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JUKE 8. 1*82. f *» horn editor” nrticle seems to have etusg friend Perkins, of the Constitution. i. msxt-otuded paper, published in Ba- wmaJi, contains a somewhat thrilling en dorsement of the Post-Appeal's denial that "lias is a white man's government.'' \Ka rxzvsa a party necessity arises for it, better's rulings are as arbitrary as the nka- mm ot U.o Czar of Russia. He is a man JBttio character and less brains. Tnr talented horse editor of the Consti- tulion ought to know that it is dangerous to beck the favorite in a Southern race. Tfcero is more money to be made . JFirid. Artsxas in Egypt are getting hot in 4aablu sense. The Khedive has a hard tome constructing the right sort of a oabi met He misses the counsels of Corporal Tbotaton. ■ Ti.-.v.-mtthns actually been laughing at Vsny Gantt’s grammar. This is fearful “Who told Marcellos that thero was any such thing as grammar ? But we forgot— Gandy overlooks him flow. V’-. -.t jomO member of the new coalition Jnflorm us why Mr. Stephens waited long to corroct the telegram that Congress man Speer sent to l>r. Felton ? It wosn' fxt want of practice in denying things. la will probably devolve on Corporal 'fbomton to furnish the rations for “the • toast of the valley. ” Having furnishod '/ft# claue" with a leader, he will not likely •see them perish from want of hard tack. Hcxpzy's Constitution very pointedly re- murks: “At present wo arofor Mr. Ste phens.” The restrictive clause is well pul The old gentleman shouldn’t move his bug. fUgs over into the Constitution office yet. Yto Constitution informs us that It will mottinue its “missionary work.’’ As the ■“ndsojonary” has just been gobbled up by Cal Thornton’s heathen, we sbaU watch dor his renppearAnoe with increasing in. Ir a certain Augustn editor could go to tbe State Senate and get to be its presiding officer, and if Mr. Stephens should be elect ad governor and then be elected toor—pray wlrnt would the Augusta editor ften be? Liar Sunday's Chronicle and Vonstitu Hmwlist mokes some pointed remarks on tofr‘“Aiokapoo Indians." They probably moustilnte a distant branch of the Tammany kibe, and will furnish the “medicine man' for the new oonlition. On striking characteristic of the Ssvan- -mob Neus U its persistent ignorance of the tact that Dr. Felton is not a Doctor of Di wioity. The Great Mogul has no title whatever in the direction of divinity— wither clear or otherwise. Prorui who do not believe in maintain ing “Uw color line'' will have to get eotne «f our statutes repealed before they can ef fect their full purpose. .The Almighty drew the color line, nnd decent white men too not cars to efface it. 'torn a Africans, who are opposed to tofcit* man’s government, can find one more to their liking in Liberia. They would probably be allowed to fill seoond class atetious over In that country. We are anx ious to see the experiment tried. tins* right to which the negroes are en titled should be honestly accorded them. Shaping the political destinies of this Cute, or of the United States, is not one ml theso rights, aud they will never exer- wipe it. Doss the Post-Appeal beer ? U Congressman Speer really sick, or is be store*? dodging the Maokoy-Dibble issue ? Men <nght to have oonviotions, and the montage to stand by them. It is oowardly to dodge a vote on any question, but scores ef Congressmen are guilty of so doing. fa shaking of the position of the Taut- hoi on> Mehnexoeb, the Post-Appeal's gubernatorial recruit, the Constitution, aiy*: “The attitude of our estesmsd oon- iou j orary is exceedingly nnwrong.” This naan ios tan os in which our oontemporary told the truth by accident, and we venture to no 1 it i« sorry for It. Us. Ran0U4. report* Mr. Stephens as being highly pleased with the Chronicle's ptwM ommente on the old geniloman’e mlmcu to a number of offices. He see ms to«> mi-athize with Colonel Wolsh'a pur i<o*o to pat him into two or three uffices alt Be Isn't “fat” and he doesn't intend to “go tort,” when it comes to office-boldirg. Tim claim of the Constitution to having ^tolled Thornton into the ranks of th/or- •rsaUed Democracy" is rather cheeky. 4 SDolltng"a fellow “into the ranks,” by foing over to his candidate in a body, is a calker peculiar tolling process. In thin matter the organ of “the conspiracy” is lying down on its check aud covering itself milhitc ofl-#sr. « Twu Anguote Evening News seems to| think Mr. Stephen* is in danger of falling into the hands of “political Judos Iieari tote.'2 * The- eodden swarming to Mr. tile- toir.n of old political opponents is etupil >c , to ray the best of it. In oar j«dg- iernt, the old man is bring u«ed aa a toot with which to advance the political ends of] •ondry Democratic jugglers. ^ ‘AVijs Constitution sayi, “If those who op-1 fetid Mr. Stephens are really in earnestJ May should immediately begin to show] wfcj ‘.e would not make the i^ople off Owor^ia a i;ocdgovernor, and wherein an other man wonhl make abetter." On the . jry, the harden is with those who ad- mate Mr. StepheM to show that ho would ast only moke Georgia a good Democratic governor, bot whatrto hie jonmorship ■wnaid Earnest Oppoeltton. Jf those wild oppose Mr. 8t«>hcni are really in earneft, they should Immediately begin to thtor whj ho would not make tho poonlf ot Oeorgls a good governor, and wherein another man would makes better.' This’ll the only way to defeat Mr. Stephens. In tho above paragraph the Constitu tion aflecta to doubt the reality of the op position, in the Democratic party, to the nomluatlon of Mr. Stephena. If It has aa good a memory aa It ought to bare, it could give a number of reasons why he should not be the nominee ef the Demo cratic convention. But if the memory 'our 1 contemporary has failed, a reference to its own files for the past few years would, we Judge, furnish it with quite an array of Democratic opposition candidacy. Mr. Stephens has some vory strong friends in the Democratic party. The fact is indisputable, aud we will undertake to gainsay It. There Is some thing remarkable iu the unreasoning strength with which some men iu Georgia have held on to this cl^publlc servant, through the alternating^w^ues of weak ness aud strength that have characterized his long career. While this is true, it equally true that there are a*large number ot Democrats iu Georgia whose opposition to him—whether considered well-ground ed or not—Is unbending and implacable. Does our contemporary deuy the fact ? he mt fuily aware that it la a fact? It doesn't matter, so far as concerns the question of the advisability of nomi nating him tor the gubernatorial office, whether this opposition to him be reason able or unreasonable, creditable or dis creditable. Iu existence would be suf ficient to worn any one, who baa the good ot the Stole aud of the party at heart, against trying, at a time like this, or any other time, to ride dowu tills living and unconquerable opposition with iron hoof. If there was In the State competent and patriotic man who could be put forward for this position against whom the ssmo barrier of bitter opposition would uot spring Into sgaed and vigilant being, then there would be some gree of palliatiou for the purpose of forc ing Mr. Stephens on uuwilling constitu encies. But such is not the case. There are numbers of meu the State, mentally aud morally the eq a * Is °f ^ r * Stephens, and vastly suieriors in physical strength, to whose nomination no objection could be urged. There are men in Georgia who have not for twenty years past, created aud fos tered anUgonlsms, as Mr. Stephens has done, aud auy one of theso men, put forward by a duly constituted convention, would poll the full voto of the p&ity. Is it the part of wisdom needlessly challenge strife in the party Is it the office of the Constitution to sit judgment on the reasonableness of bon est Democratic opposition to the nomina tion of Mr. Stephens ? Does that paper suppose that iu dictum will bo sufficient to allay discord, and brush away the stur diest opposition ? Does it think this can bo done by “a conspiracy” Iu Atlanta, aided by “the clans gathering in the val ley ?” If so, it overrates its Influence Georgia polltlci,aml fails to appreciate the memories and sound Judgment of our Democratic masses. Holding Out. The Democrats are holding outran- fuliv against the infamous purpose on the pars of the Radicals to unseat a fairly cho sen Democratic member, and put In iu his stead, on forged testimony, Scalawag Mackey. There Is uot a Democratic con- atituency that will not Justify the utmost extreme of parliaifcetfaty opposition to such a • shameless dctiSC. *T«£ t”£!l £, the Democratic mtfacs would go dven be yond their representatives In asserting their right to honest representatlou by their own chosen loaders. More than one vic tory has been lost to our party be cause Democratic representatives have been too cowardly to assert the claims of true manhood. By concession, by com promise, by absenteeism, by abject sur render, the rights of Democratic constitn- eucles have been lost, until the people nottoj 1 ** 6 become incredulous of the power cf %ny leader to hold the Democratic mem bers up to anything like a persistent, un tiring, uncompromising resistance to the violence of Radical majorities. Out so far, In this contest, Mr. Randall has not been deserted by any considerable number of his fol lowing. Only six of our members are present on the floor, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Black aud Mr. Speer being absent. Those of our members who arc present are of the sort “who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.’” Mr. Stephens, will, probably, uever bo Able to take bis seat in Congress again. Mr. Black certainly nevor will. Mr. Spe^ should be called upon to give an acc* of his stewardship in the matter of his absence duriug this protracted and des perate struggle by Democratic Congress men to maintain the right# of an honora ble South Carolina constituency. Mr. Steplieaa Is not a popular mau Democratic circles In Georgia. Of course we mea&as a politician. Personally, wo have uot a word to say against him. Ho has done many acta of kindness In hts long life, am! charitios have dropped from his hands like fatness from the clouds. But hU political record la uot pleasiug ous. Does the Constitution Indorse his record during the war? Let It refer to Us files and see. If it should, there arc thousands of Democrats Georgia who do uot. Does the Constitu tion Indorse the record which Mr. Stephens made during the bit- days of reconstruction ? it charmed with the contributions that he then made towards the deliver ance of Georgia from the flies and iho frogs and the lice and the other terrain, ct infamous memory, that were spewed into our midst by the enemies of our rights and our liberties? If so, lei .them be set forth in order, that the people may number them aud bo Just. Does the Constitution iudorsc his friendship and admlratiou for Grant? There are thou sands o/ Democrats who do not. Does indorse his course iu bullying the eighth district a few years ago into nomi nating him for Congress, under the threat of “standing,” with or without uomiustlou? There are a great many Democrats in Georgia who do not •In cluding, perhaps, the proprietor of the morning dally In Augusta. Does It ad mire bis record iu Cougreu since the war? Has It taken particular pains to Indorse this record, and hold it up to the admiring gaze of the people of the Stato ? At what time did it begiu to admire his “Jetfrrso- nlau Democracy?” Was It highly pleas ed, delighted, charmed with his palpable billiug and wooing with the coalition crowd ? We mean the old coalitiou crowd, not the new one. Does It have no question as to the propriety of tip methods by which he lias been induced to forsake the worship of the gods of the old coalition heathen and cling to the Idols ef the new coalition Jacobs. If the Con$tiiutton Is satisfied on all tkeso points, there are many Democrats who are not, and who ill make then opposition felt. But outside of alt this, we know, and the Constitution knows, that Mr. Stephena physical lydneompeteut to discharge the duties of Congressman, or governor, or Senator. It is Impossible for him- to faithfully perform the duties of any of these offices. He, himself, Is aware ot this fact, and it was for this reason, In part perhaps, that he signified his in tention to retire from public service at. the close of bis present term. The people know something of the methods by which was induced to change his purpose. We hare outlined some of the reasons w hich Me at the bottom of the Democratic opposition to Thornton's candidate in Georgia. In il>e estimation of the Con stitution, they may not be sufficient “to defeat Mr. Stephens.” Th< y arc at least sufficient to sh>w that, only under pro teat, cau he be the candidate of a large number of Democratic voters. Tax Albany Netcs lectures ua upon man ners; tbe Fort Valley Mirror rebukes ns being, as it says, “course.” This is to notify the brethren, clerical and lay, that still hong to onr faith as to future re wards, but now demand more light upon imniabmeut hereafter. But when the horse ■tor of the Constitution rears op behind au«X calls us a “jackass,” jre bow our head is agony and beg leave to irquire: "Why, oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud r or words to that effect. Thx Post-Appeal gave the Neening Her- o/JiU cold ohouMsr. “Twas all it had to rtoMimn toGrantliin. Rejecting Its Own Bensons. Grant Is the worsf enemy tbe South ] The Savannah News, of the 29th Inst., ever had and tbe meanest man this coun- contains a rr markablo editorial Indorse- t.y ever produced. Mr. Stephens Is uu-1 ment of Mr. Stephens os the candidate of derstood now, as heretofore, to be a strong i tho Democratic party for governor. It is admirer of Graut. If he did not indorse remarkable fur its cogent statement of Grant’s methods • in Louisiana and iu reasons why Mr. Stephens is uot accept- South Carolina, while tbe old bummer < able to a large number of Democrats, and The Coming Ynrn. We are in tbe mldat of the season when the imagination of the “lone fisherman * blooms out as the broad leaves of the msg* Was Fresldyut, lie at least pqJRatcd t*— 'Ye qau out /look, then, on^Lhe Ind^r mcutofMr. Stephens as the Indirect doisementof Grantism. If the Demo cratic party of this State can be thus pros tituted through bouisrn to Grautism, then every patriot, who realizes that every hope of tbe State hangs upon tbe Integrity and success of the Dem^recy, may well ex claim, alas poor Georgia! Tke Hew York Tirou' Experlnaei The New York Times (Republican), not at all satisfied with the gflt-edgod re ports of Democratic dissolution in the various Southern States, seat out letters U> the edltois of representative newspa pers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, asking the following questions: (1.) Is the policy of the Democratic par ty mauagers iu harmony with the general sentiment of tbe people of yonr district ? If that policy excites any dissatisfaction, is it chiefly directed against principles or persons sustained by party leaders? (2.) How do your people regard the ad ministration of President Arthur? to*-)* there In your neighborhood any decided oxpresaiou of opinion in regard to tho tariff? If eo, what is its extent and natare? It will bo observed that these questions were framed to give all classes of Demo crats throughout tho South a chance to express themieleec; they were In the nature of a drag net so woven as to pick up ilia germs of disaffection reported In tbs various States. Under these it was rea sonably expected to ascertain if the di visions reported as caused by the prohi. bltlonita of North Carolina amounted to any movement of importance; if there was in reality anything serious Iu tho op position to the party which organized the stock law In South Carolina; if the ru mored increase of independsntlsm in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas rested upon facts; If tbo disruptive schemes of tho administration In Georgia and tbe valley States had accomplished anything beyond a temporary feeling of gratitude In tbo bosoms of those whom his appointments and recommendations had financially benefited ; if the tariff ques tion had, or was likely to create any dis sections In tbo South. The Times publishes fifty answsrs from newspapers at county sites, and, Republican though it be, blurts out the truth briefly, regardless of tbe hopes It wrecks. The Times regards It ss abso lutely certain that the masses still look to Democracy as upholding their best Inter ests, material aud political; that they will forgot all local differences la defending party principles; that the local lssusa which exist* In several States will be lost sight of lu considering national issues; that President Arthur’s administration is looked upon as narrow and partisan; that nothing good can corao to the South from It; that Ills appointments are considered acts of hostility; that the tariff Is not gen erally understood, and not much interest taken In it by tbe Some guarded commendations of Arthur’s administration comes from tbe three States bordering tbe Mississippi, and these, ex plains the Times, are due altogether to the levee proclamation. Two other truths are developed, and our Republican friends will do well to contemplate them; the first Is, the very ap pointments made with a view te building up an opposition party in the South have swept away all hopes the people may have Lad in tbe present administration and solidified them in the opposition. Second, tbo main opposition to the Republican party is, that It has an alliance with tha negro, and that the enmity of tbe South ail the more bitter, for the reason that the efforts put the negro in control if saocessfal, would destroy not only the prosperity of the preseut, but all hopes for posterity. Aside from the fact that the Times has definitely settled the question as to the South's solidity, wa rejoice that the experiment has bean made. It places before the Northern people tbe whole Southern ques tion in a way that must attract attention. From fifty different sections, representing nearly the whole South, from persona cho sen by a Northern Republican journal of high standing, the report is mads up. Any one reading the dispassionate statements must be impressed with the reason ings and touched by the conclu sions. Not from blind faith in past traditions is tbe South partisan; not for thirst of power is she opposed to tho administration. She is partisan, hectare her enemies are partiAn; she opposes aud is natted In opposition, because her struggle Is for existence and the safety of her posterity. Tbs Republican party has mads the main issue In tbs South, “white man vs. negro;” it was hot of her choos ing, but the issue having been forced upon ber. she has met it with a unity which Cotton Htalcment. According to the New York Financial Chronicle of Use 27th lust., thejrsoelpts all tbe ports since September 1st, 1881, •to the 20th of May, 1682, were 4,583,846 bales, against 5,530,131 bales in 1881 same date, and against 4,739,442 bales*in 1880, showing a falling off as campared vAth 1881, of 000.285 bales, and as com pared with 1880 of £05,506 bates. Tbo receipts for the week ending l#St Friday were 13,981 bales, agalust 30,- 851 bales in 1881, aud against 23,754 bales In 1880. Stocks lu Interior towns on Friday night last were 104,018 bales, sgalijst 147,473 bales In 1881. Tke total visible supply of cotton Ust Friday, May 20tb, was 2,557,039 bales, against 2,724,878 bales same date last year, and against 2,302,766 bales in 1880. These figures indicate a decrease iu the cotton In sight on Friday last of 167,1 bales as compared with 1881, and an crease as compared with I860, of 254,273 bales. Middling cotton was quoted in Liver pool on last Friday ai 0|, at tho aatue date last year it was quoted at 5 15-16. Pat Up or Abut Up. Do we understand our esteemed contempo rary, the Macon Telcgraph, aa undertaking declare that the farmers of Georgia are a lazy, thriftless set, who are not entitled to the bentflls of protection, because they are not Industrious enough to make a profit of 20 or 29 per centum on their business? This puerile attempt to avoid the force of the proposition made to the Con stitution by Sunday’s Tcmcorapu aai> Messeagck, will neither deceive the farmers of Georgia, to the prejudices whom it appeals, uor will it screen tho Constitution from the unfavorable criti cism invited by Its ignorance of tbe sub ject under discussion or disregard the truth. The query quoted above needs no answer from us; we simply reiterate ev ery proposition made lu tbe first instance aud re-challeoge tbo Constitution to a test. Let it “put up or shut up.” Our positiou aud challenge arc as follows—we quote from out Issue of the2$th lust.: We do not hesitate to say that Are to twenty- five thousand dollrrs invested In cotton tout ing In Georgia, upon the tamo intelligent basts that must characterize nil successful invest ment In cotton manufacturing, and managed with the samo care, industry and sagacity nec essary to manufacture successfully, will pay more than tho samo amount Invested in tho mill in which Mr. Howell Is interested. To prove that—we mean what wo aay—we are willing to test the matter, and to this end, will propose to put, say, five to ten thousand dollars In agriculture, under proper supervis ion, and keep an accurate acconnt of the same for three years, commencing January, 1883. We will wager an equal amount that wo will show larger profits at the end of the time than Mr. Howell will recllzo on an equal amount invested in tho stock of his company, to be determined upon actual cash earnings of farm aud factory, without any reference speculative profits oi either. Wo desire to do this chiefly to definitely dispose of an important question; at the same time wo propose, If the Constitution Is silly enough back *hc negative side as Its insinuations would Intimate, to teach a lesson that will not be lost upon its future reliability and usefulness as a public Journal. cr. sue uu i- nuu a uiuty wuiui 111 remain unchanged while the danger threaten#. The DemostMenlan Society, By mail of last night wo came in pos session of the following resolutions,which we publish with pleasure: Whereas, The words of the former corre sponding secretary in hlv letter Informing Hon. Emory Speer of his election to the position of honorary president of the alumni meeting of the Demosthcnlan Society to be hold at the ap proaching commencement, have been con strued by some to bo political In their uature, and as placing the Demostbenlan society iu an attitude liable to be misunderstood by the peo ple; and, whereoa, we «lcon» it proper and pedient to correct the false Impression created by the publication of said letter; be it therefore resolved; 1. That tho action of the DemoathenlanBo- ciely In elccUng Hon. Emery Speer was never Intended by this society as a manifestation either of approval or disapproval of Mr. Speer's polit'-a or political record. 2. That tho duty of the correspondent •Imply to Inform Mr. Speer of his election and request his acceptance of the same What was said more than this was without the knowledge or conseut of this society. & That the Demosthcnlan society, as a cor porate body, claims allegiance to no political party or religious denomination, and,ihall in the future, aa It has iu the post, devote itself only to those exercises looking to the end for which it was Instituted, namely, proficiency In literetnre and oratory. 4. That a cony oi these resolutions be furn ished the Atlanta Constitution, the Macon Teleorapii and the Augusta Chronicle end Constitutionalist tor publication. U. !!., PntNizv, President. J. IT. Pmux, Corresponding Secretary De- mosthenlan Society. Iu a letter accompanying tbe resolu tions, tbe corresponding secretary, Mr. J, H. Pitman, writes that “we have watted iu valu for tbe appearance of these rejo in your paper.” It seems that a •>py was directed to be furnished tils office. This duty was neglected, and of course tbe resolutions could uot appear. It will be seeu that tbe society repudi ates the effort of Emory Speer aud Mr. ex-Corresponding Secretary Frazer to give iu active political force aud effect. This prompt and proper action upon the part of tbe society is to be commended, and will have a good effect In quieting the apprehensions of the public, lest partisan politics might find lodgment In the Slate University. Tbe Demostbenlan Society was found ed, w« believe, iu —— Emory Speer is tbe first person who ever attempted to use it# honors for political purpoeen, and, after the signal and crushing rebuke he ha# received, (l is more than probable that be will be tbe last. We take occasion to congratulate the society upon it# fair and courageous ao» for .the ifiier weakness atii Sufficiency of U# supposed reasons for indorsing him as it# party leader In the coming cam paign- We took tho position, in jester- dtj’a Issue of tbo Tci-Konam and Meshkxoxh, that the record of Mr. Ste phens does not commend him to the Democratic masses of tbo State, that thousands of good and true Democrats are unalterably opposed to him because of that record, and that consequently it would be inexcusably foolish to forco him ou the people as the nominee of tho party. It Is apparent that, if the prime object of tbe movers iu this matter was to sow dissensions and foster strife In our ranks, they could not possi bly have adopted a surer ineaos to that end than persistence in the purpose to place our standard in tho nerveless hand of Mr. Stephens. It does really seem that these men have not simply taken the candidate of the coalition. It looks as if, along with the candidate, they bad adopt ed, as their own, the putpoie had in view by the coalitionists in making that selec tion. We do not charge that any such purpose actuates them; though, the absence of such being tbe case, thslr conduct can be explained only on the ground ol gross ignorance of the extent of Democratic opposition to Mr. Stephens, or else to an utter disregard of the conse quences. The News, a recent convert to the reliability of tbe “Jeffersonian” states man, would certainly not overstate the ob jectionable points In the record of Its candidate; aud yet it states them so strongly as to convince any unprejudiced person that opposition to Its candidate, by consistent Democrats, is both natural auu necessary. Says the Netcs, in speaking of his record: “His heretofore apparently un controllable disposition to chafe under party restraint and party discipline, bis approval*of Grant’s course toward the South and hi# bold advocacy of measures In Congress to which bis party was op posed, all these combined constantly tend ed to produce in him a lack.of that entire confidence so necessary to party leader ship.” • • • “To our mind, how ever, his most grievous offense against his party was committed two years ago, when he sent from Washington his famous sententious telegram, “I will stand for re-election,” thereby defying outright the Democracy of his district, and then clinching his defiance by following his telegram in person and ostentatiously declaring that if the Democracy chose to nominate him, well and good; if uot, “be would tote his own skillet" and run independently of, and in opposition to, bis party. Now, we submit, this Is a fair and a strong etatemeut of a few of tbe reasons why Mr. Stephens Is not acceptable to many of the beat Democrats of the Stato. It might havo gone on to state that he did uot do his duty towards tbe del'veranee of Georgia during the horrible days of re construction. It might have stated the fact of his open sympathy with the lude pendents in the seventh aud ninth Con gressional districts. It might have men tioned the fact that be failed to deny tbe authenticity of Speer’s dispatch until ho saw that he would probably not need the independent vote. It might have men tioned a number of other facts and reasons why bo is unacceptable as the leader of Georgia Democrats. But the reasons that he gave are sufficient to jus- tify Democratic opposition to him. We are free to confess our utter want of con fidence lu Ids Democracy. Il tbe tort of Democracy that tbo Neies bu been In the habit of professing. It Is not the sort that commends itself to tbe rank and file of our party. It te a Democracy that spits npon con tentious aud “totes tls own skillet," when ever the decision jof a convention would stand iu its way. The News congratu lates itself on tbe supposed fact that Is no longer defiant, but, on the contrary, be voluntarily professes entire readiness to submit to the will of the nominating convention of his party.” “He is no Ion- gor deflsnt,” simply because he supposes pliant aud cowardly party~one that ho has successfully defied In the past, will not now dire to reject his candidacy. Qls nomination by the party would be a re flection on tbe good sense aud patriotism of Georgia Democrats* Ferbape the strangest part of the strango editorial of tno News is its expression of the opinion that “his nomination would also, wo believe, harmonize every ele ment of the party, and thoroughly unite anil strengthen the Georgia Democracy.” After stating conclusive reasons why or ganized Democrats cannot reasonably be expected to commit their party Interest# Into the hands of the sklllet-toter, there seems to be something tremely wild and unnatural In tbe con fidence which the News expresses In his ability to “harmonize every element of the party.” How does tbe News suppose he will start about harmonizing conflict ing elements? Mr. Stephens is not a harmonizer. He tries to ride down oppo sition, not to remove It by gentle means. Tbe News knows this to be his charac ter, and this fact has doubtless entered largely into the strenuous and consistent opposition that It manifested to him In‘the past—dowu to the time when “tbe clans” began to (( gatber In the valley.” His Boswells, of whom no man has had more in numbers aud abject devotion, hove paraded its powers to the public. And yet it does not seem to have surpass ed that of a see;: *f men who hive passed their lives in public, and have acquired a happy knack of re-calling names and faces. In this respect, his memory seems would warrant the latter in their boasts unimpaired. We say seems, It is uniffi- of victories over the former, It is profitless anger and contempt r - Sometimes tho door- slamming la all there is ol argument or debate. The object of contempt or scum happens ti proach the door wi»h a view either of entering or of lui&sing by. ;<s sudden closing iu hli noils, and human credulity is compelled Sf^tnd”be SlldowellVo pwl*ly! in I «rch 10 ciotLo iiMir In. AM of m,u. Wb.» *}3*L • ’■‘UJfiWiMHSW , , kicks- the door open. That only prolongs argu- the fish havo aver done to *non, that ment. wears out the door and settles nothing. Better be content thankfully and placidly to ...— that things are not Ware Colonel Waloh geta Evan Howell properly fitted to that bare dram and Grady savingly geared up in cymbals with Thorn- ton-the great Moifa of the movement, gently caressing the so ft-toned bagpipe coder the hollow of his mighty arm, and procession moves forth, to render tno trlom-hftrt march cf the uncommon “great co.oraonar”— then if the bottom deesa't — out ofa'lthlrgs mundane, it will bo 9mmpwm _ irt — , beesnee nothing re ondaro baa a bottom to > mostlcaUa; thirty quails with the »am#’ b * f ' 0 cora P eIIft<1 1° w *y» Mr. Ste- it. J weapon. pbtna has prided himself on his memory. CoLosn. Tbcsstox was kind enough day before yesterday to call attention to the fact that somebody had called an editor of tbe Tnucoaoraanase. That we may not bo outdone in courtosy, we beg leave to refer the Colonel to tbe following from tbe Banner-Watchman: - | even tn one of sound body, treacherous thonrond Thlllstlncs with and unreliable. It Is frail and uncertain, SlTftlTSSttJEFSSSZ i ■■■“ ^ A Treacherous Memory. We have heretofore taken occasion to present to our readers and the Democrats of Georgia generally the reasons why, in our judgment, Mr. Stephens should not receive the nomination for governor from the representatives of tbe Democratic par- to be assembled In convention in At lanta in July nett. One of the main otflaction* discussed on tbe occasion alluded to was tho physical inability of Mr. Stephens to discharge tho duties ot tbo office, a disability brought au bodily ailments and tbe burden of yean. The first may, In some instances, be palliated or removed; the latter grows heavier as yekn decline. We hare now to register an objection quite as weighty, If not a great deal more serious. Mr. Stephen# has given evidence a mental condition which unfits him thagKKlUon. Notwithstanding all of tbe wondlrs of it# achievements, the praises that have been sung ot 1% and its subtle power, human memory Is at best, paired lu obedience to a rule. Tbe most marked sign of decay of men tal powers in old persons, Is the incapaci ty to fix in their minds the occurrences yesterday, whilst tbe impressions of many years back are bright and fresh. The old manwaJ** vacantly amid the exciting scenes of to-day to wander back and live over for a time m quiet enjoyment the happy hours of his childhood. Mr. Stephens appears to have reached this condition. It is not strange, would be strange If he were made supe rior to the days which must come when the grasshopper is a burden. And lor tbe reasou that he has reached this condition, Mr. Stephens Is no longer fitted for tho duties cl public life and the labors and details of an administrative ofiice. To tbe proof in poiot. On tbe 15th day of May, when the coalitionists were to assemble in Atlanta, Emory Speer tel egraphed from Washington City to Dr. Felton: Washington, May 15, lS82.-ro ITon. IF. Fstton, Atlanta t I hope the committee of dependent Democrats who meet to-day will recommend Mr. Stephens as the people's can didate for governor. I know jtosltively he will not reject i>uch recommendation, and that elected bo will be the governor of all the people without regard to party. He will te controlled by no ring. Emory 8i*eer. Speer had previously prepared tho way for this dispatch by another of tbo follow ing tenor: Washington, D. C., May It, 1882.—Hon. II. Felton, Carttrsville, Gat Have sent yon important telegram to Markham House, was submitted to Mr Stephens. Emory Si-eeb. These dispatches attracted marked tentiou in Georgia, as they were certainly calculated to do, and were the sutject wide comment. Ou tho 27th of May the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes: To night I asked Mr. Stephens If ho had ever authorized Mr. Speer to scud such a telegram. Ho replied promptly and with emphasis: “I never did." “Did ho read it to you, as the dispatch to Dr. Felton doclares, before he sent it?" "If he did I have completely forgotten Mr. Speer came here and talked to mo as I lay in ted from my sprained ankle. He said something about sending a telegram to the In dependents In Atlanta. I said to him distinct ly: 'Send what you please; you speak for yourself; you send ffothlng by my authority. This was all I knew of it until I saw his telo- g«u in tho papers. While there was nothing in it. I must say it was sent entirely without authority from me, and If I ever saw It, as Mr. Speer says, I have completely forgotten it.' On yesterday Speer furnished the Asso ciated Press with this statement: I called on Mr. Stephens at his room Sun day morning, the 14th Instant. I had learned that morning that a committee of Independent Democrats was to meet In Atlanta next day. told Mr. Stephens that I would tele graph them to recommend him as the people' candidate for governor. His secretary furnished tolegraph blanks and 1 wrote the tele gram In his roomf read It to him, and at bis suggestion altered it in two particulars. I have tbe original draft. Tho telegram recited: know positively ho will not reject such recoro* mendatlon, and that, if elected, he will bo tho governor of all the peoplo without regard party.' The telegram was true—every word it." 3Tr. Stephens adds the following: "The above is substantially true. What Mr. Speer telegraphed Dr. Felton was strictly true, though not by authority from me. There is no issue between me and Mr. Speer. "Alexander H. Stephens.' A plainer, more palpable or palnfu; giving away of memory we cannot recall, It Is doubtful if one exists. On the 14th Speer charges that ho called on Mr. Stephens In his room, told him that he would telegraph tbe coalition ist#, received blanks from tho clerk of Mr. Stephens, wrote the telegram, read it to Mr. Stephens and alte^pd it In two par ticulars at bis suggestion. These facts Mr. Stephens admits to be true. On the 27th Mr. Stephens told the cor respondent ot the Constitution if Speer bad ever read to 1dm such a dispatch he had “completely forgotten it.” In the in terval on the 18tb, Mr. Stephens had written a letter referring to the subject matter contained in that dispatch to Dr. Felton, lu which he uses tho following language: “Allow mo to thank you lor it (Felton's letter) and to say that I think )v i managed mat- ten at Atlanta last Monday .ulmlrably, look I conceived, to the best interests of tho 8tatt.' We are not discussing the question as to tbe evident understanding between Dr. Felton, Speer and the coalitionists and Mr. Stephens. We have nothing to do with some oiber -dispatch which was sent from Atlanta to the West, nor Is this ques tion at all complicated with wbat Mr. Stephens may or may not have authorized Speer tado. Wo m looking solely to the weakness of memory developed by Mr. Stephens. On the 14th lust. Speer read 1dm a tele gram and altered it at his suggestion In two particulars. On tbe 18th Mr. Stephens wrote to Dr, Felton, to whom the dispatch waaaent, In relation to tbe very action mentioned In the dispatch. On tbe 27th Mr. Stephen# has “com pletely forgotten” that the dispatch was read to him and that be suggested altera tions in It. If tho record from which we quote it correct, then the memory of Mr. Stephens is in such condition that it cannot grasp and retain the thsucand and one nSmuthe and details that must day by day forco themselves upon the attention and action cf tbe governor of Georgia. It is no fault of Mr. Stephens that tbe burden of years has brought him this in firmity. He cannot stay tho ravages of disease or the remorseless assaults of time. If after this exhibition a Democratic con- veLtion should force upon him labors, duties and responsibilities to which be is unequal, uo blame for failure could at tach to him. He has said that his physical and men tal condition demand that he shall retire to private life. As If conspiring te enforce his state ments, a chain of facts have woven them selves together to prove the correctness of fail position. He cannot bear in memory for a lew days the simple incidents of on# of tLe most important etehu In his career. Why titan should a faction tn a great party put Useirto work to fore# him into a po sition for which be is eminently unfitted? now to Inquire. We ouly know by ex- ^ pcrience, tliLt as plums turn red and grass hoppers begin to fly, the procession of poles begins to move and the^tuneful lyre is heard In the land. “Chet” has gone fishing, aud be has gone with Bill Whecier. Arthur is tbe first President who ever wer.t fishing during a sesslop of Congress. Graut started on a frolic once, but did not reach the water. He was being tapered eff, but according to the newspaper cbrouicles of that day, he lapped a new oue on tbe old one, knocked the hats from the beads of sundry sober people in a Pennsylvania village and had finally to be put to bed lu a country mu. But Arthur leaves the Utah commission and the tarifl commis sion unfinished, and Congress in the heat of a big fight and slips away for sport. “Chet” will get there. His feet stand far apart and make abase so solid that ho able to emblo off with all the rum the boys can ram Into him. Bill Wheeler Is a bold fisherman, aud in the bosky dells of the Adirondack the two will weave a yarn In memory Izaak Walton. They are no 'prentice hands at this business. Just blforo leav ing, “Chet” caught tow-headed urchin angling for suu perch in the Potomac. He bu Bragged this youngster by relating to him how he enca vanquished and landed a fifty pound salmon. When It is kuown that “Chet” pulls the scales at about 225 avoirdupois, and is as agile as Barnuru' Jumbo, and that a fifty ponnd salmon more of an acrobat than a Hanlon brother, it is easy to see that Chet struck a sucker in the small boy. Two years ago Bill Whecier carried Mrs. Hayes on a fisl ing frolic. Upon his return he reported that slio had landod a fifteen-pound brook trout. As these trout seldom rise five pounds, it may be understood that Chet has tack led something heavier than the plnhook fitbennan or a fifty pound salmon. The fish ueed not be alarmed, aud public will await with patience the bout between the brace of accidental states- Tbe Dross Collar#. &t. Louis Republican. The origin ot the medals Is too well-known to need much more of a statement than was first given to tbo public by a local account in tbe Republican before the design was absolute ly settled upon, the idea havinf originated with Mr. Fllley and Don Cameron a few weeks after the Chicago convention. It w&s said that the designers had some trouble in getting a good profile of General Fred. Grant, who got his father to sit for a pho tograph, which is tho one cut on the medals. The medals are composed of a dark, rich bronze, and are one Inch and three-fourths in diameter, with the edge perfectly round, smooth and unmilled. On one side is a profile of Grant, and under neath and extending around tbe bead is a wreath of leaves, and around all this fi a raised circle, on which nre engraved tho thirty-six ballots for Grant, tho record beginning at the bottom, and go ink around tbe circle meet I " ' *; ballot. Ml —* airnln, tho last with the first I ballot is :W5, which going one bel sue. coming In contact Cania Belli Exchange. When Ajax defied the lightning it was after an Infliction of a lightning-rod agent. West vs. felt Cincinnati Enquirer. It Is now fashionable to have small children tor bridesmaids.—Harper's iSasar. Out West it Is fashionablo to have tho small children come along some considerable time after the wedding Is over. Qood Trousera for Cold Weather. San Francisco Chronicle. It Is said that an old pair of trousers had been hanging In a barnyard lu Keuo for some time, and they had becomo the home of a n ‘ of hornets. An Indian begged the '.rotwen the owner, and was gratlflea at having his.. quest granted The redskin, with great pride, — garment and started down the loujj ho set up a warwlioop and started off like a The Kultnn’N .minima. London Socxtg. TheSultanna Valideh is at fho bottom ever}* scheme and dominates her sovereign i to such an extent that every Path a courts her favor. A great scandal and an amuslug scene took place when the Empress Kugenlu visited Constantinople a few years lack. Doing anx ious to rccognhte all the klnducts and attention paid to her. her Majesty, at farewell, actually kissed the Valideh on the cheek, looking upon her in the light of a sister sovereign. The Queen mother was much excited nnd flow Into a towering passion. Here was a direct Insult from a Giaour. Hhc took her bed and refused food for four-aud-twenty hours, and had seve ral baths before site could cousldcr herself purged of this terrible stain. IIorues Htnm period by a nchool of - rials. Virginia dtp Enterprise. Among the most peculiar and least known fish of Nevada is tho couewee, a native of and found only In Pyramid and Winnetnucca lakes. Ono of the most striking peculiarities is a mane extending along the back fro« hea-l to tall, which renders tho creature so unsightly that it la always sheared by tbe fisherman be fore being sent to market. They ewlra at the surfaco or tho water, and In the earlv dava as cended the river In Immense schools that filled the river from bank to bank. They make a great noise when thus going up the river, and can be heard at a considerable distance from the stream. In tbo spring of 18r<0 ( at tho time of tbe Indian war, they stampedori the bones of a company of soldiers ramped on the bank of the stream ami came near causing a panic, It being supposed that the Flutes were charging upon the camp. Keren Girls and Tiielr Diamonds. Boston Journal. Seven young ladles were perceived In a bone ir, of whom not one hail both gloves on and one were whohy barehanded. Of these four had gloves on their right hands and three on their left, aud In every Instance the unglove*! band lay In the Up above the other. All of the seven bare hands had diamond rings upon Uiem, and whenever any attention were need ed by the hair or raiment of the ladles in evwy Instance the ungloved hand was employed to i—.—— and in Use nocesssry movements u-d and glittered very mnrh. . __ happened in process of lime, tbe ■oven young ladies left the car one after the other, four of them waved their left hands at the conductor to direct him to stop and the other three agitated right their hands.aud again the rings sparked quite copiously. All of which l very curious aud Interesting to the scieu- What Georgia JVetda | Courier Journal. | "Mr. Blcdermann, the leading man of the 1 Swiss colony In Georgia, recently returned from Switzerland, where ho ha* been working up a boom for his colony. He Mrs the ra«h of American agent* fro-n Western States nnd the distribution of hand books are unprecedented. "What I needed." said Bledermann, "was a good, well-lllmtratcd German pamphlet to spread among the people. I hail only 4,000 of these, which 1 wrote mywllfand had printed lu Germany, but they were only a handful com* ;>ared to the hundreds of thousands sent over there by the other Ktates. They send over whole ship load* of printed matter, hare well paid agents tn distribute them, aud conse- cuently tt h difficult to work up an emigration scheme to Georgia. These pamphlets contain the most exaggerated account* of the different points along me lines of the Western rail- roads, and it is au easy matter to induce for eigners to accept the *o-called wonderful of fers." It Is tills continuous and determined iotlvity of the people of the Northwestern and Western States which is sendin^ Western States which ts sending the majority of Immigrants who arrive In New York Into thoae sections. These aggrmive operations require the expenditure ota large amount of money, but it pay*, and every dollar le returned wu targe Interest. These Northern immigration ageutsfindltto their interest to mlsrepreeenl the Southern country to the Immigrants, and they will continue to do tt so long as - Legistal tun* in the Southern State* are unwilling to appropriate money toper good agents tn their ton interest, our dwlse colony In Laurel county is in a vory flourishing condition, but wrought to have fifty such colonies in the State. Haw « Wemsa Swears. Philadelphia Timet. There ts In the sudden and energetic slam ming of the door at the conclusion of a debate, a forceful emphasis w hich punctuates a*gu» motxt and clinches as with the pounding of Die fist the word whl<*i has been »poken. A shrewd writer calls the slamming of the door In this style "a wooden oath." The definition is a well-ehoeen ona. The person who thus rio- lentlj close* tha door is laboring under an ac cumulation of pent-up cxa»j-‘ration which if she were a man would fin-1 Its way out in a torrent of harsh expressions uttered with angry inflections. A man does not generally close the door with a bang to Indicate that he is In a state of wrathfulnem; neither docs a woman swear. The condensed volume of eloquent expree- ■ton which Is parked into the petulant closing of the door wooul. if expanded, make several targe page* of typa, moat of which would be Interjections and exclamation points. When ballot, :a>l (votes). Tbe second which continues to the eighth, ...ir, C00. Tho ninth was 300. the tenth 305, the next tho same, and tho twelfth dropping ono, 301, which Is regained, the thir teenth and fourteenth being C05, the sixteenth the seventeenth 30fl, the eighteenth attt, so the nineteenth, the twentieth 30rt; twenty-first and twenty second, 305; twenty-thlr*?, a>|; twenty-fourth, 305: twenty-fifth, 302; twenty- sixth, cut. Then there is a jump to 300 in the twenty-seventh: twenty-eighth, 307; twenty- ninth, 305: thirtieth, 307; thirty-first, 90S; thirty- seoond, 800; thirty-third, the same; thirty- fourtn, 312. The thirty-fifth jumped up to 313, and on tho thirty sixth and last popped back agalu to SOS, Outside this record and aloug the riir Is nftcnr de lit, which completes tho profile side of the medal On the obverse side of tho central portion Is Inscribed with a circle, and within lathe fol lowing Inscription: | ^"••commemorative T THIRTY SIX BALLOTS j THE OLD GUARD ULYSSES fl! GRANT FOB PRESIDENT, s REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION • Chicago, jrjr«, lMd The upper and lower lines are on the arc of a circle, nnd the rest nre straight. Under the lower lino is the name of the member of the "Old Guard" who receives the one awarded to him. On tho outer border of thi* >i<le i* a wreath. On the margin of the medal, at tho top, 1* a perforation for a ribbon, •n that tr * * * Great cn hands. Gypsies and their Mnsie. From Chat. O. LelamTe “Gppsiet.” At 8L Petersburg be went with a distin guished llu.uinn officer to a certain cafe fre quented by gypsy musicians. We entered a large room, and there, sure enough, stood six or eight girls and two men, all very well dressed, and all unmistakably Romany, though smaller and of much slighter or more delicate frame than the powerful gypsy “travelers" of England. In an Instant every pair of great, wild eyes was fixed cn me* The general was In every way a move striking — ...., — manifestly a fresh stranger, i ... jr. and certain- dom. Such n who knew nothing of the country, and certain-1 ly nothing of gypsies or gypsydotn. Such a verdant visitor Is always most interesting. It was not bv any means my first recoptlon of the kind, nnd as I reviewed at a glance the whole party, I said within myself: "Walt an Instant, you black snakee, and I will give you somethlug to moko you stare." This promise I kept, when a young man, who looked like a handsome light Hindoo, stepped up and addressed mo in Russian. I looked long and steadily at him before I spoke. uu<! then said: "Latcho die pus prala" (Good day, brother). "What Is that?" no exclaimed, startled. “Tujines letche adneta." (You know very well.) And then, with the expreslon on hu face of a man who has been familiarly address ed by a brazen statuo, or asked by a new-born babe, "What o'clock is itr* but with great Joy, he cried: “Romeitfehal /" In annuitant they were nil around me, marveling greatly, and earnestly expressing their marvel, at what new species of gypsy I might lie; being In this qulto unlike those of England, who, even when they are astonished "out of their senses" at being addressed In Ro many by a gentleman, make the most Rod In dian efiorta to conceal their amazement.- But I speedily found that theso Rnwlan gypsies were as unaffected and chlld-like as they were gentle in manner,and that theycomparcd with oar own prizefighting, sturdy-beggtaf, always-suspect ing Romany roughs and ruflanas as a delicate greyhound might compare with a voir shrewd old bull-dog, trained oy an unusually “fly" "But I most sit down." I observed on this and other occasion* that Russian gypsies are very naif. And as It Is human nature to prater sitting by a pretty girl, there Slavonian Ho- manys so arrange It according to the principles of n atural selection—or natural poUteneso— that, when a stranger is within their gates, the too prettiest girls In their possession sit at his ;ht and left, the two less attractive next agalo. et seriatim. So at once a damsel of ^Mly mien, arrayed In black silk attire, of <micH elegance, cried to me, pointing to a chair by her side, “Berth In afa^ Mtotototo faultless elegance,» choir by her side, “ .... I down. »!r)—a phrase which would be perfectly Intelligible to any Romany in Engtaad. Lou- mit that thero was another damsel, who Is gen erally regarded by most peoplo as the true gyp- — belle of the party, who did not alt by mo. it. as the one who had "voted herself Into tho air," by mr side, was more to my liking, be- •••a Vuv mo«t intelligent and most gypsy, I had good cause to rejoice. The company sang for Mr. Leland. and he Ivce an excellent description of Uie character- utics of the wild music for which they are fa- sing only Romany tor yen, mng lady on my left, "and you 1 gypsy airs. The Oeji (Rut- tercet: "We Intend to ..... run." raid the young will hear our real fo PPRHMPIHP sians) often ask for songs In our language, and don’t get them But you are a Romanichal. and when you go home, far over the Uro halo \pan* (the broad, black water, that Is, thi ocean), you shall tell the Romany how we can sing. Listen I " And I listened to the strangest, wildest and sweetest singiug I ever bad heard—tho singing of Lurlels, of sirens, of \ritches. First, one dam sel. with an exquisitely clear. Arm voice, began to sing a verse of a love ballad, and as it ap proached the end the chorus stole in. softly and unpeTceived, but with exonlslte akin, un til, In a few seconds, the summer breesc, mur muring melody over a rippling take, seemed changed to a midnight tempest, roaring over a stormy sea, In which the txsseo ot the halo shureskro (the black captain) pealed like thun der. Just as II died aw ay a sa-ond girl took up I the melody, very sweetly, but with a little more excitement—it was like a gleam of moonlight on tbe still agitated waters, a strange contralto witch gleam; and then agitln the chorus and the storm: and then another solo yet sweeter, ■odder and stranger—tbe movement continual- If increasing, until all was but. and wild and Nothing on earth Is to like magic and elfin- work as when women burst forth Into Impro vised melody. Tbe bird only "sings as hie bill grew," or wnst he learned from the elders; yet when vou hear birds sluging in woodland green, throwing out to God or the fairies irre pressible floods of what seems like audible sun shine, so well does it match with summer's * * ‘ mostly light, you think it Is wonderful. It Is a , when you forget the long training of the prion donna, in her east and apparent naturalness, that her song is sweetest But there Is a charm which was well known of old, though we know it not today which was practiced by the bards and believed in by their historians. It was the feeling that the song was born of the mo ment; that it came wiu the air, gushing end fresh from the soul. In reading the strange stories of the professional bards end scalds and minstrels of the early middle age, one is con stantly bewildered at the offhand compositions which were exacted of the poets among the Celts or Norsemen. And it Is evident etioogh that In some mysterious way there singers knew how to put strange premare on the Muse, and squeeze strains out of her In a manner which would hare been impomfble at present Yet it Ungers here and there on earth among wild, strange people—this art of making melo dy at will, laretheard it among Nubian boat men on the Nile. It was as mania*! that It was composed during tbe making as that the singers were unconscious of their power. One sung at flrvt what may have boeu a weH-kuown verse. While singing, another voice stole in. and yet another, sofUr ah the shadows steal Into twi light; and ere I knew It all were fu a great cho rus, which tail away as mysteriously, to bn- come duoe, tripe-changing In melody In strange, sweet, fitful wise, as the frees seen In foldtn cloud in tue visioned aureole of I Md fad.mr.Tw A Fanny French Jeweler. The Fort Wtjae (lad.) Srnlinrl tells a Ungbtbl. story .bout. popular Jeweler ot that dourubing HoMior metropohl named Louie Satuer, of No. Mi Calboan atnet, who la a Frenchman, aud bu tie tlradiy of the Gaol strongly scaled. The lUier day ha paid a dollar to a ntkhbur for bait of ticket Ho. 78,937 In lb. April drawing of the Lonldlana Scat. Louiry Inthe wayolltlndnMi, and a f»w daw a.lw.r Tina. oflj Tl»r« U, no mm »tr.:5 rm'STSSty W)ihu.ewH7m>^tyio«neijJ^Jt- bomo. On dan. ldtn GeneraU luht n.Ue •Uiaotnu lor ih, atnpd door. «n.t G. T. Beauregard, of Lonatana. and Jn- Which U mat. of An pnU, i'i«. 1. a dimcui-1 bal A. Early, ol VlnrliolT iui .If. SO. who would welt a. o wuidrn ”5, * lr r-'"la, will scalur I iteaiK* union a faUo«r.t*ti.c non d» lb. end I P—t. and anyone may bare a *0“* band In tb» affair un application to i: A Can you And a ewe of Brichf, II . aw of it Into a knot tor i^um a, to .huniua | of tbe Kidneys, UtaOetej, o> i7-[ ! Da«phlo,U. WhoLU^tl- Complaints that is curable, Mat flr.pl It most be admitted that theshunsriag of the | 4 "' '•«»■ . ■ Bi;ters has not or cannot cote/ Ask I ^ »* an ect of argument or an stgrisetompf » u Qwufht May SL—Another jour neighbors If they can. I dcorasanectof arguasent or uoexpn-e. «■ f May SL-Acoibtr gnat lax