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MEW SERIES—VOL. U.
Cfynmftlr and Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 17, 1877.
Female suffrage was defeated in Colo
rado. ~
Ban Francisco steps forward with a
$50,000 forgery. Next!
Senator Woodin, with Twp.p.n’a money
in his pocket, has been renominated.
This is tlir- current Chicago report: “No
Savings Bank failed yesterday. It was
Sunday.”
The country is prepared to hear from the
Mrs. R. B. Hates’ Temperance Association
concerning mince pies at the White Ifonse.
The pious editor of the ITernUl goes to
Scripture for a moral of the Oilman crime:
“Let him who thiukuth he standelh take
heed lest he fall.”
Many of Senator Woodin’s Republican
friends remain of the opinion that he could
not have done anything wrong, because lie
sings in the church choir on Sundays.
Gen. Early prints a card explaining
that lie did not at any time attempt to pre
vent the proposed reception of President
llArEs, and that he did nothing to mar its
success.
The New York Time* is of opinion tiiat
only one obstruction remains to a revival of
trade, and that is the speculative greed
which discards the certainties of the pres
ent for the mere possibilities of the future.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand hu
man beings have died of starvation in Brit
ish India, and benevolent men and women
in London, having already redressed the
wrongs of horses and dogs, nre now devot
ing themselves to neglected cats.
Lieutenant-Governor Dobsheimer
says of Conki.ino : “He comes up to you
like a man, and he strikes you fair in the
face.” Well, from all accounts the Presi
dent is like “the slow fighter of Piute,” so
Mr. Conklino had better look out.
Tiie only objection Col. Armstrong has
to the Missouri Senatorship is the necessa
ry relinquishment of the Police Commis
sioner’s badge—a bauble which lie is sup
pused to rank with the planetary system.
The wild Sioux now on a visit to Wash
ington were taken, last Sunday, to the
Foundry Church. They followed the fash
ion. That is, like the lamented Greeley
at the Mormon Temple among the Twelve
Apostles—they went to sleep.
Portraits of Washington, Corwin,
Benton, Geo. 11. Thomas, Jefferson,
Andrew Johnson and Silas Wrioiit
now stamp beer barrels. No wonder Grant
visited Hrakspkark’S tomb, since
“Imperious Camar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”
Judge Mackey, of South Carolina, says
that the condition of the public roads mea
sures the civilization of a country. Bon
Inoersoli. says it is the condition of the
markets. We think it is rather the con
dition of morals, but it is hard to be
good when the markets are bad.
The Winchester (Ky.) Democrat finds
heavenly consolation thus: “ When the
Master of the Universe permitted Tii.den
to lie counted out, He knew wlmt He was
doing, although some Democrats thought
He hud made a mistake. His ways are not
our ways." Rather grim consolation for
Mr. Tii.den, though.
———
The New York Express draws a horse
sense moral of Gilman’s fall. It says:
“The line between legitimate business trans
actions and gambling may be hard to draw
on paper, but it is plain enough in practice
to whoever Ims common sense and common
honesty. And the man who begins to
gamble dances over a death-trap.”
The workingman's candidate in Massa
chusetts is worth $.100,000, and his name is
Wendell Phillips. Most of his money
is said to have come from a grandfather,
who worked the slave trade. Wendell
abjured the old man’s habits, but kept his
money, like a good many other men who
married Southern girls, sold their slaves,
went North and cursed the “institution.”
The Democratic papers in Indiana arc
abusing Senator McDonald for pairing
with a galvanized corpse. If Morton, un
der any pretext., can lie carried into the Dis
trict of Columbia, the voice of the Indiana
Democracy will be stifled in the Senate.
Senator McDonald has made a Balaklava
charge—it was beautiful, glorious, but it
was not war.
An infuriated Virginian, writing of the
Virginia State debt and of the new law tax
ing drinks, says: “That debt shan’t be
saddled over my liquor. No, sir! The
property holders are the ones to pay what
is to lie paid. If that debt is to he drunk
out, it shall not be done at my expense. I
won't drink. It, nor any part of it, shall not
he adjusted on my shoulders, while the man
who never ‘smiles’ does not pay a cent.”
Defending Dr.McCosn’s insistence on the
importance of Biblical preaching in prefer
ence to mere intellectual dissertations, tiie
Inter-Ocean says: “There is a run upon
intellectual dissertation preachers at pres
ent, and the mere plain, simple preacher of
gospel sermons is left out in the cold. Peo
ple go to admire the man, his cleverness,
rhetoric, reading smartness, aud not for the
purpose of seeking salvation, or benefiting
their immortal souls.”
Cassius M. Ci at was perhaps the first
white man in Kentucky who, at the hazard
of life, favored negro emancipation, and
now he h:is done to death a man and broth
er of the colored persuasion. The old man
followed the precedent of Solon Robin
son, a I'ribune abolitionist, who felt com
pelled, some veai-s ago, in Florida, to put a
lethal bullet into the corpus of a burglari
ous black man. These humanitarians are
mighty quick on the trigger, when Sambo
fools with them.
The appointment of Griswold to a Federal
office over the heads of Union soldiers goes to
prove that Hayes was sincere when he said at
Atlanta that a Confederate soldier deserved
no censure, nor a Union soldier any credit, for
the part 'hey took in the war. Hi* coarse is
such that Union soldiers are talking about
making application to Congress for a removal
of their disabilities, in order that they may be
eligible to Federal offices. —lruluvutisWis Senti
nel.
Mr. Griswold was appointed by Grant,
and no charge of cruelty against him has
ever been sustained. He has been a turn
coat politically, that is aIL But what must
Southern men and ex-Confederate soldiers
think of an ultra Western Democratic pa
lter like the Sentinel, which bates the Presi
dent because he respects all the people, and
is literally moving mountains,to make peace
everywhere among them *
Mr. McMaster, of the Freeman's Jour
nal, is a hearty admirer of Lord Roscoe.
He says: “Roscoe Conk lino rises, on
this fog, as a man among men. He is ut
terly opposed to us, in politics, as an utter
stranger in person. But he shows himself
a man among men—a manly man. A man
asserting his rights, and ready to challenge
whoever dares to oppose him. We are, and
expect to be, in hostility with Senator
Conkling, politically. But we are glad to
recognize in him a bold sidesman, aud not
a tricky politician. It is always easy to get
along with gentlemen, who own their own
souls. It is very hard to get along with the
poor Whelps, who do not assert that their
souls are their own. We disagree with
Senator Conkling on maiiv points, but he
has refreshed our eves, after a long looking
on, with the figure of a man disposed to
make other people follow him.” Mr. Jos.
Medill. a Republican, thinks he is a
“coward and a bully." We shall reserve
our opinion until the “slow fighter of the
Piute" has a chance to show his muscle.
A NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
' The deposition of Mehemet Au and
the elevation instead of Suleiman Pasha
to the command in chief of ‘the Turkish
armies is the latest military sensation.
The plan of Mehenet was for Suleiman
to cross the Balkans, join his forces with
those on the Lorn, and, with this combi
nation, attack the army of the Czare
witch. Instead of doing this, Suleiman
dashed thousands of his soldiers to de
struction among the Schipka defiles,
when he coaid have obeyed Mehemet’h
order by crossing the Balkans elsewhere
withont the loss of a man in battle. The
failure of this scheme of combination
compelled Mehbmet to retire behind the
Kara Lom, and he has by that retire
ment famished a pretext for being re
moved, so that Suleiman shall take his
place. The chief cause, however, of this
change of commanders is said to be the
foreign birth of Mehemet, who is half
French and German, or French by de
scent and German by birth. Now that
the “Giaour” is out of the way, we shall
see how the fanatical and fighting Mus
sulman will behave. It looks like an
other Johnston and Hood affair; but
perhaps the Porte knows its own busi
ness better than anybody else.
MORE CRIMINALS OF TOE “RESPECT
ABLE” CLASS.
Each day adds to the long lists of
those crimes peculiarly calculated to
weaken one’s faith in human natare and
destroy that public and private confi
dence which isthe mainspring of busi
ness, if not the real foundation of civi
lized society. The latest criminals are
Wm. C. Gilman, of New York, and Geo.
R. Waterman, of Lawrence, Mass. The
former—a devout member of the church
and an earnest Sabbath School teacher,
heretofore enjoying an unblemished re
putation—has been detected in the for
gery of certificates of insnrance stock to
the amount of over $200,000. The lat
ter—for twenty years a trusted employe
of a large corporation—is charged with
being a defaulter in the sum of 8150,000.
The St. Louis Republican says that in
neither instance was there anything in
the character or conduct of the man to
excite the slightest suspicion of wrong
doing, and in both instances previons
good character and conduct have been
used as a covering for systematic sconn
drelism of the basest kind, whioh ac
cident only revealed. We natural
ly expect low moral instincts and
depraved moral action in those whose
education and surroundings contain
more vice than virtue, but when
these instincts and this action appear in
persons whose education and surround
ings would seem to be altogether on the
side of virtne, it is impossible to assign
a cause for the evil, and apparently im
possible to provide an adequate remedy.
But the alarming magnitude and rapid
growth of the evil demand that every
effort be made to cheek, if we cannot
cure it. A murder or a highway robbery
is of small consequence compared with
snch offenses as those mentioned above.
The one is a blow at the peace and good
order of the community, which does not
inflict irreparable injury. The other is
an undermining of those principles on
which the community itself may be said
to rest. Oilman and Waterman have
not only hurt those who trusted them,
bat they have hurt a host of people
whom they never saw, by contri bating
to that already too heavy stock of sus
picion accumulated in the last ten years.
A PLEASANT RECOLLECTION.
The late Archbishop of Baltimore was
a man who won the esteem and confi
dence of all men, irrespective of creed or
condition. He was a strict churchman,
but not a bigot in any sense. He was,
by birth and nature, a true gentleman as
well as a holy ecclesiastic. By forsaking
conscientiously one form of worship he
lost more than a million of dollars, but
gained eminence whioh may uot have
been accorded him otherwise. But there
is one trait in the character of the dead
Prelate which commends itself to all
classes of people, and that was bis tolera
tion and charity. The best evidence of
this is famished under his own signa
ture. We read that in October, 1872,
Bishop Odenheimer, of the Episcopal
Churoh, in a letter to Colonel R. 9.
Swords, aoknowledgiDg the receipt of a
pamphlet concerning Newark, made ref
erence to the removal of Bishop Baylby
to Baltimore, which had then just oc
curred, and spoke in high terms of the
Catholio Bishop’s zealous administra
tion of the affairs of his diocese, saying
that in going up and down the State he
had seen the fruits of Bishop Baxley’s la
bors. Colonel Swords sent the letter to
Archbishop Bayley, and soon received
the following reply :
Baltimore, October 24, 1872.
My Dear Colonel— l thank you for yonr
kind, good letter. * * * It was with sin
cere regret that I left Newark. If I had had
my own way I would not have done so, and if
it was in my power would go back to-morrow.
There is more respectability and dignity here,
but 1 like my old, simple, poor people best.
Bat my likes and dislikes have nothing to do
with the matter, and I will submit cheerfully
to what I believe is God's will. I was very
much touched by Bishop Odenheimer's kind
refrence to me in his letter to yon as President
of the Newark Board of Trade. It shows him
to be a high-minded and generons man ; for
poor human nature is very weak, and it re
quires an elTort to say anything good of those
we differ from. Though I never compromised
my religions oonviction, I certainly did all I
could “to insure peaoe with all men," and to
make onr people good Christians, consequently
good citizens. It was a great happiness to me
to have my good intention, at least, recognized
by each a man as Bishop Odknheimer. I wish
that when you have an opportunity of seeing
him yon would oonvey to him the expression
of my kindest regards and sincere thanks. I
feel proud also of my old Episcopal city. She
has not only made great progress in material
prosperity and a great variety of useful indus
tries. but what is of more importance, and
alas ! mire rare in onr days, she has estab
lished and preserves a high name for commer
cial integrity and honor. I cannot feel too
grateful for the kindness which was extended
towards me by all classes of her people from
the time I came amongst them. May peace
and happiness be always with them.
What a pity it ia that the same fra
ternity should not exist among all as it
existed between Bishops Odenhkimer
and Batlby. Nothing so conduces to
the welfare of mankind and the good of
the chnrch itself as a grand charity, a
liberal allowance for the opinions of
others, a wise toleration and an affection
that embraces humanity itself.
Gen. Boynton sums np Conkling as
“a highly cultivated and exceedingly
intellectual rowdy.”
Gkn. Garfield aod Mr. Pendleton
tike each other personally, but have no
respect for each other’s opinions.
Yalr College admits colored students,
bnt the Abolition boys let them severely
alone.
Rev. Mr. Robinson says Christians
are “rocked to hell in the chair of indo
lence,” and sinners in that of presump
tion.
Times change. The policy of Andrew
Johnson was like nnto that of Mr.
Hayes, and the stalwart Repnblicans
know it.
If Honest John Pattebson wants to
escape an investigation he can either die
or ran away. At least these are the two
chances presented him by a “free and
enlightened press.”
AN ENULI4H CRISIS.
In 1863 the balance of trade against
England was about $300,000,000 annual
ly. It is now $940,000,000. This great
gap is filled, with more and more diffi
culty, by interest upon oapital loaned to
foreign countries. When the limit shall
have been reached beyond which the
bullion current must be permanently
outward, a crisis will come unequalled
in the world’s history. That limit is
not far off apparently, and how British
statesmen propose to meet the emergency
remains to be seen.
PITTSBURGH'S PUNISHMENT.
Pittsburgh seems destined to pay
pretty dearly for the apathy with which
■be stood by and witnessed the destruc
tion of railroad and other property dur
ing the recent strike. In the first place
she will be called upon to pay the actnal
loss, nnless the Courts hold that Alle
ghany County is the responsible party,
and even then Pittsburgh will have to
pay the greater portion of the damages.
It has been insinuated that a Pittsburgh
jury will look out for Pittsburgh in
terests ; bnt it is nseless to connt on
snch protection. If the railroad com
pany brings suit in earnest, as it un
doubtedly will, its counsel will be far
too shrewd to submit their case to a
local jury. They will ask, of conise, for
a change of venue; and unless the
Pennsylvania judges are more partisan
than they have ever been accused of
being, the change will be granted, and
Pittsburgh will have to pay. But pay
ment for property actually destroyed
will by no means measure Pittsburgh’s
punishment. The unsavory reputation
acquired is likely to injure her quite as
much, if not more. Capitalists have
already manifested an uneasiness in re
gard to making or renewing loans upon
property in a city where the citizens
stand quietly by to see property destroy
ed. Fire insurance companies will un
doubtedly follow suit, and either raise
their rates or decline to insure ; and the
life insurance companies may very pro
perly add their remonstrances and refuse
to take life risks where the risk is so
great. Pittsburgh is in a bad way ; and
the citizens who rejoiced so much at the
punishment of the Pennsylvania Rail
road are beginning to see’.that there was
not much to rejoice at, after all.
A CARPET-BAGGER’S CONFESSION.
The wittiest and, in some respects, the
frankest, speech made during the Ohio
campaign was that of General George
H. Sheridan, a Louisiana carpet-bagger.
He gives a racy account of his applica
tion for office and what came of it thus :
I wanted to be Collector of the Port at New
Orleans. I could not see how we conld make a
success unless I was appointed. HAYEs asked
me if I knew who would be a good man. That
was a delicate question to ask, aud I asked for
time for refl >ction. He gave me time for reflec
tion, and that is the only thing he did give me.
I knew that tho Collector should be a man
with an interest in the business of the city, a
man of integrity, of good moral character,
ability above tho average and a Republican. 1
thonght it over carefully, and came t,o the con
clusion that I could come nearer filling the bill
than any man I knew in the State. I had an
interest in business, because I had paper out
at that time. I knew I was a man of integrity
—my moral character was as good as a some
what tropical man might develop in a some
what tropical country. I waß sure I had the
ability. I was a Republican—was once a Rep
resentative in Congress from Louisiana; it
was but a short time. I was elected for two
years. I was in for four hours before the
gress to which I was elected was adjourned ;
didn't have time to make a record, voted on
both sides of every question, called out re
peatedly “ Mr, Speaker,” told one member he
was a thief aud another that he was a liar,
looked at the ladies in tho gallery, spit tobac
co, went in the committee room to look at some
documents, borrowed some money aud went
home. I considered at the time that I made a
pretty good average record. For these rea
sons I thought I ought to bo Collector. Presi
dent Hayes was very cordial—he is a very oor
dial man. When X spoke to him he said :
“ Sheridan, I will make out the commission at
oncebut he made a mistake and got a name
I had not thought of. I thought at that time
is this what I made 127 speeches for, or the
same speech 127 times. I told Mr. Hayes how
I felt. I moved him very much—moved him
to advise me to pull down my vest or to go
West, or somothing of the kind.
Well, he went West and made speech
es for the Republican candidate in Ohio,
and good naturedly endorsed the “ poli
cy.” In other parts of his speech he
acknowledged that the whole Recon
struction programme was an organ
ized raid upon the defenseless peo
ple of the South, and that he helped
make it so. The President no doubt
thought he had made enough mischief
and would ornament a private station at
the North. We think so, too.
• Ml ■ M ■
POSTAL CURIOSITIES.
The records of the Dead Letter Office
of the United States Post Office Depart
ment are often pointed to as showing
the surprising carelessness frequently
exhibited by the senders of letters con
taining valuables. Sometimes, perhaps,
the moral has been drawn that the hnr
ry, which is a natural characteristic of
Americans, is responsible for most of
the omissions or blunders which canse
letters to bring up at the Dead Letter
Office instead of at the addresses which
were in the minds of the writers, if not
on the envelopes, when the letters were
posted. If there has ever been a sense
of national humiliation over this, it will
be experienced the less keenly with the
knowledge that the United States by no
means stands alone in the vexations it
imposes upon the Post Offioe Depart
ment, and in the annoyances which writ
ers are subjected to through their own
carelessness. The British Post Office
Department unfolds a tale quite as in
teresting, and detailing qnite as many
blnnders and attempted frauds, as any
ohronicled in the United States in con
nection with the Post Offioe Department
here.
Last year nearly six million letters
found their way the Dead Letter De
partment of the British Post Offioe, in
the large majority of cases the canse
having been insufficient addresses. —
There were no less than three thonsind
letters which were not addressed at all,
and of these 830 contained money in
cash or ohecks, the amonnt being $27,-
000. Thousands of insufficiently ad
dressed letters also contained money,
bnt in nine-tenths of the cases the De
partment fonnd it possible to reissne
the letters or retnrn them to the writers.
One case of carelessness mentioned in
Lord John Mannkbs’ report is that of a
man who sent a registered letter con
taining $15,000 in bank notes and had
not taken the trouble to fasten the seal.
All sorts of devices are need to de
fraud the British Post Office Depart
ment. In one instance gold coins to
the amonnt of abont $7 were fonnd im
bedded in the wax of a letter seal. The
sender of a newspaper secreted four
sovereigns in it, and another attempted
to make the half-penny postage carry a
gold locket with the newspaper. In
both cases the property was confiscated.
Among the other articles which have
been found in newspapers, cigars, to
bacco, collars, sea weed, ferns, flowers,
gloves, handkerchiefs, mnsic, patterns,
stockings, lace, postage stamps and ser
mons are mentioned. The report aleo
notes that a live snake escaped from a
postal packet at Kingston, and was not
claimed for a fortnight. The United
States contributed a live homed frog
which fpassed [safely through the mails,
and lizards and leeches innumerable
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1877.
found safe and speedy transit in Ike
mail bags.
THEN AND NOW.
“ The old Sag and an appropriation ” seems
destined to infinite rehearsals from the erring
brethren of the South in this Congress.—
Springfield Republican.
Well, why not? Yon fellows have
abont $400,000,000 the start of ns, and
we hope to get even with yon some day.
In old days, when we let yon have the
entire grab and stood npon oar dignity,
yon laughed in yonr sleeves and called
ns “chivalry” and “fools” of the Don
Quixotte order. We are poor now, bnt
powerful. We do not stand so mooh
now on dignity as of yore. Gan yon
blame ns, then, for being snob apt
scholars and combining loyalty with
business ?
RAISE YOUR OWN SUPPLIES.
A Liverpool paper says the harvest in
Yorkshire is one of the worst that has
been known for years, as there are farms
after farms where the crops will not pay
the rent. The French harvest is poor
also, and Russia's wheat-growing pro
vinces are closed by the Turks, thus
catting off millions of bushels from
European markets. The effect of this
must be to stimulate prices of American
grain, and hence it follows that the
planters of the Sonth should endeavor
to raise their own bread. Not only this,
but they shonld prodace their meat
also, for the prioe of bacon promises to
be increased by two causes : the East
ern war and a fatal disease among the
swine and horned cattle of the North
west. With these facts before them,
every Southern man who tills the soil
should strive to raise his own supplies.
THE AUGUSTA AND GREENWOOD
RAILROAD.
Work on the Greenwood branch of
the proposed Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad is progressing satisfactorily.
Gen. P. H. Bradley writes that he has
graded in length about 450 feet per day
since be oommenoed on the 24th nit.
The question, “What is Augusta do
ing ?” is put to him daily, and he in
variably and confidently answers, “Au
gusta will meet us at the river.”
Major W. K. Bradley spent two
weeks reoently among the people on the
line of the valley branch, from Dobn’s
Mine to Anderson. Subscriptions to
the amount of $60,000 were obtained in
aid of the road between the points last
mentioned. This valley branch will
doubtless be built; it will prove an ex
cellent feeder to the Augusta and Green
wood Road. The projectors of the line
are satisfied that they will be able to
raise $60,000 additional—enough to
grade the route, buy the cross-ties and
build the bridges. This information
shonld reassure our citizens and prompt
a substantial response to the inquiries
which come so naturally from our friends
in Sonth Carolina, touching what we
propose to do. Indeed, we should no
longerspeak of what we “propose to do,”
but give an earnest of onr pnrpose by do
ing something at once. Let ns raise
President Wheless’ hands and hold
them up by authorizing him to inaugu
rate the work on this side of the Savan
nah. This action would enthuse our
friends across the river and bring to the
support of the enterprise here those
who are inclined to doubt and are indis
posed to subscribe to a road which must
inevitably benefit our city largely.
Every citizen of Augusta is interested
in this work, and we believe that they
are only waiting for the opportunity to
manifest the interest they feel. As soon
as SIOO,OOO shall have been subscribed,
President Wheless will order dirt bro
ken and tbe work will go steadily for
ward.
TIIE TREASURY REPORT.
The comparative statement of the
condition*of the U. S. Treasury accounts
has been issued up to October Ist and
one year ago, whioh has been condensed
as follows: The total public debt, less
cash in the Treasury, is decreased over
$40,000,000, bnt the result is more an in
crease of cash than a decrease of out
standing liabilities. Tbe coin balance
now on hand is $119,152,043, against
$64,591,124 last year. This balance is
offset by $37,997,500 coin certificates,
$18,786,642 held for the redemption of
called bonds and about $10,000,000 due
for interest. This leaves the amount of
ooin owned by the Treasury something
over $52,000,000, of which about $2,000,-
000 is silver. This is near $20,000,000
more than it possessed one year ago.
The currency balance on hand is over
$23,000,000, of whioh nearly $9,000,000
is held as a special fund for the redemp
tion of fractional enrreney. The amount
of fractional currency now outstanding
is $18,786,642 27, against $29,852,415 62
one year ago, while the amonnt of sil
ver coin has increased from $19,706,053
to $35,591,276 74. The legal tender
notes now oatstanding amonnt to $856,-
914,932; October 1, 1876, there were
$368,494,740. Daring the same year the
premium on gold fell from 10J to 3J,
and the balanoe of trade in our favor
was largely increased. The volume of
onr imports for the twelve months end
ing August 31, 1876, was $441,186,100;
exports, $472,169,273; balance in onr
favor, $30,985,173. For the twelve
months endiDg August 31, this year,
the imports were $465,521,645; exports,
$523,998,948; balance, $58,477,303.
Women vote in Wyoming Territory
and that is the only place where they
pretend to be older than they really are
—that is some of them do, wko are not
yet of age. _
In England collections are being taken
np for the oppressed Israelites of Rus
sia. There the persecutions of the Jews
is continued with nearly all its ancient
cruelty. They are not permitted to re
side in many of the greatest districts,
Kief snd Novgorod, as well as Moscow,
are forbidden to them, and even in the
raral districts they are burdened with
multiform exactions.
Dr. John Hall, the eminent preacher,
has returned from Europe. He draws
from the Pan-Presbyterian Council an
argnment in favor of greater toleration
and brotherly sympathy between differ
ent denominations, and said that in the
Convention that is to assemble in Phila
delphia in 1880 be expected to witness
an increase in the modern spirit and ways
of judging and acting that would be
widely felt.
This is the way the Virginia saloon is
done into rhyme:
Whene'er he sells a drink the barkeepers
Will punch in the presence of the customers
A half-cent hole for a glass of beer,
A one-cant hole for a big sohoonere,
A three-cent hole for each snifters —
All in the presence of the customers.
Chorus —Then, punch, boys, with the bell
punch clear,
All in the presence of the customer*,
etc., etc.
President Hayes disapproves of the
Union League attack upon Senator
Conkling, and recommends the “South
ern policy ” treatment, which has Scrip
ture for anthority. We fear that sort of
poliey wonld make Conkling cavort
worse than ever, as he parades around
with a long tail coat snd pines for the
President to tread on it.
ATLANTA’S OFFER EXPLAINED.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I see in the Constitution of the 2d
inst, that a “fast and firn friend of
Atlanta,” as an evidence of his friend
ship haa asked her the following perti
nent questions:
1. When does Atlanta propose to bnild
tbe Capitol ?
2. Who is to jndge whether the Capi
tol erected comes up to Atlanta’s agree
ment ?
3. Is it true that any of the citizens of
Atlanta can enjoin tbe Mayor and Coun
cil, and thus prevent the fnlfillment of
tiie contract ?
Very many who have read “Altanta’s
Proposition” as conspicuously set forth
every day in the leading column of the
Constitution , have asked the same ques
tions, but until that jonrnal undertook
the task nobody ventnred to try to
answer them. I am glad that' the
Constitution has done so, becanse it
is now authoritatively confessed by
tbe fastest and firmest friend Atlanta
has, that her “offer” has no binding
effect on her whatever either in
law or morals ; that it is pnrely volun
tary ; that she is quite free to fulfill or
repudiate it as she pleases, and that she
does not consider that either the State
or the people of Georgia in any degree a
party to her “proposition.” Now let ns
examine the Constitution’s answers:
1. It says that Atlanta will bnild the
Capitol “when the Legislature of Geor
gia directs it.” How, Messrs. Editors,
can the Legislature of Georgia “direct
it?” Can the Senate and Honse of
Representatives, in General Assembly
met, pass a bill requiring the city of
Atlanta to bnild a Capitol ? Can they
pass a joint resolution reciting Atlanta’s
proposition, and declaring that they
expect Atlanta to bnild a Capitol ?
or must they frame an humble petition,
begging Atlanta to bnild a Capitol. As
the General Assembly has not a shadow
of a right to compel or require Atlanta
to do anything of the kind, as Atlanta
has made no contract with the State, the
only chance left is to beg Atlanta for
pity’s sake to fnlfill the vague promise
of her adventurous Mayor and Council.
2. The Constitution says that the
General Assembly (in case their mendi
cant appeal is heard and answerd) is to
be the judge whether “ the Capitol
erected comes up to Atlanta’s agree
ment,” is to look the gift horse in the
mouth and,after critical examination,de
termine whether orjnot the Capitol built
by Atlanta’s charity is “as good as that
at Milledgeville.”
Fancy, after the Senate and House of
Representatives have inspected the old
Capitol at Milledgeville “as well as the
Capitol erected,” returning to their re
spective halls, and the question being
put to them respectively, “The question
is, is the Capitol erected as good as that
at Milledgeville ?” Those who are of that
opinion will signify it by saying “aye;”
those of a contrary opinion, “no.” Sup
pose the noes have it. What then?
What course is open to the General As
sembly ? By wliat process can they
compel Atlanta to accept and adopt their
idea of what is “as good a Capitol as
that at Milledgeville ?”
3. The Constitution declares that it is
not true that any citizen of Atlanta can
enjoin the Mayor and thus prevent the
fulfillment of the contract, becanse “the
citizens stand silently by and allow the
proposition to be made to and accepted
by the people.” Surely the Constitu
tion, even though it is not “a lawyer
with any knowledge of law,” knows that
the “proposition” unless it is reduced
to an ordinance passed by the corporate
authorities and adopted by tbe requisite
number of the legal voters of Atlanta,
cannot bind the citizens any more than
any other proposition that the editors of
the Constitution may think proper to
make, and that, whether they stand
silently or talkatively by and allow the
proposition to be made, does not even
remotely impair their legal right to in
voke the aid of the Courts to prevent an
unlawful expenditure of their money, in
the very improbable case that any such
shonld be attempted by the Mayor and
Conncil.
The Constitution, after expressing the
hope that its answers will be satisfacto
ry to the “ fast and film friend ” who
elicited them, states, with a view to
clinch the nail it thinks it has driven
home, “ at any rate they (the answers)
are true, and that is more to the pur
pose.” I cannot imagine a less appro
priate adjective to apply to the Constitu
tion’s answers than the adjective “true.”
For I cannot find a scintilla of truth in
any one of them. I can find nothing
but a palpable desire to hoodwink and
deceive the people by pretenses so man
ifestly false that the bare attempt to of
fer them as real is an insalt to the in
telligence of Georgia.
I will tell Atlanta, however, how she
can make her proposition so that the
people may give her credit at least for
good faith.
Lather Mayor and Council pass an ordi
nance agreeing to donate to the State a
site and to pay a definite sum to build a
Capitol, according to certain specifica
tions as to size, material, etc., etc. Let
her show that she has the “property”
on hand which she proposes to donate,
and can do so without increasing her
debt, or if she most add to her debt
that that already existing does not ex
ceed seven per centum of the assessed
value of her taxable property, and that,
with tbe increase, it would not exceed
ten per oentnm of tbe assessed value.
Then let her convey the site and the ne
cessary funds to erect the building to
trustees for the above purposes, with the
understanding that the deed is to be re
garded as an escrow, until the State of
Georgia, by its Legislature, accepts the
donation, in which event the title shall
pass and the work be executed. Then
let the ordinance be approved by a vote
of the oitizens of Atlanta, and, finally,
let the necessary deeds be signed, sealed
and delivered. Until tben, however
satisfied the Constitution may be with
its answers, it must excuse me if I treat
them as the reverse of “trap.” They
were evidently penned as a practical ex
pression of the very low estimate of the
intelligence of the people of Georgia to
which the Constitution gave expression
in the subjoined extract from its edito
rial eolnmn of the 14th of July, publish
ed when it was nrgiDg the Convention to
fix the capital at Atlanta by the new
Constitution. The italics are my own :
“On this capital question, thousands
of people would vote who never saw At
lanta or Milledgeville—many thousands
would vote who would be governed en
tirely by sentiment, prejudices or self
interest. ft can not be settled wisely,
and for the good o f the people, except
by a Convention —for they can examine
all these reasons carefully and properly,
and vote intelligently on tbe snbject.”
The Constitution, in the foregoing ex
tract, evidently thought at that time
that the people had not mnch sense or
intelligence. Its answers to its friend’s
questions prove that it is still of the
same opinion. One of the People.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION AND >lll.-
I.KDCKVII.I.IL
Poinpty’H Reasons.
Fompey: Hello, Sambo, how yon
gwine to vote—Milledgeville or Atlan
ta ?
Sambo; Atlanta, in course; I is ag
gressive spirits, I is.
Pompey; You wrong dar—dat “'gres
sive spirit”, costs too much money, Sam
bo.
Sambo: T’won’t cost a cent—Atlanta’s
gwine to build de Capitol herself.
Pompey:Sambo,dat’s “too thin” —At
lanta ain’t got the money.
Sambo: Ain’t got the money ? Didn’t
dey say Mass James alone was willing to
give $25,000 to be Governor of Georgia ?
Pompey: Dat’s true; but dey say he
didn’t send bnt $lO to each weekly pa
per. Dat’s dc trouble—dey promises,
bnt dey don’t pay. How yon gwine to
vote on de Constitution ?
Sambo: I ain’t ’cided dat question;
bnt dey say de old Constitution’s de
colored folks’ Constitution.
Pompey: I is gwine to vote the new
Constitution and old Milledgeville.
Sambo: How’s dat, Pompey ?
Pompey: Why, Sambo, de new Con
stitution makes the Legislature ’propri
ate money for our ’versity—de college.
Edication’s what I want. Dis Consti
tution makes de Legislature educate
oolored folks and de old didn’t.
Sambo; What’s dat to do with de
capital question ?
Pompey: Lots. Why dat’s too plain
to splain, Sambo; de Convention men
who say dat de oolored folks shall be
edicated were nearly all for Milledge
ville !
Sambo: Why didn’t dey say so den ?
Pompey: Some was too polite to say
so in Atlanta—and, jnst ’twixt ns two
and de gate-post, some of dem Conven
tion men was skeered to say so in At
lanta ; dey knew Atlanta’s ’gressive
spirit, and dey didn’t want to come up
missing. But, Sambo, dey was for Mil
ledgeville, and de edication of de col
ored folks; and I is grateful to them
and am gwin to vote for Miiledgeville;
de edication of the oolored race demands
it.
GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
Oglethorpe county endorsed Senator
Gordon for re-election.
Coffee county is grinding her mills for
the halls of our fathers.
Hon. James F. Reid is now mentioned
for the Senate from the 19th.
Elbert voted against the Convention,
but she will ratify with a will.
Colnmbus is troubled abont enforcing
her commutation tax of $2 at the time of
registering voters.
The Sunny South fails to see how At
lanta will be injured materially in re
moving the capital.
Captain J. O. Maxwell and Dr. W.
W. Davenport are suggested for the
Legislature from Elbert.
Talbot county proposes to re-elect her
true and tried representatives, Hons. J.
M. Matthews and John C. Mound.
“ S c a r 1 e t-scalp-who-blows-the-fog
horn” of the Atlanta paper is still strad
dling the buoys of the City Council’s
proposition.
The Gainesville Eagle says that can
didates secretly pledged to vote against
Gordon are to be rnn in each county for
the Legislature.
The Elbertou Gazette seems to gaze
npon the capital contest as a sort of
bear fight, enthusiastically betting npon
the one that whips.
Hon. Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., of Hanoock
is eloquently and appropriately snggest
ed by a writer in the Sparta Times as
Senator from the 20th.
The Crawfordville Democrat fails to
place the economical column on Mil
ledgeville’s side. It considers it best to
leave things where they are.
General Toombs has more ridicnlons
opinions and sayings wrongfully attri
buted to him than any man in the two
hemispheres, not excepting Geo. Francis
Train.
A correspondent of the Crawfordville
Democrat insists that Mr. B. F. Moore
is not the man whom the Democracy of
Taliaferro county shonld delight to
honor.
The number of first class legal minds
contesting for the seat of the late Jndge
Hill in the Macon Circuit seems to show
that the salary redaction will not scare
away good men.
The model State politician now regis
tere at tbe Markham, visits the reading
room and after declaring his county
unanimously for Atlanta goes home with
a great h arden damped from his massive
shoulders.
Probable candidates for the House,
from Lumpkin county are: Hons. Wier
Boyd, W. P. Price, W. H. McAfee, B.
H. Corbin, and Messrs. J. W. Burnside,
B. F. Sitton, James J. Evans, Wm.
Abercrombie, and others.
The Elberton Gazette sensibly re
marks that tbe appointment of Hon.
Herscliel V. Johnson to the United
States Supreme Bench “would do more
to usher in the era of peaee than all the
bancombe harangues of a century.”
Hon. Samuel Lumpkin has been unan
imously endorsed by a large mass meet
ing in Oglethorpe county for the State
Senate from the Thirtieth District.
Madison and Elbert, it is said, will ap
prove of this action, and thus honor the
District.
Hon. Jos. B. Cumming, of Augusta,
an ex-speaker of the House of Represen
tatives iu the Qeneral Assembly, is
strongly endorsed for the Senate from
the Seventeenth District, There are few
abler men in the State than Maj. Gum
ming.— Atlanta Constitution.
The Milledgeville Union and Recor
der gets off this good one : “The car
pet-baggers bribed Coffee with the prom
ise of forty acres and a mule; Atlanta
attempts to bribe the whole State of
Georgia with five acres; but, as Captain
Oettle would say, ‘where’s the mule ?’ ”
The Sparta Times and Planter, one of
the most influential papers in Middle
Georgia, thus rears its platform: Gor
don, Senator; Johnson, U. S. Supreme
bench; ratification; new homestead as
lesser of two evils; Milledgeville, and
0. W. Dußose, Esq., as Senator from
the 20th.
The Washington Gazette advises all
preachers to stay in their pulpits and to
let polities alone. Preaching and poli
tics don’t mix well any way, and it feels
confident that they will do far more
good, or at least less harm in the pulpit
than in the Legislature.
Oglethorpe county holds a primary
election for Representative candidates
next Saturday, the 13th. Messrs. J. M.
Smith, A. F. Pope, and Dr. W. M. Wil
lingham are the aspirants. There seems
to prevail some objections to Mr. A. F.
Pope on account of his State aid sup
port in the last Legislature, but he has
many friends in the county.
Why is it that people will flaunt glit
tering temptations before an editor’s
eyes and then scoff when weak humanity
falls ? See this : An Atlanta merchant
sent the editor of the Jonesboro News
one dollar and a half, and wants him to
“come out from this time on ’till after
the election in full force and strong
terms for Atlanta.”
Governor Colquitt’s appointment of
Judge Grice in the Macon Circuit seems
to give satisfaction down there. The
Telegraph and Messenger says : The
appointment is but due to Houston
county, as Bibb has for nearly forty
years enjoyed the honor of furnishing
the Circuit with Judges, and Governor
Colquitt has also paid a debt of grati
tude, as it will be remembered that
Houston rolled up the largest majority
of any county in the State in his recent
election.
The Atlanta Constitution says : Col.
H. Gregg Wright, the able editor of the
Augusta ChbonioijE, is enthusiastically
presented by his friends for a seat in the
Lower House of the General Assembly.
Col. Wright is as fit a man as there is in
Richmond county, and his herculean la
bors for the party entitled him to any
honors it can confer upon him. We
would be delighted to see him in the
Legislature.
Fifteen candidates in Ranks.
Pike county has no candidate in her’s.
Candidates in Franklin and Haber
sham sing low.
Hon. Farish Furman is oapitolizing in
Newton county.
Ben. Hill has written a long letter
favoring Atlanta.
The Washington Gazette earnestly op
poses the rotation system.
Nominations are getting unpopular in
some sections of the State.
Col. W. J. Houston will he elected
Representative from Dekalb.
Candidates and coon dogs aw begin
ning to have strong following#,
Mr. W- M. Rampley is a legislative
candidate from Franklin oonnty.
Putnam county is afflicted with two
Democratic Executive Committees.
Hampton and Toombs have been invit
ed to speak at the Sandersville Fair.
Hon. Hiram P. Bell thinks northeast
Georgia will go ratification and Atlanta.
Jackson county raises a local issue
relating to the rearing of anew Court
House.
And now a Newton county man wants
the National capital moved to Saint
Louis.
The Darien Gazette longs for the
“restoration,” not “removal” of the
capital.
A Nominating Convention is called in
Stewart on the second Saturday in No
vember,
Or. Carlton, in the Athens Georgian,
ably endorses Senator Gordon tor a re
election.
Negro minstrels will perform in the
Senate Chamber at Milled geville next
Saturday.
Col. J. W. Robertson, of Cobb, is
spoken of for Senator from the Thirty
fifth Distriot.
Enoch Anderson and Rev. D. C. Oli
ver are announced in Banks oounty for
the Legislature.
J. Clanton Clements, Sr., announces
that he is a candidate for Senator from
the Fifteenth District.
The Monroe Advertiser believes that
Middle Georgia will favor Gen. Gordon’s
re-election, no matter who opposes.
‘Sidney Herbert says: “Gen. Toombs
is not a candidate for United States Sena
tor. He will be the next Governor of
Georgia.”
The editorial staff of the Lumpkin In
dependent, the Albany News, and Athens
Watchman are divided on the capital
question.
The Athens Watchman does not be
lieve the question of accessibility, as
between the two capital cities, has any
wsight whatever.
Judge Green Brantly is a candidate to
represent Washington county in the
General Assembly. Probabilities, how
ever, point to a scrub race.
A prominent citizen of Monroe oonnty
says: “If the capital is returned to Mii
ledgeville, it will remain there about ten
years and then be located in Macon.”
The Forrest, (Jackson County) News,
while favoring Atlanta as the capital,
does not think that her proposition
should have any weight in the campaign.
Why can’t Georgia have two capital
cities, like Connecticut ? Rise up, yon
pacificators and oompromisists, and act
generously and handsomely in this mat
ter.
The Eatonton Messenger calls npon
the Twenty-eight Senatorial District to
abolish the rotation system and bien
nially award the prize “to the most
worthy. ”
The Savannah News notes that ex-
Governor Joseph E. Brown has no Sena
torial aspirations like Thurlow Weed;he
simply desires to “have a hand” in se
lecting the man.
The Covington Star says: It rather
gets away with those who want to return
to the “halls their fathers bnilt” to re
mind them that those same halls were
bnilt by oonviot labor.
We are glad to note that Hon. James
M. Smith, of Oglethorpe, will be most
unanimously returned to the Legisla
ture. Mr. Smith is destined to be one
of Georgia's most nsefnl men.
Tho Old Capital has this : Retrench
ment and reform is the base, the Consti
tution of 1877 the body, and the “old
Capital” the apex. Pat these parts to
gether and the pyramid is perfect.
See here now, if the Capitol is allow
ed to remain in Atlanta this agitation
will not cease. Conyers and Covington,
eaoh outrivaling the other, will fight for
it and to one of tiiem4he halls eventual
ly must go.
Hon. George F. Pierce, Jr., of Han
oook, is spoken of as State Senator from
his district. Mr. Pierce is certainly one
of tbe ablest young statesmen of Geor
gia and is destined to render his people
muoh service.
The LaGrange Reporter thinks that
the penitentiary question is a big sub
ject to engage the attention of fntnre
legislators. The man who oan devise a
better way to manage the oonviot will
be a patriot and a philanthropist.
Upon the score of economy vs. gran
dear, a correspondent of the Athens
Watchman argues the claims of Mil
ledgeville and Atlanta. We forget npon
which side the grandeur was fastened;
probably ’twas in the argument itself.
The Early County Convention was
composed of delegates- 9 white and 6
oolored—most of the districts Bending
an eqnal number of white and colored
delegates. Robert A. Lanier was nomi
nated for Representative on the first
ballot.
An Atlanta Constitution correspondent
is gratified to see that old Richmond,
whose renown has been illustrated by
such men as John P. King, Geo. W.
Crawford, Longstreet, Jenkins, Miller
and a host of other noble Georgians,
fully appreciates, and intends to oall
into requisition Maj. Jos. B. Camming
for the Senate. In honoring such a man
the famous old county will be true to
her distinguished history, and honor
herself.
THE HASTY SFJPIONsi,
ttuddeu Death of the Late Win. Hope Hull’s
Contemporaries.
lAthens Watchman.]
In reading your paper of September
25th, I notice a letter from Jndge J. W.
H. Underwood to Hons. C. J. Jenkins
and W. W. Montgomery, in reference to
the death of Hon. W. H. Hull and other
members of ths bar of Athens years ago.
Has it ever occurred to your minds how
many of them died suddenly? I have
notioed that all, or nearly all, the dis
tinguished men of Athens died sud
denly.
First. If I mistake not Hon. Charles
Dougherty, one of the purest and best
men who ever lived in Athens, fell dead
from a fence while out bird bunting.
Second. Hon. Asbury Hull, whose
heart was so full of Christian graces, and
who was sqch a bright ornament in the
Methodist obnroh, died suddenly while
reading his Bible.
Third. Col. John Billups, whose gen
erous heart knew no bounds, and at
whose honse the poor, as well as the
riob, always found a hearty weloome,
died suddenly in his bed, some time
during the night.
Fourth. Hon. Howell Cobb, whose
name will eyer he cherished by all
Georgians, for the manner in which he
filled places of honor and distinction,
died suddenly in the oity of New York.
Fifth. Hon. Joseph H. Lumpkin,
whose legal attainments were unsurpass
ed by any, lived but a few hours, if I
mistake not, after taken sick.
Sixth. Hon. W. H. Hall, who though
not a oitizen of Athens at the time of his
death, bad been until since the war, and
was one of the greatest legal minds in
the State, died suddenly in New York,
and was lodging, I suppose, at the same
hotel where Howell Cobb died.
And what is still very strange, there
are others belonging to the list who did
not die of any particular disease—their
liveß were brought to a speedy close in
other ways i
First The lamented Gen. Thomas F.
R. Opbp, who lent all the energies of his
soul in promoting the interests of Athens
in the way of education, was killed in
stantly with a cannon ball, at Fredericks
burg, Va.
Second. Col. W. G. Delony, whose
career in Athens, though brief, was
marked with ability and success, was
wounded and liyed but a short time.
Third. Hon. John H. Christy, one
whose plaoe at the editorial desk would
be hard to fill, and whose talent wield
ed snch an influence oyer this section of
Georgia, lived but a short time after re
ceiving what seemed not to be a danger
ous wound,
FIGURES.
Ought Atlanta to Retain the Capital f
Editor Columbus Enquirer-Sun :
Below is given a comparative state
ment of the expenses of the State for
nine years, while the capital was in Mil
ledgeville, and what they have been in
Atlanta for the last nine years. The
figures are substantiated by official
records. Expenses in Milledgeville from
1861 to 1860, inclusive :
For civil establishment, contingent
fund, printing fund, special appro
priations (except the pnblio debt,
Legislature, and $668,340 to finish
W. and A. Railroad), common
school fund and over payment of
taxes. Total amonnt $2,326,048
Pay of legislators wi'h Senator from
every oounty, and their olerks, in,
eluding biennial sessions of the
body, from 1851 to 1853 806,728
Paid on public debt and to finish W.
and A. Railroad, and subscriptions
to Atlantic and Gulf Railroad 3,261,640
Total, ~,, $6,2#3,305
In Atlanta from July 81st, 1868, to the
aißt of December last;
For the civil establishment, includ
ing the salaries of the Executive,
State House officers and Judioiary,
contingent fund, printing fund,
legislative exreuses, special ap
propriations (except in payment
of the public debt), common
school fund, overpayment of taxes,
and debts contracted by the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad $ 5,049,633
Pay of legislators and olerks 1,712,694
Paid on public debt and debt of
Western and Atlantio Railroad.... 7,006,H7
TotalsTa>67~444
It will be observed that there is a dif
ference of seven million five hundred
and twenty-four thousand five hundred
und six dollars, in favor of Milledge.
ville. Now let ns examine (he compara
tive expenses of the State government as
they stood in Atlanta and Millegeville,
Tube sny given year—say 18(57 for Mil
legeville and 1869 for Atlanta:
1867 IS MILt.EDGEVII.LE 1869 IN ATLANLA,
For lights.so 00 For lights. .9 1,157 63
“ fuel 360 00 “fuel,,,. 1,586 40
“ stat i on- For station
ery. 282 51 ery 5,382 49
For incident- For inoiden
al— tal—
Ex. Dept.... 248 80 Ei. Dep't., 11,450 00
Advert ia i n g Advertising
ia newapa- in new*-
pers by gov- papers by
eminent...#9 339 84 gov’ment. 27,19159
Some Atlanta enthusiasts may say
that this great difference is due to Radi
cal That argument will not do,
for during five years out of the nine
above taken for Atlanta the State was
under Democratic government. With
such figures as the above we don’t see
bow tax payers will long hesitate how to
cast their ballot. Sentiment, perhaps,
will move many to vote for Milledgeville
in the coming election, but when yon
add to that argument the one educed
from the above estimate, where is the
voter who can resist Ibis appeal to his
pockets ? G.
THE niNeiU AT WOUK.
They Receive Tes Per Cent. Advance Id
Wages.
Wilkefbarbe, Pa., October 9.—Yes
terday, at a meeting cf miners employed
by the Susquehanna Coal Company, at
Nanticoke, the men, by a unanimous
vote, decided to resnme work. They
will receive ten per cent, advance. Op
erations begin as soon as the mines can
be put in order.
Wives and children of wealthy plant
ers in Lowndes connty go into the fields
and pick cotton for pocket money.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE STATE,
THB PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Albany is to have a library.
Some soarlet fever in Elbert.
LaGrange wishes a bell punch,
A Savannah man has a pet bear.
Game promises well this season.
Wo missed the Hartwell Sun this
week.
Griffin has completed her new post
offioe.
Elberton organizes a silver cornet
band.
Wild geese will soon be taking time
by the f’lock.
Hall county longs to get rid of her
pauper farm.
Autumn is now ohewing off the ear of
Summer, as ’twere.
Baldwin and Wilkes are vigorously
proseeating vagrants.
Two young ladies have suicided in
Macon within the past year.
Possums and potatoes aeem to be
having their annual rennions.
The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce is
said to be perceptibly failing.
Bishop Gross attended Archbishop
Rayley’s funeral in Baltimore.
There has been bnt one bale of cotton
sold in Carnesville this season.
The State School Commissioner
speaks to-day in Frppklin county.
Ex-Governor James M. Smith will re
turn to Colnmbns and practice law.
Elberton boasts of being a better cot
ton market than Augusta. So it goes.
There are seventy-five students now
on the roll at the University of Georgia.
Johnson and Shaw, escaped murder
ers, have been returned to the Atlanta
jail,
Tbe extension beyond Colnmbus of
the North and Sonth Railroad has been
secured.
Rev. W. Wat-kin Hicks, formerly of
Georgia, is said to be preaohing in
Chicago.
The Troup county Methodists, 1,600
in number, have bad two County Con
ventions this year.
Elbertou is said to be rapidly mould
ing into shape a plan to complete the
Air Line Railroad.
Mrs. Robert Hester, of Elberton, was
thrown from her carriage reoently and
had her elbow fraotured.
Thomas county gets up more enthu
siasm over her fairs than any other pro
vince in the commonwealth.
A bogus contractor has been adver
tising from Atlanta for workmen of all
sorts, and offering high wages,
Mr. Oliver Jones, a highly respeoted
citizen of Glascock county, died very
suddenly of apoplexy last Wednesday.
J. Cooper Nisbet, Esq., late Con.
Con. Sec., publishes an interesting let
ter in the Georgia Grange upon milk
oftttle,
It now transpires that Hon. M. J.
Crawford, of Barton, died of heart dis
ease, and not from the fall from his
buggy.
It is said that Mrs, John T. Ray
mond, one of the brightest and wittiest
women on the stage, is a Georgian and
a Roman Catholic.
Bishop John W. Beckwith and Rev.
0. C. Williams, of Macon, were in at
tendance on the Triennial Bpisoopal
Convention in Boston,
The lawsuit in relation to the Chero
kee Railroad has been adjusted, and
the road will be completed from Car
tersville to Cedartown.
The Greensboro Tier aid says; Bishop
Pierce is beginning to show his age, but
he has lost none of the earnestness and
eloquence of his palmier days.
Henry Grady is writing up the battle
of Gettysburg from General Longstreet’s
notes. How can we expect this thing
ever to be straightened now ?
Rev. Zaohariah Stearns, of Taylor
county, belongs to a remarkable family-
There are five brothers—the oldest 86
and the youngest 71 years of age.
The diffloulty hetween Messrs. E. P.
Howell, of the Constitution, and E. ,P.
Speer, of the Old Capital, has been ad
justed by a Board of Arbitration,
The man who pitohed a one-sided
crop last Spring, of oourse, finds his
shoulder out of joint. Better hold the
hog and hominy end up next time.
A Macon and Western train ran over
a negro near Goggin’s station, Friday,
and did but little damage, butting his
head and slightly gashing his arms.
The Gartersville Express says: That
was an unique idea a preacher expressed
from a pulpit hero Sunday; “My be
loved, you oan’t homestead on Jesus
Christ.”
Judge Felix McCarthy, of the Glynn
county Court, is reported to have vam
osed, dodging five indictments hanging
over him, and carrying SB3O of the pub
lic fund.
The railroad pool meeting, in Atlanta,
did not change the rates of freight in
the State, nor alter through rates. Its
aotion in the changes made was confined
to ooeau shipments.
The Warrenton Clipper says ; A ma
lignant type of bilious fever is prevail
ing in the country. One neighborhood
has forty-four oases. The viotims are
yellow as pumpkins.
Mrs. William Dillard, of Gwinnett
county, in a fit of jealousy, knocked
Emily Gleason in the head with a pine
knot, in the lower part of Gwinnett
county, last week, from the effects of
which the unfortunate woman died.
The following delegates from Georgia
attended the Amerioan Pharmaceutist
Convention at Toronto : Homer P. Tar
rant, Augusta; John Ingalls, A. A. Me
nard and John H. Zeilin, Macon, Mr.
John Ingalls, of Macon, was elected
seoond Vice-President of the Associa
tion. Q. P, Tarrant, of Augusta, is a
member of the executive oommittee for
the ensuing year.
Soarlet fever is leaving Maoon,
Brunswick enjoys good 'health.
Social Circle has two Marshals.
Monroe county has a drouth belt.
Some diphtheria in Monroe county.
Mr. Riohard A. Benson, of Macon, is
dead.
The ohicken thief is parading around
in Macon.
Mrs. Susan E. Bell, of Baldwin coun
ty, is dead.
The Brunswick Seaport Appeal again
comes to light.
Maoon is taking steps to forward aid
for Fernandina.
Union Point girl# tend their beaux
home at ten o'clock.
Meroer University opened with about
seventy-five stndents.
Mr, Thos. B, Wright, an aged citizen
of Milledgeville, is dead.
Dr. Lovick Pierce has been in Athens,
the guest of Dr. Henry Hull.
Governor Colquitt was yesterday at
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Cave
Spring, Ga.
Bibb and Hamilton counties will
build anew iron bridge on the Macon
and Perry Railroad.
Mr. Asa Deadwyler, who lives near
Paoli, Madison county, was gored by his
fine bull last Thursday.
A man named Brown, in Gwinnett,
who attempted to whip his wife, was
stabbed last week by his step-son.
The Watchman trusts that there will
be no effort to exclude the Dahlonega
Cadets from the State Fair prize drill.
An old farmer, Eberhart by name, was
robbed of a considerable sum of money
by Richard Clomer, in Athens, last week.
Mr. John Deloaoh, 8r„ of Bulloch
county, an old gentleman in his eighty
second year, killed two deer the other
Jhe seventh annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Northeastern Rail
road will be held in Athens next Wed
nesday.
A shooting affray occurred Sunday
night at the Brown House, in MacoD,
between Mr. Dave Conner and Mr. L.
B. Pike.
Col. C. D. Hammond, Secretary of
State for eight years under the adminis
tration of Govs. McDonald and Cobb,
died in Baker county.
Mr. W. Rioh, of Emanuel county, was
severely shot three times by a party of
disguised men, who claimed he had
slandered some ladies.
Someone sent Bill Arp (Maj. Smith),
who is farming in Bartow connty, a good
sized needle and a lot of thread to be
used in sowing hiß wheat.
Col. J. R. Hart, of Butts county, was
recently severely beaten in Cedartown,
by a step-son of Thos. Gibson, Esq., the
village editor. Trouble between Hart
and Gibson led to the affair.
A Columbus oompany, in purchasing
the North and South Road, pay SIO,OOO
of the purchase money as a bonus, and
give their obligation to pay the balance
by the first of January, 1879.
Newton county has an one-armed fid
dler and a left-handed fiddler, while the
editor of the Covington Star holds his
instrument with his great toe and saws
with his teeth. And yet his music
smells as sweet.
The steamer City of Austin, fresh
from the yellow fumes of Port Royal,
slipped by Brunswick’s qnarantine sta
tion, and sidled square up to the city’s
wharf. She was promptly reversed when
the citizens found it out.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Columbia has had frost.
Nine deaths last week iu Columbia.
Darlington talks of anew artillery
company.
e *® .i® *° be a big ball during the
State Fair.
f ten-year-old Columbia girl weighs
120 pounds.
A row is brewing in the Charleston
Custom House.
The Sandy Springs Factory will soon
commence work.
Female Institute opens
with fifty pupils.
The Greenville National Bank is build
ing a brick vault.
Major Earle resigns the Assistant Dis
trict Attorneyship.
Greenville sold 312 bales of cotton on
her streets Friday.
Mr. Reese Bowen, of Pickens, had his
corn cribs burned last week.
Major W. W. Sale is also mentioned
for the Charleston Mayoralty.
“Honest Man’s Club” has been or
ganized in Darlington county.
Oscar Moore, of Anderson, had his
hand recently cut in a cotton gin.
Some musical young men of Columbia
are forming a negro minstrel troupe
An old Georgetown fisherman diet! of
apoplexy while angling in the creek.
.It is suggested that military compa
nies to the State Fair be passed free.
The Phoenix says that, there is a dan
gerouß cattle disorder iu Richland coun
ty.
Farmers say there has been an extra
ordinary yield of sweet potatoes this
year.
. Uast year’s officials seem to bo meet
ing their fate with singular “resigna
tion.
Thomas J. Lipscomb has been elected
m°* °f the Newberry infantry regi-
A ootton bale fell upon a Charleston
car driver Saturday, inflicting serious
injury. °
Mr. David Geer, one of the oldest
oitizens of Anderson, is ill from pa
ralysis. r
There is to be a small number of sol
cners stationed in Columbia all the
Winter.
The old flag carried by the Palmetto
Regiment in Mexico is stored away in
Columbia.
Judge Northrop’s appointment to the
District-Attorneyship gives universal
satisfaction.
The Savannah Valley Railroad intend
to make some effort to control the Blue
Ridge Road.
. be Haskell Troop is the name of au
independent company just established
m Bishopville.
The Ninety- Six Rifles, Captain Lim
beoker. have entered for the competitive
drill at the Fair.
A2 ODe arme d man in Anderson, Mr.
J. F. Callahan, picked 160 pounds of
oottou tho other day.
appears that the poisoning of
the Charleston family did not result
from the fowls eaten.
Mr. Jno. R. Miot, of Columbia, a vet
eran of the Mexioan and of the civil
war, died last Friday.
The excursion to Charleston has been
very well patronized from different
points in the up-country.
GeD, B. H. Bntledge, of Charleston,
m spoken of as Speaker of the State
House of Representatives.
Governor Hampton has been invited
to deliver an address before the Agri
cultural Society at Abbeville.
The yacht race Friday in Charleston
is said to have been the most beautiful
regatta ever seen in the harbor.
Mr. Horaoe Rabb, of Fairfield county,
has entered the Associate Reformed The
ological Seminary at Due West.
The Orangeburg grand jury has found
true bills against almost all the old and
the new Radical county officials.
The Charleston Irish Volunteers pro
pose to lay the corner stone to their
monument some time next month.
An Anderson dramatic club will give
some entertainments for the purpose of
aiding to erect an Episcopal rectory.
A man bought a nickel watermelon in
Columbia, and on opening it found a.
new silver dollar buried with the seed.
The handsome residence of Dr. J.
Hunter, near Laurensville, oocupiod by
Col. James Farrow, was destroyed by
fire last week.
The Carolina Presbyteay will meet in
Columbia at the call of the Moderator
during the approaching meeting of
synod, Ootober 17th.
The Governor offers a reward of $lO9
for John Henry Vermillion, the mur
derer of Robert Holliday, in Greenville,
county, in December, 1873.
Colonel A. C. Haskell will deliver nr*
address before a mnss meeting of the
Labor Reform Associations, in Laurens
oounty, on Saturday, 20th instant.
John Patterson, who was arrested in
Colleton, charged with the murder of
Lee Perry, in Lancaster county, about
nine years ago, has been brought to the
latter place.
The Monticello Rifles have completed
their organization, and the officers have
reoeived their commissions. The roll
now numbers over one hundred men,
rank and file.
The New York Tribune thinks that
the appearanoe of a United States Sen
ator, or even an ex-Senator, in tho
Courts, is not calculated to awaken na
tional pride.
Judge Cooke, at the last term of Or
angeburg Court, adjudged an attorney
in contempt, and was compelled, from
certain irregularities, to order a revision
of the jury box.
A bell has been found by a diver out
side the Charleston bar with the nnmber
“ 1377 ” inscribed upon it. Whether it
is the year of its manufacture or the
nnmber of its make is a mystery.
The matter seems to stand about as
the Winnsboro News has it: “Tho
Liberia fever is raging, and is especially
fatal to corn, hogs, chickens, potatoes,
etc. Bnt it has as yet carried oft no
darkeys.”
The New York Commercial Adver
tiser, Republican, says: “Even the most
prejudiced bloody shirtist must admit
that the annnal crop of negro shoo ings
is remarkably backward in South Caro
lina this season,”
A correspondent of the Columbia
Register, discussing State finances,
says : “ The opponents of the consoli
dated debt have arrayed themselves
against Governor Hampton and the sol
emn pledges given by the State Demo
cratic party at the last election. Which
will the people support ?”
THE TENURE OF OFFICE ACT.
It May Prove a SrriouN Injury to tlie Public
IntereMtM.
Washington, October 7.--The impres
sion has heretofore obtained that the
extra session would run on continuously
until the regular session in December
next, but the Administration is now con
sidering the contingency that the extra
session may be soon brought to a close.
In such a case all the appointments to
office which have been made during the
recess, and which shall be still uncon
firmed, will fall to the ground. This
will involve the necessity of sending in
all these nominations promptly to the
Henate and of early action upon them.
Among the appointments it is deemed
certain that the nominations to the va
cancy in the United States Supreme
Court and for the vacant circuit judge
ship in the Kentucky District will he
transmitted to the Senate in a few days.
In the event of a rejection of any nomi
nations of the President the present
tenure of office act will prove a serious
injury to the public interests, and th> re
is ground for the belief that the Presi
dent would be very happy to have it re
pealed. The difficulties growing out of
this mischievous act and the filling of
the appointments will alone suffice to
keep Congress in session up to Decem
ber next.
Early Helm Illingelf Uiglit.
Whatever may have been Jubal Ear
ly’s errors, he is justified in demanding
that he shall not bo misrepresented. In
a note to the editor of the Richmond
Whig he thus denies that; he attempted
to prevent a cordial reception of the
President in Lynchburg “The state
ment made by the Tribune's correspond
ent has no foundation whatever in fact
so far as lam concerned. I was absent
from Lynchburg, as I have been for sev
eral weeks, when the programme for the
reception of the Presidential party was
agreed upon and arranged. After my
return I made no effort to break down,
impede or interfere with the reception.
In taking no part in it I acted according
to the promptings of my own judgment
and feelings, leaving others to do as they
thought proper.”
“ They All Do It,” the name of the
Danbury News man’s new book, is also
the title of Mozart’s comic opera “ Cosi
Fan Tutti.”