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ESTABLISHED 1799.1 VoL^9^No*^?2 Qtyz CdUßtitotigiiaitel ®AIUY $6 per year TRI-WEEKLY $4 44 “ WEEKLY $2 44 44 Cheapast and Best Political, Local and General News Paper in the Bouthern States. NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES. Lexington, Ga. Guano sales are light thus far. Seed sweet potatoes are selling for two dollars per bushel. Mr. Blockman; engineer on the Athens Branch, narrowly escaped death the other day when his engine jumped the track. A little child of Mr. Alec. Johnson was buried last Tuesday in Lexington. Ground is broken tor two new houses in Lexington. Echo: It is said that suit will be com menced at our next court against a promi nent citizen of this county, to recover about $7 ,000, which sum was paid by his wife, as as trustee for minor children, in Confeder ate money. A perfect army of bran-new babies have made their advent in Crawford and sur rounding country within the past few days. A negro is filibustering for the position of Postmaster at Crawford. Elberton. Mr. D. F. Daniel, a highly respectable citizen, died Friday of last week. Mr. W. S. Gaines and Miss M. C. Teas ley were married on the 6th. The male school at Elberton continues to grow. The same can not be said of the female. The measles are doing a wholesale busi ness in the county. They propose trying the blue grass cure. The Gazette man knows of no place where a first rate boot and shoe maker is more needed than in Elberton. Crawfordville. Clarence Stephens is postmaster at Craw fordville. Mr. J. L. Moody died at his residence in Crawfoodville, very suddenly, on Monday last. Mr. Samuel H. Rhodes and Miss Emma T. Tucker were married on the 22d. They have a Liberty Hall brass band in Crawfordville. Horse racing is fostered by the natives of Crawfordville. The farmers are using unusually large quantities of guano this season. Anew bridge has been built across the Oconee river at Carter’s Ford. A good, industrious tinner is greatly needed in Crawfordville. Work plenty, and at remunerative prices The > oung men gave a dance Friday night at the Academy. The Crawfordville Democrat is a lively, gossipy sheet. Irwinton. Col. J. A. King, of Dublin, is quite sick. Irwinton is now supplied with Essex, Berkshire find Guinea pigs. Wesley Brack, who was put in jail some time since for stealing two mules and a buggy, has given bond and been released. A large quantity of pork put up by farm ers has been found to be spoilt. The meat was killed during the freeze, and the late warm spell ruined it. The editor of the Appeal has been sued by the members of the Town Board of Commissioners for publishing what they consider a libelous article. The Sparta Murder, The cruel assassination of Mr. Rozier, of Sparta, a week or two since, is still being investigated. A detective from Atlanta has been woiking up the case at his instance. Mr. W. C. Grigg, the Town Marshal, and Messrs. W. R. Lovett and Columbus G. Barnes have been arrested and committed to jail to await the action of the April term of the Superior Court. Tbis has caused much surprise in Spart ion account of the standing of these parties in that commu nity. Recorder’s Court. Yesterday was a dull day in this court there being only two parties present for trial. Andrew Gilmore a prominent member of Gilmore’s band, appeared on the charge of disorderly conduct, drunk and fighting. He paid $2 50ani costs. Lewis Williams, drunk and insulting a couple of colored ladies was released on the payment of $lO and costs. Two other cases, plain drunks were con tinued, the parties not being present. PHILADELPHIA. An Injunction Against Tobacco Manu facturers. Philadelphia, February 24.—A notice for aa injunction was argued in Janu ary last, to restrain McDowell & Cos. from impressing tin tags into the sur face of plug tobacco, as an infringe ment of a patent granted to Chas. S. Edier and assigned to Lorillard & Cos. The opinion of Circuit Judge McKen non was filed Saturday granting the Injunction. Minor Telegrams Baltimore, February 24.—Gen. An drew W. Dennison, Postmaster, was fouad dead in his bed. Deadwood, February 24.—A band of Indians attacked Spearfish City. A hundred shots were fired. No damage to mineis. Shreveport, February 24. The steamboat Bell Rowlaad, with a thou sand bales of cotton, sunk in Swan Lake. The boat is a total loss. No lives lost. It is expected tbat the coming Lon don season will be very gay, as it is said to be the intention of the Queen to spend two or three days of each week after Easter at Buckingham Palace. She has not done this since the death of the Prince Consort. The author of the phrase “Invinci ble in peace, invisible in war,” which has been ascribed to Ben Hill, was the late Captain George H. Derby, better known as “John Phoenix,” who, while in San Francisco, at a public dinner of the State militia, gave it as a toast to (he California militia, @)t A ngustfi Constitutionalist. BY TELEGRAPH —TO THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. FBOH ATLANTA. A Tragedy—Excitement Over the Washington News—Ben Hill Not as Popular As He Used to be. Politi cians on the Fence and WaLing for Pap - The Marietta and N. Georgia Bill Signed. [Special to the Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, February 24.9 Tom Black and Bill Pettis have just had a rencontre on Alabama street. Black shot Pettis twice through the lungs. Pettis wrested the pistol and beat Black. Pettis will probably die- It was a business quarrel. There is some excitement over the Washington news. The sentiment generally favors resistance of the De mocratic Congressmen and condemns Hill and Hewitt. The air is musical with discord about State and Federal affairs, and all men are cautious as to their utterances. Prominent Democrats absolutely re fuse to iudicate any policy or opinion. They will wait for the people and then slip in on the stroDg side. Corruption in high places is as common as pig tracks, and it now remains for the people to unearth and punish it. The South’s future is a cloud charged with electricity and dynamite, and the power to thunder is reserved to the people in convention. Joe Brown continues to improve. The Marietta and North Georgia Railroad bill was signed by the Gov ernor. Wentwobth. Associated Press Dispatches. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. O’Mahony’s Remains —The German Parliament Turkey and Servia Reconciled Marine Disasters - Russia in no Hurry to Move. Cobk, February 24.—O’Mahony’o re mains were brought from Queenstown in a special steamer, and now lie in state at Mechanic’s Institute. Demon stration small. Berlin, February 24.—Herr Yon Forckenback has been elected Presi dent of the Reichstag and Prince Ho henlope, Lauxenburg and Herr Hauf fenburg Vice-Presidents. Constantinople, February 24.—1 t is believed that a complete understand ing will be reached to-day between the Porte and the Servian envoys, the lat ter having accepted Turkish condi tions, except those claiming equality of the Jews in Servia and the right of the Porte to be diplomatically represented at Belgrade. Servia will be evacuated by the Turkish troops ten days after the conditions of peace are ratified. An agreement between the Porte and the Servian envoys was concluded to day. Prince Milan Wall addressed a letter to the Sultan, accepting the Turkish conditions, except those claiming equal ity for the Jews in Servia and the right of the Porte to be diplomatically repre sented at Belgrade. The Sultan will grant Prince Milan a new firman, determining the further relations of Servia and Turkey. The Russian Minister has communi cated to the Sultan a dispatch from the Czar explaining that the assem blage of troops on the Turkish frontier are solely meant to prevent the depre dations of a nomadic tribe. These as semblages have been ordered to cease. Bilboa, February 24. —Tempestuous weather past two days. One English and two French ships are reported lost, with all on board. London, February 24.—A special dis patch from Berlin to the Pall Mall Ga zette says it is stated in well informed circles that the Czar will certainly await the Powers’ reply to Prince Gortschoff’s circular before attacking Turkey. A Russian officer just arrived from Kis cheneff gives n highly favorable ac count of the Russian army, but it is positively asserted that Russia in no case will commence hostilities before March 31st. England Refuses a Concession from Russia. Brussels, February 24.—The Lenord publishes a letter from St. Petersburg declaring that England will obtain no concession from Rusiia, short of an agreement for the coercion of Turkey, in case the Porte persists in its refusal to execute reforms. Englands present attitude might even precipitate Russia s decision to abandon an attitude which is neither peace nor war, yet imposes upon Russia all war’s sacrifices. FROM NEW YORK. Death of a Cuban Vice President- Loss of a Vessel—lnsurance Decis ion. New York, February 24.—General Aguila, a Vice-President of the Cuban Republic, died in New York yesterday. The schooner M. E. Donner, from Weymouth, Mass., for Savannah, was run down and sunk by the brig Mari pora on Feb. 19th, in latitude 26.40, longitude 74.12. The crew of the Don ner were brought to this port by the brig Mary E. Pennell. A decision on a policy for 810,000 has been decided in favor of the insurance company. The policy exempted pay ment when death occurred from surgi cal or medical treatment. Death oc curred from an overdose of hydrate of chloral. Meeting of the Board of Brokers. New York, February 24.— The New York Open Board of Brokers, at a meeting this evening, announced that the first floor of No. 21 New street was secured. Business will commence at 9:30 Monday morniDg. All stocks on the list of the New York Stock Ex change will be dealt in ; also Philadel phia and Reading and Pennsylvania Central, which have officers in this city. Forty years ago the average daily number of pins made in England for home use and export was 20,000. Now it is 50,000,000. Costume balls of a curious kind are in vogue in Paris—ordinary dress, but a fancy head dress. The men thus ar rayed look even greatey “guys” than I the women. FROM WASHINGTON. THE DEMOCRATS GROWING BIT TER. Chances of Blocking the Radical Fraud—Julian to Argue the South Carolina Case —Oregon County Crafty Conkling Falls into Line— Pennsylvania Objected To, But Counted In by the Senate—Hayes’ Friends Explaining an Editorial Bombshell. Washington, February 24.—1 t seems to have been forgotten that there are two returns from Vermont. The high est Democratic candidate of that State cast his vote in place of a postmaster. The feeling among the Democrats is becoming more bitter, In the House, McMahon offered a resolution to meet the Senate at one o’clock. Wilson offered a substitute to meet the Senate immediately. Adopted; 145 to 85. Then Vance moved a recess to Monday. Ruled out. Under the motion to reconsider Wilson’s motion to lay on the table, the ayes and nays were taken on this, the object being to flllibußter past 12 o’clock, when the Friday Legislative day ends, when a motion for recess may be entertained. Julian, of Indiana, is here to argue the South Carolim* case in behalf of the Democrats. 11:53 o’clock.—The dilatory motions have failed. The Senate entered. They will make a report on Oregon, when a recess will be ta' _n to noonday. The result of t his morning’s proceedings is tegarded favorable to Hayes’inaugura tion. It has been found that Honore has not fully complied with the subpoena duces tecum. Additional papers nave been ordered and the committee will await their arrival. No committees are in session. Ferry is reported as denying having duplicated returns from Vermont. They will, however, be called for when Ver mont is reached. It is suspected Ferry fobbed the extra returns. The motion of Mr Clymer, an irre concilable. that the House take a re cess to 10 o’clock Monday, was defeat ed—ayes, 107 ; nays, 132. This was by a standing vote. The ayes and nays are progressing. The result will be nearly the same, and two hours debate on Oregon will occur. The second joint session and progress of the count to South Carolina is possible to-day. Lane, of Oregon, moved a recess to half-past nine o’clock Monday. Randall ruled the motion out of or der, and debate was opened by Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, in favor of sustain ing the decision of the Commission. Upon the return of the Senate to its chamber, at 12:10, Mr. Sargent sub mitted a resolution that the decision of the Commission upon the electoral vote of the State of Oregon stand as the judgment of the Senate, ODjection made thereto to the contrary notwith standing. Debate was opened by Mr. Kelly, of Oregon, who denied that Watts was eligible as a Presidential elector. Nomination : W. H. Kennon, Post master at Columbus, Miss At the end of two hours the two Houses reassembled in joint session, and the vote of Oregon was counted for Hayes and Wheeler. Pennsylvania was next opened. SpriDger and Tucker presented ob jections. They were signed by a suffi cient number of members and Senators, and allege a vacancy illegally filled by the college. The Houses separated, and a motion for recess to 10 o’clock Monday was carried by 137 to 121. In the Senate, Mr. Conkling, who was absent heretofore when questions of sustaining the decisions of the Com mission come up, said : In Oregon the State of Oregon intended to appoint a Republican elector, and the people of Oregon intended to elect a Republican elector and voted for Mr. Watts. The Commission had given its decision and he disclaimed auy intention of alluding to any of the reasons which prompted the decision of the Commission, and believing that the State of Oregon in tended to appoint Republican electors he should vote to sustain and affirm that intention and the decision of the Commission. He was also opposed to impeding in the slightest degree the operation of the decision of the Com mission, and on the contrary was in fa vor of aiding it and consummating it at the earliest practicable moment. The decision was sustained bv a party vote. J. B. Williams, Jr., of Mobile, Ala., testified before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections in regard to the Chapel Hill Church fight, in Mississippi. He said the negroes did the first firing ; that B >gaa was four miles from the fight. He is the man that Outlaw said killed the negro Charley Curry ; tbat Henry Outlaw was one of the ring leaders of all the dis turbances that occurred during the canvass in Okteibbeha county. Disavowals that Hayes in any way inspired the article in the Ouio* Slate Journal regarding the recognition of Packard’s government in Louisiana continue to come in. The associate proprietor of that paper, an.l the Speaker of the Ohio House of Repre sentatives, both telegraphed that Gov. Hayes was not responsible for it. Oen. Cornly, the editor, is seriously ill. Speaker Groovenor’s dispatch says the article in question was originally a communication lying in the office, and was used by the young men in charge of the office in the absence of Gen. Cornly, occasioned by severe illness. The Senate, after a two hours’ de bate, agreed to count the vote of Penn sylvania without division. The House Caucuses. The House committee on appropria tions agreed not to concur in subsidies for New Orleans and Brazil, and Cali fornia and China mails. Secretary Morrill is getting better. The President spent an hour with him to-day. The House is caucussing to-night. An effort has been made to day to secure an immediate expression from Southern Legislatures on the duties of the House. It is claimed that the Democrats are losing some important advantages by the ulra-conservative course of Southern leaders. At the caucus—Some 75 members present. The Committee on Powers and Pri vileges was directed to report a bill amendatory of the law of 1792, to pro vide for an election in case of a failure before the 4th of March. The Presi dent of Senate to become President in the meantime. The skeleton of the bill provides for the election in April. The Committee was directed to re port another bill by which an illegal President can be Ousted. There was some bitter talk but no action looking to dilatory measures. They will not be interposed effectually unless represen tative men are instructed by State Legislatures. ■Mb* AUGUSTA, GA.. SUNDAY. - FEBRUARY 25, 1877. FROM ATLANTA. Closing Hours of the Legislative Ses sion-Incidents Attending the Ad journment. (Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.) Atlanta, Feb. 22—Midnight The Senate, after passing a number of local bills, took up the bill of the House, which allows the county of Chatham to retain one-third of its State tax for the present year for the purpose of draining the swamps near the city, which, by scientific men, are supposed to have furnished the malaria that rendered the yellow fever of last year epidemic and malignant. It is the opinion of those best informed on this subject that the disease, when in troduced by ships from other infected ports, will not prevail as an epidemic if there is not malaria in the locality, and that this condition of the atmos phere of Savannah was caused by the stagnant water in the swamps near the city. So soon as the bill was put upon its passage, it was assailed by Brewster, of the Thirty-sixth, who, though one of the youngest men, and also one of the youngest members in the Senate, has made a reputation for extreme watch fulness of the Treasury. He was fol lowed by the President, Mr. Lester, in support of the bill, and Mr. McDaniel, chairman of the Finance Committee. The ayes and nays were required to be recorded on the passage of the bill. There were, ayes 19 and nays 16. So the bill was passed. The Senate then repaired, under a joint resolution, to the Representative Hall for the election of a State Printer. There was only one nomination for this office, Mr. James P. Harrison, of this city, who was elected. The Senate, after returning to their Chamber, adjourned for the morning. The House spent most of the morn ing session on local bills. A message was communicated to that body by the Governor, showing the probable sum required to meet the liabilities of the State for the present year, over and above the amount appropriated, which must be raised either by increasing the rate of taxes or by temporary loans. The latter method being recommended, a resolution authorizing his Excellency to raise the required sum, $500,000, by pledging, if necessary, the State taxes und the unappropriated proceeds of the Western and Atlantic Railroad was offered and agreed to. The rules were suspended for the purpose of taking up a Senate resolu tion authoriz ng the Governor to pay Col. Snead, of New York, $2,000 due him as a balance for services rendered the State in relation to outstanding bonds. He was employed on this ser vice by Gov. Smith and had been paid $3,000, Quite an animated discussion on this proposition ensued, in jw Messrs. Jordan, Carlton, FifJfOOds for, engaged. Mr. Jordan qirikn] lution, and the other gentlemen advo cated it with warmth and zeal, assert ing that it provided for the payment of a just obligation, based upon valuable services performed for the State by Col. Snead. Tneresolu ion was lost by a small majority. The afternoon session of the Senate was devoted mainly to the considera tion of the bill of the House, appropri ating the net profits of the convict labor, for four years, to the Marietta and North* Georgia Railroad. This measure elicited able and prolonged discussion. It was opposed by Messrs. Reese aDd Shewmake. The effort of Hon. T. B. Cabaniss in favor of the bill was most creditable to him, as also the remarks of Hon. Evan P. Howell, on the same side. The bill passed the Senate by 23 yeas to 10 nays. Tne night was spent in closing up the odds and ends of legislation. The usual hilarity with good feeling pre vailed. and the session was closed at 12 o’clock by an adjournment sine die. Wentworth. SOUTH CAROLINA. The negroes in Newberry are dying rapidly of consumption. Six died of it last year on Mr. W. Y. Fair’s place four men and two children. Application has been made to Gov ernor Hampton for commissions to the officers of the Abbeville Rifle club and the enrollment of the club as a part of the State militia. Rev. Dr. Wm. Williams, of the South ern Baptist Theological Seminary, diec? at Aiken on Tuesday morning last, at 11 o’clock. An uninhabited storehouse, the prop erty of Mr. S. Nelson, three milesYrom Kingstree, on the Santee road, was de stroyed by fire last week. The work of an incendiary. No insurance. Nine distillers were brought in on Tuesday last and lodged in the jail at Greenville. They were captured in the mountain country by revenue officers, aided by a detachment of United States troops. S. B. Gibson, of Georgetown, who was shot accidentally by E. C. Ramey; publishes a sworn statement relieving Ramey of any bad intentions, and say ing that he and Ramey have always been and are yet good friends. Starvation has actually set in with a number of poor colored people in Ab beville county. They are clothed in rags, without friends or credit, and there’s nothing to steal. Patterson and Chamberlain cleaned out the concern long ago. The severe winter we have had, the low price of cotton, and the disturbed condition of the country have led to the hardships of which these people are now passing through. Captain Perrin, of Abbeville, has col lected $9,932.95. Of this amount $6,- 887.10 were paid in obedience to Hamp ton’s ten per cent, call, and the balance, $3,145.85 for the county. One thousand four hundred and eighty-seven receipts were issued for the county and two thousand and seven for the State. One hundred and Dinety-four colored people nave paid up, and others are coming forward with their contributions as fast as they can raise the money. The Abbeville Medium still holds the fort. In its last issue it says : “Some of the half-way farmers who have been hiring proscribed negroes, against the wishes and interests of their neighbors are loud in their threats against us for intending to publish their names. They talk about resorting to violence if their names are used. This is all stuff, 0 f course, but nobody is afraid. We are accustomed to eating three average sized men for breakfast every morning. The policy is to starve ’em out—pro scribed negroes, employees and all, and this policy is sure to win,” WEST POINT. The Biggest Place of Its Size in Geor gia—Checked by a Pistol Ball. lFrom an Occasional Correspondent.] West Point, Ga., Feb. 23,1877. lam a little vain of West Point. In deed all of us are. Wherever, in this State, I have mentioned the name of the little city to which the “uncertain waves have borne me, I have heard the invariable concession that “it is the biggest place to its size in Georgia,” and it is bigger in pluck, energy and busi ness vim than any equally dimensioned corporation from Darien to Dalton. It has long since swept mockingly by the haughty aristocratic ante helium city of LaGrange, and left her to meditate upon hr former prosperity, and the progres sive ness of her younger sister, Opelika oar Alabama neighbor, with all its big’ enthusiastic hopes of metropolitan pro portions, has gradually subsided into a quiet, settled town, thankful for its prer enfc prosperity and expecting nothing more. Newnan is as test asleep as towns ever get to be. When the biblical Ga briel blows his judgment horn it will take a double blast to wake Newnan up, and she will wake unwillingly and lazily then. But little West Point, modestly, qui etly, but bravely and vigorously, has fought its way along—slowly, perhaps, but always rising surely—until its busi ness and its crowded streets have be come the envy of its less fortunate neighbors, and it is now without doubt the “favorite son” of the Fourth Con gressional District, and the embryo Atlanta of Western Georgia. It would be hard to assign the REASON OF THIS SUPERIOR PROGRESS. We are situated, however, in the cen tre of a large agricultural section, and haying the advantage of through freights, can present unusual induce ments as a cotton market. So much for the physical cause. I believe that the tue secret of our success may be stated in the bubbling enterprise and public spirit of this sturdy citizensy. .1 ust after the war, the reputation of this little corporation was 4 rather shadowed. A set of desperate men, stripped of property by the fortunes of the fight, ruined in purse, reckless in purpose, and maddened by defeat, gathered here and inaugurated a reign of lawlessless, in which all differences were settled by the straight-shouider stroke, or the swift bullet. Those were days when an insult was washed away in blood, or a sneer CHECKED BY A PISTOL BALL. And many men won that bitter meed of rashness at a time when the laws of the land were powerless to avenge them. But, as the years, with their softening influence wore on, this wild class of men settled into a thorough going, business community, and that ov\d eß P er ate, daring and reckless ven a'nd^av e ou^ let ’ vented itße,f siTTi au inseparable charaeter lavc of this people and their public a<:ts. Nor does this spirit seem likely to decay as the old generation passes away. Behind them, coming steadily on, is a numerous troop of strong armed, steady-browed, brave-hearted young men—the finest troop I have seen in the South—young men of mus cle, will and business training ; bearing in their sturdy sinews none of that effeminacy and weakness born of lux ury and petted indulgence ; no spoiled darling of fortune with frames and hdarts too delicate for the breath of the world, and white, aristocratic hands that shrink from honest toil, but a race of coming men, reared in the stern school of adversity, and goiDg out into life, prepared to do battle successfully with all its bitterness, trials and weary disappointments—a noble race -a splendid population— AS GALLANT A HOST as ever bared their arms to the re building of the wasted solitudes of a war-trampled land. * * * To illus trate the justice of this rather extend ed laudation, I might cite a hundred instances in which this strong spirit has been shown. Notably among these is her PUBLIC SCHOOL ENTERPRISE, just inaugurated and now in full blast, with 184 pupils already, and, of course, on the basis of permanent prosperity. Last summer the idea was suggested duiing the dull season, found favor with the people (who readily and over whelmingly ratified a resolution to levy annual tax of 553,000 upon their small population of twenty-five hundred), and determining that it should be done, they set to work with characteristic energy, and in spite of depressed finances and political agitation, it was done. It’s plan may be stated briefly —city tax payers send free; outsiders can enjoy the advantages of the school by paying a matriculation fee of $5 per term for each scholar. Five teachers are employed, at salaries ranging from 81,200 to 8400 per annum. Before spiiug the numbers of the school will reach 225. It imparts inexpressible life and vivacity to the appearance of the town. r. m. c. A. Following fast on the heels of the public school, a few energetic young men have rapidly and easily built up a flourishing and vigorous association of the above name, which now holds its meetings in an elegant fitted up and attractive room, furnished with 2,000 choice volumes and most of the promi nent periodicals and magazines of the day. It is a charming resort, and its founders are pablic benefactors. Other instances in point crowd upon me, but I deSist— not without a final assertion that “West Point is the big est place to its size in Georgia I” Spar. Consumers of keroseno oil will be interested in hearing that the great petroleum combination has gone to pieces, so far as Canada is concerned. Forty refiners of the Dominion have been thus set at liberty to manufacture for the Canadian market, and the price there will immediately fall at least 15 cents a gallon. It is not probable, there fore, that 40 cents can much longer be extorted from our own people for 20 cent oil, as this important change In the Canadian trade will not act as a tonic on the moribund monopoly. A citizen of Indiana having occasion to go home rather unexpectedly a few nights since caught a gentleman ac quaintance in the act of kissing his wife. On relating the circumstances to a friend he was asked if he punished the guilty couple, and replied : “ No, not exactly, but they must have seen from the way I slammed the door that I was not satisfied.” MAJOR SCHOTIGUHN’S BABY. A Cotemporaneous Human Drama in Four ActSi One Pickaxe and a Shovel. I—THE ARRIVAL OF THE BABY. The Major had always loved chil dren, and he hoped to have some of his own to whom he could transmit his honorable name and vast estates. More than this, he wanted to see growing up around him strong, manly boys and charming girls, so that as he grew old he might renew his youth Id the bud ding glories of his own fireside. At last there came along one day a bewildered little angel which fluttered down and alighted upon the Major’s own hearth stone. That was a great day for the Shottguhns. Life had turned for them a new page, written all over with joy ous letters and filled with good cheer. II. —THE SCHEDULE. At the end of the first month, when things had got settled down a little, Mrs. Schottguhn announced her inten tion of bringing the baby up by rule. She said she knew who had let babies have their own way, and so had brought great trouble upon themselves. The babies became exacting as they grew older, and left no peace in the household. But, said Mrs. SchotN guhn, while it might make some con fusion at first, still if they were once made to conform to some regular rule, it was vastly better for them and infi nitely more comfortable for the par ents. The Major heard with forebod ing the details of this plan, and he shuddered when Mrs. Schottguhn pro duced the following schedule as the time card on which the baby was to be managed: £I j? 2 S’ £ | |o ?! ® -§ o a ® T 5 Feed. : S 3 ? j : • : s o> • : : ; & . : LJ_ _J l_Jl : : : 7 a.m.. 7:30 800 7777 ~ 8:30 9 to 10 !" i;" 7 > 2 p.m 30 to3 2 3:30 4to 5 5- 5:00 5:30t 0 7 ;r _ 7 l°° 7:30 8:00* Mrs. Schottghun confidently an nounced that in less tban three days the baby would get used to this rou tine, and that afterward we would all be thankful that there was some regu larity in her treatments. In actual practice it was found that the baby followed the first and last entries with marvelous precision—that is, she was ready for her breakfast promptly on time, and whatever else happened she cried all night; but if the intervening part of the schedule had been struck by lightning, it couldn't have been more badly mixed than the baby mixed it, and the Major thought what an amaz ing thing it would be to attempt to run twins by schedule. The infant refused absolutely to be scheduled, and reso lutely insisted on having her own way or nobody’s. On the second day Mrs. Schottguhn informed the Major that there were exceptions to all rules; that while by schedule was undoubtedly the best way to bring up children, still there were some babies that you had to let have their own way, and this evidently was one of that kind. To this view the Mu,jOr cordially assen’ed. After that there was more peace in the household, and the time-table was put away in a closet to wait for some in fant whose propensities must be more schedulic. lit—THE ZEPHYR, The baby grew rapidly, and came to be a sort of human calliope. After its victory in the schedule business it took everything into its own hands and did just as it pleased. About 2 o’clock one morning the Major was suddenly awakened, and the first sound that reached his half-opened ears was a low, wailing moan. During the difference between the North and South, from ’GI to ’65, the Major had travelled in the South without a trunk ; he had heard wounded men groan and dying men cry for water, but never any sound of sorrow got so close to his heart as this baby’s pitiful, helpless moan in a darkened room at 2 o’clock in the morn ing ; while the baby writhed amf moan ed the Major and his wife leaned over the cradle, powerless to help the little one in this unexpected and unknown suffering, and wept the bitterest tears that had ever seared their eyes. Then the Major flung on his garments and ran for a physician. HurryiDg in, the breathless doctor hastily laid aside his hat and took one look at the baby;then as hastily he turned and seized his hat and in a tone in which sympathy and sarcasm were evenly blended, he re marked, as be passed out, “Major, don’t be alarmed ; it’s nothing but zephyr on the stomach !” . IV.—THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAJOR. After that somehow the romance faded. The baby’s moan no longer caused its father’s hair to stand on end; it served only to keep him awake nights, and the continuity of it was irk some. Gradually it dawned on the Major that months must elapse before quiet could be restored, and he shud dered at the prospect. Yesterday morning a gentleman who lives near the Major saw a solitary footman slow ly and wearily wending his wav down Greenwich street. The form was fa miliar. Did his eyes deceive him? No! It was indeed Maj. Phillip Y. Schottghun, of the Fifteenth Ward, andhecairied on his shoulder a pick and a shovel, tied together with a piece of string! Entering a saloon near Washington market, the Major set down the pick and shovel and called for coffee ana cakes. “Where are you going, Major?” asked his neighbor. "West,” said the Major. “Prospecting for gold?” said his friend, tapping the pick and shovel. “Well, no, not exactly,” answered the Major. “I’m going to work on some railroad, I expect. I ain’t well, and I’m going away for a while. You’ve heard that baby of mine cry? I thought so. So have I, for three months, and I need rest. Mrs. Schottguhn says, ‘Phil ip, be patient; it won’t be no more thau a year longer.’ But I am not strong, and I can’t stand it. As the old Latin professor used to say at col lege, ‘Lifeicus shorticus—terapus flee tumorium !’ Life is short, time is fleet ing ! lam not an adept with the pick, neither am I an expert with the shovel, but—hark 1” It was only a baby in the tenement overhead, but the Major thought it was the voice of his own first born, coming all the way down from the Fifteenth Ward, and he grabbed the pick and shovel and darted out. Hurrying along Cortlandt street he boarded a Jersey City ferry boat, and was Oft for the land of the rolling prairie, Off for the laud of the setting sun. —N. Y. Sun. Every day brings something new. This new principle, new way, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cough and Lung Healing Globules, will cure Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness and Consumption. Trial boxes, by mail, 25 cts. Dr. J. H. Mc- Lean, 314 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo, GEORGIA NEWS. A wild cat is prowling around Cedar Shoals. Sore throat is prevalent in various parts of the State. Rumor reports Rough Rice ready to revive the Rutledge Reporter. Gov. Colquitt has not honored Troup county with an appointment yet. Mr. Thomas P. Wofford and Mr. Mack White, two young gentlemen of Cartersvilie, have left for Fort Worth, in Texas. Atlanta is now exercised over for geries of every description, which are being practiced upon her by several cunning knaves. A negro prisoner confined in the Ter rell county jail endeavored to bulldoze the jailer the other day, and got shot in the neck for his trouble. Robbers infest LaGrange to an alarming extent. The store room of Prof. I. F. Cox was robbed of a large amount of provisions the other night. Mr. John B. Joiner, a merchant and well known young man in Cochran, died of consumption at Clear Water Harbor, Hillsboro county, Florida, on the 30th day of Jauuary, 1877. The LaGrange Reporter Bays: “If the bobtail economists of the Legislature had passed only necessary laws and ad journed, they could have got through in twelve or fifteen days.” Conyers Courier: Mr. Jack Murray, of Watkinsville, was robbed in Atlanta on Tuesday of 8200, by one Bud Bray, of Atlanta. He recovered 8135 of the' money, but the thief escaped. The Marietta Journal says that R. J. Bolling, of Cherokee county, made 1,176 pounds of lint cotton on two acres of ground last year, using 170 pounds of guano. He is going to try it again. The Columbus Times publishes the following evidence of thrift: “A Chat tahoochee county farmer returned home yesterday with three full wagon loads of flour and meat and four un broken mules.” If there are any of the Edwards family, originally from Virginia, in the State of Georgia, they may hear of something to their advantage by com municating with box 145, Liberty, Bed ford county, Virginia. Conyers Courier : Savannah had Tup per and Atlanta had supper at the Young Men’B Library, the same week. This has stirred up Augusta, and she is wondering whether it would be best to have Tupper for supper, or supper for Tupper. Jane Wilson, the negro girl who at tempted to poison Mr. Ferguson’s fam ily in Rockmart last fall, was tried and found guilty on Monday last. She will also be indicted for the murder of Mr. Ferguson's little child by means of poi son, and it is understood that there is a very strong case against her. DeKalb County News: Mr. E. Reeves, of this county, is the owner of a pair of boots that he has worn ten years, a bridle-bit that has been in con stant use fifty-four years, a horse that he has had for sixteen years, and sev eral years ago ho split eight hundred rails in one day. He don’t owe a cent, and don’t buy guano. The Cedartown Express says: “The yankee soldiers of whom mention was made in our last issue, have arrested forty or fifty good citizens of Polk and Haralson counties since their arrival, and sent them off. This outrageous and unlawful arresting and imprison ing of honest men on frivolous charges, to gratify the malice of malicious and unscrupulous men, should terminate. Albany News : Albany received cot ton this season from all around and about Cuthbert and Dawson, from near Americus, from Webster county, from country adjacent to Bainbridge, etc. We remark this in no spirit of gasconade, but simply as a few solid facts pointing to the future prosperity of our town. They carry it there* says the Cuthbert Messenger, to shun debts elsewhere. We buy Dougherty cotton here, too. Savannah News : On Tuesday morn ing the body of a white man was found on the track of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad near Wayleron. It was sup posed that the man had been killed by a train, although the engineers of trains passing over the road report that they know nothing of the matter. An in quest was held upon the body, when it was ascertained that the man was named John Ratchford, a native of Dublin, Ireland. It was also learned that a friend of the deceased had left him in an intoxicated state on the rail road track in the vicinity mentioned. ACTUM EBT! (N. Y. Freeman’s Journal.) Yes, “it is finished 1” More is finish ed than the contrivers of the swindle thought or cared about. Average it, cook it, humbug it as you may, the en tire fabric of government that our grandfathers were proud of, as an nounced from one four years to an other, as “in the full tide of suc cessful experiment; that ice had been taught, and loved to think of, as more than an experiment—has utterly collapsed. It is a wreck on an inhospitable coast. It has not one sheet flying, to keep it from roll ing in the trough of the sea. Actum est—de Republica! “The Re public, as our grandfathers made it, is finished; and gone forever. Come what may come, that kind of a Republic can exist here nevermore! We speak in the interests of no parties. Hayes, or Tilden, are puppets, of no account, in the game of life and death for the past institutions of the country, that have now perished. The country will still live. It will live because God Almighty has made all peoples "sanabiles"—capable of being healed. If his true servants will pray for the country, as they are bound to do, there will be many upheavals, but God will show Himself Ruler of men, and gracious to His true servants that trust in Him. The “Commission,” or Committee, or Board, of supposed experts, to whom the Senate and House of Representa tives handed over, as to a Referee, mo mentous questions, to be settled, have not settled these questions, but have settled the fact that this “Board” or “Commission,” out of its number of fifteen, contained on it eight of whom it is only just to say, not in rash and vulgar speech, or in any careless use of language, but exactly, deliberately, in full understanding of the terrible Import of the words—uttered by one that loves the country his grandiather helped to make —are scoundrels worthy of damnation ! In this list of infamy we count, as least accursed, the ahal low-pated Garfield and Senator Mor ton, that vice has rendered rotten in body and soul. These two were fla grant demagogues, that the Republi can party disgraced itself by putting to act as arbitrators. What such crea- SIX DOLLARS A YEAR kiown W ° Uld tfy d0 was Next least worst we put the Hoar of Massachusetts, and leave Ben Butler ay °? l i e right spaing of his name as ne has done ; and Freling- before bis time, of New Jersey. Then come Miller of Jus Sees of the°R g ’ ° f Pennß y lv a’ n ia. United iK Upreme °° urt of the a nitea States, these are called Thev except tJ render that Court hated, as a mockerv by the people of the United States. 7 ' Two remain to be spoken of. One is Joe Bradley, who was 1110 Supreme Court hfrM? States only to do the bidding of his political masters, and by a reconstruction of that deeply dishonored Court, to reverse its de cision that thegreenback -legal tender” was unconstitutional. T -^ n^ r the other day, in the VP ro P oß <*i to link . . e j Pradley > of New Jersey, in immor t.il infamy with Jeffries and Norbury It cannot be done. Joe Bradley can mi e & er ? etuated in the memory of li w a Viio oootemptible^fel- InnL^ 1 k , now wbo have the misfor- Mrn of baring to know anything about Wa Put as Justice, on the ruined Supreme Court of the United States, to do dirty work, and he did it. e remains true to his antecedents and promotes the contempt, and exe cration, of all Americans of the Jeffer sonian school, for that “supple tool of tyranny the Supreme Court of the That 18 wliere we are j&25 USSST”*" thxman ‘ But of all the eight traitors to their country, we consider the most infa mous, the ablest, and the craftiest worker, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont In the Freeman, of January 27th, we adverted to Senator Edmunds’ arcu ment in favor of forming the “ Com f,°n Bettlin g the hopeless trouble, as follows: " We began reading it with the most intense prepossessions against the man. Long before we had ended we felt: Here is an honest man! Here is a Sen ator that has risen from partisanship into the higher plane of statesman cuiiog for tlie welfare of his country. \\e, for our part, ask leave to thank Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, and to assure him that our gratitude for his large-miudedness, and for his truth fulness to the logical conclusions of his clear intellect will not easily be sup piantod by any contrary construction of bis actions. He has succeeded in rivetting on him, by his strong argu ment of last Saturday, the respectful attention of all public men worth counting, in whole of the United States.” Oh how the cunning Yankee has cheated us! “An evil soul producing holy witness!” “The devil can quote scripture to his purpose,” and, of course, can put on airs of candor, and pretentions of good intention. “Oh what a goodly outside falsehood has !” No! It is not that common fellow, Joe Bradley, of New Jersey, picked out of minor practice in the Courts of his State to be Justice in the dishonored Bench of the Court of questionable in tegrity, called the United States Su preme Court, that is to be held re sponsible. The man that we hold re sponsible is Senator Edmunds, of Ver mont. His smooth words beguiled us. We did really believe that he was an honest man. His action has proved how he has been “smart” enough to deceive us, and others. We take back every word we have said In his favor. Senator Edmunds is very “smart” But the depth of our contempt for his vile, mean, petty use of New England methods of cheating, applied to poli tics, is of such proportions that self respect forbids us to express it. Of all the rogues that have been at work Edmunds is guiltiest, because most false to what he has known as right. But no matter about men. The fraud has been committed. It was right, it was the last resort from an archy, to U'y whether we had in our political composition something of the robustness of our grandfathers. The necessities of the position called every American, not a cheat or a scoundrel, to leave dead parties, and rise to a higher plane. The result is before us. In law it is non binding, because the Commission has not done what, alone it had the rea son of its creation to do— examine evi dence, as to wlo was elected President. A trifle it is, were it Hayes or Tilden. Neither is of any account. But it is of vital account that the people of the United States shall not hate and desjjise the Government they are under, as an usurpation, and the result of a paltry fraud. J THE SOUTH. Views of the National Republican on the Situation—The Present State Governments of the South Not to be Interfered With (Special to the New Orleans Times.) Washington, February 21.—The fol lowing remarks published in the Na tional Republican of this city, the Presi dent’s paper, have caused a profound sensation among Republican politi cians : “In view of the prospect that the ad ministration is to remain in the Lands of the Republican party, it may not be inappropriate to suggest some changes in the policy, which, in our opinion, should characterize the conduct of the government. There is no longer any thing to hold the North and South apart, but everything to counsel union and harmony, and as a first step to ward such a desirable consummation we are in favor of leaving the present State governments of the South to sustain themselves or perish, just as the people shall be for or against them, seeing to it only that violence is re strained and peace preserved. Wo are in favor of inviting Southern states men, having the confidence and sup port of their people, to the counsel of the administration. “Anew political era dawned upon the Republican party yesterday. Tho Southern statesmen, the true and the patriotic, boldly put themselves apon record as being against any attempt to evade the decision of the judicial tri bunal or thwart its result. “It is the bravest and wisest act that has been recorded in the annals of po litical history for half a century. It does honor to the South and credit to the manhood and integrity of her peo ple. “These articles are known to have the approval of the President and his moat prominent friends, and are creat ing a moat intense interest. The Pres idential count has become a secondary question to th 6 new political departure of the administration.” The people demand a fair count, and they get a faro count,
