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W&t tPeefilj) & CwsttafotriM 010 SERIES-VOL. ICII NEW SERIESHfOt. IX Cftronide anft &fntmri. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1877. Indiana has lost more than $320,000,000 by shrinkage in values. The Worcester Tress saya The silver bill is Bill Sharon, of Nevada. The World, has found anew beatitude: “Blessed are the poor, for their wills shall not be contested." Horse fleeh is not high in New York. Joe Jepvebson’s crack team was bought at auction for $375. Jeff. Davis has written his autograph 800 times. The rest have been penned by his colored servant. The Jewish Timet wants to know whether Jewesses will be excluded from the Stbw akt woman’* hotel. The latest way of expressing it is: “A feast of reason and oysters, and a flow of soul and champagne." Rumor hath it that Beecher, Tii.toh and Elizabeth are about to proclaim “grace, mercy and peace." The eldest greenback is under a glass vase in Nashville, Tenneaee. It is No. 1, letter A, dated March 10, 1883. Chicago i> in arrears for taxes about $2,- 000,000, and the Timet urges tax payers not to part with a cent of the money. A New Yore boy who identified his father at the morgue met the old gentleman, a few hours afterward, on the street. The oleomargarine people are said to be laying in a large amount of hair, so as to pass their stuff off as the real article. Completed rktubns of the New Jersey election place McClellan's plurality at 12,034 and his majority over all at 6,172. A French interviewer calls Grant “General Steel.“ Well the steal was pretty general under Obant that’s a fact. The Republican Senators want Mr. Davis to remain “a monument of treason." They are willing to remain monuments of stupidity. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is pre siding overexperimentsin theartof slaugh tering cattle instantaneously by the use of dynamite. Friends of the Texas- Pacific Railway bill do not like the rumor that lIEWTrr, of New York, is to be Chairman of the House Committee. Or the thirty-three House Democrat* who oppose the Resumption Repeal Bill, twenty one are from New York, New Jersey and New England. Some say that Mr. Coolbauoh’b suicide was caused by “domestic infelicity.” llis bank, though a Chicago one, was unus ually prosperous. The New York Commercial Advertiser : Longfellow’s last poem is called “Kera uios"—emphasis on the “ram," you know, not on the “os.” The Nashville American insists that the Turks have contributed absolutely nothing to human knowledge. Perhaps, with them, ignorance was bliss. -- W E regret to learn that Rev. Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, editor of the Southern Review, lias licen stricken with paralysis at Alexandria, Va. Bayard, Coke, Maxky, Lamar and Randolph were the only Democratic Sena tors who vated to increase the nrmy. The Republicans were solid. _ Washington doctors, who have hail much experience with Congressmen, think the Pope, if he lives past January, will survive teu years longer. Nevada has anew law authorizing the public whipping of wife beaters. A whip ping post has been ceremoniously placed in front of the Court House in Austin. Mrs. Mart B. G. Tanner, wlio claimed to be a direct descendant of King Henry VIII., died at Picrrepont, N. Y., afew days ago, at the age of 101 years and LI mouths. Col. Tom Boott says all things in Con gress are uncertain. He likewise observes that railroad men “know jnothing of poli tics." The latter observation is supposed to tie sarcastic. John McCullough, the great tragedian, was born in Londonderry in 1837, and is just forty years old. He came to America when a mere lad, and was apprenticed to a eliair maker. N ast’s cartoon in the last Harper•’t Weekly represents the Republican party as an ele phant hanging on to life by it* trunk. It has been wittily suggested that the carpet bag was a better “holt." Pongo, the gorilla, a celebrity of Berlin strange to say, died just after he had been visited by Darwin. It is not often that the temporary absence of a near relation causes such a fatal accident. Neal Dew has te chew the hard fact that more opium is used in Maine than in any other State in the Union. And the Maine law is about as effective to prevent ru£U drinking as a coal-sieve for the pose* i>f an umbrella. Mrs. Frances Alexander, the young and pretty wife of a Michigan farmer, eloped with a circus per former named Dale. After traveling some distance with him, she was overcome with remorse and committed suicide by taking poison. The Lancet has beard it remarked by a very eminent advocate that when he has been engaged in any great case the smell of the crowded Court, recking with humanity, was to him as the smell ef battle to a war horse, and afforded thatstimulus which was necessary to let loose the bonds of his elo quence. The Vicksburg Herald thinks the elec tion iu Mississippi was such a oue-sided af fair llxM if was not worth crowing over. It yr >l Our country exchanges all come te us exnbelHashed with the traditional rooster crowing over the State elections. We don’t see anything to crow over. It’s no trouble to beat Radicals in this Slate, even if they are called independents.” Thb proposed absorption of Belgium by 'Geimanv will cause a greater flutter in France and England tlum the Russu-Turk ish war. Belgium is the gateway between France aud Germany. England has guar anteed the independence of Belgium, and would not like to see that country under Germanic influence. Mb. Sims, of Mississippi, has some rea son to complain against fate. He was nom inated by the Democcxacy for Lieutenant- Governor ef tlxe State, and elected by about a hundred thousand majority. But, at the same election, an amendment to the Constitution, abolishing the office of Lieu tenant-Governor, was ratified by the peo ple. So that Mr. Sins finds himself with a hundred thousand majority ou hi* hands Mvhich does him no good. Tub New York Tribune certifies that two of the mildest-mannered and softeet-voioed wm is New York are John Kelly and John Mobbiket. Mr. Kelly seldom speaks load eaaugh to be heard across the room, and his tooes, if not precisely “vocal velvet,” are peculiarly soft and mellow for a man. Mr. Mobbiszeys voice hat been almost lost for yean, and it is an effort for him to speak at all, and as for mildness of manners, neither of these terrible characters would barm a dog, and either wonld go a (block out of tbs way to avoid a crowd. WK*T POINT. During the last five years West Point has had 522 cadets. Of these only 11 were the sons of rich men ; 465 were in moderate circumstances; 36 very much reduoed in worldly gear, and 10 indi gent, The sons of farmers numbered 9®; merchants, 54; army officers, 38; me chanics, 44; physicians, 40; civil offi cers, 16; editors, 5; bankers and bro kers, 11; clerks, 13; manufacturers, 12; Congressmen, 2; and politician, 1, The sons of stablemen, nurserymen, tan ners, speculators sad undertakers num bered 2 each, as did laborers, judges, inventors, real estate agents and artists. It is charged that West Point is an aristocracy. The young men sent there may become what is called “aristo cratic;” bat the facts and figures above grouped from the records of the past five years show that they were not so to any appreciable extent when they left their parents’ roofs. the southern negro as he is. We have read with considerable oare, and no little interest, a pamphlet pre pared and published by Oao. R. Stet son, Bsq., of Boston, entitled “The Southern Negro as He Is.*’ Mr. 8„ if we mistake not, was nntil recently, if he is not now, a Republican in politios; but evidently, he is not of that contract ed class, the epitome ofjwhose political oreed is hatred of the South and her people. Nor yet does he belong to that other class of extremists, whose preju dices influence their judgments to such an extent as to preclude the possibility of their seeing things in the light of reason and truth. One needs bnt to read the introductory pages of this little work, to disoover that the writer is an earnest, conscientious seeker after facts; and that whatever may have been his previous convictions as a philanthropist by nature, and, perhaps, by ednoation, a more intimate acquaintance with the negro race, has materially ohanged his opinions of that class of our population in many important particulars. As “distance lends enchantment te the view.’Vfco, per contra, close contaot often dissipates many of the illusions and muoh of the romance that surrounds an object when viewed from afar. It is not sarprising, then, that honest men who have no other knowledge of the ne gro and of his relations to the white race in the South than is to be obtained from exaggerated works of fiction, suoh as Uncle Tom's Cabin and bitter partis an jonrnals, whose only mission is to mispresent, should be deceived in re gard to the real merits of onr great so cial problem. Mr. Bthtson came among ns preju diced to some extent, doubtless, against the Southern people, and with many erroneous impressions as to the charac ter, habits and capacities of the negro. He brought with him, however, a heart which, while full of sympathy for the oolored man in his lowly estate (as what humane heart is not ?), is yet ready to recognize the difficulties that perplex the Southern white man in determining and regulating his status in the new or der of things so suddenly confronting him. He is not content with a mere superficial view of the question of whioh he treats. He has gone below the sur face, and from the facts thus elicited he make his deductions. The plan whioh he pursues in his in vestigations is the propounding of a scries of questions under the three heads, “The Negro Morally,” “The Ne gro Socially” and “The Negro Political ly.” These questions were snbmittcd, as Mr. Stetson informs ns, to “several prominent gontlemen of abundant ex perience and culture,” who “kindly an swered” them. Upon these answers Mr. Stetson makes his own brief com. meats, and quotes from various authori ties in corroboration of the views ex pressed. That portion of Mr. Stetson’s in qniries and conclusions whioh relate to the moral and political possibilities and capacities of the negro race is of the greatest national importance. As re gards the former, he is evidently not very favorably impressed, either with his present attainments or the assurance he gives of fntnre advancement. Asa faotor in our body politio he seems to think him anything but a desirable ao quaintanoe ; expresses the opinion that he is totally unfitted, in his present state of ignoranoe, for a proper dis charge of the responsible duties of citi zenship, but hopes that experience and education may increase his capabilities in these respects. He notes the vast difference to be ob served in the mental calibre and intelli gence of the mulatto or bright copper colored negro, to be found about our larger cities, and the pure African seen upon the plantation; and inferentially warns against any theory as to the ca pacities of the raoe, based upon the former alone. We regret that we cannot undertake, with our limited space to review Mr. Stetson’s pamphlet more in detail. True it contains bnt little that is new to the people of this section; yet it is in teresting to know what fair-minded Northern gentlemen who oome among ns nd see for themselves think of a sub ject of so much importance to the coun try at large, and especially to our own section. At the North (where, we take it, it is chiefly intended to circulate), it is calculated to aid greatly in awakening the publio mind to a true appreciation and solution of the raoe problem in the South. INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF LEE. In 1868, Senator Cabbbon, of Penn sylvania, made the charge that Robert E. Lee had applied to President Lin coln for the oommand of the Federal army destined to invade the Southern States, and that, being refused, from pique and resentment, he transferred his talents to the Southern cause. Hon. A. B. Maorudek, in the Philadelphia Times, writes that on the instant Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, him self a Union man, denounced the state ment as untrue, saying that although he had not the authority of the accused to deny it, General Lbe’s lofty charac ter and unstained honor alone sufficed to repel the charge. This furnished the oocasion for General Lee to give, through Mr. Johnson, not alone the con olusive proof of the incorrectness of the charge bat the clear evidence that he had himself declined, from a stern sense of dnty and honor, the very pref erment whioh he was falsely accused of coveting. The letter refereed to is as follows : Lexington, Va., February 25, 1868. Hon. Heverdy Johnson, United States Senate. Washington : Mr Dead Sir—My attention has been called to the official report of the debate in the Sen ate ot the United Statee of the 19th instant, in which j go did me the kiattoaes to denbt the oorreotnees of the statement made by tbs Hon. Sotos CaxxboN in regard to myself: I desire that you may feel oertain of my conduct on the occasion referred to, *o far as my individ ual statement can make you so. I never Intimated to any one that I desired the oommand of the United States Army, nor did I aver have a conversation with hut one' gentleman (Mr. Francis Preston Bum) on the subject, which was at hia invitation and, as 1 understand, at the mstanoe of President Lincoln. After listening to hia remarks, I declined the offer he made me to take com mand of the army that waa to be brought into the field, stating as aaadfcUy end courteously a* I could that though opposed to secession and deprecating war, I could take no part in an invasion of the Southern States. I went directly from the interview with Mr. Blahs to the office of General Scott, and told him of the proposition that had been made to ms and my decision. Upon reflection, after returning to my home, I concluded that I ought no longer to retain the commission I held in the United States Army, and on the seoond morning thereafter I forwarded my resignation to General Soon. At the time I hoped that peace would have been preserved, that some way would have been found to save the country from the ca lamities of war, and I then had no other inten tion than to pass the remainder of my life as a private citizen. Two days afterward, upon the invitation of the Governor of Virginia, I repaired to Richmond, found the convention then in session had passed the ordinance with drawing the State from the Union, and accept ed the commission of commander of its foroes which was tendered me. These are the simple facts of the case, and they show that Mr. Caxrbon has been misin formed. Tour obedient servant, B. E. Lee. It will be seen from this missive that General Lee had the choice of subduing his native seotion or being trne to it. In choosing the latter alternative he en tered upon the ragged path of dnty; and though he failed to accomplish the impossible task of winning the indepen dence of the South by foroe of arms, and though the oruelties inflicted upon his fel low-conntrymen after the war broke hia noble heart, he has won a fame that will shine in the heavens of genuine glory when the ignes-fatui of the day shall have sank into marsly obscuration. In proof that this is the verdict of memo rable men the world over, we find in the Charleston Newt and Courier the fol lowing beautifnl lines of poetry whioh the Earl of Derby wrote on the fly-leaf of a copy of his translation of the Iliad, presented by him to the Confederate hero: The grave old Bard, who never dies, Keoeive him in our native tongue; I send thee, but with weeping eyes, Tho story that he sung. Thy Troy has fallen—thy dear land Is marred beneath the spoiler’s heel; I cannot trost my trembling hand Te write the grief I feel. Ob, home of tears! But lot her hear This blazon to the end of time; No nation rose so white and fair, None fell so pure 6f crime. The widow’s moan, the orphan's wail, Are round thee ; bnt in truth be strong; Eternal right, though all things fail, Can never be made wrong. An Angel’s heart, and Angel's mouth, (Not Homer's') oould alone for me Hymn forth the great Confederate South, Virginia first—then Lbb. TUB FA 1,1. OF HARM. Tho capture of the strongly fortified oity of Kars by the Russians is a feat of arms to be proud of. It was accom plished by downright bravery and against enormous odds. This viotory renders, we should judge, the position of Mukhtar Pasha untenable, and will presently be followed by the fall of Er zeroum. With Kars and Erzeroum held in the firm grasp of Russia, Armenia be comes a thoroughly conquered province, and the cause of the Sultan grows very gloomy, if it does not beoome utterly hopeless, in Asia Minor. The final triumph of the Grand Duke Michael over the Ottoman foroes in the East must prodigiously encourage the Russian armies in Bulgaria, and, unless some unlooked for catastrophe should supervene, the forces of the Turk north of the Balkans will be jeopardized qnite as seriously as are their Asian contin gents. We may look for very important news at any time and probably a sud den termination of the war by a general collapse of tho Mohammoden powers of resistance. But, in any event, the Turks have fought well and will die hard. They have performed wonders and preserved their military honor. They have proved themselves anything but effete, aud de fended their territory with a vigor su perior to that of the French or Austrian peoples when similarly assailed. Not only have the followers of the Prophet been arrayed against the whole mighty armaments and resources of the Czar, but they have had to combat Roumani ans and Montenegrins, while watehing anxiously Servians, Greeks, Herzegovi nians and Bulgarians. To have made so stout and formidable a defense against such tremendous disadvantages and such overwhelming opposition is, we take it, glorious and memorable. The Oresoent may go down in blood and darkness before the eagle of the North; but the superior credit for valor will be with the vanquished and not the victor. CHICKRNB COMING HOME TO KOOHT It is quite a study to observe the Re publicans as they contemplate the ne gro as he was and as he is in the South ern States. Mr. H. Y. Redfield, wri ting to the Cincinnati Commercial, elim inates all nonsense from the subject and talks plainly to the brethren, thus: Ben Wade and Conklins and that class of persons fear an avalanche of Southern claims and demands for subsidies, and lament the weight of the South in national affairs ; bnt what sense is there for blaming Hate* or the Haves policy for this ? Has he added a single vote to the Southern column in the electoral college, in Congress or the Benate ? Who di vided Virginia and thus added two Senators to the solid Sonth ? Who enfranchised the negro when he is not able to stand alone, and thus added some forty Congressmen and eleetoral votes for the Southern quota, with no corres ponding return? Was it Haves and the “Hayes policy?” The very chaps who are alarmed at the size and power of the solid South are the very ones who donated them two Senators aud about forty Congressmen. This kind of language grates upon the Radical ear harshly. But it is true and harts all the more because of its veracity. Long ago, Sonthern editors, protesting against negro suffrage, warn ed the inventors that they wonld rue the day it came into their heads to deolare it “by appropriate legislation,” and that it would prove a boomerang of gigantic proportions. The XVth Amend ment was forced npon a reluctant peo ple to maintain Radical supremacy, and it has at last proved the death-blow of Radical authority in the whole South, and in many localities at the North. The Sonthern negroes perceive that it is to their interest either not to vote at all or to vote with the Democratic party. Mr. Hates is not to blame for this. It was inevitable. It was written. Old ex-Governor Wel ler, long ago, said the South would one day be called upon to protect the negro in his right of suffrage against the foiled and discomfited Republicans of the East and West. We already be hold evidences of the truth of this state ment, and the colored people are be ginning to be of the same opinion. A MISREPRESENTATION. A Washington special to the Savannah Newt, under the date of Monday, says that Senator Edmunds, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to whioh the nomination of Col. Fitzsihons as United States Marshal for Georgia has been refereed, is much annoyed at the President having repeated to Col. Frrz -BJHoxa that portion of the Senator’s conversation which oocnrred daring the visit of the Republican caucus commit tee to the White Bouse, relating to nomination of Col. Fitssimons and ap pointment of Democrats. He says;— “001. Fitzsimons called npon Senator AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1877. Edmunds after his visit to the President, and stated that he wonld be willing to subscribe to a declaration that he heart ily endorsed all the constitutional amendments and considered them right, and would enforoe them if he was con firmed. The next day he called npon Edmvxds again, with a declaration whioh failed to suit the ideas of the Senator, as it simply stated be wonld execute the provisions of the Con stitution to the be6t of his ability.” We feel confident the correspondent of the News has misrepresented the statement made by Colonel Fitzsimons to Senator Edmunds, if any statement was made. We do not believe that Colonel FroKWONB said he heartily en dorsed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution and considered them right. That he prom ised to enforce them if oonflrmed we do not donbt. As an offioer of the Govern ment he would be bound to execute the laws whioh he found npon the statute book; as a gentleman he would obey the oath of office to which he had subscrib ed. But farther than this we are very confident he did not and wonld not go. The same dispatch doses as follows: “Unless a sufficient number of Repub licans co-operate with the Democrats, the nomination of Fitzsimons, if report ed at all, will be rejected.” As it is a notorious fact that the Republicans have a majority of the Senate it is not much of a discovery that a nomination cannot be confirmed without the aid of Republican Senators. We have reason for believing that a sufficient number of Republicans will vote for Colonel Fitz simons to secure his confirmation. JEFFERSON COWNTY. It is to be regretted that the Jeffer son County Convention should have taken suoh action as was taken last Monday. It is to be regretted that the Convention shonld have been influenced by Col. Cain and Gen. Carswell to re ject the invitation extended to the De mocracy of Jefferson by the Democracy of Glascock and by the Democracy of Richmond. It is to be regretted that Jefferson oounty is plaoed in the attitude of deserting Democratic custom and of favoring the disorganization and dis bandment of the Democratic party. We do not believe that the action of the majority of this Convention reflects the views of a majority of the people of the county, and we believe this fact will be made manifest on the day of election. The baseless oharges of “oliques” and “rings” have deprived Jefferson of rep resentation in a Senatorial Convention, where Jefferson and Glascock would have had an equal number of votes with Richmond, and have taken from them the right to a voice in the selection of a candidate. But the misohief has been done. Messrs. Cain and Carswell car ried the day, and it is now too late to remedy the misohief wrought by the Convention. The Senatorial Convention will be held in Gibson, and Riohmond and Glaecock will have to make the nomination. That the delegates ohosen will discharge this duty fearlessly and well we have not the slightest doubt. We believe, too,that the true Democrats Jefferson county will rally to the sup port of the nominee and show that they do not approve what has been done in their name. HOIST BY THEIR OWN PETARD. We are glad to know that 001. Rioh abd Lathers, a Democratic candidate for Senator, in New York, has, after a prolonged contest, been declared enti tled to the election certificate. The laws regulating eleotion returns in New York were made by Republicans and by striot construction of those laws Col. Lathers has won his case. It is trne that the Democratic candidate owes his victory to the State Board of Can vassers deoiding that they “could not go behind the county board’s re turn but it is equally apparent that the Republicans are only treated to a dose of their own physio, and many are the wry faces they are making over it. Indeed, the “stalwart” presses threaten all manner of revenge, and the Troy Timet warns 001. Lathees that the General Assembly, which has a Republican majority of four, will eject him. But the World puts in a caveat, which is as salty as one of Judge Black’s epigrams. It says : “Mr. Robertson should be the last man to complain of this action or to dispute the result. He was one of the visitors to Florida last year, and then held that neither the oounty nor State Canvassers could go behind the returns of the eleotion officers or overrate their aotion. A rale that Mr. Robbbtson was so anxious to enforce in reference to the Presidential vote ought to be a good enough rule for Mr. Robbbtson himself when he wants to be a State Senator. The defeat of Mr. Robbbtson is a severe blow to him and his Republican friends; but they ought to submit to the law made by themselves instead of conspiring to evade it.” This is “sauoe for the goose, sauce for the gander,” with a vengeanoe. We trust that Col. Lathbbs will have no difficul ty in the matter. He is a very remark able man and will honor the seat he has gained. IMPORTANT DBCISION. Railroad* Not Liable for Stock Killed or In jured Whoa There le No Carelessness or Neglect On the Part of the Employee. Yesterday Judge Wm. Gibson, of the Superior Court, rendered a decision in the case of Uriah Bartley vs, the Geor gia Railroad and Banking Company, snit for damages, a cow belonging to the plaintiff having been killed by one of the trains of the defendants on the 22d of April last. The facts showed that the train was coming down a steep grade at the time, and that the engineer sounded the nsnal alarm with the whistle of the looomotive. The valne of the cow killed was stated to be seventy five dollars. Thad. Oakman, E> q., rep resented the plaintiff, and Leonard Phinizy, Esq., the defendants. The de cision of Judge Gibson is as follows: “The statutes of this State giving dam ages for stock injured or killed, against railroad companies, is npon the idea of negligence or want of care on the part of the employes of the roads. When it is oonoeded that there was no neglect en the part of the employes, and every diligence nsed to prevent the damage or injury, I cannot conceive hew it can be possible for courts of justice to give damages for injuries to stock on their roads. The running of trains in Geor gia is not only a legitimate business, bnt is authorized by special statute, and it does seem that when the statute givee the presumption in favor of persons in jured or damaged, that the damage was the result of carelessness or neglect, that the ends of justice are fully met. To hold that when every precaution was need, and dne and proper diligence ex ercised, that a railroad ever shonld be liable for damages, is inconsistent with the right to run their trains on their own roads. In the case submitted 1 decide that the defendants are not liable to pay damages.” Wm. Gibson, Judge Superior Court. November 19, 1877. We understand that the plaintiff will carry the case to the Supreme Court. SETTLED BY FIRE. Two DioasTeelas Sectarian Parent* Have Their Dead GUIS Cremates. New York., November 20.—Julius Keroher, a Lutheran, and his wife, a Jewess, unable to agree to the burial of their dead child in either a Christian or Herbrew cemetery, agreed to oremate it, which was done at the ohemiea] works, of which the father is proprietor. THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN. What’s the matter with Clarke oounty ? When the rolling tide of votes comes in I Mayor Huff proposes Id ventilate the Georgia Marshalship. Ex-Gov. Johnson and ex-Senator Nor wood are Milledgeville men. The Gainsville Southron hoists Mr. Jno. J. Cheatham for the Senate. Hon. W. R. Smith has been renomi nated by the Democrats of Walton. Judge John Collier, of Fulton, de clines to be a candidate for the House. Hon. John J. Kimsey, legislative can didate in White county, is a Gordon man. Messrs. W. H. Harrison and W. N. Fitzgerald are the Stewart oounty nomi nees. Thomas oounty in primary nomina tions places Wm. M. Hammond and Dr. W, H. Wilmot as candidates from that county. Judge J. D. Hauooek, of Taliaferro, is the nominee for the Senate in that district. Hon. M. A. Candler seems to have whipped aronnd on the Resumption Re peal bill. Captain Buell W. Anderson has been nominated by the Democrats of Pnlaski for the Legislature. There is in Griffin a town ring of in dependents trying to work wonderful and direful schemes. The friends of the Bmi. D. B. Hamil ton, of Rome* are going to vote for him for Senator, from the 42d. Solicitor Preston has been tendered and accepted the Senatorial nomination in the 19th District, Jasper, Putnam and Morgan. Messrs. Baoon, Nisbet and Harris were the nominees at the primary eleo tion held in Macon to represent Bibb oounty in the next Legislature. The Atlanta Independent says: “Clark, of the Atlanta district, will have to go next. Too muoh black mailing, too mnoh farming out of sub-appointments.” The Old Capital says: “When the capital campaign is over, let’s embroid er something for Christmas and look around and find out where the turkeys roost. ” Brooks oounty goes for Milledgeville with a vim. Her late grand jury unani mously recommended the capital to be oarried baok to the “halls of our fathers.” The oolored people of Mclntosh coun ty have nominated Amos Rogers, color ed, for Representative. They have also decided to vote for Alex. Bailey for the State Senate. The Bryant meeting in Macon was rare and racy, and wound up by all present signifying, by holding up their right hands, that they were in favor of Milledgeville and the new Constitution. So says the Weekly, A Washington correspondent of the ; Columbus Times says: “Mr. Hilliard and Col. Fitzsimons will probably be confirmed, whioh will prove that the President is stronger than the. Senate dictatorial faction.” Messrs. Mynatt, Hillyer, Small, Fry, Cooper and others are candidates in Fulton. The proximity of two of these names is not intended as a reflection, and should in no way prejudice the eleotion. Mynatt is not spelled “gnatt” either. They are all able men. An exchange says: “Some of our old oitizens who were members of the Leg islature in the old Milledgeville days, when that body consisted of over three hundred members, say that there was plenty of room in the old Capitol.” What means this, from the Gainesville Eagle ? Bro. Styles is becoming quite mysterious of late: “If we have at Athens an accession to the editorial fra ternity, in the person of an independent aspirant for Congressional honors and Trustee of the University, the country ought to know it. The recent drift of the Watchman makes the inquiry perti tinent. ” JEFFERSON COUNTY. Meeting of the County Democratic Conven tion-Nomination of Candidates for the Legislature—No Delegates to the Senato rial Convention* Louisville, Ga., Nov. 19, 1877. Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: After the adjournment of Court at 12 o’clock, m., to-day, the County Conven tion of the Democratic party assembled in the Court room, in pursuance to the call of the Executive Committee of this county, to nominate candidates for the Lower Honse of the General Assembly, and to take such other action as the Convention might see proper. On motion of Gen. R. W. Carswell, Dr. H. L. Battle was made Chairman of the Convention, and Mr. J. F. Toole was requested to act as Secretary. The Hon. M. A. Evans moved the adoption of the majority rule. Dr. L. D. Matthews offered as a substitute that the two-thirds rale be adopted to govern the action of the Convention. After ar gument, the original motion prevailed. Upon the call of the roll of Districts it was found that the Eighty-first Dis trict had no delegates in the Conven tion. The Chairman then requested the Seoretary to read the following commu nication (a most legitimate offspring of the Independent movement), which, he stated, had been handed to him by the Chairman of the Exeontive Committee: “Jefferson County, Ga., ( Nov. 17, 1877—81st Dist., G. M. \ “To the Executive Commitee, Louis ville, Ga.: We, the voters in the above stated District, do hereby protest against any nominations for candidates for either Representatives or Senator in the bounds of our oounty or Senatorial District at the approaching election. Onr sentiments are to leave the field open. ” The Secretary also read a letter from the Hon. J. T. Shewmake, Chairman of the delegates from Riohmond connty to the Senatorial Convention, to the Chair man of the Executive Committee of this oonnty. No action was taken npon this letter. Hon. M. A. Evans moved to take up the Senatorial question for considera tion next. Hon. J. G. Cain and General Carswell opposed this motion. They argned that it was a matter of minor importance to that of nominating candidates to the House of Representatives, and thought it should be postponed. Mr. Evans and Dr. Matthews favored the motion. Their distriots sent them with instrnctions to favor any aotion which would tend to make Jefferson oonnty send delegates to the Gibson Convention. They considered nothing of more importance than the organiza tion Xf the party. The Convention rejected the motion and proceeded to nominate candidates for the Legislature. The first ballot resulted in the selection of Captain J. H. Polhill, of Louisville, and the second in the selection of Judge A. E. Tarver, of Bartow. Messrs. J. C. Hudson, G. H. Harrell and M. A. Evans were appointed by the Chair to inform the gentlemen of their nomina tion and solieit their acceptance. Hon. J. G. Cain offered the following resolution: Eesohued, That the delegates from each district report to the Secretary, to be incorporated as a part of the proceed ings of this Convention, the name of one from eaoh district who shall com pose the Connty Executive Committee until the next assembly of the County Convention. The resolntion was carried and the following names reported : B. W. Cars well, A. W. Aldred, J. G. Jordan, W. R. Harvey, W. P. Johnson, J. F. Toole, Edward Hunter and J. H. Cain. The following resolntion was offered by Hon. M. A. Evans: Whbbbas, Charges have been made that the Convention which is to meet in Gibson has been packed and manipulat ed in the interest of oertain parties, and that Jefferson oonnty has been treated unfairly and unjustly by Richmond; Therefore, Resolved, That the Chair man of this Convention appoint four men to represent the Democracy of Jefferson oounty in the Gibson Convention, with the instructions that if said Convention is packed, or corrupt, or that Jefferson has been treated unfairly or unjustly in the composition of that Convention, then to denonnoe the unfairness and corrup tion in the name of the Democracy of Jefferson oonnty; and, on the other hand if it is discovered that every thing has been done fairly and justly, then to en dorse and abide the aotion of said Con vention. Gen. Carswell and 001. Cain spoke at length and with great warmth in opposi tion to the above resolntion, and what they termed the action of “rings” and “packed conventions.” and the domi neering coarse of Richmond oonnty. Mr. Evans supported bis resolution with a very forcible speech npon the im portance of Democratic organization. Mj. G. F. Hudson offered the follow ing as s substitute to the resolntion in troduced by Mr. Evans: Whbbbas, A resolution passed by the Executive Committee of Richmond I county, some time in April last, an nounced, substantially, that there was no District or Senatorial organization in this Distriot; and, Whereas, It is necessary for the future good of this District that it should be organized; therefore, be it Fesolved, That we invite the attention of our County Executive Committee to this matter and recommend that they confer with the Executive Committees of the other counties, with a view to se curing organization in the fnture. When put to a vote, the substitute was adopted. The Convention then adjourned. Spectator. P. S.—Any gentleman who desires to take lessons in “packing” and “mani pulating” Conventions would do well to visit this rural village. S. THK SOUTH AND THE SENATE. [ Washington Sunday Herald. 1 That the Senate will be Democratic on the 4th of Maroh, 1873, is settled almost beyond the reach of accident. The few remaining carpet-bag Senators will be succeeded by Democratic Sena tors of approved ability and character, who will adequately represent in the Senate the wants, interests, and sympa thies of their people. The present Representatives of the South in the Sen ate, so far as the Democratic Senators are concerned, with few exceptions, can hardly be improved upon. Particularly noticeable for publio in fluence are the Southern Senators who belong to the class against whom it was the fashion of the Republican organs a few months ago to invoke suspicion and distrust at the North—the soldier ele ment of the South. The “Confederate brigadiers,” with a dignity and com posure that won them infinite credit and confidence with the whole country, met the taunts of their non-combatant ac cusers with the sufficient answer of a faithful performance of duty and the display of a broad patriotism that guar ded the interests of all classes and sec tions. Of the ex-Confederate soldiers in the Senate nearly all are filling terms ex tending beyond the 4th of March, 1879. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, af ter a service of five years, was re-elected by acclamation, to the gratification of the Democracy of the whole country. Senators Morgan, of Alabama; Coke, of Texas, and Lamar, of Mississippi, are also filling terms beginning with the 4th of Maroh of the present year. Sen ator Withers, of Virginia, and Cook erill, of Missouri, have four years of service befere them. All of these Sena tors were Confederate soldiers of dis tinction. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, whose fame as a soldier has been so remark ably supplemented by a distinguished eivio career in the Senate, will complete his first term with the expiration of the term of the Forty-fifth Congress. The tone of the Georgia press leaves us little roem to doubt his re-eleotion under cir cumstances of a character flattering to the Senator himself, and significant of the enlightened appreciation by his constituents of his valuable services to themselves and to the Democracy of the nation. Gordon came to the Senate heralded simply as one of the knight liest of the leaders of Lee’s army— that “array of tattered uniforms and bright muskets which, invincible in life, surrendered only with its annihilation,” to use the characterization of a Northern historian. Four years of service in Congress gives him a national distinc tion as a statesman, and offers to Geor gia the opportunity to exhibit her warm attestation of the value of ser vices inspired by moderation and mag nanimity and wisdom in the highest sense. For it is in the moderation of his course here, a moderation which has never smaoked of acquiescence in wrong to his section (for none have been more valiant in asserting the sentiments of his people), that General Gordon has been of essential value to the Demo cratic party. When he entered the Senate, four years ago, the task of a Southern Senator was filled with obsta cles that the moderate course of Gor don and others has visibly removed. He helped, by the eloquent plea of his wise and temperate aotion, to blaze the way for the way for the untrammelled utterance in Congress by the South of views and aspirations which now offend no one save partisans who will see no good in the people of that section or their representatives. A leading Republican organ pro nounces Senator Gordon “the ablest man in Congress from the South,” and, quoting from a speech of the Senator, in whioh strong national views are ex pressed, pretends to doubt the sincerity of the Senator. We shall not quarrel with this Republican conception of Gen. Gordon’s ability, for the Republican party assuredly has nothing to thank Gordon for in the way of mistakes hurt ing the Democracy and helping their opponents, but we with confidence point to his whole Senatorial career as giving ample proof of broad national and pa triotic views ably and eloquently ex pressed. The Democracy of the coun try endorses Gordon, and hopes to se oure its title to public confidence by con tinuing just such men in high place. The Confederate soldier, like his late antagon ist—his present comrade—the Union sol dier, usually proves himself a useful man in Congress. He does not, like the old politician of his section, get his in spiration in the extinct thought of twen ty years ago; he is of the present, and sees before his people a great future of material progress and political influence to be achieved by devotion and energy. Gordon exemplifies the best traits of the old South in union with the growing energy of the new South. He is a care ■ ful student, and it is often said of him by habitues of the capital that he is the “busiest man in Congress.” He is right upon the leading questions which will engage public attention, now that the era of sectional agitation and sentimental politics is gone forever. He is in sympathy with the great laboring and producing interests of the country in their fight for existence against the despotism of the monopolists of the money power. In short, he is a leading exponent of the growing aspiration of the American people, North and South, for release from the thraldom of evils and preju dices and sorrows that have followed the civil war—a release that shall open to them achievements in new fields of en deavor beyond the reach of the baleful and blighting touch of sectional hate, grasping monopoly, and official dishon esty and extravagance. The Democracy of the country will respond with enthusiasm to the promise which Georgia gives to return to the Senate her able, eloquent and devoted soldier-statesman. THE TURF. A Challenge From Pierre T.orrlllaril to lUo Pick of the West, Tenbroeck Included. New Yobs, November 15.— The Turf, Held and Farm , in to-morrow’s issue, says editorially: Statements having been made to the effect that Mr. Pierre Lor rillard had offered to match Parole against Tenbroeck for 820,000 a side, to run at Lousiville next Spring, at any distance from one to four miles, we ad dressed him a note, requesting him to state if such a statement had any foun dation in fact. His reply was as fol lows : Jersey City, November 18. Editors of the Turf, Field and Farm : I have not challenged Tenbroeck, but I am willing to run Parole against him for 825,000 a side, 810,000 forfeit, two miles and a half, Western weights and dry track, the race to be run at Saratoga, and I will allow Tenbroeck 85,000 for expenses if it comes off. I will also run from my Rancocus stable a two year old at three-quarters of a mile; a three year old at one mile and three-quarters; a four year old at two miles ana a quarter; a five year old at three miles, against Western horses of the same age, excepting that I will run my five year old against a five year old or oyer. The four races to be run at Jerome Park or Saratoga for 82,500 a side, each race SI,OOO forfeit, to be named at the post, the four races to be accepted or none. This offer means that Jam will ing to run my stable against the pick of the entire West. Very respectfully, P. Lorbillard. THE BO UNDINCI BRINE, A •rain Steamer Plant* Her Cargo <t|a Cnrclte Vaato." Montreal, November 21.—The steam ship Strath tag, hence on the 12th for Aberdeen, laden with grain, has been lost and the captain, his wife and twen ty-five men saved. Loss, vessel and cargo valued at $210,600. An “anti-treating” association has been formed at Fremont. It is in the interest of “economy snd reform,:" THE (SOUTH VERSUS NEW ENGLAND. The Saperior Advantages Enjoyed by the Sooth In the Ylanufactnre of Cotton. Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: In your paper of the 18th instant I have carefully read the communication headed “Sonthern Mannfacturers,”and inviting a reply to the article, as taken from the Manchester Mirror. The opinions expressed are evidently written for a purpose, and do not give the South a fair showing as to the manufacture of fabrics, and were it not that I have been in mills both North and Sonth since the war and had considerable experience North and South with help and the peo ple at large, I would not attempt a re ply. The tenor of tho argument might have a tendency to discourage the Southern people from developing this important branoh of industry at home, and at the same time discourage capi talists from other sections of the coun try from investing in the South for the manufacture of ootton or woolen goods, and thereby confine the business to certain sections of the coun try. lam aware that there has been a steady increase in the number of spin dles run in the New England States since the war; more so directly after the war than at the present time. I know something of the oapacity of the mills in Manchester, as I was in the servioe of the Manchester corporation about two years sinoe the war and had charge of a portion of the works and therefore oan give quite a correct statement in regard to the help, as to capacity and adapta bility, both North and South. While I was in the Manohester mills I had, on the average, about 150 operatives to work for me; a majority of them were good, competent hands, while somi were nothing more than medium; at the present time a good many French are brought from Canada and employed in mills at the North. Some of them seem to adapt them selves to the business at onoe, and some never make first class help. Formerly the help in most of the mills in New England was obtained in those States, but of late they havs had to draw from other sources to keep up the supply. Iu the Amoskeag yard there were six mills when I was there, and in the Manches ter six,besides the Print Works, although the Amoskeag mills had a muoh greater capacity than the Manchester. I have no personal acquaintance with Mr. Straw, the agent of the mills of the Amoskeag Company, but know him by reputation to be a man of great ability in the management of the large corpora tion whioh he represents. While he may be second to none, there may be others of equal oapaoity, and I oannot agree with him, if the views expressed are his. He says it is not true, a3 stated by Mr. Cheney, that the ootton mills in Georgia are all paying. |ln fact, he says none are paying except a few that supply the local markets. This is not trne of the Augusta Factory here in this city, for if I have been rightly informed, and I have it from good authority, their goods are now sold ahead of the looms as far as February, and that these sales are mostly for expert. I am a New Eng lander myself, but I like to see justice done,let it come where it will. I think the South has shown commendable energy in mannfacturing in many localities, and no man has any moral right to throw anything in their way as a discourage ment, and only those will do it who are afraid of a drawing off from their own personal interest. The gentleman does not attempt to say that all of the mills in New England are paying, for he well knows they are not. I admit some are paying well, while there are many others that wonld do about as well to stop as to run. I ask the gentleman if all the mills in Manchester have been paying since the war ? He may have forgotten that the Manohester corporation, the mills of whioh built near bis own, became great ly embarrassed afew years ago, so muoh so that the entire property, estimated to be worth four million dollars, was sold at auction and brought the modest little sum of one million dollars. That ought to make money now. What dividend would the Amoskeag pay itself if all its revenues aside from the manufacture of textile goods was stopped ? He says there are 100,000 spindles in the Man chester mills, I will venture saying there are not 100,000 cotton spindles there to-day. The Atlantic mills in Law rence were another example of the healthy condition of a few corporations North. That, like the Manchester, had to be financially doctored before it oould be declared in a convalescent state. Still another case, the Salisbury Woolen mills in Massachusetts, and also the Hamden mills at Holyoke. There is an old adage, and it would apply well there at home, and that is, “People that live in glass houses should never throw stones.” It would not be a hard matter to rent or buy a mill of from 3,000 to 10,000 spindles even in the State of Massachu setts. He cites the Atlanta mill as an illustration, when it was only last Winter, while J was living in Boston, that a gentlenaan went tq Iforth Adams, in the western part of the State, to see anew mill that had been bnilt there, the originators of the enterprise being unable to carry it through. A part of the machinery had been built and shipped to the mill, and had not even been set up, aud, from reoent information, this mill never has started to run. About a year ago I waa at Turner’s Falls, Mass., and I saw a mill there that bad been built abqut three years, I think. It was intended for five • hundred looms. The walla were up and roof on, bnt no sash in the windows. The reason given for suspension was it wonld not pay to complete it. A few years ago a mill was commenc ed at Indian Orchard, Mass. The com pany failed before it was half completed and another company took it, completed it and run it a while and failed. It was afterwards reorganized and is now in operation. Of course I do not wish to convey the idea that all enterprises there are subject to the same trials before be coming a sucoess. I only cite them to show that such things as failures are not confined altogether to the South. A few weeks ago I received a letter from a prominent manufacturer in Maine, say ing that there was very little money made in manufacturing there at that time, and also said that he had been told that there could he more money made manufacturing South than North, and asked me if in my opinion it was so. He also asked if I would advise any one to invest in the manufacture of cotton goods Sonth. I replied to him that I could do so with full confidence that it would be a success, and that I knew of no better place than here in Angasta, and explained to him as well as I was able the inducements that were offered to those inclined to invest. I explained to him my reasons for saying that I considered the States of' Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina and the northern por tions of Mississippi and Alabama well adapted to carding and spinning cot ton. It seems to be an intermediate sec tion between extremes of heat and cold; not only that, but there are many other advantages, I can not spp that there has bean any failure in Augusta, as the gentleman claims. If so, why is It that the people, considering other means, are so anxious to continue to huild more mills here ? There has been no failure here and is not likely to be. The peo ple here have energy as well as those of the North, and are beginning to make it felt in manufacturing. In regard to the compensation be tween mill and farm work, I will say I think any careful and practical observ er will see the balance is in favor of the factory operatives. I was in one of the large mills in Lewiston, Maine, two years, and there, as well as in Manches ter, I will say with a certainty that nine-tenths of those that left did so with the intention of going to other mills. It may be that the Amoskoag is an exception, but I doubt it. He says the character of the Southern people unfits them f° r the services that a faotory requires. That has not been my experience with them, for I have found, where it was necessary to learn new bands no more trouble to make competent hands, of them than at the North.‘jßesides,il know that there erejas many in proportion to the number em ployed that work full ten or eleven hours for a day's work as there are in New England, and there are many mors that would 4o it if there was a chance for them to do so. Take the mills iu this section for an example. The Oraniteville and Langley in Sonth Carolina and the mills here in Augusta, and I will venture to say no steadier set of help works in any of the New England mills. In faot, there is not as mnoh changing of hands as there is in many of the New England mills. He says none bnt the negroee work a full day of ten or eleven hours for a day’s worjc, and saying it he makes a great mistake. 82 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID But, to go still further iu the question of labor South, no one can have a cor rect view of it by a flying visit South. It is only by oareful and thorough investigation that the writer of the article could form apy correct idea of who does the labor, and I think if he would take the time and trouble of in forming himself he would come to a dif ferent conclusion on some points. The South will yet show to the world that they can manufacture cotton r,t a profit as well as raise it. The gentleman goes on to state it has taken a hundred years to raise up a people and establish mills to enable them to compete with foreign inanafaotnreß in our markets. It is not at all likely that the South is going to wait a century, with such an experience before them, before they will compete in the same way. A parson might almost imagine they had a great many oenten narians as operatives at the North from the way the article reads. I think the hundred years experience there ought to be worth something to the people here. The article admits there is water power and raw material, but goes on to say the South lacks the soil and the climate. I will say right here, with some considerable experience North, that there is no better climate under the sun for working ootton into goods than here in this section, and particularly in this oity. There is no laok of men and women to carry on the business of ootton manufac turing. Many have to be taught tho business, but I would ask if there are not a great many new hands taught in the New England mills every year. I do not think the South envies the North in any of her past prosperity in mannfacturing. They are doing the same as onr Northern manufacturers have done, and I may say with as good a chance for snooess. There is muoh mote that might be said upon the sub ject, but I have already exoeeded what I intended to say, and will leave it for someone else more competent than my self* J. F. B. STILL THEY COME. Another Cotton Factory—Formal Organiza tion of the CuDimln* Mauutacturlo* Com pany-Three Hundred and Fifty Thousaud Dollars of Stock Subncrlbed For.; Pursuant to call a meeting of the sub scribers to the stock of the Gumming Manufacturing Company was held yes terday afternoon, at 4 o’clook, at the office of the Augusta Factory. Among those present were Messrs. Ghas. Estes, J. J. Cohen, Geo. T. Jackson, Wm. E. Jackson, Jno. M. Clark, W. O. Sibley, Francis Gogin, J. O. Mathewsou, T. G. Barrett, Jos. B. Gumming and Josiah Sibley. On motion of Mr. Chas. Estes, Mr. Wm. E. Jaokson was called to the Oh air. On motion, Mr. Ghas. Estes was re quested to act as Seoretary. Mr. Estes said it was well known that some time ago a company was or ganized known as the Gumming Manufacturing Company. Some sub scriptions were obtained then, but as it was important that an organization should be effected now, iu order to noti fy the Comptroller-General and secure the exemption allowed by the law be fore the adoption of the new Constitu tion, the whole amount, viz: $350,000, had now been subscribed. He road the list of subscribers and the charter of the •ompany. On motion of Mr. W. G. Sibley, the charter was unanimously adopted. A set of by-laws was read bv Mr. Es tes and adopted. Mr. Thomas G. Barrett nominated Mr. Ghas. Estes for President and Treas urer of the company. Mr, Mathewßon nominated Messrs. Thomas G. Barrett, Francis Gogin. Jno. M. Olark and W. C. Sibley for Direc tors. These gentlemen were unanimously eleoted, receiving a stock vote of 2,582. On motion, the meeting adjourned. The capital stock of the new company is $350,000, which may be increased to $1,000,000 by a majority vote of the stockholders. The oompany will nego tiate to-day with the oity authorities for the purokase of the Powder Mills tract of land, and will commence work on tho factory within a month. SHOT IN THE SANCTUARY. A Philadelphia Mail Shoots Hla Wife In a Methodist Church While the Services Are In Progress—The Cause of the Act I/u- Ituown. Philadelphia, November 18. —At noon to-day, shortly before the conclu sion of the services at St. Luke’s Meth odist Episcopal Ghapel, Lombard street, the congregation waa terribly startled by the report of a pistol and the sudden falling to tho floor of a woman who had been seated in one of the pews. It was ascertained that the shot was fired by a man named Alexander Sayres, residing at 614 South Fifteenth street, and that his victim was hie wife, from whom he has been separated for the last two years. He had entered the church daring the services, and, seating him self in the pew immediately behind his wife, shot her in the back, inflioting a probably mortal wound. Mrs. Sayres was removed to the Pennsylvania Hos pital, where she lies in a very critical condition. It is said that Mr. Sayres had never msde any threats against his wife, and hie act to-day is unexplained. A RAILWAY KING BANKRUPT . Conrad Poppeulinnsen’H Great Fortune Swal lowed Up In Lon* Island Railways—From Princedom to Poverty. Brooklyn, November 17.—A petition was filed in the United States District Court in this city to-day by the counsel for Conrad Poppenhaqsen, the Long Island railroad king, to have him ad judicated a bankrupt. The amount of his ascertained liabilities is $3,521,856, and the amount of the assets is $7,308, 388, This inoludes $900,000 in notes of the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad Companies. What these will realize is uncertain, There are twenty four creditors, most of them ijoemed by stocks and bonds on ’head railroads or other securities. Poppenhausen had put over five million dollars in solid cash in these roads in extending and im proving them* He paid all the obliga tions possible, hut was compelled to stop because the Long Island Railroad failed to pay their notes for their float ing debt, which he had endorsed. Ilis troubles arose from the shrinkage of values, the general business depression here and in Germany carrying off near ly ten millions bonded apd floating debt of these railroads, aud the falling off in receipts sinoa he pnrohased the road. In two years Poppenhausen h* lost his large fortune. He ig now sick in Ger many. A meeting of creditors is to be held on the 30th inst. .— mm*. A LEAP FOR LIFE. A New Ifaven Shoe Manufactory C'onniiiued by Fire—Mix Hundred Thounnnd Uffilnm Wurth of Property nj. a Day. New Haven, Conn. , November 19. One of the largest fires ever known in this oity out shortly after five o’oloek to-day iu the works of the L. Chandee k Cos., rubber oompany, manu facture of rubber boots and shoes. The fire caught in the Arctic shoe depart ment and spread with utmost rapidity, and in two hours the buildings which occupied the whole square was entirely destroyed. There were nearly six hun dred hands most of whom were women, tsqt 'fortunately a large part of them were not at work to-day, their branch of the work being behind, which possibly prevented a serious loss of life. A number of the workmen who were behesamed in, by the flames made their escape by leaping from the third story windows. One man had a leg broken, and others were more or less seriously injured. The factory had been running both night and day; there was only a small amount of manufactured stock on hand, but a large quantity of rubber and cloth, and other material. The firemen were wholly unable to save any of the property so fierce and unman ageable was the fire. The loss, at a low estimate, is $600,000, and some estimates place it at $750,000, The company were insured for abont $400,000, of which SIOO,OOO were plaoed by M. P. Robbins, of New Pork oity. The palmetto has been considered one of the most worth!ms trees of Florida. A gentleman from Volusia now comes forward with a display of brashes, mat tings and ropes, made from tile inner bark, and oontemplatea the building of a manufactory at Volusia. The wild orange, also has always been regarded as a worthless fruit, and millions have rotted every year. An enterprising Yankee has engaged in manufacturing from them eesenoea, syrups and marma lades. He haa met with considerable aneeeea. THEJTATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Gainesville is telephoning. Americus tallies 11,446 bales, Warrenton has anew druggist. Blind Tom is in North Georgia. Hartwell wishes her census taken. Gwinnett indulges in horse racing. Cotton pickers are iu great demand. Mr. Isaac Moon, of Athens, is dead. Hocial clubs are numerous in Maoon. Mr. B. R. Lamar, of Macon, is very ill. Strawberries are still eaten in Elber ton. Parlor skates are p pular iu Waynes boro. Elberton thinks of organizing a select school for girls. Dr. R. E. J. Thompson, of Jefferson county, is dead. Columbus has • purchased over SI,OOO worth of new hose. The matrimonial horizon in Maoon is roseately illumined. Love making on postal cards is not binding iu this State. • The Gainesville Library Association has been fully organized. Mrs. Sarah Finch, of Columbus, will be sent to the Lunatic Asylum. An unknown white man was killed and robbed near Kingston reoently. Mr. Ezekiel Hayes, of Norwoood, lost his honse Saturday night by fire. “Esther, the beantiful queen,” will be cantata’d at Oxford on the 28th. Savannah river is said to swarm with wild geese and duoks up about Elbert. Rev. Van. D. Gary, an old citizen of Hart oonnty, died suddenly last week. Someone attempted to fire Mr. W. EL Tate’s corn crib in Elbert the other day. Geneva and Talbotton think of con necting by meaus of a horse oar com pany. Kelly, the famous Georgia horse thief, is amusing himself at the Dade coal mines. Gibbs Gardner, Esq., has located iu Sparta for the practice of law. Suooesa to him. Mr. J. M. Walden,for thirty-five years road master of the Central Railroad, has resigned. Newton Faotory possesses thirteen beautiful girls. Many a man wishes ha were N. F. A negro working at the Barton furnace was killed the other day by sleeping too near a gas flue. Dr. Little, State Geologist, after fin ishing Greene county will next take in Clarke and Ooonee. " “Broom sedge bitters,” made by hiding a flask of corn in a sedge field, are popular in Hart. Mr. Hardy Hartley, aged about 82 years, died near Tennille on Saturday last, of typhoid fever. Three buttoned buckwheat cakes and eighteen carrot soup are fashionable dishes at these present. Kerosene oil is so expensive in Gaines ville that they have to stick to the old remedy for snake bites. “See that my mint’s kept green” ia becoming popular among those who have an eye to Spring drinks. Grady’s “Patchwork Palace” in At lanta is said to have been the finest lec ture ever delivered in that city. The South Georgia Conference meets in Talbotton on the 12th of December.. Bishop George F. Piereo presides. M. T. Gallagher, late route agent ou the Atlantio and Gulf Railroad, was tried and convicted for robbing the mail. Three ox carts full of men, women and ohildren, passed through Gaines ville last Friday on their way to the West. A hop was recently given at the Rix House, Cartersville, to some young ladies from Rome, Kingston anil Au gusta. Hon. W. A. Huff, upon his return to Maoon from Washington was serenaded with a band of music and a piece of ar tillery. The Elberton Oanette thinks that so long as the farmers pay entire attentiou to cotton, the chestnut crop will con tinue to be a failure. The children of Sparta Male and Fe male High School are making prepara tions for their examination and exhibi tion soon to come off. Miss Hammill, of Butts county, an orphan girl, committed suicide Wodnes day by taking strychnine. No cause whatever was assigned. When frost-bitten potatoes and col icky beets aro faded and gone, the con valescent editor will discuss the capital! question far more intelligibly. A negro man in Spalding county as saulted Mr. Jno. Milam with an iron bar, breaking the gentleman’s right arm in two places and his left in one. The Warenton Clipper says: “Miss Sallie Woliborn, daughter of our es teemed fellow-townsmau, Judge M. H. Wellborn, left for Augusta Tuesday to spend a few weeks with friends in that city.” The Presbyterian Synod was opened Friday in Columbus, by Rev. J. W. Montgomery, Moderator. The Synod comprises six Presbyteries in which aro 172 churches, 108 ministers and about 9,500 members. A colored man, applied to a Warren county farmer to borrow some morey and to take five hundred lashes if Hwas not returned. At the appointed time, the sum was not repaid, but tho debt was cancelled in the manner prescribed. An Atlanta cotton press exploded Fri day. Milledgeville has anew billiard sa loon. Mrs. Ohwa H. Dasher, of Dariou, is dead, Macon has thus far received 28,258 bales. W. H. Branch, Esq., is Mayor of Greenesboro. A prize lottery have been opened in Milledgeville. Union Point wishes to revive her dramatic club. The ccttou faotory in East Macon runs day and night. The Orawfordvillo steam grain mill ia running again. Mr. James Hill fend family have left Baldwin county for Texas. The Old Capital, of Milledgeville, is said to be highly flourishing. The new Methodist Church at I’aruett„ will be completed in a few days. Eatonton has handled 4,200 bales of cotton this year against 600 last. Mr. T. J. Atkinson, of Greene county, killed four wild turkeys in one morning, A little son of Mr. H. R. Clark, of Troup oonnty, was fatally scalded re cently. The sorghum glacier rolls grandly along. Let ’er—but we’ve heard that before. Last week near Albany, Mr. Rush Moure shot to death a distiller named. Ricthlor. Joseph Boyd and his wife, living near Hoganimlle, Georgia, are a pair of cen tury plants. Mr. Edmund Galucke, of Taliaferro county, has invented an improvement in gin gearing. Judge Bartlett has appointed J. A. Griffin, Esq., Commercial Notary for Greone county. Mr. W. A. Crossley, of Greene coun ty, had his left hand seriously laoerated by a gin last week. The Italian string band has left Ma con for Jacksonville. They probably go down to fiddle out the fever. A Meriwether comity cabin was torched the other night, and two little pickaninnies were burned to death. The now buildings at the Lnnatio Asylum in Milledgevilla are fast being completed, ltecruits are rapidly coming in. Mclntosh county is out of debt and has money in her treasury. The city of Darien has been out of debt for some time, The Atlanta Council Street Committee are not thorough in their affairs; that is, they do not manage their thoroughfare*# satisfactorily. Mr. Thurston Blount, of West Point, will gather a good chufa crop, which plant is said to be especially adapted to fattening hogs. Kinchen Foster’s gin honse, in.Chat tooga county, with a small amount of cotton and a large amount of tan bark, was burned last week. Rev. J. H. Lowery, formerly of Jeffer son county, died the other day in Louis ville, Kentucky, where he had charge of a Presbyterian Church. Mr. Jno. Maher died suddenly near Bharon, Taliaferro oonnty, last week. Mr. Maher was a native of Tipperary county Ireland, and was 66 years old. The school exhibition of Prof. Rey nolds and pupils of Union Point was very entertaining. The.address was de livered by Hamilton McWhorter, Esq. The Crawfordville Democrat says: “The lateness of the season last Spring is telling seriously upon the cotton crop now, as mnoh of the fruit now on the stalks will not open, or if it does open will be of so inferior a qnality as to be almost worthless.”