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.Ha tha fourth Monday in April
jMst Judge LesUf opened Court
in Jaspvr and delivered one of
the finest charges to the Grand
Jury we have ever heard ; in fact,
bis entire bearing (luring tire ses
•ion w the Court seeinefi to please
everybody. He hr, to shy the
least, rich in native endowment,
of high moral character, and
large in legal attainment*. Col.
Greor, the Solicitor-General, was
active and vigilant as a hawk,
and daserVer the plaudits of the
good people of Pickens for the
able manner in which he repflffi-j
seated the State. Convictions*
wave aha rule for penal offense's,
mltiok we think reflects favorably
on the Solicitor-General. We are
inclined* te believe that Offenses
will grow scarce iu the future.
William Forrester, who killed
Jeff Yaneey a year or tyo ago,
was tried, found guilty of volun
tary manslaughter and sentenced
te hard labor for six years. Jos.
P. Arweed*, who killed S. N. Boze
mane * few weeks since, was
feeud guilty ef involuntary mnn
ahtaghter in the commission of
an unlawful act, and sentenced
to hard labor for two years. Am
silla Hambrick, one o/ the par
ties indicted for the killing of
Nroiss| Cowart alien Fowlei,
wait puOipon her trial, found
guilty oluntary manslaughter
and senteneed for two years. The
last named, and also William
Forrester, wore recommended to
the ftibroy of the Court. The ex
citement produced by these trials
drew together a great number of
people from all parts of Pickens.
Quite a number of the bar dis
tinguished themselves by their
fine efforts jpro and con.
The bar was well attended, and
we lake,pleasure in mentioning,
in addition to the local bar and
Solioilor-General, the names of
Cols. C. D. Pliiliips, 11. P. Bell,
S A. Darnell, 13. F. Payne, W.
T. Woflbrd, M. L. Smith and .
Patterson. Court lasted ten d u . vs -
The people of Pickens are cour
teous and kind, and when her
population is taken jnlo-aecounl,
she lias as many good and true
men us any county in Georgia.,
We wish them a prosperous ami
happy year/ahd will be glad to
hear froth t hem often. The col
umns ot Tits Om iMHi are ever
open to her people; tfnd thkircom
municalions will ot*be discar
tied. i *
An Absurd Story.
[Cincinnati Correspondence of (lie New
York Suu.l
I heard a strange story, not to
say incredible story, about Gov.
llayes, the acting president, to
day. There are some connections
of his wife who reside at one of
the principal hotels in this city.
The female members of the fam
ily recently visited Washington,
and, since, their return, have been
addicted to gossiping—letting
out, unconsciously, some white
house secrets. 1 am informed
that Mr. Hayes confessed in a
social chat that since his eyes
have been opened about the real
status of affairs in Louisiana he
has begun to entertain serious
doubts whether he is not a usurp
er, and that he remarked to one
of his most intimate advisers, “If
I recognise Nicholls as Governor
of Louisiana, I do uot see hew I
can consistently hold the office of
President. It will be hard to
make the country believe that 1
am any more entitled to thealec*
toral vote of Louisiana than Pack
ard is ! to the Governorship. 11
NicfcoMs is the lawful Governor
then 1 have no claim to the elec
toral vote of that State.” The
reason Mr. Hayes sent a commis-
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rceponsihHiiy •>wSb '
He knew that
Committee had looked into tg
South Carolina muddle, and bad
concluded that Hampton had re
ceived a majority o! votes lor the
Governorship, and that Hayes
had a majority of electoral votes.
So (he dastard President bad
nothing to lose by deciding to
send a Commission to South
oltna. lie could turn Chamber
lain out with impunity.
And herb come* the gossipy
part of the story. Mr. llayes is
troubled beyond expression about
tile Louisiana muddle. lie fears
Packard and the extreme wingof
the Republican parly. Uih con
science, ioo,ig troubling him,and
lie already recognises that the
legal government of Louisiana is
Democratic, and that Tilden is
entitled to the electoral vote of
the Slate, llayes actually talks
of resigning the Presidency, lie
has not made any prominent ap
pointments, nor has he pursued
a radical course of policy, be
cause he docs not feel that he is
a legal oralawltjl executive. His
policy of reconciliation is lor pol
ity, and nothing more. If the
Commission in Louisiana decide
that Nicholls is the lawful Gov
ernor, they may not decide whorp
the electoral voles of the State
belong to, hut the whole coun
try will look upon llayes as a
fraudulenflTesident. But should
lie resign, then Wheeler would
be President. Should Wheeler
, t
decline to serve, the Senate
would assume the responsibility
of electing a President.
I give the above as gossip sim
ply, but there is more truth than
poetry iu it. llayes does not be
lieve Me it entitUd
note Mils, and much
troubled.' Lie have saiiL
something long®?? Stan*
ley Matthew*, wenlifrry Bb'ei%
man, Inlide! Bob Ihgersoll and a
few others furnished him back
bone.
The Speakership.
A Washington special to the
New Orleans Democrat says:
Notwithstanding the repeated
denials of Southern Democrats of
slleged complicity in the bargain
to allow Garfield to bo elected
tweaker through the absence of
enough Democrats to break the
caucus majority during balloting
for Speakership, the friends of
Garfield still insist, that he has
chances of being elected.
This, * taken together with the
fact that all talk of Foster's can
didacy has lately ceased in Re
publican circles, may be regard
ed as an indication that Garfild
knows exactly what men he can
depend on, and calculates his
chances to a nicety.
The recent visit of Stanley Mat
thews to Washington and thence
to Philadelphia was to fix the
Tom Scott end of the scheme.
The reason for the abandonment
of Foster as a candidate was this:
It was discovered that while some
of the Democrats were willing to
talk about such a programme,
they could not be brought to the
point of personally pledging them
selves to leave the Democratic
caucus and vote for the Republi
can caucus candidate. They are
willing to vote for Foster, provi
vided the contest could be taken
out of. both caucuses and thrown
into the open House; but it was
discovered that if this were done
Foster could not get Republican
support enough to give lnm a
majority, along with the Demo
crats who would vote for him;
neither could he get the Repub
lican caucus nomination, unless
he could show Democratic pledg
ed votes enough to elect him.
In this dilemma another scheme
occurred to Matthews' fertile
mind. This was to give Garfield
the Repubiicau caucus nomina
tion, and thea employ the Texas
Pacific influence to induce ten or
twelve Democrats to absent them
selves, and thus give the Repub
licans a majority of two or four
on joint ballot in open House.
This programme might have
worked, but some of
friends, who hate Garfield,. Lim
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billed. in such
a suLffctng flfmner, to tbo elec
tion of Garfield, particularly after
suck a publication of the
sclieme as is now being made.
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The Negro Must take a Back Seat.
([Sew York Tribune.]
Everybody knows that the ne
rro, left, to himself, would not
get the maflsry until lie had ac
quired some Ml the qualification
for it. Even where lie had a nu
merical majority of the popula
tion amL was perfectly free to
vole as he olt-Vsed, he would nat
urally take a subordinate posi
tion so long ash had neither
money, nor education, nof habits
of thrift and foresight, nor com
prehension of the art of govern
ment. Audit is proper that he
shouM. nflversal suffrage would
be an absurdly, except upon the
theory that it generally results in
the advancement of the intelli
gent and respectable. A majori
ty of the voters, whether virtuous
or not, are supposed (o under
stand that self-interest requires
them to intrust the Government
only to those who are able to coif-
it. But this Grant policy was
passed upon a different principle,
h assumed thift the great secret,
of reconstruction was to take the
nfegro out oD*rtre cotton field and
put him in the State House, send
him a company of soldiers to hold
him fast in his seat, and trust to
luck for the rest. The natural
results have The negro
has learned nothing good in his
elevation, and is no better able
to carry on a State Government
to day than he was six yeanrttgo.
The wnly way to reform Bofth-
is to stand atule and
leagUßt voters free and unem
[barK|SpnL Then if these couufiu-
are not utterly corrupt, pH
till figs sooty find their n*Uj£l
level, arid the rule of the majori
ty will act as il acts elsewhere.
Gene®! Gordon’s Position,
[Nsbville American,J .I,
The statement that some Re
publicans have lost confidence in
General Gordon * because lie is
very strongly opposed to the De
mocrscy yieldThg to the organi
zation of the House to the Re
publicans, indicates a great deal
of unalloyed brass on their part.
Of what consequence is their
confidence? General (Jordon is
a Democrat, lje is a very strong
supporter of llayes’ Southern pol
icy. Why? Because it is that
very Democratic policy he has
labored to bring about. General
Gordon is too much a practical
statesman to go about either
weeping in despair or rending the
air with impotent rage and de
nunciation—far too dignified, we
hope, too, for such a course; but
unlike a man who has to keep
himself in a fever heat to do any
thing, he able to go, as far as
the principles he holds demand,
in commendation, and stop short
there. To join the Republicans
in organizing the House would
be the reverse of his policy in
coßiniending the Southern policy.
He commends when they have
come to agree with him. Now
they would have* him go to them.
Quite a different position.
The Playai-Out Carpet-Bagger.
The Chicago Iribune says: “It
is not right to indulge in facetue
at the expense of the carpet bag
gers. 1 hey are just now a trifle
unpopular, but thej’ have been
useful. They did the North a
favor by goiug South, which
should not be forgotten, and it
6eems now to be iu their power
to de the South even a greater
favor by coming North. They are
thus a douUAtifeuing. They
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American later eats as Affected bj
a European War.
q [New York BalMia.l _
i The first effect of hostilities i
! would be to stimulate the fie-!
in sod foi food supplies tor milita
ry consumption, which, in time |
of war, is always attended with a
i sudden increase of commissariat
| stock* and a large amount of 1
I waste; tliis rule applying to na
! vies as well as to armies. The
■ markets, therefore, would imuie
| diately feel the effect of a large
i government demand fi.*r grain
and for provisions. The next ef
fect would be to stop the supply
of such products from the coun
tries engaged in conflict- Just
what this implies may be inferred
from the fact that Russia usually
ex port s 35.000.000 bushels of grain
to England and European coun
tries; and that Turkey and her
dependencies exported last year
to Great Britain alone 6,800,000
bushels. Bo that war would cut
off, in a large measure, this sup
ply ot 42,000,000 bushels of grain
usually distributed throughout
Europe, which deficiency the Uni
ted States would be mainly ex
pected to supply. Besides this,
a proportionate extra dfem&nd
would fall upon us for pork and
packed beet. Aud beyond this,
we should probably i receive im
portant orders for munitions of
war. But, when this has been
stated, little more remains to be
said as to the war causing any in
creased demand lor American
products. In respect to most
other articles, its effect will be to
diminish demand. The depres
sion of trade in Europe will check
the consumption of our cotton
and put down its price; And. pe
troleum and all our minor ex
ports will be similarly affected.
.——. >•
The Qebtfr of the Southern States.
[Philadelphia Ledger.]
Just now the amount aud char
acter Of the debtsthe
ern States are attr*c\iwgjfiiif®P
erable attention. JfTbe bonds f
the most of these discredited
States are found scattered in ev
ery part of the Union. Some ot
them are still in the hands of the
original lakers, but by far the
larger part of them are held by
parlies tempted to their purchase
by the poor credit of the States
and the seemingly very low pri
ces ol the bonds. The recent ap
pointment of a Northern commis
sion of intelligent and disinter
ested gentlemen to consider some
plan of adjustment of these debts
as bet weed States and holders,
and the attention given to the
matter by some of the Southern
State Legislatures, has awakened
general inquiry as to the finau
cial situation there. It is found
that the aggregate debts ol' the
eight Southern States,not inclifd
ing Georgia orMississippi,amount
to about 1195,000,000. How much
of this is acknowledged nobody
is able to say. The total debt of
Alabama is, in round numbers,
$25,000,000, about half of which
has been repudiated. Louisiana
has a debt of about $27,500,000,
about $15,000,000 has apparently
been repudiated. We say appa
rently, for the funding act rei-tp
ces the debt only to 60 per cent.,
yet the accounts published by
the Stale Government admit only
about $12,000,000 to be due. Re
specting the other States it is un
certain how much is acknowledg
ed. But the matter is of little 4
unportance. for the interest on
the bonds is either unpaid or is
ouly paid partially or intermit
tently. Thus Arkansas owes
about $17,500,000, but pays no in
terest on any part of that amount..
Tennessee owes $25,000,000, but
meets her obligations irregularly
or not at all. Virginia owes very
nearly $45,000,000. This debt has
been twice cut down by acts of
the Legislature. The first act
makes the coupons of the funded
debt receivable for State taxes,
the second takes away that privi
lege. It is not easy to under
stand now how the matter really
stands. In addition to the $195,
000000 due by these eight States,
Georgia has repudiated about, sl2,
B)0,000. And, as we said above,
Bur Slates had before the civil
nMMpudiated or tailed to pay
■Muliled interest on
750,0'1M Ti uJ tbeUrdal debts ol
the SBteAof f the American l'n
ion. dpe according to Fed
era! law, but which is repudiated
or the interest on which is not
paid or is not paid in full.auiounts
to about 1242,500,000. This is ex
clusive, of course, of debts of mu
nicipalities, counties aud other
authorities. Further, if is to be
remembered that the debts incur
red during the civil war by the
Government of the Confederate
States and by the several States
which formed the Confederacy
have been entirely repudiated.
This, no doubt, was done, not by
these States Ihemselves, but by
the North. Still, by whatever
authority it was done, it swells
very greatly the losses of those
who entrusted their money to the
South. Leaving out of account,
however,the loans raised in furth
erance of secession, the subscrip
tion to which, like the repudia
tion, was mainly prompted by
political motives, we may men
tion that of the forty-eight or for
ty-nine millions sterling of dept
incurred in peace, and now in de
fault, about one-thinj, as nearly
as can be ascertained, was ad
vanced by foreigners. It is worth
adding that thee* unfortunate
foreign ventures comprise more
than five-ninths ot all theritfffist j
merits by foreigners iu American
State securities. It will thus be
seeu that speculation by foreign
ers iu these securities has been
peculiarly unlucky, since consid
erably morb flian half of the In
vestments have been partially of
wholly repudiated.
The European War.
London, May 3d —The Daily
News Paris correspondent says
that a message from Vienna gives
the following account of the bat
tle of Kars: The center of the
Russian army, forty thousand
strong, under Melikoff, attacked
Makfetk five miles from Kara on
29. TheTwrk*(might
support
ed by powerfi^Tartiilery, succeed
ed in dislodging them from their
position. Mukhtar called out all
his reserves and attempted on
the 30th to recover the lost gronwq
with sixty thousand men. but was
driven back under the guns of
Kars. The Russian losses were
considerable and those of the
Turks were eriormous.
The City Council of Metz re
fused to vote money for the re
ception of the Emperor. The
German inhabitants will unite
v,
with the garrison tA-celebrate the
visit.
The London Telegraph. , in a
leading article, points to the
omission from the declaration of
neutrality issued by the British
Government on Monday of a par
agraph which appeared in the de
claration issued at the outbreak
of the Franco-German war. The
declaration then published con
tained the following:
We are firmly purposed and de
termined te abstain from taking
any part, directly or indirectly
in the war now unhappily exist
ing between these sovereigns,and
to maintain peaceful and friend
ly intercourse with each ot them.
The Telegraph says: This
omission can hardly be accident
al, nor under the exceptional cir
cumstances of the present war,
could the Government be ex
pected to bind the country to an
unconditional pacific course.
The Times' Pera correspondent
writes to that journal as follows:
Sani'ed Pasha’s note to the pow
ers appealing to the Blh article
of the treaty of Paris is supposed
to be due to the suggestions of
Mr. Layard. It is stated that a
council of ministers disapproved
the note by a large majority, but
at the palace it met full apDro
bation.
Vi ESN a, May 3—The Times, in
an editorial, continues strongly 1 o
protest against the panic in Eng
land, in reference to Russia’s
movements, and says : The alarm",
ists have apparently boundless
faith in the ignorance and inc re
dulity ot their countrymen. They
are preaching war on pretexts
that will not bear the tests of a
statement in plain English, but
the good sense and patriotism of
the public will,we are convinced,
defeat these traders in iguorauce
and passion.
THE STATE.
Slept*a Brinkley, the murderer, has
been aruti-nred U> be bung ua Friday, the
1 r,th at June next.
The Express ssys am* far
fflint* litre been tokl in that place by 6
per cent, than last year.
J. 11. Hunter, a Monro,- coanty fanner,
advertises in the Central Georgia Weekly
fine sheep, goats and cattle for sale.
Thg Gco*ia <*age Mya: Ibe oat
crop ***> tfnnmif damaged by the
cold as was at- firs* thought ; there will he
an avra: crop qjade. *
The Mitchell Kt former strike# the nail
squarely on the head when it **ys: v “The
way to have a good p*|r fur the people
is for the people to make a good paper.
Tliis they c-ui do by giving the aoitor such
intelligence as will intern* the reader*.”
Tin- Eastman Times saya: t*a*ar party
with more lead than brain, shot into the
dowu train, three aailea above Eartwan,
on riatuiday last, breaking a Window giaas,
but doiug ne other injury. The ofihealt
of the road shonld see that mck a p ity so
reckless nieeta the penalty provided by
law.
Ellijay gets her Atlanta wudl after it
geta eld enough to walk from Dablnnega.
—Atlanta Coustitution.
Iu ohc scuse of the word the Constitu
tion is correct. Our matt is oM enough to
walk by the time it reaches Dsblonega,
but it gets so old while on the why that it
has to be brought on a hone — sometimes
on a mule.
Fort Vtdfey Mirrors Mias Adelaide
Everett, daughter of Rev. J. H. JSmatt,
of this place, is a mono-maniac on the sub
ject f r-Hgion. M. I Ilf ■"Mltl'lg she
left holbi mat wentto sevAftofJfir neigh -
bora and entreated them to quit Work aud
goto praying. By careful treatment we
Lope abe will soon recover her normal
mental faculties.
Throughout the entire State of Quorgia
—with the exceptwfci of Atlanta, eaueed
by the inclemency of the weather —and the
other Southern States Memorial Day waa
observed with more than the accustomed
solemnity ami beautiful cerwneuie*. This
is as it should be, for. time will only serve
to deepen our respect for the ttMtories of
those, who thouejt dead liveth In fke hearts
of the people or the South.
The Southerner end Appeal says: Sev
eral of the convicts who murdered Me-
Michael, their guard, and escaped last Tues
day, have been seen in this county. On
the evening of that day them, per
fectly nude, passed No. 1* SMUlioa.aud was
chased by Messrs. Chamber* and Pride,
but escaped. Three of them were sern on
Monday morning, near Judge 'V bitehunt s
residence, ami were pursued by the Judge
aud several oilier citiaeua, with whj* JP*
suit we have not heard.
The Cuthbert Messenger says: Mrs.
Pratt, wife of Mayor T. J. Pratt, of this
place, died very suddenly at her residence
on last Monday night. It is true that she
has been sick for several months, but on
Monday night site was up, eat supper and
was more cheerful than usual. About
twelve o’clock her husband waked up, and
noticed a difficulty in her breathing aud
spoke to her, but received no reply. He
got up to make a light, but before he could
do so she was dead, 'lire afflicted family
have our sincerest sympathy. She will be
buried at the Eastern cemetery this after
noon at 5 o’clock!
Quitman Free Press: On Monday af
ternoon Mrs. John Voorhees went to fish
in White’s mill pond in the lower portion
of this county. She did not return at
night and her husband started in search of
her. About uine o’clock he found her ly
ing in the water near some rails leading out
from the hank: She had evidently walked
out upon the rails and had fallen la u fit.
VV hen found one of her nostrils waf bare
ly above the surface of the water 4nd evi
dences of life were scarcely perceptible.
She was taken out and everything possible
lias been done for her since, but, as yet,
she has not sufficiently recovered to give
any account of the accident. It is thought
she will die.
Tlic Republicans of Macon have given
Jeff Long an endorsement in this wise:
“We, the undersigned, colored Republi
cans of Bibb county, Ga., do most re
spectfully but earnestly proteat against
Jeff Long. We consider him dishonest,
unreliable and unscrupulous. He hM dex
ceived us iu the past,and we utterly repudi
ate him. We cannot forget the cowardly
part he played in the election riot of 1872;
the part be took in the Freedman's Bank
swindle; bis emigration scheme to Arkan
sas, where hundreds of our race perished
by the wayside, while he remained at home
in Georgia. Bis opposition to the eievas
tton of intelligent colored men, witness
Stewart, Gamer, Turner, Gaston and Ed
win Belcher; his vile denunciation of that
true and tried Republican, Captain W. P.
Price, our party nominee for Congress in
the Third Georgia District; the amount he
received for influencing our votes in favor
of Democratic independent candidates;
the amount he received from aspirants for
the Macon posioffice; -his action in voting
against Gov. Morton at the Cincinnati
convention ; his public boast that he has
sufficient influence with the heads of de
partments at Washington to control all
Federal appointments in this section of
Georgia. We denounce him ae unworthy
\ of the confidence of all honest men.
(Signed * .'own Moßlit.