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WKDNESDAY, - AUGUST 29, 1877.
Morton is getting better. His bowels
were ont of order, especially those of
compassion.
Mb. Williams, Democratic candidate
for Governor of Maine, was a Republi
can, several years ago.
When Senator Morton’s tongue be
comes paralyzed, then we may know
that his fight is well nigh over.
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Well did Jean Paul write that
littlest children are nearest to God, just
aa the smallest plants are nearest the
Sun.
The Courier-Journal charges that the
Shkbmans are essentially a dishonest
family, and that John is the boss rogue
of the clan.
Ben Butler is posing to become the
Workingman’s Candidate for the next
Presidency. He is taking a cock-eyed
view of it.
Rev. W. W. Hicks, formerly of this
place, is reported to have accepted a call
to fill a Chicago pnlpit. Similia aim
ilibua curanlur.
Is it not funny to see Democrats sup
porting a Republican administration
and Republicans antagonizing their own
Chief Magistrate ?
How long can the people of this conn
try raise annually 8700,000,000 in gold
to pay interest on their debts ? We only
ask for information.
General Le Duo, the new Agricul
tural Commissioner, figures out that this
country loses 860,000,000 a year by neg
lecting the culture of the sugar beet.
Junes Hilton's daughter is the belle of
Saratoga by a large majority. —Baltimore Ga
ulle.
Yes, by $10,000,000 majority. A girl
with a figure like that is always a belle.
Fred Mat is called the Apollo of
Long Branch, not because "he struck
the lyre,” but in consequence of his fine
physical proportions freely displayed on
the beach.
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“Bloated bondholders” of Balti
more ask the prayers of the con
gregation because their securities are
Belling at a discount, in many instances,
of CO and 80 per cent.
Western farmers are buying pianos
freely for their daughters. This is
thought to be an indication of ap
proaching good times. We hope thoy
will not have occasion to change their
tune.
“Sionaba,” tho Japanese critic in the
North American Review , is said to be
Judge Clifford, of tho United States
Supreme Court. We think not. Some
of the Japan journals thiuk “Sionaba” is
au almond-eyed Celestial.
If Morton should pass away, as is
not likely, just now, Blue Jeans Wil
liams could appoiut a Democrat in his
place. The very idea of such a thing
makes Morton determined to hold on
a little longer. Somo men appear to
spin out their lives by simply defying
death.
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The Springfield Republican thinks
Senator Morton’s paralysis “a most for
tunate event, both to him and the coun
try ; ho could hardly expect to secure a
re-election, and the new era upon which
wo are entering is one which he has
proved himself unable to even com
prehend.”
Lons John Wentworth, of Chicago,
was so overcome with emotion, at a
theatre, that he quite broke down. The
local paper says: “For one brief moment
his nose resembled a miniature Niagara,
and then with a violent effort he shook
bimsolf together, took a fresh ehew, and
was a man once more.”
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Judos Black was not half as scorch
ing as he oould have been when he wrote
his review of the Electoral Commission.
He expected to catch some fellow who
liad the hardihood to answer it.
Stouohton, the “olerical error” man,
bas fallen into the Judge's trap, aud now
no one will insure him at 99 cents on the
dollar.
The experience of the Emperor Nich
olas, of Russia, made him wise at the
hour of death, when he called his son
(Alexander) to him and bade him re
member that a nation should never make
war except to repel invasion. If Alex
ander 11. lives to see April 29, 1878, he
will be the first of his race to attain his
60th birthday.
The Herald , with more wisdom than
usual, says: “If there are functionaries
likely to put their cause in hopeless col
lision with common opinioH by too
much zeal there are others judicious
enough to see ways in which justice and
liberality may be reconciled with even
strict views of discipline.” That is a
classical way of putting what Bill Al
len, in Hoosier phrase, called the folly
of “biting more than yon can chaw.”
A few Irish members of the British
Parliament, not more than four, recent
ly held the balance of power in debate
and obstructed its course. Sir Patrick
O’Brien denounced them as “humbugs"
and “damned fools.” Sir Patrick was
required to withdraw the offensive
words, notwithstanding his averment
that he nsed them as quotations.
Beecher is the only man permited to
“cuss” by proxy.
Secretary Sherman, in his recent
speech at Mansfield, declared that be
wonld carry ont the resumption act in
1879, if it was not repealed meanwhile.
He did not tonch upon “the dollar of
the daddies," but he did virtually re
pudiate Judge West and the Cleveland
platform. He likewise stated that Mr.
Hates had no favorite candidate for
Governor, aud never sought to dictate
or influence the nomination. Somebody
has been lying.
The Chioago Tribune, commenting up
on t'x-Governor Moms’ revelations, ob
serves that “the way to unearth a Demo
cratic rastal in South Carolina is to in
vestigate a Republican fraud. The
Hampton adminislration is just now en
gaged in this cheerful process, and is
meeting with refreshing success. Every
rotten Republican apple that has been
opened has revealed a Democratic worm
snngly coiled up in its core with a trail
leading straight to the surface.” This
is too general. The Tributic ought to
give names.
This cotton crop just being closed out
is said to have amounted to 3,966,000
bales, or within 130,000 bales of the
largest recent crop, that of 1876. Both
oom and ootton are very favorably re
ported, but about a fortnight later than
usual. The harvest weather throughout
the West is said to bare been well nigh
perfect The crop of wheat and corn
will be especially heavy. It is believed
that the business of the year to come
will be opened upon a vast Beale, but
transactions in all lines of trade will
be carried on at low prioes and small
profits.
THE FI.AIi OF TIIE PROPHET COM
MERCIALLY.
We have all heard of the romance at
tached to the banner of Mohammed and
its prospective unfurling by the Sultan
of Turkey, as the custodian of the Ara
bian Caliphate. But, up to a recent pe
riod, the true reason of its remaining in
statu ejuo has not been so very apparent.
Diplomacy which seeks the surface
would have the world believe that the
same banner, if flung to the breeze, pro
claiming a holy war for Islam, would
simply provoke a general massacre of
the Christians, and thereby bring down
upon Turkey, not Russia alone, bnt
combined Europe. In such a struggle,
the Ottoman of course would be driven,
banner and all, back to his Asian lair,
and therefore the Sheik-nl-Islam and
the Grand Padishah hesitate to dis
play a relic which would act like a
two edged sword, and, so far as the
Mohammedans are concerned, do more
harm than good. It seems, however,
there is a cent per cent, view of the
matter, dividing Turkish fanatics into
two separate classes, debtor and credit
or. It is stated’that “according to Mo
hammedan tradition and Turkish law,
every Mohammedan who rallies to the
Prophet’s standard, in answer to a call,
is finally relieved from the obligation of
paying his debts; and this applies to
the State as well as to individuals. The
State probably would have unfurled the
flag and availed itself of the privilege
ere this but for the fact that the late
Sultan repudiated most of tho Govern
ment debt without taking tho trouble to
go through the solemn religious cere
monies in which the green flag figures.
But every individual Turk who finds it
hard to settle his little bills burns with
fiery enthusiasm for a holy war, and
considers it positively necessary to the
welfare of the nation and the stability
of the faith that tho standard should be
taken down at once and flung to the
breeze. On the other hand, tho butch
ers ahd bakers aud other Turks who
have been selling on trust, cherish the
opinion that the best thing to do with
the aforesaid flag is to keep it furled
until everybody calls aud settles.”
We dare say there is a vast amount of
truth in this explanation, which is al
most ludicrous in its manifestation of a
practical age rendering eveu the most
holy things subservient to “demnition
cash.” The creditor class in Turkey
seem to prevail, despite the soro straits
of their country and Sultan, and this
steadfastness lead a contemporary to
aver that Americans can hardly claim
superiority to the unspeakable Turk,
for “if such a debt-cancelling flag
should be introduced to this land of
freedom, there would be an unfurling
party iu existence in loss than a week,
and we fear it would carry every elec
tion by a large majority.”
CAPITAL AND LAIIOII.
The late Thomas Kensett, of Balti
more, some time before his death, esti
mated that his proporty, during the
past five years, had shrunk $400,000.
When the shrinkage would stop he did
not know. In one of the Baltimore pa
pers, tho other day, the editor thought
there was a large margin for commis
erating the “bloated bondholder” who
beheld, in numerous cases, his property
perishing piecemeal. We see it men
tioned in one of our exchanges that Mr.
Wm. T. Walters has offered to compro
mise with the city of Memphis for fifty
five cents on the dollar. Mr. W. holds,
we understand, a large amount of these
securities, and it is most probable that
his loss by the defanlt of the Tennessee
oity is not inconsiderable. No doubt,
many thousands of capitalists are very
miserable at this moment because of the
uncertainties of tho future and the omi
nous foreboding of the present. With
the exception of the Syndicates and
holders of United States bonds, we
think it can be safely said that financial
distress is well nigh universal, and that
if laborers have had their wages cut
down, capitalists have been compelled
to part with much, and, in somo oases,
all of their profits. The trouble is that
the shrinkage, on the one hand, touches
the stomach, aud, on the other hand,
the commercial credit. But, in the long
run, the rich man has terrors in his
mind that are much more dreadful than
the cravings of a partially satisfied
digestion. The Baltimore Ameri
can puts the case happily thus :
“A capitalist whose property was
worth three years ago one hundred
thousand dollars, is now worth sixty
thousand dollars—a clear loss of forty
thousand dollars in three years—while
his employes have probably not sus
tained a loss in this time of five hun
dred dollars apiece. His money, more
over, may be all locked up in his busi
ness, which he cannot dispose of with
out still further loss, so that he has
neither ready money nor profitable busi
ness. Hundreds of men supposed to be
wealthy have not the means to live com
fortably in their families, and cannot
get them. Wealthy men are pushed to
make ends meet as much as poor men,
for while the latter have one bill to pay
the former have twenty ; and while the
latter have bills for sugar and coffee of
one or two dollars, perhaps the former
has bills for steam engines and building
materials of one or two thousand, it
may be. The attorney who attempts to
oollect a bill from a capitalist flnds it
qnite as difficult as to collect a bill from
a laboring man. It is painfnl to con
sider how scarce money is from the
moneyed men. Hundreds of them are
failing every year in all the large cities
and throughout the country. They
oannot meet their debts for labor, for
rent and for other expenses, and
as a resnlt they go into bankruptcy or
com 'to mi so with their creditors, whioh
is a loss to other moneyed men. Our
capitalists as a body are simply driven
to extremities. The accumulations of
many years, as well as the accumula
tions of their fathers, are being swept
away often at a single stroke. They
who have always been rich have been
compelled to take their places among
the poor ; they who still keep np their
former style of life must often pinch to
supply their tables with the commonest
food. Heads grow gray in a few months
over the troubles of the times ; comfort
able homes are broken np, the sheriff is
selling out some of the finest property in
the country, delioate ladies whose hands
have never been trained to work are
turned ont to seek in vain for places in
a factory or to sew for a living; in short,
every misery overtakes the capitalists
and their families that overtakes the
laboring men. The laboring class are
snffering much, bnt are they suffering
more than other classes ? and are net
the real sufferers as much the moneyed
men as others ? The snffering and de
pression are general, and if the laboring
man gets inadequate returns for his la
bor, the capitalist gets inadequate returns
for both his labor and capital. In fact,
the very money which is paid to the la
boring man in snob inadequate wages
often comes ont of the capitalist as a
dead loss, there being no profit to him
in the manufactures which keep the
laboring men employed. While, there
fore, we are expressing sympathy for
the suffering classes, we should not omit
such a large part of them as the capi
talists ; much less should we create a
hostility towards them in the hearts of
their employes.”
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN-
Secretary Sherman’s apparition in
the Ohio campaign will no doubt mud
dle it all the more for his party, because
he has evidently sought to antagonize
the inflation element, and otherwise
discount defeat by proclaiming that the
President is not responsible in any way
for Judge West, his saying, doings or
platform.
Meanwhile, the “old war horses” are
organizing anti-HATEs meetings, and
fulminating against what they call the
Southern policy, which the President
could no more help carrying out than
the planetary system can avoid obeying
fixed laws of motion. The marplqj; of
Ohio Radicalism is one General John
Beatty, a citizen of Columbus, Presi
dent of a Savings Bank, an ex-Congress
man, and said to have been a brilliant of
cer in the late war. Well advised cor
respondents declare that this Co
lumbus movement is not local,
but is shared to a greater or less
degree throughout the State. The New
York Tribune's agent telegraphs spe
cially that the revolt is prodigious, that
Gen. Beatty is exultant over its success.
He states that he is informed by tem
perance people that the Prohibition
ticket will receive a larger vote this year
than ever before; that heretofore, where
principle was at stake, the party had
cast their vote nearly solid for the Re
publican candidates, but row they have
no reason for doing so. The General is
firm in the conviction that at least
20,000 Republicans in Ohio will refuse
to vote- the State ticket. He says the
Republican party in the State is sadly
demoralized; that never before in its
history did its candidate for Governor
put himself and party on the defensive
from the first by utterances which must
be explained and smoothed over. He
says also that while the workingmen’s
movement may take some votes from the
Democracy, it will in no way help the
Republicans. Under John G. Thomp
son, the Democracy will make the cam
paign an aggressive one. On the point
of the “policy,” the General, interview
ed by a Chieaeo Inter-Ocean reporter,
said:
I regard it, sir, as the surrender of the only
principles worth fighting for in the Bepuhlican
party. It is the surrender, sir. of a majority
poor aud weak to a minority rich and strong.
The former are pushed to the wall and the lat
tor are permitted to rule. It is, in fact, the
recognition of the shot-gun as more potent in
Amerioan politics than the ballot. The Presi
dent has secured by intrigue the overthrow
and destruction of legally elected governments
of States of this Union. In doing this he has
disregarded the obligations of law, the pledges
of party, the legal rights of citizens, and all
those considerations of mercy, gratitude and
honor by which civilized men are usually in
fluenced.
The General blamed tho Ohio Repub
lican leaders for this, notably Stanley
Matthews and Foster, whom he
thought had been completely bamboo
zled and outflauked by “forty Con
federate brigadiers.” Wherefore this
Federal bradier proposes to let bis party
be thoroughly routed in order to de
stroy Matthews and teach a stern les
son to “hypocrites, traitors and sneaks.”
The General thought such a drubbing
would do the party good and prepare it
for glorious victories in the future. We
wish him joy of great expectations. He
is only helping the President to “knock
the stuffing out,” and no doubt Mr.
Hayes secretly laughs in his sleeve to
see how the valiant Beatty is carrying
out his real policy without knowing
what a fool he is making of himself at
the same time. Proceed, General !
Perhaps Blaine and the President
will “ shake hands over the bloody
chasm.”
Not one vessel of the merchant service
of the United States has ever passed
through the Suez Canal.
Sporting oireles are now betting odds
that the American potato bug will reaeb
Constantinople ahead of the Russians.
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The success of the Hampton govern
meut is no longer doubted at the North
since intelligence reached tho brethren
from South Carolina that hogs were now
fed upon peaohes.
A Texas paper states that at a colored
camp meeting near the town, “the devil
appeared with seven heads, and a crown
on each head. The meeting broke up in
a panic, the preacher being the first to
run.”
Now Mr. Sohurz is aocused of desert
ing Tilden, whom he had promised to
support, and selling out to the Republi
cans for a Cabinet position. Mr.
Sonußz’s favorite air is “ the heart
bowed down.”
Henry Grady’s “Sally,” the white
girl whom he wrote into notoriety and
out of the chain gang, has beeu sent
back there for another offense. Henry
ought to prepare another lecture and
call it “The victim of misplaced con
fidence.”
Gen. Mahone still insists that the debt
of Virginia must be “adjusted.” And
if it be true that no additional taxation
will be permitted to make up the annual
deficit of $600,000, General Mahone may
be right. He predicts bankruptcy, dis
honor aud open repudiation as the last
analysis of existing affairs.
The people of Baldwin were determin
ed that their delegates should not be
starved out by the Treasurer. When
the deoision of the Attorney-General
was published they promptly held a
meeting and pledged themselves for the
payment of the per diem of the Bald
win delegation.
Packard’s twins are to be named
Louisa and Anna. That is not exactly
the way to spell the name of the State,
but it misses the true way just like the
Boss missed the Governorship. Bnt
the first reports said the twins were
boys. How is that ? Has thero been
another transformation scene ?
When a Bulgarian male child is born
it has a salt bath. From that time to
his seventh year he is not washed under
pain of mortal siD. A Bulgarian female
is allowed only one washing during her
life-time. This is according to church
discipline. The correspondent of the
New York Times at Russian headquar
ters declares that their filth is only sur
passed by their cowardice. No wonder
the cleanly Turk despises them and
their so-called religion.
The Evening r Express infers from
the best available estimates that the
wheat crop of Minnesota, lowa, Wiscon
sin and Kansas for this harvest aggre
gates to the surprising total of 117,000,-
000 bnshels. Last year the yield was
bnt 61,000,000 bnshels; and in 1875, 93,-
000,000 bnshels. It is reasonable to
suppose that the farmers will sell at
ninety cents a bushel,so that the receipts
from the crop in these Sta’es will be
over $100,000,000. But this is some
thing like $50,000,000 more cash than
was netted last year; and for the past
two or three years the farmers have
been squaring their accounts and get
ting even with the world. That is, the
farmers of these four States will have
$50,000,000 to apply to other purposes
than simple maintenance, and back
debts probably will not figure largely in
the accounts.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1577.
THE LETTERS OF “NEMESIS.”
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
says that the letters of a few years since con
taining the biting sarcasm against ex-Govemor
Joseph E. Brown, and signed “Nemesis," were
written by Senator Norwood. Well, as these
letters appeared first in that paper, of course,
it ought to know the true author, and we are
glad that paper has told who it was. for we
know two or three young gentlemen who each
claimed to be the author of those much-talked
of letters.— Athens Georgian.
It is very naughty in “two or three
youug gentlemen” to claim the author
ship of the letters of “Nemesis,” for it
was stated by the Chronicle and Senti
nel at least three years ago that Mr.
Norwood was the author. The history
of these letters, however, is a little curi
ous and may not prove uninteresting,
as they were extensively circulated
in Georgia and the South, and there
was a good deal of speculation as to the
identity of the writer. While ex-Gov
ernor Brown was very roughly handled
he was only incidentally assailed. The
letters were entitled “Pen Pictures of an
Extraordinary Bullock,” and it was
against the developing Executive of
Georgia that the author’s biting satire
was principally directed. Early in the
Spring of 1871 General A. R. Wright,
then editor of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel, received the first letter of the
series. It was post marked, we believe,
New York, and was accompanied by a
private note—also signed “Nemesis”—
saying that if the contribution was ac
ceptable, and if General Wrioht would
publish it on his own responsibility
without seeking to know the name of
the author others would be furnished
from time to time. The acceptance of
the proposition was to be made known
by a few lines to that effect in the edi
torial columns of the paper. General
Wrioht agreed to the terms and so
stated iu the manner indicated. The
letters were furnished from time to
time, generally coming by way of New
York, and were published without
any oue knowing their paternity. They
made a decided sensation and there was
a great deal of curiosity manifested con
cerning their authorship. General
Toombs, Governor Johnson and other
distinguished Georgians were among
the parties suspected. Iu the Fall of
1871, Mr. Norwood came to Augusta
and calling upon General Wrioht, in
formed him that he was “Nemesis” and
requested that his secret should be kept
until be (Mr. Norwood) consented to its
publication. So far as we know, Gen
eral Wrioht died without having com
municated the secret to any oue. Iu
1873 or 1874, we believe, it was stated in
the Savannah News that Mr. Norwood
was the author. The writer of this
article expressed a doubt as to the
correctness of the statement but
soon afterwards received a letter
from Mr. Norwood which fully satis
fied him oa the subject. Tbe man
uscript of “Nemesis” had been pre
served, and he gave not only the
dates, the post marks and the
exaot contents of the private note
which accompanied the first letter,
but he also described the very
paper upon which the artioles had been
written—some old bonds of the oity of
Savannah, we think, which had been
printed but not signed, or issued, and
whioh were blauk on one side of the
paper. The hand writing of “Nemesis,”
though some attempt had been made
to disguise it, was evidently the hand
writing of Mr. Norwood. There was no
room left to doubt the entire justioe of
his claim to the authorship. At one
time Mr. Norwood thought of collect
ing the letters, aud publishing them in
pamphlet form, but fiually abandoned
the idea. It is matter of regret that
this intention was not carried out, as the
matter was well worthy of reproduc
tion. This is all we know of “Nemesis;”
if the “two or three young gentlemen”
of Athens oan show a cleaner title to the
authorship we should like to see it pre
sented.
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.
Tho Chronicle and Constitutional
ist’s special dispatches published this
morning give the action of the Conven
tion yesterday on the capital question.
Tho attempt to name Atlanta in the
Constitntion as the seat of government,
though vigorously pressed, disastrously
failed, and the Convention decided by
an overwhelming majority to let the
people determine by a separate vote
whether Atlanta or Milledgeville shall
be the capital of Georgia. We have
never doubted that this would be the re
sult; we have certainly never doubted
that this should be the result. We ad
vocated the adoption of such a course
because we believed it would lessen the
opposition to the new Constitution, be
cause we thought it afforded the only
means of settling a vexed question sat
isfactorily and forever, and, above all,
we advocated it beoause we believ
ed it was just and right. Un
der the resolution adopted the
friends of Milledgeville and At
lanta will bo afforded a fair field for
the capital fight, and,however it may be
decided, tho defeated will loyally abide
the issne. It is important that the con
troversy should be terminated, and we
are, therefore, gratified at the adop
tion of the amendment which makes the
vote on the capital decisive, whether
the Constitution, with which the ques
tion will be submitted, is adopted or re
jected. If the people prefer Atlanta as
the’seat of government, suitable accom
modations for the General Assembly,
the Governor and the other offioers of
the State should at once be provided in
that city. If they prefer Milledgeville,
the public buildings there should be oc
cupied and the expenditure of money in
Atlanta atopped.
SCHOLARSHIPS IN A NORMAL COLLEGE.
A Letter From tlie Htate School Com mis
mlMioner.
Office of }
State School Commissioner,
Atlanta. Ga., Angnst 20, 1877. >
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Please allow me space to make a state
ment. Dr. Sears. General Agent of the
Trustees of the Peabody Fund, has en
dowed a limited number of scholarships
in the State Normal College Department
of the University of Nashville, located
at Nashville, Tenn. He tenders, at this
time, five of these scholarships to Geor
gia. He gives two hnndred dollars per
annnm to each appointee, and tnition is
furnished by the college free of charge.
Applicants will be expected to declare
their intention of teaching at least two
years, if opportunity offers, and must be
able to atand an examination npon all
the branches of stndy usually taught in
a good high sohooL Printed questions
for examination will be prepared and
forwarded to some friend of the under
signed, in the county of the applicant,
in whose presence the answers must
be written ont, and to whom the
papers containing the written answers
mast be delivered for transmission to
this office. Persons of both sexes are
admitted into the College; bnt no one is
received who is under 16 or over 30
years of age.
Tbe next scholastic year of the Nor
mal School begins the first Wednesday
in October next. The answers to the
questions sent mnst be in this office by
the 20th of next month, at which time
choice will be made from among the
competitors, and the successful appli
cants will, at once, be notified of the re
sult. Applicants will please Bend for
ward their names, state their ages, and
enclose a certificate of good moral char
acter. Gustavus J. Orb,
State School Commissioner.
A bold burglary was committed in
Macon a few nights since.
CONDITION OF THE CROP*.
Tbe Crop Prospect In Greene County.
[ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .J
Woodville, Greene County, Ga.,
August 21.—Crop prospects in this lo
cality, north Greene and sonth Ogle
thorpe, are sorry indeed. No rain of
any consequence has fallen in eight
weeks. Many trees in the woods are
dying in consequence. Compared to
last year, the crops stand: corn about
65; cotton, 65; peas, 75; potatoes, 50;
frnit, 300. In some sections not half a
crop can possibly he realized. Gener
ally the people are blue, and want badly
good crops; also, Alex. Lawton’s, Nat
Hammond’s aud Gus Reese’s “revised”
Constitntion; no injustice to corporations
and the ignoring of just claims against
the State; less legislating and cutting of
poor salaries and, in the language of
“Sovereign,” that most intelligent body
ever assembled in Georgia to come
home, come. Greene.
REMORSE.
Au EuflUh Murderer Coulchnph Ilia Crime
aud Surrenders Himself.
Philadelphia, August 20.— 0n Fri
day night last a man surrendered him
self to the police authorities, stating
that he was a deserter from England,
where he had committed a murder. He
was a member of Troop A Hussars. One
night in July last he went out in com
pany with Surgeon Wheeler, of the same
troop, and, finding that the surgeon had
money with him, he hit him on the head
with his carbine aud killed him. He
then rifled his pockets, obtaining £6O.
The body he threw into a cesspool. In
formation was lodged with the Vice-
Consul from England in this city, who
has since been making inquiries. It
has been ascertained that the body of a
man was found in a cesspool at Colgate,
England, the place where Henderson
said the affair occurred; also, that both
Henderson and the surgeon (Wheeler)
were marked as deserters. Henderson
says he has been here six weeks, and his
conscience has so troubled him that he
could not rest day or night, aud finally
he concluded to give himself up, and let
the law take its course. He is held to
await the action of the English Consu
late.
ALSTON’.* LUCK.
A Pleasnnt and Romantic Incident In Kenl
Idle—How it Learned Canary Foretold a
Fortune for Col. H. A. Alston—And llow
the Fortune Really Turned Up.
r Atlanta Constitution .l
Severaljmonths ago General Gordon
and Col. R. A. Alston were wulking
down Pennsylvania avenue in Washing
ton City. They noticed a crowd standing
on the sidewalk, and npon investigation
discovered that the crowd had assem
bled around a portable stand upon which
a grave and speculative group of Canary
birds were engaged in telling the for
tunes of the by standers. The modus
operandi was simple. A stranger would
give the birds a nickel. The bird wonld
then hop off to a basket sitting near by,
and pick up a little envelope in his bill
aud oarry it to the expectant customer.
In this envelope ha would find a small
piece of paper on which was printed the
history of his future life—at least a
Canary bird’s eye view of it.
CxreßtnesH Unbending on flic .Street.
Moved by one of those unaccountable
impulses, that operate with tho groat as
well as the lowly, Gen. Gordon announc
ed his purpose of trying his luck with
the birds. He handed the wisest look
ing canary ho could see a carefully se
lected nickel, and awaited the result.
The bird returned with an envelope,
which the Senator opened. It announc
ed that the Senator “talked too much,
had five children, and would live to be
eighty-six years of age.” The Senator
remarked that the first part of the for
tune was not true; that the second was,
and he hoped the third would be. Upon
this encouraging resume, Col. Alston
determined to have his fortune told, so
he chased a nickel into the corner of his
breeches pocket and capturing one,
handed it to a likely looking bird,
and requested him to move ahead with
the panorama. The bird looked at tho
Colonel carefully, as if he felt that the
case in hand required his very finest
judgment, and then moved off in a pro
foundly contemplative and reflective
state. He soon returned with an envel
ope, which he delivered to the Colonel.
Tho first clause of the fortune was this :
“You invite too many people to your
house; many of those that yon invito are
not your friends.” That much was
true. The hospitality of Col. Alston is
wide and as spontaueons as that of the
Biblical gentleman who, when he had a
wedding in his house, felt so good about
it that he sent out the police to boat up
his guests from the bushes and thickets.
But the above was a small part of the
prophecy.
A Fortune By Inhcrilnnee Promised.
The printed slip went on to recite
that the Colonel would in a short time
receive a large sum of money. He
thought at first that this was tidings—
dire but grateful—about his big fee
whioh was then in the prospective. So
the paper went on to say that he would
receive this fortune as an inheritance,
and that it would be the basis on which
he would build to a definite prosperity.
He folded the scrap of paper in his
pocket and went to Willard’s where he
met Judge Lochrane. He was showing
the paper to this genial gentleman with
tbe big Irish heart, wUen ho was inter
rupted by the exclamation: “Why, my
dear sir, your fortune is already left
you. I saw this very day in the Balti
more Sun that John E. Alston, of
Brooklyn, had died, and had left a for
tune of about six hundred thousand
dollars to be divided among his heirs
and relatives in the South.” Col. Al
ston then hurried ont to find the Balti
more Sun. He failed, however, and the
matter dropped out of his mind. A day
or two afterwards Attorney-General
Devens asked him if he was any kin to
J. E. Alston, of Brooklyn, remarking
that that gentleman had left a large
fortune to be divided among his family.
Col. Alston replied carelessly and came
to Georgia soon afterwards, and had
very soon forgotten about the clear
eyed Canaries and their prophecy.
Tlie End of the Kainbow in Higlit.
A few days ago, however, he received
a printed copy of the will of John E.
Alston, addressed to him as one of the
heirs of tbe estate. The will bequeath
ed various amounts to special heirs, and
then recited that the balance, amount
ing to $137,000, should be distributed to
the heirs in Georgia and South Caro
lina, through the agency of Mr. Albert
Glover. Col. Alston yesterday received
a letter, which we examined, from Mr.
Albert Glover, announcing that he
wonld be ont to Georgia soon to have a
personal interview with Col. Alston con
cerning the distribution, and announc
ing that he was bringing the matter to a
close as rapidly as possible. Mr. Ker
Boyce, of Augusta, has the card upon
which the fortune was printed, but Col,
A. has written to him for it, that he may
be ready to meet the tide of inquiry
that this article will turn loose upon
him.
The above story is true in every par
ticular. It is a remarkable story in it
self, bnt when taken in connection with
the numerous miracles of lack that have
been worked in behalf of Col. AlstoD, it
becomes much more remarkable. We
predict that he will clear $50,000 by the
little inheritaßce.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHEN*.
Anythin# Bnt a Complimentary Notice of the
Great Commoner.
[Charlotte Observer .l
Every newspaper contains a notice
now that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
is entirely renewed in health, and will
return to Washington this Fall looking
better than ever; and now that he is on
his regular monthly parade before the
public gaze, we contribute our mite to
ward keeping the ball moving by copy
ing with our hearty endorsement the
following pen picture drawn by our good
brother Cameron, of the Hillsboro Re
corder, and made true to life: “Steph
ens was always right at the wrong time.
He lagged to the rear when his services
were wanted. He rnshed to the front
when the battle was lost and could not
be restored. He was a peace man when
his position and his duty constrained to
be for war, and he was the ablest expo
nent of the principles which led to the
war when the practical failure of those
’principles had been irretrievably decided
by wager of battle. He was a Grant man
when Grant trod most heavily npon a
prostrate Sooth; and he is a Hayes man
when the honest sense of the South re
bels against the recognition of his legal
ity.”
MARYLAND’S MORALS.
AN AWFUL PICTURE OF ITS PRIB
ONS.
Shocking Dcgniilntion in Ike Alms llouar.
nntl Jftils ot I lie State\Ylmt Ilie Report of
tlie Secretary of the Board of Health to the
Horernor Shows.
Baltimore, August 19.—Dr. Charles
W. Chancellor, a member of the City
Council, Secretary of the State Board of
Health and a physician of extensive
practice in this city, who was requested
by Gov. Carroll to visit and inspect “all
alms institutions in the State, particu
larly with reference to their sanitary
condition, the treatment of the inmates
and the number of pauper insane who
are confined therein at the public ex
pense,” has discharged that duty and
submitted his report to the Governor.'
A Shocking State of Adairs.
In introducing his report, Dr. Chan
cellor says: It is painful to report the
shocking condition in which many of
the public institutions were found, and
it is difficult to conceive that anything
worse ever existed in a civilized country.
There are now, he says, within the alms
houses and jails of our State over five
hundred insane and idiotic people, for
whom there exists no proper provision,
and who are utterly cast down and neg
lected, half fed and ghastly in their
wretchedness. The report first takes up
the condition and management of State
institutions in the city and elsewhere.
With one or two exceptions (the House
of Refuge and Bay View Asylum, which
are overcrowded), the State' institutions
are represented as well condnoted and
disciplined, and the Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb, located at Frederick,
is pronounced a “monument of public
beneficence.” In the alms houses in
some of the counties an entirely differ
ent state of affairs exists, and Dr. Chan
cellor’s report represents them to be dis
gusting dens of filth and prostitution,
too shocking, sickening and disgusting
to contemplate.
The Sexes Mingled.
In Allegheny County Alms House the
sane and insane were indiscriminately
associated without proper means of
separating the sexes. Most of the in
sane were harmless. One colored girl,
an epileptic of feeble mind, had three
children with her, two of whom had
been born in the alms house. The
youngest, an infant of six months, was
undoubtedly the child of a white man.
In Anne Arundel county the alms house
is an abode of misery. The keeper and
his family are comfortably quartered on
the first floor of the main building,
while the white inmates dwell together
in unrestricted concubinage on the sec
ond floor. One insane woman, aged
about 40, had borne three oliildren in the
house, all begotten by the inmates.
These innocents had fortunately been
sent to an orphan asylum. There was
not in any room of this alms house a bed
or pillow fit for use, and such as were
fouud were disgustingly filthy. The
negro quarters, if possible, were even
worse than those occupied by the whites.
Every room was in a dirty condition, the
beds filthy, without sheets or pillows,
and in several rooms no beds. The oom
mon jail of this county is as filthy and
objectionable as the alms house, a pro
miscuous association of all classes ex
isting. In the Baltimore County Alms
House the male.'departmeut was so over
crowded that the dining room, bath
rooms and even the water closets were
used for lodging rooms. The jail in
this county is pronounced one of the
best constructed, best managed and
cleanest in the State. With but two ex
ceptions of defect in construction this is
a novel prison.
Mockeries of Charity.
The Caroline County Alms House is a
mockery of charity and nursery of pol
lution, not the slightest attention being
paid to the moral or physical condition
of paupers and insane inmates. One
woman was the mother of two children
and another of six, all suid to have been
begotten and born within the alms house.
If the colored department should be
compared to a filthy pigsty, it would be
an injustice to the pigsty. In one small
room were fouud four men, five women,
two children, any quantity of cats and
dogs, and other living things too nu
merous to mention. Of the five women
one was a oentenarian, two were mothers
with infants in their arms, and two were
young girls, aged respectively fourteen
and sixteen years. One old man was
sick, with scarcely the semblance of a
bed on which to rest his achiDg bones.
Another, though sitting upright to par
take of the coarse and badly-cooked
dinner just served him, was too weak to
defend his scanty meal against the in
cursion of a dog that quickly gulped it
down. Such an aggregation of hnman
misery is rarely seen, and a more disre
putable place can scarcely be imagined.
In Cecil,County Alms House, in both
buildings, the departments for males
and females are separated only by a nar
row passage, and the evil result of the
free communication between the sexes
is manifested in the number of illegiti
mate children in the house,
Crimea Running Through Lieneralluns,
There are two instanoes in this alms
house in which the mother and children
were born iu bastardy under its roof.
One, an idiotic white woman, forty years
of age, herself bornjin the alms|house,
has given birth to six children in this
institution. Another, a white woman,
aged thirty-five years, insane, whose
mother still resides in the house, has
borne two children here ; and still an
other insane white woman is the mother
of a half-negro child, begotten and born
in the institution. In Washington coun
ty the alms house, situated in the su
burbs of Hagerstown, should bo pre
sented as a common nuisance. The de
tails of its condition are, if possible,
more revolting than of Baltimore county
and Cecil.
FALL TRADE.
The Biiaineaa Prospect—Unod indications in
New York.
New York, August 22.—The Times,
this morning, reviewing the Fall trade
outlook, says: “When, last Fall, busi
ness men were invited to say what the
prospect in trade was for the immediate
future, they were full of confidence that
the bottom had been reached, and that a
new era of prosperity was about to begin.
It did not begin, however, immediately,
and the Winter, to most of them, was
one of despondency. Since then a very
slight general improvement has taken
place, and the condition and prospects
are given as they appear to merchants
themselves. In the grain trade there is
great hope of a good time coming with
the immense crops from the West, and
there is a steady, healthful growth in
the produce and grocery traces, which
encourages men wfio are satisfied with
small profits. The volutpe of business
done by grocers is larger, up to this
time, than it was at a corresponding
date last year. The clothing manufac
turers are feeling a small but good in
quiry for their wares. There has been,
and is, animation among the boot and
shoe manufacturers, and the hatters say
they have not done so much business for
many years. Hard as the times are
called, the piano makers have had a
good business, and the drygoods trade
reports indicate an improvement of from
30 to 50 per cent, in leading houses.
There is not so much disposition to-day
as there was last August to make san
guine predictions, but the conviction is
strong upon business men that they will
keep the ground they have recovered,
and continue to do a fair business with
moderate returns.
No Escape.
{Woman's Journal .]
“No man will ever prosper who has
the curse of a ruined woman upon him.
The murderer of the body can be tried
and executed by the world's laws, but
the murderer of the soul is tried by
Heaven’s laws, and the execution is as
sure as divine justice.” Aunt Betsy
said this as she folded the white hands
of a beautiful girl, and put white
flowers and green leaves abont the mar
ble-cold forehead. There was a tiny
baby beside the girl-mother. The
house was hnshed and there was mourn
ing snch as few people know. Half glad
that the mother and child were dead,
the rest of the family must perform the
last sad office of bnrial and bear the
family shame. A haunted house I A
ruined home! God the architect and
man the spoiler. The curse is there,
and the destroyer cannot escape.
Some dastardly wretch (white man)
attempted, a few nights since, to enter
the sleeping apartments of a young lady,
a member of one of the most respecta
ble families in the Valley of Talbot. The
wretch was subsequently captured, but
managed to make his escape through
some inadvertence of his captors.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Franklin county is to have anew jail.
Peaches five cents a peck in Gaines
ville.
Dr. Fisk, of St. Louis, lectured in
Dalton last week.
The crops in Wilkes county, except
fruits, are generally short.
You can get three dozen eggs for
twenty-five cents in Gainesville.
There arc some rumors of starting a
Circulating Library in Washington.
A delegation of Dalton citizeus is be
ing organized for Colorado and Oregon.
The fancy dress ball at New Holland
Friday night is said to havo been a
brilliant affair.
The ladies in the gallery speak of
Gen. Toombs’ “brilliant eyes” as though
he were twenty-one.
Columbus numbers among her citi
zens a negro one hundred and fifteen
years old.
The corn crop of Murray oounty is
unusually promising. It has harvested
a tremendous crop of wheat.
Mr. John A. Stephens’ residence, in
Crawfordvillo, was burnod last Thurs
day night. Little or none of the furni
ture, or even the wearing apparel of the
family, was saved. Loss, 83,000.
Mr. Juo. Davis, a farmer who lives iu
Taliaferro oounty,and who is 74 years old,
through all the vicissitudes of war, pan
ic# and drouths, has never bought a
bushel of oorn or a pound of meat since
he began business for himself.
The engine to the gravel train on the
Air Line exploded at Longview on
Monday, seriously scalding the conduc
tor, Mr. J. M. Austin, The engineer
and fireman esoaped unhurt, though at
their post and as near to the engino as
was Mr. Austin.
A convict escaped from the camp at
Old Town one night last week, anil
though well directed efforts were made
to catch him, and notwithstanding the
faot that they were near him with the
hounds once or twice, he eluded their
grasp, and is now over the hills and far
away.
A few days ago, near Dawsonville, a
negro girl eleven years old got mad with
a negro male child four years old and
pushed it over a preoipice, inflioting in
juries from which it died soon after.
The girl had threatened the killing pre
viously, and therefore it was premedi
tated.
A sad and fatal mistake oaused the
death of a little babe of Mr. Wm. S.
Hollemau, of Hawkinsville. A dose of
morphine prepared for the mother of
the child was given to jthe latter instead
of bismuth powders, whioh had been
prepared for the child. The infant liv
ed twenty-nine hours after the fatal
mistake had been made.
Crops of corn and cotton look as well
in lower Madison as the oldest inhabi
tant ever saw them, and the people are
proud to tell it, and thankful for it.
They have not suffered for rain a day.
The sorghum crop will be sufficient to
provide long sweetening for the Thir
tieth Senatorial District, including two
Representatives from Oglethorpe.
The party who rode through Craw
ford the night an attempt was made to
burn Mr. Arnold's store, and fired at
some gentlemen when told to halt, was
recognized as a white mau who has been
brought prominently before the people
of that county of late years. While his
actions are suspicious, no ono harbors
a thought that he is the incendiary.
The Oglethorpe Echo says: A promi
nent officer of this county recently in
vested 85 in a lottery ticket, and he last
week received a letter stating that he
had drawn a gold watch, valued at $l5O,
which had been forwarded him per ex
press—but he would havo to pay cortain
charges on the same, amounting to sls.
Contrary to the advice of every ono he
paid the money, and received a brass
ohain and time-piece, worth about se
venty-five cents per peck.
The Forest News says : Never, in
the history of the country—at leaßt in
the recollection of the writer—has there
been such a mania, apparently, for all
grades of crime, especially murder, aR
at the present; while at the same time,
the number of suicides or acts of self
destruction within the last year or so,
are greater than iu ail the balance of a
lifetime of over half a century, as far as
memory serves. Why should these
things be, at this particular time ?
Columbus has had a first class case of
infanticide.
Talbot county has 62,422 acres under
cultivation.
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi,
is still in Atlanta.
Aggregate value of property of Clarke
county, $4,022,445.
A careful estimate predicts that there
will be fully 15,000 people in daily at
tendance at the State Fair.
A cutting scrape occurred near Ma
con, last Saturday, between two young
men. Neither seriously hurt.
Eighty-four barrels of dried fruit, ag
gregating 17,220 pounds, have been
shipped by one firm in Talbotton.
The galleries of the Representative
Hall are crowded every day, as the busi
ness of the Convention becomes more
interesting,
A negro woman, living near Lithonia,
stopped the Covington accommodation
train the other morning to sell the engi
neer a chicken.
Mr. Richard Futral, an old resident
of Griffin, died on Saturday night last
at his home in that city, in the sixty
second year of his age.
Peaches actually sold as low as ten
cents a bushel in Atlanta late Saturday
afternoon. The enormous crop seems to
be perpetually renewed.
The total number of deaths for* the
week in Atlanta were sixteen. In Au
gusta, the total was twelve for the week
ending August 18, 1877.
Griffin puts in its claims to be men
tioned among the fashionable Summer
resorts, and Marietta insists that it is
the most charging of all resorts.
Dr. A. PayDe, the Indian doctor who
has lately located in Athens, has a fe
male rattlesnake whioh gave birth to
eight or ten young ones on Monday
morning.
Mr. Stephens left Catoosa Springs
Monday and went to Chattanooga, where
he will spend a week or ten days. Hiß
health has improved considerably dur
ing his stay at the springs.
RAILROAD MEETINU.
A Call For a Merlins at Lauren* Court llouae
September Third.
[For the Chronicle and Conslilutumatitt ,]
Laurens C. H., S. C., August I?. —
Iu response to a call made through the
Laurensville Herald, for q meeting to be
held on salesday in August instant, of
all interested in the subject of Improved
Railroad Oommunicatiog and Lower
Freights, a large and enthusiastic meet
ing assembled in the Court House, and,
after free and full discussion of the
whole subject, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That when this meeting ad
journ it stand adjonrned to meet at this
place, at ten o’clock, on next saleday,
(September 3d) and the question of
route, and also the manner of building
the proposed road—whether by taxation
or otherwise—be then considered and
acted upon.
Resolved, That we invite the attend
ance of representatives from all tho dif
ferent points in any manner interested
in the subject, and their participation in
said meeting.
- Resolved, That a committee of two
from each township be appointed by the
Chair to act as a Committee on Busi
ness, and that five of this committee will
constitute a quorum.
In compliance with these resolutions,
the undersigned respectfully, but earn
estly invites delegations from Augusta,
Greenwood, Belt on, Green
ville, Spartanburg, Union and Newber
ry, to meet and confer with the people
of Laurens on the great subject of com
mon interest to us all. The people of
Laurens, once more breathing the at
mosphere of home rule, are in earnest in
signalizing the beginning of their new
life by an offering to the material im
provement of our common oountry.
John A. Barksdale, Chairman.
N, S. Harris, Secretary.
Naval Cadet*, Ninth Dintrlct.
A competitive examination of candi
dates for appointment to the Naval
Academy, for the Ninth Congressional
District, will be held in the city of
Gainesville on Saturday, September Ist,
1877. Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Prof. J. W.
Glenn, Prof. E. H. Beck, President C.
B. LaHatte, and Henry Perry, Esq., are
appointed the Board of Examiners.
Candidates must be over fourteen and
under eighteen years of age, free from
physical defects, of good moral charac
ter, residents of the Ninth District, and
will be required to report at the Academy
for examination by the 12th of Septem
ber next. H. P. Bell,
$2 A YEAR —POSTAGE PAID
MOSES’ CLEAN BREAST.
MORE SECRETS OP THE SOUTH
CAROLINA INVESTIGATION.
Ex-Gov. Mosea Confessing to Unit’ a Million
ol Bribe Money—. The True Inwu ril ness of
the Bond Conspiracy Coming to Light—
Trouble Ahead lor llie State OlHeinls.
Charleston, S. C., August 12.— The
Investigating Committee lias resumed
its secret labors—even the witnesses are
sworn to secrecy. Moses was the first
real informer, aud he made a clean
breast of it. He w s asked to account
for tho various sums which he had re
ceived as Speaker and Governor. Moses
modestly estimated these at $500,000,
while the higher valuation is $900,000
though figures were no question between
Moses and the committee. After calling
over the larger sums, which bore heavy
upon his memory, he acknowledged that
he “had spent it all.” Thero was
$25,000 in one pile, which he, as Speaker,
reoeived from United States Senator
John J. Patterson. “What was that
for?” It appears that in 1871 Moses
began to tire of the retail perquisites of
his position through the committees
which he appointed. Besides, being a
candidate for Governor, be was fre
quently cheated by bis subordinates in
making fair returns of the bribery
money their committees made. Patter
sou, too, thought the machinery was
loose, and could be made to pay a hand
some advance, as well as aid him iu liis
candidacy for the Senatorship. He
therefore proposed to purchase the whole
privilege from Moses at one single dash,
got control of the committees as a sys
tematic scheme, and turn miller bimsolf
for his own grist and that of any Demo
crat or Republican who had any meal to
grind, through the Legislature.
Another large amount which Moses
received stuck in his memory, because
he had been cheated out of a portion of
it. Tho Republican Printing Compauy
drew two cheeks of SIO,OOO oach in liis
favor, and left them with Hardy Holo
man’s bank. Holomans paid’ Moses
$15,000 of the proceeds, nnd kept $5,000.
Moses has been threatening to sue So'o
rnans for the latter ever since lie found
it out, but the question, “What Court
wonld entertain jurisdiction ?” has de
layed the complaint. During his Speak
ership Moses flooded the market with
“pay certificates,” purporting to be for
lervioes rendered by attaches of the
nouse. Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars of these were afloat. Any influen
tial Republican oould get one, whether
lie had ever beeu in Columbia or not.
To do Moses justice, some of these he
alleged to be forgeries. Jones, the
Clerk’s signature is genuine, but his is
not. From these certificates he derived
a large amount of money. The success
of the oommittee with Moses induced
them to follow up the “pay certificate”
business by calling Moses’ successor as
Speaker, S. J. Lee, as the next witness.
Lee is a light oolored mulatto. He
was formerly a slave. My first remem
brance of him was in 1867 as a witness
in the ease of the United States against
Crump, Davis & Arnim, for running nu
illicit distillery. He struck me as a man
of great self-possession and shrewdness
for his opportunities, After reconstruc
tion he was made a member of the Leg
islature from Aiken connty, and evinced
snoh taot as a parliamentarian that ho
was generally called to preside in the
Speaker’s absence. This made him
Speaker when Moses was elected Gov
ernor. He soon began to drive the most
spanking team through Aiken and Au
gusta, Ga. This mado Gen. Elliott, who
prided himself on his equipage, jealous.
Elliott was only a member of Congress
at that time. At the next election
Elliott made Lee take a back seat, and
was himself made a member of the Leg
islature. and then Speaker in Lee’s
place. Lee contented himself with a
county office until last election, when ho
ran for Solicitor of the Circuit and was
elected. Ho lias been several times
complimented in tho Democratic news
papers for his dignity, ability and fair
ness as Solicitor. The committee keep
Gov. Moses well in hand since their
success in confronting him anil his pa
pers with the distinguished Judge.
They havo him and his faithful body
servant, Robert, installed in rooms at
the Greenfield building, and providod
with meals from Pollack’s not far from
the State House, so that he can bo with
in calling distance, should any of the
witnesses swerve from tho Pentatouclior
fair books of Mosos.
Lee was in jail, with no hope of giv
ing bail. He saw the fato of “tho dis
tinguished Judge,” and he knew he
must swear like an Israelite according
to the Pentateuch. Accordingly, when
he was brought forward, ho, too, mado
a clean breast of it. His testimony was
mainly as to the pay certificates issued
by himself as Speaker, and those issued
in connection with Lieutenant-Governor
Gleaves, who presided over tho Senate.
He was not as lavish with these papers
as Mosos, but told enough to keep Gov.
Gleaves, who is hiding out, from ever
returning to stand his trial. Tho com
mittee were so well satisfied with the
completeness of Lee's story that they let
him out of jail upon his individual re
cognizance, upon condition that he
would resign his Solicitorship. Leo is
now Reported to be one of the leaders in
the Liberian exodus. Tho next witness
before the committee was General J. B.
Dennis, ex-Keeper of the Penitentiary,
Sergeant-at-Arms of the late Mackey
House, the furniture man, and a mem
ber of the High Joint Committee to in
vestigate the bonds in 1870. The prin
cipal portion of his testimony related to
the aotion of the bond committeo in
1870, and the connection Hardy of Solo
man's bank with the State government.
His evidence was only a prelude to tfiat
of Sheriff Bowen,Tof Charleston, on the
same subject. Bowen fias never oon
oealed his knowledge of these matters
from those who asked him for it in good
faith, and it was given before the com
mitteo in suoh a way as to draw forth
the oommendation of the Demoorats
who were present.
In 1870, while Bowen was playing Con
gressman from Charleston, he found
himself unseated, and withoutthe means
of support. The High Joint Investigat
ing Committee from tha Legislature of
Sonth Carolina, composed of Whitte
more, Swails, Dennis and Tim Hnrloy,
were then in session in New York, over
hauling Eimpton’s books, and enjoying
a good time at the expense of the State.
Bowen saw his opportunity. He had
never studied law, but he had been ad
mitted to the South Carolina bar. Ac
cordingly, he applied to the committee
to provide for his immediate necessi
ties. They gave him an appointment as
legal adviser to the committee, with a
fee of to be paid down by Kimp
ton, who was providing bountifully the
ready oash for everything the commit
tee reqnired. From day to day tho in
vestigation was deferred, the books were
not ready. Kimpton was “out of towD,”
and the committee grew tired of waiting
—there was no money in it adeauaco to
the occasion. Bowen had brought with
him from Washington a young man who
had acted a* his private secretary while
Congressman. He was a shrewd fellow,
and, as luck would have it, had a father
in the employ of the American Bank
Note Company of New York. Through
this agency Bowen discovered that the
South Carolina bonds were printed by
that company. After considerable
trouble, he obtained from the company
the amount of bonds they had printed
and turned over to be signed by the
State authorities. They had printed
$20,040,000, and turned them over,
while they had on hand, subject to or
der, 82,600,000 more. Of these $0,000,-
000 were “sterling funded debt” bonds,
which were never issued by the authori
ties. The balance of #14,040,000 was
what the authorities issued, and what
the High Joint Committee endeavored
to investigate. Six million dollars of
these, the conversion bonds, were after
ward repudiated by the Legislature, and
the remainder, with some small deduc
tion, funded at 50 cents on the dollar in
the consolidation bonds,
Bowen revealed this omission at the
time in the Charleston Courier, and re
turning to Charleston became a candi
date for the Legislature, was elected,
and at tha next session preferred charges
for the impeachment of Governor Scott
touching the bonds. The impeachment
was defeated by money taken from the
State by Treasurer Parker. All of these
details were given in his testimony.
Hardy Solomans’ $125,000 bill was or
dered paid at that session, and Bowen
told how this was done thrice over. It
was composed of pay certificates. The
members of the Legislature had receiv
ed them and reoeipted the Treasurer for
them j they had been sold to Solomans,
who reoeipted for them also, and then
he aggregated them in his bill, out of
whioh he paid SBO,OOO to have it passed,
and it was paid. This haul of Parker,
the Treasurer, was equivalent to that
whioh gave him another voucher for
$90,000 in bis official accounts, as ap
pears from the testimony before the
committee. The Republican Printing
Company’s bill for that amount was or
dered paid by the Legislature. They
sold the bill to Comptroller-General
Neagle for #20,000 cash. Neagle took
it, receipted by the company for $90,000,
to the Treasurer, who gave him SBO,OOO
of Blue Ridge Railroad scrip, retaining
SIO,OOO for himself. Upon the Treasur
er s books the receipt of the compauy
represents $90,000 cash. The Blue
Ridge scrip is worthless. The commit
tee have a sure thing against Scott, Par
ker, Cardoza and Chamberlain. Tiia
latter has an individual account to an
swer ; and the list of charges against tho
farm of Kimpton A Chamberlain is tho
largest of the whole array. There will
be requisitions for these gentry upon tho
Governors of Ohio and New York before
very long, and it wiil go hard with them.
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS.
Meeting Of the State Conventl„_A s„|i,|
and Senaible Speech liy lion. Mr. Slenaer
the Permanent President. ’
Harrisburg, Pa., August 22.—Tho
Democratic State Convention met in tha
Hall of the House of Representatives at
noon to-day. Many of the most, promi
nent Democrats in the State were pres
ent. At 12 o’clock Capt. Wm Model
land. Chairman of the State Central
Committee, called the Convention to
order and presented tho list of delegates
returned to him and then handed tho
Convention over to them. The Hon.
Mi. Sfcenger, who, it iuay be rowowbor
ed, made a strong speech against tho
half million subsidy to the Centennial
Exposition, which it, is fair to say has
been paid back, is permanent, Chairman
of the Convention. Ho said : (tenth:,
men of the Convention— Acoept my sin
cere thauks for tho honor of being
selected to preside over your delibera
. *?• 1 congratulate you that we meet
with a full representation from every dis
trict in the State. There iR one striking
fact about tho Democratic party it
never dies. Others rise and full' un d
come and go with the ideas that, called
them into existence, but, the Democratic
party lives ou amid all vicissitudes, be
cause its principles are those of the Con
stitution. It has been defeated, laid
out for dead, defrauded [wild applause),
but still it lives and our opponents
may as well take notioe from its vital
ity that while earth lasts, like seed
time and harvest, Democratic Conven
tions shall not cease. Defrauded, ]
say, beoause I am not unmindful of the
factjthat while I speak tie chair of
Washington and Jefferson is filled by a
man rejected by a quarter of a million
majority of tho American people aud a
decided majority of the electoral votes
of the States. The wisdom of the re*
cent Democratic policy is being vin
dicated byj the Hayes Administration
in two points enpeeially. In 1874 a
Democratic majority elected to the
Lower House of Congress instituted
a plan for tho adjustment of pub
lic difficulties by applying the policy
of economy, retrenchment aud reform.
They steadfastly adhered to it, and sixty
million dollars were thereby saved to
the nation. Every Republican newspa
per said the Democratic llouho was
orippling the Government, and was
cruel to its employes, hut a few days
ago tho Financial Secretary of the Hayes
Administration goes to Oliio and claims
credit for his party hecauso it lias re
cently dismissed a thousand employes.
It was compelled to do so by the Demo
cratic House, and now credit is claimed
by the Hayes Administration. The
Democratic party urged the removal of
tho army from the South. It was felt
that peace and prosperity would,
come to the Southern States only
in this evont, and that business de
rangements only then would cease. Tho
House stood firm as a 3tono wall against
tho proposil on to pay tho troops unless
it was oxprcisly stipulated that the army
should not be used to sustain bogus
State governments. It was u unit for
the bill with this included; a unit
against it unless it was included, and
now Sherman is praising Hayes because
he adopted the Democratic policy. An
other iustauco of economy, compelled
by tho Democratic policy, credit for
which is claimed by the Hayes Admin
istration, Ido not propose to detain
this Convention with an extended
speech, but to follow the expe
rience of my predecessor, venerable
in Democracy if not in years. You sro
competent to discharge your duty, and
in that way invoke harmony. But whv
harmony ? We are the party of law and
order, and in ali history there was no
grandor spectaclu than that of this great
party quietly submitting, for the sake of
peace and order and tho prosperity of
our free institutions, to the most mon
strous political fraud of any ago, for
tho act of the Electoral Commission was
a foul stain upon our national honor,
which all the rains in the sweet heavens
cannot wash out.
The speech was very frequently inter
rupted by applause, and every allusion
to tho act of the Electoral Commisaioii
was loudly cheered.
The Convention adopted the follow
ing : The Democratic party of l’enn
sylvania, and their delegates in Conven
tion assembled, do declare, first, that
the induction of Rutherford H. Hayes
into the offloe of President, notwith
standing tho election of Samuel J. Til
den thereto, was a high crime against
free government, which has not bjen
condoned, and will not ho forgotten
Tho same spirit of patriotism whioh for
bore contest upon the first offense will,
resist and punish any atfcompt at a sec
ond. Tho Convention reaffirmed anil
adopted the financial resolutions of tho
National Democratic platform adopted
at St. Louis in IB7G.
A NEW UlfK 1C FOR WOMEN.
Kneaded and Sharked | roill j, ehll , (y
Vigorous Her.iU,.
The medical profession has been very
good to women. It has given them no
end of pleasant medicines anil peculiar
operations, and foreign travel, and hap
py deaths, and has ilouo all it could to
provide anew medical fashion often and
; regularly. There is now a “new light”
in the treatment of female valetudina
rians, and is has boon flashed forth by a
prominent medical man, Dr. 8. Wier
Mitchell, in a discourse recently deliv
ered by him before tho Medical and
Ghirurgical Faculty of Maryland.
The Louisville Medical News de
scribes this new procedure as absolute
rest, with massage or systematic knead
ing, and inductive currents. It is not
to be used in all oases of disease nor in
most, but in snch as this : A woman
pallid, feeble and exhausted at the age
of thirty-two, the type of a class. Every
thing worrid her—to walk, to read, to
drive, to sew. She was a woman with a
back, and a shawl on her shoulders, and
a sofa for a home, and hysterics for a
diversion. She had tired ont the doc
tors and exhausted tho drug shops, and
spas, anil travel, and outlived a nurse or
two. The deformity mau had found a
spinal curvature, and pnt on a brace ;
the specialist had had his tnrn, the
quacks had had their share and she
wore blue glasses to keep out the bless
ings of daylight. She weighed ninety
fonr pourds, and had as l uch figure as
a hat rack. Because everything elso
tired her the doctor pnt her at rest in
bed, and made rest absolute, not even
permitting her to feed herself. She
was fod with milk at brief intervals, but
this produced disturbances of her di
gestive organs. The doctor began to
knead his patient as if he was making
sponge for bread, and he filled her with
electricity. The consequence was as he
had sa.'d, that her appetite and digestion
returned. Her nails became pink and
the veins in her limbs began to show.
She recove;ed. She wont to the doctor
thin, sallo.v, ugly and feeble. After
numerous doses of the “new light” she
went home fat, and well, and vigorous,
and handsome. It seems that this re
sult awakened the interest of Dame Na
ture, for she cried “ Finis coronal opus,”
and gave the woman a baby as a com
pensation for her lost hysterics. As
this patient was a typo of a class, wo
men will do well in future to call upon
their physicians for the prompt adminis
tration of the now cur©.
Three Jlen Killed in <reeiivillt; Comity Dur
ing ;i Hevuniip Raid.
[Special bo Journal of Commerce .]
Spartanburg, August 21.—Another
re\ anue tragedy occurred at the foot of
the mountains in Greenville connty,
eight miles from Landrum’s Station.
From the best information to be obtain
ed, it appears that William Dnrham, a
revenue officer, attempted to arrest ono
Harrison for illicit distilling. Harrison
resisted and was shot by Dnrham. A
man named Howard and one named
Gosling were the only ones present with
Harrison. After Harrison had been
shot, they fired upon and killed Dur
ham, when Durham’s brother came up
ami shot Howard. Dnrham was instant
ly killed. W. Harrison and Howard
died yesterday.