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Address WALSH *4 WRIGHT,
CHjtoxicLß A Bksttszi.. Angneta, Ga.
C&tonicle anb snUmel.
Whi INESDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1876.
Tboom are concentrating at Washing
ton. Was Frank Blair inspired by the
spirit of prophecy when he declared in
1868 that if General Grant went into
the White House he would not come out
again until he was brought out “feet
foremost ?”
The Returning Board of Florida, bad
as it is, is not bad eDoughfor those hon
est Republican leaders who are so anx
ious for a “fair count.” Therefore
Gov. Stearns proposes to make himself
a Returning Board, and give Hayes a
fair count at his leisure.
MoKre, the editor of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, has just been pardon
ed out of prison by Mr. Grant. McKee
was one of the most prominent of the
St. Louis whisky thieves. He didn’t
get out in time to vote for Hayes. That
is what beat him. Too many of his
supporters were in the penitentiary.
The Atlanta Commonwealth reports
Hon. Joshua Hill as saying that Til
den is unquestionably elected, and as
fairly as American methods, habits and
practicea would admit of. He has t o
confidence in the returning boards, but
has abiding faith that Tildkn will be
inaugurated without trouble.
There has been something of a change
in the political sentiment of Pennsyl
vania. Four years ago, the State gave
Grant a majority of 138,000. This
year Hayes’ majority is less than 11,000.
ihit for the frauds perpetrated in the
city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
would have gone for Tilden.
A Florida correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial, who is a Republi
can, intimates that by this time the Re
publican National Committee begin to
realize that a little money and a few
speakers down in Florida just before
the election would have been put where
they would Lave done tbe most good.
He also affirms that an application to
the National Committee to place there
some of the “sinews” of a political cam
paign met with a reply consigning the
Htate to a region whose heat is not re
puted to be of a political nature.
We had the pleasure of a visit yester
day from United States Senator Thos.
M. Norwood, who is on his way to
Burke county. Mr. Norwood takes a
most encouraging view of the political
situation, aud has no doubt that Gov
ernor Tilden will be tbe next President
of the United States. He thinks, too,
that good will come of the “postmaster
mnddle” in Vermont and Oregon. The
Legislatnre of one State is Republican,
of the other Democratic. If the Legis
lature of Vermont elects a Republican
elector tbe Legislature of Oregon will
assuredly elect a Democrat, and Tilden
will as certainly get his one vote.
Five Philadelphia lawyers and the
Dkvil thrown in could make nothing of
the political situation in South Caro
lina. Between the Returning Board and
the Supreme Court, the orders and
counter-orders, the protests and coun
ter-protests, the counts and recounts
confusion worse confonuded has been
produced. A constant reading of the
dispatches from Columbia will people
the asylums of the country and trans
mute intelligence into abject idiocy.
At present only two things seem certain
in this cloud of uneertaiuties: the elec
tion of Hampton aud the selection of a
Democratic Legislature.
We don’t mind carpet-bag govern
ments being employed to point a moral
or adorn a tale, but we do object to sad
dling too heavy a burden on the shoul
ders of the political grasshoppers. The
Indianapolis Sentinel says the State of
Georgia owed $50,000,000 January Ist,
1872, At that date the debt was less
than $30,000,000. The State now owes
about $8,000,000. We have not the
slightest doubt that Bollock A Com
pany would have mads the debt fifty or
even a hundred millions if they had re
mained in power, but one day the kindly
lightning struck, and Bdllock and
Theft left the State together.
Bpbakino of the heavy iron dads of
the British Navy, each of which costs
some three millions of dollars to build
aud equip, the Loudon Daily Xetrs says
that, by reason of the small amount ol
coal they carry, they are uuable to trust
themselves eery far from land. This is
true, and it shows a weakness that is
often overlooked by those who see only
their tremendous guns and armature.
But if once driven far out to sea in time
of war, and out of coal, they would not
be very dangerous to a swift naval
steamer of comparatively light tonnage
with plenty of coal aud good engines.
A World dispatch says : “John G.
Thokpsok, Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee of Ohio, has is
sued a call for a meeting of the Central
Committee and other prominent citizens
of the State, at Columbus on Wednes
day next, to take action regarding the
situation'in'Louisirua, South Carolina
and Florida; to denounce the attempts
at fraudulent action by the Republican
party in those States in ‘heir attempt to
throw out Democratic majorities, and to
appeal to the people of the 'ountry to
support the demand by the I -emocracy
for an honest count of votes i u.the three
States in question. Theiny.tation is to
Democrats, Liberals and Independents,
and all other patriotic o’tizens.”
A Washington JUpatoh says the
Democrats have unearthed the import
ant fact then when troops were sent
South to General Rrosa, he ordered an
officer to go to Florida and see what
was needed. The officer reported that
there was abeolntely no sign of dis
turbance and no troops were needed
anywhere in the State, and that this re
port is or was on file in the War De
partment. Information of this fact
has been sent to the Democratic Na
tional Committee, and if any part of the
vote of Florida is thrown oat on the
ground of intimidation this report will
be called for os soon as Congress meets,
and its author and several offioere
through whose hands it passed be called
upon to testify as to its genuineness,
and to the fact that tbme was no in
timidation or violenoe in Ylorida.
SIEAMNU A STATE.
The wretch whom reconstruction foist
ed upon Florida as Governor of the State
has shown bis intention of stealing that
State for Hayes. His recent action ren
ders it almost a certainty that he will
claim the right to canvass the votes for
Presidential electors. If he does this he
will give the vote of the State to Hayes
and Wheeler. Chanwleb advised him,
in substance, to hold the State at all
hazards, and he is obeying instructions.
His plan is exceedingly simple. He
proposes to constitute himself a return
ing board, and to issue certificates to the
men who, in his judgment, have been
elected. It can safely be said in ad
vance that, no matter what the Demo
cratic majority may be, he will declare
that Hayes and Wheeler have carried
the State, and give to them its four elec
toral votes. He bases his extraordinary
assnmption of power npon the fact that
the statute creating the Returning Board
does not specify “electors” in its pro
visions. This high handed usurpation
of power should be resisted by the De
mocracy to the bitter end. For every
wrong tb ere most be a remedy, and
there is certainly power lodged some
where to prevent such a bare faced fraud
as that calculated by this carpet-bag
scamp in Florida. The State has gone
Democratic by an honest majority, and
we must not be cheated out of our vic
tory.
TII f. north .hunt mettle it.
The Nashville Union and American
says Gov. Tilden’s popular majority
is over 364,000, not counting majorities in
the three disputed Southern States. The
people of the Union, especially of the
States of New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut and Indiana, have proclaimed
for him unmistakably and overwhelm
ingly. If he is cheated,the people of
the United States will also be cheated.
It is in no sense a sectional question,
which the office holders have sprung up
on the country, backed by the military
authority of General Grant. It is es
sentially a conflict between tbe office
holders and the people of the Union.
Tbe Republican party is so much a par
ty of office holders that, in defiance of
explicit provisions of the Constitution,
in several States office holders were
nominated for Hayes electors. JohnM.
Watts, postmaster at Lafayette, Oregon,
was a Hayes elector in that State. H. N.
Sollace, a postmaster at Bridgeport, Vt.,
was a Hayes elector in that State. These
persons were all holding Federl offices
at the time they were nominated electors
by the Republican party. One of the
Returning Board of Louisiana to decide
upon the vote in that State is a Federal
office-holder. In South Carolina Dunn,
Cardozo and Hayne, constituting a por
tion of the Board of Canvassers to de
cide upon the count of the election, are
now office-holders in that State, and can
didates for re-election to the positions
of Comptroller, Treasurer and Secreta
ry of State.
If an elector cannot hold an office of
trust aud profit under the United Sthtes,
how much less a Returuing Officer upon
whose decision depend all the electors of
the State. It remains with the people
of the Northern States to decide wheth
er the choice of General Grant’s suc
cessor shall be a civilian voted for by an
overwhelming majority of the Union
through a fair count of the ballots as de
posited in the ballot box, or whether
General Grant’s successor shall be a
military ruler placed in power by the
force of bayonets and artillery—whether
the Republican form of government
shall be continued or, in the Centennial
year of Independence, be changed now
and here, without regard to the Consti
tution.
THE AUGUSTA AND HARTWEI-I- RAIL
, ROAD.
/
The interest which the proposition to
build a railroad from Augusta to Hart
well has excited in the popular mind
must have attracted the attention of the
most casual observer. The feeling in
favor of the road is deeper and more
positive now than it was in 1870, be
cause the people see more clearly
the necessity which demands its early
oonstruotion. This is true as to
our citizens and our countrymen
residing in the counties which we would
have put in more direct communication
with this—their natural market. To un
dertake the buildiDg of the proposed
road at this time, when every industry
is depressed and men are anxious for
the future, does seem, at first glance,
extremely unwise. Rut there are con
siderations which determine this to be
tbe opportune moment for the. inaugu
ration of the work. From Angnsta to
Walhalla, the opinion seems to be al
most unanimous that we cannot
longer afford to delay; that the work
should be commenced at once. We
venture to speak of this question be
cause of tbe interest we feel in the fu
ture of Augusta, and because we are
persuaded that we cannot neglect push
ing this enterprise to a speedy comple
tion without materially damaging our
selves. There is not a man* white or
oolored, merchant of mechanic, or or-
dinary laborer in Augusta, who is not
vitally interested in the early construc
tion of the Augusta aud Hartwell Road
and of the completion of a great through 1
line to Cincinnati, via Rabun Gap and
Knoxville. This feeling is rapidly dis
covering itself iu our community. We
believe we shall soon sea a more lively
manifestation of the same.
Recently, we have heard inquiries
touching the nature of the oountry
through which the road is to run. The
five Georgia and three South Carolina
counties which will come within the im
mediate infiuenoe of the road are rich
in nature’s best gifts. The people are
intelligent, thrifty and prosperous. They
are, for the most part, farmers—farmers
in the best sense of that term. In LB7O,
Columbia is reported to have made 8,-
699 bushels of wheat, 121,160 bushels
of corn, 11,864 bushels of oats, 7,434
bales of cotton, 15,09*2 bushels of sweet
potatoes and 46,311 pounds of butter;
Elbert, £2,736 bushels of wheat, 140,-
434 bushels of corn, 13,268 bushels of
oats, 3,035 bales of cotton, 9,-
961 bushels of sweet potatoes and
71,364 pounds of butter ; Franklin,
18,863 bushels of wheat, 173,007 bushels
of corn, 14,151 busheU of oats, 637
bales of cotton, 12,335 bushels of sweet
potatoes, and 60,447 pounds of batter;
Hart, 18,876 bushels of wheat, 112,656
bushels of corn, 11,566 bushels of oats,
1,320 bales of cotton, 12,158 bushels of
sweet potatoes, and 41,025 pounds of
batter; Lincoln, 10,113 bushels of wheat,
75,606 bushels of porn, 21,275 bushels
of oats, 2,687 bales of sottpn, 7,918
busheU pf sweet potatoes, aui
27,330 pounds of butler; Abbe
ville, 64,092 bushels 6t wheat,
315,399 bushels of corn, 56,512 bushels
of oats, 13,924 bales of ootton, and 10,-
995 bnshels of sweet potatoes; Anderson,
77,169 bushels of wheat, 409,688 bushels
of ooro, 84,213 bushels of oats, 5,274
bales of cotton, and 13,225 bnshels of
sweet potatoes; Oconee, 10,533 bnshels
of wheat, 138,903 bnshels of corn, 5,903
bnshels of oats, 810 (this year nearer
3,000) bales of cotton, and 8,950 bnshels of
sweet potatoes, aggregating 231,191 bush
els of wheat, 1.47*,853 corn, 168,752 oats,
36,021, say 50,000 bales of cotton, and
90,634 boshela of sweet potatoes. And
the five Georgia counties 246,477 pounds
of butter. The eight counties men
tioned had at least 36,000 sheep aud 66,-
000 swine the year referred to. Our be
lief is that these figures fall about
twenty per cent, below the actual ones.
They tell ns of a few “golden footed
sheep,” but they do not embrace the
fresh eggs, the spring chickens, the
qnacking ducks, the noisy guinea fowls,
and the Christmas turkeys with which
that whole region of country abounds.
But, incomplete as it is, the exhibit is a
good one, and worthy of being noted.
Augusta once had the trade of all the
counties named, and others which we
may denominate sub-tributary. She
must have it again. To secure it will
demand great energy and promptness on
the part of her citizens. Shall we ex
hibit these ?
the proposed railroad.
We are glad to say that the interest
in the Augusta and Hartwell Road and
the roads which will be the natural out
come thereof, is rapidly assuming the
form of enthusiasm. There is not a
candid, thinkfhglnan in our midst, who
will deny that the road is necessary to
the futare prosperity of Angnsta. On
Sunday last we presented some inter
esting facts and figures bearing on this
subject. Business men naturally seek
results. At an informal meeting of gen
tlemen interested in this enterprise,
held yesterday afternoon, the result of
a calculation was submitted, based upon
the probable receipts of cotton by the
Greenwood route, which will be estab
lished as soon as the Hartwell Road
shall have been built as far as Furry’s
Ferry. It was this : At least fifty
thousand bqjes of cotton will come to
Augusta through that agency. Putting
the price per bail at SSO, we have the
sum of $2,500,000, one-fifth of whioh
will be expended in our city. Ten per
cent., (the average profit) on this $500,-
000, would yield $50,000.
Now, let us apply this to the Augusta
and Hartwell and see what results we
may expect. We showed that the coun
ties, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart,
Linooln, Abbeville, Anderson and Oco
nee, made in 1870, 231,191 bushels of
wheat, 1,476,853 corn, 168,752 oats,
50,000 bales of ootton, 90,634 bushels of
sweet potatoes and 246,477 pounds of
butter. We remarked that these figures
at least twenty per cent, too low;
fifty per cent, would possibly be nearer
the mark. Take them, however, as
given, and suppose that we receive one
halj (round numbers) of the produce of
those counties:
50,000 bales of cotton at SSO $2 500,000
120,000 bushels of wheat at 75 cents. 90.000
740.000 bushels of corn at 50 cents... 370.000
170.000 biißhels of oats at 35 cents .. 59,500
60,000 bushels of st. pot’s, at 85 cts. 17,600
125,000 pounds butter at 20 cents.... 25,000
$3,062,000
Ten per cent, on the fifth of this
amount would be $61,240 profits—di
vided among oar merchants annually.
These are, of course, mere calculations,
and they are made by every one who
considers such a subject, as the one in
hand, from the stand-point from which
political economists are accustomed to
view it. Every man bases his hopes
upon probabilities. The figures we
have given may lie, if Augusta fails to*
act. But our forecast of probabilities
will become an actuality if our people
take vigorous hold of this work and
press it to completion.
THE TURKISH QUESTION.
The Record says that the complica
tions in Europe have assumed a more
threatening aspect than dver since it
has become apparent that the three
Powers most deeply interested, Great
Britain, Russia and Turkey, are making
active preparations for a gigantic war.
The temporary truce and proposed con
ference avert immediate hostilities, and
afford an opportunity for cool reflection
which may be successfully improved by
the true friends of peace. But it is clear
that Russia intends, to wage war if her
demands are not fully complied with,
and that Turkey is nerving herself for a
desperate conflict; and it is now becom
ing probable that England will take an
aotive part in the impending struggle.
The turning point in the controversy
appears to be the degree of independ
ence that is to be reserved to the
Turkish Government in connection with
the administration of the affairs of her
revolting and Christian provinces. It is
agreed that the conference is to conduot
its supposed deliberations on the theory
that the integrity of the Ottoman Empire
must be maintained. But it is conceded
that while plans for the wresting of
every vestige of the authority of the Sul
tan from any portion of his dominions
will noj; ho tolerated, something is to be
done to place limits to Jija rnle and to
increase the powers of the lpoal govern
ments in the districts in rebellion or in
sympathy with it. The diplomatic bat
tle will wage reund the details of the
proposed readjustment, with elabora
tions not unlike those typified by popu
lar sovereignty and Congresssonal inter
vention for or against slavery in the pro
tracted struggle relating to the govern
ment of territories of the United Statef
which preceded tfce }ate war in our owi
country. Russia's demands are said to
include ths establishment of a system
under which Governors will be appoint
ed for fixed periods; Christian officials
employed to as great an extent as possi
ble, taxation reduced, an effective local
police force organized; and these re
forms are to he extended to all districts
inhabited by Calgarians, and their en
foroement is to be insured by such guar
antees as Russia shall consider satisfac
tory. It must be confessed that there
would not be much Turkish indepen
deuce left if such changes must be made
iu a manner dictated by an aggressive
hostile power in full sympathy with the
disaffected districts: and Turkey could
better aff-rd to surrender all claim to
the territory in dispute than to consent
to govern it nnder all the conditions
that Russia chooses to impose.
There is at least plausible ground j
for the belief attributed to the Turks by
the Constantinople correspondent of
-of the London journals that Russia
will make inadmissible demands in or
der to provoke a rupture, and while the
followers of Mahommed are preparing
for£hi3 contingency as rapidly and ef
fective’y as possible, Rngland has shown
no small degree of activity energy
in seconding their efforts.
Ons thing is quite clear—that Jany
Russian attempt to seize Constantino
ple would be resisted by ail t£e re
sources of the British Empire. That is
the real prize at stake, and Englishmen
of all parties are determined that the
approaches to the Mediterranean are
ever to pass from their present owners
they must fall under English control.
Already skillfjjl British engineers are
l busily at work in exaiaing tfcg defenses
t of the Turkish capital, and the glganth.-
naval power of Great Britain was never
better prepared than at present for pow
erful demonstrations, it is said that if
an army must be improvised Disraeli
will experience less difficulty on that
score than some of his predecessors, on
aocount of the possibility of transferring
to the scene of hostilities a large num
ber of the native soldiers of India, many
of whom are Mahommedans, and there
fore ready to fraternize freely with the
Turks.
The remaining elements of peace
oonsist chiefly of the English liberal
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAaf MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1576.
politicians and Earopean powers, who
are specially anxions to avert a war; but
they are certainly not masters of the
situation, and their ability to influence
it is diminishing rapidly.
THE BENEFITS OF MANUFACTURING.
An exchange says that Maine, bleak
and barren, with a sterile soil and an in
hospitable climate, circumstances under
which a lazy population would inevita
bly starve and an industrious one barely
be expected to make a subsistence, is a
rich and populous State simply through
manufactures, iu which the people are
largely engaged. We quote from a let
ter to the New Orleans Picayune from
a corresponcent traveling in that land of
ragged mountains and granite-strewn
plains. Let us learn wisdom from these
industrious aDd thrifty Yankees.
“At Saco and Biddeford they have large
ootton factories, with a capital of many
millions invested. They also have ex
tensive factories at Lewiston. They
formerly had, and doubtless now have,
numerous small factories in many parts
of the StatOj and sent oat olotha in large
quantities. They have a little factory
near this place, erected at an expense of
a few thousand dollars, at whioh they
manufacture, out of poplar, an article
called excelsior, consisting of fine shav
ings in narrow strips. They put it up
in bales like hay, and sell it at about S2O
a ton. Poplar here is a small tree, al
most useless for firewood, fencing or
lumber. At Dover, twelve miles from
this, they have a factory where they rasp
poplar blocks into a pulp, whioh, mixed
with cotton rags, produces a very good
quality of newspaper. The Penobscot,
the Kennebec, Androsooggin and Saoo
rivers have been the great lumber re
gions of Maine. They at one time had
a vast fleet of lumber vessels plying be
tween Bangor and the seaports of the
United States and the West Indies. The
amount of lumber that has been shipped
from the ports of Maine in the last fifty
years would be sufficient to weather
board a nation.”
IMMIGRATION.
The number of immigrants this year
will probably be less than that of last
year, when the statistics give returns of
84,560. Only 62,550 for 1876 have thus
far reached our shores, and it is thought
the total number will not exceed 70,000.
This is not so large a decrease as was
noticeable in 1875, for in 1874 the num
ber of immigrants was 140,041, The
“hard times” are supposed to have dis
couraged emigration to a great extent.
Not only has tha general distress here ■
been reported all over Europe, but the
business depression is not unknown in
all those countries from which hundreds
of people have annually emigrated to
our shores. The poor prospects of get
ting a living here and their inability
to get together sufficient means to trans
port them, have operated to keep for
eigners, intending to settle in this coun
try, at home. In the tables of emigra
tion statistics, it appears that Germany
now sends the largest number of emi
grants to the United States, Ireland
next, England, Scotland, Italy, Russia,
Austria, Sweden, Norway, France and
Denmark next in order.
The Times says it is estimated that
about one-tbird of the immigrants re
main in the oity of New York and vi
cinity. No greater mistake could they
make than to jump into the hopeless ex
istence exemplified by the hungry, des
titute population represented by the
poorest wards of the metropolis and
other, cities. Europe is thickly speckled
with crowded centres, and, as most of
the immigrants come from them, they
cannot forego the excitement and con
genial ways of oity life here. Their
vocations are chiefly of a co-operative
character, which is another inducement
for them to settle in cities and manut
faeturing towns. But, as a rule, those
who have cast their fortunes in the
country, taken to farming and other
rural pursuits, have, on the whole, done
better than their brethren who are kept
poor by the fierce competition of the
crowded pavement.
SAFE TRANSIT.
We are informed that one of Jhe most
wonderful features of the Centennial
exhibition was the admirable facilities
for transporting visitors to, from and in
the grounds. The statistics of transpor
tation, which have just been completed
by the management, Bhow that this one
feature constituted one of the most im
portant and diffionlt problems offered to
the managers for solution. On July
sth, 1875, an experiment was made to
test the carrying capacity of the rail
roads rnnning into Philadelphia, and
also that of the city passenger roads.
The result of this experiment proved
that there was at that time a carrying
capacity equal to pearly 150,000 persons,
as that number were taken to the Cen
tennial grounds without difficnlty on
that day. Since then and during the
exhibition, this number has been largely
increased, and on what is known as the
Pennsylvania day there were at least
225,000 persons transported to and from
the Centennial. When it is borne in
mind that the bulk of this large number
were delivered in a period of time not
exceeding three hours, some idea may
be realized of the remurkable feat per
formed under the head of Passenger
Transportation; and when it is kndwn,
in addition, that there has been an aver
age delivery of from fojrty to fifty thou
sand persons par day, and that there has
not been a single accident during the
entire six months, the country may well
be astonished at sqch wonderful.results.
Iu this connection, as the management
suggests, it is only just to refer to the
admirable manner in which the railroad
management centering in Philadelphia
has co-operated in carrying ont the most
complete system of passenger transpor
tation ever inaugurated in the world’s
history. Jn contradistinction to the re
sults of ail former international exhibi
tions, the bulk of the visitors have been
brought by rail, the most accurate data
furnishing proof that not less than
three-fourths pf all the visitors were
transported to and from the exhibition
in this manner. If hen it is also con
sidered that this has been done without
accident and with comparative rapidity
and comfort, it mudt certainly stand un-
I rivalled as the best evidence of the good
management and ability connected with
the American railroad system and organ
ization. ’ 1 t
We have time and again stated that
we could not publish communications
unaccompanied by toe real name of the
writer. The reason for such a “rule
should be recognized by every one. We
do not desire the real pagie fpr publica
tion. We do not reveal it to others un
less upon a proper demand made by
proper parties. It is necessary as a
guarantee of the good faith of the writer
and for our own protection. We have
before us a communication signed
“Cms,” which comes under this rale,
ft is upon the subject of the recent yel
low fever scare, and charges our physi
cians with knowingly withholding the
fact that several oases of yellow fever
originated here. The writer did not
give his real name and we cannot pub
lish the article nntil he does. It is sin
gular bow many men hesitate to take
what Mr. Ban Wauuu was fond of
terming the "responsibility” in criticis
ing public affairs.
the s9ort route.
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KNOXVLLip AJDTD AUGUSTA.
Com in it tee 3(Mt)p Yesterday—Appointment
of tSnb-CommltCdn*—Arranging for the 31bm
Meeting on W Some Interesting
p “" I-
Pursuant to jpotnoe, a meeting of the
committee of appointed at
the citizens’ ngpting last Tuesday, to
arrange for a ®Jfes meeting of the citi
zens of Augustfion the 29th instant, to
take into consi&ration the subject of
building a short Jiue railroad from Au
gasia to Knoxvilfe, net at the office of
the Commercial jaßauk, yesterday, Mr.
F. B. Phinizy, Chairman, in the
Chair. . j .
After the meeting was called to order,
John S. Esq., moved that the
Chair appoint a committee of five, with
Hon. George S. Qarnes as Chairman, to
investigate the charter of tbe Augusta
and Hartwell Raibroad; ascertain wheth
er it cannot claim State aid; discover
what are the liabilities of the road; ex
amine the charter .of the Savannah River
Valley Railroad acd other matters per
taining thereto, apd report the same to
the general committee, at a meeting to
be held Saturday. The motion was
adopted and appointed
the following committee :
George T. Barnes, Chairman; Joseph
Ganahl, John S. Davidson, J. L. Max
well, Jas. G. Bailie. On motion of J.
L, Maxwell, Mr. John M. Clark was
added to the committee.
Jno. S. Davidson, Esq., moved the
appointment of a committee of three to
ootain statistics in reference to the
route, etc. Adopted.
The Chairman appointed as the com
mittee Messrs. Martin V. Calvin, Robt.
Walton and Jno. U. Meyer.
Mr. Miller moved that Mr. Henry
Franklin be added to the committee.
Adopted.
Jno. S. Davidson, Esq., moved the
appointment of a committee of four to
arrange details for the mass meeting.
Adopted.
The Chairman appointed as the com
mittee Messrs. P. G. Burum, W. Daniel,
L. J. Miller and John Doscher.
J. L. Maxwell moved that the mass
meeting be held at the City Hall, on
Wednesday evening, November 29th, at
8 o’clock. Adopted,
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
The primary question for the people
of Augusta to consider at this time is
what can be done to revive businese and
bring baok the trade which legitimately
belongs to her.
Above us, along the Savannah river,
on both sides, is a fertile and produc
tive country, raising many thousand
bales of cotton each year. Every bale
of this should come to Augusta, aud
would do it if the means of transporta
tion were at hand. But in this nge of
railways, people are not apt to hold on
to the old fashioned wagon line, and are
quick to avail themselves of the nearest
railroad. Eibert, Lincoln and contigu
ous counties are clamoring for a railway
which will enable them to send their
produce to market. Years ago, when
the project of building the Augusta and
Hartwell Railroad was first inaugurated,
those counties reasonably expected that
their efforts were about to meet with
success. The importance of the pro
posed road, not only -to the section of
country through which it would pass,
but to Augusta as well, was very evi
dent, and it was, therefore, not unrea
sonable to expect that this city would
take an active interest in the matter,
and see to it that the necessary amount
to construct the road was raised. But
as time went on, and the road was still
only on paper, it became apparent that
the hopes of the country people were
doomed to disappointment. Elbert,
determined to have an outlet, set about
building a railroad for itßelf. A
route was surveyed from Elberton to
the Richmond and Atlanta Air Line,
and grading commenced. The work is
now going on. Asa matter of course,
everything shipped from Elbert by
that route will go to Atlanta. The
natural inclination of. tlje people in the
Savannah River Valley is to come to
Augusta with the products of their
farms and plantations. Only assist
them in obtaining the means to get here,
and the wealth of that rich section will
be poured into the lap of Augusta. But
is the Savannah River Valley the only
section to be considered ? We think
not. Beyond is the Great West, from
which we obtain annually so large an
amount of bacon, corn and other sup
plies. The Western producer and ship
per will naturally patronize the shortest
route to the sea, and the grain depot
for this portion cf the South. Let us
look at a few figures. The distance
from Augusta to Cincinnati, by the
present route, is 759 miles, divided as
follows : From Augusta to Atlanta, 171
miles; from Atlanta to Chattanooga, 138
miles; from Chattanooga to Nashville,
151 miles; from Nashville to Louisville,
189 miles; from Louisville to Cincinnati,
110 miles. Via the Augusta and Hart
well Railroad, it is 507 miles, divided
as follows : From Augusta to Rabun
Gap, 150 miles; Rabun Gap to Knox
ville, 85 miles; Knoxville to Junction,
130 miles; Junction to Nicholasville,
30 miles; Nicholasville to Cincinnati,
112 miles. This gives us a difference
of 252 miles in favor of the route via
the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad.—
Now let us see how much of this
route remains to be constructed.—
Under the new survey the Augusta
and Hartwell Railroad runs along
the Savannah River Valley to the
Tugalo river, which it crosses, and ex
tends thence to Seneca City, where it
effects a junction with the Bine Ridge
Railroad. Under the old survey, the
road, instead of crossing the Tugalo,
ran across the Richmond and Atlanta
Air-Line to Rabun Gap. The fifty miles
from the river to the Gap was the hard
est portion of the road, and its grading
would have cost as much as that of all
the remainder of the route. The people
between the Tugalo and Seneca City, in
South Carolina, havealready subscribed
$50,000, and placed it in the hands of
Col. Harrison, to be used in construct
ing that portion of the road, conditional,
however, upon tangible assurances that
something will be dope at this end.
From Seneca Oity to Walhalla there is
already a railroad, the Blue Ridge.
From this place to Maryville, Tenn., is
another gap of forty-two miles. But
the people in the section between Ma
ryville and the South Carolina State
line Jiave already given assurances that
they will bnild that portion of the line,
provided that from Walhalla to the line
is constructed by their neighbors. From
Maryville to Junction there is a contin
uous lioe already built. From Junction
to Nicholasyille there is another gap of
thirty miles, ten pf which are graded.
From this point there is a continuous
line to Qinpinpati. 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 Cin
cinnati. 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. We have it
from competent authorityithat the road
can bo built for one million and a half—
five hundred tjiojjsand in snbspriptions
and one million in bonds. Certainly the
benefits to be derived from the road
when built are great enough to induce
people iu this section to subscribe the
requisite half million. There must be
enterprise enough aipoDg ps to make us
desire to enhance the trade of Augusta.
We feel assured that the people along
the line of the railroad will do their part
in the matter if Augusta and its citizens
will contribute a proportionate share
of the amount needed to carry the enter
prise to a successful termination.
W4S Ff NOT A piR REQUEST
.Senator Gordon’s Proposition to the Carolina
Thieves.
(A. X. Berald—Editorial] , '
After the State Canvassers of South
Carolina had aggregated and declared
the votp according to the actual returns
on Saturday, as ordered by the Supreme
Court, Senator Gordon requested that
olerks might be permitted to copy at his
expense the original figures from which
the canvassers made np their count. Can
any honest reason be given why this re
quest was denied ? The refusal was not,
indeed, absolute, as the canvassers made
an intimation that it might be complied
with on kfqnday. Senator Gordon re
plied that the reason why he panted to
copy them at once was a fear that they
might be changed before Monday. He
evidently suspeet#d that the count was
not in accordance with the original fig
ures; and he wished to test it before the
figures could be altered. The refnsal
looks too much as if the memboys of the
Board dared not submit the honesty of
their count to so direct and simple a
test lest exposnre should overtake them
on the spot. If this was uot the motive
pf the refusal what was it ?
BEFORE THE BOARDS.
THE CANVASSING COUNCILS SIT
IN MEDITATION AWFUL.
Handnome Showing for Carolina Democracy
—The Court to Speak To-Day Upon the
National Ticket—Action of the Connell In
the Premises—The Lousiana Crew Still
Pegging Away—Hayes* majority in Flori
da Yanisheth aa the Ulorning Dew —And
The Orange Blossoms Shower Around
the Nuptials of Reform.
How They Will manage it In Louisiana.
New Orleans, November 21.—The
Returning Board will hear evidence and
argument in the contested polls and
parishes, and lay them aside for final
decision in secret session.
Notes From the Pelican—The Board in Ses
sion-Colored Men Ready to Explain Why
They Voted for Tilden.
New Orleans, November 21.—The
Board opened at 11:15. Open to the
press. The public were admitted for a
few minutes, when the room was oleared
for executive session. Two Northern
committees 'only were allowed to re
main. ,
A delegation consisting of fifteen col
ored men, from various precinots in
Onaohita parish, called on viaiting
Democrats at the St. Charles Hotel to
day. They had all been members of the
Republican party, and several of them
had recently been Presidents of Repub
liaan clubs. They gave reasons why
they had changed and led their respec
tive followers to the polls to vote the
Democratic ticket.
Motion to Reject Selliice—Ministerial (Duties
of tlie ConvajMera—lojunotion from tbe De
mocracy.
Montpellier, Vt., November 21.
An elaborate argument is progressing
before the County Counting Board on
the motion that they return postmaster
Sollace to the Governor as ineligible.
No decision has yet been reached.
The Board of county olerks reassm
bled and John B. Hale, county clerk for
Bennington county, offered the fallow
ing resolution :
Resolved, That this Board of Can
vassers are of the opinion that their
powers are simply ministenal and that
their duties are already defined by the
statutes of this State, and they there
fore decline to hear or receive evidence
outside of the certificate of voters by
the proper authorities; adopted. Coun
sel for contesting .eje.ctor will apply to
the Supreme Court of the State for an
injunction.
Centralizing tbe Army Mea.ure. Merely
Precautionary,
Washington, November 21.—Count
ing all arms, with marine and military
force here, there is about 1,200. There
is no excitement about the matter. The
district government is a very weak affair
and there have already been signs of
turbulence.
A full Cabinet transacted the routine
business. JJo allusion was made to or
dering troops to Washington. It may
be added on authority of the Cabinet,
that this subject has never been discuss
ed or acted upon by that body.
A Southern Conference.
Washington, November 21.—The en
gagement of rooms at the Riggs House
by the Maryland and Virginia Boundary
Commission has given rise to the sensa
tion of a meeting of prominent Southern
men to consider the political situation.
Florida—Tbe Result Foreshadowed.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Tallahassee, Fla., November 20.
The politicians of both sides have been
closely closeted in consultation to-day
and nothing done that they will make
public.' The Republicans are still re
ceiving recruits. J. A. Hasson, of Iowa;
Lew Wallace, of Indiana; and Edward
F. Noyes, of Ohio, arrived to-day.
Judge Westcott, of the Supreme Court
of the State, will print id to-morrow’s
Floridian a letter giving it as his opih
ion, based upon the face of returns, that
the Tilden electors will be elected by a
small majority. He makes the statement
because a private telegram from him
had been published, based on first re
turns, that the State had gone the other
way. Judge Westoott’s opinion is the
same now as that of* all other honest
men. The only hope for the Repub
licans now is, that Stearns will deoide
that electors are not State officers and
canvass the electoral vote himself. If
such an outrage is committed it is the
general opinion that decisive steps will
be taken in the matter early this week.
Republicans are here under assumed
names. A distinguished delegate from
the North, a Republican, said to a re
porter to-night: “We are all right. We
have men here that they (the Demo
crats) know nothing of.”
Orange Ulohuoiu* Republican* Cooling Oil
About Florida.
Washington, November 21.—Wm. E.
Chandler telegraphed from Florida
claims the State for Hayes, but say it is
close. ¥
Mandamus Granted by tbe Court.
Tallahassee, No\ember2l.—The Cir
cuit Court to-day issued an injunction
against the Governor, and mandamus
to the Returning Board. The order
covers three thousand words,
Attorney of the Democratic managers
yesterday applied to Judge White, of
the Circuit Court, for two orders, one
restraining the Governor from canvass
ing the returns of the eleotoral vote or
issuing his certificates to any elector
or electors, unless by order of the
regular appointed Board of Canvass
ers ; another in the shape of a
mandamus to the Returning Board,
ordering the® to proceed at once to the
canvass of votes. The Judge granted
the iDjunction| prayed for, tem
porarily, and ordered the Governor to
show cause on Thursday next why the
injunction should not be issued perma
nently. He also issued an order com
manding the members qf tbe Returning
Boad to show canse on next Thursday,
when this mandamus ordering ta pro
ceed to canvass at once should not be
issued. The papers were served this
evening. There is an appeal from the
Circuit Jadge to the Supremo Court,
subject, however, to this possible diffi
culty; the Supreme Court is not now in
session, and will not convene in regnlar
session until next January. If it does
not of its own'volition convene in extra
session before the 6th of December,
when the electors' certificates are oblig-.
ed to be issued, there can be no appeal
from Jadge White’s decision, as there
will be no Court in session to which the
appeal can be made.
Fenunylvanla—A Puny Majority,
Harrisburg, Pa., November 31.—Of
ficial vote of Pennsylvania : Hayes,
384,148; Tilden, 386,204; Cooper, 7,204,
AN ENGLISHMAN ON AMERICA.
Opinions of John Walter, M. P_Eavorable
Impressions of the Exhibition and of the
American “Travel in kn
land and the United States— on
the Political and' Financial Situation—The
Tariff. ' .
The opinions on America of John Wal
ter, the owner of the London Tfimes,
and member of the English Parliament,
who is now in New York, possess pecu
liar interest to the people of this coun
try on account of his relations to the
greatest of English journals, and his
reputation ns a man of liberal oulture,
Min powers of observation, and marked
Opacity of judgment. In a long con
versation with a Tribune reporter on
Thursday evening, Mr. Walter touohed
upon several topics which occupy an
important place in the minds of Ameri
cans. Among the subjects discussed
were the Centennial the
luxuries and conveniences of American
railway travel, some aspects of the po
litical question, manufacturing and ag
ricultural interests, the hard money is
sue, hard times and free trade. With
all the themes taken up he seemed folly
conversant. He frequently cited Eng
lish examples for America, and deplored
the fact the fatter nation should ap
parently prefer to undergo hard experi
ence instead of profiting by that of the
mother country. In many instances the
situations of the two had been identi
cal; and yet Americans failed to see the
logic of events—would close their eyes
and t .amble over the ruts when the
smooth road lay spread out before
them,
Mr. said he had traveled ex
tensively since his arrival in this coun
try, visiting Boston, Albany, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Washington, Philadelphia
and many other of the principal cities.
He was particularly impressed with the
beauties of Cincinnati's suburbs. Bos
son, he thought, was inconveniently sit
uated, for in order to visit it in the regu
lar line of travel a tourist must lose the
beauties of the Hudson; and no mail,
English or American, could afford to do
that. Mr- Walter did not fee) himself
competent to judge of the comfort of
ordinary Amerioan railway traveling. He
had ridden so Inxnrionsly in the special
Pullman oar whioh had been placed at
his disposal that he was unable to form
an idea of the way in which other people
traveled. ' ‘The palace car, ”he exclaim
ed enthusiastically, “is fit' for the
Queen to ride in ! In fact, it is much
handsomer than the one she nses.”
The liberality with which railroad
directors carried him to and fro over
tbe land was a cause of great aston
ishment to Mr. Walter. It was a cour
tesy entirely unknown in England.—
The Queen herself was obliged to pay
immense sums every year for railway
eonveyauce, and no railroad company in
all England would think of offering a
coach for the free use of any gentleman,
public or private. The American car,
in Mr. Walter’s estimation, was far su
perior to the English carriage. The
possibility of being shat in with thieves
or madmen (it had fallen to his own lot
to be shut in with a madman) ; the dose,
cramped quarters which in their very
nature stifled all the comfort out of the
unhappy traveler; the partitioning a
man from the sight and society of his
fellow-creatures; and, above all, the
shortness of the carriages, which caused
them to and jerk aboat so violent
ly that conversation became a torture
aud reading an impossibility ; all these
things combined to render a journey in
an Eugliah railway oarriage a matter of
something worse than unpleasantness.
The “permanent way,” or roadbed of
the English railroad, was muoh more
substantial than that of the Amerioan,
but the English carriages could not be
compared with the Amerioan oars.
Mr. Walter’s opinion of tho Centen
nial Exposition was very high. It was
certainly the equal, and in many respeots
the superior of any of the other World’s
Fairs. He expressed himself as delight
ed with the good manners exhibited by
the people he had met at the Exposition,
Many of them bore traces of tbe farmer
in their dress and talk, bqt in no ease
had he seep signs of the boor. Yankee
•curiosity was to be noticed on all signs,
but the caricatured Yankee inquisitive
ness did apt manifest: jtself.
The political situation was looked upon
by Mr. Walker with great interest. He
was somewhat surprised to learn that
Congressmen and other officers were
elected npon the day of the Presidential
eleotion. It seemed more proper that a
special dignity should be conferred npon
the candidates for the Presidency. The
salaries to national officers seemed very
a®all to him wh'en compared with the
expenses which fhey must ®ept ip Wash
ington, He thought Senatorial and ju
dicial positions should be made worthy
of the acceptance of the best men in the
country, and though they were usually
filled by the best men, who acoepted sac
rifices.from motives of patriotism, it too
frequently happened that weak persona,
Unable tp withstand the temptation whioh
accompanied those places of trust,
were appointed to dll them, and dis
grace, not only to them but to the whole
country, followed, Asa matter qf econ-
omy it paid tp spend money to prevent
being made a laughing stock—especially
to a great nation. With the expensive
way in which Americans in the higher
circles lived, it was impossible to meet
the outlay with tne salary given by the
Government to its leading statesmen,
and if they were not men of wealth they
must either steal or get into debt. He
did not feel qualified to judge America
on his slight aoquaintanee with the sub
ject, bnt if England should try this sort
of economy it would be, without doubt,
her ruin. The Mayor of London re
ceived £5,000 (about $25,000) per an
num, and the Judges were paid corre
spondingly large salaries. Looking upon
it as an outsider be felt it would be wise
economy for the United States to follow
England’s lead and give some adequate
payment for the labors of her servants.
The rumor of serious trouble arising
from tbe oloseness of the Presidential
eleotion was soonted by Mr. Walter as a
matter of no serious difficulty. He felt
sure there was no danger of another
civil war, there being no great issues at
stake, and the memory of the last war
being still too fresh in the minds of the
people to allow them seriously t<f~jon
template tbe idea of again taking up
arms against their brothers. The for
eign mind was muoh more willing to be
lieve in the sincerity of the cry for re
conciliation between the. North and
South than were many Northerners and
Southerners.
“Hard times,” Mr. Walter said, were
affecting England when he left that
country. The business troubles were
much worse, however, upon the conti
nent, more especially in Germany.
Franoe, always the luoky nation, whose
crops were good and whose people lived
and thrived upon almost nothing, was
the riohest of them, bnt America, he
found, Wasn’t far behind. With her
wonderful resources of coal aud iron
aDd her manufacturing and agricultural
resources, the United States would spon
shake off their present oommereial
lethargy; they were bound, if they
would only hasten the retnrn to specie
payment, to find themselves in brisk
business before long. In one way
America had strangely reversed tbe
natural order of things. Manufactures
generally were a result of agriculture,
aud people only came to towns after
the agricultural interests had been fully
developed. But here this was not trne.
With room for hundreds of millions in
many of the States, the manufacturing
element had been developed so far out
of its proper proportion that tbe cry
already went up of too many manufac
tories. Despite the enormous grain
and vegetable products of the United
States, their agricultural resources had
only been tonohed, not worked.
“While I do not believe in a tariff as
your system now uses it,” said Mr. Wal
ter, “I do not believe in absolute free
trade. I think a tariff large enough to
make a revenue for the Government
without frightening other'oountries out
of sending goods is the true system of
international taxation. What is the use
of your Centennial Exhibition? Why
do you invite Europeans across the At
lantic and Japanese and Chinese across
the Pacific, to come and examine tbe
value of your manufactures, if you do not
wish to enter into wholesome trade with
ithese countries ? It is a question which
deeply affects the good of the country—
this question of free trade or tariff; and
I think the sooner Amerioa answers it as
England has answered it, tbe sooner abe
will banish hard times, and panic and
money troubles fro® her shores. As for
paying the interest upon the national
debt, she will have twice the money
with which to do if.
ESCAPE OF M’EVOY.
H K DISAPPEARS FROM THE
AIKEN JAIL.
three Aueut-Tbe ThlfJ Sae*e*fcU-Who
“ ft
Robert McEvoy, the murderer of Col.
James J. Gregg, escaped Tuesday night
from the Aiken jail. {Jy some means
unknown to the jailer he obtained a
knife and circular saw, sawed through
the wooden ceiling of his cell, raised
himself into the loft above and then
made his escape throngh an unbarred
window at the uorth end of the loft,
letting himself down by his sheets tied
together. This is the third attempt
made by him. The second was made in
this same way, and the jailer and sheriff
were urged to use every precaution to
restrain him, and to strengthen the win
dows and doors and to keep a close
watch upon him, There is gross neg
ligence somewhere certainly. The jail
though new has never been considered
perfectly secure, but the County Com-'
missioncrs have pleaded pecuniary in
ability to strengthen it. It was only
yesterday that an order of the Cirouit
Court was filed in the Clerk’s office, di-
recting the sheriff to carry him forth
with to Colombia well guarded, and it
would look as if he was advised of this
fact and the necessity of immediate ac
tion. On Sunday last two of McEtvoy’s
sisters visited bi in jail, but one of the
sheriff’s deputies was presentduring the
interview, and is confident that nothing
passed. It is conjectured that the ar
ticles used by him were conveyed to
him upon preconcerted arrangement by
a cord let dowp from his window. But
the sheriff and the counsel representing
the State have offered a reward for his
apprehension. He probably went first
towards Graniteville, where he doubtless
received assistance to carry him further.
A party of gentlemen have gone out to
search for Adam Johnson, the Hausman
murderer, whose whereabouts is pretty
well known,
•' P= n : -
Northern apples are cheaper and more
plentiful uow in our market than we
ever kuew them to be before.
An exchange says that we have a right
to take an nmbrella or a kiss without
permission whenever we can. Well, but
if the umbrella isn’t returned, the fault
is oars; if the kiss isn’t, it is the lady’s.
*2 A TEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
THK PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Blakely had a bonfire last week.
Greenesboro wells are drying up.
Hogs in early county are failures.
Colquitt, Ga.. needs a hotel keeper.
Berrien county oast no Radical votes
Thomasville is to have a spelling bee
Fort Gaines still flies the National
rag.
Tilden’s majority in Georgia is 82 -
000 !
Oat sowing around Calhoun is back
ward.
Two Atlanta boys are studying for the
stage.
Rome’s warehouses can’t hold all of its
cotton.
Dawson is boiling cane for four more
weddings.
Gainesville had a destiuctive fire Fri
day night.
Greene county has a good stand of
small grain.
The Blakely News now takes sub
scription in oorn.
An Early county cow gives the latest
reform improvement.
Union Point will apply to the Legisla
ture for incorporation.
county lady, aged 15, is the
mother of five children.
They are boiling syrup and hurrahing
for Smith in the Second.
Dawson girls are using their “flames”
for torchlight processions.
Hard times aud politioal excitement
have no effect on matrimony,
Dahlopega ig rapidly progressing. She
is building anew post offloe.
Forty emigrants from Miller and
Early counties have gone to Florida.
Mr. Otis Jones, of Atlanta, was robbed
last Friday night of $450 worth of prop
erty. •
Mr. Edward C. Hill, * nephew of
Hon. B. H. Hill,is a candidate for Clerk
of the Honse.
The Jonesboro oolored Baptist
Church kicked out two “ who
voted for Tiljeq.
An Atlanta school girl refused a doll
whioh her unde brought her because it
had on no bustle,
ThoujgsyjJje fs very leisurely and oftie
fully trimming up her splinters for a
torchlight procession.
One of the Dome Courier's head lines
has become seriously distorted during
the latter days of the campaign*
Mr. J. H. Estill, of the Savqnpah
News, has been f®, the }egis
latmTe vacanc, y is Chatham county.
The Cftlnmbus Times says that Major
Moses is the pqming man for the United
States Senate, if there is a squabble.
A ThomasviHe man is going to shoot
off a regular old fashioned “Harrison
cannon” when Tilden’s election is as
sured.
begro wants to know who
that fellow was that run Til
don on the ticket and helped to defeat
Hayes? .
The North Georgia Agricultural Col
lege boys oelehrated the supposed elec
tion of Tilden as handsomely as trained
politicians.
The Jonesboro Wagon Train Com
pany is thinking of suing for a charter.
At present they are busy hauling in
eleotion returns.
As statistics show that fully one-half
of Atlanta’s enterprising sons drink
lager beer, the temperance paper has
been abandoned.
Whiteley carried only one oounty in
the Seoond District. Decatur gave him
a small majority.
Since the Georgia jubilees the aver
age political enthusiast hurrahs in a
whisper and wears greased red flannel
around his throat.
The Atlanta Times says that the next
convention of the stockholders of the
Central Railroad will be a stormy one if
all reports are true.
Prominent Christians in the State are
reserving their thanksgiving prayers and
holding baok thanksgiving turkeys,
awaiting full returns.
North Georgia farmers want Congress
to pass a bill allowing tobacco to be
sold under the same terms as other ar
ticles pf farm produce.'
It is stated now that the Democrats of
the Seventh District will bury the hatoh
et by sending Felton to the. Senate and
Mrs. Felton to the House.
The gin house of Professor Woodfin,
Qf Greene county, was destroyed by fire
last week. Two negro preachers sus
pected thereof, have been jailed.
A. O. Murphey, Esq., of Barnesville,
one of the most talented young men of
the State .University, has been elected
Anniversarian of the Demosthenian
Society.
The Early connty News having assert
ed that whisky did not cure rheumatism
became so unpopular that the legal ad
vertisements of Miller county were im
mediately withdrawn.
Boys and girls iu tbe wire grass
counties don’t wait for official returns.
They simply join hands, send for a
Justice of the Peace, give a Tilden
candy stew and are happy.
Th 6 Rome Courier impudently sug
gests: “Wouldn’t it be well for the
Georgia Bads to ask Garfield & Cos. to
take a peep at the Georgia vote ? 81,-
611 majority would make thorn feel
good.
Glory I—So said a darkey last night.
“Tildum am ’lected, but Hayes take de
seat, for all dat! Glory!” And he
went round to a Tilden man and bor
rowed a quarter to buy bread and meat
for supper.— Atlanta Times.
Atlanta darkies believe that tbe devil
prowls around in that village every Fri
day night. Why these superstitir us
beings should limit this Gate City Ma
jesty to only one night in the seven,
none but the moralizing can venture to
say,
A Jonesboro mentions among
other advantages of Tilden’s election,
that “ men will love their wives and
children better.” We decline to be
lieve this until we hear the prophetic
voice of 001. Christy comment there
upon,
Mr. Samuel C. Robinson, conductor
of a State Road freight train, while
standing upou cue of his cars last
Thursday, was struck on the head and
instantly killed by a piece of timber of
the fair ground bridge, near Atlanta.
Mr. Robinson was Secretary of the
State Grand Lodge of Good Templars.
Wednesday's Items.
A West Point man spells it hoo-raw.
Conyers has a colored female leoturer.
Gainesville has a toper’s Sabbath Re
sort.
Wheat sowing is quite popular in
Cherokee.
Athens pays more for cotton than does
Gainesville.
The gurgle of election jui<H fa still
heard in Eatonton.
Large crops of small grain should be
looked, Mter just now.
The Hartwell Court House is uow
used as a dancing hall.
CaruesviUe is .ielebrating the viotory
by barbecuing wild turkeys.
Atlanta sends out more drummers
than any other Southern city.
The air in Jackson county is darken
ed by the broadcast wheat and oats.
A politician of 60 years of age walked
four miles to vote for Felton at Aowojrth.
Mrs. Berrill Brown, an old lady 0f,60,
died in Dalton reoently, of heart dis
ease.
The LaGrange poets have tackled Mr.
Hilliard as a sort of campaign after
math.
A colored man in LaGrange takes ad
vantage of Tilden’s election, to take the
homestead.
The Franklin county Union Sabbath
School will plant a Christmas tree on
the 25th prox.
Ex-Governor Brown will remain in
Florida till the vote is counted and the
question settled.
The Savannah News states that not
a single book agent died of yellow fever
during the epidemic.
The Dalton floor mills have to run
day and night to supply North Georgia
with its daily bread.
Dr. A. H. McEwen, of Dalton, was
found dead in the street within a few
steps of his own gate.
Country newspapers compelled to ap
pear jn half sheets this weather, shonld
be objects of charity.
The LaGrange ladies are roofing the
Methodiat parsonage, or, more striotly
speaking, having it done.
Hartwell citiaens seem to rejoice more
over the result in South Carolina than
over the National election.
The Gainesville Eagle asserts, as a
remarkable faet, that mountain cab
bages command high prioes.
Twenty thousand gallons of sorghnm
syrup were made in Troup county this
year, bringing about $15,000.
A little ohild, living near Canton, fell
into a pot of boiling soap one day last
week, and was severely burned.
The Catholic Oburoh of Brunswick
was rohbed last week of the ohalioe,
vestment, altar linen and vases.
The Bvme Journal describes Madi
son's primary election for oounty offices
to have been a regular scramble,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Blaokville has no more troops.
Anderson has a nine pound turnip.
Mrs. Margaret Massey, of Anderson,
is dead.
Walhalla has jubileed to her heart's
content.
Forfeited land sales are running up iu
many counties.
Peggy Jones, aged 115$ years, died in
Charleston, Thursday.
The Anderson Democratic Club had a
basket pio-nic Saturday.
t Constant complaint is made against
the detective force in Charleston.
The Westminster torchlight proces
sion had about 350 persons in ranks.
The Laurensville Herald, one of
Carolinia’s stand-bys,commences volume
81, t
The Keowee Courier, an excellent
weekly paper, enters upon its twelfth
volume.
. that the politioal exoitement
m Carolina even overshadows the circus
interest.
Robbers are holding high oarnival
along the line of the South Carolina
Railroad.
A colored boy in Charleston mistook
his big toe for a lightwood knot and
whaoked it off, last Friday.
The Republican office holders seem to
have beoome resigned to their fate
sinoe Democracy has swept the land.
A few Winchester rifles scattered
around among the fiend infested streets
of Charleston might do happy work.
The harn of Mr. Riohard' Lewis, the
candidate elect lor the offioe of Pro/oate
Judge for Qoonee oounty, was r often* l v
destroyed by fire.
Ihe Beaufort Tribune says: “Ex-Gov
cruor Ohamberlaia was presented with a
son last That’s why it mukes
no differs** him.”
'yhtf Anderson Intelligencer urges the
Democratic Clubs to k,ep up their or
ganizations and ooutiuue to have meet
ings at stated intervals.
It is estimated that 5,000 telegraphic
dispatches of congratulation, of inquiry
and for information have been received
in Columbia sinoe eleotion day.
Referring to the labor question, the
Laurensville Herald recommends
preference for Democrats, but not pros
cription to Republican employees.
The News and Courier thiuka that
Governor Hampton is entitled to be in
stalled between Monday, the 27th of
November, and Saturday, the 2d Decem
ber next.
Mrs. Jemima Roof, the wife of Mr.
Walter Roof, of Charleston, died sud
denly of apoplexy at the residence of
her father, Mr. J. B. Clark, in Ander
son, last week.
The Piokens Sentinel records the fol
lowing instance of the “ruling passions
in” birth: “A child has been
born in this oounty, wearing the red
shirt, with arms."
In making farm contracts for the com
ing year, the Anderson Intelligencer ad
vises that the colored men who voted
with us shall have ample recognition for
their noble conduct by always having
the preference of land or position.
A Charleston lady who was inatten
tive at whist, has broken off her en
gagement with her lover, beoause he
recommended her to “ scoop her mind
up with a peanut shell and hx it on the
game.”
An estray marshal has been beating
the bushes around Laurensville drum
ming up fraud statistics. He issued a
oall for every colored man, who did not.
vote, to meet him at the Court House.
One forlorn son of Ham appeared, and
the following remarkable dialogue en
sued : “ Did you vote at the late elec
tion?” “No, sah.” “Why not?”
“ I’se sick, sah.”
THE SYNOD.
Tolrd Day’s Session—Reports of Ctoinmlueos
—Sabbath Schools—Other Business.
The Synod met in the Lecture Boom at
9, a. m., yesterday morning. The roll
was oalled and the minutes read and
approved.
The Committee on Records reported
recommending that the records of the
Atlanta Presbytery be approved. The
Committee on the Records of Florida
reported recommending the approval of
the reoords with a few exceptions. After
considerable discussion the report was
recommitted.
The Committee on Reoords of the
Cherokee Presbytery reported, recom
mending the approval of the records,
with some exceptions. The report was.
adopted.
The Committee on Publication re
ported. The report was adopted with
out discussion.
On motion, the action on the oommit
tee report in regard to the records of the
Cherokee Presbytery was reconsidered.
The exceptions made by the commit
tee were read seriatim, discussed and
adopted. The report was then adopted
as a whole.
The Committee on the Records of the
Augusta Presbytery reported, recom
mending that the records be approved,
with one exception. The report was
adopted.
Dr. Lane suggested that it would be a
good idea to incorporate a map of each
Presbytery in the records of that Pres
bytery. The Augusta Presbytery had.
deoided on this Course.
The Committee on Oglethorpe Uni
versity reported. The report was
adopted.
The Committee on Reoords of the Ma
con Presbytery recommended that the
records be approved. Adopted.
The Committee on the Theological
Seminary at Columbia reported. On
motion, the report was adopted.
The Standing Committee on Sahloath
Schools reported. In 1875 the Atlanta
Presbytery, had 1,493 Sabbath school
soholars; in 1876, 1,588, Augusta
Presbytery, 1875, 891 ; 1876, 969.
Cherokee Presbytery, 1875, 654 ;
654; 1876, 714. Florida Presbytery,
1875, 557; 1876, 521. Maoon Presby
tery, 1875, 627; 1876, 495. Savannah
Presbytery, 1875, 534; 1876, 729. Total,
1875, 4,756; 1876, 5,016. Aggregate in
crease, 260. Atlanta Presbytery
33 churches, of which 19 report Sabbath
sohools. Augusta Presbytery 39
charches, of which 16 report Sabbath
schools. Cherokee Presbytery reports
33 churches, 13 of which report Sabbath
schools. Florida Presbytery reports 26
churches, of wb.i&h 13 report Sabbath
school. Maoon Presbytery reports 19
churchy, of which 19 have Sabbath
schools. Savannah Presbytery reports
19 churches, of which 17 reyort Sabbath
schools. The report was adopted.
The Committee on Narratives report
ed the report was received and adopted.
The Committee on Religious Instruc
tion of the Colored People, reported.
Although these people are in our midst,
the work among them is essentially for
eign. The committee offered a resolu
tion cordially recommending the college
institnted by the Assembly for the edu
cation of ministers to preach to the col
ored people] to the support of the breth
ren throughout the Synod. The report
was adopted.
The report of the Committee on the
Minutes of the Assembly. The report
was amended and adopted.
The Committee on Judicial Business
and the Committee on Bills and Over
tures reported that no business had
come before them.
The Committee on Records or the
Florida Presbytery reported. A substi
tute offered by Dr. Wo ad row was
adopted.
A series of resolutions in regard to
attendance on the Bynod were offered
and adopted,
On motion, the Synod took a recess
until ?, p. m.
At the evening session the Gommittee
on Education reported and an able ad
dress on the subject of education was
delivered by Dr. Waddell.
A Politician in a Hogshead.
[Virginia City Chronicle. j
An ambitious politician of the Repub
lican persuasion, considerably the worse
for bad gin, improved the opportunity
presented by the gathering in front of
Odd Fellows’ hall last night, attracted
by the band of the Berger troupe, and
mounting a convenient hogshead pro
ceeded to orate. In the midst of one
his loftiest flights of tipsy eloquence the
head of the oask gave way, letting him
down out of sight of bis audience. In
the midst of his frantio endeavors to ex
tricate himself from his confinement and
go lor the orowd that was making merry
at his expense, an officer appeared,
fished him ont and carried him off to the
station house.
Avery remarkable and nnnsnal acci
dent occurred in Putnam county last
week. Two little children, whose pa
rents were laboring in the fields were
locked up in their house and there burn
ed to death.