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MACON. APRIL .876.
XaBst Week’s Cotton Furores
The New Tort Chronicle reports re
colpts of the seven days ending Friday
night, 14th instant, 41,620 bales against
87,769 the corresponding week of last
year. Total receipts to that date, 3,856,
106 bales, against 3,274,666 to same date
last year—showing a gain of 580,450
bales.
Tho Cotton Exchange statement of
same date was as follows: Week’s re
ceipts 42,358, against 3G.6SG. Total re
ceipts 3,856,929, against 3,259,907—show,
ing & total gain of 597.C22 bales.
Tho Chronicle’* tablo of interior cotton
port receipts shows tho receipts of tho
week were 22,836, against 16,599 last
year. Shipments 25,767, against 26.475
last year. Stocks 130,164, against 122,-
101 last year.
Tho Chronicle's visible supply tablo
showed on Friday night a total of cotton
in sight amounting to 2,933.459 bales,
against 2,863,516 last year, 2,962.907 the
year before, and 2,852,662 in 1873. This
shows an increaso of 69,913 bales on the
supply of 1875— a decrease of 29,448 on
the supply of 1874, and an increaso of
80,897 on tho supply of 1873. Middling
uplands in tho Liverpool market last
Friday wero quoted at 62. At the
same date last year they were worth 8d.;
in 1874 84, and in 1873 91 to 9j.
Cotton planting was much interrupted
by wet weather.
Delegates to St. Loafs for the State
at Large.
We have no special partiality to gratify
in these appointments, but coincide in
the opinion that tbo delegates should not
bo Federal office-holders, or membera of
Congress. They should como fresh from
the bosom of tho people, unentangled by
the ties of office, and connected with no
ring or association of politicians.
Such men aa General A. R. Lawton, of
Chatham, Clifford Anderson, Esq, of
Bibb, Professor Gustavus J. Orr, of Ful
ton, and Hon. Georgo T. Barnes, of Rich'
mond, would make an admirable repre
sentation. Tho latter individual, who,
next to Mr. Stephens, was the choice of
tho people for Congress, is unanimously
put forward by tho Eighth District for
the position in question. Ho is a high'
toned, genial and accomplished gentle
man, and as the Esst is certainly entitled
to one delogate, wo hopo he may be se
lected by tbo convention.
As stated, however, wo insist upon no
one, end earnestly trust that in all onr
primary meetings and district and State
conventions pending the fall elections,
personal preferences and private ambi
tion may be ignored for the good of the
country, and to insure perfect harmony
in tho ranks of the Democracy.
Remember tbo issnes at stake, and
then do your whole duty to your State.
That Fort fctoyal Dinner.
The Atlanta Constitution having de
nied the statement published in tho Sa
vannah Morning News, to the effeot that
when tho Northwestern exenrsionists
visited Port Royal, the Mayor ordered
dinner for sir hundred persons, the for-
mer gives one of the editors of the Tel
egraph os its authority for tho same in
a letter correct, as the
manager of tho Mansion House read to
the writer a dispatch which be said was
received from Mayor Hammock, asking
if dinner conld bo provided for thatnum
ber of persons on a given day. An affir
mative answer was returned, and an ad-
jacent warehouse cleaned out and pro
vided with tables for the expected guests.
Moreover tho itemized bill of the dinner
was shown us, footing up $330, and the
aggregate of receipts also, amounting
only to $130.
Tho hotel man certainly expectod the
city of Atlanta to be responsible for bis
bill, and wa3 much exercised in mind be
cause it bad not been settled. A move
ment was on foot at Port Royal to make
up tho deficiency to the proprietor of the
Mansion House.
These are the fact3, precisely as re
ceived and chronicled.
Tetolly Wrong-, but NMmporte.
Mr. Durable, of the Butts county Argus,
has the following t
The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger refuses to publish a communication
urging Hon. T. G. Lawson as a candidate
for Congress from this district.
The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger did no such thing; but on the con
trary, printed the article in question rec
ommending Mr. Lawson as a suitable
candidate for Congress, and will support
him if nor. inated with its whole influ
ence, and most zealously. We don’t mind
criticism, personal abuso or anything
else save actual misrepresentation, and
oven then seldom take the trouble to re
ply, conscious that the intelligent reader
-trill understand the situation and do ns
justice.
In tho present instanco wo deviate
from this rule, not from any regard to
Mr. Dumble’s opinions, but simply bo-
caass ho happens to recide in this Cor.
gre sion.l District, and the Argus may
reach some of Mr. Lawson’s friends and
cause them to tbiok we were capable of
doing him an injustice.
A- to tho charge of inconsistency, etc.,
•wo shad wasto no breath upon any argu
ment to tho contrary. Tho Argus may
think and say just what it pleases.
The Navy Department.
A Washington special to tho Chicago
Tribune says tho secrecy with which the
investigation of tbo affairs of tbo Navy
Department has been conducted has been
thesnbjectof general comment among
newspaper men in tho city. Tho nearest
approach to divulging any of tho delib
erations of the Naval Affairs Committee
was made by its chairman, Mr. Whit-
tliorne, tho day enbscqnent to the ap
pearance in tho bloody shirt organ in
this city of a taunting editorial, inti
mating that tho investigation had not
resulted in developing anything. Upon
reading this Mr. Wbiitborno became do-
cidedly nettled, and remarked to a conplo
of gentlemen that the Belknap affair
would pale into insignificance beside the
roguery of tbe Navy Department, and
! that as for Mnrtagb, tho proprietor of
; the organ before alluded to, ho was the
1 “ worst in tho deck," and that he had
helped to rob the Government more,
through th» connivanco of Secretary
RobesoD, than any other single individ
ual. Subsequent developments gave the
managing editor of tbe Republican an
! impression that ho bad committed a
{istaki in nttacking Whitthoruo.and be
e, on becoming awaro of the fact,
ok o -canon to upbraid Murtagb for ai
ling biui to blunder as be did.
Call for a New Forty,
N*w York, April 15.—A call has been
issued for a conference to be held in this
city on May 16th, to consider what may
bo done to secure the election of men
in the national election to the highest
offices of the Republic whose character
and ability will satisfy the exigencies of
the present situation, protect tbo honor
of tho American name, prevent the na
tional election of the centennial year
from becoming tho mere choice of evils,
and satisfy the popular desire for gen
uine reform. Tbe call is signed by Wm.
Cullen Bryant, Theo. D. Woolsey, Alex.
H. Bullock, Horace White and Carl
Schnn.
Tho signers of this call are all very
distinguished members of the Republi
can party, and the terms of the call show
that their dissatisfaction with that party
arises wholly from the villainous charac
ter of its membership and controlling
influences. It is not a party with which
the “honor of the American name’’ can be
safely trusted. Why not? How camo
it so corrupt? They wero members of
that party from its organization. Why
did they not check and control its dis
honesty? Because they conld not? Then,
how do they propose to control a remod
elled organization ? Who is to make and
keep that any better than the old one ?
We have no doubt that thchoncsty of a
party under the control of Messrs. Bry
ant, Woolsey, Bullock, White and Scburz
would bo well nigh perfect; bnt the
great danger is, that as soon as it got to
be big enough to carry a county or Sta'e,
it would emancipate itself from the gov
ernment of these gentlemen just as the
old one did.
Tho country is getting numerous—
voters about seven million strong, and
a back parlor conference of gentlemen
however virtuous and distinguished, is
inadequate to tbe demands of tbe occa
sion. These gentlemen may amuse
themselves by giving advice, bnt unless
they accept instrumentalities already in
existence and wield them in the interests
of rebuking fraud and restoring honest
and constitutional government to the
country, they -will only throw their
breath and votes away—or, worse still,
they will aid in the perpetuation of wrong
and crime.
The Government must be purged bv
tbo Democracy or it will not bo purged
at all. To that party tho country owes
whatever knowledge of maladministra
tion it now has, and all that may come
to light. Bnt for the Demo- racy little
would have come to light and none sup
pressed and punished The entire influ
ence of the Radical party is steadily
thrown against the work of detection and
punishment, covertly and by indirection
—bnt still just as constantly and effect
ively as the party dares to throw it.
To say that any reorganization of that
party i3 going substantially to change
its attitude is absurd. Give it a majority
in tho House to-morrow and the work of
investigation and reform would cease
The party interests of tho Democracy,
to say nothing of tbe promptings of pa
triotism, bind them to the exposure of
all Radical iniquities, and the party and
personal interests of the Radicals bind
them to the concealment of these crimes
and the immunity of the criminals, and
no little knot of Republican pnrists can
possibly change tbe sitnation in this
particular. Conld they even elect i
saint for President, these great over
ruling incentives to party action would
cation.
And so, on the other hand, if a Demo
cratic administration should succeed
Grant, it would be bound up to pursue
and perlect the work of reform already
inaugurated bv a Democratic House. It
is committed to a thorough purgation
and reform under penalty of popular
contempt. This i3 the situation,’ and
these are the great moral drifts at work,
which no sensible and patriotic man
should seek to oppose, because opposi
tion is powerless for good and may re
sult in untold evil.
If a Radical administration succeeds
Grant let no man hope that the Govern
ment will be other than corrupt in all its
functions and channels, though a person
ally honest man may bo President. He
will be powerless against the common
drift, and after a few nnavailing straggles
will float down with the rest. On the
other hand, if a Democrat be elected,
everv channel of the Government is at
once cleansed and filled with new
material, pledged and committed by
every consideration of party honor and
interest to tho revival of the ancient
purity of the pnblic administration.
Now, these five gentlemen pronounce
a Democratic succession a "choice of
evils." And it may be so to them. 8o
far as they are Radicals in principle and
feeling, they are sectionalists—in favor
of pa-hing Federal authority to its nt-
moRt limit and using it as the instrument
of Southern repression. They may also
sympathize in the views of the schemes
of tbe protectionist, and if so, a. Demo
cratic administration will bo to them an
evil. But still it must be accepted av
the only practical alternative to dishon
eat and corrupt government—for there is
no other. Tbe country 13 nractically
shut up to a Radical or a Democratic suc
cession, and cannot escape all these natu
ral and inevitable sequences resulting
from the choice.
In Pain lor Blaine.
The card of Harrison, of Indianapolis,
a government director in tbe Union Pa
cific Railroad Company, is another bomb-
shell, which, it may well be feared, will
be politically fatal to onr friend Blaine,
of Maine. We cannot, if we wonid, avoid
the moral conviction that, after all,
Blaine was tbe best paid Congressman of
all who were bought op by tho Credit
Mobilior ring, a3 well as tbe mo3t inge
nious m covering his tracks.
He was Speaker of the House, it is
trne, and if he said ont at all was enti
tled to a higher price; but he went
about pocketing it in a way that a less
cunning and astute man would have
never thought of. Ho had about a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
"Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
bonds," worth, at that time, as some re
port, about fivo to eight cents in the
dollar, and tho Credit Mobilier ring
kindly took them from him at about fifty
cents in tbe dollar, and charged the com
pany with sixty-four thousand dollars
cash paid for the pnrehaso of these bonds.
When Harrison saw this charge on tho
books of tho company and saw the par-
chase, ho naturally wanted to compre
hend it. The bonds wore worthless in
tho treasury, and yet a largo a im had
bcea paid for them. He talked a goed
deal about such a remnrkablo purchase,
and was cauiioned to be still, as "Blaine
got that money." He wonid not be still.
bat on tbe contrary, when the Credit
Mobilier investigation came -up in ‘Con
gress, and Blaine, leaving the Speaker’s
chair, took tho floor of the House, de
manding a rigid investigation, Harrison
says he wrote to Hon. Jeremiah Wilson,
chairman of tbe investigating commit
tee, "giving ■certain questions "0 be ashed.”
Bnt finding tnat they were not asked,
be wrote again, a month afterwards,
"more fully about the matter," bnt “if any
attention was given to tbe letter, I was
never informed."
Thus we cee cumulative evidence of
tho sagacity of Blaine. Ho bad cov
ered ail his tracks in getting the money
—receiving it without a name, and for
what purported to bo a valuablo consid
eration-then, when tbe House was
forced by the clamor of the newspapers
into the pretence of an investigation
into the allegd bribery of members by
the so-called Credit Mobilier, leaving his
chair and demanding in thnrder tones of
indignant virtuo an investigation—then
appointing a committee amenable to
control, and successfully using his per
sonal and official influence to prevent any
real investigation, so far as bo was con
cerned, and probably so far aa all others
wero concerned who had a personal in
terest in defeating it.
When Vice-President Colfax, Blaine’s
predecessor in the Speaker’s chair, reads
Harrison’s letter, and remembers how he
suffered, while Blaine, the real leader of
the bribe-taker?, etniiroa abuut like
Cato ia tbe spotless toga of immaculate
virtue—pronounced and believed to be
one of tbo very few Radical Congress
men whose garments were unstained, we
fancy the serenity of Mr. Colfax will be
impaired.
This revelation on Blaine caps the cli
max. It comes perhaps just in time to
save the Radical brotherhood from run
niug him as tbe great anti Grant, anti
corruption and reform candidate, to re
store integrity to tho pnblic administra
tion. The man deepest in the mire, who
has apparently prostituted all the high
functions of Speaker of the House of
Representatives to tho vilest corruption,
was the strongest candidate for tbe sue'
cession, and boasted to be an incorrupti
ble champion of reform. What next?
What we say in another article. That
there can bo no security except in
Democratic succession—pure, because it
has had neither time nor opportunity to
corrupt or becomo corrupted. Pure, be
cause in waring against pnblic villainy
it challenges the severest investigation
and scrutiny, and because it cannot walk
in the evil ways of the administration
party without 6inking into ineffable con
tempt.
OfcD. Grant’s Man.
The New York Herald, of Saturday,
felicitating the country on tho fact that
President Grant has at length taken
warm and decided ground far Senator
Conkling as tbe next Radical candidate
for the Presidency, reminds the President
that he cannot do full justice to his
candidate until he purges his cabinet of
rival claimants. Th<- Herald draws on
political history from Jefferson down, to
show that all our strong Presidents
virtually nominated tbeir successors in
office, and Jackson and Lincoln purged
their cabinets of all elements hostile to
tbe Presidential choice. Jackson drove
out of bis cabinet councils everv
, . —uuu wneii lii
had determined on a second race for
himself, he forced Chase to resign,
because he had rival aspirations.
Without inquiring into the precise ac
curacy of the Herald's political history,
it is certainly trne that Grant cannot well
bring all the power of tho Government to
bear in favor of Conkling, while his heads
of departments are working at cross pur
poses—some for themselves, and absO'
lutely none heartily enlisted for his mao,
Conkling. If he really means to impose
his choice of a successor on tho country,
he must have all these positions filled by
active and efficient organizers and drill
sergeants—men woo will work in the
same way on all their subordinates, down
to the very tide waiters and porters and
errand boys—so that every man and
every treasury dollar shall pull for Conk
ling with a consentaneous "on cling’ 1
(Herald's rhyme), and rush him in as the
inexorable, inevitable and only legitimate
successor of tbe Grant administration,
pledged to carry cut tho same line of pol
icy which the Presi ’ent has inaugurated
—tbo policy of governing outside the
Constitution and with a primary regard
to the freest circulation of tbe public
money. By ail means Jet Grant lay him
self nut on Conkling. Having indicated
his choice, it must be a matter of per
sonal pride to see that it is not overruled
and set aside by the other aspirants.
Tho Revival in Angnsta.
The Constitutionalist says:
Tbe progress of tho religions revival
now going on in onr midst increases in
interest each day, and tho stated honrs of
service are attended promptly by largo
crowds of people. The morning services
at tho Baptist church, and in tbo afeer
noon at St. Paul’s afe very ratereB’ing,
while the night services at tho Presby
terian chnrch are largely attended by all
classes. Last night tbe chnrch was li -
.rally filled with interested spectators.
Large numbers requested tho prayers of
Christians.
Mr Bliss departed for hi3 home last
evening, having been summoned by a
telegram to attend a sick member Mr.
Whittle will probably remain during the
week.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion of Macon are endeavoring to induce
the Evangelists to come hither, and we
earnestly hope tho effort may be success
ful.
They would ho greeted with joy by the
Christian community, and large congre
gations will flock to hear them. Perhaps
Messrs. Moody and Sinkey, also, may be
persuaded to pause here for a few days,
on their way from Savannah to Atlanta.
We believe the moment propitious for a
great revival of religion, with the aid of
the Holy Spirit and tho mediation of the
Redeemer of mankind.
Southern
Society
THE FRACTIONAL CURRENCY.
Counterfeiter* Preparing to Flood
tne country with Bogus Note*.
Aa it will bo bnt a few days until
silver coins are issued ns a substitute
for fractional currency, tho public is
warned that the opportunity of flooding
tho country with fractional currency
will not be lost by certain parties who
have been operating day nnd night
since the proposed change was first dis
cussed in tho Honse Appropriation Com
mittee, and are now ready to put out a
large amount of fifty cent and twenty-
five cent notes, mostly of tho old series.
As every dollar of this currency will now
rapidly be sent in for redemption in
silver subsidiary coins, the counterfeit
ers end their pals are going to make
the most of their opportunity. Treas
urer New will at once issue a circular
warning the people that all counterfeit
cotes are readily detected at tbe Treas
ury, and will be a dead loss to those
receiving them.
Historical
Papers. -
The-March number, making the third
of the series published ia magazine form,
monthly, by tho authority of the Execu
tive Committee, and edited by Rev. J.
William Johob, ia made up wholly of
various data upon tbe " Treatment of
prisoners during the war between the
States." This discussion, which all pa
triots both North and South deprecated
as ill-timed and calculated to reopen tho
wounds of the past, was forced upon the
country by Mr. Blaino in his bloodlbirsty
onslanght upon the ex-President of the
Confederate States, in the early part of
the present session of Congress.
Mr. Hill’s reply was masterly and un
answerable, hut of courso he could not
produce tn extenso tho testimony in tho
case, and this therefore has been the ob
ject of the Southern Historical Society in
the papers referred to. Tho vindication
of tbo Confederate authorities io com
plete, and must, m the unbiased judg
ment of history, forever put tho question
at rest.
The magazine qnotes at length from
such authorities as President Davis. Gen.
Robert E. Leo, Judge Ould, Surgeon Jo
seph Jones, Dr. R R. Stevenson, General
J. D. Imboden, and all others really,
who wero in a position to know tho facts
relating at least to tho treatment of the
prisoners at Andersonvillo. A complete
history of that prison i3 also given, and
every Northern statement in referenco
thereto conclusively disproven. On the
other hand, it is shown, in numerous
well authenticated instances, that South
ern prisoners wero treated with great
cruelty when in captivity, and without
any excuse whatever where food and
clothing conld he had in such abundance.
War is tho worst of all evils, and doubt
less tho prisoners on both sides suffered
greatly, and wero sometimes exposed to
tho petty malico of subaltern officers.
But in behalf of the South it may at
least be affirmed, that sho ever favored
an exchange of prisoners, and even offer
ed to return tho sick and wounded of the
enemy mthout equivalent. Bnt even this
proposal was not accepted. Who, then,
in reality, bnt the Fedorals themselves,
were responsible for all that misery which
they now lay to our doors ?
This volume of the "Historical papers'
should have a prominent place in every
library at tho South, and be read by
every family of erstwhilo Dixio.
THIS GEORGIA PRESS.
Mr. Blaine Rises to Explain.
Baltimore Sun.)
The Blaine matter, which is the new
sensation, continues one of the principal
topics of conversation. It has already
been the means of causing a "little un
pleasantness” between the rival several
Republican candidates and their follow-'
ers. It seems to bo tho fact that the
storv on Mr. Blaino was given to tho
pnblic through tee instrumentality of
C1030 friends of Senator Morton, yet it is
charged by some of those in the interest
of Mr. Blaine that General Bristow and
his associates are responsible for the pub
Iication. This has given great offense
to the later, and it was said to day that
if Mr. Blaine do<;9 not stop these insin
uations against General Bristow it will bo
tbo worse for him. A strong friend
of Mr. Bristow said that if the
whole Blaine story was published
it would be very interesting reading.
Mi. Blaine has been asked why, if be
was innocent, he had not asked for a com
mitten of investigatiou f
ness from tho House; that ho was con
scious that be had by his political courso
this session made himself extremely ob
noxious to the Democrats, that if he
asked for a committee - f investigation it
would be purposely planned so that the
charges should be left banging over him
during tho whole Pretidential campaign
Mr. Blaine is undoubtedly correct in his
opinion that the mean and narrow
minded partisan policy which ho has
seen fit to pursue on the floor of the
House this session has not commended
bim to the affections of tho Democratic
majority. But Mr. Blaine has no right
to assume in advance that a committee
of toe House will be partial or unfair in
its investigation. It is believed that the
matter has now assumed such a phase
that Mr. Blaine will bo compelled to ask
for the investigation. He realizes a well
as aDy one tho overwhelming evidences in
the political horizon that tho Republican
party will not dare to put up any man ns
its standard-bearer upon whose fair fame
tne least tarat of suspicion rests.
Things have como to such a pass hero
in Washington that i’ a man has money
oeople aro not satiified until they know
row ho got it. Mr. Blaino came to Con-
gres- twelve years ago a very poor man
Tbe salary, which at that time was $3,000
>er annum, was quite an object to him.
Ele has been engaged in no business, yet
he now ranks os one of the wealthy mem
bers, and lives in astyle which consumes
more than double tbe amount of bis sal
ary. It has been said here fersomo time
that Mr. Blaine was “loaded up” with
Western land grant railroad bonds.
Among theso bonds were said to be the
Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
bond*, a railroad which came to Congress
in 1869 and asked and obtained an exton
Rton of its land grants, which were about
ts expire.
Mr. Blaine has not yet explained how
these bonds came into his possession, and
in advance of bis explanation it would not
be proper to intimate that the legislation
which the company desired of Congress
had anything to do with it; neither
wonid it be doing justice to his Yankee
shrewdness to intimate that ho wou.d
invest bi3 mosey in wild-cat railroad se
curities. It is remembered now that Mr.
Blaino only emerged with cloan skirts
from the Credit Mobilier pool of corrup
tion by the skin of bis teeth. His own
friends were then constrained to admit
that it was not superior purity which
laved him, but bis superior sagacity by
which ho saw tho coming storm and was
enabled to get ont in time. A devoted
adherent of Mr. Blainesaid this evening:
If Jim had only had any idea ten years
ago that he would stand a chance of be
ing President they never would have got
anything on him.” For the love of pub-
licmorals it is to be hoped that after all
Mr. Blaino may be able to prove that
they” have got nothing on him now.
A New Interpretation to Bontwell’s
Speech
Tho recent v o.tnt speech of Senator
Bontwell against tho South and South
ern men is now understood to hnvo had
a deeper meaning than was at first at
tached to it. Mr. Boutwell said: Tho
North will do well to take heed that it
trust no man who wa3 brought up under
tho influence of slavery, controlled by
its spirits and dominated by its power,
■which is not yet extinct." Secretary
Bristow is the only Sonthern man who
has been spoken of for President os tho
candidate of either party, and thi3 ex
pression of Mr. Bontwell is now under
stood to have been leveled at him, and
to bo a distinct notice that the North
will never consent to the elevation of a
Southern man to the Presidency, In
this defiant notice Mr. Bontwell has, it is
alleged, laid down the ultimatum of tho
Republcian party of tho North, and
t-inee be made this speech many Norm-
era members of both Houses who haro
never indulged in tho violent public ut
terances which com-» from him have as
serted without hesitation that in this re
spect ho echoes the undoubted opinion
of the mass of the people of the North.
. Augusta coroneced a small negro boy
on Sunday, who was drowned a few
weeks ago.
Tbs Chronicle and Sentinel learns that
Captain N. Thomas Philpot, of the
steamer Rosa, and several of his chil
dren, are very ill with small-pox in Sa.
vannah.
The same paper says: Chief Christian
received a telegram from Lieut. W. W.
King yesterday, dated at Port Royal,
stating that he had arrested three more
parties charged with complicity in the
robbery of money from Father Prcnder-
gast.
The following note -was received by
Mayor Estes, of Angusta, a few days
since:
"Augusta Ga, April 10th 1876.
Mr Mare Esters Esq, Plaies geife di3
mon Charistion Sarlin a Pas to Savonha
he has bem workn on Do Canorl for John
A. Green & Co an he kon got no work
bar an he kont tok Enghis on hafe no
monny.”
A Savannah negro named Jame3 John
son, who was under arrest for assault
and battery, jumped into tho river to cb
capo from custody nnd was drowned.
Mas. Geo. W. Peacock, of Washing
ton county, died on Saturday.
Mb. Walter B. Hint., of this city,
will deliver tho memorial address in
Forsyth.
Beck, the man who killed Shamlin in
Chattooga county, and has been sen-
tcnccd to bo hung on tho asth Inst.,
trying to carry his case to tbo Supreme
Court.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says : Jas,
R. Carson, who was reported as being
criminally connected with a money order
fraud upon tho post-office of this city
daring tho last week, has given bond in
tho snm of $1,000. It is now said to be
a matter of grave doubt as to whether
Mr. Carson had any criminal intent, or
performed any criminal act in regard to
this matter, and it is said be will honor
ably acquit himself of all manner of
Mame which may have been attached to
him by the circumstances.
Tub same paper says: Mr. Richard
Peters, of this city, has contributed
the Department of Agricnlture two full
fleeces of his spring clip— ono being
full Merino, with its royal crimp, and tho
other a grade Merino, which appears to
bo equally fine, though without the beau
tiful crimp. Mr. Peters also contributed
two samples of wool, or, rather, coarso
stuff which might more properly be
called hair—ono being the native Mexi
can sheep, and the other a cress between
the Mexican and the common sheep of
tho South, which is a little more liko wool
than tho native Mexican.
Tbe stable of Mr. E. E. Rawson, of
Atlanta, was burned Monday morning,
together with a pair of fino carriage
horses.
Tbe Constitution say3: Captain O.
Jones has milked a Durham cow for five
years that never had a calf. Sho gave
an nbundanco of rich milk. Sho was
killed a few days ago and weighed 1,410
pounds.
The Jasper County Banner failed to
float for a couple of weeks, and the ed-
itor says tho failure wo3 in consequence
of the unexpected and provoking action
of the printer in whose charge we left
tho the cffico whilst we attended tho sick
bed of our wife in Morgan county. In
stead of going to work and getting out
the paper, as wo intended him to do, he
gets on a big drunk, ple9 the office up
dreadfully and sets fire to his bed, where
upon ho was arrested, lodged in the cal
uboose, .and afterwarHa /--'—r- 1 '
town WibUlU i*icu4j uiiButca
Tbe Columbus Enquirer announces tho
death of Mr. Isaac Mitchell, aged 83
Tbe Enquirer has reduced its sub, crip-
tion price to seven dollars.
The same paper has the following:
Sunday John Cook, colored, the negro
who burnt Mr. Jim Cook's gin house and
barn wts brought back to this city from
Marion, Ala., where ho went in January
last. He was carried before Jnstico T. J.
Chappell yesterday, in connection with
Ja< k and Winnie Johnson and Amo3
Jackson, colored, who bo says were con
cerned in tho burning. He acknowledges
having made an agreement with them to
barn out Mr. Cook, bat denies having set
fire to any of hi3 buildings. Ho says that
ho was in his bod sick at the time of the
conflagration of the gin house, and absent
from tho city when the barn was destroy
ed. Ho also states that these other ne
groes agreed to fire tbo house, if ho would
buy some kerosene for them, which he
did. Jack and Winnie acknowledged
that they had a conversation with Isham
about tho burning, bnt in a way to per
suade bim not to consume the structures
leham made threats in their presence
that "big laminations” would surely take
place—he said that Mr. Cook had not set-
•led fairly with him, and he would get
his revenge in this way. Amos testified
be had never heard Isham speak of tho
affair in any way. There is no doubt
but that these negroes, whom this scoun
drel Isham has tried to implicate are in
nocent. They were turned loose, being
required to give a $50 bond each to ap
pear against Isbam, who is now in jail,
having failed to give a $2,000 bond.
Mb. Henby Stewart, a Columbus
young man, was drowned while fishing
in tho Chattahoochee Monday night.
His body has not been recovered.
The Enquirer says there was frost
enough over thero Tuesday morning to
kill potato vines.
CoLUitnus is going to build a $7,042
86 addition to her jail.
Columbus bar-rooms pay five cents a
pound for ice. Tho 'hotels havo discon
tinued its use.
Tbe Times says "the Macon and Au
gusta bridge across tho Oconee has been
rebuilt." Study geography a little,
won’t yon?
Tbb scent of tho fragrant guano still
burdens the atmosphere of Talbotton.
Rev. G. W. Maxson and Mr. W. E.
Mumford will deliver addresses in Tal
botton on Memorial day.
The Standard says a citizen of Talbot
county went down to Macon not long
6inco and put up at tho Brown House
Ho sat down at a tablo to supper and
ordered his meal. It took a largo negro
bjy all his time to wait npon him and
then our eater would actually get ahead
and have to wait. At last ho asked the
boy, “See hero, can’t you supply me
with something to eat?’’ The polite
waiter replied, " Well, it doesn’t seem
possible, sir; wo have seven stoves run
ning, but haven’t been able to keep up
with you yet.” Wo may supplement
this narrative by saying it is a literal
fact.
The store of Captain G. W. Gamage,
in Talbotton, was burglarized of $400
worth last week.
Tbe Butler Herald has tho following:
About two weeks ago, in the upper part
of tho county, a party of men and boys
caught in one morning 61 rabuits, and in
the evening 84
Tbe Milledgevillo Recorder says: Al!
tho corn planted in this county before
tho freeze had to be replanted. Thia
work has been done, and our farmers
are now planting cotton. "Wo‘again
venture to caution them against putting
in too much of the latter. The cantion
uttered by our cotemporary wa3 wholly
unnecessary. Of .course tho farmers will
plant no more than enough cotton to pay
their guano bills.
Tbe Ybnng Men’s Christian Associa
tion at Milledgeville has been reorgan,
ized, with C. P. Crawford as President.
A little daughter of Mr. Staley,
of Griffin, while playing on the veranda
at the Reeves House Tuesday, fell and
broke one of the bones in her right
arm.
The residence of Mr. Asber, in Griffin,
was burned Monday night. Loss $2,500
Insured for $2,000.
W. G. Lovejot, marshal of Monte
zuma, died last Friday.
Thirty penitentiary convicts havo
arrived in Angnsta to tako a trip up the
canal.
General Gartrell has received
letter from Mr. Hill, dated April 15,
from which the Constitution is permitted
to quote the following:
Tho letter of “ Carlos," in the Sa
vannah News of the 11th inst, is a mis
erahle misrepresentation of tho facts in
relation to tho efforts to procure a par
don for tho revenue offenders in North
Georgia. It is unfortunate that so much
has been said in the papers on this sub
ject in advance of final action. At the
proper time tho facts can be truthfully
and properly stated. At present it
proper to say that tho people should
give no credenco to snch gossips as
" Carlo3.” Tho memorial of Dr. Felton
and myself, as the Representatives of
our respective districts, bad long before
been presented, backed up by letters
and memorials from our constitu
ents. and was being favorably consid
ered when tho telegraphic memorial
signed by yourself and others arrived
Your memorial was endorsed by every
member of tho Georgia delegation in his
seat at tho time and immediately pre
sented by mo to the President and, at
the President’s request, to tho Attorney
General in the''hamo of the entire dele
gation. Wo were in accord then and are
bo now. At least I so believed and un
derstood. At ono time I thought there
wa3 unkind and unreasonable opposition
from some of the revenue officers. I now
begin to see there was only a misunder
standing between U3 and them, and
still have hope wo shall soon have peace
and amnesty all round. I feel it my
duty "to do tho heavy work, because my
constituents aro more involved than all
others combined, and I am very sure
am not small enough to claim any politi
cal credit for wbat I havo done or may
do in tois work of kindness and clemency.
The President has spoken kindly all the
time, and I believe when ho fully gets
the facts will act with cheerfulness.’
NOTES.
Miss Amy Frye, tho pianist, is none
your small Frye, if she i3 dumpy.
Eureka! Tho “great unknown”
revealed. It i3 Jno. C. S. Harrison.
Don is Spanish. Dom is Portugese, so
is Pedro.
When tho China
weather also leaves.
tree leaves, cold
“ Barney Williams 13 better,” says
tho New York Sun. How can that he ?
Mr. Blaine, allow us to introduce Mr.
Harrison. You can then step down and
out.
That truly innocent man, Blaine, has
not yet recovered breath sufficiently to
say “ I didn’t.”
Now, Mr. Blaine, rise up again and
try to explain! Now, can you refrain
from saying “ I didn’t ?”
ip tbo Emma Mine was so rich as
Schenck and his witnesses say it was
why were they so anxious to un-lodo ?
‘Tbe Centennial liar has been discov
ered,” says the Washington Chronicle
You’ve been looking in tho glass, have
you?-
AH.Blaino.you can’t flauntthe "bloody
shirt” with any considerable amount of
gusto now, since you have gotten so
tangled in tho dirty one.
Henby Ward Beecher is writing a
tragico-farco.” Why should ho not, since
he has lately been leading gentleman, or
star actor in one ?
Mbs Harriet B. Johnston, of Elm
wood, Ct., has a snuff box made of a piece
of George Washington’s coffin." What
desecration! It’s snuff to shock any
body !
An exchango saya: “ It wa3 Secretary
Bristow’s honesty which gave birth to
tho suspicion that ho is a Democrat
True, a man can’t be honest very easily
without being a Democrat also.
Matt. Morgan was fined fifty dollars
night for running his Now York Sensa
tion in Pittsburg. And yet that Brook
lyn sensation has run unmolested for
ever so many months.
The Washington monument,” says
tho Chronicle, "is a standing disgraco.
Then let as consider it as in memory of
the dead ducks who fall in ehower3 at
every report of tho investigating com
mittees.
The Washington Chronicleaska: “which
party is responsible ?’’ Its party got all
the money, and when no more is likely to
bo gotten it wants to shift the responsi
bility. What sneak thieves theso Radi
cals are, to bo sure.
The Washington Chronicle doubts "the
story which comes from the South, of tho
alligator swallowing the littlo negro, and
rendering him up safe three days after
wards.” The Chronicle’s doubts are
welt grounded, as we can assure that
veracious jonrnal that it was the little
negro who did tho swallowing. Ho
swallowed a ten fcot alligator, without a
grain of salt—the horrid littlo cannibal.
Sheep Husbandry In Cast Ten
nessee,
Tho Athens Post eay3: “We havo a
sample of wool of very superior quality,
from a yearling ewo owned by Col. Tom
Crutchfield, which clipped 12} pounds
last May, and will clipp as much this
spring. Sho now has a fine ewe lamb by
her side This owe, on the mother’s side,
can bo traced hack to a McMinn county
ewe—Sarah—which Col. C. bought from
Mr. Moore in the Fifteenth District.
This shows what progress can be made in
this branch of industry by caro and at
tention. In a letter to a friend in this
county. Col. Crutchfield says: ‘I nave
never handled any stock that pays liko
sheep. If the dogs could bo kept in
check, or the taxes arising from them
placed to a sheep fund from which those
who lose sheep could bo reimbursed, and
the farmers would give tho sheep ques
tion proper attention and the sheep prop
er care, there 13 no ono thing pertaining
to the farm that will pay so handsome a
dividend. My investment in sheep has
paid me over 50 per cent, per annum for
tbe past ten years. Sheep husbandry
with me has been a specialty, and has
proved a great success.’ ”
Washington, April 19.—Too Missouri
and Mississippi havo generally fallen or
remained stationary, except a slight riso
at St. Louis and-Cairo.
TROfi WASHINGTON.
Editorial Correspondence.
Washington City, April 14tb, 1876.
the bully on tub rack.
Which his name is “Jim” Blaine, knows
how it is himself about these present
writings. He, too, has had somo of the
“sugar.” Went in for $64 000. as became
a man of his enlarged views and ample
stomach, and pretends it was a loan itpm
tho Union Pacific Company for which ho
put up, as collateral, certain Arkansas
bonds worth about one cent per pound.
But you have donbtless bad the ‘‘hull”
story per Associated Press, and ampli
fication hero is unnecessary. Old D. O
T. S. is credited with putting up the job,
and I judge tho supposition is correct.
Tbo venomous old creature is so tbor
oughly eaten up by ambition, that he
will stick at nothing to get rid of a rival.
Whether this charge be true or false, it
must damage Blaine somewhat, and
many will hear and believe tho accusa
tion, who will either not hear, or refuse
to believe bis vindication. Bnt Blaino
has a good memorv, and will pay Morton
back with interest if the opportunity is
ever offered. How he can make headway
against both Morton and Conkling is,
however, not easily understood, though
to hear his blowers talk you would sup-
poso ho regarded his nomination a fore
gone conclusion. Such a puffed up, ar
rogant, nauseous crowd as his retainers
about hero are, cannot bo matched in
either party. If ho does mis9 tho nomi
nation somo of them will cat their throats
or his—neither of which contingencies
would plunge the country into very deep
grief.
wuo is be ?
Do you happen to know a “Mr. C. G.
Baylor, of Georgia ?” I do not, but there
must ho such a person, as I very fro
quently see his name mentioned in tbe
New York papers as being present at
meetings of the Lincoln Club of that city,
which seems to bo an institution of the
darkest hue as to its favorite speakers,
ono of whom is a high-heeled African
named Garnett, in whoso eloquence Bay
lor seems especially to delight I eec
Baylor honored the last meeting of the
club, where Garnett told the old story
about somebody exclaiming at Washing
ton tho day Lincoln was killed: “Darkies,
you have lost your God ” Really I should
like to know more of this Georgian, Bay
lor, who seems to so delight in tho elo
quence of tho gifted Garnett If he is
a Georgian, why is he not at his post in
Eome snug office down among you ? His
sort aro generally on hand very unnni
tnously when such crumbs aro to be pic-k
ed ip. I am afraid there is some mis
take about Baylor, and I refuse to b
comforted until I know more about him
the curbbncv and tariff questions
seem as far from settlement at tuis ees
sion os ever. In fact, many members
despair of any conclusive action on either
Tnere are so many more men of divers
and sundry minds on both than was ever
known before, that agreement looks
hopeless. As to the currency it may
safely be assumed that-, as aimo-t even
member has a plan of his own which he
is sure must be the only panacea for our
monetary woes, as agreement on an;
compromise is almost hopeless. As a
general rule in regard to this currenc.i
question, the less a man knows about it
the more satisfied he is that he has thor
onghly mastered all its details. Most
men, and members of Congress, especial
ly, have an idea that if there is any on-
•hing they have explored to its depth.-
lt is the financial question It is one of
the most CSDtlvn.tincrorvnnrK.
wnoie rango thereof for a man to show
what an immense ass he is, and few there
be who neglect it. The talk now is of
the issue of a four per cent, long bond
with which to wipe out the greenback-
at the rate of at least ono and a half
millions per month, and its friends are
sanguine such a measure will become
tho law this session. They assert it has
the approval of a majority of the husi
ness men and capitalists in the money
centres all over the country, who are
writing letters Hero urging its adoption
Same revision of tho tariff may be made
by tho House, but nobody expects the
Senate will touch it at all until the next
session, even if then.
speaker kerb’s
health docs not seem to improve, al
though he stands to his post and dis
charges its daties with tho same rare
ability and discretion that has character
ized bim from the first. The more I spb
of him and tho true metal of his compo
sition, tho more be wins upon me No
man has ever discharged the high duties
of his position with more g-neral accept
ability. He is firm, but not obstinate
or imperious, has thorough control over
himsolf and consequently over others, is
fair. liberal, and just to all, and always
bears himself with a modest yet lofty
dignity that in theso days of offensive
self assertion among so many public men
is as rare as it is admirable. H* has
fully vindicated tho wisdom of the party
that honored itself in honoring bim. and
will carry into that final retirement from
pnblio life, which it is said he designs at
tho expiration of his present term of
office, tho best wUhesand words not onlv
of tho representatives in the 44th Con
gress, but the Democracy of tho country.
POOR FLORIDA !
Tho deeper tho House Civil Service
Committee probes the charac’er and acts
of the carpet bagger Purman, who as-
mimes to represent Florida, the more that,
unhappy little State is to bo pitied If
there is any office in that State he has
not openly exposed for sale, I havo yet to
hear of it. He has traded, right and left,
and with anybody who would bid ud to
his price. Two witnesses testified before
the committee vesterday that they had
secured appointments as timber agents
at $40 per month, each, from him. but
that they had never done any service,
whatever, and did not even know whore
tho timber reservations were situated It
is stated that his name is Poorman, and
that he changed it whpn he went from
this city ini Sfi5 to Florida. He was a clerk
hero in the Quartermaster's Department
during tho war and a3 impecunios as
hia sort generally are when they come
South. He certainly showed some knowl
edge of tho negro character when hi-
changed bis name, the average colored
lovlist, os is well known, not genp r ally
taking much stock in people with 8 ucii
suggestive names. He is evidently and
eminently a representative man of his
party, especially tho Southern wing of it
HIGH JINKS FOR AFRICA.
The negroes of tho District and cir
cumjacent parts, who could get hero,
havo had a big time to-day over the
unveiling of the Lincoln statue, lately
received here, and which stands m Lin
coln Park, on Capitol Hill, half a mile or
so from the Capitol. It C03t $17,000, a
portion of which was, I hear, contributed
>y Southern men, generally members of
Congress. Tho negroes have been work
ing to make a grand display on the
occasion, and fnlly succeeded. An im
mense crowd filled tho streets along the
line of procession, which was, itself, qnite
imposing, though not to the extent I had
expected. Hurd times pinch darkies as
well as whites, and the fact crops ont on
last such occasions. There was quite a
display of negro secret societies and
militia—tho latter in thick army over
coats that madethe wearers, as the day was
qnite warm, nasally perceptible for a
long distance—any number of Rising
Sons of this, that and tho other, a line of
hacks, and the usual body guard of rag
amuffins and loafers. The statne is of
bronze, stands on a granite pedestal ten
feet high, and is of colossal proportions,
being twelve feet high. It holds the
emancipation proclamation in ono hand,
while the other is stretched over tho
figure of a negro who is just rising from
a recumbent position, the chains that
connected the Ebackles on his limbs
having been sundered, and an expresiira
of mingled wonder and gratification on
his faco. It is a very creditable per
formance and reflects credit upon Ball,
tho sculptor, an American, now residing
at Florence, Italy. Grant and three ot
hia cabinet—Bristow, Fierrepont and
Jewell—were present, as also Cnk-f J ua .
tice Wait and two or three of his assc-
ciates, and quite a sprinkling of Con
gressmen, inclnding Morton, Ferry
tho President pro term, of the Senate*
Banks, Sam Cox. and others of the
House, of whom, perhaps, two score were
Democrats, and occupied seats on the
stand. Blaine and Conkling were con
spicuous by their absence. Grant pulled
the cord that unveiled the statue and
then a cannon fired, the darkies raised a
tremendous yell, and tho usual bobbery
wa3 kicked up among the horses, mules,
dogs. etc. Fred Douglass then camo and
orated at length, the following being a
noteworthy extract from his speech:
“ It must bo admitted, truth compells
mo to admit, even hero in the presence
of the monument we havo erected to his
memor:, Abraham Lincoln was not in
the fullest sense of the word, either onr
man or our model. In his interests
m his associations, in his habits
of thought, nnd in his prejudices, he
was a white man. He was pre-emi
nently the white man’s President, en
tirely devoted to the welfare of white
men. Ho was ready and willing at any
time during the first years of hia admin-
istration to deny, postpone and sacrifice
the rights of humanity in the colored
people to promoto tho welfare of the
white people of this country. In all h ; e
education nnd feelin; he was an Am-n*
can of the Americans. H - came into * • e
Presidential chair upon ono principle
alone, namely, ofpo-iiiou to the exten.
sion of slavery His arguments in fur
therance of this poi.cy had their motive
and mainspring to his patriotic devotion
to the interests of his own race To pro
tect, defend and perpetnato slavery in
the States wliero it exi-ted, Abraham
Lincoln was not less ready than any
other President to draw tho sword of the
nation. He was ready to execute all tho
supposed constitutional guarantees of
the Constitution in favor of the slavo
svstem anywhere inside the slave States.
He was willing to pursue, recapture and
send back the fugitive slave to his mas-
tor, and to suppress a slave rising for
liberty, though his guilty master were
already in arms against the government.
The race to which wo belong were not
the special oojeots ot hia consideration.
Knowing this, I concede to you, my white
fellow-citizens, a pre-emmenco in this
worship at once full and supreme. First,
midst and last you and yours were the
object of his deepest affection and his
most earnest solicitude. You are the
children of Abraham Lincoln. We are
at best only his step-children, children
by adoption, children by force of circum
stances and necessity. • * *
Our faith ia him was of’en taxed and
strained 'o the uttermost, but it never
failed. When he tarried long in the
mountain; when bo strangely told us
thit we were the cause of tho war; when
he still more i-trangely told us to leavo
the land in which we were born; when
Be refused to employ our arms in defense
of the Union ; when, after accepting our
-ervices as rolored soldiers, he refused to
retaliate when wo were murdered as col
ored prisoners; when he told us ha would
-ave tho Union if he could with slavery;
when he revoked the proclamation of
.■mancipation of General Fremont; when
he refused to remove the commander of
the army of the Potomac, who was more
zealous in his efforts to protect slavery
' han to suppress rebellion—when we saw
all this, and more, we were at times
stunned, grieved and greatly bewildered;
hut onr hearts believed while they ached
and bled ”
THAT BIG BONANZA OF A WAR CLAIM
for damages pot in by Mrs. Annie Wal
lingford, of Whitfield county, G orgia,
of which I made mention in a previous
l. *»—. ..Ctx . being AnucAea out or time
once, has been resurrected with addition
al evidence to back it. Parties who
know the inir and loyl young widow, re
gard it as rather a singular coincidence
thad a lady of the stme name and cred
ited to tho same State, should have been
in the papers ont West a few months
since as connected with certain nnsavory
-candals in which a young army offi :er
of this city, and others of the same pro
fession. were parties of tho other part I
wouldn’t like to wager very heavily upon
Mrs W.’s chances of making that $800,-
000 rako.
MISCELLANEOUS
Gen. Phil Cook made a capita! and
cogent speech yesterday in favor of trans
ferring the Indian Bureau to tho War
Department. His facts, figures and ar
guments thoroughly demonstrated the
necessity of tho transfer, but if passed by
tbe Houso the bill will be beaten ia the
Senate. Tho Indian “ring” is too se
curely entrenched in that body to be dis- .
lrdged.
Sharon, tbo Senatorial Croesus from
Nevada and California, after an arduous^
service of about three weeks in that bod y
has returno'* to his mines and money
bags, and will not bo here again this
sesrion. It is stated that he is anxious
to resign, but his party in the Senate
strongly vdvi-e against such a step, as it
would ensure a Democratic successor, by
appointment, and of courso that is not to
bo thought of for a moment.
Morton’s proposition to n store the bal
lot to the negroes of this city is raising
Cam among tho property-holders and
respectable folks—many of whom havo
distinguished themselves by their ardent
aoproval of negro suffrage as applied to
tbe Ssuth. That was all right and prop
er, but they howl vigorously at the pros
pect of having once more to swallow some
of the samo sauce. The Star, of this city,
is peculiarly and piteonsly indignant over
the prospect, but it never tails to com
mend the same dose for the Southern tax
payers Tho squirming and screeching
of these loyl saints here in the District is
positively delicious.
That spry young person, Grady, late of
the l«to Atlanta Herald and later Courier,
was here last week and, I under-tand,
strucg paying dirt in the shape of an en
gagement with the Herald as its Southe-n
correspondent at $1,800 per year, and
expenses. I congratulate him. He will
do some good work if ha can keep his pen
off one or two subjects, and will occasion
ally clip the wings of his soaring fancy.
R.
The Georgia Press Association.
The annual meeting of tha Georgia
Press Assrciation will bo held in Savan
nah on WEDNESDAY, May 10th, at 12
o’clock m. J. H. Estill. President.
H. H. Cabaniss, Rea Sec’ty.
Senators who buy their seats should
have discreet wives. I heard of a lady
who was conversing with the wife of a
disappointed aspirant, -who said, “Why
didn’t your husband buy his scat ? I can
tell you exactly how much it cost my
husband to bo elected. It was exactly
$37,000.—Courier-Journal.
Excurslun to savannah.
Thoso of our citizens who desire to visit
Savannah will havo an unusual opportu
nity to do so the latter part of next week.
On Sunday, tho 30th instant, the new
Cathedral in Savannah will be dedicated,
and our Catholic friends have arranged
for two excursion trains to leave Macon,
ono at 7 a. m. and tho other at 71 p. m.,
on Saturday, tbe 29tb. One of these
trains will leave Savannah, on its return,
Sunday evening, tho SOlfi inst., and tho
other Monday evening, tho 1st of May.
Tho faro for tho round trip is only $4.
Thoso who merely want to witness the
religious ceremonies can go down Satur
day night and return Sunday night, thus
losing no time from business. Those
who are able to afford the luxury of_n
littlo sparo time, will have Monday in
which to take a peep at tho Forest City.
Excursion tickets can be pure' ared at
tbe bookstore of Mr. J. A. Gabuury on
Mulberry street,