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OLD SERIES—VOL. XCII NEW SERIES—VOL. LI. Chronicle aitU Sentinel. AND £ljc Constitutionalist t.iiNESDAY, APRIL - -4, 1877. PAY YOLK SUBSCRIPTION. We request our readers to respond promptly to the bill* which are sent them for subscription accounts due this office. Let each 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 onr friends will respond promptly. Is T. J. Mackey, or Wade Hampton, running Bouth Carolina? Mb. Webb Hayes is described as a smooth faeed young man, with a large nose, who wears glasses and locks like a divinity student. Ip the President would divest himself of the idea that he is a Grand Constable for Louisiana and Bouth Carolina it would do him and the country a world of good. Fbbd Douolass has appointed his son one of his deputy marshals. This is supposed to be simply a practical effu sion of his friendship for Boss Shep hebd and his admiration of Benßgtleb. A Southern man sent a dispatch to a member of the Cabinet as follows: “Who is to be Minister to England ? Answer.” The reply was laconic, and as follows: " Give it up. Watch the newspapers and see.” Tna mystery of the Northampton bank robbery has been solved. Bunk-Lock Ex pert Edhon, of New York, who has been employed by the Herrino company, made wax impressions of three of the vault keys for the burglars. Pb-ctor Knott, in a speech at Leba non, Ky., on the 19th, justified the fili busters in Congress, condemned the Electoral Commission, and alleged that the establishment of the Commission and the defeat of Tildp.n were due to money. Gen. Hancock has been interviewed. A reporter captured him in Missouri. The General said he did not seek the next Democratic nomination for Presi dent, but he would not decline it. If elected, he would probably decline the interposition of an Electoral Commis sion. The Missouri Republican puts the case in a nut shell. It says: “The Democratic House has the Administra tion by the throat. Let the grasp be tightened or loosened as circumstances dictate.” If by the 4th of June Mr. Hayes has not dealt fairly by the Bouth, let his army drop to pieces for want of funds. Grant claims that if he had not kept troops in Bouth Carolina, Florida and Louisiana the Democrats would have had no trouble in securing all of those Btates. He thought the appointment of a Commission to go to Louisiana was a very good thing, and he expressed the belief that the result of it would be the recognition of Packard. The President's coquetting with Bouth Carolina and Louisiana looks like making justice a matter of bar gain and sale. It is not probable that the people of these States would consent to any proposition within the purview of the President, and the very fact that the President would not do justice with out a trade is a serious lowering of his dignity, if not a reflection upon his office. Krv. Mrs. Phcbbk Hanafobd, having been dismissed from one congregation, assembled another and hired a phrenolo gist to examine the bumps on her head, in order to certify that she is competent to preach the Gospel. The job was per formed satisfactorily, and, we presume, the promised fee was paid. After Mrs. Hanafobd's head had been examined, services wound up by a young man who sang comio songs, including one that imitated a drunken reveller staggering home. Funny world, this ! It the Louisiana Commission should ever get into such a shape that Mr. Grady can keep his eye upon it, the members thereof had better be careful how they barter and dicker. The peo ple of Louisiana are against compro mise, and the Democrat, which still be lieves in the President, wains the North “that if the Federal power overthrows Niohi lls, it will not establish Packard, but civil war. It is not by bargains and trades and compromises and truckling that good government is established and the blessings of good law secured. Laws exist in vain for those who have not the courage to defend them." A New Yoke correspondent of the Faris <S iecle takes a sanguine view of the probability of the cotton manufacturers of the United States being able to drive Lancashire goods ont of the markets of North and South America. During 1875, he says, 9,600,000 spindles in the States have spun 600,000,000 pounds of cotton. According to this the American spindles have worked up proportionately twioe as much cotton as the English. The Ameri can machines,'says this writer, are better than the English; labor is now as cheap in the States as in Oreat Britain, and capital is as easy obtainable. vhe New Orleans people are disgust ed wish the Commission business, but the Democrat, an extreme paper, de clares that the situation is entirely safe, and talks oat in meeting thus: “We have on our side both might and right. Mr. Hates, so far as his title to the Presidency is concerned, has neither. We can and will maintain our govern ment; he could not maintain himself in the Presidency a single month if he should provoke the millions who voted for Mr. Tijjes into resistance to his pretensions. That resistance can only be provoked by inaugurating eivil strife in the South, and he is not demented enough to undertake to install Packard as Governor of Louisiana, knowing, as he does, that such action would inevit ably produce such strife.” We take the liberty of publishing the following from Rev. Amcus G. Hay qood, President of Emory College, Geor gia: “You deserve the thanks of every “go Ou citizen in Georgia for your strong “ and deliverance in your “ issue on the recent ‘lynching in Way “ nee boro.’ YoOi words are timely and “just. They are aa wise and right as “ they are brave. It is indeed ‘time to “cry, halt.’’* Wa are grateful for the sympathy and approval of such men as Mr. Hayoood. We shall continue to do battle with law lessness to the extent of our ability, but we know that our labors will be futile unless they are sustained by a healthy pnblio opinion—a public opinion that will not only condemn the deed but will bring the perpetrators to punish ment. UNIVERSITY LECTURE COURSE. A course of lectures on Veterinary Science will be delivered by Dr. D. E. Salmon, of North Carolina, in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechan ic Arts, Athens, Ga., commencing on the 2d of April next, and continuing for four consecutive days. The lectures will be opened to the public. The Trustees of the University of Georgia intend that there shall be, from time to time, lec tures on special subjects connected with agriculture delivered in the State Col legi; and the above mentioned course is a part of the scheme. Persons interest ed in the matter are cordially invited to attend the lectures. BUTLER’S OPINION. General Butler has been interviewed by a Tribune reporter. He expressed himself freely, and endorsed the policy of the President toward the South. He was not, he said, “In a position to in dicate what would be the working of the new policy in Louisiana, but he believ ed if the protection of the General Gov ernment were withdrawn, that the Dem ocrats wonld quickly get possession of the State House, if it had to be done over the dead bodies of their opponents, as in 1866. It might be the best thing to do, thonerh even at such a cost. A general sometimes sent a brigade into aotion to be cut to pieces, so that be might get time to dispose other troops advantageously. The brigade might think it very rough on them, and not be able to See that it was for the general good.” He wonld be glad, he contin ued, if the power of controlling ap pointments was taken ont of the hands of Congressmen. His view of civil ser vice reform was a change of offioers once in four years. He was satisfied with the Cabinet, and thought that the President should have a chance to inau gurate his polioy before judgment was passed on it. THE MILK IN THE COCOANUT. The most stupendous blunder or crime of modern times was Badical recon struction of the Southern States. And never were engineers of iniquity so com pletely hoist by their own Retard. The South has been insulted and impover ished, but she has acquired a political power whioh the earlier Republicans never dreamed of according her as a virtual Democratic solidarity. It was cxpeoted that negro suffrage would at least divide the South politically, but that which was used for our disintegra tion has become an element of porten tous power. Having had the tables turned upon them, the successors of the Radical apostles are w w intent upon retrieving their unexpected disaster by either fomenting discord, displays of conservatism, or holding with a death grip the little authority remaining to them in Sonth Carolina and Louisiana. We have no doubt that the supreme object of the Adminis tration is to save the Senatorships, even at Packard's or Chamberlain’s expense. But the day of deliverance and retri bution can not long be deferred; and when the two disturbed States take their place alongside of their Southern sisters, the abominable folly of reconstruction will be palpably apparent. And if it be permitted disembodied spirits to “re visit the glimpses of the moon,” we cor dially invoke the speotre of Thaddeus Stevens to come forth from the debat able land and behold what all of his deviltry came to. GOOD MEN FOR THE CONVENTION. It is gratifying to kaow that in sev eral counties of the State the people are putting forward their best men as candidates for the Constitutional Con vention. Such men are being suggested as Robert Toombs, of Wilkes; Thos. M. Norwood, of Chatham ; Charles J. Jenkins, A. C. Walker and W. H. Hull, of Richmond ; Joseph E. Frown and N. J. Hammomd, of Fulton ; W. T. Wofford, of Bartow; H. D. McDaniel, of Walton ; C. C. Kibbee, of Pulaski. It is to be hoped that the good work will go bravely on ; that every Sen atorial District in the State will con tribute its best material, so that when the Convention does assemble it will be composed of the representative men of the State. There are many citizens of Georgia who desire changes in the organic law yet who will not vote for a Convention unless they believe that body will be controlled by good and able meD. If the nominations made throughout the State shall convince them that medioority and demagoguery are to be in the msjority this large ele ment will vote solidly against a Con vention on the day of eleotion and its opposition may defeat the measure. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that great care should be exercised in the selection of delegates. Georgia, happily, has many sons of worth and talent willing to serve her. They are to be found in every county. They must be brought to the front and asked to assist in framiug anew Constitution. NO DODUINU. While we are reasonably confident that the Democrats in Congress will keep themselves compact in all matters ef organization, it may not be amiss to preserve discipline in the ranks by watching the weaker brethren. In the Chicago Times we find a special dis patch from Washington, dated the 18th, which runs thus: A Southern Senator, a Democrat, said to-day that he was in favor of the Administration or ganizing the next House. He ssid that they had the means in their power to do it, and he believed it would be better. We are reluctant to believe this story. What Southern Democratic Senator would dare openly to advocate such base treachery, especially when con fronted with the Southern “ policy ” of President Hates ? What would Foster for Speaker really mean ? It would mean a delivery of the Democratic party, bound hand and foot, to Radical domination in the Parliament of the people. It would mean a control by onr adversary of the parse of the Federation. It would mean a majority of Republicans on every important com mittee, so that the Democracy wonld be effectually manacled. We repeat, that Sonthern Congressmen cannot, in onr opinion, be cajoled into any such per fidy. The Democrat who intrigues to elect Foster Speaker of the House, and therefore to give Hates control of the popular branch of Government, will doom himself to infamy; and we are still inclined to think that such a Demo crat is not among the possibilities. Mr. Henry Wattebson, editor of the Courier Journal and a retired member of Congress, had a public reception in Louisville last Thursday night. He made a very brilliant speech. According to his account, Mr. Tildbn lost the Presidency by having too much confi dence in the “forms of law.” Concern ing Mr. Hates, the Kentucky editor says: “Blessed are they who expeot nothing, for they will not be'disappoint ed.” At the same time ha advised the Southern people to praise Hates when he deserved it and to oriticise him freely when he went wrong. Mr. Watthbsox thinks the Democratic party will go on oonqnering and to conquer, and scouts the idea of its disorganisation by any instrumentality of the Administration. PARTY DIVISIONS. A correspondent of the Missouri Re publican furnishes some facts and fig ures relative to the exact status of the Forty-fifth Congress, ontside of con tested elections. There are three vacan cies in the Senate, one from South Carolina aud two from Louisiana. The tabulation of States geographically is thus given : United .States Senate. „ _ JDema. Reps. Bix New Eneland States 2 10 Three Middle States 4 2 Sixteen Southern States 24 5 Ten Western States 2 18 Three Pacific States l 6 „ 33 40 Republican majority House of Representatives. _. „ „ Bems. Reps. Six New England States 5 23 Three Middle States 30 37 Sixteen Southern States 90 16 Ten Western States 24 62 Three Pacific States 1 5 150 143 Democratic majority 7 The correspondent above alluded to says : “It will be seen that the Repub licans have exactly the same majority in the Senate that the Democrats have in the House, both political parties having precisely 183 votes on joint ballot.— There still remain five Republican Sen ators from the Southern States, whose terms expire in 1879 (except the negro, Bruce, of Mississippi, whose term ex tends to 1881). Thus in Alabama, Ar kansas, Florida and South Carolina the Democrats may reasonably expect to gain a Senator for each State in the next two years, which would suffice to place them in a majority even without the two Senators from Louisiana, and another in Sonth Carolina, to which they are al ready entitled.” It is worth while re membering also that Senatorial elections occur, in 1879, in New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pensylvania, Oregon, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, California, Colorado and Illinois. In many of these States the Democrats have at least an even chance of making gains over the present Republican representation. The correspondent adds: “Of the 106 Representatives in Congress to whioh the 16 Southern States are entitled 90 are Democrats, but Missouri and Louis iana will hardly 6leot four Republicans again, as each of them are charged with doing at the recent eleotion; South Carolina will not always send three Rad icals out of five Congressmen; and the two districts in Tennessee, together with a Congressman in Florida, North Caro lina and Virginia, will eaoh and all doubtless be redeemed in the immediate future. The Pacific States, it will be noticed, send as many Senators as Rep resentatives to Congress, and here also the Conservatives should receive a rein forcement before long, as out of a total voto of 205,341 cast In the three States of California, ©regon and Nevada in the recent election, the Republican ma jority was less than 4,500 in the three States combined; and it is already on record that more than this number of fraudulent votes were counted for the Republican electors in California, where the national election was lost and ivon through the diabolical machi nation of Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana ! Of the 38 States we may estimate at least 16 as safely Democratic; 7 as hopelessly Republican, leaving 15 to be regarded as debatable. These are Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Colorado, in the Western group;'.Cal ifornia, Oregon and Nevada, on the Pacific coast; New York and Pennsyl vania of the Middle States; Connecti cut and New Hampshire in New Eng land, and Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida at the South; although it is only a question of time when these three last named are as safely Democratic as Mis souri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Texas, Maryland, West Virgin ia, Arkansas and Delaware. ” With auch a promise in the future, it behooves the Democracy to perfect their organization, and not to disintegrate it The course of the President toward Louisiana and Sonth Carolina has not been quite so satisfactory as many good men hoped. Even now he is experienc ing the dangers of delay, and there is an apprehension, well founded, that a weak policy has taken the place of prac tical statesmanship. If the Democratic party has any faith in itself and faith in the people, its leaders will begin re-organizing at once, and in snob a way as to make another Electoral Commission entirely unneces sary. SOUTH CAROLINA. Mr. Nordhoff, writing to ihe Herald, from Washington, says: The President’s letter to Gov. Hampton and Mr. Chamberlain is the beginning of the end of the Uonth Carolina troublee. Mr. Cham berlain will have a civil hearing. An effort will be made to persuade him out of the way, and it ie believed here that he is not unwilling to go, but if he should prove obstinate, not only will the troops be withdrawn, and Gov. Hampton told to go ahead and take possession by legal process, but the President will take, care to put Mr. Chamberlain so clearly in the wrong before the country that he will get no sympathy from any quarter. This is the plain truth of the matter. It ie worth telling, be cause Washington was never eo full of false rumors as it has been in these days when the carpet-baggers are making their laet desperate stand. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Gazette evidently chimes ia with this heory. We are told that “the Liberal Republican supporters of Hates are giving oat in contradiction of the report that Hampton and Chamberlain are to come to submit to arbitration cf their claims that the real motive in this move ment is to get rid of Chamrbrlaix. They admit that Hampton’s case is invul nerable in every way, and no attempt will be made to dislodge him or to per suade him to arbitration. It is all im portant, however, that no disturbances shcnld take place, and it is believed that Chamberlain can be successfully worked with at Bates’ end of the line if the Administration gets him without compromising his dignity, and the plan has been adopted to fill this bill. He is the ‘nigger in the wood-pile.’ It may be set down as certain that if Hampton goes to Washington, it will not be to oonsent to any nonsensical suit before any tribunal over his claims as Gov ernor of the State.” The South Carolina case bids fair to be decided within a brief period. We oan practice a little pafiensg meanwhile. STORIES OF BARTER, Stories are flying thick and fast in the political world concerning a so-called barter, by which the Sonthern Demo crats in the House of Representatives are to support Charles Foster for Speaker, in consideration of looal self-government, harbor improvements, trans-Continental railroads, and all that sort of thing. The probabilities are that the South will get justice without any corrupt or intriguing practices. We dare say the Speaker of the next House will be a simon-pnre Democrat The Democrats are not likely to split up in the fashion indicated, seeing that they will no donbt capture the Senate in 1879. According to Col. Grady, of the Con stitution, Parson Felton is to be the great disturbing element in Georgia politics. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1877. THE APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES. A prominent citizen of Glascock county has written a letter to the Chron icle and Constitutionalist, relative to the apportionment of delegates to the Constitutional Convention from the Eighteenth Senatorial Distriot. The Eighteenth District, comprising the counties of Richmond, Glascook, and Jefferson, is entitled, by law, to seven delegates. Onr corres pondent proposes that Richmond send four, Jefferson two, and Glascook one of these delegates. This seems to be a perfectly fair apportionment, though, as we have said before, we wonld be per fectly willing to take all the delegates from one county, provided one county oould furnish seven of the best men in the Distriot. He also suggests that each county select, separately, the dele gates to whioh it is entitled. He says : “This mode of choosing will give satis faction to Glascock county, and pre vent any one getting on the ticket who will not be sustained by bis eonnty.” There is some force in the suggestion, bat before it oonld be ‘pat into execu tion it wonld hsve to be ascertained that the three oonnties of the Distriot agreed to the apportionment as well as to the mode of selecting delegates. There is no Democratic Committee for this Senatorial District. Nominations in the Distriot have usually been made by conventions, held in accordance with recommendations. There is a Demo cratic Committee foi eaoh county in the District having authority to act in such matters. It would be better, we think, for these committees to meet and deoide upon the course to be pursued. We call the attention of the Executive Com mittees of Riohmond county, to this matter, with the hope that an early meeting will be held and suggestions made, for aooeptanoe. or rejection, to Glascock end Jefferson. THE COTTON TAX. In answer to a correspondent, who wants to know whether the ootton tax was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the New York Tribune says the tax was declared by the Su preme Court of the United States to be unconstitutional. The Tribune is in correct in its statement. The Supreme Court did not deolare unconstitutional the aot levying the tax. The Jndges were evenly divided upon the question, and, therefore, the law could not be de clared unconstitutional. That the act was clearly and grossly unconstitutional no sound lawyer now denies, and there is little doubt that jf there oould be a re hearing of the case the decision of the Supreme Court would be aga nst the Government. The claim was carried to Congress but the demagogical tactics of some of the Southern Congressmen and the partisan malioe of some of the North ern members oombined to defeat its re cognition. The taxes paid under this pro soriptive and illegal legislation amount ed to sixty millions of dollars. The Cincinnati Enquirer says : “What will “ be done with it, now that Hayes is in “ and Tilden not, we cannot say. It has “ been repudiated so far on account of “ its magnitude, not because of any in “ justice attached to it. Whether its “ payment is to be a part of Mr. Hayes’ “ reconciliation polioy the future must “ determine. To colleot an pDjust tax— “ a tax forbidden by the Constitution “ to be levied or collected—and then re “ fuse to refund it on aooount of its “ magnitude, can be justified on pnblio “ policy. There are plenty such cases “ on record, and they belong to the bis “ tory of all governments. We reckon “ the ootton tax claim will more than “ likely swell the lint.” We do not pretend to say what will be done with the claim, but we have no hesitation in saying what should be done with it. It should be promptly paid, dollar for dollar, principal pnd in terest. Congress had no shadow of right, under the Constitution, to impose the tax. The Government had no right to oollect it. The money thus wrongfully obtained went into the Treasury of the Government, or into the pockets of its authorized agents, and it should be re funded. If a private person takes prop erty illegally the law compels him to make restitution. A Government should not be allowed to retain the proceeds of a fraud any more than an individual would be. The Southern people do not ask or expeott he refunding of this tax as a part of President Hayes' “reconoiliia tion polioy.” They do not wish a bribe —they desire simply justice. They are not in the political market to be bought, the opinion of Northern Democrats and Republicans to the oontrary notwith standing. Repayment of the ootton tax is either right or wrong. We believe it to be right, and onr demand for the money whioh the Government appro priated to its own use is based solely on that belief. WORLD-WIDE DEPRESSION OF BUSI NESS. At the assembling of the German Reichstag, the Emperor, in a personal address, referred to business prostration and declared that it was not of a local but a world-wide charaoter. This is, to a great degree, true. There are few, if any, countries in the aniverse wholesome ly situated as to trade. All the elements of wealth remain in wonderfnl profusion, bat the healthy manipulation of them hag ceased, be cause trade does not know which way to move safely. What with the Eastern question in Europe, and the Southern question in the United States, the busi ness community may well exhibit nervousness, perplexity and dread. Only the reckless speculator can be hap py nnder such circumstances, and be may find, like Kingan, s bloody bnrial where he had hoped to reap an impe rial harvest. It iB monstrous to think that a few potent men, who hold in their hands, by some inscrutable design of Provi dence, the destinies of millions, should nse their opportunities not for the good, bat the evil, of sanftsd. And this is sailed statecraft and diplomacy, Gop save the mark 1 Is it not rather the quint essence of diabolism ? In onr own country who can calculate the losses entailed everywhere by the President’s unfortunate policy of delay ? We challenge thq contradiction that he had an overwhelming popular opinion at his back when he gave the country the hope that, by the removal of the bayonets, the Southern question wojild be allowed to settle itself and, with that settlement, the most formidable ob stacle to a business revival removed. The commercial world of Europe seems powerless before the red-tape of Coarts and conventions which are sup posed to settle the controversy between Turk and Russian, bnt which end in unsettling everything. It weftd be better, in the opinion of msny practical minds, that the issues here and abroad should be made up decisively, one way or another, rather than be kept in a minatory suspense. If the Russian vanguard should push toward the Balkan mountains that stand sentry over against Constantinople, the men of commerce would have at least some thing like a certain basis for calculation. They know what war means, when en gaged between the bon of Pan* the Oust and the followers of the Arabian Prophet, more especially if, in defense of the latter, the naval squadrons of Great Britain de fend the water-way of the Ottoman capital. If peace or war were declared, in good faith, among other European ri vals, proper ventures or precautions could be made or taken. If the Presi dent of the United States would signify promptly what he means and what he does not mean, it wonld be the better for ns. Bnt so long as these high and mighty personages preserve a “chronic uncertainty,” there will be no revival of business worth the mention. In the lan guage of the drama, we urge them “to leave off their damnable farces and be gin.” ' VACILLANCY YS. VILLAINY. HAYES’ GLORIOUS SOUTHERN I'OLICY SHOWN UP. The Aliunde High Joint to Visit Louisiana— Five to One Better Than Eight to Seven— The Quadroon Qalntette— Hampton’s Tour and Ovation#—Not a Suppliant to Kneel Before the Usurper’s Throne, Rot ao Ex ecutive of a Victorious People. Washington, March 28 —The Secre tary of War has received a telegram from General Augnr in reply to that sent him on Monday requesting him to report what changes in the situation, if any, have occurred since th 6 close of the late administration. General Augur says he has no particular change to mention with the exception of the fact that both the Packard and Nicholls’ governments have been using strenuous efforts to strengthen their respective positions. General George A. Sheridan had an interview with the President this morn ing. He sees no reason why the friends of Nioholls’ government should have the least uneasiness. The Commission consists of ex-Gov ernor Brown, of Tennessee; Wayne Mc- Veigh, who was Minister to Turkey in 1871 and is a son-in-law to Simon Cam eron, a pronounced Repnblioan; Gen eral J. R. Hawley, of Connecticut, moderate Repu licr.n; General J. M. Harlan, of Kentucky, emphatic Republi can; Judge C. B, Lawrence, of Illinois, who was a prominent candidate for Senator last Wister as Republican, and formerly Chief Jnstioe-of the Supreme Court of Illinoii. The Commission will be instructed after the President has consulted Vice-President Wheeler. ilnnipton’s Tour. Wilmington, March 28—Governor Hampton, Attorney-General Conner and Senator Butler reached here on the Southern train this morning. An immense crowd of people, accom panied by a band of music, met them at the depot and to a reception speech by Hon. A. M- Waddell, Gover nor Hampton and General Butler re plied. The following is verbatim Governor Hampton’s speech : “My Friends—l go to Washington simply to state before the President the fact that the people of South Carolina have elected me Governor of that State. I go there to say to him that we ask no recognition from any President. We olaim the recognition from the votes of the people of the State. I go there to assure him that we are not fighting for party, but that we are fighting for the good of the whole country. lam going there to demand onr rights, nothing less; so help me God, to take nothing less. I go to tell him the condition that South Carolina has been in for years past; that onr people have been onder disadvan tages never encountered by any other people on the continent; that they car ried the election, were sucocessful; and that they propose to eDjoy the fruits of their victory.” Goldsboro, N. 0., March 28.—Hamp ton and party passed this point at noon. Two attempts were made to delay the train by misplaced switches at Timmons ville and Florence. At Wilmington and Magnolia the citizens turned out in great force and cheered enthusiastically for Hampton. Bands of music, handshaking and handkerchief waving accompanied every demonstration. Hampton briefly addressed crowds from the platform of the car. The gist of bis remarks were that having been elected Governor of South Carolina and having been recog nized by the people as such he intends to exercise his right. The visit was merely a matter of personal courtesy to the President Richmond, Itfarch 28.—Gov. Wade Hampton and party arrived here at 8:30, p. m., en route for Washington. He was met at the depot by an immense con course of people, numbering fully 5,000, including the Conservative clubs of the city, with music, and committees of prominent citizens, and was received with great enthusiasm, amid firing of oaanon and fireworks. An address of welcome was made by Hon. A. M. Keiley, ex-Mayor of Richmond. After returning thanks for the ovation Gov. Hampton said he interpreted the de monstration as a tribute to the cause he represented—Good Government, Home Rule and Reform. The people of South Carolina, he continued, are in earnest. We had tried compromise in vain, so last Pall we planted our feet firmly on the Constitution and began battle for our rights. We remembered that onrs was one of the original thirteen States, and strong men and noble women joined bands in the struggle, declaring by Almighty God that they would sacrifice everything to win. [Cheers.] A voice— “And yon did win.” Yes, my friend, we did win. Yon cannot imagine what those people had to bear to win their constitutional viotory; but they won, and fully twenty thousand colored men co-operated with them; and now thous ands and tens of thousands of colored men are paying taxes to my government. S Cheers.] And now, all we ask, and all ! am going to Washington to ask, is that the Federal troops be withdrawn from the State House of South Caro lina, the only place in the State where my authority is pot respected, t-end the soldiers to the barracks, wherejthey belong, and leave the government of State to the men who are strong enough to sustain it. My people tell me to hold on, and so long as they have a right to give me such advice, so help me God I will hold on. [Prolonged cheering ] New OspE4NS ( March gB, Three members who haye heretofore occupied seats in the Packard Hodse—Frank J. Dairy, of St. Loundry- Bernard Davies, of Point Coupee, and Ulger Romero, of Iberia—were to-day swopn ip and took seats in the JficholJs legislature. Washington, March 23. Senator Brace, accompanied by Representative Lynch, of Mississippi, visited the Presi dent to night by invitation. The Presi dent stated to them that it was his pur pose to bring parties and races in (he South into such relations as will secure peace and prosperity, and under local government provide protection to all classes without the intervention of Rede r 1 bayonets. The visitors seemed to gather from the observation of the Presi dent that Sonth Carolina and Lonisiana wonld have to be given up, but that the troops would not be withdrawn until ample guarantees were famished that disorders and oppression wonld not fol low. Senator Bruce is somewhat care ful in his expression, bnt he evidently thinks it best that the government of Louisiana should pass into Nicholls’ hands, Hampton arrives at Washington at 2 o’olock to-night. Nevada’s Newest Novelty. [From the Virginia City Enterprise.] A large iron water pipe is carried np through the steeple to the large cross of the new Roman Catholic Church. The pipe then takes the form of the cross, behind which it is hidden, and from holes perforated at proper intervals jets are sent np. From the top of the cross and fjrom the god qf pagh arm large streams ascend to the height of ahont twenty-five feet, and between these are thrown np a great nqmber of smaller jets. Last evening the numerous jets spread ont in the shape of a fan. The rays of the declining snn fell upon the jets and spray at just the proper angle to light op and bnng opt the whole in a beautiful roseate glow, which surround ed the top of the cross like a glory. This novel fonntain was Hot constructed for mere ornamept, It is intended for nse in case of the breaking out of a large fire as a protection to the spire aud the roof, Pli(UaJ Belem. [Burlington Book- Eye.] The new Secretary of the Navy hay ing been informed that there were buoys belonging to his Department in Now York harbor, immediately issued an or der commanding them to report to their ships without delay. “Discipline is discipline,” says the old salt, “if I have to akin every boy in the navy.” WADE JIAMPTON. HIS ANSWER TO HAYES’ LETTER. He Will iio to Washington as An Act of Courtesy. Columbia, S C., March 26 —Governor Hampton received yesterday (Sunday) the letter of President Hayes inviting him to Washington. To-day he has written in reply the following letter: Columbia, S. C., March 26, 1877. To His Excellency R B Hayes, Presi dent United States, Washington, D. C. : Sib— l have the honor to acknowledge yonr communication of the 23d instant, addressed to me by your Private Secre tary. As you express a desire for a per sonal conference with myself, I accept, through motives of proper courtesy to yourself, the invitation yon have ex tended, though I cannot hope, by doing so, to throw additional light on ques tions which have already been so ably and thoroughly presented, and the solu tion of which is so obvious and simple. But understanding from the communi cation I have received that the object contemplated by the proposed confer ence is solely that I might place before you my views of the impediments to the peaceful and orderly organization of a single and undisputed State government in South Carolina, and of the best methods of removing them, I shall avail myself of your invitation, so that I may reiterate in per son what I have had the honor to submit in writing, viz : That in my judgment all impedimenta to tjje ob jects so earnestly desired by yourself and so anxiously expected by the people of this State can at once be removed by the withdrawal of the Federal troops from our S*nie House. This action on the part of the Commander in-Chief of the United States forces would not only be hailed by our people &3 an evidence that the civil authority is no longer to be subordinate to the military power in our country, but it would establish law, insure domestic tranquility, re vive our wasted industries, and give an assurance that this State is to to be re stored to her just rights under the Constitution. Whatever grievances ex ist, whatever wropgs WO suffer, we pro pose to redress them not by a resort to force but by legal and constitutional agencies. Jn seeking such redress, I feel sure that I represent fully the de termination of the thoughtful and con servative portion of our whole people when I give the assuranoe that no proscription shall be exercised here on account of political opinions; that no discrimination shall be made in the administration of jus tice, and that all citizens of both par ties and both races shall be regarded as fully protected by, and amenable to the laws. Joining most heartily with you in the earnest desire you express that you may be able to put an end as speed ily as possible to all appearance of in tervention of the military authority of the United States in the political de angements which affeot the gqyern ment and afflict the people of South Carolina, and fervently trusting that this auspicious result may be reached, I have the honor to be. Very obedient ser vant, Wade Hampton, Goveing? of South (Carolina. Governor Hampton leaves to-morrow night and will arrive in Washington Thursday morning. Every thing is quiet and hopeful throughout the State. THE MORMON MONSTER. THP SPADER IJK THp MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE, OflF telegrams gave, op Saturday, gn account of the execution, by shooting, of John D. Lee, the Mormon leader, for the crime of murder, in the part he took in the Mountain Meadow Massacre, in Washington county, Utah, September 16, 1857. On that day, it will be remembered, 120 men, women and children, known as flip Arkansas emigrant train, passing through the Territory an their way to California, were, after several days’ fighting, decoyed from their fortifica tions on peaceful pretenses, and all but seventeen small children, who were not old enough to disclose anything, were butchered on the spot. The train was plundered, and most of the property turned over to the Mormon Church at Cedar City. The bloody clothiDg stripped from the mutilated bodies was sold at auction by order of the church authori ties at the same place. Lee was first tried at Beaver City, in the Territorial Jligtrict Court, in July, 1875. The jury isagreedi, aing being [py apq'uijtal and three for conviction. A second trial in the same Court in September, 1876, re sulted in a verdict of guilty. Lee was then sentenced to be shot .January 26, 1877, he choosing that mode of execu tion under the laws of Utah. On an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Territory the sentence below was con firmed, and ordered to be enforced in March, and the execution was accord ingly fixed for March 23. The Confession. After sentence had been passed last September, Lee made a full confession and placed it in the hands of W. W. Bishop, his counsel, to be published af ter his death, An abstract of this con fession is now published, attested by Mr. Bishop. It is thought probable, however, that Lee has prepared anew confession, in which he may have modi fied some of his previous statements. The statement as now published is to the following effect: Lee was born September 6, 1812, at Kaskaskia, 111., was married in 1833, and first took up Mormonisin in 1837. He became a prominent Mormon, and held a number of high places in the church. He has been sealed to eighteen women, three of whom were sisters, and one was the mother of three of his wives. He was sealed to this old woman for her soul’s salvation. They who were with bin in the Mouufaig Meadow afiair were acting under orders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The deeds then committed were done as a duty which they believed they owed to God and their church. He adds: “I was an honored man in the church, flittered and regarded by Brigham Young and the apostles until 1868, when I was cut or? from the church and select ed as a scapegoat to suffer and bear the sins of my people. Asa duty to myself and mankind I now confess all that I know and all that I did at the Mountain Meadow massacre, without animosity to any one, shielding none, giving facts as they existed.” The narrative then goes on to speak of the massacre. It says they were all sworn to secrecy. The massaore was the result of the direct teachings of Brighapi Yqung. The immediate or ders for the massacre were issued by Col. Dome, Lieutenant-Colonel C. Haight and the poqnoil at oesar City, Utah. He waa ordered to raise the In dians to attack the train and to run off the cattle and have the Indians kill the emigrants. The whole country was aroused, both whites and Indians rush ing to Mountain Meadow from all di rections. There were fifty-eight whites and about five hundred Indians there. Then Maj. Higby made a speech and said that the emigrants were all to be killed who could talk; that we must get them out of the fortifications by treach ery. On Friday, September 42,' the em igrants hid a white flag flying, and the Mormon brethren again assembled. Speeches were made and all expressed themselves as willing to act. Maj. Higby harrangued the party, saying it was the orders of the President that the party should be put out of the way. They buried the dead and drove the cat tle to the Iron Springs. It was a duty they owed to the church. The flag of truce was then sent forward. The bearer was met half way by the emigrants, and they held a parley with him. He then returned and reported that the emigrants would surrender their arms and do as they had been requested. The Mormon soldiers then marched out to within 200 yards of the emigrants. They next took the wagons anil went to the camp and stated their orders. The emi grants then surrendered, aad put their arms, the sick and the wounded and the children into the wagons. While they were burying their dead men. the emi grants burst into tears ana said they feared treaphery. As soon as the wagons were loaded the train started. The emi grants marched in single file, the women and t}je large children ahead; then the men came. When the wagons were half a mile off, the firing commenced. The Indians killed all the women anfi large children, the Mormons killed the ipen; the drivers, with L ee killed the sick and Wonnapd. We sayed seventeen of the children. The dead w ere stripped and mutilated, and the corpses left on the field. The Mormons camped on the field. They buried the dead and drove the cattle to the Iron Springs. Brig ham Young told him not a drop of innocent blood had been shed. He (Yonng) said he had direct evidence from God that the act was a just one, and he wonld report to the United States that it was an Indian massacre. The narrative then continues to show that the Mormon leaders originated the massacre, and the responsibility there for is with them. He (Lee) only obeyed the orders of his superiors. Haight also told him he had deserved well of God and the church. William 0. Stew art was the most blood-thirsty of any one there. He cut throats just for amusement. Kfingensmitb, the Bishop at Cedar City, killed a man. Every one there took part in killing men, women and ohildren as a religious duty. “I am the father of sixty-four chil dren, ten are dead, fifty-four are still living. My journals and private writ ings have been destroyed by order of Brigham Young. I know of many other murders, castrations and robberies com mitted by order of the priesthood. The story names about thirty whites who were present, including Bishop Smith, of the Mormon Churoh. In a sermon at Cedar City, subsequent to the massa cre, Brigham Yonng said if any one in formed on the authors they would goto hell and be damned as lost sonls,” GEORGIA NEWS. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Madison has anew calaboose. Pool is the favorite Thomasville game. Ufirieß bad a small flre last Thursday night. Sunset Cox lectures in Macon to night. Senators Hill and Gordon are expeot ed home early this week, Mr. John Fitz, of Dahlonega, has mysteriously disappeared. Worjc on the new Episcopal Chnroh in Darien has bees resumed, ’ Sunset Cox, the “wit of the House,” is creating a stir in Georgia. There was not an interment in the Macon oemeteries last week. At the age of 18 Wm. H. Seward was principal of a Georgia academy. The Griffin News urges upon planters the importance of planting corn. Boll's majority oyer Speer is 1,355, with Piokens county to bear from. Lightning set fire to the telegraph office at Calhoun last Friday night. Howard Van Epps will deliver the ad dress in Atlanta ou Memorial Day. The prisoners in Dahlonega jail made an attempt to escape one day last week. Alton Angier is sojourning at the Ar lington Hotel at the Hot Springs, Ar kansas. Cattle are said tq dying in large num bers iu portions of Thomas and Colquitt counties. Congressman Smith had a rousing reception at Albany on his return from Washington. A band of gypsies passed through Calhoun Thursday, going in the direc tion of Dalton, Col. Wm. A. Harris, Secretary of the Senate, is raising a oavalry company in Worth county. Special trains will be run from Savan nah and Macon to the Thomasville fair to be held in May. Tbe ThomaaviUe Library Association has commenced its second year under favorable auspices. Col. Wier Boyd is announced as a can didate to the t onstitutional Convention from the 32d District. The Markham House in clear ed ten thousand dollars during the ses sion of the Legislature. The Eighteenth Senatorial Distriot is entitled to seven delegates in the Con stitutional Convention. 4 oitigen of Madison expects to ereot a fine brick residence in that place dur ing the ooming Summer. Great distress prevails in Worth oonn ty on account of the recent eyelones, and appeals for aid are made. Sunset Cox, Judge James Jackson and Judge Trippe served together in Con grass in the days of ante-bellum,. Governor Colquitt will render his de cision in the Fulton contested eleotion case (Hammond vs. Pittman) this week. Dr. W. P. Harrison’s prospective lec ture tour through the North is being fa vorably noticed in the Northern papers. The Supreme Court will b,C engaged on the Rome Circuit this week, Chero kee Circuit follows, and then the Au gusta. A great many Northern people are stopping at the Atlanta hotels, tarrying in the Gate City as they return home from Florida. We learn from the Citizey, that Mrs. J. J. Chambers, of Dalton, accidentally shot hersejf in tbe band last week while moving a pistol, When Skowhegan Bryant makes charges against a man’s personal char acter old Nick should issue oertifioates of good character. S. T. Bozeman and Joseph P. Arwood, of Pickens county, had an altercation jp a field on the Bth inst., and tbe former was killed by thq latter, An industrious lady near Blakely truthfully remarked, tbe other day, that the hardest work people in this country do is in trying to keep from work. A citizen living in Thomas county was instantly killed a few day ß ago by his house being hlown down. Rumors of other disasters caused by the blow are afloat. Governor Colquitt has decided the contested election ease for the Collector and Assessor of Deoatur county in fayor of Mr. Jacob Harrell, the preseut in cumbent. Mr. Lhornas R. Dickey, one of the oldest and most highly respected citi zens of Southwestern Georgia, died at his residence in Whitney, Calhonn countvt on Thursday, the 15th instant, aged 79 years, 9 months and 9 days. At a recent rabbit hunt in Randolph county, two parties were in the field, one beaded by Mr. Geeslin and th® other by Mr. Dixon. The former bagged forty five and the latter ninteen of the “cot tontails,” so destructive to vegetable gardens and so good for the manufacture of “hare soup.” The farmers in this vioinity are mak ing splendid headway npon their farms, and are taking advantage of the oppor tunity afforded them by the continued mildness of the weather to set their plows, horses, harness, &c., in fine work ing trim. All of which betoken a good ly harvest. —Dahlonega Signal. There are now in attendance upon the white schools of Oolumbus 279 boys and 329 girls—total, 608. On the colored schools the daily attendance is about 550—making a total of 1,158. These are educated at the expense of the city, and the system is so admirably arranged that the total cost of the session is about $9 per annum. How diaries Foster Hoaxed the Democrat*. [Strom itifi Chicago Times.] Apparently the worst disgusted man iu the Hayes party just now is Mr. Fos ter, who represents in Congress the dis trict in which Hayes lives in Ohio, dur ing the infrequent and brief intervals of his office-holdiog. Foster presented himself in Washington as the plenipo tentiary of Hayes during the feverish days of the Bradley Court. He pledged himself and his principal, ip every form of words capable-of pdaitiyeness, to fbe asspfanae' that the first official act of Hayes would he to order the withdrawal of military protection from the sham governments in Louisiana and South Car o ina. These pledges alone persuaded the Southern leaders to abide by the Bradley swindle. Day after day popu lar protests against the course of the Southern £cajreßsmen poured in upon him, and were exhibited to Foster, who spent his days and nights in renew ing and reiterating his pledges, r*r*gr. -- -- p.eatb of Bill Arif. From the Fort Worth (Texas), Itoily democrat we olip the following item : Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the man who furnished the witticisms and odd say ing, which Charles H, Sfidifi prepared and published some years ago, was acci dentally killed near this place (Deoatqr, Texas), Monday, March sth. H e fell from a wagon loaded corn, the wheels passing oyer his neck, killing him instantly. When he left home in the morniDg he told his family hq would never again be i* enter the house alive) and, strange to. say, he was within fifty yards of the house, on his return, when the sad accident occurred, which terminated so fatullv. He was a remarkable man : perfectly illiterate, bfit original Ideas and witty saying. Be rarely ever spoke without Saying something pithy, Pall are la Atlanta. Atlanta, March 27. —Colonel George W. Adair, real estate agent, supended to-day. Liabilities, $140,000. Assets sufficient to pay in full if properly man aged, $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID THE CONSOLIDATION. WHAT THE PRESS SAYS OF THE CHRONICLE AND CONSTITU TIONALIST. ‘‘Should Be One of the Beet Paper* in the South." (Philadelphia Times 1 The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Au gusta, Ga., and the Constitutionalist, of the same plaoe, have been consolidated, and will hereafter appear as the Chroni ole and Constitutionalist. This should be one of the best papers in the South. Another Opinion to the Same Eflect. [New York Express.] The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Au gusta, Ga., and the Constitutionalist, of the same place, have been consolidated, and will hereafter appear as the Chroni cle and Constitutionalist. This should be one of the best papers in the South, and indeed the Chroniole has long been one of the best of our Southern ex changes. No Change Except for the Best. [Greenville (S. 0.) News.] This double team makes no change for subscribers, unless it be for their good, and we may expect in this combi nation one of tbe leading Southern pa pers. The relations of Augusta to South Carolina makes this change of special interest to onr people, and we give the right hand to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, Wishing the Fullest Measure ef .Success. [Columbia (S. C.) Register.] The Augusta Constitutionalist has been consolidated with the Chroniole ■and Sentinel under the above name. No change is made in the business and edi torial management of the consolidated paper from that of the Chroniole and Sentinel. The accomplished editor of the Constitutionalist, James R. Ran dall, Esq., widely known as a vigorous and graceful writer, has been invited to cast in his fortunes with the new enter prise, and has entered upon his work with characteristic spirit and earnest ness. We wish the new journal the full est measure of success, Excellent qualities to Be Doubled. [Columbus Times.] The Augusta Constitutionalist and Chronicle appeared on Snnday morning as a consolidation of the two papers of those names. They were both excellent journals before, and as the consolidated paper retains all the leading editors of both, its staff will be uncommonly able and efficient, They were both very old papers for Georgia, always respectable, popular and able when divided, and we trust that when united all these excel lent qualities will be doubled. How Knoxville Unok* at It. (Knoxville Age ] The Augusta Chrouiole and Sentinel and the Constitutionalist have combin ed and Augusta hereafter will have but one daily paper. The work of consoli dation among newspapers goes on to the great benefit of both the papers them selves and the communities in which they are published. Knoxville stands pre-eminent in the number of her daily papers. How she does it ween such cities as Atlanta, Augusta and Nashville oan not well support but one, is one of those things a fallow can't find out— not even the men who run the machines. One By One the Roses Fall. [Griffin News] The Augusta Constitutionalist has consolidated with the Chronicle and Sentinel, and Augusta will in the future have but oae daily paper. The paper will be under the management of Messrs. Walsh & Wright. The Constitution alist was one of the best papers in the State and was managed well, but Au gusta, like all other cities in Georgia, was not able to support two daily papers, and we should think that several gentle men in the State are oonvinoed of the fact from sad experience. A Broad and Wise Departure In New&paper Affairs. [Savannah News.) The consolidation of the two daily pa pers of our sister city, Augusta—the Chronicle and Sentinel and the Const! tutionalist—is one of the events of Southern journalism which indicates a broad and, we cannot help from think ing, a wise departure in newspaper af fairs. The former paper was establish ed in 1785 and the latter in 1799, and both having reached a good old age, have been rehabilitated into the now youthful Chronicle and Constitutional ist. The reasons which have influenced these old journals to unite their fortunes on approaching their oentennial are suf ficiently expressed and forcible as to justify the wisdom of the oonsolidation, and to render the union one that must benefit the patrons of each journal, and the parties immediately pecuniarily in terested. We are pleased to know that the services of Mr. Randal!, so long at the helm of the old Constitutionalist, will be retained in the consolidated journal, which is a sufficient guarantee that its wide-spread usefulness will be increased by the change. Augusta Congratulated on the Consolidation, [Atlanta Constitution.) We congratulate Augusta upon the consolidation of her two morning papers. It will result in a well-sustained, well edited journal, which will fitly represent, both at home abroad, all her varied in terests. And that, too, at the smallest posible expense to the people. A morn ing paper is an expensive thing, but it is not as expensive to a community as two morning papers. The Chronicle and Constitutionalist does in fact under estimate, when it says “the expense of publishing a good morning paper in the South, even at the reduoed price of labor and material, ranges from five hun dred to one thousand dollars per week, cash.” We admit that these figures are as high a Southern newspaper receipts will as a rule justify. T'iere has not been, however, a week since the first day of last November when the weekly oash expenses of the Constitution were as low as the highest sum named by the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, The latter ia surely right wfiea ii says that fewer and better papers are needed, and that a thinking out would alike benefit publishers, subscribers and advertisers. A First Rate Newspaper tV? Result. I Charleston Naw* snd Courier.] The consolidation of the Augusta Con stitutionalist with the Augnsta Chron icle and Sentinel, briefly -announced yes terday, gives to Augusta a first rate newspaper, able to supply its readers with the brashest news from every quar ter, and qualified to hold the field, we judge, against all comers. Both the Constitutionalist and Chronicle and Sen tinel were a credit to Augusta and Geor gia } bnt now that they have joined forces, and the business formerly divid ed between them is concentrated upon the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, the nmbrageons city, so near and de%r to Charleston, will stronger r^prftentative of the opinions aD fl ihteref ts its people. The rea -Bu_B for tpe consolidation are fairly and forcibly stated in the article published elsewbffo* We concur, as our readers kuow, _in the opinions held by the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, and time will prove their truth. €)ur con temporary rather understates the cost of conducting Southern newspapers.— The Sceount of the News end Courier is considerably morq than the maximum rate named, pud we know that not a dime 45 wasted or spent to no purpose. _ H the South there are too many active competitors in the held of journalism, and in the struggle for exist ence the fittest will survive. The Chronicle and Constitutionalist will be conducted by Messrs. Walsh # Wright 1 and Mr. James R. Randall, the former editor-in-chief q* the Constitutionalist. Theywiji deserve entire success, and I doubtless will command it, \ jdlthH Move. [Macon Telegraph.] The Chronicle and Sentinel and Con stitutionalist, of Augusta, have united their fortunes under the sign of the Ohroqiole and Constitutionalist—the new paper being published by Messrs. Walsh A Wright, and combining the editorial force of both. This is a judicious move ment-resulting, perhaps, unavoidably, iu any ease, from the yearly increasing expenses of daily newspapers, which, in these times of rapid intelligence, have come to be little else than original pro ductions throughout, made up ia small part by extracts from other prints. The Telegraph is often almost wholly made up of telegrams and other original mat ter, and thus we have the labor and ex pense of composing and printing wbat would amount to a stout volume every day, while ten or fifteen yearn ago three or four columns of original matter was considered a surfeit, la the face of this, increase of expense, the Constitutional ist, m eagerness to increase its circula tion, committed the blunder of reducing its pnoe to six dollars a year, winch ten minutes of figuring wonla have shown involved it in a positive loss on every subscriber. It is true, iu a very populous oentre, where labor and telegraphic and general busi ness expenses could be distributed through a* subscription list of many thousands, the result might have been diflerent. But in Georgia the constitu ency of a daily paper is necessarily small. It oannot circulate beyond lo calities where it is able to carry the ear liest news, and these do not ooutain peo ple enough to furnish a large subscrip tion list. We trust the Chronicle and Constitutionalist will “live long and prosper.” Fewer Newspapers aad Better the Need. [Springfield Republican.] The latest illustration of the growing tendency of American journalism to double up is at Augusta, Ga., where two newspapers that have been running separately since the last oentnry have been put together. If just half the newspapers in this country conld be suddenly suppressed or united to the other half, it would be a great boon to journalism and a great comfort to news paper readers. Fewer newspapers and better are the need both of the profes sion and the pnblio, and the papers can’t be much better till there are fewer. Promises To Be Still Better. [St. Louis Dispatch.] The Augusta (Ga.) ChronieJeand Sen tinel has consolidated with the Consti tutionalist of that city, which leaves Au gnsta with but one daily newspaper. The Sentinel was an ably conducted journal, and it promises under the new regime to be still better. A Creditable Piece of Journalism. [Hartford Oourant.] The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and the Constitutionalist bave combined, and make an excellent newspaper. The new Chronicle and Constitutionalist savs it costs SSOO to SI,OOO oash a week to con duct a paper in Augusta, and the place will not support two. Its one is a creditable piece of journalism. The New Order of Tiling* Requires a Change. [Cleveland (0.) Herald.] The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sen tinel and Constitutionalist—the former established in 1785 and the latter in 1799—have been consolidated under the name of the Chronicle and Constitution alist. This leaves Augusta with only one daily newspaper. The new order of things requires a change in the charac ter of the newspapers, and those who were familiar with the Southern news papers of the old days, and who see the better class of Southern newspapers of to-day, oan readily see the change. But the newspaper of to day costs infinitely more money to run it, and what would spffloe to carry a paper of the old school six months will now scarcely carry it a fortnight. The result is seen in the dis appearance of old papers, and in con solidation after consolidation, nntil thero is in Savannah but one daily paper, in Macon but one, in Atlanta but one, in Nashville bnt one, in Montgomery but oae, in Augusta but one, and in Galves ton virtually but one. In fact, there is soarcely a Southern city of fifty thou sand inhabitants or under, in which there is more than one daily paper pub lished, Consolidations Improve Journalism., 1 Boston Globe 1 The Chronicle and Sentinel and the Constitutionalist, of Au usta, Ga., have consolidated under the formidable name of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist. The business and editorial management is that of the former Chronicle and Sen tinel, while the editor of the Constitu tionalist joins the editorial staff of the new paper. It is noteworthy that the number of daily newspapers in the South has materially decreased of late years through consolidations and sus pensions, and now there is but one in Savannah, one in Atlanta, one in Au gnsta, one in Nashville, one in Mobile, one in Montgomery, and in fact there ia hardly a Southern city except New Or leans and Louisville in which there is more than one. It is also noteworthy that with the decrease in number their character has decidedly improved. Those which are left are for the most part newspapers, and not mere organa through which political leaders express their views. In the olden time a South ern newspaper gave little attention to news beyond merely local intelli gence, and was devoted to the fiercest kind of polities for home consumption. Such a thing as calm discussion of public questions was almost unknown, and instead of that tbere were appeals to prejudice and excitement of passion. Now the Southern papers fur nish their readers with intelligence ot all important events in this and other countries by telegraph and mail, they discuss matters of interest with a calm - ness and fairness formerly unknown in that part of the country, and the result is that the views of the people are widen ing and deepening every day. They un derstand the character and sentiments of Northern people better, they compre hend their own interests as they never did before, and they are becoming more liberal and progressive every year. It is a wholesome sign, and the newspaper press, intelligently and honestly con ducted, oan do more far the reconstruc tion and regeneration of the Houth and toward bringing it into harmonious re lations with the rest of the country than all the politicians and legislators who consider themselves burdened with the great problems and tasks of the age. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE!*. Mr. Felton** Views Upon Party —A Prophecy—Who will Bet Vie Next Uov ernor of Georgia. [Atlanta Constitution.] I take advantage of the first leisure I have had to report an interview that I had with Dr. Felton, the famous parson of the Seventh, prior to the election in the Ninth Distriot. Dr. Felton said: “I know very little of the raoe in the Ninth District, but I shall expect to see Mr. Speer win the race. M\ reason for believing this is my knowledge of the disgust the people have for conventions and professional politicians. I believe that a majority of the Democratic votes of the district will be cast against the nominee of the Convention. I believe that the majority of the people of Georgia are ready to day to oppose the nominee of a Demo cratic Convention, as now organized and managed.” 1 asked the doctor if he meant to say that a majority of the Democrats of the State were opposed to party methods and machinery. He replied, “I mean to say that I do not believe you can elect the nominee of the next Democratic Convention for Governor to the office when he is nomi nated,*’ “Who will beat him ?” “I do not know. Bnt the people will find the proper man when the time oomes. He will be a good Democrat— an honest man—and one whose charac ter and record is above suspicion. He must be this or be eannot win. He will be this, because the people will select him. The politicians often make mis takes, but the people never do 1” 1 “If there are two or three candidates running, will not the Republicans slip their man in 7” I asked. “No, sir 1 No Republican can be elected in Georgia. It is absurd to talk abont it. Show me an instance in our politics where a Radical has slipped in between two contending Democrats. There are ! none. Iu my District they ran Repub licans each time. They hardly got a hundred votes. If twenty Democrats were to run for Governor in the next : election a Radical could not be elected. Just as sure as the people could get to the ballot box they would select the right man. And now you mark this as sertion:' the nominee of the next Guber -1 natorial Democratic Convention in Georgia will be defeated; he will be de feated by a good Democrat, who will enter the race at the instance of no Con vention ; and the Republican candidate, if there be one, will get a purely insig nificant vote. Lhl His Mind. ICrawforduiUe Democrat .] Mr. J. M. Hackney, of Washington, Ga., was in town yesterday, on his re turn from Mitledgeville, where he had been to carry General B. W. Heard, of ‘Washington, to the State Asylum, who has become a lunatic, eaused by ill health and financial troubles. General Heard is the wreck of a great and gen erous mind, The Oongaree is overflowing its shore* around and abont Columbia,