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GEORGIA PRESS.
From the Savannah News we gather
the following items:
Ax Irish estate seeking an owner and
the heiress discovered In Savannah. The
estate Is worth $15,000 and the fortunate
heir is Mrs. Katie Connihan, the wife of
a wochaniQ_in the Savannah, Florida and
"Western railway shop.
Last evening about 11 o’clock, the
colored battalion, accompanied by the
brass bands, who had been paying their
respects to their newly elected lieutenant
colonel, came down Whittaker street and
filed in review before the ^doming News
office, cheering in the most enthusiastic
maimer and with band playing, The
manifestation of good will on the part of
the colored troops towards a representa
tive Southern paper we particularly com
mend to the consideration of the Radical
bloody-sbirt wavers.
"VYe'regrct to announce the death this
morning of Mr. Michael Cosh, an old and
highly esteemed citizen and well known
contractor, which occurred at his residence
early yesterday morning. Mr. Cash wa3
a native of Blackwater, county Wexford,
Ireland, lie came to Savannah about
twenty-five years ago, and had always
been engaged in business as a mason and
contractor. We understand he built the
blocks along the river front, and was con
cerned in other important enterprises.
"We learn that some weeks ago the de
ceased was injured while engaged in put
ting up some stone work, since whicii
time he had been gradually sinking until
yesterday, when he breathed his last. The
deceased' was an cneigetic and industri
ous man, and was a contractor on a num
ber of public works, principally street
paving, and had accumulated a handsome
competency.. Unostentatious in his man
ners, blit with a heart full of kindness, lie
roade iuany friends among all classes of
our people, and his demise, in the prime
of life, will be felt by many.
Albert Shellman, the colored butch
er, who was severely cut in a barroom on
Bryan street about two weeks ago by
John Andrews, colored, the full particulars
of which have appeared in the Morning
News, died last night at his house on Farm
street, near Harrison, about 8 o’clock,
from the effects of the injuries then re
ceived. Coroner Sheftall, upon being no
tified, sent out a commitment of murder
against Andrews, who » now in jail,
where he has been in confinement since
the cutting affair. An inquest will be
held this morning by the coroner at the
court house at ten o'clock.
Savannah Recorder: Mr. John
Bresuan, the indefatigable manager of
the Marshal house, lias leased the Florida
house adjoining the Marshall, and is
uniting the two places. Carpenters and
painters are at work to-day on the im
provements, which will add thirty more
rooms to the Marshall house and give in
creased facilities for doing business.
Avgusta News: Never before in the
•Jstory of the road has the freight busir
ness over the Georgia railroad, at this sea
son of the year, been so heavy. Long
trains follow each other out of Atlanta al
most hourly, aud yet the capacity of the
road is put to its utmost tension to trans
port the immense piles of goods awaiting
transportation. Only yesterday there
were eighty car loads lying in Atlanta
which could not he removed until to-day,
and every freight car on the line was in
motiou. The passenger travel is also un
usually heavy for the season, and the offi
cers and employes are worked hard, night,
and day. The popularity of tills old re
liable organization is daily increasing.
Atlanta Post: Last night about ten
o'clock a party of young gentlemen hired.
was entrusted to the keeping of John, the t believe, and we have noticed it every
elder of the two boys, ’they had not year. It is uniformly fine —the bolls are
been loug absent before the report of a ■ extremely large and the plant healthy,and
gun was heard, when Graham and Odom it matures very, early.. Tills field ha3 al-
bastened tin the direction from whence
the report originated. Arriving on the
spot they found Dan Graham, the young
est bqy, lying on the ground in a pool of
blood witli a terrible gun-shot wound in
his head, life being extinct. It is gener
ally supposed that the nnfortunate hoy
met his death by the discharge of the gun
while it was in his own hands.
3puE of Mr. Norwood’s friends are say
ing that the leading men of the State are
stumping it for their favorite. Gen. A.
R. Lawton is at Saratoga, Hon. B. H.
Hill has a sore tongue and Mr. Stephens
is at Liberty Hall sick. But as a last re
sort they claim that Jim Smith will wear
Colquitt to a frazzle when he gets hold of
him. He is advertised to speak in Co
lumbia to-night.
Coup & Haight’s big circus won’t go
to Savannah, because the license is $500,
and the company want it reduced to $100.
The whole question was referred to the fi
nance committee and Mr. Andrew Haight
took his departure.
We learn from the Biunswick Appeal
that Hon W. A. McDonald, of Ware
county, will probably be an independent
candidate for Congress in the. first dis
trict.
Gainesville Eagle: The prospects;
this fall, of good trade for 'our farming
friends and fair sailing for our merchants,
as seen through the business horoscope, is
very flattering.
The right which every man has to his
own opinion does not. carry with it the
right to dispute the right of his neighbor
to the same right, or words to that eflect.
Brunswick Appal: Those who are
apprehensive that Senator Brown desires
the aple ol the State road, may dismiss
their fears, and discontinue their assaults
upon him for that account. He never,
for any moment of his existence, favqretl
the sale of the road, and wb speak by tbe
card in staling that he is unalterably irre
vocably and eternally opposed to the
State’s parting with tbe property. He
will exert all of his personal influence
and all his moneyed power to prevent it
while he fives, and bis executor will he
charged to carry out his view3 as long as
there is a dollar of his estates available
for the purpose, or a representative of his
blood in existence.
J. P. Garrett, who was accused to be
accessory to the murder of Nasworthy, in
Columbus, was up before Judges Brooks
and Redd, for commitment. After , hear
ing the testimony, the prisoner was dis
charged.
Hon. A. H. Cox carried Harris coun
ty by 160 majority, in the primary elec
tion for the nomination in the fourth con
gressional district.
Columbus Times: A correspondent
from Talbot writes as follows; Politics
and rain seem to monopolize the time
and attention of our people. We fear
that but little fodder will be saved. Rust
has appeared iu the cotton throughout
this entire section, and we anticipate fear
ful results unless the rain ceases. The
negro wifi be a large element in politics
this fall, consequently it wifi be a great
effort to pick the cotton that has al
ready matured. Our merchants are an
ticipating a large trade this fall, and our
farmers a lowprice for cotton andj but
little money to spend.
Athens Watchman: The State ticket
a four horse hack and went out for a i nominated by the convention is all in all
ride. When on Decatur street between
Bell and Pratt the team became frighten
ed aud started off at a rapid pace. By
some means the driver was thrown from
his seat and badly bruised aud then
the horses broke into a rapid run. Mr.
Robert Toole was thrown out and had his
right leg broken and was otherwise injur
ed. Tire other three escaped without any
serious hurt.
Marietta Journal: Last Monday,
while Mr. Alonzo Bullard was at work at
his saw mill at Powder Springs, the shad
ing caught Mr. Bullard’s clothing in front,
and in its revolutions Hie skin was torn
from his waist down his legs to his feet,
literally flaying the young man alive. He
may get well, but the chances are against
him. If he should recover, he is ruined
for life.
Sumter Republican: We learn from
visitors that the meeting at Buck Creek is
a perfect success. The attendance is
pretty good, the preaching is excellent,
aud rations in abundance - for both man
and beast. The preaching is carried on
by Revs. J. O. A. Clark, W. C. Bass, J.
W. Burke and N. S. Tucker, and others,
and much concern is being developed
upon the worldly minded regarding the
salvation of their souls.
.Columbus Tunes: Mrs. Harriet E.
Lawsou died on the morning of the 16th
of August, with typhoid fever, after au
illness of two weeks, near Cataula, Har-
l is county. She was bom in South Caro
lina, and moved to Taylor county, Geor
gia, in her early youth. She was mar
ried, when quite young, to Mr. W. J.
Lawson, and raised a very large family of
children, fourteen m number. She has
three dead and eleven living, to mourp
over the loss of their devoted. mother. _ lr _ . ... .
She joined Horeb church, in Talbot coun-‘ Pekry Home-Journal . W e see from
ty, iu 1849, and has been a true and con- g" , Constitution that Mr. A. L. Miller
slatent member of the Baptist church up to
her death.
Warrknton Clipper: In 1820, when
Gen. Lafayette passed through our city,
it is said he rested for a night in the
building now owned by Mr. Jake Allen,
aud out of which he is making such a
handsome dwelling.
"Sparta JtitmacHle: It now turns out
that the Democratic majority in Alabama
a very good one aud we believe will meet
with the approval and cordial support of
the people. The nomination of that noble
Georgian, Col. Barnett, for secretary of
State c. nnot fail to give satisfaction. No
one else could fill the place as he does
Mr. Wright has performed the duties of
comptroller general in a creditable man
ner, and not being involved in the sins of
the administration, it was right he should
be nominated. Mr. Speer will make .a
splendid treasurer and will doubtless Be
deeded with almost the same unanimity
with which he was nominated. The nom
ination of Col. Clifford Anderson for at
torney general was most happy. He is a
man of sterling integrity, a fine lawyer,
accomplished scholar and patriotic gentle
man. The whole ticket will be elected.
Rome Courier: Judge John A. Jones
ol Polk county, died recently at his resi
dence near Rockmart. Judge Jones was
one of the most prominent citizens of the
State, and was at the time of his death
in his ninetieth year.
Brunswick Appeal: Tbe press of the
State stands about as it did before tbe
convention assembled. The Macon Herald
and Dalton Citizen support Colquitt
They were against him. Tbe Telegraph
and Messenger and Savannah Hews,
that shinnied on both sides, now boldly
proclaim for Colquitt, and are calling the
rest of us by “bad names."
Not so, neighbor, so far as the Tele
graph and Messenger is concerned.
We don’t call a man a lunatic, "idiot or
fool who doesn’t happen to think as we do.
We leave that for the otlierside to indulge
In, as it seems, with some of them, more
potent than argument.
has been appointed on the Norwood ex
ecutive committee, as one ot the three
members from the fifth district. We are
authorized by Sir. Miller to state that this
was dono without his knowledge, and
that he has written to the chairman de
clining to serve, for the reason that in his
opinion, the candidacy of Colonel Nor
wood was unwise, and can only tend to
widen the breach already existing iu the
is only 75,000. Unless the Republican • P*Ify
campaign committee puts a gag on i Hon. Emoby Speer, and Hon. H. P.
Weaver, Hancock wifi get entirely too Bell, candidates in the ninth district,*are
large a vote far convenience. Jewell had ' challenging one another lor joint discus-
better take him off.
Columbus Enquirer. The Republi
cans Intend organizing. In a few days
they wifi ha76 county and district conven
tions and on Septenilwr 7th one for the
State composed of nine delegates from
each congressional district. They may
put a candidate in the field. The major
ity of the late Democratic convention in
forcing an adjournment before a guberna
torial nomination was made are responsi
ble for tliis movement.
Talbotton Register: There are four
men In Talbot county, whose combined
ages are 310 years, and who have over
coats made of toatse gray jeans off of the
same piece of cloth, the aggregate yards
being forty. The coats are of the same
style and cut, and strike the wearers a
little above the shoes. The parties have
worn them forty successive winters. “And
thereby hangs a tile.”
Albany Advertiser. Wo have received
near 200 bales of cotton. A number came
in to-day.
ThomasvilA Post: If “the people ol
the town are uuTted on the subject of alt
public enterprises,” they ought to do
something for their interest in the railroad
to Florida. They ought to start an or
ganization and let the thing begin to take
shape. Nothing can be completed with
out a beginning, nor will others think
much of our work or oar energy where
they see no signs of them
Irwinton Appeal: We regret to-an
nounce the death, on the 11th instaut, of
Mrs. Susan Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler was
probhbiy the oldest lady in this county,
being ninety-eight years old at the time of
her death. She recollected distinctly
when the Indians had possession of this
country, and during her life had seen
many of them. She wa3 married in tills
county, and died In it—in Bloodwortli dis-
■ net." Mrs.'J. M. Langford is her grand-
la igliter. Our sympathies are extended
to tli2 family aud friends.
HAMLnunsT fFaleijunsn: Mr. A. C.
Dobson, of this county, called to see us on
i Saturday morning ami gave us the
r. ! mlarsi'T a mo • horrifying accident
. h happened on the :11st ult., iu this
y. . i . • that J wry Graham
. i . were in the woods on
. ' mc-iriorcil day cutting a bee
' ll JiTiv's two young soii«, Dan
! .t ii, .v ■ :h; to he iii the way,
i; .. -,v ■ ~ .t i to a safe]
sion of the questions of the day,
John B. Artuub, (no connection of
Chester A.) who murdered Susan Hill in
July last, was sentenced to be huDg, in
Jackson Superior Court, on last Friday, I
The execution is to take place on tbe 17tli
of September.
In the primary election of Spalding
{minty, says tbe Griffiu JVews r the follow
ing is the result:
Boynton, 615; Hunt, 288; SOller, 220;
Alexander, 148.
In both cases the selection will be sat
isfactory to the county at large, and the
ticket will be easily elected. In the race
for the Senate Col. Boynton will have no
opposition. Judge Hunt, the candidate
for the House, is • a 'gentleman of talent,
aud of large experience in public affairs,
and will make an excellent Representa
tive. It is reported that he wifi be op
posed by a Republican candidate, to-wit:
Col. T. W. Thurman. -Vs to the result
of such a contest there can he little
doubt. Judge Hunt will be elected by a
strong majority. 8HB, Judge Hunt is the
choice of the party for that office, and is
entitled to active Democratic support,
which he will, of course, have. Every ef
fort should be made by the Spalding De
mocracy, not only to elect the • ticket, but
to elect it by a heavy majority.
Gainesville Eagle: * Col. J. B. Estes
aud Mayor Green, during a hunting-ex
cursion, dn Monday last, had occasion to
cross the raging Chattahoochee in a cartoe.
Neither of the gentlemen bding mariners
to any considerable degree, and not know
ing, therefore, how to “man thewheel,” the
boat-turned bottom upwards,‘and rested
on her beam ends, throwing the occupant.*-
overboard. There being no friendly sail
in sight, or life-preservers on the craft,
the gentlemen concluded that they had
better pull for the shore. They are good
waders, and don’t you forget it.' •» •
Lumpkin Independent: Judge J. B.
Latimer haste-field of e*Uanrin town-con
taining several acres that ccrtaiuly is one
of the tin eat fields, we c vcc,sa;v. ^jt npt
so very tall, but' It'fs friiite'd so iieavny
that a large numbered" stalks are down
upon the ground—the stalks being'iin'ab'e
to sustain the w< ight/of matured bolls.
The boils of tins Cotton ape pearly twice
ready matured enougli cotton to make
nearly if not quite two bales to three acres,
and with fair seasons from now on will
do much more. If you wish to soe the
best cotton in thfe region call on the judge
and go with him'over his crop.
Columbus Times: Solon Robinson
say* Florida i3 a doubtful State. Solon is
of the same political idea as Boh Inger-
soll, and Bob Ingersoll says the Scriptures-
are doubtful. So it will be seen, accord
ing to these great party fights, that the
plainest truths in morals and politics arc
matters of doubt. If Florida does not go
Democratic we do not believe Solon Rob
inson would be willing to live in the
State six months.
Atlanta Constitution: A number of
prominent men of Atlanta and other ci
ties have organized a Colquitt central
committee with headquarters in Atlanta,
for the purpose of giving system to Gov
ernor Colquitt’s campaign. This com
mittee, of which Mr. S. M. • Inman is
chairman, aud Mr. It. L. Barry is first
vice president, and Mr. Albert Howell
secretary, lias rented rooms at 35 Broad
street, and is hard at work. A com
mittee on the conduct of the campaign, a
finance committee and an advisory com
mittee have been appointed, and the busi
ness of the campaign is rapidly being
systematized. It is proposed to organize
committees in every county in the state,
and furnish documents and speakers for
the canvass. Correspondence is solicited
from Colquitt men in every county. All
letters must be address to “The Colqujtt
Central Committee, 35 Broad street, At-
Savannah Ncics : Only a few days
ago we were called upon to record the
sudden death of Mrs. E. R. Lesesne, sister
of Mr. Alexis McNulty, cashier of the
Morning News office, at her home in
IVilfiamsburg county, S. C., and to-day
we regret to announce the death of an
other sister, Miss Gertrude McNulty, at
the early age of twenty-one years, which
sad event occurred in Rome, Ga., yester
day. Miss McNulty had been in delicate
health for some time, and was attacked
with typhoid fever about three weeks
since, which resulted in her demise as
stated. She was the youngest of a large
family, and was living with her brother
and mother in Rome. The deceased was
an accomplished young lady, and was
dearly beloved by a large circle of friends,
who were attracted to her by those amia
ble qualities which are a crown of giory
to womanhood, and her death is greatly
lamented. The sympathy of many friends
is extended ter brother in this city.
Augusta Ncics : .Last night witnessed
a most unprovoked act of ruffianism, near
the street car stables on McKinney street,
in the striking down by a negro, with an
immense club, a young man who was
passing him on the street. As near as
the facts can be obtained, it seems that
two young men were walking together,
and one of them, named Davis, was
brushed against by the negro man
Stopping to ask what it meant, some
words ensued, and the negro went ahead
and waited at the bridge of the canal,
when, without warning, and with all his
great power, he struck down one of the
boys, as if he were a reed, Or a boy of ten
summers, and made a dash at the other
boy,' who escaped him. The negro then
turned and fled, and, liot'being recognized
by the young men, is probably safe from
arrest. The wounded young man was
badly injured, and his skull is probably
fractured.
Later.—We learn at a late hour that the
young man died from the effects of the
wound inflicted.
Fort Gaines Tribune: An intelligent
fanner informed us, a few days since, that
the rust in cotton was not spreading, and
the weed had put on a five appearance.
Jim Sawtell, of the Cutlibert Appeal,
lias eschewed politics and taken to society,
gossip*. The following is among his la
test:
There is an old maid in Cutlibert who
worships the mood nightly because it has
a man in it. She has been trying for
twenty years to captivate a man. on this
sphere,-and now despondingly turns her
attention to the man in the moon. Hope
she will succeed.
Henry County Weekly: If we were
disposed to indulge our antipathies in
this gubernational squabble, wo would
have ample cause to do so. Every Indo;
pendent paper iu the State favors Nor
wood for governor and opposes Colquitt
most bitterly. Viewed from an “orga
nized” standpoint, the tendency is de
moralizing, to say the least.
Atlanta Republican: Jim Smith is
to stump for Norwood, and Carey Styles
is to lift up his voice for him. Ugh! Yet
it would seem as'though It were policy
fof us to unite with any faction that is
warring on tho “organized.” But who
would have thought six months ago, th%t
we could ever train with that crowd.
Atlanta Republican: Col. Farrow
has been in town this week. He came
to hear if there had been any nomina
tion for governor, and to see how much
tho city had grown since July. He says
there is “no chance in the world” for a
Republican in the ninth district. He is
of opinion that Republicans had better
not, as-a party, give any Democratic can
didate support. The tight should be for
as large a representation as possible in
the legislature.
TnE Griffin News gives a long account
of the lynching of Bud Waldroup, by a
masked party in Spaulding county.
Waldroup had grievously sinned and out
raged public decency, but this. unlawful
murder is greatly to be deprecated:
As far as the reporter could learn, the
community iu which tho deceased lived
was very indignant at the courso pursued
by him. Since court that indignation
bad been greatly aggravated by Wald*
roup’s conduct in attempting again to car-.-
ry off tho girl, and by his inhuman-treat-
inent of iii.s wife and children. Under
the influence of this indignation, feeling
that Waldroup had not only disgraced Jiis
pwn and the girl’s family but bad out
raged the community, impulsive men had
taken the law into their own hands and
taken the vengeance which is-not man's-
but God’s. People in tliq .neighborhood,
while Urey very strongly condemn the of
fenses- of the deceased, many thinking
he deserved the fate that had overtaken
him, deprecated the lawless act that end
ed in so bloody a tragedy. The? deceased
grievously offended the moral codo and
has expiated the offense by a terrible
death. i -
Oglethorpe Echo: No country can
prosper where, the lauds pass into the
hands of a-few individuals. It should be
owned by those who till the soil. We.are
sorcy to see a spirit of land-grabbing js
being manifested in this country. Several
parties now own more land than they can
superintend. Of course we do not ques
tion any one’s rights to thus invest; but
would much rather see this surplus capi-
:al put iu manufactories, and our laud-
left for the exclusive benefit of..the Tarin-
irS, who alone can make, it profitable.
This is the road to prosperity,
A Augusta Chronicle: While & freight
car of the East Tenner-*-.-, Virginia and
Georgia railroad was being unloaded, ’One
day. last .\veek, a youthful black lioy was
discovered ensconced among barrels and
boxes. Upon beltv.- hur-d as to how
he came there he said that he had crawled
In the car at Knoxville, With the. Inten
tion of stealing his way to ChafttailOOga,
the door was locked on 1dm, and j that he
had not liad any food or wafer in pearly.'
two days. . . , , , .
Augusta Neats :• Atlanta hasjjpld
more bales of cotton tp_ Augusta, ana has
shipped down fiOOHnor 1 !* bales, making
1,725 bales coining from Atlajita-.tor Au-
nista in one week. This *is good for Air
lanta, and speaks -well for her cotton rmu.
Not able to find buyers in -tliakeltyv they
home to Augusta, where there ara-lms-qra,;
and a market, and factories, to tree all the
bcttoA'Atlanta can send, S V afl.
Cedabtown Advertiser: An able cou-
it the. young Democracyas a- whole*.
Is not ready to Jecd aid any too ciwittfuU
to any move whfcltuSKlkr accomplish no
froe, a white man without family, about
seventy years old, employed as a farm
laborer by Mr. Ed. Littleton, two miles
south of the city, was found dead in bed
on the morning of the 8tli iust. Mr.
Renfroe was a man of unusual good
health. He has beon in Mr. Littleton’s
employ all this year, and has not been
sick a day or taken a does of medicine
during the time. On Tuesday, the 17th
inst., he picked over one hundred pounds
of cotton, ate a hearty supper and went
to bed as usual. Failing to make Ms ap
pearance at breakfast the next morning,
an investigation was made with the re
sult stated above.
Oglethorpe Echo: We hear that
nine-tenths of the citizens living in Buck
Branch and Puryear’s districts, of Clarke
county, want to secede and annex them
selves to Oglethorpe, and that a move is
to be made to that end, when the legis
lature convenes. Oglethorpe will receive
these refugees from oppressive jury com
missioners with open arms, and pledged
that every one shall be made a grand
juror. We think it would be a good idea
to make Athens a “free city” and divide
her rural districts among contiguous
counties.
Henry County Weekly: A United States
deputy .marshal came down last week
and arrested Richard Goode, the colored
barber at this place, and carried him to
Atlanta. Some two years ago Goode was
charged with passing counterfeit money
in Newman, and when an attempt was
made to arrest him he stabbed the arrest
ing officer and mace his escape. We
have not learned what disposition has
been made of his case.
Darien Gazette: We learn that Styles
L. Hutchins, the colored lawyer, will be a
candidate for Congress before the district
Republican convention when it is held.
The McIntosh delegates will probably he
instructed for him. The convention has not
been called yet.
Brunswick Advertiser: Chickens and
eggs still command a good price in our
burg. The latter have been very scarce
6f late, bringing as high as thirty cents
per dozen. Every day we see the greater
need for a poultry farm in reach of this
place: There’s money in it, • certain.
Until it shall be established, however, we
would beseech every lien in the commu
nity to'do her whole duty.
Rev. R. N. Andrew's has resigned Ms
position as editor of the Camilla DispatchJ
and returned to his old home in Liberty
county. -
Oglethobte Echo: We heard a num
ber of Democrats in this county say they
shall henceforth and forever vote for the
candidate of their choice, whether he be
the regular nominee or no.
You find nearly every countryman in
the county unanimous for Colquitt.
The Echo is tho only paper in nine
surrounding counties that is out-and-out
for Colquitt. We arc enlisted for tho
war.
Quitman Reporter: Remember, the
election for governor, assemblymen and
State house officers, will be held on the
first Wednesday in October; aud, don’t
you forget to goi to the polls aud vote the
straight-out Democratic ticket.
Walker County Messenger: A force
of hands is at work on the Marietta aud
North Georgia railroad above Cantoii.
The com crop in North Georgia, this
year, will be one of the best made since
the war. „ .
The Oglethorpe Echo asks the question,
“What is rust?” and says this conun
drum has been’exercising our farmers for
some time, without any satisfactory solu
tion. We heard a planter recently give
what we consider a plausible explana
tion. He says that freezes crack the ten*
der blades of wheat, etc., and the sun
draws out and corrodes the sap. This is
rust.
LaGrange Reporter: It was whis
pered that LaGrange -would be discrimi
nated against this fall arid winter in the
matter of freights, aud many feared the
effect this would have on our trade. It
is with pleasure we announce that the At
lanta and West Point railroad authorities
have given assurances that there will be no
discriminations against us. This gives us
an equal chance with competing towns,
and with tire well known enterprise of
our merchants, guarantees a fine business
this fall-and winter.
According to the Tribune Romo must
have a lovely post office.
The post office building still attracts
universal attention. Yesterday a number
of stranger guests noticing the yawning
darkness within, purchased twelve dollars
and fifty cents worth of ropes, ladders
and lanterns to go on an exploring expe
dition, some thoughtless person having in
formed them Lbatfthe entrance to the post
office was the opening to a large cavern,
and that there was a petrified post office,
letters, mail bags, etc., witliin. They let
themse.ves down in and came away fairly
disgusted, saying the place wasn’t quite
gloomy enough for a cave, but too blanked
gloomy for a post office.
■ Atlanta Constitution: Tiie Macon.
Telegraph is at some pains to deny the
accuracy of a rigmarole which the Sumter
Republican prints and attributes to Mr.
Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle. It is
useless to deny such stuff as that which
the Republican paraded in its editorial.
Some things are loo .absurd even for de
nial.
Ajiebicus Recorder: Mr. James
Gwynes, residing in the upper part of the
county, has shown us a shark’s tooth and
specimens of petrified oysters, excavated
from the lands of Judge Hodges, seven
teen leet below surface. The bed from
which they were taken -is several feet deep
and some hundreds of yards- in length.
The Judges should start a fertilizer- facto
ry. Surely we live on old ocean’s former
bed.
"Valedictoby.—Sparta Times and
Planner : My connection as editor of the
Times and Planter terminates abruptly
with this issue of the-paper. It is un
necessary to go into details further than
to say that this state of things has been
brought about by the fact that my earnest
advocacy of Gov. Colquitt’s cause during
the present campaign has been distasteful
to a majority of the stockholders of the
paper, who have demanded that the claims
of Hon. Thomas M. Norwood shall receive
editorial endorsement. When employed
by them in March last to undertake the
editorial control of the paper it was with
no understanding that any views or opin
ions should find endorsement or advocacy
jn its columns except those of the editor;
any other suggestion would at once Jiave
terminated all negotiations on the sub
ject. ■
; In all sincerity, in all honesty and with
’all fidelity I have sought to think what
was right, and I have written what I
thought. Opinion with me is sacred, and
my convictions are priceless. I do not
mean to impfy in any sense that - any 'in
fluence has been employed to induce me
to say what I <li«i not think, or to suppress
what I did, but I could not have been
more surprised at any propositioA than
that assumed by tbese parties, that the po
litical opinions of the paper were subject
to their dictation, and that because they
owned the majority of the stock they could
control its political course. It was only
after we could not agree upon this that
they determined to einploy an associate
editor to give expression to tbeif .views,
especially nr advocacy of Mr. Norwood’s
election as governor. • ' — -•**
f Mr. Theodore Winn Wishes to Place
Himself Bight on the Becord.
A few days ago we printed a conversa
tion with Mr. Winn, of Liberty county,
in reference to the late convention, which
was given, we thought, correctly. But
he writes that his meaning was misappre
hended, and we cheerfully make room
for the following explanation just receiv
ed from Mm by paail.
You simply have misunderstood me,
when you state “that when Hon. Clifford
Anderson and his associates voted on the
third ballot under; Mr. Walsh’s resolution
for Gov. Colquitt, had the ballot been
reopened, enough changes would have
been made to give the requisite two-tMrds
for the present incumbent. Moreover,
he distinctly stated that he and eight oth
ers were at that time ready to go for Col
quitt, ete.”
This is the gravamen of the
whole piece to which I do most
earnestly beg leave to disclaim.
You are simply mistaken as to the time
when I said, “to save the party I might
have been willing, with eight others, to
have gone to Colquitt.” It was before the
minority were threatened by the Walsh
resolutions, when Col. Anderson cast the
vote in part forColquitt upon the thirty-sec
ond ballot as a “peace offering.” Quoting
from your fifes of August 12th, “Mr.
Winn, of Liberty, when his county was
called, said ‘millions for defense, but not
a cent for tribute.’ Old Liberty votes
two for Lester.” Is not that declaration
from me inconsistent with the paragraph
referred to in your issue of Sunday ?
You have simply placed a wrong inter
pretation on my language, as the impres
sion I sought to convey was, that Colquitt
had failed of a nomination by the rule or
ruin policy of the Walsli recommendation,
and that had it not been introduced anti
advocated with spleen and vindictive bit
terness, ultimately lie would have possibly
secured a nomination under the two-thirds
rule.
Desiring to go upon the records right, I
beg you will publish tho foregoing, and
obi iige, Your obedient servant,
Theo. W. Winn,
Late delegate from Liberty.
What the Southern States are Doits.
The Baltimore Sun presents the follow
iug admirable summary of Southern
handiwork as tho best ansWbr to those
whose staple in politics is ridicule and
abuse of this section:
The cotton crop last year was 5,000,000
bales, tbe largest ever raised, and it is es
timated that tMs year’s crop will exceed
last year’s -very considerably.
-In the last fifteen years the cotton crop
has yielded at tho ports of shipment an
aggregate of $4,000,000,000 in gold, pay
ing the cultivators an average of $60 a
bale, or $3,500,000,000, and yielding in
surplus, over former averages, (as a credit
which may rightly be placed tc tho ac
count of free labor,) £600,000,000 in
gold. Iu Arkansas the crop lias increas-
f d from 111,000,0000 pounds in 1870 to
18,000,000 in 1878. In Texas the in
crease has been from 157,000,000 pounds
in 1870 to nearly 500,000,000 in 1878,
and probably 800,000,000 pounds in 1880.
The cotton crop of the South in 1878 gave
employment to 12,500,000 spindles, $1,-
000,000,000 capital in buildings, machin
ery and operating expenses, and found
work lor 800,000 persons.
The South has begun to take part in the
manufacture of its great staple. Its spin
dles are already 7 per cent, of the total
number employed in the country, and ag
gregating (lucluding 113,000 in Maryland)
774,000. These Southern cotton mills are
small, but more profitable iu proportion
than the more extensive establishments at
the North. Careful estimates show that
the saving in cost of raw material in favor
pf the South is at least 20 percent., a very
important factor when we consider that
the raw material amounts to 64 per cent,
of the total cost of manufacture. The
making of cotton-seed oil is another rap
idly growing industry at the South, em
ploying forty-one mills. The oil sells rap
idly at high prices, and the pommape left
over is an excellent fertilizer.
The iron ores of the South ara being
worked to great advantage already. Geor
gia alone produces 100,000 tons of pig-
iron per annum, and large iron works
are established in Greenburg, Newport,
Covington, Louisville,Chattanooga,Knox
ville, Rome, Ashland, Atlanta and other
places, where car wheels, rails, spikes,
nails, steam engines and other things are
produced. The ores of Tennessee and
Alabama can. be worked more cheaply
than the British ores of Cleveland. At
Birmingham, Ala., pig-iron can be turned
out at 8*10 a ton. In East Tennessee hot-
blast, stone-coal, mill and foundry iron,
made of brown and red hematite, can be
produced for Si 1 per ton, and Bessemer
pig, made of magnetic ore, for $16 a" ton.
These prices defy competition.
The South Carolina phosphates will
suffice in a generation or two to renovate
and repair half the wasted old fields of
that section. In Louisiana, Texas and
Florida the sugar industry is making no
table progress and yielding remarkable
profits. The Louisiana crop last year
yielded $10,000,000. One planter raised
on 4,2S7 acres of land C,S40,000 pounds of
sugar and 7,200 barrels of molasses, sel
ling for S565.000. The Dalr^ruple wheat
farm in the North consists of 23,000 acres,
yet its total product was only $450,000 or
$100,000 less than the Louisiana planter
;ot from one-seventh of the quantity of
and.
We say nothing of Florida orange crops,
of the countless herds of cattle and wool-
yielding sheep on the broad plains of
Texas, for the facts already adduced in
testimony to the prosperity and the teem
ing resources of the South, are enough to
explain why so many enterprising men
are pushing thither from all sections, de
termined to put in tlieir sickles ere the
harvest is ripe.
=9F
to shape'tlieir course upon the contest fof danger. obliquely across the tow-
governor, to prevent the leaders from car- ’ path, occasionally whisking a fly from his
rying this ill-starred famiiy war beyond ear with one of his liiad°feet, but cave
the legitimate purpose of settling that dis- j no other evidence oflife.
pute. | Unless he could be gotten on his feet
I trust they will all unite in the support ; the ship' would be lost. What omi'il hn
of the electoral ticket, and the party uom- done?
Fixe Worktno Horses.—The
steamship Greece, which arrived at New
York last week, brought ninety-seven
tuuses, of the Percheroii'breed,/or M.
W. Dunham,' an importer of ligrses, wjio
lives t:i Illinois. About one-fourth of dliem
are colts, rfnd the Aest are full-grown
stallions, thdtir vt'elgtits rangirtg frpm 1,400
toftOOOixinnds. This"is the largest im-
pifttriticm, of hordes of this kind Aver made
flftfflPcdtollril* These horsds cost from
S'-00 to UCOO each, to which the cost of
Crarispor^atiorris to be added. Mrl Dun-
uffi HI got from $1,500 to $3,000
t-a’eV'ior tliem, as (lie Percbcron breed is
Ife JWniffg very popular iu the West.
iX|ijs,statement is very generally pub
lished under the hpad “importing fine
;orses.’* ; The Pereheron is not a fine
iorsc, .but a much more useful arilinal.
1.WUUIUU1 uns tuu.ua are ii-njly miw i>> auv move wrecn* Aau- accomumii no hr • , a. I in mis view or mo sttuaiionp^ccing a
the usual size and thee itton theyproduce greater end titan radon of the I ls a heavy, Strong, eoarso-lin.bed horse c j iasm f n ( 0 w hich the prevailing spirit i
is very line. -Judge Latimer "..i, been j fjfcjjfy** ** • * ' ■ ’ for wofk purposes. As-a farm horse or disintegration muy suddenly pin-ige us,
planting this variety for three years/tr J iucirdcrl Myvgffti ITea- j.rcadste^'kcis' unc-qualcd. ‘appeal to the. poop i.- ; vriri.cr attempts!
Good Counsel.
CuTnBEBT, August 48,1880.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
My short letlerofSaiurday last,unexpect
edly printed to-day, was intended to aid
in preventing what I found iu the evening
of that day had been already done—the
presentation of another can
didate for governor: I offer this
one for a different purpose, now that
the breach is made. I have no word of
censure or praise for either side, and no
inclination to widen the breach by taking
part in the strife. My purpose is to try to
aid to prevent it from widening and ex
tending to other matters, and making a
permanent division. If it is an error, I
hope all will pardon the act for tiie sake
of tho motive.
Tiie idea is entertained by some, that
in case Governor Colquitt and Mr. Nor
wood shall divide the Democratic votes of
the State, a Republican candidate could
be elected. This is not true, as to an
(election by tbe pteoplc at tiie ballot box,
unless that candidate can poll a majority
of all the votes cast, which is required to
elect, by our State constitution. In case
,of such a candidacy, there would, be real
danger in this wise: If the people of tiie
counties should-follow the example set
at Atlanta, and"run two sets of candi
dates for the legislature, aud divide the
Democratic votes, the Republicans, in
that case, can elect tho general assembly,
for iu that election, the highest or plurali
ty vote prevails. II tho Republicans
shall ran a candidate, aud defeat tho elec
tion for governor by the people, the gen
eral assembly, on joint ballot, by a ma
jority vote, would elect a governor from
the two highest candidates before tho peo
ple, dropping tho lowest.
It, by our divisions, we shall throw the
election into tiie legislature, and give the
Republicans’; he majority or the control
ling balance ot power in that body, they
would elect not only the governor, and
control legislation, but would elect a
United States Senator, two judges of tho
Supremo Court, and all the solicitors of
the State. It is true also, that in case, by
any cause, the electors for President and
"Vice-President do not obtain a-majority
of all'the votes at the ballot box, tho gen
eral assembly will appoint the electors to
cast tho vote of Georgia, Upon which might
depend the result of tiie stvu^le for ua-
t iu: i! power.
In this view of tho situationfseeing the
| of-
I
inees for State house officers and attorney
general, and settle all disputes about men
for tho legislature in the nominating con
ventions, where a better example will be
set and followed. And that the party or
ganization may be preserved, by the cor
dial and united support of all the nomi-
inees for the legislature and Congress. It
is time for the people to take their busi
ness in hand, and to manage it, so as to
put an end to all this confusion, restore
good will aud insure success. Yours
truly, Herbert Fielder.
MABK TWAIN OH EHC0BJB8.
A Rehearsal in Which Real Water
Was Used for Rain.
I am told that in a German concert or op
era they hardly ever encore a song; that,
though they may be dying toliearit again,
theif good breeding usually preserves them
against requiring tbe repetition. Kings
may encore; that is quite another matter;
it delights everybody to see that the King
is pleased; and as to the actor encored,
his pride and gratification are simply
boundless. Still, there are circumstances
in which even a royal encore—hut it is
betterto illustrate. The KingofBavaria is
a poet, and has a poet’s eccentricities, with
the advantage over all other poets of being
able to gratify them, no matter what form
they may take. He is fond of opera, but
not fond of sitting in the presence of an
audience ; therefore, it has sometimes oc
curred in Munich that, when an opera has
been concluded and the players are get
ting off their paint and finery, a command
has come to get their paint and finery on
again.
Presently the King would arrive solitary
and alone, and the players would begin at
the beginning, and do the entire opera,
with only that one individual in that vast,
solemn theatre lor an audience. Once lie
took an odd freak in liis head. High up
and out of sight, over the prodigious stage
of the Court theatre, in a maze of inter
lacing water-pipes, so pierced that in case
of fire innumerable little thread-like
streams of water can be caused to descend,
and in case of need this discharge can be
augmented to a pouring Hood, the Ring
was the sole audience. - The opera pro
ceeded. It was a piece with a storm in it;
the mimic thunder began to mutter, the
mimic wind began to wail and sough, and
tho mimic rain to patter. The King’s in
terest rose higher andhigber; it developed
into enthusiasm. He cried out:
“It is good, veiy good, indeed! But I
will have real rain. Turn on the water.”
The manager pleaded for a reversal of
the command, said it would ruin the cost
ly scenery and the splendid costumes, but
the King cried:
“No matter, no matter, I will have real
raiu! Turn on tiie water 1”
So the real rain was turned on, and be
gan to descend In gossamer lances to tiie
mimic flower beds and gravel walks of
the stage. The richly dressed actresses
and actors tripped about, singing bravely
and pretending not to mind. The King
was delighted; his enthusiasm grew high
er. He cried out:
“Bravo, bravo! More thunder! more
(lightning! Turn on more rain!”
The thunder boomed, tbe lightning
glared, the storm-wind raged, the deluge
poured down. The mimic royalty of the
stage, with their soaked satins clinging
jo their bodies, slopped around ankle-
deep in water, warbling their sweetest
and best, the fiddlers under the eaves of
the stage sawed for dear- life, with the
cold overflow spouting clown the backs of
their necks, and the dry aud happy King
sat in his lofty box and wore his gloves to
ribbons applauding.
“More yet’” cried the King, “more
yet; let loose all the thunder, turn on all
the water. 1 will hang the man that
raises an umbrella!”
When the most tremendous and effect
ive storm that had ever been produced in
a theatre was at last over, the King’s ap
probation was measureless, ne cried :
“Magnificent, magnificent! Encore!
Do it again.”
Biit the managment succeeded in per
suading him to recall the encore, and
said tiie company would leel sufficiently
rewarded and complimented by the mere
fact that the encore was demanded by his
Majesty, without fatiguing him with a
repetition to gratify their own vanity.
During the remainder of the act the
lucky performers were those whoso parts
required changes ot dress; the others were
a soaked, bedraggled aud uncomfortable
lot, but in the last degree picturesque.
The stage scenery was rained, trap-doors
were so swollen that they couldn’t work
for a week afterwards, tho fine costumes
were spoiled, and no end of minor dam
ages was done by that remarkable storm.
It was a royal idea—that storm—and
royally carried out. But observe the
moderation of the King; he did not insist
upon Ms encore. If he had been a glad
some, unreflecting American opera audi
ence, he probably would have liad Ms
stonn repeated and repeated until he
drowned all those people.
GARFIELD’S HEROISM.
A Thrilling Description of n Brave
Act—How Ho Saved the Vessel.
“Jim cati manage him.”
Those words were spoken by a dark-
featured and full-bearded man to his com
panion—a swarthy-fellow, whoje every
look betokened the fieree nature within—
as the two ascended from the cabin of the
Mary Ann, of Bitter Creek, and stepped
quietly on the quarter-deck. The older
of the two took a few turns of the some
what confined space between the binnacle
«nd a partly-used chew of tobacco which
the second mate had left on the port
rail, and then went below to consult liis
charts.
The situation was indeed a critical one
for the beautiful vessel, which rested like
a swan on the heaving surface of the Mi-'
ami canal. For three hours she had been
becalmed by a balky mule.' Freighted
with a cargo of golden-hued pumpkins, it
was important thattliere should be no de
lay in reaching the port to which they
were consigned; hence the skipper’s anxi-
.etywasbut natural. The black clouds
that were scurrying across the southern
sky told too plainly that a storm was ap
proaching, aud woe to tire vessel it found
unprepared. The captain knew that in
the present situation of liis stately ship a
wreck was inevitable should the storm
strike her.
It was an anxious moment, but liis
cheek never blanched. It couldn’t, un
less washed, and of tills none who knew
our hero had apy fear. Glancing hastily
at the compass, -he saw that the vessel’s
proper course was east by south, and that
the lead mule was at least two points
away and on his beam ends. The storm
was rapidly approaching, and the ominous
mutterings of Heaven’s artillery were evi
dence enough that ere loug the now placid
surface of the canal'would be lashed into
white-capped billows, and one of which
would engulf the Mary Ann. To think
was to act with the captain. Hastily
seizing a glittering fog-horn from its place
in the ratlines, he placed it quickly to his
mouth and shouted:
“Tie up the cook.”
It was a wise niovA". The cook was
liable to have hysterics when anything
went wrong, and frequently tipped over
the supper.
“Tho Cap’n’s all right,” said Coshocton
Joe to the ship’s carpenter, a tall, athletic
fellow from Berea, whose brawny arm
liad often directed the fatal fish-line in
pickerel season.
“Aye, aye, messmate.” was the re
sponse ; “and though I’m so afeard we’il
ne’er see wife and children again, or’steal
grapes in the Sandusky valley, it’s not I
that will shrink back or step ashore at a
tniie like tills.”
“Well said, my hearty,” came in "a gruff
voice from the ship's waist." “Our binna
cle lights may go out this night forever,
but let us die like Ohioans.”
Bv this time the first pnfts of the ap-
proaohir." tempest were plainly to be felt,
and the shrill notes of the bo*>"hens tm
the neighboring farms showed that even
they had : scented tho danger and were
seeking shelter. hr • * If
It was a-terriblc moment.
. Tho liittic was apparently the. y ani-
- mate thing that did not cothpielwnd the
While all were standing in speechless
amaze at the phenomenal cussedness of
the beast, a slouch hat was seen to emerge
from the forecastle, quickly followed by
a small boy. One glance at the angry
sky and another at the mule was enough.
Quckly leaping upon the slop-bucket, he
sprang lightly from the larboard rail to
the towpath, and advanced toward the ap
parently sleeping mule.
The crew looked on with astonishment.
With steady tread he crept alongside of
the animal, and with one bound alighted
on his back. Like a flash he grabbed its
tail and gave that member a violent twist.
In an instant the mule was on hi 3 feet and
kicking in seventeen directions at once.
The hoy was on "his hack holding the lines
with a grasp of iron. With a terrible
yaw-haw ot rage the now thoroughly in
furiated animal dashed boldly forward.
The strain on the cable was immense,
and the good ship’s timber groaned as if
in agony. In a moment, however, she
felt the Dreeze created by the mule going
ahead, and her cutwater cleft by blue wa
ters like a knife as she keeled to starboard
and stood away on her course.
The boy on the mule had saved her
and when the Captain saw him twist the
animal’s tail he said, loud enough for all
to hear:
“That was the act of a statesman and a
diplomat.” -* .
Who wa3 the boy? James A. Gar
field.—J. Fenimore Cooper.
CoL Scott’s Model Barn.
An American reporter, iu life rambles
over the county, ran across “Woodburn,”
the beautiful residence of Colonel Thomas
A. Scott, near Darby, and would like to
say a word about Mr; Scott’s new bam
and its many conveniences. ‘The barn
was completed in March last and cost
nearly ten thousand dollars, and in archi
tectural style cannot bo excelled. The
carriage or coach room is at the extreme
eastern portion of the building, and has
capacity for nine coaches. There are
about eight vehicles in it which cost from
$800 to $1,500 apiece.. >
The qoach-liguse has six large windows
with shutters, and the ceiling has fancy-
tissue paper, “fly-catchers,” nicely ar
ranged and cut in a tasty and beautiful
manner. The harness room has twelve
separate cases with glass fronts, and not a
particle of dust can get to any of the har
ness. There is telephonic communica
tion from the harness room to the man
sion house, from whence the coachman’s
orders are received. A peculiar beam
with projecting crosses is used as a har
ness holder, in cleaning and blackening.
The stable lias accommodations for
twelve head of horses. At present it lias
ten horses, two donkeys and one pony.
The ten upright posts, near the horses,
and forming a part of the stalls, are care
fully covered with straw plaits, for about
four feet up from the ground.
The flooring of the entire first story of
the barn is of granite, but immediately
under the horsey re wooden false floors,
laid upon the Stone. These come out, and
are claaned twice a week. Just at the edge
of the false floor is a perforated iron strap
about a loot wide, and level with the
stone floor, which allows all liquid to pass
through. Just back of this is a straw plat,
about a yard wide, and which is covered
■with loose straw, forming bedding. Just
hack of this plat a pretty cocoanut carpet
is laid, and is kept a3 clean a3 though it
were in aparlor. It is put down at S a.
and taken up at 5 p. in. An iron wa
tering trough is placed against the wall,
still further back. The “fly-catcher” pa
per is neatly arranged overhead in all the
stables.
In front of the horses is a space live feet
wide, and from here the horses are fed.
Spoutings come down from the various
bins in the second stojy. These are fitted
with a patent gauge attachment which
measures just four quarts of feed. There
is one large stall set apart fora sick horse.
I11 the upper story 1 found a bath room
and water-closet, nicely lighted with gas;
four bed rooms, elegantly furnished, and
numerous bins, admirably arranged for
the purposes intended. Joseph Staddon,
formerly coachman for Baron Rothschild,
London, has charge of the stable. The
stable is built of brick and finished
throughout the interior with yellow pine,
oiled.—Med ! a American.
The Largest Aerolite.
In May, 1879, the. largest meteoric
stone ever beheld iu America fell on a
farm in Emmet county. The farm be
longed to Mrs. Colonel C. H. Perry, of
Keokuk. The stone lay embedded fifteen
feet deep in the ground for ten or twelve
days, visited by hundreds of people, each
one carrying off a piece of it. A friend of
Mrs. Perry, residing in this city, wrote
her asking her if she would not like to
have tho meteorite stored in the Da
venport Academy of Sciences. She replied
that it would cost $150 or $160 to get
it out and place it upon the railroad train,
for something would have to be paid the
tenant of the farm, who claimed a sort of
partnership in the ownership—and if the
academy would raise the amount, it
might have tiie stone and welcome. Alas!
there wasn’t a dollar in the academy
treasury, ana the effort to raise the
amount failed. Then a Mr. Bcrge gave
Mrs. Perry $100 for tiie stone, she sup
posing that he mtendel it for an institu
tion in this State—and Mr.Berge gave the
farm tenant $50 or $C0 for the right.of
way across the fields. And so Mr. Berge
got possession ol that stone, and not long
since he sold it to the British museum for
$6,500; aud there it is to be placed in a
glass case and preserved as a celestial
wonder. Its weight when shipped for
London was 431 pounds.—From the Dav
enport floica') Democrat, Avgust 5.
Democratic Campaign Documents.
The IForfcl of Thursday says: The
Democratic national committee have iu
press, to bo published on Monday nest,
“The Democratic Text-Eookfor the Cam
paign of-lSSO,” arid an examination of
the proof-sheets shows that the book will
bo one of the most effective am 1 , interest
ing campaign documents ever published.
In addition to platforms, biographies and
such statistics as belonging to a campaign
text-book, it contains a chronological his
tory of General Garfield's Congressional
record which is carefully verified from offi
cial sources; a circumstantial history of the
complicity of President Hayes and the vis
iting statesmen in the electoral fraud of
•1876-77, with a table of the accomplices
who were rewarded with money or office;
an account of the shameful tergiversations
of Republicans, including Hayes, Sherman
and Garfield, upon civil service reform
down to tho nomination of Gen. Arthur;
a minute analysis of tho Emma Mine
swindle and a concise account of tiie
whisky ring, of the Belknap impeach- „ , 0 —_—„ --
meut, of the Venezuela job, the thieveries ‘the soldier and the purity of the man,
AN ELOQUENT EXTRACT
From the Recent Speed, of 5I« Jor
Moses, Delivered at Colombo*, Oeor-
I ellow-citizens of Muscogee county if
you disapprove of Colquitt’s administra
tion, give him manly opposition, but spare
his reputation; that is the property of the
State. Even the mad furor of partisan
zeaHbrbids that -you_should be so impo
lite as to exhaust calumny’s quiver in or
der to destroy the good name ol a man
panoplied m the armor of truth. I am
one of thousands who have been converted
by this onslaught from passive indiffer
ence into earnest advocacy, and in dote"
this I am prompted by that appeal for jus“
tice to which man’s nature involuntarily
and aflirmatively responds.
TTitli the Columbus Enquirer, I say,
“Let us have peace,” State and national,
but do not make the sacrifice of any one
man the only condition on which peace
can be had. Do not, by personal abuse,
render ifc impossible for his friends to
withdraw his name.
If you earnestly desire harmony, let
Muscogee, Chatham and Madison unite in
an efl’ort for peace. You have each dis
tinguished sons, worthy to fill the execu
tive office; show that you are ready to .
sacrifice personal preferences, for the gen
eral good; this will be au offering worthy
of Muscogee. You need not fear the dis
ruption or the party. We will all support
the' nominee of the convention, w hoever
he may be, whether of those who are
avowed candidates, or of another who
may be brought forward in a spirit of
compromise. Let us move forward in a
spirit of harmony and peace, and in No
vember next we will have a political love-
feast.
We will be able to give thanks that we
have again a country; we will be able to
rejoice that we are again united States,
hound together by a fraternal bond, the
links of which are throbs of love. Provi
dence has done much for us, but we are
on the eve of a desperate battle, and “we
must'keep our powder dry.” The very
nomination of Hancock seems to have
been foreordained; look at the events of
the last two months. If. Grant had been
nominated at Chicago, Hancock’s nomina
tion at Cinciunat? %ould have been an
impossibility. The nomination of Garfield
rendered Hancock’s nomination not oniy
possible, hut invincible.
We have a square issue between the
man who obeys the law to protect the
rights of the people, and the man who in
his own person gave the casting vote on
the electoral commission, by which the
law was violated and the voice of the peo
ple defeated in their choice of President.
If we fail in this campaign with Hancock,
wlio is 200,000 votes stronger than his
party, then we indorse the action of the .
electoral commission, and either ac
knowledge that Tilden was beaten, or that
the people are no longer fit to be free, as
they are not if they condone the fraud by
the < lectiou of G arfield. ,
All the circumstances attending Han
cock’s nomination are remarkable. When
the Cincinnati convention met, the candi
dates were thick as the aspirants for Con
gress in this district—only more so. Han
cock was almost without a following.
The Democracy of New York, Pennsyl
vania and Massachusetts were embroiled
in bitter feuds. .Great combinations
were being formed on Bayard, Field,
Randall, Tilden, Payne, and a host of
others. The newspaper correspondents
were at sea,- the most astute politicians
were as blind as bats, and could not peer
an hour into the futui3 on the 23d of
June. The forces were arrayed under
half a dozen leaders, each confident of
victory. Hancock was not even witliin
the political horoscope of Albert Lamar,
Alfriend, Watterson, of any or tlic politi-
Warwicks who make and- unmake kings.
The balloting commenced, and the
plans and counter plans of politicians
were scattered like dry leaves driven be
fore a cyclone by one Daniel Dougherty,
not even a delegate to the convention.
“One blast upon his bugle horn was worth
a thousand men.” He, by permission,
announced the name of Winfield S. Han
cock. The galleries took up the cry, and
electrified the convention with their en
thusiasm. It was the rox jlopruli, vox
Dei. Hancock received 171 votes on the
first ballot. The opposition was con
founded. The convention adjourned that
the allied armies might combine. That
night they caucused over it, and tte next
morning came, aud with it the plans of
the wire-worker, but “the best laid
schemes of mice and men oft gang aglee.”
New York cast seventy votes for Ran
dall, Pennsylvania thirty-nine more, but
Hancock bad a hold on every heart in the
convention. "When his name was an
nounced the Northern delegates heard
the double quick of the victorious bat
talions on Hie field of Gettysburg. The
Southern soldiers remembered it too, and
as Urey wiped away the tears that would
flow down their manly cheeks in honor of
their gallant dead, they saw the sword of
the victor sheathed, and remembering him.
in Texas and Louisiana, they beheld upon
liis brow “a civic crown” and in his mar
tial hand, the olive branch, symbol of
peace, extended to the suffering South.
The North sprang to Mm as tiie victo
rious chief of blood ensanguined fields.
The Southern heart clung to him for Ms
magnanimity and justice. These two op
posing aud conflicting elements combined,
and aroused, the spirit of patriotism from
its slumbers, before its giant strides parti
san feeling shrunk hack’ dismayed, and
above all other considerations a love of
country arose in every heart, a wave of
enthusiasm swept over the convention
lashed in its fury by the breaks thrown
in by the Tilden and Randall wings, it
swept away all .impediments and bore.
upon its foaming crest tiie honored name
of Hancock. Amidst the shouts of the
people nancock was nominated almost by
acclamation; a second count was taken
to correct the ballot. The electric flash
carried the glad tidings from the Atlantic
slope to the golden shores of the Pacific,
from the northern boundary of Maine to
the southern line of Texas. Wherever
the news spread the people's hearts were
ifilled with joy. The embittered feelings
of the war, as if touched by a magic wand,
vanished like a passing cloud, and when
the horizon cleared away, a gleam of
hope broke forth, and it revealed tiie boys
‘in blue and tiie boys in grey locked in
friendship’s warrii embrace." In every
valley and an every liill-top the people
saw the white-winged messenger nestled
in the soldiers’ arms, aud one loud cry
went forth throughout the land, “let us
have peace.”
This time it came with no unmeaning
sound; it was the amen to the nomination
welling up from every patriot heart.
The enthusiasm was not confined to tiie
Democratic ranks; it entered the lodges
of the grand army of the republic, and
was echoed by unscarred and limbless
soldiers; it pierced tiie Republican lines,
enthroned itself in the very citadel of
centralization.
Grant presages victory. Sherman, in
a carte blanche, indorses the gallantry of
of the freedmen’s bureau and the freed-
men’s savings bank, and an elaborate ta
ble which shows how the check of a Dem
ocratic House has in five years saved the
people $10,000,0Q0. .
There are devoted to. Gatflrld’s record
ono.hundredTand fifty-five pages," which
establish all his complicities by speeches
and vote with so many of the scandalous
jobs, private or public, which appeared
in Congress from the time of his appear
ance as chairman on appropriations down
to his connivances witli the paper mo
nopolists. Much of this proof will be
new to the public, especially in respect to
the Sanborn moiety frauds, the salary
grabs, the Pacific mail steal and the moth
swindle. For tho next text-book follows
every track he has left of his connection
witli these jobs.
Indeed that portion of the text book
which is devoted to Gen. GarfieldVrecord
might be hound up and inscribed as “Tbe
Trial and Conviction of Jas. A. Garfield,”
and figure appropriately in the library of
a criminal court. All of these are addi
tional to a full exposition of his complici
ty with the Credit Mobilier and De
Golyer scandals, together with the refer
ences to chapter and yerse which are so
ncccssasy to campaign speakers. There
is not a superfluous page iii tiie 521 pages
of the textbook, and its style and ar-
rOTgemenl are very much above the liter-
ary level of ordinary campaign manuals.
and Garfield looks to-bis senatorial com
mission as the. ark of safety from the
storm of enthusiasm that is sweeping
over tiie land threatening to engulf Ohio
with its flood.
New York and Pennsylvania are
wheeling into line. Let our watchword
lie hannony and victory; the nomination
is heaven ordained; it lias its sanctuary
in’tlie hearts of the people, and on the
(4th of March next Hancock and English
will find their homes in the capital of the
nation. See to it that the Democracy
makes good use of victory, and, above all,
when tiie South agafrTTtecomes a power in
the government let it be her ambition to
make her justice broad as. the Union, and
she will triqinph then in the fact that her
him with rare detective i ngenuity over (magnaoimity in peace will’ be as re-
*—v La L». 1-0 **-— p nowned as was her emmtge in war, and
the glory of old Muscogee wilbbe that for
this grand consuaacetteu *he w,already to
sacrifice her personal preferences to se
cure the hannony Of thfe Democratic
party.
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TYantb to be sk* Right,—Extract
from a letter written by F. K. Freeman, of
Foit Gaines, Ga.:
“A gentleman li£A just informed me
that my name has been published in a
list as favoring Norwood’s claim for gov
ernor. Please-set me right with your
people, as we are almost a unit &r Coi-
quitt here.”
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