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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1877.
DEMOCRATIC' NOMINATIONS.
Frr ftrnator From the Klkt*ralfc SMMrlil
DMrIN,
HON. JOSEPH B. CWMMING,
OF RICHMOND.
Far Mrntfcera of the HMM * BomnM>
IhWi
OEO. R. SIBLEY,
H. G. WRIGHT,
L. 9. DUYAL.
Tho •lection will take plaoe December
Ms. , r _
APPOINTMENTS FOR HON. JOS. B.
CUMMING.
Hon. Job. B. Cumhino, Democratic can
didste for Senator from the Eighteenth
Senatorial District, will address the
people of Jefferson oounty at Pope Hill,
Wednesday, the 28th inst.; the people
of Glascock county at Gibson, on Thurs
day, the 29th inst.; the people of Jef
ferson eonnty at Bethany, on Friday, the
30th inst., and at Stapleton’s Aoademy,
on Saturday, the Ist of December. Other
distinguished speakers may also be ex
pected. t
editoriai, note*.
qiu. Toombs thinks Tom Boost ought
to be hanged.
Joe Jefferson's son Charles still runs
a liOtiisiana plantation.
The Herald says Kate Claxtoe’s sec
•ud marriage was after a short scorchflhip.
The Pope was photographed recently.
He wrote under the portrait, "My last pic
ture.” )tl
Tcrzey has receired the ultimatum from
the ProrideneeTool Company—“no money,
no guns.”
Tke Hindoos of Benares hare organised
a society for sending missionaries to con
tort "drunken Englishmen."
lr the lawyers make out that Commodore
Vanderbilt was a mean, brutal, sensual,
depraved old man, what becomes of the
eulogy pronounced upon him ?
Washington uses a million and three
quarters gallons less water this year than
lust. Congressmen take their whisky straight
now. __
Anew publication, according to the
Washington Capital, is “Evarts on
Kvahts—” in 996 volumes and three sen
tences.
Tw® deaf mutes were married in Bir
mingham on Sunday. They will have one
advantage in married life. Neither can In
sist upon having the last word.
“The country may as well make up its
mind now to a (loath struggle with Chant
and Crantism three years hence,” is the
prediction of Mr. Henry Wattkrsos.
The net revenues of the Government for
the fiscal year were $289,000,588, a decrease
of $18,481,452; the aet expenditures were
$230,600,008, a decrease of $19,799,788.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is already figur
ing upon the result in 1880, and at the
lowest possible calculation puts the Detno
rntic majority in the electoral college at 93.
The reason why Bob Inobrsoi.l with
drew his name in connection with the
German mission is said to be f®r the
very good cause that Hates declined to ap
point him.
Thf. Richmond Dispatch wants Russia to
speedily end the war so that tobacc® can
rise in price. Poor Turkey, therefore,
must bu dispatched because she has nobody
to back her. __
Punch : “ ‘What! going to leave us,
Jamf.b T ‘Yes, sir; I’m very sorry, sir, but
I really can’t put up with missus any lon
ger !’ ‘Ah, James ! thiuk how long I've
put up with her !’ " _
Jtn.TA Kavanaoh, the authoress, has
just died at Nice, at the age of fifty-three.
In early life her parents took her to Paris,
where she acquired that insight into French
home life that is observable in her novels.
In November, 1878, Hinds county, Miss.,
gave Haves 1,474 and Tilden 4,504. On
the 6th instant, it cast 3,377 votes for J. M.
Stone, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and there were eight scattering.
“Where is that party now ?”
Mr. Cooi.baush’b suicide at Chicago
last week was thus “headlined” in the
Times of that city: “Death’s draft—The
arch enemy drew upon W. F. Coolbauge
for liis life yesterday morning—And the
great banker honored the demand and paid
it with his own hand."
The West and East are quarreling with
each other. The West says the East is
crushing her with money exactions,and the
East retorts that the West is a thief and
swindler. We hope those fellows will not
get to the fighting point. Meanwhile, let
the capital of the East flow Southward and
not Westward.
A professor of dancing in New fork
has accomplished the tremendous feat of
waltzing seven hours without a pause. This
man, the Philadelphia Time* thinks, is an
ornament to society, but he prebably
couldn’t carry sevon buckets of coal np
stairs without stoppiag to rest, or earn his
living chopping wood.
The Dutch say that the age of chivalry
haa not passed away, and cite in proof the
prowess of Colonel Van der Hbtden, of
the Samalangen expedition. A bullet en
tered his left eye, and, penetrating his pal
ate, came out of his mouth. But he re
mounted his horse, led the assault, took a
fort and continued te advance. “And the
villain still pursued her !“
The official canvass shows that woman
suffrage got a big vote in Colorado, alto
gether 8,612, But it wasn’t half so big a
vote os that which woman suffrage didn’t
get, amounting to 14,053. This is very
discouraging to the women who so courage
ously worked up the campaign in Colora
do, and will probably incline them to think
that any future effort to get their rights in
Colorado would be a waste of energy.
At the recent reception in New York,
tendered by the Goethe Club to William
Cullen Bryant, the distinguished poet,
stated that he had discovered anew defini
tion for man. Alluding to many defini
tions he said: “I would define man as the
animal that delights in antiquities. No
other creature gathers up relics of past
years and deposits them ip museums and
guards them with fear.”
It's very strange, but nevertheless true.
While there are 1,836.288 single—all mar
riageable—women in the United States, the
number of fools who kill themselves be
cause they cannot get a certain girl, of
bachelori who are leaking for a beau ideal,
of adventurers who run off with other
men's wives, is constantly increasing. Sure
ly happiness is not found in the abundance
of the angelic portion of mankind.
A Louisville correspondent says it is re
ported that Wad* Hampton is soon to
marry a beautiful wealthy widow, promi
nent as one of the leaders of Louisville so
ciety. She has two beautiful daughters,
the elder of whom, lovely as a dream, made
her debut last \V inter, and is now Louis
ville's bright particular belle. The mother
is almost as youthful in appearance as the
daughter, tall and elegant in figure, and
exquisitely graceful, brown-eyed, with a
mass of sunny brown hair, she would
make a bride of whom even Wade Hamp
ton might be proud. She and the Hon
Governor met at the Lee Memorial ball, at
White Sulphur, last Summer.
Ax immense project is on toot at Pitts
tonty. It is the outgrowth of the labor
movement, a fruit of the seeds of co-opera
tion that bare been largely strewn through
out the eountry. It is proposed to erect an
iron mill upon the largest imaginable scale,
to be run on the co-operative plan. A capi
tal stock of $1,000,C00 will be required for
this scheme. The stock will consist of
1,000,000 shares at $1 a share, and five
•hares will be th limit of stock held by any
one individual. Every man employed di
rectly r indirectly about the mill will have
l* be a stockholder. The company will do
their own mining and attend to the slight
est detail of the bnaineas. The subject is
just now one of the greatest interest, and
the workingmen are discussing it j wa usd
ton.
THE DEMOCRACY OF THE DISTRICT
IN LINE.
We publish ibis morning a very full
account of the proceedings of the Sen
atorial Convention for this the 18th
Senatorial District, which met in Gib
son yesterday. It will be seen that
these proceedings were characterised
by such harmony and good feeling aa
presage well for the aoooeae of the De
mocracy at the ensuing election. While
it *is matter of regret that our friends
of Jefferson were unhappily unrepre
sented, it is gratifying to know that
Glaaoock and Richmond have deter
mined to stand shoulder to shoulder in
upholding the standard of true De
mocracy. The nominee of the Conven
tion ia a man whom the people of the
District may well feel proud to sup
port, Joseph B. CnpnßO is a gallant
soldier, a true man and a tried and un
flinching Democrat. We place his name
at the head of onr columns as the nomi
nee of the organised Democracy of this
District, and we do not doubt that the
right thinking men of Glaaoock, of Jef
ferson and of Riehmond willl rally to
the support of eo worthy a standard
bearer, and show to the world by their
votes that they still stand by the party
which redeemed Georgia and which
must preserve Georgia.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Bt. Louis RepubUoa/n has an ad
mirable condensation of the internal
revenue reports. It shows that the law
went into effect in 1868, and yielded for
that year $87,640,000. In 1864, it yield
ed $109,741,000 ; in 1868, $209,564,000 ;
in 1866, $309,226,000. Thu was the
largest product, and from this it de
clined to $102,409,000 in 1874. Next
year it increased to $110,000,000; in
1876 to $118,700,000 ; and for the year
ending June 80, 1877, to $118,630,000.
The customs revenue has been steadily
decreasing since 1872, when it was $916,-
370,000; in 1876 it was $148,071,000.
The internal revenue now yields nearly
as much, therefore, aa the customs rev
enue, and in a few years, if the law shall
be left aa it ia now, will yield quite aa
much. The internal revenue ia compos
ed of taxes ou spirits and fermented
liquors, tobacco, and banks and bank
ers. The amount derived from spirits
for the year ending June 30, 1876, was
856,284,887; from fermented liquors,
89,562,420; from tobaooo, $39,726,338,
and from banks and bankers, $3,588,879.
It will be seen, therefore, that the con
sumers of spirits and fermented liquors
and tobacco, whatever may be thought
of their habits, pay a much larger
proportion of taxes Government
than the non-consumers of these articles.
Indeed, if the teetotallers and anti-to
bacoo societies would accomplish the re
forms they aim at, they would deprive
the government of nearly one-half its
present annual revenue, and force it to
seek other sources of supply. Illinois
yielded the largest proportion of the
revenue ou spirits, $19,816,000; Ohio
yielded $11,883,484; Kentucky, $5,379,-
000; Indiana, $4,953,000; New York,
$3,172,000; Wisconsin, $1,603,000; Penn
sylvania, $1,687,000; California, $1,468,-
000. Of the revenue from fermented
liquors New York paid $3,124,000; Penn
sylvania, $1,068,000; Ohio, $899,000;
Illinois, $576,000; New Jersey, $534,000;
Massachusetts, $508,000; WisoonsiD,
$471,000; Missouri, $426,000; California,
$354,000; Michigan, $227,000; lowa,
$205,000; Maryland, $200,000; Indiana,
$195,000; New Hampshire, $140,000. Of
the tobaoco revenue New York paid
$7,019,000; Virginia, $6,950,000; Ohio,
$3,673,000; Illinois, $2,955,000; New
Jersey, $2,932,000; Pennsyvania, $2,789,-
000; Kentucky, $2,005,000; Missouri,
$1,897,000; Michigan, $1,506,000; North
Carolina, $1,425,000; Maryland, $1,354,-
000; Wisconsin, $1,061,000.
The whole produot of the tax on banks
and bankers for the year 1876 was only
$3,588,000, or about 8 per cent, of the
total internal revenue product. If, as
the banka olaim, the remission of this
irksome tax would enable them to show
greater favors to business men, it would
be wise to remove it, particularly as its
loss to the Government would hardly be
peroeptible.
A QUAKER UUN.
In hia answer to the House call for the
Syndicate papers, Sooretary BHerman
undertakes to show that the Silver bill
killed the sale of the four per cent,
bonds. The New York Journal of Com
merce, which is by no means friendly
to the “dollar of the fathers” and that
kind of thing, but a great friend of
truth, points out that Mr. Sherman is
either ignorant or knavißli when making
such an assertion. It thus speaks: “If
those unlucky bonds had become sud
denly unsalable after and not before the
Silver bill passed the House and
menaoed the country, Mr. Sherman’s
logic would be better, because founded
on facts. But unfortunately for bis
reasoning, the trouble with the four
per oeuts began long before the Silver
bill was thought of or Congress met.
The original mistake was in declining
to nse the National Banks and all the
available Government machinery to pop
ularize and work off the bonds, and giv
ing the job to a Syndicate with a com
mission. The snbsoriptions soon stopped
when a tenth of the whole amount was
placed, weeks previous to the Bilver agi
tation. Daring all this time down to
the present the market prioe of the fonr
per oents has been it ss than that of
gold. In the latter part of July, for ex
ample, they were worth 105} to 105}
against gold at 105} to 105}. Septem
ber Ist they stood at 103}, while gold
was 103} to 104. The present current
rates are 102} to 102|, with gold at 102}
to 102}. This is as mnoh as could be
expected for the four per oents under
the circumstances, with gold as the
measure of their value. The Silver bill
haa sins enough fairly chargeable to it
without straining accusations to cover
the blunders of the Syndicate bnsiness.
If subscriptions for the fonr per oents
were cheoked or in any way affected by
fears of silver legislation, then unques
tionably we should remark a deoline in
Government securities abroad. But
these are well sustained and firm in the
foreign markets.**
Snob a blander of the Secretary of the
Treasury is inoonoeivable on any ra
tional grounds. He will be assailed
without stint, and men who remember
how he has grown rich as a Congress
man and bare not yet forgotten Eliza
Pinkston, will not be slow to revamp
the old cry that the Syndicate had a
silent partner who had no business in
snch a firm.
THB MILK IN THE t'OCOANUT.
The struggle in the United States
Senate over the contested election ot.see
is very easily comprehended wben we
know that only by sharp praotioe can
the Republicans maintain their present
leas supremacy. Indeed a transfer of
the majority from the Republican to
the Democratic side is by no means an
impossibility. The true state of the
case is this: The absence of Sharon,
of Nevada, reduoes the Republican
Senators to thirty-seven against thirty
five Democrats snd one Independent.
If the Democrats succeed in discharg
ing the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, Messrs. Eustis and Butlkb,
from Louisiana and South Carolina,
would be admitted. That would make
the Senate a tie, and place the controll
ing vote in the hands of Judge Davis.
The probability of securing the admis
sion of Spoword instead of Kellogg,
and of giving the Democrats possession
of the Senate, wonld thus become immi
nent. To prevent this, the committee
insist upon giving Kellogg precedence,
hoping to seat him and gain another
Tote against Emma and Bubsk Hem,
Bex Hill s speech, reported yesterday,
was directed against this unfair proceed
ing. The Republican game is, at any
rate, unmasked. The Radical Senators
are fighting for the bare eKistenee of
their slender majority, and will resort to
any device to hold on to power a little
longer.
THE FOREIGN FIELD GLASS
A SWEEPING GLANCE ACBOSB
TKE BKOAD OCEAN.
Review of Last Week’* Eirtpeu Newe-
Tke Captare af Kara aad Investment of
Plena—ESTeet ef tke Appointment af tke
New Cabinet la France—The Pepee Condi
tion—Mexican DeUaaeo.
At the close of last week’s campaign
the Turks were beginning to be more
hopeful, or at least, leas despondent.
Not that their armies were expected to
do any signal work in their cause, or
that peace prospects were brightening;
but it was hoped that the heavy wintry
weather which must aet in at an early
day wonld frustrate the beseiging
armies and relieve the garrisons of Kars,
Erzeroum and Plevna. Had such been
the case the Russian forces would have
been compelled to draw off from their
conquests almost in the face of victory,
leaving their effete enemies to recuper
ate and strengthen, while the elements
made battle for them. Had diplomacy,
under such circumstances, have insist
ed in intruding upon the victor’s career,
the Caar would not have been able to
have exaoted from au European Arbi
tration Council a respectable reqnital
for his sacrifices.
Russia, however, has availed herself
of the last tide leading to immediate
victory, and in the capture of Kars,
which was consummated Sunday morn
ing, the 18th instant, inaugurated the
first of a series of decisive victories.
Kars, as is well knowD, is the key to the
Eastern fortresses; it is substantial
ly the eye of the East. It was one
of the most thoroughly defended
and naturally the most impregnable
fortress of Asia-Minor. In the Crimean
war, it only fell after a six month’s
siege and the terrible execution of a
single night, compared with the number
of troops actually engaged in the storm,
shows that it was gallantly held until
the very last moment, even though for
months it had been accurately and per
sistently invested by the beseigers. The
telegraphic report of the fight is
Tke Most Graphic ef tke War.
Kars was captured by about 15,000
Russians who climbed the steep rocks,
ramparts and walla and stormed an
equal number of desperately fighting
Turks in a headlong fight over the
ditches and parapets, compelling them
to die or surrender. The escalade had
been originally fixed for the 13th, bat
was postponed owing to bad weather;
the principal attack was made on South
ern forts. General Lazereff commanded
the right wing, consisting of the fortieth
division and attacked Hafiz Pasha, a
fort orowning a steep rocky height.
General Oonnt Grabbe, with a regiment
of Moscow Grenadiers and a regiment of
the 39th division, assailed in the centre
of the Khanti Tabia, Survin Tabria, the
three towers and the citadel. The Arda
han brigade and other regiments of
Moscow grenadiers, under Generals
Roop and Kornaroff, forming the left
wing, assaulted Fort Inglis, on the
North. The attack began in the centre,
at 8:30 o’clock, on Saturday evening,
when Oount Grabbe led his brigade
against the Khanli redoubt, and fell
dead himself at the flret onset, pierced
by a bullet. Captain Kuadnickl, of the
39th regiment, was first to enter the re
doubt, at eleven o'clock at night. His
sword was out clean out of his hand and
his clothes pierced. The redonbt sur
rendered early in the morning, and then
the three lower. Almost simultaneously
with the capture of the Khanli redoubt,
the oitadel, Fort Suwarri and Fort Hafiz
were carried by assault. By daylight,
en Saturday morning, General Lazeroff’s
troops had made progress as far as the
capture of Fort Karadagk. The other
forts, especially the Arab Tabia, on the
east, and Tatmah Tabia, on the West,
maintained a stubborn resistance, until
Eigbtfo’clock, when, all the garrisons
whioli could esoape, fled toward Erze
ronm, but these were subsequently over
taken by dragoons and Cossacks and
brought back prisoners.
The Russians captured 300 cannon,
with stores, ammunition and ten thous
and prisoners. The Turks lost five
thousand men in the short engagement
and the Russians about half that num
ber, including General Behinsky
and Lieutt nant-Colonel Melikoff. On
Monday, Grand Duke Michael, who
was present during the sortie, entered
the city and received the homage of the
inhabitants, The effect of this victory,
therefore, is not gauged by the number
of prisoners taken or the amount of
stores secured; it is an invaluable ad
vantage gained in position—a “potential
energy” acquired, which must in a few
weeks end the fray. Erzeroum, only
one hundred miles distant, mast in
evitably follow its neighbor, and even
now Osman Pasha is opening negotia
tions for the surrender of Plevna, where
SkobefTs foroes have been strengthened
by reoruits from the Kars oaptors. The
beginning of the end has, therefore,
opened; the Mausoleum falls, aud Rome
is sure to follow.
At Plevna
But little actual fighting has been re
ported; in one skirmish the Russians are
said to have been defeated, and General
Skobeff to have received several contu
sions about the heard from bursting
shells.
Servia comes in for her weekly share
of oontempt, her perfidy having even so
disgusted the Russians that they now
seemed disinclined to accept fier co
operation. The Montenegrins are eon
tinning an aggressive warfare, following
up victory after victory. Ou the Dan
ube, Mehemit Ali assumes the offensive
before the Czarewitch’s army to draw
off all possible assistance from Plevna,
by the latter oommanded,
• BnfflUh Agitation
Becomes once more an important ele
ment in the Eastern embroglio. Rus
sia’s suddenly developed successes,
whioh promise to be as brilliantly fol
lowed up, are preying upon the British
heart and the press are pronounced in
favor of intervention. It is sensation
ally intimated that if Adrianople be
taken aud Constantinople jeopardized,
England may be forced into the fight to
proteot her interests. The Porte is said
to be sounding at the different Couits
for mediation, and England, it is sus
pected, will turn a willing ear.
New Cabinet in France.
The week opened stormily in Ver
sailles, by the Senate, instigated, or
controlled, by the Right wing passing
an order of the day to prevent the elec
tion—abuse inquiries from infringing
the powers or interfering with the pre
rogatives of the Executive and Judicial
authorities of the Government. This
is calculated to precipitate a con
flict between the two Chambers and may
in that way work mischief; but the Left
of the Deputies regard it as an indica
tion that the Senate will not support
the Marshal in his extreme unconstitu
tional measures. When the fact was of
ficially announced that the Ministry’s
resignation bad been aocepted, specula
tion became rile as to who their suc
cessors would be, and the Chambers and
Senate adjourned to await tho Marshal’s
action in the premises. In the event
that the new Cabinet should prove of
the same stamp with the old, it was
predicted that after their first oontact
with the Chamber they would, in turn,
be compelled to resign or the Chambers
must be again dissolved. Asa new
Chamber, in that instance, could not be
organized in time to vote the budget, a
virtual coup d'etat seemed inevitable.
It the iuterum it was suggested by the
Gambettists that the Marshal should
summon a Congress of the Senate and
Chambers and by this bipartite com
mission put an end to the crisis. Gam
betta, who is Chairman of the Budget
Committee, will not allow any appropri
ations to the voted until the Preiidcnt
changes his present polioy. The
following is the new Ministry ;
President of the Council and Minis
ter of War, Gen. Grimaudet de Boche
bouet: Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Marquis de Baneville; Minister of the
Interior, M. de Weiche; Minister of
Justice, M. Lepeletier; Minister of
Finanoe, M. Dutilleul; Minister of Com
merce, M. Oaenne; Minister of Public
Works, M. Graeff; Minister of Public
Instructions, M. Faye; Minister of
Marine, Admiral Ponssin.
The oomplexion of this body will de
termine whether or not MacMahon is
softening and their reception by the
Left will indicate the course of the
Deputies. They have already been
contemptuously criticised by the ex
treme journals, although the Cabinet
oommenoes business evidently with a
conciliatory tone.
Pla Nraa.
The Pope’s feebleness is increasing
and he ia compelled to discontinue his
audiences. A Papal Connoil it is
thought, will be formed immediately
for the consideration of Church affairs.
Perldioiis Hetlw.
Contentious are reported in the
Mexican Cabinet and divisions are
marked in their Congress. An un
scrupulous extreme party are clamorous
for a war with the United States. Diaz,
it is said, has ordered the repnlaion by
force of any United States troops over
the Rio Grande. Diplomatic treatment
by a reoognized Mexican Minister at
Washington, has become necessary.
Biaer'ie Mratios-
We understand that Hon. Joseph B.
Camming, the Democratic nominee for
the Senate from the Eighteenth Senato
rial District, will address the people of
Riehmond county on next Monday night,
at the City Hall, at 7* o’clock. We
hope that there will be a full attend
ance. We understand that Hon. H.
Oley Foster has been invited to be pres
ent oa this oooaeion.
DEMOCRATIC UNITY.
NECESSITY FOR PARTY ORGANI
ZATION.
Letter Froa Governor Jenkins to Hon. M.
A. Evans.
The following letter has been handed
ua for publication. The letter speaks
for itself :
Auodbta, November 22,1877.
M. A Evans, Esq. :
Mt Dbab Sib— l have your letter of
the 19th instant. I regret very much
the attitude assumed by Jefferson coun
ty, in regard to the Senatorial election.
It strikes me aa being not in keeping
with her well known conservative
course in the past. When I began to
take an interest in politics, Jefferson
was my home, and from that time to
this I have been muoh in intercourse
with her people, and closely observant
of their course. No people in Georgia
have been truer to the party they es
poused than have they, and this, in
their case, has been a sure test of their
fidelity to principle, for the reason that
principle governed their party associa
tions. In Republican gevernments
there must necessarily be parties, and
to preserve party integrity and party ef
ficiency there must be party nomina
tions, to office. If the party in the ma
jority tolerate a multiplicity of candi
dates for the same office and cast their
votes, by personal preference, the
result will usually be that the minority
party, conscious of their weakness, will
concentrate on one of their men, and by
a plurality vote carry the election—win
power—and use it to violate the princi
ples and policy of the majority. Hence
the necessity of party nominations.
Where there are several aspirants to the
same position, in the same party, per
sonal preferences may legitimately con
trol individuals in making nominations;
but here they should stop. As the
largest cumber of voters control in legal
elections, so the will of the party, de
clared in party nominations, should
control the party in the legal elections.
Personal preferences should then be
laid aside. Otherwise there can be no
such thing as party organization or
party ascendancy—in foot, no party at
all.
Influenced by these considerations,
the Democratic party of Georgia has
adopted the policy of making nomina
tions—it has become settled usage among
them—it may be safely said to have be
come a party principle. The Democrats
of good old Jefferson have in the past
given it their sanotion—acted upon it.
Only a few days since they nominated
their candidates for the popular branch
of the Legislature, but refused to par
ticipate in the nomination of a candi
date for the Senate.
I pause now to inquire why is this ? 1
have no inclination to utter censure or
reproaoh. The thing is done, and Jef
ferson will have neither part nor lot in
making a nomination. But Glascock
and Richmond, her sister counties, will
meet in Convention and nominate a can
didate, and there is nothing whatever in
the action of the Democratic Convention
of Jefferson county (declining to be rep
resented in the Senatorial District Con
vention) to prevent any good Democrat
in Jefferson from voting for the candi
date nominated by the Convention, who
ever he may be. All who desire to main
tain sound, well established and con
servative party ÜBage are as free to vote
for the nominee as if Jefferson were rep
resented in the Convention. This can
not be disputed; and I trust many, very
many, of them will illustrate their fealty
to the Democratic party by doing so.
The circumstances, at this time, are
peculiar. It is certain that neither Jef
ferson nor Glascock has put forward one
of her citizens as a candidate for the
nomination. No citizen of either of those
counties is known to be seeking it. There
is at this moment one, and only one,
candidate for the Senate in the District,
the Hon. H. Clay Foster of Richmond—
an Independent candidate—a candidate
independently of Democratic nomina
tion—and, therefore, a candidate inde
pendently of the Democracy of the Dis
trict. Mr. Foster certainly has the
right so to declare himself. I am not
denying this—nor am I denouncing him
for exercising that right. lam simply
defining his position, which does not
seem to me to commend him very strong
ly to Democrats who desire to perpetu
ate Democratic principles, by Demo
oratio unity, in accordance with Demo
cratic usage.
Th Democrats of Riohmond, seeing
that no citizen of Jefferson or of Glas
cock at this time aspires to the position
of Senator, and not altogether relishing
this Independent movement, in which
they think they discern, not only a lack
of good fellowship, but also the seeds of
disintegration, and death of the party
have held a primary Democratic elec
tion. to select a suitable candidate for
the Senate subject to the nomination of
a District Convention. This was no
ring proceeding —no Independent
Riohmond movement—but a move
ment of the Richmond Democracy
entirely in subordination to the will
and final decision of a District Conven
tion. Polls were opened in every dis
trict and all Democrats, and only Demo
crats, invited to express their prefer
ence. The choice fell upon Major
Joseph B. CnmmiDg, who says he will
be a candidate for the Senate, if nomi
nated by a Democratic District Con
vention, and not otherwise. Can any
thing be fairer, more open, more in
deference to the will of the party, or
more conducive to its prosperity ? Look
at the two men, in their widely differ
ing self-chosen political positions,end say
which finds most favor in your eyes ?
Should Major Cumming be nominated
by the Convention, we all shall have to
choose between them.
For myself, though very far from en
tertaining any hostility to the Independ
ent condidate I confess to very warm
personal friendship for and admiration
of tho gentleman who will stand before
you, only under authorized candidacy.
This friendship and admiration, embrac
ing intellectual, moral and political con
sideration, is founded upon intimate ac
quaintance with him from his boyhood;
so that I know of whom I speak. These
last considerations, however, will not so
powerfully actuate those who know him
only by repute, but so excellent and so
wide is that repute, that none need hesi
tate to repose in him high political
trusts.
But there are considerations which
ooncern us all alike arid which point to
the nominee of the Convention, who
ever he may be, as the proper recipient
of onr suffrages. But a few years since
the South had no political status at all
—no representation in councils of the
Federal Government—no home govern
ment. Now all this is changed. Once
remitted to free suffrage we soon worked
out onr salvation, and asserted our
political creed. The South is solidly
Democratic, and has a most important
part to act in reforming the Govern
ment, which has been going from bad to
worse until it has become wholly cor
rupt. So much so, that the whole
people of the United States have been
denied the President of their choioe.
The power of the South is again being
felt, and unless she can be divided, the
days of Radical rule are numbered.
Systematic efforts are being made to ac
complish this division. It has been
several days since announced from
Washington that the de facto
President has avowed himself as
engaged in this work, and so far
there has been no contradiction to it.
He has sought to reconcile his leading
Republican friends to what ho calls his
Southern policy, by saying that its prob
able effect will be to divide the Demo
cracy of the South as now constituted,
by detaching from it the Old Line
Whigs and uniting them with the Re
publican party. He is reported to have
made these utterances, there has been
time for contradiction and no contradic
tion has come. Now, whilst we should
applaud him aud thank him for his
good aots, we must not allow him or any
other power or principality to seduce
us from onr allegianoe to party, to prin
ciple, to country—for just now these al
legiances are one and the same.
The people of Jefferson were Old Line
Whigs. None stanneher, none truer.
The issues whioh divided them and the
Democrats in the past have themselves
passed away. They are united now in
principle and especially in the great
uort of reform. Let them stand shoul
der to shoulder, indivisible and invinci
ble, or reform will be checked in itß in
ception, and the dawning and brighten
ing hope of the country utterly crushed.
How do I connect this view with the
Senatorial election in this District? Why
just in this way. As surely as ths sun
shines if ever this scheme of dividing
the now solid Southern Democracy by
enticing the its Old Line Whigs into the
Republican camp, meets with any suc
cess, it will be accomplished by no open
movement, but by cunning devices. The
old log cabin of 1840, with the ooon skin
hanging on the outside, will not be roll •
ed out in open day light. There will be
no rallying cry of “Whigs to your old
allies, who deserted aud betrayed you.”
Oh 1 no. There will be first a doling out
of treasury pap, then here and there a
merry junketing. But the great instru
mentality, the wedge which will rive this
now compact body will be independent
candidacy. The Republican minority
will always incline to the support of the
independent candidate of the Demo
cracy against the regular nominee. In
this way obligations will be _ created,
good will engendered, aud reciprocities
brought about. Ido not charge the in
dependent candidate of the District with
entertaining such a par reaching design.
I do not believe he does, but I doubt
whether ha has carefully considered the
dangerous character of the tool he is
using. He has precedents for it, and
perhaps they made the perilous step
more easy for him. He ia adding an
other to the list, and, when numbers
give them great weight, they will as
suredly come back continually to
plague their inventors and copy
ists, and their friends. When, by
their number, they become impos
ing, the old salutary party usage
will be extinct, and “Mene, Mene, Te
kel, Upharsin," will be written on the
wall of the Democratic sanotum. And
the judgment will be just, for they who
are untrue to themselves merit destruc
tion. The Democratic party have it in
their power to arrest this growing evil
by simply withholding their suffrages
from those who thus irregularly seek
them. If they will not do this, the con
sequences be on their own heads.
Very truly, your friend,
O. J. Jenkins.
HON. H. H. CASEY.
His Letter Accepting the Democratic Nomi
nation Fram the Twenty-Ninth Senatorial
District.
Wathblt Hall, November 21,1877.
Messrs. J. P. Williams, T. H. Remson
and F. H. Colley, Committee:
Gentlemen— Your letter from Smith’s
Mills, November 20th, 1877, stating
“that you had been appointed a commit
tee to inform you (me) of your (my)
unanimous nomination as the Demo
cratic candidate for Senator in the elec
tion on the sth of December next, by
the Convention this day assembled,”
etc., is to hand, and I hasten to reply.
I must express my surprise at this, to
me, unexpected and unmerited nomina
tion. I did not, and do not wish to con
tinue longer m publio life; and that
wish I had made known on every occa
sion where it oould come in as a part of
the conversation. To the delegates to
the Convention from this oounty, and to
all other friends who had approaohed
me on the subject of the Senatorial
nomination, I distinctly, unequivocally
and sinoerely stated that I did not de
sire the nomination, and my name would
not be before the Convention. Tho Vox
Populi of this oounty, of this District,
yea, of the State of Georgia, was pro
nonnoed in favor of Judge Reese as the
“right man in the right plaoe,” and the
delegates from this county to the Con
vention which met in Thomson, true to
that voice, presented the name of that
distinguished gentleman to that body,
which was received with a unanimous
answer. But, for good and sufficient
reasons, given in his letter of declina
tion, Judge Reese’s refusal necessitated
a second assemblage of the Convention.
The next ohoiee of your body indicates
me as the one upon whose shoulders the
mantle of our late Senator should fall.
I only wish I was mentally as I am
bodily able to wear it graoefully and
well. But sincere as I am in my wish
to retire now and forever from the “po
litical arena,” the action of your hon
orable body, under all the circum
stances and the peculiar surroundings,
requires that I shall make my private
wished subordinate to that of the publio
will, as expressed through the regular
ohannel. Permit me to tender to you
individually, and through you to the
Convention whioh authorized your very
complimentary letter of yesterday, my
thanks and high appreciation of the
honor conferred, and have only to add
that I accept the nomination; and should
the ballot endorse your action I will be
at my post of duty on the ides of No
vember next, to answer as best I may
the demands made upon me as a publio
servant. Truly and respectfully,
H. K. Cabby.
To Messrs. J. P. Williams, T. H.
Remson, J. W. Morgan, F. H. Colley,
Committee.
HA YEN LEGALLY ENDORSED.
A Nice Point or Law Raised Over An Election
| | Bet—Tilden Declared Not Elected by a Vir
ginia Judge.
Richmond, November 17.—A novel
suit, involving the election of the Presi
dent in November last, has just been
heard and deoided in the Corporation
Court, at Danville, in this State. It ap
pears that on or about the 6th of No
vember, 1876, a citizen named D. S.
Lewis made a wager with another oiti
zen named T. J. Lee, that Mr. Hayes
was elected President. The stakes were
deposited with a mutual friend named
James Wood. After the deoision of the
Electoral College became known, the
stakeholder, Mr. Wood, decided that
Mr. Hayes was the President elect, and
he therefore transferred the funds to
Mr. Lewis. Mr. Lee, the other party to
the wager, refused to be governed by
this decision, on the gronnd, as he
claimed, that Mr. Tilden was elected ac
cording to the mode of eleotiou contem
plated by the Constitution and laws of
the oonntry when the wager was made.
Mr. Lee accordingly entered suit
against Mr. Wood, the stake-holder, for
the recovery of the amount of the orig
inal deposits, and the case was heard
before Judge Flournoy. His Honor
remarked that if the plaintiff raised the
question whether Mr. Hayes was elected
or not, he would refer him to the deoi
sion of the Eleetoral Commission, to the
action of Congress ratifying that deoi
sion, and to the faot that Hayes was the
de facto President. But he said, as he
was then informed, he would decide the
case upon the gronnd that Mr. Wood,
the stake holder, had no notioe from
Mr. Lee forbidding the payment of the
money to Mr. Lewis after Mr. Wood had
had reasonable gronnd for believing
that the faot had happened, upon the
happening of which he was to pay over
the money. He (the Judge) would not
suffer the question whether Mr. Hayes
was elected or not to be discussed in his
Court. Mr. Hayes was the recognized
President, and, consequently, the plain
tiff could not recover the funds. The
decision is regarded as virtually declar
ing that Tilden was not elected.
THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
Mr. John Calvin Johnson has retired
from the Mayoralty race in Athens.
H. G. Hardigrove is plumped into the
contest by his friends in Oconee oounty.
Dr. Felton’s late speech in Congress
is making the welkin ring in the Sev
enth.
Hon. R. E. Lester, of Savannah, has
been re-nominated for the Senate from
the Ist,
Captain Ben T. Collier has been nom
inated for the Lower House in Worth
oounty.
Eugene P. Speer, Esq., of the Old
Capital, is mentioned for the Legisla
ture from Baldwin.
Hon. N. J. Hammond will allow his
name to be used for the House of Rep
resentatives in Fulton.
Messrs. Russell, Pane and Adams
were unanimously nominated in Chat
ham for Representatives.
Col. M. O. Fulton will probably be
the independent candidate in the 29th
against Dr. Casey, the regular nominee.
In Thomas county the Democrats
have nominated Hon. Wm. M. Ham
mond and Dr. D. H. Wilmob for Repre
sentatives.
Messrs. Davis, Miller and Sikes, the
members in the last Legislature, whose
terms were cut short, are the nominees
in Houston oounty.
Messrs. A. L. Roughton, I. G. Wich
er, B. O. Harris, W. O. Smith and Dr.
W. W. Carr, are additional candidates
in Washington oounty.
Candidates are slow in ooming oat in
Gwinnett. The Athens Watchman sug
gests a re-election of Messrs, Hutchins
and Born, the late Representatives.
The Macon Telegraph thinks that no
Democrat should vote for any candidate
to the Legislature unless pledged to
make Senator Gordon his own successor.
Mr. M. M. Sheats, on account of ill
health, withdraws from the raoe in
Oconee oounty. Mr. Sheats, however,
is confident of meeting his opponents
again at Phillippi.
Atlanta’s campaign headquarters have
been removed from Weinmeister’s Bead
ing Room to the Bnglish bnilding. From
this it seems that Atlanta has ceased to
“beer” and will now “bull” the fight.—
So.
The Constitution says : “They gre
getting the Senatorial race terribly mix
ed in the Muscogee district, and it is
said ex-Governor Smith is to be trotted
out and elected over the present oontest
ante.”
The Macon Telegraph says: “The
bitter personal contest between the can
didates for the Legislature in Randolph
is unfortunate. But this is the legiti
mate result when party nominations are
dispensed with.” ... _
Good for the Thomasville Times:
“Let the Democratic party in the county
as in the paat stand shoulder to shoul
der. There is a plaoe for every man,
and there should be a man for every
place Stand by yoor nominations.”
Of the homestead question the Rome
Courier save: “If the new one is reject
ed the old one stands, and it is not pos
sible, now, to dispense with the home
stead provisions altogether, even if the
people deaired so to do.
A oorreepondent of the CartersviUe
Express says that if General Young will
allow the use of his name for the Legis
lature, ho will find that his public ser
vices in the paat are fully appreciated.
He will find, also, that the people of
Bartow have not forgotten the men who
stood foremost when brave men were
needed.
•took. Bon J aad Krai Batata Broker.
Mr. John J. Cohen, Jr., has engaged
in the stock, bond and brokerage bus
iness on his own account. Mr. Cohen
has been engaged in this business for a
number of years, and is familiar with
it in all its details. He is a young gen
tleman of good business qnabtiea, and:
stands well in this community. We
oommend him to the publio.
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.
TUB DEMOCRACY OF THE DIS
TRICT IN LINE.
Meetlg* •( the Scaatartal Ccmallm In
(Htata-GlucMk and Richmond Repn
acntcd—The Absence of Jefrraaa Regret
ted—Tme Democrats Called Upon to Stand
By the Party—Uaanimoaa Nomination ot
Hon. Joaeph B. Cnaalnf-'The Speeches—
The Aadleace —The Hoopltaiity of Glao>
cock.
(OFFICIAL REPORT. ]
Gibson, Ga., November 28, 1877.
The Convection was called to order in
the Oonrt House at 12 o’olook by Dr. J.
F. Usry, Chairman of the meeting call
ed to elect delegates from Glascock
to the Senatorial Convention. Dr. Usry
welcomed the delegates to Gibson.
J. B. Williams, Esq., moved that J. L.
Fleming, Esq., of Biohmond, be elected
temporary Chairman. The motion was
adopted. On motion of Patrick Walsh,
Esq., Major J. Y. H. Allen was elected
temporary Secretary.
The Chairman annonnoed the first
business in order to be the call of the
roll of delegates from each oounty com
posing the district. The counties were
called:
Jefferson—No delegates present.
Glascock—J. B. Wilhams, O. B.
Las ter.
Biohmond—Joseph Ganahl, James L.
Fleming, Patriok Walsh, J. Y. H. Allen,
B. J. Wilson, Louis A. Dugas, Jr.
On motion of Patrick Walsh, Esq., O.
B. Laster, Esq., was elected permanent
Chairman, and on motion of CoL B. J.
Wilson, Major J. Y. H. Allen was elect
ed permanent Secretary.
Patriok Walsh, Esq., moved that a
committee of three be appointed by the
Chair to prepare business for the Con
vention. The motion was adopted, and
Messrs. Walsh, Ganahl and Williams
were appointed on the committee. The
committee reported the following reso
lutions, which were unanimously adopt
ed :
Wherbas, The Democracy of Glascock
oounty, acting in accordance with the
firmly established and well reoognized
custom of the Democratic party of this
Senatorial District, did extend a cordial
invitation to the Democracy of Bioh
mond and of Jefferson to uaite with
them in sending delegates to a Senato
rial Convention, for the purpose of nom
inating a Democratic candidate for Sen
ator from the Eighteenth Senatorial
District; and
Wherbas, The Democracy of Bioh
mond, accepting the invitation in the
spirit in whioh it was tendered, have,
through their duly authorized party
channels, appointed delegates to such
Senatorial Convention; and
Whereas, The Oounty Convention of
the Democracy of Jefferson oounty fail
ed to accept the invitation extended,
and omitted to send delegates to this
Convention; therefore, be it
Resolved, 1(, That we, the represent
atives of the Democracy of the counties
of Glasoook and Biohmond, in Conven
tion assembled, do hereby endorse and
approve the policy of making nomina
tions, which has heretofore been pur
sued in this District, and whioh we be
lieve to be still necessary to the welfare
and good government of the people.
Resolved, 2d, That we have learned
with deep regret the action of the Coun
ty Convention of Jefferson in rejecting
the invitation extended to them to send
delegates to this Convention; that wo
deprecate any attempt to introduce
seism and to bring about disorganiza
tion and disintegration in the ranks of
the organized Democracy of this Dis
trict; and that we earnestly entreat the
true Democrats of Jefferson to unite
with their political friends and brethren
in Glascook and Biohmond in maintain
ing Democratic organization in this
campaign and in achieving Democratic
triumph at the ensuing election.
Resolved, 3 d, That we believe the
safety of our State and the well be
ing of our people depend upon the
success and supremacy of that party
whioh redeemed our State and citi
zens from the corrupt and tyranni
cal rule of aliens and oppressors; that to
dissolve Democratic organization and
desert the Democratic banner would be
to invite and deserve disaster and de
feat and to throw away the fruits of
victory won by the gallant and patriotic
men of this District, who have so reso
lutely and fearlessly maintained the
principles of Democracy in the past.
Resolved, 4 th, That we proceed to
nominate a candidate for Senator from
this District, in accordance with snoh
rale as may be adopted by the Conven
tion, and that we appeal to the Democ
racy of Jefferson to give a cordial and
generous support to the standard bearer
who may be selected.
J. B. Williams, Esq., moved that the
Convention go into a nomination for
Sonator. Adopted.
Mr. Williams presented the name of
Major Joseph B. Gumming, of Bioh
mond. On motion of Mr. Dugas, the
roll of the delegates was oalled, each
delegate voting viva voce. The Chair
man stated that it gave him pleasure to
annonnoe that Major Joseph B. Cam
ming received the unanimoas vote of
the Convention.
The Committee on Bnsiness offered
the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That while we believe the
party organization in this District is
sufficient for the management of its po
litical affairs, still as the Democratic
Convention of Jefferson county has re
quested the appointment of a District
Executive Committee,
Resoleed, That in accordance with
snoh request, the President of this Con
vention, after conferring with the Execu
tive Committees of the three counties,
appoint an Executive Committee—six
persons from Biohmond and two from
Glascook and four from Jefferson ; that
a majority of said committee shall meet
as soon as convenient and organize by
electing a Chairman outside of their
number, and that the members of said
committee be authorized to transact the
usual business pertaining to their po
sition.
The following addrcßß was unani
mously adopted:
To the xrate of Jefferson County:
Th> .tidersigned have assembled in
Contention of the Demooratio party of
the 18th Senatoriol Distriot, and have
nominated a candidate of the party for
Senator. It has been the usage of the
party since its reorganization in 1863 to
hold such nominating Convention at
each reourring Senatorial election. Such
Conventions were held in 1868, in 1872
and in 1876. We have oonvened in ac
cordance with such usage, having been
selected in the counties from which we
came in strict accordance with party
methods.
Our brethren of Jefferson have been
invited cordially and urged earnestly to
meet with us. The day of assembling
has been deferred for the express pur
pose of giving them time to select their
delegates, and we have not come to
gether until theaction of a meeting, held
in Lonisville, November 19th, rendered
it certain that Jefferson would send no
delegates to the Convention. We greatly
regret this failure.
We now appeal to the Democrats of
Jefferson to stand by the party. In as
sembling as we have done, in making a
nomination as we have done, we have
aoted for the party, following, in so act
ing, its time honored usages; and now
the issue is distinctly presented of sus
taining the fair, unimpeachable aotion of
the Democratic party, or joining with
those who seek its destruction.
We conjure you to stand by the Dem
ocratic party. By it the State was re
deemed; by it the State is kept in the
way of good government; by its solidity
the South is a great power in the Gov
ernment. With it broken into frag
ments and its strength dissipated we fall j
from a position of power to one of weak
ness; we surrender order for oonfusion,
we spurn certain victory and accept in
evitable defeat.
If there were anything unusual in the
manner of our selection or unauthorized
in our action, we wonld not ask your
ratification. If there were anything in
the career of the nominee—either in the
hour of our trial, when he acoepted cer
tain defeat for the preservation of the
party, or in the day of our success, when
he Bhared in the triumph of the party—
we would not seek your support. But,
assured that our action is usual, regular
and legal, and believing that the nomi
nee is worthy your support, we appeal
to you to stand with your brethren of
Bichmond and Glascock.
The following named were appointed
by the Convention a oommittea to notify
Majir Cumming of bis nomination:
Messrs. O. E, Laster. J. B. Williams,
L. A. Dugas, Jrl, and Patrick Walsh.
On motion of Mr. Williams, it was
ordered that the proceedings of this
Convention be published in the Chboh
icim and CoNSTrrtrnoNAiwr, the War
renton Clipper and the Jefferson News
and, Farmer.
Messrs. Ganahl and Walsh were in
vited to address the Convention. The
invitation was accepted, and both gen
tlemen delivered addresses in favor of
the integrity of the party and the sup
port of Major Joseph B. Cumming, the
nominee of the Democratic party.
O. B. Lasts®, Chairman.
J. Y. H. Annas, Secretary.
[Nora.— After the adjournment of the
Convention, Major Barnes, in response
to loud calls, delivered a stirring ad
dress.
While the occasion of the meeting
was for the Nominating Convention to
discharge the duty with whioh it had
been entrusted, interest in the proceed
ings drew to the Court House a large
number of the best and most substan
tial citizens of Glascock county, who
witnessed the proceedings of the Con
vention, listened with deep intevest to
the speeches delivered, and seemed to
be fully and enthusiastically in accord
with the sentiments expressed. The
people of Glascook may be put down as
an unit for the organised Democracy,
whioh they know redeemed Georgia, and
which they believe will save Georgia.
The citizens of the county are anxious
to have a semi-weekly mail line estab
lished between Warrenton and Gibson,
instead of the pr sent nnsstisfaotory
weekly arrangement. The distanoe is
short, the oost will be very small, and it
is to be hoped that our Representative
in Congress (Hon. A. H. Stephens) will
see to it that the wishes of so many of
his constituents are gratified. The
delegates and visitors from Biohmond
were treated in the kindest and most
hospitable manner by Messrs. Williams
and Chalker and the citizens of Gibson
and Glascook county whom they met,
and to whom they return their oordial
and heartfelt thanks ]
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
SHUFFLING OF SOUTHERN SENA
TORIAL CASES.
Speech Upon Amending the Jenraal—The
Parle Exposition Calendared—Thurman
Carries His Feint—Democratic Allies In'
Cnmp—Edmunds Reverses the Cumpase.
Washington, November 22.— The Sen
ate oocupied the morning hour in dis
enssing a motion of Thurman to amend
the journal of yesterday’s proceedings
so that it should not show that the pend
ing question was a motion of Hoar to
lay on the table a resolution to discharge
the Committee of Privileges and Elec
tions from further consideration of But
ler’s credentials. He argued that Hoar
had withdrawn that motion by unani
mous consent. In the vote this morn
ing Conover and Patterson voted with
the Democrats.
After some discussion Thurman with
drew his motion to amend the journal.
Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported,
with amendments, the House joint reso
lution on the Paris Exhibition—plaoed
on the calendar.
The Senate then, by a vote of yeas,
29, nays, 32, refused to lay on the table
the resolution of Mr. Thurman to dis
charge the Committee on Privileges and
Elections from further consideration of
the credentials of M. C. Butler as Sena
tor from Sooth Carolina. Messrs.
Davis, of Illinois; Conover, of Florida,
and Pattersou, of South Carolina, voted
with the Democrats in the negative.
The question then being on the adoption
of the resolution, Mr. Edmonds, of Ver
mont, moved to amend the resolution so
as to discharge the committee from fur
ther consideration of the credentials of
Mr. Kellogg as Senator from Louisiana,
instead of Mr. Butler as Senator from
South Carolina. Upon this motion a
debate followed.
Conover* of Florida* Ihmlhls Upon Seating
Butler—Carolina and Louisiana Probably
Cos Have Their Rlchta—An Independent
Statesman.
The pressure is tremendous on the
Senatorial question and the impression
prevails that should the question be
forced early next week the result will be
the seating of Butler from South Caro
lina, and Kellogg from Louisiana, It
is known that Senator Conover, of
Florida, will vote throughout for seat
ing Bntler from Sonth Carolina and, as
at present advised, will vote for seating
Kellogg. Conover’s friends say of him
that his aotion in these cases is entirely
of his own volition and mnst not be con
strued that he is going over to the
Democracy. They olaim for him that
he has maintained a consistent record
and will be firm, notwithstanding the
pressure brought to bear upon him, and
while a Republican,has the honesty and
courage to do that whioh his own judg
ment dictates is right. He believes
General Bntler eutitled to his seat as
duly eleoted, and will therefore vote for
him as persistently and he did for Mr.
Pinchback.
How the Star of Empire Make. It. Way—
Conklin* Tremble. Under Democratic
Power—A Maudlin Harangue From Ed
munds.
Washington, November 22.—Conk
ling, in the Senate to-day, said, regard
ing his call for the ayes and nays on
Hoar’s motion to table Thurman’s mo
tion to discharge the committee from
further consideration of the Sonth Car
olina case, that his purpose in calling
for the yeas and nays on the motion to
lay on the table was to put it beyond
the reach of recall or withdrawal by any
body. He had no hesitation in avowing
his reason for this. There had been, if
not rumors, whispers of new and
strange alliances. It was to be
hoped they were holy alliances.
There had been whispers of alliances
pending for some time, whioh were
yesterday suspected to have ripen
ed into coalitions relied upon to
transfer the power to the other
side of the Senate. He felt it
his right to asoertain, by the ear
liest method, who were the late
allies, the reserves and recruits, and
how many there were. It seemed that
a motion to lay on the table not being
debatable would produce a very early
revelation of the condition, and show
how it was that the control of the Son
are was to pass away from the majority
as heretofore constituted, and, like the
star of empire, westward takes its
way. (Here he looked towards the
west, or Democratic side of the cham
ber.)
Bearing on the same question, Mr.
Edmunds is quoted: “1 have read the
Record with considerable oare, and i
find that the Chairman of the Commit
tee on Privileges and. Elections did at
tempt to persuade my honorable friend
from Indiana, and others of that ilk,
that this procedure was ungracious, un
just, unfair and unprecedented. Let
me tell my honorable friend that he and
others should not undertake to trip up
the heels of a committee of this body
before they have had an opportunity to
investigate a matter that it had been
thought worthy to send to the commit
tee for investigation, and particularly
by that sort of a—is it parliamentary to
say contrivance, Mr. President ? By that
sort of method, I believe that is a par
liamentary word, by that sort of method
whioh, in some conclaves, adjusts mat
ters of this kind. The opposition here
appeal to the judicial sense of this body
just as a campaign in war time is sup
posed to be managed, with spies and
scouts aud tactics and telegrams and
ciphers and so on, and then maroh into
this arena of "serene justice,” as it is so
often oalled, upon such questions, and
with the troops all drilled and gttns all
loaded, they take the case that hap
pens to be most convenient in order to
make votes the fastest, cat that off from
consideration and thereby acquire
strength enough by the same solid
methods to prevent any other than
a similar disposition of any other like
oase, and without any regard to the
evidence. Mr. President, if anythingof
that kind has occurred, as it is no-
torioos in the newspapers that it has,
then it does not commend itself, it ap
pears to me, largely to our considera
tion. But my friend from Indiana now
tells me that the Chairman of the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections says
that the Kellogg case ought to be in
vestigated. So it ought, but not less so
than those that stand later on the calen
dar of the Senate, and as I presume on
the calendar of the committee, and that
ought, in all justice and truth, be taken
up in their order and fairly considered
and disposed of. Bat to introduce the
tricks of the theatre, the shiftings of
the scenes, the trap doors and the ropes
in the dark corners, to manifest and
master a solid body of men to out the
knot in this way, it appears to me, does
not allow my friend a large chance to
say that the Chairman of the Commit
‘ tee on Privileges aDd Elections thinks
that we ought not to discharge the
committee from the consideration of
Kellogg. My friend and all his
associates say that we must dis
charge them from the consideration of
a case that they have not been able to
reach, because, as it is said, it is a little
more convenient to get a certain person
admitted to a seat in this body by that
“method,” for I wish to keep strictly
within the proprieties of this occasion,
than by the other. 8o it is, Mr. Presi
dent, that with great hope, knowing how
patriotic and how unpartisan my friend
and his associates are, I appeal to
them. Let us discharge the committee
from Kellogg and dispose of his and
Mr. Bpofford’s case. If it is right to
discharge the committee before inquiry
and report, when the Senate have already
determined the subject in their own
minds by tbeir own votes, let us do it
in the first case first. Then I will
unite with them in carrying out their
own principles and practice. We will
vote to discharge the committee in the
Carolina case, and will spend a week or
two in finding out what we can do
here. Very well; let the Senators
vote with me to discharge the com
mittee in the first case; they say
the committee ought to be discharged
for them all. If that is the order of the
Benate I submit to the will of the ma
jority, and when we have disposed of
> he first I shall be very seriously inclined
to relieve the committee from the con
sideration of the Gorbin and Butler
case. While as I say, we can take up the
papers and the evidence we are author
ized to summon witness ourselves and
they can be heard at the bar of the Sen
ate, and thus we shall then have the pa
geants that have been rarely witnessed
in history, that will be so honorable to
the principles of my good friends and
the other side, so satisfactory to the
sense of justice of the American people,
and go on with the investigation in that
way. “Let us have peace,” Mr. Presi
dent, “and oonailiation.”
| Edmund. Set Down tyon.
Edmunds’ motion, <o insert the name
of Kellogg instead of Bntler in the
pending resolution to discharge the
Committee of Privileges and EleotioDß
from further consideration of the case,
was defeated - yeas, 30; nays, 81.
Conklin* Crashed.
Coukling then submitted an amend
ment that the Committee of Privileges
and Elections be directed to report in
the matter of Kellogg and Spofford, and
meantime the South Carolina oase be
postponed. Bejeoted—SO to 32.
Edmond. Sonelched A fain.
Edmunds then submitted a motion io
discharge the committee from the con
sideration of Kellogg and Spofford.
Bejeoted— 30 to 32.
Three Time. Throttled.
Edmunds then moved that farther
consideration be postponed to Monday.
Bejeoted—3o to 31.
Et tn Cnarer.
Edmunds then moved that the Senate
adjourn to Monday. Votes—3l to 31.
Conover in this instanoe voted with
the Republicans, aud the Senate ad
journed to Monday, by the vote of Vioe-
President Wheeler.
Waddell’. Amendment Finally Killed In the
Hoa.e—Private Bills introduced—Ewln*
Sounds the Lost and Loadest Timbrel on
the Silver Bill.
The motion to reconsider the vote of
yesterday, defeating the amendment of
Waddell, of North Carolina, to appro
priate $700,000 for mail routes other than
railroad and steamship lines, was defeat
ed, and the Deficiency bill passed with
out that provision.
Bills were introduced by Hunton, of
Virginia, for the payment of the full
value of ootton seized by Treasury
officials after May, 1865, and by Vanoe,
of North Carolina, for fast mail service
between Washington and several South
ern cities.
The debate on the bill to repeal the
Resumption aot was olosed by a strong
speech in its favor by Ewing, of Ohio.
The House adjourned without final ac
tion on the bill.
A: Good Indication of Kollos* Reoelvln* a
Committee Endorsement—Elaborate Re
port. on File.
The Committee of Privileges and
Elections voted this morning 6 to 3, a
strict party vote, instructing the Chair
man to report to-morrow to seat Kellogg
as Senator from Louisiana for the long
term. <
Later. —It now appears that the de
cisive vote in the Privileges and Elec
tions Committee was not taken. The
vote, however, is considered indicative.
Spofford and Kellogg are each to be al
lowed one-half hour for argument this
afternoon, when there will be two elabo
rate reports, requiring several days for
preparation.
Hayes Will Stand by the National Credit—
The Hllver BUI to Be Cruuhed.
The Post’s speoial says : “The Pres
ident, in a conversation with a promi
nent offioer, within the past forty-eight
hours, declared unhesitatingly that he
would veto any silver bill which does
not expressly exoept the public debt
from its operations. He will not ap
prove any measure whioh has the slight
est tendency to impair the national cred
it or cause the holders of national bonds
to think that they will be paid in cur
rency of less value than gold.”
A Postmaster Under Fire.
Tho Committee of Post Offices of the
Senate have had Wiokersham. the post
master for Mobile, under fire for two
days. No result.
RESUMPTION REPEAL SWEEPS
THROUGH THE HOUSE.
Fourteen Amendments Fall—The Text of the
Bill as Passed—Fort’s Substitute Accepted
—Thirteen Majority Upon Its Paasuse.
Washinoton, November 23.—The great
interest in the House to-day was the bill
to repeal the Resumption act. There
were fourteen amendments pending,
when the House began to vote, and all
of them were negatived except one offer
ed by Fort, of Illinois, as a substitute,
aud whioh had aotually been accepted
by the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency. The bill was finally passed by a
vote of 133 to 120. The following is the
text of the bill as passed : Amend the
bill so as to read : A bill to repeal all
that part of the act approved January
14th, 1875, knowu as the Resumption
Act, whioh authorized the Secretary of
the Treasury to dispose of United States
bonds and redeem and cancel the green
back currency: That all that portion of
the act, approved January 14th, 1875, en
titled "An aot to provide for the re
sumption of specie payments,” whioh
reads as follows, to-wit: "And whenever
and so often as circulating notes shall be
issued to any snoh banking association,
so increasing its capital or circulating
notes, or so newly organized as afore
said, it shall be the duty of the Secreta
ry of the Treasury to redeem the legal
tender of the United States in excess
only of three hundred million of dollars,
to the amount of eighty per centum of
the sum of National Bank notes so is
sued to any suoh banking association
as aforesaid, and to continue such re
demption as suoh circulating notes are
issued until there Bhall be outstanding
the sum of three hundred million dol
lars of suoh legal tender United States
notes and no more; and on and after the
first day of January, 1879, the Secretary
of the Treasury shall redeem in coin the
United States, legal tender notes then
outstanding on their presentation for
redemption at the offloe of the Assistant
Treasurer of the United States in the
City of New York, of sums not less
than fifty dollars; and to enable the
Secretary of the Treaeury to prepare
and provide for the redemption in this
act authorized or required, he is au
thorized to use any surplus revenues
from time to time in the Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, and to issue,
sell and dispose of at not less than par
in coin, either of the descriptions of
bonds of the United States desoribed in
the aot of Congress, approved July 14,
1870, entitled ‘an act to authorize the re
funding of the national debt with like
qualities to privileges and exemptions
to the extent necessary to carry this act
into full effect and to use the proceeds
thereof for the jpurpose aforesaid,’ be,
and the same is hereby repealed”—vote,
133 to 120. The vote was more seo
tional than political. The Honfe ad
journed ty Tuesday.
Analyst, of the Vote—The South and the
West Carry the Bill.
Analysis of the vote on the repeal of the
Resumption act shows that 28 Republi
cans voted aye, 30 Democrats nay.
Mississippi was solid in favor of the
repeal; Missouri, 9 to 2; North Caro
lina, solid; Ohio, 10 to 7; South Caro
lina, 1 to 2; Tennessee, 7 to 2; Texas, 5
to 1; Virginia, 8 to 1; West Virginia,
solid; Alabama, solid; Arkansas, solid;
California, solid nay; Florida, 1 to 1;
Georgia, solid; Illinois, 13 to 7Htndi
ana, solid; lowa, 2 to 6; Kansas solid;
Kentucky, solid; Louisiana, fcto 2;
Maine, solid nay; Maryland, 4 to 1;
Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Ne
braskia, Oregon, Rhode Island, Ver
mont, Massachusetts, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, all solid nay;
Pennsylvania, 13 to 9.
Tbo Committee Report Favorably Cpec Mr.
Hilliard’s Nomlaatloa as Minister to Brazil
—Effort to Oast Northrop. _ .
A short Cabinet, which was unimpor
tant, The Attorney-General refuses to
recommend the pardon of Ephram Hol
land, of Cincinnati, convicted of eleotion
frauds.
The Star says : “The nomination of
Hilliard, of Georgia, Minister to Brazil,
was before tho Foreign Relations Com
mittee to-day, who agreed to report fa
vorably on it. Stanley Matthews voted
with the Democrats, otherwise an ad
verse report would have been made.”
The Committee on Foreign Belations
in the Senate resolved to report favora
bly on Hilliard and unfavorably on San
ford, for Brazil and Belgium respective
ly.
The Bepublienn caucus resolved rot
to adjourn while any executive busi
ness is on its docket or in the hands of
the Senate Committee.
Strong efforts are being made by the
more Radioal Republicans of South
Carolina to have the President with
draw the nomination of Northrop as
Distriot Attorney for that State. It is
stated, on most excellent authority, that
the aotion of Senator Pattersoß in the
Butler-Corbin contest is in accordance
with his views expressed long before his
present troubles came upon nim.
The Elect loo* Committee Favor Hello**'*
Admiaaian to the Senate.
Washington, November 23.— The Com
mittee of Privileges and Elections voted
six to three in favor of seating Kellogg.
■ They set Eustis’ case for Monday and
directed Butler and Corjnn, from South
Carolina, to prepare tneir cases forth
with.
Patterson Attends the Caaens bnt Conover
, Keeps Away — The Mobile Postmaster—
Mexican Awards.
Argument in the Patterson habeas
corpus cose continues, Patterson is in
attendance on the Republican Senatorial
caucus which convened at noon, Con
over had not pat in an appearance up
to half-past twelve.
The Post Office Committee of the
Senate gave farther consideration of the
case of Wickersham, the nominee for
the Mobile Post Office, but reached no
conclusion. Indications are that the
committee will report in favor of con
firmation. .....
Mr. Evarta bad an interview with the
Sub-Committee of the House on Foreign
Affairs on the distribution of awards of
the Mexican Mixed Commission. It is
thought the committee will not report
to a full committee until next session.
Carolina’s Model Htateniiien—Their Trials
and Tribulations.
Washington, November 23—The
hearing of tbe Patterson habeas corpus
oase continues. General Connor, Attor
ney-General of Sonth Carolina, will con
clude the argument to-morrow. Great
interest attaches to the case, involving on
one side the District of Columbia as a
city of refuge, and on the other the
privileges of Senators and Congress
men.
The Judioiary Committee of the
House commenced considering tbe priv
ileges of Representative Smalls, detain
ed in a South Carolina jail. Proceed
ings to day did not go beyond a docu
mentary statemet of the oase.
D. E. Huger Smith is recognized as
Vice-Consul of Denmark at Charleston.
PROBABLE ADVERSE REPORT
AGAINST MR. FITEBIMONS.
The Committee Vnfavorably Impreaaed With
tho Appointing Policy—Darla Vote. With
th. Democrat.— ChrUtlancr Stick, to HI.
Party.
Washington, November 24.— 1 t is al
most certain that Judge Davis will vote
with the Demoorats and Mr. Christi
ancy, with his party on tho nomination
of Colonel Fitzsimons for Marshal of
Georgia, and that the report of the com
mittee will be adverse.
The contemplated oauous of Demo
cratic Senators was not hold to-day,
partly on account of bad weather and
partly baoause these was no important
matter for consideration. It still ap
pears that both parties oonsider the
seats in the Senate, judicial questions
and beyond canons control.
Commissioner Williams, of the Gen
eral Land Offlee, is advised by Speoial
Agent Carter, from Pensacola, that the
United States Marshal has regained pos
session of logs, lumber and naval stores
reoantly wrested from him by United
States District Judge, Hill.
[Noth. —Weather very bad; reports
slow.]
The Carolina Case*.
Neither House is in session and the
committees, generally, are without a
quorum, ou account of persistent rain.
Mr. Corbin has notified the Senate
Committee of Privileges and elections
that ex-Gov. Chamberlain will appear
before the committee iu support of his
(Corbin’s) olaim to the seat from South
Carolina.
Argument in the Patterson habeas
corpus is progressing.
The weather ooutiuues tempestuous
aud telegraph lines are badly crippled.
TUB TWENTY-NINTH.
Dr. R. It. Coney Nominated for the Menat.
by the District Convention.
Iu pursuance to the oall of the Chair
man, the Senatorial Convention met at
Smith’s Mill Tuesday, the 20tb, and pro
ceeded to ballot for a candidate in place
of Judge Reese. First ballot: Tutt, 2;
Barkesdale, 5; Roney, 3. Second ballot
tho same. Third ballot: Tutt, 2; Roney,
4; Barkesdale, 4.
Mr. Williams, of Columbia, then
nominated Dr. H. R. Casey, and the
sth ballot resulted : Casey, 7; Roney, 1;
Tutt, 1; Barkesdale, 1. Dr, Casey waß
then declared unanimously nominated,
and Messrs. F. H. Colley, T. H. Rem
sen, J. P. Williams and J. W. Morgan
appointed to notify Dr. Casey and re
quest his acceptance. Resolutions en
dorsing the aotion of the Chairman in
reconvening the delegatee, and thanks
for his services, blbo thanks to Col. J.
Belknap Smith for courtesies, were unani
mously adopted, with request that tho
MoDuffle Journal, Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist and Washington Gazette
publish proceedings.
J. W. Morgan, Chairman.
J. E. Strother, Secretary.
The UoinmHte’* Letter.
Smith’s Mill, November 20th, 1877.
lion. H. R. Casey :
The undersigned have been appointed
a committee to inform you of your nom
ination as the Democratic candidate for
Senator, in the election on the sth of
December next, by thecounties this day
assembled. We are not insensible to
the sacrifice of time and money which
will be inourred by you, but we are in
structed to press your acceptance of the
positton, being convinced that your
election will be fully acceptable to tho
people of the Distriot, and that your
services will be of great value in tbe en
suing important session of the Legisla
latnre. J. P. Williams,
F. H. Collet,
T. H. Remson,
J, W. Morgan,
Committee.
THE EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.
Tke Letter of Acceptance of Hon. Joseph B.
Cummin*.
Gibson, Glasoook County, 0a.,1
November 23, 1877. (
Hon. Jos. B. Gumming, Augusta, Ga.:
Dbar Sir —At the meeting ot the
Democratic Convention of the Eight
eenth Senatorial District, held this day,
yon were unanimously nominated as the
oandidate of the Democracy of this Dis
trict, for State Senate, aud the under
signed were appointed a committee to
inform you of the aotion of the Conven
tion and to request your acceptance of
the nomination tendered in snoh a com
plimentary manner.
It is with great pleasure that we dis
charge the duty imposed upon us,aud ear
nestly trust that you will consent to be
the standard bearer of the Democracy of
the Eighteenth Senatorial Distriot iu
the coming campaign.
Very respectfully and truly yours,
J. B. Williams,
O. B. Lassiter,
Of Glascook.
L. A. Duoab,
Patrick Walsh,
Of Biohmond.
Auousta, Ga., November 24.
Messrs. J. R. Lassiter, J. B. Williams,
of Glascook; L. A Dugas, Jr,, Pat
rick Walsh, of Richmond :
Ghntlhmhn — l have your letter of No
vember 23d, instant, informing me of
my unanimous nomination, by the Con
vention of the Eighteenth Senatorial
Distriot, as the oandidate of the De
mocracy of the Distriot for State Sena
tor.
With a profound seDse of the honor
conferred, 1 accept the nomination.
The mission of the Democratic party
of the State, at its reorganization in
1868, was then to redeem the State from
misrule. Its mission now is to preserve
the good government it has framed for
ns, to seonre economy in government,
and sacredly to proteot the rights of all
classes of our oitizens, by the making
aud executing just and equal laws.
So understanding its past, and so in
terpreting its present and fnture mis
sion, I enter upon tbe responsibilities of
tbe position whioh the Convention has
assigned me with the pledge of my best
efforts in that behalf.
Very respeotfnlly, yonr obedient ser
vant, Jos. B. Gumming.
MOKE BARGAINING.
Judce Mackey, af South tiuvlln, Propose*
to Swap Carhet-Baffsers for Kn-Kloxers.
[Special Dispatch to Cincinnati QaseUe ]
Washington, November 19.—Judge
Mackey, of South Carolina, is here un
der authority from the State govern
ment to propose a compromise with the
President by whioh he shall agree to
pardon the Democrats under indictment
for ku-kluxing if Governor Ha-rpton
will psrdon the Republican thieves,
The Judge, in an interview this evening,
states that the people of South Carolina
are anxious for this agreement, because
about 2,100 of her best citizens are prao
tically disfranchised or taking refuge in
Canada until the storm blows over.
They are on parole, but the cases are
liable to be called any day, and juries
are certain to be packed in the United
States Court against them, because very
few good citizens can take the iron clad
oath prescribed by law. The exchange
of prisoners would be fair all round. Of
the 69 thieves now under conviction or
likely to be only a few are Democrats.
Mackey says it was chiefly because the
Republicans, when they had control of
the ooffers, were selfish and kept the
swag in the family. Of hisoironit there
were only two Democrats mixed up in
the rascality, and they were the only
Democrats who held offioe in the dis
triot. He says the people want to let
up on Patterson, because he means to
vote to scat Butler, and their vengeanoe
is directed more again those who took
money out of the Treasury than those
who simply paid money to secure elec
tions. It is learned that the President
will not listen to the proposition when
it is submitted.
What a Dra**l*t Bays.
I have been selling Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup for tan years, and it has given
better satisfaction than any other cough
remedy.— A. O. Schmidt, Apothecary,
Hanover, Pa,
It was a Chicago lady who sent an or*
der to Rome to a celebrated soulptor for
“one marble figger of Apoller in hiff
close, to cost not more than SI,OOO.
General John B. Gordon led many
brave Georgians to the cannon’s mouth,
while mothers were saving the lives of
their babies with Tsethina (Teething
Powders). J. H. Alexander, Druggist,
supply them.