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4. 11. KSTILL, Savannah, Ga.
(•rant’s .nisupplied Clemency.
The President's clemency, which has I
just been so conspicuously manifested J
commuting the sentences cf the Jefferson
Borden matit.oers to imprisonment for
life, is eliciting the unfavorable criticism
of the Northern press. The Boston Post
says: “Here were three men who had
mutinied and murdered, and whose pur
pose was to exterminate all the officers
and crew of the vessel on which their
crime was committed. Their plans were
well laid, and had it not been for the
desperate courage of the Captain they
would Lave had full fruition, and the
villains could have taken themselves
beyond the reach of law. There no
doubt regarding ties Time tor Winch
these wretches were so justly condemned.
The proofs in the case were direct and
conclusive, and few and faint and un
worthy of notice were the voices that
called for any official Interference in their
favor. If ever the death penalty should
be inflicted, these were the culprits who
most thoroughly deserved the extreme
punishment,and yet these are the men that
the Chief Magistrate of the United Htates
has sought out to save from the gallows,
and reserve for some influence that will
in time turn them loose again to exercise
their treachery and piracy upon the high
seas. The act has not alone been a degra
dation of law, but it has weakened tho
restraints that are even now too lax in
the merchant servico. It has indirectly
encouraged those murders of which tho
penalties should be the severest because
they are committed with the least risk.
Tho commutation mocks the popular
sentiment of Boston, and it is at complete
variance with reason and justice. The
l’rosident will do less harm by confining
himself to the school question.”
King Kallico’s Bill.
Tho Congress of tho United States and
the Common Council of New York City
are both wrestling with the hotel bills of
his Majesty Kalakaua, King of the Sand
wich Islands. The jbill owed by tho na
tion has just been presented and will
probably bo paid as soon as the cumbrous
macliinory of appropriating, auditing,
etc., can be brought to bear upon it. The
bill against the city of New York was
presented, on the contrary, some mouths
ago and has since been referred and re
reforred, much to the disgust of the pro
prietors of tho Windsor Hotel, where
Kalakaua and his suite stopped during
their stay in tho metropolis. The bill
•mounts to many thousands of dollars).
Liquors and oigars alone are charged
t SC !—a sum that ought to have
supplied Kalakaua vi:L a
batii every moving and enough brandy frp
ka4. i him "anuT<o*'Sihte" {lfjffP U'er’q'
drunk from daylight to darkness and
through tho darkness beside. As another
of the items is SOOO for one spoiled car
pet, tho probability is that the suite got
drunk if the Kiug did not. On the
tho whole, tho bill seems to show that the
Handwicli Islander has an enormous pow
er of consuming liquor (perhapß tho New
York bummers holped him), and prefers
to smoke three cigars at once. No won
der the saloon keepers of Honolulu form
the moneyed aristocracy of the Kingdom.
* The War Spirit Breaking Out
Afresh. —The editor of the Chicago Tri
bune is terribly disgruntled because the
Democrats in Idling the few offices at
the disposition of tho House of Hepre-
Rentatives did not convert the Hall into a
Hotel dos Invalides for the maintenance of
the pensioned voteraus of the Union army.
Poor follow, his grief is inconsolable,
and he is resolved to be an irreconcilable
to the day of liis death. Ho says: “For
the sake of reconciliation with our erring
Southern brethren many people were
willing to stand ‘gray-mixed,’ but ‘gray
above the blue' is crowding the mourners
a little too hard. Throwing out of the
nation's capitol and into the street the
one-legged and one-armed, battered,
bruised and bullet-holed Union soldiers
who held the little subordinate places
about the House of Representatives in
'Washington in order to make places for
Confederates, was rather rough on the
‘blue.’ If reconciliation can only be pur
chased at such a price, we hope to
belong to the ‘irreconeilables’ a while
longer. ”
The Philadelphia Centennial llribo.
According to the Philadelphia papers
“the government” and Congress had a
glorious jollification in that city on Sat
urday. The “jolly smoker.” who is al
ways on hand ou such occasions, notwith
standing the absence of llabcock, was in
good spirits as usual, as doubtless were a
majority of the Congressmen, Senators,
Cabiuet, Supreme Judges, heads of de
partments and bummers before they got
away from their hospitable enter
tainers. It was a free ride, a free
feast and free wine. Chestnut aud
other streets through which the
procession of carriages passed, was illu
minated, and the oitizens turned out aud
thronged the hotels in great numbers to
greet their distinguished guests. The
entertainment cost ten thousand dollars,
and the papers are confidently of the
opinion that tne people's representatives
will return to Washington fully con
vinced of the propriety of voting a mil
lion and a half of the people’s money to
the big Centennial show. So we go.
Ftw la RepubUque !
The celebrated “Eugenie laces,” which
were seized sometime ago by the Custom
House authorities, in New York, are again
inviting public attention. A suit is now
being tried in the United States District
Court, in which the government asks
their forfeiture for attempted evasion of
the payment of duty. These laces con
sist of a dress and several smaller articles,
being valued at $9,000. The dress alone
is said to be worth SO,OOO. The owner of
the goods is a Frenchman, and he claims
as his defense that he had given them to
his wife, and that they were a part of
her wearing apparel, and. as such, were
not liable to duty.
The French Minister in Washington
City has addressed a letter to Secretary
Fish, detailing a scheme which has been
set on foot in Australia for the liberation
of the French politicr 1 prisoners in New
Caledonia, and requests the United States
Government to bring to the attention of
American ship*masters the precautions
which the French authorities have been
compelled to adopt for the safe keeping
.pf their prisoners.
J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
I Ik* < n>nih^'
■ ";' IS
'&’hihmb' j&
Vv> elected an ’" %
*.-preme Court, a'n<l eight
These high judicial offices were filled with
individuals, none of whom are qualified
to fill worthily the position of Dis
trict Magistrate, and several of whom, in
any well governed community, would oc
cupy cells in the penitentiary. A fellow
by the name of Wright, a full blooded
African, with a most disreputable record,
was placed on the Supreme bench.
Whipper, also a negro and a notorious
drunkard, thief and gambler, was assign
ed to the Charleston circuit. Another
m—j •' cvuuai vO the bench is ex-Gover
nor Moses, best known throughout the
country as the robber Governor, and who
thought himself lucky a year or two ago,
when through pity he escaped the peni
tentiary.
Such an outrage has very naturally
aroused the intense indignation of the
people. The New* and Courier de
nounces the action of the Le gislature in
strong terms, and intimates that the in
dignity will not be quietly submitted to.
Speaking of the appointment of the negro
Whipper, it says :
“The result of the election for Judge
of the Charleston Circuit is appalling.
It means nothing less than insecurity of
life and property, the destruction of the
freedom of elections, and persecution, to
the death, of those who have stood, or
stand, in the way of the gang, by whose
agency Whipper is elected. In fine, it
means the triumph, in a most aggravated
and dangerous form, of the worst ele
ments of negro Radicalism over the in
tegrity, the intelligence and the prop
erly of the Htate.
* * * * * * *
What, then, shall be done ? The an
swer should not be lightly given. It
must suffice to say that, with Whipper on
the bench, no man in Charleston will
be safe ; that innocence will not insure
acquittal nor guilt conviction ; that no
suitor need rely on the justice of his
cause. Nor Governor, nor Legislature,
nor the two combined, could directly, and
of themselves, work as grievous an in
jury to this city, and through it to the
State, as must follow the installation of
Whipper as Judge of the Charleston and
Orangeburg Circuit? Can such things
be ? Shall they be ? These are questions
no mere newspaper dare answer; for they
depend on the temper, the will and the
determination of the Governor, the courts
and the people!
“Can such things be ? Shall they bo ?”
These are pertinent questions. But it is
time for the people of South Carolina to
consider them. When, as inthis case, the
worst men, combine with brutal ignor
ance, to usurp the forms and offices of
the government only to prey upon
their substance, it is time for the
for tlumseves
wutjfieritis not both their right and
duty to adopt effective measures for their
own protection.
The white people of South Carolina
have borne much —in a mistaken spirit of
compromise and conciliation they have
exercised forbearance under wrongs and
humiliations such as no other civilized
people were ever called to endure, such
as no other people in this Union would
submit to. The limit of endurance has
been reached when forbearance ceases to
be a virtue, and conciliation has no long
er the apology of prudence. In the
emancipation of Mississippi from the
dominion of corruption and barbarism
the people of South Carolina have an ex
emplification of what can be accom
plished by united, uncompromising and
determined effort.
Let them then take courage, and cast
ing aside all ideas of unnatural, impossi
ble alliance of intelligence and virtue
with ignorance and villainy, let them re
solve to protect themselves from threat
ened oppression, degradation and confis
cation. In the struggle that has been
forced upon them they will have the sym
pathy and encouragement of true men of
all parties and all sections of the Union.
In such a struggle they will be sure to
triumph.
An Amendment to mi Amendment.
Ex-Speaker Blaine, Gen. Grant’s most
prominent rival for the Republican nomi
nation for the Presidency, having intro
duced a resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution providing that
no State shall make any law respecting
tho establishment of religion or prohibit
ing the free exercise thereof; and that
no money raised by taxation in any State
for the support of public schools, or de
rived from any public fund therefor, or
any public lands devoted thereto, shall
ever be under the control of any
religious sect; aud that no money
or lands so devoted shall be divided
among religious sects or denominations,
the Albany Argus submits an amendment
to the amendment, in substance as fol
lows : “Neither shall any person ever be
denied the right of suffrage, or be deemed
ineligible to hold any elective or appoint
ive office under the Federal Government,
or under any State Government, because
of his religious profession, or because of
his association or connection with any re
ligious organization.” The Argtw says:
“The reception this proposition will re
ceive. will test Republican sincerity.
The fact that it has not been made, either
by the President or by the ex-Speaker,
shows the hollowness of their anti-secta
rian professions. They at least are pro
scriptive to an intolerant degree.” tf .
The New York Journal oj
objects in advance to an appeal being
made to Congress for an appropriation
towards building the statue of Liberty in
New York harbor. In France all the
subscriptions to this fraternal work ate
personal or confined to municipalities,
and nothing comes out of the national
Treasury. The Journal takes the sensi
ble view that New York alone, at whose
gates the statue will stand, should raise
every penny of the SIOO,OOO required,
and that the government shr ild be called
upon to contribute only the site.
w. Haven's lett< not helped
lStu much. The HafcJhrff Post* com
ment is a fair aamp&Tf the estimate put
upon the explanation by the press:
“Bishop Haven .Aas not improved his
position by explanation of
his ‘third terii> He begs the
question in saying that he did not renom
inate President Grant, but merely prayed
that he might be. TjJLs is too small a
hole for a Bishop to try to crawl
through.”
gjtttMMk' ilteM® Sens.
The Presidential Succession in Case
of Gen. Grant’s Death.
* After the whisky scandal, the anti
third-term bombshell and the Philadel
phia Centennial jamboree, the absorbing
topic in political circles at Washington
just now is that of the Presidential suc-
Kssion in the event of Gen. Grant's death,
Bhich is rendered uncertain by the de
mise of Vice President Wilson and the
failure of the Senate to elect a President
pro tem. The question is an interesting
one and might, in a certain contingency,
become a matter of grave importance.
The law of 1872, intended to provide
for such a contingency, declares that in
case both President and Vice President
die or are removed, the President of the
Senate, “or if there is none, the Speaker
of the House of Representatives for the
time being,” shall act as President. In
order that there might be no vacancy in
the succession it has been usual daring
many years for the Vice President to ab
sent himself at the close of the session,
and thus give the Senate an opportunity
to acting presiding officer. In
this way, with Mr. Wilson’s connivance,
Mr. Ferry was chosen last March at the
extra session.
Until the new House met this month
and chose Mr. Kerr Speaker there was no
Speaker after the fourth of March last.
Had Gen. Grant died at the same time
with Mr. Wilson it would seem that Sena
tor Ferry must have become acting Pres
ident, and if he had also died before Con
gress met there would have been no suc
cessor ready to fill the place. Now,
how ever, there is a Speaker of the House,
and the Democrats raise the question
whether, if Gen. Grant should die, the
succession would not fall to Mr. Kerr.
They say that Mr. Ferry has not been re
elected to the Presidency of the Senate
since that body met this month, and they
quote from Jefferson’s Manual a rule
which declares that the office of Presi
dent pro tem. of the Senate terminates
with the session of the Senate and must
be filled anew after a recess.
It is a singular fact that precedents
may be found in the history of the Sen
ate both for and against the position of
the Democrats, but the greater number
of precedents, forty-nine against four,
favor the claim of Mr. Ferry’s friends,
that he holds over without anew election,
and is thus the successor of General
Grant. These forty-nine precedents
show, however, only that Mr. Ferry may
hold over without re-election ; they do
not prove at all that the Senate may not
elect anew President pro tem. On the
contrary, the four precedents show that
it has done so, and thus may do it again.
With a view to settle the question and
avoid the possibility of a dangerous issue
between the Senate and House in the
event of the death of the President, Sen
ator Edmunds last week introduced a re
solution to elect a President pro tem on
the 7th of January. This resolution was
referred to the Committee on Privileges,
and on Monday a resolution was adopted
that Mr F-r.'uj'jQk l ' r
be the President Senate
until January 7th, 1876, and until anew
President pro tem. is elected. This set
tles the matter for the present; but as
there is a disposition on the part of a
number of Republican Senators to get
rid of Mr. Ferry, on account of his finan
cial and free trade views, it is probable
that there will be a warm contest for the
position which has the Presidency of the
United States in prospect should Presi
dent Grant die before the expiration of
his present term. Mr. Ferry will, it is
thought, have several opponents, but
strong efforts will be made by Western
men and his friends to re-elect him.
Another Demand for Africau“Rights.”
The Washington organ of the colored
community, after recapitulating the va
rious wrongs alleged to have been received
at the hands of the Republican party,-
proceeds to put forth this ultimatum:
“For these reasons we now urge two
things upon the attention of the Repub
lican Senators:
“First—The prompt admission of the
Hon. Mr. Pinchback, of Louisiana, to his
seat in the United States Senate.
“Second—The election of Mr. Fred
erick Douglass, or Prof. Langston, or any
other cultivated ‘representative man’ of
the negro race, as Secretary of the Sen
ate.”
In all kindness to the colored commu
nity, the St. Louis Republican suggests
that this is not a good time to be discov
ering and demanding new “rights.” They
have got more now than they know how
to either appreciate or improve, and the
Republican horse is carrying as much
“weight for age” as it can conve
niently bear, without hoisting an over
grown African jockey into the saddle.
Let the newly emancipated and enfran
chised be content to imitate the example
of the Quaker Convention in Pennsyl
vania during the war, and resolve to
“stand still and see the salvation of the
Lord.” Else instead of salvation there
may come a dose of the other thing,
which will teach these chronic grumblers
and growlers that there is a point be
yond which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
Grant Master of the Situation.
The New York Herald is still haunted
by the ghost of Cmsarism. It finds no
assurance in the passage of Mr. Spring
er’s anti-third-term resolutions. The ed
itor is unwilling to trust the votes or
pledges of the Radicals against a third
term for Grant, who, he maintains, is
stronger than his party, and can obtain
the nomination in spite of them. “ They
took him,” says the Herald, “as their
leader reluctantly. They have followed
him without any sincere respect. They
have given his administration an irrita
ting support. They would gladly see
him sink out of sight. When the cam
paign unfolds itself they will follow his
banner with the servile adulation they
showed in the The campaign for
the Presidency thus far is nothing more
than a religious crusade. The popular
cry is “Free Schools and no Popery.”
The Praise-God-Barebones is Bishop Ha
ven ; the Cromwell is Gen. Grant Thus
far he holds the field, with no one to an
tagonize him but a raw, badly trained
group of Bourbons, who now control the
House of Representatives.”
Bishop Haven, in his letter to the
Tribune, announces that he has excellent
reason for believing that the Catholics
desire * ‘to make the Pope President. ” On
which the World remarks: “This is a
terrible plot, truly, since it involves noth
ing less than getting the Pope, who is
well on in years, bora again on American
soiL What a clever thing It is, there
fore, in Bishop Gil to ha\A hit upon a
master-stroke for countered it, by the
simple process of making President
Pope. Jp
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1876.
SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.
Fifth Day.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.)
Americas, Dec. 20, 1875.
Yesterday (Sunday) was a bright day
and the various Protestant Churches were
opened and the members of the Confer
ence invited to occupy the pulpits. The
churches were all well fillet', and the exer
cises of the most interesting character.
At the Methodist Church Bishop Doggett
in the morning filled the pulpit and or
dained the following Deacons in the
Methodist Church:
I. F. Casey, William J. Flanders, R.
W. Rogers, C. E. Boland, P. H. Crump
ler, James E. Rorie, J. W. Weston, W.
F. Reardon, J. A. J. Kimble, G. B.
Swann, R. M. Walker.
At night the Bishop ordained the fol
lowing Elders:
Sow. W. Domingos, George C. Thomp
son and John T. McLaughlin.
T ,! is n.-uTinc the ’•■'me of Robert F.
Williamson was called, and he was granted
a supernumerary relation. S. R. Weaver,
at his own request, was given the same
relation.
The Committee on Sunday Schools
made their report, showing that the
whole number of schools was 308, an
increase over last year of 18, and show
ing an increase of officers and teachers of
92. The whole number of pupils is 12,-
271. The most gratifying result is the
report of 695 conversions connected with
the schools. They recommend the uni
form lesson system, published at Nash
ville, and urge it upon all the schools
connected with th' church.
A resolution was passed endorsing the
labor of the retiring Sunday School Sec
retary, Dr. A. G. Haygood, and the in
coming one. Dr. W. E. G. Cunningham.
The report was adopted.
The report of the Board of Trustees of
the Orphan’s Home was read, showing
the institution in a more healthy condi
tion than was supposed. Renewed effort
was pledged, and a request for the ap
pointment of new officers—Rev. L. B.
Payne as Agent, and liev. J. B. Wardlaw
as Superintendent.
A lengthy discussion ensued upon the
subject of representation in the District
Conferences, indulged in by large num
bers of leading members. The wholo
subject was laid on the table.
The morning was taken up in reading
and receiving reports. The business is
nearly all through, and the body will soon
close up and the appointments be given,
and then the men will go forth for an -
other year.
Quite a number gained leave of absence
this morning.
Sixth Day’s Proceriliiigg.
Amebicus, December 21, 1875.
The Conference met, and was opened
with religious service by Rev. G. G. N.
MacDonell.
There was organized on yesterday after
noon a society to be known as the
“Widows’ and Orphans’ Relief Associa
tion of the South Georgia Conference.”
the object of which is to furnish relief to
the parties named immediately on the
death of a member. There are two kinds
of membership. As the clergy are the
sole recipients of the benefactions, each
preacher is to pay a fee of three dollars
on of a brother, and iaoh lay
uoiiai or more, as they may
feel inclined—all money to be paid within
sixty days after death.
The following were elected as officers
for the ensuing year:
President—Rev. E. H. Myers, D. D.
Vice President—Rev. G. G. N. Mac-
Donell.
Secretary—Rev. S. S. Sweet.
Treasurer—lsaac Hardeman, Esq., of
Macon, Ga.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Clerical—Revs. F. A. Branch, R. F.
Evans, and R. B. Lester.
Lay—H. L. Jewett, N. R. Rogers, J.
M. Jones, Emory Winship, and M. H.
Cutter.
The credentials of Rev. W. H. Cardell,
a local preacher, was restored by vote of
the Conference.
The memorial service in honor of de
ceased preachers—Revs. T. C. Coleman,
E. H. Luckey, and James Spence—was
largely attended, Rev. J. W. Talley
presiding.
Dr. Josephus Ande son who was trans
ferred from Florida to this Conference,
has been by Bishop Doggett transferred
to the White River Conference and
stationed at Helena, Arkansas.
The statistical report was read by Rev.
R. M. Lockwood, Secretary. No. of mem
bers 29,304; local preachers 221; Sun
day schools 310; churches 406; amount
collected for pastors $49,642 51; for Pre
siding Elders $8,585 93; for Bishops
$1,095 50; for superanuated fund
$3,848 95.
Rev. Walter Knox was placed upon the
superannuated list, and Rev. N. M. C.
Conley was made effective.
The next session of the Conference
will be held at Sandersville, in Washing
ton county.
Resolutions were offered by Rev. G. G.
N. MacDonell in reference to the Wesley
Monumental Church in Savannah, com -
mending the enterprise to the church at
large, and returning thanks for the
generous donations from other denomi
nations. It also requests the appoint
ment of Rev. J. O. A. Clark as agent of
the enterprise.
Remarks were made by Rev. A. M.
Wynn and Bishop Doggett upon the sub
ject, and the resolutions were adopted.
Collections for domestic missions were
ordered during the months of February,
March and April. Foreign missions
during the months of October and No
vember.
Rev. G. G. N. MacDonell was elected
Treasurer of the Foreign Missions Col
lections.
An assessment for the education of
young men in the ministry, amounting to
nine hundred dollars, also an assess
ment for domestic missions was made,
amounting to nine thousand dollars.
The usual resolution of thanks was
passed, and the usual visiting committees
to the literary institutions. The minutes
read and approved, and the Bishop pro
ceeded to read the appointments for 1876.
The appointments are as follows:
SAVANNAH DISTRICT.
G. G. N. MacDonell, Presiding Elder.
Savannah—Trinity, Edward H. Myers;
Wesley Church and Mission, Alexander
M. Wynn.
Springfield Circuit —Julian S. Jordan.
Sylvania Circui —James D. Maulden.
Scarborough C rcuit—S. N. Tucker.
Bethel Circuit- -Robert B. Bryan.
Alexander Circuit—N. D. Morehouse.
Waynesboro Circuit—F. A. Branch.
Bethany Circuit—B. F. Breedlove.
Louisville Circuit—E. J. Burch.
Sandersville Station—James D. An
thony.
Washington Circuit—Thad. , Nease.
Davisboro Circuit—J. B.
Gibson Mission—To be supplied.
MACON DISTRICT.
James O. A Clark, Presiding Elder.
Macon—Mulberry street, A. Wright;
Jones Chapel Mission, W. M. D. Bond;
First street, S. D. Clements; East Macon,
S. S. Sweet.
Macon Circuit —Wm. C, Lovett.
. Irwinton Circuit —Thomas A Griffiths.
Jeffersonville Circuit —Wm. J. Greene.
Gordon Circuit —To be supplied.
Hawkinsville Station—David* R. Mc-
Williams.
Haynesville Circuit—Robert L. Wig
gins.
Perry Station —Samuel Anthony.
Fort Valley and Marshallville—Robert
B. Lester.
Crawford Circuit—Charles J. Toole.
Superintendent Orphans’ Home—John
B. Wardlaw.
Assistant editor of the Southern Chris
tian Advocate —John W. Burke.
President Wesleyan Female College—
W. C. Bass.
Professors Wesleyan Female College
C. W. Smith, H. W. Key.
Professor Emory College—O. L. Smith.
COLCMBUB DISTRICT.
J. B. McGehee, Presiding Elder.
Columbus—St. Luke, Rober. J. Corley;
St. Paul, Joseph S. Key; Broad street and
Mission, J. V. M. Morris, W. H. Johnson;
Girard and Trinity Mission, Joseph p!
Wardlaw.
Catawba Circuit—L. G. B. Wiggins.
Hamilton Circuit—George Johnston.
Talbotton Station—George C. Clark.
Talbot Circuit—William W. Stewart
and John W. Weston.
Geneva Circuit—Don Q. Abbott.
Butler Circuit—William F. Robson.
Glen Alta Circuit —William F. Lloyd.
Cusseta Circuit—George T. Embry.
Buena Vista Circuit—E. J. Rentz.
Conference Missionary—Lovick Pierce.
Agent of Orphans Home—L. B. Payne.
AMEItICUS DISTRICT.
James W. Hinton, Presiding Elder.
Americas Station —T. T. Christian.
Magnolia Springs Circuit—J. R. Little
john.
Bethel Circuij —To be supplied.
Ellaville W. Tidwell, R.
W. Williamson,^^ernumerary.
• Oglethorpe Circuit —J. M. Potter.
Montezuma Circus—H. R. Felder.
v ienna Circuit—John W. Domingos
and L. A. Snow.
Dawson and Smithville Stations —Wal-
ker Lewis.
Leesburg Circuit—To be supplied.
Terreil Circuit—James A. Rosser.
Calhoun Circuit—Robert M. Booth.
Weston Circuit—Robert F. Evans.
Stewart Circuit—P. H. Crumpler.
Lumpkin Station—A. J. Dean.
Cuthbert and Georgetown—Robert W.
Dixon.
Spring Vale Circuit—P. C. Harris.
THOMASVTLLE DISTRICT.
E. H. McGehee, Presiding Elder.
Thomasville Station—J. O. A. Cook.
Fort Gaines and Blakely—Peter S.
Twitty and S. R. Weaver, supernumer
ary
Cedar Spring Mission—To be supplied.
Arlington Circuit—A. P. Wright.
Albany and g issimi—R. L. Honiker.
Camilla and Newn Circuit—Thomas
K. Leonard.
Branchville Mission—S. W. Stubbs.
Cairo Circuit— James T. Ainsworth.
Ochlocknee Mission—To be supplied.
Bainbridge Station—R. M. Lockwood.
Decatur Circuit-Wesley Lane.
Trinity Circuit -Cornelius M. Boland.
Spring Hill Cin uit—Lowndes A. Dar
sey.
Boston Circuit- George J. Griffiths.
Quitman and Vaidosta Station—James
M. Austin,
Ocopilco Missii o—To be supplied.
Morven Circuit -Isaac F. Carey.
Lowndes and Ichols Mission—N. B.
Ousley.
BBUNSV. OK DISTRICT.
W. M. Hays, Presiding Elder.
Brunswick—-J. /. Simmons.
Camden Missit i —Thomas Armistead.
St. Mary’s Stati n—B. W. Key.
Charlton Circm —To be supplied.
Darien—-To be upplied.
Jonesville Miss m—To be supplied.
Hinesville and: ission—J. M. Marshall.
Jesup Circuit— . L. Williams.
Wayne Mission -To be supplied.
Bhckshear and Way cross—G. C.
Thompson.
Stockton Miss:- .i —To be supplied.
Nashville Circuit —To be supplied.
Moultrie Mission—C. D. Adams.
Waresboro Circuit—D. G. Pope.
South Coffee Mission—U. W. Norton.
Worth Mission,-W. E. Shepherd.
Alapaha -T 0 be applied.
DUBLIN DISTRICT.
J. E. Sentell, Presiding Eider.
Dublin Circuit—A. M. Williams.
Laurens Mission—W. F. Bearden.
Eastman Mission—J. E. Rorie.
Telfair Circuit—W. M. C. Conley.
Ocmulgee Circuit—H. C. Fentress.
Spring Hill and Mission—W. P.
Roberts.
Mount Vernon and Mission —C. C.
Hines.
Reidsville Circuit—J. J. Giles.
Bryan Mission—To be supplied.
Bulloch Mission—To be supplied.
Swainsboro Circuit —C. A. Moore.
Wrightsville Circuit —W. J. Flanders.
Appling Circuit—David Blalock.
Wilcox Mission—To be supplied.
TRANSFERS.
James O. Branch to Pacific Confer
ence.
R. W. Rogers to North Georgia Con
ference.
J. J. Morgan to North Georgia Confer
ence.
W. M. Watts to Florida Conference.
VISITING COMMITTEES.
Emory College—Alexander M. Wynn,
Stephen D. Clements and John T. Mc-
Laughlin.
Wesleyan Female College—R. J. Cor
ley, Walker Lewis, James M. Mobley.
Andrew Female College—Peter S. Twit
ty, George J. Griffiths, W. N. Sheats.
Collinsworth Institute George S.
Johnston, Wm. F. Robinson, Edgar M.
Butt.
JOINT BOARD OF FINANCE.
Clerical—Arminius Wright, B. F.
Breedlove, J. P. Wardlaw, R. W. Dixon,
J. W. Simmons, James M. Austin, C. C.
Hines.
Lay—R. W. Lovett, W. H. Hollins
head, A. M. Brannon, W. A. Graham,
Benjamin Darsey, C. M. Lowe, M. H.
Mcßae.
The next Conference to be held at San
dersville, Georgia. S.
“Sharp-and-Quiok.”—E. Hurlbert,
formerly Superintendent of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad under Bullock, has
written a letter to a gentleman in Mem
phis that he has obtained stock
sufficient to grade, cross-tie, bridge and
iron a railroad from Kansas City to St.
Louis, to connect at that place with the
road from St. Louis to Cairo. He states
that four thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars per mile will be ample for this
purpose. Sharp-and-Quick at counting
votes, can beat creation, but if he can
build a railroad for four thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars a mile, there is
more in him than we ever gave him credit
for.
If the Democracy remain true to their
record of Thursday, Tom Scott’s Texas
Pacific monstrosity and all kindred
schemes for obtaining subsidies and the
loan of government credit are shelved
for the next two years at least. The
Forty-fourth Congress, in adopting the
resolution of Mr. Holman, of Indiana, by
a vote of 223 to 33, has pledged itself to
defeat any and all such assaults upon the
Treasury. The resolution is carefully
worded, aDd a strict interpretation would
exclude even the Centennial appropria
tion of $1,500,000. Nothing less than
stultification can open the doors of this
Congress to the subsidy beggars.
It is noted at New York as a significant
sign of the times that the principal busi
ness of the auctioneers just now is the
selling off of gentlemen’s private estab
lishments under the hammer. These sales
are still continued from day to day, and
include not only fancy horses and car
riages, but expensive libraries, Oriental
wares and antiquities. Included in these
is the library of William Butler Duncan,
Esq., of the bankrupt firm of Duncan,
Sherman & Cos., which were sold on Fri
day. Among other rare curiosities of art
were textile fabrics from Turkey, Persia
and Algeria, such as gold curtains, pearl
embroidered shoes, ornamental and sacred
vases, bronze censers, Ac.
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Affairs in Georgia.
The remorseless critic of the Augusta
Constitutionalist characterizes a paragraph
that appeared in this column the other day
as the “quintessence of meanness.” The
editor evidently mistakes the meaning of
our paragraph, but his comment gives us
an opportunity to state that there was not
the remotest intention on our part to reflect
upon the unfortunate Tilley or upon the
almost as unfortunate Ratcliffe, but upon
the method which they chose to demand
and give satisfaction. 'This is so palpable in
the paragraph, however, that it is only
necessary to explain it for the satisfaction
or dissatisfaction of the Constitutionalist.
We are quite willing to let text and comment
go together.
A colored man in Laurens county beat his
cousin, a negro woman, to death the other
day. He has no copyright on the process.
The thirty-fourth gin-house burned in
Georgia since the first of September is that
of Mr. Robert Lewis, of Dooly county. The
fire was accidental, and the loss is about one
thousand dollars.
Unknown parties in Hawkinsville have a
curious habit of firing pistols and throwing
stones through the windows of the Episco
pal Church in that place.
A little daughter of Col. E. J. Magruder,
of Rome, was badly burned the other day.
In Butts county recently, a Mr. Hall was
shot and killed by a Mr. Mays.
Dr. Lester says that Jesup is improving.
A negro was lound dead at Jesup the other
day.
The Press and Cultivator is complaining
of the uncomfortable character of Spalding
county jail. It will be so after a while that
jails will be supplied with sofas, carpets,
and cold and warm baths. What are jails
for, anyhow?
Mr. Ben McGeehee, of Jasper county, an
old gentleman and well-known citizen, fell
into a mill-race the other day, while at
tempting to get on his horse, and was
drowned.
Mrs. Temperance Smith died in Tattnall
county on the 12th, aged one hundred and
seven years.
A mule fell into a well in Tattnall county
the other day, but was drawn out in good
health so far as his hide and heels were con
cerned.
Quite recently at Indian Spring Miss Susie
Collier, a most charming and accomplished
young lady, was married to Captain J. F.
Cleveland.
Dr. Reuben F. Wright, of Forsyth, will
shortly remove to Dalton. Dr. Wright is
one of the most brilliant and ambitious
young physicians in the State, as well as a
clever gentleman, and Dalton may well af
ford to congratulate herself.
The Forsyth Advertiser has entered its
twentieth volume. It is Very nearly old
enough to vote.
The handsome new dwelling-house of Mr.
Kelly at Tennille was burned last Friday by
an incendiary.
The Irwinton Southerner sayr that Mr.
Peter Youngblood, of Wilkinson county,
wag fifty-two years old on the 28th of No
vember. He has never bought a pound of
bacon or a bushel of corn, has never had a
lawsuit or a difficulty with one of his neigh
bors, does not owe a dollar in the world,
never was sued, and for the past seventeen
years has sold bacon and corn, and now has
some to sell.
The Macon Gas Company has taken al
tho burners off the city lamps, and the po
lice now have things to themselves.
An incendiary fire burned the smoke
house of Mr. Charles R. Harper, of Baldwin
county, one day last week.
Mr. Patrick Costfiitfr—was—incidentally
drowned near Augusta the other ilayr- •
A R|go tnlef was shot and killed near
other day while defying ar
rest.
A wild goose was slaughtered near Car
tersvi le recently.
The Geneva Lamp is to be enlarged to
ten times its present size in January.
Mrs. Eugenia Halsey died recently in
Montgomery county.
Mr. H. C. Chastain was married recently
\s> Miss Saekey G. Rushing, of Thomas
county.
Captain L. C. Bryan, who nas been for so
many years the editor and proprietor of the
Thomasville Enterprise, has sold that paper;
to Messrs. W. E. Davies and C. P. Hansell.
While we cordially welcome the newcomers,
we shall miss our friend Bryan.
Mr. Alfred Stewart shivered a tumbler
over the left eye of Mr. Dave Queen in At
lanta the other day because the latter took
the liberty of alluding to the former as a
liar. Mr. Stewart is in jail.
A Thomas county man succeeded in cap
turing a hornets’ nest after he himself had
been captured three or four times.
Mr. William Palmer, of Columbus, is
dead.
The Macon Telegraph says that the old
woman who was killed a few days ago at
Echeconnee creek by an incoming freight
train on the Southwestern Railroad was not
identified. Coroner Sessions went out on
Saturday and held an inquest upon the
body, but no evidence could be found which
threw any light upon her identity. A gen
tleman who met her a short while before
the accident occurred testified that she was
very deaf. She asked him the direction of
the residence of Rev. Richard Kane, and he
had some difficulty in making her under
stand his answers to her questions. Mr.
Kane, to whose house she inquired the way,
was sent for and viewed the body, but was
unable to identify it as that of any one with
whom he is acquainted. It has been sug
gested that it is possible that she is an old
woman who left the country hospital last
week. But that is merely conjecture. It
will probably never be known who it was
whose life was so tragically ended.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch gives the par
ticulars of an incident that appears to be
almost incredible, and but for the fact
that the information comes from the
most undoubted sources, we should be
inclined to disbelieve it. On the 2d day
of this month a party of neighbors
had collected at Mr. D. T. Forehand’s,
in Dooly county, for the purpose of assist
ing him in “raising” a hous'e. While en
gaged at the work a large hawk flew into the
yard and seized in its talons a good-sized
chicken. The hawk then attempted to fly
away, and had flown about fifty yards, keep
ing about five feet from the ground, when
Mr. D. S. Yaun, who had pursued it, caught
it on the wing, taking it by the tail in one
hand and by the neck with the other. In
this condition he carried the hawk and its
prey back to the crowd, who witnessed the
scene, and expressed their astonishment at
the ft-aj, the fleetness of Mr. Yaun, and the
audacity of the hawk.
Rome Commercial: A negro man, by the
name of Mack Daniels, was fatally stabbed
at Tecumseh Iron Works, on Friday morn
ing, by another negro. The difficulty origi
nated through some misunderstanding
about a coat which they both claimed. On
Friday morning this negi o walked up behind
Mack and stabbed him in the small of the
back. A friend of Mack’s interfered and
was painfully but not seriously stabbed in
the side. Mack lived thirty-six hours, and
died on Saturday night. This makes three
murders which we have chronicled in the
last three days.
Brunswick Appeal: We learn from our
exchanges that the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad is offered for sale by the directors.
Sealed bids for the property are invited up
to twelve o’clock in. of January 26, 1876.
The road has been thoroughly repaired,
and is now in better condition than it ever
has been, while its business is steadily in
creasing, and it has a good prospect of be
coming profitable property in a compara
tively short time. We have heard nothing
as to who will probably be competitors for
the purchase of the property, but presume
there will be considerable competition.
Macon Telegraph: We saw, at the Macon
and Brunswick shops yesterday afternoon,
the wreck of the engine which exploded
just below Buzzard Roost, on the 10th of
the present month. It is the worst wreck
that we ever saw, and one that it is impossi
ble to describe. There is scarcely a frag
ment of the boiler left attached to the
engine. Many of the flues were torn out,
while others appear to have not been moved.
One of the axles was wrenched off, and a
driving-wheel was turned completely over,
with the flange on the outside of the
track, and none of the connections were
broken, but simply twisted by the
somersault which the wheel had
made. One piece of the boiler, weighing
about a thousand pounds, was blown a dis
tance of nearly half a mile. The bell of
the locomotive, which weighs seventy-eight
pounds, has not yet been found, though the
woods and country for a mile or more
around have been thoroughly scoured. Dr.
FleweUen has offered a reward of five dollars
for its recovery. There seems to be no
satisfactory theory as regards the cause of
the explosion. Many ideas are expressed,
but none that we have heard appear to be
based upon adequate grounds. The en
gine was one of the best on the road.
It was built splendidly in every part, and in
September last was thoroughly overhauled
and every part examined rigidly. There
never had been a leak anywhere about the
boiler. The engine was put upon the road
the 15th of January, 1869. Master me
chanics who have examined the wreck all
agree that the engine was unusually well
built, and agree also that the explosion was
not caused by any single weak place in the
boiler. The whole boiler appears to have
exploded simultaneously—or to have ex
ploded in every part at the same time.
The Augusta Constitutionalist calls our
explanatory paragraph in regard to the re
cent duel in that city, “a manly apology.’’
It was merely an explanation. If an apology
is necessary it ought to come from the city
editor of our Augusta contemporary, who,
in his comments upon our paragraph, im
puted to us the worst motives. If either
our protests or our sympathy could restore
Mr. Tilley to his family and friends he would
not now be a victim to an interpretation of
the Code of Honor that in all its phases is
most cowardly and cruel. .
A Millen nigger shot another in the month
over a game of cards the other day, thus ac
complishing iu a moment the work of four
graduated dentists.
The McDuffie Journal, published at Thom
son, has entered upon its fifth volume.
All the Georgia weeklies are going to sus
pend for Christmas, and wo shall have to
depend altogether upon fire-works for our
items.
Three negroes have been arrested for
burning the new dwelling of Mr. S. R.
Kelley, near Tennille.
Waynesboro is to have a calico soiree.
Mr. Hubbard has taken formal control of
the Waynesboro Expositor.
Mr. James H. Robinson, of Newton coun
ty, is dead.
Mr. Joshua Key, of Burke county, is dead.
The Degroes of Griffin dop’t have much
charity for each other. They allow one of
their own color to starve at any time.
It is stated that Burke county contains
the only deposit of burr-stone of any value
in this country.
In a magistrate’s court in Burke county,
the other day, a negro woman tackled a
white man.
Mr. Charles E. Harmon, a very promising
young man, has been elected Secretary of
the Young Men’s Library, of Atlanta. The
Directors failed to elect a Librarian.
Eatonton is clamoring for a bakery.
Waynesboro has received 655 bales of cot
ton this season.
Eatonton is to have & new hotel.
The colored burglar that has been har
assing Macon has been jailed at last.
A Taylor county peafowl claims to be over
sixty years of age.
The Atlanta Herald says that the cards of
invitation to Rex’s ball were engraved by
Mr. Percy Stevens, and are as nice and
comprehensive a piece of artistic skill as
one would wish to use at his own wedding.
Mr. Stevens is daily adding new laurels to
his fame as an engraver. By the way, there
is no use in sending off for auythiug in that
line. He has the presses and workmen, and
can equal any Northern work for fineness of
finish and elegance of design. Geo. Sharp,
with whom Mr. Stevens is connected, has
perlected this department in all its details.
The same paper says that the Governor
ordered the Secretary of State to issue a
proclamation offering a reward of SIOO for
tho arrest and delivery to the Sheriff of
Muscogee county, with proof to convict, the
incendiary or incendiaries who set fire to
and burned the gin-house of J. C. Cook, in
said county, on the 25th day of last Octo
ber.
Eatonton is to have anew livery stable.
Crawfordsville correspondence Atlanta
Herald : As in my travels at different points
of the State, I find the people generally
much interested in Mr. Steuhens’s health,
and all being anxious for him to go to Wash
ington city as early as possible, and all
having confidence in his wisdom and capac
ity to benefit us in Wasbingt u very much,
etc. lam sorry to say for the past eight or
ten days Mr. Stephens has been very un
well, if not very sick, from a violent cold,
commencing with catarrh fever. For the
past three or four days, he kept up and at
teaded to his correspondence, but for the
past loTtT-eEQive days he has been in bed,
suffering miicTT 'f'rbffl. a severe cough and
much expectoration. The broken
two or three days ago, but the cougli and
frequent excessive expectoration has weak
ened him not a little. He is some better to
day. He, at this time, suffers no pain, and
he says his appetite is as good as it has been
for the past twelvo months. Mr. Stephens
still hopes to be able to go to Washington city
about the middle of January, if the weather
be good, etc. Before I came here, I expected
to give you a 1 ind of “gossipy” letter.. W
I desired to near from Mr. Stephens relative
to cortiit . “passing events,” but I did not
deem it prudent for him to talk much, and
therefore did not “tempt” him.
Even the Hon. George 11. Pendleton was
compelled to submit to the infliction of the
inevitable excursion up the Augusta canal.
The canal is probably a good thing for Au
gusta, but what will strangers como to think
of it ?
Here is ike thirty-fifth: Tho gin-liouso of
Davis & Walliford, in Stewart county, was
burned recently, together with three bales
of cotton. Accidental.
The Augusta rats are high-toned enough
to eat ud terriers. The question is, how
can a terrier afford to sit down and allow
himself to be eaten up ? However, Augusta
is Augusta.
Anew paper called The Bright Side has
been started at Carnesville.
The thirty-sixth gin-liouse burned this
season is that of Mr. Thomas J. West, of
Hancock county. Ten bales of cotton were
consumed. Accidental.
Columbus Enquirer: We have been shown
a very handsome picture manufactured of
singular material. It was no less than a
tall, round broken shaft, resting on a base
of several square blocks—the whole made
of a hornet’s nest. Tho appearance of
whitish granite was presented, only it had
richer polish and lustre. To add to the at
tractiveness of the shaft.'a wreath of small
wild flowers of variegated hues was twined
around it. One of these bright hued flowers
was obtained from Ireland. We were also
shown a different style of monumental pic
tures, the material of which was marble
paper and natural flowers. Both are the
productions of Mrs. Jane Martin, of this
city, who in such work exhibits the rare
taste and perception of beauty and skillful
blending which characterizes the true artist.
In this connection, it may be interesting to
know that hornets make their nests from
their scrapings off fence rails where they
have rotted. We have a lady’s word for it.
Athens Georgian: Miss Nora V. Har
rison, who has for three years so satisfac
torily conducted the musical department of
the Lucy Cobb Institute, left last Thursday
morning for Charleston, where, after spend
ing a short time in recreation, she will en
ter upon her duties as organist in the Bap
tist Church in Atlanta. This is indeed a
great loss to the L. C. 1., and to our com
munity, as Miss Harrison, besides being an
exquisite musician, was a most valuable
acquisition to Athenian society. Her many
friends in Atlanta, however, could not suffer
her to remain away from them, and we are
compelled to accept the inevitable, though
with toarful eyes.
Griffin News: An old colored woman
named Matilda Brown, come to a horrible
death last Sunday morning, being literally
roasted by fire. A News reporter saw the
corpse and the sight was so horrible that we
spare our readers the sickening details. The
woman was a tenant on a lot owned by Cap
tain B. W. Doe, on the Poplar street exten
sion, and was found during Sunday fore
noon, dead, lying on the hearth of her
apartment, with all her clothing burned off.
She was reported alive the evening previous
by other tenants on the lot, and though in
bad health, was able to go about and look
after her business. The fire had
communicated from her clothing to
the floor of the building and
a large space was burned therein, but it was
fortunately discovered in time to prevent
the destruction of this and adjoining prop
erty. Various surmises as to how the
woman came to so violent an end were ad
vanced, some being disposed to rest suspi
cion, but the most general and doubtless
the true explanation of the event, was that
she had died suddenly when near the fire,
or had been prostrated by a fit, and met her
terrible end without being able to summon
the assistance of those who were so near at
hand. Coroner Doe, upon being notified of
the occurrence, summoned Dr. J. L. Steven
son and a jury, and held an inquest over the
remains, the jury returning a verdict of
“death by accident.”
Athens Watchman: At the meeting of the
State Grange, which recently convened in
Atlanta, among other things they declared
that there is no county in the State that
cannot equip and run a cotton and woolen
factory in its own limits at a great profit.
They take, as an example, a factory for spin
ning yarns with twelve hundred spindles,
with a capital stock of $22,000, and show
that such a factory would give an average
profit of twelve dollars per day, or $3,600 a
year, or 16£ per cent, on the capital stock.
The profit of a factory with sixteen hun
dred spindles and forty looms, which could
be put upforfnrty thousand dollars, would
make a pr<jHt $24 a day, $7,827 a year, or
18 per cent, on the capital. And $5,000 ad
ditional outlay would put in a section of
woolen cards and spinning jacks, with looms
for moving the same. To this might be
added the increased stimulus which would
be given to every branch of business in the
city; the employment which would be offered
to our idle population, and the increased
value of real eatate where such an enter
prise existed. Cannot the grangers and
farmers in Whitfield county put the above
suggestions into tangible shape.
Whisky has ruined many men, says the
New York Financier , but if other Repub
lican leaders are not more provident than
President Grant, it may soon /count a
great party among its victims. I
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Florida Affairs.
Purman's band-wagon has not made its
appearance.
Wciw-o beginning to admire Conover. His
appreciation of McLin would do honor to an
old-fashioned Democrat.
When a Jacksonville dog dies they
straightway stuff him. They have a curious
knack of stuffing things in Florida, espe
cially ballot-boxes.
The Rev. Dr. Hicks has returned to
Florida.
We haven’t seen the Live Oak Times for
some weeks. The Times is too good to
Keep.
Ocala has sown the seed of a Christmas
tree.
Orange Lake is to have a large saw-mill.
Six of the Indians confined in the Fort at
St. Augustine have died.
A little Indian girl attends the colored
Catholic school at St. Augustine.
Tallahassee had frost and ice on Friday.
The Jacksonville Press says that Tony
Solary has shipped to the editor of the New
York Herald twelve oranges growing on one
limb, and almost touching each other, the
united weight of which was twelve pounds.
The Floridian says that a party of men in
Brevard county recently stole a "number of
cattle from Rabern Raulerson and sold them
to the Indians. The owner found the stock
and demanded its return. The Indians
quietly gave up the cattle, but ire indignant
at having been swindled, and demand that
justice be done them by the whites. Serious
apprehensions of trouble are felt by the
frontier settlers unless the Indians are sat
isfied. The thieves have been arrested, but
the Indians are still out of pocket. Senator
Hendry has reported all the facts to the
Governor, and recommends the appointment
of commissioners to investigate the matter,
and that the Indians bo reimbursed by the
State. Ho recommends the appointment
of J. M. Pearce, Robert Martin and Hauler
son, and says they are men of integrity, who
live on the "frontier and understand the In
dian character. The Union says the Gover
nor will probably givo theso commissioners
authority to act in the premises and report
to the Legislature.
It is stated that Bill Gleason has secured
two million dollars to be used in opening a
continuous water route from the St. John’s to
the Indian river, and thence south the whole
length of that river.
A little negro child was burned to death
in Jacksonville the other day.
The Jacksonville Press has the following,
which we heartily endorse: Our esteemed
old friend, Colonel N. K. Sawyer, formerly
of the Union, is now engaged in making
preparations for the early establishment of
anew paper, bearing the above title. It
will be independent in politics and will, from
what we know of Colonel Sawyer’s character,
always be found on the side of right and
justice. Colonel Sawyer, although ltepubli
can in sentiment, has never been connected
with rings or cliques, and has as supreme a
contempt for the average carpet-bagger and
his schemes as do the editors of this paper.
We most sincerely and cordially wish him
and his paper all imaginable success and
prosperity.
It is stated that a colony of thirty immi
grants from Bay City, Wisconsin, is ex
pected at Tampa this month.
Pike’s Georgia Minstrels didn’t pay their
advertising bills in Tallahassee.
Here is the way Conover talks about the
Sentinel corps: “One of you, in the late
troubles, was either exempt by reason of
the place of his birth or physical disabili
ties, while the other had sucli mortal dread
of the smell of gunpowder that he fled his
colors and found safety within the Union
lines, and has boen a ‘bummer’ ever sfiice.
‘lt is the badge of his tribe.’ ”
LaYilla, one of the suburbs of Jackso*
ville, is noted for the frequency and for®
city of its dogs. if
The Jacksonville Press will horeafty bo
SUS(I on Tuesdays and Fridays. F
loudly of tkp pres-
ence of the
Key WcstQ(fl
ing robberies^
Mr. William
r 'en of Jackson Vila
m Cedar Key wan'
bor straightened.
Colonel Cottrell is of the opinion tlw’he
Legislature is authorized to assemble next
year.
Monticello is raising oranges right along.
Major George W. Taylor, of Jefferson
county, has been elected Master of the State
Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry.
The Jacksonville Press is shortly to be en
larged.
Cocke and Conover have the advantage of
McLin and Hicks thus far.
Tampa grows bananas without any trou
ble.
Oranges can be raised in Alachua county
as easily as anywhere.
Maurice Daly will shortly knock the ivory
balls in Jacksonville.
The Mellonville Adoertiser has succumbed
to the pressure, and the places that once
knew it will know it no more.
Captain J. B. Oliver and Mr. Rogers, the
Superintendent of the State Fair, met about
half a dozen of tho citizens of Monticello
last Wednesday at that place, and, after
speeches from the Captain, who has been
appointed to lecture throughout the State
on the subject of the Fair, tho citizens de
cided to make a strenuous effort to have
Jefferson county well represented. Tho Fair
comes off at Jacksonville in February next.
Floridian: We see some of our State
papers bragging on fine clusters of oranges
numbering from six to ten, but Dr. P. P.
Lewis has in bis garden in this city a cluster
that beats anything we have seen noticed.
The cluster uumbors twenty tine, perfect
oranges; not scattered over a long branch,
but growing as close together as the fruit
could be packed in a basket. It is a beauty.
Marianna Courier: On Sunday night last,
about ten o’clock, little Charlie Burgettwho
was kidnapped nearly a month since, was
restored to his mother. He was placed upon
the steps of the front door; the party
placing him there waited under the shadow
of a tree near by until tho cries of the poor
child suffering from the piercing cold winds
attracted tne attention of the family in the
rear rooms. They immediately rushed to
the door and while taking up the child, the
person ran into the road without hindrance
,or detection. It is supposed that the party
who brought it back, was one of the kidnap
pers. The whole affair is a mystery—the
cause of abduction, the whereabouts of the
child when gone, and the unexpected re
turn, remains unexplained,
The Floridian says that Lewis Smith and
Hitcher Gainer, two colored men employed
on Captain Parkhill’s plantation, in Leon
county, had a quarrel last Thursday over a
hog which it was alleged was stolen by
Smith’s wife from a sister of Gainer the
previous night. During the altercation
Smith became muoh excited, and getting
his gun threatened to shoot Gainer, but the
weapon was taken from him by other color
ed men who had gathered in the house.
Smith then assaulted Gainer with an axe,
when Gainer stepped - to the rear of the
house, picked up a gun he had deposited
there when first coming up, and shot Smith
through the breast, killing him - almost in
stantly. Gainer soon after surrendered
himself to the Sheriff, to whom the intelli
gence of the occurrence had been sent by
Capt. Parkhill, and is now in the county
jail. He insists that the shooting was
strictly in self-defense, as his life was in
imminent danger when the deed was done.
Jacksonville Press: A few nights since
the police arrested in a house of ill-fame in
this city a man known as Ben Hernandez,
for an aggravated assault and battery upon
the proprietress and one of tho inmates.
He was very properly and justly fined by the
Mayor next morning twenty-five dollars.
Not satisfied with the lesson received,
Hernandez swore out a warrant, and
arrested the City Marshal for interference
with an officer in the discharge of his duty.
It appears that Hernandez was appointed a
fecial State detective by Governor Stearns
on the 19th of last October, and claims that
his business is to suppress gaming houses
and bagnios. The evidence elicited before
Justice Sampson established the fact that
he was drunk the night in question, and
engaged in an attempt at black-mailing.
Mr. Bentley, counsel for the city, gave him
& Severe excoriation in the course of his re
marks, and Lee, colored, counsel for Her
nandez, after hearing the testimony, very
promptly abandoned the case. This appoint
ment is another evidence of the foresight
and good judgment of the Governor.
Monticello (Jefferson county) Constitu
tion: Mr. Robert Johnson, of this county,
furnishes us the following statement as the
results of a one mule crop, and his estima
ted cost of producing the same:
13 bales cotton (475 lbs each) at 11c..5679 25
125 bushels corn at 75c 93 75
1,200 lbs fodder, 8,1 75 c 900
Value of crop. tjR $782
SfPEy.iES. '
Rent of 36 acres at $4 00 $144 00
Rent of mule for the yflir 45 00
Feed of mule: 75 bu. edrn at 75c ... 56 25
2,000 Ihaflrjdder at. 75c.. 15 00
Use of tools 12 00
Bagging and ties. •• • . ■./ 30 90
Hire of 2 hands for l
Feed of hands for year 100 00
Rent of cabin ■ J 12 00
Value of wood t*^ 8 rued 8 00
Total expenses. * $62115
Leaving a net profit of 158 85
Even the foregoing figures demonstrate
that farming can be made very profit able in
Florida, with cotton ranging a g ®
cents. But wo contend that Mr
has over-rated his expenses.
the rent of his thirty-six acres shotik®
estimated higher than seventy-two uS
an 1 h '.v ng once charged for tho lau®
has no right to pat in a claim of rent®
cabin and use of wood, atgtwenty
Here is a saving of ninety-two dollars"®
these two items aloao. Other expenses a®
over-rated. On the whole, we do not tht®
khat Mr. Jonhson's report of result i H ■
frue criterion of what can be accomplishes
"•l a one-mule farm in this county. In a ,■
dition to the cotton, corn and fodder, as rH
ported above, the labor employed is abui 1
and int to produce fine crops of oats, suga
cane and potatoes, as also an abundance oh
meat to supply a family of fivo or six for ■-
full year.
South Carolina Affairs.
Rev. J. C. Brown, of Beech Island, ha
accepted the call to the pastoral charge o
the Baptist Church of Aiken. It is expectei
that he will preach his installation sermoi
on Sunday morning, the 26th instant.
A cow in Cheraw, the property ol Mr. Jas
Ryan, recently gave birth to twin calves
Both cow and calves are doing well.
On Wednesday night last, Wade Rose
boro and Peter Roseboro stole two bales o
cotton belonging to Major E. M. Mills, nea
Blaokstock, and set off for Chester. Majo
Mills discovered tho loss early in the day
Thursday, and set out in pursuit. Th
thieves were captured and the cotton re
covered.
The young men of Greenville will celebrati
Christmas by a prize pigeon match.
At the late session of tho State Council
F. of TANARUS., held at Florence, Mr. H. W. Fin
layson was appointed District Vice Presiderf
foY Chesterfield oounty, in place of Rev. J
E. Carlisle, resigned.
A negro child was burned near Green
wood, at tho place of Mr. Blake. It oc
ourred near tho cotton gin, where a fire wai
kept for warming purposes. The chili
(about four years old) was left at tho fire
and, going too near, caught fire and burnec
fatally before aid could get there.
Orangeburg is grievously tormented witl
negro thieves. In one instance
was supplemented with attempted arson.
It is said that Gov. Chamhorlain has Tc
qnired now bonds of Cardozo and Dunn,
tho State Treasurer and Comptroller.
Mr. J. O. Heridt, a prominent citizen of
Sumter oounty, died on the 19th instant.
Wm. R. Oake, a soldier of the 26th lowa
Infantry, who was with Sherman's army
when it passed through Cheraw in 1865,
writes to the Postmaster at that place to say
that he has a captured and abandoned Biblo
which ho is desirous of returning to the
owner.
Ou Friday last a colored child was burned*
to death in a house near Sumter.
Mr. Jonas Harris, of Spartanburg county,!
iu about ten days, has recently lost the three!
oldest of his four children from dipththeria |
The eldest was not over eight years of age I
The fourth, an infant, has boen stricken I
with the disease.
The mill, gin-house and five bales of cot-1
ton belonging to Mr. G. W. Shell, of La v J
reus county, were burned by incendiaries
Tuesday last. On the same night and
the samo neighborhood, Mr. H. Allison lost!
his barn and aoutents by tiro. This, also, I
was the work of the incendiary torch.
The ladies of the Catholic Church at I
•Sumter have inaugurated a Christmas fair I
for tko benefit of their church.
The gin-house of Mr. John Frost, six I
miles from Sumter, was destroyed by the I
incendiary’s torch Monday night, botwoen I
nine and ten o’clock, together with fourteen I
bales of cotton, cotton seed, gin and other I
contents.
The fair of the ladies oi the Edgefield I
Baptist Church, in Edgefield, realized one i
hundred and forty dollars.
The fifty German immigrants, who passed I
through Charleston last week, have reached I
their future homes in Anderson county.
On Wednesday of last week Lorenzo
Thomas shot and killed Angus McQuage,
both whito men, on the Charles Irby place,
in Marlboro’ county. The parties became
involved in a difficulty growing out of tho
loss of some cotton, which Thomas accused
•McQnage’s brother-in-law of etoaling. After
a tussle the parties separated, and McQuage
went oil'a short distance, picked up an axo
and started back towards Thomas. As he
was advancing Thomas shot him, the ball
entering his body just beiowtho breast bouo
and coming out behind. After being sh\ !
* McQuage continued to advance, and knockeh*
Thomas down twice with tho axe. lie then i
walked off a short distance and fell dead. A
Groonville News: Wo have como to
point whore these things must stop—wlffl
older must bo restored to society—
the whito man must assert himself—where
the negro must bend or break before the
race that never yot has suffered itself
brought under the domination of anothr-
There is no more room for soft talk ini:
matter. We must say fo the colored ra
Nfcivo way or die. We cannot, as a race, allow
misguided slavaaof yesterday, in the hands
of scoundrels, so declared beforo tnault ; '
to rule over us. We cannot escap
roi s of the situation if we would. It is man
up for us, and we must meot it with eve •,
iustinct of civilized man, every incentive of 1
honorable existence, und aro sworn to an ii
ex irable self-defonse by every guerdon that
awaits honest manhood, and every Miami
that shows us, for all time, the whipped me
nials of scoundrels and ex-slaves.
yno dar-
j^tl
Another Third-Term Card.
It has long been suspected that Pref ]
dent Grant lias been carefully nuru ng
cuu ses for hostility with Mexico, urii 1 1
out of disorders on the Itio Grande, 1:
the two-fold purpose of advancing t 1
interests of a ring who hold alleged
claims against that country amounting to
an enormous sum, and of leaving an open
question which might be made a pretext
for a war of conquest, to be undertaken
in furtherance of his third-term de
signs. No sensible man can doubt that
the lives and property of our citizen
on the Mexican border could have
been rendered secure long ago
if our government had manifested any
real purpose to extend its protection over
them. But brigands from over the lb
have long been permitted to raided
our territory without any g|uuin< -f, i
of the administration to their
rages, and it is impossible to account!’
tho passive attitude it lias assumed in tL
matter except upon the supposition wcl
have mentioned. It is possible that wa
may realize the results of this policy sooneJ
than is generally anticipated. In retaliaJ
tion for the repeated invasion of our soiß
by Mexican robbers, there has been
raid across the line by Texas rangei
and others are threatened. This A
caused the wildest excitement amonA
Mexicans, who charge through the J
lie press that the invasion was madS
the positive orders of President GrcJ
with the object of provoking a war *
tween the two countries; and this, tool
when, as they say, the Mexican authori-l
ties had taken tho required steps to hunt!
down and chastise the robbers.
At the present time there are souk
3,000 Mexican soldiers belonging to the
Federal army in Matamoras, on the fron
tier, fully armed and equipped for active
service at a moment’s warning. They arc
under the command of Gen. Fuero, the
military Governor of the State of Tamau
lipas, which has been placed under mar
tial law in consequence of the late revo
lutionary movements in that State. GOl
Fuero is represented as rnp 1 ' ~ - sj l j
judicious, and these qualities may erve
to prevent a collision; but when tho ex
cited condition of popular feeling upon
both sides of the line is considered, it
must be admitted that the situation is
critical.
A war with Mexico instituted at ibis
time could be easily prolonged uni ;1 after
the Presidential election, and Grant is a
man who would not scruple to avail him
self of all the opportunities for personal
advantage that in such an event would br
at his disposal. The public may depend
upon it that the President has no inten
tion of leaving the White House; and
those who suppose that he has played his
last card in his sudden access“of zeal for
the Protestant religion, will yet have oc
casion to acknowledge their error.— N.
Y. Bun. -
BAB.
What! Bah ? Gosh, no! he’s Grant’s pard, and
does all his writin’.
Can’t be ; too nice a man ; he belongs to the army
and ain’t easy to friten.
Guilty ! haw! He’ll get clear of law,
And that military commission’l has slid out of
position.
And Grant, he’ll say, “Bab, we shut Hender
son’s gab,
You know; now let’s take a nip of ‘crooked’ to
Broadhead.” L,
About fifty millions is the amount by
which the Democratic party in Congress
will be expected to curtail appropriations.
This much has been promised, and broken
pledges in these times are considered
good causes for political changes. These
are points for reckless members to con
sider before they vote a million and a
half to the Philadelphia Centennial.
Lieutenant Maurin. a brave young
Frenchman who has won promotion
from the ranks by his heroism in the
Franco-German war, has developed of
late a [perfect mania for stealing every
thing he could lay his hands on, and has
been degraded from the army and sen
tenced to ten years’ penal servitude fox
his robberies.
Brooklyn people deny that Thompson
the dynamite fiend, was bom in that city’
But no other city m the
could have produced such sJM
Boston Post. A