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l.ITTI.E ItOSE-
<t, uni'.'- with fairy footsteps—
*■ j,,,;- . •(, ir echoes fall—
; riuuiow j)lays like summer shade
1,,.-; nc garden wall.
‘ •n light is dancing bright
mazes of her hair,
r young locks are waving free
wooing of the air.
Wlnl th
To
I a -iKjrtful fawn she boundeth
So gleefully along;
a vvl (1 young bird she caroleth
‘ ourden of a song,
r . .mm-T flowers are clustering thick
Ar’oim i her dancing feet,
„„ i cheeks the summer breeze
j- i: athing soft and sweet.
fj-|, r -i.i.i,cams seem to linger
Above the holy head,
a .1 flowers at her coming
•j..... i riche.-t fragrancj shed.
And oh ! ;i• • -.v lovely light and fragrance
, i the life within;
0 iow fondly do they nestle
i: , U ud tin; soul that knows no sin.
inn .'*—the spirit of our childhood—
thin- of mortal birth,
iring still the breath,of Heaven,
. redeem ht-r from the earth,
cui.i'-s iu bright-robed innocence,
blot oi blight,
1 passelh by our wayward path,
gleam of angel light.
Oh! blessed things are children—
if heavenly love;
Tli staud betwixt our world-hearts
And better things above ;
They liuk us with the spirit world
Bv purity and truth.
And k"- p our hearts still fresh and young
With the presence of their youth
—Hlaekirood'8 Magazine.
A Hairs in Georgia.
We printed iu this column yesterday an
article from the Geneva Lamp embodying a
charge that the authorities of the Central
Railroad, especially the agents and conduc
tors ou the Southwestern Division, were
lending material aid to the emigrant agents
who were engaged in decoying oft the labor
ers in that section. Wo are authorized to
gay that the Central liailroad does not offer
special rates to emigrants, and has
never carried any one out of the State at
reduced prices. The instructions to agents
and conductors in respect to this matter are
positive. They are to charge full
rates and collect all fares in ad
vance. If the charges of the Geneva
Lamp are true, the orders of the officers of
the Central Road have been disobeyed, and
if the editor of the Lamp, or any citizen of
that section, can iurnish proof to that ef
fect, the parties who thus transcend their
duties will be made to suffer. As far as oar
knowledge extends, the State Road
is now, and has been for a long time, the
only road in Georgia offering special rates
to emigrants.
The editor of the Athens Watchman seems
to labor under the impression that Mr. Hill
represents only the Ninth District in Con
gress. It appears to us that this is taking
rather a narrow view of Mr. Hill's position.
Joe Brown is too deep for tho Atlanta
:it at ion. He salted that paper down
with $5,000 and then pickled it with some
advertising receipts from the Morning News
counting-room. Those who know Joey’s
feelings toward the News are well aware
that if ho coaid have connected it with even
a suspicion of jobbery, he would have in
cluded its name with those of the other pa
pers that he blurted out before the legis
lative investigating committee. The Con-
dilution owes Joseph a Roland.
“Will the Western visitors go up tho ca
nal- asks the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Of course they will. What other course is
left to a parcel of unprotected strangers?
Thoy will go as easily and as fearlessly as
partridges take to a net on a rainy day.
Judge Pottle, of the Northern Circuit, is
of the opinion that the buying of bread
causes an increase of crime. We have no
doubt the Judge is correct. At any rate, it
is & thoroughly detestable habit which we
would be more than glad to give up, pro
vided Judge Pottle, or any one he may see
fit to appoint, will buy our bread for ua.
Let the good work go on.
IMr. II. C. Steve nson, who has been con
nected with several Georgia newspapers, is
in Galveston, Texas.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Ojnsti'uilonalist says the drift of conjecture
seems directed to a well known Bohemian
in that city as the author of the slanders
ag&iust Governor Smith, recently published
ia the New York Herald. Whoever the
author is he has had to swallow some pretty
rough rhetoric.
We have received the March number of
the A - nio.saio Route Gazette, edited by Col.
L. \\. Wrenn, of the State Road. The sub
script i;u price is twenty-five cents a year,
and each subscriber receives a chance in a
drawing to be held June 1, 1876, for a round
trip ticket from Atlanta to the Centennial,
at Philadelphia. j
It is hinted that the Hon. Pat Walsh, of
the Augusta Chronicle, is weary of service
*u the Georgia House of Representatives,
aud desires to get in the Senate to rest him-
At this rate it won’t be long before the
I tagreen element will have exclusive con
trol of the lower house.
The Tiginal Bill Arp, of Floyd county,
a ° emigrated to Arkansas. Some people
ac * as though the soil of Georgia wasn’t
gh to be buried in.
*he Western excursionists will take in
hav&nnah by way of the Port Royal Rail
road.
The farmers of Liberty county are culti-
nee on a larger scale this year than
k The girl* in LaGrange Female College
ave fuo. An American gymnasium has
fceD iutroduced in the institntion. This
*° rt ot thing ie a long way ahead of croquet
^ a - amusement. Croquet, if you will re-
j^^r, appeals more directly to the intel
’■-all” *' asc k & * Watts, of Monroe county, is
The Hinesville G
day, 5th
»azette says ihat on Sun-
inst., the barn, stables and oufc-
Oh ° n “ stri P lin S place,” near the
^ river, were destroyed by fire. ^e
fire
'Upposed to have been caused by
k v &r s ‘ r °m a burning tree in the field near
ku ^ ^ were gone to church and
turn o{ their loss until their re-
hum leD tll0U3iai I pouuds of oats, one
coltn^-. 1 k UBlle k corn aud v *I ua ble & S ri "
Th a ' lm P !e ment8 were destroyed.
b ( .., /, ^ u P®rior Court of Wayne county as-
ae £bledontkel3th.
c nlturahave to send for “Agri-
^theng
^ed r to take Dr. Carloton, of the
aeerna • " ln hand. The Doctor
the o* alj0r UD(ier *he impression that
Pan* - 1 cicms w hich certain Georgia rews-
c°ur 8 £ (f a 3? bestowed upon the recent
of the s • are attnad at his defense
Wehav 3tb in k* 9 An(ierson ville speech.
n °ut B n ch 8 r 110 8UCl1 cri “ ciams * Certainly
We
appeared in the Morning
approve that speech most
to which't 11 W&S demau ^ ed hy an occasion
00 oddo Wtd e qnal, and we have lost
due TIT* 10 give Mr * ali the credit
hia elom, b ^“ptaieM, his manliness and
'““lueoce. ^ut ffe do think his conn#
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
daring the consideration of the pension bill
was uncalled for, ill-timed and ill-judged,and
that is the general verdict.
A colored citizen of Thomas county, who
found it impossible to fraternize with an
other colored citizen, emphasized the lack
of unity with a pistol and a knife.
The new crop of snakes is ripening very
early in the neighborhood of Athens.
Jesup has a curiosity in the shape of a
lemon nine inches long, twenty-two inches
in circumference, and weighing two pounds
and a half.
A flock of wild geese passed over Rome
the other night.
Mrs. Sarah S. Hamilton, of Athens, is
dead.
Thieves are getting to be mighty soon, as
the boys say. A merchant of Graniteville,
S. C., whose store was robbed recently of a
large amount of goods, went to Augusta
the other day and purchased another stock.
These goods were placed in a special car,
and the special car was broken into and
robbed.
Jesup is laying the foundation of a de
bating society.
The Thomasville Enterprise says that the
elegant mansion of Maj. J. J. Mash, situa
ted at Duncanville, twelve miles south of
that city, was burned between twelve and
two o’clock on Monday evening last. The
origin of the fire is supposed to have been
accidental. The building was perhaps one
of the finest if not the best in Thomas
county, was of brick, and cost when built
between $12,000 and $15,000.
The timber-cutters are talking about
holding a convention for the purpose of pro
viding means for the enforcement of the
bill recently passed by the Legislature.
We are indebted to Messrs. James P. Har
rison & Co., of Atlanta, for a neatly printed
pamphlet containing tho public acts passed
at the recent session of tho General Assem
bly.
Cairo, in Thomas county, has been having
a good time recently in the way of charades.
The dwelling house of Mr. James B.
Sharp, of Forsvtb, was burned on Sunday
last. The loss falls heavily on Mr. Sharp.
A musical instrument very popular in
Rome is constructed of a broomstick, a wire
and a piece of nail.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says that
Mr. T. J. Jennings, the well known cotton
factor, desiring to present Mr. Dempster, a
friend in Liverpool, England, with a fresh
specimen of our Savannah shad, hit on a
novel plan to carry out his wish. He went
to Hale Barrett, Esq., the President of the
Augusta Ice Company, and that energetic
gentleman enclosed two splendid specimens
of shad in the centre of a block of ice one
hundred and sixty-five pouuds in weight.
No doubt the fish found frozen in the block
of ice will prove a great curiosity in Liver
pool, as were the apple dumplings to King
George.
Rome Commercial : Everybody knows
Aunt Harriet; everybodythat ever had a baby
does, anyhow. Aunt Harriet is a gay
widow now, but she is going to get married.
She makes no secret ot it. She is going to
marry a youDg fellow only nineteen years
old. A few days ago one of the colored
brethren hinted to her that she ought not to
marry a boy. “You attend to your own
affairs, nigger,” replied Aunt Harriet; “if I
choose to take one out of the cradle and raise
him, it’s none of your business.” Exit col
ored brother with a flea in his ear.
Milledgeville correspondence Macon Tele
graph i An event, long expected, has at last
taken place; but it falls ou our community,
as it will upon tho general public, none the
less solomniy or sorrowfully. Hon. Iverson
Louis Harris died at his residence in this
city last night (Sunday), the 12th instaut, at
eleven o’clock. The career of Judge Harris
as a distinguished and active lawyer, and
afterward Judge of the Superior Court, and
lastly one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, is well known. PoBsess-
Possess-
ing an intellect’ uncommonly bright and
vigorous, an energy and industry that never
tired; and an integrity never sullied by tho
slightest imputation of an unworthy motive,
lashioned, indeed, on the high old Ro
man type which is not too often
emulated in our modern days. Judge
Harris may well be mourned by
the entire people of Georgia when he goes
down into the grave. He leaves behind him
tar fewer men of his mould than would be
salutary for the republic. He is withdrawn
from the living at a period when official cor
ruption in high places reveals a rottenness
in our official morals disgraceful to the
American republic all over the world. He,
at least, was pure through a long life and
high official station. Judge Harris was a
native of Georgia, and spent his entire life
as a Georgian citizen. His age was a little-
over seventy years.
Forsyth Advertiser: A decision was
made by His Honor Judge John I. Hall,
during last week, the second week of the
February term of Monroe Superior Court,
which is a very important one and wdl at
tract considerable attoution. Mr. William
Lampkin was indicted for “larceny after
trust delegated.” The \ndictment charged
that the said William Lampkin was appoint
ed agent of the “Direct Trade Union of the
Patrons of Husbandry,” a corporation
created by an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved February 3d, 1874.
That as such agent, during the
season of 1874 and 1875, he received a
quantity of cotton and shipped the same to
Liverpool, England, in beh&if of his princi
pal, the “Direct Trade Union of the Patrons
of Husbandry*.” that there was forwarded to
him, during the month of February, ’75, as
an advance on said cotton, to be paid to the
owner, Elihu H. Walker, the sum of five
hundred dollars! that he failed to pay over
to Mr. Walker, the owner of the cotton, for
whom the advance was njade, the five hun
dred dollars so sent to Mfln, and refused, by
demand, to pay the same over to his prin
cipal, the “Direct Trade Union of the
Patrons of Husbandary.” The defendant s
counsel, Judge A. M. Speer, and Judge R.
P. Trippe, of Atlanta, moved to quash
the indictment, because the act of _ incor
poration was forbidden by the Constitution
ofiLGeorgia, the Legislature having no
power under the constitution to grant cor
porate power to any private company, ex
cept to hanking, insurance, railroad, canal,
navigation, mining, express, lumber, manu
facturing and telegraph companies; the
object for which this corporation was
created being neither ot those mentioned;
that, as the act of incorporation was such
an one as the Legislature could not under
the constitution pass, the company was not
incorDorated ; tnat therefore there was
no such artificial person as the ‘ Direot
Trade Union of the Patrons of Husbandry
to entrust funds with defendant,
or to make the demand, necessary
under tho statute to be made. The
motion to quash was supported by Messrs.
Speer and Trippe in able arguments. Coun
sel for the State argued that the corporatton
was one with powers of navigation. But
the statute creating the act did not state nor
imply power to engage in navigation, i be
motion to quash was sustained, and thus
the act incorporating the “Direct Trade
Union of the Patrons of Husbandry was
declared unconstitutional, and hence tnat
corporation has no existence in law. A
large number of able lawyers were present
in the court room—Messrs. Clifford Ander
son, Wooten and Simmons from
Hunt of Barnesville, the local bar of Forsyth
—and all agreed that the decision of Judge
Hall was a proper one.
Florida Affairs.
Cheney and McLin, as lovely a brace of
patriots as ever plotted against the well
being and prosperity of a commonwealth,
are still reviling Purman, the heroic cadet
ship peddler. The first thing these en
thusiastic rascals know they will make a
martyr of Purman.
There is a place somewhere in Florida
called Beecher’s Landing. It strikes us,
however, that Beecher’s real landing-place
is in a climate rather more tropical than
that of Florida.
We venture to predict that McLin, of the
Sentinel, will, in tho course of a very few
months, fall to abusing the Iter. John
Tyler, Jr., as ronndly as he did wheu Harri
son lieed wore tho slippers that .Marcellos
Stearns has frayed at the heel. McLin is as
many-sided as a diamond, but as duli withal
as mica.
Purman, m writing to one of his colored
friends in Jefferson county, advises him to
improve his handwriting in order that he
may obtain an office. We advise the mem
bers of the Stearns ring to mend their
morals in order that they may obtain re-
8P A Tampa man has raised thirteen hun
dred cabbages from twenty cents’ worth of
Hicks’s libel suit against the Live Oak-
Times seems to hang fire. If it eve^does
come into court, some lively revelations
may be looked for.
What does the Monticello Constitution
think of the movement among the colored
people to make John Tyler Governor?
Owing to the comparatively mild winter
at tho North, travel to Florida has not been
as brisk this season as last year. Never
theless, hotel and boarding-house keepers
have been at some trouble to comfortably
accommodate the visitors.
The engagements of Milton S.^Littlefield
will not call him to North Carolina this
season.
Dennis seems to have utterly disappeared
since J. Willis Menard, the colored poet,
rubbed him down with a rhetorical curry
comb.
Eight oysters brought to Tampa recently
averaged two and a half ounces in weight
each.
Some Indiana men who settled at Point
Pinalis are dissatisfied because the deer de
stroy their vegetables and things. Hun
dreds of people would manage to worry
along under hindrances like this without
making any special complaint.
Gadsden county has begun to ship green
peas in earnest.
Live Oak entertains a suspicion that
chicken thieves are lurking about in that
neighborhood.
The Supreme Court has granted now trials
to Mary Ann Keech and William Newton
who were conyicted of murder at St. Augus
tine some time ago.
The Jacksonville Press says that the bo
gus Republican State Executive Committee,
headed by Cheney, of the Union, is fast
coming to grief. The rungs of tho ladder
by which he and his set hoped to climb into
power, are being cut away, one after the
other, and the disappointed aspirants are
tumbling to tho earth braised and discom
fited. Leon, Madison and Alachua counties
have repudiated the spurious wire-pullers
and Duval and other counties are preparing
to follow their example.
On Saturday Mr. William Astor bought a
dwelling-house in Jacksonville for $6,500
cash.
Tallahassee had a colored cutting affray
on Friday last. Dinah was at the bottom of
it.
The Agriculturist mentions the cases of
two settlers on Lake Crescent. One com
menced eight years ago, with one hundred
and thirty dollars, and has refused fifteen
thousand dollars for his orange grove. The
other arrived at the same time, without one
cent, and has declined twenty-five thousand
dollars for his property.
Tho recent Episcopal Festival at Tampa
wa9 a success.
The Putnam Hotel at Palatka is supplied
with music all the way from the North.
Tet coons retail for fifteen dollars in Pa
latka.
Iu 1872, McLin alluded to Rev. John Ty
ler. Jr., as “a shiftless monutebank, with
blood on his teeth, and green-eyed with
Democracy.” Iu 1875, the same man was
hu-rging Tyler to his bosom. In 1872, Mc
Lin alluded to Charles H. Walton as “Reed’s
mangy spaniel.” Shortly afterwards McLin
became the co-worker of Walton, and at this
moment his relations to Stearns, so far as
the Sentinel is concerned, are precisely those
that Walton bore to Reed.
A new boat, after the model of the cele
brated Mississippi steamer, the Robert E.
Lee, is to be put upon the St. John’s river.
A little son of Captain Tibbetts, of River
side, was severely bitten by a dog the other
day,
Tho inhabitants of Orange county wear
black snakes on their persons.
When Stearns and McLin want to have a
little private chat they go over to Live Oak.
Live Oak wants a livery stable, and also a
hack line to Suwannee Springs.
Some one has sent tho Jacksonville Press
from Madison the accompanying notice from
one of Stearns’s sapient, colored Justices of
tho Peace for that county. The circumstances
are these : Kennedy (colored) had rented
a house from Goorge Washington (colored).
Afterwards Washington demanded posses
sion, which was refused. Washington made
a complaint to M. M. Sampson, a colored J.
P., who therenpon issued the following no
tice, which wo append verbatim et literatim:
State of Florida Madison County Feb
23 1876
Mr Canday
you muse Get out of that House to day or I
will be Compaii to make you pay tho Sum of
$5 Dollors Son
M M Sampson
Justice of the IWce.
Babcock seem s to have been-in terested iu
Florida. An Indianapolis correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer says that further
facts have come to ligh^ iu reference to the
recent rumor of <*>rrupt charges against
Babcock in connection with government ap
pointments.'- In December, 1873, there lived
at Mellonville, Florida, a carpet-bagging
rascal named John McDonald, who held a
position as Surveyor in the United States
Timber Office at a salary of $1,200 a year.
His duties were ostensibly to keep thieves
from poaching on navy reservations of pine
and live oak, but, really, he allowed them to
steal and then make them whack np. By
sharp trickery he obtained control of 1,200
acres ot fine rolling land near the River
Wekeva, from citizens of .St. Augustine,
and at once proceeded to organize a pool
in which half a dozen carpet-baggers
of Tallahassee were interested, and
an equal number of officials in the depart
ments at Washington. This land was sub
divided into ten-acre lots, and the pool then
meant to get out maps dotted with orange
groves, and thus catch speculators at the
North. In the latter part of the same year
Babcock addressed McDonald a letter bear
ing the seal of the Executive Mansion, in
forming the latter that the scheme was fine,
and promised big returns, and closed with
stating that to help the matter along and
enable McDonald to complete the maps he
had placed his name on the department pay
roll at a salary of $1,000 a year, and in re
turn for this Babcock was to be credited
with stock in the Orange Grove swindle. The
gentleman who narrates these facts saw
Babcock’s letter, and stands ready to testify
if investigation is ordered.
Jacksonville Press: The editor of the
Observer thinks that the office of Governor
of Florida is hardly worth having. Be this
as it may, there are many Richmonds in the
field in quest of the coveted honor. While
we are no social admirer of the Rev. John
Tyler, we highly approve the position he
has taken relative to the handful of North
ern carpet-baggers who have held, since re
construction, the reigns ot power in Florida
to the almost entire exclusion of the colored
element and Southern Republicans, who
compose ninety per cent, of the party. We
wish him every success in his crusade
against that selfish aud pestilent |elass of
politicians. A ticket headed by General
Tyler, of the Southern Republicans, and
Walls, of the colored wing, would be a
strong combination.
Palatka Herald: Rice creek is coming
into notlae. We have for some time thought
that the land on some portions of tho creek
and upon the Etoniah creek would come
into market. Several articles appeared in
this paper upon the subjeot of connecting
the Santa Fee country with the St. John’s.
All that is needed to put this enterprise
through is a few enterprising men. The
mouth of Rice creek is five miles below
Palatka, on the west side of the St. John’s
river. Etoniah creek empties in Rice
creek at a navigable point for steamers.
In fact, Rice creek is navigable nine miks
up to the English rice fields, a point where
good pine lands may be purchased at a low
figure. In the raising of fruit and vegetables
THE MORNING NEWS-
INCENDIARISM IN JACKSONVILLE.
Destruction of a Hotel and a Dwell
in? House.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, Fla., March 14.
A fire originated in the Sea View Hotel on
Bay street last night about eleven o’clock,
by which the hotel and a dwelling house
were consumed.
It is estimated that the entire loss will
approximate fifteen thousand dollars and
the insurance four thousand. The fire is
supposed to be of incendiary origin.
Noon Telegrams.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
Success of the Radicals Assured.
<;rantism and i iikkcptios car-
KIKS THK CRAMTE STATE.
Progress of ihe Revolt in the Turkish
Provinces.
TURKEY S TROUBLESOME PROVINCES.
London, March 15.—The Belgrade cor
respondent of the IiusJd Mir declares that
Greece has offered to form an offensive and
defensive alliance with Servia aud Rou-
mania. The Servians are convinced that
Russia, although temporarily co-operating
with Austria, cannot, for her own interests,
permit Austria to occupy Servian The Ser
vians, therefore, disregard the Austrian
menaces. They are preparing to take the
field against the Turks, and unite the
whole serf race.
London, March 15.—A dispatch from Ra-
gusa, to the Times, says the arrest of Ljubo-
bratic produced great excitement in Dalma
tia, and threatening demonstrations were
made in Bernace Sera, where he was sent to
sign for internment.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
Concord, N. H., March 15.—A summary
of all returns to oao o’clock a. m. is as fol
lows: One hundred and ninety-uine towns
and wards give Cheney 31,763, and Marcy
28,936, a Republican gain of 2,552. One
hundred and ninety-seven towns and wards
elect 148 Republican and 129 Democratic
Representatives. The Republicans claim
the election of Cheney by 1,500 to 2,000 ma
jority.
SUSPENSIONS.
New York, March 15.—George A. Mer-
win A Co., proprietors of the State Coffee
and Spice Mills, have suspended. Their lia
bilities are $60,000, aud their nominal assets
exceed this sum.
The United States Reflector Company and
Covet, Jacobsen & Co. have also suspended,
with liabilities exceeding $100,000. Their
assets are considered good.
THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN.
Cincinnati, March 15.—The election was
held yesterday to decide whether to issue
six million dollars of bonds in addition to
the ten millions already issued to construct
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. Returns
of 49 out of 51 precincts, give 11,126 in favor
of the measure.
SPANISH NOTES.
Cadiz, MaTch 15.—The clergy are keenly
canvassing for signatures to a petition to
the Cortes in favor of Catholic unity.
The iueros of the Basque provinces will be
abolished.
THE WIFE OF DON CARLOS.
Bayonne, March 15.—The wife of Don
Carlos, who is here, visited the wounded
Carlists in the hospital.
PROSTRATED.
Berlin, March 15.—Nearly all the tele
graph lines in Germany are prostrated by
the storm.
The evil effects upon the colored race
of association with white carpet-baggers
have just had a sad exemplification in the
case of Major Martin R. Delany, of South
Carolina, who has been convicted of
grand larceny and breach of trust in one
of the courts iu that State. Major De
lany, who is a coal-black negro, is one of
ihe most gifted men of African descent
iu'America. He was characterized as a
“remarkable black man” by President
Lincoln, who gave him a commission
daring the war as surgeon of a regiment,
with the rank of Major. Delany being the
first man of his race who ever received so
high a compliment in the United States.
Until he became intimate with white
carpet-baggers he bore an unblemished
character. In 1858 he sat as a member
of the International Statistical Congress
in London, where the late Prince Albert
presided, and it may be recollected that
Minister Dallas and Judge Longstreet of
Georgia took umbrage at his presence as
a delegate in that assembly. The Major
claims to have royal blood in his veins,
his ancestors on both sides having de
scended from African kings. He has
acquired some distinction as an author,
and in his published works manifests
great pride of race. A few months ago
he gave several lectures in this city
which attracted intelligent audiences, and
gave his hearers a high opinion of his
intellectual capacity. In 1874 he ran as
candidate for Lieutenant Governor of
South Carolina on the same ticket with
Judge Green, in opposition to the regular
Republican ticket, but was defeated.
Since then he has made his peace with
the party, and in consequence was ap
pointed trial justice in Charleston by
Gov. Chamberlain, which seems to have
led to his downfall. Yet he asserts his
innocence, and declares that his convic
tion was the result of a conspiracy.—N. Y.
Sun.
LETTER FROM TALLAHASSEE.
it is very important to bo accessible to
navigation. Ali the region on those creeks
for twenty miles may be found excellent
grazing for cattle, sheep and other stock.
Real estate agents would do well to get
maps of this portion of the country and
give it & showing.
“A den of corruption” is what a mem
ber of the House Committee on Expendi
tures, which proposes to investigate it,
~ ‘ the government insane asylum at
As Sure of Beecher’s Guilt as of Di
vine Revelation.—But matters are cul
minating. and I do not abuse my privi
lege in what I am about to say. I hap
pen to know the facts in this case; I never
wrote a line for the public eye till I did.
It is not with me a matter of opinion or
belief, but of absolute knowledge. I have
no more assurance of the facts of Divine
Revelation, upon which I risk my eternal
salvation, than of the facts in this case.
There are men in Mansfield who will live
to confess to me the folly of their words
and deeds, simply because they did not
know what I knew.
And when they come to know, as they
will, they will read what I have written
and published, and wonder only that I
wrote so calmly and moderately of one
who will be ultimately and universally
conceded to be the most infamous char
acter of the nineteenth century. And
men who stand up for him to-day, will
labor hard to forget that they did so, and
struggle to their utmost to conceal the fact
from their children and their children’s
children. They deserve the profoundest
commiseration, for the facts cannot al
ways be hid, and where they are known,
there will be but one opinion concerning
them.—Extract oj an Address of the Her.
Dr. Fairchild, at Mansfield, Ohio.
Waste Places Made Fruitful—A New
migration .Movement—Result* of Pre
vious Immigration Efforts.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
City Hotel, March 11, 1876.
Of all the lovely days that I have seen
in this beautiful “Land of Flowers,
must say that this has been the loveliest
and the most attractive. In fact, briefly
reviewing the past, I cannot recall from
memory’s storehouse a day of such
exquisite enjoyment of the beauties of
nature. A perfectly clear and cloudless
sky; a gentle breeze from the Gulf coast
the balmy air filled with the sweet
fragrance of thousands of beautiful
flowers blooming on every side: the green
foliage of the trees studded with blossoms
and fragrant as the flowers beneath their
spreading branches, from which number
less mocking birds, free as^b^airand
cheerful as their happy songs, charm the
senses with their ever changing but ever
welcome melodies; and from open doors
and windows, as well as from green
lawns and beautiful flower gardens, come
the glad voices of hundreds of innocent
children in tlje cheerful enjoyment of
their Saturday holiday. All these, as I
this afternoon walked alone through the
shaded streets of this quiet inland ‘‘Forest
City,” charmed my senses, delighted my
gaze and tilled my sad and lonely heart
with a thousand pure and holy and happy
thoughts. Such days, such scenes aud
such influences, thus harmoniously com
bined, come to us poor sinful mortals but
rarely indeed, yet leave behind memories
that can never wholly perish.
WASTE PLACES MADE FRUITFUL.
Tallahassee, unlike any other place in
Florida that I have visited, is “beautiful
for situation,” as was Mount Zion of
ancient time. All about her, rising to
view before the naked eye, and present
ing a scene of rare panoramic attractive
ness, a high range of verdant hills, forest-
crowned, forms an appropriate setting
for this jewel of a rural inland city.
Walking her shaded streets to-day, with
birds and flowers on every side, I could
but look aw’ay over the valley which so
snugly nestles around the “spur,” upon
which the city is laid out, to this range
of fruitful hills, whose green foliage and
well-tilled soil presented an irresistible
attraction. One year ago the eye of the
tourist could have swept the entire
circle of this range and seen but little
to excite his wonder and win his
praise. But a great change has taken
place within the past few months,
and where briars and weeds and thistles
then held possession of neglected fields,
to-day, under the revivifying touch of
the intelligent and experienced immi
grant’s hand, those once neglected fields
are green with growing crops of early
vegetables, or the soil is upturned and
mellowed ready for the seed of the sower
and the labor of the husbandman. Better
cultivation I have never seen, and it al
most seemed to me that from those not
far distant hills I could inhale the fra
grance of a soil rich and generous in its
response to the hand that kindly and
faithfully turned and mellowed its
neglected turf and imparted new life and
strength to its once fruitful properties.
If any man doubts that “there is life in
the old land yet,” let him come here and
stand at almost any point within the city
limits and look off upon these hills, agaiu
fruitful and green clad, and behold what
the right kind of immigration can do for
a section of country whose ante-bellum
rich and prosperous planters, are
now land-poor and dispirited. Only let
this good work go on as it has so auspi
ciously begun, and in a few years this
capital city of tho “Land of Flowers”
will revive her old traditions and proudly
assume her former honored place
among the mo3t prosperous cities of the
South, which are noted for their culture
and refinement.
Grant and the Republicans.—The
crisis came when an ignorant soldier,
coarse in his tastes and blunt in his per
ceptions, fond of money and material en
joyment and of low company, was put in
the Presidential chair. His real charac
ter as a civilian began to appear very ear
ly in his administration. It was fully
revealed when he received his second
nomination, and on the day he received
it the Republican party assumed the re
sponsibility for him and his followers,
which is to-day covering it with infamy.
—Motion.
A petition, signed by some sixteen
thousand public spirited idiots who neg
lect their own business to look after the
maimers and morals of their neighbors,
was presented in the Senate last week.
These mendicants ask Congress to invade
the lodges of the District Masons because
the organization is secret; to confiscate
the sacred gridiron and sell it to a junk-
dealer, and to seize upon the deified
“Billy” and make it furnish goat's miTV
for scientific experimentation at the Ag-
ircultural Department—Wash. Capital.
A NEW IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT.
At the last convention of the land
owners of Middle Florida, including rep
resentatives from Gadsden, Leon, Wa
kulla, Madison and Jefferson counties, it
was agreed that each county should form
an association for the better promotion
of their local, agricultural and immigra
tion projects. In pursuance of this agree
ment the land owners of Leon county
met in convention at the Court House in
this city at noon to-day. Tht attend
ance was not large, but those who were
present are leading and representative
men of this county, and are generally
foremost in all public enterprises of an
important character. G. A. Chaires,
Esq., was elected President, and
Judge H. C. Rippey chosen
Secretary. The object of the
meeting being explained, Judge Hilton
moved that the constitution of the Middle
Florida Land Owners’ Association be so
amended as to be applicable to the pro
posed Leon County Agricultural and Im
migration Association, and that it be then
adopted for the government of the
organization. This motion was carried,
when the following permanent officers
were duly elected: President, Green A.
Chaires; Vice-President, P. Houston;
Corresponding Secretary, Wm. D. Blox
ham; Recording Secretary, H. C. Rippey;
Treasurer, Wm. P. Slusser; Executive
Committee, R. B. Hilton, J. J. Williams,
O. A. E. Miller, C. H. Edwards, G. D.
Chaires, Wm. Pei kins, John R. Bradford,
Wallace Jones, John A. Craig, Samuel
Fleming and Captain Moseley, being
one from each precinct in the county.
The Association will hold its regulai
meetings on the first Saturday in each
month, at which times, in addition to the
usual business transactions of such an
organization, essays will be read or lec
tures delivered by members chosen for
that purpose. At the April meeting Col.
Bradford and Judge Gwinn will tell what
they know about farming and stock
raising, to be followed by a general dis
cussion on the part of the members of
the facts presented in the address.
RESULTS OF IMMIGRATION EFFORTS.
Interesting and practical speeches
were made by Judge McMuhon, late of
Minnesota, ex-Governor Bloxham, Judge
Rippey, President Chaires, Judge Gwinn,
Captain Houston, Judge Hilton, Mr. G.
D. Chaires, ex-Governor Walker and
others. Judge McMahon paid a high
compliment to the people of Tallahassee,
whose culture, refinement and hospitality
he and his associates from Minnesota had
so recently enjoyed, and in whose midst
he now hoped to spend the remainder of
his days on earth. He was more
than pleased with the people, climate
and soil of Leon county, and in response
to letters from the far West, he was
daily giving his friends in that section
the most favorable reports of what
he has already seen here. Ten persons
can fully estimate the value of such let
ters from a cultivated gentleman like
Judge McMahon, and it is more than
probable that they will result in
bringing to this section during the pres
ent year many excellent permanent set
tlers. I predict this from the fact that
about two years ago there were only two
or three persons living here who had
come from Minnesota, and yet by corre
spondence and other means over one hun
dred and fifty from that State have
already been brought to reside in Leon
county. One year ago only two persons
from Iowa were residents here, but to
day about a dozen can be found among
the inhabitants of this county. The
same is trae of other sections of the
North and West; one or two settlers have
come here and located, and, being pleased
with the soil, climate and people, as it
seems to me all reasonable immigrants
must be, they have written back to their
friends such encouraging and gratifying
letters that many new settlers have been
secured thereby.
Sidney Herbert.
Rogues and Beasts.
[From Gen. D. H. Hill’s Southern Home.]
Grant made his brother-in-law, a low
fellow, United States Minister to Copen
hagen. The Danes soon found out that
the American representative was a ruffian
and expressed their disgust at his coarse
ness and boorishne9.s. Grant sent Sickles
as United States Minister to Spain—a
drunken debauchee and gambler, who
lived with his adulterous wife after he
had slain her paramour. He sent Gen.
Schenck as Minister to England, and
Schenck used his official position to in
duce the English people to take stock in
the bogus Emma mine. Schenck has
been recalled by request of the British
Government, and is now on his way home
a detected felon. Grant made Belknap
Secretary of War, and his crony
has been exposed in selling places
for money, has resigned and
has been impeached. The “ Confederate
House ” is investigating, with remorse
less cruelty, the Attorney General, the
Postmaster General and the Secretary of
the Navy. These three rogues will event
ually be unveiled and disgraced. Columbus
Delano, ihe late Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, stepped out of office
through Grant’s connivance, in time to
escape the penitentiary. So did Attor
ney General Williams, the great Ku-Klux
hunter. But though Williams escaped
the striped jacket, he bears the stigma of
a nickname, and will be known in his
tory as “ Landaulet ” Williams because
he paid for his wife’s landaulet with gov
ernment money. Time would fail us to
speak of Grant’s boon companion, Jim
Fisk, the roystering rogue who with Grant’s
aid, ruined so many hundreds on “Black
Friday.” Mrs. Ulysses made $6,000 by
the wicked operation, though many were
beggared and some driven into madness
and suicide. Jim and Ulysses fell out
after this partnership job and Jim al
ways spoke of him subsequently as the
“national hog!” Nor can we speak of
Grant’s crony, Jay Gould, the sharper
and swindler, whom he made govern
ment agent abroad after he (Gould) was
a stench in the nostrils of the American
people. We must pass lightly over other
companions of Ulysses; Boss Shepherd,
the most shameless thief of Ihe age; con
fidential Secretary Babcock, whom Grant
saved from the penitentiary by the whole
power of the Executive exerted in his fa
vor; Gen. Howard, the pious philanthro
pist, who robbed poor negroes ; Credit
Mobilier Congressmen; the official rogues
of the whisky ring, of Seneca stone con
tracts, of Pacific mail subsidies, Ac., Ac.
If ninety-nine out of every hundred of
Grant’s appointees were sentenced to the
penitentiary for life, more injustice would
be done in the case of the hundredth man
than of the niuety and nine. So much
for the rogues. Now let us look at the
beasts. Bishop Haven is probibly the
most influential man in the most power-
erf ul denomination in the loyal North.
He is a chronic and irrepressible liar,
and an outspoken advocate of miscege
nation. Rev. O. B. Frothingham is
another popular preacher among the loyal
ists and draws vast crowds of cultivated
people to hear him. He teaches that
prayer is vanity aud folly, and that an
inflexible God cannot be moved by it.
He is the same fellow who, assisted by
Beecher, married the dying adulterer
Richardson to his victim Mrs. McFarland.
He himself then uttered a prayer and
thanked God for what the two criminals
had been to each other. He prayed too
that a God of infinite purity might enable
these wretches “to realize how much they
had been to each other.” Rev. Professor
Swing has been preaching the old
heathen mj thology in Chicago. Professor
Hopkins of the Presbyterian Theological
College, at Auburn, N. teaches the
candidates for the ministry that Christ
has abolished the Sabbath. Rev. Mr.
Kalloch was driven out of Massachusetts
for beastial aud unnatural crimes. He is
a popular preacher now in Kansas, and
was a Grant elector in 1872. What min -
ister on this continent has received so
much flattery and admiration as has the
beastly Beecher ? But if the testimony
of more than a dozen of his most intimate
friends and confidants can be believed,
he is a promiscuous adulterer, a treacher
ous sneak, a foul slanderer of his bene-
factors, a black-hearted perjurer and a
Heaven defying blasphemer. Certain it is,
that he has done more than any man now
living to soil the Christian character and
to pervert the great truths of the Gospel.
Three religious papers, redolent with
loyalty and draped in mourning for
Southern sins, have had a vast circulation
among the loyal masses of the North, and
have exerted a mighty influence upon
them. The publisher of one of these
papers, Oliver Johnson, is, as it appeared
in evidence on the Beecher trial, an infi
del of the humanitarian school and a dis
believer in Christianity. He wrote to
Henry C. Bowen that it was impossible
to portray in too black colors the charac
ter of Beecher, and yet he employed this
Beecher as the editor of his paper, and
espoused his cause in the famous adul
tery trial. The editor of the second relig-
ous paper is the same Bowen. He seems to
be a miserable cur from his own state
ments; he sat under Beecher’s ministry
and received the cup of communion at
his hands for years after he knew, as he
himself says, that his pastor had de
bauched many members of his flock. The
third editor is the notorious Tilton,
free lover in theory and practice, who
sanctioned his own wife’s dishonor and
then black-mailed her seducer! Beecher
wrote for all three papers; the proprie
tors and publishers knowing all the time,
as they admit themselves, of his habitual
licentiousness!
When the celebration of impure rites
was a part of the religion of the heathen
world, we doubt whether there was as
much beastiality among them as among
the religious preachers, teachers and edi
tors, who represent Beecherism and
Grantism at the loyal North.
Thirty years ago the abolition party
rejected the Bible because its teachings
did not accord with their views, and
thereby the flood-gates were opened to
let in all manner of roguery, blasphemy
and uncleanness. A christianized people,
who reject the Bible, are necessarily
more wicked than a heathen people. The
worshippers of Mercury were not as
thievish as are the worshippers of Grant
ism. The worshippers of Venus were
not as impure as are the worshippers of
Beecherism.
Honor in the Army.
We are inclined to the belief that our
country needs no army at all; but how
ever this may be, this at least is certain:
that if we are to have one, its officers
should be gentlemen of honor and char
acter; and the first duty of Judge Taft
when he becomes Secretary of War
should be to cleanse it from the shames
in which Belknapism and Grantism have
steeped it. Before the war the officers
of the army and navy of the United States
were the models of gentlemanly bearing,
of virgin honor, and of fidelity to duty
however thankless, dangerous, labori
ous, or ill-paid that duty might be.
The consideration that an officer met
with everywhere was a part of his pay,
and there was nothing that he dreaded
so much as to forfeit that consideration
by “conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman.” There were occasional
black sheep in the fold, but these were
rare, and they were pitilessly turned out
of the service. The consequence was
that the gentlemen of the army were
picked body of men—of men who could
be trusted; who valued a soldierly honor
and a knightly courtesy above everything
else, and who deserved the highest trust
and confidence of their fellow- citizens.
But during the war all this was, of ne
cessity, relaxed. Men that had been pre
viously cashiered for “ conduct unbecom
ing an officer and gentleman,” were again
commissioned and placed in command.
One of them was Ulysses S. Grant. There
were also numberless instances of men
placed in high positions in the army who
were of the basest character, and who
brought down very low the old standards
of honor and duty. Devotion to duty
and capacity and courage were not
enough to secure promotion. “ Influ
ence ” was necessary ; and influence was
_ also sufficient to keep men in command
• who were disgraces to the service.
And since the war the same thing has
gone on. The officers of the army have
been used as instruments of political in
iquity. The men that have been used in
the reconstructed States were the pliable
and available sort. A high sense of hon
or and duty was precisely the thing that
was not wanted. This has degraded the
tone of the service, and justly brought it
into reproach and odium. Then, too,
the officers at the frontier stations were
either obliged to connive at the contracts
concerning the post-traderships and the
Indian Bureau, or at least to keep silent.
Whoever dared to speak or to call the at
tention of superior officers to the evils
were punished. Thus the tendency was
to foster the evil influences and to drive
the honorable men from the service.
Under these depressing forces the tone of
the whole service has been lowered, and
it has become a serious question whether
or not the only cure is the abolition of
the army.
But while the army still exists it is at
least necessary to do all that can be done
to bring back its ancient elevated tone.
This can only be done by a thorough
weeding out of all unworthy characters,
by the formal proceedings of courts-
martial. The first case to begin with is
that of General Babcock. It is due to
the honorable men who are still in the
seivice that he should be tried for con
duct unbecoming an officer aud gentle
man, and if founrkguilty that be should
be cashiered. As matters now stand, he
has been tried for a penitentiary of
fense, and only escaped by legal chi-
Cinery; then he was dismissed from
the White House by the Presi
dent, for breach of confidence in stealing
a letter and copying it. He is believed
to have accumulated a iarge fortune by
most unworthy practices, and in spite of
all this he stands on the rolls as an officer
and gentleman. When Judge Taft comes
into the Cabinet he will be at the head of
the army. The first step toward the
rooting out of Belknapism must be the
rigorous treatment of those officers
whose presence in the army is a disgrace
to all the honorable men that hold com
missions in its servcce, not so much for
vengeance against unworthy men, as to
bring back the reign of honor and duty.
—Baltimore Gazette.
Brown’s mother-in-law died Sunday.
Her last words were : “I am going to
heaven.” On Saturday morning Brown
gave np his pew in Plymouth Church.
The True Inwardness of the Bab
cock Affair.—The President and the
Attorney General, realizing that Mr.
Knott’s select committee will inevitably
trace the Babcock evidence from Dyer’s
hands ^o the White House, and thence
into the hands of Babcock’s counsel, have
determined to explain matters by charging
Babcock with purloining it and giving it
to his counsel. Babcock has agreed to as
sume the qdium. The facts are, and
they will come out on investigation,Grant
and Pierrepont induced Dyer to disclose
to them his evidence against Babcock, on
the pretense that the President wished to
know the exact case for his own guidance,
representing that if the evidence in
Dyer’s possession showed Babcock guilty
beyond a doubt, he (the President) would
at once dismiss him from the White
House. This was the trap Dyer had
fell into, and as soon as he had given
away his evidence it immediately found
its way into the hands of Storrs and Por
ter by way of the White House. It is
easy enough to explain this on the theory of
Babcock's theft, as far as the documents
are concerned: but as to the oral evidence,
it is obvious that Babcock could not have
stolen it without assistance. The for
tunes of the crowd are getting very des
perate.—tor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
(■eorgia and Tennessee—Their Finan
cial Stains Contrasted.
The State of Georgia has a bonded debt
equal to about five per cent, of the true
value of her property under the Federal
census of 1870—part of her bonds bear
seven per cent, interest, and about one-
fifth of them have their interest paid in
gold. Her bonds are rarely quoted below
par, and her interest is met as it falls due.
Tennessee has a bonded debt equal to
about five per cent, of her property under
the Federal census of 1870—her bonds all
bear interest at six per cent., payable in
currency. Why they are so quoted it is
needless to ask.— Clarksville Chronicle.
The Avalanche will venture a few ex
planations, based on official data, that
may assist the Chronicle to solve this con
undrum. Prior to 1875 the so-called
public debt of Georgia was $16,780,500.
The Democratic Legislature of 1875 threw
out every dollar of illegally made debt,
thus reducing the total valid debt to
$8,575,000, on which interest is now paid.
The amount thrown out was $8,575,000.
A portion of the recognized debt bears 7
per cent, gold interest, and a portion 7
and 8 per cent, in currency. The Geor
gia 7s, quoted at 105£(§»106£ in New York
on the 8 th, bears 7 per cent, interest in
gold, payable quarterly and semi-an
nually.
To sum up: Tennessee’s debt is about
$25,000,000; Georgia’s, $8,575,000. The
assessed value of property and rate of
taxation in both States are about the
same. Besides, Georgia owns the Atlantic
and Western Railroad, which is leased to
private parties at the rate of $360,000 per
annum, payable monthly. Perhaps the
Chronicle and other journals which ex
press surprise at the poor showing made
by Tennessee, when contrasted with
Georgia, can now see why our bonds
linger in the forties. If the Chronicle is
anxious for Tennessee to rank with
Georgia it should advocate the policy so
successful in that State. —Memphis
Avalanche.
[From the Atlanta Conner.]
Venality of the Press.
Hail to the brave spirit that inspired
you, Mr. Bell. The ring of your metal
is unmistakable, and it is the first clear
and distinct ring of the true that my ears
have been greeted with in many a year.
I lift ray hat to you, sir. I am proud to
do you honor. All classes endorse you,
and because we would not have the fires
that you have kindled die out, I take the
liberty of offering the following thoughts
as fuel for your flames:
When it is remembered that from the
whole list of dailies published in Georgia,
the Savannah News is the only one that
is not known to have been debauched by
gold, it seems to me that silence can no
longer be less than a crime against pa
triotism. In the late bribery investiga
tion in the matter of the State Road
lease, although no positive proof of guilt
was found, yet the impression left on the
minds of some nine-tenths of those who
read the testimony, was that money had
been corruptly used to obtain that lease.
Look at it. A man who had held the
honored office of Georgia’s Executive,
who had worn the now white mantle
that had once graced the shoulders of the
illustrious Lumpkin, a man who had been
recognized for the last twenty years as
being absolutely peerless in intellectual
strength, stood up and testified that by
his knowledge and consent five thousand
dollars was paid to the Atlanta Constitu
tion, two thousand to the Telegraph and
Messenger, two thousand to the Constitu
tionalist, one thousand to the Columbus
papers, ten hundred and forty to a Rev.
Watkin Hicks, editor, two hundred and
fifty to Mr. Levazee, five thousand to
Mr. May, to be used in Southwest Geor
gia upon editors, I believe, and now
another paper, emboldened by the size
and respectability of the crowd it finds
itself in, acknowledges to have received
money from Kimball for advocating the
sale of his Opera House, and far as
I am advised, the Constitution and the
Chronicle and Sentinel have never denied
the published charge, that they, too, re
ceived money for advocating the same
enterprise. What is the moral of all this
Is it not that the standard of public
honesty has either been awfully lowered,
or that our secular press is no true ex
ponent of the character of our people
If it is the first, it is high time that
long roll of warning should be sounded.
If the second, I know that an indignant
public ought to sternly rebuke them
What is it that a corrupt official will not
undertake to do, when he believes that
the public press can be bribed to sustain
him in it ? The following excuses that
some have offered, will not do Mr. Bell.
The acceptances of the moneys offered
above, were known to be wrong
when they were taken. Let not
one paper blind the public, by saying
it advocates the Opera House sale
prevent the squandering of millions, in
building a new capitol. If that editor
has studied no higher moral philosophy
than that, let him come down and out,
He is not fit to educate his people in bon
esty. If another saw no wrong in taking
five thousand dollars from him who had
once been the chosen mouth-piece of jus
tice, why did he go to see two persons to
know if he could not get the matter
“hushed up ?” These excuses won’t do
they are too thin. It would have been
better if they had simply said that in an
unguarded moment the tempter came and
they yielded. An honest confession gives
evidence of true manhood. To claim
that you killed the sheep to prevent it
from biting you, won’t excuse you with
people who are familiar with the habits
of that animal. Y’ou are right, Mr. Bell
as we hope for liberty in the future, it
behooves us to use every lawful means to
rebuke venality and lascivious filthiness
in our secular press.
Country Citizen.
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Breaking the Presidential Idols.
[Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The iconoclast is abroad in Washing
ton to-day, breaking Presidential idols,
and Bristow is marked as the next victim.
Blaine, Morton aDd other aspirants have
registered an oath in hell that Bristow
shall not smile when all others are weep
ing and wailing and gnashing their teeth.
Men have been set to work to hunt up
his record before he was appointed Sec
retary of the Treasury.
He was a claim agent lawyer here,
is now alleged that the Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. Bristow, the high toned,
moral pressure statesman, the only one
left in the Republican party, has been al
lowing cotton claims for $180,000, with
undue haste. It is further asserted that
Bristow got out of this amount, a con
tingeni fee of $25,000. Bristow’s salary
is $8,000 per year. He drives blooded
horses, has liveried servants, and a $2,000
carriage, and has a china set in his house,
imported, which cost $2,000. All this
“Republican simplicity” on$8,000ayear.
When the committee on crooked whisky
gets through with Bristow, he will not
appear in the role of such an ardent re
former, and will not be so eager to
ruin men who are his supporters. The
facts stated above are in possession of
the Sun correspondent, who dare not
publish them, because that paper is back
ing Bristow for the Presidency. The
facts given above come from a reliable
source.
THE LOUISIANA 8E NATORSHIP •
A report comes to-night that Kellogg
has determined to appoint Warmoth to
fill the vacancy in the Senate. Pinch
back is engaged in this movement, and
is determined to give the Republicans all
the trouble possible.
Liverpool is much exercised over sun
dry strange and wondrous sheep just
landed there from the Pacific Steamship
Company’s splendid steamer Aconcagua.
These sheep are of Chilian origin, have
very fine white wool, and four long mas
sive horns, two of which are curved for
ward and the other two right aud left so
as to cover the eyes of the animal. With
these was landed a male vicuna of a rich
brown color, with the finest wool known
out of Cashmere. This animal stands
three feet in height to ihe shoulder.
Mrs. Belknap Interviewed.—A Wash
ington correspondent of the New Y'ork
Herald gives what purports to be the sub
stance of an interview of a lady of that
city with Mrs. Gen. Belknap. In reply
to the inquiry whether she had seen Mr.
Marsh at the Arlington, and whether
there was any thing then said about her
receiving $70,000 from Mrs. Pendleton,
Mrs. Belknap said:
“Not one word. I never had a sou
from Mr. Pendleton for any help in any
matter. Of course I heard of the Ken
tucky Central Railroad, just as any lady
in Washington hears of any claim which
excites general attention. Mr. Pendle
ton was interested in it, and because
he happened to be a friend of mine
people maliciously connected his
success with my position, but I never
had one cent, nor my husband either.
The General only asks that all his affairs
may be fully investigated. He hopes that
they will summon from every post all the
witnesses possible; that they will ex
amine all the papers and records of the
War Department. He has come out of
this a poor man—he has not anything—
every penny we have belongs to me, and
when this is done we shall have precious
little. How we are to live, or what we
are to do, I cannot think.”
In regard to reports set forth that she
had it in Ler power to send Grant and
several of his friends to the penitentiary,
she said: “ I know nothing of General
or Mrs. Grant but what is to their credit.
I have never known anything wrong
about him. He has always been perfectly
honorable.” Gen. Belknap, who came
into the room during the interview, joined
with his wife in saying he “ knew noth
ing about the President but what was
good.”
EFFORT TO DEFEAT IMPEACHMENT.
The Republicans in the House aremov
ing by concerted programme to break
down the impeachment of Belknap.
Blaine has fully recovered from the shock
of last week, and is exhausting his re
sources in the most desperate attempt to
divert public sentiment from Belknap ex
posures by dragging in the names of
prominent Democrats. The stories about
Hendricks, in particular, have been care
fully traced up by leading Democrats,
and they are satisfied that Blaine was the
instigator of them.
The feeling against Blaine is growing
very bitter among Democrats, and he is
rapidly acquiring the status formerly
occupied by Ben Butler. Men are now
at work tracking Blaine, and, although he
has been adroit in covering up his trail
for the last seven years, there are many
things in his career which will not bear
close scrutiny. This is bound to come,
and it is not impossible that before the
close of the session Blaine will be thor
oughly disgraced, if not expelled from
Congress. Particulars can not now be
given, but will be forthcoming in good
time.
Lady Burdett-Coutts has not under
taken one day too soon her crusade in
behalf of the small birds. In a single
sale at London, in February, there were
disposed of no fewer than 15,574 ham
ming birds, topaz-colored, ruby and
emerald; 25,000 parrots and 17,000 king
fishers, together with 10,000 aigrettes
made of bird’s feathers. Ali these
butchered to make a woman’s holiday 1
Why Fred. Grant was Sent West.—
No authentic explanation ef the sudden
and unexpected departure of Col. Fred.
Grant for the plains has yet been ob
tained, but that there was a very import
ant reason will undoubtedly appear in
due time. The fact that all the real es
tate operations of the President and the
family are about to be investigated, may
have something to do with this hasty de
parture of the young man for the fron
tier. The investigation of the real estate
pool which is now going on will not stop
short of some highly important disclos
ures, and among the things likely to be
shown is that Fred. Grant received a
large sum of money from Boss Shepherd,
which he put into real estate. This is
understood to have been ostensibly a gift
by Boss Shepherd, and it is furthermore
believed that it was this kind of an obli
gation which has attached the President
so firmly to the late Governor of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Curses, like yellow-legged poultry, al
ways come home to roost. Think *.-f the
Secretary of War of the United States,
the boe^m friend and counselor of the
President with his head bowed ot: his
hands in the criminal court of Washing- Tom ''.Tg Vithdrawing the cotton
ton, and mrarded by a nigger Deputy the h alted » ‘ eare and fratern-
Marshal, enough to move the h<art '— his
of a saw-log to pity, and draw tin cups of pauy w/me famous
melancholic tears from the 1 ~ 1
for
diffSent^iaaliSs 1 0“^ h °* ever ’ ^-T
the still of the n 1 a.-te ‘ of *rho; i r^
appetite alive (Jos cm clovs it i andto
hear nurture with water. A good
Wtoe Mmn I Jv t f Pre,erred t0 a hi * ber Claaa Ot
were economy: if the two
were at the same price the iudioions
Frenchmen would choose an ordinaire
(“ r . | Use u “ tl1 hanger was .satisfied. A
bottle of better wine is always produced
at or before dessert if there'is a guest d
ls , generally omitted when the
family is alone, unless there is some er-
a°f r t h t mdUlg t nce ’ 6uclas a birth-
day, a )tU day. or the return of a member
of the family from a distance. In sum-
F hlte Wln , e 18 oftenservodat d,jeuner
amd drunk with seltzer water, with which
it makes a very refreshing beverage, ner-
roff«ii- V v, u SUmUlatmR t0 the app etite.
Coffee is hardly ever omitted after de
jeuner, even in most economical families-
it ie generally excellent, but not invaria
bly. In houses where care is taken
about coffee, it is roasted in very :;mall
quantises at a time, and very moderately
The burnt, black coffee of the cafe is gen
erally only fit for peasants at a fair the
true connomeur despises it, and takes tha
greatest precautions to secure the un
spoiled aroma. It is very probable that
tnere may be some natural connection be
tween the wine and the coffee: the wine
seems to call for coffee, and perhaps physi
ologists may know the reason. The
wme drunk varies from half a bottle to a
bottle at each meal, for each man; ladies
drink less, and seldom go beyond the half
bottle. In hotels, a bottle is the regular-
allowance. Men often drink their wme
pure, but ladies never do, except a
little at the end of the repast. The
quantity of wine drunk in France some
times appears excessive to modern Eng
lishmen, though it would not have aston
ished the contemporaries of Sheridan
and Pitt, while Americans rather suspect
you of a tendency to intemperance if you
drink anything but iced water during
meals. I have neyer perceived that a
Frenchman was less sober after his bottle
of tin ordinaire, nor is there any reason
to believe that it injures his health or
shortens his existence ; but if he drinks
much wine at meals he ought to abstain
rigorously from drinking between meals,
and the wisest Frenchmen are often very
severe with themselves on this point. I
know several whom nothing wouid in
duce to infringe their rule, and who never
enter a cafe.
Sam Tilden’s Schemes to Carry the
South.
Montgomery, Ala., March 10, 1876.—
The friends of Mr. Tilden are making a
systematic and determined effort to fore
stall the action of the St. Louis Conven
tion, and force him upon the Democratic
party as its candidate for President.
This should be made known, even if it
shall not prove possible to defeat the
money ring’s well organized and far-
reaching conspiracy to thwart the wishes
of the people aud control political organi
zations.
A Northern member of Congress, a
shrewd, capable und bold intriguer, has
recently visited the principal cities of
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, in
each of which he, in a most direct and
business-like manner, sought the ac
quaintance of the more prominent Demo
crats, and, without circumlocution or
equivocation, urged upon the necessity
of Tilden’s nomination, and the duty of
subordinating all unfriendly feeling to
ward him to the safety of tho
South and the good of the whole coun
try. With admirable, politic and un
usual directness, this gentleman says, in
substance: “The interests of the whole
country demanded the expulsion of the
corrupt Republican party from power.
The safety of the South is staked on a
change in the Administration, which will
give the Southern States immunity from
Federal interference and leave them to
work out their own salvation in their own
way. A Democratic success in Novem
ber is not possible without the expendi
ture of money on a large scale, and Mr.
Tilden is the only possible candidate who
can command the indispensable sinews of
war. Mr. Tilden must be the candidate,
or no effective canvass is possible and de
feat is inevitable.”
With Mr. Tilden it is frankly admitted
that we must lose Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and the Northwest; but we are told that
these Stales are certain to go against us
in any event, and they will throw upon
New York—which Mr. Tilden alone can
carry—the decision of the Presidential
contest.
In this presentation of Mr. Tilden as
the only possible savior of the Demo
cratic party and redeemer of the country,
there is no element of sentiment, no
cant about principle, no reference to
measures and policy. His nomination is
urged on clean, sharp-cut, emphatic
grounds, at once venal, dangerous,
alarming and dishonorable, offensive to
every honest mind, insulting to every
manly instinct and revolting to every
moral sense. It is simply a proposition
on the one hand to buy the Democratic
nomination for an aspirant who has
neither the respect nor the confidence of
Democratic masses. It is simply a pro
position on the other hand to sell the
nomination to the highest bidder. And
Tilden, the statesman; Belmont, the
banker, and Gould, the stock gambler,
are to furnish the money, take the office
of the party that wins and divide the
spoils.—Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
■
What a magnificent spectacle would it
not present, in this hour of national hu
miliation and disgrace, for tho united
clergy of America, waiving all denomina
tional bitterness and asperity in the past,
to come together, on a fixed day, and
join in simultaneous prayers to Heaven
to save onr country from the frightfnl
demoralization and corruption into which
it has falieD; to pray thvt a merciful
Providence may save both us and our
country from becoming the reproach of
nations and a hissing and a byword in the
earth. —Neu Ilaien ItegieUr.
When corruption is spreading iu a
country, the clergy have special duties
imposed upon them, which they cannot
shirk without treason to their religion.
They are bound to struggle with all their
might for public purification, and to
bring out ail their resources in the battle
against deviltry. The true example for
them is to be found in the Hebrew pro
phets of old times. When Israel fell into
evil ways audJerusalem became polluted,
when the rulers were false to their trust,
and indulged in bribery and fraud, these
prophets raised their voices in denuncia
tion and warning, sometimes with such
force and effect as to bring about repent
ance and reformation. It was not theirs
to apologize fer the guilty, or to inonJge
social pleasantries with them, or
to conceal from sight the penal
ties that were inevitable. They "■ere too
austere and stern to tnfle with evil these
prophets, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and
the others. It is in the footsteps of such
men, we say, that the clergy of this .ime
should try to walk, assadmg the evils of
the day in prophetic tones, aud calling
^“‘^nd’Sverer work for them tp do r
a h nTwoTmo“ T-ticaiin its nature.-
Me tv York Sun.
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'? e} nr U fo P r ‘‘honest P money may be
"oefferous than vurtuous.--^
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