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ADDRESS all communications to WALSH A WRIGHT, CaaoxioLV \*i> ('< stiti;tio>iaikt. Angn ta.Oa. Ctjronicle an& Sentinel. AND andl )t Constitutionalist w'l DNEBDAY, MARCH 28.- 1877. PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. We request our readers to respond promptly to the bills which are sent them for subscription accounts due this office. Let eaoh subscriber who is in arrears bear in mind that there are many others also in arrears, and that while the amount due by each individual is small the aggregate amounts to a large sum. We hope our friends will respond 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.