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tefedilg & Cdtisifibtttcmalisi OLD SERIES—VOL. XCII NEW SERIES VOL II Cfjronicle anti 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. — - 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.”