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Wst toeditg ®ftronifle & CottsHtationalist OLD SERIES-TOt. ICII NEW SERIES-YOL. LI (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. non 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.” n# 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.