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promptly.
Mr. Taft is said to be even more
“hamiliated” than Kimov Cameron.
How shall delegates to the Conven
tion be selected? This is a pertinent
question.
Ruuons comes from Washington of
the contemplated oiler of the Mission to
England to ex-President Grant, and it
is intimated that the offer, if made,
wonld not be declined.
Now that Pinohback has been driven
ont of the Radical fold in Louisiana, for
the heinons crime of upholding Nicn
ollh, he ia no longer a hero to Senator
Morton. But, on tho other hand, since
Morton has been snubbed by Hayes be
is no longer a demi-gnd to Pinobback.
The Philadelphia Timet, referring
to the President’s remark that his heart
bled for the poor colored people of the
South, expresses the opinion that “first
blood” has been drawn by Fred Dodo
lass, a quadroon who hails from New
York.
The new Secretary of the Navy, Mr.
Thompson, has put to rest the commonly
received opinion that he owed his place
to Sonator Morton. The President de
clared that the choice of Mr. Thompson
was his own inspiration. In addition to
this, the Secretary has declined to give
a plaoe in his office to Morton’s son.
“One by one the roses fall.”
Mad. Wells, of Louisiana, is attempt
to make a Republican committee
see the justice of his claim for 8500,000.
Mr. Wells seems to forget that he is a
squeezed lemon. Ho will be tricked by
the Radicals as Omiohund was by Clive,
but we doubt if be has the sensibility to
grow insane as the Hindoo did.
According to Donn Piatt, the notorious
Pinchback is to have the Pernambuco
Consulship. Tho peculiarity about Per -
uambuco is that it calls for sixty dollars
in gold to get there and only ten to re
turn—tho return being made in a box
as freight. Good-bye Pinch. ; leave a
lock of your hair
The Florida Legislature adjourned
the other day, and, in the closing hours,
the Republican members confessed that
they had uever known a time when there
was such harmony between the races.
The President oau make South Carolina
and Louisiana as happy as Florida, by
simply withdrawing the tooops and per
mitting the true people of the State to
repossess themselves of their own.
Atlanta is unnecessarily exercised
c w the appointment of General A. C.
Garlington as a Notary Public and ex
officio Justice of the Peace, and oarps
at the Governor for thus bestowing the
office. People who oomplain of General
CoLqurrr because of this action must be
exceedingly anxious to find cause of
offense.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle
invokes the South not to “be guilty of
the folly of frustrating any kindly de
signs of the new Administration by
heaping on it maledictions and abase
before it is a month old,’’ and says “it
beoomes a< to be ‘wise as serpents aud
harmless as doves,’ at least until there
is a full development of the Southern
policy.”
CotoKEL Potts, a “Tilden man,” has
been appointed Postmaster at Peters
burg, the protest of Jorgensen, a Re
publican Congressman, to the contrary
notwithstanding. The Virginia Repub
lican M. C. is said to have had his
breath taken away when the President
casually remarked that he would give
the recommendations of members of
Congress just about the same weight
that he would give to the recommenda
tions of other eqnally respectable gen
tlemen.
Or* Atlanta letter states that Senator
Bill did not “present Mr. Blodgett's
name for the United States Marshalship
ot Georgia,” as stated by the Agent of
the Associated Press, bat that he gave
him a letter, saying the indictments
against him “are no longer vital,” and
that there- is no probability of his
•ever being convicted. We cannot be
lieve this statement, even thongh the
correspondent says he has it “from the
<beat authority.” Mr. Hnx wonld have
no right to make any snch statement,
and we cannot believe he did make it.
It ia noticed by the Chicago Times
that all the members of the new Cabinet
save one present a remarkable similarity
in their party antecedents. Mr. Evabts
was a Whig. Mr. Sherman was a Whig.
Mr. Devens was a Whig. Mr. Kit was
Whig. Mr. Thompson was a Whig.
Mr. MoCbabt was a Whig. The Times
also ebeervea another remarkable ooin
cidence. That Mobton was a Locofoeo.
•Cameron- waa a Locofoeo. Butins was
was a Locofoeo. Loo an was a Locofoeo.
Grant waa a Locofoeo.
The New York Times thinks the
troops should not be withdrawn from
Sooth Carolina and Lonisiana without
“guarantees.” What better guarantees
does the Times want than the personal
characters and public pledges of snch
men as Wade Hampton and Francis T.
Nicho ls? Any rational or patriotic
editor ought to be more than satisfied
nnder snch circumstances. But it is no
easy matter to satisfy the Times, and
perhaps it is of small consequence
.whether that paper be satisfied or not.
THE cbbomcle and constitution-
V ALIVT.
The proprietors of the Chronicle
and Sentinel and of the Constitu
tionalist consolidated the two
papers under the name of the Chroni
cle and Constitutionalist, the first
number of which is issued this morn
ing. There will be no change made in
the business and editorial management
of the consolidated paper from that of
the Chronicle and Sentinel. Sub
scribers to either paper, not in arrears,
will be furnished with the new paper
until the expiration of their terms of
subscription. The proprietors of the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist will
endeavor to publish an independent
and reliable newspaper, and they ask
from the public that their efforts be
sustained by a liberal patronage.
SOUTHERN journalism.
The announcement that the Chroni
cle and Sentinel aDd Constitutional
ist have consolidated, and that there is
now, consequently, but one daily news
paper in the city of Augusta, will be a
surprise to many, but will not aatoniab
those who have given attention to South
ern journalism during the past few
years. Consolidations grow ont of the
necessities of the case, and have con
stantly taken place in the Southern
S ates. In Savannah there is but one
daily paper, in Macon but one, in At
-1 nta bnt one, in Nashville but one, in
M >bile bnt one, in Montgomery but one,
in Galveston virtually but one. The
reason is plain: the patronage of those
oities and of the country tribntary to
them was not sufficient to support
more than one newspaper, and con
solidation or suspension gradually
eliminated the others from the
field of competition. In proportion to
reading population the South has al
ways had more newspapers than the
North. Before the war most of them
managed to get along aud to make mon
ey. At that time Southern people took
a devouring interest in politics, and the
political newspaper generally had a
s’rong following and a liberal patron
age. At that time the expense of pub
lishing a daily paper was comparatively
trifling. These two facts fully e: plain
why oities that in ante helium days sup
ported two and three newspapers can
support only one now. The editor was
then the paper. He was usually a man
of prominence as a politician in one par
ty or the other, and he wrote little save
political articles. The publio did not
ask what the Examiner or the Mercury
said; tor that they did not care. They
wished to know what Mr. Daniel or Mr.
Rhrtt had to say. The editors were
fighting their political battles and
they regarded them as leaders
of factions rather than as con
ductors of newspapers that were
potent for good or evil. They were
easily pleased, too, with regard to every
thing outside of politios. A sharp squib,
a pungent paragraph, aimed at Whig or
Democrat, as the oase might be, pleased
them more than broad pages of the
latest news. The telegraph was rarely
used by Southern newspapers, and then
to the extent of a few lines only. No
attention was paid to the collection of
local or distant news. The papers of
that day consisted of a column of edi
torial, a couple of columns of miscella
neous news, half a dozen lines by tele
graph, a brief market review, and a few
puffs of advertisers. As may well be
imagined, the expense of publishing
anch a sheet was inconsiderable.
Bnt since the war there has been a
radical change with regard to manage
ment and expenditures. In early days
the ed tor thought for the people; in
these the people think for themselves.
They wish the news, and when they get
that they form their own conclusions.
If the editor’s comment jumps with
their opinions, well and good; if it does
not, no harm is done. The individu
ality of the editor has been lost to a
very great extent. People do not bother
themselves mnch about who does the
writing for the newspaper which they
read, provided that it be well done. In
many oases the names of the editors are
known only to a few. Some of the pro
foundest politicians have made disas
trous failures as editors in the past ten
years. As we have said, the people de
sire news, and the collection, digestion
and publication of news have increased
enormously the expenses of a daily
paper. The telegraph is used free
ly and at a heavy cost; correspond
ents must be paid, and a large
quantity of matter given to the
public. The expeDse of publishing
a good morning paper in the South,
even at the reduoed price of labor and
material, ranges from five hundred to
one thousand dollars per week, cash.
To make a newspaper successful now it
must be backed by capital, brains and
pluck—and the greatest of these is capi
tal. Its editors and managers must
give it their entire time and attention;
they must know what to pnblißh and
how to publish it. It is not strange,
then, that with diminished patronage
and increased expenses newspapers have
consolidated or suspended until in most
Southern cities of fifty thousand inhabit
ants and under, only one daily paper is
published. So far as Augusta is con
cerned we think the experiment of two
papers has been fully tested and the re
sult has not been such as to tempt its
renewal. Still, if others wish to try it
we shall have no objection.
The result of these consolida
tions has been mutually benefi
cial to press and people. There
are fewer papers and better papers.
The quality has increased in inverse
ratio to the quantity. Instead of small
sheets rnn exclusively in the interest of
politioe and politicians, the Southern
press is making bold ar<d rapid strides
towards a wider field, to a more elevated
position. A Southern city is not able
to support bat one good paper. When
two or three oocnpy the ground the
straggle is too severe to justify the ex
| pense of a first class daily, and journal
ism has grievously suffered by being
; over-crowded. By thinning them out
the publishers, the subscribers and the
advertisers are all benefited. The in
creased revenue justifies the publication
of more and better matter, and the sub
scriber gets a superior article for le6s
money. Instead of citizens paying for
two dailies, as most of them did, they
will pay mnch leas money for a better
paper than either one of the old journals.
The advertiser, instead of placing his
notices in two papers at donble rates,
obtains for them a wider circulation
for half the expense. There will be no
danger of an oppressive “monopoly.”
It will be to our interest to prevent com
petition by publishing a better paper
without increasing the cost, and not by
the adoption of any other or harsher
policy. We hope to conduct the
Chboxicde and Constitutionalist in
snch a way that the pnblio will not only
sustain no damage bat be greatly bene
fited by the change.
It is thought the the contest for the
Cnited States Senatorship in Lonisiana
lies between Messrs. Spoffobd and
Gibson, with Mr. Jones or Gov. Wicx
urrs as the tied oat horses.
•MB. JAS. R. RANDALL.
We take pleasure in saying that Mr.
Jas. B. Randall is dow connected with
the editorial staff of the Chronicle and
CoNBTiT-rrioNALisT. Mr. Randall has
been for many years editor-in-chief of
the Constitutionalist, and is widely
known as a vigorous and graceful writer
lon political and literary subjects. His
card will be found elsewhere this morn
| ng.
OUR COUNTRY.
One of the gentlemen who spoke at the
reunion on St. Patrick’s eve stated that
he was proud of the land of his birth,
the Emerald Isle, but be “loved the
United He wished to impress
upon bis bearers, especially those who
were native# of this country, that they
never could fully appreciate the boons
of liberty yet possessed by them unless
they had been personally subjected, as
be had been, to certain forms of des-
which are still in full force in
some of the lands beyond the sea. The
writer was much moved by tho senti
ments of the speaker, because they con
veyed a great truth. Our country has
been, for more than sixteen years, tried
as few free Republics have been tried,
but the genius of liberty has not per
ished, and on all sides there are evi
dences not to be mistaken that her
institutions will be restored, redeemed
and rejuvenated. Passions which had
full swing are passing away; much of
the injustice consequent upon war and
faction is being mitigated; and there is
every reason to expeot that within a
comparatively brief period the reign of
truth, reason and fraternity will begin.
It therefore becomes all of our people
to aid in this restoration which means
life, energy, prosperity and happiness
to all sections. We believe and know
that the men who “love the United
States” are in an overwhelming major
ity, even in the Sonth, and this majority
comprises enough of intellect, wealth
and enterprise to more than build up a
partial desolation and to make the coun
try they love admired abroad and re
spected everywhere.
NOW FOR BUSINESS.
Discussions of the Presidency, as be
tween the right of one man and the
wrong of another, are practically “dead
issues.” What is done is done. We may
wish it to have been otherwise, but vain
longings only make the situation more in
tolerable and engender bad blocd where
none need exist, especially if a healthy
equilibrium in business is to be estab
lished. Too much political wrangling
has jeopardized trade. Let us drop par
tisan clamor as soon as possible and go
to work. “Let our rusting machinery
be oiled up and started again ; let our
big wheels turn again to the merry
plunge of water power ; let us hear the
thump of ponderous engines and the
hum of busy commercial centres.” What
we ask of the Administration is peace—
to be let alone in all local affairs which
properly belong to State governments.
This demand is made, even at the North,
for the South, and it comes not merely
from politicians of the better class, but
from their masters, the mercantile com
munities. The merchants of the East
aud West have found out by bitter ex
perience that a licentious interference
from Washington in Southern affairs
does not pay. Finding that the game is
a losing one to them they are prepared
to change their base, and if President
Hayes shall act in concert with this new
ly awakened idea it will not only re
dound to his credit, bnt to the common '
weal. Peace and non-interference in the
South mean emigration to this section
of a thrifty race, and the introduction
of capital. In Augusta we have already
had an earnest of the truth of this. The
cry all along the line is : “ Let the
demagogues olamor if they choose, but
peace we must and will have.”
FIIED DOUGLASS’ NOMINATION.
The nomination of Fred Douglass to
be Marshal of the District of Columbia
is a genuine sensation. It was doubtless
made to please, in some degree, the
colored people, but, strange to say, they
are not over-delighted, probably remem
bering his connection with the Freed
man’s Bank. One ground of objection,
on their part, is that he is a “carpet
bagger from New York.” The resident
bar of the Distriot opposed his nomina
tion on the ground of incompetenov.
The opposition of the Bar Associa
tion of the District was most for
midable and almost unanimous.—
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says the Bar Associa
tion is the most compact, intelligent
and influential organization in the Dis
triot of Columbia. The members all
say that they entertained tho best feel
ings for President Hayes, and wished
his Administration sneoess, bnt they
can bnt resent the appointment of
Douglass to each an important office,
when if President Bayes had only taken
the trouble to inquire he wonld have
known that it was distasteful to the en
tire bench and bar of the District.—
Neither want “ a representative colored
man ” or a “ representative white man,”
simply as a “ race representative.” The
office is entirely ontside of that tort of
thing.
The independent press regard this ap
pointment as a capital joke upon the
“ trooly loyal.” The Philadelphia
Times, with grim irony, says “ the
Judges of the Court, whose Sheriff the
Marshal is, are fluttering about the
blind Goddess of Justice at the advent
of the black man, and the ex-Marshal of
the Grant family and the Deputy Mar
shal join the Judges in saying that it’s
a shame to have a sable officer to flap
writs into the faces of white folk and to
stand beside the President at levees to
introduce all comers, including his old
masters, to Republican royalty. In
theory, the equality of the races is a
capital thing; it points many a moral
and ronnds innumerable sentences on
the bastings, but who ever supposed
that it was intended to be ao confound
edly practical in the application of the
doctrine after election, as to jam Fred
Douglass over the heads of hungering
white men, and anchor him where the
shaded skin and flowing, kinky silvered
crown of the leader of }iis race wonld be
bobbirg before everybody who goes to
the capital ? It’s a square test case. If
Douglass is a peer, he will be vindicat
ed aDd get his plaoe, with its honors
and its ten thousand or so a year; if Le
is a vassal, he will be hoofed ont for
some ambition that can come with a
whiter complexion to teach the equality
of man.” The Herald thinks the mis
take was not so much in appointing
Douglass at all, but in selecting
the locality. Mr. Hayes should havo
consulted the eternal fitness of things
and made the Black Douglass Collector
of the Port of Boston. The waggish
New York paper adds : “He was for
merly a slave, and that Boston adores,
In short, there are so many substantial
and valid reasons for making him Col
lector of Boston that we almost wish the
Senate might reject the nomination ac
tually made and thus give the President
a chance to bestow on Mr. Douglass a
distinguished mark of his favor. It
seems a sad waste to throw away Mr.
Douglass on the Disiriot of Colombia,
where at leaat one-quarter of the popu
lation are oolored people who cannot ap
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1877.
preciate him and where his most distin
guished service is to stand on the right
hand of the President’s wife and intro
dnoe the gnests at levees and other
stifling entertainments. Mr. Douglass
i should go to cool and breezy Boston.
It is a pity they did not give Sir. Doug
lass even the place just given to Mr.
Morrill and Mr. Morrill the one giv
en to Mr. Douglass.”
Well, it is none of onr funeral. We
leave the quarrel in the han 3s of those
most interested. If the parties most in
terested oan stand it, so can we.
A CARD.
For nearly three years past the under
signed has been editor-in-chief of the
Constitutionalist. Dating that period
great events, State and National, ha ve
transpired. On all occasions of mo
ment, he discussed the topics of the day
to the best of bis ability. How far he
succeeded in his professional duty, the
pnblio must judge. Anew departnre in
the journalism of Angusta has taken
place. The Constitutionalist has been
consolidated with the Chronicle. The
editor of the first named paper has been
invited to east his fortunes with tbe new
enterprise. He need not assure his many
friends that he will endeavor to bring to
his present field of labor the same earn
estness of purpose and devotion to duty
that he strove to embody in another
sphere. Jas. R. Randall.
THE LYNCHING IN WAYNESBORO.
Yesterday morning, in an article head
ed “No More Mob Law,” the Chronicle
and Constitutionalist said :
“In Georgia, happily, Judge Lynch
“ has doffed his robes and retired to pri
“ vate life. The necessity which called
“ him forth a few years ago no longer
“exists, and should he attempt to hold
“ his court now his own neck would pay
“ the penalty. We have just and equal
“ laws, and we have Courts that can en
“ force them. Every citizen is secure in
“ his rights of person and property, and
“ woe to him who attempts to execute
“ justice upon his neighbor. Lynch law
“in the South grew out of the misrule
“ and oppression of alien and corrupt
“ governments. Those governments
“ have crumbled, one by one, at the
“ touch of the people, and lynch law
“ has fallen with them.”
It is with a feeling of shame and deep
humiliation that this morniDg we take
back the words of yesterday. Judge
Lynch has not doffed his robes, but still
condemns and executes at his own good
pleasure. Tuesday night Wells, the
colored man confined in Waynesboro for
the murder of Mr. Wm, O’Brien, was
forcibly taken from jail by a band of
lawless men and put to death. Without
trial, without judgment and without
sentence he was murdered by men who
ooostituted themselves Jndge, jury and
executioner. How, then, can we truth
fully say that lynch law is no longer
tolerated in Georgia ? It remains to be
seen whether this flagrant violation of
law, this gross outrage upon the good
oitizens of the State will go unpunish
ed or whether it will be shown that
those who take life without authority
shall pay the penalty.
It may be said that Wells was guilty
of a crime that deserved the punish
ment of death, clearly guilty—guilty
according to bis own confession. These
things we admit. The crime was the
gravest known to the penal laws of the
State, and its commission was attended
with circumstances of unusual barbarity.
A respeotable, peaceable and industrious
man was traveling through Burke coun
ty with a peddler’s pack upon his back
striving to make a living for his family.
The sight of his small store of goods in
flamed the cupidity of Wells. He
waylaid his victim near a lonely swamp,
brained him with an rxe, robbed his
pack and rifled his person. He after
wards exposed the proceeds of his
double crime and attempted to sell them.
He fled to avoid arrest, and when cap
tured pointed out the whereabouts of
the body which be had deprived of life
and confessed his crime. These are the
facts, and they make up a record which
would have justified tho extreme penalty
of the law.
Bat it was by the law alone be should
have been tried and condemned, by tbe
hands of the offioers of the law alone
should he have suffered. Lynch law is
only justifiable when the law of the land
fails to punish crime, either through the
negleot of the Courts to eaforoe the law,
or through the abuse of the pardoning
power by the Executive. During the
years 1868, 1869 and 1870, the last
named oause operated to prevent the
punishment of criminals in Georgia.
Courts and juries did their dnty, but a
oorrupt and fraudulent Executive threw
wide open the doors of jails and peni
tentiaries and turned rubbers and mur
derers loose upon the community. Un
der snob circumstances it is small
wonder that occasionally the people
protected themselves when the law
failed to afford protection. What would
otherwise have been lawlessness beoame
an act of justice. But with the down
fall of Bullock and corruption and the
accession to power of Governors elected
by the people of tbe State the necessity
for snob outbreaks disappeared. For
the last six years the law has been faith
fully administered in Georgia. Judges
and juries have not hesitated to convict,
and the Executive has uniformly refused
to distnrb their judgment except in oases
surrounded by extraordinary circum
stances of mitigation. The sole excuse
for Jynohiog has been removed and he
who resorts to it now is a murderer—no
more and no less. In the present case
there was not a shadow of pretext for
the deed. The criminal had been ar
rested and was in jail. There was no
possibility of his escape; he was a color
ed man, but the colored men were as
pronounced in condemnation of his
orime as the whites. Tbe testimony
against him was absolutely perfect, and
would have sufficed to send a dozen men
to the halter. The Superior Court of
Burke county, where the venue of the
offense would have been laid, will meet
on the third Monday in May. His con
viction was a certainty and execution
was as certain to follow conviction. Bat
the orderly procedure of the Courts, the
observance of those forms prescribed by
the wisdom of ages and as necessary for
the protection of the innocent as for the
punishment of the guilty, the formal ex
ecution of a legal sentence which does so
mnch towards ths repression of crime—
all these things have been anticipated by
a few reckless men who in following the
diotates of wicked impulses have soiled
the fair name of the State and stained
their souls with crime.
Plain words are best. We tell these
men and those who may feel disposed to
approve their conduct that lyr.ch law
SE4I4. cease in Georgia. The good peo
o'e of the State are determined that the
liw shall be respected, and that its vio
lated majesty shall be vindicated. They
are resolved that reckless and irrespon
sible men shall not usurp the fonotions
of the Courts and njete oat jastioe as to
them seems best. They know that their
own safety, as well as the dignity and
honor of the State, is endangered by
snch an act as that done at Waynesboro.
Men who undertake to punish the gnilty
may some day assume to pass judgment
upon the innocent, upon those who
have, in any way, incurred their dia-
pleasure. It is time to cry halt; to pro
claim in a way which shall be unmis
takable that he who lives by the sword
shall perish by the sword ; that he who
takes the law into his own hands shall
be punished by the law. Oar duty is
plain : the men who broke open the jail
in Waynesboro Tuesday night and bung
and shot Wells to death in the jail
yard must be arrested and brought to
trial, and the officers of the law must
spare no efforts to insure their conviction.
One conviction will put a stop forever
to lynohing in Georgia.
ALIUNDE JOE.
Judge Bradley, the Great Aliunde, is
collecting certificates of character from
New Jersey. The Times * of Phildel
phia, hits the nail on tbe head when it
says: “The fact that a Judge would con
sent to defend himsblf on a grave judi
cial issue before a town meeting or a
mob of signers to a publio letter is a
confession that he is sensitive as to just
criticism of his acts. No enemy of
J udge Bradley oould hav j harmed him
half so mu eh by the most earnest and
well directed assaults against him, as he
has harmed himself by machine efforts
to sustain his decision, Ip his case si
lence is golden, and forgetfalness is
safety.” It is something to know, how
ever, that “Aliunde Joe” is not of the
rhinoceros order, and has the rags of a
conscience left.
DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION.
A warm discussion is progressing in
the Atlanta Senatorial District concern
ing the appointment of delegates to the
Constitutional Convention. The oonn
ties of Cobb and Clayton say that Ful
ton is claiming more than her share of
the nine delegates to which the District
is entitled under the law and Fulton
charges the same thing against Cobb
and Clayton. We are fearful lest such
controversies spring up in ail tie
other Districts of the State before the
day of election. We deprecate in ad
vance such wrangliDg, knowing that it
will be productive of mischief and re
sult in the selection of many bad or in
competent men. The theory upon which
such squabbles proceed is as pernioious
as the damuable doctrine of rotatirn
which has done so much of late years lo
debase the General Assembly. To frame
an organic law for the government of a
million aud a half of people is no trifling
affair. To tbe best men in the State
alone should so important a work be en
trusted. It matters not where they live.
The only rule governing the selection of
delegates should be the character and
the ability of the candidates. It should
make no difference whether all the dele
gates live in one county, and it the
smallest in the Senatorial District, if
they are tbe proper men to receive the
suffrages of the people. But in every
case a little concession by the large
counties and by the small counties will
enable every c-unty to secure represen
tation. The main point to be considered
ia the standing and capacity of the men.
The people must think seriously of these
things between this and the day of elec
tion, or they may in the future have
oause to rue their neglect.
PALMER’S YAWP.
The notorious and unsavory Frederick
A. Palmer, late of Aiken county, Sonth
Carolina, who combines free love doc
trines with a blasphemous olaim of
being the “Son of Christ,” has con
tributed a characteristic bit of chatter
ing to the New York Times, of the 19th.
Of course, this pestilent fellow does not
approve of the withdrawal of Federal
bayonets from the Columbia State
House, and his reasons are of that
sickly-sentimental kind whioh may be
denominated half poppycock and half
drivel. He seems to forget that it is no
part of the duty of a Federal Executive
to employ the regular soldiery of the
Union in the way he covets. The verdict
of the people in the lust Presidential
oampaign was unmistakable on this
point and no one better knows that than
Mr. Hayes.
Palmer says: “If peace does not ex
ist, and if human life is not secure with
the presence of troops in the State (and
it is not), what reason is there to sup
pose that peace and safety will follow
the withdrawal of troops ? What ob
jections can peaceful, law-abiding oiti
zens have to the presence in their midst
of a handful of United States soldiers ?”
One ounce of fact is worth a pound of
theory. The same raw-head-and-bloody
bones statement was made concerning
Mississippi, and yet Mississippi never
knew any peace or prosperity until the
Federal bayonet ceased to uphold the
reign of Radical robbery and licentious
ness. There are many Republican col
ored men of respectability who testi
fy to this, and the quotations of State
securities point an unerring moral.
The South does not object to the regu
lar troops when employed legitimately,
and we venture to observe that the offi
cers and soldiers who have been poli
cing South Carolina will be only too
glad to secure relief from such ob
noxious duty. Palmer declares that
not a white man (Democrat) is enrolled
among tho State Militia of South Caro
lina, but he cunningly forgets or
omits to mention that every de
vice of a sinister and unfriendly na
tuie has been employed to not only
keep down white militia companies, but
break them up when organized. Be
sides, it is still fresh in the memory of
man that Ultssss S. Grant himself
launched hi 9 official tLunderbolt against
the white citizen soldiery, and even for
bade them from honoring by a parade
the memory of George Washington.
The mistake this man Palkeb makes
is that the sole duty of the Administra
tion is to, per fas el nefas, gqtjaw the
intelligence, virtue and property of a
State, and, by military aid, prop up
usurpation, roguery, ignoranoe and vice,
The people of the North, to a large ex
tent, have tried that nefarious experi
ment, and are not disposed, confronted
with the rain of their finances, to per
petuate so monstrous a crime against
civilization, not to speak of their own
pockets.
The free-love agitator, in keeping with
his self-appointad seership, closes with a
bit of prophecy. It is this: “If this Ad
ministration faiia to protect its allies at
the Sonth it will repent it in sackcloth
and ashes.” We may add, without
claiming to be “the second son of a sec
ond sen,” that if this Administration
shall form an alliance with the Pack
ards, Pattersons, Palmers and Cham
beblaixs it will not only be under the
necessity of repenting in sackoloth and
ashes, bnt it will be glad to call npon
the mountains to fall npon and bide it
from the light of the son.
We feel disposed to ask pardon of onr
readers for engaging seriously in con
troverting this man Palm hr. We have
endeavored, however, to keep him at a
regulation distance, as we would a pole
cat, and we are qot obliyions.of the fact
that it is often 4 waste of ammunition
to discharge a ten-inch colnmbiad
against a pig-sty.
The Albany drgus accuses the Presi
dent of adopting 9 “ Confederate Re?
publican” policy. The New York Stun
accuses Hates of being Grand Cyclops
of the White League. We always said
that the principles of the South wonld
triumph, in the long ran, and so they
Will,
ELBERT COUNTY MATTERS.
Business f the Superior Court— The Con
vention.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist j
Elerrton, March 17.—The semi-an
nual session of Elbert Superior Court
was not especially interesting, but the
Judge was on hand, accompanied by our
new Solicitor, and several visiting mem
bers of the bar. From Hart we noticed
Major F. H. Hodges, Mr. C. W. Seidel,
and Mr. Teasley. From Lexington,
Messrs. W. G. Johnson, S. H. Lump
kin and Col. J. D. Mathews. From
Washington, Judge W. M. Reese, Mr
M. P. Reese, Mr. S. H. Hardeman and
Mr. William Sims. From Sparta, Hon.
S. Reese, Solicitor. The It cal bar were
ail present, consisting of Hon. Robert
Hester, Hon. E. P, Edwards, Mr. J. L
Osborn. Mr. J. P. Shannon, Mr Sam
Barnett, Mr. S. N. Carpenter, Mr. R. H.
Jones, Mr. H. A. Roebuck, and Judge
W. T. Van Duzer.
In the oase of Mahu’da Hall and oth
ers against Joseph Sewell, executor,
Messrs. Edwards & Shannon and Sam
Lumpkin & Roebuck appeared for
plaintiffs, and Hon. J!, Hester for
defendant. The defendant was dis
charged on the statute of limitations.
E. B. Tate, Jr., against W. H Clark, re
sulted in a verdict for plaintiff. Edwards
& Shannon for plaintilf, Hester & Lump
kin for defendant. The oase of Wm.
and. Mattox against J. D. Hill, adminis
trator of George Williams was a con
troversy for the possession of abont
8200 worth of silverware lormerly be
longing to Mr. and Mrs. Singleton
Allen. Mr. Hester and S. Lumpkin for
plaintiff; M. M. and M. P. Reese and
E. P. Edwards for defendant. The jury
found for plaintiff. Butler, Broofne &
Cos. vs. S. D. Blackwell & Son, mortgage
foreclosed; W. M. and M. Reese for
plaintiffs. J. 0. Wilkins and others
ugainßt J. H. Hudgens and others. Case
in equity. Sottled, Cos). Matbews and
Mr. Shannon for plaintiff; Mr. Edwards
and Messrs. Reese & Son for defend
ants. Several snits besides the above
were tried aud disposed of.
Quite a large number of cases were
sued tb the present term on the various
dockets. The grand jury were quite
active during tbe term aud found several
bills of indictment. No speaially impor
tant criminal oase on our dooke'ts.
Mr. Reese, the Solicitor, is a very able
and diligent officer. He gives prompt
and faithful attention to his duties, and
is also a remarkably fine looking man.
Judge Pottle dispenses justice with a
fair and impartial mind, and seem ß to
be well informed on the law of every
case. His familiarity with the Supreme
Court decisions is a subject of frequent
and favorable comment.
The Convention question is freely dis
cussed among our people. Mr. Osborn
made an address in favor of a Conven
tion on Wednesday, and was followed
by Col. Mattox in opposition. Judge
Reese, by invitation, on Thursday, made
a speech in favor of a Convention, whioh
was well received. It is thought his
argument changed the opinions of sev
eral who had previously opposed a Con
vention. The measlas, which have
largely prevailed here, are disappearing.
C. H. E.
AUGUSTA AND GREENWOOD.
What General Bradley Thinks oi the Pros
pects ot the Road.
Editors Chronicle and\Consiitutionalist:
Seeing that an interest is now being
manifested by the good people of Au
gusta in the Greenwood and Augusta
Railroad, perhaps it may not be deemed
out of plaoe for me to state briefly what
has already been done toward tbe enter
prise, and what has yet to be done in
the near fntnre to seaure its completion.
Early in the year 1873 a charter was ob
tained from the South Carolina Legisla
ture to build a road from Greenwood to
Augusta, to cross the Savannah river at
or near Fnry’s Ferry. Certain condi
tions were attached in order to secure
the charter, ths most important of which
have been complied with, but one still
remains, viz: tffit the road must be
completed in eight years from the date
of cha-ter. Five years of the time has
elapsed, and should the eight yea-s run
out before the road is built it would b'
doubtful at least whether the charter
could be renewed, hence the necessity of
prompt action in the matter. A survey
has been made and the road carefully
located, and a profile drawn of the
entire line, showing the number of sta
tions, tbe length of road, the natural
murks and obstructions, the number of
cubic yards in the excavations and em
bankments, aud everything pertaining
to the removal of surface obstao'es and
grading the road from Greenwood to tbe
gravel bed dose by Harrisburg, fifty-six
miles. Augusta is five hundred and
fifty-six feet below Greenwood, making
the grade about seven feet to tbe mile.
This work has all been paid for, and I
have seen nearly every owner of land
through whioh the road runs from
Greenwood to the river; every one will
cheerfully give the right of way. At
one time we had a subscription of one
hundred and sixty seven thousand dol
lars. lam fully satisfied there is noth
ing the citizens ot Augusta or the
people in the country through which the
road will run oan do for the same outlay
of money or means that will pay them
as well.
The great question to be determined
is whether it is a work within the soope
of our ability to accomplish ? I answer,
I bel’eve it is. Let us all quit whinning
and oomplaining about our losses and
misfortunes and go to work like men ;
let tbe whole line be thoroughly can
vassed, and take stock in money, land,
material and labor. Now is the time,
while there ; s great enthusiasm shown,
whenever the subject is mentioned of a
nearer route to your beautiful city,
where all of us and our fathers have
traded in years past, and feel anxious to
continue to do so in tbe future. The
profile of the road can bn seen at .Tno.
M. Clark’s office. P. H. Bradley.
Mill Way, March 16, 1877.
CAMERy I’S WHIP.
Haw He Cracked it Over HU G uiuea Niggers.
[Philadelphia Telegraph, Hep ]
When Don Cameron returned from
Washington to Harrisburg he oarried
with him the resignation ot his father
as a Senator of the United States. No
one ontßide at the capital knew of this;
not a word had been said about Mr.
Cameron’s intention to retire from pub
lic life. Immediately upon his arrival
home the ex-Secretary of War, still
grinding bis teeth in silent rage, sent
secret telegrams to Pittsburg, Lancaster
and Philadelphia, and the next trains
brought in the trusted followers and
henchmen. The Mackey-Magee-Hie
stand-Leeds-Stokely-Davis, et al., gang
were all there bright and early on Mon
day morning. The party retired into a
private room, and there the proposed
insult to the people of Pennsylvania and
ti the Administration of President
Hayes was presented, and the plan for
carrying it into execution adopted. This
was but the work of an hour, and than
the shameless chieftain was ready to
“see” tbe “Republican” members of the
Legislature, They were sent for and
came in twos and threes and fours, until
enough had been “seen” to make sure
the game, and then the whole party sat
down to a “sumptuous repast;” cham
pagne flowed like water, we are told, aud
the candidate for the highest legislative
office in the world sat at the head of the
table, gloating in his triumph ! The
business was not complete, however;
something remained to be done. Prom
ises had been given, and now a test
mast be made. So the caucus was
called. Like a flock of sheep the “men”
nepdefl were driyen into it. Everything
had been prepared. Allegheny county,
in the person of H. M. Long, was given
the chairmanship, and one half of the
Secretary’s table, with as assist
ant scribe, All opposition was cried
down, the erack ot the whip was heard
in the lobby, and the “nominatien” was
pnt through with an indeoent haste
never before known in the history of
Pennsylvania politios. Tbe whole busi
nesa did not occupy more than twenty
four hours.
As Bad aa Barilla#.
Ifrorr} t&f Ctyrmnercia’.]
The Hindoo widow, though no longer
burnt on the funeral pyre oi her hus
band, is subjected to a process for the
rest of her life which may sometimes
cause her to doubt whether he? latter
state if really any better tbau that which
British law terminated. Ifo matter how
beautiful the young widow’s tresses,
they are cropped off, all h®r ornaments
are taken away, the very notion a of seoond
marriage regarded as worse than mur
der, and the poor thing nsTer permitted
to leave her room* This if simply the
substitution of imprisonment for life in
place of deatfe.
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.
NKWS AND GOSSIP PROM THE
GATE CITY.
Atlanta on the Consolidation—Applications
for Office—Would Be illnrahnls—The Candi
dates and Their Backers— Blodgett and
Ben Ilill—Convention Squabbling—Patent
Plan for Selectine Delegates—Minor Mat
ters.
[ Correspondence Chronic'e and Constitutionalist,]
Atlanta, March 18.—The news of the
consolidation of the Chronicle and
Sentinel and Constitutionalist was re
ceived here with favor. It is the con
sumation of what has often been sug
gested as a wise journalistic step. Au
gusta, no easier than Atlanta, Macon,
Savannah, Nashville or Galveston, can
bear the burden of two morning dailies
of worth and extended circulation. The
tendency of the times is toward uuion
and strength in journalism as well
as in other great concerns. It is as
sured that under the capablo mas
agement of those who have made the
Chronicle and Sentinel a decided pow
er the Chronicle and Constitutionalist
will aehieve splendid and deserved suo
oess.
The Mamhalship
Of Georgia is the principal topic upon
the streets. Marshal Smyth’s term ex
pires early in April. He is seeking re
appointment. Colonel Bob Alston,
Edgar Thompson, son-in-law of Ben
Hill, Foster Blodgett, Stokely, of
Bartow, and Lam Anderson, of New
toD, are oontesting the place with him,
and the scramble grows interesting.
Smyth is baoked up by Biaiue, of
oonrse, beosuse Smyth is a Maine man
and has always been one of the guar
dians of the “Bloody Shirt,” and is en
dorsed strongly by Judge Wm. B. Woods,
of the United States Circuit Court, He
is also said t > have considerable Demo
cratic endorsement, secured through
Col. George W. Adair, of this city. Bob
Alston carried on all the petitions that
ho bad secured for presentation tp Til
den, and without scratching out the ad
dresses “To President Tilden,” he
handed them in to Hayes. Bob is run
ning principally upon the support of
Gordon, Lamar, Governor Co’quitt and
a box full of letters from all his friends.
Edgar Thompson ia running general
ly. He pays Rpn Hjll wjU ugt epdqrse
any one to Hayes, and that he didn’t
ask the Senator to do so in his case.
But he has elaborate petitions and
thinks he has a chance. Foster Blodgett
is playing the artful dodger. He claims
to be Conservative Republican, native
bo;p, and antagonistic to carpet-baggers.
Yet he is urged by IjJojfa Morton and his
gang, and is backed np by Conley and
the scalawag band of Georgia. His chief
trouble is explaining out of tho indict
ments Still hanging over him in our State
Courts for participation in Bullookism.
Smyth is ringing the changes on those,
bit I have the best authority for saying
that Mr. Hill has given Blodgett a letter
to the effect that the indictments are no
longer vital, and that there are no prob
abilities of his ever being proven a crim
inal under them. It is not true, how
ever, as telegraphed, that Hill suggested
Blodgett to Hayes for the appointment,
Blodgett’s friends olaim that the dis-
patch was inspired by Alston because
Hill would not join in recommending
him (Alston) for the plase. The other
two applicants are hardly in the race at
all. The probabilities are in favor of
Smyth’s re-appointment, unless, per
chance, a coalition that will put vision,
Thompson and Blodgett in joint tenantey
sucoeeds.
Tlie Convention.
Already there appears here a disturbed
feeling concerning the Convention.—
Three tickets have been presented by in
terested parties, and are cjsily paraded
in the advertising columns of the Con
stitution. Neither of these tickets has
attracted any considerable attention, al
though some of the names would proba
bly be perfectly acceptable to a majority
of tbe District, A high-handed pro
ceeding in this connection is spoken pf
in private circles, ft i3 said the City
Council will pass resolutions setting
forth toe interests of At'anta to be
looked after in the Convention, and then
recommend a certain list of six named
gentlemen as delegates from Fulton
county. Were the six most popular
mei in Fulton county put upon the
ticket it wogld avail nothing; tbe tic! et,
if made, is destined to meet and merit
the most sigral defeat. The City Coun
cil will be quickly and seveiely rebuked
for its assumacy of political functions
and seeking to control the actions of the
people. In this connection it may he
stated now that the voters propose to
aot with perfect independence. There
will be a general free field, and the
only “nominations” submitted to will
be those made in the very act of elec
tion.
Diems.
Another spasm of indignation seized
Atlanta yesterday when it beoame known
that Hill had voted to confirm Fred
Douglass, “the nigger." Col. E. Y.
O'arke and lady go to Florida to-mor
row. They seek rest and recuperation
of health.,, .Senator Norwood la in the
city, He is looking well, and seems to
have straightened up a little after un
loading Senatorial honors... .Gen. Gar
lington has been appointed by Governor
Colquitt as Notary Public and ex officio
Jnstioe of the Peace. Tho appointment
is criticised, but it is not improbable the
General will justify the selection. Ex-
Treasarer Jack tfones wanted the psltry
office, but Colquitt refused to give it to
him.... Henry W. Grady, compiler of
the public laws of Georgia, correspond
ent of the New York fferald and Phila
delphia Times, nd an emeritus attache
of the Corisfitufion, is home from Wash
ington, and hard at woik in his profes
sional labors. Bill Nye.
MORTON’S BACK BROKEN.
How the New Secretary of the Nnvy Caine
to be selected.
Washington, March 18.— The new
Secretary of the Navy has taken the
reins in his hands, and is driving ahead,
regardless of protests from politicians
Belonging as he does to the older and
better element of Republicanism in In
diana, and having fqrmerly been a rather
violent Whig, it was well understood
that his political sympathies did not
run in tbe same ohannel as Senator Mor
ton’s have since the polioy of reconstruc
tion began, It nettled him somewhat,
on his arrival here, to be informed in a
supercilious way by the headlight of
Hoosier politios, that his appointment
as Secretary came through the Morton
influence. Mr. Thomp on would have
been better pleased to know that the
report was unfounded, and he was in an
inquisitive frame of miud about the
matter. On the morning after bis ar
rival he visited the White House, ac
companied by Secretary Robeson, aud
found Senator Morton on hand ready
to receive bis dividend of credit for
tbe urexpected distinction which bad
befal'en tbe old platform builder. It is
told, on tbe authority of an eye wi-usss,
that the Preside it greeted his new Sec
retary of tbe Nayy with great cordiality;
and said, holding him by the hand
while be spoke and looking him earnest
ly all the while in the face: “Qolonel
Thompson: J heard you make u speech
in 1845. I admired you then and have
watched you since with great satisfac
tion and pleasure. You were an old
Whig, and I like Old Whigs. Then,
again, you marred a Columbus lady,
aud I got to know more intimately of
you as a man in that way. You belong
to a school of politics which has always
commanded my fullest confidence, and
your name Datnrally occurred to me
when I was endeavoring to select a Cab
inet that would receive the approbation
of the country. Your appointment was
the only one that was made on my own
hook, without the advice of po
litical friends. “ ’j.'bey sny Morton’s face
looked exceedingly troubled, when
this last sentence was delivered, espe
cially because the President bad chosen
such an opportunity to humiliate him.
This statement of tbe case, however, was
a decided relief to the Secretary,
and opened his eyes to the fact
that Oliver had been shining in
borrowed jewels. The sequel re
mains to be told. When Major Cash
(late paymaster in the navy) die(j, Mr.
Morton saw a fine opening for his son
John, and %t once began his importunities
on the President. Mr. Hayes was not
disposed to be uncivil, and referred the
vacancy with the name of the applicant
to the Secretary of the urging him
to depicfe thg matter. Mr.' Tho .peon,
on investigation, found that this branch
of the service was crowded already be
yond the limit fixed by law, an<J raaiis
mg the impropriety of inserting ano.ther
wedge, hp rpcouiraeDcfed the
of Ef. Gl%y Qoodloe, in accordance with
the civil service reform rules, and son
John was consigned to the waste baabei,
where he now remains. When this dar
ing exploit is known in Indiana, they
WUI wonder how long Thompson can
life w|th kjs bead in the lion’s month.
$2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID.
NORWOOD’S NOTIONS.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE EX
SENATOR FROM GEORGIA.
Tlie Presidential Kleelinu—The Fraud of the
Electoral Commission—Hayes’ Policy in the
South—The Prospect* in South Cnralinn—
The Final Result.
Constitution j
Senator Norwood, whoso term of ser
vice has just expired, has been in the
city during the past three or four days.
The ambassador found the ex Senator
in his usual genial mood—witty and
good humored, and at tho same time
practical to the last degree.
“Well, Senator,” said the reporter,
after tho usual preliminaries had been
exhausted, “what do you think abont
the result of the Presidential election ?”
“You mean, what do I think about
the result of the Electoral Commission.
Well, it was a fraud !”
“Oh, of course. What do you think
will be the end of this Hayes’ busi
ness ?”
“ Fraud—only fraud. The South may
profit by it in some remote degree, but
it won’t amount to much.”
“ But don’t you think Hayes will show
some consideration to the South ?”
“ Well, I should think he ought to.
We have been quiet enough through all
this trouble to deserve some considera
tion.”
“What do you thiok the programme
of the new President, will be ?”
“Oh! that was all mapped out long
j . - , ... . u
ago. He will endeavor to ‘ conciliate ’
the solid South. ’This would have been
the programme even if he had been fair
ly and squarely elected. The leaders
had settled upon this. Tho solid South
has been and is now a great bugaboo to
the average Northern Radical, and in the
consultation of the leaders, even before
the election, it was thought beßt to make
a supremo effort to loosen tbe grip of
the South. Jotijaidation and all the
methods of bulldozing had been tried,
and they were found to be ineffectual,
until at last someone among them (in all
probability Hayes himself) hit upon the
plan of conciliation.”
“'Yell, but, Senator, how will this
work ?”
“My dear sir, I am no professor in
this business. It may work as well as
the blue glass theory, and the blue glass
theory m->y not work at all. lam mere
ly an apprentice in this art of concilia
tion.”
“This is the very thieg I was driving
at, Senator. I desire, above all things,
to know your opinion in respeot to this
conciliation about which there is so
much talk."
“Oh, so do I. You couldn’t possiblv
desire to know any more about it than I
do, but humanity is not blessed with
foreknowledge,”
“Sou have your opinions, neverthe
less. Do you think this policy of con
ciliation will be carried out, aud if it is
carried out do you think it will succeed
in dividing the solid South ?”
“Don’t take advantage of me. Pres
ent one problem at a time. At any rate
allgw me to answer in detail.”
“Certainly.”
“Well, one depends on I he other. The
present programme is certainly concilia
tory in the highest degree, anil if it is
carried out as it has been begun, it will
unquestionably result in something not
now anticipated,’’ l
“You don’t mean to say, Mr. Nor
wood, that it will divide the Democra
cy ?”
“You musn’t report me as saying so.
I said if Hayes' policy is successful, it
will result in something surprising. Its
success, however, would not astonish
yo.q so much as a thorough knowledge
of the Southern influence that is being
brought to bear to make it successful.
It is a well considered p'ot throughout,
and the strongest attempts will be made
to divide the South. These things will
develop themselves so quickly that it
is useless for mo to go into details.”
‘•Do you think Hayes can find co
adjutors in the South ?”
“I tbiuk he has already found men
who are ready to further his designs.
But you will see. Wait a little while.
A good many things will be made plain
before the month is out. This South
Carolina and Louisiana business amounts
to nothing. Hayes will simply keep his
hands off—what any honest President
would feel justified" in doing. By this
process, both Packard and Chamberlain
will be starved out, gud then we shall be
called upon to throw up our bars fo
Hayea. Inanition is a very pretty little
process in this instance. Tlie programme
is simple enough when you come to con
sider it. Packard will propose to hold
his own at all hazards. He will prooeed
to enroll his negro militia, and this will
give the Administration an excuse to
continue to employ troops in order to
keep the peace. This, you will under
stand, is the highest claim that Grant
has ever made. He has ordered troops to
New Orleans and has kept them there in
order that the peace might be kept. This
is all patriotic enough, as far as appear
ances go, and it will be patriotic on the
part of Hayes to retain the garrisons in
those States. Before you begin to orow
over Hayes’ policy iu the South, just
wait and see what that policy is.”
“Would Speer’s election ia the Ninth
District have endangered the Georgia
Democracy ?"
“Undoubtedly. It would have been
the entering wedge. lam not so sure,
even, that his caudidacy will not have a
bad effect, and I would not ‘e at all sur
prised to see an independent candidate
for Governor at the next election.”
“I suppose you are out of politics,
Senator?”
“Entirely, I have no aspirations that
way. My law business is large enough
to occupy my time and attention.”
“What about a Convention ?”
“Well, we ought to have one. Our
fundamental law needs remodeling and
renovating. I am in favor of a Conven
tion, and I think the people will vote to
call one.”
“Will you be a candidate ?”
“No, sir. There should be no candi
date in the common acceptation of that
term. The people should choose the
men they desire to make their organic
law and elect them, and no man thus
elected could refuse to serve.”
A RETIRED STATESMAN-
Simon Cuuieron’s Resignation trom the Sen
ate.
f Washington Capital .J
The old adage that few die and none
resign has received a refutation front an
unexpected quarter. Simon Cameron
has resigned. On the face of it there is
nothing very remarkable in this fact.
Simon is pressing close upon four score,
and while perhaps it would not be truth
ful to say that he has served has country
for thirty-five years, it would be quite
exact to say that ho has managed to
make bis country serve him with alarm
ing fidelity for about that length of time.
And now the old man resigns in the
middle of his Senatorial term and in the
beginning of an administration of his
own creed. It is given out that Simon
is fatigued; that the cares of office have
become burdensome to him, and that he
perfers to pass his few remaining years
iu peace. It has even been suggested
that the old man intends to write his
memoirs; but this suggestion was prob
ably invented by some fellow who ifl pot
aware of the defects in Simcm’s early
edrcation. God fctpiid tnat Simon
should ever igfika any memoirs; for, if
he should write fiction enough to make
his memory respectab'e, the example
would be pernicious, and if he should
write the truth about hiiqself, another
would be added to the long catalogue of
hooks that rrqst be carefully kept away
from the perusal of the young and feeble
minded, like the Adventures of Captain
Kidd or the Exploits of Richard Turpin.
If Simon should write a truthful me
moirs, bad small boys would keep copies
of it bid in haymows to read fartively
when the old fo'ks were away from
home, and the next generation would be
full of Sunday school confessions pi oul
prits about to be hanged, averring that
the reading of thqf book was the first
step in tire pathway that led to the gal
leys. ‘ And if the book did not lead its
readers to crime against the statutes,
its etyle would certainly begot a disre
spect for syntax ts* itself would be
most pernicious
Million. In It.
I From (hfi JiioAnivrKjl Dispatch.]
Both Houses of the General Assembly
! have passed a bill incorporating an asso
ciation of Jennings estate’s claimants.
Shoul 1 they get all the money that is
supposed to be due them they will have
some Governor Letcher,
i evidently knowing that “there’s millions
in it,” moved to strike out the name of
one of the corporators and to insert that
of Mulberry Sellers. The House de
nned to adopt the proposition.
NEGOTIATIONS TO'll HAYES.
THE PRICE OP SOUTHERN SUP
PORT OFTHE AOMIN I .TKaTiON.
Tlie Texas-PnviUc Subsidy In be the Consid
eration lor the Organization of the Next'
House of Congress With a Republican
Speaker Foster to he the Candidate-Wtll
Southern Democrats .Support Iliinf-Where
the Republicans Expect Assistance—Votes
From Georgia.
[Dispatch to'Jf. Y. Sun.]
Washington, March 18.— “ The Ad
ministration ought to organize the next
keeps its promises to.tbo
South, said a Democratic Senator, not
recently elected, to a prominent Repub
lican in the next House within the last
twauty-four hours. The Administration
proposes to do it. Oue bargain has
paved the way for another. More than
any other man Foster held Southern
members from joining the filibustering
movement. He saw them at all hours.
He reasoned with them. He outlined
Hayes’ policy in hi s speeches. They
declined to credit his public uiteranoes,
and he showed them Hayes’ written
pledges to a conciliatory polioy. When
some Southern members were threaten
ed wilh social ostracism for their oppo
sition to delay, ho stayed them with
promises and oomforted them with in
side revelations of Hayes’ Cabinet in
tentions. Two things fallow. Foster
has a stronger personal hold upon doffui'
Southern Democrats than any Northern
man, Democrat or Republican. The
next House has a nucleus of Southern
Democrats who voied with Foster, ou
Foster’s pledge, to support. Hayes’ policy
then. They will vote for Foster to sup
port Hayes’ policy now. They voted
then in the teeth of a great storm of let
ters aud dispatches from their friends
advising filibustering. They vote now
in accord with unexamp’ed Southern ap
proval of Key’s appointment and Hayes’
policy.
Key was asked to day whether ha had
received letters approving his course.
Ho drew open a bureau drawer of them.
One from a Tennessee State Senator, an
ox-Sfcate Judge, spokG tko coiiiiuon aeu
timent : “I urge you to take the. posi
tion, and break away from the men who
have run the party machine for personal
profit. So far Key has not received a
dissenting letter. He tells something
moro siguificaut than letters from place
men and legisla ors. Ho has been flood
ed with letters from Southern women.
“My appointment,” said he to-day with
great, simplicity, “seemed to have rous
ed a sort of religious enthusiasm;” and
he went on to tell of letters from women
who talked of Hayes as a special provi
dence to remove sectional hate aud who
probably regard Kev as a special dispen
sation of Prov'deuoo and offices. Very
evidently to Key, and to every one who
remembers Southern worn en before and
since the war, this app oval of a Confed
erate in a Republican Cabinet is most
significant.
There is hard logic in this movement.
Said Foster to-day: “This one question,
the war issue, out of the way, and there
is nothing in which we differ.” Nor is
there. The Texas Pacific subsidy is not
one of them. “If we cannot have a vote
on that biil,” said tlie railroad’s leading
lobbyist when Randall ruled it oat of
order last session, “ten men in Arkan
sas, Louisiana and Mississippi will de
cide the noxt organisation by electing a
Republican who will.” Key went into
the Cabinet as Governor Brown’s man.
and, if common report speaks truth.
Governor Brown drove a bargain with
Stanley Matthews which lid the appro
val of the Subsidy bill as a part of its
consideration. The inaugural, trno to
Matthews’ promise, said: “The material
development of that section of the coun
try has beer arrested, and now needs,
and deserves the considerate care of the
National Government.” There are other
proofs.
_ Tne Senators foremost in negotia
tions with Hayes are foremost iu the
Texas Pacific. The States most bene
fitted by th© read are to furnish the
votes; Arkansas three, Louisiana three,
and Tennessee two, if not three. Other
prizes are at stake. The South has been
shut out of office. Comparatively speak
ing, Virginia has to-day six hundred
appointments more than its share. Sec
retary Sherman says: “The door opens
now, and men ere saying that it is safer*
to have it unlocked by-Hayes than Til
den; it will stay open longer.” Recom
mendations from Southern Congressman
carry weight when Northern Congress
men are excluded by the new reform.
Within the week Yates, of the Raleigh
District in North Carolina, was told
that his recommendation was needed to
to fill any Federal office iD the District.
An officer in the last House, a Southern
Democrat, still drawing pay as a Demo
cratic placeman, is intriguing for a Re
publican appointment as Federal Dis
trict Attorney. His case can be match
ed by the hundred. The pressure has
neither let nor limit. The hope of a
subsidy, levee grants and harbor im
provements, the promise and distribu
tion of offico have broken Democratic,
principle at the South as the ice breaks
in the Spring.
The work is well under way. Iu Lou
isiana the old Liberal or Conservative
party is strong enough to take the reins
when Nicholls comes in. Their solid
vote is ready for Foster wheu he ne eds
it. No explicit agreement has been
made; none is Deeded. The tacit
promises of the past, united political
action for ten weeks, arc enough. Said
Representative Gibson recently in sub
stance : “lam a Democrat in certain
principles; I do not claim to be by
principle a Democrat." Such a mail
sees iu Foster the fit candidate of a
House organised by the Administration.
Senator Garland, only a fortnight in the>
Senate, has already come forward as the
leader of wbat Blaine habitually calls
the left wing of the Administration. Ho
is to deliver three voles. The North
Carolina delegation has been approach
ed, singly and together, advantage beiog
taken of a State dissatisfaction at the
little prominence accorded in the la ,t
House to a State leader, Scales. Geor
gia is another point where one, perhaps
two, vcte9 may be found. It is to be a
compromise all around. Adams is talk
ed of as the candidate for Clerk with
Foster. That secures the presiding offi
cer at the organization. So far. all thin
has gone without notice. Northern
Senators and Democrats look on the ne
gotiations of Southern Democrats, the
anomalous votes of Southern Senators,
as incidents to the effort to expel the
troops. They look for the old lines in
the new House. They will not find
them.
A BLONDE BABY.
How Oue Missed a Fortune Recently.
A girl baby missed a fortune at Now
York Tuesday by a chance which she
will mourn when she grows up. Her
mother, a brawny Irish woman, took the
seven-months-old child in her arms on a
hunt for a job of floor scrubbing. At
tbe Pennsylvania Railroad office, a
“fine gentleman” asked to take the blua
eyed, golden-haired little thing, and
seemed to lose his wits over it. Bnt
when the mother had finished her er
rand both man and child were missing.
Tue police and the weeping mother
hunted unsuccessfully till dark, with th©
slender clew that the man had bought a
ticket for Mobile, But on returning, to
the Central station the stranger was
found. He gave his name as Dr. Eas
ton, of New Orleans. He has a wife and
children, who were then with him at
New York; but unfortunately all his off
spring were brunettesand he had a pas
sion that ura* a'moat a mania for blue
eyed babies. When ho saw this, one and
thought the mother wanted tc> get rid of
it because of her poverty, fee lost his
senses with delight, and carried it iu his
arms to his hotel, hugging and kissing
it on the way, to the amazement of
passers-by, Re again begged the mo
ther to give it to him, but she hastened
tft tke hotel, found her darlieg washed
aud richly dressed, and took it back to
its native dirt and rags, leaving the dis
consolate doctor bemoaning a fate that
gave him blaok-eyed children.
NEW ORLEANS.
The Cily Quiet—Mare Arrestn of i’ackanl’
Recruiters—Serious Desertion From the
NicboJl* JLeciftlittiire.
New Orleans, March 21, midnight.—
The city is very quiet. There has been
no hostile demonstration from any quar
ter, A conflict; involving loss of life is
now regarded improbable. The Nich
olls police to-day arrested four more of
Packard’s recruiting officers. They were
imprisoned charged with treason.
Senator Dernas (colored), who has
been acting with the Nioliolls Legisla
ture, took his seat in the Packard Sen
ate this morning, completing, it is
claimed, a quorum iu both houses. The
extra session of the Legislature has been
extended.