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KISfiET.
Tis a singular thing, my neighbor,
As the wheel of the world goes round,
Ttiat life’s most brilliant chances
Are ever unsought for found.
And the stretch of the best endeavor.
Weighs only uine ounce to the pound
y oU strive with a bitter longing
F,.r the dreamed of happy home,
\V1. re wife and prattle of children,
>ball cheer when the shadows come;
But you live in a dreary garret,
Where the rats unfettered roam:
Your heart beats a riotous measure
At one fair girl’s sweet will;
You tender a life of devotion.
And plead for responsive thrill;
But she marries the other fellow.
And you are a bachelor still!
You sigh for ft name all gilded.
And squander the midnight oil;
Stretch nerves to the highest tension.
With hardest unceasing toil;
But your ladder won’t reach Parnassus,
And an idler bears off the spoil!
You enter the worl i of winning,
Where the golden calf is lei;
Are willing your soul to barter
Kora glittering pile Instead;
Hut you barely get the pennies.
To purchase your daily bread!
84) life in brief is a puzzle.
An unsolvable mystery!
'Tis ruled by chance the blindest,
A toss up ’twixt earth and sky;
And Fate that scorned us living.
May doff its cap when we die!
L’Enfant Perdu.
Jacksonville, Fla., September 20, 1880.
Georgia Affairs.
Alluding to the dissatisfaction expressed by
the merchants of Hawkinsville over the in
creased rates of freight on cottou from that
point to this city, as allowed by “Circular No.
Albany News and Advertiser
says: “At present Albany is not as
bully situated in regard to freight
on cotton as some of her neighbors
seem to be. but we have been through the
same troubles that the business men of Haw-
kinsville are now passing through. The Rail
road Commission having refused to allow the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad to advance
their rates on cotton from Albany so as to
form a pool with the other roads leading from
this point, our cotton shippers can now use that
line exclusively, or else force the Central and
Savannah, Florida and Western to bring their
rates down to more satisfactory figures, to get
any part of the business. The businessmen of
Albany worked hard and spent money to get
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad here, and
furnish, perhaps, fully nine-tenths of the cotton
■hipped over the entire line. They are. there
fore. entitled to some benefit from it, and this
season, thanks to the Railroad Commission,
they are going to get it.”
The Americu8 Recorder states that at a re
cent meeting in Lee county the colored people
nominated Isaac Hinson for Representative.
The Recorder regrets the step, and says if it is
persisted in an irritating canvass will be forced
upon the people, all classes of whom are now
getting on harmoniously.
The Columbus Enquirer reports a distressing
and horrible scene which occurred on the plan
tation of Mr. James Toler, in Harris county,
uear Cataula depot, a few days ago. It seems
that a negro man and his wife,employed on the?
place, locked their |two little children up in
a louse and] went out to the field to pick cot-
t-n. They had not been long absent before
th-* house was discovered to bo on fire. A rush
was made to save the children, but it was too
lute. When they reached the place the roof
had fallen in, and the children were burned
with the house. It is unknown how the fire
"hginated, but it is presumed that one of the
children was playing in the fire and thus started
the flames.
The Milledgeville Recorder says: “Good
farmers told us on Saturday that they will not
make as much cotton this year as they did last
year, on the same amount of land, and with
the advantage of better cultivation. This is
true, too, of thousands of other farmers in tho
s mth. The big calculations on a seven million
or even six million bale crop,will fall to pieces.”
From the Thoinasville Enterprise we learn
tliat the farmers of Thomas county have
availed themselves of the recent fine weather,
and have been picking, ginning and marketing
their cotton at a rapid rate. The previous bad
weather damaged much of the open cotton.
The principal portion of this has been sold at
reduced figure3. With continued good weather,
the staple will be better and fair prices may
be expected.
A correspondent from Johnston 8tation,
Mdntoeh county, writes that politics arc
raging in that county, and is even attacking
the ladies. One lady friend of bis went so far
as to say th it she hoped he would be sick on
‘he 6th of October, so as to prevent him from
ranting his vote for Colquitt. She is an enlhu-
s;ss»ie "Norwood man.”
The Monroe Advertiser reports that Mr. John
1 h&mbllss died at his home, four miles from
• orsyth, on last Friday night, aged eighty-threa
years. He was one of the pioneer settlers of
Monroe county, and with the hardihood,
'vonomy, energy and thrift characteristic of
•hat class of citizens, had accumulated a large
fortune. The war despoiled him of much of
bis possessions, but left him a competency.
A gentleman writes from Darien, alluding to
tbt item in this column on Monday last men
tioning the fact that a number of citizens of
ahen had published a card denouncing the
P ro I>06ed abolition of the present system of a
commissioners government, and a readoption
°f the old Mayor and Aldermen system. He
s move is only to stop th« County Com-
fnishioners, who are not elected, from being
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
*ri*n. lie also says that of the one hundred
411 two signers to the card, less than forty
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Pays the Americus Recorder. “We heard
yesterday of a very unfortunate occurrence
which happened in Adersonville on Saturday,
the 18th lost. Mr. John Smith, who. It seems,
was somewhat in liquor, drew his pistol and
fired two shots at a hog, which endangered the
lives of several persons near. He next went
into a store and had some words with a negro,
upon whom he drew his pistol and fired one
shot, the ball making a slight wound in the
negro’s hand. The negro then snatched the
E istol from Mr. Smith, and began firiDg upon
im, and continued until all the chambers were
empty. Two balls took effect, one slightly, the
other making a serious wound in the back.”
Columbus Enquirer: “The negro Bill Jen
kins. who got in a regular carving expedition
at Crawford Saturday night, was arrested at
his house Sunday morning. After he hail done
the cutting he tied, and parties went after him
In hot pursuit. Some of them came to this
city, while others went to his house. He was
found at home and resisted arrest. One of the
parties fired upon him. the ball taking effect in
his arm. He ran inside the house, barred the
d*>ors, and swore vengeance to the first man
who attempted to enter. The house was close
ly guarded until the next morning, when the
negro gave himself up. In a preliminary
trial before Justice T. J. Gibson yester
day he was committed to jail to an
awer the charge of assault with inteut
to murder. During the trial Bill stated that he
went into Mr. Terry's store and gave his little
boy. who he had with him. what packages he
bad bought and his stick. Mr. Boyd caine into
the store and took the stick away from the
boy. Bill attempted to get the stick from
Boyd, who struck him across the head with it
Bill states that he then cut Mr. Boyd, and tried
to put his knife clear through him. He did not
know when or how he cut the others. It was
at first thought that J. M. Bishop was fatally
cut, but since the cutting it seems that K. C.
Boyd is the worst cut of the two and his
wounds may yet prove fatal. The negro cer
tainly deserves severe punishment.”
The following “Walker county sensation” is
related in the Chattanooga Times : “The upper
portion of McLemore's Cove, in Walker
county. Georgia, has recently been the scene
of a matrimonial sensation which rivals any
thing of the kind ever before known among
that steady-going, law-abiding and God-serving
people. The circumstances of the affair, as
gathered from citizens of the Cove, are sub
stantially as follows: ‘Less than a year ago,
two well-to-do y<mng farmers, Robert Woods
and Jos-ph Colquitt, each took himself a wife
and to all appearances were happy in their re
spective alliances. The young ladies chosen
by the two farmers were of respectable
parentage, and each bore a good character os
well as a reputation for intelligence and a pro
per qualification for all the duties in their
sphere of life. All went happy with the two
young couples until one night last week, when
they met at a neighbor’s house, where they
had been bidden to a frolic or party. Here
the conversation turned on married life, and
the respective merits of their wives were free
ly discussed In' the young husbands. In this
conversation Woods confessed a fondness for
Colquitt’s wife, and Colquitt ackowledged a
preference for Mrs. Woods. This resulted in
a proposition and mutual bargain between the
husbands to change wives on the spot. The
women were at once informed of the trade,
and Mrs. Colqnitt heartily acquiesced in the
swap, resigning herself cheerfully to the care
and caresses of Woods. Not so. however, with
Mrs. Woods, who indignantly refused the
f )roffered caresses of Colquitt, and, when vio-
enee would have been used to compel her
acquiescence, fied to her friends ard reported
the outrageous proceedings. Mrs. Woods’
father took her under his protection, and
invoked the law to bring the erring husbands
to justice, but the Ku-Klux intervened, and the
wile traders fied the country.”
Milledgeville Recorder: “Business has
opened briskly for the season, and our mer
chants seem to be very hopeful of a profitable
fall trade. Cotton is eoming in rapidly, and
we hear I lie farmers are pacing their ohliga
tions with promptness, as far as they are able.
Our information leads us to believe that the
farmers will have lighter debts to pay, and
more ready money in pocket this winter than
has been the case with them any previous year
since the war. If they will be cautious how
they spend their money in exten ling the arer
of their cropping next year, they will be wise,
ar.d have some money to invest in other ways
than buying mules and guauo. Smaller farms
and a greater attention to the improvement of
their best lands will enable the farmer to make
just as much money and give him a chance to
add to his home comforts, and increase the
happiness of his family.”
Macon Telegraph: “Yesterday evening a
Telegraph reporter took a tour through the
cottou lunds in the swamp, a: d was both pleas
ed and astonished at the condition of the crops.
Upon the lands of Mr. Abel stands about the
finest growth of cotton ever produced in Mid
dle Georgia. The field of thirty acres along
the river is a mass of tangled bloom, boll and
weed, and scattered through it could be seen
the pickers hard at work, the heads and should
ers only showing. Fron this on > field nas al
ready been picked eleven hales, and it is still
wnite with cotton and blooms. It is estimated
that there is now within tho field twenty five
bales. The yield will be l bales to the acre.
The corn in ihis section is also better than
anywhere else. The hay is abundant, bat is
not being harvested except on some farms.”
Letter from Echols County.
Echols County, September 20. —Editor Morn
ing Xetcs: I wish to insert a few lines in your
very valuable paper, the Morning News. First,
I will say crops are about an average in this
county. Cotton has been damaged somewhat
by the bad weather.
But. Mr. Editor, my principal reason for writ
ing is to say a word about politics. We fre-j
quently hear, and sometimes see, such state
ments as “Echols county is solid for Nor
wood.” “There is but one Colquitt man
in Echols county,” etc. Such, I take.the
liberty to say, is not the case. My
deliberate opinion is when the ides of October
shall have arrived it will be seen that Governor
Colquitt has more supporters here than was
supposed; and this I take pleasure in saving,
among those favoring Governor Colquitt there
is not a single aspirant for office nor a disap
pointed office-seeker. Can the advocates of
Mr. Norwood say as much, as a rule? I was
pleaued to hear that Tattnall, Bulloch and ad
joining <_•>.unties, where Iain well known, have
not ceased to be true now to those who were
true to the country’in the'\Iark days.” No.
sir; let their slanderers and traducerssay what
they may. the names of such patriots as Alfred
H. Colquitt and John B. Gordon will ever be
cherished and revered by the true and brave of
all ages. D. R A. Johnson.
have
<* no vote in the city, as they either reside
e Ridg,
or are aliens or under age, while
kil but twenty-five of those who have a right
,! J ''•rtn the card are more or less interested in
the
of
city government as it now stands. This,
h a purely local question, with the
fnts of which we are unacquainted and
‘nve nothing to do. We only publish the con-
at « of the writer's letter as a matter of
i. 00nVf; Pondent from McIntosh says that
tit Crn ° r is soon expected to addrrts
tizens of that county at Darien, and
hTi < '* ener& l Gordon will come with
a Re also says the county will give the
4 Rood majority.
tern^f ? nday ni sht some miscreant at-
Ureer* 1 10 ** the stables of Mr. Jasper
, * 10 ^acon. Kerosene oil was poured
n one sije of the stable and then ignited.
had
-•ious conflagration would have resulted
Pen^ jt ^ ^ reeman * that city, hap-
. 10 pass by. and discovering the flames,
un ,Il em *** ’-heck by throwing sand on them
tr ‘ e - c °bld be extinguished. The perpe-
of the deed is not known,
an ' -Mlanta Constitution of yesterday was
Vcrt - 1 Page trade issue. It was filled with ad-
jMf / U8a ^’ claims that the past was a
the ar “l progress unequaled in
Ath ° ° f the GaUs City -
manino.~ aun ^ r: “Mr. Bud Fellows, a young
with a fcIn Pl°y of CoL J. H. Huggins, met
after s iT„ tre accident Saturday morning. Just
attack^T"* 1 .?from home to the store he was
giihWt j* 1 an epileptic fit—to which he is
his iaw i^ nd fel1 80 heavily to the ground that
of hiq broken on, tho left side. Some
assistanof m J?- Kaw him fall, and went to bis
Carlton j J aw was eet by Dr. William
be expected ’’ ** now doin K a* well as could
What Next
Atlanta Constitution.
The quiet, conservative citizens of the
State, who are taking no part in the bit-r
ter controversy which has been pre
cipitated by the attempt of a factious
and fragmentary minority to ignore and
override the verdict of a majority of the
people, have no adequate idea of the
character of the campaign which the
Norwood party is waging. It is a
campaign of subterfuges, anony
mous slanders, insidious documents
and secret manmuvres. It is probable
that no such campaign has ever been
prosecuted in the history of the Slate.
We have already exposed the character
and animus of the “convict catechism,"
and we are called upon to-day to per
form a similar service for a method of
securing votes which is outrageous
enough to arouse the indignation of
every honest voter in the State. It is in
the shape of an affidavit, and comes
from Pierce county. We give it as it
appears in the Biackshear News :
State of Georgia, Pierce County.—I
, do swear that I will vote as a
member of tbe Norwood Club, for Thomas M.
Norwood fer Governor and use all ray influence
to secure his election, and a’so to vote for A.
J. Dickson for Representative. The managers
of said club and said club is to be of force, and
said affidavit is to be binding on the undersign
ed during the term of the Gubernatorial elec
tion, which will take place in October. 1880;
and further swear that I will not vote any
ticket at said election unless handed me by A.
J. Dickson, W. F. Dickson. H. Williamson,
Is ban Tyre, Arthur Tyre, R. G. Riggins, J. A.
Harper. D. E Kuoles, J. 31. Davis, T. A. Davis,
A. J. Wilson. V. L. Cox, James E. Grurry.
James Littleton Henderson. C. Johnson. Jo
seph Thrase, Cipio Thrase, T. J. Fuller, J. E.
Jovner, R. W. Fuller.
Sworn to and subscrii>ed before...., this ....
September, 1880.
THE GREENBACK PARTY.
MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS.
The Greenbackers in Convention-
General Butler Indorsed, Not
withstanding His Recent Demo
cratic Proclivities—Nominated for
Governor.
Bg Telegraph to the Morning News.
Worcester, Mass., September —The
Greenback State Convention assembled in
Horticultural Hall, In this city, to day. Two
hundred and seventy two cities and towns
were repiesented by three hundred and
eighty-four delegates. The usual commit
tees were appointed, and a permanent or
ganization effected by the election of Chas.
H. Litchman, of Marblehead, who was
chosen for President after considerable op
position. Mr. Litchman, upon taking the
Chair, made a brief speech, defending his
record against the attacks of his opponents,
and declaring himself in favor of universal
suffrage, without reference to age, color or
sex, and saying that he would support
General Butler next year as the Greenback
candidate for Governor, notwithstanding
his present lapse iDto Democracy. This
declaration was received with miDgled
cheers and hisses. After the transaction of
some routine business, Gen. Horace B. Sar
gent was nominated for Governor by accla
mation, and a committee appointed to
complete the State ticket. The convention
then took a recess.
Upon the reassembling of the convention
the committee appointed to nominate can
didates for the remainder of tbe State ticket
reported ae follows : For Lieutenant Gover
nor, George Dutton, of Springfield; Secre
tary of State, Jonathan Arnold;
Treasurer, Wilbur F. Whitney; Attor
ney General, John M. Raymond. The re
port was adopted. The Committee on Reso
lutions reported a platform affirming the
principles of the party as 6et forth in the
platform adopted bv the National Conven
tion at Chicago, declaring that the govern
ment should Issue and control the
volume of money of the people;
favoring the use of the specie
reserve of the Treasury in the payment
of the bonds: denouncing the national bauks
as impoverishes of the country; demanding
that the soldier receive as good a dollar as
the bondholder; opposing an increase of the
army and the granting of public lands
to railroads; insisting on a rigid
enforcement of the tight hour law
and protesting against all monopolization
of lands. The resolutions were adopted.
The sentiment of the convention as ex
pressed in the debate on the nomination of
a new member of the State Central Com
mittee was overwhelmingly against any-
thiug like a fusion with the Democrats, but
a resolution approving the action of Solou
Chase and tys followers in nominating a
straight Greenback ticket in Maine was laid
on the table by a vote 65 to 3.
A resolution, condemning tbe action of
General Butler in seceding trom the Green
back party, was voted down by a small ma
jority. The convention then adjourceJ.i
THE LATE GENERAL TORBERT.
Him Remains Arrive in Jackson
ville—Honorn to the Dead—They
Will Leave for New York To-day.
Special Telegram to the Morning News.
Jacksonville, Fla., September 22 —The
body of General Torbert arrived to day,
and was taken to the armory of the Jack
sonville Light Artillery, under the escort of
that company, followed by a large escort of
the best citizens. The utmost possible
respect was shown the remains, which will
remain under a guard of honor till morn
ing, when they will be taken to the New
York steamer City of Texas.
Bg the Associated Brest.
Jacksonville, Fla , September 22.—The
body of General A. T. A. Torbert arrived
from St. Augustine on the steamer Gazelle
at 2:30 p. in. to-day, in charge of General F.
T. Dent, commandant at St. Augustine,and
was received by a detachment of the Flori
da Artillery, uuder command of Lieutenant
Reyuolds, "and escorted to the Armory
by them and a procession of promi
nent citizens, the ex Federal and ex
Confederate soldiers uniting alike, to honor
the brave and distinguished dead. The body
was deposited in the centre of the armory,
which had been tastefully decorated with
United States flags and floral offerings by
the ladies of the city. It will remain there
under a guard of honor until 6 a. in. to-mor
row, when it will be conveyed to the
steamer Western Texas, which sails for
New York at 7 o’clock to-morrow night.
THE ENGLISH DRY GOODS TRADE
Bnttluesa Quiet—Tlie Fall in Cotton
—Tbe Strike.
THE PAN PRESBYTERIAN ALLI
ANCE.
Brilliant Social Reception—Speeches
of Welcome, Etc.
Justice of the Peace,
We commend this precious document
to the thoughtful attention of the people.
It is not enough to fill the State with
anonymous slanders; it is not enough to
send emissaries among the colored people
for the purpose of circulating an incendi
ary and a demoralizing document, but
voters must be bound by affidavits, secret
oaths and formal obligations. There are
hundreds of good citizens who are sin
cerely in favor of the election of Mr.
Norwood who will repudiate such meth
ods of securing votes, but if they support
a party which inaugurates such methods
can they' escape a certain degree of re
sponsibility for this attack upon the pu
rity of the ballot-box and the freedom of
elections? Mr. Norwood, in his own be
half, repudiated the convict catechism,
but the protest was purely mechanical.
His campaign committee continued to
send out the document, and even while
he was protesting in Griffin, a negro, arm
ed with credentials from the Norwood
committee, was preparing to carry the
convict catechism among the color
ed people of Southwest Georgia.
It is to be presumed that Mr.
Norwood will repudiate the secret oaths
and obligations by which his followers
are endeavoring to bind voters; indeed,
it is likely that be knows nothing about
these methods; but does this cure or pre
vent the evil? The remedy is in the
hands of the honest and conservative
masses of the people. At the ballot-box
in October they can make their condem
nation of such practices complete and
overwhelming.
Young ladies who delight in fair, fresh
faces use Cutieura Medicinal Soap.
Bg Telegraph to the Morning Neics.
Puiladeluiiia, September 22.—The dele
gates to the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance
meeting held a brilliant social reception this
evening at the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts. Tbe spacious halls and galleries
were crowded with the most prominent
clergymen and laymen of the Presbyterian
church in this city, a large number of
ladles also being present. In one of tbe
most commodious galleries spaee was re-
servid for the delegates and their ladles,
and here, too, upon a raised platform were
assembled Governor Hoyt, Mayor Stokely,
Geo. B. McClellan, of New Jersey, ex Gov
ernor iI*rtranft,of Pennsylvania,and Me.-srs.
•John Wanamaker and George Juakin, of
the Committee of Arrangements. The dele
gates having marched iuto the apartment
by a private staircase, Governor Hoyt for
mally welcomed them in a speech,in which he
said the city of Philadelphia, as indeed does
the Commonwealth o*|Penusylvania, desires
to acknowledge the significance of such an
assembly as this within its borders, and to
receive them with a cordial welcome. The
organization they represent has had a large
share in the intellectual awakening of the
last three hundred years, and a large 6hare
in moulding modern thought in church
and State, and in laying the superstructure
of religious fre<dom and civil liberty.
Mayor Stokely extended the hospitalities
of the city to the delegates and Governor
McClellan spoke as a delegate from New
Jersey. These addresses were re&ponded
to by the Rev. Dr. Cairn, of Edinburg,
Scotland; Rev. Dr. Markland, of Baltimore;
Rev. Dr. Mclutosh, of Ireland; and Rev.
Marion Shoshadri, of India, after which
the delegates were presented to Governors
Iloyt and McClellan and Mr. Wanamaker.
The first meeting of the Alliance will be
held to-morrow morning, and services will
be continued daily, Sundays excepted, uu
til October 2 inclusive.
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN CENTEN
NIAL.
Preparation* for the Grand Event—
Cheap Pure Going and Returning
The Programme.
Bg Telegraph to the Mornina Xews.
Atlanta, September 22.—W. J. Houston,
Chairman of tbe Transportation Committee
and Kings Mountain Centennial, announces
that arrangements have been made for round
trip tickets from all points in the South and
West, excepting Texas, at one and a quarter
cents per mile each way to this grand re
union of old Carolinians. The celebration
will last from the 5lh to tbe 8*h of October,
with an encampment of military from North
Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, snd a
sham battle under the direction of Gen. Jos.
E. Johnston. The oration will be delivered
by lion. John W. Daniel, of Virginia.
THE SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE
OF ODD FELLOWS.
The Session In Canada—L. J. Glenn,
of Atlanta, Elected !?I. A. Grand
sire—The Fext Meeting in Cincin
nati.
Bg Telegraph to the Morning Xeics.
Toronto, Ont., September 22.—The Sov
ereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows was
again in session yesterday, and elected the
following officers: L. J. Glenn, Atlanta,
Ga., M. A. Grand Sire, and E. J. Leach, of
Keokuk, Iowa, R. A. Deputy Grand Sire.
It was decided to hold the next session at
Cincinnati iu September, 1881, when a
monument will be dedicated in the Odd
Fellows’ Cemetery.
Meeting of the Memphis Bondhold
ers.
New York, September 22.—The commit
tee representing the city of Memphis bad a
conference with the Memphis bondholders
to-day, In regard to effecting a settlement
with them. The subject was discussed at
some length, but up to 3 o’clock no conclu
sion had been reached. The conference lasted
over two hours, and at Its conclusion it was
stated that the Memphis committee had
made a satisfactory report of tbe financial
condition of that city, and that satisfactory
arrangements had been made for effecting
a settlement with the bondholders.
Beligious Newspaper Suspension—
A Generous Donation.
Cincinnati, September 22.—By the failure
of the Williamson & Cantwell Publishing
Company, the weekly religious newspaper
Star of the West, the organ of the Universal-
1st Cnurcb, suspends publication. It was
established in 1827 and has been published
continuously until now. In its columns ap
peared some of the first published poems
of Alice Ph<Ebe Cary.
David Senton to-day added a subscription
of 4-10,000 to the Art Museum Association
fund, which now' amounts to $250,000,
leaving but $50,000 to be raised.
Matrimonial.
San Francisco, September
w —Jesse
Grant was married last evening to Miss Liz
zie, daughter of W. 8. Chapman, at the
Palace Hotel. The wedding was very quiet,
only a few friends being present.
New York, September 22.—A special
from London says : “The marriage of Miss
Florence Tilton with Mr. Peton, of Louisi
ana, was solemnized at 3t. Pancras Church.”
Headache, dizziness, sour eructations of
the stomach, bad taste in the mouth, bilious
attacks, palpitation of the heart, p&in in the
region of the kidneys, despondency and
forebodings of evil, are the offsprings of a
torpid liver. For these complaints Dr.
Tutt’s Liver Pill has no equal. A single
dose will convioce anyone.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, September 22.—The Manchester
Guardian, in its commercial article this
morning, says : “Business throughout our
market has been very quiet—almost lan
guid. On the whole, the tendency h&6
been downward, but no marked pressure to
sell was observable. The slackness wa6 to
a considerable extent due to the fall in cot
ton in tbe market, and the consequent
hope of buyers that they will be
able to do a little better by continuing to
hold off, and partly also due to some being
already liberally supplied. The threatened
strike has not had any appreciable Influence,
and it is hoped that the struggle will be
averted. Everybody who is practically
acquainted with the trade is aware
that neither the manufacturers nor tbe
spinners are making any profit at present,
and it is thought, probable that the opera
tives are gradually becoming aware of this.
Since the present agitation began the mar
gin between cottou and cloth and between
yarn and cloth has diminished.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
THE NEW MINISTRY SELECTED.
Personel of the Administration —
Gambetta the Author of the Dis
solution—The Press on the Situa
tion—The Franco-Russlan Alli
ance.
MEMPHIS RED1NLEGRATUS.
The Old City Celebrating Its Be-
sloration—The Joyful Procession
—Arches Built of Cottou Hales—
Distinguished Visitors.
Bg Telegraph to the Mornina Xews.
Memphis, September 22.—The city is
g By decorated with flags and crowded
with visitors, who have come at the Invita
tion of the merchants to join in celebrating
the continued good health of Memphis.
The scenes on the streets recall Mardi Gras
occasions. The procession, which moved
at 11 o’clock, w&s more than three miles
long, and composed of representatives
of every branch of business
and trade. Two large arches
h*ve been built, one of which is entirely
of cotton bales. Transparencies meet tlie
eyes of 6trangers at almost every crossing,
the most conspicuous beiDg at the Avalanche
office, which reads: “Solid South. Solid for
for Cotton, Corn,Trade and Manufactures.”
Among the notable personages present were
Gov. Luke P. Blackburn, of Kentucky,
Gov. Albert S. Marks.of Tennessee,and Gov
ernor elect T. J. Churchill, of Arkansas.
VICTORIA’S BAND.
A Combined Mexican and American
Attack Planned—Pour Columns
from Four Quarters of tlie Com
pass — ludlaa Raid ou San Jose
Stage Station.
Bg Teiegraph to the Morning Xews.
Denver, Col , September 22.—Advices
from Santa Fe are that on the 24th Inst, the
United States and Mexican troops will make
a combined attack on Victoria's band now
in the Candeleria mountaius in Mexico. Tbe
forces employed In the movement will num
ber about three thousand. Tervassas moves
on Victoria from the north, Buell from the
south in New Mexico, Grayson from tbe
east iu Texas, and Carr from the west in
Arizona. Buell is confident that the plan
will be succesAful.
A Santa Fe special says : “At daybreak
on the l&h, eighteen of Victoria’s Apaches
attacked the San Jose stage station, sixty
miles from El Paso, and captured all the
stage stock and one hundred and twenty
horses belonging to El Paso citizens, and
killed a Mexican.”
THE MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER.
Tnrklfch Troops Dying by Hundreds
-Tae Greek Reserves Ordered Out—
Imprisonment of Moliainmedan
Inhabitants of Podgorltza — The
Albanians Irritated.
Bg Telegraph to the Morning Xews.
London, September 22—A dispatch from
Ragusa to the Manchester Guardian says:
“Foreign official reports from Scutari rep
resent that the Turkish troops near that
place are dying of fever at the rate of two
hundred daily.”
A dispatch from Corfu to the Manchester
Guardian says: “A decree has been signed
calling out tbe Greek aeserves.”
Paris, September 22—A telegram from
Ragusa says: “The Montenegrin command
ant at Podgorltza has imprisoned the prin
cipal Mohammedan inhabitants. This has
greatly irrl’uted tbe Albanians and increases
the difficulty of surrendering Dulcigno.”
TnE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
A Firm fpenlng, Followed by a
General Decline.
By Telegraph to the Morning Xews.
New York, September 22.—The stock
maiket opened firm and prices advanced
X to 1 per cent., but before the first board
a free selling movement was inaugurated,
which resulted in a sharp decline in prices,
and with the exception of an occa
sional slight recovery, speculation con
tinued to tend downward np to the close of
business, when the lowest figures of the day
were generally current. The decline as
compared with the final quotations of yes
terday ranged from to % per cent.,
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Western
Union, Granger and Coal shares, Michigan
Central, Union Pacific, and Southwestern
properties leading the decline. Transac
tions aggregated 225,000 shares.
Minor Political Notes.
Concord, N. H., September 22.—The
Democratic Convention of the First Con
gressional district to-day nominated Alvah
W. Silloway by acclamation. Frank A.
McKean, of Nassau, was nominated as a
candidate for elector.
Montgomery, Ala., September 22.—The
Republican Congressional Convention of
tbe Seventh district, at Gadsden, nominated
ex-8tate Treasurer Arthur Bingham for
Congress.
Morristown, N. J., September 22.—The
Democratic Congressional Convention of
the Fifth district met here to-day and re
nominated August W. Cutler, of Morris
county.
New York, September 22.—Gen. Grant
telegraphs Governor Jewell to-day, in reply
uo an inquiry, that while he will do all in
his power to aid the Republican cause, he
cannot engage to attend any meetings. He
expects to be in New York city from the
10th to the 20th of October.
The New British Consul at Savan
nah.
London, September 22.—The Gazette an
nounces that Mr. Lewis Joel, Consul at
Brindisi, Italy, has been transferred to Sa
vannah, Ga.
Six Persons Drowned by the Capsiz
ing of a Steamer.
London, September 22.—A ferry 6learner
has capsized at Bordeaux and six persons
were drowned.
By Telegraph to the Mornina Xews.
Paris, September22.—The Evenment pub
lishes a conversation between one of Its con
tributors, and M. Waddington, in which the
latter states that no formal proposal wa6
made to him of a Russian alliance against
Germany, but that the proposal was made
to M. Gambetta through a Russian Grand
Duke who was staying in Paris at the time.
M. Gambetta merely replied, “ We shall see.”
London, September 22.—A Paris dispatch
says: “M. Carnot has accepted the Ministry
of Public Works. The Marquis de Noalles
has definitely declined the Ministry of For
eign Affairs, and that post has been offered
Admiral Janses, whose answer is anxiously
expected. Tbe health of Admiral Dapal Is
so bad that he cannot accept the Ministry of
Marine.”
London, September 22.—The Paris dis
patch to the Times says: “Nothing is more
striking than the almost perfect unanimity
with which the press accuses M. Gambetta
of having caused the present crisis, and
having thus disturbed the national tran
quillity, solely because M. de Freyclnct, in
his Montauban speech, ventured to exhibit
himself as a far sighted man. With the
exception of two or three papers, the whole
press, protest vehemently, against this im
perative iuterfeience of an irresponsible
person, and comes to the conclusion that
the real and only possible solution is that
M. Gambetta should take the Premiership.
It would be a great mistake to at ribute
this view only to M. Gambetta’s adversaries.
Ilia nearest friends regard it as a necessity."
Paris, September 22, r. m.—The new
Cabinet has been definitely constituted as
follows: M. Jules Ferry. President of the
Council and Minister of Public Instruction;
M. Barthelmy St. Hlllalre, Minister of For
eign Affairs: M. Constant, Minister of la
terior and of Worship: M. Cazot, Minister
of Justice; M. Magnin, Minister of Finance;
General Farre, Minister of War; Admiral
Clouet, Minister of Marine; M. Carnot, Min
ister of Public Works; M. Firard, Minister
of Commerce; M. Cochery, Minister of Posts
and Telegraphs.
London, September 22—The statement
attributed to M. Waddington that the pro
posal for a Russian alliance with France
against Germany had been made to M.
Gambetta through a Russian Grand Duke in
Paris, is simply the assertion of the Stan
dard's correspondent and not of M. Wad
dington.
A Berlin dispatch to the Times says
“Ilerr Von Beunigsen, in an address before
a meeting of Liberals at Hanover yesterday,
averted that whatever might be the
worth of Herr Vanbuhler’s statement,
was perfectly well known to those who fol
lowed the course of affairs, that influential
Russian dignitaries last year had made
earnest and continued efforts in Paris to ef
feet an alliance between France and Rus
sia against Germany.”
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tbe Health of Washington—A Much
Celebrated Election — Tbe Oi
palgn in Indiana and Ohio—The
Signal; Service.
THK UNITARIAN CONFERENCE.
Alms and Purposes of the Denoml*
nation—The Work Accomplished
Closer (Jnlon Recommended.
By lelegraph to the Morning Xews.
Saratoga, N. Y., September 22.—The
National Unitarian Conference was called
to order here to-day by Hon. E. Rockwood
Iloar, the President, who delivered an ad
dress, setting forth the aims and purposes
of the Unitarian denomination. After the
appointment of various standing commit
tees, Dr. H. W. Bellows, of New York, read a
report of the council, showlDg the work
accomplished by it during the past year,
aud urging a closer union of Unitarian so
cieties. At the afternoon session the Rev.
R R. Shippeu, Secretary of the American
Uuitarian Association, read a report of the
work done upon the annual receipts of
$250,000, and offered a resolution recom
mending that $50,000 be raised next year.
The Rev. Jenkin L. Jones, reported for the
Western Conference, and the Rev. Stephen
II. Camp for the Southern, Middle and
other conferences. The latter said the
Unitarian churches in Charleston and New
Orleans are doing well.
The evening session was entirely devoted
to reports upon the condition of the various
Unitarian schools and colleges.
HEALTH REPORT.
Malarial Fever on the Lower Mis
sissippi—A Humor Corrected— Den-
gue Fever In Key Went.
Bg Telegraph to the Mornina Newt.
Washington, September 22.—Dr. Berais,
of the National Board of Health at New
Orleans, telegraphed the Secretary of that
board to-day that the commission recently
appointed to investigate the character of
the disease now prevailing on the lower
Mississippi, declares it to be malarial, and
not yellow ftver, as has been reported.
Tbe rumor was current yesterday that a
number of cases of yellow fever existed at
Key West.Fla. The National Board of Health
is informed, however, by a dispatch received
to-day, that the disease Is dengue fever.
The Brighton Beach Races.
Brighton Beach, C. I., September 22.—
There was a good attendance at the Brighton
Beach races to-day. The weather was cool
and pleasant, and the track in fine condition.
The first race, for all ages, was won after
a whipping finish by Nimble Foot, J. H.
Haverly second. Mamie Fields third, Charley
Ross fourth, Libby fifth and Kitty H. last
Time 1:17%.
The second race, for all ages, light welter
weights, one mile, Bucktie took the lead at
the first furlong pole, and held It to the fin
ish, and won easily, Democrat second, the
Buckden gelding third, British Lion fourth,
and L L. away off. Time 1:46.
In the third race, for the Sea Breeze stakes,
for three-year-olds, Gold Bug won by a short
length, Bj'e and Bye second, Barney third,
Elias Lawrence’s Emily F. fourth. Time
"43%.
In the fourth race, a handicap for all ages,
one and a quarter miles over five hurdles,
Miss Malloy took the lead before the half
mile pole was reached, and held it to the
finish, winning by ten lengths, Dalgasian
second, fifteen lengths before Brighton.
Time 2:21.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, September 22.—Indications for
Thursday :
In the Middle States, northwest winds,
shifting to northeast and southeast, rising
followed by falling barometer, partly cloudy
weather, aud nearly stationary tempera
ture.
In the South Atlantic States, northeast
to southwest winds, partly cloudy weather,
light rains in the southern portion and slight
changes in temperature and barometer.
In the Gulf States, east to south winds,
partly cloudy weather and areas of rain,
stationary or slowly falling barometer, and
slight changes in temperature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, north
east to southeast winds, partly cloudy
weather and light rains, with slight rise in
temperature and stationary or slowly falling
barometer.
Tbe
Progress ot the Accrington
Strike.
London, September 22.—The Times says
the representatives of the weavers recom
mend that the whole of the fnnds belonging
to the local associations, amounting to the
sum of £12,000, be amalgamated and placed
at the disposal of the Wages’ Com
mittee to support the Accrington strike.
If this is agreed upon, the 6trike
will probably not be averted. The feeling
in Accrington is reported to be very deter
mined on both sides. At a meeting of the
operatives at Burnley yesterday there was
some opposition manifested to tbe strike,
and a motion to contribute a levy of three
pence per loom to support the strike was
ultimately rejected in favor of the levy of
two pence per loom.
Fatal Laud Slide in India.
Lahore, September 22.—By a land slip at
Nainl-Lal, one of the Hill stations of North
west India, the following were killed : L.
Taylor, Assistant Commissioner on the Road
Police; Rev. Mr. Robinson, chaplain ; Maj.
Morphy, of the Fourth Regiment; Mrs.
Morphy ; Mr. Morgan, road overseer : Mrs.
Turnbull; Capt. Frederick Goodrldge, sur
geon ; J. B. Hannah, of tne Royal Engi
neers; Capt. Balderston, Lieutenant J. E.
H. Sullivan, Dr. Ilatchill, and Second Lieu
tenant J. B. Carmichael.
British Agriculturists for Texas.
London, September 22.—The steamship
Teutonia, from Liverpool for New Orleans,
took out one hundrea and fifty agricoltur-
iftta for Texas.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xews.
Washington, September 21.—The District
Health Officers have taken the trouble to get
off a word or two in print in regard to the health
of Washington in order to combat reports that
have been sent abroad from here that she is
malaria-ridden, fever breeding, pestilential
hole. They have gone to a good deal of trou
ble, and succeeded in proving that Washington
is one of the healthiest cities in the Union.
This ought to have long been well known to
moat people. But start a bad story about
place or person, and away it goes. The report
sent abroad from here depicting Washington a
cesspool, was the work of one of the corre
spondents. News is dull here in the sum
mer: sometimes so very dull that the
most gauzy sort of material is used in
giving a daily budget from here. Some cor
respondent or other, either stumped for news
or too lazy to look it up, sits him down and
grinds out a half column ur so about the gen
eral bad health of this city. This same thing
is done every year. As the great American
people labor under the delusion that everything
that comes from Washingtou is of interest,
the baseless slanders against the city's health
are quoted afar and broadcast. People who
lie never want to take it back, so tha st >ry re
mains uncontradicted by the majority of those
who gave it circulation. Bye-and-bye—about a
month or so after the He is put well on its feet—
it actually comes to the attention of the D*s-
trict health officers and the local papers. They
then get to work and prove that the city is very
healthy. It is so lon^ after the feast, however,
that it is doubtful if it has any effect outside
the District of Columbia.
the treatment of union soldiers by the two
parties.
One of the campaign bugaboos raised
by the Republican party lealers and
organs is that the Democratic Con
press is the euemy of the Union sol
dier. They have harped on this threadbare
theme so long that finally the Democratic Con
gressional Committee has decided to say
something alxmt it. They have gathered to
gether sufficient material to make very inter
esting reading for those who have any re
gard for the truth. It will be shown
that the arrears of pensions bill was passed
by Democrats, the opposition to it being al
most without a single exception Republican.
Even after the Confederate Brigadiers insisted
— despite John Sherman's letter trying to scare
them out of it. by saying that it would swamp
tlie Treasury—in passing the bill, Mr. Hayi
and his Cabinet sat on it for over a whole week,
threatening a veto. Just before the expiration
of the ten days that the Executive can reverse
a measure passed by ('ongress, it was signed,
against Republican protest. Mr. Hayes was
too much afraid of tlie "soldier vote” to veto,
much as he would have liked to coincide in
action, ai ho did in feeling, with several of
his Cabinet and some of the most prominent
Republican leaders. In committee—in Demo
cratic committee —of Congress the soldier has
found much more consideration than in the
hands of Republican committees. Senator
Withers, Chairman of the Senate Committee,
has been so partial to the consideration and
favorable action on applications for pensions
that several times Republican Senators hav
protested with him. They could not get the
time they wanted for bills of their own pecu
liar construction and make. The Democratic
party has been the best friend that the Union
soldier has had. This the Congressional Com
mittee proposes to show clearly in an unbiased
document that will shortly be issued for dis
tribution.
A MUCH CELEBRATED ELECTION.
The result of the election in Maine is clearly
a great big Democratic victory. Upon the
strength of their unexpected great gains the
local Democracy overflowed when the returns
came in tbe next day, and jubilated with one
hundred guns, fire works and speeches The
next two days showed that the Republican de
feat had not been as great as at first supposed.
The Republicans were aroused by Blaine in
thrilling dispatch that Davis was certainly
elected. They laughed at the previousness of the
Democrats, aud went off ana fired one hundred
guns In honor of their victory. Then the Green-
backers. or rather “Col.” Lee Crandall. “Na
tional Executive Committee,” began to ^f.
worked up. He wrote around to his fellow-
brethren everywhere for funds to celebrate the
“Maine victory,” and succeeded in getting
enough together to fire one hundred shots to
night. But there is likely to be another turn.
The returns now say that Plaisted is elected.
So the Democrats to-morrow night ara going
to jubilate again, and giving the Re
publicans and “CoL” Lee Crandall
one better, will fire one hundred guns to
morrow night as a further indication of how
f ;ood they feeL If the rest of the country goes
t at tlie rate that Washington does, the elec
tion in 3Iaine will be the most widely shot over
and celebrated of any political event of the
same magnitude in the history of the country.
OHIO AND INDIANA.
Senators Voorhees and McDonald and Hon.
Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, have let up
on the campaign in their State and have been
doing work in Ohio. Ohio is a Republican
State. These gentlemen left the Indiana cam
paign assured that things were all righr
Mr. English told them that he thought
that Indiana was eafe, and that work should
be directed to putting duwn Ohio's Republican
majority, which is not a very large one. Both
Ohio and Indiana linld State elections October
12. The idea of the Democratic campaign
is not only to hold and increase In
diana’s Democratic majority, but pull down
the Republican figures In Ohio This plan is
pursued principally to keep up the prestige—
which is almost everything—that was gained
in 3Iaine, and what Maine did renders
doubly certain of success.
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
The work of the Signal Corps
in two branches—one the teaching and
perfecting of the system of communication
lh the army by means of signals, and tlie other
the meteorological predictions and scientific
development of the science of meteorology.
Both of these branches are now under the
army. The death of Gen. Myer. Chief Signal
Officer, has given wide ramreto the proposition
heretofore referred to in this correspondence
to take the latter branch from the army and
give it in charge of the coast survey or the
Smithsonian Institute. This proposition is
now being worked up very extensively. The
National Association for t *e Advancement of
Science, through a very able commit
tee, is going to push its work be
fore the President and try and induce
him to recommend it in his next message to
Congress, end will urge it upon Congress even
If he does not make that recommendation.
This committee will be supported throughout
the country. All the men in the Signal Corps
are in favor of the division. They do not like
the soldiering part of the business. With the
support that is at its back it would Eeem not at
all unlikely that the work may amount to
something. Potomac.
it
Fire In a Cargo of Hay on Shipboard.
New York, September 22—Early this
morning a tire broke out in tbe main hold
of the steamer Bermuda, laden with hay.
The firemen succeeded in putting out the
flames after an hour and a half’s hard work.
The police report the loss on the steamer
at $10,000 and a like amount on the cargo.
The police reports of the loss by the fire
on the steamship Bermuda this morning are
grossly exaggerated. The damage will not
exceed $1,500.
An American Bark In Sore Distress.
Key West, Fla., September 22.—The
American batk Cariboo, from Aspinw&ll,
anchored off Tortug&s on the 14th instant in
distress, the Captain and two men having
died at sea and ail hands being sick except
the mate. The pilots put a crew on board
and are now working the vessel up here.
The old crew had been stricken with Cha-
gres fever.
Tbe Irish Catholic Benevolent Un
ion.
Wilmington, Del., September 22.—The
twelfth annual session of the Irish Catholic
Benevolent Union of the United States com
menced here this afternoon, after a street
parade of the Irish societies, in which 1,200
persons participated. There were present
over one hundred delegates from various
parts of the country.
The Georgia Mock Fair and Races.
Atlanta, Ga., September 22.—The
Georgia stock Fair and races will open at
Atlanta October 18th and continue one
week. The military reunion will take place
at the same time,and the Mystic Owls’ pro
cession is announced for Wednesday even
ing, October 20. Entries to the stake races
will close October 1st.
Destructive Freshets In Texas.
Galveston, September 22.—The News
has the following special from Uvalde:
The most damaging flood known in this
section, occurred on the 17th and 18th. The
Sabine and Neuces rivers overflowed their
banks, severely damaging the crops and
sweeping away fences, houses and stock.
A Mexican was drowned in the Sabine.”
City of
The Disabled Steamship
Chester.
Queenstown, September 22.—The steam
er City of Chester from New York for Liv
erpool, which broke her crank-shaft on the
17th inst. during a gale, and proceeded
under sail until tugs were.sent to her assist
ance, has passed Crookhaven.
Reunion of the Army of the Cum
berland.
Toledo, September 22.—The twelfth
reunion of the “Army of the Cumberland”
commenced in this city this morning, with
about five hundred members of the society
present.
Virginia Excursionists to the North.
Philadelphia, September 22.—An ex
cursion party numbering about two hun
dred and twenty-five business men, from the
Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and West Vir
ginia, arrived here last night.
Fickle in appetite, irresolute in mind, and
subject to melancholy, try Malt Bitters.
RUINED BY RILE.
THE
LATE CONTENTION—ITS
LOGIC AND ITS LA TV.
The Two Thirds Rule—Devotion to
the Barren Letter of the Daw—Vio
lation ol the Beneficial Spirit and
Unfaltlilulness to the Party—The
Bale Should Assist, Not Embarrass
Majorities—The Majority Logically
Sustained -Spirit of the Minority
and Mgulticauce of Mr. Norwood's
Candidacy.
Cor. Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Wilkes County, September 10.—I
would like, through your paper, to make
a few comments on the acts of the late
State Convention. In relation to the
Domination of candidates for State
House officers and electors, their actions
were all harmonious and patriotic. But.
as is to be regretted, their actions were
not so commendable in the selection
of a candidate for Governor. As the
two-lhirds rule wes adopted, f he minori
ty persistently held on to it iu letter, w ith-
out a due regard to i’s spirit, m ordc r
to defeat a man they did r >t want, but
whom a large majority of the conven
tion eud a much larger majority of the
people did went. They carried »his in
consistent faithfulness to the rule to such
au extent that it became, in effect, un
faithfulness to the Democratic party.
They did not intend it to work that wav,
perhaps, but it will be apt to do so. it
would be well in this connection to dis
cuss the rights of a minority aud to what
extent they can prudently and patrioti
cally go in opposing the majority of a
nominating convention. Such a con ven
tion is only an assembly of the people’s
agents, authorized to do certain things
under specific instructions, or, without
instructions, to act in their best judgment
for the common good of the party
who send them, end of the whole coun
try. In order to do this, the delegates
in the convention must keep continupily
in view the great principles of the party
whom they represent, and must hold its
organization intact and inviolate for the
sake of those principles. Instructions
cannot bind delegates suy further than
the common good of the party; neither
can uninstructed delegates do any more
than work Xor the same end. Au in
structed delegate is bound at the start
to make propositions according to in
structions, but cannot lawfully in
sist upon them any further than
the common good of the party, and
tlie country, ^cm to require; an
uninstructed delegate can propose what
ever he pleases at the start, but cannot
insist upon it any further than is com
pat*ble with the public good. So it
srems to be clear that no delegate,! in
structed or uninstructed, however con
scientious he may be, can go so far for
man or measures as to endanger the
party organization. The principles of
the party should always be held para
mount to the advancement of any indi
vidual. The will of the people should
be the main guide of a convention; for
it is the people who must finally approve
or condemn the acts of a convention. If
the members of a body differ about cer
tain men or measures, they may com
promise on something upon which they
can agree, if they choose to do so;
provided such compromise secures the
good of the country, and maintains
the principles of the party, as well as
any other plan could do. The majority
or minority, one or both, cun yield, if
they choose to do it; but circumstances
may bind one to yield more than the
other. If a majority is backed by a ma
jority, or more than a majority of the
people, the minority ought to yield. Any
other course must be prompted by some
unlawful motive. No sensible man who
acts from principle (and that is all the
motive from which aDy should act) will
go far enough under such tircuinstances
to endanger the party organization. On
the other hand, if a minority is backed
by nearly half or fully half of the peo
pie, the majority should offer a liberal
compromise to them, in order to harmon
ize the convention.
Let us see .how these rules apply to
the late State Convention. Governor
Colquitt had a large majority in that
body, and that majority was backed by
a still larger majority of the people. In
the counties which sent Colquitt dele
gates there were efforts made to send
delegates uninstructed or to instruct
them contrary to the will of the people.
Colquitt men would stay at home, know
ing the}' had the majority, and thinking
the size of it made no’ difference. In
my neighborhood five Colquitt men to
one of the opposition staid at home on
the day the delegates were appointed,
and still the meeting was more than two
to one for Colquitt. In fact, nearly
all over the State there was not enough
of the opposition in any place in
favor of one man to call them
selves by any name, but all blended to
gether under the general title of “antis.”
Under the circumstances the duty of the
minority in that convention seems to be
B lain—i.e.,if they had respect for the
•emocratic party and its principles.
That minority, composed of all the
“antis” blended together could only
muster enough to call themselves more
than one-third of the convention. And
they knew, too, that they were not
backed by as much as one-third of the
people. They should have yielded at
once to the majority, who could not af
ford to sacrifice three-fourths of the peo
ple of Georgia to gratify one-fourth. It is
undemocratic and unfaithful to true Dem
ocratic principles to refuse to co-oper
ate with an undeniable majority. A two-
thirds rule is intended to assist tLe ma
jority—not to defeat it. When the
minority found they could not get a
nomination by observing the letter of
the rule, they should have obeyed its
spirit and gone to the majority enough
to make the nomination according to the
rule. Some of them did, and honor to
them for it. Those who refused could
have meant nothing but the disruption
of the party. There was nothing to ex
cuse such uncompromising opposition to
the majority, and the minority should
not have persisted in it. It was clinging
to letter, and not spirit; it was acting
through prejudice, and not patriotism.
By this misguided action of the mi
nority, there are now two candidates for
Governor of this State, both of whom
claim to be Democrats. Let us examine
a little into the merits of each. Governor
Colquitt had nearly two thirds of the
convention, and more than two thirds of
the people at his back; and there was a
resolution declaring him the nominee
after three more unsuccessful ballots,
which resolution passed the convention,
and the three ballots were taken, the
resolution became of force, and he was
declared in effect the nominee of the par
ty. The convention then, seeing no other
business, adjourned sine die. This ad
journment was an end of the convention
to all intents and purposes. Neither all
nor any part of its members could re
solve themselves into a convention to
transact any business after that final ad
journment. Mr. Norwood was not
nominated before this adjournment; so
he cannot say his nomination was by the
convention or any portion of it, author
ized to do any act at all, or to bind any
body by any act. Any twenty or fifty
men in the town of Elberton or Bain
bridge could have met together on their
own responsibility and nominated a can
didate for Governor and bound the party
to support him, with precisely the
same authority as the few men who re
mained in the room after the convention
had adjourned could have done. Their
having been members of a defunct body
could not make them members of any
other body, and their remaining in a
room where a real body had existed
could not retain them as members of
that body when dissolved, or give the
least authority to act for anybody.
Hence, Mr. Norwood cannot be called
the nominee of any party, or of any fac
tion even, for he was not brought out by
persons who had any authority to do
such a thing.
There are some things concerning Mr.
Norwood’s candidacy I would like to
mention in this connection. Admitting
that those men who called themselves
part of the convention had any authority
to make a nomination at all, why did
they take Mr. Norwood? He never re
ceived any votes in balloting, and could
not have been one of their favorites.
Lester and Hardeman received nearly all
the votes opposed to Colquitt. Gartrell
and Warner were merely nominal. Why
did they not take Lester or Hardeman
for their candidate? They refused to unite
with the majority because they could
not get what they wanted; when they
were free from the majority they did not
take one of their favorites. Why not?
For several reasons. Lester or Hardeman
would not have accepted their nomination
on any terms. Besides, they would not
sacrifice these men, for it w’ould have
been a sacrifice under the circumstances.
Mr. Norwood had been indefinitely laid
on the table by the Legislature when they
elected Ben Hill over him for Senate..
Therefore, he was already sacrificed.and
could lose nothing by inconsistency or
defeat. Under any other circumstanci*s
he would not have consented to become
the tool of such a faction. It was about
as well to run a race with no hopes as to
lie still with no hopes. The minority
would not put one of their choice
race horses on the track, because they
wanted to save them for a more favor
able time. I have heard several Nor
wood supporters say in my presenc e (I
think rather unthoughtedly). that which
ever man was beaten in this race was
dead forever. Others say, “Anybody to
beat Colquitt.” These sayings show
that they are more concerned about the
man whom they design to beat than
about the one whom they profess to
support; that their convictions and affec
tions are more negative than positive.
How different it is with the support
ers of Governor Colquitt? They put up
their choice man—the man whose elec
tion would best maintain the honor and
principles of the party; the man whom
they knew a large majority of the people
wanted. This they had to do, in defi
ance of an envious and malicious oppo
sition. The slanderous reports circulated
against the Governor had but little
foundation, and tended rather to
strengthen him with the people. The
enemies of Governor Colquitt made a
great blunder in attacking his virtues in
discriminately with his faults. They
sneered more at his officiating in prayer
meetings and Sabbath schools than they i
did at any mistakes he made in office or
defects in his character. They
could not make “boom” enough
to suit them out of his mis
takes and defects, and hence they
were forced to increase the list by adding
his virtues too. It was this insidious
attempt of his enemies which so thor
oughly routed the people to his vindica
tion. Instead of being a disgrace for a
Governor of Georgia to profess Christi
anity, and openly proclaim himself a
friend of religion and morality, it ought
to be a disgrace not to do so. I hear
broad expressions used against Governor
Colquitt, that his administration was
weak; that it was corrupt, etc. Such
charges amount to nothing without
specifications. His accusers must show
the time, place and acts; and then let
the people judge for themselves whether
or not there is weakness or cor-
•uption in them. This broad way
of charging a heap and telliDg
none of it, looks to me to have more
weakness and corruption in it than Gov
ernor Colquitt’s administration. What
would you think, Messrs. Editors, of a
Solicitor General who would bring a
criminal into court on a charge only
that he was a very bad man. without
offering to prove a single act which tbe
culprit had committed? Such an attor
ney would see his indictment dismissed
instantly for want of definite charges.
And I am inclined to think the accusers
of Governor Colquitt will find themselves
nonsuited at the October election. With
all their charges of weakness and corrup
tion against him, I doubt whether any
of his enemies would have done as well
as he has in the same circumstances.
rights and duties of their positions;
which tmins thi m to watch and guard the
public welfaie; which makes them bold,
free and enterprising, and imbues them
with the proud feeling that government
belongs to them, and not they to govern
ment. Governor Seymour closed
by contrasting the position of the
two Presidential candidates on the
interpretation of the Constitution, and
paid, says the Herald in a report of his
speech, “a glowing tribute to General
Hancock.” Editorially, the Hera Id com
mends the t-peech for its grave and states
manlike qualities, and as one worth the
consideration of citiz-ns of both parties
—calm in tone, thoughtful in expression
and lucid in argument. It points out
the danger to which the republic is ex
posed from strained interpretations of
the Constitution, and from the revival
and adoption of the old Federal idea of
m iking the United btates a nation
with national attributes, of which the
government at Washington, clothed with
corresponding powers, shall be recogniz
ed as the sovereign representative, irre
spective of any limitations put upon its
jurisdiction by the provisions of the
Federal compact. The speech is every
way worthy of the aged statesman who
has repeatedly declined a ren< ruination
for the highest honor in the gift of the
people, content to pass his remaining
years in the calm enjoyment of a coun
try life and the simple pleasures such a
life affords.
Ireland has decreased in population
since 1365 more than a quarter of a mil
lion. and the marriages have decreased
by 6,000. In the same time the popula
tion of the United Kingdom has in-
creasd from 29.361,908 to 34,505.043.
While pauperism has decreased in Eng
land and Wales from 971 000 to 837,000,
aud in Scotland from 121.000 to 97.000,
the returns for Ireland show an increase
from 69,000 to 100,000. In criminal re
turns, Scotland, with a little more than
three millions of population, in 1865
furnished 2.3o5 convictions for serious
offenses, and in 1879, with half a million
more possible offenders. 2,090. In Ire
land, with a diminished population, the
convictions were respectively 2,661 and
2,207. Ireland is thus proportionately
far less criminally disposed—at least as
far as serious crime is concerned—
than Scotland, if we arc to judge
by the number of convictions. But,
on the other hand, out of 2,<569 per
sons committed for trial in Scotland
2.090 were convicted; while in Ireland
the proportion is 4,3651 to 2.207. This
contrast, we can hardly doubt, points to
a great evil in the political state of Ire
land. As to the other indications of
progress in civilization ii may be noted
that whereas, taking au average each in
habitant of England aud Wales received
23 letters in 1865, 37 in 1379, in Ireland
the increase is from 10 to 14; while the
average receipt of newspapers is 10 per
head for England and Wales, and only 5
for Ireland. The money in savings
banks averages about $10 50 per head in
the United Kingdom, and about *4 in
Ireland; while there can be little doubt
that a comparison of the accounts of
friendly societies and other forms of
providence would be equally unfavorable
to Ireland, in all of which are to be re
cognized the baneful influence of the
governmental oppression and repression
under which the people of Ireland have
groaned for centuries.
J. Elosby, a merchant of Bradford,
Pa., was found dead in his room at
Crook’s Hotel, Chatham street, New
York, Sunday afternoon. The appear
ance of the body, which lay upon the
bed, indicated that the man had gone to
bed in his usual way, except that the gas,
instead of being turned off had been
blown out. and a full jet was pouring
into the room. The windows were all
tightly closed, and the man bad suffocat
ed. The body was greatly swollen, and
a large quantity of blood had been shed
through the nose and mouth. Mr. Elo-
shy took the room on Friday evening,
and it is supposed he was suffocated that
night. The room had been locked con
tinuously up to Sunday, when it was
broken open.
Governor Seymour’* Speech on Cen
tralization.
On Wednesday last ex Gov. Seymour,
of New York, made a speech before the
assembled Democracy of Utica, mention
of which has been made in the News. lie
took for his text an extract from a recent
speech by -Secretary Carl Schurz, in
which the latter contended that the
simple machinery of the government—
or, in other words, the Constitution of
the United States—is no longer adapted
to the needs of the people, which re
quire that the government be invested
with more power. Gov. Seymour re
minded his hearers that these words were
not his, but those of a member of the
Cabinet, who formerly had a seat in the
Senate. “This declaration,” he said, “is
official in character. It will be so re
ceived in other countries, and will re
joice the enemies of our government,
while it mortifies the American people.”
The danger arising from the centraliza
tion of power in the hands of the Fed
eral Government he held to be the
gravest and most urgent subject involved I
in the pending Presidential contest He !
went on to say: “If the administration I
of affairs is so surrounded with difficul-
ties that there must be other qualifies- i
tions for the Presidency of the United I
States than those of intelligence, honesty j
and patriotism, and if our government !
can only be carried on by an exceptional ,
man, then, in that case, we have under- I
gone a revolution.” He contends that
the fault does not lie in the structure of
government, which is adequate for all
honest purposes, but if there be a defect I
anywhere, it must be in the men who
administer it After sketching the dis .
tribution of power, as provided in the
Constitution, Governor Seymour held
that ’when questions arise as to the au
thority of the General Government
they should be decided by the letter of •
the law; or, if the problems cannot 1
so be solved, they should be turned !
over to the States, if they are competent j
to deal with them. “Instead of this rule
we find a disposition, to disregard its spir- I
it, and, if possible, to torture its lan
guage in ways to give power Vo Congress
which is hurtful to the people, injurious
to the morals of the legislators and cor
rupting officials. It is the methods of
those who have controlled public affairs,
and not the Constitution of the United
States, that have caused the dangers
which threaten us.” He cited General
Garfield as expressing his joy that Con
gress had enlarged its jurisdiction, and
“is glad,” to U9e his own phrase, “that
it gravitates toward more power.” How
this power is sought for by indirection
and by perverting the meaning of the
Constitution the Governor proceeded
to show. lie referred, among other
things, to the frequent use made
by the ltepublican leaders of the
word “nation.” There is some
thing,” he said, “in the words ‘United
States,’ ‘the Union,’ ‘the General Gov
ernment,’ which is in conflict with the
purposes of Mr. Garfield and his friends.
They do not tell us distinctly what they
aim at, but we find that all those who
seek for more jurisdiction use the term
nation or nationality whenever they have
occasion to speak of the jurisdiction at
Washineton. We always find that the
men who use the word—and many, like
Senator Blaine, love to call it a sovereign
nation—are in favor of a different con
struction of the Constitution than has
heretofore prevailed." He charged that
the purposes of the Republican leaders
are in conflict with the Constitution, and
that they endanger the peace, the order
and the safety of the Union. Admit
ting that many fair minded men receive
the terms “nation” and “national”
with favor, under the vague
idea that they will give more
strength to the General Government and
security to the Union, he admonishes
them in a noble peroration that “It is a
fatal error to suppose that the strength
of a government grows out of the
amount and not the beneficence of its
power. There is truth in the maxim
that the government is best which gov
erns best—that which gives the largest
measure of freedom, rights of conscience,
of persons and of property. That
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