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CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1878. VOL. XI., NO. 26 <f !ic <f oit.*;tifuiiDit. | nmMr' ??? ??? 1 policy wa* that itwaspr 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 Nutrition* Cookery. 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