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^ Affairs In (leorgla.
trust Bullock’s “grayish pants”
" e ortiy be changed to breeches with the
*®/ tion stripe-a sort of penitentiary
jji so to speak.
f* ia F1U 1 that Henry Grady really has
* ted his new paper.
, instic correspondence between Gov-
^ smith and Col. J. W. Avery is printed
Atlanta papers. It is in relation to
! sotborsbii 1 of the letter published in
J* York Herald last January, and
v’oui of a note written to Col. Avery by
S Governor demanding to know if the
®. t was the author thereof-
“ refuses to satisfy the curi-
*. )T 0 f the executive, but in the
/' rie of the correspondence indirectly de-
* ,1k, authorship by saying that he never
18 a word derogatory of the Governor.
Ike entire correspondence has an air of ea
siness about it to us—and we don’t sup-
pose
like
we could put it any mildor were we to
an excursion by torchlight in a dic-
SonirV’
Xbe Southwest Georgia editors are begin-
jijg to browse in the blackberry patches,
lie Augusta papers are sadly divided on
die Presidential question, and remarks in
ugird to subsidy are becoming quite fre-
gient.
jbe last uumber of the Eatonton Mes-
s, was printed on paper about the color
/artillery punch. The iaet is sugges-
ire.
We warn the Augusta editors in advance
that we are arranging for a series of flatboat
anurous up the Ogeechee canal. Every
mu must fetch his own parasol.
We are glad to learn from the Griffin News
tluCol. Bates has subscribed for that pa
per. The Colonel is the projector of a gold
nice somewhere in that neighborhood, and
simply able to subscribe for a newspaper.
We have been requested by several promi
nent citizens to inform the editor of the
Jirien dinette that a new Board of Com-
missioners has been appointed in McIntosh
Nuntj, and that the members thereof have
been performing the functions of tli6ir office
(oriomemouths. Of course.we cannot vouch
[or this, having never been engaged as a
Omnir Commissioner.
Ibis world is full of deceit. The other
dir Tump Ponder’s roan mule raised one of
her hind feet and turned her head as if
ibont to scratch herself behind the ear, as
inks are prone to do, but instead of this
lie scratched a colored man between the
Hi eyebrow and the brim of the hat. It is
(toper to remark that this essay on deceit is
HI written at the instance of the colored
aa. It will probably be two weeks before
kinds out what killed him.
ills rather strange that there should be
sirery wide mistake about the authorship
(the letter to the New York Herald, in
itick Governor Smith was so roundly
cased.
Mrs. E. A. Bivings, of Dalton, died sud-
lolt in tbe Methodist Church on the 10th,
(hypertrophy of the heart.
Mr. Lewis Hamberger, of Upson county,
ill fifteen acres of oats seven feet high.
1 Dalton lad ate fifteen hard-boiled eggs
it restaurant the other day, and then said
tewas going home to supper.
Mr. George Marable, an old and well
born citizen of Walton county, is dead.
The Griffin News says: “The inevita-
iit Jnue-bug news reporter, after flitting
ad bumming about for several days, at last
bon the great Bullock’s nose,and although
Mil worthy and estimable Bohemian sneezed
lie June-bug oil several times, he yet man-
tged to capture a couple or columns of in-
teviaw.”
Thomas G. Simms, formerly postmaster
it Atlanta, was stricken with apoplexy in
kit city on Monday.
ASorth Georgia gold mine has been sold
kin English company for $140,000.
The Rome Courier says: “Mr. Boggs in
forms us of a romarkable Lapis natures in
Chattooga county—that of twin calves, at-
fched together by a ligament a la Siamese
kin. The calves are three weeks old and
driving. They are grown together by a
^pit the Bhoulder, and, Baving this strip,
^ perfectly developed. The owner is
'“hog arrangements to exhibit them at
fo* Centennial, where they will no doubt
"tract much attention.”
The Gainesville Southron says that wheat
"that section bids fair to escape the rust,
kd that if it does, it will be the largest
tro P for several years.
There are new over thirty companies en-
l*Se<iin gold mining in Upper Georgia.
^e are informed by Mr.jAlbert B. Wrenn,
"Well-known railroad agent, that the ar-
ttgements for transportation of delegates
visitors to the National Democratic
. ention, which convenes in St. Louis
•by, June 27th, is complete. Special
,, Umin cars are to leave Atlanta Sunday,
a. m., June 25th, arriving in St. Louis
"5:30 p. m ., Juue 2Gtli, without change.
The chairman of theaa
SAVANNAH. THURSDAY, MAY 25. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
TtiBda:
Ihilm
The
route Will be via NaBhville, and Colum-
/ Ky. Excursion tickets will be on sale
“ne 25th, one day only, from Atlanta to St.
sn< i return, at $25. Parties desiring
6 Their families with them can use
** tickets.
have received an invitation to be pres-
a grand military hop to be given to-
' b.v the Tboma8ville Guards. Would
“""hi be there.
l ’■ Daniel F. Luke, of Thomas county,
H C0 ^° n e ‘8hteen inches high, with forms
j// 6 of the stalks. This is almost
* °i planting time.
t- r /Uprising burglar made an attempt
- ■ rough nearly every store in Thora-
'he other night.
I W 1Udi!on county recently, Mr. William
^li a" 119 ; rUCk "Viliam I. King on tbe head
I thsrwarjk’ caas ' n S his death a short time
•at ?' ^'“hrew, of Macon, was severely
by
* r "U—
*he Thom:
Ion,,'. Z old m an named Windham the
I night.
I "4t : // Lna8Tlile Enterprise says : On Fri-
*31 ope th ° Hor t'cultural and Floral Fair
I N*J ‘ rom a' 1 ’ 1 we can learn the dis-
be Verv 0wer8 > fruits and vegetables will
larger n. ne and tho crow d in attendance
hi j.. la ever before. The dry weather
4*i t f, : ,l Ttl Bome °f the vegetables and
ia JWu ir- f thc. m a little, but the dis-
# »iil ,i Wel1 wort h seeing, especially as
•hletoj moiIBtra te what our people arc
whcn the spring has been
[•Iltum-mi 6 a! 'his one. Let onr people
'titf exhi>, i aild skow that they appreciate
I B ‘ 'tistin/ M mnc Tt as their friends
6,1 meet-/ °t &nd we wil1 have the grand-
Gr i%v/ e h4V66Verhad -
shorn w 16 of the tlnest wheat
i of ii C6 a " 6 tnfested with
. _^ o town
I iowlf 86 hce/^he?!!* 8 J D a PP«arance to
in the J / or . k as busy as bees
& thfc y will do h w ° f the wheat - w hat
I *’ as the m08t f o any ’“ 0bod 7 mmito
I Tet mw snvt““„ l; ?. x P cr mnceJ ,ay they
gaged in the civil business, and the crimi
nal docket will probably not be taken up
8everal weefis. It might be inferred
trom a report of an interview witlfk ' >v-
ernor Bullock, that appeared in ourSun-
day ® issue, that Judge Hopkins had ten-
dered his services and was of counsel for
the defendant. Such was not the fact. It
seems that Messrs. McC&y and Trippe have
pot yet been emploved. Who the defend
ant s counsel will be we do not certainly
know, but he will have no trouble in getting
a host if he can arrange the preliminary.
Macon Telegraph: Mr. 8. A. Porter has
left at this office samples of wheat, rye and
oats, grown by Mr. T. W. McKee, in Macon
county, near Marshallville, and they are as
fine as ever grew in Georgia. One sample
of the oats is fully ripe and heavily fruited;
the other is of a different variety and more
backward, but very fine: The wheat is large
headed, well filled and ready for the cradle.
The rye is equally good and is ripening. If
these are average samples of Macon county
crops, the people down there are well off for
bread the coming year.
Thomasville Enterprise: We are very glad
to learn that Ber. W. B. Bennett has re
ceived and accepted the call of the Baptist
Church in this city, and will preach his first
sermon as its pastor on next Sunday. We
congratulate our Baptist brethren on having
secured the services of this gentleman and
feel assured that they will have no cause to
regret their action. Mr. Bennett has gained
a deservedly high reputation during the
short period he has been in the ministry,
both for his Christian character and his
eloquence, and the church could not have
made a better selection.
Athens Watchman: The wheat crop,^which
in this section was so promising a fortnight
ago, is now likely to be seriously damaged by
rust and “the fly.” The rust,we think, from
extensive inquiry, is not likely to damage it
so much as the insect pest, being confined
entirely to the blade ana not on the stalk.
Indeed, there is some doubt as to
its being the genuine rust. We have
not learned how far the damage
extends, but have beard of it in this coun
ty, Oconee, Jackson, Walton, Franklin and
Banks. The falling off in the crop cannot
at present be correctly estimated, but some
well-informed farmers place it at from one-
fourth to one-third. There being a much
greater breadth of land devoted to wheat
this year than usual, the aggregate yield in
this section may yet be as large or larger
than for some years past.
Atlanta Times: Some eighteen months
ago a Mr. Gallagher left Atlanta with a
wagon and horse to travel through the
country and peddle goods. On his way
through Newton county he was brutally
murdered by a negro by the name of Berry
Phillips, who met him in the woods and
knocked him down with a stick. He then
jumped on him and beat his brains out
with a rock. The murderer then took his
victim some distance from where ho com
mitted the deed and left him in
the woods, partially covered with
Jeaves. Phillips then took what goods
and money Gallagher had and escaped
into Alabama, where he remained until a
few weeks ago, when he returned to this
State. His movements have been constant
ly watched by Col. Anderson, of Newton
county, from the time of the murder until
the present day. On Sunday Col. Anderson,
with Mr. Jack Phillips, the former owner
of Berry, came to this city and stated to
Detective Jones that he knew where Berry
was located. Yesterday, a party consisting
of Detective Jones, Policeman Starnes, Col.
Anderson, Mr. Jack Phillips and Mr. Tom
Moore, procured a hack and drove
out to the farm of Mr. Jolly, about
ten miles from this place, where the
uegro was found; he was sitting down eat
ing dinner at the time the party arrived,
and did not know that any one was near him
until he found himself surrounded by the
party. He had no alternative but to surren
der. A pair of cuffs were put on him at
once and the party returned to the city.
On their way to the city he ad
mitted haviDg committed the murder,
in the manner as stated above, and
said that he killed Mr. Gallagher to
get possession of his goods and money.
He spoke in an indifferent manner of
the murder and wanted to know how long it
would be before he would be hung; said that
he knew the gallows would bo his fate and
didn’t care how soon his life was ended.
The murderer was carried oft* on the Geor
gia Railroad, yesterday afternoon, by his
captors, to Newton countv, where he will be
tried and more than likely convicted, in
which case he will meet his death on the
gallows, as he justly deserves.
,Ath,
aQ ythmg like il.
Wben
Hot
know.
„ „ the Bul-
r r h 5 alled for trial we
“be court is now en-
South Carolina Affairs.
Mr. E. O. Northcutt, of Darlington county,
has beeD appointed County Commissioner to
fill the vacancy occasioned by tho resigna
tion of Mr. M. Welsh.
Mr. M. T. Wyatt, a native of Virginia, but
an old resident of Marlboro, died on the
11th instant.
The acreage in wheat, oats and corn, in
Union county, is much larger than any year
since the war, and the prospects for large
crops were never better.
The Columbus Enquirer reports that Mr.
C. Salvo, the well known tinner of Colum
bus, had died in Lumpkin, aged about sixty
years. He was born in Charleston, 8. C.
The oat crop in Anderson county is look
ing well and promises a very fine yield.
The county jail at Marlboro is untenanted
for the first time in several months.
Mrs. Judy Goodwine died at Forte Motte,
on Monday last, in the twenty-seventh year
of her age.
The wheat and corn mill of Mr. John
Moore, in York county, was burned down
on Friday night last. Loss, $2,500. Sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
The trains of the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Bailroad are playing havoc
with tho cattle in Marion county, having
killed three or four within about four
weeks.
The Governor has reappointed A. F.
Browning, Esq., to the office of Trial Justice
in Orangeburg.
Millions of brick will be made at the vari
ous yards in the neighborhood of Green
ville during the summer.
The rust has made a bold attack upon the
wheat ia Keowee county, and the prospects
of this crop are not good.
There was a heavy hail storm in Union,
near the Tyger river, and the upper part of
the county on Saturday, the 13th inst.
A meeting will be held at Howard’s Bhop,
in Easley township, Pickens county, on Sat
urday next, for the purpose of organizing a
a Democratic club.
There is not a dollar in the Barnwell
county treasury. Not even enough to pay
off the jurymen and witnesses who are
serving at the present term of court.
Capt. Jas. J. Nelson, probably the oldest
citizen in Clarendon county, died last week.
He was for many years a member of the
Presbyterian Church, and was a public spir
ited citizen.
It is reported that McDevitt, the County
Treasurer of Edgefield, has gone to parts
unknown in consequence of an order of
Judge Carpenter, compelling him to pay out
the funds ou baud.
The turpentine distillery of McKay, Mc
Neill & Horton, near Cheraw, was destroyed
by fire on the 17th inst., together with some
twenty barrels of rosin and spirits. One of
the distillers was severely burned.
The express office at the passenger depot
at Aiken was broken into by burglars on
Thursday night last, the money drawer
rifled, and several packages containing wear
ing apparel carried off.
Col. A. B. Smedloy, of Iowa, lecturer of
the National Grango, will deliver an addrese
to the Patrons of Husbandry at Anderson
on Jane 20th in the morning, and at Seneca
City in the ev|ping.
The skin of a large rattlesnake was exhib
ited in Sumter on Tuesday by a colored
man who killed the reptile four miles from
town. It measured four feet four inches,
and had fourteen rattles.
The Union Times emphatically denies the
report that “a colored man living in Union
county recently received twenty-five lashes,
in accordance with law, for the crime for
which that punishment is inflicted.”
Mr. ffm. B. Leary, of Greenville, died at
that place on the 19th instant, in the eigbty-
Bixth year of his age. Mr. Leary was an
old man and honored pedagogue, and num
bered at one time Gen. B. E. Lee among
his oupils.
Last Sunday afternoon, while the family
of Mr William F. Wilks, bt Timmonsville,
were at ohnrch, the premises were entered
and robbed of a lot of corn, all the bacon
and flour, as well as rifling the dwelling
house of nearly all its contents.
Two uegroeB confinod in jail at Pickens,
awaiting trial on the charge of burglary,
made their escape on Sunday, the 14th in-
Btant. They had a flue saw, wl ' b
.i ttm iron bars of tho window in
S? and by te/ring their blankets into
■mall strips and tying them together and
fastening one end to the window in their
Mil were enabled to slide to the ground and
make their
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Moon Telegrams.
THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
SHALL MISSIONABIES BE SENT INTO
THE SOUTH?
A LIVELY DISCUSSION OF THE
QUESTION.
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS
AND NOTES.
THE PBESBYTEBIAHS.
New Yobk, May 24.—In the Assembly, Dr.
Musgrove, formerly Secretary of Home Mis
sions, alluding to the separation of the
Northern and Sontbern churches, protested
against calling this the Northern Assembly.
It is not sectional. It is not as its fathers
designed it Bhould become. They might
speak of the Southern Assembly, for that
was purely sectional. We have done what
we could to bring about a nnion, and now
should wait until the Southern churoh
shall come to us seeking union. Until that
day we are not to stand still, but must go at
once into the Southern field and plant
churches all over the land.
Drs. Hendy, of Kentucky; Wells, of Wash
ington. D. C.; Hendrick, of Kentucky; Kuox,
of the Chemung Presbytery; Rev. Mr. Murk-
land, of Sonth Carolini, and others, spoke
on this question, tho most of them taking
position against this assembly sending its
missionaries into the Southern country.
Tho Moderator, Dr. Van Dyke, made a
few remarks, to set the minds of Com
missioners right on this point and call their
attention to the devotion of this day to
the consideration of the whole mission
'field, and not to this one phase
of it. First, the Moderator claimed,
this chnrch is neither sectional nor national.
It is a Church of the Lord Jesus Christ,
whose field is the world, and it has a right
to go wherever the claims of Christian
charity shall call its ministers. They enter
this Southern field as they would enter any
other field, to cultivate it for Christ and
for the church, but they don’t go there in
any spirit of rivalry or usurpation, bnt as
of their right to go anywhere for Christ,
and he disclaimed for Dr. Musgrove and for
every other member of the assembly any
desire to interfere with the work of their
Southern brethren, bnt merely to go where
they are invited and where there is room
for them.
This discussion arose upon a recommenda
tion in the report that the Board ol Home
Mission, shall make no sectional distinction
in its appropriations to mission fields. The
application came from Eastern Florida
which led the committee to make this
recommendation.
FBAXCE AT THE CENTENNIAL.
London, May 24.—A special dispatch to
the Telegraph from Paris says the most care
ful and elaborate preparations are being
taken tor executing tbe intention of tbe
Legislature in sending to the Centennial
exhibition, at Philadelphia, practical repre
sentatives of all divisions of industry. Au-
gnste Desmoulins has been chosen to inves
tigate and prepare an exhaustive report ou
educational matters. The government is
taking measures to secure intelligent and
honest delegates from trade organizations.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, May 24.—Ed. C. Beale is
nominated as Minister to Austria.
A. P. Bobinson, Engineer of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, carried a
package from Caldwell, who controlled the
bonds, to Blaine, open at both ends. Ho
did not know the contents. It may have
been a map. He never told any one that the
package contained twenty bonds.
The House is discussing the bill restoring
the public lauds of Beveral Southern States
to market.
AFPAIBS IN SPAIN.
Madrid, May 24.—The El Cronista (news
paper) asserts that tbe Spanish administra
tion on Cuba is negotiating with some Eng
lish houses for a loan of fifty millions pese
tas at eight per cent., guaranteed by tho
customs revenue of the island.
Ex-Qneen Christiana has left Aranjuez for
Madrid.
The Minister of Finance has ordered a
million of reals to be sent to Cuba to pay
tbe troops there.
FBENCH POLITICS.
Pabis, May 24.—The Radicals intend to
introduce a motion in the Deputies for pro
ceedings against the accomplices of the
Coup d'Etat of 1851.
Le Pays, commenting on the Prince Na
poleon’s acceptance ol the Republic, re
marks: “There is merely odb Communist
more. Prince Napoleon will sit in the
Chamber disdained by both Republicans
and Imperialists.”
DESTBUCTIVE FIBES.
Galveston, May 24.—Sculhmek’s and two
adjoining buildings are burned. Loss $100,-
000.
Geneva, N. Y., May 24.—A fire here last
night destroyed the flour store of W. L. Gil
bert, the tin store of Fulton & Shifley, the
furniture store of Biley & Miller, and gut
ted two stores ol Skelton & Vo. Loss $50,-
000.
THE BBITISH NAVY.
London, May 24.—Tbe English Mediter
ranean fleet will consist of twenty vessels
and five thousand men. It is probable the
channel squadron, composed of seven iron
clads and four thousand men, will go to Gib
raltar.
Washington, May 24.—The Senate has
passed the House joint resolution request
ing the President to take such steps as he
may deem proper to secure the pardon or
release of Edward O’M. Condon, now con
fined in an English prison.
not guilty.
Milwaukee, May 25.—The verdict in the
case of Jones and Goldberg, charged with a
conspiracy to steal and destroy evidence
against the whisky ring, was not guilty.
UNEASY LIES THE HEAD.
Vienna, May 24.—The Sultan has con
fined his brother and his nephew (who is
heir presumptive) to their own houses.
THE CALIFOBNIA DEMOCRATS.
San Fbancisco, May 25.—The Democratic
Convention seems divided between Hen
dricks and Tilden.
MUEDEBOUS INSANITY.
Waldobobo, Me., May 24.—Thos. Finn,
temporarily insane, killed his four year old
daughter with an axe.
Evening Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Secor Robeson on the Ragged Edge.
THE CASE OF DOOR-KEEPER FITZ-
HUGH.
STRANGE AND SUDDEN DEATH
FKO.II A BEE STING.
Enfllih Cotton .HUH Closing Out.
OONGBE8SIONAL.
Washington, May 24.—In the Senate,
West introduced a bill to change the name
of the steamer City of Brashear to Lone
Star.
The bill establishing the rank of Paymas
ter General as Brigadier General passed.
The Naval Committee reported adversely
on the petition of Captain Francis A. Roe,
of the United States Navy, for reimburse
ment for property in Virginia lost and de
stroyed during the war.
The Public Lands Committee reported
favorably on the bill for the benefit of An
drew Williams, of Tennessee.
In the House, Kerr resumed the chair,
apparently in improved health. The South
ern land bill went over without action.
Harris, from the Committee on Elections,
reported Jos. H. Rainey, the sitting mem
ber from South Carolina, duly elected.
Ordered printed and recommitted.
The House then proceeded to consider the
Louisiana contest of 8pencer vs. Morey, the
report of the majority ol the oommittee be
ing that Wm. B. Spencer, the contestant, is
entitled to the seat, and that Frank Morey,
the sitting member, is not, and the minority
taking the opposite view. Withont taking
any action on the resolution, the matter
went over for the present.
Wilson, of Iowa, offered a resolution di
recting the Committee on Commerce to in
quire into an alleged combination of leading
railroads for the purpose of controlling
traffic. Adopted.
WITT. ROBBER ARRESTED.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 24 Special
post office agents arrested John H. Chest
nut, agent on the St. John’s river, for
stealing money, letters and third-class mail
matter. Florida visitors have suffered from
thee# depredations.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, May 24.—Tbe Democrats
esnens to-morrow night for a successor to
Fitzhngh. Taft and Pierrepont have gone
to New York.
Mrs. Avery has a clerkship in the Interior
Department.
Spencer, before leaving for Alabama, en
deavored to pair on tbe impeachment ques
tion, bnt the Senate decided against Jndges
pairing.
The sub-committee of the Senate will re
port in favor of non-concurrenee in most of
the changes made by the House in the ex
ecutive, legislative and judiciary appropri
ation bills.
The sub-committee in the case of Platt
vs. Goode, from Virginia, have agreed to
report in favor of retaining Goode in his
seat, but will not make a formal report to the
full committee untd Blackburn returns from
New Orleans.
It is learned that there is no truth in the
report that M. D. Wickersham, Postmaster
at Mobile, has been suspended. No request
has been made for his suspension or remo-
fitzhugh.
Washington, May 24.—The Star says:
“Democratic members who have conversed
with Fitzhngh say that he exhibits signs of
insanity and that, he is not responsible for
what he says. Up to this time he retains
control of the records of his office, which
he took away, and says he will not surren
der them while Sergeant-at-Arms Thomson
is absent in Ohio. In the meantime, mem
bers cannot obtain any documents from the
folding room, the Speaker having given or
ders not to issue any until the entire books
are returned.’ ’
It may be stated, however, that there is
no trnth in the statement that Fitzhngh
shows signs of insanity. The only book he
has belonging to the House is the invoice
book, by which to settle his acconnts. Mr.
Fitzhngh is apprehensive that one hundred
bags of books have been taken from the
folding room withont authority, and he
needs the invoice book to verify the stock
that should be on band.
WASHINGTON WEATHEB PBOPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, D. C., May24.—Probabilities:
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
rising and stationery barometer, slight
changes in temperature, clear or partly
cloudy weather and northeast to southeast
winds will prevail, with rain areas.
Iu Tennessee and the Ohio valley, station
ary and falling barometer, winds mostly
from northeast to southeast, slightly warmer
and cloudy or partly cloudy weather and
rain areas, except possibly lower tempera
ture in the former.
In the Middle StateB and New England,
stationary or falling barometer, winds
mostly from south to west and slightly
warmer or partly cloudy weather, and possi
bly occasional rains in the latter.
SECOB BOBESON.
Washington, May 24.—A live oak con
tractor testified that he paid E. G. Cattel
$37,000 commissions. Secretary Robeson
has written Mr. Whithorne a letter accept
ing the invitation of the committee to make
an explanation. He remonstrates against
the publication of detached parts of the
evidence and demands that the hearing be
public.
Whithorn has answered Robeson’s letter.
He or any naval officer can have any witness
recalled whose testimony affects them. They
can be beard at any length, in accordance
with the resolution of the 17th.
THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
New Yobk, May 24.—In tho Presbyterian
Assembly the Board of Foreign Missions re
ported the receipts from all souroes, for the
year ending April 30th, over half a million,
and the expenditures $2,000 less than tho
receipts. The debt is $36,000. Twenty-two
missionaries were sent out.- Particular ref
erence is made to the progress in China,
Africa, Mexico, Brazil and India, and an
earnest plea made against retrenchment.
ENGLISH COTTON MILLS CLOSING.
London, May 24.—Three cotton mills at
Preston are running short, and others will
follow, fhe cause is a continued decliDe
and irregularity in prices, and the depres
sion and uncertainty in the market. It is
stated that prices are one per cent lower
than for thirty years, with two brief excep
tions. The mills in some parts of Lan
cashire will be closed during the entire
Whitsuntide.
BATHER VAGUE.
Washington, May 24.—The special com
mittee haviDg charge of the investigation of
the report that Clerk Adams sold office*, ex
amined W. G. Curtis, of the Inter-Ocean, to
day, who testified that a gentleman had
made such a remark to him in casual con
versation, and he made the paragraph abont
it. He refuses to give the gentleman’s
name.
THE ALABAMA RADICALS.
Montgomery, May 24.—The Spencer wing
of the Republican Conventionmet to-day.
A committee on credentials was appointed
and the body took a recess to 5 o’clock.
Foster Blodgett, of Georgia, was present
and received with great eclat. Most of the
delegates are Revenue Collectors, Postmas
ters and clerks and officials from the United
States Marshal’s office.
THE METHODISTS.
Baltimore, May 24.—In the Methodist
Conference to-day Bishop Haven presided.
The report providing for free lyceums and
night schools was adopted.
H. M. Revels, D. D., was elected editor of
the Southwestern Christian Advocate, at Now
Orleans. Bevels was the colored United
States Senator from Mississippi. Adjourned.
THE NEW ORLEANS WHISKY OASES.
New Orleans, May 24 The jury in the
O'Brien whisky cases found JohD Henderson
and W. G. Jones guilty. W. A. Thomas,
Alexander McKee, John Henderson, Jr.,
and John McWhister were acquitted.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BADS.
Concord, N. H., May 24.—The Republi
can Convention resolutions leave the dele
gates nDinstructed. Colby, White and Hall,
delegates at large, are supposed to be for
Blaine, and Burns for Bristow.
HEAVY FAILURE.
New York, May 24.—The failure of John
Vogt A Co., of Hamburg, Paris and New
York, China and glassware merohants, is
announced. Their liabilities are very
heavy.
HEAVY BAINS.
Denver, May 24.—There has been a twen
ty-four hours' rain, with a fall of over six
inches. The railroads centering here have
all lost bridges aDd embankments.
DEATH FROM A BEE STING.
Atlanta, May 24.—Hon. J. A. Crawford,
at Langston, Ga., was Btnng in the head by
a bee this morning, and died in two min
utes.
FROST AND ICE.
Taunton, Mass., May 24.—There is ice
and heavy frost in this section. Thousands
of strawberry plants are destroyed.
INSTALLED.
Philadelphia, May 24.—The American
and foreign judges ot the Centennial were
formally installed to-day, with interesting
ceremonies and music.
A BIVEB MYSTEBY.
New Yobk, May 24.—The body of Edward
Sharffer, clothing merchant, was found in
the river to-day, with indications of murder
and robbery.
FOUND DEAD.
Keene, N. H., May 24.—Alvin C. Foster,
who collected considerable money yester
day, was found dead in a school honse yard.
FOB GOVEBNOB.
Spbinofield, III., May 24.—Shelby Mc-
Cnllom was nominated for Governor on the
first ballot in the Republican Convention.
zauh goes in.
Washington,May 24.—Confirmation: Har
grove, Postmaster at Rome, Georgia.
A Minister Shot.—A colored minister
of the gospel, a man and a brother, was
shot last Thursday by his son, a lad of
fourteen. The offspring had fallen from
grace, and by reason of said fall had been
forbidden tbe parental abode of blessed
ness ; but filial affection overcame the
prohibition of his ancestor, and he called
to see his mother, who was dangerously
ilk The old man, minister and brother
aforesaid, went for the boy and thrashed
him in a most elegant and approved man
ner. The youth, in the course of the
struggle, drew a pistol and fired upon his
colored father. The bullet struck the
latter in the cheek, inflicting a painful
wound. After shooting the old man and
kissing his mother, the boy stepped off,
but was captured and held in default of
$1,000 bail.— Washington Capital.
Fatal Accident.—On May 13th sever
al young men were amusing themselves
on a vacant lot in the vicinity of the
Baptist Church by playing base ball.
During the process of tbe game a colli
sion occurred between George Hayman
and Lewis Stevenson, both running in
opposite directions. Some portion of
Stevenson’s body struck Hayman in the
abdomen, knocking him senseless for an
instant. He, however, so far recovered
as to walk home, when Dr. D. J.O. Truitt
was oalled in. He found him bleeding
internally, and, though every effort was
made to save the patient, he expired on
Monday. He was about twenty-one years
TO THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA.
Who Should Be the Democratic Nominee
for Governor t
In view ot the approaching struggle
and the momentous issues therein in
volved, tbe question above has doubtless
commanded, as most certainly it should
command, your serious consideration;
for, upon a discreet and judicious selec
tion of candidates at Quincy, our suc
cess and, consequently, our political re
demption, must largely depeBd. A few
months ago, through the columns of the
News, the following thoughts upon this
subject were presented by the under
signed, urging the nomination, as our
candidate for Governor, of Hon. J. J.
Finley, of Jacksonville:
“The man for the occasion should be a
person of irreproachable character, unim
peachable integrity, and commanding
talents- a jnan well known throughout
the State—a man of unswerving devotion
to principle, and unflinching in the dis
charge of duty—a man, in fine, who
oommands the respect and admiration of
the entire State, and whose lead its citi
zens will follow with enthusiasm. Such
a character we have in oar ‘Sunny Land,’
brave, true, eminently capable, well and
widely known, and whose high character
and reputation might have graced the
Senate of Rome—General J. J. Finley,
of Jacksonville. Such a man the people
want, and snch a man will lead them to
victory. The occasion demands such a
man. A pure and good citizen, an incor-
r uptible Judge, a noble, high-toned,
Christian gentleman, it may well be said
that, if elected, he would carry dignity,
efficiency, purity and power into the
Gubernatorial chair of Florida. True,
he has just been elected to Congress, but
what of that? We can spare him from
Congress to make him Governor. Better,
by running him, secure a Conservative
Executive, than, leaving him in Congress,
hazard the loss of this battle.”
What more can, or should be said ? In
the expression of these sentiments we
believe we utter the convictions of thou
sands, who to-day are looking hopefully,
yes, enthusiastically, to Gen. Finley as
our candidate. It is but the sentiment of
the many, the vox populi. He is to-day
the choice of the Democratic masses for
Governor. Why is he the choice, and
why should he be nominated by the con
vention at Quincy ? Are there objec
tions ? If any, are they material ?
The “irreproachable character, unim
peachable integrity and commanding
talents” of tbe man, sufficiently and at
onoe explain why he is the choice of the
people. But his well-known and unques
tionable popularity is perhaps a better and
conclusive answer. Without any further
argument, oan it be seriously asked why
he should be nominated for Governor?
If so, the answer is: Because he is
the strongest candidate who can
be placed before the people; and
the duty of the convention is imperative
to nominate our strongest man. Surely
there can be no doubt, and will be no
trifling upon this point. It is no time for
experiments. Now, why, if it be true,
is General Finley our strongest man?
Because he unites in himself ail the re-
quisites for success—capacity, character,
popularity. These three requisites make
him most prominently available.
As to bis capacity, that has never been
questioned All admit it.
Of his oharacter, need more be added
to what has already been said and what
we so well know ? With the people of
Florida the name of this glorious old man
is synonymous with all that is noble,
pure and true. His honor has never been
tarnished, his integrity is unimpeachable,
his fair fame, unsullied by a stain, in
spires pride and admiration. As firm as
he is brave and conscientious, in the hour
of danger or trial he is a man who has
never shrunk, and will never shrink,from
the discharge of duty. In a word, he is
one of nature's noblemen—true to his
God and his country, true to his stainless
character, a man without fear and with
out reproach.
His popularity is limited, if at all, by
the boundaries of this Stats, which, upon
the benoh, in the tented field, or in the
legislative halls, he has so faithfully
served. To kno# him as we know him,
and as he is known throughout our be
loved State, is at once to understand the
secret of his great popularity and his ex
tended influence. To look into his face
and to shake his hand is to become his
friend; to observe his firmness, his con
scientious, faithful, fearless discharge of
duty, and the skill and knowledge which
have marked his career, is to bestow
npon him your fullest confi
dence, and to confide to him
important trusts whether personal or po
litical These are the reasons, found to
day in the hearts of the people, why Gen.
Finley’s popularity is co-extensive with
the State. Everywhere honored and be
loved, his fine physique, impressive pres
ence and agreeable address, no less than
his integrity and talents, render him a
favorite. With scarcely an exception he
is more widely known than any man in
the State, and, all things considered, is,
without doubt, the strongest candidate
whom the Democracy can present for the
Gubernatorial race. If so, it is clear that
he should be the nominee.
Let ns see now what objections are
made. It is stated in the public prints,
upon the authority of General Finley
himself, that he desires a re-nomination
to Congress from his district, and that
he does not wish his name to go before
the Gubernatorial convention. Be it so;
the question is, shall we, for this reason,
refuse to nominate him, and hazard the
loss of the battle ? For, if he is, indeed,
our strongest man, and we fail to make
him the candidate, it will be extremely
hazardous. All must admit this. Cer
tainly, if General Finley’s candi
dacy for the Executive offioe is neces
sary that we may be enabled to
redeem and recover the State,
the Democracy must, and will, overrule
his personal preference, or any private
arrangement. This oritical juncture, the
great interests at stake, the public good,
the redemption of the State, all demand
that the convention at Quincy shall nomi
nate him for Governor. If he be the can.
didate, his election is certain. Would
not the result be doubtful with any other
person as oar standard-bearer ? This is a
serious question. As already remarked,
it is sorely no time for experiments. So
for as his Congressional district is
concerned the Democracy oan carry
it with any good man as the
nominee for Congress. The Radicals con
cede the district—they give it up. There
fore it is not necessary to re-nominate
General Finley for Congress to cany it
And this the Democracy of that district
know. We shall have there a large ma
jority with any good man as the Congres
sional candidate.
Floridians, this struggle is to decide
your destinies for four years to come.
Can you afford defeat ? Will you tempt
discomfiture and ruin by rashness and in
discretion? Is the number of available
men so large that we can discard a candi
date, confessedly strong and popular, for
one whose strength may be seriously ques
tioned. On the contrary, will you
not arise and organize in your
might for the conflict, and
demand of your representatives at Quincy
that they shall place at your head your
strongest leader, so that you may be
guided to victory ? Surely that conven
tion must obey your will in the discharge
of its high and responsible trust. If you
want to arouse the slumbering energies
of the Democracy let Jesse J. Finley
be the Gubernatorial nominee. If you
would inspire the masses with enthu
siasm, an element unquestionably requi
site for success, put our standard
in his hands. If yon wenld call out
and rally around that banner the unre
gistered voters, a matter of gravest im-
bearer: they will flock to his ranks, and
follow where, perhaps, they would not
follow another. In a word, if you want
a leader who commands the confidence
and admiration of the people, who will
be your strongest, and, therefore, your
safest candidate, and who will lead you to
certain triumph in November, nominate
for your next Governor the Hon. Jesse
J. Finley, of Duval. Flobida must be
redeemed. Gen. Finley must, (and we
doubt not he will,) obey the call of the
people. Floridian.
Tbe Rice Culture Threatened.
[From the N. Y. Shipping and Commercial List]
The culture of rioe in the United States
is threatened with death in the house of
its friends. We refer to the provision in
the Hawaiian treaty by which rioe from
the Sandwich Islands is to be admitted
free of duty. Superficially considered,
the proposition is apparently trivial, as
the amount raised in such quarter in ex
cess of their home wants is comparatively
small and hardly worthy of consideration,
the exports to the Pacifio coast for the
first quarter of the present year having
been only 530,920 pounds, or at equal
ratio about 3,000 casks per year. Taking,
however, a broader and more comprehen
sive view of the subject, the threatened
danger becomes apparent, and is not to
be underestimated because it is insidious.
So harmless is the treaty in general ap
pearance that the required legislation to
put it in force “stole a march” through
the House of Representatives last week,
and is now in regular order for consider
ation by the Senate.
In the treaty, we clearly discern an ex
tension of territory for cultivation, where
ours is yet plentiful; the introduction as
a competitive element of labor of the
Coolie of the East, and finally the initial
step toward the repeal of duty, which at
too early date will result in the extinction
of the culture in the United States.
While we may ordinarily be indisposed
to say anything as to the relative merits
of the principle of protection, we are in
clined to doubt the propriety and policy
of any interference, direct or indirect,
with the culture at this present juncture.
The beneficial effects of the tariff on this
branch of industry has been marked.
Prior to the war it was large and strong,
sustaining itself without any protection,
furnishing an all-sufficient quantity for
the consumption of the United States and
a considerable amount for exportation.
At the close of the war the cnlture was
virtually in a ruined condition,not through
any inherent weakness, but from the
vicissitudes incident to that trying era.
In the main the culture had been con
fined to sections closely adjacent to the
Atlantic coast, and by military opera
tions labor was scattered, lands despoiled,
and that which was tbe scene of thrift
and wealth relapsed into almost its primi
tive condition of barren waste and
swamp. The advances made since that
period have been simply marvelous, and
can be largely attributed to the protec
tion afforded by the tariff. Nor has the
stimulus thus afforded redounded alone
to the benefit of the old rice producing
section, for the State of Louisiana has
entered largely into tbe culture, pro
ducing last year quite the equal of the
coast, and having still greater capacity as
yet undeveloped. Comparative state
ments of the yield of 1865 and 1875 are
interesting, demonstrating practically the
great advance already made, and augering
well for the future:
1S65. 1875.
Product. — Carolina and Geor
gia; casks 12.510 69,539
Louisiana, bbls 11,943 169,234
Farther, the States of Texas, Alabama
and Mississippi are engaging, to a greater
or less extent, in experimental culture,
which will undoubtedly result in the
opening up of broader fields. That which
has been accomplished has been the re
sult not only of the protective effects of
the tariff, but to the almost herculean
efforts of those engaged in the culture,
they having expended labor withont stint,
and re-invested all pecuniary gains in their
endeavor to bring up the plantations to
tbe ante-war standard of yield. This
latter point has not yet been reached; by
it the area now under cultivation, on
the coast at least, would produce fully
double the present quantity. Year by
year, as the yield has increased, prices
have steadily and quietly reoeded, the
prices of the opening and closing of the
decade averaging the Sonth as follows:
1SG5 perlb.U^c.
1ST5 5>4c.
With an almost illimitable area in the
United States, it is now proposed to dis-
oourage and possibly swamp the culture
with foreign fields, and the competition
of Coolie labor. The disastrous results
of such a course will be incalculable and
irretrievable. By it, millions of capital
invested will be squandered, thousands
of acres only adapted to this specific cul
ture will be abandoned and relapse into
original wastes, and thousands of labor
era and those dspendent thereon, whites
and blacks, be thrown out of employment
with which they are best acquainted, to
seek a livelihood in directions which do
not now appear.
How do the members from the Pacific
coast, who are aotive agents in forward
ing the Hawaiian treaty, reconcile the in
tolerable hatred toward the Chinese labor
in their own midst, with their endeavor
to inflict the baneful effects of tbe labor
of that class upon the South ?
Defunct Carpet-Baggers.
Bullock, the defaulting carpet-bag
Governor of Georgia, has been caught
and brought back to his former constitu
ents after five years of well managed
hiding. He will now, we presume, be
tried for high crimes and misdemeanors,
mostly of a pecuniary nature; but if the
people of Georgia ever get a cent on the
dollar of the money Bullock wasted or
stole they will be remarkably lucky. So
shrewd a knave is not likely to be cap
tured with his pockets full. Neverthe
less a legal investigation of the Buliockiau
dynasty will be a valuable contribution to
that history of Radical reconstruction
which some Swift or Voltaire may write
for the edification an i amusement of our
descendants.
How, one after another, the carpet-bag
tyrants who strutted their brief hour upon
the Southern stage fall into the hands of
avenging Nemesis. Only a little while
ago Ames, of Mississippi, was in full
bloom. Now a popular earthquake has
flung him high and dry into a Minnesota
lumber-yard. Only a little while ago
Scott, of South Carolina, was monarch of
all he surveyed. Now no dog in Charles
ton is poor enough to do him reverence
with a congratulatory bark. Only a little
while ago Spencer, of Alabama, ruled his
State with a rod of iron and a cheek of
brass. Now even tbe village postmasters
pluck his beard and cast their scorn in
his teeth, and the very Senators who
allow him to sit among them hold their
noses when this embodiment of politi
cal putrefaction comes too near. Kel
logg, of Louisiana, is left alone, the last
rose of a dismal summer, fading yet fra
grant still. But though Federal bayonets
have fumisued him again and again with
a spinal column, Kellogg is visibly weak
ening and oannot much longer survive.
When he steps down and oat all the
brightest ornaments and exponents of
carpet-baggery will have vanished—noth
ing gracing their career like the ending
of it. What a constellation of worthies
they are ! How proud will the next Cen
tennial be to look back upon that era in
American politics when blatant loyalty, a
bloody shirt, tongb conscience and greedy
fingers were the all-sufficient credentials of
the viceroys of the Republican party.
When men who, in their Northern homes,
coaid not obtain a suit of clothes on
credit, were placed over Sonthern States
and held there by the power of the
general government, in spite of the pro
tests and prayers of their victims. When
thieves clad in the Republican purple
plundered a helpless people and made
peaoe the vehicle of more terrible afflic
tions than tbe tumults of war. When
“our restored Union” was the dirtiest
despotism the sun of liberty has ever
shone npon. Surely a country which has
survived such an ordeal ought to be
proof against any and all trials that may
await it hereafter—and it will be if the
example we have set ia a warning to onr
The Two-thirds Rule-Ought It to be
Abolished 1
[From the Wilmington Journal.)
As we have heretofore said, we seek
success in this campaign because success
means salvation from the evils of corrupt
government. To secure success we are
ready to use all honorable means. Per
sonal preferences, party traditions, time-
honored usage, in a word, everything
save principle we are ready to surrender
to secure tbe election of a Democrat,
good and true, as the next President of
these United States. Bat without suffi
cient reason for so doing, we do not see
why we should be called upon to make
the surrender.
To come exactly to the point in a -sin
gle word we do not see why the two-
thirds rule, that is to say the rule that
requires a concurrence of two-thirds of
the delegates to make a Presidential
nomination, should be abandoned without
some sufficient reason. Thus far we have
seen none given. When one shall be
given, when it shall be shown that the
abandonment of that rule will secure the
election of a Democrat as President, we
stand ready to make the surrender, but
not until then.
This rule has to-day as mueb reason
to show for its preservation as it had to
show for its creation. It is a mistake to
assume that the only purpose of the rule
was to enable the Southern Democrats to
protect themselves from the oandidacy
of an anti-slavery Northern Democrat.
“Ran Tucker” was right in saying it
worked as a protection to the Sonth in
that matter, but that was not the ouly
thing it was created to do or that it
did do.
There is a reason for the existence of
the two-thirds rule iu a national oonven
tion that obtains in no other political
convention so far as we know. The
National Democratic Convention consists
of delegates from all the States, no mat
ter of what political complexion. The
rankest and largest Radical State sends
delegates to a National Democratic Con
vention just as well as the most assured
Democratic State. By a combination of
delegates from Radical States, with the
help of a few delegates from other States,
it is possible then for a nomination to
be controlled by States that cannot
possibly help to elect. Such a nomina
tion would inevitably tend to secure de
feat. There must be some safeguard then
against the possibility of suoh action on
the part of States that send Democratic
delegates but cast no Democratic electoral
votes. It was simply a measure of self
protection then, and it is one now. In a
State election, Democratic votes in Radi
cal counties count just as much as they
do in Democratic counties, and so it is
in county elections as to Democratic votes
in Radical townships. In Presidential
elections, Democratic votes in Radical
States count for absolutely nothing, and
hence arises the necessity for some rule
that will prevent the delegates from Radi
cal States from having too much control
in making nominations. The reason for
the rule exists to-day as strongly as it
ever did. The object is not to promote this
man or to injure that man, but to advance
tbe interest of the party. Individuals are
as nothing while the party is everything.
Supposo the States were so nearly equally
divided that the vote of Delaware would
decide the matter? It will be seen at
a glance, if the two-thirds rule did not
prevail, that a combination between Dela
ware and tbe delegates in the convention
from Radical States would control the
nomination, and yet the only electoral
vote cast for the nominee by the States
represented in the convention, would be
the vote of Delaware—in a word, the
States that would have to elect the nomi
nee would have no choice in naming him.
Is a rule that permits such injustice a
fair rule? But whether fair or unfair,
that is the .majority rule. The two-
thirds rule renders such injustice impos
sible.
Nor does the two-thirds rule transfer
control from the majority to the minority
as it is said; it only secures to the States
that must elect, a reasonable voice in the
selection of the nominee. So long as
Radical States can send delegates to
Democratic Conventions, the rights of
the real majority of the party are in dan
ger. Practically, for the purpose of a
Presidential election, the Democratic
party consists only of the Democrats in
Democratic States. Democrats in Radi
cal States count no more than if they
lived in China or Russia. It follows,
therefore, that without some such rule, a
real minority by an easy combination can
control a real majority.
Nor is it true that the rule brings im
becility to the front. The day has gone
by when thinking Sonthern men sneer at
Polk and Pierce as “imbeciles.” If these
men were im beoiles the South might well
have prayed to God for more imbeciles.
If respect for the constitution and laws
constitute imbecility, then they were in
deed “imbeciles” and not otherwise. This
is not, under the constitution, a personal
government, dependent so much upon
the individual character of the President,
as that its policy shall be shaped by his
will, and that Congress and the oourts
shall be ruled by his wish. It was not so
at least when “imbeciles” like Polk and
Pierce were brought to the front by the
two-thirds rule, as it is now the habit to
say, but it has been so under Lincoln
and Grant that required no such rule
to nominate them. These latter, nomi
nated under the majority rule, have
made it so that the rights and liberties
of the citizen depend not upon the con
stitution and laws, but upon the will
of the Executive. Indeed, we are almost
tempted to say that the President of all
men ought to be most impotent and im
becile, save in the power and strength he
derives from the constitution and laws.
Have not eight years of personal gov
ernment, eight years of Grantism, shown
the country the danger of having Presi
dents stronger than the laws and consti
tution ?
Let us hold on to the two-thirds rule,
then, at least until the reason for its crea
tion and for its preservation ceases to ex
ist.
Looking for Smith.
[From the Austin Reveille.]
A respectable-looking old gentleman,
just arrived from the Eastern States, was
around town to-day trying to find a man
named Smith. There are several mem
bers of the Smith family in Austin, but
the old gentleman experienced some diffi
culty in finding the exact Smith he
wanted, and we are not positive that he
has found him yet. Probably possessed
of the somewhat prevalent idea that boys
know everything, the old gentleman ac
costed a boy, and, addressing him as “my
son,” asked him if he knew anybody in
this town by the name of Smith.
“Smith?” saidtheboy. “Which Smith
do you wan’t? Let’s Bee—there’s Big
Smith and Little Smith, Three-fingered
Smith, Bottle-nose Smith, Cock-eye
Smith, Six-toed Smith, San Joaquin
Smitffi, Lying Smith, Mush-head Smith,
Jumping Smith, Cherokee Smith, One-
legged Smith, Fighting Smith, Red
headed Smith, Sugar-foot Smith, Bow-
legged Smith, Squaw Smith, Drunken
Smith, El Dorado Smith, Hungry Smith,
and I don’t know but maybe one or two
more,” “My son,” said the old gentle
man, “the Smith I am in search of pos
sesses to his name none of tbe heathen
ish prefixes you have mentioned. His
name is simply John Smith.” “All them
fellows is named John!” screeched the
boy, as he drew his six-shooter and ran
to the other side of the street to get a
good shot at a passing Chinaman. The old
gentleman mused for a moment and then
walked into a blacksmithshop and asked
to see a city directory.
Charivari has a cartoon representing
the Turks disappearing over an eminence,
saying to the Herzegovinians, who are
trying to get within shot: “On account
of the state of our finances, we decline to
be drawn on at sight.”
The Centennial restaurant fiends have
been warned to lower their tariff. The
spirit of ’76 revolts at the idea of being
charged fifty cents for the privilege of
looking through a strawberry dumpling
mm
S*§«|.
to investigate the causes r
the Freed men’s Savings Ban*--
Company has submitted to tbe Jl
Representatives a majority report;-- n _
which it is asserted that if the bank wlf 01 *™
not originally oonoeived in-fraud it cer
tainly degenerated into a monstrous swin
dle, and its oareer justified the suspicion
that it was almost from the start merely
e scheme of selfishness under the guise
of philanthrophy, and an incorporate
body of false pretenses. The original
conception was announced to be “for the
benefit of persons lately held in slavery,”
but, as the sequel proved, for their spoli
ation and robbery, and the Freedman’s
Bureau, so redolent of evil under a spe
cious guise and adept in the ways and
means of squandering public moneys,,
readily supplied tbe personal agencies re
quisite for the undertaking. One John
W. Alvord, attache of the bureau, got up
the charter, with a singular array of high
and eminent names for corporators.
The charter contains the singular pro
vision that of the fifty trustees nine
should constitute a quorum, and is so ut
terly destitute of safeguards or protec
tion to depositors that it is bard to be
lieve its author did not thoroughly under
stand how to organize cunning against
simplicity, and make it pay for the pleas
ure of being cheated. As a consequence
the whole management of the bank
speedily devolved, as was manifestly the
intention it should, upon a cabal in Wash
ington, consisting of a small minority of
the acting trustees, who played the con
fidence game called “The Freedmen’s
Saving and Trust Company. ”
There is nothing in the charter author
izing branches of the bank in all parts of
tbe country, and if there bad been such
authorization, grave constitutional objec
tions could have been interpoeed; bnt
such branches were established in several
localities, and thenceforth the bank be
came as “a whited sepulchre, fair ou the
outside, but within full of dead men’s
bones”—rottenness and corruption. The
committee of examination and the board
of trustees proved utterly faithless to the
trust reposed in them. Everything was
left to the actuary and the finance com
mittee.
The next fatal Btep was the act of Con
gress of May 6, 1870, amending the
charter so as to allow one-half the depos -
its, not held as an available fund, to be
invested in loans seenred on real estate.
This amendment was secured through
the active agency of W. S. Huntington,
then cashier of H. D. Cooke’s bank.
Under it the District “real estate ring
pool ” advanced npon the bank and took
it by storm. This “pool” was repre
sented in the bank by five of its high
officers, viz: H. D. Cooke, George W.
Ballocb, W. S. Huntington, D. L. Eaton
and Z. B. Richards, all of whom were
concerned in speculations more or less
dependent for successful issue on sus
taining contractors under the board of
public works, and a free use of the funds
of tbe Freedmen’s Bank.
Under such auspioes there can be no
wonder that tbe toilsome savings of the
poor negroes, boarded and laid by for a
rainy day melted away, vanished into
thin air in the form of millions of so-
called assets, on which, by no possible
contingency, can fifty cents on the dollar
be ever realized to the unfortunate
victims of heartless duplicity and mis-
plaoed confidence. The wolves literally
became the pastors of the flock, and
without compunction or remorse de
voured the younglings committed to their
care.
It is proved that the books of tbe bank
are mutilated and defaced—leaves cut out
in some places and firmly pasted together
in others—abounding iu false entries and
false balances, and altogether exhibiting
a labyrinth of winding and never-ending
perplexities and contradictions that defy
the scrutiny of the sharpest experts.
Tbe Washington cabal consisted of
D. L. Eaton, President of the bank; H.
D. Cooke, chairman of the finance com
mittee; W. G. Huntington, Gen. O. O.
Howard, Lewis Clephane, and four others,
a majority of whom held high oarnival
over the freedmen’s savings, and who at
their pleasure violated any and all of the
charter provisions.
The report then gives a complete his
tory of the Seneca sandston^swindle by
which the bank lost $62,000, and recom
mends thatH. D. Cooke, Lewis Clephane,
Hallet Kilbourne and John O. Evans, the
surviving partners in that swindle, be
tried and punished to tbe full extent of
the law. George W. Stickney, assistant
actuary in the bank, is also said to have
been privy to the transaction and to have
converted the bank’s funds to his own
use, and should, therefore, receive pun
ishment.
The report concludes with an instruc
tion that the committee will hereafter
report upon the action of the commis
sioners appointed to wind up the affairs
of the bank.
Brigands robbed a stage in Texas last
week in the old-fashioned way, which
everybody who reads novels understands.
The stage was stopped, and the pas
sengers, after having thrown their
weapons down in a heap, were formed in
a line and their money and valuables
were taken away from them. After
taking the valuable packages in the mail
and joking with the frightened passen
gers, the robbers rode leisurely away
with about six hundred dollars in money
and other property. There have been
lately many such outrages in Texas.
A olever robbery was perpetrated in
the Globe Hotel. Philadelphia, a few days
ago. A New York gentleman and lady
left their room temporarily and the
chambermaid entered to attend to her
regular duties. While she was there a
well-dressed couple entered and assumed
to be the rightful occupants of the room;
while the man occupied the attention of
the maid, the woman ransacked trunks,
bureau and closets, and took away $5,000
worth of jewelry, a valuable lace shawl
and other articles. Moral—leave your
valuables at home.
More than ever tbe dial of Democratic
sentiment indicates the want of snch a
man at the head of its ticket as ex-Gov-
ernor Joel Parker or Senator Bayard, or
Governor Hendricks. Governor Tilden
is clearly out of the race, notwithstanding
the strenuous efforts making to convince
the country that he is essentially the
coming man. The fault is not his own,
but that of his friends, whose injudici
ousness long since gave a dangerous stab
to the vitality of the party.—Philadelphia
Chronicle.
A churchman writes to the London
Times inquiring whether the Queen’s
new title of Empress of India is to be
used in the Prayer-Book. Mr. Disraeli
has promised that it shall not be used in
State papers whose operation is confined
to Great Britain and Ireland, bat as the
Prayer-Hook circulates at home and
abroad, and the printing of two diverse
editions would be an alarming innova
tion, the correspondent wants to know
what the government proposes to do
about it.
An important decision for the factory
operatives of Massachusetts has just be« n
rendered by the Supreme Court of tbe
State upholding the constitutionality of
the ten-hour law which was passed by
the Legislature two years ago. The law
has been disregarded ever since its pas
sage by the manufacturing corporations,
which found it adverse to their interests,
and the case in question was a test one,
with a view to its vigorous enforcement.
The decision has given great joy to the
factory operatives.
Nurses should be careful not to dispirit
or frighten their patients. By a mistake
a married lady in London gave her hus-
bf nd, who was suffering from heart dis
ease, a dose from a wrong bottle,
labelled “Poison.” The mistake waa im
mediately detected, but there was no
poison in the bottle; the patient, how -
ever, was so frightened that he died the
same afternoon.
Scene—A Troy bookstore—lady cus
tomer—“Have yon a nice book qll covered
with red leather, with gold letters on the
back ?” Shopkeeper,| “Yes, madam; we
have DeQuincey’s works, three volumes
in Russia, or General Sherman’s “Me
moirs,’ two volumes, in calf.” Lady
customer—“I don’t want anything about
Russia. Give me the book about the
dear little calves; besides, it was made by
a General, i— Troy Press.
Brutal Outrage in Virginia.—Dr.
John B. MoDearmin, of Appomattox
county, Va., was knocked down at his
residence on Friday night by a slungshot,
and afterwards shot through the body,
by two persons supposed to be negroes,
who then robbed the house of