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toe dill g v®|rfwMe & CftaHtotumalist OLD SERIES—VOL. ICII NEW SERIES—VOL. LI. Cijronule an i> jSmflntl. 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. ► 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.” - 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. *•.— 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. ■ m 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.