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CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1878.
VOL. XI., NO. 26
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ATLANTA. OA.. DECEMBER 17. 1878.
Til* lioiiMCopathir yellow fever com??!*-
t'v.n have concluded their work. They
liave decided that the dwea*e in thin
country in Itotb imported and indigenous,
and that it will not do to depend for se
curity wholly upon quarantine or upon
diniufectant*. They advise a diMcriniina-
tory quarantine and thorough sanitation.
This is surely sense.
Graxt is being groomed l??y the admin-
istration as a presidential candidate. He
is to be kept out of the country a year
longer. To take up the time he has been
tendered the Richmond, flagship of the
Asiastic squadron, as a pleasure yatch
for a trip to Asia. The government has
made up its mind to keep him out of the
country until the ???movement??? is at fever
heat. Distance is an advantage in this
matter.
Washinotow is full of rumors of
changes in official circles. Mr. E. E.
Myers, of Detroit, is said to lie the man
that is to fill SuperviMing Architect flill???s
place; ex-Hheriff Leeds, of Philadelphia,
expect* to become director of the mints;
General Devens is to take a circuit judge-
ship for New England, Mr. McCrary
taking the department of justice, and Mr.
Eugene Hale the portfolio of war. Not
one of these rumors may prove true.
They are simply Washington rumors.
Tnr.ur. has lieen a great deal of talk
one way and another about democratic
economy, hut none of the organs or ora
tors have Biiccewled in overthrowing the
logic of these figure* of net ordinary ex-
j??enses, that we find in the Courier-Sonr-
nal:
1S75.
War ... Ill.lJu.iV. 98
Navy - 21,497,IKK 27
Indian* ... N.SIMAVi Xi
pension* 29,4.v.,21f. 22
lllwvllsiinou* 71,070.702 9S
Nnvy
Indian*.
lYtidotm
Wanrllaneona..
..??171,:09,8W 57
1878.
XW.070.MS (A
18,983,909 82
5.966,ViH 17
.... 28,257.395 69
njr
flM.MW.MS 96
1877.
f37.CW2.795 90
1l.ttt??.93r> 36
5.277.CJ07 22
... 27,983,752 27
"JSSfc*
Indiana and pension*
XiMTlUnwHM
Total
>131.473,452 15
Among; Ihp Men a Ion*.
We have noted briefly in two preced
ing paper* some of the leaders of the sen
ate. And we find that the subject grows
as we go into it, andt hat new figures arise
and demand attention.
Judged by his work, there is no mem
ber of the senate who can take precedence
of Judge Clarke, the senator from the
eleventh. He has pressed through the
senate a bill providing for the establish
ment of a military and educational col
lege at Cuthbert. This college will be a
branch of the university of Georgia, just
as the college at Dalilonega is. It will be
a great benefit to the whole of the south
ern part of the state, and will do very
much toward building up the university.
It required flue work to engineer this hill
through the senate, hut Judge Clarke
was equal to the emergency,
has taken part in the most
of the leading debates of tho
session, and is noted for the
elesrness of his speech snd the logical
ability with which he arranges his argu
ment. We douhrtf a finer master of the
pure English is in Georgia politics to-day.
Judge Clarke has borne a distinguished
and blameless life, and is one of the real
leaders of his section. He is a broad and
able lawyer, and has long been a student
of constitutional methods. He honors
his constituency and benefits the state by
his labors in the senate.
Tire youngest senator is Mr. Seaton
Grant land, of Griffin. We do not simply
feel a pleasure when we say that, al
though the youngest, he is one of the
ablest, for this is s dear truth. Mr. Grant-
land has long ls*en devoted to the study
of politics, and while not a professional
inan.is thoroughly posted on all questions
of public interest. He represents, to a
great extent, the commercial interests of
the state, and has a remarkably dear
head upon the subject of their demands
and necessities. His speech of the
other day on mortgages was a
model of pas! sense and eloquent style.
Mr. Grantiend had a most heated cam
paign, and came to the senate after a des
perate struggle. He is a great favorite
with his people, and he is one of the com
ing men of Georgia. He is destined to
gnat usefulness and prominence.
Tbc 4'npllol Question.
On yesterday the capitoi question was
brought liefore the senate by a motion of
Mr. Preston, and was indefinitely post-
I toned by a vote of 36 to 16.
The purpose of Senator Preston's reso
lution was to get the plans and specifica
tion* of a new capitoi so that the work
might be either laid ont or commenced.
He proposed the appointment of a com
mittee to look into the cxj??ediency of
selling the present capitoi and starting a
new one. No immediate action was de
signed, hut it was simply intended to get
the matter into proper shape. The sen
ate, however, decided by it* vote that the
present capitoi building was good enough
for some time at least, and that there was
no necessity of the state entangling itself
in a new enterprise of such magnitude.
The full force of the action of the senate
on yesterday may not he fully under
stood. It is final in its effect, as far as
the present legislature is concerned. It
cannet be again revived until the next
legislature is elected and assembled. The
question of building the new capitoi is
therefore postponed certainly for the
next two years.
We desire in this connection to reiter
ate in the most emphatic manner what
we have always said, knd that is that At
lanta is ready, as she always has been, to
fulfil hercontract with the state whenever
she is callde upon to do so. She considers
the offer that she made, ami the state ac
cepted, as a contract binding on her
honor and her integrity, ami sire is ready
to stand up to tire spirit and the
letter of her offer whenever the
state demands it. We have been es
pecially urgent in putting this matter
before the people because we are deter
mined that Atlanta shall not be misun
derstood, and that she shall not be mis
represented. She proposed, in perfect
good faith, and with the acquiescent eon-
_ sent of her people, given i??ositive utter
ance through her council, that she would
give the state a building site, ami a
capitoi as good as the one at Miledgeville,
whenever the state was ready to
accept it There has never been a
moment from then until now, when she
was not ready to make good this propo-
KalSdKanlb.
*. HayesVsouthera
i premature. It
well enough In its way and accomplished
good, but it was not intended to accom
plish good, and therefore it fell short of
the expectations of those who predicted
large results. Mr. Hayes, taking advan
tage of the situation and of the confusion
that followed the electoral frauds, sought
to divide the solid south by forming a
nucleus for a third party. He sought
even to revive the old whig party
by flinging out a crumb here
and a crumb there; hut he failed in each
instance, as he might have known be
would have done. So far as his inten
tions are concerned his southern policy
has been a failure; so far as the real good
of the country is concerned???and that is
what the chief magistrate ought to take
into consideration???a great reform has
been accomplished. A lot of inefficient
office-holders have been weeded??? out, ami
good men put in their places, so that the
south has nothing to complain of.
But Mr. Hayes expected too much. He
ought to have known that the little fever
of independentism which swept over cer
tain portions of Georgia was only one
phase of opposition to republicanism. He
ought to hjpve known that the solid south
can never lie dissolved while there is a
republican party in sight Tins is natu
ral. The south is not solid as against the
north, but it is solid as against republi
canism, and it will remain so as
long as it is confronted by such
an organization of knaves and cor
ruptionists. When, therefore, the stal
warts point to the solid south and call
upon the north to solidify they are merely
shrieking against tho wind. The solidity
f the good people of the north will be*
similar to that of the south, and it will be
directed solely against that phase of our
politic!* that has brought disgrace upon
the American name. Tho editors of the
radical organs should put this in their
pijsjs and smoke it.
The Electoral Hills.
Two bills are liefore congress to provide
heller method of ascertaining and
counting the electoral vote. One is
known as the Edmunds or senate hill.the
other as the Southard or house bill. Each
comes up as the report of a select com
mittee on the subject; each comes up as a
part of last session's unfinished business.
In order to clearly put liefore the reader
these two important measures, we give a
lynopsis of each.
The Edmunds hill provides that the
presidential election shall lie held on the
first Toes??lay in Octolier, and that the
electors shall meet in the different states
on the second Monday in January follow
ing. This gives more than three months
to decide questions of disputed elections
in the states, and the hill provides that
each state shall regulate for itself the
manner in which such disputes shall be
determined, and that the determination
made according to such regulations in
each state shall be final and conclusive.
Congress I* to meet on the se??*ond Mon
day of February to open the electoral
les and count them, and the bill pro
vides that where there is hut one return
from a state it shall not be rejected, while
where there are two or more returns only
that one shall lie counted which is re
ceived by the concurrent vote of both
houses.
The Southard hill provides that a con
troversy us to the appointment or eligi
bility of electors may lie passed upon by
the highest judicial tribunal of the state
in which the contest arises, and this de
cision shall lie transmitted, properly cer
tified ami sealed, to the seat of govern*
ment, directed to the president of the
senate, and this decision shall stand good
unless reversed l??y the concurrent action
of the two houses. When there has been
a controversy in a state ami no certificate
of decision has 1s*cn transmitted, or when
two or more such certificates have been
so transmitted, the contested votes from
such state shall not lie counted unless
both houses concur therein. If there are
several electoral certificates from a state
and no judicial decision, the certificate
held by lioth houses to lie issued by the
proper authority shall be conclusive.
The only essential difference between
the two plans consists in this???the
Edmunds plan makes the state's decision
final in case there is but one return,
while the Southard plan permits its re
jection by the concurrent action of the
two houses. The principle of the Southard
bill is that the verification of the elec
toral votes is the duty and prerogative of
the two houses of congress. The Edmunds
bill is the stronger states??? rights bill of the
two. Both, however, upset the aliunde
theory of not going behind the returns.
The Edmunds bill, which will be generaly
supported by the republicans, fastens
not only upon Mr. Edmunds, but upon
the balance of the electoral conspirators
of 1876, all that the democrats have ever
charged. They stand before the world
as confessed hyjKxrites, if not perjurers.
The democrats claimed in the contest of
1876 the right to verify the electoral
votes???to go behind the returns for
that purpose. Mr. Edmunds^ as a mem
ber of the electoral commission and the
balance of the republican members, de
nied that there was any such right under
the constitution. They admit that they
were wrong, now that the man that they
fraudulently foisted upon the country is
in a fair way to serve to the end of the
current presidential term. Such sliame-
i 1 osseous, such criminality is astounding???
or rather, would have been twenty years
have confidence. Dr. Woodworth, there
fore, thinks that it should not be super
seded by the new senate committee, of
which Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
is chairman, and Senator Lamar, a zeal
ous member. He thinks there ought to
liave been a joint commission consisting,
say, of five representatives, four senators
and seven experts???the last-named to in
clude the present commission and four
others. Such a commission. Dr. Wood-
worth thinks, would be capable of the
very beet work, and would be more what
the deep importance of the subject de
mands. Very likely Dr. Woodworth is
right. A house and a senate committee
is one committee too many; but still we
must^ make the best of what our law
makers decree. It is plain that the sen
ate committee is getting ready to go it
alone. Senators Lamar and Harris
clearly intend to give their best energies
and thought to the subject in hand.
???Senator Lamar said in a recent interview
that be would give it his attention ???id-
most exclusively.'' Instead of bandying
words with Mr. Blaine and other blath
erskites, lie proposes to do all he can to
protect th$ country from the terrible
scourge. He is in favor of a national
quarantine law???one that reaches all
through the interior. ??????There may be,???
he says, ???some constitutional questions
involved in the legislation we need, but
our people must have protection of some
kind.??? We hope Messrs. Lamar and
Harris will hold steadfast to the line they
have marked out. If they succeed in
giving the country protection against a
return of the fever, they will have ac
complished more than all the sectional
slang-whangers will to the end of time.
If we had more such men and fewer
president-makers in congress, we would
get lietter and more practical legislation,
id lie the happier for it.
The Republican* a Xlnorllj.
The north is nearly as solid against
radicalism as the south. In all of tlie
larger and more influential states there is
anti-republican majority, and that
majority is steadily increasing. In 1876
the anti-republican majority in the north
ern states was, in round numbers, two
hundred and fifty thousand; this year it
is fully three hundred thousand. The
southern states bring this immense ag
gregate up to fully half a million votes.
The difficulty does not, therefore, consist
in the want of opposition to the party of
centralization aud untold corruption, but
in the want of' harmony among the ele
ments of opjiosition.* If the opposition had
been combined in the late elections the
north would have been overwhelmingly
anti-republican. These twelve states
would have cast opposition majorities, as
follows:
Maine ...12 ??X) Ohio. 35,000
' 52,000
40,000
45,000
??? 10,000
Connecticut.. 8.000 Indiana
NeW York 45,000 Illinois.
Pennsylvania 77.000 Michigan....
Near Jena*? 14.250 Wisconsin...
Delaware 5,600 Oregon
This gives a total anti-republican ma
jority in the northern states named of
346,550 votes. The states that gave re
publican majorities are:
New Hampshire -4.900 Minnesota 6,311
Vermont 6,400 Kansas. 12.500
*'???TdHMtns 4.200 Nevada- 2.M0
e Inland 2,501 Nebraska 2,600
Iowa.???. ...O.1C0 Coloraco. 1,800
The republican majorities, it will be
seen, foot up to a total of 40,271, leaving
the party in a minority on the iiopular
vote of the entire northern states, with
California yet to hear from, of a round
three hundred thousand. If, therefore, a
policy can be found that will bring about
a combination of those opposed to a con
tinuance of radical rule, victory will come
as easily in 1880 as falling off a log. The
opposition will deserve defeat if they have
not sense enough to unitedly rally against
a foe that is strongly entrenched with all
the patronage of the government and
most of the accumulated wealth of the
country at its back.
W a he Hamiton is not ill. But the mule
that wounded him is comparatively well.
Thicrf. is no one left to bury Wendell
Phillips. The country is always in some
sort of trouble.
His Precautions Against Grave-Rob-
bera.
Old 61. after bunding the Are, edged up to the
table and asked:
???la dejr done foun' dem remains ob Mister
.Stewart* yit????
???No, not yet. Why do you want to know?
???Well, I thot I???d ax. kaae dere???s somefln down
dor on Decatur street dot smells awful like hit
wanted ter be foun* an??? berried ober agin.???
???You don???t suppose they are Stewart???* re
main*?"
???Dal I can???t aay, ???kaae I aint takin* no re-ks
now. 1 didn' ???ziunlne de subjiek. Yer ???member
???bout de time I d???skivered Bow Tweed down yan-
der on de ralerode keepin* dal ten cento bar-room
dey went an??? ???rested him ober dar In Spanc! So
I???ae mighty pertickler now how I ock*!"
???I reckon those are not Stewart???s remains,
???So do-s I, but I???ae tnck sech er pow???fui entreat
in dat grave-robbin' dat ebery time I smell* smne-
fin onuahual I look* eround fer er reward.???
"What do you think of grave-robbing a* a fine
art?*???
???Well, dat pesters me. How doe* I kno??? but
dot ???fore de dirt settles on me some dem snatch
I come ???king au??? snake me outen my las??? ten-
nyment? I don???t want no aech pmjeckhi??? wid m/
remains, yer taenh roe!???
1 hope you-will not.???
No, sah. 1 kin onerstan' ??tcaliif in unis??? all de
'jiartment* ob trade ???ceptin' dat. De ouly dead
thing dat???* good ter steal am some animile dat yer
at. But dey aint gwine ter steal ine! I???ae
gwine ter putin my wlU<krtl'??e wiabiiMk;
de dark ol> de monu. wid cotton-lies ???round de
coffin, an??? den liabde hod on??? foot-boards sot up
nscherally. jest haf er mile ter de lef ob de re
mains???dat???* me!"
And he vanished altera toddy.
The Banka* Nullification Art Rant Fail.
Chicago Tribune.
A majority of the Chicago hankers, even tin we
who are strong advocate* of the single gold stand
ard, do not believe the plan to-be prartii-able the
New York banker* propose for throwing out idlv
the plan
propose i
and doing business behind the dead-line of gold.
The plan assumes that New York make*, the coun
try. The truth is, the country make* New York.
the United State*, for it i?? the agent oi the con-
sninepi and producers in the interior behind it. It
is at this very point that the parallel ??ith Cali
fornia fails. California is insulated. More tli-m
any other community in the United States, ita in
terests are local. It was, moreover, the producer
of the very commodity that the greenback was to
displace. For these reasons California was able to
maintain ito gold currency against the legal ten
der law and the usage of the rest of the country.
New York ha* no such footing for financial iso
lation. It cannot stand alone. What is the cur-
/ of the country must he the currency of the
New York. Tho same subject, substantially, a*
the present one, was proposed by the New York
banks last year, when the diver bill was {lending.
A clearing-house committee wusapi??>infed to con
fer with similar committees from Boston, Balti
more, Philadelphia, and other eastern cities. How
for did this movement go? The Boston clearing
house met and refused to act. and the most influ
ential members of the Boston dearinu-ltoum de
clared against the plan. Tills was the last of that
attempt to combine New York, Boston, Philadel
phia and Baltimore???the agents???against the in
terior of the country???the principal*. It show*
take diver on deposit and in payment*
iiika that refused to take
diver would be crowded out of business.
Hr. Lome Pntn on too Much ??? Style.**
Springfield Republican.
Governor-General Lome appears to l** starting
nt with the mistake of trying to *(** royalty too
much to suit the taste or pocket* of hi* Canadian
subjects. He exceeded the state of any of hLs pre
mised platform under a canopy, and bowing
iffly for an hour or more to those who passed be
fore him. Only those were admitted to the vice
regal presence who dressed in a prescribed iuau-
??? and they approached ita mimic throne post
the longitude of Ottawa.
The Constitution and Hr. Hayes.
Buffalo Express, rep.
Thc Atlanta Constitution i* one of the mild-
it of southern journals, but It confesses itself
pained at what it deems the inexcusable coarse-
ness of a too determined and prononneed presi
dent. ft advise* Mr. Hayes to take another south
ern tour and see tilings over again. It says the
negroes are not all republican* by any means, any
more than the people of the north are all republi
cans, and it explains certain results by showing
that, on the whole, the race is overwhelmingly
democratic. Thk Constitution then painfully
proceeds to show that the bloody shirt is to lie
waved by the party which elected tlie president,
and that Mr. Hayes ha* uttered the key-note to
that exhibition, under iu*tructkms from the stal
warts of the party. There l* a brief allusion to
the proposition that Mr. Haye* is what a New
York paper rails a
J>.
good deal ???
i, and this closes *
Brie in a r
t, the preaid
Another County Heard From.
New York Dispatch.
Says the Atlanta. Go., Constitution: ???The
best secretaries of war ever known in this coun
try were John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis.
The best chairman of the military committee will
lie Joseph E. Johnston.??? We guess Tue Constitu
tion never heard of Edwiu M. Stanton. He was
the man who supplied the material which
smashed Davis, Johnson and the confederacy. A*
General Grant is the hero of the battlefield, so,
truly, is Edwin M. Stanton of the civil adminis
tration of the war. He never had his superior ms
a war minister. Of Calhoun's ability in that line
no man cau judge. Of Jefferson Davis???s Inability
the entire south should know.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON.
Thk minions of tlie pres* are still abusing
Dennis Kearney. Asa result. Dennis Las
retired.
Tur amiable Rogers, the able secretary of
the administration, still remains one of our
most distinguished politicians.
It gives us pleasure to announce that
Stanley Matthews has been heard from. He
is at present a member of the federal senate.
Wendell 1???nii.Lirs says that Ben. Butler
will never be fully estimated in his life
time. Is tit is owing to the lack of figures?
Thk |>owcrful editor of the New York
Tribune should attend the butter and cheese
convention in hi* neighborhood.
It is stated that General Grant, since his
sojourn in foreign climes, has become a
confirmed garlic eater. This doesn???t augur
well for the republic.
Uncuc Petkk Cooper and his air-cushion
will not be candidates for the presidency
next season. They have retired perma
nently from the great contest
Thk tramps, in their private correspond
fence, allude to Atlanta as the place where
???the weary are arrested.??? We fear this
will have a bad effect on the tide of immi
gration.
Now they are talking about renominat
ing Hayes. This is the funniest thing yet
ai d is probably done to please tlie amiable
Mr. Rogers, the private secretary of the ad
ministration.
BLAINE???S HARANGUE.
FORENSIC FURY IN THE SOUTH.
A Wordy Battle that Recall* the Day* of Recon
struction???8en*tor Thurmans Thrust I
Blaine???Sena* or Lamar Defends the
South???He uae Proceedings.
An Amputation and an Electioi
the Senate.
Special dLsjwtch to The Constitution.
Columbia, December 10.???Governor Wade
Hampton was elected to the United State*
senate to-day by a unanimous vote of the
senate and all but two votes in the hou*e.
(By Associated Press.)
Governor Hampton???s wounded leg was
amputated to-day six inches below tlie
knee. The physician* have contemplated
this course some days, blit were waiting
until his condition would warrant thc o(*c-
ration. The immediate friends of Governor
Hampton say that his condition now is not
dangerous. He stood the oueratiuu finely
under the influence of chloroform. Hi*
/stem is in a condition to promise hopeful
results.
The legislature to-day. elected Hampton
to the United States senate. The vote was
taken separately in each house, as required
M??? law. The senators who were present,
twenty nine in all, voted unanimously U
Hampton, including the republicans. The
mem tier* of the Douse, with two exceptions,
Miller and Simmons, colored, from Beau
fort, who voted for Mackey, voted foi
Hampton. The scene iu the house vs
quite impressive. A letter was read froti
Hampton which said he was not a candi
date, but that was neither to be sought
declined.
DON PARDO SHOT.
THE SENATE.
Washington, December 11.???Mr. Win-'
dom, of Minnesota, from the committee on
appropriations, reported with amendments
the fortification appropriation bill which
was placed on the calendar. He gave notice
that he would call it up; for consideration
to-morrow.
Mr. Blaine, of Maine, from the commit-
e on appropriations, Reported without
amendment the house bill to correct tlie
error in the enrollment the sundry civil
appropriation bill of thtf last session in re
gard to the Hot Spring| reservation,
asked for tlie present eortsideration of the
bill, hut Mr. KdinundJ objected un i it
went over.
Mr. Beck, of Kentucky! introduced a bill
of which he gave notice yesterday, for the
repeal of section 121H of];he revised stat
ute* of the United States. rr al??ich prolubi s
any person who'hav sferrT; nndcrihe con
federate government from being appointed
to positions in the array of the United.
State*. The bill was tabled /of the present.
Mr. Ferry, of Michigan ' introduced a hill
to designate, classify am fix the salary of
persons in the railway' nail service. Re
ferred to the committee <j i post offices and
post roads.
Mr. Merriruon, of Nortl Carolina, submit
ted a resolution calling upon the secretary
of war for a statement at to the arms and
equipments issued for use by the officers of
the treasury and interioulepartments ami
the department of justice???where such
arms are now, and whether any of them
liave ever been wild. Ttie resolution was
agreed to.
THE NORTHERN HOWL,
o'clock, on motion of Mr. Hamlin,
if Maine, the senate proceeded to the con-
???iteration of the resolution submitted by
Mr. Blaine on thc first day of the session, in
regard to an inquiry as to whether, at re
cent elections, constitntional rights of
American citizens were Violated, etc.
Mr. Blaine then spoke a* follows:
Mr. President???The jam ding resolution
was offered by me with a two-fold purpose
in view:
1. To place on record, in a definite and
authentic form, the frauds and'otitrages i??y
which some recent elections were carried by
the democratic |*artv in thc southern states:
2. To timl if there be any method by which
re|>etition of these crimes against a free
ballot may he prevented.
The newspaper is the channel through
which the people of the United States arc
informed of current events, and the ac
counts given in the press represent the elec
tions in some of the southern states to have
been acconti>anied by violence; in not a few
case* reaching the destruction of life; to lutve
been control led by threats that awed and
intimidated a largecf&ss of voters; to have
been manipulated by fraud of the most
shameless and shameful description. In
deed, in South Carolina there seetus to have
been no election at all in any proper sense
of the term. There iv&* instead a series of
skirmishes over the .??tate ??n which the poll
ing places were regarded tut forts to be cap
tured by one party- and held against the
other, and where this could not be done with
convenience, frauds in the count and tissue
ballot devices were resorted to in order to
effectually destroy the voice of the major
ity. These in brief are thc accounts given
in the non-j??artisanjprei?? of the disgraceful
outrages that attended the recent elections,
and so far as I have seen, these statement*
are without serious cor'/adiclion. It is but
ttsl and fair to all py;i^, .h yveyer, that an
mpartial investigation of tntTucts shall Imj
made by a committee of the senate, pro
ceeding under the authority of law and
representing the power of the nation.
Hence my resolution.
But we do not need investigation to es
tablish certain facts already of official re
cord. We know that one hundred and six
representatives in congress were recently
chosen in the states formerly slave-holding,
and that the democrats elected 101
or possibly one hundred and 1 two. and the
republicans four or possibly five. We know
that thirty-five of these reprmentativeswere
assigned to the southern state* by reason of
the colored population, andjjhat the entire
tiolitiral power thus foundtm on the num
bers of the colored people???has been seized
aud appropriated to the aggrandizement of
its own strength by the democratic (tarty of
the south.
The issue thus raised before the country
Mr. President, is not one of mere sentiment
for the rights of the negro???though far dis
tant be the day when the rights of any
American citizen, however black or how
ever poor, shall form the mete dust of the
balance in anv controversy jnor is the issue
one that involves the waviq&ot the???UbH*ly
shirt,??? to quote the clegaut vernacular of
democratic vituperation; nor still further
is the issue as now presented only a ques
tion of the equality a of the black voter of
the south with the white voter of the
south; tlie issue, Mr. President, has
taken a far wider range, one of
]H>rtenUms magnitude; and that is. whether
the white voter of the north shall be equal
to the white voter of the south in shaping
the policy and fixing the destiny of this
countrv; or whether, to put it stnl_ more
baldly,* the white man who fought m the
ranks of the union army shall have n-
weighty ami influential a vote in the gov
ernment of the republic as the white man
who fought in the ranks of the rebel army.
The one fought to uphold, the other to de
stroy, the union of the states, and to-??lay he
who* fought to destroy is a far more imj^or-
tant factor in the government of the nation
than he who fought to uphold it.
thousand whites???the very people that re First pure, then peaceable. Gush will not
belled against tho union???are enabled to remove a grievance, and no disguise of state
elect a representative in congress, while in rights will close the eyes of our people to
the loyal states it reqnires one hundred the necessity of correcting a great na-
and Unrty-two thousand of the white peo- t???tonai wrong. Nor should the south
pie tuat fought for the union to elect a rep- make tlie fatal mistake of concluding
resentative. In levying every tax. there- that injustice to the negro is not also injus-
fore, in making, every appropriation of . tice to the white man; nor should it ever be
money,in fixing every line of public policy, ! foigotten that for the wrongs of both a
i '???* ???* ??? * remedy will assuredly be found. The war,
decreeing what shall be the fate and for
tune of the republic, tlie confederate sol
dier south is enabled to cast a vote that is
twice as powerful and twice as influential
as the vote of the union soldier north.
But the white men of the south did not
acquire and do not hold this superior power
by reason of law or justice, but in disregard
and defiance of both. The fourteenth
amendment to the constitution was ex
pected to be aud was designed to be a pre-
with all its costly sacrifices, was fought in
vain unless equal rights for all classes be es
tablished in ail the states of the union; and
now, in words which are those of friend
ship, however differently they may be ac
cepted, I tell the men of the south here on
this floor and beyond this chamber, that
even if they could strip the negro of his
veiitiveand corrective of all such possible
abuses. The reading of the clause applica
ble to the case is instructive and suggestive.
Hear it:
Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several states according to their
respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each state, excluding
Indians not taxed. But when the right to
vote at any election for the choice of elec
tors for president and vice president of the
United States, representatives in congress,
tlie executive and judicial officers of a
state, or tlie members of the. legislature
thereof, is denied to any of the male in- Uliw:t
???^dantsof rach ^state. being twenty-one^ we 9 -, t to-day sacrificed
States, or in any wi.. _
participation in rebellion,
the bafri* of ropresejitaiio
reduced in-the proportion which the num
ber of such male citizens shall hoar to the
whole number of tittle citizen* twenty-one
yean* of age in such state.
The (latent, undeniable intent of this
provision was that if any class of voters
were denied or in anyway abridged in their
right of suffrage, then the class so denied or
abridged should not be counted iu the basis
of representation; or in other words, that
no state or states should gain a large in
crease of representation in congress by
reason of counting any class of iiopulatioii
not permitted to take part in electing such
representatives. But the construction
given to this provision is that before any
forfeiture of representation can lie enforced
the denial or abridgment of suffrage must
be^lie result of a law specifically enacted by
the state. Under this construction every
negro voter may have hi* suffrage absolute
ly denied or fatally abridged
by the violence, actual or
threatened. of irresponsible mol is,
or by frauds and deceptions of state officers
from the governor down to the last election
clerk, and then, unless some state law can lie
shown tiiat authorizes the denial or abridge
ment, the state esca(>cs all (icnalty or |ieril
of reduced representation. This construc
tion may be upheld by tlie courts, ruling on
the letter of the law. ???which killeth,??? but
the spirit of justice cries aloud against the
evasive and atrocious conclusion that deals
out oppression to the innocent and shields
the guilty from thc legitimate consequence*
~>f willful transgression.
t The colored citizen is thus most unhappily
situated; his right of suffrage is but a hoi-
low mockery; it holds to his ear thejvord
of promise but breaks it always to his
hope, and he ends only in being* made
the unwilling iustrument*of increasing the
political strength of that party from* which
he received ever tightening fetters when he
a slave and contemptuous refusal of
civil rights since he was made free. He re
sembles indeed those unhappy captives in
the east who, deprived of their birthright,
are compelled to yield their strength to the
The Cnstomarjr Intelligence from
South America.
Panama, November 30.???Details of the *
sassination of Don Manuel Pardo are i
ceived. It appears that he had driven up
the door of the senate chamber, and was
crossing the court-yard. Thc guard stationed
there presented anus, os was customary,
aud Pardo was in the act of entering the
invent an honest republican? \\ e have no deliberately raised his rifle and shot him
desire to tax the man's faculties, but all the 1 the Kick. *-The boll grazed the hand of
ago.
Either bill would take away all pre
tense of power in the president of the
senate to exercise any judicial authority
over the return*. Either hill would give
u* something definite, something conclu
sive, something plain in tlie way of a
method for counting the vote. Either
would be better tlian the present
uncertainty and general muddle.
But neither is liable to ran the
gauntlet of two windmills during this
brief session. This is to be regretted,
although the danger of a repetition of the
scenes of 1876-77 has been removed by
the overthrow of the carpet-hag returning
hoards and of the unscrupulous, hypocrit
ical am! shameless supremacy of radical
ism in the senate.
The Yellow Fever Investigations.
The homoeopaths, the allopaths, and the
United States senate, are each investigat
ing, or preparing to investigate, tlie origin
aud nature of yellow fever, with a view
to finding a means of preventing epidem
ics of the disease in this country, and ita
cure after it has appeared. The commis
sion. headed by I>r. John M. Woodworth,
of the marine hospital service, began
country would subscribe to a reward to be
paid for an honest republican.
Carlyle wants to know how long ???John
Bull will liave a Jew dancing on his belly.???
This is a very (icrtiiieut question, but it re
mains to be seen whether the jig of the Jew
is not more profitable than tlie hornpipe of
the native hoodlum.
Dr. Leftwicli.
August* Chronicle.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist-
In your editorial of yesterday you
???Rev. Dr. Leftwich, of Atlanta. Go.,
elected (imstor of the First Presbyterian
church, of Baltimore, Monday night, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Dr. Backus in 1875, who since that date he*
lieen the pastor emeritus. Dr. Leftwich
will, therefore, go from a small city to a
peat one; from a poor congregation to a
immensely wealthy one; from an hunibl
church edifice to one of the most magnifi
cent in America; from a plain parsonage to
a grand one. As hb views on dancing are
well known, be will probably have nothing
to block hb wav, which seems, after all, to
lie a lucky one.???
And what is better still, he renounces hb
to tlie ???soutlieru Presbyterian
church.??? and casts his lot in with the north
ern bodr, which anathematized their south-
Senor Ruas, who was with Pardo, and
tered below the shoulder blade, passing
through the body. Pardo walked a
few steps forward, staggered and fell. Tlie
assassin was seized by Dr. Adam Meipar,
who had followed Paroo from the carriage,
but "managed to escape, the guard mak
ing lio effort to de:ain him A sergeant of
the corps of gen d'arme shortly afterward*
seized him and brought him hack, and lie
placed in a small room in the inner
t of the senate. Pardo was not removed
front where he fell, and shortly after ex
pired in the presence of hb family. He
commended them to congress, and with hb
last words forgave the murderer. President
Prado, on being informed of the murder,
drove immediately to the spot and expressed
indignation, openly ordering the arrest of
the guard at once. Tlie assassin b of Indian
origin and had been seven years in the regi
ment and had always bore a good character.
It is said he lias confessed the a*sa-sination
and tiiat Don Manuel Pardo had formed
a part of the conspiracy in which almost ail
the sergeants of ???Picbincha??? battalion, and
it b even added, tiiat some officers are im
plicated. He states that he was engaged
to take part in it by a sergeant named
Gomez Sanchez, who Offered to assist him
in (lerpctraiing the crime, but who at the
last moment left him to himselL
__ e illustrate my meaning by com
paring groups of states of the same repre
sentative strength north ami south. lake
the state* of South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana. They send seventeen repre
sentatives to congress. Their aggregate pop
ulation is composed of ten hundred and
thirty-five thousand whites and twelve hun
dred and twenty-four thousand colored???tlie
colored being nearly two hundred thousand
in excess of the .whites. _ Of the seventeen
representatives, then, it is evident that nine
were apportioned to these states by reason
of their colored population, and only eight
??? bon of their white population; and
the choice of the entire seventeen rep
resentatives the colored voters bad no more
voice or power than their remote kindred on
the shores of sSenegambia or on the gold
coast. The ten hundred and thirty-five thou
sand white |>eople had tlie sole and absolute
choice of the entire seventeen rep
resentatives. In contrast; take two states
in the north, Iowa and Wisconsin, with sev
enteen representatives. They have a white
population of two million two hundred aud
forty-seven thousand???considerably more
than double the entire white population of
the three southern states 1 have named. In
Iowa and Wisconsin, therefore, it takes one
hundred and thirty-two thousand white
population to send a representative to con
gress, but in South Carolina, Mississippi,
and Louisiana every sixty thousand white
people send a representative. In other
words, sixty thousand white people in tlwe
southern states liave precisely the same po
litical power in the government of the coun
try tiiat one hundred and thirty-two thou
sand white people have in Iowa and Wis-
uphuilding of the monarch from whose
tyrannies they have most to fear, and to
light against the (>ower from which alone
deliverance might be expected. Tlie fran
chise intended for the shield and defense of
the negro has beei^turned against him and
against hb friends, and has vastly increased
the power of those from whom lie has not h-
ig to hope mid everything to dread.
The politieal power thus appropriated by
southern democrats by reason of the negro
population amounts to thirty-five represen
tatives in congress. It is massed almost
solidly and offsets the great state of New
York; or Pennsylvania and New Jersey to
other; or thc whole of New England; or
>hio and Indiana united; or the combined
strength - of Illinois; Minnesota, Kansas.
O lifomin, Nevada, Nebraska Colorado and
Oregon. The seizure of this power is wanton
usurpation; it is flagrant outrage; it is vio
lent (*erversion of the whole theory of re
publican government. It inures solely to
the present advantage, and yet. I believe,
to the permanent dishonor of the demo
cratic party. It is by reason of this tratn|>-
liug down* of human rights, this ruthless
seizure of unlawful ttower tiiat the demo
cratic party holds tlie popular branch of
congress to-day, and will, in less than ninety
days, have control of this body also, thus
grasping the entire legislative de(*art-
tnent of the government through the un
lawful capture of tho southern states. If
the proscribed vote of thc south were cast as
its lawful owners desire, the democratic
party could not pair: (tower. Nay, if it
were not counted on the other side against
the instincts and the interests, against the
principles and tlie prejudices of its lawful
owners, democratic success would be hope
less. It is not enough, then, for modern
democratic tactics that the negro vote shall
be silences!; the demand gn??r farther and
insists that it shall l>c counted on their side,
that all the representatives in congress ami
all the presidential electors apportioned by
reason of the negro vote shall lie so cast an 1
so governed as to insure democratic suoce;
???regardless of justice, in defiance of law.
And this injustice is wholly-unprovoked.
I doubt if it lie in the power of the
searching investigation to show that in any
southern state during the period of repul
liean control any legal voter was ever ch
barred from the freest exercise of his suf
frage. Even the revenges which
have leaped into life with many who. de
spised tlie negro Were buried out of si^bt
with a magnanimity which thc ???superior
race??? fail to follow and seem reluctant t
recognize. I know it is said in retort of
such charges against the southern elections
as I am now reviewing that unfairness of
equal gravity prevails in northern elec;
tions. I hear it in many quarters and
it in the papers that in the late exciting elec
tion in Massachusetts intimidation and bull
dozing, if not so rough and rancorous
the south, were yet as widespread and ef
fective. . ..
I have read and yet I refuse to believe
the distinguished gentleman, who
made an energetic but unsuccessful canvass
ttiaiientlv maintain the inequality of w
tnen in this nation; they can never make
white man???s vote in the arnth doubly as
(???owerful in the aduistiistratiou of the gov
eminent asa white man's vote in the north.
. In a memorable debate in tlie house of
commons, Mr. Macaulay reminded Daniel
O???Connell, when he was moving for rej*eal,
that the English whigs had endured cal
umny, abase, popular fun , loss of position,
exclusion from parliament rather tlian the
great agitator himself should lie less than a
British subject; and Mr. Macaulay warned
him that they would never suffer hint to lie
more. Let me now remind you that the
government under whose protecting flag
we sit to-day sacrificed myriads of lives aud
expended thousands of millions of treasure
that our countryme ?? of ^ theeouth should
remain citizens of the Uuited States, having
MftUrbe equal ]**?????>???.oml right* ami equal political
k privileges with all other citizens. And I
venture, now and here, to warn the men of
the south, in the exact words of Macaulay,
that we will never suffer them to l??e more!
I'|miii the conclusion of Mr. Blaine???s re
marks, Mr. Thurman submitted a^ an
amendment to Mr. Blaine???s resolution, that
the committee shall also inquire whether
any citizen of any stale has lieen dismissed
threatened with dismissal from employ
ment, or deprivation of any right or privi
lege by reason of his vote, or intention to
???ote at the recent elect ions, or ha* been
otherwise interfered with; and to inquire
hether, in 1878, money was
raised by assessment upon federal
employees for election purposes, etc.; and
further, whether such assessments were or
t in violation of the law, and shall furth-
iiiqure into the conduct of the United
States supervisors of elections in the several
states, aud as to the number of marshal*,
deputy marshals and others employed to
take (tart in the conduct of said elections.
Addressing the senate thcron, Mr. Thurman
said, in replying to Blaine, he would
confine himself to a very few geueral obser
vations, reserving the privilege of speaking
further, should the deflate become protract
ed. The senator from Maine, he said, had
two purposes in preparing liis carefully
elalioratcd speech, not to vindicate the right
of suffrage throughout this whole union,
but to inquire whether the democracy of
the southern states had violated the rights
of American citizens, and then to find out
what could lie done with them. There
were doubts as to the propriety of the reso
lution, inasmuch us no committee could,
the time for this session, make projier in
vestigation in a satisfactory .or just man
ner. He wondered why this resolution was
introduced, unless it was to be made a
string on which to hang sjiecches, to arouse
sectionu! hatred in one (tortion of the union
against ati almost defenseless jieoplo- in
another (tortion. (Applause in the galle-
for the governorship of that state, has
don-ed and approved these charges, and
have accordingly made my resolution broad
enough to include their thorough investi
gation. I am not demanding fair elections
in the south without demanding fair elec
tions iu the north also. But venturing to
s(>eak for the New England states, of whose
laws and customs 1 know something, I dare
assert that in the late election in Massachu
setts, or any of her neighboring common
wealths, it will be imfioatible to find even
one case where a voter was driven from the
ikiIIs, where a voter did not have the fullest,
fairest, freest opportunity to cast the ballot
of his choice and have it honestly and faith
fully counted in the return*. Suffrage ot
tiiis continent was first made universal ii
New England, and in the administration of
their allairs her people have found no otb*
appeal necessary than that which
addressed to their honesty of convictin
and to their intelligent self-interest,
there be anything different to disclose I pray
you show it to us that we may amend our
ways.
But whenever a feeble protest is made
against such injustice as I nave described i
tlie south the response we get comes to u
in the form of a taunt. ???What are you going
to do about it???? and ???how do you propose to
help vourseWes????Thi* is the stereotyped
Here the chair said that persons creating
disorder would be arrested, and Thurman,
adding that he hoped no further interrup
tion would occur, said: I did not say
anything when the galleries cheered the
iieroration of my friend from Maine; for I
e an eloquent thing as much as unybody
i, and have sometimes cheered it when I
didn't agree with it at all. (Laughter.)
Continuing his remarks, he said: Tliis as
sault of the seuator from Maine is not an
assault simply, however, on the people of
the south. I sa*d, five months ago, in a
speech, which I beg pardon for repeating
here, tiiat it did seem to me as clear as any
thing in American politics could be, that
there was a deliberately fornied purpose,
under the pretext that there was a solid
south, to create a solid north to rule not
only thc solid south, but to rule otie-haif
nearly, if not more, of the people of the
north. I thought so then; I think so yet.
I thought then and I think now that a pur
pose more unpatriotic, more unjust, more
fraught with ruin to this country, never en
tered the brain of man. That is my belief.
Why, Mr. President, of what is it that the
senator from Maine complains? That there
were not enough republican votes at the
south. That is the amount of it, and how
does he make that out? He assumes,
without one shadow of proof pro
duced here, that the negroes of tlie
south were prevented from voting or
forced to vote the democratic ticket.
He assumes, therefore, that, owing to
these causes,the negroes of the south are not
represented by members of the house of
representatives who ratne from that section
of the union, or by senators oil this floor
who represent the southern states. What
right has the senator from Maine to say that
the negroes of the south are not represented
liy the chosen representatives of the wiu li
and chosen senators of the south? What
right lias he to vote those negroes himself on
one side, and say that the men who bear the
credentials of election here do not. represent
their constituents? It is a bare assumption
(??rt that he has no
right whatever to make. I am much
favor of respecting the rights of every
ui, under thc constituion, as is the sena
tor from Maiue, or any other seuator on I his
floor, but I do know that property, intelli
gence and education, will assert their su
premacy everywhere on the face of this
K ??? ??be. Who was it that drew the color line
tween the whites and the negroes, in the
south? Let mo tell you, sir, that millions
of the money of the (??eo|??le
of these United States was ox*
I tended by your agents???the freediiian???s
tureau agents???in getting every colored
man in the south into the loyal
league, and swearing him never to
vote for a democrat. That is where the color
line began to be. drawn. That institution
which took charge of the negro at the
ballot-box, took charge of him in the cotton
field, took cliarRe of him everywhere, super
vised every ??? contract that he made,
allowed no contract to lie made unless it
lmd.the approval of the agents of the freed-
meti???s bureau and spent money and- prop
erty called ???captured and abandoned
property,??? that
free society, and that it has been brought
about by the agencies which intelligence,
and virtue, and society, and the other agen
cies of civilisation always bring upon the
classes that are ignorant and debased.
He further continued: But,sir, assumingall
tiiat the gentleman says to be true,that there
are in the house of representatives 106 rep
resentatives elected of one party com
plexion, and elected by means that are not
what he considers legitimate, let us see
where vve stand in this position. Now, sir,
what interest of thc north, wliat interest of
tilts'country is endangered by it? Sir, with
a united vote of the !-outli, she stands a
powerless section in this government. She
is ah impotent majority, unable to protecta
tingle southern right or to defend a single
southern interest. But, says the gentleman,
under the o(*erations of these amendments,
the south would have a representation not
in proportion to the constituency which is
represented, and the states of South Caro
lina, Mississippi ami Alabama would have
twice os much power, or more than that, as
twice the numbers in some of the north
western states which . he mentioned.
Mr. President, every member that the
population entitled to vote ought to be
counted. You have no right to draw the
Hue between the black and the white and
assume tiiat the black man, because he did
not vote the republican ticket, is therefore
a supprafcted voter. But l call attention to
this fact, that if we are to embark upon a
system o: legislation and jHiliri^a! move
ments in order to adjust representation and
political power in this government Accord
ing to const it uencie*. the principle may pp-
eratdfurther than flaij^ioNhaft think*.
What is the population of the state of
Maine? I believe 62-5,000. It has been di
minishing witliin the last twenty years. I
cannot now recollect, but perhaps it is 623,-
000. Take that of Vermont???both solid as
represented here???and vet the slate of
Maine has as much power in this govern
ment with her (9K??,1W0 (ample as New York
with her o.OOOOnO. f mean in this govern
ment, not in this chamlier. Gentlemen
correct me by saying in this chamber.
No, sir; they have got the affirmative
(tower of legislation. This day 625,000 tuen,
women, and children in Maine, are equal
to 5,000,000 in the state of New York. That
is not all. But as the gentleman lias vouch
safed advice to southern men on this floor
and outside, in all spirit of fairness and
equity, I will speak to New England (icople,
and tell them that, in tny opinion, the
direst foe they have got on earth is the
representative or senator, whether from
their own section or any other,
that will kindle this fire
whose subterranean flame will liquify the
very foundation on which these proud and
free commonwealth* are now rearing their
aspiring heads. .Sir, the senator is fishing
in troubled water upon this subject, ana
when you come to compare questions of this
kind you will find that changes of a more
radical and fundamental nature will be
necessary in order to adjust representation
to numbers in this country.
At the conclusion of Mr. Lamar's brief
remarks, Senator Edmunds made a few re-
tnarks.and there was some colloquy between
himself and the senator from Mississippi a*
to tlie interpretation of a portion of the
latter???s remarks, after which thc resolution
and amendment were laid aside and the sen
ate resumed the consideration of thc (talent
laws.
THK HOUSE.
On motion of Mr. Patterson, of Colorado,
the senate bill providing for holding the
terms of the circuit and district courts for
the district of Colorado passed, after being
somewhat amended,
Mr. Smith, of Pennsylvania, from the
committee on appropriations, reported the
pension appropriations bill. Referred to the
committee of the whole and made the
special order for to-morrow.
The house passed a bill reported last year
from the committee on commerce to regu
late inter-state commerce. The bill makes
it unlawful for afiy person engaged in the
transportation of property from one state
to another, or to or from any foreign coun
try to receive any greater or less amount of
compensation from one person than from
another for a like contemporaneous service.
It also makes it unlawful for any (icrsoii so
engaged to allow any rebate or drawback on
shipments made by them, or to enter into
a combination with another carrier to pre
vent the carriage of property front being
continuous, and prohibits the pooling of
freights. Tlie discussion commences to
morrow on the bill to provide for the furth
er distribution of the money received under
the Geneva award.
HISTORY OF GEORGIA.
An Appeal for the Production of Such
a Book.
Eh ito as Constitution???The editorial on
this subject should arrest the attention of
every Georgian. The question should be
agitated till the history of Georgia, from
Oglethorpe to Colquitt, is written. There
is no history of Georgia after 17JW. The
material is ample. The colonial records,
the archives of the state, McCall s history,
Stephens???s work in two volumes down to the
adoption of the constitution of 1798, Whfte???i
statistics and historical collections. Sher
wood???s Gazetteers few religious works,con
fined mostly to denominational history, the
records and collections of the Historical soci
ety at Savannah, tlie Georgia manuals, these
with some private collections would supply
tlie material for the historian???(*erlia(*s the
peer of the tnimpetersof fame from Herodo
tus to Motley and Fronde.
From DeSoto???s romantic march through
the unbroken wilder* ess of Georgia down
to tlie last elections, in which the wards of
the nation were taught how to vote the
democratic ticket, in spite of such infidels
a* Whitelaw Reid, Georgia???s history deserves
the pen of a Macaulay, and every school
boy in Georgia should (losses* a full and
LEPROSY IN NEW YORK.
complete history of his native state.
Tlie articles bv Hon. 11. R. Casey about,
Columbia county should cause similar arti
cles in every c unty in the state, and the
plan you suggest
Cases on Blackwell's Island???The Three
Lepers at thc Charity Hospital???A
Man Whose Fingers and Toes are
Dropping Oir.
New York Times. >
Just now there are three cases of leprosy
at the Charity hospital at Blackwell???s
island, which have proved of such
curious interest to the medical profession
that the superintending physician is
troubled* with more scientific visitors than
he cares to see. One of them, a lad of 19, a
native of Santiago de Cuba, expects to set
out for home in a day or two, or in the first
sailing vessel that will accept a leprous
passenger, but as this is by no means the
most advanced case, he will scarcely be
missed. In 1870 Emilio Trenal, then a boy
12 years of age, came to this city from
a town in Cuba where no case
of leprosy has been recorded. He was hero
five years before the disease showed itself
in the leprous spots, with local anaesthesia,
which are the principal diagnostic indicia
For two years and four niontha.he straggled
against conviction, and with some vain hope
tiiat the diagnosis was a mistaken one until
the boys???little barbarians???began to boot
him on the street Eight months ago he
applied for admission to the hospital, and
will remain there until he can be sent home.
As the disease, when pitted against youth
and a strong constitution, is frequently???io
years in completing its work, a more dreary
and suicide-inducing outlook can scarcely
be imagined than that of a man stricken
leprous in hU youth, and doomed to the
long isolation of the plague.
Abraham Brown, forty-five years of age,
native of New York city, has been in hos-
pital a shorter period, but his case is of more
unique interest. The victim was stricken
only last April, and admitted to the hos-
E ital in June. The progress of the malady -
as been virulent and rapid, commencing
a* usual with thickening of the skin in
spots, with loss of local sensibility. Ac
companying tiiis came a strange debility
and lassitude, with occasional exaltation of
spirits. The disease has now attacked the
solid tissue of the bones, and the man???s
hands and feet present a sight that one.
would never care to see twice.
Some of the finger* and toes have al
ready dropped off, while the rest
ulcerous ana loathesome, hang loosely by
their rotting and disfigured joints. Th*e
brain remains unaffected, and the victim
converses with intelligence. According to
Ins own story, which has been verified in
ita main particulars, Mr. Brown, who is a
gas engineer by profession, emigrated thir
teen years ago to Santiago de Cuba, where
he was employed in the gas-works for three
years. He returned to this city ten years
ago without a vestige of tlie disease that has
since reduced him to a living skeleton. It
was then 1868. He had lived here ten years,
almost, when, last spring, tlie primary
symptoms made their appearance. He
agrees with Trenal in declaring that no case
of leprosy has even, to his knowledge,
occurred in Santiago de Cuba, and further
declares that he has never been in contact
with arose of it. The doctors shake their
heads, for it is contrary to precedent that
one should become a leper de novo. But
the mystery is that ten years of fair health
should elapse between the de(??arture from
Santiago de Cuba and the first manifesta
tions of the malady. Brown attributes his
misfortune to exposure to thc heat of the
sun and the breathing of air loaded with
foul vapors while pursuing his profession in
the West Indies.
The third case is that of an intelligent
German, aged 71, who served in the United
States army in Texas years ago, and after
ward followed the business of a horse-trader
the Mexican border. Cases of the dis-
e are not unfrequent at Brownsville,
Texas, and thc border districts of Mexico. *
In that immediate vicinity they are socoiu-
mon as to attract little attention from the
indifferent and a[>athetic Mexicans. Karl
Henkle first detected syintoms of the dis-
iQ in the spring of 1876, while employed
this city. The case is not oneof extreme
virulence, although, of course, hopeless in
the present condition of medical science.
Henkle is so little disfimired and ema
ciated that one might pats him on the street
without, suspicion, but the malady gnaws
deep, and is making steady progress.
A superior scientific interest, aside from
mere nlmses of the disease, inheres in the
second case described, a* the victim denies
strenuously having ever seen a leper. ^No
great importance is gi ven to his own explana
tion, the fact being familiar that leprosy is
not uncommon in Sweden and Norway,
and among the Laps and Finns, as well as
in Italy, Spain and the warm Mediterranean
shores, from the Dardanelles to Gibraltar.
Investigation has clearly shown that in all
these districts, as well as in Acadia, elephan
tiasis gracorum did not pppear spontane
ously. No instance of spontaneous origin
appearing on the record, medical inquiries
are probing the case of Brown to the very
quick.
Tlie War in Kentucky.
ANARCHY IN BREATHITT COUNTY, ST.
Louisville, December 7.???The Courier-
Journal correspondent^ who was sent to
Breathitt county to write up an account of
the civil war that has been raging there for
the past two weeks, after a horseback ride of
150 miles over mountain road* and through
snow and rain, returned to-night and pre
sents that affairs in Breathitt county are in
deed in a deplorable condition, and that in
stead of being exaggerated the stories about
the strife there do not represent as bad a
state of affairs as really exists. The law is
overridden and the county officers are pow
erless to make a single arrest Prominent
citizens*, who liave been threatened, hare
fled for their lives, and Jackson, the county
seat of Breathitt county, is almost depopu
lated. The opposing parties are encamped
a few miles from each other, and are likely
to have a collision at any moment The state
of affairs there, the correspondent says t is
equal to if not worse than they were during
thc war, when the bushwhackers and home-
guard companies filled the hearts of the
strongest men with terror and dismay.
preserve those
of defiance which intrenched wrong
always gives to inquiring justice; and those
who ???imagine it to be conclusive do not know
the temper of the American people. For
let me assure you that against the compli
cated outrages upon the right of representa
tion lately triumpnant in the south, there
will l>e arrayed many phases of public opin
ion in the north not often hitherto in har
mony. Men who have cared little, and af
fected to care less, for tlie rights or the
wrongs of the negro suddenly find that vast
monetary and commercial interests, great
questions of revenue, adjustments of tariff,
vast investments in manufactures, in rail
ways, and in mines, are
under the control of a demo
cratic congress whose majority was obtained
by depriving the negro of his rights under
a common constitution aud common laws.
Men who have expressed disgust with the
waving of bloody shirts and have been
offended with talk about negro equality are
beginning to perceive tiiat the (tending
lotions during the war. So, Dr.
??????shakes off the dost of his feet tor a testi
mony" against the Presbyterian church
. . , ^ ^ a south, not on the ground of the ???dance of ??? * -
work about thc first day of October and j death??? only, but on the grounds recorded in About eighty to ninety per cent, of the
remained in the field until the ninth of \ the Pittsburg anathema But the question *??????? and th* nirkine will
for church lawyers now will be what be-
Tlae Cotton Report.
NnxrJix, Yju. December 9.???The cott
exchange makes the following report of the
condition of the crop, compiled from
twenty-two replies from sixteen counties in
North Carolina and Virginia: Six reports the
weather for gathering cotton during No
vember as favorable, while sixteen say the
weather was more favorable than last v<
Take another group of seventeen repre-
sentatlves from .he south and from the
north. Georgia and Alabama have a white
population of eleven hundred and fifty-eight
thousand, and a colored population of ten
hundred and twenty thousand. They send
seventeen representatives to congress, of
whom nine were api??rtioned on account of
the white population, and eight on account
of the colored population. But the colored
voters are not able to choose a single repre
sentative. the white democrats choosing the
whole seventeen. The four northern states,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Califor
nia have seventeen representatives, based
on a white population of two and a quarter
millions, or almost double the white popu
lation of Georgia and Alabama, so that in ^ .
these relative groups of states we find the question of to-day relates more t.ress-ingly to
white mansouth exercises by hi??votedouble the equality of white men under this gov-
the political (??ower of tlie white man north. ! eminent, and that, however careless they
Let tis carry the com(??ari9on to a more 1 may be about the rights or the wrong*
??y>mpreben*ive generalizatio.i. Tlie eleven the'negro, they are very jealous and fena-
tates that formed the confederate govern- J cious ah rat the rights of their own race and
last month. It has industriously en
deavored to master the mystery of tlie
origin and propagation of the fever. It is
composed of men of wide experience in
whom the medical profession at least
arch lawyers now wul be wnat be
ef Dh Leftwich???* appeal to the gen
eral assembly? Before the amenably meets
in Mar Dr. L. will be safe in the bosom of
another ecclesiastical body. May b^ in his
translation like Elijah's mantle, his appeal
will drop.??? P-
crop has been picked and the picking will
be finished about the tenth of December.
Five replies report the yield about the same,
four about ten per cent, more and thirteen
say the yield is twenty-five to thirty per
cent, less than last year. On an average,
about three-fourths of the crop has been
marketed.
ment had by the last census a population of
nine and a half millions, of whicn in round
numbers five and a half millions were white
and four millions colored. On this aggre
gate population seventy-three representa
tives in congress were apportioned to those
states???forty-two or three of which were by
reason of * the white population, and
thirty or thirty-one by reason of the colored
population. At the recent election the
white democracy of the south seized seven-
tv of the seventy-three districts, and thus
secured a democratic majority in the next
bouse of representatives. Thus it appears
the dignity of their own firesides and their
own kindred.
I know something of public opinion in
the north. I know a great deal about the
views, wishes, and purposes of the republi
can party of -the nation. Within that en
tire great organization there is uot one man
whnse opinion is entitled to be quoted, that
does not desire peace and harmony and
friendship and a patriotic and fraternal
union between the north and the south.
This wish is spontaneous. Instinctive, uni
versal throughout the northern stales; and
yet, among men of character and sense.
surrendered to it, and
many millions of money directly appropri
ated* out of the treasury of the United
.States. It was that bureau and it* agents
who first drew the color line, and yet when
the whites of the south, when the men
owning the property and having the intelli
gence and the educatioua at the south saw
their very social system menaced with de
struction, and saw tlielr very households
threatened with ruin under an inundation
of liarharisra, directed by the mo**t unscru
pulous of men, and when they naturally
came together, when they naturally united,
as (*eople menaced with danger ever will
unite, then a cry is raised against the ???solid
south.??? All, Mr. President, it will not do.
Thb system of legislation towards the
south that began ten year* ago Is reaping its
fruit, and it is not by additional penal laws
tiiat you can better the condition of the
country. What does the senator want more
(??enal laws for? Let him look into the stat
ute book on this very subject. Let him
read the statutes in regard to the in force
meat of tlie right of the citizens to vote,
and I defy him to find in the statute book*
of any civilized country on this globe a body
of laws so minute, so searching, and brist
ling all over with nenalties, and fines, and
forfeitures as these laws.
Mr. Thurman thought the danger to this
country was whether the longest purse
should carry the elections, aud this danger
exists more in the north than in the south.
Mr. Lamar also addressed the senate, say
ing that he would have something to say on
the question of the adoption of the resolution
when they are ready for action, but at pres
ent be wished to remark upon a single
point submitted by Mr. Blaine. He regret-
ed a statesman so distinguished, in looking
on this recently dislocated member of this
great American empire, instead of regard
ing It anxiously for those great interests
that affect this 'great country through the
long track of coming years, should have
concentrated his gaze on its simple attitude
of partv relationship; that nothing should
have struck the gentleman except that
particular partisan feature, which affects the
ascendency of this political party or tlie
other. Organizations thaTkre unknown to
the constitution, and outside of the laws of
this land. But, sir. the gentleman???s re
marks were directed exclusively to tliose
parties, and with no intent whatever to
utter a bitter retort, I cannot but feel
the regret that one of such resolute pur
pose???of such tenacious and such daring
ambition, and such great abilities, should
have ao ???narrowed hb mind as to give to a
partv what was meant for mandkind.??? De
nying positively Blaine???s assertions that the
south nas disproportionate power in this
government, the senator said that
before the vote was over be would show that
no negro vote ha* been suppressed in the
south. I will demonstrate this political
phenomenon which is the subject of so
much discussion and misrepresentation. It
sketches for the historian.
Why defer the matter? Is wit the history
of Georgia sufficiently important to warrant
the state government in taking steps for the
collection of the material, and in employing
some competent writer to edit the work?
The services of Hon. C. C. Jones, Hon. Sam
uel Barnett, or other competent writers
might be secured.
The writer, several years ago, prepared a
historical sketch of Troup county, includ
ing a list of the 500 soldiers lost in the late
war, with many biographical notices, and
while investigating the subject, ascertained
the facts alluded to in your editorial on Mr.
Russell???s bill. It is almost im(wiewible to
find anything in the old records of the state,
and this subject demands immediate atten
tion.
Public opiuion controls every thing???well,
in this world the newspapers control public
opinion???and therefore, the history of each
comity must and sliall be written at once;
the history of Georgia since 17Urt, or 1732,
if youplease, must and, shall lie written by
some Thucidvdes, or Gibbon, Jones, Bar
nett or Harris, (J??ie), if thc newspapers so
decree.
Let thc decree lie issued and let every
Georgian read the proud record of our em
pire state, awl know that she has done her
whole duty in every hour of peril from Val
ley Forge, with General Iaichlan McIntosh,
of Georgia, side by side with Washington,
down to Appomattox, with Gordon of Geor
gia side by side with Lee, of Virginia The
pages beam with glory. W. O. T.
LaGrange, December 7, 1878.
GLITTERING STEEL.
A Chlcke
Main to be Fought nt New
Orleans.
We were shown yesterday articles of agreement
signed by a gentleman of this city and another of
Louisville. Ky.. for a grand chicken main to be
fought at New Orleans .February 23d. In this con
test Tennessee and Kentucky will be pitted
against South Carolina and Georgia.
The articles upon which the match has been
made aay that each aide will have to show thirty-
one cocks, rouging in weight from four j<ounds
four ounces to five pounds fourteen ounces.
Georgia and South Carolina have at present two
hundred birds from which lo select thirty-one.
The larger number of there birds are Georgia
raised, and many of them are at Macon and Co
lumbus, where they will remain until a few days
before the main U fought.
In Atlanta there are several birds that will be
entered in this contest. All the birdato befonght
' and South Carolina parties sreguar-
'tantiemes In this city who
- the cocks to be shown by
there states feel perfectly confident that .South
Carolina and Georgia will win the day.
The fowls to be selected by the parties on the
other side will be collected from various parts of
the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. Mauyof
them will be procured at Louisville, Ky. Each
battle will be fought lor 9250 a side, and upon * L '~
dcciding fight 12,500 will be wagered. The-
winning the greatert number of fightowill lwde??
A LATER ACCOUNT.
Lexington,-December 9.???There is a lull
in tlie war in Breathitt county. The bloody
strife is not over. The combatants are only
resting and waiting for another opportunity
to renew the conflict. Too much blood
has been spilled that must be avenged by
the shedding of more to allow hostilities to
quietly cease. One cannot travel through
Breathitt county, nor sojourn at Jackson,
the county seat, without being satisfied of
this. The poorly concealed anxietv of tho
people and their half-expressed fears and
foreboding, shaking of the head, indicate
that more bloody work is expected in tho
near future. _
Sale of Property.
New York,-December 11.???The postponed
sale by the receiver of the effects of McKil-
loss and Sprague, mercantile agency,
took place today. The total amount
realized was about $2,500. which is to be di
vided among the creditors, representing
$350,000. Tlie New York city record* were
sold for $450, Philadelphia $50, Chicago $10, ???
Hartford $5, New Orleans $30, and Mil
waukee $20. The records of the state of
Illinois, exclusive of Chicago, sold at $7;
$15 was bid for the good-will of the busi
ness, bnt was withdrawn, and it is probable
there will be no organized successor to the
business.
The Fever Fond.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Memphis, Decernlier 8.???The Citizens' relief
committee wound up its affairs today, dis
tributing the balance on hand. $72.53, nro
rata among the four orphan asylums of this
city. By order of Quartermaster-general
Meigs, upon advice of the surgeon-general,
the 1,500 tents shipped to Memphis during
tlie yellow fever epidemic will be burned.
Bolstering ?? Judge.
Chicago. December 11.???At a meeting of
the members of the Chicago bar association
held yesterday to take action in view of the
effort being made to secure impeachment
proceedings against Judge Blodgett, of the
United States district court, an address was
adopted and signed by eminent barristers
in this city and forwarded to Representa
tive Harrison at Washington.
enicreu iu uuiwmai.
by the Georgia andSoui
an teed to be game. G
know of the breed of
that throughout the states that formed the there is surely no need of attempting to de* .
late confederate government sixty-five j ceive ourselves as to the precise truth, is a phenomenon that would occur in any
suit of the contest, from the fact that the gentle
man who Latum the challenge is a resident of At
lanta A well known and popular cock-pit in
New Orleans has been chorea, and the main will
be fought at that resort. The affair will come off
a few days before the mardi gras opens, and the
proepeets are that there will be a large attendance
of tbe lovers of this kind of sport. Already the
chicken fanciers of the four contesting
??t??am lookiruc after and coll?ctltiff together
such birds as it U thought will stand thefest of
cold steel to the last We hearol a great many
who will go from Atlanta, Macon and Columbus
to New Orleans and represent our state in this
memorable event It is presumed that the other
states who will have birds entered in the main
will be represented by hundreds who are fond of
cock-fighting. There is every probability that the
tournament referred to above will be the largest
The Lucky Number*.
New Orleans, December 10.???The princi
pal prizes in the State lottery drawn to-day
were as follows: No. 81,175, $100,000; No.
75,205, drew $50,000; No. 92,784, drew $20,-
000; No. 13,821 and 92,121 drew $10,000
each; Nos. 1!>,9S4, 83,795, 25,889 and 528
each drew 5,000. ^
A Change of Public Opinion.
In the history of systems of finance con
nected with raising a revenue for public
purposes, history works in a circle. The
tide seems setting strong in public opinion
in favor of honestly managed, properly con
ducted lotteries, such as the Louisiana State
Lottery, organized in 1868, for Educational
and Charitable purposes. The scheme of
fered for the next drawing is extraordinari-
"beral. The price of tickets, only two
ara. gives every one a chance to win
$30,000. or a less sum. For particulars write
to M. A. Dauphin, P. 0. Box 692, New Or
leans, La decil cLfcwlt
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in the kitchen, elegant, white, light and
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