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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVIII. Ckonicle it' Sentinel. O TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. daii.v. One month I J ®® Three months - 2 5® One year - 1® ®® TBI-WE EKLV. One year $ 6 00 Bix months * Three months 2 00 WEEKLY. Three months f 1 00 Six month* - 1 5® One year 3 00 WfcD’lKkdAr 101.V1N6, AFKIL 19. IIOLJK.VS LIST LKfTKB. The following letter, said to have been obtained by a Radical Ku-Klox operator, and published by a Radical confere, ex bibits Holden’s views of “the situation” in North Carolina, It will be observed that Holden still believes in Grant as a political General, who will not fail to take care of his wounded; therefore, he says, “Tod, dear fricud, don’t be afr* id of im peachment. President-General Grant wil' provide for you.” Seeing that Holden left the North Carolina treasury empty as a beggar’s box, bis advice comes late. But to Holden's sage advice : City of Washington, April 1, 1871. To I fix Excellency Todß. Caldwell, Gov' ernor of Norik Carolina: Mr Bear Sir : Though banished by rebels from my native State, I still feel an interest in the Republican parly, not withstanding over onc-!hird of the parly voted for my conviction and banishment. But my dear friend, “what is banishment but set free” trom the care, control and rule of 80,000 negroes and 500 hungry car pet-baggers, who put mischief in their heads? While 1 rejoice at my own de liverance l sorrow at your troubles, Bet me tell you the rock upon which I split: It was a non-observance of the Con stitution. You must refuse obedience to the laws with impiin'ty but not to the Constitution. I am anxious about the vote on con vention. By all means keep possession of the railroads, for it is worth 7,W0, per haps 10,000, votes to the party. The re bels, b> an act of assembly, have taken the power from you to appoint Btaic proxies and Directors in the various railroad cor porations. Disregard the law, make your appointment of loyal men. That will rai-e a question tor the Courts which cannot bo decided until after the August election. Don’t go too far in resisting tho law, as 1 did, and get yourself impeaohed. Como wliat may, don’t let the rebels have the railroads uutil after the August election. Htiind an impeachment on that. I will write you again and let you know my prospects for a foreign mission. My deur friimd don’t be afraid of impeach ment, President Grant will provide for you in that event, as ho has f'er ourlriend. Col. Berger. Good by, and God bless you, is the prayer of W. W. Holden. A NF.W POET. Wo have rceeivod from tho author, ltev. l'sulmucl Bard, previously of Bing-Sing, but subsequently of Idaho, a modest look ing little volumo of poems—her first at tempt, no doubt, at wooing tho Muse. The volumo was accompanied with tho follow ing note: Atlanta, Ga., Maroh 31, 1871. My Dear Sir: Pioase accept tho en closed copy of “Nursery of Nonsense,” as a compensation for your reoont efforts in behalf of tho True Georgian. With great respect, and kind considerations, Sam Bard, per Nall. The whole thing is clear onough, hut the question will arise, who is ‘‘Nall?’ Beaumont and Fletcher wiotc conjointly, and the literary firm of Krckman-Chatraiu is well known, and Nall may bo one of those kind of women. Scruggs has hit man Grubb, and there is no reason why Bard shouldn’t have his Nall. The portrait of tho author upon the illuminated cover is the first thing that meets tho eye. The artist represents Bard in her favorito admonitory attitude—one lily hand resting moekly upon her taper waist, and the other raised in warning, and the scene is no less characteristic than picturesque. Tho dedication is neat and appreciative—“to my beloved erdnies, Bryant, Saffold and Hill, this variation of my lyre is affectionately inscribed.” The preface is appropriate and effective: “1 have no excuse to otter for thus ob trusively thrusting these trifles upon the public. They contain no striving after mere art. They are evolved from my inner consciousness, and are creations of impulse—idle, perhaps, but not wholly in excusable.” The ballads that follow are almost pastoral in their simplicity. Somooold critics may consider them egotistical and personal, and tho objection may be valid hut it is *lic egotism of genius, after all, which the formalities of art cannot sup press. The poet, like the festive jay-bird, sings because she can sing, and her songs are tho outpourings of a heart as full of music as a hurdy-gurdy. The initial lyric is short, simple anil truthtnl: There was a Mr. Bard—such a sly Mr. Bard— He was the thinnest kind of decoy ; He used his coat-tail fora Democratic salt, And his head for a Radical buoy. The next is somewhat longer, but its points and application are at once appa rent : TUB FOOLISH SFORTSMAX. A silly man went to the top of a hill. One moonlight night in June ; Aud he loaded iais gun with bulleta of lead, To shoot them at the moon. But when he had got to the top of the hill, j To his surprise he found, That the moon seem’d just as far away, As it did from the ground. And so angry was that poor silly man, that he went c.eau out of his wits: Vnd be stuck up his hat. aud shot at that, Tilt he blew it all to bits. And his treatment *iue> by all his friends, j lias been most shockingly cruel; For they keep the old soul In his ow n coal- ! hole, Aud feed him on water-gruel. Here is a neat little ballad “evolved" from Paalmuel's “inner consciousness O dear, me, in what a pickle I'm placed! i have lost all my honesty, and am now double-faced; O dear, me, trouble’s never done, 1 have lost all principle, aud uow have none. The pathos of the following will com mend it to many a suffering soul: What is the matter with Ssmnel Bard— What can the matter be? He has lost hi“ reputation in trying to spelt Republicanism with a D. The musical tlow and simple truthful ness of this is a sutlicicnt excuse for pre senting it heie: Sweet Sammy Bird was dreaming, With hi* head on Bryant’s l«o, That the ooltom fell out of the Treasury And the money fell in his cap. ’ The following “fragment" is somewhat in the style of Alexander Smith ; AS OLD DEMOCRAT. Tht J'arty. —Who’s that ringing at our j door-bell ? Hard.—Tm an old Democrat, and I’m j not very well. 1 The Party.— Tnen rub your palms with a little Radical fat ; You know that is good for ‘an old Democrat.’ The following colloquy reminds one vividly of Sbakspeare in some of his best four-horse tragedies: “Pray how can I cerve my country, sir ? I must be a ’patriot’ to-night.” Soft-sawder all the leading men and turn To left, and then to right.” “Then be a red-hot Radical, and then A ‘moderate’ Democrat— Talk loud and fast, and give advice, Aud go in strong for the ‘fat.’ The pathetic lyric entitled “You Knew How it is Yourself,” is worthy of a promi- nent place among our national poetry, 1 and we regret that ojr limited space pre vents its appearance here, i But we have no room for further ex { tracts. The whole work most be read : consecutively to be appreciated. It i» published in Idaho, and is sold ody by subscription.— Savannah News. Summerville, Ga., April 4, 1871. To His Excellency Gov. It. B. Bullock: Dear Bir : I regret to see io the Chroni cle & Sentinel, and other pipers of the S ate, tbe charge that you and I were in terested in the reward paid for tho appre hension and conviction of the three rob hers, Kelly, Epps and Peyton. Sir, I was : a rebel and wept for the Bust Cause, and ' am now an uncompromising Democrat, never having voted for a Republican sos a> y office, but every charge that your Ex cellency was beDcfitted one cent, is an un mitigated falsehood, without the slightest foundation. You ordered every dollar paid to me. I received it and paid it out liberally, and perhaps committed a great blunder that I did not divide more libe rt.lly with some of the editors of the State- Very respectfully, J. ?. Wyatt. The above letter we find io the At lanta New Era. We insert it here simply to say that the Chronicle <k Sentinel did not charge that Deputy Sheriff Wyatt divided with Bullock any of tho money stolen by the latter from the people of the State, which was paid to the virtuous Wyatt as a reward for the arrest of the Chattooga outlaws. Neither did we in timate any such thing. The game was too small lor the grand ideas of Rufue. When he grabs for himself he does not atop at the little sum of seven thousand dollars. We are incapable 6f believing that Bullock would stoop so low as to take part of such a paltry amount. When he takes fer himself he rises to tho dignity of the subjeot, and swoops down upon tho Treasury to the tune of hundreds of thou sands. We don’t know Wyatt—wo don’t wish to know Wyatt. He may have been a good soldier iu the Confcderato army—wo believe Bullock himself his boasted of his efforts in that line. Foster Blodgett wore the gray—so did Wyatt. Potash Farrow he'd a commission iu the Southern army. Where are Blodgett and Farrow and Bul lock now ? Wyatt boasts of his Confede rate service—has not tho glory which that fact would have conferred upon him been tarnished, stained and polluted by his re cent association with the great S.ate Bob ber? MORE HUhLOCK BOYDS. \Y r o have been creditably informed that notwithstanding the notice—the repeated notices—which have been given that the people do not recognize the Bullock bonds, illegally issued, that Bullock persists in printing and issuing them. Two millions more of Bullock’s gold State bonds, inter est payable quarterly, have been printed by the Continental Bank Note Company of New York, and are now being issued by bis “ Provisional ” Excellency, numbering from 2,001 to 4,000 the first batch of his Provisional’s gold bonds running from 1 to 2,000. The denominations of both issues is SI,OOO. Our description is min ute in order that any one may recognize them. Now what use tiiese new bonds are to be put to we are at a loss to conjecture. Perhaps Messrs. Henry Olews & Cos. can and may inform the people? Our “Governor,” in bonds, does not choose to give any information respecting his Treas ux j oliijv, Tbe Qlato liau no ima for tlioco bonds. The people will never recognize them. Bullock and Henry Olews & 00. may succeed in getting capitalists in New York or in Europe into purchasing these bonds, or to grant loans upon them as collaterals, but the capitalists must look to Bullock and Henry Clews & Cos. as se curities, and not to the people of Georgia. TUK BLUE RIDGE ROAD. The Athens Banner says : “Wo bud an “interview with Horace Cannon, Esq., of “ Rabun county, a few days ago, and were “ pleased to learn that a considerable force “ is at work on the Blue Ridge Road. The “ principal wqrk is being done on the tun “ nel, and arrangements have been made “ which have inspired renewed confidence “in the completion of the work to Clay “ ton. “ We also have good authority for say “ ing that tho President of the Blue Ridge “Road lias expressed to a Director of the “ Georgia Railroad a willingness to trans fer the charter beyond Clayton to the “ Georgia Road or to any responsible com “pany with means to complete the line. “ Ties appears to remove one obstacle “ heretofore deemed in the way of pushing “forward the road from Athens to Olay “ ton. It was thought premature to go to “ Clayton while another State controlled “ the charter f.oin there to Knoxville. It “seems that South Carolina is anxious for “ the connection, and will not stand iu the “ way oi its prompt completion, which her “financial condition seems not at present “ to justify.” A private letter from Rabun informs us that an arrangement can now be made, up on favorable terms, for the purchase of a!* that portion of the road within the confines of Georgia which is graded, and culverts, for the most part, constructed, and the charter for that part aligned in North Caro lina. A railroad connection with the beau titul valley of the Little Tennessee, which would bring Augusta near to the | grain region and coal region of East ! Tennessee, is that which every active business man in the city desires. Two routes are proposed, one by the extension J of the Georgia Railroad from Athens ; the ! other the Augusta and Hartwell, foliow | ing the line of the valley of the Savannah I river. Each of these projee.s possess a | warrant for liberal State aid, bat popular l opinion seems to have settled down to the belief that no encouragement will be given by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company to the project far extending its Athens Branch to Clayton. The Augusta and Hartwell Railroad has been revised under new hands, and it is asserted that it will be reorganized in a very short while under a head that will merit the confidence of the public—the head of the oidorganiaation having left for parts beyond the sea'. We make this statement in re ply to the inquiry of our Rabun friend, whose letter is above relerred to. THEi PRETEXT. The Philadelphia Press, under the cap tion: “Our Next Great Struggle,” affirms that “the safely of the Repablic-is “menaced to day by two dangers. One is “found in the threatened rebellion at the “South, the other in the political organi sation known as Tamma Dy. The first is “not so dangerous as the second; for while “there is abnedant evidence that in the “States lately in insurrection there is a ! “conspiracy to overthrow the law, to drive “out Union men, and to reinstate the old 1 “order of things, there is also the assn ‘rance that the Government is strong 'enough to suppress it, and that speedily. The second cannot be met by any statute; ‘ Us acta are covert or under the authority “of laws of its own creation, and its de feat reaU with the people themselves.” The candor of the Presi\ in its estimate of the impending danger, calls to mind a reminiscence of the closing scenes of the war. After Lee’ 9 surrender, upon the muddy, weary, homeward tramp over the red hills which lie between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Winnesboro’, South Carolina, the news reached a party of foot sore, disheartened Confederates that Joe Johnson had surrendered to Sherman and the terms of capitulation were stated. A discussion of those terms evoked refer ence to the relative rank and powers of the two Generals, of course, ending by assign ing to Sherman bis true position, as a subordinate. Then the universal ques tion was “What sort of a man was Grant ?” What are his characteristics ? If possessed of the ambition of a Caesar, the way to Imperialism was open to him. His victorious cohorts lead into Washington would enable him to shape at will the nature and powers of the Government, was the opinion freely ex pressed ; and not nnfreqnently the opin ion was converted into a wish for such action with a declaration of willingness to support the movement if equality with the Federals would be extended to the Confederates. “Not so,” said an old West Point officer; “I know Grant well; I served with him in Oregon. He would never attempt such a movement. He knows full well that you are whippeu, but he knows also, that the North is to he con quered. Beyond question he is to be the next President. Tbe condition of the South will readily furnish him a pretext for the requisite power at the opportune time.” The Press now indicates the pretext. The North is to he conquered as Tammany under the color of some Shellabarger Ku- Klux bill. Kl-KLUX OUTRAGES AT TUB NORTH. The telegraph has announced that a reigo of mob law reigns atSaraaton, Pennsylva nia. A body of armed men, with the arms of volunteer companies numbering four or five hundred, blow up mining untrance3, tear up railroad tracks, assail other citi zens with clubs and stones, and do all manner of military werk, in a style that would delight Sheridan or Kilpatrick, or any other leading modern authority iu civil warfare. The President has not yet warned Congress that life and property is in danger in some parts of the loyal UnioD, Dor has he issued his proclamation warn ing these Ku-Klux rioters that they must retire to their homes within twenty days. Doubtless the President-General will do so at no distant day, and doubtless, also, if no heed is given to the President’s proclamation ot warning, the President- General will proceed to call upon the loyal blacks in the South to rally round the flag, boys, to put down the infamous PenDyslvaniau rioters and save the Union. Let the colored men hold themselves in readiness for a trip to Pennsylvania. Appropose of Geceral Grant’s Ku-Klnx bill, the New York Express says that the very day that Strasbismus Butler was framing bis indictment against the South, the Northern newspapers wore recording,as mere every day matters of the fact, crime and outrages whioh no “rebel” Ku-Klux could surpass in number or enormity, if it was to try never so hard. As specimens of the nature of Radical Ku-Klux outrages at the North, the Ex press gives a few of tho descriptive head ing?, which characterise tbe outrages gathered exclusively from a few leading loyal Republican journals. The following is the catalogue : [ From Republican Sources. ] Desperate Robbery in lowa—A Serious Riot on the Pacific Railroad. Murder and Suicide in Illinois —A Man Dispatches His Entire Family, Ina’ud ing HimoolT. Homicide in Wisconsin. Terrible Murder in Cincinnati Over a Game of Cards. Deadly Assault on a Catholic Priest at Ottawa, Ills. A Corpse-Watoher Plunders Mourners in New York. Daring Outrage—Noon-Day Attempt to Rob a Third Avenue Savings Bank— The Thieves Interrupted. Their Flight and Escape. Another Jack Reynolds—la a Cell with the Murderer of Thomas Btowd. A Sailor Drives a Knife through a Com rade’s Heart. A Terrible Tragedy—The Story of a Forged Will and a Double Murder in Milwaukee. Burglary in Broadway. llow a Gentleman was Robbed and a Pick pocket Arrested. The Murder at the Palisade?. Desperate River Thieves—Burglary and Threatened Murder. The First Ward Wife Murder Case — Bowe, the Brute, Committed to the Tornbp. Rogues Roughly Bandied. Outrage on Shipboard—A Sailor Kid napped. Fatal Stabbing Affrays near Indianapolis. Shooting Affair in a Peoria Bagnio. Stabbing and Shooting Affrays in In diana. Lvnch Law in Nevada—Execution by a Vigilance Committee. Row in a Chicago House of 111-Fame. Shooting Affray at Peoria. I/'rom tht JV. T. Standard---General Grant’s Organ. ] Lawlessness in Williamsburgh—The For ty Seventh Regiment Torn by Interne erne Strife —Excitement and Tumult — Cries “Treason.” A Thief Inquires After a Man’s Wise — Robs a House and Threatens a Pistol. A Drunken Wretch Tries to Murder his Wife—Upon His Conviction the Des pairing Woman Throws Herself into the Kills. An Audacious Rascal in the Clutches the Police. Now here is a catalogue that would bring joy to the heart of any Congression al Radical and delight a loyal Union man, “in difficulty,” at the South. Surely such a catalogue demands Congressional inves tigation. A riot as at Scranton, of five i hundred armed men, carry a foreign ji<ig, or a riot as on the Pacific road, would be, it occurring at the South, morceaus tor Morton or Beast Butler. But at the North 1 why they are only good sensational Sunday readings. Bat riots are not the only great points in the cata logue. The most fastidious taste is served with wife murders, child murders and burglaries. Let us have a committee upon the condition of society at the North, where Faro (according to the New York Tridrune) rules, and murder, and robbery, aud lechery, licensed and unlicensed, abounds. Wait for the Wagon.— Several names have been suggested by the press for the positions of Speaker in the House, and President of the Senate, of the General Assembly to meet six months hence. A suggestion like “weal pie is a very good thing but it may be “well to leave such questions untouched” antil the Ides of November. Without disparagement to the claims or qualifications of the parties who,by over anxious friends, are thus put innominatior,one thing seems clear to us, and this is, that names so suggested now, invoke against the parties opposition and oombi nation. AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19. 1871. CUBA. Owing to the continuation of the dis turbances in Cuba, the production of that island is decreasing at a rapid and ruinous rate. The exports of p*oduee from the port of Havana alone, in 1870, are less than those oflßCy, by 27,409 boxes sugar, 4,- 535 hogsheads molasses, 226 barrels honey, 19,845 arrs. wax, 1,480 rum, 15,- 280,000 segars, 9,677,839 pounds leaf tobacco. This decrease in the experts of Havana was surpassed by a similar dimi nution of those of all the other principal ports of the island. From a late number of the Diatio Official we leara that the prospect ot tbe present crop of sugar is still more dismal. The crop will fall short at least thirty-three per cent, of that of last year. From January Ist last to the 31 inst., there had been exported at Havana, 131,519 boxes and 3,962 hogs heads sugar, against 214,825 boxes t-nd 9,509 hogsheads at the corresponding date last year; while the stock to-day sums up only 163,040 boxes and 6,020 hogs heads, against 273,285 Boxps and 9,052 hogsheads at this time last year. All im portation of the precious metals to Cuba has also ceased ; the current now runs the other way. Thus, while in the months of January and February, 1870, the importa tions of specie into Havana summed up $2,949,401, in the corresponding period of this year only $260,501 have been re ceived in the islard. When to these evi dences of decline are added an increasing debt, confiscated and ruined estates, and a general stoppage of production in the Central and Eastern Departments, a pretty correct estimate can be formed as to the cost of refusing to allow the people of Cuba to govern themselves. THU CONVENTION OF THE GEORGIA RAILROAD. “A Stockholder” publishes a communi cation in this issue, in reference to the ap proaching Convention of the Georgia Rail road, in which certain short-comings are alleged against certain members of tbe Board. We are not cognizant of the al leged abuses complained of by the writer, and do not, therefore, endorse the charges made; but as the communication comes from a responsible source, we feel in duty bound to give it to tbe public, extending, at the same time, to the party or parties assailed, the privilege of a reply through our columns. THE RADICAL PLATFORM. We must fight over again the old battle with the old enarny, said Morton, the new Radical leader who succeeds Sumner, not long since. This is but anew form of the old Radical war cry, “the war is not over” which Grant repudiated in his oracular letter of acceptance, ejaculat ing, “Lei us have peace.” But now the cry is, “Let us have the old battle over again.” The finances of the country de mand peace. The trade of the country demands peace. The people of the coun try demands peace. But the Radical party demand war. Tbe old battle is to be fought over again. The Winchester Rifle is again to be proclaimed the best law. Kirk raiders and barn burners and house burners are to encouraged to go forward with the work of destruction. Evidence is to be manufactured and strife is to be instigated. The moanest, the lowest and the most degraded, foreign and domestic, carpet-bagger and scalawag, arc to be urged to do develish work in order that Radicals may retain power. Tills Is the Radical platform. Says Morton : No one can doubt that the Southern question will be the great issue in 1872, dwarfing into insignificance every other. No merely economical question can divide public attention with it. Shall recon struction be maintained ? Shall tbe con stitutional amendments be upheld ? Shall colored people be protected in the enjoy ment of equal rights? Shall the Reput)- licans of the Southern States be protected in life, liberty and property ? The key-note has been sounded early. “The issue for 1872 will and must be precisely the same,” says the Utica Her ald “as those of the rebellion and 1868.” Precisely so. The Radical party got into power by war; has grown fat by war; and a state of war is necessary to keep the Bummers iu power. We must have more New Orleans riots ; more Camilla riot 9. “The issue will and must be precisely those of the rebellion.” This is predeter mined. The issues will and must be the same. There is no mistake about the language. The condition is predicted. But a mere prediction is not sufficient. They must be the same as in the rebellion. Power is not wanting. The means is at hand and must be used. This is the Rad ical programme says Morton, and every other question dwarfs into insignificance. Now, we cannot say that we regret that the Radicals have abandoned the peace policy and gone back to “the rebellion,” much as we deplore the state of affairs that will follow. Our desire is for a return to constitutional law, not for a revival ot military law. Southern pursuits are pre-eminently peaceful— agricultural —a species of agricultural toil that permits no cessation, which is constant, unremit ting. The condition of peaoe now is such that wc produce a cotton ciop which rivals the greatest crop ever produced in times acknowledged to be peaceful. A reduc tion of this product will not prove hurtful- Again, the first call for volunteers by the President-General —the first dec'aration of martial law—will bring far greater evils upon the North than the South. We have no public funds. We have no ac cumulated government bonds. We have nothing to lose save a profitless cotton crop. Ws have been accustomed to mar tial law for ten years. Peace is more essential to Northern and Eastern indus tries than to Southern prosperity. We have lost everything. We are striving to regain our losses. We desire peace. But if the Radicals are again to force tbe issues of “the rebellion” upon the country we must stand it. That is all. We have stood such a condition of affairs before, and can do it again. But we have the satis faction now we never had before, and this is, that those who force the issue must lose jar more than we can, for we hunt nothing but old fields and profitless land. Free Love. --An extraordinary scene has occurred in a San Francisco court du ring the trial of a woman (Fair) for the murder of a Colonel Crittenden. She testi fied in her own behalf, admitted having been married a number of rimes, avowed the most advanced free love sentiments, and declared herself Crittenden's true wife in the sight of God—that he had injured herself and child; and, therefore, she killed him (making no pretense that the child injured was his), by shooting him through the heart whilst he was surround ed by his own family. Her last marriage, she said, did not make the man she mar ried her husband, because she did not love him. These sentiments, strange to say, were applauded by a number of females in court. A wonderfully straßge scene this— the frnit of Radical Free Love and Higher Law, as taught by our “pro gressive” reconstrnctionists, who are reconstructing, in accordance with the advanced principles of this progressive age, religion, morals and politics—the Bible and the Constitution, the Govern ment and Society itself from its very foun dations. West Point thinks she has received sixty-five thousand bales of cotton daring the present season, against forty-three thousand last year. From Warren. On the Wing, April 8, 1871. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: The Macon & Augusta Railroad is a live institution and bids fair to exoetd the most sanguine expectations of its friends. The trackand roiling stock is in fine order, and for ease, comfort and safety, equal to any line of track in the Southern country. The passenger coaches are specimens of architecture, perfectly magnificent, and re flect great credit upon the able and effi cient Superintendents of the South Caro lina and Georgia Railroad?. Tne conductors, Messrs. Burnet and Johnson, are very polite and attentive to passengers, active and prompt in the dis charge of their duties, and quite popular, especially with the ladies, by whom, wo fear, they will be captured by and by. The spirit of progress and improvement is quite apparent at all points along this road, and at none more so than Warren ton. The old hotel has been removed and anew one erected upon its site, which is quite an attraction to the travelling pub lic. Anew Methodist Chinch is going up, which will be an ornament to the town and an honor to its projectors. Old buildings are being renovated and repaint ed, which gives an air to fee town en chanting to the view. Warrenton deserves the reputation it has loug enjoyed, of being on* of the most important mercantile towns iu [liddle Geor gia. Vast quantities of dry goods are sold annually at this place ; and notwithstand ing the stringency of the times, fee trade now is respectable. I observed the Sprague, Dunnel, Phillip Allen, and American prints selling in any quantity at tan cents per yard, which, in consideration of their value in Northern markets, is quit! cheap. Only one, I think, of the old merchants who flourished in this town twen;y years ago still remain, which is Mr. Cody, of the firm of Messrs. Heath & Allen; and a more polite and accomplished gettleman we rarely meet. From his vast acquain tance with the people, his experimee and tact in business, he makes a most sfficient salesman. 1 had the pleasure of meeting vith my friend, Dr. Jacobs, Surgeon Dentist, who has established au office in Wa'renton. The Doctor is a high toned Christen gen tleman, has had long experience inthe art, and I hope his skill aud proficieicy will be duly appreciated, and he will receive merited confidence and patronage. The farmers of Warren have (hanged the programme in planting the present year, and have turned the scale in favor of the grain crop. They seem perfealy sat isfied that the low price of cottin, and high price of provisions, if not dbecked, will be their ruin. Traveller. [communicated. 1 Convention of the Georgia Railroad. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: The annual election for Directors of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company fakes place in this city, at the Convention to bo held in the ensuing month. This eleotion, always important, will, at this time, in view of the reoent endorse ment of the State Road lease, and the lavish expenditure of the_ company’s money in Atlanta, be regarded with in creased interest. It is a matter of great moment, in order to the selection of a Board qualified to con duct the manifold and weighty interests of the company, that every stockholder should make the election a subject of per sonal concern. While we make no special charge against the present Board, as a body of worthy gen tlemen, we do not hesitate to declare what no intelligent stockholder will gainsay, that it contains inefficient and incapable Directors, who should be retired. That there are amongst them members who act the role of dummies, and obey the behests of leaders, and others who lead, while possessing only a nominal in terest in tbe road, no one acquainted with the affairs of the corporation is prepared to donj. That these men are not acceptable to the body of the stockholders, and never would have been called to, or retained in the position they occupy, but for the sys tem of proxies by which the elections are annually carried, is a proposition likewise universally admitted. Among them, too, are men to whom, if report be true, heavy pecuniary favors have been granted on the part of the com pany, and who wield its power and con trol much of its patronage, while their moneyed interest in the corporation is literally homoepathic, and whose presence in the Board is useful to nobody but them selves. While others hold their seats as Directors as the tools of influential parties, and vote, and speak, and act, in obedience to the instruction of the masters who have bestowed tbe places. Stockholders! This state of things should continue no longer. The evil is manifest. It has existed for years. Let us look for and apply the remedy. The object of holding an annual conven tion of the stockholders of the company was that they should exercise a general re view of the acts of the executive officers and managers, and to shape the policy of tbe corporation. If errors and abuses had crept in—as will happen in all human in stitutions —it became the duty of the Con vention to inquire into, ferret out, and correct them. In order to accomplish this important work, it was designed that all the stockholders, by themselves or their representatives, should meet and confer deliberately together. This was the theo ry, and the true theory, by which it was in tended that all shert-comings, whether of blunder or of crime, sbeuld meet with a prompt and inexorable corrective. How, under the system which now ob tains, does this theory work in practice ? As the Convention meets year after year, it i9 found that a part of the Board of Directors,having contrived to represent, by means of proxies, the majority of the stock, complacently proceed to endorse their past conduct, direct the projects of the company, and vote themselves an other year of patronage and power. Exer cising this dangers control, there is no difference but in name between a conven tion of stockholders and a meeting of director?. In substance and effect, the Board of Directors are the Convention. For their acts they are responsible to no body but themselves. The appeal to the Convention is an appeal to their own Beard, and the court of review consists of the parties whose conduct is reviewed. Never was mere signal departure be tween design and result. The Conven tion was intended to discover and stop abuse?. It hides up and perpetuates them. Now this is no new matter. Tbe writer claims no merit of discovery. It is a s üb ject which is spoken of habitually among the strckholders, and is felt at all times. The Convention, so far as the interests of the road are concerned, accomplishes no good whatsoever. Interesting railroad debates, and 6oine fine speeches are made, and much spring shopping is done. But as for a stern, impartial investigation into the affairs of the corporation, by fearless and competent parties, everybody knows that the Convention accomplishes no such results. We propose this plain and decisive rem edy : Let each and every stockholder at tend the Convention in person. Let him come unbiassed and uncommitted, and af ter insisting upon having light upon the acts of the managers, speak and act and vote according to his views and judgment then formed. If he find it impossible to bestow his personal presence, let him, in appointing his proxy, not give it to those whose con duct is np for review', but to one who can and will impartially and justly perform the duty. The supineness and indifference mani fested in this regard,by many stockholders, is nothing short of criminal neglect The writer is informed that there are Directors who have voted the same proxies for years. The principals having given the power a decade ago and allowing it to remain nn revoked —possibly forgetting that it had ever been bestowed. We need not dwell upon the question which arises as to the taste, to nse no harsher term, manifested by the Directors in canvassing for proxies in order to vote for themselves. Would it be harsh to call such condnct indelicate f And might not some of the uncharitable charge that this course arises from the determination tl at certain short comings may never see the light. Let the stockholders everywhere throughout Georgia wake up and look se riously into this grievance. Vi e call upon every stockholder —the owner of one or the owner of five hundred shares— to at tend the Convention in May, and to cast his vote as his judgment may dictate. If unable to attend, let him send his proxy tosome one outside of the Board. Surely no one can object to this course, and if followed, it cannot bat produce the happiest results. Our object in these few lines is not an attack upon persons, but to invoke the at tention of the stockholders to the impor tance of the subject, and to eDjoin their personal attendance or proper representa tion at the approaching Convention. Our end nnd aim solely is the advance ment of this great public highway. A Stockholder. [FYorn the New York Post. ] A Rebuke to Ku-rlui Legisla tors. DISORDERS FOMENTED BY DESIGNING RADI CAL POLITICIANS, We printed yesterday a note from a Northern man who has lived four years in South Carolina, aud who asserts tnat the part of tbe State with which he is familiar is peaceable and quiet, and that Northern and Union men are safe there. VVe print below a letter from Georgia of similar pur port concerning that State: Boston, April 4, 1871. To the Editors of the Evening Post: The letter which I send you herewith is from one of my most esteemed and trust worthy correspondents in the South —one who was a Union man throughout the war. Such evidence should be taken be fore laws are passed whioh will be as ob noxious as the fugitive slave law was, and which will be likely to produce the same disorder. E. A. Augusta, Ga., March 29,1871. My Dear Sir: Your valued favor of the 25th mat. receives my interested care, with many thanks. My attention lias been directed to the efforts made by cer tain parties to pass a Ku-Klux bill, whioh I considered would fail, under the influ ence of thinking and substantial citizens ot the North who had before this learned to estimate properly the outrageous re ports furnished from the South. I am really surprised at your letter, which causes me to think the conservative feeling I was relying upon failed to exist. The State of Georgia is as peaceable as prior to our unfortunate rebellion, with the ex ception of occasional violations of law and order by irresponsible persons, who re ceive the condemnation of all good cit'zens —and the former slave-owners are of the latter das?. The laws are enforced and obeyed, and our people are as loyal to the Government as any upon the North Ameri can oontinent. The disorders are of per sonal and not political causes and charac ter. The rights of the negroes under the laws are respected, and there is every disposition to protect ar.d secure them in those rights. When some who are bold attempt to force social rights where they are not invited, they are re buked, and sometimes roughly dealt with. This depends upon the temperament of those who oomn in oontaot with them. I do not wish to be understood as asserting that every unlawful act committed is at ot ce promptly punished. That cannot be said of any oountry in any age. That there have been unlawful acts unpunished I admit, but they are of a personal nature, by do means hostile to the Government. With a surely the whites and negroes are now upon a iar better understanding than at any time since tbe war ended, with less cause for complaint, particularly iD refer ence to the question of labor, which of itself is the corner stone to harmony. Our neighbor, South Cardins, has had trouble in some of her oounties, 1 think promoted by designing politicians, in order to furn ish fresh cause for legislation. The peo ple of that State are now believing noth ing they csd do will avert unlawful legis lation. Their laws are enforced and en acted, to a great extent, by ignorant negroes, and in eases to myjknowiedge, by bad, designing white men, who deceive, insult, and humiliate respectable men ; and then taxation, State and oounty, is oppressive. Under snob oircumstances vehement opposition is not surprising. Wouy not such a condition of affairs meet quite as serious rebuke in your State ? If I am correct, this is not to be construed as disloyalty to the Government, but re sistance to State oppression, or more par ticularly to personal dislike. I have en tered more in detail upon this subject than worthy of your valuable time in read ing, and trust your pardon for the intru sion. In conclusion, I beg to thank you and those like you, hoping these are many, for your kind feelings in favor of our dis tressed people, and hope tor your unoeas ing efforts iD our behalf UDtil universal peace and harmony onoe more settles up on every spot of this South—shielded by the hand of New Englaud, who we desire our strongest ally, as w e are bound to gether by eommeroial ties, and are indis pensable to eaoh other. Again I thank you tor the interest displayed in our wel fare. Most truly and respeotfully yours. Second Letter from Ex-Gov. Ferry to Governor Scott. The President's Proclamation—An Ab surd and Ridiculous Document—The Ruinous Taxation—The Fraudulently Issued State Bonds — No Moral Obliga tion Resting Upon the People to Pay Them—A Plea for Peace. Greenville, March 28, 1871. Jo his Excellency Governor Scott: Sir —Your Excellency will pardon the liberty I take in addressing a second let ter to you. I was in hopes, from your message to the Legislature and your re cent consultation with your political op ponents, that you were sincerely of opinion some change in the politics of the State was absolutely necessary to preserve the peaoe and quiet the excitement in South Carolina. But your application to the President for a military force to be sent here to crush out all opposition to the odious legislation which disgrace* the State, has induced me to doubt yomr sincerity. Let me assure you that this is a step io the wrong direction, if you are sincerely desirous of preserving the peace and promoting the prosperity and welfare of the country. If your object is to es tablish a despotism in the State, and force the wealth and intelligence of the people to submission, under the rule of igDorance, oppression and rascality, then then your oourse may seem a safe and judicious one. It will not ■ prove such, however. The President has been induced by your application to issue an absurd and mo*t ridiculous proclamation, calling on the people of South Carolina to disperse and return to their homes ! This procla mation is intended tor the North, and not for the South. We all know in South Carolina that there is no embodi ment offorce here, except your negro militia, and ha* not been since the war ended. Not an instance has oocurred, in all of our recent troubles, of any resistance to tho law or to public officers. The gen tlemen arrested at Laurens and other places, charged with riotous oonduct and murder, made no resistance, but sub mitted themselves quietly to tbe laws of their country, and will ever do so. When your Federal troops arrive here they will fiod the country in'profound peace —no unlawful assemblies to disperse, but every one engaged at home in his daily avooations. These Federal troops cannot keep a watch throughout the State, over every midnight icoendiary or assassio. It is impossible for them to guard every barn and gm house, or pre vent secret retaliation, where they have been destroyed. These offenses cannot be prevented by an army, however nu merous, They must h e suppressed oy the vigilance and virtue of the citizens, the oivil law and courts of justice. And here permit me to say to your Excellency, that the good people «f South Carolina have been greatly outraged, alter prosecuting and conviotiog notorious fejons, to see them pardoned as soon a» they reaoh the penitentiary, and turned loose on society once more, in order to save, as you say, their civil rights, the right of voting, giving testimony in courts of justice und sitting on juries ! When _ guilt goes uu punished, retaliation will follow’, and society lapses into a savage state. The condition of South Carolina is, in deed, a most deplorable one, and calls loudly for the sympathy of the good and virtuous everywhere. The Government of the State is in the h a “ d< of our former slaves, and vile adventurers, who have come here from the North to prey on the vital* of the country, dishonor the State, and return laden with stolen wealth, The intelligence and wealth of the State are powerless, incapable of holding office, and crushed into the dust by ignorance, pauperism and rascality. Taxes are levied on them by those who pay no taxes and own no property. All the offices of the State are filled with Degrees, scalawags and carpet-baggers. Is it to be expected that a high-toned, brave and honorable people would be quiet under the circumstances, and see their property destroyed by rougish and ignorant legisla tion ? Several of our most rail roads have fallen into the hands of North ern adventurers. By the grossest bribery and corruption the Legislature have been induced to release the lien of the State on these roads, amounting to millions of dollars, and have issued $4,000,000 of State bonds for tbe same companies, with the privilege of selling them at any price and pocketing the money. Again, the Legislature have ordered $6,(KM),000 of State bonds to be isssued, wt.ich they call a sterling debt, and which arc to be exchanged for the present bonds of the State. It has been shown that this ex change of bonds, if honestly made, will cost the State over $1,000,000. But this is not all. The fraud &Dd stealage whioh may be practiced in issuing these sterling bonds, cannot be foreseen or calculated. Four hundred thousand dol lars before the war paid the whole ex penses of the State government. This year taxes to the amount of $4,000,009 have been levied by the Legislature tor the same purpose. And the County Commissioners will have to levy $1,000,000 more for oounty expenses. How can these enormous taxes be paid ? A poor man it this county bad t «sell, the other day, his only milch cow to pay his taxes. The tax books are closed for Greenville county, and more than one half of the tax payers have been unable to pay their taxes. The poor man told me that he formerly paid fifty cents taxes on his land, and tbipyear he had to pay sls on tho same laud. Another tax is called for in November. The last year’s crop has been exhausted in paying the present taxes, and, until another crop is made, the people are utterly unable to pav the taxes called for in November. Tne State bonds fraudulently issued to fund the State bank bills,, which were purchased up by Northern capitalists at ten cents on the dollar, should bo re pudiated, and also tbe railroad bonds, with the whole batch of sterling bonds. Let the purchasers of these bonds beware of what they are doiDg. There is do moral obligation on the part of the tux payers to redeem bonds fraudulently is sued and stolen. I would urge on the people of South Carolina to be quiet, and by all means preserve the peace of the State. The Radical party is goiDg down rapidly at the North, as is proven by the New Ham shire election. Any outbreak at this time, in any of the Southern States, would be a God-send to that party. If the Southern people will only be prudent, the next Presidential election will result in the dethronement of General Grant and the election of a Democrat to the Presi dential chair. Then there will be hope for the Republic. Those unprincipled ad venturers from the North, who have stirred up bad feeling between the col ored and white race, will flee, like crimi nals from justice, with their stolen wealth. The scalawag traitors to race and country will soon follow, and the negroes will live in harmony with the whites. But if Gen. Grant can stir up a bloody strife in the South by sending his armies here, he stands a chance ot re election, by appealing to the hatred, passion and prejudice of the North and West. This military President says that he sends his army here to protect the property and lives of loyal citizens, when it is a notorious fact that all the property which has been destroyed in South Carolina since the war, (and it has amounted to millions), belonged to those whom he would stigmatize as “disloyal,” disfranchised, white Democrats. Every week and every day we hear of houses, barns, gin-houses, and stores being de stroyed and robbed by the midnight incen diary, whose loyalty Gen. Grant would not dispute. Hundreds of these “loyal citizens” are now in the penitentiary and well protected. Some few of them may have been hung up by the neck, by way of retaliation for their incendiarism. But Grant’s army will prove unable to prevent the crime or the retaliation. B. F. Perry. Tke Income Tax. IMPORTANT MODIFICATION. The following communications from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue make some important changes in the method of assessing the income tax. It will be seen that one of the most obnoxious features ol the tsx is removed : Offiok of Internal Revenue, 1 Washington, March 22, 1871. j S. B. Butcher, Esq., Supervisor of Intern al Revenue, New York : Sir— ln making their annual income re turn upon form 24, tax payers should not be required to include amounts received as dividends, interest or coupons from any of the corporations, institutions or com panies mentioned in sections 120 and 122 of the act of June 30, 1864, as amended, except the interest allowed or paid to de positors in savings banks or savings insti tutions, even though no tax has been with held therefrom. I shall cause this letter to be published in the Internal Revenue Record, for the guidance of internal revenue officers. All previous rulmgs inconsistent here with are hereby revoked. A. Pleasonton, Commissioner. Office Internal Revenue, ) Washington, March 27. j Editors of the Internal Revenue Record: ij Gentlemen— Yon will please publish the following in the next issue of your paper: Tax payer? who prefer not to make re turn of income for the year 1870, in de tail, as set forth on page 2 of form 24, will be allowed to make a statement in tbe form following (and this statement may be made by the proper interlineations and erasures on pages 2 and 3 of form 24) : Statement of income, gains and profits of State of , during the year 1870, af ter making all legal deductions ; Taxable income $ Amount of tax at 2£ per cent $ AFFIDAVIT, State of , county ot , is.: , being sworn according to law, deposes and sayc that the foregoing statement contains a full, true and correct account of his in come for the year A. D. 1870, which he has received, whether derived from any kind of property, rents, interest, dividend, undivided piofits, wages, or salary, or from any trade, employment, or vocation, or from at.y other source whatever, from the Ist day of January to the 31st day nf De cember, A. D., 1870, both days inclusive, aid subjeot to an income tax under the existing law of the United States; and that be has not received and is not entitled to receive from any or ail sources of income together any other suer for the said year besides what is herein set forth, except such amounts as, though justly due to the affiant, are not good and collectable ; and that he is honestly aod truly entitled to make the deductions from his income for said year as made by him, in accordaDOC with the true intern of the excise laws ol the United States, and that the several rates and amounts therein contained are stated in the legal-tender currency. Sworn to and subscribed this —— day of , A. D , 1871, before me, , as sistant assessor division, district, Stat 9 of . Written answers will uot be required to the questions on page 3 of “form 24.” Affidavit No. 1, on page 4 of the said “from 24” may be modified by erasures of the words ‘'and that during said year his entire gross income from every souroe, estimated in said currency, without any deduction or diminution whatever, did not exceed $2,000.” A. Pleasanton, Commissioner. r l he Queen and Her Dead Consort. —Referring to the mausoleum erected at Windsor to the memory of the Prince Cot.-- sort by his wife, at a cost of 1,000,000/, a correspondent says ; “Each day Queen Victoria visits this plaoe alone. Near the tomb is placed a large deep basket filled with wreaths of beautiful flowers. At hand is a small round table on which are a Bible and a prayer-book. From these she reads and prays fervently, kneel ing the while. Then she rises, and tak ing the wreathes, advances to the sarco phagus, in the lia of which a small sheet of plate glass is inserted through which she can see the face and form of the de parted. But the effort of the embalmer have not fceon thoroughly successful, and the features that were so beautiful in life are is death marred by discoloration. Still it i3 his face, shrunken and pallid though it be. Again she prays, thinking of the years of happiness she lived with him, long passed away, but never to be for gotten. She stands gazing there till she can gaze no mure with tears. Gently she places the forget-me-nots upon the marble coffin, takes one last lingering look with her dim eyes, and slowly retires, while from above the bell tolls out a melancholy requiem for the idolized dead.” “Jim” Sims, the little mulatto fiddler whom Bullock appointed District Judge down at Savannah, can’t find his court. It dodged him in Chatham, ditto in Effing ham—where he found the Court House locked and the officers “gone a fishing”— and it will probably dodge him in Bryan. Two new warehouses, with capacity for 5,000 bales of cotton, are proposed to be built this sammer at Savannah, NEWSERIES. VOL. XXIV. NO. 10. [ From the New York World.] An Equine Paradise. A Neio Jersey Bachelor Leaves $409,000 to His Six Horses—History of the Af fair—An Eighty-acre Hay Ground for the Equine Pets. Tho fate of the old English race-horse, pathetically set forth in a ballad dear to every sportsman’s heart, whioh narrates the fall of the animal from fat feeding and sumptuous stabling to the starvation and sorrow of a hackney coaoh-horse, and the Anal descent to dirt and death in a stubble field, will certainly never be that ot the six equine pets of Mr. J. Marsh, who died a short time sinoe at Passaic Village, N. J. The humane public and the Amerioan Society for tbe Pre,cation of Cruelty to Animals will be. no doubt, gratified to learn that Mr. Marsh was a bachelor of advanced years, and that he was of the opinion that “charity begins at home." At any rate, by his will he leaves the best part of his estate of $400,000 to accrue for the use and benefit ot his horses. THE SIX LUCKY HORSES. Mr. Marsh, as already stated, was an elderly baohelor and a man of portly pres ence and gentlemanly manners. He pur chased a beautiful farm of over eighty acres on the Wesscl road, near Passaic, from Mr. David Roe, who was one of tbe few persons intimate with him. On as suming possession of Lis properly ho had no relatives with him, not a solitary broth er or cousin, or aunt or unole. All that he apparently held dear in lito were six horses, which he evinced a deep affection for. In fact, so much that a medical gen tleman living near, when asked what his opinion of Mr. Marsh was, replied in a manner quite at variance with the guarded speech of the physician’s profession. “A worthy man, sir, only very excited here— (tapping his forehead) —a most oharitable man, sir. Ho regards that dark bay horse as his son. What A pity, sir, that he. is not Alexander the Great, or imperial Ca ligula. luthe first instance, we should have a massive mausoleum over his Bucepha lus, and, were ho Caligula, New Jersey would be dignified by an equine pro-con sul.” Certainly the Dootor’s ideal candi date for the bachelor's pro-oonsulship was not very attractive, for an aeiicr looking horse could hardly be found, except one that came into the world a miniature Milan cathedral with one eye and two leg,". The other five horses wore bad and good, gome of them being worth some hundreds of dollars caoh, and others not worth two hundred cents. Be their value what it may, sevoral farmers, to test the matter, offered oid Mr. Marsh exeessivo sums of money for some of tho worst looking of tho pix horse?, out the elderly bachelor persistently rofusod to part with his pets, saying that he bought tho farm principally for their use, aud that ho would keep them comfortable lor the good they had dono and not tarn them out to die in their old age. MR. MAR3II DIES. Although desirous of prolonging tho longevity of big horses, Mr. Marsh was morally eonvinoed that his own earthly days were few and Bhort. Ho was suffer ing from consumption, and of a summer evening he would tramp out into his fields, and manage to approach his oldest and wbeeziest horse, whioh would rub its nose affectionately against tho baohclor’s shoulder. Old Mr. Marsh would then rub the old horse down, saying: “Poor old horse, I’m going. 1 know I’m going. But it’s all right. You won’t suffer, old fellow,” and then satisfied that he could stand erect before liis fellow-men, tramps back to his dwelling. And his innate knowledge proved correct, for one evening old Mr. Marsh quietly rubbed down his horses tor the last time, and his ohalk nark ou the tally slate of life was rubbed with greater faoility and far less noise. THE HORBES’ ESTATE. Ilis will was found. Its reading pro duced a sensation. Several young ladies in the village who expected donations for the reason that thi-y read him novels, were not seen for several dayp, even by their in timate friends, and oven when seen, spoke with dramatic effeot and apparent expe rience of the unaoomiutable perfidy of man. By the will, the farm of eighty aores is set apart as a grazing pasture, happy hunting ground, and general terrestrial paradise, for the six horses during the term of ten years. Anxious lest the new mown hay, succulent turnips, and farinaoious corn should pall on the stomaohs of tho horses, the sum of S3OO for eaoh horse is direoted to be expended in the feed ot an ultra superior and novel class ; and still further, daring those ten yoars, some man of ex perience and oharity to tho brute oreation will rub down and ourry-eomb the six horses at an annual remuneration of $1,200. The crowning bequest of the whole testament is that Dr. R. A. Ter hune and a gentleman of this city, who are appointed executors, are bequeathed SIO,OOO each in ease they see the will properly fulfillel. THE HELPING HAND. The charity of Mr. Marsh is not alto gether confined to tho brute creation, for a poor orphan boy, to whom Mr. Marsh evrnocd some affection, is bequeathed a handsome sum yearly, the accumulated amount of which he will reoeivc when of age. Mr, Marsh’s old housekeeper also finds herself entitled to a cosy annual pen sion. And a poor German farm hand, an old-time fixture about tho place, is given an acre of the beßt, ground with a mill on it, value $4,500, for tho small considera tion ot sl. Mr. Marsh’s distant relatives also rooeiva small legacies, which will be greatly augmented when, in accordance with the will, the farm is sold ten yoars hence. WHAT 18 THOUGHT OV IT. This siognlar will is the subject of uni versal comment among the farmors and residents in the vicinity of Passaic. Some say Mr. Marsh mu«t have been a crazy fool to make such bequests while he had some blood relations, However distant, ard others point to the New Jorsey poor as the true objoot of oharity. Others, and they who knew him best, state tbat Mr. Marsh was iu a great degree right, that his horses were his best an i truest friends, and that he was truly just in having them cared for. But the numerous theories in regard to his action are too varied to judge of. He was no doubt eccentric, but John Stuart Mill, in speaking of curious wills, advances the theory that the wills of eccentric persons are not always to be derided as unbeoeficial. Speakiug of this will instances a ease where a man left a large estate to be applied to tho care, pre servation, and succor of wounded birds, and says in regard to it that probably such a stage of facts would tend to show the culture, habits, and inherent faoulties of the birds by observation, and so did science and in many instanoes revolutionize popular natural bistory. In the present ease, the age, inutility, and character of the legatees, renders the truth as euoti * theory highly improbable. Wby Women Fall. [Cummunication in Chicago Republican } The “social evil" is not confined, by a great deal, to the places where it exists in its more public manifestation. A while ago, having same curiosity to asoctain if the “personals” in the Sunday’s Tribune were bona fule, and, if so, what was the character of those thus advertising, I an swered four of them. In due time I re ceived replies, with tho following result; No. I—A1 —A widow who keeps a hoarding house on Miohigan aveoue, about 30 years of age, with one child; No. 2—A youDg lady on Wabash avenue, near fweDty-seeond street, about 22 years old ; No. 3 —A widow on one of tha “Courts” between Wabash and Miohigan avenuos, about 32 of ago, with three children ; No. 4—A married woman residing on South Park avenue, about 30, with a siskly husband and no children. AH wanted about the same thing—a “friend, ” who could assist them—-the young lady and and the married lady spoke of dress particularly. So much for that one experiment, which I assuto you is literally true. Now the organ of this class of people is pub lishing these “Personals” all the time— especially every Sunday. The facts I have related go to show that tho “evil” is fearfully prevalent all over the city, and indicate a state of morals not of the most favorable kind. One result of my investigations on this subject is to lead me to tho conclusion that the passion for dress and display is the cause of a larger portion of this evil thaD any one thing. I am thoroughly convinccu that more girls are seduced into a life of shame through a desire to keep up with the times in fashionable attire, than in aDy other way. In fact, I believe that three out of every five enter the gate that leads to destruction throngh the wiles of the tomper—Fashion. The women themselves, therefore, who run riot in the extravagance of dress are primarily more chargeable, in my opinion, with the existence and extension of the “social evil, ” than are the men. Rome is patting up some steam flooring mills. The Moneyless Man. BY MAJOB H. T. STANTON (t.ATK C. S. A.) Is tliore uo secret place on the faoe of the earth Where charity dwelletb, where virtue hath birtli 7 Where bosoms in mercy and kiudness will heave, Anil the poor ami the wretched shall “ask and receive Is there no plane on earth Where a knock from the poor Will bring a kind angel to open the door ? Ah ! search the wide world wherever you can, There is no open door for a moneyless man. Go back in yonr halls, where the chrndo lier’s light. Drives out with its splendor the darkness ot night, Where the rich hanging velvet in shad owy fold Sweeps gracefully down with the shadow of gold. And the mirrors of silver take on and re new. In long Fghtod vistns the ’wlldering view Go there in your patches and And, if you can, A welcoming smile for a 1001103’less man. Go look in yon church of the cloud-roaelt- Ing spire Which gives back to the sun the same look of red tire, Where tho arches and columns are gor geous within, Aud the walls seem as pure as a soul with out sin t Go down the long able—see the rich and the great, In the potnp aud tho pride of their world -1 y estate; Walk down in your patches and find, if you can, Who opens a pew for a moneyless man ! Go look to your judge in his dark flowing gown, With the scales wherein law weighoth equity dowu, Where he frowns on the weak, and smiles on the strong. And punishes right whtSro ho justilies wtoug ; Where jurors their lips on tho Bible have laid, To render a verdict they’ve already made— Go there in the court-room, and tind, if you can, A law lor tho cause of a moneyless ntan. Go, look in the banks, whoro Mammon has told, Ills hundiedn of thousands of silver and and gold ; Where sale from the hold of the starving and poor, Ides pile upon pile of tho glittering ore ; Walk up to the conuter—ah, there you may stay, Till your limbs grow old and your hair turns gray, And you’ll find at the bark no one of tho clan With money to lend to a moneyless man ! Then go to your hovel ; uo raven has fed The wife who has sutrered too long for her bread, Kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death-frost From the lips of the augel your poverty lost, Then turn in your agony upward to God, And bless, while it smites you, the chas tening t od ; Anri you’ll tind at the close of your life’s little span, There’s welcome above for a moneyless man. Answer to the “Moneyless Man.” BY FLORENCE ANDERSON CLARKE. There are plaoes, not secret, where Vir tue has birth, Whore Charity dwells on litis beautiful earth ; Where mercy and kindness are joined hand in hand, And pity’s tears lalls at tho warm heart’s command. There are doors that the least gentle knock will unbar, And others that swing on their hinges ajar, Giving egress to angel’s who lovingly scan The woes and the wants ol the Money lshu Man. Does he work ? Does he strive ? Is ho faithful and true 7 Does he know what man has done, and wliat he may do 7 Or does he creep on with the sluggard’s slow pace, And refuse to take part in ambition’s proud race 7 Does he drink, while his neighbor, with whole heart and soul, Is giving his strength to be first at the goal 7 If surh be his crimes, pity him if you can, Content to be scorned as a Moneyless Man. Gabor, taught by tbe brain, with its strong skillful band Has reared princely palacesover Uio land, Aud the man who will work, will sooner or late, Cease to sigh, like a vagrant, at some rich man's gate. With purple and crimson his walls may be hung, While the chandelier’s light o’er the labia is filing ! With a heart bravo and free, ore be imag ine life’s span, He’ll forget that he e’er was a Moneyless Man. There aro churches whose lofliost turret spire Have sprung from the depth of some poor boy's desire ; Tliete are colleges, hospital l ', founded by those Who knew, at tho outset, stern poverty’s woes ; But they labored, undaunted, with hand, heart and bruin, Aud we know that such labor is never in vain. That man with his millions, when first ho began, Was known upon “change” as a Money less Man. Did he call on the ravens for moat un<l tor bread ? Or expect that hia wife was by miracle fed, While he spent his leisure in looking tor banks, That would lend out their gold for a poor devil’s thanks ? Or a court where thelaw was so cheap and so free That a client was welcome witli never a fee ? No j if he had been of this base, thriftless clan, He too would have died as a Moneyless Man. Nor do portals of Paradise ope for one Who has left any work that he could do undone! Its honors, its blisses await tho true man, Who, with ten t«lents trusted, havo made other ten. “He is worse than the heathen who does not provide For his own and tho Judge ot all lives may decide, That brave, earnest labor hoing part of life’s plan, Heaven has no rewards for this Moneyless Man. A Novel Idea.—We heard yesterday of a rather novel ease which rocently oc curred in Caldwell county. It Hcems an old gontlemau residing near Kingston, who had for several years been married, conceived a violent attachment for a young girl liviug in tho neighborhood. Whether this attachment was reciproca ted, or whether he oven made it known to tho damsel herself, we arc not advised. It happened, however, that a young mao bad also been paying his addresses to the girl, and rumor had it that he was soon to be married to her. This comiDg to tho oars of the old man, he determined to make a bold stroke to secure the object of his affections. His young rival was poor, while he was blessed with an abundance ot this world’s goods. He met the youth, and deliberately pro posed that he would give him his own wife and SSOO in cash if he would relin quish his claims to the girl and induce her to marry him. Htrango to say, the young fellow ac cepted the proposal ; stranger still, ho submitted it to the girl and she consented to the atrangement; and, what is perhaps not so strange, the wile of the first party • Iso signified her willingness to cheerfully become a party to tho transaction. Every thing thus amicably adjusted, a day wai fixed upon to consummate tho trade, and all parties seemed in a fair way of having their wishes gratified. Just at this juncture, however, an in superablo objeot presented itself in the person of,the father of tho girl, who got wind of tho affair, and entered his protest against the swap in the most decided and emphatic terms. The disconsolate bus band was compelled to return to his own wife; and the young man, finding he could not get hold of the SSOO, submitted to tho stern decrees of fate with the best graoo possible, and married the girl him self.—St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette , March 29. In a fracas at Homer, Ga., during the sitting of the Superior Court on Tuesday last, Mr. Cooney Waters shot Mr. Samuel Prewitt. The wound, though painful, is not considered dangerous. The auffrags-slingera of Gainesville reg ulate their chronometers by a wooden watoh which one of the enterprising jewol eri of that town has suspended in front of his establishment as a sign.
