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OLD SERIES-TOt. ICII
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(Ctjronule and Remind.
WEDNESDAY, - NOVEMBER 7, 1877.
Tildf.n prefers America to Europe.
Gabrikllb Gbkblby is very beautiful.
The electric light is a fixed fact in Eu
rope.
Cork lino wants to make Schurz Secre
tary of the Exterior.
Senator Morton is only sustained by
nourishment artificially administered. His
days are few.
Mrs. Thomas J. Sogo, of Gaston coun
ty. N. C!., has given birth to seven children
in two years. Poor Suoo !
Mr. Evahts' great objection to sending
Simon Cameron to England is that lie does
not understand the language of that coun
try- ...
Tnts Courier-Journal says Scottei> Tail
asked the President to send him a religion.
He asked for a “ religious”—that is a
priest.
The engagement of Constance, daugh
ter of the late Sir Anthony Rothschild,
to Mr. Cyril Flower, a Christian, is an
nounced.
“You want a divorce, and I am going to
give you one free of cost,” is what a San
Francisco husband wrote to his wife before
killing himself.
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Madame MacMahon acted as interpre
ter between General Grant and the Mar
shal. The latter is said to speak only
French and Irish.
It is stated that Hon. Alexander H.
Htkchknb, of Georgia, has been selected by
the Speaker as Chairman of the Pacific
Railroad Committee.
Fernando Wood is the licst poker player
in Congress. They say he can bet a thou
sand dollars on u pair of nines without any
indication that he is bluffing.
President Hayes’ salary remains at
$50,000 per annum by law, and he would
not recommend less for his successor, who
will lie a Democrat, and may be poor.
A Russian Major-General shot himself
in Court at Moscow a short time since be
cause a witness accused him of theft. A
Kentucky General would iiave shot the wit
ness.
He smoked. He drank. He even lived
fast. Beldam went to church. Was at
times profane. But he’s not in the State
prison, and his reputation is A 1. —
Graphic.
Mr. Tildkn says that the French Re
publicans are so fur from being “Radicals”
that they would be regarded in this country
so conservative as to risk being called “old
fogies."
The London lime* rails it “Ghoza;” the ,
London Heirs “Ghazo;" the New York
Herald “Gliazi;” the punsters call it, so ,
far as MukhTar Pasha is concerned, ,
“Gassy.”
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Buell says “Congress adjourned to go to
a horse race while the country is perishing,
and the lierse race was postponed to enable
the jockeys to fix the pools.” Fix the fools
more likely.
Lord Falmouth is a gentleman who has
boon wondrously fortunate in betting dur
ing the past racing season in England. His
winnings are said to amount to $172,105,
exclusive of the Ascot Gold Vase.
Boss Tweed rays : “I was never drunk
iu my life, never liked whisky, never
smoked u cigar, or chewed a piece of to- (
bacco.” Why do these “unco guid" fellows
have such a tendency to stealii.g?
A Missouri girl frightened off a midnight
burglar with a beer-bottle, which lie mis
took for a pistol, and now all the girls in
the village are makiag this an excuse to or
der bottles of lioer to their bed rooms late at
night.
The Methodist Recorder describes the
Governor-elect of Ohio as “a Christian of
the Alexander-Oampbetl School, nnd a
genuine man, a reformer, a thorough friend
of the Sabbath and of temperance and of
iiatiounl uuity.”
The Philadelphia limes has this chunk:
“The Northern fool who is haunted by the
fear of the payment of pensions to rebel
soldiers is only one grade above the South
ern fool who looks forward to such an im
possible thing."
It is rumored that Patti nnd the Mar
jquis are to have a compromise; she to get
married as soon as possible, he to do the
same; she will ignore his aristocratic friends
and he will give up all claim or her for
tune. Nicolini rejoices, and the curtain
falls on a happy though separate couple.
The manufacture of window glass is
progreasing iu the United States and a
check lias been put upon European impor
tations. There are in this country seventy
two factories, of which twenty-seven are in
New Jersey, in which State there is a capi
tal of $ ft,000,000 invested in the business.
It is gratifying to know that during the
past yeiir the consumption of cotton reached
the highest point ever attained in this coun
try, while the value of our cotton fabrics
exported has, despite low prices, increased
♦7,000,00* withiu two years, or from $3,-
000,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30
1875, to $10,180,000 for the fiscal year end
ing June *O, 1877.
Some of the officers who hare returned
with General Sherman from the West
say that they consider Howard’s march in
pursuit of Joseph as “the most remarkable
pursuit of an enemy on record, and General
Howard is entitled to a great deal of
credit.” Then Chief Joseph’s retreat was
•equally remarkable and far more credit
able., under the circumstances.
The editor of the Columbus lime* con
tinues to say. iu regard to the Atlanta Fair,
that as a Georgia exposition it was very
poor, and taking the crowd out, a failure.
Pecuniarily it may have been a good thing,
Iml for the promotion of agriculture, iru
prowetnent of the arts and maiiaftktures,
and as a display of what the Empire Btate
of the Sail ill produces, it might as well not
Rare been held.
Here is a specimen of New Orleans
amenities of journalism : “The two old
.cats on Camp street { Picayune and Times),
Ciave suddenly sheathed their claws, hushed
abnr catawauling and retired from public
•view to their respective backyards. The
iflght was getting lively and the fur was be
ginning to fly when the Democrat -on the
Babcock principle—opened upon them a
discharge of carbolic acid gas. which caused
them to let go their hold and scamper out
of sight.”
Roland having once determined to give
lire children at least an elementary educa
tion, set .about the gigantic task vigorously,
and six years the greatest of her
■cities has been almost supplied with suffi
cient school room for every child that lives
in it. In 1871 Loudon contained 574,693
•children in need of an elementary educa
tion, and only 263,259 place* in school for
them. The amount of accommodation has
ibeen nearly doubled. The voluntary
schools now have room for 284,734, while
the School Board schools existing or plan
ned, have room for 290.549 more. There
(has been a great improvement in punctual
ity of attendance. Two years ago one child
an 142 came to school 100 late; in 1877, on
ly one child in 315 has come too late. Every
gang of young thieves known to the police
lias been broken np and the members com
pelled to go to school. Iu the year 1876
24,000 children were sent to school in obe
dience to 90,000 cautions given the parents.
THR DIFFERENCE.
While Mr. Geobob William Curtis
is defending the President’s policy edi
torially, in Harper's Weekly, Tom Nast,
who has returned to his work, attempts
to damn it pictorially. The latest pic
ture is this : The Democratic tiger and
the Republican lamb are supposed to
have lain down together. Only one
sees the tiger, however, and if he looks
after the lamb, is told to “inquire with
iD.” The tiger appears well fed and
comfortable. He is licking his chops
like an Alderman after a barbecue, and
his stomach has a bulge in the right
place, just as if the lamb were reposiDg
inside blissfully and digestiugly. The
Royal Bengal is likewise represented to
be “pretty solid, thank you,” and we
are told that his diet of lamb is garnish
ed with pease, that is, peace.
The National Republican, which has
pat on an extra coating of war paint and
howls like a Modoc with the colic, sug
gests to Mr. Nast the subjoined subject
for another political cartoon : “ Four
Democrats and a Repnblican walked
into a saloon for the purpose of drink
ing. * Yon must conciliate m,’ said one
of the Democrats to the Repabiican.
* How ?’ was the answer. ‘By paying
for the drinks, of oonrse,’ said the
Democrat. And this is what concilia
tion means—the Democrats drink and
the Republicans pay.”
The National Republican forgets old
times, when Thad. Stevens k Cos. had
it all their own way. Or, it may be,
that the precious editors and proprie
tors of that sheet —Shepherd, Clapp,
Babcock et als. — desire a return of
the, to them, good old days of plun
der and fat stealing, North and
South. That day will nev< r come.
It is a vain dreaming of dreams to sup
pose that such a thing is possible. The
Democratic party has emerged from the
depths because it has undying princi
ples of government which must, sooner
or'later, commend themselves to the
people, and the more triumphantly after
Republican misrule. Asa contempo
rary well observes, in illustration of
the vitality of principle against expe
diency, “Democratic defeat means ‘pick .
the flint and try it again.’ Republican
defeat means rnn to the rear and lie i
down and howl.”
So, Mr. Tom Nast is a matchless ar- ;
tist, and the National Republican is a i
fiery, untamed organ, btft they are en- i
gaged in a job that will bankrupt their ;
powers. The old Democracy, with the ;
banner of local self-government flying .
victoriously, has come to the front and ,
means to stay there indefinitely.
TUK SOLID MOUTH.
Referring to a letter of its Washing
ton correspondent, Mr. E. Y. Smalley,
the New York Tribune editorially says :
Wht the leaders of the Solid Houth would
like gullible Northerhers to beliove, an to thoir
poor prospects of remaining eolid, ie fully and
plausibly set forth in a Washington letter, print
ed in other columns this morning. The real
fact, we suppose, is perfectly plain. For the
first time iu a generation the South hae an op
portunity to grasp again the power it so long
exercised in controlling the National policy.
Its voice in Congress, and its vote in the Presi
dential election, are greater (by two-fifths of
the negro population) than over before. It
bolieves that there lies plainlv before it an
assured triumph in the alliance with Tammany
Hall. It thinks it sees the chanoe for setting
aside the whole North as so much waste paper,
and absolutely eleoting its own President by
the sole aid of New York and Connecticut or
New Jersey. National leadership has always
boen the aim of Southern politicians, and
they Bee now but one thing in their way. That
is the alarm which the spectacle of an alliance
betwoen the Solid Sontli and Tammany Hall
may provoke in New York and its neighboring
States. Its leaders hope to allay each alarm
by tbo soft food for goslings elsewhere re
ported.
The Tribune must admit that every
thing, Hince 1866 at least, has been
done to make the South solid for De
mooraoy, aud that the recent utterances
of the implacable Radioal-Republioans
compel a similar condition of affairs.
We know not what the future may bring
forth, but the present position of the
South is so eminently logioal and so
completely in the line of her own inter
est, that she wonld commit a tremen
dous folly in disturbing it. We do not
exactly know what “an alliance with
Tammany Hall” means. Let the Tri
bune eiplain; but one thing we do
know, and it is this: The Sonth
will remain solid jnst so long as
her interests demand it, and just so long
as Radioal-Repnblioans exist in danger
ous numbers. Does the Tribune desire
to ascertain what we mean by “Radical-
Republicans ?’’ The answer is ready.
We mean snoli as now edit and oontrol
the National Republican, who, in the
latest issue of that sheet which has
reached this office, publish such stuff as
this:
The great trouble now arises from the fact
that the Sonth was not sufficiently chastised
and subjugated by the war. If, after conquer
ing the armed rebellion, the ring leaders had
been hnng, as the crime of treson against the
Government demands: if the balanoe of the
rebels had been held, as they deserved, under
the bans of non-citizenship during their natu
ral lives; if they had been allowed to live on
Southern soil and breath the free air of this
Republic, protected in their property, lives and
the pursuits of happiness, diveste! of the pol
itical rights they had so richly forfeited, then
this great nation wonld be at peace within it
self, and the troubles aud insults that are now
heaped upon it by a disregard of the law and
right wonld not menace the present or future
of the country. The truth is, the olemency of
this Government is being abused and reviled
daily, and the Southern policy of the Adminis
tration is regarded as weakness on its part,
under which the slumbering spirit is aroused
aud the nation is menaced with fresh troubles
aud dangers.
The Tribune may reply that Shep
herd, Babcock et als. do not amount to
anything. Perhaps not. Bat they speak
ia language that is illustrated by the
acts of CuNjiUNO and Blaink, and the
South will therefore remain “solid”
against men and parting who wish to
“re-organize hell” in the whole Union.
THE ROAD TO RUIN.
The papers of Georgia, without ex
ception, have for many years attempted
to show that this State can never hope
to be greatly prosperous so long as she
draws the larger part of her supplies
from abroad. Recently, we have beep
flattered with the idea that the planting
community especially are becoming
more and more independent, bnt facts
aud figures do not seem to bear this
pleasant fiction ont. The Constitution,
of Tuesday, publishes the figures of
provision supplies brought over the
State Road daring July, August and
September. Of baoon and lard that
road transported in the three months
above named 19,977,139 pounds, against
16,018,462 daring the same three months
of 1876; of flour 111,213 barrels, against
100,534 same months in 1876; of corn
753,058 bushels, against 6*6,914 same
months in 1876; of wheat 369,095 bush
els, against 278,019 same months in 1876;
of hay 6,892 bales, against 4,533 same
months in 1876; and of oats 102,406
bushels, against 64,296 in same months
ia 1876.
Commenting upon this exhibit, the
Oolambos Enquirer saps “this is living
at home with a vengeance” sad adds :
“ Jnst join to these enormous amounts the
heavy shipments received at Columbus
; and Eufaula by the Western routes,
and those entered at Savannah and
I Brunswick from Baltimore, Philadel
phia and New York, and the importation
of food into Georgia is swelled to more
massive sums. Can we ever hope to see
onr State rich and prosperous when
snch heavy inroads are made on the
cotton money ? Some of the receipts at
Atlanta go to Sonth Carolina, bnt this
is counterbalanced by those at the other
points named. The great mass has
gone iDto the cotton producing region.
Will onr planters ever continue to be
the slaves of the West for the very food
they eat ? That is about all the cotton
planters get. The farmers are becoming
independent.”
A year or so ago, one of the most dis
tinguished gentlemen of the West, and
a true lover of the Sonth and the whole
country, remarked to the writer : “I
see that your papers are urging the
people to live within themselves and to
cease relying so dominantly upon the
Eist and West for supplies. That is
the true policy for you. It is the veri
table road to wealth. But, as a Western
man,l hope yonr people will not hearken
to snch good advice, for it is for ns
the road to ruin. We want to supply
your demands for food and other neces
saries just as we have all along been do
ing, especially since the war ; and I do
believe that while the press of the South
is ottering words of wisdom in this re
spect, the people of the Sonth, in the
mass, will never listen to it. This at
least is the conviction of my people in
the West, and we are not a bit fright
ened by any newspaper proclamations of
Southern independence of that charac
ter.” Really, it wonld appear, from the
evidence before us, that onr Western
friend knew what he was talking abont.
A RETURN TO MILLEDGEVILLE.
There are gratifying indications of a
desire on the part of a majority of the
people of Georgia to have the capital of
the State returned to Milledgeville.
North Georgia, the section above At
lanta, which was expected to be solid in
support of the claims of that city, seems
to be, to a considerable extent, divided
on the question, and it appears that
Milledgeville will get many votes in the
mountains. In Middle Georgia Atlanta
has many friends, it is true, but the
great majority of the people of that sec
tion will vote for removal. Southern
Georgia seems to be almost a unit in
favor of Milledgeville. We have every
reaion to think that three counties of
the State alone—Richmond, Bibb and
Chatham—will give Milledgeville a ma
jority of seven or eight thousand votes
in the December election. The lawyers
—those who have to attend the sessions
of the Supreme Court and who desire
the pleasures which a city affords—op
pose removal, but the peoplo are gen
erally on the other side. Considerations
of economy and sentiments of patriotism
alike demand that the seat of govern
ment shall be restore l to the place from
whence it was taken by foroe and fraud.
That it will be restored wo have not the
slightest doubt.
DANGER TO THE CONSTITUTION.
There is every reason to believe that
the running of independent candidates
for the Legislature in this State will
seriously jeopardize, if not defeat, the
adoption of the new Constitution. It is
perfectly plain that the candidate who
runs as an independent knows that he is
not the choice of the Democracy of his
county or Senatorial District. If he
felt that he was, he would, of course,
remain inside the Democratic organiza
tion and be elected as its nominee.—
Knowing that he is not, he puts himself
outside of the party and expects the
bulk of his support to come from those
who are also outside the party, viz : the
men who voted with the Republican
party, in 1867, 1868, 1870, 1872, 1874 and
1876. It is from these that his strength
must come; it is by these he must
be elected, if he be elected at all. These
are the voters he must bring to the polls;
these are the men who must bo stirred
into activity. It is very well known
that the Republican party of Georgia is
opposed to the new Constitution and
earnestly desires its defeat. It is very
well known that the leaders of this
party have proclaimed their bitter oppo
sition to that instrument, and have ad
vised their followers to vote against its
adoption. Under ordinary circumstances
this opposition would not be a cause for
alarm. If party action should be ad
hered to and contests for office be
fought and ended in the ranks of the
Democracy, it is probable that compara
tively few Republicans would go to the
polls. But with the independents in
the field, expecting their support and
urging them to the ballot box, they will
come, and when they do come they will
vote solidly against ratification. Inde
pendent candidacies virtually proclaim
that the promotion of an individual is
of far more importance than the adop
tion of an organic law for the govern
ment of the whole people of the whole
Btate.
COMPENSATION FOR THE SOUTH.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is thorough
ly reconciled and placated after the Southern
fashion. It now reminds the people of the
North that if they “had kept at home there
would have been no need of losses incurred in
suppressing rebellion so called,” and it adds :
“What is more, we are going to get compensa
tion. Onr moral triumph over Sumner, Stev
ens A Cos., is secure; our national victory is
to come.”— National Republican.
We wrote that “onr material victory
was to come,” bnt the Republican is
welcome to its garbling of the extract,
which it makes the subject of a tirade
very much ont of place in 1877, but
which would have done good service in '■
the days of Grant and his satraps. |
What we mean and meant by '‘mate
rial victory” is simply a just division of
the public domain and patronage. We
are tired of all bnzzard and no turkey.
There must, in fntnre, be a fair distri
bution or else the thing mast stop al
together,and we will soonhave,if we have
it pot now, the power to put on the
brakes.
We can very well understand why the
heathen of the Republican, who back!
up John J. Patterson and his baffied
minions, rage and make moan. Their
rings are broken and their sceptre
smashed. They desire to return
to at least “ five years more
of good Sieving," North and
Booth. The South bars W)e way. It is
said that General Babcock is one of the
proprietors of the Republican and a
party paper estimates that the General,
who was the Private Secretary of Gener
al Grant, owns property in Washington
worth $500,000. Referring to this item,
the Missouri flepublican says : “Bab
cock was a Major of pngineers at the
same time he was Private Secretary, and,
we presume, drew both salaries, pet ns
say that he received SB,OOO a year for
eight years. This wonld make his legit
imate earnings in military and civil
capacity $64,000; and he is estimated to
be worth 8500,000. Remarkable finan
> cial ability, certainly; some features of
whjob Uie taj: payerp of tfap iyistpet of
i Columbia tsm efplug, and tfre rest yifl
be made known whenever the secret hiv
i tory of the whisky ring is written.
: Meanwhile Babcock retains his rank in
: the army and contemplates his impecu-
I nious brother officers with that calmsat
i isfaotion which names from a tough con
science and a fall pocket."
1 It is trnly meet and jnst that Shep
herd, Babcock & Cos. should conspire
i to array the North against the Sonth,
) to revive the bloody shirt villainy, to
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1877.
make the path plain for Grant again in
1880, to resnrrect Ring rule and to con
secrate Wabmoth, Patterson, Spencer
and that gang of Northern emissaries
and political brigands ; bnt the people
have spoken in condemnation once, and
soon they will speak again, giving the
signal for an overflowing soonrge to
overwhelm the Radical-Republican tem
ple and the defilers of it.
THE HF.NATOHIAI, QUESTION.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Now that the legislative nominations
in this county have been settled, the
question of the Senatorship in this Sen
atorial District rises into great interest,
and I beg leave to address you on that
subject. In the first place permit me to
express my high appreciation of yonr
admirable editorials on the propriety
and necessity of maintaining intact the
organization and discipline of the Dem
ocratic party. Asa hereditary Demo
crat, if I may so term it, as one who re
ceived his political faith from the re
vered teachings of two preceding gene
rations of Democratic ancestors, I have
the profonndest devotion to that noble
organization; and seek always to guide
my political action by its teachings. It
is emphatically true, as yon say, that
the discipline of the party is by all
means to be maintained, and so far as
you and many of the recent correspond
ents in your columns urge this duty I
am heartily in accord with you.
So far, however, as it sought to show
that no Democrat can consistently sup
port Hon. H. Clay Foster for the Sen
ate, I am unable to concur in any
argument which has as yet been
brought forward to that end. Some
weeks since the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of this county
recommended that the Richmond De
mocracy should select their candidates
for the House of Representatives by a
primary election, and this I think the
committee had a right to do. Bat the
committee went further and also sought
to make it obligatory upon the De
mocracy of this county to nominate at
the same election a candidate for the
Senate from the district made up of the
counties of Richmond, Glascock and
Jefferson, and this it had no right to do.
As the Democratic Executive Committee
of Richmond county, it is entitled to be
heard and heeded by the members of
the party in all matters appertaining to
the politics of the county ; but as it is
not a Democratic Executive Committee
for this (the 18th ) Senatorial District,
it has no authority to give directions in
matters touching the Senatorial dis
trict. So far as it confines itself to its
legitimate authority, every Democrat is,
I humbly conceive, bound to respect
and obey it, but when it exceeds that
authority thero is no obligation of
obedience or conformity resting upon
any one.
Now, Messrs. Editors, this is pre
cisely the position of Hon. H. Olay Fos
ter in his card of the 14th inst., as I ap
prehend that document. In that card
lie says : “I request my friends to take
no part in the primary meetings in this
county called for the 27th current, so
far as relates to the Senatorial race. ”
The construction which every fair mind
ed man would put on this language is
that Mr. Foster desired his friends to
participate in the primaries for the
county nominations, which the Demo
cratic Executive Committeo of the coun
ty had the right to call, but to abstain
from the primaries for the Senatorial
nominations, which a mere county com
mittee was not authorized to diotate.
We have a State Democratic Executive
Committee to whose recommendations,
in matters i elating to the Democratic
party of the Slate, each Democrat should
conform ; and in like manner Executive
Committees for this Congressional Dis
trict and this county, but where is the
Democratic Executive Committee for
this Senatorial District ? There is none,
and I invite your attention to the fact
that when it was proposed in April of
this year to supply the lack of one by
having a District Convention, resolu
tions (prepared, it is understood, by
Hon. Jos. B. Cumming) were offered
and adopted in the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of this;county, rejecting
the proposition, disconntenaneing the
idea of a District Convention, and
recommending independent action by
the several counties composing this Sen
atorial District. Our County Execu
tive Committeo met April 25th, 1877,
and a letter was read to Hon. George T.
Barnes from Hon. W. F. Denny, Chair
man of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Jefferson county, saying : “I
propose that we have a District Conven
tion on the sth of May, to be held in
Augusta, Ga., for the purpose of select
ing candidates (for the Constitutional
Convention) from the three counties. I
write to you to request that you will
confer with the Executive Committee of
your county, and ascertain if this plan
of selecting candidates meets their
views.” The response of our Executive
Committee was in the resolutions above
mentioned as prepared by Major Joseph
B. Cumming, declining to have a Dis
trict Convention, urging independent
aotion by Richmond, and recommending
like independent action by the other
connties, the last resolution of the series
reading thus : “ Resolved, That in the
absence of a Democratic Executive Com
mittee of this election District, the coun
ties of Jefferson and Glascock be re
quested to nominate,” etc., etc. Here
it was conceded that only an Executive
Committee for this District could right
fully direct the action of the Democratic
voters of the District, and this is simply
Mr. Foster’s position now. D.
THE .SENATORIAL QUESTION.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Your correspondent “D.,” whose com
munication appeared in yonr paper of yes
terday, discovers and advanoes an ex
planation of Mr. Foster’s independent
candidaoy which seems not to have
oocurred to Mr. Foster himself.
In fact, it is altogether different
from the one given by him in
his card of announcement, “ D.”
puts it on the ground that the County
Executive Committee exceeds its author
ity in calling for an election of Senator
ial delegates, and that the ease being
one for the action of a District Commit
tee, and there beiDg no snch committee,
Mr. Foster was free to follow his own
wishes independently of the party. The
answer is: That there never has been snob
a District Committee, and yet at every
recurring Senatorial eleotion there has
been a Senatorial Convention to make
the nomination. How have these conven
tions been assembled ? By the very
j same means that are now proposed, viz:
• by the separate action of the counties
appointing delegates, then agreeing to
meet ia convention. In this way the
Convention of 1872 was assembled, in
this way the Convention of 1776 was as
sembled.
In 1872 the Executive Committee did
exactly what it has done this year, viz ;
provide for the selection of delegates to
the Convention. In 1876 it did the
same. Since the reorganization of the
| Democracy, in 1868, to repel the com
mon enemy—a mission which it has glo
j riously fulfilled, and the fruit of which
I it do*s not now propose to surrender—
it has assembled ip District Convention
by virtne of snch aotion, and only by
suoh action, nnd I challenge “D. ” to
name any other way in whioh snch Con
ventions have been held, or wherein the
action in this eleotion differs from that
in former elections. It wonld be well
< for “D ” to have Mr. Foster to state
■: his own case. He has done it in his
j card, and it is a different one from that
1 given by .“ D-” Iffc Foster sayß nothing
abont committees exceeding their au
thority. It is well known that last year
he sought the nomination of a Conven
tion assembled in the way now proposed.
His statement of his case is wholly dif
ferent from “ D’s,” and is this : “ As
sured that the emergency in the politics
of the State which justified nominating
conventions and primary elections has
passed, but that a large majority of the
people of the DMtriM (italics are my bwh)
desire to exeroise the elective' franchise
untrammelled,” Ac., ho. Mr. Foster
wonld smile at the paltry jnstifioation
suggested by “D.” and our “hereditary
Democrat” “D.” must seek for himself
some better excuse for voting for an in
dependent
yip Senatorial case is a very different
one from tyiai of the delegates to the
Constitutional 'Conception, to whioh
“P,” refers. The Senator is but ppe.
He is to be selected from three counties.
In order to have him the nominee of the
three, they mnst act in ooncert. Bnt in
April last—the case to which “D.” re
fers—there were seven delegatee to be
sent from three counties to the Consti
tutional Convention. In fairness, Rich
mond was entitled to fonr, Jefferson to
two, and Glascock to one. The best
way to exercise this right was for each
oonnty to select its own delegates. This
method was fair and practicable. It
would, of oonrse, be wholly impossible
when only one person waa to be selected
from three countiep. Thi* was the reso
lution of April 25, 1877 accord
ing to “D,” it is “ondersti od” was “pro
posed by Hon. Jos. B. C naming,” but
which in fact Maj. Cnmmi g neither pro
posed nor introduced) an it bound the
Democracy of Richmond < t select only
fonr ont of the seven delej a tea, and thns
committed Richmond to: jnst and fair
conrso towards her weaker associates.
It mnst be willful blindness that fails
to see that a system just, appropriate
and piaoticable to selert seven men
from three connties cannot be made to
work when the problem is to select one
man from three oonnties.i Record.
■ I
FIRE. 4
A Tenement Destroyed an* an Adjacent
Bonding 1 njared—Loss Abont Twelve Thou
sand Dollars aud Insnranee Six Thousand.
The people of Augusta ; were startled
yesterday morning about three o’clock,
for the first time in n sarly three months,
by the cry of fire and the clang of the
alarm bells. Near that hour someone
disoovered flames issuing from the large
double tenement frame building on the
south side of Reynolds street, between
Washington and Centre streets, belong
ing to Dr. E. W. Harker, and rapping
on the front door aronsed the sleeping
inmates, who were unconscious that the
honse was on fire. The lower tenement
was vacant. The upper was occupied
as flats by Mr. Joseph Smith, first floor,
S. F. Webb, Esq., second floor, and
Mrs. John Dearing and Misses Anna
and Maggie Dearing, third floor. The
fire, it is supposed, started in a small
wooden kitchen, which was used to cook
in by a negro woman employed by Mrs.
Dearing, and was thence
Communicated to the Tup
Of the dwelling. When Mrs. Dearing
and the Misses Dearing were awakened,
the shutters of their sleeping apartment
had already been destroyed by the
flames, and by the time they were
dressed the bureau in their room was on
fire. Fearing that the stairs would next
be in flames, they hastened down to the
street. Everything they had in the
rooms, with the exception of two watches,
which were afterwards found in a trunk
that was resting
Oo a Charred Beam,
Was totally destroyed. Mr. Webb saved
about one-third of his furniture and a
portion of his clothing. Mr. Smith
saved all his furniture and other prop
erty. The firemen worked with a will
and kept a number of streams constantly
playing on the fire. The flames from the
burning building were communicated to
the residence of Mr. A. V. Lewis, just be
low, the roof, and a portion of the upper
story of which were consumed. Mr.
Lewis saved all his furniture. Dr. Hark
er’s building was
Aluiokt Entirely Destroyed.
Only a part of the outer walls arc left
standing. The Doctor estimates his loss
at SIO,OOO. He was insured for $6,000
iu the Southern Mutual Insurance Com
pany, of Athens, Ga., of which Messrs,
Phinizy & 00. are the agents in this
city. Mr. Lewis’ loss was about s6oo—
insurance. Mrs. Dearing’s loss was
about SBOO and Mr. Webb’s about the
same. Neither was insured. Mr. Webb’s
silver was saved by a fireman, who took
it in oliarge and placed it in Mr, Webb’s
hands yesterday.
Miss Kate Claxton, who arrived in
Augusta Sunday morning, was present
at the fire watching the Georgia steamer
as it threw two streams on the flames.
A FATAL STEP.
A Passenger Jumps From the Hear of a
Train in Mellui Falls on a Pile of Iron,
and Is Killed.
Last Saturday night an unfortunate
accident, resulting in the death of a
gentleman well known in this city, oc
curred on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, just beyond the old
corporate limits of Hamburg. The
freight train, which is due here at 6, p.
m., was delayed Saturday, from a va
riety of causes, and was six hours be
hind time. This train also serves as an
accommodation, and carries a passenger
coach in the rear. Among its passen
gers last Saturday was Col. Winchester
Graham, once a partner in the firm of
Graham & Butler, in this city, but re
cently a clerk in the office of Comptrol
ler-General Haygood, at Columbia, S.
0. Col. Graham’s wife, who was a
daughter of Rev. Mr. Brooks, was re
siding at the Brooks farm,
Not Far From Hamburg,
And it was his habit to spend nearly
every Sunday with her, leaving Colum
bia on Saturday. In order to save
a walk froip Augusta, he got off
the train at the crossing at the foot
of Schultz’s Hill. Last Saturday night
when the train approached the crossing
the whistle was sounded as usual. Col.
Graham, as soon as he heard it, jumped
from his seat, seized his satchel and
started for the back door of the coach.
He opened the door, remarking as he
did so, “I thought they were going to
slack up for me,” walked out on the
platform and jumped from the end of
the latter. A negro train hand, who
was on the platform at the time, rashed
in and informed the passengers that a
gentleman had
Jumped From tlie Car.
As there was no rope connecting with
the locomotive, the train could not be
stopped. Conductor W. McKenzie says
Col. Graham made no request to him to
slack up when he reached the crossing.
He also says that the train was running
at the rate of about six miles an hour at
the time. It is supposed that Col. Gra
ham, hearing the whistle, took it for
granted that the crossing had been
reached and ran and jumped oft. The
place where he jumped, however, was
fully three hundred yards beyond the
crossing. When the train
Reached Augusta
Conductor McKenzie sent several of his
train hands back to see if Col, Graham
was hurt. These, however, seemed to
be afraid to go up to the Bpot. Shortly
before three o’clock, Policeman John
Damish met one of the train hands, who
told him that a man had jumped from
the train and he thought he must be
hurt. Mr. Damish carried the negro to
police headquarters, where he was in
structed by the offioer of the night to go
with his informant to the place where
the passenger jumped from the train.
Upon Reaching the Spot
Mr. Damish found Col. Graham lying
upon his baok, with his head upon a pile
of railroad iron. He tamed him over
and blood gashed from his mouth and
nostrils. His head Was crushed in, hav
ing struck t|e iron. Jfe was alive, but
altogether unconscious. Jt was about
half-past three o’clock when Mr. Dam
ish reaohed him. With the assistance
of Mr. William Paipm and several ne
groes, Mr. Damish moved
Tbo Unlprtcufite Man
To a negro cabin dose by, where he
died in a few minntßS. His watch and
money were on his person, and were
turned over to Mr. Damm by Mr. Dam
ish. The body was conveyed to the
Brooks’ farm, where an inquest was held
Sunday by Trial Justice Salter. The
funeral ol the deceased place yes
terday afternoon. Col. Graham was
abont 55 years of agß.
FLORIDA FLAKES.
One Fever Death at Feruaudiua—An Incen
diary Fire in Tallahassee.
Jacksonville, October 31.—One death
at Fdtnaijdiffs to-da7, that of Papt. N.
W. Wells, U. 6. officer in charge of Fort
Clinch.
An incendiary fire in Tallahassee last
night destroyed the Phoenix block, oc
cupied by J alias Ball, J nlins Diamond,
Henry k Cos. and Poole k Cos. Loss,
$32,000; insnranee, $21,000.
TJJR jjKgipU STEAMER,
farther Reports Fran the Bolivia.
London, October 31-—-The steamer
Bolivia when spoken by the Devonia, on
the 24th instant, with a broken shaft,
was in latitude 44, 40, and longitude
51,4.
Philadelphia, October 31. The
steamer Netherland encountered the
disabled steamer Bolivia, making good
heajway for Sew
Na Peace laCabaTet.
Nkw York, October 31.—A letter,
Havana, October 27tb, says it is stated,
on Spanish authority, that negotiations
for peace are not going on as has been
reported, bnt a large proportion of in
surgents are in favor of the immediate
restoration of peace.
Whittemore is in Canada, ,
HIS LIPS UNSEALED.
aoy. TILDEN SPEAKS OP THE
FRAUD.
Fall Text of Hls Speech la New Yark—The
People Kohbed, Not He—A Review of the
Contra!—A Solemn Oath Sworn Under the
Calcium I.lahta.
In his recent speech in New York
upon the retnrn from Europe, Gov.
Tilden, after alluding to State politics,
said:
The election, althongh for State offi
cers, has relations to national politics to
which I know yon will expect me to al
lude. The condemnation by the people
of the greatest political orime in onr
history, by which the result of the
Presidential election of 1876 was set
aside and reversed, is general and over
whelming.
A Voice—We know you got robbed.
Mr. Tilden (exoitedly)— I did not get
robbed. The people got robbed.
[Cheers.] I had before me on one
side a conrse of laborions services on
which health and even life might be
perilled, and on the other a period of
relaxation and ease. Bat to the people
it was a robbery of the dearest rights
of American oitizens. [Applause and
cries of “That’s bo I” “That’s so!”,
from the crowd.]
“ Her sister States,” continued Mr.
Tilden, “ might afford to have the voice
of New York frittered away or its ex
pression deferred. It could not change
history ; it could not alter the universal
judgment of the civilized world; it could
not avert the moral retribution that is
impending. But New York herself can
not afford to have her voioe unheard.
The Declaration of Independence, the
bills of right and the State constitutions
all contain assertions of the right of the
people to govern themselves and to
change their rulers at will. These decla
rations had oeased to have auy meaning
to the Amerioan mind. They seemed to
be truisms which there was nobody to
dispute. The' contests known to us
were contests between different portions
of our people. To oomprehend the sig
nificance of these declarations, it is ne
cessary to carry ourselves back to the
examples of human experience, in view
of whioh our anoosters acted. They
had seen the governmental machine and
a small governmental olass, sometimes
with the aid of the army, able to rule
arbitrarily over millions of unorganized,
isolated atoms of human society. In
forming the Government of the United
States they endeavored to take every
precaution against the recurrence of
such evils in this country. They kept
down the standing army to a nominal
amount. They intended to limit the
function of the Federal Government so
as to prevent the growth, to dangerous
dimensions, of an office-holding class
and of corrupt influences. They pre
served the State governments as a coun
terpoise to act as centres of opinion and
as organized means of resistance to rev
olutionary usurpation by the Federal
Government. Jefferson, the leader of
liberal opinion, in bis first inaugural
recognized this theory. Hamilton, the
representative of the extreme conserva
tive sentiment, in the federalist, ex
pounded it with elaborate arguments.
Madison, the father of the Constitution,
enforoed these conclusions.
A Voice—How about the Returning
Board ?
Mr. Tilden—There were no Returning
Boards in those days. The people
elected their own President and there
were no Louisiana and Florida Return
ing Boards to rob them of their rights.
Several voices—“ Let’s have the elec
tion over again 1” “We want a fair
show 1” “Go for ’em again 1”
Mr. Tilden—The increase of power in
the Federal Government during the
last twenty years, the creation of a vast
office-holding class, with its numerous
dependents, and the growth of the
means of corrupt influence, have well
nigh destroyed the balance of our com
plex system. It was my judgment in
1876 that publio opinion, demanding a
change of administration, needed to
embrace two-thirds of the people at the
beginning of the canvass in order to
cast a majority of the votes at the elec
tion. If this tendenoy is not arrested
its inevitable result will be the praotical
destruction of our system. Let the
Federal Government grasp power over
the great corporations of our oountry
and acquire the means of addressing
their interests and their fears ; let it
take jurisdiction of riots which it is the
duty of the State to suppress ; let
it find pretexts for increasing the
army, soon those in possession of
the Government will have a power
with which no opposition can success
fully compete. [Applause.] The ex
perience of France under the Third Na
poleon shows that, with eleotive forms
and universal suffrage, despotism can
be established and maintained. In the
canvass of 1876 the Federal Government
embarked in the oontest with unscrupu
lous activity. A member of the Cabi
net was the head of a partisan commit
tee. Agents stood at the doors of the
pay offices to exact contributions from
offioial subordinates. The whole office
holding class were made to exhaust their
power. Even the army, for the first
time, to the disgust of the soldiers and
many of the officers, was moved about
the country as an electioneering instru
ment. All this was done under the eye
of the beneficiary of it, who was making
the air vocal with professions of civil
service reform, to be begun after he had
himself exhausted all the immoral ad
vantages of civil service abuses. Pub
lio opinion in some States was over
borne by corrupt influences and by
fraud. But so strong was the desire for
reform that the Democratic candidates
received 4,800,000 suffrages. This was
a majority of the popular vote of about
300,000, and of 1,2§Q,00C1 of the white
citizens. It was a vote 7QQ,OQO larger
than General Grant received in
1872, and 1,800,000 larger than
he reoeived in 1868. For all that, the
rightfully elected candidates of the
Democratic party were counted out and
a great fraud triqmphed which the
American people have not condoned
and will never condone. [Prolonged
applause and oheers. ] Yes, the orime
will never be oondoned and it never
should be. Ido not denounoe the fraud
as affecting my personal interests, but
because it stabbed the very foundations
of free government. [Loud cheers.] I
swear in the presence of you all, and I
call upon you to bear witness to the
oath, to watch, during the remainder of
my life, over the rights of the oitizens
of our country with a jealous care. Such
a usurpation must never occur again,
and I call upon you to unite with me in
the defense of our sacred and precious
inheritance. The Government of the
people mnst not be suffered to become
only an empty napie. [Loud applause.]
The step fropj an extreme degree of cor
rupt abases in the elections to a subver
sion of the eleotive system itself is nat
ural. N° eqocm W the ejection over
than the whqle power qf the office hold
ing olass, led by a Cabinet Minister, was
exerted to procure, and did nroonre,
from the State canvassers of tyjo states
illegal and fraudulent certificates, whioh
were made a pretext for a false count of
the electoral votes. To enable these
officers to exeroise the immoral courage
necessary to the parts assigned to them,
and to relieve them from the timidity
whioh God has implanted in the human
bosom as a limit to criminal audacity,
detachments of the army were sent
to afford them shelter. The ex
pedients by which the votes of the elec
tors chosen by the people of these two
States were rejected, and the votes of
the electors having the illegal and
f raudnlent certificates were counted anj]
the menace of nsurnujiiou pj tpe Presi
dent of the Senate! of' dictatorial power
over ail the" dtfestidns in Controversy,
and the menace qf tfffi enforcement of
his pretended authority by the army and
navy, the terrorism of the bnsipess
classes and the kindled "Sasures by
which th f;] s e coant was consummated,
are known. The result is the establish
ment of a precedent destructive of onr
whole elective system. [ Applause. ] The
temptation to those in possession of the
Government to perpetuate their own
power by similar piethods will always
exist, and if the example shall be sanc
tioned by success, the succession of gov
ernment in this country will come to be
determined by fraud or force, as it has
been in almost every other country; and
the experience will be reproduced here
which has led to the general adaption of
the hereditary system in order to syoid
confusion and qfvil wt-
Tbe magnitude of a political orime
mast be measured by its natural and
necessary consequences. Qur great re
public has been the only example in the
world of a regular and orderly transfer
of governmental snooession by the eleot
ive system. To destroy the habit of tra
ditionary respect for the will of the peo
ple, as declared through the electoral
forms, and to exhibit our institutions as
a failure, is the greatest possible wrong
to our own country. It ia also a heavy
blow to the hopes of patriots struggling
to establish self-government in other
countries. It is a greater crime against
mankind than the usurpation of Decem
ber 2,1851, depioted by the illnstrions
pen of Victor Hugo. The American
people will not condone it nnder any
pretext or for any purpose. [Cheers.]
Young men I in the order of nature we
who have guarded the sacred traditions
of our free government will soon
leave that work to you. Within
the life of most who hear me
our republic will embrace a hundred
millions of people. Whether its institu
tions shall bo preserved iu substance
and in spirit as well as in barren forms,
and will continue to be a blessing to the
toiling millions here and a good exam
ple to mankind, now everywhere seeking
a larger share in the management of
their own affairs, will depend on you.
Will you accomplish that duty and mark
these wrong doers of 1876 with the in
dignation of a betrayed, wronged and
sacrificed people? [A voice: “You bet
we will.” Langhter,] I have no person
al feeling, but thinking how surely that
example will be followed if ooudoned, I
eau do no better than to stand among
you and do battle for the maintenance
of free government. I avail myself of
the occasion to thank you, and to thank
all in our State and country who have ac
corded to iae their support, not person
ally to myself, but for the canse I repre
sented, and which has embraced the
largest and holiest interests of humanity.
[Continued applause.]
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
Tbs True Issue—To the Patriotic Voters of
Rlohmond County and of the Eighteeutli
Senatorial District. Who United Their
Hearts aud Their Strength to Save the
Country from the Curse of Radicalism and
Ignorance.
Be it known unto you that Hon. H.
Clay Foster has refused to submit his
olaims to your votes and openly seeksjto
gaiu from those against whom the in
tegrity and intelligence of the district
have so long contended that support
which he could not get from you.
Proof: 1. Whereas, the present Sen
ator from Richmond did not serve out
his full term it was generally believed
that the Senator to be elected on the
sth of Deoember wonld come from
Richmond oonnty; and it was also be
lieved that Jefferson and Glasoock
would, in the District Convention, yield
to Richmond’s choioe. This placed
the battle ground in Richmond county.
2. The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Richmond oonnty declared
that there should be no convention in
the oounty, as heretofore, oomposed of
delegates from the wards and militia
districts, bnt that the votes should be
oast directly for the candidates. Henoe,
so far as Democratic votes were con
cerned, this eleotion was just as fair,
open, impartial, and as near down to the
first principles of popular government as
the one to whioh Mr. Foster is going to
submit on the sth of Deoember. How
unbecoming is it to talk of rings choos
ing candidates aud packing conventions
when there was no convention to be
packed, and when the whole Democracy
—man by man and vote by vote—was to
seleot the candidate I
Therefore, the conclusion is irresisti
ble that Mr. Foster, in taking his pres
ent position, made a simple bid for Rad
ical votes, aud you all know what that
means. To say there is no issue before
the party does not touoh the question in
point. Why did he not stay in the
ranks? There is bnt one answer: He
thought he wonld have been defeated.
Then, if he must have the votes for
which he has bid, let not the Old De
mooraoy, the integrity and intelligence
of the district, forget their self-respect.
Looio and Principle.
P. B.—l have not the least feeling of
nukindness toward Mr. Foster,
A SOLDIER’* BIER.
General Forrest’s Funeral at Memphis—The
Procession of Honor Following to the
Tomb.
Memphis, Ootober3l.—The funeral of
General Forrest was held from the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr.
Stainback, who had been a private sol
dier nnder General Forrest, officiating.
The streets for squares were crowded
with people. Among the pall bearers
were Jefferson Davis, Governor Porter,
Jacob Thompson, Colonel Galloway, Dr.
Cowan and Major Ilambant, of General
Forrest’s staff. The funeral cortege was
oomposed of mounted Confederates pre
ceding the hearse, musio, Odd Fellows,
the Chicasaw Guards, the Bluff City
Grays, the Memphis Light Guards, the
Memphis Artillery, ex-Confederate sol
diers, ex-Union soldiers, civil organiza
tions, the Mayor and City Counoil, the
Fire Department and oitizens on foot.
Business was suspended during the fu
neral.
Meeting o! Ex-Confederntee In Waxhlngtan—
Patriotic and Appropriate Sentiment*.
The adjourned meeting of Confeder
ates and others, companions, subordin
ates and friends of General Forrest, was
largely attended, and the following was
pdoptedi
Whereas, We have learned, with
deep regret, that Gen. N, B. Forrest, of
Tennessee, after a painful and protract
ed illness, haa departed this life; There
fore, be it
Resolved, That we, his companions in
arms, deem it meet and proper to give
expression to our admiration and es
teem for onr departed friend and fellow
soldier. Born ol hnmble parents, poor
and untutored in youth, he was success
ful iu oivil life, and was the
noblest specimen of a citizen
soldier. With unconscious power be
began bis military career, a private in
the ranks, with increasing conscious
ness ef strength he passed through the
gradations of oommand until he stood
at the head of a oavalry corps, the ter
ror of one army aud the admiration of
the other. With the intrepid dash of
Murat and the dauntless courage of
Ney, he possessed a native strategy sec
ond to no man. In hattle his name
; alone was a tower of strength, bis pres
ence ever inspiring courage iu the weak
and confidence in the strong, and he
will live in history as nature’s military
genius.
Resolved, That General Forrest won
his name in the Confederate servioe, bnt
that bis fame belongs to the American
people, and will be cherished by all who
venerate true oonrage, and who feel that
the liberties of a republic can only be
preserved while its oitizens prefer death
to dishonor.
Resolved, That vje teuqer to his be
reaved faquly our sympathy for the
great loss which they share in common
with us and the fjtate.
(Signed) Jas. R. Chalmers, Mississip
pi ; G. O.' Tennessee ; Phil
Cook, Georgia; W- H. Forney, Alabama;
H. C. Ifoung, Tennessee, and Van H.
Manning, Mississippi,
fApf.
llayrn In IlleUmofl^-,
Richmond, October 31.—Hayes was
weloomed to the State Fair by Governor
Kemper. The erowd was immense, en
thusiasm intense and cpeech?| affeo-
F H h a “>‘‘ ’’W® R*hl*ltl„n,
Montobx, Qotober 31.—The State
Grange Fair opened in this city yester
day nnder most favorable conditions.
The entries are numerous, all the de
partments being fall. The city is
crowded with visitors. Thsre will be a
grand military flfaday on yri<by.
TELRECoFiNG TRAIN*,
Two DlsaMrgu; AtmMenin on the Central
Railroad, *
Maco ) Ga., October 31.—Yesterday
morning, twelve miles from Mucm,, ofl
the Georgia Central Raiisfaad, the en
gine on the down day freight telescoped
the cab of a freight train wreoking the
engine, cab, several cars and damaging
the whole train. The fireman and others
were injured. A similar accident hap
pened 14 miles from Savannah to the
np night freight. The cause was the
wet weather. The damage to the road
ia over $15,000.
WILKE* WHEEL* IN LINE.
TUe Cokb|Y Democracy Delegates
M> (tf *enaterlal Convention.
(Special to the Chronicle a*4 ConttUuMonabut.]
Washisqtqn, Ga., Qotober fil, 1877.
The Democratic Convention of Wilkea
county met to-day, and appointed F. H.
Colley, W. M. Sims, M, Pharr and Geo.
W. Terry, as delegates to the Senatorial
Convention, to meet at Thomson, on the
6th of November.
The Mayor of Pittsburg, Miss., has
remitted one thousand dollars for Fer
nandina.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THF. STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Eatonton has a minstrel troupe.
Atlanta has not had the telephone yet.
Brunswick’s lumber trade is reviving.
There is some scarlet fever in Wilkes.
Litigation is on the increase in Frank
lin.
Rome is harnessing up a military com
pany.
Mrs. S. E. Harmon, of Bibb county,
is dead.
Northeast Georgia is bnt a sea of
sorghum.
Mrs. Wiley Abercrombie, of Colum
bus, is dead.
Macon has her semi-annual firemen’s
parade to-day.
Mrs. T. F. Smith is proprietress of the
Biunswick Appeal,
The Cadets had a grand banquet the
other night in Atlanta.
Dr. Smith, of West Point, has two
spoons over a oentury old.
The “sword-swallower,” with his ban
jo, has been in Carnesville,
Griffin boys are holding off nntil mar
riage licenses are cheaper.
The conductors seem to have had a
right royal time in Atlanta.
A Harris oounty negro picked 478
pounds of cotton in one day.
Columbus lawyers go to the Supreme
Court and attend the Can Can.
Colnmbns hacks don’t make connec
tion with early morning trains.
A negro boy in West Point was stab
bed to the heart the other day.
Mr. J, G. Greene, of North Carolina,
will erect a wool factory in Penfield.
Rev. J. H. C.ine has been elected
principal of the Greenville Academy.
Griggs has been respited until Han
cook adjourned term Superior Court.
The Central Georgia Weekly does not
think that the State Fair was a suc
cess.
They are just finding out in Ogle
thrope county that sweet potato vines
bloom.
The Eagle and Phoenix Factory in Co
lumbus is putting up some new ma
chinery.
A oonple of young ladies living near
Jusup recently went eoon hunting, and
“treed” five.
Capt. John W. Stone died of heart
disease, Friday night, at his home in
Milledgeviile.
J. Wingfield Nisbet, Esq., was admit
ted to the bar at Macon last week after
a creditable examination.
Clark B. Grombey, a colored member
of Bollock's Legislature, has been ar
rested in Charlotte for arson.
A noteworthy feature about the Tliom
asville Fair is that all large premiums
were paid as soon as awarded.
Every Saturday afternoon is devoted
by the Brunswick ladies to decorating
the graves with beautiful flowers.
A sewing maohine agent had three ribs
broken by falling from his bnggy in
Meriwether oounty the other day.
Mr. Z. S. Willingham, of Linooln, has
this season made over nine hundred gal
lons of syrup from sorghum cane.
The third annual session of the Cen
tral Georgia Musical Convention is go
ing on at Shady Dale, Jasper oounty.
Mr. Heotor Currie, of Brooks oounty,
was almost instantly killed by the acci
dental disoharge of his gun ono day last
week.
We begin rather to doubt the pro
priety of sacred songs being doled out
from the stage by questionable variety
troupes.
Henry W. Grady will lecture upou the
“Patohwork Palaoe” about the 10th of
November, under the auspices of the
Atlanta Y. M. O. A.
A cutting affray occurred near Madison
Saturday between Thomas Atman and
Asa Carlton, in whioh the former reoeiv
ed several severe outs.
The Greenesboro Herald learns that
Rev. C. H. Striokland has had a unani
mous oall to the Washington, Augusta
and Albany Baptist Churches.
Mr. Kinney refused to be arrested by
a Piokens oounty posse, when bo was
fired upon, but before being killed he
shot Mr. T. G. Healy, mortally wound
ing him.
Four young men, ajl over twenty years
old, were in LaGrange the other morn
ing, who had never seen the cars. Being
’gressive spirits, they’ll vote for Atlanta,
of course.
The Jonesboro News, says: “Mr. J. W.
Black had an attack of hemorrhage of
the luqgß on the street last Tuesday,
while on his way to dinner, and died in
a short time,”
Aleck Pryarj convicted af voluntary
manslaughter in Mnsoogee Court, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years, was pardoned by Governor Col
quitt on Thursday.
Mr. A. W. Reese, one of the editors
of the Maeon Telegraph, who held a
responsible and lucrative position in the
House of Representatives during the
last Congress, was left out in the new
deal.
Tbs Oglethorpe Echo says : Thous
ands of dollars in judgments were ob?
tained in the Superior Court last week,
some of them against onr md-st sub
stantial and leading citizens. If their
property is forced ta sale, most of them
will be bankrupt,
Thus soliloquizes the LaGrange Re
porter; “What wifi it profit a man if
he makes a hundred bales of cotton, and
pays it all out for expenses ? What does
it profit if a man has an income of a
million dollars and spends it all ? It is
the amount saved, and not the amount
made, which makes men rich end inde
pendent.”
MoOalloqgh drew well in Atlanta.
Twiggs county is to have anew jail.
Qne death last week in Milledgeviile.
Toocoa is floing a heavy wagon trade.
Yfie I\ocae Light Guards have organ
ized.
Mr. W. S. Webster, of Harris county,
is dead.
Sorghum is becoming r, jpopular crop
in Georgia.
Sheriff iflcUnne, of Monroe county,
has resigned.
Griffiu is amusing herself over total
divoree cases.
Covington received 453 bales of cot
ton last Saturday.
The trade of Athens has been largely
increased this Fall.
Atlanta speaks of turning her fair
grounds into a city park.
The Newnan College girls published a
paper during the Fair.
Some land is Harris county brought
840 per acre last week.
Mrs. Nancy Hutchison, &J Glascock,
is one hundred ld.
Another 9ior6d ohild was burned to
death last week in Milledgeviile.
Uuilliam Moore, Billy-bov, bill
his oircus down here ip the i^pring.
A pair of monkey twins
were born the other day in Atlanta.
Gov, Colquitt has not yet endorsed
the bonds of the Northeastern Road.
Columbus makes kinds
goods, from ?u,oyj cotton to blankets.
4 Carriage in high life is one of
things anticipated by Oovingtq* .eoletv.
Athens has cotton feom Savan
nah, Augusts, ( Ghwlestoft anil New
York,
Covington has a horse tamer and a
9trin baud—anything but a wan tamer,
the latter.
A large brick building in the oourse
of erection fell Tuesday morning in
Savannah.
Mrs. E. L. Davis, of Covington, aged
82, fell recently from a chair, breaking
her thigh bone.
The cotton at Columbus up
to Satnrday 16,868 bales—6,679
less Rife year.
The Athens Watchman says that the
University has never been managed bet
ter than at present.
The OeqitM*4iprk thinks that the At
lanta and Oolambus Railroad wiU sure
i ly be built some day.
The Constitution ha* two, and a half
columns of Marshal’s sales of Atlanta
property lor November.
The dwelling of Mr. J. Hall, of San
dersville, with its entire contents, was
burned on Sunday night.
Mr. John Matthews, about seven
miles from Athens, feat his gin hoose
and contents by fire last week.
Spalding farmers are lengthening oat
their grain rows, bnt Western elevators
are being enlarged all the same.
Ohanoellor Tucker’s leotnre upon the
“Dignity of Labor,” delivered during the
Thomaaville J'air, is highly spoken of.
MoOalla, of the Rockdale Register,
resembles Hayes, while Anderson, of
the Covington Star, is the fat> sim,il of
Erarts.
Mr. W. A. Griggs was sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary for the
killing of M.3. O’Callaghan, in Haber
sham county.
Mr. W. W, Gunnels, of Madison
oonuty, laoemted his hand the other
day so badly, in his gin, that amputa
tion may be necessary.
Mr. Riohard Peters, at the Atlanta
Fair, took two hundred and thiry dollars
of premiums for improved stook, and
also sold three oar loads during the Fair
week.
Tlie Watchman notes that
1 waa knocked down by
a falling shed into a kettle of burning
burned 01 ' °^ er a y> au< l severely
Miss Julia B. Johnson, of Macon, re
ceived over fifty dollars at the State
lair for best soda biscuit, crackers,
sponge ponnd and fruit cakes, and best
general display of cakes and bread.
Mrs. Lindsey Colbert, of Madison
oounty, who had been confined to her
bod for several days, undertook to walk
across the room, and, being attacked
with vertigo, fell in the fire and was
burned to death, last week.
The art critic of the Atlanta Constitu
tion writes a graphic account of the
character of “Cassino” in the drama of
Julius Carnr, as played by MoCullongh.
Levick, who plays Cassuis, is a veritable
trump, and that’s what the A. C. meant,
of course.
Speaking of the University, tho
Thomasville Times says: “Lot us edu
cate our boys in the State in which they
are to be citizens and where they will
form associations and acquaintances
with the youth among whom as men
they are to live and labor.”
The Covington Star announces that
twenty-one peacoable and law-abiding
county, upon the
affidavit of a notorious negro vagabond
and outlaw, Owens Marks, now in the
Atlanta jail, have been arrested by the
United States Marshal for violating the
enforcement act.
THE tIORUEOUS KNOT.
Mr. Charlie De Beruff, of Macon, was
married to Miss Sallie Hersev. of Au
gusta, recently.
Mr. R. E. Mcßride to Miss Katie
Tucker, was married in Jefferson on the
24th.
, Claudo E. McLendon and Miss
Mattie J. Reeves were married on the
Ihtli inst., in Meriwether county.
Mr. Geo. Day and Miss Lena Lutlii,
of Crawford, on the 25th instant.
B. W. Jackson, of Augusta, to Miss
Lizzie 0., daughter of Judge Butt, of
Atlanta, last Wednesday,
Mr. Edgar T. Boswell and Miss Lula
Champion, near Greenesboro, last week
Mr. Geo. W. Garrett and Miss Mary
A. E. Trice, of Milledgeviile, Wednes
day.
,!■!■
THE (JKOHOtA CAMPAIGN.
Jaokson oounty has no candidates.
Mr. T. W. Lamb is bleating for the
nomination in Glynn.
Hon. J. J. Turnbull is again Banked
up for the Legislature.
Judge C.D. McOutohen, of Wkitefield,
is spoken of for Governor.
Mr. Eli A. Veazey, of Greene, is men
tioned for the Legislature.
Rev. Mathew Sweat is a candidate for
tne Legislature in Pierce oounty,
Hon. W.O. Tuggle, of LaGrange, is
not a candidate for Senatorial honors.
An Atlanta man puts up one thousand
dollars upon his burg in the capital race..
Mr. S. Lemon deolines to be a can
didate for tho Legislature in Cobb
oounty.
Dr. E. D. Pitman, of Troup, is men
tioned for the Senate in the Thirty
seventh.
Candidates for the Legislature from
Bibb oounty will also be nominated at a
primary election.
Judge B. F. Carr, Hon. W. S. Peck
and Mr. T. C. Posey are running for the
Legislature in Rockdale county.
Captain Reese Crawford, of Musco
gee, announces himself as a candidate
for the House of Representatives.
Hon. W. I. Hudson has announced
himself a candidate for the House in the
next Legislature, from Harris county.
Hon. A. E. Ooohrane, of Pieroe eonn
ty, who was the youngest member in
the Legislature, is a candidate for the
Senate from his distriot.
Samuel Lumpkin, Esq., announoos
himself willing for a primary election in
Oglethorpe to determine tho choice of
that oounty for the Senatorship.
The Brunswick Appeal neke: “Would
it not be well to have a speedy nomina
tion and thus got onr people united on
oertain candidates at an early day ?”
The Constitution having stated that
Southern Georgia will give Atlanta a
“rousing vote,” the Savannah News
amends by substituting a “rousting”
vote.
Gen. A. O. Garlington, Lonndes Cal
houn and Col. N. J. Hammond arc. named
for the House from Fulton, while Hon.
Evan P. Howell has the inside track for
the Senate.
The La Grange Reporter says: “Hon.
J. B. Cumming, of Augusta, one of tho
best men in Eastern Georgia, will prob
ably be nominated for the Senato, from
the Eighteenth District.”
It has just been discovered in Wash
ington that Mr. Hilliard induced the
State of Tennesseo to seoede. Certainly
he did. Rut the war ended several
years ago.— N. Y. Tribune, Rep.
The Washington Gazette insists that
“it is not time to give up our organiza
tion yet, for when toe do we givo np our
party and turn it over of a truth to po
litical cliques and rings and tricksters.”
The Old Capital gets; in a plumper,
without fail, once a week. Hear it:
“The Constituliov, boasts that Atlanta
voted against, the Constitution of ’6B,
but neglects to remind its readers that
Atlanta endorsed that Constitution by
voting against the Constitutional Con -
vention of 77.’'
An applicant for the position of
Deputy United States Marshal asked
one of tho defeated candidates in New
ton the other day to recommend him to
United States ‘Marshal Fitzsimons for
a position. Old Newton winked ono eyo
and said, “It is anew deal and anew
cut apd the last one of the old lot mnst
trot.”
A correspondent of the Old Capital
says : “I regret to see a disposition in
many oounties to disband the Demo
cratic organization, and engage in a
scrub race for members of the General
Assembly. There is danger in the
movement. The disbanding of the Re
publican Executive Committee was in
tended to effect this result. The colored
element will be massed in support of an
independent or anti-Gordon man.”
As long as there are so many anxious
to serve their country the following,
which is Soaring around, may be inter
esting-:
Who vos dot Mon vat vulks dor sdhroed,
UnU pows mit efry ion he meed,
Und shakes mit sefen omd of eight ?
Vy! pW,s you, dot’s der candidate.
Yah J who’s dot man sits in ter shair.
Und kivg yon 5 hinny ahtar*,
(Jnd for your hour* he makea yon vait r
Dot feller yo* vonce a candidate.
| A NOBLE WOMAN*
What Mrs. Jessie Heaton Fremont Did Dar
ina the War.
iSt. Louis Glolxf'Democrat.]
It is not generally known, but ought
to be, that the sick and wounded of tho
Western armies were directly indebted
to Mrs. Fremont for a large part of the
comfort and humane treatment they en
joyed, not only when her husband was
in command, but throughout the war.
The orders issued through her direet in
fluence, by which many unusual advan
tages of management and care were in
troduced into all St. Louis hospitals,
were continued in full force nntil the
war ended. Gep. Halleck said that he
should have hesitated, under the army
regulations, to issne such orders, but
that “they were in fall force until re
pealed.” Mrs. Fremont personally vis
ited the hospitals, never permiited any
request for their benefit to wait tor an
answer, and by aid of Miss IX L. Dix,
who visited St. Lonis on her invitation,
and under whose authority from Con
gress female nurses were employed,
every hospital room in the department
was soon brought near ta the comfort
ableness and cleanliness of a sick room
at home. More than 100,000 sick and
suffering volunteer soldiers, of whom
many thousand were prisoners from tho
Confederate armies, not only in St.
Lonis, but wherever the Western Sani
tary Commission exercised any control
had reason to be grateful to Mrs. Fre
mont. I have now in my possession the
original order establishing that commis
sion in her own handwriting, and signed
by the General, under the operations of
whioh, and without any altered rule or
agency, the sum of 84,270,000 in value
was received and expended for tho suf
fering soldiers of the West, no distinc
tion being ever made in this regard be
tween friends and foes. If honor is
given where honor is due, Jessie Benton
Fremont should hold a high place in the
esteem and gratitude of the whole na
tion.
A Lively Nklrinlab.
London, October 31.—A Paris dis
patch reporting a battle recently fought
between tho King of Abyssinia and
Meulek, states that the latter lost 23,00 Q
men in killed and wounded.