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r ■m agpnpgswnspMB»Bm^^ng»m BBDMHi HUHHHHH9 ®«0*rgla Hte*W$r 5yel*0jn*pJj $m3ir 3xmerml $c 3Rje«a»tig»e. Xht tflrflraph and FRIDAT, APRIL. S. Jr Mr. Stephens Jew b Con^rw. tboGo- loid dollar will have to go to the orphan Baaylum. _ “Riont the wrong nearest tit hand.” The attention of Attorney-General Brew ster la called to the fact that the army offi cers are stealing fends from the Soldiers’ Home. A Gibmam oonple recently arrived at Castle Garden with a $*X) Confederate note as their sole capital. And that is jnst one hundred dollars mote than the Mark ham House party a tarts ont with- ^ Aiteci wears a low crowned Derby unokea violently and lays ont late ’o nights. He is not considered a very prop er person. ProperpersoEsare not popular in Washington. War don’t the Radicals give Moses an office so he can quit stealing and swind ling? He was onoe a bright light of the party, and is no better or worse now than be was then. Gjuxt made Kt-ifer remove a House ste nographer to make way for one of his pets. Mr. Stephens is trying to get at Keifer for the outrage, "but a Republican House will protect him in this or any other rasdality. Csow Doo has been found guilty of mur der acd locked up. Crow Dog is debarred by the absence of education from aelling autographs; still he might get a petition started to raise funds for the squaw and papooses. tdteec- ik ABTHUB’* mulatto man “Fresh” • vidsmtl v indulges tastes in keeping with his name 2Ui attempt to pistol his old wife in order to get-ayonng one, nnder the very shadow of the White House, shauld make him en tirely-too fresh for the position of master of ceremonies. Tax little whale who -operates the para graph columns of the Nashville Morning World refers to the Congressman from the eighth district as Mr. Alexander Overcoat. The littl^rhale is reminded that there is room in one pocket of an overcoat for a dosen newspapers. ' Me. LoxarnxOw was In the habit of giv ing pennies to every hand-organ grinder Who appeared before his house. On tlie afternoon of his death no less tLan three of the grinders halted at the house and had to be shut oi‘.—Exchange. Can it be possible that the great poet oemmitted suicide ? Got. Hxxav Gbadt had his pocket picked at the Highland House in Cincinnati of one hundred and twenty-two dollars. Now, we wish onr millionaire brother would not slash money about in such a careless way. Pickpockets will bo waylay ing ns on the streets. It comes ont that John Sherman hired one of his treasury clerks to slander Sena tor Hampton in the newspapers. Upon the proof, Secretary Folger offered to dis charge the man, bnt Senator Hampton thought John Sherman was the party fit for punishment. The Athens Banner has a relio of. Col. Thornton’s first campaign for Congress. It says: “Aoonntryman bought a plug of tobacco yesterday and fonnd pressed in th tobacco an old ferrotype of Col. Marcellos £. Thourton, and a string of heads. The average tobacco is coming actively in competition with the prize box business.” Pat Walsh should ’prentice his yonng man to a canal boat to complete his naval education. A midshipman who cannot tell a fall-rigged schooner from a pony chaste needs discipline. •‘What shall we do with the dranken tailor? Put him In the long boat and make him bail her.” * Bbewsteb’s labors toward civilizing South Carolina have been gTeatly lightened. The Dexnocrata have put Moses in jail. Your true Democrat is always enthusiastic for reform. The health news from Washington city, in the expressive language of the Znni chief, ‘'does not taste good to the understand ing” of various watchers in the first and fiftl^ districts. Oua noon dispatches recount a fearful catastrophe on the Mississippi. It would seem that somebody is greatly to blame for the horning of a boat with her bow onoe on a landing. The only officer who Seems to have done his duty was the en gineer, who died at his post in an attempt to save the lives of others. Tax Washington Republican has the fol lowing personal about Colonel, lately Judge Carey J. Thornton s “A few days ago a Georgia politician came here in search of an offioe. Deoeived by the flattering promi see held out to him, he telegraphed home: Things are working; will be home in a few days.’ Not long afterward he again telegraphed home. This time the dispatch read as follows : Things have worked ; •end me $25 to get home.’ ” That’s abont way the things work in Washington. Thebe are some people around Augusta who wonder why Maoon girls go wandering about on picnics in the woods near their homee, when they might do well by coming right to Augusta ana staying if they like the place.—Augusta Evening Mac*. Wewonld suggest to Judge Gibson to send over a yonng man to show the girls the way to Angnsta and to explain the sit uation. It is hardly fair to expect onr girls to wander so far withont an escort. Bend a yonng lawyer or journalist; any thing hut a broker. Augusta brokers are at a discount. now and for all time to come to occupy xn inferior poeition. The eooner the ne gro recognizes the fact, patent to every body else, and adjusts himself to it, the sooner be will begin to reap the advanta ges that his emancipation has put in his way. No eolation of the great problem, that has baffled Republi can statesmanship for fifteen years can make the negro anything but what he la the social and political inferior of the wbilo man. After tbeyears of coddling and petting by demagogues that the negro baa enioyed, ft is to the contemplation of a cold reality that be is invited. The white man fa moving on rapidly In tbe march of devel opment. It will tax all tbe powers of tbe negro to keep near enough to the rear of the column to be within reach of its protection. He will bare to learn bow to be jnst to himself and to others to maintain himself, for civilization destroys all that it cannot use to build up and strengthen itself. We fear that few, very few negroes, no matter what their natural or acquired capacities may be, are fully alive to tbe real situation of themselves and their peo ple. As there were not forty, or ten just men who could be found in Sodom, to avert the impending wrath of the Almighty, we donbt if forty, or even ten negroes may be found at the South, who are pre pared to lead their race in the right dl tion. But as out of Sodom came one' man, so out of the negroes of the hss arisen another Lott. Oscar Crosier, a colored man, of Terre- ounue parian, Louisiana, seems to have grasped the situation and to have aet his face “towards the morning.” He has written a Utter to Senator Jones, of Ne vada, which we attach in full to tbft ar ticle. It is filled with wisdom and strength, and to have clipped it woald have been to shear it of its strength. Qe ap preciates the situation, and sets it forth with such pith aud lucidity as may not be improved upon. Yet, even in bU mind, there lingers an idea that tbe negro may be superior to some white men, as he clearly Indicates by his reference to the “poor Cadlan.” While this proposition may be sustained as to individual cases, it falls to tbe ground when nee Is pitted against race; when blood competes with blood. YTrotler, accustomed to tbe simple peasantry of the Teche county of Louisiana, far from the bustle of the world, has brought himself to think that they, devoted alone to hunt ing, fishing and frolicking, and regardless of education and the higher duties of life, would succumb to the negro or be absoroed by him. Not so; In the veins ol these people runs the blood of men who bore upon their arms the glories of Frauce in many wars 1 aud the Acadlans in tbe late war under tbe lead of DIek Taylor, by their fierce and resistless valor routed and [slew tbe Northmen in tbe memorable battles of Stonewall Jackson’s campaign in tbe valley of Virginia. Few In numbers, they might be overwhelmed l by African force, butAbey would still die tbe superiors of their destroyers In every' thing save brawn and numbers. Tbe theme is an inviting one and provokes our pencil beyond the space of our col umns. We present the letter of Crazier, which in our judgment is the highest ef fort we have yet seen from a man of tbe African race: Terrebonne Station-, La., March 21, 18R2.— lion. John P. Janet, United Stalei Senator from b’etada, Washington, D. C.-Dear Sir: Although personally unknown to you, it at this juncture becomes my duty to congratulate and Indorse you, as a representative colored man, upon your speech upon the Chinese question, which embodied so many most valu able troths for the citizens of my race. Since emancipation I, to whom, In prefer ence to many, the benefit of a limited educa tion has been vouchsafed, have seriously considered fffid studied the question resulting from emancipation and negro suffrage. While both these measures arc the Inevitable deduc tions of unpietcriptiblo rights, I have fully ap preciated the drawbacks conscqucut upon the InducUon Into Iho duties of citizenship the actual sovereignty of a million of electors, whom education had no chance to fit and mould for such franchises. It Is not reasonable to suppose that less than a tenth of a population, owning less than one per cent of the landed property, and with such an unavoidably low standard of educational Intelligence, should ever succeed In obtaining a controlling share of Influence, without count Ing the accession of numbers, equaling onr entire muster roll, within ten years, by Immi gration. It la not reasonable either to prognosticate that a race token from barbarism and kept in slavery until twenty years ago, can succeed In equalling. In any near future, a race having to back it a thousand years of progress, which still continues. It is contended that a large proportion of the Caucasian race la still very Ignorant and uneducated, and will not prove superior in Intellect to our laboring class. This only holds good in the South, where tbe slave holding aristocracy has effectually prevented the Instruction of the “poor Cadlan” In ante- Vellum times. I do fully Indorse your views In regard to ac tual toets. It to better to look the future squarely in the face and to know that It will take our utmost efforts to even follow at a distance a race which has so many advantages. There to no blame or disgrace In such superiority, which to caused by circumstances over which wc bad no control. Our utmost efforts, Instead of per suading ourselves that we have already accom plished an Intellectual equality to the Caucas ian, should be directed to striving for it. I am trying my best to inculcate into my children a loyal friendship for their white friends and an earnest desire to emulate them in their Pabsom Felton's trip to Savannah did not pan ont rich. The Keict says ‘‘the nn- btahcCment that Dr. W. H. Felton, Congressman from the seventh district of Georgia, would deliver an address at Ma- sonio Temple, oh “the Political Issues of the Day,” attracted to that place last even ing a large number of people, principally from cariosity. The hall was filled to its capacity. The speaker presented the plat form of the Independent party, and then devoted the main portion of the evening to the disenssion of the State road lease, the convict lease, ‘rings’ and ‘political fa vorites.’ He occupied two hours in his remarks, and it may safely be said failed to make a convert to Feltonism. There is bo coed to say more.” Tbe Colored Lott . The plain truths told by Senators Jones, Teller and .Edmunds as to the grand mis take the negropblltots of tbe North bad made, daring the recent debate upon tbe Chinese bill, have caused several educa ted colored men to fly to their Inkstands, only to produce indignant remonstrances. The exceptional cases of able, intelligent and useful negroes, cited by them from the history of many generations, is met by tbe inexorable maxim, “exceptions only prove the rule." The facts still Itand, as these Republican Senators have ’ stated!them. It wl'l be well for tbe intelligent and educated ne- xroes of tbe country if they them, and will endeavor as is their duly to Impress them upon their race. U“P al * atable as tbe tact may be, it nevertheless ilia fact, that In the political and social Jyrtein of America, the negro to bounp Tbe Chalrmaasblp of tbe PaeaeermlK. Ceacroeieaal CeeamlUee. After considerable caucusing and delay, and even after Mr. William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, waa reported to have gone to Washington City and to have Indulged in some indignation, if not profanity, General Rose cr-ns was made chairman of the Congressional committee. It would be entirely, useless to attempt to conceal the fact that, so far as political expe rience and sagacity may be taken Into account, a worse selection could not have been made. General Rosecransis an educated^ soldier of no political training, and having turned to the shady side of life, is doing his first po litical service as a Representative from one of tbe Congressional districts of Cali fornia. He knows nothing about poli tics and to too old to learn. Bnt It may be well enough to bear in mind that the position does not require him to know anything, or to do anything. He might as well have been elected grand cham berlain of the Congressional cuspedors, for any good that to likely to ensue b> tbe Democratic party. Tbe world has yet to witness a more melancholy specta cle than^i Democratic Congressional committee. The regular machinery to put in motion, a committee is selected and a chairman chose rf. Tbe chairman at hi* leisure ap points a secretary from among the many impecunious political eunuchs who eke out a precarious subsistence abent and around Washington. When Congress adjourns, Wasbignton City to abont as lively and cheerful as a country came- utf:-• - The Secretary then gather* together a lot ot other lmpecnnions political eunuchs, who meet in the basement of the the capltol building, and mail Congression al speeches to every poet-office in the country. Nobody ever reads these speeches, and this routine to strictly lollowed out, for the reason, that such was the custom inaugurated a great many yean ago. Democratic Congressmen and other prominent Democrats are taxed to pay these impecunious political eunuchs, and now and then at uncertain Intervals the chairman, and perbsps one or more mem bers of tbe committee drop into Wash ington to see that the Impecunious politi cal eunuchs are earning their wages by directing andmailing Congressional ora tory by the car load. This is all there is or the high sounding Congressional committee. In view of these facts, it puzzles the or dinary man to understand why Mr. Barnum should interest himself about so unimportant an affair. He cannot understand why strong contest should be made to put the Hon. Mr. Flowers, of New York, at the head of tbe^pmmlttee. And be to com pletely mystified when the Louisville Courier-Jonrnal, the Atlanta Constitu lion and other journals regard the matter as grave enough to write peppery articles about it. The simple solution of the whole mat ter is this: Mr. Barnum, Mr. Flowers Mr. Wstterson and others desire to get bold of this committee for tbe purpose of using it as an agent to manufacture votes and influence, so as to control the nomi nation for President in the next national Democratic convention. So far as the committee is likely to, or is capable of doing tbe slightest good towards affecting the political complexion of the next House, General Rosecrans is jnst as good a chairman as could have been procured. But it is more than likely that General Rosecrans to very distasteful to tbe pipe- layers and wire-pullers of the party. This will account for tbe tears. General Rosecrans to a Democrat and a patriot, of course. He must be a gentle man and an honorable man, for be is tbe target for tbe dirt and abuse of tbe Radi cal press. He may er may not have an ambition for tbe presidency for himself, but it is simple wildness to suppose that the Dem ocratic party is going to repeat the idiotic policy of tbe last campaign. Human credulity is not capable of taking in the monstrously absurd propo sition that the party, after pledging the country time and time again, that when opportunity offered it would give a chief magistrate schooled in the ways of states manship and trained in the paths of peace, is going to falsify that pledge by getting np a military leader amid tbe beating of drums and waving of flags and tbe yells of a crazy mob. Grant has given the country a surfeit of tbe sword. of its tributaries has something to do with them. In this we are influenced largely by tbe immense quantities of water which fell through the Gulf and South Atlantic States on Monday, and which came on tbe wings of this great air current. One thing is assured, that whole section of country to exposed to hurricanes, which come from the same direction and follow nearly the same track. A few aignal sta- To sum.up, I folly and truthfully acknowl edge that what you say In regard to my race to founded on square and actual facto. And I do not only acknowledge this fully, bat also yonr clear purpose to benefit the race, which have needed and received so much of the foster ing care of the general government for the past twenty years. I also gratefully ac knowledge yonr kind expressions of sympathy and assurance of future assistance. Wo severely need it. But In all situa tions in human life it to also best to look the actual situation squarely in the face. You have shown that to us, and thereby benefited us, while people who flatter the ne gro toobtaln tils vote, and try to make him be lieve that he has already attained the very pin nacle of excellence, are doing him grievous and Irreparable Injury. Men who arc weak enough to deny the Justice of your argument, and to pamper the imagination of poor people already contaminated by unscrupulous dema gogues, certainly are the very wont traitors to a race which surely needs all the assistance which can he possibly afforded by a free and philanthropic^ nation. Yonrs, very truly, Oscar Crosier, Of Terrebonne, late State 8enator eighth Scna- atortal district A suspicion is beginning to creep into the pnblio mind that this rotation of judges is the spring ridings means the rotating of certain Congressmen oot of their places. When Parson Felton began to shout and put in his hallelujah licks, the said and proper citizen of Savannah began to look around nervously for the chief of police. tions judiciously distributed, might operate to give the people warning ana save life. CoaoiuBSii ought to retire the wife of Cbet’s valet on half-pay, or the administra tion’s boots will have to be blacked ont on he roof. Knablnff to the Ocean. As the returns from last Monday’s at mospheric disturbances come in, some cu rious facts are revealed. Late Sunday evening a cyclone began in the Mississip pi valley and rushed eastward. Monroe, Louisians, was tbe first place reporting it. Monday morning at ten o’clock it struck within a mile of Natchez and did considerable damage. Tbe next place, as far as heard from, was in Barbour county, Alabama, from whence it jumped due east into Lee county, Georgia, doing considerable damage. The southwest Georgia papers are full of the incidents of tbe great blow, and from them we would infer that the storm centre became divid ed somewhere abont the line of Lee and Sumpter. One division went crash ing through Doely, Wilcox and Terrell and the other swinging toward the north east, came rushing past Macon through Baldwin, Wilktnson. anJ on into Burke county One of these divisions, and per haps Ute other also, expended its force at the coast and flooded Savannah. In less than twenty-four hours tbe tornado had passed from central Louisiana to the Georgia coast, or at the rate of about sev enty miles to the hour. Of course it to only a supposition that the various storms reported were one and tbe same, but as the direction in all instances were similar and the points visited were reached In tbe proper order, the supposition to natural. Tbe tornado appears to have been or tbe bounding kind, and we are yet to hear, probably, of points visited in tbe interior of Mississippi. Strange to say, it came on the track of several previous blows. Abont tbe same time tbe Louisiana tor nado started a similar disturbance took place away up the valley In Ohio. Tbe Ohio tornado also went east, doing con siderable damage In Cleveland, Wheeling, W. V*., Bradford and Pittsburg, Pa., where It appears to have been lost light of. What connection the furious snow storm in New Foundland may have had with it, it to impossible to ssy. We leave to tbe weather bureau tbe task of work ing out the mystery of these disturbances; at the same time, however, wejare inclined to believe that •She im mense evaporation taking place iu the Mississippi valley, and tbe valleys ■awalar Bmra'i Tariff Speech. We reproduce In another column a very comprehensive sketch of the recent speech of Senator Brown on the tariff, from tbe graphic pen of Mr. Jas. R. Randall. Senator Brown, during an extended career in public life, has given no utterance that more clearly establishes his claim to the possession of strong prac tical sense. He divests this subject of all the fanciful trumpery with which theorists have attempted to clothe it, and, goes at once to the core. The con clusion be reaches is the correct one, vto, that the present tariff should be revised thoroughly, its inequalities adjusted and in its place snch impost should be laid as would meet the expenses of the government, and, upon snch articles as we produce and manufacture, at such rates as shall afford incidental protection to onr young and growing industries. And to this com plexion it must come at last. No party can arise that will he able to establish free trade and direct taxation. The poai tion taken by Senator Brown to In exact accordance with the views we have been endavoring to enforce upon tbe attention. OTour reader*. The Tklegbar* has been the first journal in Georgia to open the . discussion of the tariff question. Anticipating that it waa calculated to become one of surpassing Interest to onr people, our desire has been that they should ba thoroughly In formed, through an Intelligent and good- tempered discussion, before making np an opinion. Senator Brown to quite right in the assertion, that tbe sul jeet is incapa ble of any new thought. Free trade and he tarift policy have exhausted the best rained minds in political economy yean since. This has been capitally illustrated in the recent deoates in tbe House. An Honorable Mr. Turner recently indulged in a free trade speech, which, according to tbe notes of the industrious reporter, was received with great applause. A few days afterwards, a member of the House, with an Inquiring turn of mind, invited the attention of bis col leagues to the fact that the eloquent and erudite Kentucky statesman had appro priated tho speech ot another eloquent and erudite Kentuckian delivered in Con gress many years ago. The discussion of the tariff in the peri' oa which ante-dated the war, was always indissolubly connected with the discus sion ofthe slavery question. So strong and lasting are tlie prejudices connected with that fatal institution, that a man who now avows himself as in favor of any kind of protection is regarded by the unthinking as a fool,or one untrue to his section. He to put down at once as one in league with the extreme protec tionists of New England, who would build up and perpetuate grinding monop olies. The truth to, that in the early days of the government all of tbe Southern leaders were protectionists, in tbe sens that Senator Brown is one now, and in accordance with the position occupied by the Telegraph. Washington, Jeffer son, Monroe, Jackson, Calhoun, and many others, are on record by the side of Ham ilton, Clay, and the leaders of the oppos ing party. When tbe Northern manufacturers be came an active abolitionist and endeav ored to destroy tbe property of tbe South in slave?, then the South proposed to take away from the Northern manufacturer and abolitionist tho benefits of protection. Tbe destiny of the South seemed to be wrapped up in agriculture, just as the for tunes of tbe North were bound up in manufacture. Consequently tbe two sec tions were antagonized over an economic question, on account of issues which did not properly belong to it, and the tariff question was discussed with all the heat that pro and anti-slavery orators could engender. This fighting at cross purposes continued nntil tbe North made nnto itself a higher law—a law above the constitu tion, and refused to obey tbe article iu re lation to fugitive slaves. Then the South, in retaliation, proposed to reopen the African slave trade. A war quickly fol lowed. It has passed and its scars and wounds are fast fading from public view. We propose to engage in the work ol eltm- endered by it from the public mind and heart. And we know of no better place to commence thU work than in opening np the discussion of a great business ques tion of equal importance to both North and South. The tariff cannot be discussed now from a partisan standpoint with any more ben efit than years ago. It should be taken ont or the political arena, and subjected to all tbe tests that experience, common sense and our new necessities under changed condition of affairs can bring to bear. Senator Brown has led off in the right direction, and the indications are strong and assuring that he is sustained by some of tbe strongest and most culti valed intellects both of tbe House and Senate. A ffasstlaa Answered. The editor of the Dawson Journal asks ns the toilowlng question: “Do you know of any good reason why patent medicine advertising should be done cheaper for Northern sgeoc'.es and others all over the oountry than that of our merchants and others right at home?” In reply, we will ssy that this paper has a regular schedule of rates for advertising, to which it rigidly adheres, under the present management. The policy ot a newspaper should be governed by the sound business princi ples that guide tbe merchant or manufac turer. A fair rate of compensation should be earned, and when earned, a regular price charged for it. It to not good busi ness policy to charge either too much or too little for legitimate service; neither to it right to charge one patron a low price and overcharge another, in order to keep np a proper average. Many of onr largest customers are the proprietors of patent medicines, and we derive a good income from this kind of ad vertising. While this to true we do not regard them as entitled to special or ir regular rates. We think to the contrary, far the reasons given above. Most of this business comes through advertising agen cies, acd to these we have to pay good commissions. This to nothing more than right and proper, as in securing the busi ness they save us tbe trouble and expense of canvassing. Besides, they often secure business that we should probably never hear of except through them. Some of ‘them, however, are guilty of practices that are reprehensible <m good moral and business principles- Instead or charging tbe ad vertiser regular rates, and relying upon the regular commission for the work— which to ample compensation—they often make contracts for inserting an advertise ment in a specified list of papers at a given price. They then set to work and send propositions to the papers included, to in sert, at figures that are often at the rate of seventy-five per centidlscount on regular rates, avering that they can get no more from their principals- If tlie publisher de clines, a larger offer Is made, and often a third or a fourth, nntil finding they can do no belter, tbe contract to closed at reg ular rates. The Telegraph has quite a number of advertisements now for which itjs getting two, three aud four hundred per cent, more than was at first offered for tbe seme. The proper polity to, to establish a fair scale or rales, and notify all parties that they will be maintained. Adhering strict ly to this rule will soon produce the de sired result In establishing them. I* There * New Coalition Forming? Information has been conveyed to us, from a source that wc consider reputable and worthy of confidence, that Governor Colquitt has invited tbe Hon. Thomas J. Simmons, judge of this circuit, to a con ference, for the purpose of forming a political combination or coalition, by which Judge Simmons is to be made governor. How the other offices are to be divided we have not been Informed. From the same source we learn that General Gordon and Governor Brown are pledged to this combination or coalition. Wo content ourselves with a simple state ment of what has been given to us. The issue it presents is entirely too grave to be made the subject of comment, until proper effort is made to obtain more light. “ And for this purpose we take occasion to ssy that tbe columns of tbe Tele obaph are open to any one over a proper signature, who is authorized to speck for of any one or all the parties referred to. As Mr. Stepbens is about to retire from pnblio life and will probably abandon the soothsaying basinets, we would se'ze the occasion to remark to the Presidential boom-makers that whoever Georgia des ignates, will be the candidate of the na tional Democratic party. Any premature slopping over is altogether untimely, un necessary and rather too previous. \ / \ From all indications it wonld appear that tbe Florida tourist is bringing Florida weather back with him. Annina has a gangling, gawky biy most ly made up of legs. He to the too tooist man of Washington society. It the administration desires to poll the South Carolina Republican votes, ballot boxes should be hung np in the various jails and penitentiaries of the country. “Chet” should look after this. Whkx Parson Felton and his grip-sick flitted through here in tho gloaming of Thursday eve, he looked like a preacher the Bishop had banished from a luxurious city to a haH circuit iuthe gopher belt. Tnx Georgia politician who does not be long to two or three syndicates, to not a member of several coalitions, or does not hold the leadership of some “new party,” may be regarded as a man with no future. Randall tarns his back on Washington and returns to Augusta. We shall miss his racy letters, bnt trust to find, recom pense in his well filled note book. He has elevated and adorned Washington corre spondence. While it may bo true that no man to a hero to his valet, yet a valet may be a hero to his master. The picture of White House Aleck standing with bis hands in his hip pocket must have made Chet Arthur’s blood boil with admiration. Ix is getting so nowadays that whenever two or three are gathered together, there you will probably find a syndicate. If yon don’t find a syndicate yon will probably find a coalition, and if yon don’t find a co alition look ont for a new party. Abthub is said to stroll about the streets of Washington late at night with Tom Murphy, Bliss and others of the Grant gang. Go’sip says he rides and walks abont late at night with a buxom blonde grass widow. Tho naughty "Chet.” Savannah, being unaccustomed to any thing more exciting than a church war den’s election on the quarterly extrava gances of Dido Brown, dram major of the Guards bond, was shocked and alarmed at tho hysterical yells and frontio gesticula tion of tho ernzy parson. White House Alec*, colored valet to Ar thur, was dusting off Mrs. Hayes’ benign countenance,when hithalf-payjwife appear ed and dusted him off. There has not been sacb excitement in tho White House since tbe amiable Cramp fongbt Doo Bliss for the last bottlo of invalid champagne. The rain of Blaine, the hanging of Gni- tena and the pardoning of Mason, are the living issues betwoen tho stalwarts and the half-breeds. Another legislature (Illinois) has passed resolutions demanding Mason's release, and it now turns out that when Mason is loose, ho amnses himself by beat ing “Betty and the baby." Gentleman Geoboe Pendleton has open ed a Presidential boom bar-room in Washington, with John G. Thompson as head waiter. Senator Eaton’s dive is pre sided over by tho fragrant Finley. The weather is not yet mild enough for Wat- teraon to let Mr. Tilden's boom out of tbe inside pocket of his white flannel veBt. Now that tho Georgia Republican syndi cate is without an organ, the Tkleoiiafii will add it to the list of indigents, and from timo to time announce its wherea- boots. We cannot do lees for Georgia tfian for South Carolina. In this connec tion it to proper to remark that the New York wing of the Carolina party is in jaiL As the grata begins to grow Sitting Boll expresses a desire to become a granger. He wants his squaws to till the soil. Now, if Agricultural Commissioner Loring can succeed in hitching Col. S. B. to the rear of a heavy turning plow, and a long step ping mulo to the front end of the same, then we say that Agricultural Commission, er Loring should be made a cabinet offi cer. One A. W. Stone, once used about’ Geor gia. He may be remembered as bearing a striking resemblance to Farrow in whiskers and the tips of his fingers. If he were here now the indeiiendents would have another Colonel, but he found it healthy to leave Georgia for his own and Georgia’s good. Sometime since he was reported on the verge of the penitentiary. Last ac- ooiats plachim at the whippingpost. Tip* From a Treason. When the great American public was scandalized, but at the same time amused during the summer past, that some peep ing statesmen looked over* transom acd viewed Tommy Platt prancing about a room in an Albany hostelrie, dad only in tbe cool raimeDt of a pair of brass mount ed nose glasses, we had little thought that a transom was likely to become an active factor of our political system. But if the Rev. John Jasper is agog when he declares that the “sun do more,” we have daily evidence that the world moves. Two weeks ago to-morrow, in the city of Atlanta, the attention of a passing stranger would have been caught at once by the beetle-browed, hang-dog looking fellows who, with furtive glances to the right and left and rear, were ■lippingabout the barroom, poolroom, and water cloeets of the Markham House. The dress, walk, aai countenances of these fellows were suggestive that the chain gang had broken loose or been par doned eii masse, but that the humps abont the waistbands of their coats showing the outlines of bull dog pistols, told only too plainly that they were the rank and file of General Longstreet’s army. It was evident that something was astir, and the Telegbaph’s man immediately bestir red himself. Before Henry Glover, with anxious face and short orders, could pass the word that tbe watch should be doubled, and that the chambermaids should lock the doors of all unoccnpted rooms and return the keys to the office, our man had locked himself in a room on the second floor, with a door connecting with tho room en suite, with a transom over it. Moving a withstand up and placing a chair upon it, he mounted his painful perch with pencil and note-boo1k in hand and awaited developments. It was not the most natural and convenient place from which to write, and we have at odd intervals since then been able with much difficulty to decipher his hieroglyphics. Such interpretation as we have been able to get from the confused mass of scribbled manuscript, we present to our readers.^ After a waiting spell which seemed to spread itself over hours, the door from the hall waa opened and the procession filed In, led by Parson Felton, followed by Eider Hook, Dr. Miller, Colonels Cox and Pon, an unknown yonng man from tbe county of Burke, a Gartrell man and Emory Speer’s Pete. Dr. Miller immediately assumed the chair, and with some impatience of man ner and speech, after declaring the motion of Elder Hook that the meeting be opened with prayer out of order, announced that the advisory council waa ready to hear ■nggssHooa. The Gartrell man promptly arose and said: “Mr. Chairman, I am greatly in debted to your kindness for tbe privilege of belDg present on this occasion. You know I am an independent man, and I will say to yon that I am also a Gartrell man. If you are going to organize an In dependent party of the people, then I say wo should go out of this room ou to the public square and hold a meeting iu the presence of the people.” At this point there were expressions of dissent, Speer’s Pete declaring that he would not go out where the small boy could chunk him with rocks. Upon the restoration of order the Gartrell man de clared he would remain in deference to the opinions of others, but protested against this secret cabal. Dr. M.—“The first thing in order then is the appointment of a committee on platform, and in the absence of objection I will appoint all of the meeting on that committee except myself and Col. Pou, Col. Cox to bs tbe chairman. The com mittee will retire.” TJ. Y. M.—‘‘There ain’t no place to re tire. The doors ou this floor are all locked.” Dr. M.—“Confound Huff, he’s getting mighty particular about his house, the next council we have, we’ll go to Yancey’s Hotel.” Parson F.—“There is a water closet at the end of the hall, and there to nothing valuable in that.” Speer’s Pete.—“Yes there to, I’ve been in there,.there’s a big sponge and a cake of sWeet soap and lots of towels.” Dr. M.—“Well friends, Col. Pon and myself will turn our backs and you can meet in the corner over there.” Tbe committee huddled in a' corner and Col. Cox drew from his breast pock et a manuscript, aud read in a low tone while tho others nodded approvingly. Returning to tbeir places, Col. Cox took the floor, paper in hand sad was about to report when there was a rap at tho door, followed immediately by tbe grinning face of the bell boy, who address ing himself to Dr. Miller, said: “Mass Doc, MassGorg \\alliris down stairs and says he wants to talk with you folks.” G. M.—“I move that he be admitted. We need the co-operation of everybody, and Wallace comes from General Gartrell, who to an Independent.” Dr. M.—“This won’t do. I know Gar trell. He’s got no strength, and will only be dead weight to us. Wc must choke him off of this gubernatorial business with tho Congressional nomination in this district. Ho can’t be elected, but then we’ll get rid of hint.” P. F.—“I agree with you, Doctor.” E. H.—“So do I.” U. Y. M.—“I agree to everything Judge Hook says.” Col. Cox—“I don’t exactly like the looks of things, bnt I suppose I must sub mit.” Col. Pou—“I don’t seem to bo ol much force here, anyhow.” Speer’s Pete—“Go down and tell him wo ain’t up here." Colonel Cox then proceeded to read the address which the curious may find in the columns of the Post-Appeal. It embodies the platform of the coalition conference, except the poll tax plank, and winds up with a call for a mass meeting on the first of June, in Atlanta. Colonel Cox avowed himself the author of the oratori cal and rhetorical portion of the address Dr. M—“Well, gentlemen, that to set tled.” P. W.—“I don’t like this mass meeting business. It may be a failure; tho pee pie may not respond. I think we had better fight as guerrillas in the various counties, and rely upon Longstreet for the sixty-thousand nigger votes he has prom ised.” Col. (U—“The meeting must be held If this ‘.hing to going to be a failure, I wanttc know it just as toon as possible, so lean fall in somewhere else.” Dr. M.—“Col. Pon, what do you think?” Col. Pou—“It seems to me that Col. Cox to right, but It makes no difference to me. I want you all to understand that * Pm jjolng to run anyhow, and none of your advisory caucuses can get me down. I paid my own way up here, and I’ve not been treated with any consideration. I can be elected in the fourth district.” P. F.—“ You tried two or three times and failed.” Col. P.—“I was elected, but I was counted out. Col. Charles Russell is backing me now, and the organized can’t bulldoze him.” Dr. M.—“ Well, no matter abont that; we’ll - have the convention, but we must now settle on a candidate for governor, and congressman at large.” Col. Cox—“I shall run for Congressman at large. I’ve been after that all along. I will hie me to my borne, my good, breve gentlemen. I will strap the iron greaves to these sinewy thighs, buckle my corslet about this manly chest, and with visor down, my white plume flowing from my casque, and lance in rest, I will ran the Infidel, kn-kluxing, bulldozing Bourbon from his fastness in Long Cane creek swamp to tbe Skidawsy marsh; I will hack his vile carcass with my trusty battle-axe and feed it as food to the fid dlers. Friends, here to my gauntlet in token of me troth. If Henry Grady comes ‘Poor Sallying’ wound me with bis ‘Paste board Palace,’Til show him that I’m a little more than ‘just human,’ you bet.’” This elegant passage produced a round of deafening applause, during which Speer’s Pete fell from his chair and waa suddenly jerked up by the Gartrell man. The U. Y. M. having continued to thump on the door panel with his fist, was repri manded by Dr. Miller, who suggested that tbe police were on the alert. P. F. (quite demurely)—“I suppose we will have to let Brother Cox have his way about this thing.” Dr. M.—“Now as to tbe Governor.” P. F.—“My friend Elder Hook la the gentleman for that position.” E. H. (bowing low)—“No, Brother Felton, yon must stand. I must go to Congress from the eighth district. Tbe people will not be satisfied with anything less.” Speer’s Fete, the U. Y. M. f Colonels Pou and Cox, all .together.-“Yes, Fel ton’s the man.” U. Y. M.—“Hoorar for Felton.” Dr. M.—“That’s settled. Now, who will speak at tbe meeting iu June. I tell you right now, I can’t.” Elder Hook.—“Sir, I am astonished at your lack of courage to face the people. I will speak. I consider this a solemn and momentous occasion. I may look solemn. I assure you I feel solemn. Yea, my friends, I am solemn. I am nothing, if not solemn. I will make the ground swell on that occasion. In my good time I have addressed juries, and from tbe at tendance hero to-day, tbe hope 1s that we shall have ajurycn that occasion. Per haps some of you have heard me address a jury. II not, yon may have seen that irreverent scamp, Dank Twiggs, Imitate me In my best effort.” U. Y. M.—“I’ve seen him do It.” E. H., continuing—“I feel that I ought to address my fellow-citizens of Georgia. I cannot stand on your hard money plat- iorm. I am on the record for soit, for fiat money. I wish to explain this to the peo ple, and to read thbm my letters on the subject. I an. assured by Dick Johnston that nothing like these financial letters ever emanated from Albert Gallatin or Alexander Hamilton. I will speak.” Col. Cox—“And I will orate on the oc casion. I’ve got that speech Ben Hill wrote for me when I broke np the college, and I will put in some of myRenfroe speech that Judge Warner would not let me get In. Ah, friends, do yon mind me? Then it was I bowled down General Jack- son (Henry), not Andrew, with that trope when I said his argument was “as bound less as tho universe and pointless as the globe.” “Why, Arthur Gray stands ready to make affidavit, that it was the greatest speech ever made, not excepting Burke’s on Warren Hasting’s—that is, Arthur would havo done it before he- was mar ried.” More wild applause, principally from Speer’s Pete and U. Y. M. - Dr. M.—“Well, friends, the programme is fixed and understood, and we may as well break up.” Speer’s Pete—“Where’s the money coming from to ran this thing ?” P. F., severely—“What’s Longstreet and Farrow got offices for but to give us the money ? Besides, sir, you and Speer have said nothing and done nothing.” Speer’s Pete, humbly—“We’ll do any thing, say anything you want of us. Me and Emory don’t mind what wa do or say when there’s nobody about.” P.F. (grabbinghis grip sack)—“Good by, brethren; I must catch Joe Brown’s goober train. Pve got an appointment in Savannah soon, and my man Willingham has become so profane that he can blas pheme tho head off a railroad spike with both hands tied behind him. I will have to smooth down his next issue, for ours is a moral party.” Col. Cox, (who had retired, returning to the room)—“Doctor, here’s Marcellus Thornton out here cursing and swearing by his coat fail, that he will have this manuscript.’’ Dr. M.—“Let him have it. And now, boys, it’s understood that nothing that baa been said here is binding. I don’t want you all to go out and talk about it^partlc- ultrly in connection with me. Yonr Uncle Virgo is mighty poorly off, and wants something. Between tbe breaking of Colquitt’s and Gordon’s insurance company and the lailure of the exposi tion to make money, and folks being too poor to pay for physic and doctoring, I am pushed to get cigars to chew. We ain’t got no chance to elect governors nor Congressmen, hut recollect the watch word of our coalition, ‘Empty the peni tentiary aud fill the I legislature.’ ” “No, I ain’t going out just now. Evan Howell’s got Bruffey hid in the liv ery stable to watch me. I got In Jtere be fore day, and I ain’t going oat till after dark.” ir» — — n — nitfht thin tilt parade of the ‘‘Little Mother Hnb'nurdp,” on yesterday. Abthub’s ‘'Fresh” puts on ConureMior.il airs. He keeps liis brevet wife iu the Treasury Department. Gotebnob Pebbt, of South Carolina, wants a new constitution for his State. He says: “Honor and self-respect, as well as patriotism and wisdom, require that we should discard and trample in tbe du<t this badge of negro-carpet-bag-scalawag rule.” Governor Ferry is a very brave and intelli gent gentleman, bat we bid him beware. Georgia tried that experiment to her great damage. She has been degraded, dis graced and set back an hundred years by a constitutional convention, which made a constitution that can neither be explained nor understood. If Governor Perry only knew how many idiots and tans culottes a few mischievous demagogues cau get into a constitutional oonvention, ha would bo.quite willing to live the balanoe of hie life without any fundamental law. Old man and old lady Grant and Fred have gone over to Philadelphia to hand the list around. Bartons and Jess and the gals mag in with Arthur still. Pabsidknt Abthub is said to think inure of his cook than his oountry. Tbe Presi dent cannot be blamed for this. A good cook is a bigger man than his oountry. Gobham lays down the law. He siysin the National Republican, that he is in fa vor of coalitions in the South generally between Republicans and Independents. With “Fresh” running Arthur and the “body servants” running the Supreme Coart, it looks very much tike the oolored brother was at the head of the government- Hox. Thos. M. Pattkson wants the na tional Democratic convention to bo held at Denver, Colorado. It pains ns to say to the Hon. Tom, that he cannot bo- gratified in this little whim. The lobby has discovered that the Amer ican people have been sleeping over a vol cano. If tbe Britishers were to invade us, there is bnt one line of railway for them to ride on from New York to Washington. Tomer Glenn hr s been be’ping himself about with two sticks, a gold headed or ganized one and a very plain independent hickory staff. Since the Markham Boose advisory oonncil he hss dropped one. The Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal; has jnst celebrated its seventh birthdBy. It is a well conducted and important exchange and does credit to the section which sup ports it. The Teleqbatb sends congratu lations. Ex-Gotebnob Mows has- been photo graphed for the rogues’ gallery of the New York police station. The artist may save the detective force great trouble if he will be present with his machine in Atlanta on the first of June. “The Republicans,” says an exchange; “are looking for a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness- of their errors.” The only Republican Moses we know- of, hails- from South Carotins, and a committee will have to lead, bins ont of & New York jail before his whoop can be heard at the. head of the precession. “Ii .T*a little poem suitable for the .’’remarked a long haired young man fingering a manuscript as he entered, tbesanctnm yesterday: “la the spring a yonng man’s fancy Lightly turns—” Hisjpice died away In the diatanco. He- bad dipped on the trap- door, which, lightly turns, and the poem was finished somewhere about China. The Banner- Watchman, is- the- bigges little daily we have ever seen on onr table,, and presents a fine appearance, editorial and mechanical. Athens, in letting it per ish for want of support, wonld step back wards over space equivalent to five years. Nothing helps a community more than a good daily newspaper. It brings oventa— and after all we shape onr coarse from events—quickly before the people; pro motes a rapid circulation of those little ed ucational missionaries called ideas, and enables its seotion to keep abreast with the times. Athens coaid save money by ovon as a last resort-supporting tho daily out or the city treasury. Gobham shoots #North Carolina and* knocks the Georgia coalition down. Ho- says: “The long and short of this busi ness is that there is in North Carolina, as- elsewhere, a factional fend. Leaders on esch side declare that they have (dl the voters, and that the other side is of ‘no ac- oount.’ The battle going on is for leader ship, and each side seems to consider the extermination of the other a sine qua non. There is no way of ascertaining just now how many Democrats are inclined to net independently. Onr opinion is Hint tho number will be very few, if they are to net with but one division of the Republican party, because that would promise defeat.” Abthub hss dried his tears for Garfield and opened the White Housh to the mob His first reception was simply stunning. The court reporter says: “Tho President wrs cordial but not effusive in manner.” How glad we are to know that ‘Chot” was nnt effusive. We can stand his being a snob, and looking like a lacquey, bnt if ho- had been effusive—well, that would have exhausted human endurance. And we are- vold that at the reception “Col. Fred Grant stood i- the rear.” We are delighted: to learn that Fred stiU oocupies his proper position and knows his place. Aud the “old man” got in Ira work and his “nips,” too, for wo are told that "he retired from the lino several,, times.” Em the feature of the occasion was Tom Murphy with a young lady. Tom leaped into one of the windows of the White House, and his “fair charge bound ed through the aperture with the graoe of a gazelle.” And in the meantime “Freeh” kept his hand on liis pistol, and his eye on the silver piste, while Crump double charg ed the orange peels with frozen punch. If the Independent Colonels could only have been there l t Tbe Hssiaeky Way. Courier-Journal. Ex-Lieutensnt Governor Win. Johnson and his son Ben. have been arrested lit Knr.lstown for caiTytiiK concealed deadly weapons. Ben wanted to !>laxe the way for bis randMato'e election to a county office by killing an opnosl- tion candidate, and the Govern:* sii.jx-nrw to havo been prepared to aid hliu In Oils rather peculiar electioneering scheme. Ben III, here tofore kl!l.-.l his man, and he knows how tho thing will work. Apply!*** Principle Washington Republican. When King Theodore, the wild, lutrt.arous monarch of Abyssinia, Imprison, c! a f,-w iirtt- lull subjects who had not t>ecn dub tried and convicted Groat Britain sent an a rim into his country, killed him. ami captured' his son. Great Britain is now giving us t 1 -.,- sninc cause of offense that King Theodore gave her. Our citizens against whom no Indictments are pending, are locked up In Irish prisons on a mere suspicion that they may intend to do something wrong. Tbe Lsls A. W. ■>«**, of Monrala. Leaven Korlh ditpaleh to the Glol. ■ Drmoerat. Judge A. W. Stone was cowlildod tins morn ing by Mrs. I>. II. Watson, wife of the abscond ing and now returned manager,-: tin- i.-u-lviile Refrigerator Com|>any. She grald-esl liis long beard and belabored his face. Sin- says she was r.ot married to Watson, but was ot.lv his mistress: thut Stone, who owned tire- Refrigera tor Company, scared Watson off 1 v threat of prosecution for bigamy, and then lived with her; that he wrote to her parents maligning her, and telling them she lived with Watson as his mistress, tier mnidcr. name was Annie Knapp, snd her father Is a re.-ia.vUbU- artist In Philadelphia. «ra*t*« HwCailletlne. Watterson. Meanwhile, however, the slaughter of Itlalne men and Sherman men, and hulf-breed* generally, goes on under the immediate super- ision of General Grant, who is here helping to stuff the guillotine with victims, ami to till the places vucated with reliable stamurts. The machine is equally busy and unrelenting— "Put none but Grant men ou the guard,’* is the word, which, interpreted by Gnu,!, means a third term: by Arthur, a second. At present t!ie two are iutercatL-d lu killing off Blame and Sherman by bribing, Bedurh.g. intimidating, crippling or destroying their file leaders in the T«arty. After this is successfully r.-compliahod the President and the Genera! can settle with each other, provided there be any differences or outstanding accounts. iu KsMarlcS Popularity. Each year finds “Brown’s Bronchial Troche*” in new localities, in various parts of tbe world. For relieving coughs, colds, and throat diseases, the Troches have been proved reliable.