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THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
The Albany News, and Advertiser
says:
We bad a call this morning from Colo
nel P. M. Slaughter, of the United States
engineer corps, who has been transferred
from the government works on tho Ala
bama river to the Flint. Col. Slaughter
has not received full instructions yet as to
what he is to do, or as to whether he will
charge of the barges that are at work
on the Flint below Albany; but this much
is certain—he has been ordered to Albany
and immediately commences the building
of two boats—a “log” boat and a “quar
ter” boat—and proceed to organize a force
to go to work with them. This force will
work np the river from this point, clean-
in" out the stream to Montezuma. Colo
nel Slaughter thinks that the work
on the Flint will now receive more
'attention from the government forces, and
that it will progress more rapidly than
heretofore. For the present his head
quarters will be at Albany, and he pro
poses to employ mechanics here and pro
ceed with the building of the boats neces
sary for a new force-of hands. Colonel
Slaughter has the bearing of a perfect
gentleman, and seems to have a thorough
knowledge of his business. We commend
hidi to the kind considciation and good
treatment of our citizens and business
men, and trust that such assistance and
information as he may need at their
hauds will be readily extended. The
News and Advertiser proposes to inforin
itself in regard to the exact condition and
f rogress of the government work on the
'lint, and will have more to say upon
this subject in the near future.
Augusta News: Farmers are experi
encing great difficulty in getting their cot
ton picked the present season on account
of a scarcity of hands. The trouble is
greater the present than any year before
this.
How IIe Was Tbeated.—Columbus
Enquirer: Governor Colquitt during his
stay in Columbus received only the kind
est and most courteous treatment. Our
contemporaries throughout the State who
may ditl'er with us as to State politics,
will bear in mind that, while this city
and county is overwhelmingly for Nor
wood and reform, Governor Colquitt has
many personal friends here, who, while
they ditrer with him as to his administra
tion, have only the kindliest feelings for
him as a man, and have no fault to find
with his private life or religion. Colum
bus people know their duty and their
pleasure in the matter of civilities, and
they gave Gov Colqnitt such courtesies
as gentlemen are entitled to.
During his stay here Governor Colquitt
visited many of our leading institutions,
and among them the Eagle & Plienix
mills, where he was warmly received.
Governor Colquitt can only have the
warmest admiration for the progress our
city has made In everything that is pro
gressive, including our politics.
The Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Good Templars of the State of
Georgia closed its session in Savannah
Thursday evening after a three days’ ses
sion, in which one hundred and thirty of
the representative temperance men and
women of the State of Georgia participat
ed. Louisville. Jefferson county, was un
animously elected as the place of holding
the next meeting.
Columbus Times: The friends of Mrs.
H. C. Kimbrough of Hamilton, will re
gret to learn of the death of this most es
timable lady. She died at that place
yesterday, after a long and painful ill
ness.
She was the wife of Judge Henry C.
Kimbrough, and for many years they have
shared the pains and pleasures of life
alike. In her death lie loses a bosom
companion, and one who loved him well.
She wa3 a most devoted Christian and the
church and cummunity will experience a
heavy loss in her death.
We extend our condolence to the be
reaved husband and family.
Indian Springs Argus: “None of os
know,” said Mr. Norwood, at LaGrange,
with the complacency of a man thorough
ly familiar with tire facts—none of us
know how soon we may be in the peni
tentiary. Mr. Norwood evidently believes
that he is confronted by a solemn crisis.
Augusta Chronicle: Tire umbrel-
larv weather just inaugurated is believed
to be a forerunner of the equinox. The
autumnal equinox occurs really on the
22d of September, but it is supposed to have
been hastened this year on account of the
violence of the trade winds aud the severi
ty of the campaign in Georgia. It is
called the equinox, naturally enough, be
cause the nights are as bad as the days.
These are also believed to be of equal
length, so that the man who plays poker
during Saturday night enjoys as much fun
as the fellow who fishes all day Sunday.
There are no discriminations about the
Equinox. About this time, too, the sun
enters the constellation of Libra and stops
far wood and water and fall clothes. The
oyster at this season of the year usually
returns from the sea coast and shakes up
his winter ulster for business. The phe
nomenon of equinoxes is not exactly un
derstood. It is held that they are caused
by the ecliptic coming in contact with the
equator and ruuning along together like
the Louisville and Nashville and the
State Road to catch the winter travel.
What influence Joe Brown has over the
procession of equinoxes also is not clear.
The equinox, however, cannot last long.
It will soon play out, and those long win
ter nights will come in which a youth
may hire a carriage, take a girl to the the
atre, and spend more money than he can
make in tho succeeding short day. So
the equinox may be vie wed on an econom
ical point—a sort of life saving station, as
it were. Still, many people who have at
tempted to ror.ui Cape Hatteras or walk
on an Augusta piauk crossing, have been
wrecked during this season. _We have re
liable information, this seasdn, that the
equinox will not be postponed on account
of the weather.
Lumpkin Independent: Mr. Isaac
Dennard, of Webster county, died at his
residence on Monday last. He was a cit
izen of Stewart couuty for a number of
years. The deceased was about 75 years
of age, and highly respected by all who
knew him.
Madison Madisonian: Col. J. H. Ba
ker, of Pike, as gallant a soldier as ever
drew a sword in defense of the South, lias
been nominated by the Democracy of his
district to represent it in the next State
Senate. We were one of the few men io
Barnesville several years ago who stood
for Baker. True to him then, we are
true now, and hope be will be triumph
antly elected. He is as true to principle
as the needle to the pole, a man of fine
practic al sense, good judgment, and will,
if elected, make an efficient Senator.
Peiuiam, of the Quitman Free Press»
speaking of the situation, says:
Anybody can ride the Colquitt or Nor
wood boom, but it takes a grand patriot,
like the editor of this paper, to ride the
fence and sacrifice his penchant for hair-
raising paragraphs for the sake of hanro-
ny, the good of the country, and the
safety of the Democratic party.
Rome Tribune: Fifteen years of free
labor are telling their story in the census
of 1SS0. Aud what does it teach? The
negro, to far from declining in numbers,
lias increased more rapidly than ever be
fore, aud it is to the multiplication of bis
race that the South is mainly indebted for
its ability to maintain its present power
In the government. And so far from run
ning into idleness and decay, the negro
never was as thrifty as now, aud his labor
never produced so much per head to the
common wealth of the country.
The Athens Banner gets off the follow
ing; it is but right to add, that Water
man has not arrived yet:
JDuring a recent thunder storm, a ne
gro was severely kicked by a vicious
mule; aud, just as he was picking him
self up, a stroke of lightning came along
ami knocked the inu!e into giblets.
“Well dar!” exclaimed tbs negro, “if dis
chile liain’t gut powerful frens to’venge
iiis insults, ilen dere's no use tiyiu’to
bab faith in nothin'!" ,
Early County News: Our ja:l is
empty again. On Thursday morning
last, just before dav. some party went to
th.3 jaii, filled the' locks with powder,
blew them up and turned tho two prison
ers loose—McCormack who was it: for
cow stealing, and the negro Densler, who
was in charged with murder, some years
ago. This affair shows that our jail is
not secure as we supposed. We ac
knowledge the com, Judge.
Oglethorpe Echo: Last Tuesday Judge
Gildam turned the business of issuing re
tail liquor licenses over to the county
commissioners, but they refused to accept
the responsibility. The law especially
says that no licenses to retail without the
written consent of two-thirds of the free
holders living in three miles of the place,
shall be granted in this county. This will
effectually wipe ont every barroom in
Oglethorpe county after the first day of
January next. The law is explicit, and
there is no way to evade it.
Death of William F. Little.—
Eatonton Messenger: The announce
ment of the death of this gentleman, on
Friday evening, the 3d instant, at four
o’clock, wa3 a shock to the community
and the county. In perfect health within
half an hour of his death, it had never en
tered into the minds of any one that
death would next call him away.
An hour before his death Mr. Little
was pleasantly conversing with his fami
ly, at Ins home in this county, with no
sign of impending sickness. Going out to
see to some matter of his farm, lie re
turned and complained of feeling very
unwell. In fifteen minutes, before a
physician could be reached, ho was a
corpse, cut down in the prime of life by
heart disease.
Tiie Valdosta Times says Dr. Mattox,
of Clinch county, was exhibiting, during
court, a specimen of the “golden hull”
rice—a new variety he had procured from
the department at Washington. It was
very fine.
Thomasyille Tones: Among the nu
merous Southerners who have called to
pay their respects to Gen. Hancock since
his nomination, is Mr. S. Goldstone, of
this place. Mr. G. f together with a num
ber of Georgians, called to see the “next
President,” while in New York recently.
Upon presenting himself, Mr. Goldstone
remarked to the Generaltliatthat was not
their first meeting. The General, after
gazing a moment at his features, remark
ed : “I remember you very well; we last
met in Los Angelos, California?” It is
said that Gen. Hancock lias a wonderful
memory. This proves it, as he had not
seen Mr. Goldstone in over twenty years.
Sumteb Bepublicon: Dr. Duncan
McNeil died at his residence in Sumter
county, of dropsy of the heart, on Thurs
day last. He was a member of Americus
Lodge No. 13 F. A. M., a good man, an
upright citizen and true to his word in all
things. He was a member of Cutts’ ar
tillery battalion during the war, and was
always at his post. He leaves a large
family and numerous friends who will
deeply deplore his untimely death.
The Savauuali Ncics of Saturday says
Tire members of the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars, which closed its session
here on Thursday evening, devoted yes
terday to enjoyment, and in company
with their ladies and a number of Savan
nah friends made a trip to Tybee. The
steamer II. B. riant left the city ot 10
o’clock and had & pleasant run down. A
strong northeasterly wind prevailed, and
they had the opportunity of seeing the
“mighty ocean” m an angry mood, as it
were, under its influence. The beautiful
white cap waves, rolling, surging into
shorty temptingly invited them to the
luxury and novelty of surf bathing, hut
the roughness of the waters and the high
wind rendered it imprudent. They re
turned to the city in time for the 7:30
o’clock train on the Central railroad, and
left for their homes, delighted with their
experiences in Savannah, and with the
warmest praise for the kindly hospitality
which had been extended them while
here.
Thomasyille Times: Mr. E. R. nurst,
an aged citizen, was found dead in his
bed bn last Sunday morning. It is sup
posed that he died from heart disease,
having been afflicted with it for several
years.
Sumteb Iiepublican: Old aunt Faulk
ner, a colored woman aged 102 years, was
found dead in the house of her son, Ned
Faulkner, on Charles Williams’ place six
miles from Americus, a fen- mornings
since. There was no inquest, as it was
’supposed that the machinery of life was
completely worn out and stopped for the
want of repairs, which could not he made
in this world.
Albany News and Advertiser: The
city council has very wisely concluded to
build three or four additional fire cisteVns.
One will be placed in the neighborhood
of the. jail, another near the Baptist
church, and another at the intersection of
Flint aud Jefferson streets. This is a
rnovo in the right direction, ana will
greatly add to the usefulness of our -fire
department.
Augusta News: Senator Ben Hill, in
a letter to Senator Eaton, of Connecticut,
denies the report that he is suffering from
a cancer on his tongue. Well, then, what
is the matter with the voice of Georgia's
“Demosthenes.”
The fact is, he has no Norwood talk in
him. Aud although he has been persist
ently quoted by the Norwood papers as
being in favor of their candidate, be is
not, nor never has given the least evi
dence of such a mania. He believes Tom
Norwood to be as corrupt as Ben Butier.
SAYANNAn News: The Charleston
and Savauuab railroad warehouse, which
was located on East Broad Street, be
tween Charlton and Jones streets, is now
being moved to Liberty street, sixty feet
west of the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern railway depot, tho two depots being
consolidated with the view of facilitating
work, the two roads, as known, being
now under one management. The work
is being done by Mr. J. R. Strate, con
tractor, noted for bis success in moving
buildings, this being tho 183th he has
moved since the close of the war. The
warehouse is a large building, and its
progress through the streets excites the
attention of the vicinity, where the work
is watched with curious interest.
Atlanta Constitution: The orgat
of the Norwood party insist that if Go
ernor Colquitt is elected the Louisville
and Nashville road will secure control of
the State road. The reply to this has its
abiding-place in tho question: Do the
people propose to elect representatives to
the Legislature whom they can trust?
They do have the swetest and most im
partial brass bauds in Columbus that can
be found in the southern hemisphere.
They play “Hail to the Chief’ for the
benefit of commercial tourists, and repeat
the same threatening air in behalf of the
minority candidate.
Albany News and Advertiser: The
town is full of country darkies to-day.
Cotton is coming in freely now, and the
farm laborers are receiving their wages
in ready cash. The happiest human be
ing in the world is a country darky on
Saturday afternoon in “cotton time.”’
The new SFlorida Railboad.—Sa
vannah lieeorder. A contract was exe
cuted in New York last Thursday with
George W. Flowers & Co., contractors, for
tho immediate construction of the Feman-
dina and Jacksonville railroad, in Florida.
The contract requires the road to be ready
for trains on December 15tli next. It
will be laid with steel rails and provided
with the mo6t improved equipment, ail of
which have already been contracted for.
The time of passeuger trains between Fer-
nandina and Jacksonville will be 50 min
utes. A daily Hue of first class steamers wii 1
be run between Savannah and Femandina
In connection with this new road, by tlje
Georgia and Florida Inland steamboat
company, of this city, and will be known
as the Sea Island route. The number of
winter visitors to Florida has become so
large that every addition to the facilities
of travel to that attractive part of the
country is of general interest.
Savannah News: B. C. Lewis, Esq.,
a prominent and well known banker and
citizen of Tallahassee, Florida, of the
firm of Lewie <fc Sens, died yesterday
morning at tlio Marshall House,' from the
effects of a paralytic elroke. Mr. Lewis
had been to the springs in Arkansas for
the benefit of his health, and was on his
way home, accompanied by bi3 son, Mr.
Edward Lewis, when lie was stricken
with paralysis. He arrived here Saturday
evening by the Central railroad train, but
in cousequence of bit critical condition
remained in the sleeper ail night. Yes
terday morning it was found uece=eary to
move the car and Mr. Lewis was re- ' in open court made a statement to the ef-
moved to the Marshall House, where ] feet that lie was guilty of every charge
H •—i him, specified in the indictment.
every possible attention was given
Dr. A. B. Hawkins, of Tallahassee, being
with him, but he died in about two hours
after he reached his room. The remains
were prepared for transportation and left
by the train yesterday, accompanied by
his son, for Tallahassee. Mr. Lewis was
about 02 years of age, and was highly es
teemed in his community, where his loss
will be greatly felt.
Rome Courier: A committee of gen
tlemen waited on Dr. Felton at LaFayetto
last Tuesday, where he had gone to ad
dress the people, asking him to divide
time with Col. Clements, tho Democratic
candidate, but Felton was too sharp for
that and refused to “divide” with him
then or at any other time. He refuses to
divide time with Clements now, but
will be mighty glad to get Clements jto
divide votes with him on the 2d of No
vember. That won’t be done, and there’s
where the joke will come in.
Moneoe Advertiser: Mr. Orrin Wood
ward of Colloden has already picked six
bales of cotton from a eighty acre field.
It will yield more than a bale to the acre.
Mr. J. P. Lee of Forsyth has sold five
bales from his thirteen acres. Such yields,
gathered before the 10th of September,
are uncommon.
Conyers Examiner: We learn a diffi
culty occurred at Social Circle, day be
fore yesterday, between a Mr. Eckles and
Abercromby, in which the latter was cut
with a knife, ripping his coat from the
neck to the waist, splitting the skin. The
origin of the difficulty was about politics
—Colquitt and Norwood.
SAVANNAn News: Captain C. A.
Packard, of the schooner Ada J. Simon-
ton, lost during the late hurricane at
Mosquito inlet, Florida, arrived here yes
terday on his way to Rockland, Maine.
The vessel was a total loss, the crew and
captain floating ashore lashed on the top
of the vessel’s “house,” which was torn
off by the force of the sea. They saved
none of their effects.
Albany News and Advertiser: The
“Colored man and brother” doesn’t seem
to be stirring his stumps much for any po
litical wing or party, but is stoutly en
gaged in the harvesting campaign, which
is well for the colored voter.
Conyers Examiner: If there is a
town on the Gdbrgia railroad that needs a
good, commodious depot, that town is
Conyeys. We have the poorest depot on
the line of the road according to the size
of the town and the amount of goods re
ceived and shipped.
Albany News and Advertiser. The
many friends-of Capt. C. M. Clam, who
has for the past week been confined to his
bed, severely ill, will be glad to bear that
his condition is much improved, and high
hopes are entertained of his early recov
ery. At one time Capt. Clark was very
low indeed. The cause of his suilerin
was congestion of the bowels.
Monbce Advertiser: A party of For
syth gentlemen went to Barnesville on
last Friday to hear General Gordon’s
speech.
From one, we learn that Granite hall
was crowded with people anxious to lis
ten to the eloquent words of this galiant
son of Georgia. He was enthusiastically
applauded by the crowd, demonstrating,
in the opinion of the informant, that they,
approved ids utterances in behalf of
Governor Colquitt. A gentleman from
Barnesville recently told us that outside
of that city, Colquitt was strong in Pike
county and would get a large vote.
Governor Colquitt and the men who
are speaking in his interest,_ frequently
met with unfair treatment in their ef
forts to be beard. Governor Colquitt was
so rudely treated in Macon that he could
not be heard. Col. Bacon, the chairman
of the meeting and a Norwood man, ap
pealed in vaiiTto the crowd to give him a
respectful hearing. Jeers and insults
were constantly hulled at him.
In Barnesville, while General Gordon
was speaking the room was flooded with
circulars, announcing that 'Gordon had
backed down in refusing to divide time
with S. B. Spencer one of the Nerwood
speakers.
When General Gordon concluded he
announced that Mr. Spencer could speak
if he wished, there was the hall and the
crowd, what hindered him? No, that did
not answer the purpose at all. The idea
must go out that he was refused an op
portunity to reply to General Gordon.
Weil, there is one comfortable reflec
tion in all this. The sixth day of Octo
ber will soon be hero and the question
will be decided once for all.
It is possible Mr. Norwood may be
elected, but our opinion is that the peo
ple will pronounce a verdict at the polls
that will effectually silence the clamor
•gainst a noble and good man, Alfred H.
Colquitt. He will get a hearing at the
polls, if he is denied it on the hustings.
GiiiffisNcws: On Saturday a habeas
corpus was heard before the county court.
The facts were that the grandparents of
the late Bud Waldrouphad the possession
of Lis children, which the mother claimed,
and that properly she was entitled. Be
fore the hearing came off a settlement was
effected by which the mother got the little
children and they went away happy. It
was a wise settlement.
Atiiens Banner: Mr. Browning, tho
sheriff of Clarke county, while riding
home Saturday night, had his leg broken
by his horse falling with him. We hope
he will soon be out again.
Oub Fair.—Talbotton Bcgister:
Much interest is being manifested ilithe
approaching fair. Jadge P. E. Dennis
and others, appointed at last Tuesday’s
meeting of the Stock and Fair Associa
tion, are busy in their preparations at the
fair grounds. The exhibition hall will
be whitewashed inside and out, the
grounds will be cleared off and the race
track receive additional grading in many
places.
The premium lists Lave been delivered
to Mr. Dennis, the secretary, and by
him generally distributed throughout tho
county. Those who hava not received a
copy may secure one by calling on the
secretary. The ladies are specially in
teresting themselves in the fair. The
farmers are preparing something out of
their numerous products for exhibition.
The entire exhibition promises greater in
terest and success than lias ever before re
warded our efforts.
Newnan Herald: J. M. Hill, a broth
er of Hon. B. H. Hill, died at liis home
near LaGrange Wednesday. He wai
over seventy year* of age.
Sylyania Telephone: “Messrs. Ja*.
Ross, Jas. Newton and Jno. Newton were
arrested last week by a posse of sixteen
men and carried to Louisville, Jefierson
county. They are charged with the rob
bery and burning of a store and the mur
der of its owner, Mr. Cornwell, whose
body was found in the burning building.
The crimes were committed near Wadley,
a few years since, and filled that communi
ty witli intense horror at the time of their
commission. We have not learned any of
the facts which led to the arrest of the
parties named, but understand that there
are yet others to bo arrested. We hope
that the prisoners will succeed In estab
lishing tbeir entire innocence, as we
should regret that Scriveh county con
tained a citizen capable of committing so
heinous a crime!
Not So.—Milledgcvllle Bccorder: The
Telegraph and Messenoeb, answer
ing some anonymous writer, says, “If
Dr. Butler was treated in a 'mean and
contemptible’ manner at Milledgcville (of
which we have no evidence), it was a dis
grace to those guilty of such conduct.”
But Her. Dr. Butler was not treated in
any such manner. He was respectfully
heard and was treated in no otbermanner
than one gentleman would treat an
other.
There were some unpleasant words
passed between General Gordon and Mr.
Butler, on the stand, with which the au
dience had nothing to do. This difficulty
was arranged satisfactorily to the gentle
men between whom it occurred, and the
people are not responsible for Its occur
rence.
Atlanta Post: Yesterday In the
United States District Court,before Judge
John Erskine, the caso of Wm. Berrong,
charged with ali tbeoffeDses known to the
revenue laws of the United States, was
called for trial. The defendant plead
guilty and asked the indulgence of the
court to make a Maiement, which was
granted. Berrong mounted the staml, aud
He said that
lie intended never to make any more
whisky, and that no more should be made
in Towns county, if lie could help it, as
he would inform upon all who attempted
to carry on the business hereafter, no mat
ter who they were or the dangers to be
encountered by becoming an informer.
Berrong threw himself completely upon
the mercy of; he court.
Judge Erskine, after hearing the confes
sion of the prisoner, Imposed a sentence
of three months in Fulton county jail,
with a fine of $100 in addition. Berrong’s
sods will be tried to-day. One of them
is a small boy of about fifteen years of
age.
MilledgevtllE Recorder: Prof. J.
C. Hinton, recently elected to the chair of
ancient and modern languages and lit
erature in the Middle Georgia Military
and Agricultural College, arrived in the
city on Friday last, prepared to enter upon
his duties in the institution. He has en
joyed large advantages, and possesses high
qualifications for the position ho has been
called to fill. He is a graduate of several
of the best universities of the country. We
welcome him to our community, apd trust
he may do honor to our young aud grow
ing college.
Albany News and Advertiser: Colonel
Slaughter Informs us that his first work
on the river will be to put it in boating
condition between this point and Bain-
bridge, without delay, by clearing out the
principal obstructions first; and then after
getting the boats to running up here, to go
over the river again and clean it out thor
oughly. This will be good news to our
>eople, who are exceedingly tired of see-
□g our bold stream that should contrib
ute largely to the prosperity of Albany
and Dougherty county lying idle.
The Eufaula Daily Bulletin reports a
serious difficulty at Georgetown between
Col. Wm. H. Harrison and two sons of
Col. Thos. L. Guerry—LeGrande and
Samuel. The difficulty grew out of a
slight altercation that occurred some days
ago at the Quitman county convention,
between Cols. Harrison and Guerrv, in
which the former struck the latter. Col.
Guerry’s two sons took their father’s part,
and determined to resent the blow be had
received. Hearing, probably, of tbeir in
tention, Col. Harrison armed himself, and
on Saturday afternoon the parties met in
Dr. Mercer’s store, and soon a fight open
ed, in which Col. H. fired two shots at
LeGrande Guerry, _and when rushing
closer to him to fire a third shot, Samuel
Guerry seized a weight from the counter
and struck Col. Harrison a heavy and
very severe blow on the head which
knocked him down, or partially so, when
others rushed in and separated the com
batants.
Mr. LeGrande Guerry received only a
slight flesh wound in one of liisarm»from
the second shot fired at him, but came
near killinghimseif while attempting to'
draw his pistol to return the fire of Col.
H., as his pistol hung some way in his
pocket and was discharged accidentally.
Here tho matter ends, the Bulletin
hopes, Indefinitely, as both parties liave
many warm personal friends, who greatly
regret the uufortunate affair. Col. Har
rison is for Colquitt and Col. Guerry is
for Norwood, and out of this grew the
first difficulty which led to the one above
related.
The following is a special dispatch to
the Atlanta Constitution:
Amebicus, Sept 11.—At a very full
meeting of the Americus bar this after
noon, called to take action on the pusilan-
imous attack on Colonel Hawkins in the
Athens Watchman, the following resolu
tions were unanimously adopted, Hon. C.
F. Crisp presiding and DuPont Guerry,
Democratic nominee for State Senator,
acting as secretary:
Besolved, That we read with inexpres
sible. indignation a communication in the
Issue of the 7th instant, of the Southern
Watchman, over the signature of “Citi
zen,” in which our distinguished profes
sional brother, Hon. Willis A. Hawkins,
is most maliciously aud wantonly at
tacked, and we hereby unanimously de
nounce said communication as slanderous
in the extreme on the object of the attack,
and an uuproroked insult to the members
of the Southwestern bar.
Besotted further, That from long and
intimate association witli Col. Hawkins,
we are satisfied that lie is a gentleman of
the highest ability, and eminently quali
fied tor the position be occupies, and
while we differ among ourselves on the
gubernatorial question, we hereby thank
bis excellency, Gov. Colquitt, for the ap
pointment of Col. Hawkins to the Su
preme bet.c’i.
Besotted, That the secretary of the
meeting furnish a copy of these resolu
tions to the city papers, and that other pa
pers be requested to publish them.
C. F. Crisp, Chairman.
DuPont Guerky, Secretaiy.
A citizens’ indignation meeting is called
for Tuesday. All parties, irrespective of
political affiliation, are shocked at these
base attacks upon our gifted and distin
guished fellow-citizen. J. W. B.
Columbus Times: Mrs. James Kil
gore, who lived in Pearce’s tenement near
the upper bridge, was stricken with
paralysis Saturday night aud died shortly
afterwards. Her remains were followed
to their last resting place yesterday even
ing by sorrowing friends.
A little negro child, about four years
old, got hold of its father’s flask of red li
quor Sunday and drank it, from the ef
fects of which it died in a few hours
Such dangerous weapons should be kept
out of the way of children as well as their
elders.
Americus Becorder: Tho recent ad
vance in freiglits will not effect Americus
more than other points along the road.
She is paying now, as before tho rise,
the very highest market price for cotton.
No farmer this season, within our knowl
edge, has returned home dissatisfied either
as regards the weight or the price obtain
ed for his cotton.
Columbus Enquirer. A few days ago
Mrs. Biggers, wife of J. J. W. Biggers,
went into the kitchen where a servant
was boiling soap. The servant had left
the kitchen at tho time and Mrs. Biggers
seeing that the soap was about to boil
over, attempted to lift it from tbe fire. As
she did so the bottom of the vessel come
out, pouring the boiling soap on her dress,
and terribly burning her ankles and teet.
A physician was summoned and gave her
medical treatment. She was not doing
well Sunday, and another physician from
this city was sent for and went out in the
afternoon. We trust that she may soon
recover from the severe injury.
Montezuma Weekly: The appoint
ment of Colonel Hawkins to the Supreme
Bench, by Governor Colquitt, does not
meet with much approval in this section.
Even the Governor’s friends think and say
that the appointment is not at all satisfac
tory. Colonel Hawkins is a fine criminal
lawyer, and, personally, we do not know
why he will not make a good judge.
Sandersvtlle Mercury: On Wednes
day evening last Henry Boatright, an in
dustrious and worthy colored man, had
the misfortune to get his right hand badly
cut in tbe steam gin, while at work, aud
two fingers had to be amputated. Dr.
Rawlings operated and dressed tbe wounds
of the injured man, and reports him do
ing as well as circumstances will allow.
—During the bush fires near Montreal,
Edward Roi put his mother and sister in
to a wagon aud fled from the flames,
which overtook them on a bridge. The
frightened horses upset the wagon and
ran away. Roi called upon the women
to follow him, and all three entered a
three-foot tunnel under the end of the
bridge. Packed in that small space they
waited. The firo passed over them, aud
ignited the bridge. Happily for them, it
burned slowly, and when the fire ate Into
their refuge Roi stuffed tbe opening with
mud. Thu* they remained, the mau
fighting the fire aud the women, rosary in
hand, praying for dear life. They
were there live hours, but finally escaped
unhurt.
Bleak, chilly March and November
tre the two worst months of the year for
hose suffering with pulmonary diseases.
Keep Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup near by and
•uCli sufferers will be able to brave tbe
rough weather witboc! danger. Price 35
MB*.
Farm Work for September.
gathering corn.
In the lower half of the State the com
crop is usually dry enough to house by
the middle of the month. It is a wise
practice, always, to gather a crop as soon
as it is matured and ready. Every day
that it remains in the field it is liable to
loss in various ways. The practice of
breaking tbe ears from the stalk and
throwing into heap rows, to be afterwards
gathered up in baskets and then emptied
into the wagon, is not the best way. We
have found, by long experience, that it is
best to drive the wagon astraddle of a row,
break tbe corn and throw at once into tbe
wagon. A team of two or four mules will
soon learn to accommodate tbeir gait to
that of tbe hands, to start and stop at the
command of the driver. Four hands is
the most convenient number for the pur
pose—though a less number will do—each
hand carrying a row. When thrown on
tbe ground in the usual way, the ears
generally are scattered some distance from
the intended heaps, and hid among the
grass and weeds, much time is lost in
gathering them up, and many are left in
the field. In the plan proposed the com
is handled but cuce to get it into the
wagon; there are but few ears overlooked
and left; and the hands work with more
alacrity. "When the wagon is filled, all
hands go with it to the bam, and the un
loading always involves a race to see
which can get first to the bottom.
Various remedies or preventives have
been suggested to protect the stored corn
from the attacks of the weevil. We have
never found anything a sovereign pre
ventive. Wetting the corn in the crib is
a plan very often recommended, but it
bas not uniformly proven efficacious. We
have tried tbe experiment of interspers
ing the leaves and berries of the China-
tree thickly among the com, and with de
cided benefit. The difficulty of prevent
ing the depredations of this insect lies in
the fact that they get into tho com while
yet in the field, and are protected by the
shuck from the reach of ordinaiy reme
dies. '
As it is still early in the season we
would be glad to publish a remedy from
any farmer- who knows it to be effectual.
Tbe sprinkling of each load of com as
thrown into the crib with salt water bas
at least tbe effect of making the shucks
more palatable to stock.
HOGS.
While the hogs intended for the coming
winter’s pork should have been kept in a
growing condition all the summer, Sep
tember may be considered the first fatten
ing month. The heat of summer having
passed away, the process of laying on fat
may be encouraged by liberal feeding and
pasturing. There are two important rea
sons why hogs should be fattened during
the fall months and be ready for killing
by tbe first cold weather:
1. Animals of all kinds fatten most
readily during mild weather, and especial
ly during tbe months immediately pre
ceding the winter season. Fat is a natur
al provision—both for the protection of
the vital organs against cold, and for the
supply of carbo-hydrates, or fuel for keep
ing up the internal warmth; and the sys
tem is predisposed, in the fall, to the pro
cess of storing up fat. After cold weather
has set in, a much larger proportion of
the food consumed is used directly for
maintaining the normal heat of the ani
mal, and the fattening is proportionately
slow.
2. It is well known by all farmers that
pork killed in November and December
makes better bacon, as the drying, smok
ing and packing away can be alt done be
fore the cold weather is over.
COTTON PICKING.
Some writers seem to think that'tho
careful handling of cotton is the most im
portant part to be observed in gathering
the crop, and confine the term mainly to
carefully avoiding trash and dew. There
can be no doubt that care bestowed in
this way will be, in some measure, recom
pensed by a higher price in the market.
But the most important consideration is
the damage that may result to the cotton
if leit exposed in the fields to the winds,
storms and dews. To avoid loss from
this source should be tbe great aim of tlie
fanner. Picking should be pushed, and
bands should be encouraged to work rap
idly. Extra pickers should be
employed, so that the cotton
may be gathered as fast as it opens. Such
an amount of care in rejecting trash as
would materially reduce the amount gath
ered daily, should not be enforced. This
is a nice point to be determined by every
farmer on his own judgment. He would
be an extremely careless hand whose
clay’s pickings would sell for half a cent
Jess per pound (after ginning) than that
of the most careful worker. But the dif
ference in price consequent upon the in
jury from one storm of rain is often not
less tlian two or three cents per pound,
to say nothing of thejtbsolute loss of the
staple by being blown to the ground
The color of tbe cotton when sampled
bas more effect in determining tbe price
than the quantity of trash; and tbe rich,
creamy sample can be secured only by
gathering tbe cotton very soon after it has
opened. The early morning picking
should be spread loosely over the pile iu
the gin-house, so that it will dry some
what before covering with other cotton.
In some varieties of cotton, the locks
adhere with such tenacity to the hulls
that to get absolutely all the cotton,
would require too much time. Some far
mers adopt the rule of making but one
grab at each open boll, leaving what may
elude the grasp to be gathered after the
press of tbe harvest ig over. We are in
clined to approve' the practice. The
amount left in the hulls is usually hut a
very small proportion of the whole, and
will remain safely until a more conven
ient season. The practice of plucking
the open bolls from the stalks before pick
ing, and then throwing them to the
ground, is to be emphatically condemned,
as not only wasteful, but slow.
fall oats.
In middle and north Georgia farmers
should commence to sow oato in Septem
ber. The earlier a stand is secured, less
liable are the plants to be killed by freez
ing out In winter. When early sown the
plants make a more or less vigorous
growth before cold sets in and there
is a corresponding root develop
ment, which gives the plant firm hold on
the soil and enables it to resist injuiy
from severe freezes.
There has been a very lively Inquiry for
absolutely rust-proof oats. Tlio experi
ence of tbe last season has caused many
fanners to conclude that the rust-proof
quality of the famous “rust-proof oats” is
among the exploded theories of the past.
We think there is no occasion for alann
to the careful farmer, who is always
ready to profit by past experience, and
provide against future disaster by avoiding
errors that lead to such results. The
spring of 18S0 was r remarkable one in
several respects. The weather was just
such as have been found by observation
to promote the attacks of rust. We have
no reason to apprehend the return of such
a season next year or in many years to
come. If we were to become discouraged
by such an occasional disaster to a par
ticular crop, we would have long since
considered tlio corn crop as very uncertain
and unreliable on account of oft recurring
dry seasons in summer. And, indeed, it
is uncertain and unreliable when com
pared with the oat crop.
These remarks are of course intended
for those farmers on whose farms varie
ties of oats heretofore considered proof,
liave rusted this year. The lesson taught
by the past season is, that we caunot be
tod careful in the selection of pure rust
proof seed at the start, and in properly
ripening and keepiug the seed pure every
year.
SPOTTED MEDICK.
This . rather new plant is commonly
called “Hog or Burr Clover,” though it
is really not a clover at all. It belongs
to tbe same tribe with Lucent, but differs
from tbe latter in being annual, instead
of perennial. Its botanical name is Medi-
eago Maeulota; that ot Lucent, Medicago
Sativa. The teed are contained in pods
spirally coiled up and forming little burs.
Hence, one of its names. It should be
sown in August or September, the latter
being the time at which it usually comes
up. It grows during the winter, being
perfectly hardy, and furnishes good graz
ing until late in the spring. In May or
June, 'after maturing an abundant crop
of seed, tbe plant dies and tbe seed may
be easily gathered by raking up and win
nowing. '
It is said, by those who have experi
mented with this Medick, that it will do
well on bermuda sod, supplying grazing
during the winter and spring, when the
bermuda is at rest; so that a field seeded
to both makes an all-the-year-round pas
ture. It is necessary in the spring to re
move stock from the field long enough to
allow a portion of Medick seed to mature.
If this is done the field need never to be
re-seeded.
*We understand that the Commissioner
of Agriculture, Hon. J. T. Henderson,
has on hand a small quantity of Georgia
grown seed of the Spotted Medick, for dis
tribution to those farmers who may wish
to give it a fair trial.—Christian Index.
The Condition of Radical Vermont.
.The Rutland Inquirer says that Colo
nel Worthington, who has been employed
to gather statistics relating to labor and
wages in tbe various States of tbe Union,
reports that the average wages paid for
labor in the State of Vermont is consider
ably less than in any State north of the
Mason and Dixon line.
Governor Proctor, in a recent speech in
this town, stated that a large increase in
the number of.convicted criminals in this
State was the cause of tbe greatly increas
ed cost of its government. He reported
the number of criminals to be nearly
three times as many as it was a few years
ago.
Judge Dunion stated in his charge to
the grand jury last September that the
amount paid for intoxicating liquors
in this State in the year 1S70, was $6,700,-
000, and it had increased in amount since
that time. Now, this would furnish to
every voter in the State forty-five gallons
of rum at $2 a gallon, a quantity suffi
cient to keep every one of them drunk 300
days in every year.
Thu3 it would appear that the Stale of
Vermont is remarkable for five things,
viz:
It has the largest per cent, of crime.
The lowest wages.
The least gain in population..
It drinks the most rum.
And has the largest Republican majori-
ty. "
Literary Men and the Midnight Oil.
Balzac among French writers Is a con
spicuous example of the literary man
who, in Shakespearean phrase, “doth
make tbe night joint laborer with the
day.” "When at work on “Le Medecin
de Catnpagne”—that book which he esti
mated to be worth more than a law or
twenty victories—he only slept five hours
a day. He wrote from midnight till noon,
then corrected proofs till four o’clock.
The brief remaining interval was occu
pied in dining and a short promenade.
Balzac had various expedients for in
creasing the number of hours in the day,
and for getting tho most labor out of him
self. Craving inordinately for fame, as
be so many times acknowledged in bis
letters to his sister, he was ready to make
any sacrifice to realize the desire. At
one time he “went to sleep with the fowls,”
at six or seven o’clock in the
evening, rose at one in the morning, and
scribbled till eight; then slept for an hour
and a half; breakfasted and returned to
harness, dining at five, and then to bed.
Another practice of his was to sleep from
one o’clock in the day to half-past six,
and to write from seven in the evening
until seven in the morning. “One must
turn out copy all night and slumber by
day to reach tbe resutts at which I aim,”
be said. He went into a kind of per
verted training for this mat£h with time—
as exhausting as most matches of the
kind. How fatally it terminated, has
tened by the abase of coffee, is a mourn
ful page of literary biography . But when
the curtain fell ou the last act of the dra
ma of his iife, Honore de Balzac was fa
mous.
A celebrated living English novelist,
whose 'books are decidedly sensational in
color, may be said to resemble the great
French romancist in at least one particu
lar. He is reported to begin his day at
six In the evening, and to struggle on
gamely to six the next morning. The
late Mortimer Collins, so we are told, was
an habitual “borrower of the night,” be
ginning bis writing when the rest of the
household bad retired to rest, and contin
uing it until dawn. Carlyle, during the
period ot his greatest mental activity, sat
at his desk 'until two in the morning,
though it is only fair to say that of late
years he has strongly shown a belief in
the early hours of the day. Thack
eray, too, used often to write far
into the night; and some of Poe’s
best sketches were midnight penning®.
“Even ourselves,” writes Elia, character
istically, after having enunciated his be
lief that the candle is a kindlier luminary
to the inspiration of genius than the sun
or moon, “in our humbler lucubrations,
turn our best-measured cadences (Prose
has her cadences) not unfrequently to the
charm of the drowsy watchman ‘blessing
the doors,’ or the wild sweep of winds at
midnight.” Indeed, a close comparison
of tbe habits of men of letters will show
that a large proportion of them do their
work whilst the rest of the world is wrapt
in slumber.—London Globe.
An Incident in the Life of Antonio
Canova,
The way in which one person benefits
another is often worth far more than the
benefit itself. If, before helping anybody,
you Lave made them bumble themselves,
have forced them to tell their misfortunes,
and ask for assistance with reddened
cheeks, bow can you expect them to be
grateful ? True pleasure aud real virtue
are bis who seeks out the indigent man,
and spares him tho shame of asking;
who, like an angel of God, consoles the
afflicted and dries his tears without being
seen.
Antonio Canova, who died in Venice at
the ag« of sixty-five, October 13,1822, was
the greatest sculptor of modern times.
But this praise would be slight if wo could
not add that he was a man of most noble
disposition.
The constant wars and numerous polit
ical changes in Italy at the end of tbe last
and beginning of the present century bad
reduced many persons to poverty, more
particularly artists, painters, engravers,
sculptors, who found no one to furnish
them with work during the disturbances
and expenses caused by that most terrib e
scourge—war.
Canova was bom of poor parents, but It
is not high birth, but tbe noble nature
that makes tbe man. By study and labor
he had risen to eminence, had acquired
wealth and had obtained vast influence
with princes and nobles. This wealth
and this influence he used in benefiting
artists, persuading tbe rich to employ
them, and himself giving commissions for
pictures, and making large purchases ot
statues. In his native place, Possagno,
he erected a largo temple, iu order to give
work to a number of people and to attract
foreigners there. Not content with this,
he eagerly sought out all cases of hidden
want.'
One day he heard that a certain painter
living in Rome, a man of no great talent,
but striving aud industrious, had become
very poor. Hastening to the clergyman,
Canova learnt that this artist, being too
proud to ask for charity, was, with his
aged wife and his only daughter, suffer
ing the direst want; that not being ab le
to sustain themselves otherwise, they un
ravelled the threads from the woolen
counterpanes to make socks with, by the'
sale of which they procured a crust of"
bread, scarcely enough to stay the pangs
of hunger.
Conova was deeply- moved at this re
cital, and knowing that the-painter would
refuse any money he had not earned, what
do you think he did? He wrote the fol
lowing letter:
Honored Sir— For a long time I have
been wishing for a picture of yours. May
I therefore ask you to choose some sub
ject, and paint me one at y6ur earliest
leisure. I cannot, however, give more
than four hundred crowns. Half of this
sum will be counted out to you by the
bearer, tbe rest you cau send for when
you like. Your humble servant,
Canova.
Tbe painter on receiving this was quite
overcome, knowing well that it was the
great sculptor’s goodness and not bis own
merit that bad led to this order. Tears of
gratitude from tbe rescued family blessed
tbeir generous benefactor, who spared a
a sensitive man the pai nof accepting mere
alms, and rendered his kindness ail the
more precious by doing it in this graceful
manner. Carlo Viti. ■
Bibles with Queer Names.
An] interesting collection of Bibles
was recently exhibited in London, which
comprised copies of all the editions that
because of peculiar errors of the printers,
or from sotlle other reason, have been
known by strange names. Among the
Bibles on exhibition were tbe following:
The Guttenberg Bible.—The earliest
book known printed from movable metal
types, is the Latin Bible issued by Gut
tenberg at Martz, A. D., 1450. .
The Bug Bible.—Was so called from
the rendering of Psalms xci.:5. “Afraid
of Bugs by Night.” Our present reraton
reads, “Terror by Night.” A. D., 1551.
The Breeches Bible.—The Geneva ver
sion is that popularly known as the
Breeches Bible from its rendering of
Genesis iii. 7: “Making themselves
breeches out of fig leaves,” making trans
lations of the Scriptures—the result of the
labors of the English exiles at Geneva—
was the English family Bible dariDg the
reign.of present authorized version of
King James I.
Tbe Placemakers’ Bible.—From are-
markable typographical error which oc
curs iu Matthew v. 9: “Blessed are the
placemakers,” instead of peacemakers A.
D., 1562.
The Treacle Bible.—From its rendering
of Jeremiah viii. 22. “Is there no treacle
(instead of balm) in Gilead?” A.D., 1568,
The Rosin Bible.—From the same text,
hut translated “rosin” in the Douay ver
sion. A. D. 1609.
The He and She Bibles.—From the res
pective renderings of Ruth iii. 15—one
rendering that “She went into the city,”
the other has it that “He went.” A. D.
1611.
The Wicked Bible.—From the fact that
tho negative lias been left out of the Sev
enth commandment (Exodus xx. 14.) for
which the printer was fined £300. A". D.
1*41.
The Thumb Bible.—Being one inch
square and half an inch thick, was pub
lished at Aberdeen. A. D. 1670.
The Vinegar Bible.—So named from
the twentieth chapter of Luke, which
reads as “The Parable of the Vinegar,”
instead of the Vineyard. A. D. 1771.
The Printers’ Bible.—We are told by
Cotton Mather that in a Bible printed
prior to 1702. a blundering typographer
made King David exclaim that Printers
(instead of'Princes) persecuted him with
out a cause.” See Psalm cxix. 161.
The Murderers’ Bible.—So called from
an error in the sixteenth verse of the
Epistle of Jude, the word “Murder
ers” being used, instead of “Murmurers.”
The Caxton Memorial Bible.—Wholly
printed and bound in twelve hours, but
only 100 capies struck off.
BEAD THIS.
A Few Facts that Will Interest Every
Bfan, Woman and Cliilil The Beal
Prince ot Showmen Wants to be
Heard-“What tho South Never
Saw.” %
Mr. W. C. Coup, proprietor of the Newly
United Monster Shows, which are to be
with us on September 22, requires u» to
iay the following before our readers, and
we gladly do so.
To My Friends of the South:
What the South never saw before I ant
bringing you, viz: an U ndimiuislied Show!
You may not know, but I do know, that
managers have always disposed of half of
their exhibitions before coming to the
Southern States. They did that to save
expense. They got rid of half their rail
road cost and half their salary list at one
blow, and you did not know the difference.
Now, I have a name and a reputation to
sustain, and I cannot afford to risk them
by resorting to tricks. For the first
time in your history you
will see a big, first-class, elaborate,
magnificent tented exhibition in all its be
wildering entirety. Not a wagon wheel,
nor a stake, nor a yard of canvas, nor a
single one of my million and a half of fea
tures will be left behind. You will see
tbe largest show on the inhabited globe,
tbe same as twenty thousand enthusiastic
people a day saw it in New York, Chi
cago, Boston Philadelphia, Baltimore and
every large city in tbe Union. I will
bring it because I can afford to bring it
with your generous help. Knowingly,
never stated an untruth to the public in
my life, hence I will not stoop to it now.
I tell you I will bring you shows that
will electrify you with delight, and I mean
it. No show in the world has half the
features I have. No other show bas its
canvas illuminated by that glorious light
from lieaven, the electric light. Just im
agine a city ot snow-white tents on the
darkest, blackest nights made as bright as
the midday sun could make it if only
few yards distant. Then I will bring
you my troupe of trained Broncho horses,
the only ones in existence, who
perform more tricks in the ring than the
same number of human beings could, and
I know it. And the wonderful, the love
ly, the only baby sea-lion, born three
weeks since, and'weighing just twenty-
seven pounds! And then James Melville’s
world-famous circus company, with every
celebrated artist alive! Fryer’s trained
dogs, too, who erect their own gallows
and hang one of their number for theft!
The great devil fish, fifty feet leng, cap
tured off Newfoundland, will be with the
New York Aquarium. You have all
heard of Wood’s New York Museum.
Well, I have that also, with all its won
ders. A party of genuine Indians, the
only ones with any show who dance the
war-fantastic, tie an enemy to the stake,
engage in combat, and sing their aborigi
nal songs. These are worth twice tbe ad
mission price alone to see. My menagerie
is the largest on the road and includes a
living specimen of every rare and beauti
ful animal known to natural history.
Richell’S flying machine, Height’s negro
jubilee singers, leaping grey hounds, the
happy family of animals, and the most
original and the grandest free-for-all
street pageant—miles in length—and dif
ferent from anything you ever saw be
fore; all these and ten thousand glittering
novelties impossible to mention here I
am bringing you for the insignificant price
of fifty cents, and half price for children.
My object is to please you, to satisfy you
to tbe full, to take you, one and all, right
into my confidence as my friends, and to
have every man, woman and (especially)
child bid me good night with the remark,
“Mr. Coup, 1 got ten times my money’s
worth.” Obediently, your servant,
*" W. C. Coup.
Women as Harvesters.—Mr. Bret
Harte has written from Europe to a friend
in this country that, seeing how women
abroad work In tho fields, he thanks
Heaven he lives in a republic where there
are men cuougli to do that sort of labor.
On which the Chicago News says: “He
is right as to the sufficiency of men, but
wrong 83 to the supposition that they re
lieve the women. If Mr. Harte could
make a circuit of this city, within a ra
dius of twenty miles, he would see, in
seed-time and harvest, in storm and
shine, in hot and cold weather, field after
field dotted with women doing the work
of men. He would see them plowing,
hoeing, weeding, sweeping the scythe
through tbe grass, raking hay, pitching off
loads of fertilizing material, and with a
stubborn purpose doiug more and better
work than the men who employ them.
The same sight is presented throughout
the great Northwest.” This serves to
show that tho people who chiefly inhabit
tbe Northwest continue the customs of
the country from which they came.
That Frank Landers, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Indiana, is
more than a match for his Republican
competitor as a popular speaker, is assert
ed by the'most intelligent Democrats who
have witnessed their joint discussions.
The Only Outback He Has Seen.
—Mr. J. W. Hamilton, advance agent of
Coup’s circus, who declares that he is
neither a Democrat nor a Republican,
writes to the New York Sun relative to
what he has seen in the South. He de
clares that the people are most kindly
dis
procession, howling and cheering for Gar
field, and declares that if such a thine
had happened m New York there would
have been a riot. He also speaks of the
rocking of the procession and describee
this as the only Southern outrage be has
seen.
NOTES ON THE CAMPAIGN.
Y.—-The Joint Discussion.
The Norwood organs tell us that Mr
Norwood invited Gov. Colquitt to continue
the joint discussion. The invita'io n
given, was probably prefaced with the
“charge” that the Governor is runnine
about over tbe State loo much. Atanv
rate, the discussion is ended, and Mr
Norwood continues his gubernatorial
tramp alone; and, like Marmion, he will
gasp out on the 6th of October as the last
words of his political life “charge, charee
charge.” (No military allusion intended’
as the reference is to Mr. Norwood.) 1
A DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE
The thoughtful observer looking at
these joint discussions, as a whole, must
be struck with the difference between the
mode of reply of the two speakers to tho
campaign charges. Mr. Norwood ha3
“sharp instincts,” (tide Judge Warner)
and knows (not meaning to call him a
criminal) that the “effrontery of the crim
inal is a greater shield than the modesty
of the innocent.” He has therefore met
the charges against him with a sort of
braggadocio “yes, I did it, and what of
it.” Thus he answers (?) the salary grab
accusation. On the other hand, the
charges against Gov. Colquitt have been
met by explanation or denial.
A FEW QUESTIONS
may reasonably be asked of those now
inclined to Mr. Norwood in reference to
these charges against him. Would you
ever have thought of declaring for him if
you knew at the time that he had “put his
hand on the people’s money” after a re
ceipt in full by bins, and ° paid it out ”—
nst to Toombs, or Lawton and Alston,
but to himself; or that ho is now the at
torney (?) of Huntingdon’s Pacific Rail
road scheme; or that the Confederate sol
diers of Macon stationed at Savannah re
garded liis course during the war as wer-
thy of “the plurnes-picean robe of Ameri
can controversy ?” There can be but one
reply—No! never! Then, are not objec
tions which would have prevented your
first inclination towards a candidate suf
ficient reasons for a reconsideration? The
reply to that will depend on the character
and candor of the individual. These same
questions should be met and honestly an
swered by Colquitt’s supporters; aud if
they change votes, let it be so. One of the
infamous men of English history is the
member of Parliament who said he had
heard many speeches that changed his
convictions, but never one that changed
bis vote.
THE VINDICATION OF BULLOCK.
Mr. Norwood opened Ms speeches in the
discussion with the statement that Col
quitt’s (Democratic) administration was
worse than Bullock’s (Radical) rule. This
statement was wickedly false and meanly
scandalous. Every supporter of Mr. Nor
wood in Georgia knows it to bo false. He
could be convicted of slander on that as
sertion before a jury composed of the com
mittee that put him upon the people or
taken from the most malignant of the dis
appointed office-seekers. Democratic
Georgia may well rejoice that Mr. Nor
wood’s insignificance may prevent tlie cir
culation of this falsehood at the North;
and she may equally rejoice that if it is
taken up by Southern slanderers, Col
quitt’s character is too well known in the
North for it to be regarded as more than
tlie resource of a partisan. That Mr.
Norwood, after disclaiming all emotion,
all sentimentalism, and professing to
speak only “facts and figures,” should
have repeated this insult to Democratic
intelligence, time after time, “ fatigues
indignation” and sickens contempt.
THE CHAMPION DIRT—DAUBER.
After tills general charge, Mr. Norwood
descended to his sixteen charges. He
added a seventeenth when he iound out
there were actually men here who held
Colquitt responsible for Goldsmith. He
would hav» added as many more as he
could get, because tbe dirt-dauber always
puts more mud on than he needs—he
knows that all will not stick, hut he
thinks some of it will. After reading Ms
long indictmentj he sits down; and pre
tends to expect that Gov. Colquitt, the
choice of the majority of the people of
Georgia, will assume the attitude pf a
guilty criminal before hint, “the nominee
of a stray committee,” and take up the
whole time (it would require more) iu
repeating the answers already publicly
made to Ms charges.
AN INCIDENT.
There was at least one good thing that
happened at the joint discussion in Ma
con. An ex-soldier was hanging to one
comer of the stand with one arm and fre
quently made appeals for quiet, more
forcible than elegant. But when Gov.
Colquitt told the single anecdote of the
hound on the cold trail, this interlocutor
added: “If you can’t read, it ain’t the
Governor’s fault.”
THE OTHER SIDE.
It shows a sad lack of candor in Mr.
Norwood’s advocates when they pretend
that Gov. Colqnitt should have consumed
his whole time repeating his Atlanta let
ter and Ms previous-answers to Mr. Nor
wood’s charges, thus depriving himself of
any opportunity of calling attention to
Mr. Norwood’s record and to the great
“prosperity and success of his own admin
istration." These “charges” are like
grains of powder, each smutty and con
temptible when regarded by itself, and
cnly formidable when massed together.
If tlie readers of this paper will permit,
aud the patience of the editors not give
out, I will briefly state each charge and
each reply. No-Axe.
——A
Three Despised Races.—One of the
recent preachers in tlie amphitheatre at
Lake Chautauqua was the Rev. Joseph
Cook. His sermon was an appeal for the
black, red and yellow races in the United
States. He charged upon the Southern
churches the responsibility of indirectly
promoting tbe civil war, but predicted
that before another census is taken the
whites will have outgrown their preju
dices against tlie blacks. For one, he
pledged Mmself to labor for _ the
maintenance of the principles established
by the war, to wipe out all trace* of the
monstrous crime of slavey, and to make
sure “that government of tbe peo
ple by tbe people and for tbe
people shall not perish from the
earth.” Mr. Cook, as he repeated these
historic words, grasped the hand o' one
of the Fisk Jubilee Singers; and standing
up with him, called upon the audience to
rise and likewise pledge themselves. The
effect was electrical; the audience, num
bering thousands, rose as one person, and
"are a Chautauqua salute, cadi one wav
ing a white handkerchief. The demon
stration was continued for some moments,
and the colored man sank back in liis
chair, his eyes suffused with tears, as in
deed were those of many in that vast
throng of listeneis. The Indian race was
next taken up, and some broad assertions
were made relating to the corruption,
and rascality in tbe Indian service oi
the government. Tlie importance of
the Chinese problem, new routes opened
up, the intellectual progress of the race,
were all spoken of, Mr. Cook considering
the Chinese the most industrious and
peaceable people on the Pacific coast. Not
alone are China and Japan the only coun
tries to be regenerated, but there are many
Olliers in Asia and Africa. Mr. Cook said
he had written in the sand on the Pacific
shore: “ May God hasten the regenera
tion of Asia.” He had tried to write it
on the Atlantic coast; and on the western
edge of tbe Mississippi valley he would
write it that it might resound from M*
agara to Pike’s Peak. “ God grant that i.
may not be erased,” was hi* closing ex
clamation. ^
A doctor tells with* pardonable pride
how, being called in at the debut of bis
career to a consultation with an eminent
prince of science, he had insisted, despite
the opinion of his famous senior, that t “ c
patient had an incurable afleejon of the
heart. “Aud what was my ddVfeht and
•re minding men own wn ■ ■ rrri . , n
deavoring to rebuild their waste places Judge Trumbull gays tb* not h*
and the general desire is to forget alL tweuty years has he seen »uch wtnusias
about the war. He was in WilmingtoW as inspires the people of IljrooiHor a r -
when the grand ratification meeting was | ical change in the goveraxatg-
held here, describe* the crowd of ragged I cratic barbecues, attendedP 80 *
ragamuffins who followed the Democratic pie, are no uncommon oecypPQ*