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JButbhflfc §ndcpsndtt. i|. UAU.AHRR, Editor. ♦ <ll SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1874. a LEI JIUTICISBE DONE. RTm liate been, ro now, and expect to bo ,n advocate of hi) impartial administration it the law. Let the law Jw vindicated in Siting it* penal tin* upon the offender ir "jpeoiive of moe, color or previous condi gn of!ervitude. We have a rooe distinct tbm onr own to live with and to deal with, io*e civil and political right* nro equal l onr*, but politically, Uiey Niro weak, ey aro In a hopelces minority, they are Wiedncntod and wanting iA luteligenoo. minority and inferiority in a polit mnae render* them powerloaa. In ie administration of jnalioe they ham t a tword to nay. When they violate the law ?n*y never eaonpo the penalty. There on', when their person and property is jiitnigod and abused, and they invoke the Urong arm of the law, it should not be Withheld. If the weak are oppressed tho strong, the judiciid scepter, ),o.'ld las wielded in tlieir favor. ?boir weakness it known to via, and it hould make them object* of onr sympathy, re should take no advantage of their in feriority. The highest evidence of tho sn xiriority of onr race ou bo most bean ti dily demonstrated in doing Strict justice the weaker class, nud protecting them ,n nil their right*. More than twelve month* ago we an nounced through our prospectus that vie yvouid expose error, in whatever shape it presented itself. Now, we think from the twst information we emi gather that .m er ror wa* committed in our County Court hist week; this seems to be tho opinion of every body that has talked with us on the Bjthjlct. We do not impugn the motives of the Judge, or charge him with a par tial administration of tho law;hut the facts as stated to us, shows clearly a very great error in judgomout. Tho facts ore that a negro woman was badly beaten by n white nuui in this comity, who is a good citizen and u clever man. But in this in stance lie acted hastily and if tho facts ns stated to us arc true, he acted cruelly. No doubt hut the conduct of tho woman had provoked him to anger, but as we under stand tho facts, the provocation was not sufficient to justify him in assaulting and beating her. But the Court thought other wise and discharged the defendant, and in this acquit.nl wo think there was a mani fest error, and we think oft repeated, errors like this will have a bad influence in our County. Therefore, we say when tho poor black man or woman appeals to tho Courts for justice let their prayers bo heard and answered. If the bluek man or wo man's rights aro abused let the law come to their relief and redress their wrongs. If their persons are assailed and maltreated by the white man, let tho penalty of the law bo visited upon him. If tho black man has a right to testify in tho Courts, lot oil the rules of testimony apply-to-bim. If his testimony is to bo discredited let it bo done upon the same principle that ap plies to the white man’s testimony, there sre rules by which witnesses testimony is, or may be weakaned, or invalidated, but they rule make uo distinction as to color, and it is a dangerous precedent for the Courts to establish, that the nuimpcached testimony of three colored witnesses (ro- cognized by the law as admiaable and com j intent witness'.®) should bo sot aside and disregarded npoo the statement of n white defendant not under oath. Ami if their testimony is to hove no weight in the the Courts of the country, it is ft judicial farce, either to compel or permit them to give evidence. Iu the trial of tlio cose to whioh this article has reference, wo uro in formed that the pr. socutrix, a black wo man, swore positively that tbo wliito man assailed her and beat her without mercy, exhibiting her wounds not yet healed, ami her testimony in every particular was co roberated by two other black women whose testimony was not assailed and in no wise contradicted except by the statement of,the defendant not under oath. Tsia wo think is a now role by which witnesses are to be discredited, and we do not think that the Court can find a justifiable precedent for setting aside the testimony of these wit nesses. Wo are a personal friend to the defendant, whose name we think unneces sary to mention, ns wo are aiming at prin ciple and not tovposo names, we are also personally friendly to the Judge who tried the ease, llut we think of him in this ease, as we i.*ve often thought of Superior Court Judges, that iu the administration of jus tice he erl and orod egregiously. We think that the defendant in this ease, and other like offenders ought to have been taught by the Court that the person of the colored Jjjiuuj and wouau is sacred to thorn, and is entitled to the protection of the law. We think it would have been better for the defendant, if be hud bet a punished to au extent that would restrain his omitablu and . impetuous temperament iu tho future, aud we feel confident that it would have been a more salutary precedent to go before the ouuutry. Tho Comity Court had jurisdic tion of the pertain of the defendant and the subject mutter. The investigation lavs bpen had and the defendant discharged, and whether right or wrong, the question is fiiiully settled. But there is another er ror about to. be ciynmittod far moro start ling than the one we have übove referred to, The United, States Commissioner for this District has issued a warrant for the same party, aud for the same offense, the trial of which will take place about the time our, paper goes to press aud too lato for publication in this issue. We will give an account of the proceed ings of that Court with all. of its emu's iu oar next issue. Wo will, make every ef fort to iiseeitaia where the United States Cam mission or gets authority for the arrest of a citizen for the offense of assault aud • attery. I'KOM THOMASVILLE. [Hpis-Ul Dispatch to GaUahoi '• Independent.) Thomasvhxk, Ga., April 17th, 1874. The three negro murderers of Mr. Juni per Hall were hung at ten o'clock twelve minutes, this morning, at this place all avowed their innocence. Tho last one died bravely. Webster Lyon, wife mur derer, hung at same time. It was a light matter with him, as lie laughed freely at the odity of shaking hands tied behind his hook. Two Military Companies and strong special police appointed lif’the town which was very qniot. No crowd. THE GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY lino whieh will connect with the Atlantic & (lull Railroad at Jesqp, is anew line in firoocss of oonstrnction and will ho of infinite advantage to Jacksonville snd Sa vannah, and wo think of but very little in jury if any to the Atlantic & Gulf Road, from the fact that all passenger* from Sa vannah to Jacksonville will have to pass over that part of tho rood from Savannah to Josup, a distance of 57 miles, Wlmt is lost in the distance from Jesup to Live Oak will he made up by the immense in crease of travel. Tho distance from Josup to Jacksonville l>y the present line of rail roads is 205 miles, or übont that distance. The distance from Jesup by tho now line is 95 miles, 107 miles shorter than the present line. This new line completed tho branch of the A. & O. It. It. from Lawton to Live Oak will cease to lie profi table and will necessarily linvo to he abandoned. Then it will be to the inter- est of tho Company to look out for an other section of tho country into, and through which they may profitably send out another brunch from which to draw support. From Qnitnmn to Mouticello, Flu., by an air line is about 20 miles, which would shorten the distance by that route from this point to Jacksonville about 10 miles and shorten the distance from this point to Tallahassee, and points west of that about 11)0 miles, also shortening tho distance from Tallahassee to Savannah 40 miles. We mean by this that the distance will bo shorter tlmn the present lino of railroads. By reference to the map it will be seen that Mouticello is almost on a di rect lino from Savannah via. Quitman. This short line can ho built by the A. & G. R. It. at but little cost as tho iron on its bruuch from Lawton to Live Oak which will necessarily have to bo aban doned for want of patronage can ho used in building the brunch roud from Quitman j to Mouticello, and we have no doubt that the citizens at each end mid on the line will take stock sufficient to do tho grading. This connection being made it will make this tho direct and most practicable line for -all the travel and transportation of produce from Middle and West Floridu to Savannah. A branch from this place to Mouticello will ho of much greater advan tage to the A. & G. Road and to Savannah than a branch from Thomasvillo to Monti cello. The distance from Quitman and Thomasvillo to Mouticello is about the samti. From Mouticello to Sava mall via Thomasville 220; via Quitman, direct 11)4, a saving in distance of 2(3 miles. Tho road from Thomasvillo to Montioello will bring Macon and Atlanta in direct competition with Savannah f>r the Middle Florida trade. It will also divert a great deal of the travel that now goes to and by way of Savannah; to and by way of Macon and Atlanta. As wo are now dead heading the oity of Savannah and tho A. A G. R. R , we make these suggestions for the consid eration of tho enterprising citizens of tho eity, and tho company aud officers of the road. The Slidell Estates. The celebrated Slidell confiscation case was argued in tho Supreme Court to.dny. Tho history of this ease has therefore been given in t hese dispatches. The effort is on the part of tho heirs of tho late Hon. John Slidell to recover the valuable real estate belonging to him in the city of New Or leans, which was seized and sold under tho confiscation act of July 17, 1874. The ease was argued to-day by Assistant Attor ney General Hill, for the government, aud by Thos. Allen Clarke, of New Orleans, fortlio heirs. Mr. Clurko is tho executor of Mr. Slidell. The Assistant Attorney General did not confine liiiuself altogether to the legal point involved; but took tho occasion to lug in political allusions. He said that Mr. Slidell was the most obnoxi ous of all tho rebels, and hud done more to bring on the war than any one eke, and he urged that for liim particularly, what ever harshness there might be in tho law, should not be abridged or abated. Mr. Clarke, iu his reply, alluded to the maganiuiolis disposition shown by Mr. Lincoln to impose as few hardships as possible in the conduct of tho war, and the willingness always shown by him to remit all penalties wherever it oould be done with safety to the cause. He said that this feeling op tho part of President Lincoln, which was known to the people of the South, had dono more in tho end to dis solve the Southern Confederacy than the armies in the field. He spoke of the divi sions of families during the war, instanc ing Mr. Lincoln's own ease several of those who were connected with him being among tho stougest sympathizers with the South. Had Mr. Slidell died without issue, those who would be the defendants in this oa. o would be his two sisters, the wid ow of Commodore Muttew C. Perry and tho wife of Commodore C. P. Rodgers, the two sorrowing sous of Alexander Slidell McKenzie, now in tho military service of the country whose brother was killed abroad iu the same service, and Colonel \V. J. Slidell, the only son of tho Into chief justice of Louisiana, who was appointed a lieutenant by Mr. Lincoln, and saved during the war, rising to tho grade of a colonel. The three daughters of Mr. Sli dell, who are the defenders iu thiso so, are : all married to noblemen and are now liv j iug abroad. One is the Baroness Erlan- I ger, of Germany, the second is theVieoiu i teas ltiviere de St. Roman, of France, and i the third Baldness do Pfyft'er Hiudigy, of I Switzerland.— Washington telegram to lial- I tomore Sun. The value of the lost steamship Europe was about SI,21)0,001), anti she was insured ; in French insurance companies for about ] two thirds of her value. Her cargo was a ! very valuable one, chiefly of j ailks, wines and sardines. Her agents think j she probably carried a great quantity of | extra fine goods for the spring trade, and that the value of her cargo could not have ; tieen lies than 5i,000,000. The greater i portion of these goods was preliably in sured. Their exact value can not ofcourse lie ascertained till the arrival of her mani fest, i [COMUCMCATKI.J Latter From Thomas County. Thomas County, April 9, 1874. Editor hutrj/rndunt: I have concluded to give yon a short verison of a very tragift affair which has just been brought to light in this neigh borhood. About the first of January last, a man appeared in this noigliliorhood seeking work, and was employed by Mr. R. F. Linton, to work at' his mill —said man giving his name os Walker. HOon af ter, ho moved his wife and three small children upon the place of Mr. Linton. Things went on smoothly and excited the suspicion of no one. A few days since a matt camo.in the neighborhood inquiring for a man whoso description suited Wal ker. Ho was told by some negroes that Walker, tho man whom hu hail so well dis cribed, had gone on that evening with Mr. Linton, to Thomasvillo with a load of cotton, and that ho would find them camp ed on tho roud that night. Ho followed on, and just after dark rode up to tho camp, and us he approached the fire, Walker gave him the dodge, unseen by the pursuer. Ho stayed with Mr. L. the remainder of tho night and also went with him to Thomasville and back the next day, hut seen nor heard nothing of Walker. On tho Friday following, (which was last Friday) ho understood that Mr. C., an old friend of his, lived in the neighborhood. He at once proceeded to his house and told the following story: That his name was Richardson, (whieh, as I said before, was so, for Mr. C. and his father had lived neighbors twenty-five years in Alabama) and that Walker’s right name was Mattox, and that ho identified him in various ways, hut more particularly by going in tho chimney-corner of M ittox, utins Walker’s house at night, recognizing his wifo and children. Aud that said Mat tox, alius Walker, had iiffDtcember last, in Taylor county, Fla., shot ami killed his younger brother. That his younger brother owned a large stock of hogs that ranged near Mattox, alius Walker’s place, j and when he returned from Cedar Keys, be was told by various persons that Mat tor,alias Walker, had been killing his hogs ami hauling them off by tho cart load. The young man at once proceeded to the place where his hogs Winged, to look j after them; but had no weapon with him, whatever, and while there he met Mattox and his wifo, and Mattox hud a double barrel gun. The distnneo was one and a half miles from Mattox’ house. His brother missed bis hogs and asked Mattox about their disappearance, when Mattox insulted him, and in return, his brother dealt him a blow with his fist. Mattox ran back a few steps when Richardson turned to go home as he said "I will see you again.” Aud as Richardson walked off Mattox shot him in tho buck with eleven buck shot. Mattox disappeared and his wife went and told some of the neighbors where | they could find the dead body of young i Richardson. They had her arrested and earned bo fore; a Justice of the Pepce and she swore as stated above. lie further sta ted that he;had a warrant for Mattox, alias Walker, in his possession. Also, that the Governor of Florida had offered a reward of S4OO for tho ai rest of Mattox, and hi' aud his fatlior had offered SIOO additional. After telling this the murdered man’s brother left, saying that ho intended to have Mattox before ho stopped. Since Richardson’s appearance first, Mattox bus been hiding about. But wo lmve not heard from Richardson since ho made his story known to Mr. C. Rumor says that Mattox, alias Walker, was about to make ready to “hide” with self and family, when, on Sunday night, the sth inst., his wife brought forth three living children—two sons aud one daugh ter. Tho two male infants died in thirty six hours, the daughter is peart and is likely to live. On last night a few of us, with proper authority, armed ourselves and on learning that he]would be at home last night, for the first in some time, we proceeded to liis house while “it was yet night” aud before “the cock crowed thrice” wo had his house under guard. We soon grew tired of waiting for auro ra to break forth and concluded to depart from our original place of waiting until daylight, and immediately called out for “Walker.” The woman replied that he was not there, that he had left tho morning before. We told her to open the doors and let us search, and, after a considerable time, we were admitted, and in thirty sec onds thereafter, found him “rammed and crammed” into a trunk. It was u trunk full of man, mid it was with some difficulty that he extricated himself. It w:is a scene sufficient to arouse all the simpathy within a man to hear the tear ful sobs of wife aud mother, and to behold the sad anxiety depicted on tho oouutc nuuoe of each little one, as if to say, “what are you going to do with my papa ?” We carried him up to Capt. Cl.'s ami gave him a good warm breakfast. After that wo did not loose much time iu secur ing him with a rope, and starting forJMou lioelln, Florida. On arriving there we wore advised by a lawyer to proceed to Tallahassee with tboJprisoiuT at once. Af ter obtaining a copy of the Tallahassee Sentinel, saw the proclamation of tho Gov ernor, offering S2UO reward for tho arrest of Win. Mattox, we did so, and arrived there soon after nightfall, delivered him to the Sheriff, took liis receipt for him and next morning, early, demanded the reward of the Govenor Stearns. He seemed to be very proud that wo had brought him, saying, that wo had ennght a notorious villian, when Attorney General, Cooke, turuod to Capt. G. and Mr. R., (of our party) and said: “Yes, Mattox has killed a? good a Republican as there is in this country. ” The Governor said that the Sheriff of Taylor county must come and demand him before tho reward could be paid, from the fuot that some of the prisoner's friends could relievo him on r writ of fattens cor pus. Mattox made several alight attempts to escape while on his wav to jail, and after aeeing that all had failed, he begged to be killed, saying that he had rather die, then and thero.tlmn to stand his trial. Mr. Jno. 11. Hutton, Honator from Taylor county, informed us thut Mattox was an ontlaw of a desperate ehuraeter, lint an arraut'eoward. It is said thut he has, for n long time, keen getting his living by stealing and false swearing—freqnontly bringing honest men into trouble. . Mr. Sutton also informed us (through Capt. G.jand Mr. R. as I failed to state aljove) thut tho Richardson’s were ultra Helicals. Homo very bad reports are afloat about them—l know not how true they may be. W. H. -— A DESTRUCTIVE RAIN STORM. Isms of UA, The Columbus Enquirer gives tho fol -1 iwing account of the recent ruin storm at nud near that city: NOIITH AND SOUTH HAIMS'AD. A culvert, one nud a half miles from Co lumbus, is washed away, and another, three and a half miles distant. The water opening at- No. fiisgone; also two bents at No 4j and seven bents nt No. 7—thus making five hreuks in the road. The bridge over Huwhatchio creek is safe, and also that oker the Mulberry. THE SOUTHWESTERN BAII.BOAD. At the three mile cross roads *> culvert nnd fifty feet of embankment arc gone. Hix miles distant from Columbus a small tres tle is washed awny. At Rocky creek, eight miles away, a trestle is gone, nud in the creek is an engine with three jiassenger cars. This train left Columbus yesterday morning under charge of Conductor Welch and Engineer Mathews and Fireman . The train plunged without warning into the creek. The parties on board saved themselves by jumping,off before the de scent. The accident happened in day light. At Cox’s creek, eighteen miles above Co lumbus, thirty to fifty feet of the embank ment on the eastern abutment is washed away. THE HOBIMt AND 01/I.VBD UAIUIOAD. The small bridge ov*r the Cochacolc boo creek fifty miles from Columbus, with some embankment is washed away. Other washes are reported at intervals. The passenger train is reported at Thomasville, ami the road is damaged on Isith sides. There is a bed break it Chunnenuggec. It is doubtful whether tiuiua can run through before Sunday. at the <rrr. Home six inches must have fallen Wed nesday night. Water acorns to have come j iu solid sheets. It was impossible for onr 1 sewers to carry it off, coming in the rush it j did from the surrounding hills, aud hence ] some portions of the city were flooded. The northern and eastern sections suffer ed a good deal in the watering of cellars aud submersion of gardens, but the south- ! eastern portion suffered most. The ditch 1 leading out in the. direction of the brick I yards seemed to bo filled up, and all the I waters from that qitarer seemed to strict) j over certain quarters of the city. The view from the cupola of tho conrt : house wua very grand. ’ Looking to the ■ southeast appeared a vast sea, dotted with verdant islands of glee* trees anil white house. Thomas street- appeared ns a lake, two or three feet in depth. On the east com mons was a house, occupied by colored people, to which ingress and egress could only be obtained by Knits. Wo beard several say that iu the lower part of the city the water entered their house. On Thomas street the water was over the track, and at one time entered tho lire boxes of the engines which passed on the truck. BTOPPAOSS AMI THE BIVKK. Ali the river factories except the Colum -Ims were sloped at an early hour. The public schools gave holiday because the pupils could not wade through. Rome of tho morning papers were not delivered for the same reason. The river, to last night, had risen twenty feet. DEATHS PnOM DROU NINO. At Ba. xi., on Thomas street, Stephen Bride, colored, aged about sixty years, who lacked ouly one month of having been twenty-five years on the corporation foroe, was wading about at the intersection of Troup street, to push drift wood from the mouth of the sewer. The bridge at tiiis point had been floated from its position by the rushing current. Deputy Marshal Robinson and Aldermen Schuesslor aud Andrews had ordered him from the place, but he had taken three drinks, and per sisted in staying where he was. Once he lost his balance, and the flood carried him into the sewer. The body was recovered a short distance below lute iu the afternoon. Ho still held a spade in his hand. This stuck in the mud, or else the body would have been carried to the river. He died faithful to his post. About 3p. m. somo little boys were playing on a plank near the month of the sewer, paddling about. One of them. Bob, a thirteen year old son of Mr. Geo. Huugerford, fell off aud was immediately sucked into the sewer. Jehu M’ells, col ored, caught a son of Prof G. W. Chase, aud prevented him from following his com panion. The body of young Hvmgerforil has not yet been found. John Wells, who discovered the body of thy colored man, went through the sewer as faros the Co lumbus Iron Works, but could not find it. Lost evening many parties were engaged iu dragging the river. The drowned boy was au only son. Another little boy, John Harris, a car rier for thispujior, fell from the Southern railroad bridge into u swollen branch, lie flouted down some distance and was pulled out senseless. He is now all right. Other casualties were reported, but these are all that are authentic. The Massachusetts Senatorial La bob. — Boston April 11. — Twenty-first bal lot: Dawes 08, Hoar 54, Curtis 63, Adams 14, Sanford 7, Banks 0, Wushburn 4, A. 11. Bullock 15, Learned 3, Judge Pittman aud Whittier 1 each. The convention ad jourued until Monday, Boston, April 16. — Twenty-third ballot: Dawes 87, Hoar 71, Curtis 70, Adams 13, Bullock 0, Bunks 6, Sanford 2, Pierce 2, Wasliburno 8, Whittier, Pittman and Learned, 1 each. Cahi.r Intkihicetion’.— Lont/on, April 14.—During a terrific hurricane, yester dav, off the southwest coast of Ireland, the j Atlantic cable which was laid in 1866 1 ceased working. The fault is not yet pre cisely located, but is reported to be nbout twenty-five miles from Valentis and was the consequence of shallow water. As there are still two cables in good working order, messages will not be delayed to any appreciable extent. The laud lines be tween Valentin and London were interrup ted yesterday, for a short time, in conse quence of a severe storm. THE MYBTERY EXPLAIND. How Bon Hill Rascned Georgia from Radical Rule. HOW HE FIRST OSTRACISED AND THEN HtJNEYFCGLED THE RADICALS. The Bush Arbor Speech, The Kimball House Banquet, And the State Road Lease. PARTS OF A GRAND SCHEME OF BTATEGIC STATESMANSHIP. HOW THE LEGISLATURE WAS HELD AND OEN. GRANT CONCILIATED. A Glorious Time at “Poase and his Wife’s.” THE KHA OK CONFIDENCE AND GOOD FEEDING RESTORED. Ii n and Boh Touch Glaatc* nd Affection ately Embrace. (From tlio Atlanta Herald, April 12.) TOOMIIH AND HIM, AT THE VANCE SI'ITUII. Letter writers from Atlanta have made ] statements as to scenes and sayings at th supper given to Gov. Vance, at Pease’s, which are calculated to create a very wrong impression. The writer of these lines was present, und knows tho occasion I was one of entire good feeling and bur- 1 raony from beginning to end, and the dramatic speech said to have been ad dressed by General Toombs to Mr. Hill was not made. There was some speaking aud much wit, but not the slightest ill-na tured remark made by either of these gen tlemen, or any one else. The following incidents did occur: Governor Vance alluded to the superior com lit ion of Georgia over all her confeder ate sisters us remarkable, and while much gratified with the fact, he did not under stand how this btutc of things was brought about. Mr. Hill said: “The explanation in- \ , volves a long story, Governor, hut one I chief reason is this: In other Htates, in cluding your own, a white man was allowed | to be a Radical in full fellowship with the | negroes and carpet-baggers, and still re [ tain bis social respectability with decent people. We did not allow that in Geor gia.” This remark brought into the discussion Mr. Hill’s "bush arbor” speech, in 18(38, and Mr. E. Y. Clark proposed a toast to “the author of the greatest aud most elo quent speech ever delivered in any age or country.” This toast was heartily received, and , Gen, Toombs declared that that speech did j save Georgia, for it was history’that not a single white man iu the State ever joined tile Radicals aftt r it was made. It was glorious speech, aud he grew happy und wept for joy when he heard it. A call was made for Mr. Hill, but lie ouly said, sitting, “I am certainly flattered by this demonstration. I can never forget tho occasion alluded to. Some people thought that speech was impulsive. This whs a mistake. No speech was ever more deliberate, or made with n more distinct purpose. It was clear to my mind that the only way tu save Georgia from the horrors which now afflict South Carolina and other 1 States was to consolidate the white peo ple, for the white race consolidated must win finally. The only way to consolidate the white people was to make Radicalism odious. That, speech was made to accom plish that purpose; it did accomplish it, and I believe it did save Georgia.” “It did,” said Gen. Toombs, with groat earnestness, “there is no doubt about it; j and, Ben, you ought to lmvo died after i making that speech.” “You are mistaken, General.” said Mr. , Hill. While that speech did all that conhl ; then be done, perhaps, still the Radical party hud possession of tin l government of Georgia— every department of it—and if 1 had died then, they wonhl have hatl pos session of it now, and you would have been one of its victims.” General Toombs—“l don’t understand that, Ben, and I can't think so,” Mr. Hill—“I know you don’t understand it. General; you have not been in a posi tion to understand it. It is the only ques tion I ever know you to be stupid upon.” Finally, Mr. Hill yielded to repeated calls and made a short speech. He ex plained the condition of things in Georgia in 1870, and the untold terrors of bank ruptcy and degradation which must result to onr people if Radical rule should be prolonged by the result of this election of members of the legislature for that year. "I fixed that,” interrupted General Toombs. “You are mistaken," said Mr. Hill. “You did help carry the election, but that was comparatively easy work. Every elec tion in Georgia under reconstruction has really gone Democratic. The great point was to hold tho Legislature after electing it. This was the hard task I undertook, and in it I received uo help, either from my friends or anybody else, ami much abuse from you and nearly everybody else. True, the Radicals had passed a bill ex pressly to enable them to carry the elec tion. But they, as I had reason to know, had determined, if they failed to elect a Legislature, to make one, ns they did in 1870, by turning out elected Democrats and putting in defeated Radicals. This effort was made. J. was np to the liilt in that fight. Grant refused to interfere and the effort failed. Even Bullock then abandoned it. This is tho debt wo owe President Grant.” Mr. Hill then proceeded with a state ment of facts on this subject to which the whole meeting listened with the closest attention. He said ho examined carefully the sources of Radical power in Georgia. They were two—“internal robberies and external Federal protection.” The reve nues from their robberies were derived from the State road, aud their issue of bonds aud their hypothecation in New York and elsewhere. The remedy was to get the State road qnt of their hands, and prevent another reconstruction of the Leg islature, aud thus stop the issue of bonds. The only way to prevent the reconstruc tion of tlie Legislature was to avoid inter ference by the Federal administration. How was this to lie done ? Here was the great problem. To its solution, both hon orably and effectually, lie gave all liis thoughts. He visited the North twice to acquaint himself fully with the opinions, purposes and tendencies of the Democratic party. By these means he fully satisfied himself in 1870 ns to wliat would be the Democratic platform of 1872 —that the Democrats of the North would submit to any usurpation committed under the forms of law. If tho South resisted, the Demo crats would whip us into submission. It was our business, then, to take care of our selves and Bubmit to wbat we did not ap prove, and could not resist. By taking that position in advance, when neither party expected it, he might for a time be misunderstood by his friends, but he would get in a position to be heard by the Radi cal authority at Washington, and thus de feat the eoutinuauoe of Radical domina tion in Georgia, aud 1872 would place him right with his frionds. He explained his: connection w ith the lease; his business as sociation with men for whom ho had no I political respect; his presence and speech at the Delano banquet; the final flight cf Bullock uani the rescue of the Stute gov ernment, in every department, from Radi cjil rule, aud the avoidance of martial law in the Stute in 1871. He continued; “I have been greatly abused—ignor antly by many, selfishly and designedly by some. Hut Georgia lias been saved, aud Georgia, not myself, I was Becking to save; und I never road in the papers, or hear from our distinguished friend (Gov. \ auce) allusions to tLis great and glorious result without feeling a comfort I would not ex change ‘for the crown the Bourbon lost.’; The Democratic party in 1872, took the position I foresaw would be taken, only it went further on that line than I expected. But I followed the party, und if ail our friends had done likewise, not only Geor gia, but all our afflicted sisters might have been redeemed, aud now rejoicing in hope instead of weeping in despair. 80, while my friend (General Toombs) and his fol lowers were cursing me for supposed de sertion to Radicalism, I was saving him and them from the uocursed domination of Radicalism, This is a social lueetiug of friends, and you will know how to pardon the seeming egotism of w hat I have said. ! 1 have stated real facts—the alphabet of a ! history which the details would most fully I confirm.” Gov. Vance—“l am glad yon have said to us this inneb, Mr. Hill. I have misun derstood you myself, though I always be lieved there was an explanation. I under stand you now. I see through it all, and I am gratified. I know many of the public facts you state are true, und I now see their significance.” Mr. Flynn—“l know Mr. Hill's state ments are ‘more truth than poetry.’ I was in position at the time to know some of the facts he stated.” Gen. Toombs—“l am satisfied, Ben, I did misunderstand you. I see your mean ing now, aud I say anything was right to g t rid of the d—d scoundrels.” Gen. Toombs also said, laughingly and in manifest good humor, as all clearly saw: “I did think, lieu, you had gone and turned rascal, but .now I see you were right. ” The foregoing is a truthful version of what occurred on the occasion referred to, as will be verified by every gentleman present who gave attention to what was going on. Whilst much freedom of speech, nud perhaps some not strictly dig nified familiarity, were allowed, at no time during the evening W'us ail offense intended by any one around the festive board, nor anything that was said considered in that ■ ease. CREMATION GAINING GROUND. The Corpse of B New York Crews* to be Converted Into Light nod Flowers. One of the wealthiest persons in New York has made the following codicil to a testament drawn up long ago, and be queathing all the profits to public useful purposes. The codicil reals thus: “Not wishing that my body, after death, shall add to the injury produced by poison ous effluvia diff used from cemeteries among their surroundings, I direct that the una voidable dissolution of my remains into ; gaseous and earthly matters shall bo has tened by cremation, instead of being re i tarried by burial; thus utilizing its mate rial directly fur tho vegetable kingdom, to which we uil must once furnish food, aud at the Runic time guarding myself against the awful possibility of resurrection iu a ! closed and buried coffin. “The ancients, in burning the bodies of ■ their dead, supposed that the so-called soul or spirit ascended to heaven with the flames. Chemistry bos taught us in our country that something more real ascends, ; namely, different rases, especially divers j carbon compounds, which may at once be utilized, mid that the remaining ashes may be kept separate, and prevented from be ing mixed with those of the fuel by the details prescribed in this will namely: “I direct that my remains, after mani festing the only sure sign of death, green ish discoloration of the abdomen, may be submitted to an autopsy by tome profes sors of the mcdicul department of tlie Uni versity of New York, if they think that it may be useful for the progress of seieuce. My remains shall then be injected with petroleum, eresile alcohol, or its disinfect ing equivalents, be laid in a metalic (iron) coffin, as small as practicable, and a burial service held at my residence, presided over by tho Rev. Dr. , or , or any other enlightened clergymau. Immedi ately after the close of said service, the hearse, conveying the coffin with my re mains, shall proceed to the Manhattan Gas Works, where the lid shall be removed, and with due solemnity be placed in one : of the retorts, and the same closed for the | space of three or four hours, the usual heat i applied, so that all the moisture and gase | ous ingredients may he driven off, partially | condensed, passed through the purifiers, ' while the nitrogenized compounds will be j collected as ammonia, as usual, and the j hydro-carbons add their share to the duty of illuminating the city, i “The retort shall then be opened so as | to admitair to tho heated mutter, in order ! to burn as much as possible of the carbon j remaining into carbonic acid escaping. If any respectable party or association ex | presses a desire to preserve my ashes, they shall be placed in an urn, or other , substantial vessel, and delivered to the same. If no such desire is *• expressed, I direct that my ashes shall be delivered to the Central Park Commissioners, to be used as fertilizing matter on one of the flower beds near the music stand iu the Central Park. “The President, Vice-President and Secretary of the New York Liberal Club are herewith appointed executors to see that this part of my will is duly fulfilled.” Relieved. —A bachelor, who was some what stricken in years, had been for some time enamored with one of the sisterhood but could not muster courage to pop the question. One morning lie was resolved to make the attempt. He accordingly went to tlie house of the lady, knocked at the door, and she made her appearance. After a mutual nod, the following laconic dialogue ensued: “Do you want to change yonr condition 7" “No.” “Nor I.” And turning about, our bachelor concluded the conversation with, “Thank Heaven ! I got that loud off my stomach 1” One Thousand Dollars tor a Kiss.— Helen Crager, an attractive young school teacher, whs kissed against her will by a conductor on the Chicago and Northwest ern railroad. She caused him to be arres ted on a charge of assault and battery, and he was fined and discharged from his position. She then went for the rail road company, and has just recovered one thousand dollars damages, the Circuit court of Sauk county, Wisconsin, ruling as a mat ter of law that the company was liable to the plaintiff for actual damage occasioned by the wrongful act of the conductor. Now j let railroad companies take warning, and ' employ no conductor (of vehement oscula- j tory propensities. A gentleman in answer to a lady’s in- j qniry if he liked tea, said, “yes, but Ij like tho next letter in the alphabet better.” ' A National Infamy. We almost regrot the Hanliora swindle has been investigated at all. We wish tho abuses and wrongs perpetrated through such instruments and the Treasury De partment could have been quietly and pri vately corrected and the country have obj tained the good resulting from such col lection without liuving to eDdnre tho evil of its exposure. Itseemes however, that nothing less than a public exposure, wi.h the storm of indignutiou which must ac. company it, could have been effective IB securing even ft mitigation of the abuses. But this is a costly price to pay, iu view of the world’s criticism, even for so great a boon ns the removal ol dishonest officials and the stopping of leaks upon the revenue and oppression to the business of the country. Two glaring and astounding abuses have been exposed. The moiety system, ae pursued iu New York, thq, largest import ing city of the country, and the method in which the collection of internal revenue has been farmed out to favorites. In this nominally free country a “special agent" could menace importers or their emplyees with handcuffs, bnlly by threats of arrest and false charges officials more honest thuu himself, and could control the whole ma chinery of the law department of the government to wring ruinous blackmail form the business men of the country. This Jayne has done time and again, and it has been so proven by not only the most respectable merchants of New York and Boston, but by the very scoundrels who abused the prerogatives of their places and profited by villainous practices. And all this record has gone out to the world to astonish the nations who have regarded as as a republic; to plant suspicion and dis trust in the minus if the mercantile classes of other lands. It has been shown to all foreign nations that at the receipts of cus toms of a land professedly the freest on earth, an hundred leeches, in the guise of revenue officials, stand ready to po .nee upon the most insignificant mistake in invoice, to rob their customers of fortunes in the shape of fines or “compromise*.” Aye, more, that cormorants, armed with authority to invade, capriciously, the counting-rooms of merchants and carry off their books and correspondence without a moment’s notice, subject ‘hose books and private memoranda to the inspection of men who would not scrapie to distort facts or change figures for the plunder it would bring them, have been tolerated for years. That a “specialagent,” like Javne, can bribe with impunity clerks to falsify books and betray trusts; that he cun perse cute and plunder at w ill; cun arrest merch ants and place handcuffs upon their w rists, and bring in speciul detectives to affright them with the prospect cf incarceration in jail to extort from the victim he finds it to bis interest to persecute a ransom in morny, und thut such a scoundrel is blacked by law officer’s of tlie government who are to share iu the agent’s plunder. The fiercest, vilest, most intolerable despotism on tho face of tho earth could do no more, and yet this has been going on year after year rhe eyes of the Treasury Department of the United States, and has been defended and connived at by that department. Is it at all surprising that business has been damaged and depressed, and can wo wonder that foreign merchants regard ns with suspicion and distrust ? But on tho heel of this infamy comes the astounding | revelations of the Sanborn swindle, in which the lute aud present heads of tlio Treasury Department ere more than com promised, Under a law sneaked through Congress naan amendment toaievnnebill, Mr. Boutwell made contracts with favori j tea' for the collection of w hat was iudefi ltely termed “unpaid taxes.” Through ‘ the then .Assistant and now actual Becere t try of the Treasury these contracts were | made with the notorious Sanborn. For j the acts of his subordinates Mr. Bout well was resposibie; and it is immaterial | whether bo personally made or porfited jby these contracts, he is, repsonsible for j what wrong was done through them dur- iug bis term of office. The present Secre tary, however, cannot possibly find a loop hole to escape from the gross violations o: law and morals perporated by these favorites. He assumed from the first the control and direction of the whole thing, taking no one in liis confidence but Solici tor Barefield, Contractor Sanborn aud his congressional backers. The Commission er of InUvual Revnue was utterly ignored, though the contractor was licensed to rummage his department at will, to ex plore the books of collectors and assessors, and to collect revenue taxes and return them direct to the Treasury Department instead of through the chnDel designated by law. Tho inquiries of Commissioner Douglass in regard to this invader of his privilges and duties were left unanswered, and the contractor was more effectuully backed by the legal machinery of tl e government than was the Commissioner himself. A secret so lucratve to those concerned ; and so criminal in its character could not :be kept always. Hungry Congressmen | looked on more favored colleagues, who ! were assisting District Attornies in San \ born’s interest, in violation of law, saw i them drawing pay as Congressmen and District Attorneys, from the government, and sharing the spoils with the contractor, and they were bound to talk. People, j from whom these taxes were collected without effort, wondered at the new order of proceedings, and the whole job was brought to the attention of Congress in such away as to compel its attention. ' And now investigation lias devloped an I attitude and practices on the part of Mr. Richardson never before charged j upon a cabinet officer of this country. The Secretary of the Treasury is arraigned i for crimes, which, considering his place, its grave responsibilities, great powers | and high duties, should subject ‘ him to the sternest penalties of the criminal code i Downright dishonesty is fastened upon | him, despite his treacherous memory. He ' lias played a part which place him in col i fusion with schemers who have plundered the government and the people at a time when the country was groaning under a burden of debt when its llnances were de ranged, when a financial storm, such as it has Dot witnessed since its birth, was sweeping over it, wrecking fortunes, puralizing industry, and spreading ruin, want and distress on every hand. Is it to be wondered that our country is regard ed with suspicion abroad, and could we blame the capitalists of Europe who have invested in our bonds if they despaired of our solvency ? A fearful humiliation is involved in the exposures at Washington. Secretary Richardson has failed to clear his skirts of complicity in as infamous a swindle as ever was prepetrated by a public officer of either high or low degree. He has shown hiir - self not only incompetent as a financial officer, but unworthy as a man to occupy any place of trust, muchless one of snch vast responsibility, and the country is humiliated at the exposure of his malfeaa auoe.—Baltimore Sunday Telegram. The Indian Famine. —A special telegram from Calcutta to the London Sandard, re ports that the famine is every where under control. The accumulations of provisions made by the government arp more than sufficient to meet the demand; and further aid is superfluous.