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Newspaper Page TextT -/P^SI^ A/ f l __CJ THE CONSTITUTION PUB. CO TERMS OF THE COSSTITVTION P^g^nOH. <>T mmll, tM nor tV.. — yr***' ** »Jiaw mWk paraxial* mi WKKKLT JDITIOJ, p«Mlab«l on Tneodora. JjyjJ.W to; »!x Booth. |l 00. Payable la ■ZniunoilL-Look of the printed label on “• peper; th MhMMN a WM 1 «t l«e t om week in atfvawe OUJJBTITtmojf, Atinntn. G*. Berou the Btaaoo ia over, BUI Chandler trill be oorry he began the Ala. 8rxrnxxa wante to be eoarteooa to knave*. The country doeen’t.egree with him. Jim Blame wUi keep on the ahady aide tf politico ee long ea there ia dan ger ol another eanitroke. Cincinnati oeemi to be a thoroughly maaical city. 8b* even wante her great Southern railroad to play out. Ballau> Smith ought to have re. mainea on the Woild. lie now liee buried between Charley Dana and EU J’.rkln*. Z CaAEDLoa ahould be aommoned 'to give in hia experience. An early aabptnna will give the old man a chance to aober op. Col. G. Patbicx Woo Da,of the Baw- kinaville Dispatch, ia jiot the leaot bit romantic. Ueaayait was apring-time and the turnips were ripe when he salad forth. Gbaot doesn’t want anybody to apol ogise for the part they took in the war for the onion. One thing ia certain, neither Grant nor Babcock will apolo gize, nor yet confeaa. Mb. Hates ought to be glad that an investigation is to take place. It places him once more at the heed of the con- rapt radical party. This phase of the business laexwdlnglv significant. Doaiao the past week the metropol itan papers have scarcely devoted more than a dozen columns to “Colonel" Delaney Kane. Is the accomplished hostler to be entirely Ignored T If Dr. Felton runs for congress as an independent candidate, it is not among the impossibilities that he wiU be defeated. We advise the in dependents in other districts to make a note of this. • Mb. Baras was nominated on Fri day; the electoral bill van passed on Friday; the electoral commirsion com pleted its work on Friday; the count of the two bouses was flnisbed oa Fri day, and the Potter resolution war passed on Friday. It appears that young May, when h< was challenged by Jim Bennett, chose sabres os the weapons; but Jim’s sec ond frankly confessed that if May in sisted on Bulling with sabres, Bennett couldn't be coaxed upon the field. In this Irstanre the frankness of the unc ord was only equalled by the conser vatism of his principal; but conserva tive happens to be one ot the phase, ol Jim’s undaunted courage. til* I.VTKKJVA UOSAL SCXDA T SCHOOL coxvtxnox. at last a a.\u eor COLQUITT. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY, MAY 2S, ISIS. No. 4S, Yolumo X Keud. I h*m the boner to be jenu eery obedi* eaiMrvaat, Hr. a. Cocktkxat, Oept W. L I. This most beautiful letter, s compli ment Alike to Governor Colquitt and to husband of the giddy Mrs. Webber, ft is altogether too bad. The passage of the Potter rtealutioa bos precipitated this direful LET-HIM REST. the Btate of Georgia, our governor has ! C4 '* tmt y. It ia the unanimous venlict returned the foUowing graceful and ap propriate response: Br.ra or Gtoeou, fixaccnrs baraarasirr. ,Oa., May a, IKS Captain Wm A Courtenay, Wtihlngtoa Ltcht Infantry. Charleston, a C-I ban the pleaaara cl eckeow1ed*le( tbe nceln* of poor hospitable letter of tho lsik low. In whleh. lor thtWaah. lotion Utht Infantry, you fandoms an Uvt- tatloo to ho tbs (uist of that company In Coartosoa oo tho joeoMton ot iharMUottba Ootsatj guards ol Atlanta. For thoaludlr penooal references to myiell I beg to express my grateful appreciation. Too *Te generous kUosloaa to Georgia thus WUi bo warm ramose by every Georgian. For the taaiefal manner In which your inrlie- Uon boa bean fashioned, sod for the tender eg tbseervteasof your company as tp.c’al guard ot boon oa my arrival. I data in thank yon oararaUy as an additional sod appreciated floatation of your klodueaa ud couneay. And I hoj-ca to oapnm the ploaoum It effjrds aaa to accept thorn bcsrtr and apooton-oua proffoa of your good sill la lbs cardial aplift in which they an tendered. With On utterance or my vivid nooUeetloo of the personal sxperienoea Is CUdenoo, to whlco yon rate, with the expression of the delight It will air. ms 10 msaw my acquaintance with year teaufl il city and nohM people, and with the MstetDontof nay high ponoaaloonMderadoo lor yunmalf and tba gallant and dbUngnlahod oompuy, yon com mend. I ban tho honor to ho year obedl.nl servant. A* U Colquitt. A brigade, we understand, will pa rade in honor of Gorernor Colquitt As the gorernor wss booked to review the colored companies of the state of Georgia in 8avannah on the 27th, he determined to go by Charleston end give a day there in honor of Carolina’s <iemonstrat'on of courtesy to Georgia. We ere pleased that Governor Colquitt of Georgia, thus acknowledges the brotherly courtesy of Carolina, and ex pec. it will be one of the grandest oc casions in the tooth sine* the war. TBS BOOUS BOSDBOLDSaS LATEST STJtA TA OEM. The New York legislature, which wee republican in both branches, pass ed a bill providing that the holders of defaulted state bonds may assign the asms to the state of New York, which is to immediately become a collecting agent by sueing in the federal courts on the bonds thus assigned. To iUoe- trate more fully the ecope and spirit of the bill, we give the petition that ac companied it from New York: others, bualaenmtsol tho state of Now Tort, betas Informed that s bill Is now under con- etdorstlon In yorr honorable body, providing a menu whereby the hotdora of defanl'od hood, and UabUlUea of tb. autre of tho union may bava s remedy against mid autre by mesas ol —Igninnu to and actions uacn by tho Male New York In their behalf; believing that the ■rece ol each bill le ol great tmpoetnnce and aoaoluuly sereemuy to enable y.ur petitioner. and others holding such defaulted hoods and lubuillt a to obtain eaUafaclion and legal re diem therefor, would reape ctlnlly petition and pray yoor honorable body to giro raid hilt n fa We reproduce, in another eolatnc some extracts from northern and wm tern newspapers ehowieg the practical effect of the great International Sunday school convention recently held here and the imjreeeion made upon the delegates by Atlanta and Governor Colquitt. The body was one of the shiest that ever assembled, being com pared of the leading workers of the continent iu religious matters, the strongest thinkers,pious champion, end eloquent speaker, of 'he world’* min istry. These gentlemen were delighted with Atlanta, and universally expressed e warm admiration of the piece and ite people. It must be s matter of gratifi cation to every citiaen that each an im pression alien d have been made. Thh capture that Governor Colquitt mads cfthiaablq and pious body it some thirg wonderful. The members were enthused with him. It is something unusual that public men in high office should so ardently identity themselves with religions missions. The selection of the governor of the state as the pre siding officer was not only s compli tnenl very great to him personally, bat also a tribute to the whole state, ft Of coarse, the religious result of this convention cennot be measured. But certainly no single effect of it can sur pass iu importance its work in the great cause of national nnity end fra ternisation. Th* extracts which we qnot* show surprising consequences of this nature. It must bo remembered that these utterances we reproduce corns from sources that bare hitherto been nnresched, and are northern and wcetera testimonials. It was s grand oacssion, full of inral- usble benefit, and will mark a shinirg episode in Atlanta's history. The names attached to the petition, says one correspondent, “were highly respectable, but they could no' be said to embrace msov barrels full of the defaulted bonds." They have suc ceeded iu inducing the legislature to tho>r bill, and if it receives the governor’s signature it will become a law. Gov. Ribinson may conclude, however, that it would not oe wise to let bis state begin the business of col lecting doubtful claims in such a doubt ful way; but the New York parties, who are moving in this matte,-, think that he will sign the bill. They rely after that upon the following c'auee in the conetitotion of tho United States: “The judicial power of the Unl.ed States shall extend to coni roveraiee bet went two or moreptates and in those cases in which a state shall be a party the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction.” The New York speculators have therefore to ee cure not only Governor Robinson's signs tnre.bnt also tha action of the supreme court on such a case as they can pre sent. Thera is, we imagine, very little be feared from their uumerous threats of whst is to occur. They can generally be beaten on the merits, even if they succeed in getting a bear ing under the New York bill before the supreme court. They certainly will not be able to bnlldoxe any state into * settlement through fears of the effects of the present movement. The approaching visit of the “Gate City Guards," ol Atlanta,to tits beau i fat seaport city of Charleston, in our sister state cf S>ulh Carolina, hat been mad* the occasion by Ibe ever hospita ble Osrolioewns of a state demonstration of hopi'ality.ihat bss result, d in forcing Governor Colquitt, as the chief magis trate and representative of Georgia, to spend n day in Charleston in honor of the event. Gov. Wade Hampton will bn present nnd officially invited the governor to attend. The Washington Light Infantry, through their captain, addressed the governor a beautifully am bossed fetter, which we give entire' Cassusioa. 9. c. May !• l*7» fb Bit Fmter A. B. Cciquit:, Oottrnor tf Me*,!*. A Haora. Go..- Gevaasas-lt is wr UfSt lotaatry km leaned ol year taker Hoc to kaaos fta.rlrakss wits a vtMt agon tba oca- Moo at Ike pass sea Sara el that pafcdv start tat coop*. tbs “Gelt Ctty dosed*" or A Las to. las As OtreUsIsns. ws tr-calt with rude sod plrasora yoor swvtess In omgty.sk the brad yoor rastwim.Ispstlloasuwra; wsksowbow soar ties. Is tbs dsrksM Osya tbs pnpM GeocEte have bass; how when oar c.ty scoamsd with We, y.-cr general srasBhly lUtet sal all year people. TBK COMMIT tSE OS ISTESTIOATJOy. Speaker R.ndall has named a com mittee that will be both efficient and respected. Mr. Potter, the chairman, is a man of greet wealth and high social position. If the action of the commit- is endorsed by the people, his chance for becoming the next governor of New York is certainly good. Mosers Morrison of Illinois, MacMsbon cf Ohio and Blackburn of Kentucky, lock part in the Linieixna and Florida investi gations of last year; Mr. Huaton of Virginia, was s member ol the eiecto rsl commission; Mr. Blenger, of Penn aylvsnis, is s lawyer end a member of the judiciary committee, and the other democratic member, Mr. Cobb, of In diana, ia also a lawyer and an able man. The republicans certainly cut not say that they are not well rep uted on the committe. Jacob D. Cox wss a member of President Gnutt’s first cabinet. He staid in as long os he could stand sod then resigned. Mr. Butler, of Mae sachnootta, is altogether too well known to need pointing out. Mr. Reed is lawyer from Portland, Maine. He baa served two terms aa allotnev-generol ot his state. Mr. Hiaeock is a lawyer o extensive practice from Syracuse, New York The minority representation consists of keen lawyers who will do all that can be done to make black appear white. No reasonable objection can be made to the proportion* ol the com mittee or to the fairness and capacity of its members. Its werk will be thorough and trustworthy. of the republican organa that the dem ocratic party is done for, and they one and all agree that this result ia due to the passage of the resolution Blinded to. It is a little singular, to say the least, that ii the effect of an investigation of the Florida frauds is to consign the democratic party to oblivion it should have been so strenuously opposed by the patriotic republicans. The organs protested against it and objected to it, and the republicans in the house, while afraid to record their votes against it, nevertheless were clamorous against the passage of the resolutions author ising it. There seems to be a little hitch here. Ordinary party tactics, if the democrats were bent on slaughter, ing their party, would have suggested to the republicans at least a policy of inactivity; but the shape and method ol their opposition are sufficient to ins dicate which party will be injured by the proposed exposure of the Florida frauds. The republicans loudly muert that the procedure ia revolutionary and that its effect will be to create con tusion. In wbat respect ia it revolu tionary? Is a community revolution ised when a gang of fotgera or horse- thieves ia convicted I Is a city Mexi- canixed when one ot its inhabitants is proved to be a knave? No doubt if forgers, thieves and knaves ot high or low degree could escape conviction and punishment by asserting that it would be revolutionary to bring them to trial, such a plea would be set up in our courts very often; but it so bap- pens that the rapecaiiona who compote the republican party which was organ ise to plunder the government and the people are the first to claim immunity from justice on the ground that an investigation of the nature and extent of their crimes will revolution's* the country and ruin the prospects of the democrats. Speaking of the latter, we can say with truth that if the country is opposed to an investigation, the sooner the fact ia known the better, eo that, if we are to be given whol ly up to the purposes and ends of corruption, everybody may have an opportunity to join the innumerable caravan of knaves now protesting against the exposure of the Florida frauds. It is vehemently charged by the re publicans, and the charge seems to have weight with s. me very coxueivative persons belonging to both parties, that the investigation ordered is merely one of the preliminaries to a movement which has for its object the uneeating of Mr. Hayes. It is even reiterated by the highly accomplished genius who presides over the New York Herald, and in the face of the series of inter views with congressmen recently pub- listted in that paper. Upon the ap pearance ol thoee interviews we took occasion to remind the Herald that while large majority of democratic congress men were undoubtedly opposed to auy attempt to disturb Mr. Hayes, few were opposed to a thorough iuvea'igation oi the electoral frauds, in order that the knavea who conceived and carried them out, and the party that indorsed them might be pilloried before the country. The Herald interviews related to the Blair res lntion, bat the conductor ol that paper, with what some one calk true journalistic stupidity, per sisted in connecting them w'tb the confessions of Dennis and McLin. But it ia a matter cf little moment what the republicans charge or the Herald maintains It ia natural that the corrupt organisation should predict direful results from a movement the intent of which is to sweep out of ex istence the uubcly combination which has plundered the government, dises tablished states and eet up' raryet-bag anarchy over communities; and it is natural also that a public journal which, during ita whole existence, has never maintained a principle, should seek to evolve a sensation from the patriotic efforts of the democrats to place the republican organisation be fore the country in its true light We can answer for the southern' democrats that there is no intention on their part to engage in any attempt to oust Mr. Hayes. They have reason, iu many respects, to admire hia adminis tration of public affairs, and they pre fer to see him, rather than any other republican, fill ont hia term oi office. Moreover, they do not desire to see the country plunged into the confusion tbat would result from such a move ment. The northern patriot* may rest assured that the southern democrat* are not influenced by the nob e rage o Mr. Charles A. Dana, or the humors at hia editorial a-aociate, Eli Perkins, nor are they likely to follow the advice ol Montgomery Blair. Mr. Hayee will not be disturbed, but the investi gation will proceed, and it will be a most thorough one. rerssaars yaislt esdea tor IDO TO BBTIRE THE OVETT AMEBICAE TRAMP. Ttke Debate on the KrrI vllirntlo Col Grant—Messrs. Hill sod Toor- bees Tell What They Know About It—File BUI Finally straddled to moved to suspend the bill to repeal the specie resumption act, to take np a bill authorizing the iresident to appoint James Sttields a trigadier general in the United states army on the retired list Mr. Sergeant submitted the following amendment as an additional section; That the preeident is hereby authorized to appoint Ulyrses 8. Grant, late general commanding the army of the United States, a general on the retired list of the army, with full rank, pay and allowances of that grade, excepj itired shall not be that the general so retii allowed forage for horses or commuta tion thereof, aidsde-camp, or other staff officers, unless coiled inty active service in time of war. MB. COCK KILL said that fhe object of this amendment was to defeat the bill, and spoke of General Shields having been bom in Ireland and of hia services to thi« country. He had added lustre and given character to the country of his dnption as well as the land of his irth. The passage of thie bill wonid a simple act of justice. The peti tions favoring ita paBStga came from soldiers, from gallant men who, with their knapsacks and muskets, bore the burden of the day. ~ heat and burden of the day. General Grant did not need the relief proposed. There were other honor* which be (Ur. Cockrell) presumed would be held in reaerve for him, and it waa not contem plated that he ahould be shelved on the retired list with wounded and disabled soldiers. Its. HILL said that any man who on any occa sion haxtrds his life in defense of his tioneat convictions had his respect. Therefore he respected Gen. Grant and he respected General Sttields. He would vote to piece General Shields isL but he would not vote to place Gen. Grant upon it. His greatest objection to Grant was tbat be woold not retire. [Laughter ] If he would agree to retire upon the passage ‘ this bill he wonid vote for it, tbongh whether the senators on the other side could agree to that or not he did not know. 8 me of them on that side wonid very glad if he would retire. [Re newed laughter.] But he was not one of the retiring sort. He never re tired, be never would retire, and the senators canid not make him retire. [Great langhter.] U General Grant uad one quality which distinguished him, it was hia directness. Ha did nothing in ambnacade. Ii this waa an attempt to use Grant to kill off General Shields, he did not believe General Grant would countenance it if he were here to day. If the time should ever come when misfortune should overtake General Grant, he (VIr. Hill) wonid cheerfully vote lor any bill to relieve him; bnt until that time let him rest. HR. KIRKWOOD A A AW TEA TO COBMMAPOSDBBI3. lie Was Ibe Very Sian. BaaaxiTtua, Hoy 19 Enrroos Constitution : Is Gen. C. W. Field, ibe a-w door-araper ol corgnM. the .am.-Field that eemmaiided a dir-xi.il in me army ol nonbern Vitriols? P. B. He li Ibe aame man He was a traldeal of Atlaate acne ton yoota HO. We mlnb William Wrote IL Gautaevnax, Ga , Hat is Editors Cosititction ; Gan yon tell pole wee mo probeble onibor of Wo’eey's * Vac .Ill'll to CromveU to inury VIII. It doubled tta: SbeEipeere arete 1L J. B We cennot se Into eny conuoi P1«J aa the ■abject, bat you will be' tote in c.-vdlUux It Sbektpeejr. Ite men double year wold, will be betd ter^1m to prove job ere wi THE EiSVLT Of AS 1SYE3TI6ATIOS. coannmOoa lot me .ettef of tbe poor ead eotdr. m Hemptoo wee etraczUnc for cur Of a from poUUcel misrule, Georste era; u i la Cerahae. os« win cause year vuit bore to be grelcfnLy appr.ciated bytbepeopM Tbe Weeblcglaa L'gbt Infantry wUi OMeau It e btxb prink* U yon win be ibair zueet wbUe la Pherlaeloo. ead. la tueu bebaU, ws cor Daily extend to you an taaluuaa le do oe We bora ct-gaged * ttfte of rooaaa. ter your ee- oemmodeumt, at tbe fberioatoo boteLeadbcg to towdex Ibe awriow oi Ibe oomeasy, ee e •pecUl land of baoer. es yoor imraL Witt ttal’WWei tao blgfctei rati We eympathixe with the democratic party; we mourn with it. so to apeak It waa^rnd is,a peculiar pet ot ov. i We have oat np with it late o' ni~' ts and administered to it each c.aaoUng draughts as th* occtsion seemed to de mand, and tha rircnmatancaa seemed to j unity; bnt, according to current rumor, ea embodied in the erpireeione of the exua-loyal organs,the democratic pang is doomed. It is to be repudiated by the conn try. It ia engaged in an ef fort to revolouoniae and Mexicaniae the government. It it plotting against the foundation* of republican liberty—such republican liberty as Zich Chandler invented over a bourn cf peach and honey and commended to hi* brother Bill for use in Florida—sxten repnDlican liberty aa John 8herman inaugurated in Lonistona when he went to that aa*e to “supervise" th* counting at the elec torsi rove, and of which he gave various Tbe JKlee or Ayksss, Ga., May 19 Cosstitttiox: Why is Editoi that tn« rise cf di&mocds to call’Mm &«Uaad r» CsxvtaaxtY. Bream In tbe came of of dtamaeda rrpreaenta the pjpe—oho waa the ttecritl of tbe Coottiah reloimea. A Tory Sica Friend. Kutoarox, Ga., May 19. Eds CoxsTirmnyr. What are the dil* fereni c »u*e* of coated toccae (yeUoo)? Alao •bat produces Rule black speck* on Um which, when rquecajd, a ohi’e worm at? Also what ts I like lace. i which to A* oar triced fifes aaa weak ewer, we take U fpt granted that hie case preasisff, although hi* dU^rd.» «re very piicated. We secret that ws oaaaot adviee him. Be had better ooaaaU a doctor. We tboee jeilow spota afearful sifn. Washington, May 21.—Mr. Cockrell ' the pending matter, An Eye Witness's Reported Account or tbe Behavior or tbe Parties The New York Times of Friday last ■had an account of the reputed Bennett' May duel in January, lb77, purporting to come from the surgeon employed to opposed the whole bill, because it pro* posed to make a new departure in the policy of the country. II all oar wonn ded and disabled soldiers should be ut on the retired lis t , the people who owned farms would have to sell them pay the bill. - ^ MR. DAVIS *sid that he had known Gen. Shield* his active life. He had a high regard for his character and hia gallantry, and •yoipathized with him in his suffer ings. Gen. Shields had served in the army nbout five years only, and he (Mr. Davie) could not say that there vcae aav occasion now in departing from a well established rule in regard •o th* retired list oi the army to make in exception in the case of Gen. Shields. Hie principle upon which tbe law for the retirement of officers rested was long service. He would vote for an increase of tbe pension of (Jen. Shields, but he could not see that it was right o place him on the retired list when he law said a man must have served forty years to be retired. Had he been in the house of representatives he should have vo ed for Gen: Shields doorkeeper, because politics very lightly upon him (Mr. Davis) and he would not have anybody to quatrei with him bout bis vote. intercourse with Gen. Grant was con cerned, it had been singularly pleas ant, but he voted against the amend ment to place him on thd retired list upon principle. He referred to the policy of England and France, in giv ing large pensions to officers, and said that it had never been the policy of this country. Our idea had been that the people wonid reward by public dis tinction officers of the army who dis tinguished themselves, and the gov ernment should pension the private soldier, and in this respect we went much farther than anr other country on the face of the earth. This country had bestowed upon Gen. Grant all tha honor it could bestow upon him. Twice he had been elected president, and the salary of the office doubled for him It would not do to say that republics were ungrateful—cer tainly not that the American re public waa ungrateful, with this record before the people. The amendment ot the senator from California was a log rolling amendment, and be could im agine that if Gen. Grant was the high- spirited man his friends claimed him to be, he would scorn lobe carried through in this mhnner. If he (Thur man) were disposed to favor such a measure as proposed b7*his amend ment, he would vote on the amendment so that it coultf not be said, "General Grant, you ‘ got this reward from the American con gress because you wer» tackled to the tail of General Shields* kite.” Much as he valued the S 'rvjfcee of Gen. Shields, he would not vote, for the bill as it came from the house upon the ground that tbe case was wholly ex ceptionaL He w mld greatly prefer that Gen. Shields* pension be made adequate to his wants. Mr. Davis—I will sustain you in that XUMS BBNSJSII-MAX DVJSL to come from the surgeon employed to attend the parties professionally. The surgeon, it will be remembered, was Dr. Phelps. The important portions ot his narrative follow: Both parties brought their own pis tols. Thoee of Mr. Bennett were hair triggers, new, of the finest fashion, most delicately balanced, and with all the latest improvements. Those of Mr. May were not new. Indeed, they wore very old, and appeared to have seen much service. They were less elegant, and less nicely finished than Mr Ban ners, and, as it turned ont, very hard npon the triggei; the one that Mr. Ben nett got was so at least. The party took their places, and the word was given to fire. The direction was to fire at the word “fire,** and no; after the word “three.** Almost instanti> upon the word Mr. ana Mr. Bennett who pulled at jiis trig* ,th the best will in ger and evidently wii the world, did not succeed in getting his weapon eff He was bstiled by the hardness, or rather the stiffness of the lock. It was an exciting moment. No one who looked at his eye as it bore straight across the angry wound which his op ponent had iofl cted npon his face a few days before (while his arms were ntangled in his coat) coaid not doubt for a moment what he then meant to do; bat the ineffective pistol exhausted the “one. two three” by its reluctance and drooped harmlessly by his side. His second at once interposed, and claimed that, as Mr Bannett had suffer ed his risk and disadvantage through no fault of his own, he was entitled to a return shot at Mr. May. PARIS PENCILLINCfS. BF CORD OF A TRIP TO THRGRRAT FRESCO. EXPOBltlOS OF 1878. An Tnfortnomte Yrll— Frencn Hod* esljr —The Americans on Opening Day— the ilood or Honorary Com missi onera—A Day of Mnsulnr Becil flesflons—iMdlH Down the Union Jack and Hoisting the Ktars and Ktrlpea—The Original Thirteen. LETTER IV. Editorial Correspondence ol The Cost Ration. Fasu, Msv 7th-1878. The exposition has now been open to the public for six days, but still the prevailing sounds throughout the im mense palace aye those of the ham mer and saw. It will certainly be the first df June before the last of the con tractors receive their checks and dis miss their men from the interior of the buildings. There is not on** of the departments tbat is folly installed,if we except thoee of China and Japan .where only a small amount of ornamentation is in progress. The French have been themselves so backward that yesterday the commissioner general issued an or der tbat after May 10th, all cases un occupied should be given over to other exhibitors, and tbat thoee exhibitors not fully installed should be marked "excluded from competition by reason of delay.” AN-UN FORTUNATE YELL- Some days before the opening of the exposition a con pie of men were ar rested by the police for crying in the will not be street that “the exposition opened 1 The little emperor will come to-morrow!” Such treason to the re public was not to be tolerated, of course. Search-warrants were issued, and in the apartments of these men were found documents identifying thep with move ments to disturb the public tranquillity. Yesterday they were sentenced respect ively to two years and thirteen months imprisonment, to pay a fine of five hun dred francs and be under the surveil** lance of the superior police tor a term of five years 1 The exposition was opened and the “little emperor’* did not come to establish himself—hence their crime was complete. Thus we see the pains taken to guard this estimable fraud of a republic and note with what jaalous ears the authorities listen for a manifestation of their boasted “free dom ol speech.** FRENCH MODESTY BHCCKKD. One of the features of the opening ceremonies which has caused very con siderable indignation iu the higher cir cles of the French capital was the pres ence upon,“seats of honor” reserved at the Trocadero of several notorious members of the demi-monde. By whose favor they were endowed with cards to this august ceremonial is now the object of a very ex ended social, search, and you may believe that the party when discovered will suddenly attain unenviable notoriety. This is one of those spasms of prmlery which occasionally overtake high French so ciety, and are necessary to keep it from estimation in common with the “mid dle level” that never permits ideas of modesty to interfere with its amuse ments. Tbe gravamen of the offense seems to be that the wives of deputies and senators were compelled to stand The claim being according to rule t Mr. May was, of course, allowed, and took his place empty-handed, before Mr. Bennett’s pistols. The fatal disk of the avenging weapon covtred him as the merciless word was g ven, but the face of Mr. Bennett charged as he saw his opponent at his mercy, and bf fore the signal words were counted out he hsd forgiven him, and fired in the air. This terminated the proceeding?; and as the party lett the ground Mr. Ben nett, who dari a ring the whole affair, had acted on his j ldgment, said to the sur geon, “Well, doctor, do y<>u think I did right !** “I should have been very sorry to MR LAMAR said that it always gave him pleasure to vot£*for a measure to confer greater onor upon a gallant soldier, where there was any indication each was the will of the people. He voted for the amendment supposing that it was submitted in good faith; bat if the motive, however, was to defeat the bill for the relief of Gen. Shields, he would merev,” was the answer of the doctor; “but, glancicg at the shining fresh scar across Mr. Bennett’s nose—a scar he wears to this dav, and will carry to his grave—he added, “bnt with such a pistol-hand as yours, I should have been terribly attempted to wing him.” “At any rate ,** said )lr. Wilkes, “hia conduct was generous, and his oppo nents should have been glad to take any responsibility of prosecution (if that is what governed them) to save him from being defamed and branded *8 a coward. The gift of a life was worth certainly as much as that/’ not co-operate in any each movement fartnei any t MR. SARGENT said that he offered the amendment in good faith, and be now insisted npon it. It was not fair now to say that the com* I >liment c tiered to Scott and now offered Grant was intended to reflect upon him. Tbe American republic ow d this to Gen. Grant. He was now traveling in Europe. Whether he would be a poor man when tbat trip was over he (Mr. ~ Sargent) did not know. XL WITHERS argued that the republican party had been in power lor years, and coaid have passed this bill at any time. It Gen. Giant needed the relief proposed, be wonid cheerfully vote for it. The ■oldiera who enrrehdered to him at Appomattox court house, and who were told by him to take their horses home with them to cultivate crops, would remember those words. XL VOOBHKES said that the statement ot Hr. Sargent that he offered hia amendment in good faith, of comae, waa binding npon the senate, bnt on a previous occasion that senator had offered an amendment to break down the bill. Mr.Voorhees then read from the amendment sub mitted by Hr. Sargent, April IS, pro posing to retire Gen. Grant and many others, and said that so far aa Gen. Grant waa concerned, there was no Gifted Sontheru Girls. “Harmond" io ibe Louisville Courier. Miss Lilian, daughter of Hon. Albert Pike, ia one of the moat accomplished musicians in the city. Sbe excslla ms a harpist ms well as a pianist. Sue and her father live down town in an unfash ionable part of theaty in a house which has a forbidding exterior, bnt when you eater their rooms the scene changes. There are rare old pictures and basts, antique furniture, a valuable and comprehensive library, all render ed more attractive by tbe brilliant con versation of the remarkable man and hia fair accomplished daughter. They do not go into general society, but a few old friends ding to them, and stran- HU DiataId ud HP Record. Lararerrs. 6l, Hay 17. Editoxs Const rronox' What district doaaGaoxrcraan smith reprraentr H. ha* been ahexeted for sivereor. What 'a tba point eo wbaea iHanntaimwtwit it Ha npnaasta tha M dlatr CL bavins reclaim! ad U rram raoleai nil.- Hi* Iiieada tor. *=x- .Hd kit xolittaal promotion taraaaa cf hi ahfltpf&fna apparition to tbs electoral eoxamta- rioro H f w*c I, £.>batter—ooijr oac from pay him for his military service, that he would not concur in, bnt he drew a wide discrimination between the military career and civil career of Gen eral Grant. Again referring to the amendment anbmitted by Mr. Sargent, April 15, he quoted the names, and, when he reached that of Gen B F But ler, he looked toward that gentleman, (who occupied a seat near Senator Bar- hum, and was engaged in conversation with him) and, continuing, his remarks, d, after, quoting Gen. Butler’s name, ihat the impossible task waa underta ken to retire that distinguished gentle* man. He waa more difficult to retire than Gen. Grant. [Great laughter.] He next read the name of Cari tichuiz in the fiat, and said that he didn’t won der at the senator from California wanting to retire him. Retirement would improve him, upon the principle that distance lends enchantment to tbe view. [Renewed langhter.] A re iring -pirit ha.* seised the senator from Cali fornia. Mr. Voorheee next read the name of Charles D -vens in the list, and said: 44 That is the attorney general, I believe, of whom Wendell Phillips spoke in inch an affectionate way.” After that amendment of the 15th of April, he thought the senator was an object of suspicion. He spoke of the needs bf Gen. Shields, and said that there were men now within the sound ot hia voice who knew he had pawned the sword his country gave him for the purpose of paying hia debts. On the other hand, General Grant was rich. Poor people did not travel over the And with an escort like prince^ He bad luxurious fauteuils in wind recline. The result of the matter, if it is pursued to a discovery, will create a decided sensation in Parisian drawing rooms. STANDING ROOM ONLY** FOR AMERICA. Speaking of “seats of honor” reminds mo tbat the United States were only granted the privilege of twenty seats out of the eight thousand provided for the opening ceremonies at the Troca- dero. The matter was trifling enough in itself but is soother of the small and daily recurricg eviuences of how our economical exhibition here dwarfs the' attention due to the character and name of our country. The twenty seats we had were parcelled out to our ministers present, vix: General Noyee, John Welsh and Bayard Taylor, all of whom assisted, with their houte holds, at the ceremony. Bayard Taylor is sti pping here tome days to get an idea of the exposition before going to Berlin to begin his “life cf Goethe.” It is deemed here quite a noble charity upon the part of our government that it has Bent Taylor abroad under circum stances so favorable for hia literary put* suits Murat Halstead was also one of the American notables upon the occas ion named. FETE DECORATIONS AND A FATAL BLUN DER. Upon the day of the fete Commis aioner General McCormick, wbo has ta ken a residence at 92 avenue d’Eylau, had his windows handsomely decorated with the American and French colors. I he draping was artistically done and the effect qnite superb. The fact at tracted 'marked attention and proved very pleasant to the French people. While speaking of decorations it is worth while to mention that the Ar gentine minister has gotten himself nto very ill repute by his failure to dis- old mends cling to them, and stran gers who have heard of ths talents of tbe two seek them out and feel grate ful for their acquaintance. Persons who have maintained that southern women are not eo well educated as their northern sisters, were q ute taken by surprise when they heard the daugh ter ol Representative Goode, from Nor folk, sing with the method and culture of one wno had enjoyed the advantages of any of the great metropolis. The quality of her voice iithe purest so prano, and her rendition’of a duet with Mrs. Camp from Rigoletto received an encore. She looked charmicg in an el- X evening toilette of pure white, j Montgomery, of New Orleans, the sister of Mrs. Randall Gibson, has had superior advantages in tee develop ment and training of her lovely voice She was taught in Europe by the best masters, ana sings superbly. The au dience was taken by storm when the daughter of R?presentative Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, sang a soprano solo from Clovelly, and the enthusiasm of the audience reached the highest pitch at its conclusion, and when she was re called she responded with tbe archness and naicette of a child, and gave a hu morous song of the courtship a. d mar ia apparently abont sixteen years < —In a Nursery '.wherin all is life and langbing instead cf crying and free ing, there is erne to be f *ond Dr. Bull 1 Baby S/rnp. Price 25 cents per bottle. Tbe Venerable Den Ntw Yarn Herald. Deacon Block, of Atlanta, is a good natured old gentleman. He did not see any great narm or scandal to the church in his children and their friends indulging in round and square dances in his parlor. Hia church session did and suspended him therefor, pretbyteiy (Atlanta) was divided the question. They would have been glad to have rendered a a verdict ui hint* ia his fprraspoadtnee with tha at** L*.w-rfta tr rj iiMsc ■ 'Not gum? bnt—don’t do it again,” Eighteen voted agaidst the deacon and i' ' ' J they ooi good deacon and sixteen for him, and hence he will carry bis case to the general aeeembly a year hence. Ah. thoee naughty parlor dances, square round. Kansas grasshopper a welcome gueet, and the Missouri potato bug a returned -prodig»l in comparison with the. H. 0. He is a good fellow ii he isn’t modest. He comes in npon yon aa smilingly aa a Georgia bailiff with a distress war rant, and your first conjecture is that he has just bonght the whole expoei- tion, loci, stock and barrel, and is go ing to have a free show to-morrow. The onlv part of your conjecture that tallies with hia thoughts is that he ia going to have the “free show” to-mor row. He present* his card with the H. G. part in bold type, aud then demands to know: “Well, can’t I get a paaa to come in and onto hereon?” Or, last week, he had it this way: “Say, how abont this’ere opening day bizuees? I’d like to have a front seat at that show I” , When he ia informed that he must furnish two copiee of hia photograph and then await tha action oi the French directory he goes off like a demented phonograph and treats the absent Frenchmen to few choice expressions culled in a Kansas bar-room or there about*.. The final result ts the deposit ing of the photographs, ‘ _ the re-ia6uing of the paaa and “fixed H. C.” I have been writing now of tho H. C. by pres- idential favor, and not that regimental column of state commissioners who owe their honors to the grace of their re spective governors. They are here unanimously- How many ? We have long since ceased to keep the connt. When you are told that the governor of Georgia commissioned aoout thirty, “Blue Jeans” Williams about twenty- five more, the robust executive ol Tex as some twenty-odd. the governor of New Jersey another batch of ten and Governor Porter, of Tennessee, sent hia favors not only to every Tennesseean intending to visit Pans, bnt also to a New Yorker, resident in Paris, and who never was nearer to the Volunteer state than the east bank of the Poto mac, yon will not wonder-that our numerator has ceased to work and that we now allow these delegates to circu late freely and without tags amoDg tue crowd. Tbe column appalled the French authorities at the first assanlt and it may interest the remaining bat. talions of honorary commissioners who have not. sailed as yet from America to know' that they are resolutely re fused “free passes.” 8. W. 8. silt LITISK V. [tutorial Correspondence otTheCcnetitutloiL] Paris, May 8,1878. 1 A. NATIONAL DISAPPOINTMENT. Disappointments are always grievous bnt never more so than when encoun tered abroad in a forced abasement of national pride. At home we are pleased to think ourselves a power of some im portance and to believe that our pro gress in all the artB of modern civiliza tion ia qnite comparable to that of any other people. Few of onr people know that in reality wo are diplomatically bnt a second class power, but all the world knows that onr official representations abroad in all other matters hare re sulted to our still greater disadvantage in classification. The past history of loreign international exhibitions where the United States have been represented tells but one contin uous tale of onr failures. While our display here iB by all odda the beat we have ever made abroad it still adds another chapter to the story of mal- representation. Where is the fault ? It is not wholly be found here. It reaches back to the preliminaries and provisions for our appearance npon this scene,and in cludes as first causes things which are well known but unprofitable for further discussion. The effort here has been o make the most of what we have and eap aa small a harvest of discredit as xxsible. The commissioner general, lis aids and many of the exhibitors are working to this end with a seal and en ergy entitled to the highest praise. The principal defects in onr exhibit, when fully installed, will be noticeable in the want of quality and diversity of ob jects, illustrative of the industries and productions of the country. It is this lack of agreement between the realty and the repiesentation that I moat de- >lore and that will be most regretted >y Americana' When we enter npon the description a place of interest it is not usual to say that we entered by the back gate or climbed over the fence. S', however much I would prefer to avoid the en trance to the American Section, I must needs conduct my reader by that portal. Why wish to avoid it ? Because it is the most absurd affair 'that one can imagine. Bnt let me speak of it in proper order. NATIONAL FACADES. In the arrangement of their exhibi tion the French placed all the foreign sections in one portion of the palace of the Champ de Mars with frontage npon one of the main avenues. The reason of this was explained in a circular in viting the governments participating to and extravagant character, frightfully ont of keeping with the soberness of the front in other particulars. Before the decorations were put npon it the French paper* contented themselves with a discussion as to whether it was intended to represent “a rural railroad depot” or the “entrance to a dock,” bnt since the shields and red piunt haa been added i am not astonished at the unanimity with which ther agree in calling it a “Deer-booth at a country fair.” So far aa the Newport idea is con cerned I am assured by old frequenters cf that noted village that nothing like thia affair waa ever aeen there, even in picture hooka. It is but justice also t« say that none of the pl na or speci fications for thia facade, or ita decora- tiona. waa submitted to the commis- .j sioner general. The whole affair was near its completion belore he arrived in Paris. He is not at all satisfied with the work, and since hia arrival has di rected several saving changes. Farther, he has stated hia determination to have farther alterations made, which will materially change itschmracterand give us reason at least to feel like tolerating it and shouldering the b'ame for ita erndeneas. I am in hopes that these transformations will not be long de. layed, and that the flood-tide of abuse may be somewhat stayed. GEORGIA VINDICATED. This Mr. Petitt eeems to be as little acqoainted with American history aa he is of any kind of architecture. When I came down the morning after tbe decorations had been placed, I found the thirteen panels for the orig inal states all filled. I looked in vato fur the eccntcheon of Georgia. It was not there I “ Strange 1 ” said L and I rapidly ran over the familiar school tables of original states. I could not count Georgia out! Backwards or for wards Georgia was an orig inal Btate. I looked to the es cutcheons. Ahl there was Vermont occapvingthe place of honor belonging to Georgia. Immediately there was a lively row instituted in the American section and Mr. Petitt was the object of attack. Hia first excuse waa mat the “Green Mountain Bsys” fonght in the revQlution, but when told that that fact did not make Ver mont an original state of the union, he gaveitnpi The truth ia that Vermont was the first state admitted alter tbe anion waa formed. The row attracted the attention of Commissioner General McCormick, who ordered the change onte. I " made at onte. I am happy, therefore, to say that Georgians will find the es cutcheon of our beloved state blazing in ita proper place npon our national front. A MORE NATIONAL FRACAS. Somehow it fell to my lot to get Into another rninpna the same day—the day of the opening. Against one of the facade of the palace of of i play, npon the fete wcasion, either the tint Argentine or the French flag. The omission waa promptly noted by the press, and one of the most promineot .ournsls stated that it waa “ gratified to be able to say tbat this fellow was nei ther a native Argentine nor a French man !” Hencetorward thia minister will find hia position in France any- iforia' ' thing bnt comfortable. THE INTELLIGENT POLICE. An amusing mistake occurred the same day which promised at first to have serious consequences. The quar ter ot Belleville ia tne known hot bed of the communist portion of Paris, and it fer the first exhibitions in that happens tbat a number of Swiss work ingmen inhabit this section, and on the tele day they spread to the bretzs the Swia colors, hearing the ffiotto ol their country: “Un pour tons; tons pour an 1” The flag being red and the motto coinciding with the tavorite war-cry of tbe communists, while ravaging Paris, led the police to believe this demonstra tion an exhibition if C'. m man ism. Thev at once demanded tbe removal of the fligs and declared the protestations of the Swiss too thin, or words to that effect. The matter went to the Swiss ambassador, and it waa only after the amplest explanations and apologies that quiet was restored among, the Swiss residents. THE PHOTCGBAPH CARD. The photograph ticket pays an tm poriant part in thia exnibition, and ii demanded for everything where one may become a subscriber, or is entitled to free admission. Marshal Mac Mahon was required to famish hia photograph before hie permanent card of enr— could be issued to him. So with others entitled to rece.ve thoee cards. Thia regulation exists in most all other ol the adjunct* of the expoeition. For instance, if yon take a season ticket " the “department of public comfort," it wasstyledat Philadelphia, bnt called here by a leu euphemistic phrase, yon moat present yoor photograph, and have the ticket pasted npon the back. The only drawback to the system that has yet appeared ia in the neceasir- tfiat a man who is photographed wit foil beard must continue to wear his beard eo, and a man photographed when smooth-shaven must keep Lie oi being ■r. Kendall Great la a Crisis. Baltimore Gasetta. Mr. Randall knows how to perform the part of speaker to a great crisis. ... — . Like the petrel, Mr. Randall ia at hia ** I beat when the wind blows. U he had other aoe making the proposition. I l™, . n ,,hitrarv man ha miaht have MB. TUCEMAX iaad th*t so far aa hia limited personal to’ the bggtile nil ol this week, been an arbitrary man he might have had Hale and the Michigan Cooctr»up solid in llt- KaatiU all aI face bo, definite the horrors treated in a French briber shop. OUE “A38YRIANfi” have come down upon ua in the usual way and the object of their raid is the ever-cnyiable “iree pass.” By the way, the Assyrians I refer to are oar “hen orary commissioners.” He is here! say “he” because they ore alike and more con you tell how one star differeth from another in glory than you con how one .honorary eommimioi differ retii ficm another in “greed' American cheek 1 pilas* era of the the Champ de Mars, in line with other states, is one representing the United Suites. Over tthis statue some French subordinate, unfortunately lcc ed by his.preceptor in history, sted a British pennant. Upon dis covering the fact, for the first time since 18601 felt like taking up arms io de fence cf the United States, and I con'd nor. resist the temptation. I hunted up French chef and*called upon him to nvenge the insulL. He saw nothing but a simple mistake. 1 insisted that we had 44 licked” the British twice, and that it was a national affront to hoiet British ensign over anything Ameri can. As we were iu front of the Ens glish section, a broad A son of a redcoat came up and volunteered a few re marks upau the situation, which were not remarks calculated to cool the heat of my indignation. A good round dose of Georgia eloquence tuited to out-door discussion convinced him that he hnd better confine his “Bass” to Ruesia for the present. 1 had (he satisfaction of seeing a union pennant supplant the cross of St. George and St. Andrew and peace re- si :n supreme. I have, however, a small ent of the London to the mxtttr es 44 a spat between a cockney and a genuine Yankee!” I am not one of the “G. Y.” kind of hair pins. GETTING RAPIDLY READY. Our department is rapidly assuming shape and «“ inspection at the earliest possible date. ... exhibit is being sentative of the characteristic tare of the country. This invitation was responded to by oil the countries represented, and their buildings are at once .elegant and representative. Seeking to carry out this request of the French government, Commissioner General McCormick looked about for a suitable American architect to erect a facade for our section. With the cen tennial fresh in view, he hanted for Mr. Petitt, the architect who planned those buildings. Finding tbat he was off npon a European tour., the commis sioner general deemed the fact a sort of fore-ordination tbat Petitt should be so accessible. He at once wrote to the gentleman, and the letter overtook him in Egypt. Of course, such a command was not to be disregarded, and Mr. P. at once responded in person at Paris. He entered upon his duties and made his drawings and contracts. For three months his work has been in progress. Upon our arrival here the building was oil surrounded by the scaffolding and. although the prospect was not at all gratifying, it was yet deemed too early to form a judgment upon the tout cn sanble of tne affair. “what is it?” As the front took shape and grad ually dawned npon the public I heard the above question asked, npon an av erage, twenty times a dav. I was erless to answer, and from none of my eighbors could I elicit a conjecture. The e buildirg is wholly of wood, hav ing a lower story of four rooms and an upper story of two rooms aud two ter races. Above these is a tower of belfry appearance, in which is a circular open ing for a clock. The place of the fifth room on the lower floor is left open for an entrance to the department. The MR. STEPHENS’ PROPOSAL ITIttllirO TOPBBMITTHR REPUB LIC AS 8 TO EXT BSD TOR 1NTE811QATIOS. Allhongh Choked Oil In the Roane* He 1« Emphntic tn Urging iht* Connie on H la* l*arty. Special Dispatch to the New York Worta W ashington, May 16 —While the filibustering was in progress to day in the house, the ehrill, clear voice of Mr. Stephens was heard addressing the .L.i. .M*i L* A 4k*** Lam Ja - ■ - - - r 1 chair, and hia thin hands were raised in the direction o( the democratic side. FoUowing up the rather stupid tactics already adopted, the old statesman’s political friends howled him down with cries for the regular order. There was, of coarse, much criticism for this dis respect coming right on the heels of an unparliamentary and irregular conver sation across the aisles between others, and Mr. Stephens plainly showed to his countenance tbat he Was annoyed by the occurrence. He has been ill for over a week, and to day made hie re appearance for the firs’, time. He eat^ we’ve g't a epare'room for our friends. > onr beat to make om and when to see em, and < glad to see ns. We are not goto’ to bniM any more rooms for two reasonB. One is, I aint able to do it, and the other ia I would- ent if I could, for Bill'Fort tole me con fidentially that if yon put np martin guards the martins waa shore to cum. He tried it and hia Savannah friends eat him out the first autpmer. wai You see 1 v/ant the children to love home and be happy. One of my na- bore, sea he to me, “what’s yonr idea for raisin’ hones—why don't yon raise mules - they don’t coat half as mnch and are worth a heap more money ?” Jesso, aes I, but the boys ia growto’ np and bime by they’ll begin to feel their oats and want to fly round a little and peruse the girls; and I want ’em to go a connin' decently. If 1 was a high strung gal I don’t think I could toler- dowu. He seldom talks except when id he he has something to aay, and he was insolently ailenced to-day rather than convtoced. It had been learned what Mr. Stephens’s sentiments were, and from a weak fear lest a debate ahould be opened by him thia blackguardism was resorted to. He talked earnestly for some few minntes with Foster, of Ohio, belore be finally dropped the subject. Finding Mr. Stephens iu his private rooms later, the following views were expressed by him: “Ia to correct, Mr. Stephens, that yon “Most emphatically it ia,” was the response, and given to a very emphatic vein. “I wanted just three minutes to g ive them my views on thia business, at they eaw fit to cat me off. I shell oppose any one-sided and one-handed measure of that kind first, hut and all the time, and there are many others who think precuely aa I do. Why don’t thev accept the Hale amendment and act like men of sense. Take in Mississippi and Oregon and everything else, for all that I care. Here we have the committee made up in onr own in terest and yet refute to open the doors wide and let in light from all quarters and then turn right aronnd and offer to let Mr. Hale get .np a committee of his own. Positively it is the most common piece of political unwisdom I can recall It does seem to me that there never was such a set, except those who led ns into secession.’’ “What do yon think, sir, of the po- litical effec : 1" ate a feller whocnm j'gglin’ around me on a mule. Whey I was a young man I was aa proud of my horee ts t waa of my Aral galluases, and I want every one ot my boys to have his own nag. Yon let a good lookin' youth pat on a biled shirt and gallop round a gal a few times on a blooded horse, and nine timifcjt of ten ehe’ll surrender at the first jwp. Jlut you needent tell thin io everybody, ior tnere’a a heap of clever boys ain’t got the horee and can’t get one, and they mout feel bad. Yours, Bill Arp. F S.—I had a bad accident in your town the other day. Y.m*ve got so mxuy party women there that I thought I knowed one of 'e.n. She was ridin* in a street car and the car had opped, and 1 thought she was a school girl and a distant consin of mine, and I run np to her frantically and giv’ her mv hand and told her who I was,* and she looked at me sweet and sod and in* trodneed me to her husband. II the car hadent left about thoee time, I think I should have collapsed, for I had never seen her nor him before in my li f e. I feel thankful that he dident shoot me. B. A. HU Vlrwv Upon the Bfunltol the Potior KeNOlnilon. New York, May 19. —A Times spe cial from Wast.ingt n says: A gentle man in the confidence of the president, and having perfect knowledge of Mr. 4 Plain as a pikestaff. Here every orth proceedi: g* cf the democratic majority of the house, said this evening that the president,* hi le maintaining his pat oral equanimity of temper, was not inclined to look lightly on the situation. He did not think it a matter to treat with indifference. Great events in history had sprung from smaller beginnings.. The present movement originated at will be ready for thorough at the < agricultural 1 )romptly and nicely installed. All the Georgia i irgia contributions have been re ceived and will be conspicuously dis played. Of them, more anon. Ther mail haa just brought me the first copies—nine in all—of The Constitu tion that I have bad since I left home. You will excuse the hasty conclusion of this letter when you learn that 1 quit writing that I might enter upon the ' Romance of Rockville.” S. W. 8. OVER1AKEN BP A BULLET % Shocking Tragedy In South Carolina -ilorencnt ot an old Han ofNeveu ijr and a CUrl of Tweniy-Knlwie' qnent Killing of the Former by the Young Woman's Father. Walhalla, C. H.^S.0., May 22.— Thia little village waa thrown into a furor of excitement to day, by a high ly sensational elopement and the sub- qaent killing of‘one of the runaways. For several month Col. Bndd, an cld man upward of seventy years,( in hia yourgT days a prominent politician of Alabama), had been devoted in his aU tenuous to Miss Ida Brubneil, a bloom ing and beautiful daughter of a well-to- do former in this county, living abont forty miles east of this village. Ida wsb only twenty, and had recently grada sted at a northern female seminary. Thi gitl’a father,who ia a staunch old demo crat, objected to the attentions shown hia daughter by her aged, bnt xrdent admirer, more on account of his politi cal faith than because of any disparity da> the republican papers of the noi are ponring it on aa with their edito rials framed on thebloody-ahirt pattern, just aa they were durirg the last cam paign. They say we are stifling inves tigation, afraid to lace the music of election frauds except as we hope to make capital for ourselves. That’s true It looks exactly like that to the country in general. If thia resolution passes without the Hale amendment, or some other equally broad, my prediction is that we shall have another bloody shirt campaign on onr hands, and I would not give a fig for onr chances to hold the next house of representatives. I don’t want to be unkind or harsh in my judgment of sny one, bnt I must say without the least reserve'ion that we are making a mistake. I lcok at it in the interest ot truth, broad and free. If we or the country want any of it, we want it all. Probe the whole fraud, or let it alone. I told 8pringer so when he came to me and tried to argue me down. 1 would rather trust my own judgment tor the effect of a measure on a great many districts of the north than Mr. Spring er’s, and some day they will see I woe right in the matter and others were wrong.” “But Mr. Stephens, we already have volumes of rpporta on Mississippi, and we are not carrying any stolen goods about ua.” “Well,” he replied, "so we have vol umes on the other states. Take them all in, I say. And aa to our having stolen nothing, all the more reason why we should be willing to throw np ot hands and let onr podeeta be searched "Do yon think the republicans will atop filibustering and let the resolution pass if amended, aa yon believe it ahould be?” I have not mnch doubt of it if we act promptly. Tney would have done eo to-day, I know, and I believe they will to morrow, bnt we most not ex* pect them to keep their patience for ever. It ia barely possible that they may retaliate oe yon suggest if they get into their Jiesds that we are to be bene fited by letting in tbe amendments, and not they themselves.” The real reason why Mr. Stephen" waa not permitted to go on today ie that he intended by his remarks^* this interview shows, to take the manage ment ot the case ont ot the hands of those who now control it Most of M Stephens’s indignation at this Interview comes from the fact that it waa not deemed beat by Springer to yield Annapolis only tv few weeks ago, a id ilutio when the resolutions of the Maryland legislature wete published to the coun try they were received with derision and their author wss characterized ns a madman. Ruing the movement from ita birth, the president has been struck with its rapid growth. He points to the significant rircumstance that such independent and itfiuential men as Alexander U. Stephens are already xiwerleas to stay the caucus mandate. Whatever the result of the caocna be, whatever disclosures might result therefrom, the preeident entertains no fear that anything could be brought noms to him. If any person made any promisee in hie behail, or entered into any bargain, they did so without hia knowledge, and he hoped their acta would be exposed. The preeident regards the action of tho southern dean crate as ungrateful in the highest degree, irrespective of other considerations. When he as sumed the executive office he fuund the south, or at least a large portion of it, di- tracted and tom asnnder by po litical strife, and almost bordering on revolution. He gave the sooth tier.ee. South Carolina, and especially Liuis- iana, were restored to the role ot the native population, and tbe carpet bag ger cessed to be an element in southern politics. The president, of coarse. in tbe ages of the lovers or Mr. Bndd’a social position. Night before last the lovers deter mined to consnmma'e their happiness by immediate msrriage. To avoid the wrath of the girl’a fatoer, Bndd propo sed an elopement, which was readily acceded to by the girl, who, strange to tell, was madly infatuated with her aged betrothed. That night a pair of saddled horses were witting at the Brnbneil mansion, and at the witchii g hoar of midnight, Bndd and hia bride elect, accompanied by a male friend, were galloping away at break neck speed in the direction of the Tennessee line, in which state the ceremony waa to take place. All wonid have gone well bat for thepeifily of the girl’s waiting maid, to whom she confided uer plans. As soon aa tbe elopint poses are excellent, and I have no to find with this part of Mr. Petitt'a work. In this respect hia patent has informed her master place. Brnhoeil had a horse saddled, and, armed himself with a double bar reled shot gun, and went in hot pur suit of the flseing lovers. Abont one o’clock yesterday morning he overtook them near a place called Fordham Crossing, and hailed Bndd, warnirg him that if be did not atop than appears in the costlier and more magnificent facades of onr immediate neighbors. THX MOTIF of the design may be given ea I drew it from the architect. Aa we have no characteristic style of architecture in America, Mr. Petitt undertook to make a front of wood, entirety novel in France,and to give it the feat area which distinguish the summer pavilions of Newport. The front contains sixteen panels, in wnich he designed placing the escutcheons of the thirteen origi nal states of the anion, one of the District of Colombia and two bearing the national arms A cornice of shields above was arranged to bear the names and give np his daughter that aid k ' kill him. The approach of the father only made the eloping party more anxions to posh forward. Bndd into the onion. The front ia painted a brownish yellow, with darker trim mings, a combination called by Mr. Petill ‘ the marriage of colors.” A FRAUD OX ITS PACE. The affair ia now measurably com pleted and wean a better appearance than was at first expected, bnt it is wholly an abortion and excites ridicule from all who look npon it and know The anything of the principles of architec- lion. The shields anl tural construction. and claims no reward i the souui for doing what he waaoound _ conscience to do; bnt he can not avoid beirga witness to the ingratitude evinced by the representatives of the south to the man who, above all oth- throngh him anything to the repnbU- ' ' in the cons just so long as they persist deadlock. * BILL ABP.’ William Uoaalpa About tbe Cropa- llie vrtbalnltona of » Cottou Plan- tar-Wbnt Bill Would do tr He •*■ a ‘•Hlab-.strnna Uni - Spccltl Oomtpondetct ot The OoatUtatloa. Everything continues lovely in these parts. There’s been just enuf of rain and shine to make things grow amasin. Tne wheat ia in the dongh and no rns: yet The cat-worms have eat np their share of the corn and quit. The clover has been cat and cared and hauled home -ail except a little that was over took by a rain and damaged. I could have saved it bnt onr preacher wou'd- ent let me haul it upon Sunday. When t told him about that steer that fell in the ditch he said I moaent dig a ditch on Saturday just to git to pull« steer out of it on Sunday. Well, I owe him some clover, and I've a mind to ban) • at tempted to cross Fordham creek the father reached the brow of the hill, fired at Budd, striking him in the left shoulder and killing him instantly. The gill was taken in charge by her father, carried back to her home and Bets apart an acre of hia beet land the church, and be works it well and gives the proceeds to the preacher. Lost year he had it in wheat, and the rosi com along and rained it. (But he made a good crop on hia upland, and when the deacons axd him for some of that he said, “no sirree—that upland field was ell mine.” a We are not rnnnin cotton very mnch —only a email patch for the girls to pick ont—about enuf to make a couple of bales, with the which they can bay a paseel ot ribbin and lace and a few cinnamon drape and other extras too tedious to mention. Colonel Spronlla told me a cotton planter never had any rest. He never laid by hia crop, and it took abont 13 months in a year to make it I don’t think it waa intended for white folks ri work mnch in Jnly and August. I aeems to suit niggers first-rate, though they will stop awhile under the war- nut trees when they git to eo. My friend Col. Johnson used to slip np on em when they bad stopped too long, and holler ont at the top of his voice, “take yonr hands ont of my pockets.” A hired yiight the murderer had fled the country, whither no one knows ABOTBEB CULUMOCS KILL1SO. Dr. J. C. Cook Dropped by His Brotber-Itt-x-MW. CoLUMBU*, Ga., May 22.—At hia res idence, at 1 o’clock this evening, in a personal diffcnlty, Dr. J. C. Cook was shot and killed by hia brother-in-law, Charles Martin. No witnesses. Cook was intoxicated. Martin claims it as eelf-defense, aud at once surrendered himself, but ia allowed liberty. i arrpv wetro ig »PMtifcg *pgsl, tt!8 decoration* paneralW are ot a bizarre by the cries of the baby, and removed by the prompt use of that highly recommended remedy—Dr. Ball’s Baby S vlnp. It is free from mor phia, Price 2S oetita. <j-*3 er will steal every minute unwilling labor abont anything- It '* ' nipped was the'Volunteers that whipped the Yankees—it waaent the conscripts. My boys Vnows the necessity ot hard work, and they do it, but when they want a recess I want em to have it. We’ve no idea of uryin to get rich, bnt we are fixen np to live comfortably and be contented. We’ve planted an orchard MIL Il-t TEA’S BEX SI rl FAX ESS. nets, in common with the rest < union, sincerely at heart. With reference to hia title, the presi dent cof ceded that it ceuld be con tested, but there waB only one way to lest the question—that ia, by a writ of quo rmmtnlo, the onlv remedy pro vided by law. W hen he became presi dent the act creating the electoral com - mission specially declared that nothing 'herein was to be construed as impair ing or affectingany right then exiating under the constitution and laws *o qu stion by proceedings in tbe judicial of the ” ’ ' *■“ courts of the United Mates the right and title of himself and Mr. Wheeler, if any such right at that time existed. The preeident admitted that Mr. Til- dea’s only remedy at present waa by a writ of quo warranto, and such a writ was a prerogative writ—not obtainaDle ss a matter of right, but only in the discretion of the conn—and he doubted if any court would grant it. Tbe president also concedes the power of corgreas to paaa a retroactive law to test the title to the presidency,as the office can never be aaid to be in the past, but is always in the present. Aa to hia impeachment being ordered by the honoe, the president baa not the remotest idea that each ap occurrencs ia even among the possibilities. The preeident is fully alive to the exigen cies that may arise, and will see to it that the public peace is maintained and the law enforced at wii whatever .cost. He proposes to follow the policy already marked ont by his administration, and will take no backward etep. TICKABOMQ IB A At OHM. Terrible Damaxe bj Flood and Field. Vicksburg, Mias, May 20.—The city was visited by a terrific storm of^ wind and rein SUnrday evening at 7 o’clock. The wind reached a velocity of fifty-five miles an bonr and lasted several min utes. Many stores were unroofed. Maurice Mayer & Co., dj^ gooda^H. Tuck Clonib, McManus, Fitzp Bro., and E. W. Waller, grocers, were ' sufferers. The stock was water. The wall of the Mississippi Valley bank building was damaged by the roofing or McManus’ . . -. —* “ The two Far Hook Kona. 8sn Fbakcieoo, May 20 —The Gadic for Hong Kona and Yokohoma took fine silver, $1,265 000; bar silver. $517,- 892; gold coin and dost, S3 545; tranes, $59,641; Mexicans, $117,868, one of the lairgest shipments ever made* Ottawa, Ont., May 22.-Although the report tnat the dominion govern ment had been notified from London that a war between Russia and Eng land ia inevitable, which waa printed in the Canadian papers, it is now un derstood that there ia no fonndation for the report. and some grape virus, and built an ar- dred yards long ' ' bor a hundred yards long for em to ran on, end there aint a nail in It; and we’ve laid eff a patch of flowers, and planted pop corn and igabbera and watermeliona and cantelopes, and pat thegi we’ve got two big springs and water all about, and a wash hols to bathe in, and the lrogs amg aronnd, and tho whip poorwills and the ligbtoin bags fire np every night; and we have lota of music, - ' " tA from the piano forty to the fiddit; ant A World at Tbanhn la Bua To the botanist who first discovered the virlnes of the Quillaya Saponaria, or Soep Tree of Chili. Tne wonderful cleaeing and purifying property of its Bark give* to the fragrant SOZODONT mnch of its unrivalled efficacy as a pre servative of the teeth. wit Tbe Noulberoi Preebylerlees. Knoxville, May 22 —In the Presby terian general assembly south this morning, Dr. B. T. Lacy waa appointed principal delegate to the next meeting of the general synod of the Reformed cnurch. The report endorsing tbe colored instilnta at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and suggesting measures for ita inter ests andprogress was adopted.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1868-1878, May 28, 1878, Image 1