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FAREWELL TO GRANT.
To-day General Grant ceases to be
President of the Uuited States. For
eight years he has held the highest offico
within the gift of forty-five millions of
people. The eight years of bis Presi
dency constituted perhaps the most
critical period of the natiou's history.
His capacity for good or for evil was al
most unlimited. Wliatevertheie was of
wisdom and of patriotism, whatever of
folly and of partisanship, in his course,
the record of his administration will
show. That record is known of all men;
by it he must be judged, and by it he
must stand or fall. No man ever had
greater opportunities; no man ever
threw such opportunities so recklessly
away. The cruel wounds of civil war
had begun to heal. The country needed
above all things peace and a restoration
of fraternal feeling. General Grant was
one of the few men, perhaps the only
wan, wno could biiDg about results so
earnestly desired. He was in command
of the Union armies during the last
months of tho war, and he had the honor
of crushing the last armed forces of the
Confederacy. He stood high in es
timation of the people of the North and
of the Month. He was in a p sition to
do that which a mere politician might
have been afraid to attempt. No sooner,
however, was he inaugurated than he
abowed how incapable he w.s of
.seizing the opportunity which Pro
vidence had placed within his
grasp. He at nnco gave the lie to the
fair promise of his past. With the hol
low cry of ‘‘peace” upon his lips ho be
gau to make war, cruel and unrelenting
war, upon his countrymen of odc sec
tion of (he Union. The half cicatrized
wounds of civil conflict were toru
open auil wade to bleed afresh. Every
Southern State was bound hand and
foot and delivered up as the spoil of the
ignorant negro and the corrupt scalawag
and carpet-bagger. Rotten governments
pinned together by bayonets were allow
ed to plunder aud oppress at will, while
harsh *nd ungenerous legislation pro
scribed the intelligence, the virtue and
the mauhond of tho South. Acting di
rectly contrary to opiuions expressed by
him previous to his election, be was
swift to suggest or to approve every
measure calculated to produce disorder
or oppression that could be framed by
t.’ie ingenuity of partisan malice. In-
R te.id of peace he gave us eight years of
war, sud at the end of his term of office
leaves the task of pacification to Ins suc
cessor.
Ho came' into offioe without any of the ,
training of a statesman, and he refused
to learu from those who were competent j
to teach. He regarded the Prosidenoy
as a perquisite instead o,* a trust and used 1
it not to promote the interests of a great j
people but to advance his own selfish i
and little schemes. He broke, one by one,
with the great men and the pure men of ,
his party, and allied himself with its
baser elements. He filled his Cabinet
with men of medium ability, whose only
recommendation was that they pandered
to his tastes and were subservient to bis
will. If by any ehanoo public opinion !
forced npon him such a man as Bristow
| 4 b assisted intrigues to force him to re-
He eonld not brook opposit on,
•aud yet did not know how to overcome
it. He was fond of money, and to obtiin
it he Leeuiircbed himself and his fami
ly with the Biack Friday conspiracy, the
Real Estate Pool, the St. Domingo job,
rfn d the Sencoa Sandstone swindle. He
ue.Tepted costly presents without hesita
tion, aud was ever ready to barter offiee
for gii’ta. He filled the diplomatic ser
vice, the Cabinet and the civil service
with relatives, or with those who had !
given him something. His confidential
friend and Secretary wa9 the accomplice 1
of the whisky ring, and ho himself did
not escape without the smell of burning ,
•or ilia garments. His friend and Attor
ney-General was forced to leave the Cab
inet because of unauthorized nse of the
•public money. His fiiend and Secretary
rf the Interior was obliged to do the
■awe thing because of corrupt practices
•a the Indian Department. His friend
an <i Secretary of War confessed that his
w jfe bribed to influence his appo*i
meuts B< * indneed the President
to shield k‘°* * ro,a Hupwhment by
accepting. With indecent haste, Jjjs re
signation. and Secretary of
the Navy is now uttdergoiug Congress- :
ional iuvestigatioi? I'* corruption in ■
office. All these w* wen without
ability or reputation, w'hom ho had call
ed to his Cabinet becauO ob
tained his favor by sycophancy or by;
presents. He cared nothing for Courts
or juries, and always placed the soldier ,
above the Judge. He knew nothing ot i
law and cared nothing for law, except -
where the law jumped with his interest
or inclination. He was sluggish, stolid
and indifferent, and harried a State or
8 j t med a bill to raise his own salary with '
equ.'l equanimity. He was coarse in ,
liia tastes, vulgar in his habits, sordid,
tneau an i unscrupulous. He punished
Southern patriots and pardoaed whisky
thieves. W hatever may be in store for 1
us in the future, we have the consola
tion of knowing that we cannot be'
worsted. It is lm/josaible for any other
President to do as much mischief as
(Ibivt has done, to be a worse President
than Grant has been.
As we said once before, all the fighting
was not at the Gainesville Convention.
•On Saturday evening after the adjourn
:ment of the Democratic caucus Mr.
IDocglass, of Virginia, who was drunk
land angry with Mr. Lamab for rnliDg
thim out of order, assailed the latter
■•‘with such dei>eration” that Mr. Lamas
would have shot him bnt for the inter
vention of friends. Mr. Douglass’ con
stituents should invite him to resign.
THE INAUGURAL.
President Hayes was sworn in Sunday
and yesterday delivered his inangural
a hires.*. It is published in fall in the
Chronicle and Sentinel this morning,
i As the first official utterance of the new
President, it will be read with unnsnal
attention. The prominent feature of
the address is the mauner in which the
Southern question is handled. The
President, recognizing the fact that this
is the great issue before the country,
: discusses it at length. He alludes to
the changes wrought in the political,
social and material condition of the
Month by the results of the war, and ad
mits that twelve years of peace have not
beeD sufficient to resto.e quiet aud pros
parity. He admits, a'so, by implication,
I that “reconstruction,” as the process by
which government was organized on a
basis of white proscription and negro
supremacy is technically termed, has
been a failure; and that those Southern
States which still remain under the con
trol of the Republican party have not
honestand capable local self government.
He declares his desire to bring abont
the complete pacification of the South,
without which the whole country must
sutler, and with which the whole coun
try must ptosper. He thinks that in a
matter so important as this the question
of party should be forgotten, that it
should uot be regarded from a Republi
can or a Democratic but from aNational
stand-point. He is anxious that the
two races shall live together without
strife or bitterness, and that the “color
line” shall be forever obliterated. He
is willing to treat the Southern whites
justly and generously, and to secure to
them, as far as in his power lies, the
blessing of local self-government, and
the advantages to be derived from the
development of the material resources of
their section. He intimates, though he
does not exprescly say, that the patron
age of the Federal Government shall be
distributed in the South iu such a
manner as to give satisfaction to the
people most interested. In return he
asks that the Sonth accept in good faith
tho constitutional amendments embody
ing the results of the late war; that the
colored man shall be educated and pro
tected in all his personal, property and
political rights. Tho terms are not hard,
and if President Hayes sticks to the
spirit of his speech he will do much to
wards lessening tho disappointment
which the South felt when the judgment
of tho Electoral Commission was pro
nouuced. But words are not sufficient ;
deeds must follow, and by deeds alone
can we estimate the sincerity of his pro
testations. We admit that he speaks
fairly, honorably aud wisely, but speech
must be supplemented by action. He
should expect the South to wait a little
befoio putting implicit faith in these
declarations of a Republican President.
When he proves his sincerity he will
find that tho South is neither im
practicable nor ungrateful.
Civil service reform and financial mat
tors aro briefly alluded to, but tho new
President is emphatic iutlie declaration
that the views expressed by him upon
these subjects in bis letter accepting the
Republican nomination have undergone
no modification. He is stilt anxious that
the abuses practiced in tho appointment
and removal of public officers shall
he corrected; he is still desir
ous of an early return to
specie payments ; aud he expresses the
determination to do everything in his
power to bring about these results. He
speaks temperately of the Presidential
contest jnst closed and of the extraordi
nary mode of settling the question
which the necessities of tho case com
pelled both parties to adopt. Whether
the decision of the Electoral Commis
sion,was right or wrong, he thinks one
thing has been settled which is of vital
importance to the nation, viz : that a
disputed Presidential election will never
lead to bloodshed and to battle. Ho com
mends the course of General Grant in
leaving questions arising between this
and foreign countries to arbitration, and
intimates that he shall follow his ex
ample if the necessity arises during his
term of office.
Altogether it is a manly, moderate
aud statesmanlike address.
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
The dispatches state that the Senate
and House failed to agree on the Army
Appropriation Bill aud that this failure
renders an extra session of Congress
necessary. The Bill as it passed the
House provided that no portion of the
army should be used by the President
iu support of either of the dual govern
ments of South Carolina or Louisiana
nntil such governments had been re
cognized by Congress. The Senate re
fused to accede to this proviso and re
ported anew bill, to which the House
would not agree. Three conferences
were held but failed to accomplish any
thing. The House conferees insisted
upon the spirit of the section objection
able to the Senate, viz ; that such re
striction ahonl 1 be placed upon the
President as would prevent him from in
stalling and maintaining the Packard
government. The Senate failed to con
cur and adjourned. In the House
ponding a call of the roll upon tho mo
tion of Mr. Mpbrison to adhere to its
action the hour of adjournment arrived.
The bill did cot pass and there will have
to be an extra session of Congress, or
else the Army must be disbanded for
twelve months. In the present ooudi
; lion of the Western froutior, with hos
tile operations against the Indians now
beiug conducted, disbandment cannot
be thought of and an extra session is a
I eertainty.
The House was right to insist npon
the spirit of the section which was so j
obnoxious to the Republican majority
in Uls .Senate. Upon that majority
must rest the of an extra
session. They are wholly to blame for
the expense of such session, tor the
arywhieh may result from the*
failure ot tarn bill. The House simply
asked that the army, supported by the
whole people, should not be gjpnloyed |
to ttie injury of a portion of tli6 people.:
The Senate insisted that it should. The'
House said the army, supported by both
parties, sfeculd not be made a political
machine to pnopvdh the interests of one
party at the expense of the other. The j
Senate maintained that it ako#t4 be em
ployed in such service. The House
was not guarding against imaginary
dangers. For six months the President
of Mae United States employed the army
of the United States in two States of the
Union, first, to pserent the members of
one political party from expressing
their wishes at the bailed box,
and, afterwards, to keep ia putier
rw candidates of the other polities!'
party wfco had not been elected and who .
had not a aba&w of right to the offices
i they assumed to bald. These things are
well known to Congress aud the coun
try, and the country will suatw* fye
I House in ite determination that they
shall not oeoor again. It ia idle to
i say that the President will not dis
grace himself by prostitnting the army
to political purposes. We hare seen
that one President did so disgrace him
self ; why may not another? It may be
thought that when Congress meets in
extra session the Democrats, still hav
ing a majority in the House, will insist
npon the passage of bill similar to the
one that has jnst failed ; that ihe Sen
ate, the Republicans still having a ma
jority in that body, will adhere to its
position ; and that the only result will
be another dead lock. This is possible,
but uot probable, for President Hayes
Las it in his power to remove all obsta
cles to au agreement by the two Houses.
Let him supplement General Grant’s
action by removing the Federal forces
from Sonth Carolina and Louisiana.
Lot the rotten governments of Cham
berlain and Packard, which cannot be
upheld save by the aid of bayon
ets, fall to the ground, and let the law
ful governments of those States be free
to execute the trusts which the people
have committed to their keeping. When
this has been done the House will not
insist upon fettering the President, be
cause by this action he will have fetter
ed himself.
Assuming that this extra session will
be called, it is important to know what
the Dem cratic majority will be iu the
new House. If the Government can
get along until that tim?, mangre the
failure of the Army bill, the President
will not probably convene the lower
House until April, after the New Hamp
shire election—hoping that the Repub
licans will gain one, if not two, Gon
gressmen in that contest. We do not
know exactly the complexion of the new
House, but it is stated that certificates
from Governors and de facto Govern ora
have been given to one hundred and
fifty-two Democrats and one hundred
and forty-one Republicans. It seems
probable that tho Supremo Courts of
Missouri and California will give the
Republicans a Congressman from each
of those States. The Democrats would
then have 150 and the Republicans 143
members. If we should lose two
Districts iu New Hampshire the
Republicans would have 145 and
the Democrats 148. These figures
would leave us a majority of
three at the organization of the House.
But the first act of tho House should be
to investigate the contested election
cases from Louisiana, South Carolina
and Florida. This investigation promp
tly ordered, and speedily conducted, will
certainly result in unseating Pukman,
of Florida, Smalls, of South Carolina,
anil at least two of the bogus members
from Louisiana. The Republicans
would then have 141’and the Democrats
152 members—-a majority of eleven
votes. With Mr. Stephens absatt on
account of sickness we will have a re
liable working majority of ten. Such a
majority, well organized and working
harmoniously together, cau accomplish
more than a larger majority divided by
contending factions. The Democracy,
taking even the most discouraging
figures, have no reason to fear that the
Republicans can obtain control of the
popular branch of the Forty-fifth Con
gress.
TIIE NINTH DISTRICT.
In another article this morning is
shown how small will be tho Democratic
majority in tho new House of Represen
tatives. Small as that majority is there
is a prospect that it may be made small
er by the election of a Republican from
the Ninth Georgia District. It is well
known that Mr. H. P. Bell is the fairly
nominated candidate of the Democracy
of that District. It is equally as well
known that Mr. Emoly Itpeer is run
ning against him as an Independent Dem
ocrat, the ground of his opposition being
the failure of the Gainesville Convention
to adopt what he considered an equit
able basis of representation. Dr. A.
T. W. Lyttle, of Gainesville, is also
running as an Independent Democrat—
his platform being opposition to the
law imposing a tax on spirits and to
bacco. In the mountains, where so
much trouble has been caused by the
enforcement of the revenue laws, this
platform will find favor, and Dr. Lyptle
may draw off a good many Democratic
voters by his demagogical clap trap.
There aro now three Democratic candi
dates in the field, with a prospect of more.
The Republicans will hold a Convention
atGainesville on the tenth instant and put
a Republican candidate in the field. It
is thought H. P. Farrow will be the
nominee. Unless the Democrats of the
District resolutely repudiate Independ
ents and stand staunchly by the nomi
nee of their party this bitter and un
scrupulous Radical may represent them
in Congress.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DEMO
CRATS.
The New York World, a journal
proud to be known as the “organ” of
the National Democracy, was naturally
indignant with General Grant becanse
of his order preventing the volunteer
companies of South Carolina from pa
rading on Washington’s birthday. Such
indignation is both natural and com
mendable. But the World is lavish of
the article, and expends a little upon
General Hampton and the people of
South Carolina for obeying the Presi
dent’s order, and upon the Southern
peoplo generally for “ degrading the
American character” by submitting to
the oppression of the General Govern
ment since the war. Says the World :
Wo confess that we do not appreciate the
meekness with which WSJ?E Hampton submit
ted to it. The Southerners have become al
together too lowly in their misfortunes, and
through the indignities which they suffer with
patience they are degrading the character of
American citizens. They made causeless war
upon the Government fifteen years ago at the
instigation of tkej-r own pride ?nd ambition,
%ud they were beaten. ijim.a then they have
endured numberless lgni piiuies whicli would
have afforded just pretest for rebellion wore
it not that they hid reason to hope that by
long suffering they could win back their way
to the privileges of citizenship. But the Re
publicans seem to have gotten, in the con
tinual exercise of power, some of the old
Southern insolence, and the more men bow
before them the more they are inclined to
walk on their slaves. It is fall time for all
this sort of thing to stop, and no better occa
sion could have been chosen to check it than
Washington’s birthday. Governor Hampton
should have ordered oat his militia to day and
given them forty renuds of ball cartridge— !
then if Lieutenant Colonel and the -
Eighteenth Infantry wanted to prevent the]
! celebration, they wonld have had to fight for !
their way.
So tar a* the remarks about Hampton
aud the Carolinians Me concerned, we
have nothing to say. Ibe Charleston j
Ariel cs and Courier has spoken for them
; ably and truthfully. The insolence of
i the World's allusions to the South is
■ something amazing. For years, ever
siacie the beginning of reconstruction,
that paper a o<l nearly every other Demo
: oratic paper at the Soma ha fp preached
nothing to the Sontb but submission.
“ Bear all things," they cried. For
I what? “For the good of the party."
Aud “ the party” with them meant the
i 3*ortbein Democracy. When there oc
' curried ag outbreak in any portion of the
S South—wbeg ftp popple maddened by
oppression rose up aguinat they oppres
sors to defend their lives aud everything
1 dear to freemen—the World was fore
most in denunciation of the deed, was
script pp stigmatize Southern men made
desperate iegpplisp as irresponsible
ruffians deserving the severest
naent. The Southern people were Jold
to wait, to patiently endure; the North
ern Democracy wonld, in time, ayenge
all their wrongs, restore all their rights.
When the most villainous bills tbat the
iugennity of Radical iniquity could de
vise became laws, the World was fore
most in advising submission—snbmis-
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1877.
sion to the reconstruction acts; the
fourteenth amendment, proscribing the
best and bravest of our people;
the fifteenth amendment; the
enforcement act; the amended en
forcement act; the Ku Klux act; the So
cial Equaliity act and to all the villainous
legislation begot by malic .> upon the
body of fraad. When Grant suspend
ed the writ of habeas corpus and had his
cavalry to harry whole counties of South
Carolina as Clayerhoc3e and his dra
goons harried the covenanting districts of
Scotlard, seeding hundreds to j ails and
penitentiaries; when Grant throttled
free government in Louisiana with the
iron hand of military power; when a
United States officer dispersed the legal
Legislature of a State at tho point
of the bayonet, and the Lieutenant-
General of the Armies and tbe President
and Cabinet joined in denonneing the
men who Jared assert their rights as
“banditti;” when all these things were
done the World counselled that submis
sion which it now so fiercely reprobates.
Why was the South advised to forbear
ance and meekness ? Not because such a
CQurse would help the Democratic party
at the Sonth; bat becanse it would aid
the Democratic p rty at the North in
their elections. What Northern Dem
ocratic candidates, since 1868, have been
put in the field in opposition to negro
suffrage and the infamies of reconstruc
tion ? Not one, On the contrary, ever since
the defeat of Horatio Seymour the New
York World and the party it represents
have been urging us to “accept the sit
u.atiou.” Convention after convention
held in the State of New York has pro
claimed the willingness of the Demo
cracy to accept the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments as a fiual settlement
of the questions growiug out of the war.
In the National Conventions held at Bal
timore and St. Louis they put this
plank in the party platform. Well, we
have “accepted the situation,” and they
must not complain. They advised sub
mission so strenonsly that we have sub
mitted. We have done more than this.
The Southern Democracy have submit
ted patiently for eight years to tho dic
tation of the Northern Democracy. The
latter have furnished tho platform and
the candidates; the former have fur
nished the votes. In the last campaign,
of the two hundred and three legal elec
toral votes that tbe Democratic candi
dates received only sixty-eight came
from the North; all the rest camo frim
the Sonth. The Southern people,
whose submission “degrades the Ame
rican character,” overcame formidable
majorities in nearly every State, while
the valiant Democracy of the North
were unable to overcome majorities
ranging from one to three thousand, and
in several instances lost States which
they already had in possession.
We do not allude to these things in
way of reproach, but for the purpose of
repelling a gratuitous slander. The
Southern Democracy have submitted so
quietly and so long to the control of
their brethren of the North that the
latter seem to take it for granted they
may use them as they will, They have
apparently forgotten that the war ended
twelve years ago, and that during that
time many changes have taken place at
the South as well as at the North. The
Southern people, alone and unaided,
through sore trial and travail, have
worked out their own salvation. They
have plucked the sting from negro suf
frage and now find themselves strength
ened by an:ensure which was devised to
crush them. They have virtual control of
every State from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande. They are a power in the land,
and they know it. They have men of
pluck aud brains and statesmanship for
leaders. They form a compact, well or
ganized aud enthusiastic political party.
They do not propose to remain longer in
a condition of political inferiority.
They will no longer be mere bowers of
wood aud drawers of water. They will
not again yield blind obedience to men
who have not capacity enough to gov
ern their own section ; whose leaders
often have neither skill nor courage, aud
sometimes mistake pettifogging for
statesmanship.
THE AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE RAIL
ROAD.
A few months ago we agitated the
question of anew and shorter route
from Augusta to the great West, and
direoted especial attention to the activi
ty which our citizens should discover in
the premises. The first objeot to which
the public meeting, called in pursuance
to our suggestions, addressed itself
was the construction of a road to Hart
well, Ga., deflecting, at a given point,
to Greenwood, S. C. The main trunk
looked westward by way of Rabun
Gap. Repeated meetings and a
careful study of this important project
eventuated in the preparation of a lib
eral charter, which appears among the
acts of tbe last General Assembly under
the title of “ an act to incorporate the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad."
State aid, but faintly Loped for, was
not secured. Whether or not it was ad
visable for the State to grant the aid
sought, is not now a debatable question.
The road is a necessity to the future—the
immediate future—prosperity of Augusta.
No one appreciates the force of that as
sertion more thoroughly than do our
merchants and capitalists. We may add
that no class of our people more jieenly
appreciate tho necessities which this
route completed will relieve, than that
whose members eat their bread in the
sweat of their faces. From Augusta to
the mountains tbe people, to whose at
tention this great enterprise was
bronght, nniformily expressed a desire
and a willingness to aid it to the extent
of their ability. What more is needed ?
Why wait for “something to turn np ? ”
The shares are fixed at 825 each, so that
capitalists, merchants, laborers, all can
lend a helping hand. Why not organ
ize, communicate with our friends in
the counties through which the propos
ed road is to run, open books of sub
scription, and commence work at the
earliest possible day ? We shall find
the people Joeyond Rabun Gap ready
and willing to do their share of tbe
work. We are poor, it is true ; but
who is it that will make ua rich?
Shall we wait and see ? Or shall we
not rather rely up op o-r oyn natjve ef
forts, and go to work with a will ? The
writer remembers but few men who have
won success in life outside of their own
plucky endeavors. We recall the bis
: tory of but few pnblic enterprises that
have had the all sufficient thrust npoc
them, as it were. Show us a man who
: constantly yeijpi jipcg the aid of friends,
' and we will show you a mag whose life
iis a miserable failure. What is true of
men is true of communities.
Augusta needs this road, or she does
not need it. The ten million dollars and
more of additional trade that wonld, in
I alj bijraan probability, come to our city
! annually—iaoeosin£ each year—upon
I the completion of the road, appears to
be worthy an effort. Shall we handle
the products of the counties in Georgia
and South Carolina which this road will
tap j 1 Those who raise them are exceed
ingly anxious that ye spopid. Shall we ’
yffe do not ipisappreiiend the mag
nitude of the undertaking. Great it
is and mb are the rewards it promises,
They are worthy of a herenlean effort.
We believe that the people of the counties
referred to need only to hare the matter
■ put before them in form, t# lend it a
j substantial endorsement. She road
cannot be completed ia a day, nor yet
! in a year; neither will it be hmessary to
have in hand all the that will
ultimately be required. Somemust take
a share, some two shares, som two hun
dred shares, and so on.
HOW lIE WAS ELECTIO.
Governor Hate3 carried the State of
California last November twenty
eight hundred majority, in a total vote
of one hundred and fifty-five thousand.
California was properly a democratic
State, and it was apparent thts its vote
had not been changed by legitimate
means but by fraud. The Ripublicans
carried San Francisco, a city heavily
Democratic, by nearly a thousand ma
jority, and it was here that the frand
was most transparent. An investigation
was set on foot by the Board af County
Supervisors, and, after several months
examination, a report was made last
Monday. The report shows that eight
thousand fraudulent votes were cast at
tiie Presidential election—orer five
thousand more than the Republican
majority iu tbe whole State. When the
canvass commenced California was con
ceded to Tilden, but Senator Morton
made no such concession and discovered
that his health would be benefitted by a
trip to the Golden Horn. While there,
with the aid of Effigy Sargent, he “got his
work in.” Fraudulent certificates of
registry were issued by wholesale and
on the day of the election the fruits of
their labor were shewn. Governor Hayes
received tbe fraudulent votes of Califor
nia along with the fraudulent votes of
Florida, Louisiana and South Oirolina,
but if his conscience does not trouble
him about the one it certainly vijl not
about the other.
THE INSPECTION OF FERTILIZERS.
Among the public laws passed by the
General Assembly at its last session is
one “to render more efficient aud
economical the inspection and tnaljsis
of fertilizers.” The statute prescribes
that all commercial fertilizers offered for
sale in this State shall have branded up
on or attached to them an analytis show
ing the “per centage of valuable ele
ments or ingredients such fertilizer or
chemical contains.” Abv detier who
fails to have such analysis attached is
punishable as for a misdemeanor, The
Commissioner of Agriculture is tuthcriz
ed to appoint a chemist at a salary of three
thousand dollars per annum to make
such analyses as may be required, and
six iuspeoters at a salary of fifteen hun
dred dollars per annum to inspect the
fertilizers offered for sale in tie State.
The fee for inspection is fifty cents per
ton, but. the fees are required t be paid
into the public treasury. The analysis
thus made is to be considered a guaran
ty by tbe manufacturer or dealer that
the fertilizer contains substantially the
precentage of ingredients indicated and
may be pleaded in any action to show
total or partial failure of consideration.
We presume that two reasons influenced
the Legislature in the passage of this
law. The first was that it would bring
a large amount of money into the State
Treasury. It is thought that the fee of
fifty cents per ton will yield a revenue to
tho State of thirty or forty thousand
dollars per annum. The second was
that it would more effeetnally protect
the planter from imposition by means
of spurious fertilizers. We doubt wheth
er the expectations of the friends of the
measure will be realized. In the first
place, an inspector who is paidjo salary
whether he does anything or not, will
not put himself to any groat pains to
find work. Secure of his fif;een hun
dred dollars per annum, he wil not feel
troubled if an importation of fertilizers
escapes bis vigilance. Of course the
law will create some revenue, kut by no
means as much as is antioipatel. What
the State gains in revenue the farmers
will lose in protection, Whm the in
spectors received the fees theii faculties
wero sharpened and very little, if any,
guano escaped their vigilance Again,
thero does not seem to be ny check
upon the inspectors, save theii honesty.
They are exposed to great temptation
and if they ohose to do so coull defraud
the State without detection In the
second place it may well be doubted
whether this inspection law does the
planters any good. The advocates of
free trade have often asked the question,
Does protection protect? It may well
be asked, Does an inspedion law
protect? Experience in other matters
has shown that it does not; that it only
increases the price of the artiefe inspect
ed. There are now upon tha statute
book laws providing for the inspection
of flour, meal, grain, tobacco ani liquors,
yet they are never enforced and are
practically dead letters. They are not
enforced becanse public opinion sus
tains the belief that they would enhance
tho cost of thp articles without afford
ing commensurate protection to the con
sumer, We believe that a few ytars ex
perience will denmnstrate tbat the same
things are true of ihe inspection of
fertilizers. The purchaser of every arti
cle has his remedy for any imposition
that may be practiced by the seller. If
a produce merchant sells a cask of bacon
which proves to be unsound and refuses
to make restitution tbe purchaser can
recover his money in an action at law or
eke ho may decline to deal with the dis
honest tradesman ant} let his neighbors
know the reason why. In either event
the dealer is greatly damaged by his
dishonesty. Tf a dealer in. fertilizers
impose upon planters a spurious or
worthless article jt is egsj enough for
the victims to reeover whit they have
paid, or, if they have boight upon a
credit, to refuse to pay him Iu either
event the dealer’s business ii rained and
he will not have any opjortnnity to
swindle any one else.
The telegraph intimates that Conk
ling is dissatisfied, Morton dissatisfied
and Brother Blaine dissatisfied. This
is indeed cheering news. And Don
Cameron thinks “we had better have
Tilden.” Better and bette-.
Tup increase ip tfje suppy of gold in
the past twenty-eight yeps is greater
than the increase of the previous one
hundred and forty years, vhich is en
couraging as a for t substantial
circulating medium in this is well as in
in other countries.
The tone of the Englisl press is ex
tremely complimentary to President
Hayes’ insngnral address. Oar English
cousins should moderate tteirtransports
a little. It is no new thin; to hear fine
speeches (foffi jppojaing fiasidents, nor
is it anew tiling to have tsem belied by
subsequent deeds. Presdent Hayes
talks well enough ; let ns s,e how be will
act.
Judge F. J. Moses, Chief Justice of
the Snpreme Court of Ssoth Caiolina,
; died yesterday from a stroke of paralysis.
His death will added to the political
complications already existing in that
State. It is to be presnmat that both
Hampton and Chambkbl,in will at
tempt to fill the vacancy by appoint
ment, fife only Jnsipeb now
in the State is Wellard aid he should
promptly recognize the (hief Justice
appointed by Hampton. Jidge Maher,
of Barnwell, is a capital man for tbe
position.
THE NEW PRESIDENT,
PRESIDENT HAYES* inaugural
ADDRESS TO THE NATION.
Sworn In On Sunday—The Inaugural Ad
dress Delivered Yesterday—The South
ern Question Paramount—Fair Words tor
the South—A New Departure Foreshadow
ed—Material Assistance Promised—Civil
Service Keforui—Resumption of Specie
Payments- Foreign AOnirs—The Commis
sion.
President Hayes was sworn in Sunday
and delivered his inangurul address at
the Capitol yesterday. The following is
the full test of bis remarks :
Fellow Citizens -We have assem
bled to repeat the public ceremonial be
gun by Washington, observed by all my
predecessors, and now a time honored
custom which marks the commencement
of anew term of the Presidential office.
Called to the duties of this, great trust I
proceed, in compliance with usage, to
announce some of the leading principles
on the subjects that now chiefly engage
the public attention by which it is my
desire to be guided in 'the discharge of
those duties. I shall not undertake to
lay down irrevocably principles or meas
ures of administration, but rather
to speak of the motives which should
animate us, and to suggest certain im
portant ends, to be attained in accord
ance with our institutions and essential
to the welfare of our country. At the
outset of the discussions which preceded
the recent Presidential election it seem
ed to me fitting that I should make
known my sentiments in regard to sev
eral cf the important questions which
then appeared to demand the consid
eration of the country. Following the
example, and in part adopting the lan
guage cf one of my predecessors, I wish
now, when every motive for misrepre
sentation has passed away, to repeat
what was said beiore the election. I
hope that my countrymen will candidly
weigh and understand and that they will
feel assured that the sentiments declared
in accepting the nomination for the
Presidency will be the standard of my
conduct in the path before me, charged
as I am with the grave and difficult tusk
°f carrying tjieju out in practical
administration of the Government, bo
far as depends, under the Constitution
and laws, on the Chief Executive of the
nation.
The .Southern Question.
The permanent pacification of the
country upon such principles, and by
such measures, as will secure the com
plete protection of all its citizens in the
free enjoyment of all their constitutional
rights, is now the one subject in our
public affairs which gll thoughtful and
patriotic citizens regard ns of supreme
importance. Many of the calamitous
eliects of the tremendous revolution
which has passed over the Southern
States still remain. The immeasurable
benefits which will surely follow, sooner
or later, tap hearty and generous ac
ceptance of the legitimate results of that
revolution have not yet been realized.
Sufficiently embarrassing
meet us at the threshold of this
subject. The people of those States
are still impoverished, anil the inesti
mable blessing of wise, honest and
peaceful local self-government is not
fully enjoyed. Whatever difference of
opinion my exist as to the cause of this
condition of things, the fact is clear
that in the progress of events the time
has come when such government is the
imperative necessity required by all the
varied interests, public and private, of
those States. But it must not be for
gotten that only a local government
which recognizes and maintains iuvio
late the rights of all is a true self-gov
ernment. With respect to the two dis
tinct races, whose peculiar reli tious to
each other have brought upon us the
deplorable complications and perplexi
ties which exist in those States, it must
be a government which guards the in
terests of both races carefully and
equally. It must be a government
which submits loyally and heartily to
the Constitution apd thp laws—the laws
of the nation and the laws of
the States themselves—accepting and
obeying faithfully the whole Con
stitution as it is. Resting upon this
sure and substantial foundation, the su
perstructure of benefioient local govern
ments can be built up, and not other
wise. In furtherance of such obedience
to the letter and the spirit of the Con
stitution, and in behalf of all that its
attainment implies, all so-called party
interests lose their apparent import
ancce, and
Parly Lines May Well be Permitted to Fade
Into Insignifieaiiec.
The question we have to consider for
the immediate welfare of those States of
the Union is the question of government
or no government, of social order and
all the peaceful industries and the hap?
piness that belong to it, or a return to
barbarism. It is a question in which
every citizen of the nation is deeply in
terested, and with respect to which we
ought not to be in a partisan sense
either Republicans or Democrats, bnt
fellow-citizens and fellow men, to whom
the interests of a common country and
a common humanity are dear. The
sweeping revolution of the entire labor
system of a large portion of our country
and the advance of four millions of
people from a cpndjtipn of servitude to
that of citizenship upon an equal foot
ing with their former masters, could not
occur without presenting problems of
the gravest moment to be dealt with by
the emancipated raoe, by their former
masters andjby the General Government,
the author of the act of emancipation.
That it was a wise, just and providential
act, fraught with good for all concerned,
is now generally conceded 1 throughout
the country. That a moral obligation
rests upon the National Government to
employ its constitutional power and in
fluence to establish the rights of the
people it has emancipated and to
protect them in the enjoyment of those
rights when they are infringed or assailed,
is also generally admitted. The evils
which affjict the Southern States cap only
be removed or remedied by the united and
harmonious efforts of both raoes actuat
ed by motives of mutual sympathy and
regard. And while in duty bound, and
fully determined, to protect the rights
of all by every constitutional means at
the disposal of my administration, I am
sincerely anxious to use every legitimate
influence in favor of honest and efficient
local self-government as the true re
source of those States for the promotion
of the contentment and prosperity of
their citizens. In the effort I shall make
to accomplish this purpose I ask the
cordial co-operation of all who cherish
an interest in fhe welfare of the country,
trusting that party tips and prejudice of
raoe will bp freely surrendered in be
half of the great purpose to be accom
plished. Jp the important work of re
storing the fJsutff it is pot the political
situation alone that merits attention.
The material development of that sec
tion of the country has been arrested by
the social and political revolution
through which it has passed and now
needs and deserves the considerate care
of the National Government within the
just limits prescribed by the Constitu
tion and wise public economy. Bnt at
the basis of all prosperity for that as
well as for every other part of the coun
try lies the improvement of the intel
lectual and moral condition of the people.
Universal Suffrage and Universal Education.
Universal suffrage should rest upon
universal education. To'lliis end lib
eral and permanent provision should be
made for the support of free schools by
the State governments, and, if need be,
supplemented by legitimate aid from the
National authority. Bet mo assqre my
eonntrymtp of the Southern States that
it is my earnest desire to regard and
promote their truest interests, the inter
ests of the white and the colored people,
both and equally, and to pnt forth my
best efforts in behalf of a civil policy
which will forever wipe out in our po
litical affairs the color line and the dis
tinction between North and South, to
the end that we may have not merely a
united North or united South, but a
united country.
Ciyil Servlpe Reiortn.
I ask the attention of the public to the
paramount necessity of reform in
oar oivil service, a reform not mere
ly as to certain abases and prac
tices, of so-called cfficial patronage
which have come to have the sanction of
nsage in the several departments of our
Government, bnt a change in the system
of appointment itself—a reform that
shall be thorough, radical and complete
—a return to the principles and prac
tices of the founders of the Government.
They neither expected nor desired from
public officers' apy partisan services.
Tfiey meaiit publfc officers should
owe tffeir wfcoljj s£ryipe tp‘ the Govern
ment and to the people. They meant
that the officer Bhould be secure in his
tenure as long as his personal character
remained nntarniabed and the per
formance of his duties satisfactory,
They held that appointments to office
were not to be made nor expected merely
as rewards for partisan services, nor
merely on the nomination of members
of Congress, as being entitled in any
respect to the control of such appoint
ments. The fact that both great politi
cal parties of the country in declaring
their principles prior to the election
gave a prominent place ta the subject of
reform of our own civil service, re
cognizing and strongly urging its
necessity in terms almost iden
tical in their import
with those I have here employed, must
be accepted as a conclusive argument in
behalf of these measures. It must be
regarded as the expression of the united
voice and will of the whole country upon
this subject, and both political parties
are virtually pledged to'give it their un
reserved support. The President of the
United States, of necessity, owes his
election to office to the suffrage and
zealous labors of a political paitv, the
members of which cherish with ardor
and regard, as of essential importance,
the principles of their party organiza
tion. But he should strive to be always
mindful of tbe fact that he serves his
party best who serves the country best .
-D furtherauco of tlio reform we seek,
and in other important respects a change
of great importance, I recommeud an
amendment to the Constitution pre
scribing a term of six years for the
Presidential office, and forbidding a re
election.
The National Finances.
With respect to the financial con
dition of tho country I shall not
attempt an extended history of
i • em l ) arr£Bsment and prostration
which we have suffered during the past
three years, The depression in all our
varied commercial and manufacturing
interests throughout the eountry which
began iu September, 1873, still con
tinues. It is very gratifying, however, to
be able to say that there are indications
all around us of a coming change to
prosperous times. Upon the currency
question, intimately connected as it is
with this topic, I may be permitted to
repeat here the statement made in my
letter of acceptance ; That in my judg
ment the feeling of uncertainty insepar
able from an irredeemable paper curren
cy, with its fluctuations of values, is
ono of the greatest obstaoles to a return
to prosperous times. Tho only safe
paper currency is one which rests upon
a coin basis, and is at all times, aQd
promptly, oonvertble into coin. I ad
here to the views heretofore expressed
by mo in favor of Congressional legisla
tion in behalf of an early resumption of
specie payments and I am satisfied not
only that this is wise but that the inter
est as well as Ihe public sentiment of
the country imperatively demand it.
Foreign Allan*.
Passing from these remarks upon the
condition of our own country to con
aider our relations with other lands, we
are reminded by the international com
plications abroad, threatening the
peace of Europe, that our traditional
rule of non-interference in the affairs of
foreign nations has proved of grent
value in past time and ought to be
strictly observed. The policy inau
gurated by my honored predecessor,
President Grant, of submitting to ar
bitration grave questions in dispute be
tween ourselves and f reign powers,
points fq a qe\y, and incomparably the
best, instrumentality for the preserva
tion of peace, and will, as I believe, be
come a beneficent example of the
course to be pursued in similar emer
gencies by other nations. If, unhap
pily, questions of difference should at
any time during the period of my ad
. ministration arise between the United
States and any foreign Government it
will certainly be my disposition and
my hope to aid in their settlement in
the same peaceful and honorable way,
thus securing to our country the great
blessings of peace and mutual good of
fices with all the nations of the world.
The Contest nlui *l*e Commission.
Fellow-citizens, wo have reached the
close of a political contest marked by
the excitement w}iioh usually attends
the contests between great political par
ties whose espouse and advo
cate, with earnest faith, their respective
creeds. The circumstances were per
haps in no respect extraordinary, save
in the closeness and the consequent un
certainty of the result. For the first
time in the history of the country, it has
been deemed best, in view of the pecu
liar circumstances of the case, that the
objections and questions ip dispute with
reference to the counting of the electoral
votes should be referred to the decision
of a tribunal appointed for this purpose.
That tribunal, established by law for
this sole purpose; its members all of
them men of long established reputation
for integrity and intelligence, and with
the exception of those who are also mem
bers of the Supreme Judiciary, chosen
equally from both political parties; its
deliberations enlightened by the research
and the arguments of able counsel, was
entitled to the fullest confidence of the
American people. Its decisions have
been patiently awaited and accepted as
legally conclusive by the general judg
ment of the public. For the present,
opinion wiil widely vary as to the wis
dom of the several conclusions an
nounced by that tribunal. This is to be
anticipated in every instance where mat
ters of dispute are made the subject of
arbitration under the forms of law.
Homan judgment is never unerring and
is rarely regarded as otherwise than
wrong by the unsuccessful party in the
contest. The fact that two great politi
cal parties have in this way settled a
dispute in regard to which good men
differ as to the facts and the law no less
than as to the proper course to be pur
sued in solving the question in contro
versy, is an occasion for general rejoic
ing. Upon one point there is entire
unanimity in public sentiment: that con
flicting claims tp the Riesidenoy must
bo amicably and peaceably adjust
ed, anq wheft so adjusted the
general acquiescence of the nation ought
surely to follow, It has been reserved
for a government of the people, where
the right of suffrage is universal, to
give to the world the first example in
history of a great nation in the midst of
a struggle of opposing parties for pow
er hashing its party tumults to yield the
issue of the contest to adjustment ac
cording to tho forms of law.
Looking for the guidance of that
Divine hand by which the desti
nies of nations and individuals are
shaped, I call upon yon, Sena
tors, Representatives, Judges, fellow
citizens hprp and everywhere, to
unite with in an earnest effort to se
cure to our epuntry fne blessings not
only of material prosperity, bnt of jus
tice, peace auff Union—a Union depeud
ing not upon the constraint or force, bnt
upon the loving devotion of a free peo
ple—that all things may be so or
dered and settled upon the best and
surest foundations, that peace and
happiness, truth and justice, reli
gion and piety, may be established
among us for all generations.
Nothing nnnsual characterized the
inaugural ceremonies. The procession
was small but handsome, well handled
and orderly. The programme was fol
lowed in all its details and nothing was
done that was not down in the bills.
The display to-night is wonderful. Gov.
Sheppard has disregarded expense and
taste in decorating the avennes.
New Yobk, March 6. —Flags were dis
placed bn 'the post ' office and other
Federal buildings and throughout the
city to-day in honor of the inauguration
of President Hayes, but none were hoist
ed over the City Hall and that on the
Sun building was half mast with the
Union down. The Express reports
that a party of men entered the Sun of
fice to pall down the flsg bnt were pre
vented by the police.
Angnsta and Knoxville Railroad.
Editors Chronicle and Sentii\e\:
Like every other man who expects to
make Augusta his home, I feel a deep
interest in the above road. lam willing
to contribute my mite towards its con
struction; so will others when tffe pro
ject is fqlly qndpfatood and the oppor
tunity presented, I see that a meeting
in the interest of the enterprise is to be
held soon. That all may attend, let the
meeting be held at night—say Friday—
and due notice given. I have learned
that a number of gentlemen stand ready
to sabscribe liberally to the stock of the
company. Very well; let them declare
this pnrpose at the proposed meeting
and follow it np with action. That
course will encourage others.
Lahobeb.
rr. — jsi —-
HONE BEFORE,
Cbiei Jnstiee Moses, of Carolina, Doffs the
Earthly Eriaiue.
Columbia, 8. C., Mareh 6.—Chief Jus
tice Moses, of South Carolina Supreme
Court, died at one o’clock to-day,
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
TIIEJTATIi.
THK PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Albany has a literary club.
Butler is overrun by gypsies.
Whitesburg has two new churches.
Miss Cora MoCamy, of Gainesville, is
dead.
The fertilizer trade of Elberton is de
creasing.
Cold weather killed the Albany euca
lyptus trees.
Pio-nics to Stone Mountain are in or
der from Atlanta.
The Troup Factory, at LaGrange, is
doing a fine business.
The indications are that Speer will be
Belldozed in the Ninth.
Work upon the Elberton Court House
has actually commenced.
The LaGrange darkies continue to
tattoo each other with axes.
Warrenton seems daring the past
week to have had a “corner” of infants.
R. Edmund Belcher, Esq , retires
from the management of the Hart coun
ty Sun.
W. H. Hackett, Esq., has discovered
a valuable bed of plumbago in Bartow
county.
Seaborn Reese, Esq., is making a
good record as Solicitor of tbe Northern
Circuit.
The silver throated nightingales of
Dalton ura about to make a raid upon
Cartersville.
Newuan proposes to send all of her
guano agents to the State Constitutional
Convention.
Several Gaiuesvillians have been over
hauled for running a livery stable with
out a license.
A little girl iu Whitesburg, Ga., aged
twelve years, weighs ono hundred and
eighteen pounds.
Judge A. E. Turner, in Washington
county, is said to have kiiled three
eagles in two weeks.
A through traiu from Macon to Au
gusta over tho Georgia Road will make
the trip in five hours.
The Albany News has such a uice
coquettish way, to be sure, of publish
ing betrothal rumors.
Mr. Gamble, of Jefferson county,
last week killed one hundred and
five birds in two evenings.
Will Hayes dissolve the party in the
South? Emory Speer, Esq., will do
his part of it in the Ninth.
The number of men accused of mur
dering Lieutenant Mclutyre, in Gilmer
county, is daily increasing.
A Troup county man, 63 years old,
has been found who never owned a dog,
knew a sorrow, or felt a fear.
A colored child iu Jefferson county
fell into a brush heap fire last week, aud
at last account was quite dead.
Georgia preachers take wonderfully
to editing the State weeklies. So far
the weeklies stand it remarkably well.
Lott Warren, Esq,, the contesting au
thor of the “Land of the Long Leaf
Pine," has been admitted to the Albany
bar.
Judge Pottle refused to bail the par
ties in the Sparta jail, arrested upon be
ing connected with the Rozier assassina
tion.
Prof. John Temple Graves, eaid to be
largest man to bis size in the State, is
doing good work iu the public school of
West Point, .
Another little negro child starting
from Coweta county last week climbed
the golden stair via the fire place and
chimney flue.
Tete Smith, from the “Second,” con
tinues to bo the hero of the hour. Mr.
Smith has certainly proved himself to be
no small “tater.”
A striking feat of sociability in La-
Grange is the habit which neighbors
have of chunking rocks through each
others’ windows.
Both of the Rome Courier's editors
are bachelors, We can’t expect much
from the Courier until a reform spiiit is
infused into its eontroling spirits.
Ike Gainesville Eagle openly adver
tises for a calf. The readers of the
Eagle have not noticed the want of that
commodity upon tho editorial staff.
Mrs. Mary Morgan, Mrs. Sarah
Swanson, and Mrs. Martha Heard, the
latter being the mother of Rev. P. A.
Heard, of Athens, died recently in La-
Grange.
Not content with solitary confinement
the inmates of the Hart county jail are
weekly subjected to string band sere
nades. Truly the way of the trans
gressor, &e.
Ham seems to think that sporting a
gold headed cane is far more manly and
honest than sailing under the bazaulous
colors of a railroad pass. After all, this
is one way to look at it.
The LaGrange Reporter seems in
clined to criticise some of those “spe
cial dispatobes” to the Atlanta Constitu
tion. There is a smell of postage stamps
about them which tickles Waterman im
mensely.
The assertion that Wilkes county boys
wear corsets was made by Mr. Fred
J. Ludette, local of the Washington Oa
zette, and upon his shoulders, and not
Fred Pope's, the whalebones of censure
must fall.
A three-legged colt has been born
upon Mr. Albert Tuornton’s place, in
Troup county. Preparatory to ship
ping it to Barnum, in Augusta, the
equine phenomenon passed away to
horse heaven.
A veteran fisherman, who has coyly
augled in Elbert’s sluices for genera
tions passed, succeeded last week in
booking a two pound sucker from Bea
verdam creek. Patience, like virtue, is
its own reward.
Cornelius Willingham, of Cartersville,
longs for the day when he can dress up
in a linen duster and palm-leaf fan. In
the mean time, however, we trust that
Cornelius will not abandon the good old
antidotes for colds.
Mr. John H. Underwood, one of the
oldest citizens of Rome, is dead. He
was an honest man, and his death is
greatly lamented. He was one of the
characters in Bill Arp’s sketches aDd
known as “Big John.”
The Newnan Herald gets after farmers
for not making their own provisions and
fertilizers. It will get to that pitch af
ter a while that every granger will be
exhorted to manufacture all of lus whis
ky and work out his own salvation.
They say that Turnbull, of Banks,
will stand independently in the Ninth.
This strikes us as a good move. The
more reformers the more thorough the
reformation, and besides the principle
of one man reform is as unwholesome as
one-man-rule.
The Mayor of Macon issued warrants
for the ariestof three of tliecock-fighers.
Asa matter of justice, right here we
unay as well state that Signor Watson,
of the Macon Telegraph, woke np from
a poetical reverie in time to see the odd
tight in the main.
In Jones county, last Sunday, three
brothers—Messrs. Thomas, Jesse and
Benjamin Hammond, celebrated their
sixty-first birthday. Theso men, born
at a single birth, have lived to a good
old age, are still hale and hearty,"and
situated so that there can be a joint
celebration of the day of their nativity.
The Macon Telegraph does not suppose
that such another instance ever occurred
in the world, nor do we.
Walton county is planting p&rn.
Covington girls play mumble-peg.
Conyers sells eggs at 10 cents a dozeD.
Covington is to have some prize skat
ing Friday night.
Mr. William Gnice, of Newton coun
ty, is 93 years old.
Athens is about to sing anew truss
over the placid Oconee.
Dr. J. B. Carlton, of Athens, says the
Oeorgim , is seriously ill.
Counterfeit silver quarters are in cir
culation around Social Circle.
Mr. J. J. Stephenson has one of the
finest farms in Newton county.
Charlie W. Reynolds, of Oconee coun
ty, has left for the Black Hills,
The contest over the Seaton county
Ordinary s elect 00 is still in progress.
The farmers in Northeast Georgia are
well advanced with their work for the
season.
Dr. Carlton fires a two poiamu and a
half columbiad iqta Speer and disor
ganization.
The Conyers police threaten to clean
out the iambic gang of local poets with
telegraph poles.
Peaoh and cherry trees are in bloom
in Athens, and the fameus mineral
spring is well patronized.
W. A. Cooper, an accomplished teach
er, is now associated with Prof. E. R
Doyle, principal of the Tocoa Academy!
The Bale of fertilizers in Covington
will probably not be sq large at this
place present season as it was last
IW-
Gol. Jeems Turnbull left the Gaines
ville Convention with a wooden churn
under his arm. Latest advices stats
that it will be run upon party principles.
The Athens Georgian is authority for
the statement that two years ago Emory
Speer tried to get between H. P. Bell
and Ben Hill. Now he is trying to get
between H. P. Bell and the Democratic
party,
SOUTH _CAROLMA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Fox hunting rages in Newberry.
Who will get Newberry College ?
“And Wright! oh, where was he?”
Gow msville is to have a rcsotte party.
Sumter s black bear has not vet turn
ed tip.
Eggs in Pickens at six cents per
dozen. *
Chester is receiving large lots of baby
carriages.
“Carolina’s Choice” is the name of a
new 1 piece of music.
Plum trees aro blooming and wild
geese honking in Chester.
Chesters tramps amuse themselves
by working on the streets.
~, or “ ugtilmrt ' Col ‘ nt y has contributed
$7,000 to Newberry College.
Track laying of tiie Greenville City
Railway will commence soon.
Two negro children were burned to
death last week near Rock Hill.
The Columbia Register has anew
head and is generally improving.
Laurensviile intend ato experiment
with the telephone and the blue ray.
Several Greenville prisoners tried to
saw out of jail last week but were dis
covered.
The Greenville News comes out. in
heavy mourning in honor of Hayes’ in
auguration.
Last week a small boy of Lancaster
county killed three large wild tuikevs
at one shot.
Walhalla has anew sensation this
week in a United States Court being held
at Pieper’s boarding house.
Col. F. E. Harrison, at his factory In
Anderson county, is successfully spinn
ioj? yarn direct from seed cotton.
A fire occurred at Camden last week,
destroying a half block of buildings.
Loss, $50,000, Insurance, SIO,OOO.
Judges Mackey and Cooke have de
cided that no appointee of Chamberlain
should exercise any power in their cir
cuits.
D. S. Rogers, near Reedy Creek, had
three stacks of fodder and a tenement
house burnt last week. Incendiary and
revenge.
The dwelling house belonging to Mr.
"L _A- Cason iu Hodge, occupied by Mr.
C. L. Smith, was burned down Wednes
day night.
Pickens county heard a meteoric ex
plosion last week. It has’nt rained
snakes yet over there and we still have
hope for Pickens.
The Legislature, and not General
Hampton, will abolish the office of
Auditor. Thus are we corrected by the
Newberry Herald.
A Newberry farmer sold his crop, 225
bales of cotton, last week to the Green
ville Factory, in a lump. A SIO,OOO
check attests this fact..
Arrangements have been made for tho
early completion of the jemnining eight
miles of the Laurens Railroad, from
Clinton to Laurens Court Hohsp.
One of the men who captured Hayes
at Chancellorsville lives in Newberry.
He has not yet made up his mind as to
whether or not lio will accept a Cabinet
appointment,
The Greenville News seditiously as
serts that Roscoe Coukling parts his
hair in the middle, and 110 doubt carries
a willow cane, and is followed by a
poodle dog, Whereupon the News
goes in mourning for “its country and
its whole country.”
A. Columbia darkey proposes to fix tho
thing in this way: “Now, you see, sab,
Mr. Chamberlun is the enlind gemmens’
Guvner, and Gineral Hamptin is the
white gemmens’ Guvner; now, why ar
not dat satisfactry to all hands ? Let
um bof be Guvner, sah.”
THE NEW PRESIDENT.
When anil How lie Was Sworn In—Secrecy
of the Proceedings—Hayes’ Southern Poli
cy—South Carolina—His Cabinet—A Hint
to Otliec Hunters.
Washington, March 4. Gov. Hayes
was sworn in last night as President of
of the United States, at 7:30 o’clock, in
the private reception room of Mrs. Gen.
Grant, known as tho “led parlor.” For
many reasons it was deemed advisable*
by the counselors of tho President elect
that the oath of office should bo admin
istered yesterday. The same reasons
made it necessary that the proceeding
should be temporarily kept secret, and
even this evening there are few per
sons in Washington who are absolutely
certain that the event occurred. Gov.
Hayes and Mrs. Hayes, and Senator ami
Mrs. Sherman arrived at the White
Houso yesterday eveuiug. to attend the
State dinner at seven minutes before 7
o’clock. At 7:20 the oath wan adminis
tered in the “red parlor” by Hon. Mor
rison E. Waite, Chief Justice of the
United States. The only persons pres
ent were President Grant and Hamilton
Fish, Secretary of State, as witnesses.
Governor Hayes and Chief Justice
Waite. The ceremony was conducted
so quietly and secretly that but very
few of the persons present at the State
dinner knew the fact, and it has been
by most of them stoutly denied.
Tiie Southern Problem.
In regard to the South, he will bury
the “bloody shirt,” provided that sec
tion will, in good faith, attend the
funeral and assist in the interment. This
is not to be understood as implying the
sacrifice of aDy principle, or as placing
in jeopardy the just rights of any class
of citizens. These, in all cases and
everywhere, are to be honestly enforced
and fairly respected. The South is to
have full opportunity to participate in
tho Government upon fair and equal
terms, and if it fails to profitably avail
itself of this opportunity, it alone and
not Hayes’ Administration will be re
sponsible.
To emphasize the policy to the word,
a prominent Southerner is to be made a
member of the Cabinet, it is not the
purpose of the new Administration tc
disturb the status quo in South Carolina
and Louisiana at present. Ample time
is to be taken to make a thorough ex
amination of tin situation in those
States, with a view to make sack a set
tlement as shall be based on law and
justice, and shall preserve the peace of
the States and advance the interests of
both classes of citizens.
The South Carolina Poliey.
Senator Gordon has been assiduously
at work for days, in connection with Mr.
Lamar, to secure the adoption of a poli
cy towards South Carolina which wiil
give that State a stable and recognised
government under Wade Hampton.
President Grant, though friendly tu
Chamberlain personally, is favorable to
such a result, and, I understand, that
Hon. Stanley Matthews has sent a letter
to ChamberlaiD, representing to bin*
that it would be agreeable to the incom
ing administration for him (Ckamber
lainj to withdraw. The letter goes by a
special messenger. Tho plan does not.
propose any compromise iu South Caro
lina, but tho complete establishment of
the Hamptftn government. It is now
understood that
N' Alliance With Hutu.
• n °k among the Democrats
m Congress, the slightest disposition to
form an alliance with the new Admin
istration. They are not to bo humbug
ged by general and pretty-.sounding
phrases in an inaugural, but will judges
the Administrate n by its acts. It is
well understood that an effort will be
made to capture the organization of the
next House of Representatives by the
free use of Government patrqgage, but
it will fail.
OUlee Siciif rn Ufiist Walt.
There is ft good sized army'of office
seekers here. What they expert fo ae
eomplish at this time no mortal can find
out. It is proper to say for the benefit
of those who spend time and money
coming to Washington in search for
office that no changes will be made, ex
cept for cause, and consequently there
will be comparatively few removals, and
these will be made gradually, and after
mature consideration. The more people
bother Hayes, therefore, at this time,
the worse will it be for themselves. •
IntercKtiiiH Insurance Decision.
William E. Bayliss, of New York, died
in November, 1872, from an overdose of
opium, leaving in the hands of his wife
an accident insurance policy of SIO,OCRs
in the Travellers’ Insurance Company,
of Hartford, Conn, The company de
clined to redeem the policy on the
ground that the fatal accident was caus
ed by medical treatment, which is espe
cially exempted from the list of acci
dents in the policy itself. Judge Bene
dict decided on Saturday in favor of tho
company, stating that when the deceas
ed took the fatal twenty grains of opium
he did it under medical advisement, with
the intention on the part of the physi
cian to effect a cure. This, the Court
said, could not be called violence, al
though it resulted in death.