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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Cnoincus A HxsnvtL Augnsts. Gs.
gtjronide a rib jgentmei.
i KDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 1879.
Thu year’s vintage in the Bordeaux
districts will be very poor. It is esti
mated at only one-fourth of the ordinary
yield.
There will be no opposition to the
nomination of ex-Gov. Gaston as the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts.-
The New York Sun says three-fourths
of the duels that have been fought or
arranged in the South since the war
have been caused by women.
The English have decided, in spite of
Mrs. Stowe, that Bybon deserves a mon
ument, and propose to erect one in
commemoration of his genias in Green
Park, London.
A Nobthebn paper says Gen. Gbant
orders the negroes in the South to vote
for Hates and Wheeler, and orders
the soldiers to see that they do so. This
is the essence of the Southern cam
paign. <
Salvini recently played Hamlet at
the Queen's Theatre, London, to a $25
house. A few nights later there was
bat one paying person in the house,
and the following night not a ticket was
sold.
Mail advices from South Australia re
port the arrival of ten passengers from
Sumatra, supposed to be Fenian agents
from England, and suspected of being
connected with the recent escape of Fe
nian prisoners from West Australia. The
police are watching their movements.
The Dalton Enterprise states that
Hon. W. H. Felton has written a letter
to a friend in Dalton, wherein he says:
*‘l expect to be an independent candi
date for Congress to represent the Sev
enth District in the 45th Congress.” He
further adds that he will aunounce him
self publicly soon.
The statue of the late Williah H.
Seward, to be ereoted in New York,
will bo placed at the southwest corner
of Madison Park, fronting Broadway
and Fifth avenue, space there having
been given to the committee of sub
soibers by the Park Commissioners.
Work will be begun immediately, and
the granite foundation will be laid in
ten days. The pedestal is of Italian
marble, and weighs sixteeu tons. The
statne, which is a oolossal bronze, will
oost $25,000.
TRi? St. Louis Westliche Post, the pa
per in which Cabl Sohubz is interested,
spoke as follows of Mr. Hayes immedi
ately After hta nomination at Cincinnati:
“Mr. Hayes was not born for a leader,
but rather needs ou, ud may, if he
falls into bad hands, be led wroug. Such
a yielding nature has scarcely grown to
the demands of the present time, and
besides, as Mr. Hayes has the weakness
to be a party man with whom the party,
its politics and its interests stand very
high, our hopes of him are not very
great.” The Post's estimate of Mr.
Hayes was and is an eminently just one.
The amount cf subsidiary ooin paid
out since the passage of the act provid
ing for the resumpi'on °f fractional cur
rency is 811.745.931 Of this amount
83,962,862 was paid out iu exchange for
greenbacks aud 87,786,079 in
for fractional ourrency. The amount of
silver on hand to date is $*>,058,120, and
the amount of fractional currency out
standing to date is 833,915,975 39. The
new silver bill provides for the issue of
850,000,000 in silver ooin. Add to this
86 ,058,120, the amount of silver coin
now on hand, and a total is given of
856,058,120.
The Lehigh Zinc Company, near
Bethlehem, Pa., have constructed one of
the largest pumps in the world. There
is a vertical oondensing engine, 10 feet
stroke, with a cylinder of oast iron, 110
inches in diameter. The total weight
of the cylinder, with its head and bot
tom, is 40 tons. The piston rod is fast
ened to the cross head by a steel nut
weighing 1,100 pounds. There are two
fly-wheels, each 35 feet in diameter, and
oach weighing 92 tons; it gives motion
to four plungers aud four lift-pnmps,
raising 17.000 gallons of water per min
ute from a depth of 220 feet. Sixteen
boilers are connected with the engine,
aud it is rated at 3,200 horse-power.
Thu Centennial Commissioners an
nc'iince that the cash receipts at the Ex
hibition gates hava thus fur exceeded
their expectations. Last week the re
ceipts, aating from the opening of the
Exhibition, amounted to 8300,000, not
including a large amount received from
royalty ou beer at>*l soda sold within
the grounds, and the receipt of fifteen
per cent, from manufacturers who sell
their wares within the gates oi the Ex
hibition. It is asserted that a dividend
an be declared soon after the Exhibi
tion closes. It is to be hoped so. There
will be an influx of visitors to Philadel
phia daring the next two or three
months, and if the Commissioners are
wise and wish to swell their receipts a
hundred thousand or so, they will do
away with the dead-head system.
The New York Journal of Commerce,
a thoroughly independent and non-par
tisan commercial paper, commenting on
the report of the Naval Investigating
Committee (signed not omy by the
Democratic members, bat by one Re
publican member, Mr. Bublkioh, of
Uaine), comes to the deliberate con
clusion that “there is enough in these
and other accusations to warrant the
Secretary’s impeachment and convic
tion.” Robeson has spent over a mil
lion a year, of the people’s money, for
political party purposes alone, besides
costing the Government many millions
in aotnaf loss—in robbery and plunder.
His department has spent three hun
dred millions of dollars since the close
of the war, and there is nothing to show
for it. The navy is all run down, and
in a worse condition than it has been
in before for more than a generation.
The Journal of Commerce thinks the
public will care little for all this waste,
if a dissemination of a knowledge of
snch rascalities shall only hasten the im
pending political revolution. And it is
coming.
THE ENFORCE VI ENT ACT.
Saturday morning we took occasion
to say that the infamonsEnforement Act,
which was framed and which has been
so often used for the purpose of carrying
Southern Democratic States for the Re
publican party, is now virtually a dead
letter. On the same day the Charleston
Journal of Commerce called attention to
the same fact and q noted the law and
the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States which emascnlated the
statute.
On the 31st day of May, 1870, Con
gneß passed the Enforcement Act. Its
purpose was claimed to be the enforce
ment, by severe fines and imprisonment,
of the civil rights granted under the
14th and 15th Amendments of the Con
stitution. In the sixth section it estab
lished punishments for conspiracy to
injure or intimidate citizens in the ex
ercises of civil rights, in the following
terms :
“If two or more persons conspire to injure,
oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in
the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or
privilege secured to him by the Constitution
or laws of the United States, or because of his
having so exercised the same; or if two or
more persons go in disguise on the highway or
on thefpremises of another, with intent to pre
vent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment
of any right or privilege so secured, they shall
be fined not more than five thousand dollars
and imprisonment not more that two years;
and shall moreover, be thereafter ineligible
to aDj office, or place of honor, profit or trust
created by the Constitution or laws of the
United States.”
A case came up under it from Louisi
ana which was appealed to the Supreme
Court of the United States. It was
argued at the last October term in
Washington, Colonel Mabb representing
the defendants. And on the 18th of
April, 1676, the Court rendered its decis
ion, wbioh was delivered by Chief Jus
tice Waite himself. The defendants
were discharged. “Among other pas
sages and points determined, we call
special attention to the following pas
sage, which not only covers the case of
conspiracy, but pronounces against the
abuse of the constitutional power by the
United States lending soldiers to the
Governor of a State in a case of riot,
like that at Colfax, or that at Hamburg.
Here are the words
The charge as made is really of nothing
more than a conspiracy te commit a breach of
the peace within a State. Certainly it will not
be claimed that the United States have the
power or are required to do mere polioe duty
in the States. If a State cannot protect
itself against domestic violence, the United
States may, upon the call of the Executive,
when the Legislature cannot be convened,
lend cheir assistance for that purpose. This
is a guarantee of the Constitution (Art. IV.,
Section 4,) but it applies to no case like this.
The order of the Circuit Court arresting the
judgment upon the verdict is, therefore, af
firmed, and the cause remanded, with instruc
tions to discharge the defendants.
A TRIBUTE TO TILDEN.
Parke Godwin, one of the leaders iD
the recent Fifth Avenue Conference, in
a letter to the New York Tribune,
speaks from his personal knoweldge in
regard to Samuel J. Tilden as follows:
“I have been intimately acquainted with
Mr. Tilden for nearly forty years, and
though I have often differed with him
politically, sometimes even lamenting
bis strong reliance on party agencies, I
have never had the slightest occasion to
suspect his absolute sincerity of con
viction. In all the relations of private
life he is purity itself. At the same
time he has always been a publio-spirit
ed citizen, taking an active part in what
ever concerned the welfare and progress
of the community in which he lived.”
In Mr. Godwin’s judgment, Mr. Tilden
combines, more than any other man now
before the public, “the two great kinds
of quality, theoretical and practical,
which form the true statesman—a pro
found understanding of the philosophic
grounds of political opinion, and the sa
gacious tact and energy of the man of
business.” Of Mr. Tilden’s work as
Governor of New York, Mr. Godwin
says: “Mr. Tilden, in his short tenure
of the place, has evinced a masterly fit
ness for all its duties. He has defeated
a multitude of ill-considered and im
proper bills, reotified many minor er
rors of administration, overthrown a
fraudulent and gigantic conspiracy, and
reduoed the taxation from over $15,000,-
000 in 1875 to less than $8,000,000 in
1876, with an assurance that if the
changes he has suggested are followed
the decrease will be two or three mil
lions more in 1877 ! A portion of this
redaction is due to the extinction of the
bounty Jebt, but the rest to Governor
Tildbn’s direct .efforts aud influence.”
Mr. Godwin continues t
“I have said that Mr. Tilden was more
of a partisan than suited my own tem
perament, butlongbtin justice to add
that he was never so much of a partisan
as to render him insensible to the higher
duties of the citizen. He separated
from the bulk of his own party in this
city, with other Free Boilers of this
State, when we thought it advisable to
protest against certain encroachments
of slave power. He separated from the
balk of his party in this city when he
nndertook to best doi#n the infamous
Tweed gang, intrenched by the laws and
possessed of an almost overwhelming
force. It was against the advice of
many of the most eminent men of his
own party that he assailed the canal
ring, whose ramifications extended
through nearly every county in the
State, and whose wealth and influence
were supposed to be invincible. And it
was against a large and walJ-con>bined
faction of his own party that he lifted it
at St. Lonis, oat of the quagmires of
donbt and error in which it was flound
ering, and placed it on the high ground
of its aneient traditions. Mr. Tildes is
cautions and wary, and never acts until
assured of foothold on truth and right;
but then he is tenacious in pursuit as
a sleuth-hound and absolutely inflexi
ble.”
The Free Press says this is the esti- 1
mate of Governor Tildes made by an 1
I
earnest, progressive man, who has known
him loqg and intimately. It is the esti
mate of a man who sincerely believes,
with the Fifth Ayeuun Conference, of
which he was a member, that the moral
tone of the Government needs to be ele
vated, and we eommend it to the con
sideration of the many disgusted Repub
licans who are anxiously inquiring if
Tildes offers hope of a change that will
be an improvement upon Gbastism.
The man who has done wonders in the
brief time be has been Governor of New
York—whose energy, courage and devo
tion to the interests of the people were
shown in his magnificent attacks upon
the Tweed and canal rings—the man
who is a terror to thieves and corrup
tionists—is the man, above all others, to
be assigned the chief place is the work
of reforming the Government—iu the
complete extirpation of Gbastism. He
will enter upon the work with zeal, and
prosecute it faithfully, laboriously, and
with rare determination while there is
an abase to be remedied, a reform to be
instituted, or a thief to be punished.
Apprehension is felt for Mr. William
Carlton Ireland, of the Morris A Ireland
safe company, of Boston. Missing since
Saturday. It is snpposed he had con
siderable money. Foul play is feared.
Union and Spartanburg counties have
paid the July interest on the Spartan
burg and Asheville Railroad bonds. A
portion of the bonds have already been
retired.
OUR NEXT GOVERNOR.
The Convention has met and made its
choice. The voice of opposition has
been huphed, and the Democratic party
of Georgia marches, with one accord
and with one heart, to victory, under the
glorious banner of old. That banner,
upheld by General A. H. Colquitt, the
patriot and soldier, will uuite in one
solid phalanx the Democratic and Con
servative people of Georgia; it will be
nobly borne and heartily supported
throughout the canvass, and when the
battle of the ballot box shall have closed
it will be seen floating in triumph, as
of old.
We have urged with all the ability
that we possesed the claims of one of
Georgia’s most honored sons—bat
we yield to the will of * the ma
jority and give to General A. H.
Colquitt a full, hearty, unreserved sup
port. We do this with no hesitation or
regret, for we know that he is in every
way competent for the high office to
which he will be borne—that he is a pa
triot, a Christian gentleman and a true
Democrat. In his bands the honor and
the interests of our great State will be
safe— the one ever untarnished, the oth
er advanced to the fnllest and highest
prosperity. .
Let us hope, then, that all differences
of the past being forgotten, we shall, as
one man, with one single purpose, unite
to give our standard bearer a majority
that shall make him not only the choice
of a party but the choice of all the
people of Georgia.
THE STEAL FUND.
In a recent issue of the Boston Con
gregationalist the scandalous action of
the majority in the Senate in paying
Pinchback is mildly but firmly rebuked.
That journal says: “Common people
might think that there must be a very
short way of reasoning in regard to this,
and that if Mr. Pinchback be Senator
enough to draw a salary and mileage,
he ought to be Senator enough to be en
titled to his seat; or that if he be not
Senator enough to be Senator at all, he
cannot be Senator enough to deplete the
public treasury of $20,000 in the name
and under the pretense of law. But
common people only know common hon
esty, and political honesty is a different
article altogether.” The payment of the
money, says the Baltimore Gazette, was
a clean steal from the people which can
not be justified in any way. The Sen
ate again and again decided that he had
no right to his seat, and how could he
be entitled to his pay when he was not
a member of the Senate is a piece of
casuistry which only a Republican Sen
ate can understand. The fact is Pinch
back was paid by the Senate, out of the
public treasury, $20,000 for his services
not as a Senator from Louisiana, but as
a Republican politician in that State,
It was a clear case of bribery at the ex
pense of the whole people.
HON. MILES W. LEWIS FOR CONGRESS.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
I notice by the papers that some of
the counties, in tbeir primary meetings,
while not instructing delegates as to
their action in the convention to be held
at Thomson on the 6tti of September for
the nomination of a representative to
Congress from this district, yet do sug
gest the candidates of their preference.
In like mauuer, of our own accord, we
would “suggest” one. No doubt Mr.
Stephens will be there, as he has been
heretofore, the first choice of a majority
of the distriot, but if, from any fact, it
should be thought impracticable to
make him the nominee, then our choice
is the Hon. Miles W. Lewis, of Greene.
Col. Lewis is well known over the State
as one of its first legislators—wise, dis
creet, safe. A gentleman of high pol
ish, a sound lawyer and able debater,
the mantle of Stephens could fall upon
no man more worthy to wear it—who
could more efficiently carry out the es
sential ideas of his political life. This
“suggestion,” we repeat, is of our own
accord. Col. Lewis would deprecate
any action that would appear to create a
diversion against Mr. Stephens or to
clash with the just claims of any other
gentleman—if there be such a thing—
but looking to his entire adaptedness
for the position—in the contingency
mentioned—we propose him next, and
believe that a large portion of the dis
triot will endorse our choice. Soio.
CLAYTON COUNTY.
The Crops—Business Prospeets.
ISpecial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Jonesobo, Clayton Co.,Ga , July 31.
—Jonesboro is situated twenty-one miles
from Atlanta, on the Macon Railroad.
It is a place of about fifteen hundred
inhabitants, most of whom are people
of refinement and cultivated miuds.
There is at present twenty-three busi
ness houses. All seem to be doing well.
There was, last year, five thousand bales
oi cotton sold aud shipped from this
point. There is two places of worship,
ffletljoflist and Baptist. Rev. J. R.
Smith is the pastor of the Methodist,
and Rey. A. E. Cloud of the Baptist.
There is also here the Clayton Insti
tute, with an able faculty. Professor
George G. Looney, A. M., of whom tho
people may well feel proud, has charge
of the institute. His school reopens
this morning. Professor Looney is so
well known throughout the State that
he is certain to have a large attendance.
The Looneys are great educators. An
other brother, who has a school at
Hartwell, Hart county, is at present
visiting his brother. Prof. Morgau
Looney, of Gilmer, Texas. Prof. M. Y.
Looney and liis accomplished wife, who
accompanied her husband to Texas to
visit relations and parents, will return
to Hartwell about the m'djm of August
and reopen his school. Prof, M, Y.
Looney has a fine school in Hartwell.
The people of Hart county will be glad
to welcome the Professor and his wife
back again.
Professor George L°Pney, who is at
Jonesboro.is considered one of the finest
educators in the State. Assisted by his
accomplished wife, he will make the
Clayton Institute pne of the most popu
lar schools in Georgia. There is a neat
weekly paper published in this place,
the Jonesboro News, edited by A. E.
Clond. I was pleased to meet while
hers Mr. John H. Tatom, who has just
received tha appointment of Notary
Public from Governor tjmith. Mr.
Tatom will make a good ofjjosr,—
He a brother to the much-esteemed
1 Ordinary of Limiolu county, Mr. B. F.
1 Tatom. Mr. Hudson is proprietor of the
1 Planters’ Hotel. He (keeps a good house.
All persons visiting Jonesboro will find
the Planters everything they could wish
or expect in country towns. While here
your traveling correspondent visited
McDonough, Henry county, fourteen
gules from the railroad. It is quite a
pretty little town. I was pleased to
meet your Joeal agent, Mr. David
| Knott, and also a number of other read
ers of the Chboniole and Sentinel.
j From McDonough I visited Hampton,
Henry county, ten miles from’ McDon
ough" Hampton seems to be a live,
1 business little town,with some fine busi
) ness houses. While there 1 called at
: tho office of the Henry county weekly
paper, but tna editor was absent. I next
visited Lovejoy Station, yhere there are
tb fee business houses. All readily
subscribed to the Chbonicl* and Sen
tinel. AU through the country the peo
ple say they never had better crops of
| corn and cotton.
The farmers are in fine spirits. I send
von a list of forty subscribers to the
Chboxiclk and Sentinel, the majority
of then* from Jonesboro. This seems to
be a good field for the Chbokicle and
Sentinel, twenty miles from Atlanta,
on the Macon and Atlanta Railroad.
The many warm friends promise to help
me make the list np to one hundred in
this noble old county of Clayton.
Q. W. N.
A deputation of the Engineers Asso
ciation waited on CoL Richer, to protest
against the redaction of 10 per cent, on
present wages. A strike is threatened-
A change has taken place in the pro
prietorship of the Anderson Journal,
Mr. Earle how being sole editor and
proprietor. The Journal is a good
paper.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1876.
COLQUITT FOR GOVERNOR.
THE STATE CONVENTION.
The Gubernatorial Contest Decided—Gover
nor Johnson Declines to Allow Ilis Name to
be Used-General Colquitt the Next Gover
nor-Letter from Governor Johnson—List
of Delegates.
Atlanta, August I.—The delegates to
the State Democratic Convention which
meets to-morrow have nearly all ar
rived. Friends are active in the in
terest of the different candidates for
Governor.
[Special Telegram to the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, Ga , August 1, midnight.—
A caucus of the friends of Governor
Johnson was held to-night. The fol
lowing letter was read from Governor
Johnson, declining to allow his name to
be used :
Sandy Grove, )
Babtow Ga., July 24th, 1876. (
Messrs. Charles J. Jenkins and many
others:
In June, I received a communication
from you, informing me that you ar
dently “desired to see a man borne into
the office of Governor of Georgia, by the
spontaneous, unsolicited movement of
the people of Georgia,” and that you
were “firmly persuaded that the senti
ments and opinions therein expressed
were shared by the great mass of the
people of Georgia.” Entertaining these
feelings and opinions, you asked me to
“allow an authoritative statement,” that
I would “accept the nomination of the
Democratic Convention of the State for
the office of Governor.” On the 15th of
June, I replied to that communication,
that if, contrary to my expectations, I
should be called upon by the people to
serve them in the Executive capacity or
(to use your own language), if I should
be “borne into the office of Governor
by the spontaneous, unsolicited move
ment of the people of Georgia, I should
aet, not under the impulse of personal
interest or ambition for that office, but
solely under that sense of duty which
should govern every patriotic citizen.”
I said also, that I did “not desire the
nomination,” and that “I would not
consent to be placed in the attitude of a
candidate” for it. I said also that I had
“no aspiration” for the office and that I
should be “truly gratified if the people
should choose any other on whom they
might feel safe in imposing its high du
ties.” *
You published that correspondence,
as I understood it, not to announce me
as a candidate for the nomination, but
to submit the matter to the people of
Georgia, in order to invite their con
sideration and decision of the question,
whether or not, without solicitation on
my part, they desired my services as Gov
ernor for the ensuing Executive term. I
said I would serve them in that contin
gency only. I said what I meant and I
meant what I said.
Now, so far as the action of county
meetings for the appointment of dele
gates is evincive of their will, the people
do not desire my services in the Execu
tive capacity. This is what I expected
and lam “truly gratified.” The popu
lar decision having been thus made, I
respectfully submit, that it remits me
to the attitude in which I stood prior to
the correspondence—that of entire dis
connection from the subject matter, not
desiring the nomination, nor aspiring to
the office, but refusing to be placed in
any position, which by implication,
migh be so construed.
It seems that the publication of that
correspondence was considered by many
to be an announcement of my candidacy
for the nomination. Hence, it was
the occasion of some acerbity on the
part of a portion of the political press
and of sharp contest in several of the
county meetings for the appointment of
delegates. This I deeply regret. It re
sulted, I suppose, from a misconception
of the object of the publication aud a
misconstruction of the correspondence.
As I said I would not “consent to be
placed in the attitude of a candidate for
the nomination,” you certainly did not
intend, by its publication, to put me in
that attitude; and in the face of such a
declaration on my part, it is difficult to
conceive how such a misapprehension
should have obtained. It may be that
the eagerness for office is so intense
and almost universal, that no man can
have credit for sincerity, when he says
he does not want and will not be a can
didate for a nomination. It affords me
pleasure, however, to say that those
acerbities and local conflicts leave no
sting in my bosom. The innocent occa
sion for them being removed, I sincerely
trust that the feeling of political frater
nity, so far as it may have been thereby
disturbed, may be speedily and perfect
ly restored.
You doubtless saw the charge in a
portion of the public press, that the
movement inaugurated by you was de
signed especially to defeat the nomina
tion of General Colquitt, who was re
garded as the most popular aspirant for'
it. Your characters and the absence of
any conceivable motive for such a pur
pose relieve yon from the necessity of
denying and much more from the neces
sity of vindicating yourselves from such
an imputation. But I deem it due to
myself to say, that no such intention
was ever for a moment entertained by
me. You can acquit me, gentlemen, of
any knowledge of your communication
in the first instance. You know that I
was not consulted in reference to it, nor
advised of it, until several days after it
had been prepared and distributed by
mail for the purpose of obtaiuiug signa
tures to it. The request you made of
me was so phrased, taken in connection
with the whole tenor of your communi
cation, as that I was obliged to answer
it just as I did, or else take the unpa
triotic position that I would not, under
any cironmstances, consent to serve the
people as their Governor, even though
they “by spontaneous unsolicited move
ment” should call upon me to do so.
This J could not do and I should have
answered your request just as I did if
neither General Colquitt nor any other
aspirant bad beep ip the arena seeking
the nomination. General Colquitt and
I have been on terms of personal friend
ship for many years. I dealt with him
frankly and sincerely. On the 4th of
June, in anticipation of and prior to the
correspondence between yon and myself
I wrote to him on the subject of the
nomination. I repeat now, what I then
said, to-wit: “I am no candidate for the
nomination. I shall not permit myself
to be put in that position, nor that of
asking for it, for Ifio not desire the nomi
nation. I have no expectation that it
will be tendered to me. Indeed, I hope
it will not be. But if contrary to all
this it should be demanded of me to ac
cept it, I don't see how I could decline. I
have always believed that the people
had as mnch right to require civil as
military service at the hands of any cit
izen. I have always believed it to be
the duty of such citizen to obey such a
call, if he is able to do so. In addition I
must say tfiat my debt of gratitude to
the people of Georgia is very great.—
Iu view of these considerations, I could
not refuse to serve them as their Gover
nor, if, without solicitation on my part,
they should ask me to do so.
“Sow, General, this is precisely my
position. I have thus far fiot announc
ed it because I do not qesife tp be nomi
nated, nor tp be drawn into a contest
for it. I prefer the nomination of yoiir
self or any other good and capable man
to that of myself, f M assured
lam no antagonist of you nor of any
other aspirant. I shall be gratified if
yon should be nominated.” I thne
wrote to him prior to the receipt of
your communication to me, but antici
pating it, becanse a friend had advised
me of its preparation and distribntion
for signatures. I never ottered any
thing in my life with more sincerity.
General Colquitt, therefore, whatever
may have been the opinion of many of
his friends coaid not think I was ac
tuated by any intention to injure him. I
am fall on this point, because great in
justice has been done to my motives. I
have not the .power to exalt mortals to
the skies, bqt I trnst I have none of that
mean spirit that wonlfl “drag angels
down.”
Tfiis idea of special antagonism to
General Colquitt has, I suppose, been
strengthened by the fact that I have de
clined to withdraw my name from the
arena. I have been appealed to pri
vately by friends of General Colquitt
and publicly by a portion of the press
in his interest to do so. I have not
heeded these appeals; first, because I
was net in tfie arena as a candidate;
and, secondly, you having submitted
the question to the people, J did not
think it was my right, nor respectful to
you or the people to anticipate their ac
tion and prevent a fall expression of
their will, by withdrawing the subject
from them whilst it was under their
consideration. I thought I knew what
their decision wonld be, but yon had
declared that you were “firmly per
suaded” that yonr “sentiments and
opinions were shared by the great mass
of your fellow-citizens.” In deference
to that declaration, I did not think
proper to say a word until the will of
the people should have been ascertain
ed. That has now been done so far, at
least, as to inferm me that the people
do not “spontaneously” call for my ser
vices in the Executive Chair. I may
now, therefore, with propriety, request
that my name be entirely dropped from
all connection with the subject of the
nomination by the Convention.
It cannot be determined with any ac
curacy, without a ballot, how far any
one is the decided Yavorite; but lam
safe in concluding tAt I am not. There
fore, if it were pj-fiftble for me to re
ceive the nominates? as the result of a
contest before the 'fonvention, I would
not accept it. C (tailing to be nomi
nated in such a I would not
consent to any sue Mlse of my name as
would or might, ut.ser the operation of
the “two-thirds” rule defeat the favorite
of a clear majority of the Convention.
I believe in the wisdom of the “two
thirds” rule, when dibcreetly enforced.
It should never be used to prevent the
will of the majority from prevailing, un
less there be good reason for it. If any
one has a clear and fair majority of the
Convention in his favor, against whom
no unfitness of character, unsonndness
of principle or mental incapacity can be
truthfully urged, the Convention should
concentrate upon and nominate him.
He is entitled to it.
Perhaps these remarks, though ger
main, may not seem to be strictly ne
cessary. But I make them as due to
myself. It has been charged that my
object was to defeat Gen. Colquitt un
der the operation of the “two-thirds”
rule. I scorn the imputation. lam not
“a dog in the manger.” So far from
using the “two-thirds” rule for any
such ignoble purpose, I repeat, I would
not enter into a scramble for the nomi
nation, nor would I accept it, if I de
sired it, unless it should be tendered in
response to the unsolicited spontaneous
wish of the people of Georgia. I meant
this by my letter of the 15th June, and I
adhere to that position.
I have no definite idea of the number
of delegates to the Convention, who, on
a ballot, would favor my nomination.
They are more, however, than I had any
reason to expect in the face of my letter
of the 15th June. For that was almost
an invitation to the people not to call upon
me to serve them as Governor. It is a
matter of surprise that any county
should have appointed delegates favor
ing my nomination. I regard it as a
very high compliment that so many
have done so, which I fully appreciate.
And I mqst add that the people at large
by permitting me to remain where I am
have given another evidence of their
great kindness to their unworthy ser
vant.
1 have said more, gentlemen, than is
necessary, as between you and myself.
But knowing that this communication
will go to the public, I have taken the
liberty to say some things which I wish
the public to know, that they may un
derstand and rightly appreciate my true
position.
Recognizing the dignity with which
your movement has been c onducted and
expressing my satisfaction with the re
sult, I am, gentlemen, with sentiments
of gratitude and esteem, your obedient
servant and fellow-citizen,
Hebsohel V. Johnson.
After the reading of this letter, Mr.
H. G. Wright moved that Gov. John
son’s friends vote for Gen. Colquitt.
Gen. Young opposed Mr. Wright’s mo
tion. After debate, Mr. Wright’s mo
tion was carried. Gen. Colquitt will be
nominated without opposition. W.
Delegate* te tbs Convention.
The following is a carefully compiled
list of the delegates to the Democratic
State Convention, which assembles in
Atlanta to-morrow to nominate a candi
date for Governor a)id Presidential Elec
tors;
Appling: Seaborn; Hall, J. I. Carter.
Baker: Charles D. Hammond, Thos.
W. Flemming. ' ,
Baldwin: J. W. Hefty, R. H. Harper,
I. L. Harris, David B. Hill.
Banks: Joshua Owen? W/'W.Moore,
D. T. Bush, J. J. J. Sheppard.
Bibb; Clifford Anderson, B. W. Jemi
son, Sr., E. L. Strohecker, A. W. Gib
son, Geo. S. Obear, Sr., D. T. Driggers,
W. S. Clark, B. T. Ray, J. L. Harde
man, B. Dub, Jno. A. McManus, Geo.
W. Gustin, R. F. Lyon, C. D. Findlay,
H. H. Jones, M. G. Newson, L. J. Sim
mons.
Bryan: John A. Keller, P. W. Wil
liams.
Bulloch: D. R. Grover, J. F. Brown.
Burke: Randolph Ridgley, J. Pinck
ney Thomas, S. H. McKenzie, P. D.
Cox, .
Bartow : Pierce M. B. Young, W. T.
Wofford, F. M. Ford, T. J. LyoD.
Calhoun : C. M. Davis, J. G. Sasser.
Camden : G. A. Mallette, J. M. Ar
no w.
Campbell: Wm. C. Parker, C. D.
Black.
Carroll: W. S. Twedell, S. W. Har
ris, J. T. Tolbert, R. L. Richards.
Catoosa : A. T. Haekett, Arthur H.
Gray.
Chattahoochee : H. Burney, D. C.
Cody.
Charlton : J. D. Jones, Felder Lang.
Chatham : J. R. Saussy, G. P. Harri
son, A. B. Smith, W. S. Basinger, W.
Russell, Sr., M. H. Meyer.
Cherokee : J. J. Maddox, J. R. Mc-
Kinny.
Clay : J. B. Johnson, G. D. Smith, R.
R. Blocker, C. B. Holmes, R. M. Biown,
John H. Jenkins, R. E. Kennon.
Clarke : H. R. J. Long, H. H. Carl
ton, 0. D. Hill, Wm. Henry Morton.
Clinch : Wm. S. Tomlinson, J. L.
Sweat.
Columbia: F. E. Eve, G. A. Hill.
Coffee : M. Kirkland, James M. Dent.
Coweta : S. J. Elder, T. A. Barnes, S.
L. Whatley,M.B. Pinson,Wm. Stallings,
Nathan Maddox, W. W. Thomas, J. T.
MoKoy, L. R. Ray, George Jones, J. E.
Stallings, R. W. North, Tom Banks, J.
W. Wiley, j. M. Stallings, John Hogan,
W. D. Anderson, TANARUS, G. Dickson, C. L.
Redwine, John Reese* Ben. Leigh, J.
Starr, W. A. Turner, J. M. Dent.
Cobb: Geo. N. Lester, J. W. Robert
son, Wm. P. Harden, J. R. Humphries.
Crawford ; A. J. Danielly, Jas. Tay
lor, M. D. Stroud, M. H. MoElmnrray.
Douglass : E. Pray, John S. Bobo.
Dawson ; L. Smith, R. N. McClure.
DeKalbi L. J. Winn, Robt. L. Berry.
Dougherty; A. W. Crosby, T. H.
Willingham, R. Hobbs, D. A. Vason,
R. N. Ely, Joe Armstrong, B. F. Wilder,
J. L. Dozier, J. L. Boyd, R. A. Forres
ter, E. W. Alfriend, Joe Bennett, W. H.
Gilbert, A. M. Wollihin, L- St rne, J.
M. Duff, Geo. Walker, W- T. Jones;, fi.
F. Harris, Burrell T. Hemp.
Echols: R. W. Philips, John Craw
ford.
Early; R. T. Nesbitt, B. R. Doster.
Elbert; R. M. Heard, Robt. Hester,
T. J. Bowman.
Floyd : J. B. Underwood, G. Holmes,
Mack O’Brien and N. Bass.
Forsyth ; Oliver Clarke, H. P. Riden.
Franklin : John H. Shannon, Amos
N. Poole.
Fulton : J. H. Mecaslin, R. M. Par
rar, J. S. Pemberton, Samuel Hape,
Samuel Weil, Thomas Knight.
Gilmer ; Thomas F. Greer, John P.
Cobb.
Glascock i E. G. Scruggs, J. L. Neal,
W. G. Braddy, J. B. Williams.
Glynn ; John R. Habersham, G. A-
Duye.
Greene ; Miles W. Lewis, James N.
Armor, Alexander H. J. R. San
ders.
Gordon : W. M. Dyer, J. L. Camp.
Gwinnett: N. L. Hutchins, C. A.
Howell, George H. Jone#, R. D. Winn,
M. S. Garner, W. P. Cosby, J. H. C.
Maguire, James C. Carroll, James T.
McElvaney, William A. Cain.
Habersham; G. M. Netherland,
Joseph J. Prather, Robert If. Groves, C.
H. Sutton, J. M. Freeman.
Hall: J. N. Dorsey, Martin Graham,
William Bolin, W. R. Reed, S. C.
Banks, W. A, Brown.
Hancock: C. W. Dußose, George F.
Pierce, Jr., M. J. Northern, James W.
Moore.
Haralson: W. J. Head, J. F. Petty.
Harris: W. J. Hudson, Flynn Hargett,
J. F. C. Williams, J. T. Blount, G. L.
Kilpatrick, H. E. Mobs, T. J. Neal W.
C. Johnson.
Hart: C. W. Seidel, A. J. McMullen.
Heard: J. B. Beall, J. T. Peddy.
Henry: George M. Nolan, Z. T. Zach
ry-
Houston: J. M. Gray, Wesley Honser,
J. N. Killen, L. J. Thomas, Ed Martin,
U. M. Gunn, J. G. Brown, C. E. Solo*
mon, J. M. Culpepper, William Brun
son, SI B- Brown, Wm. Martin.
Irwini'T.Tb Wiloox, J. J. Hender
son.
Jackson: Hugh Hancock, J. B. Sil
man, D. A. Camp, J. M. Potts.
Jefferson: William S. Alexander, H
W. Carswell, James G. Cain, M. A.
Evans, George F. Hudson, R. P. Little,
James Stapleton, J. N. Qliphant, John
f. Toole, William H. Watkina.
Johnson: A. F. Daley, T. Christian.
Laurens: John M. Stubbs, A. J.
Haines, J. H. Topp, R. A. Stanley.
Lee: J. W. Forester, A. A. Alfriend,
R. F. Ragan, H. L. Long.
Lincoln: J. E Strother, J. C. Glen
denniDg, John L. Wilkes, James W.
Barksdale.
Lowndes: B. P. Jones, A. L. Smith,
Lumpkin: West Boyd, W. P. Prioe.
Madison: J. B. Eberhart, J. F. Col
bert. Alternates: T. W. Long, J. H.
Bullock.
Marion: E. M. Butt, J. D. Wilson,
Jack M. Hill.
McDuffie: Willis Howard, J. L. Good
rich, James Norris, W. H. Murray, E.
B. Bacon, E. C. Hawe.
Mclntosh: W. Henry Atwood, Rich
ard W. Grubb.
Merriwether: H. R. Harris, Jr , J. A.
Rowe, G. L. Peavy, F. J. Williams.
Milton: T. L. Lewis, E. J. Camp.
Mitchell: James Baggs, T. R. Lyon,
J. G. S ipp, J. Maples, H. W. Spence,
G. M. Bacon.
Monroe: G. W. Adams, John T. Crou
der, James H. Turner, B. H. Zellner.
Morgan: George Ponder, J. F. Harri
son. Alternates: Carter Shepherd, W.
S. McHenry.
Murray: E. W. Bond, S. E. Field, R.
E. Wilson, Jathau Gregory, W. W. Gid
dens, Luffman, B. F. Wofford.
Muscogee: W. L. Salisbury, C. A.
Redd, C. H. Williams, A. A. Coleman,
C. B. Grimes, W. A. Little, J. M. Rus
sell, T. J. Chappell, B. H. Crawford, W.
A. Cobb.
Newton: John T. Henderson, W. W.
Clark, W. H. Gaither, J. E. McConnel.
Oconee: J. W. Johnson, George C.
Thomas.
Oglethorpe: Samuel Lumpkin, James
H. Smith, J. T. Hurt, W. M Willing
ham, Mark L. Raines, T. L. Gantt, W.
M. Durham, Thomas S. Dozier.
Paulding: Tom Foster, N. Bell.
Pierce : Jno. C, Nicholls, T. L.
Strickland.
Pike : A. A. Murphy, J. H. Baker.
Polk : A. Huntington, J. A. Peck, W.
M. Hutohins, A. Doherty, Gus. Mc-
Gregor.
Putnam : R. B. Nisbet, D. C. Mont
gomery, W. A. Gatewood, R. C. Hum
ber, W. W. Turner, W. C. Anderson, j
Quitman : T. L. Guerry, J. W. Mef
oer, A. Ogletree, H. L. Balkoom, S. P.
Burnett. •
Randolph : Arthur Hood, C. W.
Jones, J. T. Flewellen, Wm. M. Tum
lin, J. P. Sawtell.
Richmond: W. H. Howard, J. T.
Shewmake, J. B. Cumming, Samuel W.
Mays, M. J. Carswell, J. C. C. Black,
H. D. D. Twiggs, DeSaussure Ford,
John Doscher, J. M. Turpin, J, F.
Armstrong, H. G. Wright.
Rockdale: A. H, Zaohry, W. L.
Peck.
Screven : George R. Black, W. H.
Lanier, John C. Dell, T. W. Oliver, Y.
H. Burns, W. R. Mims, W. L. MathewS,
Wm. M. Henderson, James A. Mims,
U. P. Wade, W. L; Mathews, H. H.
Smith.
Spalding: W. B. Hudson, M. J.
Patrick.
Stewart : C. 0. Humber, O. J. Tucker,
M. A. Welford, L. B. Morton.
Sumter : John L. Adderton, J. B.
Hinkle, Joseph B. Scott, Daniel Bagly,
Samuel C. Elam, S. W. Blance, John A.
Cobb, Peter F. Brown.
Talbot : W. Q. Paschal, J. W. Rob
bins, W. T. Dennis, C. 0. Calhoun.
Tatnall : Sheldon P, Smith, J. Too
tle.
Taliaferro : M. D. Wallace, R. J.
Reid, W. G. Stephens, 0. E. Smith, Ed
ward Croake, John T. Wright, G. S.
Kendrick, W. H. Brooks.
Taylor : E. B. Waters, W. G. Bate
man, J. H. Holsey, J. D. Mitchell.
Terrell : Drs. Moore and Lamar, J.
B. Perry, Elam Johnson.
Thomas : J. L. Seward, J. P. Turner,
H. M. Sapp, R. S. Rurcb.
Troup : J. E. Toole, J. C. Smith, R.
A. S. Freeman, W. S. Evans,
Twiggs : F. D. Wimberly, J. T. Glo
ver, J. W. Trunnell, W. H. Stokes, W.
L. Solomon,
Upson : T. o‘. Yining, T. R. Kendall,
Joseph Allen, B. F. Mathews, Abner
McLewis, John C. Z°ra, James TANARUS, Rose.
Walton : H. D. MoDaniel, Wm. R.
Smith, Calvin G. Newell, Thos. G.
Robinson.
Ware : W. B. Folks, G. B. William
son.
Warren : H. W. J. Ham, James
Whitehead.
Washington : G. W. Peacock, J. J.
Sparks, J. K. Hines, T. O. Wicker.
Webster : D. B. Harrell, W. C. Ken
drick, J. Smith, J. J. Hudson,
Sims.
White ; J. H. Nichols, Frank Haral
son.
Wilkes : O. E. Irvin, S. H. Harde
man, J. H. Willis, F. H. Colley, S. W.
Wynn, G. W. Kendall, W. T. Harris, S.
G. Pettus, H. T. Slaton, M. G. Robert,
James Hams, W. D. Pittard.
Wilkinson: A. R. Rozar, F. Cham
bers.
Worth : A. J. Alford, S. M. Hunt, W.
A. Harris, G. G. Ford.
COLQUITT NOMINATED BY AC
CLAMATION.
Permanent Organization— I The Roll of Dele
gates—Governor Johnson and Mr. James
Not Presented—Colquittt Unanimously
Nominated.
| Special Dispatch to Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, Ga., August 2.—The hall of
the House of Representatives was filled
both in the hall and galleries by half
past ten o’clock this a. m. The Speak
er’s stand was artistioally decorated
with flowers and American flags. A tall
hickory was placed at the right of the
stand. Quite a number of ladies graced
the galleries. The decoration of the
hall was the work of Mr. A. Lambert.
At the request of the James delegates
from Fulton county, there were at least
one and hundred fifty persons on the'floor
not members of the Convention or con
nected with the press. A few minutes
before eleven o’clock 3 string band
came into the gallery, and gave the Con
vention Dixie. At 11 o’clock Colonel
Thomas Hardeman, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee, call
ed the Convention to order. Prayer
was offered by Rev. A. G. Haygood,
D. D., President of Emory College.
Colonel Willis A. Hawkins nominated
Hon. George F. Pierce, Jr., of Hancook,
for temporary Chairman. Dootor H.
H. Carlton moved that a committee of
three be appointed to conduct him to
his seat, which prevailed, and the
President appointed as said committee
Doctor H. H. Carlton. W. A. Hawkins
and W. P. Price. Upon being conduct
ed to his seat G. F- Pierce, Jr., thank
ed the Convention for the honor confer
red in a brief but pointed speech, full of
brilliant gems. Colonel R. N. Ely, of
Dougherty, moved that Colonel E. P.
Speer, of Spalding, be appointed tem
porary Secretary, with H. P.
Wright, J. L. Sweat, 0. W.
Lindall and A. M. C. Russell as
assistants. Hon. E. D. Graham mov
ed the appointment of a committee of
two from each Congressional District to
report permanent officers. Hon. Frank
Leverett moved that the roll of counties
be called for enrollment of delegates.
After proceeding for some time Hon. G.
W. Adams moved to suspend the oall of
counties, and that the Secretary call
from the published list in the Atlanta
Constitution, that the chairman of each
delegation make corrections as read.
During the call it was temporarily sus
pended and the President announced
the following as the committee on per
manent organization : First District—
J. C. Nicholls of Pierce; G. R. Black of
Scriven; Second District—J.T.Flewellen
of Randolph; W. A. Harris of Worth;
Third District—J. M. Denton of Coffee;
C. C. Kibbee of Pulaski; Fourth Dis
trict—S. W. Harris of Carroll; J. E.
Toole of Troup; Fifth District—C. F.
55achry of Henry; R. 8. Barry of De-
Ealb; Sixth District—Frank Leverett
of Putnam; J. T. Henderson of New
ton; Seventh District—E. D. Graham of
, Dade; A. H. Gray of Catoosa; Eighth
District—C. W. Dußose of Hancock; J.
0. C, Black of Richmond; Ninth Dis
trich—H. H. Carlton of Clarke; L- Albred
of Pickens. A delegate from Clayton
county moved that the oall be dispensed
with, as all were here. [Applause.] The
President said the call was nearly
through with. After the roll was called
he rose and said “I move that we noni
nate Hon. A. H. Colquitt by acclama
tion.” This provoked uproarous ap
plause.
Permanent Organization.
The Committee on Permanent Organi
zation made the following report : For
President —H on - Clifford Anderson, of
Ribb county. Vice-Presidents—J. J.
Jones, of Burke: A. Hood, of Randolph;
C. C. Kibbee. of Pulaski; C. A. Redd,
of Muscogee; S. B. Brown, of Houston:
J. P. Simms, of Newton; A. T. Haekett,
of Catoosa; ff. B. Camming, of Rich
mond; C. J. Wellborn, of Union. Sec
retary—J. D. Waddell, of Cobb; assist
ants, H. P. Wright, of Fulton; E. P.
Speer, of Spalding; 0. W. Seidell, of
Hart. The report was unanimously
adopted. Hon. W. A. Harris moved
that a committee of one from each Dis
trict be appointed to wait upon Hon.
Clifford Anderson and escort him to the
Chair, which prevailed, and the Chair
appointed as such committee J. L. Sweat,
of Clinch; W. A. Harris, of Worth; J.
F. Delaoy, of Dodge; W. A Turner, of
Coweta; G. M. Nolan, of HeDry; J. L.
Hardeman, of Bibb; J. M. Underwood,
of Floyd; S. Lumpkin, of Oglethorpe,
and Pope Barrow, of Clarke. The com
mittee re urned with Hon. Clifford An
derson, who, upon taking his seat as
permanent President, addressed the Con
vention in an eloquent manner. Col. S.
Weil, Chairman of the Fudton county
delegation, withdrew the name of Hon.
John H. James, and move ■' the nomi
nation of General A. H. Colquitt for
Governor by acclamation, supporting
his motion in a stirring speech, which
brought down the house in round after
round of applause. Colonel J. M. Ar
now, of Camden, seconded the nomina
tion. Mr. H. G. Wright, of Rich
mond, announced that the name of Hon.
H. V. Johnson wonld uot be presented,
and urged the nomination of General
Colquitt
By Acclamation.
Colonel J. B. Cumming suggested the
reading of a letter from Governor John
sod, in order to dissipate any
feeliDg that might be entertained that
the Johnson men felt any animosity to
General Colquitt. The motion prevail
ed, end Hen. John T. Shewmake,
Chairman of the Richmond delegation,
then read Governor Johnson’s letter to
'Hon. C. J. Jenkins and others, which
was greeted with applause. The mo
tion of Hon. Samuel Weil to nominate
General Colquitt by acclamation was
adopted with spontaneous unanimity.
Hon. H. D. D. Twiggs moved that a
committee of one from eaoh Congres
sional Distriot be appointed to wait upon
General Colqnitt and notify him of his
nomination. Hon. G. F. Pierce offered
an amendment that the committee no
tify him of his nomination and invite
his acceptance, and the signification of
that acceptance in any manner which he
might deem advisable, which prevailed,
and the following committee was ap
pointed : J. R. Saussy, of Chatham; W.
A. Harris, of Worth; J. B. Hin
dle, of Sumter; E. M. Butt, of
Marion; F. D. Dismuke, of
Spalding; J. TANARUS, Henderson, of Newton;
J. A. W. Johnson, of Whitfield; H. D.
D. Twiggs, of Richmond; H. Nichols,
of Habersham, Hon. W. V. McKibben,
of Butts, moved that the thanks of the
Convention be tendered Col. Thomas
Hardeman, Governor H. V. Johnson,
Hon. J. H. James, General L. J. Gar
trell, Hon. A. T. Molntyre, Hon. Hiram
Warner and Hon. Augustus Reese for
the manhood, fairness and patriotism
with which they have conducted this
campaign, which was unanimously and
enthusiastically adopted. Colonel G. N.
Lester moved the appointment of a
committee of qne frqm each Congres
sional Distriot to prepare and report
Business
For the Convention, which prevailed.
H. G. Wright moved that all resolutions
be referred without reading to said com
mittee, which prevailed. The following
were announced as the Committee on
Business j W- S. Baßinger, of Chatham;
D. A. Vason, of Dougherty; C. C. Kib
bee, of Pulaski; J. M. Russell, of Mus
c igee; J. T. Crowder, of Monroe; W. W.
Turner, of Putnam; G. N. Lester, of
Cobb; J. B. Cumming, of Richmond;
Dr, H. H- Carlton, of Clarke. Pending
action on the motion for the appointment
of a Committee on Business, the gentle
man from Clayton sang out, “Make way
for Governor Colquitt,” as the oommit
tee returned with the Hero of Olustee,
amid great and enthusiastic applause.
General Colquitt took the stand and
addressed the Convention in an earnest
tone. The house fairly trembled with ap
plause. Heartily thanking the Convention
he said he felt the compliment more in
the light of the candidacy of other dis
tinguished citizens. He accepted the
preference in no vain canoeit that it was
a tribute to superior excellence. Geor
gia should not be ashamed of her stand
ard bearer. We are on the opening of a
great campaign, and are contending
nationally for peace, honesty in office,
and fraternity, and seek freedom from
the clap-trap of bought politioial offi
ces. We are confronted by a great
political party, who praotioally array
themselves in favor of sectional hate.
That party denies the right of one-third
of the people of this Union. Since the
war we have sought peace; we preaob
and practice lessons of charity and good
will to all classes. Since power has been
committed to the Democratic party in
Georgia no rights have been denied to
any class of oitizens. He paid a warm
compliment to Governor Smith’s admin
istration. The Convention adjourned
at 1:30 to meet at 4, p. m.
Afternoon Session.
A discussion arose with reference to
the election of two electors for the State
at large and two alternates. The follow
ing candidates were announced: W. A.
Hawkins, J. W. Wofford, A. R. Lawton,
L. J. Gartrell, A. R. Lamar, G. N. Les
ter, H, D. D. Twiggs, T. H. Hardeman,
Joel A. Billpp, A. T. Mclntyre. The
names of Messrs. Hardeman and Mcln
tyre were withdrawn.
A warm discussion arose as to whether
the candidates should bo chosen by the
majority or two-thirds rule, most all
the speakers contending that the ma
jority rule should be the standard, and
the Convention adopted the majority
rule by a vote of 136 to 102. A ballot
was taken, which resulted as follows :
Lawton, 186; Wofford, 110; Hawkins,
114 J; Gartrell, 81; Lamar, 64; Lester,
45; Twiggs, 60J; Billups, 26. The names
of Messrs. Lamar, Leste, Gartrell, Bill
ups and Hawkins were withdrawn be
fore the vote was concluded. Lawton
and Wofford were ohosen electors.—
Twiggs and Gartrell were then unani
mously chosen as alternates. The mem
bers of the press oalled ou Colquitt and
tendered their congratulations, and
handed him some complimentary reso
lutions. There is to be a short night
session, and a grand ratification meet
ing, with Ben Hill, General Toombs
and other distinguished speakers, and a
grand ball at the Kimball House.
Night Session.
The platform as reported by the com
mittee was unanimously adopted. It
reads as follows :
We, the chosen representatives of the
Democratic party of Georgia, in State
Convention assembled, do make the fol
lowing declaration of political princi
ples and party purposes, and we invite
every lover of constitutional liberty
and good government to eo-operate
with us in maintaining and car
ing the same into practical effect: First,
we reavow our thorough identification
with the great National Democratic
party of the United States and accept
the platform of principles and policy
recently promulgated by that party at
St. Louis, Missouri. Second, The recent
nomination by the National Democratic
party of Samuel J. Tilden for the office
of President and of Thoms A. Hen
d icks, of Indiana, for the office of Vice-
President, meet our hearty approval and
we do hereby pledge our Democratic
brethren North, South, East and West,
that we will put forth the most active,
earnest and energetic effort to secure
the triumphant election of these dis
tinguished Qitiaeus to the high offices
for which they have been named as
candidates. Third, We declare without
equivocation that we are decidedly and
firmly in favor of retrenchment and
reform in the administration of
every department of the Government,
State as well as Federal, and we sincere
ly rejoice that the dhtional party with
which ure are identified has placed itself
definitely and squarely upon a platform
that begins, continues and ends with the
doctrine of purification and reform in
every place and in everything con
nected with the Government and its ad
ministration. Fourth, We do hereby
specially enjoin upon the nominee of
this Convention, .if the nomination shall
be confirmed by the people, to carry
into full practical effect the prin
ciples of retrenchment aud reform herein
before set forth, and his acceptance of
the candidature to which we invite him
will be deemed a distinct pledge on his
part that if elected he will so exert the
influence and power of his office as to
reduce taxation, lessee the public ex
penditures and lift, as far as in him lies,
the incubus of hard times from the peo
ple. Fifth, We hereby pledge to the
people of Georgia oug earnest efforts and
zealous co-operation to perpetuate a
just, impartial aDd economical adminis
tration of the affairs of the State, to the
end that law qnd order may be main
tained, the public peace conserved, la
bor disburdened and energised, confi
dence between man and man restor
ed aud (he prosperity and happiness of
tfie whole people placed upon a sound
and enduring basis.
ifr. Wright offered the following:
. Jtesolvcd, That the present Constitu
tion of the State has been fairly tried
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
during three years of Republican and
five years of Democraticgovernment and
the experience furnished by the long
period during which it ha3 been in ope
ration as the organic law demonstrate
the necessity of a change in that instru
ment for the more complete protection
of the rights of the citizens and for se
curing a better system of government
for the State. We therefore express the
hope that the Legislature at its next
session will pass a bill providing for an
election by the people, at the earliest
day practicable, to determine whether
or not a Convention shall be held for
the purpose of framing anew Constitu
tion.
A substitute was voted down, and the
resolution was warmly advocated by
General P. M. B. Young. After a long
debate the resolution was finally voted
down by a motion made to adjourn sine
die. BeD Hill made a speech to an im
mense crowd to-night. F.
THE HAMBURG MAHER.
LATEST FROM ACROSS THE RIVER
The Verdict Carried to Aiken—Much Mystery
About Nothing— A Long Ltet of Names in
the Verdict—V- arrant* Issued—Doc Adams
Wants Damages.
Finding it impossible to procure a
copy of the Hamburg verdict in that en
lightened village, a reporter of the
Chronicle and Sentinel was sent to
Aiken yesterday morning. The reporter
found that Priuce Rivers had been in
Aiken, but had returned to Hamburg
that morning. But while he had carried
the veodiot back With him, parties in
Aiken had retained a list of the names
embraced in that woaderful production.
The following is a verbatim copy, which
our reporter was enabled to obtain:
Aiken Meu.
R. J. Butler, Dr. Shaw, Rev. John
Mealy, Thomas Butler, A. P. Butler,
Henry Getzen, William Briggs, John
Butler, Harrison Butler, Luther Reese,
Dunbar Lamar, Pierce Butler, Crayton
Matheny, Cornelius Benson, Aarom Tyler,
Charles Coffin, Thorny Oliver, John
Crawford, Robert Gardner, Jack Van
diver, Charles Kernaghan, Walker Ma
theny, Frank Taylor, (col.), Isaiah Mar
shall, (col.), George Vincent, Arthur
Johnson, Dr. Hugh Shaw, George Ba
sel, John Busph, Leßoy Hammond,
James Hammond, Jfames Smith, John
Smith, Thomas Smith, Daniel Glover,
Robert Morgan, John Lamar, Samuel
Page, Luther Ramson, Thomas Plunkett.
Frank Kramer, John Oliver, Benjamin
Vandiver and Pleasant Shinall.
Edgefield Men.
M. C. Butler, Benjamin Tilman, Char
les Glover. Frank Settles, Joseph Merri
weather John Swearingen, James Mo-
Kie, To! Glover, George Adams, James
Lanham, William Glover, John Roger,
and Augustus Glover.
Georgia Men.
Thos. W. Carwile, W. Robertson,
James Clark, Dish Ramey, John Smith,
Garland 4. Snead, Joseph D. Twiggs,
Robert Chafee, Kinlock-Chafee, Leo
pold Myers, William Pemble, John
Bridges, Captain Conway, Munty Tar
ver, John Damish, Heggie,
Heggie, George Hood, James Glorer,
William D’Antignao, Nick Bullineau,
Polk Thomas, Daniel Hertz, Jacob
Hertz, Mike Conner, Babe Bowers, Sam
Whaley, John McNaer, John Kirkpat
rick and John Twiggs.
Of these seven—Messrs. R. J. Butler,
Henry Gelson, Thomas Butler, Harrison
Butler, John Lamar, Thomas Oliver and
John Oliver—are charged with murder
in the first degree. All the others are
charged with being accessories before
the faot. It may be stated, however,
that under the law of South Carolina
the penalty upon conviotion is the same,
but the accused may be bailed in the
discretion of the presidmg Judge.
It is charged in the verdict that Moses
Parks was killed by R. J. Butler; James
Cook by Henry Gelson, Thomas Butler
and Harrison Butler; A. T. Attaway,
Daniel Phillips, Hamp Stevens and Al
bert Minyard, by John Lamar, Thomas
Oliver and John Oliver.
Warrants for the arrest of all of the
parties named above were issued by
Prince Rivers, Trial Justice, and placed
in the hands of Sheriff Jordan, of
county. All of these warrants charge
the accused with having committed the
crime of murder. These against parties
in South Carolina will be served to-day
It is expected that the aocused will of
fer bail in any amount, and that it will
be accepted by Judge Maher. Of
course the warrants against parties on
this side of the river cannot be served.
It is said that a requisition will be made
upon Gov. Smith, immediately.
We learn that the entire Aiken bar has
volunteered to defend the accused. Maj.
W. T. Gary, a distinguished lawyer, re
cently of Edgefield, bnt now of Augusta,
returned from the North yesterday. He
will act as counsel for any of the acoused
who may desire his services, free of
charge. The Aiken Sheriff will have no
trouble in arresting parties in South
Carolina, as they will neither put them
selves out of the way nor resist arrest
in any manner.
Dock Adam* on the Kniupage.
The Chronicle and Sbntinel repre
sentative conversed with the notorious
Doc Adams, Captain of the colored com
pany. Doc is determined to make a
“spec” on his own account out of the
Hamburg affair. He has instituted an
action of damages for three thousand
dollars against the county of Aiken, and
there seems to boa probability of his
gaining the suit. The action is based
upon a statute of South Carolina which
provides that any county in which any
parties receive injury from rioters shall
be held responsible in damages to the
party or parlies so injured.
Prince Riven.
A representative of the Chronicle
and Sentinel endeavored to find Prince
Rivers in Hamburg yesterday, but with
out success. He could not be found.
Rivers has charge of the orginal verdict,
and under the law has ten days within
which he may file it with the Clerk of
the Court.
THE ROMANCE: QR IIISTOUV.
[from the Louisiana (Mo.) Press.]
In the early days of Pike county,
when the cat-like r anther roamed the
hills, and the fleet-footed deer bounded
through the forests, there lived near
Bowling Green a man named Noah Ad
kins. Realizing the truth of the adage
that “it is not good for man to be
alone,” he took unto himself a wife.—
This lady was named Allison, who bad a
sod, William, by a former husband.—
This son, William, was a fine physical
man, and not inferior in intellect. In
1846 he joined Colonel Ralls’ regiment
ia Sterling Price’s brigade, and marched
to the wars in California, where he took
part in the conflid! at Santa Cruz and
other battles. After bis return he got
into a quarrel with hisstep-father. They
adjourned to Crane's tan yard to fight it
out, and by singular fatality each shot
the other's arm off This affair brought
on a separation between Noah and his
wif*-, and the latter went with her son
William aud her son-in-law, James Rob
bins (once a candidate for sheriff of
Pike county), to Independence, Mo.—
Some time previous to this a son John
had been born to Mrs. Adkins, and
he concluded to follow the fortunes
or misfortunes of his mother. Af
ter living in Independence some time
William Allison got the contract for car
rying the United States mails between
Independence and old Santa Fe. While
acting in this capacity he was killed by
the Indians, The boy (John) wandered
away and was eaptured by the Sioux In
dians. It is rarely that ever a prisoner
escapes torture and death at the hands
of the but Adkins seemed re
served by some unaccountable stroke of
fate for another destiny. He became
acquainted with the ways of the red.
skins, settled down to live among them,
and finally became one of thep,' chiefs,
and was in command of ojae of the de
tachments at the Liitfe Big Horn mas
sacre, where the gallant Custer and his
heroic little army rode into the jaws of
death. These facts were all related by
an old scout named Cook, who told them
in Bowliqg Green, To Col. N. P. Minor,
our reporter is indebted for the inci
dents.
In 186 L when the Colonel was with
the State troops in Southwest Missouri,
they met an old man who proved to be
old Noah Adkins. They asked him
where fie was going, and he told them
“that the d—d rebels had shot his arm
off, and he was returning to Pike coun
ty.” After reminding him that they
knew the circumstances of hk crippled
j condition, they allowed him to proceed,
and he was seen Noah more.
What will be the fate of John Adkins,
who has thus cast his fortunes with an
unfortunate race, the coming campaign
will decide.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Mrs. Ellen L. Bowman, of Darling
ton, is dead.
Oats sell at Ninety-Six for fifty cents
a bushel.
The Abbeville Cornet Band gives open
air concerts.
~ Mr. Mills Kelly, of Kershaw, died on
the 20th instant.
Eight white children have died in
Chester in four months.
The merchants of Kingstree are or
ganizing a Protective Uuiou,
Prof Janms H. Carlisle gave two lec
tures in Newberry last week.
Colonel Cothran is making speeches
at different points in Abbeville.
The churches in Abbeville are active
ly engaged in religious services.
The Methodist District meeting at
Batesburg takes piaoe about the mi 1-
dle of August,
Material has been ordered from New
York for the completion of a telegraph
line to Darlington. r
The Medium thinks the Centennial
year will long be remembered for the
number of its candidates.
The Pickens Sentinel says white Radi
cals are getting to be as scarce up there
as hens teeth. Wish Barnwell could
say the same.
The beef market in Walhalla has been
abundantly supplied this season, and
indications are that more butchers will
enter the market.
On Thursday evening, at Graham.ville,
the Ku-Klux and the Swamp Angel B.
B. Clubs played a match game the
gels 6 20 aIldiDg Ku KhlX> 21 i Bwam P An-
The primary election for the selection
of candidates for the Democratic party
takes place in Pickens on the 18fch of
Augu.at. Nearly everybody is joining
the clubs m Pickens.
The neighborhood of Centreville
mourns the loss of a popular and wor
thy young man, Mr. William C. Hale,
who died on the 19th inst., after a brief
illness, in the 25th year of his age.
One oompany of the Second Artillery,
at present stationed at Charleston, has
been ordered to report to Gen. Pope,
commanding the Department of Mis
souri. The transfer is in all probability
made to have them dose to the red
skins.
Last week in an alteroation at Port
Royal Henry McDermott Smith fired
two shots at Stephen James, the Mar
shal, none of which took effect; the Mar
shal then fired twioe at Smith, wound
ing him in the breast and thigh.—
Smith returned the fire, one of the balls
producing a scalp wound. Smith’s
wounds are not dangerous.
The break above this point on the
Blue Ridge Railroad has been mended,
and on last Saturday the trains over this
branch of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad began making regular trips.—
The trains from Belton and Walhalla
meet eaoh other at Broadaway and trans
fer passengers and baggage, so that the
inoonvenience of travel along this line
is greatly reduced.
Columbia Register: More of the ac
ceptable, agreeable gentlemen of the
18th United States Infantry (we hope
this won’t cause them to be called “rebel
sympathizers”) are to leave us. Com
pany I, commanded by Captain Morris
and subalterns Leahy and Cabaniss, are
ordered to York; Oompany G, command
ed by Capt. Hyer and Lieutenants Ben
ner and Patterson, are to take their place
at the barracks. Captain Morris’ is a
crack company from top to bottom, and
we hope that their successors may be of
the same material.
During the storm last Friday, John
Carlos, Jr., a young colored man living
about a mile north of Camden, left his
house under the apprehension that it
would be blown down. The wind did
not succeed in leveling the house, but
blew fire from the hearth which ignited
the building, and when John returned,
after the storm, his domicile was in
ashes. As the sufferer has done good
service as a fireman in Camden, an ap
peal from him to his white friends was
liberally responded to, and we hope he
will soon have another house.
A Baptist church, called Siloame, con
sisting of eleven members, was organ
ized, on Bushy Creek, in AnJeraou
county, on Wednesday last,' by a coun
cil from the Greenville, Grove Station,
George’s Creek, Easley and Mountain
Springs Churches. Rev. Dr. Hiden, of
Greenville, was chosen Moderator, and
D. lownsend Smith, Clerk pro tern.
After the organization and recognition
of the church, Dr. Hiden preached an
able and interesting sermon. The meet
ing was continued until Friday evening
by the Rev. G. W. Singleton, and two
were added to the church.
Anderson Intelligencer: One day last
week a squad of fourteen armed ne
groes came from Abbeville county into
the Bear Creek section of our oounty
with a warrant for the arrest of a white
man named Wilson, charged with shoot
ing the man named Williams, an ac
count of which we gavo last week, and
were very insolent to the people they
met, even going to private houses and
frightening women and children. Their
conduct was unlawful and seditions.
The Trial Justice who granted them the
warrant should be dismissed from office
at once, for just such conduct as this is
at the botlom of all the trouble through
the South. Our people exercised com
mendable forbearance in allowing these
marauders to return unmolested. If
such a thing is repeated, we advise onr
citizens to immediately secure warrants
for their arrest, and bring them to An
derson for trial. Either a 'warrant for
riot or a peace warrant would be a prop
er remedy for such violators of the law.
LINCOLN COCNTY.
Clay Hill, Lincoln Cos., Ga., /
July 28th 1876. (
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Please make the following correction
for me. By mistake I, as Secretary of the
late Democratic Convention of said coun
ty, stated in your paper that Mr. James
Barkesdale was one of the delegates to
the State Gubernatorial Convention to
convene at Atlanta, Georgia, on the 2d.
Capt, A. F, Chenalt’s should have
been put in piaoe of Mr. Barkesdale’s
name. I regret it. Yours respectfully,
J. E. Strother,
Seo’y Democratic Convention.
THE GENTLE SAVAGE.
The Cheyenne Leader tells the follow
ing fearful story of how some Crow In
dians mutilated and tortured a wounded
Sioux whom they captured: On the
morning following the battk of the
Rosebud, as the column was moving
from the place of the bivouac, there
suddenly arose among the red allies a
singular excitement. One of them had
ridden up to a dark object lying beside
the stream, and saw and gazed at it, and
after others had joined him, they all
chattered as wildly together as the bonth
Americau monkeys when they discover
the propinquity of a snake. After ges
tures and yells, they dismounted and
brandished knives. Approaching them,
there was seen lying on the fresh, dewy
grass, under the gentle shadow of a
stooping willow, the most horrible ob
ject that could meet the human eye. A
dusky human form, nude and blooi be
smeared, was writhing under the knives
of the merciless victors. The object was
a Sioux, who, in the latter part of the
fight, had been wounded by a Snake,
scalped and left for dead, 'in tearing
the tuft of raven hsfir from his head, a
portion of the bone, fractured with a
blow of the towahawk, had clung to the
flesh, and the bone was laid bare. And
in the morning the savage was still
alive, and hearing the tramp of horses,
and believing his tribe had beaten the
whites, he crawled out of the gully in
which he lay and oalled, “minne !” (wa
ter) to a Crow who had passed, and who
ha undoubtedly thought was a Sioux.
The Crow turned, and his face kin led
with a fearful joy. Six shots were fired
into the prostrate figure. The head and
limbs were severed from the body, and
the flesh basked, and the bones hewn
until there was nothing about it recog
nizable as human. Infamies too shame
ful and disgusting for record completed
the ghastly elimax of horror. It was an
illustration of the fiendish ferocity of
all the plains Indians against their foes.
The Sionx p<-aotice even more refined
barbarities, torturing their victims in
the most exquisite manner, and making
them more dreadful by deferring, by
every art in their power, the welcome
relief of death.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with anew pair of boots and
no mad paddle.
