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[tfjlrJ'jTj CHAPMAN & INOIIEAM, ' ’ t PROPRIETOUS. 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