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THR HHBALD--ATLANTA, FRBR JABT 4, 1876.
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north
at from 12 to 20 thejhlanj
ie timed were bard,
re than he th<Mght
justify his tenants in
a that we know of, this
n amounted, within the
ne thonsand dollars.
, he is a just and correct
worked his way up from the
and he has done it by hard
M a square business man, and
.ess in a legitimate way. Sow,
i offered its convicts lor lease—
iionder leased a number of them,
ays the State for them regularly
f month. In order to do this
is, of oonrse, compelled to
,«:p them at work. He has shown much
liberality, in not putting them in the way
of skilled mechanics, but in keeping them
at cheap work. As to keeping them in
idleness and paying the State ont of his
own pocket, that, of course, no sane man
at on th6 lettewalrtBdy 1 tenl
Sly necessary to skgaWt to ; at e
that every ofRcdV the | i* 1
with rubbers, adlthosA! ., , . , - ' . , uyi uie UDCiniiau uaeiie, i
icil, any person Intend, j whoa# haod-writing thb.note is made, paid the Nlnth suuonhouK,
be the veriest simpleton | and registered the coupons ot those bonds lrTMt , w m tt wom » u named E
them. Ii
yotf E*
Capitol is Hrni
entries bemg in
inga'fraiflT’wodl
not to have robbed one letter out before on the next semi-annual pay day thereat-
in the two lines drown
of the hots. Inis conclusion
.rengthenad by the feet that
slev, the then Treasurer, in
BY THE WAY.
rest winds,
tjuif State*
nas the following
<1 Question. Similar
/ Friday ' con ' d expect him to do.
Then, let the working men, if they want
the thine abolished, strike at the root of
it. Let them march in a procession to the
capitol, and ask a hearing at the hands of
the Legislature. But let them cease work-
-dlusfons to one of (ieor- i D g U p cheap indignation against a man,
and ablest sons, Gen. Jno. B w ho has lieen after all one of their very
are of frequent occurrence in the j best friends, and one of their most just
^s. over the whole country:
A Washington correspondent of the At
lanta Hbraui states that the North ami
Noithwestern Democrats are about equal
ly divided between Hendricks and Thur
man for Presidential candidates, and that
unless the East and South combine on
some other man, one of these two will he
sure to receive the nomination. The cor
respondent further asserts that Senator
and constant employers.
THE TEEASUE1.
Statement In Regard to Coupons.
To Hi* Excellency James M. Smith, Governor:
Of the schedule of coupons examined at
the Executive Department, amounting to
$632,527.50, I perceive your Excellency
, , . .. w ,. n , r ; exceDU to $6,645.00 of coupons of overdue
Gordon is almost the unanimous choice for ; f : j Li., r
the Vice Presidency, but that he firmly bon “ 8 > and y° u . r W 3 "? therefor^ find
refuses to allow his name to be used in
that connection.
Either of the above gentlemen, or Pen
dleton. or Black, with Gordon, would re
ceive the hearty support of all true patriots
in the Republic, ana would carry every
Southern State, with the possible excep
tion of South Carolina, by overwhelming
majorities.
To thi Herald :
Is it true that Col. P. W. Alexander, the
private secretary of the Executive, ap
plied to Bullock fora judicial appointment,
and promised Rufus, that, if he would
grant the application, he would control a
columnper day in a Columbus paper for
him. We have heard such a rumor, but
are loathe to believe that the presiding and
guiding genius of so good a Governor as
His Excellenc could have been guilty of
such a thing as seeking office from Bullock.
Anxious Inquirer.
All that we know about the matter is this:
When we first heard the statement (for it
was not mere rnmor) we were so much
pained that we went at once to Col. Alex
ander and after telling him what we had
beard and who we heard it from, we asked
him to inform ns if it was true. He de
nied the fact about the newspaper, but
■aid it was true that he had signified to
Gov. Bnllock that he would accept the ap
pointment of Judge, but that he had done
this at the suggestion and request of Gov.
Smith, who was then his law partner. Of
coarse this reason was quite satisfactory,
and here the matter ended.
■ORE B1SW ON
ElOMlltV.
By reference to a communication pub
lished elsewhere, and from the numerous
congratulations we have received on our
late editorial on State Economy, it is plain
that this chord has struck a responsive
echo in the hearts of the people of Geor
gia. We say to the people tha* we intend
to keep up the fight to the day of the
election, and whoever the Herald sup-
Dorts for Governor must place himself
on this platform or lose our support.
If a Democratic adm>n’f‘r?,‘ -. , lf; , .,
i:,bt*r •-
attached to a schedule of them, dated the
22d, and handed to me on the 25th of Oc
tober, ultimo. Official duties on the in
coming of the taxes of the present season,
which are very confining, have interfered
so much with the examination of the books
necessary to understand fully the excep
tions raised, that I have been unable until
to-day to reply to them. I will now en
deavor to answer them seriatim. You say r
“1. AU these coupons matured prior to
January, 1873, dating back, in some in
stances, to 1861-'2-’3-’4. Some of them
pertain to bonds paid at dates tram sixteen
to seven years past.” To this I answer,
that those coupons were presented to me
uncanceled; and though many of them
belonged to bonds long since paid, the act
of 1873 authorizing the issue of bonds to
take up ALL past due bonds and coupons,
without reservation or caution, expressed
or implied, that there was a possibility of
any of them having been previously paid,
I considered that I had no alternative but
to pay them. If they had been paid before
and got out again, there was no mark of
pavment on them to show it, and the law
authorizing—nay, ordering—the redemp
tion of all past due bonds and interest, set
no limit in the remote past beyond which
an uncanceled bond or couDon should be
considered dead.
“2. The State has been paying her in
terest by funding, or in cash, since 1868,
from w r hich a reasonable presumption
arises that these coupons had been paid
before the accession ot the present Treas
urer to office in 1873.” With ail due def
erence, I must take issue with your Ex
cellency oc this point. The State has
been proposing to pay her bonds and cou
pons ever since the beginning of the war,
and many holders have brought them for
ward and had them funded, and paid even
in war-bonds and Confederate notes: but
many others preferred to let them lie until
they could be paid in something nearer par.
When the war closed, the seven per cent
mortgage bonds were issued for the same
purpose, and holders of past due donds
and coupons were invited to bring them
forward and receive those bonds or the
national currency, then at a dis
count of thirty to fifty per cent.,
for them. Under the Bill lock 1
regime, beginning in 1868, few or none of
the holders of our ante-war bonds desired
redemption in those issued by him: and
all that were taken up and tm .ad < the
tr»- teu-w <i-.rii>K hwauiaini
. nvi • ii- • in' noiiesty, and
.jiover preaching retrenchment and re
form, if year by year our burdens increase.
O.ir correspon ient, ‘Democrat,” is a
gentleman of high social standing and
great earnestness, and from onr know
ledge of him, is governed by high,
patriotic motives in his reference to
the fact that the people are tired of “prom
ises” about economy and retrenchment;
so tired that they are already concentra
ting their attention on an independent can
didate, and if they can’t get relief in the
party, they will seek it outside of party.
We don’t know to whom he refers, but we
sincerely hope that there will be no occa
sion for dissension in the ranks of the De
mocracy. We have enough honest, sincere
men in the organization without seeking
for candidates out of it. . We agree with
our correspondent, however, in this, that
the Convention which will meet to nomi
nate a Governor must represent the people,
and not a few town cliques; otherwise we
shall see trouble.
We know that this cry of “relieving the
burthens qi the people” is usually the
cry of the demagogues, but now abuses
have reached a point where the purest
patriot can take it up without suspicion.
Let the next Legislature be elected with
this view. Let them, when they meet,
appoint a committee of their best men to
take into consideration the matter of re
trenchment. Don’t commence and end
by reducing the salaries of a few officers,
by the abolition of onebureau and the crea
tion of two more. This, as we remarked
before, would be like setting one fly trap
to catch the flies of a great city, or like
polling one barnacle off of a ship that was
covered all over. What we want is thorongh
reform, a clean sweep of all the flies that
are swarming on the labor of the people,
a complete overhauling of the ship.
Place her ia dock and scrape her clean, is
and shall be henceforth the motto of the
Herald.
in ceivin guiwrinji add col.
ALEX4IDER.
Considerable excitement was created on
the streets yesterday by the publishing of
the Herald reporter’s interview with Mr.
Healy in regard to the employment of
convicts on the Custom House work.
It is not our purpose to re-declare onr
views on the question of the right of
free-labor over convict labor, or on tbe
propriety of leasing out the State con
victs. We nave written often and earn
estly on that subject. We simply desire
this morning to protest against the clamor
that a few men are attempting to raise
against Col. Alexander, one of tbe
lessees of the convicts, beoaune ha prof-
a l to put a few convicts at work in the
Col. Alexander is one of the
best citizens Atlanta ever had. He has
exhibited more faith in her future, and
has done more building within her limits
than any other man that we know of.
Daring the past twelve months he put
i hundred thousand dollars into
building, and this year will put much
more. lie is a kind-hearted and liberal man.
On the first of this month he went aronnd
to ovary tenant that he had (and be rents
0«f about fifty bonaeaj, and voluntarily
i. >■ •: r :.!■>! Ji_i And coupons;
Li.it yi>u* Excellency, doubtless, remem
bers that the $1,200,000 of eight per cents,
were issued to raise $900,000, which the
Finance Committee ot 1873 determined
was required to pay onr overdue bonds
and coupons, and some three hundreu
thousand which were to mature in 1873,
1874 and 1875. Even the eight per cents,
dragged heavily at the beginning. Sever
al weeks elapsed before they began to go
off with much speed, and yet, 1 believe,
there are gome overdue bonds and cou
pons that have not yet been brought for
ward and paid at the treasury.
Further: If, before adopting this “rea
sonable presnmption,” vonr Excellency
had reflected that for the fifteen years last
gone by, during which, as I have just now
shown, the State has not been paying her
interest regularly, there have matured an
nually aDout thirty thousand coupons of
various sizes, averaging say fifteen dollars
each, making the yearly interest about
$470,000, amounting in the fifteen years to
S450.000 00 coupons or $6,750,000 of inter
est which matured during that time, I
think you would have arrived at the more
reasonable conclusion that it was not at all
astonishing, that of those vast amounts,
only four or five hundred coupons or $6,-
645 00—leas than one-tenth |of one per
cent.—had been misplaced and forgotten,
and failed to come forward nntil within
the last two or three years.
Under these facts I submit to your Ex
cellency that I have paid these coupons in
good faith and obedience to the law. If
any of them have been previously pa ! d,
and found their way out again, ana been
again paid, perhaps, by me, it has happen
ed by no fault ot mine, as they came to
me as past due coupons, uncancelled, un
marked, and without a word of caution
from the law or any of its officers.
“3. Many of these coupons have the
dates of maturity carefully and ingenious
ly clipped or punched out in a manner
strongly suggestive of an improper or
doubtful claim.”
These coupons came to me as the others,
uncanceled, and after being recorded, I
suppose that the peison who punched
them, seeing no farther use for dates, etc.,
in a thoughtless mood, clipping several
together, has unfortunately excited suspi
cion of fraud where none has been intend
ed.
“4. Many of those coupons bear cancel
lation, and the coupon registry indicates
that many of them were paid bv the late
Treasurer. In other instances, the entries
of payment on the registry are doable, in
dicating changes of original entries, which
original and primary entries appear, in
most cases, to nave been made by the late
Treasurer, N. L. Angier.”
With regard to the double cancellation,
that very often occurs where some coupons
have been paid at one place; as New York,
and others of the same class and series at
the treasury. In arranging them for regis
tration, the two batches faD sometimes to
gether, and when the hundred coupons
shall have been registered, a punch has
been driven through the bundle, and
those paid in New York have two holes,
while those )>aid Mta. have bat one
—many of those W in New York
that are not onfV punched twice,
but have the daiee and even the
denomination punebod—trtlt As to the
double entries of one letter over another,
I will call your attention to the fact that
many of the issues of oar old bonds are
very similar in date, execution aud deno
mination, and in several cases duplicates
and tripreates so nearly identical that
numerous mistakes have been made by
those most conversant with the records.
If the first entries were made by the late
Treasurer, (admitting that no one else
could have made them) the person regis
tering the uncancelled coupons probaoly
concluded that the Doctor had made a
wrong entry of some other coupon at that
place, or, perhaps, registering the coupons
of an snore series at once, continued
making bis letter of registry, not only on
he wrote another in the place. The com
plaint in the report of the committ# of
last session, that these entries were in
pencil, induced me to have them put in
ink, and gave me authority, or excuse, if
you please, to have rubbed out every
pencil mark in the book; but I preferred
to let all stand as it was, except to make
the knark of payment permanent, as the
committee seemed to desire should be
done.
The second batch of coupons excepted
to by your Excellency, amounting to $46,-
360, are the first coupons of tbe 8 per cent'
bonds which matured October 1, 1873.
For this I am at a loss to di vine the reason,
except upon the hypothesis that some one
laving authority had ordered the first
coupons to be cut from the bond before
delivery, whether the purchaser bought it
in April or October, or whether he paid
ninety cents or a dollar for them, without
reference to onr advertisements that we
would sell them at par or exchange them
for overdue bonds aud coupons, dollar for
dollar. Such an order would have been
not only absurd but would hav3 prevent
ed the sale of a single bond.
Your Excellency doubtless remembers
that at a meeting of the Finance Commit
tee of 1873, in the Kimball H iuse, to which
ycu and I were invited, it was determined
that we must have $900,000 to take np our
overdue bonds and interest, and pay the
interest accrning after maturity ; and that
after many days of debate and nights of
conference, the Nutting bill was perfected
and passed, ordering the issue of $1,200,000
of 8 per cent, bonds; and when the Gen
eral Assembly adjourned, alar-ge portion of
the members left with the feeling that they
had done the best they knew how, butex-
pressed ereat fears that they would not.be
able to sell the bonds at any reasonable
rate, if at all.
On the suggestion, I suppose, of the old
saw, “A fool for luck,” the preparation
and sale of the bonds were confided to me,
and I was lucky enough to get them off
(nominally) at par. In the beginning, I
had understood from everybody con
cerned—the Finance Committee, members
of the Assembly, yourself, and all others
who expressed an opinion—that the most
that we could hope for was $900,000 from
the $1,200,000 of bonds. I sincerely be
lieved that if thev were put in the hands
of brokers, ordering them to sell at ninety
cents, and allowing them two and a half
ier cent, commission, they would have
lawked them, first in Wall street,
where the holders of bond6 dis
owned by Georgia would have beared
them heavily, and defeated their
sale. But suppose they had been sold
at ninety cents ? The two and a half per
cent, commission would have brought them
to eighty-seven and a half cents, and the
costs of express, freight, advertising, etc.,
would have been two and a half more, and
eighty-five would have been our average
sales. This would have brought us $1
020,000, if all had been sold, and in time
for our purposes. A Bale at seventy-five
cents, clear of all expenses, would have
brought the $900,000 we were proposing to
raise; and I here lake the liberty of asking
if an offer from two or more reliable capit
alists to take the whole loan of $1,200,000
at $1,000,000 would have been refused ?
When we advertised to sell those bonds,
several offers came in from brokers to sell
them for ns at one and one-half commis
sion on actual sales, expressing the belief
that they might be sold at ninety cents;
but believing that they would be, in a
great measure, controlled by the opinions
of their guild, and that the disgruntled
holders of our disowned bonds would do
all they could to keep them down and de
stroy our credit, I essayed to “get blood
out of a turi.ip,” as many taunted me,
when I determined to sell them at home
and Dot send them to Wall street until
they were called for. Mv appeals to our
own people brought ont a few applications
at first, which gradually increased until
early summer, when several of the Atlan
ta banks were persuaded to take some two
hundred thousand or more, ana from then
co late in the fallthey went of gradually al
par. The old bond, when presented for
exchange had interest paid on it at six
per cent, to 1st of April, -1876. the date of
the hew bond, which was given to him
without mutilation ; and even when I ad
vertised (in May, I think), in order to hur
ry in the old bonds, “that those who did
not come before tne first of July should
have the first coupon cut,” if a holder of
our old bonds came forward with his bond,
and excused himself that he had not seen
the notice of exchange, I gave
them to him as I had to those who
came earlier; and when one came
with the money to buy the bonds, and I
feared to lose the trade if I cut. off the cou
pon, I let him have the bond whole. I
didn’t let- anybody go back with the money
who came to bay. The State wanted it—
had issued those bonds to raise it—had or
dered them to be sold, and had fixed no
price on them. Knowing that I was sell
ing them much higher than tiad been an
ticipated by the most sanguine, I thought
that I was doing the best that could be
done when I took a thousand dollars from
a buyer and gave him a bond with all the
coupons on, even in October or lat r. I
considered that I was the State’s broker ;
that the selling of the bonds was extra-offi
cial, and not controlled by any rnle, but to
sell when I could, and to the best advan
tage , aud when the money was in sight,
it was of course ray bounden duty to get it
for the commodity that had been put into
my hands for sale. “But,” say the cav
ilera, “why did you say you were selling
them at par 7 Leaving the coupon at a
sale in October was a sale at ninety-six
cents.” Well, I preferred to leave the cou
pon, and call it a par sale, to cutting it off
and selling at ninety cents, because the
first fall would have been succeeded by
another and a lower depression, and the
last two or three hundred thousand would
have remained on our hauds, or gone off
at a much greater sacrifice. While par
sales, though nominal, kept them up, snd
enabled me to pay the claim of Russell
Sage at par, which otherwise would have
remained unpaid, and our bonds, render
ed unsaleable by lowering the price, would
have remained useless in the vaults of the
treasury.
Thus your Excellency will perceive that
very few coupons were cut off before sale
or exchange, hardly amounting to tbe
difference between the actual half-yearly
interest and the amountpaid and excepted
to, $49,730. The Russell Sage claim had
the interest counted to the 1st erf April,
1873, and new bonds were given for the
entire claim without mutilation, except tbe
$65,000 sent forward in January, 1874,
which, having been obtained from one of
the banks, the first coupon had been paid.
I had, therefore, to send Mr. Sage a check
for $2,600. in lieu of the first coupon, for
winch 1 have his acKnowledgment.
In the third item of coupons of eight per
cent, bonds, dne 1st April, 1874, I can see
no reason for the exoeptio.ns, and, there
fore, can not meet it. All the bonds hav
ing been sold before the meeting of the
Legislature, of course, they could not have
been cut off. They belonged to the buy
ers, and have been paid on presentation.
All which is respectfully submitted.
(Signed) John Jones.
ter, so long as he remained in office. This
jfactpf itself is enough to show that it was
not the bonds, but the two coupons indi
cated by the asterisk mark which precedes
tbe note in the margin, which were lost.
Of the $149,250 of bonds which your Ex
cellency savB there iB much reason to be
lieve are part of the $174,000 of past due
bonds redeemed by Clews & Co., and
which were again put on the market by
them, etc., the Treasurer respectfully sug
gests that, having been furnished with no
information of the description, dates aud
numbers of tbe bonds now said to have
been redeemed by Clews & Co. he did not
even know that Clews & Co. had ever
redeemed any until March, 1874, when he
saw the account furnished by Clews,
which merely charged- the State with
bonds—without date, size, maturity, or
any description whatever by which
the paid bonds could be identified
and payment refused. Under the
law of 1873, creating bonds to pay
■ U past due bonds and interest, he paid those
bonds which yonr Excellency, with the as
sistance of Dr. Bozeman and the Attorney-
General, ascertained—certainty not until
last summer—nad been paid and put
again on the market by Clews, so late as
December, 1873, shortly after which time
they were presented, either at the Fourth
National Bank of New York or at the
Treasury, having no cancellation or any
other mark by which previous payment
would be shown; and falling witnin the
phrase of the act, “all past due bunds and
interest,” they were paid with interest to
the day of payment, as a matter of course,
for which second payment neither the
Treasurer nor any other officer, without
information of previous payment, can be
liable.
With regard to the bonds alleged to have
been paid by the Fourth National BaDk,
and transmitted to the treasury by the
hands of Alton Angier, who receipted for
them to the bank, and who says he deliv
ered them to Treasurer Angier, his father,
about the 12th of January, 1873, the Treas
urer can only say they were never deliv
ered by the late Treasurer to him with the
assests and books; and if they have been
presented to the Treasurer and paid by
him, he surely is not responsible for their
getting outside of the vault, where the
young man says he deposited them, prior
to the accession of the present Treasurer
to office, without a receipt to balance that
he gave to the Fourth National Bank.
The books did not show they were
paid; the bonds were not canceled
when presented to me, and, as in the pre
ceding case, I had nothing to do but obey
the law ordering me to pay all past due
bonds and interest, I would further re
mark, in this connection, that from the
12th day of January, when they are alleg
ed to have been deposited, to the 16th,
four days thereafter, when I came into the
office, there was ample time to have can
celed these bonds—if it had been desira
ble—and recorded payment of them on the
proper book, or at least to have taken a re
ceipt for them from the Treasurer, to whom
they are said to have been delivered. The
reason why this was not done must be
stated by those whose duty it was, both to
themselves and to the State, to have done
YESTERDiY iHf fcONtfRESS.
In the matter of interest charged, and
the deductions therefrom, the errors in
computation, and sometimes in entry of
one date and amount for another, the
Treasurer readily admits as clerical and
not intentional. The rejection of his en
tries of interest, because they were not ac
companied by receipts, he ciemurs to, as
receiving daily the bonds on which inter
est was Btamjied as paid by the bank,
without receipt, he felt that he had as
much right to credit on his mere entry
of payment as the bank, and as it saved
him considerable labor, and the payee as
much time, he had no idea such entries
would ever be excepted to or considered
as improper vouchers. The Treasurer re
spectfully asks the privilege of employing
an experienced accountant and attorney to
go over the examination with the auditor,
tnat he may be made to understand thor
oughly these exceptions, which, as yet, he
has never been«able to comprehend.
With regard to the advertisements and
notices published by the Tresurer during
the year he had the bonds on sale, he re
spectfully represents that he issued them
more for the purpose of keeping the mat
ter before the public than to be bound to
follow their conditions, unless tbe appli
cants insisted on it, which they never did,
and the Treasurer never allowed them to
stand in the way of a sale upon fair terms
whenever the applicant presented bonds,
or money to get new bonds. The Treas
urer is at this moment unaware of any re
cord showing $104,000of past dne bonds as
having been redeemed on or about July 1,
1873, or as of that date, and will better un
derstand it npon examination by attorney,
as suggested above. The bonds mention
ed in the last paragraph, amounting to $1,-
000, are in the same condition, lie supposes
as all others that may have been once paid
and afterwards presented to the Treasurer
without cancellation and paid again. All
of which is respectfully submitted.
(Signed) John Jones,
Treasurer.
Statement In Reward to Bonds.
In tbe matter of exceptions to the past due
bonds presented by the Treasurer, amounting
to seven hundred and fifty-eight thousand
five hundred dollars ($758,500.00) which
matared prior to 1st May, 1874;
The Treasurer respectfully suggests, in
regard to the bond* of $506.00 each, due
July 1, 1871, which your Excellency says
the register shows to have been paid in
1851 to I. K. Tefft, cashier of the State
Bank at Savannah, upon proven copies
being presented to the Governor, the ori
ginal having been lost in transmission
from Savannah to Milledgeville, that u|>on
close examination oithe record, he finds
asterisks (**) in two of the squares,
to show the payment of coupons,
and a corresponding asterisk is
placed at the beginning of the note in the
margin, on which your Excellency bases
the payment of these bonds, indicating
clearly that those two coupons were refer
red to t» the marginal note, and not the
To tile Editor or the Herald:
Please allow a subscriber to congratulate
you, your readers, and our over-taxed
countrymen, on an article which appeared
in your paper of Saturday last, on the sub
ject of a reduction of our State expendi
tures.
In that editorial you probed the wound
from which our afflicted country is suffer
ing most. A few office-holders may, and
doubtless will, find fault, and possibly
some may growl and grin at you ; but the
masses—those who pay the taxes and sus
tain the newspaper press, as well as every
other great interest of our State, will cor
dially approve and cheerfully sustain you
in advocating retrenchment and reform.
Aud while on this subject, it may be
well to warn a certain class of gentlemen
that there are others in Georgia, of not
less ability, moral worth, or popularity
than themselves, who have resolved to
submit no longer than necessary to the
system of public plunder, which was legal
ized by Bullock and his associates in sin,
and which has not been changed, for the
better, since he and they were driven from
place and power. There are manyjwho
will not commit themselves, in advance,
to the action of any party Convention, and
who will support no man for Governor
who does not stand publicly pledged to a
*(>eedy undoing of that which was so
badly done by that motley horde of al ven
turers, scalawags, and free negroes.
They have a man upon whom they can
rely—one who is not tui aspirant for office
and will not be, unless called from his re
tirement to the rescue oi bis country, in
such emergency, but one who is a Demo
crat, a Georgian, to the manor born, and
one who is the peer of any man who can
be brought into the field. A candidate of
that sort, supported by men like himself,
will have to be defeated, at the ballot-box,
before the nominee of any Convention
can become Governor of Georgia on
wishy-washy, omnium gatherum, sort of
platform. Democrat.
f |A fellow in Kentucky ran away with a
farmer’s daughter aud horse, and was hotly
pursued. The fanner got within close
range and flourished a revolver. “Don’t
shoot, for heaven’s sake I ’’ shouted the
lover. “I won’t,” was the reply, “’cause
I’m aleard I’ll hit ther hoss. Just leave
titer boss and take ther gal.” The com
promise was accepted by the young folks,
who walked on to the preacher’s house,
the father riding home on his horse.
About eight o’clock Saturday evening
■ays Ih* Cincinnati Qasetts, Lieutenant Mean, of
wan called upon to
named Bose Holden, who ia
the wile of a colored man named David Holden, a
cook at Hsidlog A Spraul’s Sixth street restaurant.
Tht 111 assorted pair have been married about three
rears, and rooms at No- IS Hiller alley. About two
weeks ago on account of Incompatibility of tem
per and alleged misconduct on the part of Rose,
David packed up his duds aud left the bouse. The
story goes that David promised to support Bose and
her baby, and If she would come to him every Sat
urday evening she would reoelre a portion of his
wages for that purpose. On Saturday night she
called on David, found him at work In the kltcheo
aud made the object of her visit known. He handed
her 60 ceuta She told him "that was no money for
a woman and child who had been starring all
all the week,” and that she must have more. Ac
cording to her statement, David took offense at her
extravagant notionvof living, and struck her, where,
upon she seised a table knife and made a ]
him, the blade Inflicting a wound three Inches In
length in his right cheek, from which the blood
flowed freely. The cut is a severe one, .and David
will carry tbe record of It as long as he lives
A correspon dent of tbe 8t. Louis Repub
lican tells how ALrs. Beacher confronted Mrs. Tilton
at the Brooklyn ferry the other day:
Sitting bolt upright, as If she had fed on starch
the past forty yearn, stern an implacable, there sat
Emma, thenbof Henry Ward Beecher; and who
should come In just as the boat started but Mrs.
Tilton. Mnt T. has a deprecating fashion of sidling
along, looking askance at every body with her little
bead eyes That she saw the white freed grenadier
was evident lit an instant, as she flitshed up and
dropped in an embarrassed way into a vacant seat.
Mrs. Beecher turned her rabbit face to ward her
with a freezing expresalon, but gave no sign ol
recognition.
An Indiana man fell into a well the
other day, and when they pulled him out iu a half
drowned condition he sputtered forth; ‘‘It serve*
me gosh denied right for foolin' round somethin'
what I Jou’t unow nothing about.”
A fellow somewhat “boozy” had seated
hhn-elf by the stove in a church and on becoming
somewnat off oc ted by the heat and making a dis
turbance was being shown to the ddor by the
usher, when he turned around and taking a good
look at (the minister, said in a slow loud voice:
Such preach in's that s’nough to make a dog sick.
‘Bless you,’ .said John Henry, w T ith tears
in his eyes, ‘she takes her own hair off so easy that
perhaps -he doesn't know how it hurts to have
mine pulled out.*
Webster City, says a Burlington paper,
rejoices iu a local novelist, who is publishing her
earliest efforts in the local papers. “E fida, behold
the mane.” “The mune, me lord?”. ‘‘Ay, mune ;
wherefore doest thou echoest me?” ‘‘Good me
lord, I echoest uobody.” “Then, thank Heaven,
we are s*>ved.”
It is a bad year for editors. Mr. McKee
of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is being tried ior
implication in the whisky frauds; Mr. Winslow of
the Boston Post, has gone to Holland to avoid the
penitentiary; and now another editor, who is
charged with receiving 92 >,000 of the Pacific Mail
subsidy, is returning from Europe just as the House
of Representatives is beginning to display a purpose
to inquire into the matter —{Philadelphia Bulletin
Now that General Hazen has proven
that we have a vast desert in the heart of North
America, and that Jay Cooke’s wheat belt is the
8iberia of this continent,, we should give some
attention to the nreservatiou of the good land that
we have, and encourage, especially in the far West,
forest culture. It is possible that vast tracts of tbe
southern part of the American desert may be grad
ually redeemed by the growth of trees, and that the
increasing streams may be made useful iu irrigation
aud stocked witn fish.—[Cincinnati Commeidal
The Boston Post philosophically says:
Baltimore's growth imparts the whole secret Her
trunk life to the heart of the West, her capacious
elevator.- , her model terminal facilities for a heavy
and incr: sring freight business, with the consequent
activity of trade and rapid growth Of industrial
interest, the increase of her population and their
general satisfaction and contentment, are standrug
testimonies before the country to the wonderful
power tout lie* in a city’s husbanding its resources
for their intelligent local concentration.*'
The Courier-Journal moralizes on the
Mackenzie elopement by saying: “bhe is gone,
this Canadian beauty, and Brydgcs with her; aod
where's the good of recalling her, and what use is
she now to anybol) ? Tn- world Is no wiser aud
no better than before. The vicious follow their
desires. Those that hav<‘ the pretext of .domestic
infelicity affect to do the b st they can, and some
go up aud some go down, while the productive
cause, Mich as it is goes on forever. Wives and
daughters never fall for nothing. The fault is
always with the man not the woman.”
It would appear from the manner in
which the Republican papers comment on that
memorable order of Jeff Davis’ concerning Ben.
Butler’s disposition in case he couldn’t run faster
than thoee who chased him, that the ex-President
of the Southern Confederacy is to be ceusured, not
because he wanted to haua Mr. Butler, nut because
he didn’t succeed in hanging Mr. Butler.—[World.
The Columbia, South Carolina, Register
relates this: He caught a chair, after a short race,
aud sat down. “Where have ycu beeu?” that’s
the first question before they say they are going
home to their father, but he had au answer that
would have stuuued any woman living :
“B n Piesbyteriau supper.”
‘ W h a-t ? Who did you go with ? ’*
“Wizze boys.”
“Boys 1 What boys ? ”
“Alla boys. Presbytery Morrerators an all.'*
He’e Mrs. W. bowed the fnll of ner nightcap
aud wept, aud he explained between convulsive
jerks at his boots:
“8ho use crying. Good company. Bet Morrera-
tor’s couldn’t say Ten Commandments Losh my
money. Took ’nothing back. Whent my head,
bix-a dog. Ladies all helmahead.”
“Oh, Charles! Another woman held your head ?*’
Sobs.
“Now. Maria, don’t be a fool. Who said nuzzer
woman helm head ? **
“Why, you said so yourself.” More sobs
“Never. I’m a furnal liar. Tell you truth this
time. So’lmpe B>b,” and doubtless he would if he
hadn’t gone dead to sleep while be was talking.
Francis Deak, the Hungarian statesman,
who has long been sick, and whose death was pre
maturely announced seveial weeks ago, has at last
really died. He was born in the district of Zola
Hungary, in ISOl, and early became prominent in
Liberal political circles. He led the opposition
against the tyrannical policy of the Austrian Gov
ernment between 1837 and 1840, and brought the
administration to a more reasonable course of pro
cedure. In 1848-49. less radical than Kossuth, be
made an attempt to reconcile Hungary and Austria
after the failure of the Magyar revolution. He only
succeeded iu getting into prison, and aftor Lis re
ease retired to his estate, continuing in private life
until I860, when he again became a leader of the
people. To his influence the enlargement of the
rights of the Hungarians, and the establishment of
a separate Ministry ior the Kingdom, is largely to be
ascribed. A pure and patriotic man, he will be tin
cerely mourned by the country for which he aooom
plished so much.
Here is a curiosity. It is a paragraph
from the World about the Centennial without a sin
gle insinuation or reflection against the manage
ment. Another British Centennial Commissioner,
Prof. Archer, sailed from Liverpool yesterday in
the steamship Ohio for Philadelphia, with twelve
members of the commissioner's staff Great Britain
promises to be first in the field, if not first iu the
race Her national buildings in the Exposition
grounds are already completed, aud very imertst-
iug aud characteristic they are—bits of Saxon, Lan
cashire transferred bodily to the New World.
The city judge of Montgomery, Ala
bama, late federal district attorney, and as decided
a Republican as any man in the United States,
sert« over his signature, and as a fact within his
knowledge, that iu no law now iu force in Ala
bama is there any discrimination made between
white au4 black as to mode of trial or pnniah
ment. He says Mr. Morton’s charge that negro con
victs are sold to the highest bidder, is true in the
sense that such offenders are hired out, yet Mr.
Morton forgot to state that the same measure is
meted out to white con victs. J udge Minnis, s- tting
in one of the large negro counties of the State
says if there has been any discrimination it haa
beeu in favor of the weaker and more ignorant
race.
It has long been customary in England
to publish birth notices, but Ban Francisco has set
tbe example of adding a delicate oompllment to the
medical attendant, thus:
SPARRTXG Ilf THE HOUME.
■ale, «r Halae, Makes a Ripple, bat
MbsidM Without Finding Use Rep
resentative Man of the Mouth.
ACROSS THE WATERS.
TKLKORAP If
SF2BK1.1I BT THK
XA.P CABLE.
U paon county, Ga., claims the chair pi-
on centonnialist. He is a negro named
Charles Dubignon, is 125 years old, frisky
aud vigorous. He was captured In Afri
ca by Spanish slave traders about a centu
ry ago, aud was taken to Spain, where he
lived in slavery lor many years, and didn’t
know General Washington. He joined
the Baptist church last week, and washed
away a century and a quarter • load of sins
in the Flint riyer.
“Croubie.—Sunday, January 9, to Hattie and John
C. Crosbie, a eon. Mother aud child doing well;
thanks to Dr. Langdon.”
How would it do, whenever there is a death
notice, to add the name of the doctor? We should
like to have the opinion on that subject of the emi
neut legal authority, Charles O’Conor, who Is said
to have boon given over by the doctors to die,
but, refusing to take their prescriptions, has got
well.
Telegram to the Herald.
Washington, February 8. — The Appropriation
Committee reduced the estimates for fortifications
from 83,000,000 to 83X),OO0.
D. W r Flanagan, of Ohio, has been appointed as
sistant journal clerk of the House, and John A.
Kudd appointed reading clerk.
No Southern nominations.
There was a short Executive session. No confirm
ations reported.
HOUS&
The following bills were introduced:
By Young, for a custom house at Memphis. Re
ferred.
By Committee on Accounts, to pay fourteen Union
soldiers on the rolls of the House. Mr. Fort, of Hll-
nots denied that there were so many. Merer*. Hol
man and Williams maintained that there were.
Adopted.
By Appropriation Committee,requesting the Presi
dent to appoint au experienced army officer to in
vestigate the causes of the deficiency in the appro
prialions for the Sioux Indians, and partially lake
charge of the Red Cloud agency. Adopted.
The Judiciary Committee reported adversely |
the bill allowing tbe heads of the departments beau-
on the floor.
Also, a bill for the relief of the owners and pur
chasers of lauds sold for direct taxes. Referred to
the Committee on the Whole.
Also, to authorise the United State* Courts to ap
point commissioners to take depositions, affidavits
and verifications of pleading. Passed.
The House went into a committee of the. whole
diplomatic appropriations
binglcton. of Mississippi, who hod charge of the
bill, in the course of his speech accused politicians
iu the House w th the effort to create discord, aud
thereby moke-political capital, but he knew that
the people raw through that d.sguiae. The fcouth,
he said, had three sche'mes to accomplish in Con
gress. One was to improve and protect the levees
pf the Mississippi, and to reclaim the alluvial soil
of the Delta, which would be of more value than all
the Black Hills in the country, as seven million
bales of cotton could be raised ou this reclaimed
land.
Hale ashed him to state what the other schemes
were.
Siufcieton replied that another was the Southern
Pacific railroad.
Hale—is not the refunding of the cotton tax
another.
Singleton—I do not propose to discuss that ques
tion now.
Willis, of New York—The Democratic party does
not propose to help the South by building a South
ern Pacific railroad We vill leave it to our Repub
lican friends to do so.
Douglas of Virginia, ask *1 Hale by what authori
ty he spoke of the gentlemuu from Mississippi (Sin
gleton) as the representative oi the Southern Dem
ocracy.
Hale replied that his authority was the position
which that gentleman occupied as a Southern man:
because he spoke distinctly for the Southern Dem
ocracy, and also because he (Singleton) had been se
lected as one of the Southern representatives on the
money committee of the Huuse—the Appropriation
Committee.
Holman of Indiana, declared that the Democratic
party in the House was neither for the Southern
Pacific Rairoad nor for the reluudiug of the cotton
tax.
.Douglas of Virginia, denied the right
Hale or any other Republican member to
designate the member from Mississippi
a member from any other State >• the rep
resentative man of the Southern Democracy. He.
Douglas, represented a part of the Southern <
stituency. but he was not prepared to inform the
gentleman from Mississippi what might or might
not be the ultimate action of the Southern Demo
crats on this floor ou the measures. He was not a
member of the Southern .Democracy, but he was a
member of the National Democracy, which bad
eorne here to reform some of the abuses of the gov
ernment.
Hale—My friend from Mississippi is more frank
thau the gentleman from Virginia, and has given
us the notion of what we :uay expect from that
section. I did not expect by a simple question to
stir up so much of a hornets' nesi as I >*3em to have
done. My friend from Indiana Hnluiau, who op
poses the Southern Pacific xtaiiroad, wants this dis
cussion to stop, aud I have uo wonder at it. but he
must not hold me respotidbie for it; he must settle
with his colleague from Mississippi.
Holman—1 understood the gentleman from Mis
8issippi merely to express his opinion in favor of the
Southern Pacific Baihoad
Several Democratic members, ind tl At is all, are
in favor of tne reimbursement of iho cotton tax
Now, is that not all?
Hale—No. sir.
Holman—Excuse me : and also that the govern
ment spends money in the rebuilding of the Missis
sippi Levees. Does not the gentleman from Maine
km w that the gentleman from M ississippi was sim*
ply expressing his own individual opinion on the
subject, and that time and again the Democratic
party in this House has opposed all those measures,
aud will continue to do so.
Hale —If the gentleman wants me to answer that
question, I will say that 1 expect that he will be out
voted by his own party.
Biouut, of Georgia, a member of the Appropria
tion Committee, said himself aud his associates did
not propose to state what their actions would be on
the measures until they had an opportunity of con
sideriug aud discussing them. The gentleman from
Maine would find when tne time came that the
South would do whatever was right and proper, aud
that the country would approve of its course.
Randall, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, remarked that it would
be time enough ior tbe Democratic party in the
House to be held responsible for its acts when it had
taken actlou on the measures.
Singleton disclaimed being considered a repre
sentative of the party. He had simply expressed
his own views and nobody else was to be held re
sponsible for them.
The President vetoed the bill transferring certain
Indian funds from the Interior to the Treasury De
partment. Referred to Committee on Appropria
tions. Adjourned.
Washington, February 3.—The bill with the title
to provide tor means of cheaper transportation upon
the interior waters, to restore the oceau-carrying
tiade of the Uuited States, aud which contemplates,
with government aid, th- establishment of a mam
moth ship yard with branches, was presented by
Representative Khjan Ward, of New York, some
days ago by request, without any responsibility for
or against the measure.
The Judiciary Committee, in the executive session
of the Senate to-day, reported favorably on the
nomination oi Billings to be United Stales District
Judge for Louisiana vice Durreii, resigned 'J he
ttenaie remained iu executive session only ten min
utes aftor the report aud adjourned without a vote.
The vote of the committee cannot be ascertained.
Washington, February 3.—The bill reported from
the House Committee on Judicary for the relief of
owners aud purchasers of lauds sold for direct taxes
iu insurrectionary Btatea, gives the owner the right
to draw from the Treasury tha purchase money, b
taxes, costs, and the expenses of sale, if he shall
elect to abide the sale and make good the title of the
purchase, by giving a quit-c aim deed for the same
to the purchazer, aud release him from all claim*
for rents and profits, if the foimer owners or lienots
ora under disabilities and can not comply with the
anove conditions or shall refuse to avail themselves
of the provisions of the bill, the purchaser may
claim the money in the Treasury, less taxes, etc.,
upon satisfactory proof that the cose comes within
the decisions of the Supreme Court, and upon the
execution and delivery to the former owner by the
purchaser of a good maim conveyance of the laud,
The Republican Congressional Committee met to
night and elected Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
chairman; Edmunds-, secretary, and Torre treasur
er. The following to the Executive Committee—
Senator* Camerou, Cragiu, Weak, Logon, and Dor
sey. Representatives -Rust, Hubbell. Sinnecken,
and Platt.
Ths Mtoriu Centre.
Telegram to the Herald.
Washington, February 8.—The storm centre yes
terday afternoon over the Eastern British Provinces
hss disappeared to the northeastward. Barometric
dspresrious now exist over Michigui and lxmiaiana.
Threatening and rainy weather is prevailing in the
Gulf States, turning into snow, thence northeast
ward to the tower and Lake Huron. Generally
cloudy weather in the Atlantic States, with north-
east to southeast winds. Rising barometer, north
westerly winds, cold and generally cloudy weather
in tha Northwest. The Ohio and Cumberland riven
have oo&Unued failing. The Miwdmippi has risen
about three inches from Cairo to Vicksburg.
Taking Ura Uw ia Their Owm Hoads,
Telegram to the Herald.
Nnw Qolsans, February 4.—R ia reported that
tbs aegto asMSSin, Augusta, who killed Col. OffUtt
in St Landry parish on the 5Nd of January, was
forcibly taken from jail shortly after his arrest and
hung in tha presence of a large crowd of whites and
MVEDMB WXI.
Telegrams to Tbe Herald.
Baltimore February 8.—Own
posed to be the man who mur
at Hyattsvi le, Md , in the o
and also accused of rape in
i arrested near Woodstock,
the general description of tbe i
the scar on his face.
WITH THE JURY.
Telegram to the Herald.
Bridgeport, N. J., February 8.—The Landis Jury
have retired.
HEAD.
Telegram to the Herald.
Philadelphia. February 8.—Robert Cobeen, Vice
President of the Reading aud Philadelphia Railroad
and a prominent iron merchant, is dead.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Telegram to the Herald.
London, February 8.—The Hour says that Baring
Bros, having recommended the bonds of the
chusett* Eastern Railroad, they will pay the interest
daefor January and provide for that due March
and Bepiember, 1876.
London, February 3.—The Cambridge University
Club decline to participate in the American College
Regatta to visit the United States, but on their own
responsibility, not as representatives of tie Uni
versity.
GERMANY.
Telegram to the Herald.
Obtrowa. February 8.—Cardinal Ledowchowski
was released from prison to-day. The town was
filled with sympathisers, iucluding many high Po-
tish nobility, among them the Emperor's nephew,
Lhe Princess Kmnund, and Ferdinand of Kadseivilie.
Special thanksgiving service and grand Illumina
tion to-night.
The statement that the Cardinal would be immur- j vail ou the general government to undertake and
ed at Fortress Torgsu is disbelieved. ■ complete improving the navigation of the Harlem
Later.—lhe Cardinal proceeded by rail in the di- , river and 8puyten Duyv -1 creek. All claim* of the
reel ion of Bresdau. He ws* mformed ^that if he city for aroney advanced by New York to equip, etc.,
-titered the Provinces of Silesia, Posen, or the Dis troops daring the late war, amounting to fl.00u,(AD,
rict of Frankfort, or the Oder or Mtuenwerden, he 1 is to be canceled ou completion o! this work, whtf^ ,
Starving Hlnuelf.t*JDrath.
Telegram to the Herald.
New York, February 8.—Rnbenatein, the
derer of the Jewess, Bara Alexander, is endeavor!:
to starve himseli to death. He has not eaten
than two ounces of food in sixty hours.
A Want nf Hee Yerau
Telegram to the Herald.
New York, February 3.—The board of aldermen
this afternoon adopted a resolution requesting the
I representation in Congress to take measures to pre-
•vould be immui.ed at Torg ui
Berlin, February Tbe Minister of Commerce
will send several officer* fro a the mining depart
cent to the Centennial, to study Amarican indus
tries.
is estimated not to cost more than 81,600,000.
In Bsnkrnptcy.
Telegram to the Herald.
Boston, February 8.—A petition has been filed be
- , . . , ; , , _ fore the register of bankruptcy, for placing Win
Onmnai Iaflogoodcy hwjurived here, and will 8low alMuon<led forger , bankruptcy.
couliuue his jourcey to morrow.
SPAIN.
Telegram to the Herald.
Washinoton, Fabruaiy 3.—The Spanish legation
received au official dispatch from SpAiu staling as
the result oi the latest operation iu the north that
the Alfonsists have almost entirely gained posses
sion of Biscay and AIva. Gen. Martinez Campos
occupies the whole valley of Bast in, interrupting
the communications of the Carlists with France.
The army of King Alfonso is now on the hills of
Santa Barbara, which command th2 Car list strong
hold Estella.
Madrid, February 3.—Official returns represent
that the Senatorial elections have resulted very
favorably to the government. Among the success
ful candidates are two Bishops, the Marquis of
Mslinsand eleven Generals, iucluding Espartero,
Quesada Letona aud Primo DeRivera.
FRANCE.
Telegram to the Herald.
Paris, February 3.—1200candidates for’the Cham
ber of Deputies are already in the field, aud 500
more are e ejed.
ROME.
Telegram to the Herald.
Rome, February 3.—It is asserted that Cardinal
Manning will come to Rome to defend before the
sacred congregation a scheme which has been sub
mitted to him, and on which he has been engaged
for two year*, for the union of a portion of the En
glish ritualistic clergy with the Roman Catholic
Church. The Pope is believed to be in favor of the
scheme, but the sacred congregation are opposed to
it
THE PRISON HORRORS.
President Anderson, of the Rochester
University, hss ueen offered the President
cy of tbe Cincinnati University by the
trustees of tbe fetter institution.
Am UaparalMsS fclsrsi.
Telegram to the Herald.
Ox AM a, February 8— 1 The Union Pacific train
due from the Weet to-day. Is twelve hours late.
Reports from the West show tbe Union Pacific pret
ty dear now. Tbe late storm L unparalleled In se
verity end extent Tbe Genual Pacific is still
blocked. It stormed so that the thoveler* aud.plow*
had to abandon work yeetorday.
Mad Scenes Among tlie Convicts In the
Whisky Coses-’ 4 My Uod ! to Think
I am Ilere P*— The Nnfferlng<t of Me-
CirffT, and IIIn Former Position and
Relations.
Telegram to The Herald.
Louisville, February 8.—The Indiana whisky
convicts from Indianapolis have been placed in the
penitentiary here to-day. The prisoners, previous
to their present trouble, occupied high positions,
aud were numbered among the best citizens of
Evansville.
The sentences read, for hard labor for the term*
specified, for violation of the Revenue laws.
A Courier-Jouma reporter succeeded in having a
talk with the prisoners after they arrived at the
prison. Albert McGriff was sitting on a smoking-
lounge, with his face burieo in his hands, looking
like a picture of grief and despair. The reporter
touched him lightly on the shoulder when he
started and raised his head. His face looked care
worn and haggard, and his eyes were suffused with
team. He ia sixty years old. He said:
“My God ! To think that I^woulc^eveT come to a
place Jike this. It will kill me—my hearl is crush-
ow.” He spoke iu a voice fdeep with emotion,
and was greatly agitated. “If it were not for my
poor wife and son 1 believe Ijcould stand it. But to
think ' the disgrace brought upon them is more
than can Liar. It will kill my wife, she is sick
now a^d this will kill her. But there is one conso-
u. She knows I am innocent af the charge,
swear to you that I am an innocent man.” He said
that his was fifty-eight years old, and that he had
been married thirty years. McG riff was well known
and highly respected at Evansville befog for seven
years the City clerk of that place, and a leading
member of the Presbyterian church. He has the
heart disease and it is the general onfo on among
his friends that he will not long eui vive his impris
onment.
Jeffersonville, Ind., February 3.- BtripedJcon
victs suits were giren to the whisky convicts which
they put ou, and which altered them so much that
they were scarcely recognizable whex fully rigged
out They were taken to the house and assigned
their quarters and cots. They will not at present
have any work to do as the convicts are all idle.
SPENCER SCOTCHED.
Defeated In bin Plana, Sanbbed by kin
Party Leaders, to be Exposed to Con-
grew*.
Telegram to the Herald.
Montgomery, February 3.—A movement begun
two months ago by Ex Gov. Smith, and other anti-
Spencer Republicans, to free the party from Spen
cer’s domination, has culminated in a complete
overthrow of the latter’s power in Ala Dam a
The 8tate Executive Committee, which he
trols, and of which Mayer was once c hairman, but
never a member originally, consisted of twelve. On
the 29th of December it was increased to twenty-four,
incompliance with a demand of the party, and
then a new chairman, Mc Afee, was elected. Mayer
aud McAfee each claimed to be chairman, and issued
a call for the committee to meet in this city ou the
2nd instant. Mayer and his brother, Sneets, late
Sixth Auditor, Heymau, late Deputy Revenue
Collector Clark, postmaster Devery, and postmaste;
L Turner, not enough to make a quorum, met at
one place in this city yesterday. They called a State
Convention for May V4th to select a State ticket and
delegates to the Cincinnati Convention.
McAfee had more than two-thirds of the number
selected as a State Committee iu December, and had
the most prominent Republicans in the State, such
as ex-Gov. Smith, ex-Congressman Buckley, Gen
Burke, and several State Senators and Represcnta
tivea. This committee called a Convention for
May lfith, and treat Spencer and his followers as dls-
organlsers, and will officially expose them at Wash
ington by a committee appointed for that purpose.
SAVANNAH RACES.
Telegram to the Herald.
Savannah. February 8.—There was a very fine
attendance at the third day’s races. There was
splendid sport and flue races. In the Lamar stoke
there was eight entries and da rev starters; Qnt,
Athlene, Vifieland; mile heats. Grit won in two
straight heats. Athlehe second, Vineland third
Time, 151, 161^. In the second race, two mile
heats, five entries, Osark won in two straight heats
Prussian second, Tom O'Neill third, and others dis
tanced. Time, 843^, 343%. In the third race, mile
dash, five entiles, the favorite, Vanderbilt, was
beaten. Survivor won, Vanderbilt second, Payne
third, Starke fourth, Century fifth. Time, 147.
HAMMER AND PISTOL.
A Mmm % m Skull Crashed, and the Explo
sion af Mia l*latal Weands Min As
sailant*
Telegram to the Herald.
FobtBcott, Kansas, February S—A desperado
named Davis drew a pistol on Samuel Harvey, whose
brother, going stealthily behind Davis, crushed his
skull with a hammer. He fell into a blacksmith
fire, and his face was burned into a crisp. Davis
pistol exploded Mmultaneously with the blow, and
wounded Harvey’s arm,, the ball posting entirely
through and lodging in the hip. Fayette llarvey
esoaped.
ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS,
What tka Wind and Flame* ^Have |Bren
Doing’
Telegrams to the Herald.
Boston, February 8.—The New Hampshire rail
roads are ;>betructed by fallen trees It is the se
rvant weatbor ever known.
WnsmELD, Mass., February 8.—Thayer, Clarkson
A Bull Ivan's cigar factory burned; loss 885,000.
Nrwvort, R. I., February 8.—The steamer Block
■tone, from Providence to Baltimore, is in Dutch
Isle harbor with her machinery disabled. The Sar
agossa from Savannah towed her in. A tow-boat
will bring her thence to Providence for repairs.
Lebanon, Pa., February t —A tramp who took
refuse in a stone .quarry in a storm woe killed by
AmhrrstCollegrand Physical Training,
Tele ram to the Herald.
Boston, Feb 8.—Amherst College cannot afford
the expense of a boat club, sad will give their en
tire support to base ball.
New I York and the tiald Unit.
Telegram to tbe Herald.
New York, February 3.—At a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce this afternoon a committee
was appointed to consider the proposition peuding
iu the senate iu regard to the gold unit and affect
ing the gold coinage of the Uuited States. The
Committee on Cuban Affairs made a lengthy report
which contained no recommendations. Resolutions
were adopted declaring that it would be unwise to
transfer the control over the administration of the
-hipping law from a Circuit Court to the United
States Treasury Department.
IM® &dcei[tis$in*nts.
By Joyner & Ellis.
Ob SatnrAay, 5th Int., at 104 O’Clock,
We will sell in front of Store, (Maysou A Norman’s
late stand), a desirable lot of sew and second
HAND FURNITURE, GROCERIES, k-t of DRV GOODS,
etc., etc., two new fine top buggies for, and in ac
count of, shipper; also, leu new matire8S£r
feb4-2t.
12ht SIGHT MYSTIC BBOTHERHOOD,
Atlanta, Ga., February 4,1876.
Attend regular meeting this evening, at tbe
usual place, at vk o,clock. This is our most im
port* ut meeting, being the annual election lor
officers. Every member mud be present-
feb4-lt HU1M.
By Joyner & Ellis.
T H* AUCTION SALE OF FINE GOLD WATCHFS.
GOLD CHAINS. DIAMONDS, COLLAR AND
SHIRT BUTTONS, OPERA GLASSES, etc., etc., will
continue at our Auction Room Marietta Street, on
Thursday. Friday and Saturday evenings, 3d, 4th
and oth ilists., '•% o'clock. Goods on exhibition
every day this week. f i3xJ18
PUBLIC MEETING
It James’ Hall, To-night!
A bill calling a Convention to frame a new Con
stitution for Georgia, having pawed one branch of
tae Legislature, and likely to pass the other, there
will be a Public Meeting at James Hall, in Atlanta,
to-night, at 7*4 o dock, and by special request of
many leading Republicans,
HOX. AMOS T. AKERMAN
will address the meeting. Tbe citizens are invited
to attend After the address of Mr. Aktrm&n.tbe
Republicans of Fulton couutF. and those from
other p*rts of the State who may be present, will
proceed to commence the organization called for by
this outrageous measure, and to take other proper
steps relative thereto.
WM MARKHaM, Ch*in&n County Ex Com.
BKNJ. CgNLEY, Ch’man «'on Dis. rx Com,
H. P. FARROW, Cb man State Cen. Com
febi-lt.
“CALLAWAY HOUSE,”
Granite Block,Betweea Marietta St. A Iron Bridge,
Nos. 15 and 17 Brood St., Atlanta, Ga.
R OOMS all carpeted and well furnished. Tran
sient Board $1.50 per day. Liberal terms made
for a longer lime. Porters at all trains.
C. J. MaCLELLAK,
Late of the Macon Hotels, Proprietor.
DISSOIi UTIOX.
_ Estate Acents hss b*en dissolved by mutua
consent Noah K. Fowler will continue the rent*
business at the same place.
WALLACE <fc FOWLER.
fl-law-f22*207
LIFE
X3Sr8TTXl.^CTC:E2
NOTICE.
T he office of the widow and orphan
hUND LIFE TNUURANCE COMPANY of Nash
ville, Team, hss been removed from Alabama St, to
No. 63 Whitehall St., Room No. I,
over Schumann's drug store, where Policyholders
srd persons seeking Insurance, or having Business
with the t ompany, will find me r»ady to import
any information desired.
J. H. NURLAND.
General agent
ftzl90 For State of Georgia.
BA N KRU PTCYl
JOYNER & ELLIS,
D. P. ELLIS, Auotionoar.
T HE stock of a New York Wholesale Importing
House at auction. Important to the trad* and
public. Over $t <3,000 worth of Foreign and Do
mestic
DKY GOODS AT AUCTION!
Great Bankrupt sale ot Dry Goods at No. 5* White
hall street, Atlauta, commencing on Monday. Jan.
24, IbTA
A large consignment of Foreign and Domestic
DRY GOODS
Consisting of English. French and German broad
sad narrow Woolen Cloths of all ooades and colon.
French, English and Scotch fancy Tweeds and Cam-
simorvs. Furback. Moscow and Esquimaux Beavers.
Chinchillas, Vestings, l ioakfopt, Ac.
Also Scotch, French and German Paisley Cash-
mores. Queensland and Ottoman Lace, and other
laahionsble and desirable Shawls
DRBSS GOODS.
In great variety, such as heavy Black and Colored
Silks. Satins, Irish and Lyous Poplins ail wool; Me
rinos. Delaines, Satin Cloths, beryes elegant im
ported Plaids Alpacas, Empress Cloths. Cashmeres.
ac. A very rich and rare assortment of Lyons Silk
Velvets. Velveteens, and flue Silk Flush Suitings.
Prints, bleached and unbleached; Muaiins, from
one to tim e vards wide; a large tine of Engllsn aud
American Blankets. Ladies’, Gents’ and tibiidreu’s
Uoisery. Glove*, Ac., together with a very choice
and well selected stock of VelveL Brussels, Kid ier-
misrister Tapestry and ingrain Carpeting. House
Rugs. Dan ask, Swiss Nottingham Lace Curtains,
Table aud other 1 Inena, from medium to the Quest
imported, and a variety of other golds too numer
ous to mention.
Sale to continue from day to day until the entire
Stock is disposed of. The whole to be sold without
reserve, in lots to suit all. for cash. Saks trill com
mence at 10 a. m., 2 and 7 r. u.
feb’23iis9daw
OOTHUALOOGA VALLEY LANDS
For Sale.
[ AM offering to sell my form, lying 2H miles
south of Aaoirsville, Bartow county—10* i
to fine state of cultivation, 10U in
am excellent boay of bottom to clear,
looga and Nancy’s creeks run through it,
No better len.l. a. better watered
or limbered place, and none In the Talley la bettor
condition. It product* com. cotton, all the email
train, and nnt at (Ice meadow land! aa can be
found lo tola toctien. , , _
I will five any one a bargain In tola farm.
lanSOttelM
The Centennial
H.OABRIhU Xbtxtv BCBNill,
as Wautur Sraan. PHimuumn.
* COOMMODATION8 for 7S.W01 —
A. aooommodaUons now lor any tpecifled tone
luring tbe Exposition, circulars forwarded to say
riha
UtCOKMAOO., Nana
