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»-l CONSOLIDATED MAUCH 17,1877.
THE CAMPAIGN.
WHAT MAJOR BACON SAYS ABOUT
HIS POSITION.
The Charge That He Old Not Give Gov.
Stephenx a Cordial Support—He De
clarer it is Altogether Unfounded.
(Telegraph and Mom eng er.)
While upon the grand rounds yesterday
we dropped into Major Bacon’s office
where we found him busily engaged.
“I am glad you have come in, ’ eaid he,
••as I have something to say. I am in a
position now where the public have a
right to hear from me, and the time is too
short for speech-making. It is due to the
public, nevertheless, as well as to myself,
that I should speak for myself.”
We assured him that we would willing
ly be the medium of his communication,
and he continued :
' “I learn through letters received from
friends in various sections of the State,
by a very persistent and diligent
effort is being made te array against me
the friends of Gov. Stephens, as well as
the tender senUment naturally excited by
- -Mtf’death, with the charge, directly made
or insinuated, that in my present candi
dacy, 1 am seeking directly or indirectly
to reflect upon the memory of Governor
Stephens. There never was a charge more
utterly unfounded and unjust. So far
from its being true, it has been my most
earnest wish, expressed upon all proper
occasions, that no word should be spoken
concerning him that could possibly offend
or wound his most sensative friend. No
such word has been uttered by me. My
d'-sire was and is to make the present con
test without any reference to last year’s
contest, further than the present one
might bo affected by the fact that I was
one of the opposing candidates in such
former contest and then yielded to the
will of the majority, and in good faith,
from the very beginning, supported the
nominee to the be*t of my ability.”
"I suppose you have seen that it is
charged that yon did not give Gov. Ste
phens a cordial support?”
"Yes, of course I have, and I am coming
to that. That charge is as unfounded as
the formet one, as I am satisfied I can show
to all fair minded and unprejudiced men.
Upon the day of the nomination in last
July, in the moment of defeat, with all its
disappointment, I voluntarily and openly
announced in Atlanta, to my friends and
the friends of Mr. Stephens, that I would
give to him my unqualified support. There
are men of prominence in the State who
then supported Mr. Stephens who will
read what I now say, and who will remem
ber those declarations then openly made
by me.”
“But I did not stop there. A short time
after the nomination of Gov. Stephens I
went North. I myself needed rest and re
cuperation, as I was worn, in no small de
gree, by the fatigues and anxiet’es of a
most arduous campaign. My principal ob
ject, however, was to be with my children,
who were absent from home—one of whom
after a protracted illness of nearly half a
year, was aannvalid and had been recom
mended by my family physician to travel
- -ar the North uuring the summer months.
At the time of my leaving, about the Ist of
August, the party in the State was to a
large extent inharmonious; and, knowing
that fact, I took occasion before leaving
the State to address to a public meeting in
my own county a letter in which I again,
but in a more formal manner, announced
my unqualified support of Mr. Stephens.
That letter wtu by my direction published
at that time in the press of the State. I
did not intend that my friends should be
in doubt as to my position, or that my
enemies should have the shadow of an e x
euse to misrepresent it.
“But the main charge which is pressed
against me, in this connection, is that when
invited by the Executive Committee to
make speeches for Mr. Stephens, I failed to
doso;and I wish now to give the history of
such invitation and my action in response
to it. Upon my return to the State I was
anxious to contribute what I could to har
monize the entire party in support of Mr.
Stephens, and I felt that as the representa
tive of tbe portion of the party which had
opposed his nomination, there was a re
sponsibility on me to make an effort in that
direction. I had not then been invited to
take any part io the canvass, and the invi
tation which I subsequently received and
which was published, was solicited by my
self. With the desire to do what I could
under the circumstances, I express
ed my wish to a friend, and stat
ed that if requested to assist, I would
respond either by a speech or a
s public letter, and requested him to sug
gest to the chairman of the Executive Com
mittee that he should extend the invita
>■ tlon to me. I said to my friend then that
the time was short, and I believed the
public letter would do the most good. The
) friend by wbom that request was conveyed
<. is Senator Pope Barrow. It is due to the
3 chairman of the Executive Committee to
r state that when this request was made to
him by Mr. Barrow, he said that it but an
ticipated the invitation which he had in-
I tended to extend to me. In response to
r e invitation thus procured, I wrote atl
letter a column or more in length, in
which I endeavored to the very best of my
ability to set out the reason why I thought
all Democrats in the btate should give an
earnest and united support to Mr. Ste
phens. That letter was published in all
the leading papers in the State, and was
read by thousands, where the speeches I
could have made would have been heard
by comparatively few,
“I am willing by these facts to be judged
whether the charge is true that I failed to
give to Mr. Stephens my cordial support.
I announced my support of him from the
beginning, and never wavered for an in
stant in continning to the end, when I
cast my vote for him.
“There is one other matter upon which
I wish to say something. Prejudice is
sought to be excited against me by tbe
charge that my candidacy was announced
too soon after the death of the
Governor. The facts are these: I re
ceived from Governor Boynton, on Sun
day, two telegrams requesting me to go
to*Atlantato confer as to the State’s in
terest, one of them calling me there
on Monday. I did not go until Monday
night, so as to be there on Tuesday morn
ing. I was very much surprised that
morning to find m the Atlanta Constitution
a dispatch dated from Macon to the effect
that I had publicly declared my candidacy.
That dispatch was sent and published
without my authority, knowledge or con
sent I have no doubt the author of it did
so in good faith upon the basis es street
rumor: for whatever I may have said to
I my friends and in response to their in
quiries, I certainly designed no public an
| nounoement at that time, and would have
preferred that it should not have been
I made for a week later. During that day I
I was called on at my hotel in Atlanta by
a reporter nf the Constitution with the
I statement that the proprietors and edi-
I tors of the paper (naming them) had
I sent him to me with the request
I that I would state to him for pub-
I lication what my intentions were with
I reference to being a candidate in the ap-
I proaching contest. I did not at first com-
I ply, and it was not until his third visit to
I me that I consented for anything to ap-
B pear.- I was then controlled by the advice
■ of friends, who said that as the dispatch
H from Macon had been published, and as
other Htatements would appear in otber
papers with or without authority, it would
be better if my intentions should be defi
nitely stated by myself. The interview
was certainly not sought by me. At that
time the Executive Committee had been
called together, and the pipers were laden
with a:tic!es and dispatches about other
parties who were then prospective candi
drtes.
•T have sought no personal controversy
or antagonism in tbe contest. I feel con
scious of having done my whole duty in
yielding to the decision of the majority
upon the former occasicn, and in assisting
to carry out its command; and having en
tered this contest, I will again, in the same
spirit as before, submit myself to the will
of tbe people, as expressed through the
convention.”
A FLORIDA COLONY.
The Plan of an English Company to
Supply Homes—A Sale Effected of
Forty Thousand Acres on which
Houses will be built for European and
Other Emigrants.
(From the Philadelphia Press, March 14.)
The great sale of Florida lands, < fleeted
by A. B. Linderman during his recent trip
to London to a syndicate in that city, was
consummated yesterday. Mr. Linderman
paid over to the Florida Land an d_lm pre ve
in ent Company the balance of $25,000, by
draft on a leading London banker, for 49.-
COO acres of land in Orange County. This
sale was really effected last winter, and
the action yesterday was a formal
completion of the contract of the
London syndicate, which is composed of
leading capitalists of Great Britain, seme
of wbom are members of the peerage. The
corporation name under which the syndi
cate will in future act is the Florida Agri
cultural Company of London (limited),
which has been charted by act of the Eng
lish Parliament. The general manager of
the company is A. B. Linderman, ot this
city, who has been since bis return from
London actively engaged in developing
the interests of the new company. To this
eud he has obtained from the Florida
Legislature a charter for a steamship com
pany, whose steamers will run between
Liverpool and Fernandina.
On all the land of tho company fruits of
all kinds, sugar, rice, cotton and early
vegetables for the Northern market will be
grown. It is thought the settler will be
able to earn a good living during his first
year’s residence Owing to the improve
ments made by the company, Mr. Linder
man has already on the ground the "first
settler” in the shape of a sawmill. The
cutting of lumber, the erection of dwell
ings and the clearing of the land will be
immediately commenced.
The plan of the company to effect a col
onization of their lands is comprehensive
and rather unique. Tbe whole tract will
be divided by General Manager Linder
man into twenty acre farms, upon which a
frame dwelling house wiil be erected. At
least two acres on tach tract will be cleared
by the company. The farms will be sold
to emigrants at SSOO each, which will in
clude all improvements made by the com
pany. The payment may be made in easy
annual instalments, which will place the
farms or “Florida Homes,” as Mr. Linder
man calls them, within the reach of the
poorest peasant of Ireland or Italy. In
order to bring this plan before the peas
antry of Europe, Mr. Linderman will visit
Ireland, England and several continental
conn trie" this spring. A strong effort wiil
be made to induce Italian emigration, for
the purpose of introducing in Florida the
growth of the silk worm. It is well known
that the mulberry tree flourishes in that
State better than almost anywhere else, and
it is the intention of the company to make
a thorough attempt to develop silk culture
on an extensive scale.
One teature of the colony deserves men
tion. The company will furnish for the
use of the colonists at once a library, and
a lecture hall will be erected, where the
people will be enabled, by the liberality cf
the managers, to listen to discourses on
l sul jects which will be useful to them in
their everyday life as agriculturists. Al
ready Mr. Linderman has had numerous
applications from persons desiring to buy
these Florida homes, from Nova Scotia.
C -.nada and the Northwestern States. It
is hoped that from five hundred to one
thousand families will be domiciled on the
company’s lands within a year.
Post Office Points.
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venient for reference, and be spared the
trouble and expense of writing letters of
inquiry to the newspapers.
On and after October 1, 1883, letter
postage will be 2 cents for each half ounce
or fractional part thereof between all points
in the United States. The rate will then
be the same on drop letters and all others.
No changes have been made in rates on
other classes of matter.
On and after the Ist of July, 1883. you
can obtain at any money order office postal
notes in sums of $5 and under by paying
a fee of 3 cents. These postal notes will
be made payable to bearer without corre
sponding advices. They will be payable
at any money order office within three
months of the date of issue. After the
lapse of that time the holder can obtain
the par value only by applying to the
Pint-office Department at Washington.
On and after the Ist of July, 1883, you
can obtain a postal money order for as
large a sum as SIOO. The present limit is
SSO. The feesen and after that date for
orders will be as follows:
Net exceeding $lO Scents.
From $lO fe sls 10 “
From sls to S3O 15 “
From $33 to S4O 20 “
From S4O to SSO 25 “
From SSO to $69 30 “
From S6O to S7O 35 “
From S7O to SBO 49 “
From SB9 to sloo* 45 “
The postal notes will, no doubt, be
found more convenient in one respect
than the fractional paper currency was,
since they can be obtained for any num
ber of cents under $5. There will also be
less liability to loss by theft than there
was when fractional notes were used for
transmission through the mails, especial
ly if the department uses judgment in
prescribing the size and form of the notes
and in selecting the paper on which they
are to be printed. On the other hand,
they will be less convenient in that they
can only be obtained at money order of
fices at a considerable sacrifice of time, es
pecially in large cities. It will be observed
that after the Ist of October the cost of
sending any sum under $5 postal note will
be 5 cents—2 cents postage and 3 cents
fee.
RAILWAY MATTERS.
Arrangements Made by the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Cincinnati, March 22.—The Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
Company, lessees of the Cincinnati South
ern Railway, have made arrangements
whereby their trains, both freight and
passenger, will run to Louisville over the
Lebanon branch of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. This gives the Cin
cinnati Southern control of the shortest
route from Louisville to Chattanooga, and
all points Sooth and Southeast and makes
it the only competitor against the Louis
ville and Nashville system. The com
pany will open offices in Louisville.
PALMETTO STATE.
WHAT OUR CAROLINA NEIGHBORS
ARE DOING.
Free Public ScliooLs—The School Taxes—
The Penitentiary—Fish Culture.
(Cor. Chronicle and Conetitutionaliet)
Columbia, S. C., March 19. —At a recent
meeting of the School Commissioners of
this city a petition was presented to them
asking the use of the academy buildings
for the free schools soon to be established.
The request was granted, and hereafter
the old system of private pay schools will
be abolished and the free public schools
will be substituted. This arrangement has
been made possible by the levy of a special
school tax, which was vjted by a conven
tion of the people, held not long since.
The school fund will be supplemented by
an appropriation from the Peabody fund
of tl ,260? It is stated that the effect of
this arrangement will be to grease the
number of white pupils at the schools in
the city from 159 to 450 or 500, and in
crease the length of the session from three
months to nine, and increase tbe number
of colored pupils from 400 to 600, and the
length of the session from three to nine
months.
It is generally conceded now that a per
feet school system can not be obtained in
any country unless it is under government
control, and the advocates of the public
school system point to the success which
has followed the establ shment of all such
schools, it is a very difficult matter, how
ever, to regulate in the Southern States,
and < specially in South Carolina, where
the colored population doubles the white,
and where the whites pay ninety-nine
hundredths of the taxes required to sup
port this expensive system. The two mill
constitutional school tax raised in 1882,
three hundred and thirty-eight thous
and five hundred and twenty-six dollars,
and the poll tax one hundred and four
teen thousand four hundred and thirty
eight dollars. making the total
taxes collected for school purposes
four hundred and fifty-two thousand nine
hundred and sixfy-four dollars. The
whole number of pupils attending school
was one hundred and forty five thousand
nine hundred and seventy-four, of which
eighty thousand five hundred and seventy
five were colored. The negroes contribute
tbe very smallest imaginable sum to the
school tax, and the great majority escape
the payment of the poll, to that the
whole burden falls upon tbe white prop
erty owners of the State. The education
of the masses is almost universally
conceded to be the greatest protection
to society and the safeguard of property,
white it perpetuates good government and
sound morals and inculcates religious ten
dencies in the community. While this is
admitted, there are many who oppose the
education of the negro because they do not
believe he is benefitted by mental culture.
A gentleman said to me that one of the
Circuit Judges of the Slate who has been
on the bench for some years informed him
that he had kept a record of the convictions
of colored people in his court, and that five
in eveiy six negroes convicted were edu
cated. " Those who oppose his education
use such facts as these to prove that educa
tion only gives him the ability to commit
greater crimes. They say that if the ne
groes are to be “hewers of wood and draw
ers of water,” and they cannot, as a race,
be anjthing else, that they are far more
competent and of greater value to the State
without school training than with it, and
they ask if all of them aie to be educated
what is to be done with them then ? They
leave tbe farms and the work shops and
endeavor to secure positions in the cities
and towns, where tbe physical labor is
lighter and the compensation better.
The well known unreliability of the
negro, they assert, will exclude him,
as a rule, from such positions, and
then what is to become of him ?
This little learning has led him from the
humbler places and the h’gher walks of
life are not open to him on account of his
color and proverbial immorality. Feeling
thus, and conscientiously feeling so, it is
not surprising that very many taxpayers
are beginning to raise objections to the
further payment of a tax that they believe
is worse than wasted.
Cn the other hand, however, Governor
Thompson’s free school record elected
him to his exalted position showing a
strong and conclusive endorsement
of bis course in advocating the
education of all classes and col
•rs. Timo a’one can tell who is right,
but many thinking people are reluctantly
screed to the conclusion that so far the
result of a large expenditure of public
funds for their education has been a dis
mal failure. There are many others who
admit that the result at present is not en
couraging, but they contend that it is due
to long years of bondage, the influence of
which cannot be eradicated in a single
generatiqp, but that with the education of
successive generations tbe race will be ele
vated morally and religiously, and they will
become more intelligent workers and better
citizens. Perhaps it is well to continue
the experiment and let the future decide
a question which is at present involved in
so much doubt. It is surprising how hard
it is to please the majority of mankind.
When the Democrats came into power in |
South Carolina they found tbe penitentiary ‘
an enormous burden npon the tax payers
ot the State, and it was a serioua matter to
determine what disposition should be
made of the convicts so as to relieve an
impoverished people of such a frightful
incubus. All manner of schemes were
proposed, and the best brain and
ablest talent ia the State were
called into requisition to devise
some plan t<? jeduce the expenses
of the institution. The very best thing
that could have been done was done.
Aboard of direct: re, composed of practi
cal men, and a superior superintendent,
were elected and the whole conduct of the
institution was left to their good judg
ment. Under their magnificent manage
ment it has not only been self-sustaining
but last year there was expended from its
earnings $10,609 for the Columbia canal,
$6,000 for buildings for offices, $5,500 in
the purchase of land, $2,000 for building
barracks, and on October 31st, 1882, had
on hand in cash and available as
sets $55,084 12. This splendid result
has been obtained only by the best and
wisest management. Among other means
adopted by the directors for the support cf
tbe penitentiary was the hiring of convicts
to work in a shoe factory established with
in the walls of the institution which has
yielded a handsome revenue. Many of the
convicts engaged in this work are long
term men, some life prisoners, who could
not be hired outside of the walls. Now
some of the papers in the State,' without
due consideration, are saying that the shoe
makers throughout the State are waging
war on the officials of the penitentiary for
placing these shoes in the way of the trade.
They say that while it is legitimate it is
certainly a hardship placed upon the
shoulders of honest labor, affecting poor
tradesmen to that extent where their busi
ness will be ruined if it is continued.
I have it from high authority that there
is_not a merchant in the State that sells
SSOO worth of shoes in a year that does
not deal in penitentiary made shoes.
This class of convicts are similarly utilized
in nearly all the Northern prisons, and the
Southern merchants who purchases from
Northern jobbing houses patronize convict
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MARCH 2- 1883
labor. The number of shoes made in
South Carolina, outside of the penitentiary
is insignificant, and the wages paid for the
hire of convicts amounts to considerable,
which now perceptibly reduces the taxes
ot the capitalists and the workingmen,
honest shoemakers and all othera, and in
the future, with the growth of ithe enter
prise will make still greater deduction.
In view of these facts it p strange
that any one should be found to oppose
this industry, for the competithm of “con
vict versus honest labor” is too small for
consideration, and the advantage* derived
by the State are patent to all.
In a recent issue of the Macon Graphic
it is stated thst seventeen citizensjof Worth
county are to be tried, at the next term of
court for that county, for the nfarder of
one George Kerce, committed some twenty
years ago. It is stated that Kecce emi
grated from one of the and a
gentlemen who knew hirn well fells me
that he was bom and raised neaij Er win
ton, Bkrnwell county, in this State,; and
that he was often accused of
Bftd was fibally tried and convict* :
well Court, for that offense. uMbeoame
so objectionable to the good people of that
section that he was forced to have the
county. Kerce’s brother Dick induced
an ignorant negro, who to the
Rev. Joseph Lawton, to fire the iesidence
of Gen. J. D. Erwin, and it was something
in that occurrence that hastened Kerce’s
leaving. The man seems always to have
had an unconquerable passion for cattle
stealing, which ultimately caused his
death at the bands of Judge Lynch.
Mr. C. J. Huch, the Superintendent of
Fisheries, recently received five thousand
California trout eggs from the United
States Fish Commissioner, that were taken
and impregnated in California and shipped
in ice cars via Chicago to Columbia. They
arrived in splendid condition, and were
within forty-eight hours after arrival trans
ferred to the trays and hatching troughs,
which bad been prepared for them in the
Agricultural Department building on
Main street. As Mr. Huch was engaged
at tbe State shad butchery in Edisto, he
put Mr. George E. Fuduy in charge of the
trout eggs here. A few days ago they be
gan to hatch out and now the troughs are
alive with them. Hundreds of visitors
call every day to see them and the young
salmon are the chief attraction in the city.
Arrests of Inoffensive Citizens—No Evi
dence Against Them—The People Be
coming Desperate.
Columbia, March 21.—You have already
been informed by wire that the political
cases had been renewed in this city against
the Fairfield Democrats, but these persecu
tions are of such au outrageous character
that they should be repeatedly held up to
the public, that they may be seen in all
their naked deformity. In nearly every
county citizens have been arrested, in most
cases, upon the most trifling accusations,
and in some cases it would be hard
to decide just what offenses are
alleged. The evidence shows no vio
lation of any law of the land, and
the witnesses are the most
and degraded white men and negroes.
McLane, the other defeated Greenback
candidate for Governor, is travelling in all
parts of the State, seeming witnesses,
who, for $1 50 par day, will come to
Columbia or elsewhere and swear to any
thing that may be told them, from morn
ing until night, and as long as the per
diem continues. A negro preacher, iq the
employ of Melton, Willard, Snyder ACo.,
at a recent church meeting in Fairfield
county, called for “volunteer witnesses,”
and about twenty responded to his call.
They came to Columbia to appear against
the Democrats, and a more repulsive ciowd
could scarcely have been gathered together.
Yesterday your correspondent visited the
United States Court House, and, in a
room adjoining the room where the trials
were in progress, saw these witnesses hud
dled together like sheep in a pen, while a
mulatto stood guard at th« door, and the
stench issuing from this temporary prison
was sickening. In Clarendon county, white
men were dragged from their homes and
carried a long distance under arrest to ap
pear before a United States Commis
sioner. They offered to give bail, but it was
refused because, if they had been released
the Deputy Marshal would not have received
his mileage. Similar outrages havebeen per
petrated in various other places. Reputable
citizens all over the State are being taken
from their homes, at the instance of this
vile crew, at a season of the year when
their work is requiring their closest atten
tion. These men have committed no of
fense against the laws of their country;
they are peaceable and law-abiding, and
yet convicted criminals never suffered
harsher treatment. The Department of
Justice (God save the mark !) at Washing
ton hires Pennsylvania lawyers to send to
South Carolina to harrass and persecute
her cit : zens. Col. Youmans said, in the
trials at Charleston, that Judge Melton,
the District Attorney, did not need assist
ance, as he was persecuting his people
with a bitter hatred that no foreigner
could equal. While Willard has been put
forward in these Fairfield cases, with Sny
der, the imported lawyer, as adviser, it is
well understood that Judge Melton is the
moving spirit in all this iniquity.
The people are becoming weary of this
continued persecution, and are fretting
under the indignities and outrages heaped
upon them. If some of these marplots
feel the effect of their just indignation,
they will have no one to blame but them
selves. A prominent gentleman said to
me to-day that Governor Thompson
ought to convene the Legislature in ex
tra session and ask them to vote an
appropriation for the defense of the peo
ple. He thought that the Governor should
issue his proclamation setting forth the
great wrongs our people have been subject
ed to and call the attention of (he world
to the infamous conduct of the petty
government officials in South Carolina.
So desperate are the people becoming un
der this treatment that they are almost
willing to resort to any {method that
promises relief. Every man who has con
sidered the subject at all is convinced that
no frauds or intimidation were practiced at
the iast election. It there had been a de
sire to do so there was no occasion for it.
The opposition to tbe Democratic nomi
nees, both State and Federal, was insig
nificant, the Greenback and Republican
defeat was overwhelming, and for this
off-nse our people must suffer.
This relentless persecution of a free peo
ple is without a parallel in the history of
the world, and "exhibits the vindictive
spirit that inspires the representatives of
the government in South Carolina. Can
such things continue always without re
buke ? Are these prosecutions instituted
to provoke the people to open resistance
for the purpose of furnishing political
capital for the Republican party ? If so,
these efforts will be fruitless, for, while
some of the unscrupulous scoundrels who
are instigating theirj ignorant dopes to
such action, may feel the weight of out
raged public opinion, there will be no re
sistance to Federal authority, and no ob
stacle will be thrown in the way of the
execution of the laws. Our people know
that they can prove their innocence of any
crime, and feeling that they have done
nothing to merit such treatment they are
justly indignant.
The defendants in the Fairfield cases
are represented by Hon. H. A. Gaillard
and Col. John C. Haskell, and the defense
is being ably conducted. Richland.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
CITY.
How a Postmaster Was Removed—The
Star Route Trials—lnternal Revenue
Receipts—The Savannah Bond Case.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, March 22.—The Governor
of Montana sent the following dispatch to
the Postoffice Department to-day: “Vigi
lants at Greenhorn, Montana, have re
moved the Democratic postmaster by hang
ing. Government fuel must be scarce, as
he was caught barn-burning. The office
is now vacant. The sureties have been no
tified to take charge of the office.”
The Treasury Department has ordered
the payment of the interest due April Ist,
on the 26th inst, without rebate.
John A. Walsh was before the grand jury
to-day. It is understood that the govern
ment is making another attempt to indict
ex-Poetmaster-General Brady, in connec
tion with a former United States Senator,
for conspiracy in the Star Boute matters.
A statement has been prepared by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, show
ing the receipts of the office for the last
fiscal year to be $146,400,C00. The re
ceipts from July 1882 to March 21, 1883,
exceed the receipts for the corresponding
period of last year, by $2,200,030. It is
estimated that the receipts for the current
year, if there had been no reduction in
taxation, would amount to $148,625,000.
Deduct on account of changes in the rev
enue laws $5 €03,000 leaves the total es
timated receipts for the current fiscal
year $143,625,000. The estimated in
creases or decreases oi revenues during
the remainder of the current fiscal year
as compared with last year, are as follows:
Increase on spirits, $1,500,000; decrease
from banks and bankers, $2,400,0C0; de
crease from special taxes, $1,600,000; de
crease from adhesive stamps. $500,OCO;
decrease from tobacco, $2,000,COO;
total increase, $l,5C0,000; total decrease,
$6,500,000; net estimated decrease, $5,-
000,OCO. Summary—The total Internal
Revenue receipts, from July Ist, 1882 to
March 21st, 1883, were $105,225,000;
estimated receipts for the rest of the cur
rent fiscal year, $38,403,0C0; total, $143,-
625,000.
In the Star Route, trial to-day Theodore
W. Torrey, R. F. Mullins and Wilburn
F. Kellogg, former employes of Dorsey’s,
were examined for the defence. Their
testimony was a contradiction of Rerdell’s
statement concerning his visit to Dorsey’s
office in New York, and the books which
Rerdell said were in that office. They
swore that Rerdell was not at Dorsey’s
offieel on the date he named and that no
such books belonging to Dorsey,as Rerdell
describes, were kept in that office. At the
conclusion of the examination of these
witnesses, the court adjourned until Mon
day *■ i
Argument was concluded in the United
States Supreme Court to-day in the bond
case of the Mayor and Aidermen of the
city of Savannah, plaintiffs in error,
against Eugene Kelly, brought here upon
a writ of error from the Circuit Court of
the United States for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia. This was a suitin -titu
ted by Eugene Kelly upon certain coupon
bonds of the Savannah. Albany and Gulf
Railway Company, which bear the en
dorsed guaranty of the Mayor and Aider
men of the city of Savannah. The de
fendant seeks to recover from the guar
antors the amount due on the
bonds. In the court below the city
set up the defense that the guaranty
was made without consideration and with
out any legal authority and was, therefore,
void. The court, however, instructed the
jury that the evidence, if creditable, showed
that there was a valid consideration and
that the bonds guaranteed were issued for
purposes of internal improvement within
the meaning of the city charter. Under
these instructions the jury found a verdict
for the bond-holder. Judgment was entered
accordingly. The city now seeks to have
that judgment reversed. The issue of
bonds in controversy bears the date of
January Ist 1859 and amounts to three
hundred thousand dollars.
The expected reorganization of the police
force of this city began to-day with the ap
pointment of Wm. Me. E. Dye as Chief of
Police, in the place of Major Brock, re
signed. Dye is a native of Pennsylvania,
and a graduate of West Point, and served
with distinction during the lete civil war,
as colonel of the 20th regiment of loxa
volunteers. After the war he went to
Egypt upon the recommendation of Gen
eral Sherman, and was one of the foreign
officers who assisted in the reorganization
of the Egyptian army.
Edward Hanlan, the oarsman, arrived
here this morning from Toronto. He
brought with him a practice shell, for use
in training here for bis race with John
Kennedy, which is to take place near Bos
ton, May 33th. He has been invited by
the Analostan Club to make their house
his head quart rs. Kennedy is now a resi
dent of this city, and both men will go in
to active training at once. Hanlan said to
night in regard to the differences between
himself and Wallace Boss, that he was
willing to submit the matter to any com
petent boating or sporting man in the
country and abide by his decision.
Boss’ latest proposition is that the
man naming the course shall give
the other expenses. Hanlan says,
“I have already conceded $1,500 to
Ross in stakes. Seeing that he was not
able to raise $2,500, I consented to row
him for $1,000; each man to pay his own
expenses, the race to be rowed in neu
tral waters, and the winner to take the
stakes and receipts. These are the terms
of my race with Kennedy, except that the
etahe is $2,500 a side. If Ross really
wants to row me, let him agree to submit
the difference to arbitration and then cover
my forfeit of SSOO, now up with the Turf,
Field and lam. I will pull him on any
water between Toronto and St. Johns that
is wide enough for one boat to pass an
other.”
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NEW ORLEANS ELECTION CASES.
The Evidence Adduced Yesterday.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New Orleans, March 22.—Among the
witnesses in the election cases were half a
dosen co’ored man. John Short, one of
the defendants, is shown on trial to have
acted as Commissioner in the place of his
father, Owen Short, and to have signed bis
father’s name to the official papers. F. X.
Earbot, chief clerk of the registration
office, testified that no duplicate registra
tion certificates were issued except under
the oath of the party having lost the origi
nal. Chks. Cavanac, registrar of voters,
testified that his books and papers were
all correct; that no frauds were committed
in his office, where only competent and
honest men were employed. The official
books and papers in his charge, relating to
this case, were filed in evidence. United
States District Attorney Leonard read to
the jury and submitted in evidence the
certificate of Dr. Jos. Jones, president cf
the Board of Health, giving the names of
eight persons who had died previous to
the late election, but whose names ap
peared on the poll lists as having voted.
THE CASH AND HERRON CASE IN
COURT.
Each of the Parties Fined For Violating
a City Ordinance and Cash for Carry
ing Concealed Weapons—The Election
Cases—More Arrests to Be Made.
(Special to Chronicle and Constitutionaliet)
Columbia, S. C., March 22.—Cash and
Herron were fined twenty dollars each in
the Mayor’s court this morning for viola
ting the city ordinances and Cash was
fined ten dollars for carrying concealed
deadly weapons. Pennsylvania Snyder
and Greenback Willard appeared as coun
sel for Cash and stated that he was a
Deputy United States Marshal and was
instructed to carry arms. Mayor Rhett
replied very emphatically that Snyder,
Willard, Gash or any one else offending
would be punished m his court if con
victed., and if counsel, as they intimated,
desired to make an issue between the city,
and the government on this q««Uen ho
was prepared to meet it. The fines Were
paid and no appeal taken. The court
room was crowded to suffocation during
the trial and the excitement, though sub
dued, was intense. Subsequently Cash
was arrested on a charge of carrying con
cealed weapons and bound over by Trial
Justice Marshall for trial at tho next term,
of the court.
The Fairfield cases were closed to-day,
and argument was begun and concluded
by Willard for the government and John C.
Haskell for the defendants. Willard
abandoned every legal position he had as
sumed and rested his caso on the broad
proposition that a crowd of men at the
polls constituted a conspiracy. Col. Has
kell replied in a most eloquent oration and
taking up the evidence against each de
fendant in turn, showed conclusively the
utter weakness of the prosecution and the
infamy of the whole proceeding. Tbe
commissioner reserved hie decision un
til Saturday. Three other warrants
have been issued for a number
of Democrats in Fairfield county,
among them some of the defendants in
these cases. There is great excitement in
the city. Men are gathered in knot? dis
cussing the situation and asking if the peo
ple of South Carolina have no rights that
Republican officials are bound to respect.
Richland.
Another Account.
Columbia, S. C., March 22.—C01. W. B.
Cash was fined to-day for an assault on
James Herron in a hotel here last nigbt
during a dispute arising from the Fairfield
election cases. Herron was also fined.
Cash drew a pistol, but did not use it.
Two pistols were found on his person and
he was fined for carrying concealed
weapons in addition to other fines.
Cases at Charleston.
Charleston, March 22.—United States
Commissioner Gayer to-day commenced
the preliminary hearing of the caso against
McFadden and other managers of the
Witherspoon precinct, in Clarendon coun
ty, charger, with conspiracy to pftvent
qualified voters from casting their votes at
the election. Seven witnesses
(all white men) were examined. They
testified that they did not vote on election
day and that they could have voted but
did not desire to do so. Some of them
said the reason that they did not desire to
vote was because of the" peculiar construc
tion of the poll, which was fenced in.
There was no evidence of intimidation.
The case was adjourned over until Satur
day to bear the evidence of J. T. Coley,
one of tbe managers and defendants, who
it is claimed by the government, has turned
States evidence and made a confession.
Result of a Suit Against the Augusta
and Knoxville Railroad.
(Special to Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Edgefield, March 22.—Our court is yet
in session, being the third week. The
most important case that has been tried
during the term has just concluded after
three days being consumed in the trial,
Tompkins et al., plaintiff vs. Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad, a suit for ejectment
and twenty five hundred dollars damages.
The verdict was for the defendant. Every
part was ably contested by counsel, Er
nest Gary, Abney & Abner for plaintiff,
Ganahl and W. T. Gary for the railroad
company. The city of Augusta is deeply
interested in the result of this suit.
L. A. R.
WEST INDIES.
Haytien Export and Import Duties—
The Crops.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Havana, March 22.—The mail from St.
Thomas brings advices that the Haytien
Chambers have passed a bill reducing the
export duties fifty per cent, and raising
the import duties thirty-three per cent.
Coffee will now pay $125 per 100 pounds,
with the previous additional twenty per
cent, remaining.
A fire on the third instant, at Port au
Spain, on the Island of Trinidad, destroy
ed warehouses and stores. Loss, two
hundred thousand dollars ; insurance,
$170,000 in English companies. The
weather in Barbadoes has been favorable
to the crops. In Trinidad the weather has
been alarmingly wet while at Demerara it
has been rather dry. The exports of sugar
from Demerara from January Ist to Feb
ruary 24th amounted to 23,000 hogsheads
against 19,500 hogsheads for the same
period last year.
THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES.
John Kane Still Alive Bat Dying.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Uniontown, Pa., March 22. - John Kane,
the Mollie Maguire shot by Superintend
ent Keighley, cf the Youngstown coke
works yesterday evening, is still alive,
though he cannot survive much longer.
His wonderful hold on life astonishes
every one. He has four 38 calibre balls in
his body, two of them in the ab
domen and two in the breast, one being
in the right lung. His physician
thinks he can live at most on’y a few hours.
He persists that he did not intend to barm
Keighley. No pistol was found on his
person. His friends are up in arms.
Keighley remains in the sheriff’s office.
No informations hsve yet been made
against him. Buck Collins, Kane’s Mollie
Maguire companion, is now under arrest.
He swears he will put a bullet through
Kelley’s heart.
Floods in Canada.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Halifax, March 22.—The latest reports
from throughout the country give state
ments of widespread destruction and dis
aster by the freshets. The Halifax and Cape
Breton Railway has been seriously washed
out. A telegram from Sherbrooke states
that the town is flooded and that some
buildings have been swept away while the
people had moved to the upper stories of
their dwellings. All mining has ceased,
and all the small bridges have been car
ried away. There are no single losses of
magnitude, but the aggregate is enor
mous.
TERMS—S2.OO AYEAR.
THE STATE CAPITAL.
MATTERS AND THINGS ABOUT AT
LANTA.
The Gubernatorial Campaign Gen.
Phil Cook a Candidate—Judge Brown
Declines—Counties That Have Declar
ed—The Atlanta Park—The Railroad
Commission.
(Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, March 22.—The present gub
ernatorial campaign, short as it will be,
and uneventful as it was hoped by many
that it would be, seems destined to be
marked by surprises. The latest caprice
of the contest is the announcement of Gen.
Phil Cook, who formally and over his own
name declined to enter the race on the
ground that the harmony of the State
should be above all personal aspiration,
has. deliberately withdrawn his refusal to
run-and has beqome a candidate. Mr, 8.
O. Elam telegraphs the ConstHidwn **
is authorized to say that Gen. dock with
draws his letter. This withdrawal is creat
ing much comment, and, in the judgment
of thoughtful men, is not a wise biep-fpr
this worthy gentleman. His letter of
withdrawal from the contest released his
friends, who have on the strength of it,
probably fixed their support elsewhere.
His revocation of his withdrawal can hard
ly please the friends of the other candi
dates ;while the changeableness will impress
unfavorably those who are missionary
ground. His friends here rather regret
this new move of the general.
Judge James R. Brown has written a
letter declining to be a candidate. He
thinks “it would be in bad taste, even for
those who have gubernatorial aspirations,
to enter into a contest for the successor
ship. No gentleman who has sufficient
character and qualifications to fill the office
could maintain his self-respect and enter
into a struggle for the nomination at the
present time; and neither the Slate nor the
Democratic party could afford to have such
a contest."
Judge Brown gives as additional reasons
that he feels it his duty to serve out his
term as Judge, while ho could not while
on the bench enter into a struggle for a
higher position.
It has been rumored here to-day
that Mr. McDaniel told a gentleman yes
terday, in Covington, that he was not in
the race, and that the statement of his can
didacy had gotten into the papers through
a misapprehension. The name of the gen
tleman to whom he is said to have told,
this is given, and he is a responsible per
son. I state it simply as a rumor.
Henry county has given a delegation to
Boynton, Banks county to Bacon, and Ber
rien county for A. T. Mclntyre, with Boyn
ton as second choice. This gives Boynton
four counties; one of them in reserve, and
Bacon two. The Columbia county Sentinel,
published at Harlem, puts up Gov. Boyn
tm's name.
Col. Lamar in the Telegraph and Messen
ger of today in an editorial has a para
graph that shows a misconception on his
part of the purpose of my statement that
the sale of the $160,000 of United States
bonds paid by the purchasers of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, at a pre
mium of $20,000 for the State's benefit,
and the redemption of $115,00 of bonds
not yet due, in the beginning of Governor
Boynton’s administration was an auspi
cious financial commencement of his in
cumbency and may be considered an au
gury of the healthful beneficial term he
would give as Governor. The happening
of such a piece of pecuniary good fortune
in the inception of rule is certainly a good
start off in State finances for Governor
Boynton, and may well be considered a
sign that his clean, industrious, practical
and vigilant discharge of Executive duty
will benefit the State.
Dr. Charles F. Deems, the famous New
York minister, has arrived in Atlanta and
lectures to-night on the subject: “The
Two Revelations, or the Bible and Na
t ire.
The hundred acres given by Col. L.
P. Grant as a park to the city of Atlanta
has been named the “L. P. Grant Park."
A park commission has been appointed of
Brotherton, Day and Longley from the
City Council and Col. Grant, S. Root, E.
L. Voorhis, citizens, to manage the park
improvement.
I have just met Dr. Deems. He is a
small, well-preserved, refined looking gen
tleman, with a fine intellectual face and a
pleasant simple manner full of quiet
courtesy. He is devoting the day to look
ing at Atlanta and thinks the town a very
sprucy, wide-awake place.
The Railroad Commission decided in the
matter of freight on brick, that the Georgia
Pacific Railroad should carry for Lockett
& Co. a car load of brick of 25,000 pounds
for five dollars. This allows the brick men
5.0C0 pounds more to the car load for the
same freight. The contestants could not
agree, so the Commission made the settle
ment.
In back letters I have alluded to certain
Western Railroads withdrawing from the
Green Line Clearing House in Atlanta.
The thing is done. After April Ist the
Louisville and Nashville, Illinois Central,
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans, Louis
ville, Cincinnati and Lexington, Mobile
and Montgomery, New Orleans and Mo
bile, Nashville and Chattanooga, Cincin
nati Southern and Lt uisvdle, New Albany
and Chicago roads will not be in the ar
rangement. The Green Line committee
of about 15 railroaders met yesterday. The
Green Line organization south of Chatta
nooga is continued, which includes the
Central Railroad combination, the State
Road, and South Carolina Road, and the
Savannah, Florida and Western lines. The
headquarters will be the rooms of the
Southern Railway and Steamship Associa
tion. The Western roads claim to desire a
nearer and more central point than Atlan
ta. In some respects the disintegration of
the old Green Line is to be regretted. It
was a useful concern in settling freight
complications. Os course roads are gov
erned by their interest. The Western roads
conceived it better for them to arrange dif
ferently. It remains to be seen which is
the wise course.
The Fulton county Democ:atic Execu
tive Committee have settled upon Satur
day, 31st March, to chose gubernatorial
delegates. The polls will be opened from
11 to 4 o’clock. Ten of the committee
were for Boynton and one for Bacon.
Richmond.
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A DEFAULTER’S DEFICIT.
Montgomery, Ala-, March 22. —The Di
rectors of the Merchants and Planters
Bank have been working on the books of
Ray, the late book keeper. When an ex
amination was made by Curtis, the National
Bank Examiner, the deficit was said to be
SIO,OOO. It is now ascertained to be fully
$60,000. The bank will meet the loss by
using $30,000 of the reserve and accumu
lation and by reducing the stock $25,000.
These amounts will obviate any demand
on the stockholders for additional pay
ments. Ray’s bondsmen will pay SIO,OOO.
Speculation in cotton futures, cards ete.,
was the cause of the deficit. The bank
has suficient money to meet all demands.
No run has been made on it and there is
no sign of one,