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Washimotox, April 10.—In the Senate,
Messrs. Dawes, Allison and B Jck were ap
pointed oonferees on the Indian appropria
tion bill.
Mr. Garland (for Mr. Lamar, who ia ab
sent) presented a memorial from the Mis
sissippi Legislature, asking for a revival of
the grant of 1866, to aid the Golf and Ship
Island railroad.
Mr. Jones presented a memorial from
tho commercial exchangee of Now Orleans
in favor of the levee hills, and a liberal ap
propriation to carry ont the plans of the
Mississippi Itiver Commisson. '
Mr. Bayard, from tho jndioiary commit
tee, reported a bill amending the anti-po
lygamy law fixing the salaries of election
commissioners under that law at $5,000
per annum, in accordance with the recent
.recommendation of the President.
The n«val committee to-dsy agreed to
Teport favorably on Chandler’s nomina
tion to be secretary of the navy; and tho
foreign relations committee have also
agreed to report favorably on Hant’s nom
ination for minister to Russia-
A bill was introduced by Mr. Morgan, by
request, granting a right away over the
p&blio lands in Alabama and Florida to
the St. Louis, Montgomery and Florida
Baillroad and Immigration Company and
to allow the company to purchase public
lands in said States.
Mr. Lamar, npon application of Mr.
Garland was granted two wetks’leave of
absooetb
Mr. Hawley presented a memorial of the
Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indians,
petitioning for the maintenance of their
tronty relations as shown npon tho pending
Indian Territory railroad bill.
The Senate bill authorizing the Secreta
ry of War t j adjust and settle accounts for
arms between the State |of South Caro
lina and the United States was passed.
On motion of Mr. Davis, of West Vir
ginia, the Senate bill reported by him to
ropoal, except as stated, all laws providing
for permanent or indefinite appropriations
was passed, f The exceptions ore the laws
for the payment of interest on the public
debt of the District of Columbia, and the
Pacifio railroad guaranteed bonds for the
support of a marine hospital service:
Smithsonian Institutions an-l soldiers
home; for the payment of interest on tho
Indian, trust and navy pension funds; for
tho repayment to importers the excess of
deposits and for the payment of debent
ure or drawbacks, bounties, etc., under
tho customs and revenue laws.. The bill
also provides that all appropriations here
after to be made shall remain available
for two years for the payment of expend
itures properly incurred within the time
for which they are appropriated, except as
to the appropriations for the construction
of public buildings. rivers. and har
bors, lighthouses ana forts, which shall re
main available for a like purpose for four
years. At tho expiration of which period
all the balance for said periods snail be
carried to the surplus fund.
Mr. Saunders introduced a bill for the
relief of theWaobitaand Caddosbandsof
Indians. It appropriates $200,000,. The
same to be investedin United States bonjs
and held in trust for the Indians nan;..,,
and the interest to bo paid to them semi
annually in consideration of a relinquish
ment by the Wachitas of their right to
about 140,00), acres of land comprised
within the tract, within the Indian Territo
ry and Kansas, and conceded to have been
their original homo. Beferred to commit-
tco on TnflikP affairs*
Upon the announcement of the death of
Representative Allen and the appointment
of a committee to esoort the remains, the
Senate at 2KJ5, os a farther mark of res-
poot for tho deceased, adjourned.
Washington. April 10.—Mr. Thomson,
of Iowa, submitted the majority report of
tho committee on elections in the contest
ed election case of Mackey vs. O'Connor,
from the second Congressional district of
South G-trolino, accompanied by a resolu
tion declaring that contestant Maokey was
entit od lo the seat. Printed and laid over
for future action.
Under a call of the States a bill Wgs in
troduced and referred by Mr. McLunefiof
Maryland, for tho abrogofbn of the fifth
and sixth articles of the Burlingame trea
ty with China. Mr. Richardson, of New
York, introduced a concurrent resolution
directing tho Senate and House commit
tees on pnblio buildings to inquire into the
advisability and cost of purchasing a suit
able site for the President of the United
States. Referred.
The’House went into committee of the
•whole on the bill appropriating $1,000,00)
for the reclamation of the Potomao fiats
at Washington, bnt without action the
committee rose, end the House soon after
Adjourned.
smrnznD investigation - .
Washington, April 10.—The examination
of Shipherd by tho foreign relatione com
mittee to-day was conducted by Mr.
Blount, of Georgia. Witness displayed
considerable skill and ingenuity in explain
ing tho passages which Mr. Blonnt quoted
from his letters, giving to them interpreta
tions other than the ones which obviously
suggested themselves to the committee.
In reply to a question as to what Shipherd
meant in writing: “Grant is now one of
us,” witness said ho had regretted the use
of that term, but it was wr.tten when in a
great hurry. The fact was that at an in
terview whereat Grant was informed of a
desire to pnt him at tho head of the com
pany, Grant had dec tned to invest bnt
bad expressed good will towards the com
pany, and said it was entitled to the co
operation if tha government Witness
said Grant never wss a stockholder, bnt
feeling that they could rely npon his good
offices even more than if ho was a stock-
holder, he (witness) in his letter to Hurlbut
i*”* ad spoken of Grant in that way as being
Mb? -of ns.” It was intended 11 retain
« and William E. Chan-
Conkling was notified and
sod a willingness to accept
iner, bnt his services were not needed;
r were those of Chandler, and noth
in was said to Chandler. Reading fmther
from Shipherd’s letter to Hurlbut, Mr.
Blount asked: “Who were the parties with
whom yon say you were holding a confiden
tly House the following preamble and
resolutions, which were referred to the
committee on ways and means:
Whereas, On Mondnv, April 3, the rales
were suspended, and House bill No. 5,237
to amend the laws relative to the entry of
distilled spirits in distillery and special
bonded warehouse, and withdrawal of
same therefrom, was parsed ; and, where
as,, the following letter was subsequently
printed, at the request of a member of the
Congressional Record, to-wit:
Treasury Department,
Office Internal Revenue,
Washington, April 3,1832.
Sir:—I acknowledge receipt of your
valued favor of thiB instant in regard to
House bill No. 5.235, which provides for an
extension of the bonded period npon distill
ed spirits. The bill was prepared with great
care, and in respect to its machinery, 1 am
satisfied it wifi work admirably. The
principle of the bill, I trust, is
correct. Upon all manufactured
articles npon which internal revenue
is levied exoept of the cose of distilled spir
its and the manufacturer, or owner, is not
oompelled to remove the same from tho
place of manufacture until he can find a
sale for the product. This is so in respect
to beer, tobacco, cigars, matches, etc. i he
extension of the bonded period two years
gave quite njstimulons to the manufactu
rers of fine whisky. On the first of March
last there were G9,243,835 gallons in the dis
tillery warehouses in Kentucky, Pennsylva
nia and Maryland. It seems to me unrea
sonable to suppose that these spir
its can all be removed for con
sumption within the time now
required by law. If manufacturers and
owners are required to pay taxes within
three years, I would expect to see such a
decline in prices as would seriously embar
rass many strong firms and probably
cause many failures, and unfavorably af
fect other branches of business, without
any beneficial results to the government,
and think npon this ground alone an ex
tension of the bonded period is entirely
justifiable. Very respectfully,
l Signed. | Green B. Baum.
To Hon. Ben Butterworth.
And whereas it appears that the proposed
bill will divert millions of the public money
from its way into the United States Treas
ury, and donate the same to large manu
facturers and owners of distilled spirits in
violation of on agreement of the Republi
cans of tho House, therefore,
Resolved, That the Secretary of tho
Treasury bo and he is hereby rt-qaired to
report to this House his views on tho sub
ject matter of the letter and conduct of
the hand of the Internal Revenue Bu
reau as to what improper influences, if
any, were brought to bias his judgment in
writing same.
Washington, April 11.—In the Senate,
Mr. Grover, from the military committee,'
reported an original bill (as a substitute
for pending measures), authorizing the
Secretary of tho Treasury to examine and
report to Congress the amount of all
claims of tho States of Texas, Oregon and
Nevada and Washington and Idaho terri
tories for moneys expended and the in
debtedness assumed by the said States and
territories because of Indian hostilities.
Placed on the calendar.
The Senate took up the calendar and
passed a number of private bills. Tho
Indian territory railroad bill, granting a
right of way to tho St. Louis and San
Francisco railroad, coming np as unfinish
ed business, Mr. Hawley denounced it, in
the amended form in which it came from
the railroad committee, os an attempt to
violate the treaty n» uts of the Indians
npon a pretext o' ratifying an act of tho
Choctaw council. He said the bill pro
posed to secure their lands without pro
viding any system for adjusting the rate of
compensation therefor. He could con
ceive of emergencies in which the
United States would have a right,
in the proper legal .sense of that
term, to pas* legislation in contravention
of the treaty, but that duty required it to
exhaust nU other remedies before going to
that extremity. He denied that the reme
dies had been exhausted in ihis instance,
and asserted that in setting apart a strip
of the Indian country for railroad purposes
tho government was over -riding its uniform
practice heretofore. “My chief concern, ’
he added, “is not because I see the Indians
wronged, bnt that my government under a
treaty with 20,030 or 30,0)0 Indians will do
that which it wonld not dare do under a
treaty with Great BriUaf. , I want Uncle
Sam to be a gentleman and that is all.”
The discu sion tamed upon the pending
amendment of Mr. Ingalls* requiring the
consent of the Cherokee and Chickasaws to
the act to be obtained before the act shall
take effect.
Mr. Jonas, of Louisiana, opposed the
amendment as a virtual defeat of the bill,
as tho Cbickasaws had announced they
would never grant a right of way, leing op
posed to the road. He maintained the va-
idity of tho assent nlleged to have been al
ready givenfbrfthe Chocasaws, and that the
tribe has decided in favor cf the proposed
road by electing pnblio officers friendly to
the grant. The rights of the Chiokawas
were not affected, as the road wonld not
reach their lauds. The bill finally went
over without action. .....
A bill was introduced by Mr. Vest, to
authorize the construction of bridges
across the Missouri river, between its
mouth and the month of the Dakota river;
across the Mississippi river between St.
Paul. Minn., and Natchez, Miss., andacross
the Illinois river between its mouth nnd
Peoria, III. The bill was drafted last
month by the St. Louis Merchants’
Exchange, as a general bridge law,
and is intended to secure reasonable
protection to navigation and to authorize
tho bridge company to construct bridges
of varying dimensions at noiati on tho
Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers
without further legislation. The conditions
are elaborately specified in tho bill, which
farther requires that all designs and plans
for contemplated structures shall bo sub-
mittod to and approved by thei Secretary of
War prior to the beginning of the work of
construction* Adjourned.
HOUSE*
Washington, April 11.-The morning
hour having been dispensed with, Mr.
Ryan, of Kansas, from tho committee on
Imittee on ways and means, should imme
diately proceed to legislate intelligently on
ithe subject. The committee then rose.
Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, from the
committee on railways and canals, report
ed a bill for the construction of the Illinois
land Mississippi canals. Referred to com
mittee of the whole. Adjourned.
THE SUIFBEBD INVESTIGATION.
"Washington, I pril XL—In the Shipherd
investigation to day, Mr. Blonnt contin
ued the cross-examination, quoted from
la printed correspondence and endeavoring
to extrset categorical ar, swers, but
Shipherd always replied evasively, or
bluntly refused to answer. The palpable
drilt of the morning’s examination was to
bring ont and define exactly how far the
witness bad gone in a direct attempt to
influence officials of the United States.
Witness was asked if Senator Blair, as
counsel, was conferred with in relation to
the letter by Hurlbut, in which he (Ship-
herd) tendered him $250,0C3 of stock, and
replied, “Blair did notseo the letter.”
Witness told him abont it some time after
it was sent. It was discussed by all the
oounsel. None of them ever found fenlt
with it on its face, bnt the remark was
Ifrequently made “Shipherd, that letter will
bear double construction, and it may get
yon into trouble.”
Mr. Belmont succeeded Mr. Blonnt as
cross-examiner, and very soon developed
the probability that the committee had ex-
tracted from witness about all the in-
Iformation he proposed to give them. Mr.
iBelmont—“Tha association or individuals
whom yon represented, or still represent,
seemed to give direction or expected to ex
ert an influence npon the policy of this gov
ernment, at the time when the President
was disabled, were yon advised by Mr.
iBmtwell that the Secretary of State was
authorized to act in this matter withoat
Irequiring any advice or authority from the
President?” Witness declined to state the
names of his client, and said he did so by
■he advice of his counsel.
I Mr. Blonnt—“Did yon not have a corre
spondence with Senator Blair touching
the Peruvian Company ?” Answer—“I
did.”
Question—“Will yon produce it ?” An
swer—“I have been advised that the pur
port of this examination does not compel
Ithe disclosure of purely personal matters,
and I consider my correspondence with Mr.
Blair pnrely of that character.”
Question—“Will you state whether those
clients suffered an injory from the Peru
vian government, which entitled them to
seek redress from the Peruvian govern
ment, or had they purchased a claim which
they declared equitable, and for the en
forcement of which they sought
I to obtain the good offices of
government?” Witness declined to
PHwcr categorically and was finally
permitted to make his usual “statement.”
Mr. Belmont, however, pressed his ques
tion, when witness looked at his questioner
in silence, with an angry flash on his face.
Mr. Belmont—“ Then jon decline to an
swer?” Witness (angrily)—“I have as
many rights hero as the examiner, and
I have come here prepared to defend them.”
Mr. Belmont said he had no desire to
deprive witness of any right he might
possess, but the committee had also some
rights and duties to perforin. Shipherd
[then asked to be excused for the day.
THE STAB HOUTE CASES.
■Washington, April 11.—The hearing in
the star route cases was resumed this morn
ing, the question under consideration be
ing a special plea in abatement made yes
terday by the defense, in which it is claim
ed the grand jury was unduly influenced by
the statements of post-oflico inspectors,
who were illegally allowed to present evi
dence and pamphlets to the jury. Colonel
Totten, of counsel for the defense, said he
intended to prove that the jury had been
ui-duly influenced. + ,
Judge Wylie—“Yoircannot prove that.
You have no right to go into the room of
the grand jury and investigate their pro-
ceediag**” *
After some further discussion of this
point, the court decided that if the defense
could impeach the competency of any
member of the jury, the point was well
taken, but if they undertook to go into
the jury room and investigate tho pro-1
ceedings which the low expressly declared
to be secret, then the plea was not welli
After Totten had made his argument,
Judge Wylie allowed the plea. Totten
then gave notice of his intention to carry
tho case before the court en bans,
Minor, one of the defendants, entered a
plea of ‘toot guilty.” The other defendants
wero then called upon to plead, and failing
to do so, the court entered a plea of “guil
ty.” Thursday, May 1th, was settled on as
the day for trial. Totten annoanced that
a bill of exceptions to carry the case.before
a higher court would be pesented just as
soon as it could be prepared. The trial
then adjourned,
his-judgment the most satisfactory war of
accomplishing it and of reducing the tariff
was to pass the bill. It would prove the
most expeditions method to bring about
that result. If he wished to continue the
tariff as it now existed, he wonld vote
against the bill; ss he desired a
revision he would vote tor
it, believing it the most direct
and practical road to a settlement of this
vexed question. No real issue npon the tar
iff had been tendered or accepted, on the
contrary upon the actual question involved
in the pending bill the advocates of both
systems of tariff stood on *
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
f latcrMt ini
Aweb-cus, Ga., April 8.—No rain for
nearly two weeks. A shower would greatly
benefit vegetation and especialljr gardens
and the maturing small grain crop*. In
dications to-day are favorable for rain
soon.
We see that Griffin No. I will take part
in yonr annual parade. Our “Wide
Awake” boys who bad such a pleasant
time in your city last April, both in the
— .—. . ... . T . of oontest and as the jraeet of No. 5, folly ex-
SSStiBUmS <h21 gonpaga.nthls ? eer L anatothis
we must have a tariff prodnoing ample
revenue to meet the wants and obligations
of the government, and so adjusted as to
afford a fair protection to American indus
try and labor as against foreign competi
tion with the least possible harden on the
people. In that doctrine he fully con
curred, and he believed that most of the
leading Republicans and Democrats
throughout the country had committed
themselves to it.
When the committee rose, on motion
Mr. King, of Louisiana, a resolution was
adopted lDBtracting the committee on ap
propriations to consider.and report w hat.fi f
any, farther measures of relief should be
extended to sufferers by the present floods
of the Missi sippi river and its tributariei.
House adjourned, and a Republican cau
cus was announced to take place Friday
evening.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Washington. April 12.—The President,
Secretary of War and board of managers
of the Soldiers’Home, left this morning
for a visit to the Soldiers’ Home, Hamp
ton, Va.
The House committee on commerce has
concurred in the plan submitted by the
Mississippi river Commission. For this
work the sum of $4,123,000 has been agreed
npon—$600,000 of which is to be used
above the mouth of the Ohio river. This
action of the committee is incorporated in
the river and harbor appropriations bill.
The Senate confirmed Wm. E. Chandler
as Secretary of the Navy, by a vote of 28
against 16. The Senate also confirmed
Secretary Hunt as minister to Russia; J.
R. Partridge, of Maryland, minister to
Pern; John H. Smythe, of North Carolina,
minister to Liberia; Wm. Williams, cf
Indiana, charge de affairs to Paraguay;
John Jay Knox, of Minnesota, comptroller
of the currency; Commodore PearoeO os-
by, rear admiral; Capt. A. A. Semmee,
commodore*
The President nominated Geo. Money,
of Tennessee, to bo minister resident and
con nl-general to Bolivia; Wm. Scruggs,
of Georgia, minister resident to the United
States of Colombia; and the following
postmasters: Temple C. Byrn, at Terrell,
Texas, Josephine Hopkins, Gtenallen, Va.;
Samuel B. Lumpkin, Chester C. H., 8. G.;
James H. Houston, Uniontown, Ala.; Mrs.
Bophronia MoLemore, LaFayetto, Ala.;
Jefferson B. Allgocd, Macon, Miss.
The Comptroller of th9 Carreney has
authorized the.Mechanics National Bank,
nt Knoxville, Tcnn„ with a capital of $100,-
C00, to commence business.
THE EJECTED NEGBO BISHOP.
Washington, Apn; 12.--A delegation of
ministers of the African Methodist Epis
copal church, headed by Bishop Brown,ac
companied by Fred Douglas, waited upon
Gen. Brewster to-day, and made complaint
against the United States attornoy for the
northern district of Florida for failure to
enforce the provisions of the civil rights
bill. Tho particular case referred to was
that of Bisohp Payne, who was pnt off a
railroad train at midnight several miles
from the nearest station, after having pur
chased a first-class ticket It was repre
sented that all applications to the district
attorney for legal redres3 wero of no
avail. The Attorney General promised
the delegation the matter should be inves
tigated.
BEPOBTEB HATS’ SUCCESSOR A FAILURE.
Washington, April 12.—When tho for
eign relations committee assembled to-day
to continue the examination of Shipherd,
the latter, who had been in the rcom be
fore the committee and bad passed away
the time by examining the printed copy
of the official report of tho proceedings,
called attention to many errors in the re
port. The members of tho committee, on
examination, agreed with Shipherd, the
errors being so numerous and so pnlpable
that great dissatisfaction was expressed.
The official reporter (whowas recently ap
pointed by the Speaker to supersede Mr.
H. G. Hays) desired to make a statement
and explains) that ho was ont of practice
on nssuming the dnties of official reporter,
and had engaged an assistant who would
relieve him during the morning. Tho
ng a fraction over an acre, almost in the
center of the c.ty. Various estimate* are
made as to its probable jrield, varying from
70 to ICO bushels.
For some months bogs have been mys
teriously disappearing on the plantation of
Dr. H. N. Hollifield, only a few m’lea
from town, and all efforts at de
tecting the agency that spirited them
away were unavailing until a few d ,ya
since, when Mr. Webster, who lives on the
place, caught the thief in an alligator seven
and a half feet long. His ’gatorship was
caught by “patting his foot into it;” i, e. a
beaver trap.
Politics are as yet rather quiet with us,
however, and I here place npon record their
reasons why. First, your city council by
resolution, prohibited any contest with en
gines, giving as reason why, that yonr
engines were not equal to the trial. We
marvelled at this, as the maximum steam
pressure last year was limited to sixty-five
ponnds.
Then publication was made in the Tel
egraph and Messenger, that no companies
would be invited as yonr fire organizations
did not feel able to entertain visiting com
panies. Again we marveled. We oonld not
go without an invitation, and besides last
year we paid onr hotel bill, eto., and coaid
not have been indnoed to go again unless
allowed to pay onr way.
And finally that plug practice knocked ns
completely ont of time. We have no pings
and of oonise coaid sot become proficient
so as to hope to compete successfully with
companies familiar, both with the pings
and the grounds. Onr boys were invited
to the contest in Hawkinsville and regret
that they cannot attend, owing to the fact
that the inaccessibility of Bawkinsvil'e
makes it too long a trip. Jndge Pil*be*ry,
of th« county court, shipped several boys to
the chain gang yesterday for stealing hats
and umbrellas, etc., from stores. We trast
thy lesson will prove saintary toothers.
W.
Washington, Ga., April 9.—After a long
and painful illness, Hon. Samuel W. Wynn
died at his residence in this place last
night. Mr. Wynn was one of onr wealth,
lest and most prominent basinets men.
He served his connty ia the Legislature
some years ago. He was seventy-six years
old. His death is deeply lamented by all
and bis place cannot be easily filled.
Bishop Fierce arrived in onr city yester
day, and is the guest of General and Mrs.
Toombs. He comes to officiate at the ded
ication of the new Methodist chnrcb,
which important and interesting event
takes place to-day. The Bishop has many
warm friends and admirers in this place
and vicinity, and will probably remain
among ns several days.
Mr. Adam Alexander, an old resident of
this town, is lying in a critical condition at
his home in Augusta, and his death is hour
ly expected. He is the father of Gen. E. P.
Alexander, and has been a very snccessral
man all of his life, nor only in_accumula
ting property, bnt in his social intercourse
ana relation with his fellows. He gained
friends without number.
The farming interest occupies the at
tention of tillers of the s Ml just now, to
the detriment of trade. A greater, acre
age ot small grain has been planted in this
county this year than ever before, and as.a
just rewrrd to onr farmers fora move in
the right direction, the rays of a genial sun
have smiled npon the fields and together
with frequent refreshing showers reflect
and foretell a prosperous year.
Indication! are for a fine fnnt crop
through the county. L.
Spabta, April 10.—Superior Court in
session to-day, Judge Pottle presiding, in
a room in the old Metropolitan Hotel, for
the purpose of disposing of such cases as
can ’be determined without a jury. Will
be adjourned this afternoon or to-morrow
to the second Monday in July, at which
time tho court will ba held in the male and
female academy, for the purpose of trying
all of tt e cases requiring a jury.
Sparta is quiet and dull. The farmers
of the connty are hard at work, their
work generally being well done
and well advanced. The email
grain cropB ^re promifiu^^the
tlal correspondence?” Witness declined appropriations, reported back the Senate
to answer, intimating that tho committee bill appropriating $60,003 to provide for “
wore weeding tho bounds of their investi
gation and obtruding upon purely private
matters. Witness 6tated he wa3 first in
troduced to Senator Blair by ex-Senator
Crogin, bnt declined to state whether he
was advised by the latter gentlemen to
employ Senator Blair. Ho (tbo witness)
had several reasons for desiring
to secure Senator Blair as
counsel, principally because he
believod that Blair could induce the Secre
tary to give the matter prompt attention.
Witness was asked: “ To whom did Sena
tor Blair expect yon to quote the Secretary
when he told yon to quote him strong,”
rand replied: “ Heviug no access to tho Sen
ator’s mind, I cannot slate.” Witness took
occasion to make a general defense of his
correspondence, asserting, with emphasis,
that he dealt only in facts and with abso
lute candor, and that he was willing to
mnko liis correspondence a part o: his
sworn ovidence, and to stand by its truth
fulness. Witness declined to state what
sum was paid ns a retainer to Senator
Blair, but said that the exact amount was
returned by him (Blair) early in Novem
ber, several months before the assembling
of Congress. Representative Blonnt then
asked whether witness had anything fur
ther to offer in justification of his charge
that Minister Hurlbut had been influenced
against the Feravi-n company by the Credit
Industrial. Shipherd replied, at some
length, that he had already been charged
with pursuing an attack npon the reputa
tion of a dead man, and he did not care to
go further or say anything that was not
directly in the line of his own justification.
THE STAB EOUIX CASES.
Washington, April 10.—Tho motion to
.quash tho Star Route indictments was
based, in part, on a Maryland law of 1722,
which the defense held to be operative hi
the district* Judfce Wylie held that this
law, along with all other laws of the same
class, had disappeared from tho district
code many years ago. He also held ^ the
jurisdiction of his court to be oompleU*,
and that cases of conspiracy were Bum-
ciently clearly defined to warrant indict
ment, thus ruling against the defendants
npon all the points. His decision covers
all of the conspiracy, straw bond and per
jury cases; and also that of Augustus O.
Sateldo, under indictment for murdering
his brother while endeavoring to shoot
Clarence Barton in the Mqpultliaan edito
rial rooms. Bateldo’s oounsel had raised
points under these old Maryland laws
against the sufficiency of the indictment
against Saieldo for murder.
The bail of Stephen W. Dorsey was d.
dared forfeited, and a bench warrant for
his arrest issued. His oonnsel acknowl
edged he was not in the city to plead.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Washington, April 10.—In the criminal
court to-day, judge Wylie decided that tto
B.ar route indictments were good end suf
ficient. The motion to qua«h them was
overrule! and the indictments stand.
Washington, April 10.—Representative
White, of Kentucky, to-day submitted lo
deficiency in the appropriation for subsis
tence ana care of Indians in charge of the
Oherokeo and Arapahoe agencies, in tho
Indian Territory. Mr. Randall, of Penn
sylvania, held that this was a bill in the
lino of the general appropriation forthe
support of the government, and as such
could not be originated by the Serrate. The
bill was accordingly withdrawn and an
original bill to the same effect introduced
in tho House and passed.
The House went into committee of .the
whole on the post-office appropnation bill,
w,th the Senate amendments. The follow-
fourth class postmasters with the ucces-
sary implements for canceling stamps, etc.;
increasing the appropriation for compen
sation to clerks in post-offioes by $150,030,
increasing by $500,000 tho appropnation
for mail trains provided by l ai roads, pro
viding that if any person shall hereafter
perform any service for any mail contract
or in carrying mails he shall have a lien on
any money due by tho Fost-offlco Depart
ment to the contractor. The amendment
restoring the franking privilege was then
reached. A nunber of members opposed
this amendment, among them Mr. Cannon,
of Illinois; Mr. Hill, of New Jersey; Mr,
Townsend, of Ohio; Mr. Robesoo, Mr,
Cobb, of Indiana; Mr. Updegraff.
Mr. Browne, of Indiana, was glad to see
the paroxysmal economy which had come
over theBouse. It was not often thata
tidal wave of that kind came along, bnt
when it did he wanted to get on top of the
wave and float with the balance. Tho
franking privilege, as it now existed, cov
ered everything that tho members of Con
gress could ask. Cart loads of stuff were
sent under it every day, and Congress was
running a huge printing office. Tho al
lowance of $125 to each member for eta-
tionery was sufficient to pay every penny
Of Lis postage, and perhaps
give him an extra dollar- or
two. If tho House desired to put money
into tho treasury, it should abolish tho
printing of ninety per cent, of the matter
which was now printed. There were in
numerable bills which died in committee
which had to be printed, oven memories
were printed and speeches were printed.
If the*man who invented the Congressional
Record still lived he ought to bo arraigned
before a military tribunal,condemnedand
shot. It had killed more members of Con-
gres i than Kid well’s bottoms. (Iho Poto-
m After a' long discussion almost entirely in
disapproval cf it, the Senate amendment
was non-concnrred in, as also were a largo
number of less important, amendments,
and the committee having risen the House
ratified its action and the bill now g/jesto
the conference committee. The House
then went into committee of ths whole on
tne tariff commission bill, and Mr. yox, of
Washington, Ajiril 12;—In the Senate,
committee reports on pending legislation
were made as follows: Mr.Morgan, from
the committee on pnblio lands, reported as
amended his bill to increase the endow
ment of the University of Alabama from
the public lands in said State. The amend
ment diminishes the grant for 92,160 acres
to 46,080 acres, the purpose being to aid in
rebuilding the University, in supplying it
with scientific apparatus, library, and
buildings fit for seminary pnrposes.
Upon the passage of tho bill to place a
former army officer, Herman Biggs, on the
retired list,Mr. Sherman remarked: “If
all the applications of this kind now pend
ing were granted, tho cost of the retired
list would be increased by $2,000,020 an
nually.” Mr. Rollins said “that similar
measures before the naval committee had
been so numerous that it could be said to
have devoted itself at this session to re
constructing not the navy, bnt the navy
register.” Mr. Hampton said “the case
was that of a gallant soldier, who had
voluntarily declined retirement when en
titled to it, preferring to labor for his
living, and had been pensioned on account
of a wound. This wound now incapacitated
him for work ” The bill passed by a vote
° f On motion of Mr. Jackson, the Senate
bill referring to the court of claims for the
adjudication of the claim of Geo. E. Payne
for alleged wrongful seizure and occupa
tion of his sugar plantation in St. Charles
parish, Louisiana, in 1862, under order of
General Butler, was considered. The bill
waives the statute of limitation. The facts
as stated were that the claimant was a legal
citizen, having taken the oath of allegianco
on the morning of tho day of the seizure;
that he was living npon, but temporarily
absent from, the estate at the time it was
seized, and that the plantation was subse
quently returned to its owner," minus a
part of its movable property. Th»
P3S30d*
The Indian Territory railroad bill again
came np ns unfinished business, and Mr.
Vest spoke in ndvocacy of the bill. Tho
proposition to make the light of way con
ditional npon the assent of tho Choctaws
and Chiokosaws to the bill wa9 discussed
without action, Messrs. Vest, Garland and
Saunders opposing, and Mr. Jonoi, of Flor
ida, favoring the ponding amendment to
this effect. Executive eession adjourned.
formed has a field of eighty acres, which,
in the opinion of good judges, will make
thirty bnshals per acre; and he gives due
attention to ottier crops besides.
The last political news here is to the of-
feet that our townsman, Hon. Seaborn
Reese, is “in tho lead” for the Congres
sional nomination in the eighth district.
I have just learned that a storm of wind
_ and tail lpassed about eight miles above
chairman inquired if the gentleman he had Sparta yesterday, but have, as yet, heard of
j engaged was an official reporter, and npon jjo serious damage done. A. H.
j receiving a negative replj, tuiurf t? _ «*=
Too\ibsu6b6, Apr'l 10.—Fishing season
has fairly set in, and those who have time
to indulge in this pleasant pastime are
are no lack of candidates, Independent
and otherwise.
The Mercury, of this place, is advocating
the claims of Jamee K. Hines, Esq., and
onr county wonld solidly support him if
nominated by the Democratic convention,
and he would not ran otherwise. He is
deservedly popular at home, being
a yonng man of unusually
brilliant talents, a hard student,
deep thinker, sbuna reasoner and astute
debater, standing at the head of the legal
profession in the middle judicial circuit,
In which, as well as in the United States
and Supreme courts, he has won distinc
tion, though scaroely thirty years of age.
The eighth, in honoring him, wqjjld do
herself honor, for in her representative
she would have not only a u.- in potent, but
an honest and upright man.
Memorial day wul be duly observed on
the 2Gth instant, and fitting exercises be
held at the Methodist church, under the
auspices of the Ladies’ Memorial Aesouia-
tion. Oscar H Rogers, Esq, our popular
and handsome young townsman, has been
selected as orator of the occasion, and
with his naual gallantry could not refuse
the ladies, hence we expect an oratorical
treat.
Many of the readers of-the Telegraph
and Messknoeb regret that the editor, in
the hardness of his heart, should have re
jected the spring poem regarding the “pic
nic maiden named Flitcbin,”and only give
ns one verse, for from its touching lines we
know that the entire poem wonld have
wrung tears from our eyes in sympathy for
the poor “maid in the kitohen.” To say
the least, jostnow it would be
Gordon, April 11—Capt. James W. Den
ton, the new conductor on the Gordon and
Eatonton train, will make this place hia
home hereafter. His family arrived here
from Savannah the latter part of this week.
They are welcome accessions to our com
munity.
Mr. G. W. Bowers, of Cowan, Tenn.,
has been spending sometime among ns
in the interests of toe Florida Mutual Fire
Insurance Association.
There has been a man in our town late
ly, trying to lend money.
Mr. D. M. Laffilte, the genial cotton
buyer who spent the fall among ns, passed
through Gordon yesterday on his way to
the mountains of Tennessee. He will be
with ns again in September.
Mr. Osborne, a fanner living on the
Milledgeville road, about a mile from
Gordon, hpppened to the misfortune to
lose his mule yesterday. The death of a
horse or mule at this season of the year is
a great calamity to a poor man.
Our worthy townsman, Captain William
Smith, who is conductor or one of the lum
ber trains on the Central, has been suffer-
ing.of late from a throat affection, which
the doctors call choking quinsy. His en
gineer, Maj. Ray, has it, and has been at
bis home in Maoon several days, unable to
work. Mr. Smith thinks it contagious.
Several of his train hands have Jiad it.
The disease made its first appearando while
the train was at Waynesboro a few days
since.
Griffin, April 12.—Griffin, it seems, is
destined to become famous for its inven
tive genius. Since the organization of the
Brooks Car Coupling Company, several
new couplers have been invented, bnt it
remained for C. W. Sbakelford, a young
mechanic of onr cicy, and engineer of No.
2, to produce the coupler “par excellence.”
The bumpers as now used by the different
railroads need not be changed at all, his
invention requiring but a slight alteration
in the coupling pin. It is to be patented
at once, when I shall try to give yon a full
description of the modus oporandi. There
is a movement on foot to make tho cele
bration of the anniversary of
fire department a grand gala
8HAPIXB EVESTS
Wlthib* Devil's Aid.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :—A
quiet man, one who has no political aspi
rations and who cares not a oant whether
or not his opinions npon politics are un-
paltable, begs to say that no writer since
the war has promulgated opinions more
earnest or more suited to the times than
the present senior editor who presides in
your sanctum,
Tha descendant of the most violent types
cf "Southern Democrats, of those who, in
their positions, have aided in directing
both State and Federal affairs, I utterly re
pudiate sots* aforetime Democratic prin
ciples. I am no free trader. I have seen
the practice of that doctrine impoverish
the Sooth, while the practice cf the oppo
site doctrine has enriched the
North. I am no supporter
of Federal non-interference with
internal improvement. I have seen the
praotioe of that doctrine impoverish the
South and enrich the North. B*t I am
Democratic enough to resent, with all the
force of which I am capable, the infamous
attempt of Republican hypocrites and
Pharisees to fasten upon the Southern
people the colossal wrong of ignorant,
negro-independent supremacy. I am
Democratic enough to resent it, even
though the attempt be encouraged by that
arch clerical traitor, Felton, the Judos
Iscariot of Georgia polities.
It is altogether incomprehensible to me
how any respectablo Caucasian, filled—as
he ought to be—with aspirations for the
elevation of human kind, can obtain his
oonsetTto enlist in a party which openly
decliwJ for the supremacy of the lowest
class® and a carnival of crime. The
nauseating mess! A clerical rene
gade, Felton; a political Pariah, Speer;
a lunatic jumping-jack. Miller; a standiug-
natil-he-haa-grown-to-the-stump candi
date, Gartrell: a printer’s-devil-with-hU-
faoo-washed, Thornton, who owes his re
nown to the good-humored ridioule of the
press; an assasain-of-the-interests-of-his-
own-people, Loagstroet, whose minions
lerpetrata red-handed murder knowing
hat the Fedoral courts will prevent their
receiving richly merited punishment; a
genile tempered idiot, Hook; a dandy
>oet, Cox; and a few stragglers of infinito-
y less (unsavory) reputation! Good Lord
deliver us!
Upon what times have we fallen that
such things are not only tolerated, bnt are
openly countenanced by eitizens who have
hitherto been regarded as upon the side of
intellectual and moral supremacy as the
only safe-guard of the Republio? The
inordinate love of office, the insane
desire to partake of the pnblio pap,
have brought ns to a pitiable stite.
Onr own flesh and blood turn npon ns and
attempt to rend ns, influenced purely by
unholy ambition which stops at nothirq.
ded by the wily soph-
of “our brother
__ rerile the habits,
the principles, the memories of our fathers,
and to look to the “intelligent Northern
man” as the modern Moses who is to lead
the Southern youth out of the slough of
despond into which they have fallen. The
Mephistophelian newspaper man from, the
North, who sits at the helm of one of onr
leading dailies, attempts cowardly
stabs from the rear under the spe
cious pretense of “progress;'' as if three
things were not enough, the “ persecuted
and “vindicated” Governor of Georgia,
who presumes to own the State in fee sim
ple, proposes to swap the governorship for
a jack-knife and a railroad charter, or
anything else of rafus. ...
Let the thoughtful, the respectable peo
ple of Georgia arouse themselves. If the
plana of the IndependenLRepubUoan-
Democratic-Felton hybrids succeed, events
will, with the aid of the devil, take on
such a complexion as will esuse decent
people to wish that they had never been
L Word A boat tb« Pnblio Sebool » as-
■re men whose daily pursuits of business
require their undivided attention in Maoon- Q
Consequently, it is impossible for them to
ascertain and realize the condition of ooutt-
try schools as well aa men from the dis
tricts or communities in which said schools
are established. Therefore let m have a
board composed of men from every school
district, and then we can live and t rosper
under the same vine and fig tree. Patrons,
teachers, tax-payers, what say you ? 5
Omesvatoe.
BlBRETT* EA.BX,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
Will you permit me space in yonr valuable
columns to call the attention of yonr many
intelligent readers—more especially those
who are deeply interested—to a few leading
fundamental drawbacks existing in the ed
ucational managements of this coonty,
which are rapidly becoming detrimental
to the progress of nearly all country
schools.
O, Jnfias, Judas, come from behind tho
screen and reveal yourself. 0, patrons,
schcol-sending_ people of Bibb, what are
j who was present to report the proceedings
I for the Associated Press, and requested him
to make an official report. Hays declined
forthe reason that he was not under oath,
and was, moreover, engaged for the Asso
ciated Press. Tho examination was then
adjourned.
STEtMERS DISCONTINUED.
Washington, April 12.—The Post-Office
Department is in receipt of advices from
the postmaster at New Orlears that tho
Morgan Line of steamers, which carry
mails between Havana and New Orleans,
has been discontinued. This will neces
sitate the sending of correspondence in
tended for the Cuba mails to Now York.
No cause as yet has been assigned for the
withdrawal of the steamers.
FRUIT DAMAGED.
Washington, April 12.—Advices to-day
indicate great damage to fruits and berries
by the two days’cold woath'.r from Vir
ginia and Kentucky to Michigan. Louis
ville, Ky., and Wilmington, Del., report
more serious dimage than points farther
North.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Fic d Refugees SuflerluK—Senator
Hill—Moses Iudlcted—Bodies Recov
ered—Tbe Election Cases—Schooners
Collide—Labor Troubles, Etc.
FLOOD befugees huffehing.
New Orleans, April 12.—A Times-Demo-
erat Troy, Louisiana, special reports great
suffering nnd destitution prevailing among
the refugees in tho hills around Lake Con
cordia. From Hemps creek for nearly
nine miles, tho hills wore covered with
rude huts, most of them covered with pine
straw, through which the rain was running
on homeless refugee*, women and chil
dren, huddled together near the fire3 at
the open sides of tho frail shelters, striving
to keep warm, with thoir clothing thor
oughly drenched, over tho coals of which
hissed in the rain iron pats hnog with tho
last meal boiling, and that was all. Many
were sick.
SENATOR HILL.
PmLADELrniA, April 12.—Senator Hill,
of Georgia, left to-day to spend a week or
ten days at Atlantio city, whence he will
probably go to Old Point Comfort, Virgm-
His physicians say ho is getting along
amply repaid for it. Messrs. Lingo, Mason
and McCarty went fishing this morning,
and by noon had seventy fine perch. Cot
ton planting is the order of the day. The
bulk of the cotton crop in this section will
be planted this week. From present ap
pearances the wheat and oat crop will be
much injured by the rust. Blackbirds are
destroying the corn. Hogs are dying of
cholera in this section of tho county. Pros-
jocts for a good froit crop were never bet-
«r. Mr. Steven Lord will be bnned tms
evening. This is the fourth death in this
family of typhoid fever within ths past
four weeks. »■“•
Fort Valley, April 10.—At a recent elec
tion, th» following ticket was elected for
town officers: Mayor—A. O. Riley: Aider-
man—H. C. Harris, J. M.Gray, A. D. Shel-
lie and E.J. Houser. Our town is being
built up rapidly, and there is every sign of
progress and prosperity. CoL H. A. Math
ews will deliver the memorial address here
on tho 2Gth inst. Crops are fine all around
jjere. Correspondent.
Rites, Ga., April 8.—For some time past
the farmers of this (Oaky Wood) district
of Dougherty have beea considerably an
noyed by agents of the turpentine farms
on tbo Brunswick and Albany railroad, by
deooying thoir bands off. Business is like-
ly to be stopped for awhile, as on last Fri
day they succeeded in bogging one Wm.
Fields, (colored,) and having abundant ev
idence to o 'nvict, intend muting and try
ing to give him the full benefit of the Lv.
day. A purse of abont $150 is to be raised,
suitable teste selected and we hoM to have
I at leost one of your companies with us on
J that gnvnesrille is also expected re j
Pt The i §Iadisou Square Theatre Company
are booked here for Saturday night, in
Hazel Klrke. ...
The strrvioas at the Episoopil church-^n
Easter Sunday were very interesting. The
chnrch was decorated very beautifully, and
the music, rendered by a male quartette,
was very much enjoyed by a large congre-
WJV
tt« «m4 Matte it Botteni
with Onwmtr,
Burlington UOKkrge.
Time flies and the boy is learning to talk
so that other people can understand him.
“ If yon would let me hare him for about
one mouth,” said the pleaeaut voiced and
pleasant-faced school-mistrees, who came
down here from np river last week, “I
oonld break him of that carelees habit of
speaking.”
Just because the boy had asked hia stern,
dark-browed father:
“ Poppuls, whurs is mines fiffin polo you
peakiir mama un day?"
Which, by interpretation, is, as the pleas
ant voioed school-mistress would have
taught him to say:
“Father, where is my fishing-rod of
which you were speaking to my mother
with reference to purchasing it for me at
some time in the indefinite tutura.”
And her iittis serene highness shook her
head and said no; he was losing his baby
talk, and learning to speak English too
rapidly as it was. The pleasant face of the
schoolmistress wrinkled up into an interro
gation point.
“School-mistress," the jester said, “on
ail matters of education, your shapely head
is not hilly; it is as level as a new-mown
lawn, but you don’t want to teach the baby
grammar, and you don’t want him to speak
good English. You want him to be a baby,
and you want to encourage him to indulge
in baby talk. In the years to cyme, when
the pudgy little fists wul dig great tears out
of the blue eyes, because the boy can’t re
member ia just what points there should
and must bo exact harmony between the
verb and the subjeot; when he is confident
that he will die before he can remember
how many fellow* besides ‘ad, ante, oon, in
or inter,’ are followed by the accusative :
when he knows,the world will stand still
for just two hoars after school if he can’t
recall that all terminations in something
or other take the what you may oall it a(ter
soma kind of thing-; whonheiS&o trusting
and has so much confidence in Mr. Davies
that he is not only writing but anxious to
accept his statement that tho sum of the
three angles of a triagle is equal to two
right angles, without going to the board to
prove his truthfulness by demonstration;
along in thoie days the memory of hia
baby talk will come bao t to ns like sweet
mnsic. He will have trouble enough
with the English language and all the ep-
portenances thereunto appertaining by
and by.”
“No,” he responded, in answer to a si
lent inquiry of the pleasant-faced school
mistress, “he does not know his alphabet,
thauk heaven, and he shall notba bothered
with it. Yes, he has alphabet blocks, and
knows all the letters on them and many
’ ireposterous stories about the pictures.
Ob, yes, be can count; hear him now
coanting the pebbles he brought home
from the beach—‘one, free, seven, free,
seven, ten, free, five, seven, free.’ Cer
tainly he can count, by a system of hia
own, too, which is more than most people
have.” ,
“Don’t make a prig of the baby, school
mistress. From the day on which they are
six years old they must, nnder the school
system of the States, begin to study, and
sit up straight and behave properly and
speak correctly, and from that time until
the grave hides them they live and speak
and act, verbally speaking, they be ana do,
and suffer nnder social and eduoational
surveillance. And I claim that at least
six years of the life of a man or woman
should be free—free as the air-free to
talk as the brook raDS, with nntrammeled
musical prattle and babble. Why, Lera, a
few weeks ago. came a melancholy-looking
child, abont four years old, and in pres
ence and hearing, pointed to me, and said
to bis mother:
“Mama, of whom is that gentlemen
speaking?”
“Poor little prig! My heart bled for him.
That afternoon I took the boy down by the
target and taught him to say, ‘Mama, what
is dot man a peakin’ yon abont ?' and re
constructed hi* general grammar qn the
sxme easy basis, and—look me ig the eye
—if that boy didn’t tan up like a yonng
Indian in twq days, and he gained seven
pounds in three weeks.
“You see,” the jester concluded, in an
apologetic tone, for Ls had done an un
usual amount of preaching that day, “yon
see, we haven’t a very broad experience in
training children; we have only one chick
Shackle; or ennui and become sensible os
t»onj unnuestionoblo and.legitimate rights
over which I am afraid yon have airey-^
slept too long for the educational good of
your children; or will jrdii permit the dete
riorating infringement to be thrown into
your faces ever and anon, and pat ths i owiuui-uiHina.', ui» ug s uio i
i jacks of the perpetrators as a token [ that ever mangled grammar;
of commendation for fgood deeds
Wonld that every patron conld be aroused
to a senso of his duty that he might view
things through their just and true medium.
to claoz over nbd scratch for ( bflt we’re
bound he shan’t go to school until he's
through being a baby, and WC know;
schooT-miatre**. that he’s the happiest baby
UCnernl Butler's Hlugdlsr Vovr.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler has declined to
Ka .A revival was commenced in the Metho- Seemingly, there must be a colossean Cat-1 act for Goiteau, notwithstanding the
Rev. Sam jijne i u the conspiracy or else I gent appeal of his relatives. It u not;
Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a resolu
tion so to amend the rales as to provide
that the committee on commerce in report
ing the river and harbor appropriation bill
shall mnko a report in two separate bills,
first to include all appropriations for im
provements on the sea, lake and gulf
coasts and on rivers navigable through two
or more States; socond, to >ndnde appro
priations for the improvement of the rivers
of local or State commerce only. Ko-
^On'motion of Mr. Burrows, of Michigan,
the Senate amendments to the consular
and diplomatic appropriation bill were
non-concurred in,with tho excepUon of one
providing that the Secretary of blate shall
hereafter estimate the entire amount ter
qnired for the support of consular and di
plomatic service, including all consular
agents and other officers who are paid by
fee3 or otherwise. This amendment was
concurred in. „ . . .. ...
Tho Senate amendments to the fortifica
tion bill were non-concurred in.
A bill was reported by Mr. Page, of Cali
fornia, from the committee on education
and labor, to execute certain treaty stip
ulations relating to the Chinese. It pro
vides for ten years suspension of emigra
tion and goes into effect sixty days after
its passage. On a call of tho calendar,
the elections committee reported in favor
of Mr.Barbour in the eighth Virginia district
election contest. The House then went
into committee of the whole on the tariff
commission bill. , ..
Mr. Upson, of Texas, expressed his
doubt whether many members on the
Democratic side wonld rapport thei gentle
man from New York (Mr. Hewitt) to the
extent of putting on the free list all raw
material, while duties were to be kept
noon manufactured article*. He aid not
approve of the doo.rino of giving all the
benefits of protection to manufacturers
and depriving all onr wool growers and
producers of raw material of any of these
the tanB*ndnre , . „ H could not and would not revise the tariff,
oonjruities which existjq in it. eou I ^he country demanded a revision, and in
congruities „—_ _— , , .
tended that the House, through its corn-
well, and they do not apprehend that he
will have any farther trouble with his
throat.
MOSES INDICTED.
New York. April 12.—Tho King3 connty
grand jnry of the Court of Sessions to-day
returned an indictment against ex-Govem-
or Franklin J. Moses for false pretences in
having obtained $1,275 from Freeborn J.
Smith, nnder the pretense that he was a
brother of Governor Colquitt.
THE GOLDEN CITY*
Memphis, April 12.—The dead body of a
littlo girl, five years old, another victim of
the Golden City disaster, was recovered
yesterday at Star Landing, thirty ir.ues be-
ow here. It is either the daughter of
Capt. L. E. Kounz or W. H. Stowe. The
remains are Blightly burred on the back.
Capt. Sooville was requested to identify the
remains and bring the body here for inter-
ment* , ,
Two more bodies lost by the Golden
City disister were re :overed this afternoon
four miles below here. One has been
identified as that of Robert Kelly, second
engineer of tho ill-fated vesse’. who re
mained so heroically at his post until the
steamer had been fast to the coal fleet.
The other body was that of an unknowi
deck paseenger,iibout thirty-five years old.
He had on three shirts and grey pants.
Both had met death by drowning.
NEW YORK ASSEMBLY.
Albany. April 12.—The Assomply to day
by a voto of 08 to 14 laid aside the order of
business snd took up the resolutions call
ing for an investigation of the official acta
of Judge Westbrook and city Attorney
General Ward in connection with the Man
hattan Elevated railway suit. After e
lengthy and animated discussion tfio ongi
nal resolutions, amended to extend to ex
tend the scope of inquiry to the receiver
ships, were adopted by 14 votet in the
affirmatives to 6 inihb negative.
Dyspeptic and nervous people, who are
always “out of sorts,” Colden’s Liebigs
Liquid Extrset of Beef and Tonio Inyigo-
rator, in pint bottles, will cure. Ask for
Colden's; take no other. Of druggists
generally. M
Imported ram—something very superior
at Lamar, ite n kiu A Iramar s.
Sandersvtlle, April 10.—Since the storm
of the 27th nit., we have had no rain at all;
good shower is greatly needed, not only
in the kitchen gardens, bnt on farming
lands also, particularly stiff lands, where
corn had been planted, the rain at that
time having been so heavy as to paok the
surface, and tho sun since has baked and
crasted it, hence the stand of com planted
prior to ths storm on stiff soil is poor.
We learn that K. J. N. Walden has some
eighty acres of cotton np, and is now chop
ping it out. This is unusually early with
us, but Mr. Wl is a thorough going, ener
getic .Ttfd successful farmer. His planta
tion lies abont two miles north of this
dI&co* i
Robson’s pond, about a mile from town,
has long been the resort of manjr who
wanted to "go a fishing just for the funof
it ” and the “fun of it" was abont all they
ever canght, until the idea became preva
lent that no large fish.were in the.pond.
This erroneous impression wa* dissipated
last week, however, as Mr. J. Mayo caught
a “cat" weighing twenty-six pounds, and
Mr. Robison another which raised the
beam at twenty-five. They were both
caught with hook end line, and the boys
had some lively pulling.
The peach crop promises to be unusually
large, and unless Mr. Vennor’s prediction
of late frosts shoo’d be true, and severe
enough to dnrnago the young frait,
an abundant crop will be gath
ered. Our connty boasts of some
of tho finest orchards in the
State. Besides the well-known Moses,
Boatwright and Vanbrackle orchards, sev
eral of onr enterprising citizens have
planted out large orchards, which are too
young as yet to bear lull crops. Among
them I might mention Jesse A. Robson,
who has put out some fifteen thousand
trees within a mile and a helf of this place-
Dr. H. N. Hollifield, whose plaoo lies about
four miles from here, has also invested
largely, and others whose names I cannot
now mention. Mr. Robson is also experi
menting with the culture of the wild gooee
plum for shipping. A small quantity (ten
bushels) was shipped from our county last
sea-on by Mr. B. J. Wilson, and netted a
handsome price in New York.
Last year was a disastrous one for
farmers iu this section, racd
— looked
dist church ylsterday morning.
Jones is expected here in a few days, and
will assist.
The little girl who was so severely burn
ed a few days ago, as mentioned in my
last, has since died of her injuries.
Having heard rumors to that effect, your
paper to-day was awaited somewhat anx
iously by those interested, who were agrea-
ble interested to read that the day of thb
parade had not been changed. ™ e will
send quite a delegation, I think among
them Assistant Chief R. T. Daniels, Fore
man Mack, Assistant Foreman Rockwell
and Foreman of the Hose White, of No. 2.
I will complete the list in my next.
On Christmas night, of the year 1880, the
body of a white man was found on tho
railroad track at Hampton, terribly man
gled by having been ran over by a train
nnrlng the night. Suspicions of foul play
were entertained, from the fact that tho
deoeased had always been known aB a
steady, sober man. and also that a jug.
which he had been seen carrying that
night, had disappeared. Neither could any
money be found on his perjon. For same
reason no investigation into the .matter
was had, and the mystery surrounding the
case remained unsolved until last, "Wednes
day, when n negro, lying on his death-bed
at that place (he has since, died), confessed
having committed the crime and implica
ted three other negroes, two of whom have
since been arrested and are now in jail.
The murder was committed for the purpose
of robbery, and the amount found on tho
person of the murdered man was $-3, bait
of which went to the wounded negro, while
the remainder was equally divided amoDg
the other three. The body was placed on
the track by them to make it appear as a
railroad accident. . .
A very much needed ram fell here on
last Saturday. Since then the weather has
been extremely pleas mt, a change for the
better, sinoe previous to the rain it had
been uncomfortably warm* •• **
Valdosta, April 11.—Wo hare had Terr
little rain here since the first of March, and
truck farmers have been wearing long
faces for several days, bnt to-day they are
jour school houses would be
more conveniently arranged, more
commod’ous, supplied with better desks,
blackboards and every necessary article es
sential to ths progress of pupils, which
wouldinculcate a love and esteem for books
that might enable them to realize the in*
nr-
_ not gen
erally known that Gen. Butler, some years
ago, made a vow nover to enter a criminal
conrt again as counsel for a prisoner under
criminal indictment. The ieaeon he as
signs for snch action carries with it quite a
history.
It appears that daring his second term
fluencetnd.appreciation of pure literature in Congrres, one of his henchmen-and a
instead of this trashy, sensational stuff,
which is so frequently found at this fast
age:
Then arises the following innnndoes.and
who will have the moral courage to solve
tho conundrum (or as Senator Brown
would construct it, peculiar coincidence,
which just happens so) by answering the
quories:
Who paid the enormous expenditures oc-
casioned by the careful constructors of. - ... ...
Maosn’s public schools? IVith what kinds at the bank of a creek, produced, a pistol
of benches, desks, blackboards, chalk, I and threatened his pursuer with death
faithful friend—who whs ch:-riif of one of
the countic-s in hi* Congressional district,
received a telegraphic dispatch from tho
sheriff of an adjoining county asking him
to arrest a prisoner who had escaped from
his custody and was on board an incoming
train. On the arrival of the train in ques
tion the culprit was arrested, and the sher
iff locked him np pro tem. in the railroad
depot, from which he subsequently escaped.
Pursued by the sheriff, the prisoner halted
oheerful. Yesterday we were visited by method
aood rains. The Christian Chnrch was befits them
struck by lightning and considerably dam-
iflumors are afloat to-day of a brilliant
wedding for next week*
Gordon, IGa., A^riTl2.-Died, fyester
day, of paralysis, Mrs.
esed seventy-two years.^ She will DO
buried at Mountain Spring, to-morrow.
She was a member of the Primitive Bap
tist church.
—lion. W. T. McCullough, of Jones
county, was in the city on yesterday. He
is not quite so -young as he usedtobe,
but is is full of life, as well as
ftoSiS, a£>2sitio‘tMf- <» a*5*“•
His retentive memory is a fountain of xn-
cident and scenes of toose earlier days
when the political gladiators were men
of mind as well as might. May hia sun
rises be many before he goes (o join the
comrades of his youth^
Toatc, AlMrsIlvsaad tttksrlle.
Simmons’ liver Regulator, purely vege
table, is not unpleasant to Uie teste*^* “
the medicine generally used io t^e ^ou^t 1
to arouse the torpid liver to healthy action.
U cure* malaria, biliousness, dyspepsia,
headacho, oonstipation and piles. The ac-
Regulator is free from nausea
copy books, pens, pencils, bell?, hat-racks,
chromos, etc., are said schools supplied—
making them as attractive and neat as pa
latial parlors? Why are these schools fur
nished with so many modern improve
ments and requisites essential to the ad
vancement of pupils—while your oountry
school-houses serve na but finger-boards
and sentinels, reminding passers-by of the
shells in which their rustic boyhood days
were spent? Summing up the statement
of expenditures from July 1st, 1880, to Au
gust 1st, 1881, we find the expenses .swelled
to the enormous amount of $25,256.43, of
which $2,018.69 is psid for rent, repairs,
etc. This being the case, we would like to
know how much was appropriated to the
schools in the country. So great a mis
take, I fear, will soon kill the goose that
lays the golden egg; or, the country
schools, from too much superfluous food,
will refuse to lay at all. Then, good Samar
itans, what will yon do ? Then, ob, Judas,
whose lips will you kiss. . -
Perhaps fanatics, who are singular in ,—- —
1 -
are countryites, subordinate, unrefined,
unpolished, seim-civilized, without the en
dowment of any creditable aspirations.
If so, have yon not adopted a very poor
- for giving them that polish which
uvu.. ...em for a proper position in the
scale of refinement, civilization and en
lightenment ? I will make a few remarks
or comments pertaining* to the education
al board, and then, for a while, at least, I
am done. Where do tho men who com
pose said board reside ? Do they not live
m Macon? Are they not more
interested in the growth of home
affairs than eleswhere. Are thwe men not
daily employed or engaged in their persou-
al business transaction ? Do thesfe men
ever visit yonr schools and inquire into
matters appertaining thereto? Can, or
would these men put themselves to any
trouble or ,x P ense. to visit yonr schoo s ?
How many have visited your schools ? Be
fore commenting or ridiculing any further,
pereuit me, Messrs. Editors, to say by way
thought best and right. As far as our bu-
should he advance oue step farther. The
courageous sheriff, though unarmed, did
not hesitate in the discharge of his duty,
and met his death in oonsequeoce. The
man was hnntod down and iu a shert time
safely logded in jail. Then came
the funeral of his victim, at which
General Butler, next to the widow
and fatherless, acted as chief mourner.
“Some six months after this,” says Gener
al Butler, “I was in the criminal court,
when the prisoner before mentioned was
arraigned for trial. In answer to the pre
siding judge he represented himself as be
ing without counsel, and requested that I
should be assigned to defend him, which
was granted. I pledged all sorts of ex
cuses, but in the State of Massachusetts a
similar rtquost from a prisoner on trial
for hia life never passes unheeded, and I
was compelled to aot as defender for tho
very man who had so cruelly deprived
one of my best friends of his life. Once
assigned,” said he, “I forgot everything
bat my official oath as an attorney,
that in the end he was convicted of a
minor degree of manslaughter, entailing
only a few years' incarceration iu jail.
Then came the hue and cry ot my political
enemies. ‘This is the man,’ they said,
who escorts the-widow to the grave at the
funeral of his faithful henchman, weeps
crocodile tears, and then defends the assas
sin and assists him in defeating the ends
of justice.’
“At the next election,” said Gen. Butler,
“I did not get even one vote in that dis
trict, though heretofore they had been
unanimously cast in my interest. Can jron
then wonder at my registering a vow never
to enter a criminal court again. ?”
Salaries Fald to frealta of Nature,
New York Bun.
The pay of fat women runs from S15 to *75
week, according to weight and personal
iR.-i.utv, There la one attraction in the busi
ness who, in addition to being a fal woman is
besides n bearded lady, and also charma the
snake ITcr salary is the smallest in the show
because the is crora eyed. The hfcheat price
paid to n fat woman is received by Hannah
Battenby. Her face is very pretty and she
, . weighs 7S! pounds. Her height is alxJeeL Sne
hey I R „ however, a dangerous nval in the liitecu
SB- y^r old giants Jcwle Warner who now turns
SKndratis tonetmetLhereopes abreast Te
with the above men, and in addition to | toNust ^ im, made museum
that, think him the best man vre can pro
cure, because he has
brain, intellect, judgment,
uerieace and competency to
him. and no doubt knows better the wants
of the people. Then arises the query, what
..incTn <• im brought about? Let the
back
in
consequence things. v ®
gloomy at the beginning of this reason,
but I tnink if we are able to reach the
peach, plum and b’aokberry crop teey will
carry us through tho summer; that is, in
connection with the small grain crop, wt ich
farmers from all sections report os unpre
cedentedly good. The patooes of oat*
around town (and there are a goodly num
ber) arc simply beautiful, particularly oue
belonging to Hon. C. B. Fringle, contain
an excess'of Wleto^ rt° m&ch ' the Regu-
int/*r an active purge? after the removal
ver> of the bile, it will regulate the bowels and
impart vigor and health to the whole sys
tem.
A doctor at Richmond says that if the
-neoule will take a bath in hot whiskey and
reck salt twice a year they will never catch
a cold. Until somebody has tried th s new
remedy, we would say, stick to the old
and reliable Dr. Ball’. Cough Syrup,
revolution is to be brought about ?
Legislature select a board composed of one
representative from every school district to
tee county. If we attempt to exercise jus
tice, let it be supremo, lmpartial justice
nd representation according to taxation
r enumeration of schools. How many pa-
teo*n.T teachers and taxpayers wffi
sign such a petition to be forwarded to the
Legislature tor a careful, thorough, lmpar-
tiaf'considerAlion, and let us have even
tchooi in the county represented. Bj
bringing about such a revolution, jour
schooLwill receive the beat attention and
beoorne an honor to ail classes.
Paraon me for again saying that I have
no objections, animosity or V re J nd *f®
against the present board, other than th.y
public for novelties has made museum
managers send into the wilds of Africa and
l to the out-of-the-way stands of the !a £*6c
> I for interesting samples of humanity, to whom
t they have to tiler -special Inducements WOOme
to this country- A band of Zulus recently ex
hibited in this city cost 400 per week.and ho
tel expens'v. This line of curiosities is differ
ent from home monstrosities, inasmuch as the
longer they stay here the less their salaries
grow. In other words, a savage ceases to at
tract quicker than armless, legless men or a
five-leered calf. The highest^ ^Unrapald W
five-legged --- - , _ _
niontii i*n to Captain Ijiiw
arc each cigiu feet high. They are very
wealthy! and it is difficult to get them to exhibit
themselves! They will sometimes, how :
stand before the vulgar gare
week and expenses in
of
short
ten per week ana expeitses m
contracts. Within recent years the Tom Thumb
,-hool of dwarfs has been replaced to a great
•xtent by the Midgets. The two which at-
traefitl so much attention a! Montonie Hall
i-eceWed together SVO per week. Dudley Foater,
the five-pound midget, though only ten years
d Jives hi» parents «« every Saturtajr.
.-wo-headed girts are extremely rare and are
worth SCeO nor week and expenses.
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