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The Currency Caucus.
The Democratic Congre«-ioiud c*oc»n
n Wednesday, at midnight, agreed on
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r. Airy- imVare for sw month*. 7V-. ~ * _ __
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ly this agreement may abate conten
tion among the Democrat* ; bat we ven
ture tho prediction that no party canons
bill on the currency question will ever
l*come a law. That is a question which
, / ar ail subscribers tiring out of this
g must also be prepaid by the publishers
\4 rate of sixty rents a pear for tho dot-
d twenty cents for the weekly and semi-
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yu, and for many years has furnished
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FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 1876
C'onjrrenttloiittl Convention,
In K.;oordaneo with the recommenda-
t . .n of tho State Democratic Executive
Committee, the Democratic party of tho
««Venil counties composing the Sixth
Congressional District ia requested to
*;.;ioint. delegate* to a convention to bo
huld at Mill edge rills on the 2Gth day of
April next, to take notion relative to the
ippointment of delegates to tho National
Democrat io Convention to bo held in
Jan. next. Clifford Andxrso.v,
Cliftirmnn Ex. Com. Sixth District.
Democratio papers in this district will
plenso copy.
Th« storm reports from Europe aro
increasingly disastrous.
Tn* mildness of the winter in the city
of New York has left tho distributors of
coal for tho poor with 1000 bushels of
surplus fuel on hand.
Nsw Hxmi'siiiuk, it would appear, has
been carried by tho Radicals by about
3,500 majority. There is also a heavy
Radical majority on joint ballot in the
Legislature.
Hhowmi-ow has just written a long ed
itorial, which ho concludes ns follows:
" Any candidate tho Republican conven
tion may nominate is now sure to be elec
ted President of the United States on
the 4th day of next November.”
IIxllrt Kilhoubn*. of tho district
real estato pool, was, on Tuosday,
brought beforo the bar of the House for
c attempt in failing to produce his books.
Refuting to answer the questions put to
him by tho Speaker, the Sergeant-at-
Arins was ordered to clap him in jail,
which ho did.
Hois. D^vid A. Wells was on Tuesday
nominated by the Democrats of tho Third
District of Connecticut for Congress, to
fill tho vacancy caused by the death of
N. B. Starkweather. Mr. Wells will
mike an invaluable member if elected.
No man in the country is so thoroughly
versed in revenue nnd tariff statistics.
Tu* result of tho Now Hampshire elec
tion, says tho Naslivillo American, is
something of a surprise. It was thought
... rr .k ... — OLil^srcaf.
had none. The Republican majority is
prolnlily somewhere between one and
two thousand—about the number of
porchnsablo votes bought up by that
party. Such barefaced bribery was
probably never known bofore in a State
election.
Tin Alexandria Sentinel publishes the
following letter from Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston to an old colored servant: "So.-
VilUB, February 10,1S7G.—Dear Jim:
1 cannot tell you how glad Mrs. Johnston
was when I told her you had come to seo
me in Richmond. And we agreed then
to send you a Christmas gift. But when
Christmas came, people were so slow in
bringing mo my money that I could not
raise a decent sum for you. At last,
however, I am paid, and 1 send you fifty
dollnrs in a check on the National City
Bank of New York, with our bsrt wishes
for you, Mary and the children. Remcm-
ber, Jim, that you oan never find truer
frieuls than Mrs. Johnston and I.
“J. E. JOHNSTOX."
A N*w Orleans telegram to tho
Shreveport Timsj says: Tho rejection of
Pin hback causes intenso indignation
among negro politicians, all of whom
denounce the Republican party and ex
press n desire for a coalition with the
whites. Hewitt, Pinch’s brother-in-law,
►nvs ho will accept Penn for Governor
and let him name the whole ticket. An-
t.une also talks of coalition. Nobody
takes much interest except negro poli
tic-.. ins. It. is rumored that Kellogg will
resign an.i let Antoine appoint him Sen
ator. Casey, Packard and Warmoth are
spoken of as Kellogg’s probable ap-
poititi-o. Tory few seem to think Eustis
will be seated. The furor among the
n gross is probably temporary. When
the canvass opens they will, os usual,
fall into line. .
Tu* King of Birmah has just sent to
l’ekin an embassy to re-establish with
China the former relations, which had
been momentarily interrupted by the in-
Mirrection of Yun-nan. The Journal dt
St }‘tt.rsbourg publishes a curious list of
the preients sent by the embassy. “A
letter ornamented with gold leaves; an
idoi of the god of longevity in Birmese
stone; five tamed elephants; two ele
phants’ tiifks, weighing 90 ghins (120
pound*); two pieces of jade, woightng
210 ghins (2->0 pounds); eight caskets
with mirrors, set iu gold; two gold rings
with emeralds; two rings, 'black as
of party iseoes.
Ia a man less or more of a Demo
crat because he believes or fails to be
lieve in the possibility or practicability of
immediate resumption ? Because, rep
resenting a debtor section he dreads tha
effect of a forced resumption by the pro
cess of contracting tho currency; or be
cause representing a constituency rich in
tho possession of Government evidences
of debt, he favors bringing them at once
by the most rapid and inexorable process
to par value with gold ?
That is assumed to be the case by
some because, after the downfall of the
old United States Bank and the univer
sal explosion of local banks which fol
lowed, and led to the adoption of the
sub treasury system, tho Democracy
proclaimed themselves opposed to all
banks of issue and bank note circulation,
and in favor of "bard money” only.
Tho circumstances and the cases, how
ever, contain no analogy; and besides,
no man to-day proclaims himself a hard
money man in tha sense of opposing all
paper circulation.
It is simply an issue of bringing an
existing paper circulation to the point
of specie redemption with more or less
rapidity, and a judgment aa to itB wis
dom or practicability. And then, too,
there is a collateral question of repealing
the prohibitory tax against local bank
circulation, which, if done, as demanded
by the so-called hard money men, can
not fail to g-ivo tho country more paper
circulation than ever. There is, in short,
in a practical pointof view, no hard money
in the question on either side, unless it
bo the pretence of a specie redemption,
which no living man now will ever see to
bo mnch more than a mere pretence; for
with the enormous foreign indebtedness
of tho country the maintenance of a huge
volume of paper currency of any kind
responsivo always to immediate redemp
tion in specie, is a problem incapable of
solution. The quicker we reach the cru
cial attempt to solve it, the sooner shall
we reach the crack of doom.
Hons Thomas Hardeman, Jr,,
lor Governor,
Without the least disparagement of
the claims and services of the several
distinguished gentlemen who are said to
be in the field for gubernatorial honors,
we beg to declare our preference for the
noble Georgian whose name heads this
article.
It was the purpose of the Telsorap*.
in sccordance with previous usage, to
abstain from any formal announcement
of its choice of a candidate, leaving tho
track open to all, nnd the convention, un
biased by any suggestion in these col
umns as to who should be the nominee.
T)«f Awn Kw Ana mir pfini
Dr. C. B. Nottingham.
The death of this amiable and greatly
lamented gentleman, will create a sad
voi 1 in our city, where he was most ten
I derlv beloved, and throughout the whole
i .dreleof bis acquaintance,
i To the medical profession of the St'.te,
I too, his loss will be felt, for he stood con-
j fe-«cdly in its front rank.
| Faithful and laborious in the perform-
I ance of duty, it may be truly said that
I the proximate cause of his last illness
was over icork, as a member of the State
Board of Health, .while at the same time
engrossed with the cares and responsi
bilities of an extensive medical practice.
The Doctor was sensible of this, and
when almost in arlicvlo mortis, regretted
that hie failing strength would not per
mit him to warn others, of the danger of
such a waste of physical and mental en
ergy.
For many weeks he had lingered, now-
buoyed up with the hope of recovery,
then cast down by the development of
new complications in his complaint But
in all those days of Badness and suffer
ing not one querulous word escaped his
lips, and he endured the pangs of posi
tive pain, the terrible unrest of the in
valid, and the unutterable wretchedness
of " hope deferred," with the patience
and fortitude of the philosopher and
Christian.
He had much to live and strive for.
Still in the meridian of his usefulness—
occupying a prominent place before the
country as one of the leading spirits of
that noble humanitarian institution,
the State Board of Health—the revered
head of a numerous and dependent fam
ily—the beloved and confidential medi
cal consellor of hundreds of devoted pa
trons—an ornament to the society iij
which he moved—a man of letters and
scientific attainments—how could he
help wishing that his candle might not
go out, and that he might be spared to
fulfill the proud destiny which seemed
to open up invitingly before him. Bnt
when that became no longer possible—
when with the practised eye of the med
ical expert he read his own fate in the
insidious advances of disease, and knew
that the sands of life would soon bo sped,
like a true hero, he meekly acquiesced in
the fiat of the Moat High, and bowed his
head in humble submission.
We doubt if the death-bod of any man
ever exhibited greater calmness and fear
lessness, or less of impatience and com
plaint under acute suffering. It was the
writer’s privilege to see him often, and
to converse freely with this good ana
lovely man, and the testimony he gives
is true in every purticular. When it be
came manifestly apparent that the end
was nigh, wisely and without perturba
tion he executed his last will and testa
ment, and as far as it was possible put
his house in order, and prepared for the
change which was inevitable.
When asked how he felt concerning
his spiritual condition, he said he had
tried to discharge hiB duty on earth, and
was willing to trust in the jast’ce and
mercy of a benignant God. To another
friend, also, he declared his faith and
Tlie New Hampshire Election.
Th* common solution of the result in
X_-w Hampshire is said to be bribery. It
:■ *a : d th- Kadi-ala t-s-1 far the longer
pur--*, and were the most successful
biters; and unfortunately found more
purchasable material in the Democratic
party than the latter could find among the
Ridicala. In this view of the case it could
not be anticipated that bribery in Wash
ington would meet with a stern rebuke
from bribed voters in New Hampshire;
and the solution, in no aspect ia encourag*
ing to patriotic aspirations for the fotnre.
If the exposures in Washington are going
to be followed generally by increased
Radical majorities, they ought to be
stopped as bolding out additional in
ducements to public plunder.
havo either openly and ardentlvc?B2us§$
mistakable indications as to their par
tiality in the premises. Such being the
case, we should be wanting in friendship
and fidelity to our able and brilliant fel
low-townsman, by keeping silent any
longer.
We favor tlie nomination for Governor
of Col. Hardeman at this juncture, for
many good and sufficient reasons.
First—He is the oldest of his acknowl
edged competitors, all of whom can af
ford to bide their time and wait for po
litical preferment hereafter.
Second—He was singled out for pro
scription and persecution through the
base slanders of the ingrate Farrow, and
denied his franchise rights by the Fed
eral Government, until long after his as
sociates ia arms had been pardoned. It
is but right therefore that his fellow-
citizens should rebuke this unjust and
malicious treatment of a gallant and
true man, by elevating him to the exec
utive chair of the State.
Third—He has rendered signal and
timely services to the Democracy and
commonwealth, in periods of imminent
danger from the triumph of carpet-bag
Radicalism. Who does not remember
the clarion notes of Col. Hardeman’s
voice on the hustings in the last guber
natorial campaign ? No single individual
labored harder, or was a more potential
instrument in achieving the splendid
victory which then perched upon our
banners.
Fourth—He has never failed to re
spond to the call of tha people in the pi
ping times of peace, or under any circum
stances, when ha was needed to promote
the cause of education, agriculture and
human progress. Perhaps in the whole
South there does not exist another orator
who has spoken as often and effectively
as he, in behalf of the bet t interests of
tho country- Almost in every village and
hamlet of Georgia has his silver-toned
eloquence electrified and delighted the
masses, when there was no political ob
ject or ambition to be subserved.
Fifth—He has shown himself to be a
wise and safe statesman and counsellor,
both in the halls of Congress and in the
most difficult and responsible positions in
our State Government. More than once
aB Speaker of the House of Representa
tives he has manifested extraordinary
parliamentary tact and administrative
ight pieces of orange colored ability, and given a bright earnest of
loth; ten pieces of toick cotton : that capacity and sound judgment which
are requisite in a chief magistrate of a
great State.
For the above reasons, and because we
tuff; ten fine towels; eleven pounds of
alo> * ; i-ix more of the same, red ; eleven
pounds of lac ; ten dasks of perfume; ten I
of odoriferous oil; four large boxes; ten
er ; nine pictures; five peacocks’ - believe Col. Hardeman, if nominated and
tuils ; ten pieces of-foreign crape."
elected, will make a wise, patriotic and
lux Duke of Norfolk has been taking , excellent Governor, we shall be glad to
o-p- to prevent Arundel Castle from be- j see him invented
fhere were no signs of faltering or weak
ness.
He requested that his beloved friend
and physician. Dr. Fitzgerald, might re
main with him to the end, and that
faithful companion, who, for thirty years-
had stood by him in sunshine and shade,
rarely left his bedside, and was present
when the grim messenger claimed his
victim. In the language of that friend,
“ eorrow was almost Io3t in tho admira
tion which was inspired by the closing
scenes in tho career of the sufferer. He
lived and died every inch a hero.”
Dr. Custis Bell Nottingham was horn
in Northampton county, Virginia, on the
21st day of May, 1818, and died March
15th, 1876; aged fifty-Beven years, nine
months and twenty-three days.
His ancestors resided in Nottingham
shire, England, and were of gentle blood.
Staunch royalists, they clung to the for
tunes of their unfortunate monarch after
the triumph of Cromwell, and only ren
derod allegiance to the usurper when re
sistance was no longer possible.
They emigrated to the Eastern shore
of Virginia in the early part of the eigh
teenth century, and ever bore a promi
nent part in the history of that famous
community which was the home of the
Upshers, Parkers, Wises, and other dis
tinguished Virginia families. The sub
ject of this sketch was educated at Car
lisle College, Pennsylvania, and pursued
his medical studies in Philadelphia, grad
uating from Jefferson College.
He settled at Perry, Houston county,
Ga., m 1S40, and in December, 1819. re
moved to Macon. Here he very soon ac
quired the entire confidence cf tho com
munity, and rose to the very head of his
profession.
In 1S60, just before the breaking out
of hostilities, he transferred his residence
Louisiana plantation, and remained
there for five years, well pleased with
the quiet and abundance of his country
home. But the close of the war found
him, like the mass of our Southern peo
ple, bereft of his negro property, and al
most penniless, and once more he retraced
his steps to Macon, and began the prac
tice of medicine de novo, and, as it were,
at the foot of the ladder.
Since then, his labors have been in-
C3sant, and again had he attained to
distinction and eminence, and if spared,
would have retrieved his lost fortunes.
But the great I Am had ordained other
wise, and the skilled scientist, the gen
tle ministering angel around the beds of
the sick and dying, the true friend, and
perfect type of a refined gentleman has
been gathered to his fathers.
God help the stricken group who
Injured by the ivy which has grown I that high office.
into the
i and expanded so as to cause
may parts of the walls to crumble. The
ivy lias now been removed, and the walls
carefully restored. At present an inter
O !:eg,search is going on in a square tower
ndj.u.-1-ct to the keep, called the "Well
Tower.” In this building is a well, form-
In this connection, however, we
again assert that the meiit and ability of
several of the gentlemen whose names
will appear before the Convention, are
fully appreciated by this paper, and we
wage no war against them, but, on the
contrary, would defend any one of them
rly 400 leet deep, but now nearly filled , from false or unjust aspersions. More-
up. There is a tradition that it. contains
hidden treasures, the occupants of the
castle during the sieges sustained by the
fortress having cast their valuables in
to it to save them from the enemy. Al
ready the well has been explored to the
depth of nearly 200 feet. Between thirty
and forty stone cannon balls, about six
inches in diameter,some spurs, and halves
of cannon balls have been brought to tha
surface, but as yet nothing has been seen
of the expected treasures.
Parisian ladies who do their own nee
dle-work have adopted thimbles with a
pebble inserted as a top. The agate,
cairngorm, onyx, aad crystal are the most
popular, a* they look very pretty in their
ill"' .
over, we have every confidence that the
I Convention will select a worthy candi-
j date, and the Tilioraph will support
| tn* nominee with all the real and ability
: at its command. So will oar patriotic
townsman, Col. Hardeman.
mourn the I053 of husband and father,
ith the dignities of i The living are more to be pitied than the
dead.
With characteristic modesty, Dr. Not
tingham requested that there should be
no pomp or parade connected with his
funeral obsequies. The last religious
rites will be performed in the First Bap
tist Church, (Dr. Skinner,) by R. v. Dr.
Brantley, at 10 x. x. to-day.
May God, who orders all things wisely
and well, carry peace and consolation to
the hearts of that weeping household,
who sorrow now almost without hope.
Before tlie Battle.
Concord Special to the New York Tribune.)
If the Belknap affair had been divulged
just before the Ohio election last fall, it
would have cost the Republicans in that
State 10.000 votes. It will not cost the
party in New Hampshire as many hun
dreds ; indeed, I begin to believe the as
surance of their leaders that they will
not lose 100 votes by it. The Cabinet
scandal has had one marked effect on the
Republicans, however. It nas turned
their eyes toward Bristow for the Presi
dency.
Concord Special to the Chicago Tribune.!
In New Hampshire political faith on
either side rises to the frenzy of bigotry.
The Democrats are rank Bourbons, and
the Republicans extreme Radicals. The
war record ol the moat objectionable can
didate will not in the slightest degree
impair hi3 chances, nor drive from his
support one Democrat, and if Belknap
were a New Hampshire man, and were
nominated the day after his fall, he would
poll tho full party strength. There ia.
besides, a more widely pervading and
openly organized system of corruption in
this State than exists anywhere else in
the Union—perhaps in the world. At
least 10 per cent, of the voters are brought
into or kept in the party traces by pay
ments of cash, the price of voters varying
from $5 to J100, according to the impor
tance of the election and the urgency of
the local situation. In a closely bal
anced town you can’t buy them for less
than $50 or $80.
Concord Special to the Chicago Times.J
New Hampshire, taking it by and
large, without respect to particular per
sons, parties and localities, is probably
the corruptest political bell-hole that
ever rejoiced the heart and replenished
the pocket of the marketable citixen
Arguments, disclosures, appeals, facts,
all glide from the New Hampshire voter
like water from a duck’s back. _ If Jeff
Davis were the Democratic nominee, be
would poll aa full a vote as Newman, Til-
den or Bayard, and the Republicans
would make as strong a run with Bab
cock or Boss Shepherd as with Bristow.
Ben Hill’s speech has been circulated
everywhere by the Republicans, and I
have before me a pamphlet, 500 copies of
which have been sent to each postmaster
in the State, purporting to give in letters
from Sivannah, Georgia, the history of-a
plot for a new rebellion.
A Mysterious Witness,
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.)
There ia a lady at Willard’s Hotel, in
the close custody of tho Sergeant-at-
Arms, and not permitted to leave her
room. She has been there for some days.
It is said that on her testimony depends
of th g fain and the good name of a person
lif.- is perrnif'--! .- .. are any
private messages delivered to her, yet
the chairman of the House Naval Com
mittee has undisturbed access to her
room, acid seems to know what he is
about. There was a woman in the Secor
claim, one in tho French Arms business,
one in almost- all the historical rascali
ties here, and it seem3 there is one now
in which the Naval Commission has so
much interest aB to closely guard her
door. There is, it seems too, a woman in
the safe-burglary business. This has not
be< n published, or publicly suspected,
until now. The Sergeant-at-Arms is on
her track, and expects to have her here
in three days. For prudential reasons,
her name cannot now be given. This
woman is said to be the missing link that
will connect the professional burglars
who did the miserable job with the mys
terious persons who, sitting in a darken
ed room with pebbles in their mouths to
disguise their voices, conducted the orig
inal negotiations with Mike Hayes.
The Judiciary Committee to-night
commenced their first secret investiga
tion of this subject, and expect in a few
days to arrive at the missing link. These
who ought to know most about this mys
terious affair insist that the evidence is
forthcoming which will fully explain it.
Three witnesses of importance are to be
summoned, two lawyers and the woman
mentioned. The witnesses who have al
ready been examined in the old investi
gation and in the courts are not to be
recalled.
FROM. WASHINGTON.
Its.
Editorial Correspondence.
"Washington Crrr, March 13,1876.
NO NEWS.
This sounds rather odd, applied to
a city popularly supposed to be the
headquarters of news of all sorts, sizes
and descriptions, but it is a fact this
morning. Since my last letter nothing I
worthy of mention has cropped ont for |
the delectation even of the scandal
mongers, much less the legitimate pur
veyors of Washington intelligence. The
Belknap matter seems in statu quo, and
Lent has laid a rigid embargo upon so
cial festivities with their addenda and
accompaniments of tattle aad gossip.
Really there is a genuine and grievous
drought of all things worth hearing
and telling, and it is hard to see
how the quid nuncs get through
the day. I suppose they do have
these seasons of drought sometimes,
even here, but it don’t occur often, and
you can well imagine the horrible vacuity
and dreary desolation of the average
Washington tattle when such evil times
come upon him. One of these chaps
informed me yesterday that the Belknap
scandal ought to havo been judiciously
divided into broken doses and not all
blurted-.out at once. He thought it
ought to have been so managed as to
have given a moderate dose every day for
a month at the very least. “ It was
squandered, sir,” he said—” absolutely
squandered."
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE BELKNATS.
There is still, however, a bit of gossip
popping out now and then about the
Belkuaps. Between policemen in their
house and reporters outside trying to get
in through the back gate and over the
walls, they are having a rough time
Some of the latter occasionally succeed
and then make a rush for the telegraph
office to wire the details. One of them
says Mrs. B. is by no means cast down
or abashed, and that she still solaces her
self by a moderate devotion to the deco
rum of dress is plain, from the fact that
this particular reporter found her “lying
Failure of Daniel Drew.
The Sun says that Mr. Drew states that
his liabilities would probably amount to
$600,000. The endowment of the Drew
Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J.,
for $250,000, and that of the - Weslyan
University at Middletown, Conn., for
$100,000, was secured by mortgages on
his forms. This was done soon after his
first tronble, when he felt the need of
protecting them. As executor of the
estate of his grand children, Mr. Drew is
liable for $600,000 additional, but this be
says is secured by mortgages. Mr. Drew
has been in Wall street for thirty years
past. He dates the beginning of his
financial misfortunes to the loss of a mil
lion dollars on a corner in Northwestern
two or three years ago.
Daniel Drew is liable upon a note of
Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison,
X J., in tne sum of $250,000, also on a
note to the Seminary at Middletown,
Conn., m $100,000, the two notes are
uDsecurred. His other unsecured lia
bilities amount to between $100,000
and $200,000. The amount of all lia
bilities, secured and unsecured, is about
$1,500,000.
A spicial" dispatch to the Courier-
Journal from Harrod.burg reports the
death on Monday of Mrs. A. D. Bowman,
a sister of Mrs. General Belknap. A
“sorrow’s crown of sorrow ” this will be
to the unfortunate wife of Secretary
Belknap, and the public will not with
hold from ber the natural sympathy
which these afflicting circumstances «-.ll
In Rockland, Me., a cornet band, com
posed entirely of women is being organ
ized.
Mlle D* la Hams, better known *?
Qaida, has been married to a Russian
gentleman.
Paris has over 2.000 clairvoyants,
thirty of whom are said to make $10,000
each per annum.
The Pittsburg Leader has found a
rbj me for Belknap: " The ghost of a
soldier fiew up through a hell-trap, cry
ing, ' I'm on a furlough to settle with
A Bair ol Ponies.
The World, of the 13th, say* within
forty-eight hours probably, and certainly
as soon as the committee can get at it, a
well-known gentleman of unimpeachable
integrity will testify to a fact which
places the President in a hardly less
disgraceful light than is Belknap him
self. This gentleman holds himself
ready to swear that on a certain occasion
he went to the White House and intro
duced to the President a gentleman who
wanted a post-traderehip on an Indian
, agency. This gentleman made his ap-
, plication, and having made it, then re
marked to the President, in the hearing
! of the witness, that in coming through
the Indian country he had come across
i the finest pair of Indian ponies which he
j had ever laid his eyes upon, and if the
j gift would be acceptable he would like to
I make a present of them to the President’s
boys. Tuereupon, without any hems or
, haws, the President accepted the gift,
; and at on -e sent a telegram to the com-
- uiandant of the post where the ponies
! then were, ordering them to be forward-
| ed immediately at his (Grant’s) expense.
Shortly after the applicant received an
appointment, not, indeed, to the post
agency for which he had applied, but to
another equally as lucrative.
on a blue satin sofa, dressed ia an ex
quisite morning robe of crimson silk cov
ered with the richest lace,” and taking
things very philosophically. She is cer
tainly “gamer” than ber husband, who
is represented as being in an awful
“funk," not even combing bis darling
flaxen beard which his toadies have so
much admired. Depend upon it, ]je
must be in a bad way. "When a man
with a beard of that color “goes hack” on
it there is no hope for him,
Apropos of these people some folks—
with disorded livers doubtless—have
discovered that Belknap’s downfall is
connected in some way with the fact
that he lived two months when he
first came to "Washington in the
“ Seward House,” or “Club House,"
which is a very unlucky mansion. It was
there Seward was nearly killed by Payne;
there lived John C. Spencer, whose son
was hung for mutiny by Commander Sli
dell McKenzie; there lived a member of
John Tyler’s Cabinet when ho wa3 killed
by the explosion of the big gun on the
“ Princeton;” and from that suuo house
walked Barton Key to meet his death at
the hands of the dastardly assassin.
Sickles. It was there, also, that one of
Seward’s daughters dic-d from the ner-
mtfs nl nrlr of the terrible scene 6bo wit
nessed the night of the attempt on _her
-SM'tJiJmmbdore Rogers, father-in law of
Qen. M-eigs, out of prize money paid him
during and after the war of 1812. Truly,
a historical habitation. Why has not
some penny-a-liner of the cheap illustra
ted press—some Sylvanus Cobb, Jr, or
others of that ilk, made it a mine for
their working ?
HOW GRANT STANDS IT.
"They say” that even Grant is weak
ening, latterly, under the pressure of all
these bedevilments. That he sees few
visitors except on business, and has re
fused since last Thursday to admit sev
eral' distinguished persons to his pres
ence. He takes his usual long walks,
but hangs his head lower on his breast
than is his habit and is much less scru
pulous than usual in returning the salu
tations of the passers-by. The White
House looks even more lonesome and un
inhabited than usual, and there is a
general air of a funeral about to start
from the premises. If there is any re
liance to be placed on these and other
indications, things are not all well either
with the master or inmates of that man
sion. Perhaps there may be a ghost in
the shape of a coffin labelled “ Died
Third Term,” wandering around, which
makes things so sad colored.
THE LAW'S DELAY.
As everybody know3 the judicial mill
in this District is run entirely by loyl
machinery of the most approved pattern,
the District Attorney being one H. H,
Wells, of such unsavory memory in Vir
ginia, where he once called himself “Gov
ernor” by grace of R idical bayonets. He
is said to find many and unusual difficul
ties in the way of framing an indictment
against Belknap, and has so reported to
Grant. Ho pretends that he can get no
testimony from the House Committee,
aud that as Marsh is out of the way he
can find nothing upon which to base an
indictment. Too thin. If Marsh was
wanted to testify against a Democratic
official Wells and his masters would'have
him here in a week, aBd the country un
derstands and will mark this miserable
subterfuge. It is every day becoming
more shamefully apparent that the Rad
ical party intend to shield Belknap, if
possible, and that they will stick at noth
ing, lawful or unlawful, to get him off.
They are growing bolder and more shame
less every day in their sneers and attacks
npon the Democrats of the committee,
and if they dared, would array them
selves solidly and brazenly against
impeachment. I thought I fully know
the length, and breadth, and height, and
depth, and thickness of this damnable
party, but I didn’t. They are a thousand
fold more diabolically wicked, corrupt,
and altogether without shame or scruple
than I had even supposed.
JOT TO BUYERS OF SEWING JXACHINE3.
The sewing machine monopoly, which
includes most of the prominent compa
nies in this country, headed, I believe,
by the Wheeler & Wilson, got a “ sock
dolager” last week in the shape of an
adverse report from the Committee on
Patents, refusing an extension cn what
is known as the four-motion feed. The
continuance of this patent has been the
cause of keeping up the prices of these
machines to their present exorbitant
figures, and the effect of the refusal to
extend the patent will reduce the price
from thirty to forty per cent. Those op
posing the extendon say $30 will soon
hereafter be the price limit of any of the
machines which have been readily sell
ing at $60 to $70.
PERSONAL.
I bare bad the pleasure the last week
of meeting several Macon men, on their
Vay to market. Mr. Emory Winship
spent yesterday week in this city, and
Messrs. R. A. Morris, 8. T. Coleman, W.
A. Juhan, and J. B. Ross were here all
day yesterday. Mr. Sol Hirsh was regia
tered on Friday, but when a man is on
such an errand as his it is not expected
that he will tarry even here longer than
is absolutely necessary, and therefore 1
failed to see him. R.
Letter from Col. Fielder.
Ccthbert, March 16, 1876.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Your
editorial of yesterday on the subject ol
wild lands is the first and only occasion
your paper has given me to complain of
wrong. It was probably suggested by a
highly esteemed gentleman of Macon—
owning and controlling as agent a large
quantity of those lands—on account, in
port, of a circular we sent to persons in
Macon and elsewhere, who give in for
taxes considerable quantities of those
Ur.ds.
What you say and quote from Mr.
Chappell’s book on the subject of frauds
all good people approve. But your con
cluding reflections on parties seeking to
buy and warning to owners against sell
ing, I think an injustice to the motives
of°the former and tend to injure the
latter by discouraging the sale of lands
useless to them.
Our minerals are a great source of
wealth to the State. But it has never
been our policy to let them lie embedded
in the earth, but to induce people with
capital to come and develop them.
The same is true of our timber and the
waste 'ands of lower Georgia. The
press, leading men, the Legislature—
everybody since the war have tried to
induce immigration—to no purpose. The
efflux of population goes steadily on. It
has thrown tho improved lands on the
market without purchasers. The wild
lands, except where, hero and there,
needed for turpentine, and timber for
the few mills that have not suspended
by breaking the owners, are not salable
at any price. The tiade of towns and
cities fallsoff. Therailroads feel the effect
of the diminution of products. Threemore
such years will be sufficient to reduce the
Southwestern road to one train a week, if
not to bring even Macon back to the pro
portions of a reduced city.
I have labored for years to prevent
this evil, through the press and elsewhere.
In the same spirit and aim, we accepted
an agency to aid a European company,
from parties in New York and Balti
more to purchase 250,000 acres of pine
land, and sent the circular referred to
in order to get in correspondence with
owners.
We sent it to honest men who give in
these lands for taxes under oath, at low,
yes, at nominal rates, and propose to
buy from them at their own sworn prices.
You complain that without binding
the purchasei, the owners are required
to deposit titles in bank. There is
nothing wrong in this—in fact or inten
tion. The purchase will prol ably fail if
a large amount cannot be obtained. A
company in Europe, as a company here,
buying elsewhere, would naturally wish
to know the price and amount, and that
the title was reliable before investing.
You speak of “adventurers without
means seeking to contract with owners.”
If this refers to us we simply say we
never represented that we had the means
to buy, but only proposed as agents, at a
small premium, to contract with owners
for parties abroad, who, if they have not
the means, are playing the fool on a high
key to be expending time aud money to
make the bargain. The deposit of title
as an escrow only places it in the power
of the purchaser to take it by paying
the money. The owners do not part
with their titles.
If it transpires that the company in
tend wrong, it is not in their power to
get the title without paying the stipu
lated price. If it fail for want of means,
the owners have their property unim
paired. Can there be any wrong or fraud
in this ?
I am of the opinion, unless people and
capital can be drawn from abroad, there
are millions of acres of land now useless
to owners, that will be useless to their de
scendants, and can conscientiously advise
eafi-s, if anybody can bo found to invest.
Asm evidence of my_rim;£5ite
—nearly 3,tX)0 acres—on the terms pro
posed, at nominal prices, before I was,
with my son, empowered a3 an agent.
Truly, your friend,
Herbert Fielder.
Remarks.—It is but just to Colonel
Fielder, and ourselves also, to say that
we had never, prior to the reception of
his letter, heard that he was in any way
connected with the purchase of wild
lands.
Am Oagon farmer recently ploughed
on an Indian skeleton, together with 30(1
—
It 13 stited that the Duke of Modena
ordered in his will that the legacy which
be left to D.-n Carlos’ wife should not
be p»id before peace had been declared,
resulting either in the victory or definite
defeat of Don Carlos, who was to acquire
this fortune either on the throne of
Spain or in exile. Hence, since he had
lost all hope of ascending the throne,
Don Carloe thought it would be useless
to prolong his resistance, and that it
would be better to bring the war to a
close, quit Spain, and take possession of
tha fortn,ne left Kim ""S**
His explanation of the statement con
cerning the deposit of the titles to their
lands in bank, by tho owners, subject to
be taken or not taken, is satisfactory.
If the idea be simply to find out what
aggregate of land can be had at the
owner's own prices, and if the desired
amount cannot be obtained, then the
trade falls to the ground, we can see no
objection to the arrangement.
Still, we differ from our friend as to the
propriety of selling the timber lands of
the State to foreign parties for a mere
sing, when lumber, as it grows scarcir
must advance in price, and hence increase
their value.
Better foster immigration more indus
triously, and offer greater inducements
to the denizens of the Old North State
to come and settle among hb.
THE WASHINGTON FRAUDS.
Progress of the Search.
The Courier-Journal specials of Monday
say the evidence before the Investigating
Committee begins to go higher even
than a Cabinet minister, and to put the
President in a very bad light. Orville
Grant gave testimony by which it ap
pears that his brother, the President,
was giving him the control of offices,
out of which he was able to do a dirty
brokerage business. It is now said that
direct evidence will be presented to the
Judiciary Committee in a day or two of
the history of an application to the
President for a post-tradership on the
frontier. The applicant stated to the
President that he had the prettiest pair
of Indian ponies he had over seen, and
wanted to make them a present to one
of the President’s sons. The President
promptly telegraphed the post com
mander near the place to forward the
horses to him, and not long after the oc-
currenc- the applicant wa3 rewarded
with a post-tradership, though not the
particular one he was applying for. The
witness, who was present and heard this
conversation, ia a gentleman of high
character and respectability, well known
in Kentucky.
GEN. KILPATRICK SUMMONED.
The Committee on the Judiciary has
summoned before it Gen. Kilpatrick, of
New Jersey. It is understood that this
gentleman will testify to receiving a let
ter from one Butterfield, in which the
latter offered him twenty thousand dol
lars to secure him an appointment. He
mentioned the matter to General Bab
cock, who got the letter from him
Shortly after this event, Kilpatrick was
greatly surprised to see that Butteifiela
had been appointed.
THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
The Committee on Printing is daily
accumulating proofs going to show that
the Government printing office costs
$500,000 more than it ought to do. They
have had proof of one bid from New
York, where the bureau went to exceed
• by $16,000. The patent office report
is printed at double its proper cost. Ma
terials are purchased at' 75 to 100 per
cent, above the proper rates.
A 1ST ACT
'or keeping a record of all bond# is
To provid*
sued In this State, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by tho General Assem
bly of tho State of Georgia. Tl.st from and after
the passaged this Act it shall be the duty of all
public and private corporations in this State,
who shall is«ue or endorse any bonds for circula
tion. to furnish to tho Secretary of Slate a <-rt-
fled statement showing the letter date oi i>>ac,
number of bonds, amount of issue, rate of inter
est, when and where payable, and the date o: the
law. if any. authorizing such issue; and it shal
be the duty of the Stcretary of State to have tlie
same recorded in a bowk to bo kept by him for
that purpose. ,
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid. That all public and private corpora
tions in this State who have bonds now in circu
lation, issued and endorsed by them, >hall fur
nish to tho Secretary of State within ninety days
from tho passage of this Act certified statements
required by tho first section of this Act. and the
same shall be recorded by said officer aa provided
for in said first section.
Sec. S. Be it enacted by the authority afore
said, That public or privato corporations neg
lecting or refusing to comply with tho providons
of this Act shall be fined in a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars for each offense, one-half of
said fine to go vo the party givinu information o
such violation, and the other half to go to the
public school fund of the county.
Sec 4. Be it further enacted by tho authority
aforesaid. That no bonds shall he placed in circu
lation until the provisions of the first section of
this Act with regard to such bonds shall havo
been complied with: andany person placing such
bonds in circulation without such compliance
shall be subject to a flue of five hundred dollars
for every bond so put in circulation.
Sec. 5. Bo it further enacted by tho authority
aforesaid. That the Secretary of State shall re
ceive as compensation for the records provided
for iti tha first and second sections of this Act.
aud for giving transcripts of the samo twenty
cents per hundred words, the fee for recording
to be paid by the corporation issuing the bond,
and the fee for transcripts to bo paid by tho party
applying for Iho same.
Sec. 6. Be it further cnactod by the authority
aforesaid. That all laws and pa -ts of laws in con
flict with tlua Act be and tho samo aro hereby
repealed. TUOS. HARDEMAN. JR-
Speaker House of Representatives.
J. L. Sweat.
Clerk House of Representatives.
T. J. SIMMONS.
President of the Sonato.
J. TV. Mcrphy.
Secretary of the Senate. %
mart law f-v
a. w. ccBBiD as.
J. W. LOCKETT.
W.M. HAZllKCle,
T.
CUBBSDSS, EASLSHUHST & C)„
BANKERS & BROKERS
Macon, % G a.
?>ECEITB DEPOSITS, 15ay and Boll R
1 i rhnnffo. Bonds &nd Stocks.
Collections umUe on idl aoqMslble point*.
SB .F-RAISIN&
fIjOIm-
50
II12CUE It‘3 GENUINE l
For sale by
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY A CO.S
SEE1 POTATOES.
s
END us year orders for
Genuine Seed Potatoes!
si.
all VARIETIES.
HimTOTIft TTNNT.BV A TO.
W. w. FORD,
DENTIST
(103 Cherry street, over M. R. Rogers A Co.)
my 87 TM!4COW, GA
Tie Besi is tie deepest
50011)3. LINT COTTON FEE TON.
SOLTJA8LE SEA ISLAND
GIIAUO!
THE ANALYSIS OF WHICH HAS NO SUPERIOR
Time has Droved its worth. You have bnt to
try it to prove its worth, as thousands hare done
before you.
For particulars, call on
GOOD, SMALL & CO., Agents,
6S Thibd Street,
janSil Sm MACON. GA.
CUBBED33, HA2LEHUBST & CO.
1
GENERAL AGENTS.
ian23 dZttwi.v
BRICK!
CUBBEBGB, EA2LEHUE3T & CO
CUEBEBGE, EA3LEHESST y 0*.$
SAYIN8S OEPARTK^f,
Interest paid on ail sums from (1 upwenU.
marfl l.v
J. 0. CORD, President. R. F. Lawtoh, Cashier
EXCHANGE BANK OF MACON
Ofifiee In fautTs New Building.
Receives Deposits
BUYS AND S3LLS EXCHANQB,
Make* Advances on Stocks, Bonds, (.’otto
Store. Also on Shioinents of .Gotten.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTBNDgD TO
feblSly
I. 0, PLANT & SON,
Bankers and Brokers,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Buy and Sell Exchange. Gold Silver, Stocks %no
Bonds.
Deposits Received
On Which Interest vrlll i.s Allowed
AC AQBTED UrOJT.
FAYABLK i,U.
Advance, made on Cotton and Prs
iluce lu Store.
COLLECTIONS PROUPTLT ATTENDED TO
eb9 ly
FIRST NATIONAL BANK ofMACON
TRANSACTS A SKNEKAL MMIK8 SUSIES,
Office hours, 9 to I atttl 3 tn 4.
New York Exchange 3-10 Frem.
W. W. Wkiolby, Cash’r.
janl5'75-ly.*
I. C. PLANT. Precf.
Soluble Pacific Guano
urn
Phosphate.
For sale for CASH, and ON TIME, with priv-
ilegaof payment in MIDDLING COTTON AT
FIFTEEN CENTS PER POUND, by
Turpin & Ogden,
Agents Pacific Guano Company.
stiacxu Advertising Contracts cauLoxnad*
rob’T Wayne.
ROB T G. HYMAN.
ROB’T WAYNE & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND —
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
May Street, Savannah, Ga.
Bagging and Iron Ties advanced at low rates
on crops. Liberal Cash Advances made on con
signments of Cotton. Cotton sold on arrival and
proceeds returned by express, when so instructed
by owners. Liberal deductions made to Gran*
gers. ; Aid
SCARBOROUGH BOUSE,
OPPOSITE COURT-HOUSE.
n AWKISEVILUE, GA.—Rooms newly
furnished: Table the best the market will
allord. The proprietor pledges himself to use
every effort to give eatisfaction, ami respectfully
solicits a share of public favors- Rates. J2 per
day. B. F. BOON.
an25 tf Proprietor.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
EUFAULA, ala.
T HIS Hotel, mow under tin control of Mr. A.
J. RIDDLE, whom thousands know as a
photoKraphcr, is one of tJiq best kept houses in
the State, and travelers will find out when visiting
the Bluff City that they havo stopped at tho
right place after putting up at the Commercial
A free omnibus runs in the interest of the hotel
ftUBTlO tf
mi *
SPECIAL FLAVORINGS,
VANILLA, LE3I0N, ETC.,
For Flavoring Ice Cream, C-i:es and Fastrj.
RAW BONE
purrcp
a itwwi
STANDARD GUARANTEED
200 IBS.
MANUFACTURED BY
"With great care, By a new process,
■we extract from the true, select Fruit*
and Aromatics, each charnc’-'lstic fla-
Ttir, and produe- Flavorings of ran
excellence. Of great strength and verti. I
purity. 2Co jioisonovs oils. Kvery have '
as represented. Fo deceit—each bottuJvJ
measure, holding onelialf more than outers
purporti ng to hold same-quantity. Vs*
them one', scill use no other. The ma
delicate, delicious flavors ever made. S
superior to tiie cheap extracts. Ask ft
Dr. Price’s Special Flavorings. Man!
faetured only by
WALTON,WHANN &C?
I WILMINGTON, DEL.
FOR
1 900 BUSHELS ST. DOMINGO YAMS.
for seed. Price, in barrels or boi-
rnmmm
_ 'rice, in barrels or bos •
e9, and delivered the depot in Americas, 5i
per bushel, $l 50 per half bushel, SI 00 per peck,
or $2 25 per bushel not in barrels or boxes, de-
Uvered at Americu®, or $2 00 per bushel at hill—
to be delivered between February 15 and March
35,1*75. Address G. W. C. MUNRO,
Buena Vista, Ga.
This is to certify that we have given the pota
toes of Geo. W. C. Munro an impartial examina
tion, and decide that his St. Domingo Yana9 have
yielded four times the quantity of the commot
STOKES:
fcSo i sr FftoHTsT -' N ^
v9;'
k- ; '6ft£, N vv| !«r'^ s >
~X--V
GENERAL AGENTS.
jar 23 ditaw&w
TfiACeh MAKK
GILES
LINIMENT
IODIDE OF AMMONIA
Cures Xeuralgiv, Face Aclic, Rheumatism, Gout.
Frosted Feet, Cbiliblams, Sere Throat, Ervsipe*
hi"*, Hruises or Wounds of every kind in mail or
animal.
‘ Giles’ Iodidb op Ammoyh is, in my judg
ment. the be*t remedy for ueuralwia ever put be-
fore the pubi c I have been afflicted with this
terrible disease for 32 years,, and never, until I
fell upon Mr. Gi'es’ remedy,did I fir.d any assur
ed relief. I tai^e pleasure in saying this, inas
much as I desire alwaya to be a benefactor at the
human family. Wm. P. Oorbit.
“Chairman of the Methodist Church Extension/*
J* J- PINGIlARD A CO., Agents.
STEELE & tFIKTCZf
Depots, CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS.
Manufacturers of Dr. Price's
BaJrinr; Powder.
GEORGIA, Bibb Cocxty,
To tlie Hon. Banard Hill, Judge of the Supe
rior Court of the Macon Circuit.
Tho petition of Mrs. Lurile Simmons, 3fiss
Salim Lumsden, Corneille B. Wiiiinzhaxn. Mrs.
Anna M. Cubbedge Mrs. Loui a K. Rose, Mrs.
Sarah E. Taylor and Mivs Lucy W. Howes, re*
spectrally showeth that they and tlieir sucees-
s*ora desire to be incorporated under the name
and s’yle of the “Trustees of the Ladies Sewir.g
Society of the Baptist Church oT Christ/* other
wise known us the First liupti>t Church of Macon*
Ga. Which society, w hen ncorn .rated, will be
lacated and have its place of business in the city
of Macon, said county and Mate.
They further pray that all vacancies that may
occur mny be filled hv »-ud society.
The object of your petitioners is to acquire
property, receive contributors, donations and
gilts, foi the purpo.*-e of pcnotmiig benevolent
and charitable works; aud of otablishing such
rules, regulations and by-laws for tbe govern
ment of said society us may be necessary and
proper, and not contrary {o the laws oL this
State.
Your petitioners further show unto your Honor,
that a capital of one thousand dollars has actu
ally been paid in, and that they de.-ire to incresso
said capital from time to am amount which they
may receive from donations, contributions, etc-*
and also with said privileges, powers and imma*
nities, for the term < f twenty
Your petitioners pray your H r nor, that, for tho
purposes above recited,* your Honor will grant
an order conferring upon your petitioners ar l
their successors, as aforesaid, the privileges ap
plicable to their incorporation, as i*. by the 1
cf Georgia, in such cases made and provide L
And as in duty bound, your petitioners win
ever pray, Ac.
HILL, LOFTON A BARTLFTT,
Attorneys for Fotitii>nei
A true extract from the minutes of Bibb supo*
nor Court.
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