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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION i ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1880.
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ATLANTA, OA.. APRIL S7, IHaO.
Fislkt aeeraa to bare retired to tire Plu
tonian ahadowt. [
Jons KabbT will base to be harmoniied
with n four-pound weight.
PoUTirai. prrrserb: Thoae who est horse-
rsddiah ought to hive water iianriy.
I/KiaS haa carrierl Iliinoia for Grant, de
feating two well-known Chicago editors,
Colo*xl Ji. Plows, of Clierokee county,
has written a letter to the Rome Bulletin,
declining lo he a candidate for eongre
Tna legislature will meet in December.
Until then the Georgia Weatern may be a!
lowed to clumber quietly in ita little road-
The Dcaaaeerwtle Caaipalta.
It wan suggested by the democratic
state executive committee which met in
Atlanta recently that the county meet
ings for selectin’ delegates to the two
state conventions be held as nearly as
possible upon the same day. This seems
to lie impracticable an to the first conven
tion, which will be held in Atlanta on
the 9th of June; hut it is not impractica
ble as to the second and more important
convention,which will meet in Atlanta on
the 4th of August for the purpose of
nominating candidates for stale offices.
Wilkes county will hold
convention on the first Tuesday
Jone, and that convention
will name the date of holding the second
county convention. It is essential to the
harmony and unity of the party that all
the democratic voters participate in the
selection of delegates to the Angnst con
vention, and we therefore suggest that
the chairman of the state executive com
mittee issue a circular to the democrats
of each county suggesting that the county
meetings for the selection of delegates to
the August convention be held on the
first or second Tuesday in July. It is
essential that these delegates represent
the will of the people, so that whatever
attitude the independent leaders may as
sume, the voters of the party may have
excuse for complainingoftbe action of
the convention.
JIxaTTSTowsfisu: "Now, see here; why
“didn't they clip my ears? I have more
"than enough. Why outrage a colored
"man?” _________
Wa rise to a point of order. Whet does
a republican orator mean when he calls the
constitution "the great pabulum of our
"liberties?"
I* reply to a com»(>ondent, we would
etale that there are seven ways out of a dif
ficulty, the moet important one being not
to get into one.
It appears from all the evidence that the
Bhermen boomers thought best to attack
theoolored delegatee in the convention by
an elaborate system of free lunches.
Rcana leans heavily to Morrison as one
of the democratic dark horse*. Very well.
Ketch Mr. Morrison in. He it a genuine
democrat as well as an earnest tariff re,
former.
Hkyavt admitted in the convention that
lie carried five pistols, a fine-tooth comb
and a bowie knife in the days of reconstruc
tion. This shows what became of the con
federate survivors.
The conflict now is between the negro
from the country end the colored man from
town. It ia needleaa to say that the
colored man from town eats all the meat
and aops out the pan.
Wa would prayeriully advise the New
York Tribune not to gloat over .the appa
rent complexion of the Georgia republican
delegation, and we would advise other anti
third term organs to trait until the vote
reached in Chicago before they crow.
It ia hardly probable that a majority of
the oolored delegates to the republican con
vention will be able to resist the arguments
of the employees of the treasury depart
ment. Colored delegates are very auscepti-
ble to good, strong, properly planted argu-
menu.
Tnx amiable Mr. Roger,, private secrets
ry of the present well-known administra
tion, was offered the governorship of Idaho
recently. Mr. Rogers declined on the
ground that the duties of the position
Would remove him from the influence o(
Thk CoHSTiTirrio.*.
Some one has written a book entitled
"Step in the Dark,” but it is not as thril
lings* a step-ladder in the dark. A
lieeman ran over one of these things the
other night, and. after a very severe scuffle,
it was discovered that he hail it around his
neck. .
Tjix colored men vowed they would con
trol the convention, and they did; and
llryant controlled the colored men. The
truth is, in order io get away from Bryant
the oolored republicans will be com|>elled
to inaugurate an exodus and be very par
ticular which way they go.
SBiauAx'a gang who came south to pack
the Georgia republican convention, and
who succeeded to some extent, admit that
it was a matter of life and death to prevent
the choice of a Grant delegation to Chicago.
They say such a result in Georgia would
have influenced several other southern
states.
Atlasta is always ahead. Delegates
from this city represent a stack of counties
in southern and southwest Georgia seven
teen times larger than Rhode Island. This
iaone of the reasons why the republican
convention isn't for Grant. One of these
delegates carries as many as four counties
in his vest pocket.
Scrrosx it should turn out that the only
Sherman men on the Georgia delegation to
Chicago are the revenue officers? And sup
pose that the rest of tbo delegates should be
for Grant? Weask these questions now in
onler that there may be no surprise roani-
feated when the true inwardness of the
Georgia delegation make, itself manifest
Thi colored people of the north have the
right to demand that the people of the
north shall practice what they preach by
recognizing the social equality of the ne
gro, as well as hi* right to hold office.
There is not in the entire north a negro
tilling any representative office nor is there
a shadow of social equality. This state of
things looks rather queer to intelligent col
ored men.
It is not at all probable that I>r. Felton
will ever make another protest when The
Cossrmwiox alludes to the ways and
means committee as the smothering com
mittee. In truth and in lact, it is a subsi
dised committee and even this character-
isatkra is mild enough to be in the nature
of a compliment to those members who.
affecting protection, are in the pay of the
monopolies.
lx regard to civil service reform we would
politely call the attention of Mr. Hayes and
ilia excellent administration to the feet that
there are seven federal office-holders on the
'Georgia delegation to Chicago, We know
that it is only necessary lo call the etten-
Uon of Mr. Havre to this gross violation of
the letter and spirit of his civil service or
der to have the whole thing revired end
corrected. No president from Thomas Jef
ferson down should allow his subordinates
to laugh to scorn executive orders issued ii
good frMh
Wc are now even with the Burlington
Hawkeyew A few weeks ago. when the
tire democratic party of Iowa, consisting of
seventeen men and a sleeping-car conduc
tor, assembled in Burlington for the pur
pose of keeping alive the fires of liberty,
the llawseye, a republican paper, • took
them under its wing and carefully reported
the proceedings of the convention. Last
Wednesday, when the republican concern
lion assembled in Atlanta for the purpose
of giving the white office holders a black-
eye, Tux Coxxrm-nos took the sssembly
in charge and exerted itself to present a
faithful report of its proceedings, ms well as
a photograph of its personnel. The Hawk-
eye has not outdone ns in this business, and
it ia another example of the native luxn
Fiance of the amenities of journalism.
The Slate Conventions.
If we assume that Oregon, \iiginia,
and Georgia have elected delegates op
posed to Grant, and that the New Y ork
and Pennsylvania delegations will vote
according to individual preferences or
district instructions, the nomination of
Grant is well-nigh a physical impossi
bility. He cannot get another northern
delegate, except in Illinois, and the
policy that deprived him of Georgia will
be likely to take from him at least a part
of the southern states that are yet to
elect delegates. If the tide begins to set
against Grant, as now seems probable,
Blaine will carry Illinois on the 19th of
May, and then the boom will disappear
forever. Bat if the boom does burst, it
by no means follows that either Blaine
or Sberman will secure the nomination.
It is much more likely that Grant’s
strength will be transferred to W'asli-
bume or Edmunds—probably to the
former, who is pursuing a course that
looks to such a result.
On the democratic side the race scettiB
to bo confined to Tilden and Hancock
Tilden's friends claim the de.egations
of Rhode Island, Iowa, California, and
Sew York. Hancock's friends count np
already Louisiana, Texas and Vermont;
and if to these are added next Wednes
day the heavy delegation of Pennsylva
nia the Hancock boom will begin to as
sume large proportions. The contest in
Pennsylvania is a bitter one. Mr. Ran
dall ia lighting for Tilden, and Senator
Wallace for Hancock, and the result will
probably turn upon the Philadelphia del
egation, which is forty-six strong.
It does not follow that the demo
cratic nominee will be either Til
den or Hancock, or that the repub
lican nomineo will be either one of the
men named in this article. It is simply
plain that no candidate has a “snre thing"
as yet. Nor will the remaining conven
tion* of April be apt to clear np the situa
tion. On the republican side the mos
interesting ones will be those of Arkan
sas and South Carolina, both of which
occur on the 28th instant. On the same
day democratic conventions will be held
in Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
Further speculation may therefore he
deferred with advantage to next Thurs
day morning.
Georgia In Congress.
Senator Gordon presented, on Wednes
day of last week, a number of amend
ments that he desired to he incorporated
in the hill to establish post routes. In
the house a vote was taken on the rider
to the army appropriation hill directed
against the use of troops at the polls. It
was adopted, the vote being yeas 117,
nsys 96, Messrs. Blount, Cook, Felton,
Nicholls, Persons, Smith,and Speer voted
“ay;” Mr. Hammond wa* paired with
Mr. Reed, of Maine, and Mr. Stephens di 1
not vote.
The house was chiefly engaged on
Thursday of last week in considering the
Indian appropriation kill, Mr. Blonnt, as
laia custom when such bills are before
the house, taking a prominent part in
carrying the bill through to a tlnal vote
In the senate the discussion of the
Geneva award bill crowded oat business
of local importance.
Senator Itutler presented last Friday
petition from citixens residing in the val
ley of the Savannalt river, praying con
gress to make an appropriation to im
prove the navigation of that river. The
senate voted to adjourn until Monday,
neither of the Georgia senators being
present when the vote was taken. The
Itonse refused to thus adjourn, the vote
being ayes 71, nays S3. Messrs. RIount,
Felton, Hammond, Nicholls, Persons, and
Smith voted “ay;” Mr. Cook voted “no.”
A vote was taken on Saturday on the
proposition to increase the amount re
ported in the Indian appropriation bill
for the pnrcliase of clothing for the Sionx
to the extent of $20,000. It was rejected,
Mr. Speer voted for it; the balaneeof the
Georgia delegation voted against it, ex
cept Mr. Stephens, who did not vote.
The hill was then passed.
Under the call of last Monday no Geor
gia bill was presented—an indication that
the supply has been fully exhausted,
Mr. RIount endeavored to defeat the bill
in relation to the New York international
exhibition on the ground that it might
lead to an expenditure by the govern
ment, but tlie house suspended the rules
and passed the bill. The house refused
to suspend the rnles and pass abill grant
ing pensions to the soldiers and sailors of
the Mexican and Indian rears. The vote
was, yeas 119, nays 70, not two-thirds.
Messrs. Cook, Felton, Hammond, Nich
olls, Persons, Smith and Speer voted
“ay"; Mr. lflount was paired, and Mr.
Stephens was confined to his room by in
disposition. The motion was generally
snpiwrted by democrats and opposed by
epubiicans.
leading candidates who do not poss ss
■■ivc amount of availability.
Grant carried New York and is far ahead
of his rivals, but the young scratchers.
and the Germans will be apt to insure
his defeat in November. Tilden has car
ried New York and he also at this writ
ing leads all other democratic aspirants,
but it is feared that John Kelly will ren
der his election impossible by withhold
ing enough votes in New York to give
that pivotal state to the republicans. If
tlie two candidates are tliereiore to be
Tilden and Grant, we shall therefore
have a contest in which neither party
puts forward its most available mi
But the democratic party can illy afford
to enter the campaign under unnecessary
disadvantages, even if its opponent is
thus handicapped. It imperatively needs
a man who can command every demo
cratic vote. If Mr. Tilden conld bring
the New York democrats into a condition
of harmony and enthusiasm, there are
very good reasons why he should he
placed where the ballots of 1870 said he
should be, but as long as the New York
democrats squarely refuse to unite upon
him, he is not an available candidate—he
is not a man who can be elected. These
are unpleasant facts, bnt in view of the
deliberate action at Syracuse on Tuesday,
they are facts that should be carelnlly
considered and acted upon. The defec
tion of Tammany is a momentous fact,
and it is the height of folly to say that it
amounts to nothing—that Kelly cannot
hold his men np to tlie work he cuts out
for them in a national contest, and all
that. He can do so, and he intends to do
so—and if Mr. Tilden is the democratic
candidate, we roast carry New York or
accept four more years of radical rule.
UNCLE REMUS’S FOLK-LORE.
IJrer Rabbit tieeia lit* Match Again.
'Dese wtu a adder man dat aorur p ay ttaharp I
MIGHTILY MIXED
AND OFFENSIVE TO WILLIAM 'ARP.
on Brer Rabbit,” odd Uncle Remus, u, by some
mysterious process, be twisted & hog’s bristle into
the end of a piece of thread—on operation which I The Quarrels tint Lead Him to Expect a Discord-
tire Georgia delegation in congress, by both
the district and circuit judges, end the bet-
t*r c ass of republicans throughout the state.
■' e congratulate him upon his victory.
A LITTLE RENCONTRE
the little boy watched with great interest,
dem days.” continued the old men, “de
kyer’d on martens seme ez fokes. Dey went inter
fekhmln’, en I speck el de troot wax ter come out.
dep kep' sto', cn hed tier cemp-meetln’ times en
der bobbycues Wen de wedder wax ’greeble.'
Uncle Remus evidently thought that the little
eat Year—The 8hrieks of Discordant Psp-
Scckers, end the Bootlicking of the
Diitingnished Ex-President.
Written for The Constitnliou.
Tra afraid this is going to be a bad year-
boy woul<in' like to beer of eny farther discern-1 * V*** °? storms and bad crops, ami discord
fiture of Brer Rabbit, who hed come to be e sort I among the brethren. It seems like we were
of hero, end he wee not mistaken. 1 in another war. I hear the small arms of
I thought the Terrapin ws. the only one that I the skirmishers, and ever and anon a heller-
fooled tne Rabbit, said the llule boy dismally, I , . . .
“Hit's de* like I tall you. honey. Dey no w J ,k “ 1 “•* the “Pf,**? 1
smart mar, ’cep* w’at de>'s a smarter. Ef ole I * ade * ** looks like a great battle is lmnn-
Brer Rabbit hadn’ter got kotch up wid, do nabon I nent * The aiJ de camps are charging around
tuck tin for a h’ant, en in dem times dey I with disheveled locks streaming like a nie-
bu'nt witches ’to* yon could squinch yo’ eye-1 teor in the troubled air. Lochrane and
**** diddat - ’ I Jack Brown are blowing their bugle horns
p U r r ‘ ?!, U “ e -rallying the forces and taking the collars
boy asked. By this time Uncle Remus had the I ~ _
bristle *‘aot'* is the tbxcmd, and he proceeded with I the dogs of w “ r ’ GeneraI °« nt
the story. I reconnoitring the surrounding couu-
-One time Brer Babbit tn old Brer Buzzud I tr Y- Sherman is fortyfying. Blaine
eluded dey’d sorter go snacks en I i* waiving a bloody flag,
crap tergedder. Hit wax a mighty good I They mean mischief—they do, and sonie-
jenr.ende trucktu n out monst’u* well, but I body is bound to be hurt. Now is the time
* J* is» ,*T e hil I for our people to be calm and serene. Peck
c*.me ter light dat ole Brer Buxxud ain’t got nuth-1 a. a - ', . . T
iu\ I>ecn.p wuxall gone, ea dey Want nuthiu’ tbefl,ntaaud keep the powder dry. Lett!
dar fer ter show fer it Brer Rabbit, be make like I up shoalder: ° shoulder. Be united—be
be in a wusa fix’a Brer Buzzud, ea he mope ’toon’, I tolerant These little quarrels among our
did, like he fear’d dey gwinter sell ’im out I leaders demoralize the privates, and if they
Brer Buxzud, he aint sayin’ nuihin', but he tare not stopped Pm afraid of a panic. It
keep npa mons'us thlakin 1 , eu one dxy he come I looks like some people were born to fuss
lone cn hoUer en tsfl^ Brer^ RsbkiulAt he done | 00^ fret an j Ueep up a commotion that
don’t concern anybody but themselves.
The New York roaveatlow
The New York democrats held two
conventions on Tuesday in accordance
with the destructive programme that has
long been marked out; and while their
action had not materially chansed the
situation, yet a few things now appear
plainly that were uncertain before. In
the first place, it is now plain that Mr.
Tilden is a candidate in the most active
sense. He intends to control the Cin
cinnati convention, and if he withdraws
at all, it will lie when he is in a position
to name the nominee. It is also plain
that tlie regular delegation of New York
will solidly support him. It goes un
pledged, but the adoption of the unit
rule, the putting forward of the great
fraud of 1876 as an issue, together with
tlie fact that his friends controlled the
convention, leave no room for doubt on
this point. Ilehascarried New York and
probably every other state that has elect
ed delegates. It is also plain that John
Kelly and his followers will antagonize
him before the. convention, and in
of his nomination, at the polls. This
lamentable fact cannot and should
not be ignored—for nothing is surer
titan that Tammany will not support Mr.
Tilden now or hereafter.
It is a singular circumstance that the
two patties are similarly afflicted with
The senate did a good day’s work when
postponed indefinitely the Geneva
award bill that it hail discussed through
ten weary weeks. It sat down upon the
--premium men as well as the under
writers, and the money remains wherejit
can conveniently be made to effect a re
duction in the public debt.
Marshfield, that was nearly swept
away on Monday by a cyclone, is the
county town of Webster county. It is
perhaps thirty miles from Springfield,
which is the chief town in southwestern
Missouri. Only fourteen buildings were
left standing, snd fully three hundred
people were either killed or wounded
while not a few are missing.
The contest among the republicans of
•South Carolina bids fair to be very simi
lar to the one which the republicans of
Georgia have just come out of. The
friends of Blaine and of Grant are equal
ly confident and equally alert and active,
while the friends of Sherman are nol
napping. In Charleston, C. C. Bowen is
the Grant leader, and E. W. M. Mackey
the Blaine champion. The fighting in
that city is very hot, and throughout the
slate tlie colored people are disposed to
assert themselves. It is plain that Geor
gia has broken up tlie solid bouUi that
Grant has been depending ni>on.
The Indian policy of this great and
glorious republic is bcantifully summed
np in the bill that has passed tlie senate.
This bill, if it becomes a law, will take
away from the unhappy Indians 12,000,-
000 acres of valuable land that is coveted
by the people of Colorado and that would
bring in the market $20,000,000—it will
take away these millions of acres of good
land and give in exchange 000,000 acres
of poor land. In Colorado and Nebraska
and other far western slates this bill
considered sound in principle and just
practice; but to a man in Bengal or Ber
lin or in any other town, it must appear
as an act of brute force, as a piece of
stealing, an oppression of the weak for
the enrichment of the strong. The light
in which it appears in other lands is not
a false one.
The queen has accepted the resigna
tion of Bcaconsfield and of his ministers
to tlie great relief of the people of Eng-
lanJ, bnt when she sent for Lord Har
rington instead of Mr. Gladstone, whom
site greatly dislikes, site did an act that
her good sense should have prevented
for the people want Mr. Gladstone at the
head of affairs, and no one else. Lord
Harrington, the son and heir of the duke
of Devonshire, is popular and capable,
butfrom him came very little of the great
work that led to the overthrow of tlie
conservatives, although he is the official
leader of the liberals in the house of
commons. It is very likely that Glad
stone will yet have to form a ministry
betore tlie country has an effective gov
ernment Tlie good queen should over
come her prejudices—in fact, she has
business to have any at all.
A me fight will take place in the sen
ate over the Wallace bill. Instead of
funding the six per cents that will soon
be redeemable, the bill requires tlie sec
retary to purchase outstanding six per
cent bonds at tlie ratb of not less than
$>,000,000 a week, until all such bonds
shall have been bought up anil retired.
Calls for the bonds are to be advertised
for on Monday of eacli week, and the
purchases to bo made the following
Wednesday, the object of this provision
being to arrest the private purchases now
made by the secretary, which are
tended by some suspicion of favoritism
The bill intends that all tlie outstanding
six per cents shall be bought up at tlie
rate of $5,000,000 a week. The total
amount of these, obligations out is about
8250,800,000, a portion due in December
of the present year, and the remain
der .redeemable at the pleasure of
the government in and after 1SS1.
tlie surplus revenues of the country will
not amount to five millions a week, it
of coarse expected that the secretary
will nse the money that is lying useless
in the government vaults. The question
before the senate will be this: .Shall the
immense cash balance of the government
remain idle, on the pretence of providing
for the redemption of a currency that
one wants redeemed, or shall it be freely
used to lessen the burden of interest by
the payment of high-rate bonds?
The best people in all parts of the
world will be glad to hear this morning
that rite queen of England—she is
longer an empress except in name—sent
for her foremost subject, and that she
has appointed him first lord of rite treas
ury and chancellor of the exchequer,
and entrusted to him the duty of form
ing a new ministry. In doing all this
the queen had to overcome lier own
prejndices, bnt in trnth no other course
was open to her. Tlie official leaders of
the lilieral party in the two houses of
parliament, it is plain, wonld not under
take to form a new cabinet; and they
were wise in so doing, for a man tnncii
stronger than either Lord Harrington'
or Earl Granville could not have
sustained himself with the real
leader of the liberals ont of office and
free of responsibility. They knew that,
and they therefore urged the queen to
send for Mr. Gladstone. The excellent
old lady very sensibly concluded that she
conld not longer afford to defy the will
of hsr people, and so the popular choice
became the queen’s choice. Mr. Glad
stone is entitled to the place he has won.
He is strong, experienced and popular^
He bids fair to hold office as long as his
health will permit, and to bequeath the
premiership to some other liberal leader;
for if the tones regain power within a
generation, they will do better than most
clear-headed men in England think they
will.
little buy.
• Dey riz.” continued Uncle Remas, “en w’en
long en holler
fine rich gule mine dee 'cross de river.
comeeo go’longer me. B.-ft Babbit,'. „ ,
sez BrerTutky Buzzud, sezee. ’I'll wratab en I EveQ Smtumns s regulator won’t regulate
you kin grabble, eu ’tween de two uu ui we U | em - Maybe Mr. Stephen* can’t help it,
nuke short wuk tr dat gole mine,’ sezoc. I but it doe* seem to me he is old enough to
’’Brer Rabbit, be wuz high up fer de job, but I be a philosopher, liver or no liver. What
he study en study, he did, how he gwinettr git I does the nation care about ail thatstuff
wetauLImUy totah ro e^n'he'^’n^ writin * abo “‘° ur
Brer Buzzud how begwiue do, en Brer Buxxud d °°* ' Vhat d08S h ® meaa ab ° Ut tb ® 8heep
he up’n uv dat he’d kyat Brer Rabbit rcrosa, en I r* 110116 - If therea an y thl «g wrong about it,
aid dat ole Brer Buzzud, he squot down, he did, I wliat dot* he cover it up for with a little
sp.e*d his Wings.cn Brer Rabbit, be mounted. I straw that the wind may blow it away; why
enupdeyriz.” Tbeie wisa pause. I not cover it deep, or else show it up in ail
••What did the Buzzard do then?” asked the I its wideness. We’ve heard them same
1 whispers before about the sheep ranche, and
from the sioie source, and now we want to
a n . . ,^—’ I know all about it. The worst sort of sian-
P dey lit in wuz growiu ou erilun, I j er!j are these dark hints— thene shakes of
detiunwozlnae middleerde river.wid del the head—these smothered insinuations,
deepwater runnin’all ’rouu’. Dey hadn't mo’n I If General Gordon is not a true man and
lit’fo’ Brer lUbbit,he know w’ich way dewin’ I an honest man we want to know it and
’uz blowiu’, eu by de time ole Brer Buzzud got I be more careful the next time who we
hisse’f ballunce on a lim’, Brer Rabbit, he up’n I se nd to the senate. Mr. Stephens
>y, sezee: I wants to know what kind of meat he feeds
"’W’ilstwca res’n here,Brer Buzzud. en be- °? ? k nd . I’ve heard the like
in’* voubi’n Mwnnri \ z*..t n* mn ?n la .,„vt I before—I think I have. Its com-
you ’ sezee ‘i *ot a *** ^ I nion—1h| y common. Ever since Cassius
5 , ’, sez ® c * 1 * Sole mine er my own, one I betrayed his benefactor and got Brutus to
at I make mi se’f. en I speck we better go back I stab him in the back, there have been men
ter mine To’ we bodder ’longer yoae,* stzee. I envious and ungrateful just like him who
"Den ole Brer Buzzud, he lair, he did, twell he I go about picking at noble hearts and ex
shake, eu Brer Rabbit, he ring out: I claiming, “Upon what meat doth this Cesar
Hole on. Brer Buzzud! Don’t flop yo’ wings I feed?” Cassius was a scamp, he wa?, and he
— you iaff.caze deu cf you duz, sump’n ’ll 1 K 01 V ls r eward. The dagger that ha
drap fum up yer, en my gole mine won’t do you I g * ve ^ rutus sta ^ Cesar with pierced his
no eood »*n will v.ms dr. _ raw., I own vitals a few years after. I don t think
donetoleall bout de crap, en he hatter promus fer I him. I wonder wbat makes these old union
to ’ vide la’r en squar. Brer Buzzud, he kyar ’im I politicians hate General Gordon so, and
back, en Brer Rabbit he walk weak in de knees a I they hat** Governor Colquitt too. I can
mom’ atterwuds.” ( spot em all .over the state. It mighty nigh
kills em for a confederate general to be pro-
GEORGIA POLITICS. | moted. They feel sorter like it’s a rebuke
to em, but it aint. Tlie men who dideifl
That Carnes a Brwze in the Senate.
Special to the Augusta Chronicle.
Washixuto!*, April 23.—A rencontre oc
curred on the door of the senate this after
noon between Senator Ben Hill and Mr.
Sateldo, the Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore American. Sateldo had fur
nished his paper with the statement that
Mr. Hill had, through his attorney, at
tempted to compromise the Raymond suit
by au oiler of money and intimated that the
proceeding was an acknowledgment of the
senator's guilt. During the session of to
day Sateldo appeared on the floor of the
^senate, when Mr. Hill angrily approached
him and rhook his fist in his face, denounc
ing him at the same time as a scoundrel.
Sateldo replied by calling the senator a
coward and inviting him to accompany
him outside the chamber, which the sena
tor very properly refused to do, and, turn
ing, regained his seat. The Star, this eve
ning, publishes an authorized denial of the
statement by Sateldo to his paper, that Mr.
Hill was seeking a compromise with the
Raymond woman. Mr. Hill denounces
Salcido's statement as a infamous lie, and
states that Its would consider any proposi
tion to compromise or settle the suit as an
insult. The fact that this trouble occurred
inside the sena'e walls has given it a prom
inence it otherwise would not possess.
In the executive session of the senate,
. fsteiday, Mr. Hill made a motion tore-
move the injunction of secrecy from the ex
ecutive proceeding upon the nomination of
Simmons to be a census supervisor, and
made a speech in behalf of his motion. I •
is not understood for what reason he asked
this unusual favor. The senate refused
the request. Senator Gordon was absent at
the time.
leaded boom for Lester.
Sueiiman evidently believes that Georgia I and if tliey dident go with us when the war
republicans need Bateman’s drops. I tome on, and warm up to the work their
Fulton county republicans say the next! amount of patriotism is one of the unknown
lime they hold aeon veutiou of their own it will I q uaut ities to this day. Mr. S:ephens may
be under « tent I be a great commoner and statesman in time
..1 ;\i.i ■ . „ , . 1 Of peace, but when trouble comes I
lnts\ are talking about sending Captain I wouldent give General Gordon’s right arm
James Henderson, of Jasper county, to Ihelegis-1 for all li»s concentrated intellect, more
lature. I pecially if he used it to as poor purpose
Thk democratic executive committee of I be during the last war. If I was him _
Burke county has been called together, and there I woldd flowing a horn, for it attracts
is a "oni*™! «n r in th* .lamnoreHn .ii I to ° muc, ‘ attention to Ins record. It don’t
democratic camp all over follow because a man has been in congress
enate. I f or twenty five years that he's a God or
I he democrats of Wilkes county have I knows more than other people. I’ll bet ten
taken the initiative. They have appointed the I dollars that if it wasent for the niggers and
first Tuesday in June next for the meeting of the I radicals in his district he wouldent go there
democracy of that county to select delegates to I a °Y more -
the convention to be held in Atlanta ou the tith I - w ? “ av ® some members there
day of June, and tlie meeting thus called will I "Jjj, ff r o;ia J
r 0 the U.F,0r .fi.M~.bUsE C ttre nievtloz Tb“ay
to select delegates to the convention to be held on I bonor the state, and I hope the
the 4ih of August. I people will send em back again. I think
Albany News: “Aspirants for congress I mighty well of some others, for if they
In the second district ore numerous. Each sec-1 havent made as much character they have
tion has its own man, and it does not require 1 k«P>outof these little fu>ses, and that’s
much force of sight to see elements of discord I agood dealfora member of congress
arising. The present incumbent >its quietly ana d^Ynr 0 when° nne mln’i* m'lifiJ
rerenety commit tu the enjoyment of » record mei ,. a w ,y’end won’t git out of it they « V
which place, him vrtjfre it is of little concern to I p i ck at him. I’ve been driving along
him individually whether or not he Is again I narrow road afore now that had a ditch c..
chosen to represent his people. He does not ask I each side, and there was a alow team ahead
for. the office, but will not refuse his service-1 that wouldn’t turn out, and the veliickles
should he again be called to bear the standard of I kept coming up behind till the procession
democracy. He takes high position in the mat-1 was ar long and at solemn os a funeral, and
it made us all mad with the stubborn and
poky feller. Just so with the ofllsholders,
from the governor down. They are in the
wav and won’t turn out. I know ex
actly how a man can have
peace. and that is to keep
out of oflis and I’m going to do it. Well,
that is unless a good, easy one that pays
well is shoved upon me, a sort of sine die
- or sine que non or sinecure or some other
la white I s i n e, where a feller receives a good salary
1 and his clerk attends to the business.
county ' ~ 1 We have been wondering what makes
MAxVfAnncre tn RsnUo.ph srechopptng out!" fSJKWESf iSgThW
* "‘>'be 'blntefl K
The fruit crop of Thomas county r —veresrion or his learning. Ho’s never done
be snrall. F y promises to i an ythmg for us down south, but whip us in
The fruit crop of Walton county is cut off fifty I IiC, » lbe band
percent. 3 3 1 that strikes him, but I don tsee how a man
WHEAT crop Of Hart county good .ml heading ®*". do U ’ «> ra e.secret about this
at rapidly. I business, and I reckon us money, office,
J. M. PCIXA*. of Arlington, hasSOJ wstermd- or daddy, or something. They had
Ion hills planted. I better be sure of the prospect, for theres
• The oat and wheat crops of Newton county I more hunter* than game—more hungry
promise a fair jield. I men than vittles. and the day has past for
The small grain crop of Mirion county promises I feeing* multitude on a few loaves and
to be au average one. I fishes. Some of em will come out like the
Wheat and oats arc looking unusually fine I Cartersville boys who hired a pheaton and
about Lost mountain. sent it round for Louise Pomeroy to take a
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
The oat crop of Brooks county Is improving.
The oat crop in Lowndes county Is Improving.
Newton county may make a pretty fair peach
crop.
A fine peach crop is counted
county.
PKosrEcr yet for agood fruit crop in Twiggs
Tatnall county will make more than three-
fourths of an oat crop.
Apple crop of Hart county promising. Peach
crop considerably cut off.
The grain crop of ealhoun looks pretty well.
Cotton planting going on.
Farmers of Butts county now think they will
mskeafulleropof wheat
Cotton planting going on in Milton county. It
is the chief crop this year.
The oat crop of Thomas county ts promising,
and a fair yield is expected.
Schley county counts on the largest cotton
crop she has made for years.
A bout 37.MM tons of fertilizers have been sold
in Amencusthe present season.
A i.aeue quantity of rice will be planted in
Brooks county the present season.
Gordon county farmers will plant double the
amouut of cotton planted heretofore.
P. W. Jones, of Baker county, has three hun
dred acres of cotton up and growing.
Moke com than usual planted in Berrien coun
ty. Oat crop will be rather a failure.
Washington county will plant twenty per
cent more corn and cotton than last year.
. Ma - Mono an. of Bryan, had fully ma
tured ami ripe apples in his orchard ou the 10th
instact.
will be made.
A large number of mules and an enormous
3'wjggs'counties? 110 1,01:8111 Iu WiIkinson
A large crop of cotton is being planted in
Stewart county. This year’s purchase of guano
was the largest ever made.
Sheer SUEAK1NO basset In generally in Thomas
county. The clip is better this year than last-
less shedding and heavier fleeces.
Tlie New York Conventions.
Columbus Enquirer, dem.
the democrats will bj deieated; without him
} every probability of success.
Washington Post, dem.
Tilden controls New York, and Kelly—in the
ten*e of a negative restriction making up a posi-
; fact—controls Tilden. Yesterday events at
Syracuse demonstrated that All of which leaves
the dem rcratic party, in the state of New York,
in an eligible position between the devil and
the deep sea. The regular convention yesterday
simply did Mr. Tilden’s bidding. The bolting.
Tammany convention conformed itself to the
behest of Mr. Kelly. A majority of the delegates
to each were Adherents oi the gentlemen named,
and were elected as such. There ought not, per
haps, be anything to complain of in this. But
the outsider, with his mind and heart interested
in the results rather than the fact of the gather
ings, is prone to take another view.
Cincinnati Gazette, rep.
John Kelly will be at Cincinnati, but he will
bean the outride. He may buzz, and threaten,
and kick, but he will be as a fly on the TiRlen
wagon wheeL The same Tildeu tactics that car
ried the New York convention against the senti
ments of the party will rule the Cincinnati con
vention, and if Tilden chooses lo pre»s his claims
he will be nominated. He will have the power
to carry the convention, and if he fails to tue it
for himself it will be because he will conclude
that he could not be elected if nominated. Iu
the latter event, he will dictate the nomination,
and those candidates who can not secure the in
dorsement oi the Gramercy park chief may as well
quiet their aspirations.
Cincinnati Enquirer, dem.
New York, harmonious, could have dictated a
nomination to the Cincinnati convention. New
York distracted, torn by feuds that know not
peace or reconciliation, with two democratic con
ventions and a possible three, the dominant con
vention being itself inharmonious, the remnant
New York democratic candidate being unable to
win his own convention to his cordial personal
support changes the political aspect. There was
democratic defection enough in New York by
reason of Mr. TBden’s candidacy, when Tam
many, that poiled 77,000 votes last year, re
volted. That protect was never ao great as it was
ic candidate ihan himself: himself. If we may
judge from th hopes and fears of his friends in
his own cute, he can not nominate. It is not his
enemies who look upon his candidacy with aver-
ALL AROUND US.
Come, Fiber ton, Conyers, Greensboro,
Decatur, Etc.
Opelika, April 22.—Dr. J. B. Barnette,
the most eminent surgeon of Alabama, was
married to-day at 3:30 p. m. to Miss Lucy
Moore, both of this place.
Buena Vista, April 24.—The second trial
of Oscar Flanigan for the murder of Tullis,
two years ago. was ended here last night
after two days* investigation, and resulted
in his acquittal.
Opelika, Ala., April 22—Mrs. Fletcher,
sister of Captain J. O. Burton, died here
yesterday. During the storm here on the
morning of 21st instant, three mules were
killed by lightning. Since the revival
commenced here, one hundred and forty
accessions have been made to the Baptist
and Methodist churches.
Griffin, April 22.—The late cold spell
hfls proven uutch more disastrous than
the public imagined. Mr. \V. \V. Wood
ruff says 43,000 will not cover his loss on
pears and i>eaches killed by the frost. The
crop of both these fruits on his celebrated
farm is a total failure. Last year he suf
fered a similar loss.
Perry, April 23.—The spring term of
Houston superior court was ended to-day
The court overruled a motion for a new
trial in thefcase of the State vs. Joe Hall,
and sentenced Joe to the penitentiary for
twenty years. It is understood that Hall’s
counsel will carry his case to the supreme
court. Much other import \nt business was
transacted at this term of the court.
Pomeroy l
ride in, thinking she would send em free
tickers to her show, bnt she dident. She
S lid emolFin smiles, but that’s better than
eneral Grant will do, for he don’t smile at
all, they say, except when somebody makes
him a present.
We are going to see some high old times
this year. Politics from the president down
are awfully mixed. AU I want to see is a
fair deal of the cards, and if luck is against
us, it's all right. As G'obc says, it’s all
right Bnt I want a clean dtofc, with nary
a mark, and no foul play, like there was
before. Honor among thieves may be an
impertinent motto, but its agood one.
Yours. Bill Arp.
A SAD ENDING
To the Life of Mr. Samuel B. Hoyle.
Thursday afternoon at half past four
o'clock the following dispatch was received
at the executive department:
Los Angeles, Cal , April 21,1S80.—Governor
A. H Colquitt: Hoyle committed suicide here
last niaht by shooting himself through the heart
A sad end. H. L. Collier.
The above sad intelligence shocked the
entire community. From the date it will
be seen that the dispatch was delayed. This
is due to severe stonn3 which have greally
damaged the wires between this city and
California. ^
We learn that* the friends of the deceased
have telegraphed for his remains.
The laiest intelligence concerning the sad
end of Mr. Samuel R. Hoyle, at Los
Angeles, has been promptly laid before the
E tiblic by The Constitution. We
ave made every possible effort
to procure further information
on the subject, but owing to the
irregular working of the wires, we have
been unable to get all the particulars. We
only know that on last Tuesday night Mr.
Hoyle shot himself through the heart in
the presence of his guard and Mr.
Henry L Collier, of this city, one of
the agents seut out there by Gov
ernor Colquitt. We have no information
as to how the weaoon was procured. Tue
immediate cause of the rash act was that
Mr. Hoyle had failed in all his legal efforts,,
and was upon the point of being delivered
to the Georgia agents. We learn that the
iife of the unfortunate man was insured in
the Royal Arcanum, and that bis wife will
receive three thousand dollars. This
amount wonld have been lost bad it not
been for the extreme kindness of his friend,
Mr. Amos Fox. who paid up bis due3.
The remains will not be brought to At-
ianta until cold weather sets in. We have
yet to hear one unkind word upon the ter
rible termination uf this generous and
brave man. He did not intend lo do
wrong—he erred through his greatness of
heart.
FARROW VICTORIOUS.
lie la Sworn Into Olllce for lbe Third
Term.
The term of office of H. P. Farrow, dis
trict attorney for Georgia, expired on the
19th day of this month. As yet. President
Hayes has not appointed his successor,
bat Associate Justice Bradley,
who has the power by law,
has reappointed Farrow ad interim.
He will therefore hold over until the new
appointment is made by the president. The
reporter ran np against an able-bodied ru
mor to the effect that Mr. Ilayes will make
no appointment. In this case Mr. Farrow
Greensboro, April 24.—Rev. Hart
Peek, an old and highly esteemed minister
of the Baptist church, died last night at his
residence, atSiloam, in this county, at tbe
age of 73 years. He was a most excellent
man, and will be sadly missed in his neigh
borhood. The heaviest rain of the season
tell here yesterday. Oits ami wheat are
looking better since the late rains.
Ecfaula, Ala., April 21.—Mr. Tom Har
rell shot and killed a Mr. Weaver on oi
near tlie plantation of Mr. William Dough-
tie, a few miles from town, on Sunday even
irg. A coroner’s inquest was held, and
their verdict was that Harrell killed Weaver
in order to save the life of his sister, who
the wife of Weaver. No trial of his case
has been had, and it is not yet clear that
was a case of self defense.
Conyers, April 24.—Judge Speer held
court here yesterday. The case of A. H.
Colquitt, governor, on the relation of Swann
vs. Hardin—an election case involving the
office of justice of the peace—was tried, and
a verdict rendered ousting Hardin and giv
ing tbe justiceship to Swann. J. N. Glenn
and A. M. Helms attorneys for the relator
A. C. McCall* and A. A. Zichecy, for re
yondenL Heavy, washing rains yeater-
Lkesbuf.g, April 20.—A terrible storm
wind, rain, hail and lightning occurred
here to-day. The rain was said Dy some tc
have been the hardest they ever saw fall.
It washed the gardens and fields badly.
Houses, fences and tree* were leveled with
the ground. The lightning struck a chim
ney of the Lindsay house (a hotel), injur
ing several rooms and stunning and burn
ing slightly a young lady, an occupant ‘
one of the rooms.
Conyers, April 22.—Cotton is coming up.
The gardens, fruit and wheat were not r
terially injured by the frostsof last week.
His Honor Judge Speer is expected here
to-morrow to try the quo warranto case
Swann vs. Hardin. The Odd Fellows
have a glorious time nextMonday. There
is some stir in county politics, but nothing
definite has turned up. Dr. J. A. Stew
art is prominently mentioned as a candi
date for the state senatorship.
Athens. April 21. — The Knights
Honor—grand lodge—met here this morning
in the o}>era-house. The address of wel
come was delivered by Hon.Calvin Johnson.
There will be a banquet this evening
Hunuicutt's hall. An accident occurred
last afternoon on the Georgia railroad below
Lexington. It was caused by the widening
of tbe track. No one was hurt, and trains
are running again as usual.
Dalton, April 24—Whitfield superior
court after a three week’s session, in which
a great deal of bussness was transacted,
adjourned yesterday. Izoui.se Pome:
played Shakspeare’s comedy, “As*You I.
It,” to a large and profitable audience
the night of the 22d. All the surround
ing <x-u ii ry has been visited l»y severe
storms, but Dalton has escaped so far.
Warm weather has set iu in earnest, ther
mometer 7fl, G p m. Grand preparations
are being made for memorial day. May 10
Governor Colquitt will deliver the oration.
Marietta, April 24 —One of the most el
egant entertainments ever given in our city
was tlie reception last night in honor of
Mr. J. I*. Leake and his bride, tendered
them by Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Whitlock
their splendid residence. A large crowd
sembled to congratulate the happy pair, and
the decorations in the parlors and dining
room were perfectly elegant A magnificent
supper was served and a s I present er joyed
the occasion. Many good wishes were
tended the bridal pair.
Decatur. April 24.—Colonel Frank Lit
tle, editor of the Sparta Times and Planter,
is visiting the family of Dr. W. H. Green
at this place. Tbe Methodist Sunday
school picnic to Morris's mill on the 1st of
May The heavy rains of yesterday and
last night caused the “Old Folks’s Concert"
to be postponed till Tuesday night
son of Rev. Mr. Heath, pastor of the M. I
church, died yesterday. The last state
ment made by Jolly exonerates Weaver,
and says no one knew anything about'
but himself; that he attempted to rape
Miss Norris in the wagon, and in trying to
get away fr*»rn him she fell out of the wagon
and broke her neck.
Elbeeton, April 23-—Two neg*oes, Clark
Jones and Dave Ewing, were committed to
jail here this week for burglary in tbe
night. They broke in the store of I.
Gloer, at Bowman. -The preliminary
trial of James Blalock, charged with an
attempt to commit rape on a >.rs. Threl-
keld, was ended yesterday. It consumed
two days and resulted in an acqnittal of
the defendant. J W. Threlkeld. the prose
cutor. was committed on two warrants *
assault and will have a trial before
county court to-morrow. The effects
the frost have nearly disappeared, and
pro-pecta for a small grain crop are
proving in this county.
* Frank*in, April 20 —The work sien
progressing rapidly with our college build
ing. Oar school numbers over one han
dred and thirty, and is the pride of
town. No spirituous liquors are sold
town, and there is not a grog shop in this
county. The farmers are complaining
a fiy that ia damaging the wheat. Corn
beginning to make a show and cotton seed
is still being planted.™ A heavy rain last
night stops the plowing for a few days
As yet. politics have not assumed a definite
shape. The editor of the Franklin News
is recovering from an attaok of pneumo
nia.——Two thirds of the peach crop was
killed by the late frost and freezes.
Ea3Tsiax, April 21.—We had the heaviest
rain here yesterday that we have seen fall
in many a day. Tbe streets were fairly
flooded, the sewers amounting to almost
nothing for such a qnanity of water. Some
of the bridges over ditches were washed
away; gardens were washed up and some
cotton also.—*r—The negro, Charlie Powell,
who has been confined in jail here for kill
ing another negro, a week or two since, was
sent to day. in the custody of the sberitf,
to McViUe on the Macon and Brunswick
road, where the deed was committed.
——The boys have received part
their instruments Ur the brass-band, and
contemplate getting a music teacher here
soon to instruct them.
vers were the chief actors. No damage to
life, limb or property was done, and both
came ont safe. The Cnthbert amateur
club is preparing to give an entertainment
one night during the session of the press
convention, which convenes next month.
The performances heretofore given by this
club have always been successful, and there
is no reason to believe but that this will be
the same, as there is some good material in
the organization. A very heavy rain oc
curred yesterday, and considerable damage
*" the crops have been reported. The rain
is of short duration, but a considerable
volume of water fell. Cotton chopping
seems to claim the attention of the farmers.
Labor is scarce and commands good wagt s.
Troxastok, April 22.—Mr. James R.
Davis, who was the brave color bearer of
the 46th Georgia regiment, died this morn
ing at half-past one o'clock. During the
war he contracted a cough while he had the
measles, from which he never entirely re
covered. He has many friends in Colum
bus and Montgomery who will lament his
death. Mr. Milieus fell (torn the window
Mr. Alford’s house, in this county, day
before yesterday, and broke his neck.
Albvxy. April 22.^Crops along the
Southwestern railroad as far up as Monte
zuma, show very little improvement in
the past two weeks. The stands of both
corn and cotton are poor and irregular and
much replanting is going on. Much com
plaint is made of defective seed. The rains
during the past few days will prove a God
send. The storm that visited Leesburg
aud vicinity on Tuesday very nearly
reached the pro» ortions of a cyclone. No
.damage reported yet, however, beyond that
done to the hotel at Leesburg by the light
ning. The court here is engaged this
week on the criminal docket. J. L. Acre,
who shot and killed a negro named Beti
Bell some three years ago, in this county,
has been tried and acquitted. Tbe criminal
docket is a pretty heavy one.
Savannah, April 21.—Govertior Colquitt
addressed the Sunday-school celebration at
Springfield. Effingham county, on Monday.
There were 1,500 people out. The address
was received with euthusiasm. R. B. Rep-
pard, the Vinceut of south Georgia, was
present. The city is crowded with
strangers. J*ester is developing
strength iu the race for governor.
A gentleman who refuses to allow his
name to be given to the public, a few dayi
since lifted a $8,000 mortgage oti tin
Monumental Methodist church here.
This frees it front debt
thought that Robert McIntyre is the ryan.
——The weather is co< 1 for the present, at
tributed to the presence of so many Cincin
natians. L B. "Davis, long a resident of
Atlanta, is keeping a book-store here. His
son*, C:ark and Lucien, run the store
while he preaches and practices law.—
Delegates are pouring in to the Baptist
convention, which meets to-morrow.
Greexksbor\ April 21.—One of the pleas
antest events that ever occurred in this
county in many years was the tuatriage to
day af Oakland church of Mr. J. J. Sandtrs
to Miss Anna Willis. The churc!
beautifully decorated under the sU|*ervision
of Mrs. A. P. Daniel, and the marriage bell
with a culla lily suspended in the center.
Was a gem of beauty aud artistic e-kill. The
attendants were W. E. Storey amt Miss Es
telle Willis, Dr. Joe Sanders and Miss Anna
Lindsey, W. F. Armor and Miss Rice
Weaver, J. B. Park and Miss Minnie
Knowles. The ceremony was impressively
performed by the Rev. J. S. Callaway, after
which the bridal party repaired to the hos
pitable home of Captain J. 1L Sanders, the
father of the groom, where everything to
please tbe eye, cheer the heart aud satisfy
the appetite was fqund in
abundance. The bride wa* tl
cipient of many handsome pres
enL Another fashionable entertain
ment is on the qui vive, by which you
city will sustain tne loss of one of its most
attractive young ladies.
will not be disturbed until the people ap
point Mr. Hayes’s successor.
There has been a (very fierce fight made
against Farrow, but he has pioven too
strong for his enemies. He was opposed
by the entire interns! revenue force of
Georgia, and therefore bad the odds against
him. We learn, however, from an autben- . . w
jic source that he was Indorsed by the en opened yesterday, in which two young law
THE FIFTY-EIGHTHANNUAL SESSION-
Savannah, April 22. —The Georgia State
Baptist convention convened in its 58th
annual session in the Baptist chnrch this
morning. It has met here twice before; in
17, and in 1856. It is the largest meeting
that has been held for years—over 200 dele
gates being in attendance.
The services began with a voluntary by
tbe choir. Mrs. Lizzie Gastin, the organist,
a lady of musical culture and power—
there is music in her touch.”
Rev. F. M. Daniel read tlie 40th Psalm,
and the congregation united in singing
My Faith Looks up to Thee.”
Rev. E. W. Warren offered up an
pressive prayer.
Rev. F. M. Daniel preached the conven
tion sermon from 1st Thessaloniaus, 5th
chapter, 16th verse—“Rejoice Evermore.”
The discourse was an able one. As reasons
why Christians should “rejoice evermore”
he stated: Because God reigns; because
conquered; because we are sharers in the
victory of Christ over sin; because we honor
Christ in our lives; because God has pre
pared a home for us beyond the grave.
Rev. P. H. Mell, the president, called the
convention to order.
W L. Kilpatrick, D. G. Daniel and J. G.
Ryalls were appointed comniittee on cre
dentials.
Xn invitation front the cotton exchange
to visit their rooms was read and accepted.
Rev. 8. Landrum, pastor of the Baptist
church, welcomed the convention to the
hearts and homes of the people. The church
in which the convention met was 80 years
old. Josiah Pcufield a deacon of this chnrch
gave the first contribution for tuinis'erinl
education. He then graphically portrayed
ffce points of interest in Savannah, con
cluding with the purposes of the conven
tion. The speech was full of heart, and
met a respouse in the heart of every dele-
gate.
The convention adjourned until 4 o’clock
Nacoochee, April 22 —On ray return home
from Athens I found the gold excitement
still on the increase. Mr. J. It. Dean, su
perintendent of the Naoochee hydraulic
mining company, had struck the same lead
ou which the Luiusdens made their find,
and about oue mile’ , vest of where they are
at work, and he too was taking out the pre
cious ore in large nuirgets In two days last
week he took out 36) pennyweights—one
nugget weighing 106 pennyweights, and
others 75 penny a eights, and others 60 pen
nyweights, etc. This, too, was done while
they were piping before commencing to
clean up. When they clean up. which
will not be for several days yet, 1 hope tc
have something rich to narrate. As 1 pre
dicted the news of the nugget I exhibited
in Atlanta is already drawing capitalists,
and on Saturday night as I drove home
from the depot I met two Wall
street operators who had spent
the day surveying our gold fields. The
Lumsden Bros, as still doing finely. Last
Week’s work, (a partial account of which I
sent you from Athens,) aggregated 1 275
pennyweights, which ia a very handsome
showing for two bauds. From a pocket 3C
inches square, they gathered 212 penny
weights in nuggets, all less than five penny
weights in weight. They have altogether
taken out 2,700 pennyweights, and have
worked a piece of ground not over 80 feet
square, with a total outlay for hire <
hands, purchase of tools, etc., of only $6
I do not think that any operation in tuin
ingin Georgia has ever equalled it, when
we take into consideration the force at
work and the total outlay. Tlie CoustUu
tionalist aud Chronicle, “not knowing who
is writing up the mines,” seems still tc
have doubts as to the truth of my state
ments. Perhaps the exhibition which ’
have to-day seen of 1,300 pennyweights i
one lot of beautiful bright nuggets, would
be evidence satisfactory, even to the
doubting Thomases down there.
DeYonnc Killed by Kallocli.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
San Francisco, April 23.—Charles De
Young was shot and killed at half past
seven o’clock this evening by J. M. Kal-
loch, son of J. S. Kallocb, in the Chronicle
office.
P&sImoMtera Unas not Bay Goods
Pay Debts In Postage Stamps.
A short time since complaint was made
to Captain John Frey, chief s]»ecial agent,
Atlanta division, that a certain party —
parties were flooding the country in
neighborhood of Gainesville, Ga., with
postage stamps in payment of debts and in
purchase of goods. The legitimate busi
ness of the Gainesville office was in conse
quence suffering to an alarming extent; in
fact, the revenues of the office were so sadly
reduced that it became a painful question
for c.in?* : d ration whether General Long-
street would be able *o indulge in tlie luxury
of ice in the c Miler during tbe ensuing sum
tuer On the 18 .h instant the case was placed
in the hands of Special Agent Redmond,
who on Monday proceeded to Gainesville
and very soon learned enough to satisfy him
that Mr. Pleasant Short, postmaster at Ivy
Log, Union county, Georgia, was the guilty
party, w hereupon he caused his arrest and
upon Long arraigned before United States
Comniiss : oner ILrrison at Gainesville, yes
terday, the facts (rircsen'edjjrere too much
for him and pleading guilty he was bound
of $250 for his appearance
THE BAPTISTS.
HwtiBg of tie Fiftj-Eigltl Auisl Benion
of tie Georgia State Baptist Convention
in 8avnnnnl—Interesting Proceed
ings—SnndlT-Sclool Workers,
Conyers First Baptist chunfli, rent invita-
lion's to the convention to hold the next
session wilh them. ,, . .
At 11 a.m. Rev. J. I\ Boyce, president of
the Southern Baptist theological seminary
at Louisville, Ky., presented the claims of
that institution, lie recited the history,
struggles and prospects of that institution
in an earnest and captivating style. Oue
thousand dollars in cash and subscriptions
was made to that institution at the close of
his address. Georgia’s quota was fixed at
$3,500. The Second Baptist church in At
lanta subscribed one-seyenth of that
amount. The Baptist Bible schcclofDc-
catnr, Ga , subscribed $5
Rev. A. T. Spalding offered the following
. -*--*? ... 1 . .1 • ,,.Au srliillfr.il WI til ffIPflt.
resolution, which was adopted with gieat
U EUs»lvedf Tlvat we cherish the warmest interest
in the present condition and proapects of our
8 mthem Baptist theological J^wlnary whose
s have jnst been presented by Dr. Boyce,
mm that it is our opinion that the Baptists of
Georgia should cheerfully and pro.npUy raise the
quota of $3,500, which has been fixed as their
part towards the current support of the seminary
for the next year, and. should be in addition to
be takexTup in all ouf churches on some Sabbath
before December first, and forwarded to Dr.
Boyce, treasurer, at Louisville, ky.
Rev. A. B. Campbell offered the follow-
in Whcrcas, The dissemination of missionary in
formation among the churches is very necessary
to the support of our missionary operations at
home and abroad, and whereas, we have no
journal published in the south specially devoted
to this work iu all its deparmenus, aud whereas
we believe such a publication being confined ex
clusively to the cause of-missions would not in
the least antagonize any of the religions weeklies
>f our own denomination, and whereas we lie-
i -vc that the publication of the Church and
jehuol by BrotherG. A. Nunnallv with the circu
lation confined to the state of Georgia has been
eminently efficient in quickening, the spirit of
missions among our bretuen; therefore.
Resolved. That we suggest to Brother A
Nunn ally the propriety of engaging into the prac
ticability of publishing a missionary magazine
which shall represent all the departments of
missions in all the states connected with the
southern Baptist convention.
Referred to Revs. A. B. Campbell, J. G,
IIvalla, I). G. Daniel, S. Boykin.
Upon reassembling, the exercises were
opened by singing “Come, Holy Spirit,
Come,” and prayer by Rev. L R. Bran
ham.
An invitation from G. M. Heidi & Co.,
tendering soda wa er free to the members
of the convention, was read.
The work on missions by Rev. H A. Tup-
_ ?r, of Richmond. Va , was warmly in
dorsed by Revs. K \V. Warren, M. B. Whar-
-n a.id P. H. Mell.
The committee on credentials not being
ready to report, tbe convention engaged in
religious exercises, conducted by Rev. S.
Landruiu. Rev. S. Landrum made some
touching remarks, and the convention was
l**d in prayer by Revs. A. J. Beck and S. G.
Hillyer.
The committee on credentials submitted
their report, showing a large increase
tendance.
On motion of Itev. M. B Wharton. Rev
P. II. Mell was re-elected moderator. Rev. G,
IL McCall clerk, and ltev. N. A. Bailey, as
s;stant clerk, unanimously and by acclama
tion.
The hours of meeting were fixed at 9 a.
and 4 p.ru., and of udjourningat 1 p.m. and
6 p m.
Mell’s Parliamentary Practice was adopt
ed for the government of the convention.
The yonug ladies missionary society of
the First Baptist church of Macon was ad
mitted to membership, ami Rev. K. W.
Warren received as delegate.
A communication from the young ladies'
missionary society of the Southern female
college at LaGrange, of which Miss Alice
Cox w »s the bearer, was read ami ordered
spread on the minutes.
The following ministers, upon invitation,
accepted seats in the convention: Rev.
W.- J. Pirkle, Hightower association:
Rev. J. Ltwton. South Carolina;
Rev. W. M. Terry, of Virginia, Rev. Dr. l*a
throp, New Yotk.
Rev. W. H. McIntosh was recognized as a
correspondent from the Alabama state con-
ention.
Rev. 8. Landrum and Messrs. Read,
Stark and Webb were appointed as the com
mittee on preaching.
T. M. Bryan was announced as chairman
of the finance committee.
An invitation from J. H. Ertill in behalf
of the Union society inviting the conven
tion to attend the 130th anniversary at
Bethesda on the 23d was read.
Rev. G. A. Nunnally offered the follow
ing, which was adopted:
Resolved, That while we gratefully acknowl
edge the courtesy of the invitation we regiet ex
ceedingly that our labors will forbid us the pleas
ure of accepting the invitation as a body. Wo.
pray God’s blessing o * toe endeavors of that
Chilslian body, to ameliorate the condi'
the orphans under their charge.
A communication was read from the
Baptist church in Athens, inviting the con
vention to hold its next session with them.
Adjourned until 9 a. in. to-morrow, with
prayer by Rev. W. H. McIntosh.
Rev. J. H. DeVotie made one of the most
touching and tender appeals ever listened
to, that drew tears from every eye,in behalf
of a beloved divine who is in fe-ble health
and needy circumstances; $126 35 was sub
scribed iu cash. Rev. J. II DjVotie led the
convention in prayer for the brother and
his family.
The reports of the treasurer, board of
trustees of Mercer executive
oinmlMMs referred. The
convention excurt Monday to the sea. Tlie
convention adjourned until 4 p.m.
—Wo can recommend our readers to use
IT. Bui ’s Cough Syrup in all cases o.‘
cough , co-ds, etc. It costs only 25 cents a
bottle and is warranted to cure.
A Voice (torn tlie l*nclli«.%
Portland (Oregon) Standard, dem.
Tbe nomination of Judge Field means certain
success to the democracy. The nomination of
any other man means great uncertainty as to the
UOKSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE
For XcrvousncsM.
JOHN Y. SIMPSON, Mu D., of Monterey, Iowa,
said: “The “Acid has—to use the lady's own ex
pression, to whom it was givcu as a Nerve Tonic-
Frora a Well-known Citizen orChlcago.
Chicago, III, January 1, 1880.
II. II. Warner Co., Rochester, New
York—Gentlemen: I have used Warner's
Stfe Kidney and Liver Cure with the great
est satisfaction. It is the only remedy l
have ever used that l can recommend to my
friends, as it has cured me of Bright’s Dis
ease of long standing, after having visited
the White Sulphur springs of Virginia, and
trying innumerable so-called “remedies” of
tlie day. Having resided hero for forty-
'even years, my friends will he glad to sets
this statement. The discoverer is, indeed,
a public benefactor.
Wii.ltam ll. Patterson,
1,191 Wabash avenue, near Twenty-ninth
street.
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Thr Greatest Blessing.
A- simple, jnire, harmless remedy, that,
cures every time, and prevents disease by
keeping the blood pure, stomach regular,
kidneys and liver active, is the greatest
blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop
Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors
are being blessed by thousands who have
been s&ved and cured by it. Will you try
it? See another colutnu.—Eagle.
How lo Get n Husband.
Take of modesty a large portion; unite It with
urbanity and good humor: to which add good
make the skin fair and ctear. to bring bloom
the cheeks a >d light to the eye*, and remove
Pimple*, Boils, Eruptions, Sallow Complexion,
thick, yellowish appearanc-; of the skin and eyes.
Bad Breath, Irritability and low spirit*. Take
Simmons Liver Regulator in time.
“I was k> greatly troubled with boils on the
neck and body that I wa* hardly able to move
_ __ > return of them since, __
JAMES M. CLEMENT,
“Agt. for So. 8. S. Co , PfcUa."
It Beats Gold or Silver Hlnlnff.
General Beauregard, whose adversaries
tried to use the panoply of the United
States Post-Office Department a* a shield
for their covert malice, by an honest, clear
exposition of tlie mode of drawing of the
far-famed Louisiana State Lottery, on tbe
second Tuesday of every mouth, has won
a decided triumph. The next monthly
drawing (the 129) will take place at New
Orleans on May 11 th. and $2 sent now to
M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans. La., or to No
319 Broadway, N-*tr York City, may then
realize $3O,0>J0. It beats gold or silver min
ing. apr20—d&wlL
It is Abominable!
To go throngh life with “snags” in the
mouth. Abominable not more to the suf
ferer than his friends. Buy S020DONT and
cleanse the teeth which remain, or better
still. u«e it now and save jour teeth.
SOJfODONT ia economical.
apr»—u3f tues thur sat <&wkylt
An ArkMMN Fire.
Memphis. Tenn, April 22—A special to
the Evening Ledger from Forrest City, Ark.,
says: “A fire broke out in the Planter*
hotel at 2 o’clock this morning, and before
it could be gotten under control destroyed
thirteen hi uses. The hotel was unoccu
pied, and it ia supposed the fire was tbe
work of an inceuaiary. The loss on the
buildings is estimated at $10,000, and the
damage to goods of several firms about $10,-
hOtl The wind was from the south, to
which fact may be attributed the escape of*
the principal business portion of the city.*
Given Up by Doctors.
“Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and
at work, and cured by ao simple a remedy?”
“I assure you it is true that he is entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitten;
and only ten days ago his doctors gave him
up and said he most die!”
“WeU-a-dmy! That is remarkable! I
will go this day and get some for ray poor
George—I know bops are good.”—Salem
Ccthbxbt, April 21.—The «pring fights Post.
Second Dn>*« Proceed in en.
Savannah, April 23.—Last night, Rev. A.
J. Battle preached in th«* Baptist church
from 1st Peter, 1st chapter, 8th verse and
2d chapter, 7th verse. It was an able and
impressive sermon.
The convention was opened this morning
with devotional exercises. Rev. J. G. Ryalls
leading in prayer.
The following were announced as the
standing committers:
Preaching—S lamdmm, W. H. Starke, R.
N. Reed, T. B. West, U B Wilkinson, B.
A. Blakey, W. C. New, It. J. Denmark, A.
W. York, D. 8anford, John M. Huey, John
Greenwood, 8. C. Dobbs.
Finance—T. M. Bryan, C. B. Willingham,
J. 8. Boynton.
Education—E W. Warren, 8. Boykin. J.
L. Underwood, B. W. Bu-sey, J. C. C.
Black, 8. A. Barney, W. J. Marrow. J. T.
Robert, F. M. Daniel. W. Coalson, L Price
T. J. Gumming, J C. Conner.
Deceased Ministers—W. C. Wiikes, A J.
Battle, J. A. McCurry, J. J. Black, W. R.
J. Hardeman, J. J. Hyman, J. A. Ivey, M.
N. McCall, jr., L C. Tebeau, J. II. Fortson,
L. F. Blalock, J J. Davis.
Missions—II. II. Tucker, M. N. McCall,
sr , C. M. Irwin, B. 11 Carroll, John Tower-.
I. lt Branham, D. W. Uwin, A Ii Camp’
bell. J. T. Glower, W. O. McMichael. J. W.
Butts, W. H. Coo^r, G. II. Harris, James
Barrow.
Nominations —D. A. Vason, J. P. Harri
son, T, a. Spullock, Jabtz Galt, J. E. lam-
briglit, I. 8. Thornton, W. It. Itsspass, J. L.
Brown, II. H. llicktuan, A IS. McUaritv,
J. B. Wolf, J. J. Jelks. W. L Stanton, G. *S.
Obear, jr.
State of religion and destitution—W. N.
Chaudoin, E. Q F. Golden, G. A. Nunnal
ly, L. It. L Jennings, It T. Hanks, Allen
McDonald, J. H. Corley, J. A. Carswell, \V.
R. Steeley. J. B. Carver, Ii. II. Ivey, V. C.
Norcross, T. H. Burruss
Temperance—B. M Callaway, A.J* Mon-
crief, J. A. Harris, W. W. Landrum, It. A.
Denmark, J. F. Edens, W. H. Norton, J.
M. Wood, Joshua Martin. W. W. Itoop, C.
H. Stillwell, J. C. Edwards, A. J. Rountree,
A. M. Marshall.
Sunday schools—A. U. Callaway, T. C.
Boykin, A. T. Spalding, A. A. Carson, M.
B. Hardin, W. H. Williams, G. L Jackson,
J, A, Shivers, W.G. Ches:er, 8. J. Whatley,
It. Carter, J. 8. Lawton, J. H. Carswell, J.
H. Hutchins.
Representation in Southern Baptist con
vention—W. M. Verdery, M. B Wburtoii.
J. H. DeVotie, A. K Cloud, I. F. Coe. W.
B. Bennett, J. S. Callaway, II. M. Adams,
J. H. Cawood, M. P. Cain, J. C. Duggan, W.
G. Whidby, A. I. Canuet.
Rev. W. C. Wilkes and J. W. Hutcbin*
recognized as corres)M>ndeuts from the gen
eral missionary association of north Geor
gia.
A communication wa* read from tbe cen
tral committee of wotueu’s work for mis
tions.
Rev. G. A. Nunnally offered a resolution
commending the women’s work among
women missionary societies to the patron
age and support of their sisters throughout
the state.
Rev. V. C. Norcrosa offered a substitute
that all these societies report annually
through the central committee aud tIn
state board, all their work aud contribu
tions.
Rev. C. D. Campbell desired to amend
still farther, so as that credit should Im-
given to each church the aggregate of the
contributions.
Rev. S. G. Hillyer followed on the same
line.
Rev. B. L. Ross made a close argument
in faverof the society reporting directly to
the church, and the church to. the couven
tion.
Rev. C. D. Campbell, submitted as a
substitute for the whole, a reso
lution that the societies report through
their churphei ’*» the central com mice-: and
th-* state mission Uter i.
Rev. N. A. Bailey made an elaborate ex
position of the workings of the societies.
On motion of Rey. G. R. McCall, the sub
ject was referred to a committee consisting
of G. IX Campbell, V. C. Noreross, 8. G.
Hillyer, J. H. Kilpatrick and N. A. Bailey!
Rev. M. B Wharton offered the follow
ing, which were unanimous!v adopted:
Resolved. That we hall with pleasure, the pub
lication in book form, of the article* that have re
cently appeared in our religious nrees on the for
eign misrion* of the Southern Baptbt convention
by Rev. IL A. Tupper. carreapoudiag secretary of
our foreign aLalon board. 1
ttMEflved, That we regard the work as a val
uable history of our southern baptist foreign mls-
OPPWtog a **° valuable maps, statUtica-
tables and biographies of about Seventy mbalou-
aries. constituting an important addition to our
denominational literature which shou.d be iu
the hands of every baptist.
CtoltaUos'oUhu’tKwt U * OUr tallwnw 10 °> e
The Albany Baptist church, and the
SUMMONED BY THE QUEEN.
I.ord Hartlnglon Cloietrd nt Wimbor.
Windsor Castle, April 22, 1 |>.m.—The
queen has accepted the resignation of Lord
Bsaconsfield as prime minister and has
sent a special messenger to Lord Ilartingtoa
desiring his attendance at the castle. Lord
Harrington will leave London for Windsor
almost immediately.
London, April 22, 4 p.m.—Lord Harring
ton went to Windsor alone, and it is be
lieved in political circles that he will advise*
tlie queen to summon Mr. Gladstone to
form a cabinet.
The evening Standard says the queen’s
imssenger, after ilie delivery of the dis
patches to Lord Harrington t.his morning
proceeded to the residence of Iiirl Gran-
rille, but it is uncertain whether the latter
A Great Discovery by n Great Man.
This, primarily, is what Warner's ?8afe
Nervine is. The great man is one of the?
most famous living physicians. He found
a harmless remedy for all kinds of pains,
others improved It, and tlie final result is.
the Safe Nervine now manufactured only
by H. H. Warner & Co.
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White (bounty Excited.
Gainesville Eagle.
Wc leant that the gold excitement in White
county is getting up u> furnace heat. Every day
»««-w discoveries are made and bonanza piles col
lected, which intensities the interest.
Fat “l Humors Expelled,
ZZ.oult.lt UcHtorcd, unci
Z.ife Prolonged.
which non. imho blood anil
t* cause the weakest organ ? What is rtn-nmaiKm
ot t-crofuia in tha
JW* ulcewtlffS UMt Urn
biB f Jhe kidneys, diabetes, wait-
tug and degeneration 0 f me urinarv omns?
S&raggitf ttsas S
vuaiii? uuJldue adapted lor iho
PURIFY flTE BLOOD.
LrAdlvnte lb*V!rn» of OlMWMby Con-
Mtltutloiml ami Local Treatment.
uai ,^solvent is the greatest blood purl,
•l i A , um5 ren <»vator in medicine.
liiivJSF’JZS’! ^retasc canuot exist where it is
foeijsnd regularly iakeu. It purges from tiro
JJJt?, 1 u l L " l , iDK humor * improves thear?
LTdmlldlgeMi.-n, stimulates tee liver and
cuticuraTesolvent.
f nilcurn and UuUcura Soaps.
«1- Besolvk?,t I* assisted In raring
r i. liumorh that appear upon the surface bv Pit-S.
whIch arrest* aifexter-
imi ►yirpn.ma ot disease, eats away deid nkin
aiid llo.li Kilty, Inflammation. Itchingud irrfta!
lioii, heals ulcer*, wires and wounds and
duoe* and ’bauiiHe* the hair by allaying heat and
irritation, it counting no grease, never become*
rancid and I* a uatura! Hair Dressing. Citicuxa
SoAp.prepared from Ccncuna
L.r. lea,-tingdtseawd surfaces, healing, softening
refr. slung and beauthylng the skin is inwini
sirs s?ss
WONDERFUL CURES
P-rformod by tbe Catlearo KomoUlrau
w hat cures cf Blood and Skin IHimom
aralp AfltctUm.wia. ui ot itai",
«llh h..« ..I the lion. Wn. TbsSr H.slnn'hn^
8«.ator of JlMtaohumtS: AiStSi
Boatoli; fl. A. Steele, Km) , Cftlcrao; K. H. Drake*
^•to&Tn^SM£S , olu 0, raS!r ,;
CUTICURA REMEDIES
For all Blood Hnraora,
.Kasffir a,
ccxA,small boxes, Woenuna^boxS* SntSS-
iV* t p?JJ nd oue-half times the quantity of small,
*'• ttEsaiygNT. tl per bottle. Cvticviu. Mem-
cxnai. Toilet So* i-, 25 cents per cake. CcnccaA
ksi>ic[.Nn9i(\visoiuF, U cent* per cake • in
handler Barbers aud huge consumer!, 50 cents.
Cogurrs^VOLTArc" "pLASTEBS
Ho,line Ifctlum*
sre ten times more powerful than the Mist porous
as
oi »irtl--dij wed ran iwkjiynirdmkt A