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WEDNESDAY, APRIL - 11, 1877^
THE WAYNESBOBO tYSCHISG.
We find the following in the Atlanta
Republican, the only Radical paper pub
lished in Georgia:
Augusts (the citizens we seen, all its citi
zens) adds another to its list of fearful
murders. It was an Augusta crowd that killed
the negro in Burke county. What will be done
about it? Where is Hzsschkl V. Johnzos,
the reforming Judge, that is striking terror
through all that region to the hearts of eril
doers ?
There are about as many falsehoods as
lines in the above paragraph. If the Re
publican knows anything about the Way
nesboro lynching it knows that only seven
teen men from Augusta were parties to
the outrage. It knows both press and
pulpit have severely condemned the
crime, and that the Governor of the
State has offered a large reward for the
apprehension and conviction of the
criminals. If the editor of the Repub
lican had lived long enough in Georgia
to acquire a knowledge of State affairs
he would know, also, that neither Burke
county nor Richmond county is in the
circuit of which Hebschkl V. Johnson is
the Judge. His sneer at that virtuous
man and upright Judge is in particular
ly bad taste when it is remembered that
Judge Johnson’s moral courage and im
partial administration of the laws pro
tected the negroes ooncerned in the
Washington county affair from the ven
geance of an enraged community.
THE CANE OF LOUISIANA.
For Governor of Louisiana, Francis T.
Nicholas received 84,487 votes, and
Stephen B. Packard 76,477. The Re
turning Board, by practically disfran
chising over 15,000 of these votes, pro
claimed Packard elected by a vote of
74,042 to 71,198 for Nicholas. The
Legislature as elected consisted of twen
ty Democrats to fifteen Republicans in
the Senate, and sixty-two Democrats to
fifty-eight Republicans in the House—a
Democratic majority of eight on joint
ballot. The Returning Board gave cer
tificates to three Rpublican Senators
and nine Republican Representatives
who had been defeated at the polls,
thus making each branch Republican.
Each party organized a Legislature of
its own, and the Democrats before the
middle of January gained recruits
enough to their Senate to leave the upper
branch of the Legislature without a quo
rum of Returning Board members, as it
has ever since remained. Before this it
had elected Kellogg to the Senate, but
it has never been able to get a quorum
to choose anybody for the other vacant
seat. Each Governor was inaugurated
by his party and Legislature early in
January, and the Democrats soon had
control of about everything in New Or
leans, and in nearly all the parishes the
authority of his government alone is
recognized. The case oannot be settled
by the Courts, as in South Carolina, be
cause Nicholls and Packard have each
appointed a Supreme Court. Nicholas
was elected by a large majority. He
is reoognized as Governor by all the tax
payers and most of the people, white and
black, of the State. If the military were
withdrawn Packard’s pretended govern
ment would fall to pieces in twenty-four
hours. It can only be kept in existence
by the army of the United States. Nich
olls will be Governor of Louisiana or
the State will have a military govern
ment.
REPUBLICAN INDIGNATION IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
The South Carolina Republicans of
the Chamberlain way of thinking are
angry with the President because of
what they call his desertion of “ the
party ” in that State. After the news
of the order removing the troops from
the Columbia State House had been re
ceived in Charleston, a number of lead
ing Radicals were interviewed by a
newspaper reporter. Mayor Cunning
han thought the order meant the disso
lution of the Republican party, but be
trayed no irritation. The others came
to the same conclusion, but did not
view the prospect so complacently.—
Solicitor and ex-Congressman Buttz
aaid that Mr. Hayes, through
Standee Matthews and Fosteb, had
traded off the Republican party of
South Carolina and Lonisiana to a
few Southern Democrats in order to
make himself President. He consid
ered that President Hayes, by his in
augural address and selection of his
Cabinet, showed dearly that he was en
deavoring to educate the Northern Re
publican mind to receive without sur
prise his coarse towards the South, and
that his delaying the settlement of the
issue was only a blind to gain sufficient
time to oomplete that education. He
thought that the settlement would be
accepted quietly and peaoeably by the
Republican party, and that, as in Vir
ginia and other Democratic States, there
would be no outbreak. He believed
that the establishment of a Democratic
government in South Carolina would
put a stop to all futura disturbances,
beoause the Republicans would acqui
esce quietly and in good faith. As to
the effect of the settlement upon the
Republican party, he was of the opinion
that a large portion of the colored vote
would be secured by the Democracy,
and that they would continue to flatter
the President until the next election,
when he would share the same fate as
Andrew Johnson. Buttz has no word
of sympathy for the Carolina claim
ant. He says Chamberlain pan
dered to the Democrats to gratify
his personal ambition, and when they
threw him overboard foroed himself
back upon the Republicans. Tim Hub
dey thought the order settled the ques
tion of the Governorship very conclu
sively, and that the Republicans would
quietly accept the situation. He said
that a meeting of thirty or more promi
nent Republicans, white and oolored,
had been held to consider the propriety
of issuing a manifesto renouncing their
allegiance to the Republican party of
the North, and to offer their co-opera
tion to the Democrats of the Sonth,
in order to show the National Republi
can party that, while they had clearly
sold them out, and given them to under
stand that they were too heavy a load
for them, they could by allying them
selves with the Southern Democracy
prove that they were an important ele
ment of strength in National as well as
State politics. Hurley stated that it
was his opinion, and the opinion of all
that he had conferred with, that the
Hampton government would bring
peace and prosperity to the State. That
the Democratic party could do more for
them; and wonld go farther to seenre
them all their rights, than the Republi
can party had done or cocld do. F. J.
Moses, the robber Governor, thongbt
that the withdrawal of the troops was
tantamount to an establishment of the
Hampton government, and he fnrther
stated that there waa a strong movement
on foot to call a convention denouncing
the National Repnblican party, and ten
dering their support to the Democracy
of the South. Considering the import
ance of the colored vote, he said they
thought that the Democratic party
wonld and could do more for them as a
class than the Repnblican party of the
North had seen fit to do, and they were
determined to look after their own in
terns ts in the fntnre. A. O. Jones, the
CVeik pt the Mackey House of Repre
seDtativas, considered the contest for
.the State virtually ended, and thought
*kat the beat thing for the Republi
can party of the Besth to do was to hold
w meeting and renounce their allegianoe
*o the Republican party, and offer their
Rapport to the Democratic party. He
thought “that,Ml Hayes was entirely too
good tor his party, and aa for Mr. Cham
berlain, he thought he was vacillating
and only fit tor teaching school.'’ The
Republican party of Sooth Carolina will
sot give the Democracy of that State
pinch trouble in the fntnre. The im
mense structure reared by corruption
and upheld by the bayonet haa fallen
into dust at the scratch of a pen.
exportation or beet to great
BRITAIN.
The high price of beef in Great Bri
tain caused a firm of Glasgow butchers
to try the experiment abont a year ago
of importing beef from the United
States. They succeeded §o well that
others imitated their example, and the
trade is now assuming large proportions.
The cattle are carried alive to New York
and there slaughtered. The carcasses
are sacked and huDg in an immense re*
frigerator constructed in the steamship.
The meat is not frozen, but is kept at a
very low temperature daring the voy
age by means of a current of air passing
over blocks of ice. It reaches England
in excellent condition, and finds ready
sale in the markets of London and
Glasgow. Philadelphia commenced lalt
October to engage in tbe business. Last
July New York shipped 1,170,000
pounds, valued at $101,250. Last Feb
ruary New York shipped 3.606,610
pounds, vatned at $293,338. In Octet*r
Philadelphia shipped 150,610 pounds,
valued at $14,408. In February Phila
delphia shipped 1,348,000 pounds, val
ued at $127,619. The total shipments
have increased in seven months from
1,170,000 ponnds, valued at $101,250 to
23,200,955 pounds, valued at $2,087,298.
The cattle come principally from the
West, and the supply seems inexhausti
ble.
HOLDING OFFICE UNDER HAVES.
We print this morning a letter from
General Robert Toombs to the Ohbon
icle and Constitutionalist upon the
subject of Southern men bolding office
under tbe new Administration. General
Toombs does not think the question of
much practical importance, “as it is not
very probable that any inconvenient
pressure will be brought to bear ppon
Southern Democrats to aid President
Hayes in carrying on his usurped
and fraudulent Government.” General
Toombs still wages war upon the
Fonrteenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
forgetting that those measures, iniqui
tous as they were at the time of their
adoption, have greatly augmented the
political power of the Sonth and of the
National Democracy, and that they are
now universally acquiesced in North
and Sonth. He sees no difference be
tween the principles of Mr. Hayes and
the principles of those who supported
Tilden. As there were not ten Demo
crats in the Sooth who refused to sup
port the nominees of the St. Louis
Convention, the President, according to
General Toombs, has a wide field from
which to select office holders. General
Toombs, however, recognizes the neces
sity of having Federal offices in the
Sonth filled with honest and oapable
men. If Mr. Hayes should offer posi
tions to such men he thinks the public
interest wonld be promoted by their
acceptance. General Toombs disposes
of the suggestion that such a policy
would injure the Democratic party in
one terse sentenoe : “It may be urged
that suoh a policy might strengthen the
canse of tbe oppressor; I think it
would be more apt to strengthen that of
the oppressed.”
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Hon. A. O. Walker publishes a com
mnnication in the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist this morning giving some
of the reasons why he wonld like to be a
delegate to the Constitutional Conven
tion, but declining positively, on ac
count of fixed habits of ill health, to al
low the nse of his name. Col. Walker’s
declination will be read with general re
gret. By common consent he was ex
pected to be one of the delegstes from
this District. His firmness, his integrity,
his talents and his patriotism are needed
in the Convention, and he wonld have
ably represented one of the largest and
wealthiest constituencies in tbe State.
Col. Walker closes his commnnication
by suggesting tbe names of fonr dele
gates from this eonnty. One of those
named (Mr. H. G. Wright) fully appre
ciates the compliment of snoh a sugges
tion from such a source, bnt has
no idea of becoming a candidate
for the Convention. He is fully occu
pied by his editorial duties and thinks
that, in his present position, he can ren
der better service in assisting to seenre a
good organio law for the people of Geor
gia than he eonld as a member of tbe
Convention. Other Senatorial Districts
are preparing for the election of dele
gates. It is time for something to be
done in tbe Eighteenth Distriot. So far
neither Jefferson nor Glascock have
taken or suggested action. We think it
wonld be well for Richmond county to
take steps towards pntting the matter in
shape. We suggest that the Executive
Committee of the oonnty meet and pro
pose something for the consideration of
the other counties. Mr. Adam John
ston is the Chairman of this Committee,
and we oommend the matter to hia atten
tion.
THE NEW YORK WITNESS.
Some days ago we had occasion to an
swer an article in the New York Witness,
concerning Gen. Butler and the Ham
burg riot.
Tbe Witness, of a late date, publishes
what we wrote and appends to it the sub
joined commnnioition from a correspon
dent who “resides not far from Ham
burg:”
From ibis article you will see that you are
striking in the right direction, for every word
you have uttered about this man Bctlkb is so,
aud it will be proved at the proper time that he
was head aud instigator of the Hamburg mas
sacre. He was there and it was by his order
the poor negroes were shot, although he says
he can prove his innocenoe. That is his style,
and he just thinks that he can bally every
body. If it was known that I gave this infor
mation to you Butlhb wonld have me butcher
ed in tbe same manner that he had the poor
negroes at Hamburg. The people at the North
hare no idea what a Southern Republican haa
to end are.
The editor of the Witness adds the
following comment:
It ie pleasant to see that Butleb seeks to
escape the shame of this murder by denying
any complicity in it. This marks a better state
of public opinion among Southern whites than
we had ventured to hope for, bnt his denial
does not agree at all with the accounts pub
lished at the time, and we suppose there is not
a Ku-KJux or White League assassin in the
Sonth who would not deny his guilt as readily
as this infamous man. It will be very hard in
deed if the Senate of the United States is to be
disgraced by his presence, and if ever a man
was ostracized it should be General Butlma.
Wo decline to parley words with the
anonymous and lying correspondent of
the Witness, because he or she ia not
worthy of serious replication. Bnt with
the Witness we reoognize some differ
ence. We call tbe editor’s attention to the
fact that General Butler accompanied
Governor Hampton to Washington and
was received with the same distinction
by President Hayes and his Cabinet.
When at Washington General Bctlkb
confronted Chamberlain, and that wor
thy never dared, even under the shadow
of the Capitol, to make snch charges
against him. There has never been a
day, since the Hamburg riot, that Gene
ral Bctlkb baa not been reedy and anx
ious to meet his accusers before tbe Re
pnblican Courts of South Carolina and
confound them. The tTtfnrss, on tbe
bare words of some irresponsible and
mendacious correspondent, persists in
attaching infamy to aa innocent man.
This will not hart General Bctlkb. We
presume it is the privilege of the editor
of a so-called religious paper to give
currency to falsehood, maintain it igno
rantly, sad call upon liars to attest its
truth.
It ia reported that ex-Governor War
moth, of Louisans (carpet-bagger from
Illinois), is soon to be married to Miss
Saltje Pfj RANp, daughter of Mr. James
M. Durand, leading jeweler of Newark,
New Jersey. The people of Lonisiana
will bless Miss Balms Durand if she
shall snooeed in keeping her lord and
master in New Jersey.
BAD FOR BKLHA.
The town of Selma, Alabama, is hunt
ing for a candidate for Mayor who will
repudiate half its bonded indebtedness.
The debt of the place is $325,000, of
which amount $61,000 are past due and
unpaid. 'Die rate of municipal taxation
ia lj per cent. The most prominent as
pirant for the Mayoralty favors a “com
promise” of this indebtedness at fifty
oents on the dollar. This is an endeav
or to cover a foul thing with afair name.
It is not a compromise that Belme seeks,
bnt the repudiation of one-half of its
legal obligation*. It is not pretended
that the bonds were unlawfully or fraud
ulently issued or that there haa even
been a failure of consideration. Tbe
people of the place find times hard and
taxation onerous and desiro to get rid of
their indebtedness by the simple process
of repudiation. Selma 'will do well to
tk warning by the case of Rome and
let repudiation alone. There are State
Courts and Federal Courts in Alabama
that will compel her to pay creditor*
what she owes thorn. No matter who is
elected the bondholders can collect
their money. Any attempt to repudiate
will fail and tnin the credit of the town
besides. No matter how high taxes may
be it is good policy as well as common
honesty for a city to pay promptly its
jost indebtedness.
SENATOR HILL AND THE MARSHAL
SHIP.
Colonel Bob Alston, who withdrew hie ap
plication for the appointment of United States
Marshal for Georgia in favor of the present
incumbent. Major Smyth, has renewed it with
hopes of success. He says Hayes told him in
one of their interviews that he would have
given him the position had it not beam
for the opposition made to his appointment by
Ben Hill. Can it be that Mr. Hill prefers
that a Radical sh 11 have the position, rather
than that it shall be given to a Democrat who
is willing to hold office under Hie Fraudnlenoy?
In such matters our new Senator is remarkably
fastidious. With him consistency is a rarei
jewel.— Savannah News.
We cannot believe that oar esteemed
contemporary the News wonld do in
tentional injustice to any one, yet ita
well known aversion to Mr. Hill pre
vents it, insensibly doubtless, from doiDg
that gentleman justice. Take the above
paragraph, for instauoe. Does it follow
that because Mr. Hill deolined to
recommend or opposed the appoint
ment of Colonel Alston he prefers a
Radical shall have the position? Cer
tainly not. One wonld infer from the
oomment of the News that Colonel
Alston and Major Smyth were the only
npplioants for the position of United
States Marshal. This is by no means
the ease. There was another Repnblican
besides Major Smyth asking the position
and at least four or five Democratic ap
plicants. It is quite possible that Mr.
Hill might have opposed the retention
of Major Smyth as well as the appoint
ment of Colonel Alston. As a matter
of faot we understand that he did do
this very thing. He is said to have
filed objections to the continuance in
offioe of Major Smith. So far as we
oan learn Mr. Hill did not recommend
any one to President Hayes for appoint
ment—not even his own son-in-law, who
desired the Marshalship. Mr. Hill
did not reoommend Colonel Alston and
he opposed the retention of Major
Smyth ; it is highly probable that he
preferred someone of the half dozen
other applicants. There is nothing in
consistent in this, nothing deserving
either sneer or oensure. Besides, if, ac
cording to the Savannah News, Colonel
Alston withdrew his application at one
time in favor of this same Radical
Major Smyth, why would it have been
snoh s crime for Mr. Hill not to have
interposed an objection to the continu
ance in office of the latter ?
THE GBORIGIA RAILROAD.
A writer in the Athens Georgian an
ticipates a lively time at the approach
ing Convention of the stockholders of
the Georgia Railroad. As we have be
fore stated, tbe Legislature at its last
session passed aots permitting the Geor
gia Railroad to purchase the Maoon and
Augusts and the Port Royal Railroads.
The writer in the Georgian takes it for
granted that the question of purchase
will be brought before the Convention,
and he warns the stockholders not to
consent to it, and not to give the Di
rectory authority to act in the matter.
He declares that the Macon and Augus
ta Road has failed to accomplish the
purpose for which it was constructed,
viz. : the diversion of freights from the
Central Railroad and Savannah : that
the through business amounts to almost
nothing, and that the whole of the net
earnings for last year amounted to oßly
$13,000. The Georgia Road already
owns $175,000 of the stock, and has paid
ont $71,000 for repairs during two years,
and the writer is opposed to the pur
chase of a piece of property which he
evidently regards as of little value. He
“ guesses ” that the purchase will be
nrged for tbe reason that:
The stock of the Macon and Augusts Bail
road has been very low, and eonld have been
purchased very oheap, and some sharp, far
sighted ring master may have pnrohaeed
heavily of the stock of eaid railroad company,
and now, If the ring can get the Georgia Bail*
road Company to purchase the Maoon and Au
gusta Boad and incorporate it with the atock
of the Georgia Company, the stock will soon
rise to the valae of the Georgia Bailroad
stock, and the manipulators of this projeot
will realize a handsome profit on their invest
ment in Maoon and Angnsta stock.
It strikes ns that this supposition is
rather far fetohed. In the first place,
we have not heard of anything indicat
ing that the purchase will be nrged at
the May Convention. In the seoond
place, we have always understood that
when the oitv of Augnsta sold its half a
million of stock to the Sonth Carolina
Railroad the latter secured a controlling
interest in the corporation. If this is
the case it is hardly probable that snoh
a ring exists as that mentioned in the
Georgian. The writer in that paper
alludes to the fact that the Georgia Rail
road endorsed half a million^dollars of
the bonds of the Port Royal Company,
and that the latter road is now adver
tised for sale in order to pay $2,500,000
of mortgage bonds. He is confident
that if the purchase of the road
ia made the Georgia Road will not
only lose the $500,000 fer which
it is now seonrity, bnt $2,500,000
additional. Again, we have not heard
that the purchase of the Port Royal
Railroad would be urged. Fnrther than
the passage of a law permitting such ac
tion the matter of purchase has not
been mentioned until now. However,
the Convention is not far off, and we can
possess our souls in patience until it as
sembles.
Wadx Hampton doee not *ay “plain
as a pike-staff” bnt ‘‘plain as a hoe
handle.”
Mr. Evabt*’ instructions totheLouis
isnia Commission are said to resemble
the protocol of the Great Powers.
It is claimed in Philadelphia that a
street car can save $8 38 a week by using
steam instead of horse power.
Thk railway companies of Greet
Britain, for the year 1876, expended
nearly one-half their receipts.
Will the good old times now return
when offering peanuts to a Sonth Caro
lina Legislator was considered e mortal
affront?
Qffi. Hawley says the decendants oi
the Latin race cense all the trouble to
Louisiana. There is not much Latin
blood in Wells and Anderson.
Patterson’s interview with Hampton
resembled F allstaff’s interview with
Prince Ho- The old rogue wonld make
it appear that he recognised the tame
Bines nil the time.
The army of the United States has
cost daring the last ten year* $594,000,-
09$. Daring the same period the navy
coat $235,000,000. Subjugating the
South to times of pesos did not pay.
INDISCRIMINATE NOVEL READING.
The Rev. Morgan Dix D. D., Rector
of Trinity Church, New York, has an
earnest article in the Church Eclectic
for April on indiscriminate novel read
tog and its effect on eharaoter. He de
nounces certain classes of the fashion
able novels of the day as not only worth
less and wasting the time of those who
read thbm, bnt also as highly injnrioni
to religions faith and to good morals.—
They tend, he thinks, to destroy sll
sense of obligation and to weaken the
most sacred relations of human life. The
characters of the young, especially, re
ceive from them injuries from which, in
many instances, they Bever recover.—
Tbe false sentiments snd the wrong bias
which such reading produces often last
through life, and give rise to serious ob
liquities of character. Dr. Dix refers
with special condemnation to snoh fic
tions as those which bear the name of
“ Onida," a female author who appears
to be a great favorite with yonßg vota
ries of novel reading of both sexes. He
regards the presence of snoh books in a
family as most pernicious, and urges
upon the Episcopal Chnrcb, for whose
members more especially he writes, the
necessity of some formal chnrcb action
on the subject. He even goes so far as
to recommend the creation of an Index
librorum prohibitorum, for proscribing
these books and others of the kind as
nnflt to read or to be admitted in Chris
tian families.
THE BOGUS BONOS.
The proclamation of Governor Col
quitt ordering an election for the ratifi
cation or rejection of an amendment to
the Constitution prohibiting the recog
nition or payment of certain issues of
bonds declared nail and void by the
Legislature, has moved the New York
Times to devote a column of its space
to abuse of Georgia. The Times com
mences its tirade after the following
fashion:
The Georgians have been in tbe habit of
boasting that theire is tbe ‘‘Empire State' of
tbe Booth, and in many respects the exultation
haa been natural. No Southern State is richer
in resources, in the eharaoter and extent of ita
internal improvements, or in the average
property of its citizens, aa estimated by tbe
tax returns. A State so favorably situated
should not shrink from the payment of its
debts. It cannot plead poverty or the oppres
siveness of its taxation as an excuse for repu
diation. The current valae of some of its secu
rities, judged by the quotations in the New
York market, implies more than ordinary con
fidence in the will as well as in the capacity of
its people to behave honestly toward its cre
ditors. And yet, in spite of natural and ac
quired advantages, Georgia now appears be
fore the world in connection with the re
pudiation of millions of its liabilities, by
a method which, in its infamy, has few paral
lels in the financial history of the South.
The bogus bonds and tbe causes in
ducing the action of the Georgia Legis
lature have been so thoroughly discuss
ed by tbe newspapers of the State, and
the people of the whole country, with
the exception of a clique of knavish
speculators in New York, have become
so well satisfied with the justice of what
has been done, that it is like threshing
thrice beaten chaff to pnrsne the subject
any farther. The State of Georgia has
not repudiated a single bond. The
State has simply refused to recognize
fraudulent paper purporting to be its
obligations jost as the most honorable
merchant declines to acknowledge or to
pay a forged note. Any one who reads the
testimony taken by the Bond Committee
in 1872, upon which tbe action of tbe
Legislature was based, will discover
that every issue and endorsement was
made by Bullock in flagrant violation
of tbe Oonstitution and the laws of Geor
gia. At the time of issue the world was
put npon notiee that the bonds were not
Valid and would never be paid. The press
of the State exposed the fraud and cau
tioned the public against purchasing.
In the oase of the gold bonds the swin
dle was so apparent that the Republican
Treasurer of the State refused to sign
them and his signature was forged by
Rufus B. Bullock, then Governor.
Notwithstanding exposure the rogues
went on with their work, and notwith
ing warning gulls were Sound who bought
worthless paper at a heavy disoount.
When a Legislature of the people as
sembled tbe bogus bonds were oarefully
investigated aud disowned. To guard
against the spoliation of the State by
the corruption of some Legislature of the
future it is proposed to amend the Con
stitution so that these bonds oan never
be paid. This is, in brief, a history of
the transaction tbat has provoked the
vituperation of Henry Clews & Cos., and
their organ the Times. The high price
at Which Georgia bonds are selling to
day shows that the world recognizes the
jnstice of the State’s conduct. When a
State government or any other govern
ment repudiates a just debt its credit is
gone forever, or until reparation, the
most ample, has been made. The credit
of Georgia is better now than it has ever
been in tbe history of the State. Her
bonds ars quoted as selling at as high as
one hundred and nine in Wall street.
This statement contains a conclusive an
swer to the aeonsations and abusive
epithets of the Times. Men do not usual
ly pay snoh prices dor the obligations
of a repudiating State.
The New York Sun insists tbat the
limes is engaged in propagating Wen
dell Phillips’ ideas in guarded phrases
and deoent language. Wendell calls a
spade a spade. The Times alludes to it
as an agrionltnral implement.
The Nebraska Senators tried to bull
doze the President in the matter of ap
pointing Indian Agents, insisting that
they Bhonld come from their State.
Whereupon Mr. Hayes appointed Agents
who did not hail from Nebraska.
Complaint is made that even the New
York dailies have largely fallen off in
circnlation. The Sun confesses to a
daily loss of 25,000 subscribers, bnt
says this is a trifle, so long as it runs
considerably over 100,000 copies.
The public debt on April Ist, less
cash in the Treasury, is stated at $2,-
074,624,127. According to some experts
every Treasury balance hitherto has
been a forced one. Perhaps Mr. Sher
man haa given an honest count.
In the Tweed ring suits, np to date,
the city of New York has realized $690,-
349, and the lawyers have received $226,-
711. What David Dudley Field k Cos.
extracted from their ring clients no
body knows but the parties most inter
ested.
Even the Republican* papers admit
that Sonth Carolina has now a chance
for honest .government. Patterson s
chance for “five years more of good
stealing” has gone forever. He bad
better resign and try a Bourse of blue
glass.
T.a— Sunday tbe President attended
the Foundry Methodist GJinrioh; his
wife was sick and did not go to divine
servioe. Some of the family went to the
Epiphany P. E. Church, and the small
fry went to Vespers at the Catholic
cathedral.
Bismarck ia ten years younger than
Disraeli, seven years younger than the
Frenoh President, MacMahon, seventeen
jean younger than Gobtchaxoff and
twenty-three year* younger than the Pope
He haa care of himself than
any of them, end needs repose.
The Herald say* the President haa
taken extreme pains to render Governor
Hampton’s task W by treating his rival
with the utmost ooartesy and soothing
his laelinge into acquiescence. The
wisdom and consideration of such a
course deserve recognition and praise.
Son irreverent Rad ice I*. beholding
Chamberlain’s discomfiture and Paor
abd’s bad plight, begin to doubt about
the Praaident’a heart bleeding for the
poor African.” We have no doubt of
Mr. Wat— * sympathy for the negro, bnt
he evidently believes that white men
have some rights.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH.
What General Babert Toombs Think* of
noldlac Office Under naves.
Washington, Ga., April 3, 1577.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist;
Yonr circular aqjton the subjects of the
attitude of tbe Southern Democracy ta
wards the existing Federal Administra
tion and “ the application for and ac
ceptance of office from that Administra
tion by Southern Democrats ” has been
rcocivoda
I do not think the latter branoh of the
inquiry is one of much practical impor
tance, aa it is not very probable that any
inconvenient pressure will be brought
npon Southern Democrat* to aid Presi
dent Hayes in carrying on his usurped
aud fraudulent Government. If be de
sire* to recruit from the followers of the
Democratic standard in the South, he
can readily do so without compromising
his own policy or principles or those of
his appointees. Let him search for
them among those who accepted the Re
construction Acts of Congress; amoDg
those who consider the so-called Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments as
sacred and binding as any other por
tion of that instrument; among those
who accepted vhe Cincinnati plat
form and supported Horace Gree
ley ; among those who opposed the
8t„ Lonis platform and supported
Tilden; among those who surrendered to
him the Presidency in defiance of the
Constitution and in defiance of a vast
majority of the legal electors of the Re
public; among those who seem to con
sider “ that governments were instituted
among men ” for the benefit of public
plunderers. There be can find them,
find jnst snoh as will suit bim, and snob
we can well spare him. And if he wishes
to enlist men from onr standard in the
Sooth fit for the pnblio service, men who
may be tried and not be found wanting,
by the three great tests for pnblio offioe
which Mr. Jefferson announced, to-wit:
“ Honesty, capacity and fidelity to tbe
Constitution,” he oan find them also. He
can find them among those who have
Btood by the principles announced and
upheld by the same great apostle of hu
man liberty in 1798, in peaoe and in war,
in snnßhine andpgn storms, in defeat as
well as in victory, and who are still
ready to struggle for them when the day
of deliverance and liberty shall again
dawn upon a deeply wronged and much
injnred people. Mr. Hayes ia the de
facto President of the United States ;
the interests, security and happi
ness of onr people demand that
those Federal officers whose functions
under the Constitution are to be per
formed in onr midst should be “bonest,
capable and faithful to the Constitn
tion.” If Mr. Hayes chooses to oall any
of this olass to the performance of any of
the functions wh ch may be acceptable
to them, in my opinion the public inter
est wonld be promoted by accepting the
call.
It may be urged that such a policy
might strengthen tbe cause of the op
pressor. I think it would be more apt
to strengthen that of the oppressed.
I am, very respectfully, yonr obedient
servant, R. Toombs.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
A Letter From Hon. A. C, Walker—Changes
In the Organic Law—The Snpreme Court—
A Fitting Time For a Convention—He De.
cllnes to Bea Candidate—Delegates Sug
gested.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
My name has been mentioned, among
others, in connection with the Conven
tion for framing a State Oonstitution.
It has been my fortune (good fortune 1
think) to decline positions regarded as
more honorable, but I have never felt so
profoundly sensible of a compliment as
this. The confidence thus implied by
judicious and valued citizens is the
crowning glory of an old man’s career.
It is like a capstone of gold to a symmet
rioal marble pillar.
I wonld like to attend the Convention,
if for nothing else than a compensation
for the humiliation and disgust which 1
experienced as a member of the Gonven
tion of 1865, when the commonest right*
of onr people were discussed with bated
breath and furtive glance, and no act
performed without the high permission
of the vioeroy of the petty tyrants at
Washington. I wonld like to assist in
abolishing the Snpreme Court of the
State, not only as a measure of economy,
bnt of reform, and homogene
ous agricultural people like our
selves, aside from our statutes,,
have little need for law beyond
that founded npon common sense and
common jnstice, and there is no appel
late tribunal so apt to be gnided solely
by these considerations as a jury of in
telligent and impartial citizens. The
mind of a lawyer from long training in
his profession becomes mechanical, a
thing of routine and technicalities; tbie
is modified as long as he is constantly
brought iq contact with his clients in
his office and with the people in tbe
Court room, but exclude bim from the
associations and sympathies which thie
contact engenders; shut him up with
law books and lawyers, and his mechan
ism becomes intensified and indurated;
common sense and simple jnstice are
subordinated to the (to him) more im
portant matter of a dotted “i” or a
crossed “t,” and huge volumes are filled
with learned dissertations on
“What the difference be
’Twixt tweedledum and tweedledoe,”
And which, after all, convinces no one
and settles nothing. If history tells the
truth, we have had even among English
speaking people, codes of law from the
time of Alfred, a thousand years ago.
and Chief Justioes for five hundred
years, and yet so little is known
of law that the slightest dis
pute arrays all the paraphernalia
of Courts, clients, oonnsel, Judges and
juries, and with as little certainty of the
result as when society was in a state of
chaos. Recent events in our history
have sadly demonstrated, too, that Sn
preme Court Judges are not more free
from hnmaa frailty than more ordinary
mortals. Coarts and Judges, are, of
course, indispensable; bnt I contend
that an intelligent jnry, with the help
of the Superior Court Judge, is a better
judge of the merits of a case among our
people than the Judges of the Supreme
Court.
I know nothing abont law. In over
three score years j have had one ringle
oase in Court, but I yield to nme in my
appreciation and admiration of the pre
eminent virtues, as a class, of the legal
profession. I would like to be a mem
ber of the Convention, to assist in car
rying out other measures which it would
be inexpedient to refer to here. The
course of the Federal Government for
years past hr.s been marked by a reck
less ‘ disregard of constitutional re
straints and unscrupulous encroach
ments on popular rights. It will be a
fitting time to reassert tbe doctrine of
popular sovereignty, before it is forgot
ten that it ever existed. The rights of
the States &nd the liberties of the peo
ple arpoqa -and thp destruction of the
one is the enslavement of tjie other.
Bnt as much as { would like to link my
name with the creation of a noble chart
er for our grand old State, one that
would promote the happiness and main
tain the liberties of her sons : that wonld
recognize the needs of oqr changed con
dition, and to which all her citizens of
every eolor and degree eould point as
the embodiment of “wisdom, jnstice
and moderation," yet the fixed habits
of years of ill health utterly forbid, and
I give this timely notice that my name
may be excluded from any prospective
choice of delegates. Richmond may
proudly boast that her difficulty is not
the lack of capable men, bnt in choos
ing from the many.
A large number of the delegates will
be persons who never read any Consti
tution and have no very definite idea of
its meaning, and these will have to rely
npon the more experienced in the forma
tion of their judgments. It is all im
portant that as far as possible the
delegates should be persons who have
preconceived or matured opinions on
leading questions. In the exercise of
my right as a constitntent, I wonld sug
gest that C. J. Jenkins, Win. A. Walton,
Geo. R. Sibley and H. G. Wright,
Esqs., embrace all the qualifications that
we should require. I think that to Mr
Wright especially we farmers eonld
safely entrust onr peculiar interests. If,
however, it is deemed best to have a
delegate from the country, doubtless a
good and trge man can be fonnd; bnt
as Jefferson and Glasoocjt will prob
ably send three practical farmers, it will
be less essential in Richmond.
A. O. Walker.
Base Deteriarati**.
[Cambridge (ifoi.) Kews.]
Cambridge jail is well filled with ia
mates. Nine-tenths of all persons ar
rested in the oonnty are young, hearty
looking negroes from 18 to 25 years old.
It is a usual remark, even among the
colored people, that the yonng will not
work if they can help it. It is very sel
dom that a oolored man who was raised
before emancipation fails to make a
good, law-abiding citizen, bnt their
children are too often permitted to grow
np to lazy idleness, and when thrown
npon their .own resources they know
nothing about w ojtk, and support them
selves by pilfering.
—’—. . j* —— ■
Says the Jgtfrnql of Commerce: The
Sehneteen Gesaelsobaft, at the meeting
last night, received an invitation from
the Augusts Scbuetzen, their
Charleston brethren to participate in the
great Ge man festival at Angnsta. It is
probable a strong delegation will go
from this city.
HAYES AND THE SOUTH.
THE MEW IOBK TIMES ON THE
SOUTHERN LETTERS.
The Recent Letters to the Chronicle an*
Constitutionalist—A Review of Them by
the National Republican Organ—The Let
ters amt the Writers—The Prevailing Sen
tiniest in the South.
[.Veto York Times—Editorial ]
An influential Georgia newspaper bas
endeavored to elicit from prominent
public men in that part of the South
their views respecting the attitude which
Southern Democrats should maintain
toward the Hayes Administration. The
results appear, not in the form of re
ported interviews, which, however in
teresting, are quite as likely to be wrong
as right, bnt over the signatures of men
who may be taken as fairly representing
the opinions prevalent among the
people.
The primary purpose of the inquiry
was to ascertain whether, in the judg
ment of-the parties addressed, “South
ern men should apply for or accept of
fice under Hayes.” The question has
been more or less discussed since the
declarations of the President upon the
subject of civil service reform gave rise
to the belief that, in dispensing Federal
patronage in the South, qualified and
trusted residents will in all cases be pre
ferred. The rale thus laid down is the
essential feature of the plan of reform
to which the President and his advisers
are committed; it is a simple and just
rule, and one might have supposed that
it wonld be hailed by the Southern
people as the best possible pledge of an
honest and acceptable use of Federal
influence. Violent partisans, however,
apparently incapable of judging of any
topic apart from their immediate inter
ests, raised the cry that the President
proposed to buy Southern support with
appointment to Federal offices. On this
hypothesis the Administration has been
denounced as though it were engaged in
a vile plot to corrupt Southern men, and
the latter have been warned that they
could not aocept favors from the Presi
dent without exposing themselves to dis
trust and contempt. The Augusta
Ohbonicle applied itself to the task of
-lamining how far these factious utter
ances reflected the views of men who
c*rty weight in their respective neigh
borhoods; and the general ideas pro
dbced by a perusal of the letters are by
no means discouraging.
It is evident that a strong undercur
rent of common sense is at work, which
insures for the President’s policy a more
jnst interpretation, as regards both mo
rives and tendencies, thsn Northern
Democrats are willing to concede. .This
is shown, first, in the absence of rancor
ous hostility in the discussion of the
general position occupied by the Admin
istration, and, in the next place, in the
disposition to accord credit to the Pres
ident for friendly intentions toward the
South. The most notable exception,
perhaps, is Gov. Vance, of North Caro
lina, whose chronic malignity obtains
expressions in epithets directed against
fhe title of the President to his office.
Even Vance sees “no objection to Dem
ocrats filling subordinate positions to
which no political significance is at
tached;” and his bitterness will be left
without excuse when Federal authority
ceases to assert itself in the local affairs
of South Carolina and Louisiana. In
deed, the step already taken in regard to
•tenth Carolina, to be followed, as it
must be, by similar action iQ
-eg arc! to Louisiana, will take
:he sting out of every one of
the letters published in the Augusta
journal. Ex Gov. Perry and General
Ketshaw, of South Carolina, take sub
stantially the same ground. They would
not have Southern men humiliate them
selves by accepting office if the policy of
he Administration were deemed uu
riendly to their section; and General
Kershaw is emphatic in his declaration
that Carolinians cannot accept while the
troops remain in possession of the State
House at Columbia. The order already
issued from the War Department re
moves the only obstacle whioh these
gentlemen see to the cultivation of offi
cial relations between Southerners and
’he Government. Jndgo Aldrich, of
South Carolina, holds that, this object
iceomphsned, the President can give no
better evidence of the integrity of his
purpose, as already announced, than by
'he appointment to office of Southern
men of character and ability. Colonel
Walker, of Georgia, an implacable of
the Vance type, meanwhile, doubts the
sincerity of the President, and urges
continued resistance to the Republican
party. Judge Wright, also of Georgia,
asserts that though ho voted for Tilden,
he likes Hayes better, and that in the
matter of principle, one party is as good
as the other. “We are no longer par
ties divided on principle,” he says; “we
fyave degenerated into factions strug
gling for spoils.”
The most elaborate of the published
letters is that of ex Gov. Brown, of Geor
gia, who, without impunging the mo
tives of Democrats who accept office
under Mr. Hayea, imagines that mis
chief is hidden under the liberal “ policy
of the Administration.” He regards it
as an attempt to bribe Southerners with
office, and the South, he informs ns, is
not for sale. Much more sagacious is
the opinion attributed to a yet more
conspicuous Georgian. Senator Hill has
none of • the mean suspiciousness which
Gov. Vance rudely proclaims and ex-
Gov. Brown more courteously suggests.
Mr. Hill, instead of seeing in the friend
ly overtures of the. Administration “only
an instance of the Greeks bringing gifts
in their hands.” recognises an obliga
tion to “ meet the President in a spirit
of generous confidence,” and to aid him
cordially in his efforts to purify
the proper work of the Federal
Government in the Southern States.
Incidentally, both Gen. Kershaw and
ex-Gov. Brown glance at the ulterior ef
fect of such a policy as the President
has faintly sketohed upon the political
affiliations of the Southern people. Men
of the calibre and character of Gov.
Vance and Col. Walker appe.ar to care
more for the maintenance intact of the
Democratic party than for any other
thing. They have an almost insane
dread of Mr. Hayes’ intentions, for no
other reason, apparently, than that they
may alienate Southern votes from the
Democracy. Ex-Gov. Brown has a lit
tle of this feeling, growing more out of
an inonrable distrust of the Republican
party than oqt of a blind devotion to its
partisan opponents, Gen. Kershaw is
more frank and demonstrative. His
anxiety is centred upon the South, not
upon the Demoeratio party. He wonld
accept office, if tne President deal “aim-
pie justice” to the South, “without any
special kindness or favor” to its people.
If the President not only respect the con
stitutional limitations upon his power,
but pursue a course which shall tend
generally to restore peace, order, and
good government to the South, General
Kershaw “would give his Administra
tion a hearty support, whether an office
holder or not.” On these grounds, and
assuming that what Mr. Hayes has pro
mised he means to perform, General
Kershaw holds that the South ‘'ought
by all means cordially and earnestly to
support his Administration, let the re
sults upon present party organization ”
be what they may.
On the whole, then, the testimony ob
tained from this cluster of Southern
witnesses i# Bfit unsatisfactory, It forms
a very good beginning. If the impres
sion produced by the mere anticipation
of a conciliatory policy is fairly present
ed in the general tone of the published
letters, we may look forward with some
confidence to the results that should
follow the practical application of the
President’s views.
APPLYING TUB LASH.
A Young Man Tied to a Tree and Whip
ped by Two Brothers.
County Bailiff J. E. Thomas and Con
stable Calvin Seago, of the 123d District,
arrested, yesterday, two brothers named
respectively Charles and Andrew Mc-
Dade, charged with assault and battery
on a young man, about eighteen years of
age, named Thos. F. Simms. Simms,
Thompson Me Dade, a younger brother
of Charles and Andrew, and another lad,
whose name we did not learn, were pu
pils at the Hephzibah Academy. A few
days since these three had a quarrel at
the school, which resulted in a fight,
young McDadp and bis friend taking
sides against Simms. The latter finally
got the better of his antagonists and
came off victor. ■ The older |McDades,
claiming that Simms had taken undue
advantage of the other two on account of
his age and size, determined upon giving
him a whipping. Meeting Simms in the
woods, they seized and tied him to a
pine tree and then flogged him severely.
Simms had a warrant issned for the
arrest of the McDades, and they were
taken in charge yesterday, as stated
above. The defendants demanded a
trial by jnry and gave bond for their
appearance before the County Court in
May.
Abducting an Heiress.
lowa City, July s. —Six men attempt
ed to abduct Miss Geo. w. Watson; a
wealthy young lady of Madison, Onio,
from a Bock Island train between Bock
Island and this city under pretense that
she was a lunatic. They kept her
gagged and held her down at each sta
tion. She however mansged to escape
from them at Walton after a desperate
straggle, daring which she sprained her
ankeL. The object of the men Tjras prob
ably money, as she was richly dressed.
Ex-Senator Robertson advised all the
colored men to participate in the Hamp
ton reception.
A MISSING JEWELER.
SOME OP THE GOSSIP ANENT
A REMARKABLE CASE.
Where Is George Sharp f—Has He Clone
for Good t— What Bis Creditors Have to
Say—A Reward Offered lor His Return—
The Curbstone Talk, Etc.
[Affanto Constitution.]
On last Friday night Mr. Geo. Sharp,
jeweler, left the city under suspicions
circumstances, and lias not been heard
of since. On Monday morning his store
was seized by his creditors. To-day the
mystery is still unsolved. The above is
a mighty concise statement of the live
liest sensation that Atlanta has had for
many a day; and we proceed to eluci
date it. It appears that for some time
Mr. Sharp has been carrying an immense
load of debt. His credit has been im
paired and he has had very little accom
modation in the banks. He has hence
been forced to borrow money on the
streets and from personal friends. He
has succeeded in getting large amounts
from these quarters by paying high in
terest and depositing diamond collate
rals. He has been shifting about from
one set of lenders to another for a year
and a half. It has been his custom to go
to the holders of his diamond collaterals
and borrow the collaterals Whenever he
saw a chance to Bell them. If he sold
them he would pay the money over, and
if he failed he wonld return the jewels.
On Friday last he went to every maß
who held any of his diamonds, and so
licited the loan of them, saying that he
had a chance to sell them. He got them
as usual, except in one case, where a
bond was demanded for the return of
the jewels, and finally obtained it. We
let one of the victims tell his own story
Mr. Otis Jones, come to the stand ! Mr.
Jones says: “1 lose by him just $1,620
I have made more than that ont of him
in interest, thuugb. The way he got me
was this: I had, as usual, a box or so of
diamonds for security. On Friday eve
ning he came to my office, and entering
in a great hnrry, to-kmeto one side and
whispered that there were some ladies
in the store who wanted to buy dia
monds, and that if I would lend him my
bex he thought he could sell them. As
I had often done before, I let him have
them. He promised to return them in
a few moments. I never saw him again.
“ I did not become uneasy until late
Saturday evening. On Monday morn
ing, discovering that he was still miss
ing, I sued out a criminal warrant
against him. I don’t believe he will ever
come back unless he is brought back,
bat we are going to get him, if he’s top
side of the earth. ”
Wlmt Another Lender Says.
Another gentleman, who is a large
loser (over SB,OOO being gone), says :
“ He came to me on Friday, and asked
my advice, stating that he was in a des
perate condition, and was thinking about
taking a trip to try and sell some goods.
I advised him to do so, saying he had
better unload a little. He then asked
me when he had best go. I could not
advise him, and asked him when he
thought of going. He said there was
in Augusta a lady who had wanted two
costly diamond ear-rings, and thought
if her husband could see them he
would buy them, but that these ear
rings were among my collaterals. If I
would let him have them he would go to
Augusta. I then surrendered all the
diamonds I had, which must have been
SIO,OOO worth, saying that I was his
friend and would trust his honor. He
pledged me faithfully he would be back
by Tuesday. He came later in the day
and borrowed SIOO in cash from me for
traveling expenses; and still later he be
sought me to go on his bond for $3,500
worth of saleable jewelry that ho had
placed with a bank, and desired to take
out. I did so and he left. I have not
seen or heard from him sinoe. I be
lieved up to last night that he would re
turn, according to his solemn promise.
I have now lost confidence in him, but
intend to bring him back here if I have
to run him all over the world.”
The Last That Was Seen of 9lr. Slmrp
Was inY)r. Taylor’s drug store. He en
tered the store hurriedly on Friday
night just as the Georgia train was leav
ing and bought a shaving brush and
two pieces of shaving soap. He hur
ried the clerk up, aDd left the store
in a fast walk. A telegram was received
here on yesterday from Conductor Par
cell, of the Georgia Railroad, stating
that Sharp went down to Augusta with
him that night. It is farther alleged
that he had taken the Saturday’s train
for Charleston. This allegation arose
from the fact that he had an exceeding
ly heavy valise, and that avalise notably
heavy was handled in the baggage oar
of the Charleston road on that day.—
This might have been the valise of any
jewelry or hardware drummer. Nothing
definite has been heard from him since
he reached Augusta on Friday morn
ing. It is believed, if ho was in
tent upon escaping, that he made
for one of the adjacent seaports—
Charleston, Savannah, Port Royal or
Brunswick. He might have sailed under
an alias from either of these points on
Saturday night; or two days before he
was suspected. Diligent search has
been made through the newspaper files
for these points, and detectives put to
work. Nothing has been heard from
any source yet.
iWho Mr. Sharp Owes, aud How Much,
A reporter of the Comfituticm on yes
terday obtained a list of the creditors of
Sharp. It would hardly be proper to
publish it, but it aggregates about
$41,600. There are several names not
included in the list. The indebtedness
on borrowed money must run nearly to
$50,000. The banks suffer very little.
One is caught for $5,000, and another
for an unknown amount. Several bank
cashiers, or clerks are creditors for
amounts running from $350 to $3,200.
Three sporting men lose from $1,200 to
$2,000 each, A bookkeeper loses $4,000,
a drummer S7OO, a photographer SI,OOO,
and several clerks lose sums rnnning
from SBOO to SI,OOO. The largest single
creditor loses about SB,OOO. It appears
that Mr. Sharp has borrowed indiscrimi
nately, though many of his creditors
have been dealing with him foy years.
It is estimated that Mr. Sharp has
$30,000, in cash and diamonds with him.
Some put the amount higher—others
lower. The above represents the aver
age opinion.
A Reward and Telegraph Fund.
The creditors have raised a fund of
$1,250, whioh they offer as a reward for
the return o! Mr. Sharp. This reward
is now standing, and the detective agen
cies of various cities are bnsily at work.
There are hundreds of the sharpest
eyes in America looking for Atlanta’s
jeweler this morning. A telegraph fund
of SIOO has been raised, and dispatches
were sent in all directions on yesterday.
The pursuit will be intelligently and ve
hemently pushed.
A NEW 910 YE fit LJFE INSURANCE.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The panic among people who insure
their lives continues so great that the
Western manager of an Eastern company
has hit upon a notable expedient to as
sure hje customers that his company is
solid and safe. Instead of taking a
whole basement or first floor, with plate
class windows, and solid silver aud
French glass partitions, and mahogany
counters, and regiments of clerks with
their hair parted in the middle, writing
at circular-top, monocleide desks, and
glaring lithographs of the building of
the company at headquarters, he has
taken an entirely new departure. He
has a big, bare flat in a cheap building
near the river with old newspapers
pasted on the windows for blinds, and
pine tables, and kerosme lamps, and a
rusty stove kept so Blightly charged
with fuel that the office is as cold as
Greenland. When they lasso and
in a customer, he is naturally impressed
with the Spartan simplicity of the office,
aud asks the agent why, if his company
is so solid, it is not lodged in better
quarters. “Because, sir,” replies the
agent, “instead of squandering its
money in Mauresque Neo-Renaissance
palaces, and tiled floors, and rosewood,
and plate glass, and mirrors, and Brus
sels carpets, and silver railings, we, con
ducting our business with the utmost
economy consistent with efficiency, ap
ply all onr funds to secure the safety
and prosperity of our policy holders.”
Then he tells the office messenger to go
and get him a schooner af lager and as
mneb free lunch as he can cram into
his jacket pocket, and explains to the
intending insurer that the company pays
for the lunch, and he does not like to
charge it too much, and thus divert from
the pockets of the policy holders their
due profits. This knocks the customer,
and he puts down his name for a policy,
and as soon as he has gone out the
agent throws a handspring, and exclaim
ing, “Sold again, and got the applica
tion,” tells the boy to put that trnek in
the waste basket, and hnrries off to or
der some quail on toast and early straw
berries.
Alas, No Soon.
[Cincinnati Commercial .]
Ex-President Grant, dressed in plaiq
black, with a shiny silk hat and careless
ly swinging a little cane, “took Fourth
street in” yesterday afternoon without
attracting any more attention than an
ordinary citizen. In fact, but few who
saw him knew that he was the “savior
of the country,” and had been President
for eight years. The General called on
Mr. Alfred Gaither, at the Adams Ex
press office, and the coming Senator did
the honors with a bottle of champagne.
LIFE INSURANCE SECRETS.
TESTIMONY FROM THE MUTUAL
AND EQUITABLE COMPANIES.
New' York 1 insurance Men Before the I.efils
-1 iiiu re—Salaries of Officers, Employees
and AgentfioAmonntfi Paid to Policy*
holders.
Albany, Maroh 20.—The insnraDoe
officials who were subpoenaed before the
Assembly Committee appeared this
morning and were examined, the ses
sion lasting from 9, a. m., until 4, p. m.
The only witnesses e: amined at this
session were W. H. C. Bartlett, actuary
of the Mutual Life, and H. B. Hyde,
President of the Equitable. Among the
other insurance men present were Henrv
E. Davis and Mr. Lloyd, of the Matnai;
Judge Green, Dr. Lambert and Mr.
Rarrow, actuary, of the Equitable; Mr.
Hegeman, of the Metropolitan ; Stewart
L. Woodford, counsel, and Mr. Sewell,
notnary, of the Globe; Morris Franklin,
President of the New York Life; and
Judge Johnson, c unsel of the Knicker
bocker. Mr. Davie read a letter from
Mr McCurdy,explaining why the Mutual
had not sooner replied to Senator Bix
by’s resolution. It was because at that
time an examination of the company was
in progress by the Superintendent, and
the delay was by his consent. Mr. Bart
lett then read a statement which hsd
been made ont on the 13th of February,
most of whioh has already been pub
lished in the annual report of the com
pany. The following is the statement
of the salaries paid for the year 1856:
President $30,000
Vice-President 18.000
Second Vice-President 12 000
Secretary 8,000
Assistant Secretary 5,100
Actuary 15 00ft
First Assistant Actuary .... 7,200
Second Assistant Actuary 4 800
Two Medical Examiners, eaoh... 9.600
Solicitor and counsel 14,000
One hundred and ten clerks and
other employees . 191,463
To medical examiners outside of the
oity there was paid $38,596 31, and to
attorneys nnd counsellors throughout
the couniry, $17,715. A cross-examina
tion failed to show that any other fees
or compensations had been paid by this
company to its officers. The number of
policies forfeited to the company in
1876 were 7,501, aud the company has
paid nearly three millions of dollars to
the holders of such policies.
H. B. Hyde, Preaident of the Equit
able, was then examined, and read a
statement giving the reasons why that
company had not before replied to Mr.
Bixby’s resolution, whioh were in the
main similar to those of the Mutual—
too busy undergoing examination, clos
ing up the year’s business, etc. The
total salaries paid managers, agencies,
eto., during 1876, amounted to $285,000,
but at the beginning of the present year
these salaries were reduced $26,320, and
the salaries now being paid are as fol
lows :
President $37,500 00
Vice-President 22,000 00
Actuary •. 20,000 00
Secretary 16,500 00
Assistant Actuary 7,500 00
Assistant Secretary 5,000 00
Auditor 5,000 00
Cashier i 5,000 00
Supt. Bond and Mortgage
Department 4,500 00
Seventeen bookkeepers 41,430 00
Twenty-five accountants and
clerks 31,162 00
Thirty-five under clerks and
boys... 11,999 32
Sa ary in commutation of
construction engineer’s per
centages on buildings 15,000 00
Eight special agents, inspec
tors and adjusters 15,964 30
Ordinary fees to 52 directors
for board meetings.... ..; 9,071 00
Total $247,626 62
Salaries and traveling ex
penses of managers of agen
cies and general, special
and local agents’ superin
tendent of agents $7,500 00
New England manager 5,000 00
Adjuster and confidential tra
veler : 4,500 00
Cashiers at agencies 9,036 42
Traveling expenses 10,557 77
Total $36,594 19
Salaries of Medical Examiners.
Chief medical examiner.... $16,500 00
Associate—part of year..... 7,000 00
Associate—part of year 1,041 69
Other examiners’fees 22,731 81
Total $47,273 47
Paid Attorneys and Counsellors lor tlie Year
18T6.
Principal counsel $12,000 00
Attorneys in New York for
litigated business, advice
and incidental disburse
ments. * 9,949 19
To thirty three other law
firms in different parts of
the United States 13.346 10
Total $35,295 Z 9
The cross-examination developed the
fact that Mr. Hyde’s salary, though
small at first, had been increased from
year to year until for the eighteen years
he has been connected with the compa
ny his salary has averaged $29,217. This
had been done by an arrangement with
the company in the event of success.
Mr. Hyde appeared to be a will
ing witness, and told freely of
how his salary had been increased
from time to time and of the commis
sion arrangements by which he had
managed to further swell it. The Bos
ton aeeney bad been run by him since
the death of his father, he paying the
rnnning expenses there and receiving
all the which netted him
about $15,000 a year. During 1873 and
1874, Mr. Hyde’s extra compensation
amounted to $50,000 annually. One of
the Vice-Presidents and the Actuary of
the company had also recently received
one-half per cent, fees on the supplies
in addition to their regular salaries. Mr,
Hyde explained at great length the
system upon which the Equitable was
conducted, the different kinds of poli
cies, &0., claiming that no large insu
rance companies had .failed in this
country, such disasters being confined
to email and badly managed concerns.
He thought any legislation should be in
the interest of both the insured and the
companies, as their interests were iden
tical. Much of the legislation which
had been proposed, would, he thought,
injure the policy holders more than ii
would the companies.
VANCE VERSUS CAMERON.
A Bl( of Peppery rorrospoiulence With the
Bon—A Bequest That Was Uespectlully
Declined By the Governor of North Cm
lina.
The following peppery bit of corres
pondence between Don Cameron, the
ex-Seeretary of War, and Governor
Vance, of North Carolina, throws some
light on the Presidential campaign as it
was conducted in the latter State <
War Department, (
Washington, January 26, 1877. (
To tfye Governor of ihe State of North
Carolina :
Sir—l respectfully request that you
will furnish this department with a eem
plete set of the reports of the Adjutant-
General of yonr State for the years 1861
and 1866 inclusive, for use in connection
with the official records of the war of
ther ebellion for publication. Express
charges for the same will be paid by the
department. lam your obedient' ser
vant, J. D- Ca^vßßos,
Secretary of War.
EsEticnyE Department, (
Raleigh, Februry 5, 1877. )
To the. Urn. J. D. Cameron, Secretary
of War :
Sib— Your letter, asking me to fur
nish you with a complete set of the re
ports of the Adjutant-General yl this
State for the years inclusive,
has been received.
It would afford me great pleasure to
i comply with the request if any mutu
ality could be infused into the transac
tion. In 1865, one month after General
Sherman had issued his pioclamation
announcing the cessation of hostilities,
and forbidding the farther seizure of
Cv perty in North Carolina, the letter
ooks of the Executive of this State
were seized at Green-boro, and placed
in the War Department at Washington,
where they now remain. Permission
has been asked again to return them or
to obtain copies for the Stats Archives,
which has been persistently refused.
My predecessor, Governor Worth, on
one occasion sent a special messenger
to Washington with an urgent request
to be permitted to make a copy of a let
ter from these books, to be used in a
law suit pending in onr Conr’s wherein
the State was interested, which reason
able request was refused. In 1871, while
I was in Washington seeking admis
sion to my seat in the United States.
Senate, a slanderous article appealed in
the Daily Chronicle, changing me with
cruelty toward the federal prisoners
•onfined at' Salisbury. The refutation
of this calumny was contained in cer
tain official letters recorded in those
books. I went in person to the War
Department, stated my object, and ask
ed permission to copy two letters which
contained my vindication, ans waa ,
refused ou the ground, as qssjigaed,
that no copies wouk} b.f> given without
the authority of Gongresa. And yet last
Swing, when I met my competitor,
Judge Settle, whow.s the Republican
candidate for Governor, I found him
supplied with an armful of garbled and
mutilated copies of these same offioial
letters, certified as true copies by your
self as Secretary of War, with great
seal duly attaobed.
I applied to Congress, believing that
body wonld feel it beneath the dignity
of a great Republic to suppress the truth
in order to oppress so humble an indi
vidual as myself. A resolution which
would have affected my object was
promptly passed by the House of Rep
resentatives, and wis promptly laid on
the table in the Senate.
Under this state of things, therefore,
I should deem myself wanting l oth in
self-respect and in appreciation of the
office which I have the honor to fill,
were I to comply with your request.
Were it otherwise I should most gladly
furnish you the required documents,
first, because it wonld afford me real
pleasure to extend this or any other of
ficial courtesy; and secondly, because I
would be proud for the world to know
how faithfully and nobly the people of
North Carolina struggled to maintain
the cause, whether right or wrong, in
whioh they considered their rights and
honors to be involved.
I am, air, very respectfully, your obe
dient servant, Z. B. Vance.
WARREN COUNTY MATTERS.
Session of the Superior Coart—The Visiting
Lawyers The Convention Question-
Speeches by Judges Reese and Pottle—A
Change of Opinion.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist. ]
Wabrenton, April s.— The Spring
term of the Warren Superior Court is
in session, Judge Pottle presiding. I
notice among tho visitors at the bar
Judge W. M. and M. P. Reese, GeD. D,
AT. Dußose and Hon. F. A. Colley, of
Wilkes; Col. W. D. Tutt, of McDuffie;
Col. C. S. Dußose and Hon. G. F.
Pierce, of Hancock, and Col. Reid, of
Taliaferro. The Court has been princi
pally occupied with the common law
docket, there being no civil or criminal
cases of importance for trial. Solicitor-
General Reese is at his post, and ready
for duty when the interest and honor of
the State requires it. lam glad to note
that the people are much pleased with
his bearing, and can assure them that
they will find him one of the ablest law
yers of his age in the Circuit. During
a recess of the Court at noon yesterday
Judge Reese addressed a large au
dienoe upon the subject of hold
ing a Constitutional Convention.—
He hoped this question would not as
sume a political complexion, for it was
high above all party considerations. The
question was whether or not we should
hold a Convention, and if so who should
represent ns. The present Constitu
tion was framed by men who did not
represent the intelligence and property
of the State, those on whom the bur
dens of tho government fell being kept
away from the polls, by the advice of
their leaders. The election of Tilden
or Hayes was insignificant to the people
of Georgia, as compared to the impor
tance of holding a Convention. About
seventy grand juries in the State and
nearly every paper at two successive
sessions of the Legislature had called
for a Convention of the people and he
was in favor of it, if for no other reason
than to settle forever the bond question.
He wonld save the people of
to day and their property from the
payment of eight millions of dol
lars in fraudulent bonds and make
it a fundamental law that they never
should be paid. We needed a Conven
tion to restrain county and municipal
corporations from absorbing tho meager
resources of the people by taxation.
Nearly every oity in Georgia was taxed
until in some places the officers of the
law were absolutely afraid of revolt. A
Convention was needed to protect the
credit of the State. In 1876 the State
was pledged for twenty-eight millions in
bonds for railroads. All of these roads
were a failure, aDd the burthen was upon
the people. Other points were made aud
ahly defended, which time will not per
mit me to notice. Suffice it to say that
quite a change came over the people
upon the subject of having a Conven
tion. Many who were in apparent apathy
on the subject before are now its zeal
ous advocates.
To-day at noon Judge Pottle, at the
request of many citizens, followed in an
able and eloquent speech, of about one
hour, on the same subject. He reviewed
the many evils of tho present Constitu
tion, and hoped our people everywhere,
wonld vote for a Convention, and frame,
one that would better proteot their in
terests. Visitor.
Hampton for President in 1880 Gen era
Butler Confident Wlmt Chamberlain
Wanted.
Washington, April 4.—The Evening
Star (Republican) says it is now said
that the true inwardness of the invita
tion to Wade Hampton to New York was
a design on the part of oertain of the
Democratic leaders to pat him in train
ing for the Presidential oourso in 1880.
The politicians concerned in it are said
to bo hostile to any by Governor
Tilden for re-nomination, and propose
to shelve him in this *vay, but Governor
Hampton, whether informed of the pur
pose. or not, did not give it any counte
nance by making the trip. He has a
future before him, and may prove avail
able for the Presidency next term, but
four years is a long time to keep a Presi
dential candidate in soak, and he is
doubtless shrewd enough not to invite
jealous depreciation by allowing himself
to be placed in that attitude prematurely.
Columbia, April 4.—Senator M. 0.
Butler will leave for home to-night. He
represents his reception by the Presi
dent and his Cabinet as very oordial.
He entertains no apprehension in regard
to the complete success of the Hampton,
government, and expresses the convic
tion that upon the assembling of Con
gress no obstacle will be interposed to
his assuming his duties as Senator. Any
effort to induce him to abandon or com
promise his just claim to the SeDator
ship will be futile. It is no longer
doubted that it was the basis of one of
Chamberlain’s propositions that the
Legislature should reorganize and by a
coalition return him to the Senate in
Robertson’s plaoe.
THE GAME OF DRAW POKER.
Tbe Advantnce al Benedicts Over Bachelor*.
[New York Sun.]
There are many aspects of the great
American game which need a little
philosophical exposition, and I will con
clude the present article by stating one
fact which sterns to have escaped the
attention of other people, and this is,
that the game of draw poker, as it is
usually played among friends, gives an
immense chance in favor of married
men over bachelors. This may seem a
paradox, but it is nevertheless true.
Take, for example, a game, the duration
of which is fixed till midnight. Sup
pose a married man is much ahead and
a bachelor or some bachelors heavily
out. If they begin to talk about a pro
longation of the game with a view to
giviug them a show, what is the answer?
“Do you wish me to be locked out when
I get home ?” “Do yon wish me to set
a bad example to my boys ?” or some
thing of that sort. Now reverse the
proposition, and suppose some married
men are heavily out and a bachelor is far
ahead. He is sore to be compelled to
play far beyond the settled hour. The
paterfamilias, so particular when he ia
a winner, takes quite another view of
tbe matter when be is a loser. He seems
to be willing to take his chances of be
ing looked out ana setting a bad exam
ple, provided he gets even and manages
to reach home before tbe servants ara
up,in the morning.
Counterfeit Coin*.
Mr. Tandy, sub-treasury expert in
New York, cautions tbe public against
bogus half-dollar piece* which are to
some extent in circulation, composed of
antimony, lead and tin. They are con
siderably lighter than the real coin, the
bogus weighing 142 grains, while tlie
genuine weighs 192.9 grains. Typo
metal, whose original purpose was both
noble and honest, has been perverted by
counterfeiters to their base uses. It is
electro plated first with copper and then
with silver, and weighs the same as the
real half dollar. The color, however, is
not so good ; the false pieees are thicker
than the genuine aßd the devices are.
faulty. Mr. Du Bois, assayer of the
Philadelphia mint, says that there is>
something about a genuine coin which
pqts it beyond suspicion, especially
when the new white surface has givea
place to to the iaimitable and “nina--
tentbs tint,” and by its eolor and so
nority generally speak for it. There is
a liquid test of silver, which can be pnh
up by any druggist. It consists of
grains of nitrate of silver, 15 grains oil
nitric acid, and one ounce of water.
This, if the coin be bad, blackens it afc
once.
Mr. Du Bois gives the following di
rections for testing the coin by weight::
“Poise a thin stip of wood, eight or ten
inches long; plaee a good piece at one
end and tbe suspected one at the other -
have a weight of three grains at band
if the difference is more than that,, ‘de
cline to receive it.’ ”
Bgtekly Brush.
Your teeth night and morning with aro
matic, invigorating Sozodont. You will
be perfeet)y astonished at the improve
ment ia whiteness wbieh a fortnight ol
this sort of treatment will canoe. Begin
at onoe, strengthen yonr decaying teeth.
An Acts of Competition.— ln this day
of the world competition ia aetive in th<e
extreme. But in the long run it’s the
best which wins the prize of public
preference ip spite of all the deceits
used to bolster up weak articles. For
this reason Dooley’s Yeast Fowder is
recognized as the highest possible
achievement in halting powder.