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THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. FERRUARY 10. 1577
H ASIiniITOY LETTER.
[From our Ilugular Con espondent.]
Washington, Jan. 31, 1877.
Yesterday I went into the Su
preme Court room to look at tlie
judges who are to decide the prc*si
dential question. They were all on
the bench, or rather in large r,rm
chairs, metaphorically the lieneh.
Justice Hunt sat at one end of
the line, and Justice Bradley at the
other ; Chief Justice Waite sat in
the centre. Justice David Davis,
Senator elect irom Illinois, success
sor to General Logan, lent forward,
resting his stupendous head and
collossal countenance cherubically
upon the balustrade. They are all
weighty men, mighty in averdu
poise, pithy, venerable, incarnations
of abstract justice, all of whichMinv
be attributed to the black silk uni
form long gown they wear. How
a mortal can be swerved from aver
tical or horizontal moral or legal
equilibrium with one of those black
silk investments, it is impossible to
understand. I would not be sar
castic. I believe they dwell as com
pletely in the passionless atmos
phere of law anti fact as is possible
in the flesh. But these men are
mundane, they enjoy life. If you
doubt it, look at their stomachs, and
at their chins too, if you can discern
them. The Supreme Bench is not
completely insulated, I know, for,
when ex-Senator Matt. Carpenter,
who was addressing the court, in
dulged in one of his numerous hu
morous sallies, their bellies shook
with huge subterraneous amusement
while your sensitive correspondent
tembled lest the scales in the hands
of the blind goddess might wabble,
and the struggling, oppressed, cor
poration fail to secure its pittance of
400,000 acres.
It was thought that Justice Davis
would be the fifth judge chosen to
decide the electoral question ; there
is no objection that can be success
fully urged against him, and his
four associates are the best judges
of’ this Fact Through his immense
wealth, lilting him above the suss
picion of selfish action, and by his
conspicuous, unimpeachable public
life, the simple great man, appoint
ed to the supreme bench by Lin
coln, seemed peculiarly qualified to‘
act and to decide. But the prevail
ing opinion now is that Justice
Bradley, whose native State is New
Jersey, will be appointed. It is be
lieved litre that there will be no ,
disagreement, that the verdict of
the court will be unanimous on al!
the essential questions, and the fact
that office holders consider their
case hopeless, is significant of what
an impartial decision will mean.
Democrats are as happy as the
absorbing presidential question will
allow them to be. over the result of
recent senatorial contests. Two
most bitter, narrow and bigoted,
Republicans have been eliminated ;
one of them, Boutwell, has been
succeeded by Judge Hoar, who,
though a strict Republican, is an
unjaundiced, honest man ; flic other,
General Logan, lias been succeeded
by Judge Davis, who, if net a Dem
ocrat, is still less a Radical. Then
there is another happy change. The
succession of Senator Norwood by
Georgia’s most eminent citizen, by
one who, in eloquence, in statesman
ship, in extensive information and
wide experience, in all the brilliant
and sterling qualities that charac
terize a great representative, is sec
ond to no man in the South, or in
the country. The country, and es
pecially the South can afford, at this
crisis, to be represented by none but
its best and ablest men. Nor should
we promote weak and incapable men
to prominent positions. Those who
seek conspicuous places, invite crit
cism, for mediocrity and incapacity,
the safest place, as well as for the
country, is obscurity. There are
heights sacred to greatness ; aspir
ing dunces who will ascend them
must be taught that the light which
surrounds these dizzy eminences is,
for them lightning! That portions
of the*South have been misrepre
sented by such disreputable men as i
Spencer, Patterson, Ann sand Clay
ton, is not the fault of the South,
but of the administration ring in
Washington that elected them.
Ii seems quite probable that after
the fourth of March the Republi
cans will have a bare majority of
two in the Senate, and the brunt
that has been so longand heroically
borne and hurled back by Thurman
and Bayard, will now be met by
Hill, Lamar and Beck. Some Re
publicans are sillily chuckling over
the supposed opportunities of
Blaine, but let that vessel of wrath
a,ad parliamentary tenchnically be
ware; Ben Hill can compress more
into- a single sentence than would
expl ode his idea-proof cranial bomb
if it could find penetration and
lodgment there. C. A. S.
A Iktm well packed in pulveriz
ed char-coal after the usual smoking
will keep for years. Butter in pots
well surrounded in charcoal, will
i keep for twelve months. Each at
|om of charcoal can absorb 1,000
i times its bulk deleterious gasses.
ional Convention.
Section 1. Be it enacted bv the
senate and house of representatives
ot the s - ate of Georgia, and it is
hereby enacted by authority of the
same, That immediately after the
passage ot this bill, his excellency
the governor he, and he is lierebv
authorized and required to issue
his pro .-tarnation ordering a: elec
tion to be held in each and every
county iti this -tate on the second
Tuesday in June, 1577, for dclegat
es to a convention of the people of
Georgia, to convene at the capitol,
in the city of Atlanta on the sec
ond Wednesday in July, 1877, for
the purpose of revising the consti
tution or said state.
Section 2. Be it further enac
ted, That said election shall Ik? held
and conducted in the same manner
and at the same places as elections
lor members of the general assem
bly are now held by the laws of
this State, and the returns of said
election shall be in the same man
ner forwarded to the governor, who
shall issue certificates of election to
such persons chosen as delegates to
said convention receiving the high
est number of votes.
Section 2 Be it further enacted,
That representation in said conven
tion shall be based upon popular
tion in the ratio of one delegate to
every six thousand inhabitants ;
am! to this end a: h senatorial dis
trict in the state,as (he districts arc
now arranged, shall constitute an
election district, from which dele
gates to said convention shall be
chosen as follows, to-wit :
I rom tiie first election district—
Eight delegates.
r F r °m the second election district
Three deligates.
i rom the third election district
two delegates.
from the fourth (lection district
two delegates.
from the fifth election district
two delegates.
From the sixth election district
two delegates
from tne seventh election dis
trict four delegates.
From the eight election district
four delegates.
I'rom the ninth election district
three deligates.
I I rom the tenth election district
four delegates.
from the eleventh election <1 is
trict four delegates.
Eroni tiie tweifi election district
four delegates.
From the thirteenth election dis
tr.ot six delegates.
from Yjo fourteenth election dis- ,
trict— four delegates.
From the fifteenth election dis.-
trict one delegate.
from the sixteenth election dis
trict three delegates.
• From the seventeenth election
district—five delegates.
F’rom the eighteenth election dis
trict seven delegates,
From the nineteenth election dis
trict live delegates.
From the twentieth election dis
trict six delegates.
From the twenty-first election
district—five delegates.
From the twenty-second election
district—eight dclegalcs.
From the twenty-third election
district six delegates.
From the twenty-fourth election
district five delegates.
From the twenty-fifth election
district Six delegates.
F’rom the twenty-sixth election
district F’our delegates.
F’rom the twenty-seventh election
district Six delegates.
F’rcm the twenty-eight election
district Five delegates.
From the twenty°ninth election
district Five delegates.
From the thirtieth election dis
trict Four delegates.
From the thirty-first election dis
trict Three delegates.
From the thirty-second election
district Two delegates.
F’rom the thirty-third election dis
trict Four delegates.
F’rom the thirty-fourth election
district Five delegates.
F 1 rom the thirty-fifth election dis
trict Nine delegates.
F’rom the thirty-sixth election
district Six delegates.
F’rom the thirty-seventh election
district Six delegates.
From the thirty-eight election
district Three delegates.
from the thirty-ninth election dis
trict F’our delegates.
F’rom the fortieth election dis
trict Two delegates.
F’roiii the forty-first election dis
trict Three delegates,
F’rom the forty-second election
district Seven delegates.
F’rom die forty-third election dis
trict F’our delegates.
F’rom the forty-fourth election
district 1 hree delegates.
Sec. 4. That in said election
every person entitled to vote f>r
members of the general assembly
shall be enttiled to vote and eligible
as delegates.
Sec. 5. i’hat the constitution
framed by said convention shall be
submitted to the people for rati ft-
or rejection, and all inur-ons onti
led to vote for members of the gen
eral assembly shall be entitled to
vote in said elect ion.
Sec. f. Bo it further enacted,
That the sum of twenty-live thou
-and dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary be and the -amc
is hereby appropriated to pay the
expense ot said convention, (if hell
and liis excellency the governor is
hereby authorized t • draw his war
rant on the treasury for the -ame.
COLOXKATID i.
pROFEssm; loosiis, of vau', :n
Sri'POUT OF CAPTAIN HoW
gate’s PLAN.
The following extracts from a
letter from Professor Loomis, the
distinguished meteorologist, of Vale
College, to Captain Ilowgaie, in
support of the latter’s scheme of
Arctic colonization, will bo found
of interest as illustrating the scion*-
title benefits to be derived from a
Polar expedition based upon his
plan : I see no reason for abandon**
ing further effort because former
expeditions have not accomplished
nil that was expected. If wo review
the entire history of Polar expedi
tions since Captain Perry s first
voyage, more than half a century
ago, we find that every expedition
has proved, in some sense, a fail
ure ; that is, has accomplished less
than was anticipated, and some
may, therefore, conclude that all
the labor which has been expended
on this Polar problem has be, n
wasted. 1 lake a very different
view of the subject, and con-ider
that the results of these Polar ex
peditions, from the first voyage of
Captain Parry to the present time,
are worth far more than all the
money and labor which have been
expended on them.
I here is no problem connected
with the physics of the globe which
does not demand observations from
the Polar regions, and generally
the poles and the equator arc more
important as stations of observation
than any portions of the earth’s
surface, if the information which
has been acquired upon the various
subjects in the numerous Polar ex
peditions of the last half century
were annihilated it would leave an
immense chasm,which would great
ly impair the value of the research
es which have been made in other
parts of the world # In
the attempts which are now being
made by the joint efforts of the
principal nations of the globe to
determine the laws of storms, if we
could have daily observations from
a groom of stations within the Arc
tic Circle, it is believed that 'they
would prove of the highest value
in enabling ns to explain the phe
nomena of the middle latitudes.
How can we fully understand the
cause of the great changes of tem
perature which so frequently occur
during the winter months unless
we know where this cold air comes
from, and how can this be deter
mined without fixed stations of ob
servations extending northward
even to the Polar regions? The
vast extension of the commerce ol
the world in recent times, ami its
increased security, are due in no
small degree to more accurate in~
formation respecting the physics of
the globe, including such subjects
as the mean direction and force of
the prevalent winds, the laws of
storms, the use of the barometer in
giving warning of approaching vi
olent winds, the surest inode of es
caping the violence of a storm when
overtakan by a gale, the most ad
vantegeous route from one port to
another, the direction and velocity
of the currents in every ocean, the
variation of the magnetic needle in
all latitudes and its changes from
year to year, together with many
other problems: and most of these
investigations have been greatly fa
cilitated by observations which
have been made within the Arctic
regions. * * The demands of
science arc by no means satisfied,
and we may confidently anticipate
that any advance in our scientific
knowledge respecting questions
connected with the physics of the
globe will impart increased securis
tv to commerce. If a steamer star
ting from New York and traveling
northward could pass directly over
the North Pole through Behring
Strait into the Pacific Ocean it
would be a triumph of geographi
cal science equal to the first discov
ery of America.
The Hinuic of tiic Whiskey
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American people, the last act in
the wretched judi dal farce ought
not to pass entirely unnoticed.
The whisky ring was nothing
less than a gigantic conspiracy to
rob the government. The conspi
rators were men of high and 1 w
degree. Some stood i:i intimate
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trived to plunder the national treas
ur with perfect impunity, and
were c caplets masters of the situa
tion. Yet the effects were visible
to every eye. Officials who, when
they obtained their places, were
known to be hopelessly bankrupt,
suddenly bloomed out in all the
luxury of abundant wealth. Fine
horses, tine diamonds, line clothes
and a tine assortment of fashiona
ble vices, proclaimed ta t beggers
were on horseback and riding glor
iou-ly in the devil’s service. Bro
ken winded politicians, destitute of
either character or rash, suddenly
displayed a large supply of both,
and flourished their newly varnish
cd reputations and illgottcn gains
in the faces ot honest people. Im
pecunious newspapers, which
could barely keep their heads above
the waters of bankruptcy, -uddenl.
prospered without patronage, and
grew rich without work. Obscure
firms, whose credit would hardly
have been good for a oair of luce
ebes suddenly had a heavy balanc •
at bank, and sold more goods and
at lower prices than anybody in the
market.
At last a strong, hold hand at
Washington flung a bombshell in
to the den of thieves, and there
was a terrible explosion and an as
tounding revelation. Evoryliod /
nov talked about what everybody
had only thought about before, and
from all parts of the country thcr.
came the cry, ‘‘Punish the thieves !
So emphatic and general was the
popular demand for justice that
even the President was compelled
to mildly whisper, “Let no guilty
man escape.” After a vast amount
of unnecessary delay an l embarrass
ment directly traceable to the in
terference of the adminLtratidn—
the machinery ol law was s t in
motion. One guilty man escaped
by influences needless to mention,
and the rest received sentences
very considerably lighter than
would have been visited upon a
poor wretch who had stolen an
overcoat to keep him from lrcezing
The people complained, the press
protested, but there was no help
for it. The complaints and pro
tests were answered by the. assur
ance that, thought the punishment
was insufficient, it would not be ab
ated by executive clemency and
that the President was determined
the men who had “abused his con
fidence” should suffer to the ut
most in purse and person. Those
who knew the President under
stood just what this determination
meant and they had not long to
wait for the begining of the fulfil
ment of their anticipations. No
sooner did Bristow vacate the treas
ury department, than the executive
boot was applied to every man
who had in any way assisted in the
detection and conviction of the
whisky thieves. Then the pressure
of a Presidential campaign required
a suspension of operations; but no
sooner was the campaign over than
the prison doors began to open,
and, one after another, every thief
marched out. When McDonald
and Joyce throw aside their peni
tentiary uniform, not a single
prominent public robber in the
whisky line will be where robbers
ought to be.
Comment is useless. The -torv
carries its own moral, and a dirtier
moral was nevei thrust under the
nose of a civilized nation. Never
was there such a broad burlesque
upon justice ; never was there such
a meaner outrage upon equity and
decency ; never was there a higher
premium offered for rascality, or a
more deliberate insult offered to
honesty. There is one consolation
left, and only one : Grant and the
whisky ring will be pilloried t< =
gether in history; and both to
gether, united and indivisible, will
be held up as a warning and an
example for future generations, as
I long as American nationality -hall
last.—St. Louis Republican.
Saving Seed Coen. —The bc.-t
plan I have ever practiced in .sav
ing soul corn is this: Have ;n
empty barrel in youreri' . but not
a salt barrel as that will kill die
seed, and during the wiaLr, as y< u
are feeding, you < a a drop the extra
fine, sound ears into the barrel, as
you noika them; then, du.ikg
April, on rainy da . s I re-assort and
shell, al ways giving the p:gs tin ill
shaped grams bom both ends, and
as a general rale I have no replant*
ing, and th .• c.: ;< up ...
and starts to g \nvi. g ; ,e i. •
we Ms get up. — (Am. Rural World.