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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,