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J. H. BBTILL, Savannah, Ga.
Tlu* Propox-d Admission of New
Mexico into the Union.
A bill for the admission of New Mexico
into the Union as a .State has passed the
Henate, and it ia said there is a prospect
of its passing the House. The admis
sion of New Mexico, with Colorado, for
which provision has already been
made, would increase the number
of States oorn prising the Union
to thirty-nine. The liadical party favor
the admission of New Mexico in the hope
of thereby strengthening their declining
jiuajority \u the tiei.au> by the gain of two
uew SenaloTO. Though the territory ia
unquestionably Democratic, the Radicada
rely on what is called the -mins
King” to count in the State Leg
islature, and thus secure the
Henatorial representation in Congress.
This prospect is sufficient to induce the
Radicals to disregard all consid
erations of propriety in erecting
into a State of the Union a territory
larger than all New England and New
York, and twice as large as old England,
with a mongrel population of native
Mexicans, “Greasers,” carpet-baggers,
mixed blooded Indians, and Indians
pure, with scarcoly any political or civil,
organization, for the most part ignorant,
bigoted and thriftless, and wit, 4t any
adaptation for or experience in self-gov
ernment. liut why the Democratic
House should make haste to add to
our misfortunes by incorporating
into our system this new element of politi
cal confusion and disorder, we fail to
comprehend. The area of the territory
is 121,201 square miles, or 77,000,000
acres, with aii estimated population of
from 130,(XX) to 100,(XX), of which num
ber some 35,000 to 45,(XX) aro Americans.
This population might be permitted to
vegetate for a few years longer, increasing
in numbers and advancing in civilization,
and at the proper time the vast area of
territory over which they now roam with
their grazing herds, might be incorpora
ted into three or four respectable Btates.
In the meantime, the Now Mexican ran
cheros would bo quite as well protected
under the existing territorial govern
ment, while the United .States would not
suffer from tlio lack of their carpet-bag
Senatorial representation in Congress.
11 rot her Orville’s Test imony.
Commenting on the shameless testi
mony of Orville Grant before the Com-
Hktteo on the Expenditures of the War
in which lie disclosed the
m in which lie was interested in
it >. In
: gja 1 !
HHHE-flLjdL tsbJtsa£d_<iL. ijisjjar
formauees, Mr. Grant seems to be only
animated by regrets that his profits have
not been larger, lie evidently regards it
as quite a proper and legitimate thing to
trade ou his relationship with the Presi -
dent, and the President, wo are sorry to
say, seems to think that it is quite proper
and decent to help his brother Orville to
a share in the fat lliiugs that are lying
nrouud loose. There may be a wido dif -
ference, from a moral and legal point
of view, botwoeu the transactions the
particulars of which were recited yester
day by Mr. Orville Grant, and those
which havo just caused the downfall of
Mr. Belknap, but we are unable to dis
oeru it. In view of brother Orville’s
testimony, it is uo great wonder that son
Fred was got out of Washington in such
haste just after the Belknap explosion,
and ordered to duty on the plains. The
old Greeks hud n superstition that the
head which wore a laurel crown was safe
from lightning. The lightning has been
striking around in very unexpectedplaces
in these latter days, and even the wearers
of the laurel do not appear to be safe
from it. Where will it strike next, we
wonder?”
The Centennial as a Paying Enterprise.
The price of admission to the Centen
nial exhibition will be fifty cents, payable
in one note at the entrance gate, and
admitting to everything that is to be
seen during the time the visitor remains
within the enclosure. No season tickets
will be sold, nor will two twenty-live
cent notes for a single admission, nor a
dollar for two be taken at the gate. No
matter how often a person leaves the
grounds during a day he must again pay
a fiftyoent note each time that he re
enters. The hours of admission will be
from 9a. in. to op. m. each day. So say
the managers of the show.
The price of admission (fifty cents) is
double that charged at the Paris exposi
tion, which was one franc. At this rate
the stockholders ought to do a good busi
ness. It is estimated by the New York
World that three million people of the
country, at least, will visit the Centen
nial {exhibition, while U*ere will be also
a very large attendance from abroad. As
there are to be no season tickets, and
fifty ceuts will be charged for every ad
mission, it is perhaps a moderate calcula
tion that the visitors to the show will
average four entrances—say two dollars —
which, taking the estimate of the World,
would give as receipts for admission the
handsome sum of six millions of dollars.
Add to this the bonuses received for priv
ileges and monopolies for the sale of
goods and refreshments on the grounds,
and there can be very little doubt that
the show will be made to pay a handsome
dividend on both the amouut of money
and patriotism invested in the enterprise.
How to Detect a Subsidized News
paper.—Gen. D. H. Hill, of the Char
lotte, N. C., Southern Home, alluding to
Joe Brown’s confession before the inves
tigating committee of the Georgia Legis
lature that he had paid large sums of
money to certain Georgia newspapers to
secure their influence in favor of the
State ltoad lease, says: “It is very easy
to detect a ring paper. Its general tone
and sentiments betray it, but especially
the patronage which it receives. A ring
paper is just as easily known as a dog
with its master 1 * collar and name on his
neck.” [ t < *
Blaine and Botntqn.— lt is now set
tled beyond doubt, says a Washington
dispatch, that Boynton, of the Gazette,
-permitted himself to be used by Blaine,
in attacking Pendleton, for the purpose
of breaking the foroe of Belknap’s degra
dation in Ohio, which holds the first
election.
J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
The Atlanta Constitution and Mr. Hill.
A few days since we briefly alluded to
the current rumor that Hon. B. H. Hill
was preparing a speech to be delivered in
Congress in defense of the doctrine of
secession, and that there was some talk of
efforts in Democratic caucus to restrain
him from furnishing any more campaign
documents for the Republicans. In this
connection we quoted an extract from a
Washington dispatch which stated that
“grave suspicions are expressed among
the Democrats that Ben has a method in
his madness which certain Republicans
could explain if they would."
The Atlanta Constitution takes us to
task for publishing this on dti of the
times. Our immaculate eotemporafy is
very severe and denunciatory, but never
theless leaves us a little in doubt whether
he is directing his denunciations against
Mr. Hill, the Author of the Washington
dispatch, or the Morning News. Allud
ing to the dispatch he says: “If this
means anything it means that Mr. Hill
has sold himself to the Republicans for
the defeat MjjjLJrtiigp of hie section, and
we hold **> dhe antrage-i© the people of
Georgia T
This paragraph not quite m clear r to
our - ring nil i 11 dj/fTt*
Washington tetfeßtftn aeema to be to onr
ftitute cotempojafcry. He says If that
“shameful paragraph” which he has quo
ted from the News means anything; it
means that “Mr. Hill has sold himself to
the Republicans,” and that the Constitia
tion holds up the “outrage to the
indignation and rebuke of the
people of Georgia.” To what outrage
does our ootemporary refer ? Does it
invoke the indignant rebuke of the peo
ple of Georgia against Mr. Hill for having
“sold himself to the Republicans?” Or
does he desire to direct the aforesaid
“indignation and rebuke” against the
author of the dispatch for intimating
that such is the fact? If the Con
stitution is correct in its interpreta
tion of the Washington dispatch, and if
that dispatch is reliable—if Mr. Hill has
indeed “sold himself to the Re
publicans for the defeat and
injury of his section” then we heartily
unite with our cotemporary in holding up
the outrage to the indignation and rebuke
of the people of Georgia.
But we can hardly believe that such
is the true meaning of the Con
stitution's paragraph. We can hardly
suppose that the editor of the Constitu
tion believes that Mr. Hill has sold out to
the Republicans. Mr. Hill is not a seller.
Besides, according to the Constitution's
“ethics,” such a transaction on the part
of Mr. Hill would not merit the “indig
nation and rebuke of the people
of Georgia." The Constitution would or
should be the last paper in the State to
hold up such an “outrage” to indig
nation and rebuke. We aro forced,
therefore, to conclude that the Consti
tution does not mean what it says—
that it does not charge Mr. Hill, on the
authority of that Washington dispatch,
with having sold himself to the Repub
~i fc®nspi!fid" ihfft * after- aii it otriy niean t
to rebuke the author of the Wash
ington telegram for giving form to the
“grave suspicions,” the current gossip
Democratic circles in that city, and
that its “ unqualified denunciation ” was
really directed against the Morning
News for publishing the paragraph
which it quotes. We are strength
ened in this conjecture by the con
cluding portion of the Constitution's
article, in which the editor is
eloquently eulogistic of Mr. Hill's defense
of the South in Congress, and evidently
intends to be very severe upon “the South
ern press or man who could thus insult
and stab him,” and ou “the Georgian ca
pable of charging him with the baseness
of treachery to the people he so triumph
antly defended.”
We are willing to take it for granted
that the Constitution’s encomiums and
laudations of Mr. Hill are unbought,
and so far as its article relates to that
distinguished gentleman’s recent eloquent
and triumphant defense of the South
against the wanton and unprovoked at
tack of the miserable partizan demagogue,
Blaine, we heartily endorse every word
of it.
The Morning News has not been ranked
among the supporters of Mr. Hill in the
past, but it was among the first papers of
the State to commend and applaud his
rnauly and able defense of the Southern
people on the floor of Congress, and
it will be the last to do him injustice—
to “insult and stab him.” But while we
concede his talents and honor his devo
tion to his section, we have not always
been able to approve his judgment; and
in the performance of our duty as honest
and independent journalists, not less
devoted to the welfare of the South
and the country than Mr. Hill,
we have felt constrained to disap
prove the unnecessary revival of ir
ritating sectional issues at this time,
the agitation of which can do no possible
good, but must retard the business of
legislation and work barm not only to
the South but to the country at large.
We favor no dishonorable or truckling
concessions of principle or sentiment,
but we believe we represent the views
of the people of Georgia when
we say it is not the part
of the South to make the floor of Con
gress the arena in which to fight over the
issues of the past.
We have already commended Mr. Hill
for his prompt, manly and eloquent refu
tation of the slanders against the South,
and certainly we desire no more pleasing
task than to commend him for his pru
dence.
By his own account Orville Grant is
not as thrifty as his brother Hiram. He
secured several traderships through
Presidential influence, but lost money on
them —lost money when he had put no
money in them. Absurd as this seems it
may be literally true. Last Wednesday
the unfortunate Orville was sued in
Washington for his part of the losses of
a printing firm in which he invested
nothing but his influence to obtain gov
ernment contracts. He got the firm the
printing of the post office in that city
and other good jobs, but the manage
ment was bad aud the firm went into
bankruptcy, involving Grant among
other members.
It is said that Caleb P. Marsh has left
Montreal, to avoid the Deputy Sergeant
at-Arms from Washsngton, who was
about to serve legal papers for his extra
dition. The President's course, and
Pierrepont’s, in threatening him? appears
to be effecting its object. They tried the
same thing against the witnesses who
were to testify against Babcock. But,
say the Radical organs, it’s no disgrace to
the Republican party.
$K£SKdi I®wll| Sews,
The Trinmph of Radical Fraud and
Corruption in New Hampshire.
By the dispatches which we publish
this morning, it will be seen that the
State election in New Hampshire yester
day resulted in the triumph of the Radi
cal party, who have elected the Governor,
and, it is claimed, both branches of the
State Legislature, by an increased ma
jority. Though this result was not en
tirely unapprehended .by us, in
formed as we were of the
system of bribery resorted to by the
Radicals and the extraordinary efforts
made by the administration to carry the
State as a means of breaking the effect
of the recent astounding and disgraceful
disclosures of official fraud and corrup
tion, yet we must confess that, under all
the circumstances, the realisation of such
a result is most humiliating and disheart
ening.
New Hampshire is what is called a close
State. At the last election the plurality
of Cheney, the Radical candidate for
Governor, over Roberta, his Democratic
was only one hundred and
seventy-two votes, and notwithffejdiug
the; d/janvass,
by which evejy Radio*! absentee from
the State was fewffed -brought
homo-to vote—&olwlt’hstaniftpi£’ibe Urn '
%monat of money fmrnintfftd by the
Washington rings and official assess
ments to be expended in the bribing of
voters —notwithstanding the inundation
of the State with lying and inflammatory
documents, and the enlistment of the
loading stump speakers of the party from
other States— notwithstanding all these
extraordinary efforts we did not repose
sufficient trust in the intelligence, virtue
and patriotism of the people of an en
lightened New England State to hope, at
least, the verdict yesterday would be
a rebuke of the most flagrant corrup
tion, fraud and infamy that was
ever brought to light in this or any other
government. The change of eighty votes
from the last election would have given a
Democratic victory. Instead of such a
change, the result has been the other
way, and New Hampshire has endorsed
Radicalism with all its reeking corruption
and infamy by some two thousand ma
jority !
After such a result, is it not time for
the patriot to “despair of the moral sense
of American citizens?”
We shall be told that the result of the
election yesterday was not the verdict of
the honest voters of New Hampshire—
that the Radical majority was obtained
through bribery and fraud. We shall
leadily believe that such is the fact.
But there is little consolation in
that belief, for it only proves that
the Northern masses under the influences
of a corrupt government, have already
become fearfully demoralized, and that if
the organized Radical banditti, who now
rob and plunder with impunity, can hold
their power for four years moie, they will
then havo so enriched themselves and
impoverished and debased the people
that they will be able, by the same
mreaiis, to make their rule perpetual.
Investigation the Work of the Hour-
Let it be Thorough.
The New York Bulletin is of the opin
ion that much of the time of the present
session of Congress will be occupied in
dealing with the official corruption which
exists to such an alarming degree in all
departments of the government. Under
all circumstances, says the Bulletin , it is
most desirable that it should be so, as
there is no other work in which Congress
is likely to mature any wholesome result
that is half so important. The cflrrency
question has become the subject of a
party wrangle out of which no proper
settlement can possibly come. The tariff,
if changed at all this session, should be
reduced by a simple method that would
need no lengthy discussion. The sub
sidy schemes have been shelved, and
a vast amount of time thereby saved.
There remains therefore few really
vital measures that press for set
tlement, while nine-tenths of the
thousands of bills introduced may be ad
vantageously disposed of without a mo
ment’s discussion. Let, then, the work
of investigating go on without stint.
The time is ripe for it. The public have
long suspected far more than has yet been
revealed, and they will not be satisfied
without a thorough exposure of the
whole system of corruption. They
are not indifferent to the national
disgrace of such revelations; but
they are willing to endure the
discredit, if thereby the evil can
be remedied. They know that there
is no escape from the evils of excessive
taxation and onerous official exactions
except through an exposure of the me
thods by which politicians fatten at the
public expense, and that there is no
possibility of getting a higher order of
official administration except through
purging the offices. For these reasons,
the people desire that the process of in
vestigation be pushed to the utmost
possible lengths, no matter who may be
hurt. Honest men of all parties agree
that investigation is eminently the work
of the hour, and all desire that it should
be done thoroughly.
Democbatic Retrenchment. —Here is
the way the Committee on Appropri
ations proposes to retrench in expendi
tures of the House of Representatives:
For compensation and mileage of mem
bers and delegates—appropriated 1875-0,
$1,650,000; estimated 1576-7, $1,650,000;
recommended 1876-7, $1,459,000. The
reduction on this item is $191,000, or
nearly twelve per cent. For compen
sation of officers, clerks and employes of
the House there was appropriated in
1875-6 $227,074 70; estimated for 1876-7,
$222,794 70; amount recommended for
1576-7, a reduction from the
appropriations of last year of S4S,IS4 70,
or upwards of twenty-one per cent. For
the contingent expenses of the House of
Representatives the appropriation of
1875- was $208,585; the estimates for
1876- $206,085; the amount recom
mended is $121,768, a reduction from the
appropriation of 1875-6 of $86,817, or
about forty-one per cent. The total re
duction on the three items is $326,101 70,
By a careful calculation made by Dem
ocratic Congressmen, the conclusion is
reached that the original prediction made
by Mr. Randall, as chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, that nearly
forty million dollars reduction in the ex
penses of the government will be made
this year, will be nearly fulfilled, as Ijy
the bills already passed, and those ready
for passage, it is estimated that the ag
gregate reduction of government expenses
this year will reach thirty-five million
dollars. I
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 25. 1876.
Senator Gordon’s Raid on the Reve
nue Law.
Mr. A. R. Reese, of the Macon Tele
graph, in a letter from Washington to his
paper, makes the following allusion to
the debate in the Senate on Thursday
last, in which Senator Gordon so suc
cessfully demolished the rampant cham
pions of Radicalism, Morton and Sher
man. He says:
In the Senate, yesterday, on his reso
lution instructing the Finance Committee
to ascertain what amendments to the in
ternal revenue laws are necessary to
secure the better collection of the whisky
tax and to prevent the recurrence of the
enormous frauds that have been lately
unearthed, attracted much atlention, the
galleries being crowded. It was another
red hot shot in the Radical camp, and
brought Morton and Sherman to their
feet in hot haste—neither of whom dared
even attempt a reply to the unanswerable
facts and arguments of the General as to
the guilt of their party in this mat
ter. Their only answer was that
Floyd and Thompson stole guns
and bonds, and Morton said the late
Treasurer of Georgia was a defaulter for
S3O(I,(XXL and that Robert Toombs boast
ed that the last election in Georgia was
carried by bribery and corruption. This
was absolutely the sum and substance of
their answer to the appalling array of
statistics presented by General Gordon to
prove their party guilty of having stolen
eight hundred million dollars since 1874
from the government for the use and be
hoof of the Radical party. The collo
quy between him and Morton was at
times quite spirited, and his irequent
strong points were loudly applauded in
the galleries. I have never before heard
him on the Senate floor, and can safely
and proudly say that in this encounter
with two of the ablest of the other side
he sustained himself with most distin
guished ability, and thoroughly vindicated
the wisdom of those who sent him here.
That Mysterious Woman. —There is
reason to believe that that mysterious
woman of whom we hav6 heard so much
of late years as exerting a wonderful in
fluence over the heads of the government
and being concerned in all the villainous
transactions that have from time to time
come to light, has been caught at last,
and is about to be used as a witness for
the disclosure of important facts con
nected with the official fraud’ and corrup
tion now under investigation by the
House committees. A Washington dis
patch says: “There is a lady at Williard’s
Hotel in the close custody of the Sergeant
at-Arms, not permitted to leave her
room. She has been there for some days.
It is said that upon her testimony de
pends the fate and the good name of a
person high in authority. No person in
private life is permitted to see her, nor
are any private messages delivered to her,
yet the chairman of the House Naval
Committee has undisturbed access to her
room, and seems to know what he is
about. There was a woman in the Secor
claim, one in the French arms business,
one in almost all the historical rascalities
here, and it seems that there is one now
in which the Naval Committee has so
much interest as to closely guard her
door.”
The President and Feed Gkant in
the Real Estate Pool. — It is believed
in Washington that if the contumacious
Kilbourn, who has been committed to jail
for contempt, can be forced to testify in
the real estate pool case now under inves
tigation by the District Committee he
will implicate the President and Lieuten
ant Fred Grant as two of the beneficiaries
who contributed to the fund, but who
have during the last six months paid up
their assessments and sold out. Of the
original members of the pool it is not be
lieved that more than three remain, and
they are real estate agents. The pool
last fall compromised with the Jay Cooke
& Cos. receivership by paying something
over !f40,000, which is $15,000 more than
the amount which the firm of Jay Cooke
<fc Cos. paid in 1872 as its contribution.
At the time the settlement was made last
year between the pool and the estate in
order to have the exposure prevented and
the suit dismissed for the recovery of the
Cookes’ interest, Grant mortgaged his
property at Long Branch, it is believed,
to raise the money to pay his portion of
the assessment made on the pool, and
has since disposed of the real estate,
which consisted wholly of unimproved
lots, to other parties.
Morton and Pinchback. —Senator Mor
ton is said to express the opinion that the
prospects of the Republican party in the
South are somewhat blue, now that a Re
publican Senate has deliberately gone
back on a colored claimant of Pinchback’s
prominence and representative quality.
He expects to see a colored landslide to
the Democracy, and a solid Democratic
South in the electoral college. He is
even quoted as expressing the opinion
that in several of the Southern States
there will be no electoral ticket in the
field next fall, which the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican suggests would be
just punishment for the way the party
has been run there. It is even led to ex
claim :
* “Dearest Pinchback thou has left us,
And our loss we deeply feel.”
Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania,
James B. Beck, of Kentucky, and Ghas.
J. Jenkins, of Georgia, have been select
ed by the States of Maryland and Vir
ginia, to settle the long-standing bound
ary dispute between them. They will sit
in Washington, commencing in April,
and the examination of the case, with
the hearing of witnesses, is expected to
occupy about three months.
The Columbia Union-Herald says:
“This is a bad year for Democratic news
papers in Georgia. Macon, Atlanta and
Augusta daily papers are shown to have
been in the pay of the railroad ring, the
Bullock ring and the Kimball ring.” We
beg our Republican contemporary to be
a little more careful in its statement.
There is no evidence whatever that the
“daily papers of Augusta were in the pay
of the railroad ring, the Kimball ring, or
the Bullock ring.” —Augusta Chronicle.
The statement that General Grant re
ceived a bribe of twenty thousand dollars
for persuading Poker Schenck to ge into
the Emma Mine swindle is all a lie. The
banker, Henry Heiser, who was given as
authority for the statement, declares that
he said no such thing. He asserts that
General Grant was paid twenty thousand
pouruls for his services in the matter.
This makes a very great difference —a
difference of about eighty thousand dol
lars.
The result of counting the persons vis
iting public houses in Cork on Sunday,
gives the following rough estimate:
There are about six hundred public houses
in the city, and the number of persons
visiting them between 2:30 and 8:30 p.
m. is computed at 30,000. As many as
four hundred were seen going in|o one
public house.
Affairs in Georgia.
Under the impression that his constituents
will once more make a statesman of him,
the Hon. Potty is planting an unusuallv
large area of land in pop-corn. True
greatness always has its reward.
Pat Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle, and
Randall, of the Constitutionalist, have both
been suggested as suitable candidates for
Governor, If either should be elected, it is
our firm determination to apply for the posi
tion of Secretary of State.
Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph, dined
in Waynesboro the other day.
There is some talk in Atlauta of prohibit
ing the. merchants to sell hair-pins and
snuff to the policemen of that city.
The Augusta cows can’t be induced to
graze or the mossy banks of the canal,
fierce the prejudice against the innocent
cattle that has arisen in the partizan hosom s
of the reporters.
The other candidates for the Governor
ship ought to feel easier now that the Hon.
John H. James is in Florida.
Gregg Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle,
is not an “obligated editor.” He sheds no
regrets over the course of Ben fiill in Con
gress. Other editors, however, allude to
him as though he were a veritable Cheva
lier Casse-Cou.
Atlanta clamors for a fire alarm tele
graph. There are several other kinds of
alarm that her citizens might with equal
propriety demand.
The Coiambus Enquirer advises all the
young men in Georgia to emigrate to Texas,
on the ground that the sooner they go, the
sooner they will return, and settle down re
formed and contented citizens. The plan
seems plausible enough.
A revenue officer has been nosing around
Griffin seeking for whatever he might
seize.
The Mayor of Atlauta was stricken with
paralysis recently, but is now recovering.
Master Charles and Miss Sillie Hampton,
of Bainbridge, were confirmed by Bishop
Beckwith recently.
They have occasional seusations in Au
gusta. A dog passed through the streets of
that staid village the other day covered
with placards bearing the appropriately
eloquent legend of “Hard Times.”
The Jefferson (Jackson county) News
says that Mrs. Holliday, widow of”the late
J. R. Holliday, of that county, has com
menced an action for damages in the United
States District Court, at Atlanta, against
the members of the posse comitatus and
others, who it was alleged killed Mr. Holliday
in attempting to arrest him some few years
ago. She claims $20,000.
Someone with a literary turn having
stolen a poem bodily from Burns and con
tributed it to the Henry County Ledger, a
local critic thoughtfully inquires of the
editor why he publishes such trash. We
trust the editor will be able to explain in a
satisfactory manner.
Captain Samuel H. Rowland, of Augusta,
is dead.
Randall, of the Augusta Constitutionalist,
is an “obligated editor.” He regrets that
Ben Hill’s secession ardor should be mani
fested at this juncture.
We have received the first number of the
Sanders Vie Messenger, a newspaper pub
lished by Messrs. Brown, Huff & Cos. Mr.
Clement C. Brown, the editor, in his saluta
tory, promises to devote liis talents espe
cially and particularly to the interests of his
town, his county and Ins section—a field
wide enough for the most ambitious pub
licist. The Messenger has bright prospects
of success.
An Augusta doctor, who was recently
called in to examine a child that had been
complaining of severe and incessant pain in
the nose, extracted a large brass button
from that organ.
A negro who died in Augusta recently
had the honor of giving employment to two
Coroner’s juries. The first endeatored to
discover the cause of the death, and the
other to decide whether he had been
poisoned.
The Sandersville Messenger, in alluding to
the fact that the State Lunatic Asylum is
crowded to its utmost capacity, says the
members of the Legislature must have
thought that, as they were as crazy as any
body could possibly he, and were kept at
hope and cared for without the aid of su
perintendents ana Biases, >everybody ,eiso
could do likewise, and that therefore there
was no need of enlargement. Avery neat
shot.
Colonel Jones, of the Macon Telegraph,
says that the merchants of Waynesboro re
fuse to credit or indulge to the extent of a
single dollar any Radical negro politician.
This has set the followers of Rivers and
Morris to thinking, and they begin to realize
what it costs to foment insurrections and
disturb the public peace. Morris is still at
large, and openly declares that every white
man who aided in suppressing the attempted
negro emeute last summer must he punished
ia one way or another—either by assassi
nation or the torch of the incendiary. But
the villain keeps very close, never sleeping
two nights in- the same place, and taking
especial care of his precious person.
The death of Mr. W. A. Brinson, a promi
nent citizen of Jefferson county, is an
nounced.
Mrs. Paschal Watts, of Monroe county, is
dead.
As there will be no State Fair this year,
Sandersville will endeavor to enlarge her
annual exhibition to a district fair. We
trust the movement will be successful.
The Lumpkin Independent is four years
old, and about as healthy and promising a
child as you will see in a day’s journey.
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer is con
trolled by an “obligated editor,” who is of
the opinion that some of Mr. Ben. Hill’s
recent utterances are, to say the least, un
fortunate.
Four hundred tons of guano have been
sold in Burke county this season.
The Griffin News tells of an exceedingly
sharp poddler who has been operating in
Henry county. He has been traveling
through that and adjoining counties selling
goods at such low prices as to induce a large
custom, and the purchasers have been swin
dled in every instance. Whole bolts of
calicoes would be seemingly sacrificed at
one cent per yard, and when unfolded would
be found to be a gauzy stuff made of paper,
entirely worthless and unfit for any possible
use. These deceptions were invariably cov
ered up with a half dozen wraps of really
good cloth, stamped and labeled so as to de
ceive. His business has been astonishingly
lucrative, he having received as much as $330
in gold from one citizen of Meriwether
county for his bogus merchandise. His
field of operations has been principally In
Meriwether and Henry, and in addition to
the large loss cited, other losses ranging
from $25 to S2OO have been sustained by his
credulous victims.
Thus the Alapaha News: “We have re
ceived a large poster from the Savannah
News office, which displays some neat job
work in several colors, and which cannot be
excelled in the South. In the centre is a
neat and well executed cut of the Moening
News building, which is a credit to the
proprietor and an honor to the city of Sa
vannah. The News is one of the best dailies
in the State, and is second to none in the
South—sparkling, newsy and reliable. We
would advise our friends in this county,
wanting a good reliable campaign paper, to
subscribe for the Bavannah News.”
New York Herald on Senator Gordon : A
genuine sensation has been made by the
speech of Senator Gordon on the subject of
revenue reform. That the country is likely
to bo thoroughly stirred by the matter is
evidenced by the deluge of letters which
has already poured in upon Senator Gordon,
commending what he has proposed. The
Senator claims to have shown from the rec
ords of the Treasury Department the start
ling fact that the’government has been
robbed of not less than $1,000,000,000 in the
past thirteen years, no matter what has
been the political stripe ef the several ad
ministrations in power during that time.
In this connection the calculation is
made that, had the money thus misap
propriated been put where it belonged, the
questions of the currency and of the national
debt would not now distract the country.
Had the thousand millions stolen by these
officials and the hordes of placemen under
them been hones ly handled the national
debt would be less than half its present
size, and the finances of the country would
be on a specie payment basis. Even now,
the sources of revenue are so broad and
yielding that an honest collection of the rev
enue, such as Hr. Bristow’s efforts would
bring about, is only necessary to insure the
easy payment of the national debt, the re
duction of the taxes and the restoration of
the currency to a specie standard. The
movement initiated by Senator Gordon
promises to become a revolution which will
sweep out political lives in the next Presi
dential election.
The Rev. John H. Tyler, Jr., of Florida,
casually remarks : But we, ourself, could
unfold a far more startling tale than all this
in reference to Georgia honesty, and Georgia
principle, and Georgia patriotism —a tale
that would cause the blush of shame to
mount to the cheek of every true Southern
man. A tale of the late war when her Gov
ernor, who now it seems bribes Democratic
newspapers with money direct, to advocate
his new schemes of speculation and pecula
tion. made the necessities of the war con
tribute to his individual purse several
millions of dollars, and after thus amassing
fortune, and securing it, turned traitor to
the Confederate cause, and to no little ex
tent broke down that cause through the
defection of the State itself.
We printed in this column yesterday an
: article from the Geneva Lamp embodying a
charge that the authorities of the Central
Railroad, especially the agents and conduc
tors on the Southwestern Division, were
lending material aid to the emigrant agents
who were engaged in decoying ofl the labor
ers in that section. We are authorized to
say that the Central Railroad does not offer
special rates to emigrants, and has
1 never carried any one out of the Statq at
reduced prices. The instructions to agents
and conductors in respect to this matter are
I positive. They are to charge full
j rates and collect all fares in ad
i vance. If the charges of the Geneva
Lamp are true, the orders of the officers of
the Central Road have been disobeyed, and
if the editor of the Lamp , or any citizen of
that section, can iurnish proof to that ef
fect, the parties who thus transcend their
duties will be made to suffer. As far as our
knowledge extends, the State Road
is now, and has been for a long time, the
only road in Georgia offering special rates
to emigrants.
The editor of the Athens Watchman seems
to labor under the impression that Mr. Hill
represents only the Ninth District in Con
gress. It appears to us that this is taking
rather a narrow view of Mr. Hill's position.
Joe Brown is too deep for the Atlanta
Constitution. He salted that paper down
with $5,000 and then pickled it with some
advertising receipts from the Morning News
counting-room. Those who know Joey’s
feelings toward the News are well aware
that if he could have connected it with even
a suspicion of jobbery, he would have in
cluded its name with those of the other pa
pers that he blurted out before the legis
lative investigating committee. The Cbn
stitution owes Joseph a Roland.
“Will the Western visitors go up the ca
nal?” asks the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Of course they will. What other course is
left to a parcel of unprotected strangers?
They will go as easily and as fearlessly as
partridges take to a net on a rainy day.
Judge Pottle, of the Northern Circuit, is
of the opinion that the buying of bread
causes an increase of crime. We have no
doubt the Judge is correct. At any rate, it
is a thoroughly detestable habit which we
would be more than glad to give up, pro
vided Judge Pottle, or any one he may see
fit to appoint, will buy our bread for us.
j Let the good work go oil.
Mr. H. C. Stevenson, who has been con
nected with several Georgia newspapers, is
in Galveston, Texas.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Constitutionalist says the drift of conjecture
seems directed to a well known Bohemian
in that city as the author of the slanders
against Governor Smith, recently published
in the Now York Herald. VYhoever the
author is he has had to swallow some pretty
rough rhetoric.
We have received the March number of
the Kennesaw Houle Gazette , edited by Col.
B. W. Wreun, of the State Road. The sub
scription price is twenty-five cents a year,
and each subscriber receives a chauco in a
drawing to be held June 1, 1876, for a round
trip ticket from Atlanta to the Centennial,
at Philadelphia.
It is hinted that the Hon. Pat Walsh, of
the Augusta Chronicle, is weary of service
in the Georgia House of Representatives,
and desires to get in the Senate to rest him
self. At this rate it won’t belong before the
Peagreen clement will have exclusive con
trol of the lower house. •
The original Bill Arp, of Floyd county,
has emigrated to Arkansas. Some people
act as though the soil of Georgia wasn’t
rich enough to be buried in.
The Western excursionists will take in
Savannah by way of the Port Royal Rail
road.
The farmers of Liberty county are culti
vating rice on a larger scale this year than
usual.
The girls iu LaGrange Female College
have fun. An American gymnasium has
been introduced in the institution. This
sort of thing is a long way ahead of croquet
as an amusement. -Croquet, if you will re
member, appeals more directly to the intel
lect.
The Hinesville Gazette says that on Sun
day, sth iust., the barn, stables and out
buildings on the “Stripling place,” near the
Ohoopie river, were destroyed by fire. Tho
fire is supposed to have been caused by
sparks from a burning’ tree in the field near
by. All the family were gone to church and
knew nothing of their loss until their re
turn. Ten thousand pouuds of oats, one
hundred bushels of com and valuable agri
cultural implements were destroyed.
The Superior Court of Wayne county as
sembled on the 13th.
We fear we shall have to send for “Agri
cultural Ned” to take Dr. Carloton, of the
Athens Georgian, in hand. The Doctor
seems to labor under the impression that
the criticisms which certain Georgia news
papers have bestowed upon the recent
coarse of Mr. Hill are aimed at his defense
of the South in his Andersonville speech.
We have seen no such criticisms. Certainly
none such have appeared in the Morning
News. We approve that speech most
heartily. It was demanded by an occasion
to which it was fully equal, and we have lost
no opportunity to give Mr. Hill all the credit
due to his promptness, his manliness and
his eloquence. But we do think his course
during the consideration of the pension bill
was uncalled for, ill-timed and ill-judgod,and
that is the general verdict.
•' A colored citizen of Thomas county, who
found it impossible to fraternize with an
other colored citizen, emphasized the lack
of unity with a pistol and a knife.
The new crop of snakes is ripening very
early in the neighborhood of Athens.
Jesup has a curiosity in tho shape of a
lemon nine inches long, twenty-two inches
in circumference, and weighing two pounds
aud a half.
A flock of wild geese passed over Rome
the other night.
Mrs. Sarah S. Hamilton, of Athens, is
dead.
Thieves are getting to be mighty soon, as
the boys say. A merchant of Graniteville,
S. C., whose store was robbed recently of a
large amount of goods, went to Augusta
the other day and purchased another stock.
These goods were placed in a special car,
and the special car was broken into and
robbed.
Jesup is laying the foundation of a de
bating society.
Tlie Thomasville Enterprise says that the
elegant mansion of Maj. J. J. Mash, situa
ted at Duncanville, twelve miles south of
that city, was burned between twelve aud
two o’clock on Monday evening last. The
origin of the fire is supposed to have been
accidental. The building was perhaps one
of the finest if not the best in Thomas
county, was of brick, and cost when built
between $12,000 and 515,000.
The timber-cutters are talking about
holding a convention for the purpose of pro
viding means for the enforcement of the
bill recently passed by the Legislature.
We are indebted to Messrs. James I’. Har
rison & Cos., of Atlanta, for a neatly printed
pamphlet containing the public acts passed
at the recent session of the General Assem
bly.
Cairo, in Thomas county, has been having
a good time recently in the way of charades.
The dwelling house of Mr. James B.
Sharp, of Forsyth, was burned on Sunday
last. The loss falls heavily on Mr. Sharp.
A musical instrument very popular in
Rome is constructed of a broomstick, a wire
and a piece of nail.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says that
Mr. T. J. Jennings, the well known cotton
factor, desiring to present Mr. Dempster, a
friend in Liverpool, England, with a fresh
specimen of our Savannah shad, hit on a
novel plan to carry out his wish. He went
to Hale Barrett, Esq., the President of the
Augusta Ice Company, and that energetic
gentleman enclosed two splendid specimens
of shad in the centre of a block of ice one
hundred and sixty-five pounds in weight.
No doubt the fish found frozen in the block
of ice will prove a great curiosity in Liver
pool, as were the apple dumplings to King
George.
Rome Commercial : Everybody knows
Aunt Harriet; everybodythat ever had a baby
does, anyhow. Aunt Harriet is a gay
widow now, but she is going to get married.
She makes no secret of it. She is going to
marry a young fellow only nineteen years
old. A few days ago one of the colored
brethren hinted to her that she ought not to
marry a boy. “You attend to your own
affairs, nigger,” replied Aunt Harriet; “if I
choose to take one out of the cradle and raise
him, it’g none of your business.” Exit col
ored brother with a flea in his ear.
Milledgeville correspondence Macon Tele
graph : An event, long expected, has at last
taken place; bat it falls on our community,
as it will upon the general public, none the
less solemnly or sorrowfully. Hon. Iverson
Louis Harris died at his residence in this
city last nignt (Sunday), the 12th instant, at
eleven o’clock. The career of Judge Harris
as a distinguished and active lawyer, and
afterward Judge of the Superior Court, and
lastly one of the Jndges of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, is well known. Possess
ing an intellect uncommonly bright and
vigorous, an energy and industry that never
tired; and an integrity never sullied by the
slightest imputation of an unworthy motive,
fashioned, indeed, on the high old Ro
man type which is not too often
emulated in our modern days. Jadge
Harris may well be mourned by
the entire people of Georgia when he goes
down into the grave. He leaves behind him
far fewer men of his mould than would be
salatary for the republic. He is withdrawn
from tfle liviug at. a period when official cor
ruption in high places reveals a rottenness
in our official morals disgraceful to the
American republic all over tho world. He,
at least, wa® pure through a long life and
high official station. Judge Harris was a
native of Georgia, and spent his entire life
as a Georgian citizen. His ago was a little
over seventy years.
The more we think about it, the more are
we inclined to believe that Judge Fottle is
right in saying that the buying of bread in
creases crime, and wo are willing to become
the recording secretary of auv association
that may be established for the purpose of
bringing about a reform in this important
matter.
Sapiency is a disease in Covington. The
editor of tho Star, for instance, announces
that the designation placed at the bottom
of one of Joey Brown’s advertisements in
the Morning News (ju126.1t) is our “private
mark.” As similar marks are used by n< ar
ly every paper in Georgia to designate ad
vertisements, we probably ought t sue for
an infringement. We trust the Star will be
successful in getting away with the gnat at
which it is straining so convulsively.
We are convinced that Messrs. Oglesby
and Farrel, of tho Augusta press, could be
prevailed upon to wade across the canal for
the amusement of the Western visitors
were it not violative of their sense of deco
rum to roll up their breeches in tho pres
ence of ladies.
That sprightly weekly, the Waynesboro
Expositor, makes this remark in passing :
“The Morning News has come out of the
lease ordeal with flying colors, and is to
day more than ever entitled to the support
and confidence of the State of Georgia.”
The editor of the Talbottou Standard
must be a cheerful mas to board with. H )
begins a column of “Squibs” with this par
agraph : “Another week is gone and you are
just seven days nearer the grave than you
were last Wednesday morning, this time.
Are you preparing to’die ?”
The Fort Valley Mirror is blessed with
inquisitiveness. If a farmer buys guano,
with cotton at fifteen cents a pound, and
does not mako enough cotton to pay out,
the editor wants to know what amount of
money he will have after the Ordinary sets
aside a homestead.
Joel It. Griffiu, a wretched scalawag who
has haunted Houston county since the war,
has emigrated to Arkansas.
Mr. Jacob L. Maddox, a well-known citi
zen of Johnson county, is dead.
An old negro woman was killed by a train
on the Georgia Road, in Warren county, the
other day. She was partially deranged.
Rev. David Cook, an aged preacher of
Newton county, is seriously ill.
Mr. E. Douglass, a lawyer of Covington,
has been adjudged insane.
The dwelling-house of Mr. S. P. Perkins,
of Burke county, was burned recently. The
loss is about throe thousand dollars.
Mumford, of the Talbotton Standard,
who is old enough to boa good judge, al
though he is quite a young man, ventures
this neat bit of criticism: “Our private opin
ion, publicly expressed, is, that the Savan
nah Morning News is tho best daily paper
in the State.”
Tho receipts of cotton in Aruericus up to
the 15th were 20,121 bales, a falling off of
3,669 bales as compared with the same pe
riod last year. Tho price has also decreased
four cents.
Mayor Huff, of Mscod, is putting Central
Ciiy Park in trim at his own expense.
Bishop Holsey, colored, is preaching in
Sandersville. Owing to tho fact that hois
endorsed by Bishop Pierce, the negroes
have an idea that ho is a Democrat in dis
guise, and many refuse to hear him preach,
Poor niggers!
The Waynesboro Expositor announces
that a professor in that town is erecting a
new musical wind instrument.
Mr. W. T. Christopher, the editor of the
Fort Valley Mirror, has invented a sub
scription and mailing-book which, from the
description, we judge to boa great desidera
tum in newspaper offices where the mailing
machine haß not been introduced.
The colored people are becoming more
and more sensitive every day. A negro
bride fainted in Fort Valley recontly during
the marriage ceremony.
An old Indian camping-ground has been
discovered in Burke county.
A iVashington county calf, not quite a
year old'weigbed 324 pounds net.
A number of persons in Atlanta were pois
oned the other day by eating pork, but none
fatally.
Colored burglars aro operating on smoke
houses in Middle Georgia.
Dr. C. B. Nottingham, a prominent physi
cian of Macon, is dead.
The dead body of an infant, in an advanced
stage of decomposition, was found in the
river near Augusta the other day. Its color
could not be determined.
Mr. W. J. Crawford, ail old citizen of
Harris county, was found dead in liisjbed
one night recently.
Hamilton Mirror: A negro suggests that
it is the Georgia cyclones that is running
them to the Western graveyards. “What's
de use 'cumulating a family unless do win’ is
tuned down?”
A negro fell dead in Harris county re
cently while at work.
A Spalding county man has silver plate
said to be one hundred and sixty years old.
The Covington Star learns that a most
horrible accident happened near Snapping
Shoals on Monday evening last, which has
probably resulted ere this in the death of
Mr. Washington Adair. It seems that Mr.
Adair was returning home from plowing,
and was riding his mule, with the plow gear
on it, when it became frightened and threw
him oft, and as he fell he became entangled
in the gear and was dragged about a mile
through the woods, at a fearful speed, by
the frightened mule, and was almost liter
ally torn to pieces.
Macon Telegraph ; Four weeks ago last
Saturday a negro boy named Kit ltutland
was run over by a train on the Central
Railroad and fearfully iniured. The car
passed over both of his legs, above the
knees, and crushed them frightfully, forcing
the bone of one of them through the flesh.
One of his hands was also crushed badly,
and he was otherwise severely injured. No
one who saw the boy immediately after the
accident, had any idea he would live two
days. Dr. E. M. Newman, a physician who
has lately moved to Macon, was called
to attend the case, and has had it in
charge to the present time, and so skillfully
has he managed it that the boy is now able
to sit up and even move about on crutches.
He will recover tbe use of both legs and of
his hand, with the exception of the little
finger, which is likely to remain stiff. This
case is a very remarkable one, as we
have the testimony of the boy, and of two
gentlemen who witnessed the accident, that,
the car passed over both his legs. Indeed,
the scars which remain are sufficient evi
dence of this fact, and yet by skillful treat
ment, in the short space of four weeks, the
boy is able to walk about, with the aid of
crutches.
Thomasville Enterprise: In conversation
with an intelligent farmer on the subject of
cotton planting, he said that he had made a
careful calculation, and though he raised all
his provisions at home and made a good
crop of cotton last year, it cost him nearly
nine cents per pound to make it, and he
would not plant any at all if it wasn’t that
he needed a little credit every year to get
through, and he could not get the credit
unless be planted cotton. Now, if it costs
a man nine cents per pound to raise cot
ton who has made all his provisions, what
does it cost a man who buys provisions
on a credit ? We say again that we have no
wish to dictate to our farming friends what
they shall do or how they shall manage
their affairs, but we have come to the con
clusion, from a careful reading of our ex
changes and by close study of all other
information that we have been able to get
at, that a very light cotton crop in 1876 will
supply the demand, and that the people in
the cotton belt seem determined to raise a
very large crop. The only result we can
foresee will be to make the price very low,
far below the cost of production. We sub
mit these facts to our people without fur
ther comment.
Milledgeville Union and Recorder: H. I.
Kimball is appointed censor and keeper of
the morals of Atlanta. It is said Mr. Kim
ball will pay particular attention to the
morals of the press of that city, and also to
the members of the Legislature whilst in
session, and will keep a very sharp outlook
on the members of the Senate. Mr. Kimball
intends to banish such words as bribery and
corruption from the language of Atlanta.
Hereafter when any individual or company
wishes to purchase the services of an
editor or to buy or rent any por
tion of his paper, he will intimate to
the editor that it will be very much
to his interest to take such a position as the
purchaser desires, and after he has taken it
the buyer will make him a present, say of
$5,000, or any sum agreed upon in this way,
and then the smell of bribery will adhere to
the skirts of the editor. In the case of
members of the Legislature the money paid
can be called a retainer or fee. Mr. Kimball
intends to have a code regulating all such
delicate business transactions, and also to
fix a tariff of prices for such services. Mr.
Kimball believes an editor should be paid
for the wear and tear of his conscience, as
well as for the wear and tear of his type and
press; therefore if he is called on to sustain
a very bad cause he should be paid accord
ingly.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Forsyth Advertiser: A decision was
| made by His Honor Judge John I. Hall,
! during last week, the second week of the
! February term of Monroe Superior Court,
which is a very important ono aud will at
tract considerable attention. Mr. William
Lampkiti was indicted for “larceny after
trust delegated.” The indictmout charged
that the said William Lampkiu was appoint
ed agent of the “Direct Trade Union of the
Patrons of Husbandry,” a corporation
created by an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved February 3d, 1871.
That as such agent, during the
season of 1874 aud 1875, he received a
quantity of cotton and shipped tho same to
Liverpool, England, in behalf of his princi
pal, the “Direct Trade Uniou of tho Patrons
of Husbandry:” that there was forwarded to
him, duriug the month of February, ’75, as
an advance on said cotton, to be paid to the
owner, Elihu H. Walker, the sum of five
hundred dollars: that he failed to pay over
to Sir. Walker, tho owner of the oottoD, for
whom the advance was made, the five hun
dred dollars so sent to him, and refused, by
demand, to pay the same over to his prin
cipal, tho “Direct Trade Union of the
Patrons of Husbaudary.” The defendant’s
counsel, Judge A. At. Speer, and Judge It.
P. Trippe, of Atlanta, moved to quash
the indictment, because the act of incor
poration was forbidden by the Constitution
of Georgia, the Legislature having no
power under tho constitution to grant cor
porate power to any private company, ex
cept to banking, insurance, railroad, canal,
navigation, mining, express, lumber, manu
facturing aud telegraph companies; tho
object for which this corporation was
created being neither ot those mentioned;
that, as the act of incorporation was such
au one as the Legislature could not under
the constitution pass, the company was not
incorporated ; that therefore there was
no such artificial person as the “Direct
Trade Union of the Patrons of Husbandry”
to entrust funds with defendant,
or to make the demand, necessary
under the statute to bo made. The
motion to quash was supported by Messrs.
Speer and Trippe iu able arguments. Coun
sel for the State argued that tho corporation
was one with powers of navigation. But
the statute creatiug the act did uot state nor
imply power to engage in navigation. The
motion to quash was sustained, and thus
the act incorporating the “Direct Trade
Union of tho Patrons of Husbandry” was
declared unconstitutional, and hence that
corporation has no existence in law. A
large number of able lawyers were present
in the court room—Messrs. Clifford Ander
son, Wooten and Simmons from Macon,
Hunt of Barnesvillo, tho local bar of Forsyth
—and all agreod that tho decision of Judge
Hall was a proper one.
Geneva Lamp: Our citizens of the Box
Spring District continue to be afflicted with
the unlawful acts of negro emigrant agents.
Regardless of tho fact that laborers are
under contract, and have drawn supplies
and beeu furnished other necessaries for
more than two mouths, they are enticed by
alluring and faithless offers to abandon their
homes and leave for the hopeful West,where
the maximum of wages aud the minimum
of service are represented to be most hap
pily blended. These agents are ever
ready to affirm that negroes under
contract are not of their seeking,
but they disappear without notice, and
a goodly band of unsought laborors
ever disappear with them. Determined to
submit to the outrage no longer, somo of
the good citizens took the matter in hand
and promptly expelled these agents at their
first coming, hoping to find protection in
such a movoment, but we regret to learn
the nuisance was not the least abated and
we aro the more regretful that so rospecta
blo a corporation as tho Central Railroad
Company offers unusual facilities for the
accomplishment of this nefarious business
and defeats the attempt of tho vigilant
planter. No sooner is an agent ex
pelled from a neighborhood than he
betakes himself to the safe side of
the Chattahoochee and through negro em
misaries communicates with the planta
tions of tho neighborhood he has left, and
upon somo secret night they aro told trans
portation is awaiting them. Now the agents
do not appear upon the train themselves,
because they would be promptly arrested ;
they do not send out the money to pay tho
transportation, because many of the
negroes would receive the money but
never report, but they adopt tho de
vice which secures both thoir persons
and their money, by sending a tel*r,;ram
to this point tilling tho conductirvof
the troi n to take alt who offer,
Springs, and the money is deposited with
the Western Railroad agent for payment of
fare. Strangely enough we aro informed
that the conductor is under orders .to take
tho negroes in this way, well knowing that
by such action a law of Georgia is violated
and the offender cannot bo brought
to justice. Is not the railroad com
pany a party to the crime? Of this
thing we are certain, that somo of the
planters will regard no measure too harsh
to prevent such an imposition upon them
selves. Tho fires upon a plantation tho past
week are tracoable directly to difficulties
which grew out of negroes leaving tho place
upon telegraphic transportation, who but
for such transportation it is very probable
would not have gone at all. We have a
kindly feeling for tho Central Road aud its
general management, but wo denounce as
unwise, UDjust and unlawful this unfriendly
practice towards tho supporters of the road.
We sincerely hope its orders will be revoked
before they are resisted.
Florida Affairs.
Cheney and McLin, as lovely a brace of
Eatriots as ever plotted against the well
eing and prosperity of a commonwealth,
are still reviling Purman, the heroic cadet
ship peddler. The first thing these en
thusiastic rascals know they will make a
martyr of Purman.
There is a place somewhere in Florida
called Beecher’s Landing. It strikes us,
however, that Beecher’s real landing-place
is in a climate rather more tropical than
that of Florida.
We venture to predict that McLin, of the
Sentinel, will, in the course of a very fow
months, fall to abusing the Rev. John
Tyler, Jr., as roundly as he did when Harri
son Reed wore the slippers that alarcellus
Stearns has frayed at tho heel. McLin is as
many-Bided as a diamond, but as dull withal
as mica.
Purman, in writing to one of his colored
friends in Jefferson county, advises him to
improve liis handwriting in order that he
may obtain an office. We advise the mem
bers of the Stearns ring to mend their
morals in order that they may obtain re
spectability.
A Tampa man has raised thirteen hun
dred cabbages from twenty cents’ worth of
seed.
Hicks’s libel suit against the Live Oak-
Times seems to hang fire. If it ever does
come into court, some lively revelations
may be looked for.
What does the Monticello Constitution
think of the movement among the colored
people to mako John Tyler Governor?
Owing to tho comparatively mild winter
at the North, travel to Florida has not been
as brisk this season as last year. Never
theless, hotel and boarding-house keepers
have been at some trouble to comfortably
accommodate the visitors.
The engagements of Milton B.;Littlefield
will not call him to North Carolina this
season.
Dennis seems to have utterly disappeared
since J. Willis Menard, the colored poet,
rubbed him down with a rhetorical curry
comb.
Eight oysters brought to Tampa recently
averaged two and a half ounces in weight
each.
Some Indiana men who settled at Point
Pinaiis are dissatisfied because the deer de
stroy their vegetables and things. Hun
dreds of people would manage to worry
along under hindrances like this without
making any special complaint.
Gadsden county has begun to ship green
peas in earnest.
Live Oak entertains a suspicion that
chicken thieves are lurking about in that
neighborhood.
The Supreme Court has granted new trials
to Mary Ann Keech and William Newton,
who were convicted of murder at St. Augus
tine gome time ago.
The Jacksonville Press says that the bo
gus Republican State Executive Committee,
headed by Cheney, of the Union, is fast
coming to grief. The rungs of the ladder
by which he and his set hoped to climb into
power, are being cut away, one after the
other, and the disappointed aspirants are
tumbling to the earth bruised and discom
fited. Leon, Madison and Alachua counties
have repudiated the spurious wire-pullers,
and Duval and other counties are preparing
to follow their example.
On Saturday Air. William Astor bought a
dwelling-house in Jacksonville for $6,500
cash.
Tallahassee had a colored cutting affray
on Friday last. •Dinah was at the bottom of
it.
The Agriculturist mentions the cases of
two settlers on Lake Crescent. One com
menced eight years ago, with one hundred
and thirty dollars, and has refused fifteen
thousand dollars for his orange grove. The
other arrived at the same title, without one
cent, and has declined twenty-five thousand
dollarr for his property.
The recent Episcopal Festival at Tampa
was a success.
The Putnam Hotel at Palatka is supplied
with music all the way from the North.
Pet coons retail for fifteen dollars in Pa
latka.
In 1872, McLin alluded -to Rev. John Tv
ler.Jr., as “a shiftless mountebank, with
blood on his teeth, and green-eyed with
Democracy,” In 187 0, the same man was
hugging Tyler to his boson;. In 1072 Mc-
Lin alluded to Charles H. as “Reed’s
mangy spaniel.” Shortly aM+wards McLin
became the 00-worker of Waiti a, ami at this
moment his relations to Stearns, 0 far as
the Sentinel is concerned, are pr* ciselv those
that Walton bore to Reed.
Anew boat, after the modei of the cele
brated Mississippi steamer, the Robert E
Lee, is to be put upon the St. Join v-er."
A little son of Captain Tibbetts, of River
side. was severely bitten by a dog th q her
day.
The inhabitants of Orange county wear
black snakes on their persons^
When Stearns and McLin want u.i have
little private chat they go over to Live Orii
Live Oak wants a livery stable, an 1 algo
hack line to Suwannee Springs.
Someone has sent the Jacksonville Press
from Madison the accompanying notice from
one of Stearns’s sapient, colored Justice,, oi
the Peace for that county. The circumstances
are these : Kennedy (colored) had rented
a house from George Washington (colored).
Afterwards Washington demanded posses
sion, which was refused. Washington made
a complaint to M. M. Sampson, a colored J.'
P., who thereupon issued the following no
tico, which to append verbatim et literatim:
State of Florida Madison (Jaunty Feb
23 1876
Mr Canday
you muse Got out of that House to day or I
will bo Compail to rnako you pay tho Sum of
$5 Dollors Sou
M M Sampson
Justice of the Peace.
Babcock seems to have been interested iu
Florida. An Indianapolis correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer says that further
facts have come to light iu reference to the
recent rumor of corrupt charges against
Babcock in connection with government ap
pointments. In December, 1873, there lived
at Mellouville, Florida, a carpet-bagging
rascal named John McDonald, who held a
'position as Surveyor in the United States
Timber Office at a salary of $1,200 a year.
His duties were ostensibly to keep thieves
from poaching on navy reservations of nine
aud live oak, but, really, bo allowed th in to
steal and then mako them whack up. By
sharp trickery ho obtained control of 1 ; 20()
acres ot Hue rolling land near the River
Wekeva, from citizens of St. Augustine,
and at once proceeded p>
in which half a dozen e.trpet-buggevs
of Tallahassee were interested, and
an equal number of officials in tlic depart
ments at Washington. This land was sub
divided into ten-acre lots, aud the pool tin n
meant to get out maps dotted with orann
groves, and thus catch speculators at
North. Iu the latter part of tho same vein
Babcock addressed McDonald a letter beat
ing the seal of the Executive Mansion, in
forming the latter that the scheme was fine,
anil promised big returns, aud closed with
stating that to help the matter along and
onabio McDonald to complete the maps he
had placed his name on the department pay
roll at a salary of SI,OOO a year, and in ro
turu for this Babcock was to bo oredited
with stock in the Orange Grove swindle. The
gentleman who narrates these facts saw
Babcock’s lottor, aud stands ready to testify
if investigation is ordered.
Jacksonville Press: The editor of the
Observer thinks that tho office of Governor >
of Florida is hardly worth having. Be this '
as it may, there are many Richmonds in the
field iu quest of the coveted honor. While
we are no special admirer of the Rev. John
Tyler, we highly approve the position ho
has taken relative to tho handful of North
ern carpet-baggers who have held, since re
construction, the reigns ot power in Florida
to the almost entire exclusion of tho colored
element aud Southern Republicans, who
compose ninety per cont. of the party. We
wish him every success iu lus crusade
against that selfish and pestilent |class of
politicians. A ticket headed by General
Tyler, of the Southern Republicans, and
Walls, of the colored wing, would be a
strong combination.
Palatka Herald: Rice creek is coming
into notice. Wo have for some time thought
that tho land on some portions of the creek
and upon the Etoniah creek would come
into market. Several artioles appeared in
this paper upon tho subject of connecting
tho Santa Fee country with the St. Jolrn’s.
All that is needed to put this enterprise
through is a fow ontorprisiug mau. The
mouth of liioo creek is five miles below
Palatka, on tho west sido of the St. John’s
river. Etoniah creek empties in Rice
creek at a navigable point for steamers.
In fact, Rice creek is navigable nine miles
up to tho English rico Holds, a point where
good pine lauds may be purchased at a low
figure. In the raising of fruit aud vegetables
it is very important to bo accessible to
navigation. All the region on those creeks
for twenty miles may be found excellent „
grazing for cattle, sheep and other stock. *
Real estato agents would do well to get
maps of this portion of the country anil
give it a showing.
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South Carolina A Hairs. /
Leonard Dove, residing at Dove’s depot,
on the Clieraw aud Darlington Railroad,
committed suicide a few days ago by shoot’
ing himself in the head with a pistol'.
WivF'driev. tho butcher, off Yorkville
robbed last week of $l3O iie waa asieer*
at Mr. Samuel Howell’s, • * nowell’*
Ferry, on Broad river. Tho money has not
yet been recovered. No blame attaches to
Mr. Howell for the loss. .
The track has been laid on the Chester
and Lenoir Railroad to Crowder’s creek, a
distance of nine miles from the Air-Line
Railroad * and thirteen from Yorkville. i
A temporary trestle will be erected over the ■
creek, after which track laying will proceed
at the rate of a mile a day.
ltowo’s Pump, in Orangeburg county, has
been incorporated, and now rejoices in the
name of liowesvillo.
Sergeant Jos. Gouldou has been appointed
acting lieutenant of the police force -ot
Charleston, in the place of Lieut. M. P.
Halsey, resigned.
S. Marco, Esq., of Darlington, offers a
reward of three huudred dollars*for the
apprehension and dolivery of, with proof to
convict, the incendiary who set firo to and
burned his house on B. Parnell’s place,
about six miles from Darlington, a short
time since.
Progress is making on the Cheraw and
Chester Railroad. Work has been com
menced on the bridge over Fishing Creek, i
which will be completed by the middle of
April. With the completion of this bridge
the entire work of grading and trestling
between Chester and Lancaster will have
been done. A considerable force is now at
work on the section of the road between
Cheraw and Chesterfield Court House.
Mr. 8. Leßoy Boyd, formerly of Chester
county, is a Democratic member of the
sissippi Legislature. w
Eight thousand bales of cotton were i
shipped from Union depot from September ■
10 to March 1. Last season the shipments
from September 1 to April 1, footed up 8,033.
The hot supper at Honea Path.
evening last, was a complete success, some
thing over ninety dollars being realized.
Abneville Medium: Heavy frosts last
week, and it is feared that the fruit crop
will be a complete failure.
Tho Republicans of Orangeburg held an
indignation meeting on Monday night last,
over the recent changes made by Governor
Chamberlain in the officials of the county.
Tho pilot-boat Albion was lost last week
at Georgetown, on the breakers. The crew
were saved.
Several robberies are reported in Chester
county. Dr. D. C. Anderson had a horse
stolen, and Mr. W. D. Ingraham lost a sad
dle tho same night. Major John Sanders,
of Carmel Hill, had his house robbed of
money while he was at breakfast. A young
gentleman at the same time lost some
clothes which he had gotten preparatory to i
a courting expedition. ' i
A special term of court was held last week fl
at Marlboro, by Judge Shaw, to hear cor-m
tain cases in which Judge
been interested as attorney.
Jack Cheatham’s dwelling house and 1
kiteken at Winterseat, Edgefield county,
was destroyed by fire on last Friday night.
Mr. Thomas H. Moore died very suddenly
at the residence of Mr. Allen Riley, about
nine miles from Orangeburg Court House,
last week, from heart disease.
A track of land, consisting of 1,010 acres
in Fairfield county, was sold on last sales
day for $1,500, to J. H. Rion.
Mary Williams, a colored woman, has been
committed to the Fairfield jail for safe keep
ing, as she has become a lunatic.
When Sherman’s army burned and plun
dered the houses in Columbia, a Connecticut
soldier appropriated to himself a miniature
painting of a lady, which was enclosed in an
oval case covered with red velvet; Mml
Hayden, of Charleston, on a visit to
North, received this portrait from the Con
necticut man, with the statement that ho
had taken it from a house in Columbia; that'**
his conscience had told him of his wrong
action, and as it might be valuable to its
owner, he desired Mr. Hayden to endeavor
to procure its restitution. Mr. Hayden ex
hibited it to several of the portrait painters
of Charleston, and while none of them knew
the original, they at once Tecognized the
painting as that of Mr. W. P. Hix, of Colum
bia. The portrait was then placed in tho
care of Mr. C. H. Baldwin, who deposited it
in the keeping of Mr. Hix, from whom the
Eroper owner can obtain it. Mr. Hix sava
e painted the picture before the war.
On the 2d instant, on the Fuller Place,
St. Helena Island, the house of Wm. Gre
gorie caught fire. His wife escaped through
the lower story window. His mother, who '
was sick in an adjoining building, rushed
out, entered the burning building and res
cued two children. The house was soon en
tirely destroyed, when it was discovered
that a littie girl named Mary Albright, whe
was acting as a nurse in the family, was,
missing. Search was made for her and her
charred remains were found in the smould
ering debris. She had been asleep in one of
the rooms on the second floor. At the in
quest held by Deputy Coroner Dr. John A.
Johnson, a verdict of accidental death was
returned. Mr. Gregorie was absent from
home at the time attending to his duties as
clerk m the store of Messrs. F. G. Nichols
& Cos., on the Oliver Eripp plantation, St.
Helena Island. He has lost in the fire
the accumulation of years of hard and
steady work. *•