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lllccliin & CeitslitutionnliGt.
010 SCRIES —VOL. XCII
NEW SERIES-VOL. II
Cijromcle anD Srntmd.
\V I :I>NKSDAY, - OCTOBER 10,{1877.
EDITORIAL NOTE*.
Win, Blaise and Conklino kiss and
make op *
The Virginia bell punch is respectfully
alluded to as a bar-ometer.
I’atti lias come out of that Breton con
vent, ami will sing in London.
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Several of the most prosperous Wall
street speculators are Southern men.
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Conk lino’s man, Platt, wanted to lx;
Postmaster-!Jeoeral. Hence those howls.
A Parisian editor says that over Thiers’
coffin Prance sees the Revolution face to
face.
Sore first class caricatures of Mr. Conk-
Lino rnay now tie looked for in Harper*
Weekly.
'I he late Bishop Kettklkk thought St
Paul, if he had lived in these days, would
have edited a newspaper.
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Who would have thought that George
William Curtis, editor of Harper 's Week
ly, would have ever “let up” on the South ?
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Col. Boh Inoersoi.l is proud of his
knowledge of cooking, and wants a law
passed making the frying of beefsteak a
felony.
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About two years ago Wendell Phil
lies predicted that the South would tri
umph. It was gall and wormwood, hut lie
spat it out.
Gen. Kilpatrick found a clergyman to
open the New Jersey Republican Conven
tion with a slangy political speech, which
he irreverently called a “prayer.”
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The true rendering is: “When Greeks
joined Greeks then came the tug of war.”
Il occurs in a play called Alexander the
(heat, by one Lee, act iv., scene 3.
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Bald-headed men, who have heard that
kerosene was a good remedy, are advised by
competent authority to let it severely alone.
Let them charm with their intellect and
morality •nsteudof their head-gear.
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'The Herald, the day after the Rochester
Convention, imagined it saw a considerable
number of infuriated patriots wiping the
rotten eggs from their faces, getting their
clothes brushed, and looking around to see
if anybody dared to laugh.
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Tiie New York Tribune warns Jural
Karly that he is pursuing the plan of the
New York Democrats, diluted and warmed
over. The inventors of the scheme, it
says, were amazed at its capacity for de
struction in the rear, and Gen. Karly will
make a similar discovery shortly.
'The editor of the Knoxville Tribune com
municated with the spirit of Hoc-rates as
to a second marriage, and got the reply:
“Sir—l would prefer the glass of hem
lock |M)iscm swallowed by Demosthenes to
the more terrible fate on which you ask my
judgment. Hoc-rates.”
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A special to the Baltimore Sun, from
Ohio, reports that the Republicans there
have made gains recently, and expect to
carry the State by a handsome majority.
The are unusual Democratic
apathy, in neglect to register, and the with
drawal from the ticket of some of their lead
ing legislative candidates.
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Chambers’ Journal records that Lady
Lkwson never washed tier person or allowed
tier house to lx- swept. She abhorred the
bath tlili as the originator of chills and
odds. She anointed her face with lard,
and lived in excellent health to her 116th
birthday. She ought to have been the
Queen of Bulgaria, where women never
wash hut once in their lives.
“The organization of Texas State troops
for service on the Rio Grande looks like
business.” We hope it does. If the Gov
ernment of the United States cannot protect
the people of Texas they should protect
themselves. Experience has shown that
I )iaz either cannot or will not stop the raids
>f Mexican marauders. He needs assistance
from tin- American side, and we hope the
'Texans will teach) him how to administer
justice.
A correspondent of the Edgefield Ad
vertiser, writing from Spartanburg, favors
and gives elaborate details of a scheme for
building a narrow gauge railrond front
Spartanburg to Augusta, via Edgefield
t’ourt House. Our Carolina friends seem
determined, to have mil road connection
with this city, and wc shall not be at all
surprised by their success. Whenever the
(xxiple of a section make up their mind that
they really need a railway the road is always
built
The Washington correspondent of the
Savannah Hem, alluding to the vacancy in
the Supreme Court, says “it is stated that
the President has expressed a desire to till
the vacancy by the appointment of a South
ern man, and it is extremely probable that
ex-Gov. Johnson, of Georgia, will be se
lected for the position, as his eminent quali
fications as a jurist, and his untarnished re
cord as a man, would render his appoint
ment an acquisition to our highest judicial
tribunal”
Tub French seem to be easily pre-eminent
in finance. The Bank of France was al
lowed by law to resume specie payments
when the Government indebtedness to it
should reach 300,000.000 francs, on the Ist
of January, lt*7B. Only 10,000,000 of the
required sum remains to liquidate, which
the Government could readily pay, but
retains simply to fall within the letter of
the law. The Bank is as ready to resume
as the Government is abundantly able to
pay. Really, the French financiers are mar
vels in their way.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser de
precates, in a very good humored way.
Democratic attacks upon Mr. Evakts for
the part he took in the Electoral Commis
sion and its results. It i ays Mr. Evakts
had no passion in the matter—it was merely
x bit of legal business; that the arguments
-jm> and con were superfluous, and had not
the slightest effect upon the Eight to Seven;
anil that the prolongation of the session, bv
hair-splitting addresses of counsel, caused
snore uneasiness to the Republicans than to
the Democrats.
Thk Springfield Republican says what
the President "has done on the Southern
question iu treking the support of Demo
crats and Southern people, he will find it
still more essential to do in the matter of
civil service reform. He was indebted to
jiatriotic Democrats for the maintenance of
ids independence in the selection of his
<'ahiuet; he w ill have to seek them in main
taining his independence in the reforming
■of the civil service.” It is an unusual sight
to see a Republican President mainly rely
ing ui>on the South for aid and comfort,
hut it is just as well that it happened. Mr.
Hayes is not likely to forget who are and
were his genuine friends.
Governor Tom Torso, of Ohio, has
been on a missionary visit to Washington.
A dispatch from the Federal Capital runs
thus: "In a letter to a friend, an applicant
for an important local office in this District,
and whose claims for place had been urged
by Governor Tom, he says: “I don’t under
stand Hayf.s. I don’t believe hi* old
friends have any influence with him. He
inakre promises he does not fulfil, and
seems to take more pleasure in rewarding
those who opposed his election than those
who pithed him through." He concludes
by saying: “I don’t think I have any in
fluence with Hayes." We judge from this
that the President is his own master and
will continue to be superior to party and
equal to every patriotic demand.
HON. THOMAS J. *I.>I.>IONB.
The sndden death of Judge Barnard
Hill, of the Macon Circuit, makes a va
cancy which will have to be filled by
appointment of the Governor until the
meeting of the General Assembly. As
the Fall riding has commenced, the ap
pointment will have to be made at once,
in order that the business of the Courts
may not be suspended. The people of
the circuit are fortunate in having seve
ral lawyers, any one of whom wonld
worthily fill the important position.
Among these is Hon. Thos. J. Simmons,
of Macon. Col. Himmon.s is a lawyer of
experience and great ability. His mind
seems to be especially fitted for the in
vestigation and determination of judicial
questions, and in his hands the adminis
tration of the law wonhl be impartial,
effective and satisfactory. Col. Bimmons
has been in pnblic life for many years,
has held several important offices and
has never proven nnfaithfal to a trust.
He is in the very prime of intellectual
and physical manhood— men* sana in
corpore sarin— and his appointment
would be gratifying to friends in every
section of the State, as well as to the
people of his own circuit.
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TIIE SPEAKERSIIIP.
We do not think that the election of
a Speaker is a matter with which the
newspapers have much to do. There is
no reason why members ehonld not
vote in accordance with their personal
preferences without being dragooned
by the press. For ourselves we shall
be content with the selection of any of
the Democrats whose names have been
mentioned in connection with the posi
tion. Our preference, however, is Hon.
S. J. Randall, of Pennsylvania. He
was Speaker of the last House, and his
course was such as to deserve the en
dorsement of a re-election. In the
trying days of the electoral count he
displayed firmness, courage and patriot
ism worthy of the highest praise. He
is a true and tried Democrat and has
rendered services to the party which
should not escape recognition. We do
not care what may be his views with re
gard to government aid of works of in
ternal improvement, or with regard to
free trade. These things have nothing
to do with his fitness for the Speaker’s
Chair and should not be allowed to en
ter into the contest. We hope Mr.
Randall will get tho voto of every
Southern Congressman.
SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
An impression is songht to be created
that the Federal Government is asked
to make a donation to the Texas Pacific
Railway. This is a mistake in toto. The
Northern Pacifio lioads, as we have
shown, were the recipients of huge do
nations; but the Southern Road simply
requests au endorsement of bonds,
amply secured for indemnification. To
this the persistent enemies of all South
ern development—and they are not con
fined to Republicans by a good deal—
reply that Government aid should not
be asked at all, while millions of capital
in private hands are lying idle, eager to
invest in any safe enterprise; and that
tho uuwiliinguess of such capital to
invest is positive proof that the Texas
Pacific project is not deemed self-sus
taining. It would be hard to say what
is a safe investment, in these days.—
From all appearances, thero are thous
ands of capitalists who are really in
mortal terror of all investments. But,
we think it safe to say that if the Gov
ernment gave a powerful backing to the
Texas Pacifio Road, private capital
would not long remain idle in that di
rection. Such a project wonld givo em
ployment to thousands of laborers; it
would necessarily sot in motion many
machine shops now going to rust; it
would revive hundreds of industries by
the circulation of large sums of money;
and it would encourage the development
of groat sections of the Union, thereby
instilliug life into the dry bones of all
sections. A contemporary wisely says:
“The Government is asked to do noth
ing for the Southwest that it has not
already done for the West and North
west. There can be no doubt that the
rapid aud splendid development of the
far West by the Union Pacifio Road has
contributed powerfully to the wealth of
the whole couutry. The fact that the
West and Northwest have been thus
developed makes a similar development
of the Southwest a matter of simple jus
tice and vast importance to the whole
Union. With the aid suggested tho
whole road could be quickly completed
and placed ia operation. The country
would be developed by it with a rapidity
equal to that of the country traversed
by the Uuion Pacifio, and to a much
larger extent. The United States would
have tenfold security for its endorse
ment, aud its gain in wealth and popu
lation would repay it many times for its
guarantee.”
It is mainly upon such considerations,
which are broad and national, that Mr.
Stephens and other pure, npright and
patriotic statesmen found their support
of this enterprise. It is not a sectional
raid upon the Treasury of the United
States, bnt a profound policy which
looks to the welfare of the whole Union.
The idea that it is merely a scheme to
lift Mr. Thomas Scott and his railway
system out of bankruptcy is all moon
shine, or rather it is a “thing devised
by the enemy.” It is preposterous to
suppose that men like Stephens and i
Lamar would lend themselves to any j
such plot, or bo hoodwinked into it.— ;
The troth is that, in securing any aid to j
her development, the Sonth mast be
prepared to confront Democratic as well
•a Republican opposition. On the point
of building up their own section at the
expense of others, there is among many
Northern politicians of all parties a j
hearty agreement. At that common!
point they meet cordially, although dif- !
fering upon what we may now call ab
stractions and dead issues. In proof of t
this, we find Democratic papers too
straight-lacod to say a good word of the
Rjpubliean President making fierce war
upon the Texas Pacific scheme, and Re
publican papers echoing them to the ’
letter. On the other hand, we find ’
stanneh Democratic papers in the North I
friendly to a liberal policy toward
Southern development, and Republican
papers powerfully endorsing them.—
Among the latter, the Philadelphia
yorth American says :
If a liberal policy in the appropriations re
ferred to will now render the Sonth so proepe
rons as to be largely productive of revenue to
the National. State and local governments, it
can not be too soon adopted. Bat the river
and harbor appropriation bill, framed at the
last Congress with that view, wasted the op
portunity on a Tanety of small and obscure
places in the Sonth. where no return would
ever have been made for the expenditures.
All experience has proven that, where water
lines and railways compete fora limited traffic,
the railways eventually triumph, through at a
heavy cost, and hence it is a question whether
the improvement of interior rivers in the
Sonth may not have a direct tendency to in
jure the business of the railways of that sec
tion. which are in no condition to contend suc
cessfully against such competition, and must,
therefore, beeonw financially embarrassed and
nuprofitable. Improvements of Southern har
bors and their approaches am proper, and
shonld meet with prompt attention and liberal
appropriations: and so, also, should the im
provement of main lines of internal naviga
tion, within reasonable limits. The prosperi
ty of the new industries established at the
South since the war will undoubtedly be aided
ky the conttruciion of tte public works re
ferred to. But the South must stand prepared
to meet the inveterate and untiring hostility
of New York jnfln6nce to ail such movements
and policy, based mainly on the great charter
ed monopolies of which her capitalists now
have the control, aDd whose eelfli-li and grasp
ing rapacity has been successfully defended by
the Democratic party.
We call attention to the eonelnding
sentence, not wholly to endorse it, but
to act as a note of warning. We dare
say there is much troth in it. Many of
our shrewdest meu are now satisfied
that the South has not been bettered by
New York politicians, especially in
Preeidential elections. We do not de
sire to be victimized by the same par
ties in industrial development. The
Sonth is in a position to demand her
rights from the Government, irrespec
tive of party. We have no doubt of her
success if her own sons remain trne to
her, and aro not beguiled by men who
have too long kept us out in the cold, to
our own vast detriment and their tre
mendous profit.
THE INDIAN FAMINE.
The New York papers publish this ex
tract from a private letter received from
Madras:
* * The famine is awful. I'eople are dy
ing by millions. In five years before the fam
ine about 2,060,1:00 people died in Madras
Presidency. In tix months since the famine
5,500,000 have succumbed. Itice is three meas
ures a rupee (50 cents), and it takes three
quarters of a measure to feed cne person one
day. Fancy what people on six or seven
rupees a month (good average wages) do ! I
always see people who have tumbled down ex
hausted and died, as I go to office. People
are killing their children, trying to sell them,
and in some cisos have been found eating
them. I am not exaggerating one bit. It’s
horrible. The pariah dogs alone seem to fat
ten, and they are gorged on dead bodies. * *
This is a dreadful revelation, and ap
peals touchingly to the generosity of
mankind the world over. Bnt there is
a companion picture, giving the origin
and cause of these Indian famines,which
is, if anything, more revolting still.
The Irish World, which has a death
less hatred of Eugland, but is edited
with consummate talent, takes issue
with Mr. Evarts’ complimentary notice
of Empress Victoria, and seeks to show
that the term “gracious,” in the sense of
merciful, cannot truly be applied to her.
In language, which fairly burns with in
dignation, the editor recalls the facts
that since 1837 tho Qaeen’s snbjects
rose in five rebellions, that the Chinese
were forced to accept death or opium—
which is worse than death—and that,
within the period indicated, “more of
her subjects have died of famine, more
have transported themselves over the
seas to seek a living in foreign lands,
than the history of any other reign in
any age or country presents ! In one
year upwards of a million human be
ings—about a fourth of the total popu
lation of Ireland at the present day—
were swept away. The pieroing wail
ascended from the depths of distress.
Victoria’s ears heard that wail ; but the
dying moans of skeleton-worn babes
and the ’agonies of hunger-pinched
mothers failed to soften Victoria’s
heart or to open her closed-up fist to
the out-stretched hand of pity.”
Out of 24,000,000 of human beings in
Southern India, the famine belt, it is
computed that more than one-sixth will
die of starvation ! It is said that until
the British conquered and made a lodg
ment in India there were no famines of
any consequence. We read, too, that
they systematically destroyed the im
mense reservoirs that were relied upon
to modify the terrors of a dry season.
We see it stated, too, that thousands of
Hindoos are perishing in full sight of
rice fields, of ships loaded witli cereals
bound for England, aud that, as Hyder
Ali bitterly declared, tho meu who came
under pretense of being merchants have
turned out pirates. It is not forgotten
how many millions were wrung from the
natives to make the Prince of Wales’
tour a triumphant pageant, surpassing
the pageants of old Rome given to her
retnrued heroes. Nor is it a thing of
oblivion how costly were the ceremonies
consequent upon the proclamation of
Victoria as Empress of “Ormus and of
Ind.” The sharp point, too, driven
home by the enemies of Eugland, is that,
with an accumulated private fortune of
8200,000,000, the Queen sends to India
nothing but her expensive heir and her
cheap “sympathy,” while, even in the
midst of starvation, 8300,000 are annual
ly wrung as a personal tribute from that
unhappy people.
We have condensed the gravest
charges made by the foes of England
and her policy, not to endorse them, but
to see if thero be not some conclusive
deuial of their truth. We are of those
who prefer to regard the Queen as Mr.
Tennyson depicts her in his beautiful
songs. We would rather think of her as
the noble woman, tho wise sovereign,
the devoted wife and mother, a true
model of feminine royalty and woman
hood, her throne supported by the love
of her people as her realm is defended
by the inviolate sea. But there is no harm
done in giving the other side, especially
if that other side be fallacious. Our own
opinion is that the Queen is blamed for
what her Government is guilty of and
that, if the allegations alluded to above
are founded in fact, upon the Govern
ment aud not upon her Majesty should
the great axe fall.
.■MISSIONARY IIROUND.
-The Sparta Times and Planter sug
gests that Hon. Geo. F. Pierce, Jr, of :
Hancook, and Hon. Miles W. Lewis, ;
of Greene, and others of the friends of \
Milledgeville, shonld stump North l
Georgia on the capital question. The
idea is a good one and we hope will be
acted upon. We do not subscribe to the
belief that North Georgia will vote
solidly for Atlanta; on the contrary we
thiuk that many of the mountain men
are in favor of a return to the former
seat of government and that this feel
ing will manifest itself at the polls next j
December. It will not do to abandon j
North Georgia to the enemy. Hon. j
Warren Aiken has made a speech in
Walker eonnty in favor of Milledgeville
and it is said will speak elsewhere be
fore the campaign closes. If other
speakers should take the field much j
good can be done. When the people
of North Georgia fully understand the ,
question they will not allow their votes
to be influenced by mere sectional feel
ing. With proper exertions MiUedge
ville will be able to divide the strength of
Atlanta in that portion of the State.
There is good missionary ground in the
mountains and it shonld not be neglect
ed. It is good policy to carry the war
into Africa.
The Inter-Ocean eannot help observ
ing how much “agricultural hoss-trot"
there is at county fairs this Fall. Near
ly every telegraphic report starts out
with enumerating the people present,
j enlarges upon the weather, skips the
agricultural display, and ends with
glowing particulars of the horse racing,
j Such is agriculture. Just why the great
public should be interested in knowing
how much Tom Jones’ bay mare can
beat Bill brown mire is not ap
parent, but it is always in the report.
“The Rebel yell”— “Hurrah for
Hayes i ” *
The Radical yell— “Hurrah for Grant
and Con klin a! ”
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1577.
PERTINENT QUESTION*.
We published in the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist yesterday morning a
communication on the eapital question
which contained some searching ques
tions concerning Atlanta’s proposition.
We find the following equally pointed
interrogations in theLaGrange Reporter,
a journal which favors Atlanta as the
seat of government:
When does Atlanta propose to build the Cap
itol ?
Who is to jndge whether the Capitol erected
comes np to Atlanta's agreement ?
Is it true that any of the citizens of Atlanta
can enjoin the Mayor and Cenncil, and thus
prevent the fulfillment of the ooutract ?
To which we might add: How can the
State compel Atlanta to oomply with her
offer if she does as she did a few years
ago—fails to observe her obligation?
The solemn act of filing the offer in the
Executive Department amounts to noth
ing. Even if the matter could be gotten
into the Conrt3 the proposition would
be held void for want of certainty. The
offer seems to us simply a device to en
trap unwary voters and is not worth the
paper upon which it is written.
STEPHEN* AND RANDAI.I..
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is represented
as having expressed the opinion that Sam
Randall will be elected Speaker, and his own
determination to vote for him. He doesn't
know three Southern members who will not
vote for him. It is assumed, if this be so,
that the Southern impression as to Mr. Ran
dall’s views is the correct one, or else that
Mr. Stephens knows nothing about the mat
ter. The latter is most likely the case, as Mr.
Stephens has been for a long time in delicate
health, and it is possible he may have been
forbidden the papers, or tho discussion with
his friends of anything so oxcitiug as politics.
—New Orleans Democrat.
It is not at all likely that Mr. Ste
phens “knows nothing about the mat
ter,” as the Democrat will discover
when Congress assembles, Mr. Ran
dall will be elected Speaker and in the
Demooratic caucus he will receive the
vote of nearly every Southern member.
Mr. Stephens is one of the best posted
men in the country and his opinions of
pnblic affairs are usually very accurate
because his information is so extensive.
During the past six months his health
has been unusually good, but even when
sick ho is never too ill to be ignorant of
what is going on. He takes and reads
papers from all sections of the country
and his correspondence is almost as
voluminous as that of a Cabinet Minis
ter. He is perfectly familiar with all the
workings of the race for the Speaker
ship and he is acquainted with the views
of Southern members on the subjeot.
He is supporting Mr. Randall withont
reference to his position on the South
ern Pacifio question, and the other
Southern Congressmen are doing the
same thing.
GENERAL 51. C. SUTLER.
It will not be long before South Caro
lina is again represented in the House
and Senate by the best and ablest meu
in the State. General Butler, who was
elected by the legally organized Legis
lature, will in all probability bo admit
ted to take his seat as Senator. The
fraud, who claims a seat by reason of
his election by a body that never had
any legal existence and that fell to the
ground as soon as the military prop was
removed,cannot be admitted. Should the
legality of General Butler’s election be
called into question by reason of inform
ality or illegality in the organization of
the present Legislature, that question
can be easily met. Tho Legislature that
elected General Butler exercises all the
functions and powers that belong to the
law making department of tho govern
ment. There is no longer any question
as to the rightful government. There is
bat one in the State, and that is recog
nized by the Executive, Legislative
and Judicial Departments of the Feder
al Government. General Butler is en
titled to his seat as the Senator elect
from South Carolina. Should the Sen
ate refuse to admit him it must declare a
vacancy, because it cannot admit Cor
bin. In the event of a vacancy being de
clared Gen. Butler will be re-elected by
the Legislature without opposition. He
deserves well of the State. His services
deserve to bo rewarded. In the Senate
he would make for himself a record of
which all South Carolinians would feel
proud. Gen. Butler is a man of abili
ty. He will render his State as faithful
service in the Senate as our own gallant
Gordon. He is not an impracticable
extremist, but a man of liberal, conser
vative and praotioal views. He will be
true to his State aud his section, but, at
the same time, he will be just and
generous, and comprehensive in all his
views. Republican Senators will find
Gen. Butler to be as patriotic as Gov.
Hampton. Although the Senate is very
close and the Republican party is ap
prehensive of the Democrats obtaining
control, we have strong hopes that a
sufficent number of right-thinking Re
publican Senators will voto with the
Democrats to seat Gen. Butlhb.
MISSOURI’S NEW SENATOR.
The appointment of Col. David H.
Armstrong to serve out Senator Bogy’s
unexpired term is thought to be emi
nently wise. Col. Armstrong is an old
fashioned Democrat, and a man of affairs
rather than anything else. We learn
from the Missouri press that he was
Chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee dnring the whole time when
proscription and ostracism were rife in
that State, and when the Radicals held
high carnival through their measures
disfranchising many thousands of peo
ple. This position he held when Phelps
made his first canvass for Governor, and
when Blair took his life upon his sleeve
and went out to battle with the prosorip
tionists. More important still, he was
Chairman of the State Committee when
the passive policy was adopted, which
gave Missouri back to the Demooraoy
and paved the way for the return of
peace and prosperity to the State, Cel.
Armstrong earnestly co-operating with
the originators of that policy. He has,
indeed, been long and intimately iden
tified with the organisation of the Dem
ocratic party of that State, and of the
Union. Twenty years ago he held the
i position of postmaster under Buchanan.
He preceded the present member from
■ Missouri in the National Democratic
Executive Committee. Jn former years
he was almost invariably a member of
the Democratic State Conventions, and
as sneh had much to do with shap
ing the nominations and platforms of
his party. He was one of the thirteen
Freeholders who framed the present city
charter of St. Louis, and now holds the
place of acting President of the Board
of Police Commissioners.
He is not a brilliant speaker, bnt a
solid man, devoted to the interests of
his country rather than wedded to bis
own vain ambition. He will work intel
ligently and vote right. As the Sonth
“means business” in future, we think
Col. Armstrong will make a valuable
Senator.
Mb. Henry Wattkbson haa written a
solemn sert of letter to the Indiana edi
tors. He deplores the “general want of
truthfulness and responsibility of the
press,” its “senseless jabber of spurious
wit,” its “coarse and reckless personal
ism,” and its “narrowßpSf." With a
copy of the C-J. before him, Hrnbi
knows how it is himself.
HAVEN AND THE SOUTH.
More About the Presidential “ Bargain
What thif Sontheru Democrats Did—What
They Contemplate Doing—Hampton and
Hayea—What Will Happen in 1880.
I Correspondence Cincinnati Enquv er.]
In order to get the control of their
States in their own hands,old Whigs and
other life-long enemies of the Demo
cratic party worked and struggled for
its success with an energy born of a for
lorn hope. Year -byyear they saw the
boon they craved grow nearer’and near
er, and when Samnel J. Tilden was
elected President their joy knew no
bounds. But the contest was close, aud
the men who had fought secession to its
grave were not going to give up their
oontrol of the ship of State while there
was a hook or crook, fair or foul, by
which they could retain it. Before their
determined attitude Tilden and the
craven Hewitt quailed. The bull-dog
Grant, who had never flickered in the
hour of need, stood ready to defend,
with the whole power of the United
States, any political rascality that Zaeli
Chandler might find necessary to invoke
to keep the Republican party in power;
and the South saw that if it trusted to
its standard-bearers in this, its hour of
sorest need, it would lean on broken
reeds. But, in this emergency, the old
time canning of Southern diplomacy did
not fail it, and it snatched a glorious
victory from the very jaws of defeat.
The Republican candidate was a man
who had, in his letter of acceptance of
the nomination, given utterance to sen
timents which, at the time, the South
approved, but the honesty of which they
doubted. Seeing that, through the pu
silanimity of Northern Democrats,
there was small hope of Tilden’s inau
guration, they, through their tools, be
gan to drop insinuations that led
Hayes’ particular friends to infer that in
the event of certain favors being granted
their section the South would raise no
objection to his installation into power.
The bait took, and negotiations were at
once commenced. On the fifth of last
Deoember, in a dispatsh to the Enquirer
from Columbus, 0., I gave to the world
the terms of that compact, and though
at the time the truths of the statements
therein contained were denied, the light
of subsequent events has shown that
they were as trne as Holy Writ. Hayes
was peaceably inaugurated, and in return
for the non-opposition of Southern meu
the oontrol of Louisiana and South Car
olina was taken from the carpet-baggers
who had infested them, and ground
them to the earth and turned them over
to the people of States to whom it
rightfully belonged. With a solid
South behind them Wade Hampton and
Lamar, and Gordon and Hill, are no
longer content to play second fiddles in
the Democratic band, and at the next
National Democratic Convention they
will name the President and shape the
platform to suit their ideas, or if this
privilege is denied them the scene at
Baltimore in 1860 will be re-enaoted
with this difference, that instead of
nominating a candidate of their own,
they will go over bodily to the support
of Hayes for a second term. I know
that this may sound queer to some peo
ple who are foolish enough to put faith
in Rutherford’s “one term” announce
ments, but such people should remem
ber how, in Papa Taft's case, he vowed
he would never accept the nomination,
and yet he did accept it; and if any one
imagines that if he was called to accept
a nomination tendered him by the Re
publican party and the South he would
not believe vox populi to be vox Dei,
they little know the man or the fascina
tions of power,
I had a long talk with Wade Hamp
ton in the ears the other day about the
significance of Hayes’ visit to the South
at this time, and though he professed to
believe that just now it had no great
bearing on the politics of the country
one way or another, yet reading what he
said between the lines led me to differ
with him, or at least to believe that it
would have a significance in the not dis
tant future. There is no man in tho
South who has such a hold on the popu
lar heart at present as South Carolina’s
gallant Governor, and anything that he
says about politics has an importance
that does not attach to the expressions
of Jess powerful leaders. He informed
mo that the South was not pleased last
Winter at the manner and spirit in
which the title of the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency was defended
by the Northern wing of the party, yet
it felt that its duty was confined to ac
quiescing in the course pursued, or at
least to not assuming leadership or man
agement itself. Hereafter it will not
permit itself to be kept back by any such
deference or modesly and though it
may be too early in 1880 for the South
to furnish a Presidential candidate, yet
it will demand that the man chosen and
the platform lie stands on shall bo in
consonance with its ideas of true Demo
cracy. Rest assured there will be trou
ble. Hayes, who is a much shrewder
man than he has got credit for being, is
paving the way for the foundation
of anew party which he hopes will be
evolved from the new order of thiDga,
by the trip to the South, which is to be
supplemented by another to Richmond,
Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans
later in the year. Whatever may be the
immediate result there is one thing sure,
and that is he is making friends wher
ever he goes, and these may stand him
in good stead in the time to come should
affairs assume the shape I indicated
above in the time to come.
UONKLING’M CANE.
What a Republican Organ Thinks—Tlie
Party .Smashed.
New York, September 28. Tho Eve
ning Post of to-day calls upon the Re
publicans of the State of New York to
see to it that the men who controlled
the Roohester Convention shall control
no more Conventions in the State, and
intimates that the programme for the
State Convention had been prepared
with a deliberate intention to sacrifice
the State tieket to the Legislative ticket,
so that by the election of State Senators
friendly to Mr, Conkling, his return to
the United States Senate would be made
sure. It accuses Platt and Conkling of
betraying and misrepresenting the Re
publican party, and says the course Re
publicans should take is hard to decide,
unless they cau find a way to elect the
Roohester ticket, and at the same time
declare positively against the Rochester
leaders and the Rochester platform.
The President Accepts the Gage of Battle
Thi’f .rp Down by Csnkling, and Henceforth
It Will |>e War to the Death.
Washington, September 27.—The
Administration construes Conjriing’s
management of the New Ifork Conven
tion man open declaration of war. It
was an issue it did not seek, would
rather have avoided, and which, in fact,
it endeavored to avoid, even at the ex
pense of just criticism heaped upon it.
A. B. Cornell was a very convenient Mo
hammed to keep in the balance to test
the temper of Senator Conkling, and at
the same time be of utility to Secretary
Evarts, who has charge of New York af
fairs from an Administration stand-point.
Had Conkling refrained from his impet
uosity, and allowed Curtis’ resolution of
endorsement to have passed, there would
have been fonnd a convehient way to
have overlooked Cornell’s recalcitrancy.
Now the issue is joined, and not only
Cornell, but all of the prominent Conk
ling office-holders in the State will be
gradnally suspended; Friends of Presi
dent Hayes say that while he had reason
to believe that Conkling was not in ac
cord with the general principles under
lying his Administration of the Presi
dential office, he did not apprehend that
the Convention wonld so qtterly ignore
giving some decided expression to Na
tional affairs. The platform is so buried
in platitudes and generalities that por
tions of it are calculated to blunt even
an analytical comprehension; but the
most obtuse can not fail to discern a
vein of cold rebuke to the President
running through portions of it, and that
portion which quotes from his letter of
acceptance is regarded here as an en
dorsement of a good intention in writ
ing, bat a denouncement of its practice.
The speech of Conkling is generally
commented upon here. It is construed
as serving notice in advance of the in
tention of the ]sew Senator to op
pose the Southern policy, as well as that
of civil service reform. It is believed,
too, *hat under Oonkling’a lead the op
position to Hayes oan find a more con
venient rallying point than under any
other leader. His course will undoubt-
Ip have the effect of bringing to the sur
face those who secretly oppose Hayes,
but up to this time have kept aloof from
making it pnblic, waiting for some Go
liath to lead. Conkling will be the Go
liath under whose broad mantle the pig
mies will find oover. He has gone too
Ifar for compromise, and Evarts, Lis arch
enemy, will see to ft that reconciliation
will not be offered until asked for.—
Conkling is hardly the Apollo to appear
as a suppliant, so it will be war to the
knife.
BEER STATISTICS.
How .Much Beer Comes Cos Augusta in Six
Months.
We are indebted to the very obliging
authorities of the Georgia Railroad for
some interesting statistics of the beer
business in Augusta. For the six
months of 1876, commencing April Ist,
and ending September 30tb, the Geor
gia Railroad brought to Augusta 2,341
kegs of lager beer. For the correspond
ing six months of this year the road has
brought to this city 7,724 kegs, an in
crease of 5,383 kegs. That is to say
more than three times as much beer has
been brought here during the past six
months than during the corresponding
six months of last year. A little fig
uring on this subject will give some in
teresting results. The imports fer
twelve months on this busis would reach
15,448 kegs. A keg will give on an
average at least one hundred and thirty
glasses (so we learn). Therefore, in
15,448 kegs there wonld be 2,008,240
glasses. At ten cents per glass, the re
tail price, this beer would sell for
8200,000. The population of. Augusta
proper is 25,000 people, and there
would be eighty glasses of beer per an
num for every mau, woman and child in
the city, or between a fourth and a fifth
of a glass per diem. But women and
children can not properly be classed
among the beer drinkers, thongh some
of them drink a little of Teutonic cham
pagne, a great many men do not drink
nt all, and many of those who do drink
do not like beer. Ten per cent, of the
population, or 2,500, will probably cover
the beer drinkers. This calculation
would give them 800 glasses per annum,
or a little more than two glasses each
per diem. Of course there are many
beer drinkers who do not take more
than one glass every three or four days,
while there are others who will average
eight or ten glasses per diem. These
statistics do not include the large quan
tities of bottled beer brought in cases
and barrels from the North and West,
the draught beer wliioh comes from
Philadelphia or New York, or the beer
which comes over any of the other rail
roads. They simply cover the draught
beer wliioh comes over the Georgia Rail
road. We can not see much cause for
alarm at the imports of beer. It is evi
dence of a decrease in the sale of a much
more harmful drink—whisky. Beer is
infinitely preferable to whisky, gin, etc.,
and taken in moderate quantities is even
beneficial to many constitutions. It is
argued by many that beer is a temper
ance agent, as it diminishes drunken
ness wherever it is in general use.
A DEATH IN COURT.
•Indite Barnard 11111 Dies Upon the Bench—A
Sudden Suininomi to the Grave—lmpreMsive
Scene in the Court Room.
f Atlanta Constitution . ]
About six o’clock on Thursday even
ing, while the Suverior Court was in
session at Knoxville, the county seat of
Crawford county, Judge Barnard Hill,
the presiding Judge, died upon the
bench in a sudden and unexpected man
ner. The facts appear to be as follows:
A criminal trial, in which two negroes
were charged with larceny, had just
been concluded, and the jury returned
a verdict of “guilty.” They neglected
to state the valuo of the goods stolen,
and Judge Hill remarked to them that
they had best retire and supply this por
tion of the verdict. They returned to
the room and a lull in the proceedings
occurred. ALw moments after one of
the attorneys looked up and discovered
that Judge Hill’s head was thrown back
upon his oliair, a deathly palor over
spreading his countenance. Friends
rushed to him, but with an easy gasp
his spirit passed away, and he sat dead
upon the bench in the midst of the
discharge of his high official duty. The
scene was one to awe and impress every
heart, and there was a deep feeling of
sorrow in every breast. The cause of
death was probably heart disease, and
not apoplexy, as was reported. The
symptoms lead to tlieformerconclusion,
and eye witnesses of the awful affair
agree in this belief.
AN OHIO TRAGEDY.
A lliiftbsind and Wife Pound Bead in Kapil
Otlier’M Arm*.
Pittsburg. September 26. —A tragedy
enacted at Zanesville, Ohio, yesterday,
creates intense excitement in that place,
the death of mau and wife, one murder
ed by the other, and the suicide of the
murderer or murderess, being the
groundwork of the tragedy. The partic
ulars are as follows : Abner James was
an undertaker in Zanesville, his office
being on Ninth street. He and his wife
did not live happily together, although
they had been married but fourteen
months. Recently business troubles
have added to the unhappiness of the
couple, and a separation was looked for.
Yesterday their disagreement reached a
climax, and Mrs. James left home, vow
ing she would never live with James
again. She started for the residence of
her mother, Mrs. Laoock, a widow,
about eight miles from tho city, and
was followed by her husband. They
left the city together in the same train
on the C. and M. Y. Railroad. They
got off at Delcarbe and started to walk
together to Mrs. Lacock’s. When last
seen alive they were walking together
and apparently in an excited condition.
They were walking up the lane leading
from the public road toward the house,
but they never reached there. This
morning about eight o’clock thp bodies
of both were found lying in a fence cor
ner, about three hundred yards from
the house. The husband had a hufiet
hole in his breast, and the yfiie one in
the temple apd another in tfie region of
the heart. They were tightly locked in
each other's arms, and in the left hand
of the wife, held as in a vise, was a re
volver, with whioh it is supposed the
dreadful deed was done. How they
came to their death is, in a measure, a
mystery, as no one saw the fearful
tragedy enacted. The supposition is,
however, that the wife first shot the
husband, and then put the two bullets
into her own body before death came.
There was no indication of any struggle,
and it is supposed that it was a plan
mutually agreed upon to put a final
quietus upon all their earthly sorrows.
TOO.tIBN IN BALTIMORE.
Hayes’ Southern Policy—(General Toombs’
Views on fhe Subject.
|[Baltimore Sun.]
Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is
in Baltimore, at Barnum’s, haying come
here to consult sr. Cbi3oljg in reference
to his eye. Mr. Toombs is now consid
erably advanced in years, though re
taining all the vigor and bearing of ear
lier manhood. He was subject to great
strain during the Georgia Constitutional
Convention, which adjourned the last of
August, after a session of two months.
Mr. Toombs was the author of nearly all
the prominent features of the new Con
stitution, which is to be submitted for
ratification in that State.
In conversation Mr/ Toombs said he
was surprised to see that Roscoe Conk
ling’s right hand had forgot itscuuning.
It was a happy mistake for the South,
however, as Mr. Hayea would in conse
quence be emboldened in the pursuit of
his Southern policy. This is the oppor
tunity for the South, and he might add
that the “lost cause is won.” He did
not support Tilden, but had Tilden been
President instead of Hayes the Southern
policy would bring opt an organized op
position that would defer it's practical
workings for years. A constant reader
of the Baltimore Sun for the last thirty
years, Mr. Toombs said he was glad to
find that the wisdom and sagacity which
had always characterized its conrse to
wards the South was now judiciously
given to the support of the South
ern policy of Mr. Haye§, There
can be but Op oj two results
from this policy. If Hayes deceives
the South he will split his own party,
and if he succeeds in establishing his
Southern policy he will merely he the
providential °f Carrying
out Democratic principles. Mr. Hayes,
after leaving the North, must have been
astonished to find an absence o.f office
seekers ifi the Squth, is Georgia yon
could not find a Southern man who
would give his time to Federal office.
They are perfectly willing to leave the
offices to those who may be found to fill
them.
Mr. Toombs said he had declined an
invitation to speak in Baltimore princi
pally on account of his ultra concep
tions of the principles of Democracy,
but that he wonld urge Mr. Alexander
H. Stephens, now here, who is a mode
rator in views, to accept an invitation to
address the people of Baltimore. Mr.
Toombs leaves for New York on busi
ness, and on his return next week may
stop over at Washington to see the
President and some Southern Represen
tatives. He says the President should
be warned against a olass of persons
who, on representation, might seek to
secure Southern patronage.
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, of Georgia,
who arrived in Baltimore a day or two
ago, is on a visit for a few days to Cos).
R. M. Johnson, his friend and biogra
pher, at Pen Lucy, iu Baltimore county.
Mr. Stephens is much improved in
health, and travels with very little in
convenience. Ho will take his seat in
the Honse of Representatives at the as
sembling of Congress on the 15th of
October.
NORTH GEORGIA AND THE CONSTITU
TION.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Rome, September 26.—1 send >ou a
post office order for $2, please place it
to my credit for your weekly—twelve
months—and send a receipt. I was much
gratified to-day from reading the com
munication of the Hon. Joseph Ganahl
in ycur valuable paper. I say amen to
the many truths ho has set forth expos
ing tbs errorsof the new Constitution pre
sented for our ratification or rejection,
and hope he will continue to write un
til all the corruption it contains will be
exposed fully. I belong to the olass of
railroad stockholders who are (if I un
derstand the abominable thing)joursed
by it, and to be manipulated by* future
legislators still more until the interest
of this elass will be ruined. One that
has done more to build up the State
than any other class liviDg.
The homesteads presented to choose
between are both looked npon as great
evils by multitudes, aud we don’t want
any—therefore the vote will be No home
stead. We will not vote for that which
will demoralize the country. We don’t
want our children aud friends tempted
to take shelter under such a banner. It
is contrary to the teachings of the Bible
and moral philosophy. A majority in this
section, I suppose, will vote No ratifica
tion. F. W. Cheney.
CAPITA!* QUESTIONS,
Or Nul for Atlanta to Crack*
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I am a plain, blunt-spoken, unsophis
ticated granger, and am a little puzzled
by one of two things in what is called
“Atlanta’s offer.” Allow me to inquire:
1. When do the Mayor and Council of At
lanta propose to locate and build the
Capitol buildings which they offer in
the name of the city of Atlanta. ? I have
read the “offer” over and over again,
and can find nothing in it as to the time
when the Mayor and Conncil. propose to
fulfill their promise. The “offer,” in
this respect, seems to me to be more
vagne than Fox’s note payable “three
days after convenience,” or a Confeder
ate note, payable two years “after the
ratification of a treaty of peace between
the Confederate States and the United
States of America.”
2. What is meant by n Capitol build
ing “as good as the old Capitol build
ing at Milledgeville ?” Who is to judge
how good the old Capitol is, or how
good the new Capitol may be, or how
nearly the goodness of the one shall
have been duplicated in the other ? I
do not think it would be quite fair that
Atlanta should be the judge. She does
not see much goodness in the “halls
that our fathers built.” If her estimate
that it wonld cost more to put them in
repair than the original cost of their
construction, be oorreot, she does not
intend to build muoh of a Capitol build
ing, when she puts up one which will bo
as good, in her opinion, as that at Mil
ledgeville.
The “offer” may be as straight as a
coon’s leg, but it is defective in some
material points. Some of my neighbors
(but they may be influenced by “senti
ment, prejudice, or self interest”) say
there is a mouse in the meal tub—that
the “offer” is a humbug. Now, mind
you, Messrs. Editors, I do not say that,
whatever I may think. But before I
vote to accept an offer I want to know
exactly all about it. I know that the
“offer” was “deposited aud placed on file
in the Executive Department,” and that,
of course, gives it some mysterious sanc
tity incomprehensible by the ordinary
intelligence; but tins does not say when,
between now and Saint Tib’s Eve, which
comes neither before nor after Christ
mas, Atlanta will build the Capitol, or
how it is to be ascertained that the new
will be “as good aB the old Capitol
building at Milledgeville.” Granger.
JOHNSON FQR Tf}E sppRKME COURT.
The Choice of* North Carolina.
[Charlotte Observer.]
The Republican having announced
this as its position upon this question,
proceeds then to urge warmly the claims
of Hon. Hersohel V. Johnson for the
appointment, and it was never engaged
in a better work. He is a gentleman of
distinguished ability, rich in legal
learning and of unblemished personal
charaoter. He would beau ornament to
the bench, and the Administration
would do itself honor by conferring the
appointment upon him.
A Purer Mun Could Not Be Appointed.
\Atlanta Constitution.]
The President certainly could not put
a purer mau or an abler constitntional
lawyer on the bench than Judge John
son; nor could he do a more graceful
and appropriate aot. It wonld be pleas
ing to the Sonth, and would meet the
expectations of all fair-minded men in
the North; it wonld acoord with the
President’a patriotic utterances, and
wonld go far towards robbing the high
est Court qf the country of its present
partisan aqd sectional charaoter,
Stenhen* Thanked far VYhnt 0* I|n Dune.
| Mac<m Te\eqrapK\
We risk nothing in thankiDg Hon. A.
H. Stephens for his zealous presentation
of ex-Governor Herschel V. Johnson for
nomination to the vacancy on the Su
preme Brench of the United States. The
proposition met with no response or en
couragement, nor is it presumable that
the nomination will be made. But it
ought to be made, or to state the oase
exactly, that or a similar nomination
from a Southern State should certainly be
made. Not one of the eleven Southern
States has now a representative on the
Supreme Benoh. This entire section is
practically proscribed. ‘J’h'at tribunal
now stands frofii tne North and West
nine Justices—from the South, not one.
The Southern States, which, in the
earlier and purer days Hepublio,
so brilliantly
prudence qri that bench, are now practi
cally tabooed, and, it is to be feared,
will remain so for a long time. The
position js top honorable ana desirable
to be spared to a feeble minority seotion,
and thongh we hear mnoh talk about
sectional fraternity, its manifestations
will be of a nature to coat the dominant
sections no such sclf-sacrifice. We do
not undervalue the restoration of sep
tional good will, and will door noth
ing to embarrass or hinder it; 1 bur, as a
matter of fact, (lie' North has as deep
and selfish interest in the process, as the
Sonth, except where it may involve a
restoration to the Southern states of a
just representative sbaw in the publio
administration j’ and this will involve a
surrender of a sectional monopoly. But
without a single Southern representative
voice on the Supreme Breech, it cannot
be a truly national and
tribunal; and
reppegentiy,e, the State of Georgia and
ex'Governor Herschel Y- Johnson pre
sent claims of rqoro than ordinary
strength Whether they shall be recog
nm*d or not, we are glad that Mr.
Stephens took an early occasion to pre
sent them.
Hill to the PrenMe^i
fiV. Y*Tribu e.J
Hon. Joshna Hill eould not come to
meet the President in Georgia, bnt he
sent him this telegraph message : “Ac
cept my cordial greeting and best wishes
for your health and the sneoess of yonr
administration. You understand yonr
and tfiev begin to under
stand JW, Tha night of distrust dis
appears, and the dawn of confidence ap
proaches. I salute you as the herald of
good feeling and nniveraal brotherhood.”
Thomas Conners, known in New York
as the “Twelve O’clock Man,” died in
Brooklyn Sunday. Every day for twelve
years he has taken a position in front of
the Brooklyn Oity Hall, and waited for
the big bell to strike twelve, when he
wonld qnietly go away. It is said that
years ago he had an appointment to
meet a man who owed him a large sum
of money to meet him at twelve at the
Oity Hall, but the man failed to keep
the appointment.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
MAJOR JOSEPH B. CUMMING.
The Eighteenth Senatorial Dintriet.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
From present indications the new Cou
stitntion will be adopted by a large ma
jority of the electors of Georgia. This
appears to be a foregone conclusion.
How important, therefore, to send the
best and the ablest of our citizens to
represent us in the General Assembly.
The interests of our people demaud that
the counties of Jefferson, Glascock and
Richmond should be well represented in
the Senate. The Senator from this District
shonld be a mau of decided character
and ability. He should boa man who,
while protecting the interests confided
to his charge, wonld confer dignity upon
the offioe, and honor npon his constit
uency. The character of representation
in the Senate should be elevated, aud
this standard of elevation can only bo
attained by the election to the Senate of
gentlemen of intelligence, probitv and
sterling worth. The Senatorial ‘robes
would fall gracefully upon the shoul
ders of Major Joseph B. Gum
ming. No man iu our District could
wear them more becomingly ; no
man could discharge the dutios* of the
Senatorship with more ability and fidel
ity to the interests of his immediate
constituency. The dignity of the posi
tion would bo admirably sustained, and
the interests and honor of the S ate
would be safe in his keeping. Those
who know Maj. Camming (and who is
better or more favorably known in
this District?) know that he will
not enter into a scramble for
the Senatorship. Asa citizen, however,
the people have a right to call upon him
to serve the State. Ho has never shrunk
from the discharge of a pnblic duty.
His record iu peace aud in war is with
out spot or blemish. Tho people of
Richmond, of Jefferson aud of Glascock
need no assurauoe of his ability to serve
them. It is to be hoped, therefore, that
Major Cummiug will consent to servo
the people as Senator from this
District. Richmond is entitled to
the nomination, and Richmond pre
sents to the nominating convention
as her choice her gallant and honored
sou—Major Joseph B. Cumming.
Democrat.
THE TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.
Iln. Paul Hudson for Slate Senator.
McDuffie Cos., Ga., Sept. 25.
I notice in yonr issue of Sunday last
that, in addition to the large volume of
miscellaneous matter furnished yonr
readers, MoDuffie county politics re
ceived more thau a passing notice.
Well, it is about time tho people wero
casting about for public servants, and
no harm can be done if a hundred are
presented for suffrage. I have not
aught to say in opposition to tho views
of yaur correspondents in reference to
Col. Tntt’s fitness to represent the
Twenty-ninth Senatorial District in the
next General Assembly, nor of the
very favorable editorial mention
made of the honorable gentleman.
Neither will I undertake to settlo
the question between the counties of
Lincoln, Columbia and McDuffie as
to which is entitled to the honor of fur
nishing the representative. But, tuking
it for granted that the honor should be
awarded McDuffie, hundreds of her citi
zens wonld gladly cast their votes for
Hon. Paul C. Hudson. Ho possesses
talent, judgment and experience. His
brief political reoord shows him to be
the peer of those who rank high as
statesmen. His immediate constituents
are proud of him, and I believe the
other counties composing the District
would willingly accept him as their can
didate. X Roads.
THE SENATORSHIP.
Who Nliall Represent tli© Kiffhtcouth Sana
toria! Dlntrict.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
We read with great interest and pleas
ure the communication in your paper of
yesterday suggesting the Hon. Joseph
B. Gumming for Senator of the Eigh
teenth Senatorial Distriot. Averse as
we know him to be to the adoption of
the ordinary methods of the politician
to secure his promotion, wo rejoioe that
we are able to stato that should the
Democratic party of this District see fit
to make him their standard-bearer in
the coming election, ho will not decline
the honor. Yielding to the wishes of our
people thus expressed, he will serve
them with that zeal 3 devotion and abil
ity which won for him an enviable repu
tation in the times of our trial and dis
tress, in the suffering years of war,
which has marked his course during the
tedious years of restoration, and which,
in the new era in which we are about to
enter, will crown his efforts with endur
ing fame, The suggestion of his name,
we have no doubt, will be ratified bv the
nominating convention, and such a
nomination will receive the hearty
plaudits of The People.
PAULING PROM WHAKKSPEAUU ROCK.
A Beautiful Young Woman'll Pear Oil nml
Fatal Fall.
[Virginia City ChronicU.]
Last Sunday Miss Carrie A. Rice,
daughter of Philo W. Rice, of Glen
brook, Lake Tahoe, was precipitated
from Shakespeare rock and so badly in
jured that she died in about half an
hour.
She left her homo at Glenbrook in
company with two other young ladies
and three gentlemen. The party ram
bled to and ascended tho high rocky
point of land running out into tho lake,
on which is situated what ia known ns
Shakespeare rock, there being traceable
on its face lines that hear resemblance
to the portraits of the great poet.
The party made the ascent by the
usual trail, and for a time remained od
the summit of the rock, gazing upon the
scenery. Finally Miss Rice proposed to
her escort, William Oranmer, a young
man who is engineer at one of the mills
on the lake, that they make the
by a steep gorge leading to the
faoe of the rock.
All the othpjp members of the party
tried, bet n vain, to dissuade the couple
from attempting the descent. They
took their way down the steep rock and
presently reached a cave. Starting from
the cave they began slipping, and slid
down about fifteen feet to the edge of a
precipitous part of the rock. The young
man canght hold of a jutting point of
i the ledge, where he held fast, but was I
unable to retain hta grasp on the young
lady 4 suspended below him.
Just before falling she said; “We
must go, Will; there is no hope for us!”
She fell about eighty feet. Yeung Cran
mer managed to olimb back to the trail,
when he ran to the residence of the young
lady’s father, where he fell fainting at
the door.
At the foot of the rock she was found
still alive, but unconscious and and yiug.
She lay with her head between two
sharp fragments ql rock, blood ooziDg
from hey une and mouth, her limbs
broken, aud her body terribly bruised.
Miss Rice Was not yet eighteen years
i of age, and was a very beautiful, bright,
and sprightly girk
Pierc© Young.
[Philadelphia Press.]
Pierce M. B. Young, a recent Repre
sentative in Congress from Georgia, was
a Confederate General, and a graduate
of West Point. He went to Washington
soon after the war to have his disabili
ties removed. He is a fine, manly fel
low, ai>d seems to have accepted the re
sults of the war in good faith. He went
to .Thai (Stevens, and Thad. began to
play with him, as he sometimes did
with those men he intended to make his
victims. He said : “You are a gradu
ate of West Point, I believe ?” “Yes,
sir.” “Educated at the expense of the
United States, I believe, which yon
swore faithfully to forever defend ?”
“Yes, sir.” "You were a brigade com
mander in the raid into Pennsylvania
which destroyed the property of so many
of my constituents ?” “Yes, sir.” "It
was a sqnad of men under your direct
charge and your personal command that
burned my rolling mill ?” “Yes, sir.”
Young thought that he was gone, but
seeing that the old veteran had come
into the possession of the last fact,
which Young did not dream b® knew, it
was impossible to deny the trnth of his
question. Thad. roared out : “Well,
I like yonr and and impudence. I will
see that yonr disabilities are removed.
Good morning.” And the next day thp
bill passed the House.
“Store’i Not bins Like U.V
“The best we ever used.” “Find it
much cheaper than others.” “Can tes
tify to its superiority.” Extracts from
letters to the mannfacturers of Dooley’s
Yeast Powder.
the BUSINESS outlook.
Enronrogin* Reports Irom Every Section ot
111© Country.
W Y. Daily Bulletin. \
Reports from most of tho business
centres in the interior, os well as on the
seaboard, continue to advise us of sat
isfactory progress of the Fall trade,
with au activity in some quarters that
has certainly not been equalled at any
time since the panic. From journals re
ceived at the Bulletin office by Satur
day s mails, we condense as follows :
Boston Globe “The distribution of
leading kinds of general merchandise is
at least double what it was a month
ago.” The Bulletin, same city, with
reference to dry goods, says': “The
market continues to gain in activity
from week to week, and tho dry goods
section now presents quite an animated
appearance, even in comparison with
the ante-panic period. There lias been
a very heavy reti-il demand throughout
the West, and it is thought that jobbers
will be heavier purchasers during tho
next few weeks than at any previous
time this season.” Philadelphia North
American—" There is more confidence
evinced as to tho present and future
prospects of business than has been
shown for a long time, and should tho
present activity continue throughout,
the season it will do more to restore the
old-time feeling in this respect than
even a temporary advance in values.”
Chicago Inter-Ocean—" The position of
trade at tho wholesale houses is highly
satisfactory to merchants, buyer's
being nnmerons and mail orders
large. In many instances orders are
for the purpose of replacing certain de
scriptions of goods, bnt there a good
many full duplicates of bills previously
sold.” St. Louis Times— “ All hues of
merchandise were active and lively,
without any exception, while some sho\v
a large increase over the preceding week,
and much greater than heretofore in
past years.” Kansas City Times—' The
currents of trade in the jobbing lines
seem to increaso in volume, and possess,
a steady flow. Orders are coming in
freely from all points of the Northwest,
both near and remote. The inquiry for
agricultural implements has been re
markably good. The demand for gro
ceries is unabated, aud largo shipments
along Delawaro street arc a sure indies
tion of the currents of trade. St. Paul
(Minn.) Pioneer— “ Wholesale trade
throughout is booming, merchants be
ing as busy as bees, and their numerous
clerks and packers working also like
bees. Collections are very good from,
nearly every point except where the
grasshoppers did their cleanest work,
and everybody feels good.” At Min
neapolis, Minn., “a very active week is
reported in all lines. Jobbers Lave had
a large trade, both from city aud coun
try. Traveling men are sending in un
usually heavy orders. The dry goo jg
and notion trade is especially active, as
country merchants had allowed their
stocks to run very low during the past
two years, and now, with the large crop,
the demand is very active.” Tho
Milwaukee Wisconsin reports. “No
abatement in the activity iu business
noticed some days past,” Pittsburgh
Commercial —“ Business moderately ac
tive in most lines. A fair business in
flour, provisions, groceries, dry goods
aud general merchandise.” Cincinnati
Prices Current— “Autnm trade is ful
filling the anticipations of a steady i ap
provement in nearly all branches of the
merchandise markets. ” Miss.)
Herald— “ The general improvement in
all classes of business has. been very
considerably faster than in previous
years, aud is even now? equally as good,
if not better, than it was at a period
fully two weeks later last season, though
the crop at that time was nearly at its
height as far as our receipts were con
cerned. The merchandise markets, as
a general thing, are fairly active, with a
good legitimate demand for the current
wants of trade and for consumption. As
for some time past, orders are coming
in freely to the up town jobbers, and an
unusual number of merchants have been
in attendance making their selections.”'
San Francisco Commercial Herald—
“We remark a decided improvement in
the volume of trade. Business is cer
tainly looking up very materially. The
wholesale jobbings department may bp
said to be very active. The interior de
mand for general merchandise is large,
aud the Fall trade requirement promises
to be up to the full average. The high
prices that have long boon obtainable
for grain and other heme products are
eurichirg producers, and giving to them
a plentiful supply of ready money, while
many who thought they had lost their
all by short crops now find that high
prices for half a crop helps them out
wonderfully. Then, again, many sheep
and cattle owners, who expected to lose
by drouth the greater proportion of
their flocks and herds, now find them
selves better off than they feared, and
they, too, feel hopeful for the future.’'
The Eastern manufacturing interests in
some lines are beginning to send us
favorable reports for the first time in a
long while. We quote from the Boston
Journal of Commerce an instance or
two : “The Wilson Manufacturing Com
pany, in New Loudon, are to begin next
week running every day on f all time,
for the first time in two years, and have
orders enough to keep thorn busy most
of the Winter. The Brown Cotton-gin.
Company’s payroll is seven times larger
than last year at this time, and they
have promise of a large Fail business.
Other manufactories are also either re
joicing in the possession or anticipation
of increased orders.”
(STEPHENS IN BALTIMORE.
What ll© Think* of !lie “Stnlwar^?*.j lay©.*’
Policy—Too Soon for 1880—Tli© Policy
Cannot Fail.
Baltimore, .September 29.—Alexan
der H. Stephens, who was in Baltimore
e n route for New York, remarked
•I’, course of a conversation on political
subjects that be bad every confidence
in Mr. Hayes and his motives with re
gard to his Southern policy, and re
gretted that he could not meet the Pres
ident when iu Georgia. Mr. Stephens
was interrogated as to what in his opin
ion wonld be tho course pursued by dis
affected Republicans, including Messrs.
Blaine aud Conkling. He stated that
he never expected either Blaine or Conk
ling to give the President their cordial
support, and thought that, although
they wonld not openly assail him, they
would withhold their support and en
deavor to keep on the inner track of
party organization for future ue. The
subject of tho probable effect of the
President’s policy on the elections of
1880 was touched cn in the course of an
interview, but Mr. Stephens stated that
it was too soon to foretell any results.
“One thing, though, I can say,” ho
added, “it will extinguish all sectional
questions and feelings, and people will
divide on internal questions and policies
entirely.” In reply to* a question as to
whether the policy of the President in
failing would cause a split in his party,
| Mr. Stephens made the following reply :
“Mr. Hayes’ policy cannot fail. It is
the .policy of the Constitution of the
United States, and is based and planted
on the foundation and principles upon
which the great American Federal Re -
public stands, and on which alone this
grand matchless system of government
can be harmoniously and prosperously
administered. There will, doubtless, be
many disaffected Republicans who will
fail to sanction his policy, and who will
in all probability keep up an organiza
tion against it, but tho entire Democ
racy and a large majority of the Repub
licans of the country will sustain it.—
The people of the United States are de
voted to the institutions of their fathers,
and yearn for the restoration of that
good government under which the coun
try was so happy and prosperous for so
many years. ”
A Penitent Wile.
| Hartford Couraza. |
Seldom is such an instance of wifely
contrition recorded as happened in
Bridgeport the ocher day. Mrs. Sarah
Langdon was locked up at the police
station, at her own request, and finally
was placed in the dark eeli at her earnest
solicitation, oho was discharged tho
following day by the Judge, as there
was no charge against her. She ex
plained tbac she had been drinking on
Monday night, and was scolded a little
by her husband when she returned
home, whioh made her angry and caused
her to attempt to strike him. She then
felt so remorseful over her conduct that
she thought she ought to be punished,
and this was why she went to the police.
Mark Twain says solitary confine
ment furnishes the best condition for
labor. This is eonsoiing to an editor
who gets the raw end of the law in a
libel suit.