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hjlBOW™ STATE. i tnril 21.-Dr. W. P. Ponder l .tsvrn, M * # ^ sit t0 Augusta. Ijetnrned f j t Cadets were drill- - h yesterday. This school, l onl , b# „a “ment of Prof. V. E. Orr, L "l*,^finest iu the State. J* .'it Iliehnmod, a charming Atlanta P** sThas been visiting Mrs. It. 1\ | * b , has returned home, mneh to Km of her many admirers here. Kr.ntsin Merritt and Miss Aanme P' Uii P‘ . . rc iatiTes m Barnesville. ciddens of Barnesville has fc^itWherfather, M.O. Turner, f fi'Shoa of Florida has pur- r,, h0 “uei3 Forsyth and will locate |»« “ 9 ' „q, s since Jim Wilkes, colored, K mfe *nd child here and skipped to Monroe Superior J tb .,n ,as found against him, charg- 1L »th abandoning his child. A short s requisition was obtained and ■ . ’in Deputy Sheriff James Kings If, ‘ i. e went at once to Florida and IIS to morning with Wilkes, who UonJ for his appearance at the next k U °5 r0 J C enS,“of Macon, willde- 1 the memorial address at this place if! 0 /*!'' pound, ono of the finest mu- iu the South, will soon take T e o f» l»rg 0 class, which is being made K, him in this place. If Miss Wallace, of Atlanta, are ii the family of Rev. J. J. Singleton, .f twtoan Guards and the Hilliard t.-i-Cidets will leave for Savannah on Kst afternoon. May 2d. K* Forsyth Hotel Company has been led with Hon. W. II. Head ns president, r i t McGinty as secretary and I* \y li. Head, T. J. Fletcher, W. A. |E B. Roberts and Dr. L. B. Alexan- V directors. An architect has been in- I tew®* here and prepare plans fora I hot»l to be erected on the vacant Llot,’on south side of public square. A ii. hambdin, M. G. Howard, LMatthcws and Captain B. J. Powell A down from Barnesville lost night and Ida » meeting of the Knights Templar. Ids morning Dr. J. B. Tomer received a Km stating that his son George had Iran orer by a train at Callahan, Flor- | Soon afterwards he recived a second Inm announcing the death of their son. I,:,],! was a conductor on the Savannah Eds and Western railroad, and unmar- His remains will be brought here and gred to morrow. The grief-stricken Ij have the sincere sympathy of the en- ftmranity in this sacl bereavement. ■ Athenian's Wonderful Invention. [ere is a quiet, unostentatious meclian- lAttens who, for some time, has been Vlv at work on u machine that willrev- |onize the icc business and make its in- •imillionaire. This man is Mr. Con- j, who came to our city n couple of 1 sgo, and his invention, that he thinks » perfected, is a machine for the man- pte oi artificial ice at a cost of a few flits labor each day. Mr. C. is now gap one of Jus machines at the Com- 3 Hotel, that was built by the Athens [dry and Maddrey & Jones, and it »n be given a practical test Mr, ter is father reticent about dis- gbis invention, but wo learn the ing inch as to what he claims for it: ^ icMnltrs will be of different sixes, safest costing $125, with a capacity ) pounds of ico per day, or forty s is turned out every twenty minutes. Inlyneceisarj to charge the machine I which costs but little, and at any time I yon want ice you have only to make I one torn a crank for twenty minutes la forty-found block is formed. If a ps, the value of this invention is ines- lle. for there is not a hotel in the conn- ft will have one, while they will come Vncrsl use by private families. The Sue is very simple and any one can |f and operate it. The Ocmulgee Judgeship. pxt«imu,E, April 21.—There I number of distinguished gentlemen “g to the high position of judge of the circuit, which has been so long .“‘y filled by Hon. T. G. Lawson, imt desiring to antagonize the interest ■j candiilaui now in the field or any ~>y hereafter enter the race, we wish I /Jhe name of Hon. Bobert Whit- f! ibldwin county, who is now in the I term of Use responsible position of ••’ general of the circuit. Col. Whit- f** not been consulted in reference to ••her, and it is not known that he de- T>'place, but a great many of his ad- iK . ,nd other points in the cir- him eminently qualified for the ■>« on account of his large experience ■ his distinguished abilities and ““■aments as a lawyer. Baldwin, A Hotel Changes Hands. : ' >UKV, April 24.—The Harris Kw*?! 4 .'<"terday to Mr. W. J I*,, 7 “bmgton, D.0 Mr. Bclding 1’ K? rof the HoW Brunswick at IESP 1 * Ho I® 1 * yesterday for the Ip ,^*^r, lirr:1 OBe"ients to take charge l«l ? "I 1 ? 6 on the 1st of June. He Ea ij . 118 highly pleased with and says he will fill L ?'th Northerners next winter. Ini Ti “ hero very badly. A fkl 'tjh he shipped from this f we I'ouldgeta good far? 4 indieationsare that we will | 10 ‘he next twenty-four hours. ' rwhluelo. Killed br HU Train. IC;.T!r 24 ’- A ‘ Dallshan, last KsJj: Aufner, a conductor on llori 'l» end Western Bail- I Cra.*! by c hia own « Kctor Tnio tr,un hail broke loose and rnim?T r stood '“thecentre of the ftth?Jr'- '“Wnoor back. When Iwm, n®* ine ®T reversed his engine, ■£®i tho conductor failed to get off I ws, |,. w “ thought that Conductor I So bh^ nag °? der aberration of in .v c “ h® Attached to the ^tbhmoSng. C ° aduoto,i Tttraer J , *** Ur “wpwrlor Court. t tiuDoHoJo* f I*hecriminal docket I'lnly £o” Con, i w “ token up this lid, iim.i.'nf* ot . not ® have as yet il,i h i < !L e “J S°nley Thomas, l«!tomhj d m r *?kDavenport, who I B'.th W ' "'heatley s bank in |'«u j *'’te.eonvicted, the former fUeticnj b . |J T e“Port has “»* yet ktv.n a , ?,t lt i» thought that he Ee dint,, iin®. 11 ? f twenty years. “I wifi be finished up this B t?u? ,, s* ,f .' v **e* Increased. I rit« Wpi* 1 !?- 1 ' *' ~ Th e director* l ,a P«T of m 11 . Co «°“ Mantifac- of .‘I Chj h «« decided to r it ‘ r t^ > , ,„ h . e V r “Peratirea 10 pec ?‘“«d»ia.T^*?, a “® c t® d - Node- 1 “ w^^t^tion wai THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1866.-TWELVE PAGES. Threatened Strike bj Knight, of Labor la Augusta. Augusta, Gmj. April 20. -Two weeks a K0 the executive bMtrd of the Knights of &. bor peUtionedThe presidents of 8 the cotton factories to abolish the “line" or “pu ss " system; that no Knight he forced to Uke the place of a discharged Knight until in- the eseen iive board of the Knights; that all machinists receive three dollars for twelve hours’ work; that fifty yards shall constitute one cut- that where one mill pays $1.30 daily for card grinding and another nays *1 75 tho average price shall bo $1.52}; that the average price thus obtained be raised 15 per cent., this advance to begin May 1st. The executive hoard asserts that tho operatives have quietly submitted to 30 and 35 per cent, reduction dnring tho last two years, they ask an udvanco now because the mills “^ ord it They desire a conference with the superintendents and ovorseers on any vacancy or discharges, that they moy fill tho vacancies. They ask for a holiday for emp oyes May 1, when they will die- cuss the labor question and kindred topics, and invite the presidents of the mills to at tend and appoint two speakers to address them. There are eight cotton mills in Augusta, employing 3,000 hands. It is thought most of them have joimxl the Knights of Labor. The presidents of the mills held n meeting to-day and. issued the following circnlsr let ter to their employes in the mills, not no ticing the Executive Board of tho Knights of Labor: Your attention is ifequested to a calm and careful consideration of this paper. We have received a communication purporting to come from an order known as the Knights of Labor and slimed by the Master Workman and Executive Committee of that order. This communication pretends to •et forth certain gnovances under which jou are •offering and demand their redress. This order claims to be acting at your lCftUbce aud iu your be- If this be true, we decline most positively to 11 recognize any outside interference between our ployes and ourselves. W'e are always prepared to confer with jouaa employes, but in no other ca pacity, upon all subjects relating to the common in terests. We recognize that the rate of wages Is a fair subject of argreement between employer and em ployes, and that the right to work or quit working' for another belongs absolutely to every person who is not a convict or a slave, and tho right to employ or not to employ another la absolute and incontesta ble. These rights can only be limited by the partios themselves. We shall therefore bo glad to receive and fairly consider any communica tion from ur employes, as such, but we will not allow any outside parties to manage our affairs. In conclusion, we would call your at tention to the fact ibat the mills aro earning very little mare than expenses, snd that up to a recent E erio<*hey have for several years been run at a eavyToss, their stockholders receiving no divi dends, while during the same period the employes have at least received a living. The Knights of labor held a meeting to night, which was largely attended, and the following preample and resolution were adopted. Whereas, Our Executive Board has been positive ly ignored by the mill presidents, and as it is posi tively contrary to our constitution for us to adust any grievances other than through our ExecuUvo Board, therefore be it Resolved, First, that we, the operatives and em ployes of the mills, do absolutely and positively de- oliue to confer with tho presidents or any other persons, except through our executive board. Sec ond, that we .endorse fully the action of our board. Third, that wo forward to each of the presidents whose names appear on the circular distributed through the mills to-day a copy of these resolutions. circled around it until it reached the ground, where it scooped out a hole clear down to a coffin and scattered the bones aro and on top of the ground. , Judge Lochrane, wife and son, Elgin, have been baptized by Dr. Hawthorne into the Baptist church at Atlanta. If reports be true, the Judge has been a Homan Catholic, Methodist and Episcopalian, and now that he has become a Baptist we hope he will stick—Madisonian. The Central Railroad is forcing the Sa vannah, Florida and Western to compete with itself. For instance, the Central will lay freight down in Thomasville over the Savannah, Florida and Western cheaper than the latter road can. This freight comes by the Central boats to Bainbriage and thence to Thomasville. Thus Thornns- villo is a competing point, although she is not a terminal point. President Gaddis ot the Brunswick and Western railroad, who is now in New York in conference with tho Seligmnns, the own ers of the road, says that the Isabella and Americas extension will be pushed through at once, and that the extension will be in running order by November 1st. The Brunswick and Western road has just or dered ‘25 miles of steel rails, aud proposes to get the entire line ih ft rat-class fix this summer, preparatory to a big run of busi- GUBERNATORIAL OUTLOOK. The Baptists of Barn»vlUe. The Eev. Mr. SLiusuury of Perry lias been conducting a series of meetings at the Baptist Church in B»rnesvi!!« His efforts appear to have been highly productive of good, and no preacher has ever mot with stronger indorsements or warmer responses of brotherly love from our people than he has on this occasion. He left onr city Tues day, carrying with him the kindest regards of all, regardless of sect. We an in formed that in his lost sermon he called on his congregation to testify that be had preached to them nothing but Christ. This is said to be strictly true, and that notwithstanding he is a prohibitionist, he had the good senso and sufficient Christianity to refuse to follow the examples of those eminent cranks, Dr. Hawthorne and Sam Jones. Now that Sardis church has enjoyed a short season of Christianity, it is in order to rclapso to its normal condition of a local political organi zation, and for its officials to issue permits to members, allowing them to vote, pro vided they vote only ono way.—Barnesville Orthodox Democrat. Preston Valentine Confesses His Crime. Augusta, April 23.—Freston Valentine, the negro who was arrested in Virginia and brought to Augusta, confessed to the mur der of William Vales hofore the grand jury to-day. Vales was a watchman at the de pot of the Augusta and Summerville rail road. Valentine struck him on tho head with a pick, satnrated the body with oil and fired the bnilding. He avoided arrest for eighteen months. The mnrder excited deep indignation and fears were nt ono time entertained that Valentine would be lynched. Tho law will now take its course. The object of the murderer was robbery. The Labor Situation to Augusta. Auousta, April 21.—Bev. J. 8. Mey- nardie, Master Workman Gf the Knighta of Labor, gives it as his opinion that there will be no s .rike in tho cotton mills here if the presidents will confer with the execu tive board. Tho Knights. held a meeting to-night, at which it was estimated that fif teen hundred Knighta were present, men and women. The Master Workman says they do not intend to strike. All that tno Knights wont is fair wages for their work. They want arbitration. A Heavy Verdict for rue fiovernment. Savannah, April 23.—In the second snit in the United States Conrt against the sureties of John H. Gould, the former in ternal revenue collector of tho First District of Georgia, on his second bond, a verdict was rendered for the Government to-day for $11,622.35 principal and $3i,363.78 interest and the cost. Trie sureties are J. B. Mar shall, Levy Nathans and John Nicolson. This suit, uke the one disposed of Wedn j- day, has been pending^since August, 1872, A. New Steamer for the Chattahoochee. Columbus, April 23.—Capt. Samuel J. Whitesides boa just returned from Cincin nati, where he closed the contract for a handsome new steamer to he run on the Chattahoochee river. Notes of Ueneral Interest. The Cochran Messenger has suspended publication. The Georgia Baptist ConvenUon meets in Borne to-day. Morgan county will vote on the local op- Uon on the 5th of May. The GeoKia Medical Society is in session in Augusta. About 100 physicians are in attendance. The Ordinary of Macon county baa or dered an election on prohibition, to take place May 5. The bicyclist who is traveling from New York to San Francisco on his bicycle for a wager passed through Fairfcum last Sunday evening. He ia twelve days ahead of his time. The Augusts, Gibson snd Handenville Bailroad have placed all their bonds at par. Two hundred hands are now at work at Gibaon, and it is expected that in three months “the beby road” wiU be running into Ssndereville. Near Lawrenceville, during the last rain storm, the lightning struck a smaU pine tret in a graveyard above that town anti The Newnan Advertiser of Friday says: We have been requested to Stato that the telegram sent to tho Tslf.oiui’h concerning the case of intimated suicide here iu New- nan, is erroneous. Mr. Dews, the gentle man who took the poison, wishes it under stood that he had no such idea and called at the drug store for no such medicine as he swallowed. He took the medicine which uu are Wttg given him through a mistake of the cleik, who discovered the error after Dews had taken a dose of tho medicine lie was putting up for him. The idea of suipide was far dista t from his remotest dreams. The Talbotton Now Era tells of “»little woman in Talbot county who is the mother of eight children, and besides doing all her domestio work save the washing, eno is ed ucating her children at home, each one of the older ones being now very well versed in the rudiments of an English education, received entirely at home. They do not live convenient to a school and the good mother has gotten over the diiHcttlty. She is one of the brightest and most intelligent ladies in Talbot county,” Verily, the way of the transgressor is hard. The Augusta News of Thursday says: "Major George T. Jackson, accompanied by bis son, Walter M. Jackson, and an official guard, left Augusta on the Central train this morning for the Old Town plan tation in Jefferson county, to which Major Jackson has been assigned. This camp of the penitentiary is under the direction of Col. James, aud although the particular ser vice hasnot bceu assigned, it is thought that some light farm work will he given to Major Jackson. He was looking thin and worn this morning, and his parting from family and home was a very sad one indeed.” A few yenrs ago .Southwest Georgia tried truck farming, and failed, because they Bent Irish potatoes to market about as large as partridge eggs, and city people wonld not buy them. Mr. Lewis Bnniph of Houston county has made money already this spring. As an experiment, be planted less than an acre of ground in radishes, to be shipped to Enstem markets. In less than ninety days from the day he planted bis seed he had shipped his crop and realized a profit of nenrly $3<Ki, end now has the same land planted in cubbago plants. This shows what can be done in truek farming in South west Georgia when properly managed. This knocks the spots clear out of cotton when it comes to cash.—Montezuma Hooord. THE TARIFF OUTLOOK. ItaiKlaU’s Plans toVliermt the Morrison Bill. Washington, April 21.—Reed and Ran dall, having laid their plans for the defeat of the Morrison tariff bill, have been testing the sense of the House to see whether they can be carried out. They have had can vasses of the two tide* of the House made by their respective lieutenants, with a view to ascertaining bow many members would vote for a motion to strike out the enacting clause or for a motion to strike out all after the enacting clanse of the bilk They re port, as the resnlt of these canvasses, that there are 137 Republicans who will follow Reed and 37 Democrats who will follow Randall in support of such a motion as either of the above. Three Republicans (White, Wakefield and Nelson of Minnesota) are classed as in favor of the Morrison hill, and one Republican (Fuller of Iowa) is classed as doubtful. Of the thirty-seven Democrats eleven are set down as from Ohio, eleven as from New York, seven as from Pennsylvania, three as from New Jersey and the rest from Mary land, Virginia, Wait Virginia, Louisiana and California. Tho reports are based, it is claimed, npon personal interviews with members on both sides. If such interviews were had, and if the figures given above are correct, thero ia a strange discrepancy be tween the statements mode to the canvass ers, on the Democratio aide at least, and the statementa made to others. It is pretty cer tain that as the bill at present stands all the eleven Ohio Democrats (Randall, Ermcn- tront, Curtin and Sowden), the three New Jersey Democrats and two or three New York Democrats will vote against it; bnt it is not safe to infer from a one-sided canrasa that the twenty or twenty-one Democrats will he increased to thirty-seven by the time the vote is taken. Reed has been whipping the Republicans into line with great vigor, nsing the old ar gument that all protected interests mast stand or fall to-gether. Several Republi cans who had looked with favor on the pro visions of tho Morrison bill in the interest of free raw materials hare been more or less foreiby persuaded into a determination to oppose the hill. Threats have been freely used in some cases by the representatives of interests affected by tho Morrison bill. So fsrWliito, Wakefield, Nelson of Minnesota, and Fniler of Iowa, hare not yielded to these persuasions. If the vote* are deemed necessary Reid proposes to call a Repnbli- eaucus on the tariff question and try to force them hy the full party strength to vote against their convictions. There is reason, however, to believe that they will not yield even to such pressure os that. Bead proposes to lead the forces of the coalition in person. Randall ia ox- K ted to do nothing bnt furniah votes. d will probably himself make the mo tion to strike out the enacting clatue and insert the Hewitt administrative sections. It is proposed to force the fighting and make this motion as soon os possible after the general debate. Morrison is still hopeful, bnt he very properly thinks it too early to be confident either of snccesa or fall n re. Consumptive patients are advised to live in rooms where one or two drachma of sul phur are melted on a hot stove. The first ten days bring increased coughing and irri tation, then thcae cease and the patient im proves rapidly. Persons with catarrh and in early stages of conaumption apply to enter chemical factories where quantities of snlphnr aro evaporated daily and at* cured in a few weeks by the inhalations. Cholera and epidemic disease* are never found in such factories. STRAWS WHICH SHOW HOW WIND BLOWS. Pointers Prom tho Stato Pres* Concerning tho Candidacy of Hon. A O. Bacon nod Judge Sfmuiona—Bacon Evident ly In the Lend. Augusta Chronicle: In no recent campaign in Georgia in which there was pronounced opposition has public sentiment been so out spoken and unanimous, and so soon crys- talized as in the present gubernatorial race. If the finiah came to-day Bacon wonld pass nnder the string an easy winner. From the counties on all aides come the report tli&t Bacon is the favorite with the people, and our published comments of the press this morning clearly refiect the popular senti ment in his favor. Bat in every contest in whatever field there are those ever ready to combine against the favorite, and already shrewd efforts are being made to divide Mr. Bacon’s following and moke way for a compromise man. Our special from Macon this morning exposes this scheme and de nies that there exists any excitement or bit terness between Mr. Bacon and Judge Sim mons and their respective supporters. The attempt to create the impression that the feeling between these candidates is such that the selection of some outside man w ill be necessary to secure party unity will meet with little success. Tho efforts to produce defection from the Bacon ranks by bring ing out candidates with a local following who have no hope of ultimate nomination or Mention will inspire little respect among fair ir inded men, and we do not believe that gentlemen in the State will allow them selves used in this unworthy way. There is no bitterness between Mr. Bacon and Jndgo Simmons. They are generous oppo nents in an honorable contest in which the eople of Georgia are to be the judges. Mr. aeon 1ms shown in the past his readiness to Iow to the expressed will of the people, when it has meant disappointment and de feats for him; now that the time of his ele vation is at hand, and the people are ready to testify to his faithfulness in the past, they will not be led astray hy the schemes of nniriendly factions. The Democratic party is a liberal pafty of generous impulses and honest ac tions, ever ready to reward those who lmvo proven themselves valient and faithful in her aervice. Such an one is the Hon. A. O. Bacon, and the Democrats of Georgia await hut for the coming of the timo when they can testify their appreciation by calling him to occupy the gubernatorial choir of the State. Eastman Journal: With this issue we nail to the masthead of the Journal the name of A. O. Bsoou for Governor of Georgia. Here tofore we have been reticent upon the guber natorial question. While we had our indi vidual preference among the various names mentioned as suitable to hold the helm of tho ship of State, yet as we believe in n majority of tho people ruling, we have been watching for the sentiment of the people, and our opinion is, based upon information from sources snd sections, that a large ma jority of the people of Georgia are deter mined to call A. O. Bacon to the guberna torial eliair. For many years, berond the shadow of a doubt, he has been the choice of a majority of the people, yet the people's will has been frustrated and their object de feated by the deception and schemes of cunning politicians. We believe that the people are determined thnt their will shall be respected, and will speak in sncli decisive tones as to nominate him upon the first ballot. With his long legislative experience and the information derived from bis active and leading part taktn in retrieving Georgia from her down trodden condition in (he hands of her foes, and placing her upon an equality with any of this galaxy of States, there Is scarcely a man in Georgia as w'ell posted npon the State’s condition and her necessities os A. O. Bacon. His manly letters in support of the Railroad Commission show that if elected bis administration will be character istic of Ills former conduct for wisdom, justice and moderation. Bacon is a ripe scholar, a polished gentleman, and thor- roughly conversant with Georgia's history and tho political questions of the day, and if elected we believe he would make a Gov ernor to whom the people would look with S title, and that his administration wonld he istingnished for its ability and justice to all, and redound to the prosperity of the commonwealth of Georgia. While in the Legislature A. O. Bacon performed valua ble services in behalf of Dodge county, and to show their gratitude and appreciation of his efforts in their behalf the people of Dodge county are almost solid for him for Governor. Dodge county will send a Bacon delegation to the gubernatorial convention. Lincolnton News: That Atlanta ring has trotted out Gen. Gordon. Personally we wonld like to say that we entertain no ill- will towards Gen. Gordon. As a soldier he was one of the most chivalrous; as a de veloper of railroad enterprises, he has ex hibited rare financial ability; all this is true. But as a minion of Joe Brown and the At lanta clique (which is as compact as a cove nant with the power* of darkness) there looms np a blot to darken and dim and stain his fair escutcheon. This is to be la mented; but the 8tate of Georgia doea not propose to get into the jim-jams and roll herself up in sack-cloth and wallow in ashes on this account. The old commonwealth does not aim to tie herself unto Joe Brown's apron string, nor choose to liow the knee to his moneyed minions. No! She does not intend to follow behind, clap her bands and cry out: "Thesebe ourgods, 0! Israel.’' Atlanta hates Bacon because she cannot boss him. She hates him because he will not make Georgia, Uke Moab, the wash-pot of Atlanta. And the rural press backed by the rural districts, lore* him because he does not love Atlanta men, Atlanta methods and Atlanta money. He can't be ruled bv the first, seduced by the second or bought by the third. Thomasville Enterprise: Gen. Gordon was s gallant soldier daring the war, and as soon as the people of Georgia had an op portunity they gave him snch honor and love as rarely fall to the lot of man. If Gen. Gordon has done anything for Geor gia in return for this wealth of adulation given him we fail to remember it, antes* it be that he conaiden foisting on the State the most infamous system of proprietary politics ever known paid the debt he owed the commonwealth. He deserted the office given him and became an alien far the sake of gain. Since then he has been connected with the wild cat railroads, bnnko mining operations and questionable enterprises of many kinds. He lost his good name by his own acts, and not all the dry bones on earth nor bngle calls from all the hills In the State, nor whitewash, nor blarney, nor threats can raise him again to the proud position he once held. Covington Star: From every section of Uie State the indications point most unerr ingly to Hon. A. O. Bacon as the coming man for Georgia's next Governor. The G es* of the State, except where thero may local candidates, is almost a unit for him. Two counties have already selected their delegatee to the gubernatorial conven tion, and nave instructed them to vote for Mr. Bacon. Thus the ball is rolling, and before the convention meets the tide of popular enthusiasm will be sweeping the ehtiro State for tho "Courtly Knight of the Cejitnd City.* The Star baa long believed that he was the strongest man in the race for Governor, and we cannot bnt feel the keenest gratification at the indications of popular esteem thnt is awakening into liis support all over the State. We feel safe in saying Newton county is solid for him, and now predict that he will he nominated by acclamation. Leary Courier: There seems to he a gen eral desire ail over the State that Muj. Ba con he our next Governor. The press is almost a unit for htm, and the voice of 'he press generally illustrates the sentiments of the people. Political prophets, though, arc of the opinion that the visit of Jtfferson Davis to Atlanta on tho 1st of May r^ill be made the means of working up a political boom for some other man. It Mr. Bacon ;oes into the convention with a winning land, ho should provide agoiust the manip ulation of hia forces by Grady and Howell, in the interest of some other man, perhaps Gordon, as done at tho laat convention. Because he was tricked out of the nomina tion at the Iart convention is the strongest reason we have iu desiring Mr. Bacon's nomination hy the coming convention. McVille correspondence: As to the choice of the people down here for Governor, Tel fair and Montgomery counties are both solid for Bacon without a dissenting voice, and they ore for him on principle, as well as on acconnt of tho rray in which lie has tricked out of the nomination two or three years ago by certain thin-skinned politicians. My opinion is that the people of Georgia will be ready for the next nominating com mittee, or any other trlek or device fixed np to swindle the peoplo out of their choice for Governor. Mr. Bacon haw stood by tho peoplo of Georgia ever since be has been in public life, and it has never been imputed to him that ho has abased at any time his public trust, and that is more than can be aaid of some of bis opponents. LaGrange Reporter Major Bacon's can didacy is booming. If there is any mean ing in the newspaper reports, he leads nil others now before the people. Ho is a good campaigner and bis work is telling. It is evident that the people, who believe that “turn about is fair play," nud who have not been unmindful of his nntienco and dignity under former defeats, nave determined to see him well seated in the chair of State. Major Bacon will make Georgia a faithful, wise and efficient executive. No interest of tho State will suffer in the hands of one so experienced in legislation and so able in dealing with all public questions. Carrollton Free Press: If we are to have either of the triumvirate—Brown, Gordon or Colquitt, for Governor, or any of their satellites, why not take old Joe himself? He is sly und cunning and knows well how to take care of number ono, lint thoro is no discounting his executive ability, his good management, his judgment, or whatever you may plense to call it, while on the oth er hanu it is notorious thnt Gordon nnd Colqnilt have generally proven failures in enterprises requiring judgment or executive ability. As a choice between the three, are decidedly for Brown, the brains of the company. Dublin Post: The "Atlanta Ring" bos trotted ou t General Gordon into the guber natorial race track, and a good deal of jock eying is being carried on. Gordon was an old favorite, hut the boys all say be haa been hip shod since ho flew the track and jumped the Senatorial fence a lew years ago. He can still make very good time, hut his gait is somowhat ungraceful. ; Camilla Clarion; Two years ago we had a nomination that provoked no blokoiing. Lot us have another. Gus Bacon Is an able man and admirably qualified for the Gov ernorship. His manners sometimes appear to ho cold, hut his head is level and his heart patriotic. He has been tried and never found wanting. His record is nnassailed and unassailable. McDuffie Journal: Coffee county U first to declare her choice for Governor. Her primary meeting last week instructed her delegates to vote for Bacon. If ring trick ery can be overpowered in the convention, Bacon will be nominated on the first ballot. Acwortli Nows and Farmer; Inaamnch aa there seems to be a call tor Major Bacon from every qnarter of the Btate, it seems to us that Judge Simmons is standing in his own light In antagonizing Macon's candi dacy. Thomasville Enterprise; Jndge Simmons is sampling granite, dispensing justice and shaking hands with voters in Oglethorpe county this week. Thou art so near and yet so for. Thomasville Enterprise: The Constitution haa waked up to the fact that Bacon is In the race for Governor. The next awakening will be at bis inauguration. Belah. Eastman Times: Bacon is considerably shove par in Georgia, snd continnea to ad vance. We predict that Jew and Gentile alike will take it this fall. MR. KKEUTZ EXPLAINS Ills Conduct la thn Hereof Hlectlon In Ilaldwla County. Editor Tslegbapb: I ask the privilege of replying through your columns to certain charges made against me by a gentleman of high social and profeasional standing and by a correspondent of your paper, both of ‘whom, in communications which appeared in the Tslsobapb ot March 25tb, refer to my action in connection with the recent prohibition contest in Baldwin. To these articles I should have repliod sooner, bnt for the reason that my friends advised me to wait until the pnblic mind had somewhat recovered from the excitement of a heated canvas and until'time had so far cooled the tamper of the people of Baldwin connty as to assure me a fair and impartial judgment, after hearing my statement. It is s very grave snd serious matter to drive a citizen from bis home and family, and to say to him that under no cironmstances will he be allowed the liberty of returning to a community in which he has lived for four years, snd I am satisfied that the good people of Mitledge- ville and of Baldwin county will not deal thus harshly with the humblest of their fellow citizens without raving him a fair and patient hearing, and that upon the pro duction of evidence establishing his inno cence, they wiU give to anyonewhoappea's to them all the justice to which he is en- titlsd. I make no complaint of the action taken by the people of Baldwin at the time and under the circumstances, for from their standpoint, and accepting as true the mis representations which were made about me, that action was natural and to be expected. I should have felt as they did if called upon to pass judgment upon one arraigned for snch language aa was falsely attributed to me. And, now, in this connection, I will say that if anyone can be produced who will say that on that or any other oceasion I used language disrespectful of the ladies of Bald win county, or that I said anything which could possibly have been construed into a wmt of respeot for them, I am willing to confront such person, and ssy to him—sa I now do—that such charges are false snd without the slightest foundation. I did not, on that or any other day, use language that could be tortured into a want of respect for the ladies of HiUedgeville or of Baldwin connty, or that the moet ignorant negro could have construed in that way. In one of the communications of March 25 t lowing statement is made: “Laat night be (meaning mysell 1 I a large orowd of drnnken negroes in bis bur, and spoke to them in the bitterest terms against the prohibitionists, and especially about the laaies of the town who had taken part in the prohibition campaign. He nsi-1 tho most offensive language tint coniJ lo used about a lady. Several white men who were near heard the remark and took it np, and a general fight ensued.” Now, Mr. Editor, I desire to Bay that your correspondent was imposed on, and tliat there is not a word of truth iu the fore going statement, so far as the material parts of it are concerned. If there were “several white men" who hoard such remarks as lam cliargedjwith having'made, I ask to be fur nished with their names. I dare say no snch white men” or colored either can he pro duced. As to the latter part of the ftato- ment that “a general fight ensued,” I deny that there was any fight, or anything like a fight except as foUowa; On the night of the 23d of March I was in the front part of iny store for some time in conversation with a man, who, after awhile left, when I walked back into tho bar-room. When I got into that part ot the building I saw a person, whoso name I will not mention, and my clerk, each with a pistol in his hand and in a threatening attitude. I seized tho party referred to, because I was satisfied that he was the assailant, and took his pis tol from him, thereby preventing an attack on myself ns well aa my clerk. About this timo the person was taken off by an officer aud this was all tho fight that "ensued." It is due myself to state thnt tho party referred to is tho only per son have heard of who says ho hoard the Odousive language from me on the evening of the 236; that I hod, neuiciimu before thnt day, bad a personal misunder standing with him, and that on the evening referred to ho was very much intoxicated. In corroboration of my denial, I attach thu affidavit of Mr. Jcsso Leonard, who wna in the room the whole time, and says thnt I uttered no ench language. The day after, on being notified tliat there was great ex citement in town, and that my life was in danger on acconnt of the wild and unfound ed rumors afloat, I asked Mr. Joe Leonard to see nnd send to myhousoMr. Sol Barrett, n prohibitionist, nnd some other good and conservative citizens. Accompanying Mr. Bnirett were some other gentlemen, all of whom will no donbt remember the circumstances under which I asked for a postponement of an investiga tion. Suffice it to say it would be great in justice to me to construe this request into a confession of my guilt. Threatened as I was with violence, I most naturally asked a postponement of an investigation until tho pnbUc mind was prepared to hear my de fense coolly and dispassionately. As to my participation in the procession. I can only say that I got into it by the merest accident. I did not Know ot it until I saw the negroes marching np the hill. I regret that I rode along the line as they marched through the town, bnt if tho language men tioned by yonr correspondent was used by them I did not hear it. I was in no condition to bear any thing with distinctness, but I do say that there never was a moment in my life, when I was nntrao to my own race, or wlicn^ I would hate tolerated ouch utterances. In a long procession as that was, snch remurks may have been mode, hot If they wore, I did not hear them. I am sorry that 1 put myself ia a position to he even suspected of dlsloynlty to my own race, and trust that my friends in Baldwin will believe mo when I say that no one regrets it ns much as myself. 1 have thus made a plain and true statement of my action .on tho 23d of March, trusting that the peoplo who upon misrepresentations of my motives nnd con duct, nave unintentionally done mo Injus tice, will give me a fair and impartial bsaj-. ing. All I ask of my fellow C J;|. sens of Baldwin, is to pass up on my conduct, ns they would ask to he dealt with if they were sitnated ax I am, Since the ifnfortnnate occurrences, which have resulted so unhappily for mo snd my afflicted family, I have uniformly udvised my friends to take a conciliatory course, and asked them to say and do noth ing that might disturb the pesos ot tho com munity. while suffering what I felt injus tice, 1 understood the cironmstances out of which it originated, snd have bod all the time an abiding hope that a returning sense of justice wonld restore me to the confidence of my fellow-citizens, llmtsv E, Kbeutz. Mucon, G*„ April 25, 1886. Millidoevill*, April 22. I hereby oertify that I am a clerk In the employ of Mr 11. E. Krentz, and was in liis •tore on the night he is reported to have used remarks of an incendiary and riotous nature, and of advising negroes to treat the ladies who "attempted to pin bine badges on them or to talk prohibition to them" in a manner which was revolting to any white person. I was present and near Mr. Kroutz all the while, and will swear that I nover heard him make any remark even similar to what he it accused of having made, or advise any negro to any act of violence or in- solt, nor did I hear him say tho least thing against the ladies of this or any other plaoe. Hod I have beard him use any remark that he is accused of, I wonld have left his em ploy on the instant and would have resent ed ft as any white man should have done. . Jesse T. Leonard. Sworn to before me, Walter Panne, Clerk Superior Court Baldwin county. Frank Boling, of Cherokee, Kan., threw himself on s fea’ber bed that lay on the floor during a thunder storm. 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