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T c/ CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1879. VOL. XI., NO. 41 CORRIDOR GOSSIP. RUMORS AND PACTS OP THECAFITAL. Ik* Own of D:inu1«i kmmg tit D»s«nt»- Tfct It* Okairau tf tit Oum-Xr, 8u(btu't Vitw* as Pik e Small Talk tf tkt Day. KdlDirtal f’omwpondciiee Conatltutkio. WA»ms«ni», l). C., March 22.—The only question that neeuit lo attract any attention In cuii(?m#> since the organization of the ornate and liouac it the time of adjournment. The more imj»or!siitque«tionof w hat ought to Im! done Merit* to have Ik cii luel Right of. There i* evhleuijy, especially in the ltouse, ■ want of unity on the |«rt of the demo crat* that will certainly remit in harm. We have in Hilt body four kind* of democrat*, namely, • astern democrat*, who are on the Bayard line; western dcmor-raui, who are for greenbacks but not for fiat money; aoblnwestern democrats, who are for *uh- *idiea to railroads and mail lines, and and southern democrats, who are in favor of anything to make the jiony succemful Pioui time diflTereut set-turns come a few men who are not e*j«cially on the linen Mimed, hut they are exceptioiial. The house on the democratic ride is witliout an acknowledged leader; and unless they cuine to the conclusion that it is im)*irtanf to pool the various ii- »u», there will lie as little accomplished by the democrat* in the 4Gib congress as was accomplished (or the good of tie people in the 45th congress. The republicans are united on all question*. Messrs. Garlieid and Frye, of Maine, can vole the entire re publican vote on any question without de lude, and by simply lifting a huger. One uii)dca*ani nature of the disagreement on the pan of the democrats is seen in the re cent action of the caucus in throwing over hand Mr. Healer C'lymcr, who was a frieud of the speaker, and the election in his stead of Mr. House, o« Tennessee, w ho is bitterly o|>|M»«ed to the speaker. Mr. House was nominated by Mr. Iteagan, of Texas, and while it is understood that Mr. Clyuier de clined to be a candidate, it was well known that he would have been willing to serve the party again as chairman of the caucuR. He is a man of great expcrienie, has the confidence of tlir ]*ny iml is a friend and supporter of speaker Landall. The opjioneuU of Mr. Kaiidall selected Mr. House, and he was nominated and elected because it was re ported that Mr. Ulymer did not wish to serve •gain. It would iiave been better for the j«rty if Rome friend of .8|ieaker Randal liad liecn selected if any change was needed MR. HTItrilRSS IN THE CAUCUS. Mr. Htephens isceriaudy on the rightline, and his sjioecl* in the caucus a few nights since meets the |M*ople s views exactly. I called to see him in his mom at the Na tional to-day. He has heensutiering of late with neuralgia, hut is now looking well. I told him I was glad to see the noiution he Itsd taken for the relief of the jieopk*. "Yew," he replied, "I was never more satis fied with my position on any public ques tion. If we adjourn without taking some steps to remedy the evils upparent to every one, or It we fritter away our time in a nieli-K mjnubble with tne president, the peojde will have good cause of complaint. Ho far as mv voice and advice can go 1 will urge nil I advocated in the caucus." 1 it-marked to Mr. Htephens that the New York |tapers weie severe in their criticisms of Ids (sMition. "1 see they are,” h* plied, "hut the worst feature I see about what they ray alsMit my )M«ition is that they misrepresent what 1 say. What I said was in a caucus of democrats, and it ha* been re|iortcd to suit the views of each man who wanted to use it. What 1 did say is embodied in an interview with a corres- isindentof tlie New York Times. Here it iR,aml I will thank you to publish it in Tux f 'oNsTtTt Tioa. | am willing to stand or fall i>ii it Indore the people.” 1 send herewith * hat was in substance -tMltty rest* upon the <lemorrnt» of the house f the M-nntf. It t* the first time In msnjr iifsl, I Hit to all other business that legttl- msirlv trehninto It, lam therefore very much avi r*e to limiting leglsUUon to these two »w>n>- I rtstl-.M in «'H* ti re*. The country, in my Judg- l..ent. v >1 withstanding what has firm said to the e 4 tr.sr.'. ts In a very depressed condition In its romim i v and In all Its areal Industries. It Is heed < •- to say now what has produced this st de nt lulngK. The people throughout the coun try. In the cities and In the rural district*, arc look Mu' !«• congress for relief or for tlie eorrecUon nl th u. ystem of UsUlathHi which has proiluced the pr nt sute of ihtna*. 1 do not intend to say any thh-4 now as to tint character of the legislation W hlcti I* <ould he adopted, but If e»ingress should »cw.!v*- -Imply to pass the two appropriation hills whe ll J. tleil. and then adjourn with a deaf dhow the country that we do not shirk the a eat veapooolhtUtlcs That are upon ns. Do not let us assemble and adjourn with a deaf ear lo the appeals of a distressed people. Do not let ns, I entreat you, handicap ourselves In the beginning by the passage of a resolution that wa wiU do aothlag for the relief of the country, fro not let u» thus muzzle ourselves in advance, lat ns at least hear the appeals of the people and see If relief Is lu our power. If tillsenogTMs. tu my Judgment, does lu duty to the whole country In the restoration of ooosti- tutPioal liberty, with the preservation of law and order, fence and hanaooy. through*>ut the entire land, es it ought to do. then a bright and a glori ous future awaits os. But if it now. at the very beginning, shrink* from the TespoustMUtv amt fallen and shows ItsHt unequal to the task Im posed upon It, then I care oof how snou the cur tain which hide* future events shall fall upon my vision. CAPITOL WOTg*. General Gordon i* improving slowly. Mb. Hugh A. Haralson ha* • good billon in the folding- oum of the senate at salary of $1 2W‘. His friends think he will be promoted to chief of tire folding- room. Mr. Pbane Alvei end ha* been appointed clerk of General fiordon** committee, (of nonimem), at • salary of $2,000 per annum. Mr. Robert Alston is messenger of the committee, having a i-a'ary of $1,200 a year. THE WORK OP THE SESSION. The Democratic Joint 4'auens Agree* Cpaa a Lino of Bottle. Washixoton, March 25.—The two commit- mm appointed last weer caucuses of the house i SHAKING THE BONES. THE REPUB ICAN RUCKLE RAKED. Tba 8cmsterial Bn'tam Beeese Asxiesa far C vi Berries ud Cry u Xm? tie Bpoca-Batths Htw Costn Bocbcs tie Crowd— Mr. Hill aid Hr. Blaise. TUB SENATE. Wauivotox. March 24.—Mr. Beck in troduced a bill for a settlement of account* with certain railroad.companics. Mr. Butler introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of war to deliver to A. P. Rhett and other* four Napoleon guns for the u*e of the Charleston. S. C. # artillery. Al*o, a bill for the relief of the sufferers by the loss of the steamer J. D. Cameron. A large number of bilb were introduced, including several by Mr. Coke and one by Mr. Kellogg, giving aid to certain railroads extending from Texas to specified points on the Rid Grande. Mr. Haulsbury’* resolution calling upon the secretary of the treasury for information concerning the negotiations of the United State* securities, the amount of interest paid, etc., was passed. A motion was then made to proceed to the election of the senate officers. An animated debate here sprang op. Mr. Anthony said that nothing be could do would prevent the foregone conclusion of the majority to make a sweeping change of officers, rot because it was demanded by duty, but because par tisanship demanded it. As one who field . mmrm ^ n , ant twoK lo tf no* reverence, the precedents .. fal and ussge* of the senate, he desired to en- f/.Tn.^f rilTjF rJ^!nm».nA.f ?nns fMr J&nM ter hit protest against the personal incon- ■r#?”* *?} 1 venience to which they would all be sub- jT™TTh.!vJ®*** 4 ' * n ' 1 th « <Hrturbance of the ordor thSiM of the business of the senate, which w»uld ,,ccnr h S * n »l>rap* cbanE* of officers. He mentioned the names of secern) officers of lit* »en*le who liad never been disturbed in 1,01.- — ^ ^ .il/ X their officUl reUtion, to the body. hJJ? 1 hTlik^iJ^mUl’v ihSfi.hid Mr. Hamlin followed Mr. Anthony, say- Cth« ofT repeiUinr c^^Tn ,h-.hoped p«ty spirit would not the legislative, executive and judicial *|p-1 u'nllnrv mtiJ that »h-«» nn in W'ZSZZ . hill i Ihe.Prt^toSrdmn .MSS,” “ 1 ^ ‘ ,"' r l'or»ie<l by the house in the nme bill tlITa)i j„ wn the life of the senate; the nia- amendatory of■ ,tb»_ tow In to Uie | onW draireJ that the officwh eld so ""f?* °< impwnellinwinrors wlUbe snbstw- J l>n J by should be filled I2lioiT*!o P ISdUmI^^ u. tbi l>y pentlcnien poptlcnlly in accord with the "“j”"')' of ^nste. They hwl gentle- jjyfjnn.". * n,rn abundantly qualified to fill them. ! Lmie ?| to nimmr.ria7ion hilU Mr - ConklinR uttered his regrets at th# ".medi'e” fj|“ow/;!t '*» officer, of the senate were tob. for e.pen^ « «ri ? of eto«. tf. rtfect | Styttnl ws, improved with the liLr5 speech of Senator Anthony, as it conUined existing authority for llie, matter* of historic intemt. He regarded Ate ^functions'.ml “ d ,^r°“' Jj* J7” n,in I ? rvisors of diflerent SiJSSiSffiJSUKSSSrfoSfSSit™ !' f ‘tln, 1 mrmt'Z'wilid*t’o^w “nte?it^hould be in . gmst in.nner rattiU^m u> be aijthori^l. to Uh« I roo,,;^, lt won)d inrreM e ,* detri . will’^fsoTe nn^vltM tlmt thew 7ut«n'ison ment 8004 °* ,h ® government, llestow- m,'t i P e^i,en, .n duJnmH- i"B of offices should be done in oonsidem- " 'V 11 ” r*™*"** . * tion of the welfare of the country, dignity t d . ' 1 '” “ f “■« government and purity of onrTnstf- ,'f tL SZJ°co^ punish inch freud. jIX I hld"faire P „ , “o n i, , |»'Mr , t 0 v 0 ®^ !*M^ond , ^ , A!L e . n i .%n , ;^Asi gross as m.y '* r*l»rt*“ “X sneh slaughter of innocents as was contem- t.T'w,ie.far,.,! h wiih ptoled by the opposite side. Oteerration he interfered with, .dir trill the ««- K» d .ho™ that iniuesd of federal offices L I li ‘ heving been bestowed for the good of the .1,17..r .nnvTJl Country, will, capable and honest incum- o th er".-i vi Iri gM s. *T i. e*rw'mmlndst in ns h«nfa. ibeyfmd been o-^, fur m^y^r, ""Vyr 1 den.ocrat > i > c M |u»ubere*ol <> the here »*'*> c.mi.l«in«l’’nerer negated A se|«rate caucus of deiiiocratic senators 8pedal dispatch to The Constitution, will probably be held to-morrow afternoon I During the debate, a discussion arose on after an early adjournment of the senate. Mr. Gorham’*, the i-ecretary of the senate. Senators Lamar and Voorliee*. who were 1 re*|ioiiRtbility for a circular issued in May, absent on Haturday, |iarticipated in to-day’s 1 ia"H, by the'national republican executive joint meeting of the caucus committee*. I committee and signed by him as secretary Senator Saulsbury presided. Judge Thur- I of that committee. This circular called for man being detained at his residence by ill- I contributions towards defraying party ex- new. _ 11>ense* in the then anpfnaching cam- • I paigna, and referred to the fact that the CONSIDERABLE GUANO« I senate of 1879 would lie democratic and alleged that one of the avowed pur- chief supervisors and dr| elections, and to restrict t power of the two supervisor* of diflerent •eats occupied by southern senator*. I think we have heard this before. He also informed us that these seat* are now filled by southern men. I think we know that already. We return to them and like revo lution that tlios ends where the departure began. The return of the democratic party brought peace and prosperity once more. You raise the cry of revolution so that you may have eighteen years more of power, but your chances will not return. Yes; the* seats are filled by southern representative men and they will remain so. That is all.' Let then the past go. We are opposed to revolutionary purposes and revolutionary schemes. We made nothing by revolution. The republican* made eighteen years of power oy it and that is the reason they are always talking about revolution. After some passage between Messrs. Blaine and Hill, >lr. Wallace offered a reso lution declaring John C. Burch elected sec retary of the senate. Mr. Conkljng moved to substitute the name of George C. Gorham. This amend ment was rejected by a vote of 27 to 38—a strict party vote. After the election of the other caucus nominees the senate ad journed. AS VIEWED ABROAD. ON THE CITY’S EDGE. A MURDEROUS CRIME COMMITTED. Comisg im to Early Xn-i Slock!ag Sight Pr*- Matcd—Ljiag la HU OwaBlood—Tb» Pwb- obl# Theory of tk# Orimo-TheAmrt of the SzppoMd Criminal. Sunday momin people who reside publ:«- l tu the UtM'liarxa of • matter* of lesldMion coining iliouht acted upon at once. that » • iwinot dUpeii* with the Urge revenue* deni ed <n»m that source. There Is no one in this houm» |.*(* dUiMwrd to weaken the credit of Uii* goven'Mcnt than I. hut there are other ways of ivllcti g the nerewary revenues, and nmdes in»»rei-j >*i aud Ju*t in their oprrathHi, and more 1 >nM‘ti. • I. than our prenrii! system. This, st least, • m\ tiKtguH-nt. tVithout going into detail*, I that 1 think the presrut system, which grain or Irntt* lor hi*own u*e D a motiMnui* out regc. I think thsl for his own u*e, a man ha* as much i urhi lo l*»il Id* com into wht*ky or t*» boll From the pn-*enl free li»t. may U* mtaod l»y re«lut ins exestiiurduliv* mu- i-»> t*. A«wln, there l* another i rslMHK the nece-Miry row mu* much more just a- d equnl In it* operations. I mean the atl vakv rvts lax upon the pnqierty of the country: if not anon l*ml. at lest up«*n pensaial property. There htv many atiUlou* of jk reoiuti property l« lire In He l ^taks untaxetl hy the fed eral govenimei.t. Where D the justice In tsxing the poor laborer fl.S to gJU for hi* a hi* y and tolweco, while others, poa- ■esoetl of hundreds thousands and tuilUon*. pay mailing for theii pa—«r*4ows. which ore protected by the fMVentiueiu* We should equalise taxec. All «h,» enjoy the Advantage* of the govemmeut should t»ear otusUy the tnsvsayy and Just bur «Wn’«. Our prevent system bears unequally aud unjustly, tu my ojdnhai, upon the toiling mil While l said I would be willing to strike from the statute-l*ook our whole system of internal revenue, with It* m.wt expensive machinery, yet If, upon a Cull hearing. U should be thought best to retain part, some of it* worst feature* should he m«»i c ertaluly removed. The prerent system t* unequal ou states a* well as classes iid tndlviduAis. Vhgtnia alone, aipce the i ... ounting to over fti.uXi.niU. It is true that tn the last rongre— »* rednead the ux on u>bace»» from twenty tour to dxUcn «x nt*. but it Is still an montnms tax upon the labor of that state, un equal end unjust The same applies to Kentucky, Mi—ourt, and other totrew-growing stats*, i would by no me^n* —luieate the renewal of th* oM system of lno>nM> tax. That was wrong in many wpcct*. It bore unjustly upon labor lu its varioit*departments, prok-—kaud and otherwise, butt would wwch, bv a just and equal srstaas, the prsperiyand wealth «»f the country, whether oHfaitllnK ,'f stock*, bonds, or other public re- curtiifW, iron which large Ineomrs are derived. 1 tmwn now only to my that a proper Mb' utionary expulsion of the president from . .his office. The debate was spirited and We learn that over 80,000 tons of gnano I oonaiderable feeling was shown on both sides, have lieen regularly inspected and sold in Mr. Ka on (Conn), while firmly believing Georgia during the present season. This f h*t Mr. Haves was not entitled to his seat, amount is ahsolutelv enoimoua. The cash denounced tbe imputation on the democracy valueof it is not much less than three million I 0 f revolutionary aesigns as utterly false, five hundred thousand dollars. Thia is a to- M r> Blaine said that the Potter committee tal that ntay well make farmers shudder. It is I was organized in the hope of finding some estimated that fully two-thirdsof theamount I evidence on which to base a proceeding to might have been kept within the limits of j oust the president and only Decause of its ilie state if our natural resources have been failure to find such facts was the design developed, and that one-half of the total I abandoned. amount might have been saved to the far- I Mr. Wallace pointed to the resolution mere themselves if they had only utilized | adopted by the democratic convention in the natural resources of their farms. I Pennsylvania a few days after the issuance It is a noteworthy fact that the ins|iection I Q f the circular in question, that any attack fees for this vast quantity of fertilizers | on t he title of the president was unwise and amounts to over $40,000—the fee being 50 I impolitic, and haw that while some agitation cents for a ton. This will provea very hand- I existed among the democrats at that time Mimerrveiiueforthestateaudwill very much I no authorized utterances could be found more than support the agricultural bureau, I justifying the imputation of revolutionary under whose auspices it is made. It is I designs. claimed that the fees come out of tire maker l Mr. Yoorhees justified the proposed of the fertilizer and not out of the farmer, change in officers on the grouud that the It may be set down as probab.e that the I employees of the senate ought to be in svm- farmere of Georgia will pay $3,500,000 this putny with a majority of the bodv who year for the one item of fertilizers. J were responsible to the country for the Mr. Jackson, of the department of agri- management of its affaire, culture, says that the season is much later Mr. Beck said that he would not vote $6,- this year than formerly, the fight between 000 a year into the pocket of the secretary tire guano men and the farmers having de- I c f jj,,, republican national committee to be layed tire purchase. He received on yea* used in furthering his own irereonal and terday an order from Havannah for ad- I p»ny ends. *1 it ional tags, the writer saying that new Mr. Bayard thought the merely minis- cargoes were arriving daily. He thinks it J terial offices should abstain from the exer- may be safely asaumed that the total for the. J ^se of partisan infiuence, and not seek to be about 90.000ton*, and puts I emulate the political power of the elective value at $10 petton. This I officers directly resiwnaible to the people •uld pul the total cost at $:t,tkX»,000. This J f or tlic carrying out of tlie views of their is about the amount used la-ti year. Mr. Newman, of the department, thinks ^ ... w «... the tight between the farmers and the I Blaine’s cltarge of Iwui faith on the part of mcrrlumts did good in ttianv ways. He j the democrats in not accepting as final the -ays that it prevented many m»m bnym; d K i!,i ono f the electoral commission, said at all, and forced them to rely on the com- I there was an is&ue of fact raised here post heap for tire enrichment of tlreir land. I between the >enators who had spoken, and a It aided very materially in increasing the | ver y material one, affecting not alone the habit of composting, which ha* been indy-1 democratic i*arty, but the dtaracter of our triottsl. advocated by the department. The I justitutiuits, and it was ituportaut tliat the amount of composting done this year is I ^ truth be stated upon this question, very much larger than ever before, as evi I The charge of a revolutionary pur|>ose deneed by the demand for acid phosphates. I made against the democracy hy the circular This demand has been very large, and some J which had been read was denounced companies have literally been unable to till I by the senator from Conneticut. their orders. 1 (Eaton) as false, whereupon th* There has been very little. If any, guano 1 senator from Maine Mr. Blaine, muggled into the state and sola without | came to the rescue of the document iisitection. Tlie tendency of the inspec- and charged that there was such revolu- ion custom has been to weed out the small tionary intent, and to sustain his general and tricky dealers and encourage only the charge, he specifies the Potter resolution as standard houses to send their goods into having that ulterior meaning. Mr. Hill the state. All houses that were trying to | claimed that the senator from Maine was as tadm off inferior goods were incurred in his statement as was the sec- afraid to stand the inspection teat and retary of the senate in his, and tha. he have therefore withdrawn. Those w ho are ould produce no fact to bear out bis left are honorable houses and value their I charge. No portion of the democratic party reputati n too much to attempt to evade ever intended under any contingency a rev- the law in any way. Theamount inspected, [olutiouary movement lor the expulsion o< therefore, represents prettv correctly lire | the president when the electoral cotnmis- amount sold. Tire largest lot of gnano in-1 s on bill was posted. It contained a proviso spected in one lot this season wa* 2,000 tons of Soluble Pacific, the ins ection being done A Louisiana Opinion on the New Con* addition of Georgia. New Orleans Times. The revolution in state constitutions in augurated by Pennsylvania in 1874 has yet made little progress. The >*ate of Georgia followed in 1877, but straiidcd on the reefs of a bleak shore of imbecility, and we are at a loss how to locate the hybrid phenome non sent out by her body, of constitution- makers with the statesmanlike model of the Quaker commonwealth in their hand.- 1 - Having commended to our approaching as sembly the latter as a charter of rights val noble to tlie people and worthy of emula tion, we projose to warn it against deviating into the failure so signal in the former. In the Pennsylva nia constitution design and exe cution go hand in hand in admirable itar- roony, being both of the first order of merit. Its initial purpose is to resolve all the ele ments of tree government susceptible of such treatment Into elementary principles, and the clear, concise, comprehensive and profound manner in which it is done re vives the order of slate papers conspicuous in the early days of the republic. It thus takes many of the citizen’s rights and pre rogatives from the control of the huckste.- ing politician, and secures for them direct recognition by the judicial j>ower. Then re cognizing the wanton, protligratp and tu multuous element of the political slums in the law-making au:hority, it proceeds fur ther to abridge its capacity for mischief by means of elaborate interdictions. Our pre sent design is to make apparent by contrast the failure of the emulous Georgian to fol low in the footsteps of these examples. The copyist of all grades, and in every walk of art, improves, so to speak, upon his model in the inverse ratio of his inca{>acity; thus, in this case, the "declaration of rights" is improved into "bill of rights.” The declaratory schedule itself presents proofs in series that the Georgian politician does not rise to the height of perceiving even the scope, character and purpose of the Penn sylvania statesman. For example, we quote two provisions of the .-ante class, both su(>erfluous, if not silly, which apjiear, one in Art. I, comprising the declaratory list, and the other in Atl III, defining thepow- of the legislature: BILL Or RIGHTS. Sxc. 2, Par. 6.—The general assembly shall have »e power to proved© for the punishment of It ’" _n»l shall provide by law for reaching the pr ty of the debtor concealed from the creditor. LEGISLATIVE PET A UTS ENT. Sac. 7, Par. 22.—The general assembly shall have nwer to make all law* and ordinances const-tent with this constitution, and not repugnant to the constitution of the United States, which they shall deem necsssary and proper for the welfare of the state. This loose mode of putting into form sc solemn a compact, with or without capaci ty for tlie work, is extremely reprehensible, and we are jsiosesaed of an interne desire that our convention should not fail tosee it A body of coustitution-makers so obvious ly incapable as that which turned out the Georgia instrument should secure the sole merit possible to it, of adbearing close ly to the able and statesmanlike model be fore it But the exact contrary is the cose. It seems to suffer, indeed, a chronic appre hension that some one may detect it in tire act of stealing. And tire mode by which it proposes to secure itself against such dis covery ought to bring a smile even to the pinched and sad countenance of the pre vailing member of the general assembly of the old Quaker state. A couple of excerpts will illustrate this: on the Marietta road, near tlie fair grounds, were startled by a report that a man had been found just below tire entrance to. the park lying in an *nconscious condition and desperately wounded. Assis tance was soon summoned, and several parties present recognized the wound ed maw as Mr. Hugh Dunning, a well-to-dii farmer, Sfho has an extensive plantation ni-out five miles from the city on the river road. When he was discovered by the neighbors a sad sight was presented to them. It ap|>eaji that his wife and daughters, who are members of the i’atholic church, were coining Tnto tire city early to attend mass, and as they were riding along the road discovered him lying in liis blood on the ground. Of course they were shocked, but as soon as they recovered sufficiently called assist ance to see if anything could possibly be done to relieve the sufferer. His head was found terri bly beaten and a How of blood had crimsoned the ground all around him. He seems to have been struck with some very hard weapon, and evidently received several blows. He was unconscious when found and seemed nearly dead. He tin* subject. One other h 1 depivarioo thro a »uA(4eut volm follows Settios ft. That nothing in this act shall be held •:ht. One reason of the present life -1***1 of th- . . . cou'.l "»ed contra tt -n under the present ft nan <4*1 *>'t* “ ‘ “ «**1jr politic. At tht* time, by the jit >n under the prevent *-* . tin re l* * dettetaney of currency u e country. Thti could, tu my The Vida* ■ • * Ott* metal *houM be unrestricted, unlimited, ilmtde* thin, t would bring Into ac ute and Immediate use all the present bullion of the country. I would authorize the oor*jIn* and stamping, to an unlimited extent, of all the gold and silver bullion that could be brought b> our mint*, and authorize th* lame of The mint l-ower of U»e l'utied Mott* cannot tn>w turn out m >re than &*M*u,uu0 per annum, but bjr amaying the bullion and stamping it* value course inspected at Savannah. i the constitution and lawTlo question by proceed- . , „ ..*v* .«the l h**» 1“ judicial courts of the United States. As to the question— Do tire buyers. «r Ure ^^lar title of the person who shall bed* sailers pay the fee for inspection, that ap- r ur^u> be elected or who shall claim to be prc*t- pears to have been *ati.-la1only settled in I dent or vice-president, if any such right exist*. P«)>enAon vh»t the cotitomk>n would. »on tew. ee -here «he« «e laic . t did , ntux to i.x.k into and Teelieate the alleged baud, in Louhiana It 12 end Florida, and Sat the recoil of their la t»r would be the declaration of one of the h’^e ^er cl.ima.fa-p«ident without an -amin.. , J . . I tion into the teetimouy regarding the merits Tha aentiemen of the dejwriment note of th , ^ u ra ^op lc d that the door, that a higher (trade of ferUluen are hen.c mi^h, be left ojwn in wieh a case to a Utught thn rear than were erer tn demand .a,™ judicial iuTeatigation. which ahonld before, and the farmer, went to ltaee their triueou, the facia. That them was ground preferences directed towards certain brands f or t he belief that the courts of the coun- that have stood the test of experience for lrT wou id have jurisdiction is mani- several years. Some are popular in one ^ frora th « Uct that learned gentlemen ■«ctk*n, ind others in another section;, but «at«m«onU sides tire farmers are pretty generally determined o( chambers incorporated a pcoHskm as to what they want. j of the electoral commission bill reserving • all right to reopen this question and have it McIntyre's Hnrrender. I investigated before the judicial tribunal* of Special dispatch to tha Gonstitation. I the country. Some of the moot able law- SnuxortKLO. Ill, March 27.—J. D. Me- | yers believe that by proper proceeding the Intm of Pekin, known as king of tire supreme court can get jurisdiction to inves- . * . T _ - t J.J .21. i... 2_ I iKia •titMfi.tfi It wai nn that nnnf-i. would lw the beat currency ta the wtwkt; tt *.#ll be ftvclvahlr U>r all dim. We hare pa—ed that day in civilUaUou io which thecoma. goM i silver, are ‘ ' *’ erty more than once for the some offense, save on *'» or her motion for a new trial after conviction, in case of mistrial.—Go. Const., Art 1, par. 8. Thus the neophyte conld not reproduce the simple declaration above, which has been contained in all systems, without dis closing—well, tire Mammalian appendage, which the constitution-iuaker of Georgia does not, in a political sense, seem to have dropped, as was to be expected if tlie theory has application to political species. And, again, the next following paragraph offers a little illustration: Excessive boll shall not be required, nor exces sive fines imposed, nor cruel punishments in flicted.—Penn. Const., Art. 1, 8cc. 1L Excessive ball shall not be required, nor exces sive fines Imposed, nor cruel nor unusual pun ishments inflicted; nor shall any person b< -* -* *—in Are we to consider abase billingsgate in the constitutional sense; or, shall its defi nition be found in Webster; or, shall the general a<c»embly exercise its power or. is the judicial intellect to grapple with this nnexitected 'problem in Georgia pol itics? But it is to be conceded that the ambi tious Georgian, in his perpetual struggle to display original merit, here and there bits the bull’s eye, as thus: Par. 5—Lobbying is hereby declared to be Whatever tuav be thought of the mental condition of tire confiding constitution- maker who entrusts the confidence man, known as the legislature, with the enforce ment of the declaratory provision, he will be commended, at least, for breaking it in. Yet it is wholly as a warning, and not an example, that we invite notice tj this state paper. It is wanting in every excellence that distinguishes the other, and chiefly in that of forging letters for the culprit de partment which habitually wrongs the peo ple—the legislative. Let us crowd into our new cor sutution as much as practicable of lire people’s charter in the Quaker state. PREVENTING A MARRIAGE. the house where Berry Sorrels lived. :>-.d 1 entered it, and seized him and carried Mm I out in the yard and shot him several times j with pis*n?and then got on their horses J and ga.lupcd^ off. The negro tan some i twenty or »hirty yards after he was shot, [ A SHARP TURN IN TIME Li PON A REPREHENSIBLE HABIT. six persons in the house when I Undstwo«d Calls on the Grand Jtiy for Prompt Attention—The State Prom on the Piitol-Slinger*—The Working of Pablio Opinion, Etc. __ . ^ tenderest cart*.. The news of this unfortunate affair reached the i«lice force, and the captains put some of the force to work on tlie matter at once. By noon they had arrested a negro named Ramlall on suspicion of guilt. He denied knowledge of the affair, but circum stances involve, to a considerable extent. It apitears that lie hits been working on farm with Mr. Donning. Saturday they had a misunderstanding about the feed ing of some mules, and Mr. Dunning spoke harshly to tlie negro. He left in a sullen mood and is accused of having said to some te that be “would be even.” Mr. Dunning came into the city Sat unlay attend to several matters of business, among which was the collection of some rent due from colored tenants. The negro Randall either came in with Mr. Dunning or soon after hint and they were together in the city. Late in the afternoon they were together at Easley’s blacksmith shop on Marietta street Front this point it appears that Mr. Dunning returned to the city and the negro went on out the street in the direction of the farm. No more was seen of him that night He was arrested oti the streets about noon Sunday. As to what Mr. Dunning did Saturday night orat what time he started home there seeius to be no cer tainty. It is not even approximately known at wliat time of tlie night the a»- sanlt was made tijion him. The best evP dence on this point is probably that **f Mr. George Kreis, who resides at the fair grounds. He returned from Gainesville Haturday night and reached the fair grounds about 12 o'clock. He says he heard some one groaning and crying just down the road, but supposed it was a drunk en roau ’ and paid little attention to iL From the direction and locality of the sounds lie is sure that the cries were those of Mr.Running. It is probable that he was knocked down about eleven o’clock. On the theory that the negro is not guilty of this murderous assatiiL it must be that Mr. Dunning was attacked by villains who intended to rub him. He frequently comes to the city to collect rents and carries con siderable sums of money borne with him. He seems to have freely announced his in tention to come to the city Saturday for this purpose. DEATH OF MB. DCX5IXG. After Mr. Dunning was taken home he sank steadily, and it was evident that his in juries were fatal. The blows on the head were evidently of sufficient force todrac- the skull. He remained unconscious and now and then went into convulsions. Yesierdav at noon he died surrounded hy his grief-stricken family. We learn that Coroner Drake will hold an inquest the remains to-day as the law directs. This foul murder should be taken in hand by the officers of the law and every effort used to arrest tlie scoundrel who perpetrated it. Doubtless a reward will be offered for the apprehension of the murderer, if the negro proves his innocence. Mr. Dunning was a well-knowre Fulton countv farmer of means. He ot\"ed con siderable property in the city and had a large number of colored tenants here. He was of Irish descent and was considered a good, peaceable citizen in the neighbor hood where he lived. 11is farm is two miles this side of the river. He leaves a wife and four children. He was probably about 48 years old. Of course tlie community is greatly out raged at this midnight assault uj>on a peace able citizen who was beaten down on the pub lic highway and murdered in the dark. Such an occurrence is shocking in tlie ex treme, and the only approach to a repara tion of the crime is tlie punishment of the criminal whose heart was black enough to foster such a scheme. This justice must be accomplished, if possible. The negro now under arrest will proba bly soon have a preliminary examination. The Coroner'* Inquest—The Funeral Tuesday, Etc. Tlie mysterious murder of Mr. Hugh Dunning has eaused no little commotion in the community. He was very well known, and his midnight murder was a terrible i i- . .1 r_: i_ the murderers entered, consisting of Berry Sorrels, ti e murdered negro, who is some fifty-five years old, and hi* wife, his daugh ter, his son and another negro and his wife. All were in bed asleep when the party . came and called the old man ouL His son I The Rome Bulletin contains the charge awoke and saw the situation his father was I of Judge J. W. H. Underwood to the grand in. He slipped out and run to the house of I J ur y of Floyd county. We clip from it his the widow* 8mitli to give (he alarm, and get Jointed instructions relative to the crime the assistance of her son. who lives with her, of carrying concealed weapons: but before lie got there he heard the report I "There is one other thing I shall call your of the pistols, aud before Smith got up the 1 attention to.^ (Read* section of code rela- murderers past him in full tilt for parts un-1 tive to carrying concealed weapons.) No known. I person in this state is permitted to canry At thia writing there are some persons, about his i*erson any pistol, bowie-knife living not far off, who are suspected, and it I w other deadly weapon, unless openly and is thought that they can be recognized by I fully exposed to view. If they carry them the family. Their names are withheld at to »»>’ public ground or gathering, present. There will be a coroner’s inquest I either concealed or exposed, over the body, and light will be thrown on I crime, and against the law. the tragedy. | search was instituted, 1 believe they It 1s to*be hoped that the |*erpetrators I could be found in this court-house. I do tuay be found out aud the party brought to I noi propose to institute a search, but if the S i, for lynch law is getting tn be of too legislature will authorize me I will do iL I nt occurrence. If the negro is or vu have never let an opportunity escape to de character, or bad violated the laws I “ounce this offense in the last six years, of the country, the law* of the country | Recent occurrences have stirred up the pub could have punished its crituiuals. This is I lic mind on this subject, but there is no the second case of lynch law in this county 1 more reason for this excitement now tlian since tlie war. We hare liad but very few I * n tlie pasL There are hundreds annually murder cases, and but one man has been I slaughtered, or rather assassinated in cunse- hung in this county in thirty-five or forty I <l ue »ce of carrying contrary to law, conceal- years, and that was a negro*boy who was I ^ weapons. When will our people under hung for the crime of rape. The voice of I *tand the loss of life in consequence of this people of this countv.sai’s let justice be unlawful practice? Why. «lo men want to *■ E. T. M. I S° over tlie country with a pis- CHURCH CHIMES. ' buckled around them? They want it to give them an advantage. These bullies insult you. and if you dare to ex- Nearly 400,000 copies of the new Method* I the spirit of a man they will put you ist hymnal have been sold. j to death, and when he is tried the jury will TuK.veroserolao- of.elersj.nea in the | « T\' K !>«» Methodist church in Social I ;'fancirf"insul"t puts'kim to"death! U The Circle will be finished during the coining street and town bullies who carried pistols summer. . | before the war made the poorest soldiers we 1880 will be the one hundredth anniver- I had. What are you going to do with these wiry of the origin of Sunday-schools in I men? Are you going to let your neighbors' Gloucester, England, by Robert Raikes. I sons go on the road to ruin, or are you going There are now thirty-five colored students I to P ut ‘he halter of the law upon them? in the theological department of Harvard Don’t you think that if there are twelve or university in training for the ministry. I hit®®!* hundred pistols in Floyd county you They represent five different denominations. I c ^ n */ ew of them? Don’t you know The first printed work of any.magnitude as the Latin Bible, called the Mazarin Jf_J Bible, printed about 1455. The first English ^ at the feet of the vile and yicu Rihl* T.rintP.1 in 1535 ^**g**j>« i have not said as much on this subject _ Bible was printed in 153o. have said to the juries for the past six years. The Presbyterian ministers of Philadel-1 The public mind now seems to be rutmiuc phia have been discussing t he theater ques-1 against the practice,but it cannot be stopped l ‘ on *. They passed a resolution affirming I except in one way, and that is by the grand that it is unchristian for church conunu- juries of the country co-operating with the nicants to attend theatrical performances. pulpit and press. But when one is con- The jubilee singers of Nashville, having victed of the offense, preachers of the rested after their long tour in Europe, will I country sign a petition to have the penalty make another singing tour of tlie north, l modified. I was forced to lower my sights Recently they gave a concert at Nashville I on it because public opinion would to a mixed audience, tlieir being no re- I not stand a vigorous enforcement of the served seats—an innovation in the south. I law. The legislature enacted this law* forty- Thebe is no lack of candidates for foreign t ? ro years and have maintained it ever missionary ap|K>intments in the Protestant I 81ncc » an d tb ® governor of the state has Episcopal church. The foreign committee I never pardoned ;a man for this offense, f he of the board of missions had at the begin- » U P" , “® 9° ar f h " »idl that they believe tt ning of the present year fourteen appliem-1 to h* their solemn and imperative duty to tion* they could not accept because of lack announce that this is a wise law, and ought of funds. I to be vigorously enforced by the courts ant* i —*— — e not your and don’t brag quite so much about the skill of attorneys when they, through fraud, strategy and big fees, or money used in other ways, manage to let one after another cold-blooded murderer go scot-free. This is the way to put a stop to bloodshed upon the merest pretense or provocation m Georgia, and there is no other way to rid the sute of blustering, murderous, cowardly bullies. ‘‘Fearless” ix Hartwell Sex: Let the good honest citizens of every county form vigilance committees and hang judges, law yers, preachers, loafers, or any one else found with a pistol in their pocket The time lias come for a desperate remedy for a desiderate disease. After the war, the ku- klux were a necessity and did much good in keeping down lawless, murderous vil lains—the only trouble, they held on a lit tle too long. But in sixty days the pistol “toters” can be swung up in every county. If a boy fifteen year* old should be caught with a pistol, hang him; for pigs will make hogs. This thiug lias to be stopped before prosperity, morality, or genuine religion can ever have the ascendency in this de moralized country. Daltox Enterprise: It was not alone the corruption of rulers that bowed imperial Rome to tlie dust and made her people, as Tacitus termed it, "fit only to fill tlieir bel lies with husks and turn on their backs to die,” but it was a debased public sentiment that accomplished the work. And so it will be with us. A degenerated feeling prompts people to carry concealed weapons until a mad dog on the street will be tne sesame for a hundred pistols to Hash in the air from pockets long accustomed to their company. This popular contempt for the law in this enlightened country and century is surely an evil worthy of the closest attention. It is a foul blot upon the escutcheon of our state, and should be dealt with promptly, summarily, aud frowned down by law- abiding people everywhere. IN GENERAL. : SSfffTJS-'S ii the publishing of a Jewish I Won’t the gisnl people of the coni' S I munity frown it down? Your frown can only it h» tA n ■* 5c ' !n nmi understood by an indictment; it can be found. Theeditor, ltsays, most be | t | ie f rowl , of the traverse jury by a a man of the highest scholarship and a | verdict ut • guilly whe „ te3 ,uuony war- id the fr The Jewish contemplation quarterly review, favors the project, if a thorough theologian. FOREIGN FLASHES. w . when testimony war rants it; and the frown of the court is when crime. The clergy can do a great deal. The churches can do a good deal, if they will sec Prince Battexburu has abandoned his I that no man can get iuto the church or scruples relative to accepting the throue of I stand there if he has these weapons strapped Bulgaria, and his election is certain. on him, going about over the country. The IAR TKEK, the contractor for raising the merchants mid farmera can do a great deal, iron clad Grosser Kurfurst, has completed *“ d the Indies can do a good deal Were his preparations and is waiting for favora- ‘ h< * e P 8 * 1 ” ,abooe<1 Irani society, etthem ble weather find no employment, then the people would Tr . .1 .i- begin to feel a relief of this terrible dread. Haslos, who ts training for th# sculling tt Is time something should be done and match with Howdon, is unfortunately af- some thing has to hi done. I want to see fectedi by the climate and suffers with a bad the publ *. authorities exhibit courage cold, thus interfering with ins training ex- enough to enforce the law prohibiting this ercises. . evil practice. Do you expect to do anything A Bkrlix dispatch to the London Post I without trying? Do you expect to reform says the czar is expected here for the enqie-1 anybody without an effort? It lias been ror’s golden wedding in June. It is now I truly said that the law was not sufficient, admitted that the emiteror’s full produced I but it is the enforcement of the a painful gathering, which, however, is not I law that is needed. If laws were passed “1 bad as it was. j that could be enforced to compel Private advices from Mandulav represent I ra ®*' 1° I*®y a tox for cariying these things, that quiet prevails there. The king of >t might do some good. Let every man do Burmah, since the dispatch of reinforce-1 his own duty, and see to it that he has done ments of British troops, is reported to have I all he could to suppress these evils and put expressed his willingness to grant any con- da*n. It is a practice more dangerous to .i 1 ** -‘ 1 — —— U! -—-* A SOUTHERN OUTRAGE THAT BLEEDS THE NORTHERN HEART. A Little B.-iaonce That Beaches From Hew York to Georgia—A Fond Northern Maiden’s Af fections Trifled With by a Burol * Georgia Gentleman." —Secretary Schurz has two grown daugh< ters and two little boys. —A very large whale, killed by a sword fish, has drifted on the gulf coast of Flor ida. —Blessed is the man who lovetli his wife’s relations; and not only blessed, but also scarce.—Salem Sunbeam. —"Is Simon Cameron really eighty years old? We should not think so from the evi dence,” observes the Chicago Tribune. —Tlie New York Herald says: ‘‘Let the eagle flap his wings—the doors of the British war office fasten with American locks.” —In the Oliver-Cameron suiL the exami nation of the plaintiff by Mr. Butler may be described as a case of widow cut widow. —The doors of the Wittenburg church, on which Luther nailed his famous thesis, is now removed to Berlin, where it is in use at SL Bartholomew’s church. —"Marriage ” says a cynic, "is like put ting your hand in a bag containing ninety- nine snakes and one eel. You may get the eel, but tlie chances are against you.” —The Boston Post nominates for presi dent Agnes D. Jenks, of New Orleans ; for vice president, Mary Oliver, of Washington. Close un the ranks ! society than all other causes combined. Here are the young men coming up seeing ran lo dxy at the Lincoln spring meting 1 CHI t"?,! SpffEff ° f y“ do n^t find th^ Ton . t, ns «>£, t°fr I “l» n the if*"- b “J tlie rawdy who goes over the country shooting and cut- De. Carver, the American sharp-shooter, gave, an exhibition of rifle shooting at Welsh Harp, at Hendon, yesterday, though the weather was unfavorable. The Sportsman says, such consummate skill was I What Is Thought of the Practice hy cessions demanded. never before displayed iu England. A Sister Flaring Her Hand on the ■euth ef Her Dying Brother. WAsmxcrox, March 20.—On Sunday night Captain Norman Crone, well-known here, wa* dying at Meyer’s hotel, in this city. The captain was worth about $20,000. He bad lived five years with a woman named Mary Crane, and hod introduced her as bis wife in some of the most respectable circles in the district. No marriage ceremony had, however, been p?rformed. When Captain Crane was dying he desired to make Mary his legal wife. Tlie captain’s sis’er, Celia Crane, was violently oppuaad to a marriage, there being, it appear*, no wilL A clergyman, the Rev. Dr. James G. Addison, was sent fur. and was willing io perform tlie ceremony. Dr. Townsend, wno was also present, thus de scribed the scene in an interview with a Post ^Thesl-tcr kept her place by the ride of the bed. and as I askedtbequestioo flrn^to prove hiscon- slnx-k to liis family and friends. Tlie circumstances were such as clearly to demand an inquesL Tuesday morning, therefore, Dr. Drake, the coroner of Fulton county, proceeded to fulfill his dnty *“ premises. He left the city at ten o’clock and went to the late residence of the deceased, about five miles from the city, bn the river road. There a jury was summoned and the inquest held. The post-mortem examination was made by Dr. T. 8. Raines. The skull was found to be broken near the right temple. Several pieces of the skull bone were easily taken ouL The scalp seems to have been* cut by some sharp instrument, which must have been deal: with terrible force. It is hardly less than miraculous that the man should nave lived after he received such a blow. He lingered a whole day and a half. Such tenacity of life is seldom seen. THE EVIDENCE was adduced by the examination of several witnesses, but was on the whole quite mea- E er. Nothing but circumstances were rought out by the examination of any wit- ss. The main facts in the testimony are as follows: Mr. Dunning and a negro, James Randall, who worked for him, came to town Saturday. Before that time they appear to have been on very good terms with each other. Saturday afternoon they met at Easley’s blacksmith-shop, near the plow- factory. on Marietta streeL There a quarrel whisky ring, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Filed Si ales court to all the indict- inetita again-a him. He was fined W,(W 1 VMi !**' ‘li.iillery forfaited to the eoracn- • ihaipotiu at Which w» mem «w two ^ plea* — -**•- t Sentence priHaUr* la p*>\ boi the equtv*- J pended a- to the other pleas on condition Wui tor o4». i mmmywtii tor hard taoinrv. I j t hat ue w .old inform ou the other members w*s Drought Up in the hant-mouey arhooL I am # .x. . I -r hold money, not lo carry about la your iac nn «*- , pocket, or roll i.i tbe wheelbarrow*, but tore- i main tn ihe vauluof the treasury, with it* equiva lent l' . . . lot the u*e ot trale. The*e excheqv incut certificate*—<aff them what you may— would h* equivalent, dollar Aw dollar, lor coin, for the *overnmeut w«uM hold gold or silver to rover every dollar t*ut>tandins, aud thia currency would In a few year* be perfectly gaol for ex ec have ivitntucicial deal- KU'traUa. Auvlhcr moo- t ought to repeal, and that I* the federal prohibition against »lnur Looking. 1 hi* subject I Jo not now propose to dlwruMs. I onlv mean briefly to point out some «>! the great question* which, la my judgment, devolve tJjam this democratic rongxem. The** I have staled arc but a few of them. A* to the tin change* wherever ins»- fro** ( tin* t* think. KSSZ Giles, who recently ratigned the jadgeship of the United States district court for Ma ryland on account of illness, died last nighL lie was 72 years of age, and has been judge of the court tacitly--five years. What Special dispatch to The Nashville. March 25.—The governor hav ing despaired of a settlement of (be state debt by the legislature coot vising the calling aconstitnti was had in which Mr. Dunning used severe language to the negro and both became ry angry. ting liis way. By myself, I can do nothing. CONCEALED WEAPONS. the Frees of the State. Valdosta Times: The Alston tragedy lias put the press to discussing the habit of car rying concealed weapons. It is a cowardly Southern Fruit Business. Cincinnati Enquirer. „ _ . ...... The shipment of southern fruit and vege- --ractice. and unbecoming a man who pro- IWP»» oath*, t mediatec*u*cw which required tiiLextra■mirto* | 1 «4 ronf rroa. I took upon them only a* *mall amt- < ww “* trr» ronridered by the ride *1 the crave and heavier datic* f-»r »luch the country will bald u* iwiuble. Aa to the tort oath* and Juror*' tnxqw at the ivtU* them, aaa matter of , v v . ,, . _ _ .... .m tw aL Thn «• —w N*w JUrah S.—Th. trial ot the touto. bo.rvrr, pwi in ilwta.lt. it 1* mic. Kee. Or. T^maae begaD faefara the Brooklyn bat I aniiripnie bo eoomet .hnierer bennen ,.re>byterr thu afternoon. The doctor mede a.peech. in which he maud io th. ’ihSSZJX r <?*?iStfl! Umi I emphatic ouooertbat be conned a nfai toSLton thtoL ta'tkttotiaeei^Tit j l«U iorctigatioo of the chargee agaimt I th* way to pick up a fight Let ns go right on | him, denying them in toto. tigatc thu question, lt was on that princi ple that the legbdatare of New England pmued a memorial to congress demanding that proceedings of this nature should be inaugurated. Some of the mom distin- K Dibed republican lawyers of the country id that it would be perfectly proper in a npetent proceeding for the supreme court reopen and determine this case upon its merits. Every gentleman of his (Mr. Hill's) acquaintance, every prominent democrat of the United States who desires to investigate this question at all desires to do so in the court* a»d n:<der the encouragement and authority of the electo ral law. Was this revolutionary? Whether fh*» proceeding before the oaurt should be inaugurated or noL none would depend on the reliable evidence that should be ob tained in the case, therefore all sections of the democratic party were willing to have on investigation to obtain the real facta. There were republicans as well as democrats in the country who. if the facts should thoroughly establish the illegality of the if it should appear that the supreme court have authority to investigate the subject, were in favor of such investigation. Mr. Hill denied that the democratic party had ever announced a revolutionary purpose looking to the expulsion of the presidenL He said^ in conclusion that the senator from New York had informed this body that when he came here be would find thuee the cheek and mid, "Don’t answer them, my dear brother.** In hi* weak condition he would at once relapse, and after several attempt* and fail- urea, both land Dr. Addlroo gave Hup. . The marriage was thus prevented, and after the captain’s death the sister took pos session of bis personal property. 1 be al leged wife caused the arrest of the sister on the accusation of larceny, bat on the wit ness stand the com plait-nut acknowledged that there had been no i.rarriage ceremony. The police justice thereupon decided that the sister, being the natural heir, was en titled to the property. The so-called Mrs. Crane was visited by a Post reporter. She is of a petite figure, about 30 years of age. of fair complexion, and very ladylike and modest in her de meanor She mas dressed in deep mourn ing. £he was evidently worn and worried with excitemenL She said that she had been living for years as the wife of Mr. Crane; had forsaken home and friends for him, and, in the eyes of God and man, was his wife. Speaking of the reasons for de laying the marriage, she explained that it had been spoken of between them, bat that up lo bis last sickness nothing definite had been arranged. Some time before Mr. Crane’s death the Rev. Dr. Addison bad called, but at that time, al though she thought of suggesting the mar riage, she bad deferred iL end when be next came it was too late. She added that she did not know the sister until her arrival, and that the sister had prevented the mar riage by placing her hand over the mouth aud head of Mr. Crane, thus preventing him from answering the questions when asked. The quarrel was something about farm matters. When they parted at the shop Mr. Dunning came to the central portion of tlie city and the negro went out to the farm. He reached there about dark, but after re maining a short while returned to the city. On his wav bock be came up the railroad track, and on his way met a negro and asked him if hi bail seen anything of Mr. Dunning. He seemed be looking for him. and seemed particularly anxious to meet him. No further trace is found of the negro until he wa* sought by the jail ice next day and arrested on sus picion. a sew theort of tlie death is suggested by a mem ber of the jury. When Mr. Dunning was found he wa* lying within three feet of the railr>*ad track with his head toward the raiL It is supposed possibly that he might have been drinking and. having laid <u>wn with hi head very close by the rail, met his fate by a blow from the pilot of the locomotive which brought in the 10:50 train. Dr. Drake thinks that his wounds might possibly have been inflicted in such a manner. After hearing all the evidence and hold ing a general consultation, the jury re turned the following verdict: We. the jury of inquest oveathe body of Hi Dunning, now lying here dead, find that the ceased come to hkdeath by a blow or blows upon the head in the region if the right temple, from some instrument to us unknown and from the evidence before us believe that the deed committed by one James Randall, colored. tables from the south last year to northern tends to honor and bravery. Our observa- markets did not yield to the grower as tion has been that cowards alone strut handsomely as in former years, and in con- j around with pistols in their pockets, sequence orchards and strawberry patches I Franklin Register: Since the murder of rre to some extent for sale, while in not a I Colonel Bob Alston, the press of the state is few instances berry patches have been con-1 heavily down on the carrying of concealed verted into fields for-the production of a I weapons. It should be, and if there is any more lucrative crop. The cause of this is to I law by which this dangerous and cowardly a great degree due to tlie fact that large 1 practice can be suppressed, it should lie bulks of fruit—much of it indifferent— I enacted and enforced, were shipped doily by fast freight or fruit Savaxxah Riooedxr: Iu the Gibson trial tnia^ ... I is was a clear case of voluntary man- In former yeara, when the business was sUu( ., lter . If we only had a law allowing profitable to the regular frmt-grower, the thirds of the jury to bring in a verdict, transportation was confined only to passen- ve wonId have fewer mistrials, and more ger trains in charge of a messenger of the l 8pee ^y justice. Perjurers do sit upon juries, „urde n ^fed"n"r^ reLfa?7rewe'; ig w h h!;’ p“£ which h^e' ducesHine'lruits i hfa’sEi? the sUtcw.lhio the ,wst few mju.h, have ments being carried to the various markets I ****** in the shortest possible time in care well I tiaenet^rity ventilated and arranged by the messenger ^rt^^ h^ that in charge, arrived in fresh, sound and cn m mal laws, and it isto be hoped^thot maAetable condition and brought goad P On the introduction last year of fast Montezuma Week lt: There is no protec- freighL or fruit trains, for this business, | tion tor the law-abiding; portion of the com* every farmer who had a few fruit trees or a I raunity against the “pistol toters,” except small berry patch for his own consumption I in the enforcement of the laws made to fit was induced by the cheap rates of tratis-1 just such cases, and a grand juryman who portation on the freight trains to gather and I will not assist in getting a "true bill box his fruit and ship it north, no matter against every person violating this law whether it was good, bad or indifferent, and I should have his name withdrawn from the the consequent large quantities shipped I jury-box. It is the doty of every good citi- "glutted” or overstocked the markets, and I zen to aid in patting down the nefarious tumbled prices to a non-paying basis. I practice of carrying concealed weapons. A portion of this fruiL from being ranch I Covixgtox Star: Public opinion must longer in transportation, and with Tittle or I frown it down, and every citizen rausl keep no ventilation or arrangement while en I a watchful eye on all suspicions persons and route, arrived in a sickly, perishable condi- l report to the proper officers every infringe- tion, and was not, in many instances, sold I m ent of the law that comes within tlieir for even the cost of cheap transportation. I knowledge. When you do this, no one will The experience of last summer very I be fool-hardy enough to btave public opin- clearly demonstrates that it is only choice I i^u, besides laying himself liable to the Close up the ranks! —Dr. H. Von Holst, professor of history at the university of Freiburg, will deliver a course of ten lectures before the students of Cornell university, commencing April 5th. —We often hear of deaths in the pulpit or on the stage, but Modjeska dies on tne stage every niehL Her motto, like that of a dyer on Michigan avenue is, “I die to live.’* —Nicolini, Patti’s “young man,” is not an Italian. He was born at Nantes, where his father, M. Nicholas, is a well-to-do hotel-heeper, very much ashamed of his sou. —Stanley, while away down in central Africa, discovered one or two tribes so hopelessly, despairingly, supremely igno rant, that they didn’t know much more than a petit jury—Burdette. —Perhaps hank-failures would be less numerous if the managers of the institu tions could manage not to hold a full-hand against four of a kiud when they played poker.—Fulton Times. —It is suggested by the Boston Post as handsome evidence of an era of good feeling if Hon. S. Cameron and the Widow Oliver would bury the hatchet and make a tour of the country as Romeo and JulieL —Tlie only state in tlie union which has no state flag is Indiana. The seal of the state represents a buffalo and a wood-chopper, but they never yet have been reproduced on bunting. Probably Indiana considers the stars and stripes good enough for her. —An exchange says that Senator Logan has tlie smartest wife. Senator Conkling the gentlest bom, Senator Dorsey the most beautful, Senator Sargent the strongest minded and Senator Gordon the most dis tingue. —Oh ! but didn’t the Mayor of Bombay get mad when Grant visited that place. You see, the mayor was making a speech in Hindustanee, and Grant got tired of it, and yelled from the other end of the table, ‘•What d’yer soy ?”—Derrick. Andrews’ Bazar: An Onialia belle re cently received a present of a pair of twen ty-four botton kid gloves from one of her admirers. She wrote him a letter of thanks in which she frankly told him he had made a great mistake in the size, but she liad remedied it by cutting off the feet and only wearing the legs. .Mrs. Belva A. lx>ckwood, the lady lawyer, made her first argument before the court of claims, on Monday, in the case of Raines and others vs. The United States. The motion was for leave to withdraw pa pers, which is not usually argued, but the court intimated a desire to hear her, and after argument granted the motion. —At private theatricals at Kideau Hall, the other evening, the Princess Louise wore black silk and diamonds. Neither she nor the Marquis of Lome took part in the play, that city and come to tlie state of Georgia. Yesterday she re turned home without a husband and in company with her mother and brother, who had accompanied her on a wild goose chase in search of a man. A reporter of The Constitution saw the trio at the union pas senger depot as they were awaiting the de- {tarture of a northern bound train. The countenance of the young female seemed to say that she was deeply distressed, probably occasioned by a feeling of severe disappoint ment while her mother appeared to be taking things easily. Her brother was also troubled. He stated to a by-stan- der that he was a d—d fool for having come south with his mother and sister ana spend ing nearly two hundred dollars in attempt ing to get a husband for his sister. This kind of conversation was not rejected but rather encouraged by those who stood near and he gradually turned the whole story loose to his audience. It seems that several months since his sis ter inserted the following notice in the New York Herald: Wonted, a husband: would like to marry a gentleman of comfortable circumstance* residing m the south. 8. E. R. Herald up-town office. Shortly after the appearance of this notice in the public press. Miss Redmond, whom we learned was the young lady’s name, re ceived a letter from a gentleman postmarked nt Hawkinsville, Ga., which states that he had read her notice in the Herald, and de sired to open up a correspondence with the author of the advertisemenL The lady answered the letter immediately and an animated correspondence was at once com menced. The lady wrote numerous letters, giving her age and size, and stated that she was a brunette; also stated that she was quite an accomplished pianist and vocalist; in short she thought that she oould make her cor respondent a good wife, and would try and make him happy, if they should become united in marriage. Her correspondent an swered all of the letters, and wrote that he was a farmer of middle age, and that he was situated in comfortable circumstances. He stated that he had quite a large farm located about fourteen miles from Hawk insville and that he had a plenty of every thing for both. Some of tne letters which passed between them might be called “soft,” tf such an expression is admissible under the circumstances. This state of things continued until a few weeks since, at which time Miss Redmond wrote a letter to her correspondent at Haw kinsville to the effect that she thought the time had come for action, and that if he would marry her she would come to him at once and have the ceremony performed. To this she received an answer to come at once and that he would be ready to receive her with open arms and make her his wife. This letter she received with true delight, and in all probability kissed tlie signature of tlie missive a score of times. Delay was not to be thought of under fruit, well and expeditiously handled, and I heavy penalties of the law. Let every good in quantities not too large to overstock the I citizen do his duty in this matter and the markets, that will yield a profit to tlie | ev il and pernicious practice of carrying FOOD FOR REFLECTION. concealed deadly weapons may soon be en tirely broken up. Elbkktox Gazette: In the unsettled por- . tion of the country where desperadoes is more profoundly sad than he I abound, and on the poorly protected Texas who is obliged to laugh. | border, it is proper that men should arm Absence is the greatest of evils when it themselves to defeud person and property, isn’t the best of remedies. but in a civilized country it is no act of Who* fortune ««*« . ...... too much bravery «^t.iitjrtor»my to ernry . afae is to make a foul of him. The man »Eo doe. a) fake,’the first step in The brat and worst of all frauds is to cheat I t j ie commission of a crime, and the sooner oneself. AH sin is easy after that. I our j aws # re shaped in that direction the He wlio is starving does not look to see if | sooner will the pernicious habit be broken the proffered loaf be fresh or stale. A Chinese proverb says, "Great souls have I Columbus Enquirer: A law badly eze strong wills; others only feeble wishes.” I euled. or not at ail, w worse than no law The rarest, and surely the happiest mar- I It licenses crime. It gives freedom to the riages. are between those who have grown I bully and the assassin. When public opin- iulove. I ion is such that duty is required of all, it Some men cling to their opinions more J hasatoost salutary aud beneficial effort, tenaciously than they ever w.Il to self-re- ««of uS 9p ^ . . , . ., I opinion that murder is the safest crime a f the fare is an l man can commit. Often the more brutal beauty of the heart lasts I t ^ e fa, the plea of insanity is more longer. I forcibly made. Death on the gallows will An ill-tempered word and a stone are alike I stop much of thia iusauity, and also the that, when once thrown, they cannot be I carrying of weapons. U1C diiu^uia ui uuiuc which was a comedy in three acts, railed “Alone.” There ore four male and two fe male parts in tlie play, which is suitable for parlor performances. —The will of General T. W. Sherman con tains no public bequests. He leaves $5,000 to a colored woman who has been in his family aiuce his marriage, and formerly, it fa sola, a slave in Governor Shannon’s fami ly. George C. Mason is appointed guardian of bis son, who at twenty-one obtains abso lute control of a prouerfy estimated at about a hundred thousand dollars. \ —The Belgian bishops have condemned the government educational law because instruction in dogmatic religion is no longer made compulsory, and have pre scribed a prayer which is to be recited aloud after mass in every church and chapeL It calls on God-to prevent tlie bill from be coming a law. One of the most character istic sentences is: “From the schools with out God, and the schoolmasters without faith, deliver us, 0 Lord! Amen.” —<)ur best scholars tell us that the lan guage of ancient Greece was unsurpassed for Usnchness and variety of expression. Well, then, when an ancient Greek wanted to borrow five dollars of his classic neighbor he either bad to ask him, change? sndsT dough? rhino? shin plaster*? A NEGRO SHOT BY MASKED MEN. Vinegar Hill, Walton County, Haa n Lynching. Special dispatch to The Constitntkn. Social Circle. Walton county, March 25. The people of Vinegar Hill district, in this county, were shocked yesterday morning with the report of a horrible murder, com mitted by a party of men in dismiss^ the person of a colored man by the na of Berry Sorrels, on the plantation of the widow Smith. The particulars of recalled. A mam ran no more escape from his ordi nary grooves of thought than he can from his habitual grooves of action. Value the friendship of him who stands by yon in the storm; swarms of insects will surround you in the sunshine. Be very careful, if you regard yourself as the guanlian of your honor, that you do not occupy the position of a sinecure. Some people talk boars and say nothing; others there ore who, by the mere lifting of eyebrow or the gesture of a hand, are com paratively eloquent Love teaches canning even to innocence; and, when he gets possession, his first work fa to dig deep within a heart, and there lie bid, and, like a miser in the dark, to feast alone. The triumphs of truth ore the most glo- Habtwell Sun: The root of the evil should be reached. The axe should be laid at the very root of the tree. The facilities for disseminating these dangerous instru ments should be diminished, and. if it ran be done constitutionally, the sole or adver tisement of these dangerous weapons should be restricted, os well as the <arr\ t g of them punished. Then the young b«*»«d« would cool off before they had time u» *eud off to get their instruments of death and if shey the affair, so fair as 1 could learn from 1 nous, chiefly because they are the most one of the sons of the murdered ne-l bloodless of all victories, deriving their gro, were as follows: Sunday nighL between ( highest lustre from the number of the twelve and one o’clock, four men came to saved, not of the slain. ducat*? soap? rock*? ipondaUx? legal tender? Incre? tin? chip*? wherewithal! ready come down John? or else doff his abashed hat to the superior flexibility and greater variety and verbal wealth of^tbe United States language — Hawkeye. —British Colombia, a thousand miles or more away from Canada, is dissatisfied with tlie treatment she receives from the latter, and is talking strongly of seceding on the 1st of May unless her claim for railway and any circumstances. She at once read to her mother and brother the letter that had made her feel so happy. A trip south was planned in a most hasty manner. The other two members of tlie family said that they would go with her and see the affair done up in the best of style. No new clothes were needed. All that liad to be done was to bundle up such clothing as was now at hand, throw a few pairs of slippers into the trunks of those wlio were to constitute the party. Tickets were purchased without delay and soon tlie trio were on their way to Georgia os far as the Kennesaw route could take them. Arriving in Atlanta they boarded an outward bound train for Haw kinsville, where they expected to meet the man that was to make one of the party happy for life. Hawkinsville was reached without accident, and the party of three persons disembarked. Upon inquiry it was ascertained that tlie farmer for whom they were searching lived about fourteen miles from Hawkinsville, and that the stage would not go until the following day. This news of course caused no small disappoint ment to the party, and especially to the young lady. Although the disap|>ointment was inex- S ressible, it only brought about a greater etermination upon the part of the lady to get to the man whom she had learned to love on paj»er. The services of a stage were procured at an advanced price and the jour ney was continued. After riding for many hours over a rough road and through a per fectly barren of waste country, the stage was pulled up in front of a log cabin. It was midnight when the party reached the house. After knocking on the door for some time, an old gray-lieaded man looked out and inquired, "who was there?” The response was "frifends,” and a moment after the sit uation was fully explained. The old man dressed himself and asked the party in. The surprise of the young lady when she saw that her lover was an old wreck of humanity rather than a young and hand some southerner can only oe imagined. She turned away from him with a shudder and a feeling of great disappointment The mother tbecatne wrathy, and tlie brother let fly a few not very com plimentary remarks with reference to the “old cuss,” as he termed the farmer. An in vitation to the party to remain until morn ing was indignantly refused, and the young lady, much depressed in spirits, accom panied by her wratby and indignant mother and brother, entered the stage and were soon on their way to Hawkinsville. Meeting an old negro upon their arrival there, they asked him how the man stood from a financial standpoint The old negro looked up and remark.ed: “Why, missus, dat man nain’t got a cent, and his farm is so so po’ dat a ground mole would starve to def on it” . The first train that left Hawkinsville for Atlanta brought the disappointed trio away from the scene that had promised to be such a bright one to at least one member of the party, and ere now the would-be emi grants are on their return to New York city. The young lady should try it again. Prob ably she woula have better luck. If at first you don’t succeed, etc. A Georgia Storm. Sparta Ishmaelite: On Saturday last between one and two o’clock in the after noon the low. rumbling sound of thunder in the southwest attracted our attention. Looking out in that direction we discov ered a heavy, black looking clond—threat ening rain, as we supposed, but nothing more. Little groups of people were stand ing about on the streets watching its pro gress and exchanging views as to the prob ability of its boding a storm. The scurrying clouds soon shut out the sun from view, and threw their dark shadows over the town. The clouds now assumed a dark green tint, caused by the wind's whirling ut> into the air the pollen from the blooms of the pines in its track, or by the reflection of the green leaves and green fields below, or by noth. It was unmistakable now that a storm was coming, and those who had hiding places went to them—making better time than Rowell. A few hurrying feet did not get their owners safely housed^ before the storm struck the town. And the town was shaken up. There was a rattling of windows^ a sfauiiuing of doors, and a shivering of win dow-panes. Great sheets of rain were driven against the sides of bouses that shook to their foundations. Shingles and boards were torn from the roofs of houses, and mer chants’ “signs were in the heavens.” Trees bent and broke, or were torn up by the roots. Fences were blown right and left One house, an old wood-house in the rear of other facilities are conceded, memorial was duly signed some time ago, and, it was *upposed, was forwarded to Ottawa, but on Thursday last it was ascer tained that the document had never been dispatched. This puts the seceders in an awkward fix. —Miss Mary Anderson will play in Brook lyn during raster week. Her present tour, judging from the comments of the press, has been attended with exceptional success. It is pleasant in noting the criticisms to find n6 record of stolen diamonds, runaway horses, snatched pocket-books and extraor dinary dresses that nowadays seem to be re quisite in advertising on artist. The young American evidently depends on her intrin sic merit.—New York Herald. . . —The bridesmaids of the Princess Louise would fight, they could u.-e jiuit «uch arms | Morgoret hod to poy somewhot dearly for u God and nature haa s-.im.lied ihem with. I , he honor of appearing in this capacity. And ere long human blood •-. uld linw lew ! yhoe young ladies were informed that in freely, and tb« busineesof theeuur - would ! , ir der to insure uniformiiy their dres be considerably diminished. * * Gainesville Southron : The wav to pre vent the recurrence of murders U, first, fine every man who fa caught with a pistol or bowie-knife concealed about his person $1,000 if he is rich, and $500 if he is poor, or one day on the chain-gang for every dollar of delinquent fine. Second, hang by the neck until be is dead, dead, dead, every man who commits the crime of murder; mast be made for them by a modiste who charged them 50 guineas each and that they were to be coiffeed by one artist. In addition to this they were each required to giveacheck of 50 guineas to buy » present tor her royal highness. Lady Charlotte Bury long ago observed that "princes al ways give shabby presents. But that would be a poor rule if it worked b^th the barn of Mr. T. r. Turner wai from its supports. The principal damage done was in u»e destruction of thade trees. Trees were twisted off, blown down or stripped of their branches in and around Culvert on, tlie storm seeming to have in creased in fury as it reached that place. A few old houses were blown down, and slight damage was done to the dwelling bouse of Doc or Aubrey. No lives were lost in the county so far as we lutve been able to learn. The damage consists chiefly in the demoli tion of fences and trees, and m the frightening of people out of their wita. We have not been able to get at the par ticulars of the storm in Washington county. We learn that ore man was killed, and that fences were blown down and trees uprooted iu a lively manner. On the whole, it is a matter for thankfulness that the storm was not more destructive. The storm which swept over Hancock on the 20th of March, 1875, was much more fearful than the one of Saturday last. Still, last week’s per formance of the storm king was rather too lively to suit people of quiet habits. We hope never again to be compelled to renew ouracquaintance with the wind when it is in on extra hurry. The Greek Question. London, March 2a—The Paris corre spondent of the Times telegraphs that the last offer of Turkey to Greece, though un acceptable, was more liberal than formerly, and shows that Turkey feels her inability to evade the treaty of Berlin. The powers know that Greece may at any moment ap*