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WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBT 14.
GOVERNOR LINDSAY, OF ALA
HAM A.
The Selma Times has a long and
pungent article upon the misconduct of
Governor Lindsay, in relation to the is
suing and endorsement of bogus rail
road bonds in that State. If the
charges made are true, Governor Lindsay
should at once be impeached by the
State Legislature. The Times gives the
following or series of his acts of mal
administration :
“He issued $400,000 of bonds to the
East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad,
when lie knew that the law was uncom
plied with; for his own Commissioners
had told him that section 14 of the law
had not been complied with, for “in
some instances the excavations and em
bankments had not been brought to the
proper slope for the permanent working
of the road, and that some of the
trestles were temporarily or military
built, only for temporary purposes, and
not of the most improved plans.” The
bonds were given, in the language
of the Committee, to a “road that
presents the remarkable spectacle
of having reached its present proportions
without resources of its own, and having,
in conjunction with the Governor, in
creased the State’s liabilities to nearly a
half million of dollars in the face of a
taw which reposes its sanction upon
that clause of our Constitution which
provides that the Htate shall not pledge
its credit in aid of railroads, except on
undoubted r < urity." Heissued 81(10,000
of endorsed bonds to the Selma and Gulf
Railroad, a corporation “ that secured
the endorsement of its bonds in the
plainest violation of the statutes ; and
one that now asserts that if further in
dulgences are not granted to it in order
to enable it to make connections with
the city of Greenville, it will bo forced
to make default in the payment of
the interest on the bonds endorsed by
the, Htate a road upon which grading
has ceased, the company hopelessly in
solvent and without a dollar in the
Treasury.” He has endorsed bonds to
the amount of three hundred and twenty
thousand dollars for the Belma and New
Orleans Railroad, when the insolvency
of the road had, in the language of the
committee, been made known to the
Governor before th< application for en
dorsement wets made, and when it was
known that a “portion of the directory
of this road were the contracting parties,
and their actions seem to have been in
genious devices to evade the letter and
spirit of the law in order to secure upon
a mere thing of straw tin' State's obli
gations for millions of dollars.” We
might continue and quote pages from
the report of the committee, but the ex
amples we have cited arc sufficient to
show how the Executive of the State has
had the law complied with. We have
denounced Governor Smith for his con
duct as the Executive of the State, and
•,ve do not acknowledge the fact that
Governor Lindsay has a right to violate
the law, and not he held up to the peo
ple because ho is an Executive, elected
by Democratic votes.
Governor Lindsay has acted without
the shadow of a law to justify his ac
tions in many instances. He has viola
ted the law by issuing bonds before the
law authorizing them was complied with,
in almost numberless instances. Ho,
without any law to justify it, pledged
the Htnte of Alabama as the bondsman
of 001. .T. H. Gindrnt, a private oitizen
of this State. He has transformed the
State into a banking institution, by loan
ing the money out of the treasury to
the Montgomery and Eufauln Railroad
in order to enable it to meet the interest
on its bonds. In fact, he has done
many tilings that if done by a Radical
Governor with a Democratic Legislature
in power would have justified, and, in
(uir opinion, would have caused an im
peachment. For the Governor we have
never had an unkind feeling personally.
We gave him cordial support, and when
he stood true to the interests of the peo
ple we defended him, and it has been
with regret that we have h id to denounce
his action, but if we intend to hold the
State government in the hands of the
lionpst people of this State, the tax
payers and the intelligence of it, such
action as Governor Lindsay has been
guilty of will have to meet with prompt
and decided condemnation of the press
and the people.
TAKING CAKE OF lIIS OWN.
Grant’s thoughtful care for his rela
tives and those of his wife has been a
subject of frequent remark, and a recent |
exhibition of this trait has called forth a j
pungent paragraph from the Cincinnati
tint] uirt'r. That paper says : “ What a
cheek of bronze has Ulysses S. Grant !
How insensible be is to deserved sliatue
and reproach ! After all that has been
said of his nepotism' in the distribution
of offices—his appointment of all his
kindred, us well as those of his wife, to
lucrative positions, his acceptance of
presents, and his reward of those who
make them by valuable appointments— j
lie lias been guilty of another act. of the <
same sort, which is, perhaps, the most
barefaced of them all. His father, Jesse
R. Grant, whom he reappointedpostmas-1
ter at Covington, who was never tit to
perform the duties of the office, was late- j
lv stricken down with paralysis, and can
no longer make even a pretense of at
tempting it. Instead of promptly re- j
lieving him and selecting his successor.
Grant appoints one Shadford Easton as
Superintendent of the office, at a salary
of 3-2,000 a year, retaining liis father,
who does nothing, at 33.000 per annum.
Thus the office costs $5,000 a year, or j
31,000 more than either that of Cincin
nati or Chicago. Now, can there be any
thing more indecent than this pension
ing by the President of his father at the
public Treasury ? If he can not live
without an office, is the country bound
to support him ? Why does not Grant
himself and his family, who are im
mensely rich, take care of him at
their own, instead of the people s
expense ? He has already his son
Fred Grant making the tour of
Europe at the expense of the nation,
„t tl?e salary of a Colonel of cavalry,
when he is but a second lieutenant,
whom the law assigns to his command
with his regiment. Thus the father
makes public pensioners of both his an
cestor and his successor —pays the latter
35,000 a year for taking a pleasure ex
cursion, and the former $3,000 more for
doing nothing, It seems to us that such
proceedings demand the censure, if noth
ing else, of Congress, and the universal
execration of the American people. How
much longer will any decent section of
the Republican party support this great
* national hog,' as Jim Fisk called him.”
H 10k Yates, onoe Governor of Illinois
and Senator in Congress, is fast going
to the bad. The other day he visited a
banking house in Springfield, niinois,
and demanded 350. It was refused him,
whereupon he visited a saloon and asked
for a drink of whisky. The bar-tender
told him he had none, whereupon he
grew so violent that he was put out by
force. Natural result of Radicalism.
Important to Sugar Dealers. —The
Internal Revenue Bureau calls attention
to the fact that parties purchasing segars
under tire impressiou that they are im
ported by reason of having the imitation
customs revenue stamp affixed, can readi
ly tell the domestic from the imported by
the cautionary notice which must be af
fixed to every box of domestic segars,
but which are not required on the boxes
of imported segars.
[From the Savannah News.]
FOREIGN TRADE AND IMMIGRA
TION FOR GEORGIA AND SAVAN
NAH.
We have frequently in the course of
i the past few years taken occasion to im
i press upon the people of Georgia the
necessity of inaugurating some syste
matic soheme whereby our State might
j share at least a fair proportion of the
| foreign trade and immigration which
i have made the North so prosperous and
so powerful, and the subject has been
pretty thoroughly discussed by our con
temporaries of the press. The necessity
for action in the matter was generally
acknowledged, and an effort to obtain
Swedisli immigrants followed. This was
a hopeful sign, and was hailed on all
sides as the inaugumtion of an effort to
recuperate our section and to make
available the hundreds and thousands of
acres of arable land patientlyawaiting the
deft hand of industry. It is apparent,
however, to those who have watched the
development of the attempt to obtain
.Swedish immigration, that the move
ment, owfng to certain causes, is likely
to be merely desultory. In short, the
supply of labor from .Sweden, while in
every wav desirable, can never equal
the demand. It was a grave mistake to
confine the movement to one nationality.
Georgia and the South must have labor
—skilled labor of all kinds—and it is
necessary, in order to secure this end,
to solicit contributions from the popula
tions of all the European countries.
To accomplish this, there must be an
organized effort—an effort that will em
brace in its purposes the promotion of
direct foreign trade with Europe. A
movement of this kind has already been
inaugurated in this Htate, which, from
our knowledge of the gentlemen con
nected therewith, we 'confidently pre
dict will go far towards solving the la
bor supply question. The organization
is known as the Cotton States Land and
Immigration Company, and has for its
agents Col. Frank Schaller, Capt. H. H.
Carlton and Dr. Edwin D. Newton,
with their headquarters in Athens in
tli is State. A circular before us con
tains an outline of what the recently
organized company proposes to do.—
The agency at Athens is a reliable medi
um through which our people may, at
the smallest outlay in cash, obtain
thorough labor of every kind, as well as
sell lands to foreign farmers and supply
tenants. Col. Frank Schaller, the gen
eral foreign agent of the company, we
personally know to be a thoroughly ac
complished and cultivated gentleman,
reliable and energetic. During the years
1808-1871 he was the General State Agent
of Immigration for Virginia, and suc
ceeded in laying for that State the basis
for a substantial immigration. He is
fully acquainted with the characteristics
of foreign immigration, and is no less
cognizant of the labor which will suit
our people. Col. Schaller was an officer
of the Confederate army during the war,
and is thoroughly Southern in all his
views and sympathies.
We have before us a private letter
from M. Edmond Farrenc, editor of tlie
Journal Official, of Paris, to Colonel
Schaller. The letter is written in Eng
lish, and is dated on the Btli instant.
The following extracts will be of inter
est :
“ Notwithstanding our troubles” (al
luding to the Franco-Prussianwar) “I
have not ceased to interest myself in the
cause of tlie South, nor stopped working
in its behalf. I have published several
articles on Virginia in tlie Messager de
Paris, and I have prepared one for tlie
Bien Public, a Parisian daily, which I
will take tlie liberty to send you as
soon as buplished. •
“ I have also availed myself of the
position I occupy as one of the editors
of the Journal Official, to communicate
with several members of the French
Government in relation to the Southern
States. Tlie other day Iliad an inter
view of half an hour with the Minister of
Commerce and Agriculture, M. Victor
Lefrauc, in whose hands I left a map of
Virginia that had been sent me, and a
long memoir on the South.
“ My official duties forbid me to tell
you at length what was the drift of our
conversation and tlie conclusion. All I
can sivy now is, that it was favorable.
“When I will be clothed by the proper
authorities with the power to act in the
matter, then I will feel at liberty to
speak freely on the subject, and to point
out to you and to the Georgians the way
by which you can, with a little effort on
your side, got a French line of steamers
and an immigration.
“I have obtained from the Minister
the permission to exchange French State
documents for American documents. If
' your State desires to make that ex
; change you can forward them, free of
| charge, through the American Legation,
| and I will do the same for the French
documents which I will send you.
“ In two or three months we shall have
in Paris a Commercial Congress, in
. which all questions relating to foreign
trade will be introduced and discussed.
My name is on the committee list, and I
am announced as a speaker in connec
tion with American trade. As our men
are generally men of action, I have no
i doubt a great many gratifying conse
quences will fiow from the presence of
that Congress in Paris. I am at your !
service; and if you have any documents
in relation to the commerce of Savannah,
; I shall be happy to introduce and propa-
I gate them. You ought, at the same
time, to have a pamphlet on Georgia
written in French, so as to suit the intel
i leetual habits of our people. I will take
charge of it if you desire it.
“It would perhaps be well, consider
ing the apathy of your people to their
own interests, to publish in tlie Georgia
papers a correspondence about the beue
; fits of emigration and trade with Geor
j gia, and the way to proceed. * * *
“ Tell your people that whenever they
I are disposed to act in behalf of immigra
tion and driect trade, they can do so,
provided their acts be in conformity
witli the operations of that kind—sucli
as they are—carried on by other coun
tries. " The Republics of South America
have emigration agents here, and, al
though they have come late on this
market, as they are more intelligent than
the Yankees, they will soon take away
from them the emigration they are so
proud of. There are now forty-five
thousand emigrants leaving the ports of
France for the Argentine Republic every
year. You can have an equal number
for Georgia whenever you set at work
seriously.”
It will be seen from the foregoing that j
M. Farrene is interested iu the South, j
in Georgia and in Savannah, and we j
suggest to our Chamber of Commerce i
that they empower him to represent the j
interests of Savannah in the Commercial j
Congress to which allusion is made. We (
trust the Chamber will lose no time iu
furnishing M. Farrene with documents j
and information relating to our city, and !
duly appoint him her official represents- j
tive.
Exciting Scene in the French As
sembly. A Herald special telegram
from Paris reports the oceurrece of an I
extraordinary scene of excitement in the |
French Legislative Assembly yesterday.
A representative named Naquet proposed
a resolution declaring the family pro
perty of Napoleon confiscated to the
State. The motion was received with
shouts of derision. Twenty hands were
held up in favor of it, notwithstanding.
M. Naquet appears to be a remarkable
personage—remarkable for his personal
appearance as for his politics. He is
described as a dwaf and a hunchback.
His soul appears to soar beyond the con
fines of its mortal casement, however,
and it may be that Napoleon will regard
him as being “bigger than he looks.”
France and England hawe been moved
bv hunchbacks in the olden time. Aew
York Herald.
The late Isaac Rich, of Boston, who
died very wealthy, left the bulk of his
i property to the new Methodist Collegiate
Institute, and the Boston University, of
which the Boston Theological Seminary
, constitutes a department.
[From the Charleston News.]
THE PROPOSED LEASE OF THE
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD—
ITS RUINOUS CHARACTER AND
PROBABLE EFFECTS.
For some time past rumors have been
increasing of a proposition, in behalf of
the Central Railroad of Georgia, to be
come the lessee of the South Carolina
Railroad. Os late these rumors have
assumed more certainty, and, to some
extent, have developed the inducements
which will be offered to the stockholders
of the South Carolina Railroad. The
chief of these, it is said, will be an en
gagement to lease the road and all prop
erties of the South Carolina Railroad
for a long term of years, paying a divi
dend to the stockholders at the rate of
four per cent, on the par value of the
shares. In addition to which the usual
undertaking will be made to pay the
interest on the debt, keep the road in
repair, and return it in the same order
in which it may be received at the ex
piration of the lease.
The Central Railroad in Georgia is to
the city of Savannah very much the
same as the South Carolina Rail
road is to the city of Charleston. The
competition between these two roads
is not only induced by a regard
for the interests of the stockholders
in each, but in a great measure to sus
tain in each State the city which is the
terminus of each road. The city of Sa
vannah, if the Central Railroad was not
in operation, might, from its water com
munication with the city of Augusta,
secure some portion of the business
which to the present time it enjoys. But
the city of Charlestonn has no other
communication than such as the South
Carolina Railroad affords. Take from
it that road, and the means are altogeth
er removed by which commodities can
be brought to it, or taken from it. The
Savannah and Charleston Railroad could
scarcely be expected to present any ef
fectual opposition to the colossal pro
portions of the Central Railroad in
Georgia, when the competition of the
South Carolina Railroad has been over
come. The question, therefore, of the
lease of the South Carolina Railroad is
the question of the commercial independ
ence, it may be said the commercial ex
istence, of the city of Charleston.
The considerations, however, which at
this time it is desired to present in con
nection with this matter, are addressed
immediately to the Stockholders of the
South Carolina Railroad. For the pres
ent, we put aside all questions of pride,
whether it effects them as citizens of the
State or residents of the city of Charles
ton. We address ourselves to it as a
purely business matter.
For the present, also, we put aside
any consideration of the motive or pur
pose which prompts tlie offer of the
Central Railroad of Georgia to lease the
South Carolina Railroad. It may be
that, in the teeth of the gigantic efforts
of the Central Railroad to absorb the
business of the South and Southwest
and centralize it in Savannah, results
have shown that, with the competition
of the South Carolina Railroad, the
efforts of the Central Railroad have
been unavailing ; and that its last effort
is to absorb a competition with which
it could not contend, and buy, in the
shape of a lease of the South Carolina
Railroad, the life-blood of the State of
South Carolina, and of the city of
Charleston. We say nothing by way of
reproach to tlie persons who control
the Central Railroad, or to those who
wish to give to the city of Savannah
an enduring pre-eminence over the
city of Charleston. They have here
tofore struggled for the success of
tlie Central Railroad, and the pre
eminence of the city of Savannah, with
a zeal which no one can fail to com
mend. If they can, after having failed
to overcome us, conduct themselves so
skilfully that they will make us the
means with which we shall overthrow
ourselves, still greater will be the credit
due to their sagacity. What particular
quality will thenceforth be considered
as characteristic of us is a matter that,
after the lease is signed, we shall proba
ble know without being told. But of
this, more hereafter. It is to the stock
holders of the South Carolina Railroad
that we now speak. What tempts the
stockholders in this offer ? Simply the
four per cent, dividend that is promised.
If there is nothing else to be considered,
the inducement is proper, and in itself
is good. But is the stockholder certain
that, at the end of two, three or four
years, ho will have any stock ? And if
he lias no stock, where will be his divi
dend ? These queries may seem strange.
A few words will make them plain
enough.
In two or three years, a certain portion
of the debt of the South Carolina Rail
road will become due. If the control of
the South Carolina Railroad has passed
into the Central Railroad of Georgia,
who is to provide for the payment of
this debt? The South Carolina Rail
road, as an independent corporation,
will have ceased to exist; it will have
become a mere appendage of the Central
Railroad. Will the Central Railroad pay
the debt ? Certainly not. What, then,
will follow ? The creditor of the South
Carolina Railroad sues that road ; re
covers his judgment, and the property of
the South Carolina Railroad—the rail
road itself—is sold by the sheriff. The
interest of she stockholder is gone, and
all the rights he had as such belong to
the purchaser at tlie sheriff s sale. It is
idle to talk of combinations among the
stockholders to provide for the debt. We
all how know ridiculous is the suggestion
that the stockholders of the South Caro
lina Railroad could or would combine
out of tlieir personal resources to pay
the debt of the road. No other conse
quence then ensues than that which has
been stated. But who will buy i The
same parties who are the lessees. For j
the debt sued for, whether that debt be
850,000, or 8100,000 or 8150,000, they j
will buy out the whole of the interest in j
the Smith Carolina Railroad that is now
held by its stockholders. And so buy
ing, these purchasers will lioid this road
as their own property, subject to no j
other charge than the debt which is se- i
cured by a mortgage of the road. So :
bought, ‘subject to that charge, it will ;
be probably for the purposes for which j
the purchase will be made, the cheapest
purchase of a railroad of its kind ever
made in the United States. This danger,
therefore, to the stockholder of the loss i
of his stock can only be prevented by
not leasing the road ; by not giving the j
control of it to those whose interests
are adverse to it, and whose interests :
are promoted by making its manage- :
men different from what it now is. .
The inducement of this dividend there
fore, to the stockholder is that he will!
receive it for two or three years and
then, as he will cease to be ft stockhold
er, the dividend will also cease. Ihe |
proposition, in fact, is to each stock- j
holder to sell his stock for two or three ;
years’ dividend of four per cent, on its .
par value. _ ,
If the aflter of the Central Railroad
had been to bind itself to extend the |
debt of the South Carolina Railroad, .
during the continuance of the lease, the i
| offer would have been specious, but
: nothing more ; for every stockholder
would have seen that, with the manage
■ ment of the South Carolina Railroad
j for a long term of years in the hands of
1 a rival corporation, at perfect liberty to
- use it for the purposes of trade, at the
S end of the lease the course of trade
would have been so changed as to make
it impossible for the South Carolina
Railroad to pay its debt. It would, in
that form, have only deferred for a cer
tain number of years that result which
now will oome to pass in the next three or
four years, after such a lease is made as
is proposed in behalf of the Central
Railroad of Georgia.
The National Labor Reform Conven
tion at Columbus, Ohio, February 22d,
is to be an immense affair. Not less than
2,200 delegates will participate, and so
far there is no one save Mr. Julian
prominently mentioned for the candida
cy.
It is painful to learn from a Hindoo
astronomer that during the present year
a blazing meteor will pass by the earth,
and in the short space of twenty-four
minutes destroy all vegetation and kill
millions of people. *
The Savannah Advertiser publishes
only eight columns on the merits of
guano.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1872.
j MADAME JUMEL’S ESTATE.
! The Sensation of the Day in New York
—A Cause Celebre—A Presumptive
Son of George Washington.
[Correspondence of the Boston Post.]
New York, January 26. — It is now
j almost one hundred years since one of
! the most remarkable women who have
| figured in American society was born,
and to so great an age (lid she attain
that the lawyers may be said to be only
at the commencement of their quarrels
over her estate. Eliza Bowen was bom
in Providence, R. 1., in 1775, and died,
as Madame Jitmel, in New York City, in
1865. Hers was a most singular life,
and her history, career and circum
stances, giving rise as they did to nearly
a century’s gossip and scandal, are now
for the first time being recalled to mem
ory in a connected form by the efforts
of the opposing lawyers in the trial be
fore the United States Circuit Court for
the possession of the estate. The great
est interest is manifested in the case,
particularly by those of middle and ad
vanced age, who have had the oppor
tunity of watching the movements of and
taking part in tlie general conversation
concerning Madame Jumel during the
past twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years.
When the old lady died, seven years
ago, many were the reminiscences of the
former “ belle of New York” indulged
in by wealthy dowagers and garrulous
old gentlemen, but as one cannot be
forever thinking of the dead, the theme
soon became as lifeless as its subject, '
and was only touched upon at rare inter
vals and in casual discussions. Now, !
however, the veteran aft'air has become a i
casus belli, and therefore not only the j
bench and bar, but also the “old society j
of Gotham” are all “up in arms” about it. J
THE PARTIES IN THE SUIT.
The court-room is daily filled to abso- j
lute repletion, many ladies being in- j
eluded in the audience. Judge Shipman \
presides, and the lawyers in attendance j
are goodly in number and reputation.— !
For the plaintiff appear Mr. William A.
Beach, ex-Surrogate Gideon ,T. Tucker, |
Messrs. Chauncey Shaffer, Levi S. Chat- [
field, F. G. McDonald and others. The '•
defendant is represented by Messrs. !
Charles O’Conor and James C. Carter.—•
The contending parties are, respectively,
Mr. George Washington Bowen—an old,
venerable, white-haired gentleman of
Rhode Island, who claims to be, the only
child of Eliza Bowen—and Mr. Nelson {
Chase, the present holder of the Jumel
estate, who disputes Bowen’s preten
sions, and claims to inherit tlie property
legally, being the nearest living relative
of the deceased. “Where there’s a will }
there’s a way,” the proverb truly ob
serves, but tlie trouble in this case is !
that there is no satisfactory will. The
only instrument of the kind that was left
behind her has been set aside by tlie
court and the surrogate, so that the
madame, although she made many at- ;
tempts at constructing a will, was finally ]
baffled in her intentions ; and though j
she went down to her grave in the firm j
conviction that she liad ordered her
mundane affairs according to her desire,
she must have found disappointment
awaiting her in the “spirit-land,” if
“such things be.”
THE YOUTH or MADAME JUMEL.
’ It is sufficient for the present purpose
to say that the life of Madame Jumel,
without being positively and continu
ously immoral, was, to say the least, pecu
liar, involved the happiness and misery of
a number of historical Americans, and
of the most varied description. As rela
ted by Mr. Shaffer, Eliza, or as she wis
generally called, “Betsey” Bowen, was
the daughter of John and Phoebe
Bowen, of Providence, R. I. Her
parents were of tlie lowest and poorest
class—John being a seafaring man and
Plioebs a waif from childhood, whose
history cannot be traced. Betsey had
two sisters, one older than herself,
named Polly, and ono younger, named
Lavina. The youth of tlie girls was
passed under the most unfavorable con
ditions. Their father was away at sea
most of tlie time, and tlieir mother did
not pass the intervals of absence in
mournful seclusion. The residence of
the Bowens was continually the scene of
violent disorders, participated in by the
most degraded specimens of white and
black humanity. Twice was the house
torn down by a mob, and at last Phoebe
was arrested and incarcerated, and Polly
and Betsey were sent to the town work
house. They were then only ten or
twelve years old, and the effect of these
early associations upon their youthful
minds may be imagined. Polly and
Betsey left tlieir mother in 1789. Lavi
na had been confided in infancy to tlie
care of a relative of Phoebe, living in
Providence, namely, tlie wife of Major
Reuben Ballou, a Revolutionary soldier;
and now Betsey Bowen sought and ob
tained a home in the same family. Her
circumstances do not appear to have
been improved, however, by this change,
for the mansion of the Ballous was of
the same turbulent character as that of
Bowen and his wife. Here Polly died,
but Betsey grew to be a young woman,
and in 1794, at the age of nineteen, be
came the mother of the present plaintiff,
George Washington Bowen. The iden
tity of tlie father is somewhat obscure,
but it is supposed that lie was none
other than the redoubtable Revolutiona
ry hero, Major Reuben Ballou, himself.
Inasmuch, however, as Betsey had be
fore that time made a pilgrimage to New
York, and in later life hinted very strong
ly of an intimate acquaintance with a
distinguished American, there are those
who suppose that tlie youngster’s ap
pellation was not given without good
reason. This is immaterial, though, as
the present action is brought under tlie
New York State statute, allowing chil
dren to inherit from their mother’s pro
perty, both real and personal.
Betsey’s rise and progress.
Soon after this, Betsey shook the dust
of Providence from her feet, and went to
New York city, bidding a final farewell
to her hopeful son, whom she left in
the tender charge of Mrs. Ballou, a
woman afflicted with absurd jealousies.
In 1801 Betsey appears to have become
domesticated in New York, and then and
there began that extraordinary career
which has only just now come to an end,
and which led her to the highest pin
nacle of wordly prosperity. At this time
she was about twenty-five years of age,
of great beauty, and—what is marvel
lous in view of her education—possessed
of a mental ability and tact which charm
ed and enthralled all beholders. She
soon became celebrated, and assumed
the “ belleship” which she only abdi
cated at death. Among her undoubted
or suspected admirers at different pe
riods in her life, were General Washing
ton, Louis XVIII, Joseph Bonaparte,
Mr Jumel and Aaron Burr. In 1804
she became acquainted with Jumel, and
persuaded him to marry her. This was
the commencement of her financial and
social good fortune. Jumel, as is well
known, was a French gentleman of abil
ity and wealth, who, after various vicis
situdes in his native coiintry and else
where, embarked early in the century
for New York, with about a dozen ships,
arrived safely, became one of the earliest
of our “ merchant princes,” and retired
from business in 1812 with a large for
tune. At the time when he married
Betsey Bowen she was living with one
Maria Bowne, who had a child Mary,
afterward the wife of Nelson Chase, tlie
defendant. On tiffs circumstance the
whole trial turns. Mr. Chase claims that
Maria Bowne was really Polly Bowen,
| Betsey’s elder sister; that, therefore,
I Mary. Maria’s daughter, is the next of
j kin of the late Madame Jumel; and that
; the plaintiff’, Betsey’s alleged son, is an
i imposter. Mr. Rowen claims, on the
j other hand, that Maria was no relative
j whatever of Betsey, and that Polly had
died some years previously without is
! sue.
MADAME JTTMEL's LATER LIFE.
M. and Mme. Jumel went to Paris, af- j
ter Napoleon’s downfall, and resided;
there in great splendor for many years, ;
she being one of the “bright particular j
stars" in the French court society. In
1822 she returned to New York, tiring- j
ing with her a gorgeous lot of furniture ,
and art treasures, with which she fitted ;
up a magnificent seat in the upper part
of Manhattai! Island, which she possess
ed in her own right Six years later M.
Jiunel also returned to the city, and in
1832 was killed by being thrown from a
wagon. It was some months after this
sad event that the widow, desiring to
take legal advice upon some real estate
matters, consulted Colonel Aaron Burr,
with whom she had formerly been well
acquainted. He seems to have instantly
resolved to marry her, and so skilfully
did he exert his celebrated and wonder
ful powers of fascination that, although
the madame made a gallant defense, and
twice or thrice refused his hand, she was
soon obliged to capitulate, and became
Mrs. Burr in short order. At this time,
wonderful as it may seem, Burr was sev
entv-eigbt years of age, and vet agile,
active, handsome and captivating in his
i manner. He disowned the advance of
age, and his proud spirit could hardly
bear to yield to the death which soon af
terward called him from the world. Hav
ing once obtained control of the widow
Jumel’s affairs, he conducted them in
that dominant, independent way which
was peculiarly his own. Quarrels and
i jealousies soon arose, which led to alter
nate estrangements and reconciliations,
I and finally a dissolution of the union
was accomplished. After the deatli of
Burr, which occurred in 1836, Madame
j Jumel retired to her mansion, and never
afterward contracted a matrimonial al
liance. Mr. Chase and his wife then es
tablished themselves with her as herpro
i tectors and, companions, and, according
I to the counsel for the defense, she tole
■ rated them without admitting their al
leged relationship, and in reality hated
and vainly endeavored to get rid of
i them. And thus, vibrating between her
New York mansion and Saratoga cot
tage, counting her millions, and brood
i ing over her former triumphs, endeavor
ing to arrange her affairs to her mind, 1
i being helpless, friendless, troubled and !
weary, the old woman who had been the j
pretty Betsey Bowen, and the magnifi
cent Madame Jumel, breathed her last,
at the extremely advanced age of ninety.
THE CONTROVERSY.
The present contest is for the posses- ;
sion of two. tracts of land, one of ninety
four and the other of thirty-two acres,
with the Harlem Heights residence ; j
also certain property on Broadway and
Liberty street. The value of the estate J
must be enormous. The plaintiff has i
already produced several aged witnesses, I
including two or three colored women
who were formerly employed by Madame
Jumel, and who, of course, preserve a
lively and pleasant remembrance of the
Father of his Country. They have all
testified to having had frequent conver
sations with Madame Jumel as to her
domestic affairs, and to having heard
her repeatedly assert that she had never
had but one child, who was still alive,
ams in good health and condition. Mr.
O’Conor fias treated these unique wit
nesses to a rigid cross-examination., but
so far has been unable to shako tlieir
testimony. It was a most interesting
spectacle which the court-room exhib
ited yesterday and the day before. The
long rows of lady witnesses, friends of
the plaintiff, occupied the seats usually
reserved for prisoners. Two colored
centenarians, sitting in line, formed a
peculiar picture, and when one of them,
Elizabeth Freeman, was called upon to
testify, and was confronted by the ven
erable counsel for the defense, the effect
was dramatic in the extreme. The lady
is almost six feet in height, and must
weigh over one hundred and fifty
pounds, which is doing pretty well for
one in her time of life. She wore a tre
mendous pair of silver spectacles and a
portentous black bonnet, and looked like
one of Macbeth’s witches. The trial is
expected to last two weeks at least.
SOME REFLECTIVE CONSIDERATIONS.
Those who did not already know the
story of Madame Jumel can deduce from
the foregoing some idea of its strange
ness. The life of Betsey Bowen has in
deed been seldom if ever paralleled, and
must remain a perpetual wonder through
succeeding ages. Bom amid the very
dregs of poverty, ignorance and vice,
the daughter of a rough sailor and an il
literate and brawling woman, nursed in
infamy and educated in turpitude, ac
customed to no comfort, never even
dreaming of luxury, without home, hope,
honor or friends, Betsey advanced step
by step, by dint of sheer tact and ambi
tion, until she became the belle of tlie
American metropolis, the favorite of
America’s greatest sons, the wife of one
of America’s richest merchants, the
cynosure of a Parisian court, the pos
sessor of vast wealth, endowed with
beauty, rich in accomplishments, the
brighest star in lier constellation, the
idol of the opposite sex, the envy of her
own ; and finally tlie poor fisherman’s
child, who first saw light in a dingy
hovel, died at a good old age in a palace.
Surely this is a tale which would seem
incredible even were its truth vouched
for by Plato himself ; it would be scoffed
at as unnatural and preposterous, though
it proceeded from the pen of a Shakes
peare ; nor could it well be reproduced
even by the imagination of a Poe.
Something New About Patrick Henry.
Rev. Edward Fontaine, of Louisiana,
recently read a highly interesting paper
before the Long Island Historical So
ciety on Patrick Henry, the great Vir
ginia orator of tlie revolution. Mr.
Fontaine is a descendant of the distin
guished man of whom he spoke, the
facts being compiled from unpublished
family documents, and correct many er
rors to be found in tlie biographies
which have already appeared.
Rev. Mr. Fontaine said that ever since
he was seventeen years of age he had
kept a journal, and all the anecdotes
told him of Patrick Henry by the oldest
of his grandsons and three of his daugh
ters had been carefully written down.
From that source lie should draw the
material for his lecture, and at the same
time endeavor to correct many mistakes
in what liad been said of him. The bio
graphy written of him by Wm. Wirt, in
1857, had passed through fifteen edi
tions, but it abounded in mistakes, and
some of them he hoped to he able to
correct.
THE FATHER OF PATRICK HENRY
was Colonel John Henry, of Aberdeen,
in Scotland, who came "to this country
in the year 1680 and settled in Virginia.
He became a Justice of the Peace, a
Magistrate, and was also a Colonel in
the Colonial forces. He married a Mrs.
Sim, the widow of Colonel Sim, of Win
chester. She was formerly Miss Win
ston, and descended from the celebrated
Welsh family of that name. Patrick
Henry inherited the prudence of his
Scotch father and the fire of his Welsh
mother, and they combined to make
him an orator who spoke as Homer
wrote. Although Patrick Henry filled
almost every position of honor and trust
which it was in the power of his fellow
citizens in Virginia to bestow upon him,
HE WAS A POOR MAN*
when elected Governor for the fourth
time. He declined the honor on account
of his poverty. The times, however, have
changed in that respect, for now men
take their scats without being worth a
cent, and retire from office worth mil
lions of dollars. But the idea never
seemed to occur to him while the sword
and the purse of Virginia were at his
disposal that he could amass wealth by
a judicious use of his patronage. Al
though he never attended college he re
ceived an excellent classical education
from his uncle, and was also taught those
principles which made Virginia so great
a State. He was taught “to be true and
just in all my dealings, to bear no, malice
or hatred in my heart, to feeep my hands
from picking and stealing, and to do my
duty in that state of life which it shall
please God to call me.” An error has
been committed in regard to the state
ment put forth of the apparent want of
preparation of his speeches, and from
what Mr. Wirt has said it might be sup
posed that there was nothing of the
“smell of the lamp” about them. He
was, however, anotßeT illustration of the
saying that poet is born, but an ora
tor is made. ” He had poetical abilities
of very high order, but his speeches
were all carefully prepared.
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE
was exceedingly striking 1 h© was fe * x ■
feet in height, had da.rk curly hair, and |
a very commanding countenance. But j
his most remarkable feature was his
eyes, which, were deeply set, and of a
hazel hue; his organ of speech was per
feet, and its tones were like that of some
grand wind instrument, and always under ,
perfect controL He had a poetic tem- j
perament, and, although bom a poet, he j
made himself a great orator, and in his |
speech on free trade he said, “ Fetter
not commerce. l*et her be free as air,
and she wiU return upon the four winds
of Heaven to bless the land with plenty.’
Those were words which could not have |
been uttered by any man unless he had
been
A POET.
In preparing for his work he spent one
hour every day in prayer, a practice
which is now Very seldom observed ex
cept by Ministers of the Gospel and old
fashioned men and women. In 1789 he
retired from public life very poor, and
the next nine years he spent in securing
a competency* for his family. During
that period he laid up an ample fortune
for each one of his thirteen children,
and then, :in 1796, finding that his family
was in easy circumstances, he retired
! from the practice of his profession, but
1 with a constitution sadly shattered by a
[ complication of diseases, not one, how
i ever, of which had been brought on by
vice or excess of any kind. Mr. Wirt
; had asserted that although he was a
i sincere Christian, it was after a form of
• his own ; but it was a mistake to say
1 that he was never attaohed to any re
] ligiou* society, for he lived and died
and was at all times an exemplary com
‘ muuieant of the Presbyterian Church.
The characteristics of Patrick Henry as
an orator, a patriot, a Christian and a
statesman, were then spoken of at great
length, and then Mr. Fontaine said his
last speech was made in April, 1799,
! only three months before his death. He
was then a candidate for legislative
j honors, having been induced to return
: to political life in order that he might
use his influence to prevent the seoes
■ sion of Virginia, which she had reserved
i the right to do during that year.
HIS PpOPHETIC UTTERANCES
! in regard to the dangers which were
| likely to beset the country when the
Federal Government should have un
limited power to levy taxes in the differ
ent States were then spoken of, and the
corruption which would follow, the ap
pointment of an army of tax-gatherers,
collectors, and inspectors, was set forth |
in Patrick Henry’s speeches, and also in j
his private conversations, during which |
he said that when such things happened
then the country would fall under the
heel of a usurper, and the Republic
would be no more. When he made his
last speech John Randolph appeared at
the same place (Charlotte county Court
House, in the heart of Virginia,) and
made his first political speech ; and on
that occasion Patrick Henry recognized
the young man’s t alents, and exhorted his
fellow-citizens to cherish him as one who
would do them good service. The pas-!
sage which had so often been quoted, “Is j
peace so sweet, or life so dear, as to be
purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? God forbid it. I know not
what course others may take, but as for
me, give me liberty or give me death,”
had already exerted a vast influence on
the fate of mankind, and it was still ring
ing through the world and' wielding a
power which nothing could withstand.
In conclusion Mr. Fontaine said that
Patrick Henry was a greater orator than
any other, either in ancient or modern
times. Neither Demosthenes, Cicero, or
the elder Pitt, through their eloquence,
could accomplish the objects for which
it was exerted, while Patrick Henry al
ways did. [Loud applause.]
On motion, a vote of thanks was ten
dered to Mr. Fontaine, and before the
audience dispersed the lecturer exhibi
ted the last letter which had been writ
ten by Patrick Henry.
Onr Educational Correspondence.
Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel :
1,027,089 children attended the public
schools of New York State during the
year ending September 30tli, 1871. The
total expenditure amounted to §9,588,-
356.
The schools of Baltimore were attend
ed by 34,854 pupils during the scholas
tic year, 1871. §386,027 wore expended
in support of the schools.
As your telegrams have daily indicated,
Congress has been engaged, from day to
day, the present session,in the considera
tion of tlie Education act, proposed by
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts. The bill
provides for the establishment of a sys
tem of public schools in any State which
may fail to provide one of her own. In
the -discussion which took place a few
days ago, Mr. Mclntyre, of Georgia,
denounced the measure as violative of
the positive rights of the States.
There is another bill, relating to the
school interests of the country, which I
hope may become a law. It proposes to
apply the proceeds of the sales of the
public lands to the education of the
people. One-half of the proceeds is to
go to the establishment of a permanent
educational fund ; tho other half to be
annually distributed between the States,
Territories and District of Columbia, in
proportion to the number of children of
school age therein.
Enough of the public lands have been
donated to private corporations. It is
but just that hereafter they should be
made instruments for providing such
facilities for guaranteeing to the mass of
the people that which our forefathers
thought so essential to the success of
the Government and the preservation of
our liberties.
In educating 36,174 pupils last year,
Boston spent, on all accounts, §1,575,-
279. Leaving out expenditures for school
houses and lots, the current expenses for
all the day and evening schools, and
salaries of officers, amounted to §1,131,-
599 36. Considering the population, the
expenditures were a fraction over §6
per capita. Loraine.
Fashion Gossip.— Fashion, just now,
is intent upon ball and wedding dresses,
as well as the dainty little accessories, of
the toilette so necessary for the toning
down of full dress. From sixty to sixty
five inches is the rule for trains, excep
ting as regards wedding dresses, which
are much longer. Flounces are rivalling
overskirts. A particularity in making
up evening dress skirts is to have the
three front breadths plain, of ordinary
length ; the side and back breadths are
then graduated into a train, whioh can
be trimmed according to pleasure, with
a deep flounce, rufflea, or a Spanish
flounce. The new styles in ladies boots
create a sensation. The delicately shaped
boot, laced on the inside, requires a
slender, shapely foot and arched instep.
Such feet are not common. It is said
that a celebrated artist in hair intends
to import a Peruvian surgeon, who can
stand quite up to his neck in broad gold
pieoe-a, and all this money was made by
nicely shaving off the little toe of ladies.
The extra little toe, it is discovered, is
an absurd superfluity of nature, a fact
that the ladies of Peru found out long
ago—whence proceeds their narrow,
elegant feet. What is a little toe, com
pared to appearance ? besides whioh
modern science makes all operations
rather pleasant than otherwise. The
Louis XV. heels are obsolete among
common sense people; soles are broader,
with scarcely perceptible heels, in plain
black, all fancy stitching having died a
natural death.
Newspapers in the Mails. —By a ■
recent decision of the Postoffice Depart- |
ment, the law regarding sending news- '
papers by mail has been more clearly de-
fined than it has stood. No name or j
memorandum can be made on the news
paper inside of the wrapper on which
the address is written. It is barely
permissible to mark an artiele with pen
or pencil. More than this subjects the
paper to letter postage, and the violator
to a fine. No printed card, handbill or
advertisement, no written notice, letter,
o>r- slip of kind whatsoever must be
folded in the paper. To do any of these
things is to violate the law. Printed
slips pasted on the outside or folded in
papers or periodicals, soliciting notices,
are also violations of the law. Senders
of transient papers can send bundles of
printed matter by weight, or transient
postage charges, but must not send any
written matter in such bundles. It will
save expense and inconvenience to par
ties concerned to bear this ruling of the
department in mind.
Cold Comfort for the Woodhull
Woman Suffragists.— ln the Senate,
the other day, Mr. Carpenter, from the
Judiciary Committee, made a report
upon the petition of Susan B. Anthony
and others, claiming the right of women
to vote under the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments to the Constitution.
The committee unanimously report that
said amendments do not confer the right
of suffrage on females, the power of the
j States to exclude women from voting
I being untouched by those amendments
i and indeed recognized by the fifteenth
1 amendment.
Murdered About Gambling. —At
Providence, K. L, on Wednesday night,
Timothy Lynch and Florence Sullivan
quarreled in the street, after a game of
cards, when Lynch knocked Sullivan
down and cut his throat, so that he died
in fifteen minutes. The murdered man
leaves a family. Lynch was arrested.
The old Whigs of Atlanta will eele
brate the birth-day of Henry day.
The investigations of the State Road
Committee are rapidly demoralizing Ak
■ lanta.
Political Disabilities.— A bill intro
duced by Mr. Speer has passed the
House of Representatives by the neces
ssary two-thirds vote relieving tho fol
lowing Georgians of their political disa
bilities : David Irwin, Cobb county ;
: J. A.- W. Johnson, Whitfield county ;
; Thos. Hardeman, Bibb county ; L. Bil
lingsley and Christopher Parkes, Pike
j county ; John W. H. Underwood, Floyd
I county ; Wm. A. Lofton, Jasper county;
: John L. Moore, S. D. Stewart and L.
T. Doyal, Spaulding county ; Eldridge
j G. Cabaniss and Cincinnatus Peeples,
Fulton county ; James P. Simmons,
Gwinnett county ; Levi S. Russel, Chat
ham county ; and Samuel P. Thurmone,
Clarke county.
General Young introduced a bill,
which also passed by a two-thirds vote,
removing the disabilities of David Ir
win, Dennis Taylor, Warren Allen, Jas.
W. Harris, T. C. Howard and Lafayette
McLaws.
General Dnßose introduced a hill for
removing the disabilities of Martin J.
Crawford, of Muscogee oonnty; and
Speer presented a petition from W. S.
Hudson, of Harris county, and Levi S.
Russell, of Chatham county, asking that
their disabilities be removed. Tlie bill
and petition were appropriately referred.
Spurious Fertilizers. —An article
having appeared several days ago in the
Macon Telegraph, which called the at
tention of the agricultural public to a
cargo of fertilizers, said to have passed
through Savannah “ without being sub
jected to the scrutiny of Dr. Means,”
the State Inspector, Dr. Means, explains
the matter as follows :
Although not in the habit of parading
before the public eye my efforts to guard
against the introduction of untrust
worthy manures, and to arrest and stop
those which are unreliable, five or six of
which, since my induction into office
here, have been excluded from the mar
ket ; yet, as tho extract alluded to con
nects my name with tho transaction to
which it refers—although I gratefully
acknowledge it was done respectfully
and without censure—l feel it due to
the editor of that journal, to an inter
ested public, and to myself, to state the
circumstances under which that ship
ment contrived to escape my scrutiny.
I had received from a reliable source
in New York an intimation that a spu
rious article had left that port for the
Southern market, purporting to bo pure
“ Dissolved Bone,” but which was known
there to have had its soluble Phosphoric
Acid—an element indispensable for the
production of a satisfactory fruitage in
crops —“washed out,” to be appro
priated, as it was believed, to the manu
facture of “Baking Powders, &c.” I was
immediately upon the alert—as I feel to
be my duty—to note the arrival of the
vessel containing the reported imposi
tion, • and had my vigilant and reliable
assistant on tho “ look outT” for several
days, determined, as soon as tho cargo
was accessible, to take samples, and
either expose the fraud, if chemical
analysis should sustain the charge, or
should the result prove it to be a valua
ble fertilizer, to relieve it from censure,
anil give it a free and approved admis
sion. Those in charge of the matter,
however, either as a shrewd precaution,
or it may be, for commercial conve
nience, stopped the vessel in the middle
of the river, and, as I learn, had another
craft brought alongside, into which was
trans-shipped the questionable articles.
The latter vessel then proceeded up the
river for the port of Augusta. I havo
thought it proper to give the necessary
information in that quarter, with what
success remains to be known.
Sales at the Market. —Yesterday was
the legal sale day for Richmond county.
There was a large crowd at the Market,
but the buyers were principally men
who wished stock. The real estate mar
ket was very dull, and most of the prop
erty was withdrawn. The following is a
list of the sales made :
sales by bionon and crump.
A house and lot on Houston street,
between Telfair and Walker strets. Lot
having a front of forty feet, and a
depth of 80 feet. Sold to Wm. Hankin
son for §450.
A house and farm situated six miles
from tho city, near Bellville Factory.
Tho farm containing 108 acres. Sold to
John Morgan for §7OO.
A house and farm situated a few miles
from the city, at the junction of the
Waynesboro and Savannah Road. The
farm containing twenty-five acres. • Sold
to Samuel Levy for §7OO.
A tract of land, and improvements,
situated on the waters of Spirit creek—
tract containing fifty acres. Sold to W.
A. Walton for §490.
Three building lots on Walker street,
between Sibley and Wilde streets, with a
front each of forty feet, and running
half way through the square. Sold to
J as. E. Harper for §220 each.
A house and lot on Marbury street—
lot having a front of sixty and depth of
193 feet. Sold to Jas. E. Harper for
§630.
A Bogus SSO Greenback in Circula
tion. —The engraving is of poor quality,
while the paper upon which the note is
printed is not at all like the genuine.
Running through the paper of the gen
uine issue is a fibre resembling bits of
thread or colored silk, also a narrow
strip of blue, which is termed the “ lo
calized fibre,” extending from the bot
tom to the top of the note, on tho right
side. This is made of certain materials
interwoven in the paper during its
making—a secret process known only to
the inventors, which has undoubtedly
proved a great check to counterfeiting.
The large red seal of the Treasury in the
centre of the note, also the cycloid num
ber panel ornamented with scrolls, are
wanting in the counterfeit. The vig
nette—the return of peace—on the left
side the note (Peace holding in her
hand a statuo of Mercury) is coarsely
engraved, the dark drapery having a
scratchy appearance, and none of the
graceful folds produced by lights and
shades, which will be observed in the
genuine note. The feet of the figure are
badly drawn ; also upon the right arm,
as seen upon the genuine note, is a brace
let. strongly defined, while in the coun
terfeit it is hardly perceptible. Upon
the upper left corner of the note is a
shield, with the monogram “ U. 5.,” un
der which a ribbon, with the motto, 7'.’
Pluribus Unum;” in the genuine it is
quite readable, while in the counterfeit
it is blurred, and the letters are badly
formed. Over the letter “U ” of the
words “ United States,” is the lettering
“series of 1869.” Between the words
“series of” and “1869," in the genu
ine, there is a small flourish, but in the
counterfeit there is none. In fact the
whole general appearance of the face of
the note is bad, and has a decided litho
graphic look ; also in length it is one
eighteenth of an inch shorter than
the genuine. The reverse of the coun
terfeit, composed of lettering and geo
metrical lathe work, is a close imitation
of the genuine note.
[communicated. ]
The Public Schools.
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel :
Centralism and consolidation of pow
er seems to be the order of the day. The
pernicious example of the dominant par
ty in Washington has even pervaded the
Commissioners of the Board of Educa
tion of Richmond county, as they have,
for some unknown cause, through some
unknown authority, done away with the
trustees of the Wards in this city.
Asa citizen deeply interested in the
education of all classes, I respectfully
ask the of Education
through what authoriw they have acted,
and if they have any shadow of author
ity how did they obtain it V for certain
ly there has been no action on the part af
the citizens of Augusta in this matter.
PaaslkiAT.
NEW SERIES—YOL. XXV—NO. 7
Meettno of the Board of Educa
tion. —A regular meeting of the Board
of Education was held at tho City Hall,
in the Grand Jury room, yesterday morn
ing. Present, President Davidson, and
members : Bailie, Clark, Mulheriu,
Hack, Buroli and Hatcher.
On motion of Mr. Clark, tho reading
of tho minutes of the previous meeting
was dispensed with.
The President announced that the first
business in order was tho election of
teachers, that duty devolving upon tho
Board under the amended law.
It was decided that whore thore were
two applicants for the same position,
choice should be made by ballot.
On motion of Mr. Mulherin, it was
resolved that the terms of teachers
elected shall expire on the first of July,
prox. This is a precaution taken in the
event of any changes in tho system,
which may be wrought under the pro
visions of a local school bill, which has
been prepared and which it is hoped
will pass at the next session of tho
Legislature.
The only instances in which there
was more than one applicant for a
position was for the Intermediate and
Primary Schools (white) of the Third
Ward.
The election resulted as follows :
FIRST WARD.
Grammar School—W. F. Parks.
Primary “ —Miss M.E. Holliday.
Colored Primary School—Jno. J.
Kane.
For the second colored Primary Sohool
there was no licensed applicant.
SECOND WARD.
Gramn&r School—• Patrick Quinn.
School—E. F. Samuel.
The Commissioner was directed to
grade the school of which Mr. Samuels
has charge. Mr. S.’s salary will be made
to correspond with the gTade of school.
Colored Primary School—John F.
Quarles, Cecelia Chestnut.
TnißD WARD.
Grammar School—C. C. Gordan.
Intermediate School—Mrs. Goddard.
Primary Sohool—J. D. Colvert, Mrs.
C. C. Gordan, Miss Estelle Wagon, Miss
Dixon.
Colored Grammar School—Miss C. E.
Merrick.
Colored Intermediate School —Miss E.
Engleman.
FUUBTH WARD.
Intermediate School—John F. Napier.
Primary School—Miss M. McGowen,
Mrs. E. Dunne.
Colored Primary School—George H.
Washington.
119th district.
Harrisburg School—W. Elijah Hunter.
121st district.
Tupelo Academy—J. A. Timmerman.
Richmond Factory School—Miss A.
G. Seago.
New Hope School—Miss Sallie Dobey.
Barton Chapel School—Mrs. S. K.
Murphey.
123d district.
Richmond Vale —R. 11. P. Day.
Gooding’s Seminary (colored) —C. C.
Singleton.
Spirit Creek School (colored) —Dan’l
McHorton.
124th district.
Pine Hill Academy—O. J. Seago.
Persons engaged in teaching in the
public schools at present, but who wore
not advised as to the time of the election
above referred to, will be allowed to
continue in their positions until the
next meeting of the Board, when vacan
cies, etc., will be filled.
RESOLUTIONS.
It was resolved that the Commissioner
be requested to communicate at once
with Dr. Sears, general agent of the
Peubody Fund, with a view to seouring
the largest possible donation to our
schools the current year ; that Messrs.
Hatcher, Burch, and Bailio bo requested
to inquire into the feasibility of open
ing a model school under tho supervision
of the County Commissioner and tho
establishment of additional schools;
that Messrs. Clark, Bailie, and Mul
herin (Finance Committee), the Presi
dent, and Mr. Hack be directed to
fix tho salaries of the teachers ; that
the Finance Committee be instructed
to inquire into the probablo expenses of
the Schools the present year, and sug
gest some plan of meeting the same ;
that Messrs. Clark, Hack, and Hatcher
be directed to confer with the managers of
the Augusta Free School with referouce
to the selection 6f teachers in that
School ; and that tho committee on
school houses be requested to inquire
into the condition of the buildings now
occupied, the kind of furniture in use,
etc., etc., all these matters to he reported
upon, with such recommendations as to
tho committees may seem wise, at tho
next meeting of the Board.
Mr. Clark called attention to the fol
lowing resolutions offered by himself, and
adopted at the meeting of the Board,
November 7, 1871:
Resolved, That from this date the
minimum number of scholars in the
gradod schools in tho city shall be thirty
(30); and whenever the daily attendance
shall be less than that, the teacher shall
be paid pro rata upon the basis of the
maximum number (50), and that the
County School Commissioner be in
structed so to inform teachers.
Resolved, That tho County School
Commissioner have full authority to
grade the schools upon any plan which
shall seem to him best suited to accom
plish the purposes of the schools, and
reduce the expenses of conducting them.
On motion, the Board adjournod until
the first Monday in March next.
Temperance Syndicate.— The last
tale of man’s unfaithfulness to man
comes from Selma, Alabama. On the
lstof Jannary, 1871,asyndicate of young
men was formed, one of whom, the most
trustworthy of them, was appointed
treasurer. They then signed a temper
ance pledge, and agreed to doposit on
the first day of each month ten dollars
each, to be divided at the end of the
year among those members who remain
ed faithful to their obligation. One by
one they fainted and fell, until at the
expiration of the specified time there was
only one who had not yielded to the li
quid temptation. He repaired at the hour
of noon on New Year’s Day to the
appointed place of rendezvous to re
ceive the fourteen hundred and forty
dollars which ha had so nobly earned.
But the other eleven were not there. So,
full of fiery thirst, he hastened to a
neighboring saloon to take his first nip
for a twelve month. He had partially
swallowed it when ten of his colleagues
entered, and revealed to him the hor
rifying fact that his watch was twenty
minutes too fast. He, too, had fallen,
and the vision of a well-filled pookst
book vanished. The eleven then re
paired to the office of the treasurer,
only to learn he had lost all the money
playing draw-poker with 'one of the
church trustees. An effort is now being
made to keep the sorrowful story out of
the newspapers.
The Ohio Senate passed the Southern
railroad bill on Saturday by one ma
jority. In Cincinnati and Central Ken
tucky there is great rejoicing over the
result.
A colored secret society, called the
“ Knights of Justice,” is organizing in
Mississippi, for the purpose, as its mem
bers allege, of “ labor protection. ”
The bracelet presented by Grand Duke
Alexis to Parepa Rosa has been litho
graphed and “as an advertising card
has no superior.”
What a Dream Did.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel soberly nar
rates the following as a fact :
A gentleman of high social position
living in this county, has a sou engaged
in a largo mercantile house in Omaha.
A few weeks ago the father received a
letter from his son to the effect that he
had been robbed of $5,000 belonging to
his employer while returning from a col
lecting trip through the country. The
father was naturally troubled by the in
telligence, and when ho retired to his
room for the night he lay awake for
some time thinking of the unfortunate
occurrence. At last he fell asleep, and
as it seemed to him, he was sitting by
a table in the bed chamber of Hotel
of Omaha, listening to the conversation
of two young men who were recalling
the particulars of a robbery in which
they had just been concerned, while
they counted over the proceedings of
the same with an exultant air.
Learning the number of their room,
he descended the stairs, consulted the
register, fixed their names in memory,
together with the date under w inch they
were written, and then awoke, lie im
mediately wrote a letter to his son, re
questing him to call at the Hotel,
look at the register, and if he found the
names of John 15. Wilson and James
Frank inscribed on its pages under the
date of November, to have the parties
found, arrested, and charged with the
theft of the $5,000. The son followed
the directions, and from a letter received
by the father yesterday we learn that,
the said John B. Wilson and James
Frank were arrestod at the said hotel ;
that they confessed to the felony ; that
$4,812 of the lost money was recovered,
and that the offenders had been sent to
the penitentiary.
The Assault on General Maury by a
Railroad Conductor.— The Memphis
Appeal, of the 2d instaut, contains the
following particulars of the assault on
General Maury by a conductor on the
Chattanooga and Memphis Railroad,
which was briefly mentioned in our tele
graphic dispatches :
On Wednesday night, as the train
for Memphis was leaving Chattanooga,
General Dabney H. Maury, the well
known defender of Mobile, stepped into
the Pullman sleeping ear and took a
seat. Seeing Mr. Trice, the conductor,
he asked him if this (the car) was a
“Northern concern.” To this Trice re
sponded that it was known as a South
ern Pullman car, but was owned by a
Northern company. General Maury
then asked Trice his name, and on being
answered, picked up his carpet, sack and
loft for the ladies’ car. Here, us Trice
was informed by a brakesman,' General
Maury indulged in some remarks about
him, making threats of a summary char
acter. Trice, upon hearing this, made
up his mind.to inquire into it, and was
about leaving liis own for the ladies’
car for that purpose, when General
Maury made his appearance, and ad
dressing him (Trice) asked : “A re yon the
man who circulated those lies about Mr.
Davis ?” To which Trice responded:
“I am the man who told what you refer
to.” To this General Maury responded,
stepping back and putting liis hand on
his hip : “You arc a d—d lying son of
a —Whereupon Trice seized General
Maury by the arm to prevent him, as he
says, from shooting, knocked him down,
and seizing a large poker near
his hand struck General M. on the
head every time he attempted to get up
(perhaps six or seven times) until lie be
came senseless from the repetition of the
blows. By this time the cars were in
motion, therefore the authorities could
not intervene. General M. was taken
charge of by the employees of the train
until Huntsville was reached, Where ho
was put off to receive medical treatment.
It is not known what, the result of the
injuries may be, but we hopo that they
will not prove fatal. This affair, so
much to be rogrotted, and which was
muoh talked about last night, will, of
course be the subject of official investi
gation, when we will have more accurate
and fuller details.
[From the Charleston Courior, 24th January.]
Mesera. Editors .-—lt is not surpris
ing that our citizens should not buy
South Carolina State bonds. The rea
sons are obvious to all. But there are
many good, safe first mortgage railroad
bonds in the State now selling at com
paratively low prices. Among these are
the bonds of the Northeastern and
South Carolina Railroad bonds. There
are also the first mortgage bonds of tlio
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road Company. The mortgage under
which these bonds are issued limits
the amount per mile to $10,256. This
amount por mile of first mortgage
bonds cannot be exceeded. Not more
than two million can be issued on one
hundred and ninety-five miles of road,
which cost over $5,000,000. Thus far,
we learn that less than $1,400,000 have
been issued in all, or iess than $7,000
per mile. This is now the great central
route through the State of South Caro
lina, and, as I am informed, has shown
large increase in its receipts during the
past year.
In the year closing January, 1871, its
net inoome abovo expenses, interest and
taxes, amounted to over 2 per cent, on
its capital stock. This was very proper
ly applied to the improvement of the
property. The gross income of 1871 will
exceed that of 1870.
We learn also that arrangements have
been made by this road for all the night
mail and passenger business of the Wil
mington, Columbia and Augusta Road
between Augusta and Columbia. This
will make a largo addition to its increas
ing business. It is also reported that a
considerable portion of new fish-bar rail
will soon be substituted for some of its
most worn rails, thus adding greatly to
its capacity and efficiency. All these
improvements will tend to improve the
property, add to its income, und thus
much appreciate its bonds.
These bonds mature in ’95, bear 7 per
cent, interest, payable somi-annually,
and interest has been paid regularly
upon them since 1867. They can be
bought at about 82, while bonds bear
ing the same rate of interest, issued by
the Georgia and Central Railroads, are
selling at 98 and 100. There is no reason
for this wide difference of value. The
C., C. <fc A. bonds ought to readily com
mand 90, while the others bring 98. The
bonds of the Charlotte division of the
road sold at par before the war, and
there is no sufficient reason why these
bonds should not soon approximate it.
Such safe investments should bo taken
by our people at homo, and not sent to a'
Northern market to find purchasers.
SuicrDF—A Sequel to tiie Panorma
Mystery. —Alfred East, an Englishman,
25 years old, who boarded at the same
house and lodged in the same room iu
Brooklyn with Professor Panorma, who
was murdered last week, blew his brains
out Sunday morning. East left a letter
asserting his innocence of any connec
tion with Panorma’s murder.
It is said that East was unfortunate in
recent speculations. He has exhibited
great signs of fear since Panorma’s as
sassination, and seemed to imagine de
tectives were after him, but a Indy of tlie
house is sure he was in the night of tlio
murder. The letter left by the suicide
says :
“ It is God’s will I shall appear be
fore Him. He knows I am innocent
with regard to this foul murder of poor
departed Panorma. May He in time
bring to justice the perpetrator of this
misfortune. I have contempated for
some time ; I have dreaded the threats
and derisions of my enemies ; I have
done some wrongs in this world, but,
thank God, have never spilled a drop of
man’s blood.”
A Good Walker. The Savannah
News says that Frank Wright has ar
rived in New York, having walked from
Florence, S. C., to Wilmington, N. C., a
distance of one hundred ami eight
miles, in four days. Mr. Wright was a
member of the Holland Dramatic Com
pany, but the season being short aud
salary small, he found himself w ith a
depleted exchequer. At Wilmington ho
was forwarded to New York by the
British Consul. At last accounts the
scenic artist was still walking.
Hon. Norman S. Eddy, Secretary of
State of Indiana, died suddenly Sunday
of heart disease, at his residence in
Indianapolis.
A considerable number of rationalists
and spiritualists celebrated the 185th
birth day of Thomas Payne, at St
Louis, Sunday.
In Boston, on Saturday, James W.
H a nry, a noted turfman, was thrown
irom his carnage and fatally injured.