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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. .,■ 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 The stars go down ; The billows of the rosy dawn Are breaking on the idle town, And night’s weird armies far withdrawn, Fade like dim spectres down the west, And hope is strong aud love is best.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 ! 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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