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WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBTJ.
CHIEF JUSTICE WARNER.
So far as we have seen, the press of
the State, with a single exccptio ;), have
unanimously approved the appointment
of Judge Warner to the place of Chief
Justice of our Supreme Court. We are
quite sure that his appointment is en
tirely acceptable to the Bench and
Bar of the State.
THE SUPREME COURT VACANCY.
We hear it reported that owing to the
illness of Chief Justice Warner and ttjg
very heavy docket to be disposed of at
the present term of the Supreme Court,
Governor Smith will probably appoint,
temporarily, a Judge to fill the place
made vacant by the promotion of Judge
Warner to Chief Justice. We learn
further that it is probable that W. W.
Montgomery, Esq., of this city, will
be the person selected for this high
position.
Mr. Montgomery is a learned and able
lawyer of high personal and professional
character, and his appointment would,
we believe, give very general satisfaction
to the people of the State. He lias all
the elements of character, which make
a good Judge, and if appointed will
achieve high reputation as an able,
honest, upright and faithful officer of
the law.
A RADICAL GOVERNOR INDICTED
HY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY.
We learn by telegram to the Galveston
News from Austin, Texas, that the
Grand Jury of the Federal Court have
found true bills of indictment against
the Radical Governor, Davis, and Secre
tary of State, Newcomb, on account of
the frauds perpetrated in the late elec
tions. These indictments are, we be
lieve, based upon the false certificate of
election, which gave Clark (Bad.) a seat
in the present Congress, when his op
ponent actually received a majority of
several thousand votes.
ATLANTA AND LAGRANGE RAIL
ROAD LETTER FROM .JUDGE
KING.
Augusta, Ga., January 27, 1872.
C'apt. W. I). Chipley :
Dear Sib—
*******
I can scarcely say that no overtures
have been made to control the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad, but can say
that no proposition of that kind has been
seriously entertained, or contemplated by
the authorities of the A. & W. P. R. R.
Cos. So far as they have considered,
propositions from other interests have
not contemplated any exclusive control,
but only business privileges in common.
We have no unfriendly feeling toward
the Central Railroad Company, or the
interests connected with it, but I am
certain in the opinion that no disposi
tion of the A. A W. P. R. R. is likely to
be made that would interfere with a
fair business connection with your road
at LaGrange, when your road reaches
tnat point.
I scarcely know what to believe now
a-days in the shape of railroad sensa
tional rumors, but am decidedly of
opinion that the late rumors about the
control of the South Carolina Road is
all bosh ! So lam informed by those
who ought to know. Yours, &c.,
John P. Kino.
The above letter we clip from the Co
lumbus Sun. The care with which sev
eral important expressions are italicised
will not escape attention. It is charac
teristic of the writer. We hardly think
the letter is entirely satisfactory to the
gentleman to whom it is addressed-
Capt. Chipley is, we think, General Su
perintendent, or in some way officially
connected with the new railway in course
of construction from Columbus to Rome,
known as the “ North and South Road.”
The line of the latter must necessarily
cross the line of the Atlanta and La
((range Road, and the managers of the
North and South Road in locating their
line so as to touch LagGauge hoped there
by to make a connection with Augusta
and the Atlantic seaboard. But rumors
of the contemplated transfer of the At
lantic and LaGrange Road to the Penn
sylvania “ Southern Railroad and Secu
rity Company ” caused them to enter
tain doubts whether, after all, the La-
Grange connection would really benefit
them much, and hence this letter of in
quiry to Judge King.
We are not at. all surprised to find
that Judge King is “ decidedly of opin
ion that the late rumor about the control
of the South Carolina Railroad is all
bosh /" We recollect that, at a public
meeting held not long since in Athens,
to revive the Athens and Clayton Rail
road project, that Judge King, in reply
to some remarks by the writer, to the
effect that the Air Line Railroad would
soon be constructed, said, in effect, that
the Air Lino Road was all bosh ! Judge
King is evidently so constituted that
he either cannot, or will not, see un
pleasant things until it is too late to
counteract their effect and influence.
The rumors about the sale and purchase
of the stock of the South Carolina Rail
road is, we are informed by tlioso who
ought to know, true. Os course we
state nothing in this regard from our
own knowledge, but our information
comes from such a quarter as to fully
satisfy us of its truthfulness.
'I’HE NEW APPORTIONMENT.
The Senate amendment to the House
Apportionment bill has passed; the
House Ims agreed to the amendment, and
the bill gone to the President.
The law, as it now stands, makes the
number of Representatives 243, os fol
lows :
STATE. KBPS. STATE. REPS.
Maine 4 Kentucky 8
New Hampshire. 2 Tennessee 8
Vermont 2 Indiana 11
Massachusetts 9 Illinois 16
Rhode Island. .. 1 Missouri. 11
Connecticut 3 Arkansas 3
New York 28 Michigan 7
New Jersey 6 Florida 1
Pennsylvania .22 Texas 5
Delaware . 1 lowa 8
Maryland 5 Wisconsin 7
Virginia 8 California. 4
North Carolina 7 Minnesota 3
South Carolina.. 4 Oregon 1
Georgia 8 Kansas 2
Alabama .6 West Virginia... 3
Mississippi 5 Nevada 1
Louisiana 5 Nebraska 1
Ohio 17
The additional representatives gained
by any State shall be elected from the
State at large, unless the Legislature
otherwise provides. The Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, 1872, and
the same day every second year shall be
the days of "election. No new State shall
be admitted without enough people to
entitle her to one representative. Any
State that abridges the right of any citizen
vote, save for rebellion or crime, shall to
have its representation diminished ac
cording to the voters disfranchised.—
Atlanta Constitution.
This is not ouV understanding of the
matter. Our recollection is that the
House bill fixed the number of Repre
sentatives at 383, and that the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate, to whom the
House bill was referred, reported it back
to the Senate with an amendment con
tinuing the present number of Repre
sentatives, but changing the ratio of
representation so as to give the number
of Representatives to each State, as
shown by the table of the Constitution.
This amendment was. if we are not mis
taken, rejected by the Senate, and the
original House bill passed with a single
amendment—declaring that if any class
of persons are refused the ballot in any
of the States, the representation of suali
State shall be reduced in proportion to
the number of its citizens which are
disfranchised.
If we are correct in this matter, and
we think we are, Georgia will be entitled
to nine Representatives where she had
only seven.
Heayt Cotton Movements to New
York. —The Champion, Captain Look
wood, and South Carolina, Captain
Beckett, cleared at the Custom House,
yesterday, with an aggregate of nearly
four thousand bales of cotton. This,
with the Georgia cargo on Tuesday, and
the Charleston to follow to-morrow, will
giTe total figures of about seventy-five
hundred bales, which indicates not only
u very large movement for the week, but
a facility of transportation by sea which
is something to boast of.— Churlmtton
Jfmos,
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CONVEX.
TION IN MISSOURI.
This Convention, lately assembled in
Jefferson City, has been a great success.
It convened on the 24th, and was largely
represented by both the American and
German elements. Nearly every coun
ty in the State was present by its dele-,
gates. There were many strangers from
other States in attendance on the Con
vention from sympathy or curiosity.
The Committee on Resolutions re
ported through their Chairman, CoL
Grosvenor, the following resolutions :
Resolved, That we, the Liberal Re
publicans of Missouri, faithful now as
we were in the dark days of the civil
war to the vital principles of true Re
publicanism, by no act or word will en
danger the rightful sovereignty of the
Union, emancipation, equality of civil
rights or enfranchisement. To these
established facts now embodied in the
Constitution we claim the loyalty of all
good citizens.
Resolved, That a true and lasting
peace can come only from such a pro
found reconciliation as enfranchisement
lias wrought in this State ; nor can those
governments be pure or great in which
the tax-payers have no active part. We
therefore demand, with equal suffrage to
all, complete amnesty for all, that the
intellect and experience of every State
may lie welcomed to active service for
the common welfare.
Resolved, That no form of taxation
is just or wise which puta needless bur
dens upon the people. We demand a
genuine reform of the tariff so that
thosc.duties shall be removed which, in
addition to the revenue yielded to the
Treasury, involve an increase in the
price of domestic products, and a con
sequent tax for the benefit of favored
interests.
Resolved, That the shameless abuse
of Government patronage for the control
of conventions and elections, whether
in the interest of an individual faction
or party, with its subsequent corruption
and demoralization of political life, de
mand a thorough and genuine reform of
the public service. Those who would
suppress investigation forget that they
owe a higher duty to the country than to
any party. We honor those Senators
whose courageous course has compelled
the disclosure of grave misdeeds, and
they deserve the thanks and hearty sup
port of all good citizens.
Resolve,d, Thai local self-government,
with impartial suffrage, will guard the
rights of all citizens more securely than
any centralized authority. It is time
to stop the growing encroachments of
the Executive power ; the use of coer
cion or bribery to ratify a treaty ; the
packing of a Supreme Court to relieve
rich corporations ; the seating of mem
bers of Congress not elected by the peo
ple ; the resort to unconstitutional laws
to cure the Ku-Klux disorder ; irreligion
or intemperance, and the surrender of
individual freedom to those who ask
that the practice or creed of some shall
be the law of all. We demand for indi
viduals the largest liberty consistent
with public order, for State self-govern
ment, and for the nation a return to the
methods of peace and constitutional
limitation of power.
Resolved, That true Republicanism
makes it not less our duty to expose
corruption, denounce usurpation of
power and work for the reforms neces
! sary for the public welfare. The times
demand an uprising of honest citizens
j to sweep from power the men who pros
titute the name of an honored party to
selfish interests. We therefore invite
I all Republicans who desire the reform
| herein set forth to meet in National
■ Mass Convention at the city of Cincin
nati, the first Wednesday of May next,
at 12 m., there to take such action as
our convictions of duty and the public
exigency may require.
Is there a single word in these resolu
tions, asks the Montgomery Advertiser,
to which any Democrat would refuse to
subscribe. On the contrary, if a Demo
cratic Convention had been held at Jef
ferson City, such Convention would not
have adopted a more reasonable plat
form than this ! There is consequently
no good reason why Democrats and
Liberal Republicans should not actively
coalesce, but every reason of duty, in
terest and patriotism why they should
seek to discover a common ground of
co-operation. This being established,
the overthrow of corrupt and dangerous
Radicalism is already secured.
Civil Service Reform has its last il
lustration in the removal of ex-Senator
Warner as Collector of Mobile. As
long as he was in the United States Sen
ate the Administration supported and
listened to him in preference to Senator
Spencer. The latter opposed War
ner’s re-elecsion, who then became a
candidate for the Collectorship, while a
friend of Spencer’s was appointed, and
Warner offered the Governorship of the
the Territory of New Mexico. The new
Collector, after a month or two, was
removed and Warner appointed.—
Then Spencer renewed his war and so
pressed the White House that Warner’s
name was withdrawn, he having never
been confirmed, but not until an at
tempt had been made to buy him off by
offering him the position of Minister to
the Argentine Republic, which Warner
would not accept. He is admitted to be
honest, economical, and every way suc
cessful. The change is made for politi
cal reasons, and Senator Spencer de
clares that, with the patronage of the
Mobile Custom House, he can manage
the Republican party of Alabama in the
interest of General Grant. Here is a
beautiful record from a President stand
ing forth as the champion of civil ser
vice reform. —New York Express.
Buying Up and Controlling Rail
roads. —Every few days we meet with
statements that certain Northern rail
road corporations-—tho “ Pennsylvania
Central,” for example figures extensive
ly in this line—have bought, or are about
to buy or lease, or secure the control of
certain Southern and Western lines of
road. We regret to see this. We think
the policy is suicidal. The tendency of
trade is to concentrate the commercial
capital of the country in the already
over-grown Northern cities. This new
movement must necessarily accelerate
the process. The final result will be
that the people of the South and West
will become mere “ hewers of wood and
drawers of water ” to the capitalists of
the North. Instead of building up and
encouraging direct trade with Europe,
our sea-ports will languish and become
subsidiary to Northern aggrandizement,
so that we will continue to grow more
and more dependent upon Northern cap
italists.
Nor is this the worst feature of the
case. The powerful moneyed corpora
tions will exercise a tremendous influ
ence over the politics and legislation of
the country. Their influence has long
been felt in our State Legislatures, and
it will ultimately control Congress. We
arc opposed to centralization in railroad
matters from the same reason that we
oppose centralization in the General
Government. Both are destructive of
the liberties of the people.
The last case reported of this sort, is
the attempt of a New York “ syndicate”
to get the control of the South Carolina
Railroad, so that it may ultimately man
age those of Georgia. It is said that the
project is likely to succeed. Athens
Watchman.
Ice Boats.— Probably the swiftest lo
comotion possible to man without too
much risk iu life is that achieved by
what are termed “ice boats.” On the
Hudson river, near Poughkeepsie, the
other day, one of these boats, the river
being frozen over to the depth of sever
al inches, sailed for a distance of eight
miles. This, distance was made in the
extraordinary time of eight minutes.
The wind was blowing a gale, and the
boat carried full sail. To say that it
went with the swiftness of the wind
would fail to express its rate of speed.
The men on board—five in number—
could hardly see, owing to their rapid
motion ; their eyes were greatly affect
ed, and water flowed freely from them.
Like the traditional Dutchman with a
cork leg, no sooner did the “Whiz”—
the appropriate name of the boat—make
her appearance at a given point than,
like a flash, the astonished observers on
shore in a few seconds time saw her
speeding a half a mile away. What is
curious, too, about these boats is, that
they tack and “stand” off and on as
readily as a vessel sailing upon the
water. Were such a thing possible as
the freezing over of the Atlantic ocean,
one might reach Europe in one of these
vessels, the winds favoring, in some
thing more than a day and night. A
curious subject for reflection in a con
sideration of human possibilities !
Gov. Smith has moved into the Execu
tive mansion, and finds it “ sadly de
ficient in furniture. ” Bullock must have
been a rogneish tenant.
George Francis Train is in Atlanta at
the Hi Kimball. He will probably re
move the pressure and lift the veil be
fore leaving.
TRANSFER OF THE NEW ORLEANS
PICAYUNE.
A. M. Holbrook, the veteran editor and
one of the proprietors of the New
Orleans Picayune, announces his with
drawal from that paper. He has been
editor and managor of the Picayune for
more than thirty-five years. The “New
Orleans Printing and Publishing As
: sooiation liave become the proprietors,
and will in future have full control of
the paper. This company is composed
of over a hundred of the leading busi
ness men of the city. We wish the new
proprietors much success in their new
field of enteprise.
THE STATE ROAD INVESTIGATION.
Several arrests were made, we learn,
in Atlanta, on Friday last, of parties
implicated in the late State Road frauds, !
among them E. F. Blodgett, son of the
notorious Foster. The committee charg
ed with the investigation of the affairs
of the road have been active in their
efforts to expose these frauds, and their
zeal has been so fax singularly secon
ded in the number of flagrant cases
they have detected and exposed.
We are also informed that some trans
actions of a certain so-called Demo
cratic newspaper, published in Atlanta,
with the State Road, are of such a char
acter as to induce a strong suspicion of
fraud, and that the proprietor of the
paper would be probably arrested in a
few days.
A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
At the regular meeting of Council, on
the morrow, the ordinance exempting
the Cumming Manufacturing Company
from taxation for ten years, inclusive,
of similar privileges to any other cotton
or woolen mills to be built within the
city limits, will come up for ratification.
We are confident that a majority of
Council will favor this measure, and
hope it will be passed by a unanimous
vote. A vastly predominating majority
of our citizens favor the scheme, and
we may even say that hardly a corpo
ral’s guard of persons can be found ob
jecting to it.
So far so good. Taking it for granted
that the ordinance will be favorably
acted upon, we would remind our citi
zens that a substantial backing of the
Cumming Manufacturing Company is
the next thing in order. Canvassing for
subscriptions to this Company will, no
doubt, be actively pushed during the
present week and month. Let all who
can subscribe at all subscribe liberally,
resting assured that the ultimate bene
fit to themselves and Augusta must be
very considerable indeed.
The State Road Fra ids. —The active,
able legislative committee inquiring in
to Blodgett’s management of the State
Road, are unearthing such a mass of
corruption as the world rarely sees.
It is not proper of course to record
their labors save as they are practically
announced in arrests and suits, but we
can assure onr readers that the filthy
facts are coming to light. It is abso
lutely sickening. Steal, cheat, forge,
swindle, rob, falsify, have been the pro
gramme. Every species of (expedient
has been resorted to for plundering the
road. Outsiders and insiders have col
luded. Road agents, merchants, Judges
and everybody else appear criminated.
Relentlessly is tho committee tracking
out the frauds. Arrests and suits against
parties little dreamed of are ripening.
Let it be probed to the bottom.—At
lanta Constitution.
Professor It. S. McCulloch, who gave
svidence in the caso of Mrs. 'Wharton,
it Annapolis, graduated at Princeton
College, and was a Professor in that in
stitution. He was afterward cl lemist to
the United States mint, Philadelphia,
and then Professor in Columbia College,
New York city, and while there "was sent
for two years to Europe to visit tho
scientific schools and examine into tho
modes of instruction, the apparatus,
etc., and returned to New York in 1861,
and went South, where he was appointed
chemist to the Confederate Government.
Since the war he has been a Professor
in Washington and Lee University. He
entirely destroyed the evidence that
Ketchum was poisoned by sho wing that
tho chemists who made the an olysis did
not know what they were about. Tho
New York and other papers have com
plimented him very highly as on e of the
very first chemists in the United States.
A Delightful Rmaon.—No rumor for
years has afforded us so much pleasure
as that which indicates the appointment
of the Hon. Herschel V. Johnson to the
Supreme Bench of this State. Such a
man added to the incorruptible Chief
Justice would indeed assure us that
there is a tribunal where the rights of
citizens will be secure in the last resort.
When he ascends that Bench the song
of deliverance from the night of Radi
calism and oppression may bo appropri
ately raised. He is the right man for the
position, for in him we have the genius
of a statesman combined with the
capacity of a great and incorruptible
jurist.
A long life of general usefulness to
his native State presents him as a fit
subject for the pride of Georgians, and
as one in whom there is no guile. Let
us have him. The appointment would
immortalize the Governor who might
make it. —Neuman Defender.
Diamonds. —The report by cable that
two diamonds have been found in South
Africa weighing one thousand carats
each, evidently passed through the
hands of some descendant of Baron
Munchausen between the Cape of Good
Hope and this city. The “Koh-i-noor,”
even when it first became the property
of the British crown, weighed only 186
carats. The “ Regent,” which glittered
in Napoleon Bonaparte’s swoTd of state,
weighed before cutting 410 carats. The
“ Star of the South” weighed in its
rough state 254 carats. A diamond in
Borneo, belonging to the Sultan of Ma
tan, weighs 367 carats. The weight of
the “ OrlofF” diamond, purchased by
Catharine of Kussia, is 195 carats. The
“ Austrian” gem weighs only 139 carats.
When we compare the weight of the two
stones reported by cable with the
weight of these most celebrated gems of
the world, the apparent extravagance of
the story is increased. It is possible, of
course, that the account is true, and
that a pair of gems have been found
which will eclipse in size all their illus
trious predecessors. The old rule of
estimating the value of a perfect diamond
“in the rough” is to multiply the square
of its weight in carats by two, the re
sult being its value in pounds sterling.
This rule has varied at different times,
and the value of diamonds has always
been arbitrary and uncertain. The old
rule, however, is the one now adopted
in South Africa. The square of 1,000 is
1,000,000. Each of the diamonds re
ported would therefore be worth £2,000,-
000, or about §10,000,000.
Although, as a principle, the value of
gems increases more rapidly than their
weight, in the case of exceptionally large
stones the rule has never been followed,
for there is no regular market for them,
and the owners are obliged to content
themselves with what they can get from
very wealthy persons or from govern-;
ments. The “Regent" was sold in 1843, j
after cutting, when it weighed 136 carats, 1
for 8675,000. The Empress Catharine
paid a Greek merchant for the “Orloff” 1
8450,000, besides an annuity of 820,000 j
and a title of nobility. The Austrian
diamond, which is not of pure water, j
being of a beautiful lemon-color, is j
valued at §500,000. The King of Portu
gal has an immense so-called diamond,
which, if real, would be worth under the
rule, 828,000,000, and it must have been
nearly twice as heavy before cutting as
that now reported. The doubt of its
genuineness is so serious, however, that
it hardly ranks among the celebrities of
its kind. The heaviest diamond ever]
found in the United States weighed less
than twenty-four carets.
It appears that the city of Knoxville,
Tenn., is built over an immence cave.
Recently, in digging cisterns at the ho
tels, the “ bottom fell out, and what
were intended for cisterns made excel
lent sewers. Similar results followed
excavations on other premise. The
other day a public cistern, designed to
hold three thousand five hundred bar
rels of water, had been completed, and
seven feet of water pumped in. Within
five minutes aftre the depth of the wa
ter had been measured, it had all disap
peared. Further investigation showed
that part of the bottom had fallen in,
and tiie water run off somewhere in the
interior of the earth.
SOUTHERN RAILROAD 8C HEME,
TUe Plans and Prospects of Colonel |
Tom Scott and hla Pennsylvania Com
bination.
The New York Bulletin has a notable j
editorial apropos of the purchase of the !
Memphis and Charleston Railroad liy a
syndicate of Northern capitalists. II
treats the move as but a step in the
gigantic endeavor to consolidate the
great trunk lines of our section, and
thus to acquire the substantial control
of the trade of the South and South
west, and of the new Southern Pacific
Railroad as well. The Bulletin says :
Although the newly consolidated
Southern lines will be operated in connec
tion with the Pennsylvania Railroad,
yet that powerful corporation does not
directly figure in the negotiations. The
acquisitions have been made in the name
of the Southern Railway Security Com
pany, which isi now, for the first time,
brought prominently before the public.
This company is composed of wealthy
capitalists in this city, Philadelphia,
the Southern States, and in England.
The company is strong from the amount
i of capital and the influences that are
i represented by its members, rather than
for the actual amount of stock. The
j capital stock is only $5,000,000, but the
j holders represent hundreds of millons
jof dollars. We notice among the New
| York stockholders the names of W. E.
! Dodge, Jr., Morris R. Jessup, J. A.
I Stuart. Schuchart & Son, W. and J. L.
j Aspinwall, R. L. Kennedy and J. D.
Phelps. The other names are, Thomas
A. Scott, George W. Harris, George
Small and J. D. Cameron, of Pennsyl
i vania ; Messrs. Newcomer, Shoemaker
and Walters, of Baltimore ; and C. M.
McGhee, of Tennessee ; and Henry B.
Plant, of Georgia. There are also
several English capitalists. The ap
parent capital of the company seems
inadequate and disproportionate to the
obligations recently assumed by it and
others still in contemplation. But the
newly acquired lines are in a condition
that require adequate business manage
ment and credit rather than actual out
lays of money to raise them to a paying
j point, and these conditions are all com-
I bined in the Southern Railway Security
Company. The relations of the Securi
ty Company with the Pennsylvnia Rail
road Company arc of a character to
advance their mutual interests. The
connection of Colonel Scott with both
companies will at least promote a com
mon policy, which, it is to be hoped,
will operate advantageously to the pub
lic.
[From the Aurora (111.) Beacon, 24th.]
Railway Post Ofllcos.
In the lately issued report of the Post
master General, we note the report of
George S. Bangs, the Superintendent of
Railroad Post Offices. This department,
it will be remembered, is new, hardly
yet developed. It was commenced in
the West, under charge of George B.
Armstrong, the man who developed the
idea, while he was a resident of Aurora,
and as Western Special Mail Agent, had
an office in the Aurora Post Office, while
Mr. Bangs was postmaster. It was at
that time, also, that Mr. Bangs, by means
of frequent consultations with Mr. Arm
strong, developed ideas relative to this
great improvement in post office busi
ness, whioh enabled him to give Mr.
Armstrong so valuable assistance while
acting as his Western assistant, and to
take so vigorous and efficient control of
the whole business when it was placed in
his hands. This branch of the service
lias had many difficulties to contend
with, not only thoso naturally found in
obtaining and drilling men into the du
ties, persuading railroad companies to
furnish proper facilities for the work,
and inducing the postmasters and mes
sengers to master details essential to its
proper working ; but there were preju
dices at Washington to be overcome.
Men in high position long regarded it
with suspicious or jealous eye, and only
came to regard it favorably when its pro
jectors demonstrated its value by its suc
cessful working. Its great development,
as shown by the following summary, is,
on account of this opposition, the more
surprising. A recapitulation shows :
Number of lines of offices.... 46
Number of miles of route. . .. 11,208
Number of miles of service
per day 27,596
Number of miles annually . . 10,072,540
Numberof clerksat $1,400.212
“ “ $1,200,258
“ “ SI,OOO. 43 513
Annual compensation $649,400
The service now extends from Augus
ta, Ga., on the south, to Green Bay, on
the north, and from Portland, Me., on
the east, to Ogden, Utah, on the west.
BLONDES.
a woman’s opinion of them.
Mrs. E. Lynn Lytton writes in Cas
sell's Magazine about “Fair Women.”
She says :
The tall, dark, formidable looking wo
man of fiction, who is equal to any
crime you like to name, and whose very
| presence inspires all beholders with fear
or repulsion, has had her day. When
we open one of the books wherein our
youths and maidens learn their first
lessons of life—as it is not—-and we
come upon a herone with yellow hair,
marvelous eyes of a greenish hue, small
waist, shapely hands, and stunted but
symmetrical growth, we may settle our
selves comfortably to an after-narrative
of horrors ; to a base or two of secret
poisoning; or a bolder murderer, with the
chances of exposure by a full-grown wit
ness hidden where only an owl could
hide ; while bigamy will be thrown in
to give the right flavor of impropriety,
or perhaps, for a diversion, a marriage of
that kind known to the French as “of
the thirteenth arondissement. ”
The fair-haired heroines of modern
novels have now the monopoly of all the
vices, crimes—and diamonds involved ;
the former typical brigandess is shelved ;
while the chestnut-headed girls are rele
gated to virtue and patience and mild
ness and despair, and the loss of their
’ lovers through the machinations of the
I too-fascinating and immoral blondes. It
| is all the difference, say the analytical
novel writers, between iron and carbon,
j electricity and brute matter ; and they
! give the preference to the former for
| that queer manifestation of character
they call Force.
Well, perhaps there is something in
the theory, though it may be carried too
far. Given a fair woman, with dark, or
even light hazel eyes, aquiline features,
a narrow forehead, and great width be
tween her ears, all enhanced by a nerv
ous temperament—which is a different
thing from nervousness—and we have
the type of the Borgia, whence we may
reasonably expect something more than
would be' possible to the lymphatic ma
tron, whose worst sins are peevish hu
mors, and whose wildest pleasure is a
box at the theatre at Christmas time,
with all her little ones about her. Soci
ety goes pretty smoothly between its or
dained banks, so far as we can see ; but
we are all aware of the difference be
tween reality and appearance, and if we
do not know the precise strength of the
under-current, we all know that there is
an under-current, and that many lives,
which look quite calm and respectable
on the outside, are turbulent and unre- j
strained enough below.
So it is with your fair women of a
certain type ; creatures who might have ,
sat to Guido for his angels, but whose I
souls are as the soul of Lilith and of ,
Melusine ; the Borgias and the Brin- ;
villers of historic crimes, the ‘ ‘ modern j
Messalinas ”of present life. Who does ■
not know these women ?—whose secret
doings are whispered about from friend
to friend—for all there is no Asmodeus,
happily for them, to render roofs trans
parent—who go about well-lighted draw
ing rooms looking much like ether peo
ple, save that they are, perhaps, more
careful of observances, and, when they
give utterance to their opinions, express
an edifying strictness of morality whieh
puts the very matron herself on the list j
of the careless encouragers of vice ? f
Weak as their rootlets are, they still‘
keep their place among the honest and j
the honorable ; perhaps because of their j
father's name, perhaps because of their
husband's place; people all silently
combining to so much kindly hypocrisy
as includes their formal acceptance;
though none of the better sort care for
more than this.
In society, as it is called, these frail,
fair women are always surrounded by
men ; and bv men only. They are both
disliked ani dreaded "by other women,
and they return the feeling. Between
them and the rest, in that dreadful hour
of upstairs retirement from the last glass
of claret to the first cup of tea, there is
a visible but unspoken enmity. They
are left alone in their blonde beauty to
practice glances and gestures till the
men come up; or if one goes over to
speak to them, it is a woman of like na
ture but of less daring than themselves,
or an innocent who does not know the
goats of the drawing room from its sheep.
* * To be sure, all fair women
are not of this intense kind, and there
are the doves of old-time romance yet
extant —blue-eyed, tender, virginal, who
blush much, hold the creed of “shock
ing,” and who would be as incapable of
the sins to which theii more “electrical”
sisters are prone as a child would be in
capable of carrying the weight of a man.
But we are bound to say that these doves
are comparatively rare, while the hawks
with golden wings are more abounding,
and blondes “without salt” less numer
ous than those with too much.
The Atlanta Constitution is glad be
cause “P. H. Snook has returned from
the Eaat.”
BALTIMORE AND THE SOUTH.
Operations of the Railroad Strategists.
The Baltimore Gazette has given the
following extended, though not very
definite, description of the reported
operations of Baltimore capitalists in
Southern railroads :
We have from time to time alluded to
the purchase or lease of Southern roads
by parties in close connection with tho
Pennsylvania Central. For a time it was
believed that these operations were being
made for the benefit of that road. Some
months ago we discovered that this
organization, under which this Southern
consolidation was being effected, was an
independent one, and we have hereto
fore been restrained, by prudential mo
tives, from speaking on the subject.
Now that the system has attained pro
portions which make further secrecy
unnecessary, we give to the public de
tails which will be of unusual interest.
Some four years ago the great body of
the Southern railroads being still in a
more or less dilapidated condition from
the wear and tear of an exhausting war,
their stocks and mortgage bonds being
in a very depressed condition, their
means and credit being limited, and their
co-operative organization not only in
complete, but checked by the antag
onism of special interests and narrow
views, a movement was inaugurated by
Mr. W. T. Walters, of this city, which
he believed would not only yield a large
profit to himself and his associates on
money invested, but benefit the city of
Baltimore by adding greatly to its trade.
It seemed, indeed, evident that a com
i pact organization of the great lines of
Southern intercommunication, under a
system controlled under one head, kept
in full working order, thoroughly equip
ped, with regular and speedy passenger
and freight trains running at the lowest
paying figures, must necessarily improve
the condition of the whole Southern
country and lead consequently to the
development of this, its natural and
most important market.
Mr. Walters has been joined in this
enterprise by our fellow-townsmen.
Messrs. Alex. Brown A Sons, General
O’Donnell and Messrs. Thomas C. Jen
kins, Horace Abbott, Thomas Kensett,
George Bartlett and B. F. Newcomer.
Messrs. M. K. Jesup k Cos., D. Willis
James and Coosevelt & Son, of New
York ; Drexel k Cos., P. A. k S. Small
and Whitney k Sons, of Pennsylvania ;
and Daniel James, of Liverpool; are
also associated with it. Over seven
million dollars have already been expen
ded in actural cash outlay, and up to
the present time, by purchase of stock,
a controlling majority in a number of
most important lines of railroad, com
prising in all one thousand four hundred
and twenty-five miles, lias been secured.
Besides this, control has been obtained
under lease of three hundred and sixty
three miles additional. These combina
tions already comprise complete lines
from Richmond, via Danvillai and Char
lotte to Atlanta ; Richmond, via Weldon
and Wilmington to Charleston and Au
gusta ; and from Atlanta, via Knoxville
to Bristol, from which a connection
will, in all probability, be made with
Danville by General Flournoy’s road,
which will be constructed.
Additional roads have been built, and
all are, or are being put, in first-class
working order and thoroughly equipped.
It will thus be seen that this new com
pany now controls both the main lines
south from Richmond, the North Caro
lina roads, the chief roads of South
Carolina, two main roads in Georgia,
and the important lines of Tennessee.
These combined Southern lines will
have direct communication north of
Richmond with Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York, both
through the present lines and by others
to be built in friendly allianco with the
new organization.
The programme will be complete
within two years, when facilities for
freight traffic and passenger communi
cation will be afforded the entire South
that will not only be simply unrivalled,
but cannot be provided by any compe
ting interest at less than double the out
lay of this company, as control of these
roads have been obtained at an average
cost of about fifty cents in the dollar on
the original cost in times of gold
currency and cheap labor. Baltimore
will have complete communication
■with the whole South by lines of rail
roads two hundred miles nearer than
New York. Atlanta will be placed in
direct communication with this city by
a route one hundred miles shorter than
any existing one, and passenger trains
will traverse the entire distance, six
hundred and fifty miles, in less than
twenty-four hours, upon the final com
pletion of the Charlotte and Atlanta
link, to be finished within eight months.
It follows, as a matter of course, that
the enterprise of this new organization
cannot stop here. From Chattanooga
and Atlanta it is but a railroad step to
New Orleans and Mobile.
The great benefit to be derived by the
South from a thorough organization of
a complete system of roads under one
management, fully equipped, and free
from annoyances of local interference,
must be apparent to every one. Such a
system must tend to develop immensely
those great home interests, agriculture
and manufactures, upon which the very
vitality, indeed we may almost say exis
tence of the South now depends. To
Baltimore the advantages of economical
transportation and cheap travel must be
very great. We shall thus be thrown
into more intimate business and person
al communication with those with whom
we are allied by common sympathy, and
with whom, we have always contended,
our most important commercial interests
are inseparably united. There is no
risk in predicting that in the staple ar
ticle of cotton alone tho receipts in this
city for the first year after the final com
pletion of communication with the lead
ing business centres of the South, will
be fully increased three hundred thou
sand bales. There will not only be a
vast increase of receipts from the South,
but there must necessarily be an enor
mous edition to the supplies shipped to
the South. Baltimore will not only be
come a large exporting mart, but its for
eign importations must of necessity
grow very largely.
For prudential reasons we forbear for
the present giving further facts in re
gard to the negotiations now in pro
gress, which will add greatly to the
magnitude of this enterprise. We will
only add that the organization which
controls these operations is in no way
connected with the Pennsylvania Cen
tral. It is necessarily a most dangerous
competitor for the Baltimore and Ohio
Road, its prime movers having had the
sagacity and the tact to obtain quietly
most important leading communications,
from which our State Road is now abso
lutely cut off. Baltimore is at least to
be congratulated upon the fact that, no
matter what else may be said of it, it
has grown great enough to sustain more
than two considerable railroad enter
prises.
The Arkansas Delegation.— Wasli
ington, January 25.—A Republican
delegation from Arkansas called on the
President to-day, and had quite a con
ference on the divisions of the Republi
can party in that State, during which
they informed the President that Sena
tor Clayton’s election had been accom
plished by the most outrageous frauds ;
that he absolutely controlled the regis
tration, and added names and struck
them off wherever it suited his pur
poses to secure members of the Legisla
ture to elect him to the Senate, and had
bargained with the Democrats, by whieh
the latter had elected two members of
Congress, etc. The President denied
that he had interfered in Clayton’s case,
that he was aware, and he hoped for a
full investigation. The Senate Commit- i
tee having Clayton’s case under inquiry
did not meet to-day, but are ready to
hear a lot of witnesses. —Louisville
Courier.
Ireland as a Vice-Royalty.— The
English Government is privately discus
sing a proposition to make Ireland a
vice-royalty of Great Britain. The fol
lowing are the leading features of the
proposition : The hereditary Prince of
Wales to be Viceroy, with a permanent
royal court to be held in Dublin. It is
understood the recent agitations in Ire
land in regard to “home rule” have
shown the government the urgent neces
sity of taking immediate steps toward
the adoption of a more conciliatory
policy in dealing with the questions at
issue. It is believed the project will be
brought prominently before Parliament
when it convenes on the 6th day of Feb
ruary, when the proposition for a vice
royalty will be submitted for considera
tion. The proposition is at a stand for
the present. Coming from an official
source, it has created a profound im
pression throughout Ireland, and is one
of the principal topicß of discussion
among the clubs.
Another stupendous fraud has been
unearthed in New York, it being assert
ed that Secretary Conklin, of the Mar
ket Savings Bank, is a defaulter to the
extent of 8400,000. A warrant of attach
ment against his property has been is
sued by the receiver of the bank. Conk
lin admits having appropriated to his
own use $125,000 belonging to the bank.
[Correspondence of the New York Tribune.] )
improvements at the South.
Poet Rosar, S. C., January 23. —1 tis
several years since I heard of the song ;
of “Dixie,” but I can never forget the|
feelings with which I listened to the |
words of that well-known line—“ I wish 1
I was in the hind of cotton, cinnimon j
seed and sandy bottom." It was a bit- i
ter, cold, New Year’s night, and as those,
to me, new words rolled out from the j
chest of someone of the many who were !
celebrating the day, I stopped involun
tarily, shivering as I was, and with si
lent,yet heart-felt, sympathy joined in,
the singer’s wish. Little did I then,
think that I should ever pass the New
Year in a climate where the fierce blasts
of the Northern Winter are unknown, or
that, from “ away down South in Dixie,” !
I should send my good wishes home- j
ward on the day which New Yorkers so |
love to call their own.
I believe it is invariably the case that,
the visitor in a strange place, simulta-1
neously with his impressions, desires to i
know something of its previous history, I
and during my short stay I have found '
that of Port Royal and vicinity to be of '
no littlf interest.
At the time of the war between the
French Protest mts and Catholics, du
ring the reign of Charles IX., Admiral
Coligni, a zealous Protestant, and one of
the Ministers of the Crown, obtained
permission from that monarch to plant
a colony in Florida—that name being
then applied to a great part of the
Southern coast. The expedition, in two
vessels, under the command of Jean
Ribault, landed on the Florida coast
in the Spring of 1862. Sailing northward,
Ribault discovered several rivers, one of
which, from “ the fairnesse and large
nesse of its harbor” he called the Port
Royal river. Exploring the harbor, and
ascertaining its depth, ho felt assured,
to use his own words, that “all the
argosies of Venice could ride upon its
bosom and, accordingly, he deter
mined here to establish a settlement. A
few miles up the river he erected a
pillar bearing the arms of France, and
immediately afterward built a fort, which,
in honor of his King, he called Charles’
Fort—Arx Carolina—whence the name
of that part of our couutry. This fort,
which was composed of crushed oyster
shells, with a mixture of lime and water,
is still standing in part, and will long be
one of the curiosities of the neighbor
hood. It would thus seem that from
the first Port Royal was destined to be
of use in unsettled or warlike times,
for, during our late war, as will be re
membered, it played a very important
part. At the breaking out of the rebel
lion there were, only a few' planters’ resi
dences visible from the harbor ; but at
the end of the conflict, on entering the
port, one would have thought a large
city had suddenly sprung up. Its
growth was rapid, but its disappearance
equally so, for, owing to the absence of
railroad communication with the in
terior, upon the withdrawal of the
Government forces and patronage it
vanished like a dream. After the mem
orable contest at Fort Sumter, workshops
were erected for the repairing of vessels
of war, monitors, &c., and, to show the
commercial facilities, enjoyed, it is only
necessary to state that during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1865, the aggre
gate tunnage entered and cleared at the
Port Royal Custom House amounted to
686,000 tuns—a considerable increase
over the preceding year.
The entrance to Port Royal is 50 miles
southwest of Charleston, and 15 miles
northeast of the mouth of the Savan
nah River. The prolongation to the
Port Royal entrance is called Broad
River, and still further up, Port Royal
River. The opening from the ocean is
between Edding’s Island and Hilton
Head Island, and, at that point, is about
three miles wide. The region surround
ing, bounded by tlio Port Royal River,
Whale Branch, the Goosew River, and
St. Helena Sound, and covering an area
of about 25 by 15 miles, is cut up by
numerous rivers, creeks and inlets into
a great many islands—sea islands—the
chief of which are Port Royal Island,
St. Helena, Paris, Ladies’, Coosaw, Ed
ding’s &c. Port Royal Island, the prin
cipal one of this group, is surrounded
by the Broad, Port Royal, Battery, Coo
saw and Beaufort Rivers, and is about 12
miles long by 6in width. The town of
Port Royal is situated on its southwest
ern point, and is very accessible. Its
population is small at present, but
steadily increasing ; the climate is mild
and regular, and the impression which
the visitor receives is very agreeable.
Much the larger part of all the islands
is fertile, and yields handsome profits to
the cultivator. The entrance to Port
Royal is the best channel for vessels in
the whole range of ports below Norfolk,
and even over the bar, at low tide, there
are 19 feet of water. At Charleston and
Savannah the water is but 11 feet deep
at low tide. I think there is no doubt
but that the harbor here is better than
any on the Atlantic Coast, with the ex
ception, possibly, of Portland. This
may seem to many a bold assertion, but
those who have any knowledge of the
country will, I am confident, support
me. With regard to the capabilities of
the port an English writer says “the
whole Royal Navy might ride with safe
ty in Port Royal harbor. Its situation
renders it an excellent station for a
squadron of ships in time of war. ” It
is curious with what persistent iteration
we find the old writers insisting on the
groat importance of this spot. There
cannot be the least doubt that, had it
not been for the proximity of the Span
iards at St. Augustiue, who were con
stantly harassing and massacring the
nascent communities, the earlier settlers
would never have been obliged to leave
this region and found Charleston.
Long before this Port Royal would
have been a place of great wealth and pros
perity had men of sufficient means and
energy been aware of its capabilities.—
Nft only would property holders here
have enjoyed increased wealth, but the
whole country, and especially the South
and West would have derived untold ad
vantages could some means have been
provided by which the productions of
the interior could have found ready pas
sage to the Atlantic ; a railroad having
for its terminus this great harbor, more
convenient than New York, and of
greater capacity than any south of it
which have, as yet, been used to any
considerable extent. Cotton dealers, in
i fact all the merchants of the Southern,
; Western, and Pacific States, realize fully
| the great difficulty—not to speak of the
! enormous expense—encountered in being
| obliged to export their merchandise
j through the medium of New York or
I some other Northern port, and have long
desired more suitable accommodation.—
No large vessels can pass over the bar
either at Charleston or Savannah ; con
sequently, in sending goods from either
of these ports small vessels have to be
used, either entirely, or else to transport
the cargoes to ships of greater capacity.
There has long been needed on the At
lantic Coast another great seaport to
answer the demands of the South and
West, which are loudly calling for
greater facilities. If New York must re
main our London, there will rise at the
terminus of a road where there is as yet
but a comparatively small population j
the Liverpool of the New World. Ad- j
vantages which seem trifling, a few miles j
of distance less, a few cents saved on j
freight, three or four feet more depth of
water in the harbor, suffice to turn a ,
great current of trade into anew chan-;
nel, and to effect changes which the j
wildest fancy could not have pictured.
With all the requitites which Port 1
Royal possesses in an eminent degree, it
will be with peculiar delight that our ;
Southern and Western States will learn j
that at this, the very point most suited ;
to their needs, is the terminus of a rail- j
road which, when finished, will, in con
nection with other roads, give almost an
air-line route from the Pacific coast to a
first class harbor on the Atlantic, pass- j
ing through the very richest portion of
the South.
THE POET ROYAL RAILROAD.
; This is no new project. For years
I men of untiring energy and enterprise
have had it in their minds, and ere now
their expectations would have been re
alized, had not the interposition of the
war led to a suspension of their efforts.
But it was only a suspension, and that
their success has been foreseen is de
monstrated by the investments made in
real estate in this locality, and the pa
tience with which owners have retained
possession of their property strong in
the faith that the unerring hand of com
mercial necessity would finally grasp
the wealth they had secured.
One of the principal objects in view
in the construction of this road was to
connect the railway system of Middle
and Upper Georgia, Alabama and Mis
sissippi, and of the regions stretching
west of the Mississippi river ; also that
of Tennessee, Kentucky, &c., with a
port on the Atlantic coast, possessing
the advantages which are found here,
and which should, at the same time, be
nearer the great points of trade in the :
interior than either of the ports at which ,
the commerce of the country now centers.
The history of the original under
taking, and of the present condition oi
the work, is brief. The company was
chartered by the State of South Caro
lina and Georgia to run from Port Royal
to Augusta, Ga. The sum of $250,000 .
was subscribed and expended in survey-1
ing and grading the road. The stock
holders, however, appreciating the Im
portance of the work voluntarily re-.
duced the stock one-half, so that the f
above expenditure is represented by
only $125,000 of stock. The length of
the road when completed will be 110,
miles, of which 40 miles are already in i
working order and in use. Throughout
the whole length there are but six {
curves, and a deviation of not more j
than one mile and a half from an air i
line. Owing to the general level nature
of the country, the remaining 70 miles is
in rapid process of construction, and
without any unusnal expense.
Reference to any railway man will
show that the Port Royal Railroad has
peculiar advantages for commanding
business. Augusta, its western terminus,
is the central point whence railroads run
in every direction, and to which the cotton
of the Southwest must and does come.
From Augusta to Port Royal is 27 miles
nearer than to any other port, and that
to a better harbor, with deeper water,
and with opportunities for unloading
directly on the docks. It is also a few
miles nearer from Augusta to either
Charleston or Savaunali over the Port
Royal Road in connection with the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, with
which it connects at Yemassee, than by
either of the old routes ; so there are
really three eastern termini to the new
road, one at this plaeo and the other
| two at the old established, but inacle
-1 quate, harbors of Charleston and Savan-
I nah.
i Connecting at Augusta with the Geor
i gia Railroad, it forms with that and its
| western connections a continuous through
! line from this place to Memphis, and
I thence to Little Rock and Fort Smith ;
j also, through the same medium, direct
j communication will be had with Macon,
; Ga., and Montgomery, via West Point;
j thence by the way of Vicksburg across
i the States of Mississippi, Louisiana and
i Texas ; through Southern Arizona and
: California to the Pacific Coast. This
| route will be seen at a glance to be the
j shortest of all the Pacific lines, and will
i traverse through its entire length one of
I the finest regions, both iu soil and cli-
I mate, upon the globe. It must forever
be the avenue of an immense trade, and
make its seaboard connections on the
Atlantic valuable beyond comparison.
It will also connect with the Augusta
and Hartwell Railroad, a line not yet
built, but which has received aid from
the State of Georgia to the extent of
815,000 per mile, which insures its
speedy completion. When finished, it
will give, with the Port Royal Road and
its connections, an almost direct air line
route from here to Cincinnati and Louis
ville, and invite the trade of these cities
to the seaboard by the shortest and best
route. The passenger to the West In
, dies from either of these cities will go
via Port Royal, thereby saving a great
deal of time and expense, and also, what
| is no srnalk importance, the dangers and
j discomforts of a voyage around Cape
I Hatteras.
While speaking of connections, it may
not be inappropriate to mention anew
enterprise which has been decided upon,
and which will shortly be put into exe
cution. At “Bull River,” a few miles
north of here, are extensive deposits of
“Phosphates,” which are being worked
by three companies; each having exten
sive factories situated on a point of land
between Bull River and a small creek.
Considerable trade in this line is carried
on with England, and heretofore all the
vessels nsed in the business have been
compelled to reach the ocean through
“St. Helena Sound.” This passage,
however, has been found very dangerous
on account of the numerous bars and
shoals by which it is obstructed, as well
as by the shallowness of the water ; and,
to give greater safety and better accom
modation, a branch road is to be built
running from tlio phosphate works to a
point about 15 miles above here, where
it will connect with the Port Royal
Road. Vessels taking cor,ton from here
will carry the phosphates at a very low
rate, as they require some ballast; and
thus Port Royal will become a phosphate
as well as a cotton port ; the two work
ing very admirably together.
The Port Royal Road, when entirely
finished, will increase the taxable value
of property in this portion of the State
to the extent of at least $5,000,000. If it
enhances the price of land within five
miles of the road only $1 an acre, which,
of course, is a ridiculously small esti
mate, it will improve them to the extent
of $1,225,000. Thousands of poor labor
ing men now living on the sea islands
and elsewhere in the State, will seek
homes on this road, running, as it does,
through one of the most fertile regions
of South Carolina, to the end that they
may be in moi'e direct communication
than at present with the great markets
of the couutry, and thus conveniently
enjoy the results of industry. There
can be no doubt but that there will be a
good and profitable local business,
which, really, is the life of any road.
The track does not pass directly
through the town, but rather on the
outskirts, and does not terminate until
the water’s edge is reached, thus en
abling all freight to be taken directly
from the cars and loaded on the vessel
at the wharf.
Thanks to the indomitable energy
which has given this beautiful country
such brilliant prospects, opening, as it
were, anew future, it needs no prophet
to foretell that Port Royal is soon to be
the great outlet of the agricultural pro
ducts of the West and South. In but a
little while longer, where now are bar
ren fields, will be paved streets, magnifi
cent warehouses, elegant homes, temples
of art and trade, and wharves lined
with ships from every quarter of the
globe.
“Riding the Goat.” —The Norwalk
Gazette tells the following humorous in
cident, which will be appreciated by the
j craft :
Quite a novel event transpired as
our Odd Fellow brothers were retiring
! from their hall last week, after their
election of officers. An advance guard
! on coming out espied on the w r alk, in
; front of our office entrance, a huge goat,
j “as black as the steeds of night.” It
was a purely natural impulse to seize
I him, and under pretence that the animal
l Avas the one chronicled as belonging to
| the lodge, xhe poor brute was carried up
I stairs and securely shut in the entry hall.
! As the brothers poured out en masse,
they were confronted by the veritable
goat, who, with head erect, stood braced
ready to repel any further indignity to
his person, and even to dispute the pas
sage of the hall. Here was a dilemma !
Several of those who had, without
flinching, ridden the fabled beast, blind
folded, over platforms, tables, desks
and chairs, in their initiation, fairly
quailed at the prospect of these open
hostilities ! A grand flank movement
was essayed, with a vieAV of getting the
door open at the animal’s rear. But this
| ignominiously failed, as he Avould swing
his horned battering face around as rap
idly as if hung on a swivel. The move
j ments of our late double ender war ships
i bore no comparison to the sable beast’s
celerity in reversing his piece. At length,
! Vice Grand elect Hill Avas summoned,
who, having just succeeded in carrying
everything before him in the election up
stairs, it was supposed Avould be equal
to the emergency of routing this new
adversary. Hill having served with dis
tinguished bravery in the Commissary
Department during the war, and having
his native strategic inspirations fired by
recent victory, soon succeeded in reliev
ing his imprisoned brothers from their
vexatious blockade. Decorating himself
Avith collars, aprons, tinsels, Ac., appro
priate to his new office, he appeared be
fore the bewildered and perplexed goat !
While the attention of the animal was
riveted to brother Hill’s gay, gorgeous
and picturesque decorations, a nimble
brother darted to the rear and opened
the door, when the Vice Grand shook
his flaming regalias, and lifting up his
voice to its most Sonorous piteh, shout
ed avaunt ! With one leap and bound
the affrighted beast made for the street,
and as he has not been seen or heard of
since, the supposition is that the poor
creature is still rushing—at large.
Love in a Snowdrift.— The Kansas
I City Times recounts the termination of
a very romantic young lady’s rambles.
A young and pretty girl, named Miss
! Alameda Cosgrove, residing at San Die
go, last Slimmer responded to an adver
tisemeent in the Waver ly Magazine for
Ia correspondence, with a view to enjoy
| “fun and amusement, and perhaps mat
rimony.” The new correspondent of the
young lady resided at Wathena, Kansas,
and represented himself to he a mer-
I chant, young, wealthy, honest, and in
want of a wife. A long and loving cor
respondence ensued between Jerome
Markham and Miss Cosgrove. Photo
graphs were exchanged, and Miss Cos
grove was delighted to find her unseen
lover a good looking youth, distingue in
appearance, and decidedly handsome.
Finally she consented to come to Watlie-
Inato be married. Two weeks ago she
started for Kansas. All went well until
she got on the Denver Pacific. After leav
ing Cheyenne the train struck a drift and
became hopelessly stuck fast. While snow
bound near Crow Creek, Colorado, Miss
Cosgrove attracted the attention of Mr.
.T. Emmett, a commission merchant of j
Kansas City, who perceiving the young !
lady seated alone, and evidently unpro- j
vided for such an emergency, very gal
lantly tendered snch assistance as was
in his power to give, which was a valise 1
, full of cold food and two buffalo robes. |
The young couple were soon on friendly, j
social terms. Miss Cosgrove very naively j
recited her adventures, and was rewarded j
by Emmett informing her that he was J
single, etc. They parted with regret at;
Wathena, when the young lady turned ;
to meet for the first time him she was I
ito call her husband. She had a moment
to wait before a rough, rakish-look
ing individual, at least 40 years of
age, made himself known as her cor
respondent and expectant husband.
Miss Cosgrove, finding she had been
deceived, turned without a word and en
tered the car and went to Kansas City.
A few days afterward the lady married
her friend Emmett, and she will no
doubt often wonder at the strange ter
mination of a flirtation in a snow drift
, on the Denver Pacific.
Telegraphic Summary.
New York, February I. —The weath
er is moderating, but the river and har
bors are covered with floating ice. Sail
ing vessels oannot pass Hell Gate on ac
count of the massed ice.
Two robbers highwuved James Alli
man, on the corner of Rector and West
streets, last night, stabbing him badly,
and escaped with the booty. The vie- !
tim was taken to the hospital.
General William Thompson, Quarter- I
master for General Jackson, and former- i
ly a millionaire of New Orleans, died at
Bellevue Hospital yesterday, where he |
had been taken in a starving condition
by the police.
‘Stokes is again before the Court.
Judge Ingraham announced that the j
motion to quash the indictment had j
been carefully considered, and could !
not be granted. The trial is proceeding, j
The Chamber of Commerce to-day I
adopted a memorial to Congress, recom
mending a law regulating the shipping
of seamen ; also, for a law prohibiting
the throwing of cinders into the harbor,
and a law regulating quarantine abuses.
Henry C. Comegy’s, an insurance
agent ; Dr. S. Leroy Swonsta, a dentist; '■
and James A. Ludlow, have been arrest- j
ed by detectives as parties who have j
been passing raised checks throughout ;
the country. They were identified by
banking officers.
Stokes’ case has been adjourned to
Monday.
Jim Mace challenges O’Baldwin for a ;
fifteen hundred dollar fight.
Judge Woodruff to-day reversed the
order of Judge Blatchford, adjudging j
the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad
bankrupt—holding that the company i
having been organized under the laws 1
of Alabama, could not legally move to
Now York.
Fisk’s will has been admitted to pro
bate. The estate was sworn to as not
exceeding one million dollars. His
widow is the sole executrix.
The Investigation Committee will take
Porter’s and Babcock’s evidence in ash
ington, where it will soon adjourn for
further hearing.
Washington, February I.— The South
ern Claims Committee to-day heard ad
ditional testimony in the case of Mrs.
Lizzy Hamilton, of Grand Gulf, Miss.,
the widow of Charles D. Hamilton, for
supplies taken, amonnting to $139,200 ;
and in the case of A. D. Young, of Wil
mington, N. C., amounting to $13,000.
Debt statement —Decrease during the
month, five and a half million. In the
Treasury—coin, one hundred and six
and a quarter million ; currency, twelve
and throe quarter millions.
W. T. Collins, Pension Agent iu this
city, is short in accounts. The Treasu
ry is making investigation. The amount
of defalcation is estimated at ten
thousand.
A number of petitions have been re
ceived by the Attorney General, asking
the removal of United States District
Attorney Southworth, of the Southern
District of Alabama. The principal
ground of the petition is, that South
worth was derilect in tho prosecution of
the Eutaw rioters.
Locke has been confirmed District
Judge for Florida.
Omaha, February I.—The Eastward
bound trains are at Cheyenne. Some
passengers were sixteen days from
Ogden. As they dug through, the
drift closed in behind them. One pas
senger train ran into another, hurting
one person.
Salt Lake, February I.—Tlio Gov
ernor's veto of tho admission act was
unanimously repudiated by the House.
Topeka, February 1. —A bill removing
political disabilities passed the House
to-day.
Chicago, February I.—Advices from
the Plains show the temperature much
lower than reported. Many deaths have
occurred from cold.
A train on the Illinois Central (doubt
less a mistake), due at Sioux City on the
27tli ult., is lying at Lunar’s, with no
immediate prospect of gettiiig through.
The road is completely blocked. The
snow will have to bo shovelled.
PiTTsnuiiG, February I.—Thomas T.
Phillips, a dry goods merchant, is re
ported failed, with one hundred and
thirty thousand liabilities and seventy
thousand assets.
St. Louis, February I.—The Gover
nor’s veto of tho bill paying bonds in
currency meets with strong opposition.
Tlio law did not authorize the words,
“ payable in coin,” which appears in the
bonds.
New York, February I.—A report
read at the Workingmen’s Union last
night states no change in the strike.
Philadelphia, Jebruary I.—The re
turn of the judges make Gray’s majority
8,900. McClure, tlio defeated candidate,
had a hearing before the Court of Com
mon Pleas for anew count. No decision.
Washington, February I. —Senate.
Senator Lewis, in a personal explanation,
said that he would vote for Sumner’s
amendment to the amnesty bill.
Amnesty was resumed. Carpenter
doubted the expediency of granting
general amnesty at this time. The effect
of amnesty, he said, was simply to rein
force the democratic party. He thought
Sumner’s amendment was fit to go with
amnesty. If Democrats were not willing
to take that they would get no amnesty.
No vote was reached.
The House was engaged all day upon
the resolution justifying Boutwell’s
syndicate operations, which was finally
passed by a strict party vote.
London, February 1, evening.—The
German authorities have prohibited the
sale of French journals in tho streets of
Strasburg.
No immediate change will bo made iu
tho Ministry. The Kingdom is tranquil.
St. Petersburg, February 1, evening.
—Baron Yon Affenburg, late Consul
General at Bucharest, has been appoint
ed Minister to the United States. Cata
cazy is attached to the Foreign Office in
this city.
Galveston, February I.—The News
special from Austin, yesterday, says the
indictments against Gov. Davis, Secre
tary of State Newcomb, and Attorney
General Alexander, were returned to
the Court to-day by District Attorney
Neff. The charge is for misdemeanor in
office, in giving a false certificate of
election to W. T. Clark, as a member
of Congress from the Third District,
whereas Giddings was elected by a
majority of six thousand.
New Orleans, February I.—This
morning’s Picayune contains the valedic
tory of A. M. Holbrook, for thirty-five
years one of its editors and proprietors.
The Picayune, will be hereafter conduc
ted by the New Orleans Printing and
Publishing Company, composed of some
three hundred business men of the city
—D. C. Jenkins, Win. Burnell, and
Daniel Devault on the editorial staff.
Matamoras, January 31.—Monterey
papers report the defeat of Alatorre by
Diaz in Oaxaca. It is stated that Ala
torre retreated to Testelian del ( amino.
Washington, February 2.—House.—
The iron workers of Pennsylvania peti
tion against the reduction of tariff.
The St. Louis merchants petition |
against the Chicago relief bill, as it l
would unsettle values and open the
door to fraud, and impose upon tin; few
a burthen that should he borne by all.
The Indinn Appropriation bill passed,
i Hostile Indians get nothing, and de
i dilutions are ordered for depredations.
Critclier then took the floor, and he,
too, directed his remarks to what Hoar
had said as to the illiteracy of Vir-;
gitiia and Southern States, He would
challenge the whole State of Massachu
setts to produce as many elevated, intelli
gent and patriotic men as lie could name
from a single place in his own district 1
in the neighborhood of his own planta
tion. It was the birthplace of Wash
ington, and not far from that was Strat
ford, the residence of White Horse
Harry, and there was gentility, the resi
dence of Richard Henry Lee, the mover
of the declaration of independence and
the Cicero of America. In the same
neighborhood were the residences of
Charles Lee, Washington’s Attorney
General, Arthur Lee, the accomplished
negotiator of the treaty between the
colonies and France, ami the birthplace ;
of Monroe, Jefferson and Robert E. (
Lee ; he challenged Hoar to find such
illustrations of mental vigor in his own (
State.
Hoar badgered to desperation on all
sides allowed himself to say he had not
criticised either the intelligence or the
elegance of the educated tyrants of
whom Critclier had spoken. He had
alluded to a generation of men who
whipped women and begot little chil
dren and sold them into slavery, and
then rebelled the institutions which
they had assisted to establish. No ac
tion.
Session to-morrow for debate only.
New York, February Herald
j special from London sayflP Thiers in
' conversing with General Billott is re
! ported to have said : “lam sincerely in
favor of a moderate Republic and have
long thought it possible, but I now see :
I was mistaken, as a Republic cannot,
exist even with my aid. I am compelled
to seek happiness in the country else
where. ”
Henry Coulter, of Pittsbury, accepts
the challenge of the Biglin Brothers of
this city for a one thousand dollar boat
race, to take place in May on the Schuyl
kill river, Philadelphia.
The Yacht Club have re-elected James
Gordon Bennett, Jr., Commodore; W.
P. Douglass Vice-Commodore, and Frank
Oswood Bear Commodore.
Mechanics are putting the Virginia in
a seaworthy condition. Two more
Spanish gunboats are watching the Vir
ginia. One American vessel has been
ordered to protect her. No laborers
can be had at Aspinwall or Panama,
as the strike is universal.
The American Photographer, Richard
son, is still imprisoned in Lima for
caricaturing officials.
Several American sailors of the gun
boat Ossipee, were badly sabered by the
police at Callao.
The Orescent City hence for Havana
yesterday, returned witli her machinery
disabled, but will depart to-morrow.
Nearly every biitjV in tiro channel and
harbor was moved i y ice, and that be
longing at the south vest spit was carried
to sea with others.
A robber in the ear near Prospect Park
with a pistol andbowie knife, demanded
a young ladies purse and the Indy
jumped off, when the car was drove
rapidly ahead, the driver and conductor
being evidently in league.
Charles M. E. Markson is held for
smuggling jewelry by Calabria.
Win. M. Tweed has been re-elected
President of the Amerieus Club.
Some robbers threw Henry Pitcher
from the platform of a ear on the Erie
Road, near Patterson. He was serious
ly hurt.
A careless car driver of the Third
Avenue knocked down a gentleman and
cut a child which he had in his arms to
piecos.
Lexington, Ky. , February 2.—James
Stough and wife, old respected citizens of
Richmond, Kv., qunreled, and tho
j husband stabbed his wife fifteen or
; twenty times. He was drunk and jealous.
; The wife lived only long enough to tell
the terrible story.
Cincinnati, February 2.—A religious
convention for a constitutional amend
ment, acknowledging God, elected Su
j preme Court Judge Strong President,
j and a number of Vice-Presidents. Ad
journed sine die.
Salt Lake, February 2.—The Mor
mons hope for admission as a State this
j session.
■ 1 hree thousand tons of oi-e and bul
lion are awaiting transportation east
-1 ward.
Providence, February 2.—The Board
of Appeals of the American Trotting
Association decide that Goldsmith Maid
trotted fairly, and performed a full
mile, three heats, ns follows : 2:215, 2:17,
and 2:21),
St. Louis, February 2.—The Senate
passed the bill over the Governor’s veto
by a vote of 21 to 10—paying bonds in
greenbacks.
Philadelphia, February 2.—Mrs.
Mary Hnokett, aged 25, suicided—leav
ing one child.
Washington, Februo'-y 2.—Full Cabi
net except Robeson.
The Hornet matter was taken up and
considered whether she shall leave Balti
more before the investigation, was refer
red to the Attorney General.
The President goes to Baltimore to
morrow.
The Secretary of the Treasury lias call
ed in one and three-fourths millions of
temporary loan of five thousand from
Nos. 3202 to 3414; and SIO,OOO from
Nos, 3118 to 3348 as the interest ceases
on the first of March and May.
Benton of the ordnance corps has
been assigned to superintendent the
armament of tho forts from Charleston
to Mobile.
Two hundred recruits have been or
dered to Fort Brown to recruit the Tenth
Infantry.
Education bill was resumed. Hoar
was met with general assault of the
criminal record, showing strongly against
Massachusetts, which Hoar attributes to
foreigners.
New Orleans, February 2.—Packard
was before the committee nearly four
hours. He preferred a series of charges
against Warmoth—swearing ho believed
them true; embracing allegations that
the Governor with bribery, corruption in
office, etc., and with having used regis
tration and election laws iu his own in
terest to return such men elected ns ho
wished, and with corrupting members of
the Legislature by bribery. A list of wit
nesses is attached to eaoli of the thirteen
allegations.
Matamoras, February 2.—Communi
cation with Camarga has been estab
lished, where Oortinas was nearly sur
rounded. It is reported the revolu
tionists were defeated near San Louis
and at Yidal.
Trevino is at Monterey, collecting
force and material to retrieve those re
verses. Private telegrams were inter
dicted, and tho advices considered
doubtful.
London, February 2, evening.—Tho
discussion of the Alabama claims be
comes more vehement, as tlio assembling
of Parliament approaches, by all the or
gans. Public opinion teems with hos
tile comment. The Advertiser says
Chief Justice Cockburn will withdraw
from the Board, and the Government
will repudiate tho treaty assumed. Tho
repudiation of the treaty of Ghent by
the United States is cited as a proco
dent.
Constantinople, February 2, evening.
—A barbarous attack lias been made on
the Jews in tho Iswaila, on the Suez
Canal. Several were killed and many
wounded. All who could—men, women
and children—fled from the place to
save thoir lives. Tho fugitives had been
kindly received by tho officers of the
Porte.
Charleston, February 2.—Samuel
White, colored, was hung here to-day
for the murder of W. B. Fida last Sum
mer. White’s accomplice, a negro named
Behlen, hud his sentence commuted by
Gov. Scott to imprisonment for life
when under the gallows.
Paris, February 3, noon.—A new play
containing favorable allusions to tho
Bonapartes caused wild excitement,
which extended to the streets. Cries of
“ Down with tho Bonapartes ” and
“ I r iva IS Empire," drowned each other.
A disturbance was threatened, but tho
crowd finally dispersed without blows.
Performance of tho play was suspended.
Tho Assembly voted overwhelmingly
against the suppression of the commer
cial treaties with England and Belgium.
A debate on the motion to remove the
Assembly to Paris was uproarious, and
was finally rejected by a vote of 377
to 318.
Paris, February 3, ('veiling. — Tho ad
verse vote upon a return to Paris causes
much disappointment. Leon says the
Prefect ’of Hein and Cassimor Eerier,
member of the Ministry, threaten to re
sign in consequence.
London, February 3. Worhl cable
special.—Chief Justice Cockburn liuh
officially counselled the Cabinet that
England must recede immediately from
tho treaty of Washington, leaving
America to decide between anew treaty
or Avar. A council is now discussing
terms, in which this resolution shall ap
pear in the Queen’s speech at the open
ing of Parliament.
Halt Lake, February 3.—A mass
meeting of citizens adopted resolutions,
approving Judge McKeon’s action in re
fusing bail to murderers upon an order
from Attorney General Williams, ami
asking the dismissal of District Attorney
Bates
Two roughs fought futally at tho Re
vere House.
SUNDAY’S DISPATCHES.
PROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, February 4. —lt is Haid
in official circles that our Government
has no information which excites fears
that the Geneva arbitration will fail of
! its object, notwithstanding the recent
; comments of the London papers respect
i ing the American statement of the case
before that tribunal ; and attention is
called to the fact that in commissioning
the British High Commissioners, Queen
Victoria pledged her royal word that
whatever things should be transacted and
! concluded by her High Commissioners
should bo agreed to, acknowledged and
I regarded] by her in the fullest manner,
’ and that she would never suffer, either
in whole or in part, any person whom
soever to infringe on the same, or
act contrary thereto, as far as luy in her
j lower. The treaty, it is known, pro
vides that should it appear that Great
Britain has failed to fulfill any duty or
duties as to the so-called “Alabama
depredations,” and the arbitrators do not
award to the United States a sum in
gross, it is agreed that a board of as
sessors shall be appointed to ascertain
what claims are valid, and what amounts
shall be paid by Great Britain on ac
count of the liability arising from such
failure as to each vessel, according to
the extent of such liability, aadecidedby
the arbitrators.
It appears from the protoeal that at
the conference here on the eighth of
March, the American Commissioners
; claimed thaf Great Britain, by reason of
failure in the proper observance of her
duties as a neutral, had become justly
. liable for the acts of tho cruisers and of
their leaders; that, claims for tho loss
and destruction of private property which
1 had thus far been presented amounted
' to about fourteen million dollars without
interest, which amount was liable to be
greatly increased by claims which hud
j net then been presented ; that the cost
to which the Government had been put
in the pursuit of cruisers could easily be
ascertained by certificates of the Gov
ernment accounting officers ; that in the
hope of an amicable settlement, no
estimate was made of the indirect
losses, without prejudice, however, to the
right of indemnification in the event
of no such settlement being mode.
FOREIGN.
London, February 4.—The 'limes to
day declares that England must imme
diately give notice to the Geneva arbi
trators and to the American Government,
if such action has not alreudy been
taken, that if the American case is re
formed, arbitration may be happily con-
Cl Madrid, February 4.— The Electoral
Committee of the Governmental party
to-day have issued a manifesto to the
people of Spain urging adherence to
King Amadeus as the course most fa
vorable for the future welfare of the
country.