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(Efiromcte anb Sentinel
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1877.
MARK MK A SONG.
Ont of the silences mka me a e^ng,
Beautiful. Hid and soft and low ;
Let the loneliest mimic sound along
And wing each note with a wail of woe,
Dim and drear
As hope's last tear.
Ont of the silences make me a hymn.
Whose sounds are shadows soft and dim.
Out o'f the stillness in your heart—
A thousand songs are sleeping there—
Make me but one. thou child of art,
The song of a hope in a last despair,
Dark and low,
A chant of woe,
Out of the stillnesses, tone by tone,
Soft as a snowflake, wild as a moan.
Out of the darknesses flash me a song.
Brightly dark and darkly bright ;
Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along
The mystical shadows of the night,
f-ing it sweet.
Where nothing is drear, or dark, or dim.
And earth-songs melt into Heaven’s hymn.
Father Ryan.
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anticipation.
[.Atlantic Mamthyl]
Wanting across the Acids of snow.
The western sun makes haste to go ;
This dav. I know, is tried and sweet,
To-morrow tires my lagging feet.
With many a pause ef b sppy rest
I we journeyed with To-day. my guest ;
His stranger brother cannot be,
Metbinks as goodly Company-
Holding in bis mysterious band *
Gifts that will bless or blight my land '
Tarry yet longer, fair To-dav,
That boding step an boar delay.
What songs have told my spirit’s cheer,
What sunlight warmed the glowing tear,
What dear companions round me hung,
While life, and love, and hope, were young !
These with to-morrow fade apace,
Like blooms from a beloved face;
And trusting half, yet half with dread,
I question, "What shall be instead t"
The sun drops deeper, night is chill;
The oracles I seek are still;
¥on herald star which glitters low
Beams beckoning on the way I go.
To-morrow '( Ah, that door doth ope
Anew celestial path to lloi>e,
More thau I ask or dream must lie,
In God's to-morrow kept for me !
- - —■— e
“ HAIL AND FAREWELL.”
"Hail and /arewell!" We meet to part
Even with the greeting on our lips.
As those, who from some bury mart,
See alt their wealth go out m ships
That never come again to shore.
Ho fade our days to rise no more.
Our three-score years are but a span,
We scarcely trill an idle song,
Before the funeral army’s van
Passes with muffled drums along,
And sadly then the doleful hell
Moans in the palsied ear "Farewell!”
‘•Hill aud farewell !” The stars go down ;
The billows of the rosy dawn
Are breaking on the idle town,
And night’s weird armies far withdrawn,
Fade like dim spectres down the west,
And hope is strong aud love is best.
Yes, hope is strong in newer souls
And love is beet for those that slay,
No more my ship at anchor rolls
And yours is sailing fast away.
I lose you, for the ocean’s swell
Breaks now between us. "Hail and fore
well !”
The lamp goes out, tlio embers die,
Pale Dian Ups her silver keei
In somo far-hidden reach of sky,
While night and darkness round us steal,
And sorrow sits on every sail;
We cry “Farewell!” hut whisper "Hail!”
Beyon.l uo ocean where the palms,
Arise beside the jocund streams,
And love rehearses all his psalms
And youth renews hishappv dreams,
If I may wait your coming sail
How blessed then the cheerful "Hail!”
mam
GOING.
- m ELLA WHEELER.
All in the beautiful Autumn weather,
One thought lingers with me aud stays ;
Death and Winter are coming together,
Though both are voileil by the Autumn haze
i look on the forest of royal splendor ;
I look on the face in my quiet room—
A face ail beautiful, sad aud tender ;
And both are stamped with the seal of doom
All through the days of ludian Hummer,
Minute uy minute, and hour by hour,
I feel tlio approach of the dreaded comer,
That ghastly presence of awful power;
1 hear the birds in the early morning, /
As they fly from the fields that are tuminf
brown.
And at noon, and at niglit, my heart take
warning.
For the maple leaves fall down, and down.
The sumac bushes ate all a flaming;
The world is scarlet, and gold, and green;
And my darling's beaut if nl cheeks are shaming
The painted bloom of the ball-room queen
Why talk of Winter in Hummer’s glory!’
Why speak of death for a thing so fair?
Ah ! bnt. the Frost-lying, white and hoary,
Is weaving a luamlo for both to woar.
God! if I could by the soft deceiving
Of forests of splendor and cheeks of bloom
Lull my heart into sweet believing—
Just for a moment forget my doom,
Put it away for a second only.
And rest from the pain of the awfnl dread
Of days that are coming, Jong and lonely,
Whon Autumn lias vanished, and Hhe is dead
Blit ah ! while the sun gilds wood and meadow
And her fair cheek’s hectic glows and cheats
I kuow grim Death sits veiled in shadow.
Weaving for both their winding sheets.
I canned hold and I cannot save her—
My ImaaW are as weak as a babe’s, new born
I must yield her up to the One who gave her,
Aud wait for the ltesarroction morn.
J For the Chronteie itud Cpn*tUutionalist.\
. IIKIFTINCJ.
BY MAXWELL HILL.
We stood on l\ie ei'ore together,
My beautiful May ami I.
Watching with nptarnhd faces
The clouds that were on the sky.
Whiter they were than snow flake.,
And rested as if asleep.
Becalmed in the azure heavens
Bike vessels upon the deep.
With wondering eyes we watched them,
For slowly they seemed to he
Assuming the forms of spirits,
And pointing toward the sea.
Far reaching in broken fragments
Their glittering columns lay,
Unmoved by the winds that muttered
So wierdly along the bay.
Such beautiful, shining creatures.
Too glorious to behold;
But what were the evil tidings
Those wonderful clouds foretold !
Away on the far blue water
Btrange whispeis we seemed to hear,
As if sonu hapless wanderer
Was calling in angnish there.
We listened in speechless wonder,
And into our hearts there stole
An awful and dread misgiving
That harrowed the inmost soul.
There was something lying yonder
That we had not seen before.
Just left by the restless biilows
Adry on the sandy shore.
We started 1 it was the flgnre
Of a lovely girl and fair.
With the sea-weeds round her shoulders
And the salt spray in her hair.
We kneeled by tho silent maiden
And lifted her golden head,
Watching to see if certainly
All tokens of life had fled.
But calmly in the settiug suu
The delicate figure lay.
For angels had borne the soul above
To the realms of endless day.
A sweet, sweet smile so heavenly
BUU lingered upon her face.
As if kind hands had smoothed away
Each tortured and dying trace.
Safe now ou the face of Heaven
Her radiant form may be.
Waiting to rescue those who sink
In the waves of the cruel sea.
iriiCKT.t, KNOW 11.1. K AMI tlKKKN
noon it a i i.ito a ti.
Thr l.luf le Witlt.n's Islnml— In Kacraf-
Irk Kcpen.
Capt. 8. S. Kirkland, Chief of the
Eflgiueer Corps of the Augusta, Knox
ville ami Greenwood Railroad, was in
the city yesterday. He stated that 13
miles of the ronte between Angnsta and
Waltou's Island had been surveyed, and
that Walton's Island would be reached
yesterday. With the exception of one
single point on the ronte, very little cat
ting would have to be done or embank
ments made. The grading on the rest
of the road would lie very easy, and
the coat comparatively -mail. The pro
file of the route, as aiioeru to President
Wheless and several In rectors of the
road by Capt. Kirkland, gave great satis
faction to those genltemeu. The grade
on the line iu tins profile is 53 feet to
the mile, bat Capt. Kirkland thinks that
it can safely be increased to OB feet,
thus decreasing the coat of grading.
The ronte on this profile, commencing
at Clark's mills, runs Between the canal
and the river until tt reaches Warren's
Spring, where it crosses the canal. The
bridge at this point will n quire but one
apan. The excavation on this line is
very much less than on the original line
surveyed for the Augusta and Hartwell
Railroad. The engineer corps will
crmsxmee immediately tho survey of an
other line back from Wallot * Island to
August*. The Director* of the toad,
however, wilt not fix upou any particular
route nut'l they become satisfied which
ia the lc*!, most pruelieabW and least
expensive, _ _
grtiMmniP, December Ist .—At a Di
.ummu Convention of the Epinaopsl
-Ohwvh, the Springfield Diocese, by an
-unanimous vote of both orders, •elect
ed Rev. iorgv Pox Sttuoat, IX D.,
ghm of the thaml Theological Semi •
mty of New Fork, Riahop of thia Dio
<whv which wu created by the General
Ocuveuuou at Bovhwi.
. liORDON AND CONKLING.
DIFFERENT>ACCOUNTS OF THE
RECENT AFFAIR.
Radical Papers Hewtiug Abaet "Plaatatlaa
.Mauser*’’ aad the “slave Driver’s Whip”
tonkins IS Injure Gardao—"N Matter
Who ia the Wrest’ 1 -Aa Old Feed Revived
—Fxriteweut la Exeeative Weastss.
A Radical Orgaa’a Access!.
[Special Dispatch to A. Y. Times, Rep.]
Washington, December 14. —There
was a scene in the executive session to
day that reminds the older Senators of
occurrences which were oommon
enough before the war, bat which, un
der the civilized influences of Republican
control, have become matters of remin
iscence only. The nomination of Wade,
a carpet-bagger, to be Collector of In
ternal Revenue in Georgia, had been
favorably reported by the Committee on
Finance, against the protest of both
Senators from that State, and stood low
down upon the calendar. As soon as
the Senate began its executive business
Mr. Gordon asked that the regular or
der be set aside and this nomination
taken up for immediate consideration.
Mr. Coukling objected, and was sup
ported by nearly all the Republican Sen
ators. Mr. Gordon became angered,
and made some offensive remarks about
the disposition of Mr. Conkling to dra
goon the Senate and proceeded to
charge that he (Conkling) had pocketed
the report of the Committee on Com
merce upon the nomination of Mr.
Smith t<> be Collector of Customs at
Mobile, Mr. Conkling pretended not
to have understood Mr. Gordon, and
asked him to repeat his remarks. Mr.
Gordon did so, renewing the charge
and making it even more direct
and insulting than before. Mr. Conk
ling rose and said, with emphnsis, “Mr.
President, wbat the Senator states is
wholly untrue,” pointing his finger at
Mr. Gordon as he uttered the words.
Mr. Gordon was standing at bis desk at
the time, but pushed through between
the desks before him as if he would ap
pro ich Mr. Conkling, when a Senator
interrupted, making the point that such
proceedings were disgraceful and whol
ly ont of order. Mr. Gordon returned
to’bis desk, and remarked in an under*
tone that he should demand an apology.
Mr. Conkling heard the remark and,
addressing the Vice-President, said that
ho thought if any apologies were to be
made, tlie Senator from Georgia should
set the example. Mr. Gordon then said
that he did not desire to further inter
rupt the proceedings, bnt that he
should demand a settlement at another
t me, making the usual Southern allu
sion to his honor. Mr. Conkling retort
ed, still addressing the Chair, that he
was prepared for a settlement now or at
auy other time, and withdrew his objec
tiou to the consideration of Wade’s case,
adding that he hoped other Senators
who had objected would also do the
same. When some Senator moved to
adjourn Mr. Thurman asked him to
yield a moment, and made a short
speech of an apologetic character in Mr.
Gordon’s behalf, although unauthorized.
Mr. Thurman said he was an old man,
aud had been in the Senate many years,
but had never witnessed anything whioh
grieved him more than the misunder
standing between his associates from
New York and Georgia. Both were
his warm personal frißbfl B > au d he
hoped that an amicable understand
ing might be reached between them.
He excused the affair by the un
usual condition of temper in the Senate
and the severe political strain through
which the body had recently passed.
Mr. Hamlin then took the floor and
made a similar speech, representing Mr.
Conkling as Mr. Tnurman had repre
sented Mr. Gordon, but neither Mr.
Coukling nor Mr. Gordon made any ex
planation, aud the Senate adjourned.
Mr. Conkling is spending the evening
with Senator Jones, of Nevada, and Mr.
Gordon is at his hotel. Several persons
have attempted fo interview the latter,
bnt he receives no gaffis. Senator Mc-
Donald and others have liSOB plpseted
with him this evening, and they depre
cate any newspaper mention of the af
fair, saying that it amounted to nothing,
and will be passed over without further
notice on either side. The affair will no
doubt be regarded, and properly, as dis
graceful to the Senate. Mr, Gordon, by
his swaggering manner, has wade him
self very offensive In the Senate this
session. He is all the time talking about
his honor or the honor of somebody,
and he goes around with his honor bal
anced on his shoulder for somebody to
knock off, in school boy fashion. He
seems to have learned nothing by his
experience iu the war, which taught
most Southern soldiers that other men
besides themselves were honorable, and
that, too, without boasting. His charge
against Mr. Conkling was, in faot, un
true, since the nomination he referred
to has been held up by another Sena
tor to add to th e disgvst on the Repub
lican side. Mr. Gordon, of all men, has
appeared as the special champmn of the
President, especially in the case of Fitz
simona, and in the debate on the New
York appointments. In the latter in
stance it was repotted that the President
sent for Mr. Gordon and marked out
the line of argument for the oonfirma
tion. This is ppsitively denied, but it
was circulated and believed by some
Republicans, aDd increased the irrita
tion, Nothing would do Mr. Cockling
or any other Senator more good before
the country than a .successful contest
with Mr. Gordon, and toe strict an in
quiry would not be made as to who was
wrong.
An Independent Journal’* Account.
[tipftial Dispatch to Philadelphia Times, Ind .]
Washington, Dssember 14.—T0-day
witnessed another exaiting spepe in the
secret session of the Senatn. Interest
in regular leg slative sessions has ceased,
aud the only acts that lately are worth
rec3rding happen when the doors of tbe
Denote are closed and barred against the
puUia. The proceedings to-day were
more exeitiog and threatening than any
that have oaotmafi fpr years. The par
ties to the quarrel war* Senators Conk
liug and Gordon, but the wuow Sißffftte
was wrought up to a high pitch of e#-
ojtemant. The discussion was on the
nomination of Wade to be a Collector
of Internal in Georgia. Sen
ator Gordon had speech against
the confirmation of Wndm Senator
Thurmau took the floor to protest
against the course that was beihg pur
aued with nominations for ofljee. He
said that if a discussion of two or three
hours in length was to lie had on the po
litical relations of the North and South,
the two parties, the President and every
thing tdxs having any bearing on the
subject, there ws little hope of accom
plishing anything in last hours be
fore the long recess. At tore poio l Sen
ator Gordon rose to speak again, and
there came irom the Republican side
cries of “Go on, go on with the calen
dar 1 Lfet’e have the vote!” The words
"Go on" came from several Senators,
among them Hamim, Mitchell and
Conkling.
This greatly increased the quieit tem
pered Georgia Senator, and he cried out
ia an impatient tone: “The Senator
! from Mow York is issuing his orders. He
is ordering the Chair.” Mr. Conkling,
considerably etsited, demanded that
the Senator from Georgia should repeat
1 his words. Mr. Gordon AMp repeated
! that the Senator from New Conk is
suing u is orders. Conkling then, in s
I fever of excitement, said, in s load
i voice : “If Urn from Georgia
j says that I issue orders U> the Chair he
: says wbat is not true ,-" sa4> Jfjth in-
I created anger, he continued,
' the Seuofor may misunderstand me I
! will repeat thot if he says I issue orders
to Ihe Chair he ssyc what is not trne.”
Gordon at once sprang is bjs feet, and,
treinbttog with rage, said : “This ques
tion, sir, asu be settled outside this
Chamber.” A l tkiS P°> nt Conkling was
qaiie as excited as Lin antagonist, and
tikiugastep toward Gorkm* Nho was
on the opposite side of the oksjfftfer,
he replied in a fierce voice : “I am will
ing to settle it i?re aud now; and onco
more J will say to fhe Senator from
Georgia that if he says l gfve orders to
the Chair, k*i say* whet is notiwsg/’end
the words to blister bis month.
Both Senator* t***ppan took their
seats, and the for
some time without any referenda iff fhe
unhappy difficulty. before ad
journment, however, Mr, Thurman re
ferred to the controversy XA4 gfid it was
unfortunate and stioald be tbs **£yeot
of regret. He said he did not think the
Senator from New York intended to be
discourteons to either the Chair or the
| Senator from Georgia. He thought Mr.
Conkling merely desired to go on with
the business, the same aa Senators fre
quently csll lor s vote. It ia very often
done, and be said otingr Senators had
| called ont to “Go on,” meaning to go
;on with the calendar. Mr. Thurmau
i hoped that the occurrence wonld not be
; referred to ontetdn of the Chamber. Mr.
! Hamlin also spoke in the interest of for
! gireuess between the two Seual*g. ffe
said the trouble arose from a misunder
standing on the part of tbe Georgia
Senator. Mr. Hamlin said he had him
self called for a vote in the word* qnot
: ed, bnt no disrespect was intended, and
I he did nothing more than waa enstoma
(rr or than he had • right to dp. Nei
ther uf the belligerent Senators made
any r. mark, as4 both kept their seat*.
Tbe Senators were atjpefl to keep the
disagreeable circamstsaew ffi them
> Mire*, bnt there is, nevertheless, e *®~d
deal at tf Ik about it to-night. It ia
; generally among Senators that
I no further notice gill ftp taken of the
i ooeonwace on the pert af gsysMi Qor
i doe.
A Siawralk AaarealM Aeeeea*.
ZMp*** e> fWvenea AM . Ann.)
i The calendar was then proceeded with.
and another nomination was taken np.
Gordon made an effort to have a report
rqafl which’ Spencer . wgs suppressing
bearing on the case, when Conkling in
bis seat said : “ Oh, go on with the
calendar!" Gordon, with some vehe
mence of language, said : “ See the
Nett York Senator giving his orders to
the Vjoe-President J” Conkling did not
quite catch the remark at first, and ask
ed him to repeat it. “ I said,” retorted
Gordon, “ see the New York Senator
giviDg his orders to the Vice-Presi
dent !” Conkling, quite excited, arose
in his seat and said : “If the Senator
says I am giving orders to the Vioe-
President, he sayß that which is not
trne.” Thurman, apprehending a
scene, came forward as a peace-maker,
and endeavored to restrain Gordon from
taking any farther notice of the matter.
Gordon paid no attention to him, bnt
said, in an excited strain : “ Very well;
we will settle that 1” “ Yes,” said
Conkling, “ we will settle it here 1”
“ No,” replied General Gordon, “we
will not settle it here !" Thurman then
made a speech in the effort of concilia
tion, and gave both the opportunity to
retreat from their bellicose attitude.
He said no donbt each misunderstood
the other, and a satisfactory explana
tion coaid be reached. Both Gordon
and ConkliDg listened attentively to
Tbnrman, bnt remained quiet, and
there the matter dropped. General
Gordon to-night has kept close to bis
room at Willard’s Hotel, and talks with
mneb reluctance concerning the diffi
culty. He said, late to-night : “Of
oonrse, I can not tell yon what was done
in executive session. I don’t like to
talk about these personal matters ; bnt,
of coarse, there is a way to settle them.”
Conkling, too, refuses to say anything
about the matter. When asked how he
would treat a challenge if be received
one, he Baid, with a sneer : “ I will
wait till I receive it.” The matter is
known bnt to the immediate friends of
the Senators, and, of oonrse, those who
were present at the session, and there
was a studied effort to-night to keep it
qniet. The belief is that Gordon will
challenge Conkling, as be will hardly
seek a street brawl, and the ohances of
snoh an encounter would be decidedly
in favor of the New York Senator, as he
is much heavier in physique and
■tronger than Gordon. Friends of the
latter will endeavor to restrain him
from resorting to the code, because it is
believed that if he sent a challenge
Conkling would prooeed against him
criminally, and at the same lime his
friends wonld call the matter to the
attention of the Senate and insist upon
his expulsion.
Gordon has been in bis room all night
closeted with friends, and after midnight
Senator Lamar was with him. There is
an impression—which can not be traced
to more than rnmor—that a challenge
has already passed from Gordon to Con
kling. It is quite evident that Gordon
means to do something, and that ontside
of the Senate Chamber. He keeps his
own counsel, however, and his friends
are exceedingly reticent. Iu this con
nection it must be added that Conkling
is an athlete, and no novice in the man
ly art, which he pieked up while at col
lege, aud even now numbers with his
daily exercises an occasional bout with
the gloves. Republicans who sympathize
with Conkling seem pleased that the
difficulty has come about, as it is hoped
that the incident will arouse sectional
feeling in tfie North, and thus help the
dying Republican party to get on its
legs again. Senators who witnessed the
quarrel say that both Gordon aud Con
kling were determined, and that neither
displayed the qualities of the coward.
An Old Feud Revived.
[Atlanta Constitution .]
A preliminary skirmish occurred be
tween them on last Thanksgiving day,
as was reported by our special corres
sponJent qt tfae time. Conkling sought,
in his contemptuous way, to oast ridi
cule upon the position assumed by Gor
don' in the Kellogg debate, but Gordon
parried and returned the blow with dou
ble and crushing force. He held up the
inconsistencies and pedantic flimmery
of Qonfcling in their most ludicrous
light, and brought down peals of laugh
ter aud applause, to the discomfiture of
the rooster from Utica. This was but
a foretaste of the power dormant in the
Georgia Ajax, and should have been
heeejed by the curly-headed carpet
knight- Gordon knew that the hint
would net be taken, but that the Sena
tor would ojrtalnly seek his revenge.
Gordon, therefore, put a rod in piekle
for him. The night of the occurrence
above alluded to the writer was iu com
pany with Senator Gordon when a friend
congratulated him upon the neatness
which ho had castigated Conkling,
Senator Gordon then remarked:
“J did not have a fair opportunity to
doal with him to-day, but I am resolved
uot to submit to that man’s insolence
any longer. The next time he attempts
it with me, he will hear from me !”
I’lautation manners in tlie Senate.
[Cincinnati Gazette, Rep. |
Wp hope that the manner wliiob is
known in onp speech as “the plantation
manner” is not to bp rehabilitated in
the United States Congress. The retort
that “this is a matter that can be set
tled optsidp the chamber," is a poor
argument, sud is pot P?en the manner
of tho respectable "node of honor," In
that, persons do not make public
threats, nor advertise to the world and
the officers of law that they intend to
send a challenge. In the code of honor,
as it is called, this is regarded as invok
ing the interference of the law. Sena
tor Gordon did not understand the cus
tom of bnainess when he exclaimed in
such an offensive manner Conk
ling was giving orders to ’the Chair.
Perhaps Mr. Oonkling answered with
qndqe asperity. But he who gave the
provocation shqqjd withdraw his re
mark, and nof degrsdP t}}® Spnate by
tho duello bluster,
A Bottle or Wine Will Settle ft.
[Cincinnati JUnquirer, Dem ]
The word of war has passed between
Gordon and Oonkling. Whispers of a
duel are in the air. A bottle of wine
and mutual explanations will settle this
terrible feud.
liORUON AM* TtE fAPITAI-.
The New Issue Against the Senntor—A ’’Sin
Against Atlnntn, A Sin Against llie State-
Hill vs. Hordon—Uordun and the Conven
tion off the Snme Bine.
Editor) Chronicle qncji Cjm^tilptionqllst:
Periodically, and with a phrpnip dis
tress, there turps up a labored article in
the Constitution agsipsf Oen. John B.
Gordon. The last appears ig Tuesday’s
paper, the lltb, and is headed :
“Friend and Foe—To Whom is Atlanta
Indebted For Her Victory.” More than
two columns of miserable stuff are de
rated to abase of the General, because
he die jjpt write letters and make
speeches for daring the late
canvass. That is alf of it. 4s tjje lav
yers say, there is bat one count in the
indiotment —an indictment founded
upon the idiotic idea that not to write
letter* sif<? make speeches in favor of
Atlanta was % pnl&ca} sin that the
State should punish. The writer of the
article says “it was a critical moment in
the history of Atlanta. Had her ene
mies succeeded, her prestige would
have been destroyed and we would have
bad a terrible back-set in our progress
in the future.” Now, this back set wt i
net a pnblio issue during the late
od iLf contrary, John H.
James made bold to and pub
lish that the removal of the capital
wonld not injure Atlauta in the 'slight
est decree; and John H. James is an
honortbie We commend him to
the writer as uue Jejcid of envy
and malice, who contentedly digests, pis
daily food and has neither time nor in
clination to nose aronnd in search of
something ag&igsf General Gordon, or
any other Confederate oiai, t .
The writer oharges the General with
evading and avoiding and dodging the
responsibility that pressed npun him.
i‘t l £rst time we ever heard Gftn.
Gordon Si anything.
Dodging ia an art In wpuy* be Jjas had
no schooling. If he ever sought to
practice it he has had miserable 6hcoess,
To* he was lacking in that masterly
tuition ptoof, Jb°® e who assail him are
generally so eapuda ot roving. The
writer pays glowing tribute* fo WfW,
Tec mbs, Mr. Stephens, Judge Refoee,
Judge ju Gen. Wofford, and
many others,' *hev did not live
IB Atlanta anj yet did *np in
her fhfPT- and, therefore, because Gen.
Gordou did tlf flip Atlanta he was the
more culpable tor uot vriting— <jttod
erat demonstrandum / what iupepent
atnpidity ! Doea uot the writer know
that interested witueaaes are excluded
from testifying in the ConrU, or if allow
ed to testify do so under a cloud. Bat
says he, Mr. Hill did not hesitate to
wtu*. of that? Does it prove
anything of'eatsjkaw a ryecedeat ? Had
Toombs and Stephens," Beene and
Underwood A Cos. lived in Atlanta
wopld they have written letters to be
pubiiffcylfiir \fe tjjink not, Honorable
gentlemen diner 1140 Of&S* poOPlc in
tfaeir sense of Jelicagy in such matters,
and bat few man obooae to do and say
many thing* that “oar Ben" dare* to.
We have no fault to find with him abont
hia letter, nor wonld we have if be had
not written it, hot we do moat heartily
com meed General Gondon’s manly and
sensible reply to the committee. He
say* •‘my own preferences are well
but my official relations to the
people ot faw £oie State require that
I should abstain from tmo m o* an v in
fineaee which nay official position might
give me in an attempt to conteolthe
vote* ot th* people is a matter ad pecu
liarly one of toeal iateieet and which
haa been wisely submitted to tbs iadg-
M | u| r
General Gordon chose to do precisely
what the Convention did—leave it to the
people- Why not arraign the members
of that Convention. They oertainly had
the power to vote Atlanta the capital
but they abstained and left it to the
people, and how tlris bilions writer pre
tends to be magnificently incensed and
snperbly indignant because the General
did the same thing. No. He is not
mad abont that. If he was ever
passingly friendly to General Gor
don before this canvass he is not
mad abont that. No man of oommon
hnmanity—that is to say, no average
man with a healthy liver—could get mad
about so small a nothing with 40,000 ma
jority on his side, and while the Atlan
tic were still singing, “lo Triumphe,”
and everybody happy—except the mel
ancholy writer. Alas, for him. Bnt he
cannot convince anybody that he is mad
about that, and, therefore, a proper re
spect for the proprieties of life demands
that he should speak ont like a man and
tell ns what he is mad abont, and who
did it, and if it has not happened yet
tell us when it is to happen, and who
are the accessories before the fact. The
soldiers of Georgia want to know.
Cherokee.
“SWEET CHARITY.”
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I mark the enclosed extract from a
speech of Judge Jame3 Jackson, deliv
ered in Atlanta on the subject of chari
ty, in behalf of the Widows’ Home of
that city. Asa member of the Board
of Health of Augusta, in the year 1839,
during the prevalence of the yellow fe
ver, I was present at the scene reported
and can be a witness of the truth of
every word in the extract. * G.
“Thus, ladies of the Home,l summon
to yonr aid every manly passion and
Every Domestic Affection*
Gallantry, patriotism, home, wife,
mother, daughter, sister. These are
your allies. If they fail you, vain is
the help of man. But one mightier
thau auy man is ever at hand to assist
benevolence, and with this aid yon can
not fail.
Your charity is like God’s mercy, over
all and free to all. Jew and Gentile,
Catholic and Protestant, Episcopalian,
Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, all
unite here; and the Father of all smiles
upon all.
At the bedside of sickness and near
the corpse of death, creeds and sects
disappear; and charity and love melt all
hearts into one. Some years ago the
students of Emory College invited me
to speak in memory of one of their
great Presidents—Judge Longstreet. I
was thus led to traverse his earthly
pathway and cull flowers with which I
might deck his grave; aud the loveliest
incident of his life is related in his au
tobiography.
He was a preacher in charge of the
Methodist Church in Augusta, when the
yellow fever scourged that city and de
cimated its inhabitants. True to duty,
be remained at his post, and Father
Barry, the Catholic priest, remained at
his. Their ministrations of mercy
brought them together, and side by side
they ministsred to the siok and the
dying. The priest had a large mansion
which he used as a hospital, and he in
vited' the preacher to use it with him.
Thus Protestant and Catholic lay side
by side, and recovered or died together.
On one ocoasion, a man siok nigh high
unto death, while priest and preacher
were at his bedside, asked the preacher
to pray, and priest and preacher kneeled
together, and as the preacher prayed, he
said in the acoonnt he gave of the
scene, that no heartier aniens ever fell
from human lips at a camp meeting
than those which swelled up from the
big heart of the Catholic priest.
Ladies and gentlemen: I believe that
priest aud preacher have shaken hands
“on the other side of the river, in the
shade of the trees.”
SHAME OR STARVATION.
“The National Bureau of Engraving and
Printing i Nothing But it Pool of Iniquity”
—A Female Employe Tells a Woful Story.
Washington special to the Chicago
Times: The following letter has been
received by a lady interested in reform
ing the official abuses in the depart
ments. It is already in the hands of a
House Committee, with the intention of
remedying the terrible abuses pietured
in the letter:
Washington, D. C., Nov. 20, 1877.
Mrs. —:
There is something I want to tell you
abont, and as I do not know where you
live I have determined to address you a
note. Now you, in common with others,
have heard of the immoral conduct un
der the former management of the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing. My
dear madam, believe me when I tell you
that such conduct is now being practiced
in that establishment by a high official.
I know of several young girls who en
tered that establishment innocent three
or four months ago, who are now, alas !
forever done for. I blush to tell you
that most disgraceful proposals have
been made to me, but so far I have re
sisted them. How long I can hold my
pitiful place unless I yield to the
tempter, God in Heaven only kuows.
With a life of shame, without
bread enough to feed dependent
ones, and the certainty of discharge
waiting others, it requires no prophet
to foretell the fate of many a poor girl.
Great God! is our Government so de
based as to keop a set of sensual men in
charge of one of its important establish
ments ? One poor girl, the sole help
and support of a widowed mother with
six little children, came to me with tears
in her eyes and asked my advioe. She
had been threatened with discharge un
less she would yield to base proposals.
Ruowing the dependent position of her
faprily, l declined to advise her. A
week afterward she told me that she
hs4 beep rqined, but that her mother
and little brothers and sisters would not
starve. J had nerve, and only saved my
honor by threatening to go to Mr. Sher
man if I had such proposals made to me
any more, bnt I know that in less than a
month I will be discharged for my con
tumacy, as a certain official in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing calls snoh re
fusals. I am a lone woman, and can
safely defy them, as no one depends on
me for bread. The victims are general
ly girls between fifteen aud eighteen,
principally the fatherless. If the Secre
tary will pat himself to a little trouble,
he will find ont that the Bureau of En
graving and printing is nothing bnt a
pool of iniquity, if here the Jiouor of
young gir}s‘ is /utjr'tered for positions
’which pay p dollar and p h per day.
May Eleayen bjess you for the work yon
perform in exposing this Augean stable,
is tbs wish of an Employe.
WASHINGTON WHITS.
The Mob oil the Rio Grande Frontier—Mex
ican Rangers Captured—Gen. Hubbard’s
Uneasiness Over Afl'alrs.
Washington, December 19. —The War
Department has the following :
Chicago, December 19.—Dispatches
received at Gen. Sheridan’s headquar
ters late last night, from Capt. Blah 1 , in
command at Fort Rliss, report that the
Texas Rangers at San hthaario surren
dered yesterday morning. Jndge How
\ ard, agent for Salt Mines, and Atkins
and Mcßride, Rangers, were shot, and
! the rest of the Rangers disarmed and
j liberated. The Rangers are now at
| Fort Bliss, opposite El Paso Mines, and
] the mob have dispersed. No help was
! given the mob from the Mexioan side of
: the river. The mob is composed en
i tirelv of native born oiiixens of Texas.
Washington, December 19.—Thb fju
! preme Court adjourns Friday for two
weeks.
plajgip, Hale, Dorsey and Robeson
have 'certainly left {or ooj, Springs' Ar
kansas. The President' has jjardoned
Col. John A. Joyce. He had served his
time, and the pardon relieves hiiq fjom
the nr a aud restore* him to eitiaensnip.
Governor Hubbard telegraphs the
Secretary of War, confirming the sur
rendered the Rangers and the shooting
of Howard, Atkinson and Mcßride.
Governor Hubbard adds: “The balance
of t'h6 state it’OGpb are uetd a* prisoners.
These latter wifj doubtless share the
same’fate, nhless rescued by the Doited
Stales forces, who were, under yonr or
ders, marching to their relief. We have
I information of large bodies of Mexican
! oitizens participating iu thin massacre
A commiskion has Been issued for
j Wade, Collector of’ the Third Gt orgia
District. When his bond for fifty thou-
I sand ycllars is approved he will take
possession of the oaiu*.
i PIjfNFKR COTTpN FACTORY.
The New Enterprtee Inaugurated by the
Colored People ol Anguilla.
We mentioned yesterday morning that
a number of influential colored men of
Angnsta had inaugurated a movement
I lor Hie of cotton fac
tory rin TAtt Mon
, day night a’meeting was held at’the
I school house of F. P. Johnson for the
' purpose of takine action in t{>e matter.
A. U Johnson win called tel Uie Dhair,
and C. C. Singleton requested to act as
Secretary. It was resolved to organise
a company with a capital stock of SIOO,-
‘ 000, and to go to work at once to raise
$50,000 to eommenee with. Fifty of
those present subscribed to the stock.
The following manager* were pr°i nt< S’
W. J. White, r. P. Joh neon, T. It.
Harper, Larins Henson, Adam Scott,
R. A Moss, R. H. Cook, C. O. Single
ton, A. R. Johnson. These managers
i will meet Thursday night and elect a
President and other officers. We are
glad to see the colored people engaged
in anch an enterprise, and hope that
they will aneeeed in establishing e fao
osy.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Jewells wants a high school.
Colnmbns has another scandal.
Covington has three restaurants.
Hartwell has anew livery stable.
Hartwell don’t want to be a oity yet,
Newton county roads are in a bad
condition.
Dr. H. S. Bradley becomes Mayor of
Gainesville.
The Washington boys have an anti
swearing club.
Bishop Beckwith preaches in Carters
tersville to-day.
Mr. Milton Bass, of Devereaux, has
been seriously ill.
Gainesville has a Library Association
and spitting service.
Mr. A. P. Wofford fills the municipal
throne in Cartersville.
Washington is building up her Libra
ry Association rapidly.
Emigrants from the lower part of the
State are going to Texas.
Mr. George W. Warren bangs ont his
law shingle in Lonisville.
Venus declined to take another Satur
day night horn last evening.
Captain J. R. Saunders is mentioned
for Connty Treasurer of Greene.
Mrs. Nancy Arnold, of Wilkes, in her
75th year, recently cut anew tooth.
Warrenton boys are going to Missis
sippi, hunting for the river monster.
Columbus is busying herself enter
taining runaway couples from Alabama.
The Washington Gazette is well pleas
ed all around with the result of the elec
tion.
Birtow and Elberton are to have
Good Templar fairs during Christmas
week.
James Williams, charged with murder
in Wilkes county, has been adjudged
insane.
•W. J. Durham, Esq , becomes night
passenger condnotor on the Athens
branch.
Corn has advanced fifty cents per
bnshel in Warren county since the
freshet.
Three out of nine convicts, sent to
Old Town, Jefferson oounty, have died
recently.
The man who casts his ashes into the
wood house will hear from them before
many days.
Neal Willingham, of the Cartersville
Express, gets love postals all the way
from Texas.
Sparta and Warrenton are calculating
for next week]six marriages ont of a pos
sible dozen.
Conductor Moore, of the Athens
Branch, swings anew drawing room car
to his train.
Negroes in Elbert prefer to “work
about” rather than to lease themselves
for the year.
Seven white men tried to break out of
a cell in the Romo jail the other night,
but were sold.
John Shuler, a helpless pauper, was
burned to death recently, in his hut, in
Fannin oounty.
A fifteen years’ suit over a yoke of
steers in Campbell has cost $1,500. A
sterile oase, indeed.
One hundred and fourteen partridges
were netted iu Elberton in one day.
This is a gross outrage.
The clerks of Warrenton have high
foreheads, are fine domino players and
do not wear helmet hats.
Herman Brenham, Esq., of Oarters
ville, was recently killed by the acci
dental discharge of his gun.
The Cartersville Express, in the ab
sence of an Atlanta leader, mounts an
editorial upon “Modern Antiquities.”
The Gainesville Eagle remarks that
Messrs. Hill and Lamar are a little
pliant in their administration proclivi
ties.
The prudent farmer would rather stay
at home and be rnn through a Georgia
cotton Rin than fly to the untried lux
uries of Texas.
Col. Ed Puroell denies the report cir
culated by the Atlauta Constitution that
he would be a Deputy Marshal of the
State.
It is nearly time for a fellow to dive
into his trunk for those good resolu
tions and swear them over again for the
new year.
Hon. J. D. Mathews, of Oglethorpe,
was married to Mrs. Walter Richardson,
Tuesday morning, December 11, at
Glennville, Ala.
Judge Corker, of Burke, has employ
ed a landscape gardener from Augusta,
who is laying off and planting a beauti
ful garden in frout of his house.
Judge George Hillyer, one of the Cen
tennial Commissioners from Georgia,
has received a splendid bronze medal,
commemorative of the oelebration.
Rightly says the Dalton Citizen:
Georgia needs two things to make her
independent and self-existing: Culti
vated farmers as well as cultivated farms.
In Hart county is a large tract of
wood land, known as the “centre of the
world.” It received the name from the
fact that it was the centre of the hunt
ing grounds for deer.
5 At the laying of the College Chapel
coiner stone in LaGrange, last week,
Mr. James S. Walker deposited therein
a copy of the Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist of a recent date,
A correspondent of the News and
Farmer says that Major Cumming con
siders the two majority he had given
him by Jefferson the greatest compli
ment he received on the memoral fifth.
Hogansville has a bar-room.
Boston still has spelling bees.
Is Bulloch “at home to stay ?"
Midway has anew colored company.
Jackson county has two brass bands.
Three journalists in the next Legisla
ture.
Dougherty farmers are sending pork
to market.
The Governor will not convene the
Legislature.
Franklin county fields ate still white
with cotton.
Troup oounty is getting ready for next
year's county fair,
Jackson county is getting up fantas
tics for Christmas.
Two men were seriously hurt in a row
at Backhand, Friday night.
The Presbyterians of Thomasville are
preparing for a gigantie fair.
The Georgia Grange comes out square
and strong against dog raising.
Major Ohas. ‘M. Wiley was elected
Colonel of the Macon Battalion.
Much of the grain p’anted before
the recent freeze is badly damaged.
Carnes villa calls for statement of
the finaqcjal condition of tbp toyn.
Troup popnty is losing some gpod
population by the Texas movement.
Ninety-four cases hpye been tri e 4 this
year in the jSoint Mayors Court.
Tbe library Bair has just closed and
the Catholic Basjar just opened in Ma
con.
John N. Cooper's warehouse, near the
depot, at LaGrange, was burned last
week.
Robbers in West Point are tapping
around, and will continue to till tap and
tap till forbid.
Columbus has more old hacks with
wornout horses drawing them than any
city in the State.
Columbus now asserts that the Cen
tral Road practices freight discrimina
tion against that city. ’
Rev. Dr. Harrison, Chaplain of the
House of Congress, will lecture in At
lanta, Thursday nigh 1 .
Mr. Ely Jeffers, a conductor on the
Southwestern Road, and an old citizen
of Macon, died Friday.
Lewis Reid, a colored boy in Troup
county, was killed Tbnrsday by getting
in the' way of a falling tree.
A suggestion has been made thi* tye
next Georgia Legislature shLufii be uni
formed in tiiade' uasfi'imere.
A third game of draughts is noyf in
progress between D,r. Roona, of if aeon,
and Mr. J. H. Robinson, of .^tlant’q.
A WeHt F-oi’'tV , OO r j°U f e flrityg u,an
i ages S c . *9 ‘“tip over’-’
cows and drqnken tyen qn the iraek,
Blessed be that candidate who passed
thiougn the late eieetion with no ene
mies to eonoiliate and no friends to
snnb.
The LaGrange Y. M. O. A. discon
tinue their Sunday afternoon
substituting therefor piayer
meetings,
R takes all of the inmates of a house
and a 'greater part of the fire depart
ment to watch over a kerosine lamp in
Thomasville.
Here and there can still be found some
fretful norenpine of the uraas to wiggle
his uni'll over'the inwardness of the
Capital election.
Alford Clark, colored, waylaid Mr.
Jos. B. Steward, near the residence of
the latter in Tronp connty, and killed
him with a shot gun.
fe re'oice to kuqc tfiat oqt sprightly
cntfhprising'friehd and ootempora
ry, the Colnmbns Enquirer Sun, is pros
pering as it deserves.
Two colored men in Milledgeville re
cently got into an altercation in which
one of them plugged the front teeth of
the other with a pistol ball.
Mr. G, W. Adair of Atlanta has
been employed by pis qreqitom Cs sell
for them his "magnificent property re
cently turned oyer to them.
M>ss Minnie VfetfaingkuJ, of Thomaa
ville, whim sitting in her room writing a
composition, was fatally burned by a
spark getting into her drees.
Atlanta wonld famish a man as Con
sol to every country in tbe known
world. We sbonld like to know if she
has yet cracked that Brazil oat
The residenoe af Rev. £. Jewell, of
Monroe, Walton oounty. was recently
burned down, leaving his large family
of young children nearly destitute.
A young gent ia Albany started off
hunting the other day. Before be had
retched the two mile poet he discovered
that he had left behind his gun, dog
and ammunition.
Howard Williams, Esq., one of the
clerks of the Con. -Con., and a former
newspaper man of Columbus, is running
a neat little evening paper in Atlanta—
the Evening Tribune.
The West Point Press says that At
lanta needn’t think because she won
that fight by forty thousand majority
that she can elect somebody else to
Gordon’s seat in the Senate.
An old oolored woman in Macon, aged
111, died last Friday. She conversed
intelligently about the Revolutionary
War, and was on the usual intimate
terms with General Washington.
The Athens Georgian asserts that
Col. Yancy, Representative-elect, is not
opposed to nominations, and only ob
jects to the present organization of the
Democratic Olub in Clarke county.
The time when the newspaper man
will “let up” on “Venus being gored by
the horn of the moon” and will direct
his unsteady geze upon the dizzy con
tortions of the street lamp, is calendared
among the holidays.
The remains of Mr. T. T. Dorough,
ron over by the Northeastern train
some weeks ago, near Harmony Grove,
will be disinterred for closer examina
tion. Suspicions of foul play prior to
being crushed by the train are enter
tained.
When Senator Hill, in a commence
ment oration six years ago, insisted that
the South should yet “rear rioher tern
pies and raise loftier towers, ”he is sup
posed to have foreshadowed the erec
tion of the new Capitol “as good as the
onein Milledgeville.”
Cotton thietes depredate in Athens.
The Macon Library fair netted over
$l,lOO.
Baker oounty had a tournament yes
terday.
Albert Marshall was hung yesterday
in Darien.
Eatonton has this year shipped 6,820
bales of cotton.
Savannah reduces the wages of her
city employees.
Atlanta will do the honors in hand
some style to Rex.
The top crop of oottou is said to be
larger than ever before.
Rev. Dr. Pierce has been attending
Conference for 65 years.
The South Georgia Conference will
next year meet in Columbus.
General Longstreet will himself run
the Piedmont Hotel at Gainesville.
Mr. Warren D. Nottingham has beeu
appointed County Judge of Houston.
Considerable cotton still remains in
the fields unpioked in Newton county.
Four runaway couples from Alabama
were last week married at Fort Gaines.
Fifty Georgia emigrants passed down
the Air Line Tuesday, en route for
Texas.
Dr. Atticus G, Haygood is mentioned
as the probable successor of Bishop
Marvin.
An ex-member of the South Carolina
Legislature now ornaments the Darien
chain gang.
Mr. J. A. Kaehue, a German tailor of
Columbus, died reoently in that city of
consumption.
They are now holding oalisthenio ex
hibitions in the cold Senate Chamber at
Milledgeville.
The Macon Weekly is anxiously look
ing for the Church Fair prize for the
most popular editor.
Mr. H. H. Hickman, of Augusta, will
leisse Catoosa Springs, and not open
them, as was stated.
Johnny Russell was thrown from a
horse Friday evening in Athens, and
had his skull fractured.
Athens grows so rapidly that although
she has contracted her limits she thinks
of increasing her police force.
Colored people in Savannah are mak
ing arrangements for celebrating eman
cipation day in appropriate style.
W A. Harp has purchased the Rock
dale Register and will change the name
of the paper to the Conyers Examiner.
The Sunday contributions to the At
lanta Constitution by members of the
editorial staff are popular features of
that journal.
The Savannah News says that the peo
ple of Augusta seem determined to make
their own ice even if they have to freeze
over the canal.
Amos R. Rogers, from Mclntosh coun
ty, the only colored man in the next
Legislature, is a wheelwright and black
smith by trade.
Mr. Joe Thompson, of Atlanta, pur
chased a third interest in the Kimball
House for $47,800. Originally the pro
perty cost $400,000.
Governor Colquitt has pardoned Vau
nious Jennings, colored, sentenced to
the penitentiary from Oconee county for
burglary in the day.
The prospects are, says the News,
that the approaching meeeting of the
Savannah Jockey Club will be unusally
interesting and exoitiDg.
Madame Brignoli, nee Miss McCul
lough, is a sister of Mr. John W. Mo-
Cullougb, of Covington. She has re
appeared in Europe in Italian opera.
A half witted fellow, John Seals, of
Atlanta, attempted to blow up Mr.
Rhodes Hill, of that place, with an in
fernal machine, but told upon himself.
Mr. S. B. Spencer, ex-Mayor of Atlan
ta, who recently “El—Doradoed ” to
Texas, has returned home. He thinks
Georgia the land of promise and plenty
after all.
Dr. Boone, of Maoou, has beaten Mr.
J. H. Robinson, of Atlanta, in the lest
game of draughts played between the
two cities and becomes the champion of
the State.
A Griffin man proposes that the con
vict labor of the State be put to work at
Stone Mountain for the purpose of get
ting out granite for a Capitol building to
last for all time.
The Griffin News says that H. W.
Grady as lecturer, and Howard Williams
as business manager, will soon start out
from Atlanta on a lecturing tour—about
the first of January.
The Early County News, hears much
complaint of the stealing of seed eotton
in that region, and counsels the forma
tion of “protective associations,” as in
Mississippi, by the planters.
Two Monroe county farmers left the
other day for Texas. They say that the
land owners and moneyed men bear
down so hard on them that it is impos
sible for them to get in a position to be
independent.
Mr. John H. Butler, of Monroe coun
ty, being annoyed by liis creditors, filed
his petition in voluntary bankruptcy
and by skillful management contrived
to pay off all his claims from the re
maining assets.
The Georgia Supreme Court has com
pressed an unusual amopnt qf comgiop
sense ip the brief dqcisioyi that a mur
derer, “ to be toe* drunk to form the in
tent to kill, must be foo drunk to form
the intent to shoot,”
If Columbus succeeds in securing
$40,600, payable in installments, there
will be no difficulty iu the purohase and
securing an extension of the North and
South Road to Chipley Station, thirty
two miles from Columbia,
The Macon Telegraph says that a
movement is on foot, with every pros
pect of snccess, to cut loose from the
annual expositions of the State Agricul
tural Society, and form a “ North Geor
gia Blood Stock and Fair Association.”
AfAUatHAI* FIT* SIMON*.
Our New 3far*tial Reaches Atlaota—No Slftfe
Made Out act Yet—The Marshal j^ ot
Move Hastily—Fitness to Rfe the Hole Test
of Appointment—The Laws Must and Will
be Enforced.
£ Atlanta ConnUtutv.r^
Colonel *’itg>lmpn3, the newly appoint
ed
day ijaoriung. A C<//if<tity.byjn reporter
at oncp waited upon the l&grgbal to see
if be (iad any statement that he desired
to to tpe Pflblio, Be was welcom
ed by Cfljonel pitssimons, who is a tall
man W>th a rather handsome face, a se
rious but not heavy manner, fall iron
gray whiskers, and a mild and gentle
eye, that softens a face otherwise nota
ble for firmness and decision. Colonel
Fitzsimoni will have tho appointment of
about six deputies and twenty
sub-deputies for thy Ueate.' The salary
of the depute, is limited at 83,000, and
wil.ia it'ia oontingent, usually gets up to
the limit The salary of the sub-depu
ties is not only less, but is more uncer
tain. It usually runs, however, to
$1,2(10 or $1,500 a year, fepty id the
questions as to or not he had
made a-7 of these appointments ss yet,
he tepKed;
"I have not only not made any ap
pointments, but I have not determined
npon any. I have, of course, had hun
dreds of applications, J may Bay thou
sands. I made up my mind, however,
that I would determine upon po ap
pointment until I had pome to Atlanta,
looked oyer the field, examined the
nature of the office and satisfied himself
directly as to what was needed. I have
determined that as soon as I have de
finitely discovered exactly what points
are needed in the filling of a certain pipoe
to select the man, who, i,n toy. opinion,
combines the mosfc of those points. In
otfcfcr 4 shall make personal fit
ness the sole and only test of appoint
ment. Personal feeling, friendship,
and everything else shall be subordinat
ed to the one idea of fitness. Under
this rale I will choose my officers care
fully, and can rely upon their absolute
efficiency.” *
"Have yon determined upo* *u/ rales
of conduct of yosr oTtfr
“Oplj one, and that is that the law
most' and shall be enforced. Yon see,
the main fight made against me in tjfe
Senate bang upon the one point
Democrat or Oeorgian’wonld not
the laws impartially and inexoratyi ] t
was held that his prejudice and^j, aeD .
timent would prevent his so d£jjJ_ j n
r*P‘y *? ‘is
frra Qeor®w pMged. *St personal
”■ of hoD °T wonld t.
atruNJ y, impartially amy bone-t]y en .
forced if I wm Undw this
state of affairs I am doubly bound to see
that- through uegligenoe and forbear
knee nothing is left undone to faithfntly
enforce the laws. This is the only
pledge that I gave npon taking the
oath. I was asked to take no other.
Politics was not mentioned to me during
the whole raoe. It was a simple ques
tion with the President and my friends
of securing a fit man for the office, and
one who would standby the law.”
“I anticipate very little trouble,” con
tinued Col. Pitzsimons, “in enforcing
the law. As soon as the people are
thoroughly convinced that they will not
be oppressed and maltreated, they will
not resist the law. If they are satisfied
that they will have a fair trial and hu
mane treatment they will make no re
sistance to arrest. It shall be my pur
pose to very speedily inspire them with
this assurance. It is possible that it
has been the officers of the law rather
than the law itself that the people have
heretofore feared. Of conrse a Marshal
is unable to administer justice if he is
served by disreputable or incompetent
deputies. I consider it, consequently,
very important that I make no mistake
in the appointment of my deputies.”
The pay of the Marshal is limited by
law to $6,000 per annum. Even this
amount is contingent. But it is general
ly pushed to the limit, as the fees are
very lucrative. Indeed, it is said that
Ben Butler said in a speech on this very
subject that he knew of Marshals who
were making $40,000 per annum. Of
course no honest man can draw more
than the salary allowed, and all snrplns
should be paid into the Treasury. It
may be safely assumed that Col. Fitz
simons will draw $6,000 a year during
his term of service.
The office of Marshal is one of the
most important in the whole service.
The liberties and privileges of the peo
ple are very much in his hands, and
through his force of deputies he may be
exceedingly oppressive. Colonel Fitz
sitnons will assume control of the office
on the Ist of January. He spent most
of yesterday in the bnilding, closely
looking into the routine of office. He
will devote his time from now until the
Ist to close study, and will try and be
fully prepared to push the business
ahead without a break when he goes in.
Colonel Filzsimons’ family has not yet
reached the city. He will provide for
their reception before they come up.
He will then doubtless make Atlanta his
home. We have no doubt that he will
mako a most excellent officer. He will
certainly prove a most estimable citizen
and a polished and valuable addition to
our society. We extend him heartily a
welcome iu the name of our whole peo
ple.
A little son of Mr. Jno. L. Linton, of
Thomas county, was dragged a consid
erable distance by his stirrups with a
runaway horse while out hunting last
week. Mr. Linton being uuuble to catoh
the horse, fired both barrels of his gun
into him, briugiug him down, but only
to find that his son had been crushed to
death by his bruises.
Admitting that the editorial embrog
lio between Atlanta and Macon journals
is more serious than the Gordon-Conk
ling affair, we still think that if the
cliromo builder of the Constitution will
withdraw his shanghai, and serve him
up, picked and dressed,to the Telegraph
Esenlapius, further aDxiety will be al
layed. Let all war maps be rolled into
table covers and italic type melted into
knives and forks!
ELEGANT
HOLIDAY PRESITS!
Pianos§ Organs
Wholesale Prices to Retail Buyers.
ssl) Tosloo
SAVED BY PURCHASING FROM
G. 0. ROBINSON k 00.
TWELVE OF THE MOST
Celebrated Makers, Comprising
THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORT
MENT SOUTH OF BALTIMORE.
IA>WEST PRICES !
AND
EASIEST TERMS EVER OFFERED.
M.ontlily Installments
RANGING FROM $4 TO $25,
Secures the Beet
PIANO OR ORGAN
MADE IN AMERICA.
Every luslrumeut Fully Warranted.
LiOW RICES
And everythin! pertaining to a
FIRST CLASS MUSIC HOUSE.
TII.XIMi AP REPAIRING,
PIANQB, out;BOH, PIPE and BEED OR
GANS, and all kinds of Mueical Instruments
Tuned and Repaired by Mr. O. H. Taylop., the
only authorized luiier for the AUGUSTA
MUSIC HOUSE,
G. G. Robinson, Lpppen A Bates.
tt. 0. ROBINSON & CO.
dect-tf 255 Broad Street.
A SPLENDID OFPORTCHfITY TO WiN A
FORTUNE. FIRST GlfifD i;I.STIfcUf IGN, 18**
AT N£\V Y, 4 ANUAHY * °*
Louisiana Stale Company*
t wa# Vfcgularly incorporated by the
° l tW - e Mta * for Educational and Ohari
lauie P ur y yoHeß> j Q 186* with a Capital of $1,000,000,
1 * which it has sine added a reserved fund of
$350,000.)1tN grand Stogie NuiiiberjDiMtribulioni*
will take place montty. It never scales or post
pones. Look at the fdo wing Distribution :
CAPITA! FKI%E, $30,000.
TICKET* IX TWO DOLLABB EACH.
HALF TICKZTri, ONE DOLLAR.
LiSTfiF PHIZES.
\ CAPITAL PRU 2 $30,000
I CAPITAL PRKE 10,000
1 CAPITAL PRia 5/00
2 PRIZES OF $2,600 6,000
5 PRIZES OF 1,000 5,000
20 PRIZES OF 500 10,000
100 PRIZES OF 100 10,000
200 PRIZES OF 60 10,000
50) PRIZES OF 20 10/00
1,000 PRIZES OF 100 10,UC©
APPROBATION PRIZE*.
9 Approximation!* of $ 00 $2,700
9 <\u do. 200 1,00
9 GO. do. 10 900
| 1,tt57 Prizes, amountlg to $110,400
Responsible correspnding agents wanted at all
prominent tor bom a liberally remunerative
compensation will beiaid.
Write lor further inormatioA or send orders to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
P. O. Box 692, NeV Orleans, La. All our Grand
Extraordinary are under the supervi ion
and ofGens. G. T. BEAUREGARD
and .aDBAL A. EARL r .
s -tt k it*l Prize, SIOOIOO. Whole Tickets, $lO.
drc2o-wesa&w2w
- - - A? L*di*s Zlsgant lull.
d|Wi tntion Bom Ocnf
Bet, BrMtptn MU
k*rlo|/, iit ftst*i-
‘bis D*psr lor 26
Aml hi*yr. sots lor
CORAL BJLKEVE
BUTTONS to
uto-r. 26 >-uu i*>r
ft. or tbrew sets ton
W 60 cjanUt. JglBgMU
lTeckUoea with
—dr V P H Charms. $1 each,
MKL) f sssffws
wl'\q)wm
dovIK-Hu, ( s
Ffll fans for Sa!s.^
WILI/ti mid, at the on
the usl 'J ueiday in JAN/’AItY uext,
•‘Porest Hill," conlainirg %fcrea. more or
lem. Bititatef in about *l2
mile# from .uguta agfrTfrom Allen a Btfc
tiou, on Aoeiita andgsvanuaL Bul(OaA Ma>
be treated for t iW.
„ , 'JbaKWM AIR.
Aseot Karab W. HarrU.
Wait* kto| tmU*a.ta Or a. lua .U nytromrr*.
' Wi*a. u MMlmilt) ne Bwim 1 ImMmM
BUoair<AlM. rna —aiorm u.f
Tttiyt tr*t t rr—lpl rt ••• •■. •• eJ <•*->. Jf
>. ef> IMU. BUM at
,m tS?!^rmStSS!iiSs,.r
.rr H *7<y • Wwi to agent*, no cwtat ftm
s Sid ko. vicxrav. tuna., ae..
U-P
N w Advertlge m enta.
Cheapest Holiday Goods
IN THE CITY, AT
E.D.SMYTHE & GO’S.,
358 Bread Street.
Vases, Toilet and Mantle Sets, Smoking Sets, Cuspidores and Spittoons,
Motto Cups and Mngs, Figures In Arabesque and Terra Cotta Ware, Chil
dren’s Toy Sets, Epergnes aud Bouquet Holders, and thousands of other
articles far too numerous to particularize, with a complete stock of
Fancy and Staple China and Glassware. These are all new good! and
were purchased at recent regular trade salts, thus enabling ns to un
dersell any competitor from 25 to 50 per cent. An examination of onr
stock and prices will convince the most skeptical pnrebaser that the
above statement is no exaggeration.
E. I>. SMYTHK & CO,
decl9-tf
SANTA CLAUS!
For the Little Folks and Holi
dry Presents for all. Full lines
selected from full stocks. The
largest and handsomest assort
ment ever shown in Augusta.
Shaker and Indian Baskets,
Japanese Ware, French and Ger
man Fancy Goods, and all the
Novelties, at
J. H. TRUMP S,
dec9 320 Broad Street.
MAKE USEFUL FOR CHRISTMAS!
BOOTS AND SHOES
—AT THE
AUGUSTA SHOE HOUSE,
233 BROAD STREET, OPPOSITE MASONIC HALL.
Men’s Fine Baud Sewed Boots, $6 to $7,
Men’s Hand Sewed Halters, $6 to $7.
Men’s Fine Machine Sewed Halters, $3 to $5.
Ladies’ Shoes h great variety, at all prices.
Boys’, Youths’ and Children’s flue Boots aud Shoes.
CALL AND SEE
W. 8. ROYAL
declß tf
NEW GOODS!
NEW GOODS, NEW GOODS '
JUST RECEIVED AT
L. RICHARDS
-A- GREAT VARIETY OP NEW GOODS, Dress Goods, New Shades and Styles, Black Gash
meres and Alpacas, Best Makes and Superior Blaoks. A SPECIALTY IN GENTS' SHIRTS
Wameutta Shirts finished in the best style at 75c. and Is.
Gents’, Ladies’, aud Children’s Undervest and Drawers—a large assortment Just receive 1.
Gents’ All Wool Scarlet Shirts and Drawers.
A superior article —Ladies’ Underveßt—at 50c., worth #l.
New Cloaks, Shawls. . A great variety Net Goods for Children.
The best stock of Hosiery in the market. Blankets, Flannels, Waterproofs, New Shades for
Suits, Cassimeres, Jeans, Ac., Ac.—at the lowest prices. Domestic Goods at Faotory pricec,
The best is the cheapest. Balter A Cutler’s Bowing Silk—all Sizes and Culors.
100 Dozen Ladies’ Hose at 12Jo , worth 25c. Will sell them by the dozen at #1 25.
Kid Gloves at 50c., 750., sl.
Notions, Fancy Goods, Neck Ties, Laoc Bibbs, Ac.
Samples sent as usual. Express paid on orders at retail amounting to #lO and over
L. RICHARDS,
209 BROAD BTREET, AUGUSTA, GA., NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL
iiovlß-tf
MILLER & BUSSEY,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
No. 283 Broad Street, Corner Campbell (store formerly occupied by M..
O’Dowd), offer to dealers and the public at unusually low prices for the.
CASHs
40,000 Pounds C. R. D.B. Sides. 5 o Barrels Sugar Syrups.
20,000 Pounds C. R. Sides. 300 Rolls Bagging.
10,000 Pounds D. S. Shoulders. 500 Bundles Ties.
-| CA / \ Boxes Tobacco all Q/\ / \
r v 7 V/ grades. GV/V/ Barrels Flo'jr—aff grades.
o „ QDO Packages Mackerel, in ha
U W Bags Rio Coffee. OW J barrels and kits.
1~7 p" Barrels refined Sugar— p'
IJG all grades. tJ U Bayne*] Liquors—all kinds.
■i Barrels Reboiled Molas-
Together with Spices, Caidles, Soaps, Teas, Air. &c.
All Goods and Weights guaranteed.
MILLER & BUSSEY.
ocQ tf
AUGUSTA
BOOK AND STATIOBEBY JOBBING BOOSE
OF
D. QUIN N,
198 BROAD STREIKT,
Between Messrs. James A. Gray & Co’a. and Christopher Gray & r Jo'e. Dry Goods
Houses.
hand all the Principal HCHOOL BOOKB in use and all the most popular works
of the Leading Houses as issued.
A large stock of BLANK BOOKS on band, including DAY BOOKS, LEDGERS, JOUR
NALS, INVOICE BOOKS, LETTER COPYING BOOKS, NOTES, DRAM'S. RECEIPT
BOOKS, etc., which will be sold cheaper than ever to make room for all kinds of HOLIDAY
GOODS, to arrive by every steamer.
Striot attention is given to our NEWS AND PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT. All the prfcr
cipal PAPERS and MAGAZINES received at soon as published, and subscriptions taken for the
same at publishers’ prioea. Remember the Old and Popular House of
aecn-tutnsatu, D. 198 Broad Street.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS,
-AT-
O. J. T. BALK'S
Mo. 180 Broud Mtreet, Near Lower Market.
The Last 1,000 ef These Mpleadi* Imported
CROCHET AND KNIT SHAWLS
WILL BE placed on the counters on MONDAY MORNING and the price# will be MARKED
IN PLAIN FIGURES on each shawl, ranging from lifi to SOo. fur children’s, and from
76c. to t'2 60 for ladies’ size. All those that could not be waited on last week, owing to the
tremendous rush, should call again this week and secure otieof the prettiest eorenng at lean
than half its value. The last of those beautiful
Capes, scarfs and bows
Will be offered this week at the very low price of 16 and 36c. ! As these good are reukff tbtr
most BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES of the kind ever brought to this city and are to he sold at less
HALF THEIR VALUE,
Every one intending to ioveet a small sum of mousy for a beautiful as well an useful ar
ticle should look for 166 BROAD STREET.
Just received a large lot of fast color CALICO EH at 6c. a yard; Ladies’ Seamless White DOT
TON BOSK at be. a pair; BLACK ALPAOAM, BLACK SILKS and WORSTED DRESS GOODS.
CHEAPER THAN EVER.
C. J. T. BALK,
decii-dAw NEAR JXIWKB MARKET:
NEW PROCESS FLOUR
CRESCENT MILLS,
AUGUMTA, A.
J. F. A L. J. MILLER, Proprietors*
OUB FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY MEW PROCEBB HAM NC*
E4JUAL. b4—dAwly