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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 81, 1877-
EDITORIAL MOTKS.
Tbe sausage is the missing link.
The Baltimore horse race had more at
tractions for members of Congress than the
public business. _
Hitting Bull is credited with being a
prominent member of the Independent
Order of Red Men.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has just return
ed to this country, leaving her daughters at
school in Germany,
TnE Nashville American is of opinion
that the President’s negative policy will end
disastrously to him. Let us wait and see.
The Republicans want the President to
discharge Etarts, Schurz and Kkt, so
that the old machine can get to work in the
old way.
The Free I’rem tells of a Detroiter who
says: "There is eue geod thing atmut
Satan. He never weighs the drivers as he
send# *ul his coal.”
With the capture of the Republican
President of Culm, Don Tomab Espada,
the “reliellion" is supposed to be on its
last legs in the "ever faithful isle.
A Siocx squaw made the bitterest speech
of all at the recent conference with Col. 8.
Bt 11 , she talked to the Commissioners
just a# if she were married to them.
The National Republican winds up a jere
miad tints: " One thing, however, is made
very clear—while the President is now a
unit, the party that elected him is not.
.Senator Morton last Winter called
Pischback’s second attempt to get into the
Senate “ damned nonsense.” Perhaps he
lias changed his mind, lie often does.
*♦■
Hon. Liberty Ham. is a Republican
candidate for the Senate of Minnesota.
.Mr. Stephens, when lie meets him, wili
think the mountain lias come to Moham-
MED. % g
Recent developments have encouraged
Corbin to appear at Washington and claim
his seat as a Senator from South Carolina.
He came out of his hole like a cockroach in
warm weather.
A South Carolina correspondent of>the
New York Time wants to know “ if trea
son or loyalty has been made odious." Read
the criminal records of the “toil’ and ask
Professor Sf.ei.ve,
Speaker Randall, lias resigned to Hon.
A. H. Stephens the room opening off the
lobby of the House, and has taken for his
own use the room dawn stairs, formerly
occupied by Mr. Blaine.
The Richmond Dispatch thinks Rev.
Joseph Cook is weakening as a 'eclurer.
The i lie patch forgets that Rev. Joseph
married a few months ago and that the
lecture season has begun on the other side.
Benton’s thirty years continued service
ns United Stntes Senator has never been
surpassed. The nearest approach to it was
that of Wv. R. Kino, of Alabama, who
served 29 years. Both men were born in
North Carolina.
Can it lie, as asserted by some of the
Washington correspondents, that "friends
of General M. C. Butler declare that some
of the leading Stnte olllcialsof South Caro
lina do not want him admitted to the Sen
ate, and are shaping their course so as t
throw obstacles in his way P”
AN Aleppo girl, who has more than one
lover, subjects her suitors to a trying ordra
for her hand. Taking three bits of live
coal from the tire, she lays one in each of her
lovers’ hands. The one who holds out the
longest wins the girl for his bride.
An English undertaker, to prove that he
was patronized by famous people, exhibited
in his show window the lid of the coffin in
which TrriKNS was to he buried. He had
a card attached bearing the great singer’s
name and the fact that lie was honored with
patronage. What comes next V
Deacon Duncan, the defaulting Cali
fornian, whose stealings amount to a mil
lion dollars, was charged with fraud icvera
years ago by the Keening Tribune , of San
Francisco. The editor was sued for libel,
and through the influence of the “good
•dt-iK'ou,” was sentenced to six months im
prisonment.
Tiik Chicago Tribune rather sarcastically
oliserves that the establishment of a race
course at Washington at Government ex
pense would simplify matters, besides sav
ing (lie time wasted in going to and from
Baltimore, and leaving more leisure to at
.t(MU! to the important and pressing business
*f tlic session.
The day before the Baltimore election
the American said : “Unless we have been
greatly misled as to the strength of the
ward organizations of the Workingmen’s
party, Mr. Thompson will certainly lie
elected by a majority too large to be smoth
ered bv fraud.” That man was most fear
fully "misled.”
J —vt-
Tiik New York Tribune shows that in
murder as well as in politics, the wise man
is he who writes no letters. But foolish
men go into both lines of business, and
when the l’ort Jervis murder was committed,
two weeks ago, some shrewd detective sim
ply |xisted himself near the supposed mur
derer’s sweetheart nt Paterson, and waited
for the letters to come along. They came;
the detective saw, and the police conquered.
The Republican candidate for Lieuten
ant-Governor in Ohio, Vooklkr, was ex
tensively scratched in Godly communities,
because, as a Quaker of Clinton county ex
pressed it, “ he had no portion in Chbist.”
One of the peculiarities of the election ia
the fact that Fitch, the Democratic candi
date for Lieutenant-Governor, received 102
Temperance votes in Licking county lie
cause it was supposed that he shunned the
flowing bowl! He does—when it Is amply.
According to the census of 1870, the
value of manufactures prolueed in New
Turk that year was $832,960,000; while
the value of manufactured products in
Philadelphia was $322,000,000, or $11,009,-
000 less than that of New York. New
Yotk manufacturers paid that year $03,-
HOO 000 in wages, while Philadelphia jwiid
only $58,800,000, or $5,000,060 less than
New York. If, therefore, says tke Bulletin,
New York could stand free trade and he
benefited by it, it would lie an equally good
thing for Philadelphia.
. and so they have elected you Speaker
of the House," remarked Mrs. Randall to
her husband the other evening, as the two
walked down the steps of the Capitol.
~ Yi's, dear.” “ IVell, they can elect you
Speaker of the House all they want to,’’
continued Mrs. U„ sharply; “but of
course you will understand, Samuel, that
/ continue to be boss of the house.” The
Speaker said the Oierk would proceed to
call tiie ayes and noes, tun .Mrs. Randall
•wul it would be taken by conseu?.
■sm'itto Bill calls Queen Victoria bis
" White Mother.” We learn that the Sioux
chiefs meeting in council at Fort Walsh,
sent for its commander in order to beg the
Whi e Mother's protection. Tl.e Arnert
oans they said, would come and offer sweet
words and large premises-moaey. blankets,
tea sugar, flour-but they bad Bed too
often, and their hands were covered with
blood. There was no Indian blood shed in
the White Mother’s country; her words
were not lies ; tliev would nuse their child
ren under the White Mother’s protection,
and help her when called upon.
't'HK Montenegrins combine war aud hus
b’txh'V in an admirable manner. After
having whipped the Turks of late from
pillar to captured Xicsicsand several
other imp-MM'"* positions, and not only
cleared their **7> province of Ottomans,
tmt considerable outlying territory,
the an-v has gone *>w the crops.
Alter accomplUiing this U>e*wW probably
lav dowu tiie shovel and tli hoe, up
their rifles and speart, and g* bunting
Turks agaia until liarvedi. >vhen, having
threshed their enemies, they vni - ,u ™ their
attention to threshing wheat. Ibe niwinu
live< baracter of liule Montenegro is sufli
ciently shown by this suspending of a c*m
uaigu’and sending the army home t* attend
to the fanning. That this hemic liUle band
baß not been guaranteed complete tndepen
tjeßce and immunity from Turkish invasion
by the Great Powers is not to credit ot
their generosity or humanity.
A DYING STRDGGLK.
When poor, ball dead Senator Mob
ton has to dictate editorials which con
tain notea of warning to hia distressed
bat still malignant party, the most oare
-lam observer cannot bat infer that the
party appealed to is as crippled as him
self. Not only does Senator Morton
endeavor to make the Republican Sena
tors and Representatives fall in love
with the President’s position, but he
takes occasion to aend on a report, as
Chairman of the Privileges and Election
Committee, taking the position that
Kellogo is entitled to a seat in the Sen
ate from Louisiana instead of Spopford.
We are prepared to see him take similar
positions with regard to Lewis and
Corbin. Bat what a last ditch of Rad
icalism this would indeed be! If this
infamy be perpetrated, we hazard noth
ing in saying that Mobton, Conklino,
Don Cam ebon, Jonbs and Mitchell
will fall by the wayside, and that in
1879, there will be a Senate so over
whelmingly Democratic that even the
most stalwart Republican can die of
rage to behold. So, let Senators Mob
ton and his colleagues, if so disposed,
proceed with their funeral. The De
mocracy will bury them and their party
so deep, a few years hence, that even
the discoverers of the future will fail to
find a geological specimen for public
exhibition.
WHAT IT MEANS.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
resolutions adopted by the Richmond
County Democratic Executive Commit
tee are publish ed in the Chbohicle and
Constitutionalist every day there are
people who seem to misunderstand their
meaning and talk of “conventions,”
“packed delegations," etc. It had been
asserted that the Executive Committee
and some mysterious “ring" are band
ed together for the purpose of stifling
the voice of the people and putting men
into office who were not the choice of
the people. We do not believe that the
Executive Committee-composed os
is of some of the best citizens of the
city and oounty—wishes to do any such
thing, or that the so-called “ring” has
any existence. We are quite as
confidont that no Executive Commit
tee which has held office in Richmond
oounty since the war has desired to do
anything calculated to destroy or inter
fere with the political rights of the peo
ple, or to in any way repress a full
expression of individual sentiment
in the selection of candidates for office.
The members of these committees did
what they believed was for the-best in
terests of the Democratic party and of
the people of the county. The system
in operation up to the commencement
of the present campaign was as follows:
Primary meetings were held in the dif
ferent wards of the city and districts of
the country, and delegates were selected
to a County Convention which latter
body nominated candidates for the
House of Representatives and sell cted
delegates to represent the county in the
District Senatorial Convention. Some
of the very men who are now running
as independent candidates and denounc
ing “packed meetings” and “manipulat
ed conventions,” had nothing to say
against them when they were candidates
before these conventions and when they
were nominated by them and elected as
their nominees. But the objection
urged to the system was that it some
times gave a minority of the popular
vote more representation in the County
Convention than was given to a ma
jority of the popular vote. For in
stance : eaoh ward was allowed to
select five delegates, giving a total of
twenty delegates to the city. The Seo
ond Ward might poll only fifty votes at
the primary meeting, and thß Third
Ward might poll only the same number,
yet theso hundred votes would be rep
resented by ten delegates. The First
Ward polling four hundred and the
Fourth Ward polling six hundred,
would have only ten delegates. In this
way it was poßßiblo, though seldom, if
ever, the case that a minority vote had
a majority of the delegates, and could,
consequently, control the action of the
Convention. This reason induced the
Democratic Committee whioh wasoharg
ed with the conduct of the present cam
paign to determine upon such a change
iu the manner of making nominations
as would do away with the objec
tions urged against its present workings.
The Committee, accordingly, did away
with the seleotion of delegates and the
assembling of a convention, and provid
ed for nominating candidates by a di
rect vote of the members of the Demo
cratic party in the county. A pri
mary election was decided upoD,
to bo held at suoh a time,
and in such places and under
anch restrictions as would give to every
Democrat full opportunity to cast his
vote for the men of his choice, and am
ple guarantee that his ballot would be
received aud fairly counted. Under the
system unfairness of any kind oan not
be praoticed, and “paekiDg” is made
impossible. The candidates who receive
the highest number of Democratic votes
will get, as they undoubtedly deserve,
the nomination of the Democratic party
for the positions whioh they seek. It
has been the custom of the party to se
lect two candidates for the House of
Representatiees from the city and one
from the country. In accordance with
that custom the Executive Committee,
as the representative of the party, direct
that each voter shall oast his ballot for
State Senator, for two candidates from
the oity aud for png candidate from the
country for the House, 'fjie polls will
lie kept open for seven hoars—from ten
o’clock iu the morniDg until five in the
afternoon—at the usual voting place In
eeU ward and district. The election is
to lie conducted under the superintend
ence of tlire* jpanagers, any two of
whom may act, and tftP managers are to
meet at the City Hall next Monday at 12
o’oloek, consolidate the vote and an
nounce the result to the Chairman of the
Executive Committee. The two men
from the city and the one man from the
country receiving the higheet number of
votes will be declared the nominees of
i the Do£u**ratio party for the House of
RepreeebstigsS and the candidate for
State Senator weiy;ng the higheet
number of votes will b* declared the
choice of Richmond county tor pniii
position and the Chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committee will appoint six dele
gates to the District Convention with
instruction* to iot for hi* nomination.
Who can obj m* to such an arrange
ment ? Can anything bo fairer ? Gould
any plan have been devised by whioh
the wishes of the majority of the Demo
crats of the county could be better as
certained ? Every Democrat is given
full opportunity to cast hia vote and
every .vote cast counts in the selection
of the nojfcUoiejL Those who object to
snob an electiou those who have
good reason to believe that wy are not
the ohoice of the party; heooe they re
fuse to submit to party action and
rely for success mainly upon the as
sistance of the enemies of the party.
THE CHINESP FRvLRM.
Jo*s Chinaman seems to be a disturb
ing element wherever he chooses to im
migrate. The PawJfo slope is sot the
only aoeae of agitation over bis unwel
eome presence. The British uoiony of
Qneenland in Australia is deeply trou
bled to know what to4o with the moon
eyed race, SO,OOO of whom fcsve taken
up their abode in that province. Be
tween them and the 200,000 European
settlers there are continual antagonisms
xnd squabbles. The oolonial govem-
B.M.A if* finally resolved to impose a
tax of SSO oti Pgtsj Chinaman landed in
the oountry, a aiiaiim on every etore
opened to supply Chinese
*M*al license fee of sls for mining
privileges, and a heavy protective duty
on rice. Bat for fear that such meas
ures may affect injuriously the treaty re
lation between the British empire and
China, Lord Cabnabvan haa, however,
refused to assent to all except the one
relating to the poll tax. It seems to be
the same puzzling question wherever
John settles whether to go for lum as
Jem Ntb went for Ah Sin, or to treat
him like other settlers and try to make
him a respectable, useful citizen.
A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.
The Monroe Advertiser says that a
Jefferson darkey, on being told that the
Repnbliean party in Georgia was dead,
replied: “I hear dat, but taint so—we
only got annndder name for it—dey
call it Independent now.” The colored
brother spoke frankly and, in his sim
plicity of mind, let a very considerable
Radical oat oat of the Independent bag.
To show the practical workings of this
new device, we are informed, by the
New Orleans Democrat, that Hinds
oonnty, Miss., in whioh the capital of the
Btate ia situated, and which piled np a
Democratic majority of several thousand
at the last election, is likely to be lost
to the Democracy this year, so the Mis
sisippi papers think, by an unprecedent
ed rash of Independents to the front.
There are Independents in other oount ies,
bat not near as many as in Hinds. In
that unfortunate part of the State there
are strikers, Indepsndents, National
Unionists, and half a dozen other so
called parties, bidding for the negro
votes. Anybody who wants an office
immediately organizes anew party, dec
orates it with some gorgeous name to
attract the negro voter, and then dashes
wildly into the canvass. The Democrat
adds that the contest has ceased alto
gether to be anything bat a scramble
for offioe, and the probable result will
be the election of a foil negro ticket. It
is likely that the Independents will not
be qnite satisfied with their work.
From these specimens it will be seen
that the so-called Independents are only
infnsing the Democratic party, and
that, unless vigorously fonght by
an organized Democracy, they will
restore to the Sonth that abominable
reign of anarchy and theft from which,
|lt so mnch cost of blood and treasure,
we have recently emerged. We do not
needlessly seek to alarm the people.
There is no hope for rotten Radicalism
outside of Independent movements, and
the man who lends himself to sneh mar
plots and their designs menaces his
State with fearful troubles, and threat
ens the whole oountry with a Repnbliean
restoration to power and plunder.—
Wherefore, instead of disbanding onr
organization, we should make it more
compact than ever, and, thus organized,
deliver suoh a blow to those who ccquet
with the enemy that they will not easily
recover from their merited overthrow.
In so preparing for the contest we have
mnch to encourage ns.,. Nowhere was
there a greater and more wide-spread
dissatisfaction with the Democratic
party, as an organization, than iD
the oity of Baltimore. Two years
ago, so-called Reformers very near
ly proved victorious, in a municipal
election, because they secured leading
Democrats to oommand and direct their
bolt. When, however, it became appar
ent that this Reform movement was
only a Repnbliean trick in disguise, the
revolted leaders rapidly returned to the
old party lines, and one of them, Col.
Georgs P. Kane, was made the stand
ard-bearer. No sooner had this been
done, proving that the Democracy were
all sufficient to effect reforms in their
own ranks, than there sprang up a
Workingman’s or Independent faction
whioh sought to array the poor against
the rich, labor against capital and class
against class. The opposition, at one
time, made marked headway. When,
however, the demagogical speeches of
the Independent leaders were re
ported and the Radical paper, the
American, came out boldly and
exultingly for the Communistic element
aa against the Democracy, thousands of
the honest sons of toil who were, for a
moment, dazzled by special pleading
and plausible sophistry, beheld the old
Radical demon behind the mask of “in
dependence,” and, forsaking false gods,
returned loyally to the only party that
was ever true and faithful to the laborer
and his interests. Wo have the result
before us. Colonel Kanb and his co
candidates are elected by a prodigious
majority, and the Independent move
ment has been laid out in a Radical
graveyard and ready for burial. The
editor of the American will no doubt be
engaged to preach the funeral services,
aud it is meet that he, who petitioned to
get into Boss Shepherd’s little Wash
ington Ring, should officiate olerically
on this oocasiou.
What the Baltimore Democracy
have done, the Democracy of
Georgia oan and will do. They will
rally to the old Democratic flag now
floating so proudly and victoriously;
they will not permit that standard to be
dragged down in the very hour of su
preme triumph; they will see to it that
the promise of a national victory iu
1880 shall not be jeopardized by local
dissensions and Republican trickery in
1877. We call therefore upon our poli
tical friends to do their whole duty in
the premises, and to administer a re
buke to those who defy party allegiance
anch as the Baltimore brethren admin
istered to the Radical wolves who
sought to enter the Demooratio fold in
sheep’s olothing.
A TOUGH TURKEY.
Reports state that Suleiman has fallen
baok to Rasgrad, and that the Russians,
nnder the Czarewitch, have advanced
their lines against that plaoe. We learn
also that Osman is being beleagured ef
fectually at Plevna, but holds in his oom
mand 130,000 Moslems who will only
suoeumb to starvation. Rumors of me
diation for an armistice are rife in Con
stantinople, bat the press of that oity
declares that while an armed Russian
remsina on Turkish soil there will be no
parley, and that the Ottoman power will
fight to the death for its autonomy. A
Winter campaign seems imminent. It
may eventuate disastrously for the in
vaded; it may prove unfortunate for the
iavader. Many more battles are to be
fought and many more wretched lives
sacrificed, while immense stretches of
oountry will be turned to howling
wildernesses. South of the Schipka
Pass, the present oondition of the once
beantifnl Yale of Roees is thus described
a London Times’ correspondent:
“All tfle ay from Schipka to Yeni
Saghra, at which plane ye took the rail,
the air is polluted with the remains pf
the killed. The bodies of men, wo
men and children are to be met with
in sU ptugr* pf decomposition at the
roadsides, in the gorp fields and gar
dens, on the banks of streams and in
the beds of rivulets. Some hundreds
were choking tbs shallow water within
a quarter of a mile from where we
camped at Yeni Saghra. Desolation
and ruin appeared along the whole way.
The remains of formerly prosperous
villages, which it was impossible to
£itojfi tent even near, rippling mountain
streams .n whi?h onr horses refused to
drink, the howling pi wolves around
ns at night, brought down from the
mountains earlier than usual by the i
horrid feasts prepared for them (the
largest I have ever seen lay dead, evi
dently rtyfryitly shot, by the side of
the road) not far frojw fTeni Saghra,
and, woree, the occasional shrieks from
human beings, followed by solitary
rifle reports, which made one shudder
more than the damp night air—all these
sights and sounds went to form one
great jtionibie phantasmagoria, whioh
none of ns are likely to live long
enoagh to remember without pain.’* If
this ia the reenlt of Qen, Ghohbko’s
sudden dash across the Balkans, what
most be the condition of Bulgaria
which has so long been occupied by
both forces f The mind turns with
horror from the contemplation of it,
even in imagination. And this ia call
ed glory'and jOhristian crusading I
Turkey baa had her urn in bad took,
but her powers of resistance are still im
mense, and we are of opinion that tha
Czar would willingly draw oat of the
fight it he could do so honorably. A
contemporary sums up the eitnation
briefly thus: “The Dobrndscha is yet
intact. The qnadrilaterial is
nntonched. Plevna is still defiant. There
are no Russian# sonth of the Balkans.
Kars, hard pressed as it undoubtedly is,
so far as known, makes no response to
the Bnmmons to surrender. Erzeronm
is yet nntonched, and Bayazid, we be
lieve, still acknowledge# the Crescent.
The Grand Dukes clearly have thus
mnch hard work ahead before the Tnrk
ia driven from his last ditch."
There may be a sudden and decisive
change in this situation, but the pros
pect is not favorable. If the Czar
“means business,” he has precious little
time to consummate it. The Turk will
certainly hold out while there is a thread
of hope. Hitherto, Russian gold has
accomplished with Turkish Pashas what
valor failed to command. That same
potent ally may create havoc in 1877, as
it did in 1828 29.
THE PRIMARY ELECTION.
The verdict rendered at the polls yes
terday by the Democrats of Richmond
county is decidedly in favor of the in
tegrity of the party. It is, perhaps, the
largest vote ever cast at a primary elec
tion in this county. The contest cen
tered entirely upon the Senatorship, as
there was no opposition, in tho city at
least, for members of the House. Major
Joseph B. Cumming presented his name
for Senator, subject to the approval of
the Democratic party.
Mr. Foster, in his card announcing
his independent candidacy, did not ask
his friends to stay away from tho prima.
ry election or to abstain from voting for
members of the House. His request
was that they should Dot vote for Sen
ator. Mr. Foster’s strength, therefore,
inside the party, to put it most favorably
for him, is measured by the number of
those who abstained from voting for
Senator. This is the strongest possible
presentation of his proportion of strength
inside of the party. It was not Mr.
Foster’s wish that his Democratic
friends should not vote at these elections
for members of the House, and, in fact,
it was the largest nominating vote ever
cast in Richmond county. His propor
tion of this vote—this pronounced senti
ment of the party—is represented by the
number of votes that Major Cumming
runs behind the average vote of the
members of the House. It is also to be
borne in mind that this proportion of
strength, such as it was, was developed
almost entirely iu the First Ward of the
city, and failed wholly to appear in the
other wards of the city and in tbe coun
try districts.
After this pointod declaration by the
party in favor of its integrity, Mr. Fos
ter must abandon all hope of election,
or look for it elsewhere than among the
Democrats of Richmond county.
THE POSITION OF JEFFERSON.
We publish in the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist this morniDg a letter
from a prominent citizen of Jefferson
county complaining that the dispatch
from Louisvillo, giving the action of a
portion of the Democratic Executive
Committee, recently published in this
paper, did tho Democratic citizens of
the county great injustice. We hasten
to assure our correspondent that the in
justice of which he complains was whol
ly unintentional. The dispatch was
published jnst as it was received. Our
correspondent says that the call for a
meeting of the Executive Committee,
published in the Jefferson News and
Farmer, did not state that tho meeting
was held to provide for sending dele
gates to a Senatorial Convention. He
says further that Jefferson is iu favor of
a nomination, and that the Democrats
of that county will support tho nomi
nee. We have never doubted that
suoh was the case. We have never
believed that the good men and true
Democrats of Jefferson desired the dis
ruption of the party which placed Cain
in the Senate instead of Conley, and re
deemed them from the disgrace of being
misrepresented by such scum as Neal
and Stone, which put their labor system
upon a steady basis and gave peace and
order to the county. We know them
to be loyal to the party, and we have
1 no doubt whatever that they will respect
party action, set their faces firmly
against the movement which threatens
to stir np dissension, and strive to
pave the way to a renewal of the scan
dalous scenes of 1868. It is by no means
too late for the Democrats of Jefferson
to hold a meeting and accept the invita
tion of Glascock to send delegates to the
Senatorial Convention to be held in Gib
son. Tho minority of the Executive
Committee made a mistake which can
easily be corrected. Let a majority of
the Committee assemble and provido for
holding a meeting for the selection of
delegates to the Gibson Convention. In
the very improbable event that the Com
mittee should neglect or refuse to do
this, the Democracy of the county have
a perfect right to assemble and say
whether or not delegates shall be ap
pointed—whether the Democratic party
shall be maintained or disbanded.
On the part of Richmond, we feel as
sured of the sentiment of tho Democracy
of the county when we say that they pre
fer the preservation of the party to the
personal triumph of any one of their
members, however worthy they may con
sider him to be. They are not striving
for the advancement of an individual,
but are struggling for the safety of tbe
party organization, upon the mainten
ance of which intact depends the peace
and well being of the people of the
Eighteenth Senatorial District. They
will send delegates to Gibson to meet
and confer with delegates from Jeffer
son and Glascock. They will meet them
in a spirit of concession and good will.
If it shall appear that the candidate
they present is not the choice of the ma
jority of the Convention they will not
press his claims, but will give prompt
and cheerful support to any Democrat
who may be selected. Let us hope that
tha Democracy of Jefferson will act at
once, maintain Democratic organization
and contribute to Democratic success.
NEW YORK TAMATfON.
The St. Louis Republican says it is
almost pathetic to witness the despair
ing effort the property holders of New
York are making to save themselves and
their city from threatened ruin by
adopting the constitutional amendments
now pending in the State. The case is
urgent, for if some such breakwater
against indebtedness and extravagant
administration as the proposed amend
ments would secure be not devised, it is
probable New York will have to yield its
snpremaey and go into decline. The
papers show that the taxation of the city
last year was 833,000,0000, which, on an j
estimated population of is
827 50 for every soul, or 8137 oO for
every family of five persons in the city.
It is imposible to maintain such a rate
of taxation as this ; the profits of busi
ness in New York will not warrant it
and if they did,’.the country would need
to do its business through some other
oity or cities, the profits exacted
are smaller. The taxation of London is
840 000 000 a year, or 810 per capita ;
in Paris it is 334,400,000, or sl7 per
capita. The cost of police in New York
is 83 213,000 a year; in Paris, with 800,-
M 0 more population, The
cost of street cleaning in New lot* is
8725 000; in Paris, 5546.000; public in
struction in New York, $3,553,000; in
Paris 82,013,000; public chanties m
New York, 82,153,000; in Pam, $2,580,-
800- fiie depsjtment in New fork, sl-,
226,000; in Paris, $96,000. These figures
assist to explain why Paris is prosper
ous while New York is not-why real es
tate in the latter city does aot sell for
mnch more than the mortgages on it,
and the building of new honses has al
most ceased.
Mr John Hockenhnll, of Dawson, is
a candidate for Senator to represent the
Tb*rty-ieoopd Senatorial District*
WM. HOPE HULL
MEMORIAL TO THE DISTINGUISH
ED DEAD.
Resolution* Read la Open Heart, and Order.
ed Spread Oa the Jtlnoleo—A Beaatifu!
Tribote to the Deceaeed. ? V
Pursuant to call, a meeting of the bar
was held yesterday morning at 9 o’clock
to receive the resolutions of respect to
the memory of William Hope Hnll,
Esq., deceased, drawn np by the com
mittee recently appointed for that par
pose. Jhdge Win. T. Gould was in tbe
Chair. Colonel C. C. Jones presented a
memorial and set of resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted, and Colonel
Jones was requested to present them in
open Court at half-past ten o’clock. On
motion, the committee was also request
ed to present the memorial and resolu
tions in the Supreme Court of the State,
when the Angnsta Circuit is called, and
ask that they be spread on the minutes
of that Court.
At half-past ten o’clock the grand
jury Laving entered the Court room,
Colonel Jones presented the memorial,
as follows:
When the eyes of Qninctilins were
sealed in endless sleep, it was asked
among his sorrowing friends, “When
will modesty and unspotted faith, the
sister of justice and unadorned truth,
here find his eqnal ?”
With like questioning do we stand in
the presence of that bereavement which,
in a moment, deprived ns of the com
panionship of him who, in legal acquire
ment and sound judgment, had no supe
rior at this bar.
Remembering that elaborate eulogy
can prove of little consequence to the
dead, and that by our departed brother
posthumous encomiums wonld ecarcely
have been desired, your committee re
speotfully submit the following simple
memorial:
William Hope Hull, the intelligence
of whose sudden death in New York
city on tho 12th of September
last cast an nnnsual gloom over
this community and brought special
sadness to our hearts, was born in Athens,
Ga., on the second of February, 1820.
He was the honored representative of
the third generation of that name in this
State. His grandfather, the Reverend
Hope Hull, was one of the founders of
the Methodist Church in Middle Geor
gia, and was regarded in his day as a
minister of great activity, zeal, useful
ness and devotion. The savor of his
good name is still cherished in the re
membrance not only of his denomina
tion, but also of the Church of God
generally.
From his father, too, the late Asbury
Hull, of Athens, did our deceased
brother inherit that rich legacy which is
bequeathed only by a high order of in
tellect and a spotless parity of charac
ter. Even in boyhood honesty of pur
pose, rectitude of thought and conduct,
a strong religious faith, stndious habits
and a conservatism in sentiment and act
characterized the deceased. With him
suoh traits wore hereditary, and from
their loyal exhibition ho never swerved.
Graduating with distinction from the
State University in the class of 1838, he
selected the law as his profession, and
without delay entered earnestly upon
its study. His proficiency was so marked
that shortly after being called to tbe
bar be was appointed the Solicitor-Gen
eral of the Western Circuit. The duties
of this position were by him faithfully
aud efficiently discharged. Upon the
expiration of this term of public service
he continued the practice of his profes
sion—his office being in Athens. The
bar of the Western Circuit then em
braced many of the most noted lawyers
in Georgia. To its most select circle the
liberal education, careful thought and
clear judgment of Mr. Hull speedily
secured his admission. During the
whole course of bis subsequent profes
sional life bis right to an equality with
the learned and gifted of his brethren
was never questioned.
His professional engagements were,
fer several years, supplemented by pro
fessorial labors in the Athens Law
School. In the exercise of these pleas
ing duties lie was associated with Chief
Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Gener
al Thomas R. R. Cobb, and Colonel Wil
liam L. Mitchell. It is admitted by all
who heard them that the lectures then
delivered by Mr. Hull were carefully
considered, comprehensive and instruc
tive. From his clear intelleot none other
could have emanated.
At the special suggestion of his bosom
friend and at one time law partner, the
Honorable Howell Cobb, who had ac
cepted the appointment of Secretary of
the Treasury in Mr. Buchanan’s Cabi
net, Mr. Hull removed to Washington
City, were, for some time, he ably filled
the offioe of Assistant Attorney-General
of the United States. So ixact was his
legal learning, so thorough his profes
sional training, and so reliable his
views, that to him were freely commit
ted by Judge Black the examination and
discussion of some of the most import
ant questions which then claimed the
attention of tbo Attorney-General,
When it became manifest that the dif
ferences existing between the Southern
and Northern States would be submitted
to the arbitrament of tho sword, Mr.
Hnll resigned this position and returned
to his old home at Athens, where he
continued to reside during the war.
Upon the cessation of hostilities he re
moved to Augusta. Here, until his la
mented demise, he lived aDd was engag
ed in the active practice of his profes-
sion.
With the settlement of many impor
tant controversies engendered by the
abnormal condition of affairs caused by
the war, and the subversion of estab
lished theories of property and com
merce, he was often and honorably en
gaged. At the time of his death lie was
the retained counsel of the Georgia
Railroad aud Banking Company, and
for several year# had been entrusted
with the conduct of the legal matters of
that extensive corporation.
Although he had never “given host
ages to fortune,” in the families of his
kindred Mr. Hull found home and op
portunity for the exercise of the ten
derest affections. Gentle in heart,
liberal in aot, cmfiding in disposition,
pure in thought, and Christian in ex
ample, his influence was ever for good.
It may be truly said of him that his pri
vate life was without spot, so far at
least as mortal conduct can be, without
blemish. Singularly modest and unas
suming, he was nevertheless a man firm
in his convictions, and ready, upon
proper occasion, to give a reason for the
faith which was in him. Asa citizen he
was public-spirited and charitable.—
There was nothing of the demagogue
abont him. General approbation he
valued only when it was encountered in
the line of merit—only when it came as
the reward of duty faithfully performed.
While conversant with public affairs,
and taking a decided interest in every
thing which was calculated to promote
the general good, he was no politician,
he sought no offioe, and was never an
aspirant for popular favor. He appear
ed always content in the earnest, re
gular and dignified pursuit of his
calling.
“Asa lawyer.” says one who knew
him intimately, * ‘Mr. Hull’s character
istics were learning, clearness and force.
He made no pretentipp to eloquence,
though at times he was decidedly elo
quent; but his eloquence was a result,
not an aim and a study—the result of
perfect perspicuity of ideas and the
use of simple and appropriate language
in which to convey them. With a de
cided taste for books, and without either
the cares or the diversions pf domestic
life, ho devoted an iinnsnal proportion
of his time to stpdy. Time bestowed
by sneh a mind pould bqt lead tp the
acquisition of yejry extensive learpipg;
and it in turn was firpjly Jjel# by p re
markably retentive memory. He yas
not at all a “case lawyer," but was
far above that inferior order of
his profession. His opinions of
questions were determined by a sound
application of general principles, and
the accurate and minute knowledge of
the exceptions which vary their opera
tion. When he had investigated a ques
tion his jndgment wss nearly always
correct. When he considered it correct,
his presentation ©f it was animated but
temperate, confident but deferential,
clear, forcible, convincing. When he
had not satisfied his own sense of truth,
it was not easy for him to insist even on
those views favorable to that side which,
upon the whole, hp considered unsound.
He was wholly devoid qf that effrontery
in presenting a bad case as a good one
which some lawyers are found shameless
enough to boast of, and some laymen
atnpid enough to appland. Mr. Hull
regarded the argument of purely legal
questions as his forte; and in this opin
ion he was correct. Bat he was not cor
rect in the distrust he felt of his powers
before a jury. Before good juries, look
ing for their guidance to the plain, sim
ple, clear presentation of facts and prin
ciples, no advocate was, or deserved to
be, more successful; bat in pleasing
contrast with the vanity of some of his
shallower brethren he had an unwarrant
ed but unconquerable diffidence of his
powers in this branch of his profession.”
In his intercourse with his profession
al brethren Mr. Hnll uniformly easy
of access, affable and generous. Occu
pied though he might be with the con
sideration of grave questions, he was
ever ready at the request of a friend or
even an acquaintance —especially if he
were young member of the bar or a
atrite with thTgreatestgood Wifi ip solv
ing the doubt expressed or in fortifying
ft point with the requisite ftathorities.
Hia library, while not extensive,
was well selected, and contained,
works of the highest repute. He
evidently sympathized with Seneca in
bis belief that it matters not so muoh
how many books one possesses as how
valuable they are. With standard au
thors and the leading cases be was re
markably familiar. The rapidity with
which he could turn to the authorities
was astonisshing. His powers of analy
sis were uncommon. His extensive
reading, retentive memory, large expe
rience and sound judgment rendered
him a safe and most valuable counsellor.
His absence will long be felt in this
legal oircle and by his many clients.
Of him it oonld never be said
"Voracious learning, often ove-fed,
Digests not into sense her motley meal.”
On the oontrary, his trained and tar
nished brain was a treasury house,
whose well-placed stores were always at
the command of owner and friend.
Purposing a brief visit to the North
for relaxation and pleasure, he left us
but a short time since in the enjoyment
of his enstomary health, which, how
ever, of late years, had not been lobnst.
Comparatively few days had elapsed
when we were appalled by the afflictive
and startling intelligence that onr friend,
all alone, had been stricken down in a
moment, in the heart of a great city,
and in dying had made no sign. While
it is true that
"The tongues of dring men
Enforce attention like deep harmony,”
1 and while our honored brother in his
last breathings left no message, we have
that which outweighs latest utterances
and far excels death-bed professions—
the record of a well-spent life, the ex
ample of an upright Christian gentle
man, the savor of an unsullied profes
sional name.
We have laid him to rest beside his
father, in the homo of his youth and
vigorous manhood. There, after life’s
toil, he calmly sleeps, and we, emulous
of his virtues, are here met to pay our
last public tribute to his memory.
Resolved , That in the death of Wil
liam Hope Hull the bar of Georgia has
lost one of its ablest members, Augusta
a most conservative and valuable citi
zen, and we a friend and counsellor most
true and wise.
Resolved, That our respectful sympa
thy and condolence are hereby tendered
to the relatives of the decased.
Resolved That this nfbmorial and these
resolutions be presented to his Honor
Judge Gibson, in open Court, with the
request that they be spread upon the
minutes.
Resolved, That they be published in
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist,
Hon. J. 0. C. Black seconded tho res
olutions in an eloquent and appropriate
manner. He said he felt that he would
be doing violence to his feelings if he
did not pay some tribute, on behalf of
the yoimger members of the bar, to the
deceased. It had been admirably said
iu the memorial that the profession had
lost one who eminently illustrated it.
Judge Gibsou spoke as follows :
“Let not your hearts be troubled; in
my lather’s house are many mansions.
I go to prepare a place for yon, and will
come again and receive you, that where
I am ye may also be.” “Yet a little while
and the world seeth us no more. Be
cause I live ye shall also live, but the
fruits which you have brought forth
shall remain."
The comforting sentiments contained
in the foregoing, I doubt not, inspired
the noble and generous action of our de
ceased brother, W. Hope Hull. We
are more lovely, more perfect, more
pure, more excellent, as our lives ap
proach the standard erected at the cross;
yet we are often said to be most excellent,
pure, chaste, perfect and superior.
Whilst the smallest star that adorns the
Armament may be pure, sparkling and
bright, yet the more brilliant are oftener
seen and discerned by the natural eye,
and perhaps, most admired. The foun
dation principle laid deep and lasting
in tho mind and heart of our brother
was purity, and that purity as taught in
the strictest schools of the founders
of purity, when no unclean bird or
beast was received at the altar and none
but the purest and best, and only
from those persons who came without
spot or blemish. From those, selections
were to be made of the very purest, and
as if to impress more indellibly the
pure standard erected for our guidance,
one of the most distinguished persons
for purity was selected and given
priestly robes to offer the sacrifice. To
make purity still more exalted even that
selected for its greatest purity, after be
ing •purified had to be washed in clean
water, and when superlative purity
had been given to both sacrifice and
priest in the court without the holy of
holies, where neither priest nor people
were deemed pure enough to oome, tho
sacrifice was made. In this mould the
mind of our brother Hull was cast, and
to keep its standard above the dust and
from being soiled was bis constant
effort, yet the frailties of his nature
may have caused him great grief for
his many short comings and failures.
In his imperfections and weaknesses,
like his sad death, are illustrated how
little we know and how uncertain are
the tenures by which we hold to life.
In a vision it is said St. John saw one
nndefiled in heart, clothed in pure white
linen.
Our brother Hull was not a passive
man, but a bold, aggressivo and active
man, ever seeking to elevate the stand
ard of his profession by the establish
ment of truth and justice. He made no
impassioned appeals to Courts or jurios,
but fully recognizing their high mission
he sought alono by reason and precedent
to establish the right. I have often
thought if success had to be prooured
in any different mode, he would scorn
the gieatest success. Iu the bright
galaxy of his chosen profession of law
he was a bright and shining light. Iu
the District, Circuit and Supreme
Courts of the United States, in his own
State Courts, he was a foemau worthy
of the best steel in the hands of the most
learned and experienced. At this bar,
in this Court, he was always respectful
to Court, juries and his brethren, and to
the young and inexperienced, ever kind.
With a warm and confiding heart and
open hand he was ever ready to aid
cheerfully all worthy and deserving ob-
jeets.
He seems only to have accepted pro
motion where the interests of educa
tion, learning and charity were to be
advanced and bestowed; for displays and
vain pomp his modest and retiring
nature seems to have unfittod him. In
the walks of private life and among the
humble poor and weary he seemed to
have delighted in scattering flowers. He
possessed no arts of the demagogue or
politiciaUCßor did he possess any vaulting
ambition. To illustrate his profession,
adorn the walks of private life by
great purity and strict integrity, and to
relieve the wants of the needy, seemed
to be his highest ambition. His name,
his fame, his virtues all belong to
Georgia. His foibles have perished with
him. His body now lies in the silent
grave, in his native town, by the side of
honored parents and friends, where it
will be watered by affectionate tears, to
await the sound of the trumpet in the
first resurrection, to be brought forth in
glory and honor.
Maj. Gumming moved that his Hon
or’s remarks be spread on the minutes
with the memorial. Adopted.
Living fn Washington.
[Washington Correspondence Chicago Journal.]
The expense of living iu Washington
is now quite as low as in any of the
Eastern cities. This was not the case
years ago. ltents were, a few years
since, enormously high at the National
Capital, but now “houses for rent” and
“rooms for rent” are placarded on near
ly half the buildings of the city, and
both hqqses and rqoms can be bad at
reasonably low figures. Board, too, can
be had at astonishingly low rates. Sev
eral extensive boafdiqg fiquqes and ho
tels are supplying table board at sls
per month, per week, and 25 cents
per meal. People coming to Washing
ton to spend weeks or months, and de
siring to make expenses light while
here, instead of paying $3 to $5 per day
at the Arlington, Kiggs, Ebbitt, Wil
lard, National, or Metropolitan, can se
cure a good room forslQ per month, and
meals for sls per month, making their
entire outlay for both boar<J and lodg
ing only $25 per month, which is cer
tainly cheap enough, considering that
this is the great capital of a great na
tion.
Tp (lire Dyspepsia or Nervous Debility.
[Correspondence of ihp New York Tribune .J
Change your diet and manner of liv
ing; drink neither tea nor coffee; never
drink at meal times; after every meal,
or during the meal, dissolve half a tea
spoonful or more of caynne pepper in
half a glassful of milk and drink it; eat
plain food; never taste pastry of any
kind. If you are troubled with sleep
less nights, do not try to promote sleep
by taking stimulants or opiates; they do
more harm than good; take a sponge
bath just before retiring, and, if yon are
unable to do it yourself, get someone
to rub you well with a. coarse towel; if
yon wake in the night and oan not get
to sleep again, get np at once, not lie
until you get nervous thinking about
it;” take a foot bath; rub yopr limbs
well to get np a circulation; drink a
glass of cold water. Do not expect to
cure yourself in one week’s time; have
patience, and try one one month. In
bathing, use yquy hands to apply the
water, it is ®nob better £h&n a sponge;
soften the gate? with R°rai, 4 is more
invigorating than salt water.
“Fae.s are stubborn things,” and so
are coughs and colds, but the latter will
invariably yield to Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup, which costs but 25 cents.
PAROLEI).
TENBOECK BEATEN BY PAROLE
ON THE PIMLICO COURSE,
And Mare Than Ten Braken Kentuckians
Will Walk Home—Their.Hearts Are Heavy
With Korean , Bnt Verily Their Parses Are
IJffhU-Tallt of the Track and the Stables
as to the Cause of the <reat Kentuckian’s
Defeat.
Baltimore, Md , October 24. —The
event of the day was next on the tapis,and
as soon as the preceding race was over
there was a rash of thousands to the
pool-stand, all eager to bet or to see how
the betting was going. In fact, during
the sales of the pools on the other
races, some impatient ones had the
pool-seller auction off a number of pools
on the big event. The betting was very
spirited, and the poll seller did not have
to dweil long over the bids. In a few
moments Tenbroeck sold for $1,200 to
S4OO on Tom Ochiltree and $355 on
Parole. Pierce Lorillard backed his
horse heavily, and bought Parole in
every pool that was sold on the track
bat two. But, of course, he bought
through a third party. No words can
convey an idea of
The Feverish Excitement
That prevailed through the crowd. All
seemed to feel that Tenbroeck was euro
to win beyond a peradventure, and yet
by far the largest number wanted to
double their belief. “I do wish Ten
broeck would fall down, or something,”
said a fair lady behind me, “for I wonld
so bate to see him beat our Eastern
horses.” This sentiment found hearty
approval, and expressed the desire of
the great bulk of the spectators present.
Parole was the first horse to leave his
stable. He was given a preliminary
canter under tbe blankets, but his pres
ence did not wake tbe slightest applause
as he passed the grand stand. In about
ten minutes Tom Ochiltree was seen
coming from his stable, followed by
Parole, with both of their jockeys in
full dress, and as “The Big Horse,” as
Tom is here called, passed the grand
stand he was received with a perfect
salvo of applause. A few moments
later Tenbroeck made his appearance on
the course near the olub house, and as
he cantered past the judges’stand he too
was thd recipient of considerable hand
clapping. But little time was cut to
waste iu preliminaries. The judges,
Hon. August Belmont, ex-Governor
Bowie and Senator Beck, took their
places in their stand. The timers, Cap
tain J. H. Smith and Price McGrath,
pulled out their watches and Captain
Connor dropped the flag on
As Pretty and Even a Start
As was ever seen, at precisely eight min
utes past three o’olook. Tenbroeck at
once jumped to tlio front, with Oohiltree
a half length behind, and Parole in
the rear. At tho lower turn Tenbroeck
had increased his lead to over a length,
while Parole had fallen back somewhat.
The exoitement was now terrific. Men
pushed and jostled ns if mad, while la
dies stood up ou their seats and craned
their necks like swanskin their eagerness
to see every jump ef the gallant oour
sers. On they came, Tenbroeck still in
the lead at the first quarter; and as they
thundered down the quarter-stretch and
passed the grand stand it was seen that.
Tenbroeck was scouring and purging as
if afflicted with diarrhea. “By Jove!”
said Joe Elliott, the Nestor of the turf,
“look at him. He is clear amiss, and
scouring ! ” It was, alas ! true; but the
fact was learned too late; Still he kept
the lead, with Ochiltree close up to him,
and Parole going along at his ease about
four lengths distance. They maintained
these positions until well up the back
stretch, when Ochiltree lapped Ten
broeck, and they ran side by side for
awhile, and then, just at thebeginniug of
the lower turn, Ochiltree’s head showed
in front of Kentucky’s pride. The shout
that went up at this sight was
Enough to Awaken tlie Dead.
Tenbroeck soon regained the lead,and
as he did so the hearts of the Eastern
men fell, for they thought now it was
all day with their chances. Ochiltree
held on well, however, and still kept
lapping Tenbroeck, while Parole moved
up a bit, and lessened the gap between
himself and Ochiltree. In this way they
ran until well arouud the upper turn for
the last time, and then Parole made a
dash, lapped Oohiltree, and then went
after Tenbroeck on the home-stretch.
“Parole ! Parole !” screamed the crowd.
“Parole Wins!”
Not yet, however, for the jockey of
Tenbroeck was plying whip and spur ou
horse. The noble animal strained every
nerve to respond, but nature was un
equal to the task, and at the distance
stand Parole took the lead, amid shouts
and yells that would have done credit to
Bedlam. From there to the string he
increased his distance with every jump,
and landed a winner by three open
lengths. Tenbroeck finished the heat
ten full, good lengths in advance of Tom
Ochiltree, who was almost pumped out.
The match was for SSOO a corner, the
club to add $1,000; so the value of tlie
stake was $2,500.
Tho Keene That Eusucd
Upon the return of the horses to the
judges’ stand beggars description. The
crowd broke down all barriers, and rush
ing out on the course, surrounded Pa
role and cheered and yelled for him un
til they were hoarse. They then pulled
her jookey, Barrett, off his seat and car
ried him in triumph on their shoulders.
The police made a break and rescued
him from bis admirers, but he was a
second time captured and a second time
placed on the brawDy shoulders of a
friend. Finally he was permitted to
mount his horse, and rode to the stable,
being cheered meanwhile as if a con
quering hero. Such a sight has not
been seen on a race track since the days
of Eclipse and Sir Henry.
Immediately after the great raoe I
conversed with a number of persons re
speoting
Tlie Cnuso of Tenbroeck’s Defeat,
And I found almost as many opinions
as I did men. Willie Walker, the jockey
who role him, said : “I knew the horse
was not in good condition, but I dassent
tell any body except our own folks about
it. When we was a racing I saw that
Tenbroeck didn’t have no speed, but I
thought maybe his name would win any
how. After I saw that Tom Ochiltree
was gone, I looked behind and seen Pa
role running easy. Then I gave my
hoss de spur, but he couldn’t go a lick
faster, and dat’s how. Parole got de race.
Ef Tenbroeck was at hisself, he could
beat both dem bosses furder in dat dis
tance dan a man kin throw a stone.”
Price M’Grath said : “Well, I bet my
money on Tenbroeck, and he lost, and
so did I, and its no use squealing about
it. I think Tenbroeck ought to have
run the first mile in 1:50, and then the
other horses would never have bothered
him after that.” Captain Beard thought
that Tenbri eok had not been worked
enough. The niggers were continually
pulling the blankets off him and exhibit
ing him in his stable at ten cents a head,
when they should have been exercising
him.
Was Tenbroeck Dosed ?
An attempt was made after the race to
explain the horse’s scouring by the state
ment that he had eaten a quantity of
green oats; but to-night the almost
general impression is that the great
horse was “dosed” last night. In fur
therance of this theory it is alleged that
last night a party of convivialists got
hold of Prank Harper, the owner of Ten
broeck, who heretofore slept in his sta
ble, and got him so drunk that he was
unable to take care of the horse; and
Mm Williams, who found it out late in
the night., had to go to the stable in his
place. Among those who believe that
Tenbroeck was the victim of foul play
Sre Joe Elliott, of the New York Herald;
annders Bruce, of the Ty,rf, Field and
Farm, and Ben Bruoe, of the Live Slock
Record. Under the circumstances it is
not thought that Tenbrock will start in
the four mile heat race on Friday. There
is a report afloat to-night that an effort
will be made to get Harper to take Ten
broeck to an extra meeting, to be gotten
up at Jerome Park; but \ think he has
had enough of Eastern sporting men,
and he will be glad if he gets his horse
home aliye, without racing him at any
other place.
Fierre LorlllafdUi Wlnniogfi
Are said to be $35,000, of which $25,000
was won in the pool box, and SIO,OOO
from the book betters. Nearly all the
Kentuckians and Western men here are
dead-broke to-night.
Since writing the above I have con
versed with Captain Willie M. Connor,
and he wholly discredits the idea that
Tenbroeck was tampered with in anyway
and says that in his opinion the trouble
was caused by the horse haviDg a severe
cold. He says that even if the report
that Harper got tight was true, it proves
nothing, as Barry, the trainer of Ten
broeck, never lqst sight of the horse
since he came here, and, consequently,
nobody could get near tq dose him,
and so it goes.'
— V ..731 gr...-
Columbus, Ga., August 24th, 1877.
Dr. C. J. Moffett :
Dear Doctor —We give your “Toetbi
na” (Teething Powders) to our little
graudobild with the happiest results.
The effects were almost magical, and
certainly more satisfactory than from
anything we ever used.
Yours very truly.
JoseehS. Key,
Pastor of St. Paul Church.
B.. :
SfibelMPf om M*rrle.
New Yore, Ootobar 27.— The Tam
many Democrats in the Heventh Senato
rial District have nominated Augustus
Schell in opposition to John Morrissey.
TIIE_ STATE.
THE “PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Warren lias a voudoo doctor.
Bold robberies oontinue in Savannah.
Mr. W. 0. Caseus, of Savannah, is
dead.
Atlanta wishes to reorganize her dra
matic association.
An one-armed lawyer in Hartwell kills
two ducks at a shot.
Mrs. W. E. Teasley, of Hart county,
died last week of pneumonia.
Col. Sidney Herbert is enjoying an
other gala week in Sandersville.
Sergeant R. S. Mell was the victor iu
the Savannah Cadets’ prize drill.
Several Upson county boys who immi
grated to Texas are coming home.
Thieves are stealing eotton from the
fields of farmers in Newton county.
Mr. Andrew C. Manncy, of Savannah,
takes charge of Sandersville’s telegraph
office.
A man named Frank Wall was drug
ged and robbed the other night in Sa
vannah.
The remains of Mr. John T. Carter,
who died Sunday in Savannah, were in
terred in Sandersville.
A young white girl, 12 years old, in
Hart county, picked 224 pounds of cot
ton one day last week.
The Clipper says that guano was a
failure in Warren this year, but the
farmers are squaring up.
Mr. Biuggold McCay, formerly of
Covington, has issued a book entitled
“ Au Exile from Polaud.”
Some of the Elberton Sunday Sohool’s
little five-year-old scholars are pioking
ootton to make money for the missiona
ry cause.
Messrs. Malaies & Mannary lost their
warehouse, sixty bales of cotton and two
new pins last week in Pike county. In
cendiary fire.
It seems that the little children in
Savannah aud Charleston are inolined to
bring Miss Claxton down to the twenty
five cents matinee prices.
The Covingtou Enterprise learns the
good and glorious news that our farm
ers all over the country are going to
plant a heavy crop of wheat, oatp, rye
and barley this Fall.
The Hartwell ASun'says that thefe was
some disturbance during the late meet
ings of the Tugalo Association from
some parties, not residents of this State,
imbibing too much liquor.
A bill of injunction Las been filed by
some of the parties through whose laud
the North Georgia miners have obtained
permission to out ditches, etc., from
the Legislature, aud they were restrain
ed from proceeding under their charter.
The Barnesville Gazette asks : “ Will
not some prominent medical man or
chemist of Macon give tho public a ra
tional theory to account for tho reoent
poisoning in that city, instead of the
miserable stupid ideas of fermentation
advanced ?”
The Covington Eaterprise mentions
the rumor that a young lady, formerly
of Newton county, of pleasing address,
and possessed of rare charms of beauty
and intellect, and who was esteemed and
admired for her modesty, is leading an
abandoned life at Cincinnati.
The three hundred dollar military
prize at the Thomasville Fair was con
tested for by tho Floyd Rifles of Macon,
the Macon Guards, the Thomasville
Guards, and the Albauy Guards. The
contest was spirited, but the prize was
finally borne off by the Albany Guards.
Among the premiums, given at the
Brick Store Fair, published in the Cov
iogton Enterprise, we notice tho follow
ing: Best shirt made by girl under fif
teen years, Miss Sailie Ansiey, vase;
best ehild’s croquet sacquo, Miss Craig,
salt oellar; best hearth rug, Miss Emery,
flower vase; best afghan, Miss Allen
Thomas, napkin ring.
Mr. James Seymore, of Maoon, is
dead.
Eleven divorco cases grace the Bibb
county docket.
Col. J. M. Campbell died suddenly in
Griffin last Monday.
A Thomson mule can:e near drowning
in a cistern the other day.
Talbot county has turned out three
lunatics in the past six months.
An omnibus runaway and a turnover
enlivened tho Macon streets the other
night.
The McDuffie Journal has suspended
its “ religious department ” during the
campaign.
Thomasville, Greeuesboro, Sanders
ville and Newnan are all holding agri
cultural fairs this week.
The Waynesboro Expositor says that
Burke county farmers are paying their
guano debts with promptness.
The McDuffie Journal states that Lin
coln’s corn and cotton crop will be the
shortest for seven years back.
Mr. J. B. Neal fell from a ladder dur
ing a fire at Colonel Bush’s residence, in
Thomson, and was painfully hurt.
Mr. Z. S. Willingham, of Lincoln, has
this season made over nine hundred gal
lons of syrup from sorghum oane.
Palmer L. Corker, son of Hon. S. A.
Corker, has left Waynesboro for the Vir
ginia Military Institute, at Lexington,
Va.
Captain Wm. Johnston, of Thomson,
came near being kiilod by his gin the
other day, but escaped with a mangled
arm.
The Manatee recently oauglit at Indian
river, Florida, is on exhibition at Thom
asville, and attracts the attention of the
curious.
Frampton H. Ellis, Esq., a promising
young lawyer of the Atlanta bar, died
last week of meningitis, after a three
days’ illness.
The Hamilton Journal says that there
are over 400 lunatics confined in Georgia
jails, beeause there is no room for them
in the asylum.
The Columbus Enquirer considers
McCullough’s support, excluding Miss
Cary, execrable. We thought differently
down this way.
Mr. Wall, an employee at the South
western Railroad shops, had a piece of
iron to drop upon him the other day,
crushing his leg.
Mr. Howell C. Erwin, a most promis
ing young gentleman of Maeon, has re
ceived his license to practice law, from
the Superior Court of Bibb county.
Mr. John McMillan lives in Berrien
county on the same place he settled
forty years ago, and has raised thirteen
children, of whom twelve are living. He
has never bought any meat or corn.
Dalton wants a fire bell.
Gainesville enforces a cow ordinance.
Colnmbus had three funerals Thurs
day.
Sparta can't reorganize her cornet
band.
Gainesville organizes a library asso
ciation.
Ex-Governor Smith has moved to Co
lumbus.
Elberton young ladies go ’possum
hunting.
Wedding cakes in Taliafetro are still
unbaked.
A brilliant wedding is soon to take
place in Sparta.
North Georgia makes an abundance of
hay this season.
An Elberton oow chews up $5 worth
of ootton in one night.
Campaign orations and Fall leaves are
beginning to redden in the face.
The New Catholio Church will be
dedicated to-day at Sharon, Ga.
Miss Minnie Shivers died of typhoid
fever, near Devereanx, last week.
THE EORIA MARBHAI.MIIIP.
Letter* from Colonel W. H Smyth.
United States Marshal’s Office, i
Atlanta, Ga., October 24, 1877. (
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
In your article of this date upon the
Georgia Marshalship, as well as in sev
eral other articles printed during the
controversy over this office, you state
that great abuses have existed in it.
Now that the contest is over, it can do
no harm to the interests ot any of the
contestants to have a little truth pub
lished with reference to these charges.
They are mainly against my deputies,
and are embodied substantially in the
report of Colonel Williams to Governor
Colquitt, and by him forwarded to the
President. As soon as I could obtain a
copy of this report, and after careful in
quiry into the truth of the statements
made therein, I forwarded a reply to
the President, through the Attorney-
General. The following letter from the
latter will show upon how little founda
tion these charges were based:
Department of Justice, 1
Washington, June 21,1877. (
W. H. Smyth, Esq., U. & Marshal,
Atlanta , Georgia:
Bib— l have received your letter of
the 11th instant, in which you reply to
charges made by 8. 0. Williams agsinst
your deputies in his report to the Hon.
A. H. Colquitt, Governor of Georgia.
After a careful examination of the
charges and your answer thereto, I think
you have fully met every complaint
against the conduct of your office which
has been brought to my notice. Very
respectfully Cbas. Deyens,
Attorney-General.
I have a copy of this answer in my
possession, which I would be glad for
any newspaper to publish, provided it
will print the whole of it, as I am confi
dent, with any fair-minded person, it
will vindicate my as fully
as it seems to have satisfied the Attor
ney-General, Very respectfully,
m Wx. H.Smyth.
Yellow Fever may not soourge the
country this Fall; bat thousands of
children will die from Cholera Infantum,
Diarrhea, Worms and other Bowel Dis
orders, unless they take T^ethina —
(Teething Powder).
Tbethina allays irritation and makes
Teething easy and not a period of suf
fering and dread.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Frost baa appeared at Chester.
Helena has no organized church.
Wild pigeons appear in Pickens.
Four deaths last week in Columbia.
Hunting parties are now the rage in
Aiken.
Pickens is importing North Carolina
cabbages.
The pines in Yoik county are this
year destitnte of oones.
They haven’t yot decided about the
Charleston poisoning case.
The Town Council of Aiken contem
plate purchasing a fire engine.
Gunners are scouring the stubble
fields and threading the thickets.
Oapt. F. P. Robertson died at Honea
Path, Anderson county, last week.
Mr. J. K. Kirksey, of Pickens county,
bas a fine asbestos bed on his place.
It takes $2 50 for a Columbian epioure
to bring a wild turkey to subjection.
The ladies of Johnston’s give a flue
entertainment to-night at that place.
Charleston aldermen are having a
lively skirmish over the police question.
A Pickens oow died from hydropho
bia nine days after being bit by a dog.
Col. Chas. S. McCall was nominated
for Senator by the Marlboro Demoo
racy.
The Charleston artesian well at the
depth ef 1,684 feet is boring into soap
stone.
The girls at the Yorkville Seminary
are going through their mouthiy re
views.
Barnwell expects to pull through the
Winter by means of sorghum lasses
candy.
A two year old child of Mr. Jeff Wil
liamsoD, of Aiken, was burned to death
recently.
Grim cholera'still sits upon the pig
styes and revels in the hog troughs of
Newberry.
The Barnwell Sentinel conoludes that
we need capital down South more than
immigration.
Captain Wm. F. rresoott, a well
known and beloved citizen of Edgefield,
died last Tuesday.
A Northern lady has generously con
tributed to the completion of the Aiken
Presbyterian parsonage.
Steve Jefferson has been committed to
jail iu Yorkville for shooting Geo. At
kins, both highly oolored.
The New York Times says Governor
Hampton wauta Patterson’s seat in the
Senate as well as his scalp.
Mr. Alouzo Moncktou, who was seri
ously injured by a ootton gin at Marion,
had his right arm amputated.
Capt. John Bettis’ fine company at
Pine House are to have a grand tourna
ment and prize drill next month.
The York county Treasurer has re
ceived about $15,000 of tbe taxes, which
was paid in by 3,156 tax payers.
The Gary Light Guards wore organiz
ed in Coleman township the other day
with Bennett Perry, Esq., as Captain.
The Barnwell People is glad to see
that our planters are preparing to seed
a large area in rye, wheat and oats this
Fall.
Two men, Bainy and Ingram, had a
fight near Rockbill. recently, in whioh
the latter was shot through tho heart
and killed.
A little sou of Mr. Wm. Z. Keli, near
Yorkvillo, while handling a pistol last
week, shot himself in the foot, where the
ball yet remains.
A correspondent of the Edgefield Ad
vertiser endorses the nomination of
Hon. J. C. Sheppard for tho Speaker
ship of the House.
Tho Carolina peoplo and papers are
looking forward with much interest to
the prize drill next week between the
two Georgia companies.
The down train on the S. C. R. R. was
delayed Wednesday morning by one of
the oars running off the track a short
distance below Augusta.
It is now in order to offer a premium
for the handsomest bride at the State
Fair. The Abbeville Banner man says
that several will be there.
Rev. J. C. Furman, who for the past
year has supplied the Baptist Church of
Laurensville, preaohed his farewell ser
mon on last Sunday night.
The Chester Reporter announces that
the carpet-bagger has been replaced by
the cotton-bagger, who barters poor
goods for stolen seed-cotton.
Mr. Milledge Q. Chappell and a
oolored man named Jim Bullock iu New
berg had a difficulty the 17tb, in which
the negro was shot in the leg.
The sentence of Wade Hampton Mc-
Elvin, the Aiken boy murderer, has been
commuted by the Governor to five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Rogers, who plays Mother Frooh
ard with Miss Claxton in the “Two
Orphans,” is the mother of the charm
ing actress, Miss Genevieve Rogers.
Mr. Jake Burton, of Texas, pays a
short visit to Edgefield, his old home,
is doing well in the lone star State and
will take back with him a few of bis
chums.
The Columbia Register remarks: “Wo
are emphatically in the age of profanity,
and it seems to us we are on the topmost
current.” Well, pardner, sink or swim,
which will it be ?
Two oolored men iu Fairfield county
became excited over a game of marbles
and after a short tight retired, the one
perforated with a knight, the other frac
tured as to his arm.
The News and Courier thinks that
the State needs money rauoh more thau
she needs convicts, therefore, if tho de
faulters will reimburse the Common
wealth, it were better that they depart
in peaoe.
The Charleston News, of Thursday,
says: Lieut. Flipper expects to start to
day for Texas. While lie has been in
this city he has made friends with whites
and blacks by the sensible course he has
pursued.
The Barnwell People earnestly recom
mends the immediate creation of a
Bureau of immigration and the ap
pointment of Coi. William Butler, chief
constable of tlie State, as its super
intendent.
The Columbia Register thinks it
hardly possible that President Hayes
contemplates resurrecting the Republi
can party in South Carolina with such
slender material as Simeon Corley, of
Lexington.
The Investigating Committee in New
berry county find the face value of tlie
olaims against the county to be $27,-
820. 19. By reductions and cancella
tions they brought this amount down to
$20,373 04, thereby affecting.a saving to
the county of $7,447 15.
The Lutheran Synod that met at Bt.
Mathew’s, Orangeburg oounty, last
week.eleoted the following officers: Rev.
Dr. J. Honour, President; Rev. J. D.
Shirey, Vioe-President; Rev. H. S.
Wingard, Recording Secretary; Rev. J.
A. Sligh, Corresponding Secretary; Ma
jor P. E. Wise, Treasurer.
The Abbeville Partner says : “The
work of grading the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad is progressing finely
during the present good weather, and
the Lowndesville and Calhoun Mills’
neighborhood have, during the past
week, held enthusiastic meetings in the
interests of the Savannah Valley Rail
road.”
JEFFERSON FAVORS A NOMINATION.
The People Wink a Convention, nnd Will
Support tbe Nominee.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Louisville, Ga., October 25.— 1 t is
not our object to occupy much of your
valuable space, but we wish to see Jef
ferson county properly weighed in the
balance scales of political opinioD, pub
lic expression, justice and judgment.
A special to your paper, "No Go for
Jefferson,” does the county and her cit
izenship great injustice. Thorn was not
e quorum, it is true, of the Executive
Committee in Louisville on Wednesday,
the 24th, but the oard published in the
News and Farmer did not state that the
committee was to meet to oall a Conven
tion. If it had, it might with equal
propriety have called them together to
refuse a Convention.
This is a right, if we understand their
duties, not delegated to the committee
withont the consent of sovereign will of
the people of the county, in public as
semblage expressed. However this may
be, the failure of a part of the commit
tee to meet, does not denote, nor has
any one the right to presume that it
does, that Jefferson eonnty is opposed
to Convention.
We feel and believe that Jefferson
will justly consider herself misstated by
such oonstrnotion.
We have heard a number of true, in
telligent and sound thinking men say if
Jefferson county failed to hold a con
vention, in the event that Glascock and
Richmond did, they would vote for the
nominee of snch convention against the
man whoever he might be, that came
before them withont nomination.
We are free to eonfess that such is our
feeling in the matter, and believe that
all men who hold the party organiza
tion dearer than mere personal prefer
ence* will record it in the same light, to
say nothing of precedent and its final re
snlts. R. J. B.
DOUBLE MURDER.
Am Obi® Tillaln Kills a Toll Unte Han and
Wife aad Kansacks the House.
Cincinnati, Ootober27.—An unknown
person entered the house of E. J. Mc-
Vey, toll-gate keeper on the Giroleville
pike, six miles north of Chillioothe,
Ohio, last night and shot MoVey
through the heart, his wife through the
head, killing both instantly. A little
girl, the only other occupant of the
house, hearing the shooting jumped out
of bed and escaped. The murderer,
after ransacking the house for plunder,
set fire to it and escaped to the-woods,