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ESTABLISHED 1799.1 Augusta Constitutionalist DAILY $6 per year TRI-WEEKLY $4 “ WEEKLY $2 “ 41 Cheapest and Best Political, Local and General News Paper in the Southern States. BY TELEGRAPH —TO THE •CONSTITUTIONALIST. Associated Pros* Dispatches. 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,”