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WBDNESDAY, - - OCTOBER S, 1877.
EDITORIAL. NOTES.
Suppose we call it the “Anti-GRANT
policy.’’
It is surmised that Grant is talking un
der the influence of hot-Scotch.
Ip foreign reports be correct, there will
lie a great demand in Europe for American
wheat.
The Democratic majority in the Califor
nia Legislature, on joint ballot, is ascer-.
tained to be 51. It was 54 last year.
Dr. Newell, who is to run against
GeneralT McClellan, in New Jersey, if
described as an allopathic physician and
decayed politician.
A son of Gen. “Jim'' Negley, a bloody
shirt ex-Congressman from Pennsylvania,
has taken up lodgings in the penitentiary us
a common swindler.
.Some of the Philadelphia ministers ex
press unbounded exultation over the fall of
John 8. Morton. And yet.it is a sad
thing for any man to commit sin.
Mr. Pi.imsoll, of England, about one
year ago, was denounced as “a fool and a
fanatic.” He is now regarded as one of the
best friends of humanity. So we go.
It is said that Messrs. Wells and An
derson, of Louisiana, are anxiously in
quiring as to the safety of their patent Re
turning Board since the Washington fire.
The Republican Conventions are still
declaring that this Union is a Nation, and
not a League. And yet more than a million
of white voters in majority give them the
Jie -
A turn in the tide is predicted for Rus
„ia presently. The best thing the Turks
can do is supposed to ire a staving off ot
the evil day. We shall see what we shall
see.
The New York Tima piteously begs
that, since the South has got everything
else, the North may retain the old flag. We
must respectfully decline so absurd a prop
osition.
The Syndicate want relief. The four
fa r cent, loan, which they guaranteed to
take at par, has gone down to 98 cents
They should he held to the “nomination of
lire bond."
The New York Sun assures ex-Govcrnor
Coamiikrlain that liis letters are not “doc
tored,” and accuses him of wandering front
the subject when frauds in South Carolina
are discussed.
Old Boss Tweed is accused by the
Radical presses of remembering the names
of Republican rogues, and conveniently
forgetting tliose'oUhis old party. What a
cunning old Boss!
The Philadelphia Times rises to observe
that the nearly unanimous opinion of the
Southern press is that President Hayes is
fully reconstructed and ought to have his
disabilities removed.
Only four decayed actors occupy the
splendid Forrest Home because of a lack
of ready money. <fTlre real estate depended
upon for a permanent fund has shrunk
away to almost nothing.
The Baltimore working men rejoice at
the Patent Ofliee conflagration, and hope
the building will never rise from its ashes.
Labor saving inventions are unpopular in
certain quarters just now.
Just think of Grant calling Sumner a
liar. Motley a sneak and Sciiukz a bum
hug 1 The two first named are dead and
cannot reply. Now let us hear what Unset
Karl thinks of the ex-sovereign.
Daniel O’Connell’s translation of tire
Pagan maxim of De mortuis nil nisi bonum
was: “When a damned rogue dies, let’s be
moan him.” A less profane rendering is
this: “Of .the dead there is nothing left hut
a hone.”
TnK inauguration leathering at Mr.
Baker’s Trcpho-Phaglan Institute was
multitudinous hut not distinguished, con
sisting of one Lieutenant-Governor, a few
clergymen, and a brigade of free lunch no
bodies.
On the ground that all ugly men arc
honest, the workingmen of Baltimore have
nominated for Mayor the most hideous
looking of their fellow-craftsmen, who
compares himself to Auk Lincoln and
other historical beauties.
M its. A. T. Stewart, who could com
mand the richest attire, dresses in the plain
est. She thinks one great privilege ot
wealth is dressing with simplicity. Many
women think one great privilege of poverty
is to dress extravagantly’.
Some of the ministers call John S. Mor
ton's downfall a “visitation of God”
for permitting the Permanent Exhibition to
lie opened on Sunday. We dare sny Mor
ton’s rascality datcu long before lie became
President of the Permanent Exhibition of
Philadelphia.
ATnkw translation ot Bill Kemri.k’s
slogan of “Addition, Division and Silence”
is: Forgery, Robbery and Perjury. The
New York Sun aptly calls the modern de
faulters use ot language “a vocabulary of
euphemisms, designed to deaden the con
science by deceiving the ear.”
Korurry of wealthy estates is reduced
to a legal system in New York. Wherever
there lias been a contest, thousands and
sometimes millions of dollars have been
absorbed by counsel. An effort has been
made to check this evil, hut with only par
tial success. Miss Danser’s estate, by or
der of the Surrogate, was bled to the extent
of f‘31,025 to pay for a contest that never
oven came to an issue.
Gov. Blue Jeans Williams missed a
train at an Indiana town lately, and was
obliged to seek lodging at the hotel. The
clerk, not knowing him, assigned him to a
room of limited dimensions in the fourtli
story, reserving a handsome room down
stairs for an expected commercial traveler.
The youth presently discovered his mistake,
and the patient Governor of the State was !
escorted, with trantie apologies, to the more
comfortable apartment.
Mr. Horace WniTE, in the UaUay,
compares the building of the Texas Pacific
Railroad, as a charitable undertaking, with
the burning of Chicago. The construction
of the railroad, lie says, might give employ
ment to many laborers aud still be a public
calamity. Mr. White thinks everything
Southern, in the wav of material develop
ment, a calamity. Everything that helps
the East or West is a "national blessing.’’
In spite of Messrs. White & Co.,the South
will call at the Capitol and demand a fair
settlement.
The principal fight in New York among
the Democrats is over the renomination of
Jous Bigelow. The Evening Express
sums up tlie opposition to him thus: "He
atmndons his post, neglects his duties,
leaves the country, and spends months on
a tour of pleasure in Europe. He is not
identified in any way with the Democratic
party, yet there are Democrats who think
the party ought to renominate him. Not
by a good deal. That is not the kind of
civil service the Democracy believe in. If
such an office holder wants to lie vindicated
let him come home, strip off his coat aud
vindicate Uiin*“lf.”
The Democratic aad Reform Conven
tion of Wisconsin has pm a strong ticket
in the field, and the prospestAif its success
is encouraging. The platform declares
its hostility to the financial policy of tlie
Republican party in withdrawing capital
from taxation; increasing the burden of
the public debt by declaring currency
bonds payable in gold; demonetizing silver
in tlie interest of creditors and at the
expense of the debtor, attempting to force
resumption when it will bring ruin upon
the general business interests of the coun
try. It demands, instead, that the property
protected by tlie Government pay its just
proportion of the expenses of the Govern
ment; that silver be remonetized and the
present resumption act be repealed, and
resumption be postponed until the financial
condition of the country will permit it.
It also declares its opposition to a longer
continuance of the national bank currency,
and demands that tlie Government furnish
its own notes in place thereof. It opposes
subsidies and the continuance of the pres
ent protective tariff, and wishes the Gov
ernment to deal with the labor question.
THE AUGUSTA AND GREENWOOD RAIL
ROAD.
We publish in the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist this morning a full
aud interesting account of the com
mencement of work on the Anguata and
Greenwood Railroad. This road, long
spoken of aud written about and by
many treated as a myth, now seems to
be a reality. The talk has crystalized
into action. Laet Tuesday the ceremo
ny known as “breaking dirt was per
formed at Greenwood and work on the
line is now progressing. There was
some speaking and much enthusiasm.
The tenor of the speeches shows that
the Carolinians know no such word as
fail; that they have put their shoulder
resolutely to the wheel and have de
termined to compel success. Augusta
has just as good cause for rejoicing. The
new road will, when completed, add
greatly to the trade and prosperity of
this city. aDd will form an important
link in a chain which will finally give us
a short route to the Great West. But
the people of Augusta must remember
that they have made a contract with
which they must comply to the letter.
Our friends in South Carolina have been
assured that if they would build the
road to Fury’s Ferry on the Savannah a
road would be constructed from this
city to that point and a bridge be pnt
across the river. Both honor and in
terest require a strict compliance with
these pledges. We have no doubt that
they will be fulfilled, but we wish to see
work qpmmenced at once. Delays are
dangerous, and there is no time like the
present. Greenwood has exhibited won
derfnl energy, pluck and perseverance.
Let it not be said that Augusta is defi
cient in any of these qualities, and let
her promises be made good, and that
speedily. _
THE capital question.
Alluding to tLe position on the capi
tal question taken by the Savannah
News and the Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist, the Macon 7 elegraph and
Messenger says :
We welcome these able champions of justice
and right into the ranks of Milledgeville's ac
tive defenders. All along there was nt t the
slightest reason to doubt the attitude of either
of them, and we know that they only held
back because it seemed too soon to open the
Capital campaign. Those allies will prove a
power, indeed, and tho people will at once per
ceivo that they have no personal interests to
suhserie.no fat perquisites in store, no Gov
ernment pabuldm tendered to them for their
manly advocacy of the best interests of the
Btafe, And the vested rights of our ancient
capital.
We thank our contemporary for its
kind words, but, so far as the Chronicle
and Constitutionalist is concerned, we
do not see any reason for special re
joicing on account of our position on the
capital question. Tho readers of this
paper know that it opposed the adoption
of the Constitution which removed the
capital to Atlanta, and that from the
day of removal to this it has favored its
return to Millfidgeville, where it prop
erly belongs. They know, also, that
when this paper, almost sjDgly and
alone, advocated the calling of a Consti
tutional Convention, one of the reasons
assigned for the advocacy of this meas
ure was that the people might restore
the seat of government to its ancient
and fitting location. We did not com
mence heated and angry discussion of
the question as soon as ttm Convention
adjourned bccauso we failed to see
either the wisdom or the necessity of
such a course. We havo treated this
question au we have treated all others,
in accordance with our own views of
what was proper aud judiaiotis We have
never yet hesitated to take a d&ojded
position on any public question, and we
do not think we ever will-
UNITE ON JOHNSON.
The telegraph states that upon Mr.
Stephens’ arrival in Washington Wed
nesday he called upon tho President,
and urged the appointment of Herschei.
Y. Johnson to tho place oti the Bench
of the Supreme Court of the United
States made vacant by the resignation
of Judge David Davis. We have little
doubt that the entire Congressional
delegation fiom Georgia will unite in
making the same request. Indeed, we
indulge the hope that all the members
from the South and tho Southwest will
take similar action. It is very desirable
that tho South should have a veprosen*
tative in this Court, and it is equally as
desirable that the appointee should be a
lawyer of ability aud a man who has the
confidence of the people of bis section.
If any Southern man of conservative
sentiments is to receive the appoint
ment we think ex-Governor Johnson’s
chances are Letter than those of any
one else who ha bsagp mentioned in
connection with, the position, General
Barksdale, of Mississippi, is nompara
tivoly a young man, and his reputation
is local rather than national. Judge
Campbell, of Louisiana, was on the
Bench of this Court in 1861, and resign
ed his position to take part in secession.
Over both of those ex-Go\en.or John
son has decided advantages. Ho has
national reputation tia a lawyer. He
was a Douglas Democrat before the
war, was a candidate for the Vice-Presi
dency with Douglas in 1860, and has
many warm friends among the admirers
of the “Little Giant” in the West and
North. He was a devoted friend of the
Uuion, aud did everything m his power
to prevent its dissolution ; but alter *a
cession U/ecamo a fact accomplished he
went with the people of his section and
gave a loyal support to the Confederate
Government. Since the war he has been
a Democrat, but has takee part in
politics, and has been noted f-ir the con
servatism of liis political views. His
talent is undoubted, his public and pri
vate life are without blemish, his name
is the synonym of honor and integrity.
His selection by the President would be
a good appointment, aud it would be a
very strong appointment. We iraye pub
lished extracts from several of the lead
ing Republican journals of the North,
showing that .his appointment would not
give dissatisfaction to the Republican
party. lu the Washington correspond
ence of the Chicago Jnter-Ocean, the
most virulent Radical paper of theaonn
t*y, we find such a paragraph as this.;
“He&s.ohel V. Johnson, of Georgia, who
“ was candidate for Vice-President on
“ the Docola* ticket in IS6O, is recom
“ mended by who wish to have
“ the ex-Confederaoy recognized. He is
“ and always has been as lutconipromis
“ ing Democrat, but is a man ot ability
“ and honor. Perhaps he is better fitted
“ for the- appointment than aDy other of
“ those named from the South.”
All these things go to prove that ex-
Governor Johnson is the strongest pos
sible candidate that the South can pre
sent fot the position. If any Southern
Conservative can obtain the appoint
ment ho is, Rcdoobtedly, that man.
There is no use, then, jn Southern Con
gressmen frittering ?way iifcoh influence
as they may have upon gentto**<iin who
hare no chance oi anocess. We hopu
they will recognize the justice of these
views, and that when Coggreaa assem
bles all the Congressmen from the
South and the Southweet will unite m
requesting the appointment of Hrr
sobkl V. Johnson.
The Charleston News and Courier
does not object to the appointment of
Jndge L. C. Northrop as Distriet-Attor
ney for South Carolina. It says No
thbof is a native has had no
charge of corruption made against him
and is the most respectable Republican
in the State. The people, at course,
desired a Democrat to have the position,
but the President has made the beat
possible appointment from tb* Republi
can ranks.
Tns New York Sun, referring to tlie
ex-sovereign’s commendation of President
Hates’ course, pithily says: “For eight
years Grant had every opportunity to in
augurate the polqwio’yich he now praises,
but didn’t. He despised it, and whenever
anybody urged him to adopt it, treated
them with contemptuous silence.”
THE PRESIDENT’S SOUTHERN TOUR.
The President’s Southern tour, which
has just been finished, the speeches
that he made and the cordiality of his
reception, have given deep offense at
the North to two widely different
classes. The extreme men among the
Democrats and the extreme men among
the Republicans are both angry, though
obviously for quite as widely different
reasons. The extreme Democrat fears
that the President’s conciliatory speeches
and the applause with which they have
been greeted foreshadow the disintegra
tion of the Democratic party and the de
feat of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency in 1880. The extreme
Republican is apprehensive, strange
as it may at first blush seem,
that from similar causes there will
follow the disruption of the Re
publican party and the defeat
of the Republican candidate for the
Presidency three years hence. The New
York Sun is a fit representative of the
former class.. It has not ceased to cry
“Fraud” since the day of Mr. Hayes’
inauguration. It has not ceased to
counsel that the people should consider
Mr. Hayes a fraudulent President,
against whom and the party supporting
him all honest men should make com
mon cause. It has gone so far as to
nrge the Democrats of Maine not to
vote for the Democratic candidate for
Governor of that State, because whiie
oondemning the conduct of the majority
of the Eleotoral Commission he admit
ted the validity cf Mr. Hayes’ title to
the Presidency. The object of the Sun
has been to make tho rape of the Presi
dency the sole issue in American
politics. To this end it has dili
gently sought to keep up a feeling
of hatred between the Southern people
and tho Northern Republicans. This
paper and tho class it represents saw
nothing to commend in the removal of
the troops from Louisiana and South
Carolina, and the restoration of local
self-government to those States. They
would have preferred for them to remain
to furnish political capital for the next
campaign. They saw nothing to approve
in the composition of the Cabinet,
whereby a majority of the portfolios
were placed in the hands of Democrats
and Conservative Republicans. They
desired a continuance of the Chand
lers and Camerons, in order that the
South might be made to feel that uo
justice was to be expected from the Ad
ministration. They did not wish the
President to come into the South,
utteriDg kind words and taking the
people by the hand, because they feared
that the Southerners might forget in
their admiration of the man the ill-will
which they were expected to entertain
for a Republican President.
On the other hand, the “stalwart Re
publicans” of the Chicago Inter-Ocean
stripe are equally angry with tho Presi
dent beoause of the constitutional po
licy which he has pursued since his in
auguration. While the Sun denounces
Hampton, Gordon, Hill and others for
going over to the “fraud” and selling
their birthright for a mess of pottage,
the Jntpr-Ocean complains that Mr.
Hayes is giving way too much to the
“Rebel Democracy.” It murmurs be
oause the President, in his Atlanta
speech, said:
“You here mainly joined the Coufed
“ erate side and fought bravely, risked
“ your lives heroically in behalf of jour
f convictions, and can any true man
“ anywhere fail to respect a man who
“ risks his life for big cpnyictions.”
The Radical extremists say that sijch
words should not come from a Republi
can Executive—that they concede too
much to “the men>who fought against
the Gcwerpjpent,” eio. These, too, know
that when section*! Jmfternesa subsides
and strife and hatred give way to peace
and good will, their occupation, like
Othello’s, will be gone. They feel
that they can thrive only upon discord.
Knowing the conditions of success, their
scheme is as simple as it is nefarious.
By insult and oppression they hope to
make what is known as a “ solid
South.” By keeping alive war passions
aud sectional hatred they hop* t.o .op
pose to Ups solid South an equally
solid North. Using this solid North
as a general would an invading army,
they expect to keep the South in sub
jection and retain control of the Gov
ernment. The head and front of the
President’s offending is that he loves his
country better than liis party—had rath
er restore and prosperity to the
nation than 10 assure tv a certain fac
tion tho honors and emoluments f)t
public iojpCP. and by generous words
and righteous dead® I s making tho ac
complishment ot a cruet selfish
design an impossibility.
It is a little singular that each wing of
the extremists should be striving to
reach by similar means the same end,
and ; t,hat the President’s policy like a
two-edged .sword should deal death to
the hopes of tootir the same time.
That one or the other is mistaken ip its
estimate ot the results that would follow
a maintenance of GbAnxism lo the Gov
ernment is very apparent. But- it is nnt
a matter of much moment, fortunately,
which ope is deceived, and the question
is one that .cannot be answered by the
future. The course which the President
has pursued since his inaugural has
made the sectional policy a dead issue.
It cannot be revived with any hope of
success. That it is better for the coun
try that it should be dead no sane man
can .doubt. What the country most
ueede I* not such a peace in
name as we have ti*d since 1867, but a
real peace, a lasting peace. Without it
there can be no prosperity. The Breai-,
dent has already done much towards
tioifowing this blessing notwithstanding
the eßonu; pf bad men to thwart him for
the promotion .of bad ends. 'I he coun
try needs government l*y the Constitu
tion and the laws. Mr. has so
far proven himself a constitutional Pres
ident, and his acts receive the eompien
4ation of all good men North and South.
SfVjBJUJUR SUSPENSION.
The telegraph briefly informed us of
the suspension of Rufus Haigi. fig
mail wo have full particulars. He was
“short” on 1,200 shares of Western
Union stock. He only wanted 82,500 to
make hfa speculation gcod, and yet he
could not beg, esc borrow that compara
tively small sum. Mr- p.yrcH has been
for many year* one of the best known of
Wall street operators. He seems tonav.e
got? to the wall in 1873, and never ral- ;
lied from that collapse. The New York
papers report that, at one time, not so
very long either, he was in the front
rank of the lewuut m_>n cf the street,
was noted for his readiueoe to start or to
join in gigautic operations, and was con
spicuous for liberality and lavish expen-1
diture. He kept a yacht and was fond
of racing with it. Ha especially de
lighted in ocean racing In rough
weather. But he was profuse in outlay
for other things besides amusements.
He was a prominent member of Christ
Church (Protestant Episcopal), at Fifth
avenue ."sad Thirty-fifth street, and for a
time paid the greater part of the large
expense of the choir, was one of
the dsst in the city. He formerly
a boss airetoor in the management of
the Pae fic Mad Big.amship Company,
and conducted affairs on a lavish scale.
And now he cannot get s2,bow to keep
him afloat. His fate is that of nearly
every other Wall street “magnate.” The
gad-flies he blew into prosperity in
Chnreu n&d State have deserted him.
What a eomfen scald all the money he
wasted be to him now !
Wk publish this morning an editorial:
article from the Washington National
Republican, strongly recommending
the appointment of ex-Governor John
son as Judge of the Supreme Court cf
the United States. Governor Johnson
is almost as well known North as he is
South, and bis appointment would give
satisfaction to both sections.
Rev. Wm. Timmons, a Methodist
preacher, recently died at Cave Springs.
THE EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT-
At the same time that the people vote
on the ratification of the new Constitu
tion they will also vote for members of
the General Assembly. If the Consti
tution shall be ratified, the candidates
for the Legislature who are elected will
take their seats in November, 1878.
There seems now no reason to doubt
the ratification of the Constitution. In
deed, it seems from present appear
ances that the instrument will receive
an almost unanimous vote in every
county of the State. It follows that
members of the General Assembly
chosen in December will certainly take
their seats, and constitute the next
Legislature. The people of the coun
ties of Richmond, Glascock and Jeffer
son—which constitute the Eighteenth
Senatorial District—besides choosing
members of the Lower House, will also
have to select a State Senator. We pre
sume it will generally be conceded that
the candidate for this position should
come from Richmond. We have never
believed in the doctrine of “rotation.”
On the contrary, we are utterly opposed
to it as false in theory aud pernicious
in practice. Dut as -Jefferson and
Glascock obtained the Senator in 1872,
there was no formidable opposition in
1876 to Richmond's having the candi
date. On the rotation principle, this
county is clearly entitled to the nomi
nee now. At the time of the nomina
tion of Judge Shewmake a term in the
Senate meant four years and four ses
sions. This is the period for which the
Jefferson and Glascock Senator served.
Judge Shewmake will have only
served one year and one session
when his term of ofliee is terminated
by the new Constitution. Jefferson and
Glascock are, therfore, ahead three
years and three sessions. Indeed, should
Richmond again obtain the Senatorship
Jefferson aud Glascock will still have
the advantage; for under the biennial
sessions aud elections instituted by the
new Constitution the term will comprise
only two years and one session. With
the two terms the Senator from Rich
mond would serve three years and two
sessions, while the Senator from Jeffer
son and Glascock served four years and
four sessions. These things prove so
conclusively the propriety and justice of
giving the candidate this year to Rich
mond that we do not believe the other
counties of the District will interpose
any serious objection. At all events,
as the day of election is but little more
than two months off and as other Sena
torial Districts arc taking steps to pnt
candidates in the field, it is time some
thing was done in the Eighteenth. We
presume that the convention will bo
held in Louisville—where it wa3 held
last year. What time will best suit the
convenience of Jefferson and Glascock ?
Suggestions on the subject arc in order.
THE SUPREME BENCH.
IlerKcliel V. Johnson the Mail for the Place-
Republican Views—What the Washington
National Republican Thinks.
[National llepublican, Ed ]
The exigencies of the public service
demand that the vacancy on the Bench
of the Supreme Court should be filled
without much further delay. The anxie
ty of the public will no doubt soon be
relieved by the appointment of some
suitable person. The President, being
himself an eminent lawyer, will take a
professional pride in selecting someone
of the highest standing at the bar.—
There are so many persons possessed of
the requisite qualifications for the posi
tion that Mr. Hayes will not have the
slightest difficulty in making such an
appointment as will do ciedit to his
judgment.
flip ?po@t important matter for the
President to ponsjder in this connection
will be as to what section of the Repub
lic the new Justice of the Supreme
Court shall be appointed from. The
people of the South very justiy claim
that the principles of justice and equity
demand that tho vacancy should be
filled by pn eminent Southern man.
Owing to wail known events in the his
tory of tho nation tbs members of the
Supremo Court are geographically very
unfairly distributed. It is tho plain
duty of the President to make such an
appointment as will partially at least
rectify the inequality. Since 1860 the
appointments have ail been made from
the Northern States. In order to prop
erly ennalizo the representation of all
parts Of jihp Reonblio the present va
cancy and the
filled by the appointment of Sotithern
jurists of eminence. Tlie South would
thep haye one-tjiird and the North two
thirds ot th/s members of that tribunal.
All patriotic an,d fair-Biypdfjd citizens
must desire to see this fair diutrituition
of those high offices effected as soon as
possible.
If the President is to bo guided by
the foregoing considerations, all North
ern candidates will be at once very pro
perty excluded. Tho fact that even such
an eminent end such an upright
Judge as Thomas Drummond, of Illi
nois, is urged for the place, ought not
to give his claims any weight whatever
as agaim.,t the policy of doing justice to
the soi£th. ’ to that section of
the country, yf'a find a ‘gyeajb number of
names presented. Of these, ffJ. B.
Woods, of Alabama, and Judge Cald
well, of Arkansas, as Northern men,
who have only resided a few years at
the South, cannot be seriously consider
ed if the place is to be filled by a repre
sentative man of that section.
Judge Hunt, of Douisiaua, has been
in actiye practice jp tpat Bfafo far rnany
yenfg. and is consequently familiar With
♦■he priaoijpi.eg of the civil law which
prevail there, a fact which would render
him a valuable member of ttm (Court.
He is, moreover, a man of integrity,
learning and high character, and would
make a highly creditable member of the
Supreme Court. Although ex-Secretary
Bristow is a good lawyer, the fact that
he was lately identified wfui * fitter po
litical quarrel would render ft inexpe
dient to' gpnoint him. Gen. Harlan, of
Kentucky, is entirely worthy of the po
sition, but it would be iuoto (satisfactory
to the interests which it is desiraoie to
conciliate by this appointment to select
someone fully identified with that,
Southern sentiment which, although for
a time alienated from the Union,
has now loyalty ,';enrtily renewed its
devotion to it.
It is a well known fact that President
Hayes is deeply attached to the princi
ple of minority representation. He would
not organize a partisan Court, even
though he had the power to do so. This
factillustrated by an incident which
occurred during his last term as Gov
ernor of ,Gliio, Unu.i? an amendment to
the Constitution,of .that, Story, it became
his duty to appoint a Supreme ,Court
Commission for that State, consisting of
five Judges. Although he had the power
to fill the entire bench with Republi
cans, /L3 voluntarily filled too of the
seats with Democrats. All the Judges
now on the S.uprdme Jbeacii, gycept one,
were appointed as Republicans, and
therefore if tlie jPiesidect is governed
by the same rule me observed in Ohio,
he would select a member- pi f lip oppo
site party to fill the present vacancy on
the benof the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Looking at the matter iK'Di £ nch a
standpoint ,as this, we do not how
the President nan i? better than to ten
der the position to Judge fifcrFchel V.
Johnson, of Georgia. Born on the 12th
of September, 1812, his physical powers
have been so well preserved by temper- ■
ence and exercise that he is now in the
full enjoyment of his mental faculties.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, i
he has never omitted to give attention to
liberal studies in the intervals of busi
ness, so that his scholarly attainments
would make him a valuable acquisition
to tim learned society of the national
capital- Having entered npon the prac
tice of the law early in life, he has al
ways been a diligent student, so that
his legal lore has made him a bright or
nament of ihe Supreme Court Bench of
Georgia, upon which he has occupied a ]
seat for many years. Above all, Jndge'
Johnson is a man of sterling integrity, a |
quality without which the greatest tal- j
ents and learning are of but little worth.
These onalities of the man command for |
him the highest veneration wherever he !
is known, and in auch an enlarged field ■
of usefulness as the Bnpeme Court of j
the United States would not fail io prove 1
the wisdom of the President in making j
the appointment. . :
It detracts none from the merits of
Judge Johnson to say that he has cot
sought this position. During all the 5
agitation in regard to this matter he has
remained at his post of duty, quietly
bat faithfully performing his daily woik.
This'appointment is urged by many of
the most enlightened ’’onrnals North
and South. The great ana good work
of reconciliation in which President
Hayes is engaged would be more effect
ually promoted by the appointment of
Judge Johnson than by anj other single
act which he has it in his power to do.
This appointment would not only be a
graceful and acceptable compliment to
the South, but would at the same time
place a Justice on the Supreme Bench
who would be certain to adorn that po
sition by his integrity and learning, and
we are therefore very confident that the
country would with great unanimity
ratify the action of the President should
he see proper to select Herschel V.
Johnson, of Georgia, to fill the vacancy
in question.
GREENWOOD AND AUGUSTA.
WORK ACTUALLY COMMENCED ON
THE NEW LINE.
I)irt Broken Lnst Tuesday—An Immense
Crowd Present—An Enthusiastic Affair —
Speech by ilon. l*eorge D. Tillman—Will
Augusta Do Her Part
[ Cort'esporvlence Chronicle and Constitutionalist. ]
Greenwood, S. C., September 25. —
Amid much rejoicing and the wildest
enthusiasism the Greenwood and Augus
ta Railroad was formally opened this
day. Dr. E. R. Calhoun, of Greenwood,
the god-father of the road, was called
and conducted to the chair amid long
and deafening cheers. W. K. Blake, Esq ,
of Greenwood, was requested to act as
Secretary. Dr. Calhouu held the im
mense multitude spell-bound with his
eloquence till a flight of his gifted
genius uunerved every soul present, and,
amid continued huzzas, sat down. Mr.
Blake, known as “one of the trio” who
first canght the breath of this live enter
prise, deserves the gratitude of every
lover of the Greenwood and Augusta
Railroad. Our great and good General
Bradley, the head and centre of the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, state
ly sat upon the rostrum the cynosure of
all eyes. May the fruits of his labor in
behalf of said road rebound to his joy
aud benefit. Long may he live. Col.
Tillman, of Edgefield, was now most
happily introduced to the audience, aud
we assure yon made a speech worthy
of the man, the subject and the occa
sion. He entirely quieted the fears of
rival routes, and sent every one away
undivided in thought and affection, and
made them lovers of the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad. The following are
extracts from his speech ;
Mr. Chairman— Yesterday I drove
over forty miles to enjoy the pleasure of
seeing the first ground broken on the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad. To
day I have seen that wholesome sight.
I salute yon with a thousand congratu
lations on the auspicious event.
The railroad is tho main spring of in
terior commerce, and in these days of
evolution aud revolution commerce is
indeed king The printing press, the
telegraph, the spinning jenuey, the
power loom, the sewing machine aud
many other inventions have done much
to promote the welfare of the human
race, but no machine yet invented—no
institution yetestablished, has contribut
ed so largely toward the happiness
and prosperity of man as the railroad—
that youthful Hercules of modern civil
ization. The Greenwood and Aagusta
Railroad is sure to be built now, for
rtany reasons, some of which I will
briefly mention. Although it is pro
posed to build four new railroads, Ist,
from Toccoa City by Elberton ahd Lin
colntou to Augusta; 2d, from Ander
son by Dorn’s Mine to Augusta;
3d, from Spartanburg by Laurens
and Ninety-Six to Augusta, and 4th,
from Spartanburg by Laurens and
Greenwood to Augusta, yet of all these
projects the fourth or last is the only
one that the people of Augusta are
either able or willing to help as a sepa
rate enterprise. I say “the people” be
cause it is certain that “the city” will
perhaps never subscribe another dollar
to aid any railroad. Fronm number of
causes private subscriptions to new rail
roads are very difficult to be obtained in
Augusta at this time. The finances of
the whole country are deranged and
money is hard to get. The prosperity
of Augusta is nearly dried up partly
from the general hard times—partly by
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
having diverted a large Carolina trade
that once went to Augusta—partly by
the “Air-Line” Road from Atlanta to
Charlotte having also appropriated a con
siderable share of Augusta’s; old trade
but tho prosperity of the oity has suffer
ed mostly by the Georgia Railroad hav
ing a monopoly of Western freights.
That gigantic corporation has so dis
criminated (whether intentionally or not
is immaterial) against Augusta in freight
as to destroy all profit in many branches
of trade. This wealthy road is chiefly
owned in tho city of Augusta, and of
course the holdetsof Georgia Railroad
stock Jo not care to depreciate the value
of that stock by helping anew road from
Augusta by Spartanburg to the West,
or from Augusta by Rabun Gap to the
West. It is the all-controlling, monop
olizing Georgia Road that has hitherto
prevented Augusta from assisting to es
tablish a cheaper and tjiore dirept route
to the West- This esplips why no rail
road from Aqgusta toward Rabun Gap
or Cumberland Gap has hitherto been
built, though often attempted, and it
can easily explain why there are but
few individuals in Augusta now prepared
to help any railroad to the West.
It cannot be questioned but that the
fate of each and all of the four proposed
uew roads to Augusta depends on the
money subscriptions to be made by the
citizens of the city. As I have indi
cated, subscriptions will bo given
for the three-fold pbject; first, to get a
competing Yv’estern connection; second,
to recover tho legitimate Carolina trade
tliaf yas diverted by the Qreenyille and
Columbia; and, third, to regain the
trade of the upper Savannah Valley,
which has been taken from Augusta by
the Air Line Road. Whichever of tlie
proposed roads can come nearest accom
plishing these three objects, and can at
the same time bo economically built,
will command Augusta’s aid. Now El
bert is, perhaps, the only county in
Northeast Georgia between Augusta and
Itabun Gap that id able aud willing to
materially help build the Aug’usta and
Knoxville Railroad at this time.—
S.B the few citizens of Augusta who de
sire that" that'’ road shall be built are
neither able nor Willing fq bpild it by
themselves; as cheap convict labor
cannot now be procured in Georgia to
work on the road—as the road if it were
built would give only one Western con
nection—would bring back to Augusta
ngne of her lost Carolina trade, but a
moilicufti oi 1-Lp f r ade she lost by the
Air Line, it mdy safely pe af-ated that a
railroad from Augusta lip through po
lnpibia, ‘Lincoln and Elbert’, to unite
with the present road from El
berton to Toccoa City, is'a ihitig ‘to be
executed only in the distant future.
It is said by high engineering author
ity that there are but three direct and
practicable routes for a railroad from
bfeofgifl, gpth Carolina and North
Carolina tbe mountains to the
West. These are by the french Broun
river toward Cumberland Gap, by Ra
bun Lap, asd by the gap op Chattonoo
ga, where ihe 'Tennefsfp fiver breaks
through. As the Georgia it'>ad con
nects with the West through tbe Ten
nessee river gap, of course any road
from Augusta in tho direction of Rabun
(Jap, or of the French Broad gap, will
be considered an incipient rival of the
Georgia Road, apd as Up stqpjikolder 0 f
tfie Georgia Roa 1 in 4'ugnsta has eyer
exhibited apy alacrity about helping tiny
road in Carolina toward either Anderson
or Spartanburg, the presumption is that
those citizens of Augusta who will aid
either project would like to get the most
for their money. A railroad from Au
gusta by Ninety Six and Laurens to
Spartanburg you'd also give Augusta
only one mofe"'Weweiu connection;
would restore very litUA pt‘ fcne ir*ue
which has been diverted by the
Air-Line Road, end would bring
back no more of Augusta’s old
legitimaL) business than would the
proposed road irou. Spartanburg by
Greenwood to Augusta;’Yet tfie jLaureps
and Nmety-Six route wbuld be just as
long/ pf pot longer; and cost jerst a®'
much money if pqj, more, because the
Ninety &ix route would naf e I# .diverge
as far east from a i'iflht ljpe as the j
Greenwood route would have to bend
wes!i ffum a straight line. There WOHld
assuredly be oUt jittle difference in rela
tive length and cost of the two proposed
roads, but iei us see how immeasurably
superior the Greenwood j-'Optfl' s i° r Au-
gusta.
From the city up to Dorn’s Mine, a
distance of forty miles, the Greenwood
and Augusta Road will constitute a
single track for two new Western con
nection°; one via Greenwood to Spar
tanburg, themje down the French Broad;
the other via 'Anderson through Ra
bun Gap to Knoiville. Moreover,
the already graded road in Georgia,
from Elberton to Toccoa City, can like
wise form a junction with the Green
wood and Aiignsta Road at or near
Dorn's Mine. IJnleß* tjais graded El
berton Road shall thus cc-npe** wUh the
Greenwood and Augusta Road, the for
mer, not only for the present', bnt for
an indefinite future, must either remain
unfinished, or be completed so as to op
erate against Augusta in a way to carry
off all her present Elbert county trade,
and half that of Lincoln, too. It is
usual that whenever a projected railroad
has been gtsded it becomes an easy mat
ter to get capital to and run the
road on a mortgage ofiftne bed and fran
chise. Now, if Augristk will grade the
Greenwood Road on the Georgia side
up to the head of WaltoD’s Island and
bridge the river, the people of South
Carolina will grade the main road
from Spartanburg to the island,
and the branch road from Ander
son to Dorn’s Mine, where they will
intersect. Hence if Augusta will far
ther help tb byild a bridge over the
Savannah river nea i Petersburg, the
people of Elbert will grade their to&a to
that bridge on the Georgia side and
South Carolinians will grade it from the
bridge to Dorn’s Mine, or to the most
eligible point, of junction. Thus Au
gusta would have two new rival Western
routes building to hold the Georgia
Road in bounds—would get back more
Carolina trade than she ever lost by the
Greenville and Columbia Road, and
would not only regain allthetrade which
the ‘ Air-Line” Boad took away, but
would almost literally destroy the eu
tire local freight business of that road.
The “Air-Line” would be tapped at
three points, Spantauburg, Anderson
and Toceoa City—the two arms from
Dorn’s Mine, gathering in trade like
a funnel for two hundred miles or more
along the “Air-Line” track and for
twenty-five or more miles beyond
that track. This sort of triangular
tapping a hostile freight line is a favor
ite device with princely merchants and
railway kings at the North. With these
three roads all consolidated under one
charter and one management, to which
Augusta should keep a sharp eye even
now, nearly all the trade of Eastern
Georgia and Western Carolina would
centre in Augusta, where it rightly be
longs. Moreover, a railway from Au
gusta to Atlanta via Dorn’s Mine, El
berton and Toccoa City, would be no
petty rival of the Georgia Boad. Au
gusta is naturally more advantageously
situated to become a large city than per
haps any interior town in the cotton
States. She has a splendid back coun
try all around, and by being at the head
of steamboat navigation, on the great
Savannah river, she would have a com
plete monopoly of trade in the broad
and fertile valley of the Middle and
Upper Savannah if she would only afford
that much neglected region suitable
railroad facilities, in connection with a
competing Western route. She has
steamboat navigation during at
least eight months in the year, and
some seasons all the year. Not only
has she this cheap water transport
ation to keep her railroads in check, but
she has many railroads to keep each
other in check. She has choice of three
neighboring seaports, so that she can
always send out or fetch in whatever is
wanted, with dispatch, certainty, safety
and cheapness ( except only Western
freight). It is Augusta’s almost un
equaled facilities of transportation to
the South and East, by water as woll as
by rail, that makes her such a good
market, and if she only had direct com
peting railways to the West and North,
she would soon eclipse Atlanta as a gen
eral mart.
Augusta also has unsurpassed and il
limitable water power for manufacturing
which Atlanta has not. In fact, natural
ly Atlanta has the advantage in nothing
except, perhaps, in possessing a climate
exempt from yellow fever. Yet adult
Augusta lags behind infant Atlanta at the
behest of the Georgia Railroad. But the
spirit of enterprise which built the rock
dam across the Savannah will also ex
cite a sentiment of revolt against the
Georgia Boad to teach the tyrant that he
shall not always crush the energies and
prosperity of the city. Not only must
Augusta have cheaper food for factory
operatives, but she must likewise have
oheaper food and cheaper farm stock
for cDtton planters. The railroads of
Atlanta enter the city like the spokes of
a wheel enter its hub—from all around
the circle. It is the Upper Savannah
Valley that chiefly sustains Augusta,
and what has Augusta ever done to sus
tain it—either to develop its resources,
retain its population, attract immigra
tion or render trade and intercourse
pleasant? Almost nothing. The busi
ness men of the city had better burn up
their Georgia Railroad stock than longer
submit to be hampered and dwarffed by
its monopolizing too far. * * *
I regard the early completion of the
Greenwood and Augusta Boad as an
accomplished fact. Wo have actually
commenced operations to build it, and
Horace long ago said whoever begins to
do a thing, already has it half done.
Men have charge of the enterprise that
know no such word as fail. The plucky
little town of Greenwood never takes
front on the failing line.
FOUR MEN IN FIVE MINUTES.
A Duel to tlie Death—Four Moil Dead Within
F>VO Mintuon In the Htrootn of u Kentucky
Town,
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Richmond, Ky., September 21.—The
terrible shooting affray last evening has
been the principal topic to-day. Jasper
Maupin was a member of a large and
wealthy family living a few miles east of
here. The family numbers in all its
branches perhaps thirty or more men,
noted for their horses and hounds, their
love of fox hunting, and for their uttey
indifference to danger when attacked or
their hoqor called in question, John
Burnam, a constable of Glade Township,
that portion of the county where the
Maupins lived, was a typical Kentucki
an. In person tall, broad shouldered,
handsome, quick on the trigger, but un
fortunately quarrelsome, and, indeed, it
is said, rather food of killing people.
His history is marked by a number of
desperate crimes, including the murder
of two men, one of them, it is said, in
cold blood, and other conduct which
marked him as a man to be feared and
dreaded.
In January last a quarrel sprang up be
tween Burnam and Jasper Maupin,
which resulted in the shooting of Bur
nam five times by Maupin. Yesterday
the trial of Iffanpin \yas to fiave occur
red, and Burnam, partially recovered
from his wounds, was in town, evidently
with the determination of having re
venge npon Maupin. He was backed
by four of his ffiepda, the principal of
whom were Hit Ballard and William
Oornelison, while Maupin was backed
by his relatives, each armed with heavy
revolvers and determined upon the ex
termination of the other or death to
themselves.
The parties first met in tho conidors
of the Court House and revolvers were
drawn on both sides, but by the inter
vention of friends they were induced to
refrain from shooting. After tfio ad
journment of the Court, however, Bur
uam, accompanied by his friends, sta
tioned himself on the sidewalk near a
livery stable, adhere Maupin must pass
to get tq his fioyse. Hlaupins, see
ing this action, consulted a moment,
but only a moment, when Jasper, put
ting his hand upon his revolver, started
boldly aloDg the sidewalk in tho direc
tion of the stable. His backers, many
of whom were already mounted, stop
ped about fifty feet away to watch the
result.
Mattpin walked gqietjy flown the
street till he got opposite aps pearly
past JJurnaim Still haying his hand on
his revolver,' and looking back as he
passed, when suddenly Burnam drew a
heavy revolver from under his coat, and
fanning quickly towards Maupin, with
out saying a word, placed the muzzle
nearly against his forehead, and before
Man pip ppujd draw, fired. The ball eu
tered the brain ppq Maupiq to the
sifiewalk, dying. Then igaup'im’s friends
opened fire from the corner, jumping
fiopj fheif horses and rushing towards
the party. Jjee Mappin ran towards
Burnam, and leveling his revolver, fired.
Burnam fell dead upon the sidewalk,
his feet resting across those of his vic
tim, and the blood flowing from his
mouth and wounds in bis head. Lee
Maupin, not yet content with his re
yenge Upon his brother’s murderer,
rushed again to jhe body 'of hjs victim
and stooping oyer if sept’ another ball
through his head, and was followed
this act by another of the Manpin fami-
iy.
At the same time the others had open
ed fire on Cornelison and Ballard, who
both received shots through the head,
staggering a few steps, fell dying.
The e£a*6plp of Lee Maupin was fol
lowed by his fellows, wkff deliberately
approached their victims while they
were dying, sending the heavy bails
from their pistols through their heads
The 1 !-, there b'dng no more of the
frifetids oi U.t; Vfjn'"uislied party remain
ing afiv'e, 'the 1 ' oiraaD'a ' atnJgid, The
brothers of the wounded gain- 1
eres about the dyin& man, ; fend, still>
grasping ifc; 3 jnstruiffenta of death in
hands red’with mi Lis murder
er, feissed his pale face and wept like
children. Theft he was carried into a
store near by, but expired ih a few
minutes, Then they turned again their
attention i? bis murderers, and, finding
them, too, dead, sheatnCc! their revolv
es and quietly gave themselves up to
the sheriff.
THE BATTLE OF liifTTYSUURG.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Iu your paper of the 11th instant, GeD.
Goode Bryan gives a correct and graph
ic aeooto* o‘ the charge on Bound Top,
at the battle of Gety£nrg.' I was an
eye witness, and" every word he siahes is
true. There was the most desperate
fighting at the foot of Round Top.
liongstreet's corps-fought as men never
fought before. The division of McLaws
was especially heroic. The brigades of
3arksdale hud .Wofford "covered them
selves with glory. The peat* ffih ar£, :
the battery in front, the crest of pound
Top are the bloody witnesses. We
charged, we swept everything beforp ns;
the day was ours had we been support
ed. A thousand men upon the crest
and the So ith would have been free !
The colors of the 11th Infantry were
taken by a man of Cobb’s Legion—
Charley Ju'olhsett. He was a native of
Burke-county; tall, augu-ar, muscular,
weighing more 1 than -two nunured
pounds. Charley Jived through it, un
til the battle of the Wilderness; he fell
in the thickets, with of his j
regiment in his hands. No braver man
ever lived. Lee had no better soldier;
Longstreet commanded no better man
—the bravest of the brave. M. 8. B.
An unpleasant passenger in a street
ear is a crying baby. fn such cases Dr.
Bull’s Baby Byrup should be given to
the little sufferer to ease its troubles. 26
cents a bottle.
CRIME ANDCALAMITY.
HASTY PROMENADES WITH THE
TWIN DESTROYERS.
A Tally Sheet ol Yesterday’s Wom—Casual
ties and Felonle*, Thefts and Disaster*
Caught Up hy the Revolving Mirror.
Tho Wreck or the Money Changer*.
Providencetown, Mass., September
27.—The Barnstable Savings Bank has
suspended.
Chicago, September 27.—Sydney My
ers, President of the Merchants’ and
Farmers’ Savings Bank, has been indict
ed for embezzlement of $20,000.
Two of the Union Express Train Robbers
Killed —Recovering the Hold.
Chicago, September 27.—A dispatch
has been received at military headquar
ters from Lieut. Allen, of the Sixteenth
Infantry, from Buffalo, Kansas, dated
yesterday, stating that two of the rob
bers engaged in the Union Pacific train
robbery have been killed, and eighty
pounds of gold recovered.
The two highwaymen were overtaken
yesterday near Wallace, Kansas, by a
posse. The robbers made a stand and
were both killed, and $16,000 iu gold
coin were recovered. It is expected that
others will be captured.
A Mnjor-tienernl in Jail—A Hash Comman
der of the Pennsylvania Militia Accounts
lor Deeds Done in the Strike.
Pittsburg, September 27. Major-
General A. L. Pierson, commander of
the State troops during the strike, has
been arrested, charged with murder.
The charges set forth that one Stoppel,
sitting in his own door, was killed by n
fire ordered by Pierson. Pierson waived
examination, and was committed to jail.
General Pierson was afterward re
leased, however, on SIO,OOO bail.
Swindling bv Railroad Men.
Philadelphia, September 27.— The
officers of the West Philadelphia pas
senger railway, charged with conspira
cy to swindle, are held for the grand
jury. Morton S. Vickers’ bail was fixed
at SIO,OOO, and that of Nagle and Hahn
at $50,000. Stokes was held in his own
recognizance. All furnished security
but Hahn.
Tli© Cainbridseport Rank Robbrey—A Min
ister looses Heavily by the Intrusion.
Boston, September 27.— 1 tis now
certain that Rev. Lucius P. Page, au
thor of the History of Cambridge, lost
$25,000 by the late robbery of the Cam
bridgeport National Bank, of which
$12,000 was in negotiable bonds and the
balance iu securities of various kinds.
Tho available plunder in his box was
greater than all tho rest obtained by the
robbeiy. It is supposed that there are
parties out of the city who have yet to
discover their loss.
Unable to I'ay—Nothing More.
New York, September 27.—Bonnet,
Schenek & Earle, cigar manufacturers,
failed. Liabilities, $35,000.
Rufus Hatch scut a communication to
tho President of the Stock Exchange,
stating he was unablo to settle the dif
ference against him on account of stock
bought iu for his account under the
rule on Tuesday withiu twenty-four
hours, which tho rules of the Exchange
allow. He hoped, however, to be able
to settle the account soon.
Tlie Fevered Canopy—Tlie Scourge Dwind
ling Away in Fc^rnandlna.
Jacksonville, Fla., September 27. —
No deaths in the past twenty-four hours
at Fernandina. Five now cases are re
ported, among the number J. 0. Gross
man, Collector of Customs, and one of
the most active workers on the Sanitary
Committee. Dr. McFarland thinks that
the worst is over, if tho people oan be
deterred from returning beforo frost.
At Oldtown, a suburb of Fernandina,
over one half of the population is down
with fever.
Jacksonville, Fla., September 27.
One death from yellow fever at Fernan
dina to-day, and ten new cases are re
ported. The crew of the schooner Saw
yer, in port, are all down with fever. A
number of cases are reported very' low
to-night.
Terrible Explosion on lb© Louisville and
Nagliville Railroad— I Three Men Killed and
a Collision Rarely Averted.
Louisville, September %1. —The boil
er of a locomotive attacked to a freight
train on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad exploded last night at Rooky
Hill, Warren county, killing Charles
Wilson, engineer; Thos. MoCrae, fire
man; and McCormic, of Greensburg,
lud., brakemaD, and wounding slightly
several others. A L. Church, conduct
or, was badly bruised, but succeeded in
crawling far enough forward to flag the
south bound passenger train and avert a
collision. A number of race horses were
on the train, Darden’s Morgan lilly
and Snz irae being killed, and Satinet
and Bergamot injured.
Copers of tli© Fire Fiend—A ITat Factory and
a Chromo Mill Licked Up In a Roar.
Lawrence, Mass,., September 27.
Ingalls & Son’s hat factory, at Methven,
was burned this morning. Loss, $25,-
00Q. Seventy-five hands are thrown out
of employment.
Boston, September 27. —L- Prang &
Co.’s large ehyomo establishment, in
Highland District, is on fire, and will
probably be destroyed. The building
is tilled with valuable plates, chromes,
&o. The loss will probably exceed $50,-
000.
The stock of manufactured goods on
band was very largo and valuable.—
This included cliromos, lithographs,
engravings and other goods ; also, a
large stock of valuable plates and con
siderable improyefl machinery used in
the preparation of chcomos. The loss
on the building, which is considerably
damaged, is SIO,OOO. Tho establishment
was working full time to meet large or
ders for Fall trade. Tho loss occasion
ed by delay is no inconsiderable item.
The total jogs is now thought to be
SIOO,OOO. The insurance on Prang’s
stock amounts to $115,251, divided
among thirty companies, which more
than covers the loss.
Fyurli Tiiivy In Alatmiaa—A Murclfrcr
Hanged.
Coi/pMBUs, Miss , September 27.—Nat
Pierce, who’ was implipafpd tilling
Story and fililpatrick, in Pickens coun
ty, 4' a bgnia, last August, wqs taken
from Carrolton (Ala.) jail last night by
about 20 masked men and hanged.
Kaging Conflagration In Providence—Fine
liuilding* in the Path.
Pit vjdbncb, R. 1., September 27. —A
fire broke out this eyening in ’Waldron,
Wight man ii, Co.'s buijdiflg, in the cen
tre of several 'of tbp nept business
blocks, near the post cilice. The fire
spread rapidly, and readied the next
building to fhe post o{si:e. All the
buildings op fire pro ne\v, first class
brick or stone ones, but present no ob
stacle to the fire. The flames have
reached the building occupied by the
Evening Press ff/nd Journal. The loss
is already vefy largo. The whole city
tire department is out, and aid is asked
from pawtticjifet and Newpprt,
LA+ ! Ep.—Tpe pre iy pjohfjbijf under
control. The buildings on two sides of
the post office are destroyed, but the
Government buildings of granite will
probably resist tbci fire, The Press
office is still in danger, the roof having
been partially crushed by falling walls.
The First Light Infantry Regiment has
been ordered out, and is now guarding
prppertv, The worst is probably over.
By 111. Own Hand.
Richmond, Va., September 28.—S.
Travers Phillips, a prominent lawyer of
Staunton, was found in his bed shot
! through the head with a pistol stili
| in hik'hanq.' '
A Light Sentence for Manslaughter.
LoNijOi;, Op., September 28.—Jas. E.
Buddington, who killed Wm, Thompson
at Groton, September 10, and pleaded
guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced
to ninety days in the county jail.
More Bandit, on the Plains.
C/>e,nne, W. TANARUS., September 28.—The
regula? weekly tfcjjsuea coach from
Dead Wood was stopped by two maskeu
men near Cheyenne rfver Wednesday
night last. Resistance was made and
Scott Davis, one of the messengers, was
wounded in the leg, disabling him. The
robbers then gat possession of the
arms in the ce£ch but were unable to
force the iron safe, • '<
A Test Cn.e Under llie Vermont l.liiuor I.aw.
Brattleboro, Vt., September 28.
In the Windham County Court yester
day, Ophelia Snow recovered a verdict
of fegjSOO against ipan’l. C. Carpenter &
Son, 5 hotel prGprfct .rs prominent
citizens of ReadsboiW'&n'Weotifit of in
juries rgegiyed fry being thrown from a
wagon in eottbeqneftfip q{ ffPf husband
being drunk. The liquor w pursfiagpd
of the defendants and as the suit was a
test case under the Vermont liquor law
it has excited great interest.
Yellow Fever on the Wane.
Jackson lill*., September 28.—One
death at Fernadin* sine® the iat report
and six new cases are reported."
No Fever at
Jacksonville, September 28.—1n jus
tice to Jacksonville, the following state
meht is made: A report was recently
published that a schooner arrived at
Norfolk from this port with yellow fever.
It appears that over a month ago, be
fore the disease at Fernandiua was pro
nounced yellow fever, and before quar
autine was established against that
place, two sailors left a vessel there,
which is supposed to have had yellow
fever on board, and shipped on tbe
sohooner Evalina, then lying three miles
below Jacksonville, for Norfolk. The
disease developed at s?a, and oi.e of the
sailors died. There has not been any
oase here of yellow fever, and the offi
cial report of the Board of Health shows
the city to be unusually healthy.
A Horrible Human Holocaust.
Montreal, September 28.—A farm
house six miles from St. Johns was
burned and eight children burned to
death. Their mother, the only adult in
the house, escaped.
Tlie Dig Fire at Providence.
Providence, R. I„ September 28.
The insurance on the property burnt
yesterday is between four and five hun
dred thousand dollars. The totfl loss
is $675,000; insurance, $518,000.
Ripe for a Heeciver.
Hartford, 'September 28.—The Di
rectors of the Charter Oak Life Insur
ance Company ask a release of forty
per ceut. from the policy holders; other
wise the concern must go into tho hands
of a receiver.
Collisions on tli© Deep.
New York, September 28.— Returned,
steamship Isaac Bell, hence for Norfolk.
On the 27th, off Sandy Hook, during a
dense fog, she was rau into by the steam
tug Cyclops, staving a hole in her port
bow about the water lino. She has re
turned to this city for repairs.
Providence, September 28.—A cutter
has gone to search for the unknown lum
ber schooner damaged by a collision
with the steamer Providence, which was
not materially injured.
Fire in Norlli Carolina.
Goldsboro. September 28.—A fire
broke out at 7 o’clock this morniug, and
destroyed Campbell & Co.’s hardware,
also Powell & Sou’s store, aud did con
siderable damage to Weils’ largo build
ing. The total damage is estimated at
$40,000. __
massacres in the Balkan v;i.ra
ces.
Ilww tli© Turks Make War on Women ami
Children.
Captain James Gambier, of tbe British
Navy, has been traveling iu Turkey, ac
companying tbe Turkish nrmies iu many
of their movements. What ho says,
therefore, about tbe methods of Turkish
warfare may be accepted as truthful. He
writes some graphic letters to the Lon
don Neivs about the horrible massacres
in the Balkan villages by the Turkish
Baslii-Bazouks, and illustrates them with
sketches taken by himself soon after the
affairs. Tho following was taken from
one of his letters :
Aug. 3.—Yesterday I visited a large
Bulgarian village of upwards 300 houses,
that had been sacked and burnt, aud tho
people massacred by the Bashi-Bazouks
on July 30. Tbe village is called Kan
atb, about sixteen miles from Tirnova,
towards Philippolis. The place is a total
wreck, hardly one stone standing on
another. Of the few corpses I saw, the
most shocking was a woman with her
head half hacked off, her clothes all torn
away at the waist, aud the body half
burnt. Dogs and pigs were devouring
the bodies, while donkeys and cattle
strayed through the roads ownerless.—
The school had not been burnt, and hud
evidently been the scene of a terrible
fray. Blood on the floors and door
posts, and all kind of house-hold gear,
school-books, and other things in the
greatest oonfusion, told the same dread
ful tale. The spelling-books and childish
copy-books appealed powerfully to every
human instinct within one.
This affair of Kara ath, however, sinks
into insignificance before tbe appalling
horror of tbe massacre at Guela-Maha
lisso. It appears that on the 26th a
strong foroe, under Saoaf Pasha, made
a recounoissance from Yeni-Sagra, and
spent a night near the village above
named, which is situated a little off the
line of rail between Yeni-Sngra and Tir
nova. After the force had left, a large
body of Circassians returned to the vil
lage, and, in tho first place, carried off
an immense number of young girls,
whose fate can only bo guessed at. They
then returned to the village, and found
thattheremainderol thewomen andchil
dren had fled for protection to the church.
There they slaughtered them all, an 1
from the church Colonel Lennox and
Lieutenant Chormsido, R. E. military
attaches, Messrs. Leslie and Mey
rick, of the Aid to the Sick and Wound
ed Society, brought out and buried
175 bodies of women aud chil
dren. Besides these there were many
others killed in different places about
the village, and thirty-six wounded had
their wounds dressed by the above
named medical officers. These eye-wit
nesses describe tbe scene iu tho church
as something indescribably awful. The
dead and dying were piled iu suffocating
heaps, little children crawling about
looking for their mothers, wounded
mothers trying to move those ghastly
heaps to find their children, and when
foiiud hardly able to reeogniza them
with the fearful sword cuts about their
little heads. Many women had been
violated aud subjected to fearful barba
rities, pregnant women ripped opeD,
while others had their breasts cut, off or
their hands chopped off' at the wrist. A
mother lay stone dead, and her baby
was vainly endeavoring to get tho food
for which it was starving; wliilp an older
child was calling and pushing the dead
woman to try and make her awake.
Eyen while these gentlemen were in the
village the murdering was going on at
another part, aud so threatening were
those ferocious ruffians that their lives
stood iu very great danger. A Circas
sian, from behind a hedge, took a delib
erate shot at Mu Meyrick, but missed
him.
To-day I availed myself of a train
which was intended to have taken pro
visions and ammunition far enough up
the line of rail to communicate with
Suleiman Pasha, to visit the scone of
this fearful massacre. The village, or
rather town —for I suppose it must have
contained upwards of 4,000 inhabitants
—had not been burnt, except in a few
oqtlying parts, but every house had been
pillaged. We directed our steps
through the deserted town towards the
square wooden church tower, and en
tered the churchyard where great
mounds of fresh earth bore testimony to
the numbers of dead that lay under
neath. The scene iu the church was one
of completo confusion. The floor of the
church, and especially the steps near
the screen, was saturated with blood,
and clothes, broken boxes, books, and
relics lay in one confused heap. On
passing on through a small door at the
cast end of the church wo came across a
few survivors of tfie tuaasacre, lying all
buckled tpgpthpr on one of the great
mounds of earth covering the graves—as
if they had a superstitious horror of the
church itself, but wished to remain as
near as possible, for I am told that the
Bulgarians have an idea that it is better
to die under the shadow of a saored
building. ThP party consisted of two
very old women, one with her thigh
fractured by a musket ba'l, the other
perfectly insane frosu terror, besides be
ing blind. Anotfipr aufl younger wo
man, who had been slightly wounded in
the body, also appeared insane, for she
got up soon afterwards and ran away,
and we could not find her again. A little
girl of five had received a fearful sword
cut on her head, almost down to the
skull, and about five inpfies long. It is
a marvel the blow did not kill hpr. There
were two olef men also severely' Wounded.
INTERNATIONAL COTTON CONFERENCE.
Ailiu.irmin-nr Yesterd-iy—lncreased A(ipnd
tlllt: fc—il.-i.UlpI lull* Hut A pled Upon.
Liverpool, September 28. —The ad
journed meeting of the International
Cotton Oonforonco was held this after
noon. It was attended in addition to
the previous delegates by delegates
from various spinners’ associations. A
resolution to abolish the lj per cent,
deduction from cotton invoices was de
bated but no action was takeD. The
resolution relative to the insertion of
the words “cash before delivery” in con
tracts Ws ajss debated and denounced
by the spinners as- insulting and un
called for and the subject was passed
over without considering it. The Con
ference adjourned sine die.
THE BANKRUPT LAW.
A Strop* t!epoifn to Congress lor Its Repeal.
( i; if* It'll'
New York, September 27. —A peti
tion, which has already been signed by
more than nine hundred New York
bank presidents, merchants, manufac
turers!! and business men generally, and
whidhvOVges fchfl Senate fc<s confirm the
dourte dpthe jfoirte oi RepreseflultiYes
in repealing the bahkfinite lajv.'ia now m
circulation in tyis pity The petition
itself is ft remarkable document, .con
taining as it does the autograph signa
tures of many of the most eminent men
of the mercantile community of New
York. The reasons assigned for the
proposed repeal are that the law affords
an opportunity for fraud, and that it is
differently interpreted in different places.
’> ’ — •- ' I 1 ‘f —: —r
The American Iron Works, employing
2,000 men; H, Lloyd. Son & Co.’s irt*
mills, employing 1,000 men, at Pitt*,
burg, Pa., resumed work yesterday.
The former has been idle six weeks and
the latter eleven weeks. The striking
coopers held a meeting yesterday and
resolved to go to work.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Calhoun has a moot Court.
Scarlet fever prevails in Columbia.
Griffin is building anew post office.
Cuthbert now Appeals for Millodge
ville.
Congressman Blount is for Milledge
ville.
Twiggs county wants the old home
stead.
A Baptist revival is going on in Car
tersville.
Savannah subscribed $3,149 56 to Fer
naudina.
Waynesboro is figuring up the cost of
a fire engine.
Two young men left Barnesville for
Texas last week.
Somehow or other, Berrien county fa
vors Milledgeville.
Mr. Wm. S. Burton, of Burke county,
died a few days ago.
Savannah has quarantined Fernandina,
but not Jacksonville.
North Georgia farmers are said to
make much out of chestnuts.
The Waynesboro Expositor is more
than inclined to vote for Atlanta.
The gold mines in Paulding county
are likely to prove quite valuable.
Atlanta seems to t*e moving iu the in
terest of the Fernandina sufferers.
Rev. Josephus Hillman, of McDuffie,
will stand for tho Senate from tho 29th.
The sheriff' of Bullock county levied
on thirty-seven rattlesnakes the other
day.
There are said to be 47 applicants for
the Nashville Normal School from this
State.
Sevoral weddings will take place in
and around Dalton about the first kill
ing frost.
During this hurly-burly about Hayes
wo fear that tbe populace have lost sight
of Flipper.
Col. A. J. King and Judge A. R.
Wright are spoken of as Representatives
from Floyd.
Macon chemists are waiting for that
poisonous ice cream to melt beforo
analyzing it,.
Royal Smith, of Romo, becomes route
ngeut upon tho railroad from Atlanta to
Chattanooga.
The next session of tho railroad pool
iu Atlanta promises to be a highly in
teresting one.
James Lnwsho has been convicted in
Atlanta of having counterfeit coins in
his possession.
Geo. LeDuo, National Commissioner
of Agriculture, will attend our State
Fair, it is said.
The McDuffie Journal does not favor
a nominating Senatorial Convention in
tho 29th Distriot.
Bishop Beckwith has gone to Balti
more with his daughters, where they will
remain at school this year.
The Lumpkin Independent indicates
that Col. Harrison will be re elected to
the Senate from that District.
Atlanta’s latest is a restaurant man
aged by ladies who daintily dish up de
licate dinners at 15c. per head.
Notwithstanding that there is not a
drop of whisky sold iu Johnson county,
they have an “Outlaw” for sheriff.
The cotton gin of Gapt. Thomas K.
Sproulls, near Stilesboro, Bartow coun
ty, was destroyed by fire ou Saturday.
Tho Oartersvillo Express favors At
lanta because it is easy of access and
convenient to defend in time of siege.
Tho citizens of Wiuteiville, Clarko
county, have likewise petitioned Dr.
Carlton again to go to the Legislature.
The seventh agricultural fair of the
Central Georgia Society will be held iu
Saudersville, beginning Wednesday, Oc
tober 24th.
Owing to the abundant fruit crop and
difficulty of transportation, there are a
larger number of stills iu operation in
Georgia than ever before known.
Tho Montezuma Weekly remarks:
“We are in favor of keeping Gordon
in the United States Senate; but, if lio
is to be beaten, give us Toombs.”
The Rome Courier thinks that tho
question now seems to bo whether Geo.
Bierce or Capitol Furman shall go to
Congress from the Milledgeville Dis
trict.
C. G, Talmadgp, Esq., at present
Mayor of Athens, will, we learn, bo sup
ported ns Representative from Clarko
county. He would undoubtedly make a
tine legislator.
Colouol Overton Yonm?, of Brazos
county, Texas, and a native of Georgia,
died in Galveston last week, at tho ago
of 54 years, and was buried witti mili
tary honors.
Tho colored preachers iu Atlanta ad
vise their deluded flocks not to endorse
the President’s Southern policy. Verily
another Rochester is suffered by the Ad
ministration.
It now turns out that President Mon
roe visited Athens iu 1819. Dr. Henry
Hull, Mr. John R. Golding aud Judge
Charles Dougherty woro of the com
mittee ol reception. s
Aaron Gatliff, Esq., has been notified
by the “Ku-Klux” in Monroe couuty to
leave the couuty in ten days. As Mr.
G. is a law-abiding citizoD, and no causa
is assigned for this threat, ho will not
comply.
The McDuffie Journal says: “lu our
own immediate seotion, so far as wo
have been able to learn, thore is a gene
ral desire amoug the people to re-elect
tho present members of the General
Assembly.”
The Constitution reports Uncle Jon
athan Norcross thus ; “The Democrats
aro tho greatest thieves in the world.
Six months ago they oursed Hayes for
stealing the Presidency and now—they
have stolen Hayes f”
Gen. William Mcßae has been given
the additional designation of General
Manager of the Slate Road besides tho
Superintendence. This is a very high
compliment to General Mcßae, and one
which ho richly deserves.
J. Hooper Alexander, of Romo, is re
covering from his attack of typhoid fe
ver. Mr. Alexander is a member of the
Senior Glass of the University of Geor
gia, and one of the most promising
young meu in the college.
Professor John Darby, for many
years principal of Sigourney Institute,
Culloden, Georgia, and Professor of
Sciences of Wesleyan Female College,
Macon, in her earlier years, died in Har
lem New York, a few days ago.
Tho Dalton Citizen sensibly remarks
“now that fodder pulling and turnip
sowing time is about over, our farmers,
during the pleasant weather that wo arp
now having should prepare tlieir wheat
land by thoroughly plowing and harrow
ing it, and put in their wheat.”
A Si HEATH.
Unexpected Renlli of Mr. Win. A. Shorter.
[Atlanta Constitution .]
Early yesterday morning a telegram
from Rome reached this office, announc
ing the death, at 1, a. m., yesterday, of
Mr. Wm. A. Shorter, a gentleman for
merly resident and well known iu this
city, and who but very recently assumed
the post of associate editor of the Romo
Courier. A reference to the Courier, of
Thursday, developed the following:
Nieltnes* oi Col. W. A. Shorter.
The above named, associate editor of
this paper, had a severe attack of con
gestion of the bowels last Monday night.
The disease, however, readily yielded to
the skillful treatment of Dr. G. W.
1 Holmes, and yesterday he was much
: better. He now hopes to bo at his post
iu a day or two. Since the above was
put in type we learn that he had a sec
ond attack yesterday afternoon, and for
a short tirao he was in extreme pain, but
at last accounts, about sunset, he was
easier.
The attack seems to have recurred
during the night, and Mr. Shorter died
as stated in the telegrar^.
William A- Shorter q-as the eldest soq
of Hon. Eli S. Shorter,’of Alabama, and
nephew of Gov. John (Jill Shorter, of
that State, and of Col. Alfred Shorter,
of Rome, Ga. He was about thirty years
of age, and a young man of more than
ordinary promise. He possessed a mind
endowed with rare qualities. He waa
brilliant, educated, and the possessor ot
high social acquirements.
Toombs and Ctordon.
[Barnesmlle Gazette .]
Since General Toombs paid the sup
plemental expenses of the State Consti
tutional Convention his name has been
brought forward as a candidate for the
United States Senate. It is now thought
that he will be in the field with Sen&Kii:
Gordon. If Gordon does not explain
moro satisfactorily that muddle with
Foster and Matthews that defrauded
Tilden out of the Presidency he will find
rough sailing.
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All the magazine editors are seeking
to surpass-each-other. The uouuaeioc*
of the Atlantic, liar pdf's, Appleton's
and Scribner's are continually oil the
qui vive to get the most attractive mat
ter. But “Andrews’ Bazar” solves the
question instanter, though published art
the low price 6f due doHatt It has>tW>
most sparkling writdta,- tooth* aVbolild
and abroad, Who fdrnish f‘a feast ”&f
roason ftnc) a fjow oi goqb’ to tfieir ref
ers. To oovfif the sides of human
interest, it gives a superb fashion de-<
partment, not to bo surpassed in Paris
or Berlin. Here ladies get all the latest
things in matters of dress. The maga
zine is making a stir, and Cincinnati is
beooming quite an entrepot of fashion
therefrom. New York must look to its
laurels. . —'i'' I !
General Pearson, arrested for murder
while commanding the Pennsylvania
State forces against the rioters, was ad
mitted to bail in 810,000. Pearson made
a defense in the preliminary hearing.