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A flairs in Heoriria.
Now is the time for the farmers to plant
more cotton.
There is -a great scarcity of
weather had been favorable daring
,he cold simp, the Augusta reporters could
fjiJ something neat about the snowy
locks of the canal.
Ads in Africa.
much more schooling in
teach
It won’t require
th cut ton ami guano business to
Oeorria farmers that the shortest route to
^ poor-house does not necessarily lie
through Texas.
Conspiracies and syndicates will be the
dfjtb of the Atlanta <'onstUuiion. Even old
min Acton is losing flesh.
1$ is passing strange that some Atlanta
m ixasn’t nominated Hi Kimball for Gov-
.1 „ r . Two thousand prominent patriots of
•hat citv have already certified to his char-
ter anil capacity, aiid what more do yon
vant ?
A colored horse-stealer endeavored to
work his way out of jail in Quitman the other
djv, bnt was discovered.
Grady says that Augusta prides herself on
her aristocracy. It would soem, then, that
her offense is rank.
We would advise every farmer to plant at
. st enon^li cotton to make a hank of yarn.
If as now stems likely, a cotton famine
;i. uld fall upon the country, a hank of
varn would b- invaluable to bay provisions
with.
At the last term of the Superior Court,
of Washington county a young man
found guilty of the crime of
gednetion, and sentenced to pay damages to
the amount of ten thousand dollars.
A Mrs. Collier, of Columbus, was bitten
bv a small rattlesnake recently, and shortly
afterwards died.
The industrious burglar lias penetrated as
far as the Flatwoods in Floyd county.
Brinkley, the Nevvnau wife-murderer, has
received a now lease of life.
We stated, some time ago, that Mr. E. W.
Douglas, a lawyer of Covington, had been
adjudged insane. We should have said that
Mr. Douglas was a lawyer of Newnan, and
we hasten to correct the mistako—particu
larly as tho editor of the Star has warned
us, in a tragic tone of voice, to beware how
we “throw stones.”
EUijay Courier: “It is astonishing what
an effect mountain trips have on some of our
townsmen. They’ll go into the country for
a day or two, and, no matter how wet and
stormy the weather, get back dry as a bean.
Then water suffers.” *
Twenty miles of steel rails will be put
down on the 8tate Hoad this year. Joe
Brown ought to run for Governor on the
strength of this. However, we suppose he
thinks he can do better than that.
Wilkinson county has a well fifty-four
feet deep which contains thirty-seven feet of
water.
Marietta .Journal: “We don’t mind saying
that the Savannah News and Augusta Con-
f'it'itionalist are as fine specimens of South
ern journalism as can be creditably singled
out.”
A disastrous fire occurred on the planta
tion of Mr. G. W. Kelly, in Washington
county, the other night.
Mr. Edmond Reid, Mr. Henry Trippe and
Mr. John 13. Pound, three old and promi
nent citizens of Putnam county, lie stricken
with palsy.
Mr. Samuel Clark Daniel, of Greensboro,
uic-d recently in Gainesville, Fla.
A Murray county mule, in a fit of playful
ness the other day, broke another mule s
neck. This is one of the characteristics of
mules. There is something earnest in their
glee, even when they get off a pun on a ne
gro with their hind-leg.
kev. F.. J. Panel, o! Jefferson county, is
dead.
Mr. Joel T. Coney, of Laurens county, is
1 desman, every inch of him. He has
plaut* d eight hundred acres of land in
email grain. Aud yet, on second thoughts,
Wfc caL l commend the example of Coney.
He is evidently preparing to take advantage
h* 8 fellow-farmers who will need some"
thiug to eat some time this year. Mqj*o-
w -*r, he will, to some extent, interfere with
tke commerce of the West. No: we can’t
M’prove of Coney’s course. He ought to
have planted cotton.
A rattlesnake ten feet long was recently
killed in Jefferson county.
intrepid editor of the Ellijay Courier
toiuus: “The public are aware that on
, Wr Lil ed with a hatchet two out of
■ -any young loafers that infested our
^ vi . \\ e - hall now commence on the men.
fc kali slay two of them who wear copper-
Nunied pants with melancholy satisfac
tion and
strictly in self-defense.”
ur will be filled with profanity now.
SOI
Tuesdi
The
• - Abingdon bird-vender lias swindled
-^ "rd, of the Taibotton Standard.
' of Mr. John Hilton, of Joffer-
-» w -ro burned recently, and on
'»? the dwelling of Mrs. Ann Stevens
WlB destroyed.
B ar ? et1 ' '* oe Morris has been sent back to
lidn't want him.
■ ’he place of Mr. William
r ^°f Wilkinson county, were burned
t :r r ^ including his dwelling-house,
jjiy" 1 ‘* Powell, of Bartow county,
Cq 0lter iu his yard the other day.
flnaiicN^ are worr ying the Atlanta
& smaI1 cyclone the
Thia J! ait0U r - ltlZin employs a literary man.
: V2 he Bight of the
beauty V, &Uli Wfcird ’ hut - one of strange
lent Bho» G 8Q0W came down in dense, si-
buraiu ■ ^ ^ Dti tlie iuri( ^ Mght from the
U1 ,' llu 6 lit up the picturesque
flakgg ei ^ 00 the descending snow
clouds unt redec ted from the billowy
«n i | reh ! ihe whole atmosphere and the
•ere a-!, ' tQs .’ a8 far as the eye could reach,
jp v VUl1 ^°^ en » a “l>er light.”
a plaDter of Dou S h -
k>ullb <j a '\ . oriI1 s the Albany News that
8tr °yera 0 f *" 1 ° ^ ust an ^ most efficient de-
0118 hirda in a erpiUar8 all the insectiver-
t° the cont^*' CCmntr y-EngUsh 8 Parrowa
^botnaa 8av [V y E °twithstanding. Mr.
fenced apd' * \ at has often sat on his
and
^eu win, flie8 out from the
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° De ban b« t e namb er destroyed by
^nbbing U b ° 8hort a time » he Ba y®> i®
11.5 % < ; uk ' rsT ‘Ue Ejprett: “We re-
unVth?^ 1 XEWP 18 the be8t
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money or patron-
“eetinci tate to buJ influence.
^Ws right, .. POathli wtriefl-tower of the
V 4 !,r -' Stcrv
. ““‘PPi, sto : « 1>0r P° rtin 8 to be from
from h, ‘ frundred and fifty dol-
tecentlr '» Folbil1 ' ot Jefferson
I ^ 3 ‘ lie tecotered the money.
man
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Marietta Journal tells of a boiler,
which without any oven blower, excessively
large stack or patent grate bars, actually
burns wet tan, apparently, just as well as
though the fuel was dry pine. A few shav
ings or pine splinters are used to kindle a
fire, and then wet tan is thrown in slowly
for ten minutes, after which steam is kept
up to seventy pounds without the slightest
trouble, and not a dollar’s worth of fuel has
been used in a year. The bark is finely
ground.
The Irwinton Southerner and Appeal savs:
“We have watched with considerable inter
est the efforts of the Atlanta Constitution to
prove that the Savannah News was subsi
dized, and for the honor of Georgia journal
ism are proud to say that the News has
shown clean hands in tho matter. It re
ceived several hundred dollars for publish
ing articles favoring the lease of tho State
Road marked as advertisements, and while
publishing these articles it editorially op
posed tho lease. It was a fair business trans
action, and no disgrace attaches to the
News for its action, while the course of the
Constitution in accepting $5,000 from the
lessees has brought down upon it the cen
sure of every honest journal and man in tho
State.”
The Dalton Citizen says that at the last
meeting of tho stockholders of the North
Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Asso
ciation, the President was authorized aud
requested to appoint a number of persons
to aid in raising “pools” for tho best acre of
corn, best acre of wheat, best acre of oats,
and best hogs, all things considered. The
entry fee upon above is one dollar each.
Should there be one hundred competitors
for corn, then the^‘pool” for corn will be
worth one hundred dollars, aud the one hav
ing tho best acre of corn will take the $100;
besides, there will be added to this amount
a premium of §25, offered by tho society for
the best acre of corn. This same rule will
apply to all “pools,” the winner taking the
“pool.”
Quitman Reporter : We want it distinctly
understood that we shall nominate aud sup-
poi t to the bitter end, in preference to any
other, for our next Representative in tbe
Legislature, the farmer who plants the least
cotton and makes the most provisions i i
proportion to the land he cultivates this
year.
Saudersville (Washington couuty) Herald:
A fire broke out from the plantation of Maj.
Brantley, on last Friday, while tho wind was
blowing a perfect gale, and swept on, like a
hurricaue, over a vast area of country, con
suming fencing and almost every thing else
iu its track. The statements that come to
us we hope aro exaggerated. It is said that
the lire swept over a territory of fifteen
miles iu length, crossing wide swaiups,
streams of water, etc. It is also stated that
over five hundred thousand ra Is hive been
burnt. Making a reasonable deduction for
exaggerations, it is clear that the loss is
terrible. The reflection of the fire could bo
clearly seen in this city, a distance of ten
or fifteen miles from tho lire. The heavens
were lighted up aud presented almost as bril
liant an appearance as the Auroraborealis.
We learn that the farms of Major and Judge
Brantley, G. W. Prince, Dub Heath, and
others, have scarcely a rail left. This is a
terrible calamity upon these gentlemen,
especially at this season of the year.
Macon Telegraph: We see it stated that
President Wadley has made another sweep
ing reduction of ten percent, in the salaries
and w’ages of all the officers and employees
of the Central Railroad, beginning with
himself. Onr readers will remember the
late admirable showing of that gentleman,
of the gross receipts and net earnings of
the road, with its connections, for the past
year. The margin of the latter was mag
nificent, and if that astute official lives,
and remains at tho head of affairs,
the stock of the old Central will soon
mount upward again, aud regain its former
position in the market. From the showing
referred to, a very short time only must
elapse before the company will meet every
maturing obligation, and begin once more
to declare regular dividends. That will be
a joyful day for the hundreds of widows and
orphans who have their all invested in this
stock. Mr. Wadley has gone to work in the
right direction to bring about this auspici
ous result. Ecouomy and retrenchment
havo been his watchwords, andjthe suspen
sion of dividends will, in the end, inure to
the interest of all concerned.
Newnan Herald: Mr. Henry Keller has
handed us tho original manuscript of a
memorandum taken by him of some remarks,
or rather predictions, made by Mr. Jefferson
R. Smith, of this county, about the time
Georgia seceded, upon the subject of the
probable consequences of secession. Mr.
Keller says bo reduced these prophecies to
writing at the time they were made and
came across the copy the other day in tbe
pages of an old book of minuteB of the
City Council of Newnan. It may be proper
to remark that Uncle Henry was*opposed to
Mr. Smith on the question|of secession, and
that he made a note of the declarations of
the latter, to use against him politically,
should he ever run as a candidate for offico.
Tho following is a verbatim copy of the
memorandum : “Boys, if Georgia secedes
aud the Union is busted, we of the South
are ruined. We are not sufficiently strong
in numbers to contend against tbe North
and her great resources. Our currency will
be depreciated—wo will have no money.
Our ports will be closed, our vessels cap-
turea, our property confiscated, and it will
finally end in subjugation and emancipa
tion.” Never was prophecy more literally
verified.
Florida Affairs.
Furman’s real name is Poormau.
McLin will probably regret bis course to
ward Tyler before he is much older.
Have Stearns and Cheney real names
too?
The green turtle season has begun at
Cedar Key.
Mr. Eugene Allen, a conductor on the
Florida road, had his arm crashed the other
day. He was sitting with his elbow iu a car
window when he was struck by a piece of
lumber which had been placed too near the
track.
William J. is stirring up the faithful in
Jefferson and Gadsden counties.
The New York Tritjune is in error in sup
posing that John Tyler, Jr., will be opposed
in his own party by the scalawags. Ho will
be opposed exclusively by the carpet-bag
gers, unless, indeed, as is quite likely,
Purman may conclude to throw his influ
ence with the Tyler party for the purpose
of insuring the defeat of Stearns.
Will Wallace Harney, the well-known poet
and literateur, is the dramatic critic of an
amateur Thespian corps in Orange county.
If Stearns’s friends find they can’t elect
him Governor, there will be nothing to hin
der them from rallying around Littlefield.
We are of the opinion that Col. Sawyer, of
the Sun, will be compelled, in self-defence,
to support the Conservatives in tbe Guber
natorial campaign. He certainly cannot af
ford to go with Tyler, or Purman, or—worse
—with Stearns.
It would now seem that Cheney, in 1873,
was pining to make a combination with Cap
tain Dyke. Probably Dyke’s refusal is what
drove Cheney to desperation ; for since that
time he has become the stool-pigeon of
Stearns.
The Agriculturist has been informed that
1,100 immigrant wagons have crossed the
Chattahoochee river this winter, bound
principally to South Florida. The movers
were mostly from Mississippi and Alabame.
The Monticollo Constitution is informed
that the grand jury has requested the
county commissioners to strike from the
jury lists the names of several negroes,
who are pledged never to convict one of
their own color.
A negro named Mosely is iu the jail of
Hamilton county, charged with the com
mission of an infamous outrage upon a
white woman.
The Sanford Journal learns from Colonel
W. J. Barnett, the officiating Magistrate,
that the verdict of tho jury in the supposed
CaB e of poison of Mrs. Hart was, “that she
came to her death by poison at the hands
of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Gandee. Kind of
poison not known, but strychnine sus
pected ” Mrs. Taylor was committed on the
verdict of the jury, but afterwards earned
before Judge Price on writ of habeas corpus,
and bailed in tbe sum of ten thousand dol
lars. Mrs. Gandee has departed for parts
unknown. The analysis of tie stomach by
Dro. Tucker and Parnuaore did not rove*
any strychnine, but from her symptoms it is
their opinion that she died by that poison,
and thus the case rests for the present.
The Ocala Banner says that several val
uable plantations in Marion county have re
cently been purchased by parties from Mun-
cie, Indiana.
The Sentinel states that one year ago there
were two persons in Tallahassee from Jef
ferson, Iowa—now there are eleven. Two
years since there were only two persons in
Leon from Minnesota—at present there are
over one hundred and fifty.
The Marianna Courier says that Pnrman
once gave a calico dress to each of a party of
negro women, who whipped a colored man
seven miles for not voting.
Many of the Hillsborough farmers are
through with the spring planting, and much
of their corn is waist high.
Dr. C. J. Kenworthy informs the Agricul
turist that he has seen a bed of mushrooms,
near Lake Flirt, on the Caloosahatchie, con
taining two hundred and fifty acres.
A diabolical attempt was made in Talla
hassee the other night to rob the dwelling
of a family of Minnesota immigrants.
Ocala is out of debt.
It is impossible, no matter what evidence
is produced, to convict a colored thief in
Jefferson county, owing to the fact that the
juries are mainly composed of negroes.
Prof. S. F. Coffin, of Stewart county,
stated to the editor of the Sanford Journal
recently that it was impossible to get any
Florida news from Georgia papers. The
Professor is evidently not a subscriber to
tbe Morning News.
The dwelling bouse of Judge Bell, of
Mouticello, owned by Mrs. Faller, was de
stroyed by fire recently.
Tho following prologue to a drama enti
tled “Among tho Breakers,” recently per
formed by a Dramatic Association in Orange
county, is from the pen of Will Wallace
Harney :
On scenes so late the bannt of fox aud deer
What prologues first ap; ear and disappear,
Where the still heron heard the soldiers come
With shrill of fife and stirring tuck of drum,
And the stern warrior, with his latest breath.
Chose, after an heroic life, heroic death;
When these dense hummocks, like the trump of
fame.
Were eloquent with Oceola's name.
Then the herdsman's hallo, and the horn and
hoof,
To trample on his grave. Behold this roof
Above the pioneer, the maid, tho wife.
Who look upon our mimic scenes of life.
So race succeeds to race, and aye to j:ge;
Whoever lives bnt takes upou tbe stage
Another’s part who lived, and loved, and died,
And the scene shifter put the act aside
To let the play go on. So shall th. re be
In this, our play, a small epitome
Of lives like yours, put through with swifter
screen,.
To hide the common-place that comes between.
Here Biddy, Larry, Mother Carey, each
Like you, shall have a little hour ol speech;
A moment pictured out to please your eyes,
The wise to charm, while dullards criticise.
IlerAiessic btarbright shall, with mirthful lips,
Her n one and parts original eclipse.
So fitly matched to nature we can even,
In seeing, want young C arence s part for-Givtn.
Here Minnie Daze’s beauty daze the heart.
While Scud as swift as post masters his part;
A flower o’ the Heath, shall Biddy, at her feet,
See Larry kneel and think him doubly—Sweet.
The villains shall play villainous; Love s oaths
Be no dull fiction, though in fiction's clothes;
Till every man who loves a maid shall swear
He knows the part—but with another fair.
And drops the curtain on the sweet content
Your cheerful hearts and ready voices lent.
Give ns your hands. Such idle toil as ours
Is to the grain of life its happy flowers;
Our mimic scene, an Orange county bloom.
And your applause—its burgamovand perfume.
Bellefont (Pa.) \ Watchman on Pnrman:
The whole man is a fraud. His name even
is assumed. It is not Purman, but Poor
mau, and he is a native of this county, aud
formerly lived somewheru in the neighbor
hood of Millheim. From there he got into
Clinton county, we believe, and during the
war lie was one of tbe men who filled bis
pockets dishonorably. He was charged in
1867 by the editors of the Cliutou Democrat
with having stolen aud secreted government
property, which, or a portion of which, was
found in his father’s hay-mow. This charge
caused Poormau, or Purman, as he now
calls himself, to sue the editors of the Dem
ocrat for libel, and the charge was proven
against him in open court, the jury refus-
ug to render a verdict aga nst the editors
or to grant him any damages. After the
war Poorman went to Florida, and, so odi
ous was the reputation he loft behind him,
that, to prevent it following him to his new
home, lie changed it to Purman. William
J. Poorman is his real name, and he is re
membered in Clinton county by hi9 former
acquaintances as “Bill Poorman.” Uo has
a cortain Lind of smartness, and this he
succeeded in palming off upon the ignorant
Florida negroes as “ability,” aud by them
was elected to Congress, after having pre
viously filled one or two insignificant offices.
That he his been guilty of “corrupt prac
tices” in Congress is no surprise to us or to
anybody who ever knew him, for he is as
precious a piece of rascality as ever wore
broadcloth or faced a brazen countenance
to God’s clear sunehine.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Condition of the.Londou Stock Market,
A Fall In Egyptian Securities.
to
Too Much Colton.
Bishop Pierce, in a letter from Texas
to the Southern Christian Advocate, of
fers the following rational advice to his
Southern countrymen :
Verily King Cotton, like other kings, is
consuming the substance of the people.
Prosperity in this article of production,
it seems, “teudeth to poverty.” A very
heavy crop has been made, and j’et the
people are on the “ragged edge” of in
solvency. The more we make the poorer
we grow. And yet the desperate bet is
laid on another crop, in the face of ten
years’ unbroken uniformity of results.
The heathen adage, “Whom the gods
mean to destroy they first make mad,’’
is being actualized. No soil, no fertilizer,
no seasons, will save the country on the
lin6 of its present agricultural policy.
The result is just as disastrous on the
virgin soil of Texas as on the wasted
lands of Georgia. The man who losos
money in making ten bags of cotton,
will lose yet more in tbe production of a
hundred. This is the fact iu ex
perience, in spite of theory
and figuring. Forgive this epi
sode, for I am really distressed at
the prospects of the country, financially.
Bad government may destroy us and our
property, but no legislation can lift us
out of the present “slough of despond,”
without home supplies. Bread and meat
must be made, not bought. The great
burden of expense lies right there. The
stomach costs more than the back.
Make bread, raise meat, live at home, be
self-supporting. Neither inflation, nor
contraction, nor the financial plank in the
coming platform, will save us. Help
must come out of tho ground, in bread-
stuffs. You may go to Texas—all cotton
will swamp you ; you may stay in Geor
gia and grow fat and rich on peas, pota
toes, wheat and corn. Let us fill our gar
ners with all manner of store ; then our
oxen will be strong to labor, our sheep
will bring forth thousands; then there
will “be no breaking in nor going out” in
quest of food—plenty and peace will
hush “complaining in our streets,” and
we shall be a happier aud better people.
The Caucus Resumption Bill.—A
Washington letter says: “There is a
pretty general satisfaction jarnong tbe
hard money men of both parties with the
caucus resumption bill of the Democracy.
The reason of this is the fact that it evi
dently means resumption, and that there
shall be no further inflation of the cur
rency. It is ack nowledged that resump
tion in 1879 is impracticable, but it is de
manded that with repeal of the date of
resumption there shall be something
practical. The bill is,* of course, slightly
in the interest of inflation, because it will
release the bank greenback reserves on
deposits, as the three per cent, per annum
gold accumulation by the banks is to
count in the legal reserves of the banks.
Mr. Kelley says it is desirable that not
only the caucus bill shall be defeated, but
that the resumption act shall be repealed,
that the people of the country are now in
suspense, that the caucus bill would only
prolong the suspense, Ac. It is not
improbable that the bill will pass both
Houses of Congress."
Secretary Bristow has lost for the gov
ernment nearly a million of dollars in the
purchase of silver in the last few months.
So much for the resumption act.—Nash
ville American.
THE LONDON STOCK MARKET.
London, March 24.—There has been
panic and decline of from 5 to 74 in Egyp
tian securities to-day, in consequence of
Mr. Disraeli’s statement in the House of
Commons, ast eveniner, that the Khedive
desired that Mr. Cove’s report should not
be published, because Egyptian finances
were iu an unsettled state, and the report
was of a confidential character.
Government securities were generally
weaker, probably in sympathy, though some
attribute the * fact to -Mr. Disraeli’s
expression last evening, during the
debate on tbe Queen’s titles bill, that Russia’
conquest of Tartarv is well known through
out India, and the Queen’s assumption of
the title of Empress of India would be re
ceived as a sign of our determination
maintain our India empire.
The home railways are firm, and the
change iu prices is generally upward.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, March 24.—Detective White-
ly testified that he used §150,000 in 1871
3-4 in ferreting oat Ku-Klux outrages iu
North and South Carolina.
The $600,000 yearly irregularity in the
public printing is developing.
E. P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, was thirty* thousand dollars
arrears at the While Earth Agency, which
the Indian Committee find ho covered after
becoming Commissioner, using bis official
position tor this purpose.
There is a growing disposition with both
parties to take the currency question out of
politics.
DEAD.
Chicago, March 24.—Rev. Philo Judson is
dead.
New York, March 24.—A cable dispatch
announces tho death of Paul Dahlgreu at
Rome. Mr. Dahlgren was a sou of the late
Rear Admiral Dalilgren, aud about two
years since was appointed United States
Consul General to Italy.
AN ARORTION 1ST.
Providence, R. I., March 24.—Dr. Gor
don W. Briggs lias beeu arrested charged
with producing ;i fatal abortion on a young
woman from Baltimore.
THE TURKS.
London, March 24.—Tho Turks, in at
tempting to revictual Nicsic, were driven ofl’
with a loss of 120 killed.
livening Telegrams.
THE
Caleb P.
BELKNAP
Marsh Once
Stand.
BUSINESS.
More on the
BRIEF COXGRESSIONAI. NOTES,
A Lively Forger In the New York Tombs.
The New Hampshire election is having
its due influence. The Blaine crowd has
captured the Massachusetts Republicans
and Conkling sweeps the board in New
York. Bummers to the front!
CAPITAL AND CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, March 24.—Schenck writes
Mr. Faulkner that he left London on one
day’s notice, aud is sick from his hasty jour-
nev. He is given until Tuesday to appear.
In the House, the bill appropriating
$60,000 for postal cards passed.
The bill reported, which provides for a
territorial government for the Indian Terri
tory, was recommitted to the Committee on
Indian Affairs.
Iu tho committee of the whole on the
appropriation bill, there was a long and
somewhat personal debate over tho item re
ducing Senators’ pay to $4,500, without ac
tion. Adjourned to Monday.
Iu the Senate the bill preventing contri
butions for election purposes was referred
to the Committee on Privileges aud Elec
tions.
Tho post route bill passed.
A resolution to engrave the portraits of
dead Senators passed.
The bill for counting the electoral vote,
providing mat when the two Houses disa
gree regarding a State’s vote, it shall not bo
counted, passed. Thurman, who was the
only Democrat who voted for it, moved a
reconsideration in the hope that a better re
sult may be reached. The vote was 34 to 26.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, March 24.—Probabilities :
For New England and the Middle States,
snow and eastern to south winds, increasing
to gales on the coast, with falling barome
ter and stationary or a slight rise in tem
perature.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley, heavy
rains and violent local storms, southerly
winds, shifting to westerly and northwest,
slight changes in the temperature, and dur
ing Saturday rising barometer, and in the
western portions clearing weather.
For the Gulf States, clear and slightly
warmer weather, southwest to northwest
Hinds, and during Saturday rising barome
ter.
For the South Atlantic States rain will
prevail, with rising temperature, increasing
southeast and southwest winds and falling
barometer.
The Mississippi will continue to rise from
Cairo to Vicksburg. The danger will in
crease, and the river roach the danger lim
at Vicksburg on Sunday. The lower Ohio
and Cumberland rivers will rise rapidlv.
Cautionary signals are ordered for all sta
tions ou tbe Atlantic coast.
BELKNAP—MARSH—PENDLETON.
Washington, March 24.—Marsh read the
Fort Sill exposure published in the Tribune
to Belknap in 1872. They both wondered
Who wrote it. Belknap thought it was Gen.
Hogen. Marsh fled to Canada for fear of a
criminal prosecution. Mrs. Marsh has known
Mrs. Bowers since 1861. She resided at
the Burnet House, Cincinnati, four years.
She aud Mrs. Bowers wero io company
three weeks in London. Pendleton went
out with them, but did not return with Mrs.
Bowers. He knows nothing about the Ken
tucky Railroad claim. Marsh’s original un
derstanding about Fort Sill was with Bel
knap. Mrs. Marsh’s evidence goes to show
that nearly every trading post paid tribute to
some friend of Belknap, aside from Senator
Harlan’s assessments for political purposes.
A FORGER.
New York, March 24.—Walter Cortman
Sheridan, who was arraigned on eighty-two
indictments for forgery, pleaded not guilty,
and was remanded to the Toombs. His for
geries aro heavy and extensive. He is a
native of New Orleans, aud is thirty-eight
years old. The total forgeries by him
amount to $2,500,000 in bonds.
ARMS FOR SEE VIA.
Berlin, March 24.—Sixtv thousand
cliassepots, captured from France, have
been purchased by Servia. Austrian
border is guarded to prevent them from
reaching their destination.
BURNING VESSEL.
Fortress Monroe, March 24.—A burning
vessel, with another vessel by her, was re
ported on the 21st, eighty miles east of
Cape Henry.
A BENEFACTION.
New Yobk, March 24.—Mrs. Wm. H. Os
borne has purchased the Cozzens Hotel
property for §65,000, and presented it to the
New York Hospital for convalescents.
REDUCED FREIGHTS.
Chicago, March 24.—The freight on live
stock East is reduced heavily. There is five
cents a hundred redaction on boxed meats.
BULLION.
New York, March 24.—The Havana
steamers yesterday took $1,000,000 in gold
coin, and some silver.
FROM PARIS.
Paris, March 24.—The Ministry do not
oppose the raising of the state of 'siege.
LOST.
Gloucester, Mass., March 24.—Three
persons were lost from a fishing schooner
on the Grand banks.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Our Western (.nests—Their Reception in
Florida—Incidents. Accidents ned In
stances—Peter McConihe aud Luther
JoneH-UeagiDg ns a Scientific Sin—
.Midnight Invaders—All Alike In the
Same Familv—One, Two, Three.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.)
Le Hung Chang, the Chinaman who
has organized the China Merchant Steam
Navigation Company, wouldn’t make a
bad railroad president. He has a fleet of
over thirty steamers, built in England,
officered by Englishmen, and manned by
Chinese. He gets a bonus on every pound
of rice brought from the South for the
imperial graneries six times as large as
that for which American or English
steamers would cany* it. In addition to
this, twenty-six out of every one hundred j or- -
tons of rice his line carries can pass the I paid to vote. It may be a notable fact
custom house free. Notwithstanding the I that the greater number of the ward dele-
immensity of the rice traffic, it is clear I gates to the convention the other night
that Le Hung Chang has a very “soft I are drawn as jurors for the United
thing.” I States Court. This may be a purely ac-
Jacksonville, March 23, 1876.
reception op the excursionists.
We have not devoted as much attention
to the presence in Florida of the Western
tourists as the occasion at first blush
would seem to require, for the reason
that the personnel and general
features of the party have been
made the subjects of extended no
tices in the Morning News already.
Probably two hundred and fifty of our
visitors reached the city by Tuesday, and
were the recipients of a cordial reception
by a committee of citizens at Metropoli
tan Hall on that day. Capt. W. Stokes
Boyd, as chairman, briefly welcomed
them, and introduced Maj. A. J. Russell,
who, with characteristic eloquence, ex -
tended a hearty welcome to them, “a3
brothers of our great nation and as
citizens of the Northwest.” Mr. Wilk
Call followed, and expressed the
pleasure which it afforded him to
greet them in the name of the citizens of
Jacksonville, and hoped that they would
return to their homes with agreeable
memories of Florida and Floridians.
Next came a he whom Pollock hath de
scribed. Pity pretorial liandall prettily:
whether as a Radical justice or before the
public gaze, he invariably encounters
contumelious treatment and excites con
tempt. See any one of the excursionists
for explanation of this paragraph.
Mr. W. P. Horton, of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Exchange, responded, and in
behalf of the delegations from his State
thanked his auditors for the gratifying
reception with which they had been greet
ed. Mr. W. C. Buchanan then addressed
the meeting, returning thanks for the
hearty cheer vouchsafed to the party,
and committing the visitors to the care
of the gentlemen of Jacksonville. When
Mr. Geo. C. Burroughs, of Cincinnati,
begins by stating that he is a Republican
we put our hauds behind us, when he
says he is a Northern Republican our
arms commence to moye forward,
but when he concludes his speech
with the following manly sentiments we
can scarcely refrain from publicly era
bracing him: “Upon our journey hither
wo pursued the line of Sherman’s march
pretty closely. We beheld the devastation
of war, the paralyzed industries of Com
monwealths, and can admire the fortitude
with which your people returned to their
destroyed homes to grapple with des
tiny and work out the problem of
national existence. But burnt homes
are not all the horrors entailed by
conflict, for in subjugating the South
we have lived to see the robes
of purity trailing deep iu tbe mire of
corruption, dishonesty and turpitude in
high places, crime defying the law, offi
cial dishonor,national degradation and hu
miliation; these are the heritages we have
won,” and the ascendency of the nig
ger, “and when they are obliterated we
will be one people indeed.” The remarks
of Mr. Burroughs elicited the most
hearty applause. Mr. J. J. Hickman, of
Atlanta, in response to a call, delivered a
very happy, but short speech, and
gave way for Mr. Howe, of the
Detroit Common Council, who discoursed
humorously, and among other good things
said that the excursionists did not visit
the South for the purpose of shaking
paws over a big ditch or yawning abyss,
but they came here to enjoy themselves
and see the country, and were heartily
gratified by the manner in which they
had been received. Mr. Howe’s references
were peculiarly well-timed, and it is a
grievous error that some people fall into
to suppose that we administer to the
comfort of our guests by fustian
orations about a “bloody chasm,” or
by dosing them with endless volumes
of immigration pamphlets with an inti
mation that we think them a very fine lot
of people but awfully misled by staying
in such a terribly poor locality as they
hail from. These gentlemen do not come
here to invest in lands or to depopulate
their own sections, but are, in their sev
eral capacities, representative men on a
pleasure tour, and it is our duty simply
to extend them unlimited courtesies and
furnish them with every facility that
the country affords for making
their sojourn enjoyable. On Tuesday
night the Nicholls and Windsor Hotels
indulged in a grand “hop” each in honor
of the party. The rest of the tourists
arrived here yesterday, some by the
steamer Dictator, which was detained in
consequence of rough weather, and some
by rail. They have scattered off into
small parties—one going in one direction
and another in another. St. Augustine,
Palatka and Tallahassee are the principal
objective points. The chairmen of the
several delegations met yesterday at
the Grand National and passed reso
lutions of thanks to the State
of Georgia through its Governor,
to the city of Atlanta through its Mayor,
and to the citizens of Savannah and Jack
sonville, to Mr. W. H. White, of Atlanta,
Mr. B. W. Wrenn, the gentlemanly rep
resentative of railroad interests, to Dr.
Owens and Mr. J. J. Hickman, of Atlan
ta, and the managers of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, for courtesies
and hospitality. Capt. Vogel and Purser
Chase, of the Dictator, received two
handsome presents ou Wednesday from
the grateful members who came as pas
sengers on this steamer. The excur
sionists are one and all in a charmingly
genial humor, and delighted with their
sojourn.
STILL BUNS THE RACE.
We hold it as a self-evident proposition
that two dead animals will cause a more
offensive odor than one, and the imagina
tive youth of the earth can imagine how
severely the task of noting the proceed
ings of a nigger convention on Tuesday
evening taxed our powers of endurance.
One delegate proposed that the “fust
ballut” be an informal one, and this
brought another darkey up who asked to
be “inform ’bout dat inform ballut.” At
this juncture the atmosphere of the room
was suffpeating, but Cato Lee cleared
away the mist somewhat by thunder
ing forth, “Seem’s if some folk cum
to dis convenshun wid dar hand
tied and a hancuf on their mouf.” An
indiscreet white participator suggested
the name of Luther McConihe as the
nominee for Mayor, but Nattiel, a black
orator, jerked himself to the floor and
said that he hoped the name of “Mc
Conihe will die as a pancake.” The smell
about this time began to grow loud.
After considerable unsuccessful balloting
the choice fell upon Peter Jones, the
present incumbent, who was declared
duly nominated for Mayor. The re
mainder of the officers selected, but
not yet elected, consisted of an
intermixture of whites and negroes and
one ridiculous nondescript in the person
of J. W. Archibald, who became a candi
date for Alderman. We propose to dis
cuss the peculiarities of this ticket more
at length hereafter. The contest, as far
as it relates to the Mayorality, lies at
iresent between three contestants, viz:
juther McConihe, Peter Jones and Gen.
E. Hopkins. It is currently reported that
another ticket will be put into the field
immediately, and the battle will have
fairly commenced then. In the municipal
election we are pleased to observe at
least five aspirants for the same office. It
operates against harmony, but it compen
sates in liveliness for whatever it may
lack in order. No national or State ques
tion is to be determined by the result,
and hence the amusing qualities of the
campaign are all that can be looked to
for relief. Motto for every intelligent
voter: vote as you please.. Motto for
every illiterate suffragan : vote as you are
cidental circumstance, but the nomina
tion of the Clerk of the Court for Col
lector may lead us to suspect design. We
will investigate this anon. It is under
stood that large orders for deodorizers
have been recently telegraphed, the sup
ply having become wholly exhausted.
THE LONDON PRESS ON BELKNAP.
Grant Brincing Disgrace npon Himself
and the United States.
BRAWNY BEGGARS.
The inventive faculty of Cuffee has
been often observed, and the fertility of his
expedients frequently commented upon.
He has lately created a new method of
replenishing his depleted finances, which
certainly indicates shamelessness, if it
does not betoken genius. The
plan is for a robust negro to
accost a gentleman in the
street and ask if you know where
he can find employment, and upon being
answered in the negative, he states that
he is suffering for food, and pleads for
ten cents to assist him. In this small
way some of these scamps contrive to
prey upon the public, and, as far as our
information goes, there are about eight
of them infesting the city at this writing.
They never discover any work, and
are becoming an unbearable pest
to strangers and a disgrace to the place.
This is not written with any hope of cor
recting the evil, but with the intention
of cautioning the citizens against this
imposition.
A GOOD CHOKE.
Was it not Baron Bunsen who said of
Soutag that the music of “Ioconde” was
inferior to her voice ? It is unnecessary
to enter into argument as to whether he
did or did not, but we merely desire ta
record a counter statement to the effect
that the music aud the voices of the
nocturnal brawlers of Jacksonville are
superior to nothing. Of all calami
ties in the category of ills deliver
us from the plagues who carouse about
like demons in the rear of town, and dis
turb the slumbers of our people. This
evil has existed just long enough to pro
duce a semblance of anger, and idots,
who have no respect for the rights of the
respectable citizens, are not worthy of a
moment’s merciful consideration. Cannot
the police force bestir itself about midnight
some time and imprison a cage full of
these vagabonds. Among the other
privileges guaranteed to residents by the
Constitution is the right to sleep unmo
lested, but the reptiles we complain of
do not seem to be inclined to sleep at all,
aud appear determined to let no one else
do so.
A PROJECTED LAND GRAB.
Our little Bird communicates some
mysterious intelligence concerning a
colossal real estate swindle, which was to
be manipulated by tbe unprincipled
managers of the late morbific society
known as the “Florida Fruit Gowers’
Association.” In case the concern re
fuses to submit to exorcism we may
elucidate this venture at some future
period.
st. John’s river mails.
It is understood, authoritatively, that
the government contracts for carrying
the mails on the St. John’s river have
been let to Messrs. Shirley, Hite A* Co.,
Louisville, Ky.; and that the contractors
will proceed to introduce several new ves
sels into our waters at an early date.
A COMPLETE FRAUD.
There was a traveling empiric in this
quarter who gave, during the week, a
kind of you-don’t-know-what entertain
ment, interspersed with valuable gifts,
inclusive of a horse, by a sort of lottery,
to the audience. A dozen purchasers, we
are informed, possess orders for the noble
steed, aud are hunting for the animals—
the showman and the horse—with a mi
croscope and a shot-gun.
REFORMING.
The reform organizations will again
coalesce to-morrow night, and rehabilitate
one of the tickets now before the people.
Some changes will be made, though to
what extent it is impossible to ascertain.
Adbianus.
LETTER FROM. (jUINCY.
Tiie Weather nnd Crops—Jack Frost
and tlie Enifer Vegetables—A General
Slaughter of Peas. Irish Potatoes and
(’□combers—Politick! Notes.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Quincy, Fla., March 22, 1876.
His majesty “Jack Frost” came this
morning, and with a withering touch of
his cold hand blighted, to a considerable
degree, the rapidly developing vegetables
which were fast growing into maturity,
and would have soon been on the tables of
large cities in the North. Ice was seen in
some places, half an inch thick, and more
generally an eighth of an inch thick. Gen
erously enough, our unwelcome visitor
sent harbingers of his coming in a cold rain
on Sunday night last, followed by a cold
wind on the succeeding Monday and
Tuesday, which were promptly recogniz
ed by truck farmers and gardners, who
used all tbe means in their power to pro
tect the tender vegetation, by covering
it with boards, etc. Yet with all their
efforts at protection,
THE DAMAGE
has been quite serious. I saw Jesse
Wood, of Mt. Pleasant, this morning,
and while he did not authorize a perfec;
accuracy of statement until the effects
of the sun could be seen, he classed his
casualties as follows: Five acres of Irish
potatoes severely injured; seven acres of
peas, some hurt and some unhurt; two
aud a half acres of cabbages not injured
two and a half acres of beans badly dam
aged ; two acres of cucumbers gone, and
commenced replanting to-day ; one acre
of nutmeg melons, not injured very much.
Mr. Wood had logs and brush burnt all
that night, the smoke hanging over his
vegetables like a heavy cloud. There
seems to bo some difference of opinion
about the effects of the cold snap on corn,
some persons saying that it will grow
on with as full an ear, but a stouter
stalk, and others affirming that it is best
to replant. However, so f*r as the com
crop is concerned, our farmers have not
yet finished planting it. There are not
many persons in this county who plant
vegetables for the purpose of shipping,
not another to the extent that Mr. Wood
has this season, so that the injuries are
confined generally to the household
gardens, and the season for planting
vegetables is not yet over. From
LEON COUNTY.
I am informed that the Minnesota set
tlers are very much discouraged, some of
them having invested largely in raising
early vegetables for other markets. It is
too bad to think that their first year’s
experience in truck farming in Florida
should have caused discouragement in
stead of hope and prosperity.
political.
Senator Conover and Congressman
Purman arrived at Tallahassee Saturday.
Last night the latter, the “peer of any
member,” was in this place, and with a
few of his friends held a caucus at the
office of Judge Davidson, County Judge.
I am told that it was a private meeting,
as some persons, at least one, was refused
admittance on the ground of not being
“a friend of Mr. Purman.” It has leaked
out that Purman was very denunciatory
of Gov. Steams and his administration,
one argument against the Governor being
that the Savannah people wanted to build
a railroad through West Florida, of great
advantage and benefit to the poor peo
ple of this State in that section, and
without any cost to the State of Florida,
embodying this proposition in a bill be
fore the Legislature, which said bill was
vetoed by Gov. Steams. Quincy.
The committee appointed to investi
gate the subject of ladies’ luncheons when
traveling report that they invariably con
sist of a very small sandwich, large quan
tities of white and yellow cake, tmd an
immense pickle: if the latter is absent
the affair is considered a failure. These
data are trustworthy, and shed light upon
a subject to which little attention has
been paid hitherto.
• [From the London Times.]
If rumor is to be trusted, the affair with
Mr. Marsh is only one of a series; evi
dence as to other irregularities will be
forthcoming, and possibly the War Sec
retary may not be the only person in
volved.
This event is the more grave because it
is confirmatory of suspicions which have
long prevailed among the American pub
lic. The reputation of the official world
has of late years not been so high as is
desirable in a model republic. Even we
Europeans cannot but be struck with the
altered tone in which Americans speak, if
not of their institutions, at least of the
men who have the present direction of
them. We had long been accustomed to
hear of municipal corruption, and even of
the power of tbe purse in certain of the
State Legislatures; but now it has been
intimated that in higber regions tbe
irregularities have been serious. President
Grant has been surrounded by men of
suspected reputation, who might at any
time bring disgrace upon him and
upon the countay. When he was
elected in 1&&- he had
opportunities. He was a successful Gen
eral. He had brought to an end the great
est war in which the country had been
engaged. He was the chief of the Re
publican party, which then had an over
whelming majority in both houses of
Congress. He had a definite work to do
—the pacification and reconstruction of
the South, and he could count on the
support of the American people until it
was accomplished. But his position at
the present time, when his official career
is coming to a close, does not correspond
with the advantages he possessed at the
commencement. People have lately be
come impatient at the stories which are
whispered about, and anxious to make a
clearance of an objectionable set, who, if
not themselves official, approached too
near and were in too close a connection
with the holders of office. The recent
trial^of Gen. Babcock for his alleged con
nection with tbe whisky ring was fol
lowed with intense interest by the pub
lic, and although Gen. Babcock has been
acquitted, the revelation, how things are
managed in this Centennial year of the
republic is far from reassuring. Iu the
present case it is a Miniver of the highest
rank who is accused, ana, moreover, one
whose profession and particular office
should most dissociate him from illicit
gain.
[From the London Telegraph.]
Disclosures after disclosures, charges
after charges, varying in degrees of truth,
but with one and the same ugly and un
toward character, have lately darkened
the commercial, religious, judicial, and
administrative institutions of the Umt d
States. Some of them have proved false,
others true, and more await evidence, but
the general effect, beyond all denial, has
been and is to bring a blush of shame and
anxiety into the faces of all honest Ameri
cans, and to make tbe countless friends of
the Republic in this country silent and
sorrowful when its enemies rejoice over
these recurring revelations.
What grosser sample could, indeed, be
taken from the bulk of the national honor
than thus to find one of the most trusted
in the Cabinet of Gen. Grant, a Republi
can of the Republicans, six years gone in
the practice and profit of merchandizing
his influence ; six years secretly accus
tomed “to sell and mart his offices for
gold to undeservers?” There is such
rankness and coarse dishonor in the thing
that we are ashamed even to ask how it
would sound in England if Mr. Gathorne
Hardy had been accused of such a deed
and had confessed it. America must pay
the price of such a moral distemper and
calamity. She must bear to hear willing
jest and swindlers sneer about the blcfc
which unworthy servants bring upon her
escutcheon. The fame of her daughters
must be shadowed, and the faces of her
sons must be abashed before the world,
until this last example of the lust for dol-
lar-getting, and the curse of those cus
toms by which she has becoijie infected,
wakes her up to a resolute effort to expel
the “ unclean thing” from the national
life. Hardly and with difficulty has one
high official beeu acquitted of using his
office to make money out of illicit whisky
stills, before tbe Minister of War stands
now a wretched self-convicted peddler in
places before the eyes of America and the
world, having to choose between the in
famy of his wife or his own condemna
tion.
We, who feel that we share in a certain
sense the stain that comes by this and
other misdeeds upon the Anglo-Saxon
name, cannot rebuke the eager slanderers
who will point to America and say that
such things are the offspring of liberty.
The national sin, like all sins, must be
accounted for, and the present price of it
is that tbe flag of America is lowered and
its stars sh>ne dimmer wherever in the
world it waves.
[From tbe London Daily News.]
American political life seems in any
thing but a healthy condition. Almost
every day for some considerable time
back the telegraph has brought us some
fresh revelation implicating leading pub
lic men in odd transactions little credita
ble, and the latest disclosure of the series
is the most astonishing and deplorable of
ali. .
It is not necessary to wait until the
question of his guilt has been fully fath
omed in judicial proceedings before com
ing to some strong and fully justified
conclusion with respect to this series of
political scandals. They lift the veil from
a class of society in America which it was
hitherto pretty generally supposed had as
yet escaped the impurities of the social
strata below, and they lead one to fear
that some of the worst vices of munici
pal government may be percolating into
the Federal administration.
The discovery of the large ramifica
tions of the whisky frauds, and the sight
of the President’s Secretary on his trial,
were indeed somewhat startling. They
seemed to show that corruption was
spreading with alarming speed, and en
tering new regions. The vicious sys
tem on which the civil service of the
United States had been based and con
tinued, in spite of numerous warnings
and the teaching of the wisest statesmen,
was seen by all eyes to be bearing its poi
sonous fruits with remarkable fertility.
But after all these scandals were not per
haps national disgraces. We may say
with truth that the charge under which
Secretary Belknap rests goes beyond any
thing that was reasonably suspected.
Probably we may say in no spirit of
national self-righteousness that what has
occurred would be, and long has been, a
moral impossibility in England. We
have years ago put down corruption in
high places. Of course, English history
presents cases of ladies trafficking in
offices, but to reach these instances we
must revert to Mrs. Mary Clark and the
Duke of York, and the scandals con
nected therewith, to be found at large by
the curious in Cobbett’s works. Scan
dais somewhat similar to those which we
have described did, indeed, come to light
after the fall of the Second Em
pire, but that is not an example which
offers any palliation. We do not
recall these facts by way of reproach, or
merely in order to institute a comparison
unfavorable to the United States. But
the better class of American citizens
should know what is thought abroad.
Perhaps they may conclude that if leni
ency is meted out to the Tweeds and
Goulds, looseness in public life will be
come catching; that the highest may
stumble, and then plead,with Bacon, that
they were but “frail,” and did but “par
take of the abuses of the times.” Some
trials now going on, or expected, in Eng
land give us ground for self-examination
lest we should be in the first stage of the
malady.
A QUESTION OF ADJOURNED YE-
RACITY.
A Curiouti Statement Regarding tbe Let
ter to the District Attorneys—A Muddle
for the Quidnuncs—Flat Denial of At
torney General Pierrepont’a Explana
tion—What Babcock Says About It.
Washington, March 21.—A singular
anuouncement was made in double leaded
type this morning in the Republican,
which i9 generally regarded as the Presi
dent’s organ. The following are the ma
terial points of this statement :
“The President, as we are reliably in
formed, never saw the now somewhat fa
mous letter of instructions to the United
States District Attorneys from Attorney
General Pierrepont until after it appear
ed in pjint. It seems probable, iu the
light of this explanation, that some one
not altogether disinterested may have
temporarily abstracted it from the official
records and secured its publication. How
ever this may be, it is certain that the
President did not know of its extstence
until after it had been published, and it
is not certain that he would have approved
of it if it had been submitted to him."
As if to make assurance doubly sure,
fairest., the intorauttioa-is repeated on the first
page of the same journal in these words:
“The letter to District Attorneys from
the Attorney General, about which the
detective press has made such a fuss, and
which it has stated, with so much circum
stantiality, that the President dictated to
Mr. Pierrepont, for tho purpose of res
training witnesses from testifying against
Gen. Babcock, it is now ascertained was
simply a confidential letter written by
the Attorney General, without the knowl
edge of the President aud in the interest
of justice. * * * It was not intended
for publication, but it was abstracted and
printed, when the President for the first
time became aware of its existence. Had
it been presented to him before it was
mailed there is no certainty that he would
have approved it. These are the simple
facts in tho case, which the detective
press is expected to ignore without apol-
ogy or amende, either to the President or
tR Attorney Geheral.”
Finally, the Star this afternoon has
this paragraph: •
“It having been charged that the con
fidential letter of the Attorney General to
District Attorneys, pending the whisky
trial, met with tho approval of the Pres
ident, it is authoritatively denied that
the President ever saw the letter until it
appeared in print.”
The letter to District Attorneys had
been so nearly forgotten that these state
ments would have attracted little atten
tion were it not that they so flatly con
tradict Mr. Pierrepout’s own official his
tory of ihe origin of the letter aDd the
manner of its becoming public, which he
made in these words iu a letter to the
Judiciary Committee, which was pub
lished on the 7th of March :
“About the middle of January,and sub
sequent thereto, various newspaper slips,
private letters and personal statements
came to the President, and in a lesser de
gree to the Attorney General, that bar
gains were being made or were about to
be made with criminals, whose testimony
was not in the slightest degree needed, by
which a large number of criminals were
to be let off from any kind of punish
ment : to be relieved of persecution in a
manner likely to bring scandal upon the
administration of justice and quite at
variance with the policy expressed by the
Secretary of the Treasury and approved
by the Attorney GeneraL These state
ments were, in a large measure, affirmed
to the President, and subsequently to the
Attorney General, by one of the oldest
and most trusted supervisors in the ser
vice, and who claimed to know, from
personal knowledge upon the subject,
and especially in relation to criminals in
Chicago. * * * Xhe President was
greatly disturbed by these varied and re
peated representations of a course so at
variance with the policy before indicated,
and be brought it to the attention of the
Attorney General, and finally suggested
that, in view of the repeated statements,
it would be well for the Attorney General
to let the district attorneys receive some
caution upon this subject, and therefore
a letter was despatched by the Attorney
General. * * * A few days later, the
President being still further pressed about
the matter, sent for the Attorney General
to learn whether he had taken any action
in the case.”
Whereupon Mr. Pierrepont says he
sent a copy of the letter to the President.
Being “amazed” afterwards at the publi
cation of the letter, he adds that he “set
himself to work to discover how the letter
found its way into print, and finally came
to the conclusion that it must have got
out through the copy sent to the Presi
dent, and he received information which
convinced him that it was so.” And
finally he says:
“I waited for the opportunity, and
have now ascertained that General Bab
cock, or some one for him who had
access to the President’s papers, obtained
a copy of the letter without auy know
ledge on the part of the President, and
that the same was used in the manner
not known to all, but under whose advice
the Attorney General does not know.”
General Babcock, being asked by a
Herald reporter about the grave charge
brought against him by the Attorney
General, said on the 8th of March :
“That he had nothing to sayjin regard to
the charge made against him by Attorney
General Pierrepont. But so far as any
impropriety is concerned, there was noth
ing of the kind, he declared, in the whole
affair. In my position, said he, I came
honestly and properly by it at the White
House. There was no seal of secresy
about the Attorney General’s letter. It
was not even marked private or confiden
tial, and there was no bar to my being
informed on it and, if it interested me,
to knowing and using the purport of it.’’
In reference to the matter Babcock has
since made and authorized the publica
tion of the following statement: “I found
a copy of the latter lying open upon my
desk at the Executive Mansion. I do not
know how or by whom it came there. It
was without auy envelope or direction to
anybody. It was not marked official or
confidential. There was nothing to show
that it was intended for the President, and
he informed me that he never saw it. The
copy appears to have been made in .the
Attorney General’s office. Finding this
copy open and without direction upon
my desk, I presumed it was put there for
my inspection and use, and accordingly I
placed it in the hands of my counsel for
such action as they might think proper
in regard to it.”
It is a curious muddle which is puzzling
people here and has been much discussed
to-day. The general opinion here to-night
is that, for some unknown reason, the
President has thought it expedient to
deny the share in the letter imputed to
him by the Attorney GeneraL
_ _ Railroads.
Atlantic and Gull R. B.
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r NIGHT KXPHB86
Heave Savannah a,,]..,
Airive at jSim “ f. U.
Arrive at Bamfato — 6,5) P.M.
Arrive at Albany „ 3:30 4.11.
Arrive at Live Oak u
Arrive at Jacksonville - MOA-M,
Arrive at TaUakaa^, A. Ja,
Heave Tallahassee - 11:10A.M.
Heave Jacksonville -• *15 P.M.
Heave Live Oak •< 6:0tJ Jl.
Heave Albany „ p. n.
Heave Bainbridre « s.iop. M.
Heave Jesup ^ „ — *. 4:45 p. H.
Arrive at Savannah - 3:55 A. M,
^Poltaan Sleeping Cars ration
sonville or*A]banyi* betwe r n Savanna), and Jack-
rivingMf^^^TJ"^ tok<- inis train, ar-
wick 8.00 a. g Nacon and Bruns-
this train for Florida.^ C ° Un ‘ ‘ 81 Jesup with
J-raSn'S SS?"* by this train con-
3:15a.m.,dMljn ram ^vrng m Macon at
wayTun^utbiS™ 1i . l , ll . l ' asf enger trains both
tauL Mo^X^S°c'S' i ( '° m E '-
Jo^vrScrt^ a ‘ 'frfr *•
day passbooks.
MriS'Sp' SmdW S:» A. M.
Arrive at TebeanviUo “ .. \.}r o'i!'
Arrive at Live Oak .. S'
Arrive at Jacksouvdle .. S' 2'
Leave Jacksonville •• .. f • *
Leave Live Oak >. .. A. M.
Leave TebeaavUle 4-Xpv
Leave Jesup .. „ ij “•
Arrive at Savannah •• .. £'S'
bavannS;
:rom nor > d '‘ by ‘hto train connect
wl Li train arriving in It scon at 3:15a *
wesk^Moudav T ^fa * ljST “ ihncuon. going
west, Monuay, Wednesday are Friday at 11:14
da^i 4.™^ Tn ‘* 1, ' y ' ■*—
» ACCOMMODATION TRAIN—WKbTSRII
DIVISION.
j~«{.
Arrive at Quitman •• .. o.^ jr w*
Arrive at Thomaf*ville •• * a*
Arrive at Camilla » « ..fSp {?*
Arrive at Albany “ V.** « 2*
Leave Albany » **’s45a m
Leave Camilla .< A m
Leave Thomasville « l'l5 P M
Leave Quitman u u p’m *
Leave Valdosta *• »/ /dap
Arrive at Dupont •< 6;3o p* y*
at A'b&ny with tridns on Southwestern
KaUroau Kavimr Albany at S:W 1*. Mon da v,
Thursday and Friday, arriving at Albany at 7:45
a^x. Sunday, Mouday, Wednesday aud Thura-
^Vay Freight train, with passenger accommoda-
uons, leaves Savannah Monday, Wednesday and
Fnday at 7:00 a. m.; arrive at Savannah Tnesday,
Thursday and Saturday at 5:10 r x
Jno. Evans, Ocn’l Ticket Ag’t.
fl. S. HAINES,
jau24-it General Superintendent.
Savannah and Charleston it.K.
VJT1Q2 Savannah i Uhablmtoh K. IL Co..)
Savakhah, January 33, .'.3. f
O N AND APT UK MONDAY, JANUARY
24th,met., the Fww.Tgi r Trains on this Road
KR0m ATLANTIC AND
GULF RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPOT:
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS (Sunday* excepted);
Leave Savannah at 9 : o,» a. M.
Arrive at Port Koya; at . .2:30 P.
Arrive at Augusta at 4:00 P.
Arrive .t Charleston at 4:90 P, M.
Leave 7 ort Royal at 10:23 a . k.
Leave Augusta at s 3 ) A. M.
Leave Charleston at ^.16 A. M.
Arrive it Savannah at 3:31 P. M.
Connection made at Charleston with North
eastern and South Curolina Kail roads; at Augusta
with Georgia, Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta,
aud South Carolina Railroads.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAINS (Daily):
Leave Savannah at H);2o P. M.
Arrive at Port Koval at 4:30 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta at 7:20 A. M,
Arrive at Charleston at 6:30 A. M.
Leave Port Royal at 11:45 P. M.
Leave Angusta at 8:40 P. M.
Leave Charleston at s;30 P. a\i.
Arrive at Savannah at 7:00 A. M.
Connection made at Charleston with North
eastern and South Carolina ltuilroadw, and at
Augusta with Georgia and South Carolina Rail
roads.
PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS RUN
THROUGH TO AND FROM CHARLESTON
AND ATLANTA ON NIGHT TRAINS.
Tickets for sale at K. B. Bren t and L. .J. Ga-
zan t ’s Wpeci-v Ticatt Agencies, No. 21 Bui! street
and Pulaski House, also at Depot Ticket Office.
C. C. OLNE1, Rec. C. 8. GADSDEN,
jan25-tf Engineer and Superintendent.
Central Railroad.
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT,)
Savannah, February 19, 1S76. f
O N and after SUNDAY, February 20,Passenger
Trains will depart from and arrive at Sa
vannah twice daily:
Depart 9:15 a. u. I Arrive 5:25 r. m.
Depart 7:30 r. m. | Arrive 7:15 a. si.
For Augusta, Macon, Col umbos and Atlanta,
making close through connections to all points
North and West.
Travelers can obtain through tickets, time
tables and all desired information, by calling at
the Company’s Ticket Office, II. L SCHREINER,
Special Agent, Monument square, corner Con
gress street. WM. ROGERS,
febl9-12m General Superintendent.
^iisrfUatn’ous.
(J|1 O A DAY at home. Agents wanted. Outfit
and terms free. TKU.
1 and terms free. TRUE & CO., Angusta,
FREE TICKET 1
To Philadelphia
... r. I rom any point in U. S. east of Utah.
'AOETSiTQ Above R. It. Ticket (it also ad- j
nULit I U mite to Centennial Grounds)
and $10 ca=h a day easily earned canvassing
for our paper, pictures, Ac. Anybody can do IL j
Particulars free. Send addrees on postal card. .
To receive copy of paper also, send 6 cts. Ad- .
dress: The Ilixstuateu WEEKLY,
No. 11 Dey St., New York.
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for HOL.tlAN’S AWARDED
new PICTORIAL BIBLES.
.,800 illuMtrntionN. Address for new circu
lar.*. A. .1. IIOLTIA.N CO., 930 Arch street,
Philadelphia.
PER WEEK GUARANTEED to
riT < • Agents, Male and Female, in their own
localitv. Terras and OUTFIT FREE. Address
P. O. VICKERY * CO., Augusta, Maine.
npHK TAMTK CO., Stroudsburg. Penn.,
1 EMERY WHEELS AND MACHINERY.
^ <$>20 worth $1 free.
CO. Portland, Maine.
nample
1NSON i
W ont A/I AGENTS tor the best selling Sta-
<111IUI lionary Packages in the world.
It contains 15 sheets Paper. 15 Envelopes, golden
Pen, Pen-holder, Pencil, Patent Yard Measure,
and a piece of Jewelry. Single package, with
pair of elegant Gold Stone Sleeve Buttons, post
paid, 25c., 5 for $1. This package has been ex
amined by the publisher of
and found as represented—worth the money.
Watches given away to ali Agent*. Circulars free.
BRIDE & OO., 765 Broadway, New York.
OSICHOMANCY, OK SOUL CHARMING.
JL How either sex may fascinate and gain
the love and affections of any person they choose,
instantly.” This art all can possess, free, by
mail, for 25 cents; together w-th a Marriage
Guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies,
etc., 1,000,000 sold. A queer book. Address T.
WILLIAM Jb CO., Pub'iHh^rs. Phil idelphia.
1 en years ago Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co.
esta’.lished their advertising agency in New York
City. Five years ago they absorbed the business
conducted by Mr. John Hooper, who was the
first to go into this kind of enterprise. Now
they have the satisfaction of contrcMUng the most
extensive and complete advertisingV<mnection
which has ever been secured,and one wMClMWWW
be hardly possible in any other conn try batata.
They have succeeded in working down a wrap!«
busmcss into so tbortmulny a tystemaUc
that no change in tke MWMJJ sjston. of
America can escape noUce, while tilt v. ineet in
formation ^pon ill topics interesting to adver
tisers to placed readily atthe disposal of the pub-
Uc - New l’ork Times,jnne 14,15.
mhlS-d«fcw4w .
Years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Ware
was pastor of the old “ Cockerel ” Church
on Hanover street, Boston, he had a
modest young man with a large nose as
an assistant, and his choir was led by a
tall, intelligent-faced young woman. The
young man’s name was Ralph Waldo
Emmerson; the young woman’s, Char-
I lotto Cushman.
Landaulet Williams in a Tight
Place.—Slowly but surely the coils of
evidence have been tightening about the
official life of Landaulet Williams, and at
last the proof of what has long been be
lieved of his official turpitude is believed
to be in hand. It is stated positively
to-night, by a member of the House, that
possession has been obtained by one of
the investigating committee of an auto
graph letter of Williams, which is of itself
conclusive proof that while Attorney
General he sold himself and his office, in
one instance, for the sum of $2,000. The
committee feel this is only the beginning
of disclosures in the Department of
Justice, but it is said that the evidence
of this letter alone is abundantly suffic -
ient ground for an action of impeach
ment.— Washington Special f o New York
Herald.
• He complained that life was a failure ;
that there was nothing new under the
sun ; that he had found out the coldness
and hollowness of friendship, and that
no sensation could arouse him from the
apathy that was steeping his soul in
torpor, when a man tossing packages of
brown paper from a warehouse to a
wagon smoM him on the pit of the
stomach, and gave him a sensation which
knocked ttafrind and the nonsense out
of him at^I and the same time.
tfood,
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/"I AS, PINE and Canal!* footer
(J unsawed, for s Coop .. : -, ; corner
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W mhuS r m‘ nd L ' F '
locksmith andJSdl Ttanflfr.
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T irnttHnJ^l* 1 ” Hal,ser *
Locksmith ASULS repaired iu
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