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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TH URS DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27. 1877.
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THU118DAY BEPTEMBEU 27, 1877.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION!
AND MOKE THAN
TWICE THE LARGEST
AGGREGATE CIRCULATION!
Hfenokb baa written to Washington to
say bo will be in bis seat when Congress
meets.
A Gebman oritio is of the opinion that
the ltnssians have an army of lions led by
asses. This is hard npon the Grand
Dnkes, if not npon the Czar himself.
Mb. MontoiiMEnr Sears, the wealthy
yonng Bistonian, who was married tbe
other day to Miss Choate, gave his bride
a wedding present of a residence eosting
$110,000. He is only worth seven million
and bis other name is Josbna.
Hon. A. H. Stephens favors Mr. Ban-
dall for Bpeakor. Ho thinks there will
be no difllonlty in organizing the llonse
Democratically. He is also of opinion
that the coming session will bo the most
important in the history of this oonntry.
Hev. Henry Hersey, agod eighty-one
years, bang himself at Uingham, Mass.,
on the 23d. In Jnly last his bouse was
entered by masked burglars, who inflicted
sovere injuries npon him, and it is sup
posed 'hat ho bad never recovered from
tbe shook.
The New York Hun oalled the Mayor
of Louisville a toady because he oalled
the President “your Excellency." There
upon tbo Louisville Commercial prints a
letter written by Charles A. Dana, Janu
ary 20, 1800, in which tbe President is
addressed as “bis Exoollonoy.”
Strenuous efforts nro now being made to
consolidate the friends of the Texas Pacific
railroad in asking aid from Congress for
its construction. A systematic plan of
operation is matnred, into wbiob enters
tho subject of the election of a Speaker
of tbe Houso favorable to the projeot.
In tho doatb of Mr. It. M. Davis, which
ooonrred recently in tho oountry, Now
Orleans has lost one of its most valued
and esteemed citizens. He was formerly
. President of tho Bank of Louisiana, and
afterwards President of tho Peoples' Bank
and tho Peoples' Insurance Company.
Henry Meioos committed forgories in
California to tbe amount of $1,000,000,
and fled the State. The Legislature en
deavored to “whitewash" him by passing
an act of oblivion, but tho Govornor veto
ed it. Mr. Moiggs went to Peru and got
a Government contract tboro, which, it is
said, will make him enormously rich. As
a millionaire, he will bo wolcomod back
to California.
Secretary Thompson compliments
ltuboson's management of tho navy by
saying: “I found contracts to tho amount
of over two million dollars which had
beon made and oxocnted between March
4th and 10th—one largo ouo tli* very day
heforo I wont into oflloe. Homo of these
were fraudulent on the ip face.” That’s a
capital aortiflonte of character for Kobe-
son to prosont with his olaim for tbe
Jersoy Governorship.
A New Yore Herald apodal gays an ap
propriation of $00,000 will be asked of
Congross to mako a preliminary survey
for a railway from the ltepublio of Libe
ria eastward one or two thousand miles
into tho intorior of tho rioh and populons
Bondnn, and to report upon the oountry,
its population, olimnte, productions and
tho practicability of snoh road, when, if
favorable, efforts will be made with a view
of extending colonization, oommerco and
civilization ovor tbe vast interior.
A NEW CLASS or STWHINU.
In Linooln and the adjoining oonntiea
in Mississippi, a strike has commenced,
cot for highor wages but lower prices.
The farmers have combinod against the
merchants. Their complaint Is tbe latter
charge them fifty per oent. profit on the
supplies advanoed on crops, and this is
exorbitant. They insist, too, that a pound
of cotton abonltf bny a pound of bacon,
and on this basis demand fifteen cents
for their cotton and absolutely refuse a
lower rate. The merohants olaim they
oharge their customers no higher percent
age than tbe amount settled npon at the
beginning of the year by both parties—
tnat is, that tbe supplies should be furn
ished on twelve months’ credit. They say
that it oosts them twenty-five per oent. on
their investment to do business on a
oredit; that their losses on cotton taken
in settlement is fully ten per cent.; so
that even the fifty per oent. advance on
tbe priee of goods furnished given them
only fift^n per oent. net profit, which is
not exorbitant. Tbns the .two parties
make the statements. The planters do
not believe tbe business men, bo they
have agreed on a strike. They already
have a strong combination and it is
growing.
This is a novel way of doing things and
smacks strongly of repudiation, it is
oertainly a new mode to pay old debts.
The planters have commenced tbe wrong
way. Tbe only remedy is to become
independent of tho merohants as regards
tho neoessaries of life. The planters
have a real grievance. The fault is in
the system. Instead of tbe merchants
oarrying tbe planters, tbe planters should
carry tb$mselveB. They went into the
business with eyes open. This plan of
advances will eventually ruin any agrioul
lural country, and by it* thousands who
begun with wealth just after tbe revolu
tion are now reduced to poverty. In a
country like our's there should be no snob
thing as advancing the necessaries of life,
when all that is required can be so easily
secured from tbe soil. Providence has
lavished bounties on this fair land of
ours, and if the planting community de
sire to rid themselves of enormous obli
gations to merchants, they must cease
making them and follow the dictates of
oommon prudenoe, and take advantage of
the blessings of climate and soil which a
beneficent Hoaven has vouobsafod to all
in our Honthland. Adopting the Missis
sippi plan will destroy all oredit, and then
oven the nll-ootton theorists will be oom-.
polled to farm, and not altogether plant.
Why, ono of the most wonderful phenom
ena in the world is to find Southern plan
ters buying tonH of Northern hay, while
the heavy and grievous taBk the whole
yoar round is to keep the fields clear of
grass. In this section the ideas of thous
ands have been obanged from sheer ne
cessity, and more from an enlightened
view, and the oonntry is advancing in
prosperity.
In all such combinations the idea of
“put yourself in his plaoe" is good.
Would not the planter do as the merchant,
and tbe merchant as the planter, if posi
tions were relatively changed 7
Tut Israelites in England arc collecting
subscriptions in aid of their brethren in
Bulgaria, who have been robbed and op
pressed by tho llussians. They coll on
Jews all over tho world for assistance,
and particularly on the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations. Tho Jews, (100,-
000 strong in Hungary, have already re
sponded to the appeal. In ltussia tho
persecution of the Israelites is continued
with noarly nil its anoieut cruelty. They
are not permitted to reside in many of
the greatest cities. Kiof and Novgorod,
as well ns Moscow, are forbidden to them,
and evon iu tho rural districts they are
burdened with multiform exactions.
One of those gontlemon who welcomed
the President to Chattanooga was a col
ored clorgyman, who made a speeob
which contained metaphors of a very sur
prising character. Mr. Milton, the
preaoher in question, said: “Our ooun
try has gone through long years of anxie
ty, perplexity, and unrest, causing tho
great body of the nation, as it wore, to
bleed Bt overy pore, her great heart at
times (o nearly uuspeud its pulsations,
ami Iho body to despair of life; but ‘the
atone wbieh tbe builders rejeoted has bo-
oomo tbo head of tho corner.' That
stone, polishod with divine excellence,
took tbe ehapo of the Amorioan sun, and
rose on the fourth day of March last as
the ehiof executive of the nation, and
began, while yet just above the horizon,
to shed its rays over this vast domain. ”
It is aunounood that the Pope has made
Cardinal Pecei Oamerlemgo, a position
which he deolined some weeks ago. The
dnty of the Camerlengo is to assemble the
Cardinals in ounolave, aud to act during
tho ton days intervening between the
Pope's desth and tbe Pontifical election.
The office of Carlcmengo has been vacant
Rinco the death of Cardinal De Angelis in
July, and Cardinal Pecoi, on being offer
ed tho place, declined through fear that
ha would have to assume the responsi
bility of assembling the oonolave before
the time required by law, as the desire of
the Papal authorities ia to eloot a suooess-
or to Pius IX. immediately after his
death, through fear of foreign interfer
ence. A special bill has, however, been
recently prepared giviug the Camerlengo
the necessary authority, and CardiDal
Peooi will now perform iho important
duly of suporiutonding the Papal election
ahould Pius die before he does.
DEATH Ol' A LLLEHHATF.n AN
TKONOniER.
Le Verrier, Urhain Jean Joseph, the
distinguished French astronomer died in
Paris last Bnnday after a long illness. He
was (1C years of age. Aftor gradnating at
tbe Polytechnic school he entered the
Government Tobaooo Bureau in order to
romain in PariB, and have leisure and fn
cilitios for the study of science. He at
first devoted himself to chemistry, bnt
soon yielded to his preference for mathe
matioB. Obtaining a small post in the
Polytoehnio Holiool, he speedily beosmo
nn authority on speculative astronomy.
His greatest triumph was, perhaps, the
diBoovery of tho planet Neptune whioh
was perfected in 1847. After constant
observations on the perturbations of the
course of the plsuet Uranus, he ascribed
it to tbo action of a greater end more die.
tant planet, and after a series
of calonlations indicated where
the novtaplanet would bo found iu the
heaveus on Jannary 1, 1847. Tbe planet
was found in (he place calculated by
Gaile, a German, who bad a large lele-
scopo. At fitst it wbr named LeVerrier,
but subsequently, at his request, Neptune.
A very singular fnot exists in regard to the
disoovory of Neptune. Mr. Adams, the
oelebrated English astronomer, by a dif
ferent method ol calculation fixed the
planet almost simultaneously with Le-
Verrior—tho one philosopher being in
France, the other in England, aud neither
having the slightheat information of the
studies of the other. It waa first seen
through a telesoope acoordiug to LeVer-
rier’s instruction. Mr. Adam's claim has
been, however, as fully substantiated
In the last year LeVerrier ptedioied
a planet between Meroury and tbe
sun, and asked that it be looked
for at fixed datea and hours. Tbe
astronomere have been nnable to find it.
He succeeded M. Arago in the Observa
tory of Paris in 1854, and held that office
nntil 1870, when be waa removed beoause
of bis arrogaooe towards the astronomioal
staff who, on this aooaant, were with
drawing. Iu 1873 he was restored to the
position by M. Thiers in accordance with
a request of a majority of tbe aatrono
mors. In the Legislative Assembly he
was a Senator for a considerable period,
and did muoh to advanoe the oause of ed
uoation in Frauoe. He waa eleoted
member of the Academy of Hcienoes in
184fi, and in 18(13 promoted Grand Offioer
of tho Legion of HoDor. His many works
aud valuable tables are highly esteemed
by soientlsts, among whose first raDks he
was counted.
HAYES AND THE NEW YORK KE-
PUHMCANS.
It baa been frequently assertod tha
Senator Conkling would support that
wbieh Mr. Ilayos calls his polioy, but is
really the adoption of Democratic prinoi
pies by the de facto Administration, and
as often that be would oppose it.
He is the reoognized leader of tho Itepub-
lieans of New York, yet in the ltoeheater
eonvontion yesterday, he wns not allowed
to rule without strong opposition. Tho
body must have been very tnrbulont at
times, judging from the outlines tele
graphed. Taking what was said and
done, it is fair to count Mr. Oonkling
in opposition to tbe National Adminis
tration. In the resolutiona written by
him be declares open war against
tbe Civil Service Iteform intro
duced by Mr. Hayes. Conkling
not willing for supporters of himself in
tbe New York oustom house and other
places should lose anything by their devo
tion. It cannot now be doubted that
Conkling has oonnseled Cornell and tbe
rest “to stick." They must lie suspended
for they will not resign. If Mr. Hayes
does not back down, “the gentleman with
tbe turkey gobbler strut,” as Blaine de
scribed IConkling, will regard himsolf as
master .of the situation aud blow and blus
ter like a porpoise. If Mr. Hayes be firm,
and puts them out, Conkling will tear off
that forehead blonde eurl in tbo deeper-
ateness of rage. His anger will, however,
be powerless, for tho Democrats and In
dependents, who approve the polioy, will
oontrol tbe Senate.
The speech of Chairman Platt deoiares
fight against Mr. Hayes.
The tenpr of the dispatches Bhows that
Mr. Hayes’ Civil Servioe Iteform is con
demned by Conkling & Co., and the Con
vention will refuse to eudorso his admin
istration, ss proposed by George William
Curtis. Coukling controls, and he does
not love Evarls, nor Evsris him. Tbe
brethren ure not dwelling together in
unity.
All this will help the Democrats.
AIIOI.IN1IINU THE PRESIDENCY,
A Washington speoial to the Now York
Herald says it ia reported at tbo head
quarters iu that oity of those who who are
Booking to abolish the Presidency that
sixty-four petitions, in as many oitieB and
towna are receiving numerous signatures,
and will be presented to Congress. These
petitions ask that the Constitution shall
be so amended that the Government may
be placed in the bands of a Council of
State, composed of the heads of depart
ments, who shall be elected by Congress.
That would indeed be a lovely Govern
ment. Instead of removing the present
evils, it wonld add additional difficulties.
The administration would be a cumbrous
affair. There moat be a head to every,
thing, and aooording to this newfangled
idea, which the Herald is endeavoring to
give some importance, we would have a
dozen leaders, all fighting for the mas
tery. Napoleon the Great onoe threat
ened the Frenoh Directory with his resig.
nation in preference to dividing his oom-
mand, on tho ground that “one bad gen
eral is better than two good oneB." We
are inolined to doubt whether there be
vitality in any Bnoh a proposition for tbe
names of no leading men are connected
with it. “Bather bear those ills we have,
than fly to those that we know not of."
HILL AT THE FEAST.
The Senator’s Speech et the Heyee’
Banquet In Atlantn.
TUK CONSTITUTION.
ITS COMPREHENSIVENESS, SIMPLICITY, AND
ADAPTABILITY TO EVEBT CHANGE OF
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
From the Constitution.]
At tho banquot given to President
Hayes and party an Saturday afternoon at
tho Markham House, Senator Ben Hill was
the last speaker, responding to the toast:
“The Constitution—The North Star in
our political horizon.” ...
His speech created somewhat of a sen
sation, and has been mnoh commented
upon. It was as follows:
SENATOR H'LL'b SPEECH.
Mr. President: It seems to me to be
my fortune, of late years, to agree with
what I hear from onr President, but in
nothing thst he has said so fully as that I
am not eapable of making an after dinner
speeoh. You all know that I never made
one that waa fit to be heard, and I presume
that you put me at the heel of tbe pro
gramme on that account, and that yon
expected the hour to be exhausted, and
therefore I wouldn’t attempt to make a
speeoh. [Laughter.] It will be bnt a
abort time before our friende will have to
go to a plaoe where ladies and gentlemen
are expecting to meet them, and, there
fore I shall say but a very few words.
Tbe book whioh we oall “the
good Book,” says that “out of the foll-
The Sea Serpent has been again beard
from. A Scottish bark, whioh has just
arrived, reports that in mid oeean she
passed within ten foot of him, and that
he was thirty-five feet long and of a dull
reddish oolor. It is really diffionlt to see
why he should be fooling away bis time
so many miles from land, where he oan
be of no possible servioe to any one. No
dooent serpent wonld be guilty of any
snoh folly, and he oertainly eannot be in
any way eouuected with the exceedingly
thoughtful reptile who so opportunely
made bis appearance on the New England
ooaat a few months ago for the purpose
of advertising tbe watering- plaoe hotels.
J. 8. Morton, ex -President of the West
Philadelphia PaBBonger llailway Compa
ny, who is direotly implicated in the over
issue of stbek of the concern to tbe ex
tent of over $1,000,000, is a very candid
man for one in bis plight. He admits
tho rasoality, and deelaros he has no in
teution of committing suioido, like lial.
ston, of San Francisoo. He states thst
he has made nothing out of the steal, but
has been doing the soaly business for tbe
sole benefit of persistent friends. His
broker, however, has declared that Mor
ton was a very wioked man, who had
grossly deceived him. Morten hithorto,
has been regarded as among the moBt
trusted citizens of Philadelphia.
An Impromptu Duel.
From the Ricbmaotl State.}
Yesterday evening about 4 o’olook, an
Impromptu duel was fought in the store
of Kicbard Holloran, corner of Twenty,
fourth snd Main streets, between JameB
W. Hsllorsn and William Estres, result
ing in Holloran 'a reoeiving a pistol ball iu
his head. Sergeant Ben Howard, being
Informed of the affair, arrested Estres on
Main street, near Twenty-seoond, and
looked him np in the First police station,
A few dBys ago Kichard Holloran or
dered Estres oat of his store, and yester-
day evening Estres went back there and
demanded satisfaction.
James Holloran, the son, ssid that his
father was not in, bat he wonld tske his
plaoe and give him what satiafaction he
wanted, at the Barne time banded out two
pistols aud requested Estres to select one
The pistol was selected. Each took his
position and Estres fired first, the ball
striking Holloran on the right sido of tbe
head and passing round to the back, em
bedding Itself deep into tbe skull.
Dr. Kiddell and tins two ambnlanoe snr
peons Btioceeded ini witting the ball ont,
Dr. ltiddeil informed Justice White thst
tbe wound was a serious one, but that by
careful attention Holloran wonld be ont
in a few days.
Estres was committed to jail.
I'LESU COLORED.
SHE WANTED BTOCKINGS 'CORDING TO WHITE
FOLKS’ GRADE.
Charlotte Observer.]
She was a very dark skinned lady, and
for all the world knows to the contrary,
the blood of one thousand African princes
might have ooursed its way through her
veins. She walked graoefnlly into a oity
dry goods store and asked for flesh-color
ed stockings. The young man bowed,
smiled, and went to work looking over the
atook in trade. Finally he brought forth
the box, took the top off and displayed
lot of stockings as black ss tho hinges of
midnight, which he warranted to be all
wool. The colored lady looked at him,and
with the flreB of liberty beaming out
both eyes, abe exclaimed, “Look here,
young man, what do yon mean !" Tbe
olerk responded, “business, madam "
“Do yon eall dem flesh colored stockings?
asked tbe female customer. “Well, they
may be a shade or two of eolor, bnt ah,
bnt sh 1 I should judge from your oom
plexion that they are about the things,'
said the olerk. “Look here, young man,
I want yon to understand dat when I bays
flesh oolored stockings, I bays ’em like
white lady, and I want yon to understand
fudder, sir, dat yon am not de judge of dia
oase. Pat dam things back and give me
someatookings aooording tode whitefolks'
grade." It was not long before she left
tho store satisfied.
ness of the heart the month apeaketh.
There is nothing of human devioe, or
origin, or manufacture, that ao fills my
heart as tbe Constitution of the United
States. In my judgment the formation
of that Constitution was the grandest era
all political history. Nor do I believe
there iB one instrnment of human fram
ing in whose preservation is wrapped np
bo mnoh of human happiness, and in
whose destruotioD is involved so mnoh of
human misery. These are sinoere, heart
felt conviotionB, and they are oonvictions
that have oalled from me sentiments of
respeot for that Constitution before the
war, daring the war, and ainoe the war.
have sometimes thought that Provi
dence had reserved this Western conti
nent for a grander development of man
kind, and, diBgnsted with tbe tyrannies
and wrongs of a thousand shapes of the old
conntiy, onr forefathers had traveled
hither to this new eontinent, under Di
vine gnidatioe, to establish a new theory
and a new syBtem of government and of
progress, greater than the old world had
evej^known. I have been tempted to be
lieve that the formation of this Constitn
tion was iaspired for the express purpose
of adapting to this new continent and
new people a system of government best
adapted to their development and pro
gress. There is nothing in any
angnsge so grand; and yet s.
simple and also so complioated
I have Been people who oonld repeat every
line in it and yet who did not understand
single provision in it, and then I have
seen others who oonld not repeat a line, of
it and yet knew and understood the whole
of it. The very formation of it, I repeat,
was singular. It was almost inspiration,
Yon oau take history and you oan find
nowhere, in any work, a spirit so akin to
tho Divino, so absolutely unselfish, so ab
solutely devoted to the devising of a sys
tem of government adapted to the people
whom they represented as characterized
the framers of this instrument. I oannot
tell you all abont tbe spirit manifested by
them, but I wish I oonld impress upon
every mind in Amerioa that the framers
of this Coustitution were high enough,
and grand enough, true enough and patri-
otio enough, and intelligent enough to
understand that in a oonntry of anoh di
verse interests and habit of thought no
people could live together exoept in
spirit of mutnal concession and compro
mise. Why, sir, I have often heard peo
pie say that they were opposed to com
promise—they never concede anything.
Why, Washington and every person en
gaged in the formation of that document,
had that graDd spirit of oonoeasion, or
the Constitution oonld never have been
framed. Sir, there are divers theories
expressed as to the aeoretof your success.
Ask one man and he will say it ia beoanse
you removed the troops from South Caro-
lina and Louisiana; some will say one thin;
and some another, but pardon me if
say that your euecess ia attributable to
tho foot that you and your Cabinet have
learned to respeot and execute the consti
tution in the Bpirit in whioh it was made,
Applause.] You say that yon know “no
Xortb, no Sonth, no East and no West,"
and those are beantifnl words in one
sense of their application, bnt there is
North and there is a Sonth, and eaoh has
its peculiarities of intereata, of popnlation
and habits of tbonght; and there is an
East and a West, eaoh also with its peon,
hnrities, and we cannot ignore the fact.
Their peculiarities differ, their theories
differ, their reasonings differ, their edu
eations differ; bnt this beantifnl spirit of
concession—honorable, mutnal concession
—which made onr fathers so grandly wise
and so great snd noble, will make ns as
one. It is by that spirit thst yon are ex
pected to bring this North snd 8onlh, Ibis
East and West, into one beantifnl, bar-
monions whole in support of our oommon
oonstitntion. [ Applause. J And at the
risk, perhaps, of provoking criticism or
running foal of some who have bad their
sentiments whetted to an unnsnal degree
by reason of onr seotionsl controversies,
I say here and I am willing to be respon
sible for it, that no man ia fit to adminia
ter this government exoept one who feels
baptized in tbe glorious spirit in which
that constitution waa framed. [Ap-
.] And I say, furthermore, that
yon thiuk the Presidency of this oonntry
is a wonderfully diffionlt task. In many
respects it is. But I say that any gen
tleman, who is really patriotio, and
wbo understands the Oonstitntion of the
oountry, and wbo is baptised in that spirit
whioh framed it, oannot fail to give ns an
administration whioh will promote the
prosperity and happiness of the oonntry.
But I can Bay hotbing more upon that
subject. I have heard my friend over
here (Gov. Brown) and others, make able
arguments to prove that the Oonstitntion
was a compaot. Of coarse all government
in America ia founded on agreement, bnt
thst is not the question. What did it
result in ? One says a league, another
says a nation. Bnt why not simply take
the Constitntion itself ? Why diaenss what
is—whether a league or federation or
nation 7 The great neoesaity that urged
our forefathers to make tbe Constitution
was to get rid of a league. Then why
make this diBOnssion 7 Why not take
the language of the Constitution itself
and say it was formed in order thst we
might have a more perfeot union 7 I say
let us solve tbe question by the language
of tbe Constitution. It says that it is a
oonstitntion—I do not care whether yon
oall it a compaot, whether yon oall it
league—ibis thing whioh ia named a eon
stitution declares that this Constitntion
and laws passed in pnrananoe thereof
shall be the snpreme law of tbe land
The rose owes not its fragranoe to its
oatne. Now, tell me what is tbe snpreme
law of the land 7 If this is the snpreme
law of the land ia there anything more
supreme 7 Why make a controversy abont
a name? I have always thongbt—for I have
studied it more than any other hnman snb-
ject—that we have had mnoh idle contro
versy on these subjects, and out history
furnishes many illaatnUona of how idle
onr controversies have been. Will you
pardon me for mentioning two important
ins lances of this kind.
We of the South have been aoonatomed
think that the great danger to tho,
conn try from tbe ltepabiioan party was a
tendency to centralism—centralized gov
ernment—by which the States were to bo
obliterated, aud the government made
into one absolute, unlimited nation. I
say wo have taught our people to feat this
great evil. I taught it, and we all hon
estly believed it. The faot I state how
ever, is this : that the decision of tbe
eight Kepnblicans upon the electoral com
mission embodies the strongest declara
tions of State sovereignty that have ever
been made in onr history. I will not ex
oept anything fonnd in the writings of
Jefferson or Calhoun. It is so strong an
assertion of the doctrine of State sover
eignty and independence that even Demo
crats, who had almost been on that line,
seemed stnnned and ready to fall back.
They were not willing to follow their own
dootrines to enah an exoesa. I am not
discussing the oorreatnesa or, the motive
of this deoision. I am only stating a re
markable faot in our history. Another
thiDg : the Northern people have been
taught for ten yean to believe thatif the
Demoorats were in power they would be
controlled by the Bouthern people, and
that these were only rebels, and if they
onoe got Into power they would seek tbe
tiret opportunity to harry the oonntry into
a oivil war, and overthrow the Govern
ment. And I think I was held
np ss one of the most dangerous of that
class. Yet I saw the test oome last win
ter, when, with doors closed and windows
barred, only a few over a hundred spirits
gathered together to determine what to
do in that great emergency. It ie liter
ally trne that a oivil war Btood right be
fore onr faoes, and it was in the power of
those derided Confederates to say whether
we shonld have war or not, in this coun
try. These men stepped forward snd
said “No! we will have peaoe! No man
and no party is worth a oivil war!" [Ap
plause.] And why not have peaoe? If
yon had told onr Northern friends twelve
monthB ago that forty Confederates wonld
have the power to say whether the repub
lic shonld live or die—have peaoe or war
—they wonld have langhed at your folly
or trembled for the result. And if you
had been told twelve months ago that
eight distinguished Kepnblicaus wonld
make an assertion under oath in favor of
Btate sovereignty and independence
stronger than any by Oalhonn or Jeffer
son, yon would have mocked your in
former as erratie and unreliable. But
these are facts in onr history and it seems
there is a Providence that takes oare of
Who would have believed one year
ngo that Georgia, with 80,000 Demoeratio
majority would now be' giviug Buob a
warm welcome as this to a Ilepublioan
President; or that yon and I wonld
be suspecting that a Ilepublioan
President waa modelling bis admin
istration on that of Washington? Or that
I, a Democrat oonld take a liepnblioan
President—with a heart full of Binoerity
—by tbe baud and say, “God bless yon,
sir?" [Applause.] Yet these are things
transpiring before us every day. These
are tbiugs which give us au augury of a
grand future. There have been times in
the dark days when my heart almost des
paired or my country. I never went into
polities except to resist what I believed a
coming revolution, and I have oontinued
in politios only to aid, as best I oonld, in
arresting a revolution that seemed to
threaten utter destruction of our whole Con
stitution and our Constitutional syBtem.
I am free to say that I have been a hap
pier man for the last six months than in
any six mouths of my life. I look abovo
men aud parties and I feel that BomethiDg
glorious aud skin to a divine power is now
ifting us aud our whole oountry from tbe
slough of despond and putting us ou the
Mount of Hope. [Applause.] So fat
from haviDg fears that the revolution will
never end, I know it is ended. 8o far
from fearing that a revelation will sweep
away and destroy this grand con
stitutional system iu whioh I
believe is wrapped up the
happiness of so many millions, I believe
it is upon a firmer basis to-day than in
1787, when it was mode. Take tho Con
stitution as it is as amended, as it stands,
and I believe, thore are fewer oases of
dispute, less grounds of tronble and less
reason of difference, and less possibility
for collision of arms iu this country than
ever before. We of the South are thinking
better of the North, and the North is
thinking better of the Booth, and tbe
time is rapidly coming when the oonntry
will rise up as one man and say: Ia it pos
sible this people went to the war? And
they will answer tbe war enme solely be
oause tbe North and the Booth, through
their leaders, forgot and abandoned the
Bpirit in which tbe Constitution was made.
Civil wars oan never happen if we will
stand by tbe Constitntion. This toast is
right. Tbe Constitution is tbe fixed star
of onr political heavens. May it shine on
and forever, and when yon are gone to
your graves, and your ohildren have gone
to their graves, and while generations of
yonr descendants shall oome and go, may
they see the star of the Constitution still
brightly Bhining, and peace, prosperity
and glory erowning the oonntry from one
end to the other. [Great applause.]
SMITH & MURPHY,
COLTJM U U S
Oity Carriage orks,
Are prepared to
do all Unde of
work that pertain
to the Carriage
business. In t h e
best style. W e
Gaurantee oar
work to be as
cheap and lasting
and have as fine
finish as can be se
cured at any Man
ufactory in t h a
State or elsewhere.
Coma to see us. and get the best bargain ever secured.
[8Op10 ri2tawfrw6m]
CLOTHING.
New Fall db Winter
CLOTHING!
HOFFLIN & BRO.,
@8 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.,
Have Just Received one of the Largest Stocks of
Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ Clothing
EVER DROUGHT TO COLUMBUS, WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT UN
PRECEDENTED LOW PRl CES.
Men’s Suits from $5 to $35; Boys’ Suits from $2 to $18;
Men’s and Boys’ HATS from 50 cts. to $5.
* Our Excelsior Unlaundrled Shirt, all finished, the best
in the market, for SI-OO. Business and Dress Suits
made to order, and satisfaction gauranteed.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST.
LOOK.! LOOK!!
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Don She Goes !—Card Mpagh $1.50 per Don!
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Williams’ Photograph Gallery in Full Blast.
taking PHOTOGRAPHS of every style, and having sooured able assistance, will from
this day reduce every style of Ploturoa to HALF THE PRICE CHARGED AT ANY GALLERY
IN THIS CITY, and warranting as good work as taken by any one. We koepwell posted lo all
Improvements. Our vkw stylsb now being Introduced cannot be excelled, and are only taken
at this Gallery, and at prioeB lower than cun uo had at any place North or South.
Copying and making large Pictures from old Pictures, Coloring, Kotouohing and Improving
old or new Ploturos. We have a special Artist for such work'only, making it a more gucoena
than before. Our sucoeas In taking Pictures of children is known to thousands.
We take every style or size known to Photography, regardless of oloudy weather.
We respectfully invite you to oall at our Gallery and examine specimens and prloes.
4sjr Over Carter’* Drug Store., octaa eodfcwly
A CARD.
To all who arc suHerlng from the errors and
Indlsorotions of youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, loss of manhood, Ao., 1 will send you a
reoelpt that will euro you, FREE OF
OHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary In South Amerioa. Send a
self-addressed envelope to the Rev. Jobbfh T-
Ikmav, Station D., Bible House, New York City
The Public Schools
WILL RESUME EXERCISES
On Next Monday, Oct. 1st
tho Boy8 who were graduated In
tho (Irammer Department last
June will remain at the Boys r
OEO. M. DEWS, Sup’t.
sep2T td
FALL AND WINTER
CLOTHINC!
AT
OOIiUMBUB
CLOTHING MANUFACTORY
READY-MADE OR MADE TO MEASURE,
At short notice, of SUPERIOR FIT AND FIN
ISH. All Goods wull BuauRK before they are
made up.
JtSf Persons bringing in Goods to be made
up will be accommodated promptly and at
Xo«e Kate*. C. J. PEACOCK*
au’JOtf 60 Bread lit.
STOVES AND TIN WARE.
W. H. ROB ARTS & CO.
ARE OFFERINC THE LARGEST
AKTD MOST
BTOOS
COMPLETE
STOVtS, TfN-WARE AND°H0USE FURNISHING GOODS
At Prices Cheaper than Ever !
They Have Just Received an Extensive Line of
Ice-Cream Freezers Fluting Machines, Reticules & Willow Baskets
■WROOFING, GUTTERING and all classes of Tin-Work done to Order.
ogWTtaodfcwtf
DRY COODS.
AT COST! AT COST!
—- — :0:
We will sell our entire stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER
DRESS GOODS
AT AND BELOW COST FOB CASH.
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Now is the Time to Buy
As we are determined to dispose of them.
*3* Prices on all other Coods guaranteed.
myi dfcwtf BLANCHARD & HILL.
GROCERIES.
A. Rl. ALLEN, President.
O. S. JORDAN, Treasurer.
PIONEER STORES.
CHARTERED CAPITAL
$50,000.
W- F. TICNER, Dentist.
Ovkb Mason’8 Damn Storb, j
RUST PROOF OATS!
1,000 Bushels
J. H. Bass’ Rust-Proof Oats-
Also, 100 N. 0. Empty SYRUP BARRELS,
For Sale at I, JOSEPH’S
sepia dim WholM.I. Orooery Store.
Ulll.ll ■ . ATI'. 1, M’ AT.'HIM. Clii-Hp-
$3!
Pioneer Building, Front Street, opposite E. & P. Mills.
Two New Stores Full of New Goods I
AGENTS OF CHEWACLA LIME CO.,
AND
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in General Merchandise.
Grocery Department.
Dry Coods Department.
Crockery of Every Style-
Clothing In Endless Variety.
Boots and Shoes, specially made for us.
Everything new. Everything bought for cash. Everything sold close. The cele
brated CHEWACLA LIME, by oar load, barrel or bushel. All retail pnrohaaea de
livered in Brownsville, Girard, lloee Hill, Wynnton and the oity.
A. M. ALLEN, late Allen, Preer & Illges; OSCAU 8. JOHDAN, late aaleaman
Engladbd Phenix; THOS. CHAPMAN, late Chapman & Verstille ; WM. OOOPEB,
atw groo er, will be happy to see yon. aug2!l dtf
THE CENTENNIAL STORES
HAVE JUST RECEIVED 1,000 BUSHELS
CENUINE RUST-PROOF OATS!
W. A. SWIFT,
deeit eodfcwiy Proprietor.