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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26,1877.
EDITORIAL NOTE**.
Coal is unprecedentedly low in New
York.
Conklino’s custom Louse hymn : “ Hold
the Port!”
Painted slate pencils are said to be poi
sonous. Look out, little ones!
It is surmised that the President is not
sorry at the rejection of McLik.
After Plevna, what? has received one
answer. A tumble in the grain market.
President and Mrs. Hates will within
a fortnight celebrate their silver wedding.
Fenny coincidence. M. C. Bctlkr is a
Senator and Butler of the House is also
M. C.
It takes 130,000 beeves annually to sup
ply the intellectual stomachs of the Bos
touese.
s*~ ,
Who would have supposed that “on
with the calendar ” could create blood on
the moon ?
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The latest detiuition of mau, to distin
guish him from other animals, is his exclu-
STvS mmfWlfW IROTT WMfif. ■
Senator Edmunds says there is no surer
way of getting anything into the papers
than by talking about it in secret session.
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Blaine and Cokklino find themselves,
after thirteen years of personal hostility,
“ pigging in the same truckle lied.” On
with the calendar!
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The poultry supply this season is said to
he unprecedented. The price iu Baltimore,
last week, went down, for turkeys, to 8 3-4
cents per pound, at wholesale rates.
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Some of the Northern papers call Skoiik
i.ki'f the Russian Custer. He is a much
greater insn than Custer, and cannot lie
trupped hy any Hitting 801 l Pasha.
The WurUl notes that the people of Mas
sachnsetts seem to he opposed to a solid
boutli in any form, judging from the frantic
efforts made, thus far Ineffectually, to save
their famous Revolutionary church.
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Commodore Vanderbilt wanted to
bnild a monument to Washington 600 feet
high. Therefore Mrs. Laßau thinks he
must have been crazy. A monument to
Washington built by Vanderbilt would
have been almost as sarcastic as the church
which Voltaire erected to God.
The Washington Post tells the story as a
literal fact that a member of Congress told
a colored boy who hail charge of his room
to take a lot of old papers and sell them,
and promised him that he should have half
of the proceeds. The hoy obeyed, and re
turned with nine cents as gross receipts.
The member pocketed five and gave Hie
boy four cents.
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As to the next Ptesidcnl, Wendell
Phillies, at an iulerview, said : “ I can
tell you £ think he will Lea Democrat. It
will not beTn.DEN. It may be George
B. McClellan. The Vice-President will
be from the South. It will be Wade Hamp
ton or something like him. 1 hardly think
the South will have the impudence and as
surance to claim the first place at once, but
it may he.”
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We see it stated tiiat in Hamburg Siegis
mind Ll brow IE/, lias written a work on
“ Der Kuss und das Kussen”—kisses and
kissing iu which the subject is considered
“ medically, philosophically and tlieologi
cully." The tlrst clause must lie foyer blis
ters; the second evolving an inner con
sciousness; the third whether it happens
on Sunday night or week days.
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Senator Conover says that the portrait
of Senator Patterson in the current num
ber of Harper'* Weekly is a striking like
ness. Senator Patterson thinks the pic
ture of Senator Conover flatters that
statesman a little, hut is otherwise remark
able for its fidelity. Senator Butler must
cerlaiuly think that his portrait is a wretch
ed caricature. It looks like Whitelaw
Reid with the mumps.
The New York Times is evidently pre
paring to break witli the President under
certain contingencies. It says Mr. Haves
“ cannot surrender unqualifiedly to his
Senatorial assailants without subjecting
himself to a bondage more mortifying Ilian
anything he has yet endured. But it is not
’KTSBiblu for him to remain where he is, and
, IS he is. Will he retreat or advance? Will
he 1! Vht or negotiate terms ? These are the
questii ' ,IS lo answered, aud that must be
ausweret l soon.”
Mrs Ro*’ ,KßTß > ' n die Washington Capi
tal thinks General Gordon’s pantomime
on a recent oc. oasion meant lliis: ‘‘While
the noble York c.Wain (Conkling) was
calmly and safely 'titting as a memlier of
the lower House of .Congress, and getting
large fees also from .die Government for
services rendered outsn.'c, 1 got this scar in
battle, ’midst shot and Bhell, on perliups
what he would call the w. r ong side; hull
fought for my side, as 1 deei 'nil right, and
1 do not remember seeing Gt p warlike
chieftain to the front fighting foV his side.”
Senator Hamlin, endeavoring to ascer
tain how the secrets of executive sessions
leak out, said: “The newspaper reporters
-were a sharp, adroit set of men, whose
knowledge of public affairs was, as a rule,
quite equal to any Senator’s, aud in eight
cases out of ten they could sit dowu aud
write nliout a subject considered in execu
tive session what would prove correct. If
they had any doubt they knew where A
stood and B stood, anil a few questions to
C, the drift of which the latter would
hardly suspect, made the account quite cor
rect. As for himself, lie made it a rule
never to talk to newspaper correspondents
cmi any subject,”
SuMK Grauger, who heard that the Preai
,1 nl was " amiably stubborn," has present
(%t v> bis Excellency a copy of an original
work on “ The Mnle." The following in
seriptio R * CM written on the fly leaf: “ The
author in' presenting this small token of
his Excellency, Presi
dent Hayes, uv ’‘ * ,Uia l,is
much Is men list predecessors. Anouk*
J ackson and A *>*>*" Johnson, both
us.k kindly to the ot the luu ’° auJ
his many amiable q Wrtics. He hopes,
therefore, that his W *H treat
with great kindness tlie ei 'cenlricities of an
animal that has been so usetN to mankind.
Boston Journal: The recent sharp skir
mish between Senators * n d
Thcrman has recalled a neat bit ot' chas
tisement administered by Mr. FrsSKNPKN
to the New York Senator when he was
somewhat new to his duties. He had un
dertaken to lecture the Senate ou allowing
.Its memliers to take bills, in the custody of
tire Secretary, front his desk to their own.
“ .What is to preveut me. for Instance," he
is r sported as saying, “ from getting a bill
into my possession and altering it?” “We
have not, up to this session," replied Fes
senden, “ had any member of the Senate
capable of such conduct.”
Richmond UitpuUA : "But what shall we
say of the Democrats of the Senate who
joined the rancorous partisans in this vin
dictive act? That they misrepresented their
constituents we are sure; but why should
they have gone against the best friend to
jaatice, the Constitution, and State equality
aud national peace, who ever belonged to
the Republican party ? Why should they,
at the very moment of exhibiting their in
gratitude to President Hates, have com
untied an outrage upon public order and
an assault upon the sMn? of civil re
form. wiach is based upon the jjtuzst and
most patriotic principles? We have nevqt
known au act mote perfectly indefeusible
than this of the four Democratic Senators
iu becoming recruits of the vainest and
bitterst of Republican Senators. Hr. CpS*-
4.LNG.”
BULLOCK’* TANK.
The case of the State against Rufus
B. Bullock has been again continned,
and again continned at the request of
the attorneys for the prosecution. We
believe that the State has asked for no
lee* than three continuances since a
requisition from Governor Smith brought
Bullock within the jurisdiction of the
Courts of Georgia. The most serious
charges have been made against
this. Grand juries based true bills
upon them. The flight of Bullock be
fore any proceedings were commenced
was evidence of a guilty conscience.
Nine-tenths of the people of the Stale
believe him gnilty. Yet he has not
been brought to trial. At one time it
was said, and justly, that he was be
yond the jurisdiction of the State
Conrts. But while he remained away
his whereabouts were well known and
the first genuine effort made to procure
his presence proved snocessfuL For
the past two years he has been come
atable and has never failed to respond
to the mandates of the Courts. Bat he
has not yet been brought to trial. We
do not know where the blame of all
these things should properly be placed;
but plain men do not understand them.
The people wonder why it should take
more than six yeara to bring to jnstioe
a man accused of crime. Lot us have
an end of the matter. Bullock should
be either tried and convicted or tried
and acquitted.
I.OKDON AND COMKUNU.
We publish this morning dispatches
and editorials from different, sources
giving widely different accounts of and
comments upon the recent personal diffi
culty between Senators Gordon and
Conkling. Of course the Republican
journals espouse warmly the cause of
their political leader. They will not ad
mit that he was either wrong or rude,
but insist that his conduct was marvel
ously proper. They place all the blame
upon Senator Gordon, and find him a fit
subject for ridicule and abuse. Their
dislike of the latter is plainly apparent.
Even such a newspaper as the New York
Time* does not hesitate to declare that
“ nothing would do Mr. Conkling or
“ any other Senator more good before
" the country than a successful contest
“ with Mr. Gordon, and too strict an
“ inquiry would not be made a* to ivho
“ was wrong.'' Animated by such a
spirit one oannot wonder at the gratuit
ous coarsenes and mendacity of Republi
can comments upon the affair. From
what can be ascertained of the matter it
seems that General Gordon, believing
that Mr. Conkling had treated him with
rudeness, resented that rudeness and
Mr. CoNkLiNG retorted with an af
front in the subjunctive mood. Tho
matter was finally arranged in the man
ner in which these affairs usually are
and the two Senators are again upon a
peaoe footing. That there is anything
like a genuine reconciliation between
them we do not believe. It is said that
for several years Mr. Conklino has treat
ed Southern Democratic Senators with a
superciliousness which was the more
provoking because it could sot be easily
resented. The debate on the New York
Custom House appointees gave General
Gordon an opportunity to pay off old
scores of which, according to all ac
counts, he did not hesitate to avail him
self. This fact aud the further fact that
on tbut occasion General Gordon ap
peared as the champion of the Adminis
tration must have intensified Mr. Conk
ling’s anger, and on tho first pretext it
made itself manifest. However, it is
consoling to know that Senator Ham
lin’s board of arbitration saved any
effusion of blood and caused the bellige
rents to subscribe to a treaty of peace.
NO KKPUDIATION.
The Columbia correspondent of the
New York Times predicts the success of
the “repndiators” in the South Carolina
Legislature, aud urgOß New York own
ers of South Carolina securities to sell
them at ouce and at any price. A num
ber of causes have contributed to the
glarrn of the correspondent. When
Hampton attempts to have the bonded
debt recognized aud the interest paid
the “Edgefield repndiators” will not
allow these things to be done. That
terrible man, General M. W. Gary, has
beeu eleoted Chairman of the Commit
tee on Finance of the Senate. “He is
the most ultra repndiationist in the
General Assembly.” It is perfectly safe
to say that no appropriation for interest
will pass the Senate, if he can prevent
it. “General Wallace having been
elected Circuit Judge, Mr. J. C. Shep
pard, of Edgefield, has been made
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives in opposition to Governor Hamp
ton’s candidate.” Mr. Sheppard thus
vacated the Chairmanship of the Ways
and Means Committee. “Mr. Memmin
gkr, of Charleston, once Jeff Davis’
Secretary of the Treasury, by virtue of
his financial experience nuil ability,
would naturally have boen made Chair
man in place of Sheppard. The press
and public conceded the place to him,
but the repudiationists said no ; and
Simpson, an up-oountryman of very iu
ferior calibre, was elected over Mem
minger.” The same influence defeated
Governor Porter, of Charleston, lor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
and chose rather Haskell, “an extreme
man, who was Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee last year.”. The
committee which has been for five
months investigating the bonds is al
most ready to report. Enough is known
of its proceedings to warrant the asser
tion that the committee will report
agaiust paying interest on more than a
third of the consolidated bonds. We
hope that the correspondent of the
Time* is uot mistaken in his prognosti
cations. Though gloomy to the authors
of and participants in the frauds which
saddled a monstrous burden of debt
npon the shoulders of the tax payers of
South Carolina, they are oceering in
deed to all who are anxious that honest
men shall not suffer for the benefit of
rogues, and that a premium shall not
be put npon crime. It ia a great
misnae of terms to call the ac
tion contemplated by the Sonth
Carolina Legislators “repudiation.” It
is no such thing. Reparation is the
term applied, financially, to the refusal
to p.av or acknowledge a just debt. It
ia aJt repudiation to refuse to pay or
acknowledge a fraudulent obligation.
Repudiation destroys the credit of the
repadiator. The credit of State or in
dividaal was never injured by disown
ing s fraudulent piece of paper. Geor
gia was plundered under Bullock pret
ty much as Sonth Carolina was plunder
ed under Soorr, Mosks and Chamber
hot. When her own people recovered
the government they thoroughly inves
tigated the whole bonded debt and dis
owned every bond which had been
fraudulently issued or endorsed. Yet
the credit of Georgia is to-day better
than that of any other Southern State
and is as good as that of most Northern
and Western States. The Legislature
of South Oarolina seems to have adopt
ed the same policy which was pursued
pn this side of the Savannah. There
' has uquc an investigation, extended, im
partial and A report of the
I results will soon be submtUed. We
trust that its oonclnsions will be sus
tained. The people of South Oarolina
demand that they shall not be taxed for
the payment of bogus bonds and it is
the duty of their representatives to
give them relief.
“PENSIONING REBELS.”
Alexander H. Stephens introduced a bill to
repeal so much of the existing statutes as re
quires all applicants for a pension to take the
test oath. This looks like the first step to se
curing pensions for persons wounded in the
rebel service. WasfUngton Correspondence of
Boston Traveller.
The above paragraph has greatly dis
turbed the prophetic soul of the editor
of the Augusta (Me.) Journal, the home
organ of Mr. James G. Blaine. The
Journal complains that Northern Demo
crats have treated the suggestion “that
this Government will have to wrestle
with the question of paying pensions to
rebel soldiers” with ridicule. Ha thinks
that when the Democracy come into
power the South will hold the whip
hand, and sees in the bill offered by
Mr. Stephens but the beginning of the
end. Mabrtatt in one of his novels
defines flapdoodle “as the stuff that
fools are fed on.” Fools, indeed, thrice
sodden idiots, must be the readers of
the Traveller and the Journal if they
can swallow such stuff as the above. All
sensible men know that the South has
no more idea of asking pensions for ex-
Confederate soldiers than she has of de
manding the redemption of Confederate
Treasury notes in gold coin of the
United States. Mr. Stephens’ bill,
about which bo much nonsense has been
written, is intended simply to restore to
the pension rolls the names of Southern
survivors of the wars waged for the
preservation of the Government prior to
the conflict with Mexico, which wtire
strickeu off under the operation of the
iron-clad oath. Not one of the persons
affected by the bill was in the Confeder
ate Army, but like ninety-nine one-,
hundredths of the Southern people,
their sympathies were with the South in
her struggle for independence. When
Confederate Generals and Senators liavo
seats in the Senate and the Vice-Presi
dent of the Confederacy is a leading
member of the House of Representatives,
it is time to discontinue the proscription
of old, infirm and poverty-stricken men
aud women.
A BAD SPELL.
Doorkeeper Fitzhugh irretrievably
damned himself by writing letleis filled
with bad spelling, notoriously so by his
statement that he was a “biger man
than old Grant.” A certain Mr.
Beauohamp has lost the Belgian Mis
sion by having a love missive paraded
at Court, in which he dedicates his
“hole hart” to his Dulcinea. And now
we have the sad shipwreck of two lovers,
from similar cautts, the more flagrant
part of it being in the fact that both of
them were regarded as prodigies of
learning and good sense. We are told
that the lady was beautiful beyond the
ordinary types; that she had graduated
at one of the most expensive female
colleges ; that she' kuew French,
Latin aud Greek, that she read
Darwin, Huxley and Spencer instead
of “That Husband of Mine” aud “The
Bloody Brigand of the Brahmapootra.”
She was indeed “one of Miss Edge
worth’s heroines stepping from the
covers” or like Wobdswoth’s idea of
the "perfect woman nobly planned.”
She was brilliant and witty, danced
divinely, dressed like a princess aud
had gained the chromo at a country fair
for her contributed loaf of bread, which
made the village baker die of sheer
envy. The model youDg ruau came
along and was engaged to be married
to this model young woman. Never
was there apparently a better proof of
elective affinities or natural selection.
On a sudden however, the young man
refused to keep his troth, and the young
woman “went to law” about it. Be
fore the awful presence of justice,
with a month full of wisdom and
tobacco juice, the treacherous youth
was forced to disgorge the vile reasons
compelling him to such baseness of pro
cedure. The Philadelphia Time* gives
the particnlars thus: “He produced one
of her glowing letters in which she de
scribed her happiness in view of the
coming ‘nupshals,’ and incidentally re
ferred to her ‘dimond’ ring. Tho steny
hearted wretch declined to marry any
body who eonld not spell nuptial, par
ticularly within a month of her wedding
day. The young lady brought her port
folio into Court and emptied his letters
out where the light of the law could
shine upoD them. The first one read
was in answer to her gnsh about the
‘nupshals,’ very brief and truly busi
ness like. He wrote: ‘This marridge
can never take place.’ She not only
found out why, but she recovered dam
ages; the Judge was a humane man, and
congratulated the young woman on her
narrow escape from a man who didn’t
know how to spell marriage within a
month of Lis wedding day.”
The moral of this, we take it, is plain:
Avoid all love letters, or else, when the
glow of composition is over, submit them
to Worcester’s or Webster’s Return
ing Board for revision. And yet wbat a
monster that man must be who, having
won the heart of a confiding maiden,
would not wear it proudly ou his bosom
even if she insisted that the proper way
to spell “bridal” is “check-rein.”
INDEPENDENTS IN GEORGIA.
In the last Georgia Legislature there were
twelve Independents. Letters received here
state that at the recent election for anew
Legislature about eighty Independent candi
dates were elected. It is said that the Inde
pendent candidates received the bulk of the
colored vote and divided the white vote. It
may be that there were local causes underly
ing the election of so many independent can
i didates, bnt the friends of the Administration
I are rery much gratified at it. The Postmaster
■ General stated to-day that it is a direct result
| of the President's Southern policy, ai.d fully
i justified the expectations which have been en
tertained of its happy effects, — Washington
Dispatch to the Baltimore Bun.
We are glad that the Administration
and the friends of the Administration
are gratified at the resnit of the recent
eleotion in Georgia, bnt they will have
to base their gratification npon a differ
ent ground from that given in the ex
tract which we have quoted. The per
sons who wrote letters to Washington
; saying that eighty Independents had
! been elected to the Legislature of this
j State had very lively imaginations, and
, very little regard for facts. It is safe to
i say that there are not mere Independ
j ents in the present than there were in
I the last General Assembly—if, indeed,
there are so many. It is true that in
many connties of the State the Temo-
I oracy were so strong and the Repnbli-
Icana so weak that the former agreed not
to make any nominations, but to let
every man enter the field who wosld and
j have a “scrub race.” But gentlemen
who ran in this way were not, and did
not pretend to be, Independents, or op
posed to the principles of Democracy.
Each one of them would do everything
in his power to-morrow to secure the
election of a Democratic nominee for
any office, from the position of county
constable to the Presidency of the
Vnited States. If there had been a
nomination they would have submitted
to it cheerfully. In a few counties In
dependent Democrats did oppose nomi
nated Democrats, and in a few counties
independents were elected. This is
about all is of it, the cock-and
bull stories contained in letters sent te
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1877.
Washington to the contrary notwith
standing.
In this connection it is proper to no
tice a dispatch, treating of the same sub
ject, sent from Washington to the Cin
cinnati Gazette, which purports to re
flect the statements and sentiments ot
General Gordon. General H. V. Boyn
ton, the correspondent of the Gazette,
commenting npon the report that a great
many Independents had been elected to
the Legislature of this State, says:
General Gordon thinks that this will prob
ably give the Independenta eighty members in
stead of twelve, the number they had in the
last Assembly. Mr. GoaueN, in speaking re
cently of the development of this Independent
movement in Georgia, declared that it was the
legitimate outgrowth of the President’s South
ern policy, and that movements of that sort
would inevitably extend over a portion of the
South. Senator Gordon, by becoming the
champion of the Administration in regard to
confirmations, has put hiihself at the front
rank of the Independent movement in Geor
gia, and undoubtedly hopes to secure the Inde
pendent vote for himself.
Now we do not believe for an instant
that General Gordon used the language
pat in his mouth or entertains the senti
ments attributed to him by the corres
pondent of the Gazette. But General
Boynton professes to speak authorita
tively and his dispatch is calculated to
do barm. We hope that General Gor
don will promptly give the statement
snob notice as it deserves to receive.
HOW OPINIONS DIFFER.
When Dr. Theodore Christlieb was
iu this country, some years ago, he
made a profound sensation upon all he
met by the sweetness and guilelessness
of his disposition. It was very natural
that some Americans, in their yearly
visit to Europe, should seek the Doctor
at home, and one of them not only did
so, but, like a true son of liberty, inter
viewed the old gentleman. Much to the
astonishment of his visitor, the vener
able Doctor expressed great fears for
the United States, because,when pressed
for an explanation, he declared that “the
spirit of Christ was not here.” Still
further pressed to unravel this mystery,
he “seriously declared that on more
than one occasion be had heard an
American woman say to her husband,
‘Dear, will you bring me my shawl ?’
and the husband bad brought it! and
further, that he had seen a man come
home and find his wife sitting in the
best chair in the parlor, and not only
did she uot rise to get his dressing
gown and slippers, but she did not rise
at all, and let him find his own chair as
well as other comforts!” The Profes
sor’s idea of woman seems to be that of
an upper servant, especially if she be
married. That the woman should
be the help-mate of tho man, in
any state of life, we think unde
niable, but it is just as well to avoid
oue extreme as another. For a woman to
be an encumbrance to a man is a mon
strous curse, but we are fain to believe
that, even in America, a majority of
wives endeavor to bear at least half the
responsibility. Among barbarous tribes,
women are degraded like beasts of
burden, and so become coarse, squalid,
masculine and uncanny. Very largely
in Europe woman is subjected to usages
which horrify the American observer.
We are of opinion that where there is
mutual service and attention, in married
life, the best civilization is discovered,
and that this is the case generally in the
United Mates. We think the day is dis
tant when the American man will come
to the conclusion that harnessing his
wife to a plow or beating her unmerci
fully are the proper methods of in
troducing a Christ-like spirit into the
United States.
REMARKABLE LAW CASES.
Two cases have recently been before
the New York Courts which are pecu
liar, to say the least. The first is that
of Bernard Lynch, who was arrested
and charged with having abandoned his
wife and two children, one of them at
the breast. Mrs. Lynch testified that
he would uot give her anything to sup
port herself aud babies. Mr. Lynch
retorted that he had beeu locked out for
five nights iu succession, and, despair
ing of peace at home, had chosen an
other place to lay his weary frame and
wrestle with his daily aud nocturnal
hash. The injured mau expressed a
willingness to contribute to tbe mainten
ance of bis family, if his wife would
not expose him, in future, to the un
healthy dews of heaven and to the bitter
sarcasms of her eloquent tongue.—
Whereupon this scene occurred :
"I don’t want you to support me," said Mrs.
Lynch ; “ I only want you to keep these chil
dren from starving. Yon tike the children
and I will take care of myself.”
“Take the children ?” answered Mr. Lynch,
“ and I’ll be glad to do it.”
“You’ll have to feed the baby,” warned Mrs.
Lynch ; “ she ain’t weaned yet. He must feed
her, Judge.”
“All right," said Mr. Lynch ; “I can do it."
Then he pot his hat firmly on his head, and
stretched out his hands to receive the baby.
Mrs. Lynch laid it in them doubtingly.
“Well, Mrs. Lynch,” s&id the Court, “if you
are satisfied, your husband can go.”
Mrs. Lynch said that she was. Mr. Lynch
started for the door, with the long drsss of
the baby trailing on the ground, and a very
broad smile on his red face. Mrs. Lynch look
d at him for a minnte and then bnrst into
tears, screaming: “Give ni9 back my baby!
You can't take her from me!"
Here was a test for Solomon himself
much less a New York Police Court
Judge, who probably is a living ex
emplification of necessity that knows no
law. Mrs. Lynch wanted her husband
to support herself and infants. Then
again she did not want him to do any
thing of the kind. Then she wanted the
poor man to take a nursing baby, and
when he agreed to do so she went off
into hysterics and wildly demanded that
the cub should be restored to her shel
tering arms and to its natural fount of
sustenance. We havo not heard that
the wretched man restored tbe baby.
but dare say he did so rather than be
oonie a candidate for the comforts of the
Morgue, but it is recorded that “his
Honor” contrived to secure something
like quiet by ordering that papa LyxoH
should pay his spouse $2 50 per week.
A still more singular case is that of
Mr. and Mrs. Roe. This appears to be
a clear case of persecution. The lady
has been twice married to her husband,
and is now endeavoring to compel him
to marry her, at auctioneer’s rates, for
the “third and last time.” Four years
ago they eloped and were joined to
gether in the bonds of matrimony at
New Haven by a Catbolio priest. The man
stood wedded bliss for one year and
then ran away. He perfidiously at
tempted to make out that the marriage
was a sham one, nay that it had never
existed at all. Bhe hunted him down
rigorously and he did all he could, aid
ed by his family, to frustrate her. We
are told circumstantially that dnring this
' controversy she has been arrested no
less than thirteen times for assaulting
him. Once she palled him oat of a
wagon by his coat tails, and insisted on
kissing him repeatedly in the presenoe
of another young lady whom he was
about to marry. On a second occasion
he grew so alarmed when he saw her
coming that he leaped from the second
story window, seriously injuring him
self. To avoid any more reoontres of
this kind, he gave up his position in
New York and concealed himself some
where in New England. Finding that
be could not be induced to leave Ply-
month Bock and vicinity, the wily wo
man changed her tactics. She “played
possum,” that is pretended to be dead
and had her obituary published in the
paper whioh circulates like the atmos
phere. The gndgeon bit fiercely at that
bait. He went back to New York in a
state of glee strangely eoßafejfuent npon
such melancholy tidings. joy
was soon turned to gall. his
wife on the street and by hSQras borne
off to an Episcopal minkterp Who re
united this already mnch married
couple, no doubt in perfect innocence
and ignorance. On the night ef the
seoond nuptials, the man escaped by
means of a rope ladder and fled from
his ghostly companion. She caught
him a third time, had him arrested and
put under bonds. The trial came off;
the woman was her own lawyer. Before
“hia Honor” could renders decision the
prisoner forfeited his bonds and has
been heard of no more. He left behind
Idm assuranoes that rather than meet
his wife again and live with her he will
take rat and roach exterminator, blow
out his brains, seek the bottom of tbe
river or dangle at the end of a well
adjusted rOpe.
Meanwhile, the lady is quietly pre
paring a trousseau and has no doubt of
her ability to catch the force
him to the altar for the third time.—
Most women, at the first desertion,
would have procured legal separation
and tried their luck with decent grass
widowhood or else with some other
man. Bnt Mrs. Roe will have her man
or none at all, and the way she pur
sues him has caused intense amusement
to all bnt the vagabondish wretch who
is either “pigeon-livered and lacks gall”
or else has had praotioal knowledge that
“hell has no fnry like a woman scorned.”
BORDER TROUBLE*.
At this writing the exact nature of
the recent troubles on the Mexioan bor
der is not known; but that there have
been violenoe and lawlessness there is
no doubt. The origin of the disturb
ance is believed to be as follows : San
Elizario, the scene of the outbreak, is
situated ou the Bio Grande river, near
the junotion of the Mexioan boundary
with the boundary lines of Texas and
New Mexioo and in the immediate
vicinity of El Paso. It is stated that
the Mexicans in the vicinity of El Paso
are governed by juntas, or gatherings of
the people, and whatever these gather
ings resolve is the oommon law. Long
since the salt lakes near El Paso had
become the resort of all in need of salt,
and were declared publio property. But
they were really under the hand of the
State, and when a gentleman at Austin,
with a Mr. Howard as his agent, pro
posed to make these lakes a private
possession by “taking them up” under
the laws of the State governing the
location of lands, popular opinion re
belled against this unaccustomed mode
of doing things in that quarter, and
the juntas declared that these lakes
were common property by right of a
long common use, the Slate to the con
trary notwithstanding. Howard, of
course, contended for his rights, the
Mexicans found a willing leader and
champion in his enemy, a man named
Louis Cabdis, parties were organized,
one thing led to another, and all result
ing in a disgraceful broil which culmi
nated in tbe death of Oabdis at the
hands of Howard, During the past
months the troubles originating in the
possession of these salt-pits have grown
more serious because of the anomalous
condition of affairß existing between
tbe United States and Mexioo and
finally, it seems, tbe government of
Texas dispatched a few State troops to
the proteotion of its citizens. The
threatened outbreak followed this move
ment. Large bands of armed Mexicans
crossed tbe shallow river and joined
their compatriots on tbe American side
of the stream. The State troops were
forced to conoentrate at San Elizario
and fortify themselves against assault.
The attack was then changed to a siege
and finally the Texans, their ammuni
tion being exhausted, were forced to
surrender to the Mexicans. After the
surrender three of the prisoners were
brutally butchered in eold blood by the
victors. Among the victims was the
man Howard, whose connection with
tbe tronbles has been noticed above.
Ten companies of United States cav
alry and one company of infantry are
en route to the scene ot action, and this
force is large enough to preserve order,
unless the Mexioans, elated by their re
cent success, should carry on war against
tbe Government on a larger scale.—
While some of the Mexicans concerned
in this deed of lawless violence live in
Texas and New Mexico and are amen
able to the laws of that State and of the
U nited States, by far the larger number
of men engaged in it are citizens of
Mexioo and cannot be reaohed in the or
dinary way. Experience has shown that
it is useless to seek their extradition
from the Mexican Government. There
is no government in Mexioo, and the
men who pretend to exercise authority
iD that unhappy country are notoriously
iu sympathy with the raiders who have
made a hell of the Texas border during
the past eighteen months. If these cut
throats who have invaded American soil
and spilled American blood are brought
to justice it must be by the strong hand.
Our Government should act promptly
and vigorously. The forces of the
United States should follow them across
the Bio Grande and take them wherever
they can be found. It is useless to con
sume time in negotiations. The Mexi
can Government cannot or will not pro
tect Texas from the incursions of ma
rauders and murderers. The Govern
ment of the United States is bound to
afford that protection.
Subsequent dispatches from General
Sheridan’s headquarters confirm the
surrender of the Texan troops and the
murder of three of the prisoners. Sher
idan A Cos., however, attempt to make it
appear that the lawlessness and butch
ery were the work of “native bom citi
zens of Texas." It has been repeatedly
Stated and it ia very well known that
hundreds of Mexicans crossed the border
and made common cause with the Mexi
cans residing near San Elizario, but
Sheridan ia playing into the hands of
Senator Conkling, who has recently as
sumed the championship of the Greas
ers.
Gen. Butler has given his traduoers
an opportunity to make good their as
sertions. It has frequently been charged
that John J. Patterson favored Gen
eral Butlrb’s admission to the Senate
because the latter had promised, in re
turn for such assistance, to cause the
proaeontions commenced in South Caro
lina to be discontinued. General But
ler offered a resolution last Saturday
to have this charge fully investigated.
The gentlemen who made it may now
atep to the front. It ia safe to say they
will not come.
Bismarck has won another viotory over
the German Conservatives, and now
seems to have complete control of the
Government. It ia generally believed
that the Emperor has yielded to his
wishes, and that the Chancellor will be
permitted to reorganize the Cabinet in
the interests of the National Liberal
party.
COMPLETE RETURNS.
Oar table incorporates the total vote
in every ooanty, and its figures are re
liable in every instance.
Corati- n . Home
tntion.
J* J®
■ coraraM - 111 ! 11
a<2 _3_ S_ 5
Appling ~m 86 90 698 687 87
Sskar? 494 274 673 209 192 569
Baldwin U4l 678 0000 1908 1009 832
Banka 7*o 69 5.7 220 640 136
Bartow 1939 346 2097 261 1679 450
Berrien 446 15 27 433 429 7
Bibb 2590 840 358 8071 1794 1960
Brooks 570 436 498 507 512 483
Bryau i 282 80 117 244 276 87
Bulloch I 696 1 47 634 589 69
Burke 865 1088 1495 257 360 1884
Bntta 644 330 750 286 674 538
Calhoun 566 470 765 288 538 489
Camden 78 159 180 66 213 20
Campbell 922 222 1150 9 833 307
Carroll 1373 42 1105 334 1244 171
Catoosa 634 14 752 39 611 122
Charlton 166 .... 54 114 141 20
Chatham 2081 504 654 1990 1920 700
Chattahoochee.... 392 359 531 206 319 405
Chattooga 946 9 946 132 668 262
Cherokee 1079 62 1102 46 1000 125
Clarke 792 639 1070 357 693 717
Clay 312 119 196 234 257 162
Clayton 669 877 1022 28 620 410
Clinch 464 66 167 422 468 120
Cobb 1763 341 2024 82 1742 329
Coffee 413 3 19 439 361 53
Columbia 345 10 188 182 214 99
Colohutt 141 28 27 150 107 69
'<*weta .. 1299 1069 2287 71 1148 1144
Crawford 528 187 236 475 396 279
Dade 491 20 527 52 493 28
Daweon 558 44 602 9 469 99
Decatur 790 1034 1298 534 730 1073
DeKalb 1206 209 1466 14 1199 264
Dodge 577 121 322 418 218 396
Doolv 1015 191 249 964 873 255
Dougherty 584 968 1062 465 451 1104
Douglas 542 64 597 7 470 87
Early 1115 25 458 708 1105 53
Eohols 192 76 105 186 185 78
Effingham 284 87 95 276 275 80
Elbert 1534 26 1341 199 1241 220
Emanuel 689 109 146 513 873 187
Fannin 676 54 723 19 694 43
Fayette 640 248 945 35 508 435
Floyd 1297 481 1651 585 1296 744
Forsyth 1148 17 1009 34 1116 13
Franklin 911 91 611 611 563 508
Fulton 2574 2931 5620 52 2639 2747
Gilmer 803 75 890 5 787 71
Glascock 423 68 84 405 376 108
Glynn 496 399 496 410 895 502
Greene 1043 1203 1735 533 770 1424
Gordon 1510 76 1373 195 1201 162
Gwinnett 1039 65 1165 22 1062 82
Habersham 949 48 748 372 922 99
Hart 769| 172 831 209 653 308
Hancock 10361 151 173 1027 960 222
Haralson 5271 109 642 21 452 113
Harris 1065,1 127 990 197 571 582
Hall 1347| 87j1596| 58 13311 104
Heard 555 71 610 17 542 76
Henry 867 558 1867 70 578 765
Houston 1286 1084 1377 993 838 1420
Irwin 276 6 13 271 188 19
Jackson 1452 360 1632 244 1233 462
Jasper 880 354 737 566 680 672
Jefferson 821 261 467 659 640 360
Johnson 490 40 67 461 433 40
Jones 814 181 199 919 878 203
Laurens 686 148 164 576 440 177
Lee 570 486 773 285 777 271
Liberty 342 156 197 299 336 198
Lincoln 729 1 447 252 664 14
Lowndes 404 258 336 325 880 264
Lumpkin **. 724 23 669 69 636 17
Macon 798 445 492 758 429 787
Madison 738 97 332 518 476 153
Marion 899 124 479 532 856 166
McDuffie 637 13 249 405 489 58
Mclntosh 92 313 364 71 80 350
Merriwether 895 668 1380 214 821 728
Miller 449 1 45 412 350 18
Milton 722 6 722 14 631 61
Mitchell 649 546 675 430 480 593
Monroe 1680 1331 1917 999 1130 1715
Montgomery 576 89 324 327 453 IQO
Morgan 698 1165 1464 888 621 1212
Murray 921 42 870 122 677 227
Muscogee 1692 485 1229 846 1520 621
Newton 762 6491384 62 652 732
Oconee 438 268 426 304 374 341
Oglethorpe 1058 136 941 254 846 194
Paulding 1040 65 1093 31 1031 66
Piokens 699 124 860 12 729 86
Pierce 338 121 144 319 329 118
Pike 887 764 1251 414 842 778
Polk 1144 107 1182 108 1019 214
Pulaski 839 213 263 807 719 £O2
Putnam 1346 84 330!1119 1078 253
Quitnam 553 57 330 285 525 79
Rabun 475 10 288 181 437 5
Randolph 946 1328 1545 727 952 1318
Riohmond 3019 1412 1779 2675 2651 1721
Rockdale 604 353 886 68 511 180
Sohley 376 137 168 341 307 178
Scriven 446 82 89 444 420 106
Spalding 693 930 1411 205 681 984
Stewart 721 688 1019 352 634 814
Sumter 988 613 720 837 768 755
Talbot 622 49 163 513 468 160
Taliaferro 454 165 394 210 408 169
Tatnall 697 108 166 639 590 153
Tavlor 629 43 i 491 600 514 623
Telfair 505 101 169 438 402 182
Terrell 553 79 303 319 502 117
Thomas 783 502 534 775 663 576
Towns 354 94 399 51 354 90
Troup 811 11221499 148 659 960
Twiggs 494 ill I 132 611 100 436
Union 799 7 687 124 774 30
Upson 795 596 957 443 651 687
Walker 1805 76 1256 106 1090 190
Walton 784 338 986 149 763 361
Ware 275 124 162 243 257 138
Warren 520 361 469 441 473 397
Washington 1552 851 1047 1353 999 1178
Wayne? 338 52 57 337 339 65
Webster 693 2 363 234 482 ,1
White 620 21 561 69 592 18
Wilcox 410 32 91 369 330 46
Wilkes 697 6 618 195 608 49
Wilkinson 1315 7 13 1897 1096 204
Whitfield 1257 71 1266 92 1133 156
Worth 480 188 348 434 503 252
Total Vote.
For Ratification 111,121
Against Ratification 53,347
Majority for Ratification 69,015
For Atlanta... 103,301
For Milledge ville 68,228
Majority for Atlanta 45,073
For Homestead of ’77 91.920
For Homestead of ’66 66,560
Majority for Homestead of ’77 36,360
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY.
Decline at the Stack— I The Port Royal En
dorsed Bonds.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The sudden and rapid decline in
Georgia Railroad stow, need surprise no
one, for it has already been predicted
that the action of the Board of Direc
tors, at their last meeting, would settle
the question as to whether the stock
would advance to its real valne, or sink
down below the Central Bailroad quota
tions. It seems now to be running to
that point pretty fast, and it don’t take
much of a prophet to foresee that be
fore the next annual meeting of stock
holders it will be as far below the Cen
tral quotations as it is now above, un
less a chaDge of policy takes place, and
that right speedily. When the Direc
tors meet in February next possibly
some of them may be a little wiser, and
if any of them want to increase their
shares, doubtless they can do it to great
advantage. It seems, however, that the
non-resident Directors have shifted the
responsibility and left all unfinished
business to a committee of the local
Board. That committee, or rather a
portion of it, seemed unwilling to
proceed without conferring with Judge
Itfagrath, an eminent jurist of South
Carolina, who, it appears, was sum
moned to be present at their de
liberations tonebipg the validity of
certain guarantees or liabilities. At
this oonferenoe they seem to have
unanimously agreed “that the liability
as guarantors is only to meet the in
terest as it falls due, and the principal
at maturity." That’s exactly what every
attorney and other members of the
Board have been trying to hammer
into their associates for more than six
months post, and the only wonder is
that the eminent counsel (upon whom
the minority relied so much ) could not
have made himself more intelligibly
understood, unless he changed his
opinion qn arrival, after getting a law
point from a legal member of the
Board which upset his former opinion,
upon which all thia ruinous and dis
graceful difficulty has been hanging.—
The liability, as guarantors, is, there
fore, finally admitted, and the only
question now to be decided is whether
the bonds end coupons are due, or
only the coupons, which is a mat
ter of very little consequence.—
The company need only pay what
is frankly acknowledged to be due,
viz: the coupons. This being done
wonld relieve the corporation of incal
culable embarrassment and save much
unneceeßary expense, both to themselves
apd bona fide bondholders, or, iu other
words, holders of bonds not stolen, bnt
purchased by innocent parties since the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Compa
ny issued their guarantee, purporting to
be kept in good faith. It seems now
that the board of managers, in their
financial wisdom, prefer to have bonds
in circulation drawing seven per cent,
instead of six, snd forget that many of
their liabilities will come upon them like
a thunderbolt within six months snd
find them, like the “foolish virgins,
without oil in their lamps.” Justice.
A XMiant M Ex-Mum Emir*.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Even the colored people of Augusta
are investing in a cotton company. One
of these days Augusta, surpassing Low
ell in the extent and variety of her
manufactories, will erect a monument
to the memory of ex-Msyor Estes, the
projector of the canal enlargement.
OUR NEXT I-KGISLATURK.
WHO WILL INAUGURATE THE
NEW CONSTITUTION.
Lint of Senator* a*d Representative*—Full
Return* Iron All of Ike Counties in tke
State—Tbe Official Vnte on Constitutional
Issues.
Senator*.
First District: Chatham, Bryan and
Effingham -Rufus E. Lester.
Second Distriot: Liberty, Tatnall and
Mclntosh—J. H. Clifton.'
Third Distriot: Wayne, Pieroe and
Appling— G. J. Holton.
Fourth District: Glynn, Camden and
Charlton—J. M. Tison.
Fifth Distriot : Coffee, Ware and
Clinoh—W. B. Folks.
Sixth Distriot.: Eohols, Lowndes and
Berrien -J. W. Slaten.
Seventh Distriot: Brooks, Thomas and
Colquitt—J. P. Turner.
Eighth District: Decatur, Miller and
Mitchell—D. A. Bussell.
Ninth Distriot: Early, Calhoun and
Baker—E. 0. Bower.
Tenth Distriot: Dougherty, Lee snd
Worth—J. P. Tison.
Eleventh Distriot : Clay, Randolph
and Terrell—J. T. Clarke.
Twelfth Distriot: Stewart, Webster
and Quitman—W. H. Harrison.
Thirteenth District: Sumter, Sohley
aud Macon—J. N. Hudson.
Fourteenth District: Dooly, Wilcox,
Dodge and Pulaski—J. J. Hamilton.
Fifteenth District: Montgomery, Tel
fair and Irwin: J. 0. Clements.
Sixteenth District: Lawrence, John
son and Fmanuel—Neil McLeod.
Seventeenth District: Bullooh, Soriven
and Burke—H. H. Perry.
Eighteenth District: Richmond, Glas
cock and .Jefferson—Joseph B. Cum
ming.
Nineteenth District: Taliaferro, War
ren and Greene—John A. Stephens.
Twentieth Distriot; Baldwin, Hanoook
and Washington—C. W. Dußose.
Twenty first Distriot—Twiggs, Wilk
inson and Jones—A. S. H. Milton.
Tweuty-seoond Distriot: Bibb, Mon
roe and Pike- -T. B. Cabaniss,
Twenty-third Distriot : Honston,
Crawford and Taylor—John F. Trout
man.
Twenty-fourth District : Muscogee,
Marion and Chattahooohee—T. W.
Grin) es.
Twenty-fifth District: Harris, Upson
and Talbot—Dr. J. C. Drake.
Twenty-sixth District : Spalding,
Butts and Fayette—Seaton Grantland.
Twenty-seventh Distriot : Newton,
Walton, Clarke, Bookdale aud Oconee —
H. D. McDaniel.
Twenty-eighth Distriot: Jasper, Put
nam and Morgan—J. W. Preston.
Twenty-ninth Distriot: Wilkes, Lin
coln, McDuffie and Columbia—H, R.
Casey.
Thirtieth District: Oglethorpe, Madi
son and Elbert—Sam Lumpkin.
Thirty-first Distriot : Hart, Franklin
and Habersham—B. F. Hodges.
Thirty-second District: White, Lump
kin and Dawson—M. G. Boyd.
Thirty-third Distriot: Hall, Banks and
Jackson—AllenD. Candler.
Thirty-fourth Distriot: Gwinnett, De
Kalb and Henry—Geo. W. Bryan.
Thirty-fifth Distriot: Fulton, Clayton
and Cobb—Evan P. Howell.
'I liirty-sixth Distriot: Coweta, Merri
wether, Douglas and Campbell—F, M,
Dunoan,
Thirty-seventh District: Troup, Heard
and Carroll—John A. Speer.
Thirty-eight Distriot: Haralson, Polk
and PauldiDg—W. J. Head.
Thirty-ninth Distriot: Cherokee, Mil
ton and Forsyth—A. W. Holcombe.
Fortieth Distriot: Union, Towns and
Babun—C. J. Wellborn.
Forty-first Distriot: Fannin, Gilmer
and Piokens —W. T. Simmons.
Forty-second District: Bartow, Floyd
and Chattooga—Samuel Hawkins.
Forty-third Distriot; Murrey, Whit
field and Gordon--J. C. Fain.
Forty-fourth Distriot: Dade, Catoosa
and Walker—J. O. Clements.
Representatives.
Counties not included below will be
inserted a a rapidly as official and re -
liable returns are received:
Appling: Michael Branch.
Baldwin: James A. Green.
Banks: D. C. Oliver.
Berrien: J. H. Kirby,
Bartow: T. W. Milner and K. H. Can
non.
Bibb: A. O. Bacon, 0. J. Harris and
K. A. Nisbett.
Baker: P. D. Davis.
Brooks: H. G. Turner.
Bryan: J. M. Brannan.
Bullooh: E. W. DeLoaoh.
Butts: S. T. Smith.
Burke: E. A. Perkins, W. F. Walton
aud S. A. Corker.
Chatham: W. W- Paytie, A. Pratt
Adams aud P. M- Kusse||.
Clinch: Lewis Strickland,
Clayi W. J. Johnson,
Cherokee: W. B. C. Puckett.
Clarke: Ben O. Yanoy.
Calhoun: O. H. Paul.
Colquitt: James Viok.
Charlton: Felder Lang,
Coffee: James Pearson.
Camden: Thomas Butler,
Columbia: J. P, Williams,
Clay ton :.T. L. McConnell.
Cobb: 0. D. Phillips and George Rob
erts. ,
Campbell: J. M. Wilson.
Carroll: H. Hogan and R. Phillips.
Coweta: J. D. Simms and W. A. Tur
ner.
Chattooga: W. T. Irvine. . t
Chattahooohee: Lafayette Harp.
Catoosa: Arthur H. Gray.
Crawford: J. F. Jordan.
Decatur: W. W. Harrell and J. O.
Farnell.
Dougherty: A. C. Westbrook aud J.
W. Walters.
DeKalb: R. A. Alston,
Douglas; W. M, MoGouirok.
Dade : M. A. B. Tatem.
Dodge : James M. Buchan.
Dooley : Isaac L. Toole.
Dawson : J. McAfee.
Elbert : R. F. Tate.
Effingham : J. F. Berry.
Early : W. C. Sbuffield.
Emanuel : John Bell.
Echols : J. P. Prescott.
Forsyth i Hiram P. Rideu.
Fannin : B. O. Dugger,
Fayette : D. A. McLuoas.
Franklin : J. H. Shannon.
Fulton : W. H. Hulsey, N. J. Ham
mond and P. L. Mynatt.
Floyd : A. J. King and John H.
Reese.
Glascock : E. G. Scruggs.
Gilmer : W. R. Welsh.
Glynn : T. W. Lamb.
Greene : R. L. McWhorter and J. B.
Parks.
Gwinnett : N. L. Hutchins and W. J.
Born.
Gordon ; W. R. Rankin.
Honston ; A. L. Miller, B. M. Davis,
and J. F. Sikes.
Hart: A. G. MoCurry.
Heard : H. W. Daniel:
Hanoock : W. J. Northern, A. Millar
Dußose.
Harris : W. J. Hudson and Jesse Cox.
Habersham : John H. Grant.
Hall : J. E. Bedwine.
Harralson : Taliaferro.
Henry : W, T. Dioken.
Irwin : James B. Fletcher.
Jones : B. H. Rarrqn.
Jasper : E. C. Pope.
Jackson : W. J. Pike, A. T- Bennett.
Jefferson ; J, L. Polhill and E. A.
Tarver.
Johnson : W. L. Johnson.
Lowndes : C. H. M. Howell.
Liberty : E. P. Miller.
Laurens : H. M. Burch.
LiDooln : J. E. Strother.
Lee : J. A. Clegg.
Lumpkin : Eli Weehunt.
Maoon :J. M. Dupree and David
Gammage.
Madison : J. A. Green.
Montgomery : D. J. Mcßae.
Monroe: J. G. Phinizy and B. H.
Kellner.
Mclntosh : A. R. Rogers.
Muscogee: L. F. Garrard and Reese
T. Crawford.
Murray : Wm. Luffin.
Milton ; H. L- Cunningham.
Marion : H, T. Hollis.
Morgan : L. G. Anderson.
McDuffie : Dr. J. 8. Jones.
Mitchell : C. W. Collins.
Merriwether : F. J. Williams and C.
W. Williams.
Miller : H. C. Sheffield.
Newton : L. F. Livingston and Lem
Anderson (Rep.)
Ooonee : W. Y. Elder.
Oglethorpe : J. M. Smith and W. M.
Willingham.
Pulaski : B. W. Anderson.
Putnsm .* R. C. Humber.
Polk : 0. G. Janee.
Pickens :
Pierce : D. P. Patterson.
Pike : 8. K. Cook.
Paulding : O. T. Bimtle.
Quitman: L. P. Dozier.
Randolph : J. J. McDonald.
Rabun : John M. Bleckley,
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
Richmond: H. G. Wright, Geo. R.
Sibley and L. D. Duval.
Bookdale—B. F. Carr.
Spalding : John D. Stewart.
Stewart: W. W. Fitzgerald and W.
H. Harrison.
Scriven: W. M. Henderson.
Schley: M. J. Wall.
Sumter: Allen Fort, W. H. Davison.
Thomas: W. M. Hammond and Dr.
D. H. Wilmot.
Telfair: J. J. Wiloox.
Talbot: John C. Maund aud J. M.
Mathews.
Troup: A. H. Cox and J. F. Awtrey.
Towns: 8. Y. Jamison.
Taliaferro: J. T. Chapman.
Terrell: E. G. Hill.
Twiggs: James T. Glover.
Taylor: J. D. Mitchell.
Tatnall: Elbert Bird.
Upson: O. C. Sharman (Rep.)
Union: T. J. Butt.
Ware: T. J. Ivey.
Warren: Robert T. Barksdale.
Washington: Green Brautly aud J.
W. Peacock.
Wilkinson: Frank Chambers,
Walton: W. R. Smith.
Wilkes: F. H. Colley and B. F. Jor
dan.
Whitfield: J. A. R. Hanks.
Walker: J. B. Wheeler.
Wayne: J. A. Poppell.
Webster: Dr. W. 0. Kendrick.
Worth: G. G. Ford.
White: J. J. Kimsey.
Wiloox: Samuel D. Fuller.
A REMEDY FOR KRANN INSTRUMENTS.
{-New York Times.}
In order to be a great military com
mander it is generally conceded that, a
certain amouut of indifference to human
suffering is requisite. Grant would uev
er have dealt his terrible blows at the
army of General Lee had he been con
stantly filled with pity for the tattered
and battle-worn Confederates, and our
President could hardly have achieved
his present proud position as the great
conciliatory of the a?e had his heart
continued to bleed for the poor negro as
it bled before the election. A like cal
lousness of heart is a neoessary charac
teristic of the man who undertakes to
play upon a musical instrument.
The sum of human agency caused by
the early efforts of players upon string
ed, reed and brass instruments is incal
culable, aud it is notioeable tint
wheiever musical amateurs abound
the Universalist faith makes no
progress, and the Calviuistio dootrine
that a place of future torment is a moral
necessity finds multitudes of believers.
Many learned commentators have dis
cussed the nature of the insanity under
which King Saul frequently suffered,
but it is odd that no oue has perceived
that it was due to the youthful David’s
persistent practice upon the harp. Wo
know that ou one occasion, while David
was playing an air, which doiibtless
olosely resembled “Silver Threads
Among the Gold,” Saul, remarking
“S’help me Father Abraham, this is too
much,” flung a javelin at the musician
and drove him away. Doubtless, the
King was hasty, but let us remember
his extreme provocation. As for David,
not content with having already killed
the leading Philistine giant, he went
and played the harp to that unhappy
nation, with the view of demoralizing
the people so that he eould make an
easy conquest of them on ooming to the
Israelitish throne.
While tho javelin is probably a spe
cify for all suffering due to aocordeons,
violins, cornets and flutes, it is not a
remedy which is available at the present
day. The moat successful mode of
treatment which has been devised is that
whioh was recently tried, with admir
able results, in the oase of a young man
residing in a Twenty-second street
boarding house, who was addicted to
the French horn ; and it is due to the
medioal profession that tbe history of
the ease should be briefly given.
The young man in question occupied
the second story front hall bedroom.
He was apparently a quiet and well
meaning person, but under a smooth
and spotless shirt bosom he concealed a
heart heedless of human suffering. It
would not have made much difference
where he ooucealed his heart, for it
would have beeu quite as oallous had he
kept it under his waistband, or inside of
his boot. That he preferred to learn
the French horn rather than any other
and more oommon instrument of tor
ture, does not palliate his offense; for
although the horn lacks the ear-piercing
shrillness of the cornet, its tone has a
wonderfully penetrating power, and is
to the last degree depressing to the
spirits. Unfortunately, he was free
from those forms of vice which lead
young men to sp.eud their evenings else
where than in their rooms anti to lie in
bed late in the morning. -Moreover, ho
paid his room font in advanoe with oold
blooded punctuality. Henoe, although
he rose up early and sat up late to prac
tice the horn, his landlady could uot
make up her mind either to request him
to leave or to hint to him, by the dis
creet method of helping him exclusively
to oold coffee and bare bones, that his
presence iu her house was undesirable.
The man who begins to play a wind
instrument employs the moat of his
time in what might be called '‘sighting
shots.” For example, when this partic
ular young man desired to sound 1) flat,
it would take him a long while before he
could get his elevation and his wind
gauge regulated. He would hit three
or four notes above B flat, and three or
four notes below it, a score of times be
fore he would finally make a bull’s-eye.
Even when, after long effort, he suc
ceeded in hitting the desired nate, the
sound produced would he what is tech
nically and decisively called a “biant,”
or, in other words, an uncertain, tone
less, am) most unmusical sound. It is
needless to speak of the effect which this
sort of thing had upon bis fellow-board
ers. At the end of two weeks public
indignation had grown to that extent
that it was seriously proposed to melt
the horn and to pour the metal dowu
the throat of the player, as a warning
that unless he promptly reformed he
would be dealt with severely. It was
then that a homeopathic physician re
siding in the house called a meeting of
the aggrieved boarders in order to pro
pose what he believed would be a radi
oal cure.
After describing with great clearness
the painful symptoms which prolonged
practice opon the horn develop in the
unfortunate and unwilling listeners, and
unfolding at mnch length Hahnemann's
theory of enre, he asserted that in order
to successfully combat the effects of
horn-playing, the use of other instru
ments which produce analogous symp
toms was clearly indicated- Hence, Jio
proposed that pach boarder should pro
vide himself with a cornet, a violin, an
acoordeon, a flute, or a drum, and ad
minister these remedies whenever any
symptoms of the French horn were
manifested. Few of the boarders be
lieved in homeopathy, but they were in
that state of mind in which men clutch
at any nostrum which promises relief.
They, therefore, resolved to follow the
doctor’s prescription, aud immediately
laid in a full supply of the indicated in
struments.
The next evening at ? o’clock the fa
miliar gasp of the horn was heard. In
stantly it was followed by the screech of
the violin, the spasmodic chocking of
the eornet, the drone of the accordeon,
the wail of the Ante, and the fierce up
roar of tbe drum. In two minutes a
crowd was collected in the street, under
the impression that a large orchestra
was rehearsing Wagner’s “Meistersing
er,” and the young man with the French
bom was lying on the floor ot his room
in strong convulsions.
Tbe cure was complete. Early the
next morning the French horn player
was removed to a lunatic asylum, where
he still remains. He is qniet and harm
less, bnt he believes that he is a rem
nant of the wall of Jericho, which fell
down nnder the assault of the Hebrew
trumpets, and constantly insists that
Congress should make an appropriation
to repair him and mount him with bar
bette guns. His horn has vanished, no
one knows whither, and the inmates of
his former boarding house are contented
and happy. We thus see that homeo
pathic treatment is snre to cure brass
instrument players, and we may be
reasonably snre that it wonld prove
equally efficacious in oases of violin and
aooordeon playing.
Ulore Locg.
Washington, December 19. Com
missioner Williamson, General Land
officer, received a telegram from J. W.
James, his special agent in Minnesota,
for a suppression ot depredations on
public timber lands, announcing that
the Government obtained a judgment in
all civil sqits for the recovery of logs
and lumber, and all parties exoept one
have filed a plea of gnilty in criminal
soits.
Mr. G. W. Adair’s property, in Atlan
ta, brought $101,926.
THE LEAP OK ROUSHAN BE4J.
HENRY W. MNOFEr.T.OW IN THE JANUARY
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Mounted on Kyrat strong and fleet.
His chestnut steed with four white feet
Roushan Beg, called Kurrogion,
Son of the road and bandit chief
Seeking refuge and relief,
Up the mountain pathway flew.
Such was Kyrat’s matchless speed
Never yet could any stee'd
Reach the dust-cloud iu his course :
More than maiden, more than wife
More than gold aud next to life
Roushan, the robber, lovod his horse.
In the land that lies beyond
Erizoom and Trebizoud
Garden-girt his fortress stood :
1 hindered kli&u, or car&vAn
Journeying north from Koordistan,
Gave him wealth and wiue and food.
Seven hundred and fourscore
Men-at-arms his livery wore,
Did his bidding night aud day ;
Now through regions all unknown
He was wandering, lost, alone.
Seeking without guide his way.
Suddenly the pathway ends.
Sheer the precipice descends,
Loud the torrent roars unseen :
thirty feet from side to side
Yawns the chasm ; on air must ride
He who crosses this ravino.
Following close in his pursuit,
At tiie precipice’s foot
Reyhan, the Arab of Oriah
Halted with his hundred men
Shouting upward from the gle
“La al Allah! Allah la!” ’
Gently Roushan Beg caressed
Kyrat’s forehead, neck and breast ■
Kissed him upon both his eves • ’
Sang to him in his wild way
As upon the topmost spray
Sings a bird before it flies.
“O my Kyrat, O my steed,
Round and slender'as a reed,
Carry me this danger through
Satin housings shall be thiue.
Shoes of gold, O Kyrat mine !
O thou soul of Kurrogion !
“Soft thy skin as silken skein,
Soft as woman’s hair thy mane,
Tender are thiue eyes and true ,
All thy hoofs like ivorv shine,
Polished bright. O life of mine,
Leap, and rescuo Kurrogion !”
Kyrat then, the strong and fleet
Drew together his four white feet,
Paused a moment on the verge,
Measured with his eyes the space,
And into the air’s embrace
Leaped as lo&ps I ho ocean surge.
As the surge o’er silt and sand
Bears a swimmer safe to land,
Kyrat safe his rider bore ;
Battling down the deep abyss >
Fragments of the precipice
Rolled like pebbles on a shore.
Roushan’s tasseled cap of red
Trembled not upon liis head ;
Careless sat he and upright ;
Neither hand nor bridlo shook.
Nor his head he turned to look,
As he galloped out of sight.
Flash of harness in the air.
Seen a moment like the glare
Ot a sword drawn from its sheath !
Thus the phantom horseman passed ;
Aud the shadow that he cast
Leaped the cataract underneath.
Reyhan, the Arab, hold his breath.
While this vision of life and death
Passed above him. “Allah hu !”
Cried he : “In all Koordistan
Breathes there not so brave a maix
As this robber Kurrogiou! ”
MOUTH CAROLINA RONDS.
FoiTslinilowiiiir ot the Report of Hie Com
mission—The Rejected Consols Not to He
OesiKiiateil Until Alter the l-ien.-i-nl Assem
bly Has Acted Upon I he Report.
[Special hixpateh to the Kews and Courier. J
Columbia, Tuesday, December 18.—Ik
is now settled that the anxiously looked
for report of the Bond Commission will
not be presented to the General Assem
bly until after the holiday recess, and
perhaps not before February. The lead
ing points of the report, however, so far
as have been decided upon to this timo,
are as follows : The amount of consoli
dated bonds which will not belong to any
particular class, but will be designated
here aud there, as they may have been
exchanged for old securities. Tho re
port of the commission will be a sum
mary of their fiudiugs, giving the num
bers and classes bf*. the securities for
which consols were issued, which the
committee deem wholly or partially
tainted with fraud, but will not contain
the numbers of the consolidated bonds
for which such fraudulent securities
were exchanged. The commission will
recommend in their report that the con
sols issued for those fraudulent securi
ties be repudiated or scaled, as the case
may be, and should the General Assem -
bly adopt these reports, a subsequent
report will be submitted, containing the
numbers aud classes of the consolidated
bonds which they recommend to be re
pudiated or scaled because ol such
fraudulent conversions. Thus tbfe com
mittee expect that, even after their first
report shall have been made pnblio, it
will be impossible to locate the fraudu
lent bonds without going through exact
ly the same work which has taken the
commission months to perform. This
course is doubtless ndoptod to prevent
speculation in the bonds until after the
General Assembly shall havo taken final
action,
Donn Plait’s Opinion of the l/nplonmtur.
nem.
| Washington Capital. ]
A lively passage-at-arms between Sen
ators CoDkling aud Gordon disturbed
the serenity and Btupidity of that august
body last Friday in executive session.
The Senator from New York said that if
the Georgia Senator stated that lie was
“giving orders to tho President” ho
told “ that which was not true.” Indi
rectly he gave Senator Gordon the lie.
The Senator from Georgia immediately
put on his war paint, dropped his R’s.,
aud commenced to quote from the code.
He intimated that while he wonld cheer
fully draw a four-buttoned glove across
Mr. Oonkling’s face, that was not the
plaoe, and the matter could be settled
elsewhere. Mr. Conkling, as eager and
as willing as a bridegroom, retorted iu
his finest vein that he was ready for the
answer there or anywhere else. Thew
is a fine flavor of raediieval chivalry
about this episode which intimates that
our race of heroes has not yet died out
Their wonted fires glow in the
breasts of their sons, and all Can
ada is by this timo waiting to wel
come the Senatorial knights with itching
paliua to hospitable hotels and starved
surgeons. General Gordon having won
the highest honors his State can oonler
upon its most honored citizen, and War
ing on bis face the scars of as gallant a
campaign as the best Scottish blood
fought for the Stuart, would fitly crown
the apex of an honorable career by meet
iug in a duel aud shooting, or being
shot, by a New York lawyer. Senator
Conkling, a born leader among men, as
King Agamemnon was among the
Greeks, and on* of the three or four
great characters to whom tho nation
looks for counsel iu trouble and per
plexity, would ronnd off the full anil
perfect measure of his life by “winging”
or being winged by an ex Confederate
General. Since a Supreme Judge killed
Senator Broderick in a duel, and Bur
lingame pleaded for‘an opportunity to
shoot Preston Brooks, there has been
no exhibition of Senators going down
among the gladiators to amuse the pop
ulace. If it is needful for the Republic
that two Senators should fight, let M.
C. Butler go out with Edmunds, and let
Butler kill him. Or let Othello Davis
meet lago Kellogg. Whether he kill
Kellogg or Kellogg kill him, either
makes our gain.
“Just What I Expected.”
[Aew> York Eoenimrj Post.]
At an entertainment given in Boston
by the Hellers the other night, at the
suggestion of a lady in the audience
the magician placed his hands on the
shoulder of her male companion aud
demanded that Miss Heller, who was
exercising her power of “second sight,”
should read a letter that was in the
gentleman’s pocket. The latter became
obviously nervous and would have left
the hall, but the audience, comprehend
ing the situation, burst out in a roar of
laughter and loudly called for the read
ing of the entire correspondence in his
possession, Miss Heller according read :
“Dearest George—Meet me by moon
light alone on the common when the
clock strikes J>.”
The victim, amid the yells of the an
dience, started down the center isle,
olosely followed by his wife, who merely
stopped to thank Mr. Heller, and ex
claim, with an ominous shake of the
head, “Just what I expected from the
old deceiver 1
A standard household remedy of un
doubted and acknowledged merit is Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup. And it costs bud
25 cents ; large size, 50 cents.