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(©tltgraplj anil fttowgtr FRIDAY, JULY 23,1SS0. —The postmaster general calls atten tion to the fact that cards with one cent stamps stuck upon them are not postal cards, and that they will not be allowed to pass thiough the mails hereafter. —The immigrants arriving at the port of New York during the year ending June 30,1SS0, numbered 203,726, against 00,- 224 in 1870; 72,507 immigrants arrived at the principal ports during the month of June last; 14,100 were from Ireland, 13,- 548 from Germany, 7,812 from England, 12,323 from Canada, and 1,789 from China. —A Philadelphia swindler opened a store in Arch street, stocked it with bot tles of what ho called club sauce, and advertised for “a partner with $250 in a prosperous business.” He averaged for some time about one new partner every week, for the dupes would drop out quietly on ascertaining that the business was a sham, and leave their money 'be hind. —Fishermen engaged in the Greenland fishery say they never experienced any thing like the terrific ice blockade which now extends down to the fifty-second par allel of latitude. The field lying to the eastward of Newfoundland, the southern extremity of which now bears 120 miles distant from St. John’s, of the heaviest floe description. Thousands of icebergs are to be seen. Death op am Old-Time Emtok.— Joseph R. Chandler died at his residence in Philadelphia on Sunday night The! 1th. Mr. Chandler was bom in Massachusetts in 1702, but, coming here when a-boy, be gan the practice of the law about sixty- five years ago. lie relinquished the law soon after having been admitted to the bar, and began editing the United States Gazette. He served in Congress Irom 1S49 to 1855, and as minister to the Two Sicilies during Buchanan’s administration. He wrote a book on English grammar, and was a Free Mason of high rank. ■Wood fob the Big Bridge.—The New York Sun says that there was to have been a special meeting of the trustees of the East river bridge Friday afterhoon, but as a quorum was lacking, the execu tive committee met and opened twenty bids for furnishing the lumber for the roadway of tbe bridge. The contract was awarded to Eppinger & Russell of Brooklyn for $24.70 per thousand feet for 1,005,190 feet of yellow pine. The con tract for lumber which was some time ago awarded to the Baiubridge (Georgia) con tractors was cancelled, because orf the al leged inferiority of tbe material. —A natural ice-house is one of the cu riosities of northern New Jersey. It lies behind Blue Mountain. Tbe ice gorge is several hundred yards ih extent, ten to thirty feet deep, with caves and clefts in the rocks where the ice lies. The shade at the gorge is very dense, the sun appa rently never penetrating it. The bottom of the gorge and the little caves and crevices are filled with ice. The ther mometer, which registered the nineties in Newton, marked 38 degrees at the bot tom of this gorge. A few feetrfrom one end a spring of the most delicious, spark ling water bubbles up. The water in this spring stands at 34 degrees. —One thing leads to another thing in a curious way. In the British House of Lords one archbishop and eleven ibishops voted against the bill for marriage -with a deceased wife’s sister, and thus -it was thrown out. Upon this, sundry persons who regard the law against such -mar riages as a relic of bigotry, suggest the formation of a society with tbe express view of obtaining the passing of an act to exclude bishops from the House of Lords. And after that will probably come another society tor promoting the abolition of the House of Lords itself. The agitation in favor of abolishing the law would seem to indicate a great desire on the part -of British widowers to marry sistera-in-law, and the feeling on the subject can hardly be understood in this country, in most parts of w'htch such marriages arc entirely lawful. General Grant.—A Washington dis patch to the Baltimore Sun says that a prominent Republican politician, who enjoys the personal friendship of General Grant, said to-day that he was advised that tbe latter had made np his mind not to take in the future any active part in the politics of the country, but to devote the remainder of his days to business pursuits, He believed the statement telegraphed from Galena that General Grant intends to settle up his affairs and go to New York, where a lucrative position awaits him, to be true, as it accords with his own private information. In reply to a sug gestion that General Grant might be brought forward as the Republican nomi nee for the presidency four years from now, this gentleman said be had reason to know that General Grant would never again allow his name to go before apoliti cal convention, but would abstain from participating in future political contests. . Cadet WraTTAKfiB.—The case of Ca det Whittaker was brought to the atten tion of the cabinet last Friday by Secre tary Ramsey. ■ No action was taken, and tbe question of “what shall be dona with this small elephant” was postponed until next week. Whittaker is not without strong backing in Republican quarters, and those who are looking after his inter ests here feel very confident that the ver dict of the court of inquiry, as well as the recommendation of the commandaut of West Point that he be dropped from the roll of cadets will not be approved by the president. 4 number of prominent Re publicans have evinced so much interest jn the case and taken such strong ground in favor of Whittaker that the President cannot approve of the action of the mili tary autljorities without subjecting him self to very sharp censure from some of his own political friends. If a court-mar tial is granted, and Whittaker can estab lisb his innocence of the charge of self- mutilation, his backers here are certain that be will be continued at the academy aud afforded another chance to pass the required examination. last Week’s Cotton Figures. The Crop Situation. The New York Chronicle reports the receipts of the seven days ending Fri day night, at 10,001 bales, against 2,800 the corresponding week of last year. Total receipts of the current cotton year up to last Friday 4,800,895 bales, against 4,430,381 to same date last year—showing a net increase of 436,514 hales. The interior port business of these days was as follows: Receipts 3,521, against 1,280 last year. Shipments 9,273, against 6,452. Stocks 0C,19S, against 15,528. Tiro Chronicle's visible supply table showed, on Friday, 1,753,210 bales of cot ton in sight, against 1,390,713 at same date last year; 1,572,995 at same date tbe year before, and 2,187,400 in 1877 at same date. These figures show an in crease in the visible supply, over that of iast year, of 301,503 bales; over tbe sup ply 1878 of 185,221 bales, and a decrease ■of420.2S0 bales on tbe visible supply of 1877 at this date. Cotton, last Friday, in Liverpool, was quoted at 01 for middling upland. At that ■date the year before the quotation was OJ; in 1S78 it was OJ, and in-1877, Of. The Chronicle appends the following to Its table of receipts from plantations: The above statement shows— 1. That the total receipts from planta tions since September 1st in 1S70-50 were 4,925,792 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,442,011 bales; iu 1S77-7S were 4,251,345 bales. 2. That, although tbe receipts at the out ports the last weekivere 10,091 bales, the ac tual movement from plantations i\ as only 4,939 bales, the balance being drawn from stocks at tbe Interior ports. Last year the receipts from the plantations te satm week were bales, and for 1878 they were 1,243 bales. The Chronicle's weather telegrams of Friday from the growing crop exhibit, on the wuole, a favorable condition. In Texas, at Galveston, there were showers on five days of the week. Crop prospects continued good. One bale of cotton had been received from Houston and one from Indianola. Picking had generally begun in the coast districts. Indianola, light showers on two days, with a rainfall of 0.S4. C.*op3 good and picking begun. Corsicana, one shower, weather’ warm, highest mercury 100, average 87. Crops doing well. Dallas, one shower, mercury 72 to 100, average 87. Brenham, warm and dry, crops needing rain. Picking be gun in a small way. New Orleans, rain on five days with a fall of 1.90. Average mercury 82 Shreveport, heavy thunder storm3—rain fall 2.54. Highest mercury 90—average 84. In Mississippi, at Columbus, there was 1.32 of rain during tbe week. Vicks burg does not report. At Little Rock, Ar kansas, weather dry and hot. Average mercury 83—highest 06. At Memphis, there was rain on one day. The crop was developing finely. Thermometer 73 to 95. At Nashville, 0.33 of rain. Mercury 73 to 95. In Alabama, at Mobile, there was a rain fall of 1.28 during the week, mercury 71 to 97. Crops in fine condition. Cater pillars have appeared and poisons are vig orously applied. At Montgomery, hot and dry; only one showery day. Cater pillars are now webbing up. Mercury from 73 to 97. Selma, too much rain in some places and too little in others. Crops ia general developing finely. Madison, Florida, fields clear of weeds and crops promising, mercury 70 to 88, average 82. In Georgia, at Columbus, 1.88 of rainfall, mercury 81 to 98, average S5. At Macon, 0.20 of rain, mercury 71 to 95, average 83. .Crop accounts continue good. At Savannah, rain on five days. At Augusta, 2.04 of rainfall during the week. Bad Grammar and Bad Politics. The New York World amuses itself by contrasting Garfield’s bad grammar and bad politics with the grammar and poli tics of the constitution as displayed in the following extracts: First, Gen. Garfield, in his letter of acceptance, assaults Mur ray and the constitution as follows: “They [the Republicans] insist that the United States is a nation with ample power of self-preservation; that its con stitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof arc the supreme law of the land; that the right of the Hation to determine the method by which its own legislature shall be created cannot be surrendered without abdicating one of the fundamen tal powers of government.” The World contrasts this extract with several from the constitution, wherein that venerable instrument incidentally, by tbe use of correct grammar, defines its own origin and status. It is not an in dependent, self-existent concern, called by its own will to • an irresponsible and unlimited mastery of the States; but is, in fact, the common and joint agent of the States, for the execution of certain dele gated trusts, with powers direct, incidental and implied, needful to discharge these trusts: It is not the singular and all- sufficient monster that Garfield would conjure up, but only the employe of the States to effectuate certain specifically de fined objects needful for the common de fense and welfare, which cannot be effected by their independent action. The constitution of the United States speaks is the agent of the States because it creates a common organ of their joint authority. Speaks of the government it created in the plural number because It is tbe government of each and all the States exercising their joint and several author ity through a common agent, and there fore authorized to express that fact in the plural number—the singular number be ing wholly inapplicable eitherto its origin, nature or character. Where docs the government get authority to do anything but from the constitution, which is a mere record of delegated powers conceded by and from the States. Mr. Garfield, tUcrefotf, in order to up hold his idea of an original, undelegated government, totally irresponsible to and independent of the States—their master, and not their agent—is pushed up to the necessity of this lamentable outrage on grammar—“the United States is.” Now, Garfield are said to be a scholar; but this docs not look like it. The World quotes the following extracts to show how the constitution phrases tbe matter: Article 1, section 9, recites: “No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit under ‘them’ shall, without the consent of the Congress, ac cept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state.” Article 3, section -3, redtes: “Treason against the Uuited States shall consist only hi levying war against ‘them’ or adhering to ‘their 1 enemies.” The thirteenth amendment, which was drawn before the doctrines of centraliza tion had advanced to their extreme conse quences, reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servi tude * • • shall e'xist within the United States or any place subject to their 1 jurisdiction,” Forward Bice. Importance of Rice Culture. We learn from the Darien Timber Ga zette that the rice crops on the Altamaha river are in excellent condition, and promise an abundant harvest. The Messrs. Gigniliiat, father and sons, who own splendid plantations on Cathead creek, near Darien, report their fields al most ripe for the sickle, and will begin cutting very soon. By the way, among all the grain reaping inventions by horse power, or otherwise by which the harvest ing of wheat, oats, barley and lye, has been so much simplified and expedited, nothing so far has been able to supplant the use of the hand sickle in cutting rice. This is owing to the fact that the ripened heads turn down and hang low. Hence by tbe ordinary scythe, thousands of them would be cut ofl and prove a total loss. A good laborer will cut down one acre of rice per day, which is* fair task when it is considered that he must grasp ’with his hand every spire of the golden grain before it can be cropped. There is no field crop at the -South more profitable than rice, whether cultivated by tide water irrigation or upon ordinary upland. In the latter case, however, the white rice, a much hardier variety than the ordinary “golden” or Carolina grqjn is sown anu cultivated with the hoe and plow, precisely like corn, andon the same land, and side by side, will double the yield of that cereal every time. On damp, second low lauds tho writer has also known from twelve to fifteen bushels of rice to be gathered when planted, like peas, between the hills of corn, in addition to a full yield of corape acre. In Liberty, Bryan and Chatham counties this high land rice has taken the place of cotton as a market crop, and, at present prices, pays much better. We look to see it, at no distant day, one of the most important staples of the State. An Anti-Dueling Campaign. The press and people of South Carolina are much enlisted in a war against the duello. The excitement was very great before tbe late barbarous duel between Cash and Shannon, resulting in the death of the latter, but has increased vastly since that event. And this excitement has been intensified by the extraordinary attitude of the Cash family, who seem to have taken issue with the opponents of dueling, and prohibited ail discussion of the subject on pain of instant death at their hands. This has put the papers on their mettle, and they everywhere pro claim a moral war between “Cash and civilization.” They are organizing anti dueling associations in all the counties for the purpose of creating a healthy public opinion on this subject. The essenc-e of the duello iscontempt for legal remedies, and its influence and end are to subvert them. When a man be comes a member ofa political community he covenants to submit to and abide by the law and judgment of his peers. These necessarily constitute the supreme arbiter, and if they are defective either in their character or operation, tlie first business of all is to bring them to aproper and sat isfactory standard. No other remedy is possible! No man will abide by tbe judgment of his enemy, be it right or wrong. The duello settles m wrong3or quarrels, but perpetuates them indefinitely through generation!, “difficulty,” so-called, -which might be healed by tbe judgment of a disinterested tribunal,when brought to the bloody issue of combat, becomes a family feud—^ven detta—* stream of malice, blood and mur der—which the earth kill not absorb, and which is at fatal war with law, order, vir tue,religion and all those influences which bless society. Society must, therefore, figbt'the duello or become a felo-de-se. The two so called remedies are at war and -utterly irrecon cilable. The more* man sets up to be above law and unwilling to submit to its arbitration, the snore imperative that this common arbiter should -be' insisted on, and tbe more injurious bis influence in the destruction of law and order. Dueling finds its chief support in meD who feel themselves erf too much -conse quence to accept the common defense pro vided by law. The young and inexperi enced are always ready to follow the lead of persons laying claim to social distinc tion, and to exceptional provisions in their own favor. The man, therefore, who advocates tbe duello, -either -by pre cept or example, whatever -opinion be may entertain to tbe contrary, is warriDg upon the foundations of civil order, These necessarily waive tbe claim to pri vate redress, while he refuses to waive it. Bat if all take to elub or pistol, where tbe use of law and social organization? They are valueless just to tbe extent that the claim to private redress is conceded. It is, therefore, as the Carolinians con tend, a distinct issue between dueling and civilization. An Arab of the desert may meet his enemy with sabre and broadsword, but civilized man must sub mit to the judgment of his peers. This is indispensable to his position as a good cit izen, and ^dispensable to the peace and order of society. The practice of carry ing deadly weapons secretly, and all the well known usages of bulldozers, braw lers, swaggerers and bullies, grow out of this notion of private redress, which lies at the foundation of the duello, and must be uprooted from all highly advanced and Christian civilization. Signs and Portents. It has already been shown to the super stitious that the three initials of W. S. Hancock stand for “Wil! succeed Hayes/ Now, an Ohio correspondent of the New York Sun shows that— 1. Taking all the letters in tbe name of Winfield Scott Hanoock, and giving to each letter the number of its position in tbe alphabet, tbe numbers sum up 215, which represents the electoral votes claimed, for Hanoock, to-wit: time of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecti cut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Ken tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Vir ginia—23 Slates, in all casting 215 electo ral votes. 2. Taking in the same way the letters embraced in the name of James Abrabam Garfield, they represent 154, which makes up the electoral college—the total being 369. 3. There is in this fact a singular coin cidence withahe last presidential election, wherein. Samuel J. Tilden in the same way represented 203 electoral votes, which he actually received (though be was robbed of nineteen), and Rutherford B. Hayes 100, which be received and was en titled to. All this is funny. English and Northern Farm Property j “The Machine.” There is a lively discussion just now t The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a stal- about what is to become of farm property ; wart organ of the first magnitude, says ' “the machine represents 95 per cent, of the Republican party.” That is a brag estimate of a thoroughly machine Repub lican. But we apprehend there cannot bo tbe smallest doubt that, although the ma chine was, from exceptional causes, sig nally defeated at Chicago, it really does hold the controlling power. A tactical combination and surprise defeated Grant and nominated Garfield; but it is gene rally conceded that, had tho contest reached another ballot, or perhaps two more, Grant would have carried the day far more signally than Garfield did. But this victory of Garfield was followed immediately by the nomination of Arthur, the head and front of the New York machine men, whose ejection from office had been officially declared by Hayes in dispensable to an honest administration. Next, it is followed by a letter of accept ance from Garfield, as all authorities allege, substantially dictated by tho ma chine men; and another from Arthur boldly declaring^ substantially, that machine control of tlie ballot is essential to an honest election, and that the scheme of an impartial supervision of the polls, advocated by Garfield in Congress, was a surrender of tbe ballot to fraud. Tlie machine, therefore, emerges from the con flict at the head of the column, and the question before tbe American people is its thorough reinstallation at the head of the American government. Now it is wholly due to the temporary suspension and inactivity of the machine that sectional peace and good order have been restored to tbe existing degree. The machine had elaborately planned and px- ecuted tlie great fraud by which the ver dict of the people in the last Presidential election was overruled and set aside, but it was found impossible to carry through ail the details except by tbe concession of some pittauce of equity to the Southern States. It was this concession, restoring some of the rights of self-government, which has practically quieted the coun try. It was, however, a deadly offense to the machine. They have never forgiven it. They spit in abhorrence at every men tion of Hayes, and the ticket nominated to succeed Hayes is, as we have seen, pledged to restore the machine in full vigor. This election is to test whether the country demands the full restoration of machine politics, or whether it seeks a continued policy of justice, equity, peace and conciliation. The machine means the widest and most unsparing sectional domination in the exclusive interest of party power and plunder. It was illus trated in Grant’s Slate legislatures, or ganized at the point of the bayonet and sworn in behind forged certificates and Gatling guns. It means simply a new era of force and fraud, and the extinction, if possible, of tbe element of consent as tbe basis of Southern government. The machine is properly named by its adhe rents in the readily suggested idea of a vast and resistless engine, as inevitable in its power to crush and mangle as it is deaf to all suggestions of law, justice, pru dence, patriotism or pity. A great cast- iron machine cannot be reasoned with. As tlie partial suspension of this ma chine has been tlie great point of contro versy in tho so-called Republican party for tlie past four years, and has given rise to so many fierce intestine quarrels, it may well be assumed that its proposed re sumption will oe a main point of interest in tliis canvass. We believe a large ma- ority of tbe better class of the American people do not want to see it at work again. They want peace, justice and tranquillity. The support of nancock by tlie Southern people offers tlie best evi dence that they are for peace and volun tary cc-operation for the common welfare. It now remains for the great North and West to take the same ground, and bury the partisans of strife aud ill-will, with their machine, out of sight. in the Northern States and in England. As against farm products of the fertile West, nothing that either cair produce of fers remuneration for the investment and the labor. Western wheat can be placed on tlie Eastern markets at a dollar, and in the English market at very little mpre. Texas beef and Western pork, in both markets, are sold Tor less than they can be produced in either. In both countries there seems to be no possible employment of tbe land wbicb will leave the smallest margin to cover iuterest on valuation. New York and New England farmers admit that they are living, on past earn ings and are running behind-hand in tlie cultivation of standard crops. Unless they can strike out something iu the way of fancy agriculture, which will avail them of the better prices paid for luxuries, tlie future opens no prospect but ruin. The prices paid now to Western producers pay inadequately. Speculators and middle men take the profits. The best Western tanners of tbe old sort have to be content with small gains. But a class of farm producers are coming forward, who till vast areas of land, cultivate mostly by machinery and all tbe costly but efficient substitutes for human labor. They are making money at the existing low prices for their grain. The .competition with these great factory farms, which ■ has be come wholly impracticable with the pri vate farmer eastward from Illinois and the English farmer, is severe on tbe small farmer occupying the fat and unexhaust ed lands of the far West, and helps to complicate the roblem. The State Campaign. In the gubernatorial race there has been that lull for a day or two, which prefaces the shock of battle in tbe large number of counties (about fifty), which elect dele gates to the State convention to-day. Baldwin, by a close vote, gives her voice to Colquitt, but the following of Colonel Hardeman was very large, and shows how much he was appreciated. We think there is a growing disposition to concentrate upon him should the con vention fail, after reasonable efforts, to cast a two-thirds vote for any candidate in the field. Hardeman’s friends should nurse this feeling, and strive to remove every barrier to his success. Surely no man’s record is better as a legislator, Democrat or patriot. Indeed, we honestly believe that Colonel Hardeman has done more valuable per sonal service to the party since the war than any one man in tlie commonwealth. His labors have been unceasing, and never has he failed to come to time and lift his eloquent voice in behalf of truth and jus tice in the hour of need. We simply throw out these suggestions in advance that the delegates may have time to weigh and consider them. CONGRESSIONAL. Baldwin county gave an overwhelming majority yesterday in favor of the re nomination of our present able and ad mirable representative for the sixth dis trict in Congress. This closes the prima ries of the several counties, and gives Col Blount a clear majority of all the dele gates to the convention, which assembles iu Milledgeville to-morrow. We trust with this showing all opposition will be withdrawn and that he may receive the unanimous vote of tlie convention. Garfield and the Stalwarts. The view taken by tlie Northern politi cal gossips of both parties is that Gar field’s letter of acceptance heralded complete and necessary surrender to the stalwarts. It was the result of much ne gotiation on his part, in which he finally surrendered all grounds of difference, civil service reform, Southern toleration and everything set up by tbe Hayes wing. When this letter came out, Don Cameron recovered bis health at once and set oil for Pennsylvania. Conkiing got better and postponed his European trip. The whole stalwart camp roused from its slumbers and became busy as bees in swarming time. The most peremptory orders have gone forth from the White House to the countless officials employed by tlie government, and the country will resound with the clash of offensive war in a few days. A Fashionable and Favorite Health Resort.—We have private let ters from the Chalybeate Springs, which give a glowing account of that charming watering place. Macon is at this time well represented there, and the guests number a select company of one hundred and fifty. Large additional arrivals also are daily expected from Alabama, Columbus, and other portions of Georgia. The warm mineral baths are represented to be per fectly delightful, and the plunging min eral pools so cold a3 to refrigerate the most mercurial youth in a trice. The fare is all that conldbe desired, and a fine' lively stable, billiards, ball room, ten pin alley, and other amusements, all free, keep ennui at a distance. A popular writer has promised to favor as with some -of the passing events and on dUs of this delightful health aud pleas ure resort. We are advised that Messrs. Martin & Freeman are provided with swift teams and good drivers to transport passengeis from Geneva to tlie Springs, and tbe road is in capital order. This and the old Indian Spring should be, par excellence, the chosen summer abode of tbe people of Maeon. We trust both will be liberally patronized the pres ent season. Another Concession to Down trodden Cuba.—A late Havana dis patch says: The Official Gazette promulgates a royal decree, dated June IS, assimilating the whole system of public instruction in the island with that of Spain. The Uni versity of Havana can henceforth confer doctorates in law, medicine and pharma cy, as well 'as the title of licentiate in philosophy and science. High colleges to prepare students for entoring the universi ty will be established in all tbe provinces of the island. Heretofore, oftly the High College of Havana has existed. Tlie ma triculation and title dues, which have hitherto amounted to $100, are reduced to $37. It does seem that Spain is making au honest effort to lessen the burdens and improve the condition of her principal colony. If the turbulent spirits who arc constantly fomenting discord and sedition could be banished from the island, we doubt not a change for the better would soon take place under the present king. Hancock’s Acceptance.—General Hancock having been interviewed by an associated press reporter at Governor’s Is land, New York, last Friday, in regard to his letter of acceptance, said that it would not be ready for probably a fortnight or Hardeman to the Rescue. So far, at this writing, 7 p. m., Wednes day, we have telegraphic returns from four counties only, showing the result of the numerous primaries held to-day. Two of these, Dodge and Telfair, elect Hardeman delegates; Terrell pronounces for Lester and Randolph sends an anti-Colquitt un- iustructed delegation, one of whom is said to favor Hardeman and the other Lester. Doubtless before going to press, very many other telegrams will come to hand and there will be more light upon the situa tion. Col. Hardeman starts off well, and thousands of anxious,sympatbizingfriends, still hopeful, are anxiously, like Mlcawber, waiting for “something to turn np” in be half of their favorite. Should the colonel, ^either as a “dark horse” or regularly en tered courser, win the race, there will be great rejoicing in Macon and the environs tliereof. Later.—Since writing tho above our special telegrams announce that Newton, Rockdale, Greene, Brooks, Hancock and Spalding Lave declared for Colquitt. The plot thickens, and soon the denouement must come. The Republican Campaign.—A Washington special to the World says that from a remark made by Mr. Jewell it would he infen ed that the plan of the campaign to be conducted by this party purposes the ignoring of personal attacks upon the Democratic candidates and a vigorous contest for the supremacy of the Republican party on its political and his torlcal merits. ’ The assertion that the South is solidly Democratic is to be met by a hard fight in four or fire Southern States, including Virginia, North Caro lina and perhaps South Carolina, Florida and West Virginia. It is understood that the campaign in Connecticut, New Jersey and Indiana will be left to the State com mittees, there being In these States besides tlie presidential issue the contest for the Slate legislators, which necessarily de velops the entire strength of the party in the hope of seenring a Republican sena tor from each of these States. New York State wilt be carefully nursed by the national committee aud the aid of the campaign fand judiciously extended wherever it will do the most good. That old Banner Countt.—The Hinesville Gazette publishes a certified record to the effect that in 1792 Liberty county, with a voting white population then not exceeding 400, had an organized battalion numbering 239 soldiers, under the command of Colonel Daniel Stewart, Lieutenant-Cplonel W. McIntosh, Jr., and Major Simon Fraser. The Liberty Independent Troop, which, is still in a Senator B. H. Hill Ventures a Word of Counsel. Mr. Hill, in view of tiie fact; that his name had been suggested as a delegate from Fulton county -to the State conven tion, declines to serve in that capacity, aud, in a letter to the Constitution, says: While I have been much absent from the State, and my field of labor has been national,! have not been inattentive to the Democratic situation and tendency in Georgia, and a sense of duty to the party and the people impels mo to say a few words in this connection now. The Democratic situation in Georgia is bad—very bad, and the tendency Is worse. Serious dissensions exist,are daily increas ing, and if not arrested will inevitably disrupt tbe party. He is not an intelligent Democrat who does not see the cause of these evils, and he is not a true Democrat who is unwil ling vigorously to apply the isinedy. The cause may be expressed in one word, and it is personalism in the party. It is no new distemper in political organi zations. It is easily cured if taken in time, and it is certain death to the party if not taken in time. What is personal ism in a party ? It is tlie attempt of in dividuals—one or more—to use the party to advauce individual ends. Personal revenges, personal vindications, personal grievances, and personal rewards, and personal glorifications, are all but forms of the same disease, and in every form is equally daugeroils and despicable. Political parties are organized solely for the public good, and those who com pose them unite to promote that public good by securing a faithful and efficient administration of government according to a common political faitb. Those who seek to use a party, thus or ganized for the good of all, to further the good of ono or a few, whether for reward, or for revenge, or for vindication, are at tempting to use for one or for a portion that which was formed for all. Corrup tion within the party or independentism are the invariable fruits if those who at tempt such personal ends are not repudi ated as leaders It will bo with the convention which as sembles on tbe 4th of next month to de termine whether existing dissensions shall be continued to a final disruption aud tbe party he precipitated into a hit ter, angry personal canvass; or whether those dissensions shall cease and a nomi nation he made which will secure a har monious canvass to the party and result ing in an election that will give tbe State an administration which shall be strong in the united confidence and support of tbe people. If the delegates come together animated by a desire to advance the personal, de sires or ambitions of pets and favorites, tbe worst evils will follow. But if they come together resolved to remember that their supreme obligation is to represent tlie whole party and work for tbe good of all, they will render a service worthy of patriots, and ail the people will have cause to bless them. In this matter “I have no friends to re ward and no enemies to punisli,” and nothing personal to accomplish. I could support cheerfully my worst enemy (if I had one) if his nomination would avert the evils mentioned, and I cottld vote against my own brother if his nomination would not avert them. I shall hold myself in readiness to co operate with all who sincerely desire to preserve the harmony of tlie party, and through that harmony to secure a faithful and efficient administration of the State government. Ben H. Hill. —-■ ■ Garfield’s Defense. In another column, says tlie Herald, we print what appears to be General Garfield’s formal and final defense against the charge of official misconduct in the Credit Mobilier case. It is extracted from a forthcoming campaign life of the candi date, all the details of which are an nounced as obtained by tbe author direct ly from General Garfield himself. It will be noted that the statement of the circum stances on the specific point of General Garfield’s personal dealings with Oakes Ames is made in the first person, as if the General’s actual words were written down for his defense. Much has been said within a few months past, especially by orators and or gans of the Republican faitli, on the un happy condition of a great party put on the defensive by the record of its candi date, and in view of the document re ferred to Republicans will have new rea son to reflect deeply on that point and even to consider that if a party on the de fensive is badly off; a party on tlie defen sive without any defense is certainly in a much more lamentable position. General Garfield is exceedingly generous in his statement and vouchsafes answers to many questions that are not asked m this connection. His generosty, indeed, in giving abundant information on points as to which there was no doubt, is in pro portion to the rigid strictness of his de livery on particulars as to which a freer speech would have better satisfied public curiosity. ‘He defines tbe Credit Mobilier, and the people already knew just what it was. He gives a statement of the forma tion of tlie “ring of seven persons,” and a glimpse of how they operated and kept to themselves the secret of their game, as if to lay the ground for the suggestion that tliis very secrecy guaranteed the innocence of the persons who received a part of the spoils. But is It a virtue in a man not to know that which it is his official duty to know? Secrecy was part of the game, of course, and they paid for it; bribed Congressmen not to legislate for them, but to help them along by leaving them alone. Did Gen. Garfield accept a valuable consideration for his silence? That is the point before the country, and the answer is not satis factory. He says he had a loan. Evi dence enough to guide the popular judg ment on that point lias already been given. In this defense there is a new trait of vacillation. The accused returns to that statement of his case which he made before tlie Congressional investiga tion had proved his complicity, yet holds on to the loan theory, which was a pre varication due to tlie fact that the investi gation had proved his original statement to be false. But it is not strange if in a case where every defense made is so poor a man should not be aele to decide wlii:h to stand by for a finality. Mactn, Dooly nnd Houston County Fair. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: On the 22d and 23d of this month, Macon, Dooly and Houston counties will hold au extensive fair at Montezuma, consisting of the agricultural, horticultural and mineral, fine arts, needle and handwork, mechanical and merchandise. The display of horses bids fair to be the largest of any similar fair ever held in the State. The display of sheep and swine will be fine. Extensive preparations and arrange ments are being made to have an exten sive affair. We will haTe some fine racing by some of the best horses in the State. Many well known horsemen will be here. Wo have one of the best half mile tracks in the State, which has recently been put iu fine fix. Three splendid brass bands are coming to enliven us with music aud to contend for the prize which has been offered by the agricultural society. Fine racing purses have been made for the two days, and many other races will be made for the day following (Saturday.) Many of your merchants will do well to display goods here in the exhibition, as Macon sells our town, many goods, be sides numbers of merchants will be here from Americus, Dawson, Fort Valley, Hawkinsville and other places. Wo cordially invite you, Mr. Editor, and all who will come. E. —A tramp consented to do a small job at digging post holes at Carson, Nevada, though labor was contrary to his custom. He returned to his employer’s house in an hour, threw down his spade, and said he flourishing couditlen, ia the oldest carat- J had changed his mind. He had found more; that he had not commenced it yet, ry corps south of the Fptomac. It was or- ) $130 worth of gold bars which some j tember—when turnips are tlie principal visitors and business taking up his time, gauized in 1789. >. miner had buried. - n crop. * Gaining Courage. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, since the advent there of Marshall Jewell and Senator Don Came ron, says there has been a more buoyant feeling existing about the Republican headquarters, and the visit of these two Radical magnates.has inspired the subor dinates engaged in sending off campaign documents with the hope that Garfield may yet force through, and they be re warded with good offices for their labors during the campaign. Until within a few days the Republicans li&vc been in & sort of dazed condition and they looked upon the enthusiasm in the Democratic ranks for Hancock as in explicable. They were in a demoralized condition, and ready to believe as true tbe merest rumor that certain Republicans had come out for Hancock. In a measure they have now recovered themselves, and talk with more confidence as to the future. It needed the presence here of both Jewell and Cameron to stiffen up the backbone of the administration Republicans, and to give them faith for tbe future. Many Re publicans who privately admitted the dark outlook for their party are more hopeful now, because they believe that the deter mination of Don Cameron to go into the fight means in fact that the friends of Grant are going to bcuy their griefs and try and save the party from going to de struction. Without the aid of the Grant forces it was conceded that a canvass on the part of the Garfield men would be a very tame affair, but with the assistance of the polit- cal machinery centrolled by the Grantites, the contest would become hotter and more uncertain. • It has been current rumor here for some days in Republican quar ters, that Senator Don Cameron has been moved to go into the figlit through the in tercession of Gen. Grant himself. It is said that letters have been written by the latter urging his friends to go to work and try and defeat Gen. Hancock. This is suppored to be the secret of tho sudden determination of Cameron, Conkiing, and others to take an active part in the cam paign. Chinese Emigration. The best authenticated statements place the population of China at 350,000,- 000, though the Celestials claim 530,000,- 000. But even the former figure is far in advance of the population of any other country on the habitable globe. No peo ple, however, have greater emigrating propensities as will be seen from the fol lowing extract from an article in the New York Bulletin’. With regard to the present number of emigrated Chinamen—that is to say, Chi namen how in other countries—it is esti mated by some writers at 15,825,000, to which must be added 3,000,000 iu India beyond tbe Ganges, Malay, etc., or a total of nearly 19,000,000; a number far exceed ing the entire immigration into the United States during the present generation. We have no idea that the emigration of this extraordinary people can be materially arrested by such prohibitive legislation as that which the superior race, especially on the Pacific coast, are so vehemently urging. It may be checked, but it is a question whether it can be permanently turned back. If we close our ports to it, it is tolerably certain it will ultimately obtain ingress through British Columbia, Mexico and Central and South America. The politicians of both and all parties may resolve against it as much as they choose, in order to con ciliate popular prejudice, but unless they can make the Chinaman something else from what in fact he is—a perpetual- motion-industrial-machine, so to speak— we are inclined to think he is bound to come and to stay. There is an unseen economic force back of him, which will assert itself in every country where, as in our own, “cheap labor” is a necessity, and that assertion will be in a thousand ways of which its opponents, we suspect, little dream. It is the part of wisdom to recog nize that force, and to seek to utilize it as much as possible in developing tbe re sources of this vast continent, instead of blindly opposing it in obedience to dema gogic appeals or tbe class or race preju dices of the passing hour. This is good advice, and our people may as well make up their minds to re ceive, utilize and Christianize the “hea then Chinee.” Personal.—We had a pleasant visit last night from General Gordon, who is in fine health and spirits, and made many interesting revelations, which he does not desire printed during the pending guber natorial contest. Suffice it to say, how ever, General Lee’s “right bower,” our own peerless Gordon, is as true to his State and country to-day as when he was pressing back the Federal forces on the fatal day of the Appomatox surren der. If republics are sometimes ungrate ful, let it never bo said that Confederate soldiers and the lovers of the “lost cause” went back on oce of their battle-scarred generals. Grant and the Classics.—Grant, in an interview published in a Denver paper, shows an unexpected familiarity with English classics—notably with Dickens. He says: “There is no reason why any Republi can should not vote for Garfield. I know him to be a man of talent, a thoroughly competent and an upright man. I have nothing against Gen. Hancock, but Gar field is the man for the office.” No one can read this remark without being reminded of that affecting passage about Little Nell aud Mr. Thomas Cod- lin, in tlie Old Curiosity Shop: “Codlin’s tlie friend, not Short. Short’s very well as far as lie goes; but the real friend is Codlin—not Short.” Does God Reign in Sin?—This was tlio somewhat staggering inquiry pro pounded suddenly yesterday to the wri ter by one of the most godly and devout pastors of Macon, wbom he met on the street. We tried to respond according to the belief that is in us, but will not in flict our ideas upon the public. Let eve ry reader answer the question if he can for himself, or if in doubt seek for light on the subject. The News.—Tlie morning telegrams contain some important news. The Irish land bill lias passed tbe House of* Com mons. In Germany the church bill has passed and there is apparently some pros pect of quieting that controversy. A lamentable casualty happened to the Hudson river tunnel, now in process of construction, by which the tunnel filled and twenty out of twenty eight laborers were killed. The Democratic executive committee is in session in New York. VEGETINE CONDUCTOR? TAKE XT ttlotche*, Pimples, Hu- morson the Face and Keck Disappear* A Sovereign Remedy for Rheumatism. 4** °* w cheerfully add my tetimoni- la^VJr 8 Jcu »re daily receiving in, an* neck?” 4 piafp,e * out upon my face a triend reco.rmendei Vere’lre. and after *"*•«< V have had no moretroa- ble with rbeumatum, and the blotches on m« have disappeared. I have recom mended Venetian to tomcofmy friends who were troubled with rheum-ti-m, end they Lave- oied it with gtod mreen. and l will recommend it *o a l who are troubled in tho tame way. Toura truly, VICTOR PIGEON, : Paiae ger Conductor Grand Trunk Railroad- ! 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Addre** I ( * P.O.YICKWRV.auauata.Me- —The population of Pennsylvania, ac cording to the new census, is about 4,226,- 000, an increase of twenty per centum in tea years. There is but one county, Venango, which does not "show an in crease of population, but there are a dozen or more in winch tbe increase is in significant. McKean county, in the oil re gion, shows an increase of 375 per cent. ■English farmers can be arrested and fined for killing hares on the farms they lease and cultivate. The right to game of every kind is reserved by the owners, who think nothing of riding over the crops that may be standing when tbe sporting season opens—the I2th of Sep- I DVRRTISfi&fl, »*nd for our Sel«t Li«t of Lo ll cal N*w*»*pers. Geo. P. Bcwe l A Co, 10- Sprue* S«.,11. T. NOTICE LEAVE TO SELL LAND. G ROIQIA. JOMM COUNTY.—Pour w«£s after date I will app’r to the Court of Ordi nary ol Joan county for lo»va to sell at private •ala all »h« wil i lands belonging to estate of Le vey 8in*l*ton. deceas'd. *LL»N*ING7BTON. Bxeeatvur. Jaiye. i*ee-7w* O RDINARY’S Otn e lone* County. Georgia, June 98, 1880.—wh-rea* John A. Johnson executor cstat*ef Martha M. Seabrook. deceased applies far ditwita<on. There are to elto and admo-ihh all ptiaons- concerned lotbow cans- at this office o>i erby the fir«t Monday m Cctobe*. if any they have to. the contrary. Witness ay hand officially. jetSHd* POL/NIT. I C?h. Cidinary* Notioa to Debtors and Creditors* A LL aereaet indebted to the estate of H. B.. JX. Troutman are h-reby i.otifird to makein.- maoism p.jmer t of the same to the undersign ed: and all faniaona having claim* a.ainat jaid* estate *r* hereby notified to pn>**ut the same- dulv authentioated Interna of the law. M. L OUTM AN. Bxacutor. vM. ta-wl-v BAND INSTRUMENT CATALOOUk. Oar itm Brtfiliwmf Bud )Ulkl fl*$> AdflrtM LTOae MlTY| 162 Slat* Bn, CUoaaa, m- AIDUfAirS Office Jones County, Georgia,• Y . June tttb, ’88u.—Whereas Samual Barron, administrator with the will annexed, on estate off Benjamin darrun, deceased, applies for ditmia— •mu from same. There are to eito and admnnkh all psraoaa* concerns* and tha legawwa ol said tatoie to tw in* appear at tha OctoOer term next oMhia court, and wimem a resiiement ot hit adminis tration, reeei-e their distributive tbaret, and show easts if m) they h»vo why ha shall not ba direharged Pen aa:d admmutrat’on. Witneaamy band rffieially. jntletd* ROLAND T. R038, Ordinary, G «U®gi», BIBB Oi'UNTV.-Waereaa, John- I. Sullivan has made am ieatiou for letter* of adaiai-tratioo un the estate of Thomaa C» Bullivan, late el raid county di ceased. Tbete are therefore to cite atd admonish all' persons concerned to be and anrear at the Court of Oedinary *f **id county on tbe first Monday in > usual next, to tbow cause if any they have, why letters of adaiuMratiou should not be. granted toappliea-t. Witness my official signature. , . , . J-A. McMANUS, Ordinary. July 8, ’S'O-etd* NOTICE LEAVE TO SELL LAND. OBORGRA. JOVRS COUNTT.—Four week* VJ after date l will apply to tbe Cc-urt of Ur dinary *f Jones county Icr leave to tell a'l the land, belonging to estate of Peyton A. Bclkoom. deorered. PSUX B. BA1 KCOJt, Adm’r. Juh 7, isto-td*