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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Ohsowicls A Bmnnmxs Augusta. Qa.
Ctjronicle and Sentinel
Wednesday - February 7, 1877.
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The baby is born and his uame is
Bradley.
The caucus of Republican Senators is
trying to discover whether the Electoral
bill is a “ Democratic measure.” The
next conundrum in order is, "Are Ed
munds and Conklino Democrats ?”
We print this morning, in full, the
speech of Hon. B. H. Hill on the E’ec
toral bill, as taken from the Congres
atonal. Record. We also give a sy
nopsis of the speeches made on the same
occasion by Messrs. Hartridoe, of
Georgia, and Lamar, of Mississippi.
The Louisiana scamps have been
made sick, by Congressional investiga
tion. Wells is sick and Pitkin is sick.
Packard, Krllooo and Kenner will
have to be taken to the hospital, also
before David Dudley Field gets
throngh with them.
Mr. Hill’s success is due in no small
degree to Messrs. Carlton, of Clarke ;
Howell, of Fulton; and Turnbull, of
Banks. These young and adroit politi
cians acted as bis Lieutenants and made
him a victor in the very hour of defeat.
If the Convention bill passes the Sen
ate as it oame from the House the Eigh
teenth District—comprising the counties
of Richmond, Jefferson and Glascock—
will be entitled to seven delegates. Can
didates will please take uotice and pre
pare their announcements.
Wk publish this morning the text of
the bill to regulate the elective franchise
in the city of Augusta. Mr. Black is
careful to explaiu that the bill is not in
tended to change the law but to re-enact
it to avoid certain objections, and that a
copy has been served upon the Mayor
and Council.
The Convention bill, as it passed the
House, iR saddled with two amendments
—one submitting the question of "Con
vention ” or “No Convention ” to the
people, the other requiring the capital
alause to be voted on separately when
the new Constitution is submitted for
ratifloatiou.
President Grant sigued the Arbitra
tion bill yesterday, but sent a special
message to Congress giving bis reasons
for so doing. The people will care very
little for these reasons, but they will re
joice that uo further delay will be thrown
in the way of a measure which is to give
peace to the country.
Hhrrkan, Morton and Hamlin are
making an effort to have the Packard
government recoguized at the Cabinet
meeting to be held to-day. It is not
probable that they will suoceed. Grant
is so near the end of his troubles that
he will not get himself into hot water
again merely to please Packard,
The fifth Judge and fifteenth member
of the Graud Commission has been ob
tained. Judge Joseph P. Bradley, of
New Jersey, has beeu chosen to fill the
position. Judge Bradley is a Republi
can, who was put upou the Bench for the
purpose of reversing the legal tender de
oisiou. We like not the selection.
Yesterday Senator Robertson , Re
publican, of South Carolina, called up
the resolution recognizing Hampton as
the leg 1 Governor of South Carolina,
and made a speech in its favor. Mr.
Robertson has always been a moderate
man, and the course which he is now
pursuing will win for him the respect
and confidence of his people.
A telegram was received iu Atlanta
last evening, and sent to this oity, say
ing that Mr. Stephens was dead. This
canard is exploded by the press dis
patches, which state that his condition
is unchanged, and that his physioians
have some hope of restoring him to his
usual state of health. We trust that
these hopes may be speedily realized.
The Republican caucus of the Senate
has selected Edmunds, Morton aud
Frklinohuiskn as members of the
Grand Commission. The Democratic
members from the Senate are Thurman
aud Bayard. Morton it a venomous
partisan, was bitterly opposed to the
bill, aud will never consent to a fair
rouut. It is an unfortunate selection.
It bo happens when there is a railroad
accident in cold climates during the
Winter season that more lives are lost
from the cars taking fire and burning
than from any other cause. To avoid
this terrible result, the railroad com- j
panics have frequently been called upon
to abolish dtoves as a medium of heat
ing the cars, and to employ heated steam
instead. The Chicago TYibune makes
another suggestion, which is full of
good sense. It wonld have the cars
manufactured entirely of iron, in which
case they could carry heated stoves with
but little liability to conflagration. The
opposition is worthy to be considered.
Science never stays its progress.—
Nearly every day of the year it adds
some scrap of information to the great
volume of human enlightenment. One
of its latest triumphs is the discovery
that fermentation can be prevented by
the use of salicylic aoid. One ounce, it
is said, added to forty gallons of sweet
cider, will make the yeast settle and the
cider become perfectly clear in forty
eight hours. If it is then drawn off into
other barrels or bottles, it will remain
sweet and clear for an indefinite length
of time.
It has been a question with horticul
turists what to do with their super
abundance of fruit, much of which has
hitherto gone to loss. Under this pro
cess grapes and apples can both be
worked up, and the resultant jniees
either be pat upon the market or oon
earned in tbe family as beverages, free
from intoxicating effects.
HON. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
Our Washington dispatches announce
that Hod. Alkxandbb H. Stephens, the
Representative in Congress from the
Eighth Georgia District, has been pros
trated for several days, and that while
bis physicians say there is no immediate
danger of death, Mr. Stephens himself
thinks differently. It is well known
that for some time past Mr. Stephens
has been in a very precarious state of
health. During the last session of Con
gress he was compelled to leave his
seat aud return home, and for many
months his death was daily expected.
Gradually, however, he grew better and
was again nominated and elected to
Congress, as be believed and his friends
believed that he would be able to dis
charge the duties of the office. A few
weeks before the opening of the session
fib returned to Washington and resumed
his seat, but did Dot occupy it long.
The rigor of a Washington Winter was
too mnch for his frail body and feeble
constitution, and not long since it was
announced that he had had a hem
morhage (the first of his life) and was
confined to his rooms at the hotel. To
those who knew him well this was
a most alarming symptom, and
much anxiety has been felt by the friends
and constituents of the distinguished
Georgian. Yesterday we received a pri
vate letter from a friend of Mr. Stephens
residing in Washington which confirms,
or rather anticipated, the sad intelli
gence brought by the telegraph. The
author not thinking that any publica
tion wonld be made on tho subject re
quested that his statements be kept pri~
vate, but we can see no impropriety now
in disregarding his wishes. We make
the following extracts from the letter :
“ Mr. Stephens has been unable to
" write or diotate answers to his numer
“ ous correspondents. He is again pros
“ trated and requires constant watching
“ day and night. I oannot dispel the
“idea that he is laboring under a dis
“ease of the heart, which will sooner or
" later break the brittle thread that binds
" him to earth. He has become great
“ly depressed in sprits within the past
“ thirty-six hours. It is not because
“he is afraid that his end is near, but
“it is because of the peculiar symp
“ toms of the disease and the disap
“ pointment of not being able to par
ticipate in the discussion of the eleo
“ torsi bill while before the House. He
“ has been exceedingly anxious to do
“something for his country in this her
" emergency, and to put upon record
“the evidence of his sincere desire to
“ secure her peaoe, prosperity and hap
“ piness. While disapproving some of
“ the features of the electoral bill, yet,
" bad he been in bis seat to-day, be
" wonld have both spoken and voted
“for it.”
* We sincerely hope that the fears of
our correspondent are groundless, and
that Mr. Stephens has many years of
usefulness before him. We cannot help
thinking, however, that there is good
cause for alarm, and that Georgians
must prepare themselves for a blow
which will strike down so muoh of
honor, of patriotism and of virtue.
THE SENATORIAL ELECTION.
We are not of those who regret the
eleotion of Hon. Benjamin H. Hill to
the Senate of the United States. We
are frank to confess that as the contest
stood after the first ballot our first choice
was ex-Gov. Johnson or ex-Gov. Jen
kins, but neither of these gentlemen
were candidates and wonld not have
been brought into the field unless
it had been plainly demonstrated that
neither Mr. Norwood, Mr. Hill nor
Governor Smith oould be eleoted. Such
a contingency aid not arise. It became
evident after the first ballot that the
struggle was really between Messrs.
Norwood and Hill, with only a bare
possibility of suoh a dead-look as would
bring outsiders into tbe arena. The
second day’s ballot showed little change
in the situation. Tbe third seemed to
lessen the ohanoes of Mr. Hell’s success,
and to insnre the election of Mr. Nor
wood. But there were two elements in
the contest which had to be considered.
The first consisted of ten or eleven mem
bers who insisted on voting for ex-Gov.
Johnson, despite his expressed wishes
to the contrary, with a view to keeping
his name before the General Assembly,
and in the hope that an eleotion oould in
this way be prevented. If these men
had voted for Norwood on either one of
the first three ballots he would undoubt
edly have been eleoted. Tbe other
was found in the supporters of Governor
Smith. These gentlemen hoped that,
failing in the eleotion of the two most
prominent aspirants, the General Assem
bly would centre upon their candidate.
They, therefore, kept him in the field
until snoh concentration seemed hope
less. But nine-tenths of those voting
for Smith had a preference for Hill as
a seoond choice, and when it became ap
parent Thursday that Norwood would
probably be elected the next day, they
determined to give one more ballot to
Smith and then go to Hill. On Friday
some of the Hill men voted fer Gov.
Smith as a compliment, and at the end
of the roll call, as the vote stood, there
was no election. But Norwood hid lost
several votes and before the vote was
announoed. most of the Smith men
changed their votes to Hill. The Re
publicans, who had been voting for Walk
er, did the same thing, and some of
Mr. Norwood’s friends, willing to end
the protracted and costly straggle, went
over to bis opponent and he was elected.
This we believe is a correct history of
the Senatorial election.
Mr. Hill’s triumph is as flattering as
it is complete. He fiad great odds to
contend against, and at one time it
seemed oertain that he would be de
feated. His friends in the Legislature
wrested victory from defeat and bore
him triumphantly into the United States
Senate. His own oonduot during the
struggle was marked by good taste and
dignity. Believing that he had been
unjustly assailed, he left Washington
and came to Atlanta to defend himself.
So soon as his speech was finished he
returned to Washington, and was ac
tively engaged in the performance of the
duties of the position which he now holds
while the exciting struggle upon which
so many hopes depended was in pro
gress. When the unexpected news
of his eleotion reached him he had
just finished an eloquent speech in ad
vocacy of the measure which has calmed
and quieted an alarmed and excited peo
ple and dissipated every apprehension
of internecine strife. We believe that
he will make a safe and valuable Sena
tor, and we shall hold np his hands to
the extent of onr ability. He brings to
the discharge of his high office physical
vigor, intellect of the first order, irre
sistible eloqnenoe and matchless skill
in debate. It will be strange, indeed, if
he does not oompel success in the new
arena which he is soon to enter. It will
be stranger still if he does not render
the most important servios to his State,
to his section, to the people of the whole
Union, to the cause of human liberty
sad to the cause of constitutional gov
ernment.
Mr. Hill in the coarse of twenty
five years of pnblio life has
committed faults and mistakes.—
This we are free to admit. He
is not the perfect man. But that he
has done mnch, very mneb, to entitle
him to the gratitude of his people no
man can deny. Though he foresaw the
evils of wat and counseled against seces
sion as a redress of wrongs, yet when,
deepite his counsels, war came, no man
was more unwavering in his devotion to
the South; uo man did more to hold up
the hands and sustain the power of the
Confederate Government. Asa mem
ber of the Confederate States Senate
and as the trusted friend of Jefferson
Davis he employed all his ability and
exerted all his influence to silence the
murmurs of the malcontents at home,
to cheer and encourage the soldiers in
the field, to intensify the patriotism of
the people and to bring the war for inde
pendence to a successful issue. After
the war, when Fear and Apathy strug
gled for dominion in tbe Sonth, Mr.
Hill spoke wisely and well and with no
uncertain sound. In the dark days of
reconstruction, when a rump Congress
exercised supreme power and sovereign
States were remitted to the government
of military satraps, Mr. Hill and a few
other true men kept the people from de
spair and nerved them to resistance. In
stead of making friends of the Mammon
of power he counseled them to defy it.
They were advised never to give up the
fight until liberty should be rescued from
tbe hands of her brutal enslavers. The
seed sown then has borne a golden har
vest. Our State is now the peer of any
State in the Union, and her people are
free, prosperous and contented. Since
Mr. HilA has been in Congress he has
done nothing to make his State asham
ed, much to make her proud of her gift
ed son. He has had the manhood to de
fend the Sonth when her honor was as
sailed, and he has had the ability and
the eloquence to defend his section suc
cessfully. Iu this last great orisis of the
nation’s peril his good sense and mode
ration have challenged the admiration
of friend and foe. When be takes his
seat in the Senate we confidently expect
bis oareer to be honorable to himself
aDd beneficial to his country.
THURSDAY’S HARLOT.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Sa
vannah News says that a member of the
H>use has threatened his expulsion for
giving a false account of the third ballot
for United States Senator, which was
taken last Thursday. The correspondent
charged that Mr. Fry, of Fulton, “a
man of commanding presence and sono
rous voice,” appealed to the members of
the House to withdraw from the session
in order to defeat the ruling of Presi
dent Lestbs. He also asserted:
That Messrs. Cablton, of Clarke, and Turn
bull, of Banks, led an attack upon the decis
ion of the presiding officer. This is a fact that
cannot be denied. Tneir motives I did not
question, beyond the statement that the Smith-
Hill combination were determined to prevent
a second ballot.
He also used the words “disgraceful
wrangle” and “shameful scene,” iu
characterizing the proceedings of that
eventful day. With the correspondent’s
quarrel with the Legislature we have
nothing to do. We have no idea that
he will be expelled, for experience has
shown that the employment of this very
harsh remedy is rarely productive of
good. The threat of one member is a
very different thing from the action of
the whole House. The correspondent
may dismiss all apprehensions on the
snbjeet and continue his interesting let
ters to the Savannah News without the
fear, of the Door Keeper or of Speaker
Bacon before his eyes.
Bat as much has been written and
more said about the ballot of Thursday
and the ruling ot the President of tbe
Senate, who is the presiding officer of
the joint session, we desire to say some
thing upon the subject. When the
joint convention aqpembled on that day
to continue its balloting for a United
States Senator the condition of affairs
was as follows: On Tuesday a separate
ballot was taken in each House and the
aggregated vote amounted to 217—0f
which Norwood received 104, or 5 less
than a majority; Hill, 85; Smith,
23; Walker, 4; Jenkins, 1. Wed
nesday the first joint ballot was
taken with the following re
sult: Nobw;gd, 95; Hell, 78; Smith,
27; Johnson, 11; Walker, 4. Norwood
had lost 8 votes, Hill 7, and Smith had
gained 4. It was the general opinion
that if Norwood could hold his own on
the next ballot and the balloting should
be continued he would be eleoted.
Ihe friends of Mr. Hell believed that if
the balloting could be protracted Mr.
Hill’s chances would be improved.
The friends of Governor Smith did not
wish to retire that gentleman or to have
an election until a larger vote had been
secured. This was the situation of
affairs Thursday morning when the
joint convention re-assembled. A bal
lot was taken and resulted as
follows : Norwood, 95; Hell, 77; Smith,
29; Johnson, 10; Waiter, 4. Norwood
and Hill had each lost one vote, Smith
had gained two and Johnson had lost
one. The Norwood men had held their
own and were anxious to continue the
balloting; the Hill men and most of
those voting for Smith and Johnson
wished to adjourn until the following
day. A motion was made to dissolve
the joint session for the day by a mem
ber of the House. Under the joint rules
this motion was voted upon by the
House alone and the yeas and nays were
called for and taken. It was a motion
which would decide the result of the
contest, at least so far as Mr. Norwood
was concerned. If the voting continued
the chances were all in his favor; if tbe
joint session was dissolved for the day
the chances were all against his eleotion.
When the yeas and nays were being taken
annmberof tally sheets were kept by the
members. When the clerks finished the
roll instead of calling over the names of
those voting in the affirmative or nega
tive in order that each member might
know how he was ptaoed upon the
record, they, through inadvertence,
simply handed the summing up to Presi
dent Lester, who announced that the
motion had been lost by a vote of 84 to 79.
This announcement was so utterly at
variance with the figures of half a dozen
tally sheets that Mr. Turnbull at once
asked for a “verification of the vote,”
viz: that the clerk should call the
names of all these recorded as voting in
the affirmative and in the negative, that
any mistakes might be oorreeted. Tklt
manifestly just request President Les
ter ruled out of order, on the-ground
that the vote having been announced,
the motion to verify came too late. It
ia plain that no opportunity was given
to ask for a verification before the an
nounoement. The announcement was
made as soon as the roll call ceased,
when it should not have been made
until the names of those voting “yea”
and those voting “nsj” had been again
called over. This is always done, even
in so simple a matter as the passage of
a bank oharter, upon which the Consti
tution requires the yeas and nays to be
taken. Now let us see what followed :
It was known that the vote had not
been announoed correctly, and yet an
attempt to redress the wrong had been
defeated by the presiding officer. A
motion by a Senator that the Senate re
tire was defeated by a vote of 23 to 20.
and it seemed as if the House was
about 11 forced into another ballot
despite its expressed wishes to the con
trary. Mr. Bacon, the Speaker of the
House, did not hesitate to say that he
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1877.
should have ruled differently had he oc
cupied President Lester’s position. Mr.
Carlton, of Clarke, if we are correctly
informed, appealed from decision of
the Chair, but the right to appeal was
denied. There was a great deal of ex
citement, occasioned by these rulings,
but we witnessed jo “disgraceful wran
gles” nor “shameful scenes.” Messrs.
Carlton and Turnbull expressly dis
claimed any intention to refleot upon
the motives of President Lester, but
they believed him to be wrong and they
did not hesitate to say so. Finally
President Lester permitted a verifica
tion of the vote, and it was discovered
that instead of the House voting 84 to
79 against adjournment it voted 87 to
80 fob adjournment. This we believe
to be a fair and accurate statement of
Thursday’s ball&t. We do not for a mo
ment believe that President Lester’s
ruling was actuated by partisan motives,
but we do believe that it was illogical
and wrong.
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONTENTION.
Soon after the meeting of the Legisla
ture in 1872 the Chronicle and Senti
nel began to advooate the calling of a
Convention to give anew Constitution
to the State of Georgia. There were
several reasons that made us anxious for
such a body to assemble. In the first
place, the present instrument was framed
by aliens and enemies, by ignorance
and vice, and at a time when the best
men of tbe State were manacled by dis
franchisement laws, and when the voice
of the people of Georgia was stifled by
military power. We believed that the
people of the State should fashion the
organic law under which they were to
live. In the second place, experience
had shown that the instrument was de
fective in many respects, and not at all
suited to the genins of our people. In the
third place, we felt satisfied that the
status of the repudiated bonds could not
be definitely fixed save through the in
strumentality of a Convention. As
long as the question of their validity
could be re-opened and the fraudulent
indebtedness be acknowledged by a sim
ple act of the Legislature, there was
danger of their recognition. If pro
nounoed spurious by the Constitu
tion they wonld cause no more un
easiness. In the fourth plaoe, the
present Constitution was framed just
after Georgia had emerged from
a bloody and devastating war, when
everything was a wreck, and men
thought only of securing some form of
government, it mattered not what, that
would afford protection to lifo and pro
perty. For these and other reasons the
subjects of taxation and indebtedness
did not receive the attention they de
served, and but few safeguards were in
terposed between the people and cor
rupt or extravagant governments, State,
county and municipal. The changed
condition of affairs that followed the
war was recognized in other sections of
the Union, and in many of the North
ern and Western States Conventions
were held, tho principal business of
which was to legislate for the protection
of tax payers.
Almost alone we battled for a Conven
tion. Year after year the measure was
defeated in the Legislature upon all
sorts of flimsy pretexts. At one time a
Presidential election was just over. At
another time a Presidential election was
abont to take place. Once we were told
the people were too angry to be trusted
to make anew organic law. Then again
it was said Grant would put the State
under martial rule if a Convention d-tred
to assemble. One by one these ridicu
lous subterfuges have been exposed
and brushed aside, until at last
the naked question of Convention
or no Convention has been reached.
With the exception of the few timid ones
who scent danger in every breeze, there
have been, in our judgment, but three
classes of persons in the State really
opposed to calling a Convention. First,
was the noble army of office-holders, who
being appointed or eleoted fsr long
terms feared that a Convention might
legislate them out of their positions.
Seoond, there were the people of Atlan
ta and the Atlanta influence, fearful
that a Convention might remove the
eapital to Milledgeville or some other
city. Third, there were those who wish
ed the bond question to remain in statu
quo in Che hope of some day getting a
Legislature favorable to payment or to
a compromise. These are the elements
of opposition that have waged success
ful war against the Convention for the
past four years. It matters not what
the pretext may have been, the real mo
tive was the same. At the root of all
the opposition one was certain to find
office, oapital or bonds. So far these
influences have been triumphant. It re
mains to be seen whether they will tri
umph again. The bill has passed the
House of Representatives, after more
than a week of debate, by an overwhelm
ing majority, #nd has been transmitted
to the Senate. It is said that a large
majority of the Senators are in favor of
a Convention. If this be the ease
let us hope that they will not
overwhelm the bill with an avalanche of
words; that they will not oonsnme time
in the damnable iteration of ideas and
arguments that have been a hundred
times expressed and discussed; that they
will forego the opportunity to speak to
tho great constituency of Buncombe,
and pass the bill without more than the
necessary and customary delay in legis
lative proceedings.
There is one provision of the bill, as
it comes from the House, upon which
we desire to say a few words. The
House rejected an amendment submit
ting the question of Convention or no
Convention to the people at the time of
the election of delegates, and the bill
simply provides that a Convention shall
be called. It is well known that the
Chbomcle and Sentinel has hereto
fore advocated a submission of the
question to a vote of the people. In
deed, two years ago we urged the Legis
lature, if it feared to assume any re
sponsibility in the matter, to simply let
the people say whether or not they de
sired a Convention held. If onr opinion
upon this point has changed it is simply
because the circumstances upon which
it was based have likewise changed.
Then Office, Capital and Bonds argued
that the people did not desire a
Convention ; and we said let the
people decide the matter for
themselves. Now Office, Capital
and Bonds admit that the peo
ple do wish a Convention; and we
say if that be tbe case do not complicate
the question by an election bnt call one.
The measure has been agitated for so
long a time that the people have had an
opportunity to express themselves, and
they have done so. For four years it
has bean a prominent issue before them.
The newspaper press of the State, daily
and weekly, is a unit in favor of a Con
vention. In many counties members of
the Legislature have been upon
that issue. Nearly every grand jury in
tbe State has recommended that a Con
vention be called. Under these circum
stances we see no reason why the Legis
lature should not exercise it* judgment
and call a Convention in accordance with
the provisions of the bill that has passed
the House of Representatives. Of one
thing we feel certain: If the Senate ac
cepts the amendment which the House
rejected the bill will be defeated, and
Office, Oapital and Bonds will win still
another victory.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
THE CONYJBNTICW BILL.
Tfce Substitute Recalled and Adapted—Ques
tion* Not to Go Before the People Until the
Constitntion is Framed—Local Bills.
[Special Dispatch to ths Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Seaate.
Atlanta, January 30.—The Senate
considered local bills.
Haase.
The Convention bill was resumed.
Tbe substitute to the fourth section and
amendments, lost yesterday by a vote of
60 to 65, was reconsidered this morning
by a vote of yeas 72; nays, 66.
The amendments to the fourth section
adopted in the committee of the whole
in the Hoase provided that the question
of Convention or No Convention should
be submitted to the people, and also
that the people should be required to
endorse on their ballots whether the
capital should be Atlanta or Milledge
ville.
The substitute adopted does not sub
mit either of the questions to the peo
ple, but calls the Convention as contem
plated in the original bill, and pre
scribes qualifications of electors aod
delegates; all who are entitled to vote
for delegates are eligible as members.
An addditional section was adopted
that the Constitution, framed by the
Convention, should be submitted to the
people for ratification or rejection.
The bill as amended was adoDted
yeas, 95; nays, 38, and transmitted to
the Senate. It is thought the bill will
pass in the Senate without amendment
P. W.
Monday’** Proceeding.-*.
In the Senate, the fallowing bills were
introduced:
Mr. McLeod: To amend section 1565
of the Code.
Mr. Shewmake: To incorporate the
Georgia Chemical Works. Also, to
amend the aot regulating public institu
tions in the county of Richmond.
The following bills were placed on
their third read ng:
To extend the power of Justices of the
Peace and Notary Publics to the trial of
all cases except suoh offenses as are pun
ishable by death or imprisonment in the
penitentiary, and for ths summoning of
a jury of seven by the Justices. Judi
oiary recommended that it do pass with
amendment. Passed as amended.
To change the time of the Fall meet
ing of the Supreme Court to the seoond
Monday in August, and to make it law
ful for one Judge to adjourn the Court.
Amended so as to make it necessary to
get the consent to adjournment from a
second Judge in writing. Passed as
amended.
To make the giving or furnishing of
liquors to any parties on eleotion day
within three miles of any eleotion pre
cinct unlawful. The Judiciary recom
mended its passage.
Mr. Reese moved to disagree to the
report. The law now prohibiting the
sale of liquors is observed only by con
scientious people, and disregarded by
all others. The Senator did not think
the bill could be made operative, and
considered it an unwarrantable inter
ference with the rights of the people.
Mr. Harrison said if the sale of liquor
is really wrong, as the preamble seems
to indicate, why not prohibit the sale of
liquor every day in the year. The pass
age of the bill would encourage the
violation of law.
Mr. Shewmake answered that on eleo
tion days the use of liquor was much
more dangeroas than on ordinary days.
Ou ordinary days the use of liquor
acted only on a man and his family. Its
use on election days acted injuriously
on the whole country, in warping the
judgment and blunting the conscience
of the voting population. The Senator
read the oath that challenged voters
have to take, and asked if this oath
should not be hedged abont with all
possible enactments.
Mr. Reese called attention to the fact
that the law prohibited the use of liqnor
during the whole day. “Why, sir,”
said the Senator, “take this great city
of Atlanta, which makes Governors,
Senators, and all sorts of great men. If
this law was to pass, it would take the
criminal Courts of Fulton county five
years to clear tbe dockets of cases violat
ing the law. Atlanta couldn’t conduct
an election without liquor 1” He thought
if the bill should pass it should be
amended so as to apply only to the elec
tion grounds, and for purposes of in
fluencing voters.
The vote was then taken on the re
commitment of the bill, and it was re
committed.
Bills on the first reading in the
House :
Mr. Wilkes: To change the age for
admission into the deaf and dumb insti
tute from ten to eight years—referred
to Committee on Deaf and Dumb Asy
lum.
Mr. Carlton: To amend the charter of
the city of Athens—referred to Commit
tee on Corporations. Also, to require
the establishment of a District College
of Agriculture—referred to Committee
on Education.
Mr. Corker : To authorize the Gov
ernor to issne six per cent, bonds—re
ferred to Finance Committee, Also, to
amend the act organizing a Criminal
Court in Burke county—referred to Ju
diciary.
Mr. Colley : To change the penalty
for bestiality. Makes it from five to
ten years in the penitentiary—referred
to Judiciary Committee. Also, to pro
tect and preserve unimpaired the right
of trial by jury—referred to Jndioiary
Committee. Also, to allow Justices of
the Peace in Lincoln county to try cer
tain criminal offenses in their districts—
referred to Jndioiary Committee,
Mr. McGar : To repeal the aot to fix
the pay of jnrors in Emanuel oounty—
referred to Finance Committee. Also,
to amend the act creating a Beard of
Commissioners in Emanuel county—
referred to Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Northern : To prohibit the sale
of liquor within three miles of Mt. Zion
—referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Also, to amend the act providing for the
collection of agricultural statistics—re
ferred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Also, to protect land-owners in securing
rents and profits—referred to the Com
mittee on Agriculture.
Mr. Peacock : To repeal the act to
fix the compensation of Tax Receiver
and Collector and Treasurer of Wash
ington oounty- referred to the Finance
Committee.
Mr. Robson : To organize a Criminal
Court in Washington county—referred
to the Judiciary Committee. Also, to
exempt all maimed Confederate soldiers
from poll tax, and property to the
amount of $2,000 from taxation—re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
Also, for the relief of indigent maimed
soldiers. Appropriates SIOO each for the
purchase of an artificial limb—referred
to the Finance Committee.
Mr. Pilcher: To repeal the act to pro
hibit the sale of liquors in Warreuton
—referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Reid, of Morgan: For the relief of
J. R. Hough—referred to Finance Com
mittee. Also, to amend the amendment
to section 4,441 of the Code—referred to
Judiciary Committee, Also, for the re
lief of j. H. Barrett—referred to Fi
nance Committee.
Mr. Black: To incorporate the Geor
gia Chemical Works—referred to Com
mittee on Corporations. Also, to amend
the act incorporating the Augusta Sav
ings Institution -referred to Committee
on Banks. Also, to regulate the elec
tive franchise in Angusta—referred to
Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Walsh : To amend the charter of
Summerville—referred to Committee
on Corporations.
Mr. Jones, of McDuffie : To change
the place of sale by the sheriff of Mc-
Duffie oounty—referred to Judiciary'
Committee.
Mr. Colbert: Te change the lines be
tween the counties of Madison and
Clarke—referred to Committee on New
Counties and County Lin^.
Mr. Fortner: To fix the compensation
of jnrors and bailiffs in Johnson connty
—referred to Finance Committee.
Mr. Polhill: To empower the Board
of Education of Jefferson connty to sub
mit to the freeholders of the oonnty the
levying of a tax for school purposes—re
ferred to Committee on Education.
Mr. Pope: To require Judges of Su
perior Courts to give section 3,917 of
the Code iu charge to grand juries—re-
ferred to Jadiciary Committee.
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe: To amend
section 4,319 of the Code—referred to
the Committee on Agriculture. Also, to
make defendants in bastardy cases com
petent witnesses—referred to Committee
on Agriculture.
Mr. Murray: To enable Solicitors-
General, after the expiration of their
term of service, to engage in the defense
of prisoners—referred to Jadiciary Com
mittee. Also, to authorize Robert Lane,
of Ooonee oounty, to peddle without li
oense—referred to Judiciary Committee.
Also, to submit the question of “prohi
bition” or “no prohibition” of the sale
of liquor to the legal voters of Wild Cat
and Skull Shoals districts, in Oconee
county—referred to Judiciary Commit
tee.
Mr. Mauod offered a resolution that
the Speaker appoint a committee of
three to investigate the ownership of the
endorsed bonds of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad, and report the names of
present owners with price paid for them,
with power to send for persons and pa
pers.
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, offered a
resolution that the internal revenue law
requiring license for distilling from
frnits bears heavily upon our people,
and the pay of tne officers is larger than
the revenue derived, that our Senators
and Representatives in Congress be re
quested to have the law repealed or
modified—referred to Committee on
Agriculture.
Senate.
Atlanta, January 31. —Judge Reese
introduced a bill amending section six
teen hundred and forty-nine of the Code
in reference to the fees of Solicitor Gen
erals.
The Convention bill was read the first
time,
The bill repealing the law allowing in
terested witnesses to testify was lost.
The following appointments of Soli
citors were confirmed in executive ses
sion : Salepi Dutcher; Augusta; C. B.
Hudson, Southwestern Circuit; C. F.
Bartlett, Macon Circuit; Simon W.
Hitch, Brunswick Circuit.
House.
Dr. Jones presented a petition of
three hundred and fourteen citizens of
McDuffie county, asking the passage of
a law prohibiting the sale of liquors in
that county. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
The contested election case from Baker
county was debated in the morning and
evening.
The seat of A. L, Hawes is contested
by W. W. Dewes. Mr. Hawes appears
to have the technicalities of law on his
side and Mr. Dewes has a large majori
ty of the votes of Baker county.
The Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
bill has been referred to the Finance
Committee. The friends of the measure
can appear before the committee at any
time to have a hearing. It would be well
for them to come up in the interest of
the bill.
Dr. Doughty’s bill organizing the
Board of Health as amended by the
City Council will be substituted for the
original bill and passed.
The bill amending the charter of the
Augusta Savings Bank will be favor
ably reported by the committee and
passed.
The State tax for the current year will
be the same as that of last year—one
half of one per cent. P, W.
To Take tbe Gardner House Out of tbe Vil
lage of Summerville.
By Mr. Walsh: A bill to be entitled
an act to amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the village of Summerville,
in the county of Richmond, to provide
for the election of Commissioners for
the same, to prescribe the powers and
duties of said Commissioners and for
other purposes. Approved December
16th, 1861.
Section 1. The General Assembly of
the State of Georgia do hereby enact
that so much of the above entitled act,
in the first section thertof, as includes
the residence and premises of the late
James Gardner within the limits of said
village, be and is hereby repealed.
£eo. 2. Repeals conflicting laws.
Augusta .Savings' Institutions.
By Mr. Black: A bill to bo entitled an
act to amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Augusta Savings Insti
tution. Approved February 16th, 1875.
Section J. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the ntate of Georgia,
That so much of the 15th section of the
foregoing recited act, incorporating the
Augusta Savings Institution, as makes
the private property of each and all of
the managers of said institution, for the
time being, liable for the payment of all
deposits made with said institution; and
for all debts contracted or incurred by
said institution during the time said
manager or managers were in office, be
and the same is hereby repealed.
Seo. 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the origi
nal act incorporating the said institu
tion, together with this amendatory act,
shall be printed and placed conspicu
ously in a book to be kept by the Secre
tary and Treasurer of said institution, in
which also shall be placed a written or
printed copy of the regulations and by
laws of said institution, and every de
positor, on making the first deposit after
this act shall have become of force, shall
subscribe his name therein, thereby sig
nifying his assent to the original char
ter, this amendment thereof and to such
regulations and by-lawa.
Seo, 3. And be it further enaoted,
That all laws and parts of laws milita
ting against this act be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Regulating the Municipal Franchise.
By Mr. Black : A bill to be entitled
an act to regulate the elective franchise
in municipal elections in the city of Au
gusta and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enaoted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia,
That the following oath shall be admin
istered to all persons to be registered in
the city of Augusta, as now required by
law, viz.: You do solemnly swear or af
firm that you are a citizen of the United
States; that you are twenty-one years of
age, and that you have resided in this
State and in this city for the past six
months.
Seo. 2. Be it further enaoted, That
any person offering to vote for Mayor or
members of Council in said city shall,
upon being challenged, be required to
take the following oath (which any man
ager of said eleotian may administer),
viz.: You do solemnly swear that you
are a citizen of the United States ; that
you have resided within the limits of the
city of Augusta for the past six months
immediately preceding, and for the past
ten days in this ward or district; that
you are twenty-one years of age, and
have been registered according to law.
[Note. —It is not the purpose to
change the law, but simply to re-enact
it, to avoid certain objections. The
first oath will be amended so as to make
it tbe same as has heretofore been ad
ministered. It has been sent to the
Mayor, with request that he confer with
members of Council.]
AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE.
A Strong Letter from Knoxville.
The following letter was received in
this city yesterday:
Knoxville, Tenn., January 20, 1877.
W. T. Whfleas and Others, Augusta,
Georgia :
Gentlemen— Allow me to congratu
late you and the good people of your
enterprising city upon the gallant strug
gle you are making in behalf of your
railroad project. I have read with
pleasure all your proceedings, and have
published them, so that our people may
see what kind of metal you are made of
You are on the right track—rest assured
of that. Your brave and manly course
has inspired a robust hope amoDg all
our business men, and they now feel as
they never did before. We intend to
stand by you at all hazards, let come
what may. We ardently hope that your
Legislature, now in session, will heartily
respond to your wishes, and that you
will have no trouble in getting what you
want. We have long since given up
Charleston. We look to Augusta as our
polar star in the matter, and with her
we will stand or fall. You are certainly
prosecuting one of the grandest projects
of the times, and it demonstrates the
profound wisdom and keen sagacity of
your citizens.
As Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee, I will call the Convention for
your city sometime in April or May. I
will give due notice. Meantime keep
working, and all will be well.
I take the privilege of sending you a
copy of our paper, containing an edi
torial with regard to this enterprise.
Write me about yonr prospects and
your views and feelings concerning this
road. Truly, Ac., W. C. Chablton,
Chairman, Ac.
yale alumnl
DUtinguiiih.d Gentlemen Have a Reunion in
Washington.
Washington, January 31.—Yale alu
mni, now residing•or temporarily so
journing here, assembled for an annual
reunion and dinner at Riggs House
this evening. Among the distinguished
alumni present was Justice Strong,
Judge Taft, Senator Dawes, General
Gibson of Louisiana, and Professor
Wm. Preston Johnson of Washington
and Lee University, Virginia. Hon.
Charles O’Co nor is here.
THE COMPROMISE.
THE PRESIDENT SIGNS IT.
The Grand Cnmmianlon Almost Made Up—
The President Signs the Bill, and -Submits
His Reasons Therefor.
WismNGTON, Janaary 29.—The Sen
ate Republicans caucused two hours,
and had a heated discussion whether the
bill was a Democratic measure, and
whether Senators favoring it should
have a place on the Grand Commission.
The Democratic Senators will hold no
caucus. Bayard and Thurman, by con
sent, represent them. The Republican
eauous selected Edmunds, Morton and
Frelinghuyseji as members of the Grand
Commission.
The Supreme Court adjourned to-day
to the 19th of February. The withdrawal
of five of the Judges destroys the quo
rum, which requires six.
To the Senate of the United States :
I follow the example heretofore occa
sionally presented of oommnnicating in
this mode my approval of the aot “to
provide for and regulate the counting
of votes for President and Vice-Presi
dent and tbe deoision of questions aris
ing' thereon for the term oommenoing
March 4th, A. D. 1877,” because of my
appreciation of the imminent peril to
the institutions of the oonntry from
which, in my judgment, the act'affords a
wise and constitutional means of escape.
For the first time in the history of our
ooqntry under the Constitution, as it
now is, a dispute exists with regard to
the result of the eleetion of the Chief
Magistrate of the Nation. It is under
stood that upon the disposition of dis
putes touohiug the electoral votes east
at the late eleotion by one or
more of the States depends the
question whether one or the other
of the candidates for the Presidency is
the lawful Chief Magistrate. The im
portance of having clearly ascertained
by a procedure, regulated by law,
which of the two citizens has been elect
ed, and of having the right to the office
recognized and cheerfully agreed to by
all the people of the Republip, cannot be
overestimated, and leads me to express
to Congress and to the nation my great
satisfaction at the adoption of a measure
that affords an orderly means of the de
cision of a gravely exoiting question.
While the history of our oonntry in its
earlier periods shows that the President
of the Senate has counted the votes and
declared them standing, oqr whole his
tory shows that in no instance of doubt
or dispute has he exercised the power of
deciding, and that the two Houses
of Congress have disposed of all
such doubts and disputes, al
though in no instance hitherto have
they been such that their deoision
could essentially have affected the re
sult. For the first time, then, the Gov
ernment of the United States is now
brought to ffiept the questioq qs one vi
tal to the result, and this under condi
tions not tbe beat calculated to produce
an agreement or to induce calm feeling
in the several branches of the Govern
ment or among the people of the coun
try in a case where as now the result is
involved. It is the highest dnty of the
law making power to provide in advance
a constitutional, orderly and iuatgiethod
of executing the Constitution in this
most interesting and critical of its pro
visions. The doing so far from being a
compromise of right ig an enforcement
of right and an execution of powers
conferred by the Constitution on Con
gress. I think that this orderly method
has been secured by the bill whioh, ap
pealing to the Constitution and the law
as the guide in ascertaining rights, pro
vides a means of deciding questions of
single returns through the direct action
of Congress, and in respect to doable
returns by a tribunal of inquiry, whose
decisions stand, unless both Houses of
Congress shall concur in determining
otherwise, thus securing a definite dis
position of all questions of dispute in
whatever aspect they may arise. With
or without this law, as all of the States
have voted, and as a tie vote is impos
sible, it must be that one of the two
candidates has been elected, and it
would be deplorable to witness an ir
regular controversy as to whioh of the
two should receive or whioh should
continue to hold the ofljoe, In all
periods of history controversies have
arisen as to the succession or choice of
the chiefs of States, and no party or
citizens loving their country and its
free institutions can sacrifice too much
of mere feeling in preserving through
the upright course of law their country
from the smallest danger to its peace on
such an occasion, and it caunot be im
pressed too firmly in the heart of all the
people that true liberty and real pro
gress can exist only through a cheerful
adherence to constitutional law,
The bill purports to provide only fer
the settlement of questions arising from
the reoent eleotiona. The fact that such
questions as oan arise demonstrates the
necessity whioh I cannot donbt will be
fore long be supplied by permanent gen
eral legislation to meet cases which have
not been contemplated in the Constitu
tion or laws of the country. The bill
may not be perfect and its provisions
may not be such as would be best appli
cable to all future occasions, but it is
calculated tq meet the present condition
of the questions and of theeountiy. Tbe
country is agitated. It needs and it de
sires peace and quiet and harmony be
tween all parties and all sections. Its
industries are arrested, labor unemploy
ed, capital idle and enterprise paralyzed
by reason of the doubt and anxiety at
tending the uncertainty of a double
claim to the Chief Magistrate of the na
tian. It wants tq be assured that the
result of the eleotion will be aocepted
without resistance from the supporters
of the disappointed candidate, and that
its highest officer shall not hold his
place with a questionable title of right.
Believing that the bill will secure those
ends, I give it my signature,
U. S. Gbant.
Executive Mansion, January 29, 1877.
The Democratic canons have chosen
Payne, Hnnton and Abbott representa
tives on tbe grand Commission.
A NEW AND VALUABLE INVENTION.
Babnett, Ga., Jan nary 27.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
There is, and has been for some time,
much ado oonoerning a horse power in
operation at the gin honse of Captain R.
C. Rhodes, in this county. Our atten
tion was called to a description of it by
a communication in tbe Warrenton Clip
per, over the signature of Dr. W. H.
Pilcher, of recent date, saying “that the
horse power was in daily operation and
that with it a small male is aapable of
propelling it with apparent ease. ” We
have just witnessed tbe foot that it can
be propelled with one horse with ap
parent ease and we learn npon good au
thority that a great many practical
farmers have been attracted to it, un
saddled tbeir horses and experimented
with it, mnoh to their admiration, and
that quite a large number have engaged
mechanics to have this horse power
ready by next ginning season. Briefly,
the history of its discovery is this: ( apt.
Rhodes oonceived the idea some time
since of an improvement in a horse
power for ginning purposes; he carried
his plans into exeontion and its opera
tion was satisfactory, bnt in answer to
his application for a patent, he was dis
couraged by information from his at
torneys that in their opinion it was not
patentable. Captain Frank Holden, at
Crawfordville, being engaged in his
assistance, suggested improvements
thereby become interested in the inven
tion. They have received a notification
that a patent was allowed on the 13th
inst., in the name and style of Rhodes
& Holden.
We learn their prioe for farm rights
will be $lO, and immediate steps will be
taken to introduce it. We feel author
ized to say that they will offer a farm
right at half price, through all the public
journals to all the planters throughout
the country who have been so nnfortn
nate as to have lost their gin houses by
fire within the past twelve months, with
out inquiry as te whether the loss occur
red by aecident or the work of incendia
ries, npon the receipt of $5, and a wood
cut representing it and if necessary a
working mode will be famished. These
impnlses are the promptings of com
mendable liberality, and we take pleas
ure in stating the faot, and hope your
exchanges will publish this communica
tion in order that the attention of this
unfortunate class of onr fellow-citizens
may be called to it. The oost in con
struction of this horse power is not ex
ceeding fire dollars of the old style run
ning-gear, and mnoh of the old may be
need in construction of the new. Hoping
these gentlemen will reap a jost reward
for their truly wonderful discovery.
La when a* Battle,
Jacob Shanbb,
Lewis O’Brien.
David Heiman, of Camden, is dead.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Thomaston is out of debt.
Conyers is repairing her jail.
Bntler brags on her post offioe.
Garnesville wants a brick yard.
Darien is to have a domino party.
A mammoth mink has been killed in
Hampton.
The Pulaski Honse in Savannah is to
be re-opened.
Savannah’s soldiers want to be exempt
ed from jnry duty.
Lary Gantt refuses to be oomforted
until there is a dog law.
Two Jaekson oonnty huntsmen have
caught sinoe Christmas 135 rabbits.
It has been decided that the Capitol
building in Atlanta is perfectly safe.
Montioello’s town oouncil have gone
into seoret session over their slushy side
walks.
The saw mill ineendiary intends to
spend the Spring months in Jackson
oonnty.
The Atlanta Constitution insists upon
submitting to the people the question
of a Convention.
Maeon will give Miss Anderson, next
to Booth, the largest audience ever as
sembled in her hall.
The Columbus limes now thinks that
Georgia has two men in the United
States Senate hard to beat.
Nine oonviots from Chatham and
three from Tattnall county recently
left Savannah for the Penitentiary.
Firing pistols in the streets is quite
popular in Savannah. It’a an original
way of annihilating miasmatic germs in
the air.
We have reoeived the second number
of the Savannah Record, a neatly print
ed little sheet, which appears to be a
Sunday paper.
Henry R. Aderhold has been appoint
ed mail route agent on the Maoon and
Angnsta Road vice W. A. Pledger, col
ored, removed.
There were two hundred and thirteen
ballots oast for the United States Sena
tor, of which B. H. Hill reoeived one
hundred and sixteen,
A colored mau, while splitting rails in
Jackson oounty, reoeived a blow upon
the head by his wedge flying out of the
timbers and was killed.
Mrs. Wm. Shepherd, of Bntler, Geor
gia, a Wife of six months, committed
suioide last week by shooting herself
through the head with a rifle.
The wire grass literati are already be
ginning to confound Sidney Lanier
with Signor Augustus Watson, of the
Maoon Telegraph, For some reasons
the mistake is natural.
The osoillating editor of Atlanta fame
has again pulled up his stakes and hied
him to other quarters. Mr. Sam Small
has suspended the Telegram and re
turned to his first lave, the Constitution.
Oarueavifle asserts her claim to be
recognized as a city by complaining of
her wretchedly muddy streets. We
hope that Gainesville will wait no longer
to be incorporated if she has not already
been so.
Its an ill wind which blows no good,
and while the freezing weather post
pones the organization of tbe Oarnesville
Good Templars, the “inner man” con
tinues to regale himself with her sweet
mountain dow and longs for the return
of Spring.
An uneie and nephew while hunting
at a tqrkey roost in Madison oounty,
each changed their positions, without no
tifying the other and the nephew, Mr.
James Gunnels, thinking to see a tur
key fired into his uncle, Mr. Jos. Tol
bert, and inflicted a fatal wound.
The contested Ordinary’s election in
Atlanta shows that plenty of ohoice
bottled “conspiracy" was used in the
late eleotion, hnt what perplexes coun
sel and confounds the judges is that it
flowed from both aides. Nothing but a
grand commission oan right this matter.
The Telegram is trying to get up
some enthusiasm in Atlanta upon rais
ing sweet potatoes. Small with Carlyle
agrees that he who gives unto the world
a potato is worthier than the miner with
his nuggets of gold. Come to think
about it though, we believe that Carlyle
meant an Irish potato,
The Atlanta Constitution publishes
this ; The Rev. Benjamin W. Bussey,
pastor of the church at Hurtsville, Ala.,
and son of Dr. N. J. Bussey, President
of the Eagle and Phenix. Faotory, Co
lumbus, was recently married to Miss
Margaret L, Landrum, D. D., formerly
of Savannah, but now pastor of the
Central Church, at Memphis, Teun.
Bntler has a photographer. \
Griffin has had a military soiree.
Toeeoa will have a music sohool.
Brunswick has had rope-walking.
Maeon is to have a dancing sohool.
Athens erects new street crossings.
Rome oomplains of vagrant freedmeD.
Produoe supplies in Athens are scarce.
Griffin pedestrains now go it on stilts.
The “Ben Hill Hat” is all the rage in
Atlanta.
Atlanta follows Augusta in phantom
parties.
Monroe oounty has eight lawyers and
twelve dootors,
These balmy days will bring ont the
wheat and oats,
Richmond oounty roads are generally
in good condition.
Dr. Turner, of Hart oonnty, has be
come a citizen of Athens.
Rockdale connty made only nineteen
gallons of brandy last year.
Several mnrdar cases are docketed for
the next term of tho Supreme Court.
Covington’s ohampion heavy weight
cotton bale this year tallies 724 pounds.
A Monroe oounty author, Mr. J. R.
Ralls, is writing up the future of the
negro.
A little two year old girl in Americas
was recently choked to death while
eating a biscuit.
Mat O’Brien’s “new readings of old
songs” are making the Coiambus folks
laugh right ont.
Mr. Thomas Fisher, of Toocoa, is suf
fering from an old wound reoeived in the
Confederate war.
Farmers in Fioyd county, in plowing
.up their lands, are unearthing quanti
ties of grasshoppers.
Mr. Edward Platt holds a meeting in
Maoon to-morrow in the interest of the
Georgia Society, P. 0. A.
Dr. Oarlton evidently thinks that
Benjamin Himalaya is in his “father’s
house and is at home to stay.”
Mr. Michael O’Callahan, who was shot
by Willie Griggs on the 23d inst., in
Clarksville, died on the 26th iDst.
Mr. George Long, of Jefferson conn
ty, has caught, since the first of last Oc
tober, one hundred and four ’possums.
There are now in the Deaf and Dumb
Institute at Cave Springs thirty-nine
stndents—sixteen girls and twenty-three
boy*.
The term of imprisonment of -old Tu
nis G. Campbell, the Mclntosh connty
negro, has expired, and he is again at
liberty.
Mrs. F. Moore, of Harris county, 77
years of age, cnltivated with her own
hands and made a bale of cotton weigh
ing 500 penDds. *
A Clarke county citizen, who has long
sinoe moved to Alabama, has been heard
from. He is the sire of 12 sons and as
many daughters.
It is whispered around that Governor
Colquitt favors the removal of the capi
tal to Kirkwood. This is barely semi
official, however.
Thos. H. 8. Brobston, Esq., a promi
nent young lawyer of Atlanta, tried to
commit smoide by catting his throat,
Tncsday morning.
Mr. Richard O’Connell, of Savannah,
endeavoring to wrest an air rifle ftom
the hands of an inebriate, was shot fa
tally through the head.
It is now affirmed that an effort is be
ing made to eonvert Athens into a way
station, to deprive merchants of the
benefit of through freights.
A Savannah negro prefers whipping to
imprisonment any day. In some re
spects it’s very hard to cultivate the
tastes of a Savannah negro.
The latest is that Benjamin Himalaya
has shaken hands with Blaine. That
Mr. Hill is going over to the enemy
there can no longer be any donbt.
Columbus is discussing the extension
of the North and Sonth Railroad, and in
this oonneetion Tom Hoff seriously con
templates widening the Chattahoochee.
The Atlanta Constitution states that
$3 soldiers will set ont from that oity to
day, on horseback, fora big raid through
Northeast Georgia, that famous region
of illicit distillers.
It is not generally known that the
most valuable mine of ferro-manganese
in the United States is in Bartow oonn
ty. Why is that Willingham has been
concealing this fact ?
The Atlanta Constitution says that
there is a suspicion that Parks, who
bought all the most ferocious horses
and mnles of Howes’ Gircns, was bid
ding for Ned Purcell.
An Atlanta man was taken charge of
by some “friends” in Bevannah Tuesday
and fleeced ont of $275. Those Atlanta
fellows had better look sharp whan they
get ip big cities, anyhow.
SOUTH CAROLINA. ■
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Anderson is importing mnd.
The State trade in fertilizers is active.
A few cases of measles in Rook Hill,
lhe boys in Marion will pop caps on
Sunday.
Walhalla speaks of inventim? a burg
lar gun. e
The Hampton Herald advocates a
fence law.
Charleston’s fire alarm telegraph is
nearly finished.
The Marion Star weeps to see the peo
ple buying corn. *
The Williamston Female College
opens February 6th.
The Camden jail birds seize every op
portunity to escape.
oeyille seems to be the banner
oo'l ity in tax paying.
_rapp s mill, near Edgefield, is under
going complete repairs.
Three Georgia boys have recently en
tered Newberry College
Chamberlain may hold over but Hamp
ton holds,over the taxes.
®aKn ßt olass field hands in Marion get
$6 50 a month and rations.
. £ h .e Spartanburg and AshviUe Road
is being pushed right along
Several colored men in Walhalla paid
their ten per cent, to Hampton. 1
q f £^ e f Ehcenix wishes the
Utilise the convict labor,
lhe fertilizer agents and tax collec
tors are worked out of their boots.
• - j e .® rl y , oat , oro P was not materially
injured by the late severe weather
, 5 a “ P ijikS'' 1 ! ect ® tbe taxes and Oham-
m tbe “oxperienoe. ”
nf Wir l 1U K toll t * nner y. fr °m scarcity
'to b , eeo f °roed to suspend.
1 shortl y k e commenced up
on the Oheraw and Chester Railroad.
H. W. Rice, Esq., of the Lexington
Dispatch, is Trial Justice of the town.
Greenville s factories consume annu
ally about seven thousand bales of cot
ton,
Rev. J. D. A. Brown, of the Orange
burg Presbyterian Church, died Thurs
day night.
The tax payers continue to render
Mto Hampton the things that are
Hampton’s.
Orangeburg oomplains that too much
profanity aocumulates aronnd her rail
road depot.
Wilson, of the Abbeville Dinner, and
long may it wave,” contends that there
is no barm in dancing.
McEvoy acknowledges that he is the
man, and says he expects to “swing,”
but will “go out game.”
Some dashing young Loehinvar came
out of the West, last week, and made off
with one of Edgefield’s fairest daugh
ters.
Hundreds of patriots have plowed
through mud in Anderson to seek out
Hampton’s tax payers and render up tri
bute.
It is said that pneumonia, diphtheria
and quinsy are prevailing to an alarming
extent among the negroes in the lower
counties.
The young lady in Williamston, who
was so fearfully stabbed by a rejected
and demented lover, was much better at
last accounts.
Carpenter commands Chamberlain to
hold over, but how in the world oan a
man hold over when he has nothing to
hold over on ?
Two mighty shootists of Orangeburg
went deer hunting the other day and
brought home an old buck rabbit with
wattles under his neck.
The Anderson Intelligencer complains
that the illicit whisky traffic has been
vigorously and boldly plied in that sec
tion since the Fall months set in.
The Carolina farmers, believing in al
literation and trusting in the Almighty,
swear unreserved allegiance to hog, horn
iny and Hampton.
If Hampton’s tax returns increase
much more he will have no diffiontty in
buying ont Chamberlain’s government
and dissolving the whole Republican
party.
Dr. J. M. Sloan last week took frotu
tbe arm of Mr. Robert Stewart, of Pick
ens county, a ball which had been
there since the second battle of Ma
nassas.
It now turns out that Tim Hurley, one
of the Hayes’ electors in South Caroli
na, and the next friend of Chamberlain,
is under indictment for corruption and
fraud in office.
It now appeareth that the oolored
Democrat from South Carolina and his
second appeared on the ground at Fair
Bluff, N. C., armed for the duel, but
that the Radical Bennett was non est .
The Charleston Journal states that
the Port Royal Railroad Company ia
planting at each mile-post a magnolia
tree, whioh will give them a farther
claim to the popular name of "Magnolia
Route.”
A husky voioe from the dusky records
declares both State governments illegal,
and demands Chamberlain to hold over
until anew canvass can be seeuied.
What say the Supreme Court to Car
penter’s ediot ?
The Edgefield Advertiser states the
horrible faot that Gen. Gary has taken
to tresspassing on the lands of widow
ladies. He makes huge excavations
upon their premises for the purpose of
unearthing red foxes.
The Edgefield Advertiser states that
the Grangers intend to plant a tree by
the grave of the late Col. Thomas G„
Bacon, and that Gen. M. C. Butler will
deliver an address upon the ocoasion.
In Charleston there exists an “infant
phenomenon,” with black skin and kinky
hair, with a white stripe running from
the back of the head to the chin. With
in the limits of this stripe the hair is of
a grayish color and the skin is white as
any Caucasian’s.
What greater enconium can there be
than this from the Courier-Journal
npon Mr. J. H. Richardson, of Aiken,
recently deceased: “He was a kind-heart
ed, conscientious man, much esteemed
by his neighbors and always paid for hia
newspaper in advance. ”
The Anderson Intelligencer hits them
this good one : “The Union-Herald
says that a usurper has no chance with
out a Supreme Court of his own, and so
it has for one time told the truth. Poor,
preteodiDg Governor Chamberlain does
not own a Supreme Court himself, and
therefore his organ begins to see that
he stands no ohance.”
A deserved tribute was that, from Ben
Hill to Hampton and to South Carolina,
in his great Atlanta speech last week.
Speaking of Grant’s fiendish policy, said
Mr. Hill : “He has worried the people
of South Carolina, and day by day
sought to provoke the gallant Hampton
to do something wrong. He failed, and
the American people oan never fully ap
preciate the example afforded by that
historic character, the hero of South
Carolina. ”
HAMPTON’S FIRST PARDON.
Judge Mackey Will Decide That It la Legal
and Valid—The Matter to be Tented by an
Appeal to the Supreme Court.
[Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.l
Chester, 8. C., January 30.—Govern
or Hampton issued a pardon to-day to
Amzi Roseborough, a colored man now
confined in the jail of Chester connty,
under sentence for assault and battery.
The prisoner has aocepted the pardon,
but tbe sheriff refuses to release him
until it is judicially determined that
Hampton is the Governor of Sonth Ca
rolina. On the applicatiou of General
W. A. Walker, attorney for the prison
er, Judge Mackey has issued a writ of
habeas corpus returnable at 10 o’clock
to-morrow morning. T. C. Gaston,
Esq., the Circuit Solicitor, will make the
argument in support of the sheriff’s ac
tion. Judge Mackey will decide this
ease in favor of Hampton, and it will
then go to the Supreme Court. It is
the true test case a* to whether Hamp
ton is Governor, as the oase before Car
penter does not necessarily involve that
issue, for the Supreme Court may de
cide in that ease that Chamberlain is
not Governor, and yet not determine
that Hampton is. Judge Mackey will
decide the oase in favor of Hampton.
THE DOINGS OF DEATH.
An Editor Die., and a Couatewi Leap. Out of
a Window and End. Her Day.—Found
Dead in a Chair.
Pittsbubo, January 31. Daniel
O’Neil, editor of the Daily Dispatch ,
is dead, aged 49.
London,' January 31.—The Countess
Howe threw herself from me window of
her mother’s residence, on Berkely
square, and died of her injuries. The
grief for her husband’s death had unset
tled her mind.
St. Louis, January 31.—Professor
Edward L. Seymour, who atrived here
from Chattanooga or Atlanta two months
since,- was found in his chair with his
throat out. Pecuniary troubles was the
cause.)