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ELLIJAY COITRIER. J. C. ALLEN * - Blitor artciAL uTuUrKKiM*. oIfiPSX 2& & Mpw* Wttt - IWMM’.iWri.lr S^Kraixog£f y * A 4BJ*r, A., BAYI2, !*7T. ■ . iiiuwii * Hcltify#- County r< >u ftT. ‘jl %OI ’ . | .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- I-®"/ \1 \ " ' -'• " W *1 v v, <. ti ' lie w i 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 - ' t- - §1 >.O Sf *■' ” B * : 'C jg w ' ' ; ‘ 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. e— ' 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 oi ig.niiW’.i oni ci ia m^nnßßkri much . ■ laL . ogS loft J ■ 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.