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w EDNEBPAY, MARCH - -7, 1877.
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The wool-growers of Ohio, Indiana,
Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsyl
vania have organised, and will hereafter
sell directly to manufacturers.
Thb shipment of beef to tbe English
markets has proved so profitable that a
cattle dealing firm in Holland has start
ed the enterprise of transporting live
stock from this country. Home dealers
will, therefore, have to look out for a
little competition from a quarter they
least expected.
Russia continue# to make prepara
tions for an aggressive war against Tur
key. Her army south of the Caucuses
is quite as ready for action, and almost
as powerful, as tbe one in Bessarabia.
She has there 150,000 meo, 85 field bat
teries, and 250 heavy siege guns. The
Bear is ready to strike.
Captain Paul Boyton arrived at
Rome, iu his swim down the river Ti
ber, oa Sunday, the 20th of January.
He atarted from Orta, one hundred and
fifty miles above Borne, and made tbe
trip in thirty-nine hours, not counting
unavoidable delays. His aocount of
the astonishment of the people along
the route is very amusing.
Thh Hartford Times says that the
country can endure the politioal result
far better than it can afford this soilnre
of the Court—a judicial tribunal which
lias stood the highest in the world.—
Party failures and successes pass like
tbe breeze; but the degradation and the
injury whioh the Court has sustained
will be permanent.
An imaginative Atlanta correspondent
of the Macon Telegraph writes of
Speaker Bacon as “the prinoely, golden
bearded Menklajb, the handsomest man
in the Honse, and the most courteous
and best parliamentarian in the South.”
Tbe New York Sun has recently pub
lished a number of editorials advising
people to put not their trust in hand
gome men.
A bill is now before the North Caro
lina Senate to amend the Constitution
of that State so as to require eaoh per
son who applies to vote to exhibit his
reoeipt for poll tax for the preceding
year. The Republicans are opposing
the passage of tbe bill on tbe ground
that it would virtually disfranchise
25,000 or 30,000 colored voters, and
thus make the State hopelessly Dem
ocratic.
Tax dodging in New York has evi
dently grown into a perfect art. Thos.
J. Creamer, in a letter addressed to
Comptroller Kblly, says there are sl,-
250,000,000 of personal property in that
city whioh does not pay a dollar of tax
into the city treasury, and he mentions
tbe case of one wealthy merchant, who
lives in Brooklyn, and two of the largest
life iusurauce companies, as notable in
stances of delinquency.
The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce,
now in bis ninety-third year, is writing
a series of reminiscences i f the century.
He is tbe oldest Methodist minister liv
ing on this continent, and probably the
oldest of any denomination here. He
points to the great difference that exists
between Methodism at the beginning
of th<s country and now, and concludes
that either primitive Methodists were
more religious than was needful or else
modern Methodists are less so.
£.T now appears to be a well settled
fact t hat the Texas Paeifio Railroad bill
would, if reached, be passed by Con
gress by A large majority. It is, how
ever, rep.*wted that tbe friends of the
measure have abandoned all hope of
final action on tbe bill during the present
session. This is but oce of tbe traiu of
evils following tbe Presidential muddle.
Months of valuable time have been frit
tered away which otherwise might have
been employed in fostering the material
interests of tbe country.
Thk jeers of tbe press, the insuffi
ciency of the per diem and mileage to
keep body and soul together, or some
other eqaally good reason, have caused
one member of the General Assembly to
announce that he will soon “be out of
the Georgia Legislature,” and to solicit
a position in “some good bouse as
traveling ageut, or salesman to influence
trade and business." He will work “t
reasonable rates during the Summer
months." However, he may mean that
he will only be “out of the Legislature” j
during the time that tbe General As
sembly is r.ot iu session.
Cxbh Hayes’ fraudulent administra
tion the career of corruption and ex- -
travagance must go ou at Washington.
The fraudulent Cabinet will be new, but
the officeholding class will be the same,
with the same old purposes and methods'
wad there can be no health in an Ad
ministration established through fraud.
The hope of the people during the next
four years is an honest House, too ain
eere in their convictions and too loyal
to their constituents to listen to the
blandishments of the fraudulent Presi
dent. Y. Sun.
Thk following is the text at the
amendment to the Convention bill sub
mitting the question of Convention or
No Convention to a vote of the people :
Provided, Nevertheless, that at the sUvtion
of delegates provided for b; this act,tbe voters
may have written or printed on their ballots
the word ‘ convention* or (As words "no con
vention. * And if a majority of those voting
on the question of holding or not bolding a
convention shall rote for holding a comhiug.
the Governor shall by proclamation so declare,
and order delegates so a’acted to assemble,
according to the provisions of this act, and if
a majority of those voting on the question of
holding said convention shall bo oprooedto
said convention, it shall be the duty of the
Governor, by proclamation, so to declare, and
order that the delegates so elected do not as
semble, and tbs convention shall not bo held.
WHAT DOES IT MEANT
In the Atlanta Constitution, of Fri
day, Mr. Hugh A. Haralson published
the following card:
For the information of a great many who
have asked me and for all who may care to
know, I will state that I have not been ap
pointed by the Governor to the poeition of
State Librarian. The Governor baa appointed
a gentleman who bears my name (Habalsoh),
bat to whom I have failed to trace any rela
tionship. The appointment, so far as I know,
may be a good one. I have been a true, strong
and earnest friend of the Governor throughout
his critical campaign, as every one knows, bat
I will never do what he seems to make all do
before he gives them an appointment.
Hcoh A. Habalsoh.
Mr, Haralson bas either said too
much or too little. What is that Gover
nor Colquitt makes all bis friends do
before be gives them an appointment ?
We think that Mr. Haralson owes it to
both himself and to Governor Colquitt
to explain tbe meaning of this mysterious
sentence.
HON. HENRY 11. CARLTON.
[Atlan'a Constitution.]
Among tbe members of tbe General
Assembly who have made themselves
conspicuous by their ability, industry
and watchfulness, the Hon. Hknrt H.
Carlton, repre-anting Clarke county
in the House, has been foremost. He
is an eloquent and foroible speaker,
ready in debate and apt at repartee,
presenting his points with a pithiness
and vigor quite exceptional. As Chair
man of tbe Finance Committee—a posi
tion of great responsibility, and one re
quiring much business tact and experi
ence—be has necessarily had much to
do in giving shape and direction to the
most important legislation of the ses
sion—legislation affecting the entire
State. He was always prominent in the
discussion of measures affecting the in
terests of the State and of his Beotian,
and rarely failed to carry his point.
Dr. Carlton is mentioned as a prob
able candidate for Congress in tbe Ninth
Di strict to succeed Mr. Hill, and he
will have quite a large following in the
Gainesville Convention.
A NEW PUNISHMENT FOR SEDUCTION.
In the Macon Telegraph, of Friday,
there appears the proceedings of an
“Indignation Meeting” reoently held by
the citizens of Crawford county. The
meeting was regularly organized and a
preamble and resolutions adopted.—
From the preamble it appears that a
citizen named J. D. Roddy had seduced
the wife of another citizen, and that the
latter, made miserable and desperate by
tbe destructon of his domestic happi
ness, had eommitted suicide, The pre
amble closes as follows:
Whibeas, J. D. Roddy, attorney at law, has,
in onr judgment, prompted by an evil heart
and oorrupt inclination, been gnilty of sur
reptitiously and dishonorably entering and
destroying the happiness sf a family in our
midst; therefore, he it
Resolved, That euch conduct is unbecoming,
ungeutlemenly and unchristian ; the more eo,
because the said J. D. Roddy is himself a man
of family, and deservoe to be frowned npon
and stamped with the seal of pnblio indigna
tion by any man who has a wife, a mother, a
daughter, a sister, and who feels any interest
in the purity of female character; and we
hereby denounce such conduct and all who
may Indulge in the same, and are only sorry
that our condemnation cannot blast all such
characters.
Resolved, That wo, the c : tizens of Crawford
oounty, demand the instant removal of the
said J. D. Roddy from our midst, or in default
thereof he mast meet the well merited ven
gesoe of an outraged public.
Resolve d. That a copy of these resolutions
he furnished to J. D. Roddy by the Secretary
of tbe meeting, and that the Bame be publish
ed in the Macon Telegraph, Fort Valley Mirror
and Monroe Advertiser.
This is a novel way of punishing tbe
gravest crime against society that man
is capable of perpetrating, but few will
question tbe justioe of at least tbe first
danse of the judgment. Tbe gnilty man
must either leave the community, whioh
he has so gravely wronged, or else he
must expect to have the publio punish an
offense for whioh tbe law prescribes no
adequate penalty. We do not pretend
to say that in such oases no guilt at
taches to the woman ; on the contrary,
sbe is, perhaps, guiltier than the man.
But society, which does not punish tbe
man, save in some such primitive region
as Crawford ooanty, everywhere and
under all circumstances visits a
punishment upon the woman much
severer than any that could be inflicted
by the Courts. As soon as a woman,
especially if she be married, takes one
step down the side of that preoipioe,
the brink of which is gay with flowers,
but the bottom of which is a den of
serpents, sbe is lost, Sbe at once be
comes au outcast, a social pariah, who
has but two courses to pursue : a seclu
sion haunted by constant remembrance
of her sin and of her lost estate, or a
continuance on the downward path
through a life of shame to death and to
the judgment. In the present case
could the ingenuity of man devise a
harsher punishment than that which the
guilty wife is suffering ? Her reputa
tion is lost, her purity is gone, her chil
dren are disgraoed, and the man who
loved and honored her, dead by her act.
Homan laws could not subject her to a
keener torture than sbe will endure from
the thoughts of these things that will
come to her like tbs furies through the
year, and lash her, as with a whip of
soorpions, to her grave.
With the man, however, it is different;
society pardons or ignores the erime
which it punishes so severely in the
woman. Unless in a peculiarly aggravated
oasa, it is sopn forgotten. He loses no
friends among his own sex. At the
worst he still has his business, his
pleasures, his associates. If unmar-ied
there ia yet a chauee for him to have
happineas with home and family. He
may occupy auy field in life ha chooses
to seek. He may amass wealth iu ooja
merce; he may attain distinction in the
learned professions; he may acquire
fame in pnblio affairs, or on the field of
battle, and forget in the turmoil of a
i busy existence his crime and its victims.
The people of (Jrawford oounty, how
! aver, do not teem to taka tj?e same view
of these things that society generally
! does. As we have said, they appear to
entertain primitive ideas about man's
! share in the offense, and think that he,
too, deserves punishment. They have
made the alleged sedaoer ia this in
stance an outcast; they declare that he
shall no longer live among them, but
must seek a home elsewhere, suffering
from tha stigma put upon him by the
action of his neighbors and associates.
Who shall say, if the facte arc stated
correctly, that they have punished too
severely ?
Thb New York World give* an accu
rately compiled statement of the vote tor
Presidential electors, which is very mel
ancholy reading just now. The Demo
cratic majority .the populate vote was
264,829. It ia entirely an necessary for
us to state the majority ia the Electoral
College. The entire vote for Mr. Tildkn
was f,305,636; for Us. Harks, 4,040,807.
The electoral vote stood : Tildes, 184;
Hates, 165. Of the breptj contested
votes Mr. Tildkn had rightly and justly
in every respect thirteen, with South
Carolina Aonbtfn), A party may over
ride the people’s will onpe, but they will
not do it again. The Republican party
threw away its entire future to win one
more term.
Walton county oata warn ruined by
the snow.
THE CODE DUELLO.
It is not often that we see anything
like a defense of what is known briefly
as “ tbe Code ’’ North of Mason’s and
Dixon’s line, or, for that matter,
South of it, either, though “ affairs of
honor,” as they are termed, occur ofton
er South than North. But in the last
number of the Galaxy magazine we find
a paper from the pen of the editor whioh
is a quasi defense of the “relio of bar
barism.” He announces the purpose of
the duello to be “ that no gentleman
shall offer a personal indignity to an
other except with the certainty of its
being at the risk of bis lifebut he
calls attention to tbe fact, not generally
known, that the Code, instead of being
a bloodthirsty law, is, where properly
administered, calculated to preserve the
peace and prevent bloodshed. The edi
tor of the Galaxy has been favored with
a perusal of the Code, wri.ten by John
Wilson, of South Carolina, a volume
with which most “men of honor,” the
phrase being used iu its technical sense,
are familiar, and he finds much in its
pages to commend. He gives numerous
excerpts to show how greatly it has been
misrepresented. It provides first that
if an insult be received in pnblio it
should not be resented or noticed there,
out of respect to those present, except
in case of a blow or the like, because
this is insult to the company whioh did
not originate with the person receiving
it; that a challenge should never be
aent in the first instance because “ that
precludes all negotiation,” and that in
the note asking explanation and repara
tion the writer should “ cautiously
avoid attributing to the adverse party
auy improper motivethat the ag
grieved party’s second should manage
the whole affair even before a challenge
is sent, because he “is supposed to be
cool and collected, and his friends’ feel
ings are more or less irritated ” (“ more
or less ” here is excellent good as ex
pressive of the state of mind of a man
so aggrieved that he is ready to risk his
life ;) the seoond is to “ use every effort
to soothe and tranquillize bis principal,*’
not to “ see things in the aggravated
light in which he views them, but to ex
tenuate the conduct of his adversary
whenever he sees clearly an opportuni
ty to do so to “ endeavor to persuade
him that there has been some misunder
standing in tbe matter,” and to “check
him if he uses opprobious ■ epithets to
ward his adversary;” “when an accom
modation is tendered,” the Code says in
a paragraph worthy of the most respect
ful consideration, “never require too
muoh; and if the party offering the
amende honorable wishes to give a rea
son for his conduct in the matter, do
not, unless it is offensive to your friend,
refuse to receive it. By doing so you
heal the breach more effectively.”—
Strangers may call npon you for your
offices as second, “for strangers are en
titled to redress for wrongs as well as
others, and the rules of honor and of
hospitality should protect them." The
second of the party challenged is also
told, “Use your utmost efforts to allay
the exoitement which your principal
may labor under,” to search diligently
into the origin of the I misunderstand
ing,, “for gentlemen seldom insult eaoh
other uuless they labor under some mis
apprehension or mistake,” and if the
matter be investigated in the right
spirit, it is probable that “harmony will
be restored.” The other parts of tbe
Code refer to the arrangements fpr and
the etiquette of the hostile meeting, of
which we shall only notice the oensure
passed upon the seconds if after either
party is hit the fight is allowed to go
on. The last section implies, although
it does not positively assert, that “every
insult may be compromised” without a
hostile meeting, and it is direotly said
that “the old opinion that a blow must
require blood is of no force; blows may
be compromised in many cases.”
Tbe editor’s closing comments are as
follows: “We do by no means advocate
the fighting of duels; but we must say
that we cannot see in this Code the
bloodthirstiness and the quarrel-seeking
generally attributed to it. On the con
trary, all its instruotrions seem to tend
toward peace-making, the restoration of
harmony, the restraining of even ex
pressions of ill-feeling. It does recog
nize as indisputable that an insult must
be atoned for, and, if necessary, at the
risk of life. That necessity society can
do away witn by placing its ban upon
the man who insults another.”
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
The Hartford Times says St. Louis
has au abduction oise whioh is, if any
thing, more remarkable than tbe Chab
lky Ross affair; for if the latter shows
the inefficiency of our authorities in
snob matters, the St. Louis case shows
that the law itself is not necessarily of
any assistance. In this particular affair,
whioh resolved itself into two counter
prosecutions, its only effect has been to
call tbe fight “off." As the story goes,
a boy named Lochmullkb some years
ago went with bis brothers to carry din
ner to his father, who was working by
the river. The boy disappeared, leaving
his shoes behind him. The father, a
man of sopie property, sold everything
and began a search for his child. He
even went to Europe looking np gypsies.
When the Charley Ross excitement be
gan and Charley Rosses were being
picked up all over tha country, Loph
kullbb was regularly on hand to see if
Charley was his Henry. At last, after
eighteen months of anxiety, he found
the boy, in this way, at Chester, Illinois,
where he had been sold by two men who
had stolen him. The story was that
they took him off iu a boat, and he
named the men—persons known to jiis
father. They hap dyed jus hair and
made * beggar of him, treating him so
badly av to make him profitably pitiable,
but finally they quarreled and turned
him into cash. The father began a pro
secution of the men, and here the value
of the law shows itself; they wero let go
because the boy was so young that his
testimony was worthless. Hereafter
kidnappers wishing to be subsequently
punished wiii fio better to steal grown
up children, whose word will be admir
able in Court.
But now being acquitted, one of tbe
alleged abductors determined npon “vin
dication/" sp 4 sued the father for $20,-
000 damages for false imprisonment.
This ease has jnst been tried, and again
tbe efficiency of the law appeared. The
injnred abductor, so-called, denied that
thfi boy found was the son of Lochkul
lkb. This was easy enoqgh to settle of
course, all that was needed was bis
mother’s identification of him, bat the
Court refused to allow the wife to testify
in her husband's behalf, and there they
were ! The other side swore the boy's
identity away by aid of their acquaint
ances, and the father and mother con Id
not refute their testimony. It wculd be
of intereet, with the Court reoord what
it now ia in the ease, to know whether
these men cannot now sue to reoover
their child from his parents, who are
really (by the evidence) his abductors.
Pearce, one of the electors,
was a convicted felon, and the laws of
the State forbade his appointment. Yet
the members of the Supreme Cos art of
the United States, in the Jtleetoral Com
mission, decided not to go behind that
fellow’s return.
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1877.
HILL AND HAVES.
Here is what a special from Washing
ton to the Chicago Times reports Mr.
Hill as saying abent the probable effect
of a conciliatory policy by Hayes npan
the Democratic party of the South :
Ben Hill says tbs Republicans may say
what they please about Haves’ policy toward
the l-oulh, but it will have no effect upon the
people of that section beyond the gratification
of a curiosity to know what it will be. He had
formed no idea about Foster’s speech, saying
he paid no attention to it; nor would he pay
any attention to anything that either Fosteb
er Hayes might say at this time. So far his
action npon the Electoral decision was con
cerned, he regarded it as an affront for any
Democrat, or any representative Democratic
paper, to admit the poesibility of the Southern
Democrats selling oat to Haves, or of bring
influenced by the utterances of his personal
representatives in or ont of Congress. If
Fosteb made his advances to cement the
Southern delegations in favor of aoquiesoence
in the decision of the Commission, he said it
was entirely gratuitous and unnecessary, as
they were already committed and would not be
disan ded by any influence or party leaders.
HAVES AND THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
Hayes’ majrity in the Paoifio States,
inolnding Colorado, was 5,981, and by
this narrow margin he received fourteen
undisputed electoral votes. The vote of
ineligible postmaster Watts, the fif
teenth, will now be made all right by
Joe Bradley. It is pretty well estab
lished that in the oity of San Francisco
alone 6,000 or 7,000 fraudulent votes
were cast—more than enough to make
up the whole of Hayes’ majority in the
Paeifio States. His majority in Califor
nia was only 2,800. His majorities in
the three remaining States were nearly
enough of the same size to have been
turned ont of some maohine; in Colora
do it was 1,035, in Nevada it was 1,089,
and in Oregon it was 1,057. Each of
these three States has population enongh
to entitle it to barely one member in tbe
Honse of Representatives, and of coarse
each of them has two Senators and three
electoral votes. Tbeir representation in
the Electoral College was out of all pro
portion to their population. Truly
Hates oannot point with pride to the
Paoifio ooast as one of his strongholds.
A BILL TO ASSIST RAILROAD BUILD
ING.
An important bill to facilitate the
buildiDg of railroads has been intro
dneed in the Missuri Legislature. It
authorizes railroad companies to re
ceive subscriptions to be paid in either
“money, property, material or Work,”
and to issue in exchange therefor “trans
portation stock,” redeemable in pas
senger fares or freight carriage. The
certificates of stock are to be issued in
sums not less than one share eaoh, and
are to be a first lien on the road and its
property, into whose hands soever they
may come, except as to mortgages re
corded in the oonnties through which
the roads runs before the making of
such subscriptions. No mortgage of
the road is to have preference oyer
transportation stock subscribed before
tbe reoord of the mortgage. The trans
portation stock certificates may be
issued to persons severally or jointly,
and are redeemable in tbe following
manner: Tbe certificates, drawing 6
per oent. interest, and transferable by
endorsement, shall entitle the holder
thereof to their face value with interest
in fares or freight oharges at the usual
rates; provided that the road may re
quire one-half the freight bills or fares
to be paid in cash, crediting the re
mainder on the certificate, till tbe
amount due and unpaid shall be less
than one-eighth, after which no more
cash may be exacted. Tbe certificates
entitle the holder to all the rights and
privileges of a stockholder, bnt shall
not snbjeot him to any liability for the
debts or obligations of tbe company.
Tbe objeot of the bill is evident. It is
intended to facilitate the construction of
railroads, chiefly narrow-gauge, by en
abling citizens of tbe oonnties through
which they are located to subscribe to
their stock and pay the same in material
stone, ties, timber, land, or labor,
and at the same time authorize the
roads to anticipate their earnings by
issuing transportation certificates for
snoh stock, payable in freights and
fares.
MINOR TOPICN.
The St. Louis Times thus declares for war
"The men who elected Samuel J. Tildes are
ready, willing and able to inaugurate him- Ret
him but give the signal and Washington will
overflow with a host that will uphold free gov
ernment or fall in its defense." Pall down
your Vest.
Some papers North are wrestling with the
problem how it is that sirloin steaks from
Amerioan beef are sold in the London market
for nineteen cents a pound, after paying toll
to eleven different set of men through whose
hands it has passed. People in New York have
to pay thirty oents a pound for the same sort
of meat.
In the light of the electoral decision the fol
lowing from the Riohmond Enquirer is of in
terest : "Lst not the Southern people be dis
couraged. Let them remember that pa-sions
and prejudice are fast dying out, and that we
are on more solid ground than we have been
for ten years. We know who are our friends
in the North, and wo should improve the oc
casion to extend our business relations with
them. We can now promise them investments
in our midst with every reason to hope that
they will listen to our promises; and be it our
duty to see that we show our faith in our
future by our own worjw.”
FT—: :
France is steadily progressing ip all those
movements which tend to advanpe the intelli
gence and greatness of a nation. Educational
influences are at work whioh give good prom
ise for the future. For the next year, 1818
the Government asks that an appropriation of
t 10.500.000 be made for public instruction,
whioh is an increase oft 2 ,700 000 over 1876.
This is an evidence of the value which the
French people, through their Government,
pfapeupon the education of the rising genera
tion.
Lget year a single defeat for Goldsmith
Maid raised the cry that hpr supremacy as
queen of thg Iptf had departed; but the cry
proved premature when ape immediately took
her revenge by distancing her temporary con
queror and defeating all other competitors.—
The new season's trotting opened with a
confession of the Maid's peerless prowess;
ferthe Grand 7 rotting Circuit, at its recent
meeting in New York, in arranging its parses
for the season, assigned (4.000 te the “ free
for all, barring Goldsmith Maid." That is a
yery practipal recognition of her position ae
qaaan of the turf-op, shall we say, as bar
maid? 1 • 1 "■ ’
The only dangerous brute in the West te
hunt, Texas Jasi says, is the bear. He ia cun
ning, swift, and always ready for a fight. He
thinks that the bast place to hunt bears is
where there are not any jo be found, and of
the grizzly he says: “He wfil stand in the mid
dle of the road, growling and getting his siG
U P- when there isn’t a Hve creature within
forty miles of him. If you meet one and turn
out for him he will probably"leave you alone,
but jf yon say a word Ipoff opt for him. Many a
time I have made tome such remark tea bear
aa ‘Where are you going, Toxkt V when in an
instant hie arms would be up, and be ready to
tear me to pieces. No, sir, we don’t go beer
hunting very much. You see they can run aa
fast as a hone, and you have to mjt g hmw
into Just snoh a place to kill them, and until
they aye dead they are dangerous." isa%, in
|oncluaion, tells this story;" “I was once out
withs party in Tens, and we obi serosa e
big cinnamon bear. A fellow proposed to cap
ture him with hie lasso. He na+ a good
throw, and got the loop around the bear’s
neck. When old Cinnamon felt it get tight,
FhatdoyQuthinfchodidf He iusf as* qp op
jifs hannehaa, felt of tffe rope fob one paw,
and then began polling it in hand over hand.
There was a home and a sup feat to the other
and of the rope, bat they had to ■, both of
than. Aa for the hunter, he jumped of and
getaway, hut tbe bear drew the pqoy right up
to him sod killed him.
A FORGOTTEN HERO.
The Memory tf Washington.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
I have long thought that the beat pos
sible thing that we can do to aronse
liberty in onr midst is to revive Wash
ington. He having led our troops in
the war for independence and afterward
by the united voice of the country un
dertook and controlled our Federal af
fairs, and maped out the polioy for
America, his acts even down to his pri
vate life have become national property,
and strange to say that thoee who don’t
bfush to openly pursue doctrines which
be despised and to uphold practices con
demned by men in all his ministerial
acts, do not scrapie, I say, to look np
to him, and even hail him as Father of
the Country. Well| sirs, it moat be
true if all equally acknowledge him as
Father of his Country. As its Dot denied,
I must ask and certainly its a pungent
question, what bas made him so; what
has given him the illustrious title, and
still preserves it to him for such a series
of yearß ?
Now, I do not prfftend that America
must come fully up to Washington,
adopt entirely, without any deviation or
departure from his doctrines and prac
tices, but I do say that it requires ad
herence at least te the fundamental
truths, which in practice he upheld, and
iu theory urged upefthis oountrv, both
in his inaugural addresses and in his
farewell address to the United States as
her Chief Executive. It was undoubt
edly one of his prominent ideas that the
entire Union should live in harmony;
that all quarters should contribute their
taxes ratably for tbe publio defense and
support; that discord and faction should
never imperil the Constitution, whioh
he urged as our main reliance; that a
departure from this by any party was
certain to overthrow or jeopardize all
peace, security and liberty.
These are all now, at this time, in
jeopardy. This all will acknowledge.
As to who it was who thus placed us in
jeopardy, or as to who keeps it up, to
the constant peril of us all, is not the
question ; but tbe real question is, must
these things, liberty and insecurity, be
perpetuated ? If so, must we not either
drag Washington down, level his sta
tues, or give up that we have ao far de
parted from his doctrines as to have
forfeited even tbe honors of doing him
reverence ? of celebrating his birthday,
his triumphs and bis country ? It is an
indirect insult to do so, and if we really
do him justice, it will be to drape every
door with mourning over the long de
parture pf his principles.
Are his principles now in practice ?
If so, where traoeable V
Consider a moment, Washipgtpn was
President of the United States, of States
united and cemented with the best love
of the people ; Grant is President over
two broken sections, the one reduced to
tbe last extremes of vassilage, the other
he upholds in their cruel exaotions.—
Washington reduced the military and
crammed it into forts and arsenals.—
Grant sends it tramping through the
States to oyerawe the ballot box, and
give a handle to sjflvps to contest with
freemen for the control of pqr public
affairs. Grant has anffered twe Gover
nors, two Legislatures, two official
bodies, to set up against each other
wi en he knew that clear titles rested
with the freemen, while the ballot box
in Washington’s time, accessible only
by white men, who had inherited from
their ancestors the right to vote, was so
preserved and immaculate that there
never was disputes as to who was op yho
was not elected, for when ties occurred
even, there were no frauds, or artifice,
or other pernioions practices carried on
by electoral managers ; it required no
Boards to determine. No, any man who
could count at all, could tell the number
of votes cast.
In Washington's rnje we had a Con
stitution revered by all. Under Qrant,
there is a Constitution or not, just as
his partisans determine. Let us no
longer curse the Returning Boards. Ve
nal they ape, but have subserved a use
ful purpose. Jljey’ve pointed to the
evil—they’ve marked thp sjfot. As vul
tures to the carcass,they’ve gone to these
rotten votes. If you don’t oatch the
lessons from this and determine
wnere the evil i?, and apply a
remedy, in great haste, ft's obliged to
rush us into another revolution; are
obliged to do this or renounce the very
name of Washington. He never did
any act, public or private, from whioh
the remotest inference can be drawn
that he favored the extension of suffrage
to the alarming, and I may say terrible,
proportions it has assumed. No. For
Washington well knew that the vital
point in all Republics is with the ballot
box; that to oorrupt this is at once sow
ing the seed for universal corruption;
that the rise of Demooracv dates from a
suffrage sufficiently extended to protect
liberty, yet restrained enough to pre
vent anarchy, and that the fall dates al
ways from the extension to those slaves
whose freedom was begotten as the
bastard result of a party oonfliot.
The first step we must take to the
Father of our Country is to olean out our
ballot boxes, and then we may defy
fraudulent counts and illegal boards,
for none of these will dare to tamper
with votes whose very insignificance
now makes them approaobable by
bodies which pan ppoye oply as ljas@ as
the votes themselyes. W.
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
Haw It Was Celebrated in Qxfoj-d.
[from an Occasional Correspondent.]
Emory College, February 22.— The
celebration of Washington’s birthday by
the students of Emory has rendered the
day very impressive and long to be re
membered. The two literary societies
had chosen two of its most worthy
young men to do them honor upon this
important occasion. By alternation, the
place for the exercises of the day was
held at the phi-Gamma Hall. Early in
the morning the clouded sky uni} damp
atmosphere gave token that there would
be but few participants in the demon
stration; bnt when the time for gather
ing came on and the exercises had be
gun, when all hearts and minds were
concentrated npon Mount Vernon, and
the renowned history of its ashes was
repeated in beautiful thought and lan
guage by tbe speakers, the clouds
cleared away and the God of nations
seemed to smile npon his depraved peo
ple, when the sun shone foyth with un
usual JmghtneßC apd the ardor pf pa
triotism manifested itself during the
progress of the demonstration. When
the house was crowded with visitors
from Oxford, Covington and the sur
rounding neighborhood the exercises be
gan with an appropriate piece of mnsic
from the College Band, whioh made one
forget that the measles was in town and
prodneed a series of omnifarious grins
and giglea, imagining that he was once
more in the whirls and mages of the
dance with his dear Bailie Ann.
The honse was led in pi-ayer by Dr.
Frank Cooke, after which Mr. J. J. Ans
ley introduced Mr. Raines Roberts,
from Atlanta, the representative of the
Few Sooiety. f}is appearanoe impress
ed all as that of natural dignity,
and hia delivery ia well known to
be unexoelled by any in College.—
The subject of his speech was
“Change.” His arrangement was ex
ceedingly fine: change in Heaven;
chaDge in the heavens or among the
plants ; change in nature; change in
Government, and sad has been the
change in ours, for he clearly proved
that 6nra was nb longer a Repvrblio, bnt
a monarchy in every respect bnt the
name. Finally came change in man,
ending a beautiful tribute to the de
parted hero. I regret that I have not
his speech before me to quote some of
his beautiful sentiments. ‘ Rig speech
was deep, embracing all that could be
said on BUch a subject, and will furnish
food for thought for the master mind
for many days yet to come.
Mr. T. H. Jeffries neftjhtgodueed Mr.
Jjanie} Rflchpr, from Warren county,
the representative of the Phi Gamma
Society. He began by stating that the
reader of history could best know the
peculiar history of our Republic by
noticing the characteristics of thos*
who had served her fr~n tlme to y me .
teat >* was the love of liberty that
caused the founding of oar Republic.
“It WH the principle of liberty that
was inextricably bonnd np in their
hearts. When the rude hand of un
scrupulous avarice tonebed those chords
it filed the dynamite that blew the hell
gate rocks ont of the entrance to the
port of politioal safety, and the old ship
of State glided in with the stars and
stripes floating from her mast head, and
her triumphant ore* singing with ex
voices ‘Hffil Columbia, Happy
The different Presidents were then
briefly noted, and the source* of politi
cal animosities, with their fraud and
corruption. “The ship of State has be
come demagnetised and will no longer
point to the polar star and she has ran
agroand. Some have suggested that at
least for the last eight years her pilot
has been too drunk to distinguish be
tween a needle and a pointer dog.” His
olosing appeal was for all to emulate the
character of Washington, and “ when
old Emory shall have sent out many
sons, believing these tenets and cause
others to believe them; when they shall
have performed the work for them to
do, may the people of the old Empire
State, from where the Winter winds oa
reer over the Blue Ridge to where the
sea horse plays in the blue Atlantic, join
in exclaiming with a voice that shall re
verberate down every valley and over
every hill top from Maine to California,
and shall be borne along every i wind
that blows from the Quit of Mexico to
the northern lakes; “ Ret all the earth
behold us a happy, prosperous people, a
nation composed of States distinct as
the billows , but one as the sea.' ”
Nunhus.
BELSHAZZAR'S TABLE.
The Invitations to the Fatal Feast—The
Bread and Batter Brigade to Be Pnt to the
Teat, But Let Them Beware of the Writ!as
On the Wall.
[.'Special Dispatch to the Constitution .J
Washington, February 21 —I bad a
talk with Foster, of Ohio, to-day. Fos
ter represents Hayes’ District in Con
gress, and made the now famous speeoh,
in which he deolared that Hayes would
respect the best class of Southern peo
ple, and let them control their own af
fairs. Ji is generally conceded that he
had the very best right to speak for
Hayes. He said: “You people of the
South have lost your President, but you
have gained a great deal. You have
gained oontrol of your own State affairs.
I'he days of carpet-baggers are gone;
the days of ignorant and corrupt officials
have gone. Governor Hayes is deter
mined to put the best men he can find
in charge of affairs iu the South, no
matter what tbejr poljtjps rpay be. He,
of course, will win the respect and sym
pathy of your people by this course.
Indeed, with your States rights protect
ed and your Federal officials irreproach
able, therp is no reason why your peo
ple should not strike hands tyith the
Republicans,and sweepjaway the dead is
sues that have divided the parties in the
past. But, beyond all considerations of
a political nature, the South deserves
well of the country.
The splendid patriotism, and the wise
statesmanship that has governed the
Southern Congressmen in the late orisis
has won the respect and affection of the
whole Northern people. There can be
no more “Southern questions” in poli
tics. That has passed away, and new
issues tuqst be ffiadp. The Souih has
demonstrated her fidelity to law and
order, and has shown tbafc she loyes
country better than party. 4 fuse of
her sentiment will never make political
capital again. No Southern man knows,
or can ever know the wonderful effeot
produced on the masses of the North by
the heroic and lofty aotion of the South
during the past twenty days.” Simialr
to this, was the remark that I heard
Judge Stanley Matthews make to Ben
Hill. Said he; “We have been push
ing the South back for years, and have
told the people that you would ruin the
country and destroy the Union if you
were put in power. We must oonfess
now in the face of your late aotion that
you have served the Union.” This con
servative action on the part of the South
has greatly astonished the Northern
people, who had been led to believe by
the politician? tfiat tbc South was anxi
ous to provoke war, and only wanted a
obanoe to do so,
The now evident purpose of Hayes to
conciliate the South takes definite and
speoi c shape daily. Several leading
Republicans have been making frequent
inquiries of the Georgia members con
cerning Col. E. C. Anderson, of Savan
nah, and it is learned that many of this
gentleman's' friends are pressing his
name for a place in the Cabinet as Sec
retary of the Navy. The movement origi
nated with a number of naval officers,
who oomplain that civilians had always
had charge of the navy portfolio, to the
exclusion of officers eduoated in the
navy, and, of course, capacitated
to handle the Department. These oncers
seem to have concentrated upon Col.
Anderson (\pho stood yery high i the
ante-bellum navy), and in ooesequenoe
his name is foremost in the desultory
discussions that now occupy the public
mind.
WAS [MOREAfJ INNOCENT ?
A Highly ligportfnf Biaqoyery Made
He Had Been Guillotined.
\From the Times.]
Paws, February 12.—For the past
year two young and eminent chemists
belonging to the French Academy of
Sciences have been experimenting with
tfie sulphate of popppr. Their attention
was dfawp to it by the case of Moreau,
the druggist of Saint Denis, of which I
wrote a year ago. Some of my readers
may remember that he was accused by
popular rumor of murdering his wife,
and a chemist declared that he had
found a quantity of sulphate of copper
in the bowels sufficient to oause death.
At Moreau’s house fhp pbsiwaoopiaia
was topnd parked at this substance.
This was taken to be confirmatory evi
dence, and Moreau was condemned.
When reaching the guillotine he turned,
and onoe more declared, in the most im
pressive manner, that he was an inno
cent map,
Tbjs ease started the two young chem
ists at work, and they made their re
port to the Academy on Saturday. One
declares that sulphate of copper in
equal quantities to that found in the re
mains of Mme. Moreau is a natural in
gredient of the human body; the other
boldly affirms that no person was ever
yet poisoned by tbe substance. He be
gan by experimenting on dogs and theq
on himself, taking two or three drachma.
He was nauseated, and generally vomit
ed, bqt npt poisoned, according to the
general acceptation of the term. His
experiments have so convinced him that
he boldly declares that no one was ever
poisoned to death by snlpbate of oop
per, and denies in toto the conclusions
reached by the chemist who made the
analysis in the case of Moreau. Is it
possible that we have to add this to the
already long list of judicial errors 3
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The Apgiuta. Circuit in the Sipreni Court.
The fqjllowing casps from this Circuit
stand for triql at ffie present term of the
Supreme Court;
1. White & Cos. vs. Montgomery, from
Richmond.
2. Port Royal Railroad vs. Hammond,
from Richmond.
3. Hayes vs. The State, from Rich
mond.
4. Smith vs. Wilson, from McDuffie.
5. Jackson & Cos. vs. Green' & Cos.,
from Richmond.
6. Echols & Cos. ys. Fleming, from
Richmond.
7. National flank of Augusta ys.
Southern porcelain Company, from 1
Richmond.
8- Rurr 4 00. re, Howard 4 Sons,
from Riohmond.
9. Mississippi Central Railroad vs.
Plant, from Richmond.
10. Harris vs. The State, from Rioh
mond.
This morning, sixty cases are on the
docket before this Circuit, which will be
reached about the beginning of 4pril.
Beaa.ldeal. of a Hatch Caw.
“A ‘beste hoe’ mqst show a finely
molded head; large nostrils; thin, trans
parent horn?; a clear, bright eye; thin,
large and not excessively wrinkled eye
lids; rose colored inner membranes of
the eye; pnrely red lachrymal glands: a
kind, mild countenance; blue nose, thin
neck; free rpepiratfonj fin? hones; well-
body, with rather broad hind
parts: straight back ; long, thin tail;
roqnq but moderately bent ribs; devel
oped belly; stout, yet not heavy legs;
smooth joints; thin, mellow, movable
skin; soft hair; delicately haired, broad
and drooping odder) four well-formed,
dai* colored teats; well deifcteped milk
and blood vessels; vessel? on the belly
and about tbe udder proportionately
broad and vigorous, and of a wen-like,
swell, and the vessels of the odder and
inner hams to spread net-like, open
ing through which, thp end blood
vessels enter the body to be large and
roomy. A cow thus lormed is also apt
to show a perfect escutcheon.” — Chat.
Muetter, United States ConeyJ, Am
sterdam.
There are two reasons why some peo
ple don’t mind their own business; one
is that they haven’t any business, and
the other is that they haven’t apy mind.
yfhen a man and women are made one
by a clergyman, the question is, which
is the one 9 Sometimes there is a long
straggle between them before this mat
ter is finally settled.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA CASE.
SOME FEATURES OF THE REPORT
OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE.
The Fallore to Provide for Registration—
How the Troops Were Used—The Intimi
dation hr Negroes, Are.
The Congressional Jtecord brings ns
the full text of the report of the investi
gating committee sent to South Caro
lina by the House of Representatives.
The following extracts from the report
are fall of interest at this jnnotnre:
Registration.
The Constitution of South Carolina,
adopted in 1868, provides in artiole 8,
section 3, “that it shall be the duty of
the General Assembly to provide, from
time to time, for the registration of all
eleotors.” The General Assembly and
the entire State government, from the
time of the adoption of the Constitution
down to the present day, has been whol
ly under the oontrol and in possession
of the Republican party. Notwithstand
ing the mandate of the Constitntion, tbe
General Assembly has persistently re
fused to “provide for any registration
of voters.” It has made many laws re
gulating elections, and the manner of
conducting them—indeed, the whole ma
chinery of elections has been oarefully
provided for, exoept the single meas
ure most important to protect tbe pu
rity of the ballot box, and the only
one specially named in the Consti
tution. Not ODly has registration been
omitted, but other provisions have been
made which, taken in connection with
this omission, can only be accounted for
upon the supposition that the party in
power has designedly refused to per
form a constitutional duty, for fraudu
lent and corrupt purposes—indeed, to
enable it to keep possession of the gov
ernment. Tbe different counties, as has
been stated, are divided into precinots,
one into as many as fifty or more, many
into from fifteen to thirty, anfi pone into
less than seyep. Ry the law enacted by
tbe General Assembly, instead of regis
tering, any voter can vote at any pre
oinot in the oounty of which he is a
resident. If any better method could
be devised to render easy the perpetra
tion of frauds qn the haUqt bo* by re
peating, ip fapt, to encourage them,
your oommittee has failed to discover it,
There is no doabt that where there are
large numbers of oolored voters there is
muoh repeating, it being almost impos
sible to identify snoh voters. Under
such circumstances, it is worthy of your
consideration whether any officials who
are to participate in the election of a
Chief Magistrate, or in making laws for
a whole popntry, should "be recegnized
when they only claim an election when
tbe constitutional mandate to provide
for a registration of voters has been
ptterly disregarded. Fake the case
of the Presidential electors claiming to
have been eleoted in November last. Their
vote may decide who shall be Chief
Magistrate of flve-and-forty millions of
people, most of them not oitizens of
South Carolina. Before they can exer
cise suoh a right ought it not to be de
termined whether they have been ap
pointed in compliance with, qr in de
fiance of, jaw 3 They are to be appoint
ed by the State, in siioh manner as the
Legislature may direot. No doubt the
Legislature may ohoose them, beoause
tbe Legislature represents the State—
and is tbe State for such a purpose—
but if the Legislature does not appoint
them, then the only other manner in
which the fftatq can appoint them, un
der p republican form of government,
ia by tfie votes of
under the provisions of law. The ap
pointment must be by the State; the
Legislature can only direet the manner
of appointment; bat the appointment
must still be by the State. There are
but two ways in which the State can ap
point: one is by the Legislature, and
one by tbe choice of its oitiigepg
to yqte puffey the Constitution. In this
case the appointment by the State is by
the eleotion of the voters. In order
that such appointment should be legal,
it must be in compliance with the Con
stitution and not in conflict with it.
But iu this case the Constitution re
quires that the Legislature pjoyide
fof a regiatratiqp q| voters', to prevent
fraud at (electrons, pnd the Legislature
undertake? tq provide for the appoint
ment of electors by vote of the people
without registration. It would seem
clear that this was not an appointment
by the State when it was in conflict with
the Constitution. It may wqfj ’qq tftat
so far as the Sf|fp jtaeff fg eofloerned
anfl its Wit oncers, a failure to estab
lish registration woulq not yitiatf the
election. It ru*y Lft Wft that the
Legislature represents and in part is the
State, and il they refuse to perform
their duty it is the refusal of the people,
and so the eleotiou should not fail. But
different considerations UPEiS tfi mem
bers of Cougrwss presidential eieot
°W- officers are to take part in
making laws for tbe whole country, or
electing its Chief Magistrate. The Con
stitution of the State, the organic
law, provides and requires a regis
tration of voters in order to preserve
the purity of elections. Cap of
ficers eleoted without compliance
with thg requirements" of the organic
law be permitted to affeot the rights of
others outside the State ? Why not re
quire a oomplianoe with the State’s own
organic law before permitting them to
control in part the rights of the of
the oountry by their aotion ? They have
been elected in violation of the highest
law; ean they, on such an eleotion,
claim to exercise the powers of the
office ? If a statute had provided for a
registration, and they had been eleoted
without any, it is clear that suoh an
eleotion would have been invalid. Why
is a statute to be held more sacred than
the Constitution itself under which the
statute is made ? It has beeu repeatedly
held by this Hoqoe iu Cases of contested
elections, aud the same has been held
in almost every State, that if the laws
require a registration and none is made
in any particular voting precinct, the
votes of snoh preoinot must be thrown
out. In one case, where the registra
tion was trade, though not used at the
election, it was deolared void ; although
it was proven that no person voted
whose name was not on the registration.
Strict justice and any rifle of fairness, a
proper regard for the purity of elections
wonld seem to demand that if q State,
by its Constitution, from pnffiic policy,
and to protect the’purity of elections,
required registration of voters, and
noue was had, that bo person eleeted
in violation of such mandate of tbe
Constitution to participate iu making
laws or electing a Chief Magistrate for
the whole country should be recognized
as legally chosen. Before Spatit Caro
lina claims, through her representatives,
to help to make laws tor the people of
her sisfer Estates, or ihrough her elec
tors to participate in the election of a f
President of the RepoVilic, she ought in
justice to bg hqld to comply with the
provisions of her own Constitution fo I
secure a just and honest election.—
Every consideration public poliey,
Where the very existence of a govern
ment like ours must depend on pre
serving the purity of the ballot, woo'd
require that any election held in the wil
fnl. violation of a Constitutional pro
vision, made only to tenure honest
voting, should h? treated as void and of
no effeot. That the resent election in
South Carolina was held ip violation of
the mandate of the Constitution is clear.
That it was so held that the party in
power might better retain its hold on
the government your oommittee have no
doubt. Thai great frauds were com
mitted there by reason of each refusal
to set up tbe great safeguard of registra
tion, your oommittee think is equally
olear. Under these ouemmstanoes it is
for the House of Representatives to con
sider what effect ia to be given to an
election so held.
Military Interference.
It was proven that a large number of
United States soldiers were stationed in
many different plaoes in South Carolina
for many weeks previous to the eleo
tion, and remained Iflftjl' after ft. The
for thus stationing troops in
the Sttt® *nd keeping them there until
after tbe eleotion was to preserve tbe i
peace end prevent viojenqe growing out
of the political isaofs tp be | assed upon
by the the. oleption. The fact
of troops being sent to the State was
nsed to overawe the colored people and,
prevent them from voting the Demo
cratic tieget. They were tpldtbat the 1
troops had beep sept there to compel
the blacks to vote the Republican ticket
and to shoot all those who voted for the
Democrats. Their presence undoubted
ly had its influence and effect OP. the
eleption. Ope of tlfce. propositions is
true beyond question, ptber tbe troops
were sent to South Carolina without any
legal and justifiable oause, for polifityft
purposes and to overawe a portion of
the voters, or there was a state qf vio
lence end turbulence amounting to in
surrection against the State, and which
the Bute authorities could not deal with
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
and restrain. If either proposition
is taken as the true one, no elec
tion held in that State, certainly
for members of Congress and Presiden
tial electors, who are to participate in
making laws for or choosing a Chief
Magistrate for the rest of the country,
should be reoognized as valid. If the
troops were sent there without legal
cause for political purposes, to contiol
the election, to overawe the voters,
clearly an election held under such cir
cumstances should not stand for a mo
ment. To uphold it would be at war
with all sense of right and would shock
every fair mind. An election to be
valid must be free. No awe of military
power at an election to interfere with or
in any way to control or influence it
should be tolerated for a moment. On
the contrary, if there was such a Btate of
turbulence and violence, amounting to
insurrection against the Btate government
which the authorities oould not put
down and restrain except by calling in
the aid of United States troops, your
committee think it clear that an election
held under such circumstances oannot
be taken to be valid. In no sense is it
a free eleotion where au insurrection ex
ists against the State government that
can only be kept down by National
troops. The people are not in a condi
tion to take part in legislating for the
whole oountry or in electing its Chief
Magistrate. An eleotion under such
circumstances would be worse than a
fraud; it would bring our institutions
into disgrace and contempt.
Oa(h-Bmul Rouleiles.
To prevent the colored people from
voting the Demooratio tioket, they were
enrolled in seoret sooieties called the
Laborers’ League, formerly the Union
League. All the members of these so
cieties are compelled to take an oath to
support the Republican party und vote
the Republican ticket, These sooieties
are numerous. Jt was not ascertained
what were the other objects of these or
ganizations nor what penalties were in
curred by a violation of the oath. Ihe
State, too, was crowded, in addition to
the army, with United States Deputy
Marshals and Supervisors 0 f Eleotion.
Fully fffteen hundred of these officials
were stationed on election day at the
various preoineta in the State. Many of
these men certainly acted as electioneer
ing agents for the party in power. Many,
if not most, of them were so ignorant
that they oould not read their own Qoul
missions and the printed intimations
issued by the Attorney-General. They
were unfitted way to be oharged
with preserving the peaoe of the com
munity at a time of so muoh excitement.
Indeed, the whole influence of the State
government and its officials, and <4 all
the United States office holders, was
brought tq hear on the people to carry
the election for the Republican party.
In addition a considerable portion of
the army of the United States was freely
used for some weeks before the eleotion,
together with the cloud of Deputy Mar
shals, to accomplish the same purpose.
In this connection your committee feel
bound to say that the conduct and bear
ing at the' officers and soldiers of
the United States was both prudent
and wise. Although their presence was
made available to overawe the colored
voters and prevent them from voting
against the Republicans, xq a gener
al thing, so far as yq-qr committee could
nmthm the officers not men
ffiff anything to give enoourggement to
such a helief. That, a people, impover
ished by ten years of bad government,
were enabled to throw a clear majority
against their oppressors, in the largest
vote ever oast, and under such circum
stances is the best evidence of the abso
lute necessity felt for a change. Yonr
committee believe that in no othor way
can peaoe, prosperity apff protection to
all, particularly to the colored race, be
Bp. surely restored and securely estab
lished in South Carolina as by recogniz
ing the government legally elected by
the people, of which General Hampton
is the head, as the de facto, as well as :
the de jure. State government, ft is
pledged before the wh°fc country to
mete out exact justice and protection
ecuaqy to blanks and whites, and it will
hifye the power and strength to do so,
while the present government, like its
predecessors, has no power to protect
the people, and is so utterly weak that
nothing but the moral power Or the sup
port of the General Qoiforument keeps
it in existence a day. Take this
wrongful support from Qhambcriain’s
unlawful government and it Will quickly
vanish, like de* hefoif® the suu, and no
longer qisjturh the peaoe of an oppressed
and long suffering people.
Rents Htill Tumbling In New York,
[New York GorrerpaniUnce Philadelphia Led
ger.)
The As tors have given their nnmer
ons tenants notice that they have con
cluded to reduce their reDts for the en
suing year—that is, after the first of
May next—ten per cent. Thia will
make a total reduction since the panic
of thirty per cent, s ten per cent, was
taken off last year, and ten per cent, the
year before. The Astors never wait to
be obliged to come down, but invariable
come to it voluntarily. They are usu
ally the first to lead off in a reduction.
Tbe Lorillards, the Beckmans, the Gil
seys, and other large real estate owners
will probably follow their example, for
the Astors stand pretty muoh in the
same relation to other landlords as A.
T. Stewart did in relation to the general
dry goods trade. Stewart used to “fix
prices” with the smaller merchants, so
do the Astors with the seoond and third
class landlords. Their action, there
fore, is one of great importance, and
cannot but have a very decided bearing
upon the relations of landlord and ten
ant, as May day approaches,
Raw la Hum Coal.
Avery common mistake is made and
much fuel wasted in the manner of re
plenishing coal fires, both in furnace
and grates. They should be fed with a
little coal at a time, smd often; but ser
vants, to save time and trouble, put on a
great d?®l once, tho first result being
that almost all the heat is absorbed by
! th® newly put on eosl, which does not
give out best until ft has become red
hot. Renee, for a while the room is cold,
btft when it beoomes fairly aglow, the
heat is insufferable. The time to re
plenish a coal fire is as soon as the coals
begin to show eshes on their surface;
then pnt on merely enough to. show a
layer of black coal covering th: red.—
This will scion kindle, and, as there is
not tjwx of it, an excess of heat will
not be given out. Many, also, put out
the fire by stirring the grate so soon as
fresh coal is put oq, tfiua leaving all
heat in the a.abfiy when it should be
sent tq the new supply of coal. The
I time stir the fire is just when the
new coal laid oq is pretty well kindled,
t This method of managing a coal fire is
; troublesome, but it saves fuel, gives a
j more uniform heat, aud prevents the
discomfort of alternations of heat and
cold above referred to.
An Aussie Swirl die.
There seems to be no limit to the au
dacity of swindling. A few weeks since
a stranger went to Harrisburg, Pa,,
and pretended to have a patent for the
manufacture of a superior quality of
wool. He professed to have chemicals
by which he could convert cotton into
wool. Strange to s&y, he fonnd victims
who made arrangements to employ him
at a good salary to put his invention in
to suooessfal operation. Under his su
pervision the alleged necessary machine
ry was erected in one of the shops and
all was in readiness, when they found
that the “wool" had been pulled over
their eyes- for after gathering together,
under various pretenses, quite q sum
of money, the inventor wao suddenly
missing. Tbe parties waited for days
for his Wien a snspioion flashed
across their minds that they might have
been tke victims of an imposition, The
stranger having left behind several demi
johns which he had represented contain
ed the magiq chemicals, they opened
them to fffici them filled with water,
TRU UUMTRftCT,
Tw!r-Slx Rallot*-U*U Bat Cnrl
t®n’ Nomlnati/jo, AWakahle Lout Nlfct.
; [9p%iolDispatch to the Chronicle and Ser4mi\
Gainesville, February 18.—TheOon
vention adjourned a five, p. m., after
twenty-six ballots. On the twenty
sixth haUot the vote stood : Bell, of
Fossyth, 28; Carlton, of Clarke, fit;
Billups, of Morgan, Dorsey, of
Both delegations from Oiarke oounty
were admitted.
The Convention meets at 7:80 to
night, and Carlton will be nominated.
J- J- T.
It is not advisable to attempt to be
smart at the expense of good taste.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Albany is humping its back over a
wonderful spring.
Echols oounty is now in the Southern
Jud<oial Circuit.
There were 733 bills introduced in the
House, and iB4 in the Senate, making
917 m all. s
A meeting “to denounce the great
electoral fraud” was held in Brunswick
on Monday night.
Atlantio and Gulf Railroad|change bills
are now among things that were. The
authorities will not reoeive it for freight
or transportation.
The Atlanta public schools are in a
state of insurrection; they did not regard
Grant’s proclamation, but regarded
Washington’s birthday just as usual.
A oertain oolored individual here
abouts says times are so hard he has
been compelled to part with all his
olothes, except arm holes iu an old coat.
Married, on the 20th inst., at the resi
dence of the bride’s mother, by Rev. AS.
H. Sanders, Mr. B. R. Bray to Miss
Lizzie Brownlee, all of Gordon county.
A mania for marrying seems to prevail
amongthejonng people about Plains
ville. That is right. Get married; and
a bumper of happiness to you, every
one. J
The Rome Courier says a charter has
beeu obtaiued for the Oostanaula and
Coosawattee Steamboat Company, and
urges oitizens to subscribe to the capital
stock. r
The average Bainbridge “bulldose”
punch will “intimidate” at one hundred
and eighty-five yards, “fair count,” with
out “going behind the returns” in anv
wav whatsoever.
learn from a citizen of Dalton
that a Mr. Miller, of Whitfield county,
while returning to hi? home from Dat-
Depnty Marshals, appointed under the
provisions of sections 2021 and 2022 of
the United States revised statute, which
provisions were unconstitutional and
void. That said deputy marshals,
exceeding over one thousand in
number, by their unlawful aud arbi
trary action, iu obedieuoe to the impro
per and illegal instructions reoeived by
them from the Department of Justioe,
so interfered with the full and free exer
oise qf tbe right of suffrage by the duly
qualified voters of said State that a fair
election could not be and was not held
in said said State on November 7th, 1876.
6th, that there was not from the Ist
of January, 1876, up to and including
the 10th of Deoember, 1876, at any time
a State government in the State of
South Carolina, except a pretended
government, set up in violation of law
and of the Constitution of the United
States by Federal authority and sus
tained by Federal troops.
Senator Reman is elected to succeed
Senator Thurman, who retired from the,
Commission on account of sickness.
The Senate entered at 3 o’olock, when
Pennsylvania was counted, and retired
on objection to Rhode Island. A mo
tion for a recess was defeated—B3 to
178—70 Democrats voting with the Re
publicans.
The House voted not to count Rhode
t Island. After two hours discussion the
Senate again entered and the State was
counted for Hayes.
South Carolina was then readied,
; when, on objeotion, the two Houses
separated, aud the certificates referred
to the Commission, and tbe House took
a recess to 10 o’clock to-morrow.
The Commission assembled and re
oeived papers in the South Carolina
case, and adjourned to 10 o’olock to
morrow.
Game is plentiful in Wilkes.
Greenville has a string bamd.
Albany has anew newspaper.
Petty thieves are ravaging Sparta.
Chattahoochee IS to have a lunatic asy
lum.
Gulqmbns* new cotton factory is being
built.
Four occupants in the Franklin oouu
ty jail.
Judge M. C. Ferley, of Harris oounty,
is dead.
A white robin has been killed in Co
lumbus.
Mrs. Wm.S. Lane, of Wilkes county,
is bo more.
The Franklin Oounty Academy ia
prospering.
Griffin is cultivating a mammoth
species of rat.
English Bparrows are finely flourish
ing in Maoon.
Farming prospeots in Emanuel county
are flourishing.
Jaokson oounty is “making hay while
the son shines.”
Peach trees are in bloom iu many
parts of the State.
Mrs. H. J. Harwell, of Mt. Zion, Han
oock county, is dead.
They had better move that Atlanta
cotton factory to Augusta.
Thos. P. Wofford, Esq,, of Bartow
county, has gone to Texas.
Another little child was fatally burn
ed in Marietta last Thursday.
Mr. Ed. T. Wynn died in'.Eatouton
last week of typhoid pneumonia.
The caterpillar will oome this year in
ravaging avalanches, it is feared.
Bartow oounty farmers are buying
more guano this year than usual.
Mr. Wm. P. Talmadge, an old and
well known citizen of Athens, is dead.
Commodore Ed. Purcell will probably
not accept any position in Hayes’ Cabi
net.
There are some sixteen preaehers in
Georgia connected with the country
press.
Grasshoppers, oaterpillars and reforms
threaten the State with destruction this
year.
Oartersville is chuck-a-ludkibg. There
are no “reformers” in the Seventh Dis
trict.
Sparta is determined to ferret out the
the origin of the atrocious Rozier
murder.
The Nominating Convention of the
Ninth District to-day assembles at
Gainesville.
Three buildings at Midville, Emanuel
county, were burned on Wednesday
night of last night.
Last week someone poisoned a horse
and mule belonging to Mr. John U.
Moore, of Brunswick.
Young ladies are now admitted as
members of theOaroesville Young Men’s
Christian Association.
The Forest News does not consider
this a proper time for Mr. Speer’s inno
vations and reforms.
The residence of Judge Robert Row
land, of Waynesboro, was burned last
Thursday, insured for $2,600.
Colonel Emory Speer, among his re
forms in the Ninth, should make the
Convention meet under a bine glass cu
pola.
After all the average member of the
Legislature could have told Emory
Speer that this is au “off year” for
reform.
A party of gentlemen from Upson and
Pike counties are making prrparations
tq take a trip to Texas by private con
i' veyance.
The Forest News thinks that the re
cent snicidal death of Dr. Cox, at Ho
mer, ia a commentary upon in
toxication.
On Monday last the little son of Mr.
Robert Wood, of Bulloch county, aged
about thirteen years, was killed by a
falling tree.
Capt. Coke Talmadge, of Athens,
flies the national bunting from his
grooery emporium. This is in honor
of Ferro-lithio and reform.
Fred Pope acknowledges Vnat some of
the Wilkes county boys, wear corsets.
We are glad to see that *Dol. Fred is de
termined to bring the facts to light.
And now Mueon -a trying to get np a
menagerie. We hear that Colonel Jones
is diligently inquiring as to the proba
ble whereabouts of that belled buzzard.
Tbe Toccoa Herald favors a “scrub
race” for Congressman in place of Hon.
B. H. Hill. The Herald should be
scrubbed down with a Democratic corn
cob.
Capt. Horatius Leonidas Cranford,
of the Athens Georgian, thinks that the
Fectolithic waters will be so strong this
year as to coat the tongue with iron
filings.
The Macon Telegraph propagates the
rumor that Judge Loohrane and other
speakers from Atlanta and North Geor
gia will take the stump against a Con
vention.
Mr, Eugene Speer has received a
gold watch and chain from the elerks
of the Legislative Department, and the
members of the Legislature have pre
sented Ham with a gold headed cane.
Wm. Holt, aged sixty years, and his
three sons, arrested in Nashville as the
murderers of Lieutenant Mclntyre, have
arrived in Atlanta. They had been pre
paring to go to Texas and did not run
away.
On the 10th instant three difficulties
oeonrred in Jasper county, in one of
which Mr. Jack Poddy was killed, and
in the other Otis Pope was severely out,
and Mr. Bob Price received a severe
wound on the head from a hand stick.