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i >NEBDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1877.
Farjeon is forty-three.
The ldgb bell* jingled in Quebec on
Monday.
Hoo cholora does not prevail Westward
this season as much as formerly.
Christopher Columbus Cookendor
pkb is the name of a Kentuckian*
Anna Dickinson denies that General
1! STI-KK ever proposed to marry her.
The ex-Emprcss Eloe.me confesses that
she led her husband into war and ruin.
The Emperor of China has purchased
and destroyed the only railroad in his do
minions.
Hon. Da* Voorheeb says: “God knows
1 wish Senator Morton had lived.” The
National Republican will call this “croco
dile.” t <
Mn. Spuroeos calls the jieople who go
to church from compulsion, as they might
do from a shawerof rain, “umbrella Chris
tians.”
■
William Lloyd Garrison looks back
over the last fifteen years and discovers that
not a single colored child in the country
has been named after him.
The Missouri Republican observes that if
the “9 to T tree is bearing a plentiful crop
of sour apples, what right have those who
planted it to complain of the fruit ?
The Chinese lodge the sentiments of
gratitude and vindictiveness, not in the
heart, hut in the stomach. Henry San-
EoKi) aud Ham Ward are American Chi
nese.
“The Ancient Order of the Hons and
Daughters of Moses of the United States
and the World at Large” is the rather com
prehensive title of a Washington colored
society.
Miss Kate Cj.axton has married Chas.
A. Stevenson, the young actor who was
reported to he the cause of the trouble that
resulted in Miss Olaxtoh’s divorce from
Mr. Dork Eton.
President Haves has sent his check for
$ 100 to help pay the debt of a Presbyterian
church in Richmond, his interest in the
matter huving been excited by his recent
visit to that city.
In supjiort of Bob Inof.rsoli.’s claims
to the German mission the Cincinnati Com
mercial says: “Inoersoi.i. would get along
beautifully with Bismarck. They have
the same religious faith.”
The New York Times acquits Mr. Sdm
nkr of being a liar, but questions if his
greatness is substantial enough to sustain a
defense by the common scold of Massachu
setts, Wendell Phillips.
—o>
Mrs. CniKF Justice Waite is reported
ns saying when she heard that the planet
Mars had three moons—“ Think of young
people living in a planet where there is no
shady side of the street at night.”
William L. Vauohn, principal of a pub
lic school in Covington, Ky., lectured on
“The Duty of Good Example.” On the
following day lie was arrested for bigamy,
n deserted wife having arrived from Oau
ada.
The Philadelphia limes informs those ig
lAntnt newspapers that have been asking
wlmt Mrs. McCrary's expression “skull
duggery” means, that it is a western syno
nym of “ shciunagin” and “liornswog
ghng.”
A Boston tuau who has talked with
Oakey Hall since his return says he looks
well, and leaks puns as a sieve leaks water,
which would lie a symptom of derange
ment in anybody else, hut is his normal
condition.
The Worcester l*rcsa, commenting on
the rumor that Lydia Thompson is about
to abandon the ballet business, says that
“her career on the stage is coming to its
clothes." Another fellow says herretire
nrent will only amount to a fig-leave.
The Graphic Ims a cartoon representing
Wm. Cullen Bryant, Hamilton Fish,
Peter Cooper and Howard Crosby
practicing the arts of faro, three card
monte, prize-lighting and pool selling as a
natural result of having voted for John
Morrissey.
A correspondent predicts that the re
actionary success of all legitimate business
in New York will date from this true year
of grace, when the great city looks into her
heart and writes herself down an ass for
spending millions in frippery when she had
only hundreds in solid assets.
General Stekdman, of Toledo, Ohio,
expresses the opinion that the contest for
Senator iu that State is between Pendle
ton, Morgan, Hdrd and Allen. Ex
• Governor Allen, it is said, favors Mor
gan, and will not be a candidate if the
. chauces favor the latter.
A lady correspondent writing from Wash
ington expresses her surprise at the number
of bald heads in Congress. “The House
of Represents tivesjlooks like a big skating
riuk. Tlte heads not bald are white, like
patches of snow. A frozen, dreary, wintry
luational cranium.”
Baneord may be called the diplomat of
gooct dinners and liogus Belgian ritles. One
of his quests summed up his claims by say
ing that a man who could give a dinner of
fourteen courses, each of which was so dis
guised ttiat the guest couldn’t tell what it
was made of, had a genius that would
adorn the Ugliest Courts of Europe.
The St. Louis Globe-DemtM-rats&ys: “The
Democratic majorities iu Ohio, Pennsylva
nia and New York are not so large that
Urant cannot overcome them in 1880.
There is no telling, however, what three
more years ot Hates may do. If he keeps
-on as at present, there won’the enough Re
publicanism left for seed two years hence.
Is a eouiuim-ication to the Louisville
•Courier-Journal Mr. Amekiccs Symmes,
following oat the theory of his father, pro
pounds the striking theory that the auroral
light is caused by the reflection of the glory
•of the intra-mundane heaven, protected lib
erally through the great hole at the locality
hitherto known as the North Pole.
We SDK i l Phillips said in an interview,
Thursday, at Philadelphia, when asked
■what he thought about the result of the
election : “Pennsylvania's voice unmistak
ably fortells the defeat and subjugation, at
no distant day, of the entire Republican
party. Furthermore, it settles it that the
solid South will eventually rule the Union,
as it did before the war. No doubt of it,
sir !”
The Philadelphia Time* has this chunk
ot truth ; “It is to the credit of the South
-ern press that notwithstanding the bitter
ness exhibited by Senator Morton towards
the South, and which was heartily recipro
•cated bv the Southern people, it has treated
•of his character and career in obituaries
with respect and charity that are equally
•considerable and surprising. These ameni
ties of politics cost little, and they go a long
way towards bridging the chasm of section
alism.’’
Senator Kkrnak, of New York, says
that the Senate of New York just elected,
and the members holding over, will elect a
successor to Cone lino; but that the Assem
bly just elected will not participate, as it is
only elected for one year. He says, admit
ting all that the Republicans claim, they
hare only a Republican majority of two in
the Senate, and that all the Democrats will
require to secure a Democratic Senator will
be to get a majority of three in the General
Assembly, to be elected in 1978.”
THE WORI.D MOVE*.
The State Senator-elect from Mr.
Conklino’s district is named Goodwin.
The Hon. Rosoob thns pictures him :
“He went voluntarily from our part of
the country to join the rebel army. In
sound, old fashioned Democratic circles
there is considerable respect for a man
of grit, of courage and of np and down
character, even when mistaken. I have
something of this admiration myself,
and therefore I entertain considerable re
spect for Goodwin.” The Senator add
ed that Mr. Goodwin, in reply to an ad
dress of congratulation, made a speech,
saying that he owed his election to the
supporters of the National Administra
tion.
A CLEAN SWEEP.
Hon. E. Barksdale, Chairman of the
Mississippi State Committee, telegraphs
to the New Orleans press, from Jackson,
under date of the Bth, that the straight
Democratic ticket has been elected with
out opposition. The Legislature will
be overwhelmingly Democratic, about
two Radicals and four Independents in
the House of Representatives oat of 120.
In the Senate all the regalar Democra
tic nominees have been elected; there
fore there will be but one Republican
Senator in that body—he bolds over—
and no Independents. Mississippi
stands, with over 100,000 majority, with
the solid South.
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.
The Democratic Convention of the
Twenty-seventh Senatorial Distriot met
last Friday and re-nominated Hon. H.
D. McDaniel, of Walton, by acclama
tion. The Democraoy of the Distriot
have honored themselves in honoring Mr.
MoDanikl. He is a very pure and a
very able man, has had several years ex
perience as a member of the House and
Senate, and will render valuable service
in the next General Assembly. The
delegates from Rockdale very foolishly
withdrew from the Convention because
they found themselves nnable to nominate
a candidate from their own county, but
as the representatives of the other four
counties of the District—Clark, Oconee,
Newton and Walton remained and
made the nomination, the action of
Rookdale will not have mnoh effect upon
the eleotion.
THE RKHRLT IN MISHISKIPPI.
The result of the eleotion held in
Mississippi last Tuesday discloses the
fact that Independents came to a very
bad end. In but one county of the
State did they succeed in electing their
ticket. As the Memphis Appeal phrases
it, “a few straggling Independents, the
toolu of the Radicals, have been elected,
but the Democrats have swept the State
from the Tennessee river to the Golf,
and the horizon that arches the State is
bright with the bonfires of Democratic
triumph.” The Democrats of Mississip
pi were not caught in the snare which
had been so ingeniously set for their de
struction. They saw the danger, and,
like wise men, seeing shunned the peril.
In Georgia the result will be the same.
Au individual will not be permitted to
dictate to a party, and the party will not
disband at the bidding of the disaffected
few.
BATTLE OF UETTYSBSRU.
We publish this morning in the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist an
aocount of the battle of Gettysburg
furnished by General James Lonostreet
to the Philadelphia THmes, Gettysburg
was the decisive battle of the war. Af
ter the reverse sustained there the Con
federate cause was hopeless, aud this
faot was known to the gallant men who
wore the gray but who fonght none the
less heroically because of such knowl
edge. General Lonostreet was a con
spicuous figure in the drama enacted
during those three memorable days in
July, aud he gives an exceedingly read
able account of wbat transpired. His
tory must pass upon the aocuracy of his
statements, the justice of his views
aud the soundness of his conclusions.
His narrative is doubly interesting to
the people of this State from the fact—
as he states—that most of the troops in
his command who took part in the en
gagement were Georgians. Wright's
brigade of Anderson’s division, which
he says—quoting from the offioial report
of General Lee— gained the crest of the
ridge and drove the enemy down on the
other side, was commanded by the late
General A. R. Wright, of this city, and
was oomposed of the Third Georgia
Regiment, the Forty-eighth Georgia, the
Twenty-seoond Georgia and the Second
Georgia Battalion.
THANKSGIVING DAT.
The President of the United States
has issued a proclamation designating
Thursday, the 29th instant, as a day of
national thanksgiving. The Qovernors
of several States have issued proclama
tions in accordanoe with that issued by
the President. We hope the Gov
ernor of Georgia will imitate their ex
ample. Certainly the people of Geor
gia have reason to return thanks to God
for the blessings He has in His loving
kindness vonohsafed them daring the
past twelve months. We have had peace
within onr borders; we have had honest
and capable local government; we have
had protection to person and property
through an impartial and efficient ad
ministration of the law by upright
Judges and juries; the crops generally
have been good, and onr farmers have
taken another step on the golden road
to independence; the business of the
mercantile oommnnity has shown signs
of improvement; the laboring man,
though insufficiently remunerated for
his toil, has earned bread for himself,
his wife and his children, and we have
been 'spared the riots which destroyed
so much life and property in other
States; of actnal want and suffering
there has been very little; there have
been neither destructive floods, nor fires
nor fatal epidemics; the plague which
desolated the Georgia coast last Sum
mer did not reappear; and in many other
respects have we experienced the love
and mercy of the Great Maker of men.
C&llons is the nature, hard indeed is
the heart that does not feel like return
ing thanks for the favors which a Di
vine Providence has so liberally be
stowed.
A SAD STORY.
GrsTAvcs Adolphus Hirt, as the New
York papers inform ns, was the son of
the Rev. Jystman Lnuwio Edward
Hirt, pastor of Thamsbrneck, Thurin
gia. He was born on the 12th of No
vember, ISSO, at Isserheiligen, and
graduated gt the College of Pforta in
1864. He attended between 1868 and
1874 the universities of Berlin, Jena and
Halle, graduating in eachplaae "summa
cum laude.” Under the Prussian mil;'
tary system in Hirt served is
the Eighty-sixth Infantry Regiment, and
at the opening of the Franeo-Prussian
war as a reserve man in the Thirty-first
Infantry, and was under fire at Epernay
and before Paris, distinguishing himself
by his bravery on each occasion. When
the war was over he received decorations
for oourags and good conduct, and in
1874 and 187$ was Professor of Latin
and Greek in the of Schwerin.
In the Fall of the latter year he de
tailed to service in the Sixtieth Infantry 1
as instructor in the use of the new arm,
the Manser gnn, and shortly after he
was permitted to leave Prussia, pledg
ing himself to return should the army be
placed on a war footing. Scarcely two
years ago he came to the United States,
and, with the highest endorsements,
songht positions suitable to his varied
and distinguished talents, in several in
stitutions. Somehow or other these ap
plications were not fortunate. He strove
hard to support himself, bnt in vain.
One by one,articles of jewelry and cloth
ing were pawned. He saw himself in a
great city face to face with ntter desti
tuion and the grave seemed less terrible
than man. When his last hope
of relief vanished and starvation came,
he grew desperate and, in that condi
tion, committed suicide.
It is strange that a man only 27 years
of age, well born, highly cultured, and
a hero in a great war, should starve in
this country and die by his own hand.
Bnt the reoord is too plain for donbt,
and another instance is given of the
truth that the tragedies of real life sur
pass those of fiction and the stage. If
such a man as Lieutenant Hibt, who
had only himself to take care of, fell by
the wayside, what dreadfnl secrets
oonld Asmodeus reveal if he were to un
roof the houses where fathers and hus
bands are fighting a hard battle with
want, and yet live on because they are
not alone.
CONURESSMAN SMALLS.
The conviction of Smalls, the Caroli
na colored Congressman, will reduce the
Republican strength in the House one
vote. Smalls was indicted for taking a
bribe while a member of the Legislature
of his State ; the evidence of his guilt
was full and conclusive ; he was tried
before a Republican Judge and convict
ed without hesitation by a jury half of
whom were colored men and Republi
cans. The duty of the members of the
House to themselves and to the country
is plain. Smalls should be expelled
inatanter and bis seat thonld be given
to the Democratic candidate, Col. Geo.
D. Tillman, who was legally elected. If
Col. Tillman is not seated, at least
shoald anew election be ordered. But
the Northern Republican journals pub
lish with great complacence a statement
to the effect that Smalls will not be ex
pelled. A resolution of expulsion can
be adopted only by a two-thirds vote,
and the Democrats have but a small ma
jority. Retaining his membership, he
will,of course, continue to draw his pay,
and the honorable gentleman will have
his name upon the roll of the Congress
of the United States and, also, upon the
roll of the South Carolina Penitentiary !
It is to be hoped that there are enough
decent Republicans in the House to
avert such disgrace. The men who voted
to expel Whittbmore for selling a ca
detship should not hesitate to take sim
ilar action with a bribe-taker and con
vioted felon.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
According to the figures furnished by
the Bureau of Statistics, the imports of
merchandise into the United States for
the month of September last amounted
to $34,651,380, and of specie $3,650,882,
being au increase over the correspond
ing month of 1876 of $2,596,908 in mer
chandise, and of $1,265,917 in specie.
The exports of domestic produce dur
ing the same month amounted in gold
values to $48,762,569; of foreign mer
chandise $815,912, and of species3,oß3,-
611—making a total of $52,662,092 of
exports, as against $47,839,914 in Sep
tember, 1876 -an increase over the latter
month of $4,327,464 in merchandise,
and of $494,714 in speoie.
During the nine months of the present
calendar year the imports of merchan
dise were $371,172,768, and of specie
$17,927,574, whilst those of the corre
sponding period of 1876 were, merchan
dise $330,388,155, speoie $10,179,006, an
increase in imports over the nine months
in imports over the nine months of 1876
of $40,784,613 in merchandise, and of
$7,748,568 in specie. The exports fer
the same period of the current year
were : Of domestio produot and foreign
merchandise $425,850,155, and of specie
$42,816,954; as against ths exports of
produoe and merchandise in the corre
sponding months of 1876 $408,122,617,
and of speoie $48,032,417 —an increase
in exports of all goods up to the closb
of September last of $16,962,538, and a
decrease in the export of specie of $5,-
215,463. According to the New York
Journal of Commerce the trade balance
in favor of this country for the calendar
year 1876 was $185,000,000, and for the
fiscal year 1876-’77, goods and specie
together, $167,000,000. With the heavy
produce exports for the remainder of
the year yet to be accounted for it is too
early to draw conclusions. But it is
evident that the trade balance will con
tinue in our favor, and if no mischievous
legislation is interposed the stock of
specie, instead of being drained from
the country as heretofore, will be in
creased.
THE WEST AND SOUTH.
There is a prodigious amount of busi
ness done in the great West, and, on
the surface, prosperity seems to bo the
general rule. But if we are to oredit the
dolefnl revelations of Eastern capital
ists, the wealth of the West is either
flotitions or else it has been stolen from
the East. When one speaks of the
West, the type of all that is grand,
gloomy and peculiar resides in Chicago.
The push and enterprise of that city is
only eqnalled by its immorality and bad
whisky or water. But there is no dis
oonnt upon its rnsh and whirl of trade.
Even New York is a calm place along
side of Chicago. To the visitor from
abroad this prodigious activity natur
ally has a stunning effect. It must mean
something, and it does. That there is
an enormous commerce in that town no
body has the hardihood to deny ; but
that it rests upon a sound and substan
tial basis many persons are begin
ning to question. At any rate, the
Eastern papers assert, in the liveliest
manner, that men of means who have 1
confided in Western real estate and farm
mortgages are of all men most miser
able. The collapse of these bubbles has
soared and impoverished many a lender
of “demnition cash,” and the journals
of the day most in sympathy with Shy
lock and his bond are stridently ad
vising all who happen to have a surplus
fot investment to avoid Western securi
ties of all classes and kinds as they
would fly from the plague itself. We
date say there is much truth in these
lugubrious accounts of Western wild cat
speculation and Eastern victimizing.
The remedy is plain. Let the Northern
capitalists withdraw from the West aDd
try the South. If they will, under the
new political order of things, expend
upon the South one-half the money
! they have worse than wasted, so
I far e they are concerned, npon
the West, we firmly believe that they
will not only not regret it, but re
joice immensely at the returns there
from. If the Southern trade were re
moved from the West the coil apse would
be enormously increased. Bat what the
East should do is to bnild np the Booth,
and reckon substantially upon regaining
here what has been squandered else
where. Already this is dawning upon
the minds of many enterprising indi
viduals, and we may look for a move
ment .ui tbis direction which will prove a
blessing to us ip those who help us.
AUGTJSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1877.
A CORN CRUSADE.
It occurred to Messrs. Tilden and
Hewitt, during their European tour, that
the people of the Old World only need
ed a little stimulus to understand and
appreciate the value and wholesomeness
of core bread. To that end, it has been
suggested by Mr. Hewitt to establish
an American kitchen in the Paris ex
hibition building, the principal attrac
tion of which Bkall be, not pork and
beans, but corn bread. A first-class
Southern female cook, of the blaek per
suasion, is also recommended as the ne
cessary adjunct of the culinary estab
lishment. Now, at first blush, this
looks preposterous. But, in reality,
there is a deep and far-pervading com
mercial scheme at the bottom of it. It
means nothing more or less than the
development of a great industry and the
outlet for a splendid agricultural pro
duct, so little known or esteemed
abroad, Ihe annual product of Indian
corn in the United States is more than
1,000,000,000 bushels. Of this enormous
yield, which could be easily trebled, if
need be, only 60,000,000 bushels go
abroad. The arithmetical and rhetori
cal figures are happily bten&il by
“Gath” thus:
Some little while ago I was traveling through
au old part of Maryland, aud 1 saw from the
railroad oar window a negro man stripping
the corn-ears from the growing stalk and
throwing them upon a distant pile. As each
ear left his careless hand it dashed like a
golden bar. Through the Autumn field, where
the persimmons only gleamed like oopper
apples along the fenoe lines, these piles of
oorn-oars shone on the thin sandy soil plenti
ful as heaps of ashes m the alleys of the city.
I thought to myself : “If each golden oar of
oorn was real gold and nothing grew bnt gold
where now is corn, how the negro would give
it all for one ear of what he rejeots so deftly I"
Yet this negro in America was a King Midas.
He could plant and cultivate a whole field, yes,
a whole farm of oom, little knowing that in
India oorn is gold and famine is the law. The
story of Midas is that he asked the tipsy god
Silexss, schoolmaster of Bacchus, to give
him tho alchemic gift of turning every thing
to gold. When it was granted his bread was
turned to ingots and bis com to ore. Mr.
Hewitt desires to exchange some of our sur
plus of 1,290,000,000 bushels of tors to gold
or credit, with Europe. At fifty cents a
bushel, here is $645,000,000.
Instead of laughing at Mr. Hewitt,
the fervid “Gath” exalts his horn as
well as corn and winds up with the fol
lowing sonorous blast: “This is states
manship. This is the sort of man to
send to Congress, not a sophomorio
demagogue who blows about what neith
er ho nor the people understand, and
even in the opposition is without re
speotable motives. Advanoe the price
of an ear of corn ! That is what you are
sent to Congress for! And take oare
that you don’t get off too far on the
definition of price. Keep well down to
the ear, and as we propose to exchange
this corn with Europe, perhaps we’ll
want for it the best money they can pay.”
GENERAL AMNEBTY.
The Washington National Union
states that Mr. Goode, of Virginia, will
introduce a general amnesty bill in the
House Saturday, identioal with the bill
reported by Mr. Maynard, of Tennes
see, from the Committee on Rules, dur
ing the first session of the Forty-third
Congress, and whioh passed the House
under a suspension of the rules, but
failed in the Senate. The same bill was
introduced by Mr. Randall in the For
ty-fourth Congress, and provoked what
is known as the amnesty debate, during
which Blaine and Ben Hill had their
memorable encounter. The bill again
passed the House to again fail in the
Senate. It is to be hoped that the Re
publican raaj ority in the Senate will not
now oppose the measure. We exag
gerate rather than under state the figures
when we assert that therq are not
exceeding one hundred persons in the
South who are affected by the law which
Mr. Goode seeks to repeal. The ab
surdity of the statute is apparent when
it is remembered that the Vice-Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy and a
member of the Confederate Cabinet oc
cupy seats in the House, and a Confed
erate Senator and a Lieutenant-General
of the Southern Army sit in the Senate
Chamber, while Beaurbgahd and John
ston, who resigned from the United
States service and received the highest
military positions known in the Confed
eracy, have had their disabilities re
moved and may occupy any position
under the Government.
General Robert Toombs and Hon.
A. H. Stephens have recently written
letters for publication opposing the re
moval of the capital to Milledgeville.
General Toombs is au able lawyer und
eloquent orator, but he has never been
considered a very adviser. Mr.
Stephens has rendered and is rendering
valuable service to the country, but his
record shows that his judgment is by no
moans infallible. The people of the
State know their own interests better
than the prominent men do, and we ex
pect to find evidence of this fact next
December,in a handsome majority for
Milledgeville.
Mb. Whitelaw Reid quotes the fol
lowing paragraph from the Globe Demo
crat, of St. Louis, as an example of
thorough implacability;
How wonld it do, on the next trip, for the
President and Cabinet to get down on their
knees before an assemblage of Southern pa
triots headed by Jeff Davis and Bob Toombs
and beg pardon for all acts of war and aggres
sion committed by the North from 1861 to 1865
That is precisely what it is coining to, and if it
is not done soon, we fear that Jbff and Bob
will not accept the apology.
Considering that the proprietor of the
G-D. has had penitentiary experience,
the President need not feel hurt at his
sarcasm.
God-Na.tare<| Editing.
“Goed-natured editing,” says some
wise man, “spoils half the papeis in the
United States.” Yea, verily. “Will you
please publish the poetry J send ?” says
one; “it is my first effort;” and some
crude lines go in to encourage budding
genius. “Our church is in great peril,”
says another ; “will you publish our ap
peal ?” and a loDg dolorous plea is in
serted. “My father took your paper for
twenty years,” writes another ; “I think
you ought to publish the resolutions
passed by the Big Brake Church when
he died ;” and in go resolutions of no
interest to a majority of the readers. “I
am particularly anxious that the views I
present go before the church this week,”
and out go a covey of small, pithy oon
; tributions, to make room for three eol
nmns from a ponderous D. D. “There
is immediate necessity for the exposure
of one who is a bitter enemy to the
truth,” writes another, as he sends an
attack npon an antagonist which will
fill an entire page. “I am about to
j publish a book, identifying the Great
Image of brass, iron and clay, and I
i wonld be obliged to you to publish the
j advance sheets of chapter which I
! inclose to you.” “Why don’t you pub
lish in full R.’s great speech in the Gen
eral Assembly ? It would increase your
, circulation largely.” “If you will pub
! lish the sermon I transmit to you, I will
j take eight extra copies i" “The church
j must be aroused on the subject of for
eign missions,” says a pastor, as he for
; wards the half of his last Sabbath’s ser
mon. And the ladies—bless their sweet
smiles and their sweet voices—the good
natured editor surrenders to them at
once, and thjsy go’ away happv, utterly
unconscious that they have helped to
spoil the paper.— Philadelphia Presby
terian. '
Our Congressmen in Washington live
as follows: Senator Gordon at Williard’s,
Senator Hill at the Arlington, Represen
tatives Stephens, Harris and Bell at the
National, and Hartridge, Cook, Blount
and Candler at Willard's.
BITING ON THE BITS.
SERIOUSLY THREATENING TO
KICK OUT OF THE TRACES.
Saturday’! Caucus Indicates That An Open
Revolt Cannot he Long Delayed— The Dead
Paint of Dancer Lies in the Louisiana
Senatorial Question— And There is Little
Doubt That the President Mast Rely Upon
The Demncracy—A Committee of Republi
can Senators About to Institute a System of
Preoidential Bulldozing.
Washington, November 11.— The
signs of the war upon Hayes within bis
own party beoomes more manifest with
each passing day, and open revolt can
not much longer be postponed. If the
proceedings in Saturday’s caucus could
be given to the public there would be
found in them sufficient cause for the
gravest apprehension that certain Re
publican Senators either intend that he
shall take the back track with reference
to the appointments, or it will be their
aim to place him in the position of rely
ing on Democratic support. One mark
adfeature of the caucus is the secrecy
with whioh proceedings are kept.
The injunction of strictest secrecy was
pieced on the members; and a more re
markable fact is the manner in which
the injunction is heeded. It is known,
however, beyond peradventure that the
supporters of Hayes forced those who
desired to antagonize himjQA position to
•how their hands; and the fact was un
mistakably developed that if the Demo
crats will stand by the President his
enemies are powerless to do him positive
injury, for the reason that they are di
vided among themselves, at all events at
least as far a.s his nominations are con
concerned. There was a sentiment ex
pressed among Republicans—-notably by
Hoar and Dawes, of Massachusetts; Mat
thews, of Ohio, and Christiancy, of
Michigan—that when the President
made nominations for office from among
Republicans who were not obnoxious to
the localities from which they were se
lected, the Senate should not refuse to
advise and consent thereto. Ou the
question of the admissiou of Kellogg,
from Louisiana, the party shows a more
cohesive front. There are Republican
Senators who, while they will uphold
Hayes in the matter of his Southern
policy and appointments, will vote to
seat Kellogg, lhe loophole that these
give as a vent to ease their consciences ia
that he was elected by a Legislature
having a recognized quorum, and that
when the Nioholls Legislature assumed
to perform the act of electing a Senator
it was none else than null and void, be
cause a Senator had already been elect
ed. It is on the matter of
Senatorship that Hayes is beset with
real danger. •
The Democrats assume that, inasmuch
as they are willing to stand by him, the
influence of his position should be used
in behalf of Spofford, because he was
elected by a Legislature coalesced by
the Commission sent by Hayes to fuse
the two rival bodies, and because its
acts, and not the acts of the Packard
body, receive recognition and the sanc
tion of law-abiding citizens of the
State. There has been a tremendous
pressure within the Republican party
brought to bear upon Hayes to induce
him to use his influence in behalf of
Kellogg, To-day Senators Gordon and
Lamar had a long conference with
Hayes. They stated to him that if he
yielded to the solicitations, and Kellogg
was seated, the Democratic members of
the Senate would lose faith, beoome
disheartened, and such an act might be
the means of dividing the Democrats
as to the support which they would
otherwise accord him, to perhaps even
a larger extent than tho Republicans
were now divided. The, danger, then,
is : No matter how Hayes may act, he
is sure to lose ground ; for if he takes
a position inimical to tho seating of
Spofford, he will weaken Democratic
faith in his honesty of purpose, and
will, to a partial extent at least, re
pudiate his own policy, as well as his
own acts.
For and Forninat.
Those who staunchly defended the
President in the eanens were Senators
Hoar, Dawes, Christiancy .and Mat
thews. Those who made leading
speeches in opposition to many of his
appointments were Senators Conkling,
Edmnnds, Howe, Hamlin and Wad
leigh. The appointments most vigor
ously discussed were those made in
Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Ed
munds, in some very sarcastic reflec
tions, alluded particularly to the unfit
ness of the appointment of Hilliard to
be Minister to Brazil and Fitzsimons
to be Marshal for Georgia. The tone
of those who objected to these appoint
ments was that the President could have
found Republicans to have filled the
places, and should have selected persons
to fill these stations outside of the Dem
ocratio party. Stanley Matthews called
on the President soon after the caucus
adjourned, and was closeted with him
until a late hour last night. Subse
quently he called at Charley Foster’s
room, and the two will evidently pre
pare some new dispensation of peace
whioh will be the converse of last Win
ter’s treaty, inaßmuoh as they will now
have to deal with Republicans instead
of the Democratic party. It is under
stood that within a day or two Hayes
will be visited by leading Rppublican
Senators, who will plainly tell him
what they intend to do. If he has as
maoh sand in his eraw as his friends
give him credit for, he can precipitate a
row very expeditiously.
The Marshalship of Georgia aud the Minis
ter to Brazil.
Washington, November 12.— Special
reference was made in the Republican
canons Saturday to the Democratic
nominations from Georgia and Louisia
na. This direptly refers to the nomina
tions of Fitzsimons and Hilliard, from
Georgia, and every effort will be made
to reject them by the Republicans be
fore the Judiciary Committee. To-day
the nomination of Fitzsimons was con
sidered, and, although no final action
was taken, a majority of the committee
showed a strong disposition to act up to
the eancus determination.
POLITICS IN BURKE.
Meeting of the County Democratic Conven
tion Nomination of Candidates for the
Legislature.
The Democratic Convention of Burke
county met at Waynesboro last Friday,
for the purpose pf nominating three
candidates for members of the Legisla
ture from that county. Judge J. B.
Jones was called to the Chair. Thirty
nine delegates were present, represent
ing all the districts of the county except
one.
On motion, the Convention adopted
the majority rule in the nomination of
candidates.
On the first ballot Messrs. T. J. Mc-
Elmurry, Randolph Ridgely and Dr. J.
B. Powell were" the prominent candi
dates. Nineteen gentlemen in all were
voted for on this ballot. Messrs. McEl
murry and Ridgely positively declined
to be candidates. On the second ballot
Dr. Powell, Mr. G. L. Jackson and Mr,
J. B. Miller received the highest vote.
On the third ballot Messrs. Duncan
Oox, J. B. Jones and G. L. Jackson led,
and these gentlemen were finally nom
inated on the seventh ballot. The Con
vention then adjourned. The utmost
harmony prevailed.
[COMMUNICATED. J
TO THE COUNTRY PEOPLE OF RICH
JIOND COUNTY.
Who is the nominee of the Democrats
as a country candidate ?
We answer without hesitation that M.
J. Carswell is undoubtedly, as he got
the highest vote of any countryman that
was before the convention. L. D. Du
val not being a countryman, how can he
claim it as such ? The fact that he drives
out a few miles in the country and
sleeps at night and returns to his office
in the city, where he makes his living by
his profession, does not constitute him
a countryman, and we are very much of
the opinion that the fair dealing Demo
crats of both the oitjr and country are
not yet ready to jump at such an nnwar
rantable conclusion, nor hug such a
flimsy delusion to their bosoms, when it
is and has been the custom to nominate
one man in the country and two in the
oity. We don’t want any Dew prece
dents thrust upon us now, and it is but
just and reasonable that the countryman
that got the largest vote in the country
(M. J. Carswell) should have the votes
of the people. This is the view that is
taken of the matter by
■- Democrats.
Mr. H. H. Graffstedt is visiting Cuba
to perfecthjs arrangements for estab
lishing a direct trade between Bruns
wick and that place.
The Milledgeville Recorder says : “It
is reported that Gen. Toombs has
bought Mrs. Kimball’s interest iu the
H. I, Kimball Moose,”
VANDERBILT.
THE COMMODORE’S WILL CON
TESTED IN THE COURTS.
Sensational Charges Against the Residuary
Legatee—Connives at Sending His 91 other
to a Lunatic Asylnin—And Brings False Ac
cusations Against His Brother Cornelius,
Thereby Influencing a Will in His Own
Favor.
New York, November 12.—T0-day a
bigger scandal case than that of Beecher
aud Tilton, if millions are in question,
was unexpectedly plunged upon the
community. It was in the opening of
the contest of the Vanderbilt will case,
which is now renewed by Mrs. Le Bau,
Vanderbilt’s daughter, because Wm. H.
Vanderbilt refuses to pay, as it is al
leged, the $1,000,000 whioh Jie had
agreed to give Cornelius J. Vanderbilt,
if he would withdraw his contest. If the
contestant’s charges are sustained, Wm.
H. Vanderbilt’s character, as well as his
monopoly of the great Vanderbilt prop
erty, will be completely destroyed. What
makeß it the more shooking is that cards
are out for the
Marriage of His Daughter
In a few days. The contestant was rep
resented by ex-Congressman Scott Lord,
Judge Jeremiah S. Black, and o hers.
Scott Lord’® opening address made the
following astounding charges: “Wheln
the evidence is all in we shall assert
either that the testator executed his will
under a delusion, or else that his mind,
although held to his railroad projects
by tho force of habit, was, by indul
gence, delusions and diseases, and the
consequent sufferings or medicines, so
broken and impaired that he was sub
jected to and acted under the nndne in
fluence and control of Wm. H. Vander
bilt. More than a quarter of a century
ago the legatee
Concocted His Plain*.
“He was afterward aided by the fact
that in the advancing years of his father
a desire to perpetuate his great wealth,
undivided and in the name of Vander
bilt, became a mania. Commodore Van
derbilt for many years was the slave of a
vice more exhaustive than any other in
tellectual and moral faculties of his
mind. For many years, in addition to
several ordinary diseases, he had chronic
complaints, causing him great irritation
and suffering. Among the latter were
‘Bright’s disease of the kidneys,’ ‘cys
titis,’ with enlarged, prostrate and scrotal
hernia. The first mentioned of these
diseases causes muoh distress, irritation
and weakness; second, cystitis causes
more insanity than any ether known
disease, while the third was a constant
source of irritation and suffering. We
find in the history of the case accompa
nying the memoranda of the autopsy
that the Commodore suffered acutely
fiom the attacks of bearing down and
straining; in fact acted like a woman in
confinement. We shall introduce medi
cal testimony, based upon proof relating
to his diseases, showing either that the
medicines necessary to relieve pain
would greatly impair his mind, or that,
in the absenoe of such medioine, conse
quent sufferings would briug about the
same result. It will appear that the de
ceased took opiates, but for how long a
period may not distinctly appear.
The State of Hin Mind
During the last six or seven years of his
life will also appear from his many de
lusions. He was a believer in spiritu
alism, not ia its higher but its lowest
type, in clairvoyance, and was governed
by its revelations. He believed that
diseases could be discovered through
the medium of a miniature or a lock
of hair, and that some persons oan see
in certain conditions the whole interior
of the human system. He also resort
ed muoh to mesmerism, or rubbiDg, or
charms, employing many persons, and
believed that be reeeived therefrom a
supernatural influence. These various
delusions caused him to expend many
thousands of dollars. After the Com
modore’s
Hecond Marriage.
In 1869, there was a marked ohange in
him. He appeared at times more uxor
ious and silly, further evincing that his
mind was becoming shattered. In re
gard to the mania for accumulating
and transmitting to a single person of
his own name a colossal fortune, it will
appear that many years ago he had no
snob view, but claimed that an equal
distribution of property among his chil
dren was a just rule, and that he at
one time made substantially such a dis
position of his estate. After he had
fixed upon a person to receive such a
fortune, although he had treated him
theretofore with great coolness and
harshness, he eventually claimed not
only that he loved him better than any
other person in the world, but that he
was
His Only Legitimate Child.
“Whether this statement was the re
sult of malice or delusion, it is intensi
fied by the fact that no woman ever lived
whose character stood higher, or whose
virtues were greater than the first wife
of Commodore Vanderbilt. More than
twenty-five years ago Wm. H. Vander
bilt commenced the plan which brought
about the result he now seeks to main
tain. About that time Commodore Van
derbilt became enamored with a gover
ness so called. Against his conduot his
wife protested. After inducing Rome of
bis children to take her from home sev
eral times, he finally had her incarcerat
ed in a lunatic asylum. All the family
without exception but this residuary
legatee earnestly protested against such
treatment of a wife’ and mother. He
was expostulated with. He replied that
he sympathised with his mother, but
that he should not oppose his father. It
was not a question of sympathy with
him, but of interest. He would only
get his ill will by opposing him.
He was bound to have his own way for
the time, but would ultimately fall
Under the InUuenee of Some One.
“He admitted the impropriety of his
father’s conduct, but said he was bound
to fall under the influence of some wo
man, and added: ‘That woman’s influ
ence I am bound to control, and if the
governess did not return, he had a wo
man, as he stated, who would take her
place.’ The governess did not return,
and the plan he proposed was carried
out. The woman whose name he sug
gested became an inmate of Commo
dore Vanderbilt’s household until the
return of his wife. When the physi
cians at the asylum insisted upon her
return, Commodore Yanderbilt wapted
her to live in q separate house. This
all the family but William H. Yander
bilt opposed. He repeated many times
his determination to stand by his fath
er, right or wrong. He never changed
his purpose to control his father. How
well he understood him, his passions
and his weaknesses, and how absolutely
he controlled him in the mode he sug
gested so many years ago, will appear
when we prove the terrible facts which
his unjust position in this case compels
us to prove. The vices which procured
for him favor and fortune destroyed
both his sense of justice anil honoy. But
he resorted to
Other Methods.
“The will in question was made in
January, 1875. For many years Com
modore Vanderbilt seemed almost to
curse his son Cornelius. He was some
what mollified by the marriage of Cor
nelius. In 1872 his treatment of him
was entirely changed. Tse proposed to
advance a large sum to set him dp in
business. He often stated he had more
brains than William, and was in a mood
to do that justice which William feared,
and he organized this conspiracy.
Knowing that his father wag about to
make a will, pud fearing his brother,
who for a long time bad led q correct
life, might be remembered to the dis
arrangement of his plan, he conceived
the idea of having him personated by a
vicious person and reported to his
father. In furtherance of this con
spiracy the head of a detective bureau
in another State, who the agent of
William H. Vanderbilt ascertained did
not know Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, was
engaged ostensibly for the purpose of
Bavin* Hit* Nkaw'lowM
And reported. The agent told such
chief detective, in brief, he was a friend
of the Vanderbilt family; that Cornelias
J., a profligate son, was imposing on his
father and brother by a pretended re
formation, and he wished to nndeceive
them. It was arranged that the agent
of Wm. H. Vanderbilt and the chief of
snch bureau sbonld meet at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel at 11 o’clock the next day,
which was the 228 of October, 1874,
with a suitable detective for such pur
pose. They met accordingly, and said
agent s (pertained also that tber detective,
who was to wijtph apd Report, did riot
know Cornelius J. Vanderbilt. The
agent falsely stated that Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt was in the habit of ooming
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel every morn
ing, and he coaid be followed from
thence. Jast then a person appeared.
[ and the agent said, 'There he is now.’
During a month such a person was fol
lowed as Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, while
visiting haunts of infamy, and ou two
occasions was reported to Wm. H. Van
derbilt, who professed that he did not
want reports made to his father. Com
modore Vanderbilt, believing such re
ports, was very much surprised and
greatly moved, and said he wished his
son Cornelias
Had Never Been Born.
“It will appear that the person so fol
lowed was one of the conspirators. Af
ter the death of Commodore Vanderbilt,
and the announcement that his will was
to be contested, Cornelius J. Vander
bilt was pointed out to a detective, who
followed the person so personating him.
After disputing the faot, supposing and
statiDg he had good reason to know
him, ha found he had been deceived.
He reported to his chief, who, believing
that a great wrong had been done, made
the only reparation he could by report
ing the faot to the man so deeply wrong
ed. It will appear, in regard to the
second marriage of Commodore Vander
bilt, that all the family were opposed to
it, except that William H. Vanderbilt,
as always before, took sides with him,
and favored the marriage, under circum
stances and relations of which, had
the Commodore been advised, its con
summation would have been impossible;
and that afterward he did him, if pos
sible, a
Greater and’More Infamous Wrong.
“From the time of his second mar
riage until the death of Commodore
Vanderbilt, Wm. H. Vanderbilt bad en
tire control of his seoond wife, and
during the long and protraoted sickness
whioh resulted in the death of the Com
modore she kept guard over him, so that
no brother or sister was allowed to see
him alone. The evidence will also dis
close that Wm. H. Vanderbilt feed cele
brated physicians to examine his father
under oiroumstanees favorable to his
design with a view to being witnesses on
the question of his competency; and be
fore his death induoed his father to en
gage oelebrated counsel to sustain his
will. Right after his death he offered
and agreed to pay, and in some in
stances paid large sums to induce the
withdrawal of objections filed to the
probate of the will. If the testimony
establishes what has been stated, then
it will doubtless be the pleasure of the
Oour'i to hold that a will so induoed by
proponent ought not to be upheld, not
only beoause of the injury suffered by
his brother and sisters by reason of the
exercise of an undue influence, intensi
fied by fraud and falsehood, but also
beoause in the consummation of his
plan he perpetrated
The Most Infamous Offense
A son can commit against a father.”
The mass of people of New York are as
ignorant at this hour of the charges as
the people of Cincinnati, but by to-mor
row the sensation will be at its height.
One witness was called to-day, Daniel
B. Allen, a son-in-law of the Commo
dore, who sustained the charges made
with reference to William H. Yander
bilt’s refusal to interfere in behalf of his
mother, aud his intention to keep the
place of governess supplied. He said
the Commodore often spoke offensively
to William, called him a “blatherskite,”
and often a “sucker.” William always
took it with meekness and whiningly.
The case is continued to-morrow.
SUMMER AND WINTER BMILES.
The Astonishing Discovery of a City
Ilachelor—How a Person Can Drink
With Promptness, Neatness anti Dis
patch.
[Charleston Journal of Commerce ]
Mr. Smith is a bachelor. Mr. Smith
has a hobby—it is drinking by clock
work. A reporter fell in with Mr.
Smith last night about 6, p. m., at a—
well, at a plape where green doors, with
glass lights, are used to soreen gentle
men who call there from a curious pub
lio. Mr. Smith opened conversation as
follows :
Mr. S.—Have a brandy-and-soda, sir?
Reporter—Well, I don’t care if I do.
But isn’t it rather late for brandy-and
soda ?
Mr. S. —It is my hour for drinking
brandy-and-soda, sir. I drink brandy
and-soda at no other time of the day,
sir. Waiter, brandy-and-soda for two—
at once.
Mr. Smith is a short, fierce looking
man, with a bristling moustaohe, shaggy
eyebrows, and evidently dogmatio. He
emphasizes his personal pronouns in a
manner calculated to let the world know
that suoh a man as Mr. Smith lives,
moves, and has his being, and is a man
of weight.
While Mr. Smith’s description is be
ing noted, the drinks ayriye, after hav
ing done justice to which Mr. Smith,
with a patronezing smile (his fierce de
meanor having evidently softened under
the influence of brandy and soda), lifted
his index finger, and, in a solemn and
mysterious manner, continued i
Mr. S. —I have dir oovered a method
whereby drinks oan be taken with safety
to mental and physical faculties, and it
is—to drink by clock-work. Yes, 6ir, to
drink by olock-work. As the clock is
wound up to go through a certain num
ber of hours, so can the human stomach
be trained to receive oertain fluids at
stated intervals without detriment, nay,
with positive benefit; for, as a clock
rusts when stopped, so the human
stomach, unless regularly attended to,
becomes a burden to its owner. Prac
tice, of course, makes perfect, and, by
adjusting the drink to the condition of
the stomach (as, for instance, a plain
soda cocktail would sootho a bilious
stomach, while a sery gin sling would
irritate it), the n? pl/ue ultra of the art
of drinking hy clock-work can he at
tained. For the purpose of assisting
those would like to test this system, or
who may be inexperienoed, I have pre
pared the following carefully-graded
table :
Mr. Smith here fished up from the
depths of an inner pocket the subjoined
ouriosity, which was copied instantly :
The Scientific Drinker’s Table.
Brandy Pnnch, 7, a. m.—Eye-onaner,
Mint Julep, 8, a. m.—^ppdtizer.'
Breakfast. _
Milk Punch, 9, a. m.—Digester.
Gin Sling, 10, a. m.—Business tonic.
Soda Cocktail, 11, a. m.—Refresher.
Bourbon Sour, 12, m.—Noontide ap
petizer.
P'voyr-
Peach Brandy, 1, p. m,— Easiness re
sumes
Ram Punch, 2, p. m.—Care tightener.
Tom and Jerry, 3, p. m.—Solace.
Port Wine Negns, 4, p. m.—Time
shortener.
Egg Nog, 5, p. m.—The hour glass.
Brandy and Soda, fi, p. ~ - -The home
run. ■' ’ *"
Tea—Mixed Drinks.
7, p. m.—Feel like anew man.
8, p. m.—Treat the new man.
9, p. m.—New man treats,
10 P- tB, —Treat new man and several
others.
11, p. m.—All hands treat.
12, p. m.—Nightcap.
1 to 6, a. m.—Keep a few bottles of
soda on hand,' in case yon should wake
up and need something.
Mr. Smith went on: By a. judicious
use of tbi" table a dribker Secures'a
regularity obtainable ih no otfier way.
Be bas a certain'drink for' each honr of
the fifty—his'morning eye-opener break
fast appetizer, breakfast digested busi
ness tonic; refresher, uouritide appe
tizer, business resumer, care lights©*,
solace, time shortener, h°ri r -gla*, home
run, and an assortment of mixed drinks,
after tea winding up with a nightcap.
Of course, if publicity makes drinking
by clock-work fashionable, it might
look rather odd to have a man to wbota
yon are talking look at his
watch, and carelessw remarking “Time
for my business tonic, ’' or “My time
shortener must be seen to,” rash off
precipitately for his favorite saloon
Bat, after awhile, it would be q matter
of course,|and *1 whole string busi
ness menj clerks, etc., in line hefo*e a
saloon door, waiting for their tarn, the
same as before a bank or post office
window, would be an every day sight.
Besides the many other advantages of
the ns© of the table, no back doors
wonld be needed to the saloons, for
drinking by clock-work wonld be atj
hourly occurrence.
o. W, wtefiachern arid Wm.
F, Gfovdr are before the people of Cobb
county.'
Gen. W. T. Wofford and 001. Abda
Johnson, two Contention del
egates, are talked about for the Legisla
ture. Bartow would honor herself, in
deed, by sending tham.
The Forest (Jaokson county) News
thinks it a pretty safe proposition that a
man who will try to buy votes with
liqnor or any thing else, as a general rule,
can be bought himself,
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
MADISON PROTESTS
Against the Policy of the Georgia Railrontl—
A Wagon Train Running Between Madison
and Athcns~How the Present System of
Rates Works.
[ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .J
Madison, November 9.—As a matter
of some interest to your renders I wish
to say that a wagon train left this place
to-day loaded with cotton for tho city of
Athens. Some of our largest merchants
are having all their goods from the East
and West shipped to Athens, and are
having their goods brought here by
wagons. So you see this is anew enter
prise and has every appearance of a
grand sucoess. From the great differ
ence in freights between the two points
it certainly will pay. Athens and Eaton
ton seem to be absorbing two-thirds of
the cotton of this county, all of which
fairly belongs to Madison and Augusta.
But in these days of close calculation
and small profits people, you know, will
leau in the direction of self-iuterest.
Cannot Augusta, so rich in resources as
yet undeveloped, wake up from her
slumber and bestir herself, that she may
win back her former glory of being the
queen ootton city of the State. So mote
it be. Bismarck.
Tlie Experience of a Madison Shipper.
T Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist. 1
Madison, Ga., November 12. We
find a most timely letter in the first col
umn of your paper of yesterday, under
the head of “Where is the trouble ?” by
“White Line,” and now will you allow
me to add a few words to the same ef
fect. We would all be friends of the
Georgia Railroad if they wonld allow us
to be. Oar interests are with it, bnt
what oan we do when they refuse to al
low us any chance to live—what have
they done for us ? Raised the rates of
freight on us in the last few months, in
the facecf the two fires they are between
at this very point—Mr. Wadley, twen
ty-two miles off on the left, and Mr.
Tom Scott, twenty-eight miles on the
right. And what is the consequenoe ?
To day one merchant sent six wag
ons from this depot, with twenty
three bales of cotton, to Athens,
to be shipped to New York by
way of Mr. Tom Scott’s line, and to re
turn loaded with his goods shipped
from New York to Athens by the same
line, and, on the other hand, others are
going to Eatonton—not that they would
turn a dollar from the city of Augusta,
but self-interest and the keen demands
of duty to their wives and little ones
compel them to seek a remedy some
where. Just as “White Line” tells it,
tlio cotton is daily moving, not only
within two miles of us on each side to
Athens and Eatonton, but out of ohr
own streets. Look at us now; compare
us with last year. Over thirteen thousand
bales of cotton were shipped to your
city from this depot, and there is not the
least chance for six thonsand this year.
Last year every store was full, and the
long turnout at the depot crowded with
loaded pars; now nearly all the time
empty. What is the reply when asked
for lower rates of freight ? “We are not
working for the interest of Madi
son, but for the Georgia Rail
road.” Indeed, it looks like it,
don’t it, when they are ruining the
very best way station on the line at their
own expense ? Do they get a bale of
ootton that goes to Eatonton, how oan
they expect even half that goes to
Athens, when they drive their own peo
ple to desperate means of self-protec
tion in this way ? If they will give us
through rates with Athens then our
trade will return and their road will
have no one to share the reward with. I
was in New York ill March and April
last; boqght a lot of machinery for this
place; oalled on the agent of this line to
know what he would charge me to
Madison, Augusta and Atlanta. “Call
iu at 11 o’clock and we will
fix you a rate to Madison.” I did so,
and the answer, “We will take it for you
to Atlauta for 70 cents.” “What to
Madison?” “$140.” “Just what I ac
cused you of on yesterday. I am will
ing to pay you the ?Q cents to Atlanta,
but let me take it off at Madison, and
save you 68 miles travel on it.” “No,
we can’t do that." “Well, good day,
gentlemen; I shall ship via the Savan
nah Steamship Line and the Georgia
Central Railroad to Atlanta for 60 cents,
and I will get it over your road to Madi- j
son for 30 cents, making tyX and you
shall transfer it, and ha responsible if
you damage it.” And so I did, and had
I not done so I should have shipped it
to Eatonton for 90 cents, and hunled it
over on wagons. So this is tho way we
are drove to work againsj oar own
friends in the mother eity of the Geor
gia Railroad, _ W.
GOV. TII.DKN ON THE RESUI.T,
He la Satisfied witk tlie WJ l(io Election*
Went—He Think* (he Republican Party
Demoralised (u the Way it Hot In Powcr-
Ila Diaaplntien Predicted.
[New York Tribune, Nov. B.J
In conversation at his house, last
night, Gov. Tilden expressed his grati
fication at the result of the elections,
and appeared to be a good deal amused
at the efforts of the Republican pqnpis
to console themselves with victory
in Massachusetts. was entirely sat
isfied, he said, with the Democratic tri
umph*, which had, in magnitude, fully
equaled his expectations. He spoke of
the Republicarr party as demoralised by
the methods employed by its lenders to
carry the last election. The conscience
of the party, he felt sijre, did not ap
prove of these toethods, and had receiv
ed a shook from which it cannot recover.
In discussing the causes of the declino
of the Republican party, Gov, Tilden
spoke also of the effeot of tho so-called
Southern polioy of the Administration
on the masses of the Republican voters,
who have for twenty years been animated
by a feeling of distrust and hostility to
ward the South—a feeling so ingrained
that they cannot free themselves frpsy, it
if they would. The policy, which was
nothing but a necessity 'Mr. Hayes’
situation, bus. thinks, lost tho North
to the without gaining the
South.
Governor Tilden has the dislike of
talking for the newspapers which most
prominent public men feel in these times
of political uncertainty. Be will hardly
object, howeyei;, if, to the abovo au
thorized statement of bis views on the
resqlt of the election, some reference is
made to bis well-known opinions on the
interesting subject of the future of par
ties. No living statesman has studied
more thoroughly the history of parties
in the United States, or has
into the philosophy of ' action,
The visitor who i fortunate enough to
find him ill a to talk on this
, thc<Me. enjoys a rare treat. Tho ex-
Governor, when he gets well into his
subject, has a way of pacing back and
forth in the room with one hand behind
his back, and the other reqfiy to empha
size an idea. Hitj c&nienees are as clean
out and forcible as anything in Macau
lay; his memory of men and events in
the past is wonderfully accurate, and he
has the whole political history of the
country at his fingers’-enda to draw upon
for illustrations and examwqs. ’While
looking for the disintegration of
the and the
invent bf the Democratic party
to priweriin 1880, Governor Tilden by rio
means expects tfiqt bis piirty will be
without q powerful antagonist. Hia idea
i3 that successor to, the Republican
party wiU at puce slop into its shoes,
and that the sew organization will cod
tain must of the men and embody the
leading ideas of government of its pre
decessor. Without attempting in any
oase to quote Mr. TildenV, language, the
snbstance of his ooiaion may be roughly
given in the following condensed form,
which wses, of course, all the elegance
of the original expression.
There has been a succession of parties
running in two parallel lines down from
the tiujG *h<S Constitution was framed.
The two. contending organisations have
almost always been of nearly equal
strength. The main idea about which
they diffhr do not change with the
change of names. One has always been
a high government party, and the other
has always resisted all unnecessary in
terference by the Government wil* the
affairs of the citizen. The. strong pas
sions of the war jnojuaed and partly
blotted out distinctions, bnt they
cmi reappearing again and promWa to
dominate the politics of the future. The
Republican party to the ideas
of the Whigs, as they did those of the
FedtcqbiStfl, arid whatever pq*y takes
the place or the Republican organization
will inherit the same views of the proper
functions of government. It will ooa
taio moat of the men who desire high
tariff, all those who believe in regulating
men’s food and drink by law, the people
who want the United States to control
the railroads and telegraphs, and to fur
nish troops to put down local riots—in
short, all those who think that the pow
er the General Government ought to
be brought to bear to accomplish all
sorts of results in public affairs.
On the other hand the central idea of
the Democratic partv is that much gov
ernment is an evil"; that the General
Government must be exercised within
the strict limits prescribed by the Con
stitution; that tno vitality of the Stato
governments must not be impaired, nor
their authority intrenched upon; and that
thecitizeu should enjoy the largest liber
ty to manage his own affairs, consistent
with public order. These two antagon
istic ideas will not always be plainly ex
pressed in party platforms, however, for
so closely balanced will be the contend
ing organizations that eaoh will compro
mise somewhat in its public declarations
with the opinions of the other for the
purpose of gaining votes; but they will
be the underlying principles of parties,
as they used to be before the war. The
questions lying on the surface of contro
versy will be mainly questions of admin
istration .'
The mission of the Democratic party
is to resist the tendency to centralization
left by the war, to educate the public
mind to a better understanding of tlio
essential principles of our form of gov
ernment, and to a comprehension of the
importance of the checks and balances
of the federative system. A generation
has grown up that never heard these
subjects discussed, and that has but a
vague idea of the nature of the founda
tion upon which popular liberties and
rights rest. It will be fortunate for the
country if, as now looks probable, the
politics of the future get back into the
old channels,and the old questions about
the powers and duties of the General:
and State Governments come to be care -
fully considered again.
THE_ STATE.
THE PEOPLE A INI) THE PAPERS.
Columbus is to have bath houses.
Emanuel county has an iron mine.
Mclntosh county is settling divorce
cases.
Milledgeville is arresting her cotton
thieves.
There seems to he a plenty of wild
oats left.
A two year old child in Putnam coun
ty talks in two syllable words.
Deer and wild turkey are occasionally
jumped up in Washington county
Anew stago line has been started bo
tween Thomasville and Tallahassee.
A little son of Dr. Mitchell, of Ham
ilton, was badly burned on Friday last.
They are getting ready down in
Thomasville for another fair next year.
The Air Line Road now runs two pas
senger trains per day from Atlanta
Northward.
Governor Colquitt delivered au agri
cultural address in Summerville, Ga.,
the other day.
Maeon enjoyed a delightful excursion
recently near Savannah, on the sleamei
named for her.
William F. Strother, one of the most
useful and influential citizens of Lincoln
county, is dead.
One of the supposed negro murderers
of Mr. Powell Ballard, of Pike county,
has been arrested.
Since September Ist, Columbus miffs
have taken 1,275 bales, against 1,600)
last year—decrease of 415.
The Rome Courier says Major Sam
Morgan, on last Monday, bought in that
market 2,250 bales of cotton.
Several Pennsylvania families have
bought lands in Thomas county, and
arc preparing to immigrate there.
A Macon darkey fell headforemost in
to a well the other day, but rvas pump
ed out unhurt by a colored woman.
The case against Col, .lack Jones, for
mer State Treasurer, is being investi
gated before Colonel J. M. Pace, ns
Auditor.
Bishop Gross dedicated the Catholic
Church at Sharon, in Taliaferro county,
with appropriate ceiemonies on Sunday
the 4th inst.
A party of six consumptives fronri Chi
cago, under the charge of a physician,
passed through Atlanta, cn route to Mt.
Airy, Rabun county.
H, H, See was found dead in a Meri
wether county road on last Sunday, near
Chalybeate Springs. He is supposed to
have been murdered.
Goa. Robert Toombs and Hon. B. H.
Hill have concurred in tlio opinion that
Governor Colquitt can, with all legality,
endorse the bonds of the Northeastern
Railroad.
Last Sunday, in Americns, Mr. James
RadeUife and Miss Mollie Hawkins wero
married. The couple had been ac
quainted but tlnee days before their
happiness was consummated.
The Stato has produced more provis
ions within the last year than ever be
fore in aDy one year since the war, the
heavy railroad Western receipts result
ing from the balance of European trade*
shifting South.
Not a bad thing on the Maconites at.
McCoullough’s Virginius recently played
there: “The play over, the whole au
dience remained in their seats expecting
some more. It became necessary for
tho stage manager to go beforo the our
tain and explain that Virginius being
Virginia dead, and the Decemvir
dead, nothing more could bo done that
evening. The audience grumbled a
good deal, but went away.”
Gainesville wants a tobaooo factory.
There ia a good deal of sickness in M@-
DuS§e.
Atlanta is enjoying her first tele
phone.
Measles and matrimony agitato El
berton.
Oglethorpe’s Court expenses are r.'nout
$4,000 a year.
Cotton picking interferes v/ith State
sohools just now.
Crawford, Oglethorpe county, is now
a voting precinct.
The Columbus; small boys have organ
ized a minstrel troupe.
Captain Henry Wynn, Treasurer of
Grpcue eounty, is dead.
The Eagle and Phutnix Cotton Mills in
Columbus are “loomin’’ up.
Hon. M. J. Wall is a candidate for the
Legislature in Schley county.
A Mr. Jenkins, of Cobb county, was
killed while resisting arrest, last week.
Th® Presbyterian Synod of Georgia
and Florida convenes to-day in Colum
bus.
Miss Belle Bangs, of Sandersvi lie, bad!
a terrible fall down a staircase the other
day.
The wagon transportation of cotton
from Elberton 4o the Savannah river is
becoming very heavy.
Elijah Leverett, of Lincoln county,
was recently drowned in the Oconee
river below Greenesboro.
| An Atlanta policeman, also it minister
j of the Gospel, has married five coupler
| during his administration.
Dr. Newton, of Athens, has written a
strong communication to the Athens
(i(<vr anent the State University,
Mr. Morida Ward, of Elbert, fell from
i a heavily laden wagon and had liis leg
crushed by one of tho wheels, recently.
When she allows her dainty figures to
nestle in his broad palm, one may con
clude that tis a hand to hand engage
ment—eh ?
Prof. Jenkins, who taught the present
year at Wrightsville, has been elected to
take charge of the school at TennilP© for
the next year.
The blind children of the Georgia
Asylum will visit Savannah os the 28th
and 29th instants, tnd give two concerts
for the benefit of an Orphans’ Home.
Laurel Grove Cemetery, in Savannah,
was dedicated twenty-five years ago.
Gen. Henry R. Jackson and Dr. Lovick
Pieroe are among tho few survivors who
took part in the ceremonies.
Harper, of the Elberton Gazette , has
established a quarantine for measles and
melancholy, upon “Prospect Hill.” We
will draw a “Vail” of secrecy over the
giver of this information, perhaps.
Spalding’s jail is empty.
Muscogee wants a fence law.
String bands in Macon consoli
dating.
Senoia is running a wagon train to
Atlanta.
Athens Fire Company No. 1, is to
have a fair.
Griffin gave a big opossum supper the
other night.
The Supreme Court has reached the
Flint Circuit.
Dramatic troupes are discriminating
against Griffin.
Mrs. David Bailey, of Washington
county, is dead.
The loecoa Y. M. C. A. holds daily
meetings this week.
Macon ladies keep the library wolf
supplied with flowers.
A lady in Covington, 82 venre old. is
building anew house.
The Toecoa Herald is about to aban
don its patent outside.
A Catholic Library Association has
been organised m Atlanta.
NeTiiton county had a tournament
ana ball on December 13th.
The Fall session of Emory College
will close in about two weeks.
Colquitt is the only Governor that
ever visited Chattooga county.