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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JPLT (9,
BOHK HOPE FOR CHICAGO.
The Chicago Tribune says that “ in the
reoent competitive examination for the
Chicago High Sohool and Normal School,
the number who passed an examination
equal to the standard was 469. Os thesei
24. all girls, were admitted to the Normal
School. Os the other 446, no less than
278 were girls, and oaly 167 boys. The
total of the successful applicants was:
Girls, 302; boys, 167.
“Os the students in the Chioago High
.Sohool, including the new and the oldest
classes, four-fifths are girls. If the pro
portion oontinues to increase in the fu
ture u it has of late years, the girls will
gradually, but rapidly, monopolize the
school.”
It is an old Georgia maxim that “ Good
mothers make good sons.” Wesec, there
fore, in the IVibune's statement, great
hope for Chicago The next generation
of Chicago boys will do better. We have
never known an educated mother, how
ever poor, who suffered her boys to grow
up without learning, at least, to read, write
and eiptaer. Kindergarten instruction may
do for the crowded populations of Europe
and the denser populations of Northern
cities, Lut give us '* home training ” by
good, well eduoated mothers, to make
good citisens.
OIK PROGRESS TOWARDS SPECIE PAY
MENTS.
The importations from July Ist, 1870, to
the middle of June, 1871, are officially re
ported at $337,000,000; for the same po
riod 1869-70, $272,000,000. The increase
is $66,000,000. The exports of gold from
New York since January is $40,000,000 ;
for the same period in 1870, $16,400,000.
The increase in the last six months is $23,-
600,000. The last New York bank state
ment shows that loans (oily banks) have
increased from July, 1870, from $250,000,-
000 to $293,000,000, and the deposits dur
ing the same period from $179,000,000,
to $243,000,000. The specie reserve of
the banks, during the same period, has
decreased from $31,000,000 to $14,000,-
000. The general estimate of the gold
production of the country is $70,000,00),
so that it takes, at present, all the gold
that is mined, and all the ootton we can
grow, and all the pork, wheat, petroleum
and other articles that we can export, to pay
off our annual indebtedness' —make both
ends meet. In the meanwhile Govern
ment bonds, and State bonds, and City
bonds, and Railroad bonds, are going
abroad, swelling the amount of indebted
ness, which we promise to pay ten, twen
ty and thirty yoars henoe, and the annual
demand for interest in gold. Let there be
a single failure of a ootton orop, and the
“ nation ’’ will howl, whether ootton be
king or slave-
THE RADICAL “UNPLEASANTNESS’’ IN
LOUISIANA.
There is an unpleasantness in the Radi
cal oamp in Louisiana, which the St.
Louis Republican says grew up in this
wise : " Gov. Warmouth left the capital
to recruit his delicate health amid the sa
lubrious breezes of Pass Christian, lock
ing the doors of the Executive office be
hind him to keep out Lieut. Gov. l)unn
(negro) who, by law, should exerciso the
executive functions in his absenoe. After
Warmouth’s departure Dunn asserted his
right to he Governor, and repaired to the
Executive office, broke open the door, and
transacted some trivial official business.
This was an overt act of war, and brought
to a bead a soaroely suppressed quarrel
that had long been brewing between the
white Radicals under Warmouth, and the
colored Radioals under Dunn. Shortly
after the latter had lodged himself in the
Kicoutivo office, Warmouth’s Secretary
made a seoret raid ou the office, and car
ried off to Pass Christian, ‘ he appointment
book and the unsigned bills of the last
Legislature. Dunn, in turn, it is said,
has made affidavit charging the Seeretary,
Bragden, with abstracting public docu
ments from their proper office ; and thus
the quarrel goes on from one thing to
another in a very lively manner. The
Governor is said to be too muoh enfoebled
iu health to come baok and meet the
daring negro on the ground, and the lat
ter, therefore, has things pretty muoh his
owd way. His colored friends admire his
audacity, and he is daily strengthening
himself in his position. The Federal
offiuera are ioroed to take sides in the
quarrel, and the United States Marshal,
the Postmaster, and Collector Casey are
all on the side of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor. This fact would seem to indicate
that Dunn is recognised as the stricter
friend of the President than.Warmouth. ’’
THK NEW 10RK VIADUCT RAILWAY.
The late»t sensation in railways is the
New York. Street Viaduct Railway. For
a long time the New Yorkers have put
forward many projects to relieve the great
thoroughfares from the deuse masses which
throng the street, as if in procession. The
street railways and omnibusses have
proved inadequate to New York in motion.
The underground railway has advanced
so far, as an experiment, to convince the
public that it cannot subserve tlie purpose
for which it was begun. The Elevated
Street Railway has proved a failure. The
demands of the public daily becoming
more imperative, aud threatening* to
widen Broadway, and disfigure it with ad
ditional street railways, to be laid and op
erated in the centre of perhaps one of tlie
fiuest streets in the world, has brought to
determinate action such wealthy real es
tate owners as W. B. Astor, A. T. Stew
art, Hilton, aud others, who formed a
company and are now engaged in the prac
tical solution of affording adequate and
quick transit to and fro of the busy, ac
tive, jostling, crowded population of New
York.
This Viaduot Railway system is to ra
diate from one great central depot. The
way or viaducts upon which the rails are
laid i» nothing more nor less than one
continuous bridge of stone and brick, a
aeries of arches, whose elevation is above
the tops of the adjacent houses. Upon
the line selected all the houses are to be
purchased aud removed. The streets are
to be spanned by three arches—one each
covering either sidewalk, and the third
and greater spanning the roadway or
street proper. Two hundred men are now
engaged in makiug the necessary survey.
It is conjectured that the survey of the
line for the first section from the City
Hall to the great central depot, between
Harristowu and Bleaker street, will be
completed in two weeks, when the con
struction' will be commenced. Starting
from the depot at the northeast corner of
the City Hall Park, it will cross Centre
st. diagonally to the apex of the triangle
formed by the City Hall place and Centre
st. at tbeir junction with Chambers st. It
will then cross Re&de, Duane, and Pearl
■ts. to Worth st. On this part of the line
there will be eight tracks. From Worth
st. the line will pass through the end of
the block, aud cross Baxter st. at its junc
tion with Leonard st., whence it will run
between Baxter and Mulberry sts.,
traversing Bayard, Canal, Hester, Grand
and Broome sts. to the great central depot,
which will occupy the three entire blocks
bounded by Marion and Crosby sts. on
the west, Mulberry st. on the east, Hous
ton st. on the north, and Spring st. on the
•oath. Through these three blocks the road
will oonsist of 10 tracks; between Worth
and Spring sts. there will be four tracks.
It is at the northern end of this depot
that the eastern and western branches of
the line start. The eastern branch will
be constructed first, because the work is
easier, the expenditure less, and its want
greater.
It is stated that the whole system will
be let by sections! contracts to ensure
■peedy construction. It is proposed to
utilize the space between the arches by
building store rooms and ware rooms.
STATISTICS OF COMMERCE AND NAVI
GATION.
Monthly Report of the Bureau of Statis
tics, No. 10, now in press, gives the
statistic* of our foreign trade for the first
tea months of the current fiscal year, as
compared with the corresponding periods
of 1870. The Chief of the Bureau furnishes
the following abstract:
Uwatic
eiporu(«p>- Forelm
IVr.odf Import*. ci« vita**.) cxpoiU.
S 2 098.63"
. A, "“ 45,«M,»34 M.W.WS *,*H WS
381,717,554 M 3,777 214 SS,*6»i»
For the ten months ended April 30,
1871, the exports exceed the imports by
$13,272,123. while for the corresponding
period of 1870 the imports are in excess of
the exports to the amount of $7,084,492.
The respective amounts of the total im
ports (specie value) consisting of merchan
dise and of specie and bullion, for the ten
months ended April 30, 1671, were as
follows: .. .
Domestic r or«*a
UerciMdlK *}H“ gj
hp*cie Mid WulltoL. 17,25fc.21S 64,641.574 12 r J4..OL«
TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1870.
JjooMM*tic ¥ oreUcn
Imports. export*
Merctami.* 57
Specie ftod bullion 2i,490,u90 82,777,041 12.403*014
The comparative amount of our foreign
commerce, carried in American and
foreign vessels, and other vehicles, re
spectively, daring the ten months ended
April 30, 1871, were as follows :
Domestic ex
port* (mired ForeUn
Import*. v*mwr.) exoortf.
Aluricu Tru li *126,11.2 ml *149,*33,143 *7 M 0.4??
Far£*T... --. 2W.252.5i8 311.935,916 13.M4.Ml
12.2*3549 4 225,733 1.9*1,113
TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1870.
Domcattc
export* (mix- Foreign
Iroportf. ?d vtluer.) export *.
Americ*n vessel* $124.147.674 ’int
Foreign vtmel*
The value of foreign commodities re
maining in warehouse April 31, 1871, was
$55,884,488, against $55,794,102, April
30, 1870.
The number and tonnage of vessels en
gaged in the foreign trade, which entered
into aod cleared from the ports of the
United States during the twelve months
ended April 30, 1871, were as follows :
EnUred. Chared.
Number. Tom. . Number. Tom.
A mericM ve=*e!«... .10.646 8,672,473 10 *9l 3 ®D.D®
Foreign VAMel* I**7? 6 978,941 19,274 9.990284
Total -.80,048 9,826.414 29 856 9,673682
TWELVE MONTHS ENDED AJ'RIL 30, 1870,
Entered. Ctoared.
Nurolrftr. Tors. Number. » ns.
A tneritan vessel*... 10,416 3,431,900 10 242 2
Foreign vessel* 19 666 6,787,835 19,647 6 »y0,7J5
Totol .29 9il 9,:09,136 2J.789 9,250,939
This number contains a statement of
great value, showing the foreigD countries
to which the principal commodities, the
growth, produce and manufacture of the
United States, were exported (by quanti
ties and values) during the calendar year
ended December 31, 1870.
The miscellaneous department maintains
its usual interest. It contains the statis.
tics of the trade of the Gciman Zollverein
for 1869, exports from the Netherlands of
the products of Java, &c.
SENSATIONAL HISTORY, SO-CALLED.
The Columbus (Tenn.) Herald gave to
the public a sensational account of the
difficulty which occurred in the Confed
federate Senate, between the late Hon.
Win. L. Yancy, of Alabama, and the Hon-
Benj. H. Hill, of Georgia, while Confed
erate Senators. The Chronicle & Senti
nel has never republished the article,
having good grounds for believing it sen
sational. Hon. A. H. Stephens, in a late
issue of the Atlanta Sun t says;
Wo give our readers the foregoing arti
cle, as we see it in several of our ex
changes ; but in doing so we feel con
strained to state that we have good reasons
for saying that the account therein given
of any personal rencounter that may have
occurred between the parties referred to,
in the Confederate States Senate, is not
correct. It is but a caricature representa
tion of the facts, so far as relates to the
conduct of both of the distinguished Sen
ators.
Mr. Yancey is not in life to speak for
himself. Whether Mr. Hill soels at liber
ty to speak upon the subject at all or not,
we do not know. But in behalf of both,
we feel it a duty to say what we have in
relation to the article, as it is now going
the rounds of the press, and is calculated
to produce very erroneous impressions.
A KU-KLUX WITNESS.
A special tolegram to the Philadelphia
Press informs us as to the testimony of
P. M. Shcibley, before the Ku-Klux In
vestigating Committee, now in session at
Washington City. Sheibley belongs to
tbo Blodgett faction of Radicals in Geor
gia, and was, we believe, a Secretary to
tho Reoonstructing Convention, and late a
Clerk in tho reconstructed House of Rep
resentatives. Shieblev is a well-known
Radical professional office-seeker, and is
so distinguished in Georgia. His testi
mony is as follows:
“ I*. M. Sheibley, postmaster at Rome,
Georgia, a native of Pennsylvania, and a
resident of the South for twenty-three
years, testified that he know of two indi
vidual cases, in each of whioh he had been
assured that a negro had been whipped by
men iu disguise, and that twenty or more,
at the dead hour of night, on or about
the same time had entered Rome, but re
tired without committing offenses. He
also referred to other cases in which
colored persous had iaformed him
that negroes bad been whipped by
so-called Ku-Kiux. The Democrats
there were so muoh opposed to the
reconstruction measures of Congress
that they threw all possible obstacles in
the way of the negroes to the enjoyment
of civil aud political rights. The object
of the Union League, as organized in 1867
in the State of Georgia, was to endear
the people to the Government ot tlie
United States, aud, as such, never com
mitted any acts of violence. It, however,
ceased to exist after the Presidential elec
tion in 1868, or prior to the organization
of the Ku-Klux Klan, and, therefore, the
latter was raised iu antagonism to the
former. Since tlie passage of the Ku Klux
hill and the proclamation of the President
of the United States, there has beep com
parative peace in that part of Georgia
known as the Cherokee purchase. The
witness said, in his opinion, universal am
nesty would greatly tend to a better stpte
of feeliug. He was examined over three
hours. ”
The Savannah Custom House.—The
Western Associated Press has the follow
ing telegram from Washington, which will
settle the question in regard to the Sa
vannah Custom House. Here it is;
Custom House Defalcations —For some
time past the Treasury Department has
had reason to suspect that the all airs of
the Savannah, Georgia, Custom House
were uot being conducted altogether satis
factory, and concluded to set a watch
upon proceedings. Reports received here
charge that a defalcation has been discov
ered amounting to $27,000, SS,OOO of
which are covered by talse vouchers, and
the balance by extra charges for lights,
fuel aud other matters not authorized by
law. The Collector's bondsmen are un
derstood to be Governor Reed, of Flori
da ; Gov. Bullock, ot Georgia; Ephriam
Tweedy, cf Augusta, Georgia, and Gen.
Littlefield, of North Carolina, and one
other party of Ohio, whose name is not
known. It is understood that a promi
nent party ot Savannah is now on North
for the purpose of raising funds to cover
up the default.
Attribute to Lee.—Among the toasts
at the Alumni dinner, at the University
of Virginia, was the following : General
Robert E. Lee : “ His spirit still lives
His signal deeds and prowess high
Demand no labored eulogy.
We saw his deeds ;
Why should their praise in veise be
sung f
The name that dwells on every tongue
No minstrel needs.
Drunk standing, and in silence.
Narrow Gauge Railroads.—We
learn from the Columbia Phatnix that it
is contemplated to run a line of this new
style of road from Newberry to Laurens,
and that another is proposed across Lex*
ington county, to connect the Greenville
and Augusta Railroads via Lexington
Court House. We should be glad to see
this matter fairly tested in South Caro
lina, feeling satisfied that a fair trial would
soon work a revolution in the entire rail
road system, and prove of immense ad
vantage to the State.
[CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE 4 SENTI- |
NEL.J
LETTER FROM MADISON.
The Friendly Relations Between Madison
and Augusta—School Commencements ,
Exhibitions, Ac. —Madison and Griffin
Railway a Fixed Fact—Crops in
Morgan County. *
Madison, Ga., July 11, 1871.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
Time was when Augusta felt some in
terest in the quiet, pleasant little city of
Madison, and its seasons of rejoicings and
moments of excitement were not seldom
participated in by the people of Augusta.
The similarity of the local characteristics
of the two plaoes, and their close business
relations, begot long since, and has main
tained (let us hope to the present time), a
common feeling and a common interest,
which the future now bids fair to strength
en. Madison, like Augusta, is built on a
solid foundation ; its business men are
enterprising, though unostentatious, and
at all times reliable. The society of Madi
son, like that of Augusta, is cultivated
and refined ; and its ladies, like her’s, arc
celebrated fer their beauty, their intelli
gence of mind and purity of heart. Madi
son, being the smaller and younger place,
owes, do doubt, in a great measure, much
of its present importance to its proximity
to and relationship with Augusta. Both
have been benentted by their intercourse,
and they should feel a just pride in each
other. The usual quietness of the place
has been interrupted during more than a
week past to such an extent that even the
sobriety of age has been for the time laid
aside for the more animated deportment
becoming youthful scenes. College com
mencements, concerts, exhibitions of youth
ful genius and skill, have furnished ex
citement for the young and unusual ani
mation to the old. Madison looked really
for the time as though she were again
about to assume the proud position she
occupied before the war, as a classic spot,
a “Mecca of the mind”—a shrine of
beauty. The commencement exercises of
the Georgia Female College, under the
control of President Brown, gave much
encouragement to those who desire the
guccess of that institution. The exercises
in declamation by the pupils of Mr. Towns’
male academy,on the night of the 7th inst.,
were unusually interesting, and brought
to light several yodthful orators, who
did honor to themselves, and reflected great
credit on their teacher. The crowning
exhibition of the week was the concert, on
the night of the 6th, by the pupils of Mrs.
I. E. Kuff. It has been the privilege of
the writer to witness several exhibitions
of Hke character daring the present aod
previous seasons, but none that displayed
anything like the same taste in the selec
tion and arrangement of pieces, or as
much skill in their rendition. One of the
marked features in this concert was the
easy grace with which each performer sus
tained her part. There was no confusion iu
time or embarrassment of manner ; every
thing was done with that quiet air, hut at
the same time perfect exactitude, which
indicates thorough training by a skilled
instructress, who has the faculty, in a
marked degree, of imparting knowledge
and inspiring confidence. Madison is
justly proud of Mrs. Ruff, for certainly
few have ever displayed so much skill in
developing musical talent as she.
On yesterday the citizens of Madison
took a vote upon the question of subscrib
ing twenty thousand dollars to the Grif
fin, Monticello and Madison Railroad.
On counting the ballots the votes stood
one hundred and six for the subscription,
to two against it. As all the other coun
ties have subscribed their proportionate
share of the three hundred thousand to be
raised, the road may now be considered a
fixed fact. On to-day a meeting of the
stockholders was held and delegates se
lected to represent them in the convention
at Indian Springs, on the 14th, when a
President and other officers will be ohoseD.
The road will certainly benefit Augusta,
as it will send to her market thousands of
bales of cotton which have heretofore
found their way to Macon and other
places, and will give to Madison an im
petus whioh must ere long make her a
town of no inconsiderable importance.
The weather, at this writing, is very
warm, the mercury standing at 94 in tho
shade.
Farmers in some localities begin to long
for rain. The prospects for ootton and
dorn in Morgan is hardly aQ average-
Merccrius.
Tlse Pennsylvania Manifesto,
Address (f the Democratic Executive
Committee of the Keystone State—The
Political Issues of the Day Clearly and
Strongly Stated —A Powerful Paper
by lion. Jeremiah Black.
The following are the material portions
of the address to the Democracy of Penn
sylvania by the Democratic Executive
Committee of that Bt»te. The paper was
prepared by ex-Seeretary Jeremiah S.
Black:
The Executive Committee of the Dem
ocracy ot this State, to whom the follow
ing address was referred by the recent
State Convention, now present the same
to you as embodying some of the reasons
which actuate and control the organiza
tion they represent: We here solemnly
renew our often-repeated declaration ot
fidelity to the great principles upon which
our party has acted from the time of its
first organization. Our ultimate objects
are those of our fathers when they adopt
ed the Federal Constitutior, viz : ”To
form a more perfect union, to establish
justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to
promote the general welfare, to provide
for the oommon defense, and seoure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity.” We sincerely believe that the
Government of the United States, ad
ministered as it was in former days, with
a direct view to the advancement of these
principles, would do lor us and our child
ren all that any people ean reasonably de
sire from the political system under
whioh they live. We are equally sure
.that if not carried out in tho spirit of those
by whom it was framed it must become a
ourse instead of a blessing. Situated as
we are, obedience to the fundamental law
means not only the honest performance of
sworn obligations, but freedom,, peace, and
prosperity to all classes of the people. Oa
the other hand, the usurpation of undelc
gated power is not only a crime in itself,
but the fruitful parent of other crimes,
and will lead, as it has already led, to in,
definite misgovernment, corruption, and
tyranny, subverting all liberty, and ren
dering the rights of ail men insecure.
When we speak of the Federal Constitu
tion, we mean the whole instrument, with
all its amendments, and acknowledge the
equal obligation of every part. Several of
those amendments were carried by brute
force and by frauds upon the public will
so glaring as to take from their authors
all claim upon our respect. But we can
not deny that they have actually become a
part of the Constitution; nor can we avoid
that fact, nor get behind it, by showing
the oorrupt misconduct of the men who
at that time controlled Congress and mas
tered the State Legislatures. Whosoever
swears to support the Constitution must
perform all that is “nominated in the
bond.” Any change which experience
and reason shall prove to bo desirable must
be made in the prescribed way, and not
by revolutionary and disorderly means.
THE DECLARATION OP 1871.
No candid person will deny that the
leading men in power at Washington have
been unfaithful to their dutiep. They
have broken the pledges they made to the
people, and, in reckless disregard of their
oaths, they have violated the plainest pro
visons of the Constitution. They have
deprived the States of their sacred right
of self-government in matters purely lo
cal. and disarmed them of the power to
enforce their own laws for the preserva
tion of order within their owd boundaries.
They have passed bills of pains and penal
ties, operating on mibiona at once, .with
out regard to the guilt or innocence of the
parties. They have trampled on all the
securities of life, liberty and property.
They have treated the habeas corpus law
with contempt, and denied the right of
trial by jury. They have sent out swarms
of their hireling agents with instructions
to kidnap, imprison and kill free citizens
for political offenses, without judioial ac
cusation. without warrant, and without
trial. They have not cnly trodden upon
the great principles embodied in the origi
nal Constitution as it came from the hands
of its framers, but even the amendments,
which they themselves interpolated, have
been broken without remorse whenever it
suited their interests. In defiance of the
thirteenth amendment they hare doomed
many persons to the worst' kind of “slave
ry or involuntary servitude” in the public
prisons, without the pretense of any
“ crime whereof the party was legally
convicted.” In tha of the four
teenth amendment they have abridged
the “equal rights” of whole masses
of white citizens. Without the least re
spect for the right of universal suffrage,
guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment,
they have interfered both forcibly and
fracfdulently to prevent fair ejections, and
to set them aside after they were held.
These outrages upon justice, liberty and
law have been perpetrated, not during the
conflict of a civil w*r«-Sot in the mo
menta ot wild passion or heated excite
ment—bat in cold blood, upon deliberate
reflection, in a time of profound peace, in
full view of the consequences, and their
authors have followed out this line of
policy, step by step, with a persistency
which shows their fixed determination for
the future, as in the past, to he bound by
no oath and held by no promise. The two
last and most "important of their anti-con
stitutional measures show more distinctly
than others their settled design to strangle
the liberties of the nation, and take per
petnal power into their own hands. The
force bill authorizes the President, not
only to invade the States at his pleasure,
but by declaring martial law to subvert
all government, except what consists of
his mere will. Under the election law hie
cannon is planted directly against the
freedom of State elections. Already the
bayonets of the Executive have gleamed
around the polling places in the cities of
New York and Philadelphia. Who can
mistake the meaning of these preparations
for the next Presidential election t Who
doubts that warning and rebuke are needed
now to prevent the Administration Yrom
carrying out its purpose by force? If the
warning be not given by the people or fail
of its proper effect, can we hope for peace ?
It seems to "us an error to suppose the
American people tame enough to be
kicked under tlie yoke of a despotism, or
ignorant enough to be juggled out of the
great inheritance of free government
which the fathers left them. ’ •
ROTTENNESS OF THE ADMINISTRATION,
We complain of our present ruler« for
lawless usurpation of power. Power Dot
delegated is always abased. In this, as in
other cases, usurpation has been accompa
nied and followed by corruption. Frauds
without number, and almost without
limit, have been committed on the public.
Men of the worst character for common
honesty are permitted to occupy the high
est places. Os the money collected from
the people, and not stolen before it reaches
the Treasury, a large portion is squan
dered by Congress on party favorites or
oorrupt rings, and on base combinations of
public plunderers. The enormous extent
to which this financial corruption has been
carried on will become manifest to any
one who compares the expenditures of
the Government during the six years
which followed the civil war. Both were
periods ot peace, and there can bo no ex
cuse for more than a small increase corre
sponding to the ratio in which the popula
tion Las advanced. But where the ordi
nary expenditures for the fiscal year ending
Junel, 1870, exclusive of Indian annuities,
pensions, and interest on the public debt,
were $148,069,922 43, for the year end
ing June 1, 1860, the expenditures for the
same purpose were but $55,918,188 72.
Here is shown the difference between the
ordinary cost of carrying on our Govern
ment when its agents are honest, and the
cost of the same thing when its officers
are so destitute of moral principle as to
disregard all legal limitations upon their
own authority. A free, anperverted rep
sentative government is simple in its ma
chinery, easily maintained, and “dispenses
its blessings like the dews of Heaven, un
seen and unfelt, save in tlie beauty and
freshness they contribute to produce; ”
the secure tranquility of a regal es'ablisli
inent may some times be a compensation
for the burdens it imposes, but a rotten re
public is at once the most costly, the most
oppressive, and the most unsteady of all
political structures. * *" * *
THE ISSUES.
It will surely be admitted that all
American citizeus who believe these facts
to be irne, are bound by the sacred obli
gations of patriotism, honor, and con
science to oppose this state of things, and
by opposing end it. The persons interest
ed in preventing a change will ask how,
to what extent, and by what means we
propose to make the reforms. The ques
tion is a fair one, and we will answer it
briefly. It will be the duty-of the Demo
cratic party, and, to the extent of our au
thority, original or delegated, we hereby
pledge ourselves and our associates, so far
as in us lies—
1. To put the ship of State onoo again
on her constitutional tact, and hold her
head firmly and steadily to that course.
2. To protect the individual citizens of
all parties, classes, and creeds in the en
joyment of life, liberty, pioperty, reputa
tion, and the pursuit of their lawful busi
ness, by an impartial administration of
justice in the ordained and established
courts.
3. To preserve the powers of tho Gen
eral Government in their whoso constitu
tional vigor as our sole defense againßt
foreign aggression, the safest bond of union
between different sections of the country,
and the only sure promise of general pros
perity.
4. To maintain, unimpaired, the re
served rights of the States, not only be
cause they are guaranteed by tho Federal
Constitution, but because the States alone
can safely be trusted with the management
of their owu local concerns.
5. To reduce the expenditures of the
Government by confining its appropria
tions to legitimate objects, by a rigid sys
tem of accountability and economy, and
by abolishing tnuph of the unnecessary and
pernicious maohiucry with whioh it is now
encumbered.
6. To moderate the burdens of the peo
ple, not only by ceonomioal administra
tion, but by a system of taxation upon
foreign imports as well as domestic pro
ductions, which shall be just and equal in
its operation upon the property and busi
ness of the country, not enriching some
while it impoverishes others, and not opeD
to the frauds now habitually practioed.
7. To preserve the public credit by the
prompt payment of the public obligations.
* 8. To consecrate the public lands to the
use of the laudless people who need it by
a system which will secure a sufficiency to
all, and stop at once the loQg series of
•swindles by which so many millions of
acros have been given away to those who
already have more than enough.
These are some of the duties whioh lie
before the people if they desire to see
their government administered with a
decent respect for the Constitution of
their fathers or with tolerable ftonepty in
financial matters.
We. have notoßtufortbodoxy.no dis
abiliti* for nor discripaination against
former political antagonists. We caDnot
and da not object to bygone differences,
provided the citizen be truly and faithfully
devoted now to the interests and- institu
tions of the whole country and all the in
habitants thereof.
Our object is not revolution, but restora
tion ; not injury to our opponents, but an
assertion of opr own rights and those of
onr fellow-oitiaens.
By order of the Demooratio Executive
Committee.
William A. Wallace, Chairman.
Heathen New England,
A Heathen, Colony in Hew Hampshire
Under the Eye of Massachusetts Civili
zation,
[f rom Special Correspondence of t(ie Bos
ton Bost.]
South Seabhoojc, N. H., July 6, 1871.
It rather startled society to be toM by
the Newburyport Herald , a short time
since, that there was a heathen settlement
in New England ; that in the very centre
of our moral and social refinement there
was a depraved and ignorant community
which was a disgrace to the civilization of
the nineteenth century.
leaving the good people of Newbury
port behind, crossing the Merrimack, and,
by an easy transition, exchanging the Old
Bay Stste for the Granite State, one
quickly finds himself in an almost entirely
uninhabited region, surrounded on etfery
side by barren hills and shady nooks, en
tirely untortured by the abominations of
modern art. Finding his way as best he
can through the rough and narrow high
way, the traveler saddenly comes upon
the scene of a low marshy district, which
a group of rickety shanties tells is the
abode of some specimens of the genus homo.
To satisfy what had become a greedy
curiosity, your correspondent enters the
village settlement, camp, or what you
i will, and there he finds—what? Nottwo
! score miles from the Hub of the universe,
; hardly out of sight of the Quaker poet
i IFLittier, nor beyond the reach of the
; echoes that not a century since resounded
jat the thunder tones of George bitfield's
! preaching —there he came upon a scene,
1 the adequate representation of which defies
j the pen, pencil, or brush. Entering the
j settlement, the road turns abruptly to
i the right, and you are immediately
‘brought into the midst of the “heathen
| district.” It is now known as South Sea
j brook, and is distant from Newburyport
j only about eight miles, and from Hamp
ton and Salisbury beaches by a less dis
tance. Geographically it belongs to New
| Hampshire, though it is, by no means,
| beyond the possible influence of Massa
j ohssetts enlightenment.
OEIGIX OE THE SETTLEMENT. .
Generations ago there lived, in what
was then the township of Hampton, a
family by the name of Souther. By some
j kind of social ostracism, little heard of
; now-a-days, this family were banished the
i village on account of their kleptomaniac
tendencies and bad infinenoes generally,
and in bumble submission to their fate
i they sought this locality, and, entirely cut
j off from the rest of the world, they began
j leading the iife of hermits. They never
l held any intercourse with the world out
i side, and they relied on their ability to
I endure privation and what the immediate
vicinity afforded them for the means of
subsistence. Subsequently they were
joined by two families of kindred tastes
and sentiments, Eaton and Souther by
name, and by intermarriage of a Mormon
type they now number between five and
jix hundred people. For nearly a century
they hod no schools, no church, no morals
nor culture of any kind. Jheir brutish
tastes and unbridled passions led them to
5 state of positive barbarism, They look
ed upon niviliged people as their nkll”!
enemies, and the neighboring people con
sidered them as altogether beyond the
roach of salvation. They built for them
selves rude huts, and, without distinction
of family, lived together in utter degrada
tion. No mother knew her child after it
had left its cradle, and no father knew the
number of his progeny. Their dress—if
it could be called dress—was scanty, a
meal-hag or horse blanket, with which to
cover themselves, being considered a
luxury. A book or newspaper was as rare
with them as if the artof printing had
never been discovered, aid their language
became such as only ther emotions could
indicate. What wonder is it, then, that
they were regarded as hopeless cases?
The people who knew of them thought
that they could not be helped so loug as
they remained in this ooadition.
Not so thought the Rev. Wm. A. Band,
who, having heard of this people, deter
mined, about five years since, to see if
something could not be done by which
they could be brought under the intisenee
of Christian civilizition, and thereby bo
raised from the abyss into which thej had
falleD. Mr. Rand ii quite a young man,
stout and erect as a pillar, and his general
appearance indicates that muscular Chris
tianity is a part of his creed. His eye
sparkles like a crystal when he speaks of
his people, and you feel that you are stand
ing before a zealous Christian and a noble
man.
Your correspondent learned that ser
vices are held in the church twioe or three
times a week, and here Mr. Rand tels his
people, in a plain, practical way, the duties
which they owe to themselves and to each
other. He has started a sohool in the
district, and by making them feel the need
ot culture, the people learn as eagerly as
they eat. He has introduced shoemiking
among them, aud, by fostering habits of
industry, has taught them how to depend
upon themselves for a decent and com
fortable support. Officers of public order
be has caused to be appointed auioDg
them, by whom all disturbances are quelled
and order maintained. Oa accoaDt of
their piratioal character they have been
nicknamed “Algerines,” after the corsairs
of Algiers.
Passing down a crooked lane, your cor
respondent came upon a group of shanties,
none of which measured over twenty by
ten feet from corner to oorner. They are
raised out cf tho suirounding mire by
posts driven into the ground, and look
more like abandoned mud-scows than
abodes of humanity. In front of one of
these houses your corrmpondent stopped,
and there met his gaze through an open
slit in the side of toe house an elderly
dame of by no means prepossessing ap
pearance. She was clai in a ragged piece
of cloth, which hung to her body by
means of a rope lied around her waist,
and her foul body was a sight that would
provoke an agent of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. En
tering the room, around her were gather
ed some fifteen or twenty children, none
of whom were over six or seven years of
age, and all were huddled together in the
only room in the house, the size of which
was, perhaps, fifteen by twelve feet. In
this room they cook, eat and sleep. An
old rickety bedstead sttnds in one corner
of the room, and on it is some loose straw
and a blanket. No ehignons aro here,
but long dishevelled loiks that look more
like fly brushes than human hair. Small
editions of humanity were scattered around
the room “ what haint got noddings on,”
and they stare at you from out their hazy
eye in mute astonishment. You are loth
to believe your own eyes as you stand and
gaze on this sickening picture.
“Is this all your family, Mrs. Eaton ?”
your correspondent asked of the mater
familias. (The ohanees are only three to
one against you that you will be right if
you call ary person you meet Eaton, as
every one’s name is either Eaton, Dow, or
Souther.) “Kee-kee neow, kee-kee neow,”
answers Mrs. Eaton, “ How’d you ken my
name war Eaton ?”
“Ob, I’m well acquainted with your
family, Mrs. Eaton.”
“Them children’s mine; ‘them’s my
gran’-dartors.”
“ How many children have you, Mrs.
Eaton ?”
“ Five—seven—no—six,” but she finally
concludes that she don’t know, or rather
that she can’t conceal her ignorance on the
subject.
“Where is your minister, Mr. Rand,
this afternoon?” your correspondent aske,
for effect.
“What, crazy Rand, you mean? Dunuo
—don’t care. Hope he’s dead.”
“ Why, Mrs. Eaton, isn’t your minister
a good man ?”
“81-r-r-r! God maked his body and
bis soul, but the devil maked his ac
tions.”
“What ha3 lie done that displeases
you, Mrs. Eaton ?”
“Done? I sh’d like to know what he
haint doue 1 Er" ennybuddy fetches a stick
of wood to the Christun Lodge (the
church) he calls it tharvin’, and he says if
a buddy takes anpything as don’t belong
to ’em it’s thaiving’. He’s a disgustin’
scoundrel. That he is !■”
“ That’s so,” ohimed in Mrs. Eaton No.
3, the mother and grandmother; “ he’d
better stick ter preachin’ and go where
he’s wanted. Round hoggin all the time
and keepin all he gits, and then preachin’
to us about stealin’.”
Spying a form by the roadside a little
way in advance, your correspondent said
good-bye to Mrs. Eaton and passed on.
“ Ab, Mrs. Dow, gathering flowers are
you?"
“My name ain’t Dow; its Souther,”
replied she in a harsh voice that came
from a head under which something made
of ticking was put, and a string tied around
the neck to support it over her black
greasy back.
“1 see you have a tasto for the beauti
ful, Mrs. Soqtber, v
“ No, I never tasted on’t. Some folks
stills flower leaves" and tnakelmoney on’t.
'That’s what I’m doin’.”
“ Where’s the parson this afternoon?”
your correspondent inquires, striving to
be provincial in his speech, after his last
attempt to he urbane.
“ ! who’s Parsons ? Dunno no
such critter.”
“ Your minister, 1 mean.”
“ Parsons! his name aint Parßons; it’s
Rand. Dunno where he is, don’t oare.
He pretends to talk to the boys and gals
’bout carry in’ on, but nater is nater, and
I dunno’s it’s enDy o’ his buzniz.”
GATHERING) OF THE CLANS.
By this time the whole neighborhood
had gathered around your correspondent,
and looked on him as though they didfft
know what a white uhirt or a steady gait
indicated in a person. There were old
and young, tali and short, male and
female. Wero it not for a eonsciouness of
your mental superiority over them you
would oonsider your life iu danger here,
but you feel as though you were standing
in the midst of dumb brutes, who would
obey your beck as readily-as a poodle dog
obeys his master’s whistle. Look at
them, and they shirk from your sight as
quiokly as they conveniently can. With
their mouths wide open, and tongues ex
tended, they work upon your feelings in a
marvellous manner.
"Is that your boy, Mrs. Dow ?” con
tinued your correspondent, upon seeing a
lean three-footer, with a heavy double
barrelled shot-gun on his shoulder.
“No, I wouldn’t oun ’im. He’s my
grandaiter’s.”
“ Yer lie, yer lie !” lisped the unterri
fied juvenile ; “ I hain’t yer boy, nor yer
grandarter’s either. I wouldn’t oun yer.”
“ Well, Mrs. Dow,” you look as though
you had a hard time to get along in the
world.”
• “Ah, sir,” she moans, “the Bible
says that accidents and misfortunes shall
happen to men, but I believe they come
to women just as much.”
“Why don’t you like your minister,
since he is doing so much for you, Mrs.
Dow ?” your correspondent continues,
“Done for us 7” she ejaculates. “Bah !
did yer hear what a piece he put in the
paper about us 7 Called us heathens and
sicb. If he don’t have to smart for that
then I’ll give up !”
Naturally enough, the women do all the
talking in this settlement. The men are
sleepy and shiftless, ami look too stupid
to say anything. With a little civiliza
tion there has come a great deal of poor
rum, and out of perhaps two hundred
meu whom your correspondent saw there,
not twenty coum walk straight. Their
bleared eyes and sunken countenances in
dicate a stupor which no amount of sur
prise can overcome. Drunkenness auu
other vices of kindred ilk must needs exist
there yet awhile. Civilization must pre
cede thorough social and religious culture
by a long ifUsianes.
The women are now in the habit of
picking berries and carrying them to the
neighboring villages to sell. On these
hawking expeditions they use all the arts
which a Jew or a gipsy ever conceived
for getting rid of their wares. “ Please,
woman, ” they will say, “bay my ber
ries; give me old clothes, bread, shelter,
anything; ” and they will fall down on
their knees and beg for what they cannot
steal. Their children are dying or their
husband is sick anything for effect.
Lately a woman went to Newburyport to
sell her berried, and was surprised to find
that a more energetic neighborhood had
been around ahead of her and supplied the
market.
“ Did that woman tejl you that her
husband was sick, or that her children
were dying ? ” she said to a lady who’had
bought of the early comer.
The lady replied that she did.
“ Well, ” replied the Amazon, “she is
a liar ; she's the awfnllost liar in our
town, and she hasn't got no husband nor
children neither. And now, woman, won't
yon bny some berries? for my husband is
sick and my children are dying—give me
old clothes—bread shelter—anything ”
—and she sold her berries.
With a ; l their igno.auce prejudices
there is yet a certain nobleness in their
natures that is all the more admirable
when put in contrast
traits. They are as emotional and as
easily moved aa the Roman mob which
Mare Anthony persuaded, and their grati
tude is really Temarkable, aud you peed
but a paper dime to make them your
sworn defender,
Bat a short distance from this place
there are numerous well-built houses, the
land is in a high state of cultivation, and
ihc transition is so sudden that one won
ders at the possibility of two so different
classes of people living so near together,
and having no more it fiuence upon each
other. They look upon, their ignoiant
neighbors as unfortunate people, bat they
.never dream that a little aid and sympathy
could change their misfortune to happiness
and their sorrow to gladness.
In the heathen district proper the field's
are entirely run to waste, and everything
like agricultural enterprise among the
people is out of the question. There are
no barns nor out-houses of any descrip
tion —everything that can afford the slight
est shelter bemg the abode of their house
hold gods. From these they seldom move,
acd the stench that goes out 6f them is
sickening. Grand old elms stretch their
stalwart forms over the place, as if to re
lieve it of some of its uncouth and Darren
appearance. Under the shade of these the
children that cannot be accommodated
under the narrow rocf are playing iu the
mud and covered with filth.
what’s to be done ?
is the question that suggests itself after
seeing the degradation into which they
have fallen. After all, isn’t the banner of
Christian civilization being carried a little
too high to do the good it might do ?
While men are rushing off into the up
per atmosphere of doctrinal disputes and
theological puzzles, the blind beggars die
by the wayside for want of food. To lot a
man expire, and then bury him, is not
what the parable of the Good Samaritan
intended to teach. Here, almost in our
very midst, is a people who might reason
ably envy the happiness of a Fiji Islander
or a French peasant. To be 6ure they
are now receiving some help from Mr.
Rand, but to bring them up to the con
dition which they ought to he brought up
to, time, labor and money in abundance
must by had. “Though they are a wick
ed acd ignorant peonle,” says Mr. Hand,
“I believe that Gcd put them in the
world for some good purpose, and I, be
lieving that they are worth making an ef
fort for, am going to try and save them.”
Is it too much to hope that their wants wfll
be attended to, their condition improved,
and this disgrace to modern civilization
blotted out ? Meanwhile, who will pro
pose a fair in aid of the Heathen of New
England, or the Algerines of South Sea
brook.
Decisions or the Supreme Court of
Georgia.
Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday , July 11,
1871.
[reported expressly for the consti
tution, BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME
COURT REPORTER. J
Alexander Murray vs. Wm. Walker-
Equity, from Union.
Lochrane, C. J.
. Where a bill was filed for specific per
formance of a contract made relative to
the purohase of lands, and the notes fi r
the balance due had been deposited with
an agent, who received Confederate cur
rency, and such currency had been also re
ceived from such agent by the principal
and used by him, and the jury decreed'that
the title should be made to the complain
ant, and defendant moved for anew trial,
whieh was granted by the Court.
Held, That the taking of the Confed
erate currency by the principal and its use
by him was a ratification of the aot of his
agent, and that the verdict of the jury
was sustained by the evidence, and no
rule of law being violated in submitting
the case. It was error in the Court below
to grant anew trial.
Judgment reversed.
Weiborn & Fain, H. P. 8011, for plain
tiff in error.
Geo. D. Rica for defendant.
A. L. Reid vs. Wm. Goodwin. Foreclo
sure of mortgage, from Dougherty.
Lociirane, C. J.
Where A and B being partners executed
a mortgage iu the partnership name upon
all the partnership property to A, one of
the partners, and A transferred the mort
gage to R, the plaintiff in error, who was
proceeding to ioreolose the same on the
individual property of B, the other part
ner, and upon the trial the Court ruled
out the mortgage as evidence, and a ver
dict was taked for B.
Held, That individual properly is not
embraced by a mortgage executed by part
ners on their property, except it is spe
cifically set forth and described, and that
the Court eommitted no error in its hold
ing under the facts of this case.
Judgment affirmed.
Hines & Hobbs for plaintiff in error.
Vason & Davis for defendant.
Sarah E. Kilgo, etui, vs. M. 11. Van
Dyke. Equity, from Lumkin.
Lqchkane, C. J.
A and B entered into a contract of part
nership, by which A was to turnish goods
to B, who was to sell them, and after the
first costs of the goods were paid, the
profits were to he equally divided, and
after B’s death A filed his bill against his
widow and heirs to recover the balance
he claims due to him, and set up that in
asmuch as B, during the copartnership,
had used funds arising therefrom in im
provements, etc., on certain property,
which the widow had set off as a home
stead under the laws of the State, his debt
had a lien thereon. A demurrer was filed
to the bill which, was overruled by the
Court.
Held, That the Court erred in overruling
the demurrer, as the debt due by B in his
lifetime constituted no lien on his proper
ty that would deprive tho widow of her
right to homestead as against his creditors
therein, nor was tho use of such funds un
der the facts, within the exceptions in said
act, for money borrowed, labor done, or
material furnished, etc., and that the claim
of A against the estate of B was of no
higher dignity or more equitable consider
ation than other debts due by him, and
that his remdy is oomplete at law, and the
administrator on the estate of B is a ne
cessary party to the enforcement of such
ordinary debts against the estate.
Judgment reversed-
H. P. Bell, R. A. Quillian, for plaintiff
in error.
John A. Wimpy, J. N. Dorsey, for de
fendant.
Jimpsey A. Hunter vs. The State. Mur
der, from Brooks.
Lochrane, C. J.
Where in a criminal case the defendant
applied for a change of venue, upon mak
ing affidavit that an Impartial trial could
not be obtained in the Courts where the
homicide was committed, and the Court
overruled the application, and went on
with the trial, and obtained a jury:
Held, lsf, That this was not error in the
Court, and that the provisions of the Con
stitution clothes the Superior Court with
power to change the venue when the pre
siding Judge is satisfied an impartial jury
can not be obtained in the couDty, and
while the Judge may, in his judgment be
come satisfied of this fact by alinude evi
dence, still we hold that the most satis
factory method of arriving at such con
clusion, as wejl as the most within the
contemplation of the provision of the
Constitution, is to tost the question by
trying to get a jury in the county where
the crime was committed.
2. Where the witness for the State ad
mitted upon cross examination that he had
given a different statement, upon examina
tion at the inquest, and stated his reason
to be fear of the accqsed with whom at
the time he lived as a servant, and that
he had made a similar statement to that,
then given, to the brother of the aocused ;
and alinude evidence was admitted to show
his conduct and appearance upon the
former trial as a part of the original evi
dence offered by the State.
HddL, That this testimony, under the
facts in this oase, was properly admitted
and the theory of the defense, let in, upon
cross-examination by them, the facts dis
closed by the evidence in this case.
3. When in an indictment for murder
the evidenoe showed the accused to be a
rejected suitor and the deceased an ac
cepted suitor, rqmori of the approaching
marriage and of such engagement was
brought home to the accused and was
offered and admitted by the Court as a
fact to show motive for the crime.
Held, That it was properly admitted, as
a fact or circumstance in the case—every
fact or circumstance sheddiqg light upon
the transaction will be permitted to go to
the consideration of the jury, either in at- I
testation of innocence or pointing to the
perpetrator of the crime, and the facts of !
this case show its importance and math- !
riaiity.
4. Ylhen in the argument before the !
jury, counsel for the State contended that j
confessions were the highest species of !
evidence, and the counsel for the defend- i
ant insisted it was not, under the rule laid j
down in the Code, and the Court refused ,
to charge the jury that iy was not the
highest evidence, but charged the jury in j
the very language of the Code on the sub- |
ject of confessions.
Held, That this was not error. It was :
not the duty of the Judge to classify the j
evidence as to its weight or consideration,
or intimate any opinion thereon.
5. When the evidence in the case was
mostly, if not entirely, as to its material
parts, circumstanstial, and the Judge
charged the jury, as to their rights under
ander the facts, if they found their verdict
upon circumstantial evidence, reading from
the Code,
Held, That this was not error, for the
reason that the iurv by an->v charge were
only instructed as to their legal rights in
the premises. . , . -
6. Where, upon the trial, alter some oi
the jury were in the box, but the whole
not empanneiled, and in the presence of
the Court, those sworn were seen by coun
sel for accused reading a newspaper which
contained an article reflecting upon the
counsel for prisoner, etc., and no motion
or notice was then taken in regard there
to,
Held, That this was not such irregulari
ty upon the part of the jury as wou'd be
sufficient to set aside the verdict, and that
such acts transpiring in the Court room
and in the presence of (he Court and
of counsel, when not objeoted to, will not
be favorably regarded after the verdict.
7. When a juror upon a criminal case
has been placed upon trial and accepted
by the Court, and is afterwards impeach
ed by affidavits, and counter affidavits sus
tain him and his 00-jurors, and show he
was the very last tp find a verdict against
the accused :
Held, That the juror appears by the
proof exculpated of any prejudice arising
from previous statements made by him,
and this Court will not set aside the ver
dict of the jury upon such point.
8. When all the facts in the case sus
tain the verdict, and the law has beeD
fairly given in charge :
Held, That the Court will not interfere
with the judgment of the Court below re
fusing anew trial.
Judgment affirmed.
Haniell & Hansell, J. L. Seward, W.
C. McCall, C. R. Harden and A. T. Mc-
Intyre. for plaintiff in error.
W. B. Bennett, Solicitor General, and
H. G. Turner, for the State.
The Georgia Company Its. R. J. Castle
bery. Certiorari, from Lumpkin.
McCay, J.
A corporation, though af the same namo
with a partnership, doing business by the
same agent before the grant of the charter,
is not the same person, and to make it
liable for a debt due from the partnership
a paral promise by the Presidout, without
anew consideration, is not sufficient.
There must be a writing signed by tho
party to be charged, or by its agent ex
pressly authorized, or it must bo shown
that the incorporation has received the
consideration.
Judgment reversed.
George D. Rioe, R. A. Quillian, for
plaintiff in error.
John A. Wimpy, for defendant.
1
W. A. Smith and J. W* Looper vs. Wm.
Ii- Dyers el ul. Illegality, from Dawson.
MoUay, J.
1. A judgment in Equity, directing the
removal of trustees for mal-administratron,
and that they pay a certain amount into
the hands of a receiver, that it may go
into the hands of anew trustee, to be
managed aooording to tho terms of the
trust, is not such a debt as the plaiutiffs
in tho bill, the boneficiaries, ate bound to
pay taxes upon.
2. A judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction is conclusive, between the parne
parties, as to all matters at issue, and
when executors are removed,’ under a
judgment, from their trust, for waste and
mismanagement, they cannot, under the
Relief Act of 1870, deny that they have
mismanaged their trust.
Judgment affirmed, with damages.
M. L. Smith, J. N. Dorsey, Wior Boyd,
for plaintiffs in error.
H. P. Bell, Geo. D. Rico, for defend
ants.
Thomas A. Parsons vs. The State. Lar
ceny, from Laurens
. MoCay, J.
The rulo that a conviction os.nnot be had
on the uncorroborated testimony of an ac
complice alone, only applies to eases of
felonies. In misdemeanors, the complicity
of the witness goes to his credit, and the
jury are to judge of his credibility from all
the facts and circumstances as in the case
of other witnesses.
2. Under the whole facts ol this case wo
affirm the judgmont rofusing anew trial.
Judgment affirmed.
Rollen A. Stanley, Jno. T. Shumate,
Hansell & Hansell, for plaintiff in error.
W- B. Bennett, Solicitor General, for
the Stale.
Nicholas Cruger vs. C. M. Clarke. Mo
tion for new trial, from Dougherty.
McCay, J.
When a question of fact has been fully
submitted to a jury, who have found a ver
dict, and the Judge below refuses a now
trial, this Court will not roverse the judg
ment unless there be a very strong oase
against the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.
Smith & Jonos, Hines & Hobbs, for
plaintiff.
D. 11. Pope, for defendant.
The Connecticut Borgia.
The Shocking Record of Her Murders—
Damning Evidence at the Preliminary
Trial—Unabashed Demeanor of the
Accused.
Our readers have been made acquainted
with the circumstances connected with the
arrest of a- Mrs. Sherman, at Derby, Con
necticut, charged with having murdered,
within the period of a few years, throe
husbands and eight childron, in every in
stance by tho facile and Bure and readily
concealed method of poisot).
The monster woman, whose career in
murder has thus at last been arrested, is
but forty-seven years of age, although
bearing a load of guilt upon her soul which
it would seem centuries of crime could not
have accumulated. She is a native of
New Jersey, lost both parents in infanoy,
and was married to her first husband at
the age of seventeen, by whom she had
several children, six of whom, all under
ten years, and the husband himself, died
very suddenly within a year. Her second
husband, whom she married soon after
the disappearance of her family, which it
does not appear excited any suspicion of
wrong, was an old man of property, who
died, suddenly also,within fourteen months
of the marriage, bat not without exciting
some suspicions in the minds of the doctors
who attonded him, which, for reasons not
stated, they never made known. The
third and last husband was married to her
some ten months since, having four chil
dren by a former wife, whom he intro
duced into the new family. Iwo of these
children, a girl of fifteen years and an in
fant of eleven months, died suddenly
within six or eight months after their
relationship to their step-mother, aod still
without arousing suspicion, although it is
remarkable that all these sudden deaths
occurred from the same cause, or with the
same symptoms of disease—cramps, vio
lent fever and vomiting. After the death
of these stepchildren, there seems to have
been a disagreement between Mrs. Sher
man and her husband, which led to their
living partially apart. He fell into un
steady and wasteful habits, and estranged
himself more or loss from his home, and
recently he died with thp same suddenness
and under the saipe circumstances which
had attended the death of the eleven in
dividuals of the family who had preceded
him. Suspicion being now aroused, a
; post mortem, examination was had, aDd
the unquestionable presenoe of arsenic in
the stomach ascertained. The bodies of
the two children also were exhumed, and
ample proof discovered of their having
been poisoned. l
The preliminary examination of the fe
male monster was commenced on Thurs-
day at Derby, Ct., the scene of the un
timely end of her victims- Although
there is no positive evidence that she ad
ministered the arsenic, there is evidonce
that four of those deceased persons died
from the effects of that drug, viz: her last
two husbands and her last husband's two
children- There is evidence that she had
arsenic in her possession, and that when
called upon to account for its absenoe was
unable to do so. Professor Baker, the
chemist who made an analytic examina
tion of the stomachs and livers of the de
ceased persons, testified unequivocally that
arsenic was found W ihose organs in suffi
, cient quantities to produce death, and
[ that death did result from the presence of
I this poison. All that remains to be done
I is to prove that Mrs. Sherman is the per
son who administered the deadly medi
cine. Circumstances oaD point to so. one
i else, aDd circumstances poiftt ueroely at
her- she appears to regard the serious
, charge as a very light matter. During
the trial, and while the doctors who at
tended the victims were giving their tes
timony, she maintained the role of lpjured
innocence, and stared unabashed
the court room, her pier elaok eye
never once win Jag under tue most deter
mined look of her prosecutors- But when
Professor Baker took the stand and gave
his testimony as to the finding ot the
poison, stating that in the liver alone- of
her second huJband, Hurlbut he round
a sufficient Quantity o; aisenhi to kill threo
men, ch; became exceedingly nervous, and
for the'first time her eyes sought refuge
behind her fan. She soon recovered, and
played her previous part up to the ad
journment of the court. She is
by all who have seen h"- as *ne most ac
complished and shrew that
ever oecame publicly known, and yet,
strange as it may appear, this class of
women always set the heads of a class of
men crazy. Mrs. Fair is another woman
of this character.
i New fork has a large floating popula
tion who live in canal boats and river
crafts, belonging to the city houses, and
moored a greater part of the year along
the river fronts. The females and chil
dren are a singular class, and though
familiar with everything that pertains to
the river are aa- ignorant of the ways of
the city as persons-reared in the country
Connecticut has a superior class of dogs,
if we may judge from a canine specimen
owned by J. S. Trowbridge, of Canaan. ;
Trowbridge made a journey oij Lorsfib&ck ,
one day, and missed his Jog. The next
day be missed his wallet, containing
and on the second day the faithful beast
was found in ttye fftad watching the
money, which was entirely safe.
Telegraphic Summary
Washnqton, July 13.—Hon. John H.
Clifford Las been elected President of
Harvard.
Orange demonstrations throughout Ire
land yesterday were attended With little or
no disorder.
Austria has an army of half a mil
lion. Von Buest said, in supporting esti
mates, that now was tho best time to re
organize and strengthen the army, as it
would excite no distrust.
At the close of tho procession, the
Orangemen, putting their regalia in their
pockets and leaving their banners with the
police, mixed with the crowd.
Osoria was hanged at the yard arm
of tho steamer Neptune at Neuvhas.
Cebralino was buried with pomp.
The Porto Rico and Jamaica cable has
beon interrupted again. The steamer
Barangriella has been lost.
The Court Martial for the French Com
munists has been indefinatcly postponed.
A Provincial paper correspondence says:
“Germany is confident in her own strength,
and watches wi ll oalmness and sympathy
the redevelopment of France. Her only
desire now is to bring about, as spoedily
as possible, the re-establishment of friendly
relations.’’
Dr. Joseph Bell Alexander, of Mobile,
is dead ; aged 47.
Boutweli has returned.
The duplicate originals of a convention,
establishing an exchange of postal money
orders between tho United States and
England, have just been received. It has
been executed on the part of England and
uow awaits tho signature of the Post
master General and the President. Each
order is limited to ten pounds when is
sued in England and fifty dollars when
issued in the United States. McDonald,
superintendent of the money order system,
who oonoluded this convention, has goDe
to Berlin lor the purpose of establishing a
similar convention between tho United
States ami Germany.
Judge A. R. Wright, of Rome, Ga., an
ex-member of both CoDgrosses, was before
the Ku-Klux Committeo. He believed
in Ku-Klux ; but it was a polioo and not
a political organization. The negroes be
haved better than was expected. Enough
witnesses are boro to occupy tho commit
tee to the end of next woek, when it will
adjourn. , „
New York, July 13, noon.—Col. Clark,
of the 7th regimont, reports that aftor tho
Orangemen had passed the spot, tho mob
fired, killing Page, when the 9th regiment
commenced an in ii-crimiuato fire, without
orders. The 9lh fell baok, crowding the
7th on the pavement. The firing was kept
up for some time, although an adjutant
begged Lieut. Col. Brain to hold his men
in. WheD the 7th reached the corner of
29th street, shots were fired from a win
dow, and a single shot was fired at the
window by a soldier, acting under orders.
Several more shots were fired from the
same spot, when several volleys were then
fired into the window.. This, Col. Clark
claims, was all the firing done by the 7tb.
Tho 22d did not fire a shot. Members of
the 9th say they fired no shot till young
Pago was killed. There wero several futile
attempts at a riot during the night, which
were easily suppressed.
New York, July 13, evening.—Allis
quiet to-day. The laborers arc at work.
All disquieting rumors provo unfounded.
Heartrending scenes ooour at tho dead
houses. Seven thousand people passed tho
dead for the purpose of identification and
curiosity. Occasionally a woman would
throw herself on tho coffin containing a
kinsman.
All workmen who left the boulevards
and parks yesterday, contrary to positive
orders, have boen discharged, and Gor
mans and Italians employed in their stead.
At time call this morning but few laborers
were missing. Two regiments roaiain on
duty. The police have renewed their
regular lino of duty, but can bo concen
trated at short notice. All arrested with
arms were committed for examination,
and tho others discharged.
Over four hundred Mormons, who ar
rived at Castlo Garden yesterday from
Scandinavia, in the steamer Minnesota,
leave this afternoon for the West.
London, July 13.—Czar Alexander, of
Russia, Empress Marie Alcxandriana and
Grand Dukes Vladimir and Alexis are at
Friedreiohshafem, a town of Wurtomborg,
on Lake of Constance.
Alexandria, July 13.—The differences
between the Egyptain Government and
the Fronoh Cousul General have been re
ferred for settlement to the French cabinet.
Paris, Juno 13. —The Government has
dispatched a representative to England to
endeavor to induce the British Govern
ment to consent to modification of the
treaty of commerco between France and
England, bearing date January 23, 1860.
A grand oustoms conference is suggested
to be held in Berlin, to embraco delegates
from all the European States.
Cincinnati, July 13. —The managers of
the Industrial Exposition have determined
on special piemium9 for raw cotton from
the States of Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Missis
sippi, each State competing with itself, in
addition to the grand medal offered by
the Exposition for the best hale in the
whole country. The Chamber of Com
merce and merchants have already raised
$20,000 as cash premiums to exhibitors
from the respective States for this spe
cialty.
Washington, July 14, noon.—The
semi-annual exohango of tho Morocoo
dealers resolved to resist the move of shoe
manufacturers for a ropcal of the tariff on
Morocco and serge goods* A committee
was appointed to oppose tho matter in
Congress.
Mayor Hall assumes tho whole respon
sibility of Kelso’s order forbidding the
Orange procession, and argues that the
result proved the wisdom of Kelso’s order.
The Police Commissioners, Democratic and
Republican, were unanimously in lavor of
Kelso’s order.
The tax collectors of Missouri have
seized thirteen of tho Iron Mountain Rail
road engines, a lot of lumber belonging to
the Marine and Dry Dock Company, and
•the property of the North Missouri Rail
road, for non-payment of taxes.
The grand jury proposes to indiot the
rioters tor murder, and utterers of incen
diary speeches as accessory.
A severe storm passed over St. Louis.
One person was killed.
A oonventioD of Kentucky Baptists, at
Louisvillp, offer $300,000 to remove the
Baptist University from Greenwich, S. C.,
to an eligible point in Kentucky, provided
Other Southern States raise $200,OOt).
Rafail Quesada, with two hundrod Von
ezuelian?, landed in Cuba. Spanish re
ports say they were closely pursued and
maoy killed and much of their stores cap
tured.
Deaths from the New York riot, 56.
More of the wounded will die. The regi
ments are still quarreling over the ques
tion, which fired uselessly. There is no
question about the excellent behavior of
the police. Their conduot is upiversally
praised.
The entire amount of five-fwcntics ol
’62 outstanding is four hundred and
ninety millions. While it is true that va
rious suggestions and propositions have
been made for its absorption, nothing has
vet been determined by the Seoietary.
It can bow be officially stated that the
new loan has not been withdrawn from
the market.
John McGJraw, a shipping merchant, of
New Vorki |s dead ; aged, 70.
The rotary bleacher in Howland’s pa
per mill exploded, demolishing the works.
Two more riot wounded are dead.
Washington, July 14, evening.—No
more applications for soldiers’ discharges
will be entertained, as the army is uow rc
duoed to thirty thousand,
The remains at Long Branch
till the filth of August, when be goes to
California. He is not coming to Wash
ington unless emergency requires it.
Tho Attorney General has gone to North
Carolina to made a speech.
The Ku-Klnx Owumittce examined
Treasurer Ander, oi Georgia, and Mayor
Anderson, of Savannah. The testimony
fully sustains the deplorable financial con
dition and bad management. The evi
dence fully sustained the current state
ments of venalty and incotnpotency of
persons in power in the rospgqtive States.
The Cotton Crop— CffEoial.— The July
returns do got materially ohango tho cot
ton urop prospect reported in June. Se
■ vere rain storms havo continued to ob
struct cultivation and check its growth in
the States upon the Gulf o<>ast. The
States of Mississippi, Ala
bama and Florida average lower in condi
tion tbau at tie date or the last report.
The Georgia and Texas averages remain
"unchanged, and an improvement i&indi
cated in the Carolinas, Tennessee and
Arkansas- The per ceoUge in each State,
as compared with the July statement of
last ve-r, is as follows: July, 1870, North
Carolina, 94 per cent.; July, 1871, 99 per
cent. South Carolina, 90 par cent.; July,
1871, 100 per cent. Georgia, July, 1870,
101 per cent-; July, 1871, 82 per cent.
Florida, July, da7o, 9b par cent.; July,
18,71, 88 per cent. Alabama, July, 1870,
102 per cent.; July, 1871, 81 per cent,
Mississippi, July, 1870, 95 per cent.;
1 July, 1871, 80 per cent. Louisians, July,
1870, 101 per oent.; July, 1871, 75 per
cent- Texas, July, 1870, 97 per cent.;
July, 1871, 93 per oegt. ' Arkansas,
July, 1870, 101 per cent-; July, 1871,
90 per eeot. Tennessee, July, l® 7 ®!
8a nor cent; July, 1871, 98 per
oent. While no estimation oan at this
early date, be authoritatively made, this
information leads to the _foyb?Wf{ Con
clusions : With a reduction of 19 por
oent, relatively low condition, ana a sea
son an long as that of 1870, there should
he gathered, a orop of 3*200,000 bales, or
about as large as that of 18C9; with a
season, of
with an early frost ana a very unfavorable
season for pieking, 2,700,000 bales. Tho
prevalence of insects, with other unpro
pitious oiroumstanowould probably re
duoc the crop to 2,500,000 bales, and a
steady improvement of the plant for sixty
days, with the longest and most favorable
pickidr season, nrghfc carry the sggrrgato
up to 3,500,000 bales. This is present
®d ® s , . fair statement of the range of
probabilities, based upon the most ex
tensivo and reliable data and uninfluenced
by the clamors of the speculators of the
Cotton Exchange.
It is reported, on autborily, that Sen
ator Spencer says that Collector Miller, of
the Port of Mobile, was removed in direct
violation of tho tenure of offico law. High
authority says the removal was for politi
cal reasons only.
Paris, July 14, noon.—Members of the
Commune will be tried together. Arrests
continue. Journals devote editorials to
the approaching municipal election.
Madrid, July 14, noon.— l’ho Cortes
passed the bill indemnifying tho Bank of
France for annulment of the treaty re
garding the Spanish leap.
London, July 14.—Tho Times, of to
day, mnkes the New York riot the text for
an urtiole upon tho condition of affaris in
Ireland, which oonoludes as follows: “If
Irish fends are as inexplicable in America
as they are in Ireland, the more sanguin
ary Irishmen must ask themselves whother
Irish nature is not more responsible for
the troubles in Ireland than English mis
rule.”
Reports oomo from Nico of riotous con
duct and cries of “death to thft Frenoh.”
New York, July 14.—Revenue officers,
supported by fifty marines, in Brooklyn,
made a raid on distillers and captured one
distiller and smashed one still. Three
marines were wounded,
Chicago, July 14.—A terrible hurri
oano occurred at St. Joseph, Mo. Four
or live persons wero killed by lightning
and falling trees, ar.d many hurf. Loss,
$200,000.
Washington, July 15.—The arsonal at
Rio Janioro has been burned. Loss, -
£300,000.
Akerman instructs the District Attorneys
to make extraordinary exertion in the ex
ecution of the Ku-Klux bill. Whenever
they hear of outrages they shall procure
warrants from tho Federal Commissioner,
arrest the parties accused, and have them
hound over or committed till the eusuing
term of the Federal Court. Virgil S. Lusk
has been appointed Special Assistant Dis
trict Attorney to push the harsh features
us ill© Iran Iu KunU Onfullim. Federal
troops have been planed at his call. The
Chronicle thus concludes an editorial on
the subject: “This action on the part of
the Attorney General displays a disposi
tion to execute tlie Ku-Klux law in earnest,
and shows that the Administration is evi
dently determined that it snail bo rigidly
executed to the very letter.”
A Confederate Captain, uamed Tallia
ferro, planting near Macon, MUs., testi
fied that 15 colored men wero killed and
many whipped in that vicinity within tho
past voar. There is an organized hand of
Ku-Klux in that county. Talliafcrro at
tended several of its meetings, though he
never took tho required oath, tho supposi
tion of thoso present being that he was
initiated by tho Captain of tho band, who
oan swear in a member. His friends and
neighbors all belong to tho band. Tallia
ferro gave the committee the details of
tho organization, signs, grips, etc. Ho
onoo wont on a raid with a band, and was
present when several negroes were whip
ped. Their object was to obtain entire
control of the negroes, and mako them
vote as the leaders wished.- No proscou
tion has or could bo instituted in that
county. Nobody dare proseouto. Tallia
ferro was a witness beforo tho grand jury
at Oxford, Miss*, and on his testimony
several membors of tho Ku-Klux were in
dicted.
SUNDAY NIGHT DISPATCHES.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Washington, July 16.—Tho July re
turns of the statistical division of tho De
partment "of Agriculture show a marked
increase in the average of corn, amounting
to fully three millions of acres, of which
two millions are duo to tho determination
of the Cotton States to supply themselves
with bread and meat. It is assumed that
the area in oorn equals forty-two millions
of acres, or more than halt of tho total
acreage of all tilled crops. The only
States failing to inoroaso their aroa in oorn
are New York, the New England States,
and the Pacific States. The per ccutagu
of increase, in other States is as follows .
New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 1; Dela
ware, 3; Maryland, 1; Virginia, 5;
North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 12;
Goirgia, 10; Florida, 7; Alabama, 11;
Mississippi, 14; Louisiana, 15; Texas,
15 ; Arkansas, 24 ; Tennessee, 7 ; West
Virginia, 5 ; Kentucky, 3; Missouri, 10;
Illinois, 6 ; Indiana, 4 ; Ohio, 3; Michi
gan, 3 ; Wisconsin, 7 ; Minnesota, 11 ;
lowa, 15 ; Kansas, 50; Nebraska, 30.
The condition of winter wlierh on tho first
of July, was somewhat above an average.
The spring vnricty presented a worso ap
pearanoo than has been reported for seve
ral years at tho same date. Tho ripening of
whiter wheat has been fully a week earlier
than usual, and a large proportion had
been rut at the date of the returns. Never
was there a better promise in .early spring,
and the comparative prevalence of insects
and local injuries from drought ha ve been
the principal drawbacks. Tho States
showing comparatively low condition are
as follows: New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut. Virginia and
all the more Southern States, except
Texas, while Kentucky presents an aver
age of 35 per cent, deterioration ; Indiana,
7 per cent., and California, 17 per cent.
Among tlie States showing high averages
are Ohio, 4 per cent, above; Michigan, H;
Illinois, 7; Missouri, 8 ; Kansas, 7 ; Ne
braska, 10; Oregon, 1 per cent. The’win
ter wheat of Ohio mul Wisconsin is in high
condition, but insignificant ia aroa. The
section having tho largest area of winter
wheat is tho odo in whieh its condition is
highest, though a majority of the winfar
wheat States report comparatively r,oor
condition. Tho only States from cvhich
favorable reports of spring wheat aro re
ceived are Maine, New York, Nov/ Hamp
shire, Connecticut and Oregon. The per
oentages below an average are as follows •
Missouri, 36; Illinois, 30; Indiana, 2;
Ohio, 7; Michigan, 4; Wisconsin, 2i);
Minnesota, 30; lowa, 18; Kansas, 15;
Nebraska, 11. The chin-.m bug has been
very destructive to spring wheat. After
allowing for the inoroase in acreage and
the largo yjeld of winter wheat in good
wheat districts, the loss in the spring Ya
rioty must reduoc tho aggregate yields
somewhat below an average.
The hay crop will be a comparatively
small one.
Potatoes promise un averago yield if
they escape drought and rot in the future-
Notwithstanding the prevalence of tho
Colorado bug, continued vigilance has
partially averted loss.
COTTON 'MOVEMENT.
New York, July 16.—7, ho cotton
movement has been very Receipts
at all the ports for this week. 15,385
bales, against 18.468 last week, 18,197 the
previous week, and 22,664 three wooks
since- The total receipts since September
Ist, 1870, aro 3.945,832 bales, against
2,854,081 for the corresponding poriod of
the previous year. Exports from all ports
for tho week, 7,083 bales, against 19,623
the same week last. year. Total exports
for tho expired portion of tho cotton year,
3,076,042 bales, against 2,147,187 for tho
same time last year. Stock at all ports,
176,199, against 176,746 tho time last
year. Stocks at iuterior (owns, 17,107,
against 30,686 last year. Stock at Liver
i pool, 661,000, against 593000 last year.
Cotton afloat for Groat Britain; 93,000.
against 70.000 last year. Indian cotton
afloat for Europe, 538,832, against 422,000
last year, The weather South during the
week was favorable for tho growing plant,
being generally dry and hot.
Cotton opened strong, but afterwards
deoliced slightly under increased pressure*
to sell. The sales for the week reached
80,000 bales, of whioh 72,000 bales wero
for future delivery and 14,000 bales on the
spot and to arrive. Os tho spot cotton,
exDortcro look about 1,850 bales, spinnors.
3,700 bales, aud speculators,s2s talcs.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Wasiiinuton, July 16. Commissioner
Pleasanton sent to the • President for ap
proval an order consolidating the Inter
nal Revenue Districts in Virginia and Ala
bama.
Henry Howard haz been appointed, by
tho British Government, agent to receive
claims against tbo United States under
the treaty. Tie gives official notice that
; such ohims must be sent to him here.
Tho United States Government has not
yet aDpointed an agent.
Corrected deaths from riot, 44.
Income tax from the city of Brooklyn,
complete, shows four hundred and sixty
six thousand this year, against a million
and a hah last year.
There was ono murder in Now York
and one m Brooklyn last night from dis
putes over the riof.
KHCELLANEOhS.
San Franciroo, July Its.— Gold plains
as rioh as California or Australia have
been found in Sonora, Mex : co, attracting
thousands.
The America, flew Hong. Kong, has
arrived with a largo cargo of teas and
China goods.. She had fine weather the
entire* trip.
Fondulac, Wisconsin, Juno 16.—The
Lake House and twenty others has been
burned. Several- firemen hurt, and one
child burned to death.
Bath, Me., July 16.—John Shaw, for
forty years Canbicr of tho Lincoln Bank,
is dead; tyjed,7'l.
foreign.
Paris, July 16.— Proceedings have
been oommencod for malfeasance against
tho purchasers of arms in America.