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Savannah *etkta ieuts = Vb*cbiptiok. wllkl, ** w *’ °"® Year •* 00 ••k r New*, Six Menth. 1 00 W •• k,y New > Three Month. 60 XHUy New,, one ytu $lO 00; .lx month* a*' >V • three month., *9 60. • * .. T^' W . eCk ' 7 N>w *' ona y ear - 00; tx month., •" ; three month., $1 60. All subscription* payable in advance. Paper, y mail are (topped at the expiration of the time Pd for without further notice. Subscriber* will Plea** observe the dates On their wrappers. A OVERT! “EX ENTS. A BQUAKK i. ten measured lines of Nonpareil of The Wkeki.t New*. Each insertion, $1 00 per square. Liberal rate, made with contract advertisers. CORRK.roSOEKCX. Correspondence solicited; but to receive atten t ion, letters must be accompanied by a responsl ble name, not for publication, but a* a guarantee of good faith.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. ‘■(sj&L'TMv 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 ■ 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.