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FROM WASHINGTON.
The Returning Board Sick—More
Revelations—Bradley the Fifth
Judge—Preparing Details for the
Electoral Count—The Florida Vote.
Washington, January 31.—Maddox,
a Treasury Agent, who was in constant
communication with Wells, declines to
answer or explain his letters.
Governor Wells is sick this morning.
The Returning Board are in quite close
confinement. Visitors are admitted by
card, and conversation allowed to be
held within the hearing of an officer of
the House.
Judge Bradley was elected as the
Fifth Judge.
Threo letters from Governor Wells,
one to Hewitt, one to Cameron and one
to Senator West, will be produced to
day.
A heavy cloud hang# oyer the Re
turning Board.
A sub-committee of the Louisiana
Committee examined Marshal Pitkin,
is his parlors at Willard’s, last night.
The Marshal is not very well.
In the Senate a concurrent resolu
tion was adopted that no person shall
be admitted to the south whig of the
capitol during the count of the votes
for President and Vice-President ex
cept upon tickets issued by the Presi
dent pro tempore of the Senate and
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, such tickets to be distributed
equally to each Senator and Repre
sentative by the Sergeant-at-Arms of
the Senate and House of Representa
tives.
The Florida majority report will
show, from certified copies of .every re
turn made to the Board of Canvassers,
91 majority for Tilden. The President
of the Senate has received, from Gov.
Drew, official proceedings of the Tilden
electors and recanvass of votes under
the new Returning Board, showing
Tilden’s majority to be 96. The official
papers are: First, a certified copy of
the act of the. Leirisiature. .authorizing
the new Returning Board to recanvass
the votes for President and Vice-Pres
ident; second, a copy of the returns as
canvassed by the new Board, and cer
tified by them; third, the Governor’s
certificate of the appointment and due
authorization of Tilden electors; fourth,
the declaration by the electors them
selves, duly certified that they met and
cast their votes for Tilden.
Tho Colorado Member Saated—More
About the Grand Commission—
Probing the Louisiana Infamy.
Washington, January 31. The
House passed a bill regulating admis
sions to galleries during count, and
adopted the report of the Judiciary
Committee admitting Beflord from
Colorado, who was seated.
Barnes, New Orleans Telegraph
Manager, was discharged from cus
tody.
The House is in session to-night.
The Florida Committeo will probably
ceport.
In the Senate, Hereford, of West
Virginia, was seated.
The sinking fund for the Pacific
jyailroad was resnmed without action.
A ljourned.
Confirmation : Smith, Postmaster at
Canton, Miss.
Nominati''n : Cbas. S. Mifler, Collec
tor of Customs, Richmond, Virgiuia.
'1 h Republican Congressional Com
mittee have employed William M.
Evarts, E. W. Stoughton, Stanley Mat
thews and Samuel Shellabargcr to pre
pare their case before the commission.
Justice Cliffoid will be President of
the Electoial Commission. The com
mission will meet at. 11 o’clock to-day.
The Clerk of the Supreme Court sub
ministered the oatii to Clifford, who
qualified the other commissioners. A
committee was appointed to frame
rules.
John G. Pickett produced the follow
ing letter written by J. Madison Wells :
“New Orleans, Nov. 20, ’76.
"My Dear Sir : You fully understand
the situation. Can’t you advise with
me relative thereto ?
“(Signed) J. Madison Wells.”
Pickett testified that a gentleman
whom he well knew, called on him
November 23d, just from New Orleans.
He told witness the exact situation in
New Orleans. Objection was made aud
the room cleared. When the door 9
were opened, J. H. Maddox, Special
Agent, of the Internal Revenue De
partment, was on the stand. Had
known Wells and Anderson twenty
five years. The letter mentioned above
handed to Maddox was written by
Wells in the presence of witness. When
Wells handed witness the letter he
said he trusted witness to protect him
in regard to a previous conversation
they had had together. Witness de
clined to state what the conversation
was about and asked until to-morrow
to answer. The examination went on
by instruction. He declined to auswer
whether these conversations referred
to the Returning Board. Did they re
late to Wells’ action as a member of
the Returning Board ?
Mr. Field—Now, Mr. Maddox, is it
not the fact that you made a bargain
with J. Madison Wells to give the Til
den electors the State of Louisiana for
one million dollars?
Maddox—l decline to answer.
Witness said that Calvert was an ac
tual resident of New Orleans. He was
a kind of a body guard of Wells’,
but it was the understanding that
all messages that came for Cal
vert were understood to be for
Wells. He declined to explain any
of the telegrams except to say
that he was “Hancock,” Wells was
“Calvert,” and Rickett. Witness said
that he did not vote at the last Presi
dential election, but would have voted
for Hayes if he had voted at all. Mad
dox was informed that he would be
compelled to answer the question put
him.
The committee then took a recess of
an hour in order to give the witness
time for consideration. The witness
said: “You are only wasting time, as
I will still decline to answer at the ex
piration of that hour.”
Mr. Field—That is your view.
At the appointed time Maddox was
sick, and was excused until to-morrow.
Witness identified the following let
ter written by him to Col. Pickett:
Barnlm’s Hotel, Baltimore, Nov. 27.
Dear Col. —Have jast arrived, and
have your dispatch. I can’t wait, so
leave at 9 to-night. I think “J. Thom
as” had better telegraph J. H. Mad
dox, 137 Bienville street, that ho can
do it at per cent., aud will see his
party in Baltimore. Gods, do your
patriotic friends hesitate? Thay ain’t
alive to the situation. Above all
things, keep me* from trouble. You
know the risk I take. You may say
what you please to your friends, but
keep me from trouble. I will hold
things in hand till I see you.
Witness said that “J. Thomas” was
Col. Picket.
The following telegrams witness
identified:
C. M. Calvert, 170 Custom House Street :
Hold. Will telegraph you Monday
evening. Jos. Hancock.
Witness said he was “Hancock,” and
that Wells opened ail dispatches for
“Calvert” by agreement.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 27.
John E. Pickett, New York Hotel:
Leave to-night. Telegraph me, as
agreed upon, on the morning of the
30th, but'not before. Jos. Hancock.
Joseph Hancock, 137 Bienville St., New
Orleans :
I can get the money at 5,6, 7,8, 9or
10 per cent, in Baltimore, where I will
go on tbe 20th, 30th or Ist, 2d or 3d
proximo, if that will suit you.
J. Thomas,
New York Hotel.
Witness said Pickett was Thomas
and that he (witness) was Hancock. A
million to carry Louisiana for Tilden.
The following letter was received un
signed : “For one million of dollars the
vote of Louisiana can be secured for
Tilden aud Hendricks. The manipula
tion must be done by me and as far
as possible to protect the members of
the Returning Board who may favor
such a result. It may be necessary to
elect two or threo membeis of the
Board to reach what we want. The
details to be agreed upon. Money to
be paid ia installments, say one <marter
when the fifth member is elected, one
quarter when one member resigus and
auothor is elected in his place, and one
quarter when another resigns with
another elected in his place, and the
balance one quarter to be paid when
the certificates are given.”
Other Letters.
Washington, December 1, 1:33 a. m.
Col. F. C. Zacharye, New Orleans.
“A double game; but, if well-in
formed, might trust the person I wrote
about. John F. Pickett.”
Night Message.
. Washington, December 2.
Joseph Hancock, 137 Bienville Street,
New Orleans:
“ Telegraphed as desired. Damn ray
interests. Think of the best interests
of forty millions of people.
“John E. Pickett.”
Witness declined to explain these
letters and dispatches.
The committee is holding back de
tails in their possession to be devel
oped when witness answers fully, as it
i3 thought he will iu the morning.
The Commission Clerk Appointed
That Oregon Telegram —United
States Senator Elected—The Pa
cific Railroad Bill Postponed—Yale
Alumni Dinner—Democratic Mem
bers Selected--The Mexican Debt.
Joseph H. McKennev is appointed
Clerk of the Grand Commission.
It was ordered That the proceedings
of the commission be confidential until
otherwise ordered.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections examined Col. Peltou regard
ing the Oregon money without any
result.
The following dispatch has been
found :
Portland, Oregon, Nov. 13.
Gen. Wade Hampton , Columbia, S. C. ;
How many Democratic electors are
they on an official count. Answer.
Paid.
(Signed) C. B. Bellinger,
Chm’n State Dem. Committee.gj
Col. Plumb, of Topeka, Kansas, is
elected United States Senator.
Mr. Richman, of Topeka, Kansas, has
been elected President of the National
Bank at Emporia.
No vote was taken in the Senate to
day on the bill for the Pacific Railroad
Sinking Fund. There will not likely be
any vote for several days, on account
of Senator Gordon’s sickness, who in
troduced one of the bills under discus
sion. Senator Gordon’s bill is reported
favorably by the Railroad Committee.
The other is the bill of the Judiciary
Committee.
Tbe Yale Alumni, now residing or
temporarily sojourning in Washington,
assembled for an annual reunion and
diauer at the Riggs House this evening.
Among the distinguished Aluoral
present were Justico Strong, Judge
Taft, Senator Dawes, Gen. Gibson, or
Louisiana, and Prof. Wm. Pieston
Johnson, of Washington and Lee Uni
versity, Virginia.
Hon. Chas. O’Conor is here.
The Democratic Committeo have se
lected Matt. W. Carpenter, Mr. Trum
bull, Judge Black, and Judge Ashbel
Green, of New York.
The Mexican Minister paid to the
Secretary of State to-day three hun
dred thousand dollars, the first install
ment of the award of the Mexican
Claims Commission. Payment was
made by Don Ignacio Menscal, who
has loDg been Mexican Minister here.
The transaction did not involve any
recognition of Diaz on the'part of the
United States.
There will be four tellers of tbe
electoral vote, two Democrats for the
House and two Republicans for tbe
Senate.
The Secretary of the Treasury is sick.
The rules for the government of the
Grand Commission are similar to those
which govern tho Supreme Court. The
proceedings will be public. Tbe cases
will be presented by counsel. The
number of counsel and time allowed
for argument may be enlarged at the
pleasure of the Commission, though
two hours a side for objections and
four hours a side for argument is tho
rule. The consultations of the Com
missioners will be private. They hold
their sessions in the Supreme Court
room, which canuot seat over two hun
dred spectators.
The Fifth Member—Mr. Justice
Bradley Chosen.
Washington, January 31.— The Pres-
ident pro tempore laid before the Sen
ate the following communication from
certain Associate Justice of tbe
Supreme Court of the United States ;
To the President Pro Tempore of the
Senate of the United States :
Pursuant to the provisions of the
second section of the act of Congress,
entitled “An act to provide for and
regulate the counting or votes for
President and Vice-President, and the
decision of questions arising thereon
for the term commencing March, 4th,
A. D., 1877, approved January 29th,
1877,the uudersigued Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court of tbe United
States, assigned to the First, Third,
Eighth and Ninth Circuits respectively,
have this day selected the Hon. Jos.
P. Bradley, the Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, assigned to the Fifth
Circuit, to be a member of the commis
sion constituted by said act.
Respectfully submitted,
Nathan Clifford,
Samuel F. Miller,
Stephen J. Field,
N. Strong,
Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of tbe United States, assigned
respectively to the First, Tnlrd,
Eighth and Ninth Circuits. Washing
ton, January 30,1877.
It was ordered that the communica
tion be placed on file.
THE FLORIDA VOTE.
The Report is Ordered Printed—No
Vote yet Taken.
After an animated struggle the re
port on the Florida election was made
to the House, and ordered to be print
ed in the record. But the Republicans
filibustered successfully in preventing
a vote being taken on the resolution
which declares that the Democratic
electors were fairly |elected, that they
cast their vote Tor Tilden and Hen
dricks, and that is the legal vote of
Florida and must be counted.
MR. STEPHENS’ HEALTH.
His Condition Less Favorable.
Washington, January 31, midnight
Mr. Stephens’ condition is about tie
same as yesterday, though the doctois
consider the indications less favorable.
SAVANNAH.
Boodholders of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad in Convention.
Savannah, Jauuary 31.— A meeting
of the local bondholders of the At
lantic and Gulf Railroad was held here
to-day. Half a million of bonds were
represented. President Screven made
a statement regarding the affairs of
tbe company, and a committee was ap
pointed to confer with the Directors to
report to a meeting to be held not
later than February 19.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Sugar Market -Turkish Talk--
Suicide of a Countess - Marine Dis
aster.
Glasgow, January 31. — Fine sugars
have advanced fully one shilling per
cwt., and other qualities 6d. A good
business is doing.
London, January 31.—A dispatch
from Constantinople says Count Chan
dordy, the French Plenipotentiary to
the late conference, and Count Corti,
the Italian Ambassador, left tbore yes
terday.
A lieuter telegrm from Constantino
ple says it is believed peace will be con
cluded with Servia, and it is rumored
Montenegro received Turkey’s over
tures favorably.
Countess Howe threw herself from
a window of her mother’s residence, in
Berkely square, and died of her inju
ries. Grief at her husband’s death un
settled her mind.
The bark John E. Chase, for Savan
nah, was towed into Liverpool, with
her mainmast lost and otherwise
damaged.
Minor Telegrams.
Boston, January 31.—Hon. J. Wiley
Edmunds, one of the most successful
aud prominently knowu business men
iu New England, died to-day.
St. Louis, January 31.—Prof. Ed
ward L. Seymour, who arrived here
from Chattanooga or Atlanta tw->
months since, was found in his chair
with his throat cut. Pecuniary’ troubles.
New York, Jauuary 31. —Cyrus G.
Clarke was arrested for attempting to
negotiate §21,000 worth of forged Cen
tral Pacific bonds.
Pittsburg, January 31. Dan’l O’Neil,
editor of the Daily Dispatch, is dead.
Aged 49.
A Western Story.
Phil. Ames, living in lowa on the
Platte, had a wife and a five-year-old,
but lofed his sister-in-law. The little
girl died suddenly ; there was a rude
country funeral in a bitter cold wind,
under leafless trees, and the heart
broken mother went back to her cheer
less home crushed and despairing. Her
husband had no words for her, but con
soled his sister-in-law. The neglected
wife opened her heart to a village gos
sip, and a vigilance committee visited
the house at midnight, dragged the
faithless husband from his bed, and
would have hung him to a tree if his
wife had not pleaded for his life. They
took the rope from his neck and set
him free. After the neighbors had de
parted be took a heavy curb-bridle
from the barn and going up stairs
struck the'poor woman as she was
kneeling at prayer with a photograph of
her child iu her hand. He dragged her
to the head of tho stairs, threw her
down, and used the briddle until she
was dead. Her sister now appeared on
the scene; two horses were saddled;
the sister-in-law was put on one and
the corpse on the other; he led the
ghastly cavalcade to the river, where
he cut a hole iu the ice and dumped
the body. A villager espied him at his
work and bore the tidings to tbe set
tlement. Armed men started in pursuit
and came up with the murderer
and his companion just as they
were mounting their hsrses at the
bridge. Shots were exchanged; the
woman fell dead; the murderer’s horse
was shot down; a rope was brought
forward, and the confession was
wrung from him that his little
daughter had been poisoned by her
aunt. He was hanged without delay,
and his body was burned. Such is life
in the breezy West.
?JM. Perin is a famous Paris dancing
master who is making a fortune by
giving the Parisians lessons in the Bos
ton. That popular American dance
was taught to the Professor by one of
the belles of the American colony. He
introduced it at Trouville last summer,
where it became at ouce tremendously
popular, and every ooe rushed to learn
“le Boston.”
AUGUSTA. GA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1877.
THE JEWS OF EUROPE.
Their Grievances in the East— Their
Sympathy with the Turks and the
Extent of Their Influence.
(From a London Letter.)
There seems some likelihood that in
addition to all of the many difficulties
with which Europe is perplexed we
may ere long have a “Hebraic ques*
tion” to boot. Last week there was a
sort of Congress of the European Jews
in Paris, to protest against tbe wrongs
to which their race is still subjected to
theßciavonic centuries ; and this week
Baron Henry de Worms, a financial
philanthropist and philanthropic finan
cier, who is the author of the new Pan-
Judaic movement, headed a deputation
of Jews to Lord Derby, requesting him
to take care that the interests of the
Jewry are not overlooked in any settle
ment of the Eastern question. Nobody
who knows the East of Europe ceel
doubt the reality of the Jewish griev
ance. In England, France, Italy and
Germany, and all of the small western
countries, the Jews enjoy absolute po*
litical equality, while the social preju*
dices against theii race are rapidly
giving way, owing to their rise in
wealth and influence. But in Russiaj
Poland, Roumania, and all the coun
tries in which the Greek Church is
dominant, they are still a despised anti,
persecuted race.
Even ia St. Petersburg a Jew is still
a sort of social Pariah, excluded from
every career except that of more or
less illicit money making, while in Ser
via and Roumania they are exposed to
every sort of popular persecution, with
the direct sanction of the Legislature..
Naturally enough the Jews in Sclav
laud are anxious to get their disabili
ties removed. The only novel thing ir
the fact that their wrongs should bo
taken up by their western co-religion
ists, as hitherto there has been little or
no political cordality between the dif-,
ferent branches of the Hebrew race.
But as the Jews have waxed prosper-*
ous and powerful there has undoubt
edly sprung up amidst them a
sort of vague idea of the con
solidation of their race, an idea
of which the most recent and ro
mantic exposition is to be found in,
“Daniel Deronda,” and this agitation
on the part of the Jews in the Danubi
an provinces is a development of the
same feeling. How far there is any
utility in the movement I do not pre-,
tend to say. I notice that in the depu
tation to Earl Derby the great Augio-
Jewish bouses, the Rothschilds, Sterns,
Oppenheims, Goldsmidts, and so on,
were conspicious by their absence.
Still this much is certain; that the Jews
have, as a rule, takeir the Turkish side
in the Eastern question. It is natural
enough they should do so. Under Ma
hometan rule the Jews have always en
joyed a comparative immunity from
persecution.
In the first place, the Moslems, to do
them justice, are not proselytizers,
and are perfectly willing to leave other „
sects aloDe so long as their ow’n su- 1
premaey is not questioned; and ia the
second place the followers of th* t
prophet acknowledge the authority of*
the Old Testament, and pay special#
honor to Abraham and the other patri
archs of the old dispensation. At any
rate, rightly or wrongly, the Jews have
a feeling of gratitude toward the
Turks, and have repaid it by sympathy
in their hour of need. All over Eu
rope the press is largely owned or in
fluenced by Jews. A business where
other people do the work and they
have the profits is always eminently
congenial to the chosen people. In
Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna all
tho leading newspapers are owned or
mortgaged by Jews or gentlemen of
Jewish extraction. In London, though
the Jewish oiemeut is not so omnipo
tent amidst newspaper proprietors as
it is abroud, it is still very powerful;
aud from the Daily Telegraph down
ward, every Euglish paper with a Jew
proprietary has given its support more
or less openly to the Turkish cause. In
this particular instance I do not know
that the Jews are in the wrong; but I
confess I look with distrust on the
growing influence of the Jewish raceiu
our national life.
How Gas Was First Used.
(From the Coal Trade Journal)
Great was the amazement of all Eng
land when at the close of the last cen
tury William Murdoch discovered tbe
use of combustible air or gas. So little
was the invention understood and be
lieved in by those who had not seen it
in use that even great and wise men
laughed at the idea. “How could there
be light without a wick?” said a mem
ber of Parliament when the subject was
brought before the House. Even Sir
Humphrey Davy ridiculed the idea of
lighting towns by gas, and asked one
of the proprietors If they meant to take
the dome of St. Paul’s for a gas meter.
Sir Walter Scott, too, made himself
merry over the idea of illuminating
London by smoke, though he was
glad enough, not so long after, to make
his own house at Abbotsford light and
cheerful on wintry nights by the uso
of that very smoke. When the Houee
of Commons was lighted by gas, the
architect imagined that the gas ran on
fire through the pipes, and he, there
fory, insisted on their being placed
several Inches from the wail for fear or
the building taking fire; and members
might be observed carefully touching
the pipe# with their gloved hands ana
wondering why they did not feel warm.
The first shop lighted in London by
the new method was Mr. Ackermann’s,
in the Strand, in 1810, and one lady of
rank was so delighted with the bril
liancy of the gas lamp on the counter
that she asked to be allowed to take it
to her home in her carriage. Mr. Mur
doch was, however, too busy with other
pursuits to continue the study of gas,
and though he was undoubtedly the
first to apply it to practical purposes,
many others laid claim to the honor,
and other people quickly reaped the
benefit of his cleverness and ingenuity.
In this he shared the general fate of
inventors.
The work of Moody and Sankey in
Boston is likely to have more assis
tance from the Episcopalians than it
had here, the Rev. Philip Brooks hav
ing gone into it heart and soul. Some
regret has been expressed that such
Unitarians as James Freeman Clarke
and Edward Everett Hale cannot be
asked to participate. There was a lit
tle unpleasantness, it appears, at the
first choir rehearsal in the Tabernacle.
The Rev. G. F. Pentecost said that
everybody was expected to give a free
will offering of at least §1 at the dedica
tion, Thursday night. A member of
the choir thought that kind of free
will offering was an imposition, where
upon Mr. Pentecost said tnat any mem
ber of the choir who wouldn’t give
might leave as soon as he pleased;
and the poor singer was here hissed
dowg by his fellow-vocalists.
BENNETT IN FLORIDA.
He Lnbosoins Himself at Last to the
Reporters.
(From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Union, Jan
uary 25)
James Gordon Bennett and the
friends who were with him, finding
that their location at the National
Hotel had lost its privacy, removed
before light yesterday morning to the
Carleton House, and there, by previ
ous arrangement, the newspaper re
porters of this city were admitted to
an interview at a late hour. Mr. Ben
nett was found to occupy very nice
rooms in the third story of the Carle
ton, and was surrounded by various
luxuries, the table being loaded with
refreshments of varioas kinds, and
with letters and newspapers in huge
piles. He seemed in good spirits, and
at once placed his visitors at their
ease by stating that however much he
might have felt annoyed at the public
ity given to his movements, still he re
coguized the duties which the public
had a right to expect and cherished no
enmity against them. He stated that
the duel with young May had been
forced upon him, but that he bad
sought to avoid any personal injury to
his opponent, and had come to Florida,
not so. much to escape the punishment
for what had been done as to avoid any
further difficulty with that high-toned
brother of the girl he stilt loved so
dearly; that he had lived in retirement
here, awaiting defluito news of the ac
tual condition of May, which would de
termine his future movements, and
that he had just received a letter from
Miss May herself, which informed him
that her brother was uninjured. She
further said she would sail for Cuba at
once, and hoped to meet him in Havana
on the 30th instant. Mr. Bennett ex
pressed his intention of keeping this
appointment at all hazards, ami stated
that arrangements had been made for
his departure at once. About 2 p. m.
Bennett and his four companions went
on board a small sail boat in frout of
the Carleton House, and bidding adieu
to our city, departed, intending, as he
stated, to intercept some regular
steamer on her way to Havana.
Ben Hill and General Steadman.
(Cincinnati Gazette.]
Ben. H. Hill, of Georgia, formed a
theory in his own mind to explain the
Cincinnati Enquirer's hostility. He
thought that it was because he stopped
Gen. Steadman’s seizure of cotton in
Georgia, in 1865, when Gen. S. was in
command or the Military District of
Georgia, and civil and military auto
crat, and was scooping things generally.
And the way Mr. Hill connects Mr. Mc-
Lean with Steadman is by the rather
vague link that when he was released
from Fort Lafayette, he stopped at the
New York Hotel, and was there called
on by Mr. McLean, who told him Stead
man was a good friend of his and a
good Democrat, and he wanted him, on
his return home, to specially cultivate
and make friends with him.
A lu the state of mind which is natural
lu the anxieties of a contest for an
niectloc *.o the. *""* iT I '-'-.
these things together, and thereupon
formed a theory to explain the En
quirer's desire to defeat him. But in
that serenity of mind which follows an
election to a high place of such long
tenure, Mt. Hiil has met Mr. McLean,
and is convinced that he had no inter
est in Steadman’s cotton transaction and
was not a party in any conspiracy or
combination at Washington to defeat
or otherwise injure him. And so the
two have exchanged assurances of dis
tinguished consideration.
Mr. Hill’s theory was natural under
the circumstances, but was rather far
fetched. Mr. McLean might charac
teristically desire to do him a friendly
turn by informing him that General
Steadman, who was theu autocrat of
Georgia, was not a ferocious Radical,
but a good Democrat, and who there
fore might be expected to have a soft
spot iu his bosom toward a leading
rebel. And Gen, Steadman, with the
military powor of the Nation at his
back, and the State of Georgia meek
before him, and his subordinates, as
Mr. Hill says,stationed around at every
Court House, administering both mili
tary aud civil law, did not need any
outside partners in his cotton opera
tions. And the General is not one who
ever has any share in his levies upon
the public to give to any outsider, save
in the way of the fickle fiat of the blind
goddess, Fortune. *
There are traditions of the General’s
reaping where he had not sown, while
in command of that State, and of his
working sources of revenue which
would give anew lesson to military
commanders in a oonquered country ;
all of which would make very interest
ing reading, particularly at this time,
since Gen. S. has been made aa Assist
ant Sergeant-at-Arms of the Confeder
ate House by John G. Thompson, with
a view to taking a command in that
one hundred thousand of assistants
which he was to muster in to inaugu
rate Tilden.
But while Mr. Hill has become con
vinced that he was mistaken with re
gard to McLean’s being connected
with Steadman’s cotton takings, he
has not retracted what he said of Qeu.
S. And what he said was in substance
tnat he was stealing the cotton of pri
vate persons, under pretense of mili
tary seizures of Confederate cotton,
and that Gen. S. had established such
a reign of terror that the inhabitants
were afraid to make any objections to
bis robberies, and Judges to issue any
process. He said in so many words
that “there was a conspiracy, under
cover of the military authority of the
Government, by these m9n to steal the
cotton from the people of Georgia, and
grow rich off the plunder.”
As Gen. S. is now an officer of the
House of whioh Mr. Hill is a member,
there seems to be a call for another
explanation.
The Columbus Enquirer thinks our
present Legislature is one of the most
expensive bodies our State has ever
had. Their pay alone amounts to §1,506
per day, and they have not yet passed
an amendment to the Code. They have
been in session 16 days and done noth
ing but talk retrenchment, but not a
particle of it have they manifested.
The idea of giving a man §7 a day for
staying in a room about an hour or two
every day. The whole batch of resolu
ticfhs introduced are tho merest com
monplace-trash merely. Count their
clerks, and mileage, and incidentals,
and Georgia is paying her “assembled
wisdom” about §3,000 per day to re
hash the old stale arguments that have
been floating around the last six or
eight years. They ought to adjouru
speedily. That is the retrenchment
desired.
■ ■
Doctor LeMoyne. the cremator, has
two more bodies placed at his disposal.
Now, “if a body meet a body cornin’
thro’ the fire,” what will happen ?
Tlie Harvest.
The shout of harvest home, says the
Chicago Interior, is being heard in the
churches of this city. Sunday was a day
ever to be remembered. Never before
were so many gathered from the world
to the church in a single day. It was
like the Jewish feast of Tabernacles,
when the people made the land of the
covenant ring with gladsome songs.
There was great joy in the city, In
scores of churches and hundreds of
homes.
In the first Presbyterian Church Dr.
Mitchell received twenty-six on profes
sion of faith. Some were from the Sun ■
day School, and some with white heads,
coming to give their closing days to
the public service of Christ. The Sec
ond church, on account of the illness
of Dr. Gibson, postponed their com
munion for a week, but the interest in
this church is deepening and extending.
Nearly fifty have signified their pur
pose to come before the Session this
week.
In the Third Church-there was a re
markable scene. The churoh was
crowded to oveiflowiug with communi
cants. One hundred and twenty-six
confessed the Saviour’s name. Quite a
large number-cthirty-five we believe—
were added by letter. There were
eleven husbands and wives and many
young people.
The Fourth Church, though without
a pastor, shared the blessing. Sixteen
were received on profession of faith,
and several by letter.
ffiTbe Fifth Church (Rev. Mr. Thomp
son’s) received sixty new members,
forty-nine of them coming forward to
take the name of Christ for the first
time. The church was filled with com
municants. Within two months sixty
seven have been received from the
world. The work is going on with
much power, fully a hundred having
been converted since the beginning of
the meetings.
The Sixth Church also is rejoicing in
a great blessing* fifty having been add
ed on examination, and a large number
by letter. We give elsewhere full sta
tistics of the accessions to the differ
ent churches in the city so far as they
have been reported to us. The subur
ban churches have also largely shared
in the increase. And the most cheer
ing of all the facts reported is that the
work seems either just ralrly begun, or
in the full tide of continued success.
This, indeed, is to be expected from
the character of the great oeutral
meetings from which the impulse has
oome. This is a revival, not of new
methods, of stage for attrac
ting a supeificial public attention, but
of such gospel-preaching andsuoh per
sonal concentrated labor as are the
oouditions of continued spiritual har
vest. The Tabernacle services have
been marked by only two or three
apeoial characteristics. There has been
bold and trenchant utterance of the
central truths of the gospel, singing
the grace and power of Christ in the
language of the heart, and personal
work in the inquiry rooms. Iu these
100 ms so little is there in the hushed
atmosphere, in the whispered conver
sations, to gratify curiosity, that those
come to .uak v>ti -tire of’
what, as a mere speotacle, is uninter
esting enough, and give place to those
who come with more serious intent.
But this method of personal work fol
lowing the lucid public presentation of
the gospel has been, as it ever is, won
derfully blessed of God.
Aud that blessing cannot bo measur
ed by the statistics that are being pub
lished. The uevv faith it has given
God’s people, the more direct line of !
appeal and endeavor upon which it has !
started them, the simplicity it has
given to preaching and the stress it has
laid upon the power of sacred song,
are not to be measured by arithmetic.
No present result, no result in auy
near future, oan aggregate the length \
and bredth of the blessing Chicago has
received. We only repeat the words
spoken by pastors and others. here !
when we say the Christian people-of
our city feel a debt of gratitude to |
God for the labors of Moody and San- j
key whioh though it flud no adequate ;
expression in words, will doubtless rise !
toward the throne for years to oome, in 1
the new hfo aud work of the churohes. i
In this connection we desire to ex
press our own experience and that of
our brethren in regard to the depth and
clearness of the testimony given by the
young converts. Whether they oome
from the Sunday School, or are adults
from the midst of our congregations or
taken from the streets, they speak the
same language of conviotiou of sin, of
helplessness and faith in the Crucified.
The exteut to which the oouverts will
seek church homes and beoome active
in the churoh, cannot yet be fully writ
ten, but judging from the past Sabbath,
the promise is that most of them will
speedily be numbered iu the army of
Christ, and go forth under his banner
to gather others to the cross. So may
the work go on and on.
No Food for Six Months.
(Philadelphia Chroniole.)
There is at present in this city, under
the care of Dr. Martin, a young lady
who, it is said, has not partaken of any
food for six months. Her home is near
Greensburg. She is about 22 years of
age, and the picture of health, weigh
ing about 150 pounds. From last July
until the present time she has abso
lutely refused to eat, and although all
known specifics have been tried, aud
every dainty placed before her to ex
cite appetite, the result was a failure.
This startling abstinence seemed to
have no external effect, but she has
become so weak that it is a work of the
most painful character for her to drag
her weary limbs after her.
The cessatiou of appetite has beeu
sudden aud absolute. Dr. M. Cote, of
Pittsburg, who made a partial diagno
sis of the case last September, states it
was sufficiently thorough to convince
him tl at the seat of the girl’s trouble
was in her nervous system, bat not ex
tensive enough to fully determine its
nature. It was a case of complete in
anition. The popular impression that
a person so situated existed upou his
or her fatty tissue, the doctor says, was
a mistaken one. Life was preserved
by absorption through the cellular tis
sues The young lady’s friends do not
wish her name made public, and it is
even difficult to induce her to submit
to further medical treatment. The ca9e
is attracting general attention from
medical men. -
The Pittsburg street car oompanies
are experimenting with coal oil as a
means of removiug the snow from
their tracks. The petroleum is dis
tributed aud set on fire, and the snow
disappears liko dew before the morn
iug sun.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington,
is now 78 years old. He has spent
$200,000 on the Corcoran Gailery and
the ground on which it stands, and
SIOO,OOO on the original collection of
pictures and statuary, and for an en
dowment fund he has given $900,000.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHESTERFIELD.
A case of small pox in Cheraw last
week caused some ularm.
GREENVILLE.
The last of Maj. Stewart’s command
arrived at Greenville on Saturday
night, under command of Lieut. Miller,
Maj. Stewart being on court-martial
duty In Columbia.
‘Lazy Sam,” or Sam Ashmore, shot
Bob Smith in Greenville on Saturday
night, in the leg, and then struck him
with a pistol, fracturing his skull, but
U"t inflicting a dangerous wound.
GEORGETOWN.
Special Agent Frazer opened his
books for the Hampton tax a few days
ago. Before his notices had been gen
erally distributed upwards of S6OO
were paid in. The following letter
shows the spirit of the people :
Waocamaw, a C , January 27, 1877.
S. S. Fraier. Esq.,
Dear Sir : Enclosed please find
s2l 17-100, being ten per cent, of our
last year tax. We are ready to back
up the Hampton Government with the
remaining ninety at any moment.
Yours truly,
P. R. Lachiootte & Sons.
LAURENS.
On Saturday night last the dwelling
of Dr. J. G. Trayham was entered by a
burglar, who relieved the Doctor of his
pocket-book and a pocket-knife. The
pocket-book contained a small amount
of money and several notes. On the
same night the stables of Mr. J. A.
Wallace was entered by some burglar,
(perhaps the same that visited Dr. T.j
who took three bushels of corn.
Marlboro’.
Sheriff W. P. Emanuel and Treasurer
J. A. Peterkln have entered upon the
duties of their respective offices.
Last week, in Messrs. Strauss & Co’s
store in Renuettsviile, two colored cus
tomers bought a bill of eighteen dol
lars, and ran off without paying. On
Saturday night, the 20th ultimo, two
other houses in Bennettsville were
visited by night walkers, but not flail
ing everything convenient, they moved
off to other haunts. On Sunday night,
21st, some of the gang had better luck
with Frank Hazle’s trunk, tho ex-
School Commissioner (colored), and
valuables therein, which they succeed
ed in carrying away. Nelson McCall
has been found with Hazle’a pocket
book and money, and is now safely
landed in jail,
Nemo, writing from Beonettsvilie on
the 25th, says: “The Hampton tax is
being collected by the new Treasurer,
J. H. Peterkln, with promptness. All
that seems neoessary is due notice of
the appointment he makes to meet the
tax-payers. Some persons with useless
seal in the cause of tho Radical gov
ernment have amused themselves by
tearing down the tax notices put up at
various places in the eounty. These
acts of malice do not fill Chamberlain’s
coffers, and the Hampton government
will not suffer thereby. The Treasu
rer, who now holds his apooiiitment
from Chamberlain, thinks hio chances
to get money after the Hampton tax is
paid Is a small one, but I hear that he
will open his books next week. There
are so few tax-paying Republicans in
Marlboro’ that I fear there will be little
that he will get. I have just heard of
a serious case of proscription in this
county. The troops snould at once be
sent for. There are two plantations
owned by Democrats, and rented by
them to negroes of the most extreme
Radical proclivities. An honest white
man, who is a Democrat, wishes to sub
let from these tenaHts, and they swear
that they will not rout lands to Demo
crats.
PICKENS.
The bond of the Cbambeilain Audi
tor has been found Insufficient, but
that of Hampton’s special agent was j
approved by the County Commission
ers*
The Pickens Sentinel says: “Our
town is reviving. Several families
have recently moved in, and more
would oome if they could find houses
to rent. We would suggest that it
would prove a profitable investment to
buila houses in Pickens, for the rents
would pay a higher per cent of interest
than any other investment.”
Governor Hampton has commission
ed all of the newly elected county offi
cers, and they have entered upon the
discharge of their duty.
John and William Gailliard, brothers,
and citizens of Anderson county (white),
wero committed to jail at Pickens
Court House, on the 17th inst., charged
with entering tho house of John S.
Walker by force and stealing various
articles of property therefrom, amount
ing to some twenty-five or thirty dol
lars.
RICHLAND.
It is rumored that several companies
of Doited States troops, at present
stationed In Columbia, are to be sent
to Raleigh, and from there to various
parts of western North Caroliua to hunt
up illicit whisky distillers.
The city treasurer of Columbia re
i ceived the following sums of money for
the week ending January 27,1877 : Li
| oenses, S3OO ; taxes, $2,400 ; market,
$44.45 ; total, $2,744.45.
How to Break Balky Horses.
(From the Kentucky Home Journal.)
Put on your harness and hitch him
to anythiug you desire, either single or
, double, as you feel disposed, and give
him the commanding word to go ahead.
If ho goes you have nothing to do or
say, but let him go on and do your
> work ; but if be refuses to go take him
i out immediately, take all the harness
off except the bridle, and take a small
' rope the size of a plow line and tie
one end to the bit on the right-hand
side and put it through the ring of the
left under the chop, pull his head
around to the left side, and slip the
rope under his tail like a crupper and
make it fast, keeping his head tolera
ably close to his side. Now all is
ready, so let him go, and take a good
whip and mako him go, talk
ing kindly to him all the time. He will
travel like a dog ufter his tall, for he
oan travel no other way, but after a
spell he will fall down, when you will
immediately let loose the rope aud let
him get up ; now talk kindly to him
and caress him. Your work now is
! half done, for you have only to tie the
rope to the other side of the bit and
pull his head around the other way and
make it fast like a crupper, the same
as before, and him off again, and
let him go.till he - falls a second time;
let him get up immediately and hitch
him up, and you will probably never
have auy more trouble with him.
The Bennelt-May duelling ground
has been photographed,
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
GEORGIA NEWS.
Mr. Thomas B. Griffin, of Valdosta
is dead.
Redwiue & Culpepper, merchants or
Newnao, have failed.
The work of rebuilding Kelly’s block
i in Savannah 1s progressing.
A Savannah Constable levied on a
number of coffins the other day.
The Perry Home Journal has at last
donned anew and exceedingly neat
heading.
Messrs. Stacy aud Falun have begun
the publication of the Brunswick Ad
vertiser.
Ex-Governor Smith is being urged to
accept the Presidency of the Atlanta
Cotton Factory.
Darien shipped last year 55,635,716
feet or yeUow pine Umber and 11,237,-
885 feet of timber.
A colored man iu Jackson county
accidentally killed himself a few davs
ago while spUttlug rails.
Since the election the Democratic ne
groes have Increased in a most re
markable ratio in Atlanta.
A Mrs. Sterling, of Oglethorpe county,
week medlcine kst
week. She is aged elghty-two years.
Sweet potatoes are selling in Houston
county at fifty cents a bushel and corn
at sixty cents—all raised In Houston
county, too.
There is now a smaller amount of
Western corn on the Perry market
than has been known since the war at
this season of the year.
A report of Mr. Stephens’ death
reached Atlanta Monday, and at once
preparations were made to receive the
remains in true Atlanta style.
Mr. J. R. Ralls, a Monroe county
man, has grappled with the negro
problem, and issues a pamphlet of one
hundred and sixteen pages on the sub
ject.
On Monday morning the beautiful
residence of Mr. A. L. Hartridge, at
Beaulien, seven miles from SavanDab,
on the Skidaway and Seaboard Rail
road, was destroyed.
Maj. Charles Hargrove died at his
home, near Crawford, on Monday
morning last, at 4 o’e-look. He was one
of tho oldest as well as most respected
citizens of that place.
A petition has been circulated in
W ilcox county, and has thus far ob
tained the names of nearly two hun
dred citizens, asking the present Legis
lature to establish a County Court in
that eounty.
The Buena Vista Argus says that
last week four children of Simeon
Johnson, a colored mat, of Marion
county, died from want antf exposure,
and himself and wife are beyond re
covery from the same causes.
Dr. J. I. Irwin, the very .efficient Su
perintendent of.. the Sanaersvllle .vnd
Tennille Railroad, says that said road
is paying handsomely. One of the
stockholder sas's that he has already
been more than back his mone. ..
Oglethorpe Echo: On Saturday naorn
ing last, while Mr. ffm. Si rry was
packing cotton, the rope belonging to
the press broke, causing the lever to
suddenly revolve, striking that gentle
man on the jaw and breaking it in two
places, besides loosening many of his
teeth.
Athens Watchman: We had occa
sion recently to take a night ride on
the Georgia Railroad, and found that
prince of conductors, Capt. Purcell, just
as polite as if we had traveled under
‘he protection of a “pass” from Col.
Johnson, although we had nothing but
a ticket just such as other mortals use,
and which cost $5.35.
Griffin News : Spalding county should
be proud of her Representative in the
Letrislature. His standing in the body
is second to none, and his utterances
command universal respect. He is
chairman of its most important com
mittee, aud his speech on the conven
tion bill is highly spoken of. We ob
serve that he has introduced bills to
prevent the sale of liquor near two
churches, one in Spalding and one in
Pike, which shows him to be also a
loformer.
The Enquirer tells this of a Colum
bus damsel: One of the bloods went to
the masquerade ball as the “Returning
Board.” Iu his hat fcwere placards,
upon which was written “Hayes and
Wheeler.” A brave damsel, while in
mask, asked him if he was displaying
his politics in his hat. “Of course,” he
said ; “I am a Northern man, and I
think it nothing but right thatl should
be a Republican.” “Well,” said she,
“you can’t dance with me,” and sho
left him immediately. The practical
joker was completely nonplussed.
Athens Watchman : Capt. J. W.
Alexander informed us recently that,
on a late visit to Alabama, he formed
the acquaintance of Mr. John Henson
and family, formerly of this county.
He says that Mr. Henson is the father
of twenty-seven children, by one wife,
twenty-four of whom are now living.
Four of them are married, and the re
maining twenty live in the same house
with the “old folks, Of the living chil
dren there are twelve sons and twelve
daughters. The Captain says this
“Father in Israel” has but one pocket
in his pants, and assigns the hard
times as a reason for this singular
freak.
Macon Telegraph : From a reliable
source we learn that the farmers
throughout Southwest Georgia have
found no difficuly in employing hands,
and that the machinery of agriculture
in that section never ran smoother.
The white and colored raoes have at
last decided to work together harmo
niously, as the late election clearly
evinced, and hereafter neither the vil
lainous carpet-bagger nor the insinuat
ing immigrant agent can induce the
colored people of that favored section
to leave an assured plenty for a very
uncertain livelihood 1q some distant
State.
How suggestive of economy is 4he
following from the Bainbridge Demo
crat: “Our worthy Representative in
the Legislature, Hon. W. W. Harrell,
has introduced a bill increasing the
: pay of jurors in this county from sl,
| the present allowance, to $1.50 per day.
A petition was sent from this city to
[ Senator Bush to defeat said bill in
the Senate. Now wo are certain that
1 quite a number of people in Decatur
county are in favor of Mr. Harrell’s bill,
because one dollar per day in county
scrip, worth fifty ceuts, is too little to
pay their actual expenses here as
jurors. Men are summoned here to
I court from remote sections of tho
t county, and, to which they are sub
jected, they feel that it is asking too
much to have them pay their expenses
besides. It is this class who desire an
increase in the pay of jurors,”