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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN- MONDAY* SEITBMSSR 24. BOC The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rates; 1 Published Every Afternoon One.Yetr $4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months 1.25 at 25 W. Alibams Street, By Carrier, per week 10c Atlints; Gt. OUR PL A TFORM-—The Georgian stands for A tlanta a Owning it? own gas and elec tric light plants, as it now owns its water works. Other elites do this and get gas as low as 60 cents, with a profit to the city. This should be done at once. The Georgian believes that if street rail ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there is no good reason why they can not be so operated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and it may be some years be fore we are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta should set its face in that direction NOW ments Ilea thnt mother love which explains while It glo rifies It all. Eottnq as second-clsis metier Ap-il 85. MOST at the Postofles St Atlanta. Ga.. under act of congress of March t, 1171. Subscribers failing to receive THE GEORGIAN promptly and regularly, and readers who can not purchase the paper where THE GEORGIAN should be on sale, are requested to communicate with the Circulation Manager without delay, jnd the com* plaint will receive prompt attention. Telephones: Bell 4927 Main; Atlanta 4401. RMITII k THOMPSON. ADVERTISING IlKI’HKSKNTA- TIVE8 FOR TERRITORY OUTSIDE OF GEORGIA. Eastern Offices: Western Offlee*: Potter Bldg., New York. Tribune Bldg., Chicago. The Georgian calls the attention of Its multitude of correspondents to these facts: That all communications must be signed. No anonymous communication will be printed. No manuscripts will be returned unless stamps are Inclosed for the purpose. Our correspondents are urgently requested to abbreviate their letters as much as possible. A half a column will be read, whereas a full column will be passed over by the majority of readers. Let Us Learn to Banquet Better. We have not learned as yet to banquet In the South In the prudent and progressive way. W# live In the Innd of hospitality, and the spirit of fellowship and comradeship flows naturally from the Southern heart and hand. For all that, wo banquet In Dixie not wisely but too well—and too long. The great banquet of Thursday night closed about half-past I o’clock, which was at least two hours later than It should have closed. Our friends In the North, who banquet much of toner than we do. and par ticularly In the larger cities of Boston and Now York, where there are from ten to fifty banquets every night, have long since learned the wiser and better way. In these cities It Is tho custom to begin every ban quet not later than G:30 In tho evening. Then after tho first three courses the first spenker Is Introduced. The waiters enter the hall with the next course, only after the speaker has taken his sent. A spenker Is then snndwlchcd between every course, with the waiters held carefully In the dining room, until ho concludes. Then at tho end, the Inst two or three speeches are heard ovei the cofTee and cigars, and Invnrlnbly every banqueter Is enabled to be at home and In bed before the clock strikes the hour of midnight. There la great wisdom In this plan and It should be adopted everywhere. Business men who are engaged in banqueting until 2 o'clock In the morning are scarcely fit for vigorous business or contact with their fellow men on the succeeding day. It Is a weariness to the flesh which Is scarcely compensated by the Joy to the spirit and to tho stomach in the evening before. There Is no reason In the world why we should not adopt this system In Georgia. If the men know thnt a "banquet begins nt 6:30 they will make It a point to be there, and by following rigidly this custom until tho pcoplo become accustomed to It, we will establish n sys tem of soclnl festivity out of which wo may receive mental and physical enjoyment without physical wear!-' ness or Injury on the following day. The Georgian cordially urges Ui«m the next bnnquct- ers In this city to inaugurate the system of beginning their festivities nt the hour of 6:30 and arrange to hnve them close by 11:30 In the evening. The Woman Who Would. There Is a woman out in Cleveland who lias not only discharged all tho manifold duties which could possibly devolve upon a wife and mother, but she has done so many things which are supposed to He exclusively In the sphere of a man that ahe has attracted considerable at tention. Before her mnrrlage ahe was on tbo stage, so she begins tho list of her accomplishments by bclug a fairly good actress, although she has devoted her attention In recent years to something very different. She has made her own clothes, those of the two-year-old baby and of the two boys who are large enough to go to school. She has made her own hats. She does beautiful fancy work, such as Battenberg lace nnd "frillies." She paints on china and glass. All of which may be feminine enough, albeit few wo men would care to undertake so much. But tnat was only tho beginning with Mrs. Evelyn Johnson. it certainly Is no part of a woman's work to shavo her husband and cut his hair, but she was thereby en abled to save a few dollars of the family funds every month, so she did not hesitate to do that, too. And yet even thnt wns but tho beginning. She dug the cellar, she laid the foundations of the bouse, she shingled the roof, she painted the house, she put up the eaves and spouts, she laid the stone walk, she built the stone steps, sho built the chimneys, she built a ten-fcot fence, she papered and rellnlshed the In terior of the rooms, and now she Is preparing to build a new concrete house, from top to bottom. When she gets through with that she thinks that In all probability she will take a little rest, but she Is not certain. Sirs. Johnson does not suffer with "nerves.” She Is as happy as the day Is long. What kind of a man bet husband Is has not been given out. At any rate her ex ample has set all the people in the neighborhood to work, beautifying and Improving the premises, and It Is to be hoped that If her lord and master was not doing hie part before, he has at last waked up ami caught the fever ol Industry along with the rest of the community. This Is a marvelous record, but It Is not one which we would advise any woman to Imitate to the full extent. It Is rather more than any wife and mother should at tempt, but It at least serves as nn Inspiration to any wo man who thlnkR her lot in life Is hard. 8he say* that when she getH the new house built, ■he Is going to put the children In some good boarding ■chool and then start out 'To raise our station In life. I want to leave something good for the children when I die.” And therein lies the explanation of It all. That she will accomplish what she sets out to do Is certain. "She will leave the children something good when she dies," If It la nothing more than the noble example she has set them. And behind all her marvelous energy and achieve- The Gas and Electric Monopolies Are Contrary to Government. The private monopoly of public utilities Is distinctly a violation of the constitution, nnd in opposition to the whole theory and plan of our government. If this Is a atrong statement we will proceed to prove It. Tho right to tax a free people is confined exclusively to the government which they have erected for them selves. The power of taxation Is a government func tion. It was never Intended to be exercised by any pri vate Individual, or by any small coterie of private Indi viduals. It is an Inalienable and Indispensable right of free men to be taxed only by the government under which they live. Now we submit to tho candid intelligence of a free and thoughtful people that when their public utilities, providing the commodities and the absolute necessities of public life, are given Into the hands of one corpora tion which has no competition. It gives that corporation In logic and in law as distinct and arbitrary a right of taxation as the government enjoys. When John D. Rockefeller with his Standard Oil monopoly desires to recruit any loss that he may have sustained In charity or In speculation, he arbitrarily mid without permission, or without any other reason than his sovereign will, puts an additional penny or hai. penny upon tho price of oil and in one sweeping week replenishes by an hundred fold the pockets and the coffers thnt he has emptied In an ostentatious charity, or depleted In an unwise Investment. In other words he taxes the pcoplo ithout their consent and without governmental authority or any other authority than his own sweet will to enrich his own pockets and to In crease his own revenues. The tax of I mill Is felt enormously by the people of n state or a republic. But the tax of 1 cent arbitrarily levied by the autocratic Rockefeller upon a standard of necessary products. Is a burden of larger meaning and an outrage of more glaring illegality. It !s the same way with our gas nnd electric plants here. When their dividends do not suit them, when the yeurly Income of the company Is not as much as they think It ought to be, this private group of Individuals who have secured out of the apathy and ignorance of onr earlier forefathers the superb franchises of the gas and electric trhsts, simply go to work, and without reference to the Inws or to the statutes of the state or city, with out reference to the conditions of tho times or the financial state of the people, arbitrarily and Insolently levy a tax of 1c, 2c or 10c a thoueand foot upon the peo ple, just as It may bo necessary to Justify their financial ends. Nothing can be clearer, and no man who runs can fall to read that the exercise of the monopolist over the nasentlal services which private Individuals carry with the power to tax the Individual la absolutely In violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution. This much ought to be mulerstood. Ilut wo assert another fact of equal Import—that these syndicates who otijoy tho monopoly of public commodities and necessities not only violate the theory of our government In taxing the people contrary to the eonstltutlnn. but they add nn additional strain to our system of government by taxing these people without giving them the right to representation. This Is the oth er principle which runs as clear as a silver bell In the earlier shibboleths which made this government. "Tax ation without representation la tyranny.” So rang the cry of the earlier colonists who flung tho heroic claims of their rights into tho teeth of the English government, and which wrested this vast re public from the monarchy of England. It la the cry that In all ages has rung ns freedom’s protest against tho Injustice nnd the wrong of taxing any people who have no representation in tho laws that govern them. In the state, and general government each citizen has an Interest. He Is n partner to the extent of his vote, and ho is represented by tho full capacity of his ballot and his Influence In popular elcetions. Rut In the private monopolies the speechless and helpless people who are taxed are absolutely voiceless against the cold. Insolent violation of the constitution nnd of the government, whjch alone enjoys the power to tax, and which docs not under Its own laws, dare to tax those who are not represented In the government. Apply this reasoning then to our own present condi tions under the arbitrary power with which these gas and electric monopolists work In Atlanta and else where, and without saying boo to a single citizen or a taxpayer, they can raise their rates, which means to In crease our taxce, and they do not oven hear with any degree of common courtesy or patience the protests of the people who are being taxed, without authority and without representation, and who have not up to this time done more than simply offer a polite protest against the existing conditions. This is the basis upon which we need and abso lutely require a municipal ownership league in Atlanta. We want to take away from private individuals the right to tax a great free people—the right to tax them at all without the consent of the government, and above all things the right to tax them without representation In the taxing power. If there ran be found a more unanswerable argument for municipal ownership, we cannot conceive It in rea son or In logic under the terms and spirit of uur Amer ican constitution. For Information of the Outside World. The Georgian's attitude of fairness toward all pub lic questions Is causing its opinions to be sought by thoughtful people, not only at home, but In the larger cities. Late on Sunday afternoon the following telegrams were received by the editor of The Georgian: Hon. John Temple Graves. Atlanta Ga.—The Post Is exceedingly anxious, as Indicated by message to you today, for a statement from you on the situ ation. What caused It; what the probable effect will be, and anything, however vigorous, you may desire to say on the subject. Can you not accommodate us? We consider It timely and Important Just now.' Please answer. THE WASHINGTON POST. New York, September 23, 1906. Hon. John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga. The World would appreciate a telegraphic reply from you on the duty of the hour In repressing race riots and what you believe to be the best way to prevent them. THE NEW YORK WORLD. Chicago, September 23, 1906. John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga. . Will you kindly give us the situation In At lanta tonight In 500 words? THE CHICAGO EXAMINER. And to these Inquiries from three of the greatest newspapers In the country, the editor, under pressure of time, returned to each of these papers the appended reply, which, read on Monday by nearly 2,000,000 readers, serves at least to enable our friends In the East and the West to realize the provocation under which this people acted, and to understand our Southern situation as they evidently have never seemed to understand It. It la Just as well to give the same answer to the readers of The Georgian from the editorial page of the paper: Editor New York World: The Atlanta race riot is due to the cumulative provocation of a scries of asaults by negroes upon white women, which, In number. In atrocity and In unspeaka ble audacity, are without a parallel In the history of crime among Southern negroes. There have been 11 assaults or attempted assaults within the past seven weeks. Of these fiends only four have been npprehended nnd seven have escaped scot free, and are now at large In the community. Eight of these assaults have been In broad daylight, and In most Instances In thg open air within a stone's throw of other residences. One assault was attempted at 9 o'clock In the evening in the brilliantly lighted parlors of a city residence. Two have been attempted almost within twenty feet of the man of the house, the , criminals escaping before the man could reach them. In almost every case the woman victim has been brutally mutilated and disfigured. And the entire eleven monstrous efforts, five success ful and six unsuccessful, have been made right In the city nnd suburbs of Atlanta, the capital of the New South, the center of trade, tradition and politics, the heart of our civilization, with a white population nearly twice as largo as that of the negro. It Is utterly Impossible to reach an explanation of this tidal wave of crime. Whether It be due to the lust begotten by the sultry and torrid weather, whether It be due to the remarkable Increase of the cocaine habit ameng the negroes, whether It has been stirred by the revolutionary harangues of a local newspaper; whether It has come from the frequenting of low liquor dives on Decatur street In which are exposed the pictures of nude white women, or as Is more likely, from all these causes combined, It Is certain that Atlanta nor any other South ern city has over passed through such a horrid carnival of the unspeakable crlmo as during the closing weekB of the present summer. - The city has oeen at high tension for six weeks past. Public meetings have been addressed by the most conservative citizens. Our county police system has been quadrupled. 260 deputy sheriffs hnvo been put on duty and most of the Decatur street liquor dens have been closed. A fortnight since I led a movement, to compel* the negro editors, preachers and teachers under threat of a practical boycott, to cease spending all their breath and energies In the denunciation of lynch law and to preach with all their ransomed powers hell and dam nation to the rapist. They responded loyally, and for the first time since we have had a race problem the white man has had the full and hearty co-operation of the respectable negroes in the suppression of the rapist. And yet, in spite of this extraordinary Improvement In conditions, the rape of white women has multiplied In appalling fashion. It has been a reign of terror for our Georgia women. There Is not a white woman In the region of Atlanta who ha* had a tranquil day or night within this period. The white women have been trembling prisoners In their homes, and their husbands, sons and brothers have been held In the necessity of guarding them unceasingly, There are few men who dare to leave their families after nightfall—either to attend public meetings, to pay a coclal call or to worship In the churches of their choice. The whole section has been In a state of siege and apprehension which has been growing more and more Intolerable. Every thoughtful citizen has realized that Atlanta has been sleeping upon a volcano for weeks. Under these conditions Saturday afternoon was drawlug to a close. There had been an attempt at rape for each of the three preceding days right in the heart of the city. The regular afternoon editions of the city papers came out on time without an addition to the grewsome record, and people breathed easier. Half an hour later an afternoon extra appeared an nouncing that there had been four rapes attempted In swift succession w Ithln the hour, two of which had been successful. Another paper Issued an extra, and In one short hour the populace of Atlanta wbb In a frenzy of excitement. By seven o'clock the first crude and im promptu organization was formed. And from seven o'clock until an hour after midnight Atlanta passed through the throes of a riot which has had no approx imation In Southern history. The lid of the volcano was off at last. Monstrous things were done In the name of retalia tion. Old and young negroes, negroes good and bhd, Innocent and guilty, were cut and slashed and killed. To every plea for mercy was shouted back the fierce re sponse, “You had no mercy on our women and we will have none on you.” Six negroes were killed and more than thirty In jured. The press dispatches have told you of It. To the tranquil readers of The World, looking on at a great safe distance. It seems an awful outrage against civilization, and no thoughtful citizen falls to deplore and condemn It. But if one of you who read had lived for one week with the dear women of your household under the shadow and terror of this crime, you would' have found at leasi an explanation for a lawless revolu tion which cannot be legally or morally justified. Do you ask me how this riot can be rebuked and this mob made Impossible for the future? I will answer you frankly that it la likely to occur again. The silliest man In the South Is the time-serving statesman who declares ‘‘that there Is no race problem, and the question. If left nlone, will settle Itself.” The race question Is more Impending and threatening now than It has been In twenty years. The tension Is sharper, the antagonism deeper between the races. The hope of a permanent agreement has slender foundation. The horror of Saturdny has doubtless left a blot on our civilization. Every good citizen In Georgia will de plore and condemn the Indiscriminate slaughter. I fer vently deplore It. But the outraged people had tiled every known remedy and failed. And It will undoubtedly clear the atmosphere and keep the negro In order for five years to come. They are already assuming a different tone. There may be sporadic lawlessness, but the back bone of Insolent aggression Is broken for a time, and there will be fewer outbreaks, and more of tranquillity for a long season. The men It will save In the future will outnumber ten times the men who were killed on Sat urday. The present riot Is at an end. The city Is quiet to night, the streets are cleared, the military on guard, tho negroes are whipped and humble, and there Is no dan ger apprehended anywhere. But the trouble may pos sibly be reopened with another wave of lustful crime next summer. Whenever there Ih provocation there will be the mob. The newspapers of the North crucified me for saying this at the New York chau't aqua In 1903. I ask you if the statement has not been vindicated by events. It Is demonstrated now that lynch law does not entirely deter the rapist. He Is willing to die*for the having of his desire. But It is a vent to outraged society and but for the mob there would bo ten assaults where there is one. Wrong? Yes. Worthy of all condemnation? Yes. But the fact remains It Is here, and here to stay. We are studying rape now In the South as the scien tists have studied yellow fever and smallpox. We are looking for the germ. Maybe we shall find the "Stogo- myla Fasclata. 1 But until we do tho moat law-abiding section of the entire Union In everything else, will con tinue in the old-fashioned way to lift the blood red ban ner of tho mob to protect the lives and chastity of our women. - How can you help us? By giving two paragraphs to the denunciation of rape where you give one to lynching. What Is the ultimate end? Separation of the races— the only possible logical. Inevitable solution. Those two opposite antagonistic races can never live together In the samo government under equal laws—never. Help us to separate.' JOHN TEMPLE ORAVES. I GOSSIP • MMmMHHMIMHMHMMMHHtHHHMtmMMHMMHMtMHIHMMMimHtHtNHMHHHHHUI | \fOU WILL Never Move Unless You Take the First I •* Step. Take It Now—Become a Member of "The I League.” MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE APPLICATION BLANK. I hereby make application for membership In the MUNICIPAL OWN ERSHIP LEAGUE. I favor the ownership of a gas and electric lighting plant by the city of Atlanta. Remarks: Date 190.. Name .. Address Occupation Note.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. DELEGATES SELECTED TO COTTON CONVENTION Special to The (loorftee. Annlaton, Ala., Sept. 24,—In accord ance with the requeet of President Bey. mour. of the Alabama division of the Southern Cotton Association, the fol lowing have been selected as delegates to the state convention at Montgomery on Tuesday: Walter L. Jones, An niston; Marion Whiteside, White Plains: T. S. Gray, Johnson, Duke; T. andrla; D. McEaehern, Peaceburg; L. F. Greer, Choccolncco; James W Hughes, Iron City; G. W. Elchelberger, Oxford; T. D. Bynum, Bynum; Captain James Crook, Jacksonville; F. M. Formby, Piedmont Farmers Organizing. Hpectal to The ileorfian. Newberry. S. C, Sept. 24.—Farmers' unions continue to be formed In New- ' not to” leave porL berry county, four of them having been organized by State Organizer Mahaf- fey during the past week. Great In terest Is being manifested In these or ganizations by the farmers. HIGH FREIGHT RATES CAUSE PLANT TO MOVE. Fpeelul to The Georgina. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24.—The DeLoach Milling Company has pur chased a site of 40 acres at Bridge port, Ala., where It will erect a plant to cost nbout 9120,000. which will em ploy 1,000 men. The company will re move from Atlanta on account of the freight rates. It will manufacture nig Iron. The plant will be In operation about January 1. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York, Sept. 24.—A student of Darwin’s "Origin of Species,” at eight years, a regularly matriculated fresh man.of Tufts College at 11, le the re markable record of Norbert Weiner, of Medford, Mass. It tnsy be said that Maater Norbert was born In Missouri. Young Weiner's short career has been a shining example of physical health, as well as of mental training, and al though he spends a great deal of time- reading scientific works, he enjoys hi*i outdoor exercise as much as any of his young neighbors with whom he plays. When the boy was but a yehr and a half old he had complete control of the alphabet, being able to recite It In either direction. At the age of 3 he could read and write with perfect ease the ordinary lessonB taught In the first grammar school grades, and at 8 was found studying the DarwInlaH theory and also various books by Huxley, HI- hot'and Haeckel. Norbert Weiner was born at Colum bia, Mo.. November 26, 1894, while his father was connected with the Missouri State University. Boon after the boy's birth the family moved to Cambridge, Mass., where the father took up hla work at Harvard. The boy’s father is Leo Weiner, as sistant professor of Slavonic languages nt Harvard, and It was the Intention of his parents to send the lad to Cam bridge to school. Last year, however,' the college authorities refused to admit him. He Is without doubt the youngest college student In the land. A nest of hornets caused the sudden ending of a football game among the pupils of the Watseslng public school at Bloomfield, N. J., and as a result nearly all the players yesterday were nursing swollen faces and hands, while one Is unconscious. Henry Wilber* 'downed" the ball In the center of the hornets’ nest nnd before he could rise to escape the stings, the rest of the players were on top of him. Then the hornets became busy with the rest of the players and kept It up until the teams dashed wildly away It was learned todaj that Rosemund B. Downs, the 17-year-old bride of Nathan A. Downs, 80 years old, has been granted a divorce by Justice Jay Cox. The plaintiff claimed she wns un der legal age when sn» was married to Downs, who was a widower living at Rlverhead. Mrs. Downs testified that she mar ried the nged man on March 26, 1905, without the consent of her adopted father. The latter also testified to the sntne fact, and further said he had not since agreed to the mnrrlage. No defense wns entered by Mr. Down, although It had previously been published that the differences of the couple had been settled by the payment of $10,000 by Mr. Downs to his wife, It Is said, by one close to Mr. Downs that he-gave her nn even $1,000 In settle ment. While arrangements are being made today for the burial of James Amber- croinble Burden, whose body lies at his mansion. 908 Fifth avenue, social* and business friends of the dead mil lionaire recall the quarrel of 20 years* standing between him and his surviv ing brother, I. Townsend Burden, that wns patched up only three years ago. The quarrel started over royalties of $30,000 paid to Jnmes A. Durden on a machine for making horse-shoes, In vented by his father, the late Henry Burden. Mrs. Benjamin Knower, who has been greatly missed from the ranks of the social set all summer, will sail short ly for home, from Europe. Much of her time has been spent in Paris, where her daughter, Miss Margaret Camp bell Knower, was married last „ week to Vlcomte Alain dc Huzannet. The wedding nt the Church of St. Pierre de Challlot was a brilliant afTalr, and represented the American ‘colony’s up per crust of Paris. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York. Sept. 24.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today; ATLANTA—J. M. Brown, J. E. Wayt, F. K. Aram, M. Benjamin, H. C. Black ley. Miss Dunwoody, R. L. Foreman, O. P. Hardy, C. H. Johnson, F. T. Max well, I). B. Osborne, Miss H. Tilllng- hast. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 8EPTEMBER 24. Inml. t:iloll crowned king of Scot- ... Kngllsh. 1869—Hindi Friday. lglt—Disastrous tiro In Snn Francisco. 1876—Hell Gate, llnllett's Point reef. Iilowo 1889—'$izn rook, English itoetess. tiled. Kinley, 1904—t'ofllsTr vtrtcd of murder In Drat Southern railway . near ' FOUND HIS 8KILLET AFTER FORTY YEARS. Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24.—After having been hurled forty-four years In the ground on Missionary Ridge, John G. Lindsey, of the Sixtieth North Caro- llna Confederate regiment, found the selfsame skillet which he used to cook “•*, F™ . while encamped on that his toric battleground. He came here a week ago and through curiosity went I" htf th r skillet,^and Schooner Stripped ef Sails, Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Oa.. Sept. 24.—The schooner Francis C. Tunnell. which was sighted a day or two ago by the steam ship Freilerlrk, with her sails blown away, wns loaded at this port with crossties by Brown & Co. When the Tunnell was ready to salt the weather bureau had out warnings to vesseli nn Southern railway near Knoxville, Tenn.; seventy killed, la Injured. ALBANY, CAIRO & GULF IT. SEEKS CHARTER New railroads tn Georgia are almozt an common aa new. banka. Saturday Secretary of State Phil Cook received application for a charter for the Al bany, Cairo and Gulf Railway Com pany to run from Albany, Georgia, to St. Joseph’s Bay, In Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 180 miles. The period of Incorporation le to be for thirty year* and the capital »tock la $200,000, half preferred stock and half common. The road will run through Dougherty, Baker, Mitchell and Grady counttee in Georgia, and Gadeden, Liberty and Calhoun coun- tie* In Florida. The principal office will be In CalnH and the incorporators are W. B. Rod- denbery, \V. A. Walker, W. 8. Wright, W. C. Jones, J. P. Malloy. O. T. Davie, M. L. Lcford. ?. M. Haeaer, J. B. Wright, Cairo; Samuel W. Smith, L. E. Welch, Samuel Farkae. Albany; R. 1* Hall and W. H. Hall, Newton.