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.■ OLO SERIES —VOL. XCI NEW SERIES—VOL. U. TERMS. THE DAILY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper in the South, is pnbliahod daily, except Monday. Terms : Per year, 410 ; six months, 45; three months, 42 50. THE WEEKLY oHKONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, 42; six months, 41. THE TBI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Terms One year, 45; six months. 42 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all casea in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid far. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 41 per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, 41 per square; in Weekly, 41 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices, $1 each. Special Notices, 41 per square. Special rates will bo made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty centa per line. All announce ments mast be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Csbonicu A SprnwNL, Augusta, Ga. Ctjromcle and iSmrtnri. WEDNESDAY - JANUARY 17, 1877. TO OIK NUBNCRIBERM. We request oar subscribers who owe us to pay their subscriptions. It is im portant to us that every man on our books should pay at once. Let each subscriber bear in mind that while one or two dollars may appear to be a tri fling amount, the aggregate amounts to a targe sum. We hope our friends will respond promptly. wtf A tremendous gale has been raging on the Atlantic coast of France. Two villages were threatened with destruc tion by the high water, and several lives were lost. One of the telegraph cables between France and England has parted. It is suggested by a correspondent of the New York Tribune that the State of New York should build and equip a rail road of its own from Chicago to tide wa ter, and thus secure for New York city the monopoly of the gram trade by means of the low rates it would be enabled to make. Aooobdino to tuo Cleveland Plain dealer, there is less determination and swagger on the part of Republicans. The fact of Tildk.n’h election was as op parent the day after the election as it is now. But the Republicans have stabled their high horse, and are now bestride a much more diminutive mule. The Baltimore Sun thinks that no concession on the part of Mr. Tilden can give Mr. Hates a valid title to the Presidency if he has not such title already by the votes of the electors, duly appointed and cast in accordance with law. Neither can the House and Senate enter into any compromise upon the subject. Grorqb Peabody Russell, who, as the representative of the Peabody edu cational fund, traveled through the South a few months ago, reports to the trustees that “ nothing can be expected in the advancement of education in Louisiana, South Carolina or Florida until their State governments are changed.” Sam Bowles, of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, shrewdly insists that the reason why the best Republi cans sometimes admit that they may be wrong, and that the best Democrats never do so, in regard to the Presiden tial trouble, is that Tilden was evident ly elected, while Hayes was elected by the barest possibility. The leading Republican organ of Florida says of the late reoount by the Keturniug Board, that “if MarobllusL. Stearns was defeated in the late contest, then the electoral vote rightfully be longs to Tildes, and juggling will de ceive nobody and satisfy no one who is worth satisfying." With faith in the honesty of Governor Hayes it says he cannot afford to reoeive an office won by each meaus. The Detroit Free Press observes that the length of time which, under ordi nary circumstances, it takes to effect a change in the political complexion of the United States Senate, is shown by the faot that, although since the close ■of the war the Democrats ha7e, after very election, increased their strength in the United States, it will take two years more before there will be a Demo cratic majority in the Senate chamber. The mint has its statistics, of oourse, for the bygone year, like other institu tions. And they Show that a total value of $22,186,835 was coined into 49,403,346 pieces of money. The double eagles ■umbered 2183,905; the gold dollars, 3,245; trade dollars, 456,150; half dol lars, 8,419,150; quarter dollars, 17,817,- 150; twenty cents, 15,900 ; dimes, 11,- 461,150. There were more than six times as many silver as gold pieces coined, but the gold pieces included a little more than half the total value coined. Fio-rks show an increase in the pub lic debt in December. The liabilities of the Government exceed the receipts for the month by 83,585,142. For the six months ending December 31st, the public debt has decreased 83.158,003, which is 82,338,428 less thau the de cease for the corresponding six months •of last year. The unfavorable showing for tfae six months just ended is owing to the large falling off in receipts. For December the receipts fell off nearly $2,000,000 as compared with November, and as compared with December, 1875, #2,316.177. There is also a large falling off in internal revenue receipts. The economy in European municipali ties should put American city govern ments to shame, London, notwithstand ing the large salaries paid, and the aris tocratic form of government to be maintained, is more economically admin istered than New York. In the English metropolis, the total yearly cost for 1875 was covered by eleven dollars per capita. The tax in New York is thirty four dollars per head, and the city debt is $136 for every man, woman and child of the population. In all that respects the safety of life and the security of property, England’s chief city is much superior to onr own. Thh Columbia correspondent of the New York Times compliments the col ored members of the Maoksx Legisla ture of Sonth Carolina at the expense of the white members of the last Legisla ture of Georgia as follows: The number of good speakers and debaters is comparatively few in any Legislature, but I doubt whether the Aseembly elect in New York will be able to allow throe better parlia mentarians or debaters than Messrs. Stuaker. of Sumter; Thomas, of Newbery, and Mn.t.ss. of Charleston—all colored members of the As sembly of South Carolina. And it is very cer tain that Georgia, where the “shot gun" policy haa been sncoesaful end the “White Linen" have aeenmed the reins of government, can not boast over foutb Carolinia either in the superior intelligence or honeety of ita law makers. A gentleman who attended many of the sessions of the Georgia Legislature at At lanta bet Winter informs me that for ignor ' *nce. coarseness, vulgarity, venality, and gen oral corruption, thst body ooaid carry off the palm from any Legislature that ever assembled in Sonth Carolina or elsewhere. As Mrs. Malafbop would say. com parisons are odorous. UOTERtOR SMITH. In a few days Governor Smith's term of office will expire. He has been Gov ernor of Georgia since January, 1872. He was the first Democratic Governor elected in Georgia after the adoption of the Reconstruction lots. He was a member of the new Legislature, and had been chosen Speaker of the Honse of Representatives when elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the flight from justice of Rufus B. Bullock. He was nominated unanimously by the Demo cratic Convention, aod daring the first six months of his administration ap proved himself such an able and up right Executive as to insure hisre-nomi nation by acclamation in a Convention composed of the best and most promi nent citizens of the State. Since his re-election no public act of his has been the legitimate subject of adverse criti cism. Private resentments may be en tertained. We have nothing to do with his personal matters ; bat even the bit terest of his personal enemies fan say nothing against bis management of pnblio affairs. He is being abased now in certain quarters—and for no better reason, so far as we are able to jndge, than that, influenced by an honorable ambition, he aspires to serve his State in the Senate of the United States. It seems that he is in somebody’s way, and, therefore, most be driven from the field, not by argnment bnt by splenetio inveotive. We protest against such attacks as being both anjast and ungenerous. Why should not Governor Smith aspire to a seat in the National Senate ? To say that he has not intel lectual capacity for each a position is to pay a poor compliment to the intelli gence of the Democracy of Georgia who have twice called him, by a nnanimons vote each time, to the discharge of the highest and most responsible office with in the gift of the people. To say that he is not deserving, is to make a grossly nngratefnl return for the faithfnl and inf telligent service of five long jears. If Gov ernor Smith is to be beaten, let him be beaten fairly. He will be strengthen ed, not weakened, by unfounded as saults. The faots of his administration are yet fresh in the minds of the people, and they oannot be deceived by baseless charges made for tVe thinly concealed purpose of aiding rival candidates. As Governor Smith is now about to retire from the offioe which he has held so long, it may not be oat of place to say something of his administration; When he was elected Governor the State had been for three years and a half in the oomplete control of a band of po litical plunderers, led by snch men as Rufus B. Bullock and Foster Blod gett. Its treasury had been bankrupt ed ; its oredit destroyed. It was saddled with a bonded debt of many millions that had been fraudulently contracted. The Beach had been degraded by bad ap pointments ; law had become a mocke ry, the Courts a farce, and the doors of jails and penitentiaries been flung wide open for the escape of thieves, murderers and criminals of every de scription. This was the state of affairs which the new Governor had to encoun ter—this the political and social chaos that the new Governor must reduce to order. In the work that followed he had the assistance of the Legislature. This we do not deny. But the heaviest portion of the burden was, of ne cessity, borne by the Executive.— Under his firm and honest rule re form in every department of the gov ernment was instituted. The virtuous talent of the State was employed in the service of the State. The Courts com manded respect. Justice was done. The laws were enforced. Crimi nals were punished, and the certainty of punishment caused crime to diminish. The fraudulent indebtedness was ex posed to tlio world and disowned. Many believed that this step wonld destroy the publio oredit and thought it better to recognize spurious obligations than to injure the State in the money markets of the world. The event proved the fallaciousness of such views. The valid bonds of the State were promptly paid, principal and interest, as they fell due. New bonds issued on the heels of this so-called sot of “repudia tion" were readily placed at par. All honest debts of the State were liquidat ed. The publio credit has steadily im proved, and the bonds of the State which he found so greatly depreciated in value are selliDg at a premium of from seveu to ten per cent. The material interests of the State have been fostered and enoouraged. The taxable property baa increased in value from two hun dred and twenty-aeven millions in 1870 to two hundred and sixty-one mil lions in 1875. Not a single interest of the State lias been neglected—all have thriven and prospered. Although five years ago Georgia was in as deplorable a condition as any Southern State—with the exception, perhaps, of Sonth Caro lina and Louisiana—she ia torday the Empire State of the Sonth in reality as well as in name, and in wealth, in intel ligence, and in good government will oompare favorably with any State in the whole Union. Governor Sjoth leaves ns order instead of the ohaos which he found on entering offioe. He leaves ns, in a single phrase, good government in stead of bad government; could any man do more than this for his fame or for his people ? It has never been charged upon Geor gians that they were ungrateful to those who had served them faithfully. We know they will not be ungrateful to one who has served them so long, so faith fully and so well. ROME BONDS. A few days ago the Mayor and Conn oil of Rome made a detailed statement oonoerning the hooded debt of that oity. This is a matter in which the citizens of Augusta are interested, as a large pro portion of the bonds were sold in Au gusts. It is wall known that Rome at first attempted to repudiate her debt on varions technical grounds, bnt was pre vented by a decision of the State Su- preme Court, Afterwards a proposition to compromise was offered, the city agreeing to settle at fifty cents on the dollar, principal and interest, giving new bonds for the amonnt, payable in twenty years, and bearing interest at the rate of seven per oent. per annum. This was not accepted, for the very good reason that the holders of the bonds had paid abont sixty cents for them. The next proposition made was to settle at 60 cents on the dollar, and give new bonds fox tbe amount, on the same terms as to time, bat with semi-annual interest for the first five years at five per cent; for the next five years at six per cent.; for the next five years at seven per oent.; and for the last five years at eight per cent. This offer, after some negotiation, was accepted by a con siderable number of the bondholders. Under this arrangement $196,400 princi pal, and $85,302 interest—making a total of s23l,7o2—have been taken np and replaced by $138,400 of new bonds. In addition to this, Borne, through Messrs. John J. Cohen & Sons, of this city, has purchased and taken np $16,- 686, principal and interest, of other bonds. Altogether, $249,378 of the bonded debt haa been taken np—leaving 8197,0(00 outstanding. The actual re duction of the debt is $110,978. From this statement it will be seen that per sons holding a large amont of the bonds have not as yet accepted the compro mise. It is to be hoped that they will do so; and it is also to be hoped that this experience will prevent Rome from attempting repudiation again. THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF AU GUSTA. We have had occasion of late to speak more than once of the financial condi tion of tlva city of Augnsta. These com ments were rendered necessaiy (first) by the staterne.it made by the late Mayor on retiring from office that dnriDg the past year the expenditures had exceed ed the receipts; (second) by the reduc tion of the salaries of city officials which had already been reduced; (third) by the failure of the city to meet the bonds which fell dne last December; and (fourth) by the large addition made to the bonded debt of the city during the administration of Mayor Estes. What we wished to accomplish was to show the people of Augnsta how their books stood and to impress upon the City Ooufacil the necessity of employing the most rigid economy in every depart ment of the city government. We have every reason to believe that the Mayor and the Members of Conncil fully real ize the condition of affairs and that un- - der the administration of the new Mayor retrenchment will be practiced in every branch of the municipal service and that the most scrupulous faith will be kept with the holders of the oity’a obli gations. It is trne that the bonded debt is large; that from the time of the inanguration of Mayor Estes to the day of the inauguration of Mayor Meyer it was increased from one million three hundred thousand dollars to nearly two million one hundred thousand dollars, but there is not the slightest reason to apprehend that it will not, in future, be met promptly, princi pal and interest, at maturity. Mayor Meyer has already made arrangements to pay the bonds that have matured and holders can obtain their money upon presentation of the obligation. With the prudent management which we are promised, we feel confident that no fur ther embarrassment will be experienced. And here let us say something concern ing the bonded debt. The bonded debt of Angnsta on the Ist day of January, 1876, amounted to $1,961,000. Daring the year there were issued $250,000 ad ditional—sloo,ooo for the enlargement of the canal and $150,000 to be used in payment of maturing bonds. This made a total of $2,211,000. Up to the first of January $74,750 of maturing bonds had been paid. When all of the issue of $150,000 have been sold and all of the past due bonds has been paid the bond ed debt of the city will be $2,086,000, All that we need in the administration of municipal affairs is just what is need ed in the management of private busi ness—prudence and econony. STATISTICS OF SUICIDE. The Cincinnati Commercial has com piled some curious and interesting sta tistics of the suioides committed in the United States daring the past twelve months. Of course, many cases of self murder have occurred that did not come to the knowledge of the Commercial; but it is fair to presume that its tables represent a very large per centage of those who anticipated death in 1876. The total number of suicides is given as five hundred and fifty-two; and of these four hundred and forty-one were males, and one hundred and eleven females. Two noticeable defects in the table is its failure to show the propor tion of single to married persons, and the failure to show the nationality of the suicides. The first figures would have enriched our sooial and the latter our race statistics. For instance, it is the generally received opinion that more married persons kill themselves than single ones (in proportion to numbers), and that the French shuffle off this mortal coil for lighter causes than any other people. Thirteen children com mitted snioide, and we leave it to the doctors to determine what is the reason of infantile destruction. The causes are enumerated as follows; Insanity mast answer for aixty-one of the deaths, and temporary insanity for sixty. Hard times have to answer for between one fifth and one-sixth of the whole number —ninety-eight being credited to poverty and financial troubles. “Love,” which has been a fruitful source of trouble since the days of Troy and Helen, killed fifty-four—or nearly one-tenth of the total. Love ia rather a broad term and we are left in doubt as to what kind of love is meant. We are not told whether it was the love of sweetheart, step-father or mother-in-law that proved so fatal. Domestic troubles sent forty five, or one-twelfth, to an untimely grave. Whisky is only responsible for thirty-seven, or one-fifteenth. These figures show with mathematical certain ty that it is better for a man to be a drunkard than to be poor, have domes tic troubles or fall ip love. 11l health caused twenty-six to grow weary of ex istence and to seek a place where disease is unknown and doctors trouble not. Nine committed suicide to evade the gallows and died nnder sentence of death. Thirteen axe charged to the ac count of morbid religions feeling. Eight were ennuied as badly as Sir Charles Coldstream in the play, grew tired of life and quit living. The same number committed suicide because of "mortifi cation,” whatever that may be. The methods adopted to commit snioide varied almost as m*uch as the canses which provoked the deed. One hun dred and forty-three shot themselves; one hundred and seventeen tried hang ing; one hundred and thirteen took poison; eighty preferred drowning; for ty-five cut their throats; sixteen stabbed themselves in other portions of the body; and thirty-eight resorted to dif ferent ingenious methods to quench the “vital spark of Heavenly flame” which most men are so anxious to keep aglow. A MOST EFFICIENT OFFICER. In reviewing the administration of Governor Smith, one cannot fail to be impressed by the fact that, in the selec tion of officials, State and county, His Excellency has shown remarkable tact and praiseworthy knowledge of men; for his appointees have demonstrated their special fitness for the positions to which they were appointed. When Pro fessor Gustavcs J. Orb reoeived the appointment of State School Commis sioner, the friends of public instruction in the State were made glad.— A gentleman of high scholarship and deserved popularity, Professor Ohb brought to the discharge of the important dnties of his office that degree of energy and painstaking which was so essential. He has thor oughly mastered the subject of public education, and largely assisted in elevat ing the standard of the schools under his supervision. His able articles on the pnblio schools, published in the leading papers of the State in 1875, attracted widespread attention, and were exhaustive of the subject. Last Sum mer Prof. Orb made a canvass of the State, and aroused a deep interest among the people in the cause of which he is the chosen representative. Geor gia has no more efficient offioer than Prof. Orb, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1877. HAMPTON AND HATES. We publish this morning in the Chronicle and Sentinel a communi cation that will attract general attention, and which conveys some very surprising I information. The mission of Jadge T. ! J. Mackey —who went to Governor Hayes as the accredited representative of Gen eral Wade Hampton —was a surprise to the whole country. Candor compels ns to admit that General Hampton’s act has been condemned in every quarter as un wise, impolitic and calculated to injure the cause of the National Democracy, and of the battlers with corruption, op pression and usurpation in Louisiana and Sonth Carolina. No one has charg ed that General Hampton meant to pro pose a bargain to the candidate of the Republican party—by the terms of which the case of the latter should be strength ened by the admission on the part of head of a Southern Democratic State govern ment that he had been legally elected, in return for which Hates, when firmly es tablished, should repudiate the Cham berlain government and recognize Hampton as the lawfnl Governor of South Carolina. The character of the man forbade that he should be consid ered in the light of a pclitical trader, willing to sacrifice the interests of the whole country in order to protect his own. His manner and bearing during the past five months, the extraordinary charaoter of the canvass he conducted, have challenged the admiration of the whole country, and no man believed, or believes, that he would bar ter his well earned fame for position or power. The opinion generally express ed of the visit of Maokey to Columbus and of the letter which he bore to Hates was that it was a mistake—an error of judgment on the part of one who had made few blunders before. This has been the judgment of the country. The letter which we publish this morniDg takes rather a different view of the question and professes to give the true explanation of this strange proceed ing. The writer speaks as if the cor rectness of his information is undoubt ed, and gives the names of gentlemen whom he thinks are also familiar with the faots. A page in the secret history of South Carolina politics is opened and the pnblio invited to read for them selves. None of the things which he tells have ever appeared in print before. In brief, he states, from information he has received, that Governor Tilden ad vised strongly against the nomination of General Hampton —this opposition first manifesting itself at the St. Louis Con vention and continuing until the meet ing of the State Convention in Colum bia, when an agent of his was present to prevent a candidacy deemed injurious to the party. After this nomination had been made, and wisely made, the Na tional Democratic Committee declin ed to give any assistance to the South Carolina Democracy, and a private let ter from Hampton to Tilden was not answered. When he heard of Gover nor Tildbn’s opposition to his nomina tion it was with great difficulty that General Hampton was persuaded to be come a candidate, and this f<eling of irritation was naturally intensified by the refusal of assistance then so sorely needed and the failure to notice his own communication. The two Republi can Judges— Cooke and Maokey— who come over to Hampton shortly after his nomination, but who, though violently opposed to Chamberlain, were warmly in favor of the election of the Republi can National ticket, took this occasion to urge General Hampton to abandon the cause of Tilden and Hendricks and to make no fight for them in South Carolina. Maokey, especially, strongly urged the propriety and the necessity of such a step and went so far as to offer to insure the election of the Demo cratic State ticket if it should be taken. He was confident that if the canvass should be confined exclusively to local issues he could obtain a large sum of money from the Republican National Committee for campaign purposes. It is further stated that General Hampton listened favorably to this suggestion, and that at the time of the Abbeville meeting he made a direct proposition to carry it into effect. He proposed to Gen. Samuel McGowan, one of the candidates for elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket, that the entire Til den and Hendricks electoral ticket should be withdrawn and the contest be confined to the redemption of the State from the hands of Chamberlain and Company. General McGowan declined to be a party to this withdrawal and, we think, very properly. The Democ racy of Soqth Carolina voluntarily sent representatives to the St. Louis Con vention, and these representatives helped to make Tilden and Hendricks the candidates of the party. Their nom ination was afterwards ratified by the State Convention, and it wonld have been wrong for the Democracy of South Carolina to abandon the cause of the National Democracy which they had formally made their own. It is stated, however, that only a want of time pre vented snch a course from being at tempted—that if a State Convention could have been assembled in time for its action to have had any effect upon the canvass it wonld certainly have been oalled together. It is also said that from this time the candidacy of Tilden was tacitly ignored. The Democratic speakers confined themselves exclusive ly to State politics, and Maokey, occupy ing the platform with them, spoke fot Hayes and Hampton. These things, our correspondent thinks, fully explain the visit of Maokey to Columbus and the letter which he bore from Hampton to Hayes. This is the story. It is hardly neces sary to say that we know nothing of the facta ourselves. The statements made are as astonishing to ns as they will be surprising to the public. The inner his tory of the canvass in South Carolina has been a sealed book to us as well as to the world. We print this letter because it is written in such a way as to show its perfect good faith and because the state ments contained therein are of general interest. We have, at present, no com ments to make npon its revelations. They are either true, or they are not true. Jf they are not true they should be denied by the parties principally concerned. If the writer of the article has been misinformed it is due to them that he should be corrected. "As he says, names and dates are given with great particularity. The distinguished gen tlemen who are mentioned will find the columns of the Chronicle and Sentinel open for their reply. The Baltimore Gazette says the Badi cals think that the colored vote belongs solidly to them, and the measure of its alienation is the measure of the im proper influence brought to bear, which must be eliminated from the returns. So they want to offset the oharges of fraud against them. The British ship “ King Arthur,” cleared from New Haven on the 30th Rli, direct for Constantinople, freighted with munitions of war. Her cargo con sisted of 10,000,000 cartridges, 10,000,- 000 bullets, 10,000,600 Martini-Henry shells, 40,600 guns, 40,000 scabbards, 50,000,000 gun wads. The Sultan seems to be preparing to fight. HAUPTO.XjVND HAYES. A LITTLE LIGHT ON A DARK SUB JECT. The .Meaning of Macke) Mission—A Key to the Campaign in Carolina—Some Facts Not Generally Known—Tildenfc Opposition to Hampton’s Nomination—The Request for Assistance Refused by Hewitt—Hampton’s Disgust—A Proposition to Withdraw the Tilden electoral Ticket—Cooke and Mackey on the Stump—Nothing to Say for Tilden. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: I have observed that the Northern Democratic press do not seem to know what to make of Judge T. J. Mackey’s recent visit to the Republican candidate for the Presidency, and of the extraor dinary communication yhich he bore from the legally elected Governor of Sonth Carolina. I have observed, also, that Southern jonrnalitts seem to be equally as much befogged on this sub ject as their brethren of the North, and that even Sonth Carolina editors either do not know, or, else, have declined to give, the true solution of a mystery more apparent than real. Northern and Southern newspapers have been swift to condemn the embassage, the ambassa dor and the document which he bore, as a mistoke-upes'thtf-part-af-Governor Hampton. Northern and Southern members of Congress, and Democratic politicians generally, have deplored the act as one calculated to injure the Dem ocratic party and to weaken the chances of the inanguration of Tilden. They have said that it seemed an admission by a prominent Southern Democratic leader—one who had just fonght and won a desperato battle in a State long considered hopelessly Republican—that the National Democratic ticket had been defeated and that the Republican can didate was the legally elected President of the United States, and as such oame at a most inopportune time and had done much mischief. The Louisville Courier- Journal, one of the leading Democratic papers of the West, whose editor is gen erally supposed to bo high in the confi dence of Governor Tilden, declares that the letter “felt ljke a wet blanket on the Democrats in Washington City.” It says “General Hampton’s Southern friends and admirers are deeply morti-> fled at the step he has taken. The opinion of the best observers is that the situation is rendered deeply critical by these utterances, and so far from the prospect of a collision being lessened by letters like these, it is greatly increased. The Republicans are justly encouraged by these demonstrations,” etc. The New York World has been equally outspoken and has deplored a mistake that was so injurious iu its effects. The New York Herald said the letter “added to the demoralization of the Democrats,” and that if Hampton could obtain the recog nition of his State government he would not object to the inauguration of Hayes as the price of snch recognition. Sena tor Robertson, in the published report of his interview with a reporter of the New Yoik Herald, went quite as far as this, if not farther. “The Democrats in Sonth Carolina,” he said, “would have preferred the election of Tilden, but were not unwilling to consent to the election of Hayes, provided they could get an honest Democratic government in their own State." And again: “In his campaign speeches Hampton told all to vote for Hayes and Wheeler who wanted to. He put the question of who should be President away behind the question of the administration of State affairs,” As the report of this interview was pub lished in the New York Herald, of De cember 30th, and has not been contra dicted, it is but fair to assume that Sen ator Robertson spoke the truth. I make these prefatory statements for the pur pose of showing that the Mackey em bassage has done harm to the Democratic cause, and that North ern and Southern journals have not attempted to give any expla nation of an act from which have re sulted such unfortunate consequences. The generally received opinion seems to be that it was an error of judgment, that General Hampton was deceived by the wiles of Mackey and let his solici tude for his State betray him into an act which he wonld not, otherwise, have committed. Even in this view of the case it is considered an egregious mis take, because most men are confident that as soon as Tilden is inaugurated the bayonets will be withdrawn from Louisiana and South Carolina and the bogus governments of those States will fall to the ground beneath the weight of their own corruption ; that if Hayes be declared elected President Chamber lain and Packard will be declared legal Governors and kept by Federal power in the positions which they have usurped. It has also been said that Mackey exceeded his instructions and made representations which fie had no authority for making. But as General Hampton has not repudiated any act or deed of his envoy, though re quested to do so, this position seems scarcely tenable. From in formation given to me recently, and which I have reason to believe is entirely trustworthy, it seems that General Hampton knew exactly what he was doiDg when he dispatched Maokey to Columbus,and that the latter did and said nothing not warranted by his prin cipal. Ido not mean to be nnderstood as saying that General Hampton is in different to the snceess of the National Democracy; bat if what I hear be true he was by no means an enthusiastic sup porter of Tilden and is not unwilling to concede the election of Hayes provided the latter will reoognige the Conserva tive State government of South Caro lina. The 81. Louis Convention. It is necessary to go back a little and to say something of events which trans pired prior to General Hampton’s elec tion last November. It is well known that last Spring there was a formidable faction in South Carolina in favor of the nomination or endorsement of Chamber lain on a reform platform. The Charles ton News and Courier strenuously ad vocated snch a coarse and many of the leading politicians of the State support ed the policy proposed by that paper. The “straighout” movement, as it ig termed, which culminated in the elec tion of a Democratic . Governor and a Democratic Legislature last November, originated, if I am not mistaken, in the counties of Edgefield and Anderson, and General M. 0. Rutler, of Edgefield, early in the Spring, nominated General Hampton as a suitable candidate for Governor, General H. had recently re turned from hie Mississippi plantation, and it was believed that he would not refuse to make the fight against Cham berlain. Another wing of the t-outh Carolina Democracy were in favor of a straight ont campaign, bat opposed to the nomination of General Hampton, becanse they did not believe him con servative enough to win the battle. Among these it is said were General John Bratton, General John.D, Kenne dy and Colonel Jas. H. Rion, and per haps Colonel James A. Hoyt. These gentlemen were all delegates to the St. Louis Convention, and the first named was chosen Chairman of the Sonth Carolina delegation. At St. Louis the delegation met Colonel Pelton. a nephew of Governor Tilden, and one of the ac tive, though quiet, organisers of that gentleman’s political campaign. While in St. Louis it is understood that Caro lina politics were fully discussed by the delegation with Colonel Pelton, and that the latter geatleman strongly ad vised against the nomination of General Hampton. He nrged that some man of less prominence and of more known con servative views should be selected as the candidate, and said that tbe nomination of Hampton would injure the party at the North. It was generally recognized that the candidacy of Hampton would be distasteful to Governor Tilden, be cause tbe latter feared it would work mischief to the National Democracy. The Columbia Convention. In the meantime General Gary and others had continued to nrge the nomi nation of Hampton upon the people of the State, and the idea took so well that it soon became apparent tbe movement would be successful in spite of the strenuous opposition which the scheme encountered. He had intimated a will ingness to run, and his high personal character and brilliant military reoord made him a favorite with the people. When the State Democratic Convention assembled in Columbia in Jane it was evident that Hampton was the strongest candidate t efore it. Governor Tilden, however, had net abandoned his oppo sition to this candidacy, and waß repre sented in Colombia daring the session of the Convention by Colonel Coyle, of Washington Oity. This gentleman con ferred with the most prominent of the delegates, and, in the name of his chief, warmly remonstrated against the pro priety and policy of the proposed step. It was explained to him that Governor Tilden was entirely mistaken in his estimate pf Hampton’s aharaoter— that the latter, instead of being 'an ultra Democrat and a fire eater, was very prudent, cautions and conservative, would unite all faotions and make a stronger race than al most any man in the Btate. Moved by these statements Colonel Coyle finally proposed to telegraph to headquarters on the subject. He sent a telegram to Colonel Pelton, who had been with the Carolina delegation at St. Louis, asking his opinions. The answer was short and to the point. It was substantially as follows: “General Kennedy knows my views with regard to the nomination of General MamptoD.” General Kennedy knew that Governor Tilden was strongly opposed to snoh a nomination and so stated. Unless lam misinformed, Gen. eral Bratton subsequently went in to the Convention as a candidate against .General Hampton, but was defeated. Those who know Gener al Hampton will not be surprised to learu that when he heard of this in terference and opposition he was deep ly angered, and was inclined to with draw his name from the consideration of the Convention, He was finally- over ruled by his friends and consented to run for Governor. A Letter That Was Not Answered. After this matter had been arranged and the Democracy had fairly commenced that memorable canvass which attracted the attention of the whole nation, still other things occurred tending to widen the breach between Harrpton and Til den. I learn that with a yiew of re storing that entente cordiale which should exist between the Democratic candidate for Governor of a State and the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, General Hampton wrote a letter to the latter, after his nomination, assuring him of his hope of carrying the State. This letter received, no reply, though common civility should have dictated an aswer. I understand that Governor Tilden’s explanation is that he was too busy to attend to the matter. This is soarcely a valid ex cuse from one who had a regiment of clerks at his command. But this was not all. The Carolina Democrats were poor and needed money for campaign purposes. The State Democratic Execu tive Committee wrote to Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, Chairman of the National Executive Committee, reciting their ne cessities and asking for some assistance. Mr, Hewitt replied that he had no money to give them, and said, in effect, they must take care of themselves. These successive rebuffs, taken in con nection with Tilden’s opposition to 1 Hsmpton’s nomiattioD, naturally enough irritated the latter and made the Demo cratic Presidential nominee anything but a favorite with him # Who can well wonder at his feelings when these faots are remembered ? Tilden’s Candidacy Not Recognized. It is not astonishing, then, that in the campaign which ensued General Hampton confined himself to making votes for the State ticket, and let na tional politics and the candidacy of Governor Tilden severely alone, J am credibly informed that from the open ing of the canvass at Anderson O. H. to its close in the oity of Columbia Hampton had scaroely a word to say on the subject of national politios, and al most refused to recognise the candidacy of Tilden, In his Darlington speech, when he said he should vote for Tilden, he also complimented Hayes, and said he accorded to the latter all the ca pacity and patriotic worth attributed to him by his most ardent supporters. Hampton invariably took the position that he stood on a platform higher than party, viz: the platform of honesty, reform, economy and good government —a platform on whioh whites and blacks, Radicals and Democrats, could all stand, Proposed Abandonment oi Tilden. But this was not all. It will be re membered that at- ope time it was re ported that a proposition had been made by oertftin Republican leaders in South Carolina to support Hampton against Chamberlain if the former would have the Tilden electoral ticket with drawn. It was generally believed that General Hampton declined to consider such a proposition. This is not the fact. I am informed that he favored snch a course when it was suggested, and that want of time, alone, prevented it from being taken. Judges Mackey and Cooke, who saw that Hampton was dissatisfied with the way in whioh he had been treated, and the Bepnblioan Congressman Hoge, made overtures to him on this subject, promising that if the Tilden electoral ticket was with drawn they would support the Demo cratic State ticket and insure its success. Mackey even went so far as to Bay that if these terms were accepted, he could secure ten thousand dollars from the National Republican Executive Com mittee for the Hampton campaign.— General Hamptou was willing and anx ious that suoh an arrangement should be made. At what is known as the “big meeting” in Abbeville this propo sition was made to General MoGowan, one of the candidates for. elector from from the State at large on the Tilden ticket. General Toombs, of Georgia, is reported to have been present when the scheme was suggested, favored the withdrawal, and himself offered to give ten thousand dollars to the Hampton campaign fund. General MoCfcwau de clined to be a party to such a proceed ing, but there ia little doubt that the withdrawal would have been attempted if the step had not been proposed at suoh a late day. In order to accom plish it legally, it would have been necessary to have a State Convention of the Democratic party, and by the time each a Convention had assembled and acted, it would have been too late for the action to have much effect upon the canvass. This alone prevented a Hayes and Hampton canvass, for Hampton’s word was law, and Hampton favored the withdrawal. How Tilden Lost the State. Though this scheme failed the spirit which inspired it suryiyed and made it self felt in the pampajgh and at tfreelep tion. Dis not too mqch to say that the State was lost to Tilden and ttye National Democracy through thp policy pursued by General Hampton. These two Re publican Judges—Cooke and Mackey canvassed the State with Hampton from the time of the Abbeville meeting until the close of the campaign, and every where spoke, from the platform oooupied by the Democratic candidates, in advo cacy of the election of Hayes and Wheeler and Hampton. Tilden and Hendricks seemed entirely forgotten, and the whole fight was made against Chamberlain. With this change there was also a change in the tactics em ployed. The moat ultra conservatism was practiced. With the taoit repudia tion of Tilden and Hendricks there was also a repudiation of the plan of cam paign adopted. There was a milk and cider, “peace and prosperity," concilia tion of Radicals and flattery of ne groes policy instead of the bold and ag gressive policy inaugurated by the straight-out leaders, ancj thus a majority of ten or fifteen thousand votes wafc lost to Tilden in South Carolina, while the State ticket was only elected by a bare majority. Though the straighUouts brought about hia nomination in the faoe of a tremendous opposition from within the Democratic party, and i thongh their courage and skill had so much to do with redeeming the State they claim to have been praotically ignored by General Hampton when be selected the State Executive Committee. Three of his avowed op ponents were placed on this committee. Five oat of six of these gentlemen fail ed to carry their own counties in the election, while the straight-outs carried Edgefield, Laurens, Abbeyille, Barn well, 4ifcen and Colleton by storm. Richland, General Hampton’s own county, went heavily against him. It is safe to say that but for the fatal mis takes madein this campaign—the deser tion of Tilden and the surrender to Cooke and Mackey—the majority for the State and National ticket would have been too large to admit of investi gation or question. This is the leaf ef secret his tory given to me. The facts as stated remove any mystery connect ed with Mackey’s mission to Columbus and make bis embassage the logical sequel of events. Names and dates are given with great particularly and so many witnesses are mentioned that if any of the statements above made are incorrect it will be an easy matter to disprove them. A Tuski Democrat. TILDEN AND HAMPTON. WHAT A NEW YORK DEMOCRAT BAYS. *f §*“•* H Utary—Caveraor Tilden Never ia Favor of Iluapton’a Nomi nation. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel : For my part I- believe every word of the artiole published in yonr paper signed “A Tilden Democrat,” though I object to the spirit of it; and I regret its publication, for although trne, it is sen sational, and tends to provoke contro versies in the time of national peril most dangerous to the harmony as well as the sneoess of the friends of constitutional government. I read between the lines, however, enough to hlnnt the edge of the attack some of the papers are now making on Carolina’s honored Governor by showing what I believe to be the troth—that Gov, Hampton thinks from the events of the past that the happiness and prosperity of his State ean be best subserved by peaoe, and in view of the faot that she has been ornshed to earth nnder the heel of her enemies and de serted by her friends, she mnst work out her own salvation, and create no an tagonisms even if she forms no alliances. Now, as to the facts stated by “A Til den Democrat,” the kernel of whioh is the course of the National Democracy towards Sonth Carolina, I wish to say this ; That it is pateat to all that Caro lina has not only been the Niobe of the South, bat regarded even by the Nation- al Democracy, especially by the “Invin* oible in war and invisible in peaoe” wing as the Pariah of States, contact with whom was unclean. She has been and is the Southern scape-goat; and I know .Mr. Tilden wrapped his robe aronnahim and told her, “stand off.” In new Tork last Summer, Col. -, of Sonth Carolina candidate for Adju tant and Inspector-General on the State ticket called in oompany with the writer at the Democratic headquarters at the Everett House, and met Mr. , the Secretary of the Committee. We were re ceived with courtesy certainly measured if not soant, and Colonel was quickly informed although he had asked nothing, ” that the committee intended to mass their money and speakers on the doubtful States—Ohio and Indiana —for the Ootober elections, ” and that the Demooraoy of Sonth Carolina must fight out their own salvation,to whioh Colonel i —remarked: “Wejintend to, and al though our people are poor, we shall make up in effort and enthusiasm that whioh we lack in money,” I quote the spirit If not the words. Mr. Secretary then went on to State that Mr. Tilden regarded the nomination of Governor Hampton as a mistake and deprecated the canvass as they feared it would have a bad effect at the North on aaoount of Gov. H.’s war record. Col. replied that fie himself had opposed a straight-out can vass, bat after the Convention deoided otherwise had given it his hearty sub port, and that there was a great mistake in the Northern idea about Geu. Hamp ton, who was a man of great conserva tive prudence and moderation, although a brave and illustrious soldier. When we left the committee room I remarked to Col, M. : “You have nothing to ex pect, neither money nor sympathy, from the National Democracy.’’ “No,” re plied he, “We must make the fight bn State issues and do the best we can.” In conclusion, I draw these deductions: 1. South - Carolina owes nothing to the National Democracy, and Mr. Tilden waa personally hostile to the candidacy of Governor Hampton. 3- Thai it is now the duty of Gov, Hampton <0 protect hia people, who have found neither “strength in their arms nor meroy in their woe.” and that from this stand point his famous letter was, even if in opportune, nothing for which he should be censored. 3. That no truer man lives than Governor Hampton, and if mad ness should rale the hour and war be forced upon us to preserve constitution al liberty and defeat usurpation, he will be fonnd, as in ’6l, occupying “e place in the picture near the dashing of the guns.” A Nbw York Democrat, 7 1 SOUTH CAROLINA. Meeting at Aiken—The Citizen* Recognize Only Hampton as Uovernor—Resolution* Adopted. A special reporter of the Chronicle AND Sentinel went to Aiken yesterday to attefid the mass meeting of the dti iens of Aiken oouDty, The meeting Was called to erder at 11 o’olook by Oapt. J. H. Giles. Mr. 0. E. R. Drayton, in a beautiful and classical address, offered the following resolutions : Resolved, That we, the conservative citizens and tax payers of Aiken county, in mass meeting assembled, and repre senting all shades of political opinion, recognize none other than Wade Hamp ton, the lawful choice of the people, as the Governor of South Carolina, and that we herehy solemnly pledge our selves to yield him an obedient and ear nest support, and to aid him morally, financially, and by all lawful means in 90V power, to establish the lawful gov ernment. Of which be is the honored bead, Resolved, That we recognize none other than W, D. Simpson as the lawful Lieutenant-Governor of Sonth Carolina; and that we recognize the House pre sided over by the Hon. W. H. Wallaoe, as Speaker, as the only legally constitut ed House of Representatives of South Carolina. Resolved, That we regard Daniel H. Chamberlain as a dangerous and dis ?;raoed usurper, who, though defeated or re-eleotion by a righteous use of the ballot in the hands of long suffering, plundered and ontraged people, is now trying to usurp the position of Chief Magistrate of the sovereign State of Carolina upon the declaration of an il legally constituted Legislature, backed by a despotic use of Federal bayonets. Resolved, That we hereby announce our unalterable determination to repu diate every act of D. H. Chamberlain es the pretended Governor, and to repu diate every act of the pretended Honse of Representatives, over which E. W- M. Mackey presides, and the* never again shall the thievish palm of Cham berlain or any of his crew clutch one cent of taxes from the harraesedand plundered people of Aiken county. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to '•hey the oall of Governor Hampton for a tax contribution, and will hold our selves' readiness to meet the same wheneyer it Is, made. Thb vesolptieina were auunimoosly adopted. This meeting was largely at tended by citizens of both oolors, who wees enthusiastic in their adherence to Hampton and profuse in their denuncia tions of Chamberlain. The Western coal strike has ended and the hearts of the people of Atlanta and other places, whioh have been threatened with a “ coal faininine,” have been made glad. Referee Wilkes has nearly oonelud-. ed his investigation of the Ropth Caro-, lina State election. Bis report will Show that Lbaphabt and Conner, Dem ocrats, are elected, while Haoood is de feated by one vote. The Florida Legislature has directed the new Returning Board appointed by Governor Dbhw to furnish the result of thp Residential vote as shown by the returns on file. *" 1 - g—W-W— ■■■ in Richland, Charleston, Colleton, Or angeburg, Aiken and other oounties have declared allegiance to Governor Hampton and their determination to pay taxes to his government, but not one cent to Chamberlain. The Hon. Julian Habtruxje. mem ber of Congress from the First District, will shortly present Bulloch county with s beautiful flag, of heavy, rich blue silk, fashioned hi the ,deft hands of Mat, Mbybs, of. .Savannah. The News al ludes to it ifcs unique, elaborate end ele gant. Upon one side is the inscription; “ A token of gratitude from Julian Haetbilge,” and on the other this : “Bulloch, the banner county.” The Bennett-Max affair is the sensa tion of the hour at the North. A col lision has taken place between Bennett and Mat, in which the latter same off second best, receiving a slight wound. The Blatter has threatened to absorb public interest even in the Residential muddle, for time at any rate. Ben itos is a eccentric individual, if all accounts be true, sad none t his an tics appear to create much surprise mao*g those who know him beet. $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID GEORGIA CONGRESSMEN. PEN SKETCHES OF THE GEORGIA DELEGATION IN CONGRESS. [For the Chronicle and Sentinel .] N. 1. Washington, D. C., December 31. A merry Christmas to one and all! and now that I have taken up my pen to sketoh you my Centennial Christmas of fering, you will bear with me should you disoover any imperfeotions of out line or omissions of lights and shadows in detail that would otherwise have brought ont more conspicuous the sub jects of my attempted portraitures. With this preface to my sketches, I will prooeed to outline the charaoter of Senator John B. Gordon, Whose figure is tall and commanding a man born to lead, not to follow in the wake of others. Senator Gordon was born February 6, 1832, in Upson county, Georgia. As a boy, young Gordon gave distinctive evidences of his superior qualities of mind and commanding powers, always taking the lead among his playmates in their boyish sports and gambols. Hej was educated at the University of Geor gia; and ohoosing the profession of la w was admitted to the bar, but practiced his profession only a short time. At the breaking out of the late war be, tween the States he entered the Con federate army as Captain of Infantry, but soon rose to the rank of Major, then Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier- General, Major-General, and finally Lieutenant-General, commanding the Seoond Army Corps of the Confederate foroes, and was in oommand of one wing of General Lee’s army at Appomattox Court House at the time of the sarren*- der. In the person of General Gordon is displayed not alone the qualities of a brave and daring soldier, but the true qualities of a, noble patriot one who loved and was willing to die, if need be, in defense of the rights of his native State, then strug gling to maintain the Federal forms of constitutional government and “home rule”—out of the old Union it is trne— for a number of the Northern States had repeatedly broken their oompact, and the Southern States therefore sought safety in anew and separate confedera tion. During the four years of the bloody strife General Gordon was wonnded eight times in battle. The war at an end, the old Union in a process of reorganisation, General Gor don beeame the JJemooratic candidate in 18fi8 for Governor of the Stat 9 of Georgia. The State was still under United States military rule, and though it was believed that the Democratic nominee had reoeived a large majority of the popular vote, yet by the returns made by the Badioal reconstruction party, General Gordon was “oounted out,” and Rufus B. Bullock “oounted in.” Daring this year General Gordon was a delegate from the State of Geor gia to the National Democratic Conven tion held in the oity of New York, and was a Presidential pleotor for the State at large on the Seymour and Blair ticket. He was likewise a delegate to the Balti more Convention of 1872, that nominat ed Horace Greeley for President,and, as in the previous campaign, was one of the Presidential electors for the State at large. During this campaign he made some of the ablest political speeches of his life. Upon the meeting of the Leg islature at Atlanta, in January, 1873, General Gordon was elected to the United States Senate for six years from the 4th of March following, to succeed Hon. Joahua Hill, Repnblioan. Asa Senator, Mr. Gordon ranks among the first statesmen and debaters of that au gust body. His conservative counsels, iia unswerving integrity, and his readi ness in debate does honor to himself and oredit to the State of Georgia. Unless re-elected, fiis term of service will expire March a, >B7s. Next in the group upon my canvass is Seaator Thomas Man nod Norwood, Of Savannah, Ga., who was born in Talbot oounty, Georgia, April 86, 1830. He reoeived an academic education at Onlloden, Monroe county, Georgia, and afterwards graduated at Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, in 1850, He subse quently read law and was admitted to the bar in February, 1852. Choosing Savannah as his field of professional labora he settled there in March, 1852, where he has praoticeJ his profession with acceptance and profit ever aince. In the Fall of 1861 he was elected a Repre sentative to the Georgia Legislature from Chatham oounty, and the eity of Savannah. This was just at the out break of the war, when it required 000 l heads and wise councils to guide the helm of State. He was re-eleoted in 1862, and it was during this session of the Georgia Legislature that Governor Joseph E. Brown sent to that body a message violently opposing the Con script law passed by the Confederate Congress. Bon, Linton Stephens, the member from Hanoook connty, and one of the ablest debaters and logioians Georgia ever produced, made a speech in support of the message, which, for power of logic and eloquence of aotion, remains unsurpassed and will never be forgotten by those whose good fortune it was to hear it. But there were many able men in that body who favored the law, and, henee, opposed Governor Brown’s message. Among these was Mr. Norwood. It waa decided, finally upon consulta tion, that Mr, Stephens must be replied to; and Mr. Norwood, though but thirty one years of age, then unaccustomed to forensio debate outside the Court Room, modest and retiring as he is now in the United States Senate, was chosen from their number to cross swords with the champion of the message. Mr. N. con sented, and the next morning made his debut in reply to Mr. Stephens in a speech of some length, eliciting the ap plause of the House, and the general approval of those who had the pleasure to hear him;anaong them I may name suck men aa Judge L L. Harris, Augus tas Kenan, the Judges of the State Su preme Court and others who warmly congratulated him upon his effort, which was able and exhaustive. This was the first time that Mr, Norwood had appeared as a publio debater,' and from this time‘forward his character was established as a scholar and able de bater. He here took rank with the first statesmen of Georgia. Like the Steph ens, Cobbs, Johnsons and Lamars, he only needs great occasions to bring ont the latent energies of his powers and the genins of his nature. It was dnring the year 1862 that Mr. Norwood doffed his legal slippers, and for a few days en cased his feet in the brogsns of the editor of the Savannah Republican, daring the temporary absence of the editor on a bridal tonr. It was in his first editorial that the publio were made aware of his fund o| wit and humor. We well remenjher this editorial. Instead of giying a notice of the editor's mar riage editorially, aa was expected, he wrote an equivoke so complete, that every one, npon first reading it, came to the oonolnsion that the editor was dead. Yet, when the reader saw in the local oolnmn the notice of his marriage, and again read the editorial, to hia astonish ment at bis obtnsene&o, jt exhibited nothing but a simple marriage notice. For months thereafter, that happy edi tor, on meeting his frauds, waa told that they had been moarning him aa dead 1 In 1868 Mr. Norwood was eleoted an alternate Democratic elector for the State at large on the Seymour and Blair tioket. At the November session of the Georgia Legislature of 1871 Mr. Nor wood waa eleoted to the United States Senate as a Democrat; and, after a short contest with Foster Blodgett, was ad mitted to the Senate December 19, 1871. I might here improve both lights and shadows in my sketch by extracts from Senator Norwood’s speeches on Oivil Rights,‘Louisiana and other extreme Radios} measures of attempted legisla tion *d usurpations of power, but the time allotted me will not permit. These aw familiar to Georgians, both for their power* of logic and forensio ability as well aa for their wit and homor. While it is true that Senator Norwood has not been much upon his feet in the de bates on grave questions in the Senate, there ia _ one thing that oan be said of him whioh cannot be said of many •thers in either Honse of Congress; that is, daring hia nearly six years of service in the Senate, he has not been absent* from faia post during the sessions of the Senate one week in all, as his votes will show upon all questions ooming before that body. He has been faithful to bis trusts, and uphh *ll questions of mo zqent or intricacy, his judgment has been aoqnd, and ni advice as well as hia vQtes have been given with a view of subserving the best interests of his country. Unpretentious, ever kind to wards others, and yet firm in his con victions of right, he has established himself the peer of any in the Senate, Approachable at all times by the most humble who call upon him, it is a pleasure to transact public business with him. Not so, however, with those who oonsider themselves not of but above the people—their masters and not theiv servants. Metropolitan. SOUTH CAROLINA. PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES. Oats are frozen out. Burglars are in Yorkville. Justice is frozen in Walhalla. Port Royal calls for a laundry. David Madden, of Greenville, is dead. Thermometers are quoted below thaw. Edgefield is running surprise parties. Colombia hopefuls still chew doves. The Anderson Democracy still flourish es. Dr. J. J. Lee, of Abbeville, is no more. Williamsburg favors “ kissing cro quet.” * ° The Congressional Committee have gone North. The Williamsburg Methodists are renovating their parsonage. . T. J. A ebb is President of the Char leston Typographical Union. Weekly editors continue to advertise for genteel newspaper duns. It seems that Mackey overdid General Hampton m his Hayes interview. ' The Dae West Cornet Band received anew set of instruments recently. Hampton believes Tilden eleotod and so do the South Carolina Democracy The Port Royal steamer, reoently damaged by fire, was heavily insured. ■i 0 j 8 “ ow •twin last week blocked railroad travel on the Blue Ridge Road, a e ! 6 ?I 1 nas shipped this season, over tllo P- C ’i?' 7,155 ha,es °f cotton. The Newberry Herald don’t oharge a "]“8 to insert marriage notices. S’OUu bales of ootton were sold in Newberry during the month of Decem ber. Sixteen hogs and goats froze to death m Greenville Wednesday, under a cov ered shed. Mrs. J. P. Philips, of Ninety-Six, a wife of one short year, died at that place last week. Hfr- W. N. Craig, Sheriff of Oconee county, died of heart disease at Walhalla last Saturday. Owing to the scaroity of money they propose to hold no Court in Camden oounty in January. Chicken thieves, aotive with an'up ward tendency, as choice poultry roost high in oold weather. The Barnwell Sentinel, in turning over its new leaf, begins the 26th year of its journalistic existence. Thus the Pickens Sentinel: The man who pays taxes to the Chamberlain con cern is a traitor to his State. Miss Hattie Dufort, the young lady who was accidentally shot in Charleston on Christmas day, died on Saturday The gin house of Mr. J. 0. H. Duff, near Clay Hill, in York county, was de -Btroyed reoently by an incendiary fire. Mr. W. W. Freeman’s gin house, near Barnwell, was burned last week, de stroying abont SI,BOO worth of property. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wilson, of New berry, lost four children, from the Ist to the 24th of December, from diphthe ria. During the present season 12,000 tons of guano have been received at Port Royal. There are now in store about 8,000 tons. A Newberry man who has not had snow rubbed down his back is not al lowed to discuss the situation with ro speotable folks. Seven Spartanburg prisoners knocked down the jailer, cleared the portcnlts, gained the mountain pass and are now basking—in jail again. A French journal informs its readers that Messrs. Edgefield and Laurens have been excluded from the South Carolina Legislature. The Newberry baohelor who sat down to a Christmas dinner all alone, by a 27 lb. turkey, has also an improved flat iron to warm his sheets. The Abbeville Press pertinently asks: What shall it profit a man if he has an account against every man in town, nnd is unable to collect a cent ? Leauder Gampton, in the neighbor hood of Smith’s Turn Out, committed suicide recently, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. The Charleston Journal rightly says: There is no surrender in Governor Hampton, and there should be none in the tax payers of South Carolina. The Lanrensville Herald announces “ a masquerade party for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church.’ Shades of the ancient Cnldees, what next ? The Abbeville Banner says that many tax payers express their willing ness to pay the one-fonrth tax rate call ed for by the Constitutional House. Mr, Peter Keenan, of Augusta, has given $25 to Mrs. Gilmer, whose hus band was assassinated by negroes in Edgefield county on the 18th of October. A Spartanburg hunter after catching 110 rabbits in one morning can put away as much “pop-skull” and talk as much politics as any Congressman in the coun try. The situation is now on ice. Thus protected it may keep until Judge Car penter returns from high converse with the mighty records in the Washington library, Aaren Tillman, a colored barber of Newberry, was found on the streets Tuesday night frozen to death. Too much or not enough spirits, as the oasa may be. Mr. Thos. Barnes, while riding homo ajfew nights since, was shot at twice in the neighborhood of Hnrrican Church, Laurens oounty, by parties supposed to be negroes. Mr. W, (X Hampton, at Greenville, while loading his gun last Tuesday, dis charged the pieoe, the load entering hia temple, and taking off half hia skull, killed him instantly. O. F. Cheatham, Esq,, the newly eleoted Clerk of the Court for Edgefield county, is in quiet possession of his office, including seal, books, records and a commission from Gen. Hampton. A little nig in Abbeville, who in nocently toyed with aChristmas cannon, is hunting for the jetty fringe from her left eyelid, while her dainty fingers nestle in red flannel and turpentine. The Commercial says tbe business offering to the railroad company is now far beyond their capacity, although sev eral new cars and one engine have been> purchased and trains are kept running night and day. “Stern tide of human time which bears upon its dusky breast successive generations to the tomb,” also precipi tate into a worse than Aslabnla gorge scores of delinquent subscribers. Gone to meet the Romp legislators. The Newberry Herald learns that Mr,. Lewis Simkins was shot at Chappels, Christmas day, by the accidental dis charge of a pistol. On the same day Mr. Eldridge C. Simpkins, brother of the former, was severely stabbed in the abdomen by a negro. Speaking of the Hampton-Hayes’ cor respondents and tbe many unjust com ments thereupon, the Charleston News says} Slander and misrepresentation love a shining mark. It is in order to weaken the Democratic cause, at a time when union is most necessary, that the reports of bargains by, or with, South erners are industriously circulated. It has been generally presumed in this section that Gen. Lorikeet went to New Orleans for the purpose of com manding Packard’s forces. The follow ing extract from a special telegram to the Louisville Courier-Journal shows that this is a mistake : “At a late hour to-night it is ascertained that General James Longstbeet has pronounced against the Paokabs government. He will probably be appointed Major-Gen eral of militia under Nicholas. D. B. Penn is to be Adjutant-General.” It is now in Gen. Lokgstbeet’s power to atone for past errors and reinstate hint self in the opinion of his people. The vexed Eastern question appears to be as far from settlement as ever. The Porte seems to hold the key to the situation, and has evidently gotten the best of the European diplomats from first to last. Russia would doubtless not hesitate to provoke a difficulty if she felt certain of the result, but with her finances in a precarious condition, the mobilization of her militia a failure and the feeling in Europe against her, she evidently does not feel secure of the future in the event of hostilities. Still the craving of the Muscovite to possess the patrimony of the Moslem may even tually lead to a struggle which will in volve the whole of Enrope,