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psge&, Savannah, Ga.
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY. MARCH 23. 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Affairs in Georgia.
Srmter Republican remarks that
T “ e Stored in tbe city of Americas
‘ >r ! V hundred thousand pounds of
• ■ - continuous daily influx.
^"“kTveiv much like having the smoke
^ “Ithom'e, don’t it?
!io“’ £ ... lias nearly reached her one-
one hundred thousand bales of
ffl*® “ receipts at that point for the pre-
being 24.012.
<*“' 3!5 ‘ J Vontezuma man Bpends a half
^trring to bridle the wrong end of
l° vie , he3 . ,,ut him down as “agin local
bit i° ri
notion/
■ Mr. C. H.
rbeHsmiltnn Journal says.
JL is an applicant for Secretary of the
•'.-trMonal Convention, and is erni-
®°! abided to dll the place. It would
situs much pleasure to see him elected.'
. igus that the safe plan would be to
11 convention first, before proceeding
f.«ii the offices- . ...
'L. Sunset Cox, M. C., is going to de-
lecture in Atlanta, and already, says
^'constitution, one hundred and eighty
** , seatg have been sold. Sunset can
drurscrowded house, *”’* h »'
Come tins wey.
both in politics and
btenture.
of Crawford
i negro named Mack Moses,
fi0 ld a lot of nice home made hams
r^oftho grocery merchants of Fort
Klrt a fow days ago. Oh, that the coun
try was full
' such thrifty colored men.
Judzo Crawford took occasion
jnd
Monday morning
to remark
nlallwtconr 1
; r .m the cour
in excusing a tardy jnror
; that the furthers man lived
t house the better off he was.
!„* bo eaid, is an expensive neighbor.
A I e » roars ago Mayor Huff, ot Maeon,
lid some English sparrows put in the city
.. fhese sparrows, says the Central
£ ian, which have been rapidly increas-
ingand gradual y epnadiug over the couu-
trr. bare reached Barnosville, and our mer-
ebi 'a arc making “.ittle houses” out of
ciTar boxes, and putting them up in the
trees for them.
Oa last Friday afternooD, about four
o'clock, tha dwolling liouso of Mr. John T.
Blalock, of Upson county, waa burned. Mr.
Blalock wa3 out in tbe field at work, and
big vriTc and children were away from home.
It - 3 thought that the sparks coming frem
the chimney set the roof on fire. Some
ntgroes pacing by gave the alarm, and Mr.
Blalock, together with his hands, ran down
and succeeded in saving the furniture and,
in fact, everything in the house. The house
sa? forty-three years old. No insurance.
The following shows what a public spirited
citizen can do for bis county. Judge Har
den, of Brook?, has planted thirty-three
mile posts from the line of Colquitt county
to the State lino between Georgia and Flor
ida via Nankin. Tbe posts are of pitch
pine, ais feet long, two feet iu the ground,
four inches thick and six inches face, paint
ed white, and will laet many years if not
disturbed or mutilated. We learn that the
Judge paid for these posts and their orna
mentation from his private purse, which do
nation to t ho county will be highly appre
ciated and not soon forgotten; and if that
are of public property, which ought always
to be sincerely respected, is maintained, it
will remain as a monument to him when he
stall have passed away.
Brooke county has & model and energetic
Sheriff, and his name it is John T. Thrasher:
‘ Hiving heard that a horse had been stolen
Sunday night at Monticello, Florida, and
that the thief had been seen about ten
miles west of Quitman during Monday,he left
that night, and by five o’clock p. m. on
Tuesday returned with the thief and horse,
hv.ng ridden over 68Vonty-five miles from
the time he left. Tha thief says his name is
E.K. Patterson. He awaits Governor Drew’s
requisition, aud will doubtless pay very
dearly for his rile by a term of service iu
the penitentiary.”
The Brunswick Advertiser, iu vi6W of the
many strangers iu that city, asks the ques
tion : “Would not a first class hotel be a
good ir.vc-stment ? Put tho ball in motion,
ye men of means, and, ere another winter,
off.r to the denizens of fr< zen New England
wd the Northwest a pleasant sojourn in the
City bt the Sea.’ We know of no inveat-
mect that offers a better dividend.” Cer-
hin it is that strangers will not long tarry
ltl P- ac e. however attractive it may be,
*»hout the comforts provided for them by
»first class hotel.
il- r . Hayes will have to decide between
three applicants for the Lumpkin post office*
La ; t Friday morning a colored man named
"' a .living in Lurke couutv, started
UBiing. While standing on the railri ad
? *‘ or a M Waynesboro, with a loaded gun
baud, some one announced that David
urns, colored, had been run over by a
•*-Tay train and killed. Shocked at the
j^Ligence he let the gun drop from his
w&8 discharged as it struck the
Phtform an
tis body.
; died of his wounds.
ti'? 16 cre(bt * 8 b r °od- Treasurer Een-
C0130 'uded an arrangement with
u * jUrt h National Bank of New York by
s ^: he temporary ioans required by the
& during the year and in anticipation of
are made by that bank at G per cent.
the contents wore lodged iD
He received medical attention,
Ux.
ter annum.
*hich n
This
is the lowest rate at
John Seven and Jim KiDzie, the negroes
who broke into Dr. Middleton’s store at
Jesup on the night of the 2Gth of February,
were convicted before the Superior Court
last week and sentenced to the penitentiary
for five years each. Bill Penny was also
convicted for stealing hogs from Mr. God
frey Odum, and sent up for two years.
The Montezuma Weekly rises to make
this statement: “The people in this beat
are in favor of t&kiDg the capital back to
Milledgaville, and the chap who is opposed
to it had just as well give up all hopes of
being a delegate to the convention.”
The Cuthbert Messenger says: “If you
want a better fortune than the Hogwallow
lands of ihe West, or the orange groves of
Florida, come to Randolph county and plant
a vineyard and an orchard.” True bill.
The Quitman Reporter says : “On last
Monday evening two of the little boys who
attend Protessor Johnson’s school were in
the street at play, when little Horace Fret-
well met with the misfortune of having his
thigh broken about half way between the
knee and hip.”
We can and do always appreciate good
words from sue 1 a respected source as the
Qaitman Reporter. which says of the Savan
nah Morning News: “This excellent journal
is a vade rnecuni with the weekly journalist,
and should be in tbe counting room of every
merchant in Georgia and Florida, not to say
other States. The evening edition furnishes
ti e very latest telegraphic news from all
parts of the country. Regular correspon-
d' ats are stationed at importantcities of the
cduutry, and more interesting letters cannot
bo perused than those found iu the columns
of the News. Tho weekly and tri-weekly is
in keeping with tbe . daily, in point
ot interest, and in view of the fact that
prize stories will soon be published in the
weekly edition, we do not hesitate in saying
til-t a better weekly paper can nowhere be
found. The job department is tho most
co.nple-e one iu the a oath, all work execu
ted with neatness and dispatch. Tho
Morning News establishment is a credit to
SavanDab, Georgia, and the country. Col.
W. T. Thompson knows what an editorial
sanctum is, having spent a long and useful
life iu the chair editorial. Mr. J. H. Estill
is a newspaper mau of the first order. W’e
speak iu no undue praise of this invaluable
journal.”
The Fort Valley Mirror says of the Tax
Collector of Houston county, Mr. John N.
KilleD, that that officer is acting very
strangely, to say tho least of it: “About
ten days ago Mr. Killen left Perry to collect
gome money at Montezuma ami hasn’t re
turned yet. His wife knows nothing of his
whereabouts, aud the universal impression
among the people is that he has left for
parts unknown. Tho County Commissioners
held a call meeting on the 12th inst., for
the purpose of having a settlement with
him, but he failed to appear. At a previous
meeting of the board be appeared but did
not have his papers in such a condition as
to give them an intelligent insight into
the affairs of the office. The Commission
ers held a meeting last Saturday with the
expectatiou that he would make his appear
ance, but he failed to come to time. Those
iu authority are of the opinion that he is at
least three thousand dollars behind. He has
not paid the County Treasurer any money
since the 5th of February. We are reliably
informed that tho Commissioners will issue
executions against his bondsmen next Fri
day. The principal cause of this trouble is
one which blights the fair prospects of
thousands of men, both old and youug.”
Brunswick was aroused from its normal
quiet on Wednesday by a fire which burned
Uie old male public school house and the
old livery stable contiguous. It seems that
the fire was not managed judgmatically, as
the following questions have been pro
pounded by the Advertiser : “Why was
that hose pipe carried ou the top of the
house ? According to the city regulations,
who is boss at afire? How many bosses
should there be ? W T hy do some homo peo
ple stand off at a lire and let strangers do
the work? What was the matter gen
erally ?”
A correspondent of the Macon lelegraph
and Messenger writes : “Times are getting
easier iu Greene county than they have been.
Farmers have raised more corn and meat
than for several years, and their surplus of
the cotton crop has been applied to the pay
ment of their debts, and money is begin
ning to circulate more freely. If this only
wise and 6afo policy is continued, old
Greene will be all light again in a yoar or
two.”
The following editorial appeared in tho
Chronicle and Constitutionalist on Wednes
day morniug. Doubtless while it was being
written the violent and reckless aveDging
spirit of mob law was being illustrated in
the neighboring county of Burke in tho
lynching of the murderer of Mr.
O’Brien: “Commenting upon some re
cent instance of mob violence in
the State of Tennessee, the Nashville
American say9: ‘The South cannot prosper
without perfect security to life. Henceforth
masked men who snatch criminals from the
clutches of the law to hang or shoot them
should be regarded as the worst enemies of
the communities in which they live. The
innocent run equal risk with the guilty
where the reckless avengers strike in dark-
ness and disguise.’ The American is right.
There mast be no more mob violence m the
South. The men who take human life with
out justification of law, no matter what the
provocation, must receive the punishment
meted out to murderers. Society is
not safe so long as men assume tbe
fundi, ns of jury, Judge and execu
tioners. In Georgia, happily. Judge
Lvnch has doffed his robes and retired to
private hfe. The necessity which called
him forth a few years ago no longer exists,
and should ho attempt to hold his coart
now his own neck would pay the penalty.
We have just and equal laws, and we have
c urts that enforce them. Every citizen is
seome in his rights of person and property,
and woe to him who attempts to execute
justice upon his neighbor. Lynch law in
•he South grew ont of tho misrule and op-
nression of alien and corrupt governments.
Those governments have crumbled, one bv
one, at the touch of the people, and lynch
law has fallen with them.”
The Gainesville Southron says : “No conn-
trv on earth can show iron equal in quality
to" that of Hall county, Georgia. We have
the magnetic ranging from 60 per cent, to
9;i • and that of the hematite from 56 to 60.
Recently a discovery has been made on
Wahoo of a vast body of the anhydrous ses-
qniloxide of iron, which yields 70 per cent.
gPIie Jesnp Sentinel says very sensibly:
®Ve want the delegates to the Constitu-
tional Convention from this district to en
deavor to have the new constitution so con
structed as to'have the election of all our
State and county officers elected at the same
tinie. As it now is our county officers are
al'cted in January, our Governor and Legis-
la ors in October, and Congressmen in
November. Now, can’t the thing be so ar
ranged as to allow us to vote for all at once
stvln November, when we are electing oar
Congressmen. Retrenchment l*{
while the convenience ot the people should
be consulted.” .
Sp-aking of the mining operations in HaU
«nl‘ the adjoining counties, the Southron
IreTn.gres.ing favorably, and
d make miguificent developments.
THE MOENDiG NEWS.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE LOUISIANA COMMISSION.
THEIR PLAN OF PROCEDURE.
Tackaril and Kellogg Correspondence.
UllCE SHIP ASUOIUh
HENRY.
AT CAPE
Tone of Foreicu Dispatches-
Washington, March 22.—Status quo will
be maintained for the presect.
Wheeler has left for home to arrange for
heading the Louisiaua commission. The
commission may Btop at the principal cities
going and coming. They will, if this plan
is adopted, address public meetings and
acquaint the people with the policy of the
administration.
Packard telegraphs Kellogg: “Demas
has returned to the Senate. We have now
a quorum in both houses.”
Kellogg telegraphs Packard : “ Tho Pres
ident has determined to send a commission
to Louisiana. Go ou with the Legislature,
aud trausact the regular legislative busi
ness.”
A Cabinet meeting was held to-day and
the South Carolina matter discussed with
out any conclusion being arrived at.
Cautionary signals continue on the At
lantic coast.
The Signal Service observer at Cape Hen
ry reports at 8:30 a. m., to the Chief Signal
Officer, the following: “A large ship went
ashore last night near this station. No par
ticulars can be ascertained at present, on
account of the thick weather. The life sav
ing crew of Station No. 1 were driven back
b} r the high sea while attempting to board
her. The wreckers at Norfolk were uc-
tified. Communication through means
of tho International Signal Code
ha3 been opened by tho Observer at Cape
Henry with the stranded ship. It is report
ed this morning that she asks for two steam
tugs, which have been telegraphed for. The
name of tbe ship is the Winchester, from
Liverpool, bound in ballast to Norfolk.
Captain McDonald with the crew, twenty-
seven ail told, are all safe.”
The general tone of foreign dispatches is
threatening. It is announced the English
Cabinet has not accepted the Russian modi
fication to the protoool, aud requires before
considering them a distinct pledge of da-
mobolization.
Montenegro and Herzegovina are prepar
ing for the renewal of hostilities.
Turkey is armiDg regular troops on the
frontiers.
The English steamer, with arms from New
Haven for Constantinople, has been wrecked.
Noon Telegrams.
ARMISTICE HETWEEN MONTENE
GRO AND THE PORTE PRO-
LONGED.
THE TURKISH INSURRECTION.
CHICAGO ITEMS.
No Tidings of Gakey Hall.
THE TURKISH INSURRECTION.
Ragusa, March 22.—The Turks are pre
paring to attack Grabovvartz. Peko Panlo-
vitch, the insurgent leader, is encamped at
the month ot the Duga Pass. Nucalovitch
is at Zalzi, and another body of tbe insur
gents is marching towards the Albanian
frontier.
CHICAGO ITEMS.
Chicago, March 22.—The Typographical
Union Las reduced prices to forty cents on
morniug and thirty-five cents on evening
papers.
Skow,
failed.
ARMISTICE PROLONGED.
Constantinople, March 22.—The armis
tice between Montenegro and the Porte is
officially prolonged until the 1st of April.
OAKEY HALL.
New York, March 22.—There are no tid
ings of Oakey Hall.
Peterson & Co., bankers, have
J ^Qey ka? been obtained by the State
!1cc 3 the war.
the^ UmP ^ n ^ n( ^ e I )€n( ^ er d having made
chi'j‘“t L ! neDt of ti,e burning to death of a
corre r- F * * n a P reY i°'J8 issue,
ino ;: lhe 8 ate ment in its last issue, say-
fectw aS ^ fcta ^ S burning were cor-
WaeJ U,t ‘ ieeXCepti0a0f th0 child beiD "
Kead r f ° an( l l teat it was a girl in-
c hildw a ° fcair which the
Cv *rhe U < £V ‘^ ently EaV£ d its life, as it fell
flamed dC6 aad P reve ated her inhaling the
bavo tl10 ptea-eure of
tb'.a * 6 don * Sunset Cox in his mimit-
6 | »° n TU63day DiRht next ' that
behalf r , av ‘ ng consented to lecture in
“Georr.; * pubbc libraiy. Cannot the
»mvcl ' 6 ‘ uricil Society ’'
induce the
* lr u ins' 1 '’ ! " uian ' w k° proved each a
South tnie frdcnd to Democrscy and the
ip,’ 0 pay Savannah a visit ?
'“Mhi l SP °“ aeDtor t ' le Macon Telegraph
Hint 0 f WCld *° Say of the manage-
" the Atlantic
! its for:
*t6rj
President
and Gulf Railroad and
one vA —> now receiver, which
*ill n. , . 0 traveled over the road
V.,e d L h .T‘ iy end0 ™= as we
^teitra- e ^ aQ tic and Gulf, one of
fioniq h,.. 1- ’ d '““titntions in the state,
aa d he-, ’ ? riHethe 8e lf-sacrificing spirit
' ( lsp ' &ye d *>y Col. John Screven
kh[
6 ?rer
h _ 'Iders. No purer or more
Kglo for life he made in ho
lers. tin
Sentletnan
#5r ^,rT lneTer UT6i in Georgia,
S' 48 Wereaw 3 !! 0 ‘T*® progree3
8cte, an T f 18 P^ple than Hod.
i*i n i^ a f illr0ad Eal * a K®ncy in
{toil i tBm d * 8c °ntiuucd on the 1st of
iu^ r n B j bay6 for some weeks
J? otl kr w ee i; w || ldln K np its affairs, aDd
t*! 11 be ready to close up.
il^fcenttfT^ makes the rash an '
6 “ ^Souffi«nGe l o e r gu^ h “ ,he
says:
Tho sMpmenTs b7 the'ear load of isbestos
hvDr Stephenson continues and he tells
ns .hat is but a small part of the company s
ex Jactation. He showed ns some splendid
of precious corundum and sap-
* t , nt in t.n*
• u .°imens oi p T . r - a ------ m tb e
for , h0 figsnre from
oliiro,
st am whilst huutin;
wlr nco they camo.
When found, no donbt
ie ruby, as both are
the only difference
sta'btn lie will find the ruby, as both are
|he same the'rnby being
bemg m pom of^r j u ‘ min4 _ There cau -
s. •Si.Ji'.s
them.
Woman’s Rights.—The rights of hus
11 "debts incurred for tha
nance of husband, wif % aDd ^‘1 be
the separate earnings of the wife sn
her own property; that the wtte may
make contracts or sell her real or personal
property; that all her property-shall ] be
liable fo"r debts; that thehusbandshallbe
liable for none of her debts contractea
before marriage, nor for those contracted
after marriage, except for articles for the now
‘u TOrt of Ihe family, or for the joint
benefit of both; and that the husband
and wife respectively, upon tbe death of
th-other shall each inherit during the
remainder of life the use of one third of
tho other’s property.
THE CYCLONE IN WORTH COUNTY.
Distressing Effect*.
[From the Montezuma Weekly.]
A terrible cyclone passed over the
northern porlion of Worth county on the
night of the 8th instant. A gentleman
from that section gives us the following
statement in regard to it :
“The track of the cyclone is about one
and a half miles wide and forty or fifty
miles long. The people were in bed when
tho storm came up, and the first notice
they had of it wa3 tho awful roaring of
the wind, shaking of the earth, falling of
timber, and houses being torn to atoms.
Great trees were torn from their roots and
throw hundreds of feet away. Pots,
kettles, house furniture, fences, logs,
everything was hurled into the air. One
man had every shred of clothing blown
from his body, except the collar-band of
his shirt. The wire grass was torn up
by the roots; creeks were entirely hidden
by piles of brush, grass and timber.
Along the track of the cyclone presents
the appearance of a mighty torieDt of
water having passed over a freshly oleared
uew-gronnd, banking the debris in monster
heaps wherever an obstruction presented
itself. For two miles on each side of
the track of the cyclone, every house is
roofless. The people who survived the
terrors of the storm are in a terrible sit
uation—clothing gone, food gone, houses
gone, all gono save life. So far as heard
from in my immediate neighborhood,
there were only seven persons killed out
right—Mrs. Pate, Mrs. Johnson, two
white and three colored children. There
are many who are badly hurt. No man
can tell the half of the houibleness of
the thing. Not a thing is left standing
in the track of the cyclone.”
A New Motor—Dr. Potter, of Griffio,
according to the paj^ra, has invented an
electric motor which bids fair to super
cede the process of steam. He has sent
a model on to Washington, and will fol
low in a few days himself. Dr. Potter,
it is stated, can generate electricity with
his motor in quantities heretofore un
paralleled, and with this he proposes to
decompose water into a vapor or gas
rne.Dy times more powerful than steam,
aud this is to be used in propelling ma
chinery. By the same motor he pro
poses to generate a burning gas, aud with
this, as it is stated, the fights now so
costly will be made very nearly as cheap
as moonshine. These, at least, are the
predictions, and we await the result in
patience, if not hope.—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
who is
u.aiusi Porfirio Diaz. U a son of Don Juan
ijvarez, who in 1855 drove Santa Anna
from power.
Turkev has been buying arms and am
munition of us, and is so well pleased
with her American purchases that she is
coming to us for blankets and
clothing. The Shoe and Leather Reporter
says that forty tons of bison hair have
iust been sold to agents of the Turkish
Government in New York for manufac
ture into blankets for the Turkish army.
The Turks are also negotiating for goods
iu the leather line; and, if warlike pros-
noets Quicken the demand, we may ex
in arms pe 1 furni(jh them w ; th everything
that oan be nude by the tanner aud shoe-
maker.
Th w or thern papers announce that
They tell the story in New York that a J- hag won over another ex-Con-
man dressed in female Rothes had his M^H y to hla a,de-Kirby
secret discovered because hethanked* 1
gentleman who offered him a seat.
A Hint to Rice Planters—Grass Cul
ture in the South.
Editor Southern Cultivator: The fol
lowing article on grass culture has a his
tory, some knowledge of which is neces
sary to a due appreciation of its value.
Soon after the Indian title to Cherokee,
Georgia, was extinguished, a colony of
highly intelligent emigrants from the coast
of Georgia settled at Roswell. Among these
was the venerable Archie Smith, Sr., the
author of this paper. Having been, for
many years, a liberal experimenter in ag
riculture, and convinced of the import
ance of utilizing the rice lands once so
valuable, in which several of his neigh
bors, his juniors, are interested by in
heritance, he drew up this paper for their
information and consideration. Having
had the privilege of reading it, and being
convinced that the subject of which it
treats is of vital importance to the people
of the State, I urged tbe author to per
mit ms to forward it to the Cultivator for
publication. S. H. S.
Our subject is one of difficulty, becauso
it is against long cherished sentiments,
whicn take the force of principles. For
example, how common the remark, “We
cannot get the grasses and clover of a
Northern climate to grow here ; our hot
sun and droughts will kill them out, even
if they get a start; then we have broom-
sedge and weeds which soon run out all
good grasses.”
These are some of the difficulties. We
also have a long established routine pf
other profitable culture to draw off our
attention. Yet, if we look back, we will
find that the culture of riee and cotton
did not attain present success without
many failures and discouragements. With
like pertinacity and perseverance we shall
no doubt make hay one of our most prof
itable crops. I propose to state some of
the difficulties attending it, and to sug
gest some remedies, and where to search
for others.
First. Only desultory and almost iso
lated efforts have been mado. There
have not been as many persons interested
as are needed to insure the benefits of
example and consultation. Those of us
making efforts in hay culture have to bay
our own sad experience, which proves
that poor land will not do to btart with—
that we must not sow with small grain,
nor when the frost will draw the young
plants, nor when erab grass wifi smother
the young plants, nor when the drought
of summer will burn them up ; that cattle
must net be put ou when the grass is too
young, when the ground is too wet, when
the frost is on, when there is a drought;
nor turn sheep on when cows cannot get
their fill; nor geese when the grass is too
low for sheep, as I have seen done, to the
utter destruction of the plants.
The second difficulty is the mowing and
curing. We have not experienced hands
enough to do this well and cheaply, wiih
emulation and cheer. We want experi
ence as to the best stage of growth to cut,
and the best way to cure. If mowing
machines are used, we do not know which
are the best, or we have not the most
suitable ones ; nor is our land in the clean
and smooth condition necessary to their
most profitable use.
A third difficulty is, the impression that
only a few grasses are fit for hay, whereas
there are fifteen or twenty different grasses
described and used in Europe, besides Lu
cerne and clover.
As I have been cultivating and study
ing the grasses in this country every year
since 1810, I have learned some things
about the matter which I wish to com
municate to my friends, both to urge
them to tha culture of hay, and to help
them in it.
The value of a good crop of hay in this
section of Georgia is thirty dollars per
acre, at one dollar per hundred pounds.
The cost of its culture is always paid by
the proceeds of the second crop. The
cost of seed and tjje putting in need not
be more than five dollars. An annual
manuring with phosphate of lime and
stable manure, costing five dollars, will
permanently improve the land and give
the clear profit of twenty dollars per acre.
This is better than cotton gives upon an
average.
Different soils have ingredients more
suitable to one kind of grass than anoth
er. After trying Timothy, Red-top, Or
chard, Wild-rye, Feather, Tall-oat, Ital-
ian-ray, Sweet-veroal, and two varieties
of Blue grass (all winter grasses), I have
come to the conclusion that Orchard grass
suits my soil, in Cobb county, better than
any other for winter, and Bermuda for
summer ; both with clover, or separate,
make fiue hay aud stand the drought afier
cutting. I find that all are best cut be
fore the stems are too old, as they then
grow again more readily.
A suggestion of Mr. C. W. Howard’s
led me to try manuring for the suppres
sion of broom sedge; and, from two
years’ trial, I think that ammoniated ma
nure, or nitrate of soda, wifi cause this
pest to give way to better grasses.
Until we have more experience, I think
it best to feed stock on hay and turnips
in winter, and not let them ran on the
mowin’ land, at least until the sod is well
set. In winter, when a white frost is on,
the mere walking on the leaves kills them.
In wet weather the plants are mashed into
the mud, and the soil in j ured by the tramp
of the stock. In summer the grass is
eaten short, while the weeds and broom-
sedge aro neglected, and thus, before we
are aware, our hopes f.ra gone.
If a few of us will undertake a small
patch each, and note well the treatment
he gives, we shall, no doubt, do better
than going alone. Take a small patch,
well manured and well prepared, sow good
seed in good time, harrow and roll well,
keep a strict account of expenses, and, if
it pays in a year or two, decide to extend
or drop the culture.
So far I have spoken about perennial
plants. But there are also annual plants
good for hav and pasture. Of these the
Bermuda takes the lead. There are also
Crab, Crowfoot, Nimblewill, Little-rice,
Guinea and Means (which I think are
certainly different), and two or three an
nual vetches and clovers. Rag weed,
when young, and smart weed (a kind of
buckwheat), make excellent food for
sheep. I hare also California wild oat,
probably a good grass for winter pasture
AU these I have tried except one or two,
and would take but one, Bermuda, for
pasture and hay. I think it fills the wants
of the South, if only it were adapted to
a change of crops. But, as yet, we have
found no ready way to stop its growth
long enough to get a crop or two of other
vegetation from the land. Common plow
ing seems only to spread and invigorate
it. As a summer pasture, it is unsur
passed for vitality, luxuriance, nourish
ment, and relish ; and I think we will yet
find some winter ally for it. As hay it is
much relished, and tho quantity, I will
say. is satisfactory.
Here is a specimen from my note book.
In 1872, the first culting, May 10th, was
good. The patch made five cooks. On
tho 8th of July the second cutting also
made five cooks. I measured some of the
best places faithfully. One rod made
twenty-two pounds, and another made
twenty-four and a half pounds. The
products were bound and hung up under
a roof and re-weighed the 30th of August,
when the two parcels only lost half a
pound. This shows that the hay was
well cured. On tho 30th of August
again picked out two rods. The produce
of one was twenty-two pounds, of the
other twenty-four pounds. In 1875,
again weighed the produce of two rods,
which amounted to fifty-three pounds.
Another rod produced twenty-six pounds.
This is an average of a fraction over
twenty-six pounds. But, in 1872,1 must
have made an average of twenty-two
pounds per rod three times, which gives
an annual production of sixty six pounds
per rod. One hundred and sixty times
this gives ten thousand five hundred and
sixty pounds as the product per acre.
Sold as hay, this would give one hundred
dollars clear profit.
It may be said this was the effect of
much manure. So it was—stable and
phosphate. Would it not be wise to lay
out even twenty dollars per acre to clear
eighty 1 I must confess, however, that
this location was under the influence of
a spring, though not actually flooded
by it.
But this brings me to the point for
which all I have previously said has only
been preparatory.
Some of you have an interest in rice !
lands on the seacoast or tide waters, for- !
merly owned by your fathers, which have
now become of doubtful value. Yet these
lauds are very rich and capable of irriga
tion, by water holding in suspension aud
solution the rich ingredients washed
from the cultivated lands of the upper
country. I was a rice planter for fifteen
years, and know these lands well. I have
wished, for twenty years, to return to
them to mats hay, but have not been
able to chaDgs my location. I will be
satisfied if I can help the present owners
of these rich lands to make them profita
ble and preserve their ownership.
History is full of the records of the
value of irrigation from Egypt to Utah.
A remarkable instance is given by Cole -
mau, in his “Letters on European Agri
culture,” of the value of the Edinboro
meadows, winch I extract from the United
States Patent Office Report for 1843.
The water thus reserved is diffused over
300 acres, which are rendered productive
to an extraordinary degree. One of the
principal proprietors, who held his land
under a long lease, at a rent of £5 per
acre, and sublet the irrigated land at £30
($150) per acre, informed me that it was
sometimes cm seven times in a season.’’
Rut, lest you may think that the sew
age cf Edinboro has all the credit of the
production, I will cite his statement
about meadows in England, near the
residence of the Duke of Portland, of
upwards of three hundred acres :
‘These meadows receive no other ma
nure beyond that furnished by the water.
Yet every acre, in its produce consumed
by cattle ou the farm, supplies manure
for five acres of other land. ’
Cunningham’s Report of Nottingham
shire, alluding to these meadows, states
that their annual value has been raised
from £80 to £3,COO.
The Audley and water meadows are
described as yielding, iu two annual cut
tings, six tons to the acre.
Lest any one South say, these are ex
amples of what may be done iu Northern
climates, tut will not succeed in our hot
sun, I will extract a paragraph on the
same page as the above : “It may be ob
jected that the wonders wrought by irri
gation in Italy, Spain, and other southern
countries, are to be attributed to climate,
and would not confer equal benefit to the
agriculture of the United States.” That
writer knows not the South. It becomes
us to find out what is this culture by irri
gation in Italy, Spain, and other southern
countries, though it be hidden from us in
a foreign language.
In his little “Treatise on Grasses” Mr.
Howard refers to clover growing oa Hut
chinson’s Island (formerly a rice field).
I saw, during the war, a field on that
island from which Mr. Stark was selling
hay. H® assured me that the crop I then
saw made three tons to the acre. There
were clover and Timothy, though much
mixed with indigenous grasses. Good,
fragrant hay was made from the mixture.
If our efforts to cultivate Bermuda and
other European grasses fail, I think we
may safely resort to the said indigenous
grasses, brought on, in succession, by
irrigation.
I saw on Hutchinson’s Island, in tho
mouth of February, wild rye eighteen
inches high, the natural growth and un
cultivated.
When I lived on the Savannah river I
was a rice planter, and did not study the
grasses. Yet I always, in summer, found
a vigorous succession of vegetation on
the soil, however frequently it was hoed.
Although my Settlement Square was
heavily stocked, the grass was often high
enough to hide the sheep. I have, since
the war, visited my old place. I found
the Bermuda grass had been introduced
to protect the dams from washing, that
iu places it had encroached upon the Set
tlement Square, was well set and luxuri
ant, although the freshet that spring had
been over the land several days. Here I
will express my confidence that this grass
will stand long submersion by the spring
freshets, if the water is deep and flows
enough to prevent heating and stagnation.
There is also Water Bermuda, or joint
grass, a pest to the rice planter, intro
duced since I left, which may do well
when tamed.
I will drop a bint in regard to Bermuda,
and perhaps it will apply to all grasses
stimulated by irrigation. After growing
twelve or eighteen inches high it will
sink or bend down with its own weight,
sometimes hastened by heavy winds or
rain; yet the tops will ba upright aud ap
pear only a foot high, whilst the stem
may, in fact, be trailing three feet under
neath. This it will be impossible to cut
with the scythe. Therefore, a outting
should be made whenever the proper
height is attained.
The unhealthiness of the rice lands
makes it necessary for the white owners
to reside, in summer, either on the salts
or pine lands. But the larger number of
these can only afford one residence. If in
the pine lands, tho hay had better be
mostly baled near the field and sold. If
on tbe salts, the greater quantity can be
cheaply conveyed in flats to a considera
ble distance aud used in feeding stock for
market, and furnishing with the means of
enriching with the manure high lands, so
as to stimulate the production of thelarg
est grain crops.
The improvements in machinery used
in the West are so thorough that the hay
is not touched by hand rake or fork, but
is cut, raked, loaded, and put into the
mow by horse power. Therefore, one
who is not familiar with their use had
better make calculation of expense on a
medium course.
The machines necessary for twenty
acres would suffice for sixty, and therefore
the larger area would be more economi
cally tested.
A good mowing machine and a pair of
good horses can out ten acres a day. Thus
sixty acres cau be 4ut in a week. But it
would be better to cut only five acres a
day and let the horses assist in securing
what is out, extending the cutting to two
weeks. One horse and hand can run the
tedder and hay-rake in half the time it
takes to mow. Hence the pair that mows
can do the raking also. Two hands can
put the hay of five acres into oocks, and,
with cx carts and the aid of the mowing
horses, haul it into shelter. If we can
thus secure tin curing in two weeks we
may certainly bale and haul to market in
four weeks more, when the crop will be
ready for another cutting.
Three tons can be made to each acre ;
but call it two, and, for sixty acres, we
have—
At $1 per 100 lbs. *2.400 00
The hire of 4 hands 1 vear,
at $240 each (the highest
wages) *060 00
Feed of 2 horses and 2 oxen
for G months at $15 each.. 90 00
Rent for 60 acres, at *10.... 600 00
10 per cent, on cost of ma
chinery and animals 104 00 1,754 00
Leaving a balance of, irom
one cutting *646 00
If even the half of this is realized, all
expenses could be paid, the animals aud
machinery paid for, and a handsome sur
plus left, if other cuttings are made.
A mower would cost t 120 00
A tedder 100 00
A horse rake 50 00
Two wagons 200 00
T*o shelters for hay 200 00
One hay press 120 00
Two mares 200 00
Two oxen - 50 00
LYNCH LAW.
NORWOOD’S NOTIONS.
O'Brien’s Murderer Launched Into ttrer-
nlts—Tbe Jailer Aroused in the Middle
of the Slight—The Key. Demanded and
Forcibly Tnken—The Negro Murderer |
Shot and Hung.
$1,040 00
The four hands can be employed in the
winter in putting the land in order and in
attending 10 the fattening of stock.
When the produce exoeeds the demand
attention can be turned to raising horses
and fattening cattle and sheep.
Abch. Smith.
Roswdl, Oa , July, 1876.
[Chronicle anl Constitutionalist, 221 inst.]
As soon ns it became known that the
murderer of Mr. Wm. O'Bnen, the ped
dler, who was so cruelly butchered by a
negro named Ed. Wells, in Burke county,
had been arrested and placed in the
Waynesboro jail, threats of lynching were
freely made. The preliminary examina
tion was set down for yesterday, and
it was thought probable that the pris
oner would afterwards be committed
to Richmond county jail. In view
of the excited state of feeliug among
a number of parties in Augusta over
the foul murder of O’Brien, it was deem-
ed best to take action to prevent, if possi
ble, Wells’ commitment to the jail in this
city. The Chief of Police brought tho
matter to the attention of the Mayor, who
fully ooincided with his views on the
subject. He expressed himself deter
mined, if the prisoner was brought here,
to see to it that he was protected, even if
the military had to be called out. Still,
as this would be attended with much
expense to the city and county, it
was evidently best not to bring
Wells to Augusta if it could be avoided.
Those who knew Mr. Meyer W6re satis
fled that ha would have the jail protected
from any outside violence, at all hazards,
but the general opinion was that there
was no reason why the negro should be
sent here. Mayor Meyer had a confer
ence with Hon. J. C. C. Black, City At
torney, and suggested to him the propri
ety of writing to some one in Waynes
boro, and suggesting that Wells should
either be sent to Savannah or kept at
Waynesboro. The letter was written ac
cordingly to a prominent citizen of
Waynesboro, and would doubtless have
had” its effect. Tuesday night’s occur
rence, however, rendered any further
action in tho matter unnecessary.
About 1L o’clock Tuesday night a band
of men, about twenty in number, called
at the residence of Mr. Thomas Hamil,
the jailer of Burke county. One of the
party knocked at the front door and the
summons was presently answered by Mr.
Hamil in person. As soon as he opened
the door aud saw the crowd outside he
attempted to olose it immediately and
beat a retreat, but was prevented by the
men, who seized him, dragged him out
into the open air and demandad the keys
of the jail. Mr. Hamil peremptorily
refused to obey and advised the crowd
to desist. Several pistols were
at once presented, and one was placed
against his breast. Ha was then given
the alternative of yielding or losing bis
life. It was not, however, until some
time had passed before the crowd suc
ceeded in getting the keys. We heard
yesterday that he was knocked down and
further violence threatened immediately
if the keys were not forthcoming. After
giving up the keys Mr. Hami( attempted
to escape iu orde_r to raise an alarm in
the village and procure protection for the
jail. This design, however, was frustra
ted by the crowd, who took him in charge
and compelled him to accompany them to
the jail.
Arrived at the jail, the doors were soon
unlocked and Wells, the murderer of
O’Brien, brought forth. He was informed
that he would be allowed fifteen minutes
to say his prayers and make known what
ever he had to tell. He made a full con
fession of the crime, but said he was in
cited to it by his uncle Aleck. He also
told where some of the property belong
ing to Mr. O’Brien could be found. A lot
of spectacles, he said, were hid under a
certain pine tree. After he had made his
statement aud prayed fervently, he was
shot several times, but not killed.
He was then placed on a bonch under a
tree, the chain with which he was fastened
to the floor in the jail put around
his neck and made secure, the other end
made fast to a limb of the tree and the
bench knocked from under his feet. As
the negro swung in the air a number of
shots were fired into the body, and he
was soon completely riddled. Presently
the chain gave way and the body came
tumbling to the ground. Satisfied that
Wells was dead, the crowd left and went
to the depot, but soon afterwards re
turned and hung the body up again with
the chain. Here it was left suspended,
and the patty retraced their steps to the
depot, where they waited until the up
train appeared, wheu they hoarded it.
It is said that seventeen men left Au
gusta Tuesday eveniug ou the passenger
train of the Central Railroad and got off
at Waynesboro, which is reached at
10:39 p. m. The same party returned
to Augusta on the up night passenger
train, which leaves Waynesboro shortly
after 3 o'clock a. m. The lynching was
done between eleven and twelve o’clock.
It was also rumored yesterday that the
deed was done by a party of men from
Savannah.
The body of Wells was found hanging
from the tree yesterday morniDg by the
citizens of Waynesboro. It was cut
down and an inquest held by the Coroner.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that the deceased came to his death at
tho hands of parties to them unknown.
We understand that the lynching party
were not disguised, but none of them
were recognized in Waynesboro.
Another of Mr. Key’s Letters.
Somebody has recovered a letter writ
ten by Hon. Daniel M. Key to some
Democrats in Bangor, Maine, who had
invited him to come and help them cele
brate Washington’s birthday. He then
said: “You whipped us, and whipped us
badly. Slaves became free men and
citizens. The South lost their values,
lost their war debts and obligations, aud
lost everything which it had staked on
the result. No State can secede from
the Union. Of this determination of
these issues we cannot complain. We
claim to have been brave and honest, but
we fought men who were brave and
honest, and were defeated. We should
sacrifice our honor and our manhood if
we failed to stand firmly and unwaver
ingly by the consequences. We accept the
amendments to the Constitution and the
laws which enforce them. We could not
return our freemen to slavery if we
would, nor would we do so if we could.
They have our sympathy. The quarrel
was not with them; it was about them.
They were not parties to it, and took no
part in it. So great were their affection
and fidelity to their masters, that they
protected and provided for their house
holds while they knew that their masters
were engaged in a war to continue them
and their posterity in slavery. History
furnishes us no like example of unselfish
faithfulness, and Southern men must be
bad or so grossly ignorant as to be almost
criminal who cau feel the least animosity
to the colored race and people on
account of our late troubles.
To you of the North it has no
doubt seemed that we have gone slowly,
but we have moved as rapidly as we
could. The races are beginning to ap
preciate their new relations toward each
other and are better disposed. Colored
men are not so doubtful of white men,
nor white men so suspicious of colored
men as formerly. There is no disturb
ance, no conflict in any State which is left
to govern its own affairs. They occur
only where unscrupulous men impose
upon the colored people to maintain
power and place by which they may rob
a weak and helpless people. What we
need is the confidence of our Northern
brethren—evidence that they can trust
our honor and our manhood. It has been
long since this has been manifested to
ward us. ‘Brethren, let us love one an
other.’”
A decision of the United States Su
preme Court affirms the right of a State
to wholly exclude outside insurance com
panies from doing business within its
limits. This the State can do for any
reason, or for no reason, except that it
will have it so; but there is one thing
the State cannot do, and that is to pass
laws or enforce regulations concerning
insurance oompanies that are in conflict
with the laws of the United States
Courts.
The cost of the ball given by the Lord
Mayor of London to the Prince of Wales
on his return from India, reached the
enormous sum of $135,795, and was the
moat expensive ever given. The snpper
cost $25,000, besides $9,855 for the wines,
$3,900 for flowers, a temporary marquee,
erected.just outside the hall and which
was torn down the next day, $47,125.
Among upholsterers and decorators was
distributed $29,000.
An Interview with Ihe Kx-Senntor from
Grorain—Tlie Pi evidential Flection—
The Fraud of Ihe Electoral Comuilmion
—Hayes’ Policy la the S.alh—The
Pro.pec!, in S.alh Carolina—The Final
Ueeult.
[Atlanta Constitution.!
Senator Norwood, whose term of ser -
vice has just expired, has been in the city
daring the past three or four days. Pro
fessional business has already called him
to Savannah, but before he left he was
called upon to submit to one of the inflic
tions of prominence, to-wit: an interview
with a reporter of the Constitution. The
ambassador found the ex Senator in his
usual genial mood—witty and good hu- 1
mored, and at the same time practical to {
the last degree.
“Well, Senator,” said the reporter, !
after the usual preliminaries had been ex
hausted, “what do you think about the
result of the Presidential election ?”
“You mean, what do I think about the
result of the Electoral Commission. Well,
it was a fraud!”
“Oh, of course. But what do you j
think will be the end of this Hayes busi
ness ?’’
“Fraud—only fraud. The South may
profit by it in some remote degree, but it
won't amount to much.”
“But don’t you think Hayes will show
some consideration to the South ?’’
“Well, I should think he ought to.
We have been quiet enough through all
this trouble to deserve some considera
tion.”
“What do you think the programme of
the new President will be?”
“Oh! that was all mapped out long ago.
He will endeavor to ‘conciliate’ the solid
South. This would have been the pro
gramme even if he had been fairly and
squarely elected. The leaders had settled
upon this. The solid South has been and
is now a great bugaboo to the average
Northern Radical, and in the consulta
tion of the leaders, even before the elec
tion, it was thought best to make a
supreme effort to loosen the grip of the
South. Intimidation and all the methods
of bulldozing had been tried, and they
were found to bo ineffectual, until at last
some one among them (in all probability
Hayes himself) hit upon the plan of con
ciliation.”
“Well, but, Senator, how will this
work ?”
“My dear sir, I am no professor in this
business. It may work as well as the blue
glass theory, and the blue glass theory
may not work at all. I am merely an ap
prentice in this art of conciliation.”
“This is tho very thing I was driving
at, Senator. I desire, above all things,
to know your opinion in respect to this
conciliation about which there is 60 much
talk.”
“Oh, so do I. You couldn’t possibly
desire to know any more about it than I
do, but humanity is not blessed with
foreknowledge.”
“ You kuve opinions, nevertheless. Do
you think this policy of conciliation will
bo carried out, aDd, if it is carried out,
d . you think it will succeed in dividing
the solid South ?”
“Don’t take advantage cf me. Present
one problem at a time. At any rate allow
me to answer in detail.”
“Certainly.”
“Well, one depends on the other. The
present programme is certainly concilia-
toiy in the highest degree, and if it is
carried out as it has been begun it will
unquestionably result in something not
now anticipated.”
“You don’t mean to say, Mr. Nor
wood, that it will divide the Democracy?”
“You musn't report me as saying so.
I said if Hayes’ policy is successful, it
will result in something surprising. I
have no idea it will be successful. Its
success, however, would not astonish you
rs much as a thorough knowledge of the
Southern influence that is being brought
to bear to make it successful. It is a well
considered plot throughout, and the
strongest attempts will be made to divide
the South. These things will develop
themselves so quickly that it is useless
for mo to go into details.”
“Do yon tkiDk Hayes oan find coadju
tors in the South?”
“I think he has already found men
who are ready to further his designs.
Hut you will see. Wait a little while. A
good many things wiil be made plain be
fore the month is out. This South Caro
lina aDd Louisiana business amounts to
nothing, nayes will simply keep his
hands off—what any honest President
would feel justified in doing. By this
process both Packard aud Chamberlain
will ba starved out, and then we shall be
called upon to throw up our hats for
Hayes. Inanition is a very pretty little
process in this instance.
“i’he programme is simple enough
when you come to consider it. Packard
will propose to hold his own at all haz
ards. He will proceed to enroll his negro
militia, and this will give the administra
tion an excuse to continue to employ
troops in order to keep the peaee. This,
you will understand, is the highest claim
that Grant has ever made. He has or
dered troops to New Orleans and has kept
them there in order that the peace mignt
be kept. This is all patriotic enough,
as far as appearances go, and it will be
patriotic on tbe part of Hayes to retain
the garrisons in those States. Before
you begin to crow ever Hayes’ policy in
tha South, ju3t wait and see what that
policy is.”
“Would Speer's election in the Ninth
District have endangered the Georgia
Democ^cy ?
“Undoubtedly. It would have been
the entering wedge. I am not so sure
even that his candidacy will not have a
bad effect, aud I would not be at all sur
prised to see an independent candidate
for Governor at the next eleotion.”
“I supposo you are out of politics,
Senator ?”
“Entirely. I have no aspirations that
way. My law business is large enough
to occupy my time and attention.”
“What about a convention?”
“Well, we ought to have one. Our
fundamental law needs remodeling and
renovating. I am in favor of a conven
tion, and I think the people will vote to
call one.”
“Will you be a candidate ?”
“No, sir. There should be no candi
date m the common acceptation of that
term. The people should choose the
men they desire to make their organic law
and elect them, and no man thus elected
could refuse to s^rve.”
Buried Cities in Central Asia.—An
expedition to explore the buried cities of
Central Asia is talked of in Bombay and
elsewhere in India. That treasures like
those at Mycenee may be found in the
sands of Mongolia is at least possible.
If tradition be of any value—a tradition,
too, which has persistently cluDg to one
looality through the lapse of centuries—
the tomb of Ghengiz Khan is yet, with
its fabulously rich treasures, to be fonnd
(as Colonel Prejevalsky was told by the
Mongols) to the South of Lake Tabasun-
Nor. Yonr readers may remember the
quaint legend about the last resting place
of the great Khan. Within the tomb lies
a man who seems asleep. Every evening
a sheep or a horse is tied near the spot,
and lo ! in the morning the animals have
been eaten. In 300 years, say the Mon
gols, the sleeper will awake and lead
couutiess hosts of his children to victory
and dominion. The old story is said to
be circulating more aud more widely
every year. Then the Mongols say that
constantly the drifting sands disclose,
here aud there, gold and silver treasures,
which they have a superstitious dread of
touching. The buried cities under the
sands of the Gobi are affirmed to be
mines of incalculable wealth, guarded by
gnomes and fearful spells, while all the
deserts around the hidden ruins are peo
pled by myriads of howling ghosts.—
London Athenaeum.
Tbe last duel fought by Englishmen on
English ground, took place in 1845, be
tween Mr. Seton, of the Eleventh Hus
sars, and Lieut. Hawkey, of the Royal
Marines. The former died, the latter
fled.
Confirmation of Fred Donfiaao—Tho
Debate in the Senate—The Yote.
[From the Baltimore Snn.l
A long and interesting discussion oc
curred in the executive session of the
Senate on Saturday last over the nomina
tion of I rederick Douglass for Marshal
of the District of Columbia. The pro
test against his confirmation, drawn up
by the Bar Association, was presented by
Senator Whyte and read from the clerk’s
desk. Mr. Whyte in presenting tho re
monstrance said that he did it as an act
of justice to his legal brothers of the
District, and as it was a matter in
which they were so deeply concerned he
thought that their views and their
wishes were entitled to some recognition.
He said that he had no animosity toward
Mr. Douglass on account of his raoe, and
the people of Maryland knew that be
was incapable of any such feeling as race
prejudice. He had a respeot for the
learning and ability of Frederick Dou
glass, and because of bis Maryland origin
he felt a pride in the name which he bad
made for himself. He thought it no more
than right that Mr. Douglass should have
a recognition from the administration,
and he would most cheerfully give his
vote to confirm him for any place for
which he was fitted.
Mr. Bayard said the District of Colum
bia was made a football for tbe benefit of
the office seekers for all the rest of the
country. It was the grossest injustice to
the people here, a community of one hun
dred and fifty thousand people, who had
no one to : [leak for them or represent
them in either House of Congress, and
whose interests were rarely or ever con
sulted by the appointing power. Here
was a nomination pretested against by
the whole body of those who were most
intimately affected by it, and for the
Senate to override the protest would be
to do what it would not for an instant
think of doing toward any other commu -
nity in the United States.
Mr. Morton ridiculed tho protest of the
Bar Association, aud said it was a ridicu
lous attempt to exalt the importance of
an office which every one knew involved
the performance of precisely the same
duties as those which pertain to the office
of a county Sheriff.
Mr. Blaine said he had known Frederick
D .nglass for twenty years, he had in
vited him to his house and treated him
as an equal when to do so was almost a
crime. He had a warm admiration for
his abilities and his attainments. He be
lieved that he was perfectly competent to
fill the office of Marshal of this District,
and he knew that ho was the equal in every
respect of any of those who had filled it
for the last twenty years.
Mr. Conkling also paid a high tribute
to the character and the abilities of
Douglass, and declared his belief in his
competency. He also referred to the
social duties heretofore performed by the
Marshal at the White House, aud said it
did not make one particle of difference
whether the introductions were made by
a white man, a black maD, a red man, or
a yellow man.
General Morgan, of Alabama, said
that he also thought it ridiculous to say
that Federick Douglass could not admin
ister the duties of an offioe which was
similar to that of the Sheriff of a county.
If he should go home and tell the colored
people of his State that he had voted
agaiost Douglass for this reason they
would laugh at him. He intended in all
his public acts to Bhow that he felt
himself the representative alike of the
white and of the black people of his
State. As a Tilden aud Hendricks elec
tor ha had received thousands of votes
from the colored men of Alabama. These
black men had thus shown their confi
dence in him, and he intended to let them
see that it was not misplaced. He gave
a sincere acquiescence in all the constitu
tional amendments, and he should know
no difference between tho white and
the black man in all the rights, privileges
and immunities of the citizen.
When the vote was taken on the con
firmation of Mr. Douglass there were 80
for and 12 against him. Four Democrat*
voted in the affirmative—Ben Hill, Gar -
land, Jones, of Florida, and Morgan.
About fifteen Democratic Senators re
frained from voting. Mr. Lamar was not
present, but had he been in the Senate at
the time it is understood he would have
voted in the affirmative. There were also
two Republican Senators who refrained
from voting.
The Last More.
The title of Gov. Nicholls to the office
which he holds is recognized throughout
the State.' The people endorse it, and all
the officeholding by virtue of the commis
sions issued under it are in the active and
undisturbed discharge of their several
duties. The Nicholls government, in a
word, is an established fact. The possi
bility of an aggressive opposition has
been for weeks inconceivable, and the
public have been content to leave the
Packard fraud to starve itself quietly to
death in its chosen hiding place. For
the last day or two, however, rumors
have been prevalent to the effect that the
ex-Marshal has determined to take the
offensive, and to that end has been en
rolling recruits into the ranks of his so-
called militia. It is said that the ex-
Marshal has not hesitated to avow his
intention to recapture the police stations
of this city and to possess himself of
other public offices. Threats of similar
purport have been openly made by per
sons claiming authority under him, and it
is certain that unusual crowds of blacks
have been assembled around the bnildiDg.
People are naturally curious to learn the
object of this somewhat remarkable de
monstration, and several more or less
prob. ble explanations have been offered.
It is true that Mr. Packard informed
Mr. Stanley Matthews that he considered
death more honorable than the surrender
of his claims, but everybody regarded
that statement as a sort of rhetorical
flourish, aDd Mr. Packard himself could
hardly have hoped to have it taken seri
ously.
Now, in the deep, designing malice of
his heart, Mr. Packard proposes to sacri
fice the fives of a number of his followers
and of bis opponents for the creation of
political capital, we warn him in advance
that he is making the crowning and per
haps the last mistake of his fife. If the
people are compelled once more to take
up arms iu defense of their liberties,
they will not lay them down until the last
vestige of the disturbing cause has been
utterly obliterated. The reaction for
which he schemes will never occur.
Every precaution will be taken to throw
the whole onus of the contemplated out
rage upon its author, aud the result will
stain with a still darker dye, if that be
possible, his unenviable reputation.—N.
O. Picayune.
The Foundations of a Great Expire.
—That a great English-speakijig empire
is fast growing up in the Australias is
apparent from the marvelous showing
those colonies already make. Their total
amount of trade is $450,000,000, dug
from the bowels of the earth or gathered
from its surface. Of that total one-half,
or $225,000,000, consists of the precious
metals. There are gold, copper, tin and
iron in all the colonies, and silver in New
Zealand. In miscellaneous products they
have wool, tallow, sugar, hides, preserved
meats and wine. In all the colonies there
were last year 65,000,000 sheep and 7,-
600,000 cattle. The population of Au
stralia and Tasmania numbers 2,000,000,
and New Zealand 400,000. The public
revenue of tbe whole group is $65,000,-
000 annually.
Au inquiry into the distress now reign -
ing in Lyons, in France, shows that the
silk trade in that city has been gradually
declining for several years. In 1871
Lyons exported to the value of 482,000,-
000 francs, and last year the exportation
dropped as low as 296,000,000 francs,while
the first month of this year shows a sad
falling off as compared with even January,
1876. Change of fashion, general de
pression of trade, and scarcity of raw
material, have exercised, no doubt, a
baneful effect on the staple commodity of
Lyons, which has, however, other dan-»
gerous enemies, or rather rivals, in Ger
man, Swiss and English manufactures.
Lyons is said to have suffered immensely
from foreign competition in the United
States market.
Yankee ingenuity and cleverness show
ed itself even in the late peace negotiations
in Constantinople. It appears that Mid
hat Pasha had only one fear in the world
—that of being “interviewed.” So
guarded was the Pasha in all he said and
did to avoid this misfortune that he re
fused to speak even to the hotel wait*
ers lest the apron and napkin
should mask the “interviewer.” Only
one correspondent circumvented Midhaf.
Thin was an American. Under the pre
tense of showing the Pasha some cameos,
mosaics and ornaments made of real lava
from Mount Vesuvius, this interviewer
guoeeeded in getting a tete-a-tete with
His Exoellenoy for nearly half an hoar.