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Sauxtrsd & 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. . «.»« <• , 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.” r-O.