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EUronicle ant) £>fntfnel. 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. ,— - 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.