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// V X By W. A. HEMPHILL & CO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1876. No. 40, Volume Till Toe Atlanta C' nstltution LNDER THE MOW. THE DEBT STATEMENTS. WEEKLY EDITION TxtMs or tcw.Brnos. We"klJ:2Vl i uk fifth dlamer. There being no district committee cell a convention for Ibe selection of ilelsgates to the aatlooal democratic convention, at suggested by ua hereto fore, we ere glad to be able to prevent a way out ofihe difficulty. We havereceiv ed from Col Hardeman the following let ler.and in accordance with iu suggestions and also the call elsewhere from two meoiben of the State Executive, commit tee, w«* hope that county meetings wil at onee he held throughout the district,and delegates aolected to meet at Griffin on the Mik of April. We trust that good and discreet men will be chosen, that their action msy meet the unanimous mdonsmeat and pommendatioo of the democracy of lb# district: Macon, March 19.187*1 Editor* Constitution: Gist* -1 have Juat seen that you are without a district committee to call your coamt’oa oo the 36.h of April. 1 would augrrat that the papers lo the district call rounty meet Inga to select delegatee, to meet In (Jrlflln on the !M b of April, for the putpoaee Indicated In the call of that con- vee ion If ae chairman of the state exec utlve com sitter, 1 have such power, which J do not assume, 1 will make such a call and request the several corn tin In your district to tend delegatee to Griffin on toe Ndth of April, to arlect two delegates for their fl«l r kt l and four for the state a* Urge, forth* nailmal democratic convention. K«*epeetfully, Taos Hannawan, Jn , C hm’n at ate democratic executive com mittee. HIK mill DldnUCT. _ CALL ron DEMOCRATIC COSTSHTION. Whereat there la no district democrat ic executive oommittec in the Fifth con- gicasiunal district, nor other body em powered to call a convention of the par ty. Therefore, At the suggestion of a number of leading democrats in various pans of the district, we, the members of the stats democratic executive committee r.siding in this district. Id order that party action may not fail, do call a con ventioo of the democratic parly for ihu Alh distric* to be held at Griffin on the Mill day of April, to select delegates to the national democratic convention tb*» meets at Si. I« *u • « a t ie 97fh of June. J*t r Boynton, 1. W. A\kky. 11, ot ihe State Executive Qjmmittec. TUK UOCBB ON KKfiUMPTiON. " The financial question was prrclplta- tml in the house last Monday by Mr At kins' bill providing for the repeal of the resumption act. lie m*ved to suspend the rules, which would have pvtetd the hill if It had carviid. The motion was lost by 1UU for to 108 sgainst, 75 mem bers not voting. The bulk of the affirmative vole came from the northwest without much regard to party lines. The entire Indiana delegation voted io favor of the resolution—that la, all that voted at all Misers Kerr and Cason did not vote Kentucky and Tennessee's votes were all eye. Messrs lUadall and Bobbins were the only 1’ensylvananle democrats who voted against the resolution. Mes srs. lllount. Cook, Harris and Smith voted eye and the rest of the Georgia delegation did not vote. There was not a single vote for the resolution from Nt’W Kusland. New York and New Jer- ThU vote docs not indicate wbat the house will do when the caucus bill comes hr lore them. For cxsmplr, the Georgia delegation voted solid in the caucus for the l*ayne bill, and will doubtless do so again if it cornea before the house. And yet a majority of the house doubtless prefer an unconditional repeal of the re sumption act; and this makes the fate uf the bill adopted in the caucus very un certain. We hope it will pa w the house It is the b- st compromise that the case admits of, and as such should receive the vote of every southern member. Till FRUIT CHOP Tbs present remarkable spell of wen»cr will greatly curtail the fruit <rop of this section. If it has not entirely de stroyed it. The thviroometer has rang ed for three days from five to ten de grees below the freetlng point, and for n day and night the trees were covered w ilh icicles. It is therefore to be feared that the young fruit has been frocen out, the very blooms and young leaves having been parched and killed by the bitter, biting cold. This is no email calamity, tor our fruit crops are growing irore valuable every year, and go far to sup ply a deficiency in other crops. We shall hope that some fruit will be spared us, inasmuch as the later blooming tree* have probably escaped. We shall be glad to hear from our readers In differ ent sections of the state as to the extent of the injury. We shall endeavor to present a correct idea of it in a few days. ^ ^ A antciAL dispatch from Jackson to the Memphis Avalanche snya: “contrary to the advice of leading republicans of ail portions of the state, the governor refused to fill the vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor, >nd permitted the act requiring appointments in stale office s to be with the consent of the sen* ate, and authorizing the president pro tern, of the senate to act as governor in case of a vacancy, to become n law by limilelloo.The democrats, who have been in hot water for several days, are there fore jubilant. It is generally admitted that Ames had every advantage bu: was uicqual to the emergency. The republl cans are lb ^roughly disgusted, and none poor ns to do reverence to his carpet bag exosllcncy. Indeed, Ames will have little republican sympathy if convicted and expelled from office by .the demo crats, into whose hands he has played, and who are determined to grind him to powder." FIFTH DISTRICT CONVENTION. The fall of “hominy’' snow extended Senator Davis, of West Virginia, bus lo Georgia below the middle of the state,' not abandoned, nod does not propose to taking in Augusta, Macon and Columbus, j aboodoa his raid oo the altered accounts Farther south the sleet fell in the form ( in the treasury hooka The senate mill- of rain, nod our visitors from' tary committee, at bis instance, have the northwest probably got no just asked the treasury department to further teste of the great storm than n i explain the following points: cold rain and n raw air. And yet there was sleet st Seims, Vicksburg sad Jack sc*, but we hear of no snow on the line of Savannah in this North of Atlanta the “hom iny” soon became feathery particles, that covered, on Monday morning, Ibe upper part of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama with n whi e spring mantle varying from two to eight Inches in thick ness. At Greenville,South Carolina, it was four inches deep; st Dalton, five inches, and at Decatur, Alabama, it was six inches deep. About Charleston it is feared that the strawberry crop is injured, and there is little hope that the cherry, piuui and peach blossoms in the upper •ecthms of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama have escaped serious injury. In Atlanta the mercury has been thus far this week twenty degrees lower than at any corresponding time of the lad ten years. The snow covered every inch of Ten nessee and of the states to the north of it In tome pieces it was nearly a foot deep. And extremely cold weath er same with it. The fruit crop of Kentucky and Tennessee is ruined In Kxst Tennessee this is no inconsidera ble 1<jnl The dried fruit trade of Knox ville and its neighborhood alon- aggre gates well up towards half a million of dollnrs. At Naabvillc a depth of eiglit ioebe ■ was attained, or more than has fallen lo ore storm for over thirty yearr. Throughout the states in wbi-'h our northwestern visitors reside the cold and the snow fall were alike unprecedented, the lateness of the season being consid ered. The entire fruit crop of those states is also damaged, per haps ruined. No part of the country in fact seems to have escaped the ravage a of the storm. All along the coast, from Galveston to Maine, there was a terrific gale, and in the interior, high winc 4 *,%lou tempera lure and an unseasonable fall of fnow or •leet. Nor was the storm confined to this country. Gales, floods and snow fall*, one or all, were vi*Ii«*l upon Eng land, France. Germany and Belgium, last week .Earthquakes, shipwrecks and land slips were among the incidents of t'ie European spell of had weather. Our storm of snow wa* hardly a full copy of the one that fell in.England and Scotland, where the railroad* were blockaded by the inconvenient and unseasonable sub stance. Altogether, this cosmopolitan March atorm bids fair lo hold a place in history. ' The oldest inhabitant" at the next cen- tennlal will certainly lie entitled to talk elxiut it, and wb»u he has told its bisio ry under the magnifying influences of memory’ and his hearers* wishes, it will surely stand out as the storm of storms. Thk congre»Honal ^Jemocratlc com mittee announced that it is now full? or gan ized for the Presidential campaign, and requests democratic oganixationa in all the states sod territories to send in the names of regular committees imme diately. Applications for documents, speeches and other political matter, and all communications relating to the busi ness of the committee should be address i-d to the Secretory at 124 F street, Wah'ngton city. la Ia7l, during Senator Boutwell’s td- mininistralion, wholesale changes were made in the tobies showing the public the c ose of each fiscal year, thirty or forty reports having already been made. The sum of these altera- amounted in the aggregate to an ncrease in the public debt of over $247- 000,000. The changes referred to dates back to 1826. At that time the public debt was at its minimum. Each year after that the register of the treasury made annual statements of the public debt and these were sent to congress unchanged, each report agreeing as to the debt of former years with the reporte that bad preceded, until 1870, the year after Mr. Boutweil took the port folio, when many changes wer« in these often published ta bles. For Instance, a statement of the debt for 1863 having once been nude up and sent to congress, all subsequent re ports for that year ought to agree with it The finance reports from 1HC3 to 1870 did thus agree, hut between the publics tion of the reports for 1870 and 1871 an increase was made in ibis item for 1803 by which it appears to have been in ■ creased nearly $21,000,000. To make this statement exact, it will appear by BoutweU’s register’s report ibat the amount which had been stated as the public debt on the 1st of July, 1883, was $1,009,000,000, and every tub* quint year till 1871, when it was reported by the Register as being $1,120,000,0CO. It has been repeated at the last figure every year since. The only conclusion that can be arrived at from these obvious discrepancies is that the register of the treasury changed the flames the report of 1*71. The exact sum of the alteialiens made during Mr. Boutwell's term was $247,- 765,674. Senator Boutwell attempted to explain these changes, but it was only an attempt. He cleared up none of the points now before the senate finance committee. The whole matter iscloeely watched bv the experienced finan- from West Virginia. While the committee la trying to get from the clerks of the treasury department some satisfactory explana tion of,lbe wholestlo changes, Mr. Davis Is continuing his investigations. He hah discovered many additional facts which will be given to the senate whenever the report of the committee on finance is completed. He has enlisted for the war, and the administration may as well make up their minds to clear up the crooked reports, or 'less that other mem- ’.Kirs of the concern have (•unied. The astonishing changes of 1870 and 1871 are at present a muddle, but the administration has got to explain them or admit that they have kept the people’s accounts In such a way that no one can ascertain the truth. The debt statements have been tampered with; why, and by what authority ? Tbs democratic party of the several counties composing the fifth cougreaalooal <&l met, la requested to appoint delegates to a convention, to be h id at tirtffln on the 96th day of April Best, U> selec* delegates from tb's district to the national democrat le convention, to be held In 8L Louts In Jane next. Each county ts entitled to dnib'e the number of reprseeata’tvee that It ha* In the lower house of the general as sembly. There being ro executive committee ta I'll* JUtrlct, It bt cornea mt duty as presi dent of the last district convection to Issue this call. Wm. J. Abdbsson, President Convention. Democratic papers throng boat the dis trict will please copy. —The New York Herald has dee ded what this country w«nts most 1 oyster opener who does not spit tobacco juitn. Wr direct the attention of the reader to an interesting scries of opinions printed in our local columns,which were given to a reporter of TnK Constitu tion by a pr uuinent delegate in the northwestern excursion. They are re flexes of popular sentiment in his sic tion concerning sonic of odr leading Georgia statesmen, and are accurately reported. We g ve them as they weie imparted and they will furnish an inside view of the outside opinions of a powerful section of the union concerning southern leaders. The Kentucky legislature has passed a bill taxing all dogs over three years of age $2 each. Tennessee shows them no mercy, ana the veUrans of Kentucky’s army of dogs will he compelled lo emi grate in a body to Georgia, w hlch Is now the canine paradise. Thk Chattanooga Times tppeals to its readers to feed the bird*. The little feathered songster* that -««#* the plants and trees from the ravages of wones, were in danger of starvation in Tennes see during the Arctic embargo, which is not yet fairly raised. It is now slated Piat Greenback Leo ders la to be the democratic candidate for governor of Indiana, Holman yield ing his claims with hopes of being the democrat who w ill succeed Morton in the senate. The tall sycamore of the Wabash will not bo apt to assent to tba latter proposition. Fernando Wood's life was iu Immi nent danger last week on account of disease in his throat. A delicate and skillful operation saved his life, but Mr. Wood will necessarily be an invalid for six months. It is not believed that will be able to take an active part In the house for the rest of the session. Last Monday Mr. Cook introduced bill to pay the state of Georgia “for services iu carrying the U nitid Statu mails.” Tine papers difltr in relation to the party that would gain through the ad mission of New Mexico. The World *ays it Is a republican measure, and the Times says it would put democrats in congress TnK house committee on appropria tion* has refused to grant an additional appropriation of $500,000 to the govern ment board charged wi:h preparing ar ticles from the several departments for exhibition at the centennial. Fourteen tons of silver coin are en route from San Francisco to the treasury vaults in Washington. WE hope the members of ihc n«.xt con gressional convention lLat is asscmbUd in this district will devote their intellects for a few moment* to the selection of a district committee. We have not had one in four years, and ai emergency might arise when it would be handy to have one in the house. Mr Arch Smith writes Commissioner Janes an important letter on wool grow ing, which will be found in another col umn It gives important facts going to show that sheep will not degenerate n Georgia. ATHENS’ NEW ENTERPRISE. 1 Taw* army moles did the bwatasss ter — . , Bristow. the Northeastern railroad written by 1 are at preseat ta the market look* “Director" with the air of one having an- tag ter money TH E UNIVERSITY BILL. A stroke of executive lightning laid out this creation of last sesei cold as a wedge. The member from Clarke, Mr. Carlton, became one of tbe mourners, and at his solicitation Governor Smith forwarded the reasons that Induced him to witli- bold official assent from bill. A statement of these reasons,wbicb the governor speaks of as brief, appears in Mr. Carlton's paper. The bill is too dead to waste much spice over, but we will attempt to jot down the chief points that leed to the veto. In the flr*t place, says the governor, a want of perspicuity pervades entire bill. The designated mode of selecting a new hoard is uncertain, and the number of votes that tbe supreme court or the pre& enl board would cast Is especially so. Besides the judges might decline to act altogether. If they should accept, it would be at the expense of their other duties. If they should refuse to act no valid election of a new board could be held. The present trustees might alto refuse to go into an election to choose their own successors, and as they would have to vote for themselves, they might feel restrained by a sense of self-respect In all of these contingencies the univer sity would stand a good chance of being left without a legal government after next August, and the wrhole institution of ceasing to have a corporate existence. Governor Smith adds: “The legal couse quencea w hich would ensue need not be here particularly staled. Whether tbe titles to the donations and endow menu, vested ia the present board for the use of tbe university, would revert to the donors or their heirs, is a question I shall not pause to discuss. Suffice it to say, the cause of university education la the stale would receive a blow from tbe effects of which it would be tong in recovering.” The new board would be unwieldy. An attendance of fifty members at the first meeting would be required to keep up the government of the university. Is it probable that that number could be ibled, when no provision is made for either services or -xpenses ? This would also hazard the future of the uni vanity. We give Gov. Smith's compact elusion: “The provisions of this bill would not remove a single evil existing io the present system, and would intro duce others which would, in my judg ment. speedily destroy the best interest of the university The present system should not be abolished unless a better one is adopted. It is not mere change we need, but reform. All measures of reform should be well considered and cautiously introduced. The evils exist* iog in the present system should be rem edied with as little delay as possible; but, <n my opinion, the remedy cannot be found in the ill-adapted and ponderous machinery provided in this bill." thority. It ia doubtless a scml official de deration of the Northeastern company's policy, ard as such it la as interesting to us in Atlanta, as It is important to the people of Athens and a'ong the line of the now almost completed road. “Director” is clear, pointed and posi tive in bis declarations. He declares that tbe Northwestern is a home enter prise which will be maintained undvr all circumstances as an Independent road. The fears that tbe Georgia company would be allowed to gob* hie it are declared to be groundless, each member present at a recent meeting of the Northeastern's directorshaving ex pressed himself as opposed to a consoli dalien with the Georgia road “under any circumstances." The road will be completed to Belton without assistance from the Georgia company, and the stockholders propose to rperalc it on that line. “ Dircctoi” explains at .some length and with considerable taruess the lofecs that Augusta has and will incur on ac count of deciding to build the Port Royal railroad instead of the Northeastern, which she was solicited to do at one time. All this does not particularly con cern us; b it the good people of Athens whom we b«-pe to know better and oftt-ncr as soon as the new road is fin ished, will certainly permit us to say that it would be a sheer waste of all they have invested to let the road pa?a into the hands of the Georgia company. You need cheaper freights, and to get those you must become a com peting point. The Northeastern operated in connection with the Air Line road would give you all that you desire in 'hat direction. The new road will place you in quick connection with a line tba* destined to become a part of a fast and popular route between New Orleans and New York. Ii is the shortest pos sible route, and speed and all other facilities will quickly follow its reot- ganiz ition. Tbe people of our sister city should cling to ibe Air-Line road. It their interest to do so; it is our inter est, and everybody's interest, except per haps the s;ockholders of the Georgia road. They have a good thing anyway, and can allord to let the Athenians en- >y a season of railroad competition. Uallkt Kii.uourne, manager of the district real estate pool Is still in j ul for refusing to produce his books before tbe house committee. Tbe right of the courts to interfere with tbe case so long congress is in session is denied by nearly all of the lawyers of tbe house, and iu accordance wi'.h that denial the sergeant at arms will refuse to produce the body of tbe witness, even if the courts should demand it. Tbe house would sustain the sergeant at arms, and perhaps direct him to refuse to obey the order of tnc court. They claim that the law directing such cases to be certified to the courts for trial is inoperative to long as congress is in session, and tha 1 it was passed so that there could be pun ishment by the courts for contempt oi the house after its power to punish had ceased by adjournment The bonse having actual possession of the body, mesas to keep possession. Meanwhile there seems to be ground for the state- mett that if the effort of Kilboume to to get out of jtil is unsuccessful, ne will disclose his accounts some time this week. The New Yoik Bulletin says: There is a pretty general satisfaction among the bard money men of both parties with tbe caucus resumption bill of thedemoctacy. The reason of this is the fact that it evi dently means resumption, and thai there shall be no further inflation of the cur rency. It is acknowledged that resump tion in 1879 is impracticable, but It is de manded that wLh repeal of tbe date ol resumption there shall be something practical. The bill is, of course, slightly in the interest of inflation, because it will release tbe bank greenback reserves on deposits, as the three per cent per annum gold accumulation by tha banks is t< count in the legal reserves of the banka It is not improbable that the bill whi piss both houses of congress. TnK bill recently introduced by Sena tor Thurman, amendatory of tbe bank rapt act, provides thst no transfer or voluntary assignment by a debtor here tofore or hereafter made in good faith for the benefit of all his creditors, ac cording to their respective rights therein and without preference, and valid according to the law of the state where made, shall in tbe even*, of hit being subsequently adjudicated bankrupt, bt a b ir lo the dischaige of such debtor The manner in which Babcock obtain ed possession of a copy of Pierrepont’i famous letter is thus explained by the former: I found a copy of the letter lying open on my d-»k at the exec utive mansion. 1 do not know how or by whom it cam there. It was without any envelope or direction to anybody. It was not mirk ed official or confidential. There wa> nothing to show that it was intended fo» the president, and he i lforms me that he never saw it The copy appears to hive been made in the attorney general’s office. Finding this copy open and with out direction on my desk, 1 presumed ii was put there for my inspection and use and, accordingly, I placed it in the hand* of my counsel lor such action as the} might think proper in regard to it. The president recently said to a lead ing senator: “I look forward to the day when my term expires as tbe happiest day of my life. I never want to hold another office.” He will be gratified The president has lost bis conceit for personal government. He b:gms to think there are some things in statecraft not dreamed of in his philosophy. Tiers are 1,506 Japanese living la Faith many more than thers are Frenchmen So Japan. Ox the 496 xnlsrlonarisa Is China, MO are women. Of the 100 is Japan 52 are The testimonial raised tor Cap*. Webb, who swam across the Bnalish channel, has risen to abou $96.00). Bristow denies that he is the originator of the popu'.ar phrase: 4 Here's your mule.” Thk unexpected demhe of Pendleton loaves General Tom Eaing a. tbe head of the Ohio democracy. Miss Cassis Mat will ]>ln the Raman Catholic chu-th before marryirg Jamm Gordon Bennett, who was reared In that communion. It Is a sad thing to see a president's! can didate kicked out of the ring by an army mule. But there’s poetic justice In it. A Cairo telegram announces that two new sphinxes are undergoing excavai^ai In EzypL There is also one at Wasbto'^oo that they are d’ggfog Into Just nowf»4*» pretty llqely rate. v Our distinguished representative, Hon. L. Q C. Lamar, returned home from Waah- io%ton Tuesday night, quite ill.—Oxford Eagle, 17. Bklknap has been compared to Lord Bacon. In many respects they are not un like, but Belknap’s intellectual superiority must be admitted.—Chicago Times. Prixck Oscar, the second son of the king cf.dwedev,will.vi8it this country during the comingeumtier, and will beat the ew- tennla* exhibition on tbe fourth of July Be Is sixteen years old, and a navy cadet. We don’t know wbo It was that engineer «! the New Hampshire election tor the Belknap party but whether Chandler or Caglo or Kolllosbe should be presented with a half doaeu post tradershlps at onto. John T. Wait mmilna*ed by the repub licans for corgr<ta Iu ibe ttird Con necticut district, U a man of sixty, s hwyer dratrate abl Ly sni of wealth, and a legislator of long experience, which la- tudes severs* sessions a» Speaker of tba assembly. U. 8. Senator Ciiakms W. Jones, of Florida, Is an Irishman. He was born lo the okl country, in 1 34, and emigrattiT.i the Uuited S ales in 1844. He is an able >wyer,ind a highly respectable gentleman. He lathe only Irishman in the Uuited States mate. Tub Plot nix iron c.mpany are erecting twoobservatorirs to coat *tt,00U, .each, oo elevations ne-r the centennial ground*, rbey will be 2.5 feet hl^h and designed to accommodate the sight-seeing propensities of at least 1,200 people, at one time. Maksb Is shrewd. He stloulates as ooe of the conditions of his return to the Uni ted States that his wife stall also receive a pat don. Poor Mrs Belknap! how she will •tamp tbatd mlnutive foot of hers when the learns that the demand has been complied with. And now they are endeavoring to prove that Mr. Hendricks it a thief, if Mr. Pen dleton and Mr. Hendricks and every other leading democrat are public thieves the democratic party has h-*pe of success thb year. The republican voters p'ace a reward upon stealing. Wltniii New Hampshire —Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Blaixb exhorted all union men iu tbs house of representatives to votewgri tei-J the resolution declaring that tbe right of sec:ssion does not exist, and when the te suit was announced—150 ayes to 49 noes— Ben. Hill remarked: “Well, I’m aony there ate o sly forty tb ee union men left In the house." A* )UT 20,000,000 tons of coal are mined yearly ia Pennsylvania, la the miuec, un wrought, it is worth fi *ty cents a ton or #10,000,000; mined and b~ovght to tbe sur face it is worth #1 5) a ton or #30,000,0 0; ground, broken, and placed on the cars, it It worth #3 50 a ton or #30,009,000; de.iver- ed at the boundaries of tbe state or on «hip board. It Is worth on an average #5 50. or #110,000,000, which is the sum annually paid to Pennsylvania for coal. Ths mule candidate for the presidency, which hit name is Bristow, la obatinate’y in the field. We have high authority tor say ing that the only way In which to keeps mule In a pasture is to put him In a mead ow and let him Jump out. And Bristow hasn't got Into the meadow. Tex nu<xher of emigrants who sated from port* In tbe Uuited Kingdom last year was 172,509, a decrease of 6?,2j5 as c om pared with 1674. Of that number 105,016 came to the United Statea Of these 43.567 were English, 5,803 Scotch, 31,4 3 Irish, ’33,028 foreigners, and 635 not “distinguish- " Canada took 17,378 and Au*tr*llA 31,525. New York Times: “The defeat of Matey In New Ha*ci sh're la llaely to lead to tbe defeat of Thurman as a candidate before the democratic conveution.and of Hendrick* a’so, and of others who sympathized with the confederacy during the war. Justice Darts, of the supreme court, Is likely now to come more prominently to the front democ atic candidate." of which have a forward curve over the head, while the other two curve downwa-d under ths eye*,«It lng lbs head a singular appearance. Of the second, which are aakl to be a species between the llama and tbe alpaca, there are three, ooe male and two femal s, which are thickly coveted with long dark brown, but exceeding y fine, hair or wool, which is highly prtxed by the na* tive Indi ms for tee manufacture of their mors delicate fabrics. The male stands about three feet high at the shoulder. Ths town elections In New Jersey, held ls*t week, show large democratic gains. “Dana, thr Bodkinesr,” the Irreverent Chicago Times calls him. Good Templaris* is all the rag) tb's season la Kentucky. Beading, Pa., i* the most blessed dty in the country. It has no dty ooun ril. Belknap smiled the first time when he heard the news from Few Hampeht e. Toukg Mrs. Senator Christtency, the late treasury clerk, has been called upon by Mrs. Tbh, and has cut all her old acquaint GEORGIA’S TRIUMVIRI. A. Northwester* Diagnosis of Gar don, RIU and Stephens Tne Impression, they hn»o . A.ite Upon People tbrond. CAR-WINDOW VIEWS. The Detaining Exeursloelsts Drop a Pew Hint* by the Way- Side. The New Y'ork Bulletin says spring trade is moving steadily, with fair pro mise of increase. Western and south western merchants are arriving freely. The Dalle tin add*: “as we seem to have pretty much got through with bank ruptcies and suspensions and other dead weight of that kind, it looks as if the pathway ahead afforded a reasonable promise of a return to more expansive results for trading enterprises, and com mercial ventures of ah' dnds, than are remarkable what a wonderful “effect" a slight “caute” will some times have. For instance, whrn The Atlanta Constitution published the articles favor, able to tbe lease of the State Road, furnish ed by Joaepb E. Brown or Ben H1U, with out any mark to show that they were pub fished as advert! semente, it w.<s s viotetio* d newspaper “ethlA," and a great more 1 wrong; but wht.n tbe Savannah New* pub- lishei the same matter, and put its private nark at the bottom of the articles, it transformed them into leg.limate adver tisements, and made it morally right to pub i-h them, because st les«t one io every hundred of the readers of the News mnet have known what that mark meant. Thus we go.—Covington Star. Moke than thirty member* of the hon«e, it ia reported, are now so ill as to be unable to sltend to their duties, and some of them are very dangerously so. In s majority of cases it Is said that their i’lnets Is directly d ie to the sbamefn'ly imperfect ventilation of the hall of representatives. Tbe trouble that enough pure air cannot be pumped into the hail to tuppty the demand of mem bers, much less of crowded galleries; and for tbe present the galleries will be closed to all except privileged penoos. “A Wash ngton sjecial to the Chicago Tribune says that J E Blame, brother ex Speaker Bl.iae, 1* held responsible i sccnr ng the post tradcrthlp for Benjamin dtmpeon st Fort Walla Walla, Waehmgt-n territory. If we rexeirher correctly, Mr Speaker Blaise had some credit mobl ier trouble to clear aw «y cn account of Mr. E .! »me« i.vl-er^e hid better is It is suggested that April I is s very ap propriate time for the meeting of the c ed itors of Ezra D. Winslow. The gaff with which Andrew Jackson heeled hit first chicken st s ccck fight at Burke Court House, N. C., lo 1783, wi 1 be exhibited at the centennial. Wouldn't It be well f.r 1'residen Grant to lock the doors an 1 fasten the windows of the white boise so that no gut ty man can escape?—Hartford Times Mrs. Woodhull has captured Galveston, Houston and Austin, and 1s advancing on the Dty of the Alamo. Is the announcement made b/ ths let rifled editor of the 8sn Antonio Herald. The society for tin prev^rtloo of cruclte to animals is doing all in Its power, but there are sti l persona who persist In calling their household pets after members of tbe administration. There are now three daily paper' in New Turk opposed to fo ced resumption—the Graphic, Dally News, and Express, and four weeklies—the Sunday Mercury, Di patch, Irish World, and Frcemtn's Journal. In Brooklyn the Afgu* has wheeled info fine recently Is the centre of a sea mirth on the river Teche, in Louisiana, Uabeautlfu and fer tile island of over 800 acres, and on this island is a mass of pure, solid rock salt, estimated st 90/00,000 tons. Scientific men are trying to find out how the Island came li the marsh, and how the salt came on the island. There ts noalstinctlvcly national party now. What is democracy in one state Is not democracy in another state, and what Is republicanism In ooe state is not republl canism In another. Chancier will count for mote thaif anything else iu the nomina tion of presidential candidates.—India asp oils News. Mr. Amos J. Cummings, formerly city editor of the Tribune, and then managing editor of the 8nn, Is to be the manager ef the new Tammany paper which 1s to be made out of the Evening Ex jrcse. Cummings 1s a brilliant newsman. He first gave the dash and snap to the 8un. He 1* In poor health, however, aud his friends think he Is abcut entering upon the performance of too big a coo tract. Somebody has been promt.-lng *he New Jersey delegation st Cincinnati to Mr. Cockling. U was prerious'y promised by Mr. John Y. Foster to Mr. Bls.ne. New Jersey is inhabited mostly by mosquitoes, and the difficulty with m taquboe* is, that hen you put your hauds oo them they are there.—Utica Observer (dem.) Ir the #1800 “trinket" to Mr*. Grant didn't secure Rubos Ingalls the quarter master general's position why did the pres* ldent jump two assistant quartermasters general, Robert Allen and Daniel H Ruck both of whose comm'rsluns antedated that of Ingall**, st the same time that they both outranked him on the army roll* ?— New Haven Register (Dem ) The Boston Advertiser 1* honest enough admit that Its party carried New Hamp shire by th* grossest fraud and corruption. says: “We learn from persons familiar with the politics of the state that the cor- •tlon that prevailed on Tuesday last ex ceeded in amount and in openness anything ever before known In the state." The stake In New Hampshire wss a large one for the republican party, and it paid for it. The Hayes movement 1 i Ohio 1« weaken. Tbe Bristow wave has demoraliz d 1 badly. The Cincinnati Commercial makes a seductive attempt to ruin It entirely by urg ing iti advocates to compr* mise on the vice presidency. It calls the effort to have complimentary vote cast for Hayes ‘local poppycock," and odds: 4 ’The solid vote of Ohio for Bristow woo'd knock the Morton and Conkling schemes out 0* ti ne, and the ticket might be Bristow and Hsyes. The objection that bath candidates w?re west ern men would ndt be true. This Is not the west, We are aim; ly no* on the eastern frontier. Bristow and U .ye* live In the center of the conn ry." A grand national question cannot be tried in a police court, and New Hampshire lsactnal'y, when we consider the closeness of Its partisan vote and the facile methods of affecting 1*, of little more importance than a ward In New York If tbe adminis tration claims a victory In this election upon tbe Issun of Mr. Belknap's guilt then li'suf fere a practical defeat; fort > win npen that me is - bad for the republican party. Our opinion ts that local na ters, the stake of the United States senatonhlp and money— the latter most of all—determined the result New Hamyshlie. Tbe gene, al appeal is yet to be made to the higher tribunal of the nation.—N Y. Herald. 'Yesterday’s afternoon train over tbe Qeo'gta railroa 1 brought back to this city qutte a large portion of the northwestern . In a conversation with one of the most exmralonlata, Just returning from their Intel lgeot, oba.rvant and pronounced rep- lnto ji or ia*. The missed toonec- reaentstive men of the recent nonhwestern tioa bere ^th the outward bound excura'oa party, we had from him a aeries of opinions about the eminent public men of the south. That his opinions are those of a 1 *rge se.tion in the northwest wouli be proven, were we to give his name and position, but a) he had not the remotest Id.-a that we would tr.nstor his word# to print, it is due to him and froo. ua that we leave both to be guessed at for the prea ent. “GEORGIA IS THR LEADER," ha remarked, “of ad matters of political and maerial progress In the south, »o fir as we In the northwest car Judge, and she there fore naturally attract* great attention to nersel \ Her public men becom a cynosures and their actions ate looked to as the ex poneuts of the temper aud pur,osetof their people. So, It seem all proper enoogn that she should, a* te theca e.have more of these great reprea nt stive characters U*n any other southern state." • Your people, however," we said, “must still have very mvagre knowiedga of our pu file men ?" “Oh, in some respects, of course, tha* Is tine, ana due to thefset that all their In formation in these matters es through the publications _ newspaper*. Yet those same newspapers keep us fully posted Grade from every part of every stale and every t rrttory of the union, praying the British government to release the Fes lacs, tain preparation. The puntvhment visited open Bonnie Blue White’s name has been withdrawn, and James M. Cogblan's, of CAliloraia, has been sent i i for tne va cant chief justiceship of the supreme court of Utah Mr. Coghlan was for merly a member of congress, and is said t j be familiar with the laws relating to mining and land questions,which ccr- ,-itute tbe tulk-of litigation weat of tte! Sta'b^WM.'to Rockies. j ullim.lelj cuke trouble in the family Aeren quoting Got. Brown’, remmrk. 1 A „ « cbl ™ tbtab , , ba u, e prefect concerning the abolition of rlsrery, ini now uth.tthfu.oe5 of the folIowinTiSui- his recent speech of welcome,the Brook- didates will be prevented bef ore the repnb- lyn Argus says. “Language like this de-1 li.-an national convention in Jane for the strays every pretext for mischief makers presidency —to-wit: Washburne, Bristow, wbo take up the old war cries and »*]k | Blaine, llayes, Morton, Hartranft, Conkling of restoration oi an utterly abandoned > possibly Charles Frond« Adamt. The , „ _ system. There is lira materiil enouxb 1 ^ fi«w>cratle nations! now po».ble, Tbe return however, i. . {of ^ comiogf . !ecUon ont | couTenUon will br.b tMj beTUdeu Ser- — —— -• «• — I mour, Thurman, Hendr.cks, David Davis, Lamar, and John Q Adam*. The candi- connected with the before the s.Uoul gTeenbuk coa- ,uce> that lie eo hard for. natural!* > P ShOUld **"" th “ ,he r Tmtiou, at ladianapoUa. r^h^d^eo^^o bear The ' c “ cot wlthoul The Booth. D »ri l Darts, Peter Cooper, t . P?° pl f 10 ”**•, . j system is now so complete that it Is im- W D Kdlej, E B Washburoe, and Charles A« immense p-tlUon, containing hna-] n< * going to be as speedy as some ex | murrecling the dead, red# of thousands of names, gathered P**- w ‘ “» “‘■T x* 1 °° r objective s T i, time t h. t all c point by alow stages, and it i. those slow vporation. The putfivhareni visited upon nitv for a further exercise of pst.rnr* 1 J -a, . ... . /* soaaof Erin h„ Ven more than suf-1TLw ta f '°* ,ble ,or w ““P* wU £* 1 inf when the croakers and ths dismal! ^ .. t have latelj beet isr magnaniSTtT liT * connoL os now. have things so years, would be hailed thoslasm. or prove her magnanimity more, Ikon the liberation of these m#a. much their own way.* and distinct breeds of sheep . v - , lately been introduced Into England "F reference to the proceedings of from tbs western coast of Boa'h America, the court is the John J,y caae, to be The «rst are two tie white wooied sheep, powers and repie- entat'.ves." SENATOR GORDON What do your people think of 8 nator Gordon, of our state?" “Gotdon las the hchtst respect of all our non-partisans, as well a» of the |<aru- tan» of the democracy. From hi* Course In the senate we ore not able to decide upon hi* attainments sad proficiency In suhatan- tial states vanship, but If • j*:di£roent has« d nv« u;on the value of wnat a man docs not do than upon that which he doe* do Is worth anything we hold uordou above par. His conciliatory course bss greatly weakened the ‘confederate brigadier' argu ment of tbs republicans with oar people, and 1 really think that aU sensible men with ns believe the grace and earnestness with wnlch he has 'accept d the »i'tution' have fully off-f et the *m •gnxoimity' which Mr. Morton says has been saown him. Wc class him among the lesdljg mea of the senate and would really like to a e more of his sort la that body " 4 1* be deemed a *safe man'—one whose patriotism can be t u ted alike in tbe north and the south?" “i make no question that our people and those of the north generally believe his pa triotism sincere sod that he ta what you term a 'safe man.' If the peop e north could be made to brileyethat such men as Gordon, Lamar and Waddel', of North Carolina, were folly accepted h adore ta tb south there wou d be less apprehrn«:on» about your fealty to the union." UXH BILL. Do your people except B u 11111 from that category, then ? ' “ W* 11, yes; to some extent, at least. The truth U Uat we thlok Hill sincerely deslr ous of doing good service to the whote country, but our fear is that he has mistaken the method Our Judgment of Hill ta mostly based onhisairuesiy speech. That wss a startling thing and caused us to take a good, square look at the mao wbj made it. We saw hi him great abilities, great geni s, but great mUuuder. landing, or dtategard for, the temper of the gene al masses. Seeing la that speech his etni eat abilities dtaptayed, we have since feared their applies ion to things which might thereby be made engines of ruin. He te capable of great things, both good and evil, in politics." < “Then you fear he may develop Into an ogt'otar?" 44 rha may express It. Th id*-a ta about this, tb at if Mr. Hill could recognize th t the people in the count! v take thing* mo e uu- disputed ly than do their representatives iu Wash ngton, he tould teal ze how acces sary It is that his words aud motive* abou d be plainly understood, if our people could think Mr. Util an agitator on his own ac count that would be a small affair, bu. they accept him as the head center of a large ciaaa of agitators who are suppose d to exist in the south I hope he will uln .buse them of lid* ides, for he U a fow r not to be despised, and hi* genius cau do too much for hi* country for him to couseni that it about t be left unguided by reason and fore sight ALEX 9TEFHENH. “By tte by,” said our guest, “have y *»u tw« from Mr. Stephen* to-dt>?’* “The latest report was on yesterday, aud wss not favorable." “What a pity I We think much of M Stephens, do you know it? Our people wou d n ouru hi* lost as a calamity 10 the republic As one of tbe old time states men—one of the honest and tncorrup able kind — we honor and a 1 mire him. His receut course—I mean since the war—ba* made us forgive him for all i*aMi sins and we rej dee to own a portion of hi* fame. Itta a great pi y, i^ed, that a man whose God-iike qualities are so equally div idea between soul aud brain cannot Uv“ always." After some other conversation upon meai ures, re* her tha 1 men, we were callt-d away • -om this plalu spoken aud In teres •— Kmtotor on pnblta affaire How Freedom Came Mr Cook, of the Cnicago Times, was mong the excursionists to this city. He os looking up “bottom f eta” on tbe ne gro question. lie was Introduced to old SL CROOKED CONVICTIONS. A Few Chapter# in the History of Local Whisky Trials. How United States Soldiers are De graded Into Seiran ta of In former# and Caae- Ptocnrers. train on the Western and Atlsntle road mads it necessary for them to stop over night In our dty. They found excellent quarters st the hotels, and *fter a hesrty tapper we found them ts fresh and lively ts ever. Rome of the party visited the theatre and others dropped in at the Fulton dub rooms, while ths major portbn reedved their acquaintance* and J lined In a par lng shake before leaving the south. THEY WEUE DELIGHTED bjyoml measure with tbe sncce^sful l<»ue* of tiieirtrip, and with the unbounded ho - pltality encountered at every point in onr state. Their trip within our territory em braced the ruus from Allan'a to Augusta, Savannah Into Florida, out of Florida to Jessup, thence to Macon, and vis Ca- tnak and the Georgia ralroad back, to this dty. Tha quick tl»-e made upon the rouud trip and the business of o tter- ta'nment and sight seeing, to engage In which they were called at every stopping place, gave them much fatigue hu they held up wpcderfully and do cot appear to hare suffered greatly from tbs attentions of our *(• orgta rebels " KEPRESRNTATIVX REMARKS. As the democ'atic Investigating com mittees at Washington have rec«utly set the fashion o' Interviewing newspaper men, the reporter of Tiie Con*titotiosi organ ize 1 himself Into a comma eeof one to in vestigate the general seaiim-nte of the ex cats!mists w th reformer to wLat they h&d seen and beard Know: g th.it the very ab e and observant reprei-entauve of the Chicago Times, .Vlr Fudnck F. Co<-»k hid nude 11 bl« t udness to learn the fad* wo sought, our stark was upot him. “Mr. Cook, will jo • he kind oiotigh to give on Idea of y mu Imprrsri'U)* abuti our state ard peopl -?*’ * Ob I think you have here ’lie foremost state In the *outh, aud my impressions r crl-rd up >0 the trip through the country go to convince me th*t. the’ hoart «f the Georgians U well founded and that (•SCROTA IS BSTO«D DlsrtTB t e empire state of tbe sjuih! Of c mrao It has not been seen ia the inaumr which would hare bet-u best ca>- cultted to re ced alt lie great resources and advantages to their fu:i ex tent. The body of delegates were too 1 ret to be easily bandied for that purpose, and tire time being occupied iu the necessary business of social Inter *ouse of such an oc casion, it was nottobecxpcc ed tn&t affaiis of a material nature could ivcclvo their deeerv d attention. Car window observa tions are entirely too meagr*' to be convin cing upon many p ints. but they serve to S ve a panoramic exhibition of the country, 1 state of advancem-»Lt and the use to arbteh it 1s being pu . The excurs! *u!*ta have u ed both eyes and tars a-* well as they might, and certainly not to their dis appointment, unless pie murahly. ’ “What portions of tbe a ate did thoy most a dm re? ' “All that section embraced between the points of Atl’O’a, Augusts and Macon. Th s appeared to be the finest tcc’iou of country upon uur w hole Journey, # ml was gtrn ly adrni ed. Men verbid in such cal culation* said that thi* sec I mi of counlry ouglu to be thr treascry or Georgia. “They mesutby this that. Its capacity for production wa* such that it thould furnish uec -**ary things oi life for the entire p >pulalt >n of the btate." Do you thi k it a gold seeming c >uu for men lo c me and settle iu? ' ’“I do. I do not know at y "here else In the south so favorab'e in every detail to the luterestb of newcomers " Wbaite the reeult of your observations, politically “* “In that re«j**c we Ate agreed iu the luiou that Georgia is NSKHVATIVSsTATMi stems to u - lb it het commercial inter e*U, supporte«! proba ly by her iudu-trial Interetta, have made her people conserva lives, and that iu this resp Ct, too. Georgia the en pire state ” ‘ Do you mean to say i^at you tieve u* peaceable people aud tha’- northern im migrants would be sa e, in both person aud favorable circumstances,) and b ought h mireds of mfle* am mg strangers, and kept in Jail f vr mon’hs before trial. THERE IS A ORRAT WROXO being done in scores of These cares. The wrong is Inflicted in the name of justice bnt becomes itself the greatest In Janice. If the courts of the country ere being used by unscrnpulaus men to coin dollars out of the 1 gvo once and partly ml detn -anors of the people It is high time the fact should be known and steps taken to punidi those who thus corrupt tbe fountains of Justice. Tbe c >mp]a*nta mads f om d«y to d*y in north Georgia over thereout-ages are gro v- lug Iu namb?r, and we brilevo that where thereIs>o much smoke there must be some fire. We can have no sympathy with law breakers, bur we do intend to expose every attempt t.» inti nid-tie. b ore-beat and extort from those who fab into the hands of the land pirates nuch ns wc Indicate. Tnl* sub- all I Ject will cl Itnf -rV* attention. CiKAVKY AICU HftlOULS. There has long been a curiosity in the minds of the people to know how It ta that 4 no guilty man escapes," as It were, ta onr United Siates court. The cost fully malo out and never wanting swear to whatever appear, necuurj. There I Army Jlulcs ltn i.d ■« Federal Sol- may be oily the perfection of Justice In all d »ei s this,but the public does not believe It, I Washington Sped>d to iho Spriugfljld Re- Wi hout bilievingor denytug this, we pro- m ... P^liLau. now to NWk the truth Tbe reyolUh g fr-irdr la correction 1 T- 1 with tbe placing head uonea over tbe no). fo^ihlCfh^ duJr?W national cemelenea r.n^a?tS^^^tn^Ul1inS e ^r jS' onl . ir “^, b >, Ff * nklln W 1 "T’ n ’ hundred and flfty-one cases otx the docket I Cromwell, Ct., who, last year, had a >»ub« for trial. A large majority of the cases I c ontract for setting Lea t-store* at the were for illicit dUtilUng and retailing. Anri I graves of union soldiers in Louisiana, the greatest number ot the parties cha.ged I There were several thousand of them. wUb offencra wsrecooflned tn Firiton coun-1 He was lo put up marble head-atoms, six ‘J Si* I '“Che. mjnuo aud two and a ball feel in ^onfmany^rismlow'liue Imtflli, Fellini them two f-et in the ihu* augmenting the U»t of S rouQti - u « u9 ^ “ >"R e augtrllke in- two handled ilrumrnt to make tbe hole.. He mi Tbeie were ninety-four United State. I given the line, of the bead, of grave, by twiwnrr. in Fulton county Jail yeateiday. I a government engineer. But be found Fifty have been let out tinea court convene I ihat tbe graves' a uhe irregtt ar, and ip £}■ .There bat been an average of between I boring be frequently .truck cotUns and evjr!dii!» ) eoiut^mm«^L 0< rai!k»ll‘^? I > 0 ®“ or bouea They were jutt under of th? ntnety"four ^‘ ur . f « e ’ J 1 ' 11 P «•>« »«reqnir. tiled and convicted, leaving ten In jail yet I ^ ^ diking ik«se bones, it to be tried. Eight of the prisoners ore woe ueccssxry to rui through them, and black mcu. Ten of th<»in are underage and I in this work he foUid tlul uuuy of them * w ot these are black. J were the legs of mules or parts of mule WBR-iB nusoNXRs arx sent. carcasses. The contract ..ts, who had re- Fulton county 1 d! 1s quite crowded, and reived $20 per bo iy lot burying the sol *H the United Mates p:Uone a convicted | diers in regular order, hvd ured the cannot he occomra vdsled there, hence a bones of mules, as well as those of the lame number has been sent to b .th Bartow soldiers, to swell their income, and hod and Cobb county j tils. These were, how- I made every uui’o co as far os possible, fhe r S.7ge« Summer of l, Ul f man, James Holly, convicted of passing 1 mu ^ c *'•£ T ul ,ul ° rt coffin counterfeit money was rent to Albany, N. buried. ~ penitentiary. One old man, sixty years „ , „ , age, was sentenced to the same pentten- I 1 ^ tiary yesterday, for two year* and a half. I PHILADELPHIA, March —J.—The gen- now TUB DISTILLERS ARE CAUGHT. *** P la0 ,0r lhC tbC SP®"?? Thi-rp U » nrnrLInn in Ih , .llnwlngr ° f 11,0 UeUIcnnial t XhlbdloU OH May 10, i much, fifty dollars or more, to the I bts been agreed iqnm by tuu executive former with pro>f to convict The me n I committee, and apt-ciulij united guests who do the informing, th-lr mode of hunt- I will bo nearly a* follows: ing down distillers and descending upon | The pteddent and v.cc-president am! them eon best be g'eaned from the follow ing interviews, which a reporter of The Constitution had with several of the prisoners at Fulton county j ill yesterday: BARVST HENSON, Towns county, comparatively a young this excursion w*h to prove th*1 fsc and the proof has been suilLicnt aud coac'.usive upo’i the point " '•Have you looked in'o the condltif the negro race down hen- ?'* “N j, uot to an extent ^u!Bc nt to form much of uu opiniou. Tmn L a subj *ci h ch it is difficult to reach snri Vt’t i filcult to hsndl-s. ho far ’ could be from geue al otaervarious, ’hey LOfE Uim AND CONTENTED." "Whsl effect do you expect to folitiw thi? excursion—comincrclntly, or po iticrily '•I do not t-eo how any pronounced Immediate results, comuterciaUy, can fol low it. The norihwt-ftt flud« all tit interests u this cunuectiou ceuteriug in the east But politica'iy I taluk It a uood thing and calculated to do go^d among ourjieoole. Thece men who are acre now an men whore reports will oe rt li.-d upon, au-i they may be rclh-d upon to c'.ak-? reports favoraMe to th^ chararte and material In :s » of this city ami stale." How do tb?y ngurd u** in the matter of self-reliance aud enterprise?" ‘•They think as a UMt, I believe, that .th these plia.re of character iu your peo pie are wonde ful under thccircutuotsbcc* We ail The Fourth District. La Grange, Ga. March 23, 1876 —The committees composing the Fourth con gressional district are respectfu'ly request ed to send delegates to a district convention on the 26 h April next at West Point, La., to select two district, and four state del egates and alternates to the National demo cratic convention which meets the 27th of J une next at fit Louia, to adopt a platform and nominate can dilates for presit ent and vice president. Eich county i* enti Jed to twice as many deiega.es as It has represen- tating in tbe lower branch of the legiela tare. Done by request of members of the Dis trict of ExecutiTe Committee. W. O. Tuggle A western cxckiilfo says the boffslos io Montana are ranging north - ward io large bands, which is considered a good indication ol an early spring. It is clear that no buff aloes would range towards tae north pole in this section at present. They would be more apt to waltz towards Jacksonville. Allowing rerun months for the ration of the present session of congress one-half of the time has already elapsed. Tbe matter qj adj mrnroent has been canvassed and experienced members of congress are at a lots to see, according to present appearances, how an adjourn ment can take place before the fourth of July. Louisville Courier - Journal: The Atlanta (Ga.) Courier, after a 1 >ng strag gle with adverse fortune, ceased to live last week. The Constiiution, out of five or six daily papers that have been published in Atlanta within the past few years, has now entire possession of the field, and, we take pleasure in adding, is eminently deserving of the success has achieved. “Well, 81, how did yu feel when you gained your freedoms" asked Cook. “B.ess yer soul, o ss, I jes Mt all ober In sputa ex big ex a boss-blanket I 'Pea-ed ter me dot de uwd haJ jes letch down hi* ban* an' greased di* nlggah all t ber wid good fat bacon tell de juice had done soktd dene froo Id* whole body, ►ab 1" “H iw did your old master seem to like ll ‘“ Well, sah, he didn't My much about it t 'ceptin ter cuss de yaukees low down ter hlsscf." “D d he say anything to yon about 1 ?" “Ml*lity tittle, **h. He Je* cone out iu de vard arier de yonkeea bob do e rome and call all de darkles up. Den he say “You nlggah* ta all done sot .ree and cm. d >Je» as you d—d please, but de Loid habmarcy on yer po'r soles I" “Yes well—." “Well, de truf am dot de ole man kno* ji* what we nig gabs would need, but some- now or rutthetr be axed dot blesrin long ways fore de table was sot, and we nl/gih* ta afecred dat freedom’s barbecue am fad der off dan eber right new. ' Cook J rt ed down these ‘ b .ttom fae* and ordered a sour-mash for one—he was the one! ^ ^ m Si’* Op moa ot Snow. When 81 woke op Monday morning and found the ground covered wl h snow it marked anew ere In hi* existence. Ae he walked Into the back room of a Decs ur street store and leaned the toc-s of his shoes np a alnst tbe stove and rubbed t? e pipe wl'h hi* hands, be aske - *: 'An' dis heali am a regular geou'ne snow, Bore?” Yes, Si; there's no discount on this sn^w Hey tells me dst de/ hab dis heah sort ob snow up d«r In de norf mighty nigh all de time, day In an’ d*y out, iu de win er ?" Yw, that'* so " An'dot's de eonnt-y dat you white fokea wants ter sen ’ we darkles to j-s for to nib de jnnkee* a taste sb dc ntggtii, am •That's the I Unties h »ppy 'and!* ‘Weil, now, Rosa, when dey giudls n*t, gab np dar. he'- g sine ter kcow* »U ’bout It, he ta! He's g t ter be too dead ter sk'n an’ ropped u;» In a wooden ober coat, re boot. yer bear me—dot’s white man talk!" And fit looked ont again a* tbe enow and sbicered at tbe Me* ct going anywhe. yond rc-c h cf that stove. Death of Governor Lum,L «’• Wife. Jeund on our ioca’ page. tells her sex this: “The founda tion of all artifice ta meanness. You lie tacitly in every endeavor to make man, toys about the 85th of February last be wasiu the field at work when Owenby, . . Scott, Martin, aud six soldiers -nine In all— I M ^ri ,»i Hr came and arrested him. Tba‘. night they I and 1 heirs’ »iK ie.'t a guard with him at Foster’s house, while the others wentoff and arrested o.»mc I the boaru ol »t«u: hupci viaora. more men. They got *• m. Burrell at hts The foreign Couuiiis.-io.icts. residence and trought him to where he The Centennial commi#alr»nen*. i? hKnnl a.% Ud SSI The centeanial b nrd of lioanre and *• Alount Airy and tneie they were treated I tbf> (inirpnimi'itt i, ..rri, very roughly. They charged him with tn< Lp 0;cr, ! m ' nl ,w * rJ * il icit distilling—a charge of which he was I Wonuus cvuiuiiiisi executive com and ta ta innocent. He saw they were I bound to convict him, however, if tne wit- I a he judges oi the exhibition, nesses swore what they said they would I The state central Imnhuiui! the city So he plead guilty In order to get off as officials of Philadelphia, light as possible. j This list is, however, eubj-ct to revis- Elijah bcutlet I jyn. As the exercises are lo be held iu Uira'eon county, soy* he wa» to the l the open air, it will Im: p hsiblc for a still house, about# quirter of a mile from I grett multitude to witness them, tats residenc •, about ten o’clock at night, About half pi a tea,’ he persons invited when 3.iUerfljl l, fiteve Pallium, Broadway having licea c«»nduciw»i to th-ii n’ace*. hiniu ll under arrest.* He bed been dl»- conduewd by Theodore Tlinm^, will ing bu r . little over a in into. He said I P**y national airs of nil nations. The jy caught me'stilling, and I wai advised I president of the United Stales will be •y Goodwin of Cartersville. and others, to I conducted lo iho grouud by Governor dead guilty, and the sentence would be Hinninrt, with u uiiiiur, escort much Hglrer. 1 dtd eo, nod got two Th „ following j.ro^r.unm: will then tntbs, »nd dt00 fine and coete, be carried out: rniu.ii' Iininr, Tue grnni mtrnli, written for the oe- D.waon county, a jnlddle aged man, caiiun by Itick.nl Waeuer. »y.he wasarnetedat hie rertdenca one InTOCtliMul iLc divinnbleHUU. afternoon b, John Station, who rlalm. to I Orieinnl hvinn lie 1 t" be a deputy mareh .1 under dim Fmdley. “J™,/ •’ G . ” Slat on Uvea In Uawson county. Sla'.ton I r Or^'nal canutu-worda by Sidney drew u pistol and sa’d 1 had lo submit. 1 Georgm, told Uim if he had a warrant I would nave I Music by Dudley Buck, of Coonecti- to subtitit and I did. He carried me to CUL Daws m j*il that night and I was brought 1 Brief presentation bv tbo president of here the 27ih or 28t'i of February. Mai Ion I the centennial CtMnmissibn, reporting Munrne and Abmm ft.lon me <^« the exhUtiUon to Ute prertient of tb? itness against me. They told me so, aud ir n i»«,i * neighbor of mine told me they would , .. •» , # .u swear 1 had been stilling. Th-y said I . T An *L dre8B b J r the president of the stilled Iu ’07. The oaths of both of these U ailed Slat* s, which he will close by do- men h*vj been invalidated two or three I daring the cxhibiii ui ojvn. times—one* light here in At’anta I was Immediately Ihotli^s wiiihcuifurled, carried up to court™, the 8th of March,»nd the artillery wlU m.Iuic, the chime* iu 1 P lr><1 Kul1 ^ V f m HolUnyahead. my | the ^ H J n i ( ,. iicr reH . U .li» on the u?igiibor, told me what they would swear, I „jii ^ , , ...m and I had no time to send and ge’ witnesses StTHSfetai ij 5* ” AtiH / 5 to inva'idate their oaths. I wanted to get I will render liandei* H iHctujih. Tho aU as light as possible. Uollljgshead and I foreign Commresf men will m j?e to their others tel i me tbe sentence would be lighter I respective u.s>ignm-.*nui in tiie “ 1 plead guilty. It is generally understood main building. Tuo president of a man pieads guilty that his sentenre will the United States escorted ly th s Ins lighter. When th e y called me up the I commission and board of finance and S'JMV.rJd'I'fSt iln™Sc \ be «reu w.U euler tba north could pat on me If I pled guilt, wai 81,0)0 do " re of l . h ® tu.Uiug uud m..ve, d six months inj di; but it the case had I accompanied by music of llm great ore be tritd and 1 was found guilty I c mid cheatra, to tha great avenue in such lined #l,U0O and imprisoned from twelve manner as to pass by each national corn- months to tive years. 1 have go*, a wife mission. The procca&iou will Hivn cross to and three small children-and my mo'her machinery hall and walk down the main who l.elgh.yone year, oht Tbere to no | , Tenuo to th . ctulrc . xhcu oa a aign«l “DEE Hion OM ATI.V aud feel* rati.- fled that il is tbe leidtag city of tl: south in all the es.-e-ri ala of pluck, enterprise and nevn tiring energy.by which great cities are in ide and the people and country at large ben fiJted ” Mr. Cook fivored us with other expres sions equally corap imentary with the Above. His letters to tbe 1’i.res will be retinkes of his irnpree ions whl e south, and we are mistaken in Mm If they fail t prove f a’r di crimioatiiig and Impartial n views of the sltusti >n as be found It here. hot sons k. renslet, lent of the Chicigo board of trad , and one of the nirot influential returner claim agnates of the northwest, expresses h:s great delimit in having visited us, and bis pleasure in flatiiug on- people gretslve an ' * salvation, "** lmpresfio.)- >.-i ib*. Georgia a mavitifit ••'•t - ate, rich beyond tbe knowliNlg. people, and that the developwent of ber tmuitnre resources wi 1 one day asto Uh the wo id. lie believes that the excursion wid redound to the rr fit of th » section in that It has created live hundre i lifel ng ad vertfsers of tbe geuiii ch* r acter and aban dout offerieg* o! our noble ata’i > ab!« to tro»k out their own HON. R. H. TINkEK, of R'K-kTord, IlliuoU, teturas from hta jann* much gratified with .be re»ult of bia oDaer vatlons He thinks oura a tplendl 1 inher- itarce and tha* our j»eopIe are patriotic and enterprtai g enough to keep and iinpro e it. be is a firm friend o! our people and promises to be a valuable one In his eectl " ofilUnoia. Numerous o ber delegates expressed similar views with th*: above, aud as far as we could ascertain th • delegates arc uuable to frame appropriate phnueo’.ogy for their apnreclattou au 1 praises of our people. The excursionist* are lad*.u dranwiih mementoes and souv«nlr» of tiiei - irlp Sea-ehelis, beans, e*n««, oranges «nd cor*l aorays from the 4 *fl .wery laud" cousti’ute —An exchange fas: “I Walker Du a li im foot, »*nd ta loon- never bag at the knee " f.ucky woman! —WIMti s man wiita matt >n-chop whiskers and an U Is’er overcoat registers bims :lf Rt a Buffalo hotel and eays “Aw! show me to a room; best in hou-e, you kuow," they lake him for English duk-, and rise up and give him the gorgeous bounce- —Tbe academy of medicine and ror- gery, Su Petersburg, is attended by C'edsrtown Record On tbe eight of the 4’h inst., at the residence ot Mr. John C Lumpkin, a mile from this place, his mother Mrs. Lumpkin, tbe wife of ex-Govmor Lumpkin, put add* the cares of this life and passed over to shining shore. With the character and life of thu noble and distinguished lady, are blended memo ries sweet to many of our older citizens, who in days gone by honored and loved her husbind, who with so much ability. _ ^ filled tbe office of governor, rhoee women and K , f l. Mi of wh .m are of ■ , «» 7 -| WVUICU ouu *•»»« *w* "U..U wc Vi were days of effi jial integrity, and had tiikdlbirth. They mix harmoniously with her husband while he held the helm of state, been guilty of that prodigality so chsracteristic of some of our officials of later date, pageantry .aud show mi^ht have surrounded her death and banal. So it was she passed quietly away, and ihore wbo honored her living may with equal pride, honor ber memory. the cabinet Tne supreme court. The diplomatic corjM. The senate anti hotts • of representa tives. %0 ».\ Leading officers of tiwfimy and navy. f . •* The governor’* uf* the states aud terrl* them to starve to death." 4. H OODDARD the enormous engine and its thirteen acres of niacLin-ry will taj put in motion, . * .. .. and the exhibition will be opened to the of Towns county, ta an old man 53 years of wor tri see, says he was arrested on tbe 231 of Jan- w .' uary at his home. He says they prove# I Washington, March ~3. ~lu commit- tbat he sold one small pint bottle of whisky, 11®* o* tiie whole, l ales, of North Caro- t.u’, it was «>nl • schnapps. lie ta sentenced 1 lina, spoke in defence of the democratic fer 9 months and to pay #100 fine and costs, party against the attacks of llio republl- PLEAD ouiltt to a lib. I cf ibe house, and said that I they (the republican*) c m«ul. r«»l di#- G. W. fianlford, of Haralson ciunty, 1s a j loyalty to the republ c*u parly as disloy- young man thirty two yeara of age, with a I | G the gov* nnn ut lie denied it, ™i re *^?.5S“ a i.i U S2 U"L«dtb?t because the southern inea charred with Illicit distilling, but they dia- “ congress could not be brought over by missed that and charged me with retail ng. the republican party they were treated Goodwin arrested me; Collius was w.th as being rebri.4, while tU’*ss wbo were him. John Ex 4, of Haralson county. I bought over, such as Governor II »ldou whose oath I can invalidate by one hundred 1 and General L-ng.-treet, were considered In the county, and who I understand I p*trioti, aad he lieii-jVcd they were n/amn. *. nner “ I more thought of than th«»so uuiou soldier* him a "pint of liquor about I ^ ^ot^od to thc dcmocratlc party, two yeyr* ago. He and my lawyer both ad I 8ai ^ GrtlltiiO in tbe soutii had litd vised me to plead vuUty and I done so; bat I fair at one time to chaugc the c lxtacier I plead guilty to a lie. I was sente iced to I of this govern ment a* there v.a# not a two months and fifteen days and flaed #100 I republican in the south who would not and costs 1 was afraid they would con-1 votetoTnake Grant king. His spee li Wet me snd then my sentence wouJd have 1 e ji c i lC( j much amusement in all paru* of -wen hea ■!«. I have not .old an, liquor ^ holU( . lfquor y ^Sy when I come Tbockmortoa of Texas, addressed the down to Atlanta and carry a lltUs beck in bou* on the necessity of protecting iho my wagon fir my o * n use. Then Iu gen-1 frontier of the couotry. generatty so little that I htint got any by I Wabhington, March 2J.—In tbo the time I vet borne. About two years ago I gpencer iuvcsugalion to-ti-iy the com- r bad a Jug full at home when John East I mittee admitted testi in >riy to suow the to I tact two tw>mbcrs of the Alabama 1 nd I court bouse legiala urc exhibited money irue over to see me. drinks, snd when start he asked him kitp and he would |»v — . . ,,, lira-tine he come to town. I got n email three one hundred duller hilla, but ex- flask and lei Mm have It fall, bat I b dm I eluded the dcclsratiuu. of lueac unices -.-en the flask nor the whteky j tt. I reckon 1 made at the lime, sauiring that il came John Easel waa going lo a.ear he bought I f rom Bptnc r. ihat from me.” I (Governor Peuninaton of Dakota, a id vaa “m-i iswaauaEBs” or it. Colonel BetU ol U.«h, have been aim- Tbe above are random eaaea and ate re- moned by tiueuccr. ported just as stated by the pardee them I Tbe erand j-:ry inrlici'd II illet K 1 selves. While we do not vonen for the 1 bourn fur cumeinjit cf the bouse com- truth of ah that la sail, we koo«;thal eo mittee. Penalty, Jfl.iWO flue and one central has been the custom of pleading year’a confincnmnl. ^ ’Lti, 1 ^. u h'„E U a„. C te Pierrepout’a ovidcnco before lhe i-g- st share of the per»uosi luggage ruson. They ask wh ther the feavy per I crooked whirry co.umillee devclopsno- of some uf tbe i-arty. centage of convictions In the U. | thing new. O.-u. Ifsbcrck ndumiod to Ererr mao a-nor-g the ercertl nlsta to S. coat against the eapcffcnce | him giving pubhejiy fo the letter, and loud In Li. praises uf U W. Wrrne, wh) of ages In local civil courts defending him*dt ou the ground that managed tee transt-or ailos of 'he party, of the couotry is due to the greater effl- they were tryiug to drown him, derlroy The, 111 nk h-oue't to succeed Turn tcuit lenc, and acilrttyof the revenue ofllclah? blm and he hid too rir lltodeteud hhn- when the latter pegs out. U there good reason to auupete that the , j,* -Truly thia*rri-g« the ff.mingcf 5^ b^SSSy^oSuStuES; A O. Wtmnl of Cindnartl. lert'fi-d »’u.y mss Taa. ir ci , Mt 8Ute offenderg? The public sts I Uutt be was m \hj butiware buuues* u>urr ’ t<K) much of the revenue service now In I with the late Mr. Bower*. Tne estate of Mary office to believe this Improbable explana I tbe deceased w *4 from to $30, pants- uun. The truth doubtless U found in sev-1 060 for life ioaur tnee. I'uJ ui >zcy sc eral causes, among which are these: J *s surviving p *riu;r ow r.l t > Mr*. B jw- 1 The Ignorant of theaceuMS with _. n piid * to Ge(J u p^tdluton, a den«"aud?h£-.Ser of ?roof 000.^1^ TU p ocure aconvIctlonnndcrtheUwi. I acting ns attorney fur Airs B iwera. The 2 Ex tgxerated Ideas propagated by offl^. I witness never taearu whit in vest mint dal* concerning the tack of discretion vest-1 wo* made of the ra >*:y. knew C. ed In the Uuited State* Judge with regard to I P. Msrsh, who, at itasl U-u; w** iu the Infliction of pen*l ie«. I Cincinnati, 1ml ta*i uu c junction with 3 Ibe poverty, as a rule,of tbe accu ed thc transacti m M.reU said he w*s “hu«« f C om e ?S bo«!i ^“pp^in ° Ut “ “ iCely eoart^t this distance t> teatrl, 1. their gg _ Tbo 4 The general reputation ol the Inform- froots have killed the e *riy crops of veg ere, many of whom are charged with I **tablcs and ftuiis i i b mtii Carolina and swt-arlng to suppoftitiUous facta in order to Georgia. Advices from Chtrleston and wbuln conviction* and obtain their re- J Savannah report vegetable# ot the truck farms destroyed by iic*u and ice. the other sex in the directing rooms. —An Iadiana town contains seven males to one nule, and cases of kidnap .. . _ ping have been so frequent of late ’hat 5- The importuning* of parties wbo ad i OuiiANh'March 23 —A fire at SSS't* Sft wbeu°ln *«**>?< LtiUuMaua ueriroyed the great- wxtboui having a uuli dog chained to reality ^ 0 bj ,-ct ta to save trouble to thJ portion of the business part ot the each leg lor protection. I rrolcC titori. m*k*j sure of conviction and I town. Loos from $50,000 lo 70,000. ii -When a Bcs-oa girl breaks her en- 1 fee* and secure a cose which otherwise I London, March 23 —1 he Pall Moll gagemeBt with a man, and her f rien « aright have failed. .... | Gvsette'a special «l:»p%tcn liom Beilin . - ' - — ------ !«>•»»»» —•‘Same any there to nothing made In eX pcntuUte with her, tue only has to ^y . -—~~.Z—‘.IT.—7',”“- ' Whhe'othue the reveree mrtn-aln, 1 thSbi. vtew. on the tbeoeophic Aud prove H very taudy. By citing animal* like ther ash haring font large massive borne, tv # vourself appear what you are not , worse ri> *11—a dandy " . wnn .th MnKrti v or ssthevstate C longing communication* with * view to time uf coemogony are laoej, and they | ufoD b, mform/r'. at th^hLl of’ govern , assi * t Toike y ber liuancml . realize al once how impuerihle it it for men t .old ers ue ted In rough and ne- barrarsmcnl.antl UesignaiingiiomeiX|H.-r any true woman to riak her bappineas grading waya and to a from their funlllea w-ttern s-%ievn«n to lake charge of the with each a pereon.- Norwich Bulletin. tof.tu Illy .oougb provided for under moi*. Ottoman flaaneca.
