Newspaper Page Text
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVIII.
Chronicle & Sentinel.
TERMS OF SUBSCR'PTION.
daiev.
One month I 1 ®0
Three moDth* •' 2 W)
One year - 10 00
Tltl-WE ekt.v.
One year f 6 00
Six ?u'nib* 8 00
month* 2 00
WEEKEY.
Three month* S 1 I*o
Six in mi hi 1 50
One year 3 00
W KD>i ‘ OAr UOKVIXtJ, MARCH 1.
The Dfbt of the State.
Much anxiety is telt by the people of
the several States as to the extent of the
indebtedness of the governments of their
Slates respectively. It has been one of
the marked features es loyal reconfirm.-
tiooir-t-, not ntly t > increase without meas
ure public debts, but so fur as practicable
to conceal the extent of their issues of
public obligations. Just at this time
Virginia and North Carolina are busily
engaged upon inch subject*. In the last
mentioned State, while all the people—
every man, woman and child—thor
oughly understands there is no possible
hope for the recovery of any tho vast
•ums which Holden’s thimble-rigging and
Littlefield’s plundering has caused to
vanish, there is a feeling, as Governor
Vance wittily expressed it, that the “hat
had got hack safe,” and this is an
event so unexpected as to occasion
thanksgiving to an overruling provi
dence, which has graciously permitted
this much, iiut in South Carolina, Louis
ianaaml Arkansas, it is not even permitted
to “tliank God for so much.” Nothing
appears in the future but long years of
desperate struggles, under the crushing
weight of great debts and its consequent
onerous taxation. The devilish art of
loyal reconstructionists, by issues and re
issues, and readjustments, interweaving
and amalgamating bonds for just debts
with fradulent and fraudful sac similies,
so thoroughly and completely ns the ma
chine of the paper maker interweaves and
alrnagamates the pulp from the rag vats,
that it. makes it impossible to discriminate
between that which is just and lawful
and that, which is unjust and fraudulent.
In our sister State, Alabama, there is also
now ranch serious apprehension and the
beginning of tribulation, and the day is
not far distant when like trouble 'will fall
upon Georgia.
FoKuaatcly for us in Georgia, a wise
provision in the laws aril the unbending
integrity of an officii*', will prev nt much
of that doubt and uncertainty which is the
occasion of perplexity, and is tho glory of
a rogue’s account. Mr. Treasurer Angler
has comformod to the requirements of the
law, and furoishosat one and tho same
time, lair uotioe to purchasers and partici
pants, whether as innocent buyers or
fraudulent conspirators, and the official
data with a ready method for eliminating
the good from the had, by class, by date,
by ago and by authority.
In the annual report of the Treasurer,
made conformably to hw, tho public debt,
by the Treasurer’s books, tho authorative
guide, is given by date of issue, amount
ing on the Ist January, 1871, to $6,544,?
500 principal and $427,375 interest, and
X 15,000 sterling bonds, and £3,000 intcr
crest on the same.'
Hut an July bound, iha Treasurer gives
tho names of thirly-lwo railroad compa
nies chartered, whom (ho Bullock-Terry -
bayonet-governed Legislature, which was
fashioned und formed by a railroad master
of transportation, has granted “aid”—"to
which the endorsement of the State is
pledged, covering a distance of over two
thousand miles and in amount over THIRTY
millions OF dollars, which the State
prospectively guaranties.” This, says the
Treasurer, ** added to the old bonded in
debtedness and new bonds issued, will make
something over forty millions of dol
i.uis. being one-fifth of the tax returned
value of all the property in tho State, ex
clusive of railroads, banking, express and
insurance companies.” This same immense
sum, carrying with it tho immenso taxa
tion for annual interest alone of $2,800,000,
may well bUrll ■ tho tax payers of the
Stato, and challenge direct and earnest
measures.
But wo have said before, fair notice has
been given. The press and the peoplo of
the State remonstrated publicly and pri
vately. This of itself would be sufficient.
In the. matter ot aid to railroad enterprises
this has cot been without its effect. Those
enterprises, and thoso only, have aud will
be benefited by endorsement,which possess
bona fide capital sufficient to make loss
impossible.
As r> the New Issue—the Bullock issue
—tl e Treasurer has marched boldly up to
the point and officially gives duo and legal
notice to the holders of thc“ovcr FOUR and
one half millions of new State bonds
issued, the Governor has failed to
HAVE EXECUTED and REGISTERED, AS THE
law REQUIRES ; in his anxiety to keep the
matter concealed ; and that they are not
therefore, in due and legal possession
thereof,” we repeat tho warning.
Opposed to Centralization. —T h e
people, are no doubt, strongly opposed to
the centrallization measures which have,
year ulcer year, been finding favor at the
hards of the Radical majoiity in Congress.
It IS also true that but very few among the
masses really understand what these meas
ures are. They are universally given >
high sounding title, which has do more
connection with the real object of the law
than Holy Writ has with the Koran.
The reconstruction measures are all of this
character. The bill providing for tbe use
ot the aruiv in controlling elections was
given a most sweet and euphonious title,
and tbe “ popular education” bill, now
struggling for existence in the House, on
jcys a similar baptismal blessing. The ob
ject of all this is to decieve tho people—to
steal their liberties without once arousiDg
their suspicions as to the progress of the
work until it is accomplished. The policy
is characteristic of the Radical party. Its
leaders always say one thing and mean
another. While clamoring about human
rights, they are planning the destruction
of those rights, so far as in their power.
[ Detroit Free Ih-css.
The CAUPEt-BAO Element.—Were not
the people of the South almost the per
sonification of .hat charity which
hopeth all things and endurcth all things,
-ays the Detroit Free Press, they would be
unable to bear the burden which Radical
hatred placed upon their shoulders. The
meu who administer their laws are either
taken from the most vicious classes of the
North ox of the South. Justice is rendered
a mockery, and law perverted so as to
sanction crime, rather than provide for its
punishment. Petroleum V. Nasby, who
is intensely Radical, makes this admission
in one of his lectures:
"l mot judges ot courts in the Southern
States, who, ten years ago, were hostlers
in livery stables in the North, and whose
knowledge of criminal law they had gained
from standing in the prisoners’ dock.’ ’
Is it strange that there is lawlessness in
a country where such men administer
justice 1 Is it not strange, on the con
trary, that crime is cot tec-fold more preva
lent than it is ? Is it not strange that an
influence so terribly destructive of a sound
morality, as the rule of Radicalism has
shown itself to be, has not broken up the
foundations of civil society ?
The President signed the bill territorial
izing the District.
Akkrman to he Kicked Oct os the
Cabinet for Incompetence.— A special
dispatch to the New York Evening Post
(Radical;, dated February 13th, says :
“Yonr correspondent is in possession of
information which leaves no donbt as to
the early resignation of Mr. Akerman as
Attorney General.
“The President has frequently of late
been urged to meke a change in this office,
not merely for political reasons, but for
other and higher considerations. Within
a few days past the affair has assumed
such a shape as to require the change to
he made ; and, although the President’s
mind is said to he fully made up to it, he
hesitates as to the policy of making a
break in the Cabinet until after the fid of
March.
1 “The necessity of Mr. Akerman’s resig
! nation is understood to 5e entirely profes
i eional, and to be attributed to a want of
his familiarity with the law governing im
portant cases in which the Government is
interested, now pending in the Supreme
Court.
“Yonr correspondent violates no confi
dence in saying that several of the Justices
of the Supreme Ooort Lave advised the
President to make this chauge, asserting
that Mr. Akennan had not thus far dis
played even ordinary legal attainment in
conducting cases for the United States be
fore the Supreme Court.”
State Road Lease.
Atlanta, February 20, 1871.
Editors Chronicle dr Sentinel:
The pressj generally throughout the
State seems to “lift up tenderly and
handle with care” the matter of the State
Road lease, and for the most part dis
covers a desire to await developments.
Now, the “developing process” in an in
vention of reconstruction. We ail know
what it means in actual praotico in Radi
cal hands. It seems to possess some al
lurements for the Demccraoy. At all
events the disposition now seems to pre
vail, that it is but just and proper to
await the developments of tho facts be
fore “forming opinions,” and in the
meanwhile let the facts themselves die
cut in silence. But the people them
selves are not so disposed. The great
heart of the people is sc and and honest,
and the great will of the people is firmly
bent upon developing all the facts of this
last of Radical exploits in the way of
swindle. With your permission I pur"
pose to give the Chronicle & jlentinel,
whioh has, from the beginning, rnivintained
its independence, some items in the history
of this matter, which, while current
enough upon our streets, have not yet,
so far as 1 have seen, found their way
into tho pul lie prints ; at the same time
I shall not publish anything that cannot
be verified upon investigation, and
averred upon credible and responsible au
thority.
It ■« stated that tl e tremendous efforts
of the Governor, advertising the proposals
for a lease of the State Road, in Chicago
and New York, and Washington, elicited
but two offers. One of these, the Browc-
Petcrs’ proposal at twenty-five thousand
dollars per month, tho other the Mott-
Austcl proposal to lease the mad at thirty
six thousand dollars per month. The pro
posal arranged by Mott, Austell, Mustiau,
Soago, and others, included and was made
with tho knowledge and approval nt lead
ing officials in tho Macon and Western,
Central and South Western Railroads.
Those parties proposed to give as security,
eo soon asa legal consent of the stockhold
era could bo obtained, these several roads,
well-knowing that a mere resolution of the
directors of a corporation could not hti id
the companies, unless the power came in
accordance with the accepted provisions of
the charter of a company, and tho bye
laws authorized by it, and ratified by tho
shareholders. But the Mott-Austell party
soon found out that the Governor inter
posed so many objections, that there was
no chance for their success. His decision
was a foregone conoludon. And they pro
posed to make a row about it. This created
alarm. A parley was called. Messrs. Cam
eron and Delano were sent for, and Bon
Hill called in. Cameron and Delano came
ostensibly to establish a great bank a t Ma
con, really to meet tho irate, who were
plotting a war on the most extended scale,
in counsel. Passing through, yet tar rying
a while in your own city, they reached
Macon, and mad) due proposals (or com
promise. The basis was agreed upon.
The details were loft to be adjusted at At
lanta ; aod these wero arranged by Gover
nor Brown aod the Hon. Bsoj. 11. Hill,
alter a wrangling discussion, wbichcon-
suiued a daturday sight and (our hours of
a Sunday morning. Under thn new pro
prietary division, the rental rate of
the Brown-Peters’ lease was adopt
od, and Mcssri. Mott, Mustian and
Austell were politely informed that
they were very good 'looking but
could not come in to have a finger in
Joe Brown’s “pie.” It is confidently
stated that the animated discussion which
so greatly increased and jmolonged the
Brown-Hill Saturday night’s discussion
was, that Brown insisted that one share
must ba reserved for the Governor’s dis
posal, who wanted it for a “Northern
friend.” This being finally yielded, peace
was proclaimed, and the “pie was
by a grand supper at the expense of the
Executive, at the Hi. Kimball House, in
honor of the successful ambassadors from
Washington City-. There all went merry
as the marriage bell, and Joe Brown
stepped joyfully into ten thousand a year
from the bench of the Supremo Court.
The Seago-Blodgett affair is a little
episode, which will hereafter afford enter
j taiument. The whole history of this lease
will inevitably bo made public. Toombs
has already given notice that ho “intends
to shell those woods, giving notice in or
der that time may be allowed to remove
the women and children.” It is also
stated that Brown is not inactive, but has
written to secure the services of eminent
j counsel, residing in Hancock, Muscogee
I and Floyd.
The matter is destined to undergo close
I investigation, and will be the sensation
J after the kalends of November.
Non Tetigut.
The State Road-
Kingston, Ga., February 16, 1871.
Editors Chronicle Jk Sentinel, Augusta,
Ga ■'
1 will answer the Intelligencer and Con
stitution by asking this question : How
come the State Road owing connecting
roads and connecting roads not owing the
State Road ? A package of freight leav
ing Augusta tor Kingston creates and pays
its own debt at destination, aud sice versa, a
package from Kingston to Augusta does the
same thing, and then the Georgia Railroad
is bonud for and pays the State Road’s pro
portion of the debt, and in the same way
the State Road is bound for the Georgia
Railroad’s proportion on a package from
Augusta to Kingston. The great balance
of freight is going from the State Road to
connecting roads, and not from connect
! ir>g roads to the State Road, and hence I
I affirm that the connecting roads ought to
! be owing tho State Road. " W<i(chm<in,
what of the night l l ' E. Y.J.
The Savannah Seics says “it is stated
that James R. Randall, the well known
author of “Maryland,” “Arlington,’ and
the “Cameo Bracelet” —and lately editor
of the Augusta Constitutionalist —has a
volume of poems iu press which will ap
pear early in the coming autumn.” lie
hope the statement is true, for the sake
of Southern literature, if for nothing
else. Some of the cleverest that have
appeared in this country during the last
ten or a doaen years were from his pen,
and we should be pleased to know that
his labors in this field of literature are to
be gathered into a volume. It would be
creditable alike to Mr. Randall and the
South.— Atlanta Sun.
The Republicans and the Irish.—
Donn Piatt writes to that excellent Re
publican paper, the Cincinnati Commer
cial :
“Every ono knows, if he knows any
thing, that we Republicans hate the ln«b,
and would be very glad to have a good lot
of them hung (Tom. Murphy), while the
Irish hate us, and would be delighted to
have the same favor extended to the en
tire organization. An Irishman's Demo
cracy is like his religion—a matter of
:aith.”
[COMMUNICATED.!
George 1). (baputan. the Great Bevef
oper.
Messrs. Editors: With your permis
sion, wc propose to show up one of the
late importation of the “Great Southern
Developers ” (?) namely, George D. Chap
man.
The estimation in which he is held in
Lis rative Btatc may be readily seen by
the following extracts:
“After the experience that we have had,
I cannot say one word in favor of the par
ty in question, and, not wishing to do any
one harm, would prefer to remain silent.”
The above extract is lrom a gentleman
of the highest social and commercial stand
ing. The following is from equaliy as re
liable a person:
“In reply to your inquiry of the 4th inst,
respecting the ‘ character, responsibility,
and geueral standing ’ of G. D. C., I beg
to state that here his general character is
not good, he not being a truthful mac. As
to his pecuniary responsibility, he has no
property, eo far as 1 know. Hs is deeply
in debt acd his credit is bad, and his gen
eral standing as a business man is such
that no confidence would be placed in his
ability to perform a contract he entered
into - In fact, he is looked .upon as an ad
venturer, who has everything to gain and
nothing to lose.”
Certainly the evidence of his private,
confidential and trusted “ servant” should
be conclusive as to the reliability of the
aforementioned ChapmaD. He wrote:
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 12, 1870.
George D. Chapman, New York
Sir: Your favor of 9th instaDt to hand,
and contents noted.
The proposition to make Mr. Bean local
treasurer does not surprise me, as I was
informed before you left Augusta that such
was your intention, and I have no doubt
it would equally as well suit your purpose
to give your Connecticut friend in Atlanta
my position as Secretary, which you prom
ised him. The Scottish poet may have
fully represented your case when he said
that 11 The best laid schemes of men and
mice afl gang aglee.”
My reputation has already suffered by
my connection with your affairs, and now
for my own protection and that of my
family, I must protect myself, and not
allow my name and reputaion, which I
nave earned by a persistent course of
right, be sacrificed by a man who has no
gratitude nor possessed of any attribute
that goes to make a man.
The local treasurerslip (there being
really no office known by that name in the
company) was not sought nor desired by
me, but was voluntarily given me, and I
am not disposed at this time to relinquish
the position, and give occasion for ex
planations to outsiders.
It is very singular that after the more
than faithful manner I have cared for
your interests in this place, I should be
stabbed by one who is so greatly my debtor.
The flimsy plea of reHving me from labor
and annoyance is all bosh I Yi u know that
in this enterprise I gave time and labor
without reward, loDg before you wero
known or heard of, and that through my
instrumentality you were taken into the
same. You may not be aware that lam
informed, that on the visit you and I made
to Dr. Catey, in November, 1869, to have
him accede to our plans, that on that day
you, in a mean, sneaking, underhanded
way, tried to induce Dr. Casey to have me
vacate my position, but Dr. Casey, a man
whose word I esteem far before your oath,
told me a few weeks sinee of your plan?.
Nor do I forget your damnable effort to
blacken my character by making base
charges against my integrity, which you
knew in your heart were lies—damnable
lies—without a smgle shadow of truth;
and when I brought them to your notice
you pronounced tho author of them a d—d
liar! I did not till you then, as I could
have done, that there was another person
to whom you had told the same lies.
I have quietly kept on the even tenor of
my way, knoiviug that the time would
come when I could tell you to your face,
you were a liar, and a villain dyed in the
wool.
I presume you have led the New York
gentlemen to believe that you controlled
ilia tfoiy glft Directors, and cited the copy
of minutes of the last meeting. I might
as well tell you now, which they and I
knew at the time, that yonr new by-laws
were all a dead letter , never having been
lawfully passed, and that the Directors
suffered you to be deceived, as they knew
no money would pass through your hands.
Do you suppose the A. & H. R. R. Com
pany will allow all what you spent in
Atlanta ? The dry goods bill for Minnie
Roberts, $237. Your tailor’s bill. The
phseton and horses, etc? I think
not. You ought to know, and I tell it to
you now, that you have not one friend in
Augusta, You are despised by every one,
and I regret to say it has militated against
those who have been beguiled and misled
by your damnable lies.
1, as the confidential clerk of Geo. D.
Chapman & Cos., have been kept'in ignor
ance of the true relations between the sev
eral partners. You informed me and im
pressed upon my mind that Mr Dechard
had but* one-third interest therein, and
that you had given him his interest—
when, in faot, I learn by your own signa
ture to the contract, that Mr. Dechard has
one-half interest, and that he gave to yon
the interest you have in it.
It might as well bo fully understood at
this time, that your connection with the
Augusta and Hartwell Railroad Com
pany will prevent the company from ob
taining a single dollar of subscription from
either individual or corporation—not a
single Director in Georgia would entrust
you with a single dollar of their money,
and would counsel against any of their
friends doing so.
You are known from one end of the
Stato to the other ; and your letter to
Governor Bullock, acknowledging yourself
a liar and traduccr, is known everywhere,
and it it had uot beon for Dr. Tutt’s pre
cipitancy at the last meeting of the Direc
tors, Dr. Casey would have shown you up
in your true light for want of veracity to
the whole Board of Dlreotors.
1 have used plain English in this letter,
for none other would suit the emergency
of the case, and although there are very
many other facts that I could recall to
yonr recollection, and prove any one, I
forbear for the present, and only add that
I trust you 1 ave underceived Mr. Under
wood as to the use of the funds he en
trusted you with, and that he knows it
was mostly used for your own affairs and
not the railroad company.
I Yours, &c.,
Chas. R. Abbott.
Taus spoke this worthy Secretary of his
virtuous master.
This man who boasted ofthehonorof
extending the limits of our city to take in
the sable vuie.T of Rabbit Hill, what shall
we say of him? This “capitalist” and
“representative of the capital,” who
could build one hundred and fifty miles of
railroad as easily as our forefathers blazed
a road th-ough the native forest 1 How
has he fulfilled his boastful promises ? He
tailed ignominicusly on a nine mile road.
He collapsed on the Port Royal Road, as
the many confiding contractors, engineers
and j oor laborers can testify.' His next
project was to lug the State Road and
build competing fines that would rob it
of much of its present travel and trade.
Now he proposes to build a road from
B.ackville, in S >u'h Carolina, to Milien,
and hence to Vicksburg or some other
lar western town—a road which would rob
his adopted home —Augusta—of much of
its trade and commerce. How shall we
characteriz’ this characterless adventurer
“who owns and controls a railway from
the huodreth parallel to Atehinsou iu
Kansas,” and cannot pay his former
employees now suffering from his perfidy?
Language fails to portray this grand '“de
veloper” as be deserves to be shown to
our peoplj. Possibly, be expects to win
with his “syren songs” the money to build
the Augusta & Hartwell, the BlackviUe,
Milien & Vicksburg, the Atlanta & De
catur (Ala.) Railways—to say nothing ot
his Knoxville & Cincinnati Road—from
the dull money kings of Wall street and
exchange place.
This bold financier finds that the bonds
i of a Georgia road, endorsed by the Em
i pire State of the South, are wholfy|worth
less in purchasing the iron for a road that
' has never bad a pick struek into it, and
' that he will have to buy the iron upon the
credit and with the money of his Thorp’s
(whose dishonored acceptances can be
bought for fitly cents on a dollar here) and
Underwood’s.
See how sunken is the credit of ouronoe
proud State when such men have more
credit than the entire population of
Georgia!
We hnrably submit that this wonderful
"musical" and /hianad? genius, this signer
of libels, had better return to his former
avocations of tarring ropes before the
mast, to driving a stage in Australia, to
stealing water lota in the golden Btate, to
furnishing churches with prima donnas,
to anything rather than building railroads.
This is the mere prelude to what is to
come after. It will be continued at inter
yaj;, by One who Knows.
Augusta, Ga., February 18, 1871.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1/ 1871.
[communicated.}
Messes. Editors —The cornmunieafion
| signed “One Who Knows” and “show
! ing up” the character of “Great De-
I veloper Chapman” does not go far
| enough, nor does it give any reason
[ for thus parading his many virtues before
|an admiring public. In the capacity of
President of several important railroad
enterprises in this and an adje-ining State,
Le is a public character, and hence liable
to public praise or censure, as his acts are
worthy or unworthy. If this fellow
Chapman had been guilty of all the crimes
in the calender, but would build the Au
gusta & Hartwell Railroad, the people of
Augusta, and of Georgia, could well afford
to forgive him. But a review of his his
tory in connection with this and other
railroad enterprises should he sufficient
to condemn his course as rascally in the
extreme, and to convince the entire com
munity of his utter inability to carry on
this or any other great enterprise. He
came here without anv prestige to stamp
him as the “Vanderbilt of the South,”
other, than the prestige of failure —he
having miserably failed in every operation
he ever embarked in, except a9 a stage
driver in Australia, where his genius
found its proper level. His first move here
was to ingratiate himself with Dr. Casey,
and to secure, through that most worthy
gentleman, an admission to the Board of
Directors of the Augusta and Hartwell
Railroad. He was modest then, and
aspired to no honors or offices, other than
that of director, but-would turnwb-ail the
money to baild tho road, nod to make every
one connected with it rich beside.
Now mark how insidiously he stole
into power, and triumphs to-day
ever the Georgia directors. His first
aggressive movement after becom
ing a direct or was to subscribe to a
sufficient amount of stook to outvote the
Georgia stockholders, and to elect himself
President. At nearly every subsequent
meeting of tbe Board (since May last) he
has moved (and carried) resolutions drop
ping Mr. Sc-and-so and substituting Mr.
Somebody-else, and has gradually remod
eled the Board, until he has at last secured
a majority of non-resident directors, most
of whom are his own relatives and friends.
Still further to secure himself in the
control of this valuable franchise, which
he holds for speculative purposes merely,
he next subscribes to more than ODe-half
of the capital stook of the company—and
the books of the company te-day show him
to be (together with his wife) a stoek sub
scriber to the handsome amount of $3,-
110,000. The entire capital under the char
ter is $6,000,000.
TeD per cent, of his first subscription of
SIOO,OOO was paid in, and the money ex
pended partly for making the original sur
vey, but mainly for eiegant furniture to
fit up, for his own private use, a suite
of rooms at the office of the company
—for personal travelling expenses, and for
legislative and other expenses, lor which lie
can show no vouchers.
His second modest subscription of $2,-
910,000 was paid for in full, by accepted
drafts drawn on his brother-in-law, Mr.
Win. H. Thorp. The responsibility of
Thorp may be estimated by the fact that
his dishonored acceptances, in amounts
varying from S3OO to S3OOO, may be bought
for fifty cents on the dollar.
Ten per cent, on his third subscription
of $100;00'J, in the Bame of his wife, was
paid for by check , “remitted” to Thorp,
as Treasurer, for cpVection. Thorp, being
Mrs. Chapman’s brother, will doubtless
hold the oheok or prosecute its collection —
with vigor.
Tbe legality of these subscriptions, and
the mode of paying them, will soon be
tested before the eourts; but the intention
is evident, and can be explained on no oth
er ground than a fraudulent design to
cODtrel the franchise.
The legal investigation soon to be had
will probably develop something new and
interesting in the science of bookkeeping
by double entry.
It is not of such material as Chapman
that successful railroad presidents or nego
tiators are made. Capital—alway-3 timid
acd suspicious—must be approached by
men of financial responsibility, and moral
respectability, before it can be induced to
enter into any enterprise, however merito
rious. Chapman’s record is too dark for
this. He may induce a few schemers like
himself to venture » f®rr thcm.ands, with
the hope of negotiating, with a large mai
giD of profit, the securities of the road,
endorsed by the State, and so, after the
maimer ot his illustrious confreres, Little
field k Swepson, speculate od the credit of
the State, giving them nothing in return.
But be cannot budd railroads in the South
until he thoroughly whitewashes his record,
gives indemnity for the past, and security
for the future.
One who Thinks he Knows.
[communicated.]
Immigration.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The people of Georgia are now turn
ing their attention to this subject, and
making dilligent inquiry as to the best
mode to accomplish the much desired
olject of inducing the honest, earnest,
intelligent settler, inured to toil, to make
his .home with! us aud help turn tbe at
tention of the planters of Georgia to farm
ing proper, and producing on our own
favored soil all cur necessaries of life
This true independence can only be gained
by the help of the working classes uniting
their hard earned experience on the
sterile soil and unfavorable climate of the
North and Europe with our knowledge
of the wants and requirements of our soil
as considered in reference to cur climate
and seasons. To say that we can hope
alone to accompHsh this resolution is idle ;
to say that strangers alone can accomplish
it is absurd ; but let us mingle our ex
periences together, we learn of those we
invite to become our neighbors and
friends, and they, in turn, listen to our
oautiocs and our combined experience?,
will bring forth the des'red fruits. All
candid aud far seeing men acknowledge
the wisdom of such a combination, and
the only question that is now exercising
the minds of our planters is tho best
mode of producing this desired result.
So far as the experience of the im
migration movement in the Sonth as I
directed by and through the various
Legislatures of the several States,
we have yet to learn of any accomplished
good. Georgia has furnished for the cause
ten thousand dollars from her State Treas
ury, and the deplorable failure to produce
results, is too well known by the tax pay
ers of Georgia. South Carolina, with
appropriations that would, had they been
directed towards purchasing lands, have
given a farm to at least five hundred set
tlers, and paid their expenses to take
possession ot their homes, has accomplish
ed nothing- State appropriations, placed
in the hands ot associations or individuals,
have yet to show a return that would
guarantee an application for farther aid.
The Great West shows a marvellous
growth, and has attracted the a'tention of
the emigrant-, to the exclusion of the sunny
South, not from superiority of attractions
of climate, soil, or prodne ions—not from
superior inducements of rapidly acquired
fortunes —not from superior ease or home
comforts offered to the emigrant; but from
| enterprise of railway companies m offering
' cheap tian ; portation and extra induce-
ments to settlers to make a home, eitber
along their route or beyond it, that they
may reap tbe benefit of their seeming lib
erality tenfold. The emigrant arriving iD
New fork and Boston is. if penniless, left
in the city; if be has money he is placed
on board the Westward bound train, and
for tweive dollars ha is oarried beyond the
Missouri, there to find a home. The State
of Kansas makes do appropriation—the
State of Missouri none. They have lands,
and room for more, but private enterprise
and a liberal public spirit, operating
through railroad corporations and enter
prising land men, make known to the
world that a home in the West invites the
emigrant, and that a train stands ready at
the wharf to transport them, for a pit
tance, in a few hoars, over one thousand
miles of space to their new homes, where
enterprise hastens to greet them, and bids
them welcome.
Not so the South. We have the lands,
as fertile as any in the West, a climate
infinitely superior, a market that is
not excelled oa tie continent, and
productions ad infinUum. Still the
emigrants continue westward to move
in solid phalanx, populating tho prairie
and making blossom tbe desert. They have
the loDg, cold winters; they perform pro
digious labor in a law short summer
months ; they prosper, grow rich, encour
age railway enterprises, hnild cities and
towns as by magic. The State grows rich
and populous through their presence, and
affords them protection and encourage
ment in the possession of their accumula
tions. The same—yea, infinitely more —
j can be -done by the Smith, not ly a State
i arpropriathm of money, not ly legislative
i enactment, not by executive committees,
• hut by the people themselves offering in
i dueements to those in theit midst, and
i making ready to assigf- Place your landsin
! the bands of some enterprisinfreal estate
i agent; offer, through him, jaft of your
• lapd—small farms; induce yotr neighbors
i to offer port of theirs, that the agent
i can concentrate his forces in ose section).
I HewiM.wrthasmslladvancefrcniyiu, incur
! the expense and to do the wirk of pub
lishing to the world the inducements yon
hold out to emigrarts to make their
Itornes with you. Draw up and sign an
address of welcome to such as yoti chose
to invite ; sign it yourself, ask your pub
lic men to sign it, give the agent the en
couragement of your approval, and the
sealer an assurance of safety aad wel
come. We know these fears fre ground
less, but eminating as they do from the
capital of the nation, the tales of count
less on" rages in our midst are fbrminable
barriers to the progress of our work.
The ]4aces now on the market for sale
are generally large, and to a Northern Or
European settler unattractive. Theymtist
be divided, and small places offered. You
can do this through your ageits. Forty,
eighty or one hundred and twenty acre
farms are called for. Otfer such and
several in the same neighborhood, and
Dew settlements will spring up - tie sonfid
of the saw and hammer, the whistle at
the steam saw mill, the buzz of ".he" plan
ing mill, will be heard ■ in yourrtillages
and hamlets. Manufactories will spring
up,|artizans, mechanics and craftsfcen of
all trades will find an inducement to
settlement here, and prosperity wil smile
on the honest efforts of industry; popula
tion, wealth and intelligence will greet
you on every side, State indebtedness will
be decreased, taxes lessened and intelli
gence control the legislation of the l3nd.
Petition your railroad corporations to
offer to the emigrant cheap faros tc view
and settle the State. If they now arc so
far behind the age as not to see thebeuefit
that wil! accrue to their corpojations,
petition them to behalf of your Own in
terests to transport the pettier red his
household goods at an approximation to
the rates eharged westward. You) agents
will let the world know if. Forte to be
liberal those who 03000’. see that iiis their
interest to be so, and they will yit have
reason to thank you. Enterprise has al
ready done something tilt- way. One real
estate agent in Augusta, with the assist
ance of co-operating agents in a fek coun
ties of Middle Georgia, has induced the
plantersof these sections to place in his
hands upwards of six hundred plantations.
He has, during this time, advertised lib
erally in the newspapers West and'North,
and issued an interesting periodical, the
Middle Georgia Parmer, devoted to the
encouragement of immigration, in which
he has sot forth many important abd in
teresting facts respecting the resources of
our State. He traces, as the direct result
of his enterprise, the introduction of
fifteen families, of forty-seven souls,, in
Greene county, and an expenditure, by
these families of $60,000 invested in real
estate, besides upwards of $25,000, the
aggregate private fortune of these emi
grants, and representing, besides their
agricultural interests, a carriage manufac
tory, broom manufactory, and twd lum
bering establishments. In Richmond
county he has settled six families, repre
senting thirty-six souls, who have invested
in teal estate $86,000, besides stock,
tools, working capital, etc. In Morgan
county, three families of ten souls, with
about $20,000 invested in real estate.
This has been accomplished in one year by
an expenditure of, oerhaps, $1,500 is ad
vertising, , and this same agent has
now, of tbe best laud of Hancock county,
30,000 seres that he is now colonizing
with four hundred families. The presence
and efforts of one Northern man in Mor
gan county (Captain True) has induced
over forty families to settle in that county
since 1866. These facts and figures arc
given to show a way in which the matter
of inducing immigration can be accom
plished. What this one agent has done
in one year, in anew field and in advance
of the spirit of progress, if followed up by
other just such efforts, would, without the
aid ot the State Treasury, without Legis
lative cnaotmoDt®, without joint, eteck com
parties or Chai'tL’retlTTiflfgtsafatiiw;. -nrieg,
witli,>uoh assistance as the land owners
themselves and the railroads connecting us
with the North could offer, thousands of
settlers, who would be a real acquisition to
our State acd honor to the community in
which they made their homes. Let us
direct attention to this channel, as cal
culated to meet our wants, aad as the tide
of immigration increases these facilities
for finding homes will be multiplied until
every cout% in Georgia will have an ac
credited agent, who will, co-operating with
his co-worker in the neighboring counties,
spread over the north and west of Europe
the fact of the existence of lands offered in
tbe “Garden State of the South” to
honest, earnest, labor and capital from
all parts of the world, Progress.
[From ITei r WacKchhmen'B Versailles Cor
respondence. ]
Tfostrati) France.
WHO WILL HELP HER ?—OFFICIALS STARV
ING —MURDER AND INCENDIARISM—ALL,
ALL LOST BUT HONOR—A DREADFUL
PICTURE.
Who will reconstruct France, whose
State machine has got out of gear, and
whoso society is uttpriy disorganized?
Credit has gone, work has ceased, no due
borrowt, no one pays. The offie ; als have
received no salary for nearly half a year,
tho railways are in the hands of the ene
my, the public departments are adminis
tered by.hostile commissaries, tho taxes
flow into the euemyls oash-box, the reads
and highways ore neatly destroyed, the
bridges are blowo np, whole villages have
disappeared from the fate of the earth,
towns have been half destroyed. The
whole country must be-reconstructed by
elazier, carpenter, joiner, and bricKlayer.
That can be done by means of immense
loans, if tbe government is enabled to
create confidence in itself. But how will
it bp, it such is not the case? Who will
build up society again, if not even Able to
Cfnciljate tbe hostile political elements in
the country ?. Tire republic? It may per
haps be able to introduce coercive measures
for putting everything straight, bat I
greatlv doubt whether the wealthier class
es in Francs will feel inclined to offer tip
their capital with enthusiasm upon tbe
| aitar of the republic, for it is a curious '
fact that in republican France I have met
with the fewest republicans, whether in
the cast or south ; and as to the Dorih,
there are fewer still. As I have formerly
indicated, pauperism, notwithstanding all
the immense resources of France, will
reign thnughout one-half ot the country,
and devour the other after the conclusion
of peace. Armed banns traverse the coun
try already, pillaging the country houses
and chateaux, and murdering even thtir
own countrymen with, the weapons placed
in thei- Lands by their country as Franc
tireurs. Hundreds of thousands have suf
fered for months past; they bear want and
distress-at present as sacrifices which the
mi.-rbriufM’s of their eounfry have*p!aeed
on their shoulders, but with the discon
tinuance of the war their resignation will
oeasc. Hundreds of thousands of officials
are Starving along with their families, be
cause too old to bear arms; the citizen in
tbe oosupied towns has had tio work to do
for a long time past, and has no means of
procuring tbp necessary materials ; whole
parishes have-migrated, and probably only
bait will return to the ruins of their form
er homes. Who-shall reconstruct and re
organize all this, and who wri. be less com
petent to do it-than anew, t. e., a republi
can government, wbieh might send a
number of theaters, talker?, and poltroons
into the provinces, to make the cam us ion
reigning there tea times worse confounded.
I often bear people say. 1 ” bas does it
concern us in what- way Franee gets upon
its legs again T ’ This way of lookwg at it
is entirely wrong; on the contrary, it con
cerns ns greatly how France reconstructs
herself. Murder and incendiarism on our
frontiers, and especially on the newly ac
quired boundaries, oao never be a matter
of little moment to us, and as these evils
will undoubtedly follow tbe war, Germany
has, to a certain extent, the obligation to
retain fOT the present a kind of guardian
ship OTer this unfortunate oountry.
;Poisoxed Gloves.— We have all heard
of food-adulteration and drink-adultera
: in. says the New York Tribune, bnt
what does the reader say to poisoned
gloves'? The London itatty New calls
attention to the taeu that some gloves are
dyed in such a way as to be poisonous to
the wearer. The ease is given of a lady
who, after, wearing several pairs, noticed,
“a vesicular eruption” at the sides and
roots of the nails. Investigation showed
that the dye ia which the gloves had, been
dipped contained an arsenical salt. It
seems to be perfectly true, whether we
tread er -not upon enchanted ground, that
perils and snares beset us round. We knew
there wight he poison in bread, beer,
house-paper, tea, and various other things;
bnt who ever thought, now-a-days at
least, of poison in a pair of gloves f
BEARD vs. CORKER.
We publish below the concluding testi
mony in this case :
Judge Wm. Gibson sworn and testified—
I live in Angusta, Richmond connty; am
•Judge of Superior Court of Augusta Cir
cuit now, under appointment of Governor
Bullock ; was first elected by the people
under the old Constitution; was nomi
nated and attended the Chicago Conven
tion as a delegate, and nominated Gene
ral Grant and Colfax, and have supported
them openly ; have since been generally
considered as belonging to the Republican
party ; have not always voted for some of
the men nominated by that party, how
ever; do support the administrations of
President Grant and Governor Bullock
upon general views of policy; I think
there was, during the last campaign, or
ganized opposition in Georgia to the ad
ministration of Governor Bullock by men
who call themselves Republicans; have
recognized Messrs. Bryant and Beard in
this District as the leaders of this organi
zation ; have not heard either of them
speak a word myself, but in the counties
of this District where I have been— (Here
the contestant objected to further state
ments of this character, and was sustained
by the court). Witness continued to say
that In Jefferson county, at one of the
meetings called by them (Bryant and
Beard) a ticket was nominated by them,
on which only one colored man was nomi
nated, bytbe name of Foley; Stone, the
former friend of theirs, was defeated in
that nomination, and afterwards ran on an
independent ticket; the candidates that
they nominated for Clerk and Sheriff were
Nicholas _ Diehl and Jesse Mulling, who
were ineligible for those positions, under
the 14th Amendment, having helu those
offices boiore and during the war; Dr.
Powell was also nominated on the ticket,
and Was a Democrat, publicly and avow
edly; he resigned; JohD Brinson, another
Democrat, aod ineligible also under the
14th Amendment, was inserted in his place,
he (Brirson) having been a member of the
Legislature before the war, and having
been an officer during the late war ; at a
meeting called by Beard and Bryant in
Washington, there was a committee raised
to meet a oommittee of the Democrats,
aud to agree upon a compromise ticket;
the Democrats declined the compromise ;
they afterward? made a nomination, and
nominated the Democratic candidate for
Sheriff, and two. if not throe, of the coun
ty officer? of the Democratic candidates, all
but one of whom declined to run; in Warren
county, at their meeting, called by, I think,
the same parties, they tried to get the
Democrats to run and did uot succeed;
they nominated one white man by the
name of Rhodes, who openly avowed that
hie purpose was, in getting elected, to im
peach the State Governor; said Rhodes
was very unpopular in the county; don’t
think there was a more unpopular man
there ; all the county candidates who were,
Dominated by the BryaDt faction were
Democrats, and all but one refused to run;
was in Burke county a couple of weeks,
bolding Court there during campaign;
John Warren, who was a former Represen
tative of that county, friend of Gov. Bul
lock and sustained him—an old colored
man with a family, popular I think, every
body seemed to speak well of him—he was
put out and another man put in his place;
a man by the name of Aaron Gilbert,
imported from Richmond county, who had
scarcely been there long enough to legally
qualify him for voting ; also was scarcely
old enough- for a State Representative,
and if he had any property, or followed
any business there, 1 never heard of it;
all his business, that I knew of, was to be
in pursuit of a Senatorship ; was placed
in his (Warren’s) stead ; I had two inter
views while there with colored Republi
cans, in whioh I urged them, as Beard
and Bryant were making war upon the
Governor, the head of the party in this
State, that it was better to support Judge
Corker, who had been a friend to them ;
that I was opposed to all Ku-Klux and
lawlessness of any sort; some of them
told me that they would do if, and others
said they would not, and some were afraid
to scratch tickets for fear it might injure
the party; it seemed to be the general
impression that it was too late to oppose
thorn, oot that thoy wanlod thorn at all;
I did not vote the Republican ticket in
this county (Richmond) for the same
reason that I looked upon the candidates
mostly as antagonistic to the Governor
and nominated in the interests of the same
party above referred to, opposed to
the true interests of the Republican
party and who were calculated to
break it down by their conduct;
my opinion is, that tbe circumstances I
have referred to, among others were the
main causes of our defeat ; I so expressed
my opiuion to friends before the election ;
the Republicans had no ticket at all in
Glasscock county that I heard of, and I
was through the county ; Tho?. P. Beard
is a citizen of Richmond county, and as
far as I know a very law abiding citizen,
and'l have looked upon and ree-guized him
as tbe instrument ot the opposition id the
Repub’ can party of this District to Gov.
Bullock ; there are a great many men who
have tbe right of suffrage nr w who were
prohibited under the reconstruction acts
of] 868 ; and in Warren county, for some
cause, I think 200 colored voters have
left that county, and a good many have
left Columbia county ; also, Glasscock ; I
attribute the disorganized state of tbe
party in the District to the inefficiency of
the candidates they put upon tbe ticket;
I think the arrest of the managers at
Sparta had also considerable influence in
it ; many also, I have no doubt, were
afraid to vote ; these are the causes I
think that produoed the result of the
generalj disorganization of the party,
while the Demoorats had a complete and
perfect organization through the District.
H.|F. Russell, sworn and testified—That
bis name is H. F. Russell; resides in Au
gusta, Ga.; was Mayor of the City of
Augusta in the year 1869; my present
business is cotton commission, aod whole
sale and retail ot dry goods; am acquaint
ed with Aaron W. Gilbert (colored); have
known him since he wls born—at least
29 or 30 years; he belonged to a member
of my family from his birth until emanci
pation ; his charaoter is very bad; he is
very vindictive and a great thief; has
al® ays been a great thief; from my knowl
edge cf his character for truth and veraci
ty, would not believe him on his oath-
The rebuttal now commenced, and
the first witness brought forward by tbe
contestant was :
Judson Da Lyon (colored) sworn and
testified —That his name was Judsou De
Lyon ; resides in Augusta, Ga. ; business
Is a wheelwright; on the2l and 22dday3 of
December last, during the late Congres
sional election in this district, was in Co
lutrbia county, at Appling Court House ;
reached Appling . Court House the first
day of the election, about nine or ten
o’clock in the morning ; saw Mr. Sher
man when he reached the Court House ;
saw the crowd of men from Stearns’ when
they reached the Court House ; did not
see them all, but saw some of them ; Sher
man was not behind all this crowd, but
was behind most of them ; when I first
saw Mr, Sherman he was at the Court
House; saw some of the colored men with
guns; did not see all of them : was ahead
of them; these men, I heard, left their
guns below the bridge; don’t know just
where they left them, for I didn’t see them
leave them ; when Mr. Sherman came up,
did not see any of his party with guns;
saw Mr. Sherman about the polls ; went
to Appling myself to aid in giving out Re
i publican tickets; was hindered in so do
ing ; as long as a Democrat was at the
polls to vote, a Republican could not vote;
saw knives and one slung-shot in the hands
of Democrats standing around the polls;
the man with the slung-shot was standing
by the place they went into vote, enrsing,
and telling them to stand back ; saw Mr.
Sherman when lie left the polls that day ;
he left because the white Democrats gath
ered around him and commenced cursing;
they (the Democrats) said, “ Carry your
d—d niggers with yon ;” there were two
persons there giving out Republican tick
ets—myself and Dennis Dorsey; when
Mr. Sherman left we left also; we
thought if he could not stay, vre could not;
white Democrats came to me and set dogs
on me; ean’t say much as regards others;
saw one mao come up with his head split
open ; mean that the scalp was split open:
white Democrats were going about near
the place voters went into the polls, and
jobbing knives into colored Republicans,
telling them to stand baek; Dorsey left at
the same time I did; neither Dorsey nor
I weDt back to the polls again, because we
thought it would be dangerous to go baek
there ;dou’t know of any difficulty that oc
curred beyond what I have stated on the
t first day ; the Dext day saw three colored
i men come running up to the camp where I
; was, with dogs after them ; the men ap
peared to be afraid ; they came right from
I the Court House ; when I left here for
i Appling Court House intended to re
t maiu there until the election was over ;
I didn’t remain there because I thought
it would be better for me to come away ;
I thought I should have been in danger
if I had stayed in Columbia county ; don’t
j know whether or not the Republicans of
Columbia county were united ip support
of their ticket; they voted only one ticket
that I saw; did not talk muoh with
Republicans while there, but was busy
giving oat Republican tickets ; did not
sea any Republican in that county who
was opposed to Beard and Fannin.
John Mack, sworn and testified—That
he resides in Burke county ; was a Re
publican candidate for Representative in
Burke county at the late election ; think
the Republicans in that county generally
supported Fannin aud Beard lor Congress;
did talk a good deal with the Republicans
on the days es the election in that county ;
didn’t talk with hut two that said they
were going to oppose Beard and Fannin ;
did not talk with the leading Republicans
particularly about the tioket, but at the
last caucus we held, they ail agreed to sui ’
port Beard and Fannin for Congress; saw
R. 11. Kirk, at lato election, giving out
Republican tickets having Beard’s and
Fannin’s names on them; Kirk support
ed them (Beard aod Fannin) at the elec
tion ; they, the Republicans of Burke
county, belonged to tbe regular Republi
can party ; they did not know anything
about* the Blodgett-Bullock rings, &o. ;
the difference between Governor Bullock
and Bryaut had no influence upon them :
they generally favored Governor Bullock ; I
the nominees for county offices in Burke
county agreed, in caucus, to support
Beard and Fannin; I suppose they did;-
knew of no division in the Republican
party on the days of the election in regard
to the oondidates for Congress.
Robert Washington, colored, sworn and
testified That his name was Robert
Washington; resides in Washington,
Wilkes county ; was standing on the plat
form on the southside of tlte depot on the
arrival of the train before referred to
when the men rushed into the train as
already mentioned; when tho men went
in I walked off the platform east of the
tauk, and around it to the railroad track
where the train was standing; Radley was
standing at the upper end of the passen
ger car at the time, south of the tank,
and about twenty or thirty feet from it,
to the best of my remembrance; when
the difficulty began he .was near the rail
road track, south of the tank, about twenty
or thirty feet from it; 1 was standing at
that time between the tank and Callan’s
store, aud not far from the store ; Harris
was leaning up against the platform, on
the southside and to tbe east of whore I
was standing ; about midway of. the steps
and ou tbe east side of the platform; af
ter the firing was begun, Harris was run
ning to the east, toward Keough’s mill
lot when I saw him; this was only a
very few moments after the firing com
menced ; the cause of the difficulty before
referred to between the colored and white
men was that we (the colored men) were
the leading Republicans in the connty; I
know of no other.cause. n<
Milo Williams, sworn and testified—That
he resides in the city of Augusta, Rich
mond county, State of Georgia; have
lived in Richmond county 65 years; am
acquainted with Aaron W- Gilbert, candi
date for Legislature, from 17th District;
have known him ever since he was born ;
should judge his charaoter to bo good, as
far as I have seen, for honesty and truth
fulness ; am a Republican.
Isaac Keebler, re-called—-Said the Re
publicans of Jefferson county supported
Beard and Fannin in the late election for
OoDgress ; as far as I know all <he Re
publicans supported Beard and Fannin ;
I was present at the oonvontion that
nominated county officers; Dr. Powell
stands very high with the Republicans of
Jefferson county; the Republican party
nominated Dr. Powell for the Legisla
ture; he did not want to run for tho
Legislature when they nominated, but
they prevailed on him and he accepted ;
afterwards he resigned, so that he might
run for County Treasurer ; he was nomi-'
nated unanimously by the Republican
party for County Treasurer ; Mr. Brin
son was unanimously nominated for the
Legislature iq his place ; a vote was takeD
at the Republican convention in Jefferson
oountv to ratify the nomination of Beard
and Fannin, and it was unanimous.
Alfred. Lee sworn and. testified—That he
resides in Burke county, Ga. ; am a Re
publican; during the three days of late
Congressional election was in Waynesboro,
DurkW’oouutjr, Cta.-; -was near the line of
Republican voters between the Court
House and the Clerk’s office, to the right
of the window where the votes were re
ceived ; looking toward the Court House,
I saw Captain Kirk, the Republican can
didate for County Treasurer, driven away
from the polls on the second day of the
election, in the afternoon, I should think
about 2 or 3 o’clock ; a gentleman by tbe
name of Wilhelm, a white Democrat,
commenced the row with Mm, and
at first no one else took part in it;
Captain Kirk spoke to the guard of
U. S. soldiers that were there and said,
“ this is not a fair election, gentlemen, be
cause the colored voters are not allowed to
go nDder the line and the whites are, aod
they crowd the window, standing there in
groups, conversing and stopping the way
so as to prevent voting;” Mr. U. T. Bolt,
the Deputy Sheriff, took him up and said
that he was the .Sheriff there, and some
thing more that I could not exactly catch,
but I believe that he said he was a
commander; Captain Kirk then said
somethipg to Judge Perry in regard to the
tax of voters, and said that the cdlored
people had no land to pay taxes, and ho
didn’t see why they should pay taxes on it;
Judge Perry looked at him but made no
reply ; Captain Kirk then went off from
the line, and Mr. Wilhelm came to him
and engaged him in conversation ; about
that time came aloDg Mr. Belt again from
the inside of the line Rnd said, ” Captain
Kirk, what are you blowing aroued here
so for?” He told him that he Was only
blowing for his own party, not to excite
any disturbance; that is the last of the
conversation I then heard, with the
exception that. I heard Mr. Belt
curse Captain Kirk ; he (Captain Kirk)
then went around the Clerk’s office and
out of the yard of the Court House ;
when he got opposite Bethany’s shop, Mr.
Wilhelm overtook Kirk, and shortly after
Mr. Belt came up ; the conversation be
tween them I did not hear, hue saw Mr.
Wilhelm go up where the little store is,
and when he came back he had a thick
club, about 1J feet long, and asked Mx.
Belt “if he was gone,” meaning, I judged,
Captain Kirk ; he only said then “that it
was a damned good thing that he was
gone on the third day of the election
Henry Jackson and myself were standing
Dear the line of the. colored people, in
front of the place of voting ; a colored
man in the line showed us a ticket and
asked if it was right; we looked
at it and 1 told him that it was
a scratched Republican ticket) and
if he wanted to vote a Reoub’ican ticket
that would not do, and I would give him
one; about that time Mr. Belt, the Depu
ty Sheriff, came up and said to Henry
Jackses- (eelored Republican), “ What
are yon doiDg?” Henry Jackson remarked
'to him that these men’s tickets had been
scratched, and they had asked h.m to look
them over; Air. Batt’s reply was. “ I sup
pose you won’t vote that tickethe then
cursed Jackson for not voting for Mr.
Grey, and Jackson told him that Mr. Grey
would have to come out in the Republican
party if he wanted him to vote for him;
he cursed him again, and said he would
put a bole through him (Jackson)
as big as his fist; then he got after
me, and asked me what was I doing;
then he, Col, Eve, and Mr. Barrett got
around us and began to curse ; I walked
outside the crowd and called Jackson ; he
and I went oat of the yard"; staid out
about ten minutes conversing, then we
both went back; he (Jackson) went on
one side of the line and I on the other;
at that time came up on the line another
‘crowd of people, voters; Mr. Belt called
my attention at the same time as the vo
ters came, and I went to see what he
wanted; lie asked me if it would be chang
ing the Republican ticket to let hfm take
off Mr. 'Williams name and put his own
(Belt’s) on; told him that the voters
might do so if they wished, bnt I would’nt
persuade any one to do it; he asked me
why not; told him my reason was that
I thought all Republicans ought to vote
the straight Republican ticket; he then
cursed me, and told me he was going to
whip me the very first time he mot me ;
shortly after that he left me ; he and Mr.
Barrett and Colonel Eve then soon after
returned to me, standing near an oak; X
then turned around and went Out of the
yard; did not go back inside again that
day ; Jackson went out ahead of me ; we
did not go back into the yard again during
the electioo : went out because when Belt
and Eve came up to me and poioted
at me, was afraid they intended to injure
ms and so I left.
The composition of the new Ministry
under President Thiers produces an excel
lent impression.
It is reported that the Germans have
levied a fresh requisition of two million
francs on St. Quentin.
A Herald special from Kingston, Ja.,
20th, says that Sir Charles Bright arrived
yesterday in a vessel es war, from the eable
expedition, 25 miles east of Morant Point,
where he left the steamer Dacia still grap
pling for the lost cable.
NEW SERIES* YOL, KXrV. NO. 9.
THE DEATH OF PRIM.
-
J Who Instigated the Assassination-
Last flours of the Murdered
Marshal.
a remarkable letter.
[Loudon Time*’ Madrid Letter.)
A Deputy of the Republican minority,
Benor Roque Barqia, has published an ex
traordinary letter in the Zgualdad, with
the object of elearieg his party from the
! odium of being the instigators of the as
sassination of General Prim. Ho gives
some'particultirs of the affair which have
not before been made public, and which
add a metaccholy interest to what we al
ready know. He S3ys that at the conclu
sion of the session of the Cortes, on the
memorable 27th of December, a kuot of
some twenty or ’twenty-five Deputies, com
posed of all factious of the Chamber,
were speaking together in the lobby (pa
siilo). The conversation turned upon fu
siles (guas). Prim, who Was passing, ovet -
t.earil the word lusiloe, and approached,
saying, “"Poes a poos, seporeS, que eso do
fusiles too toca a rni TANARUS” (“ Gootiy. gentle
men, ruts about guns i§in toy line.”) Nc
body invited him to join in the conversa
tion, yes it has been said since his death
that he had been drawn into it merely to
detain him, and that, too, by a Repub
lican Deputy! Senator Barciadenies that
any one detained him ; he says he joined
the conversation spontaneously, and that,
so far a9 any intention to entice him into
it, he contributed to its hilarity ly asking
one of the Republicans why he would not
go to Cartagena to receive the King!
a Federal 1 why don’t you come to Carta
gena with us to receive our King?” To
this joking question a joking aoswer was
given. What new turn the conversation
took, Senor Barcia does not tell us, but he
says that to some remarks of a Republican
Deputy, Prim replied, “ Take care, for you
will find my hand very hard,” to which
the other answered with the Spanish" pro
verb, “ General, to every hog there ar
rives Lis San Martin!” Five minutes
after this the assassins fired into his car
riage in the Calle Turco. There is always
a crowd more or less large at the door of
the Congresso. by which tho members
emerge. As Prim crossed the sidewalk to
his carriage, a distance of only two or
three rods, a man enveloped in a cloak
struck a luoifer match. So says Senor
Barcia, and so I have heard from others.
This is supposed to have been the first of
a series of “ telegrams” to the assassins
that he had entered his carriige.
As the carriage started, a second man,
also blocked, standing at tho corner of the
building, where it abuts on Calle Florin
and Calle Sordo, struck a second match.
Quickly, but noiselessly, owing to the
snow; the carriage passed on, carrying the
doomed man to his death. As it entered
the Calle Turco, a third cloakod villain
struck a third match. By this, the assas
ins at the other end of the street, someone
hundred or one hundred and filly yards
away, knew their victim was approaching.
His carriage lights were now visible to
them. Senor Barcia asks: Is it possible
they did not shudder when they saw those
lights? Could it be conceived that any
one for money could commit a murder so
vile and so deliberate? Everything be
tokened care aod premeditation—the two
cabs so placed as to compel the carriage to
stop for an instant, and that instant so
well employed. The Adjutant Miya turned
his head to the window, to sec tho cause
of the obstruction. He saw three ruffians
on each side, all armed and to king aim.
He had but time to cry out, “ GentlemeD,
stoop ; they are firing on us 1” The most
audacious of the assassins was close to the
window. Breaking it with the muzzle of
his trabuco (blunderbuss), and saying,
‘‘ Preparate vasamorir (Prepare thy
self, thou art to die) to the General, and
“ fuego" (fire) to his five oorapaniens, they
made their murderous discharge. SeDor
Barcia says there were six, three on each
side, and so careful were they not to hit
each other that they fired diagonally. The
next instant the ooachman had cleared the
obstruction by overturning one of tho cabs,
and the next had reached the foot of the
stone staircase leading up to the Ministry
of War, the Palace of Buenavista, former
ly the property of the infamous Godoy.
Senor B*rci» teH* us that ono of these "as
sassins, who had probably stained hie
hands with powder, must have wiped it on
the wall, for early next morning there ap
peared the black impress of a hand there,
whioh the police wipedout. He says the
police were wrODg to do that, and in this I
am sure your detectives will agree. Senor
Barcia says it should have remained there
till word had gone through all Spam, that
at the spot where Prim was murdered
thero appearod tho mark of a black hand.
Ho thinks that street corner will not be the
last wall which that same hand will paint
with powder or with blood, for the ease
and facility with which the assassins got
clear have left them open to similar en
gagements in the future. Ho contends
they must have been hired and paid ‘‘The
malefactors of the Calle Turco must have
been impelled by malefactors who tread on
carpets. No crime like that is eyer born
in a poor man’s house. The most stupen
dous crimes are engendered in great hou
ses.” He says : v\, ~..
“We must loek upward and not down
wacd for the explanation of this mystery.
If cursed be the hand which fired, cursed
also be the hand which paid 1 Despots iu
corruption and luxury abovo—pariahs,
slaves, assassins in misery, superstition,
intoxication and brutality below ! Somt
body must have paid the workmen. The
men who waited lor the two carriage-lights
were the workmen- Who were tne mas
ters ? Cursed were the bauds which re
ceived-cursed the hands which gave I”
Senor Barcia nays :
“Prim comprehended the gravity of his
situation, in a moment. Mouutmg the
stone staircase of the Ministry of War, he
held on by the hand-rail, which remained
wet with his blood. Arrived at his own
apartments, to the inquiry ot bis arxious
aod alarmed wife, he prudently and cou id
eratelp answered that he was tligbily
wounded. When the first operations were
over a Iriend asked him—
“ ‘How do you f:el V
“ ‘I fed death,’ replied Prim, calmly.
“ 'otn you give any guess at ,ho assas
sins ?
“ ‘No, I cannot. I don’t know who
they were, but those who killed me were
not Republicans-
The day he died he said to General
Bregna :
“What day of the month is it ?”
“The 30th.”
“The 30th ! The K;d£ will disembark
tr,-iay, and I shall die. Long five tho
King! (El dia 301 El Key dsembarea
hoy; y yo me muerol. Vi>e el Key!)”
“Sad enthusiasm. He viva’d the new
King and the new King killed him ; not by
leaden bullet or steel weapon, but by his
coming. If Amadee had not come Don
Juan Prim would not now lie in the
sepulchre. At / that night he tried to
take leave of his family. The congestion
of his brain disturbed his thoughts Pass
ing Ids left hand before his eyes, as if to
clear his vision, ho articulated accepts
which could not be understood. O God
Eternal I Did he see theshadesof Carva
jal, of Guillen, and of Bohorquez the
boy Bohorquez, whose young life was so
cruelly snatched from a tender father 1”
These references may not be understood
!in England, but they are here. Oarvajal
and Guillen were two Republican Depu
j ties, who perished iu the insurrection in
Andalusia, “shot in action,” say the
authorities; “murdered in cold blood
after defeat, and without trial,” say their
friends. Bohorquez was the half-witted
boy shot by order of 001. Caaalia, near
Barcelona, after making use of him as a
guide to conduct him to a rebel iiannt.
After making this allusion, Senor Barcia
bursts out: - --
“Juan Prim, breathe tliy last breath
without anguisli, without sorrow, without
remorse ! Tlio-e victims pardoned thee.
Pardon thou likewise the infamous ones
who took thy life ! Pardon them, Senora
widow! Pardon them, children of the
assassinated ! Pardon them, all of us !
O, when shall we be done with these
fearful carnages ? When shall we live
like men ?”
Death of a i Vet.ep.av. —Died, at his
residence, in Page county, Virginia, on the
)24th of January, 1671, Mr. Peter Young,
aged 84 years and 10 days;
The deceased was born near Darmstadt
Hesse, in Germany, in 1787. He served as
a soldier under Napoleon’ Bonaparte ll
years—made one of the number of the
300,000 men that invaded Russia at the
time of the burning of Moscow, and also
one of the 30,000 who reached their homes
in that disastrous retreat across the Alps.
He would often recount the scenes he had
witnessed, and said that at night they
would be down around their camp fires,
•and in the morning there would be a cir
cle of dead men around the fires. Some
were frozen in all positions. He was in
the noted battle of Leipsie and many
others. In 1838, he emigrated to America.
He retained his war accoutrements, such
as his blanket, with number upon it, and
his nniform, until the day of his death.
Virtues of Borax,
It may not be generally known how very
valuable borax i.s in various parposes of
household use. We find it the very best
cockroach exterminator yet discovered-
One half-pound, costing but fifty cents, has
completely cleared a large house termoriy
swarming with them, so that the appearance
of one in a month is quite a novelty- The
various exterminating pOvrders puffed and
advertised have been found not fully effec
tive, tending rather lo make the roaches
crazy than to kill them. There is something
peculiar, either in the smell or touch of
borax, which is Certain death to them.
They will flee in terror from yt, and never
appear again where it has once been placed.
It is also a groat advantage that borax. <is
perfectly harmless to humaalieings ; hence
no danger from poisoning. It lTkfso valu
able tor laundry purposes. The washer
women of Holland and Belgium, so prover
bially clean, api who get their linen no
beautifully white, use refined borax as
washing powder instead of soda, in tho
proportion of a large handful of borax
powder to ten gallons es water. I'hay save
soap nearly one hall. All tbo large washing
establishments adopt the same mode- For
laces, cambrics,’etc., an extra quantify of
the powder is u»ed; and for crinolines (re-
quiring to be made stiff) a stronger solution
is necessary. Borax, being a neutral salt,
does not iu the slightest degree, injure the
texture of linen. Its effect is to soften the
hardest water, and therefore it should be
kept on the toilet-table. Asa way of clean
ing the hair, nothing “is '-ettrr than a
solution of borax in water. It leaves the
scalp in a most c'eanly condition, and the
hair is just sufficiently stiffened to retain
its place. The stiffeess, howover, can he
readily removed, if objectionable, by wash
ing with water. Borax is also an excellent
dentifrice ; dissolved in water it is one of
the best tooth-washes. In hot countries it
is used, iu combination with tartaric aoid
and bi-earbonate of soda, as cooliug
beverage.
Bismarck and the Boaapartes.
The statement of the 'Tima, that M.
Thiers said at Petersburg, that the best
thing for France would be to elect Leopold
11. ot Belgium King of France, is simply
an ingenious way of j*utting forth an idea
half Prussian and half Bqaapartist. Thiers
certainly never said it. The Berlin cor
respondent of the TV mes merely, in telling
this story, turns a feather id the interest
of those who want to mako it seem that
eben Thiers has given up the Orleaßists.
The primary necessity for the Prussians
is simply to make the best peace they can.
They can mako a better peace with the
Bonapartists than with any one else. It
is true that another government is do /ado
in power, but Bismarck cares little for
that. It will be the greatest of his pieces
of diplomatic sleight-of hand if he can find
agovernment willing to aceeptjnominally his
terms, so that he can withdraw from this
great muddle, and, holding enough of the
country to guarantee the fulfilment of his
conditions, leave that unhappy government
to settle with its subjects as it may.
. The government of the republic is a
failure, and there remains nrfthing on tho
cards but the Bonapartes and the Orleiin-'
ists. It is the role ot the Prussians, there
fore, to belittle just now the Orleanists,
in order to make the Bouaparusts, with
whom they Ireat, seem the only possible,
power. This they believe they do, to
some extent, in making Thiers advocate
another candidate than a mem bor oft ho
family of Orleans.
Triers’ idea of a perfect, government for
France is one on tho model of the British
Government, with an Orleanist as sover
eign. This is so welLknown that it seems
scarcely to need asseveration. “But tho
follies and crimes of princes,” he said to a
friend some time ago, “have rendered this *
government - till now, and still render it,
more and more impossible on the Conti
nent. Let us tty, then, that the republic,
if this must come, shall come through tho
faults and follies of ofir Cue mice, witlipu
being compromised bv ours, in order that
all honest and intelligent men may act
sinoercly in itsjsupport in tho interest ox
the country, without sacrificing their own
dignity.”
Iu other words, if Thiers cannot have a
purely French, moderate monarchy, ho
will accept the republic and ce-operata
with all who may try to makc.it honest
and humane.
This does not look like irroposing'-a f,)T- ’
oign prince, and, above nil, one-of a Ger
man family. _ Only think of it—a man of
German origin to rule Franco at this junc
ture !
Poor Leopold of Belgium, ho is in a
delicate position. Bismarck holds up the
Crown of France as a glittering lure to
dazzle his eyes ; while the Walloon prov
inces shall be shipped over to France' and
the Flemish, provinces gobbled np by
Prussia .—Jtruxscls Letter.
A PRETENDED Lee'MoNU.\IENTAI. FIJN’D,
and a Counterfeit GenerAi, Hood.— Tt"
has lately been discovered that a combi
nation of knaves have been practicing upon
citizens from the country a swindle, osten
sibly to contribute to the Lee Monumental
Fund. General J. B. Hood, of the late '
Confederate States army, has been greatly
annoyed by the rascalities of these rogues,
who have someone iu their gang who- im
personates him, and to whom vjetims are
introduced, it has come to light that quite'
a number of visitors to the city ha“o thus
been cheated out of ri-eir money. So far
as known, gaming in the form of lotteries
and by dice throwing is the modus operan
di. Mr. Baxton, a gentleman from Mobile,
was robbed of SO7 by the knaves, and the
Times has been furnished by a planter
with a statement of his experience, the
substance of which we give : On Tuesday
morning he was addressed by a young
man, a stranger to him, at the corner of
Common and St. Charles streets, who. in a
way common with “stool pigeons,” worm
ed out of him his occupation and his resi
dence. That discovered, the subject of
Chinese labor was introduced, and the
planter was toled into an ottioe on Kt.
Charles street to seo some Chinamen.
The young man ineautime had presented
to the planted an aged person as his (the
stool pigeon’s) father. The planter doest
not locate the office to which he was taken,
but his description of the room corras*
ponds with that of a place occupied by
two or three suspicionable characters, one
of whom holds forth nightly to a crowd,
describing the virtues of a universal pana
cea he has. He is a long haired fellowed,
with much the look of a stage bandit.
The place is on the east side of at. Charles
1 street, between Common and Ostial; Vo
Chinaman forthcoming, the planter wan
about to leave, when he was persuaded to
go to the office of the counterfeit General
Hood and take a drink with him.
This was up stairs at No. 23 St, Charles
street. The General was represented to
be out. A lottery was introduced for the
benefit of the Leo Monumental Fund. The
planter was swindled out of ijlb2, for
which he gave a draft; but immediately
after leaving he stopped payment of the
draft he had given for the amount. He
subsequently met the father of the young
man at the same corner, bui he disappear
ed, pretending to look for his SfOti to have
the swindlers punished, and that was the
last the planter saw of him. —New Or
leans Bee.
Ravages of the Spotted FeVbr.—
A strange malady, known as the spotted
fever, broke out about three weeks sinee
in Schoharie county, and has produced the
most fearful ravages. An exchange static
that in Gallnpviile, which has a population
ot less than &00, there hare been eighty
tbree deaths, iu three weeks. An equal
death rate in Albany would amount to
4,210, while in New York it would be 52,-
000 deaths in three weeks, the present
death rate of New York oeing oniyCiU
per week. The mortality of uaiiupvbi-,
for the past three weeks, is without a pre
cedent in the history of the country. Os
those attacked only one has yet recovered.
The disease is spreading. One of the phy
sicians in Schoharie reports 1,2U0 ease* as
' now existing in a district of less thau ten
miles square- The disease thus far only
attacks women and children. Only one
man has yet died, a Mr. Black. The doe
tors are much divided to the cause of
the terrible disease. The umst of them
a'tribute it to strange vegetable matter in
the water; the wells being lower than evdr
known beforo. They reoommerded that
the water be boiled belore using,* as the
best and only way to arrest the spread of
the disease. The fever commences with
pain in the head; and extends down the'
spine, accompanied with vomiting. The
tongue blackens, and the face, from fore
head down below the eyes, assumes a dark
color, with purple spots. The patients
are delirious most of the time, and sc- re
main until death ensues, which is in about
three days. The fever has produced a
perfect panic iu the inleoted district, mak
ing it difficult to obtain nurscq or people
to lay out those who die. The worst visi
tation of the cholera is as nothing com
pared with the excitement rt<s% existing in
Schoharie county. — Rochester Mcjmcss.
The State Department has advices of
the wreck of the British steamer Zoe,
from Boston to France, with provisions
contributed by American citizens. Th*
vessel and cargo is a total loss.