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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FOR THE WEEK ESDES'G TUESDAY, DE' tMBER21, 1ST5.
No. 27, Volume VIII
fumiosi for tire rrpe»l of the check
Hump tu are pouring into coogrei*
Mr. lUridall prr tented a long one on
Tuesday.
No l ean than eight different bin* wee
Introduced ia the house on Tuesday
repeal the resumption act. The feeling
among the democratic members ia ad
mitted to lie largely in favrr of the re
peal of the oppressive set.
Tint Athena Watchuan luggeata
tu of one dollar on one dog to etch
head of a family, and (ire dollars par
head for all over that number. Any
man still lie willing to pay one dollar on
a good dog, but no one will pay (Ire do!
lari for the t ririlege of keeping a wort
It as one ; 2__^
To the great disgust of Chicago and
several other wes ern cities, Dr. Linder
man has recommended Indianapolis, the
home of Morton, for the location of the
now western mint If its C'-insgc is to be
confined to silver, but if gold and silver
arc to be coined then he recommends St.
I<ouia. Morton ia still the power behind
the throne, and the new money mill will
probably be erected In bis town
Tm: election in the forty second sen
atorial district to till the vacancy occa
sioned by Mr. Wofford's resignation
at one sided ns a jug bundle. Col.
Cooper hud no opposition, and was uaun
linoualy elected aa fur ai heard from
Kighly reven votes were polled at Home
—all one way. The district ia fortunate
In securing so good a man to fill the v»
caacy.
Hosik Bulletin: We saw a few days
ago a family returning frjm Texas to
their old home—glorious old Georgia
They left I’olk couuly to go to Texas,
then worth several thousands; they left
Texas after five years of suffering and
hard work, with barely money enough
to get them buck to Polk. Take her up
rne aide and down the other, Gcorgi
ran't he bent.
Tin: steamer Dispatch succeeded last
week In reaching Talking Itock creek in
Gilmer county, the farthest point up the
CiosawaUcv that a steamer has ever
turned a wheel. The good efToelaof the
government work on the rivers in upper
Georgia begin to be apparent. The
money was judiciously expended and
another appropriation would make Home
the central [mint of a valuable river navi
gation.
Wi: never kno v what to copy from
the Geneva Lamp, there lieiug in every
number so mneh that is keen and inter
esting; but the following paragraph on
dogs will do: "Atllic recent aesaion n!
thi-Aieorcia s'ate grange a nsolution
waking the Hie legialaturc to pass a law
taxing dogs was passed. It is thought
that the passage of such r. law would
cucouragu sheep husbandry, by discour
aging dog husbandry. A member who
falls to vote for such a law—and the
tax should not he- less than ten dollars a
bead—should Ini coni|H-lled to iup|>ort
nil the worthless dogs of his constitu-
ents." ^
Tin: republican national committee
will meet in Washington on the lllth of
January, for the purpose of appointing
n place and time for holding the next
national convention. The last conven
tion was he'd in IMiiladclphia, but the
east is strongly represented In the com
milter, and prt ssurc will be brought to
I ear to have the centennial convention
in New Yoik. Such a decision would
probably cot Iw acceptable to Mr. Ulaiae,
however, who would like to have the
delegate • removed as far as possible from
Mr. (.'(inkling's malign influence. There
is n bloody chasm, so to speak, between
Conkling anil Ulaiae which lime docs
neil heal. ^ ^ ^
Kncmuhaokii by the additions] dona
tion of #190,000, the Nashville American
be-gins to .-peak of Ihe Vanderbilt Uni
versity ns the Harvard -if the south.
This is thu way it flatters the generous
old founder of its pet institution:
As the children of the south, in their
elementary education, found so munifi
cent a benefactor in the late George IV*.
body, whose name, by reason of his noble
generosity, will ever he held in the high
est esteem throughout this entire coun
try, so nre wo greatly encouraged that
the cauw of higher university education
in the south lias found so generous a
supporter in the person oi Cornelius
Vanderbilt. One gift was necessary to
supplement the oilier. W kilo the young
children scattered throughout the south
ern stales receive the inestimable bene
fits of the l'eahody fund, Ihe young men
of the south who desire an education of
the highest orelcr this country or any
country affords will recognize in Mr.
Vanderbilt tlie-ir great benefactor.
SOMETHING LIKE THUGGERY.
There is presented to good men
more patent testimony of the fact rti.«
we have fallen upon evil times than the
general wantennesa with which men and
journals scatter imputations and reck
lessly charge base motives for the sctiocs
of those whom they deem it necessary,
upon any plan, to blacken and destroy.
The weight of aucb evidence would tend
to establish a disagreeable. If not really
woful fact, and no less one than
that honesty, patriotism and virtue
arc principles no longer bolding place In
the human heart. While it is of the na
ture (f men to err, it is an abnormal
manifestation of that same human na
ture to impute every presumed error of
an individual to corrupt motives or wil
ful depravity.
These facta could not have more forci
hie illustration than ia afforded in a case
now before the people of Georgia. Few
persons are ignorant of the various
phases assumed by the case of Brinkley,
the Coweta county wife murderer, with
in the past few months. It ia not need
ed that we should even summarize its
fcaturea in this article, especially after
the dispassionate review of the case and
bis connection with it, made by Govern
or Smith In an interview published in
The Cosstitetion ..three usys
ago. Ilis appeared to he calm,
clear and frank statement. Yet,
there arc presses and individuals in
the state, who have gone outside the
plain and public record of tie
case to charge the governor with haring
acted from improper motive, and of hav
ing seen mure profit in the defeat of than
in the triumph of law and justice! In
the face of this imputation, where is
that good man who will
xclaim ‘ 1 pro junior!"—thrite
spoken, “for shame!” Who that
knows Smith, bis private and his public
career, will believe him approachable to
improper solicitations or offers? HU
purity,honesty anil conscientiousness are
the omnipotent characteristics ot the
man and the official, and the base impu
tation cannot reach him, or stand be
tween his virtues and the esteem of his
people.
We havo not written to make a defense
of Governor Smith, but to show
Ihe pcop'c to wliat extremes,
passion, prejudice and slnUtcr
motives may le-ail men in their designed
anil indee-ent assaults upon private and
public character. The motive which
lies at the lio tom of this outrageous at
tack upon Governor Smith cannot be an
approvablo one. There U nowhere In
the case of Uriukley or its incidents,
anything affording the breath of a sus
picion on which to found the change.
The mcic indication ot n point in the
record, written or unwritten, from
which to project such a Hue of imputa
tion may be successfully challenged and
defied.
That democratic papers and corres
pondents, mfthosc claiming that designa
tion, should thus uttack,wilhuul*warranl
the faintest probable cause, the guv
ernor of the state, placed in that posi
tion by the suffrages of their own party,
of itself despicable. If these wanton
traducers expect to profit by their actions,
they should not feel disappointed when
they find their gains to he only in the
increased disapprobation and dwgust or
the good anil Hue men of the state.
As to a return to biennial sessions, the
Columbus Times hopes “the legislature
will be cautions in deciding the question.
That lias been t. led in a number of the
southern stales, and »c believe that it
has neither given general satiafaction nor
effected nay great laving of expense. It
would not do to deprive the governor of
iliacrelionary power to call the legisla
ture together in extra sesaion, and so
many or such apparently pressing ques
tions would arise within the Interim of
two years that the governor would be
very apt to secede to the demand for an
extra session every year. On a question
of that kind, the executive would feel
ucitlicr authorized nor disposed to ad
here rigidly to any opinion which be
■night have that there was no need for
an extra session. He would be more
apt to make the call and let the legisla
ture judge of the propriety of action on
the questions presented The fact that
at the present time—notwithstanding the
long session of the legislature last winter
—so many important subjects of legisla
tion can lie presented, and all presaed
for prompt action, Is a sufficient admo
nition that there would be nearly cveiy
earnest call for an extra session
if hiensisl sessions should he determined
upon.”
The New York Herald contrasts the
action of the members who are
scrambling for a share of the appoint
ments ia the bouse with the patriotism
of Senator Gordon, as disclosed below:
His son, who is studying law, wished
to relieve his father from the financial
embarrassment of supporting him during
ids studies, and lie secured one of the
lust positions in the gift of the door-
lux ;H-r. Senator Gordon, who believes
that nepotism is the curse of our govern
tuenl, promptly informed his son that he
must not accept the office, anil made
him M-ml a letter to Mr. Fiuhuch thank
ing him for his friendship and his offer,
but poiiilvclj drcfining any office what
ever. What is more remarkable about
this is the (act that Senator Gordon,
whei was one of the most active and in
fluent;*! advocates Mr. FiUbugU had in
canvassing for the position, is not rich,
and tlie salary tendered young Gordon
would have been great assistance to bun.
But, unlike the majority of the so called
great men of lhi« country, the father rc-
t used to countenance h s son’s aspirations
for i fllcc, even for his own personal ben-
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer thinks there is some
thing in being able to put a senator to
good use. 11c gives aa instance or two
Oat in oar country we have a senator
on crutches who is brought over in Ohio
cvi rv year to exhibit a raw head and
biooily bones. Down south they put
them to gentler if not less sanguinary
us*. A gentleman who has just rv-
t irnvd from an extended tour through
Hie routli says that every fence, every
rock and every amble from Maaasas
j unction to lYnsacola is decorated with
mis lkgvnJ in darning red flannel letters:
“Try bimmons' Liver Regulator—Hon.
J. B. Gordon l ues It." 1 have seen Mr.
Gordon several times and I have heard
him discourse with the m*jetty of
Delphic oracta. If Mr. Gordon's liver is
in good condition, then I don't know a
5 ood liver wbcu 1 ace it. It Mr. Gor-
on has used Simmons’ lira-giving de
coction with the assiduity ascribed to
him, the chances arc that Mr. S.mmons’
preparation ia a fraud. 1 don't know
what Mr. Gordon's condition was pre
vious to his visit to Washington. Mr.
Simmons may hare snatched him from
the verge of the grave, but I wouldn’t
give him two dollars for his i:ver to-day
as it stand* If Mr. Gordon has any re
spect for himself or his liver he will
troduce a bill In the senate at an early
day to prevent the improper use of sena
torial names by the plebeian venders of
patent medicines. The house caucus
will doubtless back him up
Tak Macon Telegraph urge* the peo
ple of Bibb to consider the matter of
public schools and make up a deliberate
opinion about tncm. It odds:
If the schools are not wanted, let us
dispense with them at once; for they
must nccssarily cost us about #25,000 a
year, carried on in any decent fashion,
and with the utmost economy. By do
ing away with them, we might for a fifth
part of that sum provide for a system ot
poor schools three months in the year,
wherein indigent children, blacks main
ly, would be taught to read and write;
but this, on the other hand, would in
volve au expense to tax payers of fifty or
or a hundred thousand dollars in main
taining private school* But a public
school system lunging by the eyelids on
the action ot every grand jury has too
uncertain a life tor strong ami vigorous
dcvclopmcnL Let us taka a stand on
this subject—one way or the other—and
bark it with corresponding action. Nine
thousand dollars is too much for mere
poor schools, and as to any others which
shall serve the wants of an intelligent
people in educating their children and
saving them ihe expnse of private school
instruction, it is not htlf enough.
Tits last grand jury for Burke county
asked the legislature to amend the law
so thst less than a quart of liquor can
not be told ia Burke county under any
circumstance* They also made the
following recommendations; That
law bo passed to prevent the illicit traffic
ia farm produce; that pistols of eTciy
kind and guns kept for sporting bo
taxed, and that a greater breadth of
land be sown m core, oats and other
products that support man and beast.
We give its recommendation on the dog
question in full: “And cot least of all,
wc do press upon the legislature the ur
gvut necessity long fvlt—of imposing
tax upon dogs, * hich are, themselves,
an unprofitable burden upon the income
of the county, and an incubus upon, and
insufferable obstacle in the way of, new
and profitable enterprises and invest
ment* These advantage*, we hope,
may he secured to us even by a local if
they cannot be by a general law.”
Tax ordinary of Cobb count; has or
dered an election to fill Mr. Anderson’
place in the legislature, on the aixlh day
of aext month. Gen. HaaseII has with
drawn in favor of Judge Irwin, and the
race seems to be between Messrs. Irwin,
rhffiips and Waddell
NO MORE SUBSIDIES
The bouse has spoken on this subject
with no uncertain voice. It will do to
re pi at : “Resolved, that in the judg
ment o( this house, in the present
condition of the financial affairs
of the Government, no subsi
dies in money, bonds, public lands,
indorsements, ur by the pledge of pablic
credit, should be granted by congress to
associations or corporations engaged, or
proposing to engage, in public or private
enterprise, and that all appropriations
from the public treasury ought to be
limited at this time to such amount only
as shall be imperatively demanded by
the public service."
This is sweeping and positive. It was
adopted by a vote of 318 to 33, and wc
are af raid that our canal project must take
a rest. Bat we are not without consola
tion. The reeolution has scotch
cd many unworthy schemes, and
we can afford to wail awhile for tie
consummation of our deserv
ing project if all corrupt schemes can
thereby by put out of the way. This
vote clearly means business,and the sub
sidy gentlemen at Washington from Tom
Scott downwards msy as well pack their
bags and be off.
Blount, Chandler, Cook, Felton, Har
ris, Hartridge, Hill and Smith were pres
ent and voted against subsidies. That
delegation will do to tie to. Amongst
the thirty-three who voted against the
resolution were Goode and Hunter, of
Virginia; Hancock, of Texas; House, oi
Tennessee; Kelley, of Pennsylvania; La
mar, of Mississippi; Ilcagan and Throck
morton, of Texas; Vance, of North Csr-
olim, and Wells, of Missouri.
SOUTHERN RAILROAD DEBTS.
THE THIRD TERM.
Grant's ambition was rudely creased
in the bouse on Wednesday, when Mr.
Springer, a democratic member from
Illinois, offered a resolution that de
nounced a third term as a departure from
time-honored custom that would be at
once unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught
with peril to our free institutions. The
yeas or nays were called
by some maliciously in
clined democrat, and then ensued
the most llagreot dodging that has ever
occurred in congress. Illaine-grasped
his hat aud left the floor, followed by
about forty of his blican colleague*
The delight of the democrats was only
equalled by the disgust of the republican
members. The vote—yeas, 232; nays,
18—shows that about forty republicans
will bare to go, as soon ss the screws
arc applied, to Grant and privately take
all back.
Tho eighteen who voted in favor of a
third term are a sweet lot. Har
alson, Hyman, Lynch, Nash, Smalls,
Wallace, and Walls, all southern negroes
or carpet-baggers, arc fair specimens of
the unsavory minority.
All of the Georgia members, except
Mr. Stephens who was detained at home
by sickness, were in their seats, and no
one needs to lie informed as to how they
voted.
The gross earnings of the Georgia
railroad continue to decline, but owing
the superior economy and manage
ment of the present officers, the net earn
ings have been largely increased. The
figures for the eight months ending Nov.
31st arc as follows: gross earnings,
1874, #793,470; 1875, #710,705-differ
ence in favor of 1874, #70,105. Expenses
during the same period, 1874, #645,192;
1875, #408,753—difference #230,438-
Tliese figures show .an increase of net
receipts this year over last of #159,073 22.
This ii.crease over last year’s receipts
alone is sufficient, within a few hundred
dollars, to pay the entire dividend for
six months.
Tennessee is trying to pay the Janu
ary interest on her konds bonds, but it
the loan contracted in meeting hut
January's interest Next January's will
confessedly be passed on account of the
non-action of the legislature and the
hard times. Gov. Porter says he has
reason to believe that most of tho large
holders of Tennessee bonds would
be willing to fund at a lower rate of in
terest if a guarantee be given that the in
terest shall be promptly met in the future,
lie expresses the opinion that the present
rate is higher than the ycoplc arc able to
pay, but suggests uo basis of compro
mise.
Tn v. war over the election in Rome
evidently continues—at least we judge ao
from this item in the Rome Courier:
Justice Hawkins states in a card in the
Commercial, that official duties necessi
tated his absence from the polls in the
lstc municipal election. Judge Spullock
rays that “be went off and got drunk.”
Now we don’t object to Mr. A. S. Haw
kins getting drunk. It is his right do so,
and it is nobody rise's business. But we
do object to Justice Uawkini getting
drunk. lie has no right to get drunk.
He was not elected for any such purpose,
and unless be quits getting drunk be
ought to “fling up” quit bring justice
We can tolerate a drunken citizen, but a
drunken justice ia beyond ail endurance.
Tun Talbotloa Standard describes
the roads in nearly all the counties of the
state, when it thus speaks of those in its
own county;
“There are some roads in this county
that are a disgrace to civilized human
ity. Ii is a matter of rnrprise that peo-
pltsslo not get their necks broken in irav-
ling over them.’*
Tue philosophy of Senator Moitou'a
recent waving of the bloody shirt over
the Mississippi election is very simple—
he is trying to distract the attention
which is dangerously fixed upon the
whisky ring revelation* Besides, he
msy be letting the temper of his party in
the senate preparatory to aa effort to
scat Finch.
The United States captured and pur
chased an immt use amount of rolling
Mock and other railroad equipment In the
south during or just after the war.
There were millions in it at the Hm»
All of this railroad material was sold
(he various railroad companie^on credit,
and the government has ever since been
trying to fully realize on its as
large number of companies have
fully discharged Ihcir obligations
to the government. All of the roads
that touch the soil of Georgia have so
settled their accounts, except the St bus,
Rome and Dalton, and the East Tennes
see and Georgia railroads. The Geor
gia, Southwestern, Macon and Western,
Rome, Western and Atlantic,and Macon
and Brunswick, each bought some of the
government's stock of railroad material,
and eich lias fully settled for what
it had. The Selma, Rome and
Dalton company (till owes about #100.-
000, having paid in quite a sum during
the past year. The indebtedness of the
East Tennessee and Georgia, East Ten
ncsseeacd Virginia, companies consoli
dated has been compromised for #195,
000—#5,000 cash, and the balance paya
ble one-balf in ten, and one-half in fif
teen years from January 1, 1872, with
four per cent, interest
The amount due the government Jane
30,1875 was #1,959,449, to which should
be added #1,273,000, which is the amount
that an indebtedness of #2,097,049 incur
red by four Tennessee companies, was
compromised for—making all told #3,-
232.449 as the amount due the govern
ment from the southern roads. The fol
lowing table shows the indebtedness of
each road regardless of compromises:
AlexLd’n&Hp’e 902,592 96 $2,876 15
Esst Ten. A tlx. SOS,183 02 360,063 04
East Ten. & Va. 265,6(5 65 231,445 09
Edgefield A Ky. 114,773 08 197 363 05
Knoxville A Ky. 12^35 63 10,309 75
lie * M'l’r 46,508 54 82^16 96
& Ohio 505,143 70 65,213 43
'M.C’ville AL’vllle 334,932 56 507,893 Til
Mem. ,fc L. Itock 115,673 SO 115,359 84
Nash. AChat'ga 1,5-6,551 '.5 1,787,740 S3
Nash. A N. Were 525,400 20 830,893 33
Nash. & Decatur 405,193 92 301,430 87
NWB’chPRRM. 57115 24 ..........
8clma, R. A D. 181,276 49 151.502 43
Sknxtoe Jones, of Florida, recently
presented a memorial from the Florida
fruit growers association, asking for the
location of a national garden for the
concentration and perfection of the trop
ical and semi-tropical flora of Florida.
The memorial was referred to the com
miltcc on agriculture.
Newnan will soon be well supplied
with newspapers, (or the Franklin News
is ab >ut to emigrate to that city. The
Ne»s will then become the Newnan
Weekly Blade, the first appearance of
which is billed for the seventh dsy of
next month.
The city council of Macon is engaged
in scaling the salaries of her official*
The proposed average reduction is twen
ty-five per cent Even in that event her
mayor will get #1,500 a year, or #700
more thu we piy the head of our gov
ernment
The Washington Gazette, ia a para
graph inch aa Mr. Stephens used to write
urges our people to the construction of
canal* It wants canals everywhere, but
eupecUlly over the shoals of the Savan
nah and brood river*
nasie or COlirASY.
c
75 2
if
£•40
a*,
is
Total.
.14,(101,330 25 $4 650,493 71
All of these roads have bees very poor
since the war, and the government con
siders that they have done as well as
could be expected under the difficulties
that have surrounded them. They have
bravely tried to get on solid ground
again.] m m m
Not a paper has thus far come under
our notice that opposes a dog law. On
the other hand wc receive every week
many articles like the following:
La Grange Reporter: We arc glad to
note the fact that the recent meeting of
the state grange adopted a resolution
urging the legislature to pass a law taxing
dogs. If this had been done ten years
ago, the state would have been infinitely
better olT; for the supposition is that the
levying cf a tax will sound the death-
knell of a majority of the canines. Why
such a law haa not been on our statute
fcojks for years past, Is beyond the com
prehension of man. Our astute legisla
tors have been too busy, perhaps, mov
ing county lines, and licensing men to
peddle without license, to attend to mat
ters of small import It matters little if
the dogs eat us all, together with our
wives and children, provided we are all
licensed to peddle without license. We
sincerely hope Messrs. Fannin and Pit
man will do Troup county the justice to
“votce«rljr and often” for a dog law.
Hawkinsville Dispatch: The -state
grange, in session in Atlanta last week,
adopted a very important resolution,
and one that will meet with a hearty re
sponse from a large number .of the beat
citizens of Georgia. A tax of one dol-
lai upon each and every dog in the state
would not, in our opinion, reduce the
number materially, but a large fund
would be raised that could be applied to
some good purpose. We are perfectly
willing, in fact, desire to see the experi
ment made. When the question of
sheep vs. dog is raised, all right-think
ing persons must acknowledge the supe
rior value of the former, and the im
portance of protecting it against the
ravages of any army of worthless curs.
Tub Oglethorpj Echo deprecates the
waste cf good timber which is constant
ly going on in the state. It adds:
The waste of good timber for fire
wood, m general among hands and ten
ants or# all large places, amounts to one
or two per cent, of the value of the
place. By the time the Opossum hunters
and coon hunters get through cutting
trees and the other odds and ends of
waste, there is not much left for the
owner. It amounts almost to a dedica
tion of woods to the public to own them
in this country. We suggest that our
land owners, in drawing their contracts
for the coming year, insert a special
clause that the tenant shall cut no green
timber without special permission. Then
‘ would be advisable to put up notices
warning the public against hunting with
out permission. In no other country on
earth that pretends to civilization is such
thing tolerated as bunting on the lands
ot another without permission. In many
cases, of course, the permission is im
plied, as in cases cd adjoining landlords,
and the like, but the principle remains,
and without some sort of permission it
is a misdemeanor.
Dr. L. A. Duoas, an eminent surgeon
of Augusta, has been made a member of
the executive committee of the interna
tional medical congress, which meets in
Philadelphia on the fourth day of Sep
tember, 1876. The state medical society
will be entitled to send to the conven
tion as many delegates as the state has
representatives in congress.
A recent correspondence with the
war and navy departments has disclosed
to Dr. Felton the fact that he has been
chiseled out of the privileges of naming
an appointee to the naval school before
1S30, and to the military academy be
fore 1873. Robeson, it seems, took ad
vantage of an omission of the former
representative of the district to slip in a
cadent midshipman on his own account
ACCIDENT.
Ab Unknown Woman Killed. «
(Special to The Constitution.]
Macon, Ga., December 17.
An unknown woman was knocked off the
tressel over Echacomee creek, abont twelve
miles from this city, this afternoon, bj the
Incoming Coiambus train.
The train was stopped and the unfortu
nate woman found to be frightfully mang-
A petition to congress for the repeal .of
the binkrnpt law Is being circulated'
throughout ConcecUeut.
Of the 176 new member! of the house, • TiEsiRaAL Schenck does not come back,
123 are lawyers. That's good newa for the it U now intimated, because General Gian
bar In the basement. I * »ot strong enough to “call” him
Tux tultan’s government will send a bun- • Gksat Britain sbiys every jear foity-
dred thousand men to srppress the rebel-1 six millions.of pounds sterling wci
goods to Asia. France only one miili
K.iNSXi receives and sends mare letters Gen. J. Z. Gedrgs is the favorite caud!
d newspapers than the entire state of I date for United States senator of the follow-
:*soirri, Pt. Louis lccluded.
m _ w erth of
Uoa—In the sp:Ing. [goodsto Asia. France only
Thr Julia, formerly Tweed’s pleasure. It U said Gratiot Washburne, eldest sen
yacht, la now do'.ng service for Capt. Esds of Minister E B Washburne, will be nomS
as a dispatch boat and tender at the mouth
of the Mississippi.
Ws will not absolutely believe that Bab
cock la guilty until he shall be proved so,
and will try to hope that Grant may also be
Innocent, but this Is hard work.
Till next Ohio legislature will have so
many fanners In It that it will oily be by
the aid of a powerful microscope that you
can tell it from a state graige.
Since reading the president*! message
we axe inclined to consider his views about
the necessity of a common school educa
tion.—New Toik World.
Jon* C. Fremont, who started the re
publican party, is how mentioned only as a
little weazen-faced, dried-up old man,
whose wife can write better than he can.
McKn’s St. Louis Globe Democrat U
very much e'ated over the disorganization
of the whisky ring prosecution. When the
hounds lna chase get alio a snarl and stop
to fight It out, the fox Is very likely to
Grant has had a bad lo‘. about him,”
said the president of a Ntw England re
publican state convention come years ago.
as he stepped down from the platform;
“they have 'adventurer* written on their
It is sad to hear that a brother-in-law of
Fred Dooglass has been arrested for robbing
the malls. The corruption that prevails
among radical brothers-in-law seems to be
no respecter of race, color or previous con
ditlon of servitude.
The friends oi Cassius M. Cl nr, of Ken
tucky, are said to be already at work trying
to get his name put cn as second on the
democratic presidential ticket, with Tilden
as first, and they claim that the Kentucky
delegation la a unit in favor of the scheme.
Snzairr Conner’s song:
“So he sailed away in a gallant bark.
And he didn’t come back no more;
Perhaps he was drowned or ate up by a
shark,
But he didn’t come back no more.”
The stiver mine excitement is running
h'gh in Mason county, Texas. Two shafts
have been sunk in one place to tin depth
73 feet, where the yield is $18 per ton of
ore. The ore is su phlde and chloride.
Over 110,000 acres of land have been locat
ed In the county within the present month.
Indiana, the home of Gov. Hendricks,
will lead off in February with a greenback
platform, and wc shall sweep the state.
Presidential candidates should never loose
sight of the fact that the people have been
growing while many of the “leaders” have
been standing still.—[Evansville Courier
(dem )
We don’t hear that Babcock has resign
ed or been dismissed from his private sec
retaryship. And yet some time sgo when
Donald sent his card up, they say the
president said he could hold no communi
cation with an indicted man. This is a
queer aor’.d, isn’t it, Mr. Henderson?
John Hesdepson, my jo, John, when
we were first acquaint, you didn’t treat me
so, John, sings sad'y General Giant. Bat
now you are growing bold, John, you talk
too much, jou know; so “Bab” and I’ll
dispense with yon, John Henderson, my.
jo.
Slowly but surely the opinion la gaining
ground that the appointment of Mr. Everts
orator at the centennial will necessitate
an extension of the lime for holding the
exhibition. Five months, they say, will
neTer afford the distinguished speaker the
time to do the subject full justice.—New
Tork Commercial Advertiser.
The president has nominated Richard
Gibbs, of New York, to be minister to Peru,
and the New York Herald la moved to ask
ho Richard Gibbs is. Nobody knows, but
ths country may consider Itself very foitu-
nate if he does not turn ou* to be one of the
“bosom friends’* who go into office very ob
scure, and are finally kicked out very noto
rioua.
After all, Colorado Is likely to be a dem
ocratic state. The legislature, which meets
In January, is democratic in the council and
probably republican In the house of repre
sentatives. Several members counted cn
republicans, ha vet repudiated affiliation
with. Grantlsm, and will act either with the
democracy or independently.
i afraid, Mr. Blaine, that you effort ia
vain
On a financial hobby to win;
For you ice videlicet—(tee third-term suf-
fldt)
That sort of an Issue’s too thin.
And not less unlucky, the men from Ken
tacky,
Who dings to as fragile a straw.
For la spite of exposures and whisky dis
closures,
Possession’s nine points of the law.”
Ir Grant could only have removed the
grand jury!—St. Louis Times.
The Cincinnati Commercial recommends
that Babcock be tried by Corbin, Casey and
brother Orville.
Robeson’s cruel war Is about over. Or
ders have been sent to the Brooklyn navy-
yard to stop all enlistments.
In Mississippi there are only eleven men
who are *•< candidates for United States
senator.—Vicksburg Herald.
A correspondent eloquently remarks
that Jeremiah 8. Black rises above the dead
levd of Pennsylvania statesmanship like a
lordly pumpkin in a deserted cornfield.
Three new officers for the khedive’s
army went out in the Queen on Saturday
last, including Major Chas Chapman, for
merly of the United States engineer corps.
Tux son of Senator Gordon has set the
marvelous example of declining a twenty-
one hundred dollar office tendered him by
the doorkeeper of the house. Pat him In a
museum.—Richmond Dispatch.
There seems to be little doubt now but
that the Mississippi legialaturc will impeach
both Gov. Ames and Lieutenant-Gov. Da
vit. The case against the latter is thought
to be much the stronger.
Russia iritis said, going to abolish the
passport system, and the minister of finance
has already declared kla readiness to relin
quish the 2,500,000 of roubles which the
passport fees annually bring into the Impe
rial exchequer.
Small as Is the republican representation
in the Alabama legislature, it la being redu
ced steadily. One of the* two representa
tives from Macon county has sentenced to
the chain gang and the other has fledto avoid
arrest.
Just bow the question of caste rather
troubles some of the ladies who are entitled
to seats In the members’ galleries, but who
do not fancy sluing next to toe wivee of
those southern members who are of Elhio-
nated to the senate, in a dsy or two, as
retary of legation at St. Petersburg.
Lucius Quixtu3 Curtis Lamar Is the
name of the nc-ble Roman from the south.
He jumps into the oratorical gulf when
ever it open*, tud paJdles around very ex
pertly.
1* the Iowa senatorial canvass it Is salt
ihat Secretary B.l&nap takes the lead In
popularchol.e, distancing, so far, narl&n
Price, McCrary, Carpenter and others men
tinned as In the race.
A seal skin vest, every button of which
contained a solitaire diamond,” was what Is
d to have onco prompted Commissioner
Douglass to advise Supervisor McDonald
“lo dress more l‘ke a white man and a
Christian.'
Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Re-
ublican, one of the shrewdest political oh’
^ia the country, say* at present Til
It i* supposed that she was either deaf o.-
tssane.
It will be seen In this day’s Issue that the
Macon and Brunswick railroad la again ad
vertised to be sold.
Sealed bid* are tnvttrd by the director* up
to 12 o’clock ul, of January 25,1876. The
liberal terms offered ooght to Insure an ad
vantageous sale.
We are Informed that the road has been
pot In thorough repair, and that tt la
now in better condition than it haa ever
Iu battens, both freights aad pxian,
I* steadily on the Increase, sad tt Is be
lieved that the day 1* not far distant when
tt will be oar of the most valosbta reads In
the state.
Tn= American Grocer rajs the decline on
Rio coffee Is fall, two cents la gold, (lace
the Grocer exploded the short crop theory.
BUB the coffee ring Is not discouraged, bai
asks congress to pat a heavy tariff on cof
fee, in order to add to iu profit*
Tuoa factory, Chattooga county, Ga.,
Uagain complete. The costal it* rccoo
stractloa reached ooe hundred aad ninety
thousand dollar* The yarns of the old
THce had a fine reputation, aad it* betaines
was profitable.—Chattanooga Commercial.
Tu* secretary of the Interior now holds
In trust for certain Indians, stocks sad
bonds the par nine of which ia about $5,-
000,001. He says it seems to him ;that tbe
United State* treasurer shoald be the cus
todian of this property, and therefore sends
to congress a draft of s bill providing for
such custody.
M" .
den aad Lamar is ths strongoit presidential
ticket on the democratic side, and Bristow
and Blaine the strongest republican.
Kxntcckt has probab'y younger rulers
than say other state in the union. The gov
ernor Is 40; secretary of state, 41; attorney-
general, 40; quartermaster-general. 59; ad
jutant-general, 35; registrar, 37; trea urer
37; clerk of Ihe eomt of appeals, 31.
Tna ofillers of tho Pennsylva is Rail
road Company have not yet abandoned the
idea of running a train from New York to
Pittsburg without stopping. They are con
fident it can be made successful, and tbe
experiment will bo repeated In a few days
should the weather be favorable.
The best evidence of the universal esteem
felt for the new speaker of the house, Is tbe
fact Jrat nobody seems inclined to ferpe-
tratc a pun upon bis name. This enables
him to read a column of ncwspa;er para
grapha wilhout having corns body to hold
him.
“Two propositions,” says the New York
Sun, “General Grant’s mess ge leaves clear
of a'! doubt. One Is that he is candidate
for election to the office of {resident, and
the other Is that he desires lo run, not
merely as a republican, but ss an nntl-
Calholic.”
CiurttaiN Townsend is photographed by
the New Ilavcu Paladlom (rep.) as a pug
nacious parson, with a good voice, a good
reader, a dignified chaplain aud a worthy
man, who will not pray politics and who is
great improvement in this respect upon
come recent chaplain*
A correspondent says that throughout
the whole of the eaat— In Tuikcy, India,
China, Persia'and Africa-an extensive re
ligions revival among the Mohammedans is
la progrecs, and its fruits promise to be a
general religious war, of which the out
break in Malacca is the beginning.
Tue senate of West Virginia is now sit
ting as a court cf Impeachment for the trial
ot State Treasurer Burdett and State Audit
or Bennett, for Improper use of the state’s
money, and for spccula'Ing therewith. No
tosaes arc alleged, hot it la proposed to stop
the business before losses occur.
TBERB Is no hotter fire this side the cun
*:—» (hat whl.-h can be kindled by appeals
to sectarian prejudices. It rhouldbcthe
business of dispassionate men, as well of
the churches as outside of them, to put ont
the flames rather than help to fan them
Id!^ cocHtgiUoD,—[CindDCii'i Coninivr
rial.
There is a rumor abroad that the su
preme court of tbe Uuited States, just be
fore tho announcement of the decision to
the effect that the government couldn’t
collect anything from the Union Pacific
railroad, dined in a body with the principal
counsel of tho railroad, and that after
ward, and before the decision of the court
vts given, several members of the court,
artook of the bountiful hospitalities of Sam
Ward. It may ho all ri?ht, hut how It
locks!
The Covington Journal is evlden'ly fond
of putting conundrums to people. Presi
dent Grant recommends compulsory educa
tion. When the state adopts compu sory
education it must provide schorls for all
children of i roper ages. Rrman Catholics
and Jews are prevented by consclentiou*
scruples from sending their children to the
common schools as now conducted. Under
the compulsory system ulll Catholics and
Jews be compelled to send their children to
the common schools? or will they be com
pelled to matntaln schorls at their own ex
pense? or will the school fund be divided
nd a part allotted to them to maintain sep.
grate schools? Ulysses, there are a good
many things not dreamed of In your philos
ophy.
Colonel Ricbahd Hen nr Lee, who has
been selected to read the declaration of in
dependence at the opening of the national
centennial, i esldes at Mill wood,Clarke coun
ty, Va., and is actively engaged In the prac
ticeof law as well as farming operations.
He was barn in Alexandria, Va., in 182), Is
a son of the late Edmund Jennings Lee (a
distinguished lawyer of that city,) and a
grandson of Richard lienry Lee, of revolu
tionary fame. He Is also a nephew of
Charles A*ee, who was attorney get cral of
the United States daring a part of Wash
ington’s administration, and of “Lighthorse
Harry Leee,” and a cousin of General Robert
ELie. Colonel Lee entered the Confeder
ate service as a lieutenant of infantry in the
Stonewall brigade, and being wounded, af
terwards served as judge advocate cf the
second corrs, army of northern Virginia,
until the close of the war, since which time
he has pursued his profession with tue-
cc;s.
The PLL'adelphls Times of Friday last
says: “ It ere was a movement In the Kee-
ley motor business yesterday. It was the
dsy of the annual election of directors by
the stockholders, of whom there are 115
od the rolls, having 20,000 shares, of a
face” value of $30 a share, distributed
among them, and held abont half-and-half
in New York city and Philadelphia. After
electing eleven directors and hearing the
repoits of the present condition of the ma
chine, the party took carriages and
drove out to Keeley’s workshop where
they inspected the new generator. It
weighs two tons and is made of phosphor
bronze, aa Austrian gua metal, and will ac
cording to Keeley be able to generate 33-
000 pounds pressure to the square inch
The new receiver, a perfect sphere thirty
inches interior and forty-inches exterior
diameter, weighing seyen thousand pounds,
cut in tteel and taking four days to cool
and thirteen days to be decarbonized, will
also be received lo about a week. Then in
abont three months the Keeley motor will
be ready to split ships In two, drive engines
to New York and back on a pint of water, 1
etc.
▲ Washington telegram to the New
York World says: “The republican con
gressional campaign committee have deter-
k mined to follow the president’s leadership
upon the religions and sectarian questions.
Some two or three weeks ago the Rev Jno.
P. Newman, the pastor of the Metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal church in this city,
hfeh the president and his family attend,
preached a sermon on the inquisition,Cran
mer. Queen Mary, and kindred topics.
This sermon, with the late message of the
president, bar been printed in pamphlet
form by the above named committee, and
flTe hundred thousand copies of it will be
distributed all over the union.”
The Texas democrats will bold a state
convention on tbe 5th of January, at Gal
veston, to nominate candidates for the
state offices provided for by the new con
stitution. Gov. Richard Ccke is talked
about for re-election. His administration
has been one of prosperity and advi
ment.
log leading newspapers: Wixona Advance,
Mississippi Democrat, Port Gibson Stand'
ard, Columbus Iudepcident, Natchez Dem'
ocrat, Calhoun Independent, Cairolltcn
Conservative, and others thst we do not
now recall.
As rpa these new amendments to the
constitution which Grant proposes so g 1b-
ly the American people * 111 be inclined
say, as the old v[oman did about total de
pravity, the constitution is well enough
now if presidents and supreme courts tnd
rgreiees would only live up to it. Let us
enforce the constitution as we have it now
before we go to work to enlarge it,—Spring
field Republican, Rep.
Three states claim Mr. Kerr as their
own. The Paducah Times says: “The
Pennsylvania newspapers sre happy be
cause Mr. Kerr was born in that state,
would say this was ore cf the principal
ac a of thst gentleman’s life for which he
was not responsible, and left
there as soon as he b.camc large
enough to go in swimming and teach s bool
nigratlng to Kentucky.'
The Reformed Episcopalians propose to
start their university at Chicago free from
debt, which is a very good thing, and they
design, moreover, to confer the higher de
grecs only after a rigid examination of the
applicant—a much-needed innovation in
our American universities. Tbe org<n of
the new church, the Appeal, will be Issued
In January, with Dr. Samuel Fal'ows edttor-
in-chlef, and Bishops Cummins and Cheney
associate editors.
The Columbus (S. C.) Times ssys: Wc
met a young planter yesterday r. ho is out
of debt. The result is that ha made this
year two thousand bushels of oats on one
hundred and fifty acres, corn and meat
enough, and twelve bales of cotton. He
only employed two regular hand?, hiring
others when necessary by the day. He has
made monev, and has been annoyed very
little. He says If he had hired eighteen
hands and planted his plantation in co'.ton
the place would have been ve r y heavily In
volved in debt.
Hon. Georgs II. Pendleton is traveling
through the south in search of recreation
and the picturesque, but the tynltfatuus of
the presidency goes dancing along with
him. That little demonstration at Atlanta
ihe other night was very gratifying, doubt
less, and Mr. Pendleton must have retired
to pleasant dreams after General Gartrell
had nominated him for the presidency. We
are pleased to note these little testimonials.
They touch our state pri-le, aud add to the
unhappiuesa of Sam Tilden. Mr. Pendle
ton has bests of fileuds in the south as
well as tho west.--Cincinnati Euq^rcr.
Special to The Constitution.
Quitman, ga., Dec. 17,1S!5.
Nlc j hompsou, (colored,) who killed Fx-
lUpneentetive Captain J. H. Hunt r, was
hu.-g here to-day. The negroes
THREATENED TO REICIE
him, but no demonstrations of the kind were
made, aud everythlrg passed of quietly.
The killing are yet freth n the m'nds of
the people. It occurred during an elec
tion.
Captain Hunter was going towaids the
coutt house w ith a colored man named Wolf
to the polls to vote. Some one called Wolf
adde. Wolf raid he was going to vote the
demociatlc ticket, when some of the ne
groes objacted to his doing so. Capt. Hun
ter replied tha‘ a man had the tight to vote
as he pleased. F Ick Thompson said “it Is a
damatd 11.” Capt. Hunter raised his stick
and made thres efforts to strike, lucking at
the same time, followed by Nick Thompson,
who placed his left hand on Capt. Hunter’s
shoulder and with his right hand plunged
his knTc
INTO HIS LEFT BllKAST,
and when tbe knife was withdrawr, tbe
bio d came out of the wound.
Capt. Cluster lingered for some time and
gjed.
Thompson was convicted and sentenced.
His case was taken up to the supreme court,
aud ou the 11th of September last that body
refused lo grant & new trial.
At the last session of Brook's superior
court, Lb counsel Col. James Atkius and
W C McCall made strenuous tnd cxlraor
naiy efforts to obtain anew trial but filled.
They applied to G )v. Smith for a ics;!te,
but he declined to Interfere. To-day NIc
Thompson paid the pcualty for his crime.
Mu. Cook, of Georgia, presented on
Wednesday, a bill to refund the cotton
tax collected between 1863 and 1868,
aud also a bill to authorize payment for
all cotton seized by the United States
after May 20,1865. _
The petition that Mr. Randall present
ed the other day on wheels for the re
peal of the bank-stamp-chcck act is onc-
cighth of amilo long and contains 33,•
219 signatures, representing thirty-three
states and fiTe territories.
We were pleased to find in our sanc
tum yesterday Mr. H. H. Parks, travel
ing agent of this staunch old democratic
paper. Tue Constitution ranks high
all over the south aa a political organ as
well as a commercial advertiser.—Green
ville, 8. C , Daily News.
Flo.d county gave Hon. Mark A.
Cooper 141 vot«.‘3 fer senator—all she
hod to cast
ANOTHER EXPLOSION.
Fatal Explosion on tho Georgia
Railroad this Morning.
The Fireman Killed, and the Ingim
eer Mortally Wounded—Both
Atlanta Men.
(Spec'al to the Conatltt tiou.)
Barnett, Dec. 17,1875.
The passenger train that left Atlanta at
10:30 r. m., neder the charge of Conductor
Jeff Woods, mei with a serious acciceat
here this morning. While the engine, the
*M. P. Stovall,” was nearing tbe switch,the
boiler exploded, kil.hg the -fireman, Henry
Downs, of Atlan’a, and mortally wounding
Joseph B. Rcany, the engineer.
The remains of Downs was forwarded to
Atlanta, and will reach there at 4 r. m.
R-?any will also arrive by the saxe train.
The cause of the ezplostcn Is not known.
The down train left for Augus a,aid reach
ed there teforc cow.
Another Account.
Special to The Constitution.
Barnett, Ga , December 17,1815.
Another explosion occurred at Barnett
at an early hour this morning, and our
usually quiet to an was made the scene of
sad accident caused by the explosion of
the passenger engine “M. P. Stovall,’ * of
the Georgia railroad. The fireman, Mr.
Henry Downs, was instantly killed, and the
engineer, Mr. Joe Beany, mortally wound
ed. The engine was pulling the down
night passenger train which was due at
Barnett *14:32.
It arrived on time, and after a detention
of three minutes, required to change the
mail, it departed, but had only proceeded
abont one hundred and fifty yards, when the
explosion of the engine took place, with
the result ss above stated, and literally tear
ing the machinery all to pieces, and scatter
ing it to the four winds, many pieces of
which were blown hundreds of sards in
various directions, one piece being blown
entirely through the root and ceiling of our
depot. No injury was done t> the cars.
The fireman was found on the tender par
tially covered with wood—fearfully man
gled. The engineer was found about thir
ty feet from the track on the ground. Ills
skull was fractured, one thigh broken, and
several deep and painful iociaions on his
face. Both men were married, and their
families reside in Atlanta. Doctors IT.ch-
er and Shields were promptly sent for, and
arrived on time to give much relief
Mr. Rearey, who became
cor a dens abont en o’c'cB*
and seemed to have somo recollection of
tbe explosion. After a consultation, the
doctors decided that hii removal to Atlanta
would not lessen hb chances for recovery;
and consequently he was sent forward by
the up day passenger train, accompanied by
Dr. Shields.
The remains of Mr. Downs was also sent
forward by the same train to Atlanta.
After procuring an engine from a follow
ing freight train, the night passenger train
proc eded to Augusta, leaving here at half
past seven o'clock. The con iu .tor
Mr. T. J. Woods, stated that the
eagine had been working nicely all night.
Tne explosion was distinctly hca-d several
miles distant and after day light mtcy per
sons from the neighbornood came in to in
quest of the mistertous rumbling. Many
supposed it to have been another earth
quake, as you will remember, we realised
one a short time ago.
Exactly four months ago, within 300
yards ot tbe tame place, Mr. E 8 O’Btlen’a
store was demolished by fire and gun pow
der. So we will have to record this as ex
plosion number two.
F. H. O’Bebn,
Operator.
[Associated Frets Report.J
Augusta, Ga., December 17.—lb-boiler
of tbe engine of the passenger trsin on the
Georgia nulrosd, which left Atlanta for Au
gusta last night, exploded at seven o’clock
this morning, near Barnett, killing the fire
min, Henry Downs, and seriously wound-
A MURDERERS lA’INEE.
Nick Thompson Hanged at Quitman
for the Murder of Captain
J. H. Hunter.
The Threatened Rescue did not
Happen*
Goy. Smith's Letter Refusing a Re
spite to Thompson.
$1,700 GONE.
CODE DUELLO,
A Hog 1 rover Intoxicated and
Fleeced of his Money.
Particulars of a Mysterious Occur-
W.
A RESPITE REk USED.
As a part ot the iccord in the case of Nick
Thompson who was hung yesterday at
Quitman, in Brocks county, we presents
copy of the letter written by Gov. Smith at
late hoar Thursday ev cr Ing to James At
kins, E q, lat: revenue assessor, | who
was the representative of the friends of
Thompson are sceklnja rupltc from Ihe
governor. It will be seen that the 1 :t!cr is
full and explicit and giyes reasons for tho
refu-al to respite Thompson.
Stats of (Jhokum, Executive Mansion, »
Atlas rA, Ua., Dec. 16tb, 1875. j
James Atkins, Atlanta, Ga
S.n: -Application Is made for an execu
tive Older respiring Nick Thompson, color-
I, scnteuccd to be executed on the 17th
Insu, for the crime of murder commit cd in
the county of Brooks. The ground of the
application is that new evidence i*i Thomp
son’s favor has Ucn di covered since
the rendition of the verdict against
blm; that under a decision
of the supreme court iu Uriukley’a case,
the superior court hiving jurisdiction of
the case cannot hear and determine a mo
tion lor a new itial bised u oi ra il evi
dence, except iu terms, and that a respite
fromexccitioni* necessary to make said
superior emit to hear said motion in term.
Artspiti was granted in Briokley’scase be
cause the newly discovered evidence in that
case was material, not merely cumula
tive iu its charset* r, end misted
a material fact not showu upon the first
trial. If such ia tbe chancer of the newly
discovered cvi Jence in this esse then a res
pite from from execution should be grant
ed, to enable Thompson to present a motion
for a new trial based thereon to the u^xt
term of the superior court of Brooks couu-
A brief rtferencc to the several affidavits
celling forth the newly dUcjv.rcd evidence
will bu here presented.
E C Wade, Jr., deposes with great par
ticularity to facts within his knowledge.
Upon a careful examination of his testimo
ny I Had that it is entirely cumulative la its
cuaracter. it does not ielate to new aud
material facta.
E U Wad-, 8.*.. testifies in substance that
he was on the ground where tee homich c
occurred, and an election was being he’d,
from an early hour of ths day ia which the
killing took place, wheu a riot oc
curred iu which the colored
voters were driven from the polls with gun*,
pistols, etc., “and from threats he had
heard had been made pri r to the day of said
election, and that were made on the day of
said election,{and from Information received
from all sources since the elec ten, depo
nent is fully and entirely conviac.d in Lis
miud that the riot of that day was the re
sult of a conspiracy entered into by James
fl. Hunter, deceased, and others, for the
purpose of preventing a fair expression
of the wi 1 of the peoplo at the ballot box.''
This witness further deposes in sab stance
that a short time before the assault was
made upon Nick Thompson he heard James
U Hunter, deceased, use “violent epithets
aud threats to Oliver Mitchell, a peaceable,
quiet, respectable colored citizen of Brooks
county, shaking his stick over said Oliver
Mitchell’s head, seeking to Induce Mitchell
to say or do something that the r ot might
begin by an assault upou him, the said
Mitchell.” The witness deposes further in
aubstauce that he noticed “an expression
in said Hunter’s countenance and a manner
never seen in him before, and believe 1 that
said Hunter at the time was very much un
der the influence of spirituous liquors* as
was also D. R. Creech, who waa, as It
seemed, equally determined upon raising a
riot for tne purpose of driving colored
voters from the polls as .aforesaid.” Th
evidence of this witness is set forth with
tome particularity, for the put pose ol
calling attention to its total irrelevance
to the issue la the case.
It constats cf naked assertions, unsuppoit
ed by any specification of fact, aud of the
mere opinions of a witness who is manifest
ly under a strong bias. There is nothing tu
tne evidence which proves that a riot for
any purpose whatever was contemplated or
intended, until the difficulty which
resulted iu the homicide had taken place.
Joseph II Knight testifies la substance
that about half past 12 o’clock in the day of
the homicide, Dr D L Kicks, who was
one cf the jurors upon %.cease
“rede past deponent loping his mule, as de
poneut was going from the court house
along the road leading south from said
court house in the town from Quitman* aul
j aaid Kicks rode past he was greatly ex-
ttd, saying Hunter was dead, and adde^::
'are you not going tack? you ought to go
back; everyone ought to be there 1” •• This
witness further deposes that the sail Kicks
rode rapidly to the house of Randolph
A very and quicklv came out with a gun,
which he first fired off. and then rode rapid
ly back to Qu tman with tbe gun.
D. A. J. Welch deposes in substance that
be saw Dr. Ricks, during the riot that was
going on, ride up to the gate of tbe jail*
ou a mule, with a double barrel s jot guu in
his hand, and that he “seemed willing and
anxious to take a part in tbe proceedings ',
The evidence of the last two 'witnesses is
relied on to show the Incompetency of Dr.
DE Kicks, one of the jury that tried tbe
ease. It ia hardly necesaary to say that it
does dot go far enough for that purpose.
It does not show any bias or prejudice
the mind of Ricks against Thompson, or
that he was not in every respect a legally
qualified juror. One of tbe witnesses says
tnata riot was progressing. If this wa>
true it behooved every goo 2 citizen to
in suppressing it Dr. Ricks docs
seem to have done anything (inconsistent
with this duty. We'ch stat> a that Ricks
was talking in a crowd and “seemed will
log aad anxious to take a part In the pro
ceedings.” This is too vagne and indefinite.
John G. McCall deposes in substance
that he beard Captain J II Hunter during
hit last Illness and a few days before his
death aay to substance that he “didn’t hear
Nick Thompson call him a damned liar on
the dav and at the time he was stabbed.”
This as presented is not legal evide' ce and
would hardly be held ad in Usable by any
court of law. But if legal in all other re
spects, it would still be subject to the ob
jection that it is eamnlaiive only. Evidence
of this fact was given to during the trial by
several witnesses.
The Rev U D Campbell depo es to a
vague and indefinim recollection of a fact
not be legal evh
The foregoing is substantially the newly
discovered evidence upon which the app i-
callon re Im to obtain a new Irish 1 will
not consume time in demonstrate It* insuffi
ciency, as already suggested, It consist* of
loose statement*, of Immaterial facts and
vague expressions of the unsupported opin
ions of the witnesses Utrie*, u c nbowing
Is such as would make it the duty of tbe
court to award a new trial the respite ought
not to be granted. In my opinion, It does
not come up to this requirement. The ap
plication for respite ia tncrcforc refused.
Respectfully,
Jambs M. Smith.
Of a 1 the classei of men who pe iodically
visit a city like Atlanta, drovers are perhaps
the mofct victimized by sharpers and vil
lains. A drover is generally a good natur-
ed, sociable being, who loves his glass a
good deal anl h*s friends more. He makes
money fast, often carries large sums upon
his person, and spends It lavishly. Sharp
ers and gaxbh ra are always ou the look ont
for such men mslhet;, and not unfrequent-
ly they have been swindled or robbed out
of large s:ms of money ii this city. Tho
case of the Virginian, Spence', who lost
61,500 In Bedell’s room a few years ago,aud
the rubsequent prosecutions of the parties
concerned, are events still fierii In tbe
ml ids of our readers
w Another very inyvterbua occurrence, by
ss .entken hundred dollars
were plundered *rom a drover, took place
pity Light before last, and the police
and detectives ate now making strenuous,
bnt as yet futile effor s to arrest the perpe
trator. Tbe can is in every icape:t a sin
gular one, and aptly illustrates the folly of
a man Indulging In drink with a sum of
money on hit pci son Tho facts are as fol-
lows, and were mainly gathered by a repre-
■^RUtlyc cf Tua Co stitution, fron the
Ictlm hlmsel:
BRU.O HOGS TO MARKET.
Sa-ftwoor three day* ago, Mr. P 8 Ha.
arrived in Atlanta from hu home near
Athens, east Tennessee. He is a young
man, apparenUv twenty-!! re or twenty, six
of i* » hog drover by trad*.
He brought with him several car-loads of
which he sold here at fair prices. Mr
Uall gathered up the proceed* amounting
to between»ixteen and seventeen hundred
dollars, and concluded that he would star*
ror home 1 bursdsy n'ght. During tjio day,
howLVer.hefcllin with a Mend, anothci
drover who came from his neighborhood,
and Mr 1 oik Paikcrson by name. The two
conc uded th.y wou’d buck around a
lltUc befere leaving the city, and
6illy landed at a notorious bouse
iui! n J am .l» kcpt . bj ouc Abb «y Howard
11,11 thouguticfs enough to carry his
money with hi®. Herolledit up in acorn-
pact bunt4 c of to es,ard
1*L\CED IT IN TUB BREAST l*OCKLT OF lilt
For greater security,he had pinu dthc buu
die of notes to bis vest In addiUon to this
he had about a hundred dollars In bit pocket.
I arkerson had about three hundred dollars
In his pocket. Hall claims tha». he did uot
driukatry liquor at all in this house, and
did uot spend any money thews. That he
was sober when Uc went in. aud sober when
he came out. Finally Hall came away alone,
leaviug Psrk.isiH) behind. He does tint re-
memb.r positively whether h: had his
money or not, bnt thinks hi: hail, as he hai
uo rueolleeUoii of showiu* It to any -.Kirson
no , * ;i * After wandering .limit a
wniio, he made his way Into a bar room,
anil there took four or five drinks. This
liquor made him stupidly drunk, and there
a theory with some of the potlc. that he
wa* draped. Ball sajshe has an Indistinct
■ememberaLc: of same volunteer frirnl
Ukint; him out of tho bar room when he
wes blind drunk, and this Is the 'met he rc-
, ,*•« probably taken out
about i- o eluc j, when tbe bar had toclore.
lho between
13 and I o’clo. k. IjInR on the sidewalk near
the aiinbill hausc, dead drunk, and was
by them carried to the sta'ioii hous-s. Yes
terday morning, when he recovered con
sciousness, he fouud that hi*
PACKAGE OF MONEY WAU GONE.
When he wa* brought to the ata' ion house
the police found uiuety-sevc:r dollar.* and
hetoid CntSiU LUrOCkCiaua ,b!it * U fclt
He plead guilty to the charge of Intoxi-
citlon before tne nc »rder, and in conald -
era ton of the heavy loss he U d sustained
was let off with a fiucof $1 *rd costs. The
cme presents aln o*t i. gi»-«*ouuUHe diffi
culties to .the i*.l cc fn>STtha fact that
ENTIRELY UNABLE TO LOCAT8 TUE BAR
ROOM,
nor can he Identify the stranger who took
him out. His recollections of the
entire right’s occurrences arc
very indistinct. The pol'cs arc
pretty well satisfied that this stranger,
whoever he may be, got the money, but the
chances of catching him with the clnea
before them, would seem to be very slight.
Ilall bears his heavy loss with much forti
tude, but would give a handsome reward to
recover hi* money. He is still In the city
awaiting developments. Ills friend Park
erson turned up yesterday mo ning $3t0
poorer than he was tbe night before, but
says be spent his money. There is no
doubt but that a great outrage has been
perpetrated upon th’s drover, au d we sin
cerely hope the police may ho able to do
something towards ferreting it out.
ANOTHER ROBBERY.
Thursday nltrlit :he offi e of Mr J B 8car-
rett, corner of Broad aid Marietta streets,
was entered by thieve* and 43i in money
was abstracted from a desk drawer. Mr.
3carrelt does not sleep at his office and con
sequently only discovered his loss ycstcr-
day morning. It is pretty well established
that the thieves u-eu false keys to effect an
entrance, as a bunch of these articles were
found where they had been left on the
floor. No orr* sts have yet been made.
ALLEGED FORGERY.
Yesterday detective W L Jones arrested
ajoung man named Staley f *r aleged
fotgery. He was carried to the guardhouse
ana locked up. It I-i alleged by VV H Pen
dleton & Co , tobacco merchants, that fita-
I'f collected bills due them f-om sundry
psrtles, forged their names to receipts, and
appropriatcd.the p oceeds. The amounta
are small The prisoner asscits 111* inno
cence, which we hope for bis sake lie may
be able I o establish.
Two Augusta Merchants Exchange
Shots.
One is Dangerously Wounded in
the Groin.
[Special to The Gonstitcflon.)
AuausTA, December .6,1873.
Considerable excitement has existed In
the city all day In con?£qucnce of a probable
hostile meeting between Gearge E, Ratcliffe
and C. D. Tilley, two well-known citizens of
Augusta. The Constitutionalist this morn
ing said:
“It Is reported that for some uuklnd ex
pressions made by a well known insurance
man, an equally well known and h&odsoma
commt-sioc merchant became so much in
censed as to send a challenge, which was
withdrawn yesterday morning and the
jd between
. B rib the gentlemen arc
a Inly” Is said to have
muse of the difficulty.”
arranged to take placo
enlenU cordlcue h?
the two gcntlemci
unmarried, an 1 *
been th^ ranting i
A meeting was
yesterday, but
WAS FORESTALLED
by the Intervention of friends. A
BDARD OF HONOR
was convened last night at tho Globo hotel
for tho purpose of settllug the matter with
out a hostile meeting, but their efforts fail
ed, and
A CHALLENGE WAS FASSSD
and accepted, and a mecUug arranged to
take place this morning. From some cause
it did not take place until 3 o’clock thU
evening. 8ho'a were exchanged, and Tilly
was
DANGEROUSLY SHOT
ia the right groin.
Scandalous stories are raid to have been
the cause. The Star.
Associated Press Account.
J Augusta, G a , December 16.—C. D. Tilley
jand George E. Radcllffe fought a duel at
3 o’clock this p. *n , at Band Bar Ferry, 8.
C. Tilley was shot iu the groin at the first
The ball was extracted from the left
side. The wound is serious but not neces
sarily fatal Til’ey demanded a second fire
but his seconds refused on account of the
wound. Tilley challenged Radcllffe for
words reflecting on his character.
Mr. Pendleton lef*. here this p. m , and
will spend Friday iu Columbia, iu attend
ance at flic legislature of South Carolina.
SAD SCENE.
Tlift Engine Explosion at Ihrnflt
licany and Downs Drought Here.
Upon our first page will be found full tel
egraphic accounts of the terrible accident
at Barnett yesterday morning. The details
are full and graphic. -The engine is a total
wreck. The cause perhaps will never be
known. Mr. Henry Downs, tho fireman,
waa killed instantly. He waa found in the
tender, horribly mangled and partially cov
ered with wood.
Mr. Downs was married and leaves a wife
and threo children. He resided at No. 61
Georgia railroad alley. Mr. Downs is a
brother of Samuel and William Downs, and
waa 26 or 27 years old. His remains was
placed iu a handsome coffin and brought to
Ibis city at four p. in. Uc will be buried
today.
Mr Joseph B Hc.ncy, tho engineer, waa
found some thirty feet from the track ou
the ground. His skull was fractured, his
thigh broken, and jawbono fractured, and
waa bruised in many places. Abont teu
o’clock he became conscious, and waa
brought he”e yesterday and carried to his
residence, No. 20 Moore street.
Mr. Heaney Is regarded as oie of the belt
engineers In the state. He is about 30 years
of age, and haa a wife and several children.
Several days azo one of his children died,
and his wife it in feeble health, aud another
one of his children Is ill.
Col 8 K Johnson, the superintendent, tel
egraphed for Drs Pilcher and 8hie'ds, of
Crawfordvlllc, to lender Mr llcancy medical
attention, which they did. Dr 8 8 SliicUs
came up with Mr ltcancy, i.nd
staid with him last night. We
found Dr hhiclds an intelligent
and tkUlful^prrctitlone.r end fully up to his
duties. Dr. WUlla V Westmoreland waa
summoned to the case, and Dr. Shields
S oes home this morning, leaving Mr.
cancy under the charge of Dr. Westmore
land. The case seems to be a doubtful one,
and yet wc enti rtain strong hopes of Mr.
Kcaucy’s rc mvery. Quite a number of the
fi lends of Messrs. Downs and Keancy met
the train and rendered every assistance.
Two households iu our midst arc cov
ered with gloom, and many hearts arc rent
with anguish. May the bereaved and
stricken remember that earth has no sorrow
that Ilcavcn cunuotheal.
Another Railroad Accident.
IChattanoova Times. |
On the night of the 15th inst. Captain
F. A. Camming left Knoxville for Chat
tanooga in charge of freight train No. 5.
As he approached Ebcnczcr he gave the
signal to stop, as there was a passenger
on board to be left at that point.
This having been accomplished, Cap
tain Cumming signaled Engineer Bender
to go on. The engineer answered but
did not start. The signal was again giv
en and answered, but the train diJ not
move.
Engineer Bender then called for “off
brakes” which not being replied to, he
found upon ex tmination that a brakes
man was misBrng^and told Capt. Cum
ming he had lost a man.
Going to the rear of the train and
walking down the track, they commenc*
ed to find pieces of torn clothing and
scattered fragments of a human form.
After going about two bundled yards
they found the dismembered and dis
emboweled trunk of a man.
What was thus found had been a few
minutes before Robert Williams, a hale
and hearty young man and a favorite on
tbe road.
Williams had been stationed aa brakes
man on the second car from tlie engine,
beiDg a coal car of the W. & A. railroad.
It appears there was no nut on the top of
the stall to hold up the break-wheel. In
trying to stop at Ebcnczcr,'the wheel fell
down, carrying Williams with it under
the train Nineteen cars passed over poor
Williams, and except it was kuown who
was missing aud the familiar look of the
clothing found, his remains could not
have been identified by his associates.
Capt. Cumming, Engineer Bender, and
other train hand;<, together with such
assistance as could be obtained, gatnered
up the scattered remains of Williams
and placed them in a box. Capt. Cum
ming then placed his train on the side
track, and with the engine and oue car,
run bock to Knoxville, carrying the body
of Williams.
Deceased was a brot* er of Samuel
Williams, agent at Bristol, on the* E. T.
& Va. road, and also of Taylor Williams,
conductor ou the W, & A. road.
Galen aud Hippocrates gained
immortal fame aa physicians Their
names will live forever, but the remedies
which they used are either discarded or
forgolton. From their time to tbe pres
eat day new remedies and so-called
specifics have been offered to the public,
have been tried and found wanting, but
now the uo tiring efforts of our physicians
seem crowned with success in tbe pro
duction of the celebrated Home Stomach
Bitter.-*. Whenever they have been tried,
they have iu variably produced a benefi
cial effect on all diseases of tbe bowels
and liver. decl5-d2tawlw&wlt
A ROUUIMIEWN BENCH.
Moses, Whippcr,and Wiggins Elect
ed Judges in Sooth Carolina.
Charleston, Dec. 16.—A caucus of
the radical members of the state legisla
ture was held last night. The first busi
ness to-day was to adopt a resolution of
joint session of both houses and to pro
ceed at once to the election of associate
justice of the supreme court, and eight
circuit judges for the state. The result
is as follows:
Associate justice—Wright, negro.
Circuit judges—1st circuit, Whippcr,
negro.
2d circuit—Wiggins, carpet-bagger.
3d circuit—F. J. Moses, Jr., ex-gov*
ernor.
4tb circuit—Townsend.
5th circuit—Mackey.
6th circuit—Carpenter.
7th circuit—Northrop.
8th circuit—Cook.
They are all republicans. The elec
tion of Whippcr, Wiggins and Moses,
the first for the Charleston circuit, tlie
most important in the state, creates re
gret and indignation among the better
class of republicans and the people gen
erally.
Charleston, Dec. 16.—Great excite
ment prevails hero in consequence of
the election by tbe legislature to-day of
eight circuit judges and one associate
judge of tho supreme court. Wright,
colored, was chosen to the latter position.
In the Charleston circuit Judge Itccd, a
moderate republican, is replaced by the
black politician, Whippcr, whom Gov.
Chamberlain publicly denounces as
utterly incapable and corrupt Charles
ton is the most important circuit in the
state. Ex-Gov. Moses, Jr., is elected in
the third circuit, and other circuits have
been filled by the election of persons less
notorious but equally obnoxious to tbe
t»x payers.
Uocd Reading.
—II Lbhipley, of Doraville, killed a two
j car old bog weighing 408 pounds, net
—TJ Hightower killed six hogs that
weighed 2,100 pounds.
1 II Kimbrell, near 8tone Mountain,
killed a three year old hog weighing 416
l>ouudf, net.
—Milton H Hightower Isa lad that Ii
worthy of honorable mention. On b'e fath
er’s place, near Smyrna this year, he has
raised 700 bushels of corn, 4 bales of cot
ton, 250 bushels of potatoes, besides bay,
turnips, etc. Uc has now ten acres iu
wheat, tbe laud being broken up fifteen
inches deep. ^
A Pointed Letter.
Mci-rs A C & B F Wyly, addressed a let
ter to one of their petrous asking for the
name of the justice of the peace lu his dis
trict. They received the following reply:
Da Kalu Co.. —.
I received yoar letter last night. You
requested me to give you the name of a
justice of the peace. I don’t know whether
r ou arc going to sue me or uot. If you are
can not help it Mr Wyly, God knows if
I could of paid you sooner I would have
done it. 1 do ame to pay you tho vou may
sue me. If you do l can not help it. I in
tend to pay it if I live. D any body
who will make a debt and won’t pay it. You
may think I am a liar, I have promitadyou
to many times I would pay. I intend to pay
yon, too I will give you the name of
the jostle i of the peace. His name ia
WG 8 topics. My customers are not worth
a or they would pay me.
X. X.X.