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MACON, APRIL 18,1876
Mexico Breaking or.—A telegram
to-day conveys tho idea that a general
burst-up of tho union of the Mexican
States is not altogether improbable,
John E. Owxss keeps on acting, ho
says, "not that I care for the money, but
because I want to see how much of the
darned stuff I can scrape together.'
The House Committeo on Elections
havo decided by a strict party vote to
report in favor of ousting Farwell, Rep
resentative from Chicago, and seating
LeMoyne, tho contestant of tho seat.
The Near York Security Savings Bank,
now in the hands of a reoeiver, made the
disagreeable discovery yesterday that
they were minus seventy thousand dol
lars, by the frauds of the teller. What
'a world for stealing !
McGuire, of tho St. Louis whisky ring,
was sentenced on Saturday to pay a fine
of $5000 and six months* imprisonment.
A movement was set on foot to pay his
fine and petition tho President to pardon
him.
Tnns are getting very busy down on
the Mexican border. The Mexican troops
fired on a Texan town, and the United
States soldiers planted a twelve pounder
and returned tho fire, silencing the Mex
ican guns. Three Americans were kilted.
A past youth asked a 'Frisco restau
rant: "What have you got?” “Almost
every thing,” was tho reply. "Almost
everything? Well, give mo a plite of
that.” "Certainly. One plate hash!”
yelled tho waiter.
The number of American entries of
exhibits for tho coming Centennial reg
ister ten thousand. From this the Phil
adelphia papers arguo that the exhibition
will equal in number of exhibits those of
any previous one.
It is reported that the political cam
paign is about opening in Louisiana in
the old style. Citizens are dragged away
from their homes on Ku-klnx charges,
and writs of the United States Courts
are employed to produce terror in the
bonntry parishes,
Dubing the past five years the Bu
reau of Education of Virginia has re
ceived from Stato taxation $2,163,937 33;
from local taxation, $1,932,780 03; and
from tho Peabody fund and private do
tations, $410,820 37, making a total of
oter four and a half millions.
The House has called on Secretary
Taft to make out his own estimates for
tho War Department next year. The
estimates before the Appropriations Com
mittee were made by Belknap, and they
hope the new Secretary may cut down
the margins for " stealage.”
Boutwzll’s committeo to investigate
the State of Mississippi will not go to
work for two weeks yet, having discreetly
determined to wait till they see where
the money is to como from, or until an
appropriation is made to the Senato con
tingent fund, now exhausted.
Two hundred trains pass daily over
the Pennsylvania railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train leaves
Jersey City every seven minutes, day
and night. After the Centennial has
fairly opened it is reported that the
number of trains will be nearly doubled.
The Springfield Republican thinks that
according to present prospects Mr. Bris
tow will have two-thirds to three-quar
ters of the New England delegates, and
Blaine the rest. To the Democratic
convention, Tilden will stand in about
the same relation to Hendricks and
Thurman.
“No school on rainy days,” is now the
urchin’s delight in Boston. The School
Board of the city has agreed upon the
storm signal—twenty-two strokes by the
fire bells given at 8 a. it—for "no school
to-day.” It is said the young Boston
ians are organizing praying club3 to pray
for stormy weather.
The adventures in the Black Hills aro
having a "high old time,” if the high
price of provisions is any sign. Camp
board there is from $15 to $20 per week
(no extras) and hard to procure at that.
Wages average from $40 to $55 per
month. By this it would appear that it
would bo cheaper for a fellow to stay in
the States and sojourn at a first-doss
hotel, though perhaps not quito so ex
citing.
A decision, said to be worth half a mil
lion dollars to the photographers of the
United States, has just been rendered in
the Federal Court at Grand Eapids,
Michigan. Tho decision i3 that the let
ters patent issued to Albert S. South-
worth for an improvement in plate-
holders for cameras are void and of no
effect, and that Southworth is not the
original discoverer and inventor of the
improvement ho claims.
The Washington authorities are ad
vised that Spain is preparing to send a
formidable force to Cuba, which will be
composed in largo part of troops lately
under the command of Don Carlos. Tho
expedition will not leavo until fall, to
avoid tho sickly season and be ready for
a decisive campaign before spring and
yellow jack return. Our Cuban brethren
of tho Republican persuasion may look
for hot times next winter.
COBONEB PCAEDICOW, of St. Louis,
took some money and a fine diamond stnd
from a corpco that had been found m tho
water, and put them in his pocket. Soon
afterward ho missed tho diamond, and
could find it nowhere. Scared by tho
likelihood of being accused of stealing,
he went homo and his excitement made
him dangerously ill. Tho diamond was
discovered in the lining of his vost, but
he has not yet recovered from tho shock
to his nerves.
A pew years ago tho State’s attorney
of a northern county in Vermont, though
a man of great ability, was Teiy fond of
the bottle. On one occasion an important
criminal case was called on by tho clerk,
bnt the attorney, with owl-like gravity,
kept his chair. "Mr. Attorney, is the
Stato ready to proceed ?” said the judge.
“ Yes—hie—no—your Honor,” stam
mered the lawyer; “ the State is not—in
a state to try this cose to-day; the State,
your Honor, is—drunk 1”
. A Washington correspondent of the
Raleigh (N. C.) lines writes (March 31) :
"I have just seen Colonel Mosby, who is,
as you know, one of Grant’s right bow-
ers. He had just come from a confer
ence with tho President at the White
House, and he says that Grant is still in
the field as a candidate for xe-election,
that he considers New Hampshire an in
dorsement of his administration, and is
Death of A. T. Stewart.
The great American merchant is sud
denly dead. That was the news which
arrested the attention of all our readers
Tuesday morning, and set on foot in
each heart speculations as to what Mr.
Stewart was worth, how ho had left his
vast estate and vast business, and who
would now take the wheel and guide that
great Noah’s ark of a property over the
misty deep of tho future.
Stewart left no heir of his own blood-
no son or daughter. Behind him are his
childless widow, now an old lady, and
sundry nieces—and connected with his
vast mercantile operations are agents,
controlling special departments of pur
chase and sale, holding a sharo in tho
profits, but, wo presume, no actual prop
erty interest in tho investments.
As Stewart lived for the business and
its progress and increment had become
by tho habit of a long life a ruling pas
sion, as absorbing as tho turn of the
cards to a gambler, doubtless ho made
provision for its continuance after his
death; but, fortunately for the success
of younger and poorer merchants, it
will never be pushed with the aggressive
force and vigor which a single mind and
a single interest gave it. If that could
be done in the future, there would be
little else than Stewart’s store, and its
agents, clerks and dependents in the
trade of New York, after a generation
or two.
Stewart was said to be the most suc
cessful money-getter in the world, of his
time. He has accumulated wealth faster
than any other man on the globe,
and if not absolutely the richest man on
earth, he held a larger accumulation of
his own earnings. Ono single piece of
mercantile property—his retail store, oc
cupying a square bounded by Broadway,
Fourth avenue, and Ninth and Tenth
streets, represented a greater value in
money than the whole taxable wealth of
Bibb county. Tho building and ground
were valued at $2,700,000, and the floors
of the building contained a superficial
area of eighteen acres, crowded with all
manner of costly merchandise of unknown
value, all bought for cash, and vended
hourly to thousands of cash purchasers
by employes numbering in every depart
ment of labor over two thousand men
and women. In this great realm of
trafiic an order and routine were main
tained as inflexible as the laws of nature
—as stern and relentless as fate—crush
ing everybody who even by mistake was
found in tho way.
But this kingdom wa3 no great part of
Stewart’s wealth. Below, on Broadway
and Chambers street, was a great marble
structure devoted to wholesaling and
crowded with goods. Besides these two
establishments, next to Astor, Stewart
was the largest owner of city real estate,
and outside the city he had vast posses
sions. He had built a railroad and laid
out a city of his own on speculation, and
he wa3 building immense manufactories
of a variety of goods in which he dealt.
Mr. Stewart’s age was 73, but ho bore
the comparatively youthful appearance
of a man of fifty-five. He was a small
man with a remarkably small head as to
size—light eyes, closely set together,
alert in his movements, quiet and reticent
in his manner but nervous and irritable—
said to have a good deal of kindness in
his heart but seldom manifested it. He
is claimed to havo been charitable, but
bnt bis charities were perhaps so unos
tentatious as to be detected with diffi
culty.
So dic3 the man of vast wealth and
vast affairs—the most successful man in
the world, according to the world’s stand
ard.
Bat, after all, few men could, if they
would, havo borne Stewart’s burdens for
Stewart's wealth. A great pile of money
is, after all, so far as the moral and phys
ical well being of the world is concerned,
better distributed than to stand in accu
mulation ; and as to the possessor, be
yond his rational want3 and his disposi
tion to use it for the benefit of others, it is
a burden. And then, too, it i3 a terrible
temptation to avarice, greed, ambition,
hardness of heart and a tyrannical and
overbearing spirit. In so far as Stewart
has successfully combatted these tempta
tions and used his vast resources in a
loving and dutiful spirit, just so far and
no farther have his acquisitions been a
rational success in life, worthy tho emu
lation of the wise and virtuous.
Capital and Trade.
Trade in Great Britain is in a state of
asphyxia superinduced ’ fea plethora of
money. It hurts U3 to seeTlrado dead in
Europe because there i3 too much money,
and dead in America becauso there i3 too
little. But after all, tho case is tho same
both sides the ocean. In both the masses
are poor, while capitalists don’t know
what to do with their accumulations;
But capitalists alone can'l; make trade.
Trade, in its last analysis, springs out of
tho doily necessities of tho millions of
tho simple poor. When the poor have
work and wages to buy food and clothing
then their myriads of little demands
swell to a vast volume, as tho drops
make up tho ocean, and trade moves in
mighty and regular tides.
But by-and-by capital takes a scare—
stop3 operations—abates tho demand for
labor, which is, after all, tho true and
only value. Then comes tho great Hock,
and the vast machine of human affairs is
as helpless a3 a railway train snowed up,
or off the track. Capital is merely accu
mulated labor, and labor is struck out oi
existence, in great part, by the cessation
of demand for human activity. Capital,
therefore, reduced to its analysis, is as
worthless as labor, tn respect to acquisi-
tion, and the world is without real value,
though what is called money i3 locked
up in great heaps. A man with a hun
dred thousand dollars, say, has a hun
dred thousand days’ labor laid up, and he
can live on it. Tho man with his hands
and sinews only, has nothing at all,
thongh in normal times he, in fact, rep
resents a truo capital of which a dollar a
day should bo the income.
The world of trade is cornered by a
great moral disease and disorder which
is, in point of fact, as recondite and ob
scure in the matter of cause and remedy
as it will be slow in healing. For when
capital starts then trade will necessarily
follow, because it will furnish the means
of trade which is labor. But capitm
will not move till trado moves, and trade
cannot move till labor is in demand, and
labor cannot be in demand till capital
moves; and so it is, and so we suppose
it will continue to be.
The Baltimore American (Kep.) siys it
was one ot the idiosyncrasies of President
. . .... ,,, ,, . , Grant that he never understood the im-
dstermmed, if possible, to secure a third portance of having a first-class lawyer at
tsrm.” I the head of the Department of Justice.
To Wliat Good Purpose ?
All see that the elections show no up*
rising of popular indignation over the
gross and disgrsciful frauds in public
administration laid baro by the Demo
cratic House of Representatives. The
New York Tribune says these disclosqres
will bring no strength to the Democratic
ballot, and are creating 03 much preju
dice against the discoverers as against
the malefactors. Tho religions and 60-
called independent press are content with
distributing tho disgrace equally among
all political parties, and in substance de
claring that both aro equally knavish,
and no party can bo trusted. Unless
men aro put in office entirely unconnect
ed with parties, the same frauds are
inevitable. None but a floater, or a man
with feeble political connections and
affinities can be trusted.
Thus one of the plain and manifest
lessons of these disgraceful events is to
tally perverted and misapplied. Let us
consider a few plain facts which cannot
be denied s Up to the war tho adminis
tration of tho national government was
always in the hands of political parties.
Sometimes, it i3 true, but rarely, they
were moro or less disorganized and un
settled, but, in general, moro boldly
aligned, more bitter and antagonistic
than those which now exist. And yot,
daring all this time the Government was
carried on, in the main, with entire in
tegrity—with the highest personal honor
in all its prominent officials.
On the other hand, the breaking out
of the war was the signal for the destruc
tion of existing political parties. The
question of preserving tho union and
the proper way to do it became tho only
dividing line, and men arrayed them
selves against each other who had voted
hand in hand for decades. One of the
old traditional parties then ceased exis
tence entirely, and the country, from that
date to tho present time, has been con
trolled by an organization composed of
men of opposite original parties, banded
together on the union issue, as paramount
to all other political issues.
The Government, therefore, m respect
to traditional party divisions ha9 been a
“no party Government.” It is now com
posed of old Democrats and old Whigs in
about eijUal measure, and its dogmas as
a political party, refer only to an assum
ed disposition of the Southern people to
assault the authority of the Government
and endanger the public peace. As a
party it possesses not a single doctrinal
idea or opinion which enlisted the honor
able pride, enthusiasm and zeal of the
ancient political statesmen and parties of
the country, in the hands of either of
whom the public honor and integrity
were safe and unchallenged.
We held, therefore, that one great
reason for tho lamentable spectacle of
public dishonor abd demoralization we
now see is to be recognized in the fact
that the Government has been wielded
so long without coherent political ideas,
and by persons of really discordant doc
trinal ideas, which havo been sacrificed
to an assumption, now for a long time
practically false—a quasi party, with no
ground for permanent cohesion in the
past’or in the future—apolitical expedient
and not a party, which necessarily gath
ered within its embrace men of weak
convictions—strong love of popularity
and self-interest and eager to use every
opportunity to benefit themselves, under
the rational conclusion that the career of
such a party must virtually cease with
the occasion which called it into being.
The truth is just the reverso of what
is assumed. A cabal of public men with
out political connections or adhesions is
tho most unsafe of all depositories of
public administration. It would be as
feeble for good 03 irresponsible for abuse.
Tne safety of tho country depends upon
a reorganization of parties upon normal
questions and iesuts arising necessarily
out of the disputed realm of State and
Federal power, and the ever recur
ring issues of public policy. These
parties watch each other and bring
to the public administration the pride of
opinion and tho esprit du corps, which
fortify all other incentives to honor and
integrity. Tho real lesson of the pres
ent is therefore all against the emascula
tion and derangement of proper political
parties, and shows that when this has
been accomplished by general civil dis
order or any abnormal shock, the effect
is vastly mischievous.
And finally these developments _ of
fraud must go on, and we must wait pa
tiently to eee their full and final effect in
restoring honor and honesty to the pub
lic service.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
East "Week’s Cotton Figures.
The Chronicles report of receipts for
the seven days ending Friday night, 7th
instant, was 55,804 bales, against 41,156
for tho corresponding week of last year—
showing an increase of 14,648 bales on
the week. Total receipts of the cotton
year to that date aro 3,813,486 bales,
against 3,236,887 bales for the corres
ponding period of the year 1874-5—mak
ing a total increase, thus far, of 576,599
bales.
The Cotton Exchange report the same
date, published in the Telegraph of
last Saturday morning, was as follows:
Receipts for the week, 55,9S8—receipts
of tho corresponding weeek of last year
39,076—excess 16,912 bales. Receipts of
the current cotton year to that date 3,-
814,573—do. of previous year 3,223,221—
excess 591,352
Tho Chronicle’s interior port table
shows receipts of the seven days ending
last Friday night, 25,446, against 14,929
for the same week lost year. Shipments
34,381, against 24,933. Stocks 132,495,
against 133,421.
Tho Chronicle’s table of visible supply
showed on Friday night 2,959,917 bales
against 2, 877,308 last year, 3,043,508 in
1874, and 2,757,390 in 1873. These fig
ures show an increase of 82,609 bales cn
the supply cf 1875, a decrease of 88,591
on the supply of 1874, and an increase of
162,527 bales on the supply of 1873. The
price of middling uplands m the Liver
pool market on Friday and corresponding
dates for the past three years, compared
as follows: 1876, 6 7-13; 1875, 8a8|;
1874,8i; 1873.9J.
The Mississippi overflow threatens to
be more extensivo and darable than last
year, and somo apprehensions are ex
pressed that it may exercise an unfavor
able influence on cotton planting in that
region. The general tenor of reports
from all parts of tho cotton country is
very damp.
Thebe are 62,552 churches in the
United Stales, with sittings for 11,395,-
542 people, the- Methodists being the
s1roag03t denomination. The total value
of church property is placed at $349,619,-
760.
Ice cream soirees havo broken out in
Atlanta.
The Constitution of yesterday, furnish
es the three following items:
MVelasquez and W. A Ramsey
had a street rencontre on Marietta street
yesterday without serious results,
Mb3. Selina A. Few who was over 82
years of age, and is known to everybody
in this city, diod last Friday, and wa3
buried at Decatur on Thursday.
Yesxbbdat morning Henry P. Farrow,
United States District Attorney, asked
leave of Judge Peeples to go to Savan
nah to attend to his official duties during
the present session of the United States
Court there. He stated that one Jesse
W. Jackson had sworn out an indictment
for libel against him, and ho was under
bond to answer it. Ho said ho would
return from Savannah as soon as possible
and demand a trial on tho indictment.
It is said that a lively time may be ex
pected when tho case corues np. Farrow
vows ho will make the "fur fly,” and Jack-
son settles himself back for tho contest
and says, "Lay on, McDuff,” etc.
We are called upon says tho Savan
nah News of yesterday, to announce the
death of an old an respected citizen, tho
Hon. Alexander J. Lawton, which event
occurred at the residence of his son,
Gen. A- R. Lawton, in this city, on Satur
day morning last.. Col. Lawton had at
tained the ripe old ago of 86 years, hav
ing been born in St. Peter’s Parish, S.
C., in 1790, whero ho passed all his lifo
as a. planter. He was largely connected
with all public, charitable and religious
interests of his district, and in tho bet
ter days of tho Palmetto Stato frequently
represented his parish in the Legislature
of that commonwealth. He was tho
father of Gen. A. R. Lawton and Dr. W.
S. Lawton, of this city. The remains will
be taken to-day to Robertville, S. C., for
interment.
The same paper says: A most dis
graceful and brutal fight, resulting in
the subsequent death of ono of tho com
batants, occurred in the suburbs, near
the cotton factory, on Sunday afternoon.
It appears that James Clifton, an em
ploye in tho Arkwright Cotton Paotory,
and Wm. A. Proctor, an apprentice in tho
Screven house barber shop, both young
men under twenty years of age, had had
some dispute about a young lady, which
had engendered bad feeling. Recently
they had a rencontre, whieb, however,
did not result seriously, and only served
to increase their enmity. They finally
decided to settle their grievances by an
appeal to muscle, and arrangements
were made for the fight to como off on
Sunday in rear of the cotton factory.
ThU decision became known, and quite
a number of persons were attracted to
the scene. The parties met at the time
appointed, and the fight took plaoe.
Proctor was so badly used up that ho
was carried from the field, and about 11
o’clock on Sunday night he died.
Mb. John M. Tucked, of Milledgeville,
accidentally shot himself in the left arm
last Sunday. Flesh wound.
The First Baptist Church of Atlanta,
Cn Sunday last, called Rev. W. D. Gwynn
to the pastoral charge of that church.
The Rev. Mr. Gwynn wa3 ordained by the
Baptist Church of Rome.
The Rome Courier announces tho death
of Mr3. Josephine Harbour, of DeSoto,
and Mr. Fielding Hight, of Cave Spring.
The Romo Commercial has been merg
ed in the Courier.
The Atlanta Constitution say3 that
when Foster Blodgett reached Atlanta
Saturday night ho “skipped into the Au
gusta sleeper and tho porter of tho car
tried to refuse other parties admirsion
thoroto.” Whereupon tho Augusta
Chronicle anil Sentinel remarks: "We
should like to know what business an
employe of the Georgia Railroad Com-
pany has attempting to hide an indicted
criminal in the company’s car. The ser
vices of that porter had better he dis
pensed with.-
We extract tho following from the
Chronicle and Sentinel's report of the ar
rest of Foster Blodgett j
When the train relied into the union
depot, early Sunday morning, Lieut. A.
M. Prather boarded it, and formally ar
rested Mr. Blodgett. The latter was
evidently not expecting anything of the
kind, and appeared to be overwhelmed
with astonishment. He quietly submit
ted, however, and was escorted to the
City Hall, where ho rem lined in the
Chief’s office during tho day, under
guard. Here, amid tho scenes of his
first political triumphs, ho had ample
time for reflection. Tho news of his ar
rest spread over the city, and a number
of persons called on him before ho left
for the return trip to Atlanta. A report
er of the Chronicle and Sentinel conversed
with him a few minutC3 in the afternoon.
He found him much changed sinco his
departure from Georgia, when tho Radi
cal power was destroyed. His hair and
beard aro as whito as the driven enow,
and his form is bent so that he looks like
a man seventy-five or eighty years of
age. The fallowing conversation passoa
between the reporter, and the prisoner :
Reporter—Did you anticipate an ar
rest, Mr. Blodgett ?
Blodgett—I did not. The authorities
of tho State could have had my presence
in Georgia long ago if they had wanted
it. I wroto to parties in Atlanta that I
would go there whenever it was desired
that I should do so. I had the Gover
nor’s pardon in my pocket (alluding to
tho pardon granted by Acting Governor
Conley), and had nothing to fear.
Reporter—How do you stipposo tho
Governor heard of your presence in
Georgia?
Blodgett—My impression is that my
father-in-law, Mr. Fool, with whom I had
a law-suit, was tho causo of my arrest.
I am lawyer enough to know that I could
not bo held by a simple telegram. I
could have sued out a writ of habeas cor
pus and gotten off easy enough. But I
did not desire to do so. I intend to go
back to Atlanta to-night and havo the.
matter settled. I intended anyway to re
turn to Atlanta in a short time, and re
main there threo or four days. I am now
a poor man, and have to do something to
support tho wife and little ones. I am
traveling for some commercial houses,
and get one hundred and twenty five dol
lars a month. My wife is keeping board
ing honse in Newberry, in order to assist
in keeping the pot boiling.
Reporter—Do you think anything will
bo done with you ?
Blodgett—It is hard to say. There
is no telling what people will do now-a-
days.
Mr. Blodgett went to Atlanta. Sunday
night, under escort of Lieut. Prather.
Rascals have bees chunking rocks at
tho Georgia road passenger trains again.
Elbxbton folks aro a festive set,if they
don’t like revenue spies. Tho Augusta
Constitutionalist, of yesterday, says:
On last Tuesday a man rode into the
town of Elberton and put up at the ho
tel. Ho registered his nam6 as William
Jones, of North Caro,ina. During the
day ho unwittingly let it be known that
he was a revenue official on business. He
at first said he was a horse trader.
That night a number of men took
Jones, or, as his real namo proved to
be, Carter, from the hotel, and after
shaving his head pretty closely, put him
in a hogshead, and .heading it up, wrote
a lot of fancy letters on the head and
covered tho barrel with hyerogliphics, etc.
He remained in this fix nearly all night
and was released the next morning and
sent on his way rejoicing. In the mean
time hi3 horso had been taken from the
stable and its mane and tail shaved as
close as a young mule’s. He pledged
his word that the next timo ho came on
that business ho would ccms properly
clothed and backed, and not sail tinder
false colors. _ He was really not an officer,
bnt a spy or informer, who received fifty
dollars* he said, for each person he could
convict of either illicit distilling or crook
ed tobacco and cigars.
A shooting affray occurred in Marion
county last week between Matt Walker,
whito, and Isaac Hammell, negro, 1b
which the latter was killed.
Mb. Ciias. Tsbet, formerly of Colum
bus, died in Atlanta on Monday.
The Columbus Times says: A gentle
man from Harris county went to a law
yer’s office, and said he had just heard A.
T. Stewart was dead, and that he was
told Mr. Stewart had willed a million
dollars to the Harris connty tornado suf
ferers, and said he was one of them and
wanted to know how ho conld get his
share. The lawyer had to explain.
Savannah men and boys must bo in
clined to disregard some of tho proprie
ties of life, if wo may just prove the
following communication which tho News
says i3 printed verbatim:
Savannah ga april 10
to the Sitsizcn off Savannah is hour
town com to such a pass that We cant
make a visit to the river Side With out
Seeing neked men in Canals washing
Closo in the SeBurb3 of hour Sity, let it
be Wifes. Sister, or Childend of friends
if you Will. go. to. the Guff rail. Way
Warf you. Will. See. it ever. Day. Why
Dont hour city police stop it. for it is a
nusons, and I think thay aro Set off
theavos and robers; as I know By ex-
pearenco. I Was a fishing When I Saw
3 men Baro footed and necked. L. T.
The News, of yesterday, has tho fol
lowing special from Atlanta:
Attorney General Hammond made a
strong argument against the validity of
Conley’s pardon, and General Gastroll
replied in an equally strong manner,
holding that it was a full and legal par
don of all offenses charged against Blod
gett. Judgo Peeples will deliver h!s
opinion early in the morning. Public
sentiment hero is largely in favor of.
letting Blodgett havo the benefit of tho
pardon, and it is thought such will be the
result, or a light bail accepted.
Justice Abbams, of Savannah, has
pos+ed in his offico tho following notice:
“No items furnished to the press,”
The Enquirer says tho Columbus facto
ries have taken sinco September 1st,
9.549 bales, against 6,967 last year, show
ing an incroaso this season of 2,582
bales. Multiply tho value of tho raw
staple by three and an idea may be
formed of the money they bring to our
city.
The same paper ha3 tho following two
paragraphs: Tho head of a revolving
cylinger, two feet in diameter, in tho
"dresser room of tho Muscogeo Mills”
blow out last afternoon. The tender.
Mr. Calvin Treadaway, was knocked
down and bruised, but not seriously
hurt. One of tho “dressing” machines
was broken to pieces, and another injured
a good deal.
YEstcniJAT about one i\ ii. nine of tho
loaded Cars of Conductor Denso’s freight
train, coming to Columbus, were wrecked
about two miles above Geneva. It was
caused by the spreading of tho track for
full sixty yards. Tho cars are in a ruin
ous mess. Engine unhurt. Construction
trains with a large force were promptly
sent out from this point and Fort Valley
to clear the track. The passenger train
went out on schedule time but was not
able to pass tho wreck until a veryy lato
hour. Repairs will oe all made before
this reaches the eye of the reader.
Beo. Chbistv, of tho Athens Watch
man, does not often arise upon the wings
of levity, bnt sometimes he does. Wit
ness the following:
It is said that one of tho employes on
the Athens Branch, during the progress
of a revival in this city, some months
ago, attended regularly in company with
a young lady, and put on such a serious
air that tho minister supposed him to be
a member of the church, and approach
ing him said, “My young friend, aro you
a Christian?” “No. sir, l'th a railroad
man.” “But,” said tho divine, “ in other
sections of the Stato I havo known men
connected with railroads to he Chris
tians.” “ That may bo so, in somo sec
tions,” replied tho young man, " but I’ll
be d—d if it ever occurs on tho Georgia
road 1”
Tliat Fussy Iitttle Court,
Tho United States District Court for
the District of Columbia, it seems, has
served a writ of habeas corpus on the
Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms of tho
Houso of Representatives, for possession
of Hallet Kilbourne, a witness under ar
rest for contempt in refusing to answer
tho questions of an investigating com'
mitteo of the House in respect to tho
membership of a real estate pool in Wash
ington, which is believed to have prac
ticed great oppression and injustice on
tho people of tho district.
This pool is believed to havo made vast
sums of money by a misapplication of tho
revenues of tho district, so a3 to add val
ue to vacant lots in any part of tho city
whero they might purchase. It must
havo been made up of men who could
control tho city expenditures in their dwn
interest, and the Houso want3 to know
who they aro. But Kilbourne, who was
the manager of tho pool, refuses to tell.
The District Court, it is believed, m this
case, a3 ia the case of Belknap, interferes
with tho foul intent of thwarting justice,
and wo presume, before tho Houso sur
renders custody of tho prisoner, it will
test tho question before tho Supremo
Bench.
Trouble xvltli Great Britain;
A misunderstanding between tho Brit
ish and American governments has
arisen out of the demand for tho extradi
tion of the Boston forger, Winslow. Tho
British Government complains that, un
der previous demands criminals surren-
ed by them havo been subsequently tried
and punished for other offences than
thoso on which tho demand for extradi
tion was based, and pleads that this can
not be lawfully done under an act of tho
British Parliament. To which Fish re
sponds that an act of Parliament, though
law in Groat Britain, is not law in the
United States, and cannot enter into tho
construction or modification of any treaty
stipulation between tho two powers. It
seems to us that Mr. Fish is so clearly
right that the statement is self-evident.
Tbe District Safe Burglary.
Gen Babcock had a long conference
with the President to-day, says a Courier-
Journal telegram of Monday, It is un
derstood that the conversation related
to the now phase which the safe burglary
conspiracy has assumed, tho develop
ments affecting Gen.'Babcock. Attor
ney-General Williams is not willing to
bear the ropsonsibility of discontinning
tho prosecution of Harrington, and it is
said will testify to-morrow that Gen.
Babcock brought them an order from
tho President that he wanted tho prose
cutions stopped. The President’s friends
assert on his behalf, that he gave no such
order, and that there is talk of his going
before tho committee to put his denial
on tho record. This last, however, is
not generally credited. These revela
tions create much excitement, and it is
generally supposed will go on to include
other parties. Babcock and Harrington
had even less motives for their part in
the conspiracy than had Boss Shepherd,
John O. Evans and Hallet Kilbourne.
Everyoody, nearly, now believes that
thoso three worthies were as much mixed
up in tho affair as Babcock or Harring
ton, and tho only doubt expressed is
whether they will be caught or not. As
for Babcock, hi3 case seems desperate.
The general belief is that his testimony
before tho committeo only confirms the
original accusation. Ono of the u£ly
things against him that does not rest on
tho testimony of a detective, i3 tho point
that a year ago parties who did tho
actual werk in this conspiracy job com
plained to Babcock by letter tfiat some
one person had bagged most of the
money, and that he roplied: “You will
be paid; don’t bo uneasy.” Tho story
goes that tho original of this letter of
Babcock’s is ig the possession of the
oommitteo.
A iiEHEBE of tho staff of tho New York
Tribune has been pursuing a course of in
quiry at Washington, concerning Presi
dential candidates, and this is what ho
says after getting all hi3 points together:
‘Thero is no longer any talk of an old-
fashioned Democratic ticket. It was
plentiful and noisy enough at tho begin
ning of tho session, hut it has all died
away, little by little. Tho Hendricks en
thusiasm has evaporated; Bayard is only
a fascinating dream impossible of reali
zation. Of Thurman there is somo solid
residuum remaining, but it diminishes
day by day. Tilden’s strength may bo
jreat.'bnt, if so, it i3 not well known to
iis party associates in Washington. The
namo of Judgo Davis, spoken in a whis
per a fow weeks ago, is now on all men’s
ips. Niue Democrats out of ten m Con
gress if asked to-day, not for their pref
erences hut for their opinions as to who
the St. Lonis nominco is likely to bo,
would reply, ‘Judge Davis or echo new
man.’ ’’
The Way the Chinese Do It.
Sen Francisco Call.l
As an illustration of tho manner in
which this people are tapidly usurping
tho trades, it ttay be mentioned that a
member of tho firm of Tong Wo, an intel
ligent Chinese merchant and a prominent
member of tho Yung Wo Company, in
formed our reporter but a few days ago
that the company bad twfilvo thousand
coolies under its chargo, five thousand of
which number wero engaged in cigar
making, threo thousand are boot, shoe
and slipper makers, two thousand shirt
and clothing makers, and tho remainder
two thousand aro composed of laundry-
men, domestics, fishermen, vegetable
peddlers, etc. A good story is told of a
man who resided hero a few years ago,
and who never studied political economy.
Ho opened an establishment for the man*
ufacture of bird cages, and after a wbilo
did a thriving business. Soon after a
smart looking Chinaman came along and
solicited emplovment, offering his servi
ces for fifty cents per day less money
than that paid to the whito man then in
his employ. The eago-maker and politi
cal economist jumped at the offer, and
discharged tho white man, satisfying
whatever scruples of conscience ho might
have by making tho Chinaman dance
around and make things fly. When tho
meek-eyed Celestial had mastered the
mysteries of the trade, ho astonished his
employer by demanding a salary equal to
that received, by his predecessor, tho
white man. The demand was denied
with somo show of indignation, and the
cago-maker showed his conteiUpt for Chi
nese labor by kicking kith out of tho
shop. Within a week afterward an es
tablishment similar to his own was open
ed on the opposite sido of tho street by
his discharged coolie, and bird cages were
sold very cheap. The cage-maker be
came a bankrupt, as did several cigar-
makers who tried the same experiment
and met the samo fate.
NOTES.
‘•‘Blaine and Bristow” seems pleasant
in all Republican eyes except Bristow’s.
‘•Nothing can save Robeson,” says-
tho Avalanche. What, has tho old salt
lost his savor?
Mauk Twain is suggested as Schenck’a
successor. Could he expect Clements.y
at tho hands of tho Senate?
Bennett’s marriage with MisB May
has been postponed a year. So ho will
not have his May.day this spring.
The expenses of the New York Sun
amonnt to $2,259 59 a day. What wo3
that some ono said about being a3 “cheap
as sunshine?”
When a father told his son that it was
dangerous to carry his gun Butler-eyed,
the boy didn’t know that it was a
euphemism for cocked.
No doubt of it now—Texas is a great
Stato. Thero is a woman out thero who,
thongh only thirty years of old, has
spanked eighteen of her own children.
The Spencer investigation ha3 cost
about $50,000. The Mobile Register inti
mates that if they will only turn him out
it is ready to say “darn tho ex-Spencer 1”
The enterprise of the measles hrs
never been doubted till lately, when it
made a dash at Brigham Young’s fam
ily and didn’t have blotches enough to go
round.
Benjamin Mackebel, of Michigan,
eloped with his mother-in-law, and tho
Commercial Advertiser i3 ro-spawn-sible
for saying that it is "a queer case of af-
finny-ty,”
In these times who ia safe? Even
Donn Piatt haa fallen under suspicion,,
through having been an ardent advocate-
of Cowles’moth exterminator. To think
that a newspaper man should havo gone
into so small a thing, when post trader-
ships were in market, navy contracts fc>
bo let, and whisky rings encircling a
bonanza of lucre almost beyond the limits
of arithmetical calculation. Oh, Donn,
we aro ashamod of yon 1 You will never
make a live newspaper man, even if you
live till the next centennial.
Is Negro Labor Unreliable?
Editors Telegraph and messenger: You
are constantly hearing something like
the following, and all of onr misfortunes
aro laid at the door of tho negro:
“As a race they aro thriftless and un
reliable, and tho farmer does not know
when ho plants his crop if ho will be able
to retain them to make and gather it,”
Do tho facts sustain tho charges ?
As to tho largo majority of those
around tho towns and cities it is true.
Go whero thero aro no negroes, and yon
will find tho same class, in any town or
city, of tho samo race as the balance of
the population. Is seems as if tho natu
ral order of things require a lower stra
tum of human beings in every large com
munity, and the advantage wo havo is
that ours is of a different raco and not so
vicious. Wo havo a great many petty
thefts, hut few house-hreaking3 or mur
ders.
The recent eruption of Vesuvius is de
scribed as something thrilling to behold.
After many false alarms and partial out
breaks, the ancient mountain began to
pour forth a stream of lava, while an im
mense column of milk white vapor rose
high up into tho air, illamined magnifi
cently, it is said, by the fires which were
raging in the crater beneath. Quantities
of stone?, cinders and sconce were at the
same time ejected daring tho next twen
ty-four hour?, as though tho subterranean
furnaces that underlie tho brim of the
lovely Bay of Naples wero being stoked
by tho fire gnomes for a really grand
outtrarst. Tho warning to tho inhabi
tants was given several weeks before,
when a dense and rolling volume of smoko
arose from tho volcano. Even then tho
mountain was tr&nbling with the inner
shocks and neiso3 which mostly precodo
an outbreak, and near its top firo conld
be seen luridly shining in tho night from
the many crevices, out of which exuded
the mephitic smell of sulphurous gases.
Yet, notwithstanding all these tokens of
disturbance inside tho volcano, tho
symptoms appeared to havo subsided,
and Vesuvius was thought to bo sottlmg
down. From time to timo after that
there were only slight relapses ; and the
present paroxysm socm3 to havo como on
with something like abruptness, which
is one of tho worst possible signs of its
intentions which tho volcano ever gives.
The torriblo outbreak of A. D. 79, which
overwhelmed Pompeii, and cost the lifo
of tho elder Pliny, began in tho samo
fashion, with a great cloud of whito
vapor suddenly ejected to a vast height,
lighted up by tho fires of tho opening
crater, and full of black fragments and
showers of siorice. From his watch tower
near the summit Professor Palmieri
keeps an eye perpetually fixod upon the
mountain, surrounded by cunning instru
ments of all sorts, which enable him to
feel tho pulse of Vesuvius, and generally
to foretell a fover fit in tho capricious
volcano, tte changeful moods, however,
frequently deccivo even this watchful
sentinel of science.
Memphis Avaianehe says i “In his
last official acts Gov. Ames showed great
resignation.” But it didn’t half equal
tho magnitude of the resignation shown
by tho people.
A Pennsylvania mechanic has invents
ed what ho calls a “Smith roller and
crusher.” Now, if it it had only been a
Cincinnati invention, it would have been
so handy, you know, to try it on tho Dea
con.
Robeson i3 in Philadelphia. "Coming
events cast their shadows before.” Tho
naval investigating committeo is to visit
Philadelphia during the present week.
Probably the great naval secretary wants
to get things in ship-shape betimes.
“It is true,” says a Radical paper, it
"might have been more satisfactory if
General Grant had placed men in offico
whoso capacity was undoubted.” But
then you know that would havo forced
them to go outside tho family circle.
"And while this safe burglary excite-
ment is going on in Washington,” say3
tho Commercial Advertiser, "may i&re be
permitted mildly to inquire of what make
the safe in question Wa3?” Unsafe, we
should judge,
A fctw book with tho titlo of "The
Great Divide,” is announced by Messrs,
Scribner, Welford & Armstrong. It
may bo necessary to stato that while it is
a narrative of travel in the Yellowstone,
it has no reference to tho sale of post
traderships, as its nomenclature would
seem to indicate.
The Commercial Advertiser asks: "Who
is the American arrested in London on
Monday for counterfeiting ? Let’s havo
the distinguished gentleman’s name.
The poor gentleman is evidently asham
ed to 1st his namo como ovor. Thero aro
so many moro distinguished criminals
before tho public eye that the average
rascal has no chance whatever at distinc
tion.
Blaine has found his "great unknown,’
and he proves to be too knowin’.
And when Ccnkling awoke yesterday
morning, behold he found Blainoadead
duck.
Robeson says he can explain every
thing. That explanation is what the
country is now waiting for.
Mieg’s moth exterminator” does not
appear to havo been a very wholesome
Meigs-turo for tho Q. M. G.
Cheap cah-ago is what is worrying
New York. Expensive ‘'cabbage 1 ’ i3 what
is worrying tho Federal officials about
Washington.
A Radical paper says, "tho Republican
parly holds its own everywhere.” Worse
than that, it is holding a great deal of
othor people’s.
The acquatio feature in hair continues
in favor with ladies. It used to bo worn
low on the back in waterfalls, and now
tho stylo is low on tho forehead in
waves.
A Sultby Day.—Yesterday was a sul
try, close, cloudy day, but rainless. Ram,
however, had fallen during tho previous
night. Tho day wa3 all that could be
asked for in tho interests of young grow
ing corn and vegetables, and the first of
genuine Spring-like weather. Up to yes
terday wo have been moro or less in dread
of an intensely nipping frost, before
Spring sets in. Frost was confidently
predicted at tho full moon in April, (tho
8th) bnt it did not come, and we feared
postponement to a later and more un-
favorablo date. A friend, however, re
ports that he saw several specimens of
the genus scarabaeus yesterday whilo
walking in hi3 garden, and the story is
that tho beetles never como ont ot their
holes rill cold weather is over. We shall
therefore assume that tho danger of %
killing frost i3 over for this Spring, and
proceed accordingly. If it comes in spite
of the bugs and beetles, most of U3 will
be in condition to ascertain the fact and
scoat tho prophetic sagacity of tho bugs
accordingly. Therefore, transplant the
tomatoes—the peppers—tho egg plants
and tho okra—let the snaps and butter-
beans appear, and proceed with the mel
ons, cucumbers ana squashes.
Manchesteb, Eng., April 12.—Aspecial
to tho Guardian from London says a dis
patch was received from Washington
Tuesday which speaks in very positive
terms of Mr. Sebenck’s resuming his
position as .United States Minister to
England,
The Tribune says: “It wonld have been
moro than $5 in the pocket of the Democ
racy if they had not had a majority in the
present Congress.” And it conld have
been more than $5,000,000 oat of the
Federal Treasury if they had not had a
majority.
“Babcock denies all”—well, wo needn’t
to go any further. It has gotten to be
as easy for him to say “I didn’t,” a3 it is
for a hoy caught coming out of a pantry
with a peachstons in his mouth, syrup on
hi3 lips and half a dozen doughnuts in
his pocket.
Butleb says ho could not think of
favoring Longfellow for Saint James un
til tho poet declares whether or not the
lines
“Havo foldod their tent* like tho Arabs
Andos silent); steal away,”
havo any roforenco to tho hero of New
Orleans.
Congbessman Scaleb, of North Caro
lina, pats this tough conundrum to Con
gress: “What is tho uso of forty thou
sand paira of elastio garters sent to tho
Indian women, unaccompanied by a sin-
glo pair of stockings ?” A squaw that
could not feel elegantly clad in a pair of
flaming garters, certainly deserves noth
ing at the hands of a beneficent Govern
ment.
"Moro than all,” says tho New York
Herald, "we do not think the choice of an
American minister esnecially concerns
an English newspaper.” Thero is whero
the Herald makes a mistake. The London
News shows only a laudable anxietv that
the American Government should send a
representative who, at least, is respecta-
bio enough to be admitted to the society
of statesmen and other gentlomen. It is
not every American "sovereign” that is
entitled to pass in a British court.
But take tho farm laborers and it is
not true. When a farmer goes to make
arrangements for advances on his crop
from his commission merchant, ho ia
asked, “How many plows do you run ?”
"How many hands do you work, etc.?”
But tho question is never asked, “Do
you think your laborers will remain with
you to make and gather your crop r" If
they are on the place tho merchant
thinks that ia a sufficient guarantee that
they will remain and fulfill their contract
for the year.
The farmer is satisfied of the same
thing, or ho wonld never ho willing to
mortgage hi3 crop and perishable prop
erty to get supplies to make a crop with
that labor.
Tho foundation of every business in
tho South is agriculture, and the bulk of
it is dependent on negro labor and we all
ia every pnrsnit baso our calculations on
tho crop and price of cotton and of tho
contingencies to affect that crop the un
reliability of the labor is never included.
Who has ever heard of the failure to cul
tivate a crop or to gather it after made,
on account of the desertion of the planta
tion by tho negroes P
The past season, there has been mado
and marketed over 4,000,000 bales of cot
ton, and more corn, oat?, wheat, peas and
other products, than has been made fo?
several years past,
Were these crops made, gathered and
housed by a set of loafers and vagabonds.?
If this i3 the result with an unreliable
labor, what would have been tho result
if it- had been reliable ?
We havo flo cotton iinoppers unions,
cotton pickera unions, fodder pulling
unions. Corn pulling unions; nono of the
evih of that kind which every farming
and agricultural interest at the North
and in Europo aro cursed with. As a
rule the negroes ' aro faithful to their
contracts. They may not work as well
as wo wish, but they work better than
tho farm laoorers of any other race. A
great many persons who talk very
learnedly on this subject know no moro
about it than the man in tho moon, and
could not tell you whether com tasseled
beforo it silked or vice versa, or which
came first on cotton tbe equaro or the
bloom.
Of the farmers who harp on this sub
ject, a laigo number do not settle fairly
with their laborers. Poor paymasters
make poor laborers. Which i3 responsible,
tho employer or tho laborer ? Take tho
negro out of politics and ho is better for
our purposes than any other laber wo
can get. It is true, when an election
comes, which is of sufficient importance
to have his voto sought after, that it does
demoralize him for awhile, bnt whero
aro there any people occupying a simi
lar status that aro not affected by it?
Who in the country this year are re
ducing their crops for fear of the elec
tions this fall so demoralizing the negro
that it will prevent tho gathering of a
full crop ? Tho bulk of the cotton crop
of thi3 section is carried to market, vary
ing from five to twenty-five mile3, cn
wagons driven by negro teamsters. There
has never, os I have heard, a single bale
of cotton failed to reach tho warehouse
or railroad depot through the dishonesty
of these teamsters.
Tho supplies of bacon, corn, bagging,
ties, salt, etc., nro hauled homo in tho
samo wagons ; often tho bacon is put in
tho wagon loose; frequently they aro in
the night getting home—yet tho losses
aro trifling, compared with tho amounts
so carried. It is not tho rulo only on a
few plantation?, but it is tho rulo of tho
country. It is a rare thing that tho
owner or agent ever goes to market with
his wagon.
Thero is not a farmer in this part of
tho country who works twenty-fivo or
thirty hands who has not at least half a
dozen negroes cn his plantation that ho
would send to town to bring back an en
velope containing fronuono hundred to
five hundred dollars—they knowing
wbat the contents were.
It is truo that they will steal hogs and
corn and cotton from tho field?, that they
do not consider a3 particularly under
their charge, and they think there is no
harm in it, for they think it is the busi
ness of tho owner or manager to look
after and protect it; besides they havo
had it instilled into them by carpet-bag
gers and others of that class ; that all wo
havo wa3 made by their labor and that
they have a right to help thcmsclvos to
it whenever they can without being
caught. Tho negro is a curious creature,
and in his code of morals ho makes a
distinction between that which i3 en
trusted to his care and that which is not
As Secretary of War, ho would steal a
package of money, in passing through tho
Treasury, but no never would havo sold
a post tradership.
Whero confidence i3 placed in them ns
a rulo they aro faithful to the trust They
wait on us, they nurse our children and
arc trusted with them out of sight of tho
parents. We leave onr honse3 at night
with only onr wives and our children in
them, surrounded by a negro quarter.
Our whole conduct in our business ar
rangements, etc., gives a flat denial to the
charge that negro labor i3 unreliable. If
wo will spend more timo at homo looking
after onr business and give it our undi
vided attention and less in town talking
about the unreliability of labor and other
similar topics, wo will find that our busi
ness will be moro prosperous, and that
all of tho cause of our failures cannot
iroperly be laid at tho door of tho negro-
tfo employees of any class will pay prop;
er attention to their business if they find
that it i3 neglected by the employer.
It is human nature when thing* g°
wrong to lay tho blame on somo one else
besides ourselves, but wo will find that
bewailing tho short comings of other*
will not make up for our own, cry as
loud-03 wo may. C.
Bbistow,—The Cincinnati Commercial
is certain that Briatow is tho coming
man. He has arranged the work of the
Cincinnati Convention is advance, a°d
assures us that it will follow this pic-,
gramme: “Wo presumo a majority cf
the delegate? will go into tho Cincinnati
Convention as friends of Morton, Coni-
ling and Blaine, with a certainty that
neither of these candidates nill bo able
to command a majority. Thero will bo
found on the spot a powerful current fat
Bristow, and after tho first ballot, all the
loose votes will flow to him, because ho
is the man who, if nominated, will surely
be ele*ted, and even the Republican nat
ters would prefer him to a Democrat.