God. Lewis Y. Booy.
The purpose of the young man was
kept faithfully and fulfilled to the very
letter. He overcame every difficulty,
rose to eminence at the bar, and, when
sixty years of age, was elected to the
United States Senate. This is a very
remarkable example of what a firm de
termination may accomplish.
THE SUPREME COURT VACANCY.
It is very generally believed that the
vacancy on the bench of the Supremo
Court of the United States will be filled
soon after the assembling of Congress in
October. It seems, also, to be generally
conceded that the appointment should
be giveu to a representative Southern
lawyer and jurist. So far as we can
learn, the man whose appointment
would afford tho greatest satisfaction to
the South and to a largo proportion of
the people of tho North is Hersohel V.
Johnson, of this State. In an article on
this subject, published some days since,
tho Chronicle and Constitutionalist
gave the reasons why the place should
be bestowed upon the South and also
showed the peculiar fitness of ex-Gov
ernor Johnson for the position. The
New Orleans Democrat, of a recent
date, in an editorial on the same snb
ject agrees with us as to the section to
which the appointment should be given
but differs as to the appointee. The
Democrat prefers some member of the
Louisiana bar—presumably Jno. A. Camp
bell. We can readily understand why
a Louisiana newspaper should desire the
promotion of a Louisiana lawyer, but
the Democrat gives another and certain
ly a very novel reason for the position
it has taken. It thinks that the new Judge,
if ho comes from the South, should
do duty in the South, and that a Louisi
anian should bo selected becaase a
Louisianian only thoroughly under
stands the principles of the civil, or
Roman, law which obtains in that State.
By parity of reasoning a Louisiana
lawyer would not be thoroughly versed
in the principles of the common,or Eng
lish, law which obtains in every other
Southern State as well as in every
other State of the Union. There
fore, in order that one State may be
benefitted, all the others must suffer.
There is a trifle of selfishness in suoh an
argument that will detract somewhat
from its force.
ECONOMY OF MIIJJiDGEYIUG.
There is no reason why any bad temp
er or angry feeling should be shown in
the discussion of what is known as the
“capital question.” In order to pre
vent anything of that kind the Conven
tion wisely submitted the selection of
the seat of government to a separate
vote of the people. The matter can be,
and should be, decided without mixing
it up with extraneous issues. It should
be settled ou its merits. We favor the
return of the capital to Milledgeville,
for one reason, because we believe it to
be to the interests of the people of the
State in a peouniary point of view. We
feel fully assured that the return of the
capital to Milledgeville will be a meas
ure of economy. The State owns in
Milledgevillo buildings snfSoiently large
for the accommodation of the entire
State government, and specially con
structed to meet the wants of the offi
cials who must occupy them. A reoeut
and thorough survey by an experienced
architect has shown that by the expen
diture of a few thousand dollars they
oan be speedily put in complete repair.
The people know that these buildings
are ample for all the purposes of the
public service. They were in use for
many years, and wheu experience de
monstrated that improvements or addi
tions were Deeded they were made, until
no want was left unsupplied. If the
capital remains in Atlanta we consider
it certain that an expenditure of fully
one million dollars will have to be made
on account of public buildings. Tho
present Capitol is not at all adapted to
the purposes to which it has been con
verted, and is generally believed to be
iu an exceedingly unsafe condition. If
the seat of government is to be kept
where it is at present we do not see how
any one can reasonably oppose the con
struction of a Dew Capitol. We have
never believed in the demagogne’s pen
ny wise and pound foolish economy in
anything. But at a time of financial
stringency like this, when the people
are ao poor and taxation is so high, we
do not think that any money should be
expended except where its expenditure
is absolutely necessary to the preserva
tion of public interests. If the cap
ital should be returned to Milledgeville
the cost of removal would probably be
about twenty-five thousand dollars, and
this expense would be covered by the
sale of the Executive Mansion in Atlan
ta—so that the people would really be
nothing ont of pocket. If the capital
remains in Atlanta wo must prepare for
the expenditure of a large amount of
money at a time when the people are
least able to bear any additional finan
cial burden. It is for the people to de
cide what course they will pursue.
The Czar is sick. “Send for Mc-
Manus !”
The New York Sun commends Stan
ley’s intrepidity, but pronounoea his
claim to veracity below par,
Senator Dennis, of Maryland, like a
good Democrat, is rapidly recovering
from his dangerons sickness.
Hon. Julian Habtridoe, Congress
man from the Savannah District, has
written a strong letter favoring Randall
for Speaker.
Numbers of men who are now calling
Tweed a liar onoe gave his daughters,
on their weddiiig days, very oostly and
magnificent presents.
Thb horse car companies of Philadel
phia owe the oity more than #3,000,000,
and, from all aoconnts, will oontinue to
do so as long as possible.
The New York Herald, alarmed about
the saving banks, has a long article on
“what shall the poor do with their sav
ings?” A man with savings just now
can hardly be called poor. He ia rather
a nabob.
WHEN WAS IT SENT f
In the Savannah News, of Tuesday,
appeared the following editorial para
graph:
The following telegram from Hon. A. H.
Stephens was not read at the Hates banquet
in Atlanta, althongh ex-Govemor Joseph E.
Brown was present and made a speech: “The
statement that I am advising a friendly accep
tance by the people of the South of the inau
guration of Mr. Hates is utterly unfounded. I
never have and newer shall advise them or any
other people to give a friendly aoceptanoe of
any administration inaugurated by the grossest
frauds and most palpable usurpations. "
We would like for the News to inform
ns when Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
sent the telegram above quoted and to
whom. It represents Mr. Stephens in a
totally different light from that in which
he appears to the country, and an ex
planation from some quarter is certainly
in order. No public man in the South
has been more pronounced than Mr.
Stephens in commendation of what is
known as the President’s Southern pol
ioy. When the brave and generous
words of the Executive’s inaugural were
followed by equally brave and generous
deeds, Mr. Stepbens, with the courage
that has always kept him from occupy
ing a doubtful or neutral position, at
onoe declared that Mr. Hayes showed
his desire to administer the government
of the country in accordance witii the
Constitution and the laws, and that his
acts should receive the support of all
patriotic men. To this declaration he
has steadily adhered—to this declara
tion he will adhere, as the News will
learn when Congress assembles. It is
possible that the dispatch quoted was
sent before the creation of the Electoral
Commission, and when the Republican
President of the Senate threatened to
usurp the right to count the vote and an
nounce the result. Even in that case it
would have only been fair for the News
to have given the date of the telegram.
But, like Miss Rosa Dautle, we ask just
for information when such a dispatch
was sent and to whom. Had such a dis
patch been in existence, and had it been
in the possession of any one at the
“Hayes banquet,” wo hardly think tlie
News would have really desired it read.
It is not customary among Georgians to
invite gnests to dinnor and insult them
at the table.
WHO IS TO BLAME?
We find tbe following in a recent is
sue of the Rome Tribune :
Now while the President is professing so
much non-partisan patriotism and making so
many civil service reform promises, let him
provo his faith by liis works, and dismiss from
the offices they have so long disgraced, Mar
shal Smyth and his entire crew. There is no
department more iu need of a thorough cloan
ing than tho Department of Justice in this
State.
We are quite as anxious as our Rome
cotemporary to get rid of Marshal
Smyth and those deputy marshals of
his who have so cruelly wronged and
outraged the people of Northern Geor
gia. We as deeply regret the failure to
have a change made in this office ; but
we do not think it right to saddle the
blame for suoh failure upon the wrong
person. From everything that has been
said abont the matter we do not see how
the President can be justly censured for
the continuance of Maj. Smyth in the
Marshalship. There are oertain things
connected with the matter that have
been repeatedly published and never
oantradioted, whioh it is well should
be remembered. They are these :
1. That almost immediately after his
inauguration, the President informed
the trwo United States Senators from
Georgia he intended to give the Mar
shalship for this State to a Demo
crat. What were his reasons for bo
doing we have no means of knowing.
We may presume that he felt kindly to
wards both Messrs. Hill and Gordon
for the part they had taken in prevent
ing flllibnstering and perhaps oivil war,
and he may have, also, recognized
the fact that there was virtually
no Republican party in Georgia, and
that the appointment should be given
to someone in sympathy with the great
mass of the peoplo,
2. That at the request of General
Gordon the President agreed to appoint
Col. R. A. Alston United States Mar
shal if Mr. Hill would consent to the
appointment being made.
3. That the President did not appoint
Col. R. A. Alston because Mr. Hill
would not consent to his appointment.
Mr. Hill said he did not regard Col.
Alston as a fit person for the position,
and consequently could not assent to his
receiving the office.
4. That after this the President re
peated his offer to appoint any good
man to the Marshalship upon whom
Senators Hill and Gordon would unite.
These seem to be the undisputed
facts. That the two Senators have not
aocepted the President’s proposition is
evident from the fact that Maj. Smyth is
still in office. We understand that a
large number of applications for the po
sition are on file in Washington, and
that eaoh applicant has presented in
substance the same letter from Mr. Hill
and from General Gordon. But the
President may very naturally say: “If
“ the two Georgia Senators, familiar
“ with their State and its people, cannot
“ select the man best qualified for the
“ position, how can I, a stranger to
“ Georgia and to Georgians, make the
“ selection ?” We appreciate the force
of anch reasoning, and fail to see
how any blame oan attach to Mr. Hayes,
Our Senators must bear the onus of the
Marshalship miscarriage. We still hope
that when Congress assembles in Octo
ber they will make on effort to rectify
the wrong they have done the people of
their State.
IDI.E MONEY.
If there is not a free and healthy cir
culation of the blood, the man dies. If
there is not a free and wholesome circu
lation of the currency a country cannot
long survive the rain of its commercial
industry. The Republican party has
been long a hoarder of money. Accord
ing to the Treasury statements, twelve
different funds are locked tip, amount
ing in cqrreney to #96,681,693, in gold to
#106,904,936; combined, to #203,586,629.
fhe Treasury should be like the heart
in the human system, regulating the
flow of currency, which is the blood of
trade. So long as this hoarding, in and
ont of the Treasury, shall continue, so
long will there be stagnation in busi
ness. Men who live npon the interest
of their bonds had better look to their
security. If the men who make the ar
ticles that pay the interest are driven to
despair, they will make it hot for the
drivers. This is a great conntry, but it
may suffer from suffocation.
THE GREAT NECESSITY.
The war was bad enough; the lunatio
legislation that followed the tyar was, if
anything, worse than battles; bnt worst
of all ia the depravity engendered by
strife and extravaganoe. The conntry
has largely recovered from the effects of
the war; it is rapidly recovering from
the resnlta of Reconstruction; bnt when
it shall recover from its bankrnpt mo
rality, the Lord only knows. Every day
there is an explosion of some trusted in
stitution or the wreck of some honored
name. There can be no real and sub
stantial prosperity until confidence be
tween man and man shall be restored.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter From Colombia, S. C.
Columbia, S. C., September 26, ’77.
The city of Columbia is slowly but sure
ly recovering from the desolation of
war, and the still greater desolation and
degradation which followed in its wake.
There are greater evils than the sacking
of a city, and the destruction of prop
erty. There is a lower deep than the
anguish and the humiliation inflicted by
the sword and the torch and the domi
nation of a conquering army. The ig
norance and vice and corruption during
the reign of Soott, Moses and Chamber
lain inflicted more suffering and humil
iation upon the people of Columbia and
South Carolina than the sword and the
torch of the modern Atilla. The defeat
and loss of property that follow the march
of a triumphant army are inevitable and
bring no dishonor to a people who have
done their duty. There was not muph
left in the wake of Gen. Sherman’s
army through South Carolina, but the
reign of the political vampyres was far
more injurious and demoralizing. Sher
man’s bayonets and torches were not as
merciless and destructive as the spawn
of political buzzards born of reconstruc
tion. Sherman’s theory and practice qf
waging war were in pursuance of oon
viotions that the only way to terminate
it was to make it destructive. The
people of Carolina have realized the
foroo of Sherman’s convictions. But
the war of the carpet-baggers was more
destructive to the material interests of
the State aud a thousand times more
humiliating to the pride of the people.
They have survived them both. They
have passed through the valley of de
spair, aud their hearts are again made
glad by the sunlight of hope.
Columbia is not active commercially,
but the citizeus aro looking forward to
a revival of trade. They aro hopeful of
the future. The city government is
still controlled by the black-and-tan,
but the fang of the serpent is powerless
to harm. At the next eleotiou tho oity
will bo redeemed. Tho oitadel having
surrendered, the outposts must do like
wise. The State having been redeemed,
tho capital will not remain long in the
hands of the enemy.
The last time I visited the State
House, Cardoza, Haynb, Purvis, Dunn
and other birds of prey were in session
as a Board of Final Revision over the
election returns. Whep I looked upon
this motley crew who assumed plenary
powors as a Returning Board, claiming
the right to alter the returns at every
precinct, and to elect contrary to
tho will of the people as expressed
at the ballot box, I despaired of
tho result. That political mounte
bank and accomplished fraud, who
declared the civilization of the Pu
ritan and Roundhead in danger of
being overcome by the Africans, was in
the Executive office. He held the Board
in the hollow of his hand. They were
as pliable as day in the potter’s hand.
They wore oorrupt and obedient to his
will, and that will was exercised by the
most talented, adroit and unscrupulous
of the adventurers. The prospeot for
the cause of good government was in
deed gloomy. The whole machinery of
the State government was in the hands
of Chamberlain and the whole power of
the Federal Government was obedient
to his call. His will was supreme. But
the good people of Carolina did not de
spair. It was ordained that the reign
of wrong and spoliation should cease.
That intelligence and virtue should tri
umph over ignowmoe and vice.
How brief the time ! How great the
change! The reign of robbery having
ceased, the gang of thieves folded their
tents in the darkness of the night and
fled away. Chamberlain and his asso
ciates in the mal-administration of the
State government are fugitives.
To-day Wade Hampton fills the Exec
utive offioe and Simpson, Haoood, Con
nor, Sims and others of character and
good repute are associated with him in
the conduct of the State. The people
have pulled through the slough of des
pond. They are rejoioed at their re
demption from worse than Egyptian
bondage. It will take time for reoupe
ration from tho misrule and plunder of
tho decade just passed.
Gov. Hampton is delighted with his
Western trip, and well he may be. Hiß
speeches are replete with wise and pa
triotic sentiments. His defense of the
South and the cause for which her sods
battled was manly and exalted. There
was nothing apologetio in his utteranoes.
He fought until resistance became use
less. Now that President Hayes has
extended the olive branch to the South;
that he has restored local self-gov
ment ; that he is administering
his high trnst in aooordance with
the Constitution—that he shows him
self the President not of a party,
but of the whole country, knowing
neither North nor South in the adminis-
tration of the law—Governor Hampton
thiuks the time has eome when the es
tranged sections shall be reconciled and
united, and the people work together
for the good of the whole country. This
is the true policy. And as Governor
Hampton said in his speech at Nash
ville, it is above policy—it is statesman
ship. Before the war 001. Hampton
was known as a gentleman of large for
tune. His oooupation was that of a
planter, He was known to be
fond of field sports. He took no
active part in politics. Daring and
since the war he has been known
as one of the most brilliant and
chivalrous soldiers of the army of North
ern Virginia. Had his career ended
with his army record his name would
have been inscribed among the military
heroes in the pantheon of fame. But he
has proven himself no less renowned in
peace than in war. He has proven him
self no less equal to the emergencies of
war than the demands of peace. He fills
a large space in the public eye of the
oountry. He is beloved at the South and
esteemed at the North. He has risen to
the plane of statesmanship.
The people of South Carolina are
taking a deep interest in the Senatorial
election in Georgia, which does not
take place, qnder the new Constitution,
until December, 1858. They remember
with gratitude the noble service render
ed their State by the gallant and gifted
Gordon. The people of South Carolina
would adopt big? if they pogld. They
endorse the handsome compliment paid
him by Gov. Hampton, But Georgia
cannot spare him. The writer informed
Gen. Gordon's enthusiastic friends that
the man had to be born who oould de
feat him for the Senatorship. There is
not a reason why he should be defeated.
There are a thousand why he should be
re-elected. P. W.
Ex-Governor Hks3chhl y. Johnson is
spoken of as the successor of Judge
David Davis on the Supreme Court
bench of the United States. If Presi
dent ILufKa wishes to do the nioe thing
let him appoint Governor Johnson to this
vacancy. Bet the President show his
regard to the South by making this ap
pointment.— Darien Gazette.
An Indian who visited one of the
Northern penitentiaries found one of
his race oonfined there for killing a
white man, and wanted to know if a
white man was ever “jugged" for killing
an Indian, Nobody ever heard of it.
THE STATE.
THB PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS
Crawford is to have a jeweller.
Rome revels in ohampagne beer.
Rome is to have a barrel factory.
McDonough has a singing school.
Wild cats abound in Taylor county.
Gainesville’s railroad is' a payiug' af
fair.
Mr. R. H. Johnson, Sr., of Griffin, is
dead.
Darien and Augusta sell lager at ten
cents.
LaGrange is delighting in a Panithe
optioonicon.
Shaw, the Baldwin wife murderer, has
been refused anew trial.
The health of Milledgeville is now
said to be remarkably good.
Georgia will realize about $1,560,000
from dried peaches this year.
Rockdale thinks she should have tho
Scnatorship from her district.
Wm. A. Shorter, Esq , assumes edito
rial oontrol of the Rome Courier.
The persons poisoned by the ice cream
in MaoonlMondsy, are doing well.
The Old Capital, this week, makes
some good level shots in the canse.
Mr. Greene B. Meadows, of Grawford
▼ille, died Wednesday of paralysis.
Mr. J. T. Chapman has been elected
principal of Orawfordville Academy.
A robber divested a LaGrange milli
nery store of abont S7OO worth of goods.
The agricultural editor is still trying
to toss his hat over the mammoth po
tato.
Hon. 0. J. Wellborn, of Union, is
mentioned for the Senate iu the Fortieth
Diatriot.
J. D. Anthony, Eeq., is the editor of
a very pretty new paper, the Sanders
ville Courier.
The Darien Gazette thinks that Mcln
tosh county will go for ratification and
Milledgeville.
On Friday a Mr. Youngblood, living
in Fayette county, committed suioido by
hanging himself.
The capital juggernaut seems to be
rushing along with fewer “heated jour
nals” than before.
The Ladies’ Memorial Association of
LaGrange is busy at work upon the
monumental fund.
The Gutlibert livery stable has a
spanking team of horses named Bob
Toombs and Ben Hill.
The equinox inaugurates tho season,
and the Autumnal juioes gently trickle
down the mountain side.
Tho North and South Railroad, re
cently bought in by some Columbus
parties, will be extended.
The Echo thinks that Samuel Lump
kin, Esq., will receive nniversal support
for the Senate from the 30th.
The Catholics of West Point aro build
ing a church there under the direction
of Father John, of Columbus.
Col. J. J. Hickmsu has just returned
to Sparta from an European trip in tho
interest of Good Templarism.
German millet is being used as rice in
lower Georgia. The husks aro removed
and tho grain is palatable food.
Tho LaGrange Reporter says the ru
mor that Osman Pasha is “H. H. J.,”of
the Macon Telegraph, is a base fabri
cation.
A powder horn has been found near
Crawfordvillo 118 years old. No other
kind of horn lives intact that long in
Taliaferro.
Hon. A. W. Holoombe, tho famous
retrencher from Milton, mado a rousing
Oon-Oon-rat. speech, tho other day, in
Gwinnett.
Au Athens merchant has had five hun
dred applications from young men from
the oountry for positions as clerks, within
the past month.
A suit for SIOO,OOO damages has been
entered against the Western Railroad
for the killing of Master Ernest Daugh
try, near Columbus.
The Oglethorpe Echo says that a re
port is prevalent that Mr. Stephens
reoommends the pardoning of the Craw
ford rioters by Gov. Colquitt.
There will be an adjourned term of
Washington Court, as the Sohofield-
Wilson case, involving a large amount
of money, will consume much time.
The Crawfordville Democrat don’t
want any more sentiment thrown away
on Milledgeville, when Wrightsboro,
onoe the State capita!, has a prior claim.
Says the Gainesville Eagle : “GO7.
Brown wonld not accept tho Governor
ship if tendered to him, and he is too
wise to be flattered by indisoreet
friends.”
The purchasers of the North and
South Road want aid from the people of
Columbus to enable them to pay the
purchase money and to leave a fund
sufficient to extend the road,
The few short-sighted statesmen who
ondeavored to stifle the Constitution be
fore the swaddling bib had been tucked
around its vigorous form, aro now dodg
ing the forked ends of the “lightning
strokes.”
Moses Butler and Elbert Washington,
colored oonviots, charged with the mur
der of Mr. MoMiohae), their guard, in
Washington, have been convicted of
murder, but were reoommended to the
mercy of the Court.
The Crawfordville Democrat remarks:
“Farming out convicts has some disad
vantages, one of which, we suspect, is
that they are treated too leuieutly,
rather than too harshly, but it is about
the best that can be done.”
The Sparta Times says: “There is a
great variety of opinion among our peo
pie as to the reliability of Enright’s
statements, but it is claimed by the
friends of the three men now inearcerat-
ed that it will be corroborated by indis
putable faots.’’
Mr. J. E. White becomes sole editor
of the McDuffie Journal, Mr. W. F.
Combs having retired from the manage
ment. The Journal is one of the re
liable monitors of the Eighth District,
and we trust, will continue its well mer
ited prosperity.
The Henry county Weekly says the
equestrian exploits of littlo Joe Camp
bell, of Angusta, is truly astonishing.
Although but six or seven years of age,
he oau sit in his saddle and put his
pony through the various gaits with re
markable ability.
The Griffis News is rather late in the
day giviDg this advice : “A girl should
not stroll away with a gentleman at a
pic-nio.” This, however, is certainly in
time for next season; and, in the mean
time, we trust that those whounthonght
edly strolled away daring the numerous
excursions last May will come back.
Says the jMuiocrat :
“Rev. Dr- Brantley, agent for the Chron
icnn AND .CoNST?TDTiONAiiiBT, of Augus
ta, spent Saturday and Sunday in our
town. Mr. B. preached in the Methodist
Churoh here an Sunday night, giving
our people one of the plainest and mo.it
practical sermons we have had tho good
fortnne to listen to for a long time.”
Of Hon. H. H. Carlton, the Old Capi
tal has this; “His course as a member of
the Legislature for several years past
has been marked by earnest work and
endeavor to serve his constituency and
State acceptably. Indeed we regard Dr.
Carlton as one of tho ablest of the old
house, and his people have paid a just
tribute to his worth and ability in re
questing him to bscome a candidate.”
Much syrnp making in Newton.
Athens has four candidates for Mayor.
Tke Madison Home Journal is for
sale.
Mrs. L. A. Johnson, of Griffin, is
dead.
Mrs. John Dixieland, of Athens, is
dead.
Freights from America have been re
duced.
Hog oholera prevails in Twiggs
county.
Another golfl ipinfc baa been found in
Cobb county.
A narrow gauge engine -was sold in
Borne for s£&-
Athens ia aoou to have another grand
musical concert.
Several weddiogs are billed in Wilkes
county this Fall.
Oglethorpe negroes pawn shot gnns
for marriage lioenses.
Ont of seven infants born i& Athens
last week, six were boy.
Augusta age rapidly returning
frotp, the,* Summer resorts.
Sandersville is very anxious to keep
her telegraph office ruuuin*.
Mrs. G. A. of Early county,
died last Friday, aged 90 years.
Mr. Stephen Jones, of Twiggs county,
has lost over 100 hogs lately from chol
era.
The shrill notes of the 'possum horn
ronse the marsupial from his Autumn
lair.
Mischievous boys in Atlanta are wor
rying the town by raising false fire
alarms.
It ia rnmored there will be a change
of aohedue on the Georgia Railroad at
an early day.
There are more doctors than lawyers
in the State, and any number of doctors
of law who are neither.
Somehow the people don’t look upon
Atlanta’* proposition in a Bill-of-Rights
•tyle—“almost perfect.”
$2 A TEAK—POSTAGE PAID
We rejoice to see the State University
meeting such unanimous recommenda
tion from the State press.
Hon. W. E. Smith, member of Con
gress from the Second District, is iu fa
vor of Atlanta for the capital.
Col. J. H. Huggins is mentioned as a
suitable person to represent Clarke
county in the next Legislature.
The Atlanta Chief of Police advises
all citizens to bar their windows and
doors securely against robbers.
The Constitution pronounces Col
quitt’s welcome to Hayes the finest
speech the Governor ever made.
Mr. Thomas Wart-ken, of Washington,
Ga., had his arm and baud badly laco
rated by a cotton gin, recently.
Columbus is to pay the State $40,500
for the North and South Railroad and to
continue it beyond Pine Mountain.
The Savannah News intimates that
Atlanta fed the Presidential party with
tin spoons. Surely this cannot be.
A little boy of Mr. John M. Aaron, of
Covington, was accidentally run over by
a buggy, last week, but was only slightly
hnrt.
The Jonesboro wagon "traius do a
thriving business carrying cotton to At
lanta and returning the same day with
supplies.
The Madison Home Journal thiuke
that indications favor Milledgeville, so
far at least as the question of expense is
concerned.
J. H. H. Parks, E?q., an efficient
member of the corps of teachers of the
Richmond Academy* Las been spendim?
his vacation in Milledgeville.
If Hayes be really honest, the Rom' l
'lribune thinks that he will overhaul the
Federal offico roost in Georgia We
shall perceive what we shall behold.
The Constitution says : “Now let us
not only shake bauds across the bloody
okasm, but jump over on the other side
and squeeze the other fellow’s paw.”
Milledgeville should now make a pro
position to feed the State officials with
as fine table weapous ns Atlanta fur
nished the President; and the thtr.fi is
settled. *
Speaking of Angimta’s committee in
viting Hayes to visit us the Atlanta cor
respondent of the Savannah News says:
“Not being office seekers, they very po
litely aooepted liis excuse, and did not
persistently leek a compliance with
their invitation."
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Superior Court in Session- Lawyers Present
—Political Meeting—Judge Reese’s Speech
—Tlio C'roi>.
[ Correspomleiifc Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Appling, September 25.—Columbia
Superior Court met yesterday. Messrs.
Jackson, Dutcher, Habersham, Eve,
Oakmau, MoLaws, Twiggs, Hook'
Snead, Gibson, Yerdery, of the Augus
ta Bar, and Messrs. Tutt, Casey, Roney
and Huilrou, of McDuffie ; Messrs.
Reese and Dußose, of Wilkes; Shock
ley, Moore, Kelsey and Smith, of Co
lumbia were present. A good deal of
business is being done. Judge Gibson
seems determined to got through as
quick as possible, and iu his usual euer
getio manner. To daj, as usual, Co
lumbia county has taken the initiative
in calling a meeting to send delegates to
the Senatorial Convention to bo hold iu
Thomson on the 15th of October,
provided the other counties agree as to
time and plaoe. Resolutions were unan
imously adopted endorsing the actions
of her Representative and Senator, and
in the most complimentary stylo insist
ing upon their accepting a”reuomination.
Judge Reese in his usual felicitous man
ner gave uu a “constitutional speech,”
was frequently applauded, and at its
1 close thanked our people for tho many
compliments paid to him, and the im
plicit faith they seem to have in him,
but begged to be relieved from still rep
resenting them, which they would not
hear of. Crops are sorry, and I am
fearful “the bottom” is not readied yet.
Dot.
THE ‘‘(JO 11 DON VOLUNTEERS.”
A Curoliim illinium Uompunr Niuuiml for (hr
Hrorgia .Sun(o|w()rronpoudr ■■ vr Unworn
Hie Ugrpa ml lUn Senator.
| Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .]
Blackville, S. 0., September 26.
At a called meeting of the gentlemen re
siding in Blackville and vicinity, hold
recently, an organization was formed
aDd named after one of Georgia’s proud
est sons, the Hon. J. B. Gordon, to-wit
—tho “Gordon Volunteers.” The com
pany now numbers twenty-five men, and
the roll is daily increasing. The follow
ing is a list of the commissioned officers:
Captain, L. T. Izlar; Ist Lieutenant,
Philip Malone; 2d Lieutenant, C. E.
Lartigue; 3d Lieutenant, P. F. Stokes.
It was unanimously adopted, without a
dissenting voice, that an original of the
enolosed should be addressed to Gen
Gordon. Mike.
Headquarters Gordon Volunteers, \
Blackville, S. 0., Aug. 11, 1877. (
Oen. J. R, Gordon, Georgia :
Honorable pik —At, a regular meeting
of our company, held yesterday (Fridaj),
August 11th, mat, it was unanimously
adopted that yog be, informed that this
organisation has, without a dissenting
voice, adopted the name of the “Gordon
Volunteers” as oom dimentary to your
self for tho nobio aud heroin part you
took toward redeeming our i-rond old
“Palmetto State,” during her days of
darkness and corruption. Hoping that
our company may have the pleasure ol
entertaining you at .ome day that wp
would be pleased for you to mention,
not fa* in the future, I om
Your humbie servant,
Brown,
Secret,ai y and Treasurer G. V,
By order of Cspt. Izlar.
Atlanta. 11l August, 1877
Mr. Mike J}rQwn. Secretary and Treas
urer Gordon Volunteers:
Mr Dear Sir—Yows of the 11th intst.,
informing me of the distinguished honor
oonferred by calling the coiapanv oi
whioh you are a member ‘'Gordon Vol
unteers,” is received. Do me tho favor
to convey to the officers and men of the
corps my sincere thanks, and tho ex
pression of my appreciation of the com
pliment, and my cordial good wishes for
the usefulness of the organization and
the individual happiness of ail its mem
bers. I am, sir, most truly, yours,
J. B. Gordon.
TUB WRATH TO COME.
Thi Invemijoitlon fominiuev Uesuiue Their
Work—A Chance nor Knillcttln to Must—
Patterson in tlie Toils.
[%, Telegraph to the Journal of Commerce J
Columbia, S. 0., September 25.—The
operations of the Investigating Com
mittee, which have been suspended on
account of tho recess, will be resumed
to morrow. An untold amount of new
evidence has been secured, and over
twenty new cases of felony are booked
for the next Court, involving nearly all
the Republican membeis of the present
Bonate and House. Bribery is the chief
charge. Ten new witnesses are secured
as to Patterson’s thievery, and hi* con
viction is morally certain on his own
writing. These charges will convict the
whole ling. F. B. Jacobs, of Washing
ton, indicted for forgery, conspiracy,
etc., telegraphs that ha is innocent and
will explain. Ha has been summoned.
Patterson i* cornered. New and damag
ing evidence against Greaves and Cham
berlain is certain, ttochran, Dibble and
Muller, of committee, are present.
“f Jordan's H Tower of Strength.”
[Henry County Weekly.]
Candidates to succeed General Gor
don are beooming “thick ae leaves in
Valambrosa,” and growing more nume
rous every day. They are all good men
—some men of power. Gordon desires
to succeed himself; and had we a vote
in the Legislature it would be given
him. He has made a faithful, compe
tent Senator. His name is a tower* of
strength. He is the equal of any—the
peer of all. If he won laurels in war, he
1 has won wreathes in peace. In all this
broad land there is no one more beloved
than the gallant Gordon. In every con
test one blast upon his bugle horn is
worth a thousand men. Bend him back
to the Senate, say we, to illustrate Geor
gia as faithfully as he did on the battle
fields of the Old Dominion. Gordon
and Hill—with their oolleagues in the
House—places our State on an equality
with any of our sisters ou the score of
ability.
Bkalahm That Ulatrure
The teeth are speedily removed by SOZ
ODONT, the great purifying and beau
tifying agent. The gams are made rosy
and healthy by its use, and that morti
fying defect—an unpleasant breath—
is completely remedied by it. It is the
king of dentrifices. f
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Pickens has canned much fruit.
Anderson forms a Calisthenic Glut.
Aiken claims to pay Augusta cotton
prices.
Sickness prevails among Charleston’s
policemen.
hi?hsdiS ,v ° Bpoftks ° f establisllin e
New sea island cotton has made its
appearance.
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A Methodist protracted meeting con
tinues afc Houea Path.
■ b ’j‘? y re stdl holding (Sunday school
pic-mes m Wiunsboro.
Ihe Mfc. Willing Guards have been
reorganized m Edgefield
Fowl invaders in the City by the Sea
aie tapping pigeon roosts.
dU(>£u l )t at a stag chase will
be gotten up in Charleston.
Columbia is waking up to the belief
that she has great water power.
is reor R du >ziag tho Nit"
Guard ou a sound basis,
f-eowee Courier seems rather in .
ohueu to favor tho whipping post..
Spartanburg now claims to be tho
se ?'! uu county ou the tax paying list
Ihe Charleston Richelieu Dramatic,
Assooiatioe is playing “Honeymoon.”
Rev. T. A. Mimday, the young evau-
PlckeU ß COntlUUOti t 0 d ° 800,1 W ° )k iu
aieo t ° rtaulmr K won have spent over
5>iUU in litigating over a rooster, and tho
case is not yet decided.
Judsou Still was badly cut iu tho neck
by Barney Sanders during an altercation
at Barnwell on Saturday.
Superintendent Pavmeleo has intro
nucad great improvements and reforms
into the State Penitentiary.
Tho proposed introduction r.f tin , ,r
o-mne-tails will probably lash now ii‘e>
into the Liberian movement.
Col. W. R. Cathcart has sent iu his
resignation as manager of the Western
Union Telegraph offieo in Columbia.
Judge L, 0. Northrop will probably
receive the appointment of United State
District Attorney for South Carolina.
Iho steamer Pilot Boy, now runuin.-r
or. the Edisto route, has been sold (',•
Mr. O Keefe, of Charleston, for $5,15(1.
The Congaree, judging from the fro -
quent runs made on its banks, must
have its source somewhere near Chicago.
Judge Northrop and Solicitor Cothran
were serenaded during Court week in
Anderson, and made eloquent speeches.
An old white woman, aged 80 years,
died recently m Sumter county from,
violence indicted by somo unknown per
son.
The Washington Artillery of Charles
ton gracefully tender the use of their
battery to the German Artillery, of that
place.
James J. Kiliingsworl h, a highly es
teemed citizen of Barnwell couiity,\lied
at his residence, near Allondalo, on
Monday.
Ihe Hampton Light Dragoons have
organized in Clarendon county, sixty
two strong, with Henry B. Richardson
a3 Captain.
Ihe Abbeville People advises tho
land-owners to organize themselves into
immigration societies to invito labor
from tho North.
Upon the idea that cotton raising is
losing its charms, the Anderson Tntelli
(/oncer gives some valnahlo hints upon
the manufacture of sorghum.
Abraham Smith, colored, former Trial
.hintico of Charleston county, has been
pouring out a tale of woe id the Mon
treal papers, where he now is.
1 he Columbia Register wants Charles
ton s State Senator Taft disposed of
at once for being implicated in the
Colored Orphan Asylum frauds.
The ladies of Columbia are preparing
an entertainment, the proceeds of winch'
is to be applied to the erecting of n
monument to the Confederate dead.
Mr. It. Stewart Sandors, of Charles
ton, so efficient in Savannah as a yellow
fever nurse, lias been appointed Super
intendent of tho Savannah Hospital.
Ezekiel Mayhew, a colored Reboot
teacher iu Lancaster county, left that
county for Liberia on Monday of lust
week. He is to explore, return and re
port.
Mr. Walter Pool, au old and respect
ed citizen of Aiken county, was robbed
on Saturday night of last week of §52 05
while asleep on a bench in his back
yard.
Notwithstanding tho swarming syndi
cates of musquitoes, tho Columbia
Register man sticks to his koroseno and
proudly asserts that his ideas aro still
his own.
’lue report that John L. Watson, ex-
Treasurer of York county, had absented
himself to evade arrest ou tho charge of
misappropriation of public moneys, was
premature.
The man who has long ago recon
ciled the President’s policy with past
party difference:-: often strives in vain
to reconcile the jagged edges of stove
pipe joints.
The Abbeville Medium, nominates
Colonel Thomas Thompson for the va
cancy on tho Supremo bench, to be
caused by the resignation or removal of
Judge Wright.
The grand jury of Anderson county
recommended that Samuel Johnson be
removed from the office of Jury Com
missioner on account of incompetoncy
and drunkenness.
'i he Barnwell Sentinel thus frankly
apologises : For the first time in a
year the Sentinel comes out a day be
hind, owing to old John Barleycorn
getting the upper hand of our composi
tor,
A fractious mule become frightened at
Wiiiietoa, ran away, broke a buggy to
pteees, dashed two young-ladies out,
Miss Sarah Ann Saddler and Miss Anna
Baughman, and very seriously injured
the latter.
A rail was placed firmly under one of
the railroad track stringers near Winns
boro, recently, and pointed in the direc
tion of the next coming train. But for
its discovery a serious accident would
have ensued.
The News and Courier indignantly
denies that Governor Hampton made
any arrangement, on any terms, with
any body,, whereby any criminal shall go
unpunished, or the free course of impar
tial justice be anywise obstructed.
The Charleston Journal of Commerce
sensibly says : “Political adventurers
who, in tho future, seek office, whether
white or black, should not be permitted
to sacrifice the interests of the people
|by encouraging alienation, estrange
ment and political hostility.”
The Pickens Sentinel has this: The
Chronicle and Constitutionalist was a
devoted friend to South Carolina during
her benighted dare of Radicalism,
struck many sturdy blows for our de
liverance, and deserves a hearty and
liberal support from South Carolinians.
No jockeying at the State Fair.
Greenville is macadamizing her streets.
Farmers should now begin to put in
wheat,
—gkt candidates for sheriff' in Oconee
county.
Pickens, too, has to elect a sheriff and
coroner.
Winnsboro wants more small dwelling
cottages.
New rice ia rapidly coming into
Charleston.
The Newberry Bar has recently had
five additions.
A rifle team match was shot Tuesday
in Charleston.
Winnsboro had an open air festival
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Governor Pickens and daughter
are in Columbia.
Pickens has drawn her apportionment
of the school fund.
Horry grows twenty per cent, more
corn this year than ever before.
The Independent Riflemen of Green
ville are trying to procure arms.
Justice J. G. Marshall has returned to
Columbia from the White Sulphur.
The young Irish citizens of Columbia
talk of organizing tha Emmet Guards,
Oconee county holds a special elec
tion for coroner and sheriff, Novem
ber Ist.
Circuit Judges seem determined to
put down illicit traffic in agricultu
ral products.
Gaillard, and not Taft, proves to be
the man entangled in the colored orphan
asylum frauds.
A couple of chickens in Orangeburg,
being crosses between a guinea and gamo
fowl, are creating some comment.
The mothers of Greenville are making
a feeling tirade against the act of the
City Council licensing institutions where
their sons are led away.
James Burgess, a noted outlaw, was
arrested recently in Sumter county, be
ing pulled down out of a chimney,
whither he bad crawled.