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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, APRIL 11,1S84. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Insincerity of Free Trader*. Dally and Weekly. Tns TEi-T-GRArn and Mv.ssenoee is publish ed evwgMflsy except Monday, end weekly ev- x h/i'ly is delivered by rxrriers In the city or mailed pottage free ta subscribers at <1 per month. $2.50 for three months,, |5 for six mouths or $10 a year. Thr Weekly Is mailed to subscribers, poa- tare free, at $1.50 a year and 75c. for six months. To clubs of fire f lA&S per year, and to clubs of tan |1 per year, and an extra copy to getter up of club of tire or ten. 4 , . Transient advertisement! urlll be taken for tho Daily at $1 per square of ten lines, or less, lor the drat insertion, and. fifty cents foresee subsequent insertion; and for fbe Weekly at tl per square for each insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. ,,, . . Rejected communications will not be re- ^Correspoiidenee containing important news, and discussions of living topics, is solicited, but must be brief and written upon but one aide of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. Agents wanted In every community to the 8tate, to whom liberal commissions will bt paid. (Postmasters are especially requested AUoommunlcations should be addressed to H. C. HANSON, Manager, Macon, Ga. for mere cheap houses, the Telegraph suggested that capitalists individually invest their money in that direction. There can be no doubt but that this An Improper Book for Southern Schools. . . The Southern lliitonral Society Pa- During the discussion of tlio tariff | amagaz \ne devoted to publishing question in these columns xor the past | the true higtory 0 f t he l a to war, in its w two years.we have steadily appealed to | Jagt numl)erf invites the attention of j combined action comes in the nature of the reason and judgment, rather than ^ out j lcrn to “The Eclectic Ilis-< a desirable substitute, and as such the the passions and prejudices of the peo-; o{ the xjnited States,” written by « — pie. We have recognized the fact that Mjgg Thalheimer aod published by Van this question can never he settled I Antw Bragl , ,5. Co., Cincinnati and properly without an intelligent under-1 K#w Y(jrk It ig one , standingo( the principles involved. In The Detroit Doji, in a hall column arti- rltasks: "Alterwheat,what?" Wewould .-•nlfeest flour flrst, and then bread. The "colonel" epidemic always rages -worst when the elections are on. It is a -phase of the mouth disease that seems in curable. Hew Orleans ought to have an Ohio, a Connecticut and a Pennsylvania jury on exhibition at her great exhibition. That -would leave nothing else to be desired in the way of cariosities. Tuexe fa a very general disapproba lion of the weather by all the editors that have yet been heard from. It is to be noticed further that the weather doesn't seem to be aflectcd, so far, by editorial censure. Congressman Willis needn’t have an nounced himself aa being for "dear whisky.” In common with the other Congressmen from Kentucky, it seems dearer to him than any other product or interest of the country. The country is again being desolated by fires. Watchfulness and extreme cau tion become ail the people, at ail times, but particularly at a time when conflagration seem epidemic. Prevention is both easier and better that the safest, surest cure. The American press lias a free and ca«y way of characterizing and criticising the official conduct and private dcpurtmentofl foreign rulers, statesmen and generals which is not always just nor in good taste. Thb habit is the outgrowth of onr "fierce dcmocracie,” and must, vie suppose, be credited to the license of speech bom of an excess of freedom. Bome of the papers arc positive that the fruit crop has been badly injured, and others of their, are equally certain that the outlook for a fall yield is excellent. It fa sot a question for discussion. Fulfillment or non-fulfillment fa the only measure ot the faithfalnessof prophecies. Bos Inoerholl's oratorical temperance gem, tint still goes the rounds of the press, fa said to hav. been stolen, bodily, from the writing! of Dr. Gunn. This is written with a riew to giving the devil his due. Ingersoll la probably the greatest and the moat unblushing ot literary and ora torical pirates. It will be observed that the Pennsylvania Democrats continue to regard Sam Itnn- dall as • Democrat, In good and able standing. ItisnoaecretnowthatnandaU will get a larger rote for the Presidential nomination, in the Chicago Democratic convention, than all the men that have been reading him out of the party. Ir what Atlanta deters say about At lanta water fa true, and what its grocers say about the food served out by them to the people may be relied upon, the pru dent pilgrim journeying in that direction win carry with him a lunch basket and water jug, both weU filled. Tus New York legislature threatens to declare war on oleomargarine. The Geor gia Legislature brought forth a still born law On that line. May better success at tend the New York movement In the in terest of pare, wholesome food. I’.eleut- less legal war ought to be waged against oleomargarine, food adulterations and wnch like abominations. No city in Georgii b making more satis factory progress than Columbus. The change* and improvements made within the last few years are everywhere notice able. The streets are kept cleaner and in better condition than in any Southern city we have viaiteikfor many years. New and - elegant residences are being erected, and new industrial enterprise* inaugurated and carried forward. The people are animated by a spirit of improvement, and seem to be prosperous and contented. It the city councils of Atlanta and Macon would go in a body to Columbus and inspect her streets, it would accomplish more good than all the puflary bestowed upon the one, and all the censure visited upon the other. Ora Gen. Gordon, not the Khartoum man, fa certainly one of the boldest and most picturesque financiers and specula tor! the present century haa produced. Scarce* day pease* that the Journal* of the country do not chronicle him aa* the leader of some startling financial enter prise. His latest appearance fa in connec tion with George C.Oorham, the dethroned leader of tho Republican party, and one Max Marx, in the Drawbaugh Telegraph and Telephone Company, capital $10,000,000. The name the company fa carious, it not inau- apicious. It would be ominous In other hands than General Gordon's. The line* of the company of the South are to ran, according to the programme, trora Net York to Richmond, Va., and thence to any and all ot the cities and towns of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, MUtfa- aipti. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennea- see, Arizona and New Mexico, and Nath- Till*. Tcnn. The line* of the company of the Northwest are to ran from New York to Detroit, Michigan, and thence to the cites and towns of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri. Kansas, Dakota. Montana, Idaho, Wyo ming, Utah, and to the city of Denver, Colorado. To a Georgia editor sorely trembled about a summi-r straw hat, this 'Drawback Company is enough to take his 'breath away. a spirit of earncBtncSB inspired by con victions of right, we have advocate-1 the doctrine of protection. So far we have no cause to regret onr action. The judgment of a large num ber of intelligent men, who in some in stances have differed from us, is, that so far the ngument fa with us. There is a class, however, who, while perfectly impotent to meet the q*uCct:o:i upon reasonable grounds, have not had the manhood to own that they were un able to comprehend its simplest princi ples. These,insensible alike to the argu ment in the case as well as a decent regard for the principles, rights and opinions of men as honest as them selves, have sought to evade the force of logic they could not answer, by as cribing unworthy motives for our posi tions, convictions and principles. More than one paper in Georgia, of late, has sought to array public preju- Uice against this journal because one of its stockholders, who is also president of the company that owns it', is one of the owners, and manager of the cotton mills in this city. If the brains—if they have any brains —of the men—if they are men—from whom these foul aspersions emanate, were of a quality to warrant the slight est comprehension, they could see that if their theories are true; the mills of this city have been, taxed beyond any interest here by virtue of the protective policy of tho government. The duty on cotton machinery amounts to some 40 per cent, when it is imported into tile 'country. The mills of the Bibb Manufacturing Company of this city arc equipped wholly with American machinery. Why should the owners of this property advocate a protective policy that subjects them to payment of forty per cent, more for American machinery than they could import English machinery for, hut for the tariff, if they are aetingfrom selfish motives? If these columns are tilled from time to time with protective arti cles, and these are influenced by the motives that have been ascribed to us, why is it that no word of complaint has been uttered here against a law that has necessitated the expenditure of so much money by those whose inter ests we are accused of serving? We address these questions to men of reason, in answer to one and all of that class of logicians who aro without principles or convictions themselves, whose actions arc inspired by mercen ary motives, and who jttdgo others by themselves. If one man interested in cotton mnn- facture is a protectionist and for this reason—when his convictions cost the expenditure of largo sums of money which he cheerfully pays—his motives must be assailed, what is to be said of another, having like interests, who fa vors free trade? Docs tho latter favor this policy from pure benevolence, or does lie act from interested motives? If the latter, is he leu culpuhle than the former? Or does the fact that he agrees with these newspaper Solons wl)o sit in judgment upon tho motives of other men, entitle him to immunity from cen sure? Aro these political Pharisees ready to come to judgment upon this line of reasoning? Or will they in keeping with their ignorance and aelf-sufllcicn- cy, deny the correctnesa of a principle when applied to men who agree with them, which they insist governs those who differ from them? Tho unreasoning prejudices of the Southern people on this question, in times that are past, have cost tho South hundreds of millions of dollars. These preju dices, that camu through tradition to this generation, arc dissolving under the discussion ot this question. Tiie social and industrial conditions that are prevalent in tho manufacturing States of the Union are being traced to that diversity of interest prevalent there. These results havo come to other States by means that we have heretofore neglected. That neglect is fairly attributable to false conceptions of the tariff question. Ignorance of this question lias been largely due to narrow and bigoted men who havo unfortunately •suc ceeded through the agency of the press—an agency that they were in no wise fitted to direct—in creating erro neous sentiments and opinions amongst the people. The absolutely blind have attempted to lead those who could have seen, hut for their presumption, and all have fallen into the ditch of poverty together. Thank God, the days of tho small politician and the smaller editor, who have sought, not the truth, but the current ot pop ular prejudice and popular ignorance, aradrawing to a close. They are powerless longer to bind the peo ple of this State in stupid, stolid folly and error. They die hard, it is true, and in their impotent rage and despair, they may he expected to malign and traduce the agencies that ore destroy ing their power. Telegraph readily indorses it. of the McGuffy series of readers, and it is said that Southern men are canvassing for its sale and that it is being introduced into Southern schools. The editor of The Southern Iliitorieal Society 1‘apen says: We propose to review this "History” in a aerie* ot papers in which we shall show that however pure may be the motive* of author, publishers, agent*, school boards or teacher* who have adopted it) the book Itself Is full ot errors, mlsrepresedtations, talse statements, partisan coloring and talse teachings—that it exalts the North at the expense of tho South— that It misrepresents the character, motivi principles awl deeds of our Confederate gov ernment, leaders, soldiers and people—and that if our children are to team their "htsto- from this libel upon the truth, they will grow np to despise the land and cause which their fathers loved, and for which they freely risked, and many of them gladly gave up, their lives. We would not ask to entrust this task to abler or more faithtul hands, and if the book is amenable to the promised criticism, the work cannot be commenced too soon or prosecuted too vigorously. The North educated to a great extent several generations of Southern men and women. When this was not done in schools and colleges, it was done through the text hooks printed in that section and often by teachers male and female who had migrated South from New England. Possessed earlier of the means of printing and distributing books ami periodicals, the North impressed her ideas upon the youth of the South. While some good came of all this, was also accompained by much that 1 was evil. Every educated and intelligent man and woman of the present day and gen eration,can recall the struggle each en countered in after life in removing the wrong impressions made upon their minds during school days. The sermon of Eliphalet Nott on the death of Hamilton was the opening cry of persecution against Aaron Burr. Most Americans still regard him as the worst of men. The truth is that he was in many respects the superior ot Hamil, ton and his inferior in nothing. If tiie duel, which wasonc of tiie most justi fiable ever fought, had resulted differ ently, nothing would have been heard of it from pulpit or press. It is of the highest importance that our children should he taught the truth, and with the facilities within our reach it will be criminal in us, if we permit their young mindsto be poi soned against the memories of their kith and kin. Now that the municipalities, the State and tho national governments are all striving to take from the parents the education of their children, and before the struggle has culminated In submis sion or defeat for the parents, we should make an etl'ort to have the truth of his tory put into tiie hands of our hoys and girls. The multiplication of text hooks in schools and their frequent change, is already a burden to parents, and a dis advantage to children. It is said that all teachers do not share tills disadvan tage, many 01 them receiving larger per centages upon the sale of school books which are cheaply manufactured and sold. There should lie some responsi ble head or body in a school system, to guard against the introduction and use ot such books as the one upon which we have commented. Tins subject is a most important one, and should demand and receive tint immediate and earnest attention of every parent and guardian in the land. A Statue of Mr. Wadley to be Erected In Macon. It lias already been mentioned in these columns, that the employes of the Central railroad system, in grateful appreriation of his services to the .State and his kindness to them, have determined by voluntary contributions to erect a statue to commemorate the name of Mr. Wadley. On Saturday lost a meeting of the committee having the matter in charge was held in tho city of Savannah. We learn from Capt John A. Davis, of Al bany, who hoa taken a lively interest in the matter, that arrangements were made with an artist for a life size statue in bronze of Mr. Wadley, and that it will be erected when complet ed, in Macon. Tliis question would have been so decided at the meeting referred to, but it was deemed proper to consult the wishes of all of those who had contrib uted to tiie memorial. There can be no doubt as to the final result. In behalf of the citizens of Macon, we take occasion to say that they will feel honored by this action. A suitable site will be donated, and everything will be done to cherish the memory of a Georgian by adoption, whose wisdom energy and Spartan virtue won for him a warm place in tho hearts of every citizen of the State. Tbs friends of Mejor Bernes, who fa a member of the committee that inaugu rated a late campaign, appear to be quite previous. They are moving towards a Congressional convention already. If Major Barnes baa a walk over, there need be no burry, and if the tenth district An Importune Duslness Item. Elsewhere in this issue is presented tiie plans tor an organization in process of formation to be known ns the Mucou -Ileal Estate and Improvement Compa ny, so fully set forth as to need but little attention in this department of tho Telegraph. It may not lie amiss, however, to emphasize an idea therein touched upon. The movement in Macon real estate during the last three years and the permanent improvements effected are facts almost unprecedented in the his tory of any Southern city. They force themselves upon the attention of every one who takes occasion to make a tour of the city, and have drawn from Uraditreeti, a comparative statement of improvements in Georgia cities, by which it appears that Macon stands a the head of the list with a total expen diture of nearly $3,000,000 in the di rections indicated, an excess of nearly $200,000 over Augusta, second. From the park to the laboratory lie- yond Vincvilie, from “Block Ankle' to the Seven Bridges, can be seen im provements in every shape, otul the sales of real estate, as the books of lead ing agents will show,have not only Itcen enormous, hut at an advance in rates that will not fall below a fifty per cent, average. Within the city limits prop er, the tendon^ now is generally to the subdivision of large lots and the building of fine resiliences or cotn- modions stores', on anil near the suburbs, the improvements take the form chiefly of neat ami inexpensive resiliences for people of moderate in comes. The only drawback that has hitherto existed was the lack of a con stant market, or steady demand, where by persons who invested in real estate might easily divest themselves of such A Plan of Campaign and a Leader. Now that the official exponent of the Georgia Democracy has inaugu-; rated a campaign, it becomes necessary for the party to take counsel ns to a platform and a leader. For many years the Georgia Democ racy was looked to with great solid-* tude and interest. The party was strong, harmonious, possessed of lead ers of strong and practical sense. The cotton States of the South were content to follow the lead of Georgia. Oppor tunity is afforded,her to rcassume the proud position. It is safe to say that the Georgia De mocracy, in common with the majority of the party in the other States,will in sist upon the Cincinnati platform at Chicago, as embodying the best conservative sentiment of the party and ns calculated to bring about the most liarinonius action. The selection of a leader is likely to he accompanied with greater difficulties. In these days of booms and boomlots, when active politicians arc largely con trolled by their personal preferences, and presses are subsidized by the tap ping of “bar’ls," a wide divergence of opinion is manifested. Fortunately for tho Democratic par ty, the Presidential candidate is indi cated to some extent by the plan which promises success. Mr. Tilden was nominated in 1870 upon the idea that lie could carry New York, the pivotal State, and that this, with the support of the solid South, Connecticut, New Jersey and In diana, would secure his election.' it was a plan as opposed to the sugges tion that there was between tiie South and West a community of material and political interests. The result vlndi catcd the wisdom of the plan. The election really went to tiie Democrats. It may lie observed that Sir. Tilden, in the midst of the diplomatizing, dancingand sparring attributed to him by sundry reporters and politicians, has firmly adhered to tlio idea that tho Democrats must nominate a man who can carry New York. The Republi cans admit that it is the pivotal State —tiie real battle-ground of the Presi dential campaign. There will be 401 votes in the electo ral college. . Of these 153 will be east by the following Southern States: Ala bama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary land, Mississippi, Missouri, South Car- rolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Tex as, Virginia and West Virginia. Besides these 153, the Democrats will need 48 votes to have a majority The States which are counted as doubt ful are New York, Ohio, Connecticut Indiana, California and Nevada, hav ing in all 01 votes. To this list the Republicans would add New Jersey, with nine votes, althpugli, it may he safely reckoned as Demo cratic. In 1880 Nevada, California and New Jersey cast their electoral votes for Hancock. This year they will probably give their total ot twenty to the Demo cratic nominee, leaving twenty-eight secure. Ohio and Connecticut would supply these, with one to spare, or Ohio anil Indiana, with ten to spare. But New York alone, with its thirty- six electoral votes, would elect the Democratic candidate, and allow the loss ot Ohio, Indiana and Connecticut, besides California. If these figures may be relied upon, they show the absolute necessity for a leader who can carry tho State of New York. It may \>c assumed tlist Mr. Tilden is an impossible candidate. His physi cal condition is an insurmountable harrier to any hope from him. There fore, if the Georgia Democracy pro poses to enter the contest with a desire or intention and a hope to win, the lime has come when it shall cast aixrat for a leader who can meet the condi lions referred to above. The Alternative*. In the course of tho debate in the Houseof Representatives Monday last, with regard to the duty ou wool, Mr. Kurd, the'ahlest Democratic free trade advocate on tiie floor, let off the follow ing high-sounding sentence: I don't care that the party to ivhleb I belong shall come into power unless ft shall he to give tree trate to the people, better prices to capitalists, larger wages to the laborer and great glory to tbe American name. This reads very prettily, but it docs not smack of statesmanship. It requires, say, $300,000,000 per an num tosupport the federal government, pay the interest on tiie public debt, pensions, etc. This vast sum can he raised in only two ways—by direct tax ation and duties on foreign importa tions. “Free trade,” which Mr. Hurd advocates, means the abrogation of all tariff laws, and the raising of the $300,000,000 annually required by tho government, by direct taxes wrung from the people. The present internal revenue laws may he properly consid ered as of the nature of direct taxation. Of the amount now needed for the sup port of the government, Georgia’s quota, under a system of direct taxation, could hardly be expected to fall much, if any, below $10,000,000. Are the people of Georgia, in addi tion to their present State, county and municipal taxes, ready to contribute this amount annually to the general government? If not, then they are not ready for free trade and direct tax ation—for the one cannot exist without the other, unless Mr. Ilurd can point out some way by which the govern ment can be carried on without money. The money must be raised in some way; if not by imposts, then by the present obnoxious internal revenue system, supplemented by direct taxa tion. Such are the alternatives, and since this is a free cou itry, the people can take their choice. Will they have a protective tariff, or free trade and di rect taxes? Ohio Lost to the De nocrats. All hope oi securing the electoral vote of Ohio for the Democratic presi dential candidate, was deliberately de* stroyed by Democrats in the House of Representatives on Monday last. The bill revising the tariff laws, passed in conformity to the report of the tariff commissioners, reduced the duty on wool, large quantities of which are produced in Ohio. During'the gnbernational contest in that State last year. Democratic speakers and newspapers, in order to secure tho votes of the wool growers, promised that the duty should be restored, and .1 hill having that ob ject in view was introduced- at tho present session. A motion was made on Monday to suspend the rules and pass this bill. The motion was opposed by Mr. Morrison and Mr. Hurd, leaders of the tariff reformers, and defeated. An appeal was made to the Democrats to keep their pledge.” They were told, in the course of the discussion, that “they had gathered tho fruits of the people's faith, and now they ought to keep their promises.” It is true that the article ot wool is embraced in tho general tatiff hill reported by the ways and means com mittee, but no ono now anticipates the passage 'bt that bill. Tlio defeat Let Ceorpta Democrats Speak. . It is now no longer an open question ns to whether or not the action of the Democratic free trade clique in Con gress has damaged the party’s chances in the approaching Presidential con test. It is openly stated on all hands and believed that, without prompt ac tion on the part of the national Demo cratic convention, there can be no chance of success. And not only must this action ho prompt, but so vigorous and complete as to forever disarm sus picion, and convince the business men of the eountty that neither immediate free trade nor a policy looking toward a gradual approach to it will ever lie the policy of the pnrty. Unless such ac tion is had, the Democratic party might just as well go into the contest upon a pro-slavery platform and expect success. • When Mr. Carlisle was elect ed to the Speakership of the House and became the quasi-leader of the party, the Telegraph pointed out the probability of having to call upon the people to withdraw their trust, and bring the party back to the proper issues. What was prophesied has come to pass.' In their efforts to pass the infamous whisky bill, the men who had the leadership to control, have suffered it to fall into the hands of a junto of cranks, who havo spawned the present abortion called a tariff bill and seek to foist it upon the country. Prin ciples, business interests, party hopes have all been threatened, almost sacrificed to afford these men an opportuni'y to demonstrate an improbable theory. It is time Ju piter wrenched tho reins from the hands of Phteton and resumed control. The Democratic party must realize that first of ai! the interests to he con sulted, are tlio business interests of the country. If it requires surgical opera tions to get this idea into the heads of Hurd, Morrison & Co., the sooner the surgeons are called in the better. Their blatant appeals to tho ignorant prejudices and unreasoning artificial sentiment of the thoughtless must cease, or tho party should so ar range it that they echo only from tho private walks of life. The man who hates tho whirr of the busy wheel, the roar of the furnace, the sound of tlio FROM ATLANTA. MEETING OF THE REPUBLICAN STAT CONVENTION. M. u. dark Mads Temporary Chairman..! Proceedings Begin with the Usual "" Wrangle—The Negro In tho Ascendant Politically. ltrtCUL CORRESPONDEXCE.I Atlanta, April U.-Tlie State Republic:,, convention net at noon to-day in Itepre-I sentativc hall. Before the hour of i*eetin„l tiie ball was crowded, ami the geneSil complexion of Hie crowd indicate!] tb? I the colored brother would largely predo* I inate in the convention. Amins tl','.I whiles scattered here and there over n!!l Hull, Buck. Bryant and Walter Johnson I were prominent figures. The seats in tbs I gallery were fully occupied, mid antonSI that body of spectators were quite a mn31 her of the new "Whig Republicans," wore upon their patriot faces a settlml look of interest. The crowd upon th»l floor, white and black, were, in the main I funiiliur faces—time-honored delegates nil Republican State conventions. “ * PROCEEDINGS. The convention was called to order bv I A, E. Buck, chairman of the State central I committee. He congratulated the pa-trl upon the meeting, the harmony that nr/. I vailed in the party and committee ntwt 1 ings, and believed tbe convention would I get through ita work without dissension or I any disturbance of that harmonious feel. [ ing. He then read the call of the State 1 contra! committee under which theconven-1 tion had assembled. W- A. Pledger moved the election! of M. l . Clark, of Macon, as temporary I oliairman. Wright, of Augusta, seconded I the nomination. Jackson McHenry, of Pulton, put in uralnation Smith Easley, of Fulton. 1 As Pledger had stated that the taro didates, right and Easley, ha 1 volantv I irly withdrawn in favor of Clark, and as I Wright bad seconded Clark’s nomination I Pledger rose nmi reaffirmed his first Mate-1 ment and called on Easley to withdraw, or he would break his faith. | There was a lively discussion over this grave matter, which threatened to start ofl 1 the convention in a commotion. Friends I of Easley repudiated any arrangement ■£* [ which his name had been been withdraw^, and urged him to make the race. * l lhvaux took tho tloor as Easley’s cham pion, und made a break against the “ring,” l who, he said, had tiie whole matter cut I ami dried, and lie was with the Hfcly ot delegates who would smash the ring if they I could. | Major Easley rose to a personal privilege. Ho stated that lie would not be the cause of any discord in tiie party which his can didacy might create, and famish [ food for the Norcross crowd, who I were standing on the outskirts with I gaping mouths, “parasites” and “cat- ] throats.” He therefore reluctantly decline I being a candidate. Pledgerahoroaetouuur- I sonal explanation,assertiugthat Easley had hammer and the ringof the woodman’s Bft axe, cannot tepresent the Democratic j thrust at Devaux for attempting to ent- party of tho country. The check upon the present leaders must come direct from the States— from the people. Let Georgia speak next. Virginia, West Virginia, Penn sylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Con necticut have spoken. Titeir unani mous verdict is,’that the business in terests and manufacturing industries of this country need protection—a tariff so adjusted as to supply tho wants of the government economically adminis tered, and afford protection to the in dustries of the country. In little more than sixty days will bo held tiie State convention to nominate delegates to the Chicago national convention. Let the people semi to it delegates who will declare that the prosperity of Georgia shall not bo checked nor her industrial growth dwarfed by men w ho misrepresent her. Let the voice of the laboring men ito heard, and their demand for complete protection lie re corded. nto discortb Dtvanx then rose to his |*r- sonal explanation,.which was on the same line as his previous remarks. The mottos I was then put on the call for the previous ] ,■ tlnsti*,n n»A.l IT f’laelr tinanimmisl. I question ami M. U. Clark unanimously I elected temporary chairman. I W. O. H. bhepnard, H. H. Rucker and I K. A. Johnson were elected temporary secretaries. Chairman Liark was conducted to tb* elrnir. He made a brief speech, thanking tlio committee fer honor, addressed himself vigorously to the “Norcross faction” with a dis sertation on the mission of the Republi can party, and counselled harmony proceedings of the convention. A wiregrass delegate asked the chair man to make ids su&xh short. gAnother delegate nut in on tne same line. The chairman promptly concluded, and announced the convention ready (or business. Wright, of Richmond, moved the ap pointment of a committee on credeutiaU to consist of ono from each Congressional district, and one from the State at large. The motion was adopted.. Tiie chairman appointed as a committee ts „.iul*.,iti.itn . A# laeittt II ’A’vislit* WHO Is Responsible ' Tlio New York Sun is jegarJctl as one of the ablest ami truest friends tlio South has among the newspapers of tiie North. Wo may not always Ito able to agree with it, hut its frankness, of the motion to suspend the rules and I fidelity and ability cannot be ques- ott credentials: At large, 1L IL Wright; first district,James Bine; second district,!'. I’ntny; third district, W. E. King; fonrth district. R. D. Irecke; fifth district, W. II Johnson ; sixth district, B. O. Hose ; hi- enth district, Jsck Hargrove pass the bill above referred to, may therefore, be considered as the defeat of nil measures looking to tiie restoration of the former duly on that article. This disposes, not only of the bill In question, but of the vote of Ohio, and probably of Indiana. tioned Let us see what this well-informed journal has to say as to the responsi bility for the present condition and prospects of the Democratic party. It tells us; The rent authors of Democratic hltintcr* at this session ot Congress have been the free traders who have hail voles In the House ot Representative*. There, the Democratle majority hail the op portunity, by aiming at an honest and exleu- slve reduction of taxes, In* investigating Re- puldlean (rand* and eofrectlu, abuses, to make tho election of the next Democratle dldale for President a virtual certainty. Hut our tariff reform Glenda, hllud tu all practical consideration*, for the sake of emphasizing their convictions on thu theory of free trade, Rsmarkabl* Coincidence. It is “a remarkable coincidence Mr. 1’eter Magnus would say, if he were here, that both tho temperance advocates and whisky distillers of the West concur in the desire to retain tho tax on that exhilarating and intoxicat ing beverage. The temperanee people advocate the , fax in order to increase tho cost, and I , , , , . # I tie iactions over *n abutnutiun whiuh, In the thereby lessen the conmioiption, of j prenent *tato ot *fr*in, raujoi be i xuited Into whisky. Indeed, they would he glad a reality. to tax whisky out of existence, and ! ’^* 10 r »?*pon*lbllIty tor the prm-nt uufortu- tint, prohibit the production as well as ! rn7-^m^»uu^ra^hV^ property when ready money became a rushes into a campaign at this earl, dare, yw 1 *- Tbe new company,!!! soon tbe whole Mat* way be convulsed before ’l^Mtrate tbe wisdom of its organ- k'-Meort.tfami Congressmen ran get bom* to look sfter I i,en ’' I >ave tl,e wa - v for rival *' In, chance of bfight, and if the ; two Intern, beeves. One wcfgbSi | ^*° <.'ongre..tooM cooven- thi* manner will mwhoCtte old Iron- ^^^gSSS'*todta[to r f near a ton. and John paid $80, for him don should be ripecnaugh to pick before We be .lone away with. 1 ptarhft.apple*, etc.rTill bt t ■* — I Recently, in treating of the necessity | {„ tld*region. fodder pulling lime, Fruit Crop In HalL Gainesville Southron. The fmit crop is more promising this season than in several years. Owing to tbe late spring there is no possible chance of blight, and if the yiAd i* held thy looking plentiful tho consumption of the article. The whisky distillers, on the other I hand, advocate the retention of the present tax, because they are aware that its removal would encourage hun dreds of other persons of small means to engage in the business. This would lead to over-production of whisky, and a reduction of profits. As long as the business can, by high taxes and license fees, be confined to a few rich and powerful firms and individuals—the whisky ring, in other words—the dis tillers feel reasonably certain that there will always be a sufficient demand, notwithstanding the tax, to insure sat isfactory profits. The whisky men and free traders of the West—the men who controlled the organization ot the Ilonsc of Represen tatives and inaugurated the so-called tariff reform movement—are pulling together for the some goal. The whisky clement has become rich and powerful, and is now grasping for the control of the politics ot the country. It already dominates the Democratic party in a large section of the country. It has raised its dragon’s head in both houses of Congress, and though ita demands were refused, it evinced a dis position and power for mischief that should arouse the apprehensions of thinking men everywhere. If the government would remit to tbe States the power to levy taxes npon whisky, tobacco and other articles from which its internal revenues are now derived, and would encourage the la bor and industry of the country by raising the means for its own wants by impost duties, ■hool uotr la Congreat, We commend the remarks of tho Sun to the thoughtful consideration of the reader. It must have become evident by this time to all observant men, that we are indebted to the impracti cable theorists in Congress and on the press for the present unfortunate con dition of the Democratic party, and the probable defeat which awaits it in the near future. The election in Ohio two days ago shows too plainly which way the tide is setting. - eighth dis trict, Madison Davis; ninth district, W. T. Wilson; tenth district, P. H. Craven. Tbe convention then took a recess d one hour to allow the committee on cre dentials time to discharge Ita duties. TIIE AFTERXOOX SESSION. The convention was called to order at 3 p. m. Mojor Easley took the floor toil referred to the tact that four yean ago. u a meeting of tbiaiionreiitlon in this lull, Amos T. Ackerman and Edwin Belcbet. prominent members of the party, addrem! the convention. They had since died,and it would he protier to appoint acomniiii** to prepare resolution* ou their death. Ik moved the appointment of a committee of five, of which W. A. llc lgt r should bs chairman. Tbe motion was adopted. On motion of Jackson McHenry, tbs committee was requested to add a memo rial resolution for the late John M. Brows, of this county, a departed editor of the Priinnre. The folio wing cmnnilttee was se- lointcl: W. A. Pledger, A, K. Buck. W. W. Brown. J. K. Bryant, John Dorcaui. The convention was then l-ermanenl'r organized by the election of It. D. Locke S Tma'icnt chairman, and Smith F.adey, axwdl Manning anti E. A. Johnson sec retaries. The chairman coa anted a few minotts in eulogizing the Republican party, bend ing Democracy and counseling party Tiie convention then elected the follow ing delegates from the State at Urge to tbs national Republican convention, which meets in Chicago June 3d; A. K. Buck, W. A. Pledger, L. M. Pleasant* and C. D. Forsyth. Tbe following are tbe delegates from tbs Congressional district* to Chicago: First district, A. N. Wilson, James Bli Second district, C. W. Arnold, C. Fa Third district. K. 8. Small, Elbert Ileai Fonrth diathtWiEMnisonj. C. ~ Filth district, W. D. Moore, J. R. Bryant Sixth district. W. W. Brown. P. O. Holt Scvenlh district. G. It. Burnett. J. O. Gas- sit; Eighth district.M. Davis, M. A, Wood; Ninth district, W. T. it. Wilson, James & Gaston: Tenth district, It. IL Wright, \T. The Weather. Just now the weather is neither an uninteresting or unimportant subject of Conversation or journalistic discussion. April has Itecome very breezy and the temperature in this section has been sufficiently chilly tocxcito the appre hension of the gardener and truck farmer. A violent snow storm in the neighborhood of Bsltlmore and Wash ington City on yesterday would indi cate that the spring is not disposed to be gentle. There is a monthly journal published at Rockford, Illinois, devot ed to the weather, and from ita April number we make some selections os follows: The wont storm and earth disturbing days should occur about (he al to 6th—Wedncsd«y to Sunday, oth to ltth—^Wednesday to Monday. Istb to mb—Friday to Wednesday, the mb. Rzmzrks.—The teir.p..>rature la likely to av erage below tbe mean of tb* season, both in •h* I'nlted States and Europe—in fact the planets seem to b* situated so aa to make April tb* cool, stormy month of tbe ywtr ISM, far ita season, both toe wide-spread and lone continuing storms, tofetbar with earth eon- F. Holden. Tbe convention elected .. committee and referred to it th* cirri end State ticket, with power to net, adopted the following resolutions: The national government fa K me; the equality of all ore the law; Btaleeducation; aboliti of the convict system; porsonsi amir ' r* hid vuiitiLS nteiiiu , uiauitai rain* nl freedom, free ballot tnd faire rapid payment of the national and L ■ debts; internal improvements of a nation- til character by the government; abolltloo I of tbe poll tax os aconditton of *uT to 1 doming tho protective tariff and tbe administration of Arthur. The convention adjourned at 13:30- NOTEM Of THE CONVENTION. Mr. Jonathan Norerott. in bis eonven-1 tion to-day. disclaimed the authorships* [ of the cerebrated "address’’ which been attributed to hfa trained and it trious pen, tnd Uhl that interesting p-. ,. ntthedoorof Judge A. O. Murray, ■ I Griffin. The Whig Republicans will meet again j at 10 o’clock to-morrow. Bibb was represented in tbe 1_, „ , State Convention by W. W. Brown, P. Holt, SI. U. Clark, K. W. Wright The Georgia Republicans send S I Arthur delegation to Chicago. The convention, with tbe ext few ripples,commen with moat venlions ot that party, dispatched it ness in an orderly manner, which a that the hotly was held well in hand. vulsions and electric sgttsllosi. May was the a great service wouhl j stormy mouth far lssa. as July was ter DOS— be rendered the people of every class! 104 “ A|,rtl ' “fected to h*, far its *iuj section. -which wees painted out by this syt- At noon to-day at the bride's i to Wheat str. < t. Mr. Chirk - Wd, Memphis, and Mbs Ads Brya“._ charming daughter of Mr*. Mary *• an. tbrtdented editor of lhe #*»« and well-known author. The bridal c