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Savannah Weeklu iUurs HATintWAY, MAHuitiu SOBWCRII-riONS. Uookly New*, One Veer *2 OO Hoekl, w*, Nix .Month* 1 00 Throe Month* 50 Daily Mews, one year. *lO 00; six month*, * r ' ' •' llir, 'c month*, s>i 80. ~T ^'W! *k ly Ncwb ’ ™ ye * T ’ * 00; six month*, •> 00; throe month*, $i 80. AA *ohftcripUo&B payable in advance. Paper* y mail are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Snbecribers will P !.**<; observe the date* on their wrappers. ADrEBTI*ENBNTS. A BQI \Kg jg ten measured line* of Nonpareil of Tim Weekly News. ®* ch '"Watlon, *1 00 per square. Liberal rate* made with contract advertiser*. i or.nr.spun hence. Correspondence solicited; but to receive atten •ion, letters must lie accompanied by a rcsponsi -1 e name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to H. K.3TH.1., Savannah, fJa. I lie* A moiint of Gold In the Treasury. In reply to the resolution of Mr. Say lor, of Ohio, asking to know what amount of gold there is actually in the United Htatea Treasury, not obligated, Secretary Bristow replies that the actual amount of gold owndd by the government, and available for the resumption of specie payments, after deducting the amount of gold certificates outstanding, and all other obligations was, on the 24th day of Feb ruary, thirteen million, three hundred and forty-one thousand, four hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-six cents. The total amount of coin on hand that day was $91,987,028 17, for which amount there ia to be deducted for coin coupons, $1,547,402 06; demand notes, tn dollars: coin certificates, .$1,427,24)0; sinking fund and interest, $1,8711,825 50; bonds re deemed and interest, $31,832,558 65; in terest due and unpaid, $0,254,634 50; outstanding bonds called for sinking fund, $2,548,000; outstanding coin certifi cates, $33,008,800; silver coin and bullion, $14,100,618 70; total, $78,645,604 41, leaving as above stated, $13,341,423 76. This resolution of Mr. Baylor is the third that bad to be introduced before the Treasury Department would divulge its actual financial condition. Treasury offi cials have been saying thut Mr. Baylor’s resolution would have the effect to bull gold, and the Secretary very reluctantly answered it, as it is the first time in years when the true condition of the treasury finances was made known in detail. — 1 ■■ Kicckkh of Carr. Eads’s Jetties. — Most grutifyiug accounts aro published in the New Orleans papers of the rapid progress of the works for the improve ment of the mouth of the Mississippi. Although the work is by no means finish ed, and the engineers have not expected to see the full effect of the jetty system until other channels have been closed, and the stream confined to the prescribed width, nevertheless the incomplete works have already caused a remarkable scour and rapid deepening of the cliaun*). It is computed that more than half of the deposit forming the bar, which must be removed to secure a permauent depth of channel sufficient for the largest vessels, has already been removed by the action of the current as yet only partially con fined. Thus far everything promises a jjiplendid success for Captain Eads; a suc- will make producers rejoice HHgh"Mt, all the Stut< sof the Missis- V valley. H|H- suer. -IS of l 'a, .hull 1. uls's jetty s\ s- HjWn giving mi a nj>lo ship eliunnel at of ttie Mississippi, will lie It v 'Hi i *■ i in. si ..i tin .i. in:Mtii.it. usd# ia llfia ails more, than twenty years ago, viz: That the obtaining of any required depth of water for commercial purposes, in land locked river harbors, was only a question of labor aud expense. What is being ac complished at the mouth of the Missis sippi may be accomplished with equal success in our own harbor. A compara tively small outlay in the construction of jetties iu the Savannah river would give us a depth of water sufficient ior the largest ships. The question of the engagement of the Princess Beatrice to marry Prince Louis of Battenberg was sottled a few clays ago by the announcement in the British Par liament that an appropriation of six thousand pounds a year would bo asked for as a dowry. It was at the same time intimated that the Queen would be much gratified with a ready acquiescence in the request. Her Majesty will thus have provided for her last unmarried daughter, and can now give attention to the selec - tion of wives for her three bachelor sons, Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, and Prince Leopold. These young gen tlemen, it is thought, will be pretty cer tain to have Germaft wives, as the Queen is already casting her eyes over the blue blooded girls of that country in behalf of bet sons. Prince Louis, the Priucess’s intended, is a cousin to her brother-in law, Prince Louis of Hesse Darmstadt. Governor Beveridge, of Illinois, is very much alarmed about the dangers that threatened the country twelve years ago, and strangely' sereuo about dangers that threaten it now. In a speech at Chicago on the 22d iustaut, he told his hearers that the great issue of the day is not the currency, nor the tariff, nor taxation, nor even that of “corruption or honest gov ernment” —hut “whether the government shall remain in the hands of the men who fought for and preserved it, or shall pass iuto the hands of the people who fought to destroy it. The St. Louis lle jntblican thinks that people who read the evidence in the whisky prosecutions may be pardoned if they take a different view of things. Those who fought against the government twelve years ago were beaten; those who are robbing it now have not been beaten. Then it wasn’t Grant that saved the Union after all. Old Ben Wade has made a statement to the House Military Com mittee in behalf of the claim of Miss Carroll, cf Maryland. He says President Lincoln told him that the credit of the Tennessee expedition in 18t>- was due to her. and that the movement was carried out in detail according to her suggestion. Stanton, he asserts, corroborated Mr. Lincoln's statement. Well, if Grant didn't save the Union, to him and Pierre pout belongs the credit of saving the whisky ring. Prominent New York politicians have called a mass convention to meet at Syracuse on the 15th instant for the pur pose of taking measures to co-operate in carrying out the greenback policy in augurated in Ohio. It seems that the financial ghost will not down. V .•-■■■- Tom Scott’s Southern Pacific Railroad bill has been laid asfoe for the present, but the sanguine Associated Press agent more than hints that this action is not to be regarded as unfavorable to the bilL The prosecutions of poor Harry Von Arnim by the German Government still continue. He is now charged with high treason, and is refused permission to kasit his sick son. Tyndall, the distinguished married in London yester- of Lord Claude Hainii J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. Ex-Spenrisor . Munn xf on the Ilocket. Only one more person of those origi nally indicted for complicity in the whisky frauds remains to be tried in St. Louis, and then the whisky war will have ended in that region, unless new trials are granted to McKee and ex-Cbiof Clerk Avery. The case yet to be tried is that of ex-supervisor Munn, of Illinois, who has been indicted both in St. Louis and Chicago. He will have to stand trial in the first-named city, and if he is for tunate enough to escape conviction there, then he will take a second chance in Chi cago. The trial of Munn will bring be fore the public another prominent indivi dual—ex-Senator Carpenter, of Wiscon sin—who, aa munn’s counsel, will be called upon to display his abilities as a criminal lawyer. According to a Washington dispatch, Munn is both confident and defiant. He has recently been in Washington to see his counsel. He charges Solicitor Blu ford Wilson with securing his indictment proper time he intends to arraign Mr. Wilson and compel him to explain cer tain transactions which occurred when he was District Attorney in Illinois. Munn says that he does not intend to be con victed, and that before his trial ends some testimony will be introduced which will expose a bold scheme to convict innocent men for dishonorable purposes. The ex- Bupervisor has been strongly supported by Senator Logan, and there is said to be evidence that an attempt was made to in duce certain gaugers to swear before the grand jury at Chicago that Senator Lo gan, Itepresent&tive Farwell and ex-Rep resentative and ex-District Attorney Jas per D. Ward were all connected with the whisky ring. This story seems almost incredible, but there are persons in Wash ington in position who say they know it to be true. Trickery of the Centennial Showmen. The New York Sun expresses the pre vailing opinion when it says the repre sentatives of the Centennial Exhibition in Congress would appear to lose no op portunity of creating in the public mind a prejudice against the enterprise. The underhand ways pursued in getting a formul recognition of the project under a distinct pledge that the United States should not be expected to assume any liuancial rcHponsibilty in the affair, and then making that recognition the basis for a peremptory demand for a subsidy, disaffected many people who were dis posed to look favorably upon the exhibi tion itsolf. The deadhead excursion of the President and Congress to Philadel phia, and the free lunch provided there by the Centennial managers, though it may have had a fa vorable influence upon Congress, was regarded as a scandal by the majority of tax- payers. And now, after having got an appropriation of a million and a half from the public funds, when it is found that a question arises as to whether the iefUMMttider Which the subsidy was grant ed are as favorable to the govenTi&ttil af was supposed—when it seems doubtful whether the provision making the gov ernment a preferred creditor can be en forced —Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who has been persistent in his endeavors to get government aid for the affair, chuckles over the supposed effect of the misappre hension, and sarcastically remarks that Congress has given the Centennial board more than it asked for. If the trickeiy which has been resorted to in Washing ton in behalf of this show should be parallelled in its management in Phila delphia, the result will he exceedingly un fortunate for all concerned. Unlimited Confidence. According to the testimony of Mr. W. C. Merrill, Treasurer of the State lioad f no record is kept in the books of the lesees of moneys paid out for extraor dinary expenses, such as lawyers and editors’ fees. These are paid by the President of the company, and charged, not specifically, but in gross by the Treasurer to “bills payable.” Whatever amounts Joe Brown may see fit to pay out to attorneys for professional services and to editors of newspapers for advocating the interests of the lease-! and “reconciling the public to tin, f is lumped together in the Treasurer’s state ment under the head of “bills payable,’’ and so reported to the Executive Com mittee of the company, who ask no ques tions. This seems like a novel way of conducting the business of an honest joint-stock company, and the fact that Joe Brown, the President of the lease ring, hns a carte blanche to use the money of the concern at his discretion, argues one of two things: The ring mustjhave had unbounded confidence in his integ rity; or if, as has been alleged, they w r ere compelled to resort to disreputable means to secure the loan, they had a just appreciation of the acknowledged genius of the ex-Governor of Geor gia, and placed the fullest reliance in his ability not only to manage any crooked negotiations that might be neces sary to the accomplishment of their ob jects, but also to cover his tracks so se curely as to defy detection. In this their confidence wasj not misplaced, for it is conceded that “for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain” the wiley J. B. is peculiar. The rage for notoriety rages nowhere more outrageously than in Washington, says a correspondent. It infects every body, from dignified Senators, and austere Justices of the Supreme Court, to girlish debutantes. It is disenchanting to worshipers of heroes and women to observe the vulgar greediness with which they seek for and gulp down praise. There is in the large corps of female cor respondents in Washington one who is at the head of her profession in the word painting of toilettes and physiques, and in the superlative flattery of everybody and everything, not omitting the eyes and mein, the hands and feet of Senators No writer is so popular as she. The car riages of statesmen whose names are familiar ip nil parts of the country are before > tor, and her table is literally covered the cards of distinguised personage id those of their wives who have tested dainty praise, while her portfolio contains fulsome notes from others who have been titilated by her rare confections, and have replied in kind. Cincinnati had a heavy fall of snow last night, while we had a heavy tall of rain with thunder and lightning accompani ment. It is intimated that Egypt is about to abandon the development of her equato rial possessions. Haiti ffems The Hopeless Negro Republic. Another revolution is reported to be in progress in Hayti. Revolution seems to be the normal state of things in that island, where, with every advantage of soil and climate, the black race have de monstrated their utter incapacity for self government. The history of the island since it came into the possession of the negroes has been one of continual revo lution, turmoil and disorder. Its agricul ture, which under the whites was brought to a high state of development, making it the richest of the West India Islands, has been neglected until its fertile soil now scarcely yields subsistence for the lazy, improvident population, who. under the misrule of chiefs perpetually in conflict with each other, are fast relapsing into beggary and barbarism. Hayti was proclaimed independent in 1800. The French were expelled in 1803 by Desaale ries, who made himself Emperor rf the French part of the island, and whose despotism and cruelty rendered him so universally detested that be was slain in an insurrection in 1806. The island was then divided among the several chiefs, the principal of whom wa3 C hristopher in the northwest and Petior in the south west. The former proclaimed himself King in 1811, under the titleof Henry 1., and committed suicide in 1820. Petior died in 1818, and was succeeded by one Boyer, who, after the death of Christo pher, became master of the whole island. He was deposed in 1843, when San Domingo separated itself from Hayti, and formed itself into a separate republic. The next change was into an empire, President Soulorpue assuming the title of Emperor Faustin I. in 1849. He was forced to abdicate in 1858, when Hayti became once more a republic, so-called, under the Presidency of one Geffard. In 1867 another insurrection broke out un der Salnave, and Geffard resigned, being succeeded by Salnave, who was elected for a term of four years in the following June. In November he in his turn had to encounter an insurrectionary crisis, and three rival Presidents divided the island. A sanguinary civil war followed, which lasted over twelve months, when Salnave succeeded, in 1869, in overthrow ing his opponents, only to be himself overthrown in January, 1870, by an in surrection headed by General Barget, who had Salnave shot, and was proclaim ed President in the following March. Before the first Haytien revolution the produce and commerce of the island were equal or superior to those of all the other West India Islands. The fertility of the soil is scarcely equaled. The mountains, even to their summits, are capable of cultivation. Under the French regimes the growth of sugar resulted in an average of about 2,712 pounds an acre, or nearly two-thirds more than the gen oral yield of the land in canes in Ja maica. The coffee plantations were also exceedingly productive. Cotton, in digo and cocoa were prolific sources of wealth to individuals and of revenue to the State. Large quantities of maize, rice and almost every description of vege tables were raised. Large shipments of mahogany, dye wood, &c., were sent to foreign countries. One of the first efforts of the first revolution was an enormous decrease in the amount of agricultural produce, until now complete commercial and industrial ruin has overwhelmed the most productive island of the West ludies. Nothing but a strong and civi lized governing power, of which there seems no earthly prospect, can restore Hayti to its former prosperity. The House Afterthe Whisky Ring. It seems that the acquittal of Babcock is not to end the scandal which his con duct has brought upon the White House. The resolution which has been adopted by the House authorizes the appointment of a special committee of nine, with power to send for persons and papers, administer oaths, and to ascer tain the true inwardness of the whisky frauds. This proceeding, it is said, is not so much for the purpose of exposing the crooked distillers, as to show that for years the administration has used both the whisky ring and the int rnal revenue officials for partizan purposes. It is stated that the President, his private secretary, ex-Commissioner Douglass, Supervisors and ex-Supervisors of Reve nue, Senators and Congressmen are on the list of witnesses to be summoned. Particular attention is to be directed to the testimony of Mr. Douglass in the Avery and Babcock cases, as to what Senatorial elections were to be influenced or controlled by the whisky ring. The depth of the political infamy which the administration has been guilty of will at last be thoroughly exposed to the peo - pie of the country. Two other resolutions have also been introduced calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre tary of War and the Attorney General, first for all papers, letters, telegrams and records pertaining to the court of ipquiry ordered to inquire into the conduct of General O. E. Babcock, and also for all letters, telegrams, instructions, papers and other records pertaining to the dis covery and prosecution of the so-called whisky frauds in the State of Missouri. Will Colonel Dteb Tell What He Knows? —A Washington special to the Baltimore Gazette says: “The Attorney General says that he has not heard of any intention of removing Colonel Dyer, and does not think —e is any truth in the statement, i _„imate friend of Mr. Dyer, in Wash.ugton, said to-night that it was understood Dyer would tender his resignation in a few days. He has been advised, and so also has Colonel Broad head, not to do so without stating in full their reasons. These' are substantially that during the trial of the first whisky cases the Washington officials assisted the District Attorney and the special counsel in every possible' manner; but when it came to the trial of Babcock every obstacle was thrown in their way, and not the least of which was the letter of Attorney General Pierrepont not to allow distillers to testify. Should Colonel Dyer follow the advice of his friends, there will be such revelations as the country little dream of.” Don Carlos, while refugeeing from Spain, desires it to be distinctly under stood that he does not relinquish his claim to the crown that now adorns the youthful brow of Alfonso. Dr. Linderman, the Director of the Mints, seems to be imbued with the idea that it is quite feasible to begin specie payments at once. By this time, Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is well on his way to England. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1876. Affairs in Georgia. Who should step in upon us yesterday but the Count Johaunes B’Gormanne? The Count was fresh from Thomasville. where he had been advising Captain Triplett in recard to th wedding outfit of the latter. He reports tLat the Captain is still cheerful,but is afraid that a severe attack of depression will supervene before the Ist of May. The Count was kind enough to renew his prom ise of a box of oranges. The Geneva Lamp has discarded its yellow cover, and also contains another chapter of “What ?” Joe Brown explain- how the Hon. B. H. Hill went on Foster Blodgett’s bond. It is all very vague to us except the main fact. W e presume that by this time the Hon. Potty has forgotten the cares and vexa tions of public life. The duties of a legis lator are almost as onerous as those of the proprietor of a beer-saloon kept on the Eu ropean plan. Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph, is getting away with his brother editors. He now says that he was once acquainted with a man in Liberty county who ate snakes and grasshoppers for a living. In view of the fact that a locomotive on the Georgia Railroad has been altered so as to burn coal, the canal is entirely lost sight of by the Augusta papers. It was by the merest chance that the Hon. Potiphar Peagreen, of Tugaloo, was in duced to favor Dr. Carlton’s bill reorganiz ing the government of the Btate University. In the course of the discussion some of the advocates of the bill said it was to do away with the sumptuary laws now in vogue'. This decided the Hon. Potty. “Ef hit’s agin old Sump., then I’m fer’it, dam ef I hain’t. Come on, boys, less go talk to Dick Tommins.” Dick, it should be remarked, presides at the Big Bonanza. When we heard that Fitch had tack led the door-keeper of the Senate, we were sorry he had in a measure retired from the profession of journalism. The Indian Spring Orescent Light is no more. The material of the paper will be carried to Jackson, the county site of Butts, where anew paper, called the' Argus, will be published. The Argus will probably be un der the editorial control of Mr. J. B. Dura ble, a journalist of no little experience. There is one sad fact in connection with the adjournment of the Legislature. Fifty odd clerks will no longer have any leisure to play billiards. The editor of the Thomasville Times will attend the Press Convention in Savannah in May, accompanied by his bride. We are not at liberty to mention either name or date. A Valdosta man writes to know if we really intend to vote for James for Governor. In reply, we have to say that several editors in Southern Georgia are arranging an ex cursion to Atlanta on the 4th of July for no other purpose than to vote for James, and we intend to be one of the number. A special train will be chartered, and every one will bo expected to furnish his own lunch. For further particulars, our Val dosta correspondent can consult Colonel C. R. Pendleton, Chief of the Okefenokees. Talking about the Okefenokee r .minds us. What has become of the swamp literature that was to appear iu the Atlanta Constitu tion? Mr. Henry M. Mclntosh lives in two towns and edits two papers—the Quitman Repor ter and the Blacksliear Georgian —and both are well gotten up. The Hinesville Gazette appears to b 6 be lated nowadays. Columbus is proud of her factories. Some of her prominent men sit and look at them day after day. A Worth county man has introduced a dog law in his section that doesn’t need the approval of the Governor. It is a breech loader. The intellectual Atlanta correspondent of the New Yorii Herald doesn’t give Senator Norwood any show at all to be liis own suc cessor. This is probably one of the results of the thoughtlessness of the Senator in not employing a literary man as his private secretary. Rowbeit, we repeat here what we have already said: When his opponents can match nis speeches in the Senate. show one single mistake in policy thj t tie has made, we will give some consideration to the taii One of the most-melancholy things in this world is for a public man to suddenly realize that his best friends are his worst enemies. Mistaken Zeal ought long ago to have been hanged tor assassination. Corporal Cabaniss, of the Forsyth Adver tiser, is not subject to road and jury duty, dome people will even join a military com pany rather than serve the county. A colored magistrate and constable wero up betore the police court in Augusta the other day, for indulging in a negro riot. Hang it all, are the manumitted citizens of this Republic to have no recreation or amuse ment ? Augusta may boast of her canal and her prolific cows, but she will have no pros perity in raising goats and chickens so long as the native humor of the suflrage-slinger is thus held iu check. Eatontou is anxiously looking for another fire. Thomasviile is to have another rice mill. We learn from the Macon Telegraph that Mr. W. W. Turner, of Eatontou, lias injured his write hand. The Spring Fair of the South Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Association will take place on the 20th of May. The premium list is quite attractive. Between writing amorous poetry and de livering addresses before female colleges and mixed schools, the romantic Lochrane wilt have very little time this season for either practicing law or going to lunch parties. Mr. George It. Sims, of Palmetto, is dead- All the locomotives on the Georgia Road aro to be altered so they will burn coal. In a quarrel over five cents between two Augusta negroes the other day, one of them received five cuts. One or th*e other of the mokes got the worth of his money. A Coweta county man has forty acres of wheat twenty-four inches high. This is what we call crowding the season. Mr. James Gargan, an old and prominent citizen of Augusta, is dead. The Lumpkin Independent says that Mrs. Latimer, mother of Judge J. B. Latimer, has a fan that is known to be over a hun dred years old. Mrs. L. has had it in her p issession for more than fifty years. While we were rather unfavorably criti cizing the incongruity of the sentiments put in the mouth of the Hou. Potiphar pea green by the Atlanta Constitution, we neg lected to state that the full-length map of the Hou. Potty, which accompanied the effu sion alluded to, meets with our unqualified approval. It is absolutely correct in every detail. The Macon Telegraph learns that Mrs. Nat. Hicks, living near Appling, Columbia coun tv, was fataliy burned last Friday morning about 10 o’clock. She was burning some nests in a chicken house, when her clothing accidentally caught fire and she was terribly burned before assistance reached her. Sbe died from her injuries on Friday night about 12 o clock. Mrs. Hicks was about seveuty years of age. Mr. M. T. Farley, a well-known citizen of Monroe county, died very suddenly on Sat urday, while on his way home from Milner. An Augusta cow has immortalized herself by giving birth to three calves since the second of last April. Two were twins. The Methodists of Forsvth are quarreling among themselves as to the propriety of using the organ in the Sunday school ser vices. We suppose there must be some profound theological problem at the bot tom of the difficulty, but it doesn’t occur to us just now. A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu tion has this to say of the claim of Colonel Peterson Thweatt: During the war he re ceived for his salary the Treasury notes of the State, which on their face provided that they should be received for all sums due the State (say taxes, etc.,) or at the option of the holder should be taken up by the issue of State bonds. Air. Thweatt, having confi dence in the honesty and good faith of the people of his native State, took from the State Treasurer, in payment of his salary, these State Treasury notes, with the avowed purpose (which is substantiated bv the Treasurer) that he would hold them and subsequently exchange them for State bonds. He held the State Trea-urv notes received for his salary, during the whole term of the Bul lock regime (when he could no doubt have got the greenbacks for the amount of his Treasury notes with but little trouble) and only presented his claim when the true and rightful Legislature of his State had come into power again. Well, what is the result of his highminded and honorable course. The Legislature of Georgia refuses to allow him even the poor privilege of having his claim adjudicated by the courts of the State, altnough there is htrdly an instance (if any atjall) where a citizen of the State has been relused this privilege. The case of ex-Comptroller General Thweatt has a much larger significance than that of the rights or wrongs of a single individual. It is a matter that comes home to the moral sense of ’he whole people of Georgia. In truth, the question comes up whether the Legis lature of the State is to be sustained in the role of repudiators of honest debts, or whether the people will rise in their miaht and rebuke those who have presumeato think that the people of Georgia would re fuse to pay a just debt. The correspondence between Col. R. A. Alston and H. I. Kimball discloses the secret of Hi Hannibal's presence in Georgia, and shows where he gets his money. H. I. Kimbail is the agent of the holders of the bogus Bullock bonds, and be will make an effort to have them recognized Aha, Mr. Kimball ’ The Georgian says the guano business in Athens is larger than it has been siuce the war. The Athens Hofchmuii agrees with us in regard o the “ethics” of Atlanta journal ism. We print another dose elsewhere on this page. Thb following “ Card of Thanks” appears in the Alapaha Sews : “ The Rev. D. N. Mc- Millan takes this method of returning his thanks to his kind mother for a tine mess of eggs.” Dr. i '. Newton, the distinguished agri culturist who has been editing the Athens Georgian, has skipped off to New York. Mrs. Carrie Roberts Johnson, late of Ma con, died at her home in Hawkinsville on Tuesday. Blue, the colored Representative from Mclntosh county, is a subscriber to the Mousing News as well as the Darien Gazette. We must be allowed to lemark, in this con nection, that Blue selects his trading matter with great judgment. A Berrien county man, aged ninety-nine, received a letter the other day. Before he perused it, he explained that it was the only one he had received in sixty ye-rs. What happiness must have been nis ! And now to have the spell broken at bis time of life. Dr, Steiner, of Augusta, returned ou Tuesday night from a visit to Hon. A. H. Stephens, and reports his condition un changed. He is evidently gradually failing. The venerable Dr. Pierce is now at Wash ington, Ga , in improved health, testing the value of t:he mineral springs at that place. The fleet at Port Royal will thoroughly test Georgia Ci l. A colored child was burned to death near Covington the other day. E. C. Wade, while in Thomasville the other day, acknowledged himself to be the author of the lying letter to the Washing ton Republican, an extract from which we published some time ago. Commenting on this, the Thomasville Enterprise says : “His attempt to sully the memory of a man who stands as high above him as heaven is above hell, like his attempt to injure the reputation of those as far removed from him iu honor, honesty and integrity as the east is from the west, will surely rebound upon his own head.” The Georgian learns that Rev. C. D. Campbell, at present of Quitman, has been called to the Baptist Church of Athens. This gentleman, comparatively a young man, is said to be a minister of great promise, eminently capacitated by his ex alted Christian character, intellectual and oratorical abilities for his high profession, and will unquestionably give general satis faction in his new field of labor. He graduated at Mercer University a short time before the war, after taking quite a promi nent stand in his classes. Macon burglars don’t mind tearing down a brick wall to get in a store. The Augusta ice factory is how turning out thirty-two thousand pounds daily. Sixteen deer were started in a few hours in Bryan county recently. The Hinesville Gazette says many of the farmers of that section have finished plant ing corn, and some few of them have corn coming up. In Bryan and Bulloch the farms are all ready, and this week nearly every man will be planting. The land in a majority of cases has been well prepared, and large quantities of fertilizers have been used. The outlook is very favorable thus far. Eev. E. W. Warren has resigned the pas torate of the First Baptist Church of At lanta. The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist is of the opinion that the recent scandalous attack on Governor Smith in the New York Herald, will injure that official. Let the correspondent hus band his apprehensions. Such attacks as the one alluded to defeat their own object. Alissiles weighed down with so much venom and seaveless spleen fal! wife of their |n -lima — — Geneva Lamp^m ypry tired of this everlastiEi? ■Ciy-'oMHgRT emigration. Let them go. The old crop of negroes is poor enough, and the growing crop has every in dication of being much poorer. The young negroes of the country are more trifiingly lazy, more roguishly tricky, and more badly demoralized, than the older ones; and those seem as unreliable as can be—we speak of them as a class. There are many working negroes among them, but these have no idea of leaving. It is only the shiftless part of them that is disposed to leave, and the sooner we are rid of this element the sooner will there be white immigration and prosperity consequent thereto. The Atlanta correspondent of the Au gusta Constitutionalist, whom we take to be Colonel Avery, remarks : “The stenograph er’s report of the evidence elicited at the session of the committee appointed by the Legislature to ascertain how $70,000 was expended in getting tho State Road lease through, is creating no little wonder and surprise by the occasional startles disclosed. Some of it is irrelevant to the matter in hand tliougL, hut rich and racy reading, and whittles the ends of some sticks amaz ingly sharp. It leaks out through the cracks of the cross-questioning that news papers and their publishers make it a spe cialty to crook the hinges of the knees that thrift may follow fawning. It seems that the editorial course can be shaped according to money in hand, and that instead of being vehicles of news arer naught hut dump-carts carrying garbage for any price from ten dollars to five thousand dollars a load. Vir tue and morality one page and vice and po litical Influence on the other.” R. H. Harris, in Thomasviile Times : “ I tell you wat’s a fact, men; none of you hain’t never seed no runnin’. I seed a dyeer run wunst. Hit war a spike buck, an’ he war stretched out whell he warn’t bigger’n a shoestring. Talk about movin’! The shad der on a buzzard a drappin’ to kyarn hain’t nowher! I had a blue speckled houn’ what had a tetch o’ gray houn’ in him, and he war arter thatdyeer. He’d upped ’im in the thick, an’ here he come a farly limberin’ through them fiat pioey woods. ’’Fore God, hit tuck my breath away to look at ’im. He’d a cotch that dyeer too, shore, but jist as he got agin me he struck a whalin’ big pine plum cen terly, head foremost. He stove his splintered bones three inches inter the wood! The lick jarred the pine straw olFn the top limbs! When he struck, his bine legs flopped roun’ the tree an’ I hearn the toe nails what jerked out a rattlin’ agin the pines fifty yards ahead! Hits a God’s fact.” Hiuesvillo Gazette: One of the very best things done by the Legislature was the abolition of the scheme known as the Georgia Lottery. The thanks of the coun try are due Senator Hester for the zeal and ability he displayed in bringing to light the great abuses of this bogus charity institu tion. It was first organized when’ the State was just emerging from her depressed con dition, and, under the guise of charity to the widows and orphans of deceased Oon fedate soldiers, was smuggled . through the Legislature, and the sanction of the State given to its proceedings. Now it has come to light that the orphans have received little or.no benefit from the drawings, while the managers have received more money than it has taken to run the State government. We are glad that the act has been repealed. It is a re buke from the government to that spirit which seems 10 have taken possession of our people, from the highest to the low est-getting rich without working for it. There is the wrong principle, and it is deep seated; and it appears in a variety of protean forms in every department of business. It shows itself m the homestead, bankrupt and protection law3, in the spirit of private speculation, in public corruption, and in legalized gambling under the cloak of aid to the children of dead Confederates. Thomson Journal-. If the fiend who in vented butterscotch candy could have fore seen the trouble—the disrupting of the tenderest family connection, and ihe wild agony of blasted love and affection which his villainous compound was destined to create in McDuffie county, Georgia, he would have stepped under a pile-driver and died with the secret mashed into liis boots. This is how it happened: Mr. Bacon came to town last week and bought a half dozen cakes of butterscotch, one of which he presented to Sheriff Langford as a fine article of shaving soap. George didn’t use it himself, but would take it home to his father, who did. And right here he committed the most egregious blunder of his life. The next morning he was toast ing his shins before the fire when the old gentleman entered the room in his shirt sleeves, a cake of half-melted candy in one hand, a razor strop in the other, one eye gummed up, and his face the color of so’ft soap. He took George by the right ear and yanked him around the room, oyer * chairs and tables, and jammed the candy in his 6yes, and bored it into his ears, and he told him that he would show him how to play tricks on his old lather, and he rapped him over the head with the strop, and smashed his nose, and punched him in the ribs, and i'ammed his head against the wall, and he iept putting np and taking down shoe-ffiops against George’s person, and finally he staved a boot-toe loaded with dynamite at George’s coat-tail. George stepped up into the atmosphere and sat down in the wash pot cu f in the yard, about as sick a sheriff as the market affords. Col. R. A. Alston, formerly of the Atlanta Herald, but now of the Courier, has evident ly changed his mind in regard to some things. The Herald under his control was the enthusiastic defender and warm apolo gist of Kimball, but in his testimony before the Legislative Committee, which wtfpnnted yesterday, Col. Alston casually alludes to Hannibal as one of a set of rascals. While we exult, as becomes a Christian journalist, over this conversion, we can but look upon it as in some sort miraculous. It is now charged that the Count Johannes B’Gormanne is proprietor of a stock farm in Tennessee. The Count was still at large when last heard from. The investigation made by the Legisla ture into the manner the State Road lease was obtained, has not been without its good results. It has made clear to us the “ethics” of Atlauta journalism, given us anew view of the practice of attorneys, and—above all —disclosed the plots of Kimball relative to the bogus bonds. The weapon that he placed iu the hands of Joey Brown to cripple Alston will be used to "knock the stuff ing out of Hi Hannibal. Mr. J. M. G. Medlock, editor of the San dersville Herald, has been quite ill reoently of neuralgia of the heart. At last accounts, he was convalescent. It is perhaps just as well that no attempt was made to disturb the lessees of tho State Road. Joey 8., who is nothing if not devilish sly, had retained and paid a whole raft of lawyers beforehand. What a nice thing it is to be an attorney-at-law. Elsewhere we print a prospectus of the Jasper County Banner, published by Mr. John F. Shecut, and edited by himself and wife, Mrs. Tommie E. Shecut. It will be seen that subscribers to the Banner will have the opportunity of drawing something handsome in the shape of a premium. It is good to sometimes sit square down on yourself and reason about matters. As, for instance : There is a ring in Atlanta utterly opposed to a Constitutional Conven tion. That is a proposition. Kimball is in Atlanta, and Kimball is the agent of the holders of the fraudulent bonds. That is a suggestion. A Constitutional Convention would forever settle the bogus bond busi ness—Kimbail is opposed to such a settle ment—Kimball is opposed to a convention, End the “respectable two thousand” are also opposed to a convention. That is a deduction—or, what is more to the purpose, a fact. Mr. William. B. Harman, of Tennille, is dead. He was a prominent citizen of Wash ington county. Mrs. Carrie Roberts Johnson, whoso death at Hawkinsville we chronicled yester day, was the wife of Dr. Herschel V. John son, Jr., and the sister of Mr. J. H. Roberts, of Waynesboro. No less than twenty-two near relatives of Mr. Roberts have died within a comparatively short period of time. Several of the interior towns are getting a dose of “Rev. A. N. Experidon,” the Bulgarian priest. This is no doubt quite a treat to the inhabitants. One of the at tractions of Experidon’s society is the fact that before he left his home, thirteen years ago, he registered a vow never to wash him self until he returned, and this vow he seems to have sacredly adhered to. Augusta Chronicle: “None of the State Road statesmen have a word to say. And yet they only talked to legislators.” A rumor is current through the State that must be exceedingly painful to all true journalists. It is stated that in the bril liant sortie which Fitch made upon Cum mings, the door-keeper of the Senate, the latter not only repulsed, but seriously mal treated him. We can inform Mr. Cum mings that by his course in this matter he has lost our influence. While we may be induced to vote for him for door-keeper we never will vote for him for President— never. Columbus has had an election for a mem ber of the Legislature merely to establish a principle. As the Hon. Potty would remark, “Gimme a pound uv principle, an I’ll give you a whole bed-tick full uv peanut hulls.” The successful candidate will never take his seat in the present Legislature unless an extra session is called : which God forbid! Waynesboro Expositor: “In a burlesque session of j*e Legislature a resolution was offered the life ofPotcrson PCHFeatt, so that he nflgfit be through one more session of the Legisla ture. If the Legislature had been ouc-lialf as faithful to tlio State of Georgia as has this gentleman, their constituents would be far better satisfied.” The Medical College in Augusta turned out twenty-nine now doctors on Wednesday. Mr. Joseph C. Roberts, of Augusta, is dead. A student in the State University, who was a candidate for West Point, was thrown out iu the competitive examination on a question in English grammar. Really, we have a better opinion of the young man’s intellect than those wno attempted to teach him grammar or those who examined him. The latest thing in Augusta is a woman who goes around begging money to bury an aunt who was killed by falling out of a wagon. The woman was burying her imaginary relative all day Tuesday and then the people begun to get tired of the funeral. The country papers will never be satisfied until the romance of the Oltefenokee ap pears iu the Atlanta Conslitution. Some time ago, it will be remembered, the Greenville (S. C.) New s announced that it would shortly begin the publication of the secret history of the Bullock administration by Foster Blodgett. The promise, much to the surprise of the public, was never ful filled, and there were many speculations as to the cause. Col. R. A. Alston, in question ing a witness before the recent lease inves tigating committee, hints that the State Road lessees 9ent H. I. Kimball to South Carolina for the purpose of stopping Blod gett’s mouth, and that the stopper used was a three thousand dollar check. Burglars are operating in Henry county. Dr. Harmon M. Edge will shortly start a paper at Milner to be called the Pilce County Courier. Sandersville is to have a newspaper called the News. A sober negro robbed a drunken white man near Americus recently. Mrs. Jane Scoville, of Sumter county, is dead. A baby was born in Columbus on the 29th ult. According to the Enquirer , as 1900 is not a leap year, he will have to wait eight years at one period of his life before his birthday comes round. Talbotton wants a calaboose. Nine hundred and forty-live bills were in troduced in the Georgia Legislature at its recent session. Of this number nine hun dred were introduced by the statesman from Tugaloo. The problem that we desire to see solved is, why will a negro baby crawl into the lire when left alone ? The thieves near Fort Valley shoot oxen in broad daylight and make off with the hindquarters. A colored desperado was captured near Atlanta the other day. An enterprising Atlanta man is advertis ing for three female barbers. Dr. Craig has retired from the Atlanta Commonwealth, leaving Mr. Iverson L. Hun ter as sole manager. Mr. Hunter is making it a lively paper. A negro child was burned to death in Tal bot county recently. From what the editor of the Athens Watchman saw along the route irom Athens to Monroe—going one road and returning by another—he is inclined to the opinion that an unusual breadth of land has been sown in wheat in the counties -of Clarke, Oconee and Walton, and it certainly looks very promising. There is also a large quan tity of fall oats sown, and it, too, looks well. Talbotton Standard : It is truly a myste ry that a man, who has fifteen thousand dollars in clean cash, can s:aad and see a widowed niece, with two children, strug gling day by day to keep the wolf from her door, and never offer her a penny, and yet such a man lives within the county lines of good old Talbot. He has a through ticket to hell and no mistake. Alluding to the recent attack on Gov. Smith in the New York Herald, the Colum bus Enquirer says: We are not surprised at this assault. It was understood some days ago that it would be made. The bogus bondholders desire to break down Gov. Smith and prevent his renomination, and a general assault is to be made upon him all along the line. This letter in the Herald may, we suppose, be regarded as the open ing broadside. That the discredited bond holders, the lobbyists and plunderers gener ally hould desire to get Gov. Smith out ot their way and put a more compliant man in his place we can well understand, but we can tell them they have gone to work in the wrong way. Vlliification and falsehood have ever been considered by wise men as poor weapons; such, indeed, as are never employed in a good cause. If there are any Gubernatorial candidates iu Georgia who are inspiring such articles they, too, are making a sad mistake for themselves. The Lexington (Ya.) Gazette says: ‘‘We never saw the wheat look better at this season of the year. Some fields are so rank as to necessitate pasturing them. This will be contrary to the experience of many years past, as it has always been said that a winter with little snow was sure to be followed by a light harvest.” Florida Affairs. IN e have received a communication from Tallahassee which we decline. We have no desire to make our columns the medium for praising Stearns aud abusing the Rev. John Fyler. If the Stearns ring are becoming frightened let them print iheir effusions iu Stearns’s organ. The Mousing News has no interest whatever in the matter. Some of the papers hint that Conover will probably be elected to tho peniteutiary pretty soon. Stearns needn’t crow over this, however. Storey, of the Chicago Times, is in Flor ida. His advertising rates are still the same. It is intimated in some quarter that the Rev. William Watkiu Hicks aspires to be Governor. This is not true. On the con trary, he is a warm friend and supporter of the Rev. John Tyler, who will be the nomi nee of the Florida Republicans. A two-pound fish dropped from the talons of au eagle into the dinner-pot of a family near Jacksonville the other day. The oc currence was enough to cause’ a thrill of jealousy in old Elisha’s shade. The steamer Dictator passed uear two whales on one of her recent trips. Col. Hart ought to be canonized by the travelling public. He has prohibited all shooting on his Ocklawaha steamers. Mr. Benjamin F. Daniel, of Quincy, has invented an improved urnth-trap for bee hives. Above the lower bee entrance is a sliding cover through an angular orifice, in which the moth enters after the bee entrance is closed. The iusect is led by a tube into a compartment from which there is no access to the hive. The upper bee entrance is similarly arranged. This device is cheaply made aud claimed to be efficient aud useful. The grass opposite Jacksonville has been on tire for the past day or two. The Rev. John Tyler, when he has occa sion to allude to a colored man, calls him citizen—as, for instance, Citizen J. R. Bal lard. This is anew move, aud one that none of the Stearns men have brains enough to improve upon. The Jacksonville bad boy chunks the mocking-birds. The Jacksonville Press says that the Sentinel is still engaged in dealing cards, and “stocking” the same in favor of Stearns, and iu opposition to Conover. Its wonder ful tenderness in behalf of the State credit is easily accounted for. We cannot help wondering if it would manifest the same degree oi interest, if Conover was not the rival of Sell-us, the Last, for gubernatorial honors. Hinc UUe lachrymce ! The parties to the quarrel have our permission to make a Kilkenny cat tight of the scrimmage. “When rogues frll out, honest men get their dues.” Capt. George N. A. Latham, for thirty eigkt years a pilot on Fernandina bar, is dead. The Jacksonville Press says that the Ob server has hauled down the name of its editors in order that they may praise each other, and suggest each other as probable candidates for the Republican nomination. The landholders and citizens of Leon county are called to meet at the Court House in Tallahasse on Saturday, the 11th instant, for the purpose of organizing an industrial and immigration society. Mr. J. M. Feaster, of ludian river, comes to the front with a hill of sugsr cane, grown last year on his place, that contained thirty eigut stalks, which averaged fourteen feet to the stalk. Several of the stalks meas ured as long as seventeen feet. The hill of cane, when grouud, filled a thirty-eight gal lon barrel with juice. The number of joints on the largest stalk was fifty-six, and the largest stalk measured 3j inches diameter. The length of the whole number was one hundred and seventy-five yards. From three-quarters of an acre ho realized three hundred and fifty dollars—the result of the sale of fourteen thousand seed cane, and two hundred and eighty gallons of syrup. The above can bo substantiated by twenty people. Jacksonville Press: The old-fashioned game of “Simou says wig-wag,” is gen erally provocative of a vast amount of fun, and he who can play it successfully has to have all his wits about him, and his hearing remarkably acute. Our Senator in Congress game into his ... . - fwfruaih a view olj fispSijj Mfe J*sßjtaherna colored'tTitsment, wiiuks he has a dead sure thing of it; but it may be that others beside himself and friends may have something to say and do that may checkmate all his plans. Palatka Herald: Very few passengers have any knowledge of one of the finest views in Florida, known as Palatka Heights. It is situated about one mile from town, at an elevation of over one hundred feet. The view from this high ridge takes in at one glance a scene four miles square, including the St. John’s river and the eutire town, with a wide-spreading green plain, having the appearance of a fairy scene,’and lovely beyond expression. Ere long we anticipate a fine drive, a shell road, and rows of orange trees on the streets now laid out on the ele vated spot. Just beyond these heights there is a tract of country most desirable for settlement, and suitable for orange cul ture and winter homes for the Northern vis itors. A prominent Northern gentleman, who visited the heights, said it was “a most lovely spot for a hotel or for a pleasant resi dence.” The following call is signed by 8. Pasco, Chairman, and C. E. Dyke, Sr., Secretary: The District Convention of the First Con gressional District will be held at the samo time and place as the State Convention, to wit: at Quincy, in Gadsden county, on Wednesday, June 21st, the hour for the as sembling of the same to be fixed hereafter, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for. Representative in Congress for said District, to be voted for at the next general election, and to appoint District delegates to the Presidential Convention of the Demo cratic party. The counties will be governed by the same rules iu selecting their delegates as have been laid down by the State Com mittee in their call, and they will have the right to send the same set of delegates to both conventions, or a separate sot to each, as they see fit. Arrangements will be made to pass tho mombors of the conven tion on tho railroads and steamboats at re duced rates, as far as practicable. The Dis trict Committee extends the call of the State Committee to the people of the First Con gressional District, and urges the necessity of an early and thorough organization of the party. South Carolina Affairs. In Horry the tax levy this year is $21,- 553 30. The collections up to the present time amount to only SB,OOO, leaving $13,- 553 30 still unpaid. This is the most unfa vorable exhibit ever made by the county. The books will be open until the 21st of March. Anew jail is being constructed in Aiken. The citizens of Congaree township, Lex ington county, are requested to meet at Mr. B. Cacey’s residence on Saturday, the 4th instant, for the purpose of forming a Democratic club. A circulating library on a small scale has been established at Sumter. Two colored men, Fielder and Fields, em ployed on the plantation of Dr. Muller, in Lexington county, fought on Friday even ing, and Fielder stabbed Fields several times, killing him. The cause of the diffi culty is not known. The whole tax of Edgefield county is 568,- 800. More than two-thirds of it have al ready been paid. The town of Beaufort paid off last week every cent of its indebtedness excepting two bonds for the engine, which do not mature for twelve or twenty-four months. The treasury is still in funds, and has about two thousand dollars yet to collect for licenses. Albert Guerry has nearly completed at his studio in Sumter, a life size portrait of General Lee, in citizen’s dress, for the Mon umental Association of that place. The Watchman considers it very fine. Thieves stole a bale of cotton from John F. Woodward, in Sumter county, and car rying it half a mile buried it in the ground four feet deep, where it was found. On the 21st ult. Mr. John D. Andrews, of Orangeburg, aged sixteen years, married Miss S. A. Darby, aged eighteen years. The Lexington Dispatch is informed that Mr. John C. Caughman, who resides near the line of Edgefield and Lexington coun ties, killed on the 15th ultimo, at one shot, four wild turkey gobblers, weighing 16, 18, 24 and 254 pounds, respectively, and a Mr. Garner, of Beaufort county, also killed, one day last week, four deer at one shot. About six hundred dollars in bills of the Bank of the State have thus far been ten dered in payment of taxes in Orangeburg county. The Marion Star alludes to a widespread report of a little trouble between the County Commissioners and Treasurer Stoeber, con cerning the withholding by the latter of about six hundred dollars of the county taxes collected in 1873. More light on the subject is demanded. A whisky raid has been made in York county, which resulted in the capture of two distilleries, two prisoners and 4,500 gal lons of mash. Mr. Deputy Jarrett, on Wednesday, in the same county, captured nine stills, 20,000 gallons of mash and beer, and other paraphernalia for manufacturing crooked whisky. Bristow is treating the boys badly. He, for one, evidently “knows no North, no South, no East, no West” in nosing out crooked whisky. ESTABLISHED 1850. LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE. Tlie Recent Homicide In Polk County State vs. J. C. Hockener—An Abridge ment of the Testimony—An Enthusiastic Reception—Pugilistic Liquor and Ltck ers—Addenda—Some Forcible Argument Shatv —Jip Personal —Alunchuuseu Let Loose —.Marine. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Jacksonville, February 28, 1876. THE POLK COUNTY TRAGEDY. As there seems to be considerable mis apprehension existing throughout the State respecting the death of Hillyard Jones at the hands of 0. C. ltockener, on December the 6th last, at Fort Meade, and as the inhabitants of the section where the homicide ocourred in variably look to the Morning News for reliable information, I have been at some pains to obtain a certified transcript of the evidence taken at the preliminary in vestigation. The appended abstract of the testimony will convey a very clear and comprehensible impression of the circumstances attending this unfortunate shooting. The warrant for the appre hension of Hockener is based upon the af fidavit of C. <3. Singleton, aud was is sued by Benj. F. Blount, a Justice of the Peace, on the 20th of December. Jas. M. Manley, under oath, deposes that Hockener and Jones were rolling ten pins at his place, and came to the desk to settle accounts. While Manley was making change he heard Hockener say to someone: “You threatened my life last Saturday; I am now prepared for you.” Witness then heard the report of a pistol and saw Jones fall. S. E. Roberts, sworn, says that he was standing in the door of Manley’s, aud heard a voice, which he judged to be Rockener’s, say ing: “You threatened to take my life.” Witness turned his head to see what it meant; a pistol was discharged, and he saw Jones falling. Jno. E. Robeson,sworn, in effect corroborates the testimony of Roberts. Neither of the above mentioned witnesses saw the pistol in Rockener’s hand when Jones fell. Owen H. Dishong swears that on the fourth of December Jones tried to borrow a dirk knife from him whioh he refused to lend. Deceased then said, “I'll be d—d if Hockener hasn’t run over me his last time.” Wit ness remonstrated with him but Jones said, “You are a friend to a scoundrel,” and after some further remarks departed. Dishong saw Hockener later §n same day and related the conversation requesting him to keep away from Jones and pay no attention to his insults. Hockener made no threats. William Shauueyhan swears that when Jones went to get a dirk from Dishong he said that he would kill Hockener. Witness met Jones shortly afterwards, when he said that Dishong would not lend him a knife, but that he could get one to kill Hockener with. H. L. Mitchell,sworn, says—That being cognizant of the relations existing be tween Itockener and Jones he talked with each of the parties and advised them to avoid a personal rencontre. Jones averred that the matter could not be set tled, as it had gone too far, and, with an imprecation, said that he would kill Rockener before the expiration of six months, and that he had fully made up his mind so to do. Itockener said to witness that he should never bother Jones; witness did not commuoicate Jones’s threats to Itockener; may have mentioned them publicly but did not, recollect. John M. Poaroe, sworn, saysl that about the first of December he had nj conversation with Jones iu veferenc < ? "RcdSrtner, WJWn ceased said that! there was “a-= — d—n llat-headod Dutchman” living in Fort Meade that he intended to kill. Advised him to keep cool and left him. The defendant, Julius C. Itockener, was placed under bonds for appearance in the sum of twenty thou sand dollars, Messrs. James Hamilton, Willoughby Tillis and James G. Wilson becoming his sureties. The papers from which the foregoing summary is obtained are authenticated as true copies by the Clerk of Polk county, under date of Feb ruary 8 th, 1876. MUSIC HATH CHARMS. It must certainly have gladdened the heart of every admirer of Mrs. S. M. Weldon’s accomplishments to behold the flattering reception which that lady was greeted with on the occasion of a com plimentary concert which took place on Thursday evening. The St. James or chestra in two thrilling selections con tributed in no small degree towards the enjoyment of the concert. Miss Lizzie liainsford, in a piano solo “Fantasie,” was charming, sparkling, dazzling, radiant. Miss liainsford is almost perfect. Miss Phena Hud nall sang “Ernani Inviolani,” as she always sings enchantingly, and, makes an ancient mortal like myself wish that he had met her when he was young—will somebody lend me a veil ? Miss Hudnall is really incomparable. “Una notte a Venezia,” by Mrs. Moore and Mr. W. B. O. Duryee, was simply sublime. Mrs. Moore possesses that power, which is the vital spirit of music, of enchaining the attention of all listeners, and is gifted with a voice as sweet as the rhythmical murmur of a rip pling brook. The audience at tested their appreciation of Mrs. Wel don’s splendid execution by frequent applause. Mrs. Barnett and Mrs. Greeley rendered “II Pescatori ” spiritedly, and merited the encore which they received. Professor H. Braun, in a violoncello solo and a violin solo, was inimitable, and I use the word advisedly. The obedience which the strings yielded to the Profes sor’s truly magic touch was unsurpass able. Mr. G. Gardner, in “The Heart Bowed Down,” has a winning voice, like the faint surging of the summer gulf. He was also entrancing in the song, “Let All Obey.” Mr. Duryee has a wonderful command over his vocal or gans, and his singing was excellent. Space forbids a notice of the entire ar ray of talent gathered together at this entertainment, but suffice it to say that all were admirable, with one exception, in the person of a man who had a voice that closely resembled the “vain-glorious grumblings of a crazy violoncello.” ON HIS MUSCLE. The hideous custom of extenuating the eccentricities of intoxicated mortals, is one for which no excuse can be discover ed in ethics or charity. If a man cannot indulge in stimulating draughts without outraging all propriety and manliness, his plain duty to society and morality is to rigidly abstain, or in the event of an infringement upon the privileges of de cent people, to expect no mercy. This time the party is from Middle Florida. He began to curse and blaspheme in the office of one of our hotels on Wednes day, and utterly ignored all solicitations to cease. After some angry words with the proprietor, the inebriated gentleman paid his bill and left, only to return next morn ing and demand an apology. Upon the proprietor’s refusal to make concessions to the fellow, who was in the wrong, the pugnacious stranger struck the first blow. Then ensued a general melee, extending to the clerks, in which some of the pu gilists hit their friends by mistake, and produced an indescribable and ludicrous effect. The city got ten dollars from the warrior, and he went home. I don’t give his name, for prudential reasons. He fights. THE BECENT STATE FAIB. In my report of the fair, I neglected to state that Sir. W. C. Maloney was in charge of the Key West table, and took care of his department commendably. Messrs. McMurray & Cos., of this oity, ex hibited some wagons made in Jackson ville, which were worthy of remark. The prize for the best oranges was awarded to J. F. Baya, of Columbia county ; Orange county, through S. Stringer, showed the best lemons, and Key West the finest assortment of limes. The above awards will serve to indicate the extent of the so-called orange belt, and show unquestionably that it is not so limited as some would have us believe. The fair, I am glad to learn, was finan cially a success. A strong movement is assuming shape for the removal of the exposition buildings to a point in closer proximity to the city. This should, by all means, be accomplished before an other fair is had. COW-HIDING. Hows, disasters, accidents, murders and so forth, seem to have been ordained by an omniscient Providence for the ben efit of those people who avoid them, and they appear upon a superficial survey of the surroundings to be as essential to a healthy modern existence mentally con sidered as food. Last W6ek was inex pressibly lively, and Friday was about the liveliest day of the moDth for C. Codr ngton. On Thursday night Cod rington inserted a notice in two papers of the oity cautioning the pul lie not to patronize the yacht Spitfire, “for substantial reasons.” Now, this is very indefinite, and I am surprised that any sensible conductor of a public journal gave publicity to it. The Captain of the Spitfire met Mr. Codrington on Friday morning, on Bay street, and administered a severe flagellation to his back and face with a cowhide. The case ccmes up be fore the authorities to-day. It is unne cessary to enter into the m3rits of the occurrence, but it may not be amiss to say that the individual who takes a casti gation in a public thoroughfare, without resenting it summarily then and there, is entitled to no commisseration whatso ever. THE ROSTRUM. Josh Billings lectured to a crowded house on Friday evening, aud the faces of his auditors were an interesting study. I noticed several among them whose risi bles did not arouse themselves onco dur ing the whole performance. Once from my commanding position on the stage I noticed tears trickling from the eyes of a damsel while all around were laughing. A critique upon the leotufier is unneces - sary, as his school has been under discus sion so often that every intelligent person eat&rtahis an opinion peculiar to him self. JIP JUSTICE. The Conoverites complain that m asso ciating the Doctor, in a previous letter, with Jip, I have done the former an un justifiable injustice. They say that in all of Conover’s careerings he will never in any event descend to Jip’s level, aud on thinking the matter over I have arrived at the conclusion that they are right. Many a better man than Jip is in the penitentiary. PERSONAL. Judge A. O. Wright, whilom of Jack sonville, but now the efficient and popu lar principal of Jefferson Academy, at Monticello, was in the oity last week, on a brief visit, and is looking healthy and hearty. Mr. Win. Case, of the Toledo, Ohio, Blade , is among the recent arrivals. AN UGLY REPORT. It is assorted by the initiated that the Reform ward clubs, iu conjunction, have it iu contemplation to place a Republican at the head of the municipal tickot. It is to be hoped there is no good founda tion for the rumor, and that no citizen of Democratic proclivities will allow a wooden idol to delude him so disastrously. Adrianus. Joe Brown’s Disclosures. [From the Geneva Lamp.] For a period of time, in nothing differ ing from the advent of the Radical re gime, Joey Brown, the redoubtable, has made occasional revelations. We do not insist that he has any special aptitudes for the business, nor do we argue that he has any special fondness for such exer cises, but without indulging curiosity to inquire into his preferences, or in any manner attempting to ac count for his own estimate of their propriety, we hereby solemuly de pose that such is his custom, if not his habit. Ho comes up to the work as self confident as Joey Bagstock, Joey 8., J. 8., J., and shows himself as plausible, as wily, and fully as corrupt a3 lago, and his revelations always beget in us a pro found melancholy, for which even helle bore is no remedy, the learned Burton to the contrary notwithstanding. Well, the ever and anon of Joey has come around again, publishing him tho leader of u train of calamities i^,-. I tower a vertical, and! we are even resigned, „;ter ft fashion,! to his wantoning in corruptioiJ to his owt. luckless ending, but top the disquietude he scatters amongst those of much fairer fame. Ah, there’s the rub; Joey’s revelations are attempts to make sure his own justification, or at tempts, not always unsuccessful, to re ▼Jal fearful wr ;cks of hitherto spotless reputations. The world, not unwisely, regards any association with Joey crimi nal intimacy, and he is largely gifted in revealing unexpected fellowships. But as fruitful a theme as is the crafty Joe, it is not now with him we have to do, aud he is rather the occasion than the cause of this article. It has been charged that the lease of the State Railroad was fraudulently obtained, and Joey Brown, President of the lease company, has testified that a matter of twenty thousand dollars was expended upon the press of the State to popularize (develop) a sentiment favorable to the lettiDg. He further deposes that the startling sum of five thousand dollars was paid to a single paper, aud sundry two thousands to each of several other journals, he wisely deemed a mere bagatelle, or more wisely bags which did tell. And still wo gaze and still our wonder grows that these journals admit the allegations aud would excuse themselves, in that they are very proper advertising mediums. Well, with a dealing in revenues arising from a 7 by 9 only, we can certainly boast no large practice in computing large sums, but it does appear that the charge of the Light Brigade wa@ a triflim affair, when compared with a charge ot five thousand dollars for advertising a scheme well and ftuly believed to be of vital interest to the dear peo ple. Indeed we would be loth to give a very hearty adherence to the ad vertising idea, but for the fact we fully recognize it to be heavy work to support any of Joey Brown’s measures, for we would be afflicted with grave mistrust, if nothing more serious, in such a follow ing, and we would not deem an average bonanza any very extra compensation, es pecially if the advertising was done un der the guise of editorial work. We have bravely investigated the daring of our brother journalists in espousing the interest of Joey before the public, and we have meekly concluded that it were far better that we should wonder at their intrepidity, than that we should admire it. Metropolitan journalism we know to be over and ~b'eyond_ our jurisdiction, and we could not censure it if such was our desire, and in this matter we could not sustain it, even if we were more than mortal, but the country recipients of Joey’s thousand dollar bounty had better be in search of rocks to hide them upon the first howl we make upon thtir unlucky tracks. That we will be as fearfully unsparing as Joey Brown and some journalists are shame fully unscrupulous at this writing, ad mits of not even the least doubt. How He Wound His Watch [Virginia (N'ev.j Enterprise.] A day or two since Mr. Shaw, time keeper of the Consolidated Virginia Mine, found a watch lying in the snow. vh<- , it had evidently been dropp by e one working in or about the mine. Mr. Shaw wrote a notice to that effect, post ing it by the side of the window to which the men came to give in their names when going or coming off their shifts. Several men called and described what was, according to their ideas, a “valuable watch,” nearly all making it gold, with a fine chain of the same metal. Some set a number of beautiful pieces of quartz into the links of the chain last a little Frenchman came to tl window and said: “You find one vatch, Mistair Sha “Yes, sir,” said Shaw. “Have yo a watch ?” “Yes, sare, me have lose me one vb “Can you describe It?” “Oh, yes, sare, me can descript him ver’ perfec’ly.” “Well, what was it like?” “My vatch he vas a silver vatch.” “Very good. What kind of cases?” “Veil, he have he’s face wide open.” “What kind of chain-” “Q.ne leetle brass sbain.” “What kind of key etees on the chain?” “Veil, no key bo oil ze shain. He have no key at all. I wind him by zee tail.” The watch was a stem-winder, and the Frenchman had given a perfect descrip tion of it, even down to “zee tail.”