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Chboitole A SgnTOiEU-Augusta^Ga^
Chronicle and Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY ....MAY 17. 1876.
The Georgia delegation to Cincinnati
seems to be a little mixed. It will final
ly centre on Blaise or Morton.
We publish this inorniDg Judge Pot
tle’s charge to the grand jury of
Wilkes county. It is an exceedingly
able charge and well worth reading.
The “ten gentlemen who met in At
lanta” last January do not seem to be
in any hurry to select delegates to St.
Louis. What has become of Harde
man & Cos.?
The Boston (/lobe publishes a capital
picture of Piper, the belfry murderer,
but, through a mistake, puts Secretary
Bristow’s name under it. Hither rough
on the Reformer.
Almanac observation for Mr. John H.
James : About this time beware of the
newspaper correspondent who offers to
“write you up for the campaign.” He
will take your money pnd then laugh at
you, John. H.
We publish this morning in full
thejletter written by Fitzhooh, the Door
keeper of Congress. The Democrats
had better abolish the office, if there be
no other way to stop the hee-hawing of
this long eared animal.
One who knows states positively that
the Georgia delegation to Cincinnati
stands thirteen for Morton, seven for
Blaine and Bristow, and two for Conk
lino. Score one for the incarnadined
undergarment in Georgia.
The Griffin News says it is “authori
tatively btated" that Gov. H. V. John
son will support Colquitt. Who makes
the statement, and by what authority ?
Gov. Johnson’s position seems to worry
the politicians and the “special corres
pondents” a great deal.
Ip the East must snpply the candidate,
there are Bavard and Hancock and
Eaton —all good man. If the nominee
must come from the West, there are
Pendleton and Hendricks and Kerb.
If financial issues be ignored, where can
a atrouger candidate be found thun old
Bill Allen?
The entries for the Senatorial race to
date -are: Thou. M. Norwood, present
incumbent; and Benj. H. Hill, repre
sentative from the Ninth District. Sup
pose the friends of Alexander H. Steph
ens should enter him; what then?
“Uncle Aleck” would make it more
lively than pleasant for the field.
Represent atiVEB of the Georgia Press
will hold a meeting in Savannah to
morrow. Of course, no business of any
importance will be transacted. But the
trip will be a pleasant change for over
worked and underpaid journalists, amt a
few days of social intercourse will give
the brethren a sharper appetite to abuse
each other when they get home. ,
When the office seeks the man, ought he
to accept it ? Judge Bartlett, who was
in the city yesterday,was taken at one
time for General Colquitt, and at an
other for Col. James. He says that the of
fice may run him down, but he is deter
mined not to be Governor of Georgiu,
as that honor is reserved for General
Colquitt.
Judge Emmons, of the United States
Circuit Court, recently decided, iu an
important case against the St. Louis
Life Insurance Company, that a failure
to par the interest on premium notes
works a forfeiture of the policy. The
widow sued to recover the commuted
amount of a policy, less the note and in
terest, but the Court held that the policy
had lapsed for the reason stated.
The Valdosta Time* is a sound paper
and is strong for Bayard. But it is
supporting the wrong Bayard, when it
aavß: “Undoubtedly the South’s choice
won'ld be the noble and chivalric Sena
tor frMn Delaware, Jas. A. Bayard, and
she wou.'d unite with all her heart with
the North end West iu his support.” The
“noble and chivalric Senator from Dela
ware" is Thomas F. Bayard. J.ames A.
Bayard is the father, and retired from
pnblio life in 1870 or 1871. However,
several thousand Georgians once voted
for Daniel Webster after his death, and
they might now be persuaded to vote
for James A. Bayard after his withdraw
al from political life.
The Gainesville Eagle, is not for Til
den. Commenting upon an article in ;
his favor, which recently appeared in
New York Ji'ibune, the Eagle says: “Is
it written by a friend or foe of Governor
Tilden ? If by a friend we oppose the
Governor, because we suppose he is in
•vmpathy with the ring oi escalators
headed by Jay Gould, who control the
Tribune. If it is written by an enemy,
then we oppose Governor Tilpen’s
nomination, because it is believed by j
Jay Gould’s clan that he conld be easily i
defeated by the nominee of the Cincin-.
nati Convention, who ever he may be. I
The Democratic voters of the country
w ant an honest, straight forward man as
thnfr candidate for the Presidency — one j
who is Ju sympathy with the mass of the
people. ”
A correspond KST sends us a letter
which contains a bit*® l attack upon the
Rev. D. L. Moody. The writer charges
him with baviog made tsi*e aQ d maii
■cious statements concerning the system
of slavery in Loudon, and asserts that
Mr. Moody has been sent South in the
interests of the Radieal party. We do
not publish the letter for the simple
reason] that] no proof whatever of the
truth of theso serious accusations is
furnished. We have no evidence that
Mr. Moody’s mission is connected with
politics. He seems to be animated
solely by a desire to call sinners to re
pentance, and his zeal and his eloquence
have enabled him to do mnch good in
this community. As we have taken oc
casion] to say before, it makes no dif
ference whether his preaching is sensa
tional or not. If sensationalism plucks
but a single brand from the bwrning,
sensationalism does incalculable good.
We cannot allow our paper to be made
the medium of an unsupported attack
upon a man who is evidently engaged in
the performance of a pious work.
THE METHODIST (JENERAL CONFER
ENCE.
The General Conference of the Metho
j dist Episcopal Church of this country,
which is held ODce in four years, began
Tuesday at Baltimore. The first Gen
eral Conference of that body was held
; in the same city in 1796, when its 120
delegates represented a total member
ship in the church of 56,664. The Bos
ton Globe says the present General Con
ference is composed of delegates from
eighty conferences, and represents a
membership of 1,580,599, which gives
some idea of the growth of Methodism
in this country in the last eighty years.
According to the United States census
for 18?0 the denominational preferences
of the citizens of the country are as
follows : Methodists,6,s2B,2o9; Baptists,
4,360,135; Presbyterians, 2,698,244; Ro
man Catholics, 1,990,514. The total lay
membership of all branches of the
Methodist Church in the country is put
at 3,173,229; number of local preachers,
24,384; number of itinerant ministers,
20,454. In the regular Methodist Epis
copal organization there are twelve
bishops and 23,804 preachers. The
wealth of the church is not so large
in proportion to its membership
as that of some of the other
leading organizations. In 1870 the sta
tistics were as follows: Methodists, num
ber of organizations, 25,278 ; number of
church edifices, 21,337; value of proper
ty. 869,854,121. Baptists, organizations,
15,829; church edifices, 13,962; value of
property, 841,608,198 ; Presbyterian, pr
ganizations, 7,824; church edifices, 7,071;
value of property, 853,265,256. Roman
Catholic, organizations, 4,127; church
edifices, 3,806; value of property, $60,-
985,566. The General Conference is
composed of one ministerial delegate for
every forty-five members of each annual
conference. It is presided over by the
Bishops in turn, Bishop Janes, the se
nior of the Board, taking the Chair the
first day. The most important subject
to be considered this year is the propo
sition to have the presiding elders elect
ed by the Conference instead of being
appointed by the Bishops. The General
Conference has “full powers to make
rules and regulations” for the church,
subject to six restrictive rules, which
may not be altered except “upon the
concurrent recommendation of three
fourths of all the members of
the several annual conferences, ”
and by a two-thirds vote of the
next succeeding General Conference.—
From this mode of alteration the first
restrictive rule is excepted, and there is
no constitutional means of altering that.
It provides that the General Conference
shall not provoke, alter or change the Ar
ticles of Religion of the Church. The
other restrictive rules relate to the
itineracy, the Book Concern, and the
mode of representation in General Con
ference, and beyond their limitations
the General Conference is unfettered.—
It hears appeals from the annual con
ferences, decides matters of church dis
cipline, elects the book agents of the
church, missionary secretaries, editors
of church magazines and papers, of
which there are fifteen, appoints the
committees who are to superintend the
various departments of church activity,
regulutes the boundaries of their various
conferences, and in general takes such
action and institutes such enterprises as
it thinks fitted to promote the interests
of the church. Every officer of the
church, with the exception of the
bishops, who are elected for life vacates
his office at the end of four years, but is
eligible for re-election.
THE CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA.
Those who have read the proceedings
of the Republican Convention recently
held in Atlanta cannot fail to be im
pressed with the belief that the Repub
lican party will make a desperate effort
to carry the elections in Georgia next
October and November. There are
many who think that there is no Repub
lican party in Georgia. This is a great
mistake. There are to-day nearly one
hundred thousand Republican voters in
the State. This force properly organized
and thoroughly disciplined will carry
the next election unless the Democrats
stand firmly together and meet organi
zation with organization and discipline
with discipline. * The trouble heretofore
with the Republicans in Georgia has
been a want of leaders. The source of
their weakness has been the divisions
and dissensions in their own ranks. But
that they are strong whenever they
choose to manifest strength no one can
deny. Iu 1868 they cast 83,000 votes in
the Governor’s election. In 1870 they
oast 69,000 votes. In 1872 they cast 62,-
000 votes for Grant. This year they
propose to make a desperate fight and
the Democracy may as well pre
pare to meet the issue. The
danger to the Democracy comes from
two quarters. In the first place, the
Republicans show a disposition to pre
sent a firm and united front to their
enemy. Their party will not lack bold
and skillful leaders, and the rival fac
tions will cease their quarrels and sink
their animosities until after the election.
The platform which they have adopted
places them in complete accord with
their allies at the North, It declares
for a common school system “free from
sectarian controlit endorses to the
fullest extent the bloody shirt pro
gramme of Morton & Cos. ; it declares
for hard money as against greenbacks ;
and for centralism as against State
Rights. In the second place, they are
strengthened by the strength of their
adversaries. The apparent paradox is
easily explained. The Democrats feel
themselves so strong, have conquered
so easily in all the elections held since
1868, that they over-estimate their
own power and under-estimate the
power of their opponents. Men
ambitious to obtain office are un
willing to wait until the party de
mands their services. Unable to con
trol fb© regular organization cf the
party, they <!<, got care to obey where j
they .cannot command. They wish to
disregard party lines, to treat party
nominations with contempt, and to go
“ before the people ” upon “ their own
merit*.” Independent candidates in
the field will give the Radicals an op
portunity of regaining their lost power.
Unless the so-called independent move
ment be nipped in the bud, the Radicals
will hold the balance of power in nearly
every county of the State and elect
whom they please to office. The success
of the Democrats can only be assured by
a rigid adherence to party lines and an
implicit obedience to party discipline.
Th* duty of every good Democrat in the
coming campaign is plain and sim
ple. Independents must be consider
ed as Badicals and treated as Uadi
cals. If necessary, the harsh, bnt
wholesome, policy which prevail-1
ed in 1868, 1869 and 1870 must be
employed .again. Independent can
didates must be crashed like yonng
vipers whenever and wherever they
make their appearance. -Let the best
men of every county attend the primary
meetings and take an active interest in
placing the control of the p*rty ma
chinery in good hands. Let them see
to it that only good men and true Demo
crats are nominated for office, and then
when nominations are made let the
nawbwes be sustained by the solid
strength of the party. The man who
| bolts the nomination of the party must
not be allowed to remain among ns. He
is no longer of us, and must be spurned
into the camp of those whose flag be is
secretly supporting. He must not be
allowed to live with the sheep and work
with the goats.
ANOTHER NAME SUGGESTED.
The New York Herald is at present
engaged in making nominations for the
two political parties. Its latest effort
in this direction is in behalf of the De
mocracy. It suggests anew name for
the consideration of the Democratic
Convention. Its Washington corres
pondent says there is news at the capi
tal of a strong set of opinion among
Western Democrats in favor of General
John M. Palmer, of Illinois, and it is
said that an organization for the pur
pose of bringing his name forward has'
already been begun, and that several
Illinois newspapers will break ground
in his favor shortly. General Palmer,
his friends say, was an old Democrat
before the war, became a Republican
during the Nebraska struggle, fought
with great distinction during the war,
was Republican Governor of Illinois
from 1868 to 1872 and left the Republi
cans when Grantism and Centralization
excited his alarm and opposition. He
has the favor of the Granger element, is
a pronounced hard money man, is very
popular among the farmers of Illinois
and Indiana and is much liked by the
Germans. It is asserted tha t the
Palmer movement has a number of
strong Western Democrats behind it,
and that he will be a formidable rival of
Judge Davis, being of Democratic in
stead of Whig antecedents. General
Palmer may be a “formidable rival of
Judge Davis,” and yet not come within
a thousand, miles of a nomination.—
Judge Davis -lias no chance whatever of
a nomination. If nominated he will not
receive tjje support of the Democratic
party. Judge Davis is weak not be
cause he was a Whig, but because he is
a Republican. In the South Whigs and
Democrats have united in opposition to
Radicalism, and compose the Demo
cratic party that has wrested Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina, Geor
gia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas, Arkansas, Florida and Missouri,
from carpet-bag rule. The old Whigs
would not support Davis because he
was once a Whig any more than the De
mocracy would support Morton because
he was once a Democrat. According to
the statement of the Herald correspond
ent General Palmer has acted with the
Democrats since 1872. He is therefore'
a Democrat and entitled to party honors
if ,he be worthy of them, or if it be ex
pedient to bestow them upon him. It
will bp remembered that General Pal
mer was Governor of Illinois at the time
of the Chicago fire. General Sheridan
placed the city under martial law and
some of his soldiers killed Col. Grosve
nor. Governor Palmer attempted to
have General Sheridan and the soldiers
who did the killing indicted for mur
der, but public opinion was against him
and the grand jury refused to find bills
against, the parties Governor Palmer
left in disgust a party which counten
ancedhuch conduct, and went over to
the Democracy. He doesn’t stand any
chance of a Presidential nomination, but
may obtain the second place on a ticket
with an Eastern man. .
THE GUBERNATORIAL. CAMPAIGN.
A Convention to nominate a Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Geor
gia will probably be held about the mid
dle of July. Though the campaign was
commenced, at least by some of the can
didates, fully two years ago, it is still
impossible to forecast the result with
any certainty, and the time for the as
sembling of the Convention is now near
at hand. While the names of some
twenty-five or thirty gentlemen have
been mentioned in connection with the
position, it is safe to say that there are
not more than four pronounced candi
dates in the field." These candidates are
General A. H. Colquitt, Colonel Thos.
Hardeman, General L. J. Gartrell and
Mr. John H. James. At one time it was
believed and asserted that Governor
Smith desired a renomination, and up
to a few weeks ago he was the most
formidable aspirant before the people.
There is every reason to believe that if
he had consented to run he would have
been nominated and elected. That the
other candidates considered the Gov
ernor their mostdangerous opponent was
plainly manifested by two facts. The first
was that each of them declared Smith
to be the only obstacle to his success.
General Colquitt’s friends were certain
that he could be nominated if Smith
was not in the field. Col. Hardeman’s
friends entertained the same opinion.
So did General Gabtrell’s, and so did
the corporal’s guard that bore the ban
ner of James. The second was that the
guns of all the other candidates were
turned upon the Executive. There
seemed to be entertained the common
idea that he must be gotten rid of at all
hazards. The Severest assaults upon
Governor Smith and his administration
came from the personal organs and per
sonal friends of his rivals. But Gov
ernor Smith has declined to run, and
the fighting is now conducted by the
quadrilateral above named.
We confess that at present there does
not seem to be a reasonable prospect
that either Colquitt, Gartrell, James
or Hardeman will be able to secure the
two-thirds vote necessary to a nomina
tion. Appearances indicate that Col
quitt is the strongest, perhaps much
the strongest, man of the four. He has
many warm friends, especially in South
western Georgia, and will doubtless go
to the Convention with a formidable
following. He is a man in the prime of
life, possesses fair ability, bears a dis
tinguished name, has a fine war record,
is a staunch Democrat, and a man of
great purity of character. So far, how
ever, his candidacy has not created
much enthusiasm among the people,
and there is nothing to indicate that he
will have an easy victory. Colonel
Harder in is a talented man, an elo
quent speaker, has considerable expe
rience in public affairs, and is personal-
ly very popnlar. His position as Speak
er of the Honse has given him an op
portunity to make friends in different
sections of the State, and this opportu
nity has been fully improved. His
strength seems to lie in Northeast and
Southwest Georgia. It is easy to see
that up to this time Colonel Hardehan
has not secured adherents enough to give
him the nomination. Gen. Gartrell was
a member of Congress before the war, at
tained indifferent success as a militarv
man during the war, and has taken but lit
tle part in politics since the war. He has
made considerable reputation as a crimi
nal lawyer, and is said to be a man of
undoubted ability. He is not generally
known in the State, however, and it is
scarcely probable that he will be able to
carry more than ten or fifteen counties
in the Nominating Convention. Last on
the list Domes Mr. John H. Jamb*. Mr.
James is a broker of Atlanta, who has
some shrewdness in financial matters,
and who has been able to make a good
deal of money. He has no “ war re
cord” to apeak of, bat is popnlar in his
own town, and is reputed to be a kind
hearted, charitable man, who is insane
upon the subject of office. He has
worked openly and industriously for
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1576.
votes, and has never hesitated to say
that he wanted the position, and wanted
it badly. His candidacy is an anomaly
in Georgia politics, and would be some
thing very amusiDg if it were not some
thing extremely mortifying. Mr. James
has no chance whatever of success, and
by remaining in the field will only ex
pose himself to ridicule and to humili
ating defeat.
Ex-Governor Hebschel V. Johnson is
as yet an unknown force in the Guber
natorial campaign. His force is un
known because his position is undeter
mined. Should he enter the field as a
candidate we believe he can be elected
by an overwhelming majority and almost
without opposition. His splendid tal
ents, his great services in the past and
in the present, his ardent patriotism,
the soundness of his judgment, the pu
rity of his public and his private life
combine to lender him one of the most
popular men in the State and to make
the people anxious to have him at the
head of the State government. But
Governor Johnson has declared that he
is not and will not be a candidate for
the position; that he will not enter into
any contest for the office. If nominated
we suppose he would accept the honor,
but he does not seek a nomination. As
a general rule the contest between one
who will accept and one who struggles
for an office is easily and speedily deter
mined in favor of the latter. But in
this case Governor Johnson has such a
firm hold upon the affections of
the people, and there is such urgent de
mand for the employment of virtuous
talent in the service of the people, that
Hebschel V. Johnson will probably be
strongly backed in the State Convention
unless he should positively forbid £he
use of his name.
It has been a subject of remark that
the papers and politicians of North
Georgia have had very little to say on
the .Gubernatorial question. There has
been a stillness in that section of the
State which bodes evil to the four can
didates now in the field. The people of
the Cherokee country' usually' act to
gether in politics, and give a united and
cordial support to the man whose ban
ner they elect to follow. Cherokee
Georgia evidently does not take much
stock in any one who has yet been
brought forth. The people there may
support Governot. Johnson, who has al
ways had many friends among them, or
they may have a candidate of their own,
who will be announced at the proper
time. It is not at all improbable that
the coming man will come from north
of the Chattahoochee.
keliuion in politics.
There seems to be good reason for be
lieving that the “ anti-Catholic ” move
ment, about Which something is being
heard at present in the country, is sim
ply an anti-Demoeratic movement. It
is a scheme originated by designing
men for the avowed purpose of break
ing down the Democratic party and en
suring the lasting triumph of Radical
ism in the North and of carpet-baggism
and scallawagery in the South. The
speech of General Grant at Des Moines
is the key note of the movement; is the
corner stone of the anti-Catholic
Leagues. While the Democrats are
quarreling over creeds and churches the
Radical party will retain control of the
Government, and the Belknaps, and
Babcocks, and Grants, afid Shepherds,
and Robesons will keep their hands in
the Public Treasury up to the arm-pits.
The New York Sun says that Rev. J. P.
Newman, the President’s pastor, has re
cently written two sermons on the line
of the Des Moines speech, aimed at the
Catholic Churches, and breathing more
a political than a religious antagonism.
The Sun further says: “ The National
“Republican Committee, composed of
“gentlemen in both branches of Con
gress, and other conspicuous friends
“of President Grant, furnish the money
“for the ejaculation of these documents;
“and they are distributed under the di
“rect management of Mr. J. M. Ed
“munds, Postmaster of Washington,
“and esp&ially known as the particular
“intimate friend of Mr. Chandler, the
“Secretary of the Interior. Hundreds
“of thousands of these pamphlets were
“sent into Ohio last Fall, and into Con
necticut and New Hampshire this
“Spring. If it has been supposed anv
“where that the great demonstration of
“hostility to the Catholic Church of
“which President Grant sounded the
“key note in his famous speech at Des
“Moines, has been abandoned or re
“laxed, the supposition is entirely mis
taken. It is evident that the attempt
“to identify the whole Republican party
“with this hostility, is now to be urged
“more vigorously than ever. This is
“done doubtless, not only because it is
“ believed that a great weight of politi
cal strength may be added to the re
sources of the party through the effect
“of the anti-Catholic sentiment, but
“also it is that by raising such an issue
“into greater and greater prominence,
“public attention may be diverted from
“the almost incredible corruption of the
“Government, and from the enormous
“and pressing dangers which that cor
ruption brings upon the country.”
Hon. A. O. Bacon is pressing his
claims for Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict. He would make a good Congress
man.
Mrs. M. J. Westmoreland is writing
another book. It will be published in
Julj, and will be entitled “Waif”—a
romance of a Winter at St. Augustine.
Ben Butler would be an available
Republican candidate for the Presiden
cy. His record as a loyal man is up to
the standard. The Radical party might
go farther and fare worse.
The Macon Telegraph has a proper
appreciation of Senator Norwood when
it says: “Though no 'mouther and
speaking but seldom, a more finished
scholar, sagacious thinker and vigilant
member cannot be found on the floor of
the Senate.”
The affairs of the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company for the past year
have been managed with fidelity and
ability. The reports of the President,
Superintendent and other officers, here
tofore published, make a satisfactory
showing. The road is in good condi
tion and dividends have been paid.
Colonel Hardeman, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee, is
awaiting official notification of the re
sult of the elections in the Congression
al Districts for delegates from the State
at large. He cannot call his Committee
together until he ascertains the result.
The Chairmen of the respective Conven
tions shonld notify him at once.
The annual Convention of the stock
holders of the Georgia Railroad has
brought to our city a large number of
visitors from 4tl*uta and points inter
vening. Augusta presents many at
tractions at this season of the year.
Strangers are quick to recognize and
appreciate the natural and artificial
Usances which our city presents.
Greene street and the lower and upper
portions of Broad are hard to surpass.
The grading of the Cheraw and
Charleston Railroad has reached a point
near Chesterfield Court House.
THE CHIN KM E QUESTION.
The Chinese question is seriously agi
tating the Pacific slope, and unless
peaceful means are discovered it may
find a bloody solution. The evils of
Chinese immigration were forcibly pre
sented to Congress and the country a
few days ago in an able speech made by
Senator Sargent, of California. Mr.
Sargent is perfectly familiar with his
subject, and represents a constituency
that complains more grievously than the
people of any other State of the curse of
Chinese cheap labor. The speech is full
of interesting information. The Senator
calls the attention of the Eastern States
to the vast numbers of Chinese immi
grants who have settled in some of those
Western towns. The proportion of
these new settlenEin some districts is
one to eight. When they become as
numerous as that 1 the question of citi
zenship in its relations to the race be
comes an interesting one. The Ghinese,
it is said, not ofly entertain radically
different views ofifinorals, society, reli
gion and governnAd, from those held
by us in commim*with Enropean na
tions, but they are entirely unassimila
tive. You have no hope of them, of
their children, nor of their children’s
children. There is a law against the
importation of coolies and of females
for immoral purposes, but it is pro
nounced a dead letter. The coolies are
slaves, the women prostitutes. Were
we to get the cream of Chinese society,
we still would have a problem before us;
but we get the dregs—the off-scourings.
The coolies are decoyed by promises,
threats or opiates on board the vessels in
the Chinese ports, and then made to be
come a party to a oontract, which they
dare not violate. In some cases the
emigrant desiring to come to this coun
try mortgages his family to obtain the
means. The daughters are first sacri
ficed, and then the other members of
the family to meet the mortgage when
it becomes due. The presence of these
foreigners iD Sa ( n Francisco is declared
to be a plague. Senator Sargent says :
f A landlord will rent a single house in a street
to a Chinaman, who at once crowds it to reple
tion. They take ordinary rooms, say of ten
feet in height, put in a false floor half wav up
to the ceiling and crowd both floors, thus
made, with bunks, and as many human beings
as may be pressed inti the space, sleep there
in. The atmosphere becomes fetid and a
eickly smell pervades ihe neighborhood, which
causes the tenants of the houses to the light
and left to vacate. These houses cannot again
be rented to white persons; the rents fall, and,
finally, the Chinese gel possession. This pro
cess goes on in each direction until the whole
street is abandoned to the Chinese. The pro
perty has fallen in value, becomes dilapidated
and offensive, and the street is as much de
dicated to Chinese uses and lost to other resi
dents as if it were a street in Hong Kong.—
Hotels and churches ihare the same fate as
ordinary dwellings and stores. He said in his
excursions in the Chinese quarter in San
Francisco, under the protection of the police,
he had penetrated two stories under ground
into the opium and gambling dens, where the
stench was almost unendurable, reached by
passages where a man cannot walk erect, be
tween walls dripping with the exhalations of
the neighboring seweri, and where the filthy
water at tlje bottom was only avoided by
carefully stepping on the narrow, broken
planks laid, down. Here were swarms of
Chinamen, thick as maggots in cboese, smoking
opium, &c. No class of population known to
the United States can endure contact with
these squalid denizens; the white and the
negro, the American, Frenchman and Spaniard
all seek places of business elsewhere ; even
the lowest classes flee away. The whole street
is absorbed and doomed. This process has
already gone on until six large blocks in the
business heart of San Francisco have been
eaten out, and still the work goes on; and the
future will see San Francisco a purely Asiatic
city unlees some means are devised taavert
this calamity.
But the Chinese do not displace the
white resident from certain quarters of
the city only ; they go further and strike
at the very foundations of society—
namely, the family and remunerative in
dustry. On the Pacific coast there are
150,000 Chinese ; of these 60,000 are in
California and 30,000 in San Francisco;
but in this vast number it is estimated
that there are not more than 100 fami
lies. In such a sea of unattached hu
manity none but the basest passions and
the most degrading practices find en
couragement. Their presence is ruin
ous to substantial and properly remu
nerated industry. In San Francisco a
laborer cannot support his family on
loss than $2 or $2 50 per .day, but a Chi
naman will live on s], or less, and crowd
out the American and the European. It
is easier to say that the latter ought to
live on the same than to do it yourself,
or get them to do it,
The traffic in Chinese females is one
of the most horrible features of this im
migration. The society of the coast is
becoming terribly debauched by this
traffic and its results. These females
come here under contract for prostitu
tion. The girls are first debauched
after their arrival in San Francisco.
Senator Sargent rad a translation of a
contract by which Ah Ho binds her
self for 8630 paid to her mistress
to a life of four yeers of what is called
“shame” in this ciuntry, but which by
these degraded cratures is not consid
ered in that light. These women and
girls are landed by hundreds in San
Francisco, and helc in slavery until they
are no longer capable of earning money,
when they are turted out to die on the
streets. The police declare that they
often find the dead bodies of Chinese
women thus rejected by the harpies
who have owned them. Still worse,,
large numbers of these families are dis
eased, and thus communicate physical
as well as moral corruption to the men,
and even to the toys of the communi
ties where they cengregate. These are
not pleasant considerations, but they
are essential to an intelligent treatment
of this prdblen.- Coolies are arriving
at San Francisjo at the rate of 1,000
per week, and fie importers have a pop
ulation of 204,000,000 to draw upon.
The people of the Pacific slope demand
speedy redress from Congress, and un
less they obtaii it the chances are that
they will redriss their own grievances
in their own way. If Congress does not
modify the Bislingame treaty so as to
keep out the food of paupers and pros
titutes that is advancing upon the
Pacific States the Californians will
make the comtry so hot that even the
cupidity of tie Coolie Companies will
stand appallec. Already in the town of
Antioch the orch has been put to the
Chinese (juaners and no word of con
demnation haj followed the act. Public
meetings thraten the same course in
San Francisci, and prompt action by
Congress will alone prevent the appear
ance of Roßlux beyond the Rocky
Mountains.
•
A Washington correspondent of the
Savannah Nrws says it is all a mistake,
“Hon.” Morgan Rawls has not been
asked to stei down and out of his high
position in the “Document Room.”
The “Hon.* Morgan will continue to
paste wrappers and lick envelopes as
usual, for and such is the kingdom of
ex-Congressijen.
The editor'of Chamberlain’s Colum
bia organ sverely rasps his brother
Radicals in Georgia fop attempting to
instruct theiidelegates to vote for Mor
ton. Chamb*lain's organ woqld perhaps
like to have me one put in the saddle
at Cinojnnai wb° c 0144 parry the Re
form Govern)* behind htol. Sec
tor Morton may have Mother arrange
ments. ”
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
ANNUAL CONVENTION OP STOCK
HOLDERS.
Appointment of Committee* on Proxies-~Polls
Opened. .
The stockholders of the Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company assembled
at Masonic Hall, in annual Convention,
yesterday at 12 o’clock, Hon. John P.
King, President, in the Chair, Lieut.
Geo. P. Butler, Cashier, and Carlton
Hillyer, Esq., Auditor, acting as Secre
taries.
On motion of Col. W. W. Clarke, the
roll was called in alphabetical order for
the purpose of ascertaining the number
of shares represented in person and
proxy.
The President announced the Com
mittee on Proxies, as follows ; David E.
Butler, Chairman; M. P. Stovall, R. L.
Moss, T. C. Hogue, Geo, T. Jackson.
By request of the President, stock
holders came forward in alphabetical or
der and reported t to the Secretary the
number of shares represented iu person
and by proxy.
Col. W. W. Clarke moved that the re
port of the Committeejof Directors ap
pointed to ascertain the old assets of the
Georgia Railroad, and which might
properly be called the “Clearing out
Committee,” be read as information, as
no regular business could be transacted
until after the Committee on Proxies
had reported. Adopted.
The report was then read by the Sec
retary, as follows:
In response to the resolution submit
ted by James W. Davies, Esq., at the
February meeting of this Board—Tues
day, the 14th—the committee makes
the following detailed statement, after a
patient, careful and somewhat laborious
investigation:
The books of the Georgia Railroad
and|Banking Company call for the follow
in cash and securities:
In the notes of “the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Com
pany” “Transportation
Office change bills” and
“Transportation office
notes” ....841,305 40
In United States legal tender
and National Bank notes,
which on the envelope cover
ing them was tabled “sur
plus cash” 220 83
In addition to the above was
found a small package, con- i
taining American gold coin
and so lubled, amounting to j
the sum of j 23 00
Making the aggregate of. ..841,549 23
The books of the company
show the amount of cash in
the hands of the Caahier,
consisting mainly of Georgia
Railroad and Banking Com
pany notes and for which
the late Cashier was held
responsible to be. 39,768 97
Which shows an excess in
cash of 1,780 26
As the whole amount called for by the
books of the company chiefly consisted
of its bank bills redeemed, the excess
may in part be accounted for by reason
of the fact that considerable sums in
half fragmentary, badly mutilated and
charred remains of notes, which the
committee assume may have been re
deemed according to the proportion of
the note recognizable, or if one-half
were missing then, as is and has been
the custom of banks of issue and now of
the Government of the United States,
compensative deductions were made.
This is the theory of the committee and
it thus reports.
In securities the committee find in
possession of Cashier left by his prede
cessor, as called for by the books of the
company or a legal acknowledgment of
where they have been plaoed by author
ity of the Board as follows:
Certificate of stock in Atlanta
and West Point Railioad for
4,000 shares, value on book at 8400,000
Certificate of stock iu Rome
Railroad for 1,489f shares,
value oh book at 100,000
Certificates of stock ia Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railway, 18,000 shares, value
on book at 65,000
Certificate of stock in Maoon
and Augusta Railroad Com
pany, 2,000 shares, value on
book at ... 10,000
Certificate (supposed) of stock
in New York and South (jaro.
lina Steamship Company, 400
shares, value on book at 20,000
8595,000
Bond*.
70 bonds of the Western
Railroad of Alabama,
81,000 each, valued at 861,100
66 bouds of Baldwin
county, Ga., 8500 each,
valued at 33,000
15 bonds of Macon and
Brunswick Railroad
Company, 81,000 12,750
9 bonds of the City of
Macon, 81,000 ■ eaob,
valued at,.,. 9,000
10 bonds of the City of
Athens, 8100 each, val- .
ued at J.OOO
1 bond of the East Ten
nessee and Georgia
Railroad Company, val
ued at 1,000
4 bonds of the East Ten
nessee and Georgia
Railroad Company,
S4OO each, valued at., 910-117,760
8712,660
Coupon..
Coupons of the Maoon and
Augusta Railroad, paid,
examined and sealed up. .$195,869 19;
coupons of the Port Royal Railroad
Company paid in New York $98,417 93,
three semi-annual maturities of these
coupons in our vault and two in the
American Exchange National Bank sub
ject to order. The foregoing are all
that is charged to the late cashier and
his successor and are recognized by the
committee as in the possession and con
trol of the company.
In this examination critically made
the committee may not forbear to pay
a well merited tribute to the late Cash
iers, Dr. Joseph Milligan and Dr. J. A.
S. Milligan—father and son, who, in all
the trusts that were ever committed to
them, showed perfect integrity and
pains-taking fidelity, and this in the
opinion of the committee is especially
notable and gratifying in these days of
degeneracy and official dereliction, which
seem to pervade the land from the still
house to the White House. The follow
ing resolution is presented :
Resolved, That in the examination of
the condition of the vaults and of the
trusts in the hands of the late Cashiers,
Dr. Joseph Milligan and Dr. J. A. S.
Milligan and the present Cashier, Geo.
P. Butler, Esqjs., the committee has
found every item for which they were
and are boundeu, securities, scrip for
stocks or the representative thereof
(see letter of Cashier of American Ex
change National Bank for what is not
actually in vault.) Cash in full and an
excess of $1,780 26, as explained in the
early part of this report, and memoran
dum appended, and that the bonds of
Dr. J. Milligan and Dr. J. A. S. Milli
gan be cancelled and surrendered.
The committee desires further to say
that in accordance with their under
standing of the resolution it has
destroyed by burning all the Geor
gia Railroad Bank notes, all its
paid and cancelled bonds, all the
paid and cancelled coupons, all the un
executed bonds, and a large mass of
worthless papers and memoranda—dan
gerous to bp kept, and an exceedingly
inconvenient and hgejpga m a S@ pf worth
less old hhd valueless papers, pertaining
mostly to the past generation, thereby
putting the yaqlt jfi gqch eondßion,
that papers pf thp somewhat remote
past—though in its opinion of no value
—the late past, and the present can be
easily reached. This statement of facts
with these explanations are presented
to the Board.
Before closing it is suggested that the
following additional resolution might
with propriety be adopted, viz:
. Resolved, That the President, togeth
er with any two Directors, bh authorized
in future to destroy by burning all Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Company
notes hereafter redeemed, all bonds and
coupons of the company paid, and such
other papers as may be valueless prompt
ly, and report their action from time to
time to the succeeding meeting of the
Board. Josiah Sibley, Chairman; Chas.
H. John }>avison, M: P. Sto
vall Committee.
Hon. George Silly** moved that the
resolutions of the Hoard relative to the
two late Cashiers be made the action of
this Convention and in in-
Qn mofcjduof Hon. W. W. Clarke,the
Convention took a recess until 3, p. m.
Afternoon Session.
The Convention assembled at three
o’olook, pursuant to adjournment.
Col. Clarke stated that he was just
from the committee room, and felt satis
fied that the committee would require
two hours to verify proxies, in order to
aseertaiu whether there was a quorum
present. This was caused by the many
changes in proxies. He moved that the
Conveniion take a recess until 6 o’olook.
Adopted.
At 6 o’clock the Convention met.
Col. D. E. Butler, Chairmau of the
Eommittee ou Proxies, reported that the
committee bad not completed their
work, and would not be able to do so
within two hours, but they hid so far
ascertained that 8,873 shares were rep
resented in person, and 14,000 by proxy,
in all 22,873, a majority of the stock.
Col. Clark moved that the committee
now out be the Committee on Election,
and that the polls be now opened so as
to enable those who desired to leave the
city by the evening train to vote, there
being a majority of the stock represent
ed, according to the report of the com
mittee, and that the polls be re-opened
in the morning. It would be impossible
for the committee to make a full report
this afternoon.
Mr. Mullarky said this seemed to
him to be a very informal way of doing
business. He didn’t see the use of a
few gentlemen voting now and the rest
voting to-morrow. One thing should
be comp'eted before another is com
menced. There is no use of doing two
things at the same time. He moved
therefore, that the Convention adjourn
until to-morrow morning at 9 o’clook.
Hon. John H.-James saw no harm in
voting now so as to allow gentlemen
who desired to go home to do so. He
had heard men say that this thing was a
trick to keep them from voting. He
moved, as an amendment to Colonel
Clark’s motion, that the polls be
opened at once, and remain open until
9 o’clock to-morrow morning.
Mr. Hillyer said that the same thing
was done last year.
> Mr. Clark suggested 10 instead of 9
o’clock. Mr. James accepted the sug
gestion, and Col. Clark’s motion, as
amended by Mr. James, was adopted.
The polls were then opened and the
voting proceeded.
On motion of Mr. James, the Commit
tee on Proxies was invited in to assist in
the election.
On motion the Convention adjourned
until 9 o’clock Thursday morning.
LETTER FROM LINCOLN COUNTY'.
The Weather—Crops, Jkc., Jkc.
Clay Hill, Ga., May 12th.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
May set in with and keeps up con
siderable wetness, most too much for
clean cultivation and successful cropping,
for this is the month, of all the months,
that our farmers want a little dryness,
but not drouth. Then small grain does
better and planted crops are gotten on a
cleaner surface, and henae will not be
overrun with grass in June or July.
Wheat and oats give considerable
promise of abundant yield, but at
present no man can speak with certain
ty, for that monster—the rust— may rise
up and soon destroy the fairest pros
pects. We already have some of it now,
and some of the wheat crops are con
sidered fast coming to nought.
Farmers are now getting to the point
that they do not like to work poor and
unimproved lands here; they begin to
feel that to reward their labors they
should have the ground rich enongh to
make a bale of cotton to the acre apd
from twenty to forty bqsljela qf com to
the acre. Blessed era—may they stick
to that as a permanent conclusion.—
And they are, moreover, loosing confi
dence in mnch cotton at present prices.
They think the West bad better make
it and they make something else.
The olover oalled Lucerne ia com
manding considerable attention, beoause
it is a warm country olover. It has
been long and successfully cultivated in
the south of France and in Spain and
Italy and is beat adapted to our coun
try. ~ .
Politics are quiet as yet, no noise ex
cept in the quiet conversations of
friends. am of the opinion that ex-
Gov. Johnson or Gen. Colquitt would (
Jll the hill for Lincoln county.
Yours, Ac., T.
The spyTH TRK WE.sy.
The Qctoher Elections the Battle Ground.
[Cincinnati Inquirer.]
The idea is sought to be inculcated by
the friends of Governor Tilden in the
South that there is no hope of carrying
any of the Western States, and that the
only chance of a Democratic victory lies
in the union of the South with New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The
South has one hundred and thirty-nine
electoral votes j the other States men
tioned have fifty-one. Could they all be
carried the Democracy would elect their
candidate and have si? votes to spare.
This is rather a narrow margin, when, as
is known, there are several Southern
States—such as South Carolina, North
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, with
twenty-nine electoral votes—more than
doubtful. But this appeal to the South
to link its fa(e with the Northeast merits
more than a passing notice. Horatio
Seymour, of New York, has well said,
that the interests of the West and the
South were identical in their nature,
and that, combined, they goqld nomi
nate and elect the President Q f the
United States. M r - Seymour was right.
He had previously, with still more per
spicuity, spoken of the East as the
creditor and the West as the debtor
States. There is an antagonism in those
relations. What spits the creditor doesn’t
always suit the debtor, But the wise
acres in the South propose not to con
sider the Northwest as a possible Demo
cratic faotor in the selection of a Presi
dent. They oonoede in advance the
whole of it to the enemy. This is con
ceding a great deal, The Northwest
consist of the following States and has
this electoral vote;
0hi0... ...... 22 Illinois 21
Indiana, 15 lowa H
Michigan. 11 Wi5c0n5in,,,,...,.. 10
Minnesota 5 Kan5a5.,,,..,..,,., 5
Nebraska 3|
Total .... ~...,....103
These nine States have within thirty
six as many electoral votes as the old
fifteen slave States have. With eighty
one additional votes the next Presidency
is secured. It isn't a slight thing to
abandon all this to the political enemy.
It is a start onoe given could hardly be
regained. Now, it is very possible that
the West may all be throw away by the
mistaken action of the St. Louis Conven
tion. If they haven’t a platform of
principles somewhat in accordance with
their interests, and a candidate whose
sympathies aye with them, it is entirely
safe to assume that their one hundred
and three electoral vqfos wifi not be
given to the Democratic candidate—no,
not one of the one hundred and three.
This is not all. The Southern wiseacres
to whom we have alluded seem to have
forgotten the fact that there is an elec
tion held in the month of Ootober—a
month before the other States vote—in
Ohio and Indiana. Those States have
thirty-seven electoral yotes—one more
than New York. They are decidedly
useful in the adding np of the Presiden
tial figures. But they count several
times one in their moral effect upon the
November contest. When they pro
nounce with emphasis against a party,
that party is doomed. Those who are
looking for the stronger side—who de
sire for any cause to be identified with
it—shape their course in November to
correspond wisb {h*t indicated by the
Qctflber ejections m the great States of
the West. Th Democrat whoplaaes
his dependence upon New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut for victory had
better see that Ohio and Indiana are
previously secured. If they are not, vain
is the hope of their swelling the Demo
cratic column. In other words, we wiah
to be understood as declaring--what all
past experience has pioven—that, if we
want New York, New Jersey and Con
necticut in November, we must have $
good result in the October States of
Ohio and Indiana. A judicious policy
Will more easily secure the latter states
to the Democracy than the former. Nor
is (ha greats State of Illinois, with its
twenty-one electoral votes, impossible
to carry. It will sharq largely in the
hurricane may sweep over its
Western vtilSpagtLea. It is .in these three
States that the battle for the P'p&iaency
is to be fought. It is in these that the
Democracy should concentrate their
most powerful efforts. If they ar<} car
ried, w e shall have enough with, the
Sonth to h,e succession In fact, we
would need 90 Eastern assistance aS all.
TReie is hot the'ghost of, ft eh¥>*
any paytjy which, fttanflop ip advance
Gfaio, Indiana ftnfi Illinois, with their
fifty-nine electoral votes. The Sonth,
which has such immense interests at
stake, ought to conaider this. It ought
f2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
not to repeat the mistakes at Charleston
in 1860, where its opposition to the
Northwest brought upon it the calamitv
of secession from the Union, followed
by conquest and subjugation. Then the
West was sneered at as of no account.
Stephen A. Douglas, the choice of the
lion-hearted Democracy, as Win. Allen
now is, was denounced as being no better
than the negro Fred. Douglass, and as
being equally opposed to Southern con
stitutional rights. In sackoloth and
ashes—in fire and blood—the old slave
States repented of their unwise decision.
They should not repeat their error of
1860 in 1876. They can make nothing
by a unison with New York. In its na
ture it is false. Leading Southern rep
resentatives may have dined or been
wined, for selfish motives, at the Man
hattan Club, but that is no reason why
their tens of thousands of Democratic
voters should be sold out. We say to
the Democracy of the South, stand by
the West if you would secure victory
upon sound principle.
• THE CENTENNIAL.
OPENING OP THE GREAT AMERI
CAN EXHIBITION.
The Day at Philadelphia-Fifty Thousand
People Present—. Scenes and Incidents—A
Grand Occasion.
Philadelphia, May 10.—To-day is a
legal holiday. All business is suspend
ed. The gates were opened at 9 o’clock.
The sky is cloudless. The foreign Com
missioners and other distinguished vis
itors had a special' entrance and were
seated without confusion. Fully fifty
thousand people are on the gtounds.
The ceremonies were opened with the airs
of all nations, under the directipu of
Theodore Thomas; prayer by the Right
Rev. Bishop Simpson; hymn by John
Greenleaf Whittier; presentation of
building to the United States Centennial
Commission by the Centennial Commis
sioner, John Welsh; Cantata by Sidney
Lanier, of Georgia, and presentation of
the Exhibition to the President of the
United States by Jos. R. Hawley. The
following is the proclamation of the
opening of the International Exhibition
of 1867 by the President:
“My Countrymen —lt has been
thought appropriate upon this Centen
nial occasion to bring together in Phila
delphia for popular inspection specimens
of onr attainments in the industrial and
fine arts and iu literature, scieuoe and
philosophy as well as in the great busi
ness of agriculture and of oommeree,
that we may the more thoroughly appre
ciate the exoellenoies and deficiencies of
our achievements, and also give em
phatic expression to our earnest desire
to cultivate the friendship of our fellow
members of this great family of nations.
The enlightened agricuturM, COwmer
cia and manufactqrjng people of the
world haye been invited to send hither
corresponding specimens of their skill
to exhibit on equal terms in friendly
competition with our own. To this in
vitation they have generously respond
ed. For so doing we render them our
hearty thanks. The beauty and utility
of the contributions will this day be
submitted to your inspection by the
managers of this exhibition. We are
glad to know that a view of
specimens of the skill of all
nations will afford to you unalloyed
pleasure as well as yield to you a valua
ble practical knowledge of so many of
the remarkable results of the wonderful
sxill existing in enlightened communi
ties. One bundled years ago our coun
try was new and but partially settled.
Qur necessities have compelled us to
chiefly expend qqr means and time in
felling tbo forest, subduing prairies,
building dwellings, factories, ships docks
warehouses, roads, canals, machinery
etc. etc.; most of our schools, ohurcbes,
libraries and aslyums have been estab
lished within an hundred years. Bur
thened by these great primal works of
necessity which could not be delayed,
we yet have done what this exhibition
will show in the direction of rivaling
older and more advanced nations
in law, and theology, in science
literature, philosophy and the fine arta.
Whilst proud of what we have done, we
regret that we have not done more. Our
achievements have been groat enough
however to make it easy for our people
to acknowledge superior merit wherever
found; and flow fellow-citizens I hope a
careful examination of what is about to
be exhibited to, you will not only in
spire you wifb a profound respect for
the skill and taste of our friends from
other nations but also satisfy you with
the attainments made by our own peo
ple during the past one hundred years.
I invoke your generous co-operation
With th e worthy Commissioners to secure
a brilliant success to this international
exhibition and to make the stay of our
foreign visitors, to whom we extend a
hearty welcome, both profitable and
pleasant to them. I declare the inter
national exhibition now open. ”
At 10:30, a, w ., Dom Pedro was es
corted to a seat by General Hawley. At
10:45 General Philip Sheridan and wife
passed oyer from the building to a
Stand in front of the Memorial Hall
during the rendition of national airs.
He was greeted with great applause. He
was olosely followed by Hon. J. G.
Blaine, Senator Jones, of Nevada and
wife. At 10:55 the President entered
through Memorial and was con
ducted to seat on front of the plat
form- Governor Hartranft, Gen, Haw
ley and Hon. D. G. MorriU occupied
seats on his left, while Messrs. John
Welsh and Gosfarn were on his right.
Fred Douglass,, by some mischance,
worked his way through the crowd, and
was helped over by offioers and conduct
ed to a seaf on the platform. He was
greeted with cheers. At U :03 the Wag
ner Centennial inauguration march was
performed by the orchestra, under the
direction of Theodore Thomas, at the
conclusion Of which Bishop Simpson of
fered up a devout prayer, during the
rendering of which the majority of the
vast assemblage stood with uncovered
heads.
The Empress of Brazil, escorted by
Mrs. GiJleajjii©, visited the Women's Pa*
vilioo this p. m., and made a tour of all
the aisles and passages. There were no
formalities attending the visit. Dom
Pedro also visited the Pavilion, and
gave emphatic approval of the work
there displayed hy American women.
The reception by the President was
omitted. Ho was fatigued. The follow
ing was one of the. most impressive
seenes of the day: The President, as
sisted by his Imperial Majesty Dom
Pedro, started the motive power of the
hall. At a signal from General Hawley
the President mid Emperor seined a
crank, and opening the valves, turned
them several times. At once a sound was
heard, which gave to the people the un
derstanding-that the engine was about
.to more ; then the monstrous seven
ty to* l % Viheel began slowly
moving, increasing gradually in
rapidity until it was travelling at its
full speed. General Hawley started the
hurrah, which was taken up by the sur
rounding multitude. Deafening echoes
travelled through the building, and as
all the wheels in the hall began moving
the linging of bells and other demon
strations told to the world that the Cen
tennial Exhibition was fairly opened.
THE C. P. BEMAN HIGH SCHOOL, SPAR
TA, GA.
[From the Times and Planter.]
Mb. Editor—l attended the recent
examination of the Rev. Dr. Mullally’s
school, and think that there are certain
matters relating to this school, which
appeared on that occasion, that merit
notice. Every such examination is worthy
the interested attention of every citizen,
having at heart the welfare of com
munity and State.
It is the proper meutaf training of the
young that the power, advance
ment, ftpd happiness of a people. A
jusif appreciation of this would lead
every citizen to attend ajl such exami
nations with a view alone of assuring
himself that the course of instruction is
thqtoWjh, and of enoouraging the pupil
to make diligent application to study.
On the occasion vcfc?red to there
could not have resulted great satisfac
tion to a discriminating observer. The
pupils were animated by a deep interest
m what was going on, and sought to ac
quit themselves in a creditable manner.
There waft s*o, baflessnesa or inattention
in a single instance. They did well
! and in saying thift I do not mean to inti
mate that na question was missed or er
ror committed; on the contrary, there
were a satisfactory number of mistakes
It was evident in many instances that
these W ton result of embarrassment.
iU others pf forgetfulness. There were
With exceptions in one or two instances,
aa few errors as could be, consistently
with a fair examination.
The reading of the scholars was ex
ceptionally good, and waa a feature ol
great interest ip, the exercises. It was
more than a distinct and
accurate enunciation of words in sen
tences, with proper inflection and dne
regard to punctuation. There was evi
dently a clear perception by the reader
of the thought of the writer. The chil
dren read with the understanding. The
by note manner was carefully avoided.
And herein appears what seems to be a
distinguishing characteristic of the
school. The minds of the pupils are
trained. They are taught to think. It
is not a mere exercise of memory, but
the processes are inquired into. The
scholar is apparently familiar with the
idea as well as words of the text book.
If there be a question of accuracy, or of
taste, or of truth, the other possible
views are presented and the pupil led to
independent and original investigation.
If there be a rule, the reason of it is
traced back to the nature of things, and
the source of the rule explored. Pro
ficiency there seems to be under
stood as consisting not in the mas
tery of the book, but of the subject.
The learning, affluenoe of illustration
and intense devotion, always to the par
ticular subject in hand, of Dr. M., and
the patient zeal and ability of liis ac
complished assistants, Mr, Seymour
and Miss Brown, are admirably suited
to the administration of this excellent
system of instruction.
This school is a good thing and as
time develops the fruits of the labors of
these industrious tjeaohers, the commu
nity will recognize even more fully than
now the great value to it of suoh an ins
titution.
I observed, sir, that you were present
on the occasion referred to, and in con
sideration of your well known earnest
n|“(in the support of things promotive
of the public good, and of the interest
of this county, it might properly have
been left wholly to your judicious pen to
notice in a fitting manner this worthy
subject; still I venture to send you this
brief notice of some of those features of
it, that made a favorable impression on
my mind. Yours, &c., Citizen.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Forsyth has received 8,500 bales of
cotton since September Ist.
The friends of Rev. C. A. Kendrick
are of the opinion that he is insane.
The Thomasville chain gang captured
the guard the other day and escaped.
Forsy th proposes to organize a ladies’
association to improve the cemetery at
that place.
The fruit crop of Northeast Georgia,
particularly apples, will be unusually
abundant this year.
Mr. Billy Edwards, of Lexington,
plowed up a Spanish silver coin in his
garden last week, bearing date of 1776.
. T. H. Henderson, of Macon, canght
in Evans’ pond, near Macon, Saturday,
eighteen bream, which vr lighed 301
pounds.
The Camilla Enterprise says the cool
nights of late “have damaged cotton to
a limited extent, causing it to die out o-r
turn yellow.”
Colonel T. J. Heard, one of the oldest
and most popular citizens of Elbert
county, is dangerously ill. His recovery
is Considered impossible.
The estimate presented for maintain
ing the public schools in Atlanta from
September Ist, 1876, to June 30th,
1877, is 046,735, of which $42,500 are for
salaries.
The gold diggers are busy in Coweta
county. They have found some speci
mens as large as a grain of wheat. With
shovel and spades many are making a’
dollar a day.
A party of renegade white men, too
lazy to work and too cowardly to deserve
justice, are rifling through Twiggs
county at night whipping and maltreat
ing defenseless negroes.
Cobb county, by 169 yeas to 582 nays,
has voted down the proposition to pro
hibit the sale of liquor in theoouuty. In
stead of the corn clinging to the cob
Cobb dings to the oorn.
In this Oenfcennial year some of the
young people of Covington and Oxford
have introduoed the custom of courting
in church during divine services. Mis
behavior in church is sometimes noticed
and commented on.
Georgia’s mineral wealth will be part
ly represented at the Centennial through
a car load of ores aud minerals gathered
along the line of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton Railroad. The company de
serves great oredit for its enterprise.
Rust has appeared in the wheat fields
around Dalton. This is several weeks
earlier than it was ever discovered be
fore, and serious damage to the wheat,
which promised such an abundant yield
up to a few days ago, is feared from this
enemy.
The Rome Courier regrets to learn
that the rust is on the blades of wheat
on most all the farms in Floyd county.
It has appeared unusually early, and so
rious apprehensions are entertained that
it will get on the italk; if it does there
will be almost a total failure in the
crop.
Govoruor Smith has commuted the
sentence of Zack Bird, condemned to be
hung at Forsyth, Friday, May sth, to
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
life. A petition was presented to the
Governor signed by the Judge, jury,
lawyers and a large number of citizens
of Monroe county to commute the sen
tence.
Darien Timber Gazette: “Some of
our exchanges are discussing the capital
question. All the papers in the State,
except those published in Atlanta, are
strongly in favor of removing the capital
from Atlanta. Let the people of Geor
gia vote on the question, and yon will
see how quick they will take the capiial
from Kimballville.”
Covington Enterprise : Bill Moore,
of the Augusta Constitutionalist, will
probably attend our Commencement
next month. Bill has heard about the
girls consenting to graduate in calico,
and also learned that lager beer waa only
five cents a glass in Covington. It is
also rumored that Bill will remain in
town until beer advances to ten cents.
On Monday morning last (May Ist),
the mutilated body of Jesse Williamson
was found in a field near Williamsville,
Pike county. His neck was broken and
one of his eyes badly bruised. Coro
ner's inquest was held, but we have not
heard the verdict. A white man named
Whaley was under arrest, suspicioned of
being concerned in the matter. A negro
was also arrested.
A party of English tourists passed up
the State Road one day last week. They
seemed to be delighted with the country
—its beautiful mountain scenery, its
golden sunshine and soft, balmy atmos
phere. There was one beautiful young
lady in the party, with cheeks as rosy
looking as a red peach, who seemed to
be greatly enthused at everything and
everybody, especially a Sophomoric
leaking young gent who sat in an oppo
site seat.
An old colored woman named Cathe
rine Johnson, while walking along the
oanal near Savannah, was accosted on
Monday morning by two negro men,
who demanded her money. She replied
that she had none, when the villains cut
her throat with a razor and threw her
-into the canal. She was fished out be
fore drrowning by some negro women
who witnessed the act. She was not able
to speak, and is in a critioal condition.
The names of the men are not known.
Athens Watctwwri: The growing
wheat crop of this section npver looked
more promising, all things considered.
We iiave been in Walton, Oconee,
Clarke, Madison, Hart, Franklin, Banks,
Habersham and Hall counties, and from
personal observation and careful inquiry
are satisfied that the present prospect
of a heavy yield is unusually flattering.
We have known wheat further advanced
at this time of year, but have never seen
the stand so uniformly good and the
area sown so large. Fall oats are also
looking well.
THE HAYS CASE.]
The Defendant Convicted of Murder.
Argument in the case of John B.
Hays, murder, was concluded by H. C.
Foster, Esq., in an able speech yester
day morning. Jndge Gibson then
charged the jury and took a recess until
4, p. m. Upon the reassembling of the
Court the jury brought in a verdict of
guilty. Counsel for the defendant then
asked that the jury be polled, which was
done. Each man, as his name was
called, answered “guilty.” Hays heard
the sentence announced apparently Hn
moved. His wife, who was sitting on
the steps in the hall outside, gave way
to her feelings and wept freely. She
has been a devoted wife throughout.
Hays was carried baek to jail. We
understand that his counsel will move
for anew trial, and if it is not granted,
carry the case to the Supreme Court,
