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toediln CljnmMe $ Constitutionalist. OLD SERIES VOL. ICII REW SERIES VOL LX (Cijromclr ant> Smtinri. WEDNESDAY, - - OCTOBER3. 1877. EDITORIAL NOTES. Mr. Bi.aine no doubt reads of the Presi dent's Southern tour with a “frozen smile.” - 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. - 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.” -•- 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. — 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. - 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. -•*- 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. - ■ 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. *335533''“'“ * "**•“**• rioko “- w,u hS”om s, tK!; , .°' •*“* i,o ‘ a ‘ ocsi “ l,os * 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.