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(lAlllMES, cuddle doom.
The Hiriiies cuddle doon at nicht,
faut ht an’ din;
,.n try and sleep, ye waukrife rogues,
Your father's cornin’ in.’’
Ti, v uev t heed a word I speak;
r try to gie a froon,
them up, an’ cry,
* o bairnie?, cuddle doon.”
Wee Jamie wi’ the curly heid—
jl>- ,i . ■ sleeps next the wa’,
Bui. - an' cries ‘‘I want a piece”-
The ra-cal starts them a’.
I riu an' fetch them pieces, drinks,
They -top awee the souu’,
Tb» ii the blankets up au’ cry,
eanies, cuddle doon.”
j{ U r. ; ;ive minutes gang, wee Rab
,'riea out, frae ’neath the Caes,
. \iitti• ■ r. muk' Tam gie ower at ance,
'll,.', kit: in' wi' his iaes.”
fpjj C luff’s in that Tam for tricks,
.. it the toon;
But av«- I hap them up an' cry,
*«0, bairnles, cuddle doon.”
it length they hear their faither's fit,
An . a- < ' seeks the door,
Tin-y turn their faces to the wa’,
While Tam pretends to snore.
“Ha- a' the weans been gude?” he asks,
A? he pite ott his shoon.
“1:: n ; rnies, John, are in their beds,
An lang since cuddled doon."
An jast afore we bed oorsels,
We look at our wtc Iambs;
Tam ha- his airm roun - wee Rub’s neck.
An’ Halt his airm roun’ Tam’s.
I lift wee Jamie up the bed.
An’ us 1 straik each croon,
I whisper till my heart fills up,
‘•i>, bairnies, cuddle doon.”
The hairi
Wi’ ini
But sane
irs cuddle doon at uicht
. ’hat’s dear to me;
" big warld’B cark an - care,
Pen doon their glee,
what will to ilaa ane,
who s ts ahoon
:r. though their jjows be bauld,
uies, cuddle doon.”
Ai kx. Anderson.
Affairs in Georgia.
'he • urespoadence between Col. R. A.
Alston and H. I. Kimball discloses the secret
cf Hi Hannibal’s presence in Georgia, and
shews where he gets his money. H. I.
Einball is the agent of the holders of the
tngus Bullock bonds, and ho will make an
them recognized. Aha, Mr.
elfort to
Kimball
T.10 G<
says the guano business in
Athens is larger than it has been since the
war.
Tie Athens Watchman agrees with us in
ref:a-dtothe “ethics” of Atlanta journal
ism. We print another dose elsewhere on
this page.
In • following “ Card of Thanks” appears
“Tlie Rev. D. N. Mc
Millan takes this method of returning his
thanks to his kind mother for a fine mess of
Dr. EJ. Ni wton, the dist inguished agri
culturist who has been editing the Athens
- ’/- in, has skipped off to New York.
Mrs. Carrie Roberts Johnson, late of Ma
con, died at her home in HawkinsviUe on
Tuesday.
Dlue, the colored Representative from
McIntosh county, is a subscriber to the
M jrsi.no News as well as the Darien Gazette.
Wemufct be allowed to tetnark, in this con
nection, that Blue selects his reading matter
with great judgment.
A Berrien county man, aged ninety-nine,
received a letter the other day. Before he
perused it, he explained that it was the only
ene he had received in sixty years. What
happiness must Lave been his 1 And now
to have the spell broken at his time of life.
Dr. Steiner, of Augusta, returned on
Tuesday night from a visit to Hon. A. H.
Stephens, and reports his condition un
changed. He is evidently gradually failing.
The venerable Dr. Pierce is now at Wash
ington, Ga., in improved health, testing the
I'he mineral springs at that place.
value c
From what the editor of the Athens
Batch
i saw along the route trom Athena
to MoLroe—going one road and returning
k v another—ho is inclined to the opinion
that an unusual breadth of land has been
sown in wheat ^ the counties of Clarke,
Oconee and Walton, and it certainly looks
very promising. There is also a large quan-
‘hv jf fall oats sown, and it, too, looks
well.
Tb ■ fleet at Port Royal will thoroughly
test Georgia coal.
A colored child was burned to death near
Covington the other day.
E. C. Wade, while in Thomasville the
Other day, acknowledged himself to be the
»utbor of the lying letter to the Washing-
t'-'V Ikpubiican, an extraot from which we
published some time ago. Commenting on
i -=. the rhoni&sville Enterprise says : “His
‘ttempt to sully the memory of
* aau "ho stands as high above
•u as heaven is above hell, like his
^tempt to injure the reputation of those as
removed from him in honor, honesty
anc j inte « r ity as the east is from the .west,
rebound upon his own head.”
The Georgian learns that Rev. C. D.
KQpbell, at present of QuitmaD, has been
-*u- l to the Baptist Church of Athens.
18 S e Qtleinan, comparatively a young
man ’ 8ai d to be a minister of great
y capacitated by his ex-
& te Christian character, intellectual and
and° r * Cal a ^ ities for his high profession,
f. D ”“ 1,1Iu l ll '-’Stionably give general satia
te tiou in his new field of labor. He
•r.-ity a short time
beft
aking quite a promi-
1 SUnd in his classes.
burgers don’t mind tearing down
» be wail to get in a store.
o-. J Sast» ice factory is now turning
j. lr Band pounds daily,
j, ’‘ na ' Vl ‘le is to have another rice mill,
^r^ring of the South Georgia
^ •‘Cu.tural and Mechanical Association
ake place on the 20th of May. The
quite .ttncuve.
“Eni
Q (leer were started iu a few hours
T r - tl!1 recently.
Umesville r raietle
of that section have finished plant-
eo.i 0 "- ani ^ 80me ^ ew of them have corn
Ql> Iu ^ ryan and Bulloch the
ev er _ are 4 ’ ! r eady, and this week nearly
tta. e .!. aQ .' Vi111)6 Panting. The land in a
aaj Iar ; ° ca8ea has been well prepared,
4 Tp 1 Entities of fertilizers have been
outlook ii
ht.
is very favorable thus
fcv.fi. w.i
torat^ f " arr on has resigned the pas-
Wta. ° tLe Firat Baptist Church of At-
*v erWlIi " ' up : We are very tired of this
hieoi ?f ue gro emigration. Let
^Qgh/and th° d cr ?P negroes is poor
"Nation of hi Uc growing crop has every in-
Jfc&Oes of ti, muc h poorer. The young
**.*, toor- r „? c ^ ntr y are more triflingly
Q -®orali& . llg hlv tricky, and more badly
J uf? older ones; and these
ar, i c j a & hl® as can be—we speak of
S*rofc§ amont' ,A bere are many working
of loavin 8 tb ® m » hut these have no
fjftof them th 8 ** • It u. is onl I Iho shiftless
sooner 18 ^^Posed to leave, and
wih ri(i . of tbi8 element the
**°*Perity C onn 1 ? u ’hite immigration and
E ’H.H a 1Uent th ereto.
I? yo;1 f 0 n t Tc °masville Tiuees : “I
»ed no rJr t, m , en » “oneofyou hain’t
***> Hii 80 I seed a dyeer run
war a BP ike book, an’ he war
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
tily Marshal’s hale
fihht Tuesday in march
«k conn
m°££Ui r b" r “ t8 oE Gr,mnd a* t due 'irdsf
, ISKOV. X WARD.
Mu VTSm mf*
tec, 6 q^rte““ to P rov ™«“-‘, R. Molltuq Tru».
stretched out whell he warn’t bigger’n a
shoestring. Talk about movin’! The sh ad
der on a buzzard a drappin’ to kyarn hain’;
nowher! 1 had a blue speckled houn’ whan
nad a tetch o’ gray houn’ in him, and he war
arter that dyeer. He’d upped ’ini in the thick,
rly liml
an’ here he come a farlv limberin’ through
them flat piney woods. Tore God, hit tuck
my breath away to look at ’im. He’d a cotch
that dyeer too, shore, but jist as he got agin
me he struck a whalin’big piDe plum cen-
terly, head foremost. He stove his splintered
bones three inches iDter the wood I The
lick jarred the pine straw oflTn the top
limbs! When he struck, his bine legs
flopped roun’ the tree an’ I beam the toe
nails what jerked out a rattlin’ agin the
pines fifty yards ahead! Hits a God’s fact. ’
HinesvHle Gazette: One of the very best
things done bj the Legislature was the
abolition of the scheme known as the
Georgia Lottery. The thanks of the coun
try are due Senator Hester for the zeal and
ability he displayed in bringing to light the
great abuses of this bogus chanty institu
tion. It was first organized when the State
was just emerging from her depressed con
dition, and, under the guise of charity to
the widows and orphans of deceased Con-
fedate soldiers, was smuggled through the
Legislature, and the sanction of the
State given to its proceedings. Now
it has come to light that the
orphans have received little or no benefit
from the drawings, while the managers have
received more money than it has taken to
run the State government. We are glad
that the act has been repealed. It is a re
buke from the government to that spirit
which seems io have taken possession of
our people, from the highest to the low
est—getting rich without working for it.
There is the wrong principle, and it is deep-
seated; and it appears in a variety of protean
forms in every department of business. It
shows itself in the homestead, bankrupt
and protection laws, in the spirit of private
speculation, in public corruption, and in
legalized gambling under the cloak of aid
to the children of dead Confederates.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Nooif Telegrams.
SCENES ON .THE SPANISH FRON-
TIER.
GOSSIP ABOrr ATLANTA.
1>Van afarta ring Enterprises— Busi
ness Failures and Building Projects—
Tlie Weal her Delightful—Dr. Carlton’s
University Kill—Ciovernor Conley and
the Post Office—The Atlanta Colton
Factory—Central Railroad Improve
ments—Colonel Virgil Powers as a Rail
road .Superintendent.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Florida Affairs.
We have received a communication from
Tallahasseo which we decline. We have no
desire to make our columns the medium for
praising Stearns and abusing the Rev. John
Tyler. If the Stoarns ring are becoming
frightened let them print their effusions in
Stearns’s organ. The Mousing News has no
interest whatever in tho matter.
Some of the papejp hint that Conover will
probably bo elected to tho penitentiary
pretty soon. Stearns needn’t crow over this,
however.
Storey, of the Chicago Times, is in Flor
ida. His advertising rates are still the
same.
It is intimated in some quarter that the
Rev. William Watkin Hicks aspires to be
Governor. This is not true. On the con
trary, he is a warm friend and supporter of
the Rev. John Tyler, who will be the nomi
nee of the Florida Republicans.
A two-pouud fish dropped from the talons
of an eagle int j the dinner-pot of a family
near Jacksonville the other day. The oc
currence was eE ough to cause a thrill of
jealousy in old Elisha’s shade.
Tho steamer Dictator passed near two
whales on one of her recent trips.
Col. Hart ought to be canonized by tho
travelling public. He has prohibited all
shooting on his Ocklawaha steamers.
Mr. Benjamin F. Daniel, of Quincy, has
invented an improved moth-trap for beo
hives. Above tho lower bee entrance is a
sliding cover through an angular orifice,
which the moth enters after the bee entrance
is closed. The insect is led by a tube into a
compartment from which there is no access
to the hive. The upper bee entrance is
similarly arranged. This device is cheaply
made and claimed to be efficient and useful.
The grass opposite Jacksonville has been
on fire for the past day or two.
The Rev. John Tyler, when ho has occa
sion to allude t3 a colored man, calls him
citizen—as, for instance, Citizen J. R. Bal
lard. This is a new move, and one that
none of the Stearns men have brains enough
to improve upon.
The Jacksonville bad boy # chunks the
mockiDg-birds.
The Jacksonville Press says that the
Sentinel is still engaged in dealing cards,
and “stocking ’ the same iu favor of Stearns,
and in opposition to Conover. Its wonder
ful tenderness in behalf of the State credit
is easily accounted for. We cannot help
wondering if it would manifest the same
degree ol interest, if Conover was not the
rival of SeU-ns, the Last, for gubernatorial
honors. Hinc itt(E lacurymce ! The parties
to the quarrel have our permission to make
a Kilkenny oat fight of tho scrimmage.
“^Then rogues frll out, honest men get their
dues.”
Capt. George N. A. Latham, for thirty
eight years a pilot on Fernaudina bar, ii
dead. /
The Jacksonville Press says that the Ob
server has hauled down the name of its
editors in order that they may praise each
other, and suggest each other as probable
candidates for the Republican nomination.
The landholders and citizens of Leon
county are called to meet at the Court
House in Tallahasse on Saturday, the 11th
instant, for the purpose of organizing an
industrial and immigration society.
Ocala has a colored debating society.
Mr. J. M. Feaster, of Indian river, comes
to the front with a hill of sugar cane, grown
last year on his place, that contained thirty-
eight stalks, which averaged fourteen feet
to the stalk. Several of the stalks meas
ured as long as seventeen feet. The hill of
cane, when ground, fiUed a thirty-eight gal
lon barrel with juice. The number of joints
on the largest stalk was fifty-six, and the
largest stalk measured inches diameter.
The length of the whole number was one
hundred and seventy-five yards. From
three-quarters of an acre he realized *hree
hundred and fifty dollars—the result of the
sale of fourteen thousand seed cane, and
two hundred and qighty gallons of syrup.
The above can be substantiated by twenty
people.
Jacksonville Press : The old-fashioned
game of “Simon says wig-wag,” is gen
erally provocative of a vast amount of fun,
and he who can play it successfully has to
have all his wits about him, and his hearing
remarkably acute. Our Senator in Congress
baa inaugurated this little game into bis
future political arrangements, with a view
of helping himself to a seat in the Guberna
torial chair, and counting largely upon the
colored element, thicks he has a dead
thing of it; but it may be that others beside
himself and friends may have something to
say and do that may checkmate all his
plans.
Falatka Uerald: Very few passengers have
anv knowledge of one of the finest views in
Florida, known as Palatka Heights. It is
situated about one mile from town, it an
elevation of over one hundred feet. The
view from this high ridge takes mat one
glance a scene four miles square, including
the St. John’s river and the eutire town,
with a wide-spreading green plain, having
the appearance of a nairy^econo, and lovely
aa expression ’ ‘ *
beyond
Ere lone we anticipate
a fine drive, a shell road, and rows of orange
trees on the streets now laid out on the ele
vated spot. Just beyond these heights
there is a tract of oonntry most desirable
for settlement, and suitable for orange cul
ture and winter homes for the Northern vis
itors. A prominent Northern gentleman,
who visited the heights, said it was “a most
lovely spot for a hotel or for a pleasant resi
dence.”
The following call is signed by b. Pasco,
Chairman, and C. E. Dyke, Sr., Secretary.
The District Convention of the I irst Con
gressional District will be held at the same
time and place as the State Convention, to
w” at Qa.uoy, in ttadsden county, on
Wednesday, June 21st, the hour for the as
sembling of the same to be fixed hereafter,
for the purpose of nominating a candidate
'or Representative in Congress for said
District, to be voted ior at the next general
election, and to appoint District delegates to
tho Presidential Convention of the Demo
cratic party. The counties will bo governed
by the same rules in selecting their delegates
as have been laid down by the State Com
mittee in their call, and they will have the
right to send the same sot of delegates to
both conventions, or a separate set to eadh,
mad^to pass t&m-SSSSM? £nve£
^srion^Distxiet^cd| oIgamMtion oI
«ber«*y. -
DON
CARLOS ON HIS
ENGLAND.
WAY TO
Kioi?
Alfonso to Have a Scries of
Bull Fights.
A DOMINICAN PRESIDENT OUSTED.
FROM SPAIN.
London, March 1. - -There is great rejoic-
ng in Seville, Cadiz and the entire south of
Spain. The streets of Cadiz are illuminated
every night.
It is said that 50,000 soldiers will go to
Cuba to subdue the insurrection.
London, March 1.—A special dispatch to
the JJaUy Xe»cs from Paris says Don Carlos
vnll arrive there on Thursday. He will
then proceed to Calais, where a yacht is
waiting to carry him to England.
London, March 1.—A special telegram
from Madrid to the Newt states that thirty
thousand men will be sent to Cuba imme
diately. There will be three days bull fights
and other festivities on the entry of the
roval troops into Madrid.
The Spanish Embassy :tt Paris positively
denies that ex-Queen Isabella has any politi
cal motive in visiting Spain. She goes at
the r. quest of King Alfonso. It is stated
that Isabella will go to C'aravancbel, near
Madrid, immediately after King Alfonso’s
return from the nort®.
THE CAUL!ST COLLAPSE.
Paris, March 1.—Letters give curious ac
counts of the scenes on the Spanish frontier.
Whole bauds enter Frauce for internment.
Some of the refugees are entirely destitute.
Others bring horses and mules, for
which tliei e is no sale. The battalions of Na
varre, Alava and Guipuzeon have disbanded,
some asking amnesty and others entering
Franco. The officers accompanying Don
Carlos are w’ell supplied with money and
arms. Don Carlos does not seem depressed.
He betrays neither despair nor a desire for
revenge.
THE NEW YORK EXPRE88.
New* York, March 1.—It is stated that
certificates of the incorporation of the New'
York Express Company were tiled with the
county clerk yesterday. The company
is to be managed by Erastus Brooks,
J. W. Brooks, Augustus Schell,
Frederick Smyth ami Samuel Marsh,
who have been elected trustees. a he
company is to continue for fifty years from
the :26th of January last. The Express will
go into the hands of its new managers to
day. Mr. Erastus Brooks remains as editor
and publisher.
FROM SANTO DOMINGO.
New York, March 1.—A San Domingo
dispatch says that Gonzales, having been
twice defeated in battle, has retired from
the city. He was tried by the Legislature
and acquitted. He resigns the Presidency
and will leave the country. The provisional
government was re-established on the 23d
uit.
FROM ROME.
Rome, March 1.—The bills of exchange
for forty thousand dollars, negotiated under
pretence, were drawn for tlie accommoda
tion of King. King’s name was forged to
tho bills discounted at the bank iu Cologne.
The sole perpetrator is the Marquis Maule-
gazza, of Milan, who confessed.
KELLOGG.
New Orleans, February 29.—The indica
tions are that there will be lively times to
morrow over the impeachment business.
The House may proceed in a body to the
Senate and demand the impeachment of
Kellogg.
DEAD.
Philadelphia, Pa., March 1.—Camille D.
Invilliers, a prominent member of the Board
of Brokers of this city, and a director of the
Philadelphia aud Erie Railroad Company,
died this morning.
A PHENOMENAL INFANT.
But Four Years of Age, He IV'ouies All
the Planets* Repeats Ancient and
Modern History, Ktc.
[Boonville (Mo.) Advertiser.]
James Martin Williams, a beautiful lit
tle boy residing with his parents in this
city, has lately given evidences of powers
of memory that astonish every one. He
is not yet four years old, and only learned
his letters a few months since. Unlike
most persons who possess one faculty far
in excess of others, he is perfect in all.
His eye bespeaks intelligence, his mind is
well matured in everything for his age,
and in his demeanor he is child-like and
.winning. Recently a reporter of the
Advertiser visited him at his home,
and with others witnessed his most
wonderful answers to questions given
him by his father. Sitting on his father’s
knee, he gave prompt replies to his
parent, telling the names of all the
planets, their characteristics, their dis
tance from the sun, and position in
heaven. In history £• proved to be a
very encyclopedia of knowledge. The
ancient kings, their wars, the rise and
fall of the Roman empire, the career of
Bonaparte, the times of the death and
the age of the rulers of England; the
settlement of this country, and similar
facts, were as familiar to him as the al
phabet to an older person. He named
the capital of every State in the Union,
aud of every foreign country, and evinced
a knowledge of the Scriptures, the only now
parallel of which was Christ in the tem
ple. He repeated whole chapters in the
Bible, and spoke in a child-like manner,
just as though rattling off the veriest
common place remarks of other children
of his age.
The first indication of this marvelous
faculty came to his parents in this way.
They are religious people and each morn
ing read from the Scriptures before prayer.
Shortly after the exercises one morning—
several months ago—his mother was as
tonished to hear him repeating, word for
word, the lines from the Bible which she
had read an hour or so before. She
called him to her and found he could
recite other portions of the Holy Book.
She commenced teaching him his letters,
and in an hour &Dd a half he had learned
the whole. He progressed with wonder
ful rapidity and soon could spell. A phy-
siciau was consulted, and they were
advised to keep the boy away from books
and not allow him to study, as his health
would not allow it. Since that time he
has been read to by his father, and now
remembers everything he has heard.
Mf. Stiles’s successful solution of qui
nine in cod-liver oil, for medical pur
poses, is attracting a considerable degree
of attention in the European scientific
press—as indicating a valuable and con
venient method of administering other
alkaloids. The invention consists simply
in using pure oleic acid as a solvent for
the sulphate of quinine, and then mixing
the solution with the cod-liver oil. Oleic
acid is quite tasteless and physiologically
inert.
A Teacher Breaks a Boy’s Skull.—
Charles Hook, a pupil in a school at
Leighton, Michigan, was badly beaten
by his teacher, and his skull was broken
iu two places. Monday morning the boy
came to school with the intention of
breaking up the school, and no blame is
felt toward the teacher, as Hook’s con
duct was villainous.
Atlanta, February 29, 1876.
Now that the LegLlature has ad
journed, by which I am relieved of quite
a daily burden of care, I desire to give
your readers a few notes about; local mat
ters here in the “Gate City.”
The Legislature, during the session
just closed, chartered the Atlanta Spin
ning Company and the Harper Sewing
Machine Company, both of which pro
pose to go into operation as soon as
possible.
Senator Jones’s mammoth ice factory
is preparing for a summer campaign. It
is a very costly and handsome structure,
such as no man who was not a millionaire
would invest a fortune in. The Super
intendent, however, says it is bound to
succeed, and that “there’s millions in it.”
The Scofield Rolling Mill is still in
operation, Governor Brown and others
controlling its affairs, but the former
proprietor, whose name it bears, told me
to-day that he has made his arrange
ments to establish a new rolling mill at
Chattanooga, Tenn.*, where he has already
purchased a site for its erection.
Several additional failures have oc
curred here during the past.week and
others are daih expected. The extensive
grocery establishment of A. K. Seago,
one of the oldest and best known in the
city, is “closed for repairs”—that is, to
repair, if possible, the credit of its bank
rupt proprietor. He was largely engaged
in advancing to farmers and planters.
Although there i3 a great number of
vacant stores m all parts (even the best
business portions) of the city, new build
ings are being erected for business pur
poses. This looks as though capitalists
have faith in the future of Atlanta. Hon.
John H. James is putting up a handsome
building between his banking house and
James’s Hall.
The Governor has signed the bill grant-
ing right of way through or around the
Okefenokee Swamp, with certain lands
therein named, to the Mexican Gulf Canal
Company, of which Gen. Jos. E. Johns -
ton. of your city, and Gen. Lifayette
McLaws, of Augusta, are corporators. It
promises to be quite an important enter
prise.
The weal her is simply delightful, and
no one thinks of going to Florida while
it continues so. Open doors auu win
dows, sunshine and summer breezes, al
most make us feel that winter has indeed
finished its course, and balmy spring is
here to bless us with its ever welcome
attractions. But I fear there are many
cold and blustering days yet in store for
us before the spring-time really greets us
again.
Dr. Carlton’s bill to reorganize the
University of Georgia is highly approved
here by the best friends of that venerable
institution. While the proposed Board of
Trustees may seem large, the actual con
trol of the University will be in the hands
of a sub-board of regents, eighteen in
number, which is about half as many as
compose the present Board of Trustees.
It is now with the Judges of the Supreme
Court and the present Board to give effi
cacy to the new organization by the elec
tion of gentlemen of high character and
known ability to compose the new Board.
THE ATLANTA COTTON FACTORY.
The recent visit to this city of several
cotton manufacturers of Massachusetts,
who came “up the canal” from Augusta,
reminds me that I have neglected to no
tice the progress of the Atlanta Cotton
Factory enterprise. Despite th€ great
financial pressure and the failure of
many of the stockholders to pay in their
monthly installments, the work on this
building has reached an important
point. The foundations of the entire
factory are laid in a broad and
substantial manner, and the base
ment story walls run up to the head
of. the second story. The extension
building, however, which is, I think, five
stories high, has been completed, and of
itself would make quite a good factory.
Work is suspended just at this time, but
legal proceedings are to be at once insti
tuted to compel the defaulting stockhold
ers to pay in their installments. It is
hoped, therefore, that work will soon be
resumed and the entire project pushed to
a speedy completion.
CENTRAL RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT.
The preparation of the site for the new
cotton factory offered a rare chance to
some person to secure a large quantity of
dirt which was being excavated. The
Central Railroad took advantage of the
opportunity, and with but little expense
succeeded in running a dirt train to the
immense gully near their freight depot on
Mitchell street. Heavy stone culverts
were put down, and in a few weeks near
ly one-half of the square was filled up to
a level with the street. A solid stone
foundation was also laid for a round
house and turn-table, and the latter is
being put in place. I refer to
this improvement because it is
cne of the most valuable and
important that has come uuder my
notice in any part of the city, and I am
suie that the property of the Central
Railroad in this city will be greatly en
hanced thereby. The space thus im
proved lies directly on Mitchell street,
and forms an entire block, and in time
will become a very desirable piece of
ground. Cel. Virgil Powers, of Macon,
in addition to his responsible duties as
Superintendent of the two Southwestern
Railroad branches from that city to
Eufaula and Columbus, is also Superin
tendent of the Macon and Western
branch to this city. He is not only a
Christian gentleman and an honored citi.
zen, but, in the management of a rail
road, he has few equals. He works qui
etly and without seeking newspaper no
toriety, yet his successful management
of three important lines of travel, which
have two or three extensions, u> the best
testimonial to his ability and fidelity.
The Central, therefore, at the end of the
line, is ail right. Chatham.
THE
“ ETHICS ” OF ATLANTA
JOURNALISM.
ANOTHER EDITOR ON THE STAND.
AN INTERESTING LETTER
KIMBALL.
Hi Hannibal and the “Eqnit?”
Bollock Bonds.
We present the following testimony
taker before the Legislative committee
appointed to investigate the charges of
bribery made against the State Road
R. A. Alston, on the stand. Cross-ex
amination by Gov. Brown:
Q.—Did you hear the evidence given by
me in reference to the money paid by me to
certain newspapers for making publications
during th6 controversy about the les se ?
A.—Yes, sir. I have hear^ the whole of it.
Q.—According to the custom of journal
ism, I will ask you wheth-r there was aDy
impropriety in either ol the representatives
of those papers I have mentioned receiving
the money under the^ lrcumstances given
by me in my testimony ?
A.—I can only reply that as to the impro
priety of it every man must judge for him
self. I say it is unusual, and I know of no
such custom.
Q.—Dc- jon know of any instance where
newspaper men have refused to receive
money for making such publications.
A.—I do. The Herald has refused as much
as $5,000 to make such publications at ooe
time, and at another, $2,000. I have the
proposition in writing from a high official,
and we refused to do it because we did not
think it proper, and that, too, when we were
so poor we didn’t know where we were to
get the money to pay our hands with.
Q.—Allow me, now, since you have refer
red to the Herald, (the committee would not
have let me ask otherwise,) if the Herald
has not agreed to take money for making
publications iu advocacy of any great meas
ure where private interests are involved?
A.—No, sir. I suppose I know what you
refer to—you mean this bill of thG Texas
and 1’acific Railroad Company. I published
the bill and received a letter from General
J. G. Walker, general agent of the road, tell
ing me not to draw on them through the
bank, but to send my bill on and they would
pay it. I answered that I bad nothing to
conceal about the matter, and I did draw on
them and get my money.
Q.—Didn’t you receive pay for doing more
than publishing the bil-?
A.—I have received more money from
them; as much as $500. Aud I had the ex
pectation of a considerable amount of money
if I got the Legislature ot Georgia to pass a
resolution endorsing the bill, but to every
man whom I approached upon the subject I
stated that fact. I told a member that if
tho bill went through Congress that I ex
pected to receive pay, and for my sake I
wished him to withdraw his objections, and
he said ho would do so.
Q.—You admit that you did have a con
tract by which the Herald was to receive a
large sum in the event a resolution could bo
carried through this Legislature endorsing
that measure ?
A.—No, sir. I did not say the Herald—I
said R. A. Alston.
O.—You have approached members of tbe
General Assembly upon the subject ?
A.—I have approached members upon
that subject.
Q.—You told them that you would be
benefited if it did pass.
A.—I did.
Q.—At the time General Walker was here
representing the Texas and Pacitic Railroad
Company was not a contract entered into
between yourself and Mr. Burns, business
manager of the Herald, and General Walker,
agent of tbe company, by which jouweio
to receive a certain compensation for tbe
advocacy of the measure, and, in the event
of its final success, were to receive ten
thousand dollars.
A.—I do not know of any such thing.
Q.—Was not such a contract entered into
by you ?
A.—I state emphatically there was no
such thing.
Q.—Did you not get a two hundred and
fifty dollar draft from General Walker ?
A.—Mr. Burns got it but General Walker
stopped it.
Q.—But you got the money for it ?
A.—Yes, sir. General Walker said ho
went into the Constitution office and wanted
them to publish the article, and thev would
not do it unless Le paid them $500, which he
refused to give them.
Q.—And you published it for $250?
A.—No, sir; I did not.
Q.—What was that $250 for, then?”
A.—It was for publishing certain commu
nications, among them Beauregard’s letter,
aud other papers which he was to Bend me
when he got back home, aud was paid as
part advance on a contract at twenty-five
cents per line.
Q.—The articles published were not mark
ed as advertisements?
A.—No, sir.
Q.—'None of them were so marked?
A.—No, sir; none of them.
Q.—Do I understand yo.; to say that you
made no contract about a fee conditional?
A.—Absolutely there was not.
Q.—Did Mr. Burns, or others, make it for
the Herald? •
A.—Not to mv knowledge.
Q.—Mr. Burns was business manager of
the Herald at the time, was he not ?
A.—Yes, sir; very unfortunately, he was.
Q.—I desire to ask you whether there was
any arrangement between you and Mr. H. I.
Kimball, in which you agreed to advocate a
line of adjustment in reference to certain
discredited bouda of the State, and their
payment by the State, if he could get you a
loan of a certain amount of money ?
A.—I had nothing to do with that loan.
A.—The Herald has always advocated it,
and I have always been advocating it, and
one year ago I got a resolution introduced
by Mr. Walsh, and passed through the Leg
islature, endorsing it.
Q.—Wasn’t it & part of the contract with
the Herald that it was to advoca:o the
measure ?
A.—No, sir. General Walker said to me
that we had always been with them and he
wanted us to publish the articles. I told
him that we had, and that I had friends aud
relatives interested in the matter, and re
garded it as & great public work.
Q.—In the (hatter of the resolution before
the General Assembly you acted as a lob
byist?
A.—No, sir; I acted, I suppose, as an at
torney.
Q.—Was you an attorney at law or an at
torney in fact?
A.—I do not know which—I am an attor
ney at law.
Q.—I will ask you, then, whether you
think there was any impropriety in these
gentlemen—Col. Lester, Mr. Knight, Col.
Fielder and Col. Simmons—taking the money
paid them in this matter?
A.—(The committee did not permit the
answer to be recorded.)
Gov. Brown.—I desire then to state to the
committee that there was no contract or
agreement with any one of the newspapers
named by me concerning their editorial
columns, but only for the use of their gen
eral columns, and that I have tried to prove
by Colonel Alston, who is au editor and pro
prietor himself, that there was nothing im
proper or unusual iu their taking money for
that service. He says he is also an attor
ney, and I only desired to prove by him the
ethics of the profession upon tbe other
point.
(The committee still refused to record the
answer.)
Q.—I will ask you if th6 Scannell loan was
not made through Mr. H. I. Kimball ?
A.—I suppose it was. When he came
down here and went back North, he was
gone about two weeks, when ho telegraphed
that it was all right and that we could get
the money. I did not know who he got the
money from, but learned that it was from
the Commercial Warehouse.
Q.—You started to state something about
the Centennial; have you any objection to
stating about your getting money from
that?
A.—I never received one dime, nor the
promise of a dime from it.
Q.—Did you not have tho promised $1,000
for getting Mr. Ed. Mercer a position there
for his beer saloon, or something of the sort.
A.—That was a different matter. Mr.
Mercer promised me to give me $1,000 to got
him the position, and I went on with him
and did so, and I applied the money for the
Herald, as I considered I had used my time
which was due to it for the purpose.
R. A. Alston.
Colonel Avery recalled. Examined by
Governor Brown.
Q.—Were you running the Herald in
March, 1874?
A.—I did not come in, I think, until the
26th of April, 1874.
Q.—Wasn’t tbe Scannel loan obtained
through tbe influence of Mr. H. I. Kimball ?
A.—1 think it was. I remember that he
had something to do with it, but as to the
correspondence between Mr. Kimball and
Colonel Alston I knew nothing of.
(Other questions were asked, but, by order
of the chairman, were not recorded).
I. W. Avery.
Col. Avery got it.
Q.—Wasn’t there certain communications
Another Defaulting Treasurer.—A
special to the Cincinnati Commercial
from Wooster, Ohio, says J. R. Helnian,
the county treasurer, absconded Friday
night. A partial examination of his
books shows a deficit of about $60,000.
Helman is President of the Farmers’
Bank of Wooster, and has heretofore
borne an unblemished reputation.
Mr. William Floyd, a resident of
Westemville, N. Y., and a son of Gen.
Floyd, one of tbe signers of the Declara
tion of Independence, has in his possess
ion the pen with which that document
was signed. It was made from the quill
of & Scotch goose, and is twioe the size'
of those which glow in Ibis country.
The Chinese on the Pacific coast and in
the territories of the Rocky Mountains
are introducing the practice of opium
smoking among the American miners.
Tho restless miners and speculators,
when overwrought by excitement, find
oblivion in the habit. We have heard of
a good many Americans out there making
experiments in the opium habit, but, so
far as we have noticed, they .generally ex
press themselves disgusted with the re
sult. There is little danger of opium in
toxication superseding liquor drunkenness
as a natural vice. The conditions of
Western life, and the temperament of
the people, are unfavorable to any such
change. A passive race, fond of revery,
like the Chinese, are much more easily
brought under the seductions of opium
smoking than a full-blooded, impetuous,
restive race, like the Americans, who are
more apt to enjoy the frenzy induced by
the drinking of fiery liquors.
A terrible scandal has just been devel
oped in Hoboken, N. J., which is so
monstrous as to be almost incredible. It
appears that fi 1* young ladies, each un
known to the other, and residing in dif
ferent parts of the city, hare informed
Justice White that a well-known resident
of that city had won their confidence,
and, under promise of marriage, had
effected their ruin. The girls, who are
respectably connected, wept bitterly, and
implored the Sudge to find^some method
of punishment for the villain by the
strong arm of the law. The Judge was
unable to be of any service to them, as
the man had fled from the city and gone
West
had with Mr. J. C. Kimball about it,
which you were agreeing to run on that
line ?
A.—I do not remember ever having any
thing to say to Mr. J. C. Kimball about it.
Q.—Did not the parties representing that
loan be-jin, about tne last of March, 1874, to
made advances to tho Herald at tho rate of
$300 per week ?
A.—No, sir; I do not remember of getting
one cent from them.
Q.—Not from Mr. J. C. Kimball, nor from
the Commercial Warehouse Company ?
A.—No, sir, not one dime.
Q.—Nor from Mr. S :annell ?
A.—No, sir; I never heard of Mr. Scannell
until a few days ago, and I still believe him
to be a myth.
Q.—Wasn’t that done at your own sugges
tion because you did not want the transac
tion known.
A.—No, sir; absolutely and positively it
was not.
Q.—You say there were no communications
between you and Mr. Kimball about getting
a loan for you in tbe North ?
A.—Yes, sir, there were upon the subject
of getting a loan for me in the North. That
was at the time of the Toombs matter, and
ho got tbe loan from Mr. John E. Ward on
the faith of the friendly feeling and confi
dence felt by Mr. Ward in Mr. I. W. Avery.
Mr. Kimball told me this when Col. Avery
was about leaving the paper, and advised
me not to let him go, but said I had better
keep him on that account.
Q.—Did not Mr. H. I. Kimball send you a
letter under cover to his brother, J. C:
Kimball, and which letter was read to you by
Mr. J. C. Kimball and probably retiiued by
him, in which Mr. H. I. Kimball stated sub
stantially that he was not able to advance
you the money himself, but that ho could
get it for you if you agreed with him about
the policy of “State aid” and the question of
adjustment of these bonds ?
A.—I state absolutely and positively that
I never saw such a letter.
Q.—Did you never reply to them?
A.—I never did. I never wrote Kimball a
word upon the subject in my life.
Q.—Is that letter iu your hand-writing ?
(presenting a letter to Mr. Alston.)
A.—(After examining the letter.) It is.
It is dated March 7th, 1874; the loan was
made August 21st.
Q.—I will ask you if Mr. John C. Kimball
didn’t read you this letter? (presenting an
other letter.)
A,—(After examining it.) I have read
these letters. I thought when you asked
me about this matter that you referred to
correspondence about tbe loan. This mat
ter had escaped my memory, as it occurred
nearly seven months before the loan.
Q.—You wrote the one in reply to the
other ?
A.—Yes, sir; I wrote the one in reply to
the other, and the only thing about *the
letters that brings a blush on mj cheeks is
that they show me to have been so intimate
with such a set of rascals.
[Letters below in the appendix ]
Q.—Did you receive $300 per month, or
any other sum, monthly or weekly, from
Mr. H. I. Kimball, or by Mr. John C. Kim
ball?
A.—We frequently had transactions, bor
rowing and repaying money between us;
that, is Col. Avery, who was manager, did.
Q.—Did you ever repay the amounts that
John C. Kimball advanced to you?
A.—I think there is $100 due him yet, on
a note signed by CoL Averv, and which has
been renewed several times, and (to CoL
Avery) Mr. J. C. Kimball mentioned, to me
once something about a pUno, Colonel, and
. - , * - — you had not paid
APPENDIX.
LETTER OF H. I. KIMBALL TO B. A. ALSTON.
Newton, Mass., March 7, 1874.
It. A. Alston, Esq.:
My Dear Sib—Your letter of tbo 4th,
with statements from your manager as
stated, is just at hand, and I hasten to re
ply. I sympathize with you fully, and if it
was in my power I certainly would respond
to your call. I believe what you say, and
feel that you are my friend and would stand
by me personally to the bitter end; there
fore, if it was in my power I would readily
assist you, but tbe fact is that I have been
working very hard to establish a business
here, that would within a few years yield an
income lor my family, and starting as I didl
without means, it is, as you can understand,
a hard struggle. Therefore, I am powerless
to aid you, except possibly I may do so
through friends. Should I return to Geor
gia, I should be very much please to have
the moral support of such a strong paper as
tho Herald, and while you might be per
sonally friendly, you might not agree with!
me in the policy I pursued. If, therefore, I
am to make any effort with my friends iu I
your behalf, I think we must first under
stand just how each other stands on impor
tant questions which would be verv likely
to arise should I return. Of course, I should |
not return to take any inferior position)
for I am well aware that whatever I do will
be severely criticised—that I expect, and
should not go unless I can commaud capi
tal and position. I should not engage in
any scheme or give countenance to any en-
terpribe that I do not believe to be wise and
just. Still you might honestly differ with
me. Incase the Herald agreed with me
in “principle and policy” I should be very
glad to be instrumental in lifting it out of
what seems to be a very embarrassing
financial condition, and place it high above
any such contingency as is suggested in Mr.
Smith’s letter. You know that I think the
policy of repudiation has been a curse to the
State, and just throttles every enterprise
that requires outside capital. I have been,
and am still, a believer in “State aid” and a
liberal policy toward rai-road enterprises.
I do not say that this policy has not been
somewhat overdone, but the policy wisely
exercised is correct. Your people are too
poor and have not the means to develop
your resources, and they can never get it
until they recognize what is honestly due for
the benefit already received. State aid is
practically for the State what you want for
the Herald. You want more ready caste. If
you have it on a credit you are confident
that you can pay interest and all expenses
and the principal in lese than forty years
(the time the bonds have to run). The
Central Railroad influence has done more to
injure the State than all the abuse of “State
aid” policy.
Take the case of the Union Pacific Rail
road. It never could have been built but
for the aid of the government, but now that!
it is built, the government would be a hun
dred times better off even if they had to pay
every dollar guaranteed than they would
have been with no road and no pay.'
But save making an argument, I intended
no such thing; I merely intended to say that
\ I appreciate the value of a lire, influential
newspaper like the Herald, and if the Herald\
believes in the foily of repudiation and the
wisdom of “State aid” and would dovote its
columns to advocating such a policy and
such special enterprises as met its favor,
then I could consistently promise my assist
ance in procuring such aid as would make
the Herald financially strong and independent.
This, understand, is not written for the pur
pose of making any bid for your influence,
for I am not authorized or even inclined to
do so, but simply in reply to your urgent
letter, and to assure you of my personal
friendship as well as my personal financial
inability to aid you, but to show you a line
which if in perfect accord with your views
might be successful.
I am not attempting to convert you to my
views, but if you candidly and honestly be
lieve as I do on these subjects, then 1 can
work for you. If you do not, I cannot, in a
business point of view, though personally I
hope we may always be friends. I will mail
this to J. C., and write him to talk the whole
matter up; he understands my views. Ex
cuse this long letter, and hereafter be free
I to address me upon any subject, and be
lieve me, Truly your friend,
H. I. Kimball.
erally conceded that these bonds, instead of j
being utterly repudiated, as they now are,
ought to have a hearing, bat as yet nobody
has been bold enough who had any character
to lose to “bell the cat.” There is but one
way in which this matter can be approached
with any possible hope of success, and it
is needless to say that you aYe the only
man living who can do it. Let those who
are interested send you here with power
and authority to carry out in good faith the
enterprises on which these securities are
based, and the change in public sentiment
will be as rapid and as radical as the re
action that occurred when you ieft. A new
Legislature is to be elected in November
next. Let this change of sentiment take
place in time to operate on this approaching
Legislature, and my word for it tho fair
name of Georgia will bo redeemed from
even the appearance of wrong. God knows
I do not insinuate that you should attempt
any appeal except to reason and justice.
To do this you must have a press, in the
hands of gentlemen, au estaolished press
with power and the independence to speak
the truth. Such a paper ii the Atlanta
Herald. It now has a circulation euperior
to any paper in Georgia. If I could get
money enough to run it ten weeks without
my presence, so as to enable me to leave hero
and canvass the State, which I would do
until next fall, I feel certain that I could
treble the present subscription. I would
need no men. In saying this it is bat due
to myself to Btate that 1 am not actuated by
selfish motives. I have performed a miracle
m carrying on the paper to this time. I can
now sell it for enough to let mb out, and I
would have done it but for my interest in
young Grady.
It is a matter that I can afford to drop,
but I speak to you with frankness when I
tell you that this paper wiil be worth a hun
dred thousand dollars to you in the future.
As a piece of property, the gross income is
now upwards of eighty thousand, and tho
expenses not exceeding fifty. You say: then
how is it that you are hard up ? I can
readily explain. I started with nothing but
the little property I had and my credit. I
ran it during its early beginning at an ex
pense of over $1,200 and even as high as
$1,500 per week. This was all cash. A
debt of over twenty-seven thousand daUars
($27,000) accumulated,and most of this^nfot
on call.
When we were regarded as hopelessly in
solvent, I had rest and indulgence. I com
menced to make money and pay off. I
have paid off nearly $17,000 and bonded
six thousand. The remainder of about two
to three thousand dollars is in small sums
that have been sued iu justice’s courts aud
aro pressing me to tho wall. I want my
paper on thirty days, even when it is offered,
for I will not promise money when I see no
certainty of some way to pay it.
I must have help, and that soon, or I can
not see how I can longer escape having
my paper advertised. Once done, and tho
good will is seriously affected.
New is the time that 1 need his help more
than I ever can do again. I do not plead
for it on my own account, as I remarked
previously. I can sell an interest for enough
to relieve me, but I do not desire to do this;
besides I have a splendid plantation ti>
which I can return aud live in ease.
If I had ten thousand d liars I could go
out in the country and collect it in subscrip
tions iu a short time.
Answer as soon as you can, and let mo
know the prospects. I do not write a letter
to any one on any subject of this character
that I am not willing tor the whole world to
see. When I take a position, I do so de
liberately, and am always willing to abide
the result. Yours, very truly,
(Signed) R. A. Alston.
P. S.—I am SDiicitcd by quite a number
of my friends in this district to run for
Congress. I feel very sure of being able to
make the trip, but 1 am undecided in view
of the present whether to make the effort
for Congress or whether I could not be of
more service to my State by going to the
Legislature. Yours,
(Signed) R. A. A.
THE BABCOCK TRIAL.
CALHOUN WARD.
1 * nii Improvements,
ueo. \\. Anderson, Jr., 1 rustee, 7 quarters,
vveat one-half °f Lot\o.Sand liniimv,-meets,
r v- AndeI80D . Jr*. Trustee, 7 quart on* ^
Lot No. 6 and improvements, mrnt. \ n*.
Rum or.i and Statenirnts after the Bur-
tie—A Prominent Wilneaa Not Used—
The District Attorney’s Silence—.llfc-
UotmM*s Dole—Corrupt Jurors.
complained to me that
Q.—Well, about this Texas and Pacific
Railroad matter, was it not understood that
yon were to advocate it in tbe Htratd and
wtlljoaemUiath* AroU to that
LETTER OF R. A. ALSTON TO H. I. KIMBALL.
Atlanta, Ga., March 30,1874.
H. I. Kimball :
Dear Sib—Your letter in reply to mine of
former date, under care to your brother J»
C. Kimball, was duly received and has been
carefully and deliberately considered. I
thank you for the frankness with which you
express your views aa to the relations which
must govern us in any future transactions.
It does honor to your head and heart. I
beg leave to reply with the same frankness
and to state to you that I am fully in accord
with your views. I was an old Whig, and
while I believe in the abstract, that the
whole duty of government is discharged
when it affords protection to person and
aroperty, and leaves all else to regulato
tsoif, yet this view in the present situation
of the country, and especially in reference
to our situation in Georgia, is wholly im
practicable and would stop very far short
of enabling ns to develop the resources of
this country during the present century to
any reasonable extent.
Repudiation, or even the odor of repudia
tion, is very distasteful to a large majority
oi the neople of Georgia. To be placed on
the defensive, to be placed in a situation
where it even becomes necessary to explain
why our obligations, no matter how they
accrued, are not met, is a tore pill to every
true Georgian. Thousands who think and
feel this way were deterred from expressing
their opinions by the tremendous reaction
which followed your failure and Bullock’s
flight. Calm, sober reason is now reassum
ing the sway which they surrendered for
many months.
Your return to Georgia and the dignified
good sense that characterizes every move
ment you made while you were here has
done as much, if not more, than all else to
restore the equilibrium of public justice.
The cry of “Bullock bonds” and “fraudulent
bondholders”no longer has power to frigh ten
an houest man from sober argument and
the eoosidan&on of raoh questions aa at-
The Bro ikljm Connell’s Report.
The New York papers make but brief
editorial reference to the result of the
deliberations of the Plymouth Church
advisory council. The Herald says:
“The advisory council, delivered itself
last ev-uing of the result of its delibera
tions, supporting Plymouth Church in
its applicant of its disciplinary rules,
and coupling the report a proposi
tion to form a commute of five for full
and final inquiry into thettul*- **• cv *andal.
We shall see how this is met by Plymouth
Church fsnd by Mr. Beecher. The coun
try is under the impression that the
truth has not been known. Here is
chance to place the perjury and hypocrisy
where they belong, and to say whether
the once universally revered pastor is an
adulterer or simply a gushing blunderer
with a heart too large for his head. This
as to the scandal; but, no matter what
the issue of the inquiry, Mr. Beecher’s
usefulness as a Christian minister is at an
end. It cannot be restored. He mourns
for himself as one about to die.
The New York 'Tribune says : “Ply
mouth Church should be well satisfied
with the resolutions, which sustain its
positions and acts throughout, even ac
cording praise for thoroughness to the
investigating committee of 1874. The
*scandal bureau’ is, however, to be or
ganized, and five distinguished Congre
gatioualists are to have the flood poured
into their ears during a session of sixty
days. They haye our sympathies.”
The New York World saj6-. “The
general public is most concerned with the
proposition to renew investigation into
the scandal. This proposed investigation
will be secret in name, and is open to all
comers for sixty days. It is, of course,
a church investigation. Even in such a
tribunal (which has the peculiar quality
that a disappointed suitor may turn and
rend the ‘bench’), accusers may not lack
but we doubt if any church investigation
will throw new light on this lamentable
case. ”
The New York Sun, strongly anti-
Beecher, says: “Since the beginning of
our era there has been many church
councils, aud the creed of Christendom
has often been formulated and revised,
but never has the article been proposed
that adultery and perjury work no dis
qualification for the ministry. The ad
visory council deserves such credit as the
promulgation of the new article should
receive. This doctrine, however, must
not be regarded as applicable to Chris
tianity. It is the first article of faith of
the new creed of Beecherism, which is
known as the gospel of true inwardness.
St. Lons, February 26, 1876.—It h :
ing a well known fent that D. W. D. Bar.
nard. Bank Commissioner Df this city and
cousin of General Grant, was a witness
before ;he grand jury against Babcock, a
good deal of curiosity has been expressed
to find out why he was rot used on the
trial. District Attorney Dyer was inter
viewed on the subject to-day. He said
it was true that Barnard was a witness
for the government before the grand jury,
and that the indictment was partly based
on his svidence, but declined to state why
he was not put on the stand. Dyer said
that Bernard had suddenly changed his
mind on the subject, and that it was a
matter which could not be properly dis
cussed now.
Among those who sent their congratu
lations -.o General Babcock yesterday was
General McDonald, who occupies a cell
in the counly jail. McDonald says if liis
trial hud been as fair as Babcock’s, aud
had the Judge’s instruction been so lib
eral, he would never have been convicted.
A goed deal of talk is being made about
the corruption of the Babcock jury, and
the air is full of rumors on that subject.
Some important developments are prom
ised about this jury, and also the juries
in the preceding whisky trials. The
Evening Dispatch of t*)-day says: “In
this connection it may not be improper
to say that some startling revelations are
about to be made in relation to some of
the jurors who have served in the whisky
trials. It is asserted that on one of the
juries was a man who occupied a position
under the government and who actually
subpoenaed the members of the jury upon
which he sat. Other equally strange
things are talked of, which may oome up
shortly.’’
A VISIT TO M’DONALD.
Quite u sensation was created here to
day by the statement that on tbe night of
the day General Bubcock was acquitted
he made a secret trip in a closed carriage
to the county jail, and had a conference
with General McDonald. Judge Krum
of his counsel was interviewed on the
subject to-night, and admitted that Bab
cock did visit McDonald. He said: “We
did go to the jail to see McDonald, but
so far from there being any secrecy about
it, as might be inferred from the state
ment made, we went in a hack from tho
hotel at six o’clock in the evening, and
with no attempt at concealment whatever
I bad told General Babcock that Mc
Donald was suffering in health, and Gen.
Babcock expressed a desire to see him.
That is all the mysiery there was in it.”
A Donation Party Chloroformed.
A Moravia, New York, paper gives
this account: “The most contemptible
piece of villainy we have heard of lately
was pierpetrated in the town of Summer
hi’,1 on Thursday evening of last week.
A donation was being given at the house
of Emery Doran, for the benefit of Rev.
Charles Lewis, of the Methodist Church.
Among several ‘tough customers’ present,
in which that town seems to abound,
were a couple of young rascals named
Peter Roda and Thomas Wilkinson, who
undertook to stupify the whole party
with chloroform, by scattering it upon
their clothing and about the room.
Twelve persons, men, women and young
girls, were more or less affected by the
drug, some of them very seriously, being
unconscious for several hours, and one
lady, we are informed, has not yet recov
ered, her life being in jeopardy. The
affair caused intense excitement among
the people of that community, and next
morning Roda and Wilkinson were ar
rested and brought before Justice Say les,
of this village, for examination. Several
charges were presented in the warrant of
arrest, and after a protracted trial the
defendants gave bail to answer to that of
assault and battery. The case will proba
bly go before the grand jury.”
The President and the Whisky Ring.
Reviewing all the evidence calmly, it is
impossible to resist the conclusion that
Grant was fully informed of the exist
ence, extent and operations of the whisky
ring, when he gave it his efficient co
operation, and set aside the Secretary of
tho Treasury to promote its plundering
projects. If a tenth part of what is now
admitted in this deposition could have
been proved against Andrew Johnson, he
would have been found guilty and dis
honored. The partisans who sought a
miserable pretext for condemning John
son would be among the first to excuse
the highest crime in Grant—New York
Sun.
CoL George H. Butler, formerly Con
sul General to Egypt, is to be summoned
by the House committee io tell what he
knows about the Emma Mine scheme.
CoL Butler says, however, that he don’t
know any more about Minister Sekenck’s
connection with the Emma Mil
Hiding: Theft.
[From Gen. D. H. Hill’s Southern Home.]
Secretary Bristow is after the whisky
rogues. The House of Representatives
is pursuing the official rogues with re
morseless cruelty. Something has to be
done to turn off the eyes of the country
from these exposures. TLe rogues’ or
gan at Washington, the National P.epub-
lican, sounds the key-note, “Rebel,”
“Ku-Klux,” “Andersonville,” and all the
lesser organs that have been bought up
for from £5 to .*<500, join in the chorus.
The Washington organ, in an Article
headed “Georgia Since the War,;’ ex
hibits all the recklessness of a thief in
t ie witness box trying to hide his guilt.
This is the description given of Georgia
just after the war :
“The feeling against the old rebel lead
ers was bitter, and the majority of the
white Georgians resolved that,henceforth
they would refuse to follow the leadership
of the class who had plunged their State
into difficulties from whence they were
impoteni to extricate it. Indeed, the
feeling against the ex-Confederate lead
ers was almost as great as immediately
after the war, when, in the summer of
-Dhntoeraphs _ aeff Davis, attired
in woman s ga-. \. •^y^osed for sale
in Savau. .u print shops, representing the
Anderson ille hero as be appeared while
endeavoring to escape from Wilson’s cav
alry in the ' ,\uey woods of Georgia. ’
To prove ' ,iat this feeling did exist, the
rogues’ orgi refers to the fact that Bul
lock was ele.’i 3d by twelve thousan I ma
jority. Th ‘latent Unionists” was de
veloped at- v xst, and Georgia was intensely
loyal. Bu the same rogues’ organ re
gards it nc-JSr as bitterly rebellious. What
has made ae change ? The rogues’ or
gan attribu es it to intimidation. What
nonsense ! The weaker party intimidat
ing tbe stroi ;er! If it be true, as stated
above by the *;rgan, that the great mass
of the people \%-re inimical to their Demo-
The cratic leaders, .^id in heart belonged to
the Radical part, there must have been
some other cause han fear that alienated
them from that p riy. We know some
thing of the Georgs people from being
with them in a fc'^r years struggle to
save the constitution the United States.
Braver soldiers nev^ trod the soil of
America. It is infamously false, as the
rogues’ organ says, that\such men were
frightened into the Deil|ocratic party.
They were not frightened by the vast
armies of the North, aug.'ieSJ.ed by Irish,
Germans, French, Scotch,E
Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, Spaniard-
Portuguese, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Ca
nadians, Indians and negroes. It i
simply absurd that Georgia soldiers were
driven away from the Radical party
by the mythical Ku-Klux. If the Geor
gians were once so loyal and are now so
disloyal, we must look to other causes.
They had first a military Governor, then
a provisional Governor, then a thief Gov
ernor (Bullock), next a lying Governor
(John Pope), aud finally a military Gov
ernor again (Meade). They were recon
structed and re -re-constructed and re- re-
re-constructed, harrassed, annoyed,
robbed, plundered and insulted in every
conceivable way. The property, intelli
gence and virtue of the country were put
uuder the ban, while Yankee adventurers,
native ruffians and negroes were put in
places of honor and power. If there has
been such a change of sentiment as the
rogues' organ says there has been, it has
been due to the oppression of the party
in power and not to fear of midnight
riders with masked faces, long horns and
cloven feet.
The National Republican knows that it
speaks falsely when it charges that Gor
don, Colquitt, Ben Hill and Toombs or
ganized Ku-Klux Klaus in Georgia. The
administration had in its employ hun
dreds of paid spies, who swore many in
nocent men into the Albany penitentiary,
but none were wicked or shameless
enough to implicate these men or any
other Democratic leaders. If there had
been the shade of a shhdow of a proof
against them, the spies oould not have
better'pleased their party than by bring
ing it out. Their failure to do so is the
best possible proof of the innocence of
the representative men of the South.
Iu its great anxiety to turn attention
from Radical theft, the rogues’ organ la -
bors to bring about a war of races at the
South. It advises the negroee to mob the
Demeqratic speakers in the ensuing cam
paign. Listen to its infamous language :
“Thus we discover the secret of the
Democratic successes in Georgia and Mis
sissippi, Ad find in them the motives
which now actuate Chamberlain in South
Carolina. The Butlers and Hamptons
and Gareys of that State are to be
seconded by Lamar aod Gordon this fall,
who will doubtless canvass South Caro
lina and advise the negroes to drive out
the “carpet-baggers” after the manner in
which they harangued the colored voters
in Mississippi last fall. We advise Re
publicans in that State to commence tak
ing care of decayed eggs, and vhen these
worthies go down there to make their in
sulting speeches let them enjoy a shower
of thesejmissiles! The impudence of this
class of orators surpasses anything of
which we ever heard. ’
Thus the rogues’ organ from the head-
quarters at Washington urges the negroes
to pelt Democratic speakers with rotten
eggs, knowing assuredly that such acts of
violence would be attended with blood
shed. The : legroes would be slaughtered,
but the villain who gives them this dia
bolical advice would be safe, and would
cry “Ku-Klux, Ku-Klux,” and rejoice
all loyal— J
Bind. Sr., 7 qn rteS Pr ° Vim ‘ nt5 - 0t k Bo -
quarter* 0 10 improvements * 1L Grayblll, T
Lot No. ‘20 and improvements, estate ot Mr*.
, k* Heonett, 6 quarters.
Lot No. 21 and improvements, estate of Julius
Kousseau, 7 quarters each.
CHARLTON WARD.
1 and 2 and Improvements, Frances
Me In: ire. 4 quarters.
^ one-bait 0 f Lot No. 25 and improvements,
T. Quhun, 7 quarters.
CHATHAM WARD.
-ho* 3 and improvements, Christopher
White, 8 quarters,
E^st two-thirds of Lot No. 2t> and improvo
Utents, Mar/ A. Bradley, 5 qnarter*.
W est one-th. rd of Lot No. 25 and tin pi ovements,
hraily t*. Bourne, 6 quart* rs.
Two-thirds of Lot No. 37 and improvements, N.
E. Brown, 4 quarters.
COLUMBIA WARD.
Lot No. 1 and improvements, 1L K Willink. Jr.
6 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 24 and improve
ments, L. J. B. Fairchild, 7 quarter*.
CRAWFORD WARD.
W est one-half of Lot No. 3 and improvements,
Henry E. Snider, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 43 and improvements, James T. Buck
ner, 5 quarters.
^ South one-half of Lot No. 52 and improvements,
Gerald Beytagh, 6 quarters.
CRAWFORD WARD EAST.
Lot No. 17 and improvements, John Nicolson.
Trustee, 5 quarters.
ELBERT WARD.
Lot No. 6 and improvements, estate of Marga
ret Te.fair, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 7 and improvements, estate of Marga
ret Telfair. 4 quarters.
Lot No. 8 and improvements, estate of Marga
ret Telfair, 4 quarters.
Centre one-third and Eat-t one-third of Lot No.
34 and improvements, R. i . Hardwick. G quarters.
South one-half ot Lot aud improvements, !
Virginia She: tall. 6 quarters.
South ono-half of Lot No. 40 and improvc-
mt nts, Virginia Sheftall, 6 quarters.
FORSYTH WARD.
Lot No. 2 and improvements, Herbert A. Pal
me:, 8 quartern.
I<ot No. 3 and improvements, Geo. T. Nichols, I
Trustee. 4 quarters.
]^)t No. -js and improvements, Palmer A Den
pish. 8 quarters.
I<ot No. 51 and improvements, Wi liam Hone,
4 quarters.
Lot No. 54 and improvements, Ketchum &
Hartridge, G quarters.
Lot No. 15 and improvements, W. El. Baker, S
quarter*.
Lot No. 58 and improvements, Mary Cabaniss,
♦ quarters,
• Lot No. 62 and improvements, James S. Law
rence, 7 quarters.
FRANKLIN WARD.
Lot No. 3 and improvements, Joseph Finegan,
6 quarters.
Lot No. 16 and improvements, estate of iuton
Borchert, 6 quarters.
Lot No. 25 and improvements, estate of James
Mclntire, 6 quarters
Lot No. 38 and improvements, estate of 8,
Sawyer, 5 quarters.
NEW FRANKLIN W r ARD.
L'lt No. 9 aud improvements, J. W. Lathrop, G
quarter?.
Lot No. 17 and Improvements, Mrs. Mary Brad
ley, 5 quarters.
GREENE WARD.
Lot No. 7 and improvements, Christopher Mur
phy, 7 quarters.
Lot No. 9 and improvements, Christopher Mur
phy, 7 quarter?.
South one-half of Lot No. 22 and improve
ments, Mr?. Mary J. Walton, 4 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 25 and improve
ments, Patrick Kavanangh, 4 quarter?.
Lot No. 37 and improvements, Miss A. M. Pin-
der, i quarters.
JACKSON W ARD.
Lo' No. 36 and improvements, estate John
Schley, 5 quarter?.
JASPER WARD.
Lot No. 8 and improvements, Eugenia M. Ker,
5 quarters.
Lot No. 4S and improvements, L. J. and E. M
Ker, 5 quarters.
LLOYD W ARD
Lot No. 6 and improvement?; Thos. L. Wjlly,
7 quarters.
Lot No. 2S and improvements, Mr?. Louisa
Spencer Connerat, 4 quarter?.
L^t No. 33 and improvement?, Mrs. Nora Y banes,
6 quarter?
Lot N<
No. 39 and improvements, J. L. Koumillat,
quarters.
Lot No. 70 and improvements, John G. Butler,
5 quarters.
West one-third of Lot No. 41 and improve
ments, Mrs. Jane Ferrill, 4 quarters.
South on*-third ot Lot No. 67 and improve
ments, Ellen M. Hodgson, 9 quarters.
LAFAYETTE W’ARD.
Lot No. 42 auu improvements, Jaa. H. John-
fit od, 5 quarters.
LIBERTY WARD.
Lot No. 4 and improvements, estate John Wa
ter?, 3 quarters.
W est fraction of Lot No. 24 aud Improvements,
estati Z. N. Winkler, 4 quarters.
Southeast fiaction of Lot No. 24 and improve
ments. Henry Ilaym, 8 quarters.
East one-half oi Lot No. 30 and improvements,
estate John Snider, 6 quarters.
MONTEREY WARD.
We?t two-thirds ot Lot No. 7 and improve
ment?, Joseph Finegan, Trustee, 6 quarters.
East one-half of Lot No. ‘29 and improvements,
Martha Grose aude, 6 quarter?.
Lot No. 41 and improvements, James £1, John
son, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 42 ud improvements, James H. John
son, 5 quarters.
Lot No. 43 and improvements, Andrew M. Ross,
6 quarters.
PULASKI WARD.
Lot No. 18 and improvement?, estate Caroline
L. Palmes, 5 quarters.
STEPHENS WARD.
Lot No. 14 and improvements, Mrs. C. A.
Goodwin, 4 quarters.
I^ot No. 15 aud improvements, estate W. H.
Wiltberger, 7 quarters.
Lot No. 18 and improvements, Herbert. A. Pal
mer, 8 quarter?.
Lot No. 20 and improvements, Mrs. A. M. Brag-
don, 6 quarters.
Nort lern portiou of Lot No. 19 and improve
ments, Mrs. Jennie A. Thompson. 6 quarters.
TROUP WARD.
East one-half of Lot No. 13 and improvements,
Mrs. Rebecca J. McLeod, 4 quarters.
Western one-half of Lot No. 29 and improve
ment?, John Cooper, Trustee, 4 quarter?.
Lot No. 29 and improvements, Mortimer B.
Williams, 4 quarters.
WARREN WARD.
I
Lot No. 8 aud improvements, Ann Cullen, 5
quarters.
Lot No. 22 and improvements, James McGrath,
y'V^rtera.
' . ■ , WASHINGTON WARD.
. "<>. -df of Lot No. 7 and improvements,
Jacob ••’.'•». ht;.-»er, 5 quarters.
East oe> >*L‘oi '.ot No. SOand improvements,
Mrs. Thori i 'X- mey, 9 quarters.
W ESLEY W’ARD.
L ots Nos. . e -li and improvements, James H.
JoLLBtou, 4 q ai‘ers each.
Lc: No 3 an 1 improvements, estate E. 31. 3lai-
lette Gquarteis.
W ist one-half of Lot No. 10 and improve-
mec s, F. K. Stone, Trustee, 7 quarters.
W est one-half of Lot No. 11 and improvements,
estate 31. Lufburrow, 4 quarters.
Let >0.12and improvements, tftate 31. Lai-
burrew, 4 quarters.
Let No. 15 and improvements, A. Bon am, 6
quarters. _ „
Let No. 21and improvements,Christopher Mir-
1 Hr
phy, 10 quarters.
SPRINGFIELD PLANTATION
Lot No. 1, Savannah Brick Company, »quii
tC Lot No. 2, Savannah Brick Company, 6 quar
ters.
Lot No. 3, Savannah Brick Company, 6 qa*r»
U Lot No. 4, Savannah Brick Company, «q.ac:-
ten.
:m No. 5, Saranoah Brick Company,« l'i <•
No. 6, Savannah Brick Company, « vtar-
te Lct No. 26. estate Z. N. Winkler. 4 quartet*
Lot No. 27, (State Z. N. Winkler, 4 quctcR,
Lot No. 2a, estate Z. N. W inkier, 4 qnaruia.
Lot No. 12, Savannah Brick Company, n qo . -.
“lot No. 33, Savannah Brick Company, - qc.nt
C '' Lot No. 34, Savannah Brick Company, 6 ;'W
te Lot No. 42, estate Eliza Raiford, 4 quat-eni
Lot No 44, estate Eliza Kaifurd, 4 quart tne.
Lot No. 55, estate C. F. Craft, 4 quarter-,
la,. NO. 56. estate C ™gtj
City Mat?na:.
feb7-td
City Marshal’s Sale.
OFFICE CTTT MARSHAL, J
Savannah, February 3. ♦ 976.»
U NDER RESOLUTION of the City Coancn ex
Savannah, and by virtue of city
tiona in my hand*. 1 have levied .“eScotI:
under direction of a apecial COTmlttMOf Uott
cil, on the FIKlT TLEMIAY IN ItAKCU, »
between the leipai hours of sale. ^JJ re ^ ,, t
Hon-edoorin the cityot Savannah, eoraiyol
Chatham, and State of Georgia, t.oe folJowu „
P tteSc W nton Lot No »"g2gr*
levied on as the property of J.
Lot No. S and improvements,^ath Og.ab~JT »
ward; levied on as the propertj of • 2
5t ^ rsha11 ’ th* No 49. Jackson waro;
Improvements on Lo* a poor
levied on as the property of the Savannah ocr
House and Hospital. . Reynolds ward,
J, lSSer. paying
City Marshal
feb4-lm
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FURNITURE house.
311 L n E K ,
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(Successor to 8. S. Miller),
l ft9 AND ,71 BROUGHTON STREET.
irSlUa aud caretully selected Mock on nand-
C^cUSJx solicited, with correspcndffig
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