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TO OUR SUBSCRIBER*).
We request our subscribers who owe
us to pay their subscriptions. It is
important to us that every man on ur
books should pay at once. Let each
subscriber bear in mind that while one
or two dollars may appear to be a
trifling amount, the aggregate amounts
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will respond promptly. tf
Tubbs is a rumor to the effect that
Mr. Gladstone will contribute to Har
per's Monthly tor December “a paper
explaining his attitude towards the Unit
ed States during the civil war.”
The official vote in West Virginia, for
Judges of the Supreme Court, shows a
Democratic majority of 19,955. The of
ficial returns for Governor will not be
opened till the Legislature meets in Jan
uary.
Home idea of the magnitude of the
grain trade of California and Oregon
may be gained from the faet that there
are now 143 cargoes of wheat afloat
from San Francisco and 12 from Oregon,
on their way to Enrope, and 74 vessels
waiting cargoes in the bay of San Fran
cisco.
Tweed arrives too late to be of ser
vice to the Republican party. If he
had reached tbia country before the
election there is little doubt that storiea
would have been published, purporting
to oorae from him, accusing Governor
Tilden of active participation in all the
franda committed by the “Boss” while
the latter had power in New York.
Radical repeaters did their work well
in South Carolina last Tuesday. Ac
cording to the census of Kershaw, taken
liy Republican officials last year, there
ure only thirty-fonr hundred voter*,
white and colored, in the oonnty. Yet
thirty-nine hundred votes were polled
there, and more than three hundred ma
jority given for Chamberlain. The
Board of Canvassers will doubtless con
sider this an eminently fair election.
The Seventh District has given Dr.
Felton, the independent candidate for
Congress, a large majority over Mr.
Dabney, the regular nominee of the
Democratic party. This is the second
defeat the party organization has sus
tained in that district. Mr. Dabney is
said to be a man of irreproachable char
acter and was fairly nominated. Two
years ago he was defeated by less than
two hundred votes—this year by two
thousand. There mnst be something
wrong with the party in the Seventh.
It is easy to understand why the
Louisiana Radicals have invited Benja
min F. Butler to be present at the
oounting of the votes. It is well known
that he is hated more intensely in New
Orleans than in any other Southern
city. It was there that he issued his in
famous order that United States sol
diers should treat the ladies of the city
as “women of the town plying their vo
cation.” The Radicals hope that his
preseuoe there will occasion an outbreak
from which they may gain some advan
tage.
The whisky thieves may congratulate
themselves that the election is over, for
now the time of their deliverance is at
hand. The polls bad scarcely closed
when the President signed the pardon
of Avert, one of the head centres
of the St. Louis conspiracy. MoKke,
the editor of the Globe-Democrat, will
also taste the sweets of executive clem
ency. The Preaident waa afraid to par
don these men while a political contest
was pending, but now he sees no reason
why he should not show his sympathy
with swiudlers.
Ruhor has it that the New York
Tribune has beeu sold to Geoboe W.
Childs, of Philadelphia, for $500,000,
the real estate belonging to the paper
being excepted. The correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer says this shows
a shrinkage of nearly $500,000 in the
value of the Tribune since Mr. Reid
took charge of it. In that interval Mr.
Sinclair, the publisher, has become a
$1,200 clerk in the Custom House. Mr.
Cleveland, the financial editor, died
the other day intestate, and Mr. Reid
has given up the experiment of revolu
tionising New York ideas on the sub
ject of journalism.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of recta a
popular misapprehension in regard to
the great Cobliss engine at the Centen
nial Exhibition. It is not, as is sup
posed by many, the largest engine in
the world. The Enquirer instances the
high pressure engines of the Mississippi
steamer Robert E. Lee, which are pre
cisely as large as the famous Cobliss.
The low pressure engines of the Grand
Republic are much bigger. The engine
of the Long Island Sound steamer Me
tropolis waa twelve feet stroke and one
hundred and eight inches in diameter.
There are a dozen steamboats plying
from New York whose engines are
doable the sice of the Centennial Cob
libs.
Chicago is in s ferment Judge Mc-
Allister, of the Criminal Court, is the
cause of it He is accused of having
disgraced the ermine bj his one-sided
rulings and partial instructions to the
jury in the trial of Alexander Sullivan
for the mnrder of Hanford, a few
months ago, A petition signed by over
twelve hundred names has been present
ed to him, requiring his resignation
from the bench. On the 26th ult the
the jury in the case was discharged,*
after having been out two or three nights
without being able to agree, and the
prisoner admitted to bail, notwithstand
ing the strong protest of the prosecut
ing counsel It is understood that
eleven of the jury were for acquittal and
one man, named Bibbt, for oonviction.
His refusal to side with his companions
provoked their abuse, and at one time,
during a hot discussion—according to
his own account—he was in danger of
his life. If Mr. MgAllistkr refuses to
resign, fans impeachment is talked of.
Two Putnam oounty negroes who
made Democratic speeches in Eaton ton
were shockingly treated by some of their
Republican brethren.
THE POPULAR VOTE.
The electoral vote for President seems
close. It will be exceedingly close if
the Republican Returning Boards are
permitted to throw oat the votes of Lou
isiana and South Carolina. Bat be this
as it may, there can be no donbt of
the popular majority obtained by Mr.
Tildes in the recent election. The fol
; lowing figures may be relied upon as ap
proximating correctness:
TILDE#. HAYEB.
Alabama 30,000 California 8,000
Arkansas 40.000 Colorado ...... 2,000
Connecticut 3,000 Illinois 6.000
Delaware 2,500 lowa 40.000
Georgia 80,000 Kansas 10,000
Kentucky 75,000 Massachusetts. .40.000
Maryland 18,000 Michigan 15.000
Mississippi 20,000 Minnesota 10,000
| Missouri .SO 000 Nebraska 5.000
New Jersey 5,000 Nevada 2,000
Tennessee 30,000 Ohio 4,000
Texas 70.000 Oregon 1,000
Virginia 35.000 Pennsylvania ...15;000
West Virginia 17.000 Rhode Island... 6.000
New York 33.000 Wisconsin 3,000
Indiana 8,000 Maine 7.000
North Carolina... 16,0(0 Vermont ... 10,000
Louisiana 10,000 NewHampshire. 4,000
Florida 1,000 ——
552,51X1
We have.not included Month Carolina
in the list because the majority there
will be so small, either one way or the
other, as not to have any effect npon the
general result. According to these fig
ures, Governor Tilden’s popular major
ity is over 364,000. The people have
proclaimed for him unmistakably and
overwhelmingly. If he is cheated the
people of the United States will also be
cheated.
THE FORTUNE OF WAR.
It is brought to mind by the London
limes that General W. W. Losing, who
had a command in the second Egyptian
expedition against the Abyssinians, has
never been heard of since the terrible
disaster that befel his troops. General
Losing at one time held a commission
in the Federal army, but when the civil
war broke out joined the Confederates
and became a Major-General in our*
service. At the close of the war he went
to Egypt and was appointed by the
Khedive to the position in which he is
supposed to have lost his life. In the
disastrous surprise which the Egyptians
suffered, General Lobino and several
other American .officers were on the staff
of Prince Hassan. The fate of these
men remains a mystery which it is hoped
may at some future period be explained.
In the first Egyptian expedition but one
man was known to have survived the
ambush of the Abyssinians, and that
was Count dk Liohy, who was left for
dead but came to, and lived for a fort
night in the midst of indescribable suf
fering, orawling from place to plaoe,
supporting himself on herbs and roots,
drinking the water remaining in the
flasks of his dead companions. He was
subsequently carried off as a prisoner.
DON'T BELIEVE. IT.
The following appears in the South
Carolina correspondent of the New York
Herald :
A bit of secret history ia going around
among the gossips to-day, which, if trae, dis
closes Governor Chamberlain's true inward
ness and furnishes an explanation of his ex
traordinary course in the canvass. For sev
eral days after the adjournment of the Repub
lican Convention it was a matter of donbt and
uncertainty whether he would accept the nom
ination on a tioket on which were several of
the most corrupt men in his party, and with
whom he had sworn never to affiliate or com
promise. While he wavered a proposition wae
made to him by the Democrats, to the effeot
that if he repudiated the ticket they would
support him for the Upited States Senate to
succeed Senator Robertson. This was Cham
berlain's highest ambition and the proposal
was flattering, but he still hesitated and held
it under consideration. He doubted the ability
of Democrats to elect a Legislature which
could send him to the Senate, but he wished,
if possible, to retain his reputation as a re
former by abandoning the oorrupt Republicans
by whom be was supported.
While in this doubtful frame of mind the
Governor left for the North, ostensiblyto meet
his family, but really in response to a sum
mons to consult with Zach Chandler and the
party leaders. It was there that he was de
cided in his present course. The electoral
vote of South Carolina was Required for Hayes,
and the bloody shirt campaign had to be push
ed to the extreme. Chamberlain was the only
Republican in the State who could cany out
the programme, and he came back with the
plan of campaign matured, including the proc
lamations and call for troops, which were
freely promised. Flooding a State with troops
was a dangerous experiment, but it was hoped
that Chamberlain's documents and the bloody
shirt arguments ,of Morton, Blaine and In
oersoll would justify it in the Northern mind,
or at least allow it to be received with uncon
cern. The whole plan of the campaign was
chan ed. lie publican meetings were called to
discuss the claims of eleotors and Congress
men, State politics being ignored and military
interference justifled on that acoonnt. It is
further stated that in the event of a defeat for
the Senate to succeed Robertson Chamber
lain was promised the Attorney-Generalship
in the event of the election of Gov. Hayes to
the Presidency as a reward for the hazardous
and dangerous campaign he was engaged in.
We don’t believe it. Chamberlain
would have jumped at each an offer. It
was only because of the refusal of the
Demoorats to take him up that the
devil’s hoof of the “Reformer” showed
itself so unmistakably.
CONGRESSIONAL CONTROL OF CITIES.
The Galveston Netas says that people
who think State and municipal govern
ments should be nnder the entire con
trol of Congress, like the Territories and
the District of Columbia, should make
themselves acquainted with the manner
in which the aflairs of the District of
Columbia have been managed since the
war. The amount of money squandered
at the expense of the General Govern
ment has been fabulous, while in many
oases the property of the citizens has
aotually been confiscated and sold to
pay taxes and assessments, leaving the
owners still in arrears on aooount of the
burdens imposed upon them. A Con
gressional committee is now engaged in
devising “anew form of government for
the District of Columbia,” but between
the rings which infest the city of Wash
ington and gobble up everything in the
Way of Government patronage, and the
swarms of negroes and others who have
orowded there without anything to be
taxed, and who vote mainly with a view
to seouring some immediate personal
advantage, the committee is embarrass
ed in saying whether the power should
all emanate from the General Govern
ment or be mainly given to the people.
The Constitution gives Congress
the control of the government
of the District, but does not prescribe
the manner in which it shall be exer
cised. The experiment of an elective
territorial government has been tried,
and proved disastrous to the property
owners and good order of the District.
Qualified suffrage is now advocated by
many, confining the vote to people of
intelligence who have an actual stake in
the District, and proposing a mixed gov
ernment for it, which shall be partly
elective and partly non-elective, partly
of executive appointment and partly of
popular choioe. But whether this would
be an improvement depends a good
deal upon the details, and the character
of those entrusted with carrying them
out. Asa Northern contemporary re
marks, “the functions of municipal
government are less political in their
character than administrative; that is to
say, they call for very much the same
business qualities as are needed in the
administration of any large private cor
poration, a university, a railroad, or
any great corporate enterprise. To se
cure these qualities in administration
ought to be the {Rime object in view,
whether in devising anew form of mu
nicipal government, as is proposed to
be done for the District of Columbia, or
in keeping such a government in health
ful operation, like any of the cities of
the country.”
THE LATE DR. JURJAH HARRIS*.
We publish from the Macon Telegraph
a tribute to the late Dr. J Uriah Habbiss,
of Savannah. Dr. Habbiss fell a victim
to the prevailing epidemic in our sister
city while in the discharge of his duty.
He was at the head of bis profession,
and was universally esteemed and re
spected by the community in whose be
half he sacrificed his life. Dr. Habbiss
was the youngest son of the Rev. Ju
biah Habbiss, of Colombia county, and
the brother of General Habbiss, Mrs.
Wm. M. D’Antionao and Mrs. Db. L. A.
Dugas. He studied medicine in this
city under Dr. L. A. Dugas, and was
a graduate of the Medical College
of Georgia. After graduating here, Dr.
Habbiss spent several years in Paris in
the pursuit of his profession. On re
tmrning home he located in Augnsta
and practiced in this city for a few
years, and afterwards moved to Savan
nah, in which city he devoted himself to
the practice of his profession for twenty
years. The void in the family circle
cannot be filled, and it will "be difficult
for the people of Savannah to supply
his place. He stood high in his pro
fession, and his death at this time is a
great calamity to the afflicted citizens of
Savannah.
ROTTEN SHIPS.
The Troy Times says that from tables
recently published it is seen what an
immense mercantile fleet is required to
carry on the trade of the world on the
seas, but, notwithstanding, it is anything
but pleasant to look at the long list of
annnal disasters to shipping, and it sug
gests the inquiry whether a large propor
tion of them is not wholly needless.
Last year 1,052 American vessels suffer
ed disaster, also a number of foreign
vessels in onr waters. Of this number
477 collided; 313, with a tonnage of
102,512 tons and cargoes valned at $lO,-
000,000, were wrecked, imperiling 20,-
215 lives and causing the death of 888
persons. In 1873-4 150 vessels were re
ported to the British board of trade that
were not heard from after they had sail
ed. They carried 2,381 persons. Be
sides these 6,084 vessels were reported
to the same authority as having suffered
various disaster?, with au aggregate loss
of 6,817 lives. For the 10 years ending
June 30, 1874, there were 22,098 wrecks,
collisions and other casualties in the
vicinity of the British islands alone.
The property thereby lost amounted to
over $700,000,000. Nine hundred and
twenty-three of the vessels were over
fifty years old, and twelve over a hun
dred. There are casualties on the sea
against whioh “ribs of oak” and the best
skill of man frequently contend in vain.
But suoh figures as we have quoted show
gross violations of the laws of safety.
It is probably that carelessness, if not
ignorance, and the use of time-worn ves
■ ils bring about most of the marine dis
asters. The large number required to
express the extent of Ameriean losses at
sea suggest the propriety of having a
Pbimsoll this side of the ocean. There
is, indeed, an excellent ohanoe for ben
evolence to try its hand at devising a
system of some kind, which shall, by
appropriate legislation or otherwise,
compel greater precautions on the part
of ship owners and sailors.
AN IMPORTANT MATTER.
that the election is over, so far,
at least, as the people are concern
ed, we have time ‘to think of other
things. There is one subject in which
our citizens are vitally interested. We
allude to the construction of the Augus
ta and Hartwell Railroad. We repeat
now what we have so often said before
concerning the necessity of and the ad
vantages to be derived from the con
struction of this line through the valley
of the Savannah to Rabun Gap, and a
direct connection with the great railway
system of the West and the Northwest.
We have lost, by the completion of the
Air Ltoe Railway, a great deal of the
trade of the upper Savannah country
which formerly came to Augusta. Efforts
are now being made, and with some
prospect of success, to take away no
small share of the remainder. Unless
something is speedily done these efforts
will be successful. If we set supinely
by whilst others work against us, we
may expect to lose much of that busi
ness naturally tributary to Augusta, and
which has hitherto been fonnd so profit
able. Apart from saving that which
otherwise will be lost, there is * much to
be gained 'by the construction of this
line. It will afford a short and com
peting route to Knoxville, Cincinnati and
Chicago. Beyond Babun Gap is the
Great West, from whioh we obtain an
nually so large an amount of bacon,
corn and other supplies. The Western
producer and shipper will naturally pat
ronize the shortest route to the sea, and
the grain depot for this portion of the
South. Let us look at a few figures.
The distance from Augusta to Cincin
nati, by the present route is 769 miles,
divided as follows: From Augusta to
Atlanta, 171 miles; from Atlanta to Chat
tanooga, 138 miles; from Chattanooga to
Nashville, 151 miles; from Nashville to
Louisville, 189 miles; from Louisvile to
Cincinnati, 110. Via the Angusta and
Hartwell Railroad, it is 507 miles, di
vided as follows ; From Angusta to Ra
bun Gap, 150 miles ; Rabun Gap to
Knoxville, 85 miles; Knoxville to Junc
tion, 130 miles; Junction to Nicholas
ville, 30 miles; Nicholasville to Cincin
nati, 113 miles. This gives us a differ
ence of 252 miles in favor of the route
via the Angusta and Hartwell Road,
and a saving in time of nearly twenty
four hours in the transportation of
freight The road can be built despite
the hard times. The people all along
the line are thoroughly aroused as to
the importance of the scheme, and will
heartily co-operate in any movement
which may be inaugurated. They will
subscribe liberally to the stock, and pay
for it in either money or labor. The
counties through which it passes will
also subscribe largely in their corporate
capacity. When Rabun Gap is reached
all difficulty disappears. The people of
the section between Maryville, Tennes
see, and the Georgia State line have
already given assurances that they will
build that portion of the line, provided
that from Walhalla to the line is con
structed by their neighbors. From
Maryville to Junction there is a contin
uous line already built. From Junctibn
to Nicholasville there is another gap of
thirty miles, ten of which are graded.
From this point there is a continuous
line to Cincinnati So then there are in
all one hundred and ninety-two miles of
road to be built to complete the Air Line
route between Augusta and Cincinnati.
The first objective point in this gap is
the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad.
Work once commenced on that, the
other seventy-two miles will quickly be
constructed.
The citizens of Augusta can easily
raise enough money by individual tub
scriptions to oommenoe the work, and
onoe commenced its completion is as
sured. State aid to a moderate amount
might also be obtained from the Legisla
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 22, 1876.
tare which would greatly assist the enter
prise.
All this is preliminary to reminding
onr readers that the Convention to con
sider the construction of a connection
between Angusta and Knoxville has
been called to meet in this city on
the 29th instant. It is held in Au
gusta upon the invitation of a
large number of onr leading busi
ness firms. The deliberations of
this body can not fail to be beneficial.
It should be attended by onr best citi
ze s. The counties of Colombia, Lin
coln, Wilkes, Elbert, Hart, Franklin,
Habersham and Rabnn, in Georgia, and
Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee and Pick
ens, in Sonth Carolina, should all send
full delegations to the Convention. The
matter should be attended to at once, as
the Convention will be held in about
two weeks. We hope the merchants of
Angusta will take early action and see to
it that this city is represented by active
and energetic men.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The intelligence from Sonth Carolina
is of the most gratifying character. The
State Board of Canvassers which was
relied upon by the Republicans to falsi
fy the returns and coant Chamberlain
in has qnailed before pnblic indig
nation, and decided that it has no juris
diction over the election returns for
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.—
There is no longer any donbt as to the
election of General Hampton and the
entire State ticket. Sonth Carolina has
at last been delivered from the hands of
the spoiler. Ignorance and corruption
shall no longer insult and oppress in
telligence and virtue, and South Caro
lina takes a place among her sisters of
the Union as a free and independent
State. Since the real character of
Chamberlain has been exposed, since
the strength of the Democracy and the
weakness of the Republicans have been
revealed, it is a matter of great rejoicing
that the suicidal policy of compromise
and coalition was rejected. The straight
out policy has won. The straightout
policy was the only policy that oould
win. The movement inaugurated in
Edgefield and Anderson has borne good
fruit. The originators of that movement
placed Wade Hampion at its head and
the straightout ticket aroused an en
thusiasm among the people to which
the State has been a stranger since the
war. We opposed as earnestly and as
ably as we could the policy of coalescing
with the infamous Chakberlan and one
wing of the Republican party, because
we knew that it was fraught with cer
tain danger to the best Interests of the
State. We knew that whioh ever side
might win the result would be most dis
astrous to the people. We felt assured
that if the good men of South Carolina
ehose a worthy leader and made a square
fight against corrnption they would
win a glorious victory. The event had
proven that we were right. The “Edge
field policy,” as it has been sneeringly
termed, has won the day and the last
Southern State has been emanicipated
from the bondage of Radicalism.
THE SAVANNAH EPIDEMIC.
The announcement of the Medical So
ciety of Savannah that it is safe for
refugees to return to the eity will bring
joy to the hearts of thonsands who have
been wearily waiting the abatement of
the pestilence. Our sister, city has in
deed been sorely tried, and we thank the
great Giver of all Good that her trou
bles are at last at an end. We protest
that we heve witnessed no more melan
choly spectacle than that of a fair eity
blighted in a day as by the stroke of
a foul magician’s wand. The day before
the breaking ont of the fever everything
looked bright and beautiful in Savannah.
Merchants were confidently expecting a
large business, and all the indications
pointed to a Fall and Winter trade
which would go far towards recompens
ing the people for previous “hard times.”
In an instant the scene changed. Men,
women and children fled for their lives;
all was confusion and fright and panic,
and pestilence walked the beautiful
streets at mid-day. Disease and death
invaded nearly every home and carried
away the best and dearest of the honse
h old. Trade was paralyzed, except a
ghastly commerce in drags and coffins,
and every industry came to a stand still,
save the labor of doctors and nurses.
For two months and a half the eity has
been a vast hospital and the grave yard
has swallowed up its hundreds and tens
of hundreds. But at last the night
ended and the day dawned. Heaven
sent the kindly Frost, and at his
touch the scourger fled. The refu
gees return to a sad eity, many of
them to desolated homes. Vacant chairs
will be found in many once happy fam
ily oiroles, signs of death will be fonnd
on every hand, emblems of monrning
will meet every eye. But they must not
lose heart, or hope, or courage. On the
contrary, they should feel inspired to
labor with renewed energy to build up
Savannah and eradicate all traces of the
disaster, so far, at least, as the material
interests of their eity are concerned.
Those deeper wonnds which the hand
of Providence inflicted, the band of
Providence alone can heal. There is
yet time in which much can be accom
plished. The season is not over; on
the contrary, it has jnst commenced.
There mnst be no despondency, no
croaking. Every man must go bravely
and resolntely to work compel suc
cess by deserving it. Savannah is justly
the pride of Georgia and of Georgians,
and we shall watch with interest the res
toration of her prosperity.
Too much cannot be said in praise of
the noble men—physicians and laymen
—who remained npon the scene of dan
ger and daily risked their own lives
to save the lives of others. The valor
that sends men with banners waving,
trumpets sonnding, thonsands looking
on, and fired with the fieroe thrill of bat
tle, to meet death at the cannon’s month
is as cowardice compared to tkat nobler
and trner courage that impels men, able
to fly and encouraged to do so by the
flight of others, to remain in a city of
pestilenee and death; to work Bilently,
steadily and faithfully, by day and by
night, amid all the gloom, the despon
dency, the horrors whioh pestilence
brings in its train, to tend upon the sick
and the dying, to alleviate human suf
fering and make smooth the bed of
death. Many, alas, fell at their posts
and died for them they songht to save.
These fell like martyr’s in a holy cause,
and the pearly gates of Heaven swung
wide to let them in, and the chosen
angels of the Lord welcomed them to
the abode of the blessed. Some there
are who were spared, and. to them all
honor should be paid. Living and dead
are richly entitled to the lasting grati
tude of the city which they served so
heroically and at such a fearful cost.
Hobbors on horrors head aocutnlate.
Another perplexity is added to the polit
ical situation. It has been discovered
that unless some remedy be devised the
country will be without a President for
twenty-four hours. Mr. Firry, Presi
dent of the Senate, cannot act in that
capacity because his Senatorial term
expires at mid-day on the fourth of
March. How this interregnum shall be
avoided is now a prettey question for
the politicians to discuss.
CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY.
What Waa Done ia Consrem Whea Graat
Was Declared Re-Elected.
At the hour of 1 o’clock, after due no
tice that the Honse was ready, the Sen
ate proceeded in a body to the House.
Then Mr. Sherman acted as teller for
the Senate, and Mr. Dawes, Mr. Beck
and others as tellers for the House, the
Vice-President presiding and the Speaker
of the Hoase seated at his left band.
The counting and recording of the vote
proceeded regularly until the certificate
of the vote of the electors of Georgia had
been read by the tellers, whsn Mr. Hoar
put the following written objeetion:
“Mr. Hoar objects that the votes re
ported by the tellers as having been
cast by the electors of the State of Geor
gia for Horace Greeley, of New York,
cannot lawfully be counted, because
said Horace Greeley, for whom they ap
pear to have been cast, was dead at the
time said electors assembled to cast their
votes, and was not a ‘person’ within the
meaning of the Constitution, this being
an historic fact of which the two houses
may properly take notice.”
Some objections also having been
stated to the vote of Mississippi, the
Senate, under the twenty-second joint
rule, withdrew.
In the Senate the part of the joint
rule bearing upon the determination of
the question waa raised as folltws :
If upon the reading o! any such cer
tificate by the tellers any question shall
arise in regard to oounting the votes
therein certified, the same having been
stated by the presiding officer, the Sen
ate shall thereupon withdraw, and said
question shall be submitted to that
body for its decision; and the Speaker
of the Honse of Representatives shall in
like manner submit said question to the
House of Representatives for its decis
ion; and no question shall be decided
affirmatively, and no vote objected to
shall be counted, except by the concur
rent votes of the two Houses, which be
ing obtained, the two Houses shall im
mediately reassemble, and the presiding
officer shall then announce the decision
of the question submitted, and upon
any such question there shall be no de
bate in either House; and other ques
tious pertinent to the object for which
the two houses are assembled may be
submitted and determined in like man
ner.
After some amendments offered by
Mr. Conkling, giving reasons for action,
and striking out the word “not,”, on
motion of Mr. Sherman a resolution of
Mr. Edmunds was passed in these words:
Resolved , That the electoral vote of
Georgia, cast for Horace Greeley, be
counted.
The House retained the word “not”
in its resolution; so the two houses dis
agreed as to whether electoral votes cast
for a candidate who died after a popular
election should be counted, or more
properly, perhaps, they disagreed as to
whether the houses had the power to de
termine the question. But the result of
the disagreement under the rule was
that the three votes east for Mr. Greeley
were not counted. The Vice-President
stated that by a precedent four years
ago it was not necessary that the resolu
tion should be concurrent, but the
decisions must accord.
Mr. Trumbull objects to counting
the votes cast for President and Vice-
President by the eleotors in the State of
Mississippi, for the reason that it does
not appear from the certificate of said
eleotors that they voted by ballot.
This objection was not urged by Mr.
Trumbull, and the votes of Mississippi
were oonnted.
The vote of Arkansas was not counted,
because the certificate was not under
the seal of the State but the seal of the
Secretary of State. The two Houses
failing to consent, the vote of this State
was not counted. From Louisiana there
were two sets of returns ; one signed by
the Governer and regular upon its face,
the other by a returning board,. But
there had been a report from a commit
tee of the Senate showing that the Grant
board certified without returns, and the
other without a legal count. Both
Houses resolved against counting Lou
isiana. So it resulted that three votes
of Georgia were not couuted, and all the
votes of Arkansas and Louisiana were
not counted!
The precedents are: 1. That under
the joint rule the two Houses may judge
as to the existence of the person voted
for, which goes to the qualifications. 2.
They may reject votes for irregularity of
the proceedings and certificates from the
States.
The result was, of the 366 eleotoral
votes, Grant and Wilson got 286 and all
the others 63. The Vice-President de
clared Grant and Wilson elected Presi
dent and Vice-President.
Henry M. Stanley Denounced.
[From the Fall Mall Gazette ]
It is satisfactory to learn that tha at
tention of the Government has been
called to Mr. Stanley’s proceedings in
Central Africa, and that steps will be ta
ken to repudiate the apparent responsi
bility which that “pioneer of civiliza
tion” has in a wholly unauthorized man
ner contrived to fix upon this country.
A memorial has been addressed to Lord
Derby on this subject by the committees
of the aborigines’ protection and anti
slavery societies, and the official answer
to it has just been published. It states
that “his lordship has read with great
regret reports of the circumstances
which seem to have taken place in con
nection with Mr. Stanley’s explorations,
and which have created suoh a painful
impression in the oountry.” Mr. Stan
ley not being a British subject, Her Ma
jesty’s Government have no authority
over him; but “his Lordship cannot but
hope, looking to the character which
Mr. Stanley has won in this country by
his expedition in search of Dr. Living
stone, that he may eventually be able to
afford some explanation or justification
of his proceedings whioh is not apparent
from the reports whioh have been as yet
received.” As regards -this charitable
hope of the Foreign Secretary, the only
comment whioh suggests itself is that
Mr. Stanley has np to the present been
the reporter of his own proceedings; and
if he is to be judged ont of his own
mouth, the appearance of any subse
quent explanation or justification of his
proceedings is in the last degree im
probable, and that for the simple reason
that he obviously sees nothing in them
which requires to be explained or jus
tified. Considering, however, the man
ner in which his doings are regarded in
this country, it is as well that Mr. Stan
ley’s andacions assumption of an Eng
lish mission should be at once put a stop
to, and we are glad to learn that “Lord
Derby will cause Her Majesty's consuls
on the east coast of Africa to be instruct
ed to intimate to him, if any means of
communicating with him should be open
to them, that he has no authority to
lioist the English flag.”
Great Battle* ef the Werld.
[From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.]
At Durham, 1846, there fell 15,000; at
Halidonhill and Aginoourt, 20,000 each;
Bauzen and Lepante, 25,000 each; at
Austerlits, -Jeon and LutzeD, 30,000
each; at Elyan, 60,000; at Watedoo and
Quatre Bras, one engagement, 70,000;
at Doredino, 80 000; at Fontenoy, 100,-
000; at Tarmonth, 150,000; at Chalon,
no less than 300,000 of Attilla’s army
alone. The Moors in Spaio, about the
year 800, lost in one battle 70,000; in
another, four oenturies later, 180,000,
besides 50,000 prisoners; and in a third,
even 200,000. Still greater was the
carnage in ancient times. At Canneee,
70,000 fell.
The Romans alone, in an engagement
with the Cimbri and Tentones, lost 80,-
000. The Oarthagenians attacked Hy
mera in Sicily with an army of 300,000
men, and a fleet of 2,000 ships and 3,000
transports; but not a schooner or trans
port escaped destruction, and of the
troops only a few in a small boat reach
ed Carthage with the melancholy tid
ings. Marius slew, in one battle, 140,-
000 Gauls, and another 290,000. In the
battle of Issus, between Alexander and
Darius, 110,000 were slain; in that of
Arbela, 300,000. Julius Csssar onoe an
nihilated an army of 362,000 Helvetians;
in a battle with the TJ si petes he slew
400,000; and on another occasion he
massacred 430,000 Germans, who “had
crossed the Rhine with their herds and
flocks and little ones in quest of new
settlements.”
STATUE OF LIBERTY.
The Jewish Ogerinc in Sew York—Con
■eatoratire of Religions Liberty.
New Yobs, November 15. —The steam
er Alexandria, which arrived here yes
terday, has on board the statue of re
ligious liberty, which is to be presented
to the General Government by the Jew
ish Order of the B’nia Brith, Son ef the
Covenant, to commemorate the entire
freedom which the Jewish race has ever
enjoyed under American institutions.
THE STRIKE.
DEAD LOCK ON THE GEORGIA
RAILROAD.
Fifteen Trains Stepped en the Line—What
Both Sides Say—Negotiation* Lookinß to a
Settlessent Gains On.
At half-past ten o’olock last night, the
locomotive engineers of the Georgia
Railroad informed Mr. Henry Edmond
ston, acting Superintendent in the place
of Mr. Johnsonpwho ia absent, that at
1 o’clock this morning they would stop
all trains, at whatever point they may
be, at that hoar. The alleged cause of
this strike, we learn, is the redaction of
wages some weeks ago, and the move
ment doubtless arises from an under
standing in the Brotherhood of Engin
eers. These troubles will be of great
inconvenienoe to Augusta and all points
along the line of the Georgia Road, and
we hope that the matter may be speedi
ly remedied.
Everything was praotically at a stand
still on the Georgia Railroad yesterday.
At the freight depot and abont the cot
ton yard a sort of Sabbath stillness pre
vailed instead of the usual busy scene.
The way freight train left early
in the morning, the locomotive being
in eharge of Mr. John Lard, who is not
a member of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. The morning pas
senger train left on schedule time, Mr.
John Stolb, a veteran engineer, man
aging the engine. The down passenger
train also left Atlanta on time, the mas
ter machinist at the oompany’s shops in
Atlanta running the loeomotive.
Six freight trains left Angusta Tues
day, and seven left Atlanta. Thus thir
teen freight and two passenger trains
were at a
Stud Still
On the line yesterday, all having stop
ped when the hour of 1, a. m., arrived,
Monday night. The up passenger halt
ed at Greenesboro and the down pas
senger at Aloovy. The freight trains
are at different points on the road.
The practical blockade necessarily
compelled the two passenger trains
which left Augusta and Atlanta yester
day to make slow progress. Each of
the halted trains bad to be moved
from the main line before those
moving up and down oould pass. At
12:30 the down train had reached
Rutledge. At fi o'clock i the afternoon
it was expeoted that it would reach Au
gusta about 9:30 last evening. No train
left Angnsta last night. The accommo
dation train
Did Not Come In
Yesterday morning, but an extra train
was made up and sent out in its plaoe in
the afternoon.
Mr. S. Ji. Johnson, Superintendent of
the road, ia in Atlanta.
A reporter of the Chconiolb and Sen
tinel learned from Mr. Gook, foreman
of the machine shop, yesterday, that on
the Bth of last September the wages of
about twenty-four of the engineers on
the road were reduced from three dol
lars and a half to two dollars and a half
per day. Nineteen or twenty were kepti
at the full rate, according to train.
Reporter: Did t)ie authorities have
any idea of patting all back at old
rates ?
Mr. Gook : It was the intention of
the oompany to have raised eight of the
twenty-four to fall rates, dating from
November Ist. The same thing was
promised to abont eight more, to com
mence on the Ist of January nest. About
seven are new men, who oowe un
der the head of
Apprentice Runners
At $2 50 per day.”
Mr. Gook said the road would oon
tinne to run its passenger trains, bat
conld do nothing with regard to the
freight trains for the present.
A reporter of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel call don Judge King, President
of the road, and spoke to him in ref
erence to the troubles.
Reporter : Will you yield to the en
gineers, Judge Ring ?
Judge King ; As far as lam concern
ed. I will not. I will see the road sunk
first. If we have to reoeive instructions
from Cleveland, Ohio, how to rnn onr
road, we had better stop running it. If
the engineers wanted to quit work why
didn’t they do it in the ut-ual way. By
leaving with the trains and then stop
ping them on the road they have com
mitted a misdemeanor, and an be pros
eouted under the law. Every passenger
who was on the trains, and every party
who had goods on any of the freight
trains, can proseente these men for a
misdemeanor. I shall leave the matter
in the hands of Mr. Johnson, the Super
intendent. ft
The engineers of the road, who were
in tne oity, were very
Qniel But Determined
During the day. They had bat little to
say abont the matter, but informed the
Chronicle and Sentinel reporter that
they would make a full statement of
their aide of the ease at the proper
time. They had, they said, made every
attempt for some time past to oome to a
settlement with the road, bat had re
ceived no satisfaction. Division No.
131, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, was in session last evening.
This is the Angusta Division, of which
Mr. Henry Gibson iB the Chief Engi
neer.
The dead-look causes great anxiety in
Angusta, as a large quantity of freight
is now on the road.
Negotiations were pending between
officers of the road and a deputation of
the engineers yesterday afternoDn, with,
as we are informed, some prospect of a
settlement.
What the Enatneer* Say.
Last evening a Chbonicls and Senti
nel reporter interviewed several of tbe
engineers. They made a statement aboot
as follows:
“Eighteen months ago the engineers
on the Georgia Railroad were receiving
four dollars and a quarter per day and
board. The wages were first reduced to
four dollars a day with board cat off.
Soon afterwards to three dollars and a
half, with the distinct understanding
that when the business of tbe road ad
mitted the full pay, four dollars, should
be re-established, if we would accept
the three dollars and a half cheerfully,
which we did. Instead of this it was re
duced to two dollars and a half for all
through freight engineers butene.
Lately the road has done a very large
business, bnt our wages were not raised.
We declare that we did use every effort to
come to terms with Col. Johnson. Last
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday our
Grand Chief Engineer, P. M. Arthur, of
Cleveland, was in Angnsta for the pur
pose of trying to arrange matters with
tbe Georgia Railroad authorities. In
concert with a committee of Division
131 he had several interviews with Col.
Johnson and Judge King, bnt conld ob
tain no. satisfaction. The basis of a
settlement was the restoring of the
wages to three dollars and a half per
day. Finding that nothing could be
done Mr. Arthur returned home. Col.
Johnson knew that the matter was not
satisfactorily adjusted to ns. We pro
posed to-day to settle for three dollars
and a half, all round. We have no idea
of yielding. We have to work on an
nverage sixteen honrs a day, and two
dollars and a half is not a proper com
pensation. It is less than any other
road is paying.
Arrival of the Train.
The passenger train which left Atlanta
yesterday morning arrived at the Union
Depot last night at ten o’clock, bringing
with it the train that left Atlanta Tues
day night. Mr. Wm. Rushton, master
mechanic, was in charge of the engine.
A number of delegates to the Presbyte
rian Synod were on tbe train. The day
passenger train will leave Augusta this
morning on ached nle time.
HOSTILE INDIANS.
The Cheyenne. on the War Path—Crook's
Most FomldaUs Adversaries.
New Yobk, November 15.—A Sydney,
Nebraska, dispatch says the passengers
on the stage from the Red Cloud Agen
cy say the Cheyennes have left their
camp on Oakland creek, and gone north
to join Crasy Horse. These Indians are
better fighters than the Sioux, and the
exodus will add great strength to the
foroe opposed to Gen. Crook.
THE VERMONT ELECTOR.
Drwnunln# Da Law Potato—Taft to Tadtara
Upoa the Satinet.
Washington, November 15.—Letters
have been sent from the Department of
Justice to the proper judicial authorities
in Vermont. The object seems to be
that every legislative and judicial act
bearing upon tbe case of Postmaster
Sollaoe may be at hand. Judge Taft at
present declines to be quoted on the
subject.
THE POLITICAL DRAMA.
THE PLOT THICKENS AND THE
PLAY ROLLS ON.
The Maltltade af Caaasellan Gather Asa
Afar—The Contest In Louisiana and Florida
to he Lobr and Bitter—Dramming Vp Law
for the Vermont Elector—H9sooderstaodla
la Wisconsin - Scanning the Lists ef the
Solid Sooth Mississippi Republicse
Clamor for a Revisory Connell Cheerio*
New* from the DoahtfM States Still Con
tinue—The North Greatly Bxoited—Pros,
poets of a Victory la the Sweet By and By.
Washington, November lfi.—The
Herald has an elaborate Tallahassee
special. Official returns from nine ooun
tifls justify the unofficial returns made
some days ago. It is settled that full
returns of the County Canvassing
Boards will give the State to Drew by
over nine hundred and to Tilden by over
five hundred. These returns will be at
tacked by the Republicans before the
State Canvassing Board. The Demo
orats are confident that they can defend
every return. The oontest before, the
State Board will probably be long and
bitter. A dozen counties will be -at
tacked by one party or the other. The
testimony in each case is voluminous.
The Tribune's New Orleans special
says the Democrats claim that a count of
the votes aotually oast will show Til Jen
has oarried the State by about 8,000 ma
jority, and Nieholls by about 9,000.
The Republicans, I believe, do not deny
that a majority of the votes aotually
polled are against them, but they assert
that under the law they will be able to
prove that several parishes were oarried
by the Demoorats by intimidation and
violence, and that when the votes from
these parishes are rejected, as they will
be legally, Hayes and Paokard will be
found to have oarried the State.
New Yobk, November, 15.—Wm. H.
Robertson, Gen. Francis 0. Barlow, and
Assistant District Attorney-General Rol
lins have started for Tallahassee. Wm.*
M, Evarts declines to go South.
Jfhn S. Williams, of the firm of Wil
liams ft Guion, is dead.
Washington, November 15.—The Cab
inet yesterday disensaed the Vermont
and Oregon postmasters, chosen elec
tors. Southern matters were also dis
cussed. The Cabinet appears to agree
pith the President that the duty of
the army South is to preserve peace,
aud tg report through regular snay
channels election frauds and to prevent
iawleas interference, and not to inter
ere themselves with the maohinery for
counting the votes. A Republican elec
tor in Oregon has resigned his post
office. The Department has plaoed the
Office in charge of an agent. It is stated
that several Centennial Commissioners
who hold commissions under the broad
seal of the United States have been
ohosen electors.
New Orleans, November 14.—Gar
field, of Ohio, and Kelly, of Pennsylva
nia, will arrive to-morrow, when the Re
publicans will answer the communica
tion of the Democrats. The eity ia very
quiet.
Milwaukee, November 15.—Several
weeks before the election onoof the Re
publican candidates was discovered to
be ineligible. The change made in the
tickets did not reach all points, but the
faulty ballots are sufficient to raise a
doubt of the election of tne eligible can
didates.
New Yobs, November 15. If. H.
Leeph, Pftre of W. IP. Screws, Mont
gomery, 4iq. f The political victory is
still olaimed by both parties,
[Signed] D, T. Abosmbha.
Charleston, November 15. —The Co
lumbia correspondent of the News mnd
Courier telegraphs that official returns
have been received from all the eonn
ties of the State exoept Laurens, Ker
shaw, Colleton and Darlington. The
retnrns for Laurens county have been in
Columbia since Friday, but have not
been delivered yet to the Canvassing
Board. The correspondent is informed
by a Republican, whose name is not
given, that the majority olaimed for
Hayes by the Republicans, npon the re
turns as they stand, ia only 1,290, and
for Chamberlain something Wy No
county is thrown out in this om&nation.
Chief Jnstice Carter is in Columbia
and visited Governor Chamberlain. Car
ter says in conversation that there is not
half so muoh excitement here as at the
North.
Scanning the Seathera Lists.
Washington, November lg.—Repub
licans are scanning lists of Southern
eleotors for someone laboring under po
litical disabilities.
A Howl Areni Mlssisslßßl.
Jackson, Miss., November 15.—The
following telegram was sent to-day to
General James A. Garfield, at New Or
leans: The Republicans of Mississippi
earnestly invite you and your associates
of both parties, when you have com
pleted yonr investigations in Louisiana,
to visit this Stale to make a like inves
tigation into the frauds and violenoe
with whioh the State has been carried,
[Signed] H. R. Ware, 1
Chairman Republican State Executive
Committee.
THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Election af President and Speaker—Govern
or'* Menace— State Matters Financial
Caaßdenee—Penitentiary and PnhUc *ahoala
—National Consratalation—A Proud Vic
tory.
Montgomery, November 15. Tha
Senate eieoted R. W. Lobb President,
and the House eieoted B. N. Clements
Speaker. Both have served two terms
in the respective Houses.
Governor Houston’s message ia de
voted principally to State affairs. He
refers to the great economy in all State
departments, and calls special attention
to the faot that State obligations whioh
were sold at sixty to seventy cents on
the dollar, when he went into offioe in
1874, now command ninety-two to nine
ty-three. This he attributes to
the confidence the people have
in the Government of their own
ohoioe. The penitentiary, whioh coat
the State a large sum of money nnder
previons administrations,' is notr a
sonree of considerable revenue to the
State. Immigration is also tending the
fact on whioh be congratulates theStste.
Public schools are prosperous and in
creasing in usefulness.
In Federal politics, he says: Allow me
to oongratnlate you and the entire ooun
try upon the signal and brilliant snooess
of the patriotic people of the United
States in their great struggle against
fraud and corruption as practiced
by the party in the oontrol of the
Federal Government in the election
by an unprecedentedly large popular ma
jority of Tilden and Hendricks for Presi
dent and Vice-President of the United
States. They have achieved a victory
unequaled by any known to civilized
governments; a victory achieved through
the quiet and peaceful instrumentality
of the baUots—the mode provided fay
our fathers for the protection and
maintenance of the Government in its
strength and party. No blood, no vio
lence, no force; they have covered them
selves with never fading and imperish
able honor, and made a name of whioh
their children to the latest generation
may be justly proud.
WAS IT A “SQUARE DEAL W
{Pall MaXL Gazette ]
A curious story oomes from Paris. It
is not so very long siuoe a young man,
well dressed snd apparently rioh, enter
ed a clandestine gaining house. He waa
playing at trente-et-guarante, and bad
already won a little pile of gbld. “Red
wins, presently said the banker, and
proceeded to hand over a hundred Ns
poleons to the unknown one, for tbe
stakes were high. Bat the stranger
made no attempt to take the gold, And
returned no answer to the three or four
questions put to him in reference to the
game. His eyes remained fixed on the
red, while his features assumed s ghast
ly paleness. A player touched his arm
—he was dead. Then the banker coldly
withdrew tbe 100 Napoleons, observing
that play was in the nature of a recipro
cal contract, which could only be enter
ed into between parties both of Whom
were capable of contracting, and there
fore never between a live asan and a
dead one. The cause of death waa
heart disease, snd the official report was
soon drawn np in proper form. It con
tained, as may be imagined, no sort of
reference to a gaming house.
A beautiful female lobbyist says that
one tear, if it can be so shed as to re
fieet the light of s bright setting sun,
will have more power over the average
Congressman than all the rgnypr.t
that, oonld be compressed into" two
hoars conversation.
Little or no trimmings are worn on
dreee skirts.
Fur bands on dreaees should be nsr
nw; those on mantles will he wide.
$2 A TEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
TGB people and the papers,
Tuesday’s Items.
Republican roosters have the pip.
Tho State Oapitol isin need of repairs.
Mrs. J. H. Werner, of Newton ooanty,
is dead.
Felton’s official majority in the Sev
enth is 2,545.
Miss Anna Thompson, of Greene
oonnty, is dead.
The Atlanta Sunday Herald grows
brighter with each issue.
Gassimeres, superior in quality, are
manufactured in Cobb county.
Mr. John T. Morton, an old and high
ly resMoted oitiaen of Sparta, ia dead.
J. F. Mnrphey, Esq., is now proprie
tor of a first olass boot shop in Lexing
ton.
Mechanic, No. 2, of Atlanta, has a
new steamer, christened Samnel J.
Tilden.
Mr. Harris’ majority over Mr. Hil
liard’s in the Fourth District is fully five
thousand.
Several water packed bales of ootton
hive been sold in Greenesboro during
the season.
Jefferson oounty has raised enough
sorghum syrup to liquidate the oounty
indebtedness.
Crawfordville needs more girls, says
the Echo, Look out for a Sabine raid
npon Athens.
The Atlanta Times thinks that this is
the dullest dramatic season we have had
ittfour years.
Haftpton received several hundred
complimentary votes in Georgia pre
cincts last Tuesday.
Willie Markham, Rad. oandidate for
Congress in the Fifth Distriot, won a
ping hat on his own defeat.
The Georgia Railroad is doing a better
business now than it ever has; so aays
the Atlanta Commonwealth.
An Atlanta girl wouldn’t write to her
fellow because she couldn’t get any car
dinal red stamps to match her paper.
The considerate matrons of the La-
Grange Methodist Church enveloped
their pastor iu anew overcoat last
week.
Municipal candidates in Albany give
candy-pullings Instead of barbecues.
This is to make their supporters stick,
of course,
The Sparta Times and Planter gives
an iutereatingdesoription of Jewell’s cot
ton millß, and of the model village in
whioh they stand.
The Emory College students are go
ing to have a torchlight procession over
Tilden’s election. How do the Uni
versity hoys take it ?
After tne excitement iu Florida is
Over, Henry Qrady, who is now in that
State, will have excellent opportunities
for extending his sheep granges.
After all, what’s fatal in a name. A
Mr. Noroross waa elected to the Legis
lature from Massachusetts. Jonathan
should be proud of his kinsman.
The good work goes on. Sinoe the
introduction of celery into their market,
Atlanta girls aristocratically tarn np
their noses at oardinal red parasols.
While we are still confident, we would
rsspeotfully suggest to some of the State
villages to ’flat up” on the torohlight
jollifications nntil the vietory is assured.
Mr. R. F. Holmes, express messen
ger of the Yemassee road, died of yellow
fever Friday, making the third victim to
that scourge among the employees of
the company.
In oonsequenoe of the suffering con
dition of the people of Brnnswiok, Gov
ernor Smith has ordered the Tax Col
lector to suspend the collection of the
State tax for Glynn oounty.
The Washington Gazette rises to an
nounce that in the person of Miss Ellen
Smith, Washington has one of the most
charming and accomplished telegraph
operators in the United States,
The Afcto learns that Mr. D. 0. Bar
row, Jr., will move to Lexington next
year to engage in the praotioe of law.
Mr. Barrow ia one of the soundest and
moat promising young men in the State.
| The Greenesboro Herald gives us the
following bit of gossip: Mr. Fernando
Irbv ana Miss Laura Monorief eloped
on Tuesday night, Bnd were “joined in
the holy bonds of matrimony” on Wed
nesday, in Augnata,
The Atlanta Constitution suggests
that after the torohlight jubilee they get
tip an old fashioned barbecue, and in
vite the colored men. Thia oonvivium
will afford fair opportunities to test the
popularity of the recent celery introduc
tion, ‘
The Conyers Courier throws the fol
lowing direful missile at the Oriental
Order of Humility : A set of jolly boys
in Augusta had some big fool doings
around a bonfire, the other night, and
the papers wrote it up as a cremation
affair.
The Albany Hews notes that our Gov
ernor elect, General Colquitt, was pres
ent at a reception given by the Manhat
tan Olnb to Governor Tilden in New
York a few days ago. These two distin-
S nished gentlemen met, and were evi
ently pleased one with the other.
The Courier-Journal sends ns the fol
lowing bit of home news : Hon. Alex
ander H. Stephens visited his old friend,
Bob Toombs, at Washington, Ga., last
week. Soon after the election he will
proceed to the National oapital, going
early that he may have abundant oppor
tunity for rest before the opening of the
next session of Congress. Mr. Stephens
takes a walk daily, when the weather is
fair, of about three mi!es.
Wednesday’s Items.
Matrimony sharp in Eatonton.
'J he Eatonton brass band prospers.
Ootton yard fires are qnito common.
The bonded debt of Rome is $475,000.
Wild cats abonnd in Jefferson conntv.
Tilden oarried Clarke oonnty by 50
majority.
Cotton receipts falling off during the
political agitation.
209 miles of bagging have been sold in
Oolambus this year.
Diphtheria continues its ravages in
different parts of the State.
Farmers are digging potatoes and
wondering over the election.
The Courier reports a short crop of
wheat sown in North Georgia.
Emigration to the West is reported
from several Georgia counties.
Dahlonega realizes that her municipal
election is rapidly approaching.
A West Point scholarship vacancy is
reported in the Fourth Distriot.
A Griffin man *ia drumming np a
crowd to accompany him to Texas.
The shrill clarion of the Tilden shang
hai still resounds through the State.
Got. Smith’s Tfaomasville speech is
highly spoken of by the Enterprise.
Gantt, of the Oglethorpe Echo, thinks
that the frost killed his oyster beds.
The Conyers Courier terms Georgia
the ooraer atone in the Solid Sonth.
Jackson oounty, says tbe Forest News,
is suffering from s matrimonial panic.
The Conyers Courier has withdrawn
Hon. John H. James from tbe Senatori
al race.
Major Pierce Horne, of Whitefield
county, will be a candidate for Comp
troller-General.
A colored Demoorat in Cuthbert was
badly cut by a Radical negro on the day
of the election.
The lavender kids didn’t oome within
350 of their opponent in any county in
the Fifth Distnot.
Anew jail in Jefferson, Jackson oonn
ty, is going np. The old one is report
ed about gone np.
A oolored man near Big Shanty sur
rendered several of bis fingers to a cot
ton gin mw last week.
Gen. Speer, of the Griffin News, is
said to have the inside track for the
Clerkship of the Honse.
The Griffin News states that Foster
Blodgett, in Atlanta, voted for Tilden,
Hendricks and Markham.
The Eatonton Messenger warmly ad
vocates Hon. Herschel V. Johnson for
the United States Senate.
Tom Swann, living in Wheeling, one
of the snbnrbs of Carrol ton, has raised
a gourd that weighs 47 pounds.
Atlanta expects to get ten thonsand
more bales of ootton this year than she
has reeeived any previous year. •
The Atlanta Constitution seems to be
decidedly ohioken-hearted upon the re
sult; as indicated by its head lines.
A Democratic negro was mobbed by a
crowd of oolored demons near Griffin
Saturday night and badly used np.
Markham declines to stake his laven
der kids upon the Presidential issue.
Markham is a man of some aforesight.
Mr. Johnson Freeman, an old eitizen
of Jackson oounty, was robbed of sll
by two negroes last week, while on his
way home from Jefferson.
The work of reform continues. A
Oolumbos cow, the day after Tilden’a
election,gave four gallons of milk,or one
gallon more than ever before.
So soon m it waa rumored in Atlanta
that EL I. Kimball had voted for Til
dee, they talked of electing him a di
metor of the Library Association.
The negro women ef tbe oounty all
assembled at Thomasville, election day,
to urge the oolored chivalry- on to the
polls. The ohivalry however were badly
beaten.
Mr. John Street, of Bartow county,
two of whose children were drowned
some months since, lost three more from
the accidental burning of his house, last
Thursday.
Mr. J. D. Anderson, of Coweta coun
ty, a candidate for Secretary of State,
proposes to take the office for the salary
and the perquisites, dispensing with the
expense of a clerk by the State.
The Commonwealth says that Stone
Mountain resembled a live volcano Sat
urday. A huge bonfire was kindled on
its summit by the citizens, which could
befidainly seen for miles around.
After publishing the Young Men’s
Christian Association appointments for
the week of prayer, the Dahlonega Siy
nal sacreligeously adds : “Let all drink
the toast of Tilden and Hampton.”
A rough, earnest looking fellow in At
lanta, when informed the other that Til
den lacked one vote, exclaimed: “Wish
to the Lord I had known that Tuesday.
Dam me if I hadn’t walked fifty miles to
put it in 1”
The insinuation that Atlanta girls
wear cardinal fringed gaiters is probablv
a oanard. This matter deserves to bo
thoroughly canvassed by a board of
connoisseurs. Until then we with
hold ull comment.
Early News thus expatiates :
The Centennial orop of girl babies seems
to be somewhat providential, for it is a
notorious fact that the women %f this
oountry have proven much better mana
gers than the men since the war.
The Macon Telegraph assumes the
bold position that the Democracy will
be cheated out of the States of South
Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, and
that Hayes will retire, and his electoral
vote he transferred to the soldier Grant.
Smith’s saw mill, in Jackson county,
seems to be a fated place. Two men
have been killed there, three have been
badly hurt in different ways, and last
week Mr. Erwiu was knocked in the
head by a cotton press lever and serious
ly injured.
The Detroit Free Press, in its Wednes
day morning’s issue brings out a rooster
for every Tilden State in the Union. Oar
Georgia representative is described as a
regular game bird, that feels at home on
any dunghill, and looks like lie was the
“cook of the walk.”
Thus the Sunday Herald consoles it
self J Mrs. Felton and her husband are
returned to Congress from the Seventh
District. If there is anything in the
fact to reconcile us with the situation, it
is our regard for the good lady and a
perfeot willingness to see her gratified.
The following pleasant bit of gossip
is wafted from Northeast Georgia : Mr.
Robert Stewart, of Jackson county,
stole Miss Anna Cheek, Sunday night,
the 28th ult., and left for parts un
known. Robert, who is about 30 years
bid, leaves a wife and two children, and
appears to have more than a sufficiency
of cheek at “these present.”
The Dalton Citizen narrates this: One
of the most oheering of the many inci
dents connected with the election in our
city on Tuesday, was the gathering of
the college girls in front of. that Btately
institution, and joining in a lively song,
in whioh the name of Dabney was used
to suit the occasion, closing with a loud
three oheers for that gentleman.
Thursday’s Items,
Mrs.T. J. Morrison, of Bainbridgo, is
dead.
Tilden's majority in Georgia will be
80,000.
Savannah begins to wear a more cheer
ful aspect.
Bryant has not been seen since the
eleotion in Savannah.
Our torch is soaking in turpentine,
but we wont ignite it yet.
Markham has thrown down the laven
der gauntlet in total despair.
Bainbridge now looks with tender in
terest upon her county contest.
Colonel Hartridge’s majority will be
nearly 6,000 in the First District.
The Atlanta Constitution recklessly
prints it: “Animis Opebusque Parati.”
Ten thousand people attended tho
Sandersville Fair during the four days.
Matt O’Brien’s sketches of election
returns attracted great attention in At
lanta.
It is now thought that Mr. Markham’s
coat tails had great effect in spiking his
guns in the Fifth.
Twenty-five reports from five wire
grass counties leave no doubt that the
Thomasville Fair was a success.
Four Catholic priests died of yellow
fever in Savannah, contracted while
nursing the sick during the terrible
scourge.
Mr. Thomas Carbine was married in
Atlanta last week. His.bride at present
is very particular with him for fear he
might go off.
There is no use concealing the truth
any longer. The Georgia delegation to
Congress is not an unbroken one, if re
turns from the Seventh District be true.
Speaking of the move to unseat Mr.
Wadley, the Atlanta Times thinks that
it will fail, as Mr. Wadley usually oasts
the vote of two-thirds of the stook of the
company.
The Bainbridge Democrat states that
the most prominent canvassers at the
polls were the colored women, who, like
maniacs, made day hideous with their
ravings and bellowings for Hayes, Whee
ler and Whiteley.
A Griffin lawyer got through an ugly
oase by telling the jury that Tilden was
elected; that “all of us ” felt good; that
his client did not have a fair chance un
der Radical rule, and therefore be should
be turned loose to go and sin no more.
The jury agreed with him.
The Atlanta Constitution thus finds
sweet relief : Ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown
has gone to Florida to see how the Rad
icals count returns, and they will have
to be very premature risers if they pull
the wool over Joseph’s eyes.
When we spoke of Grady extending
his sheep granges in Florida, we didu’t
mean that he would pull wool over the
eyes of the Returning Board. We hope
that our sensitive opponents in Florida
will rightly construe our language.
Two hundred and twenty mounted
men presented the handsome Guberna
torial prize banner to the citizens of
Colquitt, Miller county, last week.
Bpeeohes were made and a big barbecue
was enjoyed by the crowds in attend
ance.
The End of a Diamond Wedding.
[Now York letter.]
Some years ago there was a diamond
wedding in a brown stone mansion close
to Fifth avenue. It was in all respects
a recherche affair—the gifts were mag
nificent and costly, and the young cou
ple started prosperously on the voyage
of life. After a couple of seasons in
Europe the young wife was taken sick,
and died in her mother’s house in this
city. Among the original presents was
a costly array of solid silver, duly mark
ed with the bride’s initials. This silver
was valued at over $5,000. It was hand
somely encased, and for convenience
sake, after the woman’s death, wai plac
ed in a common packing trunk and stor
ed in the vaults of a safe deposit com
pany.
The sequal to this story happened on
Monday last, when the husband, now
bankrupt, pledged tbe whole of the sil
ver to a professional money lender for a
paltry SSOO. Those who know him free
ly predict that he will let the whole of
it go when his obligation matures, and
that he will be unable to pay the amount
of the loan. A similar sequel was re
ported last year to a stylish wedding in
Grace Church only twenty months be
fore. The presents and jewels of the
wedding day were sold for a mere pit
tance to buy bread and butter, and to
day the parties are penniless. In the
other case, first mentioned, there is not
a shadow of a doubt that the silver thus
pledged will be sacrificed in a like man
ner.
RELIGIOCM CONVENTIONS. *
The Methodist Conference of Virginia—.’Met h
od Ist Missionary Committee.
Richmond, Va., November 15. — The
Eighty-second Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
of Yirgiuia, commenced session here to
day.
New Yobk, November 15.—The An
nual Convention of the Methodist Mis
sionary Committee assembled to-day,
Bishop Colt presiding. There were
present Bishops Simpson, Ames, Bore
man, Harris, Foster, Wiley and Merrill.
Five hundred thousand dollars was de
cided as a limit to be spent on mission
work for the coming year.
Only waiting for a husband
With a pocket fall of cash ;
Only waiting to be married
In a satin robe and saab.
For I know that youth is fading
With the light of closing day,
And ths star of hope is passing
“ihro’ the twilight soft and gray.’