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A-BM t» » 39!f£&klg2 $% Terms of the Telegraph tend Hessen l*r. Postage free to all Editions. Daily Telegraph and Messenger ®10.OOprrpr *» _ ** •* «• 5.00 Goto# •• •• «• •• 2.50 Soto#. Daily Telegraph and Messenger and Southern Fanner’s Monthly XtJ&Operyr. Weelly Telegraph and Messenger 2.00 *' M •• “ •• •* 1.00 Catos, fftcfi’g Telegraph ana Messenger and Southern Farmer's Monthly 3JS0peryr Remit by P. 0. Order or Registered Letter, to H. b. DAVIS, Manager. tfdtgcapjf anti $toettger FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24,1880. Illustrated Papers.—There is ; ively tilt now going on between the At lanta Phonograph, published by Christo pher,and the Athens Blade, published by Pledger, colored, as to which is the best illustrated journal. Both have special ar tists, and the rivalry will be really exci ting for the next two weeks. Egypt.—A cablegram from Cairo says the condition of the river Nile causes much anxiety. It is arising unsatisfacto rily and several weeks late. The inunda tion is lower than at the corresponding period in 1870. Irrigation, however, pro ceeds well. There are some complaints from the interior that the cotton crop has suffered, but to what extent is not known, Brother Hancock, of the Sumter Re publican, asks us to come over and help elect Norwood. No, thank you; it would be too hard a job. The time is too short to produce so great a change as would be necessary to carry that point. As to Tom mie Akin’s flurry we know nothing; we haven’t seen his pamphlet. Tom is a good boy; at least used to be when at school. The Republicans, says the Nashville American, are inclined to use the figures of off years in explaining the result in Maine. This never deceives. Maine gave 15,000 Republican majority in 1870. At the same rate, allowing for increased vote, they ought to have carried the State by 20,000. To have done less was to lose ground. It is simply a thin device to con ceal defeat to take the off years as a basis of explanation and comparison. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says dispatches from New Orleans represent the. prevalence of fever at the quarantine station about seventy- five miles below that city. The president of the Louisiana board of health pro nounces it malarial fever, but army sur geons and others are said to. pronounce it yellow fever. The national board of health in Washington has received no of ficial intelligence on the subject, although some statements from private sources have been made. No Yellow Fever.—A dispatch from New Orleans, states that a severe type of fever has been prvailing about seventy- five miles below New Orleans, near a quarantine station. The disease was re ported to be yellow fever, and Dr. Bemiss, of the National Board <■ of Health, thereupon sent an officiaHo ex amine into the character of the fever, who confirmed the statement. The Presi dent of the National Board of Health then tendered to the Louisiana State Board the sum of $10,000 to be used in staying the course of the pestilence. But Dr. Joseph Jones, the President of the Louisiana Board, denies that the disease is anything more than malarial fever, caused by exposure in the rice Gelds, and declined the protTered aid, as the State Board was competent to deal with the trouble. Dr. Jones has had the lar gest experience in the treatment of yellow fever, and is thoroughly posted in the pre mises. Indications that the Frame of the Hudson River Tunnel was Crushed—The caisson at the shaft of the Hudson river tunnel in Jersey City has been sunk to a depth of 23J feet. The upper deck of the structure is on a level with the top of the bulkhead of the coffer dam. The workmen have reached within fourteen feet of the spot where the dead bodies of the twenty men who were buried alive are supposed to lie. When the tunnel was begun in January last, an excavation was made twenty feet deep, where the caisson is now being sunk. Some of the timbers used in this excava tion have been removed, and underneath Was yesterday found one of the heavy wooden wedges used inside the tunnel to brace up the Iron plates. The wedge could only have reached the place where it was found through the top of the tun nel. The inference is that when the top ol the tunnel fell in the iron frame was crushed and broken like an egg shell, and the wedge, which wa3 inside of the tun nel, floated to the top. Should this be so, the work of taking off the iron plates will be saved. last Week’s Cotton Figures. Wet Weather and a Bad Report. The New York Chronicle reports the receipts of the seven daysending last Fri day night, 17th instant, at 102,095 hales, against 76,933 for the same ‘week of last year. Totals, 185,030, against 120,907 last year—showiug a gain of 64,123 bales. The interior port business of the week was as follows: Receipts, 34,824, against 45,932 last year. Shipments, 27,547, against 86,599- last year. Stocks 38,094, against 23,S90 last year. The Chronicle’s visible supply table showed, on Friday last, 1,209,073 bale3 of cotton in sight, against 900,389 at same date last year, 1,080,478 the year before, and 1,472,113 in 1877 at same date. These figures show an increase on the visible supply of last year of 368,634 bales, and on the supply of 1878 of 18S,595 bales. And they show a decrease on the visible supply in 1877, at same date, of 203,040 bales. Last Friday middling upland was quoted in Liverpool ’ at 7 3-16. At the same date last year the quotation was C 0-16. In 1878, at same date, the quota tion was 0 7-16, and in 1877, C3-1C. The weather during the early part of the seven days which ended last Friday was generally rainy throughout the cotton region, but more favorable in the latter part of the week. In Texas, at Galveston, they had hard showers on fitfe days of the week, and a rainfall of 2.40. The cotton plants were all stripped of leaves by the worms, but it was still said as much cotton would be raised as coaid be picked. In Indianola there had been 1.50 of rain, and cotton was stripped, but would do well if the bells did not rot from damp weather. In Corsicana they had a deluge. All the streams were out of their banks, and 4.49 of rain had fallen during the week. At Dallas there was 1.10 of rain in three days. At Brenbam, 2.50 of rain on four days. In both picking had been interfered with. In Waco there had been hard rain on three days and a fall of 2.03. At New Orleans there was very little rain, hut in Shreveport 3.32 during the we.ek. Roads in had condition. In Mississippi, at Vicksburg, rain on four days. Bottom and top crops will be poor. At Columbus, raiu on three days to the amount of 2.03. Crop seriously damaged. Nothing from Arkansas. In Tennessee, at Memphis, very little rain but people, despondent about the crop. The estimates of yield had fallen from 20 (which is called a conservative esti mate) to 50 per cent. At Nashville they have had a slight frost. Crop reports less favorable. In Alabama, at Mobile, they had rain on four days with a fall of 3.00. Much damage from rain, worms, rust and rot, but still crop accounts were pronounced more favorable. In Montgomery, five days in which light showers fell. Pick ing progressing finely. In Selma, light rains on three days. In Madison, Florida, rain on four days. Much damage from the late storm. As to Georgia, Columbus had one rainy day, in which 1.92 of rain fell. Macon had rain on one day. Savannah had rain on three days, and a total fall of i.37. Augusta had light rains on three days. Picking going on finely, and crop hurried to market. Crop Report.—The Chronicle, fig uring on the Agricultural Department’s last report, finds it, with the exception of the States of Tennessee and Alabama, better than last pear, and In roost of the States considerably better. “If,” Says that paper, “we add to each the increase in acreage also, it would seem that on the first of September, according to the De partment reports, the yield promised to be considerably larger than the crop just marketed.” The table of the department figures, as summed up by the Chronicle, shows an average condition of 97.7 against 91.1 last year. But the whole story lies in the du ration and character of the picking season, of which we have had so far only five to six weeks. When we get into the last of October we may begin to talk. tion will probably ho the most notable since the time of Jackson. He is just the sort of man to keep the best elements of the party in the front. It is absurd for the Republicans to say that business will be injured by a change. There will be gen eral rejoicing at Hancock’s election. “Last fall I was waited upon by a com mittee of negroes who wanted me to con tribute towards aiding afi exodus to In diana of 10,000 negroes who were to be usedffieyond a doubt to affect the Presiden tial election. I told them I was no long er on that side of the fence. Since then I have heard that but 3,000 negroes reached the State. In an ordinary election this would make the State doubtful. It won’t The Obelisk Landed in New York. —The obelisk, says the Sun, of Saturday, is now resting upon a heavy wooden framework, constructed especially for its reception, on the pier at the foot of West Sixty-ninth street. At 2:30 p. m., yester day the revenue cutter Rescue towed the two empty pontoons out into the river to ward the bay, and the men on board waved their hats in token of farewell to Commander Gorringe, who, standing on the pier, responded with his handkerchief. While the laborers were engaged in re moving some tackle from a lighter, one of them, an Englishman named Richard At well, lost his balance and fell into the river. Striking a piece of timber in his descent, he bad his shoulder dislocated, and was removed to the Ninety-sixth Street Hospital. At least a thousand persons visited the wharf yesterday. The needle will proba bly not he taken fromtlie piles before Satur day night, and it will likely be two weeks before it leaches the park. It will he rolled on its way over cannon balls six inches in diameter, held in iron tracks with raised edges. North American Review.—The Oc tober number of this superb publication is on our table, and is filled with good things. Mr. Thomas A. Edison contrib utes an article to this number of the Retleic, in which he states that he has succeeded in making the electric light entirely practicable for all illuminating purposes. He shows the advantages of electricity over gas, and explains how his system is to be introduced. He comments upon the unfavorable opinions that have been passed upon his work, and says that similar judgments were pronounced upon telegraphy, steam navigation, and other great discoveries. Other articles in the October number of the Review are: “The •Democrat Party judged by its History,” by Emery A. Stores; “The Ruins of Cen tral America,” by Desire Charnay ; “The Observance of the Sabbath,” by Rev. Dr. Leouard Bacon; “Tbs Campaign of 18(12,” by Judge D. Tbew Wright; “The Taxa tion of Church Property,” by liev. Dr. A. W. Pfizer ; and “Hermit Progress in As tronomy,” by Prof. E. S. Holden. Maine Election." There are various parts of the earth which are quite remote from somewhere; hut the remotest part of all from every where, including itself, is the State of Maine. James G. Blaine, with all his power, can’t get a'report from the Maine election in seven days. We can hear from India, China and Japan in forty- eight hours and less, but Blaine thinks Maine can’t be heard from till way into November. It worries Mr. Blaine that he can’t hear and settle this dispute sooner, but so it is. The boys on the Penobscot, as they fish for eels and sculpins off the wharves, sing in melancholy strains, “James G. Blaine** Can’t hear from Maine.” And so it goes on from day to day. Let us see—how do the dispatches run? For ty-nine thousand niue hundred and nine ty towns give Davis (Republican) a plu rality of 101. Six towns, plantations, farms, post-offices and saw mills are to be heard from, which gave before the flood a Fusion majority of ninety-nine. Should they vote the same way, Davis will have a plurality of two votes. It Is probable Davis’ majority is somewhere between five hundred and a thousand; but the official returns will he necessary to determine the exact vqte. A special from Madawaska says all the officials are dead drunk a fishing, and getting over the Prohibition excitement. Some of them stove a hole in their boat, and let the glory through, which ^accounts for the chaDge. Music from Conklins:. Conkling made his debut in this cam paign last Friday evening at the New York Academy of Music. It was a select en tertainment, to which tickets of admission were necessary, and guests were expected in white kids with Lubin’s extracts. Conkling waved the bloody shirt in lemon- colored. He was heavy on the accursed South, which refuses to vote the Republi can ticket. He dismissed Garfield with few and faint words of commendation; but as for Garthur—oh! he was sweet on Gartbur. Having recently been on an ex tended fishing trip with Garthur, he had found out all about him, and knew him to he honest. In fact, he had drank out of the same bottle. Garfield was well enough, but the true friend was Arthur. An Old Republican. The World intervie s-s Hiram Barney, Collector of the Port of New York under President Lincoln and gets the following and a good deal more from him: . “I know General Hancock personally. General Grant introduced him to me on the field at Peteisburg. His admimstra tios year.” „ . „ “How will the Maine election aflect the national campaign?” “The final result is plain to every in telligent mind, and I believe the masses of the Republicans read the handwriting upon the wall. The wavering Democrats have been made firm and the vote cast for Tilden in 1S76 is assured beyond any doubt; the floating vote; which is always large in Indiana, New York and Connec ticut, will come to the Democratic party. On the other hand, the Republicans are sick at heart. I will venture the opinion that New Hampshire and Illinois will either decide for Hancock or ba very close States. California and Oregon may he counted upon as sure. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are reasonably certain for Hancock. If In diana goes Democratic and the Republi can majority in Ohio is decreased Han cock’s native State will not be wanting. I really believe that all indications poiut to a sweeping Democratic victory—such a one as will effectually wipe out all traces of the Republican party. The Railroad. Commissioners Refuse to Advance the Rates on the Brunswick and Albany Rail road. The general manager of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, Col. C. L. Schlatter, having petitioned the railway commission ers for an increase of freight on that road, the case had a hearing before the hoard on the 17th instant. Albany was represented by the follow ing able committee of citizens: L. E. Welch, D. H. Pope, L. P. D. Warren and D. Glauber. The committee, the Consti tution says, based their opposition to the increase of rates on the following grounds “That the present rates on the Brunswick and Albany Railroad are agreed rates made by the hoards of trade of Brahswick and Albany, and the princ’pal shipping along the line of the road with the officers of the road; that these rates were perfect ly satisfactory to all interested; that these rates were presented to the Railroad Com mission in May last, sanctioned by them and put in force; that the merchants of Albany and Brunswick and along the line of the road arranged to have a line of steamers on between Savannah and Bruns wick, running twice a week; that eveiy- thing was working harmoniously, trade increasing and the people satisfied under existing rates. » “There is no cotton on the Brunswick and Albany railroad except Albany. For the last two seasons there’ll as been a pool on cotton between the three railroads at Albany. Since the enforcement of Circu lar 10, the Central, and Savannah, Flori da and Western railways have increased their rates on cctton from Albany to Sa vannah to 60 cents per 100 pounds. The Brunswick and Albany railroad will be shut out of the pool unless it increases its rates. “The committee insisted that the Bruns wick and Albany railroad should haul cotton to Brunswick at the present rate, 36 cents per 100 pounds, 167 miles, as the rate from Macon to Savannah is 40 cents per 100 pounds. At the same rate per mile from Albany to Brunswick as from Macon to Savannah, the rate wouM be 34 cents per 100 potmds, while tlie’Tsfe as before stated is 30 cents. The committee claim that the people of Albany spent their money In constructing railroads for the purpose of receiving the benefits of competition, and by increasing the pres ent rates on cotton, they would be de prived of this advantage. “They showed, including insurance and the boat rate from Brunswick to Savan- nah,.the present rate via Brunswick to Savannah would be 50 cents per 100 pounds. Besides this there is some delay as the steamer only runs twice a week. ■“The Central railroad has hanking facil ities at Albany, aud the Central and Savannah, Florida and Western railroads have daily trains to Savannah, without transfer, and have better facilities at Sa- vanuah for handling cotton. With all these advantages, if rates are not greatly less by the Brunswick and Albany no dot- ton -will go that way. The committee in sist that the Brunswick and Albany rail road should be operated as a railroad, and not simply as a partner in a pool in which they do no work. “The present shipment of cotton from Albany .amounts to 30,000 bales. If the request to increase rates he granted, the difference to Albany will be very great, and great injustice will be done the city of Albany, because it wrs a fixed under standing iu April that These rates would not be changed unless it was found to work injustice to either of the parties. “The committee showed that almost all the cotton now moving from Albany goes over the Brunswick and Albany railroad. “A few years ago, the committee assert, the Brunswick and Albany railroad would have been glad to get cotton at 3.25 per bale, for which now they get $1.70, per bale aud are seeking an increase of rates. “After a.patient hearing the commis sioners -decided that the present rates on the Brunswick and Albany railroad are sufficient.” This decision will be balled with the liveliest satisfaction by the citizens of AI bany and southwest Georgia, and shows that the commissioners are ready to give heed to the voice of the people wben;their demands are reasonable. Decision! of the Supreme Court. We shall publish'the decisions of the Supreme Court, as heretofore, in a slightly abridged form, hut without omitting any thing of importance, either to the practi tioner or general reader. They will ap pear, as a rule, on the day succeeding their publication iu Atlanta. Mariy of the head-notes, as now reported, consist of such points as the following: “The ver dict is supported by the law and the evi dence ;” “ There being no abuse of dis cretion in granting the new trial, this court will not interfere;” “There being no error in the charge of the court, a new trial is refused,” etc., etc. These rulings, when taken in connection with the full reports of fhe cases which appear in the printed volumes, have a significance which can be ascertained; hut without a full statement of the evidence, decision or charge in the court below, they give no information, except to show the result of the ruling In the Supreme Court. In view of this fact, such points will lie reported only when the cases decided come from those circuits in which the. Telegraph and Messenger has its chief circula tion . By adopting this plan, we shall be able to report the decisions as fully as those who are interested therein will care to have them, without, trespassing on the equities of those to whom they are of no concern. Returns from all but five counties in Arkansas give Churchill,Democratic can didate for governor, a majority of 52,000 over Parks. The same counties gave Til den 23,266 majority over Hayes in 1876. Democratic gain, 28,734. The five coun ties not yet reported gave Hayes 3,864 majority. "Too Rich,” and its Perils. We have the authority of the New York Graphic, and of some other North ern papers, that the great danger now im pending over the Southern States is an excess of wealth. They are going to be “(oo rich.” Our enormous cotton crops— in demand at fair prices—hat chiefly the census returns, indicating a fair increase in population and products, have brought outside minds into a wild reactionary con dition, and with a -sudden flirt, as it were, from a very contemptuous under valuation of Southern resources and pros pects, they have whisked over to the op posite extreme, and are now prophesying such vast and rapid accumulations of wealth as will be demoralizing. It is very certain^ that “we, the people of the South,” cannot appreciate this peril. The number of us embarrassed by excess of wealth is so small as to be invisible to the naked eye. Nor is it in the nature of an agricultural community to become very rich. Its fate, if prudent and careful, is much better. It makes slow and certain accumulations—safe ac cretions—which, in time, produce a gen eral diffusion of a comfortable abundance, wherein there is no destitution or suffer ing, and no gorgeous display of too easily acquired wealth; a community without nabobs or beggars; a people adapted to a free Republican government; a condition best suited to the highest moral, intellect ual and religious development of man Give me neither poverty nor riches, says the Psalmist. This state and condition we devoutly hope the Southern people will settle down into, and become illustrious examples of a virtuous, prosperous and free people, The natural resources of the country all point to it—particularly the agricultural; which, while promising no rapid gains, do hold out the prospects of fairer and steadier rewards than that of any other country, and promise to build up strong and intelligent yeomanry in the very situation to develop the best traits of manhood. Now, looking at the general future of the United States, it seems to us easy to perceive that the security and permanence of our institutions must ultimately find their best guaranty in such a population. The great agricultural populations of the South and West must be the sheet anchor of the country. In other sections the people are rapidly assuming such widely divergent conditions as to forbid the idea of such a community of interest and sym pathy as to permit hearty co-operation When the philosophers of the North had put slavery to death with the bayonet, they were full of confidence that they had extinguished the last and deadliest foe to free government in America. But how is it, that, in less than twenty years after, very large part ot them are crying out lor “astrong government”—“imperialism”— a government which can take the people by the throat and hold them down in terror? That Was the Grant third-term idea, and it was hacked by a large part of the capital of the country. It is easy to see that it sprang out of a realization of that dangerous process which is now going on with marvelous rapidity, by which the people of the trading sections of the coun try are fast dividing themselves into classes composedof peasants and nabobs —the. small number rolling In wcaltb and the mass struggling for subsistence. This brings a crucial Test that will strain a gov ernment by the popular ballot to its last fibre. Borrowing some strong hints and a pro digious scare from the labor and wages riots of three or four summers ago, the capital oftlie great trading and financial parts of the country could think of no remedy or precaution but Grant—a strong government'and plenty of soldiers; and they came very nigh embodying that idea in the existing Presidential campaign. They mean now that it shall he repro duced four years hence, after the end of Hancock’s term—for few of them have any idea of Garfield’s election; anil they do see that this processof the poor gettin; poorer and the rich getting richer is going on steadily—that it tends naturally to an ugly crisis, and they are able to see no other remedy than one which will invest the minority with powers and remedies far more sweeping than any contemplated by our popular system. But the whole republican system is founded on the assumed virtue of the peo ple—their predominant love of justice— their general fairness and good sense; and if these foundations are'rotlten, the secu rity afforded by any fraudulent perver sion of the government, such as that pro posed by Grant, Conkling, Cameron & Co., is not worth the trying. It would only bring about a more violent catastrophe, made more bitter and destructive by this cheating scheme. Let everybody remember this, for they will surely find It true: When the mass of the American people become unable or unwilling to control their government substantially in the interests of justice, honesty and freedom, it is not going to be changed by any such peddling fraud as that contemplated by Grant, Cockling & Co. It is going' to pieces—the greatest and grandest wreck that ever stranded on the ocean shores of anarchy and revo lution, and its awful fate will be such memento as the latest generation will not forget. Hon. Thomas W. Akin.—The course of Mr. Akin, one of the electors for Han cock and English, in taking the stump against Colquitt, is very generally and properly animadverted upon. Of course he, and eveiy other citizen, is entitled to vote for his choice of the two gubernato rial candidates. But inasmuch as there is happily no division of sentiment upon the merits of the nationar Democratic ticket, hut on the contrary it will'be zeal ously supported by the friends both of Colquitt and Norwood, it is extremely in decorous and out of place for any elector who owes his position to the joint vote of the Colquitt and anti-Colquitt men in the convention to publicly take part either for or against either of the • candidates for Governor. If such a cours'e is persisted iu, it will be to the manifest injury of the national standard bearers of the Democ racy. We are glad to learn, therefore, that, save in the single instance of Mr. Akin, no other member of the electoral ticket, either as principal or alternate, has become involved in the present bitter and deplorable personal contest for Governor which Is doing so much to Injure GeQrgia, both at home aud abroad. The Old War-Horse Snuffs the Bat tle Alar. An exchange says: “The principal bus iness of Kaiser Wilhelm and Prince Bis marck just now seems to be to prepare the people for the next war. The full text of the Kaiser’s address ‘to the soldiers of the German host,’ on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the German vic tory over the French at Sedan, wlnchuow reaahes us by mail, breathes a warlike spirit in its references to the future, which the cable version of it failed to catch. He appeals to the troops to preserve, under all circumstances, the strictest discipline, and to remember that the army can only accomplish great successes ‘if diligence in preparatory training for war never wearies it, and If, furthermore, the slight est detail is not disdained in orier to give a firm and sure foundation to its trained efficiency.’ ” This octogenarian sovereign is a true type of the nation of soldiers over which he rules with an irou hand, and yet singu larly enough is not only popular, but greatly beloved. The late war with France, which was prosecuted with so much vigor and ended so disastrously to Napoleon HI., brought Germany into the front rank among the great powers of Eu rope. There is a certain steadiness, not to call it phlegm, about the German char acter that makes of him a model soldier. With proper training he becomes a verita ble machine, moving like an automaton regardless of consequences when under orders. At the same time, a deep-seated love of the “vaterland” and the tradi tions of his race animates his heart, and renders him well-nigh invincible in ac tion. It is said that the Kaiser’s warlike atti tude has caused no little uneasiness in France, and that irreprsible power is girding tip her loins and preparing for ac tion. The memory of Sedan is like barbed arrow in the vitals of the republic, which continues to fester and rankle With superhuman efforts the military es tablishment of France has been vastly augmented, her immense debt liquidated, her resources husbanded, and her people trained and prepared for the inevitable hour when they will • he called upon to vindicate their beloved country from the disgrace attendant upon the recent con flict with Germany. When that day ar rives, the shock of the contending armies will startle the universe. -Sallte Spriggins, one ot our rural sisters, bad her picture taken the other day, and the likeness was wonderful to behold, hut no remedy like Portaline, or Tabler’s Vegetable Liver powder has ever been prepared. It will cure you. Price 50 cents. For sale by Lamar, Iian- £ kin & Lamar. Jul 16 Campaign Notes. Hon. F. M. Longley, of Troup coun ty, has been appointed by the Governor judge of the Coweta circuit, vice Judge Bucbanau resigned. Judge Longley is regarded as an excellent lawyer and up right citizen. Campbell County.—A special from Cainpbellton says: “Put down old Camp bell from 1,100 to 1,200 majority for Col quitt. Norwood will not get over 50 or 75 votes in the county. I hare just had a talk with one of Douglas county’s best posted and most influential citizens. He puts the county down as practically solid for Alfred H. Colquitt. He says Nor wood thunder aud Colquitt lightning has struck the county, and she will give Col quitt from 800 to 1,000 majority. The News From Carroll County. A Constitution special says: Captain Van Epps, of your city, addressed a large, vast, stupendous assembly here to-day in a pithy three hours speech; the crowd be ing almost wild with enthusiasm would only calm down as the speaker proceeded. Immediately after the speaker began, everything was quiet and remained very quiet during -his entire effort. Every cross-road had been posted in the fork with large hand-bills that Captain Epps and Small would address the people at the court-house. For a week iu advauce Norwood men had advertised it from the house top to the tree, by the roadside. Number that heard the speech, men and A Change.—The far-reaching results of the victory in Maine can hardly be over estimated. Its importance at this state of the canvass is simply lieyond calculation, First, it proves that the Democratic party in the North is aroused to the importance of the occasion. Secondly, the moral force of the victory hr equal to many thou sand votes for the Democratic cause. The* undecided will remain so no longer; the independents will see their way clear at once; the Greenbacker has been shown the road to victory, and will hereafter march to the music of the Democratic col umn, giving Weaver and his inflation to the winds. Again the depressing influence on the enemy is the sure harbinger of vic tory. They put forth their utmost strength, well aware how dangerous a defeat would be to them; but all availed naught; the matter has passed beyond the domain of uncertainty. General Hancock will he our next President. Americcs Fair.—We have received the premium list of the fourth annual ex position of the “Americus Fair Associa tion.” This publication is handsomely gotten up by Col. C. IV. Hancock, of the Sumler Republican. The work is admir ably done, hut we do not fancy the paper. The premiums ate liberal for a district fair, and will no doubt draw many articles from other points for exhibition. The fair opens on Tuesday, October 2Cth, and will continue four days. Every facility will be afforded to reach the grounds at a nominal cost. The fairs at this poiut are always interesting, and draw large crowds. We hope they will have fine weather and an appreciative, as well as a paying, crowd to attend the forthcoming exhibition. Methodism in Great Britain.—The Dublin Freeman’s Journal gives the fol lowing statistics of the Methodist denom ination, taken from the minutes of the last British conference: One hundred and three young men who had passed the usual probation oC four years were ordained to the • full work of the ministry; 328 remain on trial: 2,344 ordained ministers are engaged under the direction of the conference; 38 deaths are reported. In each case a suitable obitua ry record is inserted. Those who inti mately knew Dr. Gather, and who will read the record in Ins case, will conclude that but scant justice is done to the mein ory of a truly great and noble man. The total membership is stated: In Great Britain, 376,678, with 25,824 on trial; in Ireland, 24,443, with 723 on trial; in for eign missions, 86,788, with 10,33G on tri al; French conference, 1,782, with 62 on trial. Total, 4S9.711, with37,245 on trial On the Maine Election.—The New York Herald remarks: It really makes little difference whether Plaisted is elect ed by one or two hundred majority or is found in a minority of one or two hun dred. The effect on national polities will be substantially the name in either case. If, when Mr. Blaine has done his best iu his own State, it is saved “by the skin of its teeth,” such a result makes Maine doubtful in the Presidential con test and lias a depressing effect on Repub lican hopes. If the party barely escapes defeat in the State in which it confidently expected a handsome majority, it may ex perience similar disappointments in other States in which its success seemed assur ed. An English Beecher. Our readers will remember Beecher’s famous advocacy from the pulpit of ‘Sharpe’s rifles,” to settle the question of slavery and Southern Independence. It ap pears that another'irate clergyman Is fol lowing suit in England by way of exterm inating the anti-Orange element. IVe quote the following from the Dublin Freeman’s Journal of recent date: “Mr. Sullivan very properly brought be fore the House of Commons last night the advice given by an Orange chaplain to his hearers in a iatif speech. This Christian pastor of souls aud man of peace is re ported to have counseled his amiable au dience to aim themselves with the best rifles that can be procured, and for every Protestant shot to shoot a parish priest and the Home Rule member for the dis trict. - If a Land Leaguer were found tripping like this, what would be his fate? But the Orange lamb is allowed to go on unchecked aud'nnrebuked. If Mr. Dil lon used language of a tithe part that violence, he would be called ‘a coward,’ and intimidated even iu his place in the House; but our brave Orange hero on the war-patli may whoop till he grows black in the face without fear of prosecution. Yet, when the London Standard sets ihe example of violent and inciting language, what car. we expect from an Orangeman who, if scraped, would stand revealed a savage?” Central Railroad stock, says the Savannah News, continues very strong, and sales were made on Monday last at par, with light offerings. , boys. Of that number, boys under 21. Colquitt men Norwood men For nobody The speaker 75 . 18 . 37 . 16 . 3 . 1 75 Total. Lawton in Athens.—A correspon dent of the Constitution writes from Athens thus: “General Lawton spoke here last night. He sandwiched into his speech a mild attack on Colquitt in order to have an excuse to hit Joe Brown under the ribs. The reason for the latter we all know- Only one hundred and fifty whites were present. One-half of them were Colquitt men. Ail of tho colored audience were for Colquitt. His speech fell flat. We have four hondred aud fifty white names enrolled for Colquitt. The colored people are solid for him. Put Clarke down for Colquitt by a big major ity.” Norwood Clubs.—“Many Norwood clubs are being formed in various sections of the State composed of colored people,” is the latest style of putting it. We ex pect they are as various as that club at Nance’s. Losing Ground.—The Athens Banner says: “The Norwood boom has lost much of its strength. When a boom consists mainly of enthusiasm, it very soon leaks out. Enthusiasm is good in its place, but it needs to be thickened with a good ad mixture of votes. You never saw men more confident than the Colquitt men are now.” It is said the voters are paying up their taxes well. It is not necessary that the taxes for the present year should have been paid to secore the privilege of vo ting. It is only taxes due for past years that must be paid. - v Jury.—Columbus Times: “If a man is an office hunter who was recommended to the Democracy of Georgia by 225 votes in a possible convention vote of 350, what is a man who is recommended by no part of any convention, hut hanks on nine outsiders? Might he not he called an of- -fice “grabber?” Gen. Lawton’s Athens Speech. Athens Banner: “He attacked the ap pointments of the last two years, and gave Hawkins and Brown particular tits. His speech was able and diguified, but sophistical. He was not enthusiastically applauded hut three times; at other times the applause was rather weak. He made decidedly the best address we have yet heard on the subject, and in conclusion commended Norwood to tho people.”. The Biggest Yet.—There is an old fel.ow going about Newton county circu lating the “Convict Catechism” and telling negroes that the reason Governor Colquitt is now a poor man is because he killed 300 negroes in slavery. This old tramp appears to he a model Norwood orator. A Great Orator.—Chronicle and Constitutionalist: “Hon. R. J. Moses, is an eloquent, logical and persuasive speak er. He brushed aside all the sophistry of Norwood’s followingand truthfully por- . trayed the personal and official integrity of Governor Colquitt.” A Knawwood Club.—Covington En terprise: “A Knawwood club of three members was recently organized at New born, Newton county. Great enthusiasm prevailed and the names of the officers of the club requested to l>c suppressed for the present.” Discouraged.—Columbus Times: “A late Norwood gentleman from Chat: a- hoochce comity hurt us yesterday by giving if as his candid opinion that Col quitt would not carry that county by more than three hundred and fifty votes. The reason we feel hurt Is our informant knows every nook aud comer in the coun ty, and knows the people back to a date when some of them did not know them selves, and what he says we know to be his judgment founded upon the very best information that can he obtained. We wanted at least five hundred majority in Chattahoochee.” The Columbus Times says that the let ter of R. F. Lyons, does that gentleman honor. Judge Hawkins has been greatly traduced, and this protest added to that of the bar of Americus, Judge Hawkins’ home, should put to shame those who would reach right and left over his should ers to stab Governor Colquitt and over Governor Colquitt’s shoulders to stab him. The Radical Nominee in the Sec ond Congressional .District.—News and Advertiser.—The nomination of B. F. Brimberry, by the Republicans of the Second District, is no surprise to Demo crats. It shows tho weakness of the party. He is a mere figure head, aud a fit subject for political slauglier. Let Democrats rally to Turner, and the victory is ours. Rev. Dr. Felton made a speech at Trenton, Dade county, last Thursday. The Bade County Gazeile says he com pared the Democratic party of the State to a lizard with its head aud tail cut oil, and that he alluded in glowing terms to the divisions of the Democracy, which he claims to hare caused. Never Endorsed It.—Governor Col quitt has written tho following letter de nying that he ever endorsed Colonel Mc Kinley’s speech made before the State Agricultural Society several years since iu opposition to the sale of liomesteads or farms to the ireedmen: Atlanta, G(C., September 13,1SS0.—Hon. W. J. Northern, Sparta. Ga.: I have your letter, aud am amazed at the variety of the misrepresentation that the opposi tion use to defeat me. The statement that I have at any time been opposed to selling laud to the colored people is utterly untrue. On tho contrary I am for everything that will make them good, useful, moral citizens, hound to the State by lies of property, educated for the very highest discharge of the duties of citizenship. The Agricultural Society did not adopt the speech of Mr. McKinley, years ago. His views were the views of no one but the speaker, and while the so ciety thanked him as a matter of formal and customary courtesy for his effort to entertain them, and possibly published his address as part of the proceedings of the society, they no more adopted his ideas or endorsed them than they did the conflicting opinions abont farming that at eveiy session of the society gentlemen constantly expressed. . So far from my being opposed to the colored people buying laud, I believe it is the best way to make them the best citi zens to give them property right to lands. And 1 should sell to them land if I had the chance. I am very truly yours, A. H. Colquitt. Betting on the Result.—The Con stitution says: “On the counties there is great deal of money wagered. It is said that there is over $10,000 bet on Fulton on 1,000 majority for Norwood, aud then the betting dropped to 500 majority for Norwood. At tills point a good many bets were made, but within the past ten days the wagers have been on even figures. Bets have been freely made that Colquitt would carry the county, and no odds are asked from the Norwood men. It is claimed by the Colquitt men that they are sometimes unable to get takers of even bets, and that the Norwood men are not now so anxious to bet even on the county as they were to give odds a short time ago. A number of wagers have been placed on Cobb county, no odds being given either way that we know °f* Two or three bets that Colquitt would carry Muscogee have been taken, the Norwood men giving four to one odds for these bets. One gentleman who has bet heavily on the election put up $100 even to sustain the proposition that Col quitt would carry the three counties of Hall, Jackson and Banks. There are some even bets made on Hall. Clarke has been a county for discussion, and even bets have been made on Colquitt’s carry ing it. A bet was offered on Saturday by a Colquitt man that Norwood’s ma jority in Bartow would not be over 500 and declined by the Norwood man. For betting purposes Bibb’s Norwood majority has been set at 600 hut there is little offered or taken on this. Richmond’s Colquitt ma jority has been put at 1,000 and several bets have been made on this. One gentleman wagered $100 that Nor wood would not carry 25 counties of the 138, and another bet that i his majority would not exceed 800 to the county in five counties in the State. And so the money goes! Of course, we discourage betting and advise all men against betting. We quote the above, merely because money is a busi ness talker and never lays itself out on boastful estimates. It generally, if not always, represents the best judgment of those interested and generally gets pretty near to correct figures. The Penalty for Illegal Voting. As germain to the present situation, we print the text of the State law for the pro tection of the purity of the ballot box, and hope every good citizen will give heed to it: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 4569 of the Code of 1873, which provides a punishment for buying or sell ing, offering to buy or sell, or being con cerned in buviDg or selling a vote and for voting unlawfully at any election in this State bo, and the same is hereby amended, so that the said section shall read as fol- laws: Any person who shall hereafter vote at any such election or who has not resided in this State one year next pre ceding such election or who has not re sided six months next preceding election in the county in which be has so voted; or who lias not paid all takes, which since the adoption of the present constitution of this State, have been required of him previous to the year iu which said elec tion occurs, and which he has had an op portunity of paying agreeably to law; or who has been convicted iu any court of competent jurisdiction of treason against the State, of embezzlement of public funds, malpractice in office, bribery or larceny; or of any crime involving moral turpitude, punishable by the laws of this State with imprisonment in the peniten tiary, unless such person shall have been pardoned, shall be indicted and on con viction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4320 of this Code. Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved October 16,1879. The “rebel” Democracy nominated McClellan in 1864, Seymour in 1868, Greely in 1872, Tilden in 1876 and Han cock in 1880. No wonder the intelligent North is alarmed at the action of these traitors. Hebrews in the Councils of the Nation.—There are now three Ha- brows in tlie TJuiteti States VJOI)gre9S— Messrs. Jooas, Morse and Einstein. In the House there are six German Repre sentatives, among whom are Heilman, of Indiana, Poehler, of Minnesota; Muller, of New York, and Deuster, of Wiscon sin. The Difference.—Athens Banner: If the Rev. David E. Butler had been ap pointed railroad commissioner, and the Hon. Thomas M. Norwood had been ap pointed United States Senator, there would have been much less fuss in Georgia. However, the Hon. James Mil- ton Smith would probably have been heard from. A Norwood paper boasts that the Col quitt meh have no large clubs like the Norwood men have. Our esteemed Sa vannah contemporary, the News, reminds them that Colquitt has a club among the people, that will show at the polls 50,000 stronger than all the Norwood clubs and all tho Norwood men put together. Keep Cool.—Hinesville Gazette: We regret to see so much excitement exhibit ed in reference to State politics. There has been no necessity for it. It is to be hoped, however, that all feeling engender ed by the contest will be forgiven and for gotten. The Union and Recorder says: If Gov. Colquitt had appointed on the bench of the Supreme Court, in place of Col. Haw kins, a Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist lawyer, eminent for his piety, tlie.Nor- wood papers and orators would have charged that he was trading in religion, and buying support from religious denom inations. But as Col. Hawkins is not particularly distinguished for eminent piety, at once the Norwood claquers howl piteously and say, “See there! Colquitt lias appointed a man to the high office of Justice of the Supreme Court who is a man of the world!” It is no use for Gov. Colquitt to try to please these men, and he will not do it. Not So.—Houston Home Journal: We see that the editor.of the Atlanta Post- Appeal puts Houston in a list of counties which he calculates will give majorities for Norwood in the election on the Cth of October next. Without being an advocate for the election of Colquitt, we do not wish the followers of Mr. Norwood to be misled by a statement that will not be verified. Houston will undoubtedly give a majority for Colquitt, though our vote will not help make it. A Specimen Brick from the Post- Appeal : The negroes of Florida are not voting for Governor Colquitt, the “Hero of Olustee,” as they remember how many negroes were slruglitered at that fight aud inhumanly treated In more than one in stance. It is hard to make sensible col ored men see how Colquitt ever favored them except to get their votes. Crawfishing.—A correspondent of the Griffin News says one of the best signs of tbe contemptible manner iu which Governor Colquitt has been attack ed, and that tbe people would not submit to it, is shown by tbe fact that his ene mies now claim that they never sympa thized with the infamous persecution of linn. Governor Colquitt was ridiculed for the interest he took in the cause of religion, and when his opponents found that the people would not tolerate this, they turned sail and said they never countenanced such chaiges. They got out the miserable convict cate chism, and when the negroes took it up as an insalt to their race, Mr. Nofwood went to the extent of saying iu his speech at Griffin, that . when he first saw it, he disapproved of it, because it was not the truth. In their wild course they have charged the Governor with every possible infamy, but when the sober sense of our conservative people rose up indig nantly, they took the back track and de nied all responsibility. In their dire ex tremity they go so far as to say that the Governor and his friends originated these reports. Was there ever such brazen im pudence? The idea of a man charging himself with conduct that_ would make himself an object of scorn, contempt and loathing, and, if true, would make him a worse criminal than any one in prison to day, is too absurd to consider. A New Dodge.—The B1 ackshearNews publishes the following copy of a cam paign affidavit: State of Georgia, Pierce County. I, , d 0 swear that 1 will election, and also to vote for A. J. Dick- son lor Representative. The managers of said club and said club is to be of force aud said affidavit is to be binding on the undersigned during the term of the guber natorial election which will take place in 1880, and further swear that I will not vote any ticket at said election uuless handed me by A. J. Dickson, W. F. Dick son, H. Williamson, Isliam Tyre, Arthur Tyre, R. G. Riggins, J. A. Harper, D. E. Knoles, J. M. Davis, T. A. Davis, A. J. Wilson, V. L. Cox, James E. Gurry, James Littleton Henderson, C. Johnson. Joseph Thrase, Cippio Thrase, T. J. Fuller, J. E. Joyner, R. W. Fuller. Sworn to and subscribed before this September, I860. ! Justice of the Peace ,ce. | Thi3 sounds strange to Democratic ears, and smacks not a little of Radical union leagues, dark lantern doings, etc., etc. Such expedients can only influence the degraded and ignorant portion of the com munity. Nfcw Charges.—Griffin News: Tho Griffin Sun, which is as reliable in its po- litical statements as any Norwood organ, very gravely makes the charge in its last issue that Governor Colquitt and General Gordon were botii leading members in the ku-klux. The Sun neglects to charge in addition that both of these bloody- minded gentlemen "administered poison to their respective grandmothers and cut off the heads of several of their little chil dren, and committed midnight murder on several of their fellow-citizens. Let us- have all the charges. Gordon and Norwood at Eaton- ton.—Eatouton Messenger: There is no hiding the trutli that Norwood’s reception was utterly devoid of enthusiasm even among his supporters. Gordon’s stay from beginning to the end was one ovation. Norwood’s speech made absolutely no converts to himself, aud lost him several of his former supporters; Gordon enthused the friends of Colquitt, put their ranks in a solid front and gained several additions; Norwood spoke to a gradually diminishing crowd of 250; Gordon to a concourse of something like 1,000, who heard him glad ly to the end and were sorry when he stopped. These are facts that no man can disprove. A Military Order.—The Governor has issued the following order: Exec. Department, State of Ga. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 20,18SO. General Orders No. 5. Permission is hereby granted to any regiment, battalion or company of volun-' teers or the national guard of any State; or the District of Columbia, regularly or ganized underjhe laws thereof, to enter this State armed and equipped during tho month of October, 1SS0, for the purpose of participating in the reunion of citizen soldiery and the ceremonies incident to laying the corner stone of a memorial armory to be erected by the Gate City Guard. Georgia volunteers. Alfred H. Colquitt, Governor, By the Governor: Jno, B. Baird, Adjutant-General. A New Aspect for American Ship ping. Washington, Sept. 17.—Prof. John Gamgee has addressed a letter to Senator Blaine, in Maine, setting forth a new as pect of American shipping. He points out that iron iu ship building took the place of wood, which rotted under the in fluence of moist heat. He explains at length the durability of iron steamers, but holds that on almost every long voyage, owing to the intense? heat of the tire-room, one or more of the engineers or firemen die, and that while iron steamships may be advantageously used, owing to the expense of building them they cannot be owned by those in mod erate circumstances. These obstacles, he alleges, would be obviated were vessels built nl* fgooC rendered InileStPUctible from rot. He maintains that it is not only pos sible to accomplish Ibis, but that the methods are already kuown. In this con nection he says: “ The time has arrived for superceding the wasteful engine,which utilizes about five per cent, of the coal burned in the boiiers. Improved methods of engine construction and a correct knowledge of the laws of beat enable us to adopt a new system on which high pressures are secured at low temperatures, approaching much more than the steam engine to the animal mechanism which de velops motion and unlimited horse-power beiow blood heat.” Auer referring to the capability of engineers m this country who have developed this theory he con cludes the communication as follows: “Engines must he made like Waltham watches—entirely by machinery and of uniform excellence. Engines can be de signed wasting only twenty-five instead of ninety per cent, of fuel. In short, wood en vessels can be built to cross the ocean at an expense for navigation little, if at all, exceeding the sailing ship, and filled .with merchandise instead of coal. They can be driven as fast as by steam, endur ing longer than metal ships, and affording at least equal chances lor comfort and safety. vote, as a member of the Norwood club, for Thomas M. Norwood for Governor, alone. There were some few bets made and use all my. influence to secure his Northern and Southern Democracy. On the sectionalism of the parties the World makes this showing, which should be remembered by people who prate about the solid South and the sectional ism ol the Democratic party: The self-rediant Democrats who vote a they think right must smile with con tempt, of course, to hear it used as an ar gument that either .“the South” or “the North” i3 with or against their party or their opinions. But there are weak mor tals who may he deterred, perhaps, from- giving effect to their real sentiments by the fear of the feeling that in so doing they will be going against their own part of the country. Senator Conkliug’s whole speech on Friday night was addressed to such persons. To them we commend the following table of the Democratic votes cast at the last Presidential election: presidential election of 1876. Total Democratic vote in U.S. . 4,285,599 Democratic vote of South as- follows: Delaware, Maryland, . . West Virginia, Virginia, . . North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, . . . Florida, . ... Alabama, . . Mississippi, ; Louisiana . . Texas, . . . Arkansas, . . Missouri, . . Kentucky, . . 4 Tennessee, , . 13,381 91,780* 56,595 139,670“ 125,427’ •90,696- 130,OSS- •22,923 102,002 112,143 •70.50S 104,755 58,0S:; 203,077 159,696 132,166 Total Democratic vote South, .1,614,160- Total Democratic vote North, . 2,671,430 •Returning Board count. From the above, counting West Virginia asra Southern State, it appears that so far from the Democratic party being chiefly a “Southern’’ party, the large majority of its- members are citizens of Northern States. Sixty-two and one-third per cent., or five- eighths of the entire Democratic vote of 1876, came from the North, aud but three- eighths from tbe South. The cry, there fore, of “The South and its Northern al lies,” which' is considered so useful a campaign argument by Republican plat formers and stumpers, has about the same amount of tinth in it as their latter-day claims of a “victory” in Maine. Can’t Trust in Providence.—Mai- sball Jewell, after tbe loss of Maine, made a descent on the city of Providence, R. I*, which is the honored residence of a great many so-called Republicans of wealth. He called a meeting, which but few of them attended, and stated the situation with great poiut and fluency; but tbe Democratic papers allege that the appeal was substantially in vain. But a small amount of money was realized. Tbe faithful hinted, not indistinctly, the opin ion that it would be thrown away. They considered Garfield a lost ball.