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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. - Several of the most prosperous Wall street speculators are Southern men. -- -*nn- 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. - - - Who would have thought that George William Curtis, editor of Harper 's Week ly, would have ever “let up” on the South ? — Col. Boh Inoersoi.l is proud of his knowledge of cooking, and wants a law passed making the frying of beefsteak a felony. •► 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.” - 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. —-• ► - 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. sax- '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. - 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.” mm*- 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. —- 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. <>••*- 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.