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Correspondence solicited; but to receive atten
t ion, letters must be accompanied by a responsl
ble name, not for publication, but a* a guarantee
of good faith.
All letters should be addressed to
J. H. KsTILL, Savannah, Oa.
Bishop Gil Haven.
Curiosity in expressed in some quarters
to know whether that immaculate apostle
of miscegenation and higher law morality
is as strongly in favor off Jrant for a
third term as he was before the Babcock
and Belknap scandals. Those who know
him best are of the opinion that recent
developments have only strengthened his
devotion to the worthy head of his pirty.
Appropos of old Gil: bis appear
ance a few days since, as pre
siding officer at the fifty-second ses
sion of the Pittsburgh Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church brought the
following story to the reoollection of the
correspondent of the Pittsburgh Chroni
clr: “Dr. Nowhall, the former President
of the Delaware College, and a personal
friend.of Bishop Haven, was very sick.
Hie disease; filled the poor man's mind
with all sorts of vagaries. For many
days he thought himself immortal, and
refused to eat anything whatever. The
Bishop happened to visit him at this time,
and tried to prevail upon his sick friend
to take some nourishment. ‘No; I do
not want anything,' said he. ‘I
am immortal. I am in heaven.
This is heaven.’ Then pausing for
a moment and looking at his visi
tor with a troubled air, ho said : ‘But,
Haven, bow in the world did you get
here ? You are the last person I expected
to see m this placo.’ ”
Reform in Massachusetts.
A number of Massachusetts Ropubli
oaiiH, disposed toward# reform, have met
in council with a view to promote tlie
nomination of a man of high character,
ability and statesmanship a# a Republican
candidate for tho Presidency. The name#
'of Adam# and Bristow found the moot
favor among them. The more thoughtful
men in tho Republican party are fully
alive to the dangers of the hour, and to
tho necessity of a sounder and safer posi
tion than that now occupied. There is
an unusual fermentation in both partioß
just now, and tho friends of reform find
that they have already made un impress
ion. The Rosl.on Radicals seem to be fully
impressed with the necessity of reforming
the corruption which permouto# their
party from tho highest to the lowest. Put
tho ditliculty is to find leaders whose
characters will bear investigation. Judg
ing from recent disclosures Diogones
might search through the ranks of tho
Kdaioal party with a locomotive head-light
for a lantern und not hud an honest man.
The truth that the people of Massachu -
netts and of the entire oouutry have yet
to realize is that the principles of the
Radical party are utterly inconsistent
Radicalism, rascality and rottenness are
synouomous terms.
Mu. Pendleton’s Bio Fee. —The New
York Express says: “From a near rela
tive of the Hon. George H. Pendleton
and Mrs. Powler, we are informed, and
requested to state, that Mrs. Powler was
the sole owner of the railroad, and tho
nrraugeiuout with Mr. Pendleton was a
family matter entirely, uud that Mrs.
Powler got her full share of the SBO,OOO
alleged to liavo been paid to Mr. Pendle
ton over his legal foes.”
Mr. Pendleton should have stated
that factiu his testimony be
fore tho investigating commit
tee. Put it is also alleged that Mrs.
Bower got her full sharo of tho claim
paid to Mr. Pendleton. We sincerely
hope that the former assertion may prove
to be true and the latter false.
Glorying in its Own Shame. —The
Atlanta Constitution makes the following
editorial announcement: “Having filled
a number of orders for supplements con
taining the leage evidence in full, we still
have seven or eight thousand copies,
which we will furnish free of charge to
any Georgia journal wishing them. We
are desirous that the people should read
the evidence so far as the Constitution is
concerned, lienee we will furnish it free
of charge on request. More interesting
reading cannot be furnished tho people.
All wish to see it.” The Constitution
would add to the interest of its supple
ment if it were to print in it a few
columns of the comments of the honest
press of the State on the Constitutions
ideas of journalistic “ethics.”
The administration partisans are
whooping about the disclosure of Pendle
ton's outrageous charge for collecting a
claim as if the matter in some way con
cerned the public. In this connection,
the Washington Sunday Herald very pro
perly remarks: “When the Democracy
elects a national administration it will be
come responsible for the manner in
which the members of that administra
tion discharge their public trusts; but no
party can be held responsible for the
actious of persons in private life. The
work of political reform does not consist
in making individuals pure and honest,
but in enforcing faithfulness and integrity
in the public service.
Stupendous Cotton Frauds in New
Orleans. —A Washington dispatch to the
Now Orleans Times says: “A govern
ment special arrived here from New Or
leans on Saturday, with some most start
ling evidence concerning revenue and
cotton frauds there. Persons of very
high position are irredeemably involved.
The officials, to whom the evidence was
submitted, stated they had long known
that a bad condition of affairs existed in
Louisiana and New Orleans, but never
had an idea that frauds were so far reach
ing and involved persons of such promi
nence as the evidence indicates are im
plicated. Developments laying every
thing heretofore known in the shade will
soon be made.”
The suspicious which were excited by
the strange conduct of the Administration
in dismissing Henderson, discouraging
witnesses, and in other ways apparently
striving to break down the prosecution
of the whisky conspirators are receiving
strong confirmation. News comes from
St. Louis that McDonald, the convicted
but not sentenced whisky ring conspira
tor, is allowed to go out walking regularly
in the company of an official in private
clothing, even to attend the theatre. Is
the punishment of this chief of the ring
to be merely nominal, so that he will have
do inducement to squeal ?
J- 11. ESTILL. PROPRIETOR.
Too Virtuous for its Party.
The Boston Advertiser will have to be
voted out of the?ltadical faction; it is en
tirely too honest to be an organ of the
“party of moral ideas.” Commenting on
the wholesale bribery by which the New
Hampshire Radicals increased their ma
jority in the recent election, it says:
“There is no time as good as the present
to say that some of the means employed
by both parties in endeavoring to carry
this election—indeed, every election iD
the last ten years—are scandalous and
disgraceful. It is no excuse for either
party to plead the practice of the other.
Both are equally guilty. Both use open
bribery to secure votes for themselves or
to induce opponents not to vote. The
public conscience seems to be altogether
demoralized when it is a question of
saving or gaining a vote. We rejoice over
the triumph in New Hampshire so far as
it is a victory of good principles over
bad, but we regret it so far as it is a tri
umph of trickery and of money. If the
Republicans of New Hampshire want
reform, let them begin at home and
reform themselves. In their way they
have done things quite as bad as that for
which the country condemns Belknap. The
political atmosphere is foul with the corrup
tion. If the party cannot win without bribe
ry let it turn its attention to awakening the
public conscience, and, meanwhile, leave
bribery and political success to the party
which has no scruples on the subject in
any State.”
Why, this sort of talk in a Radical
paper is what honest Dogberry would
have called “flat burglary.” To talk
about the Radicals wanting reform —to
say that the New Hampshire Radicals are
no better than Belknap—to inveigh
against bribery and corruption, and even
propose to awaken the public
From a Radical standpoint this sort of
counsel is downright treason. Does not
the editor of the Advertiser know that
corruption and bribery is the life-blood
of his party, and that the “awaken
ing of the public conscience” would be
the death-knell of Radicalism ? He
ought to know that the day is passed
when elections in this country are to be
carried by appeals to the intelligence and
patriotism of the people, and majorities
are determined by the ballots of honest
voters. lie ought to kuow that it is by
corruption and bribery, and appeals to the
passions, prejudices and sectional hatred
of the people, that his party is maintain
ed in power. He should know that the
reliance of the banditti who now have
possession of the government, is in bri
bery at the North and bayonets at the
South. To talk of honesty, patriotism and
conscience, is to invoke the overthrow of
Radicalism with its usurpation, corrup
tion and robbery, and all the other “le
gitimate results of the war.”
Mr. l)aua the Victim of States’ Rights.
It will be seen by our Washington dis
patch that the Senate Committee has re
ported against confirming Mr. Richard
Great Britain. The Chicago Trikune, in
backing up Mr. Dana’s appointment,
takes oocasion to explain the cause of the
opposition to his confirmation. It seems
that Mr. Lawrence had edited an edition
of Wheaton. Mr. Dana was after
wards prevailed upon by Wheaton’s
representatives to edit a second
edition of the same work in
order, says the Tribune, “to counteract
the pernicious influence of Mr. Law
rence’s annotations, which were all dic
tated by his devotion to Calliounism.
Lawrence put forth these notes at a time
when the interpretation of the States’
rights doctrine had an important bearing
on the relations between the United
States and England, and it was felt that
he had misconstrued Wheaton in many
important particulars.” When Dana
had published his edition, Lawrence
sued him for infringement of copyright.
On the trial it was proved that Dana had
made copious use of Lawrence’s notes.
The case is still undetermined in the
courts; but the attempt of Mr. Dana to
doctor Lawrence’s States’ rights interpre
tation of Wheaton to suit the Massachu
setts Radicals of the present day, with
Beast Butler’s opposition, has deprived
him of the English mission. Good for
States’ rights.
General Custer.
General Custer, who has achieved
quite a reputation as a dashing soldier of
the frontier, and as being identified with
the first gold discovered in the Black
llills, is, says the Nashville American,
also demonstrating, as a clever magazine
writer, the truth of the axiom of liiche
lieu, as to the comparative potency of
pen and sword. An account of his ad
ventures and experiences from West
Point to the battle field, in the April Gal
axy, is quite entertaining. He says his
first official notification of his appoint
ment as a cadet to West Point bore the
signature of Jefferson Davis, then Secre
tary of War, in 1857, and the commander
of the Cadet Corps when he entered the
academy was Lieutenant Colonel William
J. Hardee, and among the academy in
structors, Fitzhugh Lee. He speaks af
fectionately of brother cadets from the
South, who espoused the Confederate
cause iu the war, and the conservative
tone of his article throughout, while nec
essarially touching upon topics political,
indicates the steadfast disinclination of
the writer to sink the professional digni
ty of the soldier in the sectional poli
tician. We have observed that, as a gen
eral rule, the practical soldiers of the
Federal side in the war leave that to those
redoubtable ballot-box heroes, who did
not do any of the fighting, however in
dustrious in precipitating the conflict.
The Atlanta Constitution charges that
a syndicate is forming in Atlanta for the
purpose of driving Governor Smith out
of the political field. The weapons em
ployed will be slander and abuse. The
syndicate thinks if Governor Smith is
put out of the way other candidates will
have a better showing. —Augusta Chroni
cle.
If the Atlanta junta really desire to
drive Governor Smith out of the political
field they are taking just exactly the
wrong way to accomplish their object.
Governor Smith has more cause to dread
their praise and adulation than their
slander and abuse. Besides, the political
fate of Governor Smith nor that of any
other citizen who may have been named
in connection with the nomination for
Governor at the approaching election, is
entirely in the hands of the Atlanta ring.
When the time comes to settle the ques
tion as to who is to be the next Governor
of Georgia, they will find that the
Democracy of the State at large will have
something to say in determining that
matter.
A Slander Upon Senator Ransom Dis
posed Of.
The slanderous attack upon United
States Senator Ransom, of North Caro
lina, by the Wilmington, N. C., Post, in
which it is alleged that Senator Ransom
briSed ex-Gov. Vance to resign his seat
in the Senate with the understanding
that he was to be elected thereto, is dep
recated and denounced as utterly un
founded by honest men of all parties.
The facts, as set forth in a Washington
special to the Baltimore Sun, are as fol
lows; Gov. Vance was elected in Decem
ber, 1870, and being under disabilities
was not permitted to take his se*t. He
resigned in January, 1872, after a long
and unsuccessful effort to obtain admis
sion. The resignation was approved of
and advised by his friends in Washington
and in North Carolina. Gen. Ransom was
elected by the Legislature after a very
sharp and close contest, being nominated
in the Democratic caucus by one vote
over his present colleague, Senator Merri
mon and Judge Warren. Ransom was
not admitted until late in April, the
seat being contested by Gen. Abbott,
tbe unsuccessful Republican candidate
against Gov. Vance. . After the admis
sion of Ransom a resolution was intro
duced by Senator Bayard to pay Ran
som from the beginning of the term.
The resolution received the unanimous
approval of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections, and was passed by the
unanimous vote of the Senate. While
the resolution was pending, and after its
passage, Senator Ransom declared to his
then colleague, Senator Pool, and many
other Senators, Democrats and Republi
cans, that he should give the money to
Gov. Vance, as he thought he was justly
entitled to it, having been elected to the
place by the State of North Carolina.
Immediately after the adjournment of
Congress Senator Ransom sought Gov.
Vance and insisted upon his taking the
money which had been voted to Ransom
for the time that Vance held the cer
tificate. This Vance refused. Finally,
upon consultation with friends and in
their presence Gov. Vance consented to
receive a portion of the fund, and Sena
tor Ransom gave him a check for .$2,500.
This matter was well known at the time,
and was published in the North Carolina
papers, and was universally considered by
all good meu, regardless of party, as a
noble and graceful act.
A Radical Hornet’s Nest in Missis
sippi.— There is anew trouble in the
Radical wigwam in Mississippi. The car
pet-bagger Governor Ames being himself
arraigned under articles of impeachment,
has become exceedingly timorous and
docile. It seems that Ames having
failed to appoint a successor to Lieuten
ant Governor Davis, who resigned pend
ing the judgment of the court on a con
viction of high crimes and misdemeanors,
the Radical politicians are unspairing in
their denunciations of his treachery and
cowardice. T!u>.v accuse Ames of pan
ana u wauT7"GT~'fteirfe iu ud
party for selfish interests, in failure to
perform an imperative and constitutional
duty. Ames aoted upon the advice of his
counsel, Thomas J. Durant, and has
averted complications and troubles. In
the event of Ames’s conviction, Stone,
Democratic President of the Senate, will
become ex-officio Governor. Stone is a
Conservative politician, six years a Sena
tor, and a high-toned gentleman.
The impeachment trial of Cardazo,
Superintendent of Education, is set for
April (>. A dispatch to the New Orleans
Times says it will probably be postponed
until after Ames’s trial, which commences
March 28.
The French Government has published
an official report on the Paris commune
of 1871, and the fate of the captured
communists. The report shows that over
200,000 men served iu the ranks of the
communists, with 9,000 officers. It shows
also that the total number of prisoners
was 38,000, including 5,000 soldiers, 850
women and CSO young persons of sixteen
years of age or under. About 1,000 were
released very soon after their arrest.
Soon after 10,000 more were set at liberty
—about 5,000 of them discharged as hav
ing been imprisoned wrongfully, the rest
freed for want of evidence; six months
later 9,000 more were discharged. Out
of the women only 200 were sent to trial;
of the children only eighty. The courts
first dealt with about 3,000 principal
offenders, but afterwards disposed regu
larly of about 2,000 ordinary cases a
mouth; of these they condemned about
8,500, acquitted about 2,000, and released
about 1,100; about one per cent, of their
sentences were annulled on appeal;
twenty-three men and eight women were
executed, but always for some signal
special crime. Out of the 10,000 con
victed, two-thirds wore sentenced to
simple transportation or to imprison
ment without hard labor.
A remark in the Aberdeen, Mississippi,
Examiner of a recent date is far more
significant than many would suppose,
and contains a suggestion which our
Georgia planters would do well to adopt.
That journal says : “We have within
the last week conversed with over one
hundred of our Monroe county farmers,
and have not found one who was not ar
ranging to make his meat hereafter.
They are all well satisfied that cotton
culture can only be made profitable to
those who are independent of the West
ern smoke house, and a large majority of
our farmers have paid out the last cotton
money that they will ever hand over to
the porkpacker.” When Southern plan
ters first secure the necessities of life, and
regard the great staples as the net profits
of the year, the South will indeed be in
dependent.
In the din and clatter that has been
coming up from Washington during the
last ten or fifteen days an exceedingly
important matter has been generally
overlooked—the refusal of the applica
tion of the sewing machine companies
for an extension of the patent for what
is known as the “four-feed motion.” The
effect of this action, says the the Balti
more Gazette, will be to largely reduce
the price of sewing machines, which will
of course be a direct benefit to hundreds
of thousands of poor women and oth
ers who have for years been swindled
most outrageously to put money in the
pockets of monopolists who long ago
received all the benefits to which they
are entitled from their inventions. The
Republican committees always reported
in their favor, but the present Democratic
Committee on Patents has smashed the
sewing machine ring.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1876.
What Bishop Haven is Doing.
Old Gil Haven has been heard from;
but he has deserted his friend Grant and
gone over to the apostles. He preached
in Philadelphia a few days ago, but it
was all about the twelve apostles. He
didn’t even pray for President Grant, and
never opened his mouth about the third
term, Belknap, Babcock, or Boss Shep
herd. The St. Louis Republican is scan
dalized at the Bishop's base desertion of
his f rieDds in this their hour of tribulation.
The Republican thinks if there ever was a
time when the third term business needed
a strengthening plaster applied to the
small of its back, and when Grant
needed all the temporal and spiritual
support and stimulants he can possibly
get, that time is now. Bedevilled by
Schenck, battered by Babcock, and
broken by Belknap, he calls upon his
friends to rally around the flag and bring
him a strong pair of crutches. And
Haven, that truly good man, who carried
the Boston Conference with him by a
large majority a few months ago, and
called heaven and earth to witness his
supreme confidence in and devotion to
“our beloved President,” now turns his
Episcopal heel and preaches on the
apostles .' Ingratitude and inconsistency
are no names for such conduct. He
ought to be run through an advisory
council at once. Nothing less than that
will save him.
At their recent annual meeting, the
Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad transacted all their busi
ness and adjourned in exactly nine min
utes. According to President Scott’s
report, his average charge for freights on
the main line and branches during 1875
has been only one and one-twentieth cent
per ton per miie. The exact figure is
1,058 cents, or the fraction over
10£ mills. Yet the main line netted a
profit of $13,300,000, and the entire
connection $21,522,000. The tonnage on
the main stem was seven per cent, more
than ever before, and the earnings
$2,000,000. Freights at a trifle over a
cent a mile per ton is a large stride in the
way of cheap transportation, but we must
remember that it is partly due to the
present low price of iron required for re
pairs and the scant wages forced on
laborers by the hard times.
A correspondent asks us why we do
not let up on Benjamin F. Butler, who
has of late ceased to fatigue the public
indignation and retired to private life.
“What,” asks our correspondent, “has
this Massachusetts hero and statesman
done that you do not forgive him, but
continue to call him Beast Butler ?” The
following is our answer:
“Headquarters of the Department of
the Gulf, New Orleans, May 15, 1862. —
As the officers and soldiers of the United
States have been subjected to repeated
insults from the women, calling them
selves ‘ladies,’ of New Orleans, in return
for the most scrupulous non-interference
and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that
hereafter when any female shall, byword,
gesture or movement, insult or show con
lerupf tor c, e .fc,-Pha
United States, she shall oe regarded and
held liable to be treated as a imnanofihe
town plying her avocation By command
of Major General Butler.”
What Radical Rascality Costs the
Country.- —The Spencer investigation be
fore the Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections will be more expensive
affair than was at first thought. Instead
of costing $15,000, it is now said that it
will cost double that amount. About
eighty witnesses have been already sum
moned from Montgomery and Mobile,
and more will be called. The average
cost of mileage and per diem for each
witness will be, it is said, from Mont
gomery $lB7, and from Mobile $232. It
is charged that the prosecution are sum
moning many witnesses who know noth
ing whatever of the alleged facts. It is
made evident already that the investiga
tion will be nothing more than a pretense,
for the rulings of the Republican major
ity of the committee are such that much
important testimony is excluded.
A Proper Suggestion. —The Spring
field (Mass.) Republican appropriately
suggests that if the Congressional and
administration lawyers and politicians
would give a rest to their politics and
their law and treat the country to all the
facts they can find about the public cor
ruptions there will be increased satisfac-,
tion. Impeachment can wait; also in
dictments and trials and imprisonments.
What is in order now is, who stole the
government money, and how was it
divided ? Let Mr. Blaine give his nim
ble mind to that branch of the subject;
it will give him more Presidential votes
than bullying Clymer or Blackburn about
Marsh’s flight to Canada, and giving
lessons iu constitutional law to Lamar
and Knott, who only expose his utter
want of legal and constitutional lore.
The Republicans of Ohio and Indiana
consider Gov. Hendricks the strongest
candidate the Democrats can nominate
for the Presidency. The evidence of this
is seen in the reckless manner in which
they now abusejand slander him. They
have revived and are extensively circu
lating infamous charges against him
based upon the statement of one General
McGinnis, which he first put in circula
tion four years ago, during Gov. Hen
dricks’s candidacy for the Governorship.
They were then nailed to the counter a s
base coin by the affidavits of several of
the most respectable citizens of Indian
apolis, and Gov. Hendricks was trium
phantly elected despite the false allega
tions.
That Little Game. —A Tribune cor
respondent says of the Radical tactics in
New Hampshire : “All hopes of per
manently holding the Southern States by
the colored vote are abandoned; those
States will all pass into the hands of the
Democrats, and the policy of the Repub
licans is to withdraw to their strongholds
in the North, force the Democracy into
the attitude of a Southern party, which
it occupied in the days of Pierce and
Buchanan, and then fight the old sec
tional fight over again—not in behalf of
the negro, but to keep the rebels from
getting possession of the government,
assuming the Confederate debt, and pen
sioning the Confederate soldiers.
General Jubal A. Early has written a
reply to General Longstreet's letter on
Gettysburg, in which he handles the lat-
severely. He shows that Gen
eral Longstreet, under the pretense of
“defending” General Lee, is really glori
fying himself and traducing Lee. General
Early wields a caustic pen, and in almost
every encounter he has had with the
Makers of History he has had the best
of it.
„ Affairs in Georgia.
How many times will we have to explain
that any variation in this column from the
Queen’s English is to be attributed to an un
controllable propensity to revel in what
Randall, of the Augusta Constitutionalist,
once called the “choice Georgia dialect?”.
Here is the Lumpkin Independent, for in
stance, taking us to task for using the word
“foreshoulder,” and some time ago wo were
criticised lor using the word “disremember.”
We have no defense to make, and albeit our
respect for recognized authority is thor
ough, we confess to a feeling of delicious
exaltation akin to the sensation of a boy who
has for the first time successfully rebbed a
watermelon patch, when we occasionally
make bold to transgress tbe rules aud fall
back upon the unaffected, yet vigorous
homeliness of the Georgia vernacular.
Why was not Hannibal I. Kimball called
to testify before the committee appointed
to investigate the charges of bribery against
the State Road lessees ? The evidence
taken before that committee connects him
very intimately wii h Brown and some others,
and we should like to know why he was
not put upon the stand? Will someone ex
plain ?
The editor of the Thomasvillo Times is
ordering his wedding outfit in installments.
It may be news to him to know that a
Marietta man has invented a cradle that
will rock itself.
Family bull-dogs are a recognized insti
tution in Macon—so much so, indeed, that
an enterprising tailor in th*t city has in
vented an attachment for men’s pan
taloons which gives a dog' ample room for
venting his spleen without wounding the
feelings of the wearer.
It is stated that Col. R. A. Alston will soon
revive the Atlanta Courier.
The failure of the legislative lease inves
tigating committee to summon Hi Kimball
was quite au oversight, wasn’t it ?
Mr. Henry W. Grady, who is now con
nected with the Augusta Constitutionalist,
will not engage in any regular editorial
work, but will act as general correspondent
with a roving commission—a position which
affords a fine field for the display of those
piquancies of thought and expression and
the sprightly aud pungent humor that char
acterize his style.
The reason the Port Royal people alluded
to the Northwestern excursionists as
“Americans” was probably because they
they had an Idea the visitors were from
Americus in this State.
When a Gordon man proposes to have
family prayer, he has the cat shut out of
the room and the goats driven from under
the house.
The Sunday Mirror is the latest newspa
per venture iu Athens.
When the Count Johannes B’Gormanne
finishes his rico mill, he will probably seek a
situation as boarding-house keeper.
The Macon people :.re in a terrible stew
over the Lilts presented by Brown’s Hotel
for entertaining some newspaper men two
or three years ago. We trust Macon will
refuse to pay these bills. If the newspaper
men can’t settle their own bills, let Brown
go without his money and behanged to him.
The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen, who is now
nodding by his own fireside, has the hardi
hood to deny to his neighbors that lie voted
to feed Georgia dogs on mutton.
Major M. Eugene Thornton, the patept.
quail digester, gives it as his opinion that
the peculiar gamoy flavor of that bird is
due to its diet—in other words, that it is
one of the re suits of too much hug juice,
heientists will please stick a pin here.
Gregg Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle,
says that nothiug but ow wines and diaw
poker will break the It of an adult red
bug.
The thermometer si g- osts liog’s-hcad
and turnip greens.
The colored peoplo are .oo impatient to
allow chickens to get tho nring in ’em this
season.
Watson, of tho Macon Telegraph, says if
there was more beer In the' world there
would be more poetry, and offers to prove it
by figures.
It is an open question wi or Gil. Haven
taught Rev. Lee ** lie nigger, or
whether Rev. Lee faugh. ■ i . Haven. Thev
arealovely pair toy way.
w-^iinh Mifrme snow the and ‘
to build a fire under Ins eSriy (lit to
save them.
Henry W. Grady writes to the Augusta
Constitutionalist: There is a rumor that a
short passage-at-arms took place between a
Northerner and an Atlanta lady, though I
suspect the rumor is winged rather by the
wit there is in it than by veracity. On dit,
that a Michigander (I like the ending of
that word) remarked to the lady that “all he
had seen down South that he liked was the
balmy air and genial sunsliino.” “Ah,”
she replied encouragingly ; “well, you see,
I’m glad you like our‘air and sunshine.’
It's all wo have that the Yankees didn’t
burn up or steal during or since the war.”
Mr. B. M. Polhill, of Macon, one of the
best known and most successful educators
in Middle Georgia, was stricken with
paralysis at his place near that city on Sat
urday last.
The convention of the Democrats of the
Sixth District, to nominate delegates to the
National Democratic Convention, will be
held in Milledgeville on the 26th of April.
Charlie Craft, a well known and highly
esteemed negro, died in Macon on Monday.
Augusta wants the names of her streets
pasted up, so that her husbands and fathers
can find their way home at night. This is
as it should be. The humblest citizen is
liable to go astray on a dark night in a town
where the streets have no names attached.
The editor of the Lumpkin Independent
wants to know where we find the word
“foreslioulder.” We refer our friend to the
works of Sir Walter Scott. If he doesn’t
find the word therein he will at least have a
good time hunting for it.
The Augusta firemen do not squirt har
moniously together.
Mr. John Donahue, of Macon, died sud
denly on Sunday.
Fires are raging in tho woods of Jackson
county.
A party of hunters captured forty-two
rabbits in Stewart county the other day.
Augusta had a small fire on Sunday.
On the 19tb of April the Medical Associa
tion of Georgia will hold its usual annual
session in Augusta. Alluding to this fact,
the Constitutionalist says that one of the
most interesting features of the session will
be the assemblage of Confederate surgeons
from all parts of the South, who have been
invited here by the Augusta Medical and
Library Association. This assemblage of
gentlemen of the medical profession will be
one of the most important and interesting
gatherings ever held in that city.
The Athens Watchman advances the
somewhat startling proposition that so long
as Mr. Hill’s constit*ents in the Ninth Dis
trict are satisfied with his conduct in Con
gress, no one else has the right to com
plain. But is the Watchman certain that
Mr. Hill’s course has been entirely satisfac
tory to all his immediate constituents?
The Augusta Constitutionalist promises
that there wiM be music in the air shortly.
We are getting uneasy. Is it to be vocal or
instrumental—a solo, or a chorus—a string
band or a wind orchestra? Give the word.
Gentlemen will please take partners for a •
galop.
The Georgia Railroad bridge over the
Oconee will be ready for the passage of
trains by Sunday. It will cost about ten
thousand dollar’s to replace the structure.
The Augusta people are jealous even of
Bilbo’s ca nal. Hanged if they won’t en
deavor to flout the Atlantic Ocean after
awhile.
Borne had some snow the other day, and
in the face of this fact Joel Branham re
fused to stand up to his knees in the mud
and allow a fellow-citizen to taik him to
death, and Bill Arp Smith publicly an
nounced that the season was unpropitious
for beer. It will thus be seen at a glance
that it is mighty easy to work miracles in
Rome. *
Col. Clisby, of the Macon Telegraph, is
not a granger, as we had been led to be
lieve. He merely remarked that he had one
corn that was an acher.
Tho Rome boys caught Cohen, of the
Commercial, the other day and endeavored
to put snow in his stockings. They say he
squealed as loud and kicked as hard as a
college girl.
Henry W. Grady in the Augusta Con
stitutionalist : By the way, 1 notice that
Augusta is not going to give these
strangers any sort of a public welcome.
We needn’t be surprised at it. Augusta,
while hospitable to the core, doesn’t
take a man on trust. Before she drops
her latch strings to his waiting fingers,
she wants to know who his grandfather was
and what sort of a record the old gentleman
had. When this staid city invites a man
to involve himself in the melancholy pomp
and circumstance attending a trip up
the canal, you may be sure that that
man has a charnel house full of
respectable bones aback of him. Atlanta
doesn’t care a farthing whether he ever had
a grandfather or not ; indeed it would not
matter to her if, after the manner of that
picturesque hoax with which nurses bam
boozle too curious children, he was hatched
out of a hollow stump in an old field. When
a stranger desires to become somebody in
Augusta, Augusta hies herself to the stud
book, and the young man’s pedigree is
looked up. In Atlanta they gaze into his
palm and if the lwky lines are found there,
be is boosted inwla high place.
Mayor Estes, of Augusta, is spoken of as
a suitable candidate for Governor.
The Central Railroad authorities have
arranged their rates of freight to agree
with the schedule of thb Georgia Railroad,
from Atlanta to the seaboard, including
Augusta. The change was made on Mon
day. In view of the temporary position of
affairs on the Georgia Road, the Constitu
tionalist thinks the merchants of that city
must appreciate this liberality on the part
of the Central.
Mr. Michael Waitzfelder, for many years
a successful Milledgeville merchant, died in
New York on the 13th.
Mr. T. Sanders, a New York consumptive,
has been testing, with the most favorable
results, the climate Of Liberty couatv. He
is very rapidly regaining his health and
strength.
A couple of Augusta women are fighting
in the courts over the possession of a child.
The mother gave it to a neighbor two years
ago and now desires to reclaim it.
The edition of the Monticello Banner for
March 10th was burned by an incendiary.
Avery destructive fire swept through the
woods in Liberty county recently.
Mr. Ben E. Russell, editor of the Bain
bridge Democrat, announces that there will
be a steamboat excursion, under the au
spices of the Baiubridge Cornet Band, from
Bainbrtdge to Apalachicola on or about the
27th of April proximo. The steamer will be
absent on the trip three deys. Distance
from Bainbridge to Apalachicola 250 miles.
The excursion will be most delightful. The
rate of passage will not be over six dollars
per ticket for the round trip, and probably
less. Parties who desire to go on this trip
are requested to communicate with Mr. Rus
sell as soon as possible.
The last number of the American Grocer
comments in terms altogether uncalled for
upon a recent note of inquiry written by
Major L. C Bryan, of Thomasville, relative
to the price of certain staple articles in the
grocery line. It is perhaps natural that the
Grocer should seek to win the applause and
pat ronage of retail dealers in Thomasville
or elsewhere, but its method in this in
stance i“, it seems to us, quite contemptible.
The choir of the Methodist Church in
Thomasville will have a grand concert on
the night of the 30th of April.
The Sandersville Messenger says that on
Friday last a fire got out oh the ’plantation
of the late Major Brantley, in Washington
county, wbich soon got beyond control aud
swept over a large extent’ of country, de
stroying the timber on several thousand
acres of land, besides burning fences and
outbuildings. It is still burning, having
crossed the creek on which Hines’s mill
stands. More than fifty thousand pannels
of fence have been destroyed, and the
editor is told that the plantations of Green
Brantley, G. W. Prince, A. P. Heath and
others are almost complete wrecks.
The Democratic Convention of tlio Sixth
Congressional District will be held in Albany
on tbe 2Gth of April.
The body of a white man was seen float
ing in the river near Augusta the other day.
Mr. B. M. Pollhill, of Macou, whose illness
wo noticed yesterday, is dead.
The Columbus Enquirer says: “Plio
figures siuco December Ist show that 4,570
emigrants havo left this section via the
Western Alabama Railroad, and 200 by the
Mobile and Girard—making a total of 4,770.
The tido has greatly diminished. Of the
number probably not more than 150 aro
whites. Wo can only repeat what wo have
said, the vast body constituted a surplus
population—the mass that was brought here
by owners from the Western States to pre
vent their falling into the hands of the
Federals.”
Tlie Thomasvillo Enterprise is able to
show that the sales of guano this year fall
short of those for last season to this date
by This will be a saving of at
least $5,000 or 100 bales of cotton, and when
it is considered that the total sales only ag
gregate 220 J tons or SIO,OOO, the Enterprise
is forced to the conclusion that the country
will not be so hopelessly ruined by the
guano question as some seem to think'.
On Thursday last Senator Norwood intro
duced a resolution, which was agreed to by
the Senate, to the effect that the Secretary
of War be requested to communicate to the
Senate his opinion as to the importance and
practicability of deepening the inside pas-
Cumberland Sound and Saint
'mates'o7\}iferh'Wlai*''''Vr "CTUpb a ;*KU'ii 3'jHtb
ment of the inside passage betweerirerasn
dina and the St. John’s rivor.
An escaped prisoner burned the dwelling
house of the Sheriff of Whitfield county the
other night.
The dwelling-house of Dr. M. G. Williams,
of Cartersville, was burned Saturday night.
Dalton had fifteen inches of snow on Sun
day night.
Hon. H. G. Turner, of Brooks county,
will be invited to deliver the address beloro
the Ladies Memorial Association in Thom
asvilie on the 21st of April.
Thomasvillo is shipping early vegetables
to the North.
Since the Ist of September, Forsyth has
shipped 8,839 bales of cotton.
Forsyth has received more guano this Sea
son than during the past three seasons com
bined.
The South Georgia Medical Association
will meet in Thomasville in June.
The recent storm in Talbot county was
not as disastrous as it was at first repre
sented to be.
Sandersville Messenger: The grain crops
in this section look remarkably fine. They
are, however, in a very forward state; but if
there is no further cold weather the yield
will be excellent. In this county there is,
without doubt, at least five times the area of
land planted in oats this year than there
was last, and more than three times the
amount of what.
We are not of the opinion that Hon. Geo.
H. Pendleton’s trip up the Augusta canal
injured his political prospects. On the con
trary, he would be better off now if he had
confined his career to little trips of that
character. We are not prejudiced against
the Augusta canal, as some of our foreign
subscribers seem to suppose, and we cheer
fully recommend it to politicans of all ages
and conditions.
Forsyth Advertiser: Wo learn that our
farmers aro farther advanced in their work
than for many years past. Nearly all the
corn is planted and a great deal of cotton
land is prepared. The very mild winter
allowed an early start and the farmers,
eager to get under headway, pushed the
work vigorously. We are afraid that some
were so well advanced that the corn has
commenced to peep out of the ground, and
if so, the young plants were bit down by the
cold of the last few days. The small grain
crops are flourishing, and are not far
enough along to be much injured by the
cold. If the weather continues good after
this we may expect heavy yields of wheat
and oats, two crops that pay better and are
more serviceable than any others.
Thomasville Enterprise : It is with pain
we chronicle the death of the oldest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Dekle, which oc
curred at their residence early on Monday
morning last under peculiarly painful cir
cumstances. It seems that the unfortunate
child was assisting her younger sister to
dress on Saturday morning last, when her
clothing caught tiro from the fire place near
which they both were. Her cries, when she
discovered her condition, brought al
most immediately her mother, who, at
the time was attending to someone of her
domestic duties near by, to her relief, with
whose assistance the burning garments were
extinguished, not, however, until the unfor
tunate girl had been terribly burned.
Everything that kind parents and thought
ful friends could do to alleviate her suffer
ings was done, but all to no purpose. The
little sufferer lingered until Monday, when
the pure and gentle spirit left its prison
house of clay and soared to brighter and
purer realms above.
Macon Telegraph: We feel that it is
no violation of confidence to give publicity
to the following private letter received from
Dr. J. G. Thomas, of Savannah. The
writer is himseif one of the ablest medical
men in the State, and, together with the la
mented Nottingham, was mainly instrumen
tal in profi iring the passage of the act for
the estab ishment of a State Board of
Health and mortuary statistics. Such a
testimonial, coming from a source so
worthy of respect and confidence, reflects
honor’upon our deceased friend and fellow
citizen :
Savannah, March 20, 1876.
lo Colonel 11. 11. Jones:
My I)eab Sir— l heard of Dr. Notting
ham’s death on yesterday, and have just
read the communication about him in your
paper. I feel that I knew him well, and
fully endorse all you say about his noble
ness of character and'pureneßs of life.
I have hardly ever i-iiown a man of
highjr tone, and in this way he impress
ed all who came in contact with him.
His death has cast a shade of sadness
over me all day, and I have felt as
though I had lost one who was near unto
me by blood. This, however, is personal,
and when I think of the medical profession,
and the cause of health in our State, I truly
fear that his loss is irreparable. Dr. Not
tingham always lived in a very high atmos
phere of thought, and you had but to be
with him for a short time ta realize this.
For the last year of his life public hygiene
was becoming the master passion of his
mind, and in his death I feel that the whole
State loses. The vacuum which his death
creates in the medical profession and in the
State Board of Health, will not be easily
filled. Yours truly, J. G. Thomas. ’
Tbe Hon. M. Engene Thornton, of At
lanta, will make way with his thirtieth bird
on Tuesday. Miles Turpin has already
salted it down in an ash barrel, and it will
be quite tender by tiie time Mr. Thornton
calls for it.
If we are to judge by the Atlanta Constitu
tion, nearly every man in the State, with
the exception of a few in Atlanta, is
engaged in a nefarious plot against Gov
ernor Smith. If tnis is true, there is no
fun in governing folks.
The pet name of the lighter of the
Geneva Lamp is Jody. Could anything be
so suddenly aud exquisitely sweet ?
We have received a communication from
Early county asserting that the editor of
the Blakely Meics is a preacher. Its publi
cation would lead to an unnecessary con
troversy, and hence we decline to publish
it. Moreover, as Blakely is not in Brooklyn,
a preacher there is as good as (and po rb
abiy better than) any other man.
It seems to be a pity that Hi Kimball has
thus far failed to find an opportunity of
making the “equities” of the bogus bonds a
campaign issue. Perhaps Joey B. will yet
show him how the thing can be done, for in
the “ethics” of journalism and the “equi
ties” of the fraudulent securities J. B. and
his friends havo cut several crops of eye
teeth.
The Augusta Chronicle rather fancies the
way our Atlanta correspondent “Quidlibet"
writes concerning those who tooted tl"
gush-horn at the Western excursionists. It
is possible that .cur correspondent maybe
induced to do up in his graphic style Bpm o
other occurrences in Atlanta which were
not quite so public as the recent ovation.
The Waynesboro authorities are plucking
the wayward vagrants from the parent
stem. The experience of the town marshal
is such that he can distinguish a vagrant
from a licensed loafer iu the dark.
According to the Fort Valley Mirror, a
citizen of that section who proposes to at
tend the Centennial has tolegraphed to
know if the foot-logs are in a passable con
dition.
Does Joey B. propose to support Judge
Jim Johnston in the next Gubernatorial
campaign, or is ho going to put anew sad
dle on Daws. Walker ? However, we won’t
insist on categorical answers.
An Atlanta darkey, who was working in a
garden, dug up a can containing eleven dol
lars in silver.
Col. H. Gregg Wright, of the Augusta
Chronicle, objects to the use of the word
“Colonel” by the Georgia papers. Is the
liberty of the press to be thus circum
scribed ? For ourselves, we protest against
it, aud we are sure that even Col. Wright
will not, when he comes to carefully con
sider the matter, thus seek to deprive the
hard-working aud conscientious journalist
of one of the very few luxuries left us by
the ravages of war.
The editor of the Fort Valley Mirror, who
visited Madison by way of Atlanta recently,
says he was “drawn down there like a needle
to a magnet.” Wo are thus left to infer
that the eccentric man wont end-foremost.
Mr. Daniel Dossey, one of the oldest citi
zens of Crawford county, is doad.
Has it indeed come to this, that the peo
ple of Augusta do not know whether the
famous canal, which the condescension of
nature and the art of man have located
there, belongs to tho city, the City Council,
or the Augusta Canal Company ? We trust
this matter will bo at once looked after.
Wo were informed by Dr. Fox, of Atlanta,
the other day, that the Hon. Marcellus
Thornton preferred to have his birds killed
four or fivo days beforehand. This pro
cess, he says, obviates the necessity of par
boilijjg, and wntirely does away with tffai
inherent toughness which seems to be oft*
of the inherent characteristics of every true
quail’s disposition.
StTlio Waynesboro Expositor says that from
March Ist, 1871, to March Ist, 1875, there
were shipped from Waynesboro 11,044 bales.
From March Ist, 1875, to March Ist, 1876,
there wore shipped 7,995 bales, a difference
of 3,049 bales.
Congressman Candler is in Atlanta.
The Democrats of tho Fifth District will
hold a convention to nominate delegates to
St. Louis in Griffin on the 26th of April.
Sinful Sam Bard is slick and sly, if reports
be true. It is stated that he recently put a
contribution for a
dollars, which ho
We have been w a i
Georgia exchanges to'
F. E. G. Lindsey, the canary bird man of
Abingdon, Va., and now Here comes the
Christian Index denouncing him as a swin
dler. This isn’t the first time F. E. G. L.
has inserted his fangs in the Georgia papers.
“Gen.” Joseph Morris, of Burke county,
has been convicted of carrying concealed
weapons,and is now playing a twelve month’s
engagement as ond-man on the Augusta
chain-gang. Wo congratulate the “Gen.”
People pay a thousand dollars to be intro
duced to the politicians in Washington. Our
prices are not so high. W e will introduce
anybody to the average Atlanta politician
for two dollars and a half.
A Talbot county gentleman has exhibited
to the editor of tho Columbus 'Limes a large
block of a pine treo into which a plank was
deeply driven by the force of one of the
hurricanes or cj’clones of last spring. The
plank, which was about an inch in thickness
and six inches in width, was torn by tho
fury of the storm from a houso and driven
into a standing green pine treo. It was not
splintered or shivered by the collision, but
entered the body of the tree as clearly as if
it had been a piece of sharp-edged'lron
driven in by a maul. Tho force'and velocity
must have been tremendous. On one side
the block had been cut into to the depth of
about three inches, without reaching the
end of the plank that entered the tree. It
probably extended to the depth of at least
four inches, and did not split the tree in the
least. It is understood that this wonderful
memento of the power of the wind will be
sent to the Bignal Service Bureau, where it
will give beholders a faint idea of the force
of a Georgia cyclone.
The Atlanta Commonwealth will hereafter
be published by Messrs. James P. Harrison
& Cos. The announcement says: The Com
monwealth, under the new regime, will be
placed upon a safe and solid foundation,
financially, and will be, in every way, pre
pared to meet whatever emergencies may
arise, and to triumph over every obstacle
that may naturally arise, or be placed in its
path by design. This paper will take an ac
tive part in the public affairs of this city,
and of the State. It will say what it has to
say of public men and public matters,
promptly, frankly, fearlessly. Its motto
will be: Independence and the public
good. It will censure and denounce the
high or the low, whenever censure and con
demnation seem to be called for in behalf of
the public weal. It will praise and com
mend the high or the low, whenever
tho acts or the words of either
shall call for praise and commenda
tion. The people need a mouthpiece,
which they can trust to speak the truth in
all matters connected with their interests; a
paper free from the taint of official corrup
tion and bribery, and the nauseous subser
viency of a press which shows the marks of
a master’s collar upon its neck, and which
“crooks the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift may follow fawning.” We are
aware that the most corrupt mem
bers of the subsidized press in this
country claim to be pure and untram
meled, and have made similar promises
to the people. Despite this fact, we ask
a suspension of public opinion in our case,
until the Commonwealth, or its management,
by word or deed, shall have proved recreant
to its trust, false to its avowed principles,
, and unworthy of public confidence. So
much for our new “platform.” We
ask the citizens of Atlanta, and the
people of Georgia, who desire a free, frank,
and consistently edited newspaper at the
capital of the State, to sustain us, and to
crown our efforts by their favor and patron
age.
Mr. Josephus Camp, of Swainsboro, writes
as follows to the New York South : Eman
uel county lies eight miles by west from
Savannah. The Central Railroad runs along
its eastern boundary. It contains one hun
dred and twenty square miles, is traversed
by the Ogeecliee, Great and Little Ohoopie
and Camanchee rivers, and has a population
of seven thousand. For health it is unsur
passed by any gection of the United States.
The land’, where it is not in cultivation, is
covered by a virgin forest of the finest yellow
pine timber in the world, while the rivers
mentioned afford an easy and cheap means
of carrying it to market. These lands pro
duce cotton, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, rice,
wheat, oats, rye, melons, figs, pomegranates,
apples, peaches, pears, etc. From four to
six hundred gallons of syrup can be made
from one acre of land. From three to five
hundred bushels of potatoes can be raised
on an acre of land. The yield of cotton is
from one to five bales, and of corn from ten
to seventy bushels per acre. Fertilizers
have to be used to insure large yields, and
perhaps there is no land in America bet
ter adapted to the use of them. The
yield of oats is fine, without the use of
any fertilizer. Thesfe lands can be bought
improved for from ono to three dollars per
acre; unimproved for from fifty cents to
two dollars per acre. There are’ numerous
schools and churches in the county. Swains
boro, it3 county site, contains a Methodist
and Baptist church, and a good high school.
The people are law abiding, and would wel
come emigrants who come to settle among
them. I might say much more of the ad
vantages of this comity, and still the half
would not be told. The climate is fine and
exceedingly good. Any information con
cerning this section will be cheerfully given
by the writer.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Professor Slaton, of Atlanta, had a tussle
with a buriv negro the other night' The
sanguinary moke evidently mistook the
Professor for someone else : at any rate ho
moved off with considerable'recklessness as
soon as he could get away. Ten to one the
negro thought he was merely joking with a
policeman.
A Meriwether county farmer writes: “I
fear now that there will be few oatk or wheat
made, as there is an insect destrojing the
oats and wheat. It is anew iusect that has
never boon seen or heard of before, a worm
about the sizo and color of a cut worm.
They are, however, no kin to a cut worm as
they eat the blades and stalks of the o’ats
up. The worms are numerous, covering
the entire ground. They have completely
destroyed the wheat and oats in Randolph
county, and are here by millions. Tkev
play havoc with oats and wheat, aud that
very quick, for thov begin eating as soon
as hatched out. ] fear the winter has been
too warm for oats and wheat to do well as
there was not cold enough to destroy the
eggs of the insects. My oats—the finest
and most forward—are ruined by the worms
and I fear that they will take the whole
crop.”
Macon mepraph: Mrs. Sarah A. Weed
a venerable and pious Christian lady, aftor
long years of HI health and suffering, fell
peacefully asleep in Jesus at twenty minutes
Past four a. m. on Sunday,the 19th inst. The
deceased, Sarah A. Nisbot, was the fourth
'Tighter o, ; t>r. Jsmea Nisbet, of Atheus,
Ga. She vis bora near ITnftm Point, on tho
plantation of her father in Greene county
on the 22d of Jtine, 1810, and was conse-
her sixty-sixth year. Removing
with her father to Athens 71,
quite a teuder age, she afterwards,
on the 10th of October, 1833, was united in
marriage with William LeCouto, Esq., of
Liberty county, Ga., a most worthy and in
telligent gentleman, who was an elder
brother of the celebrated means, Professors
John and Joseph LoConto, now connected
with tho University of California. This
husband of her youth died January 25,1841
in his ancient home on tho seacoast, where
he was universally loved and respected,
Mrs. LeConte then removed to Macon,
to be near her brothers, and her sistor’
Mrs. R. K. Hines. Here, after the lapso of
more tkau seven years, she again married,
in Jnly, 1848, Mr. Edwin B. Weed, a wealthy
hardware merchant, and gentleman of high
standing aud exemplary character. He
also deceased in January, 1854. Since that
period Mrs. Weed has remained a widow,
aud the latter portion of her lifo
was spent under tho roof of Hon.
Clifford Anderson, who had married
Miss Le Conte, her daughter, and where
she was most tenderly watched over and
cherished until the close of her existence.
Mrs. Weed was a cherished sister of tho
lamented Judge Eugenius A. Nisbet, and an
aunt of Mr. James T. Nisbot, of this city.
Of eleven brothers aud sisters besides her
self, two only survive: Mr. Frank Nisbet, of
Russell county, Alabama, and Miss Mary M.
Nisbet, of Macon. To tho bereaved children
aud relatives of tho deceased wo extend onr
earnest sympathy, and would essay to com
fort them with the trite but true remark,
that “what i3 thoir loss is her gain.”
South Carolina A flairs.
Audrow McGinnis, a young man in Spar
tanburg county, while putting on his coat
one morning, lately, was accidentally shot by
lus pistol failing to tho floor. The bones of
one log were shivered into splinters. His log
was amputated, but being in bad health he
died last Saturday.
Mr. Wm. Thompson, a highly respected
citizen of Horry county, more than seventy
years of age, rambled in tho woods near his
houso and was found dead.
Several cows liavo died in Columbia re
cently from eating the loaves of the mock
orange. These leaves aro poisonous only
after thoy have become withered.
Mr. Michael Welch, of Darlington Court
House, is erecting a now store on the site
of his old one.
In tho matter of the impounded SB,OOO
in I airfield county, found in tho Treasury
when Treasurer Smith was arrested, the
Supreme Court has set aside tho judgment
of the Circuit Court which gave most of the
money to the county, and the matter h-fes
been reopened. ,
Bill Bryce, who was recently arrested in
Charlotte for stealing, is suspected of hav-,
ing stolen a gold watch iu Lancaster county
somo time since.
guration orth'e Presidential campaign.
The race botween tho firemen of tho
Brooklyn and the Congress at Port Royal
came off last Wednesday afternoon. The
crews started irons the lower buoy and
rowed throe miles. Tho Congress crew won
by four minutes, after a very exciting con
test. The great attraction of this race was
tho novel oars—fire shovels—with which tho
rowers were more familiar than the usual
sort. Tho defeated crews aro determined to
have another contest, and show the Con
gress boys they aro not iuvineible.
Anew Masonic hall will bo dedicated at
Buena Vista, in Greonville county, on the
25th instant.
Tho County Commissioners of Laurens
have been restrained by legal injunction
from giving warrants for any indebtedness
created in that county between November
1, 1874, and November 1, 1875. All such
claims will requiro legislative enactment for
payment.
Rev. Mansfield French, who lived In Beau
fort during the war, died recently in New
York, aged 70 years.
The town taxes of Anderson reach $2,236,
of which $1,775 have been collected. The
town Council has S9OO on hand at this time,
and owes S4OO, of which $350 are for real
estate purchased by former Councils.
Mrs. Joel Ellison, of Laurens, and Mrs.
Simeon Styles, of Greenville, died last week.
Mrs. Simon Mills died at Rock Hill, on
Monday, at the age of 38 years.
Tho Abbeville Press and Banner man has
been reading Munchausen. Hear him : “It
is said that Mr. W. T. Head some time ago
turned an old sore-backed horse out to die,
and the animal had boon forgotten until it
returned a few days ago with a small oak
growing out of its back. It is thought an
acorn fell into it, from which tho bush
grew.”
Mrs. Jane Wilkins, of Spartanburg, died
recently at the advanced ago of seventy-nine
years.
Mr. Samuel Jefferies, of Union, has a fine
specimen of gold-bearing quartz, which was
picked up from some of his mines, and is
about the size of a turkey egg, only made
in the shape of a rough Irish potato. It
was almost literally covered with gold—-one
knob on it near as largo as the end of one’s
little finger, It is said to be worth $25. *He
has also a piece of pure gold, cast in a
square form of an inch and a half.
Winnsboro’ witnessed a novel tournament
on Tuesday afternoon. Tho participants
were thirty-two young knights on foot.
Each knight had three runs ; time, eight
seconds. The runners were in good train
ing, and there was no bolting nor shying,
with only occasional somersaults. The
Knight of the Golden Eagle, Master Riley
McSlaster, won the first prize, and crowned
Miss Annie McKorell. Robert Buchanan,
Willie Ilion and David Crawford selected
Misses Mamie Creight and Rachel McMaster
and Katie Gerig as maids of honor. The
prizes were an oight-bladed knife, an India
rubber snake, a top, and a toy set of salver
and decanters. The young folks had a
dance that evening.
A difficulty occurred on the 12th instant
in Laurens between two freedmen named
respectively Irvin Jackson and Phelix Irby,
in which the former severely stabbed the
latter, who is still in a critical condition ;
but he may recover, as the symptoms are
now favorable. Jackson was arrested
promptly and lodged in jail. The cause of
said difficulty, as is usual in such troubles
among the freedmen, was a woman.
The difficulty recently reported at Mc-
Leod’s Mills between whites and blacks over
an old election quarrel, is said by the Marl
boro limes to have been not in that county
but in Robeson county, North Carolina.
About five hundred or a thousand persons
had assembled to have a fishing frolic, and
when they had become tired and muddy, a
man drove up with five gallons of whisky.
This did not give the crowd a drink around.
Then two barrels were brought to the scene
and a general warming up began. Then a
quarrel commenced, and fish-gigs, pistols
and knives were drawn. One man got his
skull split with a gig. After a time peace
counsels prevailed, the fish were divided
out, about one apiece, and the crowd dis
persed with black eyes and aching heads.
The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad has this year procured a reduction
on the assessment of its property in Darling
ton of $2,000 a mile for twenty-three miles.
It has tendered $1,225 in bills of the Bank
of the State in payment of the tax. Up to
last Saturday the total tax collected in that
county reached only $13,491 of a levy of over
$70,000.
Trial Justice Keenan, of Aiken, has a rich
case before him. A newsboy on the South
Carolina Railroad, on Monday night last,
went to sleep and on awakening found his
hat gone. Mr. Burkhalter next morning
brought the hat to Trial Justice Keenan,
saying he had found It in his pocket in th 9
train on waking. He thinks Williams, an
employa, put it into his pocket for a joke.
Williams indignantly denies this, and Mr.
Burkhalter is prosecuted for highway rob
bery. Mr. Burkhalter refused to compro
mise for five dollars, but will appear next
Monday and have the newsboy arrested on
the charge of being a three-card monte
player.
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TRUTH ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE.
StMrni, of tbo Noriheyn Railroad, Expect,
log to bo United Star..* Senator.
To the Editor of the Jf ew York Sun:
Sik—l have read your leader, “Is Re
form Possible ?” It Contain? a great deal
of solid and wholesome truth; Hut never
thelees, so far as New Ha*psl/ire is eon
oerned, it is to a greet extent L aon a
misapprehension. It ignore* tvo vital
factors in the late election, vL. the
power of Steams, the railway kj
the power of money* dWf I
No State can compare with this
thoroughness of its political organ®
tions and their discipline. Every
in each city is treated as a town; evS
town is thoroughly The leaH
iug men of each party lS each town huxM
a private poll hook or tally list, wliicljß
contains the name of every voter in town,!
whether he is a Democrat, Republican, or’
to be reckoned as doubtful. There ig
rarely any appreciable difference in the
uamoß and numbers on the poll books of
the two parties. This is carried so far
that I have known a town with from 800
to 1,000 names on its poll list, in which
the name, face, and political proclivities
of each voter were well known to the
leading men of each party, who could
tell precisely how each man was likely to
vote.
As a rule these poll books show that
from one-fourth to one-seventh of the
voters are marked “doubtful.” This
means that they will be controlled by the
amount of money. Me passes, jobs from
railrond and other corporations which
they may receive. These things are
equally well known to the managers of
both parties,
You are mistaken if you think that the
mass of the Republicans in this State do
not believe as thoroughly in the rotten
ness of the national administration as
yourself. They understand it all, but it
makes no difference with their votes.
The esposu re of Belknap and the general
oorrapti’ u in official circles at Washing
toil, hel,fcd rati r thau hurt tho Republi
can party. It only spurred-the leaders to
greater exerti< n, and caused them to put
out mar.,.
Had the whole Cabinet nniTthe President
been Impeached, it would only have in
creased the majority, so long as there was
no want of funds.
The simple truth is, that from two to
live thousand men vote in this State every
year who have no more legal right to vote
here than you have. About sixty thou
sand of the voters arc what Horace Greeley
called the “trained regulars.” They art}
perfect ly sure, aud the rest, less the illegal
vote, are in the market. Their price
ranges from a free pass for a few days to
1100 in cash. A rural town, which I will
not name, and which is presumed td be
respectable if any can be, within twenty
miles of this city, is a marked, perhaps
an extreme illustration. It has less than
three hundred voters. Fifteen years ago
a dozen votes could not have been pur
chased there for monej 7 . At the last
election it had about seventy reliable
Democratic, and about seventy-five relia
ble Republican voters, and about ninety
were in the market. The latter have
feund out their power; they oohere to
gether; they refuse to soli single votes;
and whoever buys must buy the block,
unless the vote sellers quarrel or the pur
chasers divide.
To some extent the same is true in
many other towns which are close. This
vote trading is dono openly by theside -
of tho ballot boxes and fh
meeting. One of the Senators elected
this year had at the election last year to
buy up the town in which he lived. He
stood in front of the door of the polling
place with an open pocket book, and
dealt out the hills to the voters ho bought
as they passed him, as 4* gambler deals
his cards. The Republican Legislature
of last year, of which he was a member,
defeated a stringent bill to stop this
bribery, because they knew they had the
advantage in money. The fact is shame
ful and humiliating beyond the power of
words; but what help have we ?” “Is
reform possible ?"
Mr. Stearns is tho President of the
Northern Railroad, and controls that cor
poration and its branches. He expects
to be United States Senator, and prob
ably will be. Every intelligent man of
both parties knows that the late election
represents nothing but the corporate
power wielded by this railway!; ng, and
the purchasing power of mom v.
An Old Subsciubeb.
CONCor.D, March 18.
RS
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A Cliurlcston Infant llrotihi io Savannah 1
anil Thrown in the flushes by lln Itoud
aldc.
Among the passengers on tho Savannah
and Charleston passenger train, which ar
rived hero Thursday, was a German woman
about sixty years of age, wliobo actions dur
ing tho trip had attracted tbo attention ol
the conductor. She had a largo covered
basket, which tho conductor discovered
CONTAINED A YOUNG INFANT,
that gavo eviden-o of life by crying faintly
several times. The woman seemed very
careless in her manner of holding tho
basket, and knocked it against tho scat
onco or twice, evidently on purpose. Huh
pecting that thero was some mystery con
nocted with the affair,as it seemed unnatural
for an old woman to bo carrying a fender
infant in this style, ho accordingly in
structed one of the train hands to observe
her movements. Upon the arrival of the
train the old woman proceeded to leave tho
car, but conscious that
SUE WAS OBSEBVED,
evinced some nervousness. After Lav
ing tho depot, she walked oil in
tho direction of tho Thunderbolt
road, and continued on out to a point
beyond the Coist Line Railroad crossing.
The party who was watching her folk we<l
at a convenient distance, and saw her stop
near a clump of bushes, make a movement
as though throwing something, and thei
turning, hurriedly retrace her steps. if<
quickened his pace, and arriving near the
spot, alter some difficulty, discovered in tli
bushes,
HEAD DOWNWARDS,
a white female infant about six weeke-n
ago. ltoscuiug the helpless innocent he
turned it over to the wife of tho ketqior :
tho store near by, and followed the woman.
On the way he encountered a policeman, and
notifying him of the circumstance, request
ed him to take her into custody, and she
was conveyed to the barracks.
THE LITTLE INNOCENT
after being taken into the house was given
some milk, which she drank as though fam
ished. Subsequently the child was brought
into town, and given in charge of a lady
who is temporarily taking care of it.
HEE STOEY.
The woman, when first ushered into tho
barracks, refused to give her name or any
information whatever, but stated that she
did not intend killing the child, and had
placed it by the roadside where it could bo
seen, believing that someone would discov
er it and take care of it. The infant is very
pretty, and its clothes betoken that it had
been well cared for.
Later in the day the old woman
to
OPEN HEB MOUTH.
and accordingly some information wan,,
elicited which may assist in the unraveling
of the mystery. She confessed that
sho- had been employed by the
grandmother of the child to take it
from Charleston. The particulars now in our
possession we omit, by request of the offi
cers, who desire to use the clue to ascertain
the object of sending tho child to Savannah
in charge of this old woman.
Tho woman will be held until the officials
of Charleston can be conferred with, and
the infant will be properly cared for until
someone adopts it. The parties concerned
in this sad affair, wo understand, are re
spectably connected, and the developments-;
will, the woman says, create const ernatioi
and misery among some worthy people.
Important Railroad Case.
We find in the New Orleans papers an ac
count of the North Louisiana Railroad case,
which came up for trial last week in the
United States Circuit Court at New Orleans,
Judge W. B. Woods, presiding. Tho title
of the case is; Henry R. Jackson and others,
of Georgia, vs. the Vicksburg, Shreveport
and Texas Railroad Company, and John T.
Ludeling, John Ray and others of Louisiana.
The question involved in tho case, and sub
mitted for decision, was this : What are the
rights of a possessor in bad faith ? A fraud
ulent possessor, under the law of Louisiana,
when he is ordered to surrender to its law
ful owner the property which he has in bad
faith and fraudulently acquired and held in
possession, reaping its fruits and revenue*,
also in bad faith and fraudulently.
Tho amount involved is one million of dol
lars. The matter is of some local import
ance, from the fact that in Savannah there
are several bondholders: General Henry R.
Jackson, Col. Wm. M. Wadlcy, Wm. Dun
can, Esq , the Molyneaux family and others.
In Atlanta Col. L. P. Graut and Col. John
Grant. There are also bondholders in Mil
ledgeville and Augusta.
The plaintiff's were represented by Hons.
John A. Campbell and Henry M. Spofford;
the defendants by John Ray and Wm. H.
Hunt.
After lengthy argument, in which the
claims of the defendants were completely
demolished, the matter was submitted to
the court and the decision in the case was
anticipated with interest.