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ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi date* for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announce ments must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Ohsowicls A Bmnnmxs Augusta. Qa. Ctjronicle and Sentinel Wednesday - February 7, 1877. TO Ol'R SUBSCRIBER*!. We request onr subscribers who owe us to pay their subscriptions. It is im portant to ua that every man on our books should pay at once. Let each subscriber bear in mind that while one er two dollars may appear to be a tri fling amount, the aggregate amounts to • large sum. We hope our friends will respond promptly. wtf 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.)