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THE ATAXTA WEEKLY CONSTITUTION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1880.
Constitution.
THE S0CTHER5 CULTIVATOR.
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THE 1TEEKLT COXSTITimOK.
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TT«Uj Constitatlon. six months, $1.00.
IMPORTANT.
We lend the Constitatlon end Cultl-
TAtor to one nddreu for $2.50. Tht<
done not npplf to poet aabnerlptlan.
Holb anbsoriptloni nut be made st the
each census, the number of th-rn not lo
exceed forty-four. At present 78,291
people in the 35tb district have no greater
representation in the senate than 15,974
people in the 3d district. 50,018 peo
ple in the 1st district are nentralixed-
at the other end of the line by 20,498
people in the ,-ftih district. There
is no need ol multiplying instances of this
kind. The state is fnll of them. The 37
other states o! the union do not, it is sale
tossy, afford a like system of legislative
representation. Neither house is based
on population. Neither house is there
fore strictly representative. The only
remedy, short of a constitutional amend
ment, is found in a fair and
equitable reapportionment of the senato
rial districts. The senatorial ratio under
the new census should be 31,703.
1 he Conareaslonal^appertloenisDt-
Tbe first full statement of the new cen
sus of Georgia appeared in yesterday’s
Coxstitctiox. For the purposes of this
article we reproduce its footings by dis
tricts:
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nnt district.
- round district
Third district
Fourth dl-trice
Fifth district
Sixth district
min i.-.T.it*
liM.oo 126 5 G
122.0 6 UI.7SS
123628 169,—Vt
ninth district...
Total.
ot democratic success are supposed to be
meet strenuous, there are thousands of
voters who remained away from the polls
in November because they could not,
consistently with their viesrs ol right and
justice, vote for the candidate of an or
ganization which had quietly submitted
to tbe rancorous, loud-mouthed dictation
of Kelly. -If* this is true of the sonth,
how much truer must it be of the north
—particularly of New York, where the
friends of Mr. Tilden undoubtedly re
garded the surrender at Cincinnati as a
personal attack upon the sage of Gnuner-
cy Park; and, indeed, in this view of the
case, it was an unmanly and inexcusable
attack npon the- only democrat in the
country strong enough to lead his party
to success.
The defeat of Kelly thus far is only
partial, he is crippled,hut not destroy
ed. He is still strong among his followers,
and the democratic party of New York
need not suppose that Kelly is finally
disposed of. He has a meet vigorous in
tellect and a moat persistent will, and be
will fight fate with all the active arro
gance ot his class. Bat the democracy
cannot hope for success while each men
as Kelly are prominent in its ranks. His
detest as ct mptxoller must be followed
up until he end his followers are brought
to terms or crowded out of tbe party.
and important document—we will leave
for consideration in a future article,
true Mr. Sherman mentions these
rates as maximum rates; but as thfc
new loan is to be shaped and started- by
tbe present administration, it is best to
assume that he would adopt tbe highest
rates of interest that the law would
permit. He has a tendency in that
direction, and so perhaps with his suc
cessor. We hope therefore congress will
not sanction his plan. Throe per cent,
is the true rate of tbs new loan. The
4s are selling at 112, and a three
per cent, bond can therefore ;be
placed at par. Why then should
the people be taxed to pay any higher
rate on S6s7,6oQ,600? The ways and
means committee of the house has, we
are glad to state, repudiated'Mr. Sher
man’s whole scheme, by deciding to
report- a bill to refund the maturing
bonds in plain three per cents. Instead
of effecting a saving of 512,000,000 a year,
as Mr. Sherman suggests, the house plan
will save each year to the taxpayers very
nearly sixteen million dollars. Tbe bouse
bill Bhonld become a law before the
Christmas
STIRRING UP TENDER EMOTIONS.
Kr. Arp sad Hit BxeetlBtrt lx Blittinl Coe-
musiea on the Crown of Stoae Mountain -
—Memories cf the "War—Among
the Old Town* if Georgia.
THE SOUTHERN STAPLE.
1.187,9691,538,911
ItzMZKK by J. Kelly: "I see in tbia the
••land of 8. J. Tilden. If be will give me
••time, I will take great pleasure to mash
•-ing bis fingers." ,
Tnzsz will be a goed deal ot unjustifiable
frenzy in Tatnuiany. Mr. 8. S. Cox, how
ever. will doubtless go oil by himself and
have bis fnn. Sammy is a brick.
Ms Ions Shxsu v* is still in favor ot bis
patent reversible silver dollar. Mr. Sber.
man wants a coin tbe value of which will
tluciuate with tbe finctueung price of ailver
bullion.
it is very evident Ibat Mr. Evert* con
tributed a few drowsy remarks to Mr
llsyeVs message. Parts of it read like a
paraphs*, of tbe great secretary's forth
coming novel.
It is a Utile singular that Conkling
doesn't writs a card denouucing Sprague as
a liar. There la sums good reason for this,
but whether it is his shotgun or bis family
connections we have no means of knowing
Tax traveling correspondent of the Chi
cagu Times, who wa. recently in Georgia
was pleased with everything be saw except
the Confederate monuments. He weakened
every time be got in llie shadow of one
Hut, strange to say, none of them offered to
attack bim.
The railroad organa can be spotted by tbe
severity of their criticisms on Judge
Black's letter to the New York chamber ol
commerce. The returns show that there
are several virulent railroad organa. Tbe
public need make no mistake in regard to
this issue. If will be a hard fight.
Tbe Sioiitliern Vole.
The New York Tribune first shows
that over a million .voters in the sonth did
not vote in November, and then proceeds
to declare that “this wholesale robbery
“ ot the rights ol a million of citizens has
"become unendurable." We know of
no way to remedy the evil except com
pulsory suffrage. II the Tribune desires
to drive the voters ot the south to the
jiolls by force, and has on hand some
practicable method by which the
task can be accomplished, Tub
Coxstiti-tiox will lend it all as
sistance in its power. Wo want the
compulsory pisn applied more particu
larly to Georgia; for the returns Bhow
that ont ol 300,000 voters in.the state only
155,655 went to the polls. In 1876 the
vote of the state was 180,534. if this
decrease and general absenteeism are
traceable, as the Tribune asserts, to
"intimidation and massacre," the demo
crats have been the greatest sufferers;
for the republicans cast last month 52,-
652 votes against 50,446 in 1876, while the
democrats cast only 102,522 against 130,-
088 in 1876. It the Tribune's argument
applies to Georgia at all—the Tribune
specifically says it does—the democrats
of the state are tho victims of a slow hut
sure system of extermination.
Not are tbe crimes which the Tribane
mentions, evidently with considerable
feeling, confined to Georgia. In Ala
bama the democrats pulled for General
Hancock only 91,875 votes, against 102,002
for Mr. Tilden; in IiOniaiana only 61,988,
against 70,636 in 1876; in Mississippi only
75,750, against 112,173 in 1876; in Vir
ginia only 128,586, against 149,670 in 1876;
in Kentucky only 149,707, against 159,600
in 1876. In the last named state the
republican vote rose from 97,156 in 1876
to 105,957 in 18S0.
It is trne that this dwindling away of
the democratic vote is in some minds
attributable to the want of a canvass by
the republican party in the sonth—to the
jug-handle nature of the campaign that
the republican managers conspired to
bring about in order tbe better to
fire the northern heart; but the Tribune
rejects this theory, and chargee the en
tire decrease up to ■‘intimidation
"and massacre.” We do not agree with
th<Tribune in one respect—we believe all
the voters are alive except those who
have shuffled off in the natural
way; and we are ready to second any
practicable movement that will compel
the last one of them to go to the polls,
regardless o! race, color or the weather.
II such a law had been in operation at
the late election, instead of Mr. Garfield
securing a plurality of 768, we are confi
dent General Hancock would have led
his opponent at least 206,000 votes. The
Tribune can put Tux Coxstititiox down
in favor of a full vote and an iron-clad
count.
The LreUlainr Apportionment.
Not only will tbe legislature at iu next
Mimion be called upon to reform the con
gressional districts, bnt the date of
changing tbe legislative districts will,
under the constitatlon, devolve apaa it.
An unjust, eccentric and undemocratic
provision of the constitution does not
admit of many changes in tbe lower and
so-called popular branch of the legisla
ture. Under this provision the six mosi
populous counties are to have three rep
resentatives each; the next twenty-six,
two each, and the remainder, 105, one
each. Floyd cornea into the first rank,
displacing Houston, which will hereafter
be entitled to only two members. Pike,
Walton, Hall, Putnam and JVKalbof the
third rank exchange place* with Talbot,
Macon, Dongherty, Newton and Stewart
ot the second rank. No other changes
can constitutionally take place in the
honse ol representatives. Fallon, with
a population ol 48,515, and Chatham,
with a population of 45,110—both wealthy
prosperous counties—will be represented
by six members, or one for every 15,954
of population. Charlton, Echols, Col
quitt, Irwin, Towns and Glascock will be
represented by six member*, although
their entire population is bnt 16,775. If
the alleged popular branch o( the legis
lature were put on a popular and square
ly republican basis, the doaterial system
would adjast these unjust differences in
representation, and give each citizen
equal weight in selecting member* of the
legislature.
Fortunately these discriminations can
be partially remedied in the formation of
the new senatorial districts. The consti
tution authorize* the general assembly
to change tbe senatorial districts after ;
These differences in the population of
the existing districts imperatively call for
a reapportionment of the state, even if
Hie state’s representation in congress
remains unchanged. As the slate is now
cat up a voter in tbe third district has
nearly twice aa ranch power overnational
legislation aa a voter in the eighth dis
trict. Tbe districts should be made
equal, or very nearly so, in population.,
Whether this can be done next summer
depends npon two Tilings—upon the
speedy aendiag in of the returns from the
census bureau, so that congress will have
a report of the population of the states
in time to act npon it at tbia session, and
npon tbe willingness oi congress to piss
a new apportionment act alter tbe re
turns are in. General Walker now
that he will be able to send in the
full returns by tbe 20th inst., and there
seems therefore to be no reason to donbt
that congress will have all the figures it
needs os soon as the members return
alter the holiday recess. Whether con.
gress will then agree npon. an ap
portionment act is a somewhat difficult
qnestion—one that cannot be forecasted
with any great degree of confidence; but
the belter opinion is that it will. The
republicans are not snre of controlling
the senate after the fourth of M <reh, nor
are they sure that they will herea'ter be
able to control as many legislatures as
they do at present. It is therefore be
lieved that they will unite with the demo
crats in adopting a - just and reasonable
apportionment act.
Mr. Cox, as chairman of the census
committee in the bouse, will have charge
of the new bill. What its terms will be
it is difficult to determine; but it is plain
that tbe chief and perhaps only qnarrel
over tbe hill will relate to the weight and
disposition of the fractionsof population.
For Instance, a honse of 293 members
might on a fraction give a state a mem
ber that it would not gain i( the honse
were larger or smaller. In other words,
tbe apportionment bill ol the house com
mittee will bring on a small war among
the representatives of a few states that
are interested in the fractions.
Mr. Cox proposes, it is freely stated,
to bring in a hill providing for n
membership of three hundred. It
is believed ttiat the total population
will be just about 49,500,000. This would
give one congressman to 165,000 o! popu
lation, ami Georgia would have, beyond
enough for nine members, a fraction of
about 54,000. If the state had about
30,000 more people, it might and proba
bly would secure another member in
the Cox bill is adopted. It the present
size of tbe house is continued, Georgia
will have almost the exact population
needed as a basis for nine members.
Tbe total population will be accurately
known niter the Christmas recess, and
then a moment’s ciphering will disclose
the ratio. Anti then will come the tag
of war iu the creation of moieties. It is
strictly a moiety fight, now that both
aides are inclined tA concede that the
present cengress should pass an appor
tionment act. It, as many desire, the
unmber of members shonld be increased
to 325, Georgia would- have more than a
major fraction—she would be
tilled to ten members, and would
then have a small unrepresented
moiety. A honse of either 293
or 325 members would, as the approx
imate figures now stand, suit Georgia the
best.
The Defeat of Jabs M rl I j.
The democratic party of New York and
ot the country is to be congratulated that
tbe first step has been successfully taken
towards relieving the organisation of such
a dangerous clement as that represented
by John Kelly. Our telegrams yester
day gave at least a portion of the details
of the defeat of Kelly and tbe election of
Allan Campbell aa comptroller. This
salt was brought about by an alliance of
the anti-Tammany aldermen with the re
publican aldermen. Heretofore, Tam
many has been enabled to make an alli
ance with ;the republicans, bnt Kelly’s
appointment of the offices has not been
satisfactory, and the republicans joined
the Irving hall democrats in putting the
official head of the “boas" in the basket
Under this arrangement the republicans
will have the park commissioner and
presidentof the tax commissioners, while
tbe democrats will have the comptroller,
commissioner of public works and corpo
ration council. This division of theoffices
was equitable enough to secure the aid of
the republicans in defeating Kelly—and
the defeat of Kelly can only be regarded
as a democratic triumph.
We havo no objection to Kelly per
sonally. He is an able and, we have no
doubt, an honest man, bat his ambition
made him unscrupulous in his dealings
with men and parties. He essayed to
make the one-man power successful in
politics; his methods were demoralising,
and his discipline odious to people who
are somewhat jealous of their political
freedom. The "boos” element may do
very well in the ward politics of New
York city, but when its success in those
limits prompts it to more ambitions un
dertakings, it is doomed to failure. The
people will not submit to -‘boastsand
this fact Mr. Kelly might have been
shrewd enough to divine. When he was
going home from Cincinnati, sur
rounded by a howling mob of Xew
York roughs, The Coxstitctiox went
somewhat cut of its way to inform
him that what he considered his vic
tory was practically his defeat, and tbe
nenlt nss verified our predictions. When
Kelly bulldozed the Cincinnati conven
tion, he defeated tbe democratic party
and destroyed his own usefulness as a
leader in tbe party. At Cincinnati it
was sot a question as to whether Mr.
Tilden shonld be renominated, but
whether the democratic organisation
-hou'djbe controlled by the disreputable
influences which Kelly summoned to his
aid. It is probable that these influ
ences would have lost New York to Mr.
Tilden had be bees renominated; it is
certain that the surrender to Kelly at
Cincinnati lost the state to Hancock.
Even is the sonth, where the necessities
The Agricultural Department.
We have before uq two of the recent
publications of the agricultural depart-
—“A Manual on Cattle for tho Use of the
Farmers oi Georgia,” and the annual
report of the state commissioner. These
two volumes embody only a few of the
results accomplished under tbe auspices
of Commissioner Henderson, but if the
whole work of the past year had been
devoted solely to securing the data npon
which these two documents are based
the success achieved in that direction
would bean ample vindication olthe
efforts of those who have considered it
their duty to defend the department
from the assaults of a vigorous and pow
erful combination of ignorance and
prejudice.
The commissioner practically began
bis year’s work by inaugurating a move
ment of national importance, which re-
salted in the calling of a convention of
chemists. The necessity ot uniform
methods of analysis to be employed in
testing commercial fertilizers suggested
to Judge Henderson the desirability ot
snch a convention, and he followed np
the suggestion by issuing a circular to
thorn who were either officially or pro
fessionally interested in securing unifor
mity in analyzing fertilizers. The re
sponse to these circulars was prompt
and gratifying, and Judge Hen
derson issued a second circu
lar calling the convention
meet in Washington on the 28th day
of July. We have already printed a fnll
synopsis of the proceedings of this con
vention of chemists and we need not go
over the gronnd. A permanent organi
zation was effected, and the next meet
ing will be held in Boston during the
regular session of the American associa
tion for the advancement of science.
Daring the season just past, 119,583
tons ot commercial fertilizers were in
spected by the officers of the depart
ment, showing an increase over the sea
son of 1875-6 of 64,267 tons. The fees of
inspection during the past i
amounted to $59,791.53, and the
total expenses were $10,353.17 leaving
a net balance paid into the
treasury by a department that is the
victim of ignorant derision of 49,438.36.
The commissioner in this branch ot his
report adverts to the defective law under
which the inspectors proseente their
work, on account of its ambiguity, and
the difficulty of executing some of its re
quirements strictly according to its letter
and be recommends an entire revision of
all the laws relating totheinspectior and
analysis of commercial fertilizers.
Judge Henderson suggests tbatmncli
good could be accomplished for the agri
culture of the state and much expense
saved to individual farmers, by the es
tablishment of an experimental station
or farm for the conduct of experiments
under scientific observation. On such
farm seeds of various kinds could be
subjected to comparative experimental
tests, different methods of cultivation
compared, the effects of different fertil.
izers and combinations ot fertilizing ele
ments experimented with, the differen
breeds of stock reared and compared as
to their relative profit for different pur
poses, improved implements tested, and
accurate and reliable infor.nation secured
for dissemination among the farmers of
the state. Individuals engaged in agri
culture are rarely possessed of a combi
nation of wealth with practical and
scientific knowledge, together with tmblic
spirit sufficient to conduct the various
experiments necessary to the acquire
ment of accurate information such as is
needed in the present age of progress in
agriculture. Even if individuals con
duct experiments, the results are
rarely given to the public and hence
others find it necessary, for their
own information, to go over tbe same
gronnd, thus involving time and expense
in each locality to accomplish what
state station or farm coaid do for the
whole people; and the commissioner
calls attention to the fact that such
stations hare long been established in
Germany, France and some of the norj^-
ern states, whose superior advancement
in agriculture is largely due to the results
of their labor. He also dryly alludes to
the ridiculous attempts made by some or
our agriculturists to imitate northean
and European practice. The result is
costly and useless experiments, and ulti
mate disbelief in what is lightly
and unreasonably called "book-
•forming.” The commissioner says that
means for the establishment and main
tenance of snch a station are already at
hand, furnished by the farmers them
selves in the surplus derived from the
fees paid for the inspection of fertilizers.
The accumulated surplus, which has been
ptud into the treasury from this source
within the past three years, has aggre
gated $101,591.50, that from the past
son, 1879-80, alone, amounting to $49,-
438.86. Aa this tax was not imposed for
revenue purposes, bnt merely for tbe
protection of consumers of commercial
fertilizers, and since, according to the
accepted principles of political economy,
the inspection fees are paid by the con
sumer—the farmers of the state—tbe
commissioner can see -no reason why
they should be required to contribute,
annna’iy, this surplus, is a class,
tbe general fund of the
u He therefore recommends
that the surplus fund arising from
the inspection of fertilisers be devoted
to the purchase, equipment and conduct
of one or more experimental stations in
the state, under such provisions and re
strictions as the general assembly may
in its wisdom enact. Such an appropria
tion ot this fund, be thinks, would not
only be jut to those who pay it, bat con
tribute to the advancement of all pro
ductive interests of tbe state, and by its
results would not only increase produc
tion, but lead to an enhancement ot real
estate, which will result in an increased
revenue from that source.
A very interesting portion of the re
port is that which emtodiea the result of
the labors of the commissioner on fish
eries, Dr. H. II. Cary, but this, aa well as
the manual on cattle—a most interesting
ad Water Pawer
Correspondence New York Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., November 11, lm-There ere
oow some 10.000.COO cotton spindles operated in
tbe onion. In the year 1900. only nineteen yea*
away, there will be 2J.OOO.OOO needed, because tbe
Increase of population and exportation of Ameri
can foods will demand them. The population
as ascertained by tbe recent census. Is, In round
a ambers, 50,000,030. In 1870 it was 38.600.COO, an
thirty one and a half per
in ten years. The same rate
increase lor the next two decades
will make it 85.000.0CO. To sustain this estimate
let me suggest that from 1790 to 1820. tad for each
•ncceeding period of thirty yean, the “Compen
dium United States Cen*us” show* an average
increase of over one hundred and forty per cent,
rhis ratio applied to the £8.000,010 Of 1870 gives
ns over y0.0uu.0tt> in 190U-thirty yean later* So
It appears that twenty yean hence we msy expect
a population nearly doable that ol the present
THE OLD TIMES
PLACED AT WORK
: doul;
Tha Concluding Prscsodinga of tho North Georgia
Confersnc* et ths Methodist Episcopal
Church 8oath—The Appointments
for the Coming Year.
ipuuuon nearly dot _
Jjaraa Just ascertained. Even if this estimate
of population fails, the increased ten
dency of the people toward manufac
turer* will compensate for the smaller
number of the population. Will not
two pounds of cotton goods be required from
United Htate* a ills in 1!)J0 for one pound now
produced T If this is correct, *M»).OOU of spindle*
will be required. During the interval Of nineteen
year* most o! the ep.ndles now in use wiU be
worn out or otherwise destroyed. Let os tay that
5,000.000 must bo replaced, and 10,000.010 more
must be supplied—in all tLS.OM.tOQ. with all their
were operated by steam, the other half by water-
000 bales, averaging 481 pounds each. This is
~ rivalent to over 8to.0U0.Wi0 pounds. If the ratio
__ 1870 has been maintained, some 430,000 000
pounds have been manufactured by steam in 1879
and 1880. la this economical? It pays, certainly,
but does it pay as well as with water-power? Tbe
requisite power for 1,000 spindles, with looms,
has been variously estimated at fifteen to twenty-
five hone-power. As all speeds have been accele
rated since the introduction of the American ring
spindle, let us taka (to medio) theraUoof twenty-
hone power. For 20,000,(00 of spindks, with
looms, this ratiot.uaauda 4L0.W.0 bone-power.
COUNTING THS COST.
Tbe steam-engines of the country will averaj
1 suppose, a consumption as six pounds of «_
psr ho se power per hour, or rixtv pounds per
da» of tea hours' work. At this rate then will be
required 2I.0C0.000 pounds of coal daily, or 12,0to
tons, to do the amount of duty required. 1 sup
pose the average cost of coal will be S4. to cover
K une cost, freight, dntyage, labor and storage.
2 re we have a charge for steam fuel alone of
244,000 p r day, and for a working year of
312 days of tl5.OM.ooa Add to this the
wages of engineers, firemen and laborer*
to handle tne coal: the excess of repaii
cost of enriuesover that of turbines; tbeexotL-
of oil required (a few gills dally are sufficient for
a turbine of 100 hone-power making eighty revo
lutions perminute); the greater cost of engines;
tbe unavoidable outlay for engine and boiler-
houses and stacks, and tbe somewhat increased
danger of fire, and it seems that 815,000,000 to a
low estimate of the annual cost of steam power
for 20.000,0(0 of spindles with loom*. What
would be the cost with wi *er power? The city
of Augusts, Ga, has built a magnificent canal,
which furnishes now 12.C09 hone-power, with
capacity of great lucresre, at the
annual chance of 85.50 per horse-
Don’t look back-let- U* ’dead past bury its
id.” That*a«what they say now.and they want
us to keep moving and shove ahead and shout
as we climb np the mountain. A
feller advised me to qnlt romancin' about the
past, and let the cussed old war alone, and quit
prcachin’ about the old plantations, and confine
my random remarks strictly to bustoeu. He said
something about Lot's wife looking back and
turning to a pillar of salt Well, l suppose she
did. but there war Ore and brimstone then. We
had fire and brimstone, too, a few yean ago, and
'e didn’t look back, either, but that’s all over
now, and we have got to a safe place, and 1
reckon we can talk over the old times once o
twice in a while, can’t we? I've seen a picture of
a feller climbing up the ragged edge of a steep
mou.-.taln with a flag in his hand, ««<> shouting
he ris npon the crumbling rocks, and
I always thought he was a fool, for after he got to
the top I knowed he cooldent git down any
and would just perish to death on the pinacle of
glory. Now its well for a man as he travels through
this vale of tear* to stop *Mv*»*»i4) n *iiy and
look back to see how far he has got, and
if there is a mountain to climb he
better take a ladder along so that he can get down
safely on the other side. I love to look back over
my chequered life and in sweet memories live
over the past and treasure up the good of it aud
lament the bad ol it. Memory was given to us
for some good purpose, and I have no respect for
a man who wants to blot out something behind
him and keep rusuig^ahead in a wild hunt for
fame or fortune. -^jfPF^«poof sinner, stop and
think,'’ was oneof the first hymns 1 ever learned,
and it fits ns now as well as it did then. 1 thought
of all this as the cars swept along tha base ol
the big stone mountain, and as 1
looked upon its barren and majestic
summit, memory carried me back to the
dajs of my gushing youth when there was a lofty
tower up there, aud my sweetheart and 1 mounted
itt spiral stair and sat t gether at the top in sweet
communion with nature and ourselves, aud aa 1
looked iu u> her soft hazel eyes it seemed to me
were a little nearer heaven th*n I have ever been
since. It was a glorious hour, but at could not
last lor there was a storm impending and
the lightning flashed and the thunder
pealed, aud we hurried dowu to a safe
retreat. Not long alter* ards the storm came,aud
the winds blew aud beat upon that tower aud it
fell. Just soil is with our life and our ambition.
Ine muuutain's top is grand aud charming fur a
“ k "* tneak aud cold aud oauger-
Jge aud happiest retreat is
down among the humble (lowers tt\*t blossom at
Covington to a nice old town, adorned With
reigreeua and inviting home , aud a contented
. copie. It it a town ot memuries, too, for X found
u»e old soldier* there, who fovea to uuk about
taewarauuus many curious scenes aud inci
dents. Captain Pace showed me the original
parting address winch the officers of the Virginia
aim/ prepared to sena to General Lee immedi
ately after the auummder. it was wrilteu hastily
>70. and we find ourselves depreciated in value
in rate of taxation only 36Q,OcO.OOO i n round num-
hers. 1 h*t is we have the same land, and under
a different government we are equal to 360.000,003
better off in improved land alone. Now apnlr
»£l?h'i e . eUe - and UeorxlA’s THE NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.
Gwinnett Herald.
In all that goes U> make up the material wealth
of a people we are growing each year. It to true
that lauds were valued higher before the panic
than since that time, and having reduced their
estimate of the value of property. It is very hard
to get them to raise. The returns this year are
based on the returns last and that on the one
before it. And yettproperiy has been steadily
advancing iu prices for three years.
It to a well kuown fact that nine tenths of the
land to given in at less than Its cash market value.
e will venture the assertion that one half of the
land in this or any other county cannot be pur
chased at it* returned value. Hence these returns
are not a fair crit rion of the value of any species
of property. If we take the increased production
of the country U will demonstrate that our peo-
ple are yearly g owing la substantial prosperity.
Notwithstanding the uncertainty of free labor
— ~—cotton than was produced
"—lufacturers and
r plantation stock. 1
Ings and fences shot
IAAV6A* each year; and the peoD e are aa near
of debt as they were in ante-bellum
&“**• e?. hew 2*7 o® rmall sections of
the s*ate where there are no im
provement, bnt they are exceptions. It to imma
terial wGat the tax returns may show, they only
show that the system of assessing taxes Is unre
liable, mid does not gives correct return of the
value of our property, nor is it a reliable criteria
to judge of our prosperity.
GEORGIUS POLL.
Tbe Fall and Correct Census ot the
Stale.
We are enabled to place before our ■readers to
day the complete census of the state lor 1880.
The counties which wo could not hear from in
time for last week’s paper have sent in retains.
Unless tome changes or corrections are
made the official census for Georgia, for'thls year
will be 1,538,911, a gain within the last decade of
350,9(2. This showing to very gratifying. Below
to the table of returns:
rtkST DISTRICT.
were recognised as an elder in the Methodist
church.
Her J 8 Key. L B Payne and J O Brandi, were
added to the board of trustees of the Orphan
■HliPMNMMHiaecouDt
his bmictions. Uesolutions expressive of the
conference were paattd and special prayer was
made, led.by Kev L B Payne, in his behalf. The
did climate, with cheap building materials,
abnodant and cheap labor, teachable, tractable,
thankful for employment and utterly unacquain
ted with “strikes,” and state taxation—three
tenths of 1 per cent—to be reduced rather than
increased, for the state fiuances are to a mo»t
satisfactory condition. Georgia has floated
4 per ccat bonds at per, a financial feat,
I believe, not paralleled by any other
sure. Manufacturers are firmly established there
and very remunerative.- Stocks are far above par.
At the water-rent fixed by ihe city of Augusta,
the 400.000 horsepower estimated would cost
82.200,000 Instead of 815,000,010 by steam, a saving
of nearly 813,000,001 annually, and of 8253,050,000
in twenty years. If these estimates are even ap
proximately correct, there can be no donbt of the
vreariy superior economy of water over steam
— states. At Augusta the
lupply cau be doubled when needed. At Macon
a similar canal is practicable, which can furnish
an immense power. At Athens Ga., and iu im
mediate vicinity,there are numerous falls of great
capacity. At Tallaisee and at other points in
Alabama the falls are very fine. The ChsUthoo-
cbee river, ia this state, falls 112 feet in a distance
of twelve miles, with the successful manufac
turing dty of Columbus at the lower end of the
folia Here are the celebrated Eagle and
Phianix mil to, a pride to tbe city, to the state and
to the union. Tbe river, rising far away among
tbe mountains of upper Georgia, affords many
admirable sites along its course. The Tallulah,
in Rabun c junty, foils 450 feet In one mile at the
Tallulah Falls, so well known for its picturesque
beauty and for the sublimity of its “grand chasm-’
The James river, in V rgima. has a great foil as it
flows through that famed vall» y where Pocahon
tas and Captain Smith wandered before Har
graves invented the upright spindle to be driven
by steam or water power. Many of your
readers bare seen and admired tbe beau
tiful rapid* at Richmond. Virginia. The Oot-
tenaula, Etowah and Cbickamauga rivers In Upper
Georgia all afford water power. At Tangipahoa,
in Louisiana, 1 understand there is a very fine
power. But there to enough for all for, perhaps,
a hundred years to come. The union will cer
tainly need the 21,000,000 spindles by A. D. 1900.
Where shall the new mills be located? There are
mills in toe south that receive cotton loom, “in
toe seed.” in two and four horse wagon loads,
direct from toe fie ds; weigh it on wagon scales
in toe mill yard (as yon ao bay), gin it in the
mill and convert it Into yams immediately. I
have often seen “seed cotton” received uftoto
way in toe morning and spun into fonlUfos yarn
before night. This saves toe trouble and
expense of baling. Even when ba sd'if
reaches tbe southern spinner in the loosely
rocked planter’s package, not after compression
(for thipment). under a preasnre of many hun
dred tons into a balk one-fifth that of the plant
er’s bale, in which state it remains as hard aa
board for six to twelve mouths before it reacht-
the distant milL Can any one doubt th»< the
southern spinner mar safely dispense with part o'
toe violent and destructive ■'beating’* that is nee
eamry to toe northern and foreign spinner to re
store that life and elasticity of fiber which have
beentquetsed out of it by the gigantic comprawcs
of the present day ? So much for souihtra
wkter-power. as compared with steam. Thereto
much of it north of the Potomac, bnt much mo e
avail Ue here, at toe cotton-fields, and never
impeded by ice.
THE COURSE CF PRO CRESS.
Northern manufacturers excel ns now In de
sign and coloring and weaving skill, and will
long continue lo do so; but in tbe manufacture
of toe heavier cotton cloth* and of the lower
numbers of yarn we are firmly established and
periectlj suecenfnl. as the extremely aattofoctory
dvideuf’s from many sou them mills •uffldently
attest. Northern weavers give np to ns the heavy
goods and bay annually hundred* of tons of
southern yarns. Why is this? Simply because
we cau spin as well as any other spinners and
more cneaply. If it were not so would
these skillful and thrifty people buy of
us? Aa we increase the production of yarn* mor
and more mill* will be started north lo consume
them, and as northern weavers learn more aud
more to depend upon ns f r their supplies we
wlil, before locg.be spinning finer number* of
yarns, and than the spinner* of the north must go
to •0’s. M's and lWi We will soon, probably,
competeyslth toe north in manufacturing print
cloths, to b« print-d toeie into the exquisite cal-
iooestoey now make. Finally, we will commence
spinning fide yarns for exportation to Europe.
1 be great impediment to the way of immediate
ar d rapid progress fa toe poverty of the people, but
this is rapidly pairing away, ana we will be able
to take a respectable porttoo of the new spindles
that will sooo be needed. Before toe end of this
century the southern states will p
that the v**t accumulations of wealth, north and
ewri. and in England, do not find their way to
this favored region, which lacks nothing but rep-
ital to create a manufacturing industry in this
Una that will not only be very remuner
ative. but will add to the afore of
the reconstructed union u i make
it yet more signally the “wonder of the nations
accept.be views here suggested: If you
send them abroad cast. we-t. north Tad ■
and “acroa^ the waters,” and let n« see those
magnificent streams, now wasting their wealth
of power tn tbe Atlantic and the gulf, harnessed
and made to ml sister to oar ptogrem and toe
program of the American people.
BPiT V. Meigs.
PENSACOLA IK FLAMSS*
Over SiseTVhtb* sf the Cftjr De
stroyed.
Wmrnto, ala,, December 11.—By the train
from Pensacola, wa leans that a disasterous five
burned for eight boors last night Five blocks in
the heart of toe city were burned, involving a
lorn of over half a million, and possibly three
*_ ... _
block opposite the plaza is
The fire stopped in Government street at toe City
hifasl, east and one sqa*re hack of the custom-
house. Over one hoedred attabltahments are
Tne costom-hoose, postoffle*. Grah«m'a hotel,
Brent’s baak. both teLgreph office*, bpr -
itj clerk's office
i drygoods
the well knot —
Co-Up. for toe fifth time in tbe term of hi* office,
Charlton...
Chatham -
Clinch...._
Echnl*.......
Effingham...
Emanuel ...J
McIntosh....
Pierce....—
Screven
Tatnall
THIRD DAY—AFTERNOON' SESSION.
Rome, Ga., December 4.—The session was
opened with religious services by Rev W A
Dodge.
Characters ol the following were passed: W H
LaPrade. JVM Morris, A J Jarrell. J R Parker. C
COsry, T H Timmons, G W Duvall, J S Embio. J
A'Reynolds, W T Hamilton, D D Cox, G H Patillo
H Parka, W A Dodge, W R Foote, Jr., R L
Campbell. E H Wood, W H Weaver, J E Evans,
RM Hlcey, B E Johnson. H J Ellis. J W Baker.
D J Myrlck, P M Ryburn, J R Smith, B8anderr, J
Lowry, W D Anderson.
The call of the Rome district having been con
cluded, the bishop, in appropriate wor is, on be
half of Demote circuit, presented Rev. Simon
Peter Richardson, presiding elder of the district,
with a handsome gold-headed cane. For one
lime in his life, and very probably it was the
first, Mr. Richard ton was completely taken off
his feet. Xfe attempted a response bnt was so
surprised, confused and overcome that he utterly
failed. In his confusion be made a most laugha
ble mistake lu the use of a word which
was heartily euj jyed by toe conference. Mr.
Richardson has, been oa the Rome district lour
years, and now under toe operation of the law
of limitation must be moved. It i< thought that
he will be on a station next year. .
Cotuerence adjourned.
FOURTH DAY.
Rows, December 4.—Conference met at 9 o’clock
a.m . Bishop McTyeirein the chair. Religious
services were conducted by Rev. W. J. Cotter.
Minutes read and approved.
The following local preachers were elected
eacons: J L Ware,, W B Bell, J W Jordan, C
C Spence, J B Allen, C N Vines, R A Cowan, J H
McCool, Robert Todd, JCLlnn.
The following local deacons were elected elders:
A C Davidson. A G Banks, W D Payne.Walter La-
nier, Ahashabla Johnson, L ~ • - - - ■
N A Moss, J B Uunnicutt,
Gilliam, J A Zimmerman.
Credentials of XL K. Ledbetter, once a member
of the conference, then a local preacher, aud
afterward ont of toe church, were, on motion, re-
encts to put a Lovick Pierce 82,000 memorial
window in toe church. Dr. Clark fa
also soliciting subscribers to the Wesley
memorial volume. He has ao far obtained 307
subscriber*. Holston conference took 100 copies
the Memphis lot and the N. C. 113 He mated
Clark, G G N
Williams, R F Evans, N B Ousley. J W Domingo*,
C K llolaud, J M Austin, W C Baa*. C W smith. L
B Payne. A M Wynn. J O A Cook, J W Hinton. H
Burke, Walker Lewis. J T Ainsworth, P C
Harris, K H MsUbee, G J Griffiths. W M Hates, S
R Weaver, W Lane. J B Wardlaw, R K William
son, S N Tucker, A P Wright, J K SawtcU.
D R Me William* Was granted a location. Rev
A P Wright was grautod a superannuated rela
tion. Rev C J Toole. R F Williamson and 8 S
Sweet were granted a supernumerary relation.
Rev L B Payne, agent of the Orphan home, re
ported 4t children received, 10 taken back, and
A committee consisting of R B Lester, T K Leo-
A FEARFUL CRIME
IN WHICH A LADY fs MURDERED.
Three Sonth Carolina Hegrees, Contemplating Rob
bery. Harder and Kattlau a Newly Hit-
ried Lady —Toey are Lytohed
to the N arest Tree.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE*
They Meet and Cast Their Totes.
The electoral college met at 10 a.m. Wednesday
in order to have ample lime for the iraueaettou of
all preliminary business before the hour of 12,
when the law prescribes that toe vote will be cast.
The full college was present, Colonel P. W
Alexander having been elected to fill the vacan
cy caused by the sicknereof Mr. T. W. Aiken, of
the seveulh district.
governor of the action ol the college.
The college then took a recess until a quarter
to 12 when the prcsldeut called the college to or
der and announced that in a few moments, ac-
core tint to the law, the elec tons would cast theii
vo as tor a pnsiaent and vice-president of the
United bratea.
At two minutes to twelve the president an
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SECOND DISTKICT.
in camp at Appomattox upon coufodcrate paper, Raker.,
and is a model of tender, touching mjvc, rerer- ”—‘—
ence and admiration for the arena old captain.
It fa not anown who wrote it, bat it has toe
aeauine autographs of Longsttvet, Gordon, Pen
dletou, K. P. Alexander, C A. Evans, J. H. uiwe,
E. Waggeman, Bushrod Johnson and Uenei
Ransom. This paper was euuusted to Capu
Pace to notam tn* signatures generally of -—» —
army cflicere, but tho confusion following the Lnwndea
surrender and the fpeedy dispersion of the- forces Miller.
ihe-utlermost anguish and dt fiance, aud nervouw- Thomas.
Worth..
Total
ly clutched the hilt ol his sword a* he stood and
witnessed the great comm mier make the sur
render ot bis army But
is a wonderful doctor, aud toe general
seems quite pacific now. Well, that’s right aud I
ihink with Major Wallace tbst the general will
stand upon tumor sou principle sud-itever forsake
hla people. Like Cousin John Thresher, I’m not
going back upon a brave soldier about a llule
matter of polities, for the time may come wheu
we will need tm again, i he best tighten are the
best peace makers anyhow. Some ot those Oxford
boyscameover u> hear me discourse upon Dixie,
aud had liked to have usurped my show. lh«y
had on pasteb.ard stand lug collar* about a fool
loug, with a death’s head on one ride and a motto
of sic semper tyrsuuis, and on the other a big
babboun aud E plunbus unum. They were very
respectful in Uitir dey>ortmeut aud dident charge
- " lienee had no reason to com
a boy mygrif. aud 1 thought
just the biggest thing iu the
- malice or meanness iu It aud
the boss have got to go through it just like taking Taylo. -
the measles. But they get over it by and by wheu Telfair.
165i 2527 873
73C5
110 9
*720
93.2 2759 „
TI1IQD DISTRICT.
M.m.gom.zr—
8chiey
out la 17r0, jurioue huudted years ago, audit
seems to me they ought to have a little centen
nial. It was the first town that was ever named
for the fatbits l*»r country, it was the place
where the southern confederacy departed this
life intestate I was in toe very chamber iu
General lleard’s house where Mr. Davis and Mr.
Keagsn and General Bracken ridge held the last
cabinet meeting. What a sad wreck of hope was
there! Old WiUes was cue of Unoriginal eight
counties of the stale, aud embraced a large ter
ritory, from which many othm have been made
It was orlgiually known as the Hornet's Nest,
for the old whi«8 of the revolution made it pretty
hot for the fortes there and bung eu up same-
times, eleven on a tree. John and Holman Free
man, two brothers from contend, were toe lead
er* of the rebel* aud ruled toe rude settlers with
wisdom and prudence. The great chair of state
in which John Freeman was accustomed to pro
of the 85 edition, one for himself and one for
Dr. McKerria addressed the conference on pub
lishing house.
Report was laid on the table for the present.
The committee of investigation in tbe case of
Rev. W. F. Lewis, reported, recommendiug that
his name be^dropped from the roil of inembcis.
& &auielter was elected to deacon's or-
A letter from President Caldwell, of the Rome
female .college, lnvltiug the member* of the con
ference to visit that institution, was read. A reto
lotion accepting the Invitation was adopted.
. The report of allowance*, made by the joint
board of finance to toe claimants on the cooler-
A communication from the Church extension
society, of the South Georgia conference, was
read and referred to the board of missions.
Bishop McTyeir will preach in the Metoo&ist
church at U to-morrow, and Dr. Mann at 3. The
Presbyterian and Baptist churches will be filled
by Dr*. Potter and Boring in the morn ing and by
Rev. H. H. Parks and Kev. A. C. Thomas at
night.
THE LAST DAY.
nounevd that the roll of the electors would be
called and each elector would cast bis bal ot for
president As the name* of toe electors were
called each stepped np and deposited hla vote for
prerideuu Mm*ra Sltomous and Smith were ap
pointed tellers . The vote for president was
couuted and declared as follows:
For president of the United States, Winfield 8.
Hancock, of the state of Pennsylvania, received
1» votes—all that were cast.
J. L Maxwell oi Richmond, J. D. Waddell ol
Cobb, K..B. Smith of Jasper, J. D. Alexander of
Pike, T. K. Oglesby ot Clarke, F. V. Kvana of
Dougherty, and F. 51. Duncan of Campbell, were
put in nomination.
Seven ballots were
choose one from h» many clever gent.cmcn. At
test, however, Mr. Tbaddeus K. Oglesby received
seven votes, and wa*declared elected.
Mr. Brad well, of the electoral college, wa* desig
nated to deliver a copy of the vote to toe United
Stales district court judge, now in Savannah, ac
cording to tew.
The president wa* requested to mail another
copy to the pre.-blent of tne senate at Washington.
Mr. Oglesby will carry the third and personally
deliver it to the president ot the senate.
It i* estimated that the expenses of the college
for per dura mileage, etc, will exceed 81,500.
Some very humorous allusions were made to
the fault In the stute tew which caused the elec
tors to meet on the wrong day.
Mr. Kennpn. in lookl g over
minutes of the previous meeting,
read ot an instance where a vote of thanks
was returned to the president of the oollege for
his beautiful and appropriate address to the col
lege as it dispersed.
He stal to Mr. Black—“We shall expect
thing equally good from you.”
The president replied—“It 1 say anything fur
ther to tbe college it will bs brief and lo t’~
|>olnt.^I shall simply say ’study the almanac'
It was also questioned whether the messeng..
should not carry an almanac along with his copy
of the vote.
The electors nearly all returned to their respec
tive homes lsat night. The unanimous opinion
among them seems to be that Georgia's vow will
be counted, as it does not change the result. None
of them cast any special blame on toe governor
C :t asleston. December 1L—The News and
Courier has receiv**d the details of the murder of
Mrs KenucJy iu Clarendou county and of the
subsequent lynching of her three murderers last
Sunday. Mr. Thomas Kennedy, living near Sa
lem, intending to visit Charleston, weut over to
his tether’s house, a short distance from his own,
to ask his mother to »uy with his wife during his
absence^ Kennedy’s wife was foimetly Ml&s
Ada Wright, of Darlington, and had only been
married absuta year, bhe was a young lady of
only nineteen or twenty yean of age. intelligent,
refined tad highly respected. Wheu her
husband left, she shut the door and sat by toe
wiudow to write a letter to her mother. As she
sat there she saw in toe yard Jce Barnes, a colored
boy about sixteen yean old, who had been em
ployed by Kennedy the previous week. This boy
bad been induced by two negroes living near by,
Vance Brandt and his sister Julia, aged respect
ively eighteen and fifteen, to bang around the
premises, and when Mr. Kennedy led
. ace to give the signal to Vance and Julia,
who kept themselves concealed th the thicket.
This couple had heard ot Mr. Kennedy’* lnteu-
rion to visit Charleston, and thinking that he
would have a good deal oi money la the house,
determined to break in and get it. When
gave the signal, Vance went Im
mediately to the window and three times tried to
get In, and each time he was shoved out by Mn.
Kennedy, finding that he was determined to
getln, she opened toe front door, ran through toe
yard and was just going through the gate, when
Vance snatched up a hoe lyiug in toe yard, over
took her at the gate and knocked her
l She implored mercy. and told
she would give him all
toe .money she had if he would only
spare her lire. He cursed her, and add, “l’se fom
waiting to kill you a loag time.” and <
FOURTH DISTRICT.
daily were held. B shop McTyelre
First church, RW Warns *orth. P A Heard, __
pernumerary; ucooee street, B F Farris; Athens
circuit, M H Kakes; Oconee and Factory Mimion.
T O Boric; Watkins* ilie, H J Ellis; Mud roc. R >.
L Timmons; Rutledge, George S Hanlelter: Mor
gan, E A Gray; Madison, U J Adams, A Means
supernumerary; Greensboro, T a Sea s; Greene,
W E 8hackeUord; White Plaius, E J Myrlck,C A
. Winterville. A W Wd-
Junius Uiilyer, of your.city, married a daughter
that
any other. _
shows a larger increase of population in tbe
eighth district than any in the state, eblid wealth
abounds in Washington, and her people can justly
9178
11782 1©3
6 5- 5QTO.
15875 211119 5 31
78M- 8769
8000 888
itgsi
18883 193x3
11«tf
1763
FIFTH DISTRICT.
splendid audience, # J . .,,, , IM
for there was a teller close by lu the street sieging
a liver pad song by torchlight and trying to con
vince tne crowd they needed hfa pack saddles. Pm
afraid 1 iuterfeied with bis business, but that
people dident need em. Their livers are all
right. Yours, BILL Arf.
Hr. Stephens sad me Condition of
Georgia.
.Hamilton Journal.
It hardly needed Gmdy’s facta to convin'e the
working clemem of the state that Georgia is im-
to be wheu 1 was a boy.’
Charleston News and Courier-
Is it not about time for southern statesmen to
stop talking about the poverty-stricken, ruined
and desolate sonth ? The south fa making money
fast, and keeps it too. Why. then, should the
south any longer hold the position of a national
pauper? These statesmen do not nndeistand us.
Carroll County Times
We certainly hare.seen some hard* times in
Georgia, tbe past doesde, bnt we believe the state
is on rising ground now. In fnct the comptroller
Crawford «
Clarion—
DeKalb....
Fayette ....
Fulton.....
Henry......
Houston...
.. 8221 ___
33448 49515 18088,
10102 14193 4091
22412
8'*»
188 8
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13881
943 12 Itt) 297i
1472CO 19X809 4454V
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Jones
Laurens........
Newton—....
Putnam...
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31255-
iiiis
7834 10051
last*
before. Another thing Mr. Stephens does not ap
pear to take into consideration, and that is, the
relative value of toe currency now and a few
yean back. We have hod shard time reaching
hard nan. but we have struck it attest, we think,
and the tendency of things is now upward.
Columbus Enquirer.
That the state L« poverty-stricken or nigh such
a condition j" as Mr. Stephens would have toe
world believe. i« a great mistake Atlanta ha*
been almost entirely rebuilt since 187.1. and every
other town and city, with rare exceptions, have
made astonishing progress, though a portion of
the decade was disheartening. Mr Stephens
should revise hfa facts, and give tbe state which
has so honored him some praise. We compose a
comfortable commonwealth with an immense
quantity of state pride, an.l do not fancy the Idea
of national representatives mfarepresentinr,
though not intentionally, the condition of affair*.
Harping on its poverty never benefited aaectfo
or helpedmakeHrich.
Correspondent Louisville Courier-Journal.
The material prosperity of Georgia was never so
promising as at present, its rice, cotton, cane,
corn, oat<. whe t and rye crops are better, larger
and more prolific every year, aud toey hare of
course become < “
talniag. until .
their imports and to-day, in passing toe sfoefc-pen
of the Georgia Central railroad. I saw in those
pens read; for ihipment cattle, horses, mules and
non; and when a country raises all these, to
gether with the cereals and other and tropical
products of this stare, it is certainly m certain
guarantee of material prosperity that overturns
every theory of all such ineu aa Toombs, Ste
phens, etc.
Wilkinson..
Total
-j 9*3
J120565 153595
10461 1453 4J78
Mitchell, supernumerary; Winterville. A '
llama, E G Hurrah, supernumerary; Lexiugtoi
W R Foote; Barnett, XW G Watkins; Utile Rive.,
TH Gibson: Washington, G K Gardner; Broad
Elver, C A Conns way; Lincoln, to be supplied;
Lincolnton, 8 D Evans; Professor In State uni
versity, E W Speer.
Augusta District—H H Parks, P E. St Johns,
V/ H LaPrade; St Lukes. M 11 Dillard; St James,
8 P Richardson; Asbury, J R Parker; Richmond.
H Timmons; Harlem,
G W Duvall: Bel Air, J 8 Ember; Thomson, J A
Reynolds; Warrenton, W T Hsmittou; "parts,
D D Cox; Hancock, P II Miller. C J Jamison;
Cnlverton, CCCarey; Mdlcdgeville, G II Pattiilo;
Baldwin, JC Davidson; Eaton ton, W A Dodge:
tax* Putnam, WT Caldwell; West Putnam. M J
Cote.
Dahlonega District—W A Candler, P E. Dsh-
lonega, \V R Branham, Jr; Porter Springs. R L
Campbell; Cleveland. John S Askew; Nacjochee.
K Read; Clayton. W H Weaver; Hiwante. P L
.Stanton; Bteirsville, J B Alien: Morgan ton. J R
King; Kill jay, J J Hurts; Jasper, W O Butler;
Dawrouvilie, R B O England; North Georgia Ag
ricultural Cjllege, J J tingleton
Dal on Dfatrlc.—W A P*tka, P E. Daiton. J W
Lee; Dalton Circuit, H M Keaton; Spring Place.
R M Hickey; Cooaawattte. to be supplied: Tilton.
N E RcRreyrr; t aihoun, N Z Glenn* Gordon. K
B Reas. Kingston, WJ cotter; Subllgna, M H
Edwards; Summerville. O A Thrower; laFay-
ette, T J Kdwa’ds Mctemore’s Cove, A J
Hughes, J B Lewis; Riuggold. W T L-iine; Tun-
nelHUL, J N Myers.
Elberton District—W D Anderson. P E. Elber-
ton. J 11 Baxter; Elbert circuit, W T Norman:
Bethlehem circuit, A G Worley; Hartwell. W A
Farias; Davldsville, Ell Smith; Jefferson. R a
Seale; Mmberry, K fl Wood; Harmony OroveJT
Curtiss; Homer, A W tluilllan; Camesville, 8
Leake; Clarksville, W w Lamnkln; Franklin
Springs, E T Hendrick; La vonia. Mission, to beaup-
gUcdTraiton, K J Smith; Missionary to China,
Atlanta District—J R Borlcu
ehurcb, C A Evans; Trinity, J 1
Chapel, H C Christian; Paynes Chapel. F G
HogSt. Pauls’, ;W C Danlap ; Sixth church,
w F Robimon; City Mission, ¥ B Davis; DeKalb
Circuit F B Brown: East Point. L P *Neese, H
Crumley; Fulton Circuit, to be supplied; Deca
tur andClaikston, W D Heath; Liiboui*. WF
Quilllan; Conyers, A u Thomas; Oxford, M Cal
loway and W R Branam; Covington, J L Pierce;
8odal Circle. D F C Timmons; Newburn. W W
Oslin; President Emory college. A G Haygood;
professor Emory co lege. J S Hopkins: agent
orphans'* home, 8 P Jones; agent Emory college,
U P Lovejoy; Edge^ood, R J Bigham; superin
tendent orphans’s home, J i. Lupo.
Gainesville District-J F Mixon. PE, Gaines
vilte, G G Smith Hall, O b Gut Ilian; Flowery
tch, J U Mashburn: Gumming, J R Pate.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Ca'oosa
Cherokee^
Paulding -
Polk
Walker..
Whitfield...
Total
18ffM
4409 4739|
6902 10509
10399j 143 *5*
138141^0748
50831 4703
172*> 24418
1117.. 18b ...
4604 5973 ““
65001 8J69
7HM 18387
7843 12384
gan; uiu», .n w Arnold; unerultce, W T Bell;
• Anton, H M Quilllan; Etowah. LP Winter;
KorcrotB, p Smith; LawreucevlU-r, S 11 Di-
moo: Logansville, W L Yarbrough.
Griffiu District—W F Cook, P. tC. Griffin, T R
Kendall; Jonesboro, T L S Harwell; Hampton.
W FSmith; Fayetteville, JVM Morris; Mcbm
ough, G W Tromits; Milner, J B McFarland; Zeb
ulon. JTLowe: BamcsvUie. LJ Davie*: Lp.-o:i,
CS Owens; Tbomaston, a Giay; Cuilodeu, G E
Bonner; Forsyth. J D Hammond; Forsyik Ur
cult. L Rush; Jackson. R W Rogers and J A Tim
merman; Clinton. D J Weems; HUhboro. G W
Hardaway; MomiceUo, J M Bowden and O T
Jones
LaGrange District—W H Potter. P E. La-
Grange. C Pope; Troup, J M Lowrey; Hou t. n,
F M T Brannon; Hogansville, J W Roberts; West
Point, A M Thigpen; Whitesville, W L Wootten;
1 G Parks; North Meriwether, to be supplied;
Seoote, M L Underwood; Gr*ntviile, J W otioc
Newnan, G W Yarbrough; Newnan circuit, J W
Quillian; Palmetto and Fairbum, J « D-yan;
Fairborn circuit, J Rosser; Whitesbuty, J B Hol-
llnsnead; Carrollton. DL Anderson; Bjwdcu; G
C Andrews and W H Kp-er; Fra kiln, E K as in;
Heard, Thomas A Gillespie; President t >Grange
college. J R Mayaon; missionary to China, YJ
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Albany News and Advertiser.
This fa an all-sorbing topic now, and the asser-
-—• Alex Stephens (
tions of Bob Toombs
effect that the south
each sun than she was
: the setting of Johnson..
i day before, must be
figure?, that the agricultural interest* of south
west Georgia, at least, are not going backward,
tad will at an early day present a statement of
certain forming operations, which will prove c
tion. in order that we mar present to the outside Total,
world a clear statement of the resources of onr
121-57 37(8
67*53 4WI
156 9
€412
9449
11782 151*4)
25724 3 507
47 6; 7t3l
10515. 10KS.5
115842 2211>
11796] 15985
jgjjgjjjjjtto
NINTH DISTRICT.
and there are It
to-day wurth a great deal more than they *
tew yesr- ago. and mu. h better stocked and
tilted. If the people of Georgia are not growing
much richer instead of poorer they are strangely
deluded. It fa very remarkable that when they
were really poor they knew it, and that n jw they
do not know when they are prosperous or on the
road to prosperity. Cnfam Mr. Stephens can
bring forward farther arguments, facts and
figures to make good a posiuoa that fa not tenable
when examin'd closely, the great majority of
Georgians will continue to beiitve that their
■prosperity fa real and not fictitious.
Columbus Enquirer.
We think that Mr. Stephens has overlooked one
thin? In 1870, if we remember correctly, or
about tost tlm? the Bollock admini-trsticn forced
ty> taxable property 4o an nnpre^edented price,
war — *- * *
l-l I ! 2 £
'•oriyth..
Franklin
1.941. llTto: | 12
I 4*9. 5837; 1468
’ ***•' 7315 18 6]
10659 2538
3586*
— . 174?
12431 1KS1 71tt)j
that was actually given in lor ttx at 815
Lumpkin...
Madison....
Morgan
Oanw...
Pickens.
Rabun-
.Towns.
White..
Union -
ertjoatof town. Much suffering =
The price attend and every this gels* was higher. Total.
perhaps twice as high, then as now. Merchandise
was high, and under the preasnre of the Bollock
administration that ana everything else was
forced opto market value for taxation. Take the
small form referred to. which v
at *15 per acre, and tbe very sa
more generous administration, _ ,
n at 83 pm sere- Bat let ns suppose to* land
itself was then taken for tax st S3 er acre more
*sd what would be toe difference?
nearly thirty xallltoa acre* of is*
1 in Georgia now given in at nearly
lb average,
comptroller
— - n this land at S»
**>» w°«ld give 890.ttt.0ai Ad i this to 838.-
904.126 the present value of taxabte property in
Subtract
$■'89,193,287. toe taxabte property of toe state la
J 63b? 1 8711
-I 11181; 16230' 5149 ..
-| 5161' 6519 1358 -
-i 537 797b; 275 ..
-.I 1C6J6 140*4 JfcffS..
J 8349
t3i7; 8790' 1473 —
1 *256 4634. U7&;..
j 27e0j 2261 4S<,~
1 4406* 6341 735 ~
5267, 64S 1214 ..
Showing an Increase of—
it nearly
acrord-
X 82 per acre
from bed* of pain, sickness and almost'
and made strong and hearty by Parker’*
Ginger Tonic ar* tbe best evidence in the
world of its sterling worth. You can find
these in every oommnnity. —Post. See
advertisement.
novlS—41m toes thor sat &wlm 24p
Allen.
Rome district—'W F Glenn, P E. Borne. J E
Evass; DeSoto station, J TGltnoa; De3ou>circuit,
J T Richardson; South Rome, W P Rivers; For-
restvUle, U L Pattiilo; Cave dpriog, J B Robbins;
Cedar Towu, T F Pierce; Polk, J W Baker: Rock-
mart, J R Smith; Carter*ville, A J Jarrel ■; Dallas,
J L Perryman; Ac worth. W j Roott; Marietta, t
M Ryburn; Powuer Springs, R R Johnson; Douc<
issvjlle, W G Hanson; Villa Rica, B banders;
Buchanan, to be supplied; Cave Spring High
School, O C fcimmons
Dr A G Haygood and Jndge James Jackson
delegates to toe ecumenical convention.
THB SOUTH GEORGIA CONFER3KC2
Hawkinsville, December 9—South Georgia
conference is now being held at Hawklnsvlite,
and the hospluble citizens of the place are unre
mitting in their efforts to make the visitor*
pass toe time tleasantly. The ministers
ara all looking their best, and uni verbal good feel
ing prevails. Conference was organized yesterday,
with Bishop George F. Pierce in toe chair, and
& D. Clements secretary, with W. C. Lovett, R.
M. Lockwood and R. P. Beyaa as assistant*.
To-day conference was opened with religions
service by J. E. Godfrey. Bfahop Pierce prrsidtd.
The following are tbe committees:
Books and periodicals—J W Hinton, J M
Austin, J W .Domingos, Moses Speer and W C
Smith.
Sunday-schools-J O A Cook, J W Simmons, D
Q Abbott. W1 Green and J D Clement*.
—W M Hayes. W A Simmons and J
M Potter.
Wm J Robertson was admitted into the travel
ing connection.
The names of tbe following were called, their
characters pawd and toey were elected to dea
cons* orders and admitted lito m-:mbc-tship of
toe conference: j J Ansley. Barrel 3 key, Har
uan'A Hodges and Gcotge W Matthews.
Tha following were called and advanced lo the
fourth year:
W H Tlgner. R J McLeaky, P B Sims, A A El-
lenwood, J W Folsom. E H Harmon, Paul F
Counany(h0 was granted a location) and E M
Whiting.
Tbs following were elected to elders* orders:
W J Stalling*, L A Snow; C T Blckley was
granted a location at hfa own request
Tha following focal preachers were elected dea
sons:
J C Pate, J L Scrugg», of toe Savannah district;
Johns Evans, of toe Msooo district; G W Wil
liams. 8 H Friaboa, of the Americas dfatrfet; C
C Wright, of ThomasvUla; H C Britton. J J Bar
rett, C M Coleman, H Howard Clarke, of the
Eastman district.
The credentials of H W Cleveland, of Savannah j
conversing with the electors
peculiar position which Georgia occupies in the
lorthooming presideutial count.
Mr. J. C. C. Black, oue of the electors
at large, said he preferred not • belup
Interviewed, but we give hfa expressions anyway,
as they are very important, coming from a man
of Mr. Black’* ability and toe president of toe
college.
Renoi-ter—Mr. Black, what do you think of the
defect in the call of Georgia’s electors to cast their
vote for president and vice-president.
Mr. Black-Well. sir. 1 aon’t think tost the
fault In tht* matter rests cutliely with the govern
or. If there should have beeu a close election
and (Jeornia's vote could have changed toe result
—well, I’m glad it dtuu’t happen that way. As
It fa I am very much in hopes that it will be
counted.”
Mr. R. E. Kenncn, the other elector at-large,
said: “I am sure Georgia’s vote will be counted
and I think the governor did exactly
right in making the call as he has
done. If he had not called toe
.college under toe-law of toe cute it seems to me
more authority to
of Georgia. I am
»ie wm oecounica, especially t‘
v .linw Him rmnlt •
Me. Bart
cd, but be doubt* if U could sp'torough Inthc
event that it chauged the result- He does not
attach any blame to the governor in the matter,
but thinks the law ver, foolhh to stand In con-
flxtwith ihe United States statute* The warn
ing in 1868, ought to have been sufficient to guar-
an tee an amendment.
Mr. C. C. amith-“X believe the vote will be
counted. I tee no reason wh» i. vjld not be
counted. It docs not change the result, and. tho
f overoor and electors have acted in good faith.
see no griod reason why, iu this case, Georgia’s
vote should not be counted, though the state law
shoul.. be changed at once.”
Mr. R*y said that he was confident that Geor
gia would cot lose her electoral vote In this f
He said: “You will remember that
8<6 the democratic clectora ol Florida met alter
the first Wednesday in December, because they
were awaiting tho result of a init of quo war
ranto served on the republican elect
ors, and ^ Judge Ptroog, who derided
the case in the final arbitration of toe muter did
not base Ufa derision on the fact that the demo
cretin electors failed to meet on the dav appoint*
be declared
tors having
tue duties <
“functus officio’ „
met. While there might have been on the part
of us all more care In this matter, I do not blame
toe governor, for he acted under the plain pro-
struck ner two more Wows, in attempting to »vert
which, it is supposed, her hand wa. bro*eu. Just
then Julia came up with another h <e aud severed
her head. When Kennedy returned, about three
hours after a aids, he found Ufa wife lyiug outside
the front &ate mutilated, old ana stiff—
her head almost severed. The entire cranium
was cut off from car to ear leavtua toe brai s scat
tered around ihe gronnd. A jury ol inques:
being had retnrued a verdict _ of "murder iu toe
, - -Tie*, wa*
arrested. He showed so muon contusion on being
luesttoned aslo hi* wnireabouu ou &unda«,
MM
that
only a tew ques iot.s served to bung
_ . -hfa IujI confession, from which the
above account is taken. An examination of
Vance aud Julia elicited evidence showing that
ther were the murderer*; the mars* of b.ood aud
one hundred aud
fifty colored
toe murderers. The negroes be«ged toe'whi tes
to permit them tn take toe prisoners aud burn
them alive. This was refused, but a vote was
taken whether toey should be Jailed and await
the court or be ljnched. Only twenty-
await tne law and ft
te neart**: . _
obtained and
— ~ — .— A cart was
placed under the limb. Handki n hieis befog tied
over their faces, the cart was pushed away and
the trio were soon dangling in the air. Their vic
tim at toe time of the murder was eudeute with
twins and was near her confinement.
determined to hang them to the tree nearest tne
Sentenced to Hang.
For several days past the trial of Tom Betts,
charged with killing Judge Moore near Jones
boro, on the 28th of October last, has been going
on In the Clayton superior courtandon Thursday
a^onclu-vion was reached by the jury rendering a
verdict of murder in the first degree.
In accordance with this verdict. Judge Hillyer
yesterday passed sentence upon toe prisoner and
named Friday, January 21, 1881, as the day upon
which the sentence should be executed.
The trial attracted a great deal of attention, and
the general impression Is that the verdict rendered
fas just one. The state was represented bv Solic
itor General Hill and Colonels John L Hall and R.
T. Dorsey, and the prisoner by Memo W W H.-ck.
W.W. Gay snd J. 8. Boynton .Qi-blidtoc Hill used
his ability to good advantage and secured * vin
dication of the law. whilst those wb<t hi- «r l Mr.
Black say that hfa effort to save his client wa
Indeed excellent.
When asked If he had anything to say why *cn-
tencc of death should not be passed upon him,
Betts gave a rambling account of hfa life, but de
nied klllln? Judge Moor.*.
Judge HlUyet’a charge to toe jury and hfa re
marks to the prisoner, were i> plete with tnat
good, sound, logical reason which usually charac
terizes him upon such occasion*.
Yesterday Betts was brought back lo Atlanta
andplaced la the Fulton county jail to await the
**“ * * ou him.
his cell bt
knowledge of the crime for which he has been
~ “ swill mat tain the
Iso say* that he did
i to believe that he
motion
eni
— |
probability be httnc at the appointed lime-
Our rcadent will doubtless recollect the ac
count* of fie horrible murder for which Iktts ia
to hang; th-rcfore we will not reproduce toe crime
fYwble kntikes.
Tho.sc languid, tiresome sensations, caus
ing you to feel scarcely able to be on your
feet; that constant drain that U taking
from your system all its elasticity'; driving
the bloom from your cheeks; that contin
ual strain upon your vital forces, rendering
you irritable and frciful, can easily be re
moved by tbe use of that marvelous rente,
dy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities and ob
structions of your system are relieved at
while tbe special cause of periodical
para is |»erroan‘ntly removed. Will you
heed this?—Cincinnati Saturday Night.
event that it changed the result, for I believe that
the supreme court would deride tost It ought
to be counted. Yet I am very glad that
there will be no necessity for snch a final test and
that this accideot in Georgia will occasion no
material harm.”
*>e Uconfident thnt thn rote will
if a presidency depended on It ^ J
Lolonel Alexander, the alternate of the reventa
dlztrict, w« Intcle'wcd. lato..Uenc£^i“7!
Aike t?l. l ? e elec, o^- *nd said: “I doubt very
much if the vote fa counted. It may bs because
Snd5 tl0 S$2E£L lh Vh? U,t * bQt it . wl11 d <>oe
under protest The onus of the fault
lies, of c urse, with the state law
I regret that this mishap ha* oocuned but it was
natural and fortunately does not produce any
serious results The vote, in my opi-*— —••• *-
very closely scrutinized "
Mr. Nfabet think* tost the precedent of ’68 wl'.l
make tbfas ip pam over all right, but he deem!
toed^ionoflMSwronginprinciple. Whilehel<
confident tost toe vote will b3counted he think*
that ft would have been better for XftffiSSTo
h.ve met law Wednesday though be atteches
no bUtu* to toe g wernoi lu the matter. He
say* he Marled to come to Atlanta last Wednesday
but he was very inr* that tha «i4.i._ VT**'*
meet, a* the proclamation distinctly called them
to meet fast Monday. He expresses great *ur.
1 t J l ® n ^* lect »everal legfalatu. at lu «Uow-
R'g thastete law to stand aa it u.
t nTT*. .% °f toejuinth. onsof the
bett pouted men lo the college, »ald: “f helir-*,*
the vote of Georgia will be counted became
there are several instances where such atotng
baa been done when it would not c*
l **® The care* of Wire
• nd Georgia in I8d are
“ r ; >H*Un«lj- n moT*1 th S 1 it Ue’rMe'^
l*U.« U» tot,ol Georgia »li|ISrSttSSm,**
for the defect* an to it* count, because noobicct
could b3 attained by it.” noooject
Mr. il&rrfaon, of tne second, has one of the
* inf f*ira*J£est legal minds iu the body
and though the reporter could not obtain a formai
Interview with him, it fa understood tokt be^
w*« «t *the ttrte will be onmted in
22* lhe Regularity in it. and counted hi-
CSJL • it cannot affect toe result
°* toe fifib, wuaUent yesterday, bnt
vote cf the state will be ccua’ei. He said all the
elect© 1 * believe tost the fault In this matter lf«
In toe law and not with the governor. Those who
Bltac , h *®y Maine whateverto him bellevSthataJ
much fa creditable to i»ffe electors.
nJl difference how severe toe
caseof Bilious Derangement is. It can be cured
ta’edily and effectually without saltvSfon ^
loat prortrattonof toe system ensuing ttr£* \£Z
urc of drartic purgatives, fcimmoo* Uver Rem.
lafor does not merely relieve toe sufferer, butef-
ama fisasssSS
“I have u-ed In my family your Regulator for
the Jf* 18or 10 rc * T *' md found it £> auoereede ‘
anything recommended for ChUlsTFevwSd
Ague, J use ft. and nothing else. I haveelven
all other Mercurial
treatment*. I give it to my children from ou«-
>ear old to too** of twenty-five y«Solto I?iS
all you could wish in a family. Wea^u$emv
nao.e as you vbh. Very truly, m T
K. H. URBANRH, Cpsafordoounty. Ga."
Vnk0 Urate Mowij.
St. Louis Powt-Di*patch.
B
S’S-SiEi 10 "»• “ nfSJSJ
to Washington the aver* g r congressman S
have no tacuse for drinking a pint of brand*?
day. Soots* of the able Statesmen who nrn/m
5*®*{®*f*facotmituenfa B thesommtrhJSk£
down by s long reason of dfaaipstlcm Eha»*
ravages upon their systems to toe raalarilri^tl^
of toe capital. d atrucSn^flhe'feS
mjght, wo«ia be a lo. Ih»t could hxrdlJuS*
_ H,w “*»«»i»m, i, (Himl. •
Happincra ix the absence ol pain or an-
noyanoe. and wherever there.ia paJn there
u aueeae. A pain in the lower portion of
If tuera y il n .n‘J^3Jf disorder of *™e kind 1
II mere ia any odor or oolor or denoait in
the urine it means disease and rcoSiJes at-
teottoo at once. We have heard of
onr frieods speak of tbe remarkable Dower
of Werner 1 . Sefe Kidney ^d Uver Cu4
endere eonwnMd there is rothin e „SJJ:
tain end valuable for ell diwudera of th,
urinary;,jstem ***»> maleendfema'^
nov30—d2w tun vred fri Awky-w
The Georgia Western.
Elberton Gazette.
./ffenfe’e “el famine has excited a desire
MMoiber citizen, for the bul dln*.of ike Gtorzls
”**tf r, r rsuroad. Iu construction would epen
2? M *he coel fields of Alabama end benefit this
entiie section of tne state.
ccriitka kzmediix
title™
BLOOD AND SKIN
REMEDIES.
„T?SK ,rta J 0 1 U S n ^' Vll *> Holds of fool ».
.‘‘““'OZ is the first step iu
J'-Sr 0 ?* 0 Dj**-** of «he Wheel.
'JtbS S of hair. No remedies
nine world of medicine are so sere to cure aa
toeicncuBA Kuuua. The Cuticuoa rbol-
vw» f is a searching blood purifier, absorbent and
°°zzternsl eppli wtlona
farA'sss,snsssife’fi
SALT RHEUM ON BODY
Ana Limbs. Obliged to go Abont on
t’ratebee. A Wonderful Care.
..If*.**?• ^RHAPbitbi: Gentlemen—In Jus-
tice to those who may suffer as I have niff red
acknow]eJ K emcjit of the c>*>- *
f f°®. the ot toe Ctmeuai
-DriB, I voluntarily 1
toeCuTtcua* Uew-
> the foUostug state-
fac? ibL?^ a rare, or even alSSri. In
i commenced to nss theCcnccaa in April a-.A
st once realised its beneficial effects. It mJ 1 iiai.
7 drew the intiammstton sad humor to
fa«e and, aa fast as ft appeared, healed if at
Imcslarge quantiUes would come to the a^tace'
SSrtSSUSSf S3 ES
sSSSSSSs
ES ^SSSTS
toetystem. Very graWfullv won,
Malden. Maas., Oct. BR0W *
SKIN DISEASE. *
A Severe Case of Five Tears* Du reliefs
Entirely Cared.
Gentlemen—For
mStrl taw ***** gUU> -
tills? SLSfSS 75S
Cbriccs* ECXZDIZS.
^uJSvSi , gSi , “£?,totzytbcm. IcrU/y
.n l Ir.l. t iv St?, -boot Ix well until I <rO
Sr uzln. U.. _i
7°?-“feast snd back wefb almost e acdld - .JT
TSSHSSS
CUTICURA REMEDIES,
Orixlnal la Compozttfou end Kevolu.
tlonary f n Treatment,
WJMtS * POTTER, Chemise,
bstevei
r . 11. POX.
colCTns. voltaic plostiSs
Instantly relieve Pain. Sorestes end Weeknem.
spcQZl—dly wedstm Awkyiusrdmjt J