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Till!. WEEKLY 1KLEGKAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY 9, THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Daily and Weekly. Thk Tki.kgr ath AND Mkssbngxr Is publish ed everjr day except Monday, and weekly ev- tT \: e Daily Is delivered by carriers in the city or mailed postage free to subscribers at $1 per mouth. $2.oo for three months,, $5 for six months or $10 a year. Thk Weekly is mailed to subscribers, pos tage free, at $1.00 a year and 75c. for six months. To clubs of fire $1.25 per year, and to clubs of tan $1 per yfear, and an extra copy to getter up of club of live or ten. Transient advertisements will be takes for the Daily at $1 per square of ten lines, or less, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion; and for the Weekly at $1 per square for each Insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Rejected communications wi'l not be re turned. Correspondence containing Important news, and discussions of living topics, is solicited, but must be brief and written upon but one side of the paper to bare attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. Agents wanted in every community In the State, to whom liberal commissions will be ^*I<L (Postmasters are especially requested PREMIUMS TO ACENTS. Wo will give a premium oi twenty- five Hollars to the local .gent who sends in the largest number of new subscrib ers to the Weekly Telegraph and Messenger up to July 1st; a premium of ton dollars to the one who sends next to the largest list, and a premium of £vo dollars to the one who sends in the third list in size up to that time. CLUB RATES. Agents mny receive subscriptions at the following rates: 5 copies at $1.25 each year. 10 •* 1.00 “ “ “ Names can be sent in as secured. Additions may be made to clubs at any time. These premiums will be given only for hew subscribers—not for those whoso names are nowon our books, Agents should go to work at once Tho Weekly Telegraph and Mes ■xkger will contain able discussions of the issues which will come up in the State and national elections this year, and a summary of the important news of the world. It will contain nothing unsuitable for ladies and children to read. Every one who is not famillinr with it should give it a trial this year, wti Tuzconvlcts in Georgia could do the State some service if they were put on the public roads. The Massachusetts Democrats are down with a bad attack of llutlerism—a species of political hydrophobia. It is tortunate that the disease isn’t contagious. The hostility of Nubar Pasha to English rule and methods in Egypt is no small matter, considering bis influence in that quarter. French and Bussian intrigues will leave untried no expedient for forcing the Egyptian question before a convention of the signatories to the Berlli treaty. It will take the most cunning of Quaker diplo mats to settle the question without a re sort to arms. Murdered In the House of Hie Friends. Tlie frequent and unpunished mur ders of females in the State of Con necticut have given the land of steady habits an unenviable notoriety of late. Recently a negro has been murdered in one of the towns of that State under circumstances that demand tiie imme diate and searching investigation of John Sherman and his Copiah commit tee. Briefly stated, three white men en tered a saloon and found a negro about to take a drink. These Connecticut ruffians fell afonl of him and, in viola tion of the civil rights bill, began to beat him. Connecticut negroes are not unlike other negroes of other localities, and this one had a convenient razor con cealed about his clothes. Whipping it out, he slashed one of his assailants across the throat and fled. The others pursued and ran him into an under taker's shop and killed him. This is a simple recital of a very foul deed in a State that boasts of religion, morality, peace, law, good order and all other virtues. We have never known anything more cruel, cowardly and brutal to occur anywhere in this country. The people of Connecticut cannot sleep of nights on account of the poor negroes down South. 4 Connecticut convention has just proposed for President one Jos. Haw ley, a canting statesman who declares that the contest must be carried on be neath the folds of the bloody shirt. The negroes are asked to believe that their best friends live in the State of Connecticut, and that, in order to save these friends, they must vote and do everything else in their power to injure the white people of the South. Connecticut has or wants to have a special civil rights law, and yet her citizens murder a negro for peaceably taking a drink in a saloon and paying for it. Connecticut journals will reply that this case is an exceptional one. In turn we would say that the Copiah fight, in which one man killed another, does not represent Southern society, and should not have called for an in vestigating committee; and that Con necticut needs the attention of an in vestigating committee quite as much ss Mississippi. 3. To promote the introduction of blooded stock, cows, horses, sheep, hogs and poultry, and to extend tho cultivation of grapes, fruits and vege tables, and thus diversify the crops as well as the occupation of the planting classes. 4. To divorce agriculture from partisan politics, and to induce the owners and cultivators of the soil to devote them selves to the development of the re sources of the country, and the building up of our material inteiests so far as the same relate to agriculture in all its de partments. The club was'organized by the elec tion of the Hon. W. J. Northen, of Hancock, as president, Mr. It. A. Ms- bet, of Bibb, as vice-president, and Mr. Sidney Herbert, of Fulton, as sec retary. Sir. Northen is a prac tical farmer, tho owner of a fine herd of blooded cows, and one of the most enlightened and useful men in Georgia—indeed a gen tleman who would grace any position in the gift of the people of the State. Under the care and leadership of him self and his colleagues, the club bids fair to become the most useful and influential agricultural organization in the South. It Is undoubtedly a pleasant thing to secure mammoth appropriations from the Federal treasury for that, this and the other thing—viewed as a mere money con sideration. But when home methods, home rule and State control of local ques tions are to be surrendered as the consider ation for handling the money, it will be found, in the end, to hare been a costly and unfortunate "benefaction.” la an obscure corner of the Atlanta Cbnititution of yesterday, we find this par agraph : "A consultation ot the members of the sixth district Congresslonsl com mittee is suggested to be held In Macon in a few days.” As the Comtitution h&s been for years tho organ ot a small branch of the Atlanta ring located In this neighbor hood, it probably baa special information. We would be pleased to be informed why there shall be a consultation of the mem bers of the Congressional committee of this district just now. The paper that isn't pure enough to up hold the true interests of sodsty and brave enough to defend the right, at all times, in all places and against all comers, Isn't thepsperfor the times. The paper that will not denounce wrong-doing in public life, that will not expose outrages by Its own party ofHclala—la a sham, a fraud, a curse. The times demand a fearless, tree, outspoken press. Wnxx the Greenbsckera swear that real, honest, industrious, four-story reform Is needed In this country, and then illustrate their earnest sincerity by asking Old Spoons to lead them In a campaign on that issue, the whole world will be excused for stopping, sitting flat down on the ground and enjoying one hearty .uproarious guffaw. The like was never seen before, and it will never be seen sgain. It embod ies the humor ot a century. Nations, communities, individuals, should not be slow to learn the lesson of self dependence. To depend on outside aid for national, municipal or personal ad. Tancement is to sap the very foundations ui«n which true greatness must be built up. The South and Southern people are in danger at this point Real advance ment (or them can come only through their own efforts, faithfully and persistent ly made in their own bfhalf. Another Distinguished Criminal Escapes, Kellogg’s trial comes to a very sud den and complete close. The court holds that the proeecution ia barred by the statute of limitations. It other words, the government, in full posses sion of the proof of this man’s guilt, dallies with the indictment until the law comes in and stops the farce. It appears from the proceedings in court that Kellogg had another defense that could have given him time. The proeecution had (ailed to prove that the money, or checks for money given to him, had any value at tached to them. It it doubtful if this country holds another scamp the equal of Kellogg for ileliberate and successful villainy, ft is certain that no other thief biu enjoyed similar immunity. It remains to be seen if any man with money, friends and influeoce can tie convicted, in the courts of Washington City, of an offense against the general goven Kellogg should now ask the Vice- Presidential nomination aa a vindii Progress of the South Under a Protec tive Sretem. Mr. Robert Porter, one of the late tariff commission, and who has given great attention to the industrial re sources ot the country, is making a tour of the South, the results of which will embody in letters to the Phil adelphia Prcu. Ho computes that tho Southern States, in the decodo ending 1800, increased in population 39 per cent.; in that ending 1810,35 per cent.; that ending 1820, 30 per cent.; in that ending 1830, 31 per cent.; 1840, 23 per cent.; 1850, 29 per cent.; 1800, 24 per cent.; 1870,0 per cent., and in the decade ending 1880, 35 per cent., or within 1 per cent, of tho rate of in crease of the population of tho Western States and Territories combined As to what tho South has done under protective system, ho says ten of tho Southern States produce over six mil lion bales of cotton. Two of these States annually produce over half the entire tobacco crop of tho union, or 250,000,000 pounds, and three of them prodace over 100,000,000 oat of the 110,000,000 pounds of rice grown on the continent, while Louisiana produces 172,000 out of the 178,000 hogsheads of cane sugar produced, and 12,000,000 out of tho 17,000,000 gallons of molasses. Viewed, therefore, from an agricultural standpoint, nothing pan be more satisfactory than the progress of the Southern States. Tho want of tho South for the last half cen tury has been diversified industries. Under the old slave ayatem it was im possible to induce free white labor to enter into competition wih ‘the slaves, and, as the slave owners were content to buyltheir manufactured goods, the mineral resources of these States slum bered until within the last decade, when the extension of railroads has opened up enterprises not dreamed of by the typical Southerner before the war. At the close of the war the Southern States had but 0,000 miles of railroads; to-day the aggregate is nearer 18,000, an increase of 100 per cent. This, in itself, has wrought a change in the entire region that can only be appreciated by a more detailed examination oi the facts than would be possible in this introduction. Rela tively speaking, railroad progress since 1865 in the South has been greater than in New England, and nearly equal to that of the Middle States. An Important Movement. The young farmers of this and ad joining States inaugurated an impor tant movement yestenlay at Holton, on the banks of the Ocmulgee, ten miles from Macon by the East Tennes see, Virginia and Georgia railroad. A club waa organized under the name of the Young Farmers’ Club, and its membership, already embracing number of active and en terprising young men, will be extended, if earnest work can do it, to all the distinctly Southern States. The promoters seem to have the following objects in view: "Some Tariff Views.” The Dawson Journal differs with the TELEORArri as to the tariff, but we are convinced that the difference is only in the construction to be placed upon certain words, and not a serious differ ence as to principles. The Journal has only to bear with the Telegraph a few minutes, and it will see the true position of the latter set forth. The great question of the day may be divided into [five parts, each, of which has its advocates. They are as follows: • Free trade—Persons who believe that absolute freedom should be ob served in trade os between the nations. This class must necessarily favor di rect taxation as a means of supporting the government. Tariff for revenue only—That is, a tariff laid only for revenue, and so laid ns only to afford revenue without protection. Tariff for revenue with incidental pro tection—A tariff laid to produce reve nue, and which incidentally protects certain interests. Tariff for revenue and protection—A tariff so laid as to afford tho govern ment all the revenue needed and at tho same time to protect tho industries of the country. The best definition of this is given in the platforms of the Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersoy Demo crats, wherein tho amount of revenue to be derived is limited to tho necessi ties of tho government economically administered, and the tariff is recom mended to be kept at tho protective point. Here stands tho Telegraph and Messenger. The pretent tariff—Which may be too high in some parts and too low in others. Taking the Dawson Journal’s two editorials os one, it would seem that there is little difference between the two papers. Tho Telegraph desires just hero to say to its contemporaries that the tarifl question is one in which the people of Georgia are deeply interested; that a discussion of it con bo carried on pleas antly and with profit to all. But the Teleorapii cannot afford to have an adversary assign it a strange position to defend. Tho paper stands for a tar iff so adjusted os to afford complete protection to every industry and inter est of this country, and at tho same time afford enough rovonue to support the government economically adminis tered. It believes such a policy will destroy the odious internal revenue system and continue the era of prosper ity so long enjoyed. The paper stands in relation to the present tariff as follows: Tho last Congress passed a law to reduce the tariff. The effect of that law has not yet been seen except in part. It ia not good policy to abandon a plan adopted before testing it. Nor is a horizontal reduction in the present tariff the way to bring it to a squarely protective rev enue point. It will not relievo tho ine qualities which must still exist in pro portion ; nor is it sura to reduce the revenue. The reduction may bring certain articles below the point ot pro tection, leave others still too high and yet further affect those that are too low, and need an increase. Sooner or later the work has got to be done in detail. Foolish attacks upon theTiLEORAm, based upon errors, have made it neces sary to restate its position. If monopo lies, created by the tariff exist, point them out. If the tariff ia above the protective point on any article, demon strate it. The TELioBArn will join in the efforts to correct the evil. But tlie paper 'a !!*, aa yet, defend no more nor less than the position it has occupied for two years. haps, the most eloquent man in the House, and this is well attested in the fact that he could command applause on so dry a topic as Morrison’s horizon tal bill. ButMr. Hard really had little to say of Morrison’s bill, or tlie cold facts aad figures of the tariff. He said nothing new, and confined) himself to the usual generalizations of free trade. His speech was a godsend to the whisky ringers who are masquerading as revenue reformers. It was calcula ted to strike Democrats with alarm,but for the fact that the influence ol his eloquence must die out long before a vote can be reached. Everybody gives Mr. Hurd praise for his speech, and it affords ub pleasure to join in a general verdict, for wo ad mire the man, his abilities and his courage. We can only regret that his fine powers were not displayed in a bet ter cause. We have heard Mr. Hurd mako strong and eloquent speeches. We recall now that one which closed tho debate on the marshals bill in the forty-sixth CongresB. His effort then was worthy of any man who had pre ceded him in the American Congress. His appeal was to the general govern ment to lift its iron hand from the States where it had been placed by the exi gencies of war. Eloquent and grand as the appeal was, it was addressed to a hostile ex ecutive and Senate, backed by a party determined to carry out, at any cost, what it calls tho logical consequences of tho war. Mr. Hurd’s eloquence charmed his friends and made some of his political opponents hang their heads in shame. As a speech by itself,it was a grand arraignment of the rulers in behalf of thejpeople, but it sounded the defeat of Mr. Hurd’s party. His own State, taking alarm at the efforts of the Democrats to purge the statute books of vicious legislation, led the column which overwhelmed Hancock and Democracy in 1880. Mr. Hurd charged an entrenched enemy gallantly, but unsuccessfully. Time docs not seem to have tempered his courage or enlarged his discretion. |t»»' much more serious matter than the Newt-Letter and the principal keeper seem to imagine. Any interference with the judgments of courts by that officer, if persisted in, and especially if crowned with success, will bring such scandal upon the administration of our State government ns will overwhelm with popular indignation all who are connected with it. The denunciation by the principal keeper of a public journalist for ven turing to criticise hiB official conduct was bad enough, but his virtual chal lenge to mortal combat is infinitely worse, and of itself calls for the most summary proceeding on tho part of the Governor. Tyrants mny silence the press by an exercise of despotic power, but we trust tlie day is far distant when the'keeper of penitentiary con victs will be permitted to overawe tlie newspapers of tfic land. Frank Hurd's Speech. By common consent of friend and foe, Frank Hurd has so far made the most eloquent speech of tlie tariff de bate. It was roundly applauded on the floor and in the galleries, and if a vote had been quickly called Ua influ ence would have been marked Mr. lfurd is cqpab'.e of making a good speech. He is young, able and un- 1. To bring together in a single asso-1 selfish. He is a scholar and U he shall ciation the younger and more active | prove true to the talents which have agriculturists of the South, men who nave engaged in this pursuit since the war, and who believe that the metiusls of the old plantation ayatem should be buried along with slavery, upon which it rested as its basis. 3. To encourage the introduction of new and improved (arming implements, and to adopt new and better method) in the cultivation and preservation of The John Thomas Case. The facts attending the commutation of the sentence of death pronounced upon this man and affirmed bj the Su preme Court, have already been pub lished. It is charged by a respectable jour nalist and citizen, in substance, that Capt. Nelms, the principal keeper of tho penitentiary, taking advantage of his official position, and of Ills personal Influence with the Governor and in Campbell county, where ho formerly resided and where the crime was com mitted, took part in procuring signa tures to a petition to the Governor, and in getting up exculpatory affida vits in Thomas’s behalf. This Cap tain Nelms denies with much temper and a defiance to the field of combat. As the chargo and de nial established nothing, and only raised an issue between the parties,we ventured to suggest to the Governor that a prompt and impartial investiga tion of tho charges be made, since tho principal keeper holds his office by ex ecutive favor alone, and that the officer be exonerated or dismissed os might seem to be just and reasonable. We are pleased to noto that other journals in Georgia tako the same view of the matter. Tho Campbell County Next-Letter, which is understood to he the friend of the principal keeper, meets our sugges tion in an article which may safely he supposed to reflect tlie wishes and opinions of Capt. Nelms. It says: The Macon TxixoxxrH and Mauaxota call! cdllorlrlly upon the Governor to loveitl- gato the conduct o( John W. Nelma in tho John Thomaa affair. Before the Governor ahould order an Inveitlgatlon of the conduct of an officer, there ahonld at leaat be a reason- able suspicion of wrongdotog. There la no room tor vuch reaaouable ituplclon In the caae of Mr. Selma, admitting aa true every charge Dr. Johnaton hat brought agaloat him. We regret to say that we cannot con cur in the view taken by our contem porary. We think, and the people of Georgia will think, if the chargee are well founded, that Captain Nelms is not a proper person to hold the office of principal keeper of tho penitentiary. The code clearly sets forth his duties— to receive such criminals as may be sentenced by tho courts, and to keep, work, punish and care for them aa the law requires. It is no part of his busi ness to supervise the findings of juries and the judgments of courts. In other words, it is not a part of his duties to lend his aid in getting up exculpatory affidavits and petitions to the Governor to pardon criminals, or commute their scntencea.If he may do thiainone caae, he may do it in all, until tho office of principal keeper might In the course of time have engrafted upon it the office of pardon broker. The Newt-Letter further says: But suppose Mr, Nelmz bed prevented evi dence to the Governor. At a citizen of Geor gia he had a perfect right to do 11; and there is no juit ground for coating a shadow of aua- plcton on the character of the faithful official by ordering an luveatigaUon of auch an act The mere fact of a man'e being a public offi cial doea not deprive him of the excrclae of the rigbta of a private citizen. We are again compelled todiffer with our contemporary. "At a citizen of Georgia,” Captain Nelma may do many things wnM« Principal Keep er Nelms cannot properly do. In a case like this no distinction can lie drawn between his personal tights and official duties. If he ahould desire to aid criminals sentenced by the courts, there can be no objection, provided he first anmndar the office whose busi ness it is to'receive criminals into the penitentiary—not to change their sen tences and nullify Die judgments of Savannah and Hor Military. If anything could have added to the just pride that Savannah feels in her military organizations, the parade on Friday last would have accomplished it. Wo seize the occasion to say that the good people of Georgia ask to share in the pride and admiration extended to the soldiery of the great seaport of the State. No amount of praise oi the pertonnel, equipment, drill and elan that characterize the First Begiment, Hussar Guards, and Artillery, can appear strained to those who enjoyed the pleasure of the dis play. And the cadets of the military school, which is the nucleus for future drafts, come in for a full share of com mendation. Savannah has cause to feel proud of her military, and every Georgian claims an interest in their honorable achievemeuls in peace and in war. The Chatham Artillery, one of the oldest organizations on the continent, sounded with their guns, presented by GeorgeWashington, the signal of many of the fiercest battles of the war. The sabres of the Hussars flashed at the front of famous charges from the Savannah to the Potomac. The Guards’ battalion made their mark at Battery Wagner and in the later battles oi Lee’s army. The Oglethorpes astonished all military men and illustrated Georgia, when, at the first Manassas, beardless boys charged over one of the finest bat teries in the Federal army. The Ger man Volunteers and Jasper Greens did glorious duty in Fort Pulaski and the army of Tennessee, as did the Blues and Cadets, the latter of which is justly considered ono of the crack corps of the country. So much for tho days of war. Immediately upon the procelmation of peace all of these or ganizations equipped themselves, and have stood since as guardians of the peace and good order ot their city. Surely these men deserve the good opinion and good wishes of their fellow citizens. And they deserve much more. They are entitled to the recognition and care of tha State. It is a shame that all of the expense attendant upon theso organizations should be borne by officers and privates and the generosity of the public-spirited citizens of Savannah. A State is great in its power to enforce its laws and to provide prompt and complete protec tion to all of Its citizens, and her citizen soldiery is her right arm. It is a mean spirit and an unwise policy that fail to put the military force of the State upon a strong and independent basis. The late general of the United States army, on many occasions within the twenty years past, has in pnblic speeches declared that this country is to be wrenched by a fearful war in the future. Without argument,we accept him aa a prophet. In a political system like ours that grows rapidly and bears op posing forces ot mind and material, it ia not unlikely that great poli cies tray again be submitted to the arbitrament of the sword, and under circumstances that may not add the jealousies of sectionalism to the contest. Certain it ia that so long as Georgia stands aa a State and grows in Btrength and prosperity, her great and lost dependence is upon her citizen sol diery. And now, in the days of peace and plenty, she should build up a sys tem broad, wise and generous. Woman Suffrage. The Telegraph is in receipt of the minority report of the Senate commit tee to which was referred the bill grant ing the right to vote to the women of the United States. The minority report was submitted by Senator Brown, and dwells upon the natural difference in the spheres of the male and female. It shows that man, by reason of his Btrength and faculties, is fitted for outdoor labor, the discharge of public duties, military service, nnd the heavy labors of business. That lie is brought face to face constantly with the very facts which require assisting or restraining laws, and is, therefore, the natural law-maker. Of the female, just the opposite is true. Says the report "Itwould be n vain attempt to undertake to enumerate the refining, endearing and ennobling influences exercised by the true woman in her relations to the family and to society when she occupies tlie sphere assigned her by the laws of nature nnd the divine inspiration, which nro our surest Ttide for the present and the future life, iuthowcan woman he expected to meet these heavy responsibilities and to dis charge these delicate and most Important duties of wife, Christian, teacher, minister of mercy, friend of the suffering and con soler of tbodesiiondentand the needy if we impose upon her the grosser, rougher, and harsher duties which nature has assigned to the male sex? “If the wife and the mother is required to leave the sacred prednets ot home, and to attempt to do military dutv when the State is in perill or if she Is to he required to leave her home from day to day in at tendance upon the court as a juror, and to he shut Up in the jury-room from night to night, with men who are strangers, while a question of life or property is being con sidered, if she is to attend political meet ings, take part in political discussions, and mingle with the male sex at political gatherings, if she Is to become an active politician, if she is to attend political cau cuses at late hours of the night, if she is to take part in all the unsavory work that may be deemed necessary for the triumph of her party, and if on election day she is to leave her homo and go upon the streets electioneering for votes f. the candidates who receive her su] port, and mingling among the crowi of men who gather around the polls, she is to press her way through them to the ballot box and deposit her suf frage, if she is to take part in the corporate struggles ot the city or town in which she resides, attend to the duties of his honor the mayor, of councilman, or of police man, to say nothing of the many other like obligations which are disagreeable even to the maie sex, how is she, with all these heavy duties of citizen, jvoliticlan, and officeholder resting upon her, to dis charge the duties of a wife and mother?’ But if the natural difference of oc cupation had not already been mapped oat, there is one fact alone of sufficient force to kill the bill if the attention of the earnest men can be caught. It embodied in the following showing. "It is now a problem which iierplczes the brain of tho ablest statesman to deter mine how we will best preserve our re publican system as against the demoraliz ing influence of the large class of our pres ent citizens and voters, who, by reason of their illiteracy, are unable to reed or write the ballot they cast. "Certainly no statesman who baa care fully observed the situation would desire to add very largely to this burden of ignor ance. But who docs not apprehend the fact, if universal female suffrago should bo established, that we will, especially In the Southern States, add a very largo number to the voting population whose ignorance utterly disqualifies them to discharge the trust. Ifourcoioredpopuiation.whowere so recently slaves that even the males who are voters have had but little opportunity to educate themselves, or to be educated, whose Ignorance is now exciting the liveli est interest of our statesmen, are causes of serious apprehension, what is to be said in favor of adding to the voting population ail the females of that race, who, on account of the situation in which they have been placed, have had much less opportnnlty to be educated than even tho males of their own race? We do not say it is their fault that they are not edu cated-, but the fact la wndmuble that they are grossly ignorant, with very few excep tions, and probably not one in a hundred of them could read and write the ballot 1 they would be authorized to cast What saye the statesman to the propriety of add- of Ignorance to the ing this Immense mass voting population of ths Union in lts presl ent condition? “It may be said that their vole* could be off-set by the ballots of tha educated end refined uulies of the white race in tlie same section, but who does not know that the ignorant voters would lie at the polls tn matte, while the refined end educated, shrinking from public contact on such oo- caslons,would remain at home and attend to their domestic and other important du ties, leaving the country to the control of tboee who could afford, under tlie circum stances, tn take part in the strifes of poli tics, and to come in contact with the un pleasant surroundings before they could reach the polls. ",Are we ready toexpoae the country to the demoralization, and our institutions to the strain, which would thus be placed upon them, for the gratification of a mi nority of the virtuous and the good of our telltale population, at the expense of the mortification of a much larger majority of the same class?” FROM ATLANTA. The WhlK-Republloans-Con. Lone, . Nominated for Oovernor-The r '"I ocutive /Commlttee-ArchU ’ * tecturalPolltlce.Etc. [special correspondence,] ,.,^ LASIA ' 2.—'The convention „ "hig-Ilepublicans was called to ordn* 10 o'clock this morning by the chaim * On motion, Mr. W. P. McDaniel, uUy never been either a Democrat orl can, was enrolled as a member. The committee on permanent Staten gaiiization submitted a report, reeoitun * ing State, Congressional, Senatorial ty and precinct executive committees « Resting tlie manner of raising C a<li . defining their duties and powers '* “port was adopted by sections, file convention then proceeded tn . work of raising a State executive coinmul tee. As many of the CongressiottejlL tricts were not represented in tlie conto^R 1 ' tlon, a committee consisting of King. LonRstrcet. Garner, VkcIIv ,Sl Smith were appointed and instructed,! report a State executive committee to JSI until tlie next convention of the part.- I The committee reported the folloim.l State executive organization: ,uU0 ' n »fl State at large,. James Longstreet ig| Rigby. Wm. Markham and ilwson Blutol first district, E. 0. Wade; second dittrwl K. W. Fuller; third district, Wnffl fourth district, R. J. O’Kelly; fifth trlct, T. 8. King; sixth district, J. H Gin er; seventh district. H. A. Wrcncli • siXe I district, Joshua Hill; ninth distort.fal Garner; tenth district, W. H. Berrien.’ -I It was decided to leave tlie matter,.!I State and electoral tickets with the eie,?b“ tive committee, with power to act, uvuU 11 ’ deemed proper, authorizing that commit r tee to call a State convention to nominit I such tickets. Mr. King offered a resolution Initio,™, tlie executive committee, if they decidzSL put forth a State ticket without cailii.l convention, toputfortk Gen. Longstr«tn I the party's candidate for Governor X Georgia. Tlie resolution was unanimous > I adopted by a rising vote. I Gen. Longstreet thanked the convent!,, | for the honor, and asked the pririle-e of I naming a substitute at tho proper tire” 1 A resolution was adopted inviting t distinguished members of the Repute, party. North and West, to address UuU I pie of Georgia on the Issues of theV-l preaching presidential campaign. 1 After some little discussion ot the a-, - tion taken by Mr. Norcross on the nr.-o I .juration, the convention adjourned rm ■ ARCHITECTURAL 1*0 LITICS—CANDIDATES. Your correspondent had the pin-.., ..iis morning of a chat with Col. I\ L J natt, a candidate for Congress in this c. trlct. lie referred to an item sent you cently which I gave as a political note t! c I he la engaged in building ahandsooussiA dence of fourteen rooms in the county ,;l DeKalb. He owned np frankly to (til house but reduced the number of recasfl nine. The error in tha number ot room] was promptly acknowledged, nnd thee rection is cheerfully made. With «h««f. rection I presume the paragraph lac I stand os written. | | I asked Col. MynaU how he felt as loti campaign. Said he; “I am confident c carrying Fulton county -will cany it tae —and am satisfied I will be the r. of the convention. Of course, if I fail carry my own county, I am out of I race.” I then asked him what counties. 1 Fulton, he r, - I'el. Tii.-in; . “Mj friend- t.-il HP' I will :-.-t I'ek 1 : though it is claimed for .Mr. Hammoni| M) ■: .lid- al-,i a-'ur,- in.- that in tin • Fulton gives mo its delegation, 1 will i Ret tlie vote of Douglas. Campbell, lie and 1.1 pruvid.'.l Judge Ntrwart •' D ' ' 'IV '• id.- ill enter the nil ... I ui. make a contest in Clayton, for thediir: tlon of that county." Col. Mynatt evidently does not lack < leh't’e e. . it there I. til, ill Hlht he !- .i -f i midi, late, and will give In. opponents ui this county ample work. Your correspondent h.u- , privilege of a personal interview withl each of tlie Congressional cam!iiUtn| in this county, anti the confidence expressed by each in his al ditty to carry certain counties it trill'- l-t-wilderit ■ llow Col. Mviiatt fee- I I have just written, i 'aid. Jack-on is or. fldent tic will carry 1-uRonbv l.Otoiiu-l jority—at am-rate lit a large v'ut.-, at.,! I no less confident that Douglass, CanipWl mill Henry will dec larc for him. 11' - , .Iili.il.' , I :. 1 th. :.r. I he claims hi cuinmoa. Col. Hammond.11 remember, stated in his .pii.-t way the I had no doubt tm to the r.-nltlnFutosI ■county, and cvpe, t.-d the voted fat.;-1 bell, Dongiaas and Henry. An.. : It., . .'tit!,, til..' , lam . respondent ia still at ass aa to the rail strength of mlidnto-, and I wait the further developments of the i a- l ; tigtJ. How,A er, there i, one J' Oti T ' "I which they all agree and with h they frant I I ede. The re-11 U III I will settle the issue as between them, s here they are putting forth all th strength. Tlie great buttle of the paign, as it now appears, will bo ft over tlie Fulton delegation. RECORDS. It is evident now tl.ut the politie.il d in been bestowed upon hint, lie will lic- come a statesman of commanding pow er and influence. In many respects lie recalls the late Governor Jenkins, of Georgia. He is afflicted with the same personal defect, ia about the size of I courts. Governor Jenkins at a similar age. We have studiously avoided any ex* Ilia voice resembles that of Governor | pression of opinion upon the charge* Jenkins, and bis gesticulation, also, in I preferred by Dr. Johnson in hla paper, hie quieter moods. Mr. Hurd ia, per- [ the Palmetto Blade, But thte is General Longatreet. It will be seen by reference to our Atlanta letter that the white Republi cans of Georgia have nominated Gen. Longstreet for Governor. This is the best nomination the Re publicans could have made. Indeed, General Longstreet, if we except Hon Joshua Hill, is the most respectable and upright member of his party in tlie Southern States. And yet we regret to see the General placed in auch a position. We can never for get his gallantry and heroism during the war. No man who followed Lee, iougi.; suit Jackson, displayed greater modesty or greater courage. We have seen him in the thickest of tlie fight, on the march, and in the bivouac, and again in private life, and everywhere he was the modest gentleman and undaunted soldier. That he is consci entious in the course he has pursued, we have been unwilling to doubt, but that his separation, politically, from his friends and compatriots lias been a aad mistake, must now be apparent to all thoughtful and im partial men. Whilst we dif fer with Mm politically as widely as we do with General Grant, we can only deplore this .final act in a career that otherwise would have been inseparably linked with the fame of thetwo great Confederate chief tains who now sleep near each other in tlie valley of Virginia. work for tha Fool-Kill vr. Correspondence Richmond Dispatch. Tbs lint end most prominent of these dangerous characters is Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who is prowling about Washington City In his madness, and, with his pestiferous paper, is throwing ail the brands of confusion and perpetual di-cord into the ranks of the Democratic party which it is possible for a nudmsn to do. Ills lunacy is on the tariff question, and he thinks that is all of Dem. ocracy, and that be (Watterson) is the only prophet. He wants to read Randall and many other Democrats far older and better than himself out of the party, and though we only have one of the three law making branches of the govern ment, and have not had for twenty-four years, be (Watterson) wants to give the Republicans another twenty-four years' lease by (absurdly contending that nubody but a Morrison-btU man ought to be recog nized as a member of the Democratic par ty of the nation 1 Any such natural lunatic as that ought to be silled outright by the Fool-KUIer- tbat ia to say. there should be no purga tory hereafter. left for such a breed of star-gazers and disorganizm. Watterson, however, though tbe princi pal, is not the only convict of tha criminal gang of Democratic highwaymen who de- serva the special attention of the Fool- Killer. There ia Morrison himself, of Illinois, author of the verr unnecessary and foolish “horizontal” tariff bill now pending In Congress, distracting the Democratic party of the country, end famishing food to oar enemies. If that bill, or anything like It, were to pass tbe Democratic House, it couhl not possibly pass tbe Republican Senate or the President's veto, and to press it upon the country aa a test and leading iaaue of Democracy at this time is simply an outrage upon the Democratic party, which could only originate with those bor dering on lunacy or something wone. Let W. R. Morrison share the same fate of the leading criminal, Watterson, and fad under the second blow of tbe fool-killer's blud geon. cords of warmly discussed during ti Corre-i-ondcnts In local pape pers throughout the <1 istri. t entered upon this work. \V! will suffer mast from this kind ot ivg main- to he n. As ,m illu-trat: th.' win r., ur.l- iir>- uvcrliaiih-d and I have been shown a slip which is exhibited te voters containing an e from the Atlanta Ottflilution of dab 23, lt}71, quoting from tin- speech Captain Ja. k-on made in the Legit in supt-ort of tlie Conlvv ivdunni-.tr. in these words: "Mr. Jackson -aid lie is a Dsznoc h,ng in the party arts rightly, and . publican so tong us tlie Republican acts rightly." But tbe records of all the candidab getting into the papers in the C"h counties, and tint candidates must by them or fall by them. Till CIVIL RIOHT-. In connection with tl [fine mitt published in my letter yesterday, I »*■ iortu.'il in the ticket olth-e id the ua!' a pot tills morning that nlceping-carbat! are sold there Irrespective of t olor, tit thev are not often |,nrcha-ed bv la ” They will not refuve on any of the rcadv. not generally known vuz con: The report that n ing looking to a tran Grant's interest in l No. 3 has attracted revived in some qi the whole convict ui t this fact I attention a'J | r- a JiiCUSviotXH An umbrella carried over a woman, the man irettini* nothin? but the firim*inM of the run. signifies courtship. WbentSe man has tlie umbrella and the woman the drippings it signifies marriage. A crowded horse car. Enter Mr*. The fastest single mil. ever made by j u seated, fad!uSv: "Wtid*I houMtha a railroad train in util country waa done in whisky for rex. Mistress M1/ ffpcnnila ran fKm Pannai-lwanla #«ll<l.. u . ;.i '— « between September 4, toe.fro'ujivtnU railroad,. Mrs. M., with withering aa Philadelphia »nd Jersey City, tm j vex kindly, »or; but yer 1 sr4, IS7V, | could now, I’m thinkfn'.” have all yt < In the i|>l«D4orof tbe morn, How we witih w« were not born, the wiUl anil u*«■!>• w terror of its loaf. For all the note* tlmt float From Its eArljr morning throtl tilre ut groans. An.l tbe nigger—oh! the nigger On the topi that Jork« the trigger, Alltilone! An-1 who h’IkI* the echoes bowling fearful monotone, delighted to b«* rolling On the i.< ;frh>H>r*' luart * etonO— He 1« neither man nor woman- lie's n alt her brute nor humans He'» a sooner. And the court Ui* who ilta« And It ilta, ■Ita, »iu, WUh ita eye In fmuled fury Fixed on the belated Jury- Man who came without ezcuM; Au l it mingle* a 0. r« e jtll WUh the pealing ot the Vll- f.'harglog tor the yAni• hud llW, ■ WUh a eoct of Rhnnle rhyme, I Fire or Un or even twenty dollar* every l TbnsTJ^SLl^ , to this Urtwi mmw ratal* By An crerla* Jcrkit-g at a d Htlrrlnx up a t . With the