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®fjjt toedillg & Coti^tthtHotuiltet 010 SERIES—VOL. XCII. HER SERIES—VOL. IT (Chronicle anD 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.