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We wish tbe newspaper men would let
the'farmers aloao about planting corn.
from the clamor that is raised one would
it nine editors oat of every ten
c JV ft t a barrel of corn at a sitting and get
with a fuddor-stack, pole and all, in
twenty-four hours. Suppose a farmer does
plant all corn : what of it? The remedy is
i mple. He can sell his land, emigrate to
Texas, get disgusted, and then come back to
Georgia aud work as a tenant. Let the
formers alone.
Th6 Hon. ilarceliua E. Thornton, of At
lanta, is still eating hi* quail a day, but he
wVg ^ef begiu to smell wonderfully like
woodpeckers. It cannot be that the naughty
young men of Atlanta are feasting the Hon.
Marccllus E. upon log-cocks and yellow-
hammers. Perish the unjust suspicion! If
Fox or Miles Turpin have anything to do
with the hill of fare, we know it can be re
lied on.
A Macon lady, who heard a suspicious
noise late at night, and found, upon exami
nation, that her husband was sitting com
placently on the wet door-mat, was consoled
by the information that he had been stunned
bv striking bis head against the ceiling.
Columbus has at last taken to drinking
Milwaukee beer, and crime in that city is
steadily on the decrease. Even the editors
no longer refuse circus tickets.
Since the editor of tbe Geneva Lamp has
received a free pass over the Central Rail
road, ho has endeavored, on two different
occasions, to borrow seventy-five cents from
Jim Deuse, oue of the conductors. But Jim
didn’t have the money.
Our Atlanta correspondent doesn’t seem
to admire some of the antics cut by a few of
those who tooted their gush-horns at the
Western excursionist*.
Major JI. Eugene Thornton, of Atlanta,
is getting mighty fastidious. He says the
carcasses of the birds which he is engaged
in eatiDg.not only sit heavily on his stomach,
but taste as though they had fed on nothing
but bugs. We do not desire to discourage
the Major, hut a private letter from Atlanta
informs us that if he does not succumb, the
twenty-seventh bird is to be killed some
days beforehand. It will then be placed in
the sun to ripen, after which it will be
baked in a bed of bergamot leaves, for the
purpose of destroying the gamey savor. We
congratulate the Major upon his victory,
which now seems assured.
Oglethorpe couuty has but one pauper.
"Americans, welcome! Gimme six bits !”
is the proud motto of Port Royal, If you
think this is a South Carolina affair, ask the
Western excursionists.
Mr. A. T. Woodward explains that his
action in foreclosing the mortgage held by
him on the Atlanta Courier was based on
the action of the printers, who had alieady
placed the office in the hands of a constable.
A printer named llammoud, on his way
from Savannah to Macon, fell from a high
trestle, near Gordon, the other day, severely
injuring himself about the bead.
We had the pleasure of a visit yesterday
from Mr. Eugene Speer, of the Griffin News,
and Mr. J. C. McMichael, of the Barnesville
Gazette and Thomaston Herald. They in
tended to go to Eiorida, but the rain was so
wet and Jacksonville so far, they concluded
to go hom*. Anyhow, they made things
pleasant while they stayed.
A case of old-fashioned small pox has
blossomed on a negro girl in Oglethorpe
county.
Dr. Andrews, of the Washington Gazelle,
protests in the most eloquent manner
against the odor of gnano in that town.
When a man. who is a doctor as well as an
editor, turns up his nose in print, you may
know the perfumed gale is blowing.
W e Lave received the first number of the
Franklin News, a new paper started in
Heard county. It is edited and published
by Mr. 8. J. Johnston.
The Superior Court of Berrien county con
vened yesterday.
The German immigrants who have settled
near Eastman are preparing to make them
selves comfortable.
Mr. Sam. W. Small, of Atlanta, has been
appointed official stenographer of the At
lanta Circuit by Judge Peeples. In addition
to this, Mr. Small is the proprietor of a new
b&by.
Mr. William L. Harrell, of Dodge sounty,
was accidentally drowned the other day
while fishing.
The colored brethren of Oglethorpe
county have renewed their religious revival.
Every negro in the county has been con
verted twice and now they are going in for
the third time.
A colored sawyer wa% caught in the belt-
tog of a mill he was running near Eastman
wag so sf rioualy injured that he died in
& few hours.
Oglethorpe county boasts of a man who
has eaten two quail a day for forty daye in
succession.
An Atlanta man named Feree told a Mew
>eans man the other day that he was no
gentleman, an ^ invited him to come to time.
wtin said he thought he would, and ho
whereupon Feree got down to the gait
Msumed by the Atlanta policemen when
ia supposed to be on the war-
P a *h, and made his escape.
Onilia has a colored skating rink, and the
negroes Lave worn all the hair off their
heads trying to learn.
Somebody has been writing detectiv e
ones, of Atlanta, a scurrilous letter rela-
Uve t0 Myram Wood affair.
James Lee, a white Northern Metho-
* ‘ sl l' rcac ker stationed in Atlanta, has been
to outlie Gil. Haven. In the course
•arecent sermon at the North, Lee let
^ seif out in a manner shameless enough
Bish XC ^ eQv ^ ^is miscegenatiDg
D f^ ro in Richmond eounty was fa-
burned tbe other day.
t.Iurieu Gazette says: “Gov. Smith,
’ ai J * rom a reliable source, is not a
candidate for "
Orl<
senator Norwood’s place. He
‘-arm personal friend of Mr. Norwood,
support him with all his might for
in e popiiion be now holds."
jtoglaries are quite frequent inCuthbert.
0 ff lt e h Cr * WfOrd ^ l0 says t* 10 Tanners of
tQ ! orpe c °unty are making preparations
amucb larger crop of cotton this
0 an aD >' year since the war.
011 the Georgia Road was
8u" Ved by fire ° n Frida y ni 6kt.
£H<f 8 r BtlVe para K ra P h f rom the Crawford
*° to Eexington depot, buy a ton of
, 0Ur ° or8ixt y dollars on time, put it on
fifteen" a8 ° D &Ud drive out oI the P lace
man v ° r U 2niy milea » 8eil ik to the first
the m<V mtfct fcr thirty dollars cash, pocket
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w ntaii,' , U Sltlc 8 lrom Ibe Geneva lamp,
^ , ilrc,aii ni i^j 7er . c strictures on the Central
siding th 6 n«k cllarg i? g the officers .with
jpeciaj rates . e J? das b T giving them
w* line 0i ti a « d ‘SKing them from along
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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
being collected at the destination, from the
agents who wait for them. Our attention
has been called to it by the officials of the
Central Road at this end of the line, and
they deny that any such things have hap
pened over their roads. They say that in
no case will they, or have thev brought ne
groes into the city, the fare to be p h id at
this end, and they deny that they give
3pecial rates to negroes or agents.
Camilla (Mitchell county) Enterprise : Dr.
B I. A Call, of this place, has in his posses
sion a stoat, knotty hickory walking cane,
which was cat from the stump over one hun
dred and fifty years ago, in the county of
Down, near Rostreva, in Ireland, by his
grandfather, and sent to his sou, Jas. Cull,
by the lamented Judge Lumpkin, of Athens,
from Ireland. After the death of Mr. Jas
Cull—Dr. Cull’s father—at Washington.
Georgia, the Doctor found this cane in
his trunk, and preserved it as a memento
of bis ancestry. Dr. Cull’s father was 104
years old when he died. The doctor also
ha* a pocket-knife of Joseph Rodgers’s
make, bought by his father in Charleston,
8. C., when he was seven years old, conse
quently is over oue hundred years old. It
contains two blades, both of which are worn
so till they are not wider than a broom
straw. Both these old relics have passed
through times that tried men’s souls, and if
they could speak would doubtless tell tales
of wonder. The doctor will not send them
to the Centennial.
Florida Affairs.
Pnrman seems to disremember. some how
or other, that his political knavery is as
elaborate and has been as long continued as
that of Stearns, or Cheney, or—no, we will
except McLin.
John Tyler, Jr., announces that ho is run
ning the Fernandina Observer entirely inde
pendent of Hicks.
We mentioned some days ago, on the au
thority of the Monticello Constitution, that
Mr. John H. Kearney, a Northern commer
cial traveler, had taken occasion while in
that town to make some very insulting allu
sions to the Confederate leaders, both
living and dead. Mr. Kear
ney assures us that the informant of ^he
Constitution is mistaken. He says he has
been traveling in the South for a numbor
of years, aud has always endeavored to re
ciprocate the courtesy and kindness with
which he has been met. He also informs us
that he has written a note to the editors of
the Constitution denying the statement
which that paper made on the authority of
an informant. This correction is also in
tended to include the paragraph iu our lo
cal columns of yesterday.
The slurs cast at Rev. John Tyler, Jr. ;
by Cheney are amusing enough to those
who know the impotent bitterness that
lurks behind them.
A correspondent proposes Judge Charles
H. Dupont as the Democratic candidate for
Governor. There is not a better man in
Florida than Judge DuPont, nor one upon
whom the Democracy and Conservatism of
the State could unite with greater harmony,
unanimity and enthusiasm.
McLin, it seems, does not, after all, stand
very high in the estimation of John Tyler,
Jr. At any rate the latter, in the last issue
of the Fernandina Obsei’ver, alludes to
Samuel in such affectionate terms as villain
blackguard, knave, coward, scoundrel, pol
troon, traitor, deserter, wretch, and bo forth.
It is by the application of such little kind
lings as these that the Radical pot will be
made to boil over. What with the aspira
tions of Purman, Conover, Steams and
McLin, aud the earnestness of Tyler, we
may expect a v ery exciting campaign.
And how does Dennis propose to contri
bute to the success of the Radicals in
Florida ? At which corner of the triangle
does he propose to sit ?
Overby, a poor devil of a saloon-keeper-
can be sent to North Carolina on warrants
for his arrest, but Littlefield, the bond
thief, is protected by a wretch who is Gov
ernor by accident.
Sir Robert Abercromby is in Jacksonville.
Cessna, we presume, considers himself
out of politics. We hope he has discovered
that agriculture is & more honest as well as
a healthier pursuit than perpetual carpet-
bagism. They will all come to grief in timi
—Purman, Dennis, Cheney; Steams, Glea
son, and all.
The Jacksonville Press says that a now
dodge has turned up in tbe confidence game.
A young girl of ten or twelve years of age
is the usual medium, directed, of course,
by male or female sharp era, who do not ap
pear in ihe transaction at all. The dodge
is for the girl to enter a store of any kind,
and, laying down a ten cent scrip, ask to be
obliged with two five cent pieces. Receiving
them, she departs only to return in 4 few
minutes with a leaden iac-simile of a five
cent coin, which she says is “not good.’
The merchant readily exchanges it, giving
no thought to the matter. In this manner
a smart girl can easily earn for her mana
gers several dollars per day.
The educated coon, once the pride and
the boast of Lake City, has gravitated to
Jacksonville.
Cheney states that Hamilton Jay is likely
to find a refuge in the Key West custom
house—but Cheney always was unreliable.
Purman will do well to make his Congres
sional will. That cadetship business has
settled his hash.
Cheney says he would be glad to see Rev.
John Tyler, Jr., “properly estimated by the
people of the State.” No doubt. But, so
far as the rank and file of the Radical party
is concerned, Stearns’s stool pigeon will not
have that satisfaction.
Miccosnkie had some charades and tab
leaux the other day.
Mr. Frank Selph, of Columbia county,
died of pneumonia recently.
Rev. John Tyler, Jr., nominates J. T.
Walls, colored, for Governor. This is a shell
in the Stearns camp, and it will not be with
out effect; but we repeat here what we have
already said, viz.: that the native Republi
cans of Florida are almost unanimous in
favor of Tyler, and we have no doubt Walls
will decline the nomination.
The cedar pencil mills at Tampa are in
full blast, turning out 216,000 pencils a day.
Jacksonville Press : A friend of ours in
Pennsylvania has furnished us with a little
item of Mr. Poorman’s (Purman now) past
history. Hamilton first, Pnrman second,
and Hicks third—all three came from the
same place, like a greedy swarm of vultures
to prey upon the carcass of Florida. We
trust no more similar bloody-shirters will
come. We will publish the item in our next
issue.
Tampa Tribune: Col. J. B. Gonzales, of
the 7th Begiment Florida Militia, soi-ilisant
phvsician, dentist and photographer, de
parted from Tampa last Sunday morning.
Bv an effort to take some of other people s
property with him he well illustrated the
tbieving iDStincts of the party and adminis
tration which made him a Colonel. True,
in such matters Sell-us is apt.
Letter from & colored man in Monticello
Constitution: Though a colored man myself
I am not in favor of a white man, or rather
one who claims to be such, coming among
us and disgracing tbe community by walk
ing out on Sunday afternoon with our col
ored women—one on each side of him—
through the public streots of the city. The
colored people cannot respect any rahskal-
lion as the partv alluded to, who came here
to instruct our children, but whose course
is such as to lead them astray, to the dis
grace of their parents and the community.
Miss B and iliBS L have done them
selves great dishonor by associating with
this fellow.
Jacksonville Press: Furman has come out
boldlv and manfully, and has demanded an
inves'tigation or the charges brought against
him by Governor M. L. Stearns. On the
contrary he has instituted two very Berions
accusations against the Governor, affecting
verv intimately his private character and
reDutation. The first is, that while agent of
the Freedman's Bureau of this State, he
swindled the freedmen out of quantities of
provisions, which ho from time to time sold
{hr rnonev to the planters. The other is,
that he has violated his constitutional duty
as Governor, in declining to convene an extra
Bession of the Legislature to provide forrthe
current expenses of the present year, which
disregard of dnty he attributes to an inde
finable fear” an 1 “guilty conscience. Now
wbaVthe Governor to do in this emer-
_ r 9 These are grave and damaging
?hS3e*s made against the ehief magistrate
.t&toed i» -National
^Congress, and spread upon the national
records. Millions of people in this
great country are asking the ques
tion, “are they true or false?”
Neither speeches, the denials of friends,
nor the contradiction of his party organs
can relieve the Governor of these terrible
allegations. His proper tribunal is the
State Legislature, and he should at once
call an extra session of that body, to com
mence an investigation. His own self-re
spect and official dignity, together with the
fair fame of the State, demand an imme
diate inquiry, and we confidently expect
him to be equal to the occasion. The Jack
sonville Union and the Tallahassee Sentinel,
which are partly owned and controlled by
tbe Governor, are impotent of themselves
to check or alter public sentiment.
South Carolina Affairs.
Edgefield had a leap-year party Friday
night last.
The impeachment trial of Judge Mont
gomery Moses is slowly dragging on its
length. #
John Bragden, who is now living on the
plantation of Dr. F. J. Bethea, near Reedy
creek, in Marion, is eighty-nine years of
age. He is the father of twenty-three
children—seven sons aud sixteen daughters.
The youngest son is only seven years of age.
Mr. E. J. Moody, of Marion county,
planted thirty acres of corn on the 2d in
stant.
Messrs. Canton aud Hubbard, in Colom
bia, arrested James Wadlington, from
Ridgeway, in Fairfield county, on Tuesday.
Wadlington is charged with having been
entrusted with six watches for the purpose
of repairing the same. Justice Marshall, of
Fairfield county, issued the warrant for his
arrest.
A difficulty occurred at McLeod’s Mill, in
Marlboro county, last week, between some
white and colored men, resulting in the se
rious injury of a colored man named
Hunt. It grew out of some political mat
ter iu connection with the election last fall
Tho villain who burnt the stables and
horses of D. E. Gilchrist, in Marion, was
discovered last week in the act of burning
another building on the premises. Tbe in
cendiary is a negro boy on the plantation
about eighteen years old, by the name of
Joseph Green, who pretends that he did it
to destroy the horses and agricultural im
plements, so that ho would not have to
work. Speody justice will be meted to him.
The court room m Marion has been con
siderably improved in comfort and appear
ance.
In the month of February 991 bales of
cotton were shipped from the depot at Ches
ter. Total shipments for the six months,
beginning September 1, 1875, and ending
February 29, 1876, 13,081 bales.
Anderson has a fine brass band.
Strawberries have been seen in the
Charleston market at seventy-five cents per
quart.
Thieves entered the smoke-house of T. C.
Moody last week, in Marion, and stole sev
eral hundred pounds of bacon, a hundred
pounds of rice, about half a barrel of su
gar, and several other articles. They en
tered by prizing off tho boards with a crow
bar.
A considerable hail and wind storm passed
below Anderson on Sunday afternoon.
Corn planting has commenced in Marion
county, aud will bo general there by the
20th.
The March term of the court iu Marion
was held last week. Judge Townsend, iu
his charge to the grand jury, attributed the
iucrease of crime to the large number of
vagrants, and suggested an active crusade
against them. The Town Council of Marion
were commended for their refusal to grant
liquor licenses.
The Barnwell Democratic Convention
meets at Barnwell Court House on the first
Monday in April.
A colored man in Marion, having lost a
front tooth, carved out a wopden one anil
fitted it accurately in place, thus getting the
dead wood on the dentists.
Capt. E. W. Ferrin, Collector of Internal
Revenue, has appointed S. C. Whitehearte
Special Deputy for Marion.
The Lexington Sunday school is in
prosperous condition.
Henry T. Veitch, printer by trade, died at
the .residence of his brother-in-law, Dr.
Hazel, at Great Cypress, on tho 26th ult.
Mr. Veitch served his apprenticeship on the
Charleston Evening News.
The Sumter Watchman learns that a Mr.
Lee, who lives near the Marion and Wil
liamsburg line, was recently robbed of a
large sum of money while returning from
Georgetown, where he had carried a large
raft of timber. He aud a r.egro wero asleep,
when the ruffians came up and demanded
their money or their life.
N. B. Goddard, of Marion, has built a
modern gin house, one feature of which is
the location of six tanks of water, holding
one hundred and tnirty-five gallons each, on
the roof, for use in case of fire.
The Barnwell Sentinel says the bill passed
by the Legislature repealing the charter of
the town of Brunson, on the Port Royal
Railroad, has been vetoed by the Governor,
and the same has been sustained by a vote
of 46 to 18.
Tho total amount of past indebtedness of
Marion county, as registered by the County
Commissioners, is #1,267 74.
Senator Swails, in his paper, the Williams
burg Republican, nominates Governor
Chamberlain for a second term, and argues
that the Republicans have in him the only
available candidate.
Columbia Register: A warrant was issued
yesterday at Chester, for the arrest of F. B.
Lloyd. School Commissioner of that county,
for purchasing school certificates, which is
prohibited by the act of 1873.
On an affidavit made by W. B. Burnett
foreman of the grand jury of Chester coun
ty, Deputy Sheriff W. E. Walker arrested
Treasurer Yocom, on the cars last Sunday
morning, as he was returning from Colum
bia, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud
the county of Chester in the matter of
teachers’ pay certificates. Treasurer Yo
com has given bond for his appearance at
the next ensuing term of court.
A ku-klux raid upon the place of Colonel
S. S. Tompkins, in Edgefield county, recent
ly, was found to have been instigated and
participated in by negroes exclusively.
Green Dickson, Major Boulware and
Hyder Crockett have been arrested in Lan
caster for stealing cotton from Mrs. M. J.
Wvlie, of Chester, last December. While
Justice Ragsdale was in search of tbeso
rogues he found Wade Rosborough and Lee
Chesnut, of Chester, who stole two bales of
cotton last January from Major Mills, of
Blackstock, and are believed to have stolen
eight or ten bales from Mr. Wm. Caldwell,
of Chester, two vears ago. Chesnut
escaped. Rosborough confessed and im
plicated five other persons, one white, in the
areeny of Mr. Caldwell’s cotton. They have
been arrested.
The following extract takes a sanguinary
hue. It is from the Marion Star : “Mr. J.
D. McLucas, in the last issue of his paper,
intimated threats against us. We take
them to be intimations of personal violence,
as he knows we are under bond. We shall
pursue the even tenor of our way and shall
always be found where duty and business
calls* us, and when Mr. McLncas makes a
personal attack on us, that moment will de
cide whose wife will be left a widow and
whose children will be orphans. Neither
the pen nor the sword of Mr. McLucas can
intimidate us.”
The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad have received the much-talked-of
dumping machine. Tbe object is to fill up
every trestlework on the road between Co-
nmbia and Wilmington. The fiist place to
be filled in is Hampton’s mill pond—Colum
bia’s bunting, fishing and bathing resort.
The labor the machine performs in twenty-
seven minutes, bv actual test, it would re
quire eight men forty-eight hours to per
form.
BY TWIN
THE MORNING NEWS.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Noon Telegrams.
THE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION
Bristow and Bontwell on the Ragged
Edge.
DANA DOESN’T WANT TO FACE THE
SENATE COMMITTEE.
Mount Vesuvius in a .state of Eruption.
THE COBBUPTIOSISTS.
Washington, March 20.—Secretary Bris
tow will appear before the Committee on Ex
penditures of the War Department and ask
for an investigation of all the details of the
Kentucky mule claim.
Bontwell calls for a copy of his letter to
Henry Clews, asking for $60,000 for the
Pennsylvania campaign on corrapt con
ditions.
VESUVIUS.
Rohe, March 20.—Vesuvius is in a state of
eruption. The lava flows toward Pompeii.
A column of vapor from the summit reflects
the flames beneath, and vast quantities of
lava are discharged. The scene is magni-
cent.
DANA.
Boston, March 20.—Dana writes Boutwell
that he does not wish his nomination with
drawn, but he will not go to Washington to
submit a question touching his honor to a
committee which has taken the coarse the
Committee cn Foreign Relations has.
YOUTHFUL THIEVES.
St. Louis, March 20.—James Little and
Wm. O’Malley, aged 16 and 18, have been
arrested, charged with stealing several
thousand dollars from a business house in
New Orleans. They had $4,000 when ar
rested.
FBOH BEBLIN.
Bkblin, March 20.—Von Moltke goes to
Italy for his health. He has iufluenzi.
The Bishop of Paderboru has suddenly
and secretly quitted Holland.
BUBNED.
Scbanton, March 20.—The Catholic con
vent connected with St. Vincent Cathedral
is burned.
The Western Men—The ii ushers .Meet the
Excursionists and They are Theirs—Joej
B. Rises to Explain—How He Risked
His Life and .Made His Fortune—“De
mosthenes” as a Comedian—Load Ap-
plnuse in Pit and Hallcry.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
SHOT DOWN IN 11 IS TRACK*.
A Colored Prisoner Fatally Wounded by a
Work-House C.aard—What Came of an
Intuit to a Young Lady.
Wednesday evening a negro man named
W. H. Spencer, thought to have been
crazy, was arrested by policeman Arnold
and placed in the station-house. Yester
day a State's warrant was issued against
him as being a dangerous man in tbe
community, by a prominent citizeD resid
ing on North Cherry street. Spencer was
subsequently removed from the station-
house and arraigned before Justice Bas
kette. The evidence brought out in the
investigation was as follows: Early iu
the afternoon of Wednesday, when the
daughter of the gentleman who swore
out the warrant was returning from
school, she was followed by Spencer
until she reached her home. Spencer en
tered the house, and without saying a
word took a seat. When the young lady
hesitatingly asked to know what the man
wanted, he told her not to be afraid, as
he did not intend to harm her, and after
a moment insulted her. The young lady,
becoming alarmed, went to her mother
and told her of the man’s being in the
parlor and of his insolence toward her.
After the mother had driven him from
the house, he returned. He was driven
away by* a gentleman who lived in the
next house. By this time the father of
the young lady, who was not far off, had
been called in. He followed the negro
until he found the policeman who ar
rested him.
Iu the search at the station but one
article was found upon Spencer’s person
—an account book, containing a few
small entries by the secretary or book
keeper at the Fisk University, at which
place he was a student. During the
trial the negro said that he had a secret
mission to perform—that of entering the
premises of families where there was any
discord and of reconciling such discords;
that he had heard that the gentleman,
whose house he had entered, did not get
along well with his wife, and he wished
to make everything right between them.
Justice Baskette found nothing in the
charge upon which he could bind the
prisoner over, bat sent him to the county
work house for safe keeping. The keeper
of that institution soon afterwards made
arrangements to carry Spencer out to the
County Asylum and put him to work w ith
other prisoners at that place.
Some doubt arising as to whether Spen
cer ought to work or not, the mittimus
was returned to Justice Baskette, with
the inquiry whether he had sent Spencer
there for the purpose of workifig. The
justice answered in the affirmative. The
mittimus was then taken to Judge Ferriss
to find out what he thought of placing
the man at werk. He answered that since
Spencer had been sent to the work-house
for that purpose he most be put with the
other hands. On the way out to the
asylum the prisoner showed a great deal
of uneasiness, saying that he had done
nothing to be put to woik for, and that
he intended to see “that woman yet,”
referring to the young lady.
He was put to work, and instruction
were given to the guards to keep a strict
watch upon him. After working, per
haps half an hour in the quarry, he
came out and said that he did not intend
to work afiy longer, and that that sort of
business was more than he bargained for.
The guard, Robert Marshall, ordered him
back, but he refused, however, to go, but
started off in a run. When he had gone
sixty yards, and still refusing to halt,
Marshall fired at his legs. Just at that
momeht Spencer jumped into a small ra
vine, causing the shot to take effect just
above his thighs and back, two of the
buckshot entering on either side of the
spine immediately above the hips. The
wounds were thought to be fatal.
Spencer is a bright mulatto and can
hardly be distinguished from a white
man. He is thirty-six years of age and
has recently come to this city from Ar
kansas to attend the Fisk University.—
Nashville American.
The fact that the people of New Mexi -
co polled a nearly unanimous vote lately
against the establishment of common
schools in that territory, is held to de
monstrate their unfitness to come into
the rights and privileges of State citizen-
The Diffebence Between a Bbotheb
and a Wife.—Mr. Marsh traded with
Mrs. Belknap for a post-tradership. Mrs.
Beflfciap is the wife of the Secretary of
War. Mr. Belknap is forced to resign
his office. A guard is placed over his
house. He is subjected to the ignominy
of a criminal arrest, and is now out of
jail only because he has given heavy
bail.
Other parties traded for post trader-
ships with Mr. Orville Grant. He is the
brother of the President. The President
notified him in advance when there were
to be vacancies. This afforded brother
Orville a chance to speculate out of them.
The President must have given the
notices on purpose to afford brother Or
ville a chance to speculate out of the ap
pointments, because there is no other ob
ject he could have had in view in furnish
ing this information to Orville.
Yet the President remains in the White
House at twice the salary paid to George
Washington. He does not resign ; he is
not arrested ; he is not molested.
It would seem to be much safer for
speculators and dealers in office and ap
pointments to deal with a brother than
with a wife.—N. Y. Sun.
A Highlander who died recently left
directions in his will that his coffin should
be covered with a sky-blue cloth edged
with white, and instead of the usual mort
cloth a Highland plaid be used. He also
wished his executors to provide plenty of
“good Highland whisky, with bread and
cheese,” for those attending his funeral,
and that not more than one dram of
whisky be given to the children who
might attend.
Atlanta, March 18, 1876.
THE EXCUBSIONISTS.
This has been a gala week for the Gate
City. The unselfish patriotism of its
people was stirred to its profoundeat
depths by the presence of the North
western excursionists, and an amount of
gas was let off which would exhaust any
other city except Atlanta. Fortunately,
however, it has a supply of that article
always bottled up to meet any emergency
that may arise. The Atlantese are a
wonderful people. They have no rivals
in the art of making a sensation. It was
a happy thought in Dr. White to project
this one. He has been here long enough
to learn how to touch the pulse
of his neighbors. His scheme of
introducing his friends from the
North w’est was quite a success,
and no doubt it will result in some good.
It has brought into our midst persons
who before knew very little of our people,
and they will probably return home with
their prejudices somewhat softened and
possessed of information which may be
of advantage to them as well as to us.
But there was a great deal said at the
grand reception given to the honored
guests at De Give's Opera House which to
a sober listener was, to say the least, not
altogether consonant with good taste and
becoming dignity. After inviting these
people here hospitality required that
they should be received and entertained
in a proper way.
FLUNKEYISM.
But to make such a parade over them
as was made, surfeit them with long-
winded, turgid, adulatory speeches, in
which their virtues were held up to our
disparagement as a people, was carrying
the thing a little too far. If tbe people
they represent are a great people, they
know it without any pompous deelama
tion by our orators on that subject; and
if we are a great people, and have a
great country, they will find out these
facts during their sojourn amongst
us, without dinning their ears with the re
frain. All the speakers dwelt upon another
fact, which really seemed to assume that
they were addressing men little acquaint
ed with the events of the day. Every
body of ordinary intelligence knows that
“the war is over,” and yet this fact was
repeated over and over again, and dwelt
upon with an earnestness which implied
that there was great doubt entertained
about its truth, and that we were
ashamed of the part we took in the
war, and were ready to cry out.
“peccavi !*
The speakers also seemed very anxious
to convince our Northern friends that
slavery had been abolished, and some of
them came very near admitting, if they
did not quite admit, that it was right to
abolish it in the manner it was done.
What sensible man, North or South
doubts the fact that slavery at
the South is extinct? But what truo
Southern man doubts that our people
were right in defending the institution
in the last ditch; that slaves were their
property under the constitution as much
as their houses and lands, and that the
war waged for its destruction was in vio
lation of that compact, and an unmiti
gated outrage ? Are we now to go back
on our record and admit that we were
wrong and our adversaries right ? A gener
ous adversary would not ask us to do this.
Ex-Governor Brown said to the honored
guests of the city: “ You very natu
rally concluded it (meaning slavery j ought
to be abolished, and that we did wrong
to maintain it.” According to his ethics,
it was very natural for our Northern
brethern to take from us property to the
amount, in value, of our present national
debt, without compensation, and leave us
A NATION OF PAUPEBS.
Very complimentary, indeed, to the
Northern people ! “But,” said the ex-
Govemor, “we will be a more self-re
liant, hardy, independent people in fu
ture.” This is our compensation for tho
blood of the brave and the loss of mil
lions of property.’ If such sentiments
as these are to be the staple of the
speeches of men who assume to lead pub
lic opinion, how long will wo retain our
own self-respect or love for the memory
of those who fell in our defense ? Ex-
Governor Brown knows as well as any
man that, in endurance, and prowess
on the field of battle, our soldiers
were not inferior to the North
ern soldiery. He knows, further, that
they maintained an unequal contest in
numbers, and in all the appliances of
war, for four long years, and that equality
in these respects would have insured our
final triumph; that it was not until our
ranks were thinned to a shred that our
flag was lowered. Did this show a
want of self-reliance, only “French chiv
alry and dash,” as he and his admired
hero, Sherman, would have us believe?
Or was it necessary to the entertainment
of our visitors that one, who had risked
his life and fortune like he did in the Lost
Cause, should make a contrast derogatory
to the character of our people for man
hood? We have had enough of this sort
of stuff furnished us by the Northern
press and Northern books, without promi
nent speakers here retailing it to flatter
our late enemies, friends now, it is to be
hoped. It is neither true, just, nor manly.
We are, and always have been, the equals
of the people of any section of this
Union, in all the elements of true man
hood—physicial, moral, and intellectual,
and he is false to the truth of history and
the traditions of the past who his the
hardihood to assert the contrary.
IE “DEMOSTHENES OF THE MOUNTAINS.’’
Ex-Senator H. V. M. Miller deserves a
passing notice for the part he took in this
performance at DeGive’s. It would re
quire too much space to comment fully
upon that gentleman's remarks. It was
evidently his object to amuse
his audience by a display of wit
and humor. And the ex-Senator did
make some “good hits,” if they were
rather coarse for a refined audience. But
his hearers laughed, and that was what
the speaket wanted. The “Demosthenes
of the mountains” descended to the arts
and tricks of the comedian, and “brought
down the house. ” This was glory enough.
Old Virginia was even made a butt for
the occasion.
He had something to say, even at the
expense of that noble old commonwealth,
for the amusement of his guests, and he
selected her F. F. V.’s for this digni
fied part, and in tracing their lineage to
refugees from justice, and the servant
girls, who were brought over and sold to
them as wives for tobacco, in colonial
times, he excited great laughter and ap
plause. It was
a “decided hit,”
and took so well that he next choose a
nearer neighbor—poor down-trodden
South Carolina—and made fun of her
chivalry in former times. He assumed
that such things would delight the
honored guests, and they did laugh long
and loud. The home of secession, and
the soil where the cause was fought and
lost, famished, he thought, subjects of
ridicule fit for the occasion. Well, de
gustibus non dieputandum.
THE OTHER SPEAKERS.
No comments will be made upon the
speeches of the other gentlemen on the
occasion referred to. While they were not
very entertaining, they were not very ob
noxious to criticism. The old song, “The
War is Over,” “ Let the Dead Bury the
Dead,” formed the basis of all the varia
tions that were rang, from base to alto.
What a pity it has not been set to better
music! Your correspondent acquired a
distaste to “Old Hundred” in his
younger days, and this is the tune “ Old
Joe ” sung, but he pitched it too low.
WHAT NEXT ?
The Atlantese, however, were satisfied.
The excursionists looked happy, the
speakers looked equally as happy, and
Dr. W. H. White looked the happiest of
all. He said, after the ceremonies were
oyer, that he would insure the Atlanta
people all at reduced rates. What next ?
Perhaps a sermon.
Quidlibet.
LETTER FROM MADISON, FLA.
Three Strolling Kegroes—The Refunding
of the Cotton Tax—How It *bo«Id Be
Done—Weather and Crops—Minor Notes.
From an Occasional Correspondent. J
that are
’ of the
enough
Madison, Fla., March 16, 1876.
Were an angel to descend and affirm
the existence of a way unknown to the
carpet-baggers and their dusky allies, by
which a man could make (steal, properly,)
a living—sometimes a fortune—his alle
gation would not be accepted unques
tioned. With the many “ways
dark and tricks that are vain”
former, you are already well
posted. Of the latter there is
A BAND OF THREE,
traveling through the country, hiring
themselves at any price whatever, draw
ing their rations and leaving during the
night. These remind one of the recent
atrocities at Eden, as your correspondent
stated there were still three not arrested.
While remaining several days with their
employer, two of them never took off
their coats, even while working, beariqg
pistols, as was learned after they left.
During the greater part of Sunday they
remained iu the woods. These actions,
together with the complaining one, who
is now believed to have been wounded,
has aroused suspicion of some dark deed.
They represented themselves fiom Leon
county, in this State.
THE COTTON TAX.
The bill introduced into Congress by
Mr. Wells, intending to make a perma
nent school fuud of the illegal cotton
tax, should it pass, would indeed be most
dissatisfying to a large majority of the
payers of said tax, who, not only the
Morning News and the Hon. A. T.
McIntyre, but every sensible man knows,
were the producers. Several have ex
pressed their opinion in regard to it, and
not one would give a three-pence for his
share—which was from $100 to $1,500,
should Mr. Wells’s bill become a law.
From the present bill many old men, who
either have no children to send, or never
send to public schools, would derive no
benefit at all; and moreover, what right
has Congress or any other power to dic
tate the use to which private property
shall be applied ? Every thinking man
can at once see that a majority in Con
gress, who had nothing to do with raising
said cotton, could dictate the application
of said tax if they were disposed so to
do. And if Congress has a right to vote
it to the States which paid it—which
would give half of it to those who paid
not a cent of it—then it has an equal
right to vote it to the whole Union. As
far as private opinion can be ascer
tained,
MOST ACCEPTABLE RULING
would be to give each individual the
amount paid, as far as he could prove,
and let the balance unproved go to dis
charge the public debt of the several
States. This, of course, would inflict
some injustice on the small number of
planters who could not prove the tax
which they actually paid.
Some time ago there was organized in
this county a Farmers and Ph.nters' Club,
for the purpose of promoting a better
condition of labor (which is sadly need
ed), and for exchange of views, making
crop reports, etc. To it belon g the most
substantial and successful farmers of
Madison eounty. The regular time of
meeting is the first Wednesda y in each
month. All farmers and otht rs inter
ested are invited to attend.
CROP PROSPECTS.
We have this day probably had the
heaviest rain which has fallen iiR this
vicinity for a year or more. It whs much
needed, as many places in the fie Ids had
become very hard and could not be well
broken, which is very essential y 1 «o corn
making. Many farmers are abou t half
through planting corn, while others Lave
hardly commenced. Probably one >-half
has been planted. The present prospect
indicates a small decrease in the acrt'ftge
of cotton. But, lo! I have fallen i uto
the channel of the Constitutionalist and
Financial Chronicle—estimating.
NECROLOGY.
Recently five deaths have occurred j
within the borders of this county, among
them Mr. Rufus Dickinson, an old and
estimable citizen of Madison, of pneumo
nia. Among them, also, was a colored
woman, who is said by her friends to have
been poisoned by her legal husband and
Hannah No. 2. Their plan succeeded
well.
DROWNED.
Friday night last a negro man and bis
little son started out fishing on a lake
near Belleville, Hamilton county, in n.
boat nearly filled with water. The so.u
seeing the boat sinking, jumped out ana.'
swam ashore. His father was drowned,
leaving five or six children and wife to
mourn his untimely loss.
THE NEW PAPER.
The young, clever and enterprising
Messrs. Mosely have established a Demo
cratic weekly in Madison. I hope the
Democrats will not, as has too often been
the case heretofore in this State, fail to
bestow their patronage upon a deserving
press at home.
Runnymede.
The Political Outlook in Florida—
Who Shall be the Democratic Nomi
nee for Governor ?
Jacksonville, March 18, 1876.
Editor Morning News :
Dear Sir—As the political campaign,
national and State, is approaching, you
may desire to be advised of the “outlook
in Florida. The Democratic prospect of
success is decidedly encouraging. Not
only does the recent developments
of fraud and corraptiq*i in “high
places” at Washington favor this
hope, but the criminations and
recriminations of Steams and Cowgill on
the one hand, and Conover and Purman
on the other, in State matters, aid to de
stroy confidence in all Radical rule and
honesty, and cause us to believe that day
light is breaking.
But, to insure success, the Democracy
of Florida must be vigilant and united—
muat not be ashamed of their party
nanlef'must eschew “Conservative” and
“Reform,” and fearlessly inscribe “Dem
ocratic” on their banners. The voters
must register and come to the polls.
Apathy must vanish. Each man must be
a committee of six hundred iu himself to
storm the Balaklava of Radicalism, and
victory will be ours, now and forever.
Who shall be our Gubernatorial candi
date ? Who shall be our leader ? Let
sectional jealousies disappear—let per
sonal preferences be sunk. Many excel
lent names are suggested. For instance,
Colonel J. J. Daniel and Mr. Columbus
Drew, of Duval county; Colonel Robert
Bullock, of Marion county; Mr. George
F. Drew and Hon. E. J. |Vann, of Madi
son county; General Barnes, of Jack-
son county, and perhaps others—
all good men and true. No one
doubts that either of those gentlemen
named would make an honest and effi
cient Governor. But who is the best ?
is the question. On whom can wo con
centrate ? W ho will carry most strength
into the field ? My own impression is,
that some one not yet prominently con
sidered! will carry off the prize. If a
young man, it may be Davidson, of Gads
den. Or, if an old man, it may be ex-
Chief Justice Charles H. Dupont, also
of Gadsden county. Shall I
tell it, of all men in the State, this grand
old man is my first choice ! With an un
sullied and enviable record of more than
half a century, he still stands “the
noblest Roman of them all!” Born in
South Carolina, educated and married in
Georgia, a Floridian by adoption since
early manhood, identified with the weal
and woe of his foster-mother, from
territorial times and throughout the
vicissitudes and changes of a State exis-
tence, until thfr present. True to her
under all circumstances. Filling, with
honor to himself and credit to her, many-
of her highest offices and trusts, in bet
ter days—not deserting her in her adver-
si»y and humiliation—awakening hope
and energy in her desponding ones in the
days of darkness. Setting an ex
ample of fortitude and courage
in the midst of despondency and gloom.
Seizing the handle of the pfow, Cincin-
natus-like, when the State no longer
needed his services, demonstrating by
voice and pen and action her vast re
sources, and calling attention to
them, and attracting healthy immigra
tion to her borders, and inaugurating an
era of better things and better times for
Florida, who so pre-eminently fitted for
the occasion as the Hon. Charles H.
Dupont? O. K.
A CONTRACT PURCHASE.
Men’s Wives at Washington.
When an ambitious woman undertake®
the role of a politician in Washington
she is almost certain to attain some meas
ure of success. If she is married, she
can do things which her husband could
not or would not dare to do. If she is
single, she can be even more audacious
and reckless. Women who love power
and the emoluments which political in
fluence secures, find Washington an ex
cellent place for their activity. Even
those who were supposed to know no
thing of business and politics, after
livingin Washington a while, begin to
take an interest in contracts, claims, and
bills for improvements. Moreover, a
woman of consummate tact has certain
decided advantages over the male politi
cian. She is not held accountable for
what she does. Pray, when was a woman
ever arraigned for attempting to bribe or
corrupt a Congressman? She disburses
money, appeals openly and privately to
legislators to support her bill, and hardly
ever gets a point blank refusal. The
chivalry of men shields her from open
rebuke and often from a blunt denial.
She extorts promises, appeals to sympa
thy, argues her case well, and with the
advantage of knowing after awhile all the
ins and outs of politics. She is often
reckless, because in Diany instances she
has nothing to lose. She is not to be a
candidate for any office, and often her
social position will rather be helped than
prejudiced by her success in pushing
through her enterprises.
The female politician is brilliant, per -
suasive and often triumphant. But on
the whole she is not a success. She is
dashing and reckless, lacking secretive
ness, reticence and the sagacity to oblit
erate evidence which may, at some future
day, be turned against her. It would be
far better if she would set up as a “sole
trader." A domicile stored with fulmi
nating powder can hardly be more dan
gerous than the wife of a Congressman
or Cabinet officer who subjects domicile
and husband to the dreadful explosives
of schemes which she has secretly man
aged. Williams and Belknap are not the
only victims.— San Francisco Bulletin
Babcock Alleged lo Have Secured the Job
of Building the Potomac Bridge ia Con-
ulderatlon of a Promised Two Hundred
Thouimud Dollar*.
New Haven, March 13, 1876.—The
commotion in the War Department at
tendant upon the Belknap exposure and
the revelations in regard to the whisky
ring has “brushed up” the memories of
numerous individuals, and facts are com
ing to light which have long slumbered in
obscurity. For instance, it is now re
membered that some three or four years
ago the government advertised for pro
posals to build an iron bridge across the
Potomac, to take the place of what was
known as the chain bridge. Among
those who figured in the job, it is
alleged, was S. R. Dickson, theu of this
city, now of St. Louis. Mr. Dickson had
had much experience as a bridge builder,
and went to Washington to secure the
contract. Congress had appropriated
one million dollars as a starter, and it wan
given out that tnere were other “millions
in it.” While in Washington Mr. Dick
son became acquainted with General Bab
cock, then and until lately the President’s
military secretary, and through him
secured the contract to build the bridge.
It seems that Dickson, at first, had no
piospect of getting the contract, and was
about retiring from the field iu disgust,
when, it is alleged, he was given to un
derstand by General Babcock that he
could secure it, provided he would pay
him
i*W£N'Tr per CENT OF THE CONTRACT PRICE,
or $200,000 of the $1,000,000 appro
priated. This Dickson agreed to do,
whereupon Babcock told him to put in
his bid and go home, promising that the
contract should be awarded to him. And
it was, as the papers on file in the proper
department will show. Notice of the
award was sent to Mr. Dickson, and soon
thereafter a person representing General
Babcock came to this city to “perfect the
arrangements.” Among the papers
signed by Mr. Dickson, in the presence
and at the solicitation of Babcock’s
agent, was one which assigned to Bab-
tock twenty per cent of the amount
\ Thich Dickson was to receive for build-
ii ig the bridge. This and the other papers
w. use drawn up in due legal form; and to
the' bond, which Dickson was required to
giver for the faithful performance of his
coniat ct, several prominent citizens at
tached their names. Their names could
be giveib but it is not necessary. Suffice
it to say that Dickson, through impecu-
niosity, failed to fulfil his contract,
whereat B. abcock was greatly disappoin
ted.
A POTENT WEAPON OP DEFENSE.
When it became known that Dickson
had failed to beep his engagement* a rep
resentative of the government came to
New Haven and threatened to sue Mr.
Dickson’s bondsmen, but on being shown
a copy of the paper wherein it was agreed
that General Babcock should receive
twenty per cent of the contract price,
a ccomp&nied by an intimation that the
Bh me might be made public, the represen
ts ive departed. It might be worth while
for one of the House investigating com
mit tees to inquire into this matter, as it
ia ai iderstood that the papers in the case
can be easily obtained. Besides, there
are Ii ving witnesses to the transaction,
of whom reside in New Haven.
LIVELY DEVELOPMENTS.
"VTe6 tern Democrats on the War-
Path.- -A number of Western Democrats
% iho rel use to worship the golden calf set
i hy tl i© caucus last night at the dicta
tion of the New York money-bags are
talking ot some move that will show that
the peopl© of tbe Western States will no
longer 6ubm.R to hoodwinking by hard-
money men. There is talk of calling a
mass convention of citizens at Cincin
nati on the 1st of June, to lay down m
plain English some views on the financial
state of the country that accord with the
sufferings of the people, and if neither
the Republican or Democratic Convention
pay attention to their demands, it is pro
posed to meet again in July and put a
ticket in the field. The call will be issued
for a convention, signed by prominent
greenback men in Congress.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
An Iron Trade Association has recently
been formed in England, in part designed
to supply what the London News calls an
astounding meagemess and insufficiency
. of detail in the returns of our iron pro
duction. The United States, it adds,
have been beforehand with ns in arrang-
Jlore or Orville nnd Bnb.’n Rancalities in
Connerficn with tbe Post Trnderships.
Washington, March 17.—Ex-Governor
Campbell, of Wyoming, now oneof the As
sistant Secretaries of State, was before tbe
committee in the War Department to-day,
and read a dispatch published in the New
Y'ork Herald, dated Bismarck, including
him with others in the sale of post trader-
ships, and said he appeared here volun
tarily to deny, under oath, every state
ment concerning him in that article. He
had never in any way, directly or indi
rectly, been concerned in the sale of post
traderships, or in any bargain in any way
affecting post traderships, and no one for
him had been authorized to use his name
in connection with the sale or barter of
post traderships. He said he did not
know of any post trader having paid
money to the Secretary of War, or to any
other person, for the privilege. He had
heard such charges in Wyoming, but
nothing definite, nor coaid he say who
told him.
C. K. Peck, of the firm of Durfee &
Peck, who were post traders at Forts
Sully, Rice, Stevenson and Buford, testi
fied that the tradership at Fort Buford
was taken from the firm aud given to
A. C. Leighton. Gen. Hedrick was a
partner of Leighton. J. W. Vaughan
was designated to succeed the firm at
Fort Stevenson. The firm was put out,
as Mr. Peck understood through Orville
P. Grant, though J. P. Pierce succeeded
the firm at Fort Rice. Fitz attributed
the appointment to the fact that he
(Fitz) had been attentive to Mr. Tomlin
son, an invalid, who had been placed in
his care, and a brother of Mrs, Belknap.
Mr. Athey was appointed to succeed the
firm at Fort SiMIy. Mr. Peck said he
had a conversation with the Sjcretary
of War, who told him the appointment
had been given to Athey by order
of President Grant, and that was the
reason why his firm was put out. Athey
had been a clerk for W. C. Babcock, Sur
veyor General of Kansas, and a brother
of General Babcock, late President’s pri
vate secretary. It was a valuable post
when the firm had it, netting about $10,-
000 a year. The firm entered into a con
tract with Athey, who had no means. W.
C. Babcock came to see the firm about a
contract to employ Athey at the rate of
$1,500 a year, until he could furnish means
to purchase the stock and supplies of
Durfee & Peck. Athej’ subsequently ob -
tained such means. Witness supposed
the appointment was procured through
the influence of Surveyor General Bab
cock. In fact, it was understood between
him and Athey.
Witness said the proclamation of the
President extending the great Sioux reser
vation, enhanced the value of the posts
of that reservation. Cheyenne and Stand
ing Rock were on the great Sioux reser
vation. The effect of the proclamation
was to drive away all competition.
Q. Do you know the reason which in
duced the issuance of the proclamation ?
A. It was generally understood out there
that it was through the influence of Or
ville Grant.
Q. To close out all competition? A.
Yes, air, which it did.
It further appears from the testimony
that Durfee & Peck were Indian traders
at Cheyenne, under a license of the Inte
rior Department, and were succeeded by
Geo. Felt, to whom the firm sold their
stock at satisfactory prices. Witness un
derstood Peck’s appointment was through
the influence of Orville Grant. The post
was worth from $8,000 to $10,000 a year.
The trade at Standing Rock was worth
about $10,000 a year; witness attributed
the removal of the firm at that place to
Orville Grant, having understood that a
revocation of the license of Durfee &
Peck was issued from the Indian Bureau;
witness asked the Secretary of the Inte
rior about it, and the Secretary informed
him the order was issued by direction of
the President. The Secretary said that
if he did not cut off a head when he was
ordered to do so, the Prqpident would cut
his head off.
There was no complaint whatever
against the firm of Durfee & Peck. Wit
ness detailed the character of the contract
with Athey. In consideration that he
would buy up the stock of Durfee & Peck
he was to receive a salary at the rate of
$1,500 a year until he should do so. This
was done to protect the interests of the
firm, as they had $40,000 worth of goods
at the post, and as Athey might have the
goods at any time, and until Athey should
buy the goods of the firm, they would
pay Surveyor General Babcock $750 a
quarter. This they did for three quar
ters, making a sumaf $2,250. This was
in consideration of Babcock’s having pro
cured the contract.
MORE IMPORTANT EVIDENCE IN THE BEL
KNAP CASE.
Mr. Clymer having completed liis in
vestigation of the newspaper attack upon
himself, will begin to-morrow with re
newed vigor, and the first witness will
draw him nearer and nearer to the devel
opment of the crowning scandal- Peck,
of the well known firm of Durfee *fc Peck,
who controlled most of the post trader-
ships on the frontier before Orville
Grant’s palm itched for them, will take
the stand in the morning. He arrived to
day from Leavenworth, Kansas, having
traveled five days and nights. Peck
was formerly of Keokuk, Iowa, and
it is shrewdly suspected that it
was he who was mainly instrumental
in bringing Belknap, his townsman, from
obscurity to the President’s notice. The
following private information, obtained
from the highest sources, foreshadows
distinctly what Peck’s testimony will be.
Its importance is obvious. When Dur
fee, his partner, lay on his death-bed,
two years ago, in Leavenworth, Kansas,
he was attended by Rev. I. S. Kalloch.
A letter was one morning received from a
neighboring city, written by C. W. Bab
cock, brother of General Babcock. The
letter, in distinct terms, said that the
brother of the writer (Babcock; was
anxious to receive the customary
$5,000, which had been due now
several months. Kalloch, being the
dying man’s amanuensis, asked what
it meant, whereupon Durfee, with
death in his face, stated that the firm
were accustomed to pay tribute to the
administration at Washington for their
control of the post-traderships, and this
was one of the instalments. The reply
was written to Babcock (the brother) to
come up to Leavenworth and get his
money, and he did so come and did get the
money from Durfee before he died. The
reason these men (Durfee and Peck) were
thrown out, it now appears, was their
delay in sending on the royalty on Hie
post-traderships. and their complaint^fc)
Delano that Orville Grant was poaching
on their domains. Several witnesses of
the most responsible character are now
on the way to sustain this evidence.
SWINDLING MAIL CONTRACT.
Fisk, the editor of the Republican
newspaper of Montana Territory, testi
fied before the House Post Office Com
mittee to-day that the Walla Walla and
Missoula, or Huntley mail contract,
which extends over a route more than five
hundred miles in length, and to continue
which costs, as estimated, eight dollars
on each letter, was renewed by the de
partment upon a petition bearing forged
names, in the face of numerous protests
made by responsible individuals. He
also states his belief that the service on
that route cost the contractors not more
tLan $5,000 per year, for which the gov
ernment pays about $190,000. That
mail route has been so continued since
1870.
“Murder Will Out.”—The discovery
of the alleged murderer of Mrs. Keys, of
Stewartsville, N. J., is a startling vindi-
cation of the old proverb. The crime
was committed nine years ago, and the
husband of the unfortunate woman, who
had been arrested on suspicion but final
ly released, has unjustly borne the stigma
ever since. A few frantic words uttered
by thevmistress of a miscreant who was
keatiag her in Cleveland, Ohio, have led
to th^ discovery, and John Cunningham
nowTies in jail to stand face to face with
Jersey justice.—AT. Y. Hi
Iti.nl TW# ®*P°I>UC*.
republic to the Alc « nc *«
vitality of tha* of and yootofnl
bow * the French - Wo are
from many of 0ur “Biennial year,
old and corrur,f h l that affect
government of th« p 8pot !f ms ’ whi >e the
the rosy hues of v P n , C , h
Blent of France hs£ now* 6 ' ^ 8°vem-
the severest triak rt paS8ed throu B h
^hadUirfo^fer^
the commune- it H«*o 1 war Wlt “
vinces taken°“way°f valuabl . < ; f ,r °-
disorganired industrial system^ to
to restored ha^h 7”’^ “Kneulture
eminent*; it has had a deprecfatld
currency to deal with-and it h“«1
stin^7V tnpeDdous difficulties, and
standi, to-day on the entrance of an era
of greater splendor than she has known
since the d ay*° f ^ Napoiecnic “
late, the Republic is now stable, be
cause the Struggles of the rival monarchio
factious neutralized each other, and each
preferred the Republic to any other than
itself. Many of the most ardent friends
of monarchy have been converted to
moderate Republicanism by the educa
tional influences of free debate
and by a contempt for the mean-
ness and selfishness of the
schemers for monarchy. The very
mobility and instability of Frenchmen
now favors the perpetuation of the re
public, as water, that most unstable and
mobile of thiugs, Is steady when it has
reached its level. Everything that can
be d me to overthrow this government
has been tried in vain, and it has come
out of each victory stronger than ever.
It took upon itself the odious duty of
making the humiliating treaty of peace
with Germany, and yet it did not lose
the respect of the people. It quenched
the Commune, but it was made stronger
than ever by its cocfliot with red Repufc,
licaansm. It had a debt of three thou-
sand millions of francs to pay to Ger
many, aud it not only paid the instal
ments as they fell due, but even antici
pated them—the most splendid financial
feat ever accomplished. It had a re
dundant and depreciated currency,
and it called in the redundancy
and funded it, and brought its
paper to par almost immediately ; and
now to-day, in spite of the exhausting
war, the great war debt and the financial
disturbances, the commerce and general
business of France are in health .er con
dition than that of any State in Europe.
All these things have taught the French
people to believe in the republic, and
well they may. Now, what is the secret
of all these splendid successes ? It is to
be found in the high character of the men
at the head of affairs. The country can
trust to their guidance, because they
know them to be incorruptible, devoted
to their country, and proud of serving it
with all their talents and energy. Thiers,
Gambetta, Grevy, Due d’Audifret Pas-
quier, Gen. Cissy, Leon Say, Dufaure—
these are all men of splendid abilities and
of the highest character.
Now, when we turn from this picture
to our Cabinet the contrast is painful.
There is not one single man in the whole
administration, except Bristow, that the
country believes to bo possessed of com
mon honesty. The endless “jobs,”
“rings,” “pools,” and “crooked” things
of all kinds render the administration
powerless for good, and almost omnipo
tent for evil. It is no longer possible for
the meu now in power, even if they
wished it, to institute any wholesome re
form, for the whole country, without
distinction of party, would believe it to
be only a new “job.” Not only do they
lack honesty, but they lack ability. There
never was a period in American politics
so sterile in great men as this one. What
a confession of intellectual poverty is
made when “Jimmy” Biaine is the leader
in the House, and Morton in the Senate,
and Fish at the head of the Cabinet, and
Grant at the head of the whole.
Now if anybody wants to know what it
has cost this country to have such men as
these in power, let him look at the differ
ence between France aim America, and
mark how France has t.rimphed where
we have failed, altho’^gh her diffi
culties were far greater than ours, because
she had honorable, trustworthy and capa
ble men at the head of affairs. Leon
Say, a splendid financier, had charge of
the purse of France. He /had a depre
ciated paper currency to deal with, and a
stupendous war debt to pay. What is
the result? French paper is at par, the
whole of the war debt pa:d, and the busi
ness of the State in perfect health. We
have had no Leon Say. Wo had McCul
loch, Richardson, Boutwell. Who can
wonder that we have our finances in
such condition ? Suppose that these
gentlemen had been obliged, in addition
to their self-imposed duties, “easing the
market,” “moving the crops,” “issuing
reserves,” and the like, had had a war
debt of three billions of francs to pay,
where would he be ?
This is only iu finance; but the French
have shown equal ability in the organiza
tion of a splendid army; no Belknap
could have done it; of the navy; co
Robeson could have done it; of internal
affairs; no Delano or Zach Chandler could
have done it; of judiciary; no Williams
or Pierrepont could haves done it; in
diplomacy; no Fish or Schenck could
have done it. They have stimulated agri
culture, revived commerce, awakened
manufactures—ours all languish. Their
MacMahon is an ignorant soldier, as ours
is; but he is an honorable gentleman,
whom taint cannot touch; who makes nia
government loved at home and respected
abroad. Ours—well, upon the whole,
ours isn’t.— Baltimore Gazette.
Grant Receives a Fair pf Ponies for an
Indian Post-Tradership.
A Washington letter says; “As soon aau
the committee can get at it, a well-known
gentleman of unimpeachable integrity
will testify to a fact which places the Presi-
dent in a* hardly less disgraceful position 3
than that of Belknap. The gentleman 3
to whom I refer holds himself ready to
swear that, on a certain occasion, he
went to the White House and introduced
to the President a gentleman who wanted
a post-tradership on an Indian agency.
This gentleman made his applica- j
tion, and, after having made it, y
then remarked to th6 President, I
in tho hearing of the witness, i
that, in traversing the Indian country, he /
had come across the finest pair of Indian I
ponies which he had ever laid eyes upon,
and if the gift# vould be accepabie, he
would like to make a present of them to
the President’s boys. Thereupon, with- if
out any hems or haws, the Fr undent ac- »
cepted the gift, and at once sent a tele- W
gram to the Commandant or the Pose (
where the ponies then were, ordering
them to be immediately forwarded at his j
fGrant’s^ expense. Shortly after, the j
applicant received an appointment. not, j
,nd P eed, to the post or agency for which j
he had applied, but to another equally as •
lucrative.
A market woman well known as Mother 3
M^sTed recently in
ninety-seven years, in the Rue St. Gems, y
where she had lived for fifty years. She I
was the daughter of the Marquis de JuxU |
Z ,7 who was guillotined during the
* a ™’of te*“ and of madame de 1. E
Morte Valois, whose histoiy is told m the ,
11 ‘.Tv,,1 “Gueen’s Necklace.” Oneof l.
f
handsome mh J & a ,
ned. oBe tbe mar k e t peo- [
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siss.-TheNe ^ which Orville Grant, ,
partnership n was to receive
the P re8lde “ j or b bi3 influence, has jam ,
§100 s month tor n nrtofBaakrapt _ .
bee “ Br^Uyn iB the adjudication of the ci
oym Brooklyn :b00re a- Co., robber
affairs of Geo. ^ articles of 1
affairs oi The ftrt i c le3 of
pai nt msn^T, 1 fact that Grant A
agreement re ^ ^ busi ness, but in coil- ; j
putnomon ^ influence m
sideration o 8 b wa s to receive $100 3
obtaining contracts rtcdved flberal S
Post Office . -
V-THampshire eiector was paidj}5 }•]
- V lTmibliciui Committee for his vote, B
b - T , a wasn’t enough to pnr-
8111145 of coal for his family, he
chase a ton lon cherished wish of lua
‘ CT3tl laid out S3 of it in consulting