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Thk London Times will send a Walter
resatotho Centennial exhibition upon
which it is printed, this press haying been
built expressly for the exhibition, with,
all the latest improvements.
Thk old Greeley mansion, near Chap*
paqua, N. Y., was totally destroyed by
fire on the fourteenth instant. It was
undergoing repairs at the timefor the
occupation of Mr. Greeley’s daughter Ida,
now Mrs. Colonel Smith “
the fire is unknown.
Adolph Thiers attained his seventy-
ninth year on Sunday, Ho has lived in
French history from the period of Na
poleon Bonaparto’s consulship, and has
seen and taken part in more Political
oenvulsions than any man living. Ho
now proposes to settle down as a good
Republican.
w* fend the following preposterous
statement in an exchange:
“It only takes a half yard of cloth to
make Alex Stephens two vests.”
We know that the big soul of the great
statesman inhabits a very slight taber-
nacklo, but in point of height Mr. Ste
phens i3 by no means a pigmy. Why
make a baby or Lilliputian of him ?
The Eads Jetties.—The New Orleans
Republican says under Eads’ contract
with the Government, Uc i» to get 5500,-
ooo as soon as ho gets a channel 20 feet
deep and 2C0 feet wide through the jet
ties. This he has been unable to do.
jetties, the water
has shoaled
Since he has erected his jetti
at the head of South Pass
from seventeen to fourteen feet, and a
bar formed in the gulf in front of the
jetties, on which there is now less than
twenty-four feet, and rapidly shoaling.
Joijh in California is himself opposed
to more immigration from China. He
says s "Heap Chinaman no money. Heap
Chinaman no worke. All Chinamen no
want moro Chinamen. FHfty tousan Chi
namen go homo then Chinamen mako
heap money. Flifty tousan Chinamen
como then Chinaman gitteo two biteoono
day. China company ho fletchee too
many. Alle eamo too many Chinamen
like too many Melican men. No workee.
no money. China company say two biteo
one day, Chinaman say no. China campa-
ny Eay fletchee ten tousan. Chinamen
liko Melican man keepo Chinaman homo
Rich Chinaman wantee heap Chinamen
Poor Chinamen no likee.
Some news from Iceland has got in,
“The winter is reported to have been
mild, and the stock passed through it in
good condition. The devastations cans
ed by the volcanic eruptions is much less
extensive than was at one time antici
pated. The pumice stone dust, which
covered many square miles of laud, is, it
seems, possessed of some manuring prop
orty, causing grass to spring up in many
places where it had never previously been
seen. The reported famine in the West
manna Isles turns out to be a mistake.
A Danish vessel called at the islands by
order of the government, and found the
islanders not only not starving, but in
more comfortable circumstances than for
years past, the fishing having been re
markably good.’’
Learning Modesty
raw and blunder
ing Democratic House of Representatives
have altogether ceased, and the House is
not considered eo simple and verdant,
after all. Either the Democratic mem,
bers aro "getting the hang of the school-
house” or teaching their political adver
saries the “bang” of it, or perhaps a
good deal of both—but, certain it is the
editors and politicians on the other side
have, for some reason, brought their
mirth over the House majority to a close.
And well they may—for never were a
party of ins so terribly unhorsed and dis,
comfitted by the outs. The political
history of Christendom shows nothin?
like it in the past, and, it is devoutly to
he hoped, will never show anything to
compare with it hereafter. Every honest
American will pray that the records of
the Forty-fourth Congress may stand
alone in the National history, as well as
in the history of all Republican govern
ments on earth—an awful beacon of
warning to generations to come.
But it is not alone in the moral weak
ness and decrepitude of their adversa
ries that the Democrats of the Hons a
loom up in the majesty of comparative
strength—they are now daily teaching
them respect in the coailict of argament
—in the development of a better political
scholarship, and moro extensive and ac
curate information. All the later con
flicts in the House have added prestige
to the Democratic majority, while the
foremost champions of the administra
tion have been compelled to withdraw in
defeat. On the whole, tbo House will re
quire no defenso or apology from the
Democratic party. It is doing well-
gaining reputation every day, and teach
ing the other side the virtue of modesty,
the bare existence of which it had long
forgotten.
T&e Whole Story.
A World Washington special says
fctrango stories are circulating about the
President, A prominent member of
Congress, who speaks upon good author
ity, says that President Grant ha3 deter
mined, when Bummened before the In
vestigating Committee, to tell every
thing he knows, regardless of conse
quences; and to the charges made
against him, having no chance for re
nomination, ho had rather sacrifice tho
party than be sacrificed himself. He
claims to have made his appointments
with honorable intent, but admits that
ho has been deceived by bis friends.
Seme time ago the President mortgaged
his house at Long Branch. Lately the
mortgage was paid. The money with
which it was paid was the result of the
sale of a considerable amount of big Bo-
nanca mining stock, which Grant, with
extraordinary honor, declined to hold
after the passage of the silver bill.
Heary on Blodgett.
That highly indignant paper, the
Talbotton Standard, thus scalps Bullock's
honest official, and Conley’s pardoned
protege t
This same Blodgett cannot pay back
to the people of Georgia what he stole
from them in any other way than by
serving them in the penitentiary. He
pleads poverty—that is, he’s “dead
broke.” Is ought to break bis neck.
W* see a statement in some of our
exchanges that the resignation of lion.
A. H. Stephens is among tho probabili
ties. There is, however, no authority
for this statement as the health of Mr
Stephens is improving.—Chronicle and
Attorney General Williams.
The President, according to the tele
grams, is much excited over the testimo
ny of ex-Attorney General Williams, that
tho sum of $30,000 was paid out of the
gecrat service fund for electioneering
purposes ia the State of New York, upon
the direct order of the President. Gen,
Grant says he has no recollection of giv
ing any such order, and if he did give
one it was upon misinformation as to tho
purpose for which tho money was to ho
used. The President has resolved to call
an investigation of the subject, and
special Cabinet meeting has been called
to-morrow for consultation upon the
proper course to be pursued in the prem
iaes.
We sincerely hope that the President
has been misled iDto the-enmo imputed
to him by Williams, and that ho has not
added to his other numerous offences
against the freedom of elections the as
tounding crime of deliberately and know-
ingly seizing upon the public purse to
back his attacks upon popular liberty by
the sword.
Of all the bad cabinet appointments
by President Grant, that of Williams,
we think, will pretty unanimously bo
voted the worst. We mistake Williams if
he was too scrupulous to mislead the
President on that or any other subject,
and doubtless the President’s habits of
lifo are such that an artful man, select
ing ms occasions, might easilv
such an nrde- careless statement
of its purpose and necessity, and Grant
remember nothing about it afterwards
If such a thing happened in this case,
the President might enter the well
known plea recorded in popular legend
about a Georgia Judge—“Guilty but
drunk.” It would bo accepfod ia abate
meat of public indignation, although a
genoraldemandmightfollow—“how come
you so ?’’
Such an issue of the proposed invest!
gation would convey to Grant another
imposing reminder of tho necessity of
proper and befitting Cabinet officers—
particularly to a Chief Magistrate not
only unversed in civil affairs, but not
always and uniformly at hi3 best mental
condition. Grant’s Cabinets have been
his political ruin.
Political Pnrlsts.
Political history and experience war
rant no great hopes from the new exper
iment of Parly Purism to be tried next
month in New York by the venerable
Bryant, Schurz & Company. To go no
farther hack than the partv they aro
just ready to abandon as incurably cor
rupt—that was originally projected as
pre-eminently the party of “high moral
ideas” and “a pure Christian statesman-
And although it will bo ac-
ship.’ -
knowledged on all hands now to be the
most wicked and depraved political or
ganization which ever vexed the Amer
ican people, yet it always carried tno
The Act to Regulate the Sale ef Pot
eens in this State.
The Legislature at its last session en
acted a law, that after the 1st of May
proximo, it shall be unlawlul for any per
son to furnish by retail tho following
poisons:
Arsenio and its preparations, corrosive
sublimate, strychnia, essential oil of bit
ter almonds, poisonous vegetable alts-
lodes, opium and its preparations, ex
cept paregoric and other preparations
of opium containing less than two grains
to tho ounce. These, and other poisons,
belong to Schedule A.
Schedule B includes aconite, be’.ladon-
colchicum, nux vomica, henbane
sign and wore the phylacteries ®|_ an er g 0 ^ cantharides, creosote, croton oil,
TDe Salary Veto.
We should agree fully with tho Pro3l
dent’s veto of the Presidential salary
bill, if that bill really reduced the Pres!
dent’s compensation to $25,000 per an
nnm. Ho could not live on that sum,
and would not be required to do eo, un
der the bill reducing his salary to that
amount. It is well known that the Pres
idential mansion is rent free and kept
well furnished, not only with carpets and
customary household furniture of that
nature, but with household and table
linen, fuel, gas and vegetables, fruits,
etc., from tho gardens and hothouses
pertaining to the mansion, and most of
the household service i3 paid by the
Government, as well as the caro of tho
grounds and the feed and service in the
etable3.
The salary of $25,000 ia applicable
therefore almost wholly to grocery sup
plies and personal expenses, and should
be sufficient for those objects. The com
jsMr&a relfevo the President from all
pecuniary anxiety—all necessity of in
earring debt or trenching on his private
resources; but os the recognized exper ses
of the Presidential mansion, provided
for at the national expense, have more
than threbled within the past fifteen
years, the ncaes3ity of doubling the sal
ary is not so apparent gs it might other
wise be. However, the point is of no
special importance, and we concede that
the President of the United States
onght to have a liberal salary.
A Negro Exodus
Elsewhere we copy a remarkable report
of negro emigration from our neighbor
State of Tennessee to Kansas. It is not
necessary to go into any speculation about
recondite causes for such emigration
from all parts of the Southern States
more particularly adapted to attract
white labor and enterprise. In these the
negro is already finding, or will soon find,
his race in a powerless minority and un-
dor restraints, constitutionally unaccept
able, however wholesome and beneficial
to his race. The negro does not love to.
feel the moral, social and political influ
ence of tho white population, and will
steadily, as a race, shun it. The move
ment to Kansas is the result of misinfor
mation and delusion, and will be very
short-lived He will push down to tho
Southwest—to warmer latitudes and more
unsettled populations, and finally bring
up among the mixed races of Mexico and
Central and South America.
Meanwhile, the vacuum he leaves be
hind will be gradually filled by a white
population, and in the course of a few
decades tho colored race will cease to be
a conspicuous element in the population
of tho Southern States. By this process,
without violence, and probably for the
well-being of both races, the problem of
a bybredization of races, (as against an
isolated, dependent and inferior race,)
will be settled for tbo permanent benefit
of the country and the Southern white
population.
The operation of the natural causes we
have alludeded to is permanent and fixed.
The instrumentalities taking advantage
of it, and misdirecting it, would be pow
erless, but for the fact that the negro is
restless and wants to move. What is
taking placo in Tennessee has been ao-
tively operating in Georgia for years.
It cannot be controlled, and should not
bo controlled or restrained, if it conld be.
Tho negro is entitled to full liberty to
move if ho wants to, and in going ho no
doubt follows the leadings of providential
causes, and merges his fortunes with the
great amalgam of races which seems
destined to control the fate of equatorial
America.
The Real Estate Fool.
The Republican leaders made a des
perate effort Wednesday, says the World,
to stay the investigations which are de
stroying their party. This last attempt
was made nnder the pretense of a plea
for tho privilege of tho writ of habeas
corpus. It is remarkable that no Repub
lican voice ha3 been raised in that cause
for fifteen years, and that now the si
lence is broken to screen the District of
Colombia ring. Blame, Garfield and
thoir associates are straining every fac
ulty to prevent Kilbonrn from telling
who composed the real estate pool.
That is the point at issue, and it should
not be forgotten amid tho clamor which
they raise over the privileges which they
have systematically disregarded for
years.
exalted public and private morality.
It3 Pharisaical pretensions, coupled
with its real recklessness of tho oblige
tions of morality and honest citizenship,
havo gone so far to inspire popular con
tempt for such pretensions that good,
honest Christian men aro pnt to the
blush, and almost ashamed to speak as
such men should, in respect to their po
litical responsibilities to God and their
country.
Such is the melancholy history of the
last great Parist party- still running of
the “high moral and patriotic” platform
but overweighted with the proceeds on
shameless public robbery. Still saintly
in confereno®, assembly, church and
chap®!, and prowling round afto* service
with midnight thieves and burglars—
with its hand in every Government
strong box—its clutch on every tax-gath
erer’s pile—with its price for every ser
vice, and vending tho public offices like
peanuts from a street corner—false and
foul in everything—as unjust and op
pressive as it is corrupt—consulting with
pimps, spies and detectives, and greedy
of thoir knowledge of the lowest depths
of official prostitution and depravity.
We suppose any political association
started on this mere Pharisaical platform
of extraordinary morality, and independ.
entofa true and legitimate basis of po
litical doctrines and measures, would
naturally wind up in some such way,
It3 lofty moral pretensions offer an invit
ing mask to bankrupt and hungry party
renegades, camp-follo-vere and waiters
on Providence, who could whitewash
their leprous characters from its ever,
flowing fountain of moral gasconade
The vilest of them would learn the cant
and crow like roosters over their superior
virtue.
And these mercenaries socn control the
camp. Tho Purists who started the
scheme are not going to do the “ party
work.” That i3 beneath their dignity
It must be done by these mercenaries,
and it is done in all befitting depravity.
What follows is inevitable. Tho active
agents of the party stamp its character
and influence, and thu3 the Purists find
themselves in a brief time at the head of
political banditti. What hope can Bryant
& Co., have of a better result from a repe.
tition of the same old process ?
Wholesome political parties must bo
founded cn conscientious views of con
stitutional interpretation and public pol
icy. You and I believe in a Federal
Government of powers limited by the
grants of tho Constitution, and wc en-
tj-fr ,_ - ..f.a.cuuj ui lntertering
with tho course of trade by protective
tariff*, etc., etc. Thi3 community of
sentiment constitutes a legitimate and
proper reason why we should vote to
gether, and -o, with others holding sim-
lar views, constitute a party. On the
other hand, the thousands who take
issue with U3 on these and other
points have a similar and legit!
mate party basis. Now, both strug
gling to secure for these ideas the
practical eanction of the Government,
may contest the ground with honor, and
their action a3 ins or onts is mutially
scanned and compared with the princi
ples of morality and with the Constitu
tion, and its effects upon the public wel
fare carefully measured. Hero is the
best and mo3t reliable safeguard for the
purity of public administration. A
scheme to get up and run a party on the
general morality of its principal promo
ters is a farce.
chloroform, chloral-hydrate, sulphate of
zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and
oxalic acids, besides other drugs not eau
mer&ted.
The poisons mentioned in schedule A.
are forbidden to be sold by any regis-
tered and licensed druggist or pharma
ceutist, “ without, before delivering the
same, cansing an entry to be made ia a
book kept for that purpose, stating tho
date of tho delivery, the name and ad
dress of the person receiving tho same,
the name and quantity of the poison, the
purpose for which it is represented by
such person to bo required, and the name
of tho dispenser Such book shall bo
uys open for inspection by tho proper
authorities, and be preserved for refer
ence, for at least five years.
Those selling tbo articles mentioned in
schedule B are required to label the bot
tle, box, vessel or paper in which said
poison is contained, and also the outside
wrapper or cover thereof with the name
of the article, the word “poison,” and the
namo and placo of business of him, or
her, who furnishes the same.
The penalty affixed to the violation of
the provisions of this act is a fine of one
thousand dollars, or confinement in jail
for six months, or both, at the discretion
of the court.
Ar. stated, this law goes into effect cn
tho first of May, and wo make the an.
nounoement that tho numerous patrons
and friends of our druggists may bo ad
vised of the fact, and not take offence
when required to observe its injunctions.
Tho apothecary ha3 no option in the
premises. Ho must obey tho statute or
suffer the penalty
But the law, tuough meant in good
part, will provo utterly inoperative
practice. It can, and will bo evaded
a hundred ways, and must piovo a con.
stunt source of annoyance and irritation
to innocent customers. Besides, it may
result in serious and perhaps mortal in.
jury in many instances. A man’s wife
or child may bo dying with cholera
lock jaw, for tho want of opium or chlo
reform, ana yet all that red tape must bo
gone through with, perhaps at the dead
of night, and tho ignorant messenger be
unablo to answer tho inquiries of the
druggist.
We are inflexibly opposed to any inter
ferenco whatever with trade. Sumptuary
laws are, of ail others, the most odious,
and the attempt to enforce them invari
ably futilo. If a poor creature, weary
life, wishes to procure poison, it is easy
to fabricate tho story necessary to p:
IT1 , uUlt jilli|MllV
vendor should the whole question
b? remanded. In that case, feeling the
responsibility devolved upon him, he
will use evt ry precaution, and spare no
pains for tho protection of human life.
We are quite sure the above law will be
stricken from the statute book by the
next General Assembly.
Christian Liberality—Notable
Instances.
The Baltimorean says the Eutaw Place
Baptist Church, Rev. Dr Richard Fuller,
pastor, has subscribed $661 this year for
foreign missions, has paid $496, and will
in a few days pay the balance. It has
contributed about the same sum to the
Home Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, making in all for
missions this year over $1,300.
Very good. But there is one congre
gation we wot of even in Shermamzed
Georgia, that can make a still better
showing.
During the past year, the Central Pres
byterian Church of Atlanta, of which
Rev. Dr. Leftwitch is the pastor, raised
$9,000 by voluntary contributions for
various objects of Christian charity. The
pastor’s salary is $3,600, and the large
overplus went di-ectly into those channels
where it could do most to advance the
interests of God’s Kingdom.
A few days since the same congregation
gaTc about $2,000 for the purchase of a
parsonage lot, which they expect to
improve very sho-tly.
As might bo expected, there has been
most gracious outpouring of God’s
Holy Spirit upon that people, and the
church has added hundreds to its mem
bership.
Nor will they suffer temporal loss for
their liberality, for “The blessing of the
Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
sorrow with it.”
It gives us great pleasuro also to state,
that ono of our churches has recently
set a noble example of self-denial and
fervent zeal, to their Christian brethren
in this community.
At tho beginning of Lent, Rev. C. C.
Williams, the pious rector of Christ
Chnrch, proposed to tho people of his
charge that each person should practioe
rigid economy, and lay aside os much as
possible for an Easter offering to he ap
plied to the debt of the chnrch. The
good pastor set the example himself by
a generous donation, and when the total
offerings came to be counted on Easter
Sunday, the handsome sum of fourteen
hundred and thirty-four dollars had been
raised. This amount was sufficient yes
terday to wipe out every cent of the
church’s indebtedness, and now who will
say they are not far happier and better
off for the sacrifices and privations made
to achievo this pleasing result? “Verily
it ia moro blessed to give than to receive.”
His many friends here will be glad to
know that Father Ryan, the poet priest,
is getting well.
now Frost Affects Irish Potatoes.
We had occasion some days since to
state from personal experience, that un
less just above ground and before the
formation of tubers, any cold sufficient
to kill tho tops of Irish potatoes would
prove fatal to their productiveness after
wards, even though the vines sprouted
up again.
This happened in Cuthbert, and has
been verified again even as low down ns
ThomasviPe. The Times says:
We regret to learn that some of the
citizens have found it necessary to dig
their Irish potatoes, the frost having
killed the vines, and the young potatoes
had commenced to sprout.”
So long as the plant is too young to
bear, a nip from fro3t merely sus
pends the growth until the spire shoots
forth again But if young potatoes have
formed, they never grow any larger, but
the reappearance of the foliage will cause
them to sprout and become mothers
themselves, though without satisfactory
result.
It will bo seen, therefore, how narrowly
the potato crop of this section escaped
destruction by frost tfio present week.
Had it been cut down, replanting would
have been necessary, which at this late
stage of the season, would necessitate
heavy mulching to ensure even a tolera
ble yield. As every thing seems to “gang
aglee” thi3 Centennial year, and eren
old Probs. can’t get the bearings of wind
or weather, it is not unreasonable even
yet to expect frost. The writer has
known cotton to be killed as late as May
even in Southeastern Georgia. Remem
ber, then, if there is tho least danger of
such a catastrophe, and you would save
your potatoes, bend the vines down and
cover with earth lightly, if pine, oat or
wheat straw is inaccessible-
Pimps, Spies and Detectives.
From the Baltimore Sun 3
No one who has followed the course of
the political “scandal literature” of the
past'few months can fail to have been
struck with the prominent part played
by the detectives, or so-called “special
agents,” in all the operations of the Gov
ernment. No affair of importance ap
pears to be transacted withsnt their in
tervention. They turn up constantly in
the most unexpected places. Th y ap
pear before the investigating committees
as sharing tho confidence and enjoying
the intimacy of persons in the highest
official station. The whole system of
government, in fact, appears to be as
completely honeycombed with these crea
tures as that of Russia under tho most
suspicions and absolute of Czars, or of
France nnder tho administration of
Richelieu or a Fouche. Twenty years
ago nothing of the kind was known in
this country. Like many other evils tho
policy of carrying on the Government by
the aid of detectives and spies is an off-
snoot and legacy of the war.
The employment of spies for purely
military purposes is as old as tbo history
of the human race, and civilization, as it
has failed to put a stop to war, has not
dispensed with tho necessity for employ
ing them. Even military men, however,
while employing spies and profiting by
their information, do not rega-d the em-
ployment itself as. an linanmi'i. ® uB
xce captured spy is considered out of
the pale of tho humane and honorable
treatment which is duo to prisoners of
war taken openly with arms in their
hands. He is not even entitled to a sol
dier’s death, but 13 ignominiously hung
like a common criminal. The reason is
obvious. The success of the spy nece3
6arily depends upon the use of srta and
means which aro not esteemed honorable
—deception, falsehood, treachery, habit
ual and systematic, both in word aud act.
A detective whose name figures in the
recent Congressional investigation was
successful Union 6py during the war.and,
it is said, in order better to accomplish
his purpose at the time actually enlisted
in the Confederate army and rose to be
Orderly Sergeant of his company, being
all tho while in secret communication
with the Federal commanders. Tho po
litical spv is everywhere and in all ages,
in the page3 alike of history and of fic
tion, by those who employ him and by
those whom he deceives and betrays, re
garded with just abhorrence and con-
tempt. Unhapily, during the painful
years of our civil strife, there was no
lack of spies of both classes, and when
the war ended such had been the demor
alization produced by the employment of
such agencies that the svstem wa3 still
kept up under the pretext that the reve
nue service and interests of the govern
ment demanded it. An army of “special
agents” was accordingly organized and
retained in connection with tho different
bureaus and divisions of the Treasury
Department for the purpose, as alleged,
of detecting and preventing frauds upon
the internal revenue, smuggling and
counterfeiting, besides exercising a gen
eral espionage over all the accounting
and disbursing officers of tho govern
ment.
Not to bo behind hand every other de
partment had its detectives, those of the
postoffice occasionally being able to vary
the monotony of looking after stolen
mail bags and dishonest letter carriers
and clerks by doing a little useful “out
rage” business in tho South before elec
tions and bunting up “ kuklux ” The
chiefs of these “ special” agencies of the
treasury, like Jayne, etc., soon became a
recognized and formidable power in the
administration, exercising an influence
White House, and, if not admitted to the
counsels and confidence of the President,
frpely sharing those of his immediate
official household. Thu* it appears that
when Gen. Babcock wanted to know who
were “attacking ” him through the pres*,
o > account of his supposed connection
with the “ District ring,” ho has recourse
to Col. Whitely, chief of tho special
agents of the Treasury for tho detection
of frauds upon the currency 1 When tho
same persecuted gentleman desires to
know the nature and extent of the “case”
in tho hands of the prosecution against
him in connection with the St. Louis
whisky ring, he has recourse in like man
ner to detective Bell.
This much appears by the admission
of Gen. Babcock and his friends. We eay
nothing as to the grosser charges against
him of being connected tarough the
same suspicious instrumentalities with
the Washington “safeburglary," or with
tho " spoliation” of evidence in the whis
ky case One of the very difficulties now
experienced in getting at ’he truth in
regard to these and other subjects of
present investigation is occasioned by the
fact that much of the testimony is nece3
sarily derived from the “ special agents”
themselves. Experience has shown that
testimony from such sources 13 universal
ly received with suspicion—the popular
sentiment upon the subject finding ex
pression in tho common saying about
setting a thief to catch a thief."
Is it not high time that the use of
agencies so corrupting and demoralizing
should bn as far as possiole dispense'!
with, and that those who are employed to
do this necessary dirty work of govern
ment- should be relegated, a3 in other
countries, to thoir proper position ? Two
things may be assumed as certain ; that
the employment of spies and detectives
is always in inverse ratio to the purity
and honesty of administration among
government officials, and secondly that it
is only m very desperate as well as cor
rupt and barbarous governments that
spies and informers are hold in honor or
admitted to positions of trust and confi
dence. Their present prominence in the
affairs of our government is extremely
offensive, not to say disgusting.
THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
The Columbus Enquirer announces the
death of Mr. David Mulford, eon-in-law
of Col. R. L. Mott.
A Columbus cow produced twin calves
the other day.
Hasirtta voted yesterday for restric
tion or no restriction.
A school-house near Powder Springs
wa3 burned Monday morning. Incen
diary.
Pnor. Geo. F. Gobsb will deliver the
memorial address in Marietta.
Marietta has had a little ripple o! a
Day before yesterday in McDoffie conn- the matter except our duty as a i QnrT ,,,
ty, says the Augusta Constitutionalist, of ist. J *■**
the 21st. some eight miles from this city, j Morgan county farmers will ...
Mr. Henry Gardner, well known in this > . . ' u,e 1013
city, was struck in the head with a hoo J ea * $60,OCX) worth of commercial
by a man named Davis. It is thought, fertilizers.
Mr. Gardner will die.
The same paper says:
Abont ten o’clock yesterday morning, a
The Madison Some Journal says. 1
Morgan county farmer, who could not
_ buy provisions on time, got g UWo
lire broke out in the woodhonse and kitch-; credit without any trouble, sold it f
en of Judge William Johnson, destroying cash at a reduced price, and now hig 1?
both woodhouse and kitchen. The I033 j der ia full, and heha3 some spare chamf'
was not very serious, owing to tho noble 1 vat on hand. n ® e
exertions of tbo Thomson Fire Depart- !
ment.
Speakino of the liberation of 1
Western Wheat Crops.
Tho Toledo Blade publishes compro
hensive crop reports, which indicate that
the wheat prospects in Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois are unusually good.
In Southern and Central Michigan, tho
farmers are sanguine of having better
crops than for years. The eamo is true
of the great wheat fields of Western and
Northern Illinois and Northern Missouri.
In the rich new lands of Northwestern
Ohio the prospect is not so good. Much
of the wheat has been drowned out.
Through Central Indiana and Central
Illinois, a very great deal of wheat has
been winter-killed, and many fields have
been plowed up. A half crop i3 all that
the farmers hope for. There will be a
large quantity of spring wheat sown thiB
year, and the average planted in corn and
oats will probably be greater than ever.
There is a disposition among Michigan
farmers to plant large quantities of oats.
Very Considerate.
Some of the darkies who were criticis
ing Lincoln’s statue when it wa3 un
veiled last week, said the slave in chains
at his feet he was about to unshackle
should not be there, “ as it would be an
aggravation to tho Southern peoplo when
they looked at it, and it should not have
hod any chains upon it.”
Feed Douglass, the colored orator, wa3
particularly indignant abont this feature
of the statue.
Harmony in de Party.
South Carolina Republican Conven
tion: As these words left Judge Mack
ey’s lips. State Senator Swales, a negro
man and a native of the State, who stood
just besido him and not fivo feet from
the table at wbicb tho representatives of
tho press were seated, asked: “ To whom
do you apply that language, Judgo Mack
ey ?” “ To you, for one," was the reply.
Yon are one of tho thieves of South
Carolina.” “ You are a —— liar,” was
Swales’ answer. At this point a crowd
of the delegates rushed between the two
speaker. Among the rest was Elliott, tho
negro Speaker of tho Assembly, who.
standing directly in front of Mackey, and
looking straight at him, said : “ Do you
mean to say that tho majority of the
delegates hero aro thieves?” Quick as
thought came Mackey’s answer, “ I mean
to say there is a band of pnblio robbers
in Sonth Carolina, and that you, sir, ore
their chief.” Elliott's black face became
pale with rage, and without a word he
drew his revolver. This wa3 the only
signal which seemed to be needed, and
In an instant half a dozen pistols were
out. Three or four newspaper corres
pondents who were directly in the way
of tho combatants held them back for a
moment, and until they were more ef
fectively separated by a number of the
colored delegates. None of the pistols
were discharged, but both Elliott and
Mackey were severely shaken by the
crowd which separated them. Elliott’s
wife, who was in the ladies’ gallery, see
ing the pistols drawn, rushed screaming
through the hall. Other women followed
her example, and what with the yells of
the maddened negroes and the cries of
the women, the scene was almost inde
scribable.
At the Yorkville Police Court, New
York, Judge Duffy fined John Williams
and Eliza Brady each ten dollars “for
kissing openly in tho pnblic streets.”
The Judge also delivered an-impressive
lecture on the enormity of thp offence.
says: About two months ago a female,
aged abont 30 years, visited Marietta clad
in the habiliments of mourning, and said
that her husband had been dead about
two months. Six weeks ago she gave
birth to a boy. Last week she left
Marietta, leaving her child in the custo
dy of a colored girl, promising to return
in a short while. She has sent moneys
and a letter back, showing some degree
of affection. Quite a number of our
citizens have visited the child.
A silver mine has been discovered in
Cobb county, and ono in Cherckee also.
Mr. B. Dowda, of Cherokeo county,
viu 00 yooro old in March.
Columbus i3 excited over ene of the
most melancholy cases of scandal that
over transpired in the State. Tho En
quirer of yesterday has the following with
reference to it, in its editorial columns:
Considerable excitement prevailed in
our community Wednesday afternoon, re
garding one of our prominent divines, the
Rev. C. A. Kendrick, of the First Baptist
Chnrch, who was detected in hi3 study in
the church building in criminal inter
course with a young girl about thirteen
years of age. It appears this wolf in
sheep’s clothing had given cause for
scandal, and the matter had been
brought to tho attention of some mem
bers of kis church, but their confidence
in their pastor was so implicit that they
gave the matter but little attention;
and thoy and the community were
terribly shocked by the developments,
We forbear giving tho details of this
hypocritical villain’s crime. They aro too
horrible for public notice, and we regret
tnat our dutv compels us even to men
tion tho matter. The sympathy of tho
entire community is with the stricken
parents who have received such a terri
ble blow from one to whom thoy were
taught to look to for comfort and conso
lation. No punishment can be too severe
for the libertine who, in the livery of his
God, lakes advantage of an innocent
child, and blasts ber life, and sends her
mother and father sorrowing to the grave,
We learn the stricken father was prevent
ed by friends from wreaking summary
vengeance upon this incarnato fiend. We
ore glad that he was not permitted in his
frenzy to stain his bands with tho blood
of even thi3 villainous libertine; for God
knows his sufferings are terrible, and
taking the life of tho seducer of his
daughter would only add to his burdens
of sufferings. May a just God, who tern
pers the wind to the shorn lamb, lighten
the burden of this afflicted family and
mete out to the destroyer of their happi
ness such vengeance as His wisdom may
deem just. Wo sorrow with the young
wife, who puffers by the crimes of her
husband. Linking ber life to a man to
be a helpmete to him in doing God’s
work, she too late learns that her young
lifo is blasted, and that she is joined 10
a devil. A warrant was taken out for
seduction against Kendrick Wednesday
evening. He fled from his home and
di tanced his pursuers, but was arrested
yesterday morning about eight miles bo
In jail. Wo trust he will receive the
punishment bis crime merits. The dea
cons and members of the Baptist Church
met yesterday and decided to fully inves
tigato the subject and assist in punishing
the offender. The accused has been pas
tor of the Baptist Church here about
three years, succeeding Dr. Skinner. His
age is in the neighborhood of 30 years.
In its local column of the same date
tho following appears:
The jail was guarded last night by
tho Columbus and City Light Guards.
They had been called out as a precau
tionary measure by order of tho Sheriff,
and by the advice of the Mayor. Until
the excitement against Rev. Mr Kend
rick subsides this course was deemed
best-. Nothing occurred, however, to dis
turb the peace. The sentiment of the
vast majority of our people are against
any demonstration of mob law. Judge
James Johnson has volunteered to de
fend Mr. K. Tbo accused claims there
was a conspiracy against him; that he
only desires a fair and impartial trial;
and protests innocense of the charge.
We delay details until the legal investi
gation takes place. Th- direct evidence
against him is well nigh overwhelming.
At 10 o’clock last night the military
were relieved by the police.
The Bainbridge Democrat contains the
following announcement: This gallant
Georgian, Col. Thos Hardeman, whom
we all delight to honor, will be in our
city during court week, at which time ho
will address the poople of Decatur coun
ty on the political topics of the day. Mr.
Hardeman has hosts of friends in this
region, who will be rejoiced to see him
and to hear his matchless eloquence.
Hawkinsvillb ha3 a crazy negro
named Ben. Pickett, who was known to
have saved some money. On Friday
night, says the Dispatch, some person or
persons knowing that ho had his money
with him at hi3 house, went hither and
beat Ben cruelly, robbed him of all his
money, eamo out, locked the door, and
threw tho key away, leaving Ben inside,
where he remained in his damaged con
dition until Sunday morning, when he
was found and his misfortunes made
known. He says he knows some of the
parties who beat and robbed him, but re
fuses to give their names for fear of vio
lence hereafter.
Pulaski county smoko-houses are
suffering from the depredations of the
hungry cushite.
The Housion Rome Journal has the
four following items:
We learn that many families are
without meat in this county, and that
many others are in meat at 20 cents a
pound.
Mb. James Robinson, of Carlisle, Ky.,
whoso sudden prostration by paralysis
was noted in this paper, died last Satur
day at twelve o’clock.
Wheat in Houston county, as well a3
oats and rye, lock remarkably well but
somo rust is appearing on the leaves.
Accounts from all parts of the connry
say that grain is more promising than
for many years.
Mu Little, who lives on tho Crocker
place, near Harahallville, killed three
large rattlesnakes Saturday in an old
fence row. One had fourteen, one thir
teen and the smallest nine rattles—
making thirty-six in all. All tho snakes
were killed in one spot at the same time.
The threo items which follow are
from the Atlanta Commonwealth:
Rev. A. J. Beck was chosen, last night,
unanimously, pastor of ihe Central Bip*
tist chnrch in this city, generally desig
nated as the Fourth chnrch.
Mb. Walter Prim, a young man
about twenty years of age, and son of
Mr. I. J. Prim, grocer, on Peachtree
street, was seized with that terrible dis
ease, meningetis, on Tuesday evening
last, and died at 5 o’clock p. m.
Mr. Stewart, of the firm of Stewart,
Austin & Co., merchant millers of this
city, has perfected an invention called a
middlings purifier, which is said to be of
vast importance in the production of
flour, both as regards the quality and tho
quantity produced The company are
now subjecting this invention to prac
tical uso in their extensive mills, and the
results are most gratifying.
yet on hand.
The same paper has this: The Esv
1 John Jones, of Atlanta, ha3 been calhj
. - . .. - . the negro to the pulpit of the Presbyterian Chn. a
convict, Joe Morris, the Irwmton Ap veal, xr r Jones is a man of „ cc -
MABriTTA nas naa a n«ie rippio or- gayg the Grand Jury has had the matter ; an C , and h\s u^y haL. venelbl?^-
sensation. The Journal, or yesterday, | under consideration. Numerous persons i pea rance and quiet but dignified tei
were summoned before them, among | commanded for him a feeling of
whom was the guard from whom Joe ; tion and respeeL He preached on
Morris wai taken, who testified that; <j a y morning from tho text, “My R
himself and a number of convicts were ; maketh her boast in the Lord,” handr
surrounded by disguised men about 3 tho subject with such ease and deali-?
with it in such an earnest, straight tar
ward, Christian-like manner, as to q a ; t L
win hia congregation. He preached
again from tho same pulpit on Sandav
night to a large congregation. f J!
safe in saying he will become very p 0 n Q
lar here, and our people deeply remet
that he can only bo with them
alternate Sabbath. ^
Thr Savannah News is informed that a
number of men who have been woii:n»
on the island of Big Warsaw for tho pis-
two weeks, killed during that period
sixty-eight alligators and a white ru
coon.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, says the News, will
meet in Savannah on the 18th of May.
The opening sermon will be preached at
the First Presbyterian Church by the
Moderator, Kev. M. D. Hoge, D. D., o£
Richmond, Vs. This body 13 composed
of commissioners appointed by Presby.
teries m all the Southern States fron
Maryland and Virginia to Texas, anj
from Florida to Missouri. It number?,
including tho officers, secretaries and cor
responding delegates, about one hundred
and eevrnty-five members. It represents
twelve Synods, sixty-fivo Presbyteries,
nearly one thousand ministers, eighteen
hundred churches, and over one hun
dred thousand communicants. The ses
sions of the assembly wiil be held in the
First Presbyterian Church and will
be open to the public, rales?
a peculiar case requires the hady
to sit with closed doors, about
which special notice will be given.
Wo feel certain that SavanDah will give
a warm welcome and hearty entertain
ment to this assembly, representing eo
large a propoition of Southern religion?
thought and interest. Persons who de
sire to assist m the entertainment cl
theso guests are invited to iDform either
Rev. D. K. McFarland, or Rev. E. C,
Gordon, who are respectively the Chair
man and Secretary of the Committee of
Arrangements. - Besides Dr- Hoge, the
Moderator, it is expected that Dr Smart
Robinson, of Kentucky, Dr. T- R. W.-H,
of Arkansas, Dr. J A Lefevre, of Balti
more, Dr. R. L Dtbney, of v lrginia. Dr.
J. N. Waddel, of Tennessee, Dr. VV. S.
Plumer, of South Carolina, and otfca
distinguished ministers will be prefent
Among the eminent laymen who haT?
already been appointed as commissiosen
we note Lieutenant Governor Pric-*, ol
West Virginia, Hon Robert Ou’d, Con
federate Commissioner for the Exchange
of Prisoners, General D H. Hill, Judge?
Porter, of Missouri, and Baker, of Flori
da. Matters of great interest, both a? to
the work of tho church and its policy at
home and abroad, will engage the atten
tion of the assembly, of which we shall
advise our readers during the meeting.
The same piper says: Yesteriiy
morning conductor Meynardy, of the At-
la-Ai- —■ a n-ir —:i>—3, tie
dead body of a colored woman lying on
the track of the road about seven mile?
from the city, and upon the ar-ival of the
train reported the fact to coroner Knorr,
who went down at once and Held an in
quest. The woman had hern run over
by some train during the night, and the
body was literally cut to pieces; the
head was found some fifty yards away
from where she had been run over, and
the hands, arms, ieg3 and portions of the
body were strewn along the road for
some distance. Tho different membai
had to bo shoveled up and put into the
coffin.
The Griffin News announces the death
of Mrs Sarah Loyal, aged 84.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of yester
day, says: Mij. J. J Gregg, who wu
shot at Graniteville last Thursday, fcj
Robt. McEvoy, died at his residence is
this city yesterday, at twenty minutes to
ono o’clock. He" wa3 conscious to the
last. Maj Gregg was a gallant Confed
erate officer during the war. Since the
struggle he h*3 been connected in various
ways with cotton manufacturing in this
section. He was at tho timo of hi?
death President of the Augusta Land
Company. He was an energetic and
useful citizen and will be a great loss to
the community. Maj. Gregg's life mi
insured for $20.000—$10 000 in tho Ne*
York Mutual Lifo Insurance Company,
and $10,000 in the Travelers Accident
Insurance Company, of Hartford.
The Sparta Tintts mentions tho acci
dental killing of a little eon of Dr. J.T.
Andrews, of Powellton. H9 was abont
starting home from the railroad station
at Barnett, with his wagon, when Is
mules became frightened and ran anj-
The doctor jnmped out in his efforts to
check the mules, and held on to the*
till the lines broke, when he callsd cn
his little boy to jump ont; but on accaaBt
of tho excitement the littlo fellow la-1
down in the wagon, instead. In a shot:
time the wagon was turned over.-wd,
falling-upon him, inflicted injuries fros
which he died in a short timo.
Attratlnni Married Folks-
A New York clergyman charges ftt»
the pulpit that husband and wife shooll
take it by turns to get mad. And wt? 5
one of thorn is turning up Jack general!.’-
and making the house too hot for ssp
body, tho other should be nnusnaUj
sweet and charming. Now a fire ros
out without the addition of moro I—
and it takes two to make a quarrel-
tho wrath of the inoignant party ***
subsides, and all is peaco again. 11
the plan pursued by the parson
better half, and it acts well. Now
just try it once, when your good o*-
comes home cross and peevish w®**
of business complications and out**
jars, and see if you don’t soon bring b-®
round. And then the benedict u 1 -'
practise the same lesson also when tb?--
is a tempest in the wigwam andbroe
sticks and hoot jacks are bud i »
through the air.
Nashville Life Insurance-
Wo aro informed from Atlanta t •*
press telegram in our paper annonn' =
tho suspension of the Nashville ®
surance Company, was printed “^ a ^
Life Insurance Company,” end ** .
cited uneasiness among the
policies of that company in this
The National is claimed to be in t •
condition. It was the Nashville Cos? 5 ’
which was forced into suspension
o’clock in the afternoon, white engaged
in cutting wood in Baldwin county, about
200 yards from the Wilkinson line, and
Joe Morris was called for and taken in
charge by them, and he was ofdered to
take tho remainder of the prisoners back
to the stockade, which he did. Ho aiiys
the band of men who took Morris num
bered about twenty, and that notwith
standing their faces were concealed
their figures, actions and language led
him to suppose that they were negroes,
and that their object wa3 to liberate
Joe Morris, and n- a farther evidence
that this wa3 done the shackles
which he wore at the time were_ after
wards found near by and Morris has
not since been beard of. If his captors
had been white men.and the destractionof
his life their aim, they would not have pnt
themselves to the trouble of filing away
bis manacles, but would havo let them
remain on his limbs. There is no doubt
about bis liberation. For if his crimes
were sufficient to have provoked an at
tempt on his life, it would have been
made while he wa3 moving about at lib
erty, or while he was in jail awaiting
trial, or being transported from place to
place in search of a chain gang to receive
him, and sot until he was carefully se
cured by shackles and guards for the
next twelve months, among a population
who were too lar from the theatre of tho
threatened insurrection to feel any great
animosity to tho scheming and plotting
fiend.
The Gainesville Eagle reports a fire
which occurred at Belton, on the Air
Lino road, last Monday. The following
houses were entirely destroyed: Car
ter’s store, (upper story occupied by
Odd Fellows,) Bates’ tin manufactory,
Woodward’s dwelling and store, Bailey’s
hotel, W.P. Carter’s saloon, J. R. Davis’
store, Pool’s saloon. J. R- Davis’ goods
were nearly all saved; hi3 household
and kitchen furniture, wearing apparel,
eta, all lost.
The Geneva Lamp thus rays es Jim
Dense: Colonel Jamo3 Dense took supper
at the Genova Hotel Tuesday evening.
The next day at school when tho class
in arithmetic was up, young Seely, with
a puzzled look, said, “Mr. Fuller, didn’t
you say that seven wouldn’t go into ono
without a remainder ? ’ “Yes.” “Well,
sir, you ought to navo seen Mr. Jim
Dense eating biscuit last night!”
The Franklin Ncics says John Har
mons, confined in our jail, under a charge
of larceny, was married on Tuesday, the
11th inst.. to Miss Sarah Kittle, a lady
who resides in the western part of the
county. The ceremony was performed
by Judge Watts. The groom in bis
ced and tho bride on tho outside joined
right hands through tho window. Mrs.
Harmons, soon after tbo r arriage, left
for the former home of her husband
to take charge of his affairs. No cards.
Waterman, of La Grange, says : The
-wyv. w. .o ouucaTvnng w grrtip a rtpU*
tation as the chicken organ of tho State,
even &3 the Hawkicsville Dispatch is the
champion gourd organ. Henco we take
pleasure in adding another to our list of
emirent chickens. Mr. M. A. Turner
brings forward one with three eyes—the
third eye being between the other two,
which are in the proner places Trot out
your chickens, gentlemen; several dis
tricts aro yet to hear from.
It is stated on tho same authority that
Col, Thomas Hardeman, of Macon, will
deliver the annual address at the com
mencement exercises of West Point Fe
male College, July 5th. The announce
ment is sufficient to draw a large crowd.
The Columbns Enquirer of yesterday
save: Rev. Mr. Kendrick is still in jail.
His father and brother arrived yesterday
from Atlanta, where thoy reside Judge
Johnson, Thornton & Grimes and Wil
liams & Thornton have been engaged a3
counsel for Mr. Kendrick. It iB not sup
posed an investigation will tako place
before Mondav, if then. Tho intense
feeling in regard to tho matter has qui
eted.
The Enquirer also publishes the follow
ing card from Mr. Kendrick:
To the Editor of the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun: Dear Sir—It is with profound mor
tification and pain that I, and those who
are my friends, have read in this morn
ing’s issue of your paper, the premature,
harsh and unmitigated condemnation
which you have pronounced upon ms in
connection with the “ terrible scandal ”
set forth so prominently in vonr leading
editorial. Indeed, I think I am safe m
saying that a fair-minded public gener
ally will concur iu this opinion. It i3
confessedly the duty of a public journal
ist to dispense justice as well 03 informa
tion. I take the liberty of askisg space
in your columns for a brief rejoinder to
the article m question. I ask this for
the reason that yon havo condemned me
unheard, and I am, of course, anxious that
my statement shonld receive a circula
tion co-extensive with the former con
demnatory article. Without now allud
ing to tho terms ot personal vitupera
tion employed in your article, I would
cal’ attention to tho following facts, viz:
(1)1 did not desire to run away from
the terrible report that was circulated
about me on the evening of April 19th,
and althongh urged by friends to leave, I
desisted from doing so until about nine
o’clock P. sr., when a crowd of men, whom
I took te be an armed mob. came to my
house and sought admission. Then deem -
ing it best for the safety of my life. I
escaped from the house and fled. He
would be a strange man who would act
otherwise in such an emergency.
(2.) It is a fact that I stated to Mr.
Lowe, who arrested me, that I was glad
to see him, since he assured me that I
should be protected from violence, and
since I had no disposition to avoid, bnt on
the contrary desired a fair and just trial
of the whole case.
(3 ) It is a fact that I still desire the
truth to be known and simple justice done.
(4.) It is & fact that I have and can
establish a chain of testimony, which
will, in my opinion, exculpate me in
this matter and prove that I am the
victim either of a foal and unrighteous
conspiracy or a chain ot unfortunate
circumstances. In either case I have
note nothing to lo3e—but everything to
gain. Therefore it Is in the hope of a
complete vindication of my character
that I subscribe myself, in deep distress,
your much maligned servant,
C. A. Kendrick.
Columbns, Ga., April 21,1876.
In connection with the above, tho En
quirer says:
In another column wiil be found a com
munication from C. A. Kendrick in re
gard to onr article in yesterday’s issue.
We delayed noticing this scandal one is
sue that wo might not be led aBtray by
the excitement in the community. We
would bo rejoiced to know that Mr. K.
was only a victim of a conspiracy, bnt we
must confess that all the circumstances
A Call Up® Mr. B» aIne - w
Indianapolis, April 21.—The
uiuou uiuma luait wu ta» uiruuiuabauucs . News calls upon Mr.-Blaine to thil
lead ns to believo otherwise. We trust! mediate investigation of tho c ? p?.
tho matter will be fully investigated be-1 he obtained $64,000 from
fore tho committing justices. It is not! cifio Railroad Company, and 8f>
our desire to prejudge him or to aid in ; upon authority, that, if be Re
building up a sentiment in the communi-1 J. C. S. Harrison, of this 01 >7* the
ty against him. Nothing pains us more fore the Judiciary Commlte*"® o f ^
than to record a acandal against a person House, as a Government direc 3 j|.
. of his hitherto standings aod nothing road, and demand an lmmediaw
1 wonld have forced ns to even mention gatioa of the matter.