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VOLUME XCV
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USBOMIOLE AND CoaBTITrTrOSAUST,
Augusta, Gu.
KuirotiiAk NOras
us hear from Judge Loch bank on Ma
hon e.
Mb. Stephens has our thanks for public
documents.
Who is Ebon Howbll, of Georgia? Evan
Howell is known, but who is Ebon ?
Old John Quincy Adams ought to be alive
and in the Senate when the right of peti
tion is denied by Dawes & Cos.
Hutchins, of the Post, says Gorham, of
the Republican, is not '‘an unprincipled
■scoundrel," as the New York Tribune Ae
dared.
The Senate is now dominated by Mahone
and .Keilooo. No wonder the more reput
able Hortlieru papers are anxious for an ad
journment. ._
The Ridical-Readjusters in the Senate
have struck a mortal blow at the debt-pay
ing plans of Tennessee and Minnesota, to
say nothing of Virginia.
The latest “outrage” at the White House
is President Garfield's giving cold com
fort to a church brother, after ho had been
cooling his heels in an ante-room for two
hours. _
The man who invested SIO,OOO in West
ern Union stock, when first put upon the
market and kept it, has almost $500,000
to his credit, and Cash dividends paid in
the interim would equal about $500,000
more.
The New York blur says Wade Hampton’s
speech was moderate and inoiaive, and tnat
it, in a few trenchant sentences, shattered
the fli.usy barricade of falsehood behind
which aMahonk had attempted to take
refuge."
Of tho 1,586,481 bales of cotton manu
factured annually in the United States. 1,-
020,907 bales, or sixty per cent, of the
whole amount, are consumed in the States
of Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachu
setts and Rhode Island, thirty-six per cent. 1
being used in Massachusetts alone.
President Goode, of the Yorktown Cen
tenv'dal Association, has called a meeting
of the members, at New Yark, on April
30th. The Georgia members are Messrs.
A. O. Rtomi, H. D. D. Twiggs, P. M. B.
YoUNO. VeKNE CtIAWFOBD, E6ON HoWELL,
Patrick Welsh. J. H. Estill and T. P.
Branch.
In auv issue between Garfield and
Conklino, Southern Senators should not
hesitate a moment to back the former, in j
his nominations, against the latter. The
worst enemy the South has to-day, and the
UK’St powerful, is Roscoe Conklino.
Any spider put in his political is
a het'cfit to us. *
Bt H.' HONE a bargain, Don Cameron was
made Ch airman of the Naval Committee.
His ftmt’chtieial act was to get the Admin
istration stAim yacht, the Dispatch, and go
ofi’on a week's cruise. List year $15,000
were paid for repairs aud refurnishing of
this yacht, a.'ul Ibis is the first time it has
bean used since.
It is said that the Russian priest in New
York:, Father Bjerbino. is a Finn, and can t
speak a word of Rust-xan, and when the Czar
was killed he recited a whole page of an
old magazine article as his spontaneous and
original opinion. Mr. Blaine s reoent pork
to “perfidious Albion would
have been more to the purpose.
It was g*od for the soul to hear that
Deacon Kichahd Smith admits the necessity
ot electing a Democratic Mayor in Cincinnati
• iu the interest of deoqnoy.” It is comfort
ing to have the same authority emphatically
assert that the Republican Senators can
•much better afford to abandon the fight
than continue it." The Deacon‘is an honest
man.
This Spirit of the Times claims that it has. j
.official record, settled the popular vote
for president, with the following result:
GaWI4 'op, 4.446,628: Hancock, 4.443,10a
Plnralit for Gak*ld, 3,522. That is n
tight sqp ueeae, and shows, among other
things, tha 111 nearly solid colored vote is .
required to I’wep tbe Republican party in |
power. tt
The New Orled** 18 papers usually contain j
daily accounts of oa 1 ® or more murders, and,
m the majority of instances, liquor is.at the
bottom of the difficulty. An account of the
latest homicide says: -When TBAcrfell'
his head and shoulders rested in the card
room, and the other part of his body in the
br-iwm." The responsibility was about
equally divided between cards and drink.
Very few Senators speck their speeches.
M x vould be safe to say that nine-tenths of
the* i deliver lectures from manuscript or
prints'd slips. Mr. Conkuno and Mr. En
mcnos .uever read from manuscript. Sena
tors Biha rs and Hux speak extemporaneous
j Thee* shining lights of genuine ora
tory The htee elaborate speeches deliver
ed by Senator Bmaws, at the special session,
were extempora neons, and yet they perform
erl the great fern, of laying out Hoab, Lo
qas and Mahosk. Georgia is the only State
whose two Senators at.o orators in the true
wensc of the word.
In an admirable article, showing that all
the -Bourbonism" is not on the Demo
cratic side, the Boston Herald utters tku
mighty truth: "We have not observed in
the speech of any Democratic Ssnator from
the South, foolish as some of them have
been, any j disposition to tarry on the battle
field of dead issues, nor to interpose obsta
cles to the final reconciliation. It is mem
bers of the President’s party who seek to
stir up the old strifes. It is they who refuse
the employment of their beet powers in the
entecßßPtße of high moment, which the
President well says beckon us forward. It
is they who has* mad# the reorganization
of the Senate a greedy clutch for power,
and, turning tbdr backs upon all their
pledges sfi> reform, bars converted the in
auguration of s aew administration into a
grand inquisition for the spoils. We think
it will turn out that they have played this
game once too often.”
A PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE.
In recent acrimonious sectional debates
in the Senate, deplored by good men in all
parts of the Republic, stress was laid upon
the “outrages" perpetrated in the South
, where colored people were fie victims.
| Especially was Louisiana held up to ex
ecration by Mr. Dawes and Gen. Loo an.
: Now, very opportunely, the President has
j been waited upon by a political colored
j delegation from Louisiana, who presented
him an address, setting forth the views and
wishes of the colored people of that State.
Jacques A. Gla acted as Chairman, and A.
J. Dumont spokesman for the delegation.
The address is quite langthly, and claims
that the colored race in Louisiana has kept
pace with the rest of the Union in the
march of progress; that they pay taxes on
$25,000,000 of property, and by their
labor raise seven-eighths of the sugay and
rice crop and five-eighths of the cotton
crop; that they ask no new legislation, only
the honest enforcement of existing laws for
their protection, especially an equal parti- j
cipatkm in the advantages of the public
school system and the freedom and protec
tion of the right of suffrage. The President, j
in reply, expressed his gratification at the
progress and material prosperity of the !
colored race, as evidenced by the state
ments of tbeir address; renewed the asaur
i ances of his inaugural address, and urged
: upon their consideration the importance to
their race of education, and personal owner
ship of the soil upon which they live and
| toil.
If the colored peoplo of Louisiana have
j kept pace with the rest of the Union, and
j pay taxes upon $25,000,000 of property,
and by labor raise seven-eighths of the su
! gar and rice crops and five-eighths of the
| cotton, it seems to us they are not only get
| ting along reasonably well, but infinitely
; better than any peasantry the world over.
| It is manifest from this report that they are
not subject to the outrages described in
Northern prints and by United States Re
publican Senators, and that this condition
is bliss itself compared with that of the ma
jority of the people of Europe, not to speak
of Asiatic and African hordes. We do not
wonder, therefore—taking these people
at their own words and exhibits—President
Garfield gave them nothing more assuring
than good advice. They came for another
purpose, but missed the mark. Unless all
signs fail. President Garfield may agitate
the Mormon question, but would like to lay
the colored problem in its little bed.
INTEMPERANCE.
All nations have some form of intoxicat
ing drink, and from nearly every one of the
ordinarily innocent and wholesome fruits
of the earth a deadly, devouring and almost
| infernal fluid can be distilled. Alcohol has
its uses and so has whisky, brandy and wine.
It is only by perversion that they are con
stituted greater destroyers of human life
than all the combinations of war, pestilence
, and famine. Battle kills the material sub
stance of man; so does pestilence and so
: does famine. Intoxicating liquors not only
! slay the body, but they warp and often de
throne the intellect and imperil the souls of
their victims. Aro these words emphatic
ones ? Indeed they are. Are they veracious
ones ? Who shall deny them ? Saint Au
gustine, who had had profuse experience of
the world’s wickedness in early life, said of
drunkenness that it was “a flattering devil,
a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which who- ;
soever hath, hath not himself; which who- j
soever doth commit doth uot commit sin,
but hb himself is wholly sin.” One of the
foremost of criminal lawyers in the United
States declared to the writer that but for
intemperance there would be hardly a
ease in Court involving murder and such
oapital offenses. The story is an old but
good one that a man had his selection of
various heinous offenses, including drunk
enness, and chose the last because he, in
soberness, shrank in horror from the
others. He became a drunkard and fell
into every other sin that he thought to !
avoid. When once the vice or habit of in
temperance has seized upon a man it is the ;
death-knell to industry, to honorable en
deavor, to love of virtuous society, to com- j
lnunion with Heaven, to domestic peace 1
and all tbe lovely and redeeming things of
life. All is chats, accident, wavering,
poverty, wretchedness, the overthrow of
character, the dreadful death-bed and the .
saddest of sepulohres. According to Ed
ward Everett, the use ot intoxicating
liquors has cost the United States a direct
expenditure of $600,000,000, and an in
direct expenditure equally great. It has
destroyed 300,000 lives. It has sent 100,-
000 to the poor house. It has consigned
at least 150,000 to jails and penitentiaries.
It has made 1,000 maniacs. It has in
stigated 1,500 murders. It has caused
two thousand suicides. It has destroyed
$10,000,000 wqrth of property. It has
made two hundred thousand widows and
one hundred thousand orphans. These
are the figures of twenty years ago. The
statistics of to-day would swell that appall
ing list far beyond the above computation,
for the vice is on the increase and its con
sequences grow more and more terrible.
The Bible tells ns that we shall “quench
! not the spirit.” Nothing so effectually
| darkens the mind'and extinguishes the
Divine spark as strong drink indulged in
to excess. Some moralists contend that j
the habitual drunkard as effectually com
mits suicide as if he had used the dagger,
the pistol or the bowl to “shuffle off this
mortal coil.” Every consideration of com
mon sense, of morality, of health, of pru
dence, of happiness here and hereafter, ap
peals to men whose bodies are temples of
the Holy Spirit that they shall flee from
drunkenness as they would from the Evil
One. How often have we been called to
mourn for friends who had qualities
to ennoble themselves and others, but
whose usefulness was obliterated by
i this awful habit. In every community
j there are only too many examples yet lin
j gering of the truth of these expressions,
i and, in every community, only too many
graves are eloquent with warning to all
who “put a thief into their mouths to steal
away their brains.” It is the burning
crime of the day, and no missionary field is
so promising of labor and reward. It is
true that discouragement awaits all who
work therein, but none the less is it a duty
that good men and women can never es
cape. There arc, thank God ! many mis
sionaries, whom Heaven will bless, and
manv victims saved as brands from the
burning. But much remains to be accom
plished, by precept, by example and by
prayer. The brightest angels hover around
the head of that man or woman who, with
out the sour vanity of reforto, but with the
tender hand of charity, seeks out the brother
fallen by the wayside and rescues him from
the wallow, to go forth into the world of
men and spirits, clothed in his right mind
and shaped in the image of a child of God.
THE RAII.ROAD COMMISSION.
It cannot be denied that much of the op
position to railroads and other corporations j
springs from the prejudice of the people
against consolidated wealth and power. :
It I? equally true that this prejudice has
been strengthened by the encroachment of |
these artificial ps>“9 n P° n the of j
the people. The question of legislative
control, then, becomes one of great delicacy,
as well as of much importance; for while it *
is the clear perogative of the State to correct ;
abuses, and to prevent injustice to its citi- j
zens, by putting checks upon the railroads
which it has chartered, all arbitrary legisla
tion which tends toward the confiscation of
miilionsof dollars of valuable property must
prove unwiae. and extraordinary.
State is evidently In used of some plan, to
be embodied in its statutes, by which, while
its legislation may afford reiie* to fiye citi
zen, will not do injustice to the corpus
tios.
We print this moming an article upon
the Bailroad Commission of Georgia, in
which the writer says that -the railroads
will ask the Legislator# tog a repeal of the
present statute, and the enactment of one
more in consonance with the gathered ex-.
I perienee on this important subject.” The
' history and nature of the railroad laws of
Georgia are familiar to many; although we
believe that our correspondent is wrong in
saying that the “radical element” of the
Constitutional Convention left this most
unacceptable legacy of a Railroad Commis
sion to the people. We believe that the
spirit of this organic law of Georgia was one
of the wisest, as it was certainly of the most
advanced provisions adopted by the Con
vention of 1877. At that time the Grange
cases of Illinois were attracting attention,
and the first phase of the great war on
monopolies began to be detected. In South
Georgia there was a growing feeling of dis
content against the Central Railroad, and
several petitions for redress were addressed
to the sovereign Convention of the people,
then sitting in Atlanta. The country was
ripe for legislation, and the famous Tax Ar
ticles, prepared by Gen. Toombs, and sub
mitted to the Convention, embodied the
recognized principles which were being es
tablished in Pennsylvania and in Illinois,
lo many people, these articles seemed rev
olutionary and socialistic. They were cer
tainly unprecedented in the legislative
history of Georgia; but they were simp
ply what • soooner or later, would
have been adopted in a manner more hasty
and. possibly, with provisions more crude
and ill-considered. Gen. Toombs was con
siderably in advance of Southern law-
makers upon the subject—indeed his ideas
were almost identical with those adopted re
cently by -Judge Jere Black —and in some
; of his opinions may have overleaped him
self ; but the railroads and the people of
Georgia have him probably to thank that
these Constitutional provisions wre framed
before the war on monopolies became so
wide-spreading and uncompromising, and
before Georgia was racked with anti-railroad
prejudices as completely as are at present
the States of Alabama, Tennessee and Ken
| tncky.
| The security afforded the people of this
| State by thus anticipating all trouble with
; corporations has certainly fostered a spirit
of common sense and conservatism within
the limits of Georgia; and the Cheonicle is
| glad to be able to detect a desire on behalf
j of the citizens to remodel some of the pro
visions of our railroad laws—necessarily
crude and imperfect. As the State was
i tirstamong the common wealths of the Union
in fixing railroad legislation in her statute
i books, so she may bo one of the first to
change her method according to the lights
; and experiences of Massachusetts, New
1 Y'ork and other sections where the plan has
been tried. As we havo interpreted the ex
perience of these States, Railroad Commis-
sions are operated as inspecting and adviso
ry boards. Arbitrary powers are not delegat
el to be exercised for the embarrassment of
railroads or the confusion of the people. We
have repeatedly alluded to the law of Massa
chusetts, framed after the manner of the
the English system; its opinions are stand
ard railroad authorities in the land, and its
methods of advisement and adj ustment are
being more extensively imitated. Likewise,
have we referred to the rc port of Com
missioner Rochester, of Ken tucky, against
changing the Board of that State, which is
purely advisory, into a body with plenary
and arbitrary power—like the Georgia Com
mision—to prescribe, alter nnd amend such
schedules of rates as they may impose upon
the railroads of the State. Mr. Rochester
opposed this plan, as a dangerous grant of
power, which might be unwisely exereised.
He says:
The result would be as in Wisconsin, years
ago. Tho attempt was there virtually made to
run the railroads by the State, through a Com
missiou adopted by the Legislature. The plan
resulted in completo and diss.atrous failure, and
the same constituency which clamored so loudly
for a Commission with extra ordinary and arbi
trary power, was outspoken for a repeal of the
law.
As further evidence of the wisdom of this
view, we will again revert to the bill now
probable of passage through the Legislature
of the State of New York, where abuses
have been most frequent and flagrant, and
where the problem of railroad legislation
has been closely studied. The bill is char
acterized by those statesmen and journals
who are outside of the influences and con
trol of Jay Gould and Vanderbilt, as a well
considered measure, characterized by a
moderate and conservative spirit tn which
6uch laws should be framed :
The bill provides for the appoint meat of threo
Railroad Commissioners and defines their du
ties. These are confined almost exclusively to
investigating, recommending and reporting. In
other words, the principal function of the pro
posed Commission is to bring the working of
the railroad companies into the full light of pub
licity, to ascertain the ground of complaints, to
endeavor to secure a remedy for grievances by
making representations to the corporations, to
examine into the facts and report them, to pro
mote the enforcement of laws by bringing their
violation to light, and furnishing the Attorney-
General with basis of legal proceedings when
necessary, aud to present from time to time
such suggestions in regard to legislation as ob
servation and experience may produce. The
necessary power for obtaining evidence and
makirig thorough inquiry are conferred upon
the Commissioners, but they have no ooercive
authority of their own.
Unlike the operation of a similar board
in Wisconsin, the Railroad Commission of
Georgia has not been a failure, It is com
posed of honest, high-minded men, who
j have tried to moderate mnch of its exac
tion and to popularize some of its incon
: sistent provisions. We believe in a Rail
| road Commission for Georgia; we have
confidence in the gentlemen who are en
deavoring to enforce its requirements, but
: the growing sentiment against the scope of
its jurisdiction and the breadth of Us au
: thority, convinces us that the experience of
this State will but repeat and confirm the
verdict in other sections. The State should
not delegate .such arbitrary power to any
body of men..
THIS RAILROAD SITUATION.
It is currently reported that the friends
of the Central Railroad hqve secured a con
trolling interest in the Georgia Railroad.
The same parties have also control of the
Sonth Carolina Railway. By this move, Col.
j W. T. Wadlky becomes more than ever en
! titled to the cognomen of William the Con
| queror. He desires to be judged by his
acts. It is not his purpose to fiistnrb the
existing order of things at Augusta, so far
as the locaTmnnagement is concerned, but
he does propose to make the great system
! now under his guidance a blessing to all
the people. He will do for Charleston what
he has done for Savannah, and there is
every reason why he should so act. We
know that Col. Wadley is not opposed to
the Railway Commission, and that he sin
cerely desires the good of the State at large
as well as the benefit of the corporations he
so ably administers. We also know that
the Louisville and Nashville Railway is
in accord with him. There is a
loud cry all over the country about mo
nopoly, but much of it is demagogical. Let
us wait and see how far CoL Wad let shall
be our benefactor or our antagonist. Let
his acts speak. This is all be asks. We
have confidence that car people will be sat
isfied with him and his policy. At any rate,
they haTe to try him and it, and it is the
part of wisdom to give both a liberal, gen
i erons and fair trial.
Fortunately Augusta is not dependent
, upon any one line, and will take advantage
|of all. There is no reason why the Au
gusta and Knoxville Railway should not be
pnshed to a rapid completion. We urge
i that this be done, and it may be that re
cent developments, above detailed, will
j give it a boost that it has not had before.
Charlotte Satisfied.
[Cor. Charlotte Observer. j
The Richmond and Danville Road is do
ing much to benefit Charlotte; it gives ns
double passenger trains each way; it
gives us quick ; it is building the
Western North Caroling Railroad, which
| will -place us 200 miles neater the great
; yest. It will, by its recent lease, be en
j afcied to make this the great through pas-
I senger and freight route North from the
, South. The Richmond and Danville Road
; built the Air Line Railroad, the road that
| has done more for Charlotte thaa all of her
lines combined. All the Richmond and
Danville Road asks of the citizens of Char
lotte is to judge it by its conduct in the
• put’ whenjit controlled the Air Line, and
by its conduct in the future, when it again
controls it.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL, 13, 1881
THE SUPREME COURT.
Dulilok Rendered Starch tU.
Giles vs. State. Misdemeanor, from Mor
gan. Continuance. Charge of Court.
Practice in the Superior Conrt. New
Trial. Criminal Law.
Crawford, J.—l. The mere absence of
counsel from the Conrt if not a sufficient
ground for continuance. 2. Whether the
framing of the Judge’s charge beforehe had
heard the evidence is a good cause of com
plaint, depends upon whether he charged
the law of the case properly or not. If he
did, no harm was done. 3. There was suf
ficient evidence to support the verdict.
4. That on a second conviction in mis
demeanor case, the Judge increased the fine
by five dollars over the first sentence, is no
ground for new trial. Judgment affirmed.
Mayor, etc., of Savannah vs. Spears. Case,
from Chatham. Municipal corporations.
Sewers. Negligence. Damages.
Speer, J.—l. While the Mayor and Coun
cil of Savannah are only bound to ordinary
diligence in regard to preventing injury
from a canal forming part of its system of
sewers, yet that diligence must extend not
merely to keeping np such banks as a drain
may have, bnt to the keeping it open and
in such order as to protect the proprietors
ot adjacent lands, regard being had to the
changes which are usual and ordinary at
different seasons. 2. In the location of
sewers and drains, and perhaps also in de
termining their dimensions, municipal an.
thorities exercise a judicial or legislative
discretion; bnt after the dimensions have
been agreed upon or determined, they are
liable in damages for negligence m con
structing such sewers or drains or for fail
ure to keep them in good oondition. Judg
ment affirmed. t
Storey vs. Weaver. Motion, from Greene.
Judgments. Motions. Equity. Con
tracts.
Speer, J.—l. A motion to set aside and
vacate a judgment and reinstate a case can
not be determined by any fixed rule, but
depends upon the cioumstances of
the case. 2. In the present case the
Judge presiding did right to over
rule the motion. (a) Where it was
proposed to set aside a j udgment by de
fault and reinstate the case that defendant
might plead to the merits, and it appeared
that substantially the same matters pro
posed to be pleaded had been determined
against the defendant in a former litigation,
the motion was properly overruled, (b.)
Where a contract was made to loan money,
take a deed to land as security, and give
bond to reconvey on payment of the debt,
and the money was loaned and the deed
taken, bnt by inadvertence it was not sign
ed by the debtor, a bill for specific perform
ance would lie. Judgment affirmed.
Park vs. Park. Appeal, from ’Morgan.
Evidence. Praotice in the Superior Court.
Speer, J.—Where, on objection to an ex
ecutor as an incompetent witness to show
the facts stated in his returns, the Conrt
held that he was incompetent as to the
debts and payments between him and the
testatrix in her life time, and as to other
matters was competent, but afterwards tes
timony of the character ruled out was giv
en by him, the objecting oonnsel under
standing that hisobjection continued, while
the Court understood that it went in with
out objection, anew trial will be granted.
Judgment reversed.
City Council of Augusta vs. Radcliffs et al.
Ejectment. From Riohmond Estates.
Trusts. Titles Statute of Limitation.
[Crawford, J., being related to the par
ties defendant in error, did not sit in this
case. Judge Simmons, of the Macon
Cirouit, was designated to preside in his
place. J
Simmons, J.—l. Where the Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company sold to John
D. Ramey certain real estate in trust for
Mrs. Ann L. Finn for life, with remainder
to such child or children as she might have
in esse at her death, and in default of
children, to grand-children living at the
time of her death, with power to said trus
tee to sell and reinvest with the consent and
approbation of the person or persons for
whose use he may, at any time, hold said
property; and the trustee sold with the
consent of the life tenant only—a usee in
remainder being in life at the date of the
sale—and Mrs. Finn survived all of her
children, and died in 1876, leaving grand
children : Held, that the sale by the trus
tee only conveyed the life estate of Mrs.
Finn, and did not divest the title of the
grand-children. 2. Held farther that the
statute of limitations did not commence to
run against the grand-children until the
death of Mrs. Finn, the life tenant. Judg
ment affirmed.
THE GEORGIA MARSH AI.SHI I’.
[ Coi-respondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Washington, D. C., March 31, 1881.—
Some facts in connection with the Georgia
Marshalship, about which bo much has been
said and written recently, may not be un
interesting to your readers.
These facts came to my knowledge from a
source entirely reliable, and I give them to
you therefore as of this character.
After the voluminous charges in the New
comb report against Col. Fitzsimons had
been thoroughly examined, and overruled
in every particular, by President Hayes,
Col. Fitzsimons placed in the hands of
Mr. Stephens, his friend, to be handed to
the President, a letter of which the follow
ing is a copy:
Wabhinoton, D. C., February 25, 1881.
His Excellency H. B. Hayes, President of the
United Slates:
Sib Having been entirely exonerated
from all charges affecting my honor and in
tegrity in the discharge of my official duties
as Marshal of the State of Georgia, which
you were kind enough to confer upon me
inja critical period of your administration,
and having received your assurance that
there is nothing in the charges brought
against me which has weakened your confi
dence in me as an efficient and faithful
officer, 1 now, with profound thanks for
that confidence, tender you my resignation,
to take effect as soon as my successor may
be appointed and qualified. I mean by this
simply to fulfil my promise to you at the
time of my appointment, “that if you
should, at any time, be in any degree em
barrassed by my holding the position from
political considerations of any character,
my resignation would be at your dis
posal.”
If, therefore, from any want of harmony
between myself and “Internal Revenue”
officers of Georgia, or other political con
siderations, you should think the public
service would be better performed by hav
ing a Marshal who would be more in ac
cordance with the views and policies with
the “Internal Revenue” Collectors of the
State, then I wish you to bare no hesitancy
in accepting this resignation and freeing
yourself from all embarrassments on my
account. Very respectfully and truly your
friend and obedient servant,
O. P. Fitzsimons.
President Hayes declined to aocept the
resignation thus tendered to him, stating
to Mr. Stephens that after a most thorough
investigation of all the charges brought
against Col. Fitzsimons, he thought none
of them were sustained by proof; that Col.
Fitzsimons’ answer to these charges was fall
and satisfactory, and his vindication was
complete. He, the President, believed Col.
Fitzsimons to be an able, honest, efficient
and faithful officer, and would not accept
his resignation, but would leave that matter
to his successor.
So matters stood, until General Garfield
came into office. Col. Fitzsimons then ad
dressed him a letter, of which the following
is a copy :
United States Marshal’s Office, j
Nobthebn Distbict of Georgia,
Atlanta, Ga., March 11, 1881. j
His Excellency James A. Garfield, President
of the United States, Washington, D. C.
Sib —Your honored predecessor, kindly
tendered me the office of United States
Marshal of the State of Georgia in a very
critical period of his administration.
After the appointment so made, and before
entering upon the duties of the office, I as
sured him that if at any time he should be
come embarrassed, from politipfii or any
other' considerations, on acoount of my
bolding the position, my resignation should
be at his disposal.
It has been a source of great gratification
to me that the confidence of President
Hayes was never shaken in my official in
tegrity, notwithstanding very numerous and
grave charges were brought against me.
All these were over-ruled by him, and at
the close of bis administration I was left in
the position assigned by him over three
years before.
I wish now aimply to relieve you and
yonr administration from all smbarraas
ment on my account, and therefore hereby
tender my resignatisn of the office of Unit
ed States Marshal of Georgia, to take effect
as soon as my successor may be appointed
and qualified. Very respectfully, your
obedient servant, 6. P. Fitzsimons,
U. S. Marshal.
It is now understood, 1 think, that Presi
dent Garfield intends to confer the Mar-
shalship upon Gen. Longstreet, who is now
Minister to Constantinople. It will be some
months, perhaps, before the General can
return. Col. Fitzsimons, in the meantime,
with the entire confidence of the Adminis
tration, will remain in office until his suc
cessor is qualified and ready to enter upon
the discharge of its duties. This will prob
ably be about the 30th of June—the close of
| the" present fiscal year.
The number of Republican applicants for
| office was very large, and the strife between
them somewhat fierce, according to reports.
! Qen. Longstreet was not in the contest. He
j seems to have been the dark horse seledMF 1
I by the President to be CoL Fitzsimons’ suc
cessor. May he fill the place aa well, and
' come ont with honor as unsullied. .1 TANARUS, B
| ——
How He Made b.
[Boston Post. j
If ympampe to tell a man he could make
a fortune by shaking a knife and hollaring
he might not believe it, but that's the way
Buffalo Bill has accumulated SIOO,OOO on
' the stage.
] AUGUSTA ANU KNOXYILLE.
A BIG BOOST YESTERDAY IN SPAR
TANBURG, S. C.
The Spartanburg and Asheville Rail
road Soon to Be Oampleted—Greenwood
Reaching Oat to Connect With Spar
tanburg—President Verdery- Now As
sured oY Western Connections—The
Biggest Thing Yet.
[Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Spartanburg, 8. C., April 4.—Now that
railroad rumors are tho order of the day, it
may be refreshing to know that the pro
gress of the Augusta and Knoxville re
ceived a big boost to-day in “the Land of
the Sky," and the prospects of Augusta be
ing accorded her favorite Western connec
tion, via Knoxville, are flattering. To-day,
then, the Spartanburg and Asheville Rail
road was sold, under * decree of the United
States Court, and purchased by the bond
holders for one hundrefl and eleven thou
sand dollars. The Bed company was or
ganized, payment anticipated, deed exe
cuted and possession given. Mr. R. Y.
MoAden, of Charlotte, becomes Fresident;
W. H. Inman, of Ned York, Vice-President,
and Janies Anderson, of Spartanburg,
Superintendent, Arrangements were made
for an immediate completion of the road to..
Asheville. The Spartanbnrg and Ashe
ville Railroad is seventy miles long, and at
the time of the road’s going into the hands
-of a Receiver, in 1878, the grading had
been completed to Hendersonville, N. Ci,
a distance of fifty miles. Steps will now
be speedily taken to finish up this most
important link in your Western connection.
Concerning Its Connection*.
It confidently asserted by the authorities
of the Western North Carolina Railroad that
their work will be finished this year to
Paint Rock, on the Tennessee State line, 45
miles distant from Asheville, where a con
nection is made with a branch of the
East Tennessee arid Georgia Railroad,
which is about 45 miles in length,
and connects with the main line at Mor
ristown —42 miles above Knoxville. Thus
Ashveille, ninety miles distant from the East
Tennessee and Virginia and Georgia con
nection, is destined soon to be a distribnting
point for through freight to the Carolinas,
aside from the abundant and varied agricul
tural and mineral products of the rich valley
of East Tennessee that for many years have
reached the markets of North, Sonth Caro
lina and Georgia by slow and expensive
methods. But far more than all, recent de
velopments point to an early completion of
the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad, to a con
nection with the Lebanon Branch of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The
missiDg link here is about eighty miles of
ungraded work, nineteen in Tennessee and
sixty in Kentuoky. Its completion places
Knoxville within two hundred and Bixty-five
miles of Louisville, and by the connection
with the Cincinnati Southern, near Danville,
Kentucky, within two hundred and seventy
nine miles of Cincinnati.
Spartanburg, Laurens and Greenwood.
The main thing just now then, to connect
the Augusta branch with this growing Caro
lina railroad system, is to olosely join
Greenwood, where yonr line of the A. &
K. R. R. ends, with Spartanburg, where
the new line begins. To-day, then, an
important meeting of the friends of the
Spartanburg, Laurens and Greenwood Rail
road was held. Engineer Kirkland report
ed the survey completed, with a good line,
sixty-six miles in length, grading and ma
sonry costing two hundred and thirty-eight
thousand dollars. Steps were taken to or
ganize a company and submit the question
of a county subscription of seventy-five
thonsand dollars each to the voters of Spar
tanburg and Laurens at an early date.
Stirring speeches were made by Mr. Eugene
F. Verdery, President of the Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad, and others. Work will
commence as soon as county subscriptions
are voted, and will be pushed to an early
completion.
It will thus be seen that when the gap
from Greenwood to Spartanburg is closed
up, Augusta will be in a fair way to clasp
bands with Knoxville. President Verdery
is making sure of every connection, and
is closing up every gap on his line. He has
already shown himself considerable of a rail
road tactician and capable of managing a
combination as great as the Augusta and
Knoxville is soon destined to bo.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
OH Fire In Wheeling.
W heeling, W. Va., April O.—A fire broke
•out last night in the drug store of Huston &
Bengell, caused by the explosion of a barrel
of oil in the cellar. Loss estimated at
SIO,OOO.
A Load of Bncbihot Decidev file Issues
Memphis, April G.--Samson Shelton fired
a charge of buckshot into the breast of Lu
cius Cobb last night, killing him instantly.
Botlr are negroes, and their quarrel was
about the favor of a colored girl.
Absconding Postmaster Arrested.
Galveston, April 6. — Capt. H. Booth,
i ost Office Inspector of Alabama, arrived in
this city yesterday morning, with F. King,
absconding Postmaster from Milton, Fla,
King was turned over to the United States
Marshal,[to be conveyed back to Florida.
Fatal Accident.
St. Louis, April 6.—A dispatch to the
Republican from Little Rock says one of the
stones in Johnson’s flouring mill, in Mon
roe county, bursted yesterday, instantly
killing two men, named Burrows and Jack
son, and fatally wounding several others—
among them Mr. JohnsoD, the owner of the
mill. The building was badly damaged.
Vlimitary- Starvation.
New Tore, April 6.—Martin Singer, an
undertaker, to-day sent to the bureau of
vital statistic certificates, signed by a phy
sician, to the effect that Mrs. Magdalena
Mills, aged 61, had died at No. 442 West
Fifty-Fourth street, from voluntary starva
tion. Troubles and misfortunes in her
family, together with the loss of $2,000 in
money stolen from her, caused Mrs. Mills
to become despondent and finally insane.
About three weeks ago she ceased to par
take of food. Every effort, short of vio
lence, was made to induce her to eat, but
she refused to swallow anything except
water. Nine days ago she refused water
also, and from that time until her death she
fasted. The case will be given to the
coroner for investigation.
Terrible Crime By a Foartecn-Ywa r OM
Boy.
Sxmbubo, Pa., April 6. —While Mrs. Hoo
ver, a widow lady, residing about three
miles from this place, was at dinner to-day,
with her family, an.altercrtion arose be
tween two of her children - Lottie, aged 17,
and George, aged 14 -when the latter left
the table, and going into another room took
a sidgle-barreled shot gun and returning to
the room, fired at his sister, the shot taking
effeot in the right Bide of her neck and tear
ing it almost completely away. A neighbor
hearing the report of the gun, ran over to
Hoover’s bouse, where he found Miss
Hoover covered with blood and dying. The
boy was arrested and lodged in jail this
evening. The only reason he gives for
committing the crime is that they would
not give him enough to eat.
A Quarrel Renewed With Bloody Result,
Cincinnati, April 6.—A dispatch from
Grayson, Ky., says in Deer Creek precinct,
Carter county, on the day of the Presiden
tial eleotion" Reese D. Horton, a Democrat,
and J. S. Jones, Greenback elector for that
District, were terribly beaten, and only
saved from death by Horton shooting one
of the assailante. Then Horton and George
W. Simonds, a Democrat stump speaker,
were threatened with hanging. About three
weeks ago Jones was attacked by a mob,
but drove them off. On March 28th a
meeting of several citizens of Deer Creek oc
curred at Kitchen's store, on Cracker's Neck,
in Klliott oounty. The party became in
toxicated and the quarrel broke out afresh
and developed into a fight, in which the
weapons need were fence rails, rocks and
hunting knives. Three men were slightly
hart. A hearing of the alleged participants
in the aflrav was had last Saturday, and
Horton was the only one against whom suf
fic.ent evidence was adduced to; hold. He
was bound over and the rest were dis
charged. After the trial all hands left
the Magistrate’s house and rode down
£ruin creek together. When near the
house of Dick Farley, the quarrel was re
newed and a terrible fight with pistols and
knivee ensued, lasting half an hour. Dave
William, had his skull, above the right eye,
split open by a sharp rock or hpife, and was
stabbed twice. Dick Williams, bis brother,
was shot in the thigh and right hand and
stabbed in the right arm. Last night these
wounded men were alive, bnt were expected
to die in a few hours. The affair inflames
an already excited community and leads to
grave apprehensions of bloodshed on a
large scale.
Emigration to Georgia.
[Oor. Charleston Hems.]
A deliciously cool request cams to the
Commissioner of Agriculture to-day from a
farmer living in Richmond county, Georgia,
seventeen miles from Augusta. He stated
that he was worried to death by his laborers,
and requested CoL Butler to ship him a
dozen families of those stalwart Germans he
saw by the papers he was receiving. If Col.
Butler desired any information as to the
.mapriiMHk water power of Richmond
oounty, Georgia, he would be happy to
furnish it, “and so forth.” He had a good
water power himself, which wqnld run a
large factory, “and so forth.” The Com
missioner, while ticked at the celebrity of
his department and the appreciation of its
benefits shown in the “Empire State of the
Booth, 4 * must necessarily inform the appli
cant of the existence of an Agricultural De
partment in Geotgia, while prpffering im
migrants and investigation of water power
to the writer if he will move over to the
Bappj land on this aid* of the Savannah,
: GERMAN MILLET AS A FORAGE CROP.
: Interesting Notes How to Cultivate
German Millet—A Combination Parage
Crop, Etc., Etc.]
[IVom Our Staff Correspondent.]
Augusta, Ga., April 4.—For a number of
years past, the writer has had occasion to
make the rounds of the Southern States.
T ravelling by rail and by private conveyance,
he was brought into contaot with repre
sentative persons of all the departments
from the school room to the farm honse, and
he early became solicitous to know to what
extent progress was being made in the - de
partment of agriculture, which itself is
largely the mainstay of all onr industrial
pursuits. He noted this: That, whatever
was being done in the matter of cotton and
small grain and thfe rotation of crops, prac
tically no attention at all was being given
to the cultivation of the grasses, and of
what may properly be termed forage crops,
that is to say, it was a rare occurrence that
one could find, in a wide belt of country,
even a corporal’s guard of farmers that was
bestowing upon clover and Guinea grass,
Hungarian grass and German millet, cow
peas, etc., one-tenth the attention the great
majority was giving to cotton, com and
oats. It is true that the results of experi
ments made with clover in Greene county,
by ex-Commissioner Janes, and tho re
sults developed by Senator Jos. E. Brown
on the same line, as detailed before the
Georgia Agricultural Society, at Rome in
Summer of -1871, awakened a lively in
terest on that snbject, and kindred subjects.
The leaven has been working, and, in our
own State, in sections not adapted to clover,
increasing efforts have been made in the
culture of the grasses. And yet, in this,
one of the must profitable departments of
husbandry, the laborers are few. If any one
questions this statement, let him institute
inquiry as to the hundreds of tons of West
ern hay that are daily rolled into our ohief
cities. The impression has obtained that
German millet, concerning the cultivation
of which the writer proposes to say some
thing, can not be successfully grown on
lands other than bottoms. This is an error.
Two years ago, I made my first attempt at
farming. I rented a Summer place, just
across the Savannah, on the range of Hills
immediately in rear of Schultz’s Hill. The
soilis sandy and sterile. I determined to
sow three acres in German millet. I did
not pretend to know anything of farming,
so I relied on my colored head-man May
20th, stable manure was spread broadcast
over the field and ploughed in. The millet,
one-half bushel to the acre, was distributed
broadcast and brushed' in. We had
no rain for a fortnight, but, notwith
standing the drought and the mistake
made as to time and manner of planting,
we made a very fine orop indeed. That
Winter I purchased the King-Campfield-
Oakman place on the Georgia Railroad,
seven and a half miles from this'city, re
solved to utilize what I had learned from
my hired man and by observation during
1879, At the new place, with an elevation
of 254 feet above Augusta, I found the soil
, the same as that I had just left. Circum
stances operated to prevent the pitching of
the crop at the proper time, but, during the
first week in May, to measured acres, each,
one hundred pounds of Patapseo guano
were applied and one-half bushel of millet
sowed broad-cast. A “Farmer’s Friend"
plough was used to turn under tl?e whole.
Subsequently, the ground was rolled. The
results were most gratifying. The millet
grew ofl' nicely and headed splendidly. On
the seventy-fifth day, while the millet was
in the boot or milk, we harvested the crop.
It cured beautifully. My experiments
showed that from one ton to four tons of
millet can be made per acre, according to
the degrees of fertility of soil. I tried a
half acre of bottom land, bnt, the drainage
being poor, the experiment proved a failure.
As soon as my oats, wheat and millet had
been harvested, I applied one hundred
pounds of Patapseo guano per acre and sowed
to millet and to cow peas and millet, alter
nately, the proportions of tho latter being
twenty pounds of millet to two bushels ot
cow peas. These were ploughed in and
rolled, as hi case of millet first planted.
Results: First, a very heavy yield of millet
and of pea-vines intermixed with millet;
seoond, two good crops,-with but little work,
in less than the time consumed in making
two bales of cotton—one bale to three acres.
This second crop was cut in the blossom
and cured “pure gold.” In cutting the
pea vines before the pods formed, I was con
trolled by the idea that, at that stage of the
growth, the elements of nutrition were more
evenly diffused than at any other period,
and that, in this condition, the vines and
millet, (which latter contains a large quan
quantity of saccharine matter) would make
much better food for stook. A hay press of
my own construction turned out this forage
in hales, twenty-four by thirty inches, and
averaging seventy pounds. Better results
would have crowned my efforts could I
have given closer personal attention to the
work and had I planted earlier. From five
to seven, a. m., was, practically, all the
time I could command a day. The millet
should have been planted April 10th to
13th, and two hundred pounds of guano,
per acre, applied. Experiments made
with turnips lead me to believe that,
to follow stable manure, broadcast,
with one hundred pounds of guano,
would give most excellent reaults. Again,
time would be saved and the seed more
thoroughly distributed by using a “Ca
hoon” ora “Philadelphia" broadcast seed
sower. The sower costs $6 ;it -will seed an
acre more speedily and much more effec
tively than is possible by hand. Cutting
the millet at seventy-five or ninety days,
according to the seasons it may have had, I
would follow it with cow peas. Oats and
wheat, I would follow with millet, and
cow peas and millet, alternately. Cut in
the boot or milk, which is the flowering
stage, millet and “the combination" make
a forage that will not injure stock, and
from which stock will in no case turn away.
It has been ascertained that the muscle
forming and heat-prodncing ingredients
of food given to animals bear the propor
tion to each other of one to three or four.
Thus: Corn, one to eight; corn Jfodder, one
to ten; oats, one to five; oat straw, one to
sixteen ; German millet, one to three —so
that the latter is quite up to the standard.
Briefly, then, the essentials in the cultiva
tion of millet are: Soil naturally fertile or
made rich, good seed and timely sowing. I
omitted to say, in the proper place, that, in
addition to doubling the quantity of fer
tilizers, I would sow on poor land from
three pecks to one bushel per acre. I have
been led to submit the foregoing by a de
sire to respond to the numerous inquiries
made of me touching the experiments
herein referred to. If the information I
have attempted to convey to the readers of
the Chronicle shall benefit any one, I shall
be more than pleased. And in it all I lay
no claim to originality. Martin V. Calvin.
REPLY OF THE h. <k SI.
To an Injunction of Minority Stocktaold.
tn of the SI., C. & St. L.
Respondent farther claims that it has
nerer proposed to lease, run or operate the
X., C. & St. L. it. R, but that it has the
right under the oharter of said road to own
and hold stock therein. It admits the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail
way is solvent and if its physical condition
is improved it ought to pay fair dividends.
K passes through the coal and iron fields of
Tennessee; it is the oldest railroad in the
State, and the Chattanooga division is well
built and fairly equipped, and that it is
probable its stock would remain at par if
the road waß clear of the present litigation
and its physical condition was improved,
and that it would have been a much more
valuable piece of property if some of its
recent equipments had not been made.
They maintain that the present manage
ment of the road is entirely independent
and is conducted for. the best interests of all
the stockholders.
STATE DEBTS.
How They Differ In Virginia, ueurgia
and Tennessee.
[Chattanooga Times.]
It is presuming greatly on the ignorance
of the readers of a paper, when its conduc
tors place the obligation of Virginia to
meet her debt on a par with Georgia’s duty
toward the bonds issued by the Bullock
ring of speculators. Every dollar ot Vir
ginia’s debt was created before the war. It
is not pretended that one dollar of the prin
cipal was stolen, misplaced or wasted. If
there is a binding public debt in existence,
Virginia’s is one.
The so-called reconstruction debt of
Georgia represents no property the State
ever got, or efer will get, the benefit of. It
was created by and for the enrichment of
thieves, at a time when the bulk of the
taxipayers of the State were disfranchised.
It has neither the sanction of public ap
proval nor the merit of having been—even
m part—invested for the benefit of those
from whom it was ought to be stolen. Hen
ry Clewes, and most other of those who ne
gotiated those millions of fraudulent bonds,
not only knew they were fraudulent, but
were active parties in the stealing.
.The debt of Tennessee is in some sort
different from that of Virginia, though sim
ilar, in that the bulk of the bonds new out
standing represent honest investments made
before after the war. The portion that
ought to have been ignored—repudiated is
not the right term —has already been liqui
dated, And, in as much as a good many of
the present bondholders were into and
profited by the frauds of our State govern
ment from 1865 to 1870, they ought to
stand a liberal scaling of their claims.
Anxiety Jr the Prince off Wale*.
, The alarm respecting the visit of the
Prince and Princess of Wale? to St-Peters
burg continues, though little public men
tion is made of it. ft is known that warn
ings covering explicit information from tbs
St. Petersburg police were received before
and since their departure. Gen. Melikoff
declines to answer r their safety, though
he gives assurance that every precaution
Will be taken.
THRICEjiRMED.
, A TRIPATITE PROTECTION BELIEVED
TO RE SECURED.
The Georgia Railroad Not Yet Scooped By
Any Line—Harmonious Policy With the
Central—Mr. Wadle'y In Augusta—'The
Louisville and Nashville Friendly to
the Georgia-Central Alliance—Firmly
Fortified Against the Eastern Syndi
cates Which Yearn to Gobble Up the
Georgia and Augusta.
Railroad movements were considerably buoy
ed yesterday by the appearance of Mr. Wm. M.
Wadley, of Savannah, in the city. When it be
cause known that the flurry in stooks had sub
sided, and that the wild hunt for Georgia was at
rest, rumor had it that the Central had finally
scooped up the Georgia; that Mr. Moses Taylor
and his New York peoplo had purchased the
controlling interest, aud that Mr. Wadley had
come to Augusta to take in this new domain.
It was known, too, that Mr. Wait ley and sev
eral officials of the Georgia Road had been
talking over the joint interests aud co-opera
tion of the two routes during the day, aud that
more than ever was some closer bond of union
aflvooated. Later in the day, however, the re
port of the Central’s having purchased the
Georgia Railroad was rigidly denied iu high of
ficial quarters.
Like the scribbler in Fatputza, a Crrgniclb
.won ventured into the thickest of the fight, and
veered up to the Planters Hotel, where Mr. Wad
ley was stopping. After finishing his repast,
that venerable railroad official appeared with
the air of a man who was at peace with the
world—newspapers included —at the same time
booming with the quiet consciousness of one
who has the inside track.
Tho Man Who Seldom Talks.
“Young man,” said Mr. Wadlev, “I never
talk for newspapers.”
The Chronicle ventured that in justice to
himself and railroad, he might venture some
-to put at rest the vague rumors and to
allay even the prejudices of the suspicious
ones.
“What do they sav ?” asked Mr. President.
“That your friends have purchased the Geor
gia Railroad, and will work it in the interests
of Savannah and the Central.”
“Well, then, you may say this for me: ‘That
Wm. M. Wadley will never be a party to any
plan that will injure the city of Augusta.’ ”
The Chronicle asked Mr. Wadley if any ar
rangement had been made to operate the Geor
gia and Central more harmoniously together ?
Mr. Wadloy answered that none was needed.
The managements of the railroads were in per
fect accord.
The Chronicle asked further, if it were
really true that his friends had purchased a
controlling interest in the Georgia Railroad
stock ?
Mr. Wadley promptly responded that he did
not know, repeating his former announcement
with emphasis, that in all and any event, Au
gusta might rest assured that Wm. M. Wadlev
would not lend himself to any plan that would
injure this city and her interests.
Said a gentleman some time later: “Mr. Wad
ley seldom talks. He keeps his own counsel
better than any man in the South. Last vear
every one knew what Colonel Cole was after
long before he was scooped up. Mr. Wadley’s
plans are never devulged. But one thing you
may rely upon: Mr. Wadlev’s pledgets as
good as his company’s bond. He will protect
Augusta. He has more brains than almost
any railroad official in the country, and, as tho
Chronicle said some time since, ‘when once he
sets his pegs, he rarely slips up.’ ”
No One Yet In Possession.
Later on the Chronicle received assurance
positive that neither the Central nor the Louis
ville and Nashville had purchased a controlling
interest in Georgia Railroad stock; that in reoent
operations there was much that was fictitious;
that there was now a satisfactory Issue from the
sensation and excitement of the past week. Al
though, then, there is muoh of mystery and
sensation in tho matter, tho following may bo
taken for granted: That heavy blocks of Geor
gia havo been bought at the North within the
past month; that no one road has secured a
controlling interest in the Georgia Railroad:
that the Louisville and Nashville poople were
heavily interested in buying stook and own sev
eral thousand shares of it; that the Georgia and
Central are in complete understanding with
eaoh other, and will operate closely together in
the future, and that the
Louisville and Nashville is Favorable
To this quasi coalition. This is the ’strange
part; but it is believed to be true. That
the Central people, or the Louisville and Nash
ville people havo been bidding against each
other, and find that neither could ooutrol, is not
probable. If the L. &N. had determined to buy
up the Georgia, it coHld have done it. The more
probable, solution is that tho L. A N. looks
favorably upon a close compact between tho
Georgia and Central, because they can beat pro
tect themselves against the great RiobmOnd and
Danville and Pennsylvania CoDtral combina
tions of tho East. Wero these strong syndicates
to get control of the Georgia, as tlioy might do,
the Central and the L. & N. would both be in
jured; accordingly both corporations find it
safer to hive the coveted stock in New York,
than leaving it exposed in wavering and scat
tered particles, to be scooped up by a powerful
syndicate at any time. It looks strikingly like
a scheme of self-protection against the Great
Eastern lines, and if such, we trust it will be
secured.
The Outlook.
However this may be, the management of the
Georgia will yet remain distinct from the Cen
tral. They will not only work in the future to
Sroteot each other, but to take in the South
arolina Railroad, and scallop their steamship
lines from Savannah to Charleston and New
York. They will command all the business pos
sible for their lines and porta. They will form
themselves a natural syndicate for self-pro
protection and domestic purposes, prevent
ing disastrous outting of rates; will try to
save the domain of Georgia and Carolina,
with tbe South Atlantic seaports and harbors,
againßt the grasping Clyde combination, whose
chains stretch from the mountains of Tennessee
to Pennsylvania and New York, and who are
triangulating the Southern coast with their
feeders and branches. In Mr. Wadley’s back
ers and in the Louisville and Nashville poople,
Augusta may have found her friends where
most she feared her foe. Under all events,
Augusta is safe for the present.
What President Phlnlty Says.
A Chbonicle representative happening to
meet on the .street Mr. Chad. H. Phinizv, Presi
dent of the Georgia Railroad, remarked that it
was reported that the friends of the Central
Railroad had secured enough of the stock of the
Georgia Railroad to obtain control of the latter.
Mr. Phinizv said that was more than he knew,
and he did* not believe that such was the case
unless in the term “friends of the Central” were
included old stockholders of the Georgia, who
had not sold out, but who were in favor of the
roads working in harmony together. Tho fact
was, the Georgia and Central and South Caro
lina had been working together and dividing
business for some time. The Central, however,
got the worst of this, as it. had to carry the lar
ger portion of the through freight and divide tho
money. The cause of this was two-fold. In
the first place, the Central line of steamers
could carry more, and, in the next, tho track of
the road run directly to the wharf. In Charles
ton the freight had to ba transferred, and the
carrying capacity of the steamers was not suf
ficient to take all the freight that the road
oonld convey to them. With tne roads all
working under one system, the ndmber of
steamers running from Charleston would be in
creased in order to take a proportionate
share of the business. Each road would con
tinue to have its own officers for the manage
ment of its business.
Under such a system the Western shipper
would have a very great advantage. He could
then direct which way the freight should go
from Atlanta, which he - cannot do now. The
talk that Mr. Wadley wquld do anything to
injure Augusta was absurd. He could not in
jure it if he would and he would not if he could.
Neither the Central nor any other road could
hurt it. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
did not want the Georgia, because it would gain
no more advantages by each an arrangement
than it now had. It could send its through
freight over the Georgia now find it could do
no more if it leased it. It was far better for
the Georgia and Central to work together in
oommnnity ot interest than to be cutting each
other’s throats. They competed at Macon, at
Covington, at Madison, at Atlanta, and it would
be exceedingly unwiso for them to work against
each other. He said that they competed at
Covington and Madison because the Central
at Eatonton was only a short distance away
from the Georgia. It was a great mistake to
call Atlanta the strategic point of Georgia. It
was too far inland. The honor belonged to Au
gusta. Here the railroads diverged like a fan
to Savannah, Port Royal, Charleston, Wilming
ton and Norfolk, and if ever a gTeat through
business was established between the
West and East and Europe, via these
ports, Augusta must be the place through
which the bulk of that business must
come, on account of its position with regard
to them. It was impossible to say as yet ex
actly what would be done. Asa matter of
oourse, there could be no lease or any other ar
rangement looking to a control of the Georgia
by the Central, unless certain conditions were
made and the propqr security given. The
proper terms might not be made and the
whole affair might fall through. It was
hard to say, therefore, what arrangement
would be made. “There’s many a slip ’twixt the
cup and the lip,” remarked the Chbojucie rep
resentative. “That is true,” said Mr. Phjaixy,
“and it would not be well to say confidently that
anything will be perfected. It is far Better,
however, for all parties that the roads would
work under one system. It would innfe to the
benefit of all." Mr. Phinizv remarked that
nothing conld be done until the meeting of the
Georgia Railroad stockholders in May. What
ever arrangement was ma de would have to bd
done by that convention.
The CHaoincLE representative remarked that
Georgia Railroad stock would hardly remain
at its present high figure. Mr. PhinUy said it
was richly worth 135 as au investment. It was
seven per csnt. stock, and at there was bo
tax on it, in this city that 'made fully nine per
cent., and even a hundred and fitly dollars
could net be invested in anything elae to da as
well.
A Break in Stack*.
Tuesday evening sales of Georgia Railroad
stock were made at 143, and it was in request
at that figure. Central, it is reported, sola as
high as 122 m Savannah. Yesterday morning
the market opened strong for Georgia with
143 bid. Large offerings were put on the
market and the stock rapidly fell to 140,
138,135, and in the afternoon salea were made
at 130, the market closing at 130 kid, 1%
asked. Central participated in the decline.
Opening with tales in Havannah at 120, it ran
down before night to 144 bid, 110 asked,
with sales at 11454- Q°ite a large amount of
stock of both roads was offered daring the
morning, and there were more sellers than
buyers. The offerings of Georgia were princi
pally from coantry_stochholder.
A RepuMlcu* a* Me adjuster
[if. T. Tints, ktf.\
If this iff not repudiation, then a man* is
not a thief who robs yon of one-half the
oontents of your podket-book mi loaves
you the othqr half,
#2 A YEAR —POSTAGE PATTI
.OATH ON GEORGIA STATESMEN.
What He Says of The Present Tribune—
Hill, Brown and Colqaltt.
[Correspondent CXncinnati Enquirer. ]
The general opinion in Atlanta of Ben
Hill is that he is a smart man, bnt without
any affection for anyl>ody but Ben Hill.
Henry Grady, probably the cleverest news
paper writer in the South, who goes in for
anybody that he likes with all his might,
took a prominent part in electing Hill over
Norwood. It is said that, after the election,
he, in a mild way, remarked to Hill that he
had done all he could for him. “Yes you
did," replied Hill; “you did a great deal of
work, and the people ought to thank you
for it, Grady. You have done a groat deal
of good work in accomplishing this work,
Grady.” Ben Hul, however, did not give
Grady a partiole of thanks for himsell.
The debate between Hill and Mahone has
strengthened Hill in Georgia, and it was
the general belief that Hill would be re
elected, although I hkve learned that Gov
ernor Colqnitt is coming out against him.
In Georgia everybody mnst belong to sofne
church to figure in politics at all. The
Baptist and the Methodist churches appro
priate all the politicians. Hill, Brown and
Colqnitt are said to be exior lists in their
several churches.
Joe Brown is regarded as at the head of
Georgia public men. Re was a Judge orig
inally, and it is said a moat inflexible one,
giving severe sentences. He adopted a
homely address and style, and has tome
points of character resembling the East
Tennesseeans. For some time there were
rumors that he had gone to the Senate on a
bargain, but I find the prevailing belief
now to be that he and Colquitt had put
[heir heads together and resolved to rule
the Bourbons out and have Liberal Demo
cracy. Indeed, tho reputation of Henry
Clay was hardly higher during his lifetime
than it is now in many parts of the South,
where the struggle to establish manufactor
ies and have home economy going on.
A prominent man said to me in the State
House of Georgia . “If we had only had
the sense to follow Henry Clay, instead of
Calhoun, we would have been ready for
that war, with mills in operation all through
the South and we would have manufactur
ed everything we wanted,' intead of paying
enormous prices in gold to England.”
Another man said to me that he believed
the future alliance would not be between
the South and the West, but the South and
the East, on account of the desire for man
ufactories in tho Southern States, which
had to look to New England for machinery,
superintendence, etc.
PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY.
The State of Missouri With a Prosperous
Party and Prospects.
, [NI. Louis Republican.]
There is no Beurbonism —in the sense of
Bourbonism being stagnation -in the De
mocracy of Missouri. If the Democrats of
Missouri ever were open to that charge
they are certainly not so now. The State
increased in population in the last deflade
more than Illinois, Indiana or Ohio—and
chiefly by immigration from those Repub
lican States; and it is gaining population
faster at this time than either of those
States, and faster, too, than any other
Stato in the West. The Legislature of Mis
souri is Overwhelmingly Demooratie, and
yet it has just exhibited its intelligent,
liberal and progressive spirit, and of
tho people it represents, by issuing a broad
invitation to emigrants from other, chiefly
Northern States, to seek new homes here,
and making special provisions for spread
ing abroad information about the advan
tages our Stato offers to men of limited
means. This is one proof of the Missonri
Democracy; another proof of the same spir
it is the fact that, although our State in
creased in population about 450,000
largely by immigration from Republican
States—in the last decade, this increase has
not impaired tho Democratic majority; that
.majority is as strong as it was ten yers ago
—-a proof that our new citizens, who come
Republicans, learn to be Democrats.
Under tho benign inflnence of progress
ive Democracy—which incites immigration,
builds railroads, supports an admirable
scheme for publio education, maintains
good faith with public creditors, reduces
taxes and avoids extravagance in the public
expenditures, both the State and the city—
for the Democracy of the city Is of a kin
dred spirit with that of the State—are pros
perous beyond what they were ever before.
A DISAPPOINTED BROTHER.”
Grant and Garfield.
[Special Telegram to the Inter-Ocean.]
Washington, April 3.— The Capital this
morning relates the following : “During
the early years of Grant’s Administration,
when Mr. Garfield was a member of the
House, he was called on one day by a very
intimate old friend from Tennessee, whose
father had been an Old Line Whig, and he
himself a staunch Unionist and sufferer for
tfje cause, ttu top of these eminent quali
fications, he was of the Campbellite faith,
and would make the occasional pilgrimages
to the shrine of ‘Brother’ Garfield. On the
pilgrimage alluded to, he had some favor to
ask in the way of patronage, and the good
brother promptly offered his services in his
behalf. The next day they called together
at the White House, aud sent their cards in
to President Grant. Thep waited and wait
ed until forbearance ceased to be very much
of a virtue, and Mr. Garfield took occa
sion to open tho valve that connect
ed with his indignant feelings. He
thought it-singular that tbe door should
not open more rapidly on its hinges to ad
mit such a familiar visitor. “Well, well,”
replied the Campbellite brother, “you may
be here yourself some day, and then you’ll
change all this 'nonsense." “I certainly
will,” responded General Garfield; “my
old, friends will never have to wait.” Re
membering this cheerful bon mot, ten years
old, the Campbellite brother pulled the
White House door-bell the other day' and
passed in his card, anticipating that “Broth
er" Garfield would consume about two
minutes in rushing to his embrace. After
two hours had been fruitlessly consumed in
wearing out one of the chairs, the offended
brother urged on Charlie to call attention to
his card, as it must have boen overlooked.
So the next trip Charley ma'da to the inte
rior he pointed to the anxious pasteboard in
question, and brought back a reply that the
President would see the owner of it in a
short time. The old man thereupon came
to tho conclusion that “brother” Garfield
had forgotten his good intentions in case he
should ever come iato his kingdom, and he
left with the remark that his time was too
valuable. He is, however, the first man
that has yet left without an interview.
VOORHEES VS. MAHONE.
Is There Any Fight In Indiana and Vir
ginia This Year I
[ Western Special.]
The most dramatic incident of the day
was the passage between Voorhees and Ma
hone. It was short, but certainly, so far as
the Virginia Senator was concerned, was
full of meaning. Opinions will differ as to
the propriety of Mahone’s taking offense at
Voorhees, for the latter at first was disposed
not to endorse the opprobious phrase as his
own. This disclaimer Mahone did not
clearly hear nor fnlly understand, but
Voorhees’ subsequent speech and action
were extremely offensive. In response to
Mahone’s call interrogatory, whether he en
dorsed the words “renegade Democrat” as
part of his speech, Voorhees said, with a
defiant air, a sneering tone, and a contem
tuous gesture: “I endorse every sentiment
and word in that article. I make it my
speech. I endorse the word ‘renegade’ in
it. I endorse every criticism on the course
of the Senator from Virginia. He need
waste no time putting words into my mouth.
Ho said this mnst stop. No one can stop
me. This is cheap ! Very cheap •”
A Profound glillntu
Had fallen upon the Chamber when Mahone
first rose. The silence became painful
now. Mahone had remained standing,
calmly waiting for Voorhees' reply. The
Indiana Senator towered over his Virginia
antagonist like a giant, when Mahone, in a
low voice that oould he heard in the re
motest corner of the Chamber, said: “JThat
is an assertion that no brave or honorable
man would make. I denounce it as auoh.
Let him take that and wear itThe pre
liminary conditions of the Code ware satis
fied. The insult had been offered by Voor
hees. The challenge words had been
spoken by Mahone. The incident ended,
and the Senate, taking a long breath after
its eight hours of strife and passion, ad
journed until Mofiday.
A Friend off Mniutne,
Being asked what oourse the latter would
Cake, says he will do his duty. There can
be no doubt that Mahone would accept a
challenge if he should be sent. There is
great doubt whether Voorhees wiil send
one. The laws in this District in that re
spect are exceedingly severe. Mr. Voor
heeS is bold in language, but he has not the
reputation of having met his maa, as Ma
hone has. Whatever comes of it, the inci
dent will aot tend to heal the breach among
the Virginia Democrats, or to stop the break
against the Solid South which has so suc
cessfully Jbegun.
Not many years ago a certain ex-Governor
was placed at the head of one of the great
Departments of the Government. The first
week he devised a measure which he was
Csed to call “a great reform.” “But,
etuor,” said the head of one of the ho
ream “ydu can’t do that; it is against the
law.” “D-rn the lew !” roared the Gov
ernor, “it must be done, anyhow’” This
is an ahsolute fact. ft is needlffts to say
that the Goveruoror’s career as a reformer
s&pped^atjakuhig^^^^^^^^^^
is seldom fruit is killed in Marsh,
the danger being this mouth.
NEWS NOTES FROM OEtIROU.
Mr. W. J. Morris, oi Outhbert, is dead.
The mumps are still on the rampage in
Greene county.
i ?'Johnson, of Lexington, is a re
lative to Senator Blaine, of Maine.
White Sulphur Springs post office in Hall
county has been changed to Bowdre.
A resident of Whitfield county has a Irin
k6i “ de .by Washington’s own hands,
A. lady in Lexington, over seveutv years
old, does all her own cooking and washing.
Ten mill dams and races and three
bridges were washed away and dama-ed by
the recent freshet in Elbert countv 7
The Hartwell Sun says: "We learn that
our much esteemed friend Job Bowers was
married to his fifth wife last Thursday”™
Sol. W. W. Clark, in attempting to go
from Lawrenceville to Covington, last week
near being drowned in a swollen
A young man in Atlanta pretended suicide
in order to induce a faithless wife to come
back to him, she having deserted his home
during his absence.
The Rome Courier says : -We are inform
ed that there was a little over $53 (xx) of
the State’s money in the Rome Bank, but
we presume the security on the bond is
sufficient to prevent any loss to the State."
The Atlanta Pheohograph says • "Yester
day morning Maj. J. W. Pegram,' a travel
ing salesman of P. Lorillard 4 Go., died in
his room at the Kimball, after an illness of
marly two weeks, from an attaok of conges
tion of the brain."
Says the Oglethorpe iEWio .- "Hamilton
McWhorter, Esq., of Lexington, has written
a volume of three hundred pages since
Christmas, and when completed intends to
\ave the same published. It is a digest of
the laws and Supreme Court decisions of
this State, and will be a valuable addition
to a legal library.”
The Dalton Cituensays : “Here and every
where else in the State the guano trade
seems to be unprecedented. Should there
06 a failure in the ootton orop thin year,
especially in this section, the farming com
munity will be in a pitiable condition—pro
vided they have their corn cribs and smoke
houses located in the West.
THE INUNDATED DISTRICT.
Latest Details From Dakota Territory a#
to the Flood.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Yankton, D. TANARUS„ April s.—Water has
risen to a point one foot high si- than the
rise of March 29. Lower Yankton is sub
merged to-day, and the people have been
removed to the upper portion of the olty.
Intelligence baa been received to-day from
Bonahomme that out of 14 persons, 10 hsve
been rescued, alive and well. A family
named Bates, and one named Haldeman are
undoubtedly drowned. Other families are
probably lost, six miles this side. The
Green Island people have been in part re
moved to this place. No lives were lost
there, but the village is completely washed
away. Water and ice to the depth of 12
feet lie across the village site. The ioe
probably cho.ked up the channel of the
river a short distance below Yankton, turn
ing the great volume of water across the
lowlands on the Dakota side, and causing It
to flow eastward thirty miles buforo it re
enters the old channel at Vermillion, a point
on the river bank, which is reported -carried
away, with a loss of thirty lives. The re
port needs confirmation. The river nt this
point is six miles in width. Its surface is
covered with broken ioe. Farther east the
water broadens to fifteen miles, retaining
this width without exception for forty-iivu
miles.
LEASE OR NO LEASE
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The thanks of the merchants of this city
are due yoq for generously opening your
columns in their interest. Any good mer
chant knows that we are at a disadvantage
under the present system of freight rates on
Western products. To verify this it is only
necessary to refer to the published tariff of
the -“Southern Railway and .‘Steamship As
sociation from Western to Southern Points."
But we oannot blame the association, for it
considers only the intoreat of connecting
lines with regard to competing ones. At
lanta, Athens, Milledgeville, Elberton,
Washington on one side, Charleston, H.ivan
nah, Columbia on the other, under trans
portation policy, are, no doubt, entitled to
the laien they nave; ana now we are ihmi.
ened with another through point Edge
field via Aiken from Charleston and on to
“tap the Augusta and Greenwood,” tho ef
fect of which need not i.e mentioned.
While our mechanical and manufacturing
interests aro progressing, it is an unmistak
able fact that our wholesale trade is declining
in consequence of the disadvantages we are
laboring under with respect to freights, and
the only remedy, in our opinion, is to have
a competing lino from the great supply
points of the West. Lot ns, then, encour
age the present movement in Chicago to
take a direction in the interest of our city,
which will give ns quicker transport and
lower rates. Old Merchant.
THE M. A B. AND N. E. R. 11.
[Athens Chronicle. 1
One of our readers suggests that it would
be more judicious to give the city stock to
the Maoonand Brunswickßoad to secure tha
completion of the Northeastern than to
secure assistance from the Georgia. Tbs
Sian would be to extend the former from
lacon via Covington to Athene, and thus
obtain a through lino from the West to the
coast at Brunswick.
We endorse the plan most heartily, and
wish it.could be accomplished. Ws are by
no means partial to tho Georgia Road, but
thought at the time we wrote the editorial
two weeks since, on that subject, that our
only hope of aid was from that source. Oar
proposition briefly stated is this:
Ist. The Northeastern must be built, and
now,
2d. We (this section of the State) ars
not able to do it, and hence must look for
outside aid.
3d. We are willing to vote for a gift of
the city stock to any corporation that will
complete it and give us proper guarantees.
4th. We prefer any other corporation to
the Georgia, but as a dernier resort, and when
no other is available, we say accopt the
Georgia.
THE DEMOCRATIC BANNER.
Texas Has It Because Hhe Dl<l ttie Big
gest Work For Hancock.
Bt. Louis, March 29.— The Republican's
Dallas, Texas, special says: Gov. Colquitt,
of Georgia, has notified James B. Lampson,
Chairman of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Dallas, that he has, for the De
mocracy of Georgia, forwarded to him the
banner won by Georgia from Tex ns in 1876
by the biggest majority for Tilden and
Hendricks, and reclaimed by Texas in 1880
for file largest majority for Hancock and
English. The banner was purchased by
the Democracy of Dallas at a cost of over
one thousand dollars four years ago. It
will arrive here in a day or two, where it
will oemain until some other State wins it
by giving the biggest majority at a Presi
dential election.
A Delicate Operation.
[Athens Chronicle .)
Mrs. Howell Cobb, Sr., has been, for some
years, afflicted with cataract in both eyes,
so that she was unable to see at all. A few
days since, in Atlanta, Dr. A. W. Calhoun
performed an operation on her right eye, by
which the cataract was removed and the
operation was completely successful, and
entirely satisfactory, both to Mrs. Cobb and
to Dr. Calhoun. There is nothing now to
fear, nnless inflammation should ensue, of
which there is now no prospect. As soon
as this eye heals, the ssmeoprration will bff
performed on the left eye. The many
friends of Mra. Cobb, in different parts of
the State, will be rejoiced to learn that
her severe affliction ia m a iair way to be re
moved.
Round Dunces.
[ Oglethorpe Echo .l
An old grey-bearded ciUreo, speaking of
the immoral influences ot round dances,
remarked: “When Ia young man the
boys used to take their sweethearts behind
them on horseback and go to church; and
the way the girls used to hug up to ua
while ascending a hill laid.the immoral In
fluence of the round dance several miles in
the shade. Since the intreduction of bug
gies young folks are booud to have an ex
cuse to hug, and so pitched on round
dances. Stop that and they will invent
some other mutnal squeezing scheme.
Hugging is a luxury that youug folks won’t
dispense with.”
Congressmen Aiken Serlouvly 111.
COMSSUBI, 8. C., April 3.—Tho Hon. D.
Wyatt Aiken, member of Congress from
this (the Third) district, has been seriously
indisposed ever since his return home after
the adjournment of that body. Yss'erdav
afternoon his condition was pronounced
very critical. However, he was more com
fortable daring ia.it night, and tins morn
ing there is a slight change for the batter,
and, althongh he is still very ill, his ph\ si
oi*n is more hopeful of his recovery.
Burned in Effigy.
[A*. T. Commercial Advertiser. J
Mahone has been burned in effigy In
Athena, Ga., by the students of tne State
University. Althongh fully covered by in
surance, the Senator is uninjured.
The A. S. T. Cos. Black Tip for children’s
Aon is superior to all others for the fol
lowing reason: They protect the toe from
Wear just at the point where the wear cornea,
and do not give the shoe a bungling and
patoked appearance, aa do toe cape.