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J. 11. RBTILI., Savannah, Oa.
The UeiiMK-racj mid the Curreney
(jnMtion.
We give place in another colnmn to
the article of a correspondent who main
tain* that the evils afflicting the country
do not come from contraction, bnt from
the inflation of the unredeemable paper
currency by the Radical party, who since
the war have had entire control of the
financial policy of the government. Ih.
support of this view of the question he
refers to the figures showing an almet t
continuous inflation of the paper medium
since 1861. It is not denied by those wi
oppose the contraction policy of the
Radical Congress, and disapprove the
national bank system which H”ha in
augurated, that evils have resulted from
tbo inordinate inflation r f tbe pspTr eur-"
rency. But they do contend that these
evils will bh augmented rather than miti
gated by an attempt —for it can only be
an attempt —to force specie resumption
by sudden contraction. It is in opjiosi
tion to ruinous contraction, and not in
favor of unlimited inflation that the
Democracy of Ohio are contending. Ad
mitting that the figures of the New York
Express, quoted by our correspondent,
exhibit the progress of inflation and the
true condition of the currency at the
commencement of tho present fiscal year,
the fact that the paper currency has
been increased from $202,000,000 in 18G1
to $770,000,000 in 187f>, while it shows
the reckless and unwise financial policy
of the Rudicul party, is no evidence tbut
a sudden reverse of that policy, a sud
den contraction of the greenback curren
cy with which the country has been in
undated, would remedy the evils flowing
from that policy. Whatever may have
been tbe evils of inflation, it is tho
greater evil of contraction with which
the country is now threatened,and against
which tho Democracy of Ohio have made
their fight. As tho time set by the law of
tho last Congress for specie resumption
approaches, the process of contraction
is being put into operation. According to
a Washington special to the Cincinnati
Commercial, tho contraction of national
bank circulation for two days past exceeds
one million dollars ! Of this tho Third
National Bank of Ht. Rottis surrendered
$400,000; tho State National Bunk of
New Orleans $105,000; tho First Na
tional Bank of Colorado $150,000; the
Central National Bank of Chicago $15,-
(HO, and the National Bank of JeffersoD,
Texas, $45,000. Think of draining
the avenues of commerce of cur
rency at tho rate of half a million
dollars a day. Still another special to
the Cincinnati Enquirer says the books
of the Treasury Department show that
for the fifteen months ending September
1 jjil r 1 —- T-*-^ — 1 "’ .'iVto
United States bonds deposited with tho
Treasurer to secure national bank circula
tion. In lieu of these bonds ninety per
oent., or a total of $18,000,000, in na
tional bank currency, has been retired.
Tho Treasury officials predict that the
carrying into effect of the specie resump
tion act will cuuso tho withdrawal of at
least $150,000,000 additional bonds,
which would cause a further con
traction of tho national bank
circulation of $135,000,000 beforo
January, 1879. The act itself
provides for the reduction of tho
greenback circulation of three hundred
million dollars, so that on or beforo the
first of January, 1879, tliero will remain
outstanding a total currency circulation
of less than five hundred million dollars.
Even this amount enuuot be safely cal
culated upon, from the fact that tho na
tional banks may surrender a much
greater proportion of their circu
lation than is provided for in
this estimate. Again, tho national
bank notes will on and after the
first of January, 1879, be redeemable
only in coin or greenbacks. The natural
result will therefore he the hoarding of
greenbacks by the bauks for this purpose,
until it is not improbable that the whole
greenback circulation of three hundred
miliums will be locked up in their vaults
and the business interests of the country
left to accommodate itself to a circulation
of less than two hundred million dollars.
The total contraction of the currency for
the past year exceeds thirty-six million
dollars, and it is predicted by those in a
position to know, that unless the specie
resumption act is modified or repealed,
the contraction for the ensuing twelve
months will exceed seventy million dol
lars.
The Inflation which our correspondent
justly charges to tho Radical party, has
sustained the Radical revolutionary fac
tion and enriched the bondholders and
stock gamblers of the North and East.
To virtually turn their paper dollars into
gold, and thus augweut and insure their
wealth at the cost of the people, they
seek now to contract tho currency to a
ruinous limit.
It is against this legislative tampering
with the financial system of the country,
this loose and fast game of the money
monopolists and stock gamblers, that the
anti-contractionists protest. They de
mand, not unrestrioted inflation
of irredeemable paper, but a cheap,
stable, convertible, and safe currency,
adequate to the commercial necessi
ties of the people, and based, if
not on silver and gold —now impossible
—on the pledged faith and ample
resources of the country.
Mr. George Smith, of Galveston, puts
a little conundrum to the man who
answers questions in the American
Grocer, of New York. Mr. Smith
bought two firkins of Goshen butter
from a jobber there, the tares of which
were eighteen pounds, marked with a
brush. These firkins were found to
weigh thirty pounds each, and Mr.
Smith says: “If this is not swindling, I
should like to know what it is ?” The
Grocer answers: “So should we. We
would be pleased to know where and
from whom the jobber bought it. The
law of the State requires the tare to be
branded in, as well as the initials of the
packer.”
A workingmen 's mass meeting was held
in New York on Sunday, to express sym
pathy with the striking operatives at Fall
Biver. Resolutions were adopted con
demning the action of the capitalists of
the latter city, the Mayor of Newport,
and the Park Commissioners of New
York. The meeting was most largely
oomposed of Germans.
J. H. ESTILL. PROPRIETOR,
Important Cases Before the Supreme
Court.
A Washington dispatch says the United
State#Bupreme Court, at its present term,
will have lx fore it for decision several ques
tions of great interest and importance.
Among these are the cases coming up
from Kentucky and Louisiana, involving
the construction and constitutionality of
the Enforcement act. These cases were
argued at the last term of the court, and
were laid over to be examined by the
Judges during the recess. The case of
the United States vs. Cruikshank was ar -
gued by Attorney General Williams and
Solicitor General Phillips for the United
Staten, and by Reverdy Johnson, David
Dudley Field and It. N. Marr in opposi
tion to the validity of the acts. Briefs
were also filed by Judge Campbell and
Phillip* against the constitutionality of
the law. The case from Kentucky, of
the U aited States vs. Iteese <fc Foushee,
was argued by Attorney General Wil
liams aud Solicitor General Phillips for
gmrtfWUent, and a brief filed by B.
There are several cases coming up from
Wisconsin and Minnesota, involving the
power of a State to regulate fares
and freights on railroads. In one of
these cases the State has reserved in its
constitution the power to alter and amend
railroad routes et pleasure ; and in the
case coming up from another State no
such power was expressly reserved. These
cases are set down for argument at an
early day. The case of McElrath, com
ing up from Minnesota, and involving
the same question, was submitted at the
last term of the court, but will not be de
cided until after the argument in the
other cases. The third important case
is that of Chy Lung, which’ involves the
validity of the California statute exclud
ing Chinese women on the ground of
alleged lewdness. Application will be
made for a hearing of the case at an early
day, but much of the interest felt in the
decision is taken away by the act of the
late Congress on the same subject, which
was based on the assumption that the
State had no power on the subject.
Federal and State Indebtedness.
Public debts in America, exclusive of
that of the National Government, foot up
$1,331,970,517, of which $769,000,000
are municipal, $180,000,000 the debts of
counties and $382,970,517 those of States,
which is a local indebtedness of S3O per
capita for all the people of the Republic,
and three times as great as the local in
debtedness per capita in England. The
interest is said to average 7 per cent., or
$93,000,000 a year, while the interest on
the British local debts is but $15,000,000,
while on tho other hand our National
Government pays $20,000,000 less than
Great Britain on its national debt.
In tho yeir 1870 the entire amount of
State, comity and municipal taxes was
but it is now estimated at
annually. County and
municipal governments raise $295,000,-
000 a year by taxation and have besides
■increased. Abts $430,000,000 in five
years, ’.’ho cost of government in Great
Britain for all purposes is $376,000,000,
while our local governments alone an
nually cost $380,000,000 in taxes and in
creased debt. These statistics, says the
Philadelphia American, seem startling
and are attracting very general attention.
But except in a few States and cities no
effort at retrenchment is being made.
The American omits, however, to men
tion the fact that these enormous debts,
Federal and State, have been contracted
by the Radical party, and that much the
largest portion of them are justly charge
able to Radical official corruption and
rascality. Until the Radical party ob
tained control of the government there
was comparatively no such thing as a
national debt. That party has revolu
tionized the government, deluged the
land with blood, bankrupted the Federal
Government, plundered the Southern
people of hundreds of millions, aud over
whelmed the State and municipal gov
ernments wfth mountains of fraudulent
debt.
The Ohio Election.
The result of the election in Ohio on
Tuesday, as reported by our telegraphic
dispatches yesterday, was doubtless as
great a surprise to the Radicals as to the
Democrats throughout the country; for
while the latter were confident of carry
ing the State for their candidates by a
large majority, it may almost be said that
the'latter had conceded in advance the
election of Allen. Extraordinary efforts
were made by the contraction ists to re
duce bis majority, but, if wo may judge
by the tone of their press, with little
or no hope of defeating him. A
result so opposite to the general
expectation could only have been
brought about by a combination of ex
traordinary means. We have good rea
son to believe not only that immense
sums of money were used to corrupt
voters, but that, was reported in ad
vance, large numbers of ballot-box stuffers
were introduced from other States, who,
aided by the secret movements of
the Know Nothing organization, ac
complished the result that has so disap
pointed the hopes of the opponents of
Radical misrule and corruption through
out the Union.
The dispatches received last night are
more encouraging and even raise a doubt
of the defeat of the Democracy, upon a
fair count of the legal vote. Until the
vote is properly canvassed and the official
count is given we shall not entirely de
spair of the election of Gov. Allen.
An Immense Coffin. —A Montreal dis
patch says: The preparations for the in
terment of Guibord are being prosecuted
with vigor. The stone sarcophagus in
which Guibord's remains are to be en
closed is being made by Mr. Robert Reid,
of this city, one of the most skilful
workers in marble in Canada. The two
blocks of Montreal limestone from which
the coffin is to be made were cut in the
quarry at Cote St. Louis. Each stone is
seven feet long, four feet wide, and about
two feet thick. In each stone a cavity is
to be cut of sufficient width and depth to
hold the coffin in which Guibord’s body
is now enclosed. The wooden coffin hav
ing been placed in one of the cavities,
the two stones will be accurately fitted
to each other and fastened together with
heavy iron bolts driven through each
stone and riveted at each end. The
whole surface of the sarcophagus will
then be covered with a layer of Portland
oement, mixed with scrap iron, of a
thickness sufficient to resist the most
powerful drills. The stone coffin will
weigh nearly nine tons. Mr. Reid ex
pects to have it completed on Saturday
next. The interment will be made within
two or three days after the completion of
the coffin.
1 A |3| jm ■ *
A Grand Scheme of African Colo
nization.
The Washington correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says : “A company is
organized here to construct a railroad in
Africa, commencing in Liberia and run
ning a little northeast through Borjoo.
Nyfee, Darkuda, Ferritt, Soudan, and
Abyssinia, to the mouth of the Red Sea.
This is a fine agricultural country, well
watered, with a semi-civilized population
of forty millions. The projectors also
propose to establish a line of steamers
running from New York, .touching at
Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savan
nah, and thence to Liberia, which can be
made in fifteen days. Colored men from
the South, acquainted with the construc
tion of railroads, as weU as emigrants
acquainted with the culture of cotton and
sugar, will be shipped in large numbers
to Liberia. The stimulus of the road,
free land, a quick and safe passage, is
expected gradually to produce an emigra
tion which will increase rapidly until at
the end of a few decades a large majority,
It nw, the eutu-e I*B*9 raco wf
wtirbe t&ffsfwrted to to
ianize, colonize, civilize, an a anglaeize
the entire African continent. An act of
incorporation will be applied for to the
next Congress, as also a charter from the
Liberian Legislature, with a grant of a
large amount of land to aid in the con
struction of the road. The projectors of
this enterprise are apprehensive lest the
Southern carpet-baggers follow the ne
groes out there, and thus prove a barrier
to their well-laid plans.”
If this scheme should be carried out it
will afford a fine opportunity for such
unhappy malcontents as Rev. H. M.
Turner and others to gratify their desire
to leave Georgia for some more con
genial clime. We apprehend, however,
that even if the speculators who are at
the head of tne movement should succeed
in getting the charters, land grants and
subsidies for which they ask, and
should get their line of steamships in
operation, when they come to open their
books for emigrants, the very negroes
who are now so clamorous for emigration
would be like old London, who was con -
tinually praying for the good Lord to
come and take him out of his trouble;
but who, when his young master rapped
at his cabin door in response to his
prayer, was not found in readiness to
depart to the better country. Old
Loudon, so the story goes, was on his
knees in the act of praying when he
heard a rap at the door. “Who dat?’
he asked. “The angel of the Lord,”
replied a voice. “Who ?” “The
angel of the Lord come to take poor old
London out of all his troubles.” “Whew!”
exclaimed London, extinguishing the
light by which he was kneeling, “Dar
ain’t no sich nigger here. Lonon been
done gone dis long time.”
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Brandy and Insanity.
On the occasion of a recent visit of a
party of prominent citizens of Montreal
to the new lunatic asylum which has been
establish?-! by tbe of Fro”id nee,
near that fity, Dr. Howard, the medical
superintendent of the institution, made
some remarks upon his method of treat
ment which will probably excite surprise
among a good many of those who have
made a special study of mental disease.
Dr. Howard said that in his opinion it
was impossible to treat lunatics and cure
them without liquor. He bad tried it,
and found no medicine that could be sub
stituted for brandy ; nothing which would
add in such a material manner to the
brain substance. Dr. Howard’s theory is
not new, for tho most ancient writers on
insanity believe ia stimulation, and ap
plied it in the treatment of the insane ;
but the : modern practice runs generally
to the use of sedatives. The asylum
under Dr. Howard’s charge has been open
for the receptior of patients only about
six weeks, and he says that thirty-two
of his patients have already been dis
charged cured, while upon his books he
has the names of ninety more for whose
ultimate recovery he has strong hopes.
There are altogether under treatment
four hundred and seventeen patients.
While there may be some doubt as to
the certain efficacy of brandy as a remedy
for insanity, it is very certain that brandy
taken in liberal doses continuously for
an indefinite period, with or without
sugar, will produce a condition of mental
hallucination strongly resembling in
sanity.
Ames’s Way of Resuming.
The troubles in Mississippi are not un
likely to have an important bearing on
the gold question, and the contraction
organs at the East are already expressing
some uneasiness on that score. As the
cotton picking season is at hand, any
thing that interferes with the gathering
of the crop must materially affect our
foreign exchanges. In Mississippi the
supply of labor is far short of the de
mand, on which account much of the
crop will be lost. The Vicksburg Herald
refers to the emergency in the following
emphatic language: “If Ames and’ his
Brigadier Generals were determined to
have tbe cotton crop of Mississippi |lost
in the fields, they could have hit upon no
more certain expedient than that of or
ganizing the negro militia. We hear of
large numbers of cotton pickers who have
abandoned their crops to engage in the
noble profession of arms. Pay, rations
and clothes, promised to the foolish fel
lows, have completely turned their silly
heads. We hear of some who expect to
: get ‘forty acres and a mule,’ after awhile.
There is no punishment too great for the
man who has deliberately gone to work
to ruin the people of Mississippi, his
negro dupes included, and when Ames
succeeds in getting ‘Mississippi in a state
of rebellion,’ we hope someone will have
a spare bullet for the grand conspirator.”
A Washington dispatch says: “Lieut.
CoL Fred. Grant is expected to be here
now in a short time to take an active
part in the new banking house in which
he is a partner. It is understood that he
has concluded not to resign his position
in the army, but that he will be granted
a year’s leave to see how he likes it.
Then, if everything is lovely, he will re
sign, but if not he will hold on to his
commission.”
The Graphics last cartoon admirably
symbolizes the situation in Massachu
setts. The old lady offers her boys some
Rice pudding, but Johnny won’t have it;
it’s ’bominable. He wants some Adams
doughnuts, while Bobby insists upon
some of that Loring cabbage ; and while
the dispute goes on that naughty Demo
crat, Billy Gaston, runs away with the
State House under his arm.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1875.
Affairs in Georgia.
Sawyer isstill after Kimball—and Kim
ball will soon be sick of Sawyer.
That miserable old rip. Havens, has
returned to Atlanta. His nigger friends
are to be congratulated.
Mr. James SteveDx, of Toombsboro,
has shipped six hundred bushels of rust
proof oats to Savannah.
h- V ilkinson county iqan has killed a
rattlesnake with fifteen rattles.
Lump Gresham, of Forsyth, is going
to start a restaurant. He knows exactly
what a hungry man needs.
In a circle of a few miles the other
day, six children were born in Wilkinson
county. This beats immigration.
A colored well-digger was killed in
Monroe county by falling to the bottom
of the well.
Our dyspeptic friend—“A Subscriber”
—will be surprised and perhaps grieved
to read the following from Roweßs News
&*p*r Reporter: “The Savannah (Ga.)
Advertiser has been consolidated witn the
enterprising and ably-managed Mobnino
News of that city, of which Mr. J. H.
Estill is proprietor. The News has been
frequently acknowledged one of the best
—perhaps the best—daily in the South
ern States. Its consistency and ability
-jaiar-xi it respect, even among its
and no doubt tne amalgama
tion referred to will add to the number
of its friends and patrons.”
Mr. Talbot Davidson, of Barnesville,
is dead.
The Texas fever prevails in Jackson
county. It seems funereal—and funny
too —that people should want to go to
Texas to die.
The robbers are abroad in Jasper
county.
The farmers of Jasper county, accord
ing to the papers, will gather only about
a third of a crop. We feel certain,
however, that they will not gather ac
cording to the papers.
There were rumors of a negro insur
rection in Jasper county the other day.
There have only been six deaths in
Hart county during the past two years.
Washington, Wilkes county, is never
free from lights and rowdyism.
Hartwell, Hart county, wants a tin
shop and a photograph gallery.
Washington, Wilkes county, has anew
mineral spring, and there is a vague sus
picion among the oldest inhabitants that
they are roosting on an iron mine.
The Atlanta Herald says that “Colonel
A. R. Lamar, formerly editor, now Solici
tor of the Savannah Circuit, is on it
couple weeks leave from home in the
Gate City. ” This is far from the case.
Colonel Lamar has never, to our know
ledge, edited the Savannah Circuit.
Kimball was to have arrived in Atlanta
a day or two ago. Will he take the hint
of the Herald, and reply to the charge
brought against him by Colonel Sawyer?
Kimball will give us some fun yet.
The young ladies of Thomasville are
liberal. They go to church with one set
of young men and home with another.
The President and Secretary of the
Thomasville Fair will attend the Macon
Fair. We can most cordially commend
them to all who may attend that exposi
tion.
The Parnell House at Thomasville will
please accept the thanks of the Mobning
News corps for courtesies.
An ear of corn has been raised in
Marion county containing fifteen hundred
and twenty grains.
A Marion county? man who has been
troubled with sore eyes is about to go
blind.
i no iiuonn vista Argus is the name of
anew paper published in Marion county,
by Mr. A. M. G. Russell. It is neatly
printed, and appears to be edited with
ability and discretion.
Brooks county proposes to be repre
sented at the Thomasville Fair.
Mrs. Belle Kendrick, of Atlanta, is
about to publish anew novel.
In Marion county they go so far as to
steal whole oxen.
Mr. J. D. Harlan, a stranger, died in
Atlanta the other day.
The Hinesville Gazette says that tho
barn, stables and outbuildings of Mr.
James Rushing, near Statesboro, Bul
loch county, were destroyed by fire one
night last week. Only a few bundles of
fodder were saved from the flames, the
entire crop of corn, which had just been
harvested, being consumed. Mr. Rush
ing was preparing to retire for the night,
when the light attracted his attention.
Rushing out he saw the buildings in
flames. It was with difficulty that the cat
tle could be driven out of the lot, so
demoralized were they by the danger.
One old cow had to be held to keep tier
from jumping into the fire. Several
goats were burned up. It was undoubt
edly the wicked work of an incendiary,
though for what purpose it is hard to
imagine, as Mr. Rushing was a peaceable,
quiet citizen, without an enemy in the
world, as far as tfe know. We are in
formed that this is the third case of the
kind that has occurred recently in Bul
loch. We trust that the citizens will find
out the authors of this mischief and bring
them before Judge Tompkins.
The Augusta Chronicle says that at the
meeting of the Georgia Railioad Direct
ors recently, “the report of Carlton Hih
yer, Esq., auditor of the road, showing
the receipts and expenses for the months
of August and September, and also for
. the six months ending September 30th,
was read. It shows a most encouraging
state of affairs. In August the earnings
were $56,194 24, of which $22,909 11
were from passengers and mail, and $42,-
285 13 from freights and express, and
the ordinary expenses $44,592 79, leaving
the net earnings $20,601 45. In Sep
tember the gross earnings were $lO3,
479 68 —$21,629 58 from passengers and
mail, and $81,850 10 from freights and
express, and the expenses were $41,409
81, leaving the net earnings $62,069 87.
For the six months ending September
30th, 1875, the gross earnings were $437,-
688 78—5125,544 40 from passengers
and mail, and $312,148 78 from freights
and express, and the ordinary expenses
$266,023 10, leaving net above ordinary
expenses $171,665 08.
A high wind near Cainak blew several
cars on the Georgia Railroad from the
traak the other day.
The Hinesville Gazette is calling for
more turpentine farms.
The Buena Vista Argus, published in
Marion county, says that Mr J. J. Me
Dowell, residing at Thorntonvilie, has in
his possession the skin of probably the
largest rattlesnake ever killed in this
county. The snake was discovered near
his residence, and was first attacked by
a dog. One strike injected its deadly
virus, and the dog died in great agony
ten minutes after. Mr. McDowell shot
the snake twice before it received its
death wound. Its skin required a bushel
and a half of cotton seed or bran to fill
it, being in length six feet and two
inches. Thirteen rattles adorned its tail.
The Macon Telegraph will print an
eight-page paper during Fair week, and
has already begun.
The Atlanta Constitution says the
Thomaston Herald thinks the farmers
have no just cause for complaining of
the low prices of cotton. It speaks a
plain and unpalatable truth when it says
that prices of cotton will be low and the
farmer will never become independent of
the capitalists until he grows his own
supplies, which will lessen the supply of
cotton. The Herald puts the whole
matter in a nutshell when it says that our
farmers should put themselves in a po
sition to bring money here and to keep
it here after it comes.
Stewart county has raised a stalk of
cotton bearing one hundred and sixty
eight bolls.
An exchange says: “The capitol still
bears upon its towering front, in raised
white marble letters, the very insignifi
cant inscription, ‘Kimball’s Opera House.’
Does the State expect to resell the build
ing to H. L K., or is it too poor to have
these letters cut off?”
A South Carolinian was severely robbed
iD Augusta the other day.
Howe's circus cleared $6,000 on its
first day's performance in Atlanta.
They are still making preparations to
put the Thomasville Fair ahead of any
exhibition (with the single exception of
the State Fair) held in'the State. \*ou
would enjoy a trip down there.
Atlanta has a trunk factory, the end
man of which is a Mr. Huzza. Could
anything be neater?
It is to be hoped that Colonel Grady,
of the Herald, is now fully engaged upon
his history of Atlanta and things of that
kind.
The railroad agents are eternally in
session in Atlanta. However, they don’t
mean any anything by that. It seems
funny, though.
Atlanta is harboring a Prussian Count.
We can’t see, though, why he should be
ridiculed on that account. Have these
talented foreigners no rights that a ’ pos
sum-eating public can be compelled to
respect ?
In the name of the whatyoumaycallem,
what has become of the belles who used
to visit Atlanta ? Plfinly, Col. Whidby
is not doing his dut;. He is probably
suffering from rheum,Tiam.
Mr. Janies U. Vincent, who was re
cently married to*Miss Louise Gabrielle
Styles, will probamtle connected here
after with the Albany Hews. Mr. Vincent
is a pleasing and vig< rous writer, and will
add (if that is possible) to the merit of
that journal.
Columbus is excited over the fact that
a negro woman drowned her two-year old
child.
Mr. Thomas E. Moore will not begin
the publication of the Fort Valley Times,
as was proposed.
Howe’s Circus paid the State Road one
thousand dollars for the use of locomo
tives to haul its trains.
The prisoners in Harris county jail
made an attempt to escape the other day,
but one was knocked on the head for his
pains.
John Thomas, of the Brown House, is
"xing up to put guests through during
me State Fair. John Thomas is a
trump.
The Atlanta Constitution understands
that the Bishop of Louisiana has asked
Rev. Mr. Foute, of that city, whether or
not he would entertain a call to New
Orleans, to take charge of Trinity
Church, the pastorate of which was in
the hands of Bishop Beckwith before he
was raised to the care of this see.
The State Board of Health met in At
lanta on Tuesday, Dr. J. G. Thomas, of
this city, presiding.
We always depend on the New York
papers for statistics. Witness this from
the Herald: “Rev. Joshua Knowles, ed
itor of the Greenesboro (N. C.) Home
Journal, was a printer as long ago as
1828.” Why can’t the Herald publish a
map of “N. 0.,” or something of that
sort?
Sawyer doesn’t knew how to use sar
casm, but the following from his paper,
tne Evening Commonwealth, is just as
good—probably better : “ The Herald
this morning wastes nearly a column of
virtuous and patriotic indignation upon
Henry Clews & Cos., of New York, for
swindling the UnitediStat.es Government.
The Herald could hate found as grand a
rascal and as huge a swindle nearer
home than these in Mr. Hannibal I. Kim
ball, the fides actetes of Henry Clews and
his partner in the defrauding of the city
of Atlanta and tho State of Georgia out
of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
Herald should clear Mr. Kimball’s char
acter before it assaiivjthe reputation of
nis partner. Suen it thgnatum is ratner
far-fetched.”
Thus the Washington Chronicle —a pa
per that is supposed to have a Republi
can tendency: “The Savannah Mokning
News, since its consolidation with the
A dvertser, has become more of a news
paper than ever, and is one of the kind
whose columns we begin to linger over.
It has the whole field now, and the field
is a fine one. We are rot so sure that
the Atlanta He raid, at the time of the
new form, promising to be the pat
tern newspaper of the South Atlantic
States, has had a tendency to spur up
the News, and put it upon its
mettle. We rather expect to see the
Charleston Cdurier spread-out, now that
it has succeeded so handsomely in elec
tion matters. Then, between the News
of Savannah, and the Courier of Charles
ton, and the two able journals of Atlanta,
the Herald and the Constitution, we an
ticipate some lively times, bringing the
old saying into play which has reference
to a nameless one seizing the hindmost.
Savannah is a beautiful city, and deserves
the good daily newspaper she now brings
cut so handsomely.”
Columbus Enquirer : Captain Jim D.,
during the war, had a horse that was
what would be called skin and bones. He
was a lively critter, could keep up with
the best conditioned horse in the com
mand, but he would never get fat. Be
sides being very thin, he was wooly. All
the rubbing and currying he got appeared
to make him more wooly. One night
about a dozen soidiers were sitting
around the camp fire discussing Cap
tain Jim’s horse. One advised copperas,
another a poplar log for him to eat on.
Various other remedies were suggested,
but Captain Jim said he had tried them
all. The remedies were about exhausted,
when a long legged, angular, wire-grass
fellow, who was known as “Split Dick,”
on account of his legs being so very long,
and not proportioned to his body, rose
up and in an earnest manner said, “Cap
tain Jeems, did you ever try corn ?” The
query was too much for Captain Jeems
and his companions, and a yell went forth
that was enough to wake the camp, and
“Split Dick,” finding the reception of his
query so boisterous, disappeared.
Thomasville Enterprise: The Fair pros
pects continue to grow and brighten as
the time draws near. A grand exhibition
and rousing attendance are certainties.
The Association is active in preparing
the grounds, enlarging the space for ex
hibitors. and perfecting everything that
will tend to meet the demands and re
quirements of the occasion. The carpen
ters have finished the work of doubling
the space allotted to horses, and are now
rushing forward the buildings to be occu
pied by various granges. In due time
every arrangement will be complete, and
the grounds, buildings, Ac., put in
trim by the 20th. Let no one be
deterred from making entries be
cause of a doubt on the score
of accommodations. These will be
sufficient, and the Secretary is now ready
to receive any and all entries. The day
for the baby exhibition has not been
fixed, but will be made known during the
progress of the Fair, and entries may be
made up to the previous evening. The
judges will be selected, as far as possible,
from sections from whence no entries
have been made, and especially from
those entirely disinterested in any baby
entered. We would again remind all ex
hibitors that no entry fees, for anything
whatsover, will be charged. We also
learn that an opportunity will be afforded
exhibitors on the last day to dispose of
their goods at auction free of charge,
3ave auctioneer’s fees.
Geneva Lamp: To-day was repeated
what to every patriot must be a painful
sight. A countryman, miscalled a farmer,
brought his cotton to towu, sold it for
11 j cents, and expended part of its pro
ceeds in the purchase of a middling of
meat, for which he paid nearly eight dol
lars. For our own edification let us make
a small calculation, and see how much
land planted in cotton this year will raise
a hog. Firstly, we will allow that, if the
season continues propitious, an average
of one bale of cotton to six acres of
land may be made. This bale will sell for
Isfty dollars, and deduct the cost of bag
ging and ties, say two dollars, we have
for our crop eight dollars an acre. Sec
on Ry, if a middling of meat is worth
eight dollars, two middlings are worth
a: _teen dollars, and a whole hogsay, for
the sake of round numbers and to keep
us from feeling too blue about it, is worth,
no, sells for thirty-two dollars. Thus you
see, if we have luck, we can, by planting
cotton, raise one hog to four acres, and
we’ll have no hog stealing in our midst.
By the way, here’s a conundrum for some
of our legislators : Wby is it only a petty
offense to steal bacon raised the ante hel
ium way, while it is a penitentiary crime
to purloin that raised according to the
mode now prevailing. In conclusion, let
us promise to do better in future, and
that we may faithfully carry out this
promise, let us sow this month a large
quantity of rust proof oats, and in Janu
ary a few more.
Atlanta Constitution : Y’esterday a rep
resentative of ths Constitution called at
the Comptroller General’s office and was
furnished with the aggregate tax returns
of the State. These returns we publish
below. Tney have just been completed,
and show a decrease in taxable property
of the State of $11,337,408. That a por
tion of this decrease is due to the bad
crops and low prices which prevailed last
season, is true, but this is only a portion.
The balance is easily accounted for on
other grounds. Our last Legislature saw
proper to pass an act exempting from
taxation fifty dollars worth of
household and kitchen furniture, and
twenty-five dollars worth of agri
cultural and mechanical tools. Prior
to this, iq 1874, there was no
exemption. This $75 exemption was
strongly urged by many members from
counties wherein there were very few
negroes, and they perhaps did not clearly
forsee its effects. The result has been
to exempt entirely from taxation nearly
every negro in the State of Georgia,
except the very few who own real estate.
It has also seriously affected the tax re
turns in this. \Y here everything is
taxed very few men can school their con
sciences to make no returns at all ; but a
large number will do and do make a $75
exemption shelter SSOO of personal pro
perty. The State tax on this $75 is only
about 37 cents, which the sale of two
dozen eggs would pay, and were the law
repealed aud every darkey in the State
who is worth anything would be com
pelled to contribute his share towards
our expenses.
No. of white pel’s 121 Sl9
No. of colored polls 87,569
Total No. of polls ■ 209,388
No. of professions 2,781
No. of dentists 137
No. of auctioneers 22
No. of dauguerrean artists.. 69
No. of billiard tables 121
No. of children between six and eighteen
years .400,591
Value of stocks and bonds $3,381,869
Capital invested in shipping and ton
nage $269,550
Capital invested in cotton manufacto
ries $3,500,000
Capital in iron works, foundries, etc $670 471
Capital in mining $49,279
Number of shares in any bank in this
State $54,747#
Value ol bank shares $12,961,002
Number of acres of improved laud 28,202,795
Value of improved land $95,421,177
Number of acres of wild land 7,068,663
Value of wild land $2,096,507
Number of acres of improved and wild
land 35,271,457
Aggregate value of improved and wild
lands $97,517,654
Value of household and kitchen furni
ture $6,215,572
Last year $11,012,688
Decrease $4,797,126
Value of plantation and mechanical
tools $1,337,232
Last year $2,925,796
Decrease $1,588,564
No. of hands employed 121,641
Last year 114,086
Increase 7,555
Value of city and town property $57,930,353
Last year $57,218,248
Increase $712,1t 5
Amount of money aud solvent debts. .$37,138,943
Last year $38,507,465
Decreise $1,368,522
Value of merchandise $13,908,964
Last year $13,766,587
Increase $142,377
Value of all other personal property not
before mentioned $31,623,608
Last year $32,948,158
Decrease $1,354,550
Aggregate value of whole property. ~5261,755,884
Last year $273,093,292
Decrease $11,337,408
Florida Affairs.
We are now regularly exchanging with
Judge Magbee’s paper.
The Academy at Cedar Key is presided
over by Colonel E. W. Perry, the well
known editor of the Cedar Key Journal.
Gainesville is reaching out for a brick
yard.
The Tampa Guardian has been en
larged and improved.
Tampa is to have-a new saw mill.
The. Jacksonville correspondent of tho
Floridian mentions a rumor that the
Union is about to have anew editor.
The story goes that Dr. Hicks is the
“coming man.” It is said that the paper
in its present hands has not been suffi
ciently devoted to the nomination of
Governor Stearns next year, and above
and beyond all the “bloody-shirt” has
been too much excluded from its
columns. The position the Union took
but the other day, to wit: That the testi
mony in the Richard case clearly estab
lished the man’s innocence was the last
straw that broke Brother Sawyer’s back.
Mr. Edgar, of Key West, is dead.
The patriotic Cubans of Key West, in
stead of fighting the Spaniards, are cut
ting and slashing each other.
The Jacksonville Union says that Capt.
W. B. Woodhouse, of the schooner Flora
Woodhouse, now at that port, while off
Cape Cod on his last trip from Boston,
had the misfortune to lose his son, Mr.
Wm. Woodhouse, a young man about
twenty-six years of age. He had gone
out on the bowsprit to arrange some of
the rigging, when his foot slipped from
the ropes and he was precipitated into
the sea. The schooner was sailing at the
rate of about eight knots per hour, but
was immediately brought to, boats low
ered and search made for nearly two
hours without avail.
There were only five deaths in Jack
sonville during the month of September.
The Union says that Mr. Arthur W.
Felton, of Boston, Massachusetts, has
contracted with several expert budders to
bud one hundred thousand orange trees at
Honeymoon. Mr. George W. Tyler, of
the Congress nurseries of Kansas, buds
himself, on an average, five hundred
orange trees per day. All the hands em
ployed by Mr. Felton are experts, and
persons desirous of seeing this kind of
work done “according to Hoyle” will do
well to visit Honeymoon.
The same paper says that during the
last few days Col. Hardee, of Honeymoon
notoriety, has sold two thousand and
three hundred sweet orange trees for Co
lumbia county in this State. It is under
stood that Mr. C. R. King and Col. Mc-
Leod are in correspondence with the
Colonel for a large quantity of his trees.
Messrs. C. L. Robinson & Cos. have pur
chased from Honeymoon seven thousand,
and Dr. J. D. Mitchell tw r o thousand, and
Mrs. M. T. McQueen, on the Suwanee,
has also ordered a quantity. Col. Hardee
says he expects to sell before the season
is through, a half million of trees, and
believes Columbia county is the centre of
the great orange belt, and that in the
course of a few years, that the route
along the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,
from Savannah to Thomasville, will be
an orange grove.
Jacksonville Press: It appears to be
the case, as the Floridian and Sentinel
appear to think, that under the amended
Constitution no provision has been made
for a meeting of the Legislature for the
year 1876. The amendment referred to
is as follows: ‘‘Sec. 2. From and after the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
January, A. D. one thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-seven, the regular ses
sions of the Legislature shall be held
biennially, commencing on said day, and
on the corresponding day of every year
thereafter; but the Governor may con
vene the same in extra session by his
proclamation. As this section has been
adopted, and declared to be a part of the
Constitution, it seems to be clear that we
are to have no meeting of the Legislature
until 1877, unless convened by proclama
tion. This is another blunder, intentional
or otherwise, on the part of those in au
thority.
The Floridian: The disclosure made
by us of an acquaintance with the guilty
designs of those who propose engaging
in the hazardous experiment of inaugu
rating “a reign of terror” in our midst
seems to have disturbed the conspirators,
and loud tails are made for “names.”
Perhaps the Floridian went too far
in sayisg that “ the scheme was
hatched at an Executive caucus," but
it seems a moral impossibility for
the Executive not to know what
is meditated. But, patience, patience.
At the proper time we hope to be au
thorized to give the public the full
benefit of the facts in our possession.
Meanwhile, certain of the plotters knots
that they are known, and are dreading
lest their names be divulged. Spies and
pimps rarely escape detection, plot they
never so cunningly, while the lunatics
who are sowing to the storm have little
else to expect but a whirlwind of general
detestation.
The same paper says: The last Fer
nandina Observer parades the bloody shirt
with a zeal which cannot fail to commend
it to outrage shriekers of the most
straightest sect. Under the heading,
“Blood, More Blood,” the public is treat
ed to an effusion which indicates how
frail is the partition between sanity aud
raving madness. If what the writer says
is true, we are on the eve of a carnival of
crime, and it is impossible to escape the
conviction that he, and such as he, are
not only laboring to create such impres
sion wherever the Observer is read, but
actually to bring about a state of affairs the
end whereof no one can foresee. The arti
cle is incendiary in the highest degree, and
we are not sure but that it is part and par
cel of a conspiracy to inaugurate a reign
of terror in the “back belt.” When con
sidered in the light of the general good
feeling existing m all sections of the
State, the peace and quiet universally
prevailing, the comnon desire for the
community to forward immigration and
advancement, it is impossible not to feel
that the Observer is lending its columns
to a despicable purpose. There is no
portion of the people of this State who
have a greater interest in the preserva
tion of order than this class so falsely
assailed by that paper. Murder and law
lessness they abhor, and black must be
the heart and phrenzied the brain that
can suppose and deliberately charge the
contrary.
Letter front Florida.
Jacksonville, Fla., October 11.
Editor Morning News:
To compare the policy pursued by the
bond ring of Florida—those gentlemen
who want the people of Florida to give
them a few millions for the purpose of
perfecting the “system”—to that pursued
by Billy Bowlegs and his tribe of Semi
noles, may appear harsh and to some ex
tent uncharitable. But, let us look into
this comparison and see if there is not a
pretty considerable resemblance between
them. Now, Bowlegs wanted Florida all
to himself and his tribe; the loved
Florida for its hunting-grounds, fish
ponds and -swamps. These things
all combined to make Billy hap
py, and he was, until there rose
up another set of claimants in the shape
of “stockmen,” “cow drivers” or “crack
ers,” just as it suits to call them, who
were a determined set of cusses that in
tended to have a showing at the “range.”
They came in with their cattle, and it
was not long ere they and Billy were at
sixes and sevens, fighting. Billy’s plan
or “system” was to shoot, tomahawk and
scalp the last one of them, and keep the
country for his own and the use of his
tribe. If Billy Bowlegs could have
cleaned out the cow drivers and (heir
helps, he would have made a good thing
of it,and would have held undisputed sway
in Florida to-day, but Billy Bowlegs was
not strong enough, and was forced to yield
to greater numbers, and to give way to the
advancing tide of civilization and another
“system.” You see by this that Billy’s
“system” was based upon greed and force,
the greed to enjoy it and the force to
hold it. He was a disappointed Indian,
and naci to give up and go away; not,
however, until he set Florida back twenty
years, and was paid twenty thousand dol
lars to give up. Now, about that twenty
thousand dollars, allow me to tell you
and your readers a little joke. There
was before that time a General Hernan
dez, who was of the pure Castilian blood,
and the owner of a large number of
negroes. Billy stole a lot of Hernan
dez's negroes and carried them away to
the swamps, and when it came time to pay
Billy the subsidy of twenty thousand
dollars to go away and fight no more, a
very honorable United States Senator,
who was well posted in the matter of the
claim of the heirs of Hernandez, stepped
into the War Department, and with
much force and eloquence, demanded
payment from the agent of Bowlegs for
the stolen negroes, and said, with a great
flourish, “Sir, if this claim of Hernan
dez’s is not paid Billy shall not have the
money.” The claim was paid, and of
course the heirs of Hernandez got it all—
of course they got it, their poverty from
that to this day proves they got every cent,
and the honorable Senator worked for
nothing. Pardon the digression. The
bond ling is greedy, and it is powerless to
do good. What this ring can do, and all
it can do, with all the ingenuity of the
successor of Bowlegs, is to keep Florida
back twenty or more years. Powerless
beyond doubt to build and equip, on its
own account, ten miles of railway, it can
accomplish nothing but interpose obsta
cles in the way to prevent others from
improving the State by bringing capital
into it and supplying the people with ac
cessible, practicable and less expensive
routes to and from the great com
mercial marts of the country. It
is convicted —self convicted of pau
perism and bankruptcy, because it
was begging the people last winter to
give it five millions of State bonds to
galvanize the dead “ system,” of which 1
shall speak hereafter more at length.
Where is the difference, pray, between
Bowlegs’ “system” and that of the bond
ring ? Both are alike as two peas, be
cause both tend to the same thing, whe
ther the champion of each had the same
motive in view or not. That is an open
question, and must be decided by oth
ers—such as take the matter under ad
visement. Yours truly, X.
Paddy to the Feont Again. —An Irish
man had sold his farm, and moved all his
personal property to one adjoining, which
he had purchased.
He claimed that stable manure was
personal property and not real estate,
and commenced moving the same. A law
suit ensued, and the court declared
against him. His final remarks to the
Jud:-e, after the jury had found a verdict
agaist him, were as follows:.
“Mr. Judge, a horse and cow are per
sonal property ?”
“Yes,” answered the Judge.
“Mr. Judge, corn, oats, hay, etc., are
personal property ?”
“Yes,” responded the Judge.
“Then,” said Pat, “how in the devil
can personal property eat personal prop
erty and produce real estate ?”
Women and Devils. —Old Winston was
a negro preacher in Virginia, and his
ideas of theology and human nature were
often very original.
A gentleman thus accosted the old gen
tleman on Sunday: “Winston, I under
stand you believe every woman has seven
devils. How can you prove it ?”
“Well, sah, did you never read in de
Bible how seven debbles were oast out’er
Mary Magalin ?”
“Oh, yes! I’ve read that.”
“Did you’ebber hear of ’em bein’ cast
out of any oder woman, sah ?”
“No, I never did.”
“Well, den, all de odders got ’em yet.
President Grant has been accepting the
hospitalities of Brigham Young, just as
though he was not living in open defiance
of the laws of the United States. But
since he made that speech at Des Moines
he can hardly be considered responsible
for what he does.— Portland Argus.
When an Indiana girl gets tired of a
lover and determines to dismiss him, she
doesn’t throw much fresco work into her
speech: “I guess you can pull off now,
Sam, ’is her icy remark; “thisegg won’t
hatch.”
A Frence scientist has invented anew
fish bait. A bottle is lowered into the
water and lighted by electricity and the
fish are to follow it into the net.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Ilirka and the Bloody Uhlrt—An Incen
diary Plot—Tnllahnssee to be Turned
Over to the Neuroeo—The Fellow Archi
bald Drawing Two Holnrie*— -The
“I'nloa”—Uncle Thnd —A Wurntna.
[From an Occasional Correspondent of the
Morning News.]
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 11, 1875.
The age in which we live deserves con
gratulation. It should be congratulated
upon having produced a monstrosity;
upon being the era in which William
W'atkin Hicks “moves, livos and has his
being.” For truly the depth of the degra
dation to which this man has descended
can only be contemplated with the
utmost horror and repugnance. The zeal
which he has manifested in endeavoring
to inflame the minds of the negroes
against the whites entitles him to the in
effable scorn and contempt of every good
citizen in the country. And in this let
ter I desire to unfold to your readers a
part of this man’s record and let all judge
for themselves.
AN INCENDIABY PLOT.
Sorno time ago Mr. Dyke, of Tallahas
see, having come into the possession of
information which induced him to be
lieve that some of the officials of the
State contemplated making a sale of a
large lot of government lands, in order
that the ring might gobble most of them
up, he wrote a short editorial exposiug'the
design and purpose of these officials. In
this editorial ho advised the Southern
people to buy lands, and to buy quickly,
meaning nothing more nor less than that
a good opportunity for speculation would
be afforded, and that money could be
made by purchasing lands and holding
them. When this editorial appeared,
Hicks was in Tallahassee and John Tyler
was in Fernandina editing the Observer.
When Hicks read this editorial, he smacked
his lips, rolled up his eyes, rushed to the
telegraph office, seized a pen and
telegraphed, substantially, the following
dispatch to John Tyler at Fernandina:
“Correct the effect of the editorial in
Dyke’s paper in the next issue of Obser
ver. Buy lands! means buy life, buy
arms! Buy quickly ! means kill at
once !” Accordingly the next issue of
the Fernandina Observer contained a
blood and thunder editorial of the most
incendiary and malignant type. In this
editorial were the following ominous
words of advice to the negroes and Re
publicans : “Sell lands ! sell dearly!
Sell two for one !” which Hicks intended
should be interpreted: “Kill Democrats!
Kill two to one!” A short time after
this Johnson was killed, and now Hicks
and the whole crowd pretend to fear as
sassination, and swear that the editorial
in Mr. Dyke’s paper advising the
Southern people to buy lands was the
signal for the murder of the Republicans
of the State. Was there ever any
thing more absurd! It is so assininely
stupid that I must think that
Dr. Hicks never did believe anything of
the kind, and does not believe so now'.
It was simply on his part a sensational
lie, conceived and concocted by himself,
and wjhen he put the interpretation upon
the editorial expressed in his telegram,
he knew that he was giving it a construc
tion that never was intended, and one
that can only be had 'by a contortion of
the English language, and a construction
that would only be placed upon it by a
mind and heart that was depravity in its
last analysis. This imagination furnishes
the only foundation that he lias for his
bloody shirt articles. What an unreal
and sandy foundation upon which to rear
such a superstructure !
'j*. on* note. M
And I do charge Dr. Hicks, in
this letter, with endeavoring to
incite the negroes in that por
tion of the State known as the Black
Belt, to riot and insurrection. He is trying
to inculcate, through the Fernandina
Observer, the doctrine that the murder of
Johnson was the work of the Democratic
party and the initiatory step to the
murder of all the Republican leaders,*
and that they (the negroes) must be pre
pared to murder and destroy the Demo
crats. And I am informed, upon the
most undoubted veracity, that so
thoroughly has Hicks performed his
work in and about Tallahassee, that to
day should any prominent Republican
of Tallahassee mysteriously die or
disappear, that the probabilities are
that Tallahassee would not be a town
twenty-four hours afterwards, and that
murder, rapine, and fire would hold high
carnival in that now peaceful and law
abiding town. And this because such a
demon as Hicks has been schooling the
blacks, that such a step would probably
be necessary for their own protection.
And yet’some people|think the papers are
hard on brother Hicks ! My God ! such
a sentiment. Can one be too hard on a
viper ? For assuredly he is one. A viper
like the one in the fable. He was taken
to the bosoms of the best families in the
State and nursed and nourished into re
spectability, but now he turns in his un
gratefulness and stings the very hands
that befriended him.
THE GENIUS OF ARCHIBALD.
Aside from the ability exhibited by
Archibald in the examination of the
Richard case, he is now giving another
evidence of his genius by showing the
people of this State how one cin hold
two offices without violating the law.
The Constitution of the State of Florida
provides that no person shall hold two
offices, they being in different depart
ments of the State Government. Now,
Archibald being Judge of the Fourth Ju
dicial Circuit is an officer of the Judicial
Department of the government. But the
pay of Judgeship is not sufficient for a
man of his fine personal appearance, so
some additional provision must be made
for him. Therefore, one John F. Rollins
is appointed Superintendent of the Pub
lic Schools of this county, with the pay
of one thousand dollars per year, which
salary little r big B Archibald
draws with a religious regularity.
And this is the way one man can
have the pay of two offices and
stay inside the law. George
Eliot in her “Mill on the Floss” has a
character whose greatest ambition is to
have his son educated to that degree that
he could “wrap up abuse in a letter so
carefully that while it would be biting it
would not be actionable.” It is needless
to say that if he had lived in this age
that the son would have been the pupil
of little r. big B. Archibald. For certainly
a man that can hold two offices without
violating the law could teach a boy how
to write sarcasm that would not be ac
tionable. It is unnecessary for me to
write anything concerning his genius as
a Judge, for the Supreme Court Record,
with its numerous reversals of his opin
ions, will hand him down to posterity as
a Dogberry who does not require a clerk
to write him down an ass.
THE UNION.
As an on dit, I would mention a probable
change in the management of the Union
of this city, This paper has been en
tirely too honest under its present
management to suit the views of
Sellers and Walton, who are its owners.
So it is currently reported and be
lieved that Walton’s recent visit to this
city, was for the .purpose of adjusting
the books and giving the Messrs. Sawyer
notice to travel—that is, unless they
would consent to swallow Steams for Gov
ernor—a terribly nauseating dose. In
case the change is made, it is supposed
that Hicks will take charge of the Union ,
and that John Tyler will be sent to wave
the bloody shirt at Fernaudina.
UNCLE THAD.
Publius is informed that Uncle Thad is
very much disgruntled at an allusion that
was made to him some time since, and,
that like Pansy Sniffles, in Georgia
Scenes, he is jist spiling for a fight. Now,
this is to inform Uncle Thad that the
least he says the better for him, as,
should the occasion demand, Publius will
give publicity to a portion of his record,
made since he turned Radical, which,
although he might deem it politic to
swallow, he might not find of easy di
gestion. Verbum sat sapienti.
Publius.
The Clews Exposures.
We are permitted by the favor of a gem
tleman who was in close rapport with the
transactions of the period to print copi
ous extracts from a record or diary which
ho then kept relating to the withdrawal
of our financial agency abroad from the
Barings, who had held it since the founds
tion of the government, and its transfer
to the mush -room house of Henry Clews
<fc Cos. These recollections are of great
interest in connection with the recent
testimony before the Register in Bank
ruptcy, which proves that the transfer
was a corrupt transaction. Had the change
been a fit thing in itself, the services
of a paid lobby and a corrupt division of
the profits would not have been needec
to secure it. The remarkable report'
of conversations and extracts from cor
respondence, which we are permitted to
publish, show that every distinguished
man whose judgment was entitled to
weight strongly reprobated that scanda
lous antic of President Grant’s adminis
tration. The two persons best qualified
to judge of it were Mr. Seward, then in
London, who gave his views with great
emphasis, and Secretary Fish, whose
disapproval was strongly expressed. The
then recently retired Secretary of State
and the Secretary of State in office wero
the two most competent judges of the
expediency of such a change. It ap
pears from these revelations that even
Mr. Boutwell thought it a great mistake,
and . that his opinion was overruled by
the only officer who hud authority to
control him.
Oue of the writers of the letters from
which extracts are given, called on Mr.
Seward in London when the news of tha
change was fresh, and the veteran
statesman, “ with much warmth and
vigor, denounced the change and said it
would be a great misfortune to tha
United States,” and he proceeded tostata
his reasons, which readers will find in
the excerpts which we print. He went
on to recount instances which had oc
curred during his administration of the
State Department where the Barings had
gono beyond the rules of business
and taken voluntary risks in (idvftuc
iug money to the United States >•;
critical emergencies. On a subse.jirttedi
occasion, at a dinner given in Paris by
Minister Washburne, at which Mr. Sew
ard and other notabilities were present,
Mr. Seward asked Mr. Washburno
through what agency he drew his salary,
and when it was replied, “Through
Messrs. Clews, Habicht & Cos., of Lon
don, agents of the State Department, - '
Mr. Seward asked, “Who is Habicht ?’’
and on Mr. Washburno telling him thau
Habicht had been the Swedish consul at
New York, Mr. Seward replied, “Why,
when I was Secretary of State I with
- his exequatur, because we caught
him in blockade running.” A precious
successor to the old, solid, responsible
and honored house of the Barings!
When the writer of one of these let
ters expressed his opinion of this change
in Washington the Secretary of the
Treasury spoke in praiso of the Barings,
and said “he was not responsible for the
change.” The inevitable inference is
that it was the President’s own act, as
nobody but tho President could have co
erced Secretary Boutwell to act against
his judgment. The same correspondent
explained to Secretary Fish the embar
rassments that had resulted to the public
credit from the withdrawal of tho
agency from the Barings, and “Mr. Fish
deprecated the change, but said it was
not of his makiug.” All who take an in
terest in the subject will, of course, read
this correspondence. The strong disap
proval of Messrs. Seward, Fish and Bout
well proves that the change wns absurd,
and the fact, recently come to light, that
it was procured by corrupt means, puts
the high officer who enforced it in a most
unenviable light. This is, perhaps, the
most humiliating exposure that has ever,
been made in the history of our govern- 1
ment. — New York Herald.
Systematic Robbery of the Govern
ment. ,
Some time last month it was mention
ed in this correspondence that the Treas
ury Department had paid Julius Witow
ski, of Nashville, Tennessee, $20,000
upon a claim for logs furnished to build
forts .around Nashville during the war. Iv
was also stated at tho time that the
claim was a fraudulent one. The Sucre,
tary of the Treasury learned of the fraud
too late, after the money had been paid,
to prevent its loss ; but he at once took
steps to investigate tho claim, and that
lSvesNgatlOii nas exposed something
more than the comparatively small fraud
of Witowski. It has given the cluo to
show up one of the greatest combina
tions to plunder the Treasury of the
United States that has ever been origina
ted. A Treasury Agent of rare fidelity, a
gentleman well versed in the claim busi
ness, was sent to Nashville some two
weeks ago by Solicitor Wilson to work
up the case, and he returned to-day and
submitted his report. This report and
accompanying history recites the career
of one of the most successful swindles of
tho ‘-government that has ever been re
ported. The history of the man
Witowski, as developed in this recent in
vestigation, shows that he has in times
past defrauded the Government out of
vast sums of money, and that wi f h a_
system of perjury and forgery, cord ue'd
with a mass of stolen documents, In- nas
now in contemplation a series of ] sun
dering which might have proved ex
haustible had it not been for the exposure
made in the investigation at Nash die.
Some years ago this man secured tho
payment of $90,000 for cotton that he
claimed was taken from his plant ion
in Carroll Parish, Louisiana. l’ho
Treasury Agent who went In Na ille
discovered that the principal vie
one Louis Pick, who swore to the fact of
his having seen the cotton destroyed in.
Carroll Parish, was in Nashville at the
time it was alleged that the cotton wa '
destroyed; and his evidence, theprinci*
pal evidence upon which the claim \vi !
paid, therefore was a perjury, and Ilia,
the amount paid was a clear steal fro -i
the Treasury. This, however, was ft i !
mere incidental of the investigation into
the fraudulent $20,000 claim lor logs,
regard to which the Treasury mr jj
ports that the papers submitted in . A
port of their claims are all forgeries I
Witowski, in view of his past suets--, s
in this line, has prepared other fraudu
lent claims against the government
amounting to over SIOO,OOO, which ho 4
proposes to submit for adjudication. It
is probable, however,“hy’the time Solici
tor Wilson finishes with him he will not
be in a position to prosecute any more
claims against the government for some
time. — Washington Cor. Cincinnati /v u
quirer.
Tightening the Screws on tin IV<tpl i
Washington, D. C., October - -“rti *
books of the Treasury Departn
that for the fifteen months end Si
temb'er 30, there has been w mdr
twenty million United States bcnir,,
posited with the Treasurer to .itcure
national bank circulation. In lieu of
these bond-, ninety per cent., or a total
of eighteen million in national bank
currency, has been retired. Treasury
officials predict that the carrying into
effect of the specie resumption act will
cause the withdrawal of at least pve hun
dred and fifty mi!J ; on additional bonds,'
which would cause a further contraction,
of the national bank circulation of ond
hundred and thirty-five million dollar !
before January, 1879. Thd act itselr
provides for the reduction of the
greenback circulation to three hundred
million, so that on or before the Ist
of January, 1879, will remain
outstanding a total currency eirculatfm
of less than five hundred million
Even this amount cannot be safely
lated upon, from the fact thaMEe jjfl
tional banks may surrender an
greater proportion of their circuiaM
than is provided for in this estimaW
Again, the national bank notes will, <fl
and after the Ist day of January, 187 M
be redeemable only in coin or greeny
backs. The natural result "will therefore
be the hoarding of greenbacks by the
banks for this purpose until, it is not im
probable, the whole greenback circula
tion of $300,000,000 is locked up in their
vaults, and interests of the
country left to accommodate themselves
to a circulation of less than $200,000,000.
The total contraction of the currency for
the past year exceeds $30,000,000, and it
is predicted by those in a position to
know that, unless the specie resumption
act is modified or repealed, the conttfe
tion for the ensuing twelve month* will
exceed $70,000,000. 1
A dispatch from
ports a daring robbery by three nifjfed
burglars, who entered the store of K sUogg
<fc Bates last Friday morning and hand
cuffed Kellogg; then they stole ffeoO in
cash and decamped.
The Sultan Abdul Assiz, of Turke*
gets a yearly salary of slo,oo<>,ooo
