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CHAPMAN & INOIIEAM,
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Tuesday, August 31,1880.
’ MR. HELDS LETTER
:i " We publish tliis document in an
other column. We had like to have
1 ‘' (tolled it a remarkable document, but
with oilier productions written
inspired by Mr. Bell in mind, it does
liot strike us as at all remarkable
that he should have composed and
promulgated just auchalettir as is
this “letter of acceptance.”
lie commences it with a quotation
of the statement by the committee in*
forming him of his nomination that his
“selection as the standard bearer ol
the party was but n response to the
demand; lor him to return to public
life;” and, avowing his recognition of
“the right ol the people to select their
candidates in their own way,’’ and ol
his “obligatioii'to obey their' call,* he
dutifully accepts the nomination.
Having thus posed as a modest, rev
tiring patriot and statesman who hath
consented to resign the charms of pri
v “te lile and re-enter pnblio life only
from a sense of duty which tolls him
lie ought to obey the call of the pcop’e
(beautiful attitude), he proceeds to
recite the resolutions of the conven
tion. and declare his approval of
ilium. And then conics the most pu
erile hit of demagoguery we have
ever seen practiced by a hungry office
seeker to make votes.
Mr Bell and the Bell convention
do not s. bin to realize that they show
tln ir own in-ir.ccrity, duplicity, and
imbieilgy, and the exceeding weak*
ness of their cause by their desperate
effort to make capital out of the fact
that, while Mr. Speer happened to
bo out of his seat for a few hours one
day, a brother member of Congress
from Georgia volunteered to delend
his frici d’s constituents against the
charge of lawlessness. It is proper
enough to express their thanks to
Guieral Co -U tor the wolds lie spoke
in vindication of the people of this
district, and we have no doubt that
Mr. Speer thanked him for it long
before and more sincerely than Mr.
Bell and his convention did.
The maimer, the time, the connec
tion ami the language in which these
gentlemen express their thanks to
Gen. Cook show that “the second res
olution’’ was not prompted by graii-
tilde to him and a chivalric devotion
to the people, but by a desire to ere*
ate in their minds a false impression
concerning Mr. Speer.
How very weak Mr. Bell and his
convention show their cause to be
when they slake its success upon
such an issue. It is the effort of the
drowning man to clutch the slightest
straw that chance floats within his
reach.
But in making this issue Mr. Bell
and his convention insult the intelli
gence of the very people whose votes
they are trying to catch by it. In
making it they very evidently take it
for granted 1 that the people of the
ninth district, nre not well aware of
the Tact that Mr. Speer, before the
time alluded to by Mr. Bell and his
convention, had defended them
against the charge of lawlessness, in a
s|»cecli pronounced by- Alexander II.
Stephens to ■ have been “one of the
mod brilliant efforts in the House
during the last session.’’ They seem
to think thqt the people have for*
gotten that other recently , published
ami widely circulated declaration of
Mr. Stephens, that “Mr. Speer was
one of ijie 1 most vigilant atid attentive
working nun jit Congress; that he was
a ready debater,an attractive speaker,
and was a 1 ways, when he addressed
t’n* House; lisfeiicd to with undivided
attention.” finain'st such'testimonials
as tlicM-'Mr. jiolI amVjiis convention
will hurl thog,.tn’tpmatious in vain.
The pcoplt of llieuiuintli district are
not the unlettered, idiotic herd >that
the epis'le of Mr. Bell and the resolu
tions of his convention plainly insin
uate that they' are. They know a
hawk from a handsaw, and nothing
but the incomparable silliness of tins
effort to gull them and catch their
vot^ saves it froni their burning con-
jciipif ; ,
If Mr. Bell really believes the As
sertion of'his convention that their
nomination' of hltn was but a* re
sponse to a general demand of the
district, it is lint another evidence
that he is not llio man lor the office
lie socks. Some idea may bo formed
of the generality o) the demand ifrom
the following tacts and figure?:
Clark county voted seventeen hun
dred and fifty, democratic votes in the
election for President in 1876. In
the election for delegates to the late
Gainesville convention there wore
twenty-eight votes cast in 1 the county.
The penile of Franklin, county re
fused to hold primary, elections tor
delegates to the GainoariUe roonven*
tion, but finally the managers of the
machine gof’togethera 1 county- ^on*
vem.on, and it elected Qongressina)
delegates. .The county convention
was compotad of forttr>finir votere.
Only tieptity t\eb of theae voted, lot
coij^Has^lest* hundred
voters. A citisen of Madicoa county
reformed we tbet .fifteen or twenty
men “did the wbrkn in that county.
Frotit otor fxjStetogfc W‘ learn 'that
eighteen njen composed llig meeting
that elected delegates to.Uajll county,
and about balfa ddzon the Jackson
county (Wnv'enlftM. •' Vfe presume
that a similar ratio pf ybfea to popu
lation prevailed in ilio election of del-
gates in other counties. ‘Some, in—
were not represented at all at Gaines
ville.
Now, we say that if, in the face of
these facts and figures, Mr. Bell real
ly believes “the people have called
for his return to public life,” his
oreduliiy shows an "upper story” of
too mooli weakness to bo depended
on for an effective representation of
the interests of pie people in oongresa.
It lias, never been aaKLofsuch a. man.
—it ern never be said of him, “that
he is a ready debater, an attractive
speaker, and that lie is always lis
tened to with undivided attention
when he addresses the House.” That
body gives undivided attention to
men of no such calibre.
But if Mr. Bell does not believe
the assertion of the committee abont
the general demand for his return
to public life,” but is merely joining
them in an attempt to deceive the
public by the stereotyped phraseolo
gy always ground out by convention
machinery, then he deserves condem
nation for hypocrisy and for collusion
with a junto of wire workers to defeat
the expression of the people’* choice,
and to foist upon them a man whom
they do not wish to see emerge from
the retirement to which they oomraita
ted him four years ago
THE REVISED NEW TES-
i TAMENT.
A London correspondent writes
tbat-tlie Queen’s printer, who alone
by ancient statute law is permitted to
publish bibles within the realm, has
put his signature upon the last proof
sheet of the new revision of the New
Testament, and wo presume the first
shipment ot the bound volumes has
been made to America and every
oilier country where the English
tongue is spoken by protestants.
For many reasons that will readily
occur and need not be enumerated,
the new revision is an epoch in Pro
test an I ism and a red letter day in all
Christian churches the world over.
Its advent, looked forward to for
over a decade, and the hope of thou
ands of Christian minds, will Ikj a sub
ject of absorbing interest.
The revision, we are assured, is
catholic in its nature; cathedral in its
form. It is the joint work of the new
and old worlds; of all branches of the
Protestant chorch; of learning and
piety joined hand in hand; priest and
layman, prelate and scholar, working
together. Its origin was in thal‘‘cra»
die of Anglo-Saxon Christendom, the
Convocation of Canterbury, presided
over by the primate of England-’’
The necessity for a revision of tha
present text has become imperative-
how imp. rative clergymen and schol
ars alone know—and for many years
previously there had been careful in
quiry and discussion among the bisk
ops, clergy, and theological profes
sors, as well as laymeu, in regard to
the best means by which it ought to
be brought about. The plan that has
been slowly maturing i^ider the ad
vice of the most eminent .minds in
Euro;* and America was presented
to the convocation May C, 1870, by
the committee having it in charge.
The plan was so well digested, so
broad in its catholicity, yet so con-
servative in its aims, that it met with
prompt approval, and the work was
begun without delay. The scheme
could never have Imd any hopes of
success had it been confined to the
Established Church, and it therefore
contemplated a union of learning and
special fitness lor the labor that would
embrace the whole world; that would
unite all English-speaking races and
denominations; that would produce a
text to be accepted in all lands and
among all peoples as an “authorized
version” and a correct rendering of
the original text so far as the original
text so far as the original text oould
be agreed upon by scholars.
The progress of the work has been
kept secret by special arrangement.
Alarming reports of sweeping changes
have from time to lime appeared,
frightening the timid and the letter-
inspirationists.bnt nothing was given
out by authority until now, when the
.whole work, approved unanimously
by the committee, is prefented to
Christendom for a verdict In con
sidering the changes that have been
made it may be proper to insist npin
the fact being kept in view that no
more cautious and conservative body
of Christian scholars, enjoying so wide
a reputation and such high respect
thr. ughont the world, could possibly
be gathered together, that no ohange
has been made in the present English
version except by a two-thirds vote in
both bodies} that' the doubt has al
ways been exercised in behalf of the
present, version, the nece sily for each
change having to be proven clearly
and unmistakably, and that the only
danger hat been from the first that
the revisers would exercise undue
cautioq and refuse to aooept correc
tions that ahonld be made in the inter
ests of truth because the evidence
against them lacked some tcchnicali-
tj« producing a work that the non-
Christian would not and ought not to
be asked to aooept as a correct ver
sion of the original
There was a Democratic conven
tion in LaGrange the other day to
neramato a candidate for Congress.
There were three candidates before
the convention; Persons, the present
member; Smith, and Gox; the last be-
FWO-Away and AwlSk^Bs
tered on the second, and tha dead.
lock continued. A break-up without
a nomination, divirion and discord
among the Democracy of the district
seemed imminent True men and
Democrats there feared that the con
vention would follow the example so
lately set in Atlanta. But there was
a patriotic, self-sacrificing spirit there
wu W w *?. dly lacking in Atlanta.
When Mr. Cox saw that it was likely
to tail making a nomination, he went
into the convention and said:
“Many years ago when I first
thought of what party allegiance
meant, I determined that if ever there
should come a lime whenlconld sub
serve its harmony and its peace byanv
sacrifice of myself that I would do so.
We see passion and division every-
where. What can give ns harmony
and safety ? The self-sacrifice ot
candidates when they stand in the
way of harmony. I have come to do
toot thing. ‘But yon are leading in
the convention,’ is said to me. If I
were not leading there would be n&
virtue in retiring. I can never be a
wedge between brethren.’*
And so, adjuring them to mak« a
nomination that would bring harmony
to toe party, and re-uttering hi- gists
ltode to the majority for its support,
he retired from toe contest in which
ho had led for thirty-eight ballots^nd
a unanimous nomination was made
soon afterwards.
For his coarse on that occasion Mr.
Cox deserves Urn plaudits of good men
eveiywhere, and we write of it here
to aid in fastening public attention
on it, and to invite a comparison be-
twecu it_ and the course punned by
the majority candidate in the late
Slate convention.
How brightly shines the action of
Albert H. Cox beside that ot Alfred
H. Colquitt'
Thd offirial-hitnnn of'^the wiritrir
enumerators show the tot^l population
ot Bt. Louis to be 833,577, which is an
increase of only 22,713 over the cen«
.sns of 1870^. This is ft surprising ex
hibit, and tells bow effectually Chica
go has pushed her rivalry with the'
~ and its
fa
gW HUD |JHUUVU UVt SIVOII
Queen City of theMissis8 : j
tributaries. ThfTG’olH* 1
in the sulks, and, rays of tbe present
census is right, thatjof 1870 was a
"gigantic lie.”
Political intelligence
Col. J. A Estes is mentioned as a
candidate for representative in Hall
county.
Albert R. Lamar will be [a candi
date for clerk ol the United .States
House of Representatives.
Dr. J. I. Brown lias been nomina
ted for the State Senate by the de
mocracy of tbe 17th district.
The democracy of the 24th senato
rial district of Georgia have nominat
ed Hon. W. B. Butt, of M arion
county, for Senator.
The democratic convention of the
29th Senatorial district nominated J
W*. Barksdale, of Liucoln county,
for Senator, by acclamation.
Tlie fourth Georgia district demo
crats congressional convention, at
LaGiange, nominated Judge Buchan
an, of Newnan, on the 140tti ballot.
Hon. H. P. Bell proposes to meet
Mr. Speer in Gainesville, Tuesday,
the 31st inst., to arrange a list of
appointments and agree on the terms
of a joint discussion.
Tiie Hartwell Sun says: "A ma
jority ol the papers that come to this
office are supporting Norwood for
Governor. Both the friends of Col
quitt and Norwood are confident of
carrying Hart county. Without a
change, we believe the race will be
very close.
The 7th Georgia district democrat
ic congressional convention that re
assembled in Rome the 26th of Au
gust to nominate a candidate in place
of J. W. Robertson, who had declined
to make the race, nominated lion. J.
C. Clements, of Walker county, on
the first ballot, unanimously.
The Senatorial Convention of the
Democracy of the 10th distriot met
in Albany the 24th inst, and nomina
ted Hon. W. L. Lane, of Worth
county, for the State Senate. The
convention adopted a resolution urg
ing its representatives in the legMa-
turn to toy to have tbs'present usury
law repealed, and afro recommended
that the rotation syatem be abolished
in the 10th district
The State Democratic Executive
committee met in Atlanta the 26th
mat, and after peering appropriate
resolutions on the death of their late
associate, Hon. Miles W. ;Lewis,
adopted the following resolution :
It being the opinion of this commit
tee that the majority role should ob-
Uio in nominations for state officers,
but in order that the will of the peo
ple may be expressed on the subject;
Therefore, resolved, That the next
election of delegates to a State con
vention be by primary elections:
Resolved further, That in said pri-
nnuy each voter indorse on his ballot
his choioe,majorily rule, or two-thirds
ndo, and and that the executive com-
mittoof each county forward the
number of votes cast for each rule* to
the State executive committee for
consolidation, and that whichsoever
rule has a majority of the votes so
indorsed in the State, shall be recom
mended to toe convention as too rule
for the nomination of State officers.
A- committee was appointed to is
sue an address on federal issues and
the olaims of Hancock and English to
the support of the people. HoniF.
H. Colley, of Wilkes, was appointed
* “ember of the executive commit
tee in Mr. Lewie’s place.’
Rome has 7,000 souls.
Warren county has about 1 800
votere. ’
Sore eyes afflict the people of Ter
rell county. ^
Mrs BDainsworth died in Camilla
tiie 2zd inst.
Mrs Susan Hardee died in Newton
’county recently, fr
W A Ricketson died in Warren
county recently
J T Atkins died in Thomas rountv
recently, aged 58. ’
But one inmate now of Harris
county jail—a negro.
Dr S. F. Stephens, of Siileshoro. is
iu veiy feeble health.
Mit C Greene died in Americas
recently, of epilepsy.
Ryall Phillips was badly hurt in a
uillienlly in Cumming.
Mr Win Ornie has moved irom
W-rreuton to Atlanta.
Mr Jack Floyd, aged about 70, died
recently 10 Hart county.
J B English, late 0 f Macon, has
gone to live in Savannah.
Mrs Julia Bond dropptd dead at
her home in Cobb coonty?
• J°lin Collins, an old
Gwinuet county, is dead.
Joshua, a little son ot Dr. T 8
Mitchell, of Harris county. broke the
Nines ot his left arm by a' fall from a
The last number of the* Hartwell
Sun closed its 4th vofoipe. It is pne '
of too very best and prettiest
i» the State.
Clt
LUS^of
' V .W . Blackburn, of Madison, is
quae ih with typhoid fever.
Mrs Nancy Brown died in Elbert
county August 21st, aged 81.
Mrs Hannon, aged 05, died neai
Mountville the 23d of August.
BE Strickland and sons have left
Lawrcnoeville and gono to Rome.
Mr Robert G Johnson died ‘in
Muscogee county the 23d of August.
i d,u fikter of Mr. Welk
born Hill ot Washington, is dead.
Capt John Oliver died in Savan
nah the 24th of August, *£l abdul
XI W ! M ?? Cook »«* married to Miss
22d nJy M0M * at Fairnloant » August
Albany Advertiser: Some Of the
policy organs, not knowing which
too cat wss going.
hli jump, did
not know which track, to take after
the Gubernatorial convention ad-
funny to ob-
•erve their windings aa toqy tried to
keep on the fence in so lively a ciase.
An IauawomaiTby her will left an
old arm chair to one of her. sons. In
the st iffiug was found a roll of bank
notes, amounting to |400. The legal
question is whether the .money her
longs tofthtt son.,
J M Graham, Esq., fr stenographic
reporter for the Augusta judicial cir*
CUlt.
James M Thornton died suddenly
of apoplexy in Elberton the 23d of
Augu:-t.
Tiios Fahy was married to Miss
aarah Jonasi iu Rome tbe 25to of
August.
Mrs Abbey Sibley died of typhoid
lever in Thomasville the 17th of
August.
Jonathan Potts was married to
recently* 1 ^ H* n “ iw Fowytli county
John Edmumlson was married to
recently ra Cha3tai "’ al S P ri '»g Place,
W II Smith, an Elberton carpen
m^hfoe CUt in “ p!auin S
A daughter of Mr Samuel Lera-
lastweekf UadlS0n ’ died of d'pl'theria
Mis. Solomon .Littlefield, of Ilall
county, died of typhoid fever the 24th
ot August . v •
Alfred M Adams is to bu ld the
new church at Dove’s Creek, in El
bert county.
,,. Ge ? ^ Besuford was married to
Miss Winnie Riggin, in Forrestville,
Augu:t 24th.
The public papers aud records of
Dawson county have I een stolen from
the Clerk s office.
M. F £ , . ty *“ iue “embers were added to
Mt. Ziou chorch in Milton county a
few buodays ago.
Mrs Lewis Pyron died in Merri-
wether county toe 24th ot August.
She was about 70.
C1, Tiliran, of Natchez, Miss., was
married to Miss Mamie Hyauis, ol
Augusta, recently. 3 '
Messrs Estes and Soq,of Columbus,
wul lake charge of the Rome Hotel
the 1st of September.
J A Baker, late an attorney in
Carters vide, has gone to Colorado to
practice his profession.
« MrG . \goes from La-
Grange to Columbus to take a posi
tion in the public schools. ■
W Robinson was married to Mire
Watkins and Gantt’s mills, and too
post office at Oakley Mills, in Coob
county, have been burned.
^ M ‘Proutaut, of Anongto was
married to Miss Emma O Bignon, of
toe same city, August 26th.
DMIie, little daughter of Mr John
tnitann alt*wi nC m. i • raws
A house on Mrs Pon’o farm in Jas
per county, occupied by Mr Preston
Robert R Parrainorc, formerly of
TTioiiias county, was shot and killed
SSSKSFks*
MR. HELDS ACCEPTANCE
Gainesviule, Ga , Aug. 10th, ’80
Hon. H. P. Bell, Cumming, Ga.:
Dear Sir—At a convention of the
democratic party ot tl* Ninth Con
gressional District held this day in
tlib c’ty, you were uuanimouslv iiuni-
inated as the democratic candidate to
represent the district in the lorty-
seveuth congress, and the undersigned
were appointed a committee to noiity
you ot this action and to request your
acceptance,
'In performing this pleasant duty,
permit us to state that your selection,
as the standard bearer of the demo
cratic party, was but, a response to
the demand from ail parts ol the dis
trict tor your return to public lile, and
is a tribute to your past service to the
country, and your fidelity aud un
flinching devotion to the great prin-
ciple9 ot ti.e democratic party.
Asking your acceptance of the
nomination, and tendering you it,
behalf of the democracy of the ’dig-
trict a cordial, united and zealous
support,we arc yours very respect-
,u| ly» II. W. Cannon,
J. E Redwink,
Calvin George, -
Committee.
THE CASE COXTINDED.
THE SECOND CHARGE
AGAINST THE GOVERN
OR, AND HIS AN-
gWER THEREw,
TO.
►
T B*#Krr%i V E tho JSAirkpoix
PEE.
Cumming, Ga., August 20th, ’80.
Messrs. H..W. Cannon, J. E. Red-
wme and Calvin'George, committee:
Gentlemen—Your favor of the 10th
inst., did not reach me until yester
day. You inform me that, at a con
vention of the democratic party , *ol
the ninth distriot, held on that day"iu
Gainesville, I was uuanimouslv nomi
nated as the democratic candidate to
represent the district in the 47th con-
gress. You state, that my selection
as the standard bearer of > the party
was bnt a response to the drniand
from all part? of the district, for my
return to public life, and request ray
acceptance of the position to which
the party assigned me. Recognizin'*
to the fullest extent, the righi^ot the
people to select their candidates in
their own way, and my obliga' ions to
bey their call, I accept the nomina
tion. I approve the resolutions adopt
ed by the convention. The first en
dorses the nomination of Hancock
and English for the offices of Presi-
dent and Vice-President. In my
jndgment it is the best selection that
uiuld have been made. Hancock is
a statesman and soldier, as wise in
counsel as he is brave in battle. His
candidacy eliminates from the canvass
toe sectional element, and his election
will guarantee an honest and faithful
administration of the government to
all parties in all sections of our com
mon country. The sacond resolution
expresses the thanks of the people of
the district to Gen. Philip Cook,for his
manly defense of them in tbe Ileuses
of Representatives, against tho false
charge of lawlessness. He certainly
deseives the gratitude of the people
ot the district. It is the first time
they were ever subjected to tbe neces
sity of having to rely upon the repre
sentatives of another district to de
fend their rights and their honor. A
constituency that has been represent
ed by men like Cobb, Hillyer, Jack-
son, Hill and Price, feels deeply this
humiliation.
Born and brought np in the ninth
district, a tiller ot the soil, identified
with the laboring masses in the
straggle of toil and the privations of
poverty, having mingled my blood
with that of her gallant sons in bat
tle, I cculd not deceive them tor
then'votes, desert them when as
sailed, nor betray them when elected*
If elected, the people of the district,
of all parties, may rest assured that
they will not be compelled to rely for
their defense upon the repre-cniative
of another district.
The fourth resolution recommends
toe adoption of the majority rule - in
“tore conventions. I have unjform-
ly opposed toe two thirds rule as
wrong in principle and ontrise In
DOllCV. It f] of DM tl.rx
7% —nnu wnicn 1
was identified in the forty-fifth con,
"ress, and in the success of which
profound' interest. AHfoi.g B^ghfj&oTril'the isnfteolation
■ « ^ Ul wvOu uaauu. is asuame innt'tuc z*ov<2m+
Jackson, died of measles in Thomas. Juent persistently withholds from
ville, toe 22d of August. these brave old men the pousiw.s
Mr, A M Jones, of Macon county. tbeir 8e ^ Ce ?.-n’ d va,0 . r 80 P**'
died in Americas at the rtndeim ? deserve. The bill providing for
Dr Thos E Smlto^recentijL' 6DCe 1?!
Unde Pat Moore, of Bartow coun
ty. » 84 years old, and cuts and
haofr wood to town nearly eray day.
i The remains-of the late Mr De-
.Rennp, who died in Philadelpbia,
have been interred Bongventnro.
. .. A drunken white man named Arch
Brown made a fiendish assault ou a
a«o 6 W ‘ ilegir, in A,)anta a tow nights
Tho State Convention of Univer--
sahsta will be held at Pleasant Valley
Cnurch, DeEalb county, September
C
these is tbe bill granting pension’s to
the soldiers-oft the Indian and Mexi-
esn wars. The Mexican war is one
of the most brilliant in history. It,
Victories added an empiro to our do
main. It is a shame that 1 the govern
toe tnachineiy soJd,to parties in’ At*
^ U ' -j(it to ,iv tie
Mr Fletcher~Freeman,”oF Harris
oouoty. was attacked in the public
road aud severely cut by Jeff R uU
ledge, negro. ■ \
G li Almond, J L Mize, R
Willis, TR White and S N Carpin?
tor have been appointed notaries i n
Elbert county.
Two Ilairis county negro boy,
were playing with a loaded pistol. It
went off and the ball hit one of Item
in the middle of the forehead. Tbo
opinion that the volume of ll ihe mif-
renoy is inadequate to thW wants kiJA
neoeasitiesr of ‘toe" ‘ Alneririin IRMfi
add that the National Bank uotts
should be sabtt?tuted‘ by grdfetiblu-ll'i
But my views upon the financial Ques
tion are known td'tod people of to,*
In continuing the presentation ot
the charges in tho case of the People
against the Governor, Mr. Norwood
as the representative of the former’
said:
The second part of his administra
tion to which t shall allude, relates to
the Alston lee. That act created a
great-deal ot comment-throughout
the Slate of Georgia, by good men
and admirers 61 Governor Colquitt.
A contract Imd been made between
Governor Smith and the gentlemen
who represented that claim against
the United States government that
they should have Irom 124 per cent
to 15 per cent of the amount recov-
“ red ‘ Mr. 'Baugh, of this city, was
the first man who Bad charge ot it
and bis control dated back for ycai4
before Alston had agy connection
with the case. When the claim was
collected, $198,000 in round numbers
4 draft wss given by the treasurer oi
the United States, payable to the or-
, r of me Governor of this State. Bv
law every dollar of that money should
have gone into the treasury of this
State, and every dollar due to any
person for any, services whatev'er
should have beep drawn out by law
on an executive warrant. But did
our Governor do that? 1 He did not.
He had his oheck for $198,000 cashed
he retained $45,000 out of it and
turned iuio the treasury $152,000
and, without drawing any executive
Warrant at all, he paid out $45,000 in
this case to attorneys. There was a
violation .of public law, because he
was required to draw money from the
treasury only on executive warrant,
which he did not do in this case. But
that was hot alL The contract was
to pay from 124 to 25 per cent., ac
cording, to the services to be render
ed, the time spent and the mo.neylaid
out by the parties who had the claim
in charge. Now, fellow-citizens, don’t
you see that by that contract it was con-
tempinied by the executive that 25
per ceut. was to be the very ultimate
per cent, to be paid, and there was a
margin between 12J and 25 por cent,
that was debatable ground for ihe
settlement of the fee.
That fee would depend upon the
services rendered and the time spent
m gathering up testimony, and so on
To my certain kuowled-e, Col. Alston
came into the case late/ Col. Bau»h
had rendered most of the services,
and to my personal knowledge, for I
was in the Senate, Col. Alston did not
render very great seryico in the case
(not that I underrate his services—
that is not the point) ; it is that be
fore that 25 per cent, should have
been paid, or. any part of it, it was
the duty of the executive of this State
to have had investigation made to see
what was a fair payment to Col. A1
ton in this case. No such an inves
tigation was made. . Had I been in
tbe executive chair I would have re
ferred it to the legislature and have
let it decide the matter. But I am
not criticising that; lam criticising
tins fact: that he paid the last farth-
ing that they would have been enti
tled to if they had rendered ever so
much service and spent ever so much
money. So; I say in that he did
wrong. The fee was a large one,
*45,000 for collecting <198,000 was a
very large payment, and any execu
tive looking to the welfare of the
people ahonld hava seen to it that the
fee had been well earned before he
paid it. There was a legal question
involved in it and here was the At
torney General in this building ap
pointed‘by law to advise the Gov-
ernofr and the Governor required by
law to ask his opinion in a matter ot
doubt and yet tiie opinion of the At
torney General was not asked for
upon this question. 'There is no such
writing on tileiVthe Executive De
partment.' - ’
TIIE GOVERNOR’S ANSWER.
To the foregoing qKarge the Gover
nor answers as follows: '1 ’
Mr. Norwood makes allusion to toe
fee that Messrs Baugh, Garlington,
Fam, Jackson, Lawton and
Basipger earned for the collection of
cc+friu money from ttfe.United Stales
on .claim connected with
t£e Vfat&n And Atlantic Railroad
policy. It defeats too popular choice 'kmtn 'Vnd^Othere we're Interested sister’s hiart.'
ere are first, entitled to their fees.
The very act of collection makes''
their fee their properly. All of thesSe
gentlemen concurred that the con
tract was that they should have- the
full 25 per cent, aud they all shared
! a toe dA'.ributioii of that per c- nt
they had brep-wAririmjiMm ease
ten Kars. £1MyerM had spent session
atte^ a session -in Wadiiiigtoii under
heavgr expense. Tiiey f Imd, there
lore. earned their lee and were enti-
’he fruits of theiftcootract
Tbe positimi of Mr. Norwood that
by law the whole amount should
cave gone iulo the treasury ii unten
able. There is no such law. The
law requires nothing to go into the
treasury but the money belonging to
the State. No law requires that the
per cont belonging to tho attor
neys should be paid into the treasury.
On the contraiy the law gives attor
neys a lien upon the money collected
until their fees are paid. The Gov
ernor received a check payable to his
order, with the consent of tho attor
neys, wiiich included the 25 per cent
belonging to thorn and the 75 per
cent belonging to the State. And
jo the discharge ot a plain legal duty
he paid to tbe attorneys the amount
which belonged to th.-m and [.aid into
the treasury tiie ainonut which be
longed to the State.
The exao was one of contract, not
made by me, for service to be ren
dered to the State for a compensa
tion agreed upon. The contract
was positive, the service uudcuiable
the contract was for 25 per cent
Ihe service was the collection of the
monmr, Tho money was collected,
and I had to cariy out tho contract
in good faith. I did this. To do
otherwise would have been a violation
ot law, and a stigma on the State.
CONNIES SECRET.
A day of bitter, biting black frost
—a leaden sky 'stretched like a pall
over tb.e huddled streets, with the
smoke ol a hundred chimneys curlin'*
up against it, in shades of bitter gray
aud Bell Brighton, looking wearily
out, wondered what there was left
in all the world, to be worth livin'*
for. °
‘Pride must have a fall!’ said her
step-mother, austerely. ‘And I really
don’t see, Bell Brighton, what cause
you have for complaint. If you had
married Johu Wallace, wheu lie ask
ed you, you would have had a home of
your own. Aud I’ve always thought,
bell, though I don’t say so, that your
lame ankle is meant as a visitation of
Providence, to punish you for all your
pride and vain glory,’
Mrs. Brighton, a tall and griin vis-
aged matron, with a coffee-colored
‘front,’ chill blue eyes, and thin, com
pressed lips, was ‘doing up* the family
linen at an ironing table opposite the
window, and lecturing her step
daughter at the 8an>e time; and as
poor Isabel bad a lame ankle aud
could not escape, she was decidedly at
a disadvantage.
The room was shabby and faded—
so was Mrp. Brighton The fire burn
ed in a spiritless fashion, the geranium
ilants in the window had lost their
eaves, and the canary had lost his
voice. And over all brooded the dull,
leaden sky of frozen March.
IIow long it seemed since that gold
en summer day in blossoming June—
that day of the picnic, when John
Wallace asked her to be his wife, aud
she had laughed disdainfully iu bis
face. She was Miss Brighlou of
Brighton Farm, then; her lather had
not lost bis old homestead through
the foreclosure of a mortgage; they
were not living in a dismal ‘Bat’ in
Third aveune, and she had not broken
her ankle and degenerated into a mere
sickly invalid. And there she sat all
day, poor child, mending the boys’
stockings, and trying to forget herpaiu
in odd volumes ot verses leut by sym
pathizing neighbors, and listening to
toe shrill, Uever-endiDg tones, of her
step-mother, until sometimes she fan
cied she would be frautio,
For poor, spiritless Joshua Bright
on, it was not so bad; he had a situ-,
ation as book-keeper in a gloomy
little grocery^store around the corner,
‘which kept him out of the sound of
bia wife’s tongue for at least a part of
the day, And Connie, Isabel’s twin
sister, was setting type in a neighbor
ing printing office, aud earned her
little income; so she also, was
comparatively independent. But poor
Isabel, who was helpless and ailing, is
it strauge that she sometimes closed
her eyes and Asked herself, in fritter-
peas'Af spirit, 'when all this was to
.endI .... , r f . -
‘Crying, Bell, deal V
It was Connie’s cheery voice; ami
Connie bad coma into tbe room like
Constance had promised her sister,
hover came ; and ono day, when lit
tle Billy Brighton, who had promised
him sell unlimited pleasure in snrn p-
titiously pounding on i he keye, noisi
ly reminded Connie of her promise,
she started and colored.
‘The cabinet piano?’ said she. ‘Ob,
yes, I remember. I did go down to
sea about it, but soino one else had
rented it.’
‘But there’s more- pianos than one
aint there?’hazarded Master Billy.
•Billy, do keep still, and leave oft
teasing,’ said Connie, sharply,
‘Bell wouldn’t cry so much, maybe,
if she could play p ano music,’ per
sisted Billy.
Constance looked up with a start.
n ,? lle cry 80 nl,,c '' she said.
‘Poor Bell. Dear Bell.”
But nothing more was said a!>ont
the piano, and Isabel came reluctant-
Ti to e ““elusion that Connie, like
, toe rest of the world, wai forget
ting her.
When the April violets purpled all
the country slopes, aud tho star-
uiskea dandelions blossomed out even
between the curb stones of the city,
a great longing came over Isabel
Brighton to sec tbe meadows and
vales once more.
, koiinie,’ she said, timidly, oi e day,
ygffid m « yo«r wag( 8 had been
‘Yes,’ said Constance, who was
What ll,oked 1 ke a re
ceipted bill,
‘Would It cost too ranch to hire a
carriage und take me a littl., ride in
the country?.I sometimes think.
Connie, dear, I slmll not live very
long, and I should like to see the
cherry trees in blossom aud all the
woods turning green before I go.’
Constance rose and came with suf
fused tyes to her sister’s side.
‘Bell,’said site, ‘I was gni n .. to ask
you to do that very thing. To-mor
row, dear!’
So they went, all by themselves,
greatly to the indignation ol Mrs.
Brighton, who thought that, at the
very least the three boys should have
been invited, and that it wouldn’t
have hurt Constance to hire a double
barouche and take her pa aud ina, too
as never put their noses out of
doors for a treat! And Isabel’s pale
cheeks flushed, aud her eyes sparkled
w ith si methinj* of their old light, as
they left the bridge behind them and
rolled out over the smooth, tree-
fringed boulevard into the wide,
-weet, b'ossoming country beyond—
until they reached a little Gothic cot-
tage with an elm tree bendiug over
it, and a view of the blue, glitterin'*
Sound at the rear. “
‘This is my house, Bqll,’ said Con-
uie, radiantly; ‘and yot-rs! I’ve
rented it, dear, and famished it,- and
we’re to live here together.’
Ami what a little nest it was, to be
sure, with blue carpets on the floor,
blue chin;z curtains at the windows,
the little cabinet piano in the parlor,
and tho softest of easy chairs drawn
up opposite the grate-fire ; ami as
for the dainty little kitchen dresser,
with its rows of crockery and shining
coffee-pots, and ve.low pudding-bouN,
and the dining-room, with its s'nb-
beard no larger than a doll’s furni
ture, and tbe piazaa behind, and the
beds of bine velvet pansies iu front—
there’s no sort of use in trying to
describe them ; it couldn’t be done.
‘But, Connie, you never done tliis
all by yourself?’ cried Bell, when tho
.first rapture was over. ‘You never
could have afforded it ?’
r i No 4 fto* Connie - ‘I had help.
John helped me, both with his pnrso
and judgment.’
‘John Wallace?’
‘Yes.’
I know!’ cried out Bell, with a
sharp pain as if a needle Imd pierced
her heart. ‘You needn’t tell me a.iv
“°“‘ John and you are to be m li
ned! You will be happy—while I-’
‘Bell! Bell!’ John Wallace him
self stepped out from the shadow of
the curtaius, in the tiny bay window,
and took both her hands iu his, ‘You
know very well that I shall never be
“arnedto any one unless it is to
yon. Speak, dearest, decide mv fate
at once 1’ J
“But lama poor, Biokly cripple!
she hesitated.
‘To me, Bell, yon are what you al-
ways were—The dearest and sweetest
thing in all the world I’ he answered,
'steadfastly. r
And so Isabel Brighton was mar
ried, and three people live in the
Gothic cottage instead of only two.
But what is strangest of all is, that
toe house was planned exactly for
that state of things I
‘She would have it so I’ said John.
»PL ‘ C V* >.'‘kttiliwu. ... ...,v W.W IVUUI 11*1
Afrato breese, purifying the air, and,
SgfiW lifting tjie gloom from her
What ari tlie fifetsrof ifrm'-also re-
“■ r kab!y misconceived transaction ?
burn!red iuuuowiu-uuuure
«g:im»t the United Slates Government
for tfre use ofjthe State road during
toft.war. . The
contract was . that these ' lawyer*
tocmld bate a rWaifr^bf $3,000 add
, . r -■-.-.toe 'bontifrgentMuftn !!•«* 12J./ pil
ing froni the sale of the public lauds pept ,a*.cqjBiPUN0ntf fcfrfcr
Ik
poses, is the first importance to both 'febingcJIb the prosecution; Durine
races iqtiieftouth. Unflei-ita "W Qdmabk SsritWiaAfonistmiofilleJ?
visions, Georgia would reediva about- “knotty, awton and Basinger
ope. frun^a dtaratoM : >ntOi4i^que aaodtotional coun-
' mil* sel, and Governor Smith placed upon
1 < ~ t toe. executive minute* au b'rdefreoog-
J U v/tmniej Dangn; wno, at tbe
lea in practicing the old music I used
fra Inim t . .
district, and I cannet* discuss them
in tfris.letter. tl „ tH L
issucs^ Involved in 1 ifie' cinvass; My
past official act ion do congress is the
pledge l offer for the'4'uture. VLlojnn*
not close this letter withoutreturning,
through yon, to the people of lie'di-
frictr my gratetnl lubffiiowredgf-ment
for. tiie uniform airport they have giv*
on me in toe -jk»4£> Aimt^tliaokiag
you gentlemen for tbe very kind terms
•p which you, have .conveyed tb’ tfib
the action of fHe.peopfofri convention,-
I am very Tespwctfully your obtklient
wmnti'U* »•*««•’ :• •;<*» »«*'» «>» 'tii..
H. 1*. Belu. > '
nizing the employment! oftheae^mitie-
nfeti; arid inci-easing' the compensation
to be 1 kllowed to S sum nol to exceed
2« per eriit dfitiie amonbt opllectad,
this Pot to interfere with! tl*f rightful
gelitlemen 'already imployed. ' I found
rfatb bf thjngs wheti l cable into
office—si long standing contractiot toe
highest official authority. 1 The mOn-
©y *was collected, -the agents doing tiie
JwK'WW allowed their contract fee
a»d the State’s part of the money
was paid into the: treasure. .ii.hn F
. : Thi} only question in the case at all
fvas whether tho agents were entitled
to the full 251 por cent ' commission.'
tVh'alever amount thev were entitled
was theirs immediately, and could
Ot go into thb'frt asury. Thc^bsid
- legal lien upon it.' It wifi ^‘theirsr
•arne l under a feg.tl contract, and
the withholding! oFOne doHar from
ttfefo would h*Ve‘been a K violation 1 of
the faitfr bf tfcaSrifte.'^It is the^law}
need any consideration, working my
finger-ends off for thankless gwls a
IQn’fc n/l kdlnfiAn L h .. .
to love.*
. „!4. P iano !> e'choed' Mrs. Brighton,
Well, I declare? Why don’t you
wish fora carriage and’ pair,.and a
brotm stone front, while,ytu’re abqnt
It ? You’re quite as likely to get one
as. you are tbb other i . You’d a deal
better wish for a' new ‘ overcoat’ for
your fatlier, aud boots for-the boys I’
_• you. „
tlo cabiuet concern at the tbCond-hand
store around toe corner, that I could
get, I’m sure, for five dollars a month,
and therms plenty of,ro)m foy it be-
‘But von can’t afford it, Connie.
‘Yes r can,’ said Gounie } ‘i’ve had
a rise in the world ..I am not to set
type any longer, bi}t I am to road
iroofr, at nearly twice the wages.
')h, Bell, isn’t it nice?* ' Il, ';'‘'
•'But'ttiw <frbe asuccesJdn of rays*
$■*»!;’OltfMiU'Mttriu,'who knew
one of tlW proprietors Of the pabir^B-
ing coiifcern, toldOsabel that’ IHif ris*.
«4 ■*' — *“■'
.'Hi
yet
til dark. J <>*4 ««*»»* - ‘ . » j
‘I don’t blame her for Wanting to
keep oqt of tins untidy' place, with
mother scdlditig and tho children
quarrelling,’ thought Boll f I ‘but she
mjglit foil me where sbe is and ;«hat
ihe is doing! Bijit Connip is change d
ui m xi is xne ,iaw, spe is d(
well recogn’zed in tofr cuuntr^, ithsf j ef late.’ hpr „...
lawyers who collect moneys for oth- The little cabinet plifooi tooi 'wI.icU 1877.
• , . r.HU UUUU,
Wl r u m, ''9“ ,OVOU8 glance at Conuii-.
. J knew things would all oomo
right,’ said Connie, demurely.
„ ‘And that was your secret ?’ said
Bell, half smiling, half tearful.
‘This was my secret,’ Connie an
swered. "This was where tho money
and tune all went! And oh! Bell, I
am so happy at last!’
STATE NEWS.
W Truiock, of Decatur county,
exbipit*; a stalk of cotioa six and a
half feet high, with two hundred aud
tlurty-one bolls.
The liquor question is agitatini*
Elberton. This is better than if ihe
liquor itself were, agitating the citi
zens of that burg.
W D Winbnm, of Curterevillc, ad
vertises for information of his son
.George, a lad of 14, who is absent
from home without leave.
A little white girl, eleven voars old.
daughter of Mr Brit Watkins wSa
outraged b> a netrfo milt, in Cobb
county. The negro was arrested and
fut in jail.
; In Savannah tlle’othor day a young
man named Conners, from Augusta,
stabbed in Jhe shoulder a young man*
named Nugent Conners Was defend
ing himself.
Mack and Frank Dykes, brothors,
wo killed in a midnight assault oil
the dwelling of a negro man near
kmchian. The coroner’s jury justi,
fied tho negro tn the killing. '
n John Perkins, captain, and.John S.
Petereon, mate of tho schooner Mary
J., died at the quarantine station
now Savannah, a few days ago, 0 f
malarial fever. ° ’
i. Profossor Jaimw C Hinton of Eu-
Alabama, has been, elected to
t e chair of ancient and modern i an _
g ages of tho '-Middle Georgia Mill-
tnj-y and Agricuhnral College” at
Mjlledgeville, mid has uccopted.
Prefcssor Hnuon anon of Rev. Dr.
J WHiutou of Columbus. Hs gral-
u, ! tl !? ft Mercer University In 1874
witli .tne fighest honor of tiie class
and'look Ins A. Id. dogr.-e at the
tfeorgta University., .subsequently
where ho gamed his second diploma