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Affairs in Georgia.
Oh do, Eleven Able. The newspapers
are not abusing Atlanta. It is a goodly city
for commercial purposes—thrifty, progres-
e ire and prosperous—but it is not altogether
the proper place for the State capital. In
eTOr y metropolis there is always more or less
olilical corruption, aDd Atlanta is no excep
tion. Therefore, Eloven Able, the people
ol Georgia want their Government to he
Administered and their laws enacted in a
carter somewhat remote from the corrupt
influences of large cities. Milledgeville was
made the capital of Georgia by some of the
purest men that ever lived—native and to
tbo manner born—while Atlanta was made
the capital by a villainous and ontragoous
mnrpation, and without the consent of the
people uf Georgia. Is not all this true,
Elereu Able ?
“L. II. W.” expends a postal oard to say:
*‘I think your laudation of the country presB
is rather thin, when it is remembered that
»11 dailies consider the rural weeklies in
(heir way." Our correspondent will per-
ij.os open his eyes when we tell him that
oar travelling agents have standing instruc
tions, whenever they are canvassing in a
section where a country weekly is published,
to a-k people to tako their country paper
first and then take the Mokninq News.
Moreover, they are not allowed to solicit
auv job work that can conveniently
be done in a country office, nor are they
Allowed to take any legal advertising that
ought, of right, to he printed in the local
weekly. There may be dailies who regard
-he country press as rivals, hut there is no
such daily published in Savannah. On the
contrary we have found them powerful
a niiliaries, and our largest lists of subscrib
es c imP from communities and sections
where th ’ best and most prosperous country
in,-urn rtnblished. Oar correspondent
^ several tongue from land in his ideas
shout newspapers, we trust he will look
upon the foregoing jn/'dimation as a rope
thrown to fetch him ashore.
Governor making is quite an a T t ' n Geor
gia at this time.
It seems to be poetical justice that whe. n a
negro tackles a lot of over-ripe cucumbers,
the morbid vegetables should, in turn,
ackle him. There are two sides to every
question.
The editor of the Griffin News can’t abide
Latin quotations. This is the true Bpirit of
patriotism. The good old Georgia vernacu
lar is mighty expressive when one takes the
troub le to warm the words over.
Tho yield of the oat crop in Mitchell
county is better than for ten years past, and
tho area sown a third larger than ever be
fore.
Augusta enjoyed a moonlight excursion
up the canal last night, and we have no
doubt that those who participated had a
pleasant time. We were complimented with
sn invitation to attend, for which we re
turn thanks to tho committee. From an
intimation in the document referred to, we
learn that tho canal has a basin. This, with
the blackberry patches, renders it quite a
work of art,
Muscogee county has twelve thousand
dollars in her treasury, and is out of debt,
lu this respect, she is probably tho banner
county.
As wo havo said before, the Atlanta Con•
silution is getting to he quite lively in its
-raptiing. Recently tho Auguista
^* rSb • remarked; “Bullock has a friend
i ! ’'rtfei)’ We wonder who the
who is a ‘Co.
Colonel is ?” Wh.^ th f * T _ n'
4 *We don t know un
put m this neat one: ' ...
* with Rule
leas it was tho Colonel tha.. ; „
out at Ponce de Leon the othiT*
It seems that Colonel Walsh was in
about that time. If ho was, he no cL
enjoyed the joke.
A Giloier county tape-worm-*-a mere
stripling, so the doctors say—measures eight
feet in length.
Varney Gaskill is a loading Tennessee
Democrat.
Mr. S. R. Freeman, an experienced news
paper man. has purchasod the Ellijay
Courier.
The Forest News, published at Jefferson,
Jackson county, has completed its first vol-
ume. It is a neatly printed, well edited
paper, and seom» to be prosperous.
G* trgia is ahead on the early peach ques
tion. Mr. J. H. Parnell, of West Point, had
ripe peaches as early as the 20 th of May.
He begun his shipments North yesterday.
Mr. John Seay, an old citizen of Jackson
county, died very suddenly on the 2Gth of
May.
We have received the first number of tho
Conyers Courier, published by Messrs.
Shaver & Scott, and edited by Wallace P.
Heed, Esq.
Mrs. Fannie C. Schlatter, wife of Colonel
Charles L. Schlatter, of Brunswick, died re-
oently at Suwannee Springs, in Florida.
We fear that in the following extract from
the Constitution, the Eleven Able are made to
ei pre88 a sentiment which, in their more se
rious moods, they will not endorse : “If the
People of Georgia have grown so blind as
to see that this city is the State’s proudest
8h)ry, and that it holds here the very heart
'J her trade and commercial influence, we
are sorry for them.”
is said that an Atlanta Frenchman has
klleu heir to a very large estate in his
dative land.
The Atlanta Tinges says: “A rumor has
been published in some of the papers of the
that the Hon. Julian Hartridge has
declined to be a candidate for re-election to
tottgresg. We are able to state positively
th*' TO ch is not the fact. Georgia can ill
afford l ose the services of such a Repre-
^otative as 1 ^ r *Cartridge.especially in such
thneB as these.” the Augusta Chronicle
*tos: “The State of Georgia cannot afford
lose the services of su^ * maa M Jalian
bridge. He would adoF * an V P°* ition
^tthia the gift of the people.”
It U said that Markham, of Atla.^ & »
e the Radical candidate for GoveT^**
^hile old man Norcross will be a candidate
tor Congress.
A telegram to the Atlanta Constitution
6 totes that Bill Comer, Rome a machinist,
p ot an H killed his step-father, a man named
or d, on the 21 inst. Ford was endeavor-
tog to force an entrance into Comer’s house.
1 to said that Hon. C. A. Nutting and
*yor Huff, of Macon, are going to Colorado
bve. Macon, as well as the State, will
08 e two valuable citizens,
oung Paul Bleckley, of Atlanta, proposes
* °pt the stage as his profession.
°rty-five year old citizen of Early county
ever bought a box of matches. By this
dred^°ii Al ° De h<> 1148 Bave< * eev8r *I^ nn '
H* Tr&vig, for thirty years a citizL
1 r,ri ffin, died in Atlanta on Sunday. hL
Jtosa motive of Morgan scanty. At the
° { ^ k* 8 death, he was seventy-two years
fctiiuy* 16 * 0rty C0 ^ 0re ^ women in the peoi-
Atlantic and Galt B. fi.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 6. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
**«* T - Hargrove, of Rome, doesn’t
plain “Mister.” ^ ^ ^ “ eatltlemeat ” bu ‘
Sever.iy.five thousand shad-seed have
been placed in the Ocmulgee, near Macon.
LaGrange Reporter: A fanner of this
county giving in his crop returns to the tax
receiver, said he had eighty-five acres in
cotton „ a nd five in corn. “What do von
mean ? asked the receiver, in astonishment.
Ihe reply was, “I am in debt and am
oDiiged to make cotton in order to get out ”
Now it is a question how long it will take'a
man to get out of debt if he raises cotton
exclusively, or almost exclusively. Will it
really get a man out of debt ? Is there any
profit a. all in exclusive cotton raising?
Ihese are questions which producers of cot
ton oDly are invited to answer through these
columns. The answers should be deduced
from experience, and not consist of mere
theorizing.
OolumbuS inquirer :The grandest an J most
wonderful electrical display that we have ever
seen waB in the eaBt yesterday about dark.
It darted in sparks between two horizontal
clouds like that of a powerful electrical
machine. It would often branch off into
three prongs, and sometimes in a solid
chain, break, and apparently go in opposite
directions. Balls of it would rush and hurst
like a rocket. There was a continuous
muttering of thunder afar off, suggestive in
sound of a furious tornado. Such a sight
we hare never before witnessed. The gods
of winds and heavens must have met in
dreadful battle.
Macon Telegraph : Mr. 0;-F. Adams, Chief
of Police, has received a communication
from the Chief Constable of Rockdale, Eng
land, relative to one Michael Hennessey,
who is reported to have been murdered in
his own store, in Macon, in August last. No
such murder was ever committed in Macon,
hut from the facts stated in the letters ad
dressed to the Chief of Police, we think it
probable that it did occur s imewhere in
Georgia. If any of our exchanges have
any knowledge of such an occurrence we
hope they will inform us. There are some
peculiarities connected with the case which
mak6 it more than a mere matter of curi
osity.
Atlanta Sunday Telegram,: The rendition
of Casca, by Paul Bleckley, and Brutus by
Mr. Ed. Hammond, were almost faultless
pieces of acting. Mr. Bleckley’s Casca, a
comparatively unimportant part in itself,
was made conspicuous by the dainty and
scholarly manner in which he presented it.
There were few of the audience who did not
carry away the picture of the haughty,
scornful Casca, who stepped into the con
spiracy without any persuasion or argument,
and accepted the commission to lead the as
sault as a matter of course, and who, when
the whole stage was ablaze with the excite
ment following Ciesar’s death, stood like a
statue, smiling half contemptuously upon
the shouting crowd. It was a wonderful
piece of acting—wonderful in its unexpected
absorption of self into the assumed charac
ter, and in the marvellous knowledge of
stage-play.
Perry Home Journal: The most wonder
ful snake story cornea to us from a minister
of irreproachable reputation. Mrs. Sewell,
of thiB county, was in her garden the other
morning picking peas for dinner, when two
large rattlesnakes came out from a hedge of
raspberries. They at once began to strike
at each other—ail the time hissing and
rattling like mad. They appeared to be
very expert in dodging; but the largest one
finally seized the smaller one by the tail and
with one or two gulps swallowed him bodily.
Then the smaller one seized the larger one
by the bead, and swelling his head like an
adder, drew his adversary wrong side out
ward like skinning a squirrel, and safely
swallowed him—both of the snakes disap
pearing—having mutually swallowed each
other.
Augusta Chronicle, of Sunday; On last
Thu r sd a Ti June 1st, Mrs. Massey and Mrs.
Messex, who resided together in a house
about seven miles from Waynesboro, Burke
county, gave some ginger cakes to two small
colored boys about five or six years of age,
who lived in a cabin on the premises. The
bovs were soon afterwards seized with symp
toms of poisoning, and one of them, named
Osborn, died in a short time. The other re
covered. An inquest was held over tlio
body of Osborn, and the jury returned a
verdict to the eflect that the evidence point
ed to the guilt of the two women. The lat
ter were arreBted yesterday and lodged in
jail at Waynesboro. Hon. S. A. Corker,
their counsel, came to Augusta to gee if
they could give bond. It is probabie that
they were admitted to bail during the day,
the evidence against them being altogether
circumstantial. The stomach of the de
ceased boy was sent to Augusta for analysis,
but as the operation could not he performed
here, it was sent hack by the morning train
yesterday.
LaGrange Reporter: In advance, before
any person has announced himself for office,
we desire to take a position against inde
pendent candidates, and we want the people
of the country generally to take the same
position. No person has a right to any
office, and therefore no cne can be justified
in running against a regularly nominated
candidate, on tho ground of being entitled
to the office. An independent candidate is
a disorganizer—an enemy to the party to
which he professes to belong. An in
dependent Democrat (so-called) in Troup
county, will necessarily rely large
ly on the votes of the ne
groes; therefore the names disorganizer
and enemy are properly applicable to him.
These things we say now, when we have no
iue$ whether any one is going to ran inde
pendently, in order that we may not bo sus
pected of personal giotives if it becomes
, necessary to oppose soma independent dur-
l ia” the ensuing campaign. Now, if there
' iy*a iielibood of independent candidates—
l ol which ye have BO knowledge, as said
'*s?ye—the Lest plan of action is to
9 .. - tbpir guns to advance. We can
f .,,:, by making tho nominations
d0 “S iud satisfactory shat no
®° ina 'tiv “td fault with them. Let
the nominees he select^ »y ttai people and
truly represent the people. - ,et a !*° w
man to be nominated for any office hy *ny
ring or clique. Our opinion is that the be...
way to do this is by primary elections. This,
however, will be discussed at the meeting
next Tuesday. What we want is for the
people to have a full, fair fend free expres
sion of their wishes in the nominations, and
then to fight independent candidates as
strenuously and unsparingly as Radicals.
South Carolina Affairs.
Mr. Havener, near Bivingsville, had his
thigh broken by the kick of a male.
Isaac Jones, colored, has been arrested in
Sumter on five charges of burglary.
Governor Hubbard, of Texas, is a native
of South Carolina, Abbeville county.
Judge Mackey delivered an address before
the Lancaster Sons of Temperance on the
26th inst.
Mr. J. L. Harrell’s gin house in the lower
part of Darlington was consumed by light
ning, on Sunday, 21st ult.
A match game of chess between Union
and Spartanburg was commenced Friday
morning. The moveB will he reported by
telegraph.
Two thieves attempted to rob the barn of
of Mr. J. H. Drennan, of Abbeville. As he
rushed out they fired two pistol shots at him
and escaped.
Mr. J. C. Hayden, of Greenville, has ap
plied for a patent for a milkman’s transpor
tation can, which prevents the roughest
jolting of a wagon from disturbing the milk.
This is a chance for a fortune.
We learn that John Shields, nephew of
Captain J. W. Daniels, narrowly escaped
drowning in a mill pond last Friday. He
was rescued by Messrs. Wilson and Jackson,
the latter being injured by a snag in his
efforts to save the drowning youth.
Laurensville Herald : A pall of gloom
and sadness has been thrown over our com
munity by the death of Mr. James M. Boyd,
a highly esteemed and valued citizen of
this village, which mournful event occurred
on tho 22d ultimo, after an illness of eleven
days. .
Among the crooked whisky prisoners tried
at the recent term of the United States
Court in Charleston and sentenced to the
Albany penitentiary we notice the names ot
the following from Anderson: John Hill,
three vears, knd Wm. S. Gentry, two years.
Xhe prisoners left Charleston on the steam-
shiD Champion last Saturday evening under
?he P obarge of the United States Marshal
inh several special deputies.
Hon Benjamin H. Wilson, of Georgetown,
Hon, pe j col. Wilion was a
died on ^^d gentleman of the old
highly ac ^ m k™ tLreughont the State,
school, wel1 k . Georgetown for many years
Ha represented Georgeto - ^ &
in the Gene "f influence. He was a iawyer
strong personal flu® th0 Georgetown
by profession,-pdert ^ wa9 a patriot
Times for “ au y y d labwre4 earnestly' for
? h a e% a o g rolThe n Btate d durh/his whole life.
Portions of last
heavv stormsofj‘»«*.J« raaoC3t wblch did
Sunday and Monday wljea t and oat crops.
much mischief to the ^heat« d ^ ^
In gome P la0 ®* * b b ad jy that neither can be
blown down e mun wheat was in tho
cut with the Bcythe. The farm-
bloom, and what is blown ao flat
stolk, and it
°yiS*ted that itdoesnotinjure
BY TUKiPH
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Moon Telegrams.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
ENGLAND’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS
TURKEY.
On the Eye of a Momentous Change.
THE GROSVENOR MISSION TO CHINA.
The Character of Mr. Kerr’s Accnser.
THE EASTERN CRISIS.
London, Jane 5.—The Berlin telegraphic
agency asserts that EDgl&nd has concluded
aa alliance with Turkey, and guaranteed
the latter’s integrity. The Russian tele
graph agency declares that Murad will be
recognized on all hands as soon as his acces
sion is officially announced.
Berlin, June 5.—The North German Ga
zette intimates that the antagonism of Eng
land and Russia plunges all Europe into a
most critical situation. The National Zei-
tung regards Andrassy’s recent pacific views
as entirely erroneous, and foresees that
momentous decisions will have to be imme
diately adopted by the various powers.
London, June 5.—The Times's Berlin cor
respondent, commenting on the tone of the
German press, remarks : “There, is but too
much reason for these apprehensions. The
King of Greece has ordered his army tc be
put on a war footing, and the Greek com
missioners arrived in Germany to negotiate
a war loan. This serious movement,” the
correspondent adds, “is accompanied by
others of like import. The Russian General
Tchenayoff, who assumed command of the
Servian forces on his arrival at Belgrade,
handed the Servian Government a quarter
of a million of dollars, as a donation from
the Slavonic societies of Russia. Bretgarin
is also set a-fire by hosts of well armed
volunteers from Russia. Servia, Rou-
mania and Montenegro have estab
lished fortified camps, amply supplied with
c&DDon. A crisis is unavoidable unless
Russia retracts. Russia is unprepared for the
present contingency, and is slow to decide.
The feeling in Berlin is that we are on the
eve of a momentous change. The declara
tion of the Montenegran Official Gazette that
insurgents are determined immediately to
fall upon the Turks with the whole Servian
race, must be considered authentic. The
Servian troops are ranged on the frontier
ready to act at a moment's notice.”
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, June 5.—The Judiciary
Committee is not m session. In the Kerr
Committee, Captain Greene testifies that ho
never went with Harney to Kerr’s room.
The testimony shows that Harney lived dis
reputably in Washington in 1866.
The House is calling the ayes and nays
on the motion to refer the resolution that
present legislation on tho tariff is inexpedi
ent to the Ways and Means Committee.
The Senate in the morning hour discussed
the resolution of Mr. Sherman proposing a
common ut it of money and accounts be
tween the United States and Great ft*itain,
but took no action thereon.
THE GROSVENOR MISSION.
London, June 5.—A special dispatch from
Calcutta to the Times says Mr. Grosvenor’s
mission arrived at Rangoon on Friday last.
Messrs. Grosvenor aud Babler remained at
Maudalay. The evidence shows clearly that
Mr, Margary was murdered by Chinese Im
perial troops. It is expected that Lesseeta-
hre, the Chinese General, will be exonerated
from complicity in the affair. The Chinese
authorities await Mr. Grosvenor’s report be
fore carrying out the executions of those
implicated in the murder.
DEAD.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 5—Jacob
Graft’, well and favorably known as a tele
graph operator, died here yesterday. The
body will be taken to Baltimore for inter
ment.
THE DEAD SULTAN.
Constantinople, June 5.—The physicians
of the British and other embassies testify
that the Sultan died of suicide by catting
the veins of his arms with scissors.
FAILED.
Moscow, June 5.—Fenkouskoff Brothers,
of the Siberian and Asiatic trade, have
failed fop a million of roubles.
$eorge sand.
Paris, Juno 5.—It is believed that Georges
Sand is out of danger.
Evening Telegrams.
JAW” FROM JIM BLAISE,
Who Rises Once More to Explain
THE MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE OF
LETTERS.
HB REAPS THE EPISTI.BS TO THE
Anil Falls Into the Clutches of Proctor
Knott.
How a Kentuckian Skins a Down-Banter.
MORE “ JAW ” FROM RLAiNjs.
Washington, Jane 5.—In tho House to-
daT Blaine rose to a personal explanation.
He road the resolution offered by Tarbox.
The author of the resolution at the time
disclaimed any parfemlar allusion to Blaine,
but it soon became entirely ofiyous that the
resolution was solely and only aimed At him.
The Union Pacific matter, or any other in
cident to the investigation, was secondary,
insignificant and unimportant. He did not
care for that. He was ready to meet it. He
had expected an early ^report, but it had
been prolonged, They had no sooner
cot through with the last charge than with
out the slightest notice, another committee
had entered on an investigation specially
aimed at him, so that there were three in.
vesligations going on at the same time and
none completed. He understood that Mr.
Hunton proposed still another inquiry about
the KanSaa Pacific, a transaction tjhlch was
fifteen years old, efen if it exiSaea, which
was also aimed at him. i^oy, he wquld
say it boldly, that under
general powers to investigate specific rail
road companies, the whole engineering of
the committees w^s aimed personally at
him. Why did they not .organize a. com
mittee to investigate James G. Blame / He
wanted to meet the thing squarely. Re did
not wish to Btir up any blood on this ques
tion but he would say that ever since a per.
tain’debate took place in the House in Jan.
nary last, it had been known that there were
gentlemen here whose feelings had
been exasperated against him, and it
was to be remarked tjjat while there
were seven Democratic meffibeys of the
Judiciary Committee, the chairman o* ^bjt
committee (Mr. Knott) selected on the
sub-committee to which these matters had
been referred two members from the South
who had been in the rebel -,C)y. _
Knott—The matter of that railroad inves
tigation was referred to the sub-committee
before I ever heard your name mentioned m
connection with it. I had no act nor part
in inciting any investigation implicating
y °Blaine^And finally the witness Mulligan
came here loaded with information in re
gard to the Fort Smith Railroad. The gen
tleman (Hunton) drew out what he knew
had no reference whatever to the question
under investigation, and then and tbere in-
aisted on all my private memoranda being
allowed to be exhibited by this man (Mnlli-
gaD) whioh had no more connection or rela
tion with this investigation thau with
the North pole. The gentleman tried
his best also, until I believe that the idea
has been abando»ed,U) capture and use and
control my private 'oorrespcndpnpe. This
man had selected out of a correspondence
running over a great many years letters
which he thought would be peculiarly
damaging to me. Ho came here loaded
with them. He came here for a sensation.
He came here primed. He came here on
that particular errand. I was advised
of it and I obtained these letters under
circumstances which have been notoriously
scattered throughout the United States and
known everywhere. I liavej them (holding
up the packag)e. I claim that I have the
entire right to these letters, not only by
natural right hut on all the precedent^ and
principles of law. The man who held them
in hie possession bad them wrongfully, and
the committee which attempted to take these
letters from this man for nee against
me proceeqefi wrongfully. It proceeded in
the boldest anfi most defiant yiolation qf
the ordinary personal and private rights
that belong to every American citizen. I
am willing to meet the Jndioiary Committee
on that point. I wanted that committee to
introduce it. I wanted the gentleman from
L —-w—and the gentleman frop
Virginia (Hunton), to introduce that ques
tion on the floor, and they did not do it.
Knott, in his seat—Oh ! no; you want to
be made a martyr of.
Blaine—Yes, and you did not want it.
There’s the difference. I will go a little
further, and say that yon did not dare to
do it.
Knott—We will not talk abont “daring”—
Hamilton, of New Jersey—I rise to a ques
tion of order. Is the gentleman’s language
parliamentary ?
Blaine—Yes, entirely so.
The Speaker pro tern., Cox, of New York,
in the chair—It is for the chair to decide.
Blaine—I understood the Judiciary Com
mittee to have 1 abandoned that issue against
me, but there has gone forth the idea or
impression that becans6 I would not permit
that man or any man, when I could prevent
it, from holding as a menace over my head
my private correspondence, there must be
something in it most deadly and destructive
to my reputation. I would like any gentle
man on this floor—and all of them are pre
sumed to be men of affairs whose business
has been varied, and whose intercourse has
been large—to stand up here and say that
he is willing and ready to have his private
correspondence for the last ten or twelve
years banded over and made pnblic.
When Mr. Blaine said be proposed to read
those letters to the House to 6ilence
slander and check su mise, there was a de
cided sensation and applause. He then held
up a package of letters,reading them rapidly,
and occasionally stopping to make some ex
planation, and, as he concluded, handed
them to his private secretary, who stood
near him. Blame charged Knott, chairman
of the committee, with suppressing a tele
gram from Josiah Caldwell in Europe, en
tirely exonerating him.
Mr. Blaine explained the Spencer contract
to which allusion was made in one of the
letters by saying that in the summer of
1861, two years before he first came to Con
gress, he had been asked if be could not get
an opportunity for the inventor of the
Spencer repeating rifle to bring that now
arm to the attention of the Secretary of
War. He said he thought ho could, and had
come on to Washington and had an inter
view with Secretary Cameron. Mr. Came
ron had given orders to have it tested by
the Ordnance Bureau, and it had been thor
oughly tested and the experiments were so
satisfactory that a preliminary order for
twenty thonsand rifles was made, and the
company had immediately proceeded to
erect an armory in Boston. He had been
paid not an extravagant but a moderate fee
for his services, which he had jnst as much
liberty to take as any other lawyer or agent
had to take a fee. Snsequently he had
taken and paid for ten tnousand dollars
worth of stock in the company, which bad
since been merged into the Winchester Rifle
Company. That was the whole story.
Knott, of Kentucky, Cbairmau of the Ju
diciary Committee, said he had listened to
imputations upon himself within the last
two hours, which, ooming from a different
source, he might perhaps answer very dif
ferently from the manner in whioh he
should now attempt to answer them. Those
who were intimately acquainted with him
knew that he was the last man in the
world to seek a personal controversy, and
he assured the House that of all men in
the world the gentleman from Maine
(Blaine) was the last man with whom he
would seek such a controversy. That gen
tleman was entirely too immense in his pro
portions. “Why, man, he doth bestride the
world like a colossus and we petty men walk
between his huge legs aud peep about
to find ourselves dishonored graves.”
Personal controversy seemed to be
that gentleman’s forte. He reminded him
of Homer’s description of Diomede :
“Dire was the clang and dreadful from ifar,
’! he armed Tydides rushing to war.”
As a friend of his would say, the gentleman
was entirely too “bumptious” and too
“usurptious” for him. (Laughter on the
Democratic side.) Two-thirds ol the time
the gentleman was in the House be did net
seem to realize whether he was Speaker or
simply a member, aud to a stranger it would
be an inauluable enigma to know which be
was. The gentleman had quite unnecessarily
lugged him (Knott) into ibis personal mat
ter of bis own. In the first place he had in
sinuated that from some unworthy motive
be, as Chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee, had appointed on the sub-com
mittee which bad charge of tbese investi-
gationBthe gentleman from Virginia (Hun-
ton) and the gentleman from North Caro
lina (Ashe). In answer to that he had to
say, first, that either ot theBe gentlemen was
his (Blaine’s) peer in any sense of the word,
and that in point of honor it was no dispar
agement to the gentleman from Maine to say
they were his superiors. (Hisses and other
marks of disapprobation from the Republi
can side of the House.)
Knott—Tbat is all right. There are threq
kinds of animals in the world that hiss—
vipers, geese and fools. (Laughter.) Iu
the second place, this sub-committee was
selected long before there was any insinua
tion, in pnblic or private, that the gentle
man from Maine was in any manner impli
cated in any of the alleged fraudulent trans
actions on the part of any of these corpora
tions, and ft did seem to me when the
gentlemau flung his imputation at me
as a little strange that he conld
ascribe such motives to me under the cir
cumstances. Even granting that tbo gen
tleman from Virginia, and tho gentlemau
from North Carolina, wero hiB personal ene
mies, it does seem a little remarkable tbat
yon cannot touch one of tbeso railroads
bnt tho gentleman from Maine will squeal.
As to the cable dispatch from Josiah
Caldwell, it is true that on last
Thursday morning I did receive a dispatch.
The gentleman from Maine (Blaine) seems
to know precisely the hour at which I re
ceived it, and its contents. He seems thor
oughly posted on the subject, but permit
me to say with regard to the insinuation
tbat the telegram has been suppressed, that
any man, high or low, whoever he may be,
who will elsewhere make such an insinua
tion will have to take the, consequences. I
hurl the falsehood back into the teeth of
any man who makes a suggestion
as to the suppression of that dispatch. (Ap
plause on tbe Democratic side.) I received
it and I did not suppress it at ail. In less
than thirty minutes after I received it, I
read It to several gentlemen, but there was
no particular address in London from which
it purported to come, and I did believe, and
am not altogether certain yet that I do not
believe, it was a fixed-up job. (Murmurs of
dissent from the Republican side.)
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, June 5.—The House tariff
resolution was referred—114 to 99, equiva
lent to killing it.
Neal offered a bill repealing tbe resump
tion act, and called the previous question.
Hasson raised the point that no notice had
been given of the bill, therefore It wijs not
in order. The 8peaker, Mr. Cox, sustained
the point. Holman appealed, and Morrison
moved to table the appeal, whioh motion
was carried—134 to 35.
In the Renate, the Committee on Military
Affairs reported adversely on the House bill
authorizing the Secretary of War to loan
camp equipage to the Mexican veterans
during their Centennial visit, also adverse
ly og *he bill for the relief of the officers
and privates of the Arkansas Fourth Volun
teer Cavalry, and fivorabiy on the House
bill retiring’General W. H. Emery.
A new conference committee was appoint
ed cn the diplomatic appropriation bill.
The §nnale the:; resumed tbe legislative
appropriation bill. Tjie appropriation for
the Jndian Commissioner tfaS restore*!.
THE ATLAHT10, SHSStSSim AND OHIO RAIL
ROAD.
Richmond, June 5.—In the United 8tates
Circuit Court to-day Judges Bond and
Hughes, presiding, argument in the case of
t_(;e Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
was oonclud-d and the court decided to ap
point a receiver.' Tne Ccugt was in private
consultation two hours this evening’with ihe
counsel representing the various inter
ests in the road, listening to suggestions and
recommendations regarding the appoint
ment.
After the conference the Jndges returned
to the court room, and, without announcing
the conclusion arrived at, adjourned court
until to-morrow mornigg. Among the
names mentioned as being recommended to
the ponrt are those of Gen. G. B. McClellan,
Gen, William Mahone, Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, and Charles H. Perkins, of New York.
THE FRENCH TURF.
Paris, June 5.—At the summer meeting
at Auteuil to-day the most notable event
was the grand steeple chase de Paris for
30,000 francs. The attendance was very
large and included President MacMabon
and wife. Sixteen horses started. The
winner was Ventriloquist, Chimney Sweep
second, and Congress third.
WHIT-KONDAf.
Philadelphia, June 5.—To-day being
Whit-Monday, it was generally observod as
a holiday by the Germans of this city, a
large number of whom visited the Centen
nial grounds, while many others are at
Schuetzen and Saengerw Parks. The Ger
man Cath flics this morning made a very in
teresting street parade.
ABORTION.
Boston, June 5.—The death of Mary J.
Fuller from abortion, in this city on last
Thursday, has led to the arrest of Miss Fan
nie Drake, practitioner, and Lesander Den
ham, tbe latter having,' as is alleged, burned
the body of the child in a stove to prevent
discovery.
CHICAGO’S MUNICIPAL MUDDLE.
Chicago, June 5.—In the Circuit Coart of
five Jndges, three decided in favor of Mayor
Calvin, the votes in favor of Hayne being
nugatory because Council failed to give pro
per aoticaof election.
The Hawaiian Treaty and the Duty on
Bice.
Dahlonega, Ga., Jnne 2,1876.
Editor Mommq News :
Recently I have been much interested in
the pernsal of several articles which have
appeared in your valuable journal in refer
ence to the ratification of the Hawaiian
treaty by the Senate of the United States.
They have revived some interesting facts
connected with the legislation of Congress
in the spring and summer of 1872, and which
resulted in the tariff acts of May and Jane
of that year—leaving the duty on rice just
where it had been for abont six years, to
wit: two and a half cents per pound on clean
rice.
I had the honor at that time of represent
ing the Ninth District of this State in the
House of Representatives, and although my
immediate constitnents were, perhaps, less
interested in the coltnre of rice than any
other in the State—being principally in the
mountains—I nevertheless felt a deep inter
est in the questions looking to a reduction
or a repeal of the tariff upon that article.
And notwithstanding my persistent opposi
tion to any change whatever of the duty on
rice placed me in the seeming attitude of a
protectionist, I was yet willing to brave it
all, if by so doiog I might confer a blessing
npon a large class of onr fellow citizens, and
thereby bnild np a struggling industry in
the South—an industry which at one timo
yielded a larger revenue to onr people than
any other Southern production, save that of
cotton. It formed one of the chief exportB
of the country. .
At the time I speak of (1872) memorials
were pouring in npon Congress, asking that
coffee, tea, sngar, salt and rice should be
placed on the free list. After much debate,
coffee and tea were added to the free list.
The opposition to free salt came principally
from tbe salt districts of New York. I was
somewhat surprised that the Virginia dele
gation did not more strenuously oppose tho
measure, as tbat State is largely interested
in the salt business. They would,
doubtless, gladly have done so but from
the fear of seeing themselves placed in
the category of protectionists. The
trouble with Southern members of Congress
seemed to be: bow best to protect tbeirown
interests, and still be free traders; or, in
other words, how to build np Southern in
terests by protecting rice, sngar and to
bacco, and at the same time escape the
charge of protecting Northern manufac
tures. This may not be the proper way of
puiting it, bnt tbe question oiten presented
itself to tbe minds of Southern members of
Congress very much in tbat light. How
ever, I had but little trouble in
solving the whole question satisfac
torily to my own miud. I resolved to vote
to protect every worthy straggling indus
try in the whole country, North or South,
which needed encouragement and protec-
tection, and to withhold my vote from those
over-grown interests whioh no longer re
quired protection. I had long been satis
fied that an exclusive free trade policy would
result in the utter prostration and ruin of
the South, and jnst so long as Southern
Congressmen continue to refuse to meet the
North and East npon a fair and proper basis
in reference to free trade and protection,
just so long will the South remain in pover
ty, and jnst so long will her varied indus
tries remain undeveloped.
Those who petitioned Congress in 1872 to
repeal the diuv op rice resided of coarse in
tbe Eastern and Pacific States. They na
turally wanted to get cheap rice from Japan,
China and the Sandwich Islands. New York
and Philadelphia were to be greatly bene
fited by tbe trade in rice if imported free.
As those cities in a great measure control
tbe Eastern trade which enters tbe United
States at San Francisco, and thence over tbe
Central and Union Pacific Railroads to tbe
Atlantio seaboard. Pennsylvania aud New
York wanted free rice bnt did not want free
iron or free ualt.
The tariff act of ’43 imposed a duty of 20
per cent, ad valorum on rioe; the act of '57
a duty of 15 per cent, ad valorum. In
March '61 (after several Southern States had
seceded) the duty was increased to 1 cent
per pound; in ’63 it was again raised
to 1^ cents per pound, and the
close of the war found the duty two and a
bait oents per pound on cloan rice, or about
100 per cent, ad valorem on tbe cost of tbe
article where shipped to the United States.
The close of the war found the rice fields of
tbe South fearfully devastated. Iu thou
sands of instances they bad fallen into the
hands of former slaves; many thousands of
productive acres had relapsed into their
normal condition of weeds and worthless
marsh; drains and ditches filled up, and
these once fertile swamps had become a
barren waste. Worse than tho true
owners, in many instances, were in
poverty and exile. To have withdrawn
the protection which the tariff afforded
the culture of rice when the owners
were abont to repossess their lands, wonld
have doomed them forever. Without money
to hire the necessary labor to restore the
fields to their proper condition; to bnild
houses ; to procure implements, and trained
labor totally disorganized and gone, how
would the Southern rice planter be able for
a day to withstand the pressure of “Chinese
cheap labor 7”
To prevent a disaster, snch as the repeal
of the duty on rice wonld entail upon many
of onr people, I labored constantly in and
out of the House—especially with members
of the Committee of WayB and Means,
which committee finally made no recom
mendation as to rice, bnt allowed the former
duty to remain. At that time, under Speaker
Blaine’s ruling, but fe?v members from the
South ever obtained tbe floor for any pur
pose). I remember enlisting many North
ern members in opposition to the
proposed redaction. In conversation
one day with tho Hon. S. C.
Forker, of New Jersey, whose seat was then
next to mine, 1 alluded to the subject, and
enlisted his warmest sympathies iu bebajf
of the rioe planters of' the South. In re
turn for his manly resolve to stand
by them I thought it bnt jnst to do
something for tho straggling poor
of New Jersey and elsewhere.
This I did by consenting to retain the
dnty on earthenware, porcelain, terra cotta
work, etc., the manufacture ol which was
not only a straggling industry in New Jer
sey but in many sections of the Sonth, until
ihe workmen were able to compete success
fully with the same kind of work made
abroad. I saw nothing wrong in all this.
While helping the working people in New
J.rsey it would be helping the same class of
workmen in different sections of the coun
try.
Onr public men must not be afraid to look
this question gqnarely in the face. Protec
tion has increased the wealth of tbe North,
whilst an almost exclusive free trade policy
has impoverished the Sonth. There is
certainly, somewhere, a safe and proper
coarse for the Sonth to adopt aud pursue
on this subject. Under tbe influences of
protection let ns see how the article of rice
has increased in growth and production in
the first five years after the war. As an
example we will take the quantity as milled
in Savannah, Charleston and Georgetown in
those five years f
1866 ^ 12,500 casks'
1867 ..24,337 “
1868 30,795 “
1869 60,146 *•
1870 67,735 “
These figures I have no doubt are correct.
If true, your readers, Mr. Editor, can read
ily imagine what the increase has been in
the last five yeq,rs. Should no redaction
take place, tbe production will soon arrive
at what it was before the war:
The ratification of the Hawaiian treaty by
the Senate will be a fraud and an outrage
upon the Sonth. |t will be accomplishing
indirectly wliat has failed heretofore to be
directly done, to wit: the repeal of the dnty
on rice, by allowing the kingdom of Kala-
kua to export her ripe to this country
free of dnty. And it will be, not only the
introduction of free rice from tbe Sandwioh
Islands, which of itself is no very great
matter, bnt, as that country is directly in
tho track of steamers from Japan and Chins,
the rice from both those conntries will be
smuggled into San Francisco and other Pa
cific ports free of duty.
I am glad your people on tbe coast, as
well as in Louisiana, are awakening to the
importance of this subject. I have no doubt
bnt tbat Savannah’s distinguished Senator
(Mr. Norwood) is doing'all ih hij power to
prevent the ratification of so much of the
treaty aB relates to free rice. Gen. Gordon
will oortainly aid him. Tbe rice districts of
tbe South had no oommittees before Con
gress in 1872, but nevertheless the evil was
averted. With able committees before tbe
8enate now, I believe the wrong will be
again prevented.
In all this I do not wish to be understood
as saying that I agree to the full measure of
protection advocated by the iron and woolen
manafaotnrers of the North. Not at all.
But what I wonld be understood as saying
isjthis : It is hjgh time that the Sonth was
beginning to settle npon a policy which
Wonld aid her fn getting once more npon
per fpet. Tiiqes t)»ve ypry much' changed
gipce Southern statesmen in Congress op
posed every measure of protection. In onr
present weak and impoverished condition,
we had better take tome of it whether we
like it or not.
I remain, your obed’t servant,
W. P. Pam
THE RADICAL MUSS AT MADISON.
The End or Stearns's Csnventloo—rloslnf
Scenes—telanEhterlaw Bisbee Acaln—
Tbe Adreltoess or Sehemera—Republi
can Antics—Conover and iiee—Stearns
and Montgomery.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News)
Madison, Jane 4, 1876.
FRIDAY'8 OCCURRENCES.
Friday was characterized here in the
Radical stockade by the re-enactment of
scenes similar to those which had disgraced
the previous conduct of Stearns’s degraded
minions. In the evening the eulogistic
Billy Watkin lavished an inflammatory ora
tion npon abont fifty niggers all in a row.
His listeners were seized with snch an un
governable disgust for the speaker and his
detestable mouthing after the expiration of
abont twenty minntes, that they sneaked
away, causing Billy to collapse on
the shortest oration he ever was coerced
into. In the convention on day be
fore yesterday tbe Mobnino News
became the object of enlivening discussion,
and W. U. Saunders claimed that he never
had read the paper, and immediately
bumped down muttering “that dam Demo
cratic Georgia paper seems to have too
much influence over this Florida Republi
can Convention.” Now we have all the
while contemplated sayiug a good word for
Saunders, and, in order to demonstrate how
unutterably free from unchristian animosity
wo are, his impolite bombast will not be
allowed to act as a deterrent. It has been
alleged by numerous individuals making ex
traordinary pretensions to responsibility
that W. U. Saunders has been repoatodly
suspected of stealing, and, having traced
his conspicuous career from the swaddling
clothes of infancy to ebullient virility, it is
incumbent npon us to denounce the
author of tbe slander as an infamous
inventor, and we do this the more oheerful-
ly for the reason that tho impntation of
prejudice in his favor is impossible.
The usual nnmber of speakers appeared
upon the floor, and the balance of Friday’s
proceedings of interest has been antioipated
by telegraph.
SATURDAY'S WORK.
For faithful pictures of their accomplices
commend us to the lectures upon the quali
fications of different candidates on Satur
day. All the palling and hauling around of
this disorderly oollection of animals failed to
divert the Stearns officials from their stern
purpose. Horatio Bisbee, Jr., was proposed
as a compromise candidate, and Conover
magnanimously pledged himself to withdraw
if the Soap-fat man would emulate tbe exam
ple. Then came the persons supporting Bis
bee, and talked of Marcellus as never Demo
crat has done, denouncing the doughty aspi
rant for everything that is vile and contemp
tible. The fabricators of extemporaneous
pbillipics against Simon emptied tbe reser
voirs of tbeir bitterness upon his diminishing
head, and their turgid rhetoric possessed tbe
merit of beiog lamentably true. These ca
dets ought to be well acquainted with each
other, and a description hv one of the ring
of another is entitled to deep consideration
on an urgent occasion like tins, because of
its fidelity to the original of tbe delineation.
On tbe exterior of the building mat
ters stood upon the verge of a
bloody renconter, brought about by
the idle disputes of two bellicose delegates.
One ot tbe contestants bad a pistol ball to
graze bis cheek, but unfortunately escaped
Berions injury, and the coming of rain es
topped the arrangements for a sanguinary
conflict.
BILLY HICKS
arose in commendation of the nomination
of the second-handed Governor. Billy
grew scarlet, and in fine assumed the
garb of a transcendant beet. His florid
periods reached their culmination when
he, in one grand, glorious and over
powering effort, stigmatized a certain jour
nal as “that mother of lies, the Savannah
Morning Nbws.” Was it not awfully nufair
and outrageous to unsex mortals iu
that way, Billy ? bnt you rectified
things by remarking: “I mean nothing
personal, but hare reference solely to tbe
paper, aud I am ready to apologize in an
impartial, Christian-like manner." The
apology fixes it, Billy. Nothing personal
intended, yon know. Your apologetic inu-
enfo, Billy, good boy, bnt erratic, sir, re
sembles the irresistible annealing process
of your especial everlasting conflagration
below, Billy. Your unsolicited proffer of
atonement is inexpressibly and ravisbingly
balmy, Billy, bnt yon meant no personality,
you see, aud one does not kick into a moun
tain of garbage merely because it is offen
sive, B'lly—d’ye see ? Don’t unsex us again,
however so unexpectedly, agato, Billy,
or suspicions of evil intent will im
pede your path to a glorious but effer
vescing cremation of luuatlcal excitement.
Idiots are irresponsible, Billy, so fare tliee
well, boy baby. Bye-bye, beauty. Repub
lic m blood coursing through your veins in
duces vagaries.
THE PACKED CONVENTION.
After a vast amount of unnecessary clamor,
tbe officials of tbe State proceeded io bailor
for the Domination of a Governor. Tbe
election resulted, as everybody knew it
would, in the choice of Stearns by a vote of
seventy-one, BiBbee receiving fifty-one. Da
vid Montgomery—a Radical defaulter, of
whom more anon—having been named for
the nomination, enoonntered scarcely any
opposition, as the selection of Stcarn s had
completely disorganized the convention,
and was declared the nominee for
Lientonaut Governor. After the appoints
ment of a Blaine delegation to Cincinnati,
and other arrangements, the institution
prepared by Stearns succumbed aud be
came a thing of the past.
THE DELEOATES
from twenty-nine counties drew up and
signed a protest setting forth tbat having
presented Horatio Bisbee, Jr., as a com-
remise candidate they solemnly repudiated
ho nomination of M. L. Stearns. The
Conover band, and Stearns’s band began to
play before tho court house, and each
candidate held a ratification meeting
with their respective followers, and in
dulged in more gasconade. Consider
able enthusiasm was manifested at each
meeting, bnt the Conover faction
seems to be in the majority. The two
tickets, therefore, remain in the field, and
bid fair so to be for some time to come.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The representative of the Morning News
dnriDg the convention i9 indebted to Beveral
citizens of Madison for courtesies extended,
and hereby tenders his acknowledgments
for the same. Adrianus.
Counterfeit Coin.—The statement
that counterfeits of the new 25 cent and
20 cent pieces of 1876 had been put in
circulation in Boston is doubted by the
officers of the United States mint at
Philadelphia. The New York Journal
of Utnnmerce, however, says a well dressed
young man visited several stores in th'at
oity and requested at each a $5 bill in
exchange for silver half dollars, as he
wished to send that amount away in a
letter. A number of merchants accom
modated him, and have since found that
the fifty-cent piece is a well executed
counterfeit. One good test of the
genuineness of metallic currency, and a
test any one may apply, is its sonority;
the ring of the bogus silver will almost
invariably detect its baseness. In this
respect metal as a currency has a marked
advantage over paper as a currency.
A Princely Income.—The San Fran
cisco News Letter says it has been calcu
lated in regard to the total income of Mr.
Maokay, the youngest of the quartette of
“bonanza princes,” that each minute of
the day and night twenty-five golden
dollars drop into his pockets with me
chanical and monotonous regularity. Mr.
Mackay owns three-eights of the famous
Bonanza mines, from which his income
is estimated to be over <1800,000 per
month. The California mine adds an
other $150,000 per month to his income.
The Saltan in fils hareia sat,
And things went Uanim scarum;
The Saltan got insaltan looks,
And had to sit and bear ’em.
The Softas gave him hard, hard words,
His viziers looked irate;
They c ime to ask that Abd nl Az
Should np and Abd-i-cate.
They bronght with them a iong bow string.
Beneath them rolled tbe Bosphorus—
Then let’s slug, long live the King,
Efiendi is the Bo-s for os.
A country Republican Journal is “proud
of the United States Senate—a noble body
that stands like a breakwater before the
waves of Democratic penurionsness and
mischief.” A New Orleans custom house
officer expressed the idea more honestly
the other day, when he remarked: “The
d—d Democrats at Washington are play
ing the ‘mischief with onr chances of
making any more money out of politics. ”
FROM COLUMRIA COUNTY.
Political Notes and News—The Sort of
Men the People Want — Influence of
Good Newspaper*— A Complete Chance
Demanded—Miscellaneous Local Items.
[From an Occasional Correspondent,]
Mikb8ville, Columbia Co., Fla., Jane 2.
In a few days more onr standard-bearers
for Governor and Congress will be before
tbe people, aud it needs that we buckle our
armor for a determined fight, for it cannot
be disguised that Columbia county is de
batable ground, aDd the Radicals will leave
no stone unturned to secure the success of
their ticket, aud we need to arouse our peo
ple to the urgent, pressing necessity of com
plete organization ; to impress upon each
white resident of the age of twenty-one
years that his individual vote is absolutely
essential to our success. To accomplish
these very desirable ends, which are the
sine qua non of success, we depeud, to a
large degree, upon the aid of the Mobnino
News.
Although the signal ability displayed by
the News, and the great interest it eviuces
in our real interests, is correspondingly re
ciprocated io its large circulation among
us, yet it should bo in every houi-e
and cabin, nook and corner, as a
silent, though all-powerful mentor ol
our duty; and tke friends of good,
honest government—those who believe iu
the good old faith and practice of booe-ty
aud integrity in the administration of gov
ernment, and who seek and earnestly wish
the overthrow of the reeking corruption
that infest and permeate the body politic—
should make it their special business to in
crease tho circulation of the News, and have
its influence for good scattered broadcast.
Tho Jacksonville Press is doiDg a gook work
for us, and with ihe assistance of ihe News
and the Press we have every hope of suc
cess. The apathy of our people is to be de
plored, and I do not think tho course of our
Executive Committee is at all calculated to
arouse the people. If my information be
correct, this body consists of twelve mem
bers, aad so fearful were they of drawing
the people away from home for a single day
tiiey themselves selected the delegates, and
I am informed appointed out of their own
body a considerable portion of the dele
gates and alternates to the two conven
tions. This action of their’s of course
gave rise to considerable dissatisfaction,
and justly so. This course of conduci
iustead of arousing onr people from their
lethargy only the more confirms them in it.
I do not thus criticise tbeir conduct through
any captious motives, but our all is depend
ent on our carrying this county. Should
the complexion and standing ot the State-
Senate not bo changed at this election, and
we succeed in electing our man to fill the
vacancy from this county (Fourteenth Dis
trict), we wonld have a majority in the
Senate, and we mast not lessen our chances
of success by driving from us a single vote
by tbe doiDg of any act of doubtfnl pro
priety.
The first step looking toward the arousing
of our people to a sense of their duty is the
selection of proper, available nominees. I
cannot doubt but that the Quincy Conven
tion will see to it that our strongest man is
put forward, and that they will give us a
man in whom will be combined all the ele
ments of success I have the most abiding
faith. Onr party is rich in material
men whose names are synonymous with
that of sterling integrity, who would grace
any position, and it is to be regrette i that
our present Congressman from this district
ia said to be in favor of the payment by the
United States Government of the moneys
stolen from the depositors of the Freed
man’s Bank by Radical manipulators, for, it
this be a fact, it will bo impossible for him
to sustain himself before the people.
Many of us were astonished at soeiug thi?
charge made against General Finley, which
appears in a communication from Jackson
ville, Fla., over the signature of “Phi j
Kappa,” and published in the Morning News J
of the 20th of last moDth.
We want a complete changing of officers. |
The political body must bo renewed. We \
want men as Judges, who, being rnarrie
wdl no , w’hen the necessity arises of having
them examined by a judicial officer, separate
and apart from tbeir husbands (tbe said
Judges) in the matter of the relinquish
ment of the wife’s dow«r, do the
judicial examination themselves, and j
certify under their official baud and seal i
that they have examined their own wives
separate and apart from themselves and
that their said wiveB did acknowledge that
they signed the said relinquishment of
dower and did so freely and voluntarily and
without compulsion of their husbands, the
said Judges, and then wind up with the
matter by certifying that they (the said
Judges) as private citizons are well known
unto themselves and that they as private
citizens acknowledged before themselves as
Judges that tht*y as private citizens did
sign and seal and deliver the said deed for
the purposes expressed therein and praying
record lor tho deed. We need Jastices oi
the Peace who, in takiDg an affidavit for as
sault and battery, will not u ^on said affid i-
vit issue a warrant for tho arrest of a poi
son for the chargo of “attempted rape, ’
and then commit tho party to j ail for no of
fense at all, nor one that will commit n
prisoner to jail upon evidence taken ex. parte
and before the arrest of the prisoner, with
out allowing the prisoner to give evidence
of his innocence.
The foregoing are but a few instances ol
the acts and doings of onr magisterial mag
nates.
An attempt to capture the lambs, who
escaped from our jail on the night of tht
24th ultimo, did not succeed. They were
hedged in & swamp pond a few nights after
wards, but they succeeded iu makiDg their
escape under cover of the darkness.
Crops are in splendid order. Have bad
since my last good seasons. It is to be
hoped the farmers will this year have pleun
of corn, for the sad care of short corn crops
have and is now being practically brought
to bear upon them.
A small-sized tragedy came near being
enacted in Lake City a few days ago. A
youDg man aud his wife having separated,
he tried to put an end to his existence, but
fortunately the ball glanced from his rib,
aud a slight wound was the only result. He
tried for his heart, however, and bad not
tho ball glanced thp rib, he would never
have known what hurt him.
Small thefts are continually reported, and
thus it will ever be until there is a change of
rulers and we obtain a competent set of
officers, for the law as presently adminis
tered is & farce.
Tho marriage tie appears to set rather
heavily upon the wards of the nation. I am
informed by an attorney that be had no lets
than eight applications in less than two
weeks to institute proceedings for divorce.
Business among the merchants is dull,
purchasers having no money to bay, though,
in spite of the scarcity of greenbacks, large
quantities of corn are being sold. This corn
is all raised West. When will the planter^
learn wisdom? Observer.
Atlajttxo ud euLV
8a v amApril ]
H AND AFTER SUNDAY* APRIL Mo,
fono l^«n«- Train, on tU. ft»d wilt r«a M
NIGHT m*H—
Laavaamuaan dailrat KMP.H.
Arrir.atJerap “ 8:00P.M,
Arrive at Bainorldge “ 7:46 A. H.
Arrive at AJbenj •• 10:00 A.M.
3:10 A* Mt
9ftSA.lL
...... 8:35A.M.
3:30 P.M.
9:00P.M.
9:1ft P. M.
3 30 P. M.
4:30 P.M.
0:30 A.M.
8:40 A.M.
Arrive at Live Oak
Arrive at Jacksonville
Arrive at Tallahassee
Leave Tallahassee
Leave Jacksonville
Leave Live Oak
Leave Albany
Leave Bainbrldge
Leave Jesnp
Arrive at Savannah
Pullman Sleeping Cars run through to Jackson*
vUle.
No change of cars between Savannah and Jack
sonville or Albany.
Passengers for Brunswick take this train, (Sun
days excepted) arriving at Brunswick at 9 40 r. *;
leave Brunswick at 2:00 a. h ; arrive at Savannah
at 8:40 a. x.
Passengers from Macon by Macon and Bruns
wick 9:15 a. x. train cornet at Jesnp with
this train for Florida (Sundays excepted).
Passengers from Florida by this train connect
at Jesup with train arriving in Macon at 2:56 r. x.
Connect at Albany daily with Passenger trains
both ways on Southwestern Railroad to and from
Eufaula, Montgomery, New Orleans, etc.
Close connection at Jacksonville with St. John’s
river steamers.
Trains on B. and A. R. R. leave junction, going
west, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:14
A. X.
For Brunswick Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day at 4:26 r. x.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS—EASTERN
DIVISION.
Leave Savannah, Sundays excepted.at. 7:25 A. M.
Arrive at McIntosh
Arrive at Jesup 44 44
Arrive at Blackshear ** 44
Arrive at DuPont 44 4 *
Leave DuPont 44 44
Leave Blackshear 44 44
Leave Jesup 44 44
Leave McIntosh 44 44
Arrive at Savannah 44 44
WESTERN DIVISION.
Leave Dupont (Sundays excepted), at
Arrive at Valdosta •* 44
Arrive at Quitman *• 44
Arrive at Thomasville •' 44
Leave Thomasville 44 44
Leave Quitman 44 44
Leave Valdosta •• 44
Arrive at Dupont •• 44
ALBANY DIVISION.
Leave Albany Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, at 7:00 A.M.
Leave Camilla Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturdty, ut 9:35 A. M.
Arrive at Thomasville, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Satu*day, at 12:10 P. M.
Leave Thomasvii.e, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 2:30 P. M.
Arrive at Camilla, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, a* 6:’5 P. M.
Arrive at Albany, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 7:40 P. M.
Jno. Evans, Gen’l Ticket Ag’t.
H. 8. HAINES,
je5-tf General Superintendent.
10:16 A. M.
12:36 P.M.
3:45 P. M.
7:20 P. M.
5:20 A. M.
92> A.M.
12:35 P. M.
2:65 P. M
5:35 P. M.
5:30 A. If.
7:25 A.M.
9:15 A. k.
11:10 A. k .
1:15 P. M-
3:10 P.M.
4-35 P. M.
6:30 P.M.
Savannah and Charleston R.K.
Ofticx Savannah A Charlxston R. R. Co.,1
Savannah, Ga., April 23, 1876. f
O N AND AFTER MONDAY, MAY 1st
inst., the Passenger Trains on this Road
vri»l mi i* follows, FROM ATLANTIC AND
GULF RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPOT:
DAY TRAINS DAILY.
Leave Savannan at 9:00 A. M.
Leave Cnarieston at. — >c30 A. M.
Leave Augusta at 8:30 A. M.
Leave Port RoyaJ at 10:25 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah at 3:30 P. M,
Arrive at Charleston at 4:20 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta at 5:00 P. M.
Arrive at Port Royal at . 2:20 P. M,
Connection made at Charleston with the North
eastern and South Carolina Railroads; at Augusts
with the Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta,
and Georgia Railroads.
'rickets lor sale at K. R. Bren’s and L. J. Ga-
zan’s Special Tic*, t Agencies, No. 21 Bull street
and Pulaski House, also at Depot Ticket Office.
C. C. OLNEY, Rec. C. 8. GADSDEN,
apr29-tf Engineer and Superintendent.
Central Railroad.
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT,P
Savannah, April 16, 1876. f
O N and after SUNDAY, April 16th, Passenger
Trains will depart from and arrive at Sa
vannah twice daily:
Depart 9:15 a. m. I Arrive 6:25 p. x.
Depart 7:30 p. m. | Arrive 7:15 a. X.
For Augusta, Macon, Coiumbus 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,
icbl9(ap20)-l2m General Superintendent.
pi
hotels aofl &rstauraat$.
PLANTERS’ HOTEL,
Cor. of Barnard & Bryan Sts.,
A. E. CARR, Proprietor.
ROOMS LARGE AND AIRY! CONVEYANCE;
AT STEAMERS AND RAILROADS I
R EGULAR BOARD for the summer, without
room, $20: and with room, $25 per mouth.
Twenty-ftse desirable ROOMS at $6 00 to $10 00
per month.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO GET
TING UP SUPPERS FOR PRIVA'i F PARTIES,
BALLS, PICNICS, EXCURSIONS, ETC.
my81-tf
(fDopartBWSltip gotifts.
NOTICE.
T HE Copartnership heretofore existing be
tween JAMES F. BROWN and CHAS. A.
DAVIS, under th? fiiaU name Of JAMES F.
BROWN & CO., is this day dissolved. The busi
ness will be continued by James f. brown,
who is alone authorized to sign the firm name is
liquidation. JAMES F. BROWN.
CUAS. A. DAVIS.
Savannah, Ga,, May 6th, 1876. my8-1 m
furniture.
FURNITURE HOUSE.
G. H. MILLEB,
(Successor to 8.8. Miller),
169 AND 171 BROUGHTON STREET.
F ULL and carefully selected stock on hand.
Cssb Custom solicited, with corresponding
prices. The U. 8. Spring defies competition. No
Credit except to responsible parties. janfiO-tl
£aarg ©oods.
ELEGANT GOODS
WORTH FROM $1 80 TO ** OO. FOR ONLY
99 CENTS. AT CLAPP’S
99-CENT STORE!
157 BroEffhlM Street,
Ssnd for Circular. UTUUI, 8L
Postponed City Marshal’sftalv.
CITY MARSHAL'S OFF1CK.1
Savannah. May 1st, 1876. |
U NDER RESOLUTION of the City Connell Oi
Savannah, and by virtue of City Tax Exe
cutions in my hands, I have levied on, and wh
sell, under direction of a Special Committee cf
Couucii, on THE FIRST TUESDAY IN
JUNE, 1876, between the legal boon* of
•ale, before the Court Houac door in tbe city ci
Savannah, county of Chatham und State of Geor
gia, the following property, to-wit:
improvements un Lot No 6 Calhoun warn,
levied on as the property of the entate oi
Augustus Bonaud.
Lot No 15 and improvement* Elliott ward,
beried on as the property of Gugie Bourquin.
Improvements on Lot No 70 IJoyd ward; loviMi
on as the property of John G Antler.
Lots Nos 23 and 24 and im».' rnm enta Jas]>er
ward; levied qn aa the property / *'ancifl Cham
pion, trustee.
Improvements on western X of Lot No 55 Gaa-
ton ward; levied on aa the properly of T F ElhJm .
Lot No 6 aud improvemci'Mi* Decker wa
Tower tything; levied on a- \>v i.-njoerty ol mt%
M C Ferrill.
Lot No 26 an 1 improvements Currytown ward,
levied on as the property of *obu O Ferrill, exo-
cutor.
Lot No 62 and Improvements i;rown ward;
levied on aa the property of Wm o
Improvements on Lots Nos 40 and 41 W9H0&
ward; levied on as the property of J F Go wen.
Improvements on Lota Nos 3t, 32 and
Walton ward ; levied on aa the property of Mr*
M R Gueraid.
Lot No 23 and improvements, Gilinervllic;
levied on as the property ol the estate oi A Har
mon.
Eastern one-hall of Lot No 4 Cutbbert ward,
fifth section; levied ou aa the property ot K F
Haim on.
Improvements on Lot No 5 f oisyui ward;
levied on aa the property of Wirium /k*ue.
Lot No 51 Garden Lot east; IC7.^ on aa tne
property of James A LaRoche.
Improvements on Lot No 6 Pulaski ward; lev
ied ou as the property of Mrs G J LaRoche and
children.
Lot No 17 and improvements, Gilmervilie; lev
ied on aa the property of F S Lathrop.
Improvements on the western > v e-third ot Lot
No 3 Wesley ward; levied ou aa the property of
A K Maliette.
Eastern one-half of Lot No 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied on as the property
of Eli Maliette.
Western onc-half of Lot No 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied on aa the property
of Mrs Catherine Maliette.
Improvements ou tbe middle one-third of Let
No 3 Wesley ward; levied on aa the propeity ci
Mias Eoline Maliette.
Improvemeuts on the eastern one-half of Lot
No 25 Calhoun ward; levied ou as the property
of C C Millar.
Lot No 37 aud improvements, Middle Ogle
thorpe ward; levied ou aa the property ot Jame#
B Read and R J Nunn.
Lot No 40 and improvements. Middle Ogle
thorpe ward; levied ou as the property ot lire
James B Read.
Improvements on the eastern one-half of Lot
No 41 JacksuD ward; levied on aa the property
of Mrs L G Richards.
Improvemeuts on Lot No 24 Walton ward;
levied ou aa the property of Miss Kate Roberta.
Lot No 3 and improvements Jones ward; levied
on aa the property of Dwight L Roberta, trustee.
Lots Nos 2 and 3, Gardeu Lot west, front »ot
tanyard tract; levied on as the property of Jamea
H Roberta.
Improvements on Lot No 16 Troop ward; Icvieo
on aa the property of the estate of Mrs M J
Roberts and children.
Improvement on Lot No 7 Walton ward; levied
on aa the property of the estate ot Mrs M J
Roberta and children.
Improvements on Lot No 2, wharf lot, rrna-
tee’s garden; levied on as the property of Jaiuea
Ryan.
Lot No 14 and improvements, Cuthbert ward,
seventh section; levied on aa the property of Jno
A Sullivan, trustee.
Lot No 7 and improvements. Cuthbert ware,
seventh section; levied on aa the property oi W
D Sullivan.
Improvements on Lot No 40 Lloyd ward; levied
on as the property of W B Stnrtevant, trustee.
Improvements on Lota Nos 6, 7 and S Elbert
ward; levied on as the property of the estate ot
Mrs Margaret Telfair.
Lot No 20, Gallie ward, and improvements;
levied on as the property of Henry G Ward,
trustee.
Improvements on Lot No 44 Stephens wardc
. r ... * /\r
levied on as the property of Mrs A F W’ayne*
Purchasers paying for titles and stamp**.
y. STlLEsf,
mayl-tf
GEORGE W.
Ciiy Marshal.
City Marshal’s Sale.
OFFICE CITY MARSHAL, \
Savannah, May 1st, 187$.f
U NDER RESOLUTION of the City Couhch ct
Savannah, and by virtue of city.tax execu
tions in my bands, I have levied on and will seif v
under direction of a special committee of Coun
cil, on the: FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE. 187^
between the legal hour? oi sale, before the Coavt
House door in the iiiy of Savannah, county oft
Chatham, and State of Georgia, the following
property, to wit:
Improvements on Lot No. 23 Currytown wards
levied on as the property of J. Y. Connerat.
Lot No. 8 and Improvemeuts, South Oglethorpe
ward; levied on as the property of Mr*. Mary M.
Marshall.
Lot No. 10 and improvements, Reynolds wauii,
third tything; levied on as the property ol Jams*
J. Waring.
Purchasers paying for titles and stamps.
GEORGE W. STILES,
mayl-tf City Marshak
proposals.
Proposals for Furnishing Ration* anr.
Ship Chandlery for Revenue Vessels.
Collector's O-.ice, >
Savannah, Ga., May 2Sd, 187«.>
S EALED PROPOSALS will be received at lAis
office nntil 12 o’c'oek noon of THURSDAY,
Jane 15, 18i<, lor sapplying Rations and Ship
Chandlery for the use ot the crews and vessels of
tbe United States Revenue Marine Service In this
Collection District for the fiscal year ending Jnne
30. 1877,
Schedules of articles of Ship Chandlery to be
bid for will be fnrnished on appUcarioa to this
offca
No award ot contract will bo made nntil Con
gress shall have made the appropriation for the
next fiscal year: and tbe right ia reaervad to r—
ject aay er all Uda. J. K. P