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£i}vomde ant) s?ntmci.
WEDNESDAY, - MAY 2, 1877.
The advance of breadstnffs is as ter
rible to poor Americans as the advance
of the Rnssian army is to the Tnrks.
Henrt Watterson declines to enter
Hecretary Thompson’s spider-web. Bf.s
Hill and L. Q. C. Lamar are yet to be
heard from. |
Senator Beck has found ont that New
England is too liberally represented in
the Government service, and he pro
poses to call for anew deal.
The Springfield Republican recom
mends Jeff Long’s testimony as sooth
ing syrnp to W. Lloyd Garrison. Bnt
Garrison wants be-lnd, laoo, b-lud !
The war in the East will cnt off about
810,000,000 worth of the cotton trade
with Russia and 5,000,000 gallons of
petroleum annually taken by Turkey.
Father CmsßV, of the Macon Tele
graph, is exasperated at the speculation
in floor and pork. He warns the coun
try that the bottom will tie knocked out
of that tub in a few weeks.
Con. Spotted Tail, the famous Indian
chief, is now casually alluded to as Hon.
Maculated Caudal. He is suggested
sarcastically as an available candidate
for the next vacant Commissionership.
It is now believed that Count \os
Moltke only used a little strategy to
get appropriations for the German army
when he held up the belligerent French
spectre before the German Reichstag.
He succeeded, as he 'has always done.
The money was voted, and now he says
be did not moan anything particularly
hurtful to France.
The Czar Alexander proclaims him
self the champion and deliverer of Chris
tendom in Turkey. The Christians of
Turkey, on the other hand, protest
against Russia’s invasion of the Otto
man dominions, and are getting ready
to resist their so-called champion. Mat
ters seem to be a little mixed in this
“ holy war.”
Mb. Charles Foster is still cred
ited with the sentiment that “ the flag
shall float over States, not provinces ;
over freemen and not subjects. Our
Ren Hill first used these remarkable
words, and Mr. Foster simply quoted
them. The Republicans have appro
priated many of the South’s possessions,
but we protest against their stealing the
thunder of our great orator.
The Baltimore American takes for
granted that Russia will gobble up Tur
key and establish the Greek Church in
the Ottoman provinces. Having settled
that little affair to its own satisfaction,
the American indulges the hope that
Russia will cease persecuting Jews,
Protestants and Catholics, as she now
does with a vigor and pertinacity tran
scending the intolerance of the Turk.
The “new party” programme gets
more kicks than half pence from the
newspapers of the South. The Nash
ville American sums up that the doc
trines of the aforesaid party will em
brace all the heresies of the Republicans,
including the fundamental extreme na
tional principle, which they appear to
have abandoned in dealiug with the
Month. Issues change, but principles
never do.
_
Some of the Republican organs are
thanking God that, since the settlement
of the South Carolina and Louisiana
cases, the “negro is at last out of poli
tics.” The itegro never would have
been mischievously in politics but for
New England Puritaus aud Exeter Hall
Abolitionists. Still, considering the
large colored vote, wo are inclined to
think the negro is yet an important fac
tor in politics.
According to Mr. L. Q. Washing
ton’s correspondence, Republican mem
bers of the Commission do not approve
of Judge Spofford’s election to the
Louisiana Seuatorsliip, .and Gen. Geo.
Sheridan, a carpet-bagger of the War
moth tribe, asserts that Kellogg and
Ecstih will Vie admitted. The Republi
can Commissioners bad better mind
their owu business. If all the Demo
cratic Senators are in their places Kel
logg will bo disappointed.
The Chicago Tribune says : “It was
noticeable that at the English din
ners in honor of the Queen’s birthday
the banquet was French. They did not
oat the roast beef of ‘Hold Hingland,
but extremets au something and ala
something else. This was not sufficient
ly patriotic.” The St. George s Society
of Augusta had an intensely “Hold
Hiuglish” banquet. The number of
simon-pure Britons present was not very
great, but the dishes were eminently
and exclusively national.
The New Orleans Democrat is proper
ly indignant at the payment by the
Nicholls authorities of Packard’s po
lioe bummers. This affair is stigmatized
as a disgraceful compromise, antagonis
tic to the popular will. Our contempo
rary adds that the whole business has
been a commercial transaction ; that no
great question of right and law and lib
erty was settled, bnt that we regularly
bought out the rights, franchises and
properties of a rival institution, which,
having run au unprofitable business,
made the best possible disposal of its
goods, and closed np its shop.
The New York Times is disposed to
be factions over the Packard legisla
tors. It eavs : “They all went into the
Nicholls Legislature with one eye on
the palladium of our liberties and the
other on the contingent fund of the
Nicholls government. It was a ques
tion of dollars and cents. There was
glory, possibly virtue, in standing by;
Packard. But there was per diem aud
mileage in the other camp; and, though
the Spaitau band believed in the immu
table principles of human liberty as in
volved iu the struggle of Packard, they
Tesolved to stand by Nicholls as long
as there was a dollar in the contingent
fund."
The Baltimore Sun, which is conduct
ed on a cash basis, its proprietor being
the richest journalist in the world, re
cently exposed the shortcomings of
delinquent newspaper patrons. Oue of
the rural papers thanks the and
adds: Some men, who owe for their
newspapers for years, when called on
foe pay say they are unable to do so,
but they are never at a lose for money to
spend for tobacco, cigars, some times
whisky, brandy, the circus and menage
rit' s - Such men do not act fairly to
wara* the press, which is devoted to the
interest of their locality, and the sooner
they oeas eto do evil and learn to do
right the bei7 er R he for themselves.
A colored politic”- 811 in the South of
the Republican persua. s ' otl has not al
ways an easy time of it am on ß his own
people when he takes anew Jeparture
which leads to the Democratic Ca. m P-
This was exemplified in the case of
Senator Pemas, a mulatto of New Or
leans. He flopped back and forth from
Packard to Nicholls several times.
The bulldozing resorted to by his own
race is thus reported; They began by
snubbing him on the streets, then re
sorted to “laboring with him" to con
vince him of the error of his ways, next
instigated his wife to lock his house
against him and declare she wouldn't
Jive with him till he “returned to his
.people,” and finally read him out of
meeting aud even refused his admission
.to theciiarcb, of which he has been the
-chief pillar. It is to be hoped that he
got his share of the contingent fund,
and may now be permitted to “flop”
back into the affections of his spouse
and the members of his tabernacle.
THE REVIVAL OF THE WHIG PARTY.
We called attention yeateiday to the
movement which has been commenced
for the avowed purpose of breaking
down party lines, and either reviving
the old Whig party or else organising a
new party with anew name and new
principles. The Nation newspaper of
Washington favors the resuscitation of
the Whig party, believing that the
Wuigs of the North who act with the
R-publicans, and the Whigs of the
Month who act with the Democrats
would rally with enthusiasm to the old
standard so soon as it should be hoisted,
and would constitute a political organi
zation strong enough numerically to ob
tain possession of the Government and
control of the country. Mr. Thompson,
the Meceretarv of the Navy, and a gen
tleman who delights to style himself an
“Old Line Whig” and to swear by the
bones of Henbv Clay, coincides with
the views of the Nation, and declares,
iu effect, that the salvation of the Doited
States depends upon the revival of
Whiggery. It is also stated, though
the statement may Lot be authoritative,
that the President is wedded to
these views, and bases his hopes of
breaking down party organizations, and
obliterating color lines in the Month up
on the idea that successful appeals
can bo made to the old Whigs of this
section. Whether the President really
entertains Bach an opinion or not, it is
certain that there are men in the North
and in the South who agree with Mr.
Thompson and look forward with confi
dence to the resuscitation or resurrec
tion, which ever term may seem fittest,
of the party which once controlled the
destinies of the Union. Whether the
opinions of these men are correct, wheth
er their belief js jell grounded,J£e fuj
ture alone can determine. For on} own
part we do not think that their opin
ions are correct, that their belief is well
grounded. We do not believe that the
Whig party can be re-organized either
North or South.
Even if the re-organization of the Whig
party were feasible and such re-organiza
tion should take place we do not believe
that such a party could obtain the con
fidence and support of a majority of the
people or the control of the National
Government, unless it should survive re
peated defeats and come into power
long after the present generation shall
have passed away. So far as the near
future is concerned anew Whig party
conld only hope to profit by the close
ness of the Bepublican and the Demo
cratic party and to hold the bal
ance of power in all struggles
between these two powerful po
litical organizations. This is all it
could hope to do at best, and this is far
more than we believe it could do. The
Whig party is not sleeping, but is dead;
aud it has been dead a long time. It was
attacked by fatal disease in 1848-9 when
the pro slavery aud anti-slavery fight
commenced, and the election of Frank
lin Pierce drove the last nail in its
coffin. Really it has been a quarter of
a century since this great party died,
and all the electric batteries of all the
politicians of the country cannot galva
nize it into life again. The Northern
Whigs, as a general rule, joined the Re
publican party and have voted steadily
with it ever since. The Southern Whigs,
aB a general rule, joined the Democratic
party. Some became “Know Nothings,”
but since the war the Southern Whigs
who became Democrats and the South
ern Whigs who became “Know Noth
ings” have acted, almost to a man, with
the Democrats in opposition to Repub
licanism which, until the inauguration
of President Hayes, has represented
nothing but hostility to the South and
hatred of the Southern people. There
are two reasons for believing that the
movement which seems to be on foot
canuot, in the nature of things, be suc
cessful. Tho first is that there are com
paratively few Whigs left in the coun
try—comparatively few men to whom
the name of Whig or the existence of a
Whig party is anything more than a tra
dition, The Secretary of the Navy may
recollect tho contests botween Whigs
and Democrats which once shook the
nation, and in whioh he took no mean
part, and ho may recall with pride the
deeds of those great Whig champions,
Clay and Webster, which he witnessed,
but how many others are there who
have any personal knowledge of Whigs
or Whiggery ? Mr. Thompson has lived
his three score of years, perhaps woro,
buthe does not need to consult tables of
mortality lo show him that few men at
tain such n green oJ4 ago. Let him call
tho roll of his old political associates
and conaiderhow many of those arc alive
who encountered defeat with him
fighting under the banner of Henry Clay
against Andbew Jackso* or stood by
his side when the Whigs marched to
victory under the lead of William
Henry Harrison aud Zachary Taylor.
A quarter of a century is a long time.
During that period anew generation
has sprung up—a generation which
cares nothing, which atmoet knows noth
ing of Whigs and Whiggery. Take the
State of Georgia for example. What do
our Congressmen, our Governor, our
members of the legislature, our voters
know of the Whig party r The days of
miracles, if they ever existed, have gone
by. The political Lazarus who dies now
dies beyond the hope of a resurrection. In
the second place the platform of the an
cient Whigs is identical with the platform
of the modern Republican*. Protection,
internal improvements and a M sound”
currency constituted the slogan of Cla?
and Webster. The Republicans took
from the Whigs those things which their
feeble bands were unable to carry and
they now bear the scepte to which they
once bowed in humility. How gn oil
and water be made to mingle ? How
ean the opporeutsof Garrison, Phillips
and Blaine be made to unite with the
party which they assume to oontrol *
The Whig party cannot be revived.
Those who aUompt to revive it will sim
ply bring ruin npou themselves.
THE EASTERN QUBSTIGU,
Mr, George H. Boker, a scholarly
gentleman, row Minister to Russia and
at one time Mi Ulster to Turkey, has
been iuterviewed by bUe 'Sfpy Times. He
is incliued to believe, eyen at tLu. late
day, that the trouble between the Rus
sian aud the Ottoman Governments may
be arreste I before proceeding to mortal
combat. He instances the b#4 financial'
condition of both countries, but admits j
that the Turk is worse off than the ]
Muscovite. Ihe disproportion physi
cally is immense, Russia being able to
precipitate l of disciplined sol
diers upon an adversary £hat can barely
muster 300,000 irregular troops. Ja the
event of hostilities being unavertible
Mr. Eo£kk predicts that the double
eagle of the £Uar will, in a month’s
l time, supplant the of Moham
med upon the stateliest minaret efi the
mosque at a*. {Sophia. From the same
authority, we learn (fiat England, though
she may blaster, ytll not interfere to
help th# Torts- She yill have enongh
to do to look after her Indian posses
sions. Germany is iu favor of the war,
and would improve the first opportunity
offered to attack France. Twice recent
ly bnt for the interposition of the Csar
war between Germany and Franee would
have occurred. Owing to internal dis
; pensions, Austria cannot be depended
upon i? help Turkey.
The passivity of Russia capturing
Constantinople in -* hir ‘y d *y 8 ’ time we
take no stock in, with all Qu e deference
ito Mr. Bokkb’B ipse dixit. Aa to
land, it would seem that her Indhto
! possessions would be in greater jeo
pardy by not aiding the Turk. Should
i the Saltan proclaim a “holy war” and
unfold the standard of the Prophet, the
Mohammed au world would be stirred to
its profonndest depths, and (England's
Moslem subjects would revolt at the
Briton's desertion of the Focte in its
' hour of extremity. In proof at this,
we note that the tone of the English
j press is decidedly anti-Russian sinco
! the promulgation of Gortschakoff’s
| manifesto.
The position of France is peculiar.
Sue will not take any active part, if she
can help it, in this imbroglio. We
judge from Count Von Moltke’s speech
in the Reichstag, the other day, that
Germany and Russia are moving in con
oert, the only fear of the former being
a thrust from France in the flank, in
case an opportunity should present it
self. If the Rnssian should succeed in
wresting territory, in the name of
the Christian’s God, from Turkey, it
is likely enongh that Germany will re
quire similar compensation as a prioe of
substantial aid or valuable neutrality.
Outside of Turkey, the two countries
most dangerously menaced are France
and Austria, if there be any truth iu
this Ruaso-Germanic alliance.
At present, the real plot ia hidden and
can only be surmised. Very soon the
drama will unfold itself, and then there
will either be a diplomatic end to blus
ter, or else the map of Europe must pre
pare for radical changes whioh may
shake every throne and decide the ques
tion, as stated by Napoleon at St. Hel
ena, whether the Cossack or Republican
shall be dominant in imperial lands be
yond the sea.
THE FAMOUS PROTOCOL.
The following is the full text of the
famous protocol, about which the prin
cipal nations of Europe have been so
long wrangling. It is dated at London
March 31st, 1877, and reads thus ; The
Powers who oommonly took part in the
pacification of the East, and therefore
participated in the conference, recognize
that the surest means of obtaining that
object is to maintain the agreement es
tablished, and jointly to affirm afresh
the common interest they take in tho im
provement of the oondition of Christians
ind of reforms A&jßospia, Herzegovina
and Bulgaria 7 , which me Forte accepted
on oondition of itself oarrying them into
execution. They take oognizance of the
treaty of peace with Servia. Regarding
Montenegro, the Powers consider the
ratification of the frontiers and the free
navigation of the Bojona desirable in
the interest of a solid and durable ar
rangement. The Powers consider ar
rangements concluded or to be concluded
between the Porte and the two principal
ities as a step accomplished toward
pacification, which is the object of their
oommon wish. They invite the Porte to
confirm it by replacing its armies on a
peace footing, excepting the number of
troops indispensable for the mainten
ance of order, and by putting in hand,
with the least possible delay, tho re
forms necesiary for the tranquility and
well-being of the provinces, the condi
tions of which were discussed at
the conference. They rocognize that
the Porte has deolared itself ready
to realize an important portion of them.
They take cognizance especially of the
circular of the Porte of February 13th,
1876, aud of the declarations made by
the Ottoman Government during the
Conference, and since through its rep
resentatives. In view of these good in
tentions on the part of the Porto, and of
its evident intent to carry them imme
diately into effect, the Powers believe
they have grounds for huping that the
Porte will profit by the present lull to
apply energetically such measures as
will cause that effective improvement in
the oondition of the Christian popula
tion which is unanimously called for us
indispensable to the tranquility of Eu
rope, and that having once entered on
this path it will understand that it con
cerns its honor as well as its interests to
persevere in it loyally and efficaciously.
The Powers propose to watch carefully,
by means of their representatives in
Constantinople and their looal agents,
the manner tn whioh the promises of
the Ottoman Government are carried
into effect. If their hopes should once
more be disappointed, and if the condi
tion of the Christian subjects of the
Sultan should not be improved in a man
ner to prevent a return of the complica
tions which periodically disturb the
peace of the East, they think it right to
declare that sueb a state of affairs would
be incompatible with their and
those of Europe in general. In such
case they reserve to themselves the
right to consider, in common, as to what
they may deem best fitted to secure the
well being of the Christian population
and tho interests of general peace.
A MORAL AND MATERIAL TRIUMPH.
Reviewing the political events of the
past si? months, the St. Louis JRepubli
can concludes that tfie Radicals, by the
Louisiana settlement especially, aye in
a most awkward dilemma, while the De
mocrats have every reason to be content
with the situation, Oar contemporary
says: '‘They (the Democrats) have, in
deed, lost their President, tout gained
everything else. The Republicans gain
ed their President and have lost every
thing else. Hates has adopted and en
forced tho Democratic policy ip top
South, and by so doing admits that the
decision of the electoral commission was
based on falsehood, and that he has not
4 shadow of legal or moral right to be
where h is, When Stearns stepped
out and Packard was iiioiipfy put, Til
den's claim to the Presidency was rati
fied by the very party which repudiated
jt, ” While we are of those who believe
that Mr, title was “healed” by
the action of Congress, it is BPS ? e satis
faction to know that even our opponent#
ooncede the moral power of the Demo
cratic position. The Republican puts
the present happy state of affairs upon
the propey basis, when it attributes the
wholesome uoofiitjpff of the Union to
Democratic pressure and toe gppd
sense of the President. Thera is no
disposition on the part of the South
ern Democracy to rake np old quar
rel#, tPt every disposition to
accept t|u9 gppd we possess,
however crookedly jaqeopipljphed, and
thank God that even a Republican Presi
dent should have the honesty to recog
nize the pressure of his politioal oppo
nents and the patriotism to do what was
exactly wise and jnat.
The turn of affairs, whioh
has so disgruntled toe p)d “war horses ”
of the Radioal Republican stripe, gpd so
agreeably disappointed the extremists
amoDg the Democracy, is indeed what
the called the workings of Ne
mesls, yfraitoppoderns are inclined
to attribute to the designs of providence.
Lincoln would have been kind to the
SohUi, jre in hostility to his party,
and Jornso*, in prying opt t,ho Lincoln
policy shared the fate of pgojfETHKrs.
Grant drifted with the current of Ja
cobinism and was its tool and execa
tioner. But a Republican President
has, by force of circumstances, the logic
oi events, and his own inherent sense of
justice, been compelled to accomplish
successfully what Lincoln did not live
to do and what Johnson failed in at
tempting. We ii7S "t last secured;
from a Republican President, who was
not counted in for that purpose, a justi
fication greater, perhaps, and oertainly
more dramatie, than even Ur. Tildes
conld have brought about This view,
too, the Republican insistently and strik
ingly presents as follows; “Hayes,
whom the Bepublican party pat in offiee
at a sacrifice of honor and honesty,
compels his politioal friends to drink
from the cup they have so often rejected
with scorn and oontempt Democrats
stand by him because he is following
the Democratic programme, and Re
publicans dare not throw him overboard
because they voted and cheated for him.
It is A rare specimen of poetic venge
anoe, this demolition of Republican re
construction by a Republican President;
and it is to be wondered at that
‘the party of great soorgl ideas’ does not
relish eating its own dirt.
tfcp dirt mast be eaten, and fhoee who
secretly jgsjoioed when the assassin’s
bullet Benf,LiHo<i and his peace policy
out of the world’ an£ who ihonght they
were doing God service try hound tog
Johnson for four years, ean now
Hayes as a sweet morsel under their
tongues, and find iu the retributive jus
tice such lessons as they may.”
It may.be that these very reflections
will canse a formidable revolt against
such au extraordinary iconoclast and
rogne-repeller; but so long as the Presi
dent remains true to himself and true
to his country, in contradistinction to
mere party jugglery, his position will be
honorable and his final triumph secure.
AN INTERESTING CASE.
Suit For a Large Sam of Money—Jury Find
For the Complainant*.
Last Tuesday the case of Martha M.
Girardey and children vs. Andrew M.
Moore, John W. Bes.-man and others,
in equity, was taken np for trial in Rich
mond Superior Court. It occupied the
attention of the Court for two days, and
was not concluded until late Wednesday
evening. The jnry were directed to seal
their verdict and hand it to the Clerk
on Friday morning, as Court would not
be in session on Thursday, which
was a legal holiday. The jury,
composed of W. F. Parks, foreman; J. C.
Wilkinson, J. H. Mims, Jas. J. Broome,
Wm. Wilkinson, Wm. Sesgo, W. R.
Fulghum, A. O. Force, Walter A. Clark,
C. G. Stephens, J. D. Harris and C. R.
Clark, made a verdict at 11 o’clock Wed
nesday night. This verdict was read
out in open Court yesterday morning,
and was as follows :
“We, the jury, find that there was a
trust deed, a substantial copy of which
is annexed to the bill, and we farther
find for the complainants the sum of
SIB,OOO, without interest.”
H. Clay Foster, Esq., of counsel for
the defendants, gave notice that a mo
tion for anew trial would be filed in
proper form within a few days.
Messrs. Hook & Webb, and F. H. Mil
ler represent the complainants, and
Messrs. W. H. Hull, H. Clay Foster,
and M. P. Carroll, the defendants.
The case turned, practically, upon the
existence or non-exisience of a trust
deed. The complainants alleged that
in 1861 Major I. P. Girardey, previous
to his departure for the war, executed a
deed of trust, conveying to them all his
property, with John W. Bessman, one
of the defendants, as trustee. This
property, ttyey avarretL amounted ain
value to about fifty tnousaad dollars,-
and comprised various pieces of real es
tate in the city of Augusta; that said
trust deed was witnessed by Benjamin
H. Brodnax and C. Morel, whose inter
rogatories were produced affirming such
to be the fact; that said Bessman ac
cepted the trust and acted under it, col
lecting rents and managing the trust
property; that said property was sold after
the war by I. P. Girardy, with the knowl
edge and concurrence of Bessman, and
the proceeds placed in the Lafayette Ball
and Opera House property, aud that the
latter property was mortgaged to Andrew
M. Moore, of Philadelphia, of whom
said Bessman was agent in Augusta;
that the nominal sum advanced by moore
was $27,000, of which, however, Girar
dey only received $19,000, SO,OOO being
retained for a debt duo Bessman by
Girardey and $1,630 by Moore as ad
vance interest at twelve per cent, per
annum ; that the mortgaged property
was sold by the sheriff on the first Tues
day in April, 1876, and purchased by
Andrew M. Moore, for $33,000, and that
they ought to recover from the defen
dants the full amount of the alleged
trust funds. Tho defendant, Bessman,
responding to the bill, denied the exis
tence of a trust deed or that he ever ac
cepted a trust under snob a deed. He
had agreed to aot as Girardey’s agent
during his absence in tho war, but not
to be trustee for bis wife and ohildren.
He knew that there was a will executed
by Girardey aud that he was named as
one of the executors, but that instru
ment could only go into operation after
the death of the testator. He collected
the rents of the property during Girar
dey’s absence, and turned them over to
Mrs. Girardey. When Girardey re
turned he resumed the control of the
property. The six thousand dollar debt
was for money borrowed from him by
Mrs. Girardey and for merchandise fur
nished Girardey and bis family, lie
had acted as friend and adviser of Gir
ardey, but knew nothing of and denied
the existence of a trust deed in which he
was named as trustee.
The bill names Andrew M. Moore uud
John W. Bessman as defendants, but
the case as to the defendant Moore was
removed some time since, on motion of
his counsel, to the United States Court
at Savannah, where it is now pending.
Counsel for the complainants are mak
ing an effort, however, to }iaye it rein
stated in the State Court.
Before the sale of the Lafayette Hall
and Opera House, counsel for the com
plainants applied to the ohapeellor,
Judge Gibson, for auiujuuctiou restrain
ing the sheriff from proceeding, but the
application was refused by the Court.
Complainants excepted aud the case
went to the Supreme Court. 1 , That tribu
nal refused to reverse the decision of tho
Court below on the ground that tho sale
conld iyor|i no injury to tho complain
ants.
The following is the charge pf Judge
Gibson to the jury, last Wednesday :
“Iu Georgia, prior to 1866, marriage
vested t]io property of the wife iu the
husbapd: yet, by a marriage settlement,
made before or after marriage, her prop
erty oould be secured to her. The bus
band, too, may, by voluntary deed, cou
vey any or all of his property to his
wife, or to a trustee for her, subject to
the prior rights of purchasers or credi
tors; which trust deed must bo recorded
in the Clerk of the Superior Court’s of
gee within three months after its execu
tion. 4 failure to do which renders the
deed void' and of £ epfeot, as against
bona fide purchasers of the property
conveyed in trust, or creditors who be
came such without notico of the deed
before it h&s been actually recorded.
A trustee, nqf. puty hy tjje deed
of trust, with the control, pdpspssipn or
management of tho trust property, is
not responsible for the rents or profits
thereof, especially if the persons enti
tled to its benefits and uses had the con
trol ana management;. 9* to 0 property
conveyed in trust, if yon find that a
trust deed was made to Mrs. Girardey
of any property whatever, no contract
of sale made by her with her husband
or trustee is binding upon Jher, unless
allowed by order of the Superior Court
of the wOBRty of her residence.
No trustee call iu*ai jjie funds held
by him, in lauds, without first 6btining
an order from the Judge of the Superior
Court authorized to consider and act
thereon. Yet, a cestri que trust having
possession {hp estate, or if the
trustee fails or refuses to ptose+yp and
protect the trust estate, or provide for
the support aud maintenance of its bene
fiioiaries, may contract debts therefor,
and the trust property made liable for
the same.
Every trustee entitled to, and having
the possession of, trust property, is
bound to ordinary <jfl'£!, e pce in the pre
servation ami protection bi too safne,
and by ordinary diligence I mean that
care and attention which any prudent
man takes of his own property of a simi
tar kind, the absence of which care is
termed ordinary neglect. Gross neglect
for which a naked trustee is liable, is
the jajd of )hat care which every man
of oomtuon i>oypyei’ inattentive
he may be, takes of his own estate.
If a mortgage judgment lien had been
created by I. P. Girardey (and the legal
title to the property was in him) by bona
fide creditors, without notice, before the
trust deed has been recorded, the trust
created cannot defeat snch liens.
If tbs indebtedess of Girardey to
Bessman was uteaied fpr the benefit of
the trust, notwithstanding he may have
bad had notice of the trust and known
of its existence, the trust estate is liable
therefor
HUNTING FOR I*AP.
Wlint la Dour 'With' OOlcc Seekers' I.cl.era.
Governor Young, “of Ohio, gives an
amusing account of the manner in which
epistolary' applications 1° President
Hayes from office seekers are treated in
Washington. Mr. Hayes has three Sec
retaries and four clerks, and these gen
tlemen attend to all his correspondence,
even that marked private and personal.
In front of these gentlemen are a num
ber of large baskets; one is marked
“ State,” another “ War,” another
“ Navy,” another •“ Pest Office," and so
on througu of th / departments.
Every letter is openeu carefully
read. If its writer wants a place for
himself or a friend, as a postmaster, the
document is endorsed “ Postal Depart
ment,” and thrown into pho b.4*£@t of
that department. If for a place in any
other department, it is correctly en
dorsed and thrown into its proper bas
ket. Occasionally a letter is found the
contents of which show that it should
be seen by the Presidential eye, and this
is placed in a small basket labelled
“ President." When all the mail has
been opened and distributed, it i9 car
ried off to the varioas departments,
where it is again examined, and then
pigeon holed for future reference. Of
the immense mail sent the President
every day from office seekers, hardly one
letter in fifty ever reaches the Presiden
tial eye.
It ia a Privilege
Not as thoroughly appreciated as it
onght to be, to be able to masticate food
without getting a twinge from an ex
posed nerve The tortures of tooth
ache are fiendish. Avoid them by reno
vating your teeth with toe matchless
Sozodont. -■ ‘ i-- t
The final adjudication between Anna
Eliza and Brigham Young is that Anna
Eliza was wife de facto not de jure, and
that she should go hence without com
pensation.
BREAKING PARTY LINES.
WHAT THE NEW YORK “HERALD'
adatses.
Lines of w Depnrtnre—Tlie Noulk Doe
Not Accept the Situation—The Necessity n
Justice anti Common Sense —Selfish Politi
einns A New Party Keenmmendeil 1
.‘•trnnge Partnership Suggested.
[JT. T. Herald—Editorial.]
If the new Administration is wrecked
it will be upon the Southern question
This was the rock upon which Johnsoi
struck. This was the snag in the wa;
of Grant. The country stood all o’
Grant’s mistakes until be blundered ii
i Louisiana. Then his power waned. I
, was the South which gave Tilden hi
apparent majority, and almost mad
him President. The Southern questioi
is the first difficulty of Hayes. Not
that it rears its horrid front aud men
aces him, as it menaced Johnson am
Grant, let us look at it calmly and se<
iu what respect Mr. Hayes may take i
new departure. The truth about th
South is a painful one. We have a cou
quered territory, and we do not knot
what to do with it. The conquerei
States naturally follow their old leaders
and their aim is to recover throng!
political expedients as much a
possible what they lost iu the war
There is a good deal of can
about “cheerfully accepting” am
so on, and “gladly welcoming’
emancipation, for instance. But it i
all cant. How can the Southern peopl
“cheerfully accept” the most terribl
and crushing defeat ever imposed to
one power upon the other since Scipii
conquered Carthage ? How can the;
“cheerfully welcome” an event which
however much we in tho North ma;
sing and pray about it, has ruinei
hundreds of thousand of the bes
men and women iu the South'
This is not in human nature, am
any theory abont the settlement of thi
Southern question based upon it is un
sound, because it rests upon a falsehood
What the South accepts isthesnord
What she is now striving to do is to pu
away the sword. Sho has “accepted’
the military rub
aVthe war, although if tha
continued for
escaped the corruption!
of the She fought th<
Freedman’s bureau, although withoui
it she never could have controlled tin
labor which lms enabled her to grow at
much cottonSas in any of her peaeefu
years. She has fought every system o:
government, every experiment that die
not bring back, as noarly as possible,
the old system. Wherever she lias founc
a Confederate leader she has honored
and promoted him. She shows it in tht
long list of gallant and distinguished
men who hold seats in the Senate and
the House, because of what they did
for the lost cause. Wherever one oi
her sons has shown a disposition tc
make terms with her enemy, even son?
as distinguished as Longstreet and Mos
tly, she has punished him with swifi
and merciless rigor. She cares nothing
for the Democratic, nothing for tbe Re
publican party. Her aim, her natural,
proper and excusable aim, is to recovei
as much as possible of what she losl
during the war.
If we take this sensible view of the
Southern question tbe new lines oi
Presidential policy are clear. Let Mr,
Hayes say to tbe South, “Act with me
in good faith ad I will give you more,
far more, than you can win in a hundred
electoral campaigns.” The practical ef
feet of the Southern efforts for tho lasi
ten years has been to make the leader;
the tools of tbe gang of speculators it
politics who no(w control that bankrupt,
worthless, ignominious concern called
the Democratic party. The Southern
people have gaiped nothing, and even il
they had elected Tilden it would bavt
been a barren victory for him, howevei
it have been to the gain of tht
operators who held shares in tho recenl
Democratic Presidential pool. Neithei
Mr. Tilden nor any Democratic Presi
dent could have had the confidence ol
the country to the extent possessed bj
Hayes. Without that nothing can bt
done for the South. As it now stands
wo have the President and the Vice-
President, five out of seven members oi
the Cabinet, a large section if not tht
majority of the Republican members ol
the House and Shnate, willing, anxious
to do anythingwor the South that will
give us peace, 'mke all sectional ques
tions out of poWtics, and enable us to
give some attenAn to financial and in
dustrial question. Will the South ac
cept it? Or will its leaders by con
tinued follies soleto aua t the patience oi
their friendsin tßa North as to make any
effort to help vain ?
We in the Nth owe muob, very
much, to the Soflh, and the debt should
be paid. We why tho South
ern peopf/ regard" anyreconstruction as
hollow that throws upon them the most
terrible burdens of the war and does no
thing to help them carry the load. Take
emancipation. We in the North are as
much responsible for slavery as the
South. We enjoyed many of its mate
rial advantages. vVe legalized it, and
nieu are still living who were dragged
through Northern streets with halters
about their necks for questioning its
divine character. Yet wo take away all
genuine merit in tbe noble work of
emancipation by throwing it on the
South ua a war measure, like Bismarck
when ho exacted his milliards from
France. Bismarck frankly avowed his
purpose to cripple and punish his ene
my. He did n@t talk about “fraternity,”
as we did when we reduced hundreds of
thousands of families to beggary. When
we add to this the repudiation of the
various war debts of the South, the cur
rency, the jlestruption of eyery form of
Govefnmeht jfiaehjnery, tbp jjillage
half the States—the ttesplation pf South
Carolina, for instance, by Sherman, not
as sfp jjcf of far. bf)t ap fln avowed act
of vengeance—how can we resist the
conclusion that something must be done
for the South—something that nostates
man has yet had courage to dream ?
Aud we know that we speak for the gen
erous, magnanimous North when we
say that ouV people,' if rightly directed,
onoe removed from the terror of a
Southern outbreak, once assured that
there was peace in the South to black
and white, peace and justice and fair
play, would only be too glad to take into
consideration the true burdens of the
war and do their part toward making
them easy.
Why has this not been done ? Simply
because of tho hell-born spirit df politi
cal intrigue. The Republipan leaders
do not wafif; it, bepaqse* t|je passions of
the North," tfiei Dwfir spirit,' l and so on,
enable Mr. Blaine and Mr. Morton and
tbe fanatics to make an effective cam
paign. The Democratic leaders do not
want it, because the passions of the
South enable them to carry the South as
a nnit. What do these men care about
a North mourning because the Union is
not a union of love, about a South
mourning in sacaplatfi and asiip; oyer a
glory that seams to have set forever?—
But we have a President, we trust, who
is above these dark and degrading aims.
Behind him we have a country that will
only be too glad to follow the Moses
who will lead it out of the wilderness of
hatred and heart-burning into the prom
ised land. Let the true men of the
South—men 1 like jjamar, Hampton, nee,
Gordon and their fellows—throw aside
all political ties, and, uniting with men
like Conklidg, Fish, Hoar, Evarts,
Adams, Edamnds and Dix, form anew
party whose first duty will be justice,
magnanimity and aid to the South.-
These Southern men can in an hour give
assurances as to the protection and well
being of the negro that will at oqae sat
isfy the North, r They oan 1 give him po
litical equality, arid in so doing open the
way to a settlement that will end the
most painful'question that ever afflicted
American politics and bring about that
era of good feeling of which tho Itepub
lic is in such sore need.
A Curiosity of Numbers.
The multiplication of 987654321 by 45
give 4444444445. Reversing toe order
of the digit, and multiplying 123456789
by 45 we get a result equally curious,
5,555,555,f,05. If we take 123456789 as
the multiplicands and interchanging the
figure of 45, take 54 as the multiplied
we obtain another remarkable produet
6,666,666,606. Returning to the multi
plicand first used, 987654321, and taking
54 as the multiplier again, we get 53,333,-
333,334—a1l three eicept tha first ancf
last figures, which read together 54, the
multiplier. Taking the same multipli
cand and using 27, the half of 54, as the
multiplier we get a product of 26,666,-
666,6©—lefil' sixto top grs? and
last figures, which 'reda together give
27, the multiplier. Jiex l interohaegrfig
the figures in the number 2J L and_tfsing
72 as the multiplier with yonw-to-.i 25
the multiplicand, we obtajn a product of
71,111,m, 113—all onp except the first
aud last figures, which read together
give 72, the multiplier.— Visitor.
4 Nflvelfy in Carriage*.
A Baltimore correspondent of the
Carriage Monthly for April tells of
quite a novelty in the carriage line. It
is a close carriage with a solid glass top
and glass windows all around, Jt ws®
built for Thomas Winans, ofie of our
wealthiest citizens. Mr. Winans is a
mechanic of thoroughly practical ideas,
and has accumulated immense wealth in
building railroads in Russia. Of late
years he has suffered severely with rheu
matism, and ordered the above style of
carriage in order to get the benefit of
sunlight without encountering the chill
ing effects of tbe weather.
The English buyers of the Emma
Mine fail to recover purchase money.
BREADSTPFFS.
THE COMING WAK AND ITS EF
FECTS.
Probable Demand For American Products.
[Special to the American.]
Washington, April 23.—The certainty
of European war and the prospect of
an active demand in the English market
for the breadstuffs of this country, has
caused much inquiry for statistics in re
gard to the snppiy and consumption of
breadstuff's abroad, and the probable
effect of the war upon the grain traffic.
Dr. Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics of the Treasury Depart
ment, has collected together some sta
tistics bearing npon the subject, and it
is npon information obtained from him
that the following is based :
The Cereal Product of Europe.
According to a very careful and thor
ough statistical exhibit recently made by
the French Government, the total cereal
production of Europe amounts at pres
ent to au average of 4,994,000,000 bush
els per annum. Of this Russiu alone
furnishes 1,606,000,000 bushels, or near
ly one-third of the whole; Germany,
742,600,000 bushels ; France, 687.600,000
bushels, and Austria, 550,000,000 bush
els. The production of this country is
set down at 1,537,250,000 bushels, which
very closely agrees with Dr. Young’s
own estimate. Thus this country, with
a population of forty millions, produces
39J bushels to each inhabitant, while
Europe, with a population of 297,000,-
000, produces only about 16; bushels
per head.
The following tablo gives the amount
of cereals per inhabitant produced by
the various .States of Europe :
Bushels. Bushels.
Boumania 39.60 Ireland 12.65
Denmark 32.t5 Turkey 12.65
Russia 22.27 Finland 12.10
Prussia 22.00 Great Britain... .11.55
France 18 96 Saxony 10.40
Hungary 18.70 Servia 10.40
Bavaria 17 86 Holland 8.80
Sweden 15.11 Norway 8.51
German Duchies. 14.00 Greece 8.51
Belgium 13 47 Italy 7.7)
Spain 13.47 Portugal 7.70
Austria 12.91 Switzerland 6 76
Wurtemburg 12 91
According to the most moderate esti
mate the average quantity of cereuls
necessary for the consumption of each
inhabitant is fourteen and nine-tenths
bushels per annum, and it therefore re
sults that all the States that come after
Sweden npon the list have to obtain
grain supplies from other countries. In
this o untry three-fifths of the cereal
production consists of maize. In Eu
rope onts predominate, aud next in
quantity come wheat, rye, barley aud
maize. Russia, Prussia aud France pro
duce largo wheat crops, aud the two
first are our largest competitors in the
English market. In Roumania and Ser
via maize takes the first rank.
At one time the chief dependence of
England for wheat was npon Russia and
Prussia, and the supremacy of the
United States in the grain markets of
the world is of comparatively recent
growth. Prior to 1860 Russia aud Prus
sia led this country in the supply of
wheat. From 1859 to 1861 the exports
of wheat from this country to England
sprang suddenly up Irom 430,504 cwts.
to 15,610,472 cwts., while in the same
period Russia advanced only from 3,-
837,454 cwts. to 4.567,483 cwts., and
Prussia from 3,345,301 cwts. to 4,462,573
cwts.
The lead taken so suddenly by this
country has ever since been maintained.
Tables covering the years from 1860 to
1872 show that the United States sup
plied England during that period with
27 5 per cent. < f her total imports of
wheat, including flour, against 24.7 per
cant, from Russia, and 17.2 per cent,
from Germany. In the same period
England imported 43 per cent, of her
total importations of maize from this
country. In 1852 the exports of maize
of this country to Great Britain only
amounted to 1,311,304 bushels, against
1,795,632 from Turkey and Roumania,
and 1,870,528 bushels from Turkey. At
present Roumania and Southern Russia,
to a lesser degree, are our principal
competitors in t. jo supply of maize.
The year 1876 was a good harvest year
in England; prices wore low, and the
total imports of wheat were only 44,394,-
152 cwts., against 51,786,393 cwts. in
1875. The following table gives the
sources of supply :
Per cant.
Owls. uf all.
U. States and Canada. .21,716,983 48,9
Russia 8,769,260 19.7
British India 3,279,887 7.4
Germany 2,324,148 5 2
Egypt ..2,218,227 2 9
Turkey and Roumania. 1,238,851 4.9
Chili 982,619 2.3
Franco 293,350 .7
Denmark 262,518 .6
Other countries 3,308,355 7.4
44,394,152 100
The importations of maize were 39,-
958,226 hundred weights, of which up
wards of fifty per cent, came from this
country. Canadian exports of grain are
included in those of this country, as
they are prodqced iff the United States.
It wjll lie seen that the countries that
will be embraced by the war about to
begin—Russia and Turkey—have fur
nished 22.6 per coot, of the supplies to
England. In India a dearth prevails this
year. Egypt, being subject to the suze
rainty of the Porte, will be affected by
the war, and whether the waris localized
or whether it draws into it othor Euro
pean powers, it is evident that the de
mand for American breadstuffs will be
increased in the neighborhood of 25 per
cent, in case of the cutting off of the
Russian and Turkish supplies from mar
ket by a prolonged war. }ta}y imports
very largely fro pi Qdessa, op the Black
Sea, pno ■pfaf- wifi plao create au active
demand for our breadstuffs in Mediter
ranean ports.
£U'eotH of Previous Wars.
From statistics furnished by Dr.
Young, it is possible to trace, in some
measure, the effect of pievious Euro
pean wars upon the English market. At
the time of tho war between aud
Russia in I§2§ and 1839i England as a
rule did not require very great foreign
supplies, her own productions being
very nearly sufficient for her wants. But
it so happened that the harvests were
deficient in those years, aud the price
advanced from an average of 58s. 6d.
per quarter in 1827 to 60s. sd. per quar
ter in 1828, 665. 3d. in 1829, when the
Russian General Diebietsoh made his
victorious ipto the heapt of Tur
key. f.'he price did pot pqipe down un
til 1832, when the average pripe was
again 58s. Bd. per quarter.
The wav between Russia and Turkey,
in which England and France eventually
participated, began in the fall of 1853.
England and France declared war March
27 and 28, 1854, Hostilities terminated
February 29, 1856. The following table
gives the imports of wheat for home
consumption by England, and tPe
average price during a term of years
covering t{i? war j
Quarters. s. and.
1852 4,135,376 40 9
1853 6,111,997 53 3
1854 4,370,852 72 5
1855 3,406,977 74 8;
1856 5,614,260 69 2*
1857 4,300,782 56 4-
It will be noted that although in same
of the yearo oi high' priees the home
harvest was so good that the require
ment of foreign breadstuffs was smaller
than usual, yet the prices kept up. It
should be stated, however, that in the
four years, from 1853 to 1856, the har
vests in Franco were deficient, and in
stead of having wheat to export, as
usual, it imported 6,946,156 qnaiters
during that period, thus competing with
England, instead of supplying it, as was
usual.
The war between Prussia and Austria,
in 1866, was so short that its effect upon
trade and commerce was very transient.
It began June 16th ; and listed only se
ven weeks, but that period is neverthe
less marked by an upward tendency in
prices. The average price of wheat per
quarter in the English market was 48s.
3d. in June; 545. Id. in July: 50s. 6d. in
August, and Vfd. ih September.
Afterwards, the new crop being scant,
the price went up again, and the next
year was one of high prices, ranging
from 60 to 69 shillings a quarter.
The period of hostilities between
France and Germany is not marked by
any signal increase of prices, low rates
generally prevailing. War was declared
July 19, 1870, and was terminated by a
treaty of peace on February 26, 1871.
The average price per quarter for wheat
in the English market was 475. sd. in
June, 1870; 50s. lOd. in July; 535. lOd.
in August. In September, when the
new crop entered t{:p markeb me price
fell to 475. fjd.,' from which it soon went
up again, however, 1872 and ’73 being
years of high prices, and did not fall so
nHt.il
From September 1,1876, to March 31,
1877. which oovers the period since har
vest, there has been placed in the Eng
lish market importations and home pro
duce together, only 43,751,346 cwts. of
wheat, against 62,240,531 in the same
period of 1875-6, 56,004,067 in 1874-5,
and 57,356,940 in 1873 4- I) llrir| ft the
same period, from September 1, 1876, to
March 31, 1877, the total imports of
wheat into Great Britain have been only
2],526,722 cwts., against 33,063,973 in
the saa-e period of the preceding season.
And now Wade Hampton is Governor,
and the honors of his position and the
laurels of victory cluster thiekly upon
his ambitious brows, and men cheer him
in the street and thunder of cannon and
roll of drum greet his coming if he
comes twenty times a day, but all that
doesn’t help him a particle when he is
reaching up his back, trying to corral
the end of a vagrom suspender that has
climbed up to the top of his shoulder.
FACTORIES IN THE SOUTH.
A GRAND SCHEME TO BRING THE
MILLS TO THE COTTON.
Congress to Be Asked to Admit Certain Ma
chinery Free Prominent Senators and
Public Men in Favor of tbe Project—Phila
delphia Mill Hands to Be Culled Fpoii.
Washington, April 20.—The Southern
Senators and Representatives have
agreed to at range for some feasible plan
to establish additional cotton factories
in South Carolina, Georgia and Arkan
sas, in which States there are already a
number; and also to have established a
number of them in Mississippi, Alabama
and Louisiana. Just what they intend
to ask Congress to do has not yet been
definitely settled, but this much is
known, that they will introduce a bill
specially legislating to admit cotton
manufacturing machinery to various
Southern States free of duty; that is to
say, the machinery that is actually need
ed, and that is to be placed in working
order at once in the new factories,
Tlie Machinery Requisite.
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
and the New England States manufac
ture a portion of the machinery neces
sary for a cotton factory; but it is said
that there are many important kinds
that tho French and English use that
are very necessary for complete facto
ries. Senators Lamar, of Mississippi;
Gordon, of Georgia; Garland, of Arkan
sas; Governor Hampton, of South Caro
lina; Randall Gibson, of Louisiana, and
many others of equal prominence in the
South, are to work the matter up this
special stssion. Ex-Representative Levy,
of Louisiana, will he here, and act as a
general managing agent in the interest
of the factory scheme. It is distinctly
understood that there is to be nothing
asked from the General Government but
a rebate of customs duties on that kind
of machinery that it is as yet impossible
to obtain in this country, and it is said
that tho entire machinery of ten large
English factories will be removed direct
to Columbia, South Carolina, if the du
ties thereon can bo removed. Another
important statement is made that these
gentlemen in the South who are moving
in the matter have dirdot assurances of
the future investments of large sums in
the way of taking of stock in the enter
prises. It is also stated that a large
sum has already been subscribed to the
general stock in Philadelphia, Boston,
Providence and New York, and that
Colonel Corliss, of Providence, the re
nowned engine builder, will be one of
tho prime movers in the matter.
The Congaroe ltlvcr.
Ex-Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island,
has reported to the authorities of South
Carolina that the water power of the
Congaree river, opposite Columbia, is
unsurpassed in the world, and that five
hundred mills ean be erected on its
banks; tho expenses of tbe milldams will
bo comparatively small. The stream is
always full, and no drying up or freez
ing up. It is asserted that in do place
in the world cau mills be so cheaply run
a3 at this point. The intention is to
build several of tho largest and most im
proved kind of mills there, and also sev
eral on the Savannah river.
How Tliey Will Be Bun.
The locations for the mills in Louis
iana, Alabama aud Mississippi are now
being made, and when the whole ar
rangement is perfected it will be made
public through circulars. It should be
understood that these mills are to be
under one corporate body, with a gen
eral manager aud experienced superin
tendents. The poorer class of white
men and women in tho South, it is said,
make excellent mill hands, while, as a
general rule, tho negro does not do well
in the mills. It seems to bo to him too
tedious aud too much braiu work. How
ever, it is proposed to educate the chil
dren to mill work, especially the girls.
They cau be more readily taught than
the boys.
Many of the mill-workers in Philadel
phia andthe snrroundingtowns are to be
induced to emigrate to tho South, where
they will reeoivo constant work and as
good wages ns they now receive. There
is no doubt of the fact that tho most
gigantic efforts are under way to make
this scheme a grand success, aud one of
the best of reasons why thero should be
immigration to the South in large num
bers. Tbe Southern Senators say that
they want mill hands, carpenters,
bricklayers, machinists and other trades
men. They have enough of profes
sionals, politicians and lazy men, and
some to spare.
ATHENIAN GOSSIP.
Memorial Day, ami a Fitting Observance by
Patriotic Athenians— I The Alliens Military-
Prize Drill—The New Journalistic Venture
—Moot Parliament.
[CorrespondenceChronicle and Constitutionalist .]
Athens, April 26. —1 none respect, at
least, Athens may lay claim to a higher
patriotism than many of the cities of
Georgia. It is indeed a noble example,
and one worthy of emulation, that her
business men have set in their almost
total suspension of business on this
Memorial Day. In many of tho townß
and citios of Georgia it is a most
lamentable fact that business men do
not close their houses at all in honor of
the occasion, or, if at all, only for a
short while. But here, in Athens, we
notice with pleasure that no business
whatever is transacted on this day.
The day broke cloudy apd raining,
and continued to rain until about three
o’clock in tho afternoon, when the clouds
broke away aud the sun came out clear
and bright. No better omen could be
desired of the favor of the gods toward
that devoted patriotism and noble grati
tude which has prompted the Southern
people in thus sotting aside a day to
bo forever a monument to their dead.
Three o’clock having been appointed
for forming the procession, it was
promptly formed ad marched around
to the University Chapel to listen to the
address delivered by Pope Barrow, Esq.
We have seldom had the pleasure of
listening to a neater or more appropriate
effort on any occasion. It was an emi
nently patriotic Bpeech and well worthy
of the applause it earned.
After the address the procession again
took up its order of march, and passed
on to the ‘‘City of the Dead,” where the
decoiation of grayed was beautifully and
tastefully performed- The crowd re
mained dispersed over the Cemetery un
til the time arrived for passing back
again to ihe streets. The pridcipal part
of the procession consisted of the Uni
versity battalion and Athens Guards, all
thrown into one battalion, and under the
command of Lieut. Colonel L. H. Char
bonnier and Adjutant Geo. D. Thomas.
The Athens Guards have been fully re
organized, and have now quite a full
company. Under the command of
Captain Jep. Rucker, fhey pre
sent quite a hapdsome appearance. By
the wJy, their prize drill, for the best
drilled man in the company, took place
last night at Deupree’s Hall, and wound
up with the presentation of the plume
to Private E. G. Potter. He was closely
pushed in the drill by Private Vondes;-
leith aud Orderly Sergeant J t . \>. Sparks.
Sergeant Spares worn the plume
now lor tUrde years and may well becon-
tent at seeing it pass into such worthy
hands. The plume was presented by
the Hon. Henry H. Carlton.
Athens is remarkably dull, even for
Athens just now, and were it not for the
weekly lectures on scientific mnttera by
professors of tbe State "and her
renewed id th'e “Ferro-Lithio,”
she would be on tbe verge of disso
lution. Probably she will revive with
the new paper issued to-day. The tri
weekly Georgian made its first appear
ance to-day, and is quite a
and newsy little sheet. -,t *i)l lae a sad
commentary the 'place if this enter
prise is' not sustained. There is no
other town in the Htate of the same size
as Athens but sustains a daily, and
Athens ought surely to support a tri
weekly.
The University is jnss now busy with
the Modt Parliament, a most admirable
institution, presided over by Mr. A. R.
Lawton, Jr., of Savannah. The pro
ceedings of this body are exceedingly
interesting aDd display an amount of
Parliamentary knowledge on tbe part of
its members which might well be imitat
ed by many older individuals id the j
State. L)r. Melts’ n the subject
is taken th standard of reference, j
The Georgia Legislature also makes use j
of the same text. We understand that|
the ambitious law students will hold a :
Moot Court this week. v*e tor |
trial will be a aut* and Judge and'
jury have been chosen. We await de-,
1 velopment*. J*- X. j
SOUTH CAROIJNA.
I,e*llatlvp Procer A Republican I n
-3£aOM4HUd n Democrat Sworn In—Favor ,
able Report on the Scaling of Democratic
Senators.
[Special to the Chronicle ore,] CwnHtutipmalixt. f
CoiUMfciA, April 27.— Events in the
Legislature to-day were not exeitmg upd ,
may be summed in a few words.
In the House the report of the Com- .
mittee on Privileges and flections, sub
mitted yesterday, recommending un
seating of Lee (Republican), of Chester,
and seating of Hemphill (Democrat), on j
the ground of disqualification of Lee at
the time election, capie up ami ii?ae
adopted. After a long debate Hemp- j
hill was sworn in.
In the Senate the committee having;
in charge the investigation of four De
mocratic Senators admitted Tuesday
last accepted their seating as final and
asked to be discharged. Cathcabt.
Tbe Pope is already taking precau
tions relative to electing a successor.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Base ball ragis in Newberry.
Winnsboro has a cornet band.
Newberry rises from her ashes.
The blackberry crop is promising.
Honeo Path’s graveyard needs a fence.
Anderson’s clover fields are flourish
ing.
Egg rose five cents in Lexington in one
day.
The Abbeville Medium wants a dog
law.
An egg within au egg is exhibited at
Newberry.
Corn and sorghnm are being planted
in Anderson.
Cottou planting has commenced in
Marion in earnest.
Mr. John Major, a mute, diod in Au
dersonville last week.
Tho prospects for a full crop this year
are very eneon raging.
A real simon pure mad dog was shot
near Easley’s last week.
Freights on the Greenville and Co
lumbia Road are quite light.
Everybody in Marion has gone to work
and given np law and polities.
The inaugural ball will come off in
Columbia the night of May the 3d.
The Y. M. C. A. State Convention
yesterdav assembled in Greenville.
Mr. Joseph T. Ligon, an esteemed cit
izen of Spartanburg, died last week.
The Abbeville Medium favors the re
pudiation of outstanding State debts.
Mr. S. H. Langston, of Andersou, is
recovering from an attack of paralysis.
An effort is being made to raise a cav
alry company in the Long Cane section.
Loug Cane negroes tried to get up a
row with Mr. C. A. Britt & Bro. last
week.
The prospect for au abundant frnit
crop throughout Auderson county this
year is good.
The “Queen of May” in Chester eats
speckled trout at luncheon and fondles
on spitz dog.
Dr. D. G. Anderson, of Chester coun
ty, died of dropsy of the heart recently,
aged 73 years.
A writer in the Marion Star strongly
recommends Colonel Henry Melver for
Chief Justice.
Some fiend near Charleston amused
himself the other day removing spikes
from the rails.
“ The said Chamberlain” is what, the
Abbeville Rifle Club now calls the Puri
tan ex-Goveruor.
Governor Hampton has appointed Is
rael Lee, colored, jury commissioner of
Fairfield county.
A prize shooting match will shortly
take place between tho Abbeville aud
Hodges rifle clubs.
The impression is that a good corn
orop and a fenoe law in the State will
finish the work of reform.
Several colored women got into a fuss
at Allendale last Thursday, and had a
regular rough and tumble fight.
A Catholic priest who can spoak the
Polish and German languages will be in
Anderson at some time next mouth.
Many citizens of Williamsburg unite
in recommending Mr. William J. Lee
for County Treasurer of that county.
Mr. Ernest Gary has removed to Ab
beville, aud is now engaged in reading
law with his brother, Eugene B. Gary,
Esq,
In 1821, says tho Newberry Herald,
twenty-two negoes were banged at the
same time and place in Charleston for
insurrection.
There is a colored child in George
town county, with au elongation of the
vertebrai column, about six inches.
They call it a tail.
The Newberry girls are in tho habit of
making comments on the margius of the
novels they read. Here is what ono of
them says : “ The pangs of love is
grate i have ben there myself.”
When the news was received last week
that Governor Hamptom had respited the
Lowndesvillo murderers, an old colored
woman in Fort Pickens said : “Glory
to God; Giuoral Hampton has come over
on our side at last. He’s a good Repub
lican now and we are all right.”
THE CAULDRON HURIILKS.
An AsHOciate Chief Justice of Carolina in Hot
Water—The Frinined Lobster* From Blnelc
to Bed, Begins to Turn-Serious Charges
Against Others in Authority—More Anon oi
the Same Sort.
[Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist .]
Columbia, April 28. —The day passed
in the
Senate
Unmarked by any event of speoial in
terest, that body having already fallen
into the usual line of routine business.
In the
House
Somewhat of a sensation was produce. 3
by aiwuneipeoted attack, on Wright, the
black Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, the certain conveyance of which
will tend to remove that diguitary from
the seat he has encumbered for the past
eight years. The first blow came from
S. Minart, a colored Republican mem
ber from Richland county, and was in
the shape of a formidable resolution
calling for the appointment of a special
committee of five, authorized aud di
rected to investigate Wright’s official
conduot, with power to send for persons
and papers, and to report by resolution
or otherwise, at an early day. Tho reso
lution was heartily sooonded by Hamilton
anil Reed, colored Republican members
from Beaufort, and these joined Minart,
moverof the resolution, inmost positive
denunciations of Wright’s personal and
political character, and appealed to all
Republicans to uuite in a vote to expel
him from tbe bench which he has dis
graced. The specific charge is habitual
drunkenness, and Minart testified on
the floor of tbe House that lie had seen
Wright lying dead drunk in the gutters
of Columbia on more than one oocasion.
No doubt is entertained that Wright
will be impeached and removed within
a fortnight.
Charges of all manner of fraud and
corruption will also be prepared at an
early day against the notorious Whitte
more, Jillson, Nash, Woodruff, the Re
publican Clerk of the Senate, and one
or two others, and as the written evi
dences of their guilt are already in the
hands of proper parties, it is equally
certain that those worthies will be in hot
water in the oourse of a few days. De
velopments may be expected from day
to day which will be of a most interest
ing character. Cathcart.
General Butler on the Irish Soldier.
General B. F. Butler delivered a lec
ture in Boston on Sunday evening on
“ The Irish Soldier in War and Peace,”
it being in aid of th'e family of the late
Col. B. F. finan i la the oourse of it he
said:
b While Irish names, great aud illus
trious, will maintain a large place in the
history of our country, we must not for
get that many, nay, most of them, won
their laurels leading troops made up of
officers and men of tbo name race with
themselves, o;aaai*ed into distinctive
bodies,, known in our army as the Irish
regiments and brigades ; and that much
of their success and honer is due to the
fact that the men they commanded were
so well fitted by nationality, aptness of
discipline, capability of taki u kr °are of
themselves, elasticity oj temperament,
capacity for eudiM,*i*ue, carelessness of
danger, of self sacrifice,
apvt courage in battle, that they soon
1 beoame tho finest soldiers the world ever
saw.
“Asa rule, an Irish regiment never
breaks. T'ley always stand or retreat
together, therefore,' they seein to pos
sess, the first element which
it is h'e office of discipline to supply to
the army. Whether it is that, finding
themselves in foreign lands, either as ex
iles enforced or voluntary, each man
looks upon each *s a brother;
I yet trne it is, whether in peace or war,
i they an rarely known to desert each
H othvr, bat each gives to each of sub
: stance, of labor, of sympathy—all that
a man can receive from a brother man.
This trait of character is no where more
conspicuously displayed, and to the re
flecting mind there can h& no more
touching sight thaij when we see long
lines of stalwgrt men leaving their occu
pations, laying aside all their business,
to follow to the grave their dead, or the
private grief of the majority of whom
there is no other claim save, that of na
tionality.”
NEW YORK ITEMS.
New Yobk, April 28. —The White, Stai
Line will advance freight faya 25. to 46
shillings per ton,
Cornelius Vanderbilt has employed
89C.M Lora ana Jerre Black in his suit
against his brother William for $1,000,-
000.
The suit of Charles M&rahaM A Cos.
against the White £tuv Line for a quar
ter of ft million for sinking their steam
er, the Harvest Queen, in the Irish
Channel by the Adriatio, haß been. dVP
A verdict for the defendants in the
Emma Mine suit ends the first stage of
the great Emma Mine $5,000,000. The
plaintiffs will carry the case to the United,
States Supreme Court. The trial was, be
gun in the United States Qijftuß Court
on the 14th of December, before Judge
Wallace, ttbo oaine from tbe Northern
Disinot of New York specially to try tho
case. The suit was by tbe English own
ers of the mine, to whom Park sold it,
to recover the $5,000,000 paid for it,'
alleging that there was fraud, deceit and
misrepresentation 09 the part of Park
in regard to t*e resources of the mine.
Bark, the principal defendant, sat in a
chair almost powerless with emotion.
Having recovered himself, he shook
hands with the jurors,
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Talbotton has no fiddler.
Americas is importing corn.
Thomasvillo is impoiting new wool.
Thomson closes stores at six o’clock.
M. N. Cutler, Esq., of Rome, is dead.
Lawtouville’s chain gang is increas
ing.
Mr. B. F. Selman, of Walton conuty,
is dead.
Glynn county prepares for an agricul
tural fair.
Thomson had a calico party Wednes
day night.
Atlanta, by actual count, claims 33,000
inhabitants.
Prize skating will come off in Giiffln
Tuesday evening.
The Baptist Convention meets in La-
Grange next year.
Tho “pickaninuy rifles” have been or
ganized in Columbus.
Judge S. A, Corker, of Burke county,
has a fine wheat field.
The Knights of Honor have two flour
ishing Lodges in Atlanta.
The Methodists in Thomson are hold
ing a protracted meeting.
Maj. W. A. Wilkins is putting up a
steam mill in Waynesboro.
Social Circle has. this year, delivered
nearly 2,000 tons of guano.
A negro woman awaits trial in Monroe
for the crime of infanticide.
Tho Constitutional Convention will
meet some opposition in Lincoln.
The Mayor of Fort Vulley will get
one hundred dollars salary this year.
Two Italian fiddlers stirred up Social
Circle last week to its innermost depths.
Three negroes broke Hamilton jail
recently by cutting through au iron
cage.
Young Charlio Alford, of Walton
couuty, died last week of a congestive
chill.
An irate Virginia father was in Atlanta
Wednesday, looking for his daughter’s
betrayer.
A Con-Con. will be of little conse
quence if farmers have no grain to eat
next year.
A Thomas county farmer brings to
town for sale, a load of bacon, lard,
meal aud fodder.
Two influential citizens of Warrenton
bad a terrific encounter with a eder
spigot tbe other day.
The wheat and oat crops in Walton
couuty are growing beautifully, and
promise rich harvest.
A Columbus policeman shot off his
thumb the other day. The community
now consider him a poltroon.
A Lincoln county negro, whilo intoxi
cated, was drowned last weok in at
tempting to cross Soap Creek.
Rev. Jonny Sbover, of Warrenton,
when he isn’t religiously meditating, is
said to be a right “phnnny pheller.”
Jacob Brumby, Esq., is soon to be
admitted to the Atlanta bar. He is one
of the brightest young men in the State.
The Presbyterian Ohuroh at Dawson
has dissolved, all its members excepting
one having moved to other communi
ties.
J. H. Hunter, a Monroe county farm
er, advertises in the Central Georgian
Weekly, fine sheep, goats and cattle for
sale.
It was a Talbotton darkey who said he
had always noticed that if he lived
through April ho lived through the
year.
Mr. Bartlett, of Monroe, while kin
dling a fire last week, dropped his pis
tol, which discharged and instantly
killed him.
Hon. G. E. Deadwyler not wishing a
renomiuation to the State Senate, Horn
J. J. Turnbull, of Banks, is spoken of
for the place.
A Burke county youth drew a pistol
ou a negro who took it away from him
and gave it up to proper authorities.—
Right mettle.
Mrs. W. P. Slater aud P. 11. Brown,
of Thomasville, were reoently drowned
on Lake lamonia while sailing in a
pleasure vessel.
The owners of the Oconee White Sul
phur Springs contemplate tearing down
the old buildings and erecting a large,
commodious hotel.
At a Thomasville firo the other day,
says the Enterprise, two girls jerked up
their “Saratogas” as easily as one might
handle a band box.
The number of bales of cotton shipped
from Waynesboro during the past sea
son is 10,759. The number of Hacks of
guano received, 8,117.
The season for drawing up long reso
lutions about tho necessity of a retain
crop, and then planting huge cotton
patches, is now upon us.
The Georgia Grange says : “The oat
crop was not so seriously damaged by
the oold as was at first thought; there
will bo an average crop mude. ”
Last Thursday, a so r„ of Judge Pee
ples, of Bullock county, was waylaid by
two negro men,, neav Uoion Springs,
Alabama, and shot t-’jrough the lungs.
The Columbus Times discusses the
burning out o£ the sun, while the
Gainesville Sauthron is prepared to
prove that the Bible is true. Weighty
matter.
Says tho Warrenton Hammer: “We
hopo gentlemen who are candidates for
directors of tho Georgia Road will de
clare their position on tbe free pass
problem.”
Ex-Mayor John Mcllhenuy last Tues
day left Columbus, his old home, with
his whole family, tor the city of Phila
delphia, whieli in tho future will be his
place of residence.
Asa Lawson, colored, an old offender
and veteran criminal, who followed
Sherman’s army alter the war, has re
turned to Saudersvillo in irons to an
swer for various offenses.
Tho Atlanta Constitution says: “Bish
op Beckwith the other day purchased
the elegant residence of Mrs. Sigman,
on Pryor street. It is said that he in
tends to occupy it and become a citizen
of Atlanta.”
Thus moralizes tho vindictive Ham :
“ It is whispered that the Central Rail
road will in all probability, go into tlio
hands of a receiver. It was the first
railroad in the State to abolish courte
sies to the press.”
Oxford hap a barber shop.
Marietta wants a fire engine.
Hartwell has a church organ.
Mrs. Jarley is in Washington.
Elberton’s Y. M. O. A. prospers.
The turtle and the ivy arz in bloom.
Theatricals have appeared in Albany.
Hog cholera prevails in Cobb county.
Gainesville’s brass band is reorganiz
ing.
Mr. N, A. Demore, of Athena, is
dead,
W. E. Tucker, Esq., of Jonesboro, is
dead.
Mr. James Adams, of Elbertou, is
dead.
Corn planting in North Georgia is in
full blase.
Covington is soon to have a fine bil
liard table.
Meriwether county is setting out a
syrup mill.
Washington county has planted her
cotton crop.
Griffin is troubled about her bonded
indebtedness.
LaGrange is deeply moved by a re
ligioas revival.
Brinkly, the Newnan wife murderer,
3 hangs June 15th.
Measles and nnt grass are both flour
ishing in Hart county.
A Mitchell county farmer is importing
fine stock from Florida.
The University battalion is now upon
a war footing, at Athens.
Mr. Joseph Banks, of Gainesville, is
' building a hotel at Lula.
Tho measles in Elberton seem to have
subsided with the Spring tide.
The contested Ordinary election in
Newton county still hangs, fire.
Logan sville, Walton county, is wrest
ling with a first class sensation.
An attempt to burn tho Court House
at Cedartowu was recently made.
There is a vacancy in the Ninth Dis
trict for the West Point cadetship.
The Echo styles Colonel J. D. Math
ews the Charles O’Conor of the South.
The “Hope,”of Athens, it is reported,
will not bring their steamer to Augusta.
The assistant postmaster of Albany
has been indicted for robbing the mails*
Seven LaGrango prisoners were de
tected in preparation for a jail delivery.
H&n, Samuel Lumpkin is spoken of
as Convention candidate from Ogle
thorpe.
The men with tho champion wheat
stalks are still struggling to the newspa-
per offices.
Hon. Chasles Wessolowsky is the ap
pointed minister of Albany Hebrew
congregation.
The Spring campaign has advanced
far enough for mushrooms and lizards to
take tbe stump.
The Barusvillo Weekly has called out
its rooster. It crows the death knell of
the Bullock bonds.
It is the Central Road ami not Mr.
Wadley that the Atlanta Constitution at
tacks. Tweedledee.
An alligator, some six feet long, has
put in an appearance in Johnson’t> mill
pond, near Crawford.
The Y. M. C. A. has received a very
perceptible impetus from the emissaries
of the late Convention.
Ned Potter, Esq., an old Augusta boy,
hy the way, now sporta tbe red plume
of the Athens Guards.
The Athens Watchman thinks there
will be a very abundant peach orop in
that section this season.
Crnwfordville did not celebrate Me
morial Day; cause why, she had no sol
diers’ graves to decorate.
Farmers in Greene and Taliaferro are
progressing finely with their crops.
Eatontou bad another destructive fire
last Thursday. This makes four fires in
that town within the last six years.
Dr. W. C. Wardlaw, of Augusta, is
upon the Committee of Education and
Literature of the State Dental Society,