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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1875.
“ TO LET.”
According to the Philadelphia Com
monwealth, the words “to let are
very unpleasantly frequent in the
streets of the Quaker City. Philadel
phia is under Radical rule, and taxes
have been made so high that rents do
not pay much over four per cent, on
the investment. In addition to this,
the outrages of the Radical negro
party have so frightened business
classes that capital is hoarded for fear
of the future.
Furthermore, it is said that New
York and Baltimore are rapidly obtain
ing the-bulk of the Southern trade
which used to seek Philadelphia, and
the prime reason given is that the
principal newspapers teem with insults
to Southern people of the most fla
grant character. It is just retribution
that this fanatical city should be taught
a lesson, and we are glad that South
ern men are giving it the “go by ” in
their business visits to the North. The
Commonwealth relates a striking inci
dent suggestive of these thoughts. It
seems that the train was coming up
from Baltimore, when a passenger,
taking a seat by the side of a stranger,
found him reading a Philadelphia
newspaper obtained at Wilmington.—
After a time this stranger handed his
neighbor the paper and said :
“Is this a first-class Philadelphia jour
nal?”
“Yes," replied the other, “I believe it is so
considered in the city.”
“Does it, you think, express the general
sentiment of the business men of that
city?”
“Well,” was the reply, “it is a Republican
paper, and is, I expect, well thought of.
“Are you a Philadelphian, sir?
“Yes, I am.”
“Then you know this paper!”
"Oh, yes, I know it, but I don’t believe in
it; I’m a Democrat, sir.”
“Ob, you are? Well, sir, I have come from
the South, sir, with some orders for goods
of some amount, about seventeen thousand
dollars in all; but, sir, I shall go on to New
York. Can I get my ticket on this train?”
“Why,” said the Democrat, “aie you
going to New York?”
“Why, sir, I had intended to stop at your
city till I read this newspaper, but it is so
insulting to us of the South that I fear your
people would not be willing to sell me, a
Southern merchant, thoir goods. I’ll go to
New York, where, I believe, a Southern
man will be treated at least respectfully.
It is unnecessary to add that the
traveler went to New York. Is it any
wonder that the Commonwealth, a Dem
ocratic paper, disgusted, with this in
sane folly, thus speaks out in words of
warning:
“To let.” "Tolet.” “Second-story
rooms to let with power.” This is the an
swer—this is the result. The idle mechan
ics, operators, factory hands, machinists,
houses and stores “to let.” and business at
a stand-still, with no bright prospect for
the Spring trade after this hard Winter,
are the direct effects of the Radical party’s
policy and the blatant bosh of the Radical
party press. “To let.” Lay on the taxes
and steal tho public money, revel in “ di
vies,” “jobs,” “stocks, “contracts,” light
up the Union League at nights with gas
and gloat over the rebels and denuncia
tions of the Democratic party in the Radi
cal negro party press, and wait for “ better
times.” “To let!”
The business men of the South can
teach these pluperfect negro worship
pers of Philadelphia a lesson that will
last them a generation, if so inclined.
We would not advise any merchant to
tarry in that hot-bed of Radicalism,
while Baltimore is on one side and New
York on the other.
Stephens, —Every time Mr. Stephens
speaks and every time he thinks proper
to keep judicious silence, some mad
bull of a fellow rushes at him in a sort
of comical fury. Just now a few effer
vescent wise-acres are belaboring him
for not signing the recent Congressional
manifesto, in which the prudent and
patient Mr. John Young Brown plays a
conspicuous part. It would be well to
inquire (1) if Mr. Stephens was asked
to sign it, and (2) to ascertain his
reasons for declining, if he really did
so. The Radicals swear the South is
a powder magazine ready for explosion,
and these Congressmen virtually ac
knowledge the truth of the assertion.
“ Old Aleck” has a long head and a
wise one. We wish we could compli
ment all other statesmen in the same
way. Our contemporary, the Chronicle
and Sentinel, takes a sensible view of
this matter in its issue of yesterday.
You’re Another. —The New Orleans
Times and Hcayune are accusing one
another of being subsidized. The
former states that Mr. Holbrook (the
Pic. proprietor) begged the assistance
of Mr. Kellogg, and received it, and
was the recipient of his loaned money
at the time it was most viciously be
rating him; and that it is now govern
ed in all essential matters by the dicta
tion of Mr. Warmoth ; puffing as he
directs, keeping silent when he di
rects.
The Picayune charges that the Times
has been too intimate with a Kellogg
official, etc. A sad washing of dirty
linen this.
A Daniel. —Discussing the habeas
corpus section of the caucus Force
Bill, Gen. Garfield said :
There are, in my opinion, several reasons
why this section of the bill should not be
come a law, and among them this one :
“ The Presidential election will come off in
about eighteen months, and with the pow
er in the hands of the President to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus, he might re-elect
himself.
The Radicals in Congress are be
tween the devil and the deep sea.—
They would like to get rid of Grant,
but are afraid to try it; for Grant
would sink them out of sight in a
twinkling.
Florida. —A correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says great numbers of
Northern people come to Florida arm
ed cap-a-pie, like the Mulligan guards,
“ with swords and guns and pistols,
too,” of the latest make and the most
destructive calibre, and with ammuni
tion enough to blow up the State.
It is said, too, that Florida, by this
merciless invasion, since the war, has
ceased to be the sportsman’s paradise.
Even the alligators have been practi
cally exterminated.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
The Financial Chronicle has some
hopes of a business revival when this
pestilent Congress adjourns. So long
as that national incubus is in session
the commercial world is in a flurry of
apprehension, and all values are in a
state of fluctuation and uncertainty.
The Chronicle says: “So many tax
modifications and monetary reforms
have been under discussion that the
pressure has cost the country an enor
mous sum, and its recovery from the
effects of the panic greatly retarded.
Multitudes would be glad if to the ex
isting restrictions imposed on legislation
by the Constitution some safeguards
could be added protecting the monetary
standard and the volume of the cur
rency from such rash and crude schemes
of reform as those which have per
plexed the country aud embarrassed
its commercial movements during sev
eral recent sessions of Congress. In
the next place, our industrial commun
ity are looking forward to an early re
vival of business because of the rapid
accumulation of capital going on since
the panic of 1870.
“Without discussing the other popu
lar reasons, frequently cited, for ex
pecting a revival of business, we freely
admit that there is force in those we
have referred to, for it is an elementa
ry principle of economic science that if
any country is accumulating wealth,
adding to the supplies of its money
and practising general economy, the
activity of business and industry may
be surely expected if the monetary
standard be staple and the financial
system free from disturbance.”
It is not a little singular that the
modes of government devised by wise
men for the welfare of countries should
prove the most formidable barriers to
progress and prosperity. If we could
possibly be rid of Congresses and State
Legislatures, for about ten years, the
chances are, one hundred to one, that
the individual and public weal would
be prodigiously enhanced. The science
of political strategy, at this day, is for
demagogues to feather their own nests
at the expense of all other classes af
the community.
Good Words. —Recalling the manly
and generous words of Gordon and
Burnside, the ex-Confederate General
and the ex-Federal Commander, the
New York Express draws happy au
guries. It says : “So far from having
any terror at the number of the once
Confederates in Congress from the
South, we draw from the result just
the opposite in that hope which sees in
the wisdom of past experience and
common sense daily life and a decent
patriotism, the elements of that better
future which is more and more to unite
the country. It is’ not the soldiers nor
the generals who fought each other
that make trouble in the land, but ra
ther those who staid at home, making
‘ their gold their God and 4h> ir ledgers
their Bibles.’ ”
The Causa Causans. —A correspond
ent of the New York Graphic attributes
three-fourths of the misery of women
to the fact that they are eternally
called upon to sew buttons on the gar
ments of men. The correspondent in
sists that men should be taught, at an
early period, just how to handle but
tons. She thinks a ten minutes’ lesson
will solve the problem, and right one of
the wrongs of women.
If women only understood how to
sew buttons on men’s garments, this
misery, in part, would cease. When a
man, driven to desperation, does sew
on buttons, they stick to the garment
like a politician to the public pap !
Friendly Advice. —The New York
Mail talks like a parent to the Radical
extremists, thus:
One thing Mr. Morton and his allies may
rest assured: That if the Republicans in
Congress know of no better way to save
the party than by leaving broadcast all
over the South the seeds of another civil
war, they had better each of them go to
the Potomac and seek beneath its waters
friendly oblivion and surcease of harmful
ness, for within twelve months they will
not only be buried fathomless depths be
neath the most terrible “tidal wave” that
ever swept this land, but they will be ac
cused by their own friends as false leaders,
whose blindness no repentance can expiate
or extenuate.
From the way Morton has been
snubbed recently, we judge the Con
servative Republicans have concluded
that there is a hereafter sure enough.
Developing. —“ Hon.” David Young,
a colored member of Kellogg’s Legis
lature, has been indicted for stealing
the school fund of Concordia Parish.
North Carolina Legislature.
Raleigh, February 23.—The Senate
to-day passed, to its third reading, the
bill adjusting the State debt. It pro
vides for the funding of the debt as
follows : For old debt and registered
certificates, 90c. on the dollar ; for
funded internal improvement bonds,
25c. on the dollar. This docs not in
clude the construction and special tax
bonds. The following interest is to be
paid : For the first two years, two per
cent.; next three, three percent.: next
five, four per cent.; next twenty, five
per cent. Notice is given that a sup
plemental bill will be introduced. A
resolution was passed by the Senate to
change the time of holding the State
election, so as to prevent North Caro
lina from being the pioneer State. The
House is considering the question of
expelling a white member, J. W. Thorne,
from Warren county, via Vermont,
because of his non-belief in the exist
ence of God.
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Execution of a Murderer.
Pittsburg, February 23.—Ernest Ort
mein, who murdered the Hammett
family—husband, wife, two daughters
and the bound boy—and fired the
house, was hung to-day. Qrtmein was
a farm hand and treated as one of the
family. He was a German and had
been in this country two years.
MISSOURI.
The Legislature Deprecates Grant’s
Arkansas Policy.
St. Louis, February 23.—The Mis
souri Legislature adopted a concurrent
resolution deprecating Grant’s course
regarding Arkansas, and urging that
she be let alone.
Bound in calf—Veal.
Drains on the public purse need re
trenching.
BY TELEGRAPH, j
[Sd icial to the Constitutionalist. ;
ATLANTA.
Proceedings of the Legislature.
Atlanta. Ga., February 23.
The following House bills passed the
Senate: To change the corporate lim
its of Eastman; to amend the act in
corporating Warrenton ; to change the
line of Montgomery and Tatnall coun
ties ; to amend the charter of the Com
mercial Insurance and Banking Com
pany, of Augusta.
The following Senate bills passed the
House: To charter the Grange and
Planters’ Banking Company, of
Macon; to amend the act incor
porating the Merchants and Me
chanics’ Savings bank of Columbus ;
to incorporate the Jackson Artillery of
Macon ; to authorize the Judge of the
County Court to pay school officers
and teachers for 1871; to regulate the
letting out of contracts to the lowest
bidder by county officers; to regulate
the mode of taking a verdict in capital
cases ; to regulate the law of dower; to
alter the mode of disbursing the State
school fund ; to amend the act to create
a Board of Commissioners for Mus
cogee ; to ratify the action of the
Americus Council Building Company ;
to incorporate the Gas Company of.
Americus ; to change the charter of'
Columbus ; to change the time of hold
ing court in Twiggs.
The bill refusing payment of the
fraudulent bonds passed the House—
-145 yeas, 2 nays : two negroes, Bacon
of Liberty, and Blue.
A resolution was introduced in the
Senate by Mr. Cain, to authorize the
Governor to issue new bonds to take
the place of the bonds bought by Her
ring and Branch & Sons, of Augusta,
and of the Macon and Brunswick sup
plemental bonds.
The Senate bill to regulate the com
mission of Tax Receivers and Collect
tors was lost.
Gov. Smith vetoed the bill to take
away the civil jurisdiction of the
Mitchell County Court.
The Committee on Privileges and
Election, at tho request of Tunis Camp
bell and counsel, postponed the con
sideration of the contested election
case until next session.
In addition to the full Associated
Press report regarding Treasury ir
regularities, we will state that Treas
urer Jones has resolved not to resign.
He has many friends in the Legislature
who will try and protect him from any
violent measures. They have perfect
confidence in his honesty and integrity.
The report of the committee, hurriedly
made, and his friends say he has not
had an opportunity to collect all the
vouchers. H.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHER
CONGRESSIONAL.
Report of the Louisiana Committee- -
Other Business in the House and
Senate.
Washington, February 22. — House.—
The Louisiana Special Committee re
ported resolutions unanimously con
demning the Returning Board, and, by
a majority of four to three, recom
mending the Louisiana House of Rep
resentatives to take immediate steps to
remedy the injustice, and to place the
persons rightfully entitled in their
seats; also recommending the recog
nition of Kellogg as Governor until the
termination of his term of office. Or
dered printed.
- The Committee on Alabama Affairs
also made a report.
The House then proceeded with tho
Tariff.
The House spent the whole day in
committee of the whole on the Tariff
bill, and, among other amendments,
put on one for an income tax, but as
soon as it was reported back to the
House, Dawes moved a substitute for
the whole bill, which was passed—
yeas 123, nays 113. The bill, as passed,
makes the tax on whiskey hereafter to
be manufactured, not taxing stock on
hand at all, 90 cents a gallon ; tobacco,
24 cents a pound ; on cigars, $6 a thou
sand ; on cigarettes, $2.75 a thousand ;
on molasses, Melada and sugar, im
ported from foreign countries, an ad
dition of 25 per cent. on the present
duties. It restores the 10 per cent, on
manufactured goods, and provides that
the increase of duties shall not apply
to goods actually on shipboard for the
United States on or before the 10th of
February, 1875, or to goods on deposit
in warehouses or public stores at the
date of the passage of the act.
The Post Office Appropriation bill is
up.
An- amendment to strike out the
clause repealing the Pacific Mail subsi
dy was lost, by a vote of 52 to 11.
Those voting to strike out were Came
ron, Conover, Cragin, Flannagan, Fre
linghuysen, Mitchell, Morton, Patter
son, Pease, Sargent and Sprague. The
bill passed.
The Senate Finance Committee
agreed to the bill authorizing the Secre
tary of the Treasury to buy the Freed
man’s Bank building at $315,000.
G. F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Chair
man of the special Committee on Lou
isiana Affairs, made a report closing
with the following resolutions :
Whereas, Both branches of the Leg
islature of Louisiana have requested
the select committee of the House to
investigate the circumstances attending
the election and returns thereof in that
State for the year 1875 : and whereas,
said committee has unanimously re
ported that- the Returning Board of
that State, in canvassing and compil
ing said returns ajyl promulgating the
results, wrongfully applied an erro
neous rule of law, by reason whereof
persons were awarded in the House of
Representatives seats to which they
were not entitled, and persons entitled
to seats were deprived of them—
Resolved, That it is recommended to
the House of Representatives in Lou
isiana to take immediate steps to rem -
edy said injustice, and to place the
persons rightfully entitled in their
Resolved, That William P. Kellogg
be recognized as the Governor of the
State of Louisiana until the end of the
term of office fixed by the constitution
of that State.
The majority and minority reports
were ordered printed. As the result
of a colloquy between members as to
which was tho majority report and
which the minority report, it may bo
stated that all the members of the
committee report against the action of
the Returning Board; that Messrs.
Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshal
unite in a majority report that there
was no general intimidation in the
State but a free and fair election,
which resulted in favor of the Con
servatives, who were deprived of the
result by the wrongful action of the
Returning Board ; that Messrs. Hoar,
Wheeler and Frye unite in a minority
report, and that Foster assents with
Hoar, Wheeler and Frye to a compro
mise to recognize Kellogg as Governor,
and giving the majority in the House
to the Conservative delegates.
The majority report in the case of
Alabama was presented by Coburn, of
Indiana, Chairman of the Solect Com
mittees, and the views of the minority
by Buckner, of Missouri. They were
ordered to be printed.
Coburn, of Indiana, made an effort to
get up what is known as the Caucus
Force bill, reported by him last week,
and Smith, of New York, made an ef
fort to get up a Constitutional amend
ment to regulate the election of Presi
dent and Vice-President, but Dawes,
of Massachusetts, pressed action on
the Tariff bill and succeeded.
The House, at 12 o’clock, went into
the Committee of the Whole on the
Tariff bill—Hale, of Maine, in the
Chair—all debate on the bill being lim
ited to one honr.
The Senate is still in session on the
Army bill and it has passed.
The admission of Colorado is up.
Edmunds stated that the majority of
his party desired this action, otherwise
he would have pressed the Civil Rights
bill.
Spencer presented a memorial from
the Republican members of the Gee
rai Assembly of Alabama to the Presi
dent and members of Congress, setting
forth : First—That changes have been
made by the Alabama Legislature in
the Penal Code of the State, by which
a system of involuntary servitude
and peonage for African citizens
is sought to be inaugurated; Sec
ond—That political legislation has
been enacted, by means of whiicli 93,-
000 Republican voters are practicaly
deprived of representation; that a
Republican constitution is restricted,
and there is a practical nullification of
the constitutional amendments. They
therefore ask Congress to empower the
President to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, in certain contingences, in or
der to preserve the peace in Southern
States. Referred to the Committee on
Privileges and Elections.
In the Senate, the Judiciary Commit
tee reported that the United States is
not bound to proceed with the con
tract for additional Pacific Mail ser
vice to China and Japan.
WASHINGTON.
More Incendiarism.
Washington, February 23. —Winder’s
building, occupied by the Ordnance and
Engineer’s Department, was fired by
an incendiary. The building is oppo
site the Navy Department, which has
been fired three times. Someone is
crazy or there is a plot to destroy the
records.
Full Cabinet except Robeson.
The Cabinet to-day decided to take
no action at present upon the proposi
tion from the Pacific Railroad Com
pany to make a sinking fund of their
obligations to the Government, lest the
discussions in Congress should put to
hazard the regular appropriation bills.
There was no discussion in the Cabinet
to-day either upon Arkansas or Lou
isiana.
The Alabama Report.
The Congressional committee wiiich
went to Alabama to investigate the
condition of affairs in that State make
two reports. The majority report is
signed by Messrs. Coburn, Albright
and Cannon. They believe that but
for timely interference of the Adminis
tration in Louisiana a revolution would
have been precipitated upon the peo
ple of Alabama. The committee fur
ther report that members of the Re
publican party were subjected to a
series of indignities and such mal
treatment as has heretofore been wit
nessed only in savage warfare. The
principal object, or point, however, of
the Democracy seemed to be to crush
out the whole leaders, and to this end
anew feature of American politics,
viz: social and business ostracism,
was introduced.
The committee declare t hat the Dem
ocratic victory in the State was won by
fraud, violence, proscription, intimida
tion aud murder. The law officers were
in league with tho law-breakers. The
Courts of Justice were powerless to
make arrests, and the Governor had
no militia to aid unwilling officers.
The committee says ; Our only regret
is that there were not more United
States soldiers in the State than there
were for the purpose of aiding in the
enforcement of the law. The report
then treats of ballot-box stuffing and
burning of ballot-boxes, which was in
dulged in, and gives a full review of
the riots at Mobile, Eufaula, Spring
Hill, Folkland, Gainesville and other
places. The opinion is expressed by
the committee that, had a full, fair and
free election taken place, the entire
Republican State ticket, with a majori
ty of members of the General Assem
bly, and six out of eight Republican
Congressmen, would have been elected,
ami they recommend the passage of
the “ Force bill.”
The minority of the Congressional
committee make a very long report.
They begin by protesting against the
indecent haste with which the investi
gation was conducted, but say that the
evidence taken by the committee estab
lishes that Alabama was as peaceful,
quiet and law-abiding as either Geor
gia, Tennessee or Mississippi prior to
and during the late canvass; that there
was no greater necessity for the pres
ence of United States troops in Ala
bama than there was in the States of
Missouri or California; that the few
acts of violence which had occurred
prior to the demand made for troops
were not proved then, nor has there
been any proof since, that they were
instigated fiom political motives ; that
it was a party necessity of the Radical
leaders to create real or apparent
disorder in the State, and that
the use of tho bacon donated by Con
gress to the sufferers by tho overflow
as a corruption fund, the appoint
ment of special deputy marshals by the
score in the counties and districts
within the black belt, if not under in
structions from the head of the De
partment of Justice, at least with Ins
assent and connivance, and tho false
and unfounded charges of murder, vio
lence, and insecurity of person and
property, made for the purpose of ob
taining the introduction of the mili
tary into the State, were part and par
cel of tho scheme concocted by Repub
lican Congressmen to carry the elec
tion in November last per faset nefas.
The minority then call attention to tho
fact that the investigation was directed
to many subjects not covered by the
resolution raising the committee, such
as the use of the terms “ carpet-bag
gers” and “scalawags,” frauds by
either party in the election, the
character of tho public schools,
and whether they were taught by
Democrats or Republicans, males or
females, natives or foreigners. The
distribution of the Government bacon
the minority think was within the scope
of their inquiry, but the majority
thought otherwise, and while proscrip
tion and ostracism, carpet-baggery and
scalawagery, and subjects of a like
character, were most thoroughly ven
tilated, a full and thorough examina
tion of the manner and purpose of the
distribution of the overflowed bacon
was not permitted. Enough, however,
was picked up, the minority say, dur
ing the investigation, together with
the report of tho Secretary of War,
already given to the House, to show
conclusively that this benefaction of
the Government was diverted from the
object for which it was given, and that
a large part of it was used for the same
purpose that the troops of the United
States were asked for—to carry the
elections by consolidating and massing
the negro vote for the Radical Ticket.
The minority next directs attention
to the marked difference in the con
dition of the adjoining States of Geor
gia and Alabama, the one peaceable and
prosperous, the other depressed and,
according to Radical testimony, dis
turbed. In regard to Alabama the mi
nority say: “Without quoting their
recognized and approved organs of
public opinion or culling extracts from
leading exponents of Northern Conser
vative opinion, it is undeniable that
peace and quiet obedience to law and
respect for the rights of all were enjoined
upon the Democrats of the State, not
only from considerations applicable to
Alabama, but to the entire Democratic
party of the Union to bear and fore
bear, to submit to wrong rather
than to resort to violence was a
necessity to their own success as well
as to the success of their friends
elsewhere. Their experience since the
days of reconstruction had impressed
them with the conviction that the in
fluence which the whites have with the
freedmen as to everything else except
politics would never affect the political
action of the colored man as long as
that natural influence was neutralized
and destroyed by the presence of Fed
eral soldiers. They bad reason to
hope, at least, that if all violence
growing out of race conflicts could
be avoided and the rights of all
were respected, even the necessi
ties of party would not fill their
State with armed men. Hence peace
in all was a necessity to
the success of the Democratic party.
It was less a necessity to the caucus of
the party in the North. It was dictat
ed by every consideration of policy, if
not of humanity, justice and obedience
to law. Violence and disorder brought
Federal troops in their midst, and
Federal troops were standing remind
ers to the negroes that they were sent
among them as their friends and their
protectors against the wfiites. On the
contrary; the very reverse was
was the policy of their oppo
nents. They desired the influence
of the military in carrying the elec
tions, aud they had reason to fear that
the army would not come to their as
sistance as long as the State was
peaceful, quiet and orderly. Disorder,
real or pretended, was to them the one
thing needful for success. Outrage and
violence must be manifested, and if it
had no real existence their necessity
required its manufacture. Success was
hopeless without it, and with it came
the army and victory at the polls.
GEORGIA.
The Treasury Deficit—Report of the
Legislative Committee.
Atlanta, February 23.— The sub-
Finanee Committee appointed to ex
amine the Treasury made an elaborate
aud voluminous report to-day, the
salient points of which are as follows :
On the first of January last, Treasurer
Jones reported cash on hand $1,300,000.
Since that time ho has collected $167,-
000, making the total for which he is
responsible, $1,170,000, for which he is
credited as follows : Six hundred and
thirty-two thousand dollars in the
hands of agents in New York, pay
maturing bonds and interest on cou -
pons which was not received at the time.
Treasurer Jones made his report to
the Legislature ; also $179,000 were
paid out by the Fourth National Bank
of New York ; interest and premiums
on gold. He also paid out of the
Treasury direct, on Executive warrants,
since the Ist of January, $124,000;
cash on hand, $167,000, making $1,102,-
000, which leaves a deficit of $68,000 to
account for. For this deficit Treasurer
Jones submits informal vouchers for
advances made to the civil establish
ment of tho State Road, exchange bills,
Executive warrants signed by Bullock,
interest on a temporary loan, loss by
the failure of John King, of Co
lumbus, and counterfeits amounting to
about $64,000, none of which are in
proper form, and which, upon a super
ficial examination the committee do
not allow—thus leaving $4,000 un
accounted for altogether. The com
mittee further state that Treasurer
Jones has illegally paid $152,000 for
old bonds, due January, 1872, the same
being part of the bonds said by Bul
lock to have been paid by Clews. Of
coursq_Jones is not charged with this
in the foregoing balance. Jones states
in extenuation that he had no notice of
previous payment.
The committee conclude by recom
mending that Jones be requested to
resign, and in the event he refuses,
that the State appoint a competent
financial agent to supervise the Treas
ury Department and ascertain accu
rately tho condition of the State fi
nances. The committee do not attack
the integrity of the Treasurer, but con
demn, without qualification, the system
of book-keeping and the general ad
ministration of the Treasury Depart
ment. Ordered printed and made the
special order for to-morrow morning.
It is not known whether Jones will
resign or not. It is predicted by many
that he will not; if he refuses some
talk of Impeaching him, but will hardly
resort to such violent measures.
Ample provision will be made by the
present Legislature to cover all defects
and keep the finances of tho State in a
healthy condition.
FOREIGN.
The French Assembly.
Paris, February 23. — On the second
ballot in the Department of Cortes du
Nord, the vote stood: Republican,
41,000 ; Legitimist, 46,000 Bonapartist,
31,000. Another ballot is necessary.
The floor and galleries of the Assem
bly were crowded to hear the report of
tho committee oil thirty upon the or
ganization of the Senate read. It re
jects the American plan, but approved
with some modification the plan of
electing the Senate by Assembly coun
cils and colonies. A motion of urgency
was carried by both Centres and the
entire Left, whereupon the Right with
drew.
Castellare, Monarchist, mounted the
tribune and declared that the Senate
would lead to dissolution and anarchy.
He threatened that if the measures
were voted imposing upon MacMahon
the duty of organizing the Republic the
Right would resign in a body.
Duval, Bonapartist, moved that the
Senate be elected by universal suffrage.
Rejected. Bonapartists only voting for
it.
Wallen, Bonapartist, moved that the
Senate consist of 300 members, the de
partments and colonies, electing 225,
and tho Assembly 76, adopted by 422
to 261. The order making the organi
zation of public powers the special or
der for to-day was adopted. Ad
journed.
Paris, February 23.—Jean Baptiste
Camille Corot, the French painter, is
dead.
Bonapartist organs express disap
probation of Wallon’s amendment in
violent articles. The Ministers, except
of Justico and the Interior, voted for
Wallon’s amendment.
Germany.
Berlin, February 23. — Minister Davis
gave a dinner in honor of Washing
ton’s birthday. Tho first toast was
Grant, and the second the Kaiser.
The question about the Gustav be
tween Germany and Spain is unsettled.
FLASHES.
Fanatics have destroyed the tele
graph line between Too Chow and
Amoy, China
Sir Chas. Tyall, the English geologist,
is dead.
The Pennsylvania Senate, by a vote
of 24 to 6, instruct their Representa
tives in Congress to favor the passage
of the Texas Pacific bill.
The steamer Cora Belle was burned
yesterday, at Jacksonport, Ark., with
150 bales of cotton.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
OPERA HOUSE.
Thursday Evening, Feb. 25th,
FIRST APPEARANCE THIS SEASON!
THE OLD RELIABLE
HAPPY CAL WAGNER’S
MINSTRELS
and brass band.
Endorsed by the Press and Public to be
the only Minstrel organization complete in
every department.
Every Thing New and Original!
Reserved seats now ready at Geo. A.
Oates’ Book Store.
F. F. COBURN.
General Agent.
JOE P. MARSTON,
feb2l-4 Business Manager.
NATIONAL SOLUBLE
m ammonia™
ANALYSIS:
Moisture determined at
212deg.Fah 15.20
Organic and vol’tile matter 30.21
Yielding ammonia 3.0 G
Soluble phosphoric acid... 5.94
Equivalent to phosTlime
dissolved 12.98
Precipitated phos. acid 5.78
Equivalent to phos. lime
precipitated 12.60
Available phosphoric acid 11.72
Equivalent to phos. lime
available 25 53
Common phosphoric acid. 0.91
Equivalent to bone phos’te 1.99
Total phosphoric acid 12.63
Total bone phosphate.... . 27.57
Inorganic elements, not
separately estimated, as
sulph. acid, lime, mag
nesia, oxide of iron, alu
mina, soda, etc 41.93
[Signed] 100.00
A. MEANS, Inspect^r.
PRICE—S4O per ton, CASH.
SSO per ton, TIME.
FOR SALE BY
READ & CAMERON.
feb24-lrn
ENGINE
FOR SALE!
A Steam Engine, capacity
about Six or Eight Horse
Power, for sale LOW FOR
CASH. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
fob24-tf _ _____
Oranges! Oranges!!
Jusr RECEIVED. TEN BARRELS OF
ORANGES. For sale in lots to suit pur
chasers. * WM. FERRIS,
feb24-3 129 Uroad street.
NOTICE.
MM. J. MILLS CLARK has an elegant
PASTURE at his place in Beech Is
land, and will take good care of all DRY
MILCH COWS entrusted to his keeping, at
moderate cost.
Orders left at this Office will reach him.
jan24-2w
Match Race for $1,000!
rINHERE will be a MATCH RACE TO
i DAY (Wednesday) over the LAFAY
ETTE COURSE for SI,OOO, between Lady
Patterson and Basil Duke. Pool selling
will commence on the track at 2 o’clock.
Race to commence at 3 o’clock. feb24-l
No. 1 Co¥ and CALF
FOR SALE.
APPLY TO D. KELLY, Washington
street, next door to Columbia Freight
Office. feb24-2
PRIME
NORTHERN HAY,
AT
$1.45 Per Hundred Lbs.
f0b24 . 6 PETER G. BURUM.
$2.25.
ABOUT 900 Pairs of LADIES’ FINE
ENGLISH LASTING GAITERS will
be offered at $2.25 per pair, for cash only.
These are nice new stylish goods, just from
the Factory, and sized Ito 7. Also, a large
supply of Ladies’ and Misses’* TURKEY
MOROCCO 800 TS, all sizes, at propor
tionately low prices.
PETER KEENAN,
feb2l-6 Below Central Hotel.
BLINDNESS.
ANDREW lIETT begs to announce to
the citizens of Augusta and the Pub
lic generally that he is still CURING THE
BLIND with great success, as numerous
parties can testify who have been cured by
him. To tlio credulous ho would say give
him a trial, anil prove the fact. He does
not use any medicine or knife. No cure, no
pay. feb2l-lm
FRESCO AMI ORNAMENTAL PAINTING.
THE undersigned, having returned to
this city for a short time, offers his
services as a FRESCO and ORNAMENTAL
PAINTER. All work entrusted to mo will
bo done to give satisfaction. Samples of
my work may be seen at the residence of
Mr. H. Sclineiker, 96 Broad street. AH
orders lefwit the store of Messrs. Schneiker
A Meyer will be promptly attended to.
GUSTAV SCHNEIKEK,
feb2l-3* Fresco Painter.
ECLIPSE
DOUBLE TURBINE, combining more
good points than is possessed by any
other
WATER WHEEL.
Send for Illustrated Pamphlet to
GEO. R. LOMBARD, Agent,
Forest City Foundry and Machine Works,
170 Fenwick street, Augusta, Ga.
MILL GEARING. CASTING and
MACHINERY furnished to order at short
notice. feb2l-3
Safe Deposit Boxes.
The NATIONAL BANK of Augusta is
prepared to lease small SAFES inside its
Fire iVoo/ Vault, at moderate rates, for the
reception of Bonds, Securities, Deeds, Le
gal Documents, Plate, Coin, Jewelry, and
valuables of every description.
G. M.THEW,
ie26-ly* __ _ Cash W*
CEO. SYMMS,
INSURANCE AGENT.
221 Broad Street,
AUGUSTA, GA.
decfi-6m
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO PXjAISr.TERS !
WE offer for the next Cotton and Com Crops our unsurpassed FERTILIZERS:
WHITELOCK’S jEGETATOB,
DUGDALE’S EXCELLENZA,
SIBLEY’S I. X. L.,
WHITELOCK’S DISSOLVED BONE,
CHEMICALS FOR COMPOSTING,
PERUVIAN GUANO,
LAND PLASTER.
To parties desiring to purchase Ten Tons or more, we will offer inducements
to buy our articles.
SIBLEY & WHELESS,
COTTON FACTORS,
feblß-lm . AUGUSTA, GA.
Cali iiba Coal
“DON’T DUST UP ROOMS LIKE OTHER COAL,
Because the ASHES ARE HEAVY. It is the nicest Coal for richly fur
nished houses, rooms, parlors, offices, etc., ever used. It is first
class in every particular. It is clean, kindles quick, burns beauti
fully, and makes no cinders. It is Pure Coal, unmixed with
any earthy impurities, and burns up clean, like wood.
JS@“- Parties from the North and East, who have
JfctY used Anthracite Coal, say the Cahaba is
the best Coal in the United States.”“i9R
I don’t say tho above, but the man I bought from does, and “ he is an Honorable
man.” I have bought a small quantity as an expoiimenL and will be glad to sell it, if
you want to buy, at ELEVEN DOLLARS, CASH.
febii-iw \ JOSEPH A. HILL.
J. S. BEAN, JR, Cashier. | T. P. BRANCH, President
Authorized Capital,
Sffßß SAVINGS BANK,
NO. 223 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
SOLICITS the accounts of all who wish to deposit money for thirty clays or longer,
on which it pays seven per cent, interest. Being specially privileged by the State,
we offer extra inducements to all guardians, trustees or parties wishing to make a
profitable investment, and one on which they can instantly realize their capital.
Paying the legal rate of interest, we have quarterly settlements with our deposi
tors, when interest is added to principal and compounded. That the advantages and
benefits of the Bank may be available to all, we will receive sums of One Dollar and
upwards on deposit, and will issue therefor pass books or ceitificates of deposit, the
latter available in all portions of the United States. We can remit sums to our deposi
tors, at any point, by Checks on our New York Corresponded, the Germac-American
Bank. We snail be glad to increase our friends, by all parties having any business in
our department. jan3o-tf
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK.
Capital Stock, ----- $200,000 00
Undivided Profits, - 58,313 20
$258,313” 20
4 Per cent, paid on Daily Balances, subject to CHECK AT SIGHT.
T. P. BRANCH, President.
jani7-tf J- T. NEWBERY, Cashier.
SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS,
. (Adjoining Passenger Depot,) .
MACON, GEORGIA.
SCHOFIELD’S PATENT COTTON PRESSES,
FOR Hand, Horse, Water or Steam Power; FAUGHT’S ’CENTRE SUPPORT GIN
GEARING; STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS: SAW MILLS; GRIST MILLS;
IRON RAILING for Cemeteries, Balconies and Residences; IRON STORE FRONTS;
SHAFTING PULLEYS and HANGERS; PUMPS; WATER WHEELS; COTTON MA
CHINERY (gears of all kinds cut). Repairs of Mills and Machinery of all kinds prompt
ly attended to. Mli. JOSEPH NEAL, formerly Superintendent of Forest Cit y Foundry,
in Augusta, would Inform Ids friends that he is now Superintendent of SCHOFIELD S
IRON WORKS, and will be glad to have their patronage, assuring them that, with the
increased facilities wo now have, that they will get first class work atthe lowest figures.
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SON,
Send for Circulars and Prices.! PROPRIETORS,
febii-om
PLAIVTSIfIS
WHO WISH TO ECONOMISE
WILL USE
BARRY’S
Compound Bi-Phosphate of
LIME
FOR Composting with COTTON SEED. It is not an Acid Phosphate but a
COMPOUND requiring only the
Ammonia
DERIVEABLE FROM COTTON SEED TO MAKE IT A
PERFECT MANURE.
The combination contains the most important elements for a
SUPERIOR FERTILIZER
AT V VERY REDUCED PRICE,
Satisfactory evidence of this well ascertained fact is presented in our Pamphlet,
which please call for.
The Cash Price will be $45 per Ton.
Time Price will be- SSO per Ton.
Reliable security will be required on all time sales.
PLEASE FORWARD ORDERS TO
own of miiitn cun femur,
288 Broad* Street, Aug usta, C* a.,
AND CALL FOR PAMPHLETS.
EDWARD BARRY Ac Cos.
janß-suwefrftc3m = .
— !
We have in Store 500 Tons of the celebrated E. FItANK
COE’S GUANO, which we are offering at exceedingly LOW
RATES. Also, 300 Tons of the well-known CHESAPEAKE
PHOSPHATE. Special inducements offered to Cash Buyers
in quantities of 10 Tons and over; arrangements will also be
made for Time Sales, with the Cotton option at 16c. per pound.
Apply to GEO. E. RATCLIFFE & CO..
COTTON FACTORS,
dec29-tuthsa3m , 167 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GA
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