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KIItTOHIM. MOTES.
Ex-SKcnrr*nT Blaine is ill and confined
to his bed in Washington.
The Sunday Chronicle is read by nearly
every man, woman and child in Augusta
rhncim read.
Augusta seems to be m no immediate
danger of small pox, and may escape en
tirely, with vigorous and general vaccina
tion.
Bai.timobe baa just discovered that Obcab
Wilde is over here to push a Louisiana
land claim, and that he eats beefsteak and
onions for breakfast.
Old Baltimore— its ladies, its lilies, its
or-t<ra and salads —all snubbed by Oscar
Wilde ! Shades of Oreole, this is too much.
We might say, too. too much.
War does not onr Atlanta contemporary
give ns a few more of those perfect pen
• sketches and press panegyrics from Bom Ray
mond? Ross is not "Freeh”—never was.
Mb. Randall has prepared a bill, the
most important features of which are a re
duction of the tax on distilled spirits to 50
cents a gallon, and on fermented liquors to
60 cents a barrel.
Atlanta and Chattanooga are both bare
of protection from fire. In the latter place
a hook and ladder house, with the truck,
was burned up before the department could
reach the scene. The horse, which was
kept in the building, was rescued, no doubt
by the incendiary.
Atlanta is grasping still. Not content
with a big fire, she has stolen the execution
• of poor Anderson .Jones—late of Richmond
county, deceased - and telegrams are print
ed in several papers, with particulars of the
execution, headed Atlanta. We trust the
body of the condemned man will be allow
ed to remain here, at least.
The French financial check, which has
taken place, is a severe one. Shares have
fallen in two days 30 and even 50 per cent.,
though with much irregularity. The
"Union Geperale,” a speculative bank, par
ticularly affected by the aristocratic stock
gaJlblers, has suffered most severely.
Mb. A. L. Harris, of Atlanta, is opposed
to the new movement. He says: "We Re
publicans have stood the brunt of ostracism
in Georgia, and if there are any honors to
be divided we should be first satisfied. The
Independents can join us if they choose,
but they can’t swallow up the Republican
This is an "enterprising Congress,” and
it is a dangerous one in this light. The
disposition to swagger about what the
United States can afford is evident. It is
public opinion only that will restrain Con
gress from making away with millions
which otherwise would bo voted without
compunction.
A matter of fact Northern journal says
that but for the protest which has met Sen
ator Brown’s proposition to supply every
Senator with a clerk at public expense, it
would be adopted unhesitatingly. It is
another way to increase the salaries of Sen
ators by forty per cent. What might follow
is not difficult to conjecture.
Oscar Wilde not only ignored an engage
ment to attend a reception of the Cabbolls,
of Carrollton, but when invited to meet the
•“Wednesday Club,” in Baltimore, the su
perior Aesthetic poet coolly informed them
that he charged S3OO for his appearances
at receptions other than at private bouses.
The “ Wednesday Club.” it is needless to
say, will not entertain him.
Oi.d Commodore Vanderbilt used to em
ploy tallow candles and steam pipes from
the engine to light and heat the New York
Central Railroad coaches—but imperious
passengers howled for lamps and stoves.
Spnyten Dnyvil shows the moral. People
who make suggestions to railway managers
and newspaper men never cease to be
ridiculous. Sometimes they come to grief.
The business quiet of to-day, a prominent
journal thinks, is perhaps a good indica
tion. and may exert a wholesome effect upon
the country. It betrays the determination
of the people generally to avoid contracting
debts as far as possible, and to ent down
their expenses to the lowest figures praoti
cable. The smaller the debt, the less will
have to be paid out of the crops next Fall,
and more money will bo left in the pockets
of the planters.
During his last term as a member of Con
gress Generaid Garfield introduced a bill
which, if passed, would have been the
means of facilitating the saving of life in
the case of such accidents as that of last
week on the New York Central. It pro
. posed that one or more axes be carried on
every passenger car, whereby, in the event
of a smash-up, the imprisoned victims
might have the moans of cutting their way
ont of the wreck. A similar bill is now
pending in Congress, and should be made
a law.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown writes a letter to
Col. J. H. Estill, of the Savannah News,
in which he denies positively that he has ap
plied to the President to control the pat
ronage of Georgia.or that he desires to lead
or to join the new movement in Georgia.
Senator Brown declares that an overwhelm
ing majority of the Democratic party, as at
present organized, is on the progressive
line. The letter is sound and statesman
like. and he concludes by censuring those
men who would tear down the fair fabric of
Georgia’s progressiveness and Georgia's
» prosperity.
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The Nashville American is evidently
taking true and statesmanlike views of pub
lic questions. It seems sound on the Inde
pendent question and thus expresses it :
“Briefly, Democracy is about to loose its
very worst elements in the South, retaining
• the most intelligent and conservative, who,
in the long run. rule every community. In
the North it is about to gain of that intelli
gence and conservatism which it has hither
to lacked. Upon this plain truth we base
a confident prediction of Democratic
triu.mph in the long run in spite of losses
in the solid South.”
It was reported long ago that if Mr. Fol
gkr was made a Justice of the Supreme
Court, ex-Senator Conkling would be ap-
* pointed Secretary ot the Treasury. An in
timate friend of Mr. Conkling says: “He
would not have the place. His law practice
in New York is worth now $25,000 per an
num. and he will not leave it to take any
office. Politics ho longer have any attraction
for him. He is disgusted with the treach
ery of politicians. Some men whom he has
carried n|x>n his shoulders for years have
betrayed his confidence and violated their
promises. Mr. Conkling is now engaged
with private affairs, and he has no desire to
enter the public arena again.”
His Excellency, Hon. A. H. Colquitt, at
present in New York, in company with Gov.
St. John, of Kansas, was accorded a recep
tion Saturday evening at the residence of
Mr. Wm. E. Dodge, on Madison avenue, at
which ,Gen. Grant, Petes Cooter, Abram
Hewtit, Russell Sage end others were pres
ent. The Governor i - interviewed by the
New York World and talked freely about the
Empire State of the South. He said that
onr quota of immigrants as yet was small,
but thrifty and prosperous, and that the At
lanta Exposition has done immense good in
opening up the possibilities of the State.
Os politics, Gov. Colquitt thought that the
term Ronrbonism~,as indicating those be
hind the age in thought, customs or law,
was inapplicable to Georgia; that the State
Democratic party was intact, with no signs
or chances of Mahoneism. and that the State
was attracting much Northern capital from
the fertility, of her soil, the number of her
resources and the charm of her climate.
How untimely the death of Hon. Clash
son N. Potter, of New York! Stricken
down in the midst of a legal argument, a
few days since, he was taken to his home,
where it was found that he was suffering
from an aente form of Bright’s disease.
There he lingered, in an unconscious con
dition. until his death yesterday morning.
Clarkson N. Potter was one of the most
popular and influential men in New York.
He was a pure, incorruptible statesman, a
scion of an old and honored family of the
Empire State, a ge~ tieman, and an eminent
ly respectable politician. In 1879 he allow
ed his name tobe used by his party for Lieu
tenant-Governor, to heal the breach in the
Kvt t.y-Tilden imbroglio, and ran far ahead
of his ticket. In 1878 he was a member of
Congress, and was the introducer of the f*-
mous fraud resolutions. He had to a high
degree the respect of both parties in New
York, and leaves a tranquil, noble example
to the wrangling elements of both sides in
that State.
A MEW HAILROAD.
Application has beer made to the South
Carolina Legislature tn incorporate the
Chester, Newberry and Augusta Railroad.
The purpose is to connect this road with
the Augusta and Greenwood, making an air
line to Chester, and thus bring Chester and
Augusta over forty miles nearer than by the
present route. The people of Upper South
Carolina are anxious to get other outlets to
the sea. They are at present confined to the
Clyde system, or, what is now better known,
as the Richmond and Danville. The Au
gusta end Knoxville Road and its feeders,
when completed, will open up to the peo
ple of Upper South Carolina three routes
to the sea, to-wit: The South Carolina,
’ the Fort Royal and the Central Rail
roads. The citizens of Augusta should
be up and doing. It behooves us to
extend substantial aid to the people
of South Carolina and Georgia on both
sides of the Savannah who look to Au
gusta as their natural market. It will be
onr own fault if Augusta does not prosper
in commerce as well as in manufactures.
We have the geographical position. We
must improve our natural advantages and
thus bring back the trade which has been
diverted by railroad combinations from its
natural channels. The Augusta and Knox
ville, if intelligently and vigorously sup
ported by the moneyed men of Augusta,
will open up to onr commerce two addi
tional lines of railroads—one to the East
and another to the West. It will be our
own fault if we do not improve the golden
opportunity.
THE COALITION MOVES.
It may be interesting to the talented and
influential gentlemen who have charge of
the new party movement in Georgia to
know that in some quarters their efforts are
appreciated. To be sure, to some Stalwart
organs of the North, the break does not seem
broad or devastating enough, so to speak.
Certain journals which have been taking an
interest in Dr. Felton, which is clearly
lively if not commendable, are now taunt
ing him with being afraid to bolt the "Bour
bon" ranks outright, and asseverate that
his party is “too young and tender” to be
daring. But such exacting journals should
know that Dr. Felton and his astute aux
iliaries are too keen to lead an open revolt
at this time. They know full well that a
gradual estrangement is better than open re
volt, and that alvances upon parallel lines
and in echelon tactics to slow music, is
far safer and more insidious than a split,
splurge and sudden disruption. Native
Republicans are detecting the strength of
the disaffection and are near enough home
to realize the full force and to see the mag
nificent possibilities ot the new movement.
No less a paper indeed than the Savannah
Weekly Echo, thus apostrophises through its
far-seeing and jubilant colored editor:
Dr. Felton, by invitation of Judge James S.
Hook, and a number of prominent business
men, will speak at Augusta on the 31st of the
present month. This is “carrying the war into
Africaand good results will certainly follow
it. The Eighth Congressional District has a
Republican majority in nearly every county,
and an aggregate majority of nearly ten thou
sand in the district, and with brave white and
colored men in each county to lead, no doubt
the coalition State ticket will receive a hand
some majority in that section.
Thus it will be seen that Dr. Felton is
commencing in a vital spot, and will put in
his work where it will do most good. Au
gusta and the Eighth District are naturally
str rm centres for the new party "farce or
cyclone,” and Mr. Stephens will hear from
his friend. Dr. Felton, in his own baili
wick. The eloquent and significant words
of the Weekly KcAo—ex-officio Dr. Felton’s
new party organ—now concludes its sugges
tive and persuasive article:
We are anxious to have our Democratic
friends discount the strength of the “new move
ment” until after the election, when they will
imagine they heard a clap of thunder out of a
clear sky. We have enlisted for the war, and
if we don’t make the “fur fly” from the Bour
bons it will be because of their “tough hides.”
A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether
is the word.
UMITED DEMOCRACY.
We publish a letter from Hon. H. H.
Cabi.ton. Our friend takes exception to a
sentence in a recent editorial of the Chroni
cle on the new party movement in the
State. When that article was penned, the
writer bad no intention of making any in
vidious comparison between the Democrats
who were on opposite sides during the late
Gubernatorial contest. There was nothing
further from the mind of the writer than to
be understood as impeaching the Democra
cy of those who supported Hon. Thos. M.
Norwood. That was a family quarrel and
like all family quarrels, should be, if it has
not already been, amicably adjusted. It
would certainly be an unwarrantable and
impertinent presumption to doubt the in
tegrity to the Democratic faith of such
men as General Lawton, Colonel Lester,
Major Black, Major Bacon, Colonel Harde
man. Captain Carlton and others, who are
among the truest and best Democrats in
Georgia. We have read and re-read the ar
ticle objected to by Captain Cablton, and
we fail to find any just cause for his article.
We are satisfied that onr friend has drawn
inferences which are not warranted. If he
thinks that there was an implied or covert
attack upon the Democracy of tho men who
supported Mr. Norwood, we assure him
that he does ns injustice. We simply meant
that tho new party movement would obtain
no support from the Democrats who op
posed Governor Colquitt. We do not be
lieve that it will find any respectable
following from those who supported
him. That being the case, we cannot
see how the new party can hope for
success. We believe that the movement
for a new party will not meet with any en
couragement from the Democracy of Geor
gia. So far as we are concerned, and so far
as the influence of the Chronicle goes, our
recent differences are in the past. They
are buried. We would question the good
sense, as well as the Democracy of those
who would seek to keep alive the political
difference* which estranged Democrats dur
ing the Colquitt-Norwood campaign. We
hope this explanation explains itself, and
will leave no doubt as to how the Chronicle
stands.
COTTO’S MANUFACTUKE.
Northern theorists and Northern capital
ists conld have no stronger proof of the |
success of cotton manufacture in the South,
than that presented in 'the letter of a
Baltimore merchant, written from Colum
bus, Ga. The demonstration rests npon
results more than conceived possibilities or
ingenious calculations. The simple state
ment of facts suffices. Os the ten cotton
mills at Columbus the correspondent se
lects the earliest —the Eagle and Phoenix—
as the one whose history best presents the
operation of the economic causes which
give success to all. This mill was estab
lished in 1867, with an exclusively South
ern capital of six hundred thousand dol
lars, on the bank of she Chattahoochee, a
river which, at Columbus, affords 36,000
practical horse-power. Nine years later, in
1876, with uninterrupted dividends, a sur
plus had been accumulated sufficient to
build a new mill, larger and better appoint
ed than the old one, and since that time,
besides dividends of from 18 to 21 per
cent., earnings have been sufficient to pile
up a surplus of six hundred thousand dol
lars. So much for the stockholders. The
community has been equally benefited.
Population, culture and wealth have ad
vanced rapidly. A savings bank, started in
1873, has to-day deposits amounting to
nine hundred thousand dollars. The ra
tionale of this prosperity is as interesting as
the prosperity itself. It is illustrated and
made to have the character of a prophecy
by the statement of the writer that a
mill “which failed in Boston has already
transferred its machinery to Augusta." The
cheapness of cotton in the cotton field, the
cheapness of labor South as compared with
labor in the North, the milder climate,
which effects a saving of 20 per cent, on the
cost of living during the Winter, and the
fact that the cost of labor per pound of pro
duct is four and a half per cent, lees in
Summer than in Winter—these are some of
the more important causes of the big divi
dends which so astonish Mew England
manufacturers. Mr. Edward Atxinsov in
1879 demonstrated that, all things consid
ered, which the New England factories clear
ed on the capital invested ;p these divi
dends seldom, if ever, exceeded • per pent.
"No wonder, therefore,” ths Baltimore
goes on to say
"Thu the gentleman is ao increduloaM of the
success of ttM Bouthaxi manufacturer. The
economic factors constjtutmg the advantage
of th- latter over his New England competitor
are these : An advantage in the price of .cotton
of 15 per cent: ia the cost of labor of 20 per
cent; in the freight per hundred pounds from
the cotton field to Boston of 85 cents; in the
saving effected by being nearer to the Southern
and Western u.arkeu for manufactured goods
amounting to as much more."
CHRONICLE M'” TITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY im’-’IY or in><>
LKTTEKI FROM WASHIM.u.v
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, January 18.—The editorial
of the Chronicle, on Sunday morning last,
upon the Felton movement, was highly ap
preciated here. It was pronounced admir
able in tone, temper, expression and argu
ment. Upon that line the Democratic
party of Georgia can march to assured vic
tory. No fnrther proclamation of truth
and principle is necessary until the adver
sary makes another move, or until onr own
side shall put ont its own candidates and
i erect its standard. There are not a few
I good judges who are of opinion that the
i more the revolt is let alone, the more
. still-born it will be. The homely maxim
of not plugging a melon before it is ripe,
holds good in politics as well as horticul
ture.
The Woman’s Suffrage Convention is in
full blast here.' I have an invitation to be
present at their pow-wow and will try to
attend. Poor Senator Lapbam. who has
just been made Chairman of a committee,
looking to female rights and wrongs,
will have his hands full for the next week
or so.
A Virginian of long experience in poli
tical life, who warned his people what
would come upon them i£ the debt ques
tion became a Democratic antagonism, in
forms me that it is an absurdity to sup
pose that any temptation offered by the
Senate Democrats would have changed
Mahone’s original purpose to give his vote
to the Republicans. He also controverts
the statement, so freely stated, that Senator
Hill made a mistake in " uncovering ”
the Radical - Readjuster. That memor
able and wonderful assault had nothing
to do with Daniel’s defeat. That was
brought abont by making the wrong kind
of a contest, upon a false issue, and with
out any management worthy of the name.
“In spite of all mistakes,” said the Vir
ginian, “the Democrats would have won
had they possessed an organizer like Gor
man, of Maryland, to control affairs.’’ He
was emphatic in the declaration that Sena
tor Hill had not done the least harm in Vir
ginia; had put Mahone in the pillory he
desired to occupy; and solidified the Demo
cratic party at a time when it seemed to be
on the point of disruption. I repeat these
observations of a keen and veteran Vir
ginia publicist in justice to Senator Hill.
Speaking of Virginia men and matters, I
may remark that Gen. Mahone has not put
in an appearance here since the Xmas re
cess ended. He is consolidating his power
in the Old Dominion, punishing men in his
own camp who do not readily submit to the
yoke, and weeding out all Democrats who
are in the way of his complete mastery of
the spoils and the machine. He cares little
for the United States Senate, but everything
for his despotism in Virginia. He and Rid
dleberger will attend to Washington affairs
in 1883. At present there is metal more
attractive at Richmond, in spite of the small
pox. As an earnest of Mahone’s determina
tion to be absolute dictator in his common
wealth, it is only necessary to call attention
to the fate of Auditor .Massey, who dared as
sert something like individual independ
ence, and who has been trampled upon for
his pains. Massey was the original Read
juster chief, the finest!advocate of that poli
cy on the stump, and but for him Mahone
and Cameron would be in the vocavtie.
Those stronger spirits seized upon his ideas
and used him as a tool and a stool for
mounting to supreme power. Now, when
he seeks to reassert his valid claims, they
put him to the sword. It is the old story of
Greeley and Sumner, who placed a weapon
in the grasp of Grant to use against the
South and afterward felt its cruel point in
their own quivering and indignant breasts.
What will come of this Readjuster wrangle
time alone can disclose. Some men here be
lieve that it will end in the recovery of
Virginia at the next elections; but other per
sons do not hesitate to predict that Virginia
will remain Republican for many years to
come.
The debates in the House upon the form
ation of committees and the one man pow
er of the Speaker have been interesting,
edifying and spicy. There will be no set
tlement of the matter, this Congress, in the
way of reform, but I am inclined to prophe
sy that Mr. Keifer is the last of the dynasty
that began with Colfax and Blaine. The
revolt is not a party one. It pervades the
whole House. The most terrible arraign
ments of the Don Cameron-Keifer juggle
have como from the Republican si e. The
enormity of the latest deal of tho Stalwart
Republicans has been too patent and gall
ing to be borne by a powerful minority, left
out in the cold, and so the searching
inquisition the Speaker has been subjected
to will not be without excellent results two
years hence, I think the npshot then will
be the adoption of the Senate plan of form
ing the organization, leaving the Speaker as
simply the presiding officer and not the dic
tator of the House. This would be a desir
able reform and prevent the arrangement of
committees in the interest of a political ca
bal and a hungry lobby. It was amusing to
see hew men who hail been favored by the
Speaker rushed to his aid and defense. Os
these no one was more of an adept at carry
ing water on both shoulders than John A.
Kasson, of lowa, a well known politician
and graceful speaker. He is a handsome
man, in the meridian of life, well preserved,
and an expert in looking wise and dignified.
In his steady, precise style, Mr. Kasson
earnestly argued in favor of removing
temptation—that is, dangerous power—
from the Speaker, as an abstract proposition;
but he preferred to do that at some future
time. This was sublime Jack Bunsbyism.
The Democrats applauded him premature
ly, when he affected to be liberal; but they
left plaudits to the Republicans when the
oracle degenerated into Orator Puff, “with
two tones to his voice.” Mr. Orth, of In
diana, is an old man, bald and gray. He is
a dull likeness of ex-Senator Eaton. His
criticisms of the mistakes of Keifer were
earnest and unrelenting. He asserted,
as an evidence of the menacing authority
of a Speaker, that he could so con
struct the Ways and Means Committee
as to bankrupt the country, or the Elections
Committee,’ so as to revolutionize the Re
public. He warned his party friends that
just such outrages as they were perpetrating
produced “tidal waves” against them, and
be was not so sure but that the Democrats
would, next time, rule the roost. This
speech of Mr. Orth’s and others of a simi
lar drift are quoted as signs of the times
indicating the breaking up of parties every
where. Mr. Reed, who looks like Pick
wick’s fat boy, but is wide awake intellec
tually, made ingenious replies to the mal
contents, without convincing them; while
“Pig-Iron Kelley, with his basso voice,
thundered out that everything was just as
it ought to be and that tte committees were
never so efficient as when few in number
and sparsely membered. Finally, whan
even the majority of Democrats had
determined to let the rules of the last
Congress prevail in this, yielding to the
Republicans the responsibility of their
action, Mr. Horr, the end man of the powers
that be, was put forward to make a funny
speech and, if possible, “laugh the case
out of Court.” He is a fat, florid man, with
bristling grey hair and merry, twinkling
eyes. His voice is clear, vibrating and
curiously adapted to witty expression.
Waldo Hutchins, of New York, had said
wise and witty things, before Horr spoke,
but nobody laughed at the humor or ap
plauded the profundity. He lacked some
thing that Horr has in a sort of fee simple
I a something that makes cemmonplace radi-
I ant in the manipulation of a born come
! dian, whether on the stage or in the
: forum. Wrapped up in Mr. Horr’s
I smartest sallies was not a little sound
i sense and a penetration of shams. He
1 admitted that there was a sore on the
party back, but nobody could furnish a
I plaster big enough to cover it. He ridicul
’ ed the idea that length of service should
■ count for more than merit, and incid ental
j ly paid a compliment to bis old antagonist,
' Sunset Cox, who sat on a desk in the mid-
I die aisle and listened attentively to the ora-
Ltor. Orth was jeered for waiting fourteen
I years to discover the tyranny of the Speak
er, and requiring a black eye to wake him
I up. Tho House roared with laughter when,
without mentioning names, as I do, he
sketched the eminent genius of Robeson
and Springer in discussing a point of order
until not a rag of it was left; and the
Speaker was advised to imitate the
lazy Christian, who pasted the Lord’s
Prayer on his bed-post, and wrote under it,
i “Them's my sentiments!” He rebuked
• the House for frittering away one-fifth of
I the session in a wrangle, while
j the country demands practical legislation.
; Ihe speech was a “hit," and fulfilled its
function of giving a humorous twist and
conclusion to an ngly rupture. But none
the less will the public understand that the
ghost has only been temporarily put in a
closet, and not permanently exorcised. Mr.
; Cameron and his friend Keifer overdid the
I job, and the chances are, as I have said,
that it is the last opportunity a Speaker will
have to exercise a one man power, to the
benefit of a few interests and against many.
In the Senate, to-day, Senator Brown
made a very remarkable speech upon the
currency question. He outlined, in a most
interesting and instructive manner, the
values current in different countries. He
demonstrated that it was not our over
production of silver that had injured that
precious metal, but its demonetization in
Great Britain and Germany. Gold, similar
ly circumstanced, would, in the same ratio,
have fallen in value. The Senator took
sharp issue with the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and left that official no foot to stand
on’, when attempting to depreciate that an
cient money which has resisted somewhere
all assaults against its integrity, He showed
that the product of silver in the United
States and Mexico was three-fourths of that
of all the world beside, and nearly one-half
the total output of gold. We should not
relinquish that advantage to any nation;
and there was no danger of Europe’dumping
its silver upon us. No country was so admira
bly adapted to the bi-metallic standard as the
United States, where much more gold than
silver was imported, and much more silver
than gold exported. If continued, we
shall have a condition of things totally dif
ferent from what the Secretary of the Treas
ury has stated. The tendency of legislation
is in favor of gold and against silver. The
United State*, had but to stand firm, and
the question would settle itself against the
demonetization of silver by Great Brit
ain and Germany. The last named
country Is already sick of her policy and
was sounding a retreat fyom it. The efforts
of her best statesmen were to facilitate a re
turn to the double standard. The balance
of trade is with us in dealing with gold
countries; against us in commerce with
silver nations. Great Britain has over
and over again endeavored to substitute
gold for silver in her Indian empire, but al-
■vays uith failure. Gold, . ;.ee, is
less Laptedto currency iuau snver; but it
is the .stamp of the solvent government,
aft<*r all, that determines values. legisla
tion should not prevail for hoarders of gold,
so as to depreciate all other property fifty
per cent. The Senator said he stood firmly
by the public credit, in whole and in part,
but was not in favor of bestowing gratuities
upon the few at the expense of the many.
He was for maintaining A currency of all the
metals in vogue, and opposed to any con
traction of greenbacks. He favored their
redemption in silver and gold, at their old
standard. A bondholder was no better than
■ any other creditor. An illustration was
given of a farmer who had sold his produce
in war times for depreciated greenbacks,
and then realizing 2l£ times its value by
funding his greenbacks in bonds. A mas
terly sketch was given of how the Govern
ment had repudiated its own currency for
customs dues. The people may be, as the
; Secretary says, able to pay the bonds in
! gold: but the Senator protested against any
such gratuitous injustice and flagrant viola
i tion of equity. By demonetization of sil
ver, the subsequent commercial crisis, and
a contraction of the currency, gold was
enormously advanced in value, so that
while the bondholders were benefited,
everybody else suffered disaster. He was
unwilling to have one currency for bond
holders and another currency for all other
people. He favored the issue of silver cer
tificates, as specified in his amendment,
and the coinage of our silver product,
which should be legal tender for all
debts of all kinds. The suppression of sil
ver was a scheme to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, and to such legislation
he would never consent. Let there be, on
the contrary, cerfificates to represent the
coin in the Treasury, and this would be the
most reliable currency. It would be the
best and soundest currency, superior to
bank bills. The Senator made no attempt
to discuss the present bank system; but
would not consent to the withdrawal of sil
ver certificates or any contraction of the
currency. Bankers and men of large means
should not be allowed to oppress, in any
way, the sons of toil—the bone and sinew
of the Republic. Against any such attempt
at*oppression the Senator would stand firm
ly. Ha gave a rapid but glowing review of
the present progress of this country, in all
departments of science, art and industry,
and protested against any experiment of
Government that, by backing capitalists in
contracting the currency, would arrest and
imperil the common welfare.
This is an imperfect outline of some of
the Senator’s main points, and does not
pretend to be anything else. The speech
must be read in its entirety to be appre
ciated as it
position of the currency question, a com
plete demolition of the Secretary of the
Treasrlry’s position upon the silver ques
tion, a practical plan for equitable relief,
and an eloquent appeal in defense of the
poor against the encroachments of such
rich men as have no “bowels of compas
sion” for their brethren whose labor makes
the payment of the bond, in any currency,
possible.
'lhe sensation oflhe day is Mr. Scoville’s
arraignment of Grant, Arthur and Conk
ling as constructively guilty of the death of
Garfield, and more responsible for that
tragedy, in a moral and intellectual sense,
than the crazy man, who was inspired by
their enmity to the President to carry what
was supposed to be their thoughts to a
bloody reprisal. Opinions differ as to this
audacious foray of the prisoner’s counsel.
Some people contend that Mr. Scoville has
chocked all propriety. Others maintain
that he has blurted out a great truth, and if
Guiteau is to be hanged, the Stalwart lead
ers shall be on record as the residuary lega
tees of his crime. It is a Republican squab
ble all around; so Democrats ®an stand
aside and let the funeral procession pass.
J. R. R.
Washington, January 20.—The most im
posing man in outward appearance among
the members of the House is not from Ohio,
but New York via Ireland. His name is
Richelieu Robinson. I understand that he
is a born agitator and became very obnox
ious to the British Government many years
ago. His hatred of that empire has not
specially diminished, although more than
sixty winters have seamed his face with
wrinkles and powdered his hair with sflow.
There is something ghastly in ihe visage
which does not come altogether from age;
but so Titanic is each featurg that when he
moves abont the Capitol people instinctive
ly inquire who he is. I never saw a person
with such a prodigality of hair, which is
wavy, tawny-white, and falls over his cranium
like n cascade or an umbrella. He is an old
journalist, and, though a staunch Demo
crat and “agin the Government,” was once
a noted correspondent of the paper “found
ed by Horace Greeley and foundered
by Whitelaw Reid.” He is sometimes
denominated the “ Irish Rebel,” just
as General Toombs is similarly spoken
of in Georgia, so far as the Confed
eracy is concerned. Mr. Robinson is full
of sly humor and - anecdote, though no
stranger would suspect that he was anything
but a boss undertaker in full practice. He
knows how and when to be silent—a pro
nounced merit in a legislator, and seldom
found at Washington.
The point made by Guiteau concerning
Virginia’s haaging of John Brown might
have come from a sane man. Indeed, Col.
Craighill, the 'great engineer, who has.
charge of many water-courses and has be
come specially famous for deepening the
channel of the Chesapeake, to the lasting
benefit of Baltimore, brought this to my
attention before any one else. Col. Craig
hill lived ill that part of the Old Dominion
where John Brown made his foray, and
some of the parties killed in that raid were
his friends. The Colonel shared, for a sea
son, the rage that followed consternation,
and believed that hanging was only too
good for such a wretch as “old Ossawatto
nie.” But chancy threw into his way
Brown’s Bible, annotated copiously by the
owner of it. A careful examination of_ the
book and commentaries, coupled with’the
man’s whole career, immediately preceding
and subsequent to capture and execution,
brought complete conviction that John
Brown was an insane man, and that the
State of Virginia did the worst possible
thing for herself when she passionately
hanged him. Out of a lunatic a hero was
manufactured, and out of a dead mono
maniac a martyr. It is bootless now to
speculate what might have been had Vir
ginia adjudged this fanatic to be an insane
creature, and, so far as was in her power,
consigned him to the asylum that his fel
low abolitionist and sympathizer, Gerritt
Smith, was obliged temporarily to seek. I
do not know that any good would finally
have come to the South by such an action
in the premises, and it may be “to reason
curiously to reason thus;” but what a vista
of possib lities it opens up, and what be
wilderment there is in the thought that
‘ the bloodiest picture in the book of time”
was dabbled upon canvas prepared by a
madman, and that this madman, by what
may have been a blunder of jurisprudence,
as well as statesmanship, has become, for
millions in this country and in Europa,
“A watchword such as ne’er
Shall sink, while there’s au echo left to air 1”
The consignment of Guiteau to a lunatic
asylum, in close and nnheroic quarters, will
remove him from future danger to himself
or anvbody else. If by any possibility, the
future shall adjudge him insane beyond
controversy, after execution, this country
may b%indeed afflicted with two martyrs of
the John Brown pattern, instead of one.
For mv part, I deprecate that calamity, and
agree with Dr. McFarland and many other
eminent individuals that no punishment
could be greater for Guiteau than solitary
imprisonment for life in an asylum. I
know that many of my friends are annoyed
with me for taking such a position;but I
would do violence to my conscience if I as
sumed any other. I came here with differ
ent opinions; bnt they have been radically
changed by observation, experience and ma
ture reflection.
Alluding to the anecdote of Gen. Toombs
in one of my letters to tho Chbonicle, Mr.
Stephens says that something of the same
kind happened to him, just after tho break
ing ont of the war between the States. Ho was
seated in a car, going I think, to Richmond,
when a sturdy soldier, in some way, man
age to deprive him of it. The Commoner
made no complaint, and did not seek to
dispossess the intruder; bnt, putting his car
pet-bag or valise upon the floor, sat upon it
philosophically. Presently a gentleman on
the train, “who knew him well, approached
the soldier and said to the boy in gray:
“My young friend, do you know that the
gentleman whose seat you have appropriat
ed is Mr. Stephens’, the Vice-President of
the Confederate States ?” The soldier, at
once, surprised and abashed, rose from his
place and insisted upon “Little Aleck” tak
ing it. But the Commoner was equal to the
occasion. He promptly spoke up as follows:
“This gallant fellow, who is serving his
country in the field, is entitled to the best
comforts that civilians can bestow upon
him; and I, for one, am delighted to be able
to testify my gratitude and contribute my
mite.” The matter terminated to every-
■ body’s satisfaction. I daresay that Gen.
• Toombs’ answer to this will be that the sit
| nations, as to peace and war, were in his
case reversed, and that Mr. Stephens did
i not happen to encounter “an Atlanta man.”
I do not care to refer again to the weath
er; but a first class and chronic “cussing
man” might get some fat jobs in this re-
I gion from some people whose sense of duty
forbids the use of expletives. ’lnthiscon
i nection I am reminded of that good old an-
■ ecdote of how a pious brother chased his
| beaver hat, on a windy day, for about a
mile, and then, out of breath and patience,
supported his tottering frame at a lamp
post. Seeing a rough customer approach,
he gasped: “Sir, I am a member of the
church, and cannot curse; but, if you are
not similarly circumstanced, I should be
obliged if you damned that hat for me I”
Hon. Emory Speer remains a silent spec
tator, at present, of the turmoil in and out
of Congress. He looks, and is, I think,
quite content with his own affairs. He has
much to be thankful for in many ways; al
though some of those ways do not please all
of his colleagues and oonstituents. His
double team of fast horses may be account
ed among the finest in Washington. His
policy presumably is “toting his own skil
let” —with all the modern improvements.
At Mr. Stephens’ dinner party, last Sun
day, Gov. Colquitt gave a most interesting
account of the new colored bishop Holly,
who, by the way, is a Georgian, and once
belonged, I believe, to Col. Dick Johnson,
who was, in old days, mistakenly supposed
to write his sermons. Bishop Holly was
among the most noted men at the Methodist
Council in London, and he made the great
est sensation there by defending the slave
holders of the South from many sweeping
and fallacious charges. He thanked God tor
freedom, but be did not forget that Chris-
tianity came to millions of his race because
of bondage, and that thousands of slave
holders were not only kind to their servants
but showed them, by piecept and exam
ple, the way to Heaven. Since that
talk of the Governor's, I have read a
prayer, delivered in Westminster Abbey by
this bumble, pious and noble Bishop,
which touched my mind and heart in an
uncommon way. It is a master piece of the
eloquence that springs from genuine inspi
ration. I believe it was to Bishop Holly,
when in Georgia, that Governor Colquitt
handed a glass of watef, which the good
colored maa, with singular felicity, declined
to drink, but poured out as a libation of
fraternity between the two races, quoting,
with apt fervor, the scriptural words re
i corded by Israel’s holy King, upon an ocea
sion of the same import.
Congressmen are busily engaged in send
ing seed to their clamorous constituents,
who seem to think “garden sass” that has
a Washington flavor quite superior to the
home-raised article. In numerous instances,
I think such persons are the victims of mis
placed confidence. All the same, applica
tions deluge Congressmen by every mail,
provoking groans of resignation from the
pions, and mild profanity from those who
lean to agnosticism. I visited one of the
members who cannot afford clerical aid, but
is the model errand-boy of his district. He
was almost up to his chin in little canvas*
bags which the Bureau of Agriculture had
sent him for distribution. His Sunday was
spent in addressing these packages to peo
ple who are supposed to need them, and to
whom these trifles appeal with more force
than speeches that would dwarf the utter
ance of a Demosthenes or Webster. The
poor Congressman groaned at the task be
fore him; but I could not help laughing at
the vanity and weakness of human nature
that crop out with such rank luxuriance
justforthe obtainment of a handful of du
bious seed from the Federal capital !
Senator Vance’s substitute for Logan’s
bill, employing the revenue raised from
whisky and tobacco taxes for educational
purposes, is a good one. The Illinois Sena
tor wants the fund handled by the Central
Government. The North Carolinian desires
that it shall be left tq the States. This in
volves about the only prime issue left to
parties. Senator Logan represents the con
centration of power at Washington. Sena
tor Vance illustrates the diffusion of it
among the banded commonwealths. I
should not wonder if upon this and kindred
questions there were many discussions to
rattle dry bones. It will be time enough,
however, to cross that bridge when we come
to it. There is small disposition upon the
part of the Republicans to stir sectional
embers into flame. It is surmised that the
President has signified his desire to that
effect - which is to his credit, and on a line
with his message. Possibly he prefers a
still-hunt, as in Virginia. At any rate, the
Republicans display significant forbear
ance, and if some of the great Columbian
Kentucky orators imitate their example,
the whole Republic will have cause to con
gratulate itself. Evetybody here sees, feels
and understands that, politically speaking,
“the future of futurity is mighty onsertin.”
Mr. Robert Clayton, of Georgia, who,
though very young, has made an enviable
reputation in diplomacy, is here seeking
such employment at the hands of the Fed
eral authorities as his talents and services
demand.
The House has had an uproarious time
in discussing the enlargement of the com
mittees, as proposed by the Committee on
Rules. The overwhelming vote to recommit
the report was a terrible defeat for Mr.
Robeson, who has pushed himself, with
brazen effrontery, into a quasi-leadership of
the Republican side, after making Keifer
Speaker. Although strenuously denied by
Robeson, the real meaning of the enlarge
ment was, as Horr put it, to patch an origi
nal sore on the Republican back. The
Speaker and his friends, Cameron and Robe
son, had overshot the mark, and they began
to understand it. The Democrats were not
disposed to heal the wound, and the sore
head Republicans and many who were not
malcontent, but hated Robeson, combined
to keep things as they found them. Mr.
Randall and Mr. Blackburn tried to help
Robeson and his committee report ont ot
the ditch, bnt their special pleading was of
no avail. Mr. Belford, of Colorado, who is
a very red-faced and red-headed man, coarse,
ungainly and pugnacious, continued his as
saults. He showed that the first House of
Representatives ballotted for important com
mittees, in 1802, and it was not until 1810
that the Speaker had anything like the
power he now enjoys. He said the whole
country had to do homage, in this House,
to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, notto speak
of Ohio. These were the daughters of the
horse-leech, who continually cry “give!
give !!” He ridiculed the so-called states
men of this day when compared with Wash
ington, Jefferson and Madison. He sarcas
tically advised the Speaker to appoint every
member of the House on the Ways and
Means Committee, with one clerk each
and two bootblacks. Going on in this
style, Mr. Belford hopped around vig
orously and enjoyed the Donnybrook
he had created. Mr. Robeson closed the
debate in an ingenious harangue. His face
grew redder and redder as he progressed,
his spectacled eyes became more and more
bulbous, and his gigantic stomach heaved
like a blacksmith’s bellows, as he charged
up and down in the aisles, in a storm of ex
citement. He shook his fat fist at the Re
publican side, and abused the dissatisfied
element for helping destroy party discipline.
His sonorous menaces were finally silenced
by the Speaker’s gavel, and the orator, puff
ing like an exaggerated porpoise, sat down,
nursing his wrath and discomfiture, while
he glared through his double eye-glass at.
friend and foe.
Last night. I went over to Baltimore and
attended Archibald Forbes’ lecture on War
Correspondence. A number of people were
cleverly “roped in” by a cunning news
paper announcement that Oscar Wilde
would be on hand. Tho explanation of that
charlatan’s failure to be present, given in
the papers this morning, is of regulation
thinness, although Mrs. Charles Carroll had
provided an entertainment for the
particular glorification, and had finally to
countermand the order. The way some
people run after this English snob, who is
showing himself for money, while they
neglect some of their own countrymen of
real genius, is both sad and ludicrous. But
it is the way of the world. Poor Sidney La
nier’s family are in need, because, it is. said,
Baltimore subscribed so much money to
help Mrs. Garfield, whose estate was worth
$150,000, when the fund for her relief was
started. But such is life! When Tom Thumb
drew thousands to behold him in London,
the painter Haydon, a splendid genius, blew
ont his brains, because his pictures, now
eagerly sought for, had no visitors, Some
men of real worth and ability do contrive,
now and then, to prosper; but usually it is
the clever humbug who, in the world of
art, becomes so much “the rage” that the
world of fashion prostrates itself before
him. I have no doubt that it is all right,
and a verification of the Scripture when it
declares that “God hath raised up the fool
ish things of this world to confound the
wise.” Bnt this is a digression. I started
out to speak only of Archibald Forbes. He
is now, I should' say, rising forty years of
age, and looks every day that old. Dressed
in a common subaltern’s uniform, he would
easily be mistaken for a sergeant or corporal
in the regular army, but for something in
the eye and on the brow that betokens an
extraordinary person. His hair is sandy,
thin, dose-cropped and parted in the mid
dle. His forehead is moderately low, but
broad and powerful. His eyes are light
grey, small and alert. His chin is massive
and resolute. He is neither tall nor robust,
bnt erect, sinewy and gladiatorial. Around
bis neck, instead of a cravat, he wore a red
collar with a big gold order pendant from
it. This gave him something of the air of
a mastiff who had gained a prize. The left
side of his swallow-tail coat was covered
with decorations, which he had won by his
enterprise and valor. There was an excess of
gloss in his shirt front, as if the laun
dry had used him as a patent starch
advertisement. His voice is not clear and
is disfigured with the worst brogue I ever
heard from an English throat. The lecture
itself is a sprightly patchwork of composi
tion, ingeniously arranged to make the
speaker the central figure of a heroic setting,
the immodesty of which was neatly disarm
ed by the statement that “he could’not help
being egotistical when speaking of him
self.” There were some hearty streaks of
humorous description, being an adroit con
trast to the more lurid scenes of war and
pestilence and famine. There were pass
ages that smote the memory and remained
there, such as, when picturing the field of
Isandula, four months after the battle,
where th’e slain remained unburied, he said
there ‘‘hung over it Ihe sour orlor stale
death.” His eulogy upon McGahan, the
Ohio Irish boy who represented the Herald
and really, by hie account of Bulgarian
atrocities, precipitated the Russo-Turkish
‘ war, was hearty end well calculated to please
ian American audience. What a strange
! thing that the man who was far superior to
any of his profession should sleep in a dis
tant grave, hardly remembered, while his
more fortunate British brother of the peer
•is coining money by detailing his own
achievements as a lecturer, and feasting on
flattery and the best the market affords !
Forbes is a gallant fellow and deserves his
honors and profits. Why do you not try
to get him to entertain an Augusta audience,
when he would have an opportunity of see
ing more handsome ladies than he ever saw
before in one bunch, hero or abroad ?
J.R. R.
POHKIGS MARKETS.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
In Manchester.
London, January 20. —The Manchester
Guardian, in its commercial article, says :
“There is little change of any kind, but
there appears to be a fair amount of business
ready for execution whenever prices give
way.”
Grain in England.
Livebpool, January 20. —The leading
grain circular says : "Wheat is firmer both
for spot and at neighboring markets.—
There was a better demand for wheat and
the rates were a shade higher. Corn was
in better demand at to-day’s market, and
there was an average attendance. There
was a good demand and wheat improved
Id. Flour was strong and the rates were
unchanged. In corn there was less pres
sure to sell, and it slightly improved.”
In Mincing I*nne.
London, January 20.—1 n Mincing Lane
during the past week supplies were large,
but there was no increase in the demand.
Quotations further declined and the markets
were inactive. Plantation coffee fell 25a35
percent. The rates for other sorts were
nominal. Sugar was inanimate. Crystalized
West India was 3d.a6d. lower. In tea there
was a moderate business at previous rates.
Lower Indian grades were firm. Rice was
dull. Burmah, of the new crop, was ex
ceptionally wwik. In white pepper there
was a speculative advance. Black was un
changed. Zanzibar cloves were steady and
unchanged.
THE ASSASSIN IN SOB-.
Strange Drmnnttratlona by Guiteau Be
fore tbe Jury—Hi* Theory ami His
Teara—He Breaks Down,
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, January 21. —In the Guiteau
trial to-day, at an intimation from Judge
Cox, the prisoner carefully arranged his
glasses, and, with a flourish, began to read
from a manuscript, as follows: “The prose
cution pretend that lam a wicked man.
I Mr. Scoville and Mr. Reed think I am a
lunatic, and I presume you think I am. I
: certainly was a lunatic on July 2d, when I
fired on the President, and the American
people generally, and I presume you think
J I was. Can you imagine anything more
insane than my going to that depot and
shooting the President of the United
j States? You are here to’ say wheth
'er I was sane or insane at the
, moment I fired that shot. You have
i nothing to do with my condition before or
■ since that shot was fired. You must say by
| your verdict, sane or insane, at the moment
I the shot was fired. If you have any doubt
i of my sanity at the moment, you must give
■ me the benefit of that doubt and acquit,
I That is if you have anj’ doubt whether I
j fired that shot, or as an agent of the Deity.
I If I fired it on my own account, I was skne;
if I fired it, supposing myself the agent of
; the Deity, I was insane and you must acquit.
| This is the law as given in a recent decision
I of the New York Court of Appeals. Itrevolu
i tionizes old rules and is a grand step forward
in the law of insanity. It is worthy of this
age of railroads, electricity, and telephones,
and it well comes from the progressive
State of New York. I have no hesitation in
saying that it is a special providence in my
favor, and I ask this Court and jury to con
sider it. Some of the best people of Ameri
ca think me the greatest man of this age,
and this feeling is growing. They believe
in my inspiration, and that Providence and
I have really saved the Nation another war.
My speech setting forth in detail my de
j sense was telegraphed Sunday to all
the leading papers, and published on
Monday morning, and now I am permitted
by his Honor to deliver it to you.” As he
reached that point : "I have always served
the Lord, and whether I live or die—” he
broke down completely—stopped, tried to
choke down a rising lump in his throat,
but found it impossible to keep back a gen
uine sob. Taking out his handkerchief he
buried his face in it for a few seconds,
and with determined effort went on again.
Mrs. Seoville was deeply affected and wept
and sobbed bitterly for some minutes.
Washington, January 23. The Court
House was packed to-day, and hundreds
were unable to gain admission. Judge
Porter commenced the closing argument.
He is still unwell, and will, therefore, ask
for early adjournment. Guiteau, as usual,
had the opening speech for the day, in the
course of which he served the following
notice upon Judge Porter : “Now, in re
gard to Judge Porter, I want to say, as ho is
to have the closing of the ease, if he attempts
to mislead the Court or jury, I and my
counsel will stop him. He came on this
case under a misapprehension on the part
of Gen. Arthur, otherwise he would not be
in the case. He don’t properly represent
the Government. He only represents him
self.”
Porter’s bodily weakness was plain to
every one,-and he could scarcely be heard
except by the jury and those immediately
around him. “Thus tar,” he said, “the trial
has sarcastically been conducted by the
prisoner and Scoville. Every one has been
denounced-at their will, and even now lam
informed that I will be interrupted by them
both.” Judge Porter briefly recited the
scenes of disorder, abuse and slander to
which every one upon the case had for two
months been subjected, and yet, he said, oi
“three speeches which have been made by
the defense, I will do the prisoner the jus
tice to say that his was the least objection
able.” After sketching the circumstances
leediug up to the crime and painting with
fervid language the damning wickedness of
its execution, Porter turned his attention
to the prisoner and proceeded to depict
his character —“beggar, hypocrite, robber
and swindler; lawyer, who never won
a cause. No Court, no jury, failed to see in
him a dishonest rogue, and such men can
not win causes. He has left his trail of in
famy in a hundred directions. The man
who as a lawyer had such notions of morali
ty that when he had taken debts to collect
and collected them, by dogging the debtor
he held them against his clients ; a man
who was capable of blasting the name of
the woman with whom he had lived for
years, and still recognized as his wife ; a
man who, when tired of this woman, pre
tending to be a Christian and believer in
the Bible, looked in the book and read :
‘Thou shalt not commit adultery,’ and
then went out and deliberately committed
adultery with a street walker; the man who
pushed himself into the fellowship of the
Christian Association, as a follower of the
Saviour, when fresh from six years of forni
cation in the Oneida Community.”
Guiteau—“That lie ought to choke you.”
As Judge Porter proceeded with a resist
less torrent of denmneiation and invective,
the prisoner occasionally called out “That’s
a lie,” “That’s absolutely false,” or, "That
ain’t so.”
After showing who and what was the mur
derer, Judge Porter next described the vic
tim, paying a tribute to the character and
services of the lamented President, and
pronouncing a most touching eulogy upon
his memory.
CARD FROM DR. CARLTON.
He Misapplies Certain Coniinent* of the
‘‘Chronicle’’—A Spirited Defence of the
Gallant Minority of Last Vear, Quorum
Magna Pars Fuit.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: .
Athens, January 18.—My attention has
just been called to an editorial in your is
sue of the Sth inst., on “The New Party,”
which had escaped my notice, and which
editorial concludes as follows: "We be
lieve that the movement will fill still-born.
It will not even muster a respectable fol
lowing from among the men who fought
Gov. Colquitt so bitterly during the last
campaign. It is already doomed to irre
trievable disaster.” It may seem rather
late to notice this allusion, but, as is well
known to the public, having taken an active
part in the late Gubernatorial Convention
in opposition to Gov. Colquitt, I cannot, in
justice to myself and those with whom I
acted, let it pass without such notice as will
place the minority in that Convention right
before the people of Georgia, as well as re
move from your mind that idea or suspicion
which you rather seem to entertain respect
ing the “memorable minority.”
It is a Tact which the record fully at
tests, that the minority members of
that Convention were as good, true and
thoroughly organized Democrats as ever
occupied seats in any convention, and I
can boldly, unhesitatingly, unqualifiedly
and without fear of successful contradic
tion, assert that their motives, their pur
poses, and their actions were in no wise in
the interest of Independentism or a new
party formation. Those who may have so
construed or interpreted their motives and
their position, simply failed to compre
hend that spirit of true, pure and lofty
patriotism which controlled their action,
and which should govern and control the
actions of all men wh-n seeking to do their
country’s service ; yea, and those who may
have so thought, have in their minds and
in their purposes fallen far short of reaching
that elevated plain in politics where un
adulterated pnrity and strict adherence to
principles make parties more successful
and government better for the people.—
It was in behalf of such reformation,
such elevation, and such adherance to
the true principles of Democracy, as
would place the Democratic party ot Geor
gia upon such a plain that the "memorable
minority” for eight long, tedious and excit
ing days stood t heir ground and “held the
fort” against that invasion of -true Democ
racy and its time-honored principles which
must needs bring those evils which now
threat?n the organized Democracy of the
country. When the minority entered that
Convertion and participated in its organi
zation, they were in honor bound, and as
true, honest and organized Democrats, fully
expected to respect and abide the rules
adopted by said Convention, as well as the
principles, rules and usages which for so
long a fime had governed and rendered suc
cessful the true and time-honored Democra
cy. It was when these rules, these usages
and these principles were being ignored
and disregarded, that the voice of the min
ority was heard in opposition. It was, after
the delegates in solemn Convention assem
bled had adopted tbe two-thirds rule for the
government thereof, and the majority, in
the interest of one man, and one man gov
ernment, sought to and did ignore and
trample under foot the rule of their own
suggestion and their own adoption, that the
minority stood as a “stone wall,” unwilling
to yield to that which was undemocratic,
unpatriotic, and which would and has done
more to’disintegrate and destroy true and
truly organized Demociacy and give strength
and encouragement to Independentism and
new party formations than any position or
any action of thAtmuch abused, but gal
lant minority.
I The minority members of that memorable
Convention, who opposed Gov. Colquitt be
ing made a candidate in the manner he was,
are more than willing that th® people of
Georgia should render the verdict as to
whether the majority were right in ignoring
i and trampling under foot, for the sake of
; one man, the rule of their own choice and
I adoption, or whether the minority were
justifiable in standing out unalterably and
unyieldingly against what they honestly
considered unpatriotic and undemocratic.
Furthermore, let the people render judg
ment as to which is most likely to give
shock and do harm to the truly organized
Democracy, and to encourage Independ
entism and the formation of new parties
and new party lines, the disregard and
abrogation on the part of the majority of
their own chosen rules, as well as the rules
i and principles of true Democracy ? or the
unwillingness of the minority to yield to
that which to them seemed so unwise, so
lamentable and so ruinous a state of affairs.
Though irregularities and improprieties
may creep in and threaten the disintegra
tion of the ope party, even to the formation
of new parties and new party lines; though
demoralization may mark the times of this
our rapid and progressive civilization; and,
though all other evils of like character may
cause us to burn and smart amid the degen
eracy of the age, yet, God forbid that there
should be such a surrender of manhood as •
to lead majorities to even suspect, much
less charge, minorities as bfeing supporters
of those evils, the natural and inevitable
consequence of such errors and such impro
prieties, as even might cannot make right. '
H. H. Carlton.
Total Visible Cotton Supply.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, January 21. The total visible
supply of cotton for the world is 3.090,-
242, "of which 2,580,792 is American, i
against 2,734,698 and 2,413,558, respec- I
tively, last year. |
CRlMfes a 5 l> lAM AI. I < r.- .
Routing a. Prise Fight in Mt*ai**ippl—
Arresting a Defaulting Operator—Fail
ure in New Orleans—Rising Rivers.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New Orleans, January 20.—The state r
ment of Seymour <fc Hoe ns shows their
liabilities to be SIOO,OOO, and assets $45,-
006.
Meridian, Miss., January 20.—Edward
Vance, Sr., came in yesterday and surren
dered to the sheriff. He was’ taken before
Justice Patton, who discharged him, no
evidence being produced to support the
charges against him.
Port Royal, S. C., January 20.—The Ital
ian barkentine Oriza is ashore on the South
Edisto breakers, near St. Helena bar. She
was for Port Royal, from Dublin, with phos
phate. Tugs may possibly get her off.
Washington, January 20.—The Signal
Corps Station, at Portsmouth, N. C., reports
that the Mary E. Dana, from St. Simons,
Ga., loaded with lumber, sprung a leak
and lies waterlogged in eight fathoms of
water, about three miles from the Station.
The crew is safe.
Mobile, January 20.—Dr. Edwin A. Bur
foot, a promising young physician,* while
returning from a visit to a patient outside
the city limits, was drowned to-day in
Three Mile creek. When found, the reins
were tightly wrapped around him. His
horse was drowned also.
Charleston, January 20. —The schooner
Annie F. Walpole, from Germantown, North
Carolina, with a cargo of 2,000 bushels of
rough rice, was blown ashore at North
Island, on Thursday night. Two tugs will
be sent to her assistance, when it is’expected
she will be taken off.
Nashville, Tenn., January 20. The
river is rising slowly, and is 52 7-103 feet
on the gauge; within two feet of the rise of
1847. A large amount of money was raised
to-day, and committees appointed to super
intend the issuanceof provisions to indigent
sufferers from backwater. Backwater from
the Cumberland has submerged portions of
the Memphis and Louisville Railroad.
Cincinnati, January 20.—John Waggon
er, murderer of Dr. Briggs, Treasurer of
the Alice Furnace Company, two months ago,
was taken out of jail at Ironton, Ohio, be
tween 12 and 1 o’clock last night and hang
ed in the Court House yard, by from forty
to sixty masked men. They first took Bill
Seek, the other accused murderer, and
swung him up, whereupon he made a con
fession implicating others not yet arrested,
and the crowd allowed him to live for the
present. There is not the slightest clue to
the perpetrators, and public opinion seems
to approve of the lynching.
New York, January 20. —The Times says
of the arrest of John J. Thompson, tele
graph operator, formerly in the Superin
tendent’s office at Mobile, from which place
he is alleged to have absconded with from
$12,000 to $14,000: “The prisoner at first
objected to being taken out of the State of
New Jersey without necessary extradition
papers, but finally consented to accompany
the officers without any formality. He was
utterly penniless, and the officers were com
pelled to pay for his supper. To Inspec
tor Byrnes, Thompson admitted his guilt,
but said the total amount of his embezzle
ment would not exceed $7,600.”
New Yobk, January 20.—The Herald’s
New Orleans special says: “The bill brought
before the Legislature of Mississippi, mak
ing it a misdemeanor for a man to train for
a prize fight in that State, has necessitated
a complete change of base on the part of
two contestants for the championship, now
training in that State. As soon as it be
came known that such a bill had been in
troduced, and was likely to be passed, the
alarm was sounded at Bay St. Louis. Sul
livan and Madden at once moved out in the
hottest kind of haste, and are now resting
in peace and quiet at Summer Garden, in
Carrollton. It is their intention to remain
there till the fight comes off, as there is no
law that can trouble them, and no dis
position on the part of the community there
that they should be disturbed. Sullivan
says the fight will come off, if he has to go
to Cuba to fight it.”
Lynchburg, January 21.—Diligent in
quiry fails to confirm the reported horrible
tragedy in Southwestern Virginia.
New York, January 21.—A detective left
last night for Mobile with John J. Thomp
son, telegraph operator, who defrauded the
Western Union of $12,000.
Lancaster, January 21. Miss Betsey
Bland, aged 85, living three miles from
town, was found dead and terribly mutilat
ed. William Austin, her grand nephew,
has been arrested on suspicion of murder
ing her.
Danville, Va., January 21,—The Su
preme Court of Appeals has sustained the
act of the Hustings Court and the Circuit
Court of Pittsylvania, under which Dock
Wright will ba hung unless the Governor
interposes. In February last Wright, in a
fight between Joe Wright and Austin Ad
kins, at a country store, rushed into the
crowd of bystanders with a stick, broke the
hand of one man, the arm of another and
killed J. C. Arthur. Dock was found guilty
of murder in the Hustings Court and a writ
of error was refused in the Circuit Court.
New York, January 21.—A Lynchburg
(Va.) special states that the body of a young
woman, named Fleishmann, which was
buried about January Ist, near Pamplin’s
Depot, has been taken from the grave and
curried away, without any clew being left
as to the motive of the deed or perpetrators.
Another Lynchburg special to the Herald
tells a strange and doubtful story of the
murder of a woman near Central Depot,
Montgomery county, on tbe Norfolk and
Western Railroad, ‘ last Wednesday. On
that day a woman, whose name is not given,
received a sum of money and was known to
have it in her possession She took it to
her house, where a gentleman occupied a
room in the upper part of the building.
Hearing loud and threatening noises during
the night, this man came down stairs and
found the landlady lying dead on the floor
of her apartment, with her throat cut. The
story goes on to relate that the man follow
ed the murderers with a double-barrelled
gun, and shot two persons, who proved to
be women disguised in male apparel and
who had visited the house for the purpose
of securing the money.
A Nashville special, of the 21st instant,
says: “A great deal of suffering prevails
among the unfortunates who have been
driven from their homes by the high water.
Many are sick from exposure, and more
will yet have to be sent to the hospital if
the wet continues. The Ladies’ Relief So
ciety furnished provisions to-day to 550
families, averaging from five to eleven souls
each. It is estimated that not less than
3,000 people had to be fed, and this num
ber is likely to increase on a further rise of
the river. An expanse of ten miles in and
around Nashville is covered with water.
Most of the sufferers in the city are negroes,
who occupied the greater portion of the
lower part of the city. As many as eight or
ten, in places, now occupy one room to
gether.”
Catlkttsburg, Ky., January 21. —The
defense, this morning, tried to disprove
Neal’s testimony that Craft and he met and
consulted on the morning of the Gibbons
murder, near Ashland Cemetery. The ef
fort of the defense was to prove an alibi for
Craft. There were, however, three or four
hours that same morning, during which the
testimony fails to establish Craft’s where
abouts, elsewhere than in consultation with
Neal and in committing the crime. There
was several hours difference, also, in the
testimony as to the time when Neal was at
his f dher-in-law’s. The aim of the prose
cution is to show that Neal went at once
from this consultation to his father-in-law’s.
The defense gained slightly yesterday’ after
noon by proving that three men were seen
consulting near a spot where Ellis says the
murderer met him. The defense closed at
11:30 this forenoon.
The military were aroused about 10
o’clock and brought out to headquarters,
armed, by a false alarm. Mrs. Judge El
liott, wife of Tom Buford’s victim, at Frank
fort, has been here for some days, advoca
ting mob law.
Galveston, January 21.—-An Orange
special says: “Just before Christmas a
country merchant named Love came to
town and made purchases from A. Flaman,
amounting to one thousand dollars. Love
disappeared and nothing has been seen of
him since. Flaman instituted proceedings
and sold out Love’s stock of goods to ob
tain a settlement of his accounts. To-day
statements were made bv two negroes,
which reached the ears of Sheriff’ Mitchell,
to the effect that they had been paid by
Flaman to. dig a grave in the grave yard
and bury a body, which they would find
floating in the river, which they did, and
Sheriff Mitchell proceeded in company
with the two negroes to the point indicated
and exhumed Love’s body. An inquest
has been summoned and Flaman arrested
and taken to jail. It is thought that others
are implicated in the matter.”
Cincinnati, January 21.—A special from
Clarksville, Tenn., says tlie Cumberland is
six inches above the great rise of 1847, and
is still rising. The water works’ pumping
house is six feet under water. All trains
on railways South from Clarksville are dis
continued. The city bridge aver Red river
is submerged, and all the mills and facto
ries on Front street are covered with water.
Great damage is feared.
Cincinnati, January 21.—A Nashville
special to the 7 imes-Etar says the rain yes
terday and last night the river 12
inches. Backwater now extends oyer three
thousand acres in the city limits. The
Tennessee riyer, at Johnsonville, is 10
miles wide and all railroad communication
with Memphis is cut off. Large quantities
of lumber are floating away from lumber
yards.
Wheeling, W. Va , January 21.—The
river now marks 12 feet 3 inches and is
falling. The steamer Sidney left here at
four o’clock, this evening, for Cincinnati.
The weather is cloudy and raining.
Washington, Penn., January I^l,—The
jury in the case of Mesha# Heywood and
William Barringer,, accused of the murder
of Thomas returned a verdict to
day of put guilty. They were out twenty
three hours. Jonas Heywood, the brother
of Meshae, was convicted of murder last
week for the actual killing of Forsythe. The
crime was perpetrated on the night of April
16th, 1881, at Monongahela City, after a
carousal at “Hell’s Half Acre,” in which the
prisoners and their victim all participated.
The Boston Post says the “Black Crook”
is a show that a man cannot take his wife or
sister to see. That is why he has a chance
to go twice himself.
GATE CITY GLARE.
ATLANTA IS TOUCHED BY THE TORCH
ONCE MORE.
A Large Fire On Pryor and Alnbuuia
Streets— Block’s Factory and the Wil.
eon Honae Burned—Spread of the
Flames— The Looses of Insurance Com
panies.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Atlanta, January 21.—A fire broke out
about about 1 o’clock this morning in the
five story candy and cracker factory of F.
E. Block. Owing to the lack of water the
flames gained rapid headway and soon
spread to all adjoining buildings. Seven
buildings were destroyed and the losses on
stocks and buildings will aggregate half a
million dollars. The principal losses are as
follows: Joseph E. Brown, building, $38,-
000—insurance, $20,000; Harry Jackson,
building, s2o,ooo—insurance, $16,600:
Wilson House, owned by Benj. Wilson,
s2s,ooo—insurance, $12,000; W. W.
Simpson, buildings—insurance not known;
Mrs. M. E. Kinney, building, SIO,OOO -in
surance not known; Block, candy and
crackers, loss on stock, $75,000 —insurance,
$60,000; Howard, Wood & Co., tobacco
stock, s2o,ooo—covered by insurance;
Wellhouse & Son, paper bags, stock,
$20,000 —insurance, $11,000; John Stev
ens, groceries, stock, s2o,ooo—insur
ance not known ; L. Cohen & Co., liquors,
stock, S2S,(XX)-insurance not known;
John R. Merchant, groceries, stock, $lO,-
000—insurance not known ; Benjamin
Bros., grocers, stock and insurance not
known ; Campbell & Johnson, liquors,
stock, $4,000 - insurance, $2,000; W. E.
Neff & Co., soaps, stock, s3,ooo—no insur
ance; A. Haas A Co., provision brokers, loss
slight. The Bradstreet Commercial Agency
occupied the Brown building, and R. G.
Dun & Co. occupied the Jackson building—
both were destroyed. There were many
other smaller losses. The fire was not sub
dued for three hours, during which time it
had full sweep at all buildings in tbe local
ity where the fire originated.
Atlanca, January '2l.—James Wickham,
drover, of Fluvania county, Va., a guest at
the Wilson House, was bnrned to death. A
portion of his body was taken out from
among the debris about 4 o’clock this after
noon, and an inquest was held thereon.
The following are the losses of the different
insurance companies : Liverpool and Lon
don and Globe, $15,000; Lancashire, of
England, $8,300; Virginia Home, $2,000;
Williamsburg City, $23,000; Westchester,
$10,000; Niagara, $12,150; Mechanics, $2,-
500; British American, $15,100; Royal of
England, $20,500; Scottish Union and Na
tional, $3,000; Western of Toronto, $6,000;
Columbus Insurance and Banking Com
pany, of
$6,250; Merchants and Mechanics, of
Richmond, $5,500; Phenix, of London,
$15,’000; Continental, $2,000; New York
Underwriters Agency, $14,200; Queen, of
Liverpool, $14,000; Fire Association, of
Philadelphia, $15,500; London Assurance
Corporation, $3,000; Hartford, of Hart
ford, $7,000; Georgia Home, s2,soo;South
ern Mutual, $7,000; North British and
Mercantile, $5,700; Home, of New York,
$2,000. The agent of the London and
Lancashire, Norwich Union and Lion,
says his companies sustain a loss of $50,-
000. The total loss is about $260,000.
(Atlanta Constitution.)
A dense volume of smoke and a bright
blaze easily led the firemen to the corner of
Pryor and Alabama streets, when a glance
showed that the fire was fast consuming Hie
new building recently erected by Senator
Joseph E. Brown, and occupied by F. E.
Block as a candy and cracker factory. When
the fire was first discovered by Mr. Steve
Grady, who gave the alarm, it was confined
to the basement in the rear of the building,
and before the fire department could get
water upon the flames, they had eaten their
way into the second, third, and fourth
ttories, and then it was seen that a total de
struction of this handsome building was
inevitable. The lower floor was occupied
as Mr. Block’s sample and salesrooms,
business offices, etc. The basement was
full of valuable machinery, the second floor
was occupied by Bradstreet’s Mercantile
Agency, the Louisvilloand Nashville freight
office, and byDrs. Bracket and Harris, den
tists, and Mr. Hugh Colquitt, lawyer, while
the fourth floor was used as Block’s packing
room, but in less than rn hour the entire
building was one mass of ruins.
Never before in the history of Atlanta
was the inefficiency of the fire department
established. In the first place every engine
was unable to get water. Then the press
ure was so light that the stream was of no
consequence. The water works were tele
graphed to put on additional pressure, and
even when the full capacity of the ma
chinery was tested the water was wholly in
adequate to the demand.
The blaze was so bright and brilliant that
citizens in every portion of the town were
called out to see what was going on. Amid
the calls of the firemen, the yells of the
spectators, and the rattling of the falling
walls, the air was made hideous. In two
or three instances the brave, hard working
firemen camo near being killed by the fall
ing walls on the Brown building and Wil
son house.
A BEAUTIFUL LETTER
Os Compliment to the Chronicle, anti of
Satisfaction to lie Render*.
Syracuse, N. Y., January 16, 1882.
Editors Chronicle ami Constitutionalist:
Gentlemen Enclosed please find the
price in currency to renew my subscrip
tion to your paper for another year. Your
paper has become a welcome visitor in my
family, and not only there, but among a
circle of friends, to whom I have frequent
ly shown it; it has served to modify and cor
rect many erroneous impressions as to the
state of things “away down South in Dixie.”
Many have been surprised—who are accus
tomed to thinking that nothing good can
come “out of Nazaieth”—at the fine liter
ary taste, and the pure moral tone that dis
tinguish the conduct of your paper.
It certainly is remarkably free from the
course slang and vulgar expressions which
too often are found in our Northern papers,
even those that assume to represent that par
ty which claims a monopoly of “high moral
ideas.” lam only too happy to state, how
ever, in this connection, that there are some
among our newspaper publications which are
striving to institute a better state of things.
The tone of an editorial in yonr last issue
touching this subject, is especially pleasing
to me, as it reveals a clear understanding
and appreciation of the wants of a family
newspaper, for Ido not believe it is generally
understood to what an extent the newspaper
is a public educator; but those of us who have
children are more sensitive, perhaps, to the
corrupting influences of their associations,
whether it may be evil companions or the
newspaper in whose columns they are ac
customed to find (as the result, perhaps, of
unusual enterprise) accounts in detail of
fearful and revolting crimes, the sayings
and doings of corrupt men and women and
much more of a nature that is coarse, brutal
and debasing. For, as you say in the ad
mirable editorial referred to, it is impossi
ble for even a conservative mind not to be
influenced by these things.
I am living in a section of the State that
is remarkable as a Republican stronghold
and while many of my pleasantest associa
tions and warmest friendships are of that
particular “household of faith,” I am
among the unreconstructed in all that per
tains to Democratic principles and an abid
ing faith in the land of my birth -the beau
tiful Sunny South, and the perpetual glory
of her sons and daughters lam glad that
a new era of sunshine is succeeding the ’
shadows which for so long a time enveloped
her in sorrow and gloom, and I believe with
you that the great things already accom
plished are only prophsies of her future
glory-
When I commenced this letter I only in
tended in a few words to thank you for your
efforts to give us a sound family newspaper,
pure in its moral tone and correct in its
literary taste, and to say, also, in my hum
ble judgment, you are remarkably success
ful in that direction. Respectfully,
James W.Eagee.
Marrfwge Wednemlay Nl*;ht.
(Charlotte Observer.)
Wednesday night, at the residence of
thebride’s father, in this city. Dr. Sim
mons G. Jones, of Wadesboro, North Caro
lina, was united la marriage to Miss Mag
gie, daughter of Colonel John L. More
head. Dr. A. W. Miller, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, performed the cere
mony in a beautiful and impressive laan
ner, in the presence of quite a eflmber of
the relatives and friends of the contracting
parties. The couple wera attended by Mr.
Geo. Brockenbrough and Miss Lonie More
head, sister of the bride.
The bride is one of Charlotte’s most ex
cellent young ladies, and is universally ad
mired by her friends and acquaintances,
while the groom has a large circle of friends
here, who extend him and his fair help
meet best wishes for their future.
The Chronicle.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist is
the oldest newspaper in the South, and
perhaps the oldest in the United States,
having been established in 1785. While
thoroughly Democratic in principle, it is
liberal, progressive and tolerant. It con
tains the latest news from all parts of the
world, including Bccnrate market reports
from all the great trade centres. It circu
lates in a large section of Georgia and South
Carolina, besides other sections of the
Union- It is thus a splendid advertising
medium, as it is read by thousands of peo
ple who trade in this city. The Chronicle
has always endeavored to keep its columns
free from sensationalism and articles of an
immoral character, and will continue to do
sn in the future, making it a family paper.
Mortuary Report.
The report of the Board of Health for the
week ending Saturday the 21st shows that
there were 7 deaths in the city daring that
time —whites, 2 ; colored, 5 ; of these 1
colored was under 5 years of age, 1 colored
was between 5 and 20, and 2 whites and
3 colored were ovex 20. The causes of
death were as follows: Debility, I—colored
female adult, dropsy, I—colored male
adult; typhoid fever, I—white female adult;
pneumonia, I—white female adult; whoop
ing cough, I—colored female adult; hanged,
I—colored male adult; scrofula, I—colored
male child.
Georgia’* Governor In New York.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, January 21.—Alfred H. Col
quitt, Governor of Georgia, will address the
Young Men’s Christian Association, of this '
city, in Association Hall, next Monday eve
ning, on the occasion of the twenty-ninth
anniversary.
J'h HES R. RANDALL.
’A Correspondent Start'he* the Editor ot
the Chronicle, in the Latter’s Alxcnee—
Literary Attainments, Characteristics,
and Personal Appearance.
On Board I rain. South Carolina Rail
road. January 21. Given the inclination
to pursue the predatory life of correspond
ents for the press, rather than the duller
one of inditing editorial miscellany, and
what a ravishing writer James R. Randall
would appear! The gift of entertaining
comment is a by no means universal one;
the art of picturesque description in writ
ing is as exceptional, and a combination
of the two rarer still. It is the joining
of these trained faculties with industry,
which make up the highest order of jour
nalistic qualifications, and the Chronicle's
leading editor possesses them in a romarkft*
bio degree. .Since Mr. Randall is tempo
rarily absent I can refer with impunity to
his professional attainments, as viewed’ by
readers whose estimates cannot be chargea
ble with personal bias. An editor of ono of
the leading Boston dailies remarked to mo
a month ago that there was not an exchange
whose editorial columns he perused with
more satisfaction than the Chronicle’s. A
well known Southern man, now residing in
New York, said to mo last week that the
Washington correspondence of “J. R. R.”
was incomparably superior to that sent to
any metropolitan paper. A distinguished
New England writer avers Mr. Randall’s
literary work in every respect equal to the
late Dr. Holland’s. Said he: “His English
is as perfectly chaste - his style at once as
forcible and as winsome.”
The tritest subject under the treatment of
Mr. Randalls pen becomes attractive, just
as a homely face in repose, will, at times,
under the garniture of a smile, take on a
preposessing expression. But there are
others, in themselves eloquent, which, call
lng into play the impulses of his heart, are
made to take on imagery and passion, from
“thoughts that glow and words that burn,”
commanding exalted esteem for tbe mind
conceiving and the hand executing tho vivid
work. Poetic beauty’ of expression, classic
lore, historic incident and apt quotation,
garnish and strengthen a simple, straight- '
forward logic, which is never unnatural—
never strained. Another charm of Ran
dall’s writing is its entire freedom from
cant on the one hand or from skepticism
on the other. A true believer in “the
doctrine all divine,” and yet with
charity for every honest opinion there
is no ultraism in any sentiment he expresses.
His temperament inclines him more to seri
ous than flippant discussion. Dame Nature
awarded to some one else a portion of tho
merry mood which was intended for Ran
dall, and, perhaps, overweighted him just
the least, with sombreness of disposition.
But uhe, at least, made up the deficiency’ in
the sweetness of his pathos. Does ‘tho
reader remember an editorial in a Sun
day Chronicle of July last, under tho
heading, “Neither Do I Condemn Thee,”
commenting npon the evidence in ’a
trial in New York of a Magdalen
charged with infanticide? I was on a
sleeping car, the Sunday succeeding its
publication. The train stopping for an hour
by reason of an accident, a gentleman in the
car read aloud to his dozen traveling com
panions that soulful composition. At the
conclusion of the reading every eye was
moistened with a tear. “I do not know the
author of that sketch,” said a venerable old
gentleman, as he slipped his handkerchief
under his spectacles, “but there is some of
the charity of our Saviour in his heart.”
I have written much more upon this sub
ject than I had any thought of writing when
I began this, but as there are thousands of
readers of the Chronicle who, never having
known him, may enjoy some personal ac
count of Mr. Randall, I supplement tho
character sketch already given with a brief
personal mention. A Marylander by birth,
he came further South when quite young
to teach, and was in charge of a village
school in Louisiana when hostilities began
between the sections in 1861. It was at his
desk in that school, after reading dispatches
of the invasion of Maryland by Federal
troops, that he wrote the, ever since, popu
lar war song,, “ Maryland, My Maryland.”
A few weeks since, while writing’ in my
room in a hotel, away up in Hartford, Con
necticut, I dropped' my pen to listen to a
chorus of voices around a piano in the par
lor, just opposite the hall, singing Mr. Ran
dall’sboyhood composition beginning,
“ The despot’s heal is on thy shore,
Maryland, my Maryland 1”
. For a while subsequent to the war, he was
in the insurance business, bnt subsequent
ly became editor of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist, holding the position until tho
consolidation of that paper with the
Chronicle and Sentinel, in 1877
when ha was made editor of the
consolidated journal, as he still is.--
Mr. Randall is 42 years of age, of com
fortably stout figure, affable and expressive
face, with a high, intellectual forehead. He
is a man of strictly temperate habits, and
an industrious worker, whether in his office
or at his home, to which he is fondly at
tached, being a devoted husband and fathe r
He is warmly admired ■by a large circle of
personal friends, and enjoys the esteenu of,
all persons knowing of him, even if usnic- "
quainted with him.
I look upon James R. Randall as but fairly
entered upon what—if life and health are
spared him—will proven grandly successful
career in the republics of leeltes.
Russell.
f N ISHVILLE UNDER WATER.
Th* Greatest Flood Ever Known
Cumberland.
b (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Nashville, Tenn , January2L—The river
r has surpassed the flood of 1847, and isetill
J rising half an inch per hour, forcing an ad
» ditional cumber of people from their homes
- to-day, and to-night there seems to be no.
- telling to what point the flood will reach
a The mill men have lost much lumber r.nd.
’ three rafts since last night. The merchantr;
- have been forced to remove their good s from
i a large number of cellars of stores on which
- the backwaters were encroaching.
A portion of the Tennessee find Pacific '
Railroad is under water, bnt not so deep as
3 to stop the running of trains. One train a
i day is run on the Northwestern Division of
, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
- Road for passengers, who are ferried across:
1 the waters between Camden and Jackson-
- ville. News from Point Burnside, on the
J Cumberland, is to the effect that the river is
j 35 feet above low water and is rising at the
. rate of 18 inches per hour. The river at
i Clarksville is six inches above the rise of
( 1847. There has been no arrivals or de
-5 partures of steamers. The Signal Service
’ Bureau reports 12 8-100 inches of rain since,
r January J,
r Nashille, January 22.—The river Las:
i reached the point of seven inches above the
» rise of 1847, making 55 fw&t 3 inches, a
■ large amount of drift is floating down the
> river, with now and then small bridges, which
. spanned the upper country. A large amount
I of lumber was carried out from here this
f morning. Sand bags were placed across
• Woodward street early to-day to prevent the
I current from setting through nortwest Nasb
' 'ou 6 carrying away lumber and houses.
■ Ihe river rose to such a point as to force a
• large number of families out of their homes.
i People are gratified that the river has reach
ed a stand to-night and hope it will be fall-
: ing by to-morrow. The Tennessee river is
I rising at Johnsonville and is within a few
feet of the railroad bridge at that point,.'
Cemmrncing to Fall.
Nashville, January 23 -The river com.
menced to fall slightly at midnight.
WILKES ITEMS,
, 1 (Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Washington, Ga., January 23.—Judging
from the continued rains, and the clouds
that have so long Obscured the sun, the
> heavens will now atone for the partiality of
its showers a few months ago. Our soil be-
■ ing a clay mixture, we have a proportion of
• mud and slush commensurate with the
, rainy period, and where the roads are trav
i eled much, they resemble the mire of a
prairie rather than away through an eleva
ted country. This condition of the public
roads materially affects onr trade, and busi
ness has not received the impetus that the
arrangements for a new year ordinarily im
parts, because the planter with his produce
is unavoidably stayed from market. If tbe
asseverations of a farmer can be taken as a
criterion of his intentions, the quantity oi
commercial ieitilizers to be used in this
county for the present year will be infinite
ly less than the amount used last season.
The taention or smell of guano with many
i?. provocative of blasphemy, and we con
strue the irritation it excites into nt
least a careful and judicious nse of
the article. The small g-ain, which
is the largest crop planted since the
war, now promises to do well, having
thus far escaped damage from freezes
which oft times is a material hindrance to a
full crop. This very important cereal is
now so well rooted and grown as to be im
pervious to the effects of cold, and noth
ing but a remarkably dry Spring can pre
vent a heavy and abandant harvest. Wilkes
is taking no stock in the Felton movement;
however, his advocacy of free schools will
be populur .with the masses. They were
established by the dominant party, and
larger appropriations, by them, for their
maintainance will retain the popular vote.
His attack on Hill is considered unwise, and
in it he displays a venom inconsistent with
the teachings of a clergyman. ’From tho
plentitude of his aspirations he forgets
that he cannot serve God and Mammon at
the same time.—The letters of your staff
correspondent are read here with considera
able relish, and “lend rae your paper, if it
contains a letter from Randall,” is a com
mon request.—The common opinion here,
from the evidence before us, is that Gniteau
is insane, and should be acquitted.—The
small pox, in a mild form, has made its ap
pearance in Washington, and vaccination is
pretty general.—Mr. Henry Vickers, a young
man of extensive acquaintance, recently
died her from an overdose of chloral. He
leaves a wife, mother and several children,
who deeply deplore his untimely death.—
Mr. J. C. Williamson, one among the oldest
citizens of the county, died last Monday.—
Mr. G. E. Dillard, formerly of Augusta, has
been dangerously ill with typhoid fever,
but is now improving.—Hon. 8. W. Wynn,
has not recovered from his stroke of paraly
sis, and his illness excites great anxiety
among his friends and relatives. J.
Parents must not find fault if their shoe
bills are double what they need be, and at
the same time their children's toes are rag
ged, if they neglect to buy shoes which
have improvement* that protect them from
wear at the toe, and that are not objection
able in any way. The A. 8. T. Co. Black
Tip prevents all these evils.
Raoeoon fur trimming is almost as hand
some as silver-fox) and is more serviceable.
Bronze leather figures applied on plush
are one of the eccentric trimmings for Win
ter costumes.