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FRIDAY, MAY 6.
rase Blaine is challenged he trill
•e sunstrokes at 99 degrees Faliren-
AoOhaEsroKOctT writes to knowhow
toniMB sells. He is informed that quota-
■•u pot it on a par with deer steaks.
Xnpoor Czar has escaped again. This
Com they were going to blow him op,
Mi—Bn palaoe and all, with electrio light
taou hawing downed tho emall-pox
tftornterrifio round, now rears np and
paws the air for a public market. JJaoon
A Csooau snake story goes through tho
Northern press like a darky through a hen
Kara*. Georgia, in the matter of snake
rftoin, is the empire State.
Isms have a good central market. With
••srtainty of patronage the market garden
■a——s will increase and competition will
Istogbetter and cheaper products.
An coalition party'bas nothing to fear
•as tbs small-pox, even should the dis-
—n bs raging in Atlanta in June. Small-
■■BKanot iojoro the complexion of the
w»l«rty.
< Sonar Daves rosT says somebody sent
■b* — infernal machine. A Chinese fire-
maeksr hitched to Johnny's jacket and
AM weald blow him oat of sight, and he
—alii not be missed at that
To-nav the society for the prevention of
—aity to animals holds its session in onr
lity. Mr. King and his worthy oo-adjntora
support and cannot receive too
i of It in this important movement
' X— Shipberd guano job investigation
WDbs renewed as soon as the oommittee-
—smean be disinfected. Blair will take
••stand next and Darby’s fluid will be
■I wound in saucers in honor of the oc-
9ks Colombo a Sun suggests as 8 badge
hstbs coalition convention a Jane bug,
I by n thread to tho lappeL In the
i of Jane bugs, the delegates are
ssoouunended to pick up from the road
•o little bogs which yon are never certain
■omst or overtaken.
Drnrias (be Uns.
Dally evidence is given that the so call
ed independent movement of Georgia is | Our Paris correspondent, who cat been
iu a fair way to die of inanition. The suffering for days from s conflict between
men who have it In charge had only to canned oysters and morphine, gives us
publish their names to convince the pub- some Interesting European • war news.
He mind of this, bat new developments The cablegram is devoted to a description
are coming to light as the summer sp- of a coup d’etat on the part of the Bus-
proaches, which, taken as cumulative, slan navy in the channel on April 27th,
leave no room for doubt. Arrayed 1900. The history of the present Euro-
agalnst tho organised Democracy of the | pean trouble Is doubtless fresh in the
State, we bare now the political mulsh- minds of some of our readers, but the ma-
toos, beaded by Emory Speer, the syndl-1 Jorlty will, doubtless, be glad of the op-
cate, composed of strsightout Republi- portunity to review In brief the causes
cans In office, the Felton inde- which led to the present imbroglio. It
pendent’*, and lastly, the negro was bat six months since, that at a reesp-
Republicans. When ws say ar- tion given In St. Petersburg by tbe En-
rayed, we mean opposed, for tbere do gltsh minister, General Drankenoflsky
not seem to be grounds for joining togeth- rose to respond to the toast, “the late an-
eranyof these elements with even a I nlbilated Czar.” In tbe coarse of bis re-
modcst hyphen, so utterly antagonistic marks he took occasion to say that the
have they grown. Community of inter- oppressive foreign policy of the late Queen
est in most events mean union and Victoria was due entirely to tight-lacing,
strength, but when the sole ambition of This brought the English minister to his
politicians is the possession of office, and feet, tait before be could ' speak he
tbe offices arc not numerous enough was waved aside by the French atn-
to reach around tbe white table, much bassador, who reminded him that in his
less supply the kitchen, the very similar]- capacity as host, he could not act. Tbe
ty of aims Is bound to creates working Frenchman then proceeded in the sever-
of elbows and corn crushing uaongst est teims to comment on the bearish Rus-
those who press towards the pri^k The sian language just quoted. .Unfortunate-
political mulattoes, headed by Mr. Speer, ly, carried away by bis feeiings, he let
are the offsprings of a district only and fall remarks which reflected upon the
arc unimportant, except as to the exam- present Emporor of Germany, and an an-
ple created and lawlessness engendered, gry altercation, between himself and the
and as a factor in the general opposition. Gorman representative present, ensued.
The complexion of the syndicate is Re- This was followed by an emptying of
pnblican, and its streugth lies in the fact glasses in each others laces, and a fracas
that it bolds tbe„ofHces of the State un- resulted. During the confusion a leaf wss
der control of the administration. Being snatched from the extension table, and
In, its members are naturally opposed to upon it the friends of General Drunken-
all of the ambitious outs, of whatever I offaky bore him ofl, their prompt action
rrce or color. They are molecules with doubtless saving him from personal vlo-
absolctely no sympathetic assimilating lence. Ont of this disgraceful scene grew
propensities. Following these come tho tbe troubles which have brought on a
Felton independents, who lost after the war between the powers—England and
State flesh-pots; a party withont prind- France on the one side, and Rossia and
plea bat possessing aims. Last of all the Germany on the other. it will
negro Republicans. A glance over the be remembered, that twenty yean ago
State will betray the fact that the only several English papers commented upon
respectable sized body is the last named, the dangerous Channel tunnel, then just
but humorously enough, while tbere is begun. Indeed, two Imaginary attempts
good fighting along the line, this body has I to seize England through this tunnel were
been assigned to no profitable flace ont- given in spirited style. In the first, a set
side of tbe rear. Tbere is no chance of Frenchmen in England, heavily armed,
for pillage. What would it profit tbe took possession of the mouth of the tun-
black Republicans to cany tbe State net, and held it nntll large bodies of
by storm, when tbe batlots deposited bear I French bad been rushed through on ex-
only tbe names ol renegade white Demo- press trains. This was termed the battle
crats; or why should it howl for the ad-1 of Guildford. The other was the Channel
ministration when tho administration has battle, and Is reproduced from our files iu
already exhausted its gifts amongst white- this issue. As we remarked at that time,
faced Republicans and political mulattoes? | tbe danger threatened, not France or Eog-
Tbe situation is not only humorous, it Is land, but the adjoining European couu-
perplexing. Here are three or foursets of pries, In the evont of an alliance between
commanders willing to urge ou the army I the first two powers. How thoroughly
•buxom Bjltakd and Gorman were re-
VMM as riding about the race coarse in
BoMxnflle, Kjr„ in a highly-cultivated,
•By-ho coach, with scientific spokes and
B—J felloes. Is the South to be invaded
■— without an alarum from tbe sentinel
—ft* watch tower of the Atlanta Consti-
I FrxLDond Vcnderbiltarethe latest
of eommmdstic or onnihilistie
wrath. Each of these gentlemen would
law been the-redpient of an explosive
wail package on Sunday bat for an aoci
total discovery. They are probably at
this time tasking for private secretaries to
•tod to the# correspondence.
M aionzBous whine ascend* from the edi
Mai rooms of the Detroit Post, because,
■ it says, the Democratic press of Georgia
Baaldi every deed of violence on the part
afthe negroes as political outrages. Ad-
r this to be true, has not theGeor-
i excellent precedents in the coorse
i the Republicans have punned for
A Ctnoaoo dispatch says Cadet Wtttta-
ksr ia in town looking for employment.
B GoL Whittaker fails to pass an examina
tion as hog scraper and will meander in
Itls direction, we will appoint him ootton
a-topper, with a chance ol promotion to
•Uat bondler and driving up the oows.
Me moan badness, if he does.
S* a good central market in the city,
■jsndm ordinance forbidding the vending
ed market supplies before 9 o’clock, not
tody would wo get the benefits of oompe-
&i— and choice, bat farmers and truck
—rcU-uera would in a measure be protected
totact the depredations of the thieves who
ba—hitherto done a wholesale business in
••vegetable way.
osteemed London Times says that
Ttoxmsfield and Darwin are The two
• powerful men of the country.”
b ie our inclination and custom, we
ve to escape a prolonged and exaspera-
(oontroveiay with the Times, where-
► we would respectfully aaggeat at the
t of the discussion, that the Times
it put to paper on assertion so on-
, had not enjoyed the pleasure of
t a colored political ounces with
aeteral eighty degree* Fahren-
t Richmond Dispatch says: "The nc-
Gecrgin, in convention assem-
r-solved cn Friday last that they
"r approve of every honorable ef-
L that is being made to inaugurate a
sent whose object is the overthrow
fit ionrboa Democracy.’ Ssmbo is an
m-.u. ;.o animal. He hasn’t any idea
■ ‘Bourbon’I*, but he has beard that
pi:hot was freely used in Virginia
h*:. ar by.tie men who defeated the
Demi ..mis, and ao he -puts it into hi*
3*0- ;a piriform. The negroes of Geor-
gi-i ha - >• just as much right to denounce
lie I .-mocrataaa ‘Bourbons’ as have the
if ah cites of Virginia, andwe have no
dent they know M well what they mean
b* the iiitliet as do their allies in Vir-
to victory, but none willing to lay aside onr reaaotfng has been proved may be
their epaulettes, and the army absolutely judged from the late European news,
refusing to budge until some leader comes gays our corresoondent “Animated
along who Is willing to share the plunder. by tba spirit of revenge for the humilla-
It Is time for the colored man to remove t ion of the Franco-Prussian war or thirty-
bis bat and do a little rock bottom think- two years ago, the French troops reapond-
I ed enthusiastically to the call to arms,
The fact is the colored man has been an d the whole German frontier was
doing a .little thinking, and there is every threatened. Although the famous Bis
now and then a flash in the darkness I marck and the grand old Kaiser Wilhelm
which leads OS to believe that his mental are dead, the Germans rushed to the do-
1 pick has struck something bard enough to fense confident, of a victory over the na-
bulld on. After he went home irom Ma-1 tion so easily vanquished under the imbe-
con, the editor of tho Defiance sat down dta Napoleon HI. There was one factor,
and wrote as follows: however, not regarded, and It proved
8lnce the syndicate has had their shielding dangerous one. Through the English
veil wound around th* heads of the adralni*. Channel tunnel lightning express trains
tration, the heads of Union soldiers and true -k,.. ,, ~ , ,
Republicans have been flying off In every di- ^ an to ^ ear ‘ hon “ nd » of . BriUsh 8o1 *
rectlon throughout the State. Nowadays It Is “ i8rs 10 French ground and the Rhine,
an absurd idea for any man to say I am a Re* I literally under the keels of the entire Ger-
publlcan, because it seems almost discredits-1 man and Bwssian navies cruising in the
^ channcU Tbe Brst baltIe won ^ the
triumvirate. I Anglo-Franco alliance, mainly through
Now tell us what aro we to dor Arowoto the instrumentality of these British
allow the arrogant syndicate to bundle us up— troops. Something had to be done, and
we mean the colored Republican—sell and do- [ that quickly. A general assault wa3
X£ to D ™’'to
tht chief instrument! in this bargain and sole I possession of .the tunnel terminus!
business. So we sro to be kicked now, or be I both failed, for with a full knowledge of
■laves to our own right of freo suffrage. the value of this lino of communication,
It has boon rumored that the Ropnblleans both places had been heavily fortified.
will have no convention, unless tho admfnis-1 Two weeks since, the Russian and Ger-
»“ *"“ 1 ’ wero ln de,f,,r -
our local or State Issues T It hss come to a beau-1 ““'P 3 ' wel1 e T uI PPC<li were able to block-
tifol pus that we are to be denied the right to | *de the French coast, but the existence
our customs, and dictated to as to what wc of tho tunnel rendered this occupation
Sc ^nZi«n te ^ri^nt^!2T Ip< ^ of thelr fleets worae than tor the
pie (tnc Republican party) will have their con-1 «...
ventlon and will put forth their tfeket, and 1683011 all ot Britain was by tho alli-
your tripartite syndicate will surely fall nsun- ance i t he coast of France,and the powerful
der defeated—ye*, fgnomtnlously defeated— English navy kept the ports of their own
and the goods bargained to be delivered will country open, and freo to the world. Sad-
sssstrst *2 “»<«* “• * roito
colored people over to the most vindictive and * man supposed to be • Nihilist,
vituperative Democrats that ever were, and wc U n his possession was found to be a curi-
are not to say a word. Wo tell you now that I ous set of machinery, which was at first
terfn W0 mIght " wcl1 lbon S h >- K) be intended as instruments In
Wc. like many of onr reader* thought that a tbo dcslruction of Czar. He declared
liberal move would weaken the ranks of the I^ nnocence an( l demanded to bo car-
Bourbons, and would possibly render It service-I ried beroro the royal court. This, after
able to the Republicans; and we were led also ho had whispered to the chief of police,
to believe that the administration thought It a wa » j ons What in
good idea. But the present plans will not sue- LT . . * transpired In
coed, and more especially If good Republicans 1 1,1,1 P a,ace 13 n °t known, but
are to be left out lu the cold to satisfy a few old I sufficient to say, the supposed nihilist turn-
mossy-back Democrats that hrvo fallen from I ed out to be an American bearing the
the rank* of Bourbons, because their tlmofor name of Smith and from the State of
the
leaders, that we have not been recognised more I nftvai station in the channel, in a peculiar
at Washington as the Republicans of Georgia, rigged ship and under a powerful escort
properly speaking. . 1 0 f armed vessels. By the aid of a map
never will be any more than what we are if wo I American s ship was anchored direct-
do not depoee of some of onr Imposing Icodc-rs, I !>' above the tunnel and the entire fleets of
and that must be done, and at once; then there I the two European governments were
ran he no mlsunderstendlng as to tho true an- massed atxrat it. The American at occo
tlienticatlon of this Article: And those who hold I -• * «» «, .. _
ofllcc now must feel satisfied for the time being, I r U P b s machinery, which was noth-
and have the least to say, as the syndicates are In B m0r8 nor Iess tban apparatus for bor-
not tired yet of disposing of us. ling an artesian woll, and with an able
Here Is a distinct cutting loose on the 80 T* of exports went to work. The shal-
part cf a leading colored journal from the ,owe3t situation had been chosen, and
“mossy-back Democrats,”; the tripartite a,ter R few preliminaiy difficulties had
syndicate, and the administration as con- been overcome, the machinery operated
trolled by tbe political mulattoes. Does I w ell. Iron tubes were Jointed together
It mean that tho negro proposes to con- and lowered to the channel bottom and
duct m person tho Republican campaign, through these tho boring began. A
and a refusal to move, unless the Fresi- telegram to tbe English government via
dent recognizes tho Republican party of Norway, put that government on notice.
Georgia as the men who veto the largest Instantly the navy was ordered to the
number of Republican tickets? Was this 3 P° L on '> - to find a foe ready to defend the
the result or the late caucus at Macon? It situation. Yesterday a terrific battle en-
ao seems. At any rate, It is a distinct re-1 sued, the particulars of which have not
HS.”? 1 !. 1 * B yy* 101)61,181001 ° r come in, but the result is nowknown, and
laUoes, and weahalT‘waters''SeX a panic on the Bourse is the result here,
to sea the new position maintained. | AH through tbe terrible engagement, the
like of which the world never saw, the
Kniory Speer aud tho University, I AmencaD, In his shirt sleeves, worked his
Elsewhere in those columns will be apparatus. Shot aud shell fell around
12 ■ - uni Indians, a delegation ol whom re-
ssuii: . .-it.-* Boston,- hare a national hymn,
: itiaaof which reads:
Ma’ t-we
1! a'-a-we
Sho-iii-Iiil-lon
UI 'i-kwa
Tii-kwaafan-te ,
thll-lathat-ta
Thlii-tehon-tapM*
thle-po-nc
Ma’-hwc
—Chicago Tribune.
Tui- tnnsiattd by our distic-
it hi d liuguiit, and reads Rs foilewi:
Mu fi-we
rr?
lli*»! n little lamb
Ils r.e \vn+ white
Ab Mitnv.
And ev rvu iit-re thu
You bci!
Can : ryoct now Joutit the tn’iqniV of
aun : s t
both mouths ol the tunnel. It had been
destroyed.
“I learn that the Czar bad promised tbe
American a fortune,and tbe title of Prince
Smitbsklnofsky, ln tbe event of bis sne-
cefs, sud while rejoicing in tbe success of
my countryman, I cannot but be affected
by tbe deep gloom which has settled over
France. Tho new situation wiii be treat
ed lu my next.”
C*U*a Atalament.
According to tbe New York Financial
Chronicle of last Friday, the receipts of
cotton at all the ports since September 1st,
18S1, up to that date, were 4,431,7-12 bales
against 5,351,348 bales in 1881, sud 4,
0;lt4,8G7 bales ln 1880, showing a falling
off compared with last year of 819,006
bales, ln 1880 of 207,125 bales.
The receipts lor the week were 33,600
bales against 47,729 bales at the same date
last year, and 30,858 bales in 1SS0,
Slocks in Interior towns on Friday last,
were 157,830 bales against 225,820 bales
at same date last year. •
The total visible supply on tbe 28th of
April 2,604,402 bales against 2,970,300
bales.ln 1881, and 2^97,371 bales in 1880
These figures indicate a decrease ln cot
ton in sight on that date as compared with
the same .date in 1881 of 171,808 bales,
and an Increase of 407,121 bales as com
pared with the same week In 1880.
Middling cotton in Liverpool last Fri
daywasOll-16, and at same date last
year 615-10.
TIM Convlet Camps,
One of the provisions enseted by the
Legislature for the welfare of the con
vlcts requires that twice a year a commit
tee of the grand jury of the county in
which a eonvlct camp may be located
shall visit and inspect such camp In
every particular and make a report tbere-
onr
This provision Isa wise and ralutciy
ons, aui hi: been productive so far as iu
it lay of the best results. Grand juries
are composed of the best and most re
sponsible citizens of the various counties
of the State, and their statements are,
as they should be, accepted with credit.
In another column of this issue we pre
sent the report of the committee, compos
edol citizens and members of the grand
jury of Dongherty county, after an In
spection of tbe camp situated near Albany
This committee puts to record, that this
camp in all and every particular, Is “all
that humanity can desire, or that a con
vict conld demand.”
This Is broad and emphatic and la lu
Itself sufficient answer to those who, from
Insufficient information cr other cause,
from time to time pronounce tho convict
system “a disgrace to civilization.” We
are about to open a campaign into which
the negro caucus lately assembled in this
city has injected this issue. When the
time for discussion shall arrive, vehe
ment assertion must give way if It can
not be supported by facts.
Tbe grand jury of the county of Rich
mond also made a report during the last
week, and we copy it from the columns
ol the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist, as follows:
The following citizens wero appointed, ln
conjunction with a committee of this body, as
the law requires, to visit and examine the con
vict camps of this county, and report thereon,
to-wit: Messrs. M. J. Verdcry, F. M; Stovall
and John Dosch'cr. These gentlemen, after
full, thorough and searching examination ol
these camps, report as follows:
“Wo have discharged the duties required of
us, examining tho county convict camp,as well
ns that at Bondnrant & Joplin’s brick yard.
Tho convicts at tho former camp aro well pro
vided for and properly taken care of, doing ■
vast deal of good work on tho public roads and
bridges. There are but two cases of sickness in
this camp, but nothing of a serious character.
Tho parties are under tho care of the county
physician, and ere doing well. Those at the
brick yard we found, also, in good condition-
supplied with wholesome food and comfortable
quarters. The task Imposed upon them Is not
burdensome, and but little complaint was
made to us In this connection. Wc found one
convict—B. R. Thorpe—who seemed to he ln
the last stages of consumption, and wc deemed
it onr duty to recommend to the Governor, If
wc may be permitted to do so, that ho bo par
doned and sent to end his days with hts fami
ly, who, we undentand, are amply ablo to
tako care of him. Rev. W. B. Walker, the
chaplain, and Dr. Eugene Foster, the physician
at the brick yard camp, are discharging their
duties with zeal and fidelity, and accomplish-
ng much good ln their respective depart*
meats. In conclusion, wo are gratified to be
able to report that our visit has been entirely
satisfactory to us, and that we have no fault to
find with those ln charge of tbe camps ”
The Richmond county grand jury em
brace and indorse in their report a com
rounication from Judge Eve, of tho Coun
ty Court, recommending that fhe State
employ the convicts in building roads in
the State. Judge Evo says:
There could bo selected from the present con
vict force of tho State at least nlno hundred
able bodied men, suitable for road work. This
force would, ln my Judgment, grado and place
in permanent order, at a low estimate, nine
hundred miles of road a year. When I make
tills estimate I tako ln consideration tho to
pography of the State, and mado upon the
basis that the work accomplished in a year up
on tho roads In tho level and mountainous dis
tricts will averago at least a mile to tho hand,
With Improved implements I believe much
more could bo accomplished. Tho remaining
three hundred or more I would locate upon
landsbelongingtotheState. The State possesses
some of tho finest and most fertile lands within
her limits, and upon them three hundred
hands would produce enough to almost, if not
quite, maintain the whole twelve hundred.
Besides, shops for tho manufacture and repair
of wagons, carts and Implements to be used on
the roads, could bo located at the same place.
And be adds that be bas worked coa-
vlcts successfully and satisfactorily on the
roads of Richmond county. Quite tiue.
Tbe county of Chatham also works them
satisfactorily and successfully ln di/ging
canal near the city, convenient to a
prison house.
But tbe proposition of Judge Eve,
plausible as it sounds, is liable to some
weighty objections. His picked hands
working on the pnblic roads would be
withont a shelter or a safe prison, and
would be exposed by night and by day to
the changes of weather and climate. It
would be expensive and difficult
guard them and to provide
tbe change of clotbtag, sleeping accom
modations and the vegetable diet which
supplements meat and bread.. The weak-
ones left "behind would hive all they
could do to raise supplies for themselves
and the road force. 'Fhere would be no
time for making “wagons, carts and Im
plements.” And if there should be time
for this, the experience Georgia has had
manufacturing with convict labor es
tablishes the fact that carts, w ago us and
implements, and almost anything else,
can be bought a great deal cheaper than
they can make tbam. ,
While Richmond and Chatham work
convicts successfully, and Fulton, Bibb,
Muscogee and other counties might have
the same success, the smaller counties,
where thsre are fewer convicts,
have found by actual t.-la -ind experience
found a letter from a correspondent, who I him, and vessels went down, but he stuck
while agreeing with tho Telegraph's I to ids post. Boring through chalk prlncl-
course in regard to Mr. Speer, seems to I pally ho liad made wonderful progress in
labor under tbo impression that we have four days. At the very crisis of the en-
to some extent connected him, and his I gagement, which had raged for sixty
peculiar politics, with the University. It I hours, tbo water in his pipes went out of
only necessary now for us to disclaim I sight, and ho knew that the tunnel ‘had
any Intention to connect the University I been punctured. A dynamite cartridge,
wiib Hr. Speer, or to mix It up In any I seventy feet long, was lowered through
way with politics. On the contrary, wo I tho pipe to the strata beneath,
bave altempted to want all those who have j the veasol . drew off, and
the Interest of that institution at heart, to J *n electric battery sent a sharp shock
keep it aloof from the political contests I down below- It was answered by a
In the ninth district, and expressed the deep rumble that shook the two fleets,
belief that none who have authority to do j aud sent a column of water far into the
so have as yet involved it. We have none j air. The waves subsided, and a little
hut tbe beit of wishes for the Slate Uni- j whirlpool grew about the place where
versity and an earnest desire to see its j the pipes had been seen. The Russian
facilities for doirg good (axed lo their government fleets drew away, firing as that the expenses outrun the profits, so / but he cannot find courage sufficient to ! lilies. Ten minutes later he ’
utmixt. ' they and last night water ran out of much so that some are smious to hire * protect it when it. is endangered. In view for a "bug drink” at Benner's.
them to the lessee* of the, penitentiary and
others have begged the privilege of turn
ing them over to the lessees without price
or pay. Anything tending to better tbe con
dition of the convicts physically and
morally that does not Interfere with their
proper pnnlshment and safe keeping, is
entitled to consideration and discussion,
But Id view of the facts we have given,
tho discussion should not be based upon
tbe proposition, which is not true and
cannot be sustained either by fact or ar
gument, that the system is “a disgrace to
civilization.” Tbe system may not be
perfect, but it has proven Itself lo be bet
ter than tbe old one m all respects, and
nobody who desires its destruction has yet
offered its equal as a substitute.
Tbe Vacant Chair.
But a few weeks has elapsed since the
Markham House coalition, after a secret
session, gave to the public what has been
termed in certain quarters, a “ringing”
platform of postulates, the most eloquent
portion of which were supposed to have
been tbe handiwork of Mr. Albert Cox.
The substantial portion, the subsoil, or
we may say the bed rock, had been for
mulated by Felton, Farrow et. al. under
Instructions from Washington.
Brief os the time has been, however, it
has been quite long enough to disgust the
most intelligent and independent member
of that memorable meeting, Mr. Smith
Clayton. Mr. Clayton Is a gentleman of
the most lndej^endeut proclivities of speech,
habit audcouvlction, and is withal ol keeu
Instincts and Insight, and bas a most hsppy
knack of expression. In an interview
with a reporter of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, the moot interesting portion of
which we reproduce, he announces
his abandonment of the coalition con
cern, and a vacancy in the clerkship
of the csucas. Mr. Clayton -has
been on tbe inside, and has become fully
acquainted with the designs of the leaders
of this unholy alliance and the methods
by which they hope to achieve success. It
may be crystallized iuuSl Felton and his
gang have conspired with Farrow and his
crowd to seize upon the State government
of Georgia, to occupy the offices and to
plunder the treasury. Felton promises to
bring up the “brilliant and ambitious
young men of the State,” and Farrow en
gages to deliver the negro voters en masse.
Georgia is to be thoroughly African
ized and prepared by tho next
Presidential election to wheel tato line as
a Republican State and in the Arthur
column. It will not do to meet this with
denials, for Mr. Clayton is an independent
man of many years standing,and has held
a position which gave him the full confi
dgpee of the leaders of tbe new movement.
The force of his recent action cannot be
broken by assaults upon him. He was
offered a position, an office, by Long-
street, the emoluments of which exceed
in amount the income that any man
connected with this movement can make
by honest toll. He is not a disappointed
office-seeker, bnt he is greatly disappointed
to find a set of jugglers and tricksters in
men who claimed to be pure, honest and
zealous reformers.
Mr. Clayton has done the good people of
Georgia signal service in unmasking this
scheme which Los been cooked up as
against the peace and good order and fair
repute of the State. He has given timely
warning of the most reckless and dirty
conspiracy which has ever dis
graced Georgia politics, and has
shown by his own lease how quick the
Federal administration is to reward
treachery to race, blood and principle.
Mr. Clayton spurned tbe bribe and the
bribers, and has exposed both to public
Cintempt.
He has left a vacant chair with a tat
office tied to it. Let us see who will be
the “brilliant and ambitions yonng man
to grasp for the prize that an honorable
gentleman spurns with disgust and dis
dain.
Tbe Force ot Faction.
Daring the process of military recon
struction, as one by one tbe Southern
States sought seats for their Senators and
Representatives, it may bo recalled that
their Senators and Representatives were
rejected singly or by States, just as the
needs or whims of the Republican party
dictated. Though all the forms and es
sence of State laws were complied with in
their election, they wero not permitted to
bo seated, for the sole reason that the
party then in control of tho government
had the power to keep them ont for parti
san purposes. Majorities of thousands
were swept away, and negroes and car
pet-baggers duly installed in tho places ot
rightfully elected men. When tbe Dem
ocratic party had fought Its way into pow
er and had gained control ol Congress,
tbe temptation to retaliate was strong
but was resisted. The Republicans ad
mitted the wrongs that had been done,
but “protested against their repetition
that two wrongs could not make a right.
Political change has placed the Repub
hcan party in the ascendency again, and
the tactics of reconstruction days are
again employed.
Gen. Chalmers, of Mississippi, has been
the first victim. Perhaps tho vanity and
general lack of wisdom upon the part of
Gen. Chalmers at home and in Congress
invited tbe first blow to himself, and left
him with bat littlo sympathy; still tbe law
was outraged in bis case.
The State of Mississippi has a statute
declaring that there shall be no device of
any klud upon election tickets to distin
guish them. Tills was passed to prevent
frauds and to protect the parity of the bal
lot box. It wasiutended that the igno
rant voter should not be imposed upon,
but should vote with a fall knowledge of
whom ho was voting for.
Lynch violated this law. The Supreme
Court of Mississippi, which holds in its ju
risdiction the lives, liberty and property
of all the people of that State, black and
white, so decided. This was the case pre
sented in Congress unembarrassed by any
other issue. Tho Republican majority,
in contempt of a State law solemnly ad
judicated by its highest tribunal, turned
General Chalmers out and gave the ne
gro Lynch his seat. Nothing has been
done any worse than this. The contested
cases which are to follow will afford no
better opportunity for a reckless disre
gard ol law and Justice, and a display of
dangerous partisanship.
The Democratic party in the House
made but a feeble and desultory
attempt at resistance. Two South-
men, Ucssrs. Hammond, of
Georgia, aud Carlisle, | of Kentucky,
made argumenta that could not be
answered. No Republican attempted the
task. The power of faction was !n-
oked aud the outrage was consummated.
The Northern Democrat can afford to
of this case, why the necessity ot further
struggle and waste of time ? A similar
fate awaits each Southern Representative
whose seat is contested. The reports of
the committee show the facts and the law
and make them matters ot record. Why
not let tbe others go out without tbe show
of a contest which is simply contempt!
ble ?
If the Republicans can bold their power
in the House, and their only hope to do so
Is in the election of independents, so-
called, in Georgia and other Southern
States, it ia bat a question of time when
the St uth will again be unrepresented ln
the Senate and House.
For instance, Georgia requires tbe pay
ment of a poll tax as a pre-requisite to tbe
ballot. A Republican faction would not
hesitate a moment lo brush this out of the
way in favor of a negro contestant and
seat a man who had received few or even
no votes, and It looks as though Northern
Democrats woulJT acquiesce ln the out
rage.
lonner Reflection*. _
The fact that we staud at tho threshold
of summer has not escaped the attention
of tbe gentlemen who Indulge in heavy
flannels and a general laytag aside of af
fectionate apparel Is the result. A new,
redhot situation looms np before us, and
calls for plans. Not that this summer af
fection Is a new one; year in and
year outmost of us have suffered and
sweltered withont respite, for this poeti
cal season Is pretty much of a poetical
fraud, when attractiveness is sought lor.
It cannot be denied that s vol
ume of verses on tho seasons, a
good cigar, a cool hammock
and a shady nook, to say nothing of Iced
refreshments, go far toward sustaining the
poet’s views of summer. Under the re
laxing and soothing influences of these
accessories, the mind willingly takes in
all the romance of goldenrod tufts, swal
lows afloat in the amber sea, brlght-hued
flowers, and (esthetic love scrapes among
the cooing doves, while a gentle languor
invades ani pervades the nerve centres
and binds the flabby muscles with chains
of roses. Under such circumstances life
is apt to be regarded as utterly too nice,
and summer just superb. Ly
ing on one’s bock ln the
midst of this extraordinary luxury,
with a book propped np before the vision,
the eye may follow the poet’s fancy as
hounded across the snowy page by the
zig-zag pen, and shout when all bands
come in at the death. Tbe tronble, how
ever, which makes this picture an Impos
sibility, lies in tbe fact that but few ol us
are millionaires, and aro compelled to
earn our batter-cakes by the sweat of our
intellectual mansards; that we must
swallow a hasty breakfast, rush out into
the dusty toll of business life, chin, bar
ter, swap, trade, lie, preach, manufacture
and fret, whether or not tb8 sun shines,
This is why working men look on poets
as prevaricators.'
There are, however, grades of discom
fort, and as we have before remarked, the
season calls vociferously for plans. Is there
no way of lessening this physical friction
for a space at least? Jack Slappy re
marked recently, that ho liked Augusta
because those people do occasionally sit
down and rest. Dear, sleepy, old aristo
cratic Augusta. No man could better de
scribe the city and Us peoplo, with a
year’s time to try in, and an
unabridged dictionary to stimulate
him. The question with
is, why cannot Macon peoplo ait down
during the summer months and rest? Few
are able to carry themselves off to summer
resorts, but a unity of pmpose amongst
tbe business men would, if rightly direct
ed, mitigate to a great extent the can’t-
getraway evil. Some feeble efforts have
been made in this direction; some good
bas been accomplished, bnt very little, be
cause there bas been no nmty of purpose,
nor has it been altogether in the
right direction. If, instead of
scattering closing of establishments at
6 p. m. t as hitherto in vogue, would
not more comfort be obtained, aud more
generally satisfaction be given, if from
12 m. to 4 p. m. there was a general sus
pension of business, wherever possible,
from Jnly 1st to September 1st? Under
this arrangement tbe cool mornings and
evenings could be devoted to sales and
purchases, anti rest obtained during the
very time, the physical system cries ont
loudest uuder its burdens. Who that has
gazed into the yawning stores on a mid
summer day, and beheld the idle employes
sweltering in the heat, can doubt that tho
innovation can be made without loss of
business? However, these are only sum
mer reflections.
bi tii
Chicago Times.
An orthodox ticket (or 18M: For President,
Robeaon, o( New Jersey; (or Vice-President,
Keifer, of Ohio.
told V»a Ever. ‘
Constitution.
The United Stale* fiags>;l|< Richmond hss
reached Japan safely, ao the telegraph aa/a.
You may not know w hy this if eonaldered re
markable enoufth to telegraph, but did you
ever see the United States navy?
Zstertalalat Cllrl* 1b Tex**.
Texas Siftings.
“What ahull we do to entertain our girls
says a religious exchange. A man who needs
advice as to how to entertain his girls is not fit
to edit a religious paper. We suggest that he
should take one of them nut buggy riding Ir.
the aftcruoon, tell her what a daisy she la, and
how insipid and fixed up that other girl is,
Then he should take “that other girl” lor ice
cream after supper and tel! her eonfideutially
how very uniulerestiiig ami awkward the bug
gy riding girl is. When the two girls meet, the
religious editor car. depend on their entertain
ing each other without his personal assistance.
Second Rifbt In an OU* mat*.
Detroit free Press.
It was also an Ohio man who, when a terrible
storm set in one night, rushed Into the house
ot a neighbor and cried out:
“Jones, this is the ending up ot earth!”
“I am afraid so—I'm afraid so!" was tlie re
ply.
“And wliat shall wo do V'
“Make our peace with heaven."
The wlhd blew still stronger, tho house
began to shake, and the excited man ex
claimed :
“Jones, yon lost five bushels of wheat last
fall.”
"Yes.”
"And you have your suspicionsT”
“I have. The man who took my wheat had
better own up.”
“Can you forgive him?"
“lean."
“Well—"
Here tho wind suddenly dropped, and after a
look through tho window, tho conscience-
stricken man turned and finished:
“Yes, if I ever meet him I’ll advise him to
call around!"
A Suez, followed the attempt to suppress
a -newspaper in New Orleans! Nobody hurt,
but tho press Is still free.
'lira crisis has come. Crump and
“Fresh” have had a misunderstanding over
the key to the liqnor bin. Crnmp has re
signed and goes to Europe. He must have
stood in with old Bliss in the stock specu
lations on Garfield’s wound.
W.vsniNOTos Post: In the opinion of
Surgeon-General Wales, who attended Sen
ator Joe Brown before be left for the
South, there is no hope for his recovery,
nnless ho gives up business and politics,
and settles right down to health getting.
“Count Von Moltxe, Germany’s veteran
field marshal and chief of staff, has taken
leave of absenco for an indefinite period,
preparatory to float retirement from of
fice." jTho German offioers hoping for pro
motion cszmot be fooled by this. Thejold
man has played it on them several times
before.
The Baltimore bloods have an affair on
hand. They went fox hunting and carried
their girls. Mr. Ferguson claimed the toil
of the foz for his girl. Mr. Brown gave it
to Prof. Rowland Ioi bis swoethenrt, where
upon Mr. Ferguson slashed the Professor
in tho face with his whip, and Mr. Brown
knocked Mr. Ferguson down. A triangular
duel is in order.
Tjushcourage and endurance havers*
scried themselves and brought England to
terms. With the unconditional release of
of Parnoll, Dillon and others comes
the announcement of a policy of kindness
and justice in place of force. The Irish
peoplo owe it to themselves end their sym
pathizers to meet the overture in a becom
ing spirit. - ’ i’JkSI
A toumo Maoon girl was utroking her pet
cat hist mghtand received a severe scratch.
She remarked that it was tbe first time sbe
ever knew a full-blooded Maltese to show
any ioinpor. Her beau replied in n deep,
pooling office tone of voice that it was evi
dently a Maltese cross. Then tie shrieked
hysterically and leaped through tho veran
da into the sympathetic moonlight, carry
ing with him two panels of yellow jessa
use the vote of the Southern Democrat, I m i, 10 and the fragments of niae call*
was calling
Descended From the Qatea of Shek*.
Exchange.
The wedding of Princess Maria of Schoa to
the Crown Prince of Abyssinia, which took
place a few weeks ago in Ankobsr, was a gay
affair. The nuptial festivities lasted a fort
night, during which period a long programme
of banquets and bolls, races and hunting par
ties were carried out to tho letter. Through
out the marriage ceremony Princess Marla
wore upon her head the most precious heir
loom ol her family—a massive golden dlsdera,
enriched with twelve huge rubies, which was
once the property of King Solomon, the Wise.
The Schoa dynasty is the oldest royal bouse in
existence, and King Menelik claims unbroken
descent from th* Queen of Sheba, whoso visit
ln state to the court of Jerusalem is recorded ln
the Seriptnrcs. Princess Maria's Illustrious an
cestress. whose charms are supposed to have
Inspired the Songof Songs, received the dia
dem in question as a gift from her enamored
host during her sojourn ln tbe Jewish capital,
and It has everstnee her death been worn by
her female descendants at their weddings, from
generation to generation, down to the present
time. As soon ns the Archbishop of Gondar,
on tho occasion above alluded to, had pro
nounced the nnptlal benediction upon the
royal pair, this relic was removed from the
bride’s brow by her fnther, and restored to Its
resting place among the regalia of Schoa.
daughter, fresh from Vtu«ar. The wife is a
S uiet. lady like, motheriy-'.ooklng woman,
ncr ln form aud feature than tbo
favorite mistress, while both wife and
daughter have been devoted to Howgatc from
the beginning of his troubles. How much ho
appreciated this solicitude may be inferred
from the fact that Nellie ftun ill was at the fall
every day and brought him ilowers, while tho
empty boskets were thoughtfully sent up to his
residence to hla wife. Other women would
have reeenled this partnership, but Mrs. How-
gate seems to have accepted it from the begin
ning as a matter oi course. Nellie engineered
both escapes, and was Howgate's confidant
always, hhe Is now fully cognizant of his
whereabouts. It Is possible there arc others In
thL, secret, however. There is much comment
hero on this head. Some arc willing to nut
certain supposed interested parties of the sigval
office at the bottom of the matter. I have
heard the belief expressed that Howg&te will
return by the day ot trial, and that he Is simply
ln hiding to avoid the hardship of intermediate
Imprisonment. This Is a touching manifesta
tion of faith ln virtue peculiar to this climate.
Sir. Ktepheuo and ihe Governorship.
Constitution Interview with an Old Politician.
In reply to the Inquiry on our part what ho
found w be the feeling of the people In the
State, where he had been, about the new move
ment, he said: "The new movement is the
deadest thing we have ever had In Georgia pol
itics. I never saw anything fall eo flat The
original coalitionists at the Markham gave it a
poor start, and the subsequent meeting at the
Markham, when tho colonels met, finished the
Job." "But,” we replied, “they hope to recover
bv putting Mr. Stephens- forward aS their can
Well", sold he, they may hope to do that, but
If Mr. Stephens has got the sense and judgment
he once had and really wonts to be Governor of
the molley crowd that comes here on the 1st of
June be will be defeated. The Democrats will
nominate a strong man. and Gen. Gartrell will
divide the ouUidcrs with Mr. Stepheus and the
uomlnccof the Democratic convention will be
elected. Mr. Stephens, he continued. Is not in
vincible. He was defeated for the Senate by
Gen. Gordon, and simply because heputhim-i
sell against the Democratic party ln the Stalel
on the Greeley movement. I was a member of
the LcgialatunAmd voted against Mr. Stephens
solely on the ground that no had opposed tho
policy of the party ln this move. Tho party Is
stronger to-day than it was then. I will vote
for Mr. Stephens if he Is the nominee of the
Democratic convention, bull think if hois the
representative of the men who manipulated the
Markham House ooaterance*. that* Is no man
strong enough in Gmgla tomakcaaneeamAil
|campaign from that standpoint. mb
This u the sataflanmttf a m eonranaflB
and there Is more truth than poetry ln wbattbol
old gentleman ears.
The Great American Coffin.
Cincinnati Gazette.
Mr. Joseph Coppln. a pioneer of this vicinity
who has resided ln this city tor a number of
years, hss placed for safe keeping at the under
taking establishment of Pye A Rrschell, New
port a burial case, which he terms tbo
“Great American Coffin." designed and built
by himself and intended as a receptaclo for his
body after death. It is incloscdlu a heavy
pine box, which has been stained a jet black.
The case Is mada of heavy American pine
boards of an inch thickness and is so con*
structcd as to have a heavy hose, eight panels.
, • JMUMm
and the top ledge bloc.” The' lid of this curious
ly constructed case la entirely covered with the
scars and stripes. Year the head of it Is plan-1
a daguerreotype of the intended occupant cov
ered with a miniature American flag, which
has to be lifted when a view of the picture Is
desired.
It Is evidently the old gentleman's wish that
his taco and form shall not bo exposed to view
when once his form U placed In the case, but
that his friends and relatives content them
selves with a view of his counterpart prevent
menu He has had placed ln his future resting
place, at the bottom and sides, the shavings
from the boards of. which it Is made, well cov
ered with cotton batting. With him will-be
burled tho second teeth that he has from time
to time had to drop Iron hts mouth, which he
has carefully saved, and also a lock of hair of
his first sweetheart.
Mr. Coppln is now utnety-flve years old. ami
from his appearance one would judge that It
will be some years before the product of his
handiwork will bo called into requisition.
The llnudaomeat la the Drove.
Detroit Tree Press.
When ho bod finished with the climate, soil
nnd ^reductions of Idaho, ono of the group
"How about education facilities r*
“That's the only thing wc lack," repUad the
old man with a mournful sim*. “We've got
schools enough, but we can't keep no teach
ers."
“What's the trouble?"
“Well, take my school, for instance—only
two miles from the nearest house, eminently
si tooted on top of a hill and paying the highest
salary. We can’t keep' a teacher over two
weeks."
■Do they die?”
•Some do, though It's no place for dying.
We had a young fellow from Ohio, and he met
grizzly and whistled for him. Tho grizzly
cum. We had another, and a widder run him
doom and married him inside of a month. The
third one was lame, and the Injuns overtook
him. Then wc tried women folks. The first
one got married the night she lit down there: I
took tbe second about the middle of the third
week, and tho next one was abducted by a
stage robber " A.
“Why don’t yon get tho ugliest, homeliest
woman you can find—some perfect old terror,
like that lantern-jawed, razor-faced female over
by the ticket window?”
“Why don't we! Stranger, you Eastern folks
Prana Comments
Quitman Free Press.
Editor Lamar wants a political Injunction
served on Governor C-clqultt to prevent his trad
ing off !l,tr gubernatorial succession to another
pony. Governor Colquitt's claim to the guber
natorial chair is only a homestead right, end
under the laws ot the Stat* can only he traded
by permission trorn a higher court. That court
in tills Instance Is the people. No such author
ity will be granted Mr. Colquitt.
Thomasville Times,
Tbe Georgia press gang will air their linen
dusters next week, preparatory to donning
them tor their annual pilgrimage to the press
convention. It is a very affecting sight to seo
these same dusters fluttering in too breeze, as
tho wearers madly rush for tho nearest hash
house, or frantically heel it lor a neighboring
beer saloon.
Athens Banner• Watchman.
Congressman Speer is the pet of Frcaldent
Arthur. Arthur represents the meanest, Closest
and most anti-Southcm spirit of stelwnrtism.
He and his wing of the Republican party are
surviving on the "bloody shirt" Issues—the
Issues ot sectional hate burled long ago by the
more decent and liberal Republicans, and the
men of tbe South who ally themselves with
Arthur and the stalwart wing of the Republican
party are endorsing and giving new life and
emphasis to the slanders heaped upon their
own people and originated in tho stalwart
camp. And yet “Our Emory" and his Pete
claim to be Democrats. From all such, good
Lord deliver us!
Augusta Chronicle.
On Wednesday, May 10th, the press conven
tion of Georgia will be held ln this city. These
meetings are always attended by lull represen
ts from the city press and provincial pa
pers, and President J. H. Eatill, of Savannah,
has urged a full attendance at this meeting.
The boys will go up the canal and draw inspi
ration from the sluice-ways and barbecue pits
Ol the locks. Nuffccd!
Columbus Enquirer.
We cannot hut look upon the action of the
mass of colored people with a great deal ol
charity. They do all that is in their pow er to
destroy dcmq»r*ev and in this they seek to in
jure their white friendff with whoso interest
they are of nocessity identified. That this Is
the case Is more from a want of information, as
they are the dupes of scheming men with white
skin and the colored men who lead them to the
slaughter for the purpose of putting pelf in
their pockets. We do not write this to get their
votes, ns the Democratic party does not need
them to insure success, but to toll them onco
more that they are cutting their own throats.
Tho Republican party, nor the office seeking
politician, has ever benefited tluaxoiored, mats
in any particular, ycth.0 adheresto them with
all tho tenacity of itis soul. When the
Ir-aflK ihn! politics is a dangerous thing for him
to undertake to control, ana that the best thing
for his race ia to seek to c-levato it in religion,
education and society, he will have loarned an
important lesson,
will never understand us pioneers in th
, . i ■> prew - ; V'V Av I WM! give
teacher I married, and she was the handsomev:^ c ^ dcnc0 to t)lc wor M that t!„- whit:
Bnaltb Clayton Withdraw*.
Prom an Interview.
Hearing that Mr. Smith Clayton hail with
draws irom the committee of gentlemen ap
pointed at the late Markham licusc conference
to prepare and publish an address to the i>co-
ple of Georgia. & Uomtitulion reporter caught
him on the wing yesterday and asked: “Is it
true that yon have withdrawn from the com
mittee?"
"Yes. I have just returned from tho Post-
Appeal office, where I left a request that my
name bo stricken from the names signed to the
address, which, as yon know, is kept before the
public in that paper."
“Do you object io stating why you have ta
ken this stop 7 "
“I saw enough to convince me that the polit
ical tight in Georgia is fast unrrowing down to
liourbonism on tnc one hand, and uegroism on
the other hand. Of these two evils f regard
liourbonism the lesser. The troth is. that the
Republicans are fooling the independent Dem
ocrats and intlamiuB the negroes against the
whites—and ail fowm wicked and selfish pur-
The Republicans known aa the syndi
cate are using the independent Democrats os a
lever to lift themselves and their friends into
Federal offices in Georgia. The Republicans
are inflaming the negroes by appointing many
of their number to Federal office. All this
means that the Federal patronage lu Georgia is
to be used two years hence to give Arthur a
Georgia delegation to help him to another
term.”
"But how?"
“Why, with the aid of tlip (B-rAiie.-l liberals.
Borons the play is overa good many Independ
ent Democrats will receive Federal appoint
ments. One has already gotten an office—Mr,
Tripp, of Cartersviile, who received the office
of a staunch Republican, Darnell, who was
kicked out by Arthur. By this system of office-
giving to independent-, negroes and Republi
cans, Arthur nopes to control (he liberals of
Georgia In good time. Arthur is Irying to
make the independents think that thcr are
leading the procession, but they are really
riding abreast with the Republicans, while tho
negroes are in advance. See Davis. Pledger
Pleasants, etc. Through such appointments,
under cloak of aid in building a new liberal
party in Georgia, Arthur hopes to control the
negro vote of the State, which ia essential to
the accomplishment of hlspurpose."
“Were you offered an office 7"
“Yes. A few ntghto since I was offered a tvo-
sltion as mail route-agent, I believe, on the
State road. I didn’t fee! Ural I bad done any
thing to deserve office at the hands of a Repub
lican administration, and knowing that if I ac-
oepttd, the position would be labeled as tho
price ef my future allegianeo to Arthur in tho
State, 1 declined. I was much obliged all tha
same, though, for the place would have paid
me more than 1 am now making out ot jour
nalism.”
“What
ones?"
“That file object of Arthur’s new party In
Georgia Is to get the Legislature. If they
should succeed, they will reaistrict the State to
suit themselves with a fair prospect oi putting
several Republicans and negroe.-E:n Congress
from Georgia. To this end you will gee in tip-
near future many Republican and ndkro can
didates for the Legislature. The negroes and
Republicans will support the independents for
the State offices, ami in turn the independents
will be expected to support the negroes and
Republicans. The negroes even now openly
declare that they hold the balance ot power In
tbeState, and every day brings fresh ipdiea-
tiou3 of their determination to take the lead at
the polls. They are fighting their beat inter
ests, and will probably wish before the eam-
sigu is over that they had not entered the lib-
ral movement."
“Do you know that the present adminis
tration will give this movement substantial
said?"
"I know that Arthur told a prominent Geor
gia Republican, to whom he has recently given
an Office', that he intended to do for tne new
party In Georgia what he has done for the new
party in Virginia. It is well s. :t’e,t that the
office-holders under Arthur's administration
will bo asseesed for funds to build up this new
partyin Georgia. Such would not fie th< case
unless the President thought the sum s> of this
movement would redound to the furtherance
of his political fortunes. In short, Arthur is
playing for a second term, the ..f Georgia
is tnc chess-board, and he is going to use just os
many black men and when as he can in order
o win a delegation."
“Yon don't pro|>oee to help him to do it?"
“No, sir. As a white Georgian, and a Derno-
rat. 1 ivel that, knowing what ! know , it is :ny
duty to part company with the > railed lib
erals. I believe in the fullest political freedom
for troth white and black, hut 1 see In this
present movement in Georgia, .:•> i,ov, conduct
ed, an element which menaces the lives and
proj-erty of the citizens ot this State, and warn
all jrarlics conferred that any collision tee-
tween factions which the near future may de-
ono in tho drove!"
Hoirgste and Nellie Bnmll.
Philadelphia Times Washington Letter.
Th* Howgatc mystery remains as great a
mystery as ever It was. There is something
demoralizing ln tho Washington atmosphere
thatcreatesa public sentiment for a man of
the character of Captain Howgatc. I don't
kuoww'hatit is, but it reminds me of the
mawkish sentimentality that attaches to great
criminals like Jesse James, Guilcau, Cbaatine
Cox and others of peculiar crimes. You will
remember when Major Hodga. the paymaster,
who robbed the government of half a million,
was tried by court martial and Imprisoned In a
cozy library at Fort McHenry. Ho had about
tho same sort of people after him here. Hodge
was soon pardoned out and returned to Wash
ington to be om e more surrounded by the same
circle of society that worshipped pleasure with
him before he'became a nominal convict. He
scarcely freed from the solitary confine
ment and champagne of the For'. McHenry li
brary before lie was given * responsible finan
cial trust for the Washington city government.
030 01 Howgatc, so far as the public sym
pathy is concerned, is more extraordinary
still. I do not doubt hut llowcate would have
lx-e]i pardoned out before he had served two
,.ars had lie remained and stood trial. He
stole only about one-third as murh at Hodge,
but ho was a gorsi deni worse in other res
ts, and would thus have stood quite as good
show tor executive clemency. I believe I
as the first newspaper man to drag Howgatc
into public light through the Ti -ct. and I am
upjH>sed to be suffering the panggof remorse ln
msequence. Indeed, when l hranl on every
hand: "I'm glad he's got away," "Hope they
>u't catch him," etc., etc., I am not certain
that I did the correct thing. For all this rym-
l-athv I can oniv account by the itet that How-
gate spent a giaxl deal of tho money he stole
from the government upon a class of people
rho make public opinion. He lept a yacht
nd a mistress and enjoyed perfect immuuity
for the one by the free use ol tho other, lfis
. curse toward his family bas been most despic
able. leaving his wife to almost earn her own
ing. he showered gold upon his mistress.
Nellie Burrill. He fitted up a perfect model of
a house for Nellie on Thirteenth street, very
near where I live, aud I saw them necessarily
quite often coming ln or going ont td drive or
walk. His wife Ures there now and a grown
man still rules in Georgia I say this, too, in
all friendliness to the colored man, whose best
interests, s*vi&!iy, politically, materially, lit- in
resisting with his full strength the minailowod
efforts of the administration at Washington to
sacrifice him in the interest of a second term.”
“How do they expect to carry the stale with
an overwhelming white sentiment against
them ? "
• They count on the solid negro vote, massed
by the administration and led by white office-
seekers in various parts of the Suite. Seeing
this 1 became disgusted with the movement,
and, as a white man and a Democrat, thought
tha: my withdrawal was in i rder. I trust that
snv of ray friends in Georgia who may have
been misled by mv position will accord me
crcdit for conscientiousness and profit by my
example. Iu conclusion, 1 beg you will state
that I hereby tender my resignation as » com
mittee of one to arrange fur reduce-) railroad
rates to the June mass meeting. I will state,
also, to office-seekers throughout the State thap
the position of secretary of the late conferenco
is open."
' ” **
—Among the orators at the Junior ex
hibition at Ynlc College this year were a
nephew of General Albert Sydney Johnston,
ana Mr. Leonard, the son of a New York aboil-
riontst. Mr. Johnston’s piece was entitled "The
Lost Cause,” and was an eloquent, highly
rhetorical and truly Southern defense of uia
people. Mr. Leonard chose for his subject
“William l.ic.vd Garrison." his oration being a
review of the same question from a Northern
standpoint and a vindication of the ontt slav-
ory movement.
—Mr. Edwin Booth took leave of the
New York, public Saturday night, ia Booth’s
Thestre. acting “Richard 111." There was a
great multitude in attendance, and there was
much enthuaiasjn. At the ciouf- of tho enter
tainment the audience rose and cheered for
him. Mr. Booth came beforaitho curtain and
said: “My friends, yon know I have said
that I can possibly say to night; you know I am
very much exhausted; I thank you with *U mv
heart, and so good-night ” The scene was earn -
of brilliant animation, not ttiiuiixed with tan
der regret. Mr. Booth will sail for Europe «iTk
few weeks, where he has a long li*t
stor.al engagement* to fill. p
