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A Grand Blow Up.
The Saints of Mormondon at Salt Lake
yesterday smelt brimstone when fouj
powder magazines suddenly blew up "in
their midst.” sending great boulders fly
ing through the air, and shattering fifty
thousand dollars’ worth of window glass.
It must have been a startling perform
ance.
Will Move to Georgia.
On the Port Royal railroad we encoun
tered several of the Northwestern excur
sionists, wrto have remained behind to
prospect the country with a view to set
tling. When the conductor called for
«tickets,” they produced their papers,
but that official showed on order revok
ing tho samo after the 25th of March.
This was a stunner, and terminated their
mission South mrst abruptly. With
elongated visages they paid tho five dol
lars to Charleston, however, and not- will
have the satisfaction of knowing what it
costs, to a cent, to travel from Savannah
to Detroit.
One of these Michiganders informed
the writer that more than twenty of
their party had purchased lands in upper
Geo-.gia, and would locate not far from
Atlanta.
This is one substantial benefit, at least,
that has resulted from tho “ march” of
the 500 excurtora to "thesea.”
Custards Confessions.
General Custar was recalled, and in
answer to the question, " Why was ityon
and other army officers havo not given
information of theso abuses on tho fron
tier, of which yon havo testified,” and
answered that it was because of an order
dated March 15,1873, as follows:
1. No officer, active or retired, shall
directly or indirectly, without being
called on by tho proper authorities, so
licit, suggest or recommend action by
members of Congress for or against mili
tary affairs.
2. All petitions to Congress by officers
relative to subjects of a military charac
ter will bo forwarded through the Gen
eral of the Army and Secretary of War
for their action and transmittal.
3. An officer visiting the seat of gov
ernment during Congressional sessions
will, on hi3 arrival, register his name at
the Adjutant General’s offico as now re
quired, and in addition address a letter
to tho. Adjutant General of the army,
reciting tho purpose and the time that
will bo embraced in his visit, and the
authority under which ho i3 absent from
his command or station.
General Custar proceeded to say this
order closed tho mouths of all army offi
cers with regard to the abases that ex
isted on tho frontier. Tho officers knew
that if they sent complaints to Con
gressmen, through the Secretary of War,
they would bo pigeon-holed, and tho offi
cer would probably bo pigeon-holed, too.
It wu3 generally understood in the army
that a violation of this order by an offi
cer would bo apt to caa3e him to lose his
commission. General Custar said he
was satisfied that the object of the order
was to cover up the doings of the Secre
tary of War.
"A corker on hogs” has been made in
Alabama by a recent statute, which de
clares the stealing of a hog grand larceny,
chocking to a great extent negro depre
dations. To tho whito people of the
Stato tho passage of such a statute was
absolutely necessary to protect their
porkers, and to them “ there’s millions
in it.”
Tan merchants of St. Louis having
tendered the new Chamber of Commerce
• n - -vooiuus oi too vein-
oeratio National Convention, the offer
has been formerly accepted by the com
mittee appointed to make suitable ar
rangements for tho accomodation of the
convention. It is claimed the hall ha3 a
seating capacity for nine thousand per
sons.
Good Hunting Ground.—The Wash
ington telegrams say tho New Orleans
Custom-house and the entire Federal
machinery in Louisiana are now under
investigation by a committee of the
House. If tho committee pursue tho in
quest with zeal, the result will be like
draining and laying bare tho bottom of
ono of these old swamp lakes. Such a
mass of slimy lifo will be disclosed that
the very buzzards will “holler.”
"On the Banes op the Dee.”—
Thirty persons were drowned in the river
Dee on Wednesday by the upsetting of
an overloaded ferry-boat. It was a holi
day—"ta little Sunday tat ta called ta
fast,” in which tho boys instead of fast
ing got too much mountain dew beneath
their bonnets, and under its inspiration
took tho boat out of tho hands of the
ferryman—upset it and drowned half
tho living freight. Such are the dan
gers of whisky.
Laughable — The World resurrects
tho old platform of tho Republican Na
tional Convention at Chicago which
nominated Lincoln. It reads laughably
in consideration of tho fact that the party
has swollen tho civil list expenditures,
which they pronounced recklessly ex
travagant, three or four hundred per
cent., while “ tho frauda and corruptions
of the Federal metropolis ” havo multi
plied under their administration so
greatly as to astound civilization and
bring Republican government into con
tempt:
Resolved, That the people justly view
with alarm the reckless extravagance
which pervadeB every department of tho
Federal Government; that a return to
rigid economy and accountability is in
dispensable to arrest tbo systematic
plunder of tho public treasury by favored
partisans; while the recent startling de
velopment of frauds and corruptions at
tho Federal metropolis show that an on-
tiro change of administration is imper
atively demanded.
The New Governor op Mississippi.—
The Hon. J. M. Stone, President of the
Mississippi Senate, who has become Gov
ernor of that State for tho unexpired term
made vacant by tho resignation of Gov.
Ames, is a resident of Corinth, in the
northern part of that State, and is a
prominent lawyer. He has been a mem
ber of the Senate for tho past eix years,
and has distinguished himself os one of
the most capable and useful members of
that body. During tho war Gov. Stone
was Colonel of tho Second Mississippi
regiment. Confederate army, and during
tho battles around Petersburg command
ed the brigade to which his regiment was
attached. In a brief address on taking
the oath of office Gov. Stone said it wonld
be hia purpose to administer tho affairs of
tho State in strict accordance with the
constitution and laws, with the view of
securing to all citizens alike their rights
under tho laws, and in this effort he in
voked tho assii tinea of tho Legislature
Mnd of tho people.of the State.
The Franks of the Marshals.
Tho Committee on Expenditures of
tho Judiciary Department have come
now to that branch of tho subject which
embraces tho pranks of tho United
States marshals in tho "Reconstructed
States.” Hero they will strike a mine.
Tho patriotic marshal of the State of
Mississippi, for example, reports tho ex
penses of hi3 department this year at
six thousand dollars, against ninety
thousand dollars last year—which shows
the superior economy of years when
there are no elections to bo controlled
and regulated by the United States
marshal.
In Louisiana ono deputy confesses to
havo made one hundred and fifty ar
rests, just before tho election, of parties
who were discharged immediately after
it. He was unwilling to swear, but was
morally certain that blank warrants for
this purpose reached him in duo form.
Here wo see how much more efficient
are the Federal arrangements for regu
lating elections by the people than any
bungling concerns which the Radicals
charge to the Southern Kuklux. The
Radicals say that the Kuklux dress them
selves up in sheets and scare tho negroes
away from tho polls, and it is this horrid
"intimidation” which is the occasion of
so much constitution-tinkeriDg—so much
troop-marching, arresting, trying and
jailing, at an outlay which can hardly be
counted. But when Grant and his men
control elections they are not forced to
scare anybody with white sheets. They
simply issue blank warrants—put them
into tie hands of deputy marshals who
know the neighborhood, arrest everybody
who means to vote against them and keep
them in confinement till polls are closed.
So much more effective are the regular
operations of Government than there
bungling Kuklux concerns as explained
by Grant and Morton.
Now these pranks of the United States
marshals, under the direction of Grant
and the Department of "Jestice.” will
afford infinite amusement to tho world if
they are properly narrated and explained.
The committee should forthwith secure
the services of some experienced report
ers and of Tom Nasty to illustrate the
narrative by his "inimitable sketches.”
This will make tho investigation of some-
use in the ends of popular amusement.
Otherwise, it will do no good. Wo are
satisfied that tho great body of Rspabli-
can voters do not care what dishonesty
is disclosed, or what outrages on consti
tutional liberty by the Government are
brought to light. Tho more of them,
the stronger they will stand up
to tho party. But if these incidents
were told in a lively way, "with picters
to match,” instead of by dry question and
answer, the people could laugh over
them, and the public scenes of corrup
tion, theft and villainous assaults on civil
liberty could at least he turned to tho
account of a je3t, instead of to no pur
pose at alb
Tho Mississippi Investigation.
Mr. Bout well, in tho Senate yesterday,
introduced "a bill making appropriations
to defray the expenses of tho committee
appointed by tho Senate to investigate
the recent election in Mississippi.” Now
if we were a member of the House of
Representatives that Senate committee,
if they went at all, to Mississippi, would
travel on their own expenses, and more
over they should pay the mileage and per
diem of all the wit*’ • ““"' juea -
x-iainiy, the legitimate and proper oc
casion for the Senate to investigate the
election in Mississippi, if there be any
at all, will arise when L Q.C. Lamar,
the Senator elect from that State, shall
present his credentials and claim his scat
in that body. Then, the Senate, being
sole judge of tho qualifications of its
members, if anybody rises to allege that
Mr. Lamar’s election is tho result of
“fraud and intimidation,” may bo compe
tent to entertain and investigate the
charge.
But tho plain object of tho Senatorial
trip to Mississippi at this time is to
gather electioneering material for next
Fall, and tho party has been running
their elections at the cost of the public
revenue too long already. Tho Demo
cratic majority in the House of Repre-
ssntatives can put an extinguisher on
BoutweU’8 appropriation bill if they
choose to do so, and wo trust they will
do it. There is no more call to invest
igate the Mississippi election just now
than any other State election. In Now
Hampshire, for example, all admit that
the election was carried by open bribery,
but who calls on House or Senate to in
vestigate New Hampshire ?
Wo know it will be charged, if this ap
propriation Mil bo lost in the Honse, that
the Democrats fear an investigation;
but the worst will be said anyhow, and
the time has come when the Democracy
should take their stand fearlessly on bo
half of the rights of tho Southern as well
as tho Northern States, to bo exempt
from this impertinent and unconstitu
tional interference of tho Federal Gov
ernment. If the Southern States have
not equal rights with the Northern, they
have no rights at all under the Constitu.
tion or their own inherent sovereignty-
Hickory Grove, Crawford Co., Ga.,>
April 4th, 1876. j
Editors Telrgrajph and Messenger: I seo
published in your paper of last week a
decision of the Supreme Court of Geor
gia, in the case of J. M. Simmons vs.
Anderson, from Monroe county.
I desire to state, fer the benefit of my
friends and my brethren of the Primitive
Baptist cbnrch in the State, that I was
not the plaintiff m the above stated case
I do not now nor ever have owned a lot
of land in Monroe county. I do not
know tho gentleman who was the plain
tiff. nor is he a relative of mine. I have
not taken a homestead, nor do I intend
to, ns my ralo 13 to pay my debts, or sur
render my property to my creditors. I
understand that s, good many of my
friends and brethren think that I was the
plaintiff. Will you, therefore, oblige mo
by publishing the above ?
Yours, truly,
Jakes M. Simmons.
The Impeachment Managers.
The following parts hare been assign
ed to tho managers in the impeachment
trial of Belknap:
On rules—Messrs. Lord, Lynde, Jenks,
and Hoar.
On pleading—Messra. Knott, McMa
hon and Jenks.
On jurisdiction of Senate—Messrs.
Lord, Knott and Hoar.
On the preparation for trial of fact and
examination of witnesses—Messrs. Mc
Mahon, Lyndo and Lapham.
On questions of law on trial of fact—
Messrs. Lynde, Jenks and McMahon.
On thefinal submission—Messrs. Lord,
Knott and Lapham.
Each nianagor is to sum up tho case if
permitted, or each may hand in and havo
printed with tho proceedings lys argu
ment.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Athens will vary tbo order of exer
cises and give a “Mother Gooso party.”
The Athens Georgian announces tho
death of Mrs Wm. Long.
The Georgian says: Mr. R. L. Moss,
who has just been elected General Super
intendent of tho Northwestern road, has
returned from Chattanooga, where ho
purchased-some flat cars for the compa
ny. Eight box cars have been bought
from Louisville, Ky., and Mr. Moss will
contract for the engine, passenger, bag
gage and mail coaches in a shore time.
Fourteen miles of the road have already
been finished, and with an increase of
hands, which l.avo been put upon the
force, the entire route will be completed
by tho middle of July or the 1st of Au
gust.
The Athens Watchman says there are
fire respectable sisters in Oconeo county,
all of whom aro widows. In such a case
as this well might IVeller say, “beware
of vidders.”
Twenty thousand hales of cotton havo
been sold in Athens this season, which
is more than were sold tho whole of last
season.
Mr. E. E. Yonge, a Columbus hat
dealer, has made an assignment for the
benefit of all his creditors.
The Columbu3 Enquirer says: Tho
colored people aro going to give a Lady
Washington tea party soon after tho
"original” is over. They are determined
that no race or color shall excel them. A
colored barber in ridiculing the idea of
their apishness, as he expressed it, sug
gested that it be called the “Lady Wash-
tub Party.” Ho rises to ask if Lady
Washington and Georgo wore “black”?
Sis and a half inches of rain fell in
Columbus during tho lato wetness.
Professor Orr will speak on Public
Schools in Albany to day.
Mr. Joel W. Joiner, of Albany, has
failed; and offers to settle at twenty-five
cents on the dollar.
Thb Albany News has contracted its
spaca a column to the page and is better
looking than ever it was.
The following announcement, which
appears in the Savannah Morning News of
yesterday, will be read with sorrow by
people all over the State, wherever the
deceased w&3 known:
Mr. Algernon S. Hi-tridge, a promin
ent citizen and merchant of Savannah,
died at his residence on Tuesday night
about II o’clock, after a serious illness of
several weeks. His condition was con
sidered critical a week or so ago, and
hence the announcement of his death
was received with more regret by his nu-
erous acquaintances than surprise. Mr.
Hartridgo was a brother of Hon. Julian
Hartridge, the Representative in Con
gress from the First district in Georgia,
and was a gentleman of great means and
prominence in the business community.
Few men were better known, but tho ab
sence of the requisite data concerning
his life, which wo have been unable to
obtain, renders it impossible to present a
biographical sketch which would do jus
tice to the subject, ana this task we leave
to abler pens. Mr. Hartridge leaves a
family and a large circle of relatives ana
friends to mourn his loss.
Farrow has issued a call for Republi
can State convention to meet m Atlanta
on tho 31 of May.
The Constitution says: When Congress
man Candler was at home he related the
following capital anecdote of gallant
Phil Cook, who represents the Third
Georgia district. On a recent day a
small appropriation for the Washington
monument was up before tho House, and
when his name was called Cook voted
lustily for the bill. Congressman Buf
fington, a staid old Puritan member from
Massachusetts, crossed over to Cook and
shook his hand, remarking: “Gen. Cook,
I thank you for vow
r- — .«.u uuum who occ>'pied so distin
guished a place there 03 yourself joins in
this patriotic spirit, it is peculiarly re
freshing.” Phil bowed blandly, but a
merry twinkle in bis eyo caused the
crowd surrounding him to listen for his
reply, which camo out enthusiastically:
“Not at all, sir, not at all, for, Mr.
Buffington, by , sir, I never go back
on a rebel and a slaveholder 1” A peri
of laughter followed the sally, and Speak
er Kerr had to threaten the group with
the offices of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
The same paper has the following flood
notes: Tho first train through from
Columbus reached here yesterday with
three days’ delayed mails. Through
trains have not commenced running yet
between here and Montgomery. Trains
aro expected to run over the Oconee
bridge on the Georgia railroad to-day.
On the lower portion of the Western road
of Alabama, between Chehaw and Mont
gomery, a goodly distance of track is
under water, bnt no bridges are gone.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
says: “The wily Kimballvillians sell cows
at $20 and $40 and distend tho animals’
“hag” by allowing three days’ milk to
accumulate.” Isn’t that an udderly
fraudulent practice ?
Messrs. Whittle & Bliss will bo in
Augusta next week.
Only one Cathbert smoko houso has
been robbed since last report. The thing
is getting dull down there.
The corn crib of Rev. Mr. Kilpatrick,
and the residence of tho late Col. M. P.
Green, both in Burke county, have been
burned recently.
During the late storm in Burke county
a horse was killed by a tree which was
blown down.
Waynesboro cows do not allow law
yers to pass along the streets unmolest
ed. .
And now Sandcravillo falls into line.
The Herald says: Wo are informed that
a portion of tho remains of an infant
were found in an old plantation grave
yard, in thi3 county, a few days ago.
Tho entire body of tbo child had been
devoured by hogs, only a portion of t he
head and neck being left. The remains
are believed to bo that of a mulatto
child.
The Oartersvillo Express says: Rev.
Mr. Walton, of Kingston, died at his
residence on Sunday, 231 ult. Ho was
a minister of the Presbyterian church.
The Jonesboro Neursis informed that
Joseph Lamlxrt, twenty-two years of
age, was ont about bis lot, 2i miles of
Fayetteville last Saturday, when he was
struck by lightning and killed.
Yesterday, says the Atlanta Times,
the passenger train from Augusta having
been detained at Oconee bridge tc
transfer baggage and passengers, was
therefore behind time, and came thun
dering along near Kirkwood at very fast
speed. Tho train was coming around a
curve when the engineer spied something
laying across the track, which he at first
thought to be a fenco rail and wa3 not
going to take uofor it; but soon dis
covering it be an iron rail he immediate-
iy applied tho air-brake, reversed his
engine, and just did manage to stop in
timo to avert what might havo been a
serious calamity. The pilots of tho en
gine were over tho twelve foot bar of
railroad iron, as it lay across the track,
when the engine stopped.
Kerp the Eyes Cool.
All discomfort from the heated condi
tion of tho light as it passes through the
Spectacles to tho eye, is avoided in using
tho " Diamond Spectacles,” the temper
ature of which is lower than that of the
atmosphere. Trade-mark, a small dia
mond, on every pair. For sale in Macon
byE Pcschke. ,
NOTES.
" Why so many wife suicides about
this time, we wonder?” marvels an ex
change. Poor things, they aro afraid
their husbands may chanco to be in some
of tho littla boata sent ont from that
great pirate vessel at Washington, and
they could never stand the disgrace.
" Want to bet a hat on Connecticut to*
day ?”—Commertial Advertiser, Monday.
Yes, a couple of them. Do you ? t
The Radical papers in large Northern
cities aro clamoring for light. Just hold
on awhile. Tho investigating commit
tees aro letting in tho light gradually,
and it will be a flood of light by and by
—so bright that you will bo glad to
crawl into tho shadows it casts and ask
them to hide you.
The Herald says “tho prospects of
the English iron trade are gloomy.” 13
it all ore with it ?
What a day may bring forth—Bis
marck was horn on tho first of April.
The Washington Chronicle tells the
truth for once when it says “the Dem
ocrats were successful in Connecticut yes
terday,” but it went mightily against
the grain. But tho hardest part of the
whole affair, to tho Chronicle, was to be
forced to burn the articles it had written
before hand, congratulating its party up
on a Radical victory in the Nutmeg State.
The editor almost wished that he was
dead.
Weston drinks nothing strong, and
that, too, while tho world is wishing
that ho might accidentally gulp a dose of
strychnia.
The Radicals pronounced tho witness
Bell “ a bummer and a dead beat.” No
doubt, when they heard his testimony,
they thought he was a bomb or some
thing else frightfully explosive.
The Telegram says: " There is a gen
eral depression in the steel interests of
England;” but it is nothing like the
depression that prevails in the steal in
terests at Wasnington.
That St. Louis District Attorney ap
pears to he a Dyer misfortune to the
Government rings.
The Commercial Advertiser says: ** Tho
telegraph i3 sometimes distressingly un
satisfactory. Now just look at the
* maddening incompleteness ’ oE the New-
buryport dispatch which tells of a drunk
en man being carried out to sea in an
open boat by the freshet, but don’t say a
single word as to whether tho unfortun
ate man was rescued or not.” Why
don’t you state the matter philosophi
cally, Mr. C. A.? If the whole tale were
told it would be highly unsatisfactory,
no matter what might have been the
fate of tho unfortunato man. If he bad
been drowned one-half of tho readers
would perhaps havo sympathized with
him; but if ho wa3 rescued the other
half would havo been dissatisfied be
cause tho drunken wretch was not
drowned. Tho “ unsatisfactory ” nature
of the dispatch leaves both halves of tho
public with the privilege of hoping that
the issue was as they wanted it.
Hear tho swearing of the Bells!
Cruel Bells.
What a tale of plunder now
Their testimony tolls
To the startled trader’s car.
Too much horrified to hear.
The damaging mad jangling of the Bells,
The terrible sad tangling of tho Bells.
Tho Administration quivers.
And tho Cabinet, it shivers.
As the Bell stands and delivers
i t-ujjr iflieiis.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Charleston Hotel, April 3, 187G.
The trip from Port Royal to this ven
erable city was made through a continu
ous pelting rain and fnrious wind, on
Satnrday night. Yemaseo wa3 pretty well
under water when the train arrived, and
is little more any how than a slight eleva
tion in the midst of a morass.
OAPT JAMES EARLY.
This is the name of a sturdy old salt
who is one of tho Port Royal pilots. He
is an Englishman, by birth, but has re
sided in Carolina for thirty, eight years,
and was engaged in blockade running
daring the war. Wrecked five times,
captured at sea and confined several
months in Fort Warren, Boston harbor,
again arrested as a spy in Beaufort upon
negro evidence and imprisoned for a long
period, and finally, to cap the climax to
his misfortunes, having bis wife killed by
lightning when sitting in an open window
at Beaufort in 1871—surely tho life of
this man would famish abundant mate
rials for tbo most thrilling romance.
From him we gatheied many interest
ing faots relating to his vocation, and the
past history of thisseotion. Tho pilot
IS A DABING NAVIGATOR,
and his life full of adventure. S filing in
a tiny craft, buoyant ss oork, bnt heavily
ballasted, and carrying an enormous
breadth of canvass, by adroit manage
ment, he is able to venture out in the
fiercest gales, and, in the very foeth of
the wind, forces his vessel through tho
billowy main, and boards the incoming
ship, hundreds of miles from land. In
stormy weather the son mahe3 r. clean
broach over his deoks, and the intrepid
mariner is even compelled to lash himself
tosomoohjeot to keep from boing washed
away. Yet we seldom bear of the loss of
one of these boats, and they livo where
gigantio ships go down amid tho boiling
waters.
THE BATES CP PILOTAGE.
The compensation of a pilot is never
leas than eighteen dollars for any vessel,
however light her draught. The price is
regulated, not by tho tonnage, but tbo
depth of water a ship draws. After eix
feet, three dollars is allowed for every
additional foot up to cloven, and then
the increase in the rate Is very rapid.
Often the fees for bringing into port, or
taking out a single ship, amount to hun
dreds of dollars
The captain told a
funny anecdote
of a boalswAin’s mate belonging to tho
Port Royal fleet. Half-seas over, the old
fellow was bemoaning the abolishment of
grog rations, and declared roundly if the
sfilora oould only get their grog again it
would bring back into the navy all the
good seamen. And moreover, the only
wav to got rid of the worthless “niggers”
and barbers’ apprentices who disgraced
tie service he said, was to introduce the cat-
o’-nine-tails again.
THE PHOSPHATE TRADE
of C irslina is by no means confined to
Charleston. At this timo fifteen ships aro
loading with the crude rock for foreign
ports in Coosaw river. The phosphato is
dredged from tho bottom of the river, and
ground and manipulated on the othor side
of the ocean. The most valuable depos
its are found about three feet beneath the
surface of the marsh on Ghisolm island.
FIFTY THOUSAND TONS
are shipped by the firm of Campbell &
Wily alone, in a single season.
The rock is kiln dried before exporta
tion, and the moat wonderful petrifac
tions of the bones of marine animals,
sharks teeth eto., are constantly brought
to light. Vessels from remote countries
such as Norway, Denmark and Russia,
are now loading with this wonderful fruc
tifying deposit, which the good Lord has
revealed for the salvation of negro ridden
Carolina. The prioe of tho rook is from
five to seven dollais per ton.
- A SABBATH IN CHARLESTON.
God’s holy day struggled into existence
in this city bedimmed by curling mists,
opaque cloud*, and the rattle and din of
a driving tempest of wind and rain. The
temperature, too, was chilly and inhospi
'able, and the gray and battle-scarred old
edifices, guiltless of paint or whitewash
since the
PALMY DAYS OF OLD,
stood forth more gnm and sombre than
-ver. Few ventured out, and as the
News and Conner does not appear on
Sanday, not even the cheerful cry of the
newsboy disturbed the stillces of the
sodden scene.
Taking lodgings at tho Charleston Ho
tel, one of the best kept establishments
at the North or South, about 11 o’clock
the writer, with UDlifted umbrella and
buttoned overcoat, breasted tho elements
in quest of some honse of publio worship
The sweet chime of o’d
st Michael’s historic bells
attracted his attention, and he entered
that slately and venerable temple of God.
Only a few of the faithfnl were there, but
their gray-headed Bishop was in his place,
and read the almost inspired service
with an unction and pathos seldom equal
ed. The sermon was brief bnt able and
luoid, and the many monumenta of the
sainted dead looking down from the walls,
the antique, cquare built pews, the quaint
windows, with their miniature lights
and heavy frames, tho lofty pulpit near
the center and pagodah-like sounding
board o'er head, the mediaeval arohiteoture
of tho interior, the solemn chant of the
choir and deep sounding organ, all in
spired tho worahiper with solemnity and
awe.
The service ended, the eye of the writer
fell upon a marble tablet on the wall
near by, upon which a half dozen weeping
forms were
DEFTLY SCULPTURED,
all bending aronnd the draped nrn Which
contained (he precious dust of a loved
mother. Tho legend ran thus:
July 17th, 1794,
To CUR MOTHER
Sabina E Huger.
It was a painful reminder of tho proud
da>s of Carolina whan that illustrious
family, and the Haynes, Golcoeks, Pres-
toes and many others lived and flourished.
Bnt !ho sable paU of African supremacy
now costs funereal gloom o’er the land of
Sumter, Moultrie and Marion. ' Is the
day of its deliverau09 never to dawn ?
A FRUITFUL VINE
In roturning to the hotel wo paused by
the massive rnins of the famous Circular
church, still grand in their desolation, and
read an epitaph ou ono lofty monument
which stood so near tho burning pile that
it was warped and broken by tho fierce
heat. It stated that there reposed the
remains of Mrs. E'izi Bryan, wife of John
Bryan aud daugtner of Solomon and Ma
ry Swinton Legaro ("another of Carolina’s,
patrioian ftimiliE;). who was born in 1800,
and departed th's life in month,
1852. This excellent lady was the happy
mother of
TWENTY-ONE CHILD BEN,
twelve sons and nine daughters, thirteen
of whom survived her decease. Verily
she had obeyed the Scripture injunction
to multiply and replenish the earth, and
had more rcanon to bo proud of her nu
merous breed than tbo mother Of tho
Gracchi.
Ia the afternoon seeing a placard at .the
hotel announcing that Rev. Benjamin
Johnson, of the Reformed Episcopal
Ghnroh would preach at 44 o’clock r it.
in a certain ball, the deponent sallied ont
in the storm again to listen to this Godly
man once more.
But alas, the pelting rain had dispers
ed '.he congregation, r.cd wo found tho
doors closed aud locked.
All that evening and night end during
the whole of Monday the storm raged and
tee rain fell pitilessly.
ilE-SRS WALKER, EVANS AND COGSWELL.
A visit to thin first class book bindery
and stationery house, showed that they
nre still in a most 11 rarishing and pros
perous condition. The enterprising pro
prietors employ seventy five hands, many
of them pretty acd intelligent
SOUTHERN GIRLS,
who earn from three to seven dollars per
week .
So great is the destitution among even
tbo gentle-born women of tho State, timt
HUNDREDS
of these unfortunate ladies oould be had
upon i ho briefest notice.
O. how can tho unwritten and terrifio
sufferingn of tho noblo wanon of tho
South bo fittingly described ? It is the
saddest and most heartrending result of
the war.
Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogawell
havo fitted up a splendid cose filled with
specimen blank hacks of their own ex
ecution, for the Centennial. Noth
ing of the kind conld he mere superb,
and they may reasonably expect to bear
away tho prize in that world’s exhibition
of skill and ingenuity.
THE NEWS AND COUfifSE.
Oar confreres and contemporaries,
Messrs. Dawson & Ricrdau. greeted tho
writer with evory demonstration of cor
diality, and wo spent a fow very pleasant
moments in their office. They publish a
splendid sheet, and' should be sustained
by every Democrat and Conservativa in
Carolina.
THE OUTLOOK
in Charleston is not oheerfol. Business
is shockingly dull, and any one asking a
merchant for an advertisement must
cither bo prepared to stand on tho de
fence, or make a rush for tho door in
stanter. And that is what makes an old
rookery of their once thriving oity. The
people lack energy and enterprise, and
neither build, repair or improve. A
plentiful expenditure of printers’ ink
would prove their salvation, bnt they
“can’t seo it.”
THE BUBNT DISTRICT
presents a melancholy aspect, and bids
fair to be replaced, from present indica
tions, with nothing better than miserable
shanties of wood. That was the quarter
inhabited by negroes and indigent for
eigners, who were crowded together, and
charged a mere nominal rent. Hence it
would not pay, even if the proprietors
were able to erect more imposing edficea.
Tho Conservatives will make a desper
ate struggle for tho political ascendancy
in tho next elections, but it is bard work,
with such adroit and unprincipled wretch
es as Bowen, Mackey, Moses, and others
to lead the ignorant and besotted negroes.
Augusta, April 4,187G.
We stopped over to-day in this very
quiet but opulent and substantial oity.
There is certainly
NO RUSH OF ANY KIND OBSERVABLE,
bnt the people generally wear the assured
and contonted look of those who have a
balance to credit at their banker’s, and
even in these doll times, are about to in
vest some of their surplus capital in an
other factory. Some apprehensions have
been felt of a disastrous freshet, but the
danger has probably passed, and tbo
woather is now serene and beantifuk
AUGUSTA JOURNALISM
It is difficult to oonceiva what msliga
influence is at work among the members
of the Fourth Estate in Georgia. In
Atlanta the war has been perpetual and
“to the knife,” between those of tho samo
profession who ought to be friends and
co-adjutors. When the struggle ends
with tho death cf ono after another of
the belligerents, their successors take up
the gage of battle and tho coifliot goes
madly on. We are pained to note that
learning nothing by the experience of
others, oar brilliant contemoorary of tho
Times openB fire.upon the Constitution in
its first issue. Ia this city, also, ihiugs
aro decidedly lively between the two
journals, whioh are certainly old enough
to know better.
We shall take no side in this dispute,
fearing to share the fate of the man who
attempted to part man and wife. But
thi3 much, as a journalist, we are con
strained-to say: The reduotion to six dol
lars in the subscription prio9 of the Con
stitutionalist, without helping that paper,
will tend to lower the morale, and injure
the business of every daily in the State.
Uniform experience haa demonstrated
that no enterprising sheet that utilizes all
the means in these modern times for pro
curing and imparting news can subsist at
that figure. The experiment hes been
tried time and again without success. In
the present instance, if the Chroniole and
Sentinel succumbs aud follows suit, we
greatly fear it will be another repetition
of the
FIGHT OF THE KILKENNY CATS,
and end in the exhaustion and rnin of
eaoh. Bnt these remarks may be con
sidered gratuitous, and we pursue them
no farther. If our contemporary eleo’s
even to give away the fruits of his labors,
no one has any legal right to complain,
though comity is involved acd there is a
moral aspect to tbo case. We mean no
offense, however, in the premises.
Just here, also, wo must depreoate the
carping, incisive, faultfinding spirit
manifested by a portion of the preBS upon
the gubernatorial question. They should
remember that the gentlemen spoken of
in connection with that exalted office are
prominent fellow citizens, any one of
whom, as loial Southrons aud Democrats,
they are in duty bound to support if fair
iy nominated. Bat how hard to do this
with zeal and heartiness if bitter wordB
spoken in baste or bard thoughts have to
be reoalled. Belter, then, leave them un
considered and nnuttered, and when tbo
FEOPLE HAVE fPOKKN
in solemn conclave, and designated who
shall be their standard-bearer,
RALLY TO HIS SUPPORT
with all the enthusiasm of patriots who
are willing to s&orifice personal prefer-
erenoss to the good of their party and
Stato. Already do the Radioals chuckle
over our divisions, and are preparing to
improve them to their own advantage—
vide a late article in the New York Times.
Shame that they have any foundation for
such an opinion 1 Be it our united mis
sion and duty to demonstrate the falsity
of any tush statement in the future.
From Messrs. Walsh & Wright, of the
Chroniole aud Sentinel, we received many
oocrtesies, and found their office in apple
pie condition. Mr. Walsh made an excel
lent member of the Legislature, and bis
associate, though yonDg in yeaTS, comes
of capital stock and is fall of promise.
We callod upon Mr. Randall, also, bnt
fonnd him temporarily absent. With Gra
dy & Moore in harness, likewise, the Con-
stitntionalist has a strong team, and will
succeed if any six dollar live daily can.
But that remains to be seen. The odds,
as we have said, are against them.
Thwarted in his movement upon the
Capital to-night by the mishap to tho
Ooanee bridge, on the Georgia Railroad,
the writer will rslnrn home by tho relia
bio o!d Central, and be the bearer again
of his own letter. H. H. J.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Editorial Correspondence.
Washington City, April 3,1S7G.
What sort of Key is this tho Stato of
Tennessee has sent here to assist in un
locking, for tho people of the South, tho
doors that have so long been closed
against them by Radical hate and ras
cality ? Judging from the way it turned
last Friday, it will be of very little as
sistance in that work—in fact, a hind
rance, instead of a help. In plain terms,
the speech and vote of the Tennessee
Senator on Morton’s resolution to inves
tigate tho Mississippi election, was a
great surprise and mortification to his
party associates, who voted unanimously
against it. It seems to me that they
must have experienced even a stronger
sensation when the Tennessee Senator
referred to Morton and Boutwell as “dis
tinguished Senators, for both of whom I
have very great admiration and respect.”
Bah 1 Such toadyism to such creatures,
is simply disgusting to the point of loath
someness, especially in view of Bout-
well’s gross insult of a few days before
in delivering in substance, that he deem
ed every Senator from the South a liar,
hypocrite and traitor. If Mr. Key cor
rectly represents the people of Tennes
see in this matter—which, however, I do
not for a moment believe—t hey have the
keenest appetite for humble pie on record.
If this is the best she can do in tho Sen
atorial timber line, it would be infinitely
moi e creditable to have none at all.
THE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS,
os you know already, have been selected,
and will come to the front this week. It
is said, this morning, that Wheeler, of
New York (Rad.), will decline, and that
Lapham (Rad.), of the same State, will
be substituted. As these managers will
bo brought somewhat prominently be
fore the country, perhaps a short notice
of each of them may not bo altogether
without interest. Mr. Knott, of Ken
tucky, is tho only Southern Representa
tive on the committee, though a strong
disposition to havo Mr. J. K. Tucker, of
Virgin'a, placed on tho list was manifes*
ted. It was finally determined, however,
that it wonld be best to givo the Jacobins
not tho ghost of an excuse to howl about
“rebels” being pushed to the front to
persocuto a “ gallant Union soldier,” and
his name was withdrawn. The list stands
as follows: Scott Lord, of 23d New York,
represents tho 23d or .Utica district, and
is or was recently a law partner of Ros-
coo Conbling; ho ia 56 years of age, and
has never served in Congress before;
Wm. Pitt Lyndo, of tho 4th Wisconsin
district, aged 59 years, a graduate of
Yale, and a citizen of Wisconsin since
1841; he was in tho 30th Congress, and
Mayor of Milwaukee in 1860; was elected
to the 44th Congress by 2500 majority;
J. Proctor Knott, of tho 4th Kentucky
district, 46 years old, a native of Ken
tucky, but resident for some years in
Missouri, whero bo onco held the office
of attorney general; was in tho 40th and
Forty-first Congress, and re-elected last
year. Sometimes Known as “ Duluth ”
Knott, on account of his inimitablespeech
on the text of the town or city of that
name somewhere out towards tho setting
sun; Geo. A. Jenks, of 25thPennsylvania
district, aged 40 years, and serving his
first term in Congress; John A. McMa
hon, of 4th Ohio district, born in Mary
land but a citizen of Ohio for many years,
a brother-in-law of the late C L. Yallan-
digham, aged 43 years, and is serving
bis first term in Congress; Geo.' F. Hoar,
(Rad,) of 9th Massachusetts district,
aged 50 years, brother of the ex-Attorney
General of that name, and has served in
the 41st, 421, 43d, and was re-elected to
the 44th Congress; Wm. A Wheeler,
(Rad.,) of 19th New Yarn district, haB
served in Legislature, and was President
of the last Constitutional Convention of
that State, was in tho 37'h, 4lst, 42d,
43d, and re-elected to tho 44th Congress.
Montgomery Blair, Boast Butler, Matt
Carpenter and Judge Blick aro Btated as
Belknap’s counsel Rumors and opinions
os to the trial and its resu.ts are plenti
ful as fleas, almost. All I know, or at
least think I know, is that it won’t hurt
tho Radical party, no matter how de
cided—which opinion I have heretofore
expressed. Tho only defect in Belknap’s
title to tho highest regard and esteem of
his party is tho small amount ot “ swag ”
ho got away with Where ho might have
mado a million at least, he only collared
one or two hundred thousands. Clearly,
he would have cut a sorry figure as a first
class loyal developer of Southern pockets
during tho palmy days of reconstruction
robbery.
THE LATEST SENSATION
is the testimony before the Clymer com
mittee of a man named Bell, who sworo
some deuced hard things against Bab
cock and Luckey, all of which you havo
doubtless had by telegraph. Bell evi
dently knows a bag full, but I hardly
think ho would pas3 muster as a church
elder. By hi3 own statement ha is a
thiof at tho suggestion and solicitation
of Babcock and Luckey, but was never
theless considered good enough to hold
offico under old Zach Chandler. Of
course all tho hounds aro after him in
full cry, and yesterday, while ho was
sitting in tho Ebbitt Hduse, a man hail
ing from Now Orleans, and who, it is
thought, is an emissary of tho whisky
thieves at St. Loui3 and their partners
hero, whacked him across the head with
a heavy cane without the least explana
tion. District Attorney Dyer, of St.
Lonis, who is now here, states that Bell’s
story is true ton considerable extent,
and it may turn out that this Bell may
toll a very solemn knell for Bab & Co.
Referring again to that sweet blossom,
Whitley, of “ sweat box ” infamy, it is
understood this morning that he is cer
tainly to havo free papers for tolling all
ho knows about the safe burglary busi
ness to the Judiciary Committee of the
Horse. If this be true we shall soon
know the true inwardness of that rot
tenness, and its perfume will bo added
to tho numberless other vile stenches
that have been uncovered by the Demo
cratic Committees.
THE PRESIDENTIAL HEALTH
Does not seem to improve very rapidly.
A physician remained in the* White
House all Tuesday nigut, to ho ready for
emergencies, and the President is said
to bo much prostrated ia mind and body.
He still smokes, however, and my expe
rience is, that so long as a man retains
his appetite for tobacco, he can't bo very
sick. Apoplexy or paralysis is whisper
ed around as being dreaded by the doc
tors, and henco their remaining where
, their services can be instantly rendered.
Yesterday tho Presidential breast was
soothed by a visit from, and some sing
ing by Titiens, a famed songstress who
commences an engagement here to-night.
She warbled her prettiest, and Mrs. Fred
did her best at tho accompaniments, and
the President lolled luxuriously on a sofa
aud puffed in silent beatitude. Alto
gether a cosy little tea party, but as
Ulysses, J., forgot my invitation—just as
he did that of tho new War Secretarv
last wees to a White Houso dining—I
can’t give a full description of the affair.
By tho way, referring to tho President,
hi3 sale last week of a very fine building
sito which ho has owned three years, is
generally construed to mean that ho will
not make Washington his homo when he
steps down and out next March, and also
as indicating that ho doe3 not think his
chances at Cincinnati very good. I al
most forgot to say that Major General
Newman prayed especially for tho Presi
dent yesterday, and was so overcome that
he completely drowned out a whito silk
handkerchief. It was truly au edifying
spectaole, and red eyes went up above
par in that lovl tabernacle.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bully Blaine is still in "God’s country,”
but his strikers and pimps are using
some strong language in regard to old
corruption Cameron and tho way ho set
up the delegation from Pennsylvania to
Cincinnati. Blaine’s friends were not
even heard of in tho convention, and the
way they rip it into the old wig wagger
is positively delicious. Blaine has this
comfort, however: Old Simon will sell
him tho delegation if he will give tho
figure.
The silver bill, as you already know, I
suppose, went through the House last
Friday 22 majority. Of the Georgia del-
egation Mr. Blount voted yea, and
Messrs. Cook, Harris and Felton nay.
On its passage Messrs. Candler, Hart
ridge, Hill and Smith were absent or did
not voto. Tho Senate will probably pass
it.after striking out tho provision making
coins of tho denomination of ona dollar
legal tender for $50, and those of lesser
denomination for $25.
It is raining hard as I write, and tho
Jacobins aro a little blue. 9 hey ray
their folks don’t turn ont their full
strength up in Connecticut in such
weather, or that if they do it takes
muoh more “ sugar ’’ than ordinarily
and consequently makes tho expense
heavier.
Judge Pratt, of the Court of Claims,
is a stiff necked old party. Ha is so
old and feeble that he has not sat on tho
bench in three years, but won’t resign
and draws his salary with tho healthiest
regularity. Ho is a great eyo soro to
about a dozen of the faithful who, hav
ing been kicked out of Congress, aro
entirely out of a job and hone after his
shoes. In consequence of his absence
there havo been numerous cases where
judgment ba3 been given against tho
Governmentjby a minority of tho court
— Bristow’s mulo case being ono.
Four out of the nine Iowa M. C’s. havo
already declined re-election to the next
Congress. Three aro Radicals, and one
a Democrat—the only member of that
faith from the odious Stato.
It is thought, here, that a bill embody
ing tho principles of revenue reform sug
gested by Gen. Gordon may pass the
Houso before the end of tbo session.
Letters are being daily received by him
from prominent Democrats and Radicals
all over tho country seconding his efforts
to reform the revenue service. Tho
country, however, need not expect any
reform so long as tho Senate and Whito
House ara garrisoned by the friends of
tho whisky ringsters. R.
The Rise in the Mississippi.
Memphis, April 4.—Tho report of the
City Engineer of New Orleans, in refer
ence to the overflow, is discredited by all
here who have paid any attention to the
subject in years past. But little is
known in reference to the exact height
or other statistics of tho floods previous
to the establishment of the signal ser
vice; but from tho fact that tho water at
this point is within nine inches of the
highest water known and ono inch above
the flood of 1874, and ten inches above
that of last August, coupled with the
stato of tho water in tho lakes, bayous
and lagoons, as well as all tho tributaries
below being bank full, ail old river men
concede that we will have a flood equal
to any previous one, as tho river at Cairo
is now thirteen inches higher than last
August and several feet higher at St.
Louis, and nono of the volumo coming
down will bo expended in filling up tho
St. Francis, White, Arkansas, and other
rivers.
The bottom opposite this city 13 flooded
back to Madison, and trains on tho Littlo
Rock railroad aro discontinued. Many per
sons living in the bottom have been com
pelled to move out to the hills. It is
feared a large amount of stock has been
lost. Planting is at a stand still, and tho
bottom plantations will suffer heavily in
rences and forage. Between Mound City
and Marion, Ark., skiffs havo been sub
stituted for hacks, in order to carry tho
mails and passengers.
The Kecnsant Witness, Kilbourne.
Hullett Kilbourne, tho recusant wit
ness and memher of tho Washington
ring, who was imprisoned by the Houso
for refusing to give the names of tho
parties to the celebrated real estate pool,
has been living liko a fighting cock. In
eleven days* time ho has run a bill at
the Houso restaurant of $2£0 for board
and $44 for a carriage to carry him to
his meals. Tho matter- leaked out and
was brought before tho Houso, and the
Democrats, seeing that Kilbourne was
really subjected to no particular pressure
by this peculiar stylo of incarcoration,
tried to pass a resolution requiring Kil-
boumo to be put on exactly tho samo
footing as other prisoners. This instant
ly rallied the Republicans to Kilbourne’s
defense, and tho resolution failed for the
want of tho two-thirds necessary. Mr.
Thompson, the sergeant-at-arms, declares
his purpose to treat Kilbourne hereafter
just as any other prisoner.
The Fljlcg Fish,
Ono pleasant, sunny day I was sitting
ou tho dock of a ship that was sailing
along tho edgoof that warm ocean river,
tho Gulf Stream. Soon tho water was
tossed about at a great rate, and a poor
little fish flew out of the waterjand landed
on tho deck in trying to escape from
another very ugly looking fish called
the dorado. This small fish has its fins
very much lengthened, so that they form
a kind of wing3. They are very thin
and gausy—very delicate, and become
dry very quickly, and then are of no
use. The fish tries to escape its enemy
bv swimming, but when liable to be
caughtflies into the air, where there aro
sometimes great birds ready to eat it.
go the poor thing has a hard timo—en
emies on every side. When tho sun
shone on its wings and body it showed
many fine colors. After looking at it a
while, I threw it into its ocean home,
hoping that no great dorado would ever
catch it.—Our Dumb Animals.
Gloucester, Mass., April 6.—Two of
the crew of tho fishing schooner Alfred
Walen were lost.
Tho.schoouers Anna Lyons and Bonny-
boat, overdue, are supposed to bo lost,
with all on board.
Sacking it Through a Keyhole.
In the palmy daya of tho Bowery The
atre, under tho management of John
Hamblin, some excellent acting was seen
on theso boards, the manager having
spared no pains to make this place of
amusement only second to the Old Park.
Ho employed some of tho very best
American and foreign talent. An Amer
ican tragedian tlfat always drew im
mensely, and filled the house to overflow
ing when ho was sober enough to fill an
engagement, was secured by tr.e man
agement, who agreed to give him a
liberal portion of the receipts during a
week’s performances if ho would abstain
from drinking. This proposition being
agreed to, Hamblin, to make assuranco
doubly sure, locked him up in tno dress,
ing room and put tho key in h's pocket.
Mr. Actor becoming exceedingly dry sum
moned tho call boy to tho outside of his
door, and shoved a bank note to him
through tho key bole, with instructions
to get a soda bottle filled with brandy, acd
also purchase a clay pipe, ho was to do-
liver the goods soon as possible, and keep
tho balance of tho change. In good
time tho boy returned, and asked for
further instructions, he was directed to
insert tho stem of the pipe in tbo key
hole, then fill the bowl with tho fluid
saying, as he wa3 bound not to drink,
that he would smoke and take tho con
sequence. That evening Hamblin was
astonished to see tho celebrated actor
half seas over, but as ho acted his part
so well, he regulated tho future smoking
so as not to materially interfero with tha
engagement.
Chaotic Expedients,
Tho circular order to various Custom
house and postoffico officials by the Sec
retary of tho Treasury, says the Balti
more Sun, ordering the cutting off of
water and gas in consequence of the ex
haustion of tlio appropriation for those
essentials in Government buildings, was
a complete surprise to tho public, and
exhibited great lack of ordinary adapta
bility in ono one of the simplest emergen
cies. People had just convinced tbem-
selvcs that Mr. Bristow was in many re
spects a model publio official. In tho
languago of the typical American ho had
a level head, and there was no discount
on him. Bat it appears that he has more
than onca manifested a deficiency of ex-
pedients in tho midst of difficulties, pro-
during dilemmas of much moment, which
a little foresight and a proper repre
sentation in the right quarter^ might
havo obviated. Fortunately, in tho case
of Baltimore tho trouble of looking ahead
was spared tho Treasury Department,
and business in tho Government build
ings will continuo without obstruction.
Tho action about to be taken by Congress
to provide for tho deficiency involved in
tho present matter seems to bo good evi-
denco of what Congiess might have done
before upon a full and forcible presenta
tion of tho facts.
His Indian Exterminator.—“ I tell
yer I’ve ’ranged to fix them blasted In
juns, if they try to raise my hair,” ex
claimed a Black Hills adventurer, leaning
against a Chicago depot tho other morn
ing.
“ How’s that ?” asked a companion.
“You’ve heam of dynamite, haint ye?”
continued the first speaker.
“ Yes.”
“ Wal, I’ve got some of the dern stuff
shaped inter a ’nfernal machino to wear
up here under my hair, an’ I’d jest like
ter see any dummed red skin ’tempt to
lift my scalp !’*
“ But if it should go off—?”
“ It would blow the Injun ter—”
“ I mean what would become of your
head,” put in tho other.
“ Blast if I ever thunk of that,” replied
the would-bo dynamite fiend ; a r d then
he continued thoughtfully, “ I reckon I
won’t try to wear the deuced thing, after
all.”—Chicago Journal.
That Late Radical Meeting at At
lanta.—In tho official report of Col R.
L. Mott was put down ns the representa
tive from tho Fourth district. Wo aro
glad to state this as an unqualified mis
take. Wo have it upon the very begt
authority that Col. Mott had nothing to
do with tho meeting, and henco did not
represent the Fourth district, nor did ho
nor will he have anything to do with the
small mob that assembled at Atlanta.
Tho Fourth district was not represented
there.
Wo can also state on high authority
that ex Provisional Governor Jw John
son will not run on a Radical or Republi
can ticket. If he runs at all for the po
sition it will be as an independent can
didate. Timo will determine whether
ho runs at all.—CoZum&us Enquirer.
Importance of Correct Punctuation.
The contract made for lighting the town
of Liverpool during the year 1819 was
thrown void by tho misplacing of a com
ma in the advertisement,thus: "Tho
lamps at present aro about 4,050, and
have in general two spouts each, composed
of not less than 20 threads of cotton.”
Tho contractor would have proceeded to
furnish each lamp with the said twenty
threads; hut this being but half tho usu
al quantity, the Commissioners discover
ed that tho difference arcso from the com
ma following instead of preceding tho
word “each.” The parties agreed to
annul tho contract, and a new one wa3
ordered.
St. Lonis, April 6.—In the U. S. Cir
cuit Court, Judge Dillon announced that
he would decide tho McKee, McGuiro
and Avery cases, and all railroad cases
before him, on Saturday, when his court
will adjourn. If a motion for a new trial
in tho McKee case and a motion for ar
rest of judgment in the Avery case are
overruled, they will re eivo sentence;
and Judge Treat, of tho District Court,
will probably pass sentence on McDonald
and all tho distillers who have pleaded
guilty in his court, some tim - next week.
Boston, April G.—Tho Springfield Be-
publican says in settling the affairs of
Patrick Donahue, proprietor of the Bos
ton Pilot, facts of the most disgraceful
character aro brought to light. Donahue
received funds from persons who wished
to place them in safe hands, and who had
unlimited confidence in him, especially
Irish Catholics, who regarded him as
their beat friend. He had been tho re
cipient of thousands from this class. It
is thought by some that Donahue is lia
ble to criminal prosecution.
Chicago, April G.—Tho President and
Vico President of tho First Natio al
Bank of LaCrosso havo been arrested on
a charge of embezzling $125,000 of the
funds of the baDk.
New Orleans, April 6.—A fight at.
tho Republican club meeting, last night,
resulted in three shot—one fatally.
England has queer jurymen, too. In
a murder trial in London a verdict of ac
quittal was rendered, contrary to tho ev
idence. “That is your verdict,” said
Justice Mellor to tho jury, “but it ia not
mine. Thera is not the slightest doubt
that prisoner was guilty. You are mas
ters of tho situation, however, and if you
choose to find the prisoner not guilty, I
cannot help it’’
Depressing Maladies.
Dyspepsia, constipation and bilious
ness, as well aa disorders of the nervous
system and tho organs of urination, re
act by sympathy upon the brain, fre
quently causing a degree of mental de
pression not remotely akin to insanity.
Tho surest way to banish tho “blues”
thus produced is to use that unfailing
antidote to bodily irregnlrity and gloom
iness of mind, Hostetter’s Stomach Bit
ters. A course of tho great corrective
tonio promptly removes tho maladies
above specified, as well as many others,
and restores the cheerfulness which is
such a characteristic attendaat ot good
health. It likewise imparts a vigor to
the constitution which ia its surest safe
guard against disease, and tho best guar,
antee of a long life. The aged and in
firm, as well as the sick and convalescent,
derive inexpressible comfort and benefit
from its use.