Newspaper Page Text
-Ik Weekly
VOLUME XCV
iKKai.
THS DAILY CHRONICLE AND OONBTI
TL'TIONALIST, the oldest newspaper in
the South, is published daily, excep-
Monday. Terms: Per year, $10; six
mouths, $5; three months, $2 50.
THE TRI WEEKLY CJRONICLE AND
CONSTITUTIONALIST is published
sv*ry Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Terms: One year, $5; six months, $2 50.
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND CON
STITCTIONALIST is published every
Wednesday. Terms One year, $2; six
months, sl.
MR. K. M. MITCHELL is out General
i raveling Agent, and will attend the reg
uar terms of the Superior Court to col
iecl and solicit Subscriptions, Advertising
and Job Printing. We commend him to
the public and request our patrons to
make pay ments to him.
hUBSCRIPTIONK in all cases in advance,
and no paper continued after the expira
tion of the time paid for.
KATES OF ADVERTISING. Ordinary Ad
vertisements, per square: One insertion,
fl; two insertions, SI 75; three inser
tions, $2 25; six insertions, $4. Auc
tions, Amusements, Special Notices and
Official Advertisements, fl per square,
each insertion. Marriage and Funeral
Notices, fl each. Local Notices, 25 cents
per line. Business Notices, 20 cents
per line. Notices in the People's Col
umn of Wants, To Rent, Lost and
Found, Boarding, etc., 10 cents per line
ot seven words, eacu insertion.
ALL ARTICLES recommending candidates
for office or intended for the personal
benefit of any one, must be paid for at
the rate of 25 cent* per line.
< ONTRIBUIIONS of news solicited from
every quarter. Rejected articles will not
oe returned unless accompanied by the
necessary postage.
ADDRESS all communications to
WALSH A WRIGHT.
Onaoaicna and CousTirrnosiaiJirr,
Augusta, Gs.
NOTICE.
Our frienos in arrears tor subscription
are requested to forward the amount due.
To each subscriber the amount is small but
the aggreate will amount to a large sum of
money. We trust, therefore, that every
person in arrears will consider that a per
sonal appeal is made to him or her for an
immediate response.
Remittances can be made by registered
letter, money order, express or check.
EDITORIAL SOTM.
Conukesh will be asked again to regulate
inter-State railroad traffic. •
Ma. best and becoming answer toa
Dr. Felton's phillipic should have been
silence.
The price of ice at the Western ice houses
has been advanced to forty cents per 100
pounds.
,G*ru has been industriously inquiring
into the social position of prominent New
Yorker.’- He is evidently trying to get into
good society.
In three months the Cincinnati Southern
has earned a good semi-annual dividend
on the Eklanoeb stock, and the road is still
in its infancy.
Blaine has reached the acme of fame at
last. London Punch has caricatured him
in a style that would makl Oarlvle langh
if he were alive.
Ma*. Caroline Richings-Bbrnabd was
one of the persons who did not believe in
vaccination. Her death from small pox is
widely regretted, bnt it creates no surprise.
Hinge the advent of Oscar Wilde, in New
York, it is not esteemed a social crime if a
young man chooses to wear knee breeches
and blacjc silk stockings with his dress
•coat.
The new party in Carolina may spring
from' tbe stock law—in Georgia from the
convict system. This side of the Savannah
the new departure has already taken "the
fence.”
Book water now declares that Pendleton
and Thompson treated him shabbily in the
last campaign and warns them that he will
get even. So Pendleton baa mat his Kelly
in Ohio.
Northern Republican journals are trying
hard to detect issues for new parties in the
"South. The Carolina stock law is just now
■ censured as “an oppressive and tyrannical
measure.”
John Kelly’s ten men in the New York
Legislature are keeping up the dead-lock.
Tammany has played ont; Kelly should
imitate some of the later-day agitators and
get np a new party.
Mu. John G. Thompson and some other
Ohioans are pushing Pendleton for the
Presidency of the United States. But. if
any part of the ticket of 1864 is to be taken,
some may prefer the head, to-wit: George
B. McCi.eu.an.
North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama
hav.' roundly excoriated all efforts to Ma
honir.e their States. Public opinion seems
to have anticipated “ the new party, ” and
Southern judgment stamps it as impotent
and premature.
Wk have received the January number of
the X»«%rn Cultivator and lltjrie Farmer, the
oldest, as it is the best, agricultural journal
in the Southern States. It is now pub
lished by Jas. P. Harrison & Co., of At-
LANTA. Dr. W. L. Jones, for years the
.editor of thia popular journal, retains his
position ; Dr. J. S. Lawton is the associate.
Under this management, the Southern C'rttu
imJwt will not only maintain its former
high standard, but. with the assistance of
ample capital and increased facilities, and
contributions from the most eminent and
popular writers on agriculture in thia
country, will attain a higher standing than
Senator Hn.t respond"*. at some length,
to Dr. Felton’s letter. He disclaims any
intention of retaliating in kind. He main
tains that without provocation, Ehfeint ex
planation and without the slightest vrevwns
notice. Dr. Felton has slandered an ad
mitted friend of forty years, and a friend
who. for seven years, exposed himself to
•the reproaches and criticisms of his party
in order to maintain this one man in
his political aspirations. He contends that
Dr. Felton had heretofore warmly eulo
gised him as ever a nuxiel public man, and
has made conspicuous bis indorsement of
Felton’s personal and poliu*al integrity as
proud evidence to the people at tie fitness
U." be their representative. Believing Dr.
Fka ton to be a good Democrat in Congress.
Mr. Hill says he defended him before hia
District, and, in 1874-’76 and ’7B, at Dr.
Felton’s instance, tried to secure for him
the Demovrritic nomination from the Con
ventions in tfc«e Seventh District. Mr. Hill
maintains th.xt ta,’s new coalition embraces
four distinct propositions:
"1. The reopening «a the race issues by
pandering to the prejudice of
the black race.
2. By encouraging focal divisions among
the Democrats of the fetuth on any and art
questions that are available for that pur
pose.
3. By promising the Federal *4ioes to
•sm'b Democrats as will agree to aid tbe
wark, and this is called " cementing the co
alition.
4. By blatant pretenses of reform, and
still more blatant outcries against that mys
tical monster —the Bourbon Democracy of
-.the South.
And it is boldly proclaimed by the most
dangerous and efficient man in the Repub
lican party “that anything which will build
up this coalition in the South is justifiable
in morals and law.”
This is the foul coalition into which ths
Independent Democrats of the South are
now so wooingly invited. Os ail men on
earth, the real true, independent Democrat
ought to feel tbe most insulted by the offtL
It assumes that he will betray his party
.either as the victim of his local spite or as
the corrupt subject of a debauched civil
service.”
OIK WKAK-KVKKD BROTHER.
The alarmeat is abroad in the land. The
weak-kneed brother has come to the front.
He can be found around the corners claiming
his pure Democracy, and in the same breath
expressing his fears of an Independent
movement. He asserts in his own peculiar
ly feeble manner that Georgia politics will
assume a threatening aspect before the new
year expires. He sees blood on the rim of
the virgin moon; he hears the clank of re
sounding arms. Lexington and Concord
are already here in his imagination with
, their warnings that another revolution has
come. .Shall we not assure this tender
hearted and easily frightened individual
that the Mahore movement sought to be
inaugurated at a hotel in Atlanta will end
in a threat, not more damaging than
a passing cloud whence no rain drop
falls. It goes without saying that there
are a number of soured politicians in
| Georgia, who, despairing of preferment
in the Democratic ranks, would delight in
the formation of a new party. Yet they do
not care so much for the party as for self.
They do not care so much for God, so they
are the Mahomets, His prophets. No they
are the prophets of the new faith they care
little for its tenets. This small squad natu
rally wish a new deal all around. In other
words, the new movement, if indeed there
is one, as far as the participants who have
acted with the Democratic party are con
cerned, can be narrowed down to a feeble
attempt of the outs against the ins. In onr
opinion the new party idea isastupenduous
hoax—a hoax, indeed, wherein the Mark
ham-House cotorie only deceive themselves,
ft would have, in Georgia, abo*t the same
strength as that developed by the Jonathan
Noikbobs movement. Or, if more than
that, the only effect would be that the “Un
terrified” Democracy would close their
ranks solidly, and thus become invincible.
Mahonibm, to thrive, must have other help
than that of the Garfield Administration.
It must have local and State questions to
I give it respectability. In Georgia there are
no such disturbing elements. Therefore,
we say way, way for the new party and revo
lution ? Let the war cymbals sound and
the bugles bray. Let the band play.
DR. FKLTOH’M POSITION.
Mr. Hill's manly and patriotic utterances
in regard to the so-called Independent
movement in Georgia, have called forth an !
exceedingly angry and bitter reply from Dr. '
Felton. The reply will not better his cause ■
any, bad as it was before, nor will it incline
the people to believe that the Doctor and I
his adherents have any stronger platform !
than the desire for office. The Chronicle
has always been courteous in its dealings
with Dr. Felton, and has never failed to
accord to him everything that was justly
his due. But the Chronicle has constantly
opposed Dr. Felton’s spirit of insurbordi
uation to the Democratic party, the party
which saved the State from absolute ruin
when a few irresponsible men who led the
Republican party were seeking to feather
their own nests at the expense of the good
people of Georgia. How much more, then,
must the Chronicle array itself in oppo
sition to him when he undertakes to ride
into power by an alliance with that very
party. We fail to see anything in Dr. Fel
ton's position that entitles him to any sup
port whatever. His pronunciamento is a
bubble which bursts into nothing as soon
as it is pricked. In replying to Mr. Hill,
j he says:
When this presuming leader dares to charge
mo with trying to “Africanize the State,” be
cause I claim for every man, white and colored,
the right to vote a free ticket and to have that
vote counted—because I claim the right of
every child to a plain English education at the
expense of the State ami Federal Governments
I because I claim protection for the poor,
wretched creatures who are, by the multitude,
being pushed into the convict camps of the
Senator’s political allies—the people will begin
to understand the true inwardness of the Bour
bon supremacy in Georgia.
This is all that there is in his platform,
and now let us see where he differs at all
from the Democracy. The Democratic par
■y of Georgia debars no man of the right of
voting. The ballot box is free to all men
without regard to color or politics. But
Dr. Felton means something more than
what appears on the surface when he says
he claims for every man, white and colored,
the right to vote a free ballot. The actual
meaning of this is that Dr. Felton is in
favor of the abolition of the poll tax. Yet
in the very next sentence he declares in fa
! vor o( education at State and Federal ex
pense. Every dollar of the poll tax goes to
the educational fund, helps to support the
free schools of the State, yet Dr. Felton
wishes to take away from them this con
siderable sum and thus seriously cripple
instead ot aiding public education. There
’ is no consistency whatever in this position,
but consistency does not appear to be a part
of Dr. Felton’s programme. Is there any
justice in abolishing this tax and allowing
every man all the benefits and privileges of
government, of education, without con
tributing one cent to their support? Is uot
one dollar a small sum for any man to pay
to aid in educating his own or his neigh
bor's children? There certainly should be
reciprocity in this matter. It should be,
and doubtless is a source of pride to every
! voter who pays his dollar poll tax, that he
is contributing to the support of the public
schools, which will educate and elevate the
, vonth of the State. There is no man so
poor that this pitiful sum can be a burden
upon him to pay. it is not thrown away,
; it is not oppressive taxation, bnt it is used
for his own benefit. The policy of the De
mocracy of Georgia has steadily been in fa
vor of free education. The public schools
have increased in number and efficiency
year by year, until they have become a
; matter of pride to every Georgian. Is
theve any section that can boast of a better
system ot public schools, than Richmond
county? The people cheerfully pay the
tax, which is raised for the support of
these schools, but will it hx> con
tended that the man who has no
visible property shall not be called upon
to give one dollar as his share towards
keeping np these schools and giving his
children as good an education as those of
his richer neighbors, who contribute large
ly to the fund which pays the teachers and
provides the necessary conveniences ? No
( bcwi» is debarred the privilege of securing
a gooa education in these schools.
White and e«X?red, rich and poor alike
; are admitted and syseive precisely the
same advantages. The cnnricr.lum is identi
cal for all. Where then is any xanse for
; complaint ? But Dr Fklton must need-’
have something on wtaicb predicate his
pretensions, and he seized upon as a
convenient weapon. He will find, fiaweyar,
when the time comes that tu drag net will
come in empty. Its meshes aia few large
his purpose too apparent to dasetys
avant£e most ignorant. No true Democrat
can for a moment allign himself with a man
who does not h»a;tate to seek an alliance
with the Republican party in order to en
deavor to overthrow the party to which
Georgia owes everything— peace, prosperity
and happiness. TUa movement will -be a
complete failure. Instead of disintegrating
the Democratic party, it wilt sokdtfy it> and
it will go into the next campaign more
united and more determined to win than it
has some years past.
So far as <*.« convict system is concerned
the Chronicle yi<aaa nothing to Dr. Fel
ton in the desire for the proper treatment
of those who are under the ban ot' tns law
The CflaoNicLE demanded this long before
Dr. Fblioh made it a part of his platform.
An editorial m. th* Chronicle, of Feb
* rnary 18th, 1880, uses theue emphatic
words'. “We think the time leu oome
1 when the system should be changed. The
eonviets should be wofined within the
walls of * penitentiary and Mwayed from
competition with free labor. Tiftur aay
vioee can be so utilized as to render their
I labor self-supporting and e>ep profitable.
Even if this be not the case the State must
provide, at the public expense, for this
j class of unfortwiatas. But we must look at
this question from a higher stand-point.
The punishment of crime is net the only
object of government” Again, “The pres
ent system should be abolished. It -is so
cruel and inhuman as to deprive the con-
victs of the poor privilege even of being
‘prisoners of hope.' ” Does Dr. Felton go
further than that ? The Democratic party
is not responsible for the convict system.
llt was not a Democratic measure. The
I Radicals are responsible for it. When they
had charge of the State they organized the
present penitentiary system. When the
Democrats came into office they continued
the system, and have endeavored to make it
as humane as possible for the convicts.
But, as the Chronicle said two years ago,
we should like to see it abolished; and Dr.
Felton cannot go further than ourselves in
that respect.
Taken altogether. Dr. Felton’s position
has an atmospheric basis. His platform is
a thing of air, and he cannot induce the
people of Georgia to trust themselves an so
weak a foundation. The whole movement,
in a nut shell, means desire for office, a
seeking after the loaves and fishes, and Dr.
• Felton is willing to make any alliance in or
der to accomplish his desire, and that of
his friends, in this respect.
OUlt WASHINGTON LETTER,
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, January 14, 1882.—Mr.
Stephens has not only had the luck of read
ing his obituaries, when still alive, but is
prepared, in this new year of wonders, to
I celebrate his 70th birthday twice. Yon
have already heard, no doubt, how Presi
dent Arthur sent him, just a month too
soon, a magnificent bouquet and hearty
congratulations. An evening paper here
misled the public, as well as the Executive,
and so our Representative had many ex
pressions of good will that must be repeated
(on the 11th of February, when he will, I
think, give one of his notable banquets to a
' few of his friends.
The Tilden movement exhibits consider
■ able vitality now and then. lam surprised
' occasionally to hear men who never took
much stock in Uncle Sammy before, now
i grow effusive on that subject. They now
admit that the Democracy made a capital
mistake in allowing the Republican organs
to frighten them from renominating him at
the Cincinnati Convention. He would, it
is thought, have carried all the States that
Hancock did, with New York to clinch the
matter. Hendricks was the marplot, on
the Democratic side, and played into the
hands of the enemy, without the sense of
perceiving how gladly they welcomed his
revolt. Whether this alleged blunder can
j be retrieved or not, by doing in 1884
I what ought to have been done in
1880, the Lord only knows. By that time,
events may shape themselves so as to defy
• all calculations that now exist.
Mr. Talmage says that when he visits
Washington he can always “become health
fully somnolent in the Congressional gal
leries.” This is the rule, I expect; but
there are times, if Mr. Talmage happened
to hit them, when he could hardly enjoy
Christian repose, unless indeed his own pe
culiar style, aped by others, has a soporific
effect upon the great original. Perhaps
some of the Congressmen would return the
slumbrous compliment if they happened to
be seated, some Sunday, in the Brooklyn
tabernacle, and did not mistake Arbuckle’s
cornet for the Angel Gabriel’s trumpet.
The recent disappearance of Senator Thur
man, from his accustomed place, may pos
sibly have been the caflse of Mr. Talmage’s
naps in the Senate gallery. Thurman’s
nose, when in full eruption, is, if anything,
an improvement on Arbuckle’s horn.
At a little distance, Don Cameron does
not look more than 30 years of age. On
closer inspection he might pass for 40. He
must be nearly, if not quite, 50. He ia a
tall, slender, shapely person, with a pro
fusion of dark reddish hair. His features
are prominent, especially about the chin
and nose, evincing, with thin, set lips and
square forehead, qualities of command and
determined pertinacity. His gray eyes ap
pear to follow his nose as intently as sharks
pursue a ship for forage, and when the Sen
ator moves around, as he frequently does,
he looks like a man who had scented
game, and whose blood was up for its cap
ture. He is essentially a managing leader.
He is the son of his father, who is the in
carnation of the Pennsylvania Republican
Machine. What that means the world
knows. Blaine felt it and feels it. Grant
was nearly a third term President because
of its edict promulgated by Don Cameron.
Keifer is Speaker of the House to-day, be
cause Senator Cameron so willed and con
trived it. The individual who can compass
these remarkable achievements must be the
possessor of uncommon force of character.
It is true that, but for Guiteau’s bullet,
there might have been disaster where
there is now exultant pui-sance ; and the
crazy man that yells from his prison
dock, in the Court House, never lets
his Stalwart friends forget that he is their
avenger and rescuer. Innocent as the Stal
wart chiefs are of the late President’s death,
they have been and are the residuary lega
tees of that crime, and, as Vest charged
home on Mr. Edmunds, in that worthy’s
own phrase, “the drawers of the principal
prizes in the lottery of assassination.” Don
Cameron is destitute, wofully so, of those
dazzling gifts of oratory, culture, statesman
ship and legal equipment that made Mr.
Conkling an imperial Senator, whose awful
void in the Chamber has not been filled,
and whose large presence is missed by
friend and foe. But Mr. Cameron has more
practical sense than Mr. Conkling and never,
under any circumstances, would have been a
sharer in any comic-tragedy that required
him to resign in a dramatic fit of spleen,
where no vindication was in sight. When
Don Cameron thinks an abandonment of
his seat necessary, he will be sure to fix the
Pennsylvania Legislature in advance. He
is too" good a General to forget that. He
always retreats when his reserves are be
hind impregnable intrenchments. Senator
Don Cameron, as I said, is no speaker. It
was really ludicrous to hear and see him
last year, when he read aboift three pages
of manuscript in eulogy of Mr. Chand
ler. He hurried through the perform
ance, as if frightened at his own voice,
and sat down red with confusion and
embarrassment. I will not refer minute
ly to his fierce threat of making the
contest one of physi
cal endurance; and then, the very next day,
hurrying off to Old Point, where, the wage
declared, he “went into dry dock.” All
who care to refresh themselves on this mat
ter may consult the Record, and there read
how Senator Hampton had no end of fun in
twitting his Pennsylvania friend, who hard
ly relished the reminder. These are only
the side shows of a mammoth circus, where
Don Cameron, after all, is supposed to be
the silentring-master. He is popular with
many ot the flontherp Senatorsand intimate
with a few. His social habits are attractive.
He is rich, and, when it suits his purposes,
generous. As I have intimated, he has sin
gular talents for managing men, whether
by intimidation or courtesy. He knows
when to present the hend of velvet or of
iron. What he would have been without
the inheritance of authority and wealth and
influence, may be an amusing speculation
for an idle mind. What he is is more to
the purpose. What he may be, when the
rotten ice of polities breaks up iu his com
monwealth, we shall know soon enough.
At present, his figure is among the most
conspicuous in “the affairs of the Nation.”
He has a friend at the White House. He
made the Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives and is supposed to have an iron
clad mortgage on him. Mahone and Rid
dleberger are reputed to be his special crea
tions as Senators. Apparently, there is be
fore him nothing but good fortune: but
men are often never so near a catastrophe
as when they are most secure of prosperity.
Louis Philippe boasted that he had but to
stamp feis foot, and an army would rise
from the eaiUj Jo defend his throne from
the mob. Not long ’fterward, he had oc
casion to summon his soldiery, as Owen
Glandozy.-T did spirits; But they did not
come from «nr “vasty deep,” and the mon
arch who evoked their aid barely saved his
life by precipitous Migixt to England. Even
the Pennsylvania Machine ‘ may, some day,
fail to respond so the Clan Cameron’s bu
glo-call, just as the Saxons deserted Napo
leon at Leipsic and thers pivoted the de
cline and fall of the mightiest spirit of
modern times. But enough of this. We
shall see what we shall see.
.Did I tell you, on any former occasion,
that as I have it from high authority, Sur
geons Dußoso Fitzsimons, of Georgia,
stand in the fore-irmit of excellence and su
premacy in their classes as uaral officers ?
Tfec£o,?th can boast of contributing to the
service of Uie Republic the' most expert of
diplomatists in Wm. H. Tr?scol, who, froth
his earliest manhod, baa manifested phe
nomenal aptness for the grand strategy of af
fairs of State. He has never failed of being
appreciated by any administration, and
is now rewarded by a most important
South American mission. I suppose he
is a kind of cab'-hearted Republican as
a party mai\. but he fe’ 6 ® th® South
devotedly, and ail who pare to his
sentiments in that direction may recur to
his eulogy on General Stephen Elliott —a
trtocis that drew tears trom men who had
almost losgajten that they had ever wept.
Mr. Trescot is a jtoj&ist. as well as being a
master of his own tongue. His composi
tions compare favorably with »n/ jn our
language In the delicate management of
the Chili-feus jmbroglio, he will augment
his eminence ana toj?onsly illustrate his
birthplace and country.
Trade dollars are taken here at pw snd
so circulated, except when a Southerner de
clines the transfer. Having been burned at
home, he dreads what is no fire at all here.
The best thing for Congress to do, in this
emergency, is to recall and recoin them.
Some fuss has been made, in the papers,
about the committee investigating l(r.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1882.
! Sherman's alleged Treasury crookedness
sitting with closed doors. Thii was a mat
ter of precaution as well as justice, as it
prevented witnesses from hearing each
other 1 s testimony. Mr. Sherman looks, of
late, as a man who had come safely from a
deadly coil of circumstances; and I presume
this is whaUhas really happened. It is easy
to charge dishonesty on public men. The
proof is not so facile. There used to be an
old story of Ben Butler, when a Congress
man, to the effect that nearly every corrupt
job led straight to his door, but when the
inquisitor knocked, “old cockeye” was
never at home. I daresay this is one of
many baseless insinuations, or had no other
foundation than that of wit.
I met a gentleman here, the other day,
who was brought into daily contact with
Hon. Jefferson Davis when a prisoner at
Fortress Monroe. He said Mr. Davis could
not keep a knife or fork in his cell, because
the sentry or somebody invariably stole
those implements to sell as “relics.” He
added that a brisk trade in manacles pro
ceeded for a considerable period, and that
a ton or more of such things none of which
ever touched the Confederate Chief—must
be treasured up, East and West.
Senator Hoar must have been burdened
with Southern claims, in answer to what
purported to be an invitation of his in that
direction. His recent statement that he
had made no utterance calculated to raise
the hopes of anybody, will, I suppose, re
lieve the pressure. After this disclaimer, I
presume that our people who may have
been encouraged to look for back rations,
will feel that a damper has been put upon
their expectations. This is sad, but it is
true.
Miss Julia Jackson, the daughter of Stone
wall. is reported as engaged to be married
to Mr. Frank Baker, of Baltimore. The
elder Mr. Baker is reputed to be a million
aire.
People of New Orleans, irrespective of
party, will be glad at Col. Jack Wharton’s
retention of the Louisiana Marshaiship. He
was a Confederate officer, and has never
been, I believe, offensively Republican. He
takes care of himself, and harms nobody
who keeps the peace. He is fond of high
living, and indulges his appetites like a
man of taste, who regards the world as an
oyster, to be opened by the Marshalship or
any other handy office. He is the best
story-teller extant, and Marion Baker, of
the New Orleans 1-imes-Democrut, still in
sists that Col. Jack could have made an im
mense fortune by lecturing. The last time I
met the Marshal was about two years ago, in
ths Crescent City, when he abused me for not
joining him in a dinner party with Tom
Ochiltree, Florence, the actor, and our own
Col. M. J. O’Brien. The temptation was
immense, but I resisted it. Florence put
in an appearance at the theatre that night,
with a redness of the face that defied all
chalk effacement. The others, being tem
perance men, “without bigotry," survived.
The Burbridge-Blackburn controversy has
grown to be a bore, and the latter should
stick to his final determination of washing
his hands of it. Burbridge ought to hire a
hall and take it out in gascon iding at the
usual price of admission.
Senator Brown’s resolution to furnish a
dark to each Senator at Government ex
pense is a proper one, but will not pass
without considerable discussion. I hear
members of the House declare that if Sen
ators are to have secretaries they will insist
on having clerks too. Wealthy Congress
men can afford the luxury and necessity
of outside aid. Chairmen of committees get
it anyhow, at Uncle Sam's expense. All
the others are what Mr. Kasson calls them,
“errand boys of their constituents.” Os
course the reply is instantly M hand that
they were aware of these difficulties before
hand —and that resignation is not forbid
den by the Constitution. But these are
not conclusive arguments, and if something
of personal and public benefit can be
brought about by Senator Brown’s bill,
there need be no outcry on the score of
false economy. J. R. R.
Washington, January 16.—1 t is related of
Comte, the French philosopher, that, for
some years, in some unaccountable way,
his brain lost its force and his blood its fire.
He felt that his mission was ended, and al
most fell into despair. But this strange
eclipse ended, and there came an intellec
tual product more memorable than anything
that preceded it. Hans Christian Andersen
had periods of success and failure, in his
literary career, that were as distinct as
the stratifications of geology. Consummate
triumphs in his beautiful art were followed
by mammoth disasters, and these in turn
were succeeded by victorious romances that
were the genuine miracles of an enchanter.
I suppose this is true of nearly all persons
from Homer to Oscar Wilde. That it should
be true of the editorial profession is not
surprising, for it would be supramortal if
any hard worked journalist should always
be at anything like his best. I know, for
instance, that there are men here who ex
perience brain-fag, and yet, when every
thing is dull, are»expected to write the most
lively and entertaining letters. They fall
lamentably short if their aspiration and
reminders are neither few nor far between
that they are no longer “spicy.” Then
there comes upon a sensitive person a sick
ness of the soul, as well as of the body,
and, tor a time, that subtle spark, which
constitutes what may be called the genius of
the individual, departs, and cannot be sum
moned back by any incantation. By what
process is it extinguished ? Whither does
it vanish ? How does it return ? That
there is such an experience of loss and
resurrection in the history of every man of
letters, however illustrious or humble, may
be set down as a certainty. I can only com
pare it to the “spiritual dryness” "so fre
quently recorded in the lives of greatest
saints, and I suspect that it is permitted by
the Almighty to manifest to his creatures
that neither goodness nor greatness can
endure without His permission, and that by
the withdrawal of just a little spark, man is
converted to a husk, which is no more to be
regarded than any other wreck of time.
I simply intended, when I began this pa
per, to make a brief allusion to the vicissi
tudes of mental labor, and what apologies
were sometimes necessary for a craft that
occasionally had to bewail a forsaken inspi
ration. But while lamina vein of homily,
the regret steals upon me right here that
Mr. Reid, the associate counsel far Guituan,
was not equal to the opportunity of pulver
izing Mr. Davidge, when treating of that
gentleman's astounding declaration that
“the highest of human passion and virtue
is behind the mob.” It is true that Mr.
Reid mildly and reverently alluded to the
rabble of Pilate's time, and that the voice of
the people was not the voice of God; but he
failed to drive home to all the world that
authority comes from God alone, and not
from the people, and that the sun of justice
shines from the heaven above and not from
the gutter below. I suspect that Mr. Reid
faintly discerned this truth, or did not per
ceive it at all; or that he is too deeply
whelmed in rationalism to embrace a dog
ma that, puce accepted, makes many ob
scure things of noon-tide brightness. He is
only one of thousands in the same plight,
and the world is all the more snarled in
wickedness because it looks the wrong way
for the source of light and life and pqwer
and redemption.
If this sounds too much like preaching,
pardon it. I, somehow, got into a fit that
Burns described in the beginning pf one of
his ballads, when he doubted whether it
would turn out a song or sermon.
One of the most noted of Augusta gentle
men, for originality of mind and scholarly
acquirements, not to speak of professional
excellence and versatility, has written me a
letter of thanks for the views I recently
published concerning Guiteau. lam deep
ly grateful tor any commendation from such
a source, and nothing but the privacy of
the correspondence prevents me from re
producing here some of the striking, and
ingenious arguments adduced to supple
ment and enforce what I had endeavored,
in my own feeble way, to represent.
Mr. Sam Inman, one of the men of the
South, who has bearded ther Northern lion
in his den successfully, is reported to have
said that, “if he had to begin the world
over again as a bootblack in New York, or
the owner of a 20,000 acre cotton planta
tion in the South, he would not hesitate to
take the former position.” This might do for
Mr. Inman, who, as (Commodore Vanderbilt
once told Dr. Pyems, “would make a living
if put upon a pile qt stones anywhere ;”
but I doubt if it would be exactly sensible
for a majority of mankind, who were born
to scuffle at the base of the mountain or
along its sides. As Daniel Webster observed,
“there is plenty of room at the top;” but
that is because so few ever reach that emi
nence. Mr. Inman went to New York with,
I believe, sl6 and is now reputed to be
worth several millions. He had the neces
sary grit and talent; but something of his
fortjrtie mav be due to the fact that many
persons who Would have gone to perdition
in New York remained in the South to
make the cotton that made Mr. Inman rich.
There is, at this time, in Washington, an
other South Carolinian, who deserves to be
mentioned in the same breath with Samuel
Inman, and, if he lives, may have a wider and
loftier reputation. I allude to Mr. J. J.
liarlington, a young lawyer, who has al
ready gone bravely over the thorniest part
of the road to distinction and wealth. His
parents were very poor, but they possessed
a jewel that Cornelia of old would not hkve
disdained to glory in “when Etome sur
vived.” So intelligent and attractive was
the boy that friends cJme to his aid and
gave him a University education. Grown
to man’s estate, almost penniless bnt with
an undaunted spirit, he did not linger in
the villages of his county. He came to the
Federal Capital, which abashes and swal
lows np weakness, but yields at last its
munificent dowry to valiant and incor
ruptible youth that knows how “to suf
fer and’ be strong.” The struggles
lof young Darlington need not be
j minutely recounted. He became a student
in the law office of the distinguished Rich
ard T. Merrick, who has taken the greatest
pride and interest in a pupil to whom he
admiringly alludes as “a grand intellect.”
Hon. George D. Tillman was the first Con
gressman to employ Mr. Darlington in a
contested election case, which was managed
with thoroughness and brilliancy. He has
now his hands full of these and other mat
ters of import. His career is assured. His
harvest is no longer an expectation but a
bountiful reality. Hardly 30 years of age,
he stands very near the front in a mighty
metropolis where all the talents flourish. I
have never seen a human being who had a
larger impress of ability, and where so much
manly beauty was allied to so much
character and brain. He has a noble
head, with the hair and brow of some
young Greek or Roman demi-god, such as
can be seen any day in the marble prodi
gies of the Corcoran Art Gallery. This may
appear, at first blush, an extravagance of de
scription, but it suggested itself to me, at
once, the first time I ever saw him, and it
grows more and more genuine as I present
him to my vivid memory. Little does he
dream that an enthusiastic friend—almost a
stranger—should be writing, late at night,
this fervid sketch; but gladly do I recog
nize so much true courage, worth and tal
ent in one who, born to poverty, rose from
it by the potency of his spirit, under God’s
providence; and who, drawing his blood
from an humble stock, looks like he might
have sprung from the loins of majesty.
The Chaplain’s prayer iu the Senate is
not always well attended. Your readers
will remember how Mr. Thurman, last
year, had only Senator Hill, of Georgia, to
“call to order,” in place of what ought to
have been a quorum of the Senate. Last
Thursday, I counted just seven Senators
present to receive the official benediction.
Five of these were Democrats, one of whom
never rises While the service is progressing.
Thereis much diphtheria and kindred com
plaints in this region. Families have been
decimated. A friend of mine in Baltimore,
who is one man in a million for the posses
sion of every virtue that is most rare in
this era of the world, has had to endure a
trial of faith that the best of us may well
pray -to be spared. He had, one month
ago, four children of whom any father or
mother would be proud. They were lovely
in person and spirit. Reared by God
fearing parents, they were “only a little
lower than the angels.” One by one, at
the Christmas time, the Child Jesus called
them to Heaven. I remember reading,
long before I ever knew anything of the
rapture of possessing a child or the woe of
parting with it—even to God—those tender
words that Byron wrote about the little
daughter of Thomas Moore: “He was never
weary of calling her his ‘good little child,’
and never did child so deserve this praise.
Alas ! She grew better and better, until she
became too good for the world—and so, she
died !” In the case of my poor, heart-broken
friend, who submits "to the Divine de
cree and performs dutifully the daily
drudgeries of life, there was a
singular fatality. In his neighborhood
there were many other children sick with
the same dread disease, but all were saved.
He alone was wholly bereft. How can the
mother look patiently upon those children
when her’s are gone! There is but one
refuge—the cross. There is but one human
healer—time. There is but one eternal
consolation—the reunion that oomes after a
little while. While earthly considerations
and customs hold sway we make sad pil
grimages to the grassy mounds, and grieve
to think that snow and rains and darkness
fall upon our darlings’ gentle forms. I have
never looked upon anything I loved when
death came, and so dear ones who left me
seem alive in some strange sense, and only
absent upon some strange mission. This, I
think, is happier than the desperate voyage
of him of whom Vitorelli wrote:
“I to the marble where my daughter lies
Rush, the swoln flood of bitterness I pour—
And knock—and knock—and knock-but
none replies 1”
In the Senate to-day Mr. Don Cameron
read some remarks about the tariff. He
galloped through his task so rapidly that
nobody could possibly hear what was said.
The Senator did not consume much time,
and I have no doubt what he wrote will
read well in the Record.
Some days ago, Mr. Beck, in his tariff ad
dress, alluded to the airearages of Pensions
act as “conceived in sin and brought forth
in iniquity,” or words to that effect. This
was gratifying to some of the Republicans,
like Mr. Ingalls, and gall and wormwood to
Mr. Voorhees, who has some 16,000 pen
sioners in hia State drawing about $3,000,-
000. To-day the Indiana Senator read a
carefully prepared speech, which would
have been very severe upon the Kentuckian
had not he risen in the midst of it and dis
claimed any personal allusions. His words
were to be taken, “in a Pickwickian sense."
This is not his language; but it is about his
purport. Mr. Voorhees has a resonant
voice and a line presence, but the reading
of the speech diminished its effect He
drew some pathetic sketches of the soldier's
life, during and since the war, and made a
savage thrust at Wm. H. Vanderbilt, who
was discribed as “a man who never saw the
flag < ' his country in war, except floating
from a Custom House, and who annually
drew out of the Treasury more money on his
bonds than the soldiers of Indiana did in
pensions.” The staple of the argument
was that the bondholders desired the re
peal of the arrearages of Pensions act, be
cause they wanted all the money for them
selves. They care nothing for the soldier
now. In this connection, Mr. Voorhees
told the story of the wolf and the stork.
An attack upon “bloated corporations,” the
“money power,” etc., was ingeniously dove
tailed in a speech that started out to vindi
cate “six miles of mutilated heroes.”
Daring Mr. Voorhees’ speech, Mr. Beck
was loading himself with documentary evi
dence, and rose to reply oft-hand. His
main points were that Congressmen voted
for the bill, partly under a gag in the House
and deception in the Senate. Nobody ever
imagined that the claims would rise from
$50,600,000 to $350,000,000, of which at
least ten per cent, are fraudulent and much
more than that in the hands of claim agents
who worked the whole job. Congressmen
had been imposed upon and bulldozed.
During the debate, Mr. Ingalls inquired if
the frauds, granting their existence, had
anything to do with the justice of the law;
and he did not hesitate to say that he would
have voted $1,000,000,000, if necessary,
for the benefit of the soldiers.” At this
juncture, Mr. Bayard, flushed and indig
nant, rose from his seat, and passed from
the Chamber muttering; “He is dashed
generous with other people's money.”
The debate will continue. Mr. Beck is
right, in some respects, but imprudent iu
ripping up sectional disturbance. It is true
that he was a Union man during the war,
but not a soldier, and his attack upon the
pension system will probably give the Re
publicans some needed campaign thunder.
Mr. Beck means well, but his methods and
expressions are sometimes unfortunate for
his party.
Mr. Stephens gave a dinner, last Sunday,
to Governor Colquitt and Colonel Dick
Johnson. A few other friends were present,
and enjoyed the racy anecdotes of “the
elders in Israel.” J. R. R.
ACCIDENT IN THE RIVER.
The Stramshlp City of Savannah Collides
With a Hark and a Schooner—Slight
boas to the Savannah,But Considerable
Damage pone to the Other Vessels—The
Injured Crafts ‘1 owed to the City,
(Savannah News )
On Monday night the steamship City of
Savannah, from Philadelphia, while pro
ceeding up the river, and when in the
“bight” abreast of Elba Island, came in
collision with the Norwegian bark lima and
the schooner A. D. Lamson, which vessels
were lying at anchor at that point.- The
steamship had her foretop gallant mast car
ried away, but otherwise received slight
damage. The bark was struck on the port
side, and had her .rigging damaged, and
one spar carried away. The schooner was
struck in her port side, and her planks were
broken through, causing her to leak badly,
and, besides, she received other damage.
Extra men were sent down to her early
yesterday morning to ageist at the pumps.
The lima and the Lamson were towed up
to the city during the day.
The damage to the vessels is not exactly
known, but is probably not as great as was
feared when the accident was first reported
on the streets in the morning.
Statement of the Captain of the City of
Savannah.
While proceeding up the Savannah river
•January 16th, inst., 7, p. m., at 4 mile
point, there was a bark anchored, also a
schooner, directly ip mid-channel, and in
trying to pass them, being on tfie southwest
side of the channel, my ship euddeply
took a sheer fcr the hark. I immediately
put the helm hard to starboard, but for
some cause unknown could not break the
sheer, going at the time at half speed.—
Seeing that a collision was inevitable, re
versed the engine at full speed. We struck
the bark a glancing blow, and before her
headway was stopped ranged" ahead and
struck the schooner directly ahead of the
bark. Both bark and schooner were some
what damaged. This accident would not
have occurred had the vessels been anchor
ed out of the channel. The City of Savan
nah was not damaged about her hull, but
had her foretop gallant mast carried away,
the back stay having caught over the fore
topsail yardarm of the bark. I ascertained
that no serious damage had 'been done,
when I proceeded to town all right and
without further, trouble, whioh is a clear
proof, baa the tideway begn dear for pass
ing vessels, that no accident would have
happened/ '
The Faat Mall.
The fast mail between New York and
Washington was detained a few days ago by
a novel cause. While running at full speed
the pell rope was energetically pnllpd, and
the train stopped, postal regulations re
quire an explanation of any delay of the
tast mails, and it appears from the official
correspondence on the subject that one of
two elephants in a car had amused himself
by pulling at the rupe.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
THE CURRENCY QUESTION IN THE
SENATE.
Speech By Mr. Brown, of Georgia—Mr.
Morgan Oppoaee the Sherman Funding
Bill—lmprovement of the Mlaelaelppi
River.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, January 18.—In the Senate
a communication was read from the Secre
tary of the Treasury, in response to the
Senate resolution as to present rates of du
ties imposed by France, Germany and Mex
ico upon American manufactures.
Numerous petitions for a commission to
investigate the liquor traffic were presented.
Mr. Davie, of Illinois, from the Commit
tee on Judiciary, reported back favorably a
bill to permit Ward Hunt, an Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, to retire. He gave notice that he
would ask its consideration to-morrow.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from the
Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a
resolution for examination by that commit
tee of the new system of naval defense in
vented by Capt. J. Erricson, and report
thereon—adopted. A number of bills grant
ing relief in individual cases were pre
sented.
Mr. Blair, of New Hampshire, offered a
resolution intructing the Committee on
Public Lands to inquire into the adminis
tration of the land law. Adopted.
The remainder of the morning hour was
occupied by
Mr. Brown, of Georgia,
In remarks upon the currency question.
His text was his resolution, declaring the
inexpediency of contracting' currency by
the withdrawal of silver certificates or dis
continuance; of silver coinage. •
Senator Brown reviewed our legislation
on the silver question, showing “its un
friendly character, and contending that
while silver had not been able to withstand
it, gold would not have stood it any better
if the assault had been made upon that
metal. As to what shall be the ratio of
equivalents, he thought the French stand
ard was about the true That ratio
was one upon which France would
be willing to stand with the Unit
ed States. Controverting the assumption
upon which he said the Secretary of
the Treasury had based his recommenda
tions for stopping silver coinage, that if
this was not done gold would flow from the
United States and silver would take its
place, and we would be reduced in the
commercial world to the level of minor and
less civilized nations, Mr. Brown argued to
show that we had fixed the ratio between
the two mentals higher than it had been
fixed by other commercial powers (ours
being 16 to 1, rgtile most of the commercial
nations adopt to 1, and Germany now
14 to 1), and that practically the very re
verse of a flow of gold from and of silver to
the United States would be the result
of this. He quoted from distinguished
financiers in gold and silver, mono-metal
ism and bi-metalism alike, who discarded
the theory of the Secretary, and went on to
demonstrate that (he facts, also, were in
the very teeth of the theory. As the great
silver producing power, we were assailing
our own interests in seeking to depreciate
the value of this product, and in going with
Germany and Great Britain in giving to
gold alone the name and importance of
money. In favoring greenback redemption
at par in coin, Mr. Brown said he was op
posed to the idea of one currency for
the bondholder and another for the
people, and that the full measure of his
rights and equities ftititled the bondholder,
under his contract, to payment in silver
dollars of the standard of 1870, which was
grains. As to the proposed with
drawal of silver certificates, he agreed that
these furnished a better currency than
would the bank bills, which, as he "under
stood the propositions of the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury, it was pro
posed to substitute for the certificates.
The banks would be under no com
pulsion to issue new bills to take
the place of the certificates, and, if
they were so disposed, could contract
the present volume of currency fifty mil
lions or more. A worse currency would
thus bfe substituted for a better, as the cer
tificates were always redeemable promptlv
in legal tender dollars, while bank bills, in
case of bank failures, are not promptly,
though they are ultimately, redeemed. By
retaining the silver certificates the Govern
ment avoids some cumbrous machinery,
and secures the profits or circulation which
in the other case are given to the banks.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Sherman Funding bill. Mr. Morgan
opposed the bill. He said he was entirely
satisfied of the ability of the Government
to pay five hundred and fifty million dol
lars of the Windom continued bonds in
eleven years, without drawing one cent
from surplus revenues, and presented fig
ures in illustration. He also gave figures
Showing the respective totals of appropria
tion necessary to extinguish the whole debt
in five, twenty and thirty equal install
ments. He was in favor of using this sur
plus to extinguish the debt at the rate of
one hundred million dollars per annum.—
Commenting upon the avowal which he said
had been made by some Senators in the de
bate on postponing payment of a part of the
public debt, and thus continuing the debt
indefinitely, in order to perpetuate the Na
tional banking system, he spoke of the incu
bus of the bank power which, having been
created in a moment of folly, was now mak
ing its weight upon the Government felt. He
referred to the exclusiveness of the system
in limiting the basis of banking to bonds of
the Government, to the value of franchise
enjoyed by banks by reason of their circu
lation being founded upon the credit and the
strength of the Government and to tfieir
appareut intention to continue business
upon from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,-
000 of the bonds. He then suggested, as a
means of avoiding a continuance of this
system Indefinitely, that the Government
should cease paying interest on securities
held by it for redemption of circulation and
the ’further substitution in their stead,
from time to time, of State bonds of un
doubted security as collateral, these being
taken at fifty cents on the dollar, or at any
per centage low enough to make the securi
ty absolutely safe.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Morgan’s re
marks the Funding bill was informally laid
aside until to-morrow.
Bills Introiluce.<|.
Dy Mr. George, of Mississippi—To en
courage agriculture and manufactures. It
proposes to repeal all duties and imports
now laid on machinery for the manufacture
of cotton or woolen goods, or goods com
posed of hemp or jute; also, on all tools of
mechanics, which are used solely in manual
labor; also, on all agricultural implements,
and on all iron cotton ties. a
By Mr. Ferry, of Michigan - Relative to
the compensation of letter carriers.
Messages from the President were re
ceived, transmitting for the consideration
of Congress a number of communications
from the Secretary of the Interior. The
Senate, at 3:50, went into executive ses
sion, and after a few minutes devoted to
referring nominations received to-day, ad
journed until to-morrow.
HOUSE.
Washington, January 18.—The House
proceeded, as regular business of the morn
ing hour, to a call of committees for re
ports. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, from the
Coinage Committee, Tnade a report on the
subject of metric coinage. Recommitted
and qrdered printed.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, offered a resolu
tion calling on the President for informa
tion as to the execution of section 1752 of
the Revised Statutes for the promotion of
the efficiency of civil service, and whether
the sum of $15,000 appropriated for that
purpose is sufficient for the purpose. Re
ferred.
After the transaction ot some unimpor
tant business, the Ilouse resumed the con
sideration of the report of the Committee
on Rules, proposing an increase iu the
membership of certain committees. The
pending question was op Mr. Orth’s substi
tute for the appointment of a Board to se
lect commissioners. After a long discus
sion the question was submitted to the
House for decision, and Mr. Orth’s substi
tute was ruled in order by a vote of 163 to
74.
Mr. King, of Louisiana, offered an amend
ment relating to the Committee on Im
provement of the Mississippi River, provid
ing that it shall have the same privilege in
reporting appropriations tor the improve
ment of the river as are now accorded to the
Appropriation Commit^ 6 io reporting
general He spoke in sup
port of the amendment as bearing on the
question of cheap transportation.
Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, ‘ oppqsed
amendment, arguing that the question of
improving the Mississippi river belonged to
the Committee on Commerce.
Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, advocated the
amendment, and said there was no reason
why the Committee on Commerce should
have charge of the question, unless the ob
ject was to make appropriations for the
Mississippi carry through the House the
River and Harbor Appropriation bill. He
asserted that the commerce of the Missis
sippi river was twenty-five times greater
than the whole foreign commerce of the
United States, and by projected improve
ments transportation would be cheapened
thiriz-lhree per cent. ‘
Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, opposed
the amendment.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, advocated the
amendment and appealed to Eastern mem
bers to give the interests of the great Mis
sissippi Valley the special .committee pro
vided for in the amendment.
Mr. Turner, of Kentucky, also advocated
the amendment, and suggested that the
committee shoqid also’ have jurisdiction of
Che phio apd other navigable tributaries of
tfie Miasissippi.
After some further discussion, in whi*h
JCenna, Turner, Dawes, Howe and Willis
participated, the subject wept over for the
day, withoat actiop, apd the Hoose, at 4:20,
adjonrped.
ATLANTIC AND FRENCH BROAD.
The Road to Be Built By December, 188*.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad
Company was held at Abbeville, Monday
night, to consider a proposition from Messrs.
Child & Oliver, of New York, to construct
the entire line from Edgefield Court House
to the North Carolina line through Eastatoe
Gap. A contract was closed with these
parties, the conditions of which are that
they are to commence on the Ist of Septem
ber next and complete the entire road by
the 31st of December, 1884. The contract
was entered into after a.week’s negotiations
in Abbeville, Judge Cothran acting as legal
adviser for the railroad company. Messrs.
Child & Oliver went to Trenton yesterday
to enter into a similar contract with the
Aiken, Trenton and Edgefield Railroad,
which is to form part of a through line to
the Kentucky system of roads. The Edge
field, Trenton and Aiken Road and the
French Broad Valley Road, after consolida
tion, are to be consolidated with a road in
North Carolina to connect with the Morris
town and Cumberland Gap Road at Morris
town, Tennessee. The complete road is to
constitute an independent line connecting
Cincinnati with Louisville and Nashville
and with the seacoast of South Carolina. The
line of road in North Carolina is to run
down the west fork of Big Pigeon River to
Morristown, Tennessee. Messrs. Child &.
Oliver represent a syndicate of New York
capitalists who have ample means to con
struct every foot of the road. The construc
tion of the line is now considered a certain
ty and interested parties are greatly elated
at the prospects.
This road will cross the Augusta and
Knoxville at Trickem, and is one of the
lines that we have been advising the people
of Augusta to obtain, stopping it at Trick
em and making it a branch of the Augusta
and Knoxville. By the arrangement just
made Charleston will probably derive the
greatest advantage from the road, as it will
connect with the South Carolina Railroad
at Aiken. The main line of the Atlantic
and French Broad Valley Railroad is to ex
tend from Trickem, by Abbeville and Bel
ton. on the Columbia and Greenville Rail
road, Easly, on the Air Line Railroad, and
Pickens Court House, to Asheville, North
Carolina, a great portion of the line having
been graded.
M’CORMICK.
Aogaata’a Carolina Ally Qaickening
With New I.lfe—Railroad Nearing the
Town—Prospects and Possibilities of
An Enterprising People—What Is Be
ing Done Up the A. and K. R. R.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Abbevilte Co., S. C., January 14.—The
long hoped for event is so nearly accom
plished that we cannot longer forbear open
ing at least intellectual communication
with the enterprising people of the beauti
ful city of Augusta, through the medium of
yonr valuable paper.
In a very few days more the locomotive
whistle within the limits of our new town
will proclaim the glad tidings that we are
at last connected by the iron band of enter
prise with the markets of the continent.
Then the cotton now here awaiting ship
ment will be sent to your factories, and the
inexhaustible mass of our rich manganese
will begin to go forward byway of your
city to the furnaces, bleaching establish
ments and other consumers of this valuable
mineral. Your people will have given ns a
new hope and a new life, for which we
sincerely thank you. You will send us
machinery and supplies, for which we have
so long been in need, to develop our rich
goll deposits, and improved implements to
cultivate these neglected fields, and fertil
izers from the coast to enrich them, and, in
return, we will send you yellow eagles, and
such piles of cotton bales as were never
seen before in your ancient and honored
market. How soon enterprise is followed by
industry, economy and prosperity ! Mau,
when arouspd by it, appropriates to his
purposes the soil, climate and advantages
of location. He who rides over this new
road a few years hence will be gratified
with evidences of thrift, where now he sees
neglect and desolation. Here, near the
great markets, in the finest climate of the
world, industry will find her home and
make the earth blossom 'like the rose, and
cities to spring up, as it were, in a night.
These cotton States cannot remain as they
are. They must become as prosperous,
wealthy and influential as any portion of
the Union.
The People of McCormick,
And the large section of country tributary
to it, intend to do their part in working this
change. Already Captain Nesbit, who was
manager when Dorn took a million from
the mine, is preparing to erect new ma
chinery at the shaft on the rich vein which
he discovered and opened up last year; and
says he will soon bring another million to
the surface. Mr. McCormick is making ar
rangements to put an adequate force in the
manganese mines, which have been hereto
fore neglected for want of transportation.
These two enterprises, within half a mile of
our depot, with the mill and reduction works
alone will give us an assurance of success in
our efforts to build a city possessed by few
it any inland towns in this State. Then the
Savannah Valley Road, terminating here,
will probably be completed before Christ
mas next and give us a fresh impetus. We
fear no competition in this part of the State.
A large city is needed bight here, and we
propose to build it. We are nothing yet but
location, enterprise and facilities.
Re tin Its Must Follow*
Mr. McCormick—a Virginian by birth and
education, a cosmopolitan in enterprise,
the greatest of the builders and rebuilders
of Chicago, the most successful inventor
and manufacturer even this country has yet
produced, a prominent director in the first
Pacific Railroad, when it required men of
strong hearts to occupy the position and
back it by their means; prominent in the
politics of his country; many years a mem
ber of the National Democratic Committee,
and at the St. Louis Convention the fa
vorite candidate of the Southern dele
gates for the Vice-Presidency, a promoter
of learning and Christian literature, a
liberal sustainer of charitable institutions,
as the orphans of this county have long
been able to testify; a gentleman now past
seventy, but still in the harness and as full
of purposes as in middle life; who is prob
ably better known through the world than
any living American citizen, and who has
done more than any man, living or dead, to
lighten the labors and increase the pros
perity of the agriculturist—takes an interest
in us, and we doubt not will assist us by
his means and by his counsels. We gave
it his name because he, at the time of its
greatest need, gave substantial aid to this
railroad which so greatly delights us all
now, and is to bring prosperity to so large
a portion of Soqth Caroling. Qn Tuesday
last 4 few lots were sold to persons who
were anxious to erect business houses at
once, but our sale was adjourned to the 7th
of February, on account of the rainy weath
er and the non-completion of the railroad
to this point. Then we expect our Augusta
friends to visit us and get acqnainted, as
we intend to do business with you hereafter.
Come early and take time to look around.
Capt. Nesbit will show you as fine a true
fissure vein of rich free gold quart? as can
be seen anywhere on the pacific slope. Do
not foyget to (ook at. qur springs and the
beautiful park surrounding them. If you
desire to see minerals walk over to man
ganese hill and follow the vein for a mile.
We are making a greater effort to induce
the right men to join us than to sell many
lots. We want real “Izzers,” not “Has
beens." Some of our best corners have
been reserved for a hotel, banking office,
drug store and office building. 4 good, ex
perienced hotel man, with some means, can
get the best lots in town for that purpose,
on time to suit, and perhaps a little assist-I
ance if he needs it. We prefer to determine
for oqrselves whether we will take ogr cof
fee hot or cold—all “real coffee" —pi part
peas or all peas. '
For Augqsta people going to, Washington
or the East by the “Air Line,” qr when
making ns a visit on business, for pleasure
or recreation, will like our hotel; so will the
through passengers for Chicago via the Au
gusta and Knoxville, and so will the con
ductors who bring trains of cheap bacon,
flour, coni and coal from the West to our
enterprising merchants. You will hear from
us again.
Enterprise, Industry and
P. 8. —Look for a good; gubscjfiptiou list
and liberal advertising from us soon.
POLITICAL POINTS.
The Party Lash of MaUnne Across the
Shoulders of Massey- Read-Loc* In
New Senators?
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Richmond, Va., January 18.—After a
prolonged and desperate fight the Read
juster caucus, at 12:45 o’clock, nominated
Brown Allen, of Augusta county, for Audi
tor of Public Accounts, by a vote of 45 to
22 for John E. Massey, present incumbent.
Massey’s defeat was due to his refusal to
submit to caucus dictation relative to the
appointment of a subordinate in his office.
Six of h's withdrew from the caucus
before the Vote was taken. There is some
talk of his nomination in the General As
sembly to-morrow .with the impe'that
enough of his disafieciaa triends will join
with the pemoesata’to elect him anyhow.
Dksmoinks, lowa, January IB.— Soth
houses of the Legislature
yesterday. Wilson elected United
States Senate* far the long term; MeDill for
the term. -
Albany, January 18.— The Assembly met
this morning, but without taking a ballot
for Speaker, a motion to adjourn until to
morrow was made arid carried by a vote of
01 to 57. ‘
"Ijs your father a Liberal Democrat
asked one little Austin boy ot another.
“Can’t tell until after Christmas. He wasn’t
much of a Liberal Democrat last year—
hardly got anything last Christmas.”
A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
MR. IHI.L, NOW TAKES A TURN AT
“FEENANCE.”
Arraign* Wimloui Fix Continuing Gov
ernment Fi ve*_Vn('OiiMt it nllonal to
Perpetuate the National Debt—Want
Hunt to Retire— Robeson Riggeil anti
Riled in the House.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE
Washington, January 18.— On motion of
Mr. Davis, ot Illinois, the bill to permit
Judge Hunt, ot the Supreme Court, to re
tire, was taken up and passed by a vote of
41 to 14. At 1:35 the Sherman Funding
bill was taken up, and Mr. Saulsbury, of
Delaware, took the floor. After an ineffect
ual effort ot Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas, to
secure an arrangement for a test vote on the
bill to-day, the discussion of the Funding
bill was continued by Mr. Windom, of Min
nesota. against the bill, and Mr. Hilt, of
Georgia, who charged that the operation of
Secretary Windom in continuing the five
and six per cents at 3’a was unconstitutional.
Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, member of
the Committee on Railroads, moved to re
commit to tbe committee the bill ratifying
the act of the General Council of the Choc
taw Nation granting to the St. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad Company
the right of way for a railroad and
telegraph line through that Nation. He
said that the official protest of the Chick
asaw Nation, and other documents submit
ted since the bill was placed on the calen
dar, had not been before the committee,
and he thought the measure should be con
sidered under the new light thus thrown
upon it. The motion met with consider
able opposition, particularly from Senators
Maxey and Coke, of Texas, on the ground
of delay to the bill through losing its place
on the calendar. To meet this" objection
Mr. Hawley modified his motion, providing
that when again reported the bill shall be
restored to its present place on the calen
dar, and, so modified, the motion was
agreed to. Pending a motion for executive
session, the bill was laid aside informally.
The executive session convened at 4 o’clock,
and at 4:20 the Senate, by a vote of 30 to
26, adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Bills were reported from the Committee
on Claims to refund to the State of Georgia
certain moneys contributed by that State
for the common defense in 1777—t0 the
House Calendar. A bill was also reported
from the Committee on Naval Affairs for
the purchase of a lot of ground opposite the
Gosport Navy Yard - to the committee of
the whole. The House resumed consider
ation of the report of the Committee on
Rules, increasing the membership of com
mittees, and consumed the greater part of
the day’s session in the discussion, in which
Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey, was made a
target for much good humored ridicule.
Several members opposed the amendment
oftered yesterday by Mr. King, of Louis
iana, giving to the Committee for Improve
ments of the Mississippi River the same
right to report appropriation bills for that
purpose as the Committee on Appropria
tions now has. Finnally Mr. King with
drew the amendment, giving warning,
however, that he would watch the Commit
tee on Commerce to see how the promises
now made to consider fairly the needs of
the Mississippi Valley, would be kept.
Mr. Randall, favoring the proposition to
inciease the committee memberships, said
the growth of business in Congress had
kept pace with the growth of all the coun
try. To illustrate that he gave the number
of bills introduced in the last Congresses --
commencing with 2.499 in the Fortieth
Congress and increasing regularly in each
Congress until the number at the present
Congress would probably exceed 10,000,
the number up to date being 3,293.
Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, moved to recom
mit the report and all pending amendments
to the Committee on Rules, and the House
proceeded ta vote by yeas and nays on air.
Joyce’s motion, and it was agreed to —yeas,
159; nays, 90. The House then went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Haskell, of
Kansas, in the Chair), and took up the bill
to appropriate $5,000 tor packing, trans
porting and arranging certain agricultural
and mineral specimens received by the
Agricultural Bureau from the Atlanta Ex
position. After a short explanation by Mr.
Valentine, of Nebraska, the bill was passed.
IMMIGRATION.
A Petition By a Company for Incorpora
tion.
William T Wheless, John Sims, William
P. Crawford, Abram H. McLaws, James L.
Fleming, William Gibson, Joseph Hatton,
Paul R. Sledge, Martin V. Calvin, Frank
Blaisdell, Kent Bisell, Wilberforce Daniel,
Peter G. Burum, Walter A. Clark, William
M. Timberlake, Patrick Walsh, James P.
Verdery, William C. Jones, Theodore Keo
erbele, Chas. (Spaeth, George Maul, John
Doscher and Thaddeus Oakman have ap
plied to the Superior Court of Richmond
county for incorporation, under the name
of the “Augusta Immigration Company,”
the prime object of which is the encourage
ment of immigration, by purchasing, sell
ing, leasing, renting and mortgaging real
estate and improving the same by building
thereon or otherwise, employing agents,
erecting buildings for immigrants, and con
tracting for their transportation, establish
ing workshops and stores for mercantile
purposes, erecting saw, grist and flouring
mills, machinery for brick making, ginning
cotton and manufacturing cotton and wool
en goods, agricultural implements, house
hold utensils, furniture and farm products,
and operating the same, engaging »U farm
ing, stock raising, mining a,nfl any other
business by which tha minerals,' water
power, forest? and other resources of said
company may be developed and utilized,
with the rights and privileges necessary to
such objects. The capital stock of the com
pany is to consist of six thousand shares of
the par-value of $25 per share, with the
privilege of increasing the same to sixty
thousand shares, the company to begin
business as soon as fifteen thousand dollars
is paid in.
THIS FELTON MOVEMENT,
How the State Papera Regarq the New
Departure.
(Gatesville Southern.)
B.en Hill “js hot as a ginger mill."
(Griffin Sun.)
The trouble with the Stalwart party that
is to be developed in Georgia is that their
statesmanship will be baaed on the'spoils
of office.
(Atlanta Post.)
Several of our Georgia contemporaries are
so muddled over the political situation that
they will probably sit on the fence and al
low the procession to go by before they come
to a decision. ,
(Griffin Newe./v
The attack of Dr. Felton upon Senator
Hill would have been more effective had it
been couched in milder language. The
time is past when invective and abuse ex
ercise much influence, even in politics.
(Lumpkin Independent.)
There is no doubt but what the campaign
in Georgia this year will be a bitter one.
The Republicans and Independents will
bend every energy to succeed, and will be
backed np with considerable money and
th& influence of the Stalwart Republican
Administration. •
(Laurensville (S. O n ) Herald.)
If the machinery of State under Demo
cratic rule needs amendment or changing,
let these corrections be made within its own
political household. We suffered too long
and too severely under Radical domination
and corruption to contemplate for a moment
a return to such a condition. The very
thought is abhorrent. t
(Sparta Ishmaelite.),
Dr. Felton has published ia the Constitu
tion an attack on fiemiior Hill, which, for
unreason and bitterness, exceeds anything
that we remember ever to have seen in
Georgia print. Dr. Felton js a preacher as
well as an office seeker. He believes in the
doctrine of “faljipg from grace;” and it is
pretty clear from his letter that, jf he ever
was in ft, he is fallen from ft now. Jt is a
wicked and ridiculous letter, ft is alto
gether unjustified by anything contained
in the Hifl interview.
(Rome Courier,)
Most of the newspapers of the State seem
to be rather unconcerned about the so-called
“Independent movement" in Georgia, on
the basis of Dr. Felton’s “Formula " The
Savannah Records, which is an Indepen
dent paper, aays: ' “Thus far the contagion
awnck the seaward, and there is
nothing indicative of a new move in this
direction as yet.” Other journals regard
the scornful rejection of the approaches of
the Independents by one branch of the Re
publican party as giving a finishing stroke
,to the whole movement. But the Athens
Watchman exhibits proper vigilance and
opposes the “imw departure” vigorously
It regards Dr. Felton’s undertaking as a
bopebsae one “so long as the people can
vote with their eyes open,” qpd addresses
itself to the work of keeping them from
falling into “the blends and pitfalls of the
Independents. This is just the thing to
be guarded, against. The new movement,
we suppose, engages more attention in tbe
Seventh and Ninth Congressional Districts
simply because the organized Democrats of
those Districts, having on former occasions
been defeated by Independent and Repub
lican alliances, have a keener perception of
the need of meeting them in time and vig
orously. We trust that the Democrats of
other sections of the State will not permit
themselves to be deluded by a feeling of
false security.
SOUNDS FROM HOME.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN GEORGIA AND
HER VICINITY.
The State and the South—Excerpt* From
Our Exchange* and Private Advice* to
the Chronicle and Constitutional!*!.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist)
Jefferson County, January 16.—Jesse
Sea, a negro, hired by J. B. Howard on the
Maxwell Place, in Jefferson county, con
ceived the desperate idea that he would
curry a four-year-old mule on the hind legs.
On Friday last he proceeded to carry his
•plans into execution, but he couldn’t curry
favor with the mule. P. S. —Since writing
the above the curry comb has come down
and been found.
(The Advertiser and Mail.)
Montgomery, January 18.—Mr. Phil Ur
ban is dead. —The school children are being
vaccinated.—Mr. L. Sodenlund, of Hay
county, .lowa, has decided, as we iearn front
excellent authority, to locate permanently
in Alabama, and cast his fortunes with our
people.—Twe car load of horses have been
shipped from San Antonio to Columbus, Ga.
(The Courier.)
Rome, January 18.—The rivers are fall
ing and Rome recovering from her scare.
Mr. M. A. Nevin has entered upon the dis
charge of his duties as Clerk of Council.
The City Physician is vaccinating free of
charge. —Yesterday afternoon Mr. William
Comer, a machinist who worked at Messrs.
Noble Bro.’s car wheel shops, met with an
accident which lost him his right arm.
(Walton County Vidette.)
Social Circle, January 19. —Messrs'. Eli
jah Palmer, Jos. D. Baker, George Malcolm
and Philip Briscoe are dead.- The result •
of the recent county election was : Fence
945; no fence, 582; more fence and better
fence, 89. —Most farmers have been success
ful in procuring all the labor they need.—
Mobley’s new warehouse is almost" complet
ed and will be a material addenda to the
business about the depot.
(The Star.)
Wilmington, January 17.—Some of the
trees about the city are budding, under the
pressure of the long-continued warm weath
er.—We hear of several cases here of the
much-talked of horse disease known as
“pink-eye,” which has had a “run” pretty
much throughout the country,—The body
of an unknown colored man was found
floating in the river yesterday.—William
Gordon, one of the white inmates of the in
sane department of the County Poor House,
escaped from that institution on Sunday af
ternoon last.—Right Rev. H. Pinckney
Northrop was installed Sunday as Bishop of
North Carolina, with interesting and im
pressive ceremonies, at St. Thomas Catho--
lic Church.
(The Saluda Argus.)
Greenwood, January 19.—The season
thus far has been very favorable to the
growth of small grain, which looks well and
is growing rapidly.—The little station of
Trickem, on the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad, is beginning to assume the garb
of enterprise and genuine progress.—The
Abbeville Baptist Union will hold a session,
embracing the sth Sabbath of this month’,
in our town.—Another bar room is to be
opened in town soon.—The railroad author
ities have extended the switch at this place
several hundred yards on either end.—The
supply of farm labor is entirely equal to. the
demand. Contracts have been easily and
satisfactorily effected, ami hands are quietly
settling down to the regular routine of farm
work.
(The Florida Union.)
Jacksonville, January 18.—Immigrants
are flocking to Florida from every State in
the Union.—The Grand Lodge of Florida,,
F. and A. M., met in this city at noon yes-’
ierday.—ln consequence of the illness of
J udge Settle, there was no business trans
acted in the United States Court yesterday.
—The various river captains assert that they
have never seen the river as low as it is at
present, and great fears for navigation on
the Upper St. John’s are entertained.—The.
hotels at St. Augustine feed their guests Sv.n
days on strawberries and cream. You can
have anything to eat you wish in any of our
Florida hotels—in or out of season.-—Every
body in Fernandina that wants, boarders .
can get them this Winter.
(The Advertiser.)
Edgefield, January 19.—Beyond all
doubt, Parksville, on the Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad, is fast becoming a
thriving little town.—An Express office has
been established in our town, of which our
young friend, Mr. Willie McCullough, is the
head. All expiess matter addressed to
Edgefield will be immediately forwarded
from Trenton to Mr. McCullough.— The so
called exodus is over, and the lien business is
very brisk.—Many of the Augusta mer
chants have been nobly kind and generous,
to the Episcopal ladies of Trenton, notably
Mr. Jas. G. Bailie and the Messrs. Platt-
Mr. Bailie has presented them with a beau
tiful aisle carpet for their church, while the,
Platt Brothers have given them a handsome,
chancel chair—a bishop’s chair.
(The Times.)
Chattanooga, January 18.—A plow fac
tory, with a cash capital of $75,000 paid
up, is to be planted in this city at an early
day and to be in operation by Fall.—Gen
eral Manager Soott, of the Cincinnati, New
Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad, has
issued orders that porters of the parlor cars
will not be allowed to receive fees from
passengers, a notice to this effect being
posted in the cars. This is a move in the,
right direction, and should be enforced on.
the Pullman lines.—The lowlands between,
this city and Memphis are under water, but
the tracks of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad are as yet clear. -Nero Purdotn, a
native of Africa, who lives in Warren coun
ty, Tennessee, says he is 120 years old, and
that he beat the drum for George Washing
ton during the Revolution.—The water re-.
ceded yesterday from the Western and At
lantic tracks at Calhoun, Georgia.
(The Post-Appeal.)
Atlanta, January 18.—A law partnership
has recently been formed between Judge V.
B. Young, formerly of Kentucky, where he
was Judge of one of the Superior Courts,
and Mr. Howard 0. Erwin, one of our most
prominent and promising young lawyers.—
In reply to a request for vaccine matter by
the ordinaries of several counties in the
State, the Governor informs them that only
in case of an epidemic can the matter be
supplied, in which event it will be furnish
ed to every county in the State.—Among
the political conjectures afloat is the one
that the resignation of Capt. Henry Jack
son, as reporter of the Supreme Court, is a
preliminary step toward entering the race
for Congressional honors in this District
Capt. Jackson is Chairman of the Demo
cratic District Committee, and his friends
seem intent upon presenting him as a can
didate to succeed. Col. Hammond. Such a
statement has heretofore appeared in the
public prints without contradiction, and it
is now given additional force by this appar
ent stripping for the race.—Dr. Felton has
been invited to several other points in Geor
gia to speak,
(The Register.)
Columbia, January 18.—The, Hon. Hugh
8. Thompson yesterday received a telegram
announcing the serious sickness of Dr.
Curry, in Richmond, in consequence of
which he will not be able to deliver the
address before the Legislature to-night.—
The Rev. Wm. E. Boggs, formerly pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church of Co
lumbia, but now pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church in Atlanta, is spending a
short time in this city.—Rev. J. B. Mack,
traveling agent of the Columbia Theologi
cal Seminary, has just returned from Ala
bama, where he has been working in be
half of that institution. He says the peo
ple everywhere have responded liberally to
his appeals.—The death rate is smaller in
Columbia the* in any other Southern city.
With Thompson & Nagle out of the way
it jp sat plain sailing on the canal.—The bill
i to charter the Camden Cotton Factory pass
ed yesterday.—Columbia young ladies are
exceedingly fond, of horseback riding and
many of them are graceful and daring
riders.
RICHMOND ITEMS.
Railway Consolidation—Tl>e Small Pox
Scare.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
J Richmond, January 18.—When Governor
Cameron, some days ago, vetoed the bill
which had for its object the consolidation
of railway lines outside the State with
those under its jurisdiction, some fear was
entertained that the bill looking to the con
solidation of the Richmond and Alleghany
Road with lines through the Western
States, would fail. To day, in the Senate,
this last was debated, read a third time and
ordered tn its engrossment, and will, no
doubt, become a law. The bill to allow the
Richmond and Danville Road to discharge
its indebtedness to the State, amounting
to $420,000, due some years hence, would
! have been similarly disposed of but for a
false alarm of Are caused by smoke appear
ing in the Ball of the House, which caused
the S«aate to adjourn.
The report of the Board of Health of
Richmond gives the number of deaths from
small pox last week as six white and four
colored; thirteen new cases seven colored
and six white—were reported for three days
this week. The number of deaths from the
disease is on the decrease, while the number
of new cases occurring daily is about the
same. The excitement in the Legislature
seems to be subsiding. The resolution
adopted in the House, yesterday, looking
to seeking accommodation for that body in
some other city, did not come up in the
Senate to-day. The presiding officers of’
the City Council have been requested to call
a meeting to make arrangements by which
any member of the General Assembly who
may be stricken with the disease shall b%
properly cared for.