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OLD SERIES—VOL. ICII
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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 31,1877
EDITORIAL NOTBH.
Will the cigar-makers’ strike end ii
smoke ?
A French wit says we call lore affectioi
l>ecause it is a disease.
Kcicidk in New York is alarmingly oi
the increase among poor and rich.
People learn wisdom by experience. A
man never wakes up his second laby to set
it laugh.
It is said that lies Wadb’s belief in Goi
originates in a desire to have a base for hii
profanity.
The New Turk Herald announces that
poor people who go on getting poorer and
poorer every year have babies all the same.
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The Cleveland Plaindealer asks, “Why
is the Republican party like George H.
Butler ? Because a Bishop got the best
of both of them.”
Gen. Sherman went liehind the scenes
at the California Theatre, San Francisco,
last week, and kissed Aj.ick Harrison.
Where was his wife ?
An Englishman recently fell into the
tank at Brighton where the devil fish was
kept; and if the attendants bail not liacked
the valuable fish the man would have been
strangled.
The Oxfard Democrat B|>eaks of Almond
Gage, a man of large wealth, who recently
perambulated Oxford county, and held out
his “horny hands for the cattle to scratch
their backs against.”
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A Moscow newspaper says that out of
the wealthy merchant families there not a
single member has gone to fight the Turks.
Medical certificates of unfitness, well paid
for in many instances, are their resort.
Must-go-fight doctors are few among the
Muscovites.
Stanley Matthews is portrayed by a
New Oi leans editor as a man who seems
never to have had any honest convictions of
his own. He has betrayed every party and
every cause with winch he lias been united,
and deserted every principle in whicli he
has ever concurred.
According to the Worcester Press, the
announcement that Lydia Thompson’s
blondes carry a “mountain of trunks” will
lie received with some surprise by the bald
headed man who sits in u front orclicstru
chair and believes that the girls have their
costumes forwarded by postal card.
A Maine man went out the other evening
and cut down his apple trees, and the Lew
iston Journal asserts that when his friends
expostulated he said that lie had indulged
ill no much profanity at seeing his apples
stolen from lime to time that he found
every Sunday morning he was unfit to go
to church.
When President Hayes goes to Rich
mond, Va., he will be the guest of Rev.
I>r. Curry, a prominent Baptist clergy
man and the President of Richmond Col
lege. President Hayes and Dr. Curry
were chums at Kenyon College, Gambier,
Ohio. During the war Dr. Curry was an
ardent Confederate.
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The New York Times, alluding to re
ligious movements, thinks Mr. Moody is a
notable example of a class of men who
need to lie more largely used if our re
ligious progress is to keep pace with our
materialistic advance. He shows what cun
he done when a noble purpose and special
gifts are controlled by tact and good sense.
The unpublished life of General Grant,
written by liis father, Mr. Jesse R. Grant,
is in tile possession of the Connecticut State
Librarian. This manuscript gives anew
version of the way in which young Grant
got his name of Dr tsses; it says the name
was one of a lot drawn from a hat when
ins parents were debating what to call him.
One of the most influential Republicans
in Pennsylvania writes as follows to Mr.
Samuel D. Morgan, of Nashville, in an
swer to a letter asking his opinion as re
gards the result of the November election
in the Keystone State: “You need not
trouble yourself about Pennsylvania, as the
Labor and Greenback party, now fully or
ganize! all over ttie Stale, will probably
poll 100,000 votes and thus give it to the
Democrats by a large majority.”
(’hike Arthur, of the Locomotive
Brotherhood, laments that most of the ex
pulsions from the order are for indulgence
iu intoxicating liquors, and exhorts the
brethren warmly, both for their own sake
and the sake of their families, to put aside
the intoxicating cup. He also urges the
observance of the Subluith, does not think
it necessary to hold division meetings on
Sunday, and deprecates the running of
Sunday trains. He represents the order as
prosperous.
The Cincinnati Enquirer sarcastically
•says: “Cotton mills will soon be a feature
in the South. The people of that part of
the country have been driven to look about
them for employment and support, and will
hereafter do their own manufacturing in
stead of allowing it to go into Eastern
hands. If the Republicans had their old
time working majority in Washington, a
law would be put through making it a capi
tal offense for any one to erect and operate
a cotton mill outside of the New England
States. The country is going to the had
very fast."
Oj.nkling’s ill feeling towards the Presi
dent crops out on all occasions, hut especi
ally iu his private interviews with his
friends. The following will do for an
illustration : His attention was called to the
fact that Mr. Hayks always spoke of the
Administration in the first person plural,
instead of the first person singular—that lie
always said “We” wilt do a certain thing
instead of “1” will do a certain thing.—
Conki.ing replied very’ contemptuously:
“Yes, 1 have noticed that there are three
classes of people who always say ‘we’ in
stead of ‘l.’ They are emperors, editors
and men with a tapeworm.”
A paper called the "Hoys in JUue" has
this view of the financial question: “A
tliiutsand-dollar bond in 1863 cost the buyer
tour hundred dollars. He has been drawing
<uut of the people everv six months interest
.os iix hundred dollars that the people never
got. The people gave the buyer a one
ttliousaad-dollar Ik) for four hundred dol
tors in currency, and have lieen paying in
terest on the thousand dollars, and at the
same time the bondholder, for his kindness
in furnishing four hundred dollars, has been
exempt from paying tax. Can a nation live
that commits such crimes against labor?”
many “good Americans” wish to “go
to Paris,” even before their death, that we
fake tor granted they must be interested iz
the great niece of engineering now in pro
gress, which will substitute a not unpleasant
railway ride between England and France
for the unpleasant transit across the ever
vexed Channel in the meanest steamers that
e?v‘r voyaged on salt water. French and
English skill, enterprise and capital are now
untied in constructing the Channel tunnel
from Dover to Calais. Great railroad com
panies are doing this work—on one side the
Great Northern of France; on the other, the
Chatham and Southeastern lines. The works
are moet forward on the French coast.
Little doubt of their success is entertained.
When the tunnel is completed, some years
hence, it will belong to its founders. Thirty
•years after that the French and English
•Governments may take possession of the
-tunsel, if they please, npon certain condi
tions already provided for and guaranteed.
. Once that there is a submarine railroad be
tween France and England, with total
avoidance of the dreadful' y unpleasant
Channel voyage, anew era will be estab
lished. The steamboat passage is a great
obstacle to international intercourse.
“ INDEPENDENT*.”
There are certain specious and sophis
tical arguments used by ambitions or
dissatisfied gentlemen against “organ
ized Domocracy,” which are easily re
futed. We have already given several
well defined and highly endorsed rea
sons why the Democratic party of Geor
gia should preserve its organization in
tact, and it is needless to repeat them.
Rut we will, at this time, simply reite
rate one prime consideration, and it is
this : The disbandment of the Republi
can Committee of Georgia is, in some re
spects, a clever trick. It is designed to
throw the Democracy off their guard,
&Dd invite a similar disbanding of the
party and its compact and powerfnl or
ganization. The same elements we
have conquered in the past, at
so much cost and tronble, are still ar
rayed against us, and only await leader,
ship. Their instructions are to support
any movement to defeat regular Demo
cratic nominations. If any Independ
ent can be fonnd to do their work he is
taken up eagerly. Failing to push on
the Radical idea by regular nominees,
any man who wars against the organiza
tion of the Democracy is the next most
available instrument. We do not assert
that the gentlemen who choose to run
an independent schedule wilfully or de
signedly abet this scheme ; but we are
compelled to thick that they are misled
by ambition, and blinded, too.
THE (iEORtiIA MAKMHAI.NHIP.
According to one of the Washington
papers of the 19th instant, the Georgia
delegation to Congress held a meeting
on the 18tb, selected six names from the
list of the fifty-nine applicants, and sent
them to the President, with the assu
rance that either of the six names pre
sented wonld be acceptable to the dele
gation and to the people of Georgia.
From these chosen six the President se
lected Col. Fitzsimons.
A special dispatch to the World, un
der date of the 19fcli, runs thus:
One of the most protracted contests for
office known under the present Administration
was settled to-day in the appointment of a
United Btates Marshal for Georgia. No sooner
had the President been sworn in than an ap
plication was made to him by Oolonel Alston,
of Atlanta, whose documents were drawn up
addressed to President Tilden, in the belief,
at the time they were signed, that the latter
wonld be President Mr. Hayks was disposed
to appoint him, and at one time did decide to
appoint Colonel Alston, but the refusal of
Ben Hill to endorse the appointment finally
caused a fatal delay. Hinoe then the President
declared his willingness to appoint any one on
whom the Georgia delegation would unite.
They have been all tlio Summer and moet of
the Fall in selecting a candidate, and ouly now
by a baro majority. The lncky man is O. P.
Fitzsimons, of Aagnsta, and he is in politics a
Democrat, being the second Democrat appoint
ed to office by the President.
The Courier-Journal’a speoial of the
same date saya : “Mr. Fitzsimons was
backed up by Mr. A. H. Stephens, who
ia quite elated at liis triumph.”
The Columbus Enquirer, rejoicing
over the appointment, says : “The ap
pointee is a gentleman of high standing,
who lias for several years held the posi
tion of Inspector of Fertilizers at Au
gusta, under the appointment of the
Governor of onr State. He is a South
Carolinian and a true Democrat. Ante
rior to the late revolution he possessed
a large plantation on Edisto Island, and
also one on the Chattahoochee river, be
low and near Colnmbus, and consider
able wealth. The resnlts of the war left
him, like the rest of the Confederates,
with rare exception, in reduced circum
stances. He is a man of some forty-two
years of age, striking appearance, is
married and has a family. Col. Fitz
simons is well and favorably known in
Columbus, where, because of his own
ing a plantation below here bearing his
name, he has close personal and busi
ness relations. Many will reoollect him
as one of the “Snapper Club” whioh
went to Apalachicola and the Gulf on a
fishing excursion in 1875. He was one
of the most genial aud courteous of the
party. His appointment meets with
general gratification, aud it is especially
pleasant to the many who have made bis
acquaintance in this section. He will
do his duty faithfully and fearlessly. We
are truly glad that such a gentleman
has been appointed, and that Major
Smythe, who has become so obnoxious
through his tyrannical aud oppressive
deputies, has beau removed.”
It will be remembered that the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist was
unwearied in the effort to secure for
Georgia so admirable an appointment.
We are naturally well pleased at the re
sult of our labors, and congratulate the
President upon giving to Georgia a Mar
shal who is so eminently fitted to per
form the duties of that high office.
THE SUPREME JUDGESHIP.
The Baltimore Gazette, an extreme
Democratic paper, by no means in love
with the President, thus speaks of Gen.
Harlan's nomination :
He is a Kentucky Republican, and is held to
be an able lawyer aud a conscientious man.—
But the South has no representative upon the
Supreme Beuch ; for Mr. Harlan, though from
it, is not and was not of it. That he is a Re
publican ought not to be considered as a dis
qualification for the position; but it would be
well to havs someone in the Supreme Oourt
who really knows something about the South.
The New York Times, an extreme Re
publican paper, which appears to be in
a quandary concerning Messrs. Conk
lino and Hates, ooncludes an editorial
article on the same subject thus :
While all who know General HaAlan will re
gard any proper acknowledgment of his ser
vices and his ability with cordial pleasure, it
will be difficult to see how his nomination to
the Supreme Court can strengthen that high
tribunal, or increase the popular confidence in
Mr. Hayes' capacity for choosing the right
man in the right place.
The Cincinnati Gazette, an ardent Re
publican friend of the Administration,
puts it thus :
In the Cincinnati Convention General Har
lan waa the representative of the Bristow
element, and, failing to nominate his favorite,
he led the Kentucky delegates over to Hayss.
There are few abler lawyers and eery few finer
looking men in the country than General Har
lan. In both respects he will be an ornament
to tiie Supreme Bench. Besides, he is in the
meridian of life, as all men should be who are
placed upon the Supreme Bench.
It will be observed that the Demo
cratic paper objects to the appointee on
the broad gronnd that he does not rep
resent truly a great section of the Union
which should be worthily and properly
illnstrated npon the Supreme Bench.
The objection of the New York Repub
lican paper seems to be founded npon
what it conoeives to be intellectual or
professional unfitness. The Cincinnati
paper, edited by truly good Deacon
Richard Smith, “points with pride” to
the fact that Gen. Harlan’s movement,
at the Republican Convention, was fatal
to Mr. Blaine and favorable to Gen.
Hayes. This implies a debt of grati
tude. His personal pnlchritnde, of
eonrse, had nothing to do with his ap
pointment, and his comparative youth
is no crime. We trust that the Presi
dent has made no mistake, and that his
appointee may prove all that his friends
hope for and expect. Bnt that Mr.
Hayes has disappointed what was only
a reasonable anticipation of the South
is certain. The South must try and
bear her blank position on the Supreme
B|noh with as mnoh magnanimity as
the occasion justifies, and be content
with the possibility of blessings in dis
guise.
HAS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FUL
EII,LED ITS MISSION ?
The Democratic party has rescued th<
State of Georgia from Radicalism.—
After years of patient waiting, of op
pression and humiliation, the Bighl
triumphed over the Wrong. This sue
cees—this triumphant vindication oi
principle—conld never have been achiev
ed save by the instrumentality of the
Democratic party. Without organiza
tion and the strength that came frem
unity of purpose and concert of actioD,
Georgia wonld never have been redeem
ed. In the providence of God, the
Democratic party rescued the State
from the hands of the despoilers. We
are to-day indebted to Party Organi
zation for the benefits that flow
from good government. Without that
organization and the singleness of pur
pose which comes from united and intelli
gent action, onr high places would be
filled by the ignorant aud corrupt.—
Wicked and unprincipled men wonld
still defile onr places of honor and trust.
In the State government as well as in
the Federal Congress, we wonld be mis
represented by men who never felt the
binding force of a principle, and to
whom the dictates of honor never whis
pered—men alien to onr people in feel
ing as well as in interest.
Oppression, insnlt, tumult, anarohy
would have reigned in onr State. We
suffered the oppressor’s wrongs for three
years. We might have suffered for nine
long,weary years asdid our sister States
of Louisiana and South Carolina. What
saved the State from this misery
and degradation ? The Democratic party.
The people of Georgia—the virtue and
intelligence of the State—organized
themselves for the purpose of obtaining
the control of the State government.
They marohed to victory under the
banners of the Democratic partv. They
saved the State by and through the in
strumentality of party organization.—
Therefore we are indebted to this party
for the peace and good government that
we now enjoy. Shall it be said, be
cause we have triumphed, because our
enemies have been routed and disban
ded, that we, too, must go and do like
wise ? What folly, what madness! This
would be political suicide. The Radi
cal party would then be more
formidable in its apparently dis
organized condition than it conld
possibly be as an organized party.
It disbanded its organization for the
sole purpose of disorganizing the Demo
cratic party. This the Radicals hope
to accomplish by encouraging the run
ning of independent candidates, who
may be able to divide the Democratic
vote. In which event the Radicals
wonld support the indopedents and thus
hold the balance of power, and hope
eventually to break up the Democratic
party. Our people should not be duped
into a desertion of party by the specious
arguments of men who seek political
preferment outside of the Demo
cratic organization. Men who
acknowledge no fealty to party, should
not receive the support of Democrats.
Men who imagine themselves stronger
than the Democratic party, and who
threaten its integrity and disregard its
usages and its precedents, should not
receive the support of its members.
The preservation of the Democratic par
ty is more important to the future of our
State than the success of any man or
set of men whose ambition deceives
them into the belief that their political
preferment has higher claims upon the
people than the life of a great party
that has saved the State. The Demo
cratic party has not yet fulfilled its mis
sion. The integrity of the party must
be preserved. The interests of our great
State demand it.
COM MEKCIAL FREEDOM.
In 1846, the last year in whioh Great
Britain had a protective tariff, the popu
lation of the United Kingdom was 28,-
000,000; her imports, $380,000,000; her
domestic exports, $606,000,000, and her
exports of foreign and colonial products
$80,000,000, making the aggregate of her
trade $1,120,000,000. In 1876, after thir
ty years of commercial freedom, the
figures were ; Population, 33,000,000;
imports, $1,875,000,000; exports, domes
tic, 1,000,000,000; exports, foreign and co
lonial, $280,000,000; total trade, $3,155,-
000,000. Thus while the population in
creased less than eighteen per cent., the
trade of the nation was nearly trebled.
In other words, trade increased fifteen
time as rapidly as the population of the
Kingdom. The Detroit Free Press
thinks that there is something sugges
tive to American protectionists in these
figures. There is no reason why com
mercial freedom should not work as well
for the United States as it has for Great
Britian.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Gen. Boynton, Washington corres
pondent of the Gincinnati Gazette,
writes as follows :
Those are not few who talk of bringing
Gen. Grant into the field for the next race.
The men who propose this have among them
some skilled organizers and manipulators of
the party. They believe that the triumphs of
the solid South, and the prominent reappear
ance upon the political stage of the leaders of
the rebellion, will have disg .sted the North,
long before the next Republican convention,
that such a name as Grant will be needed by
the party, and that under his banner Republi
cans can conqner again. The signs are nu
merous that there ia much in this movement,
aud its foundations are being laid by men
wbose trade is politios.
We have no doubt but that the con
spiracy to make Grant the next Repub
lican nominee is wide-spread and pow
erfnl. The National Republican news
paper at Washington is said to be the
prime organ of the movement. The
hope of the conspirators is that Grant
may restore bayonet government, ring
rule and political harlotry, all of which
Mr. Haves is engaged in smashing fot
the good of the whole country, Unless
something can be done to give the Re
publican party a rallying point, thaf
concern will go to pieces Long before
1880. So the mere expectation oi
Grant is thrown out as tub to the
whale. The European tour of the ex
sovereign is oleverly turned to this focal
point and it will be utilized in every
way. Mr. Blaine is said to be of opin
ion that nothing can stop a Democratic
victory in 1880, and hence he is more
than willing to let Grant be put np at
auction only to be knocked down. If
the General shonld be made the leader
of the forlorn hope of Radicalism in
1880, he wonld be “sat down upon” by
the American people in such a summary
fashion that he wonld never recover
from the blow.
A TWDrEiq;ED SWORD.
The Boston Herald, considering the
demand from the Sooth of fair play in
the distribution of Government aid to
corporations of national importance,
thinks it strange that “it never occurred
to men so astnte and capable, to make
some suggestions as to when and by
what means the people of the North are
to be reimbursed for their losses and
sacrifices in saving the country from the
hands of the spoilers, whose efforts to
destroy the Government justly brought
upon themselves the calamities for
which they now seek recompense.”
In other words, the North claims a
monopoly of snbsidies, donations, etc.,
and the South most grin and bear it, be
cause she waa, according to Northern
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1877.
ideas, rebellions. It is strange it nevei
occurred to the astute Boston Herald
that, long before the war, the
North had the lion’s share of every
Government subsidy. By bonsties, land
grabs, improvements of harbors and
rivers, protective tariffs and the like the
North was made rioh and popnlous.
Since the war the same game has been
continued. If the North had kept at
home there wonld have been no need of
losses incurred in suppressing rebel
lion, so-called. Bnt, letting that pars,
the South requires indemnity—that is
something like an eqnitable division of
Government aid—she will never come
within a thousand miles of a perfectly
equal distribution—to make amends for
the blunders and crimes of Recostrno
tion. We are billing to let the losses of
the war go. ) <"Prof. Seelyh, speak
ing the honesti .cioe of the Union, has
admitted the folly, the monstrosity and
the crime of Reconstruction, and so we
demand some aid and comfort for such
abominable malpractioes. What ia more,
we are going to get compensation. Onr
moral triumph over Sumner, Stevens <fc
Cos. is secure; onr material viotory is to
come.
GLASCOCK IN LINE.
A meeting of the Democracy of Glas
cock eounty was held last Saturday, and
delegates appointed to a Convention to
be held for the purpose of nominating a
Democratic candidate for the Senate
from the Eighteenth Senatorial District,
The delegates chosen-Judge W. G.
Braddy and John B. Williams, Esq.—
are men who stand high in the estima
tion of the people and who will act for
the best interests of the District. Glas
cock has acted wisely and well. She
proclaims, end with no nnoertain sound,
that she stands by the Democratic party
and its customs. We have no doubt
that Jefferson will soon take the same
action and that the organized Democ
racy of the three counties will march
shoulder to shoulder to viotory at the
December election.
A DWINDLING COMMERCE.
The report of the commerce between
the United States and Mexico shows
that this was $28,110,119 in 1865, $25,-
161,776 in 1871, $22,860,388 in 1876, and
only $18,713,925 last year. Nor is this
even a fair showing of our loss of trade
with Mexico. Jn 1865 nearly three
fourths of the trade was in exports; the
figures are now directly reversed, End
three-fourths of our Mexioan commerce
consists of imports from Mexioo. In
fact, our exports to Mexioo have shrunk
from $19,454,400 to only $6,208,172. Of
the Mexican trade, New York takes
about one-third, San Francisco one
third, Texas one-sixth, and New Orleans
$1,939,665, or less than one-ninth. It
seems to us that now the great political
question has been well nigh settled
Congress should turn its attention to
the degraded and dilapidated condition
of our commerce, of whioh Mexico is a
fair sample.
THE POPULATION OF GERMANY.
According to official statistical returns
the population of the German Empire
on December 1, 1875, amounted to 42,-
727,360, and the number of electors to
8,943,012, or 20.9 per cent, of the popu
lation. The votes given amounted to
5,557,767, or 13.1 por cent, of the popu
lation, and 62.1 per cent, of electors. Of
the votes given, 5,335,778 were valid.
Of these the candidates of the National
Liberals received 1,594,124, or 28.8 per
i cent.; the Centrists (U 1 tramontanes), 1,-
416,803, or 25.6 per cent.; the Conserva
tives, 538,739, or 904 per cent.; the So
cialists, 485,122, or 8.8 per cent,; the
Progressists, 438,190, or 7.9 per cent.;
the German Empire party, 426,468, or
7.3 per cent.; the Poles, 219,159, or 3.9
per cent.; the group Lowe, 119,473, or
2.2 per oent.; the Partionlarists, 112,-
496, or 2.1 per cent.; the Protest party,
106,171, or 1.9 per cent.; and the People
party, 57,147, or 0 5 per oent.
BROKEN FORTUNES.
Many men now living can remember
what a figure John 0. Fremont once cut
in American affairs. He married the
favorite daughter of Thomas H. Benton,
a woman of genius and courage. He
early in the day became a popular idol.
He was a General in the United States
army and a candidate for the Presidency
of the United States. His latter days
have been clouded by misfortune and
neglect, and now he is so poor in pocket
that the most treasured relics of his
household had to be sold, the other day,
for what they would bring. The amount
realized was little enough. That
a man who was once so conspicuous in
the affairs of this country should be re
duced to almost beggary is an uncom
mon thing, and teaches an important
lesson. Little did the proud daughter
of Benton dream, a few years since,
that her famous husband would become
an outcast, so to speak, and that she
and her family wonld be confronted with
actual want. And yet such has really
been the case. General Fbbmont has
outlived his usefulness to men and par
ties, he lags superflaons on the stage,
and his family gather about him as the
ivy surrounds a ruin. Well is it for
them if they have learned to rely npon
a Higher Power, for the powers of this
world have deserted them in their se
verest need.
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THE SENATE'S EAST DITCH.
According to Mr. Nobdhoff, the Her
ald's Washington correspondent, Presi
dent Uaybs will not seek, in any way, to
influence the coarse of the Senate. Left
to themselves the Republican Senators
have combined together, in most extra
ordinary fashion, against the States of
Louisiana and South Carolina. The
Boston Herald's special says: “Bun.EE,
of South Carolina, has no ohanoe at all.
The Republicans do not intend to ad
| mit him, an/d will simply let his creden
tials be buried ip comzpittee, because, if
he were to be rejected, then Hajcpton
could appoint a Senator to fill the
vaoancy, and thus increase the Demo
cratic strength.” The little game, there
fore, is to exhaust strategy and malice
rather than do justice to Louisiana and
South Carolina. The milk in this ooooa
nut is not hard to disoern. The Senate,
as at present represented, consists of 36
j Republicans and 33 Democrats. Mob
ton and Shaboh are absent and not like
ly to be present this session. The ad
mission of Spoppobd, Eustis and But
lee would create a tie, and the defec
tion of a single Republican would give
the Democrats the control. So long ae
this danger menaces, unless some extra
ordinary pressure be brought to bear,
the immediate chances of the Louisiana
and South Carolina Senators to get theii
seats are noj, encouraging.
It would seem, from all acoounts, thal
Stanley Matthews has been completely
whipped into Conxusq’s traoes, prc ;
bably the more readily since Ohio re ;
pudiated him. So has descended tf
trickery and will be rated at his propel
value hereafter.
On general grounds this action of the
Republican 36 is not to be altogethei
regretted. Their malice will postpone
justice, bat it will not thwart it finally,
Before many weeks the people will an
swer their narrowmindness at the polli
and give them hints not to be mistaken,
The States of Louisiana and Souti
Carolina will not have been pomplstelj
restored to an equality in the Union
until their Senators shall have been
seated. Every day that this righteous
act shall have been put off, the more
terrible will be the reckoning with the
Republican party.
THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
J. H. Pittman, Esq., is talked of for
the House from Heard county.
The contest in the 20th is very spirit
ed, Hancook lending off with two able
meD.
Drs. J. L. Wilkes and B. F. Bently
are mentioned as legislators from Lin
coln.
Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph
declines to become a candidate for the
Legislature.
Messrs. T. W. Milner and M. L.
Pritchett are candidates for the House
from Bartow.
Judge B. F. Tatom, of Lincoln, is
spoken of for the Senate from the
Twenty-ninth.
Col. M. O. Fulton, of MoDuffie, will
probably run independently for the
Senate on the 29tb.
Rooney delegates were appointed by
MoDnffie connty to the Senatorial Con
vention on the 29th.
Judge H. H. Perry, of Burke, is sug
gested for the Benate and Mr. P. P.
Johnson for the House.
Hons. Daniel McGill, J. A. Bush and
D. A. Rdssell, Esq., are before the peo
ple in Quitman county.
The Thomasville Enterprise thinks
that Mr. Stephens is building for the
Vice-Presidency in 1880.
The Athens Georgian endorses the
re-election of Hon. H. D. McDaniel, in
the Twenty-ninth District.
The Henry County Weekly says:
“This scrub race business is but giving
an opportunity to the enemy. ”
Capt. Cotton, Dr. Drane and Mr.
Sherman are prominently befoie the
Twenty-fifth Senatorial District.
Politics in Taliaferro county are grow
ing warm, and from present appearances
seem likely to run into extremes.
Messrs. Lucas and Moore have with
drawn from and Messrs. Hexon and
Flint appear in the Taliaferro county
race.
The Dalton Citizen says: “Putting
new wine into old jugs is a dangerous
operation—hence onr opposition to the
‘halls of our fathers.’ ”
The Gainesville Eagle says : “The
present attitude of the Senatorial prob
lem in this district indicates the lying
down together of strange bed-fellows.”
Jesse Wimberly, Esq., has written a
sensible address to the Burke county
oolored people, advising them to vote
for the ratification of the new Constitu
tion.
Hon. Allen D. Candler, of Hal), has
received a very flattering petition from
the voters of the 38th Senatorial District
to be their candidate, and has consented
to run.
The Gainesville Eagle has a grape
vine telegram that certain gentlemen
are presenting Hon. H. P. Bell for the
Marshalship of Georgia. And who for
Congress ?
The Elberton Gazette believes it abso
lutely essential to preserve the party in
tact, to prevent the possibility of defeat,
that a convention should be held in the
30th District,
A. G. McCurry, Esq., is the Demo
cratic nominee from Hart county. He
is one of the most promising young men
in the State, and was an honored mem
ber of the University, class of ’75.
The organs contend that Atlanta is
gaining ground. Her five acres saved
will be so much gained, and from ap
pearances she will save her five acres.
This indeed, is the gaining ground.
Colonel W. O. Tuggle, of Troup, is
spoken of for the Senate in the Thirty
sixth District. No man made a better
record in the Convention than he, nor
will any one better represent his sec
tion of the State in the next Legisla
ture.
A correspondent of the Greenesboro
Herald says: “Take Stephens and Fel
ton and we have no other Congressional
representative of marked ability, except
Hnrtridge of the first, who is amply en
dowed, bnt seems either timid or indo
lent.”
The patriotic Rome Courier says:
“We have so stroDg a love for the grand
old party, and such a veneration for its
achievements in the past, and hopes so
bright for its future, that we desire to
see its phalanx unbroken and its col
umns ever ready for action.”
COLONEL SITTING BULL.
The Commission With the Ravage Chief—No
Surrender in Him.
Chicago, Ootober 22.—A Times’ spe
oial correspondent describes Sitting
Bull as a swarthy, black haired, beard
less, pure-blooded savage, with an air
of judioial gravity and intelligence. He
continually fears treachery on the part
of Americans, and distrust his own tribe
when they are near. He refused to
shake hands with the commissioners,
and said he wanted them to sit out in
full view and behind the tables. Sitting
Bull smiled broadly at the word “ sur
render” in General Terry’s speech telling
him of the President’s desire that hos
tilities should eease forever for the sake
of all parties ; that all hostiles who had
surrendered to the United States had
received no punishment, and that the
same terms wonld be offered to Sitting
Bull. The speech produoed no effect,
and the offer of peace was rejected. The
oouncil broke up, aud the commission
ers turned their faces homeward.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
A Glasgow Mina Goes OH—Nearly Every
Workmau Killed—Removing the Debrl*.
London, Ootober 22.—A special dis
patch from Glasgow says: “An explo
sion oocurred in the oollery at High
Blantyre, near this city. Four hundred
men were in the mine at the time and a
large number of lives were lost. It is
feared that the entire four hundred men
perished. A special train was sent to
bring the injured to the Glasgow infirm
ary, but it has returned; no one having
been goton out aliye. Twenty dead bodies
have been recovered. The exploring
parties have been at work endeavoring
to snooor those in the piiue, bnt have
little hope of resuming any alive ? and ex
press the opinion that every one in the
pit is dead. One survivor says the bot
tom of the pit is full of dead bodies.
Later—Horrible Forebodings.
Glasgow, Ootober 22.—Latest partic
ulars from High Blantyre show that 223
men descended into the mines this
morning; none of these except one, who
was working near the shaft at the time
of the been rescued up
to a late hour this evening. Very little
hope of rescuing the men is entertained,
as the explosion occurred at nine o’clock
in the morning, and the exploring par
ties had to relinquish their efforts in
one pit, at fonr in the afternoon, be
cause of the poisonons gases. At the
bottom of the shaft of the other pit (the
colliery comprising two pits, with com
munication between them) a faint
knoeking has been heard, but so far il
has been impossible to reach the bot
tom of the shaft.
t
DESPERATE DOINGS.
A Reckless Rooster un a Boi.
York, Pa., October 21.—Last evening
a young man named Frank Frey, while
drnnk, entered the lanndry of the Na
tional House at this place and drawing
a revolver shot two female employes, the
ballet striking both in the breast. Upon
leaving this place he fired at a man nam
ed Neely, bnt the ball struck a buckle
on his suspender and glanced off. Frej
then met Thomas Craig, a oolored man,
and shot him in the breast. Running
across the street he shot another man,
Jos. Erney, the ball merely grazing hie
body. He then entered a cigar store,
firing one shot there, but without injurj
to any one, when he was seized by a mac
named Sponzler, and, in the straggle
which ensued, Frey was himself shot in
the hand. None of the victims are con
sidered dangerously hurt.
Marc Thaa a Match For Two Highwaymen.
Cincinnati, October 22.—A special
dispatch states that a desperate encoun
ter took place Saturday evening at Big
Clifty, |ly., near jbeuiayille, between twe
highwaymen and Joseph Hansen, a tra
veling salesman. Hansen started tc
walk from West Olifty to Big Clifty tc
oateh the train and wga met nppn the
bridge which spans a chasm one hun
dred and forty-eix feet in depth by twe
desperate characters, who demanded
his money. Hansen drew a resolver and
shot one, when the other rushed upon
him and attempted to throw him ovei
the bridge. Hansen drew a butchei
knife from a package of samples and
stabbed the robber and succeeded ii
throwing him down the chasm and then
escaped to Fig Clifty, The robben
were arrested, bnt not recognized by the
people of the place. The one thrown
over the bridge was saved from instant
death by falling in the Nolin river, bnt
both men will probably die.
A SACKED MEMENTO.
The Silver Pent Intended far Carolina Gor
don to be Presented to Her Father.
[A r cs and Courier.]
It will be remembered by the people
of Carolina that the ladies of Columbia,
in patriotic recognition of the noble ser
vices rendered by Senator J. B. Gordon,
of Georgia, at a time when the liberty
of South Carolina was trembling in the
balance, determined to present his in
fant daughter “Carolina” with some
token worthy of their high sense of
gratitude and affection. With this laud
able end in view, an association was
formed and a committee appointed to
select a testimonial and devise a plan for
its execution. After consultation the
committee deoided upon procuring a
massive silver vessel, which it was their
intention to present as a baptismal font.
The style was fixed upon and the execu
tion of the work was placed in the hands
of Mr. Jas. Allan, a prominent jeweller
of this city.
On Saturday last the work was com
pleted and the front was exhibited to a
few friends at the store of Mr. Allan in
King street. Last evening it was ship
ped to Columbia by express. It is one
of the handsomest pieces of silver ever
exhibited in Charleston, and is certainly
a fit testimonial to the disinterested pa
triotism of the gallant Gordon. It is
wrought of solid sterling silver, and
stands from base to rim 12 inches in
height, and measures in diameter,
across the top, 10 inohes. The interior
is heavily lined with gold, which is
highly and beautifully ornamented with
engraved patterns showing the bright
silver beneath. The shape of the font
is novel and exquisitely beautiful. Prom
a solid square base rises a oolumn upon
which the bowl proper rests gracefully.
The exterior is satin finished, ornament
ed, on the Bhank, with delicately en
graved tracery. On one side of the
bowl is deeply and beautifully engraved
the coat of arms of South Carolina,and on
the opposite side the coat of arms of
Georgia. Around the rim are inscribed
the words of Hampton’s dispatch to
Gordon upon the removal of the United
States troops from the State House at
Columbia, viz: “ The troops have been
removed. Perfect peace prevails. Thank
you. Wade Hampton. April 11th,
1877,” the signature coming beneath the
coat of arms of South Carolina. On the
opposite side, beneath the coat of arms
of Georgia, are inscribed the words :
“The women of Columbia to Carolina
Gordon.”
The untimely death of General Gor
don’s infant daughter defeats in a mea
sure the purpose of the Columbia ladies,
but the testimonial will nevertheless be
presented to General Gordon, and will
be doubly dear to him, linking, as it
does, the sacred memories of domestic
affliotion with the noble pride of suc
cessful patriotic zeal in behalf of a down
trodden State.
PI.UNDERING BY POLICY.
Something About the Game of Policy—Per
centage of Chauceti*
The New York Tribune in a recent is
sue gives the fpllowing expose of the
“ policy” business ;
The mazes of policies are not known
to the general publio. Pew games are
so well devised for a sure loss to the
player, even when played honestly, and
the more influential sellers make this
assurance doubly certain by playing it
to suit themselves. Policy is depend
ent upon the lottery business, which is
carried on as follows : The managers is
sue a plausible and seductive scheme,
which is extensively advertised. They
then place, as a general rule, seventy
five numbers in the wheel, and draw out
twelve, in accordance with the provis
ions of the scheme, according to which,
also, the tickets are decided. Both the
lottery and policy tickets which win are
determined by the numbers drawn from
the wheel, the difference between them
being that the former are sold at a
stipulated price, which appears in the
scherpe, and are printed, while policy,
tickets are written on entail pieces of
paper, and sold from one cent to §IOO,
to suit the pocket of the purchaser.
The following table of agents' rates
will give some insight into the working
of policy. The words “ gig,” “ sad
dles,” “ horses,” and f ‘ day number”
are “professional” terms, their rela
tive values teing given in the combina
tion table. This table is one of the
trade secrets, and has never before been
published:
Kates. Gig*. Saddles. Horses. Day No.
10— .. $250 00 $32 00 $640 00 SSOO
11- 175 00 24 00
10 -75.. 350 00 36 00
10- 350 00 36 00
11— 300 00 36 00 .... ....
11— 300 00 3d 00
12— 22fi00 23 00 .... 500
12- 225 00 32 Q 0 ...; ....
13- 17500 24QQ .... ....
13- 200 Ofi 32 Q 0 .i!! ....
14- 150 00 24 00 400
14 - 78.. 150 00 24 00 .... 450
15 -75.. 100 00 20QO ... 40Q
15- 125 00 20 00 ...: 4 ofl
16- 75 QQ 12 ofl 400 00 400
16-78.. 100 00 12 00 480 00 400
18-75.. 62 50 12 00 lfiO ()0 300
18-78.. 62 50 13 00 lflO 00 300
20-75.. 50 00 12 00 160 00 300
20-78.. 50 00 12 00 160 00 300
Combination Table.
Numbers. Gigs. Saddles. Horses.
2 make .. 1
3 make f 3 ..
4 make 4 R 1
5 make 10 10 6
6 make 20 15 15
7 make 35 21 35
8 make 56 28 70
9 make 84 36 126
10 make 120 45 210
11 make 165 55 330
12 make 220 66 495
13 make 286 78 715
14 make 364 Q 1 1,001
15 make 455 105 1,365
16 make 500 120 1,820
17 make 680 136 2,380
18 make 816 158 3,060
19 make 969 171 3,876
20 make 1,140 130 4,845
By opfgpapng the seyepth lipe of the
first table with the second linp of the
combination—the most common fartns in
use—it will be seep that where seventy
five numbers are put in the wheel and
twelve withdrawn, if the player guesses
their numbers correctly and buys the
“gig” for sl, he gets $221; or if he buys
three “saddles” ho js entitled to $32,
while if he chooses a 'iflay” number" he
will receive $5. By increasing the risk
the ratio in winning numbers is cor
respondingly increased.
Lottery managers have always opposed
the policy business, and have tried all
sorts of experiments to suppress it. But
policy lives and thrives, while lotteries
are scarcely paying interest upon in
ves’ments. The constantly increasing
frauds attending the manipulation of
lotteries are gradually opening the eyes
of the public to their dishonest charac
ter. Meanwhile, quarrels and lawsuits
are pending in Kentucky, which are
likely to put au end to ail franchises
and stop the legalising of lotteries for
ever. mam
SENATOR GORDON.
jig alional Union.]
In an “interview” given in one of the
New York papers, Robert Toombs (who
didn’t call the roll of his slayes at the
foot of Runjter Rid Monument] is re
ported a 8 saying that General Gordon
would not be returned to the Senate, on
account of his “eccentric’ 1 cayepr. What
there may have beep in the conduct of
the Georgia Senator that shqpld seem so
eccentric to Robert Toombs we cannot
divine. When so eccentric ? Before or
since his election to the Senate ? He
was indeed in the Confederate army,
which we admit was all wrong—worse
than eccentric —criminal even, if Mr.
Toombs wishes us to so consider it. But
he was a gallant officer, never violating,
as we have heard, the strictest
proprieties of civilized warfare.—
That General Gordon >yas brave,
his wounds attest— and he wears them
all on his front. Bince His election to
the Sefiatd Gen; Gordon has been an ac
tive and thorough-paced democrat,
whan he shonld, in pur opinion, have
been as agtiye pft the RepublicaP side.
His fyank and generopa nature fopld
have found Republican allegiance a con
genial service. But he has been an
honorable opponent. Fair, just and
liberal, leaving the Confederacy and its
issues behind, and accepting the situa
tion evidently in good faith, he has not
ed the part of a courteous and high
minded American Senator, Aft. Robert
Toombs calls this eccentricity, and ‘says
Mr. Gordon will not be returned. 1 Per
haps not. Rat the' eodntry will corn-
[ mend the Senator’s “eccentricity,” and
regret that onjS from whom so much was
hoped in the work of re-uniting the
heartß of onr people should be remand
ed to private life. But it may be that
Toombs is no prophet.
AUGUSTA AND MOXyiLLE.
ENTHUSIASTIC MASS MEETING
AT MASONIC HALL.
Speeches by Major Barnes, Hon. J. C. C.
Black, and W. C. Sibley, Esq.—Resolutions
Adapted—The People In Earnest.
Pursuant to call a mass meeting of
citizens was held at Masonic Hall, last
evening, in the interest of the proposed
railroad from Augusta to Knoxville.
The hall was orowded, and mnoh en
thnsiasm was manifested.
On motion, General M. A. Stovall
was called to the Chair, and J. L. Max
well requested te aot as Secretary.
General Stovall, on takiDg the Chair,
said :
We have met to-night in response to a
call made by a large number of influen
tial merchants and business men of the
city who desire to take some aotion look
ing to the early completion of the Knox
ville and Augusta Railroad.
Yon are all aware that this road will
run through some of the most fertile
aud best cotton and grain producing
counties of Georgia and South Carolina,
and when oqjaplfjiited will place Augusta
in communication by another and short-
er line with the granaries and smoke
houses of the great West, from which
we draw a large proportion of the pro
vision supplies whioh we use.
Several distinguished gentlemon have
been selected to address you to-nigbt.
Allow me, however, to say you
desire to see a return of the Illness
prosperity which your city onoe enjoy
ed ; if you desire to recover the lucra
tive trade whioh was onoe almost exclu
sively yours on the Georgia Railroad and
portions of the Central and South Caro
lina Railroad and Savannah river, of
whioh you have been deprived by un
just discriminations in freight; if you
desiie to retain what little business you
have left outside of Riohmond county,
you will render material aid to the build
ing of the Knoxville and Augusta Rail
road.
The gentlemen controlling and man
aging the Green Line inform us that the
reason they discriminate against Au
gusta and in favor of Charleston and
Savannah in carrying freights is owing
to the great competition brought against
them by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road and Atlantic Coast Line; that in
order to compete with this line they are
compelled to oarry freight at an almost
non-paying rate and rely upon the full
rates to Augusta to pay the annual divi
dends of the railroads composing the
Green Line. This may be true, but it
should teach us a lesson that wo should
constantly bear in mind, namely : That
if we desire low rates of freight we must
have a competing line, and this we shall
have in the Knoxville and Augusta Rail
road when completed. We shall then
hear no more about Augusta “ occupy
ing au unfortunate geographio position.”
What Majoir Barnes Said.
The Chairman called upon Maj. Geo.
T. Barnes to address the meeting. Maj.
Barnes said he had hoped that mer
chants, and pot lawyers, would be call
ed upon to speak op a subject of so
much vital importance to the commer
cial interests of Augpsta, but he felt it
to be his dpty to poptfibpte whatever he
could towards an enterprise which would
be rioh in remunerative return to Au
gusta. In the consideration of the ques
tion, the first thing whioh struok his at
tention was this : Augusta was one of
the oldest eities in the South ; its geo
graphical situation was peculiar and im
portant, it was one of the most import
ant inland cities oonneoted with the At
lantic seaboard. Augusta had never
gone backwards. Augusta enjoyed the
command of a large number of seaports.
With this advantage Augusta had at one
time a magnificent back country to sup
port her. This country embraoed many
counties in Georgia and South Car
olina. This trade is passing from
our hands, and has passed to a great
extent from our hands. The Green
ville and Colmpbia and Northeastern
Railroads have drawn much trade from
us. A re W e §oiug to palely sit dwp in
the face of tips and fop some un
forseen accident to restore us this trade,
or will we take proper action at opqe 8
There iR a tide ip the affairs of cities, as
well as of men, whioh taken at its flood
leads on to fortune. Now is the ac
cepted time. There was one very im
portant new feature in the charter of the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. That
new feature was the construction of a
trnnk line to Walton’s Island in the Sa
vannah river. That trnnk apajpled
us to oonneot wH’h U railroad from
Greenwoad, and' also with the El
berton Air Line to Toocoa. By this
trunk line we oan greatly enhance the
local trade of Augusta long before the
connection with Knoxville is puada. He
read an article fropi the Ctyrqnfcle and
Seitfind of sopie moptbs since, showing
the additional ppodpets which would be
brought to Augustp by the building of
the new road- Re gpiq ‘qft WUS fi Start
ling exhibit, ape) showed of what yaßt
impqrtapcp tffe tppns line and oqoppe
tions wopld be, pnd A“fffi Bta
would far ppope t&ap he repaid loug be
fore the popneption IS made with Knox
ville. He was very much struck some
days since with reading a letter from a
gentleman in South Carolina, who
quoted a Latin maxim that a work
commenced was half done. It w aa a
true saving “Where tfcgrff'g 3 wiM fhppe’a
a way. ’
Colonel Tilman called atteptiop fo the
faot that there were hut three routes by
which railroad oonneotion eould be es
tablished between the Atlantio coast and
the West. One of these was by way of
Chattanooga, one was by way of Cum
berland Gap and the other was by way
of Rabun Gap. That by way of Chatta
nooga had already been estabhgh?A- ft
was 777 mileg frppi Augusta" to Cin
cinnati by way of Chattanooga; by way
of Rabnn Gap it would be 241 miles
nearer, or, in other words, Augnsta
wonld be 71 miles nearer to Cincinnati
than Atlanta. He read some statistics
in regard to the route foy pnmberlapd
Gap. By \ha\ route ft ft only 619 miles
from Augusta (0 Cincinnati, instead of
777 miles as by present poptp. Au
gusta has impaenvg over At
lanta if the people of Augusta wonld
only display the same spirit, enterprise
and aotivity that have marked Atlanta,
and that are worthy of all imitation.
Atlanta has no such water uowpp as
Angnsta; 'she hftf The com
mand pf sp many seaports. It was
time that Augpsta threw off its
lethargy and aw°ke to her true situation;
it was time that her people arose and
took hold of those advantages which
God had placed at their disposal.
Hen. J. C. C. Black’* Remark*.
The Chairman called upon Hon. J. C.
C. Black. Mr. Black said tLft waS' an
entirely new raft, to W* as a pa
triots citizen'' he ‘couTd not be
indifferent 7 to a subject whioh
had so long engaged tffa time,
attention and efforts o* some of oar
best citieD>i aud Is so interwoven with
onr comfnerciM interests, tie did not
propose to enter into any discussion so
far as any statistical information was
concerned, Nobody heeded to be con
vinced of the importance of this enter
prise. What we need is not to say bnt
to do, not to speak but to act. We &id
ourselves peculiarly embarrassed with
all of gar great advantages. We find
ourselves circumvented and our trade
divided into other channels—the trade
which of right belongs fo u,s l parried to
other places, ft to him that
thp only thing which was left for us to
do was to take hold oi this enterprise
and carry it forward fo completion.
Every man. np matter who he may be,
is mare or ta*s interested in the enter
prise. prosperity to our merchants is
prosperity to all; disaster to our mer
chants is common disaster. They all
know the difficulties by which we are
surrounded. The people of Angnsta
had the reputation everywhere of being
a people true to their and
he hoped that 'op.uiaiion vmuld, ever be
maintained. We were knosn as a quiet,
a Conservative, a solfd people, ana 1 cur
cty had Won the name of the Uaeen
City of the South. We have only to
avail oqrselvgs of theadyantages within
onr grasp to win the g{ a
strong, a progressive vfo naajde
of the country pffe? W meet the oily half
Way in this enterprise. We mast pat
oar hands, our hearts and onr parses in
it. He trusted that the day wonld soon
come when Angnsta wonld be an im
portant point on the great linn b°t -pen
the Atlantic coast nrd ti*. posi
tion *vh;oh she so will deserved.
‘ Aft. Robt. P f Sibley offered the fol
lowing resolutions, which Were adopted:'
Whereas, The trade of onr eity has
been greatly circumscribed b$ our want
of proper railroad hobueotions.
$2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID
Resolved, That we consider it of the
utmost importance to begin at once the
construction of a trunk line to the West
via Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting
with the Augusta and Greenwood Rail
road at Walton’s Island, and in order
that the work npon this railroad may bo
peedily pat under way, t
Therefore, Resolved, That the Chair
man appoint a committee of five from
eaoh ward, Summerville aud the county,
whose duty it shall be to receive sub
scriptions for grading the trunk line of
the Augusta and Knoxville and Green
wood Railroads, aud when a sufficient
amount is subscribed to grade the said
roads to Matton’s Island, eaoh commit
tee shall elect a Chairman to proceed
with the Directors to locate the route,
and make all necessary arrangements to
prosecute the work to completion with
out delay.
Resolved, That the Chairman of this
meeting appoint the following commit
tees:
First Ward: W. H. Barrett, J. H.
Alexander, J. W. Bessman, W. C. Sib
ley, J. W. Wallace.
Second Ward: James A. Gray, J. J.
Miller, J. V. H. Allen, John Doscher,
T. P. Branoh.
Third Ward: Z. McCord, C. A. Doo
little, T. D. Caswell. Jas. Myer.
Fourth Ward: C. Estes, C. A. Platt,
W. B. Young, W. T. Whelese, E. It.
Derry.
Summerville: Henry Moore, Robert
Walton, E. F. Verdery.
Connty: C. Snead, T. B. Phinizy, P.
J. Berckmans.
Mr. Black moved that the committees
appointed at this meeting bo requested
to meet Wednesday evening, at 4 o’clock,
at the Commercial Bank. Adopted.
Mr. W. C. Sltlcj 1 * Reniarkx-
Mr. W. C. Sibley said it was well
known that our trade was being drawn
from us, and cities younger than our
selves are goiug ahead. Athens, which
a short timo ago, before the North
eastern Railroad was built, received
25,000 bales of cotton a year, last year
received 40,000, and this year will re
ceive 50,000, and probably 60,000. We
must put forth our arms and bring buck
this trade that has been taken away
from us.
Let each one here to-night resolve
that they will at least build the roid to
Walton’s Island. Let us put our shoul
ders to the wheel and push np the hill
out of the mud.
Letters were read from Messrs. J B.
Gumming, H. G. Wright and Geo.’ li.
Sibley, in response to invitations from
the oommittee to address the mass meet
ing, regretting that they would be un
able to be present, bnt signifying their
hearty 00-operatioq ft and approval of
the obfteta oi the meeting.
On motion, the meeting adjourned,
WASHINGTONRUTY CORRESPONDENCE.
The National President and Ilia
Ad'ninUtrntlouwThe Good Time Coming—
The Democratic Caucus—Hon. Alex. 11.
Stephen*—Coiifreaaiuam Blount and the
Georgia Uelegnllon, <&c.
| Correspondence Chronicle, and Constitutionalist]
Washington, D. 0., (fttuner 19.—1
oould tell you of many other and strik
ing points of special attraction and
beauty here, besides those alluded to in
my letter of yesterday, all going to es
tablish the proposition that Washington
is the queen of all tho beautiful eities
on the Amerieau continent. But time
and spaoe forbid, and I pass from the
subjeot simply remarking that while I
wonld want to live here as long as I
eould live, I would prefer to die at some
less attrao ive place, so that I could de
part with fewer regrets. I ha.ye seen
the President and am disappointed in
but one thiDg. I ejjpepted from his pic
tures thsft J have seen, to behold a
homely man, of stern and somewhat
forbidding demeanor. On the contrary,
however, I met a handsome and rather
portly gentleman of apparently ferty
five or forty-seven veaja of age,
of pleasing, affable ufid courtly ad
dress. Sfo uue oan see him and
converse with him without being im
pressed with the conviction tJic,t ho is
equal to the high trust; yqposgci in him
in all the essentia* elements of learning,
ability and patriotism. You at once see
that hp ft entirely honest anft ft caypest;
no mere time-server pj veqal partizan,
but a statesman pf enlarged views, lib
eral and wholly unseptional in his ad
ministrative purposes, fully alive to, and
comprehending the situation, and sin
cerely anxious that all animosities and
prejudices, whether of section or race,
shall be forgotten, and all Issues before
the country settled in accord with the
deliberately expressed ffiU or the people
through the methods and appro
priate Channels. And it would seem he
has striven, in harmony with these views
and aims, to draw around him a Cabinet
of confidential advisers, none o| whom
(except perhaps Sherman 1 were mixed up
with the bittdr partisan strifes of recent
date, but aft of whom are eminently
able, prudent and patriotic. He b*s, toy
being what a President should be, and
not a partizan, kfoaKtot back “the light
of other arpund us”—those day* of
fraternity and good feeling, when iasnes,
not septional, nqt important in their
day and W4U'V> earnestly, even hot
ly, dismissed, bt all from the general
stand-point of the common welfare.
This, I say as a Demoorat, not agreeing
with the President in some of his views,
but ready to sustain him,
while he holds in cheek sectional hate,
bad passions and Wftworthy prejudices,
whioff do ffnrt to a|l, good to none, and
are relished only hy pot-house politi
cians and twpwiay demagogues. To
this patfiotio movement of the President
in behalf of national peace and good
will, let all the people, without distinct
tion of party, respond in good faith, and
onoe more gather aronnd common
altars of the country's true great
ness and glory 4#r upon
them their saerllloes. —
Let hftW. ‘he Washington monument
that has stood unfinished through many
years of angry strife, be oompleted all
the States participating in, and op#-
tribnting to the proud work . a hA W > tH
lofty summit vifto tog regions
where agle| soar, wd the stripe*
anft f fti* 8 ft, let long and
loud acclaim go up ftom the hearts of a
reunited ftffd happy people.
The eaeeua of the Democratic mem
bers made quick work of the organiza
tion of the House. Through the cour
tesy of Mr. Blount, of the Third Con
gressional District, 1 obtained a com
fortable seat within the House, and was
thus eh a \dod to witness its organiza
tion, hear Nfr. Randall’s graceful little
speech on takiUff the ehair, and make
close inspection of the leading and
prominent men of the Representative
branoh. I thought I perceived very
clearly that while there were neveral
men there of much note aeA no little
influence on both ?,iW of the chan ber,
yet that Mr, fftepheua on the Democratic
sift# and Mr, Garfield on the Republican
! side were the two greatest ypwers on
the floor. It is to speak of Mr.
Stephens. Rftfame.is world wide, and
re&fe, yyu the imperishable bases of hih
intellectual endowments, unswerving
: truthfulness and integrity in all things,
vast learning and a nobility of soul and
or heart as comprehensive as
it >s genuine and sincere. The National
Union, of the 16th inst., in noticing the
opening of the session, sketched him
briefly and beautifully, thus ; “In great
coat, hat and gloves, shivering in the
mo*e than tropical heat, sits Alexander
H. Stephens, half mortal, half spirit, a
handful of earth, saya Victor Hugo,
just enough to hold 4 large soul; the
most observed of all observers, the spot
where the mind loves to linger best.” A
Georgian here feels proud when he wit
nesses the universal respect and at
taeheaeut bestowed on his illustrious
and beloved Representative.
Recurring to Mr. Blount,of the Third,
I heard an eminent statesmen say of
him: “Blount is one of the most practi
cal, industrious and nsefnl member? of
the House. ” Georgia may wgli be proud
of her entire delerjatfon, and rest as
sured her ’Yiterests and rights, both in
donate a.Ud House, will be qlosely
1 watched, and ably, efficiently and faith
fully asserted and rfodmated. I think
it likely ffongress will attend chiefty to
tb,a matteip to u;hiea the President has
called W attention, and adjourn over
to the regniftf fteoemfeer session, when
questions, notably the financial
qjueation— the great question of the day
— will receive attention, and, it is to be
hoped, prompt action. It won]*} be
wise to attend to it at onoe, Hot it may
be prudent to uwaft report and sug
gestions of ttm Secretary of the Treasu
ry. Yet h dread the coming Winter with
1 no'money in the country the peo-
Ele to provide agakwk the pinchings of
anger aqfl *>hC R.
Last Friday afternoon, anya the Re
porter, the flue reai&nqe of Col. James
Hi Fannin, in the suburbs of LaGrange,
Was totally destroyed by Are.
THE STATU.
THE PEOPLE ANI) THE PAPERS.
Louisville ueeds a barber shop.
Caruesville wants a reading club.
Eastman is building three churches.
Milledgeville is getting up an opera.
Three steamers a week run into Da
rien.
Will the “Dizzy Blondes” come this
way ?
Mrs. Lewis Gunn, of Jefferson county,
is dead.
Tugalo Baptist Association is now in
session.
Eatonton has received 1,209 bales
thus far.
Sandersville will continue her tele
graph office.
Brunswick wants a fish market estab
lished there.
Cotton gins continue to struggle with
the guano lien.
LaGrange vows that she has a good
exhibition hall.
Colored people are entering articles in
the Thomasville Fair.
Brunswick lias fewer dogs than any
other city in the South.
The two Columbus papers are quar
reling over circulations.
Wagon trains appear to bo springing
np in all parts of the State.
Franklin county had three matrimoni
al consolidations last week.
A thief stole eight money letters from
the post offioe in Atlanta Friday.
Four little children died Thursday in
Rome, two belonging to one family.
Tho Westleyau Alumnasan Associa
tion are raising a tablet to Dr. Myers
The Louisville brass band will Soo n
have a fire set of new silver instr uments
The ohuck-a-lnck men at the State
Fair were arrested at the close of the ex
hibition.
Two Catoosa county boys tucked into
their sacks 800 pouuds of cotton last
Thursday,
A box of Chinese torpedoes exploded
on a Savannah wharf, severely woundiug
three men.
Davis, the Athens photo, is said io
have swept the State Fair on pictures
and portraits.
Charlie Rounsaville, a little boy in
Rome, was killed by falling from bis
pony a few days since.
Up to Thursday night over twelve
thousand dollars had bren taken in at the
gates of the State Fair.
The editor of the Columbus 77?/?/ .s‘ lives
in Alabama, aud is liable to be nominat
ed to two Legislatures.
Jim Smalls, a colored man in Bruns
wick, was knocked down by a piece of
lumber last week and killed.
An omnibus team had a lively runaway
Saturday, smashing np a buggy and.
wounding a man named Kelcy.
That runaway couple arrested in At
lanta happens to hail from Heard comi
ty, and not LaGrange, as stated.
A Milledgeville man, while putting
up a stove-the other day fell and broke
a leg—of the stove.— Old Capital.
Judge James T. Nisbet, of Macon, and!
Hoc. George F. Pierce, Jr., of Sparta,,
have formed a law copartnership.
Certain hog wallows in the town of
Louisville seem to be eye sores to the
art critic of the News and Herald.
A negro cabin in Jefferson county
caught fire last week and burned down
without the usual pickaninny inside.
Miss Fannie Doolittle, adopted daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Kimball, died
in Eatonton, Friday, of consumption.
Who steals a purse in Caruesville
taketh trash, but let a man make way
with a barrel oi whisky and ho goes to
jail.
The Maeon poisoning is now said to
have resulted from the ice custard hav
ing been in an incipient stage of fermen
tation.
The Sparta Times and Planter's wise
acre should deliver a course of lectures
and write a book upon the llozier
murder,
Henry Goetcliius, Esq., becomes city
editor of the Columbus Times. He is a
talented young brother, and wo wish
him welfi
Hen. H. P, Brewer, the able repre
sentative of Effingham county and a
promising lawyer, thinks of locating at
Wadley soon.
Alfred Brown, a Griffin dyer, woot to
the State Fair and was jerked io jail
upon being caught with his hand in an
other man’s pocket.
The News and Farmer mentions that
Messrs. Outlaw, Berrien and Gregory
presented the Hon. M. A. Evans, of
Bartow, with a handsome gold headed
cane.
Dr, M. V. Gurley, the CareesviHw
dentist, who suicided last week by tak
ing morphine, had been leading a dissi -
pated life some time before this last, and!
rashest aot.
OhancelW Tucker has been lecturing
in Thomasville for the benefit of the
Library Association, The Dootor is ono
of the most logical thinkers and forcible
speakers in the State.
Mias Flora Hanson, a teacher, ’nas
been added to the faculty of the South
ern Female College at LaGrange as
teacher in wax works, hair works and
other ornamental branches,
A few days ago Miss Mollie Johnson,
of Jackson county, aged eleven .years,
picked 431 of cotton ; her sister,
Miss Alice JobnPon, aged nine years, at
the same time picked 310 pounds.
ftvMceman Harman, of Savannah, in
attempting to arrest a negro who was
beating bis wife, was savagely attacked
by the latter and a dfispernto struggle
ensured before an arrest eonld be effect
ed.
The suit involving the possession of
several thousand aeres of land around
Irwinton ft being settled between the
heirs oi the late Mr. A. 8. Hartridge, of
Savannah, and Mr. M. J. Carswell, of
Wilkinson county.
Monday, Mr. M. O. Kimbrough, of
Harris county, had his gin bouse, con
taining nine bales of cotton, consumed
by fire. This time last year this gentle
man lost a gin house on the same spot,
both becoming ignited while the gin
wbb rquo-iug.
Speaking of George T. Wilborn, D.
D., the reverend gentleman who recent
ly fell from grace, a correspondent of
the Madison Horne Journal says :
“When female menibers of congrega
tions shall learn to treat ministers, no
matter how haudsome, elegant and fas
cinating they may be, just as they treat
all other men, then wo may expect to
Imar less of sednetions aud elopements.’’
We are bordering upon six county
fairs.
The State Fair foots up an SB,OOO
profit.
Mr. Berry Vaughan, of Milledgeville,
is dead.
Washington county incendiaries are
burning rail fences.
Mr. Sidney R. Northington, of Wash
ington county, died last week.
Mr. Wiley Sledge died Saturday
morning in Athens—aged 93 years.
The farmers of Ware are preparing to
sow a larger acreage of oats this year.
The News boasts of “a finely educat
ed man” as a clerk in a Griffin bar room.
The widow Bedott writes a racy letter
to the Columbus Times about the State-
Fair.
The new postmistress of Forsyth has
very neatly fitted up the office in that
town.
The Gainesville himttrrrm and Camilla
Reformer have sueoumbed to the sheri iTs
insinuating ways.
A Macon and au Atlanta man are play
ing draughts, communicating moves
by means of postal cards.
Gen. John B. Gordon is said to have
entered the Confederate service as Cap
tain of the “Raccoon Roughs.”
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has writ
ten an article for the North American
Review on “Civil Service Reform.”
The Macon bar request Judge Grice to
adopt rules for the more speedy disposi
tion of business in Bibb Superior Court.
William Griggs was convicted of man
slaughter at Habersham Court, and sen
tenced to the penitentiary for seven
yeaijs.
George li. Bancroft, Esq., adjunct
professor of mathematics, University of
Georgia, died last Monday in Athens of
pneumonia.
The theatrical wardrobe of R. li’Orsay
Ogden, whieh had been attached for un
claimed bills, brought only SBS at auc
tion in Savannah.
Ann Bryson, the white girl who was
recently convicted by a Coroner’s jury
in Laurens county of killing her child,
has escaped from tho guard.
A Roman the other day tried to squirt
a derringer into a colored man a couple
of times, but the ribs being hard and
the fftsfcol ball small, no fatal result en
aued.
Thomas A. Lincoln, who killed Am
brose M. Founds in Jones county, Ga.,
some time since, was tried in the Supe -
rior Court of that county last week and
acquitted.
Mr. W. S. Henderson, of Washington
county, carried off the premium for the
best specimen of corn, and also for tho
largest yield of corn upon one acre, at
the State Fair.