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(i)uitmnn jtteyortcr. I\ V. HALL. Proprlelnr M M. McINTOSH, - ■ Editori THURSDAY. MAY 11. 187(1.' “(!Hiz.in" and (he omild Jury. Last week wo allowed “Citizen” spnee in onr eolnmns to eritieise, in rather had taste, the notion of the Grand Jury in a eertain ease which was disposed of bv that body then in session; this week it takes jnst twice ns much space to admit his retrac tion. We understand that, the communi cation created quite a stir in the Grand Jury room, and some of the jurors even went so far as to denounce the management of the Reporter, in terms uncalled for, for admitting the communication. Tn fact, we are told that the irate jury allowed their per sonal feelings to so influence them as that a motion was made to publish their general presentments in "Kay lon’s Gem” instead of the Reporter— the official organ of the county. This motion, we are fold, came within three voles of being earned. So far as the article of “Citizen' was concerned, the editor of the Rk porter was no more responsible for it than ho is for the writings of other correspondents. Tt. is true, we might have refused its publication, but, un der the circumstances, we thought it best to admit it to our columns. The case to which it alluded was one be tween a white man and a negro, and already the action of the Grand Jury had given rise to the cry among the negroes that one of their color could not get justice in our civil courts. This being the case, when “Citizen a member of the Democratic Exec utive Committee of the county—sent in his communication, we did not. feel that as a Democratic journalist we had any right to refuse its publica tion. AYe knew 7 , too. that if we le jected the article, E. C. Wade and his ignorant followers would rojj as a sweet morsel under their tongues in the approaching campaign that ue refused to publish an article from one of the leaders of onr own parly in re gard to this case. These reflections, which presented themselves to our mind, were doubt less entirely overlooked by those members of the Grand Jury who cen sured us harshly; and in this connec tion we will state that the mere ad mission of a. communication into the columns of a paper docs not amount to an endorsement by the editor of the sentiments therein contained; cer tainly not in this case. In their general presentments the Grand Jury demand that we give the “real name of Citizen,” that the peo ple of the county “may know who he is.” This demand they had no right to make, and have no power to en force, and hence we shall not violate the rules of journalism by conforming with it. The Grand Jury had no more authority to make such a demand than any other body of cit izens, and as the demand was informal —not in compliance with the code—we shall utterly disregard it. No one can force a journalist to reveal the name of a correspondent without first af firming, in writing, that the demand is made for the purpose of obtaining either personal or legal redress. This the Grand Jury did not do. In conclusion we will say that we have no personal feelings whatever in this matter toward any member of the Grand Jury. Some of them are our personal friends, and we are satisfied that those who have censured us did so without reflection and a due knowl- edge of all the circumstances in the case. We should not have referred to the matter in any way, if it had not been for the demand made in the pre sentments, of which wo knew our readers would expect us to take somo notice. — mm ♦ The Georgia editors will excurt under the fatherly wing of the hos pitable Estill, of the News, from Sa vannah to Tybes to-day. Sorry we can’t be with you, gentlemen, but under a solemn promise to wear a red j shirt and trot a reel with e v ery old 1 maid at our Fireman’s Ball to-night,! we are compelled to be at home. The national Democratic conven- j tion will consist of 738 delegates, j making 492 votes necessary for a nom- j ination, provided the abominable j two-thirds rule is adopted. From Washington. Grants Indignation Aroused by the House. The Public Printer to be Indicted on Six Distinct Charges (Inhnppr Schenek Ten Millions of Silver Change to be Is surd for Legal Tender Matters of j General Interest from the National Capital. [Special Correspondence of the Quitman ItF.PORTER. 1 Washington, D. C'., May sth, 187 C. An immense number of petitions have been presented to both the Sen ate and the House, asking these bod ies to use every effort to have Z. O. M. Condon imprisoned by the British , Government for life, as a political of fender. It is hardly probable that the United States can do much in his behalf as they have jnst given formal notice of the abrogation of article ten |of the Webster-Ashburton treaty, | which provides for the extradition of | criminals. The government bail no | other course left consistent with self ! respect, after the British Ministry | claimed that an net of Parliament modified the stipulation of a treaty. The claim was an impertinence that called for prompt resentment and re covered it, President Grant has sent a most extraordinary message to the House. On the 30th of April a resolution was passed asking him to inform the House whether any executive duties, had, within the last seven years, been performed at any other place than the capitol in violation of a law of 18(11. On the sth of May, more than a month having elapsed, the Presi dent responds by a most insulting message, in which he tells the House they have no constitutional right to inquire—that they had better attend to their own business, and that he will permit no encroachment upon his prerogatives. Of course this is not the exact language of the message, but stripped of unnecessary verbage, ! and reduced to plain English, that is what it says. He then proceeds to say that he has performed acts away from the capitol and justifies his tion by showing that Washington was away from the capitol when he did many official nets—that John Adams was absent 385 days during his term of office, and frequently did official busines at Quincy, Massachusetts— that Jefferson was absent TOG days during his term, Madison (129 days, Monroe 708 days, John Quincy Ad ams 222 days, nud that Jackson was absent 502 and signed the order re moving the bank deposits in Boston. The President also refers to Presi dent Jackson refusing to allow a com mittee of the House of Representa tives to make a general examination of the papers at the executive depart ments. Although the message is a most extraordinary one and seems to ]be in the nature of a defence to the ! House, it was referred to the judi ciary committee without debate. The ! committee on the Public Printer, I Clapp, have agreed to a report rec i ommeuding his indictment on six dis tinct charges of malversation in office. The papers, forwarded from England, by McDougall, president of the Emma Mine company, to the committee on Foreign affairs, place General j Schenck in a rather unpleasant posi tion, for they positively disprove some |of his assertions, and show that pa ! pers which he exhibited as copies were not correct copies of the origi nals. A bill has been introduced in the House authorizing the Treasurer to issue ten millions in silver change for that amount of legal tender, the ■ reason given being the scarcity of change. The fractional currency is held to accumulate in amounts suffi cient to redeem and the silver as soon jas it reaches certain hands is hoard (ed so that the result is a dearth of change. The bill meets with consid erable opposition. The House is uow considering the Post office appropria tion bill. It reduces the expenses over $2,000,000 and of course is meet | ing with the usual opposition from I the Republicans. Some of the South ! ern and Western Democrats also op- 1 pose this bill as they say it will cut i off mail facilities in the South and J West. Congress will adjourn on Tuesday morning until Friday, to at i teud the Centennial opening. Col. Tom Scott has tendered a train free for their use. Blaine still continues to explain, but does not seem to be anxious for an investigation. Mor- j ton made a speech in the Senate in reply to the charge made in the World that he had misused some money ap propiated by Congress for the border i States, and it must be admitted that his defence wns conclusive. A Vir ginia delegation of leading Democrats is here looking round to sec what j candidate Virginia ought to support i in the St. Louis convention. I think j Hendricks is the favorite of the par ty, but they are reticent. Some of Joel Parker's friends are trying to work up a feeling in his favor. He might bo “tlie great unknown.” Dem. Tweed. The New York Herald, of the Bth, lias a letter from Midland Georgia i Bay, Canada, stating that Tweed ami two companions spent the winter on Muskoka river, thirty miles from Mid land and one hundred miles from To ronto. It appears that Tweed and two men loaded a small steamer last November, just before the close of navigation, with a great quantity of provisions, and went to Park’s Mills, which have not been running. Tweed and his companions lived in a cot tage all the winter, the Boss keeping dumb and it being given out that lie had received a paralytic shock. On the 24th of April the steamer that took them up last fall, arrived there again with a lot of provisions on hoard, hut did not leave for a few days. On Friday, the 28th, two detectives loft Midland and went to Park’s Mill, reaching there Saturday. On being discovered the whole of Tweed's par ty fled on board the steamer by small boats—the one on which the Boss embarked being sunk by ice and ho getting a ducking. Their escape in boats was discovered by some four men on the steamer with revolvers, anil shots were exchanged with the detectives, who were on the dock. The steamer escaped with Tweed to Georgian hay, the detectives being unable to follow. They expect soon to capture him. Southern Fruit and Wine Company. The Charleston News am! Courier says a party of gentlemen in that city have formed a company called the “South ern Fruit and Wine Company,” and have applied to the clerk of the Court H Common Pleas for charter. The object of tbe company is the cultiva tion and preservation of fruits, and the manufacture and traffic in all kinds of native wines, cordials, extracts j an4 ( esseuccs and other products of fruits, flowers, shrubs and herbs. The capital stock of the company is j not at any tiine to exceeed the sum of $250,000, nor less than $20,000. The company have purchased a 1 tract of six hundred acres of land, in Marion county, Florida, upon which there are at least ten thousand orange trees, from which the above articles ! will be manufactured. The chief mover in this enterprise is now North in tbe interest of the compa ny- — % New Use For Hickory Nuts.— The Houston Journal tells of a family in Houston County who will not. sign liometead waver note to get "Western meat at twenty cents a pound. Their hogs died of cholera, and now boing out of meat, they have discovered a substitute for seasoning vegetables. | They gather about a quart of hickory nuts, crack them, and boil in the pot. | The oil is very rich, and is said to impart a fine flavor to the salads. Predictions by the St Paul Dispatch : "First—Governor R. B. Hays, of Ohio, will be the Republican nominee for President at Cincinnati. Sec ond- -Governor Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, will be the Democratic nominee for President at St. Louis. Third—Governor Tilden will be elect ed in November.” An editorial letter from Columbus to the Atlanta Constitution says that Col. Hardeman, the Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Commit tee, has informed the writer that lie has received from only two district conventions the returns of the votes for delegates. The Chairman of the | committees of the different districts should delay the matter no longer, but send in their convention returns 1 at once, that a meeting of the Execu tive Committee may be called. Our paternal government last win ter forwarded 40,000 pairs of elastic garters to the Indian women, and uow one of tlie agents innocently writes to the secretary of the interior: “I notice that the squaws this spring are all wearing necklaces.” Congress is taking a recess from the Bth to the 12th to attend the open- j ing of the Centennial. Fannie Hush Receives a Letter. The following letter, says the Col umbus Enquirer, from an anonymous correspondent, was received by the victim of the Rov. (?) C. A. Kendrick a few days after the celebrated de nonment, The penmanship anil composition show it the product of a cultivated lady. Wo publish it with the permission of the father: West Point, May 3,187 C. Miss Fannie Hush: My Dear Un known Sister —l, who have taken the liberty to write to vou, am a woman, with a woman’s heart; and a mothor, j with a mother’s heart. Then, you will not think it strange when I tell you that I read the history of your misfortune to a number of mothers, some of whom shed tears; anil we all deeply sympathize with you, and send this to express our pity, accompanied with sincere words of advice and con solation. Many people, anil all liber tines, will try to consign you to a lifetime of infamy. Many seem to | think, yea believe, thero is no hope for a female who has lost her chasti ty. Not so, my child. Your Savior j did not allow an erring woman to be condemned by those equally guilty; j and He will not permit you to be, al- j ways remembering you are to sin no j more. Now, my child, we here do not want your young life blasted be-1 yond hope by one who steals the liv ery of Heaven to serve the devil in. \Ve know that the tempters will come j in every form tolnre and deceive you; j ; you may look for it and you will find j it often where you least expect it, and in a way that you bad not thought of: in short, you will be regarded by ma ny as legitimate, prey, until you prove yourself proof against such, which I hope and trust, with truest wishes and prayers that you will resolve to do. Your only hope for happiness here and hereafter is in making and sacredly keeping that resolve, despite every temptation, every bluff, every | taunt, every slight. Look for these, and determine to rise above all, come wliat will; and depend on it, that all the good people, male anil female, all ! that would under any circumstance S, benefit you, will sympathize with you and help you. There are many ex ; amples where girls at a certain age have been led astray, reformed, taken back into society, lived and died re : spectable and happy. That, at best, is the best you can hope for. Now in tbe name of woman, American and i Southern women, we beg you to be | guided by good people, who do not j flatter nor pretend, but will reach far ito do you all the good possible. We | don’t want to cast you off, but that is I with you. God help you! Oh ! do ; disappoint those who would revel in your ruin. With prayer that you may live an upright, Christian life, I am, your sister anil friend, Annie -.- The Columbus Enquirer of Sunday morning says: Yesterday morning the counsel for Mr. C. A. Kendrick I tendered a bond before Justices , McCahey, Chappell and Philips, ap ! proved by W. H. Brown, Not iry Pub : lie of Fulton county, and by affidavit showed that the security, S. S. Ken drick father of the accused, was worth in real and personal property the amount of the bond over and above all exemptions allowed by the laws iof the State and of his debts; further offered testimony to show that the security was worth $15,000 over and above all liabilities of taxable property ■in this State.. The counsel for the : prosecution objected to the bond on j the grounds that they required time | to inquire into the solvency of the se | curity; further, that the counsel for ; the defense only gave a half hour’s I notice that such a bond would be ten dered. The prosecution asked that i they be allowed till Tuesday for the 1 investigation of the solvency, which ! was granted. In this city, says the New York Sun, one fashinahle church is staggering under a dubt of $200,000; another is prostrated before the auctioneer under a debt of nearly $300,000 another is groaning under a still larger debt, and scores of others are miserably indebt ed in sums ranging from a hundred thousand to a half million. The cler gymen who occupy them have found them to be all vanity and vexation of spirit, mortifying to the ambition which stimulated their erection out of empty pockets. The best energies of these clergymen arc spent in screwing money out of their members, to pre vent the foreclosing of the mortgages, and their visits are, on this account, often dreaded by people who would otherwise welcome them. Sell out these churches to the highest bidder, and begin again in a better way. A Wretched Change. From the Courier-Journal. Avery wretched change has been made in stockings this season. A fashion reporter tells us that “the stripes running up and down have entirely superseded the stripes run ning round the stocking. This is much to he regretted, for, as every body knows, those round and round, ladder-like stripes were of no little assistance to the eye in going up. But then, after all, as the eye had to de pend on its own resources when it reached the point where the circular stripes gave out, it is perhaps well enough to leave it to its own resources frotii the start. A Mom: horrible ami sickening tale of blood aud murder than the one which conies to Us from Pickens conn- j ty, says the Canton Georgian, was! perhaps never known in Ibis section, j On the night of the 23d ult., Mrs. Wisenhunt, living in Pickens county, while her husband was absent, from home, fastened herself and children j up in her house, scattered fire over the floor, beds, and clothing, with the intention of destroying herself and them. The oldest child, a girl 11 years of nge, managed to escape from flic house, nnd ran out and screamed for help. The mother followed her, and because the child had attempted to save herself from the flames, seized a stick and struck her several blows on the head, beating her brains out. While the mother wns engaged in her bloody work, her little boy escaped with the other children from the burning house, nnd carried them to a place of safty. Before she fastened them up in the house, she had beaten her children terribly with a shovel. The little boy’s head was badly cut and bruised. On Wednesday, the 25th ult., Airs. Wisenhunt was indicted for murder, in the Superior Court of i Pickens county. The counsel for the 1 defence filed a plea of insanity, and the jury returned a verdict sustain ! ing the plea. When asked her motive 1 for committing the horrible deed she j said that “the Almighty told her to do it,” in order to get her children where their father could not impose on them. It is thought by her neighbors that \ Mrs. Wisenhunt has been “a little j wrong” for years, but public opinion ! is very much divided in regard to her insanity. Some say it, was only jeal ousy of her husband, who is a man of bad character, immoral and dissolute. Others believe her to be really insane. Be this as it may, the deed is done, and by a mother’s hand an innocent child has been robbed of that which no earthly power can restore, and she who took it. will be judged at the Bar of God, to the full extent of her ac countability. An Fi.opino Clergyman.— -The Cat lettsbnrg (Ivy.) Sentinel of last Thurs day says: “It becomes our painful duty to record the most aggravated and humiliating case of clerical apos tasy which ever blackened the good name of this part of Kentucky. Rev. L. D. Parker, of the Methodist Epis copal Church, presiding older of the Ashland district, and delegate elect to the General Conference which meets in Baltimore next week, has abandoned his family and fled the country with Miss Trinvilla Swetinun, of Louisa, Ky. Elder Parker has been presiding elder of this district for three years, residing part of the time at Louisa, but for some time past at Ashland; and at tbe recent j session of tbe conference was return ied to tbe district. Miss Swetnam is about eighteen years of age, belongs |to a good family, and her father, is, we learn, a local minister in that church. The parties left this place Wednesday of last week by different j boats, but both took the same boat at Ashland, and were last heard of at Cincinnati on way fo the railroad depot, said to be bound for Califor nia.” The Boston Herald says Tilden is the wealthiest of all the candidates. Ho is put down at $4,000,000 or $5, 000.000, Judge D.vs is the possessor of more than $1,000,000, and Thur ! man is very rich. Bayard is well-to do, although not a millionaire. Han cock has some property, it is said. Of the Republicans who are prominent candidates, Morton is said to be the poorest, and Blaine is, undoubtedly, the richest of all. Conkling is pos sessed of something over SIOO,OOO, part of which he, like Blaine, has made in railroad speculations. He is also largely’ paid by several weal thy corporations. Bristowand Ha es are both “well off.” The former has probably SIOO,OOO and his wife has received a legacy of $150,000 within a year. Hayes is richer than Bristow. Puss Him Around. \\ e would warn our friends against a tramp who has been loafing around our town for several days past. He passes off as being lame, deaf and dumb—lias credentials which excite sympathy, and he was very successful iu his begging for the first day or two, but it soon leaked out that lie spent most of the money donated in playing billiards and drinking whiskey, and in consequence hfs revenue diminish ed. He left town yesterday morning, leaving one of our boarding house keepers disconsolote. —Thomnsuille Enterprise. The original Masonic apron worn by General Washington has been presented to the historical depart ment of the centennial. It was given by Bushrod Washington, the general’s favorite nephew and executor, to Governor Smith, of No"th Carolina, and by him bequeathed to Dr. Clith eral, whose son, Dr. Clitlierall, now deposits it in the above named depart ment. It is of white satin, with ap propriate emblems. So the Philadel phia papers say. Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull deliver ed a lecture at Cooper Institute, New York, on Thursday evening. Sub ject: “The heel of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head, and there by the last enemy, which is Death, shall be conquered.” Change of Schedule, ATLANTIC .V GULF R. K. CO., ) Office Gknkrvt. Supeiiistkndknt, , ON mid utter Sunday, April 23, Train* on thin Road will run as follows: NIGHT EXPRESS. Leave Savannah daily nt 3.40 p m Arrive nt Jesup “ C.sopm Arrive Quitman '* 3.18 a m Arrive Bninbridge “ 7.45 am Arnvent Alhanv “ 10.00 am Arrive Live Oak •' 3.10 m Arrive Jacksonville " 10.15*™ Arrive Tallahassee 44 8.35 a ra Leave Tallahassee 44 3.20 p m Leave Jacksonville “ 2.10 pra Leave Live Oak “ 9.15 p m Leave Albany ** 3.20 p n •Leave Bninbridge “ 4.30 pin , Leave Quitman “ 9.24 p m Leave Jesup 44 5.35 am Arrive nt Savannah “ 8.45 a m Pullman Sleeping Cars run through to Jacksonville. No change of ears between Savannah and Jaeksonville or Albany. Passengers for Brunswick take thin train, ; (Sunday* excepted) arriving at Brunswick jiit 9.40 pm: leave Brunswick at 2.50 a 1114 arrive at Savannah' a ni. Passengers from Macon bv Macon and Brunswick 9.15 a m Train connect at Jeaup with this train for Florida (Sundays exo’pt.) Passengers from Florida by this train connect nt Jesup with train arriving at Ma con nt 2.55 p in. j Connect nt Albany with Passenger trains both wavs on Southwestern Railroad to and from Eufauln, Montgomery, New Orleans, i etc. Close connection daily nt Jacksonville | St. John’s river steamers. Trains on B. and A. Tt. B. leave junction going west. Monday, Wednesday and Fri i dav at 11.14 a m. For Brunswick Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4.26 p m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. EASTERN DIVISION Leave Savannah. Sundays exc’p’t 7.25 a m Arrive at Mclntosh 44 10.15ain Arrive at Jesup 44 12.35 p m Arrive at Bluckshcar 44 3.45 p m Arrive at Dupopt 44 7.20 p m I Leave Dupont. 44 5.20 a ni j Leave Leave Jesup 44 12.35 p m ' l eave Mclntosh 44 2.55 p m j Arrive at Savannah 44 5. 35 p in WESTERN DIVISION. i Leave Dupont (Sunday excepted).. 5.30 a m | Arrive Valdosta 44 .. 7.2* a m Arrive Quitman “ .. 9.15 am Arrive Thomasville 44 . .11.10 a m ! Leave Thomasville 44 .. 1.15 pm Leave Quitman 44 .. 3.10 p m Leave Valdosta 44 , . 4.35 p m Arrive at Dupont “ .. 6.30 pm ALBANY DIVISION. i Leave Albany, Tuesday, Thursday and Sa‘- urday..' .7.00,am 1 Leave Camilla, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday .* 9.35 a m ; Arrive at Thomasville, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 12:10 ptn Leave Thomasviilo. Tuesday, .Thursday and Saturday at .2.30 p m Arrive at Camilla, Tuesday, Thursday nnd Saturday at 5.15 pm Arrive at Albany Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at. *. 7.(0 p m Jno. Evans. Gen’l Ticket Ag’t. 9-tf H. S. 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