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MACON, JAN DABY *$1871.
State Road Lease—® r * Steplxeus’ Let
ter*
A letter from Mr. Stephens upon the recent
lease of the Stale Road will be found in this
edition. It is well known to all our readers
that'this paper, when the matter was an open
question, preferred a sale of that property to a
lease—for many strong reasons then stated.
But a lease was determined upon by the Legis
lature, and if r as we suppose to bo true, this
lease has been made to the highest responsible
bidders, we see nothing to make a fus3 about.
It is a great advantage to get this road out of
politics and out of squanderticks and corrup
tion of all kinds. Wo do not suppose the three
hundred thousand annual rent is such an income
as ought to bo realized from the road under
shrewd and faithfal management, but it is bet
ter than nothing at all—better than paying half
a million to put it into repair, so that it can be
run still longer on no profit to the State. Wo
should have been better pleased, if the road
had been sold at a fair price and paid for in
State bonds to that amount, so as to have ex
tinguished the State debt; but leasing is better
than holding under the exisiting conditions.
Wbat’s the Matter ?
What ails Warmouth, carpet-bag Governor
of Louisiana? He has put his big foot flat
down upon a hugo lot of job3 concocted by his
party friends in the Legislature for their own
special behoof, and the stealage is suspended,
temporarily, at least.
Such spasms of virtue are as rare as unbe
coming in Warmouth’s sort. They are not
healthy for such constitutions. Warmouth must
have been ruled out of the ring, or they didn’t
promise a fair divide, and this is his way of
getting better terms. We suspect that War
mouth is playing for a new deal, so that he may
euchre the ring, as they proposed to enchre him.
A regard for the people’s pockets is not wont to
move officials of this breed to say no to rob
bery; and painful a3 it is wo cannot escape the
conclusion that Warmouth is only seeking to
prevent his confederates from swindling him,
not the tax payers. This is rank treason, of
course, but we’ll risk it.
The First Lesson.
The first collapso of State Aid Boads in Ala
bama wa3 chronicled in yesterday’s dispatches,
in the case of tho Alabama and Chattanooga
Bailroad Company, who have suspended pay
ment of interest on their first mortgage’bonds.
Wo are inclined to think tho company will ar
range tho matter and go on. Their line of road
should bo valuable. But, meanwhile, if they
fail to pay interest tho State must pay it, and
the Governor of Alabama promises to make pro
vision for the payment so soon as tho Legisla
ture meets. Whore State aid has been careless
ly granted, the result upon the States will ha
disastrous.
Incomes cp New Yobk Lawyees.—It is stated
that David Dudley Field has tho largest prac
tice of any lawyer in this country. He received
from one client alone, the Erie Bailroad, fees
amounting to $200,000 a year, and his regular
income is stated as enormous.
William M. Evarts, Charles O’Connor and E.
W. Stoughton, have very largo incomes from
their practice. Mr. Stoughton’s practice ex
ceeds $150,000 annually, and which he is said
to spend in the most luxurious manner.
In the second class of eminent New York
lawyers are ranked: Fred Seward, Blatcbford
& Griswold, Barrett, Brinsmade & Barrett,
Beebe & Donahue, Martin & Smith, and Brown,
Hall and Vanderpool, whose practice ranges in
some instances as high a3 $150,000 per annum.
Among “the third class,” referring solely to
ages, the Commercial names Joseph H. Choate,
John fi. Parsons, W. E. Curtis, George Ticknor
Curtis, A. B. Lawrenoe, etc., with incomes
from $10,000 to $50,000. The four leading
criminal lawyers of New York are John Graham,
Henry L. Clinton, Charles S. Spencer and W.
P. Howe.
New Democratic Papeb is Louisville.—The
Cincinnati Gazette’s Louisvillo correspondent
writes as follows:
“A new paper, called tho Louisvillo Ledger,
will be published, commencing February 1st,
under the business management of L. G.
Matthews, of the New Albany Ledger. Col.
John Forsyth, of the Mobile Begister, Paul B.
Shipman, formerly of the Louisvillo Journal,
and Judge Richard Stanton, of Maysville, are
spoken of in connection with the editorship.
The paper will be once on a good financial ba
sis. It will be purely Democratic, Stato and
National, with no space devoted to dead issues.
There is no room for it, if we know aught
of the newspaper situation at Louisville, and
there should bo as little wish for it, if the peo
ple who are expected to support it, know when
they have a good thing in hand. What anybody
there, bnt the professional politicians want with
a better newspaper than tho Courier-Jonrnal,
passes onr comprehension. But that lovely set
can't dead beat the C-J., and probably that’s
what ails Hannah. The C-J., grinds tunes of
its own composing and not those sot for it by
theso bummers, and they can’t abide the music.
We don’t think the Ledger will hunt the C-J.,
to speak of—provided of course it is to be a
party organ—notwithstanding its strong back
ing. Even John Forsyth’s shoulders are not
broad enongh and strong enough to carry such
a harden.
Outbreak In an Unexpected Place.
Few of our readers, we venture to say, es
caped a good healthy shock of surprise and grat
ification upon reading the manly protest of Gov.
Geary, of Pennsylvania, against Federal milita
ry interference with State elections. No man
in the country was, perhaps, more astonished
that General Grant himself. Geary is a Radical
of the uncompromising kind, and a military and
personal friend of Grant, and if he has been ac
tuated in this matter by political principle, it
raises onr opinion of Radicalism a degreoto
know that there is even one man among its vast
numbers who has that much regard for sound
nsago and the public welfare.
The sneers of the New York Tribune, how
ever, excite suspicion that there is some per
sonal or political grievance at the bottom of the
protest, and this manifesto is only another out
ward manifestation of these internal fire3 of
discord in tho Radical mountain, which it takes
a world of management to keep under. We sus
pect Pennsylvania is much dissatisfied with
Grant, and Geary, perhaps, personally disgrun
tled abont something or other. He has there*
fore seized npon a manifest outrage upon all
the principles, usages and traditions of Ameri
can freedom, as a fit opportunity to wing a
deadly bolt through the joints of the Presiden
tial harness. The Radical Governor of the
Eey Stone State solemnly impeaches the Radi
cal President of the United States of high
crimes and misdemeanors against freo govern
ment—the purity of the elective franchise and
the peace and dignity of the States.
It is true, Geary modifies tho stroke by a lit
tle indirect justification of tho President’s mo-
tints, and by transfering the danger of such
crimes to tho shoulders of some “ had man gov
erned by personal ambition” who might hereaf
ter succeed him. All that, indeed, was needed
to savo his message from being a direct per
sonal affront. Geary is entitled to his own es
timate of General Grant, and so is every other
man in the country. And wo will venture
to say that, whatever doubt may exist abont his
being a had man or a good man, there is not a
hundred intelligent men in America who do not
know that the extent and absorbing character of
his “ personal ambition" are remarkable, and
that he is almost self-consumed in plots and
plans to socure his own succession in 1872. We
can scarcely imagine any Juture President of
the United States under circumstances of
stronger temptation, or in a position more ad
vantageous for prostituting tho military power
of the Government to tho control of popular
elections, and the whole country will appeal to
a record convicting both Grant and his party of
an extreme disregard of the elective franchise
and it3 results never before displayed by any
administration in America.
The Tribuno may well call Geary’s protest a
remarkable passage. It has no parallel in
American history in its character and force, as
a Presidential arraignment. With a blind reck
lessness of the future, the Tribuno has declared
that “wo cannot have too much” of thisFederal
tampering with the State elections,'and this is
the first radical voice yet raised in defence of
the States and people. It is bound to attract
attention, though it may not abate the foul
practice. We believed the army was introduced
into the machinery of elections last fall in an
experimental way—as an entering wedge for
more active operations in the Presidential can
vass next year. It would look a little startling
to see the Constitutional Head of the army
moving bis troops abont, for the first time, to
secure his own re-election; bnt if the people
became accustomed to it by two previous years
of usage in other elections, the measure would
excite less observation, hostility and alarm.
Donn Piatt went to hear the Rev. Dr. New
man on the “ Many Wives of Utah,” and says
he “ was very severe on the polygamous Mor
mons. I may say, without fear of successful
contradiction, that ho gave them the devil. He
said he had been out there, and had hud a dis
cussion with Orson Pratt, and that ho used Or
son up right before Brigham and the twelve,
apostles and their three hundred and forty-two
wives. The Rev. Dr. Newman gave us to un
derstand that the wives were ashamed of Orson
when ho got through. He got Orson on the
Hebrew. I don’t recollect just exactly the text
in tho original Hebrew, but it is familiar to
most of us, and it seemed to knock Orson flat.
The Rev. Dr. Newman left Brigham Young and
the twelve apostle trying to set Orson on ond,
but it was a total failure.”
The German and French Deadlock.
From the French and German correspond
ence of the New York papers of the 2d inst.,
and articles copied in those prints from leading
English papers, we gather very discouraging
impressions about the probable duration of the
•Prusso-French war. The controversy has taken
the shape, on each hand, of a point of natural
pride and honor—and each day it may be said
of the French, if not of the Germans, that the
determination not to yield becomes more inex
orable. The London Spectator says that France
has a military strength of three million men,
all becoming daily more acd more infused with
an unconquerable energy and courage. If any
one supposes it an easy task to conquer the
French, let him consult Prussian history in the
seven years’ war, when that gallant people suc
cessfully defended themselves for years, after
half their towns had been burnt, and their
fields abandoned to women, and their very seed
com.consumed, and their horses all carried off
for tho guns, and their police at an end, and
their society redneed, as tho King said, to sav
agery. They still fought on, defying and wear
ing out the armies of States with twenty times
their population.
Paris may be taken, bnt the war has, in a
great measure, decentralized France, and the
nation might still pnt two millions of men in
tho field. Germany demands that Franco shall
denationalize her own people and turn them
over to Teutonio domination. France will
never do it so long as she is capable of resis
tance. Until she is utterly prostrate, a peace
on thli basis is impossible. On the other hand
the traditions of Prussia make the acquisition
of territory the indispensable trophy of mili
tary success. Money is nothing to the Prus
sian without land to show as tho solid evidence
of his military superiority. Meanwhile, in the
opinion of the Spectator, the French are daily
gaining in strength and rising to tho height of
the supreme crisis of their fate, while it is
equally certain that Germany is betraying evi
dent signs of increasing exhaustion and dis
tress.
The Southern States.
Washington, January 3.—A statement, tele-
SchoolElection.—We call attentionof voters
again to the advertisement of the Ordinary in
reference to the election of School Commis
sioners and Trustees this day. As these officers
have no emolument, and that of Trustees in
particular involve no other duties than those of
holding the title to school property, wo trust
the gentlemen elected will serve. Self-protoc-
tion demands the election of a Board of Com
missioners who'will at least savo the people
from inordinate taxation. We hope the people
will take the trouble to Vote to-day, in their own
interests.
Tbe San Domingo Hitch.
Friday’s telegrams announced tho defeat of
Morton’s Senate resolutions to send a Commis
sion of Inquiry to San Domingo,. before the
House Committee on Foreign Relations. On
the question of reporting them with a recom
mendation that they do pass, the vote stood
three ayes to five nays. Two of the Committee
were absent, bnt known to be, when last heard
from, opposed to tho annexation project. As a
matter of courtesy, however, tho resolutions
would be reportod to the House and left to their
own fate, and Gen. Grant was sure they would
go through.
Meanwhile, tho steamship Tonnosseo was in
the river waiting for the passage of tho resolu
tions and tho appointment of the Commission
ers, in order to transfer them post haste to Son*
Domingo, so that they might return and report
in time to put a resolution for annexation
through Congress before the 4th of March,
We have assumed, as a foregone conclusion,
that the President wonld be able to force this
project through, and such is our judgmont of
probabilities now. It is tho only publio meas
ure upon which Gon. Grant has set himself se
riously at work to illustrate an administration
policy and prestige; and upon this we may say
he has fairly “laid himself out.” If he fails
here, it is a confessed cypher. Many of the
leading Republican organs, however, either al
together refuse to sustain it, or “damn it with
faint praise.” The New York Herald, which
oame out for it a few days ago with an extraor
dinary swagger and flourish of trumpets, backed
down incontinently, and it appears to ns that
there is such a growing popular direlish of the
soheme that delay may be fatal to it. The peo-
are taking more sober views npon the policy of
incorporating more savagely into the ballot, and
the plea of the message that annexation is es
sential to national defence is canvassed into a
great deal of successful ridicule. Moreover,
an incurable taint of intrigue and riDg-corrup-
tion infects the project, and makes it unwel
come to tho popular nostrils. Perhaps San
Domingo may fall by the way-side, after all,
bnt we think the probabilities are that it will be
forced through against the popular judgment
and against the honest bias of even Congress
itself. Wo observe the following in this con
nection:'
Mu. Gheeley and the President.—Horace
Greelgy arrived here from New York this morn
ing, and during the day had a long interview
with the President. It is said that the Presi
dent invited Mr. Greeley to make this visit to
complete the details of a conference to which
ho was invited two or three weeks ago, and to
establish closer relations between the Tribuno
and the Administration. Tho fact that Mr.
Greeley has not come out openly for the San
Domingo annexation project, and denounced
thoso Senators who attacked Mr. Sumner for
opposing it, has produced a feeling of uneasi
ness in the mind of the President which he has
taken this step to relieve. ItisamoDg the ru
mors that tho President has invited Greeley to
bo one of the commissioners to visit San Do
mingo.— Washington telegram Baltimore Sun.
TJie Tice oi Victory.
Under this head a correspondent in this edi
tion throws ont some pregnant and forcible
hints, which we commend to the careful con
sideration of our Georgia readers. Success
tests tho character and capacity of politicians
and parties far more severely than defeat. Let
ns, tho Democracy of Georgia, now prove our
capacity to govern Georgia wisely and well, by
showing that we can govern ourselves, and by
subordinating all passions, resentments, and
self-interests, to the single object of establish
ing honest, wise, just, and beneficent govern
ment in Georgia.
Now is tho time for us carefully to shun all
the vice3, crimes, and misdemeanors wo have
charged npon our political adversaries. Wo
have charged them with reckless and wioked ef
forts to disorder society by arraying one class
in hostility to another—see, then, that our own
legislation is wisely directed to the publio tran
quility, and reassures all classes by its justice,
fairness and impartiality. We have complained
of prodigality and waste. See,then, that onr
management is characterized by prudence and
economy. We have complained of corruption
and dishonesty. Now, let every Democrat keep
clean hands and join heartily in the deteotion
and punishment of fraud wherever found. We
have complained of the intolerable expenses of
legislation. Let onr motto be, short sessions
and a moderate per diem. In brief, let us learn
our own duty from the charges brought against
the Radicals, and prove that, in this' instance,
Revolution and Reform go hand in hand.
Another 'Won’t Bullock's friends never
stop hitting him after he is down? It is posi
tively shameful. Greeley, and the Now York
Times, and several other Radical bruisers have
gone for him, and now here comes Akerman,
who delivers a sockdolager between tho eyes. HPQI
According to the Courier-Journal's Washington ®hc elects a solid Democratic Congressional del-
special of Wednesday, “Akerman sends word egation, a Democratic Governor, and a nearly
that Bullock was the cause of tho Radical defeat 8olid Democratic Legislature by a popular ma
in Georgia.” If Bullock don’t hit back, we’ll j 3 or * f y °I 75,000, in 1872.
think he is' going in a3 a rival of Moses.
graphed in thin correspondence last week, that
a Western Senator was seriously considering tho
propriety of introducing in Congress a plan for
the reconstruction of Florida and North Caro
lina, hna grown in proportion since the Georgia
election. It is now freely stated that the Pres
ident intends to send to Congress a special mes
sage recommending an official inquiry into the
condition of the Sonthem States, while it is
also known that, a few evenings since, there
was a formal conference between several of the
leading Republican Senators from the East and
West, with those from the South, in which the
expediency of such a step was freely canvassed,
and, to a certain extent, very warmly advocated.
The effect of such a proceeding on the Repub
lican party was the point that elicited most dis
cussion.— Washington Special to Courier-Jour
nal. '
Let theso conspirators, upon whose deviltry
tho people have pronounced such a scorching
verdict, go ahead with their schemes. They
do but assure their doom in 1872. Nothing but
bayonets and wholesale disfranchisement can
make tho South vote the Radical ticket. And
when her vote is secured by such means, tho
Democrats will sweep the North. Let the Jaco
bins rip. They will be driven from place and
powerin 1872, just so sure as Godis just. Re
construction has no terrors for us. It will kill
the Radical party so dead that not even the
scent of plunder can vitalize it again.- If the
game is tried, on Georgia we will guarantee that
Hard Counting.—The Radical canvassers in
Swedes in Florida.—The Immigration Agent Florida left oat nine counties out of tho thirty-
in Florida receives twice ns many subscriptions nine in the Stato andreversed the verdict of tho
■ he can fill. people to one in their own favor.
Cotillion Party at Gobbos—Wo acknowl
edge thankfully a card of invitation to a cotil
lion party to be given at the Gordon Hotel next
Thursday night—W. A. Ryle, L. Butts, R. Nel
son and E. A. Walker, Committee of Invitation;
S. Simons, W. A. Ryle, D. M. Pope, F. S. Bar
clay and R. G. Solomon, Floor Managers. In
this party, we rejoice to see, we are not re
quired to go in white satin lights tied up with
blue ribbons—a spangled red coat with a very
short tail, and a comical hat with a long feath
er, to enact Mr. Tracy Tupman under similar
difficulties—nor to wear a yellow hat, a green
cloak and a huge butcher knife as tho Jew
in tho Merchant of Venice, and frighten the
ladies with horrid scowls. We shall be neither
Nicholas Bottom, Francis Flute, Tommy S'out,
Sir Walter Raleigh, the Dake of Richmond or
a Spanish Cavalier. Some years ago, the writer
attended Shaker worship, and, after sitting
awhile in silence, the old Elder got np and says
he “Let ns praise God in a Square Dance," and
he spoke our mind exactly. When wo get to
Gordon we shall go in for a square dance, and
in spito of all the reverend doctors say, there’ll
bo no harm in it, unless the ladies should be so
unfortunate as to get their little toBS under one
of our heels, when we shall not be responsible
for the consequences." By no means, John.
So look out for Gordon and a square dance,
next Thursday night.
A Note of Warning.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republioan, the lead
ing Radical paper of New England, sounds the
following note of alann and warning:
We do not wonder that the Republican lead
ers at Washington are getting alarmed over the
prospects of their party New York, under
Fenton corruptions and Oonkliug dogmatism,
seems to be nearly hopeless for them. Pennsyl
vania wearies of Cameron and Forney, and gives
suro indications of going back to tho Democra
cy. The division in Missouri, which General
Grant’s inconsiderateness has intensified, is dis
couraging for that State. While the Republioan
defeat in Georgia, following close on other
Southorn defeats or half-victories, proves that
tho reconstruolion policy of Gen. Butler and
the administration has driven, substantially,
the whole South out of the hands of the Repub
lican party, and given it with nearly a centain-
ty to tho Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency in 1872.
Theontlook i3 certainly very discouraging.
Nothing but a thorough revision and deoided
improvement of the polioyof the administration
and tho Republioan party, united with the rep
etition of the past follies of the Democratic
party, can now give General Grant or any other
Republican candidate a reasonable prospect of
success two years hence The Republicans can
rely with a good deal of confidence on the stu
pidity of the Democratic leaders; but that alone
will not rescue them from the results of their
own folly. San Domingo must be thrown over*
board incontinently, and all its disa’greeable
memories cast into the deep, deep sea; the job
bers in politics and the jobbers in government
patronage alike must be shown to have less in-
iiaenco with tho administration than now; the
strictest economy enforced in all departments of
tho government, carrying a reduction of the
governmental expenditures, including interest,
down to two hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars a year; government bounties to railroads
and to steamboat companies coase for the pres
ent at least; while our whole tax system should
bo cut down at every available point, greatly
simplified, and its burdens made to fall os light
ly as possible upon the labor and industry of
the countiy. Nothing less than such an im-
provmentin administration and in legislation,
as these points suggest, can possibly save Gen.
Grant and the Republican party from the tide
that is now evidently running against them all
over the country.
Don’t count on Democratic stupidity, friend.
The Bourbons and donkeys who run that sched
ule are to take baok seats, henceforth, and es
pecially in 1872.
A Young Bride Buried in Her Bi'ldal
Dress.
The Arlington, December 31, 1870.—Quite
a gloom has been thrown over the social life of
Washington daring the holidays, by the sudden
death of Mrs. Beek-Corcoran, and tho loss of
Mrs. Belknap, tho accomplished wife of the
Secretary of War.
The marriage and death of Mrs. Oorcoran
were so close together that the bridal robes made,
in fact, the bnrial garments of tho poor girl.
Bat two short weeks were intervened between
tho time when she was led to the altar and that
when she was carried out a corpse. Having
been a belle here, much admired and generally
beloved, the event startled and saddened the
entire community. The fnneral took placo from
the princely residence of the uncle, Mr. Oorco
ran ; and tho real sorrow manifested by the
great crowd in attendance was really striking.
It is so seldom when one of U3 drops out that
moro than one hack is necessary to carry the
genuine grief, that an event of this sort is wor
thy of note.
I consider onr funerals a remnant of barbar
ism that ought to go out with the twin relics.—
When one dies, and the little household is strick
en with grief, there comes tho hour that makes
privacy n necessity. We instinctively shrink
from the gaze of the world. That moment is
seized upon for tho undertaker to introduce,
under tbe name of friends of the deceased, all
the neighborhood. The remains of ono once
so dear to the grief-stricken family* receives an
ovation from heartless curiosity and hypocrit
ical ceremony, and while one hack, as I have
said, will generally carry out all the grief that
really follows the body to the grave, a long
string of carriages, hired at an enormous ex
pense, are filled with people who cared little for
the departed when alive, and less now that he
or she is dead. They go to tho grave talking
politics or business in a subdued tone, and re
turn hilarious from the reaction that follows
self-restraint. It is bnt a beastly business,
and ought to be done away with at an early
day. The cost attending these funerals is
of itself sufficient reason for their being abol
ished. Many & poor family is actually left
without bread in this absnrd attempt to make
a brief show of respect to the dead. No ono is
benefitted but the undertaker, and the profits
accruing to him from this hollow, absnrd cere
mony, give us reason enough to terminate it ae
once. Heavy speculations at any time are dist
agreeable, but when the speculator sits on th-
coffin and preys on the dead, we ought to be
horified.
The young bride, as I have said, was actually
buried in the dress she wore when married;
vail, orange blossoms, white satin and all. The
corpse made, under the circumstances, a ghast
ly spectacle. It is not a pleasant thing to criti
cise, but I would have liked it better had this
show been dispensed with. I would have liked
it better if the whole crowd had been turned
from the door, and no one left to the bnrial ser
vice but those whoso tearful oyes and loving
hands alone were fit for it. Bat then theso are
ultra notions and shocking to the approved
taste of the community. Hired hacks, with dir
ty drivers, will form long processions, carrying
people who care nothing for the deceased, and
ending only in profits to the undertaker. When
a stupidity of this sort gets hold of the beloved
people, it is astonishing with what tenacity it
clings and lives. I never met with a man or
woman who, when reasoned with, did not con
cur with me in this condemnation of funeral
ceremonies; and yet each in turn hasten to as
sist or get up something of the same sort.
Fast Florida Orange Crop, etc.
We were sorry to learn from Mr. Felix Cor-
put, the other day, that the orange crop npon
the trees about Jacksonville and for some dis
tance above on the St. Johns River, were to
tally destroyed in the reoent cold weather. Tho
fruit was froxen solid. The trees, he thought,
were not killed thongh much injured. All the
other tropical fruits were also lost, and a large
part of the sugar caue. This is a severe blow
to Florida and a serious deprivation to ontaiders
who were looking for abundant supplies of fruit
this winter from that region. Wo are unablo
to say how far down the peninsula the frosts
were fatal to the fruit The orange growers
must push farther South. Mr. Oorput reports
only about 2,500 Northern visitors and invalids
at Jacksonville this winter. Last winter there
wore about ten thousand oi them.- This is prob
ably due to the stringency of the times. Very
few business men in tho United States have
made anything the past year, and most people
have l03t money, and will continuo to lose until
after a more perfect readjustment of all the
conditions of trade. Tho Southern people are
not alone in their misfortunes.
The Detroit Free Press tells of an Indian va
grant committed to the look-up, slightly intoxi
cated, as jolly os a porcupine, who had no soon-
laid him down than he commenced to warble
such a song that all the other vagrants had to
sit np on'end and hold on by the cracks in the
floor. It was high, “lo,” guttural, piercingand
falsetto, ond, as the follow refused to slop for
breath anywhere, the janitor took the poker and
drove him out doors.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
There were 47 deaths in Atlanta daring the
month of December.
Executive Seoretary Atkinson' is siok with
rheumatism at Atlanta. He has been reading
the eleetion returns too assiduously.
“Enquirer,” in the • Atlanta Constitution, of
Thursday, comes down on Bullock for violating
the Constitution in appointing H. D. D. Twiggs
Judge of the Middle Circuit. The Constitution
says that no person shall be Judge who has not
practised law seven years, and lived in the cir
cuit one year. “Enquirer" asserts that Judge
Twiggs has done neither, and that Bullook’s
idea in appointing him was that he might prove
“a valuable accession to the Republican party.”
The Atlanta Era says:
Benzine went out calling on New Year’s Day*
He was seen a little after midnight singing “Put
“Gad Bless the Little Church Around
the Corner.”
Under this head the Conrier-Journal skins
tho Rev. Mr. Sabine, a New York parson who
sermonizes for anaristooratio congregation up on
Madison Square, for rofasing to officiate at the
funeral of the late George Holland, of that
city, a venerable and muoh respected actor. Mr.
Joseph Jefferson called to request Mr. S.’s ser-
:s, and the latter gave his consent; but
learning in the course of the conversation that
the deoeosed had been an aotor, rudely with
drew it, at the same time recommending Mr.
Jefferson to “go to tho little ohurch around the
aer.” Q^e Courier-Journal says, and we
print its remarks with hearty satisfaction and
emphatic approval:
No, he cannot do that. Ho can say grace over
a house full of shameless voluptuaries; ho cm
drop precious comfort into the ear of a congre
gation of corrupt gold gamblers; he can engage
in countless legalized, nuptial harlotries and
lower any number of fist-class rascals into dis
honored graves. He can swim in a sea of re
ligious glory as long S3 he is paid a salary Buffi
cient to sustain him at Saratoga and keep up
his establishment in Madison Square. But ho
cannot bury au actor. Ah^ no 1 At the bare
thought of a man whose life has been devoted
to making men more charitable than they are
by making them laugh, and in the presence of
tho man who, more than any of his countrymen,
has poured into the well of human kindliness
its sunniest, its purest and its most generous
stream of Christian love, this fashionable divine
is appalled and ashamed; and he says, in his
beautiful, chaste, and perfeotly respectable way,
“I cannot say the service of my ohurch over a
play actor. You had better go to the little
chtiroh around the corner.” And Jefferson, mov
ing out of the hot atmosphere of the grand sa
loon, very muoh as if it were warmed by th<!
devil’s own faggots, exolaims, “God bless the
little church around the comer.”
It is oonsoling to know that the comedian
went-to the little church around the comer;
that he found a little man of God around the
coiner; that he found the heart of a fellow-
mortal around the comer; that he found the
spirit of a Christian preacher around the corn
er; that he found in that little church around
the corner, a great, big soul, God love it! and
that poor old George Holland was laid at rost
by hands whose touch did not defile his burial
robes, by lips whose tones did not sicken the
air around his grave, by one whose presence
did not call his own attendant shadow into tbe
place of the dead, the shadow of tho genius of
damnation!
me in my Little Bed” to a couple of polioemen
They put him in.
Thomas M. Sanders, long and favorably
known in Columbus, died near that city last
Tuesday.
Four thousand three hundred and seventy-
two hales of cotton, weighing 2,130,761 pounds,
and valued at $307,337 73, were shipped from
Savannah for Liverpool on 'Wednesday.
Policeman Joe Murphy, daring the late war a
gallant soldier in Company A, 10th Georgia
Regiment, died at Columbus of congestive chill,
Wednesday morning.
The Savannah News says:
Be-captube op Juipsey A. Hunter.—We no
ticed in yesterday’s News the escape of Jimpsey
A. Hunter, who, at the last term of the Superior
Court of Brooks county, was convicted of the
murder of Dr. Thomas Alexander, and sentenced
to be hung on the 27th of the present month—
from the oars, while being conveyed from Quit-
man, to the jail in this city for safe keeping. It
appears that he leaped off the train at the Al-
tamaha bridge. The train stopped as soon as the
fact was notified to the conductor and the offi
cers in charge, Mitchell, Kingsbury and Wilson,
deputies, got off, and found the prisoner in a
braised and disabled condition about fifty yards
frem where he made tho hazardous leap for life.
He was taken in ch”-ge andbronght to the city,
where he now is in Chatham oounty jail await
ing farther proceedings in his case.
The State House at Atlanta will be insured
to-day for $200,000, at 1J per cent.
Green James, living ten miles from Augusta,
got drunk on the 22d December, and rode home
from that city, lying in tho bottom of a wagon,
and with his head bumping against one of the
wheels at every revolution it made. On last
Tuesday ho died.
George Newman, a well-known drayman of
Augusta, was killed by being run over by a
loaded dray a day or two since.
The new county of MoDuffie, made from Ma
con and Columbia, elected its county officers on
last Monday. The Radicals made no nomina
tions and the Democrats carried their whole
ticket. Nearly every negro in the county voted
for it. ' .*'
Tho Chronicle and'Sentinel notes the fact
that though Southern Railroads owe the Federal
Government $4,646,522, only one Georgia road
is of the number. The Macon and Brunswick
owes $3,960 09.
The dry goods house of Lovell, Harris &Co.,
on Congress street, Savannah, has collapsed,
and the senior partner and book-keeper are non
est. About $8,000 in cash went off at the same
time. Liabilities about $40,000.
Tho Athens Watchman and the Augusta Con
stitutionalist both oppose the January session
of-the Legislature foolishness.
The Houston county farmers say they are go
ing to farm this year on the high cultivation sys
tem—making ono aero produce what several
have produced heretofore.
The Savannah Republican, of Friday, has
the following:
A gentleman who left Sandersville yesterday
morning informs ns of an occurrence in that
placo Wednesday night that calls for the stern
est popular condemnation and-the utmost ef
forts on the part of the public authorities to
bring the perpetrators to punishment.
It seems that an unknown party of men, the
number of whom our informant did not learn,
called at a private residence in Sandersville be
tween nine and ton o’clock and inquired for
Mr. J. O. Gallaher, a lawyer at that place, who,
with his family, was boarding at the house. Mr.
Gallaher, suspecting no evil, went ont into the
street, when he was seized and taken some mile
and a half into the country, when the party
halted and ordered him to follow one of their
number into the woods. This he declined do
ing. and requested them, if they intended to
kill frim, to do it right then, and in the road.
While disputing abont the matter, Gallaher,
seizing what he thought was his only opportu
nity, ran for his life, but had proceeded bnt a
few paces when a volley of bullets was fired at
him, one of which passed through his left and
only arm, and another, entering his back near
the spine; passed out at his side, somewhat in
front. Upon receiving this last shot, he fell
senseless, and there lay, for how long a time
he is unable to say. On recovering his con
sciousness, no signs of the marauders could be
seen. They had doubtless believed him dead,
and made their escape. Bewildered, Major
Gallaher—for he wasanofficer and lost his right
arm in the Confederate service—took the direc
tion leading from town instead of homeward,
and after proceeding a mile or two, came to a
farm house where he was taken in, kindly pro
vided for, and a messenger despatched to town
for a physician and his wife. The former re
turned yesterday morning, and thinks, while
the wound in the side is dangerous, it is not
necessarily fatal. The citizens of Sandersville
are wholly at a loss to account for tho outrage.
The Columbus Sun has the following items:
SuefictenTly Elevated.—It is told of a young
man who was making New Year’s calls, that he,
in company with others, mounted a long flight
of stairs in order to enter a nuptial room He.
suggested to the lady of the house that he
thought an elevator would be a convenience on
New Year’s. She pleasantly replied that the
young man appeared sufficiently elevated to
reach any height. He subsided.
County Poor House.—This mslitutionis get
ting along very well. It is reported to have 14
inmates—8 whites, 6 blacks. Jack Wimberly
has been elected steward at a salary of $300.—
Last year the inmates raised 200 bushels of
com, 230 of potatoes and 80 of peas, besides
more vegetables than they could use.
- Death of an Old Citizen.—Mr. Richard F.
Harris, of Kentucky, well known in this section
as a horse drover, and formerly as the proprie
tor of stables in this city, died in the city yes
terday, after a short illness, of pneumonia. His
age was abont 55 years.
“Can’t Raise Meat.”—Yesterday we saw at
the market house a six mule team wagon loaded
with slaughtered hogs for sale. These were
sent np by a planter in a near county, who, be
sides what he sent up, has enough left to run
his place, and have more left.
The Savannah News tells the following story:
Influence of Imagination Upon the Human
Body.—A leading physioian in this city relates
a remarkable case of the influence of imagina
tion upon the human body, which occurred in
his practice not long ago. He was called to Bee
‘a lady who was afflicted with a cold, and, of
course, a cough and sore throat. He wrote a
prescription and gave it to the lady with the
following instruction: “Madame, put this in a
tumbler full of water, and take a tablespoonful
every two bourn; bnt if it should produce vom
iting, reduce the dose to a teaspoonful every
two hours.” The next day he called to see her,
when she informed him that & tablespoonful of
the medicine had made her so sick that die had
reduced the dose to a teaspoenful, but that she
was much better. He paid her a third visit,
when she informed him that she was still im
proving, bnt that the medicine was so powerful
that a teaspoonful produood vomiting, and she
had been compelled to stop taking it. The
Doctor said: “ I suppose it is nearly all gone. 1
The lady said the tumbler was on the mantel
and he could see how muoh was left. The Doc
tor says, “ I looked at the tumbler, and I am
d—d if I didn’t .find that she had put the paper
on which my prescription was written in the
tumbler, and had been taking nothing but
water.”
Ms. Doyle, of Albany, interfered to stop two
men fighting, and is now on a couch of pain in
the hospital. He says it was his first appearance
as peacemaker, and will be his last.
wby Jt»njr n, scnRiiT is hot cek-
KITTED TO TEU HIS STOBT.
A Pusillanimous Judiciary.
Bonn Piatt in the Cincinnati Commercial. I
This unhappy gentleman is continued before
the publio long after he ought to be forgotten
by the abuse that is heaped upon him by
certain journals. Why he should not be per
mitted to tell his story, if he can find any one
to listen, is a matter of some astonishment.
Looking at the character of the journals, how
ever, engaged in abusing him, one discovers
the secret to be, I believe, that the revelations
made by Surratt, in reference to his trial in
Washington, are so damaging to the tribunal
before which his life hung in jeopardy, and to
the people engaged in the prosecution, that
it is necessary to offset his statement by
wholesale abuse. If this story is true, and
we have no reason to doubt it, the conduct of
the Court here, under Judge Fisher, and of the
Government, as controlled by the prosecutor,
was perfectly infamous. If Surratt was guilty
of complicity with the assassins of Mr. Lincoln,
of course the counfly wanted him punished.
If, on the contrary, he was not guilty, the coun
try desired that he should be acquitted. This
does not seem to have been the spirit that ani
mated the Court. It seemed determined to con
vict, regard! ess of evi dence, and steps were taken
to secure this result that ought to damn with in
famy forever every official connected with it.
Surratt’s counsel sought to prove that at the time
of the assassination he was at Elmira. Of course,
if this could have been sus'ained, it was not pos
sible to convict him of having a part in the assas
sination. His counsel, to sustain this alibi, relied
upon two noted registers, and one telegram
Rent by Surratt,under the name of Robinson, to
Booth, whom he supposed to be in New York.
One of these hotel registers and the telegram
could not be found, and, from the faot that the
register preceding the one required, and the reg
ister following, were at the hotel, and that the
entire files of telegrams were perfect, exoept
this one, the inference is conclusive that they
were abstracted by some interested party. Of
course tliis could only be done, by some one
ooncemed in the prosecution. Tho remaining
register which the defense succeeded in. ob
taining Judge Fisher ruled out, npon the extra-
ordinary gronnd that Surratt might have re-
turned from Canada subsequent to the apparent
date, and so registered the name. I doubt
whether, in the wholo annals of criminal juris
prudence, such a tried, with such rulings, canbe
found. A thirst for blood seemed to animate
every creature, except a portion of the jury,
concerned in this pretended investigation. ’
John Surratt was to, be hung because he was
John Surratt. The censure for all this falls
upon the presiding judge. The infamous pro
ceedings could not have continued a moment
without his sanction. It is small wonder, then,
that certain journals take up the fight and strive
to distract public attention by abuse poured
upon the head of this poor creature. Judge
Fisher is yet in existence. He has passed from
the bench he disgraced to a more lucrative po
sition, where, it is said, he is now making his
fortune.
The entire judiciary of this district needs re
construction. Really possessed.of the powers
only that pertain to ordinary county courts, it
assumes to itself a position, and reaches out for
powers in a manner that is really ludicrous. I
do not exaggerate when I say that the entire,
judiciary of the district is without dignity. One
or two of the judges surpass the famous Dog
berry in their decisions and the manner of their
delivery. What the poor people of this district
have been guilty of, that they should be pun
ished in this way, makes a conundrum diffioult
to answer.
But, all considerations of propriety aside, this
trial of John Surratt ought to be well ventilated
and the shame of his prosecution fixed upon the
men who engaged in it. The one remaining
feature of the pure Government given ns by
our fathers is in the judiciary, and we cannot
guard it with too much care. To permit such
scandals as this trial, to use the mildest term,
to go unrebuked, is to demoralize the whole
eyatem; nor can I see why places upon the
bench in this unhappy District should be made
an asylum for decayed political hacks.
Bailroad Convention In Augusta.
Some time since it was announced on the
fourth day of this month representatives of the
different railroads composing what is known as
tho Sonthem route between Richmond and New
Orleans, would meet in this city for the purpose
of arranging a new and faster passenger sched
ule between those cities. This action was ren
dered necessary by the completion of the Macon
and Augusta and one or two other new railroads,
and the general demand for faster time.
In accordance with the call a large number of
the leading railway men of the South arrived in
this city on Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning. Yesterday morning the convention
assembled in the reading room of the Planters’
Hotel.
Among those present were John P. King,
President, and S. K. Johnson, Superintendent,
of the Georgia Railroad; W. M. Wadley, Pres
ident, and William Rogers, Superintendent, of
the Central Railroad; W. J. Hawkins, Presi
dent, and'A. B. Andrews, Superintendent, of
the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad; JohnF. Tur
ner, Superintendent of the Wilmington, Char
lotte and Rutherford Bailroad; R.- B. Bridges,
President of the Wilmington and Weldon, and
Wilmington, Colombia and Augusta Railroads;
S. L. Fremont, Superintendent of the Wilming
ton and Weldon Railroad ; John C. Winder, Su
perintendent of the Wilmington, Colnmbia and
Augusta Railroad; J. H. Woodcock, President
of the Piedmont and Petersburg Bailroad;
George H. Hazlehurst, President of the
Macon and Augusta, and Macon and Bruns
wick Railroads; William McRae, Superin
tendent of the Macon and Brunswick Rail
road; Virgil Powers, Superintendent of the
Southwestern Railroad; L. P. Grant, Super
intendent of tho Atlanta and West Point
railroad; W. P. Clyde, President of the New
York and Wilmington and New York and
Charleston Clyde line of steamships; Charles T.
Pollard, President of the Montgomery and West
Point railroad; G. Jordan, Superintendent of
the Mobile and Montgomery railroad; E. H.
Harris, Morgan’s line of steamers from New
Orleans to Galveston; George G. Hull, Macon
and'Augusta railroad; E. W. Hull, South Caro
lina railroad; J. B. Peck, General Freight Agent
Southern Freight line; J. M. Selkirk, Charlotte,
Colnmbia and Augusta railroad; A. L. Whalen,
Richmond and Danville railroad; D. L. Yulee,
President Fernandina and Cedar Keys railroad;
D. M. Hood, Superintendent of the Fomandi-
na - and Cedar Keys railroad; W. J. Walker,
General Ticket Agent Coast Line.
R. R. Bridges, of Washington, was elected
President of the Convention.
George H. Hazlehurst, of Macon, was eleoted
Secretary.
Two session of the Convention were helddnr-
g tho day, and one last night. Tho different
schedules proposed were all thoroughly dis
cussed. Nothing definite as to the action of the
Convention was made known last night, but it
is believed that a schedule twenty hoars shorter
than the present was adopted, making the time
about seventy-soven instead of ninety-six hours.
Indeed, such a schedule was agreed upon at the
evening’s session, but the night meeting may
have made in it some change or alteration. It
is said that the opposition of the Richmond and
Fredericksburg and Bay Line routes to any
schedule different from that which those lines
are now running, caused some trouble, but
everything was probably adjusted last night.
It was thought that the Convention would ad -
joum last night.—Chronicle.
the State Koad,'
From the Augusta Constitutionalist 1 *
We are permitted to publish the foUowin
tract of a letter from Mr. Stephens on tk!
ject of the State Road lease. The lettCTi
which we quote was addressed to a gentleJ
in this oily:
The history of my connection with the
is this: After the advertisement of the L,
of the road, in pursuance of the act of the
islature; and after I had seen in the paper.'
ex-Gov. Brown intended to organize a oo^.
to put in a bid for it, I wrote to him, statim
if what I had seen was true, I should like i
one of his oompany, and to take an intend
it to the extent of my property, which, oveVj
above all liabilities, 1 thought was ten that,
dollars. He replied that he had been enj
in organizing or forming a company with t
of making a bid for the lease ; that ho did
know whether the parties with whom he
conferring would be willing to extend the
not; that individually he was perfectly \
to do so, and would present my request
the company met. I wrote back tohim t
him full power to act for me in the prem-i
he might .think proper, but told him it
matter that I did not feel sufficient inter
for any urging to be used in my behalf and
if there was a single member of his co mti
who showed or indicated the slightest obi«?
to my taking an interest in it, my name
not be presented by him.
I knew nothing of tho parties with whon
was conferring—not one of them; nord^
care to know any more than I should J
the stockholders in the Georgia Railroad (V
pany if I were going to vest anything inf
any other, railroad company. I beSeved
wonld be the controlling man in theaffa in
any company that might be formed
auspices. I thought, under his control
.road might be made to pay the mini'-,!
amount fixed by the Legislature and even n>,
as well as to pay the lessees something for t;
risk and trouble. I so wrote to him. In i
he said that he did not think any compact,
afford safely to undertake to pay more than
amount set by the Legislature and leave"
margin for profits to the company, in comi
ation of their trouble and liability, lookiJ
the risks of flood and fire, and the new 4
which would soon take off a large portion ol
freights whioh would otherwise pass
this channel. He said he wonld not pnt,
bid for more than the $25,000 per month
forth in the act of the Legislature. This t
substance of cur correspondence.
Subsequently, after the meeting of his,
pany, & few days before the expiration ol
time for putting in the bids, he wrote
that he had presented my name; that
was no objection to my taking an inter]
small one, as I expected it to be, on the j
of the organization of the company, and
the company had agreed to put in a bid at
000 per month—no more. He expressed do
as to whether the bid would be accepted oi
but said he would give no more. The
thing I heard was the announcement of
lease of the road as published in the pu
The names of the lessees are different h
different papers, and I do not yet hnovi
they all really are. Some of them are me
whom I have as little regard personally k'
litically as any man can have. Somo of th
regard as men of as high character for h<
and integrity, in business matters at lei
any men in the State—men who would
far from countenancing swindling of axj
as any I know in Georgia or elsewhere.
Now in relation to this charge of the
being a “swindle,” how do the facts stare]
think they may be thus summed up. At
this is and was my view of them:
The road was paying nothing to the SI
was used practically as a political con
fund. So far from paying anything im’
Treasury, the Legislature was called nj
make a large appropriation to keep it up.
ory was in substance that Bullock, Blod_
Co. were corruptly using and appropriatircj
income ; that it ought to be taken ont of"
hands and either sold or leased to reepoi
parties. This was tho Democratio cry.
measure for a lease was brought forward i
House by one of the most prominent Dsm<
in it. The bill was published in tho newspi
It was sent broadcast over the country. Ii
before the-publio long enough to be thoro;
understood and discussed by the Press,
opinion was sought by the introducer e;
Bill. I gave it to him frankly. Iwasi
position to know all the facts. I was cc:
to my house, not able to walk, and could m
more than give an individual or private op
founded upon my own reflections. Thest
me to the conclusion that a lease under tfc:
cumstances was perhaps the best; bnt i:
event, nor under any circumstances, woi
favor or vote for a lease, if I were in the is
lature, for less than $500,000 per anntu:
thought it could be leased for that amonL
it osght to yield that amount. This is the
stanoe of what I wrote to him.
I suppose other publio men in the State:
consulted as I was. How this is I do not fc
nor what advioe was given by any, if so - .
given c
But this I will say: That if there was a
Booty's Militia.—Among the numerous other
performances of Gov. Scott’s black troops in
South Carolina, the Columbia-Phcenix gives the
following:
“On Saturday night, the 31st ult., while Mr.
Mat. Stevens, a peaceable man, who lost an
arm in the Confederate service, was on his way
to Union with a load of goods in his wagon,
among other thing-; a barrel of whisky, he was
halted by a party of militia, numbering about
twenty-five, under command of Captain Walker,
and a demand made upon him for whisky. Ste
vens gave them a bottle full, which was imme
diately consumed, and he was ordered to give
them more. This he declined, stating that the
liquor belonged to other parties. They then
threatened to take it, when Stevens told them it
wonld be at their peril. The answer was a vol
ley of bullets, which killed him instantly. A
white man, named Robertson, was in company
with Stevens, bnt succeeded in making his es
cape. '
newspaper of the Democratio party in the Si
that said one word either editorially or by a
muni cation against the proposed lease,
the bill so published, offering the road for $9
000 per annum, exoept the Atlanta Intel!
cer, I am not aware of it. If there was an;
position by the Democratic Press in the S
to the lease, with the exception stated, I
not see or hear of it. After this oppoito
for discussion on the part of those whoi
much more able than I was* to look into s:
vestigate tho subject, the bill passed
branches of the Legislature. Tho Sun, i:
tral paper in politics, in Atlanta, did oppoa
measure and call upon the Governor to vet
He, however, signed the bill, and proceed:
advertise the lease according to the prori
of the Act. It was advertised for weeks, i
months. If there was a word said during
whole period by a paper in Georgia, cliara
izing it a swindle, or even denouncing it
measure of bad policy, it escaped me.
It seems to me that the proper time for
lant sentinels to have sounded tho alan
there was anything so really corrupt in the
ter, was when the measure was before the
islature and before bids were made for the 1
'With the exoeption of the- papers stated,
know of one on the Democratic side, or
ing.to that side, whioh opposed the 'ma
while pending before the Legislature, at
one said aught, as far as X know, again*
lease while the advertisement was pending
tifying honest and honorable bidders it
wonld be regarded in any quarters as a
die."
Under tho circumstances, I repeat I ami
as much surprised to see this charge now*
as anybody possibly can be surprised to fc
name amongst those who proposed to teb^
lease.
All I have to say in conclusion is that, if»
has been anything wrong or nnfair, much 0
if there has been anything oorrupi in the I
ting of the road under lease, in the accept!
or rejection of bids, I know nothing of I
matter. Nay, more, I hope it will be exp<j
and the guilty party, if any, brought to pi
punishment. Let the attack be not by icf
ation. Let charges and specifications be i
and proved. My .friends need not indu'd
any useless and unnecessary “pain” or “ir
fioation” at anything I have done or shall 1
reference to this lease, or anything else. I
My life has been devoted much more !]
interests of others than it has been to my j
In this matter, I was looking in what I
jnnoh to pubhc as personal interest I i
Gov. Brown had shown more efficiency u|
management of the State Road than any p
who nad ever had it in hand, or a? 1*
thought he had. However much I havo difl
with him, and do now differ with him, on J
political questions, yet I never have be!
that he was a “rogue” in any sense oil
word. I considered him a man perfectly J
est in all pecuniary transactions, both pub?
private. Under his management, I M
the State’s interest would be secured to]
ever amount he might feel willing to
Road at; and, to far as any interest mi^ 1
der hia management, fall to my small t! 8
any, that I expeot to devote, as I L aTt ‘]
the greater part of the proceeds of my
bor, not to my own aggrandizement, but J
assistance, the relief, the comfort an'd **]
ing of others. Yours truly,
AlbxandkbH. STri’®
A- Fbzxch officer writing to a Belgian paper
ascribes the superior results of the Prussian ar
tillery fire not so muoh to better guns as to the
employment of percussion shells instead of the | pies of this city, assumes political editorial
time fuses used by the French. i control of that journal.—Griffin Star, Gth,
The Providence (R. I.) Journal has the ‘‘best
of authority” for saying that a comet of large
bize will suddenly, make its appearance on the
night of June 19, 1871, and “during the next
four weeks tho fate of the world will be de
cided.”
Col. Peeples.—From the Atlanta Sun of yes
terday, we learn that Colonel Cinci&natus P<
Shebman, Senator Sherman, ia, yon s
greatest financier alive. He funded a
last session, and it is whispered areouJ ‘
financial circles that he will probably!
more thia winter, being a Senator of {
fundity (no pun intended). It i® *'
sight to an appreciative spectator to «** *
financial Senator fund. He does it ** ,■
cent, unless there is war in Europe,
he does it at five per cent, if he ha” l