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II 00 ^ advertising, ffi - ^ insertion, $1 00 per 0ti ‘ a each sabaeiuent insertion (if inserted 15 cents per square. . ■ or reading matter notices, SO cente pet , „ f n r each insertion. a ertnanrath hferted every other day, twice ,<A « owe a week, charged $1 00 per square for **rates allowed except by special ,earned- liberal discounts made to large ad- will have a favorable placs 4 tot inserted, but no promise of contlnnons in a particniar place can be given, as £ most have equal opportunities. T HK - WA'H AT HOLLOW ASH. ’ISStoate that yon want to know Tbat U hl;'i-e.ei J«*n to Hollow Ash. SS inhere'a anybody knows He wears ah tut my style of clothes. V . r, then twaa Deacon Hamper’s funeral, e was going well, idr.v : te . t: -rs and Joe Fresh, UcUaitli theprocesh. Tetnt.i ir tellers from the town ...,, , — i.111 train come down ; '■ere c.mingback, •f ... ah.,Cl ■ cross the track, ■ ..-unit around and says to me— i,,din his hauil no held a \ : ... v ; that this here hearse vr ; ll rro“« al ead of that excurse.” Them mounters they Set up a yell, ;“d then tv as missin’ for a spell, i; war am aria’ how that crowd Cavorted upward in a cloud ! ■ her piled them victims on the sward, tout three juarters of u cord. iih toil thev put the Deacon s meat ; Bnt .'Joe went we ail was beat. 1 searched ’lie pieces of that train. U(] search,' 1, and searched, and aearclted in vain, , . . Ami to this day it does beat me \vh«r was the piece that held that V. W. Nye. Affairs in Georgia. TV Hem. ii. Eugene Thornton, of At lanta, will make way with hie thirtieth bird on Tuesday. Miles Turpin has already salted it down in an ash barrel, and it will bt quite t-nder by the time Mr. Thornton calls for it. We are not of the opinion that Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton’s trip up the Augusta canal injured bin political prospects. On the con- tnry, he would be better off now if he had confined Lis career to little trips of that character. We are not prejudiced against the Augusta canal, as some of our foreign subscribers seem to suppose, and we cheer fully recommend it to politicans of all ages iod conditions. If we are to judge by the Atlanta LonstUu- lion, nearly every man in the State, with the exception ot a few in Atlanta, is engaged in a nefarious plot against Gov ernor Smith. If this is true, there is no fun in governing folks. The recent storm in Talbot county was not as disastrous as it was at first repre sented to be. The pet name of the lighter of the Geneva Evup is Jody. Could anything be so suddenly and exquisitely sweet ? We have received a communication from Early county asserting that the editor of the Blakely Kerrs is a preacher. Its publi cation would lea l to an unnecessary con troversy, and hence we decline to publish It Moreover, as Blakely is notin Brooklyn, a preacher there is as good as (and prob ably better than) any other man. It seems to be a pity that Hi Kimball has thus far failed to find an opportunity of making the “equities” of the bogus bonds a campaign issue. Perhaps Joey B. will yet show him how the thing can be done, for in the “ethics” of journalism and the “equi ties” of the fraudulent securities J. B. and his friends have cut several crops of eye teeth. The Augusta Chronicle rather fancies the way our Atlanta correspondent “Quidlibet’’ writes concerning those who tooted the gush-horn at the Western excursionists. It ii possible that our correspondent may be induced to do up in his graphic style some other occurrences in Atlanta which were not quite so public as the recent ovation. The Waynesboro authorities are plucking the wayward vagrants from the parent stem. The experience of the town marshal is such that ho can distinguish a vagrant from & licensed loafer in the dark. According to the Fort Valley Min'or, a citizen of that section who proposes to at tend the Centennial has telegraphed to know if the foot-logs are in a passable con dition. D«* Joey B. propose to support Judge Jim Johnston in the next Gubernatorial campaign, or is ho going to put a new sad- dleoa Daws. Walker? However, we won’t insist on categorical answers. An Atlanta darkey, who was working in a gardm, dug up a can containing eleven dol ors in silver. Col. H. Gregg Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle, objects to the use of the word Colonel” by the Georgia papers. Is the liberty of the press to be thus circum- icribed r For ourselves, we protest against h. and we are sure that even Col. Wright *id not, when he comes to carefully con- * : der the matter, thus seek to deprive the ard-working and conscientious journalist • one of the very few luxuries left us by toe ravages of war. The editor of the Fort Valley Mirror, who • ' i y way of Atlanta recently, ,aVs Was “drawn down there like a needle l ^a m& gDet.” We are thus left to infer at the eccentric man went end-foremost. ’ ^ au iel Dussey, one of th9 oldest citi- Ze {* 8 Crawford county, is dead. it indeed come to this, that the peo- 1 Augusta do not know whether the lmous ca nal, which the condescension of nature and the art of man have located ert "’ Xiongs to the city, the City Council, " •be Augusta Canal Company ? We trast •^matter will be at once looked after. ^ ewere informed by Dr. Fox, of Atlanta, e other day, that the Hon. Marcellus --Preferred to have his birds killed Ce “ r or ^ Te days beforehand. This pro- boilin G 8a ' 8 ’ ^riates necessity of par- ^ D ?> and entirely does away with that oft C , tuU ^ ne i. w hich seems to be one ut .aherent characteristics of every true '^position. Mar .; ’ a ' VDes b ,)ro Expositor says that from *ere« ~ to March 1st, 1875, there from ^ fr° m Waynesboro 11,044 bales, there . U lat » 1875 ‘ to March lst > 1876, of 9 rJl\ re ,lli PP e d 7,995 bales, a difference 1 W bales. with»i** 0r 81at0Q * of Atlanta, had a tussle aan-uiv. Urly no Sr° the other night. The ^ woke evidently mistook the *- or tiome °ce else : at any rate, he booq as i Witl1 con8i derable recklessness as C ° Qlli 8et awa y- Ten °ne *olicemau USLl ^ W&8 merely j° kin £ a The l) e88m&D Can(ller in Atlanta. k°hl a p.!^. rata ° f tile District will ShLo, convention to ,Uls in Griffin nominate delegates to on the 26th of April. Sinf kJki Luc be tru 0 ^* ar ^ an<q 8 iy> reports friend m a 1 i* 8tated that he recently put a little over 1 aDta under contribution for a shows nr 0Ue ^ au ^ re( J dollars, which he We hare'W ° f returnin 8- Georgia r-v \ U Wailln S to hear some of our P. E. G. t C au ** (M 8( ineal out in regard to AblQ gdor) y 8ey ’ the can *ry bird man of Vhri#i a ,\ a *’ au ^ now here comes the ^ler. Xhis • • ' qenounc ins bim as a swiu- ^toserted 1 ! 00 \ the fir8t time F * E * G * L * “Gen.” j, 18 '■ ang8 i Q the Georgia papers, been coi ^ orris » Durke county, ^ ea Pon B and*i ?lCted ° f carr y in S concealed tQ ^8erafc Lt 3 U0W piayin S a twelve month’s n. 6ad - ma i‘ on the AugnsU "econgr»tul»tethe“aeo.” J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1876, ESTABLISHED 1850. People pay a thousand dollars to be intro duced to the politicians in Washington. Onr prices are not so high. We will introduce anybody to the average Atlanta politician for two dollars and a half. A Talbot county gentleman has exhibited to the editor of the Columbnsj Times a large block of a pine tree into which a plank was deeply driven by the force of one of the hurricanes or cyclones of last spring. The plank, which was about an inch in thickness and six inches in width, was torn by the fury of the storm from a house and driven into a standing green pine tree. It was not splintered or shivered by the collision, but entered the body of the tree as clearly as if it had been a piece of sharp-edged iron driven in by a maul. The force’and velocity must have been tremendous. On one side the block had been cat into to the depth of about three inches, without reaching the end of the plank that entered the tree. It probabiy extended to the depth of at least four inches, and did not Bplit the tree in the least. It is understood that this wonderful memento of the power of the wind will be sent to the Signal Service Bureau, where it will give beholders a faint idea of the force of a Georgia cyclone. A Meriwether county farmer writes: “I fear now that there will be few oats or wheat made, as there is an insect destroying the oats and wheat. It is a new insect that has never been seen or heard of before, a worm about the size and color of a cut worm. They are, however, no kin to a cut worm, as they eat the blades and stalks of tho oats up. The worms are numerous, covering the entire ground. They have completely destroyed the wheat and oats in Randolph county, and are here by millions. They play havoc with oats and wheat, and that very quick, for they begin eating as soon as hatched out. I fear the winter has been too warm for oats and wheat to do well, as there was net cold enough to destroy the eggs of the insects. My oats—the finest and most forward—are ruined bv the worms, and I fear that they will take the whole crop.” The Atlanta Com/nonicedlth will hereafter be published by Messrs. James P. Harrison A Co. The announcement says: The Cbm- monweaUh, under the new reqime, will be placed upon a safe and solid foundation, financially, and will be, in every way, pre pared to meet whatever emergencies may arise, and to triumph over every obstacle that may naturally arise, or be placed in its path by design. This paper will take an ac tive part in the public affairs of this city, and of the State. It will sav what it has to say of public men and public matters, promptly, frankly, fearlessly. Its motto will be: Independence and the public good. It will censure and denounce the high or the low, whenever censure and con demnation seem to be called for in behalf of tho public weal. It will praise and com mend the high or tho low, whenever tho acts or the words of either shall call for praise and commenda tion. The people need a mouthpiece, which they can trust to speak the truth in all matters connected with their interests; a paper free from the taint of official corrup tion and bribery, and the nauseous subser viency of a press which shows the marks of a master’s collar upon its neck, and which “crooks the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning.” We are aware that the most corrupt mem bers of the subsidized press in this country claim to be pure and untram meled, and have made similar promises to the people. Despite this fact, we ask a suspension of public opinion in our case, until the Commonwealth,or its management, by word or deed, shall have proved recreant to its trust, false to its avowed principles, and unworthy of public confidence. So much for our new “platform.” We ask the citizens of Atlanta, and the people of Georgia, who desiie a free, frank, and consistently edited newspaper at tho capital of the State, tc sustain us, and to crown our efforts by their favor and patron age. Mr. Josephus Camp, of Swainsboro, writes as follows to the New York South : Eman uel county lies eight miles by west from Savannah. The Central Railroad runs along its eastern boundary. It contains one hun dred and twenty square miles, is traversed by the Ogeechee, Great and Little Ohoopie and Camanchee rivers, and has a population of seven thousand. For health it is unsur passed by any section of the United States. The land, where it is not in cultivation, is covered by a virgin forest of the finest yellow pine timber in the world, while the rivers mentioned afford an easy and cheap means of carrying it to market. These lands pro duce cotton, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, rice, wh 'at, oats, rye, melons, figs, pomegranates, apj as, peaches, pears, etc. From four to six hundred gallons of s>rup can bo made from one acre of land. From three to five hundred bushels of potatoes can be raised on an acre of land. The yield of cotton is from one to five bales, an<T of corn from ten to seventy bushels per acre. Fertilizers have to be used to insure large yields, and perhaps there is no land in America bet ter adapted to the use of them. The yield of oats is fine, without the use of any fertilizer. These lands can be bought improved for from one to three dollars per acre; unimproved for from fifty cents to two dollars per acre. There are numerous schools and churches in the county. Swains boro, its county site, contains a Methodist and Baptist church, and a good high school. The people are law abiding, and would wel come emigrants who come to settle among them. I might say much more of the ad vantages of this county, and still the half would not be told. Tho* climate is fine and exceedingly good. Any information con cerning this section will be cheerfully given by the writer. A Foolish Story About Diamonds. [Washington Special to Chicago Inter-Ocean.] Various rumors are in circulation con cerning alleged affairs similar to the post- tradership scandal, and the Pendleton railroad claim comes to the surface of gossip again. A story is told by a per- son, who met the Marshes and Pendle tons in Europe, somewhat as follows: Pendleton went to Europe, as he testified, immediately upon receiving the payment of this claim. In Paris where he met Mrs. Bower, now Mrs. Belknap, he bought and presented to her a very hand some set of diamonds, costing several thousand dollars. Mrs. Marsh, it is stated, got hold of the bill in some way and sent it to Mrs. Pendleton, who was in another part of Europe.|at the time, giving Mrs. Pendleton to understand that it was a present purchased by her hus band for her. When gentleman George arrived home where his family were stop ping Mrs. Pendleton, of course, was on the look-out for diamonds, but they were not forthcoming. She alluded to the mat ter, and showed her husband the bill which the spiteful Mrs. Marsh had sent her. Gentleman George explained, as it is said that Mrs. Pendleton reports, that he was obliged to make Mrs. Bower a handsome present for service she had done him, and made it in diamonds instead of money. It is claimed on authority that cannot be questioned that evidence has been discovered showing conclusively that $30,000 of tho money received by Pendleton for getting the Kentucky Cen tral Railroad claim allowed went into the hands of Mrs. Bower, now Belknap, but was not paid to her directly. The evi dence already taken shows that Pendleton had the amount of the claim divided into three Treasury warrants, one of which, amounting to $30,000, was indorsed by him and made payable to the National Park Bank of New York. In tracing the last named draft a clue was obtained which, being followed, resulted in find ing what is considered conclusive proof that the money, after passing through the hands of two persons, was paid over to Mrs. Bower in person in the city of New York. _ It is pleasant to be able, once in a while, to speak in terms of commenda tion of the administration. Mr. Norman Wiard, the celebrated gun burster, in a conversation with a reporter of the San Francisco Chronic!*, remarked that m China an appropriation of $<>,uuu,wuv had been made to provide against emer- eencies in the case of a war with any other nation, and an official request for warded to the United States to send some one out there with plans of fortifications and proposals for the manufacture of heavy ordnance. Mr. Wiard was the man sent out. We do not know who repre sented the United States in this transac tion but whoever he was he showed oreat sagacitv in getting Wiard out of the Suntryf »nd at the same time supplying China with a man who can spend .hat *0,000,000 so quick that it John Chinaman s head swim. It is gen- eially supposed that there is a great deal of specie locked up in Chin*, and if they only P keep Wiard long enough it will oome into circulation,—N. T. avn. BY TELEGRAPH THE MORNING NEWS. Noon Telegrams. THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD OF FRAUD. Graut and Some of His Flunkeys Implicated in Doubtful Land Transactions. KOliEK A. FETOR TO IIEFEMI AMES. A Protest from the Vatican Asninst Re ligious Toleration in Spain. CAPITAL NOTES. Washington, March 23.—A World special says tbe President, ex-Secretary Borie, Fred. Grant and others are implicated in a land transaction of doubtful honesty iu connection with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; also that the committee will re port that there is not sufficient evidence in the cadet case against Hays, of Alabama. Tbe crooked features m the Kentucky mule case are becoming plainer. NEW YORK NOTES. New’ York, March 23.—The recent kid napping of tho Spaniard, Halgado, is de veloping into a conspiracy to swindle a Cuban lady, Gerona Fernandez, out of $31,- 000. Four hundred barrels of Jupiter powder exploded in the northern portion of the city. Four persons were blown to atoms, and two of those injured will die. A PKOTE8T FROM THE VATICAN. Madrid, March 23.—A protest has been received from the Vatican against the article of the Spanish constitution sanctioning re ligious toleration. The protest declares that the article violates the rights of Catholicism and annuls the concordat. Nine hundred troops will go to Cuba on tbe 31st instant. AMES’S LAWYER. New York, March 23.—General Roger A. Pryor started from Brooklyn last evening for Mississippi, having been retained to de fend Gov. Ames in the trial before the high court of impeachment. BANK FAILURE. Utica, N. Y., March 23.—The Bank of Camden failed for $75,000. It had a num ber of local depositors. NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY. lta Present Condition and Prospect*—In flux of Immigrant*—Price of Lands— Character of the People—The Projected Ilailrond—A Hint to Savannah. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News,] Kveiiing Telegrams. FROM 1HE FEDERAL CAPITAL. CONGRESSIONAL AND INVESTI GATION GOSSIP. Mephistoplieles Morton’s Mississippi Mumblings. PROGRESS OF THE HAYTIEN REVOLUTIONS. CAPITAL NOTES. Washington, March 23.—The Ways and Means Committee have concluded the cot ton branch of the tariff. They increased the duty on bleached cotton from 3i to i per cent. Silver coin is worth 83 2-10 compared with the gold dollar. The report of the committee will ex- honerato Hays of cadet selling. Postmaster Burt, of Boston, in settling, turned in $15,000 old claims, which were dis allowed. Sclienck is here. Six thousand to eight thousand dollars were exacted from Durfree and Peck tor campaign purposes during the last Presi dential election. Fish and Evans were also bled in addition to what they paid Marsh. Bowers’s estate at his death was worth from $28,000 to $30,000, including $15,000 life in surance. The life insurance put into the firm of E. G. Leonard &Co., and paid to Pendleton as tho lawyer of Bowers’s widow (the Hon. Mrs. Belknap) was the money paid to the order of Amanda Bower. Leonard paid it to Pendleton and got his (Leonard’s) notes. The testimony is cumulative as to the s.ile of post traderships, but there is noth ing to convict Belknap. Stewart received $230,000 for his services in the Emma Mine business, $10,000 of which was a present to his wife. WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET. Washington, March 23.—Probabilities : For tbe Middle States and lower lake region, southeast to southwest winds and increasing cloudiness, and during Friday rising tem perature, falling barometer, and possibly areas of rain. For the South Atlantic States, warmer easterly to southerly winds, and light rain during Friday, with* falling barometer. For the Gulf States, Tennessee and the Ohio valley, generally cloudy and slightly warmer weather, with rain, east to south winds and falling barometer. Tbe Mississippi river will rise slowly be tween Cairo and Vicksburg, and floods will probably occur above Memphis; the river will fall at stations above Cairo* The Ohio, Cumberland and Savannah rivers will con tinue to fall. The Mississippi river has risen nine inches at Cairo, eleven at Memphis, five at Helena, and four inches at Vicksburg. CONGRESSIONAL BILLS. Washington, March 23.—In the Senate, the morning hour was devoted to the pen sions. Morton gave notice that ho would, next Monday, call up and dispose of the resolu tion to investigate the Mississippi elections. The electoral bill consumed tbe day. Iu the House, Parsons’ bill to sell certain lands at Vincennes for railroad purposes passed. The bill prohibiting the cutting of timber on the Indian reservations or on the lands owned bv Indians passed. The bill repealing tbe law which forbids the appointment to any position iu the army of any person who served in any capacity in the military, naval or civil service of the Confederate States in the late rebellion, passed. THE HAYTIEN. New York, March 23.—Advices from Hayti by mail state that JacmeL is com plete! v m the hands of the insurgent forces, and that all the trees back of Jacmel are cut down, so that the approach of the gov ernment forces may be seen,and that the vi cinity may be fortified. Two government steamers are blockading the port. Mean while, another section of country, some thirtv miles from Port-au-Prince, has risen against the Government. Several engage ments have already taken place, and for eigners in ii *ort-au-Prince are greatly alarmed lest the negroes should take advan tage of the situation and apply the torch. tecumseh. St. Louis, March 23.—General Sherman left hero for Washington last night, in re sponse to an invitation from Secretary of War Taft, who desired to consult with him. It is thought here that there is » possiblity of the removal of the army head quarters back to Washington. FROM LONDON. London, March 2:3.—The bill making Vic toria Empress of the Indies passed a third reading—209 to 134. Richard Bonner Oakley, manager of the Co-operation Credit Bank, has been com mitted to Newgate in default of $25,000 bail. THE GENEVA AWARD. London, March 23.—The Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs has been asked in tho House of Commons whether it is true that the Government of the United States, after paying tho Alabama claims has a surplus of from one to two millions sterling for which it is unable to find legitimate claimants. NEW YORK NOTES. New York, March 23.—The Irish Rifle As sociation have arranged for a Centennial match. . The hidden book-keeper of the Marine Bank swindled that institution of $28,000 by false entries. • boiler explosion. Laramie City, March 23.—The boiler of the Union Pacific Bolling Mill exploded, wrecking the building, killing four persons and injuring ten. INJURY TO VEGETABLES. Augusta, March 23.—The -severe frost killed the early crop of vegetables and fruits in Somth Carolina and Georgia. FATAL PIPES. New York, March 23.—The workmen about the Jupiter powder which exploded were in the habit of smoking pipes. THE RHODE ISLAND RADS. Providence, March 23—The Republican State Convention nominated the present officers. _______ To read the papers nowadays, one would think that George H. Pendleton was an office-holder of some sort, or that the Democratic party was responsible for the manner in which he transacts his private business.—BmAon Po*L Fort Mason, Orange Co., Fla.,) March 15, 1876. | Your correspondent, “Sidney Herbert,’ when writing from Dr. Spence’s admi rably conducted sanitarium near Mellon- ville, referred but briefly to this, the northern part of Orange county, doubt less because unfamiliar with the condition of affairs hereabouts. This neglect your many readers here complain of, and to “smooth their ruffled front,” I con cluded to send you a brief letter on the situation. SIX MONTHS AGO this was the most sparsely populated part of the county. To-day it is one of the most thickly settled. Every homestead of any value has been taken up between the Wekiva river and the Ochlawaha headwa ter lakes. The great body of the new com ers have settled within the vicinity of Lakes Dora and Eustis, the most numer. ous body extending from the vicinity of this post office to the north shore of Lake Dora. Every square of half a mile within this territory is a homestead, and every homestead is occupied. In some in stances the homesteads have been subdi vided. As a consequence our population j is becoming dense, and this part of the county is looking up. Most of the set tlers ABE FROM THE WEST OB NORTH, but there is also a goodly sprinkling from Georgia and Alabama. Many of the Northerners are quite estimable persons, men of means who will benefit the coun try. Others are of little use, thriftless young fellows who appear to regard life in Florida as requiring nothing more laborious than fishing, and a few deci dedly scabby individuals who could read ily be spared. Still, taken as a whole, the new settlers comprise a desirable acquisition to this “section.” (I detest the word, but cannot think of any other.) Most of them have gone to work with a will, and what was a few weeks ago an unbroken monotony of pine forest is now a pleasant scene of diversified activity. Small frame cottages rise up from a hun dred clearihgs; here and there groves of young oranges, just set out, dot the land scape, and everywhere are heard the sound of the axe, the mallet and the hammer. The effect of this BUSH OF SETTLERS has been most marked upon real estate. State lands which we purchased last summer at one dollar per acre are now held at from ten to forty dollars, and improved private lands can only be pur chased at high figures. It must not be imagined that there was not any intelli gent, refined society here before this last influx of population, or that the new comers constitute “society.” As a mat ter of fact, I have been most agreeably surprised since my arrival here at meet ing with a really pleasant and intelligent set of people among the old residents, and I mention this because I perceive that some newspaper scribblers are en deavoring to make it appear that this part of the county was, until recently, inhabited solely by an illiterate and un refined class. THE OLD CITIZENS are exceedingly cordial to the settlers, and if they warm up a trifle more to those who followed, with them, the flag of the South, why that is natural enough. Po litically they are Democrats to a man— none of your half hearted, squeamish, whip-the-devil-around-the stump fellows, but “square up” dyed-in-the-wool Demo crats, who want a fair tussle with the Radical devil this winter. At the last election, they chose their own man for the Assembly, and in the person of Mr. Bryan, got one of the best members this county has sent to Tallahassee. He lives near Fort Mason, and is one of the most estimable, clear headed men I have met in Florida. Possessed of solid, good sense, energetic to a notable degree and devoted to his native State, Mr. Bryan has made an excellent legislator, and 1 trust he will be re-elected this coming fall. It would be a graceful act of recog nition of his merits as a man, a citizen and a public servant, if the southern end of the county would throw aside its pre judices agaiust this end, and unanimous ly re-elect Mr. Bryan. Referring to this prejudice, reminds me that the great de sire of the people of this end is to divide the county, and in my opinion this should be done. It is PREPOSTEROUSLY LARGE hundred being nearly one length from north county courthouse southern boundary. miles in to south, with the located near the Persons living near the northern boundary must travel lifty odd miles to attend court, aud as there are no railroads this must be done on horseback, requiring a fatiguing journey of four days to make the round trip. At the last session of the Legislature Mr. Bryan endeavored to secure the passage of a bill organizing a new county; but the Radicals were opposed to having any more Democratic representatives in the Legislature, and so they voted against the bill, on the pretext that the constitu tion prohibits the formation of new coun ties. It does nothing of the kind. It merely limits the number of representa tives, as iu Georgia, but is altogether si lent on the subject of new counties With the large accession to our popula tion during the present winter, the ne cessity for a new county will increase, and it is to be hoped that the next Legis lature will contain a majority of Demo crats who will grant the demands of the people. THE RAILROAD. to connect Lake George, on the St. John’s river, with Lake Eustis at this point, has at lengtn begun building. I learn that the convicts employed from the State have been landed at the Lake George end of the line, and the engineers report that the twenty-three miles of road will be graded by August next This road is destined to prove of immense benefit not only to this part of Orange, but also to the whole of Sumter county, which latter at present labors under great disad vantages from lack of transportation facilities. As soon as the road is com pleted to Lake Eustis a line of steamboats will connect with it, and ply Lakes Eus tis, Harris, Dora, and ultimately Griffin and Apopka. All of these are large lakes, around whose shores and for miles there from a dense population is settling. Fort Mason, I venture to predict, will within ten years be THE COMMERCIAL DEPOT of a population of from fifty to seventy- five thousand parsons. While on this subject, I would hint to some of your merchants the policy of helping this rail road. Arrangements have been perfected for connecting the Lake George road with steamers from New York, Charles ton and Savannah, and if the merchants of the latter city desire to secure a large slice of a lucrative business, a judicious investment in the stock of the road would probably help them—that is, if any qf the stock is for sale. I know no thing of its financial condition—nothing, except that it is building and will be ready for traffic next winter. Its im portance may be readily comprehended when I state that it makes a saving of from two to four days in transportation, and enables the people to raise winter crops of vegetables and potatoes for the Northern market. THE WINTER is passing (or has passed ?) mildly enough. There have been a few cool days and cold nights; but I have not sat by a fire or are now laden with blossom and redolent with sweetness. The principal groves in this vicinity are those of Mr. Norton, on Lake Eustis, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Mott, Mr. Alsibrook and some others I cannot recall to mind. At present the bearing trees are not numerous, but each year adds to their number. Socially the season has passed quietly. In the absence of any centre of population, terpsichorean or other convivial gatherings have not been possible. Twice each week the citizens meet each other at this post office and discuss matters and things in general. There it is that Dr, Jeffers, a clever, so ciable M. D., formerly of North Carolina, Mr. Mott, who loves to crack a joke, Mr. L. M. Ballard, the genial proprietor of the steam saw mill, Mr. Bryan, and others, join in council and narrate their experiences in this wicked world. Sandy. The Centennial Fiend. [From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.] It was only half an hour before the paper went to press, but he walked un erringly into the editor’s private room and, dropping his hat over the warning placard of “Busy Day—Short Calls,” seated himself with easy bar-ijoom polite ness on the table with thalexchanges. He was dressed in an Ulster |nd a soiled raffled shirt, wore an amethyst about the size of a hock glass on hisjhird finger and cluster pin in his bosom. He look a “seven for-a-quarter” cigar from his mouth and, placing it on the editor’s ink- stand, remarked confidentially: “I am going to spend some time this year”— The editor clutched his pen like a dagger, and pawing after the few hairs on the top of his head, said— —“in Philadelphia”— The young man spat gracefully over his left shoulder on the new carpet, and responded— “Yes, I’ve done a little writin’ in my day, and bein’ disengaged this summer should like to send a first-class journal like yours”— The editor fell back iu his chair, and gasped— —“some letters about the Centennial.” The interviewer nodded and kicked his No. lls pensively against the veneered panels of the desk. “Would you like to be packed iu ice until your friends call for you ?” said the editor, gloomily, “or shall we forward your remains in an air-tight casket ?” Then gazing sorrowfully at the young man he put his mouth to a speaking tube and asked— “Are any of the pressmen at hapd!” Promptly waited through the tin tube came the reply— “Red Mike and Big Dan, sir.” The would-be (^respondent started up aghast, put his nat on, wrong side in front, and buttoned the third button of his coat into the second button hole; but the newspaper man, taking no more notice of him than he would of a dead head advertisement, breathed through the tube— “Give ’em a quarter apiece and let them come here. Tell them there is another of those Philadelphia Centennial fellows here, and then pull in a district telegraph boy and send for a hearse.” Before the last words were in the speak ing-tube the tails of an Ulster coat sailed out of the private office, and a nervous young man, after trying the door of the coat room and diving into the coal closet, reached the counting-room door, looked over his shoulder at two brawny Milesians who had just descended from some upper region, missed his footing for a dozen stairs, accented his descent with a heavy bump on the first landing, and reached the street as the editor wrote the last word of an article on “the business out look” and clamly sent it whirling up in the box to the composing room. ». Treasure Trove. The Denison Cresset says: About three weeks ago, some twelve or fifteen thou sand dollars in gold and silver was dug up on the Widow Walker’s place, three miles south of Denison. At the time men tioned above, two unknown men, accom panied by an Indian boy, visited the farm. Tlfey had a long rod with which they probed the ground. Some trees growing near the place where the treas ure was buried were marked; also, a rock on which were two rings, one within the other, and an arrow- pointing in the di rection of the buried treasure. It ap pears that the Walker family knew that the money was buried on the place, but it was a request of the Widow Walker that it should not be disturbed until af ter she died. A number of parties have recently visited the place aud the hole where the money was buried; the trees pointing to the spot and the rock with the rings and arrow on can be seen. The name of the parties who came aud took the treasure are known, we understand, to be the Walker family. The Indian was from the Nation. The story seems incredulous, and perhaps must be taken with some allowance. It seems very im probable that the Walker family, knowing for so long a time that the money was buried there, would not have dug it up and enriched themselves, notwithstanding the Widow Walker requested that it should not be disturbed until after her death. The story was told to us by three of the most respectable citizens of Denison, who believe that tho money was found as described above. There seems to be considerable excitement on the streets in regard to the buried treasure. Mrs. Walker says that only a small por tion of it has been found, and that she knows where there are thousands of dol lars in gold and silver buried one mile distant from Denison. If Mrs. Walker’s tale is true, people who contemplate going to the Black Hills can do better by remaining at home. Several parties have gone to the Walker place, and report finding some silver coin in the dirt left near the place where the treasure was buried. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. Mr. II ii I** Uour»t* in C'onarea*— 1 The Effect • f His Speeches on the Northern Elec* lions— Furnishinff Campaign Material to the Radicals—Slandering the Black burns—The Late Mr. Pendleton—A Word of Explanation am Exhortation. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Wandering in the Wilderness. [From the Denver News.] A little boy has wandered away from his home in Wet Mountain valley. The child’s name is Hiltman, and he is only two and a half years old. His parents reside at the foot of Sangre de Cristo range, five miles from Uia. The child left the house a week ago last Sunday morning between 9 and 10 o’clock. The neighbors were alarmed, and a party began searching along the adjacent tim ber in the foot-hills. In the evening the tracks of the little astray were discovered in the snow, leading into the mountains. This trail was followed two miles, when, in the darkness, all trace was lost, though every foot of ground was scanned with the aid of lanterns. The night was very cold, and about three inches of snow fell before morning. At daybreak the search was renewed, and was kept up all day Monday, Monday night, and Tuesday until 2 o’clock p m., when Oscar Smith came upon fresh tracks in the snow. These he followed eagerly for fifty yards, when a whirlwind passed across his course, drifting the snow in sheets and obscuring the footprints of the child. Further search that afternoon revealed no sign or trace of the lost one. By this time tne news had spread far and wide, and the searching party had in creased to one hundred strong. The search was continued over Wednesday, and was, at the date of last advices (Thursday) still in progress, though the hope of finding the child alive had been abandoned by Ml except the child's father and mother, who had accompanied the searchers day and night. Jhese inter esting facts are gleaned from a letter to the Pueblo Chieftain. The mule candidate for the Presidency, which his name is Bristow, is obstinately in the field. We have high authority for saying that the only way in which to keep a mule in a pasture is to put him m a meadow and let him jump out. And Bristow hasn’t got into the meadow.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Here's a New Name for a Carpen ter’s Shop.—On the Swedish booth in the main Centennial building is engraved worn an overcoat since it begun. The I the word “Snickerifadrick,” which means orange crop has been sold and the trees | “ woodworking establishment.’’ Washington, March 20, 187§. When the Hon. Ben. H. Hill delivered his Andersonville speech a prominent Democrat remarked to me that he feared the effect of it would be to raise the issue as to whether the North or South was right in the late war, and though he believed the North was desirous of recon ciliation and peace, it would of course concede nothing on that score. In fact, nothing could be gained by debating such a question now, other than to FIRE THE NORTHERN HEART, which Mr. Hill's speech appears to have done very effectually. In this respect the worst apprehensions have been realized, as the late municipal elections in Maine and the State election in New Hampshire show. It was further feared that the press of'Georgia would so eulogize Mr. Hiii’s address as to incite him to fresh efforts on the same line of argument. Tho Georgia press has, however, shown more judgment and discretion than it was given credit for. Of course no one can suppose for a moment that Mr. Hill does not have the good of tho State and of his section at heart. The worst allegation I have heard against him was that he prepared his Andersonville speech for circulation m Georgia to aid him in his Senatorial aspirations, regardless of what its effect might be elsewhere. And that charge, if true, in my opinion, ought to relegate Mr. Hill to private life. Mr. Hill’s statesmanship has thus far been like tbe Irishman’s musket. It has kicked both ways, aud has been more damaging to his friends than to his enemies. His first speech made a campaign document for the Radicals, gave them thousands of votes, helped Blaine’s Presidential can vass; dragged Mr. Davis from the ob scurity of private life, where he was enjoying the luxury of being let alone, and subjected him to fresh abuse, and kindled anew the fires of proscription and hate in the North and West. His second speech prevented the passage, and has probably defeated the 1812 pension bill, in which the South is particularly interested. Moreover, Mr. Hill furnished the Radi cals with A KEY NOTE FOR THEIR CAMPAIGN, which they struck with good effect in New Hampshire. The war issues are to be revived, the memories of Anderson ville awakened, and the people taught to believe that renewed attempts are to be made to establish a Southern Confedera cy. It seems incredible that success should attend such efforts, but it has already done so, and will, from present appearances, continue to do so. The soldier element in the North and West is a large one, and bile those who wore the blue have been ready enough to shake hands across the bloody chasm with those who wore the gray, it is not difficult for the politicians to excite in their breasts the old bellig- erant feelings. Mr. Hill laid the train and the Radicals have applied the match. Morton and his bloody shirt are left far in the rear. Those who had wearied of stale slanders on the South, such as Morton has served up year after year,^ lent their ears readily to new slanders, and^ are rallying around “the ©Id flag” to resist the Confederate attacks conjured up by designing politicians. “It will be like ’61,” said to me an ex soldier now in office here,” “we shall sweep everything before us.” Another ex-soldier, the editor of a Sunday news paper in this city, says: “It is impossible for those who fought to agree about the questions of the rebellion. They can forgive and forget,and bury the whole sub ject in the waters of oblivion, but any revival and discussion of these dead issues will surely be fatal to the South and defeat and postpone its dearest wishes. If the Democrats supply any more campaign ammunition to the Re publicans of the kind furnished by the amnesty debate, they will have haid work to nominate a man at St. Louis who can possibly be elected.” These are truths which cannot and should not be ignored. THE BETE NOIR OF RADICALISM. The Radicals don’t like Representative Biackburn, of Kentucky, and I don’t wonder at it. I confess that I do. That they should fling mud at him is not sur prising. That they should tell lies about him is natural enough. It is as natural for them to lie as for a dog to have fleas. ‘Their last attempt to smirch his reputa tion has been to connect him with an alleged plot of his brother’s, Dr. D. P. Blackburn, to introduce yellow fever into the Federal army, or rather to hold him responsible for what his brother is said, on the testimony of a perjured scoundrel, to have done. I am fully con versant with all the facts in the case, and know whereof I speak. To make matters worse the society correspoDdents, the gushing females who describe the back-hair and shoe buckles of the shoddy element of Washington, have got hold of Dr. Blackburn, and are writing of him with their usual reckless inaccuracy and disregard of Lindley Murray. The story they have attempted to tell is this : Dr. Blackburn was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when the yellow fever broke out in Ber muda. The physicians there were unfa miliar with the disease, which was making great inroads upon the population. Dr. Blackburn volunteered his services to the British authorities. They were accepted. He took steamer and went to Bermuda, had a consultation with the medical men there aud gave them his views as to the treatment of the disease, in which he has had large experience. Finding that he would excite professional jeal ousies if he remained and attended to patients, he returned to Halifax and made a report to the authorities. The British Government soon after, very properly,presented him with £500, which little more than repaid him for his ex penditure of time, professional skill and money. There is no doubt but that his visit resulted in saving many lives. Now what have the Radical slanderers to say to that ? t GENTLEMAN GEORGE Hon. George H. Pendleton is here. I regret that I cannot conscientiously say a good word for him. To me his conduct does not seem defensible, and the Democratic press and party can* not afford to shield a wrongdoer. “Let no guilty man escape,” with no mental reservation in favor of Babcock or any other man, is a very good motto at this time. There are two ex-ciem- bers of Congress lounging about the Capitol now who lost their seats because of their corruption. One was in the District ring, and the other a tool of Senator Spencer’s. I am proud to think that I did something toward driving them from public life. As for Mr. Pendleton, he may as well consider himself permanently retired to private life. If he thinks he has acted honorably he will have an easy conscience. But, unfortunately, for him, it will be impossible to reason the country into the same opinion. A WORD TO GEORGIANS. And now a personal word or two. As I may frequently have occcasion to ad dress the readers of the Morning News in the future, as I have done in the past, I desire to have their confidence. I will state, therefore, that in what I have said of Mr. Hill I have been actuated solely by a desire to promote the interests of the Democracy. I have no personal enmity to him. I was opposed to his election to Congress because I feared he would do just what he has done; and I think Georgia will do a great injustice to a tried, true and able representative if she promotes Mr. Hill to Mr. Norwood’s seat in the Senate, Furthermore, I did what little I could to aid the Southern Confederacy, and the Lost Cause is still my cause. But I consider it both unne cessary and impolitic to defend it now. History will do that when the Blaines and Mortons are rottemnnd their slanders lost in oblivion. To promote the politi cal {lower and material prosperity of the South is of far more importance at this time than the revival of dead issues. Them’s my sentiments,” and this is my platform. Carlos. TRUTH ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE. Stearu*. of the Northern Railroad, Expect ing to be United States Senator. To the Editor of the New York Sun: Sir—I have read your leader, “Is Re form Possible ?” It contains a great deal of solid and wholesome truth; but never theless, so far as New Hampshire is con cerned, it is to a great extent based on a misapprehension. It ignores two vital factors in the late election, viz.; the power of Stearns, the railway king, and the power of money. No State can compare with this in the thoroughness of its political organiza tions and their discipline. Every ward in each city is treated as a town: every town is thoroughly organized. The lead ing men of each party in each town have a private poll book or tally list, which contains the name of every voter in town, whether he is a Democrat, Republican, or to be reckoned as doubtful. There is rarely any appreciable difference in the names and numbers on the poll books of the two parties. This is carried so far that I have known a town with from 800 to 1,000 names on its poll list, in which the name, face, and political proclivities of each voter were well known to the leading men of each party, who could tell precisely how each man was likely to vote. As a rule these poll books show that from one-fourth to one-seventh of the voters are marked “doubtful.” This means that they will be controlled by the amount of money, free passes, jobs from railroad and other corporations which they may receive. These things are equally well known to the managers of both parties. You are mistaken if you think that the mass of the Republicans in this State do not believe as thoroughly in the rotten ness of the national administration a yourself. They understand it all, but it makes no difference with their votes. The exposure of Belknap and the general corruption in official circles at Washing ton, helped rather than hurt the Republi can party. It only spurred the leaders to greater exertion, and caused them to put out more railroad favors and more money. Had the whole Cabinet and the President been impeached, it would only have in creased the majority, so long as there was no want of funds. The simple truth is, that from two to five thousand men vote in this State every year who have no more legal right to vote here than you have. About sixty thou sand of the voters are what Horace Greeley called the “trained regulars.” They are perfectly sure, and the rest, less the illegal vote, are in the market. Their price ranges from a free pass for a few days to $100 in cash. A rural town, which I will not name, and which is presumed to be respectable if any can be, within twenty miles of this city, is a marked, perhaps an extreme illustration. It has less than three hundred voters. Fifteen years ago a dozen votes could not have been pur chased there for money. At the last election it had about seventy reliable Democratic, and about seventy-five relia ble Republican voters, and about ninety were in the market. The latter have found out their power; they cohere to gether; they refuse to sell single votes; and whoever buys must buy the block, unless the vote sellers quarrel or the pur chasers divide. To some extent the same is true in many other towns which are close. This vote trading is done openly by the side of the ballot boxes and in open town meeting. One of the Senators elected this year had at the election last year to buy up the town in which he lived. He stood in front of ihe door of the polling place with an open pocket book, and dealt out the bills to the voters he bought as they passed him, as a gambler deals his cards. The Republican Legislature of last year, of which he was a member, defeated a stringent bill to stop this bribery, because they knew they had the advantage in money. The fact is shame ful and humiliating beyond the power of words; but what help have we?” “Is reform possible ?” Mr. Stearns is the President of the Northern Railroad, and controls that cor poration and its branches. He expects to be United States Senator, and prob ably will be. Every intelligent man of both parties knows that the late election represents nothing but the corporate power wielded by this railway king, and the purchasing power of money. An Old Subscriber. Concord, March 18. Belknapism iu 1649. [From the Boston Traveller.) A poet, who was also a man of the world, and was well acquainted with countries and cities, and who had traveled much, and who had also lived nbt a little in retirement, and corresponded and con versed with many sorts of men, wrote the following sonnet, which is worth reading merely for the music of it: What hapless hap had I for to be born In these unhappy times, and dying days Of this now doting world, when good decays; Love's quite extinct, and Virtue’s held a scorn ! When such are only priz’d, by wretched ways, Who with a golden fleece can them adorn; When avarice and lust are counted praise, And bravest minds live orphan-like forlorn Why was not I born in that golden age. When gold was not yet known ? and those black arts By which base worldlings vilely play their parts. With horrid acts staining earth’s stately stage? To have been then, O Heaven, it had been my bliss Bat bless me now and take me soon from this. Reading this sonnet, withont knowing by whom it was written, or when, one would be justified in supposing it to have proceeded from thte desponding genius of some “independent” American poet—say the venerable Bryant, who, though past four-score, still writes vigorous verse. But the supposition would be all wrong, for it was written by a poet who died in 1649, even by Drummond of Hawthorn- den, who thought that the world was worn out, wanton and wicked, and that there was no good in it cr to be hoped for it, at the very time which men of these days are accustomed to look back upon as having abounded in the greatest and most glorious of actions, and as having been the richest of all times in display of the virtues and in the production of vir tuous men. TAMPERING WITH THE STATEMENTS. DEBT Senator DavJ*’» Cbnrjie* Well Founded— Unaccountable Charccs Made In the Kepari*—The Senate Committee on Fi nance Soon to Report on the Matter. Washington, March 19.—The Senate Committee on Finance, which was in structed to investigate the books of the Treasury Department with reference to discrepancies and alterations in amounts and figures that have been made in them, or in the annual finance reports, as al leged by Senator Davis in several speeches made by him in January, and to ascertain by what authority any such alterations were made, have sent to the Department a copy of Senator Davis’s speeches, with a request that each point contained in them be fully explained. The clerks of the Treasury Department have for some time been engaged in making this examination. The discoveries made by Senator Davis iu his study of the finance reports, it will be remembered, were in substance as follows : That wholesale changes in tables showing the public debt at the close of each fiscal year, have been made, and that the sum of these alterations amounted in the aggregate to an increase in the public debt of $247,- 766,674. In tho meantime Senator Davis has been continuing his investigations, and has discovered many additional facts which will be given to the Senate whenever the report of the Committee on Finance is completed. The changes referred to date back to the year 1836. At that time the public debt was at its minimum, and, in fact, the United States at the close of that year was almost out of debt. Year after year the Register of the Treasury made annual statements of the public debt, and these have been sent to Congress un changed, each report agreeing as to the debt of former years with the reports that had preceded until 1870 when many changes were made in these oft published tables. Thus, for instance, a statement of the public debt for 1863 having once been made up and reported to Congress, all subsequent reports for the same year ought to agree with it. The finance re ports from 1863 to 1870 did thus agree substantially, but between the publica tion of the reports for 1870 and 1871 an increase was made in this item for 1863, by which it appears to have been increased nearly $21,000,000. In other words,after having stated the public debt on June 30, 1863, in eight annual reports, as nearly $1,01M),000,000, in 1871 it was reported to fiave been for that year nearly $1,120,- 000,000, and has been reported at the latter figure in every subsequent state ment. Tho only conclusion that can be arrived at from these facts is that the Register of the Treasury changed the figures in the report of 1871, and Senator Davis’s object is to learn on what author ity this change was made and what its purpose was. These are questions which Senator Boutwell did not answer in his replies to Senator Davis. Fun in the United States Senate. [From Noah’s Sunday Times and Messenger] In retreat, near this city, is ex*Senator Nye, or at least what remains of his once brilliant intellect, genial qualities, and manly person. Struck down by a melan choly disease, beyond the hope of re covery, he only awaits happy release from earthly ills. And yet few, if any, remem ber him other than with the kindliest feelings—when he is remembered at all, Happening in the Senate one day, we found Mr. Sumner giving a historical ac count of the “first blood shed” in the re hellion. Mr. Sumner stated that a negro citizen had been beaten and maltreated by a mob at Alexandria, had escaped from his persecutors, and fleeing to thecapitol, told the story of his wrongs. When he lifted his cap from his head, “three drops of blood” fell upon the marble floor ! A discussion followed in reference to the services of the volunteers in Washington who enrolled themselves to protect the capital from invasion, iu which Senators Nye and Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware participated. “I was in Washington in that trying hour,” exclaimed Nye, “and enrolled my self as a volunteer to defend the capital of the nation from the rebels who threat ened its capture!” ‘Did you fire a gun?” roared Willard Saulsbury from his seat, unable under the pressure of circumstances to arise. ; ‘No!” retorted Nye. “The rebels didn’t oome as we expected. They dis appointed us.” ‘Then, Mr. President,” said Saulsbury, with great gravity, “I wish to claim equal credit with my friend from Nevada. I, too, was present, and volunteered on that memorable occasion.” “Did you fire a gun?” demanded Nye. “No !” exclaimed Saulsbury, in thunder tolles, “I did not fire a gun; but I must remind the gallant Senator from Nevada that, in the bloodiest battle in which he was ever engaged, I was by his side.” The Senate fairly shrieked with laugh ter, in which Nye and the galleries joined. The W'ashington Star publishes some interesting information in respect to the profits realized from the Wilson patent for the “four-motion feed,” used* by sew ing machine companies, against the re newal of which the House Committee on Patents recently reported. The patent was obtained in 1850, and as the inven tion was a very important and useful one its value was at once recognized, and by various arrangements with Mr. Wilson, the inventor, it was * adopted by all the more important and ex tensive manufactories in the United States, the inventor becoming a stockholder in one of them. From statistics furnished the committee in ex amining the merits of the question, it appears that this sewing machine combi nation sold during three years 1,175,981 machines. These machines, according to the report of the committee, are re tailed at an average price of $68, and it further appears that they can be manu factured and sold, including a reasonable profit, for $32 50. In addition to his profits as stockholder in one of ^“com bination companies,” Mr. Wilson was entitled to a portion of the royalties paid in license fees under the scheme. With one exception, which will expire next year, all the patents introduced and used by this combination are now at an end. “Minnie has been to see me to-day,” said little five-year-old, “and she behaved like a little lady.” “I hope you did, too,” said her mother. “Yea, indeed, I did; I turned somersaults for her on the bed.” Radical Corruption in New Hampshire. Proofs of the amazing lengths to which the corruption of voters was earned in the recent New Hampshire election are coming to light. The Merrimac Journal publishes two letters showing that $250 was sent by the Republican managers into the little town of South Hampton, where there are only one hundred and forty voters. The first lettter is written by the somewhat famous Natt Head, and is as follows: “I have put $25 in the hands of some Democratic friends in your town who say they can help me. I inclose you $25, and if I can afford to send more when I get around will do so. The other letter is written by Daniel Hall, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and like that of Mr. Head, is addressed to the Republican candidate for Representative, Samuel P. Eaton. It reads : “I herewith inclose po you the sum of $200 for your political uses in South Hampton. You ought with this not only to make your election as a Representative sure, but to secure a better standing on the ticket than you did last year. It is in most cases just as easy to secure men for the whole ticket as for the ballot for Representative. It is particular that in District No. 1 you should make the best possible showing on the general ticket vote. I call your special attention to this, and shall expect a better report than last year. Please sign and return to me the inclosed re ceipt.” Mr. Eaton’s election was doubt less “hailed” as a part of the “glorious victory.” If there is any regard for de cency left in the State the coming Legis lature will investigate the manner in which Mr. Eaton “made his election sure.” Graveyard Ghouls—Army Mules Buried as Federal Soldiers.—The re volting frauds in connection with the placing of head-stones over the soldiers’ graves in the national cemeteries is con firmed by Franklin Warren, of Cromwell, Conn., who, last year, had a sub-contract for setting head-stones at the graves of Union soldiers in Louisiana. There were several thousand of them. He was to put up marble head-stones, six inches square and two and a half feet in length, setting them two feet in the ground. He margin was cau ^ ~~ j)^ ew and find used a large auger-like instrument to down in hot Hast __ <4Vfr f> rew make the holes. He was given the lines of the heads of graves by a government engineer. But he found that the graves were irregular, and in boring he frequent ly struck coffins aud bodies or bones. They were just under the surface, not so deep as he was required to dig. In strik ing these bones it was necessary to cut through them, and in this work he found that many of them were the legs of mules, or parts of mule carcasses. The contractors, who had received $20 per body for burying the eoldiers in regular order, had used the bones of mules, as well as those of the soldiers, to swell ther income, and had made every mule go as far as possible, receiving from the gov ernment, of course, $20 for each mule leg put into a coffin and buned.— Wash ington Sfecial to the Springfield, Republi can. Trend*,.] of the iHsrtpp!' anJ i Do CaPtain f aid ’ reached thia nort . Dommion Lu >e. Liverpool, Feb^ , f ™“ the crew—consistm^'"’. ■ m F on the Norwegian barfc 8 Chlt^ 8ht meD—1at s l0CaIit3 ' heretofore re- re^r’teS a ™ b ° Ud th ° St ‘ Louis awav on ,," k fii 8 nals of distress away on the starboard; Captain lleid assistance 3 S*"" *» iar dCto her to be tha" K n re ? clnil g her she proved ** , tLo Norwegian bark Chatham, of Wth b r 8 ’ “ nd hound from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rotterdam, with a cargo of 3,212 barrels rosin. The Jrew eight in number, were gathered together the m»i a t pt&ln .? eld 3al! 8 out “What is you ? 1 aud received the reply, \\ e have lost our Captain and two hands overooard, and we are unable th . e ®hip." Captain Reid now- ordered the boat to he cleared away and togoto the rescue of the unfortunate The sea was now running with terrific fury, making a clear breach over the un fortunate bark. This rendered the launch ing of the boat a matter of the greatest danger and difficulty. Nothing, however, seemed dangerous or difficult to the men who undertook the task; amid the roar of the storm their chery song was heard as they hauled away at the boat, and in a surprisingly short time the boat, in charge of the first officer, Mr. Griffith was dancing over the boiling waves. The men being safely landed on board the bt. Louis, Captain Reid learned that they were determined to abandon the Chatham, and thereupon resolved to send the bark to Eugland. In pursuance ef this resolve he sent second officer Snelling with a crew to report on the condition of the bark. ^ About 3 o’clock, on the morning of the 7th, Mr. Snelling sent the boat to the steamer reporting that the bark was in good cuudibion, well found, and that they had already sucked her dry, and with some sails, provisions, a chart and com pass supplied to him, he would under take to bring her home. These having be in with great difliculty put into the boat and a prize crew put on board, the St. Louis remained by them until the Chatham once more began to display a fair spread of canvas. About 9 o'clock tho St. Louis bore down on them for the last time. The Chatham under her new commander now pointed her bow to wards home, and we sped away to the westward, having been detained eighteen hours. The following is the story related by the Chatham’s crew of that unfortunate vessel’s journey: The bark Chatham sailed from Wil mington, North Carolina, on the 11th of February, having on board O. Schirod, captain, Carl A. Sanderson, mate, and nine hands; also a cargo of 3,212 barrels rosin and bound for Rotterdam. Strong but favorable winds were experienced after leaving port, which were varied only by the violence of their nature. They were obliged to “heave to” during the fury of a hurricane; the sails were tom into ribbons, and on February 22d the storm was at its height. On that day a sea burst clear over the ship, washing overboard the captain and two of the hands, besides boats, provisions (which were on deck) and every object within its reach, amongst which unfortunately were the charts. It was impossible to render the drowning men any assistance, as each man was clinging on for bare life himself. These disasters disheartened the remainder of the crew, and thenceforth, the weather still continuing heavy, they made occa sional but ineffectual efforts to continue their voyage, aud finally abandoned the ship to its fate, lying to under a storm mizzen sail. Thus they were found. For thirteen days they lay looking across the waves for help, having only hard biscuit to eat. SEA ISLAND COTTON. The Soil ami Aiiiionplieric Condition* for Producing the Best. Washington, March 19.—The Com missioner of Agriculture, in reply to a resolution of the Senate, gives the fol lowing information: A soil of marine formation appears to be necessary for the growth of the stalk and fibre of the sea island or long staple cotton, and a sea atmosphere with its warmth and equa bility. A sandy deposit of marine salt, but little above the sea level, permeable by the moisture beneath, and convenient for the requisite manuring by sait marsh, furnishes conditions for the highest pro duction of sea island cotton. Edisto Island, south of Charleston, is the most prominent locality for the production cf long staple cotton. St. Simons, Ukyl, and Shidoway are also favorably known for products of high quality. The geographical limits and area in which the se& island cotton ma tures a perfect growth include the islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico, aud a few miles inland from the coaa t_ten or fifteen, more or less—the line extending further inland up the river valleys, which have a marine's oil and un obstructed sea breeze, and including most of the area of Florida. The area suitable for this culture in Texas is claimed to be quite large, and has of late been extend ing. The proportion of upland to sea island cotton produced is about two hun- • dred to one. Probably not more than 100,000 acres are now devoted to its cul ture, while that occupied in upland cotton is from 100 to 120 times as much. The area could be increased immensely were the conditions favorable — a sufficient price, a more systematic and labor-saving inodes of culture and preparation, and more available and efficient labor—the former residents of the coast and islands having gone to the cities or retired to the uplands. How Uncle Daniel Helped Ihe Parson to Make a Little Money. They are telling all sorts of stories about Uncle Daniel Drew’s operations in Wall street now that he has passed in his checks, and here is one that will do as a specimen. Once while sitting in his office Drew was approached by a Methodist minister from a town up tbe Hudson. Uncle Daniel being himself a Methodist wanted to know what he could do for him. “Well, I thought, Mr Drew,” said the parson, “that you might put me in the way of making a little money.” “Thinkin’ o buyrn some sheers, eh ?” said Darnel. Yes, got something saved up, and if you d be good enough to tefi me wnat is best to do to increase it, you'd oblige me very much.” “Well, now, its kind o resky, ve know but perhaps ef ye tr.ed a little Fry”- “Thank you, Mr Drew, thank you Now Will you be kind enough to tell me a good place to buy ?" Drew sent him to one of Jokers,who had orders to sell Erie right along, and when the re” 1 ®“ d “‘>“7, here an »pecki- ye any pints, C t:pelT ordered some Rne, 53 aD<1 wlio conld command faUiug m»t» {oJ . tte dom ini e came uu-u ... —- - .j—. “Mr. Drew, out what was t } me Erie wa3 a s00 d how is this ? H ,. WeU ” said Undo fact, Let’s see. how much lose any aominie named his 16 Threw told a clerk to fill a check loss, and Drew handed to tho fortheanmmtuw ^ the visitor. ao d . himhtu! said; T * r nde Daniel stopped him and« office l ncle D ^ not t0 fiay any- “beemsto “6 oD £ry to the folj£S thing about t Qf em . 8 been ,j 0WI1 up your way. fesir they hain’t made yer buym “ ^ad been buying tho DOtb w n .h»t Drew was selling, and the dominie was only a small check t° j.e had made out ot the I dominu