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WEDS ESP AY JUNE 14, 187.
How would James M. Smith do as a
Centennial candidate for the United
States Senate? \
DeKalb county has issued a call for a
mass meeting of citizens to send dele
gates to the Gubernatorial Convention.
Mr. Samubl Lumpkin, for several
years the able and efficient Solicitor-
General of this Circuit, has tendered
his resignation to Governor Smith, to
take place on the Ist proximo.
There are a number of aspirants for the
position, but we understand the place
has been promised Mr. J. T. Olive, of
Lexington. A better man could not be
found in the State.—Oglethorpe Echo.
It looks very much as if Blais*, of
Maine, is recovering from his encounter
with the Mulligan Guards. He seems
to have suffered but little from recent
exposures, and will undoubtedly be a
strong candidate at Cincinnati next
Wednesday. Blaine has a strong hold
upon the Republican party, and he will
either be nominated himself or else will
have the power to make the nominee.
“We cannot believe the rumor that
Ex-Gov. Johnson is going to run on the
independent line, nor de we believe that
the Republicans have pledged him 75,-
000 votes. The rumor probably originat
ed with the friends of some of the other
candidates. ” -Exchange. The ‘ ‘rumor”
did originate with the friends of other
candidates, in our opinion, and is simply
a lie manufactured from whole cloth.
The proposition to nominate Mr.
Josnson for Governor seems to boa
sort of nightmare upon the dreams of a
number of Georgia papers that have or
ganized to hand over the people of the
State to General Colquitt. We have
never seen the boys so worried before.
They are devilish afraid Johnson will
knock all their three and four years’
calculation and labor into pie. Boys,
be steady; don’t wince so; Johnson
would mak* you a splendid Governor. —
Cartersville Express.
The proprietor of one of the New Jer
sey watering places advertises himself
as a novel and entertaining kind of
bigot by proclaiming that “Jews are not
admitted” to his house. He will not be
troubled with the presence of those
whom he considers so obnoxious. We
also think it safe to prediot that he will
not have much patronage of any kind.
The Jews as a class are as good citizens
as any we have —peaceful, law-abiding
and industrious. An insult to them is
an insult to the people with whom they
are daily associated in business, in
pleasure and in politics.
At a mass meeting held in Morgan
county last week Judge Augustus Reese
was unanimously recommended as the
first choice of the county for Governor.
The people of Morgan have made a wise
selection. Judge Reese is one of the
ablest and purest men in the South—
bold, independent, and firm as a rock
when convinced that he is right—and
would make a model Executive. He was
the only Judge in the State who refused
to obey General Pope’s jury order, and
resigned his salary and position rather
than do that which he believed to be
wrong.
Complaints of the scarcity of change
in the West are pouring in upon mem
bers of Congress, who are appealed to
for Borne relief. Another effort will
probably be made in the House to pass
the bill for issuing in exobange for
legal tenders $10,000,000 of subsidiary
silver coin. Thus far about $7,000,000,
in lieu of fractional currency, have been
issued under the new law. After the
$10,000,000 bill is passed, the Banking
and Currenoy Committee will push their
bill for the additional coinage of $20,-
000,000 more. ’ It has been agreed on,
and will probably be reported to the
House this week.
The Constitutionalist, of yesterday,
quotes as follows from the Griffin News,
of several dates since: “Judge H. V.
“ Johnson states in a private letter to a
“friend, which we have been permitted
“to see, that he will take no side for
'“ any particular man for Governor in the
“ present contest for that responsible
“ position, as he is thoroughly con
“ vinced that Judges should take no
“ hand in politios while upon the bench
“of justice.” Such a sentiment is so
muoh in keeping with Hersohel Y.
Johnson’s character that we do not pre
tend to question the authenticity of the
letter. The sentiment can also be com
mended to every Judge in the State.
Without concentration of action
touching the accomplishment of any
end, sucoess is impossible—and this
rule holds good in political The forces
of Democracy must be concentrated,
and this cannot be done without organi
zation, thorough and compact; and
therefore we appeal to every good and
true Democrat to be ready for action
when the hour for work comes—to at
tend every meeting, preliminary and all
others of the party, and in the language
of a Georgia contemporary, make “office
seekers take back seats,” if indeed any
such should be found attempting to
thrust themselves forward for the pur
pose of controlling these meetings in
their own interest. — Dalton Citizen.
Senators who opposed jurisdiction in
the Belknap case have lefrained from
voting oa the several questions upon
which action has since been taken on
the ground that, as they contend, the
Sedate has no right to proceed further
in the matter, there being a bare major
ity in favor of jurisdiction, whereas two
thirds are, in their opinion, requisite to
affirm jurisdiction. It is understood to
be the purpose of these Senators when
the main question, guilty or not guilty,
shall be pat todeoline to vote at all, but
merely to make known their presence
by answering to the call of their names.
By this course they will prevent the
oonviotion of Belknap, as the Constitu
tion requires that no person shall be
oonvicted without the concurrence of
two-thirds of the members present.
A joke- is a joke no matter if it does
hit a Democrat. The other day, after a
meeting of the Judiciary Committee, at
which there had beeu the usual exchange
of compliments between the Chairman,
Mr. Knott, and Mr. Blaine, Mr. Knott
sought Mr. Fete, a confidential friend
of the Man from Maine, and said: “Mr.
Frye, your friend, Mr. Blaine, is the
damndest scoundrel in the United
States.” “You forget yourself,” was the
quick retort; and Knott, who failed to
see the point, said perhaps he had been
two hasty, and begged pardon. The
joke is pointed by one from over the
we ter. Two of the Emperor of Austria’s
eons were quarreling, and one said to
the other: "You are the greatest ass in
Vienna.” “ You forget that lam pres
ent," said the angry father.
The present status of the business be
fore Congress is not very encouraging
to the friends of an early adjournment.
Twelve general appropriation bills are
required by law to be passed to take ef
fect on the first of July. Only three of
'these have become laws this session. It
will be fully as much as Congress can
do to finiah up the remaining nine dur
ing the present month. Then there are,
beside, more than 150 bills on the cal
endar of the Senate, .all of which must
be considered, and a unsaber of import
ant resolutions in addition; while it is
calculated that the new business yet to
be received from the House will con
sume two or three weeks. Finally there
is the. Belknap impeachment trial,
which is to begin July 6th, and to end—
no one knows when. Unless the Con
gressmen get angry and cat the Gordian
knot, the session will certainly last all
Bummer.
BULLOCK’S LETTER.
The letter written by Rufus B. Bul
lock to the New York Herald is a
wonderful mixture of mendacity and
cheek. Its inventions are only equaled
by its impudence. In Georgia the fu
gitive Governor’s falsehoods and his im
pudence can do no mischief, as the facts
and the fugitive are both well known in
this State. Bullock says:
I can now congratulate myself that although
my office was handed over to my eucceaeor
without any special preparation for that pur
pose, every record wae found complete, and
while there were but ten cent* found in the
Treasury of my predecessor, my ancceaaor was
amply supplied with funds, mid every dollar
and every bond wae duly accounted for.
Tlfe report of the Committee appoint
ed “to investigate the official conduct
of Bufus B. Bullock, late Governor of
Georgia,” asserts Bullock’s complicity
in nearly every fraud perpetrated upon
the State. It declares that he was deep
ly concerned in the Georgia National
Bank, the Opera House, the Mitchell
Heirs claim, the Printing, the Peniten
tiary and all the more important swin
dles of his swindling administration.—
The reason why be found no cash in the
Treasury when United States bayonets
and staffed ballot boxes placed him
at the head of the State government
is easily given.* When Governor
Jenkins and Treasurer Jones were turn
ed out of office by order of General
Meade and a brace of Federal Captains
were detailed to take charge of their
offices they very properly refused to
turn over the funds of the State to par
ties not authorized to receive them.
For so refusing they deserve, and have
received, the thanks of the people of
Georgia. There is every reason for the
belief that if any money had been left
in the public Treasury Bullock k Com
pany would have made way with it be
fore they had been in power twelve
hours. In answer to the charge con
cerning the Tennessee Car Company
swindle, Bullock says:
To this I reply that the Tennessee Car Com
pany was not an ’'imaginary,” but a bona Jute
corporation, with well known and responsible
officers and stockholders, extensively engaged
in the renting and sale of cars. My connection
with the transaction was the official approval
of a contract made by and between the State
Road and the Car Company, all contracts over
43,000 requiring the endorsed approval of the
Governor. If that eontraot was not fulfilled
the Car Company should have been sued and
compelled to respond for damages.
The Legislative Committee appointed
to investigate the management of the
State Road gives a succinct history of
this transaction, which is a little at
variance with the statement made by
Bullock. 4 The Committee says that in
April, 1870, a contract was made between
Foster Blodgett, Superintendent of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and
E. N. Kimball, as Manager of the Ten
nessee Car Company, which Bullock
approved, as Governor, by which the
car company agreed to deliver fifty box
oars for the sum of forty thousand dol
lars, which sum was promptly paid. At
the time of the contract no such compa
ny was in existence; Kimball had no
such cars for sale; it was never expected
he would have them: and none were ever
furnished the road. On this transac
tion Bullock was indicted in Fulton
Superior Court as a common cheat and
swindler. Another transaction of the
same character, with the same mythical
“oar company,” realized some ten thou
sand dollars, and the proceeds were ap
plied to the purchase of the Daily New
Era, as an organ for the plunderers. In
another portion of the letter Bullock
says :
tte do not forgot that, when, in 1868, my
anti-reconstruction Democratic predecessor in
office refused to recognize the enfranchise
ment of the negro and the reconstruction acts
of Congress, he fled from the State and took
with him the State seals, a portion of the ar
chives and all the treasury; and he remained
beyond the jurisdiction of the State Courts for
several years. Here was a pnma facie case
for ex parte proceedings involving very grave
charges. But nu one within my knowledge
ever expressed any disposition to harass or
bring disgrace upon ex-Governor Jenkins.
There is no question of bis personal and offi
cial integrity, and yet up to the present hour
there has, X believe, never been any published
report of the use made of the large amount
of State funds that were in his hands when he
fled, nor of the return of any portion of it to
the State Treasury!
“We do not forget” these things be
cause they never happened, and there
fore they cannot be forgotten. They are
simply the coinage of a lively imagina
tion. Governor Jenkins, as all Georgi
ans know, declined to appropriate money
for purposes not sanctioned by tbe laws
under which he had been elected and
which he had solemnly sworn to sup
port. He refused to reoognize one
Captain on General Meade’s staff as
Governor of Georgia, and another
Captain as State Treasurer. He took
the property of the State away be
cause there was no legal government
in the State, and he would have failed
ill his duty if he had turned it over to
usurpers and thieves. When the people
of Georgia chose a government of their
own, Governor Jenkins returned the
great seal of the State and made a report
of his actions. There was a full settle
ment between himself and the 3tate,
and the Legislature of Georgia passed,
with one dissenting vote, a resolution
thanking Governor Jenkins in the name
of the people of the State for what he
had done, and presenting him with a
seal, a fac simile of the one he had pre
served and restored.
TILDEN IN NEW YORK.
We received yesterday the following
letter from a gentleman well known iu
Georgia, but now a resident of New
York :
New York, June 5,1876 —You are making a
splendid fight against Tildkk, and doing great
service in preventing the party from making
the great mistake of nominating him. He
cannot be elected, and iB really being pressed
for the Democratic nomination by the Radical
capitalists more strongly than by any one else.
With t em and their Democratio fellows the
only question is the money question—the
forced resumption of specie payments in 1879.
If they can. by the lavish use of money, and
his promises of Cabinet appointments, do.,
procure Tildes's nomination, their victory will
have been more than half won. They wi 1
then defeat him in November, for they would
be afraid of the Democratic party even with
Tildes at its head, and of course the Radical
candidate will be a re6umptionist. Let the
South unite with the West and nominate either
Batabd. Hendricks or Hancock. With either
of them we can go into, the canvass with
strong hopes cf success. The New York dele
gation will contain a large number of men in
vincibly opposed to Tildkn.
AUGUSTA’S CONDITION AND EE
SOURCES.
Apbopos of the establishment of a
large guano factory here by the Patap
-Bco Company, the Macon Telegraph
says :
“The people of that staid and sleepy
old town, Angnsta, in all their dozing
have an eye to business. Now they dig
a canal and erect divers factories. Then,
after another snooze, wake np and en
large their canal and construct other
factories. And so they go on sleeping
and waking by fits and starts, but al
ways watching after the main chance
and holding on to what they have won.
We doubt if there is another place of
equal size South of Baltimore where so
much of real and substantial wealth can
be found resting npon its lees Trne,
there are no modern hotels, and a lack
of plate glass, marble and iron fronts
upon her beautiful boulevard, Broad
street. And there is no rush, no crowd,
no excitement, and rather a hum-drum
aspect of affairs, compared with surg
ing, restless, ever-changing Atlanta!
But under all this, the astute observer
will notice the absence of uneasiness and
distress universally, and a certain as
sured and nonchalant air about the
principal inhabitants, which smacks of
well filled parses and heavy bank balan
ces.”
A country editor is responsible for the
suggestion i hat in this degenerate age
it would be well to have church wardens
and deacons each provided with a bell
punch when they pass around the con
tribution boxes.
THE STATE EXECUTIVE COManTTEE.
The State Executive Committee met
in Atlanta Wednesday, and completed
the delegation to St. Louis from the
State at large b/the election of John
W. Wofford, of Bartow. North Geor
gia was entitled to one of the four dele
gates, and Mr. Wofford is a represen
tive man of his section. A better selec
tion Tonld not have been made. Mr.
Wofford was also entitled to the posi
tion because he received four of the
nine votes cast—within one of a ma
jority. Four, alternates were chosen,
and the choice of the Committee will
give general satisfaction. The delega
tion from the State-at-large is now com
posed as follows: Delegates —Geo. T.
Barnes, J. M. Smith, R. E. Lester, J.
W. Wofford. Alternates —J. EL Chris
ty, A. O. Bacon, J. V. H. Allkn, C. J.
Wellborn.
The next business before the Com
mittee was the selection of a time and
place for holding the State Convention,
which is to choose Presidential electors
and nominate a candidate for Governor.
When this question came up Colonel
Thomas Hardeman, who is Chairman of
the Committee, and also a candidate for
Governor, retired from the Committee.
The second of August was fixed as the
time and Atlanta as the place for
holding the State Convention. Some of
the newspapers urged a later and others
an earlier day. For ourselves, we want
ed the agony over as soon as possible,
especially as a good deal of unnecessary
feeling has latterly been injected into
the canvass. The Committee, however,
saw fit to adopt a middle course, and
we see no good reasonfor any dissatisfac
tion. The date is sufficiently remote to
give every candidate time to put in his
work, and yet sufficiently early to give
ns a two months’ canvass after the nomi
nation.
WHERE GOVERNOR TILDEN’S
STRENGTH LIES.
The Hartford Times, a Tilden paper,
publishes u table of the States which it
says will vote for Governor Tildes ’s
nomination at St. Lonis. Leaving out
the Southern States, whose delegates
have not been instructed for any one
and who will only support Tilden
because they can do no better, we
find that California, Colorado, Connec
ticut, lowa, Illinois, Maine, Massachu
setts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hamp
shire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Vermont and Wisconsin are set down as
sure to go for the Reform Governor.
We know that Hendricks will divide
the vote of California, and that Oregon
has not declared for aDy candidate, but
we shall not question the count. Ac
cepting the list as accurate we find that
there are on it but four States which the
Democratic party has a reasonable cer
tainty of carrying and but four that
Democratic papers claim for the nomi
nee of the St. Louis Convention. Con
necticut, New York, Nevada and Oregon
may be considered certain; California as
exceedingly doubtfnl. The returns of
the last election make the following ex
hibit :
lowa, Radical majority.
Illinois, Radical majority.
Maine, Radical majority.
Massachusetts, Radical majority.
Michigan, Radical majority.
New Hampshire, Radical majority.
Rhode Island, Radical majority.
Wisconsin, Radical majority.
Vermont, Radical majority.
These States will cast one hundred
and seventy-four votes at the St. Louis
Convention all for Tilden. These
States will cast eighty-seven electoral
votes next November—all for the Radi
cal candidate. It seems to ns that the
States which will, have to elect a Demo
cratic President, if one is elected at all,
should have some voice in the nomina
tion of a candidate.
EXTORTION AT BT. LOUIS.
The American says a gentleman of
Nashville wrote to a friend in St. Louis
requesting his assistance in seouring
quarters for the Tennessee delegation at
the National Convention. The St. Lonis
friend replied by telegraph : “If an
swered quick, can secure quarters at
Southern or Lindell hotels for entire
delegation, boarding beginning on the
24th, at four dollars and a half per day.”
To understand the extortions which it is
evident are to be practiced at St. Louis,
it will be necessary to go a little into de
tail. The Convention meets Tuesday,
June 27. In order to secure a room, it
will be necessary to pay for that and
board from Saturday morning the 24th,
the hotel proprietors thus commencing
to charge their guests three days before
the appointed time, and at least two
days sooner than is necessary. There
will be no eause for the arrival of seven
tenths of the delegates before the morn
ing of the 26th, and that proportion of
them will not care to reach St. Lonis be
fore that time. Again, the price of room
and board is raised a half dollar per
day, and the storing capacity of each
room increased two or three times; that
is to say, each room will be made to hold
two or three times as many as under or
dinary circumstances ; in other words, a
room generally assigned to two will now
be made to hold five or six. A few fig
ures will show the extortion better than
any words we can use. We will estimate
that the Convention will only sit two
days, which is the shortest possible
time. A couple of gentlemen going there
on ordinary occasions would stay three
days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
wonld be given a eomfortable room, and
pay $8 per day or $24 for the three days.
Now, that same room will be made to
hold five persons for the Convention ;
they will be charged $4 50 per day and
required to pay for five days, whether
they are there that time or not; that is,
the same room which yields $24 under
ordinary circumstances will, for five per
sons for five days at $4 50 per day, be
made to yield sll2 50. Deducting from
this amount the $24 which the room
would usually bring to the landlord, we
have SBB 50 as the amount of the extor
tion on a room for two.”
AUGUSTA’S CHANCE.
A railroad Convention recently held at
Charleston, S. C., in the interest of the
Blue Ridge Railroad, having proved a
failure, attention is now being again di
rected to the Augusta and Hartwell
Railroad project. When a few years
ago the people along the line of that
projected railway were alive in its inter
est, subscribing liberally to its stock,
Augusta turned a cold shoulder to the
up country and frequently qneted the
argumentative language, “Why should
we build a railway through a country
whose trade we already have ?” and,
with a supreme indifference, went to
work to purchase an elephant in the
shape of a picturesque canal which' it
don’t know how to get off its hands.—
The people beyond Rabun Gap are alive
to rail connection with the seaboard,
and having failed in one rente are east
ing about for another. Whether the
city of Angnsta has so crippled herself
by her fine water power as to prevent
her lending that aid to the Angnsta and
Hartwell Road which is necessary to as
sure its success, is a question which her
own people alone can solve. The road,
with her, aid oould have been assured at
one time, and the city would now be
reaping the legitimate fruits of the en
terprise. But a large portion of trade
has been diverted from that channel,
and the amount of it is steadily on the
increase. We donbt not that efforts
will soon be made to test the strength
and willingness of Augusta in this di
rection, and the manner in which she
acts in this respect will have much to do
with the city’s future growth and pros
perity. —Elberton Gazette.
Not one Georgian out of forty, whom
we meet, favors Tildkn for the Presi
dency. They are willing to take him,
if it shall appear that he is the winning
man, but they prefer Bayard, Hen
dricks or Hancock. —Atlanta Common
wealth.
THE MEETING SATURDAY.
When the Executive Committee of the
county met last Taesday, instead of call
ing upon the people to select delegates
to a State Convention, in advance of any
call for the assembling of such Conven
tion, as a few gentlemen wished them to
do, they wisely determined to surrender
the power which they had held for near
ly two years, and called upon the people
to select another committee. The citi
zens of Richmond county were request
ed to assemble in mass meeting for the
purpose of selecting anew committee,
and on motion of Mr. Berrien Rachels,
a well known-citizen of the country, Sat
urday, the tenth day of June, was se
lected as the best and most appropriate
time for holding such meeting. The
meeting was held yesterday at the City
HalL It was a large assemblage and in
every respect, a representative meeting.
Mechanics, farmers, merchants and pro
fessional men were all there, and the
City Hall was crowded with the very
flower of the county. Conspicuous
in the crowd were the white hairs of
snch Fathers in Israel as John Craig,
John Phinizy, Adam Johnston, W. H.
Howard, those whose names— clarum
et venerabile—hvte for many years com
manded the respect and confidence of
their fellow-men. The Chairman of the
meeting, Hon. John T. Shewmake, was
a worthy representative of both town
aod country—a gentleman whose talents,
whose integrity, whose high sense of
honor and whose moderation havp made
him friends and admirers wherever he
is known. Among those present and
participating in the action of the meet
ing, in addition to those already named,
were such men as May, Barnes, Black,
Cummino, Snead, Barton, Philip, Mays,
the Barretts, Verderys, Ford, Mul
larky, Spaeth, the Phinizys, Miller,
Rachels, Carswell, and many others
whose names are worthily associated
with these.
It was feared that the meeting might
not be as harmonious ds, for the good
of the party, it onght to be. We
are glad to be able to state that these
fears were entirely, groundless. The
meeting was characterized by good feel
ing and a desire to do that which should
be for the best interests of the county
and of the people. Of course, in the
selection of an Executive Committee for
the county a well defined issue was pre
sented by the friends of Governor
Johnson and General Colquitt, and de
cided, by an overwhelming majority, in
favor of the former. This was as it
should have been. Governor Johnson
has his homd in an adjoining county.
He is known to our people—to most of
them personally—and is respected and
admired becanse of his integrity, his
patriotism, his purity of character, his
splendid abilities and his distinguished
public services. But in manifesting this
preference there was no bad temper ex
hibited, no angry feeling displayed.
Everything was done fairly, squarely
and above board, and a dispo
sition was shown to conciliate
rather than to alienate. We regard
this meeting as indicative of the
feeling of the county. We feel con
vinced that all fears of dissensions and
divisions are unfounded. We feel as
sured that all of our citizens are labor
ing earnestly and conscientiously for the
public good. We are well satisfied that
no matter who may be the viotor at the
State Convention in August, the De
mocracy of Richmond will be found
presenting a firm front to the common
enemy and fighting shoulder to shoulder
under the banner of the chosen leader
and in defense of the great principles of
Constitutional Liberty.
THE NIGHTMARE OF THE COLQUITT
ORGANS.
[Cartersville Express .]
The Colquitt organs are evidently
painfully exercised in regard to Hon. H.
V. Johnson becoming the favorite man
for Governor. They are resorting to all
kinds of ridicule to drive him and his
friends from the track. They are in
dulging in the veriest demagoguery to
impress the public raiud that any move
ment in the direction of such a nomina
tion is trickery and fraud. And why are
they Btf exercised ? Why are they so
flustrated if it is not for the very reason
that they fear his influence? Because
a number of friends have asked Mr.
Johnson if he would accept a nomina
tion if properly tendered, the organs
opened such a howl and cry of “riDg,”
“combination” and trickery to deceive
the people—every word of which they
ought and must know to be false. Is
that the only way they hope to deceive
the people and nominate their man ?
Have they nothing better to offer than
mere clap-trap demagoguery and patent
deception to defeat Mr. Johnson ? They
know full well they have raised a false
cry, and they should manfully desist
from such a pernicious policy.
It is not yet known whether Mr. John
son will accept a nomination or not, if
tendered; nor is it known that he may
be nominated. It is known, however,
there are thousands of trne and faithful
Democrats who desire his nomination
and will seek to secure it by all fair and
honorable means, scorning everything
in the way of fraud and deception to
effect it. And do the blatant noisy
know that their favorite is the second
choice of many of the friends of Mr.
Johnson ? Have not the friends of Mr.
Johnson the rigfit to ask him whether
he will serve or not in a polite and re
spectful letter, withont being subjected
to the ridicnle, contempt and persecu
tions of the organs ?
Such a howl as has been raised about
the letter addressed to Mr. Johnson by
a few of his friends, calling it a “secret
circular,” intended to deceive the peo
ple, is digraceful and an imposition
upon common intelligence. The
frieifds of Governor Smith wrote
him a similar circular, and why
didn’t the organs howl then ? It
is evident they are not sincere now—
that their policy is to drive Mr. John
son and his friends by ridicule. If this
is their policy they cannot expect the
friends of Mr. Johnson to act with them
cordially in the support of their man
should he be nominated. We would
like to know if Gen. Colquitt endorses
the course of his organs, his agents, in
this sort of war npon gentlemen who
may disagree with him. Does Gen.
Colquitt endorse his organs in their
course? we ask. Can he consistently
do so ?
- We say to the friends of Mr. Johnson
and all the friends of the Democracy
that the course of the organs will react
upon them in time. They will see the
folly of their conduct, and despise the
spirit that tempted it. In the mean
time, if the people desire Mr. Johnson’s
nomination let ns have it; if not let
their will be done, and all trne Dem
ocrats will submit patriotically to the
popular decree.
THE CINCINNATI CONTENTION.
A Ureb Cutest Ahead.
Cincinnati, June 10. —Trains coming in
are crowded. The indications are that
the struggle will be obstinate. Mr, W.
P, Frye this morning denied emphati
cally that Mr. Blaine would withdraw
bis name as a candidate, or after the
first ballot he would name the candidate
who should succeed. Conkling’s friends
are enthusiastic and confident. Parker
Chandler, President of the Boston Bris
tow Club, is here and is very active.
HON. H. T. JOHNSON AS A CANDI
DATE FOR GOVERNOR.
[Thomarvilie Time*.]
“We have refrained from expressing a
preference for any one for Governor be
cause we thought it best not to say any
thing until after the nomination, and we
do not now intend to depart from that
line. We must, however, say that we
desire to see fair play all round, and we
think that some or onr cotemporaries are
not doing right by the gentleman whose
name heads this article. We have papers
and parties in the State who have been
for months past advocating the claims
of Geo. Colquitt, with more zeal than
knowledge, perhaps, at all times and in
all places; others have been nearly as
fervent for Hardeman and perhaps for
James, and it was all right, bnt now, al
most as soon as it becomes apparent that
Hon. H. V. Johnson will really allow his
name to go .before the Conven
tion, various cries are raised
against him. The first is that
some prominent Republican has said
that 75,000 of their party would vote
for Johnson if he was nominated. Well,
if they did it would not make Johnson a
worse Governor, or a worse man than if
he were elected entirely by Democratic
votes, would it ? Then a correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution cries out
"Ring! there is a Johnson ring.”—
Well, we have had a “Smith ring,” tbet
several of the newspapers claim to have
discovered, that amounted to nothing,
and we think this newly discovered
Johnson ring is about as thin as air.
The charge as made, if substantiated
only amounts to this, that some friends
of Governor Johnson in Richmond coun
ty have written to frieuds in other coun
ties and made arrangements with them
to carry their respective counties for
Johnson in the Convention if it was in
their power to do so. This is the sub
stance of this terrible ring. Now if it is
any worse morally, politically or oth
erwise for a man to write to his
friends, even if those friends are prom
inent men, and ask them to work for
bis nomination than to go about through
the oountry making speeches, button
holing prominent men everywhere, and
getting the newspapers to urge their
claims loudly and cry out for their nomi
nation, we fail to perceive it, and can
only say that we think this cry of < a
Johnson ring is raised simply to injure
if possible Johnson’s ohances for nomi
nation.”
The Atlanta Constitution and the other
parties who are so greatly excited over
the discovery of a “Johnson ring”
know very well that the letter. to
Governor Johnson contains simply
an inquiry from a few personal
and political friends if he will aocept
in the event of his nomination. The
statement that the ’signers agree to
“ hand over ” any counties to him is a
ridieulons falsehood that hardly requires
refutation.
THE CROPS.
Report of tbe Augusta Exchange.
The following crop report for May,
1876, has been made by the committee
of the Augnsta Exchange:
The Augusta Exchange, 1
Augusta. Ga., June 9, ’76. j
To the President and Board of Direc
tors of the Augusta Exchange:
Gentlemen —We respectfully submit
the following report for the month of
May, as to the prospects and condition
of the cotton crop in the district allotted
to this Exchange. Our report is based
upon forty-nine replies from twenty
three counties. Average date of replies,
June Ist.
Ist Question: What is the area of
land planted in cotton in your section
as compared with last year ? State per
eentage of increase or decrease. An
swer: The acreage under cotton is gen
erally stated to be below that of last
year, the deorease averaging 5J per cent.
2d Question: What proportion of land
planted in cotton last year in your sec
tion has been and is now overflowed?
Answer: None.
3d Question: What is your estimate
of damage done the ensuing crop by the
overflow in your sections? Answer:
None. Some insignificant damage in
small localities on hill lands from some
late heavy rains.
4th Question: What has been the
character of the weather, and has it
been more or less favorable than last
year? Answer: The character of the
weather was, as a rale, more favorable
for planting, and decidedly more favor
able immediately succeeding that for
working the crops.
sth Question: How are the stands of
cotton in yonr cotton section ? Answer:
Some planters have not yet quite com
pleted chopping out the cotton, but
wherever that has been done the stands
are reported as very good. Many of our
correspondents state that they could
hardly be better, and are far above the
average of several years past.
6th Question : How much earlier or
later is the cotton crop in your section
this than last year ? Answer: /Asa
rule, planting was completed somewhat
later than last year. But the crop has
grown remarkably well. The present
general condition averages about the
same as last year, but ranges from “two
weeks later ” to “ two weeks earlier,”
according to local influences, and more
or less favorable weather in certain lo
calities.
7th Question : How is the labor, in
number and efficiency, compared with
last year ? Answer : Labor is reported
the same in quantity as last year, but as
a rule more efficient.
Bth Question : Has the use of fertil
izers increased or decreased, compared
with last year ? Answer: The use of
commercial fertilizers on cotton lands
has been abont the same as last year,
but there has been an increase iD the
application of home manures and com
posts.
9th Question: What is the present
condition of the cotton crop in your sec
tion ? Answer : The present condition
of the cotton crop is very good and
promises well. The plant as a rule is
not large, but is healthy and vigorous,
and the fields free from grass. The ma
jority of our reports point to a condi
tion decidedly above the usual average
at this season.
10th Question: State any material
facts not covered by above questions.
Answer : In two counties there is some
complaint of an impairment of stands
by the out worm. Two counties report
lice. In all material respects, however,
onr reports point to an excellent condi
tion of the crop, and a more than fa
vorable prospect.for the future. Very
respectfully,
L. L. Zulavsky, Chairman; J. .T.
Pearce, J. W. Echols, R. W. Heard, C.
A. Rowland, A. M. Benson, Wm, M.
Read.
GRASSHOPPERS.
Ominous Reappearance of this Terrible Pest
In Minnesota.
[ Winona ( Wis.) Special to Chicago Tribune. I
A gentleman jnst from the grasshopper
conntry furnishes the Republican some
interesting facts. He visited Marshall,
Shick, Burns, and other points along the
western end of the Winona and St. Peter
Road. The young grasshoppers have
attained a working size, and have began
to harvest the crop. At present their
operations are confined to a strip of
oonntry extending from Burns Station to
Saratoga, near Marshall, and covering a
territory of fifty miles iu length and
reaching in breadth from a line some
eight miles north of the Winona and St.
Peter Railroad south to the St. Paul
and Sioux City Road. The ravenous
little hoppers are just at present about
half an inch long, and will probably get
their wings by the middle of this month
or the first of July. They are making a
clean sweep of the wheat fields, many of
which look as black as when first sown.
The grain is from three to four inches
high, and where the pestiferous insects
light npon it not a spear is left. One
man with a net attaehed to a herse-rake
caught forty pounds of hoppers in the
short space of three hoars. Near Burns
Station corn is hurt some by the grass
hoppers, bat not much. Many of the
farmers Are planting their wheat fields
to corn now. Peas are also being largely
planted. The experiment was tried in
the Spring of burning over the prairie in
hopes of destroying the larvae, bnt in
walking over these burnt places the
young hoppers may foe seen moving
about as lively as ever.
Ihe wool crop won’t materially in
crease until there are more dogs going
arotnd on three legs with a broken
back.
He was a very young man. A few
stray hairs npon his lip attested the fact
that he was engaged in a deadly strag
gle with & mustache. He went into a
vttiety store on Main street, and said to
the proprietor: “Have you Charles
Reade’s ‘ Lost Heir ?’ ” “No, I haven’t,”
replied the storekeeper. “But,” he con
tinued, looking into the young man’s
face, “I’ve got something that will make
that mustache of yours start out like
boils in Spring time.”
BLAINE, OF MAINE,
A DAT op DRAMATICS IN THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Blaine Takes a Benefit With the Hyena in
the leading Part—He Produces the Hulls an
Letters and Reads Them to the House—
And Charges Proctor Knott With Sop
pressing Testimony in His Favor—The
Most Exciting Day of the Congressional
Session.
Washington, D. C., Jane 5, 1876.
Dramatic iScene in the House ot Represen
tatives.
The House of Representatives was the
scene to-day of the most thrilling dra
matic exhibition that ever transpired in
the American Congress. For hoars the
Hoase was the battle field from which
the spectators feared to lift their eyes
for an instant lest some detail might be
lost. It was a terrific explosion of a
magazine of political passions, touched
off by that magnificent incendiary,
Blaine. The whole scheme was a result
planned by the most audacious politi
cian of the age, to bolster his declining
strength. It was the work of a daring
political gambler, playing for the Presi
dential stakes. The regular dispatches
give a full report of what was said, but
words cannot convey an adequate con
ception of the picture. Since Mulligan’s
sworn statement, revealing the dishon
orable manner in which Bleine procured
possession of the letters, the latter has
felt that he stood in a sorry attitude be
fore the oouutry. After sacrificing so
much to procure the letters, he could
not well surrender them to the commit
tee. His refusal to do so only compli
cated affairs and wrought additional in
jury to his Presidential prospects. Quick
to compreuend this, the active mind,
boundless in resources, cast about for
some expedient through which, by a
bold stroke, he could restore himself to
the good opinion of his admirers at
least. It seemed probable that the gold
en opportunity would be afforded him by
the Judiciary Committee. He refused to
deliver up the letters was brought to the
notice of the committee for action, aud
the question of bringing him to the bar
of the House was discussed. The com
mittee wisely concluded that Blaine
courted just such an opportunity as this,
as it would give him a chance to pro
claim to the Republicans of the country
that he was persecuted by the Confede
rate Congress for the manner in which
he bravely waved the bloody shirt at the
beginning of the session. He was in
formed of the action of the committee
by his spy, Frye, of Maine, and he re
solved to force the issue, and, as he
could not appear in the role of a martyr,
he would appear as a persecuted man,
pursued by the malignity of ex-rebels,
who were eager to ruin him to avenge
the insults he had offered them. It was
current rumor last night that Blaine in
tended to produce the letters and have
them read in the House during the
week. ■jVfien the House met at twelve
it was evident that some devilment was
afloat. Contrary to custom, Blaine was
in his seat, to the left of the Speaker,
and most of the Republican members
were present. Hunton’s committee had
met at ten to continue the investigation
Qf Blaine’s case, but Blaine was not in
attendance. He had misunderstood the
time, his man Friday (Frye) said, but
his being promptly in his seat showed
that Blaine had other fish to fry. As
soon as the morning hour was over
Blaine procured the floor, pox being in
the Chrfir, and he began one of the most
extraordinary harangues ever permitted
in a legislative body. Under the question
of privilege he began an assault upon the
Judiciary Committee, arraigning it for its
course in investigating, impugning the
motives of members, and charging that
the course had bsen pursued through
the malice of ex-rebels. The news that
Blaine had the floor seemed to sweep
through the Capitol on the wings of the
breeze that surged through the great
edifice. From every floor and every
room persons came in breathless haste
to hear, drawn by the magnetism of the
name and man. Senators from the Sen
ate, lobbyists from Sanderson’s, clerks
from the committee rooms, spectators
and members from the investigations,
idlers from the corridors, all streamed
in at the doors pell-mell, eager to catch
every word and mark every act in the
thrilling drama about to be enacted.
Among the were Morton,
Sherman, Hamlin and McDonald. The
full figure of Dan Yoorhees, and Charley
Eldridge and his friend Hallet Kilbourn
were noticeable among the dense throng
that found in the outer circle seats like
spectators at a prize fight. The gal
leries were crowded to suffocation, and
eager crowds were gathered about the
doors. • Correspondents were so piled
upon each other in the newspaper gal
lery that the vast audience were all con-,
nected by contact and formed a circuit
for the magnetism that emanated from
Blaine as from a great battery. He had
the audience completely at his power
and played upon them as skillfully as
Rubinstein upon his piano.
He reached his first culminating point
when he defied an ex-rebel committee
to drag him before the bar for his inso
lence, and applause went up from the
negro galleries and Republican side of
the House. He reached his second
when he drew the famous packet of let
ters from his inside pocket, and shaking
them nervously high above his head, he
announced his intention to read them,
round after round of applause went up,
and some Republicans even shed tears
of admiration at the boldness of this
miscreant man who had been assailed
by rebels. Mr. Cox struggled hard to
maintain order, but he was only*a ship
tossed about upon the turbulent sea
that Blaine had agitated. It was a su
preme moment in Blaine’s life. His
boldness and eloquence carried every
thing before him, and reason could not
find a place to stand in the confusion
that he had excited. But the tide began
to ebb when he concluded the first letter.
He read the last letter written first, and
mixed the dates purposely to destroy
the effect of reading them in their regu
lar order. A buzz of comment went
up after each letter. The effect pro
duced was far from favorable. There
are confessions in every letter that
would ruin any public man but Blaine.
But he did not allow time for comment.
There remained one more grand exhibi
tion, which was
The Climax of this Exciting; Scene.
Advancing boldly and rapidly to the
open space before the Speaker’s stand,
in loud tones, with sweeping gestures
and irresistible manner, he faced Proc
tor Knott and Hunton, and charged
them with having received a telegram
on Thursday last from Josiah Caldwell
completely exonerating him, which they
had concealed to injure him. The scene
that ensued defies the power of words
to portray. First came a brief pause, as
if all were catching breath, then the
faint ripple of app'ause, clapping of
hands, and then an outburst, grand as
war, that swept everybody’s senses away,
like the tornadothat sweeps every thing
in its progress. Men stood on their
feet and sent up yells that almost shat
tered the glass in the ceiling, women
wept, strong men tried to, conceal the
moisture in their eyes, handkerchiefs
waved, some laughed for joy, and all
looked startled at the outrage that nad
been offered to the dignity of the
House, while Blaine enjoyed the great
est triumph of his life. Poor Cox. He
hammered and pounded the desk like a
base drummer at a township meeting.
He called for the Doorkeepers, Sar
geant-at-Armsand police, and summoned
all the forces at his oommand to awe the
storm. Outsiders were excluded from
the floor, the galleries were warned,
Blaine Subsided and silence followed.
In the wake of this unexampled out
burst, if Blaine could have shut off all
further debate right then, and prevent
ed all further debate, to-morrow’s sun
would have shown upon twenty millions
of Americans—who love cheek, courage
and audacity, even in a public thief—
worshipers of one who has been false to
every duty entrusted to his oharge by a
confiding people.
Huoton aad Knott Spoiling Blaine’s Fnq,
But, alas! he was followed by Hunton
and Knott, and his bubble was bursted.
Hunton was cool, calm, fair and judi
cial, and slowly, step by step, he proved
Blaine’s exaggeration in every particu
lar, and did not leave him a single doubt
to seek refuge under. It was necessa
ry to add variety to the scene by num
bering humor among the list of persons
and feelings that had been provoked by
the heated words in this wonderful de
bate. This was done by Huntou’s allu
sion to Blaine’s subterfuge in inducing
Lawrence, of Ohio, to move an adjourn
ment of the committee on account of
sickness. This bronght Lawrence to his
feet, but his attempted explanation only
made matters worse, and he subsided
amid roars of laughter that were a hap
py relief to the intense excitement of
the agitated assembly. As Hunton re
tired the short, comical figure of Proc
tor Knott, the immortal orator of Du
luth, came to the front, and he began
in the most biting sarcasm that ever fell
from the lips of a man in debate. The
Bepublicans wilted under his keen re
torts, that cut deep, like flashing clay
more in the hands of a Highland chief.
Every sentence was a cruel stab, and the
Republican nature eould stand no more
when he asserted that in all things the
rebels on the sub-committee he had ap
pointed to investigate were Blaine's
equals, and in honor they were Blaine’s
superiors. This was greeted by hissing
from each public men' as Garfield, of
Ohio, and a dozen others. But this
most unusual demonstration was quickly
met by a retort that speedily silenced
it, and those who had participated in it
looked sneaking. This concluded the
excitement, and the debate was con
eluded by atelerence of Blaine’s defiant
resolution to the very committee that he
was trying to impeach. This closed the
scene of brazen impudenoe well in keep
ing with the gilded age in which we live.
The Caldwell Dispatch Blaine Takes the
Floor* and Keeps It in Spite ot the Speaker
—A Sharp Colloquy Between Blaine and
the Chair—A Scene of Confusion and Dis
order—The House Cleared -—Blaine Finally
Beaten.
Washington, June 9.— lu the House
the bill allowing Mrs. James E. Polk
$1,500 for giving supplies to the army
was passed. Mr. Hunton moved
to lay on the table the mo
tion to reconsider the vote by
which the Judiciary Committee was di
rected to print the Blaine testimony.
Mr. Page suggested that the motion be
withheld until Mr. Blaine was present.
Mr. Blaine entering in hot haste cried
“here I am.” Mr. Blaine struggled to
have the motion withdrawn. He was
assured that his dispatch should be pub
lished for what it was worth. Mr. Ran
dall : “Will the gentleman from Maine
ask the House now that the telegram be
embodied in the proceedings of the
committee.” Mr. Blaine : “Yes, I am
after that very thing and I want the of
ficial telegram. The gentleman from
Kentucky (Kuott), after keeping it in
his pocket for days [indignant calls to
order from the Democratic side, second
ed by the loud hammering of the Speak
er’s gavel], gave it as I understand to
the Associated Press, but has never given
it to the House.” Mr. Glover (of Mis
souri), and other Democratic members,
rose to questions of order, but Mr.
Blaine held his position and in the
midst of a,great uproar and confusion
asserted that all the members on the
Democratic side of the House were out
of order. The Speaker pro few, required
the gentleman from Maine and the other
members who were standing to take
their seats, and added that the gentle
man from Maine was out of order and
that no one knew that better than him
self. Mr. Blackburn (of Kentucky)
demanded to be informed whether tile
utterances of a member delivered out of
order should bepublished in the Record.
The Speaker pro tern, replied that there
was no rule on the subjeot. He added
that when he gave the House
assurance yesterday that he
would recognize the gentleman
from Maine, to call up his motion to re
consider, he did not mean to preolude,
nor could he preclude any other mem
ber from moving at the proper time to
lay the motion to reconsider on the
table. How, he asked, could he take
the gentleman from Virginia off the
floor ? Mr. Kasson raised the point of
order that Mr. Huntoh’s motion was out
of order. The Speaker pro tem. over
ruled the point of order. Mr. Blaine
(fiercely): “On what ground?” The
Speaker 'pro tem. (coolly): “The Chair
is not bound to give its reasons.” Mr.
Blaine (scornfully): “I never heard
Speaker refuse to give the reasons for
his decision.” The Speaker pro tem.
(severely): “The gentleman is out of or
der nbw” [applause on the Democratic
side). Mr. Blaine: “Certainly; have
you any reason ?” The Speaker pro tem.
(more severely): “The gentleman has no
right to make a colloquy with the Chair.”
Mr. Blaine : “The Chair does not seem
disposed to hear a colloquy.” The
Speaker finally put the question to the
House on Mr. Huuton’s motion, and
Mr. Garfield called for the yeas aud
nays, and they-were ordered. Then the
Republicans resorted to the plan of
withholding their votes so as to defeat
action by Want of a quorum. After the
roll was called, but before the announce
ment of the result, Mr. Springer, of
Illinois, rose to a parliamentary inquiry,
when Mr. Blaine immediately started to
his feet and objected. Mr. Springer
suggested to Mr. Blaine that he was
entirely forgetting his position, and
the Speaker pro tem. calmly explained
that it was always the practice of the
Chair to hear a parliamentary inquiry.
Mr. Blaine: “Duringthe roll call never.”
The Speaker pro tem.: “The roll call
has been completed.” Mr. Blaine :
“Never has such a thing been done.”
The Speaker pro tem. (with great
severity of manner) : “It is high
ly improper aud hardly decent for
the gentleman to confer with the
Ohair in that peculiar style.” Mr.
Blaine: . “ The gentleman’s (Springer’s)
inquiry is merely dilatory.” Mr.
Springer: “ I deny tha gentleman’s
right to impugn my motives.” Mr.
Blaine: “The Clerk has read the vote
and I demand that it be announced.”
The Speaker, pro tem.: “The Chair
cannot announce the vote before it is
handed to him.” Mr. Blaine: “The
vote has been read. I demand that it
be announced.” [Shouts of “out of or
der” from the Democratic side.] Mr.
Springer: “I demand that the gentle
man from Maine tal* his seat and be in
order.” Mr. Blaine: “I am in order.”
The Speaker pro tem. : “If the gentle
man from Maine will not take his seat
when he is properly called to order the
Chair will not only require him to do so
under the rules, but will call on the offi
cers of the House to enforce
its orders.” [Applause on the
Democratic side.] Mr. Foster, of Ohio:
(in an undertone), “Call them in, fetch
them in.” Mr. Blaine (taking his
seat): “I will be seated with pleasure
when others are.” The Speaker pro
tem. : The gentleman from Maine
stated that the Chair should have an
nounced the vote at the time the impu
tation was made, which was intended to
go to the country as an imputation on
the fairness of the Chair. The Chair
says this to the exclusion, as it has a
right, of any other member from dis
cussing the subject farther. The Chair
now proceeds to announce, in a proper
and formal manner, the vote upon the
question, which is now for the first time
handed to him, and all statements to the
contrary are positively and infamously
false. The Ohair says so on honor.”
[Applause on the Democratic side.] Mr.
Blaine (tauntiDgly) : “That ds very par
liamentary language.” The vote was
then announced, as follows: Yeas, 121;
nays, 23—no quorum. Mr. Springer:
“ My point of order is this.” Mr. Blaine:
“No points of order.” -The Speaker
pro tem. “The gentleman is not the
Speaker of the House now.” [Applause
.and laughter on) the Democratic side],
Mr. Blaine: “But I am a member.”
Great confusion followed for some time,
when Mr. Morrison offered the following:
Resolved, That all the evidence taken
by the Judiciary Committee under the
authority of the resolutions of Mr. Lut
trell and Mr. Tarbox be printed, and
that the dispatch signed by Josiah Cald
well be also printed as a part of the
record in the case, and said committee
shall examine any witnesses who may be
called who may have heard said Cald
well make the statements or oontradic
torv statements, and the evidence of
such witnesses slull also be printed
with the other evidence taken by said
committee.
The Speaker pro tern. : “Is there
any objection ?” Mr. Hoar, of Mas
sachusetts: “I object.” As the confu
sion and excitement on the floor showed
no sign of abatement, the Speaker pro
tern, directed the Doorkeeper to exclude
from the floor all persons not entitled to
the privilege, and to preserve order in
the galleries, announcing it as his deter
mination to break up this system of
claquerism in the House. Finally Mr.
Blaine’s motion to reconsider was tabled
by a vote of 126 to 91.
The Senate—The Postal Bill—Newspaper
Postaxe—Sherman Charxes the Press-
Third Class Matter—Hill's Disabilities—
Noninatipns.
In the Senate the Committee on Com
merce reported the steam boat bill with
amendments. The Secretary of War re
ports that the pension bill which passed
the House for soldiers and sailors of
1812 will require about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars per annum. The
Post Office Appropriation bill was re
sumed. Mr. West, who had charge of
the bill, explained the amendments pro
posed by the Senate. During the dis
cussion Mr. Thurman said the Senator
from Maine (Hamlin), some time ago in
an able speech showed there was a de
ficiency from carrying the newspapers
of the country amounting to $6,900,000.
The whole amount paid by the newspa
pers towards carrying their mail was
$1,000,000. Had not the Senate the
courage to deal with this matter ? Had
the newspapers such a power over Sena
tors, was there such terror of them that
the Senate could not do what Was right ?
He acknowledged the power of the
newspaper was great in the dissemination
of intelligence. Any respectable news
paper publisher would consider himself
insulted if told he was a beneficiary to
the Government in this respect. The
Senate should have courage to raise the
postage on newspapers even if every
newspaper in the land cried out against
it. He had conversed with many news
paper publishers about this subject and
they all said Congress had fixed the
rate too low. He was in favor of in
creasing the rate five or even six cents
a pound to have a solution of this
trouble. The last eight sections of the
bill adjusting the compensation of post
masters, providing new rates of postal
railway service and fixing the rate on mail
matter of the third class at one cent for
each two ounces which the Committee on
Appropriations recommended to be
stricken out were stricken out, and on
motion of Mr. Withers they were refer
red to the Committee on Post Offices
and Post Roads, that they might be con
sidered and appropriate bills be report
ed to change the existing law. The ap
propriation bill was then reported and
passed. Mr. Ransom introduced a bill re
moving the political disabilities of D. H.
Hill, of North Carolina. Mr. Denis, from
the Committee oa Commerce, reported
with amendments the House bill to
amend certain sections of titles 48 and
52 of the revised statutes of -the United
States, concerning commeroe and navi
gation, and the regulation of steam ves
sels—placed on the calendar 1 for some
time . this session. Nominations :
Richard S. Taylor, as Postmaster at
Athens, Ga.; Richard McAllister, Jr., of
Mississippi, as Consul to Guayquitc.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Weekly Review ef the New York Market.
[iV. 7. Daily Bulletin.]
The market has shown a feverish tone,
considerable excitement and several un
usually sharp fluctuations, with the
“bull” element holding at times greater
control than for many weeks past. In
looking over the general situation, noth
ing really new of positive character can
be discovered to oause any change for
the better, either in the way of the sta
tistical position, the consumptive move
ment at home or abroad, or the crop
prospects, though the less warlike atti
tude of affairs in regard to the Eastern
question in Europe no doubt has
tended to restore financial confidence
in some respects. Speculative manipu
lations, therefore, are credited with
affording the principal base for the
changes ; and the movements being
engineered by a strong and closely co
operating combination, both our own
and the Liverpool markets have been
forced to respond to the “influences”
for the time being in control. One of
the features brought to the aid of the
upward turn has been a smaller offering
of June notices than was last week cal
culated npon; or, rather, a pretty gene
ral stoppage and disappearance of all
that came upon the market, and also an
increased movement of spot cotton to
the credit of the expert outlet. A good
ly portion of the latter, however, has
been an exchange for contracts, very lit
tle foreign demand in the ordiuary way
being developed, and the general ave
rage of shippers failing to develop that
close and positive interest which
would indicate a continuation of a
steady, healthy, outward movement. It
has also been noticeable <that the-least
withdrawal of support has shown a
latent weakness still existing, and the
heaviest fluctuation for the week—9-160
in one session of ’Change—was on the
downward scale, under very slight pres
sure. In short, while a portion of the
trade have become a little elated over
the cheok the general downward ten
dency has at last received aud are inclin
ed to talk pretty buoyantly, they have
as yet failed to make converts of
the mass of operators, while most of the
conservative aud careful sections, in
cluding, at present, not a few of the
leading dealers, adhere closely to the
idea that the hand-to-mouth policy has
become too deeply seated among con
sumers to be erdioated, and that cotton
can only be worked off in the slow man
ner current all the season, with the de
mand based solely on immediate spin
ning necessities.
The business in spots has reached a
larger aggregate than for the preceding
week, with the increase principally on
sales to exporters. A portion of these
were direct from table, but the majority
on a basis price and merely exchanges
for June contracts. So far as the ordi
nary offerings to buyers who would take
it out of the market were concerned,
there has probably been as much cotton
available as before at the ruling prioes
of the day, but the control exercised
over the bulk of the accumulation by
the speculative element, and the neces
sity for keeping it well in hand as an ad
junct to current manipulations, has pre
vented a free supply and kept values in
close sympathy with the changes on
contracts. First, there was an advanoe
of l-16c, and then another 3-160 added,
followed by a drop of |c, which was soon
afterward restored and another l-16c
added, making a total improvement for
the week of Jo. At the clpse appear
ances were comparatively steady and
the offerings only fair. Spinners in one
or two cases have operated a little more
freely, but have not shown any decided
confidence.
On futures there has been a pretty
large business, with great irregularity,
and rapid and heavy fluctuations, caus
ing at times some excitement. In the
main the “bulls” have had the advant
age, and though the growth of horns
cannot as yet be considered as long or
well set, they have developed a little
more tossing power than for some time
preceding. A great many “shorts”
have covered, including some of the
larger operators wfio, having secured a
snug profit on the decline, have gone
over to the other side and lent their aid
in forcing a rise. This change of base,
however, as we have noied above, is gen
erally considered as simply a speculative
manoeuvre rather than the result of a
conviction that a reaction of a permanent
character was about to set* in. The
bulk of the operations have been
confined to the remaining months
of the regular cotton year. On
Monday the rapid disappearance of the
June notioes, contrary to expectations,
a little firmer tone abroad and some
sharp bidding from one or two leading
sources, gave the opening impetus to
the upward turn, started the shorts to
covering and increased cost 5-16a7-16c.
per lb. No market on Tuesday, but on
Wednesday the fright among the shorts
continued, resulting in another advance
of 5-16 c., which, however, was shaded
Jc. before night. On Thursday, Liver
pool unexpectedly came discouraging,
the bidding stopped, cotton was un
loaded freely, aud down went prices
9-16 c. per lb. This seemed to be a lit
tie trap, however, to get the market
oversold, as on Friday there was an im
provement all around again amounting
to nearly the loss of the day before.
Saturday’s market remained' strong,
with a further improvement, and the
close was well sustained.
A TRIP INTO THE COUNTRY.
The Crops Satisfactory—The Delight of Mid*
die Georgia—Propagating Sliiul—Flow null
ing Manufacturing Town—Personal Dots.
[Special Correspondence ChronicleandSentinel ]
The Land of Milk and Honey.
Jewell’s, Hancock Cos., Ga., June 7.
—When the Western excursionists pass
ed on the Georgia Railroad, a few weeks
since, the impression of the Southern
Empire State were based on what they
saw as they journeyed on. This gave
them an erroneous opinion of the
country. If these same men could see
the same country now it would surprise
them, even in passing over the district
traversed by the Georgia Railroad,
notoriously about the poorest land in
the State. But if they oould go a lew
miles away from the railroad on either
side, they would find one of the finest
agrioultural districts in the country.
Often one hears the expression from Ed.
Purcell when running over the road,
“Gentlemen 1 you’re passing through
God’s country;” for the character of the
land, the salubrity of the climate, and
the generous character of the people of
Middle Georgia, justifies the expression.
A buggy ride over any of the country
lying east and west of the railroad fills a
stranger with wonder and admiration,
and swells the heart of a Georgian with
justifiable pride that his State possesses
such enviable features. The crops of
wheat and oats have been everywhere
large and extremely satisfactory to the
farmer. Corn is everywhere looking
splendid, and those who were fortunate
enough to follow the advice of the news
papers last Spring and plant large
ly of grain, are congratulating
themselves on their sound' judg
ment. Several subjects, and important
ones too, are occupying the minds of
the farmers just now, embraoing the
culture of bees, raising of stock, making
fish ponds, and selecting supplies of
fruit trees. Mr. Sampson, as agent of a
North Carolina nursery, informed your
correspondent that he had sold three
times as many fruit trees this year as
he did last year. It is a healthy indica
tion of a return to common sense princi
ples, which cannot fail to prove profita
ble and benefloial to the farmer.
Piseicnltare.
Speaking of fish reminds me that in
Macon a day or two sinoe a couple of
bright looking young men were seen en
tering the National Hotel, with several
mysterious looking kettles, tin boxes,
syphons, etc. Inquiry developed the
fact that they were messengers in the
employ of the United States Fish
Commission, and were ordered to
Georgia to stook the Chattahoochee,
Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers with shad.
The fish were hatched at the Govern
ment establishment at Havre-de-Grace,
Maryland, and on arrival at Atlanta
were over two days old. They were con
veyed in cans something iu appearance
like a milk oan, and the supply for Geor
gia numbered about 265,000; but,
through the stupidity and pig headed
ness of a conductor on th© East T©od©s-
see Railroad, who insisted on putting
the cans in a common box car, nearly
30,000 fish died. The fish in transit re
quire to be watched carefully, and the
water has to be partially changed
every two hours. The temperature
has to be kept as near that of the
water they were taken from as pos
sible, and when placed in the river
they are intended for the temperature
of the water in the # cans must be bronght
to that of the river they are intended
for This process sometimes takes
several hours. The fish are not larger
than an ordinary pin, and are quite
transparent, and one can catch a thous*
and of them in a quart dipper. Those
we saw were still feeding on the yolk
sac. The great secret of the success of
the Government officials in stocking the
rivers of the North has been in placing
the fish in the rivers they are intended
for before they commence to feed. The
authorities expect a satisfactory result
from the 75,000 they placed in each of
the three rivers of Georgia. This year
the efforts of the Fish Commission will
be to stock the rivers tributary to the
Gulf of Mexco.
A Notable Town.
A hasty visit to the place from whioh
this letter is dated, is one of the most
pleasant features of your corres
pondent’s flying-trip. It is about four
miles from Mayfield on the Maceu and
Augusta road. The town is owned by
D. A. Jewell, Esq., and is inhabited
mainly by those connected with the ex
tensive cotton mills. Mr. Jewell is one
of the most energetic and .thrifty manu
facturers of the South and his practical
Christian spirit is shown in the building
of a handsome brick church, frame
sohool houe of two stories, and the
best class of dwellings for his help that
can be found in the South. He is as
sisted by two sons in conducting his
large business, and one of his daughters,
a most refined and beautiful young lady,
who graduated with the highest honors
at the Lucy Cobb Institute at Athens,
conducts a most flourishing school. The
town looks like one of those flourishing
towns seen in the North, and shows
what pluck and industry will accomplish.
Mr. Jewell owns a large amount of land,
one half of that under cultivation being
planted in oorn, which just now is look
ing handsome indeed. He has a closer
patch whioh bids fair to be something
valuable. There are no drone bees per
mitted in that hive and in a measure it
accounts for the increase of the town of
Jewell’s.
Handsome Cotton.
Dr. J. T. Baker, at Mayfield, - has a
very handsome field of cotton. He is
experimenting with fertilizers, and has
planted twelve rows of cotton, placing a
different fertilizer under each row. He
used the fertilizers pretty freely, and
his cotton is looking splendid.
Personal.
W. H. Bass, Lsq., of Sparta, the
County Clerk of Hancoob, has been ill
for some time. He is afflicted with
chronic rheumatism acquired in the
war. He has been very low, but his
friends hope he will pull through. Rev.
F. P. Mullaly, D. D., of Sparta, has
been somewhat “under the weather.”
His illness was sudden and somewhat
alarming, but the care of a devoted wife
and a strong constitution soon brought
him out of a sick bed. The Doctor’s
temporary illness will not prevent his
school examination and exhibition
whioh ocours in a few days from Being
as it always is—a grand suooess. F.
GWINNETT COUNTY.
LETTER FROM LAWRENCEVILLE.
Adjournment of the Court—Tlie Howell Cano
Postponed—flood YVlieut HarveMt—Cottou
and Corn Looking Well—l.awreucevillo an
a Hummer Resort.
[From Our Traveling Agent.]
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett Cos., Ga., 1
June 7th, 1876. t
The adjourned term of the Superior
Court convened Monday to try the How
ell ease. The oonnsel for the defend
ants are : Hon. John J. Floyd, Coving
ton; Judge McCav, Atlanta'; Col. Jas.
P. Simmons, Norcross; Hillyer & Bro.,
Atlanta; Winn & Simmons, Lawrenoe
ville. For complainants are : Hon. A.
T. Akerman, Cartevsville; Colonel J. Ij.
Lester, Marietta; Colonel W. W. Clark,
Covington; Colonel W. L. Hutchinson,
Lawrenceville; Hon. T. M. Peeples,
Lawrencevi He. When the case was
called oomplainants announced ready.
The defendants were not ready on ac
count of absence of witnesses. There
being no further besiness before the
Court the juries were discharged. Judge
Rioe, and Solicitor-General Mitchell
were promptly at their posts.
The farmers are very busily engaged.
I noticed as I came along the road some
cutting wheat and others working their
cotton and corn, which looks well.
Lawrenceville is quite a handsome
place. The business men are M, V.
Brand, W. H Wilson, John H. Shackle
ford, Dr. J. R. Moore, Dr. T. K. Mitch
ell and 'Bomo three or four others. The
town has a number one hotel, kept by L.
M. Griswold. The house is large and' has
goods rooms, weli furnished. His table
cannot be excelled for the county. Law
renceville is but eight miles from the
Air-Line, The plaoe is healthy and has
good society with churches and schools.
Those who wish to spend a few months
in this up country will find Lawrence
ville attractiye. There is a mineral
spring half a mile from town. The
Globe Hotel, Mr. Griswold, proprietor,
will accommodate all that may come,
with good fare at oheap rates. The
Chronicle and Sentinel is a popular
paper in this country. I saw a gentle
man yesterday that took the Chronicle
and Sentinel in 1815. I send you a
list containing the names of the leading
citizens in Lawrenceville. All consider
the Chronicle and Sentinel one of the
best papers iu the State. G. W. N.
THE THOMPSON CASE.
Jacob Thompson Sued for Two Millions—The
Two Coses—The Ex-Secretary Vindicated
by Rascoe Conklins—Thompson Not Trou
bled.
Washington, June 9.—A few days
days since Hon. L. Q. 0. Lamar, of
Mississippi, and Hon. Casey Young, of
Tennessee, called upon Secretary Chan
dler aud presented the following letter:
Washington, D. C., June Ist, 1876.
Hon. Z. Chandler, Secretary of the In
terior :
Sir —Some person has sept to my ad
dress at Memphis, Tenn., the Evening
Star, published at Washington, May
22d, 1876, with the following paragraph
marked: “Secretary Chandler denieß
the published statement that he intends
if the Senate shall decide that it has
jurisdiction to recommend to the House
the impeachment of one Thompson who
was Secretary of the Interior before the
war, for abstracting more than $700,000
of the public moneys. He admits hav
ing made the remark but only as a joke.
He says, however, that there is no doubt
as to Thompson’s guilt, and that he is
wealthy enough to replaoe the amount
to the Government, and should be made
to do it.” I have neither the right nor
inclination to act upon the assumption
that the statement in this paragraph is
authorized by you or justified by any
thing you have said. Permit me, there
fore to call your speoial attention to the
article, and respectfully to inquire of
you if it does represent you truly. Please
give me as prompt a reply as your con
venience will permit. Your obedient
servant. [Signed] J. Thompson.”
The only reply to the above letter was
service of process upon Mr. Thompson
this morning of a civil suit to re
cover one million of dollars principal
and interet of the bonds stolen and the
amount received by the defendant from
the Confederate States of America and
which is alleged reverted to and became
ttie property of the United States—one
million of dollars, with interest. Mr.
Thompson says this suit is to make him
pecuniarily responsible for the dishonest
acts of a clerk. Soon after the bonds
were abstracted a Congressional Com
mitte was appointed, of which Roscoe
Conkling was a member. The commit
tee exonerated Mr. Thompson of all
blame. The report says: “The commit
tee deem it but just to add that they
discover nothing to involve the late
Secretary, Hon. Jacob Thompson, in the
slightest degree in the fraud. The
Secretary should, perhaps, have exer
cised more watchful guardianship over
the stock and the movements of his sub
ordinates.” None of the committee
agreed politically with Mr. Thompson.
Mr. Chandler claims that the Confeder
ate archives in the possession of the
Government show that Mr. Thompson
held some unexplained balances of the
Confederacy whieh should be paid to
the United States. Mr, Thompson has
receipts given him by the Confederate
Government on a final settlement of hit}
accounts. This snit may put Mr.
Thompson to some expense and trouble,
but nothing else is apprehended. In the
suit the fifth count charges that the de
fendant, on the 20th day of August,
1866, received the sum of $1,000,000,
being the amount received from the so
called Confederate States of Amdrioa,
and whieh said sum reverted to and be
came the property of the plaintiff, which
he retained and did not pay over to plain
tiff. The snit is for two millions—one
million with interest from 1857, the
other from 1866.
Frozen to Death in Mai. Two
Swedes, crossing the Snowy Range on
foot, left the Summit House, in Ber
thoud Pass, on Sunday, and started
down the west slope. Both carried
bundles of blankets and provisions, each
pack weighing seventy-five or eighty
pounds. On Tuesday evening one re
turned to the Summit House. He was
snow-blind, frostbitten, and had barely
strength enough to walk. He reported
that his companion had frozen to death.
Soon after leaving the Summit the storm
set in and they became bewildered, be
numbed with oold, and lost their way.
They threw away their blankets to fa
cilitate their movements, and the match
es with which they were provided, being
. wet, refused to ignite. A party of men
at Summit went down the trail, or road,
and ou Wednesday found the dead
Swede. The snow was so deep that the
removal of the body seemed out of the
question then, so they buried it tempo
rarily under six feet of snow. —Denver
(Ctol.) News, May 27.
The young man who was reported yes
terday for passing a counterfeit five dol
lar bill says he was entirely ignorant of
its being counterfeit, and as soon as it
was made known to him he refunded the
money.
