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OLD SERIES—VOL. XCII
NEW SERIES VOL II
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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 24,1877.
EDITORIAL NOTEM.
Patti has earned #2,500,000 by her
Voire.
Thk Democrats had the most “Greeks”
this time. _
Mr. Wheeler emerged from retirement
on Sunday last.
The President will stick to his policy
anyhow, they say.
Eliza Pinkston was repudiated along
with John Bukhman.
The President can “cry turkey" all the
time, so long as lie sours above party.
Parties who get foreign missions are re
ported to like an “off” year in this country.
'i UK great objection to woman suffrage
is there would be too much scratching at
the |X>lis.
Tiik two Uepublican organs in Washing
ton have locked horns on bogus Senator
I’ATTKHSON.
A mono the last words of Archbishop
Baylky were these : “Give some money
to the poor !”
The Uepublican party is breaking up in
to “isins.” The Democratic jiarty stands
rirtn and conquers.
—
Jk Gen. Hkistow should be sent to Eng
land as Minister, Gen. Grant might make
it a personal matter.
Tiik Kails of Niugra will soon turn the
wheels of a mill that can turn out 1,000
barrels of flour a day.
I'ktty thieviug in New York does not
prosper, iiecause there is no margin to com
|ii>und the felony.
T vx.vnuK pro|>erty in Chicago lias shrunk
#08,000,000 since last year. The levy this
year is #4.46 on the #IOO.
n
The Burlington Ilawheye thinks the
heart of the Kussian army ought to beat
very high, illias been so often repulsed.
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Secretary Sherman feels snaky enough
to believe in the Mississippi monster. He
is the Count Joannks of polities.
Tiik Newark election, the other day, be
tokeus that McCl.ki.lan will tie elected by
about 20,000 majority in New .Jersey'.
-
Tiik Democrats endorsed their own poli
cy in Ohio and did not rebuke the Presi
dent who hail endorsed them. Honors are
easy.
A noth Kit “orthodox cliurc liman" has
committed forgery and decamped. His
name is Wiikki.kk ami Boston was his
home.
Tiik Chicago Timm says Dr. Moffett,
the bell punch man, is doing Virginia more
good than Jefferson, Monroe or G. W.
ever did.
Omo is the twenty-fourth Stale with a
Democratic Governor. The Republicans
have fifteen left, and soon tnay be reduced
to nine.
A jCcoruinu to Rev. Baxter, of Man
chester, England, Cardinal Bonaparte is
to be i he next Pope and Prince Napoleon
Anti-Ch rist.
Mb. HtaAl.kv was disappointed in only
one thing hr Africa. He did not find any
dwarfs, strip.'.d like zebras, who eat ele
phant on toast..
CoNKi.iNU, in a little speech, just before
the Ohio election, denied any hostility to
the President and even wished him success.
Funny man, Conklino.
The Mrs. It. B. H. Temperance Associa
tion lias lieen thrown into spasms liy the
report Hint the lady of the President has a
eock-tail in her Fall bonnet.
At a Northern dark seance a ridiculous
figure comes forth as the Episcopal bishop
Leonidas Polk (a General in the late war)
n full canonicals, “sometimes wearing hie
mitre."
—
The “boys” arc trying to get Senator
Tiuirman to resign so that Pendleton
and Ewino may bo Senators together. The
bait held out to Thurman is the Presiden
tial nomination in 1880.
Canaris, the Premier of Greece and its
gr>xy test modern hero, died in an uncarpet
ed nic'tn, so poor that his grandchildren had
to atte.td inferior schools because there
they coin’d get free tuitiou.
•The Springfield Republican snys proofs
~t the frauds of the Boss Shepherd
management of the District of Columbia
improvements multiply on every hand.
Tliere \vas no doubt Oif them before.
Mr. TANARUS, tom as Wikans, a Baltimore mil
lionaire, | wy* $15,000 in ,**Jd per annum
for a Scon di deer forest, where he massa
cres the piv ir animals with it battery of
guns, as I he.V aw driven through narrow
gorge. 11
“Ik l could only gx't elected cashier of
Chicago Savings Bank,” soliloquized an ex
perienced thief, a day or two ago, “blame
if 1 wouldn’t reform, and '** a better man,
and go to Europe in a moni'b or two with
#50,000 in me pocket.”
The Burlington llnwkeyt obt'erves that
“lowa Republicanism is the kind to tie to,
because it is founded on living principles.”
It is founded on bayonets for the itouth
and five years more of good stealing. A
majority of the people in this country won’t
tie to it worth a cent. ,
It is said that while ihe President was
on his Southern tour some man called out
for three cheers for Haves and Wheeler.
Tlie President and his travelling compan
ions were so astonished that they looked at
each other in astonishment, and burst into
1. vughter as another fellow' iuquired, “Who
the h 1 is Whkklkr."
Fifteen States have yet to hold elections
this Fall. Ixiuisiana, Massachusetts, Min- j
nesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada.
New Jersey, New York. Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
aud Wisconsin vote on the sixth of Novem
ber and Georgia on the fifth of December.
In addition, Illinois elects county officers
-on November sixth.
Most editors have obituaries in type of
-noted individuals. An Italian journalist
was caught napping by M. Thiers’ death
and crawfished thus : “The sorrow with
which we are so suddenly overwhelmed en
tirely prevents us from saying anything
alkiut Eliis illustrious statesman; but when
our tears cease to flow to-morrow we shall
give an account of his life.”
Thk Globt-D*wocraC idea that Ohio Re
•pi'bHcans "stayed at home, thereby sboiv
ioi r that they were not anxious to I reak
the. ; r necks to get to the polls to declare
that Abraham Lincoln and Jeff. I)au
were equally patriotic ami equally honest,”
is endorsed by the stalwart press. Consid
ering that the G-D's proprietor and editor
lias just got out of the penitentiary, this is
funny consolation for a party that regrets
the loss of stealing in the South.
Mr. Barrett played Hamlet in Cincin
nati on Monday night under rather unfa
vorable circumstances. Hamlet trod the
board* in the Grand Opera House while an
immense political mass meeting shouted
themselves hoarse in the hall above. To
add to the pleasantness of the occasion a
brass band discoursed sweet music which
out-Heroded the orchestra; and when Ham
let beaoughtGuiLDßNHTE*sto"play upon
this pipe,” the band took the rust nest per
sonally and played on the pipes they had.
Ho doubt on this occasion Hamlet s last
words were said with more than usual
meaning : "The seat is silence.”
IT (M TIME TO CRY “ HALT.”
The political campaign which was
made necessary iu this State by the ac
tion of the Constitutional Convention
has fairly opened. In every county and
in every Senatorial District the names
of candidates for the General Assembly
are being suggeeted, and as the feelings
of voters become enlisted for or against
certain men we may expect the contest
to wax warm. The warmth caused by
this expression of individual preference
is not to be regretted. Under a Demo
cratic form of government it is to be
desired, not to be deplored, that every
citizen should promptly and fearlessly
express his wish as to who shall repre
sent him in making the laws under
which he must live. But custom and
sound policy have imposed a limitation
upon the exercise of this preference. It
is necessary for the safety of the State
and the welfare of the people that there
shall be two parties—one of which will
hold the other in check and prevent, as
far as it may in its power lie to pre
vent, any action that is deemed harmfnl
to the Commonwealth. Laying aside
the questions of offices and emoluments,
political parties in this county are
formed upon the idea of doing good to
the people. This is certainly the under
lying principle—this the view entertain
ed by the unselfish and patriotic men'
of the Democratic organization. That
political organizations, especially when
they become the controlling power of
the State, are prostituted by bad
moo to base purposes, is, unfortunately,
too often the case. For the past seven
teen years the Radical party has given
striking and abundant proof of the jos
tice of this observation. But be this as
it may, parties and party organizations
must exist. When they are abandoned
confusion aud anarebyare the inevitable
result. For ten years two parties have
striven for the possession of the govern
ment of Georgia. When the conflict
first commenced the Republican party,
which embodied all that was bad and all
that was daDgerons, oppressive and in
sulting to the people of the State, ob
tained the ascendancy by the aid of the
bayonet directed by the proscriptive leg
islation of a Radical Congress. For
three years the Empire State of the
S -nth lay at the mercy of an enemy
whose desire for evil was limited only
by his capacity for evil. Georgia, Pro-
METHF.us-like, was chained by Congress
to the rock while the filthy vnltnres of
Radicalism fed npon her vitals. From
every quarter came the unclean birds,
and many of those who shonld have
been foremost in her defense hastened
to join the filthy harpies, and fattened
upon her sufferings. Aliens and rene
gades banded together in a common
cause for the accomplishment of a com
mon object. Those sad days we all recall,
us men recall a horrid dream, and recall
ing them pray the good God they may
never come again. The deliverance of
Georgia came from the organized
Democratic party of Georgia, The true
sous of the State joined hands together,
and sinking personal feeling and per
sonal wishes in regard for the oommon
good, united to strike the chains from
their mother’s limbs. Ambitions men,
talented men, deserving men subordi
nated individual aims to the public wel
fare. They shunned all alliances with
the enemy. They knew that if the State
was saved it must be saved by tbo
Democratic party, and they voluntarily
submitted themselves to tho will of that
party. In three years’ time tho State
was redeemed— and redeemed by party
action. For seven years the State has
been held against her enemies— and
held by party action.
In the present campaign, then, is it
not of the utmost importance that party
organization shonld be maintained and
party action respected? Shall we by our
own act lose the fruits of victory won
by such arduous labors, by such heroic
exertions ? Shall we, having the power
to protect ourselves from those who
would act now as they did before, re
sign it nnresistingly, and after the lapse
of twelve months commence the Hercu
lean struggle again ? To these ques
tions we think there can be but one re
ply.
In some portions of the State a dis
position is manifested to undo all that
has been done ; to allow personal con
siderations to outweigh the public weal;
to snpplaut patriotism with ambition ;
to throw off allegiance to the Democratic
party ; to defy the action of the Demo
cratic party ; to virtually disband the
party. Before this movement pro
gresses further it is time to cry "Halt."
It will not do to say that the neces
sity for party organization no longer
exists. The necessity for snob organiza
tion is as great now as it has ever been.
The Radical] snake is scotched, not
killed. The enemy has been driven
from the field bnt he lies iu ambush
awaiting his time to strike. Radicals
are basing their hopes upon the dis
solution of the Democracy. By all the
means in their power they are attempt
ing to make us believe that they have
no intention of renewing the fight.
They expect to regain by cunning what
they once held tutongh the bayonet.
As soou as the Democratic party ceases
to act as a party, as soon as personal
ambition .makes irreparable breaches
in its ranks, as soon as Demo
crats become hopelessly divided in
a squabble for the spoils, so soon
will the Radical reappear in
all its strength and snatch the prize
which party discipline and party action
forced them to relinquish. The hope of
Georgia, the safety of the State, the
welfare of the people, depend npon pre
serving the party organization intact.
To the people of the State, to the people
of every Senatorial District, to the
people of every oouuty we say, “Stand
thk Pally.
THE POWER OF ONE MAN.
A foreign oorrespoadeoi groups the
groat forces tending to a gigantic up
heaval thus: “Europe is armed to the
tooth—that is patent to all the world.
Becout wars prove that ships no longer
exercise the potent power of half a cen
tury ago. Therefore it is not to be won
dered at that British croakers look on
nervously at the powers which it is pos
sible may one day be arraye<l against
her, and, after all, there is no knowing
bow soon England may be challenged ;j
for the peace of the world is still in the
bands of one wan. The train is laid ;
Bismarck might light it tomorrow, and
every power in Europe wants something,
if England is oontent We all know wuat
Rwaaia wants. Germany wants Holland
for a seaboard. France wants Alsace
and Lorraine and a bloody revenge on
Germany. Nice and Savoy only repre
sent one feature o i Datum ambition.
Austria is anxious to keep her pre&eut
State. The little powers pray to be pro
tected from the big ones. England is
anxious to be let alone, AH Europe is
jealous of her wealth, her possessions,
her liberty, her happiness." It may be
that a sudden peace will postpone the
dreaded clash of nations, bnt we are
rather inclined to the belief that some
spark, not now visible, will lire the
whole magazine. At any rate, the Grand
ChanoeUor of Germany seeips to be the
fateful man who now holds the solution
is his hand. A little later it may grow
beyond even his control.
SPEAKER RANDALL.
We have all along predicted that Mr.
Randall wonld be Speaker of the Honse
of Representatives which assembled
yesterday, and that his nomination by a
Democratic caucus wonld take place on
the first or second ballot. Hence we
were not surprised at the result. The
war made npon this gentleman was twoy
fold. He was opposed in certain quar
ters as an emiesaiy of Tor Scott and
the Southern Pacific Railway and in
other quarters as the man who prevent
ed Mr. Tilden from being President.
Asa collateral issue, somewhat in con
tradiction to others, he was objected to
as being hostile to free trade. The
truth of the matter seems to be that Mr.
Randall stands uncommitted as to what
are called “subsidies”—a term which
has no application to the Texas Pacific
project—and, like Richelieu, is deter
mined to sink the partisan, as Speaker,
and do only justice. That he will, of
conrse, form the committees of the
House with material largely drawn from
his own political party is to be expected;
but that he will constitute those com
mittees in his own personal interest or
that of Mr. Scott or any other man, we
do not believe. Least of all do we credit
the idea that he wonld bar the way to the
material progress of the Sonth, when it
is founded in the common weal of the
whole Union. As to Mr. Randall’s
conduct during the Electoral Com
mission, we of the Sonth, in an over
whelming majority, approve it, as not
only honorable, but, as events have
showD, the best, wisest and most profit
able conrse that conld have been pur
sued. It was fitting, therefore, that the
State of Georgia, through her oldest
and most illustrious Representative,
should virtually give such assurances to
the brethren in cancns, and what State
had a better right to do so than that
which was the “banner one” in the Til
den campaign ? That Mr. Tilden was
unjustly deprived of his office we do not
deny, but we are equally positive that
Mr. Randall conld not do otherwise
than carry out an edict which was just
as much the consequence of Democratic
action as anything else. The men who
consummated the iniquity are being
most severely punished, but the man
who helds the Presidency has a title that
cannot be successfully attacked, and he
has done more for tho country and
tho Democratic party, in two months,
than Mr. Tilden conld have done
in four years. The South at all
events is not disposed to qnarrel with
Mr. Randall for simply carrying out
a plain duty, and thus patriotically pre
serving us from civil war, and, least of
all, will she antagonize a man who dared
to be superior to party and, on the wreck
of Grantism , proclaim the sovereignty
of the States, the subjection of the bay
onet to civil law, the brotherhood of the
sections aud a union of peacr. Where
fore wo congratulate Mr. Randall on
his re-election, and conjure our brethren
everywhere not to condone crime
where it properly belongs, but to ad
dress themselves to the practical duties
of the present, leaving Retribution in
the bunds of a Power that never fails to
balance the scale between Right and
Wrong, even iu this world.
THE CAUSE OF POPULAR EDUCATION.
In the affairs of men, time wields a
most important and powerfnl influence.
It has been denominated the great
healer ; it may also be declared to be a
mo't potent agent in shaping and ma
turing publio opinion on subjects which
bear direotly upon the people’s highest
interests. Ten years ago public atten
tion was sought to be drawn to the
neoessity for a better system of public ed
ucation in Georgia. A limited number of
onr citizens, having studied tho subjeot,
became pronounced in their advocaoy of
a system which they were convinced was
practicable, and needed only a fair trial
to be made easily operative throughout
the State. They took the position that
the State had a high and important duty
to perform in the premises. They con
tended that the prevailing so-called sys
tem should be abolished, and one be
snbstitnted that wonld meet the de
mands of the people by making educa
tion practically as free as the sunlight.
Bnt to an overwhelming majority of our
people the subject did not commend it
self so successfully. There was an hon
est, but a very marked difference of
opinion, which was the outcome of a
lack of information as to the genius
of tho proposed system rather than ab
solute opposition to the idea that it was
the State’s duty to educate all her chil
dren. Bnt there were those who be
lieved and asserted that it was not the
provinoe of the State to control in the
matter of edneation; that every man
who was able should provide for his
own, while tho children of the poor and
indigent should be trained in “poor
schools,” that is, pauper schools. From
1837 down to 1867 the few had persis
tently inveighed against the policy
just referred to as rninons and
demoralizing in the extreme. As
the months rolled away into the past
pnblic opinion became more and more
enlightened, so that the few have grown
to be many—a multitude so great and so
thoroughly persnaded of the correctness
of their views on this important subject
that no man, whose position on this
qnestion is at variance with theirs, need
confidently solicit their suffrages for any
offioe in their gift. It has eome to
pass that when a man is brought
forward for any office of import
ance in the State, notably alder
manic and legislative, the people at
once demand to know how be stands on
the educational question. It has come
to pass that State and National Conven
tions dare not ignore this vital interest.
Why is this so ? Because the question
of public ednoation involves much of
statesmanship; because, in proportion
as edueatiou is diffused, the State be
comes richer and stronger, and the peo
ple become happier. We rejoice that it
is so. Wa are glad that the indica
tions are that the people of al
most every county in the State
will make the issue direct in select
ing Senators aud Representatives, who,
under the new Constitution, will have so
muoh to do iu remodelling the present
system in accordance with the pro
visions of that instrument. Speaking
to the emigrant and the immigrant,
Georgians say: ‘ ‘Consider the salubrity
of 04 r climate, the fertility of our soil;
the inexhauatehla resources of our
State. ” They must o bfclp to add :
“Consider also oar system of educa
tion, which amply provides alike for the
thickly populated and the sparsely set
tled districts."
A HOME THKISI'.
The following anecdote from the col
umns of the New Orleans Democrat wiU
be highly appreciated in this region :
A party of geuriempp and ladies riding in
one of our city cars last,freak became involved
in a pretty earnest discussion of F ranch poli
tics and of the comparative merits of the Mac-
Ma#; ai.< t>ie Gambetta parties. There
happened to he j£e famous commander
of the Thirteenth fnfawy. jjsiip executed
Okant and Hhkridax. order "Trclkni. the
members of the Legislature in 1875 at the
point of the baronet. General DeT. being
asked his opinion of MacMahox and his posi
tion. expressed very warmly and emphatically
his detestation of the despotic spirit and acts
of the French President and his hope that the
French people would hurl him from power.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1877.
“ Bat how, General, if in his despotic acts
he shonld be backed by the army ? Do yon
think that he will not find officers of the army
who would support him to the point of expel
ling the members of the National Assembly
from the legislative halls ?”
The General shrugged his shoulders and
subsided into a pensive mood.
General DeTbobriand was well caught,
and he evidently thought that they
“ managed these things better in
France.”
THK SENATE IN 1878.
Of the present Senators six Demo
crats and seventeen Republicans go ont
of office on Maroh 4th, 1879, as follows :
DEMOCRATS. REPUBLICANS.
Connecticut.... Barnum Alabama Spencer
.Georgia Gordon Arkauaas Dorset
Kentucky McCbeeby California Sargent
Maryland Dennis Florida Conover
Missouri.... Armstrong Illinois Oglesby
N. Carolina.. Mer&imon Indiana Morton
lowa Allison
Kansas Ingalls
Nevada Jones
N.Hamfs’r ....Wadleigh
New York Conklino
Ohio Matthews
Oregon Mitchell
Pennsylvania.. .Cameron
8. Carolina. ...Patterson
Vermont Morrill
Wisconsin Howe
The States eertain to return Demo
crats are Alabama, California, Georgia,
Florida, Kentnoky, Maryland, Missouri,
North Carolina, Ohio and Sonth Caro
lina. lowa, Kansas, Vermont and New
Hampshire will, in all human proba
bility, retnrn Republicans. With a
Democratic Senator to be elected from
Louisiana, the Demoeraey can count
npon a gain of 12 Senators. Without
carrying a doubtful State, the Demo
crats are already sure of 39 votes in the
Senate of 1879. The Missouri Repub
lican figures out that ‘ ‘this will be the
oase even if Kellooo and Cobbin are
seated and Davis votes with the Re
publicans. If, however, Davis votes
with the Democrats and Spoffobd and
Butler arc admitted, the Senate will be
Democratic by 8 majority, even if Re
publican Senators shonld be returned
from Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Ne
vada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin. It will be admitted
that there is not the faintest possibility
of this event and there is something
more than a possibility that Demoorats
will be elected in every one of these
eight States classed as doubtful. This
would give the Demoorats 24 majority,
as the vote wonld stand 50 Democrats to
26 Republicans, and it will indicate
what an extraordinary change in power
is soon to be brought about by the will
of the people.”
When we recolleot what that “will of
the people” has done in a few years
against the sword of the despot and the
will of the fanatios, it is enongh to con
vince the most skeptical that Providence
still rules in the affairs of this world
and brings to confusion, in the most
nnexpeoted manner, the maohinations
of the wicked.
AN OLD DOCUMENT.
The friends and admirers of Abraham
Lincoln will be surprised at the publi
cation of the following document, whioh
we find in a late number of the Herald:
Mr. Uacolu’s View of the Fugitive Slave
Law.
Spbinofield, 111., Uune 20, 1850.
Hon. 8. P. Chase :
Mi Deab Sib—Yours of the 18th Instant is
received. You say you would be glad to have
my views. Although I think Congress has
constitutional authority to enact a fugitive
slave law I have never elaborated an opinion
npon the subject. My view has been, and is,
simply this: The United States Constitution
says the fugitive slave “shall be delivered up,”
but it does not expressly say who shall deliver
him up. Whatever the Constitution says
“shall be done” and has omitted saying who
shall do it, the Government established by
that Constitution, ez vi termini, is vested with
the power of doing aud Congress is, by the
Constitution, expressly empowered to make
all laws which shall bo necessary and proper
for carrying into execution all powers vested
by the Constitution in the Government of the
United States. This would be my view on a
simple reading of the Constitution; and it is
greatly strengthened by the historical fact that
the Constitution was adopted, in great part, in
ordor to got a government which could exe
cute its own behests in contradistinction to
that under the articles of confederation, whioh
depended, in many respects, npon the States
for its execution ; and the other fact, that one
of the earliest Congresses, under the Consti
tution, did enact a fugitive slave law.
But I did not write you on this subjeot with
any view of discussing the constitutional ques
tion. My only object is to impress you with
what I believe is true, that the introduction of
a proposition for repeal of the fugitive slave
law into the next Republican National Con
vention will explode the Convention and the
party. Having turned your attention to the
point I wish to do no more. Yonrs very truly,
A, Lincoln.
It will be seen, from the honest ex
pression of sentiment and opinion, that
Mr. Lincoln was agreed that, according
to the Constitution, the personal liberty
bills of different Northern States, which
did more to break up the old Union
than anything else, were flagrantly vio
lative of the fundamental law npon
which the Unionjitself was based. Mr.
Lincoln, in 1859, was in favor of obey
ing faithfully the compact of the Con
stitution. After that, when Seward and
Chase got possession of him, he lent
himself to all the schemes of hif Me
phistophelian advisers. It matters lit
tle practically now, bnt there is a deal
of “truth of history” being vindicated
from day to day.
THE MAN WHO FOUGHT NipEtSSfON fty
GEORGIA.
Raised and eduoated in the school of
Jefferson and Calhovn, with the fiery
blood of the South coursing in every
vein, Johnson, at the date of secession
towered above all men in Georgia. He
had just served the State as Governor
for two terms ; popular and with a grand
intellect, his people looked upon him as
a man without a peer. The Douglas
campaign had just ended—he had borne
the flag of that wing of the Democracy
grandly and nobly. The prime of life
wax upon him, and he was truly what
the Democracy of the North called him,
“the lion of the South.” His great
heart seemed to yearn for the Constitu
tion of the fathers, and his great brain
t#ld him that secession was ruinous.—
Jefferson county, the very heart of the
slaveholding belt of dleorgig, sent him
to the Convention that was doomed to
take the State out of the Union. He had
great compeers in that Convention
the greatest and best men of Georgia—
Toombs, Stkfhrns, Cobb, Hill, Nrsbit,
and a host of others. and
Johnson headed the opposition to im
mediate secession. Four or five States
had seceded and there was a perfect
storm of olamor to get Georgia out of the
Union. The eloquent T.RB, Cobb had
declared that “we can make better terms
out i£e Union than in it.” Nrsbit
brought in &u ardinsnpp for immediate
secession. Johnson presented some reso
lutions for 00-operation among the South
ern States looking to an adjustment of
alt ooy difficulties. In the debate upon
these resolutions jogxoq, perhaps, de
livered the great speem of his life.
Those who heard it can never forget it.
He seemed to be more than himself. He
was logical, grand, brilliant and a deep
love of ypjfntrv seemed to pervade every
Utterance. Jfad tiiWw fa t £en an ad
journment for dinner and oouhf tjiere
have been an immediate vote, the prob
ability is Georgia would never have
gone out oi ike JTnion at that time. The
effect of the logic and appeal wjw top
great. Men felt that it was time to
pause and consider before taking the
desperate leap into revolution. But, no,
the demon of revolution and blood was
stirring the hearts of onr people.—
“We must go out because we have
the right to go ont,” was the cry and the
policy. Georgia went ont of the Union
because she had the right to go ont, and
because fonr or five Status had already
gone. Secession ended disastronsly.
And the good people of Georgia have
learned to regard Johnson and Ste
phens and Ben Hill, if not prophets,
then as men of far reaching sagacity and
oonsnmmate statesmanship. Hbbsohel
Y. Johnson is still with ns, in perfect
health, and all his gieat powers are in
full play. Physically and mentally
there is no grander man in America. He
has the brain of a Titan, a heart of a
lion and the tongue of ah angel. The
people of hia own State have honored
him, and they feel that there is no posi
tion in the Government that he wonld
not adorn.
TDK DOCTRINE OF ROTATION.
A Defense of the System From Lincoln.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Since it has been published by au
thority and aeoeptedas a fact that Judge
Reese will not boa candidate for re
election to the Senate from the 29th
Distriot, it seems that this arena of the
political field is likely to “suffer vio
lence,” and that the violent will “take it
by storm.” From the number of worthy
gentlemen whose names have been an
nounced it wonld seem not a difficult
task to fill the position wisely and well.
Bat while the political cauldron is bab
bling so seething hot, I think it wonld
be profitable to stop for a moment and
consider whither we are drifting. Asa
Distriot we have no party organization
outside of the counties composing the
Distriot. We have no District Execu
tive Committee. Each county has acted
or refused to act as they saw proper. On
this plan we have got along very well,
while we bad Judge Reese in the Sen
ate or eonld keep him there. His high
qualifications for that position satisfied
everybody save those who thought the
policy of “rotation” more expedient
than his second election. A writer using
the name of “29th Senatorial Distriot”
asserts that this aequiescenee, this mere
choice of expedients, has forever settled
the policy of “rotation” in this Distriot.
He says : “What was done then we pro
pose to adhere to for the future.” Let
ns see if he does. The thing done then
was the election of Judge Reese from
Wilkes county. Now, to adhere to what
was done he will have to elect him
again. He ean’t do this, because the
J udge refuses. I will excuse him from
adhering “to what was done,” as to the
rt made impossible without his fault,
int I must hold him to the balance. And
that is, the candidate mustoome “from
Wilkes county.” Bnt he has abandoned
his own doctrine and “rotated” to Mc-
Duffie for a candidate. Of oourse I mean
nothing in disparagement of the just
merits of his candidate, Mr. Tntt.
I think the opposition to rotation
arises from an inoorreot idea of what it
is and what is intended by it. It is not
a principle nor a doctrine. It is simply
an expedient, a mode or manner of giv
ing effect to a principle. As an expe
dient, its use might be wise at one time
and unwise at another. No one expe
dient can always be wisely applied under
all circumstances. All expedients should
be suited to the circumstances. To il
lustrate : Judge Reese’s re-election in
1874 was expedient and rotation inex
pedient. Why ? Because he was the
popular choice of the whole district,
i bunded on his superior qualifications.
With the exception of all similar cases,
in my opinion, rotation is the proper
expedient, as a general rule. It is
founded on the political equality of
eonnty organizations. It fosters and
encourages pride and emulation. It
will put down rings and packed Con
ventions. It is the popular plan all
over the State, and the exceptions are
rare. It is the best plan to keep a unit
ed and compact organization of the
Democratic party. If it sometimes
gives a candidate that is not a popular
favorite or fully qualified, the loss is
fully compensative in the unity and
strength and harmony of the party. It
is an expedient that has a foundation in
the Constitution and in the practices of
the General Government. The Presi
dent and Vice-President of the United
States oannot both be elected from the
same State. Here is respect shown
to all State organizations, and ro
tation in office is founded on noth
ing more nor less than the equal rights
and privileges of county organizations.
The appointments of the Judges of the
United States Supreme Court are always
made and recommended in view to the
equal participation of the different sec
tions of the Union. This is respect
shown to territorial rights. It is a dis
tinctive feature of republicanism as dis
tinguished from monarchy to distribute
its honory and privileges and offices
among the people far and wide and with
out monopoly.
This Distriot was known as No. 35 in
the old Senatorial plan of 1843, and was
oomposed of Wilkes and Lincoln. It is
well known that the two counties ro
tative every election, and the plan work
ed well and harmoneously. This plan
continued till the Constitution of 1861
changed the districts by uniting three
contiguous eonnties. Columbia was
then added and the number changed to
29.
The first election after the change
was, I think, in 1862, when Col. Wal
ton, of Lincoln county, was elected for
two years.
The next Senator of the 29th District
was Dr. Casey, of Columbia county,
eleoted, I think, in 1866. In 1868 Sher
man was eleoted from the same oounty,
but I will not charge Columbia with
him. And in 1870 Judge Reese was
elected from Wilkes and again re-elected
in 1874. In fourteen years and four
teen sessions Lincoln has bad the Sena
tor two years, or one-seventh of the
time, and counting out Sherman, one
sixth of the time. From this it plainly
appears that Lincoln is now entitled to
the Senator, as against Columbia and
Wilkes and will be entitled ia 1880 to
make her equal to those counties.
It only remains to dispose of McDuf
fie’s claim. She was not; invested with
the full rights of a county until 1873,
and np tp the election m 1874, as a part
of Columbia coqnty, she wag represent
ed in the Senator elect from the Twenty
ninth. Then her claim as a county to
Senatorial honor dates from the election
in 1874- At that time she gracefully
waived her right, if she had any, in favor
of Judge Reese. But for the re-election
of the latter, the policy we counted on
would have given the Senator to Lin
coln at that time, unless McDuffie had a
better right, Did she have it then ? and
if not, can she have it now ?
It is as dear that she did not have the
right then as that she asserts it now.
MoDuffle as a oounty did not exist on
this purpose prior to the election in
1874. She and her people were an in
tegral part of Columbia, and as such
were represented in the Senate up to
that time as stated. Does she claim the
Senator in the order of rotation to make
her equal to the other three counties ?
She has never lost anything to be equal
ized. I have shown that as a part of
Columbia oounty they have already had
what they now claim. It would seem,
then, to bA a just conclusion that she
ought to content herself to go to the
foot of the list instead of assuming to
stand at the head. But it appears that
she has leaped from the womb of old
Columbia as perfect as Minerva did
from the brain of Jove. The people are
not going to lose sight of theiji ‘cdqnties
and ooupty rights because the Legisla
ture has run an imaginary line around
them, and called them Districts. In
the recent election of members to the
Con. Con., which waa a call by the Leg
islature for five members from the Dis
trict, and not from the counties, each
oonnty had its delegate, And so it
waa all over the State, either one
or mOFP? It VoQ iff not have been
illegal to take them ail fron; one
County, bnt who would have con
tended for that and who would have
submitted to it ? This is all we mean by
rotation—a respect for the equal politi
cal rights of counties. If, when five
members* aft elected at ouce from a
district, it lit right to give one of more
to each oonnty, why not in font differ
ent elections, when one only is eleoted
from the district, give each county a
member in her turn. That is all there
IS of rotation aud the reason and sense
iff ft bak b&n ’Tbeogonted all over the
bvr > r ri r t v - -t-
Ihncoln will not be represented by
delegates to the Thomson Convention
6a the IfrH instant. She does not ao
ftpf the time and place for inconven
ience. We think ! a nbmidnation at the
time and in the form proposed is inex
pedient. If the action of Colombia and
McDuffie in that Convention is in ao-
o rd with onr views we will adopt it. If
not we claim the right to choose onr
own course. We propose as a substitute
for the meeting of the 15th at Thom
son that a mass meeting be called at
Clay Hill of the people of the distriot,
where the question of who shall be the
candidate for the distriot shall be set
tled by the people themselves, when
these questions may be discussed and
settled and the necessary steps taken
for the organization of the distriot at
large and to rally the vote of the dis
trict for the adoption of the new Con
stitution. s.
Lincolnton, October Bth.
THE AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE RAIL
ROAD.
Apropos of the letter we published a
few days ago from Hon. Wm. Foley, of
Indiana, on emigration, we print the
annexed, written by Dr. H. R. Casey to
President Wheless, of the Angnsta and
Knoxville Railroad, on the relation of
that enterprise to emigration. The oom
mnnication is brimfnl of wise sugges
tions. We commend it to onr readers:
Wavkbly Hall, October 13, 1877.
W . H. Wheless, President of Augusta
and Knoxville Railroad Company:
Esteemed Sib —I suggest this idea to
you. That you write to the Ordinaries
of the eonnties through whioh onr con
templated road will pass, and also the
contiguous eonnties, to fnrnish yon the
information that is asked for by Mr.
W. Foley, in behalf of the United
States Emigration Society, located
at Indianapolis. These emigrants
very properly desire to be in
formed as to “ facts and figures" be
fore they embark in an undertaking that
will involve on their part a breaking up
of home, present and past associations
to seek new homes and fntnre surround
ings. They desire to be informed as to
quality of land, number of acres, health,
climate, productions, price, terms, etc.,
and I wonld further suggest the open
and avowed sentiments of the people as
to their wishes in this regard. The
Ordinaries are generally popular and
reliable gentlemen, and no donbt will
interest themselves in obtaining the de
sired information. In the oonnties
where the paper circulates yon might
call attention to it publicly, or by en
closing a copy of the paper to the Ordi
naries. This will result, I hope, in the
presentation of "facts and figures" that
will bring face to face the parties wish
ing to sell and those wishing to bny.
What is much needed is an influx of
capital and labor along the line of this
much desired and vastly important
highway of commerce. These will act
and react mutually upon each other; and
to the benefit of both. The capital and
labor will prove a great lever power that
will very materially aid in the early and
successful building of this road.
Another road bnilt and in operation
will prove not only a good investment
within itself, but will enhance the valne
of all kinds of property oontignons to
it 50 to 100 per cent. I said this United
States Emigrating Company, and the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad Com
pany could be of mutual advantage to
each other, and in thus playing into
each other hands, not only forward the
industries and enterprises of each, but
by this "co operation" beoome of great
and permanent benefit to the conntief
interested, and to the “State at large.”
Now, Mr. President, when you open
books of subscription of stook to your
road, and you commence to canvass the
counties, I would snggest that you have
three kinds of stock subscriptions.
While the people are very anxious for
this road, and have had their attention
direoted to it for the past nine or ten
years, there are many of them too poor
to put money in it as an investment.
They have, as a general rule, but little
of that very desirable article, whioh
Mr. Mantalini in Nicholas Nickleby
designates "demnition cash t" Bnt,
sir, if you will have, as I said,
three kinds of stook subscription,
first and foremost get what money
yon can, then labor and land. The labor
you will need in the construction of the
road the land can be made available also.
A farmer owning five hnndred acres of
land, iuaocessable to market as he is,
over our horrid “ Columbia County
Roads," would do well to subscribe one
hundred acres of his land. This land,
valued at five dollars per acre, and your
shares of stock at ten dollars per share,
he can take fifty shares of stook. The
road built and in running order, his re
maining four hundred acres will enhanoe
in value two fold, and the farmer be
comes in reality a rich man by the in
vestment. His five hnndred acres are
now worth five dollars per acre, or, in
the aggregate, two thousand five hun
dred dollars. He lessens his acres of
land property one hundred aores, and
the remaining four hnndred aeres, with
the road built, is then worth ten dol
lars per acre, or fonr thousand dollars,
and he has made fifteen hundred dol
lars by the trade. True, the railroad
company can sell to this “ Emigration
Company” these lands at cost, and these
emigrants will get the benefit of the ac
crued valuation. These emigrants might
wish to put in their labor as part pay
ment of the land, and thus the two
enterprises could be forwarded and
but little money changing hands.
Now, this is the kind of population
we of the Bonth need. We need money,
and money is power; we need soienoe,
brain and muscle power, and last,
though not least, we wart skilled la
bor ! Onr broad aores are abandoned to
broomsedge, briars and thistles. We
need industrious farmers to settle upon'
these lands. We need miners to develops
our hidden mineral wealth and ma
chinists and manufacturers to turn the
white staple of these lands into doth
and the grain into flonr first [and direct
from the adjacent fields. Commencing
at Augusta, the Southern terminus of
our contemplated road, there is now
offered to the manufacturer the finest
of water power and in abundance, and
all along np the Savannah river and on
Broad river and other streams, there are
to be bad bites for factories and mills
which nature from her abundant cornu
copia offers to those who have a
taste for such investments. I will start
the ball of information by stating that I
know of one plantation in this neighbor
hood of abont 3,000 aores for sale. I
think it can be bonght for $3 per aare.
There is upwards of 100 aores of bottom
land, the Savannah riyer bounds it on
the eass while thp Big Kioku ereek
Washes its southern border, Jt has a
mill in a good neighborhood for custom,
it is healthy, wel[ adapted fop cotton
and the cereals, and will make a fine
stock farm. Peapept^ll^,
A WOMAN WFP MEANT BUSINESS.
Don’t Indulge In flight* Of Fuu When
Vlllßf Tf
| Vrprn thp Dflrpif Frfe Pr^t,\
There is no reason \fhy the inventor
of a remedy to (‘cure tl)e worst oase of
eatarrah inside of five minutes’’ shouldn't
feel it his duty to plaoe a bottle of the
same in every person’s hand—“price,
25 cents; no core no pay.” Therefore,
the long-legged chap who pulled a door
bell on John R. street yesterday had
none of that timidity in his leering
which characterizes rag-buyers, light
ning-rod men and solicitors for the fire
sufferers. He had a good thing and he
knew it. When the door opened and a
hard featured woman abou* dg years of
ape confronted him, he pleasantly went
to business and asked :
“Madam, is your husband ever troub
led with the catarrh ?”
“Can a man who has been dead seven
years be troubled with the catarrh?”
she grimly replied. ’’
“Bat the children are liable to he at
tached at any hour this aeason,” he re
marked. ' •
“Whole children %”■
“Yours, madam.”
“I never had any, sir 1 What brought
you here anyhow * Why do you fme
asking those questions f"
“Madam, I have compounded a reme
dy for the catarrh. It is a good thing.
I’ll warrant it to knock any case of
catarrh high-sky in less than five min,
utes.”
“Well, sir, wbat’-a all this me?*'
“Why, maclatn—Why—?’*nq stam
mered. ! * • ' " r "
“Do I look as if I needed any eatarrh
remedies ?” she demanded, as she step
ped out on the platforgp
“h|aaa w , I ywil4 hot lor the world
have you this* that I thought you had
the eatarrh, but I suppose the fair and
lovely can be attacked as well as the
strong and brave.”
“And what have I got to do with all
that rigmarole ? Wfep ,w sk And
wua* qo you wsmtjr • ■ “
“Madam,”, he whispered, hiking
down one step, “I hare compounded a
remedy for the catarrh.” ' '
“Who’s catarrh, sir
('Madam, J am selling my catarrh—”
is yotir oatarrh—where is it If
she interrupted.
He got down on the second step and
softly began:
“Madam, I have a sure cure for the
catarrh, and I am selling lota of it.”
“Well, what do I oare ! Mast yon ring
my door-bell to tell me that yon are sell
ing lots of oatarrh medicine ?”
He got down on the walk, clear of the
Bteps, and he tried hard to look beauti
ful around the month as he explained:
“Madam, didn’t I ask yon if yonr hus
band was ever troubled with oatarrh ?”
“Yes, sir; and didn’t I reply that he
waa dead? Do you want to see his grave,
sir?”
“No, madam, Ido not. lam sorry
he's dead, bnt my oatarrh remedy oan't
help him any. Good-bye, madam.”
“Here, sir, bold on a minute !” she
called, “what was your business with
me ?”
“Why, I have a remedy for the ca
tarrh.”
“So yon said before.”
“I asked you if you didn’t want to
purohase, and—”
“You are a falsifier, sir; you never
asked me to purchase! *
“Do—yon— want —a bottle ?” he
alowly asked.
"Yes, sir; give me two of them; here’s
yonr money ! Next time you want to
sell yonr oatarrh remedy don’t begin to
talk around about the discovery of
America by Oolnmbns. Here you’ve
bothered me fifteen minutes, and put all
my work behind, and it’s good for yon
I didn’t bring the broom- to the door!”
He retreated backwards through the
gate, his left eye squinted up and his
month- open. He ghnt the gate, leaned
over it and looked long at the front door.
Bye and bye he said:
“Darn ’em t You oan never tell where
to find ’em!”
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO
THE EXTRA SESSION.
The Army and Navy Appropriations—The In
terior Department Disaster—The Judiciary
In Want—The Paris Exhibition and Stock
holm Congress Democratic Senators
Watch the Main Chance.
Washington, October 16.—1 tis as
serted that the Democratic Senators will
be guided in their action npon the Pres
ident’s nominations for Louisiana offi
ces by the advioe of Senators Spofford
and Enstis. It is ascertained that these
gentlemen have not yet made known
their views. It is known that the Pres
ident’s nominations cannot be confirmed
without Democratic votes, and in this
view of the ease it is expected that the
President’s Bepublioan friends will favor
the admission of Spofford and Enstis.
The situation is onnonsly complicated.
It seems certain that King must make
himself acceptable to Spofford and Ens
tis to retain bis place. It is said that
formal charges have been made against
Collector Worthington, of Charleston,
but no information is vouchsafed from
the Department.
Senate.
In the Senate, during the morning
hour, a large number of bills and peti
tions were presented and referred to
appropriate committees. Among the
petitions were many from various parts
of the country in favor of increasing
compensation of letter carriers. Among
the bills introduced was one by Mr.
Beck, of Kentucky, for the removal of
all disabilities imposed by the 14th
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. Referred to the Com
mittee on Jndioiary. The Senate, at
12:35, omanotion of Mr. Edmnnds, took
a recess until 1:15, p. m.
Gordon and Lamar called on the
President. The Demooratie eauons of
Senators to-day resolved to wait the in
dication of what the Republicans in
tended to do regarding the Senators
from Sonth Carolina and Louisiana be
fore adopting a line of action. The Re
publican Senators oauenssed on com
mittees. An incidental colloquy indi
cated about equal division as to whether
the session will be long or short.
Repeating the Iren ClaA Oath,
A resolution continuing the commit
tees of last session until farther orders,
was adopted. Beck introduced a bill to
repeal aot of July 2d, '69 and auoh sec
tions of revised statutes of the United
States as perpetuate the oath therein
prescribed. Referred to the Committee
on Judiciary. The object of the bill is
to repeal the iron olad oath.
Bailey, of Tennessee, presented a pe
tition of the Southern Methodist Pub
lishing House, of Nashville, for an in
demnity for use and consumption of its
property in ’64-5. Referred to the
Committee on Claims. The Senate ia
fall, with the exception of Morton and
Sharon, and the excluded Senators from
Lonisiana and Sonth Carolina.
The President’* Alewage,
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and
House of Representatives:
The adjournment of the last Congress
without making any appropriations for
the support of the army for the present
fiscal year has rendered neoessary a sus
pension of payments to offioera and men
of the sums due them for services ren
dered after the 30th day of January last.
The army exists by virtue of statutes
whioh prescribe its numbers, regulate
its organization and employment, and
whioh fix the pay of its offioers and men
and deolare their right to receive the
same at stated periods. These statutes,
however, do not authorise ths payment
of troops in thp qbsppop of specific ap
propriations therefor. The Constitu
tion bk Wisely provided that i‘ No
money shall be drawn front the Treasu
ry bnt in oonseqnenee of appropriations
made by law,” and it has also been de
clared bv Statute That no department
of the Government shall expend in any
one fiscal year a sum in exoeas of appro
priations made by Congress for that fiscal
yeafc” Wo have, therefore, an army in ser
vice' authorized by law and entitled to
be paid bnt no fnnds available for that
purpose. It may also be said, as an ad
ditional incentive to prompt action by
Congress, that since the commencement
of the fisoal year the army, though with
out pay, baa teen constantly and active
ly engaged in arduons and dangerous
servioe,in the performance of wpibn both
officers and men have discharged their
doty ¥>.*o fidelity and courage, and with
out complaint. These
in my lodgment, constitute ' extraor
dinary occasion that Congress
be conyefled in of tho time pre*
scribed t>j taw fox your meeting in reg
ular session. The importance of speedy
action upon this sabiept qn tbs part of
Congress if SP qtaqifpst tfot \ venture
to enggpgt tbf propriety of making
necessary appropriations lor support of
the army for the current year, as its
present maximum numerical strength of
¥W*T-?*T® Men.
Leaving for future epnsjderation all
questions renting to an increase or de
crease pf the newher of enlisted men.
In the went of 3 nduotiop of the army
by subsequent legislation during the
fisoal year the excess of the appropria
tion could not be expended, and in the
event of its enlargement, an additional
snm required for the payment of ex
tra force, could be provided in due
time. It would be nnjnst to the troops
now in and where pav ij al
ready largely in arrears, i* to
them should be farther ’postponed until
after Oqugraaa shall have considered all
questions likely to arise in their effort
to fix a proper limit to the strength of
the army. Estimates of appropriations
for the support of the bilitary estab
lishment for the Spoal year, June sOth,
1878, were transmitted to CqQgress by a
forlner Secretary of th? treasury at the
opening of its %puSo 9 . *n December
lgaf, 'Jfbes? estimates, modified by the
presen* Secretary, so- as to conform to
the present requirements, are now re
newed, amounting to $32,436,764 98
“3 transmit tp both
of Op.MrfS| a submitted for
you* sounaeranon, Mere also re
quired by the
Navv Depart lacnt
$2,003,061 27. This sum is made up of!
$1,446 688 16 due to offioen and enlisted
men for tjip last quarter of the last
fycai year, $34,953 oOdue for advanoea
made by the financial agent of the Gov
ernment in London for the support of
foreign service, $50,000 due ta naval
hospital fund, slftOQpue' tor arrear
age® W omotrn and $45,219 58
to? the support of the marine corps.
There will also be needed an appropria
tion of $26,235 22 to defray the un
settled expenses of
vwr.
For tee jtoosl year ending Jane 30th,
last no# d,ue to Attorneys, Clerks, Com
missioners and Marshals, and torrent
of Courtrooms, support of pmcmein and
other defloienoes, Lari oi the building
of tb
OffutaMl
Was destroyed by fire on the s*th of
last month. Some immediate repairs
and temporary structures have, in con
sequence, become neoeeasrj, estimates
tor v?ill bo transmitted to Con-
$2 A TEAK—POSTAGE PAID
gross immediately, and an appropriation
of the requisite funds is respectfully
commended. The Secretary of the
Treasury will communicate to Congress,
in connection with bis estimates for ap
propriation for the support of the army
for the current fiscal year, the estimates
fer such other deficiencies in different
branches of the pnblio service as re
quire immediate action, and cannot,
without inconvenience, be postponed
nntil the regular session.
The Paris Exhibition.
I take this opportunity also, to invite
yonr attention to the propriety of adopt
ing at yonr present session necessary
legislation to enable the people of the
United States to participate in the ad
vantages of the International Exhibition
of Agriculture, Industry and Fine Arts,
which is to be held in Paris in 1878, and in
whioh this Government has been invit
ed by the Government of France to take
part. This invitation was communicated
to this Government in May, 1876, by the
Ministers of France at this Capitol, Jand
a oopy thereof submitted to the proper
committees of Congress at its last ses
sion, bnt no action was taken npon tljie
subjeot. The Department of State has
received many letters from various parts
of the country expressing a desire to
participate in the exhibition, aud nu
merous applications of a similar nature
have also been made at the Uuited
States Legation at Paris. Tl>e Depart
ment of State has also received official
advioe of a strong desire on the part of
the Frenoh Government that the United
States should participate iu this enter
prise, and space has hitherto been and
still is reserved in the exhibition build
ings for the use of exhibitions from
the United States to the exclusion of other
parties who hava been applicants there.
In order that our industries may be
properly represented at the Exhibition,
an appropriation will be needed for tho
payment of salaries and expenses of
commissioners, for the transportation of
goods and for other purposes iu connec
tion with the object in view. If onr
oitizens are to share the advantages of
this international competition for tho
trade of other nations, the neoessity of
immediate aetion is apparent to enable
the United States to 00-operate. In an
International Exhibition whioh wus
held in Vienna in 1873, Congress then
passed a joint resolution making an ap
propriation of two hnndred thousand
dollars, and authorizing the President
to appoint a certain number of practical
artisans and scientific men who should
attend the exhibition and report their
proceedings and observations to him.
Provision was also made for the ap
pointment of a number of honorary
commissioners. I have felt that prompt
action by Congress in accepting the in
vitation of the Government of Franco is
of so muoh interest to the people of this
country and so suitable to the cordial
relations between the Governments of
two countries, that the subject might
properly be presented for attention at
yonr present session.
International (’onsroNM.
The Governments of Sweden and Nor
way have addressed an|official invitation
to this Government to take part in an
International Prison Congress to be
held at Stockholm next year. The pro
blem whioh the Congress proposes to
study, how to diminish orime, is one in
whioh all civilized nations linve an in
terest in oomiron and the Congress of
Stookholm seems likely to prove tho
most important convention ever held for
the study of this grave question. Under
authority of a joint resolution of Con
gress, approved February 16th, 1875, a
commissioner was appointed by my pre
dsMssor to represent the United States
upon that ocoasion and the Prison Con
gress having been, at the earnest de
sirs ol the Swedish Government post
poned to 1878, his commission was re
newed by me. An appropriation of
$8,006 was made iu the sundry civil ser
vice aot of 1875 to meet tho exponses
of the commissioner. I recommend a
re-appropriation of that sum for the
same purpose, the former appropriation
having been returned to the Treasury
and being no longer available for the
purpose without further action by Con
gross. The subjeot is brought to your
attention at this time in view of circum
stances whioh render it highly desirable
that a commissioner should proceed to
the discharge of his important duties
immediately.
As several aots of Congress providing
for detailed reports from the different
departments of Government require
their submission at the beginning of the
regular annual session, I defer until
that time, any further reference to the
subjects of publio interest,
[Signed] R. B. Hayes,
Washington, October 15th, 1877.
The AppolntinenlH~Harln.ii Certain to I3et
the Supreme llench Vnviuicy.
All ad interim appointments and
several new ones go to tho Senate to
morrow. The Indian Bureau has ad
vices of the probable safe and expedi
tious removal of the Sioux to the Mis
souri river.
Speaker Randall will announce the
committees Monday or next.
Reports as to their composition are en
tirely speculative, probably the Presi
dent will nominate, to-morrow, Harlan
for the Supreme Bench ; Theodore
Rosevell, Golleotor; E. N, hferritte
Naval Officer, and Mr. Benediot Sur
veyor pf the Rort Of New York, The
Cabinet definitely settled to-day upon
these appointments, Seton Gales, of
North Carolina, has been appointed
Superintendent of the House Folding
Room. Gales' sou, the late Jos, Gales,
was one of the proprietors of the old
National JntelUgeneer of this city.
General Harlan Nominated for tlie Supi-t-me
Beneh Vacancy-Sketch ef the Man Who
(Succeeds David Davis.
Washington, October 17. Harlan
was nominated for the Supreme Beneh
General John M. of Lonis
viue, Ky., ib abput losty-two years old,
and is bjtiMyd with i-emaikable physical
ana intellectual powers. His parents
were natives of Kentucky* amt his
father (James Harlant yas the distin
guished Whig politician who represent-
Si® I District in Congress from
to 1(839, His father was also
Secretary of State of Kentucky
from 1840 to and from 18. K 0
to the time of his death in 1863 he was
Attorney-General oi the State. Harlan
oounty, Ky., was named after General
Harlan s grand-nnoto who fell in a bat
tle with Indiana *t Blue Lick. In 1859,
when only twenty-four years of age,
General Harlan ran tor Congress in the
Fayette District (then called tho VlTlfch),
on the Opposition ticket, and, after a
hard fight was defeated by the Dewo
eratie candidate by majority of only
67, in a total vote of 1a,797, When the
war broke out he joined the Union
army, and aerved tor two years as Colo
nel of the Tenth Kentucky Infantry.
The death of his father then compelled
him to tender his resignation. On re
taining to civil life, General Har'a,"*i set
tled his father’s estate ifid in the
same year (1863’’ was elected At
torney-Oepevdi of the State on
Do ion ticket, which wan beaded
by the late Governor Bramlette. Gen.
Harlan’s majority war 62,852 in a total
vote of 78, ft#, Governor Bramlett’ ma
jority was sft 917. At the oi his
term he removed to and re
turned to the preoiioe oi law. General
I Harlan ia pfohaplx the best orator in
Kentucky, and, is. one of tho ablest and
most successful members of the bar in
that State. Talent tor oratory is with
him a natural gift. His command of
language is great, and his sense of hu
mor keen; but he indulges ip few (rheto
rical ornaments in bik speeches. When
only twenty-one years of age he can
vassed Kentucky tor President Fillmore,
and there are Kentuckians still living
who spoke of his boyish, eloquence in
highest terms. General Marian has the
respeot of Kentuckians, and
his vigorous canvasses have wade
him the leader of the Repub
lican party in the grate. In 1871
General Harlan a* the Republican can
didate tof Qovernor, and polled 89,294
vot.against 126,4ft?f0r the Democratic
candidate. In 1875 he was again the
Republic candidate, and be then in
creased his vote to 90,795 against 12ft
-976 for Governor McCreary. General
Harlan is abont six feet high, and
weighs, perhaps 226 ponnds. He has
good hurpored, expressive blue eyes, fair
complexion and hair, a large head mas
sive, lofty forehead, deep chest and
broad shoulders. Hia power of self
control is great, ana he has an abundant
geniality and taot. Re is probably the
most industrious, untiring canvasser in
Kentucky, capable of speaking and wri
ting tor fifteen cur twenty hoars every
day. He is never siok.
Col. A. C. Haskell has dissolved a law
partnership in Colombia, leaving his
colleague to manage certain cases
which his own high position iu the party
Nfoidd not allow him to take.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Are you going to the Pair ?
Union Point has a social club.
Darien is to have a telephone.
Brunswick is reshingling her jail.
Jackson county flies have the leprosy.
Darien talks of building a branch
road.
Mrs. Mary Hazleton, of Rome, is
dead.
Senoia is running a wagon train to
Atlanta.
Albany misses the water as the wells
go dry.
West Point wants to dredge the Chat
talioochee.
Hancock had three murder cases on
her docket.
• 0 knights of Honor are flourishing
m Washington.
A first class school is soon to be open
ed in Darien 1
Wild turkey hunters are in luck in
Morgan county.
They have cotton picking “bees” in
Jackson county.
wToSr in in
GeorSlXyT"” B
So now they call D’Osey Ogden “Tbo
crashed tragedian,”
The Albany Advertiser has made an
excellent beginning.
Peaches and cream continue to float
around m Jackson county.
Rome this season has receivod 900
bales against 5,036 last year.
Hampton is the rising town on the
Macon and Western Railroad.
Tallulah Fire Company of Atlanta
has just received anew steamer
There is a crowd in Darien' talking
about going to the Black Hills. 8
J. W. Callaway, Esq., of Wilkes
is making a map of Greene county
Camp meetings in North Georgia
heve given place to horse swappings.
A Columbus thief doesn’t stand long
on the order of stealing diamond rings. ’
Two more mangled forms have been
dr Nßs°irn fl £ m ii otton gina noar Albany.
Miss Ella Dudley, of Eatonton, takes
chargo of the Thomasville telegraph of-
A negro was killed at Jefferson the
withV belUg kuooked iu the head
Jl ® jßpP l . lß *. Presbyterian, Episcopal
and Christian Churches of Griffin are
without pastors.
Ouyt McLendon, Esq., is making the
Thomasville Fair Bulletin redolent with
spioe and enterprise.
Since September Ist, Columbus mills
have taken 709 bales, against 479 last
year—increase of 230.
The Carnesvitle Town-Counoil never
publishes its ordinances and tho Reals
ter doubts their validity.
n ®?°: t o !’ l ear ’ Jr -’ been elected
Captain of the Macon Volunteers, vice
A*. Bacon, resigned.
The wife and daughter of Mr. Jerrv
hn°r?fl’t he M rOU , P OOHnty j ailor - were
buried together iasfc week,
A little son of Mr. Levy Jones, of
Pickens county, died recently from tho
bite of a ground rattlesnake,
c Christian, formerly of the
Sparta Times and Blunter, becomes as
sociate editor of the Rome Bulletin.
Ite 9istcr says that Franklin
county has more poor lionses within her
borders than any county in the State.
Mr. H. J. Simons, of Spalding conn
ty, a gentleman eighty-six years oi age,
had one of his arms amputated for can
cer on Thursday.
™tw ol ! n n’ Orawfordville, who was
recently killed on the Washington
branch, was the first person who ever
mot death upon that road
It was not Hon. J. A. Reid, of Pnt
num, who had the adventure with tho
railroad highwaymen in East Tennes
see.
Samuel R. Smith, son of Hon. W E
Smith, and James M. Tift, son or Gnl’
Nekou Tift, left Albany for the Univer*
sifcy of Virginia.
J. G. Zachry and Johnnie Tie left
McDonough Monday for Columbia Col
lege, for the purpose of perfecting thorn
selves in the department of law.
Amid the rolling thunders of a nan
cook county debating club tho other
night, a pistol was fired off and a disput
ant stopped the ball with his shin.
in Southwest Georgia a large number
of farmers are refusing to pay their
guano bills on the grounds that their
crops were injured and also their lauds
by its use.
Macon boys are sighing for a puno
rama show when the lights in the hall
will be down to aero and soft dimpled
shadows' 0 lyi “ g nround in *be dim
Tork, Greene county, lias had a double
T e^ ,lIU r g ~; ranieH w - Watson an-i Miss
Addie Jordan making one cevinin Q „,i
A. W. Watson and Miss M, Sher
wood tho other. J '" BCO auer
¥f"™ kkasac oTnetbnnd.
The o P eilß splendidly.
Fors-'k i.' Fair was a success.
T has three cotton warehouses.
ean8 i de,lv ored a lecture in At-
Oity ’ Tuesday eveDin g> upon electri-
Dr. Edwin D. Newton’s fairy touch
%ZZ‘“ pn: “
And now they do say that Bridges
w.™„7.r” e t 0 “ <***
Old men in Atlanta who have pretty
co a aTburners C ** y ° UUg men patent
An attempt was made last week to
triniT Ceutra! Railroad train off the
track at No. 13.
A little son of Thomas Upshur, of
Carroll county, six years of age, was
caught in the tauohinery of a mill
crushed to death.
The Qriifln News io prepared to refute
the charges that tho ministers of that
town are not paid.
The Covington Star and Olethorpe
Kcho, two of our brightest exchanges,
are four years old.
Joseph H. Jones, Esq., is making an
! enviable record as city editor of the Ma
oonleUgmptk and Messenger.
Mr. Lee Terrell, one of Stewart’s best
ana most substantial farmers, will make
! ov ®J fil * hundred gallons of wine.
Mr. J, H. Rucker, an Athens cotton
buyer,. bought one thousand bags of
cotton m one lot for a house in New
, York.
PauldiDg county has three men in
district to ascertain every man in
eir district that has no occupation,
try them for vagrancy and put them to
work.
In Clinch county a child, twenty-two
months old, picked up a rattlesnake by
™ e ton, and called to bis brother to
look at the big worm” Fortunately he
dropped it without being bitten.
®’bb county boy who for several
years has been studying for a Mercer
College scholarship, was deprived of it
?“® r * av^B 8 won it upon the ground
that he was not a dweller in Macon,
proper.
A Laurens county man has a rattle
snake in his bed room, perfectly peace
able and harmless. The secret Is that
he keeps him well stuffed. A well stnff
ed snake is likely to harm no one, espe
cially if the precaution be taken to kill
it beforehand.
A FAlViav AFFAIR,
omcial Report of the El l' fllfflcnltfo*.
Washington, October 16.—General
George Pope telegraphs: “The difficul
ties at El Paso and San Elizaro are en
tirely between citizens of the State of
Texas, Mexico and American, and I have
instructed Lieutenant Rucker not to in
terfere with them except to prevent in
roads from the Mexican side. Lienten
ant-Colonel Kurtz, of the Engineer
Corps, is dead.”
■
Almond trees flourish in York.
Hon. Jno. H. Evins, of Spartanburg,
Congressman from that district, was
compelled, upon his departure to Wash
ington, to resign the superintendence of
the Presbyterian Sunday School.
Rev. Dr. Jones, in Anderson county,
recently gave an able discussion upon
“Infant Baptism,” nearly two horns in
length. It’s time that this subject
should be thoroughly ventilated, any
how.
J. K. Jillson, ex-Superintendent of
Education/and H. H., his brother, are
drawn as petit jurors for the October
term of Court for Richland county,
when Patterson, Smalls, Parker and
other worthies are to be tried.
The Agricultural Society of South
Carolina has taken hold of an import
ant work, in the attempt to solve the
problem of resuscitating the agriculture
of the seacoast counties of South Caro
lina. So thinks the News and Courier.
ft he Columbia Register says : “ The
herculean labors performed by the In
vestigating Committee will never be
known, and we very much fear will never
be appreciated, by the present genera
tion, or those who are to come after
them.”