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MACON, APRIL ’87G.
CONVENTION.
Third CsacKUln* 1 District.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, ab their late meeting in Atlanta,
recommended that the several Congres
sional Districts of Georgia hold conven
tions on tho 20th of April next, at.some
place to bo determined by the Chairman
of the Democrats Executive Committee
cf each district, to take action relative to
tho appointment of delegates to tho Na
tional Democratic Convention, to ho held
in Juno next.
After consultation with many promi
nent Democrats. it has been determined
that tho city of Macon is the most con
venient point for holding the convention
for this district.
Tho Democratic party of tho several
counties of the Third Congressional Dis
trict is therefore requested to appoint
delegates to meet at Brown’s Hotel, in
Macon, on "Wednesday, the 26th of April
next, for tho purpose above stated.
T. M. Fublow,
• Chm’n Ex. Com. 3d Cong’l Dist.
Americusr, March 22.1876.
most centenial-
ji*’ ■ Philadelphia is tho
% mental city on the continent.
The hesitation of the British govern
ment to surrender Winslow is said to be
due to the fact that Lawrence, the smug
gler whom they surrendered, was after
wards proceeded against in the courts of
New York on other charges than those on
which he was extradited.
Spencer.—The Montgomery Advertiser
thinks Morton’s Committee on Privileges
and Elections will acquit Spenoer and give
him a certificate of charaoter. Tho fact
is parties ore getting to be uncomfortably
close in tho Senate and they oan’t spaie
Spencer, when they know his soat will be
filled by a Demoorat.
Threatening to Expose Dsx.iNo.-Seo
rotary Ooandler says ho will no longer
keep covered np the frauds of his prede
cessor, Delano, for sooner or later they
will como out. Therefore he will tell all.
These are in snbetanco tho words uttered
recently by Ghondler in the presence cf
certain prominent gentlemen,
The Montgomery Advertiser says some
gentlemen from Indiana have bought lend
in that donnty, and propose to settle
thereon Aery shortly. There is a vast
deal of unimproved, but valuable, land in
that county, particularly on the line cf
Montgomery and Eafaula road, extending
' all along as far as tho Chattahoochee
river.
Whitewash.—A free use of paint and
whitewash not only improves the appear
ance of bnildlng3 of all kinds, but it is
also beneficial to the health and happiness
of tho inmates, and now is tho time to
apply one or both. Whitewash, especially,
is extremely beneficial as a disinfectant,
and It should bo liberally used in cellars
and wherever paint is applied. If white
ia considered too glaring, it is easy to
make tho wash of almost any color.
Connecticut. —Tho New York 2 ribune
correspondent in Conneoticnt believes the
Democrats will carry tho Stato by the
popular vote, and in the Legislative elec
tions by a considerably decreased majori-
ty. There is said to bo no excitement
whatever in Oonnecticnt, in either party,
- and the voto will bo wilMif 1 U rime, Is
wmiiiy unpropitiocs.
Connecticut Election.—Tho special
correspondent of tho Times, writing con
cerning the Conneoticnt election, says:
“The result is, the Democrats, oven at this
Into day, havo no money to spend in close
towns, and they feel very blue in conse
quence.’’ This statement, says the World,
covers tho case throughout tho country.
The Democrats have no money to spend
for political purposes, while the Adminis
tration can make use of the public plun
der to debauch the ballot box.
Geoboia and Alabama InoN.—Mr. Met
calf, of Pittsburg, a manufacturer of
cutlery, said to the Ways and Means
Gommittee, on Thursday, that thoore3 of
Northern Georgia and Alabama, bad
tamed ont equally as valuable for the
manufacture of fine cutlery as tbo Swed
ish ore, hitherto exclusively nsed. This
is very strong testimony and means a
great deal, so far as tho fntnro of iron
manufacture of iron in the South is con-
oeraed.
It is generally understood, says the
Nashville American, that the Crooked
Joyoe receives a pretty goed salary for
contenting himself with prison quarters at
Jefferson Gity. In other words, snndry
St. Lonia distillers, who were implicated,
raised a purse of $50 000 to prevent his
cqnealing on them. His term being three
years, this amonnts to $16,666 per annnm.
With snch a salary be may beoome a
candidate for a second and even a third
term.
Georgia Filling Up.—The Valdosta
Times is informed that a large party of
Virginians from the Shenandoah Valley
have purchased land in Thomas county,
and will make that their future home
It ia through tbo agency of Captain J. S.
Kneller, a conductor on tho Atlantio and
Gnlf road, that these Virginians aro seek
ing a home in Sonthorn Georgia. Five
of tho number passed over tho Atlantio
and Gnlf railroad a few days ago on their
way to their new homo. Others are to
arrive in April, and still others in May.
The parties are all farmers by profession,
and intend to mike agriculture their chief
pursuit.
Middles and South Georgia could soon
bo filled with enterprising emigrants were
proper stops taken to encourage it. No
part of the Sonth offers more induce
ments than cars to the Northern !{and
Western man who desires to escape the
rigors cf Ice and snow, and find a home
whore he can have fertile land, good
health and raise something to eat every
month ia the year.
The World, reviewing the Snpreme
Court decision, under the enforcement
act, says: “The analysis of the nature of
car complex Government is an exquisite
piece of legal acumen, a sound utterance
of political wisdom. It is fop the gene
ral principles, thorein laid down that tho
opinion will be received with satisfaction
by the friends of constitntional govern
ment throughout the country; but In a
summary of the effects of the deo'sion,
wo havo at present only to deal with tho
application of these principles. • •
And (gain, “it (the decision) may bo
duoribed as tho final and authoritative
enunciation of tho dootrineof the duality
of tho American system of government
ana the dual nature cf Amerioan citizen
ship. Chief Ja.tico Waite in this decis
ion and in the terms of its utterance, has
Vindicated bis di position and his capac-
and Taney at# th<S fam ® ° f Jay ’ Marshall
Col. Thomas G. Lawson.
We print to-dsy a communication from
s Putnam oonnty friend of Hon. Thomas
q, IawsON, presenting his name os
a candidate for nomination for tho
45ih Congress from the C.h District.
The writer sends a remittance to oover
the cost of the publication, whioh we re
turn to him. Until It becomes necessary
to protect the paper from too much of
this personal advocacy of candidates, as
also to prevent it from beooming an in
strumentality of mischief in creating
dissension and ill-feeling, wo will not in
terpose the restraining affect of a charge
for snch publications.
Two years ago this was made necessary
by the great number and volume of such
publications. We could not refuse to
print them without giving offenco and
subjecting ourselves to the charge of par
tiality and favoriteism, and there was no
other course left to ns than to interpose
the restraining influence of a charge fer
all such communications and personal
matter, of which we gave dae and previ
ous notioe. Very possibly we shall
bo compelled to pursue tho same courao
this year, or surrender our columns to
illimitable personal controversy, whioh
will bo barren of general interest and do
much harm; but when it becomes neces
sary, we will give timely notioe. For the
present, all such articles of reasonable
length, and when not objectionable in
themselves, as assailing other candidates,
will take tho conrtesy extended to genetal
communications of pnblio interost.
The writer privately requests ns to en
dorse his communication, which we freely
do to the ex ent of pronouncing Col. Law-
son every way worthy of a nomination, and
a man whom wo shall gladly support as tho
Democratio standard bearer; but he and
all others will, on reflection, recognize
the essential unfairness of using this
paper as the personal backer .of any aspi
rant for the nomination. If wo could
take that position we might, perhaps, be
inclined to deolare in favor of tho in
cumbent, Mr. Blount—mainly for tho
reason that he is the incumbent, and we
think, under ordinary circumstances,
change a bad policy; beoanso experience
in the position is of great value and ad
vantage to the Representative. But wo
propose to leave this and all other matters
and considerations affecting the choice of
a nominee to the free determination of a
district convention, unbiased by any in
terference of the Telegraph in the way
of attempting to influence tho action of
the convention. Oar personal prefer
ences, if we have any, will find no voice
in these columns.
THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
Carrying New Hampshire,
Ob, no, says tho Tribune, there was no
bribery in the recent New Hampshire
election. All charges that there was any
thing of the kind were slanders of the in
dependent press, led on by the Tribune.
This must bo a faot, for all the organs say
it with great solemnity. If they hope to
have their stories believed, however, they
would be wise, before making any more
denials, to caU in all of the letters Mr.
Daniel Hall, Chairman of the Republican
State Committee of New Hampshire, wrote
daring the recent auction, which has been
erroneously called a campaign. These
lettera are coming to light, and are liab.'i
to make the denial business up-hill work,
unless they can be put out of the way.
Here is one, for instance, which seem3
to imply that a ten-oentshinplaster or iw<*
was crookedly —t$i,ouo I have
fa not enough to carry the
i town, I rely upon you to carry it at all
events; and if it costa $5,000 you shall be
made whole. Don’t fail. Yours truly,
Daniel Hall.’’ The whole number of votes
cast in Canaan was 480. A Chairman who
was willing to spend $5,000 on a town of
i hat sizo must have had a liberal 6nm to
draw from. But of coarse it was all for
“legitimate expenses.” As the organs tell
ns, it costs money to cart the aged and
infirm voter to the polls. In this instance
the cost per head seem3 to havo been so
exorbitant that the Legislature would be
justified in fixings scale of prices for car
nage hire in that town.
The Boston Navy Yard,
So-called' though located in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, under the investigations
of tho Naval Committee of the Honse is
reported by the New York Herald to be
taming ont a sink of vice and corruption
in whioh money was wasted like
water and a regular Radical voting mill
carried on withont regard to expense,
The abases are so glaring and atrocious
that tbo Republican party hope to largely
increase their voto In Oonnecticnt on the
strength of them.
The Position of Hog Prodncts.
We publish to-day, sajs tho Courier-
Journal of the 29th ult., from i he advance
sheet of the Cincinnati Price Carrent tho
final exhibit of the results of the Western
packing in the regular season, which
ended on the 29th nit. Tho moat impor
tant facts are that, as compared with the
season 1874-75, there was a deficit of
ono hundred and five million ono hundred
and eighty-threo thousand four hundred
and thirty-six pounds in the net weight
of the hogs cut up, and of seventeen
million three hundred and slxty.fonr
thousand twenty.seven pounds in the
segregate yield of lard. The decrease in
aggregate packmg was equal to the pro
duct of five hundred and one fhocsmd
foar hundred and twenty-two hogs, of
the aversgo weight of 1874 75, though
the actual numerical shortage was. six
bundred and eighty-six thousand and
ninety-one head
From April one to November ono, 1875,
the exports of meEs pork and bacon
amounted to ono hundred and forty-four
million seven hundred and ninety-fonr
thousand, nine handred and fit'iy-ono
pounds, and the experts of lard to seventy-
eix million, seven handred and two thou-
sand, fonr hundred and sixty nine pounds
The exports of mess pork and bacon from
November one to March eighteen, 1875-
76, were, in round numbers, thirty-eight
million ponnds in excess of th» exports in
the corresponding period of 1874-75, and
it wou'd seem that if not another pound
should bo exported until next November.
*ho snpply left for domestic nso would
only about equal that of last year—a year,
mire over, when tho wholo supply was
closely consumed.
In tho oase of lard, however, thoro was
a deficit in expoits in the period named,
as compared with last year, amounting
to 19,0000,000 lbs. Of late the exports
of this article haye been rather larger,
while the English market has been ad
vancing, and, if the present average be
sustained, the exports to November 1
will amount to 110,000,000 to 115 000 000
lbs. The present average of meat ex
ports is about 50,000,000 lbs per month.
We are, of course, no better qualified
to forecast the future averages of export
than any one else, bat it cannot be
doubled that the comparisons of pro
duction and export make as strong a po
sition for products as is ever witnessed.
The Worcester Trouble.
The Woroester reservoir, it will be
sseD, discharged itself eventually through
a ravino too narrow and deop to permit
extensive mischief. Several mills and
houses were destroyed, but no lives
lost.
“Haymakers” and ‘'Scourers,” are tho
names of two Augusta base ball clubs. If
both were made to falfi.ll the missions
indioated by their names, the members
would doubtless grow up to be better men
than they are likely to be.
Gibabdy’s Opera House, in Augasta,
will be sold next Tuesday to foreolose
mortgage.
Weston, of the Dawson Journal,
monrnetb as one who will not be com
forted. His smokehouse was robbed a
few nights sgo.
The emoke-bouse of Mr. Wm. N. Thorn
ton, of Dawson, was- broken open and
robbed Monday night. Tte thief was
caught.
Mathis Chuech (Methodist) in Wash
ington oonnty was accidentally burned a
few nights ago.
A Wahixoton csnnty man advertises
for a good cowbell.
Judge Pottle is holding an adjourned
oonrt in Sandersvllie to try the Biddle
and Wilson case in whioh $100,000 is in
volved.
The Sanderavillo Herald says: The
daughter of Rev. Jordan Flanders, of
Emannel county, on Saturday lest_ went
into tho field where hor brother-in-law
was felling timber. Ucoonscions of her
danger, sue ran nnder tho falling tree
and was so terribly bruised and mutila
ted that no hopes of her recovery aro en
tertained.
The same paper sajst Wiley Curry,
an industrious colored man of this coun
ty, not only raised bis own supplies of
corn and meat, but also a surplus of each.
On Tuesday last, be sold a lot of well
cored bams, weighing 350 ponnds, and
8till has more at borne, of the same sort,
to bring in when “tho prico will justify.’
Grispis moped over a costume party
at tbo rick last night.
Geiffin has been enjoying some ama
teur horse racing as a relief for dull times.
The editor of the Savannah Prass has
been beatified by receiving a piece of
“tho old elm.” In half a dozen years
there will be onengh pieces of that old
elm scattered through tho country to
build a Chinese wall aoro3Sthe continent
We aro authorized to state that Harris,
of the Savannah News, is not tho Geor
gia agont for Lindsey, the Abindon bird-
fanoier. Having no birds of bis own to
dispose of, L-ndsey successfully plucked
a fine flick of Georgia geese.
Dixon’s grist mill, in Burko county, was
burned a few nights ego.
The saw-mill of Mr. George Garbntt,
about seven miles from No. 9 on the Cen
tral railrojd, was burned Tuesday night.
Tee population of Waynesboro has
doubled during the past four years. It it
continues at that rate the town will bo
entitled to the next centennial.
Z cohiding to the Express, Cartersville
has a “popular restaurauteur.”
Prop G J. Ore, Stato Superintendent
of Pablio Schools, will deliver an address
in Albany next Friday, on the school
question.
Mb W. D. Nottingham has been select
ed as the orator for Memorial day at
Perry.
The Columbus Eaqnirer of yesterday,
says: Mr. Charles Burros, of this city
reoeived a telegram yesterday from St.
Loni3 that his brother, George Burros, of
that city, was found dead Tuesday morn
ing in his bed. He had been fcfH. oted
with paralysis for nearly two years, bav.
ing had a portion of one leg amputated r
short time before his d 08 ^
52 jeSISurune, near Jonea’ crossing,
(whioh whs reported in full at the time in
this paper), died Wednesday night from
the wounds received on his head.
Mn Henry Griffin, engineer cf tho
steam tng Crescent City, was drowned
the river opposite Savannah Thursday.
The Savannah News says: “ Tho Cala
boose Guards, otherwise the chain gang,
have dwindled down to eighteen, rank
acd file.” Mostly rank, aren’t they ?
The Irwinton Appeal has the follow,
ing: We learn from parties who recently
visited the neighborhood of Steven’s Put
tery in Baldwin county, that on Tuesday
evening between 3 and 4 o’olock, a band
of abont twenty colored men, suddenly
surrounded several convicts, and the
guard, employed by Mr Stevons in cat
ting wood, and took Gen Joe Morris
from among them, and disappeared in
the timbers. Since then he has not been
heard from.
A o-uple of negro prisoners escaped
from (ho Jefferson connty j*il Saturday
night.
Atlanta has found another dead baby
—a negro this time.
The Warrenion Clipper says that a col
ored child was burned to death last week
on the plantation of Mr Wm. Johnson.
The mother left it in a house and went to
the field, and in her absence the house
caught fire, and was nearly burned down
before it was discovered. The child per
ished in the Aimes.
This thing is getting to bo too common.
Tho Warrenton Clipper says: On last
Monday week, the 20th’inat, Mrs. Thos.
Hendrick, living in the upper part of the
oonnty, gave birth to three well grown,
well formed and apparently healthy chil
dren—two boys and a girl We regret to
state, however, that one of the boys died
in abont an bonr after its birth. The
others are living and doing well.
Ms. James P. Llye, of Randolph oonn
ty, died last Wednesday.
Mb. Thomas Kenngn, an o!d citizen of
Walton oonnty, died on the 29th.
Six prisoners broke out of Richmond
county jail Thursday morning. Why
don’t they whitewash that jail to strength
en its walls.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of yes
terday has tho following Atlanta itemB:
We learn that on yesterday Col. M. Van
Estes, editorof the Gainesville Eagle, was
appointed State Superintendent of Pablio
Works, vice Ool. Wes. Morphy, resigned.
Mr. Sam Small, one of the looal report
ers of the Constitution, has been arrested
on a charge of libel at the instance of the
notorious United States Marshal Blaok6r.
Tho proprietors disclaim any responsi
bility for the so-called libellous matter,
and Mr. Small promptly gave bail in the
amount required.
The Camilla Enterprise hes the follow
ing I mete occurrence: “We are abont to
obroti.le oue of the most shocking disas
ters that we ever remember hearing or
reading of It occnrred five miles from
this place on Tuesday last, late ia the af
ternoon, and constated in the supposed
instant killing of Mr. E. K. Corley, by a
falling tree and the subsequent burning
of his body. The faots immediately at-
teoding this unprecedented disaster are
unknown—as Mr. Corley was alone. Sure
it is, however, that deceased left his
honse late in the afternoon with his
axe upon his shoulder for the purpose
of felling some dead trees near
his fence that had token fire from
the woods being on fire. After (ratting
down several it is supposed that ho must
have sat down or reolined near a log that
had taken fire, when a large dead tree,
the top of which had been previously
broken off by some storm, fell upon him
and mashed the body into the ground.
The dry sap upon the tree, which had
fallen npon him, took fire—and although
the body was forty odd feet from the
root of the tree, before his body was dis
covered the fire had reached and burned
it into a crisp and unrecognizable mess.
Deceased bed a club foot and it was thus
that his body was recognized.
NOTES.
Thb Notristown, (Pa.) Herald says:
Only saloon keepers trust the Democrat
ic party,” and it might have added, not
even do the saloon keepers trust the Rad
ical party.
Makufaotubebs are bringing tremend
ous influences to bear npon Congress in
order to seonre legislation favorable to
the iron and steel business while Govern
ment officials are equally energetic in op
posing legislation which is adverse to the
steal business.
Miss Suub H. Monboe will shortly be-
Stowe herself upon tho son of Mrs. Har
riet Beecher S.
Tns World says: “Italy Is abreast with
the spirit of the age.” Does she make it
‘crooked" or take it “straight?”
Mb. Longfellow is suggested as Min
ister to England, in ease Dana continues
to “lack confirmation;” bnt as the only
charge against Dana is “literary piraoy,’
is it not possible that, if Mr. Longfellow
should be nominated, the Senate Gommit
tee on Foreign Affairs will be invited to
read Poe’s “Mr. Longfellow and other
Plagiarists f
Woboeateb was right to be alarmed
abont tho breaking of that dam, as it was
liable to worst-her considerably.
The Commercial Advertiser says: “Mr.
Cannon, of Illinois, is prepared to submit
a plan to Congress whioh, it is believed,
will effeotnally sqnelob fraudulent mail
contracts. Tho report of that Cannon
will be anxiously listened for, and will be
beard throughout the land." Bnt if fusee
it, it is not likely to go eff well, yon
know.
An Atlanta man has earned reputation
by eating a partridge eaoh day for thirty
days. Now if he really wants to show
what sort of a fellow he is, let him eat a
bunch of Canada thistles eaoh day for the
same length of lime. No doubt he could
do it.
“Let ns take a drink," is the snbjeot
of a lecture in Memphis by Mrs. Gilbert
Kaap. We should hate very badly to
pronounoa those words to a Memphis, or
a Macon crowd, unless wo had plenty of
money and were willing to part with a
right smart of it.
The Enforcement Decisions,
The Baltimore Sun takes tho following
view of the Supreme Court decisions un
der tho enforcement aot:
The Snpreme Court to day announced
its decision in tho Kentucky election
case and In the Grant parish oase, both
arising under the provisions of the en
foroement act of May 31, 1870. These
decisions have been awaited with grea;
interest not only by the members of the
bar, but by Congress and tho people gen
erally throughout the oonntry. Last
Spring, &3 will be remembered, when the
Grant parish oase was argnad before th.
ROBESON’S QUEER DOINGS.
How but mil’s naval Preparation
WM Pal* Por-Two Hundred Thou
sand Dollars Borrowed in London—
literal Acceptances.
Washington Special to the N. T. Tribune.]
One of the recent mysteries of Wash
ington has been the lavish manner in
whioh 8eeretsry Robeson spent money in
the Navy Department last fall just before
the meeting of Congress. The appropri
ations for tha current fiscal year ware not
sueh aa to warrant patting the navy on a
war footing at that time, and officers
through whose hands the aoconnts of the
Department at that time panned, as well
as unofficial observers, shook their heads
doubtfully, and predicted large deficien
cies. All have been disappointed. No
large deficiency estimates have been sub
mitted by the Secretary, and he has on
more than one occasion said that he was
conducting the bniiiness of his department
within the appropriation, and that he
should spend no more money than was
voted by the Congress. Bat now the
House Committee on Expenditures in the
Navy Department, Mr. Beebe, of New
York, Chairman has made a discovery
whioh lets in a flood of light on the finan
cial management of Secretary Robeson.
It seems that instead of confining hi9
expenditures to the appropriations, he has
been trenobing on next year’s income.
Drafts originating in London, and
amounting in a single case to $200,000,
have been aooepted by Secretary Robeson
at fonr months, thus making thuir pay
ment fall within the next fiscal year.
Abont a week ego Mr. Beebe sent a letter
to the Secretary of the Navy, asking him
in relation to tho acceptances, thoir
amount, aud iho object for whioh they
ware given, bnt no reply boo yet been
received.
Many oonjeoinres havo been indulged
in by those who had learned these faots
in order to explain them. Has tho Sec
retary been borrowing money in London
with whioh to pieoe out the year’s apDro-
priatioDs, and intending to pay it in July
next ? Or tus he nsed np the appropria
tion for aome bureau, and, fearing in
vestigation that would certainly follow a
request for a deficiency appropriation,
resorted to this questionable method of
postponing until the appropriations for
tho next fisoal year became available ? Of
coarse either of those proceedings would
be wholly illegal and unauthorized, since
by seotion 8,679 of the Revised Statute it
is provided that “ no department of tho
Government shall expend in any one fiscal
year any sum in excess of the appropria
tions made by Congress for that fiscal
year, or involve tho Government in any
oontract for the future payment of money
in excess of snch appropriations.” If Sec
retary Rsbeson is not involving iho Gov
ernment in liabilities to pay money in ex
cess of the appropriations for tho present
fiscal year, he wonld have no oaoasion to
grant fear months’ acceptances, because
ail the appropriations for the current
year are always available, so that ail bills
against tbo department may 03 paid in
cash.
Under iho circumstances, and in view
of tho plain provisions of tho law quoted
as well as decisions of the Supreme Court,
it is doubtfnl if Secretary Robeson’s ao
the entire State. The friends of Mr.
Lawson will urge his nomination,*end I
trust the delegates to the convention will
act with wisdom and ciroumspeotiou, and
give this post of honor to the man who
Will beet subserve the interest of his
country—whether Lawson or some one
else. He is the best man I know of, and
is more satisfactory to the whole district.
If yon know a better one raise his name
Sixth District.
P. S.—I neglected to state that this
article is published without the knowl
edge of Mr. Lawson. He has nothing to
do with it, and knows nothing of it.
Other papers in the distriot will please
copy. 8. D.
The Dligrnntled North Georgians.
Atlanta, March 30, 1876.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The
latest sensation in onr truly sensational
city, the “Northwestern excursion," with
its tumult, tho grand hand shaking over
the bloody chasm (by tbo3e who took
care that none of their blood ever want
into the chasm) is over, and wo are able
to breathe more freely. Meanwhile every
day some of the rear guard oome strag
gling. along, making their way back to
their Western homes, and we are listen-
ing with itching ears to hear what ‘‘they
will say” of our great State, and still
greater Atlanta. And while we pass along
we must not forget in onr eostaoy over
the grand results of this most wonderful
exoursion, this unheard of condescension
of our friends (?) in visiting free of ex
pense our dear old Stato. I say we muBt
not forget the prime mover, the first and
only projector of this grand, this momen
tous, this most glorious soheme. I will
not caU his name. The Doctor, “form
erly Surgeon of tho First Iowa Volun
teers,” is too well known. His name is a
household word in Georgia, and should
bo handed down to posterity as the mod
est, nnselilih benefaotor of our people iff
general, and our beautiful, our far-famed,
onr beloved Atlanta in particular.
But what do our friends of the North
west say cf us? Tell muoh that ia good
and true, and some things that aro not
pleasant to our ears, coming as they
do with ill-graca from those who
helped to bring about this sad state of
poverty. ’ One in giving his “first impres
sions” says of upper Georgia, whioh
twelve years ago was completely robbed
of every horse, cow, rati and farming
utensil by tho plundering hordes of the
North and Northwest: “The farms are
small and generally located where a clear
ing can bo made with the least labor. The
plowing ia all done with rode, home made
plows, drawn by a single horse rigged with
rope harness and driven with a pair of
clothes-lines. In one instance we observed
a woman engaged in plowing.” And,
Yankee liko, he could not refrain from
the laudation of the God of their
shameful conquests. Ho prefaces
his description of this poverty stricken
country by making the entertaining out-
start, “We strike Georgia soon after
leaving Chattanooga, \rhere General
Sherman attack it in 1864 ” Unconscious
ly he gives in the beginning of his letter
. the true cause of the poverty of whioh he
mptanoas are worth tha paper on which I B p aa ks so sneeringly. Hear what a Chi
ihey aro written, since the giving of them I Cil g 0 Times' correspondent says:
w _ was withont donbt illegal and uuauthoriz-1 “the poet royal fraud.
Sopreme Court, snoh eminent lawyers as I lJ( j ia ,j so reportod that other paper I “Although nearly the whole party WR3
the late Reverdy Johnson and Mr. David I 0 f the Navy Dopv.tment, besides the two I most anxious to make straight for S»van*
Dadioy Field took snch an interest in the I hundred thousand dollars of accsptances, j na h, a delegation from Pott Royal For
matter, and regarded the questions de- I , ir0 j n ce jtain banks. It is also said that guaded about 300 of the excursionists to
pendent upon tha decision of the cour. j ,his practice of postponing payments acd I p ay {hat place a visit, promising lavish
as of such vital moment to the best in- j ma king the appropriations of one year j hospitalities and a boat to Savannah with
terests of tbo oonntry that they came to I pay the expenditures of a previous one berths for all. All this wa3 a most
Washington and argued for what they I aas been oommon in the Navy Depart- j ghamefal imposition. Tho hospitalities
considered the constitutional rights of 1 men t, and that by it will be explained tho oona i 8 ttd of a sham Bupper gotten np as a
the peoplo withont money and without I immense expenditures of hut fall during I B j|j e speculation by some Port Royal CoL
price. • I excitement over th-; Cuban question cans- Sellers, for whioh ho charged handsomely,
The enforcement aot of 1870 was tho I tt( j by Administration manceavors. while the elegant steamer was represented
beginning of the Feries of the note by I by an old guano boat, and the 300 berths
which Congress undertook to oontrol tee I ijijg (jjn ce Shsnltl Seek tile Man. I dwindled to 20, barely sufficient to accom-
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SSSSa"I b °“ r b “ °’- r " r,d land. Hi'oooW Vhm “ante”Ito
• jsaxumonnt power oonferre<] I w ^° * a artfully ►killed in electioneering, j Yankee so successfully.
wire palling and “log rolling,” who seeks I Tho good people of Atlanta, not given
to undue enthusiasm, are jast now some-
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upon Congress by the late constitutional
amendments. Hence the interest with
amendments, ttence tne interest with ( the offica with imoertir.fnt tnnnrito I uua “ B entr
which the decision of the Supreme Conn | , “ witn impertinent tenacity and what e3witea „Ter the wonderful under-
has been awaited on all sides, and the ( uaabated e ff ron 6ry > w “°> t0 accomplish J taking of our fellow townsmsn, Col. Mar-
anxiety experienced in consequence of I his end, employs all tbs schemes and in- I cellos E Thornton, the great quail de-
the loeg delay of the court in announcing {trigues known to politicans and offioe voater i tho champion bird eater; the
its opinion. It was known to but very j -eekers? or upon some modest, retiring I fam °us “Jones” of tho defunot Herald
few that there was a prospect of the opin- J man of irreprosohabie character, unoom- (P 0a09 to its sacred ashes). Yesterday
ions being delivered to-day, but a num I promising integrity and eminent ability ? I he accomplished his wonderfnl feat of
her of Senators and members were pres- I These aro significant questions, and oatiD 8 thirty quails in as many conseou-
ent acd several distinguished counsellors, J should receive more than ordinary consid- I tivo d “y d - We aro told that while tho
including Judge Black. The opinion in ( oration. If, in onr choice, we shall honor Ooionei has grown famous in this novel
both cases was written and delivered by I him who deserves no honors, every word undertaking, his purse attests by its in
the Chief Justice. t I of censure and dissatisfaction uttered by erased dimensions something more snb-
In the Grant parish case the opinion iB I iho eleotors against their chosen leader I Btant *al than oven a great name. So
confined almost entirely to the discussion I carries with it self-reproach and self-c m- ( numerous havo been the wagers of cloth-
of the different oounts of the indictmen I demnation, for, mest certainly, the mat- I hats, shoes, clean shaves, and Tark-
ueder which Omiksbank and the others in I ter rests entirely with them, tad it is for I isa baths that tha Colonel will not
the oase were apprehended. It is d-rcrebd I the voters, and them only, to decide I * eel tl10 need of ihase indtspensabies for
that the oounts of the indiotment are de- | whether we shall be ably represented or months to come. With a round trip
feotive, because the specifications are too | not. We must throw aside friondly pref- tic het to the Centennial, and a situation
•rences end choose a man for his real I 6 aar 'nteed in charge of all the birds at
worth, for his dignity, integrity and learn-1 S reat show, we imagine him tho gay-
ing. Tho nominee should be songht by I e8 ^ °n the grounds. So enthused
the people. It should be loft to them to 810 oar P eo P le OTCr tIj e wonderfnl success
ask: “Will you represent us?” and not for I ^°1 Thornton, that bird eating is
the aspirant to say: u Jf check will win 11 liko *y _V» beoome one of onr most re-
vagne and too general. Bat the opinion
nowhere gives expression upon the oon
stitutionality of the enforoemont act i (self
It was said by members of the bar that it
was very evident the oonrt wished to
evoid a direct decision npon the aot. Io
the Kentnoky oase the conrt is not so
guarded in Us language. It here sets
forth its doubts as to the power cf Con
gress to eneot snch sweeping legislation,
and hints at the dangers to follow from
such a power.
This much may be deduced from the
opinion of tho conrt in th9 two cases,
that although it does not positively deoide
the aot unconstitutional in snoh terms an
to estop any farther prosecutions under
am bonud to be yonr representative.”
Having considered the character of the
man worthy to represent his people in
the national connolis, tbo next considera
tion is, other things being equal, from
what looality shall we select him. Cer
tainly, Mr. Editor, nnless yon can offer
a man more eminently qualified for the
dnties and responsibilities of tho high
trust than any other oonnty in the dis
triot, the pride and ambition of (bo oiti-
spectablo occupations. Evan ladies are
i seeking situations, and offering to eat a
whole dock or goose each day, for thirty
or more days, with the only proviso that
| said duck or goose bo furnished fre9 of
I charge. Mora anon. Squash.
Louisiana Sugar and Rice Crops,
From the New York Ballclin.l
Complete returns having been reoeived
.. . .... i - , - , ... , . .from several of the producing districts,
it, yet that in all cases which are likely j zsns of yonr county will surrender their I .
to arise nnder the aot the oonrt can do no j olaim to tho magnanimity and nobler I w0 are Qna ^ e ^ P res ent accurate data of
less if an appeal Is taken to it than to | impulses of yonr people. That yon have j tke sugar and rice crops of Louisiana for
dismiss them, as it bos the two oases In I good men, and many of them, I do not j the season of 1875-76 Tne aggregate
point Praotioally ibis makes the en- j deny; that other seotions of the distriot yie ia of sugar was 144,146 hhds, against
foroement act a dead letter, and it can f atao have good men yon cannot deny. 11X6,867 the previous season- With the
hardly be avoided in some of tte oases | Come, then, and let us talk this matter exception of 1870, when the total product
which may hereafter oome in review be- I over. Yon have had glories enough for I rea ohed 144 881 hhds, the yield of the
fore the oonrt that it mast decide une- f one paper—sharo them with your neigh- 1 ’
quivocally as to the oonstitutionality of I bore. Yon havo aspirants for gnberna-
tho cot. {torial honors. Tne President of tho Sen
, .. ~ . _ ‘ ' — j ate and the Speaker of the House of Rap
Another Bank Ktbued in tho Usual f resontaiive? of the General Assembly are
WlJ. I yonrs, and havo been for some time. One
past season is the largest since the war
and though an abundant crop wa9 (repent
ed, the result ie oonsiderab'y in exoens of
tho estimates and of the anticipations of
the most sanguine. List Reason’s pro-
., . . - . ... T , . . duct represents 1C3 418,070 pounds net,
Abont nine o’olock last Friday nigh’} oftho Judges of the Snpreme Court is 0 f w hioh 131,700 860 pounds was brown
Mr. Messersmith, oashier of the National J yours. Every Democratio nominee for I 8n g Sr mS( j a p y ’ tp 0 oid preoa-s, and
Bank of Chambersburg, Pa., was gagged, j Congress from this District, sinoe the 131,717,710 pounds was olarified. Tne
and the safe robbed of $30,000 The
oishier had gone to the bank to accom
modate n men named Rollins, who ar
rived at Ohambersbnrg last May with hiB
alleged wife and an invalid brothor. Dar
ing his stay he deposited a box, which he
represented contained valuable articles.
Oa Friday evening, in company with a
nun whom he oalled Johnston, from
Pittsburg, he informed the cashier that
he wanted his box, having concluded to
leave for a few days in the morning. The
officer accompanied tho two men to the
book, and, after he had opened tho eefe
to deliver the box, Roliins and his asso
ciate violently seized him, and, after a
war, has been famished by yonr oonnty,
with one exception, and that was when
the nomination was tendered to Hon.
Thomas G. "Lawson, of Pntncm, who, at
that time, could not make the race on so-
count of tho Radical usurpations, which
held onr State under subjection.
For four years, onr esteemed fellow-
countryman, Hon. Jas H. Blount, has
done efficient servioo in C ingress, and os
far os I know, given entire satisfaction to
his constituency. Now, lot him rstiro in
flying odors and givo the third term
; movement another blow.
To day, you offer ns tho, Hon. A O
Baoon. I havo groat respeo; for hia
total crop of molasses and syrup was 19,
870 546 gallons; the former constituted
9 314 884 gallons of the totai, and the
latter, 1,525 gallons.
A very large'crop of rico wau looked
for, but tho lack of irrigation consequent
on the extreme dry wettuer daring May
and Jane, materially leessned the aggre
gate. However, Iho crop was tho largest
ever produced in th9 State, the total foot
ing up 109,264 barrels, or 38.930,720
ponnds, net As regards sugar, these
figures indicate a steady growth of that
important interest, and if tho produot of
fntnro seasons increase in the same pro
portion with that of the past year, it will
desperate struggle, gagged him, when I Ability and snggeBt the propriety of re— I qol bo long before Ljuistana will regain
they appropriated about $30,000 and I turning him to tho Legislature with ia- 1
started for the outside, where they had I strootions to advocate tho polioy of rais-
horsea on whioh to escape. The cashier I lug an ample snpply of baoon for home
partially removed the gag meanwhile and I consumption, beforo wo endeavor to
gave iho alarm. Ia the hurry of the supply tho Northern markets. No,
flight Rollins fell down tho steps in front Bacon, go back to Atlanta. Wo
of the bnildiug, and beforo ho oonid re- I need your eonnsels, and, if give yon
cover himself a negro seized him, keep- np we must, we do so very reluotantly.
ing him down until assistance arrived. I Give all the counties a fair showing’
Thirty thousand dollars, all of tho plan- Biab has reaped all tho honors long
der, was found In possession of tho rob* j enough. As tho most available man for
ber, who was armed with two revolvers, I the next Congressional nomination from
bnt was unable to nso them. His accom-1 ibis distriot, I respectfully submit the
its anto-war prominence as a sugar pro
ducer.
itinsmn Rendered Powerless.
Tho most certain way to render power
less tho miasmatio vapors which produce
chills end fever and other malarious dis
orders, is to fortify the system against
them with that matchless preventive of
periedie fevers, Hoatetter’a Stomach Bit-
The remedial operation of tho Bit
ters.
— . . . ters ia no less oartain than their prevent-
plice mounted Q horso and escaped. Dar- I name of Hon. Teomas G Lawson, of | ive effects, and thoy may be relied npon
ng the straggle between the bank officer I Putnam. If nominated, there is no ono I to overcome cases of fever and ague whioh
and the robbers Johnston wanted to shoot j w bo would give moro general satisfaction I resist quinino And the mineral remedies
him, but Rollins prevented the design j to the upper counties of the district, ss [ of the pharmacopoeia. Dyspepsia, con
from being executed. Johnston took the I well cs tho lower ones. If elected, not I stipation, bilions complaints, rheumatic
train at London on Saturday morning for | ° n0 w bo would leave behind him in tho I ailmonts, and general debility, likewise,
Martinsbnrg, W. Va., bnt was recognized I national conncils a more brilliant career. I ranidly yield to thoir regulative and tonic
at Meroeraburg by ex-8heriff Greenewalt, I Heis_ not a wire-workor or “log-roller.” I influence. They are an incalculable bless-
who had gone there in search of him. Ho I Hewill not bo found at tho public gath-I iog to the weak acd nervous of both
was taken to Obambersburg, and in da- J Brings cf the various counties scheming I sixes, an excellent family medicine, and
fanit of $30,000 was committed to await I ^ or *b e nomination and throsting himself J the best safeguard whioh the traveler or
*•'- *- ! " 1 * 1 upon tho people, nolens volens. For emigrant can take to an unhealthy cli-
manipnlalions and intrignEB ha has the | mate.
At the Charleston races, the finest almost oattempt. If his name is brought
thoroughbreds in the country are to be beforo tho convention tho peoplo must! a'local wit of Lafayette, Arkansas,
seen, and tha condition of tho horses is a ft)Itriif man of uncompromising ncaartoc i £ to f O0 i Dr. Westbrook ono
wonder to ail who behold them, and it fl ne f aenaibilitiesand groat ^moral'worth* dnsfc y evening last woek into the belief
has only recently been discovered that I a man of learning acd wisdom, active, nn- that aping of twist tobacco that he
they can be kept in this condition by I assuming, patriotic enddeoid 'd, ho would I pointed at the dootor’s head was a pisto 1 .
mixing in the food of horses a table- !?2 Ho succeeded admirably, and was shot
spoonful of Simmons’ L.ver Regulator. | on j y ©licit the oemmondation of the Sixth dBad ^ eforo he could explain that it was
It is also given to chickens. 1 distriot, bnt also tho ptaiao and-honor of! oil a joke.
Woboxstkb, March 81.—Several mills
and many booses have been swept away
by the flood, whioh reaohed down the
ravine twenty feet high in a solid mass
The narrowness of the ravine emptied the
reservoir gradually—re quit ing three hours
to exhaust it. No lives were lost.
Washington, March 31.—A special
from Brownsville, says: Last night the
men on guard at Casa Mata, in Maiamo-
ras, deserted to Diiz- An attack expected
to-night Several arrests have been made
for refusal to pay the forced loan.
San Francisco, March 31.—Child &
Maguire, prominent brokers, have failed
Chance beat Katie Pease in a mile half
dash for ono thousand dollars. Time,
2:24$
Et. Louis, March 31.—Rudolph Dryer,
the at soon ding oashier with $50,000 in
funds of the Farmers’ and Traders’ Bank,
has been arrested in Austin, Texas.
Paris, March 3L—Seven Communist
refugees have been ordered by the Ger
man authorities to leave Alsace and Lor-
aine.
London, March 31.—Betting on tfie
inter-university boat raco is now even.
The Times of this morning hopes that
the ministry may yet be better advised
tnan to persist in reoommending to the
Queen the assumption of the titlo of
‘‘Empress of Iadia.” It declares it has
been unfeignedly alarmed by the rapid
deoline in the authority and repntation
of the Government sinoe the beginning
of tho session. It does not pretend to
any special affection for the ministry, bnt
it cannot help seeing that the opposition
is thoroughly disorganized—that the en
ergies of its older members are exhausted,
while the younger men aro chiefly re
markable for immaturity of mind, which
threatens never to ripen: and any at
tempt to form a new Government ont of
inch material wonld threaten mischief to
the country. Even those who think its
fears fanoiful and over-strained, muBt hss
itate to press this new title forward,
when thev understand it does, in fact,
promoto discontent.
, The Times, in its financial article, says
the best private information we can ob
tain deolarea that financial circles on tho
Continent havo eo belief in, or appre
hension of immediate troubles on tbo
Eastern Earope.
Penzance, March 31.—$50,000 was re
covered from the wreck of the German
steamer Schiller, to-day.
Ragusa, March 31.—The JPtinco of
Montenegro permits the revictnaling of
Nicaio through hia territory during tho
truce.
Washington, Maroh 31.—Tho Commit
teo on Ways end Means reported a bill
for a separate entry of express packages
contained in one importation. Passed.
The same committee reported a bill to
defino the tax on fermented and malt
liquors. Passed.
Also a bill directing the Commissioners
of Internal Revenue to fix the plaoe whertf
collectors and supervisors of revanne
shall hold thoir offices. Passed.
She Senate bill making the 14th of
April a holiday in the District, passed.
A bill appropriating one hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars for printing
and engraving, with amendments substi
tuting stiver coin for fractional cnrrency,
passed by 122 to 100. ltdireota the Secre
tary to iaBne silver coin for th9 redemption
of fractional currency. Coins of dollar
shall be legal tender for fifty dollars.
Smaller silver coin shall be legal tender
for sums less than twenty-five dollars.
The night session gave way to tho canons
to-night.
Various petitions egainst any change
in the tar ff were received.
The Mississippi investigation resolu
tions were resumed. Mr. Ney, of Ten
nessee, was tho only one of the Democrats
who voted for the resolutions. He said
be was glad tho late war was fought out
<.-wL,i 7 -cu-i;aiuia' , Ai iSS wfir. 'He spoke
highly of tho colored people and their
fidelity to the whites dnring tho war, and
thought the people of his State were tril
ling to protect them and aid them. The
South was poor and weak and wanted
peace. It was time to forget that there was
a South or a North. The war was over and
the conquerors had a right to enjoy tho
results of their victory. He was willing to
admit that the terms granted by the vio-
tors were muoh moro liberal and magnan
imous than he expected. Ho was anxious
to have the South acquiesce in the result
and acoept the situation. Could not the
North, ho asked, bear with them and help
them to overoomo their past difficulties
and make this a land of peace and pros
perity ? He should vote for the resolntion
even though he shonid be tho only mem
ber of bis party to do so. If ibis state of
affairs existed the parties ought to be
punished, and he did not wish to have it
said that he was is favor of protecting
them; bnt bn did not think the reports
wera true. Yet he was willing to have
thesubjeet investigated.
The speech throughout wns highly con
ciliatory and dispassionate. After further
debate Mr. Christiancy’s substitute was
adopted by a vote of 27 to 19.
Beil, of Jackson, Mississippi, testified
that Belknap asked him if he could pay
$20,000 a year for a post tradership, for
which Beil made a personal application.
Rice was appointed Eecret detective. His
duties were in St- Louis, to look up pen
sion frauds. Ho was employed by Lackey
to look into Distriot Attorney Dyer’s
hand and see what evidenoe they had
against Bibcock. Ho told of it snrrep’
titionsly and reported to Luckey. In No
vember last he told Lackey the evidenoe
against Bibcock was weak. He read over
a great many papers in the oase in Dyer’s
efflee. Dyer did cot know he was Luok-
oy’s agent. Subsequently I took measures
to inform the President that Babcock
was guilty, because the President told me
if Bsbooek was gnilty he wanted to know
it. I was then dismissed.
A. O Bradley, who was also in Bab
cock’s interest, told Bell to get the papers
from Dyer’s office and destroy them.
Lackey had told me to act nnder Bradley’s
orders. I met Biboook and he told mo ~
must get all the papers. A part would do
good. He told me if I got the evidence
would be well rewarded?
Bell was to be appointed special agent
by the Attorney General. He had a oard
from the President to Pierrepont saying,
“This is the man of whom I spoke.” He
did not get the appointment.
Washington, March 31.—Bentley, the
new Gummisaioner of Pensions, has as-
earned the functions of his office.
Sherman and Taft bsd a long personal
interview to-day.
The Treasury received ono hundred
thousand dollars in silver from California
to-day.
The President had an interview with
several Senators to-day.
The Piatmaster Ganeral was absent
from tho Oabinot on account of thenma-
tisra.
Gsn. Ribsrt Toombs is here.
Nomination—Stephon B Fresob, ap
praiser of morebandiso at New York
Schesck’s crosa-ex imia ation was merely
a repetition of his direct evidence.
When Bruce concluded his speech of
nearly an Hour, he was congratulated by
both Democratio and Republican mem
bers The main points were that the
outrages in the State were the work of
th9 white league, a small minority of the
Demoorats. and that peace would certain
ly come when thB negro voto was divided.
The bill legalizing James Patton’s mar
riage with hia step-daughter has passed
iho Massachusetts House by 91 to 86.
Private dispatches from Jackson, Miss
issippi, state that the convention to seed
delegates to Cincinnati, did not instruot
them.
The Democratio caucca is progressing:
Providence, Maroh 31.—Four of the
sixteen boilers in the Fietoher Mills ex
ploded to day. Two persons were killed.
Washington, Maroh 31.—In the Spen-
cor investigation to-day, James Q. Smith,
Judge of the Second Oirouit of Alabama,
testified that jast previous to Spencer’s
election to-tho Senate, be went to him, at
the instance of Henry Cochran, a member
of tho Oonrt-honse Legislature, from
Dallas orunty, with reforenoe to the ap
pointment of Cochran as postmaster at
Seims, tiptneer had promised Cochran
the appointment, bnt Cochran wanted a
witness to the agreement. Spenoer said in
Promised him the appointment.
and that he would nuk # goedthe *g te £
ment if he could oontrolthe appoiotm-nT
Witness understood the agreement to he-
that the posbofflee was promised in co“!
aideration of Cochran’s voting for been
oer for Senator, aod thought he won^
not have so voted but for the promise
Testimony by other witnesses was given
this morning to show that there w»s
money in use among the members of the
Oonrt-honse body; but not direotiy con
necting Spenoer with it T. W Arm
strong testified te boing with Bryant “t
Lowndes, who had money in his hrndj
but Bryants declaration at ihe time
showing where he got it, and for what
purpose, wera ruled out. Gen. Morgan
claimed, as Bryant had been sent for bv
Spencer to fix the Lowndes county mem-
bers, that his declarations, as one of the
conspirators, were admiseablo. Jadoe
Smiths testimony made a decided im
pression. Gen. Morgan made application
for aubpooaaa for several other witcesjes.
bnt the oommittee has not acted on it ^
Babcock, Luckey acd Bradley pre-
nounoe the testimony of Detective Beil a
tissue falsehoods.
The J officiary Oommitteo presented a
fall report in Pierrepont’s letter, and pto-
posed the following resolntion:
Resolved, That In the opinion of the
House, the long established role relating
to testimony of aooomplicea in criminal
aotions, is neoessary to prevent combina-
tions for criminal purposes, and greatly
aids in the disclosures of conspiracies to
commit crime, and that the letter of the
Attorney General to the Distriot Attor
neys of the United States, residing m St.
Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee, dated the
26th of January, 1876, stating the determ
ination of the Attorney General that no
person confessing himself RUilty should
escape punishment, is in contravention of
such rule, and that the Attorney General
shonid immediately revoke the instruc.
tions covered and implied by the an
nouncement of such determination.
Augusta, March 31.—The statements
in the Washington Republican that two
negroes were killed last week in Columbia
oouaty, Georgia, and that ovor a dozen
were taken from their homes and severely
whipped, fonr of them hiviog been tor
tured by having hot sealing wax dropped
npon their bodies, are without a shadow
of troth. No outrages have been com.
mitted on colored people in the counties
of Burke, Jefferson and Chatham, and
there ia no truth in the farther statements
that in the vioinity of Macon three ne
groes were found hanging to trees in tho
neighborhood of a leading Dtmocrat.
The relation between races amiable and
friendly, and at no time 8inca the close cf
tha war has taere been better under
standing between whites and blacks. The
statements contained in the Republi
can are pare fabrications, manfactnred
for pelitioal purposes. The following
from the proprietors of the Macon
Telegraph is in answer to the dispatoh
asking if there were any grounds for the
statement in the Washington Rapubl'oan:
Macon, Ga\ Maroh 31.
To Patrici Walsh, Agent Associated Press,
Augusta, Ga:
There is not one word of troth in the
report of three negroes being hang near
hero, and not the ahadow of any ground
for it.
(81gned) Olisby, Jones & Reese.
Memphis, March 21.—A speoial from
Jaokson, Mississippi, to the Avalanche,
saya the Republican State Convention ad
journed at 2 o’clook this morning. Dele
gates to the Cincinnati Convention aro
nniostrooted, which is considered a vic
tory for the Conservative Republicans.
Among the delegates are Ames, Alcorn,
ex-Gov. Powers and Bruoe, The delega
tion is divided between Bristow, Blaine
and Morton—a majority being anti-
Morton.
Finchbaok spoke eulogizing Morton in
the colored men’s convention to-day to
appoint delegates to the edncational con
vention cf colored men. A resolntion
south of Mason and D;xoris's'*?ine)' have
oorropt leaders, and that the race wonld
not pledge their voteB to any bnt good
men. It was voted down.
New York, March 31.—The workmen
in the Green Turner Sugar Refinery Com
pany have been discharged. It is report
ed that the conoern will go into Iiquida-
EATONTON CORRESPONDENCE.
INDEPENDENT AS A WOOD-SAWYER
Tha exaot amount of a wood-sawyer’s
independence has, I believe, never bsen
very definitely determined. It is admit
ted, though, almost universally, to he
very great Everybody ought to be inde
pendent, bnt, nnfortnnately, only a few
are. I mean independent in one sense;
as, if it were not for onr mntnal depend-
enoe on each other, for some things,
there would be no social Intercourse, no
exobange of the commonest civilities of
life, no intellectual communing, and men
wonla be insensible, selfish brutes. AU
this by way of defining my position,
which I have done as well aa I oonid,
without using a great many moro words;
and the Telegraph and Messengeb has
too much matter of importance to print,
withont wasting apace on my foolishness.
I set ont to tell that I have fonnd one
individual who, I believe, is as Independ
ent as a wood- sawyer. I w»s sauntering
along in my idle way, seeing nothing,
hearing nothing, except what I ohose to
see had hear, when I approaotud a gronp
of colored citizens, one of whom I heard
say:
“ I’ve got five shoals; de ole sow hed
seven pigs las night, en Rrindle fotoh er
oslf de night beto, so I kin jes kiok np
my heels at all of um.”
Now is not that nigger on the right
track ?—provided, always, that he was
telling the truth? I do not know wheth
er te was or not; bnt I do know several
colored men who are really poor farmers.
They make very little cotton—that ia
merely by the way—and not a great deal
of corn, bnt then they have a few hogs,
a few chickens, a few cows, a green
patch for the live stock, a greens pa'ob,
either turnips or colloids, for the humans,
a sweet potato patch, eta. They have
been staying in the same pieoe nearly
ever since the wu. They tske in very
little money, but they spend still less.
They pay their rent, and they hove the
confidence of their landlord. They are
prosperous. They are successful. They
are independent as wood sawyers, for
they have established snoh a charaoter
that if their present landlord shonid fall
cut with them they oan find a home any
where in the neighborhood. Above all,
they have learned to aooomodate them
selves to circumstanoes and to live
within their means, whatever their means
may be.
X TOLD YOU SO.
A great many people have been giving
utterano3 to the foregoing words nearly
•ver sinoe the snow. They mean that
winter had to como, and that nobody
onght to piant till winter had como nad
gone. "We had hudly any winter «t tfce
mad time of year, therefore it had to
coma later. "Well, with the exception of
a few days, we hare had it-snre enough,
ever since the snow, and for several days
before. How long will it last ? Daring
tho few days of mild weather that I
have mentioned, some of the oorn that
hid peeped ont and been bitten down
raised its head again, bnt to be smitten
ovor and over. Some fruit survived tha
first attacks, but the repeated assaults
will probably finish it all. The wind is,
at this writing, blowing in a style that is
very disagreeable, and somewhat alarm-
Ingf L. H.
How “Diamonds” are Made. „
Tho celebrated “Diamond Spectacles
are the product of theearefnl fusion of
minute crystal pebbles with certain chem
ical elements, whioh removes the crystal-
ino structure which would otherwise be
injurious to the eye. Every pair stamped
with the diamond trade mark.
For Bale in Maooa by E. Pesehke.
A colored woman named Ellen Tracy
fell dead in her yard, on Third street, day •
before yesterday. Cause of her death not
known. The frequency of sadden deaths
among the ooiored people, is becoming a
matter of comment. This one makes fonr,
that we call to mitd, which have occurred
less than that cumber cf weeks.